The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-08-20
WRITES AN INTERESTING LETTER
Solomon iuebner Describes London and
Vicinity as Viewed by Him.

dor in England Tor admitting american
citizens to Parliament while it is in SEES
sion. | shall either see the Ambassador
or some English member to get ticket.
Last Sunday l attended religious ser.
vices in the Church of England at
bennington and to-day | heard services
in st. Paurs cathedral. The circus is
even greater than at Madison when you
were there. The English are very re-
ligious people, i. e. they belong to "the"
church. / haven't seen room yet,
either lodging or dining but what
there was picture of the king and
queen, and several biblical pictures
The room | am now sleeping in has in
it five large wall pictures of Christ, four
of which deal with his crucifxion.
Aside from all these things there are
many of Importance, which ii would
take too long to narrate. To illustrate
some of the interesting sights we had in
the country while cycling. We stopped
for our dinner at country home, which
seemed one of the best, and which had
sign out designating the place rs a
home for cyclists. We found the whole
family living eating and sleeping) in
two rooms All the smoked hams for
the year hung suspended from the raft
ers of the dining room, and during the
whole time we ate the old lady was
telling us about the king and queen,
and the army in which she had a SON
Needless to say that the meal was O. X.
Nearly everything is shut off by very
high stone fences, and you will be very
much surprised to learn that the Eng
lishmans sense of private property" is
20 great, and his aversion to trespassing
so immense that he has everywhere
coated his stone fence with cement and
put pieces of broken bottles and win
dows on edge all along so that anybody
trying to get over would certainly cut
himself severely.
But the country is not the only place
that presents many things that will
make Americans smile. The city also
has its funny side. London large rs it
is, has no surface street cars. Aside
from few car lines which run under
ground from one end of the city to the
people is by bus. The highest business
places in London rise to about five stor
les The highest buildings are the ho-
tells which in a few cases have noticed
to be stories. The people in general
are intensely slow. During the busiest
part of the day the people walk rs if
half asleep, and one must continually
turn out to pass them. 1t took them
nearly day to put in II set of spokes
and tire on my wheel. | broke of
the setting wind on my watch, aud a
ieweler wanted two weeks to fix it.
told him to go plump" 1t is the hard
est thing in the world to get breakfast
before $50 A. NJ. and they would like
very much to give it at 10. Factories
. d stores open at about 9 A. M. and
all workmen have regular holidays. We
came to certain cities that grant an ex-
ira day of resi- each week, While in
Glasgow all factories were closed for
two weeks, everybody having "vaca-
ton" On Sunday everything is ut n
dead standstill On the farm all is done
by hand labor, and some of the fields
are Just covered with men and women.
Generally speaking the people in nearly
every sphere of life are slower than
molasses uphill in January. Every body
takes his time, expects a fee, and tells
You that in America people don't live
long. But enough of this line of obser
vation
From a moral point Of view the Eng
lish people are in one sense on a COM
paratively high level, and in another
sense they are not. There seems TO be
great respect for the law, which | judge
from the newspapers is very strictly en-
forced. There seems to be very little
violence" and any person is very safe
among the English people. From the
standpoint of drunkenness, however,
England does not present so favorable II
showing have seen an unusual mum
Der of drunken sots Nearly every man
with uniform (and there are many
has an unnatural nose. AS regards
liauor statistics England shows higher
consumption per capita than any other
country, even Germany. Strange 10
say the women seem M much addicted
TO drink az the men. Nearly every
bar tender is a woman and nearly every
bar room shows about ~ many women
as men, all indulging to an equal degree
in water.
From general observation the station
of the average woman does not com
mand the same respect as in most parts
of America. Nearly all work ike bar
tending and hotel work, etc. is entrust-
ed to women. remember at one G. T.
G. hotel (and they are of he better
class | was approached by the manager
of the hotel in the morning, and told
that the women felt rather sore because
| hadn't put my shoes in front Of the
door to be cleaned by them. He told
me that he had been in America, and,
knowing that ] was an American, he
said he believed ] would not consider
it improper if he advised me always to
leave my shoes at ths door, because
the women in England were not so
high. flown rs in America.
But my letter is getting unusually
long Ny program ~ | have arranged
it will keep me in London about two