The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-15
Grant. being his favorite clergy

Grant, being his favorite clergy
man.
It was the intention of Bishop New
: man to enbody the essence of his jour-
nails in a book, as he informed the
| writer not moro than a year or two
| before his death. but he was a busy
man, and the time needed for it's prep
| aration was never found. Whether the
! journals are now in the hands of any
| one who sees the possibilities in them
| is not known.
They would certainly form a valua-
| BILE contribution to the history of mod
ern times In America and they would
! throw many interesting side-lghts up
on the events of civil war times and
the years Immediately following They
| would also cover a very wide range,
| since the Bishop was a great traveller
| In the latter part of his life He cir
| COMMUNICATED the globe in the inter-
ests of the Methodist Church, visiting
| a great majority of all the civilized
| rulers then in power. South America
| and Europe received closer attention
| than any other parts of the world, but
his journeyings included Asia and At
RIGA as we'll.
DR.. Shrady has not spent so much
| time abroad as Bishop Newman did,
| hut his journals show much closer OBJ
servation of the life and manners of
| his own times and his own country
men.
Like every man whose life has in
Guided the close of the nineteenth CEN
fury and the beginning of the twen-
tieth. he has witnessed tremendous
evolution. And as he has passed his
| life in the metropolis of the New
| World he has seen the greatest con-
trasts and the most rapid changes.
Just how great this evolution has
been, just how rapid the changes, we
| are all prone to forget But there is
no doubt that to New Workers. of to-
day the metropolis of the eighties, for
instance, could they visit 1t now, would
| appear to be a provincial town. There
| have been changes in the Old World
| capitals of course, but not to compare
with the changes here, both because
| they still retain some of the old back
| Wardness that New York has shaken
| off, and also because in many ways
they were then far in advance Of this
| town.
| Few like to admit it, but New York
is still far behind in some directions
and the same is true of nearly every
| American city A well-known million
aire who started on his first trip to
the Old World a few months ago said
| on the eve OF MS departure that he
| believed New York was going tunnel
mad" On his return, the other day
after visiting London and Paris, he
| took II all back. He now believes this
town to be inexcusably backward in
| transportation and from henceforth will
| lift his voice increasingly in favor OF
more holes in the ground.
At the same time he says the Old
World towns have much to learn
-
diets that London in particular will
soon show, most surprisingly, the in
| f1uence of American ideas In surface
| trolleys especially there will be a great
| revolution, he says, in the British CAPT
tai. The streets win be almost trans
formed in appearance by the building
of the proposed electric trans" and
many old landmarks, dear TO the heart
| of the Londoner, are about to disap-
! pear for the erection of modern steel
| framed Americanized structures He
does not believe, however, that London
will ever stand for the sky-scraper. Sur
face room is even more wably there
than In New York. but the conserva-
tive English mind will never bring It.
self 10 look with allowance upon TWEEN
ty-story buildings.
The present movement for new
buildings IN London, however, throws
some Illumination upon the present
state OF evolution over there A we'll
| kuOwn Englishman, visiting this
= csursfFy a few Year, aaD ala fhRu. "a