New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-11

That superb honesty of purpose IS one of the rh-s
that make travel easy and so confortahIe ..I
not so notceabv slow. 1t amazes an Amer. - Fl,
learn that there is a faster train in England -is-
Empire State Express; but such IS the fact
The locked compartment which always seems ....
dreadful arrangement to us and which woull 50
in America or the Continent IS really danger
whatever here but rather the reverse The str.
you meet have wish to rob or murder va- .at
rather will offer to share their lunCheous WITH s.t
with the gracious hospitality. The guar .-.
all notceaby polite and quiet and trunks
smashed and the American traveller. used
hustle, our noise and rush. it seems thou-
is moving through some kind OF pleasant dream
which he will presently awake to the CRIME TIN.
the unending WEAKNESS of travel IN one OF ou-
Pullmans.
For hurnOr in London must go among the
walks of 1ife-the servants. the cabmen AMI
bus drivers, not forgetting the costers with -..-
queer ideas of fun. The savev is to be found
in the better class of London lodgings. Her r..
been taken by trim and proper maid, in a
apron, a cap and a black gown. the model OF ..
maid should be, She talks admirable English ~.
exquisitev civil The snutty-faced slavcv OF ..r
days. with her pathos and her warnings for ..a
life has gone into comedy. perhaps. for
may search for her through London and YOU WILL
find her.
The shop-woman is tremendously fine in her mass
and the shopman will bring the entire contents ~
place Your hotel at your beck and
it If you don't take care. The difference IN Ok.
something wide and so unbridgeable that II
have your maid and Your so cringing ho .e
can't help thinking that while II IS such I'm I'D
be the boy in this 1t must be death % Tho
Civiitv is admirable trait but 1t need
the bone and should leave the brain free.
Tailors. drcssmakers and booksellers Will 81. ..
credit in London without even asking vour
if YOU stop a good hotel They viii cas-.
check with the manner of being honored by Oh.
lcge although for all they know 1t may be a bad
for they never stop inquire
The London tradesman Will do anything ratr.-
hurt your feelings, and he wants TO appear
sort of person. His small talk IS always airy
extreme, and conveys impression of his
with life in upper circles Even the ,hl.
know all about the opera and the Kings a,-...
at Ascot at CowcS While working AWAY
unpoetic task the conductor Will converse
about the latest American actress in town III.
fashion in automobiles. the Queens health
with a studied that is admirable Glass
don has its humorS well as it tragedies.
There is effort to appear quite nice
almost painful to those of u who are used o.
moved up and down and up in front by cort
browbeaten by JanitorS, neglected by our
and patronized by hotel walters.
At first it all strikes as being rather Sill
in reality the excess of politencss oils the vt.
life, which proceed Sanelv. quietly and
in the big city the Thames People DO not Sos.
distrust each other. and YOU don't realize ler
fcrent it all IS until YOU get off Your ship and
held up by the Ncw-York customs officers amid
bowls of newsboys. the wells of eNpress1uen ana
shouts OF cabmen-one of whom finally gathers
up and carries you off with him and YOU pay
five dollars for a shilling drive
Then the humOr of New-YOrk comes up and
you in the face as say at home.