The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-04

finer silks, nor ShuttleS of kiddermin-
ster more gorgeous carpets. Newcastle
excels them not in the manufacture OF
glass and pottery. and Birmingham
bows before their achievements in the
matter of iron and engineering works
They brew their own beer, and distil
their own dyes. They tan leather
enough to shoe a kingdom, and make
paper enough TO wrap a continent. Be-
sides all this, they have a, practical
monopoly of the ruling industry of the
commercial world-the building of iron
steamers.
The Clyde, 1.-THE broad and trimming
Clyde" as Sir Walter Scott calls it
though in fact it is not much broader
than the Chicago river, and does not
brim at albums through Glasgow,
and is SPAWNED by five broad and
beautiful bridges of gray granite and
iron. The Broomielaw bridge is the
widest in Europe and the busiest and
the view from it's summit is the most
inspiriting to an American, because it
reminds him of his home. The great
bridge over the Arno at Florence spans
keeIless waters. The Rialto at Venice
looks down only upon gondolas with an
occa SIonal barge. The Pont Neuf at
Paris echoes to the daily tread of a
hundred thousand people, but the Seine
bears neither ship nor steamer upon its
swift, murky current. Even the great
London bridge crosses a water course
comparatively unused, but the Clyde is
crowded with shrieking steamers and
tall masted ships.
There are men still living in Glasgow
who in their boyhood waded on foot
through the Clyde where now five
thousand ton steamers float. During
the last half century quite eight mil
lions of dollars have been expended in
dredging and embanking the river, and
the expenditure has made Glasgow the
second city of the British kingdom,
and the busiest shipping port of Eu-
rope. The Improvement of the Clyde
was not made without opposition Dur
ing the last half century the work was
stopped twice, once for fear that the
price of provisions at Dumbarton
might thereby be increased, and again
lest the cost of butter at Iron might be
enhanced.
Glasgow is built of gray Aberdeen
granite. / saw no structure of brick or
wood in the city. Buchanan street,
with it's glittering shops, and it's
thronged sidewalks, is very like
Broadway in New York.
OF all the cities of Europe, Glasgow
has grown rich out of America. Vir-
ginia tobacco was the foundation of it's
fortunes. Before the Revolutionary
war twenty-six tobacco ships made
regular passages between the Clyde
and the James, and of the ninety
thousand hogsheads of tobacco import
ed into Great Britain annually prior to
1774, Glasgow secured forty-nine
thousand, And when the tobacco trade
fell into decay, the chief among the
courtiers of King Cotton was the canny
chiel of the Clyde. And when cotton
was discrowned Glasgow furnished,
first the ironclads with which to drive
American commerce from the seas. and
next the iron keels with which to sup
plant it. Many of the iron steamers
now plying between Europe and Ameri-
ca were built on the Clyde. The Eng |
lish people were chagrined at the result |
of the Geneva conference, and their |
growing at being compelled to pay fif- |!
teen millions was neither brief nor sup
pressed but if the sum were ten times /
Pc great I would fail to compensate US /
for the result of the depredating of the
Alabama, or equal the amount of the /
indirect gains her existence brought to |
Great Britain.
There is a cathedral in Glasgow, a
cathedral; it used to be a
Catholic church seven hundred years
ago, but the thrifty Scotchmen found |
It cheaper to reform the edifice than to
build another. How many Virgin Marys
were reconstructed unto proper Pres
oyterian angels, how many saints were
into Israelitish prophets l
cannot say, but neither crucifix nor
shrine now offends the covenanter's
eye. And the beautiful stained glass
windows are all orthodox to the last
degree The great bell of the cathedral
bears the following inscription:
In the year of grace 1894 Marcus
Knox a merchant in Glasgow, Jealous
or the interest of the reformed religion,
,aused me to be fabricated in Holland
tor the use of his fellow citizens of
and placed me with solemnity
n the tower of their cathedral My
junction was announced by the impress
IN my bosom (Me audito venias doc
-rinam sanctam at disease and I was
taught to proclaim the hours of I'M
needed time. One hundred and ninety
i've years had I sounded these awful
warnings. when l was broken by the
hands OF inconsiderate and unskillful
men. In the year 1870 I was cast into
he furnace refounded at London, and
to my sacred vocation. Reader.
thou also shalt know Resurrection;
nay it be to eternal life!'
The garrulous and self-glorious old
,reature. They have a Metropolis at
Glasgow. To call it a burial ground,
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