Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-08-02
THB CITY OF LONDON.
Greatest Capital of the
World.
DIR. NEVILLE TELLS OF The SIGHTS.

Where Man Fools His insisnifieanee-
Travel Through Underground Tubes
Lots Of Pretty Women-Westmins.
ter Abbey and It's Famous Dead
A Visit to tho House of Commons
Tho Royal PaIaees-At Chureh-OH
For tho Continent.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LONDON, July 13.-London! The
largest city in the world, covering
about 600 square miles and containing
about six million people, four times as
many as South Carolina. The city
simply overwhelms you. People, people
coming and going, going and coming.
You wonder what they do and how
they all make a living. Reader, II you
want to know how little you are just
come to London.
I am in the old part Of the city on
Woburn Place where the aristocracy
lived a hundred years ago, and I can
travel miles and miles In any direction
and still be apparently in the heart Of
the city. believe a person could
spend years here and still see new
things. Many of the people who live
here don't seem to know as much
about the city as the visitors do.
have been here nearly a week and
feel like I have seen very little when
think Of the big city; but when
think Of the places I have visited
have seen a great deal, much more
than 1 can retain.
There are no street cars In this part
of the city. The streets are too mar
row and crowded for this. There are
hundreds and hundreds Of omnibuses
which act as public conveyances.
These can't go very fast as they are
impeded frequently by the many vehi-
cles Of every description from the
donkey cart to the fine two-horse car
riage. There are hundreds Of ham
SONS everywhere on the streets, but
of course 1t costs more to travel In
these than in the omnibus. Each om-
nibus has seats on top as we'll as be-
low, and can accommodate about 30
people. Then they have the under
ground railways-tubes as they call
them-which furnish a more rapid
transit from one place to another.
don't believe I have seen the regular
street car but once since came here.
You have to go out some distance be-
fore you see these. have been on, or
rather in, the tubes" two or three
times.
The people here as a rule, are very
kind and attentive to strangers. The
policemen and other officials are polite
and seem to be glad to give you any
desired Information, and one doesn't go
far here before he both wants and
needs information. This city Is not
laid out in squares and this makes 1t
hard for stranger to go around with
much ease. I went through a point
the other day where seven streets
converged. I suppose this city has
just been a gradual growth and at first
1t was not thought necessary to pay
any attention as to how 1t was laid of.
You find all kinds of looking people
here-f1ne looking, very inferior and
Indifferent; but the people, as rule,
are we'll dressed and pretty good look
ing. By the way, have seen some
very pretty ladies, and a great many
Of them, since I wrote the letter In
which 1 referred to the looks Of the
ladies.
I have visited Westminster Abbey,
the British Museum, st. Pauls, the
London Tower the Geological Garden,
Windsor Castle, the Crystal Palace and
many other places Of interest. Days
could be spent at any one Of these
places with interest and profit. The
uninitiated have no idea how extensive
these places are. and it would simply
be impossible to give any adequate de-
scription Of them in letter like this.
I have been to Westminster Abbey
three or four times, and would like to
spend a week there. So many great
and good men have been buried here
and some not so good, but all illustri-
Gus. This Abbey covers large space
of ground and has many, many depart
ments. I was, Of course, very much
interested In the Jerusalem Chamber
where the Assembly met In 1643 and
continued in session five years giving
the world the Confession Of Faith and
Shorter and Larger Catechisms. This
Is a very small room comparatively
speaking. I was struck with the tab
lets to many Of our truly great and
good men, some Of whom were buried
in the Abbey and some buried else
where. Especially was I struck with
the inscription on the slab over the
grave of David Livingstone. Here 1t
is: Brought by faithful hands over
land and sea, here rests David Living
stone, missionary, traveller philan-
thropist, born March 19, 1913, at
Blantyre, Lamarkshire, died May l,
1873, at Chetambos Village, Ulala,
For thirty years his life was spent in
an unwearied effort to evangeliZe the
native races, to explore the undiscov-
cred secrets, to abolish the desolating
slave trade of Central Africa, where
with his last words he wrote-'All
can add in my solitude is, may heav-
ems rich blessing come down on every
one, American, English, or Turk, who
will help to heal this open sore Of the
world" 1 could but contrast the life
of this noble man in Africa and the
last resting place of his body in this