The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-02
THE BAPTIST CONGRESS.
zsr. Brown Arrives I'm London-Re
Tells of The Opening OF the
worlds Congress and Begins
Sightseeing.
London. England, July 1s.

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.sWas at, when ended my former
epistle. I am now il, the city Of Lon
don. "A hundred and one things have
Happened during the ten days past
Hhich one could readily weave into a
letter to the folks at home. but alas
and alacki how can a man find time
80 sit quietly and write a letter in the
midst OF a world which seems to Whirl
and go whooping by him. Before
leaying home. publicly declared /
would ND return to lecture about
what saw abroad. I fear now shall
have to change my mind. am anx-
sous tos tell the home-folks something
of what + have seen and heard, and
how shall I ever have patience and
time to sit and write it out on paper?
Really shall have to talk it without
The trouble of writing it.
During our zth OF July celebration
while on the bosom Of the deep, Mr.
Simeon Ford, of New York, great
master Of quiet wit and humor. said.
ID an address, that our boat was
aoaded with pig iron and Baptist
preachers; the former gave her sta
bility and the latter respectability. of
course we all cheered and applauded
him. The Celtic had made 40 trips
hitherto across the ocean, but never
before one SO calm and beautiful as
ahis. We reached Queenstown on the
southern end Of Ireland, on Saturday
Sfh at $50 a. m. A number left us
Tor a Journey through that land of
the green, which, as seen from the
boat in the early morning, was the
most beautiful I have ever seen. All
that day we sailed up the Irish Sea
nprthward, and came to Liverpool at
night, but did not land until the next
norning. By 10 a. M, we We're all
at the London and Northwestern Ho-
tel where we stayed until Monday
morning. Many Of us went to the
Baptist church on Myrtle street, to
hear DR.. Jno. Thomas, successor to
Dr. Hugh StoyaH Brown, Of gracious
memory, while not a few stayed
away to take a peep at .Ian Nc
Laren, . who made his fame 'Under:
the Bonnie Briar Bush. y
The many things one might say
about Liverpool must all be passed
over. They viii keep for another
day. st $40 on Monday, we board
s5 the train for London, and sped
away at the rate Of so miles an hour.
had often read and been told Of the
English apartment car. but no just
idea. of how they were arranged had
ever been conveyed to me, nor shall
4 attempt it here. have made
rough drawing of one in my note
book, and viii undertake to explain
it at a later day. Suffice it to say
that each coach can carry but %
persons. In one end IS an apartment
for baggage, by s. feet; next comes
little room with seats for s people,
-four riding with face to the engine;
4iae third division, about 8 by 8 feet,
has seats for only, and these can be
converted into sleeping berths for
two; adjoining this apartment is a
little 3-foot passage running across
the car, With a door at each end for
entering the coach; the fifth division
has seats for 8, which run lensthwise,
and here the smokers sit, while in
the other end Of the coach is a dim
inutive layatory. The English admit
freely that our railroading surpasses
theirs in comfort, but they also say
that lseir methods are all that is
needed, 5sasmuch as they have no
dong rursFequiring days of travel,
their couWry being small and the dis
tance between places short. In the
coaches we found no water, except
about quart, and that in bottle in
;4he lavatory. Once within the little
coach, the side-door is shut by the
eonductor who cannot reach the
coach again to collect tickets until
the train stops at some station. Over
head on each side is a chain which
Dne can pull and stop the train in
eases Of absolute necessity, but one
Is punished by prosecution for pulling
The said chain maliciously. A train
is composed of naany-say 2a-of
these little coaches, and the rate Of
travel is at the rate Of so miles an
hour. So far / have noticed that the
reads have four tracks, two for
freight cars and two for paSSenperS