The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-27

don't know injustice when you see 1t.
LONDON HOUSES
ARE LABELLED
BY placing memorial tablets on the
houses on the estate once renanted
by famous men the Dukes Of Bedford
and Westminster are setting an admir-
able example to other great London
landlords, says Tt-bits.
The lateset Of these historic houses
to be thus indicated for posterity is
No. Victoria square, Buckingham
Palace road which for three years
was the home Of Thomas Campbell, the
poet. Here in "a. square room lighted
from the ceiling, the walls lined with
we'll -furnished bookshelves and pic
lures, the floor covered with Turkey
carpet. and a stove In the corner"
Campbell wrote his books and enter
tailed his friends at breakfast and din
ner towards the close Of his life.
A curious and characteristic story Is
told Of the Scottish poet, who, during
short holiday at Wiesbaden, wrote to
ask his friend Beattte to send him
some money he had left "in the press
in his bedroom at Victoria square
In vain Beattie searched the press and
ranspcked the whole house-npt a
trace Of the money could be found.
until, just as he had abandoned the
hunt in despair, he CHANGED to pick up
a red embroidered slipper, in which he
discovered a roll Of bank notes of the
value of $500.
Among the houses on which the
Duke Of Bedford has recently placed
| or is about to place commemorative
tablets Is II Bedford square, once the
home of the enormously rich, clever
and eccentric Henry Cavendish, Of
| whom friend said: III any one dined
| with Cavendish, he invariably gave
| them leg Of mutton and nothing else"
One day, so the story runs, when he
had invited three or four scientific men
! to dine with him, his housekeeper
asked him what she was to provide for
dinner
"a leg Of mutton" was the prompt
answer.
But. sir, tina won't be enough for
five"
| well, then, get two" was the reply.
| Cavendish was probably one of the
shyest and most modest men who ever
| lived; and rather than face strangers
who sought an interview with him he
would lock himself up in his bedroom.
or, as he did on one memorable occa-
sion, hide under a table until all dam
ger was over.
| Another recently marked house is
that Of Lord Mansfield in Bloomsbury
square, which was sacked and burnt
one June day in 1880 by the Gordon
rioters. "Quitting the COACH" wrote
an eyewitness Of the scene. I'VE
crossed the square, and had scarcely
got under the wall of Bedford House.
] when we heard the Door of Lord
Mansf1eld's house burst open with viol-
| ence. In few minutes all the con-
| tents of the apartments being pre-
cipitated from the windows, were piled
! up and wrapt in flames" Lord and
Lady Mansfield narrowly escaped the
fury of the mob by beating q precipi-
| tate retreat by a back door,
| At 65 Russell square. marked by the
Duke Of Bedford for a tablet, Sir
Thomas Lawrence, president of the
Royal Academy, made his home for a
quarter Of a century, dying there in
1880. It was Of this housee that the
Rev. John Milford wrote: I'VE shall
never forget the Cossacks, mounted
on their small white horses, with their
long spears grounded. standing as
sentinels at the door Of this great
painter while he was taking the por-
trait Of their general. Platoh."
At n Southampton street, Coven-
Garden. David Garrick and his wife
! lived and made merry a. century and
a. half ago. Here the great actor used
to give his rather roisterous suppers
to his friends, keeping them in roars
Of laughter by his amusing stories and
his screaming mdmicry Of DR.. johnson
and others, and generally disturbing
the peace Of the neighborhood by his
late hours. practical jokes and mid
night revels.
Lord Loughborough's house, 81 rus
sell square, is also among those re-
Gently chosen for commemoration. 1t
was here that the 'paltry and servile
lied the lord chancellor. entertained
George III. and his family when
they went to view the Founding Hos
pital. It was rather a scurvy return
for this hospitality that when Lough-
| borough died, soon after his elevation
to the earldom of Rosslyn, King
George should declare that "he has not
| left greater rogue behind him."
Sir Samuel Romilly's home at 81
Cover street, Is also to be marked for
posterity. This great lawyer, who was
pronounced by Lord Brousham be
yond question or pretence the first
man in the courts of this country -
was. it will be remembered, the son of
a small London jeweller. Just at this
most brilliant epoch in his great career,
! when his well-merited honors were be-
ing showered on him, he lost his be-
loved wife, and in his anguish cut his
throat, dying almost instantly. The
bodies Of husband and wife were bur-
led in the same grave.
| Those are but a few OF the houses
once tenanted by great men which are
now being labeled in London. Among
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