Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21
ioslty shop" and the palace Of Ienr.
VIII, and Cardinal Wolscy"
GET RICH OFF AMERICANS.

lOtliN NUhIl hllh lllf hlh'' VI AA'Nl =
VIII, and Cardinal Wolscy"
GET RICH OFF AMERICANS.
The so.caled palace" is tolerably
good hardrcssIng establishment: the
"Old Curiosity shop carries on fair
trade Ia waste paper, ana the "Ches-
hire Cheese really IL more than 300
years old and lrst-rate place TO 10 10
imngine oneself back IN the London OF
Queen Anne ana 10 get a real English
chop, mug OF bitter ana some OF the
pudding which Ia the places special
~ Probably all three Of these estab-
lshments would Doe prosperous I'm any
event, but It Is simply and solely be
cause Of the Americans who patronize
them under the FOND deusion that they
are what they pretend TO be that each
is little klondyke 70 It's owner
Only the shop prOprietor-oue Carter
knows how many American men have
got shaved and how many more Amer
team women had things done 10 their
hair at No II Fleet street Just because
they believed the immense sign which
tops the place. This distinctly states
that the place was formerly the pal.
ace Of Henry VIII and Cardinal VOL
,sey."
Probably, however the number of
folk who have been duped by the claims
OF the palace" IL nothing 10 that OF
those whom the "Old Curiosity shop
has taken in on the strength OF its
claim-also made in big letters on rs
outer walls-this shop does a roaring
business with Americans who visit It
on the strength Of its associations
They buy postcards bearing pictures
Of the place, photographs and paintings
aF ~ ali IN
Nell and her grandfather In the door
wayD and Dickens works In all sorts
Of editions and at highly advanced
prices.
PROOF THAT THEY ARE FAKES"
N has been said so emphatcally that
"Woolsey's Palace" and the "Old curl
oslty Shop" are humbugs that the
statement should be substantiated
without delay. Regarding the first,
Il was some question as TO the deslr-
ability OF acquiring it's freehold" that
not long ago led the city officials 70 In
vestigate It's history Then II was
shown that, far from ever having been
n royal palace. the building began It's
career as an office Of the Duchy of
Cornwall IN the reign Of Charles |, who,
OF course, came n long time after Hen
~ WIN II ltlihliltu a government W
fee for many years. but finally was
turned into a "coffee-house" and as
"Nandos" became rather famous es-
peclally as the scene OF rather pie
turesque little incident which started
on his career the young lawyer who
finally became Chancellor Thurlow,
Some years later, however the place
degencrated still further becoming the
home OF wax works show at the be-
ginning Of the last century-and after
that It's viclssitudeB were many 1t
has been a barber shop for twenty-five
years, during which time II has been
described systematically as formerly
the Palace, ct cetera.
So far as the "Old Curiosity Shop"
IL concerned, inquiry proves that It
has not even the shadow Of a claim 20
be a Dickens relic Concerning this
point the writer was told by a grand
son OF the late novelist that not only
was the Llncoln's Inn shop spurious
hut that no exact original Of the home
OF Little Nell ever existed, And this
Informant called my attention 20 n de-
finite statement By Charles Dickens the
younger which settles the matter for
all time. This was once made I'm the
course OF an English magazine article
and runs ms follows;
with mere unnteligent and unsup-
ported fable do not intend TO trouble
myself--wth the absurd credullty, Tor
instance, which induces some travellers
TO believe that the house IN Ports
mouth street, Llncoln's Inn, which has
IN some lneSpllcable way come 10 be
labeled as the Old Curiosity Shop, has
anything In the remotest degree 10 do
with the story
a. 4 .
the shop, though IN no way connected
with Dickens, Is really quite Old, there
being reason, In fact TO believe that IL
dates back to the reign Of Charles II,
WHERE JOHNSON SAT-"
The Americans who burrow through
the little Fleet street alley known as
Wine Once Court In which tho
Cheshire Cheese stands and, en-.
sconsed In It's old fashioned pew-like
seats, partake OF the tme-honored
dishes, are shown not only Or john
soma former chair" but his "favorite
corner" with n smudge on the wall be-
hind It produced, supposedly, by the
grease from the great photographers
Wis The corner seat II marked with
a brass tablet which distinctly states
that Dr. Samuel johnson was In the
nUulI OF Silllllk NneIei ana as every ono
knows Che old legend Is TO the effect
that he, with his faithful satellites,
Goldsmith and Boswell used 20 BE-
among the best customers Of the place
I'm the summer months the Ihesnirg
Cheese hardly can accommodate all
the Transatlantic folk who want TO eat
where DR., johnson did" Moreover,
few such customers escape without in
vestlng rather heavily In the many
souvenirs" OF the place which are on
sale, and which include books giving
its 'hstory," postcards beer mugs
which cost less than Ave cents and are
sold for sixty cents-pipes, match safes
and several other things; all, OF course,
bearing pictures OF the Cheese" The
present writer does not pretend 90
know what this tavern makes every
year out Of its American patrons but
when It's present proprietor acquired
the place some thirty years ago IL cost
him 100000, and the valuation which
he now puts upon It is said TO be $780,
900.
NOT MENTIONED BY BOSWELL
70 folk who have thrilled at the sight
Of 'Johnsons" chair and t0rner at the
Cheshire Cheese" II ma. seem almost
like sacrlleEe TO question the genuine
ness OF these relies" But the fact re-
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