Evening star., 1907-10-26
303.-Do the wicked suffer everlasting
punishment?
TWO ENGLISH CITIES.
Liverpool and Manchester Compared.
--~ Character of Inhabitants.
from London 2. rs Weekly

From London T. T-'s Weekly.
Manchester is center, ,-,irereas LIVER
pool dwells apart. The cotton metropolis
Is mighty mother of towns which
take after" 1t. do the same work, and
have the same outlook on life. Its great
tram routes link towns whose boundaries
touch invisibly, and form a mighty
whole, of which the hub is Market street.
Thus Manchester Is continually flushed
with visitors, and inspired with a mighty
sense of dominance and neighborhood.
1t Is not so with Liverpool, whose streets,
vast though they be in area, are set be-
tween sea and country, and draw their
comparatively few visitors from afar
Hence Liverpool is more self-contained
To strangers eye it is perhaps less So
cial and welcoming, as it is certainly
more quiet and distinguished.
The Manchester man lives very close to
life. He employs men. women and chill
dren; he handles material and nurses
machinery. He sees all classes of people
in day, and for his strenuous and va
ried doings he has adopted se-viceable
manner All his occupations tend to make
him social, argumentative and racy of
the soil. The Liverpool man does not, in
nearly the same degree, come in contact
with the raw crowd and his only busf-
ness with material is to ship ii in or out
of the country. His assistant is the clerk,
not the hand" His operations are the
sum of other mems operations He waits.
All the symbols instruments and limits
of his work are large and more final;
they are handsomer. The seas are wider
than the land, and his business is with
the sea. The brass plates of Dale street
and Water street are inscribed with the
epic of the sea. Great is the Oldham
road, but the Mersey stretches the i'm
agination. The ranks of steel bobbins in
a Manchester mill advance and recede
with the beauty of cavalry, but the great
steamships at the mouth of the Mersey
have a lovelieg and a larger grace They
are handled, too, with individual and mo-
mentary skill. according to wind. and
tide and cablegram. The quietude and
absorption of these large operations be-
long to Liverpool. whose eyes are in the
ends of the earth. Hence comes GER
tain lack of visible local stir. of internal
strife and argument. These may exist,
but they are not much felt.
The Liverpool mans concern appears
l must not say it is=to be more with
the waterside than with Liverpool. His
day done, he ships himself to Birkenhead
or to some green hill far away. Liver
pool makes up badly at night Unlike
Manchester, 1t has no distinct, pleasure
quarter. Its theaters do not assemble
and coruscate Its area of business streets
becomes belt of darkness and quiet
between st. Georges Hall and the river.
The river never sleeps, never ceases to
coruscate. Strong and lovely in it's
strength. 1t heaves along with the
undying energy of the Cosmos But in
Manchester at night it is the people who
move and roar. The same thing marks
the midday hour. l close my eyes and
hea- Manchestr r talking politics with.
thump and laughter. L close them again
and hear Liverpool softly discussing the
motor gradients between Edge chill and
the Cat and the Fiddle.