Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
.SC0TLAND'S CAPITAL
EdInburgh-OId and New
and Its Historic Castle.
FAMOUS FORTIFIED ROCK
It's Architectural View and Zoo of
Freak Monuments.
CRICHTON'S DASTARDLY CRIME
How Scotland's Crown Jewels Elud-
ed Cromwell's Vandalisnn-St.
Margaret's Church.
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.

Special correspondence or The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
EDINBURGH, September 81, 1908.
A deep. narrow gulf divides the capital
OF Scotland into two parts-old and new
Edinburgh. 1t runs from north to south,
There is a railway line al the bottom
where a brook used to be- and the steep,
rocky sides are laid out with walks and
flower gardens and shrubbery as a park
There is a bandstand on a fiat piece of
lawn, where concerts are given two or
three times a week, and are attended by
multitudes of people, for neither the Ger
mans nor the Italians love music more
than the Scotch.
On the south side of this gorge. on the
rim of steep green precipice is a fringe
of monuments and statues to the distin-
guished sons Of Scotland, most of them
literary men and theolOgians. The monu-
ment to Sir Walter Scott, canopy about
sixty feet high, is one of the most beau
tiful examples of Gothic architecture in
the kingdom. A new monument was re-
Gently dedicated in honor of the Scots
who fell few Years ago. in that I'M
fortunate war with the Beers.
Running along the ridge back of these
monuments is Princes street. the fashion
able promenade and shopping street of
Edinburgh, which is lined upon the east
side with hotels. clubs, restaurants and
department stores, whose windows over
look the gorge and face the ancient cita-
del and other imposing editices that stand
opposite The gorge is crossed from
Princes street by several bridges. 1t is oc-
cupied by railroad station at the south
ern end. and trains run out at the bot
tom toward London and Liverpool.
Carton Hills Freak Memorial
At the southern end of Princes street
and the ridge is an eminence called
Carton Hill, which rises above the rest
of the city, and is occupied by two OBJ
servatories with telescopes. an ugly tow
er that looks like a lighthouse, rises AGO
feet above sea level. and was erected
some years ago in honor of Lord Nelson.
Beside it is unfinished reproduction
of the Parthenon at Athens, which was
intended to preserve the memory of the
Scotch who fell at Waterloo, but the
treasurer went wrong end embezzled the
money, 50 it has never been completed.
Carton Hill is a sort of monumental zoo,
where for some obscure reason and very
bad taste It was intended to hold a col
lection of memorials, most of them freaks.
Among the other statues is one of Abra-
ham Lincoln. which was erected very
largely through the efforts of former
American consul And it would be
compliment to the United States if the
down.
on the slope of Carton Hill is model
high school, built in imitation of the
Temple of Theseus Athens, which, of
course, is of classical design Of the high
est degree, but is scarcely adapted to
such a purpose, because the columns shut
out the light.
From the summit of the ridge that is
crowned by Princes street, and l should
have. said it Is one of the great streets
OF the world, the topography slopes grad
uaily downward toward the Firth or
Forth and the city of Leith, which is
the seaport of Edinburgh. The two cities
are practically one, for there is no div1d-
ing line, and A stranger would never sus-
pect that they were not the same II he
didn't look at a map. The street cars all
run along Princes street for consider
able distance, as they run along SACK
vile street in Dublin, and branch OF IN
different directions at intervals and fol
Low their tracks to the far end of Edln-
bursh and the suburbs. Some of them
run down to Leith. The ground is COM
pieteIv covered with business houses, fac
tories and residences all built of the
plainest kind of designs and the most
subst antial materials.
lack of Princes street and running par
alleI with it are Georges street and
Queens street. both of them lined win
imposing shops and residences. On the
latter a long row of buildings Is occu-
pied by the offices of the Church OF Scot
land.
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