Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-02-11

whole column halts and awaits tn,
signal to move on; sometimes thes,
halts are for two minutes, some
times for ten. An African prime,
who was visiting London once al
luded to these policemen as blu,
kings" for who but king coulC
stop the traffic of mighty London b,
simply raising his arm? This mode
of travel is, of course, too slow fol
business men, so they use the under
ground railway, or, as they call it
the tube" l couldn't help noticing
the peculiar names some of the
streets have. For instance: Thread.
needle, Cockspur, Pail Mall, Cheap.
side, Bird Cage Walk and Rotten
Row; this last is the most fashion
able riding track in all London.
For all its size, the principal
sights of London are located within
a comparatively small area and / had
no difficulty in finding the British
Museum, Westminster Abbey, Houses
of Parliament, Buckingham Palace,
st. Paul's Cathedral, Hyde Park and
the Tower of London. Half a day
is sufficient for glance a the Brit
ish Museum, but to become ac-
quainted with it would require a
lifetime. There are great rooms
filled with relics from ancient Egypt.
Babylon, Assyria and Greece; also
sculpture galleries and modern col
lections from every part of the
world. To give an idea of the size of
1.-THE reading room contains 40
miles of book shelves and more than
2 100000 volumes.
Westminster Abbey is a historic
old church which, for centuries has
been the burial place of England's
kings and queens and also of her
famous poets, soldiers and states
men. In "Statesmen's Aisle" we
walk past the tombs of such men as
Pitt, Fox, DisraeH and Glad
stone; in Poets Corner" those of
Chaucer, Burns and Tennyson. A
great many who are not buried here
are concentrated by busts and
and it gives us a friend
y feeling for our British cousins
when we see the bust of Longfellow
among those of Shakespeare, Milton.
Dickens, Burns and Macauley. In
still another part of the church are
the Royal Tombs'' and here are laid
away all the crowned heads of Eng
land from Edward the Confessor
down to George the Third.
1t is here in Westminster Abbey
also that the kings and queens of
England are crowned and the two
chairs are on exhibition
they are simply plain, high wood
an chairs, centuries old: one of them
has clamped beneath it a block of
stone two feet square. which has a
peculiar history; upon this stone
we're crowned all the kings of Scot
and for many centuries and the Gus
-om Is still followed by the kings of
England. 1t is common Scotch sand
stone, but tradition declares it to be
he identical stone upon which Jacob
his head at Bethel Be
.ween the two chairs lie the sword
md shield of Edward the Third; the
sword is an immense two handled
Weapon seven feet long.
The Houses of Parliament are in
magnificent building on the banks
If the Thames. but seem rather
mail and commonplace compared to
'ur House and Senate. The House
II Lords is a rather imposing hall
With a throne at one end and red
Morocco seats for the $50 lords rang
d along the sides. The House of
commons is a plain, small hall. not
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40 members. Both of the halls
eem to resemble a church more
han halls of legislation. Adjoining
hem is Westminster Hall. a vast
Dom said to be the largest in the
world whose roof is unsupported by
'illars. 1t is famous for it's oak roof
which, though centuries old. is still
one Of the finest pieces of
arpenter work in existence. This
Iall was used as a court room in by
,one days and here were tried and
William Wallace. Thorn
$ Moore and Guy Fawkes; here also
he head of Oliver Cromwell was
laced on exhibition by being sus-