Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-02-27
IDAHO BOY IN LONDON


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a. m. the crowds on the pavement
we're thinning out, though the
pubs" we're still full. l finished up
by walking the entire length of
Whitechapel road, back toward the
business part of the city, and there,
bending my footsteps toward where
the more dignified west end was
wrapped in slumber, left the glare
of the east end behind.
Next morning | took a train for
Windsor castle and in an hour found
myself in apparently a different
world, for Windsor is a fairyland.
IL stands on the banks of the
Thames, just across from the old
school town of Elton. took a walk
through Elton first and happened to
pass the chapel just as the boys were
coming out from Sunday morning
service. Some of them did not APP
pear to be more than IL years old
and presented a comical sight in
their plug hats. wide white collars
and short Elton jackets. This has
been famous school for 500 years
and has numbered among it's pupils
many boys whose names were after
ward famous in English history.
There are about 1000 boys there at
present.
Crossing the Thames to Windsor,
found 1t to be an immense place;
the castle itself, which is the resi-
dence OF King Edward, is almost a
mile in circumference, while the
park stretches away over the rolling
hills for six miles. 1t being Sunday
afternoon, the terrace overlooking
the Thames was open to the public
and a relocated band was giving a
concert. However, it seemed to be
too nice place to be spoiled by a
military band, so l strolled away
alone to the farther end of the ter
race, and there, taking seat on the
old battlements, fell to contemplat-
Ing the beauty of the place. The
Thames wound along down below
trees and birds added their presence,
while the June sunshine flooding
over ALL formed a picture which will
linger in my memory for many a day
found myself wondering why one
man is born among such surround
ings and another in the slums of
Whitechapel. But, beautiful as the
view is from here, 1t does not COM
pare with the one from the other side
of the castle. Here a magnificent
road, known as the Long walk,
stretches away over the hills for
three miles and is bordered it's en-
tire length with grand old elm trees.
There are miles of green meadows
and twisted old oak trees four feet
thick, standing in rows mile long.
The view from the farther end of the
Long walk, looking toward the
castle, is said to be the finest in Eng
land; l would not hesitate to pro-
nounce 1t the finest of it's kind in
the world. have seen several
countries, but for pastoral beauty,
never have l seen the equal of Wind
sor park. / took a bus ride through
1t, ride of about 15 miles, return
ing along the Thames and passing
Runnymede, where King John once
signed Magma Charta at the request
of certain barons. Then, as the day
was drawing to a close, boarded a
train for London and at dusk was
back among the crowded streets.
l have scarcely touched on the
sights of London in these letters, for
It would require volume to tell it
ALL l. of course. did not see it all,
but when | had seen enough to sat
isfy me for the time being, ran
down to Southampton and boarded
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse for
America. We touched at Cherbourg
France, and then headed straight
across for old New York. Our big
ship few through the water, but
, owing to her great bulk, she seemed
to be moving deliberately. One day
we made $50 knots. or about CSC
miles; that is as good time as pas.
senger train makes from Boise tc
ale and collecting pennies from the
crowd outside. A sorrowful looking
! crowd 1t was-men in ragged coats
old women in greasy shawls anC
children of both sexes, all holding
cans, bottles or pitchers and await
ing their turn at the window. On,
by one they laid their pennies on tn,
window sill, received their share O
I the nectar of life and vanished vi
|. the dim, narrow alleys. walked
Q up a few of these narrow side streets
D where the people were sitting in thei