Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
SICHTSEERS IN THE TOWER
Tourists and Native in a London
Show Place.
PATIENCE OF THE ENGLIsHMAN
wit ana wisdom of the Beef Eaters
--EducatIon of Infant
Instrument of Torture tina
Interested women.

LONDON. Aug. tS-The Tower OF Lon
don Is the Mecca Of the tourist. West
minister Abbey holds its own as time goes
on. and you are always sure OF finding a
goodly number Of Baedekers In the Poets
Corner, but comparing II with the Tower
in this respect is as n you compared a
cemetery with Coney island. on bank
holiday, the first week Of August, there
were 1900 visitors. and the average daily
attendance is approximately l90O. The
line extended one day recently from the
gateway past the desk, where overy sort
Of bag. even to the vanity bag, Is taken
away to the entrances OF the B~eauchamp.
White and Bloody towers.
The Tower is like Ellis Island, usually
reserved by the middle class Engllshmau
TO show TO his cousin from the country.
IN which classification every place, espe-
cially America, is included. It is the JOY
OF the personally conducting manager, fol-
It's sights. like boarding house hash, are
cheap and wholesome.
It takes a long time to get around, and
after climbing UP and down stairs even
the most rabid sightseer is content to &c
home and rest. For sixpence you can see
the armor worn by Henry VIII and car
stand on the very spot where one OF the
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the bloody haxe OF the hexecutioner Glove
is skull" so you hear a guide tell a party
who are from New Jersey and who stand
one after the other on the identical bit OF
paving. breathing heavily as II they
Thought themselves back in the Hudson
tunnel.
No Place for Bombs.
This, Of course. is after you see a very
smart young woman, and she is rather In
the minority, for the smart young women
don't congregate here, Directing strenu'
ously 10 being separated from a champagne
colored, pigskin, melon shaped bag will
twisted handles. She is with an English.
woman who, explains to her at great
length that some ten or twenty years age
a man come in with a leather kit and
strolllng through the Tower deliberately
took out a dynamite bomb and dropped 1t
A corner was knocked off one of the
twenty-foot thick blocks of stone, and
naturally since then London. which estab-
fishes precedents and keeps to them, has
guarded the Tower against any similar
experience.
But / couldn't get a bomb or anything
else in Il" explains the girl, opening /
wide and showing to the guard the con
tents, which consist Of two handkerchief
a powder puff and tiny hand mirror,
stick Of carmine for the lips and a pencil
for the eyebrows, a curling iron, on,
clean stock and a package OF chewing gum
with a vinaigrette, smelling salts and tw'
false puffs, which had blown off and 80
not been replaced, as she was too un
selfish to keep the party waiting.
The guard examines each carefully, Will
q line OF 100 or more English citizens keel
perfectly still and do not voice a singh
objection, the only restiveness shown beini
from the American contingent, who wonde
none too softly IL they are to be kept Their
all day. The Londo crowd will stay put
1t resembles a fire cracker dampened t.
prevent mischief. Later one of the bee
eaters tells you what a well behaved lot o
people formed the Bank Holiday process
sion.
Behavior of the Crowd.
"Give you my word. mim,' . he says: mo
a sound, and they'ad to stand W al
our before they could get into a pliot
and when they got hin there was such
crowd. We just said to 'em, 'Pawse no
and hout!' and they pawsed hon and hou
without seeing a thing and not syeing
word"
Wen behaved crowd l call that. Don
believe you ave it htp America, like that