Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

of my mother and myself, and an
aunt and her niece. This aunt was a
dear old lady of almost seventy. She
started out alone from California
resolved to see as much of the world
as possible. In Boston her niece de-
cided to go with her, so the two joined
us i'm our months excursion, as they
had no definite plans and they liked
the itinerary we had mapped our.
"Auntie" could always be located by
the carpet bag she carried, and from
which she was not willing to be
separated Many a hand to hand
struggle did she have with some too
obseuuious porter who insisted upon
taking her burden. Even on her ar
rival at the hotels the two never
parted company.
AS we left Liverpool we saw fields
upon fields of brilliant red peoples.
which from a distance looked like on"
crimson mass. At first however l was
not at all interested in the landscape.
but in some students of the Boston
School of Technology who sat directly
opposite us One Of them was saying
that the Tufts College Engineering
Department was merely a secondary
school. in fact the whole college was
nothing better than high school, and
his three companions agreed with
him.
That was more than any loyal Tufts
College graduate could stand. 70
think of the distance between my
self and my Alma Mater, and to hear
it run down by students who perhaps
had never even visited it, was too
much Exhibiting my college seal
with good deal of pride. ! ventured
to state that | was positive that they
were mistaken. that the college had
produced many noted men, and as one
of her graduates | could testify 10 the
truth of it's being more than a hlgh
school, more crestfallen LOOKING
set of students / never saw. 1t tool,
them from Liverpool to London 70
assure me that they were only speak
ing from hear-Say, and that they
never once suspected meeting one OF
her graduates so far away from the
r. s A. OF course | accepted their
apologies, but their conversation did
not become at all exciting on the mat
fer of colleges, fearing | suppose to
encounter some other graduate. Ihey
were a meek looking lot when they
left us at the crowded London station
and but for that meek look, L might
have suspected one of them or having
taken my college pin which dlsap-
pcared at the same time, quite q
coincidence of course.
What Augusta citizens would no.
have risen to arms in hearing dear
old Rowdoin DETAINED by strangers III
a strange land. The farther we are
awav from home the more we love
and stand by our country ana our
Alma Mater.
Three DAYS were all we could give
TO London, but we made the best use
of olr time. seeing something every
minute. A dinner at the Cecile aus
piciouslv began our stay there where
Auntie quite Mortified the dignlfled
Turkish waiter by rushing after
roll which she had sent spinning
across the room, but she SAID she pc
lieved in acting as if she were az
home, a motto she adhered 10 all
during our trip.
Then began our sight seeing eXcur-
sions. On one occasion we patronlZed
the celebrated Tube, on our way 10
Euston station. We walked through
a gloomy prison like passaSe-Way,
bought our tickets and were then told
to enter the lift yonder.' An Eng
Iisii lift is an American elevator. We
had q feeling that the English mad
found the miraculous means of pen
etrating the interior of the earth and
to oh aooin wherever
we wished On asking the official IN
charge of the lift if he was taking us
10 Fusion. he didn't even smile, but
said We should nave to go "a bit farth-
err and a bit farther we did nave TO
go after we had finished our plunge
into the earth. which brought us to d
station that we might have taken tor
our Boston subway if there had been
the customary boisterOuS mob, that
We cannot dispense with in America
Here in London, however, everything
was of the most peaceful tranqulilty
When the train came along we missed
the upifted hands, waving frantlcally
to grasp some evading strap Ihere
We're even seats where we might SIT
down. so that it almost seemed ike
our private car When we reached
Euston we went through several pas
sageways up flight Of steps and the
station was reached at last.
We preferred the motor-buses as
they spun along without hinderance
In fact the buses are the only things
that go fast in England. They merely
slow up to let the passenger on ana
of as best he may. Formerly the eX-
cuse was that it was hard for the
horses to have to stop and start so
often. hut as there are no horses to
the motor buses | wonder what their
reason is now.
The best guide in London is the
driver of the omnibus. He becomes
specially laxative if aided by "tup-
pence" What he doesn't know he Will
invent We had an unusually loqua-
cious one. on our way to Regents Park,
but if I should state all things he told
us 7 would be declared guilty of pre-
varicotion. According to him every
house had a legend every tree story.
but he also gave us some useful IN
ror,no tion concerning the Geological