The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-04
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way Will run through scenery charac-
teristic Of the dOminion-the timber
belt, the wheat belt. the Rockies. and
the fruit growing district being rep
resented. Australia and New Zealand.
india and South Africa will be traversed
in like manner. and at various points
along the line there will be stations for
each OF the great countries OF the en-
pire, where the traveller may alight 10
view the buildings of the country and
the exhibitions contained In them.
The palace itself. IL Is now intended.
shall be devoted to an all-British exhi-
| bition Of arts and Industries with
special section for women's work.
II old houses and the like have
really any value TO memory beyond
what art gives to them, there is going
TO be a great forfeiture in the more
than threatened demolition of Tabard
street
This slummy. dingy. frankly filthy
thoroughfare - leading from st.
/ Georges church in the borough 20 the
/ junction Of the old and new Kent roads
has at last been effectively condemned
as hopelessly insanitary as well as dis
reputable.
Although there are few foIls living.
except. perhaps. its actual denizens.
who are not glad that Tabard street
should be wiped off the face of the
earth as n disgrace to modern civiliza-
ton. II has to be confessed that hardly
/ a street in London is so famOusly con-
nected with history, poetry, and every
circumstance Of greatness.
Great I'm Former Years.
In the old. old days. Tabard street
was the main approach to London for
| everyone who arrived from anywhere
in Kent, from Canterbury, from the
| Cirque ports, and so on, one might al
/ most say. from Europe.
| Up Tabard street. nearly 600 years
/ ago. rode the Black prince. conqueror
/ at Poitiers. bringing with him in tri-
/ umph the captive French king. Up
| Tabard street swarmed the peasants Of
/ Kent under Wat Tyler. and. later on.
/ Jack Cade and his Kentish men. pour
/ ing in from the heart Of England's
| industry-the Lancashire lads OF that
day.
Down Tabard street. some time be-
| fore either OF these events. the Canter-
/ bury Pilgrims scattered over the stones
| on their way to Booklets shrine. laugh
/ ing, jostling. juggling. in the May
morning bcvy Of iol1itv and color
Yet. even in those far-Off times. Tab
ard street seemed to have made up its
mind TO prove unworthy Of this honor
Il or welcoming the coming and speeding
the parting guest As long ago as the
| thirteenth century. 81 was a haunt Of
! depravlty and poverty.
Yet. with 20 all, the very dingiest-
! though not the worst features Of Tan
| ard street still have romance for rs
| Of today. For their last distinction
was that OF being touched by the gen
I ius OF Charles Dickens. Not n hundred
yards from Tabard street Little Dor
| rit' was born. At St. Georges church.
/ hard by, she was mar 'ed, and there
| too. Is the vestry porch where the
l kindly beadle laid her e. sleep with the
| burial register for pillow.
Teddy Bear. who was so popular in
| the nursery and toy room. has at last
/ found a rival who threatens him with
/ dethronement I'm the affections OF
young England.
! A lifelike model OF Caesar, the IA
| vorite terrier OF the late King Edward.
has been placed on the market. and Is
selling to the exclusion Of Teddy Bear
and other toy animals.
one result OF the rapid sinking and
opening out OF new collieries on the
South Yorkshire coal field is a state OF
overcrowdinE which borders on the in
credible in the pit villages.
| Around Doucaster. miners and their
families are living under canvas await
ing the completion Of cottages. For
want or dwellings in the district OF
IThurnscOe most young married couples
/ have TO pass the first period OF their
married life under the roof Of their re-
/ spective parents.
| The Methodist minister at Hens
worth writes me:
II have seen the conditions under
[ while the poor live in Birmingham.
Liverpool. Manchester and Plymouth.
but HemswOrth for overcrOwding beats
anything I ever saw. The most fertile
Imagination cannot paint picture that
Z would eNagCerate g."
An example is afforded by the village
or Goldthorpe. The place has So
houses and population Of 5000 or an
average Of IS persons per house The
/ great bulk OF the dwellings are four
I stories high.