St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-02
LETTER FROM ABROAD
Dr.. Ross Tells Of Hospital Work IN
Scotland.-Has Reached
Germany.

We print this week two letters
from DR.. E. H. Ross, who with DR..
Aldrich and Superintendent Palmer
is making a tour of Europe. The
first tells of the remainder of their
visit in Scotland and London and the
second Of their arrival at Berlin.
Leeds. July Is.
Editor of the Caledonian:
Since writing from Glasgow we
have visited Edinburgh and New
castle. At both places we saw some
| interesting and instructive surgical
work and were received very cordial
ly at the hospitals.
Yesterday we stood on our feet
five hours at a stretch watching
operations and were pretty tired. To-
day it was three hours and then
10O-nile railroad journey here.
Tomorrow we visit the hospital
here and then take train for Lon
don, ITO odd miles away.
We have not seen Mr.. Palmer
since leaving Dublin, but expect to
join him again in London.
Edinburgh is the most interesting
city we have visited. What sight see
ing we do is necess arily secondary to
reach a new city we usually ride
around on tram cars and then in
Edinburgh we walked for miles Wis
iting the castle, High St., Carlton
Hill, viewing monuments, etc.
Except in Scotland we have seen
Ford cars wherever we have stopped.
They looked good to me. England,
as far as We have seen it, is beauti-
full country. generally fertile. The
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as at home The hills are small and
as with us. All buildings are of
stone or brick with many red tile
roofs.
There was not much of historic
interest at Newcastle but they have
very fine new hospital there, and
as we were advised to stop there,
when in Edinburgh, we did SO.
Leeds is great manufacturing
city of about 100000. It is dirty
and smoky, though we rode tonight
through a tine residential section on
a hill little out of the main city.
The weather has been perfect ever
since we started from home. We
have not seen a drop of rain since
landing. The days are somewhat
warm-the natives say very hot
but the nights are cool so that we can
sleep well. AS far as we have de-
cided we shall go to London for
about three days then through Hol-
land to Hanover, Berlin, Dresden,
Heidelberg, Innsbruck, Venice, etc.
AS rule we can attend operations
| in the morning and travel in the af-
ternoon and do some sightseeing.
Monopol-Hotel
Berlin, July 20, 1911.
Here we are in Berlin arriving last
evening at Sis direct from London.
Mr.. Palmer left London Saturday
night and said he would meet us at
the station here. He stopped off in
Holland.
We had a very busy time in Lon
don, sightseeing and chasing hospi-
| tails. Sunday we spent the day hav-
ing a real outing. DR.. Aldrich and
went to Mafdenhead en- the Thames
and from there took an excursion
steamer up the river for 10 or Is
miles. The river is narrow and SIM
ply covered with boats, row boats,
punts, launches of all sizes and de-
scriptions and excursion steamers.
We passed through several locks
which help to keep the level of the
river higher. 1t is not wider than
the Passumpsic but the scenery is in
so. We passed over the famous row.
ing course at Henley and saw Mad
anne Melba's summer residence and
many beautiful places with fine gar
dens full Of flowers and grounds ex-
quisitely kept Everything is cared
for over here.
London itself is enormous and
the amount of traffic on the principal
streets, the Strand, Piceadilly, Pail
/ Ox1E< Il alr17rs cy&
beyond belief. Motor buses are as
thick as flies in our country farm
houses, as well as taxicabs, hansoms,
cabs and bicycles and tricycles. You
have to step lively TO cross. Every
thing passes to the left and that
makes it confusing though we had
become pretty we'll accustomed to
this before reaching London. The
evening of our arrival, Mr.. Martin,
manager of our hotel, Barnett,s,
Craven St., Charing Cross, took us
to the National Liberal Club. This
is about the largest club in London,
having a membership of $500. It
occupies a large five-story building
fronting toward the houses of Par
| lament It is beautifully furnished
and equipped but is chiefly interest
ing because Of it's political power.
Here we met a brother to Lord Hun
pei. He was said to be the most in
1uentia1 member in the club. Several
notables were pointed out to us.
Of course we visited St. PauPs,
Westminster Abbey, which closed
that day, the National Picture Gal
Iery,' London Tower and saw the out
side of many other notable build
ings and statues galore. We took
lunch one day at ''Ye Old Cheshire
Cheese" and sat in the same room
and almost the same seat where
Samuel Johnson sat and ate and
drank with his cronies. Besides all
this we found time to mail 270 post
cards. AS we were there only four
days you can see that we were busy
every minute.
AS 1 said we expected Mr. Palmer