The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-12-01
PART y.

Glasgow, Scotland. is a city, the.
tell, OF nigh unto 100000 population
1t has many beautiful buildings ant
in every way compares favorabl!
with our American cities.
We left the morning of July 81
for Loeb Lomond, which il compared
with our own Thousand Islands. Go.
ing across the lake we took four.
horse tally-ho for the Trossact
Mountains to Loeb Katdine. Taking
boat we rode the full length of the
lake, eight miles, and then took an.
other 4-horse tally-ho over thf
Trossach mountains to Sterling, d
small town where we took a train fol
Edinburgh, crossing the famous Firth
bridge, the greatest architectural
structure in the world. 1t is two
miles long and 800 feet above the
Firth OF Forth.
We landed in Edinburgh August 1
John Knox il probably Scotland's
most revered hero. His house in the
ancient capital of the Northern King
dom and st. Giles church, from the
pulpit Of which he hurled his ana
themas, are probably the first places
OF interest towards which the foot
steps of tourists are directed Thith-
er we wendell our way.
We spent the entire day sightsee-
ing and left next morning for Melrose,
AbbOttsford, and Dryburgh Abbey, for
ever linked with the name OF Sir Wal
ter Scott.
The Father OF the Modern Novel;
was a collector of curios, and in his
home, Abbottsford, his accumulations
are preserved.
We left over the Midland railroad
for Warwick, stopping at Birmingham!
the greatest steel manufacturing city
in England.
A carriage drive enabled III to COM
pare it with our own Pittsburgh. The
buildings of the city are less up-to-
date, but the smoke nuisance seems
to be less than in Pittsburgh.
Our ride to Warwick Castle, was
through a beautiful farming section.
We saw automatic binders at work
in the fields, similar to those used to
harvest American crops. The grain
was shocked very heavy.
a. In Ireland nearly all OF the farm
houses and barns are under one roof
and the fences are Of stone, having
been built hundreds OF years ago,
partly because timber was scarce
and partly because stones were plen-
tiful. Two operations were combin-
ed In one: the stones were removed
from the fields to facilitate cultiva-
ton and fences were constructed.
We arrived at Warwick August
and from there drove to Stratford on
Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. We
were In the house ana afterwards Wis
tied the abbey where he Is buried.
The next day we left for London
and travelled through a beautiful
country. Arriving at $40 p. m, we
registered at the Holborn Viaduct ho-
tel. Taking a guide next morning we
started out to visit the business sec
ton.
A city OF six million and a quarter
inhabitants, London covers SO large
an area that one may drive all day
without covering any considerable
portion of the city. We chose the
section where the necessities and
Injuries of life are distributed among
10 many people.
No more interesting spot Is there
than London's meat market, where
the meat to supply that vast multi
tude Is distributed to the retailers.
Every carcass that comes into the
market IL inspected and stamped, be-
fore the retailer gets it.
It was the largest quantity of meat
we had ever seen. The market COW
ers squares, very much as Lexington
market does in Baltimore, and meat
alone was sold and that only to re
tailers.
There are no electric street cars i'm
London but electric buses and cabs
run everywhere. A few horse buses,
relics OF a former day,remind one of