The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-06-20
SOME CHANGES IN LONDON
BCT PLENTY STILL TO MAKE
OLD TIMERS FEEL AT HOME.
Delights of a First bay with American
Faces AZ Every Turn and TaNis al ~
Cents q Mile some Woe In the Music
Halls -COney Island Minus the Ocean.

Delights Of q First Day Win American
Faces al Every Turn and TaNis NJ IL
Gents a Mile some woe In the Music
Halls -COney Island Minus the Ocean.
LONDON. June Coming up to Lon
don by the boat train you read just the
same headlines in the newspapers as APP
peared nine years ago when Edward VII
was getting ready to put on his temporal
crown London Under Wood" stared at
you from the printed page and carried
you back.
This ght he interpreted as indicat-
ing how little changes in London when
Won see the same headlines in a news
paper after nine years But though Lon
don changes little IL does change in some
| things You go about the hotels and see
the same clerks you have been knowing
| for three, six or ten years; the cigar fner-
! chant. on the strength OF your being an
damp. shrivelled green cigars" he has
been putting on his shelves in anticipa-
ton OF your arrival. and you may have to
instruct Benedict, the barman AT the
| Carlton how to make Glover CUB cock
tail, OF which he has never heard. his
and the Manhattan he was taught dozen
years back; but all the same you see
changes.
You get up after night spent in try
ing % get used to bed that doesn't jump
up and down with the waves and find
sunshine outside that Is just like that at
home You eat fresh eggs for the first
time for nine days and you find your cof-
fee is changed from what yor, used to get
here II was always possible to set good
coffee in London you reflect. but never
here before. You go ont into the street
after a struggle TO find the American news
in the morning papers, feeling fit" rs
they ray locally. and you catch sight OF
line Of smart looking taSicabs. each like
a fine private automobile You would like
drive. First you think what this would
mean AT home Then you happen to re-
member that here you can travel a mile
for 10 cents tha. each additional quarter
means only 4 cents and that these taxi
meters are all strictly Inspected and
| supervised.
You swell with importance as you turn
70 the head porter. who looks like com
bination Of Gen Miles in full regala and
the Diplomatic Corps at Washington at a
White House entertainment
YES sir: taxi, sir?" he beams. with his
hand mt salute and you nod The chauffeur
galvani,es into action and you decide as
YOU pause on the step, with the ob-el,lious
uniformed parsonage holding his ear
at,entivelv. that you will first drop in
AZ the Ritz. which yoI have given to the
folks a, home as your probable address.
and you starr ont
There il the familiar roar of motor
! buses and hansoms and other traffic as
Won turn into Cockspur street and then
INTO Pail Hall. and pass ~ id n - s Palace.
where the usual throng is wa ching the
| red coats. Then "a You drive tIp to the
! Ritz YOU soc a familiar face. II j. 'ha, Of
Frank A Mun>ry, who is standing out on
the steps figuring on The possibilities of
| the weather.
When you have found there is ~ rail
for you al the Ritz, because your friends
suspected YOU would never stop there.
yo,i decide you will circl. Hyde rark
FOR hsi ing in a taxi. you cant ge' in. ont
! Piccadlly YOU pass cher-a ban end
omnibus: laden with holiday mskers
Monday and everybody who can goes ori
of town Park Lane looks d..er,ed for
the fashionable folk are away Oxford
street IS filed with more vehicl"d h,ldav
seekers You speed along by the top of
HYDE Park which il now al i;s best. and
finally az hensinG'on Gardens you turn IN
and speed down the road thai seems a
part of the park Everybody you sea
along the road is in hollday garb. Then
all of a sudden you are OUT Of whet seemed
| real country. and are passing the Yelling
ton Rarra rks and then crossing over 10
the Wellington Arch AMI then bowling
| AT slackened speed in the direction of tho
Victoria Memorial. which was no; com
pleted when you were here la>'
/ Passing buckingham Palac. You have
! .h T.. hr,iI VI,
IL from q glance n tho pelr"e windows
All here is something tha' hes not
changed The bureaus in tn" upper front
rooms are still standing with ;h',r backs
TO the outside world. And tho guard is
parailng too. just as it used ~ this hour
Then you are going down the Mall,
! for YOU want a hook ~ the hiV arch NJ the
/ lower end for that too i. new to vou
Here You find the way blocked on account
Of parade preparation. ion have TO 60
along Pail Mall again and you ge, out a.
the Carlton You hook az The taximeter
! II says Is. I'd You hav. really ridden six
niles and a quarter fer sl0t When yon
| think yo'i have paid more than that in
| New York for a mile ride You think how
cheap some things are in London after
all.
| You decide YOU will lunch AZ favori,c
place. the terrace at the Savoy grill
room. where you can see more of wharf
humanity interesting at that hour Than
anywhere else in London You find an
acquaintance at once. and then several
Americans you know drop in, Up in
the further corner Frank Gould is lunch
ing with his wife But as it is Whit Mon
! day there are few others about You
| learn that Gustave has AZ last put Ger
man beer on the wine card Beefv.
the bar waiter. is still on duty AT the same
stand. and the same barmaids are stand
ing watches. You eat your first French
melon OF the season at 75 cents a slice
| Then you get back to your own hotel.
and a lonely steamer acqua ntance drops
in Iou and he go TO The Carlton grill