Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-02-02
BRYAN
WRITES OF LONDON
Head OF Washington State College,
Now on Tour of Europe, Writes
Interesting Letter From
England

statesman Gladstone, which was a
very statesmanlike saying, since Lon
don is a world in itself, and seeing
the world Alright is a most excellent
bit of statesm anship.
One great means of surface trans
portation is the motor omnibus. OF
course. there are few suburban
tram" or street car lines--double-
decked always-and there is won
derful tube system lying under the
city-not so good as the New York
subway, but covering the entire city
vastly better. But SO far as surface
cerned, it is either in the omnibus or
the swifter and costlier taxi's. A few
years ago it was the horse omnibus
but there are only few of them now
left and they look like the tag end
of something that will soon disappear.
The omnibuses are all two-story and
hence the basis of Gladstones say
ing. A narrow spiral stairway at the
rear enables you to climb to the top,
If you are agile, and once up there
you have all London under your eye,
II YOU go far enough. There are
seats for sixteen within, below, and
for eighteen above, and no more are
admitted than there are seats for,
so there is no hanging up by the
straps or being pressed into sar-
dine, as in Boston.
Fairies, plize," says the conduct
or, which being interpreted means
Fares, please and when you have
paid he says 60"
What does %" mean" said a
little one beside me-
"Oh, I suppose that is the end and
very essence of THANK you" I re-
piled.
The fare? Anything from "ha'p'n'y"
to "sixpence ha'p'ny." On this par
ticular occasion is was "tuppence. "
The conductor gives you little check
which is your receipt and which may
be examined later at any corner by
a spotter. The lines of busses run
everywhere and the destination, as
well as intermediate points, and the
number of the line are conspiciously
displayed. That line runs from
NORWOOD Scrubs in the fashionable
West end to Shoreditch in the I'M
fashionable East end. On its way it
passes Rotten Row" the aristOcratic
roadway in Hyde Park for horseback
riding. crosses Pail Mall. runs
through Piccadilly circus, the Strand,
Cheapside, the Poultry, Threadneedle
Street and crosses or runs through
innumerable other streets, lanes or
circuses with equal euphonious and
Illuminating names.
London is an endless maze of
streets, lanes or circuses, little and
big, which at first are very confus-
ing, as they run in every direction
and to everywhere and nowhere, but
thanks to the omnibus system one
can soon get the run of things so as
not to be lost very badly. There are
few great thoroughfares running
approximately east and west or
roughly speaking, parallel with the
Thames, and having traversed these
few times, one may orient himself
to them.
The first of these and one of the
oldest is the Strand, and its connec-
tions, once perhaps the river bank.
Beginning with Trafalgar Square,
London. The Strand runs easterly
past the Charing Cross station, with
its beautiful monument, Charing
Cross, and along this busy, narrow
street
From here the street is no longer
called the Strand, but Fleet street
then it is called Ludgate circus and
Ludgate hill, then St Paul's church
yard, with its great and beautiful
cathedral, then Cannon street, etc
Westward from Trafalgar Square the
same artery parallels the Thames
through Whitehall and Victoria St
Farther to the northward the next
great artery is Oxford street, with its
westward extension of Bayswater
Road and its eastern opening through
the Holborn viaduct and Cheapside
And so the great arteries are for
this world what the great tranconti-
mental railways are to ours. AS one
from his perch on the roof of the
omnibus watches the seething crowd
beneath, moving, moying-ever hith-
er and thither-now faster, now Ian
guidly, he thinks how we'll Shakes
peare described it all as 'life's fitful
fever"
A night ride last night was particu-
larlV SDppt apular as if ALWAYS is In