Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-05-15
SEEING ENGLAND
BY MOTOR CAR
Wollaston, Norths, England

WOllAStOu, NCTbuSi Lug lanu
Editors News:
Leaving my native village in a fine
motor car owned by E. J. Pitts, a
prosperous shoe manufacturer, who
/ with his wife, Mrs. Marriott and N.Y.
self had five days of pleasure seeing
this part of England, our first bis.
toric place was Olney where Cowper
spent most of his literary life. The old
oak under which be sat and wrote is
still there, also the old house. Our
next stop latter passing through the
immense estates of the Duke of Bed
ford where deer, hares, pheasants and
partridges are so numerous and tame
that some of them stayed on the road
side as we passed) was at AYlesbury
where one of the largest and best fe-
male prisons of England is located.
They send some of the sufragettes
there for rest only. On beautiful
Sunday morning we arrived at Oxford
and spent that day sight seeing. The
first thing to do is to get a good guide
which we were very fortunate to Sc
cure, for the reason that Oxford is
truly closed city on Sunday; but our
guide with the aid of a 'silver key"
took us to most places of greatest inter
est. Our first visit was to the churches
and cathedrals. Many of the churches
are very old, dating back from l129 TO
to 1924 Then we went to the colleges
and of course these are what make OK
ford SO famous. Our first visit was to
New college. While they call it New
college it is one of the oldest in Oxford,
the foundation stone being laid March
5, 1880, by William of Wykeham, who
paid for this immense and grand COL
lege at his own expense. The chapel
is the most magnificent room in the
whole lot of buildings and cannot be-
described in letter. Our next visit
was to Magdalene college, founded In
1883 and while not SO large as New
college sit is the most noble and rich
structure in the learned world" "a
Wood.) This was said 800 years ago,
but many say it is true today. We
then went to BalliCl college, founded
in 1865 by Sir John de Balliol, father of
the king of Scotland. 1t contains
many oil paintings las do all the col,
leges) of famous men including the
founder and his wife. Among the
modern ones are Cardinal Manning
and Robert Browning.
Not far from this college we came
to the Martyrs Memorial having the
faces (carved of caen stone) OF Ridley,
Latimer and Cranmer and back we
walked TO the front Of the college
where is the spot where the three men
were burned to death in the year 1866.
The spot is marked with polished
cross. think JneIe are AZ colleges In
Oxford and while We could not see
q quarter of them it was Sunday we'll
spent Oxford is a quaint old city,
possibly the most learned city in the
world and perhaps the slowestin some
waVs. The only mode of transporter
t on is the ola horse cars and cabs; no
electric cars, but they all seem content.
They Call the City Barth.
Leaving Oxford Sunday evening we
stopped for the night at Chlppenam,
Wiltshire, got an early start in the
morning for Bath everybody calls 1t
Barth). Our first visit was to Bath
Abbey, one of the Oldest in Great
Britain; in fact it is stated that Bath
was founded as city in 863 b. q. and
records have been found that Bath
was Roman city, A. D. 81, and
that the Roman baths were IN eXis-
tence at that time and parts OF the
same old Roman baths are still there,
lust outside Of the Abbey. The Abby
is q very old and historic building;
some parts were built in about the 6tn
centurysand has been partly destroyed
by different parties and always rebuilt
on grau6er scale. The present Abbey
was rebuilt in 1872; the carvings and
statuary are something wonderful;
some have been removed recently for
fearthe suffragettes might destroy
them, things that have been there for
over 900 years. Bath is very modern
city with it's electric cars, Roman and
public baths, clean streets with three
and four story dwelling houses, one
side facing one street Win TWO
stories. and the other side facing an
other street with four stories,
with broad sidewalks running along
at the second floors, with twenty to
fifty steps to theistreet below. Our
next run was to Wells in Somerset
shire. Arriving there our first visit
was to Wells Cathedral. This is
.;o,,o 0roun IF huildiUpS erected