The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27

ers, readers and educated people.
Taking those characteristics as our
guide, says writer in the London
Weekly Telegraph, it is probable that
the following list of twenty includes
all the best known streets in the world,
and from these the dozen most famous
streets would doubtless have to be
chosen. The twenty celebrities Of
this sort include: d
Regent street, London.
Oxford street, London.
Strand, London.
Fleet street, London.
Cheapside, London.
Whitehall, London.
Princes street, Edinburgh
O'Connell street, Oxford.
High street, Oxford.
Champs Elysees, Paris.
Rue de Riypli, Paris.
Inter den Linden, Berlin.
Avenida, Lisbon.
Foochow road, Shanghai.
The Bund, Shanghai
Nevski Prospect, st. Petersburg.
Collins street, Melbourne.
Burke street, Melbourne.
The Broadway, New York.
Fifth avenue, New York.
These include, as will be seen, nine
British streets, two French streets,
two American streets and one each in
Russia, Portugal and Germany. It
may be taken as certain that no trav-
eler or person whose opinion was
based on. real knowledge would deny
the claim of these twenty to be reck-
oned among the most famous streets
of the world, however much it might
want, or suggest, the inclusion in that
category of one or two others he ia
vored
Hence, from this list / think We
should be able to pick out the chief
dozen after some trouble. We are not
now looking at this matter from the
point of view of beauty, or trade, or
size, or antiquity, we are simply con-
sidering the point with regard to fame
and renown, whatever be its cause, as
operating to give the street the widest
degree of popularity. And, taking that
view of it, think we must at the start
rule out Whitehall and Oxford street
from the London half dozen, while
similarly the Nevski Prospect and the
Rue de Rivoli may be left out of the
European section. This decision would
reduce our number by four, thus leav-
ing us with sixteen, from which we
have yet to choose.
Now. though O'Connell street Gate
Sackville street,, Dublin, is one of the
most beautiful in our islands, and has
every characteristic of grand thor
oughfare, | do not think it is nearly
so we'll known outside this kingdom as
are several others in our list here So
we may, however reluctantly, put it
aside, too. Probably, as the Bund of
Shanghai would have to give way to
to the Fooschow road in popularity, we
can omit that also from further consid-
Grafton here, famous as it is all over
the extreme east. Which brings down
our still existing list to fourteen But
the elimination of the next two
streets from these is matter of most
difficult decision
Burke street, Melbourne, may per-
haps be left out in preference to Col
Inns street, if we are only to include
one Australian road, as seems most
likely now. And, since a London street
is almost sure to be the unlucky ''thir-
tenth which has to go, certainly
think We must give the preference to
the Strand over Cheapside. There can
be no two opinions as to which street
is best known and most recognized by
name and fame among the millions Of
our colonial cousins and foreign
friends who have never visited any
part of these islands. The immense
number of books, papers and maya
zines emananating from Fleet street
have won it popularity abroad in
wonderful way. In spots which never
heard OF Cheapside, grand. hoary and
historic as that dear old street is with
US in this land.
So I think our dozen most famous
streets of the world would be the fol-
lowing, probably in the order here
given:
Fleet street, London.
Regent street. London.
Champs Elysees. Paris.
Broadway, New York
Strand, London.
Fifth avenue, New York
Avenida, Lisbon
Princes street, Edinburgh.
High street, Oxford.
Inter den Linden, Berlin.
Collins street. Melbourne
Foochow road, Shanghai