Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-09-24
in The Metropolis 10 Keep
One Busy for Years MOT Many
Large Stores ACTIVE War
Preparations Against Ger
man Army.
By H. E. COLE

London! What shall we say of the
largest city in the world? The first
thing that impresses one is its bigness.
It's greatness overcomes one and the
sensation is firing. There are so many
streets and they run in go many direc-
tions that the feeling is bewildering.
Il street which extends in the same
general direction has different name
every few blocks so if you take stroll
on Piccadilly you soon find yourself in
Coventry, then Cranbourn, Long Acre
and so on. Many of the names are
queer as, Big Cage Walk, Brewery,
Drury Lane, Bread, Cheapside, White
Lion, Fashion, and many others. Pat
ernoster Row is famous for books,
Cheapside for shops and Fleet street for
its mention by Dickens. Along these
streets snd beneath them surge some
thing like seven million people. There
are no elevated roads as in Chicago and
unlike the western metropolis there are
plenty beneath the city. Some are 80
deep in the earth they are reached by
going down in an elevator and being
brought up at the end of the journey.
There are no express trains as on the
underground lines in New York and the
elevated roads of Chicago and the
trains do not run as fast as in either
city. The stores do not open until nine
b clock in London and everything moves
at an easy pace. One man, who had
been in business in the United States,
remarked that one could make just as
muchmoney in London and could make
it easier than in America. Business
does not seem to be conducted at such
a high key. Speaking of transportation,
most of the people of London reach
their work by means of the big
motor busses, bicycles or walking. One
can ride a long distance on a motor bus
for penny 1.-TWO cents in our money!
and breath of morning air seated on
the top is invigorating. The English
people appear to like fresh air and the
men, women and children climb the
winding stairs on the busses with ap-
parent delight. The underground trains
never appear to be crowded, even dur
ing rush hours.
Flust Have Been Great Fog
Wisconsin is noted for logs, Iowa for
hogs, Ireland for bogs, ConstantinopIe
for dogs, Milwaukee for grogs and Lon
don for fogs. While in London we
failed to see a first class fog, but heard
of several. It is related that during
one of the most dense Of them man
decided to shingle his house. He kept
mailing away at a lively rate and when
the mist finally lifted he found that he
had shingled half way across the
street, so dense had been the dampness.
Many of the fogs are like the yarns
they tell, too big to swallow.
One Of the most famous places his
torically and for the visitor, is London
Tower. Here kings and queens as well
as noted men and women have been i'm
prisoned and beheaded. Every tower
in the old fortress has some bloody
stain attached to it and by the time the
guide has gone over the gruesomeness
the visitor is ready to believe there
were really clark ages. The tower
| is more or less fortified and in one of
the stone rooms the crown jewels are
kept, the array being large enough to
fill jewelry store. The jewels are
said to be worth over SIS, 900, 900 anC
every night the great cage in which
/ they are kept is lowered into a deer
cavity. Queen Victoria's crown con
tains sapphire worth more than half q
million. Earls, dukes and others sleeE
in the cemetery within the castle walls
and for many of them there is deserved
pity. The great warriors of England
lie in st. Paul's cathedral and the
kings, queens and writer's for many cen
turies are in Westminster abbey. These
great churches are full of tombs anC
tablets, many having been defaced dur
ing the days when the dogs of wal
were terrorizing. More than one king
lost the metal from his tomb, some
their heads and occasionally the bone
were hurled through an open window
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