Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-30
THE CAPITAL OF !: THE RRlTtsH EMPIRE
London's Many sidsdness, Great Size and Ancient Dignity Briefly Des- cribed.
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 Washington, D. C., Oct. zs.-'Lon- don. first among the war capitals, and foremost among the battle theatres on Engl.Gh ground--by reason of It's hav-- erations Of the mighty zeppelins--is sketched with all the intimate details of long friendship by Florence Craig ,Albrecft in a communication to the National. Geographic Society. Speak ing of the many -sldedness, the great size and the ancient dignity of Lon- don Mrs. Albrecht says;
 There are so many Londons in one London, where begin with thern2 The London of Roman and Saxon, of Nor man and Plantagenet; the London of and Dickens and Thaclzeray; the London of clubs and hotels; the Lon- don of factories and sweatshops; the London that administers the affairs of empire. and the London that dances and pays cricket. There isthe sum- mer London of the tourist there Is social London revelling in May: there ls the November London of smoke and foG, busy and inhoepitable; there is today darkened London, somewhat apprehensive, but grimly determined, Ia Ecncon different from any VIC have known.
 Putting aside all unproven tra- ditlons. it's history begins with the coming of the Roman legions. Rome, seven centuries old, was fin her, pagan prime, but Paris. then Butetia, was an island hamlet in the Seine; Vienna was small Roman camp; Berlin did not copie into existence for many cen turieE thereafter: Madrid first ap- pears 1000 years later; Brussels was founded in the 9th century. Amster- dam about the 18th of our era These count not all in L.ondon's age.
 The city of London. the commer- cial heart of the metropolis on the site of the British hamlet and Roman town measures about a mile square. In the daytime its inhabitants num- twelfth that number sleep there-iand is too valuable for residence. During l one oay a million ard a half of people pass through It's gates. Beyond fl and across the river spreads another I London >ofs 5000, 900 people, over I3o square miles, and beyond that Great CT London,' the district covered by the Metropolitan and city police. with FOG sQunfe miles and more than 1000, ,00C | inhabitants.
 end to cnd. would reach from New York. to San Francisco. Of her 650. | 900 buildings, 500 are hotels and inn. EOnc hundred thousand American: pass through them in peaceful sum. mers and. 15,000 resided thero befor' l NAAG WILT. Lnt E<tASl E<Uut DGJOnu IEn city and the Tower, is a manufac- turing district, 'tenanted largely. b, l Jewish tailors. There are other in. dustries. but the race predominates | The West End is the home of fash
 ion and of power. Between these end
 lies real London, with all its wealtl fof Ions and tremendous history, O
 literary and legal repute. of commer' il c.af prestige, of architectural fame.
 ''The district across the water con i cefEs the American visitor only fin few definite interests: all of Londoi Il for kin lies insa mile-wide band aloni the Thames. from the Tower to West
 minister: but so rich is 1t that 'whel | he would summarize his impressions
 he finds neither beginning nor end.
 ''1'he whole of Christian histor. speaks to one in the hum of the mon | ster city, the writer says, and in it thousands of possessions hallowed b,
 memories. From the Tower, in turl palace, prison. arsenal, to the world famous Abbey, made sacred to civili | zatfon by the illustrious dead gathere, I within its walls. Mrs Albrecht find
 rich or more impressive than In tn Imperial city of earth's greatest em pire. Of this echo from the past, t
 be- heard In London. Mrs. Albrech
 says:
 Tt is the tramp of Roman legion
 investing a squalid British hamlet
 1t Is the battle-cry Of Saxon and o
 Dane; it is the shout of the Normal | conqueror, the echoes of the mallet
 of his builders; 1t is the gay songs o
 the courtiers riding to this or thu
 palace on the Thames; 1t is the chan
 of many psalms, the sob of martyrs 1t Is the thud of oars Tn muffled row
 locks, as a barge slips down the rive
 from the judgment hall of westmin Fster to the Traitors Gate at tn