The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-11
Abroad In Var Time

We arrived presently. after driv-
ing through many winding streets.
lined with intermfnahle rows OF dark.
huge. chimney-potted buildings, at
the Savoy on the Strand
London nj Night.
You who know the Strand as y
brilliantly lighted street with a gilt
terinE night-life would be amazed to
see it III wartime. The night life is
here; but it does not glitter. The
narrow sidewalks are packed with
thousands of officers and soldiers in
khaki field uniforms: with pairs or
girls. who stroll in thousands inst6
they always did. but with this differ
ence. i is pitch black Everything
lis q blur. You feel the crowd rather
than see It. Lights on motors and
taXicnhs are dimmed to low-burning
oil lamps. The fronts OF the great
hotels the Savoy, the Cecil and the
others are like the sides Of prect-
ptces.
Colby and registered at the Sa-
rpy, filling out Il long form for the
police. instead of signing in the usual
manner incidentally, the clerk at.
the Savoy wears a frock coat and
has the air OF an ambassador. ut
least 1t takes considerable sang
#froid Just 10 register there, and filling
out blank with ones family history
back q full generation requires even
more,
Englnnd'S .Respectability.'
would have taken more on my
part, II / had known what learned
later that with all their agniffcence,
both the savoy and the Cecil are not
considered respectable addresses in
on 4 = re-
have any idea ofthe importance of ii
.respectable address in London, YOU
will appreciate what mean.
You are not judged in England by
the amount Of money YOU have: but
by the people you know. BY where
You live and particularly by your
club The man without a club in
London is like the man without a
bank account In New York or soap
and water in Plttsburg. Life soon
becomes impossible
Colby and I repaired to our. apart
Iment. "a gorgeous affair. royalty spaci-
Hous and magniflcently decorated II
seemed. as told him, crime to
waste such a beautiful pink and
f#cream and golden apartment on two
y rough Tnpscalltons from the sea like
! ourselves; but Colby insisted that
we keep it, as he said the windows
I looked out over the Thames embanl-
ment, and that he wanted that to be
i MY first View Of London.
E Oysters and Seslfood.
Having settled this we went out foI
4 a stroll and after getting lost sew.
eral times in the pe1yadIng black
Il ness. and having long talk with ar
4samiable member or the police depart
81 nlent somewhere around a styEiaT
open place understood to be Lei
Fl ceBter Square, we went through I
pair OF dark doors and found our
selves In Scott's In Piccadilly. one d
Il the most famous seafocd restaur
4 ants in the world though If vol
i We're to ask FOR seafood they would
simply look at YOU blanl5ly. 1t |.
an oyster house, and5you Will ask 70
N oysters there. or you will not be IN
,iderstood. which is also typical o
London. No one tries to understand
iyou; you must make yourself intel
e Eligible or stand the consequences.
We went to bed eventually, ant
tt5awoke at 9 to the sound Of the tele
:. phone. This is the home of the kline
tof telephone sou see in society play
: the kind YOU hold against your ca
while you talk into curved receive
at one end.
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