New Britain herald., 1917-01-23
E. P. CHASE WRITES
 OF ENGLISH RUINS
Student at Oxford Visits Many
 Places Of Interest

Charles F. Chase oc West Main street is in receipt of an interesting l letter from his son, Eugene P. Chase, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford university, in which the young man tells of. the interesting experiences in England The letter in part follows: Baybourne, Belgrade Road, Torquay Devon, Jan. 4, 1917. Dear Family
 We've been having a gay time and have been doing almost no work since we came to Torquay. Sunday VIC started to write in collaboration guide to the places we have been seeing. and began with Torquay The guide is supposed to be in close imi- tation of the very free -and-easy sort of guide you usually pick up. If there is anywhere you can go,' it be- gins. you should stay only one day in TorQuay. That day should be spent on the tramWay. Torquay is the sort of place you sec best by talk ing a tram ride to Paignton Che next town) . We append no plan of Tor quay because one will be furnished by the landlord of the Baybourne, 62 Belgravc road (30) a week upstairs reduction of two shillings for letting the landlord plan all your sightsee- ing and of 2-6 for letting him show you the town himselfD They have tea at f. o'clock Gnstead of 4:3O) to save gas and think that their board CTS should go to bed early to pre- serve their health.
 'Torquay is said to be very beauti- ful when the sun shines and at night
 
 1, king and queen have had their pie | lures taken in Torquay. and her late Majesty Victoria. R. I. is said to have thought the place charming, even though she stayed at the finest hotel"
 You can see that we do not ad- mire the place in itself. We've seen quite a lot since we came, and when we go back to the excellent landlady's at Lyme Regis, as we shall tomorrow or next day, we shall have spent a week profitable for sightseeing if nothing else.
 Saturday night we went to the theater Royal and saw 2 wonderful revival of David Garrick. We could get no reserved seats so we went up in the siXpenny gallery, right under the roof, and sat on padded benches among pan of the good British people. It cost me siNpcnce for ticket, a penny war tax, and penny for a program. and it was as good a show as I ever saw in my life.
 Monday afternoon we CNcled out to- wards a place called Totncs to the ruins of Berry POmerOy Castle (6d to get in; worth 2-6 as siXpenny things .go). The ruins are ivy-cov- cred, and surrounded, by a wood, and T ,~I, fn hp cnnH Wo could see the chapel, the great hall. the kitchens (with the remains of old fireplaces and chimneys) and lots of newer rooms all in ruin. Then we could see, in the block of buildings at the entrance where the portculis used to drop, and just above the en- trance the guardroom where the port culNs stayed when 1t was up, and at the sides of the guardroom passages to the dungeons, which were properly small, dark, and dripping with water.
 Berry Pomeroy was out first castle, and a very good one too, but we did not hesitate to see another next day. That was Dartmouth Castle.
 The Dart river flows into the sea just twelve miles southwest of here; at its mouth is the town of Dart mouth, across a ferry from Kings wear which is on the bank nearest Torquay. We cycled through driz- gle in the morning, but found it measureably clear at Dartmouth, and cycled back in the afternoon just in time for tea.
 You may be interested to know that, it is said that the English sol diers sing the following:
 "The bells of Hell go ting-a- -ling-a- ling,
 For you, but not for me For me the angels sing ling ling They've got the goods for me. Oh! Death where is thy sting -a-ling- a-ling
 Oh! grave thy victoree
 The bells of Hell go ting -ling-a-ling l For you but not for me-