Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22

ter Josephine, almost beneath me, though
little further toward the stern
When that point was passed felt a
sense of relief, though was told my face
was boodess. The passengers who were
about ran to get life preservers. BY skill
ful seamanship on both boats the officers
and crews managed to keep them apar:
and the Maine swept by. almost grazing us.
Then there was a mighty cheer on both
boats. There was timid lot of passengers
for the rest of the trip. One man wore
life preserver the whole time and we all
shall remember the Maine.
Pannebakkers and Others
At Antwerp our hotel was near the
cathedral and its chimes rang every fifteen
minutes through the night. We rode in a
street car out to Hobuken, a village three
or four miles inland. At Amsterdam we
had rooms at the Hotel Amstel. The fields
around the city are divided off, not by
fences as with us at home, but by bitches
hlled with sea water, and there is but one
entrance for the big black.and-white cattle
which seem to be never hungry and always
lying down, and that is through a gate.
one day Josephine, who Is something of
an artist, and ] went through one of these
gates in order to give her an advantageous
location from which to make a sketch of
tower. She made her sketch. While we
were so cngrossed one OF the farm boys
| locked the gate and we discovered that we
were held as prisoners | would have
enjoyed Gaming the Dutch scamp, but in.
| stead ! was compelled to pay ransom
while he
with glce.
TN apother day my brother Isaac and
| | went to Utrecht and there hunted up
Jan Panncbakker." "A goldsmith and lew.
| elcr with whom had corrcsponded The
| earliest of the name of whom have know.
edge was burned to death by the Spaniards
as hereto at Utrecht in 1868, and these
| cheerful Christians likewise drowned his
| Wiie We took jan whom we found to be
| an agreeable, back-eyed man, with a pleas.
ant wife and a family of wel.educated
| children TO Gorcum or Gorinchem with us
| in order to make some investigations and
| to see the church in one of whose windows
| tho arms of the family at an early date
| had been painted upon glass. lie did not
| know word of English, and such converse.
| tion as was maintained throughout the day
| had to be conducted in Dutch We crossed
| the North Sea from Flushing to the mouth
| of the Thames and spent week in Lon.
| don. While there we visited the British
| Museum. with its immense collections of
literature and art, and the Kew Gardens.
| with their many varieties of flowers and
| shrubbery. We stood on London Bridge,
| rode on top of the omnibuses and saw
| again on the Strand the tangle caused by
| the vain effort of the Englishman to solve
| modern transportation by the extension of
| the old method of cab service. With all
| OF his capacity. the Englishman Is a little
| stif in his mental joints and, therefore
| SLOW IN his movement. I saw outside of
| Coventry woman. born in the house i'm
| which she lived, who had never seen the
| nearest village only three miles away I
| found. If | wanted n carriage from a liv.
| eryman the only safe course was to give
an order the day before. In something of
| hurry. | went to a man at Coventry. az
| ] would have done at home, and told him
| | wanted his carriage and driver. He
began by feeding the horses then he had
them groomed, presently he brought out
the carriage and had it washed and creased.
After all Of these preminaries were com.
messed. supposed we were ready to start.
| BY no means. He then had to dress him.
self and put on that ugly long hat with
out which no man with a proper sense of
his dignity would think OF driving a team.
My object was to go to Bosworth 1t was
fifteen miles away. No traveller had ever
| before asked to be driven to Bosworth,
and he did not know the roads I sup.
eested that we might inquire as we went
along and find them adding that it was
time for him to learn the way to a place
so famous. Three or four miles from
Coventry we turned sharp corner, cd.
preaching the little village Of Fenny Dray.
ton. On the corner was a lot overgrown
with weeds, in the center of which stood
stone. What does that stone mark?" I
asked. IL do not know" he replied "Stop
the coach and let me see." The inscription
told me that on that spot stood the house
in which George Fox. the founder Of the
Quaiers, had been born. | had stumbled
upon an interesting site, repete with asso.
Citations of interest to a Pennsylvanian
and felt repaid for the trip. We reached
Bosworth after the noon meal, but learned
that we were in Bosworth market.town
and still not at the battlefield. The driver
objected to going any further. Among
other incentives, one of my forefathers had
been killed at Bosworth and did not pro.
pose to get that near to the field without
seeing IL, so l insisted and told him to rest
his horses for an hour and feed them.
All that the tavern people could give us
to eat 'was the remnant of a cold leg OF
lamb, and nothing could have been more
palatable. While in England ! cultivated
an admiration for sheep from which 1
have never recovered After reaching the
neighborhood Of the battlefield 1 stopped
at a rectory, and the rector, an intelligent
gentleman, pointed out to me the way
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