The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-30
Donald Gold On
Sightseeing Trip
REDWOOD FALLS BOY VISITS
KINGS PALACE AND 9TH
Err INTERESTING SPOTS
is ENJOYING ENGLAND
WILL MAKE TRIP INTO IRELAND
AND SCOTLAND AND VISIT
ENGLISH HOMES
April A.

Dear Family
Two weeks now, since cabled, AMI
no mail. / do hope hear from you in
the next few days, as / am leaving
Tuesday or Wednesday of next week
for a two weeks trip through Ireland
and Scotland This is the only chance
/ will have to make such trip and
will probably go to Cardiff, Water,
first and from there to Cork ETC., am
going down to the 7. in the morning
and plan it all out. Garry and and
/ are going together. will get new
book and keep as complete diary of
the entire trip as can. We had very
interesting trip yesterday afternoon,
a trip arranged by the ''Y"
and we conducted by very
fine Englishmen who could tell us all
about the things we saw. We went
out to Hampton Court Palace, situated
on the Thames River about thirty
minutes ride to Iondon. The Palace
as it now stands covers eight acres,
and contains over 1900 rooms, while
the parks adjoining cover nearly 1000
acres. The Palace was first begun by
Cardinal Wolsey in 1914, was the prin-
ciple seat of Henry the VIII, and all
down to Geo. III, and has not been
Geo. II slapped the face of his son,
afterwards Geo. III there, and when
Geo. III came to the throne he re-
fused to live there.
Many of the Kings added to the
Palace, but good many of the origi-
nal rooms are left just as they we're
built 400 years before. We were in
the Great Hall where Henry VIII used
to feast, and the same tapestries are
there today that were there 400 years
ago. In this hall are six beautiful
stained glass windows, one for each of
Henry VIII six wives, and at the end
is a very large window bearing the
crest of each office that Wolsey held
from the time he was a simple priest,
until he ruled England for Henry VIII
and was the richest man Of his time.
The ceiling of the hall is all of wonder
fully carved solid oak, each piece carv-
ed with the royal crests. We were in
the Royal Apartments, now many Of
them used as a picture gallery. In some
of rooms the walls were wonderfully
painted, while in most of the rooms
the pictures were framed and hung.
We didn't have time to look at all the
pictures but / am going back there
some day and take my time to it. We
saw one small painting by Rembrandt
that is worth 100000. The walls
of the guard room are decorated with
more than 5000 weapons, swords, riff
es, pistols, bayonets, armor, drums, al
the weapons of warfare of heroes. We
saw the bed that Henry slept in with a
canopy fully twenty feet high over it.
And standing on the corner, just as
it stood 400 years ago, was beauti-
full grandfathers clock, and it was
still running and keeping good time
and it only had to be wound once a
year. We. were in the Queens Apart
meats and saw several suites of furnl-
ture that were used by the various
queens. We saw priceless pieces or
TAPESTRY that were so wonderfully
shaded and colored that they looked
like paintings. We saw wood carr
ings of fruit and vines that was Won
derful. you could hardly believe it
was wood, but I touched it to be sure.
We were in the Chapel where Hem
ry VIII attended service and from
the door of which the screaming ghost
of one of his beheaded wives is still
supposed to come. In this same
Chapel Oliver CromwelPs daughter
was married.
We were in the old kitchen, saw the
largest fire place in the world, where
a whole OK could be roasted at once.
Were in the indoor tennis court that
was used by Henry VIII and is still
used today.
Were in the court yards and gar
dens, saw a grapevine 200 years old,
saw the garden Henry VIII planned
himself, walked under the trees in
Queen AIMS bower, the trees are all
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