The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-18

Hotel Porter Will Leave His Chair TO
Light Match for Ones Cigar - Drunk
enness and Poverty of LOndOns White
chapel District Gone.
England clihgs to old ideas. according
to c. Frederick Childs of Chicago, head
of a well-known bond house and nephew
of Maj. F. W. Childs of Brattleboro.
The following letter to Maj. Childs was
written in Bournemouth Aug. 30:
England as l find her now is no more
likely to be influenced by American GUS
toms and habits than she is likely to
enjoy American climate She loves
Some of the latter in this vicinity were
built in 700 and the hotel orchestras
play tunes nearly as old. In London's
financial district Morgans office has
nothing modern but a blotter. His
banking house is listed as being
merchants" Most of them have a
fireplace in the private office and all
have been burning brightly since I've
been here this month. We too have
CRATE fire in our rooms every evening.
The movies have a table in front OF
every two chairs at which tea is served
during every show and anybody can
smoke if he wishes. All the Office
clerks are women at the best hotels and
telephones are as scarce as they are
poor Every one. however. from tin
barber to the cab drivers are so polite
and courteous YOU feel embarrassed.
Can YOU imagine the porter OF q New
York hotel getting out OF his chair to
light a match for your cigar! They
fall over themselves to treat YOU here
like that The theatres are all below
ha - oil nd far1 N-nT IfrI-ff
two flights of stairs to reach the or
chestra. The subWavs in some places
are four and five flights below the
streets and different lines cross each
other at each flight down. making it
necessary to use elevators in making
transfers.
Friends we visited at their country
estate told me they nearly starved nm
der the food shortage during the war
and almost froZe in the winter while
coal was being rationed Their stabi"
of twelve horses was Communicated on"
day for which the government paid
them only seven pounds, leaving only
one horse for their use.
Every street is paved with wooden
block, and each block is carefully in
spected as it is laid and any which show
by observing the growth rings that tn"
tree grew too rapidly to be hard are TO
moved and discarded. No policeman
j. armed but in the sO-called slum :
around VI hItrChaDel they always are
in pairs and Won never see a policeman
alone there That part of London !
visited with M daughter and it was
as safe and ORDERLY As Fifth AvenU,,
New York. on Sunday. saw no .evi-
dpuce Of drunkenness and poverty which
used to characterize its past history.
went for the purpose Of seeing the
down-and- out sid" Of London's life, bIt
was disappointed There was no more
activity or business doing at Dirty
Dicks saloon than. at the Waldorf bar
at present This reformation NAV
well ho attributed to the London court
and the promptness with which AL
crime i and has been punished. Wh"T
man is arrested he Is immediately
taken to the presiding ,udgc who he2r.
the charge decides unOn its facts 2n'
merits and at once imposes q fine ~
sends the guilty to the gaol to serve his
sentence ut hard labor. Justice Is sure
swift and uualtPrahln and thore'S NJ
chance to escape by DELAYING the tri"
until the witnesses are dead. Today
noted a casc where an attempt W"
made to rob taxi driver at 4 a. m. a,
at noon the following dav the two or!
urits had hoPn sentenced to three
months imprisonment at hard Ia bor.
c. T. c.