Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-11-21
Liverpool, However, Is Least
Known of All by
Travellers.

Washington.-The last city to have
Its civic week at the Wembley Empire
exhibition was Liverpool.
and Liverpool says a bulletin
from the National Geographic society.
hes seen more visiting Americans
than any other English city, while,
u Is snfe to say. these Americans saw
less of Liverpool than they did of any
other place in Europe.
They know that the city has miles
and miles OF docks; that the world 10
general unlouds upon these docks vast
quantities Of raw materials, no mean
part Of which nre the cargoeS OF grain,
cattle, cotton. tobacco and meats from
the United States. They also know
that the busy factories Of Lancashire,
Yorkshire and the Midlands converge
their wares upon these docks, pouring
out into the world commerce stream
shlploads Of woven linen, woolen and
cotton machinery and metals.
''The flags Of sixty steamship lines
which ply in and out Of Liverpool were
on display at Wembley. Two other
features Of the exhibit were horses
and art treasures.
The Liverpool dray horses are IA
nous. Never ending lines Of trucks
drawn by these handsome, massive ami
mails move along Liverpool's streets
between docks and warehouses and
railway stations. The trucks are the
type known as 'lorries.' which orig
mated in this city.
Annually the city has a spring car
niNai at which parades of the horses
form a principal attraction. At Wem-
bley one Liverpool horse is reported
to have registered a pull of 81 tons and
then, with second horse, to have ex-
ceeded the capacity of the register.
which was 20 tons.
"coaLsmoked Greek Architecture"
"The art treasures were from Liver
pools museum, wherein may be found
a gallery of paintings, an aquarium and
a public library. The most beautiful
building in the city. however, is not
the museum. but st. Georges hall
which, even though it has been called
a piece of 'coal-smoked Greek archftec-
ture,' Is impressive for its fine, simple
and digniiied lines. 1t was the con-
eeption Of a twenty-four-year-old ar
chitect.
zone of the notable collections OF
the museum is that Of Joseph Mayer.
a silversmith, and in this collection Is
a box Of silver coins with a label bear
ing an interesting story When the
Juvenile Joseph was walking with n
relative in the fields one day, a plow-
man turned up several coins. The
relative offered the boy a reward If he
would deeipher the inscriptions. The
boy earned that reward and became
so Interested in relics of that sort
that he became a distinguished an.
tiquary.
Liverpool once was city Of slums
but. even before the World war, the
city. corporation had begun tearing
down unsanitary dwellings and put.
ting up low-price tenements for its
workers. There are more than 25,00O
dock workers here and more unskilled
labor and racial strains than in any
other city of England. II has an abun-
dance of parks and many of these are
partly given over to the ancient game
Of outdoor bowling, which fiourishes
here as 1t does nowhere else in Eng.
land.
"A novel sight akin 10 the old-time
curb market in New York, is the spot
known as the Exchange Flags where
port merchants transact much of their
business during seemingly casual meet
ings. Liverpool also has famous
institution, the Seaman's orphanage,
known TO sea travellers because many
of the great liners carry an 'orphanage