Evening star., 1924-12-08
TOUR|STS|G IGNORE
LIVERPOOL SIGHTS
City Most Visited, Least
Known, in EngIand-Has
Points of Beauty.

The last. city to have it's civic week
at the wembley empire exhibition
was Liverpool.
@And Liverpool" says a bulletin
from the National Geographic Society,
has seen more visiting Americans
than any other English city, while,
Il is safe 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
in general unloads upon these docks
vast quantities of raw materials. no
mean part of which are 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 mid
lands converge their wares upon these
docks; pouring out into world com
merce stream shiploads OF woven lin
en-, woolen and cotton, machinery and
metals.
Horses and Art shown.
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
animals move along LiverpooFs
streets between docks and ware
houses and railway stations. The
trucks are the type known as "lor-
ries.' which originated in this city.
Annually the city has a Spring
carnival at which parades of the
horses form principal attraction.
At Wembley one Liverpool horse is
reported to have registered a pull of
81 tons and then, with a second horse.
to have exceeded the capacity of the
register. which was 90 tons
"The art treasures were from
Liverpoois museum. wherein may
be found gallery of paintings, an
aquarium and q public library. The
most beautiful building in the city,
however, is not the museum, but ST,
Georges Hall, which even though 1t
has been called piece of coal
smoked Greek architecture Is i'm
pressive for its find. simple and dig
nified lines. 1t was the conception Of
a 24-year- architect.
ColIecfions Notable.
"One of the notable collections of
the museum Is that of Joseph Mayer.
silversmith, and in this collection
is box of silver coins with label
bearing an interesting story. When
the Juvenile Joseph was walking with
a relative in the fields one day a
plowman turned up several coins.
The relative offered the boy a re-
scrfptfons. The boy earned that re-
ward and became 30 interested In
relics OF that sort that he became q
DISTINGUISHED antiQuafy.
Liverpool once was city of slums
| but, even. before the World War, the
city corporation had begun tearing
insanitary dwellings and putting up
low price tenements for it's workers.
There are more than $4,000 dock
Dor and racial strains, than In, any
other city of England. 1t has an
abundance of parks and many OF
these are partly given over to the
ancient game of outdoor bowling.
which fourishes here as II does no
where else in England.
"A novel sight, akin to the old
time curb market in New York, il
the spot known as the Exchange
act much OF their business durin1
seemingly casual meetings. Liver
pool also has . famous institution
| sThe Seaman's OrphanAge, known tt
sea travellers because many OF the
great liners carry an .crphange box
| to collect funds for this institution
and some OF them give entertain
ments for it's benefit.
..tseography played an unmistak-
able part in the fate OF Liverpool
IIt Ia located miles from the oper
sea, up the Mersey river, which
widens from a width of less than 9
mile into 2-mile wide basin. Kine
John founded q town here. but ever
lin the early eighteenth century when
lits first dock was built, 1t had onl,
I5.0oo people It engaged in siavs traf.
Inc with the Spanish main, and played
= stellar part In the romantic dayl
fof emuEgllug rum. sugar and tobacco
Tits prosperity really began Ia 18&t
With the establishment Of rsEu}a,