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(i ll 111 ITS IN' LONDON 1 .
HAS a hotel experience
WHICH OPENS HIS EVES.
e =tion3 to Americana Who May
-avei to the Land of Cousins - A
otel Where Everyone Wants Tips.
, ,r,; .y>oiule>ice of the AVo York star.
SDOS. April 8. —What should the
1 v arrived Americans do in London?
',/ slloul a go to the Hotel Metropole in the
I instance. It costs 75c. for two to drive
tlie railway depot in a four-wheeler,
1, y our packages overhead, to this hotel,
I 'is the distance is about three miles, the
P us it is called, is not very large. It is
’ t ojy on the dollar of what it would
tto drive around New York city. This
, pood start; filings look very fine and
future most favorable. But, when you
, from the cab at the hotel business be
. A gentleman in livery opens the
rr srlass door for you—a tip of (3d A
„nd door swings open —another txi. You
t he hall and the head porter takes
•U Of your baggage— tip. Is. The hall
if magnificent size, with Egyptian mar
columna and everything to remind peo
of extreme extravagance. You go to
Klouarteis and give your name, roquest
•i room Two or three gentlemen are in
Biidance—all tips. They refer you to the
hjer’s office, where you deposit your val
ues as a security that you do not leave
retting to pay your bill. You are
imed a room, and if you want to make
•her inquiries vou are sent to the bureau
nteliigence. If you suffer from a want,
jrowledge you find it there, provided you
down one or two shillings. Each day
i ascend to your rooms. The elevator
n in such cases expects not less than o:i.
man American, but readily takes 3d.
man Englishman. All these people are
• v polite and have no airs. Y our rooms
i cheap enough, but if you want a fire
i are charged for it. You are charged for
up the clock and for flowers that
Ido not want. If a stranger comes in.
is charged 2d. for hanging up his hat and
it in the cloak room; if you hang your
t t pretty high, 3d., and both very high,
Everything goes very well until you
your bill. I tried this for three days,
i concluded that a smaller village than
tel Metropole would suit me. Taking it
in all, it is the finest hotel 1 have ever
in in, and I have been in not a few in my
tv years’ pilgrimage. If they would
y lump it and say your bill was so much.
i would then know where you stood,
ere is one advantage about this hotel that
aust not fail to mention. You can come
lounge around and look swell, pretend
e that you are living there, as a good
my Americans do, or you can hang about
the sidewalk in fine weather and show
ur connection with the place. It is said
it none hut Americans and fools travel in
st-class carriages. It would tie safe to say
it none but Americans and fools stopped
this hotel more than once, and yet they
do it just the same. The next thing you
after getting fairly located here is to go
Toole’s theatre. It is real good to work
sea-sickness. Mr. Toole is the butler and
irries the cook, all in the funniest way
aginable. Vou laugh at the commence
int, laugh through the piece and laugh
len you get home, simply because there is
a. innocent fun, with no vulgarity nor
of unity in every dialogue in the piece,
len you must go and see Henry Irving in
?aust." He does not amount to so much
this play as he does in others of his stock
sees: but Ellen Terry is as sweet a “Mau
ri**’’ as a human being ever ought to be.
le mounting of the piece is beyond ally
ing ever before seen in America or Eng
nl. I have no hesitation in hazarding this
iaion, and I think the American people
ill agree with me if Henry Irving ever
Dsses the raging deep with ‘'Faust.” Irving
a most gentlemanly “Mephistopheles,”
id trips around in a dainty way, but it is
len Terry and the scenery that draws.
Having seen “Faust,” a man should go
ixt to Billingsgate, the place of ancient,
isavory reputation. I happened to be
ere one morning at 5 o’clock (I bad not
xn dining out the previous night). The
ill business at Billingsgate is a big affair,
uoness Burdett-Coutts runs several steam
's with fish to tliis place, and two were in
l the morning I visited it, with an exeep
cmally large supply. About 700 tons of
sh were landed irom Norway and Sweden,
ie North sea and the east coast of England.
he average is from 150 to 300 toils a (lay.
erhaps the very large supply on the morn
ig I visited it was to show an American
hat they could do when they tried. The
larket is of course wholesale, and from
illiugsgate the fish are scattered all over
le city of 5,000,000 mouths, and even sent
3 inland markets.
Each box of fish is supposed to weigh
tiout 100 pounds, and the average price is
bout ISs. to 20s. per box. The people do
ot get the article at that price, however,
ora U rst End retail fishmonger will charge
•om is. to Is. (id. per pound for it. If the
share not up to the mark they are con
wmed, and the morning I was there two
lan e* went to the fertilizing fraternity.
1 very large proportion of the arrivals is
on at auction to retailers. Billingsgate
isl to swear vilely; the very name is syn
mymous with vulgar abuse. But things
|t'c changed. All the time I was there I
iu not hear one rude or profane word. I
'anted to know the reason, and a very
Mite, communicative custom house officer
me that the police would allow no pro-
Mit v imr vulgarity, and a few arrests have
ait it down. If you are fair with the cab
-o(,n they will take their money and thank
<jii instead of swearing, as they did even
•mi 1 was over in 1872. Swearing has
nie out of fashion. You will not hear it
utlie streets or in the clubs. It isn’t the
Meet thing among gentlemen to swear.
, l( is bad form and there’s an end
it. the heavy swearing in London at
c-nt being let out to a certain class of
..'■Means. But to ramble back to Billings
<■ ngum. The stevedores win> carry the fish
nit , >m t * le * 3Oa b> to the quay will walk
. . 11 * l ’?m 150 to 200 pounds on their
ran" l,u, ks ,ts easily as our people will
pounds. Their pay per day or
k saL,ut4oc. ortiOc. on the dollar of
I; n .. , s tevedore in New York gets. Bil
ls a close corporation, and us a
ton'A Uen< 0 meniriors make a pretty
L. ~"*5 <>ut "l it. Fish salesmen uro rich
Ti> 'o W- *hcir stalls for big sums,
of Ti*,.. °f England is “the ola woman
Djy,, eadneedlo street," and it is a very
n,-,i ! i s one of the biggest
tat ~e ifi t , ? t ever existed. She is not a
tj 01 ! at all, but a private eorpora
cir i„ " 11 n Eunk of England started
,1,. j. rn f ,ln *‘w about forty feet square, 1
jL, Now she covers three acres,
inn i k! *"'wity-six directors and a ehair
r, V*' lor cashier, and her livery and
tj r .l '* '"'bl potent sway over the British
1(, j.., I l '' l'cnitmg press is well enough to
"mini-, i. 1 * ,H * n<> t amount to much
Am,!' ' ' V' die elaborate process of milking
ti„' 11,! :, | 11 bills. She has Tailed twice,
Eii liinn ! juapased by special acts of
*l, England is held for nothing,
tan mil aid'll Btates is liack of our
tii,:,;, | | Kosiibacka and also our nu
tiil ni„, " er notes are printed
tun- i,„'i i lk " many handbills, sigun
'•iu,. i 1 H '" l " r " not signed by the off!.
Euc ,i •x'uoi'ii iiti luuik notes are. They
v "i v u M ', u mmiU'j-iiig machine which docs
un, J, . ,'ey pride themselves on their
E,i> ' V 1""! tbl " l ‘ “■ 'a bothf than
on q.,.,., V v *‘ told that it la imitated
Tfie i ’""‘"E
1" virtue which ought
rui,,.. j* ‘ no bill is reiMueil irtwii it
bell illti y* , *e(t , e hilis do lint Ins ml lie Ub
of hi ,l a*' our own. I hud tiv pleu>4ii
I th* bullion vaulu, Tlmi
ll rr-i!in i !'i , lcl tin whal
i'*1 * Lii* ‘'ll**’# rupidliv. It
menu,,,pn tlu* dots'■ and-hut
1 l-toiHdiij V,,, T LmII. finiMmlng
uni, '[ i ‘ i i'nouiaboutsii tiet alt (mb.*,,
1 "I u,“\ ",' * ‘“he.lly afraid that I waa
p* * i *. ''**'■ '*f •*>*• lairs in my vast
Uum I i* | '"• * BtlblVan to tl> great
i’uluL attisiq < il, urtij so ttd out
nU ' AutmtiMm akwotd
see when they visit this ancient village is
the beef market. That is located in tl
historical Snuthfleld. where they wsrm<d
the feet of John Rogers in the early days of
religious persecution. The place you .*■
was in the olden times devoted to martyr
stakes, while in these practical days it is de
voted to beefsteaks.
An American of an inquiring mind will
find the telegraph mid post offices places of
real interest. Here business is brought
down to a real science. John Bull is at
home here and knows what he is about.
There are nearly 8,000 telegraph operators
under one roof, and the 7(5,000 telegraph and
post office clerks in England are all con
trolled from this central department. Their
pay is about 00c. on the dollar of that re
ceived in America, excepting the heads of
departments, and that is quite equal and
perhaps more in some instances than with
us. If y-ou want to see post office business
properly done, come here. Our New York
i x ist office is only a baby in comparison
with it.
There is the Tower of London, with its
funny old functionaries, relics and bloody
histories. It is a bewildering place, and
many people have ‘Tost their heads” in
more senses than one. People in ancient
days went there with reluctance, and wen
most anxious to get away, but the official
always got ahead of them. The head-chop
ping business has ceased, but we wer
“axed” ourselves for tips. Receiving tips
is a custom which commenced with the early
discovery of the country, and it 1 has in
creased in strength until it has gone through
the race like whooping cough. Every em
ploye has it bad. In other words, nobody
does anything cheerfully unless his salary is
temporarily raised. This bad curt alias
been imported into America. It is claimed
that Gladstone is not open to tips, but the
belief is common that the great Irish agi
tator takes all that come. The Queen her
self expects a little tip when there is an ad
dition to the royal family-, and then she is
willing to accept a petty douceur of $300,-
(XX). Mr. and Mrs. Wales are nice voung
people to take the place of the Queen when
her years of jubilee are over. London is a
great city and the English are a great peo
ple. If anybody doubts this, let him come
over here and look around. England is a
little bit of an island, but there is a lot of il
which is the result of ages of hard-headed,
sure and bulldog energy. The more an
American looks around the prouder he is o!
springing from the same race and the bet
ter- can he understand how it is that a wot
ern nation lias been built up in but a little
more than a hundred y-ears. In fact, we
were all alike until the little row occurred
which resulted in our throwing the tea over
board in Boston harbor and then starting
out for ourselves. They may say what they
please about England", hut she has not
ceased to lie a controller among European
powers. She has the money and. the men,
and they have the muscle. There is not fl
continental nation that is not financially
"busted” to-day, and their big armament
have done it. "There is not going to be any
war. They- are all too well armed and they
can’t pay- their debts to-day. Besides this,
.they are not able to pay their interest with
out putting the screws on harder and hardei
every y-ear. Continental wars and big
armaments must cease, or else there must
come a thundering crash and universa
bankruptcy. There is just one trouble in
this country, as I have seen it in my foui
weeks’ stay-—they have too many people t<
the square acre. In other words, the soi
will not produce for them what they nee<
for the sustenance of life. They can’t eat
money or the east wind, of wliicn they have
their share, so they must go somewhere
■lse. They are bound to emigrate in evei
unnecessary numbers; and this is the real
political question in England as well as it,
Ireland. How can they live on their lim
ited soil with everybody underselling them.
The paupers number more than 10 per cent,
of the entire population, and are increasing
rear by year. Germany, Austria and Ru
sia are sending them idle hands and pan
.Ol'S Where is this to end t The country
must depopulate instead of increase. Eng
land, and indeed the w hole of Europe must
increase the number of their emigrant
every year. No doubt the American conti
nent will receive a larger proportion ol
these people, as they become more cognizant
of their own position and more famil
iar with the opportunities afforded by
America. But I must end my dull sermon on
political economy 7. Rufus Hatch
“Rough on Piles.”
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CORNICES.
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46 BARNARD ST., SAVANNAH, OA.,
—MANVFACTURKR OF—
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AND ■
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Estimates for city or country work
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Agent for the celebrated Swedish Me
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Agent for Walters' Patent Tin Shingles.
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Grain and Hay,
■—also —
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BY
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TIIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, ABRIL 29, 1887.
•1836i I i SWIFrS*SFECITIC. 111188 •
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RELIEVING SUFFERING HUMANITY!
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AN INTERESTING TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT
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ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA.
MILLINERY.
\ O W It E A D V
AT KROUSKOFF’S
SIASIOTH IILLIIY HOUSE,
SPRING AND SUMMER MILLINERY,
COMPRISING ALL THE NOVELTIES.
Ten Thousand Straw and Fancy Braid Hats, from the
cheapest to the v,ery finest quality, in every color and ii
every shape for 1887.
Five Thousand School Hats in the most desirable shapes
Fifteen Thousand pieces of Ribbon, comprising all th*
latest importations and shades in Chartereuse, Nile Green.
Salmon Pink, Lilac and Heliotrope.
One Thousand cartons of Flowers. The choicest design,
from Paris importations, and comprising almost every Howe’
that blooms in the spring, and positively the finest goods evei
seen in tAiis city. Our work rooms, in charge of live tirtistu
designers, turn out the most correct trimmed hats in the city
at prices much below others. Our shelves and counters on th
three large floors are loaded with every variety of new milli
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enables us to sell our goods far below any competition, an<
ladies can now purchase their millinery at same price as coin
petitors have to pay. We continue the sale of Ribbons at sum
prices as heretofore. Every steamer adds new novelties.
8. KROUSKOFF’S IABMOTH MILLINERY HQUHE
FURNITURE AND CARPETS.
I am on my way
jf LIMY i MORGANS,
\ ——- —169 & 171 Broughton Street.
WJy l >1 TO SEE THOSE
/ New Straw Mattings
jvMw I3al>y Carriages,
CEDAR CHESTS
ii REFRIGERATORS.
#-} (irli Everything Marked Down
tjjßFx to low prices.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
BIL V £IW A RE !
Having Just returned from New York, when* I selected tlm latest designs and styles, I can now
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Ever Opened TJp in thin City.
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Tea will receive a Tea Can
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One lb. enu Staudnrd Cove Oysters 5 for 15c
One lb. can Standard Lobsters 15c
One lb. can Standard Salmon 13c
One lb. Good Raisins 15c
One lb. Good Ground Rio 15c
i>ue lb. llest H< pasted Uio 80c
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11 CAKES SOAP 25c.
STARCH,STARCH.
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