The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, January 23, 1904, Page 7, Image 7
abe 2)ail flebraehan r uc I -Q, Cbose of Otber Days -flfe n m nwmnwMiiii Jl w mm umi From 9am Anderson. Dear NrhraBkan: The nrltlsh trains make exi client time, on the runs, but are very Blowly handled at station!. The equipment is good, though the cniH on the aver age are inferior to ours. The road beds are excellent. Tickets are taken at the depots, the collectors going to every one of the four or six compartments of each car, entailing much loss of time. The doors open on the sides, except in the vcstibuled trains, which make only through runs. It was dark when 1 reached London, and I made haste to And my hotel, near Bedford Place. Next morning saw me trying to decipher the signs on thos awful vehicles the busses in dread ful efforts to get somewhere, in three days. London Is a great conglomeration of many small towns. The old city is not more than a mile square, but the lines of demarkation are not visible now to the ifntroineel eyes of visitors. The vast number of b.iildings are four or five stories higher. There are very few sky scrapers. Here and there are to be seen magnificent public building-' or churches. Now and then a public squat e, j.urrounded by an iron fence, and dotted with monuments, or a grassy sward, with "keep off the gras" signs in plain, sight. Of course I saw Westminster Abbey. I' is a magnificent edifice. Gothic. 1 think, with its two towers piercing the slues. 1 wandered about in it trying to read epitaphs and inscriptions until wearied. However, I found the tennis of the old- royal personages. Longfel low's and Lowell's Memorials, and tin tombs and marble busts of Gladstone, Livingstone, Darwin, Tennyson, and hosts of others. Across the street are the Houses of I'atMament. 1 only got a glimpse of these but saw the great ball where Charl.'s I was tried for his life. Most interesting, since we had been study ing a phase of that period in Dr. Jones' classes last semester. The Tower of London is grim and solid looking, but far from beautiful. The most interesting things to me were the collections of Medieval armor, and the crown jewels. These latter are daz zling to the eye, of course, and repre sent fabulous wealth. The crown, scepl ties and royal plates were all en closed in a great steel cage surroumled by guards, and are kept there except on great occasions. I also saw the Hank of Bngland, walked through it at a 2:10 gait, lest the numerous policemen should sus pect I was a bank robber. Thence to Kt. Paul's. It would be useless for me to attempt a description, save to say it Is grand and large. The dome is an important feature, and is noT unlike that of the capltol at Washington. Many of England's noted dead are in terred within its walls. I attended di vine service there on Sunday but could make out little more than the sound of the speaker's voice and most of the. people wor-e similarly affected. London has numerous transportation systems, but all are unsatisfactory. The bus is a miserable substitute for our electric trolley lines and the present subways and undergrounds are not very desirable owing to the unwholesome at mosphere pervading them. If Mr. Yerkes can give London fast, clean, and easy transportation facilities with his new system, he will double the fortune he made in Chicago. After a short stay I took a flying trip to Naples in order to catch the French steamer for IJeirut, but even the. week's time gave opportunities to see considerable at some points. Cross ing the channel was dreadful. At first I feared I was going to die of seasick ness, but in a short time I cared not whether it was death or life, I felt so miserable. The trip only lasted three hours, but it wa3 far worse than all my seventeen days on the Atlantic and Mediterranean combined. But on reaching Ostend and getting some hot coffee our spirits revived and wo went on through Belgium rejoicing. The first stop was Stuttgart, whore a night was spent with our old friend, Carl .Meier, Nebraska '99. Carl was in excollont. health and spirits, and is dili gently pursuing his" studies in history for the doctor's degree. He had just finished a semester's work at Heidel berg, and was touring In Germany, sight -seeing by day and absorbing Bacde( ker by night. He came the next thing to hugging me when wo met nt the station. My hand hIbo was nearly wrung off. but It has recovered its nor mal condition. Carl has grown a beard a la France, and has lost his reputa tion in neither the United States nor the University of Nebraska. He plied me with questions about the "Unl," and especially the department of his tory and its professors until the "we sma hours." Next day ive parted af ter a tour of that beautiful city. My next stop was C'arlsruhe, a de lightful (ity. I had to rack my brains to use German enough to get a din ner, but thank's to Professor' Fossler I got sufficient to sustain life until Basle was i cached. Suffice it to say it was the best mrnl I ate between Scot land and Beirut. Swell resta.it rants in London had greater variety, but for wholesomcness and real satisfaction of appetite, give me "ein gutcs doutchcH Mittogscrisen" evcrytitue. In Carlsruhe as in Stuttgait, Hie buildings are (liiefiy of stone really artistic, four to six stories and very substantial. A uniformity of size and structure is very noticeable In these German cities, which is not usual in America, especially in New York and Chicago, where sky scrapers may fre quently be seen beside buildings of a few stories, making the iriegularity painfully apparent. The p.ibllc build ings of the above German city are of white stone, sin rounded by parks and drives. ThA tiolley electric cars are here as well as in the Swiss and Ital ian (itics. Basle and Lin erne are much like the German it it's in aspect -fine streets lined with li aul il'ul and substantial buildings. This is nioie especially true of Basle', as Lm erne is crowded in b(lween the base of the' mount. litis and the lake', though the lat ter has nicmy magnificent hotels. The old bridge across an arm of the blue' waters of Lucerne is quaint. The pic--lures Longfellow describes are becom ing obliterated and are fast fading. The lion carved in the side of the mountain is still to be seen. It is wonderful. , Of eourse the Alps are grand. The Swiss mountains and lakes are very similar to those of the Scottish hlgh Jands. The former are on a larger cale. but the Alps lack the beauty which the green and the purple heather gives. From Lucerne through the famous St. Gothard tunnel (!) mile long), we went to Milan, Italy. te see the cathed ral and L. ele Vinci's famous picture. Neer have I seen Mich a profusion of sculpture as that in. or rather on, the Milan cathedral. Some one has truly descrjbed its roof as a "forest of statues." Over three thousand adorn its roof. I shall never forget the im pression received as 1 gazed down upon them from one of the pinaelcH above. Milan is a city ol art. fine buildings and broad and elegantly paved streets. It contrasts most strongly with Home anel Naples 4 the seeming prosperity anel culture of its eitizejis. anel in its business push and enterprise. Rome is wonderful more wondorful In its past, however, than its present. St. Peter's surpasses all the edifices I have ever seen, taking It all in all. Its great collonades. Its vast dome, commanding the surrounding country; its internal magnificence In sculpture and paintings; its columns; its fine al tars and mosaics; all these made me speechless in wonder. I was ready to pay homage to the genius of Michael Angelo as one of the world's greatest. But "never a rose without a thorn." Surrounding this' magnificent church are thousands of poor very poor peo ple, struggling for existence. I see now that newspaper reports about bread riots in Italy are not till false. Yes, even In that magnificent church, a wo man came asking for alms. Probably that was the place for her to do. "No doubt of It. for there if anywhere she should receive help. But it seems to mo that something was wrong, and I asked myself this question: "Would Christ were He here in person, as Ho was nineteen centuries ago, sanction aiifli nvnnrwllt urn rt limn nml lnhnr find , wealth for such magnificence and al- low pauperism to prevail so widespread under the very shadow of those walls?" I will let you answer that question. Art Ib grand, ami beautiful and noble, and Inspiring, and has n place In the world, but If It Is culti vated nt llm expense of the physical, social and moral and Intellectual well being of Its supporters, there had bet ter be less of It. However, I am not so pessimistic but to believe both com patible with each other. SAMUEL ANDERSON, '03. Dee. .10, ion.1. Bolrut. Syria. Ernest Pollard. '93, of Nehawka. Neb., who Is In charge of the State Horticultural soe-iety exposition exhibit aJ. St. Louis. Is visiting old friends nt the University. O. II. Tlmnierman. '01. who was ejected county surveyor or Rlehnrdseni county In November, left yesterday for North Loup em offielal Jiuslnesa. He expeets te) be back for examinations. Evan T. Sage. 'Oli, whe has been principal e)f the Beat i Ice schoolri for the past year anel a half, writes for his paper from Chlengo. Mr. Joseph F. Berggren. law 'oil. enme down from Wahoo last Saturday anel spent the greater part of this week In Lincoln looking up u e'ase' in realty in the sttit.' library and visiting his Phi Delta Phi brothers anel other friends. Lincoln Local ExpresB, 11th and N. Tel. 787. Baggage hauled. 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