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10 OXFORD BY IDE TIMES
English Scenery Seen on a Leisurely
Journey.
VAUIED PROCESSION OF CRAFT
Honifboiti at Henley Panorama
of Mansloas, Cottages and Or
Fields Womfa Stadyloc v
Hart at Oxford.
LONDON, Aug. IS. Just why th Folly
Bridge should lead from the Angel Hons
at Henley-on-the-Thames you do not know
or ask, being satisfied that luch Is the
(act and that th (act la a pleasant one.
It la the lengthening shadow of the
brldftp. In the tiny garden on the river
front, that you dlna on the eve of the com
In trip, Oxford way. For to get to the
fmou university town, while It may be
rcacrhed in an hour and a quarter by rail
from London, requires two entire days If
you take the water ooiiroi", a Journey by
winding path and pleasure Intervale at
the many locks. ; 1
Below llrnley the river . la compara
tively uninteresting. Thi-refore you will
do well to follow the advice of the know- j
Ing and begin the river trip at Henley. ;
which will give you a landing In the Ion '
twilight, which lends to the hug, Gothic'1
structures of Oxford an added attraction. 1
Some one has said that the reason the
Englishman In more athletic than h!
American contemporary Is that he has the
long hours after dinner In which to get his
outside exercise and certainly If the river
at Henley is an example of this summing
up of national characteristics you are In
clined to believe that there Is truth In
the statement. For- as you drink your
after dinner coffer In the garden and the
waiter with furrowed brow retirea to a
leafy arbor In order to Jot up long rows
of, fugtires on a tiny blue slip of paper,
which will later In perhaps half an hour
If he la a more expert mathematician than
his class generally be presented as yout
bill, you will notice plenty of evidence of
this.
Tou note pretty girl who Is punting
a boatload under the arch of the bridge.
The punt Is long, narrow and apparently
light, and the hook of the punting pole
finds the river bed easily and with prac
tised ease the boatwoman avoids collision
with the Jutting edge of granite, over
which a sculptured head of Isle marks the
keynote.
Followng her cornea a swift rower In a
shell. He has on the regulation flannels
and hla boat Is like an arrow In Its course.
With a dextrous turn he avoids touching
a Canadian canoe holding a man and maid
who are looking In each others' facts
nd forgetting to paddle. There Is much
excuse for this temporary aberration, for
tha girl Is dainty and pretty as a flower,
her light hair curling about her uncovered
forehead, a red tie marking her low col
lared waist, while the browned youth with
her wears a scarlet sash over his white
suit
Xfter them cornea a randan (treble acul
lln pleasure skiff with a merry party
who are singing and laughing, and next In
tha procession Is a boat with a tent cover,
which an old boatman explains holds a
camping party. All along the Thames the
next day you aee these tenting parties.
The river at Henley la not wide. A
stone throw by a man's hand would easily
touch tha further shora and perhaps one
throw by a woman's too, for the London
woman Is becoming an expert stone allnger.
Tou think of this as you see a suffragette
punt come In sight, with cushions of purple,
green and white, and a suffragette pennant
(lying audaciously. There Is a young man
In It leaning languidly on the velvet squares
and a vigorous maiden punts him with de
cisive hook through the channel course.
Tha villagers on the bridge applaud.
"Hit's as hit should be." says one water
man. "We've took our turn."
And another In awestruck tone. "Hit's a
Duchess."
It la in one of William Black's novels
that the heroine asks, "Is Henley the
prettiest place In the world, I wonder?"
To compare beautiful places is as useless
as to compare beautiful flowera or beauti
ful faces, but you leave the next morning
with hegret, boarding the small steamer
at o'clock promptly, the day'a long trip
to be accomplished and the Oxford landing
made and trains caught only by observing
absolute punctuality. . '
Tha steamer leaves at Folly Bridge and
you turn your back to It and to the ad
joining gardens of the famous Red Lion
Inn, where are breakfasting a party of
Americans whose motors are grinding and
(rumbling In the nearby garage. George
III, his queen and daughters breakfasted
H may be In tha vary spot where the chat
ter of the American party accompanies
the churning of the paddle as the salute
of good-by and bon voyague is made.
It la a day with great patches of sun
light on flower and field, and cavernous
clouds, quickly forming and swiftly dis
appearing, blotting out for a moment
the blue of the water, the Keen of th
meadows and the kaleidoscopic display of
horticultural allurmenta, but there is no
rain, a fact always noteworthy In a
country where a rainless day has been
this summer tha rare compliment, the wet
June giving place to a wetter July with
a promise of the wettest August on record.
The steamer holding perhaps 200 pasen
gers is not filled at any moment of the
day except for tha last ten minute run to 1
Oxford. People come and go at the vari
ous landings, and there Is apportunlty for
an uninterrupted study of human nature.
There are many summer lovers who pick
out villa aitea and plethorlo Britich ,clt
sens whose wives are addressed as
"Missus" discuss tha difference that the
motor cars have made In the river life.
Parties of young people, sometimes hat
lees and always breathless, come on at
one lock and depart at the next. Many
Americans, usually with guide books and
always with comparisons In favor of the
land of the stars and stripes, are neverthe
less Interested and enthusiastic.
Their enthusiasm becomes most empha
tic when Alfred Q. Vanderblll'a huge bouse
boat, anchored Just below Henley, comes
Into view with "Venture" placarded across
tha facade. It is as large as one pictures
Noah s ark and seem as If It might have
taken an equal time in the building. It is
ereara colored with a great deal of Christ
mas cake adorning and is covered with a
mass of foliage, one end a palm garden.
The captain Informs the breathless
American contingent that Mr. Vanderbilt
has paid 140 (or tha position, a particu
larly favorable one; but with the excep
tion of a few tea parties the owner has
But apent much time there, exovpt during
regatta week.
An elderly Britisher U not impressed by
Ma ftuagnlflcence. "To my taste the next,"
he sayn, pointing at the boat moored In the
neighboring backwater. '
It Is a dream of a boat and the summer
lovers move nearer each other. Like the
Venture is It creamy white, but the sides
are smooth; It Is smaller and more trlgly
put togither, the companlonway a narrow
stairway with Iron railing, the projection
of the upper deck measured with hanging
baskets of maidenhair fern, and boxes of
the delicate green tracery outlining the
outer edge all about. The windows are
covered with snowy ruffled curtains and
a scarlet pennon la the only colorful hit
There are other houseboats In the col
onytwenty, thirty or forty and each Is
attractive In Its special way. Borne of
them are two stories and a half high, with
accommodations for forty or fifty; others
of two stories with the roof garden for
half a dozen tenants.
All are masses of foliage, one a bed of
scarlet geraniums, another tiers of white
lilies and tall palms. One Is tinted pink
and greet yellow hearted marguerites are
the chosen flower, and there Is one of
champagne color with purple Iris. This Is
stationed in a shady backwater with pond
lilies about It.
The lied Rover has red awnings, red
cuKhions and red silk curtains at the many
windows. The names of soma of them sho
a laudable desire on the part of the owners
that they shall not bo mistaken for apart
ment houses or seaside villas. Their nomen
clature Is of the Daphne, Neptune, Water
Witch class and of the two last you note
the River god has rows of delft boxes
at the window ledges blooming with blue
stalks of 'nrl.-.' purs, and the Circe, a pale
lemon two ttturied boat with floating cur
tains of yellow mull and a golden tinted
awning over big easy chairs cretonne cov
ered, has every available bit of apace hold
ing towering rosebushes, heavy with dam
ask blossoms.
It la soon after the colony of houseboats
Is paused that the first of the locks Is en
tered, there being thirty-three In all from
Putney. The history of one Is the history
of all, a slow stopping of the steamer and
the gurgling of Imprisoned waters against
the green coated sides of the lock. Old
men of the waterman type, the same the
world over, with straggly beards, weather
beaten faces and faded eyes lean on the
gate bars, companioned sometimes by
younger men who have stopped their labor
of angling, rowing or skiff repairing to
take their turns at this work.
There Is neither delay nor hurry. Tou
recall a day on the Lachine canal, when
the locks were opened by habitants and
the queer French songs, half gay, half
sad, punctuated the rising and falling of
the water. Here no sound is heard, no
chaffing and no songs. The stolidity of
the British nation at work is triumphantly
maintained. There Is neither hurry nor de
lay, neither Joy nor sorrow, a taciturn In
difference of temperament and the smooth
ness of well ordered work done, with no
happiness in the doing.
And after the first lock Is traversed the
panorama of river scenery Is -spread out
like the slowly appearing and disappearing
.surface of a moving picture. Its diversity
surprises, yet the framing Is always the
same. There are stately1 mansions with
castellated roofs, long flights of steps
leading from the water, with copings
which are vine covered so that no trace of
the granite beneath Is visible.
Next to these are watermen's cottages,
pink or delicate brown or whlto, covered
with clambering roses set in velvet sward.
There is a meadow black with crows, the
one next to It holds a flock of sheep,
many flo'cks in fact, sheperded by a youth
with orange cap; a group of Troyon cattle
and then thick wooded slopes,- with under
brush and In the branchea singing birds.
There- are houses of varying styles of
architecture, the Queen Anne and Tudor,
but ail having a cleanly washed and newly
opened look. Not a faded flower, a grimy
wall, a dusty blade of grass Is seen.
There Is a man on the towpath 1n his
shirtsleeves dragging a boat containing
two gayly attired girls, and under some
hanging branches a man and a maid are
having cakes and tea, the water boiled by
a spirit lamp. There Is a row of young
maples garlanded together with wreaths
of crimson ramblers, edging a moss cov
ered wall and beyond, camping grounds
where parties are stretched about on the
turf chatting, eating luncheon, napping.
Tha conversation on board takes an
American twist, and with the rare Informa
tion and accuracy which baa been noted
before, you find yourself confronted by a
middle aged couple asking If tennis has to
be played on the asphalt In America. Tour
admiration of the velvet turf has led to
the belief that we have none at all In the
states and they demand If It is not hard
to have to keep the dogs tied there all
the time, for they have heard that snakes
are so prevalent that It Is necessary.
Tou leave them their cherished beliefs;
It seems unwise to uproot them all at once.
Tho Interchange of national courtesies is
Interrupted by the captain's narration of
historic fact He points out the house where
Tennyson did his courting and from which
he was later married; the church contain
ing a tablet to the memory of the author
of "Stanford and Merton," the village
where Sydney Smith wrote the "Peter
Plymley" letters; places associated with
Chaucer, earthworks of Roman origin.
Gothic and Norman churches flit across
the field of vision; backwaters with tenting
parties and tented canoes; bridges vary,
ing from stone arches to painted wood,
ornate and ivy covered; Elizabethan man
sions where kings and queens have tarried.
Tou enter Oxford landing place on time,
steaming through a double row of plainly
equipped houseboats, the homes of various
rowing clubs. There is a melee of rowing
shells and small fry of the boating class,
for again It is the English twilight, and
the city and offices and students' rooms
have discharged their human tenants to
the leisure of the river.
Tou have a glimpse of college life a night
spent at Huinmervllle, one of the women's
colleges of the university town. Like the
rest. It is grim and gray and heavy with
the weight of years. The arched gateway
leads directly from the street and a porter
stepping from the tiny lodge escorts you
acrea the vast quadrangle, through clois
tered passages to the living rooms.
The special apartment designated (or your
use Is the typical college girl's room, and If
you shut your eyea you might forget that
you were in historic Oxford and think thai
the walls of Barnard or even of plebeian
named Smith sheltered you. Ita small book
cane la stocked with memorandum pads,
French novels of the Jeune fille type, and
rows of clut-.-sks with pencil margining.
There U evldeuce of nightly reveling in
the pretence of a tea caddy and sugar
scoop; the narrow couch is hard; tha easy
chair Is not as easy aa It sounds. Sitting
In it you recall that there is no royal road
to learning.
Ai the brakfast table you learn not only
that the college is filled for the summer
term, but that many American girls are
there. The fee for the course of three
weeks with an extra one Included if neces
sary la but a guinea and the dormitory life
One of the Most Complete Garages in the West
DENISE BARKALOW, PROPRIETOR
Tha growth of tha automobile business
In Omaha haa necessitated enlarging the
houses used as garages. Many of these
houses were formerly erected for various
lines of business and in instances were
not adapted to tha automobile line.
Where the growth of dealers trade has
warranted it exclusive automobile houses
bava been erected, with every convenience
and facility for taking care of cars, for re
pairing cars, and for showing cars to pros
pective buyers. One of the foremost of these
conoerna to enlarge lta place of business
and to put in every convenience for Its
patrons, and to open one of the best ap
pointed garages In the west. Is the Klectrlo
garage
This elegant new brick structure has
Just been completed at considerable out
lay at 2218 Farnam. It Is the farthest house
went In the row, and is high enough to
overlook the rest of the row, and perhaps
to make a better show.
The building to be used as a garage Is
44x125 feet, and the office and rear shop
and show room la 22x126 feet
The building is provided with burlap pan
nelling, metal celling, and is light and
airy. The office is finished In hard pine.
Provision is made for an adometer dally,
recording accurately the mileage of the
car. The garage has the keep at present
of thirty-five cars, and Is able to double
this number.
Ine Electric garage la owned by Denlse
Barkalow, who equipped himself at Tale
for the business, and he Is considered one
of the best posted men in mechanical en
gineering in this part of the country. He
comes of one of the old families In Ne
braskathe son of Mr. 8. D. Barkalow. He
began In the automobile business in Omaha
two years ago, and has made a wonderful
success. He has the faculty of surrounding
himself with capable men, and has earned
the reputation of "delivering the goods"
of doing precisely what he engages to do.
In charge of the garage is Walter An
denou. He is an expert battery man and
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one of the first to r Into auto repalrtn
in tha city and the first to undertake tha
care of electric cars here. Stanley Ineson,
who was at Tale with Mr. Barkalow, Is
In charge of the salesroom and has charge
of the office.
The new homo of the Baker Electric, has
now become the home of the Ranch-Lang,
the Petrolt Electric and of the Packard.
The wonderful success of the electric
garage Is a monument to the thrift and
energy and business ability of this youiiK
Omahan and emphasizes again the fact
that this city furnishes abo'ut as many.
If not more, good business men than other
cities, and the most beautiful feature of
It is tnt they do not leave home to begin.
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INTERIOR OF THE ELECTRIC GARAGE.
Is provided at nominal cost Many have
been turned away this summer.
A majority of the English girls are cer
tified teachers or preparing for this pro
fession, a few are lecturers, a vary few
drawn by the desire of mental Improvement
without other ulterior motive; one of these
Is very young and wears a wvddlng ring
and another la In widow's weeds. One
white haired woman tells you that she
plans to take five lectures a day and that
It Is not at all tiring; she bas done It be
fore. "If they were all on the same sub
ject I could not, of course, but the differ
ent subjects rest you."
Another tells you that she is studying
science and is looking forward to the lec
ture of Marconi, and another, politically
bent, is equally eager for the coming of
Lloyd George and speaks feelingly of the
budget. A third speaks of the advantaged,
the many free Ubralrlcs, the comfort and
help provided by the efficient corps of sec
retarlea and other officials. Another, an
Amorlcun girl, who has refused an luvila
tlon to take a long motor Jaunting through
the British Isles, says convincingly:
"I'd rather be a ghost at Oxford than an
heirebs on Fifth avenue."
FROM CROTON TO CATSKILL
Waters from Hip Van Winkle's Moun
tain for "Little Old New York."
MILLIONS FOE A KEV7 SUPPLY
One of the Greatest Engineering: En
terprises Undertaken, Estimated
to Coat 102,000,000 Second
to Panama Canal.
COUNTY BOARD INVITES ALL
TO TALK OF COURT HOUSE
Wants Any C'ltUen Who Has luggec
tlon or Criticism to
Blake It.
A resolution inviting the Commercial
club, all improvement clubs and all cliixens
interested to confer with It at any time
upon the progress of the new court hoube
has been passed by the Board of County
Commissioners.
Commissioner Trainor prepared the res
olution which states that the recent criti
cism of the material used by the build
ers haa led some people to believe that the
board wa not trying to have an honest
building constructed for the county. This
misapprehension can be corrected, thiy
think, if all interested will confer with
the board at any time and as often as Is
duired while the work Is going on.
"We are the ones most interested in
gettlne good work done," said Mr. Trainor,
' and if any one can give us help we will
be thankful for it" e
Oar Owu Minstrels.
"Mistah Walkah, kin yo tell me de dif
f'rance 'tween a chxoed in a bowl o'
cooked cawu stall A an' a man like you
tryin' to make a killin' on de boa'd o'
trader'
"No, George, I can't answer that one.
What Is the difference between a peach
seed in a bowl of corn starch and a man
like me trying to make a killing on the
board of trade?"
"le one am a pit In de puddln' an' de
uddah am a puddin' in de pit."
"Ladies and gentlemen the eminent vocal
ist. Mine. Way I'ppin Oee, will now sing
the popular and tom-hlng ballad, entitled
' You Mustn't Kiss Me Grandpa, Tou Have
Beta Chen lug Tvbaccv."'-Ciiittte,o Ti lbuue,
Catskll! mountain water, gathered from
brooks that have been fed by melting
srows and copious rains, and have tum
bled over rocky slopes Into the streams of
the mountain valleys, will In a few years
be served to the Inhabitants of New Tork
City. The proji-ct ranks as the greatest
municipal water supply enterprise ever un
dertaken, and aa an erglneerlng work Is
probably second only to the Panama canal.
The need of the water Is much greater
than Is realized by a majority of the cltl
zc a or by the guardians of their inter
ests. Nothing can ao quickly and completely
disorganize the complex activities of a
modrn community as a shortage of suit
able water; no single agency can so rap
Idly spread disease and death as a polluted
water supply. For several years New Tork
City has been using more water than its
sources of supply can safely be depended
upon to furnish In a series of dry years,
such as have, occurred within the memory
of men Vho have scarcely reached middle
age. Continuing years of abundant rain
fall have masked the danger to which engi
neers have repeatedly called attention.
In 1905, as the result of a movement
promoted by clvio bodies In the days of
Mayor Van Wyck and Mayor Low, a bill
was Introduced into the legislature, on
the Initiative of Mayor McClellan. which,
becoming a law, enabled the city to start
new systems of water supply that, with
the already existing permanent works,
should ultimately give New Tork the best
and largest water supply ever known.
Present Sou roes or Supply.
As thousands of water-wise Americans
kni w. New York City ("old New Tors. ')
has used Cretan river water for more than
two generations. Similarly from the Rldge
wood system of wells, streams and reser
voirs, Brooklyn has drawn Its supply, often
scanty. Approximately 500.000,000 gallons
of water are consumed by the metropolis
every day, a stream which would flow hip
deep between the buildings In Fifth ave
nue's fashionable shopping district at a
comfortable walking pace. For every
man, woman and child this allows a
dally average of 125 gallons. Or, to put it
still another way, for all domestic, manu
facturing and public purposes, New Tork
uses every day water which weighs about
eight times as much as its population.
Compared with the 130, 110, 200, 2X, and
320 gallons used every day for every person
In several American cities, New Tork's al
lowance Is moderate, especially when one
recalls the character of business and the
methods of living which prevail In the me
tropolis. Liberal, even lavish, domestic
use of water la not waste. The very neces
sities of life demand that there should be
a maximum supply, In order to provide for
the average demand for the Individual. The
word "waste" should be properly Inter
preted. Its use in writing about water sup
ply has been unfortunate, for it haa been
employed both technically and popularly
to characterize quite different conditions
In the economy of water. To let a duaen
glassfuls flow from a faucet In order to
get one cool draft la not waste so long
as this Is the leaat expensive way to get
cool water. In a broad sense, to permit
water to flow from the faucets through
the cold winter nights is not waste, so long
as this is the least expensive way to pro
tect one's plumbing fixtures.
To allow even large volumes of water to
spill over the lowest dam of a watershed
Is In no sense waste when the city has
already taken from the stream all that It
can use, or when the saving of occasional
discharges of this sort would cost more
than to get the same quantity of water, of
equal or better quality, from another
stream. Doubtless, some water Is care
lessJy or wantonly wasted in New Tork
City, but not nearly so much as some per
sons assume. Waste should be discouraged
and curtailed, but Waste of water can no
more be wholly prevented than the waste
of energy and time. But if all the waste
which it would be reasonably practicable
to stop ceased. New Tork would still re
quire inore water works to provide beyond
peradventure for present needs and future
growth.
The extent of these' existing and proposed
woiks Is not reudlly to be comprehended,
even when reduced to the common money
measure. For the portion of the Catsklll
works needfd to bring Into th- city every
day unfailingly 500.0(in,0u0 gallons an ex
penditure of fl2 OuO.OuO is estimated. tJul
these disbursements will he spiral over
m-iny years, and the burden wiiriiot fall
heavily, except for possible temporary dif
ficulties in lalslng ready money for con
struction payments. Indeed, the cost of
water for every person will be on the
average less than 1 cent per day. Fur
thermore, these water works, well man
aged, will not only pay Interest on the
Investment, but In a relatively few years
will pay the capital cost It Is reasonable
to believe that the works will be as perma
nent as those of Koine. Century Magazine.
How do YOU stand
n
on the vehicle question?
Thousands of people wouldn't think of giving
up the pleasures of a stylish "horse-drawn" vehi
cle for the finest automobile ever built others
again ridicule the idea of using any conveyance
other than a fleet and heavy "touring car."
How do YOU stand? If you favor a carriage
or buggy, would you buy one QUICK at nn almost
irresistible.
"Would you, for instance, buy a snappy $00
Open Runabout for only $55; or, would a fine $165
Stanhope tempt you at $115.
Maybe a St. Louis Storm Buggy, worth $U5,
would attract you at $90, or a Governess Cart,
worth $140, at only $90.
Jf you're in business you could most likely
' use a $125 Delivery Wagon at $88.
I'm selling out all vehicles in a hurry I'll
please you on the prices, but
Can you make up
your mind QUICK?
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