Show I the Virtue of Abbreviation I nIter I in the Evening Standard pl1nlng of the London habit of A scion says ho would like to tire fiend who christened the r street and Waterloo railway ifokerloo Tube Wo think hi Vt canonize him This column i with a certain anxietyfor It ismt gave currency to both those millions On the opening day I fit Shepherds Bush and Mansion d line a forgotten omnibus driver h 1 the gibe It aint nothing but bopeany tube at the people who ntd from his omnibus and took to bowels of the earth The officials I could build a railway could not of ill The drivers gibe fixed thee the-e In the same way the London th though quite ready to travel b tit Baker street and Waterloo rty wanted to save Its breath b illor the economy of hurried speech iinsgestlon was here made BaThe i i co Ba-The two words have been i to the heart of travelers and led official sanction for at Slpr square you aro directed tot to-t Bakerloo Tube The phrase Is t convenient as a matter of r and has just as much relation literary language as a bill of lad UUmdon Chronicle |