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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH London, from a BusTop psf J? Pi 47 L w SKB a U y TitTes J tji tk ,ft r'. Steam Driven Motor Truck on a London Street. f Prepared by and the circle is complete All reached Washington. D. C) WNU Service. best by busses. latest is a place of perilhit be Waterloo ousTrafalgar square song might streets deboucn delights. Eight Bridge Is Falling Down. The traffic each filled with National Geographic Society. bridge-inspire- d L' upon it, roaring coming from unexpected angles, and made more perilous to an American by the English insistence upon the d turn. One leaps from safety island to safety island across these streets, as if they were stepping stones in a torrent omnibuses, steam lorries, donkey carts, limousines, the small, barnswallowlike car3 which taxation has thrust upon English motordom, brewers vans drawn by elephantine horses, screaming motorcycles with the latest editions. Once Trafalgar square was the kings mews, where various monarchs stabled their horses. Honest artisans shaped weapons for English gamecocks in Cockspur street Fronting on the square is the national gallery, crammed with treasures of art The Mall and Buckingham Palace. From Trafalgar, too, the visitor can peer through the fine Admiralty arch down the Mall, at the farther end of which stands Buckingham palace. Eventually he will discover this to be Perhaps one leans over the rail to a large and almost violently ugly see a lordling sprawled at the wheel building behind a tall of a great car, all color and silver, on wrought-Irofence, and that time is that Watting street which was one of wasted on it except during those stirthe four thoroughfares by the aid of ring moments when the soldier guard which the Romans held Britain; or is changed. to watch those who are to fly to Paris, He may recall that it was down the stepping into the car that is to carry Mall that Charles I walked to the them to the flying field at Croydon. headmans block, and that it was Reminders of the Past. named after the French game of paille Yonder is Lansdowne passage, leadmaille that Charles n played upon it. Across the square is the statue of ing from Piccadilly into Curzon street. The street is the citadel of the highCharles I, perhaps the finest equestriest fashion, lined with gloomy bouses. an figure in London. One bridges cenA steel bar is still set across the turies of English history by a glance passage, that no highwayman may gal at it. Queen Eleanors cross first lop his horse through it to safety in stood upon this site, the twelfth or the fields, as one formed the repre- was it the thirteenth? cross erected hensible habit of doing a hundred by the sorrowing King Edward I to mark the places where her casket was years ago. . Nearby is the Shepherds market, set down for the night on the long route from Lincoln to her tomb In which is in its essentials what a shopDick Westminster. That was in the Thirin London was in district ping Turpins time, and a little public house teenth century. Much is. to be seen hereabouts in whose customers are almost wholly the Jeames Tellowplushes of today. A the compass of a short walk before wealth of gossip about their masters definitely embarking on a cruise adthrough Londons streets. A turn to might be gathered there by one mitted to their intimacy. the left leads to Maiden lane, where Voltaire and Turner once lived. One Off Whitehall one may see the window through which a king walked on may pause at Rules oyster house for his way to the block. Over the rail a snack, not because of hunger, but of Hyde park one may glimpse the lit- because this has been the resort of tle gravestones of the dogs cemetery ; English actors since 1750. Fielding and Pope and Goldsmith used to frethen hurriedly glance at the new Devonshire house, wherein apartments may quent it when it was The Bedford be leased for 999 years at an incredible Head and the home of the Reunion club. A vast door, set number of pounds the year. of a quarter-declike the brass with natural the is Trafalgar square which bar behind a populous center of London for the adventurer. yacht, It Is true that Charing Cross, a long two lively maids are busy, a great fire stones throw down the Strand, is ac- under a marble mantelpiece. Lively Covent Garden. cepted as the geographical center, if there can be a geographical center of Just around the corner is Coveni a map, which is messed about as is garden, once the convent garden of of that of London by the oxbow-benthe abbey of Westminster. It has the River Thames. been the great market for fruits and At any rate, the 699 square miles of vegetables ever since 1634. A lively, the greater city include all parishes sad. Industrious place, in which the 12 costers donkeys furnish the comic reany part of which may be within the which of or cross, lief. Under the great piazza, which miles of the was a century ago Londons most fashwhole may be within 15 miles. ionable walk, old women sit all sumGoing From Nelsons Column. But Nelsons column, in Trafalgar mer long shelling peas. Something of from the patches and rufsquare is the North pole to the vis- a comedown small swords and the the to and were able fles, he If itors compass. steesnuff. as mount to Nelsops eminence, reIt is to be feared the Covent garden plejacks sometimes do, and there volve upon his heel, he would discover opera has somewhat declined. At all that each quarter turn would reveal events, when one visits the fine old house two jazz bands may be heard a new aspect for Down Whitehall is the ancient City offering Interminable of dancers. of horde a houses the of Westminster, with Here is Bow street and Its police parliament and the abbey. The Strand offices station, where the scarlet waistcoats opens to Fleet street and the of the Bow street runners gave the of the great newspapers. Over Covent garden, a bit more to world its Idea of a uniformed police the left one might sight the Bank of force or so Bow street says. On the RoRussell street corner Is Wills coffee England and the heart of the old man city. Another turn left and the house, where Dryden sat in judgment and which is just as it used markets, the Charterhouse, tjie British on plays, above to thestreet level. Charles be, museum. Lamb lodged at No. 20 Russell street Left once more and the theater dls National Sporting club, most resand the the are foreign trict; Soho, where taurants beloved of novelists, and the aristocratic of boxing clubs, is at 43 fashionable shopping districts. Just a King street At No. 4 York street De Confessions." bit more and clubland and Mayfair Quincey wrote his and a glance at Buckingham palace Half the charm of London is in its Then Hyde nark and the Admiralty, hlsory. falling, however, is not accidental, it is an engineering job. The bridge will be replaced by a new span. Mny travelers now are seeing London from a bus top, where they enjoy watching perky messenger boys with their hats cocked on three hairs, the huge policemen, the sandwich men, and the clattering crowds of men and .women op the streets. In a private car the least snobbish feels himself aloof and superior. On a personally conducted tour one is only the pea tossed in the dishpan of a careless conductors rhetoric. In a taxicab even' the very reckless cannot refrain from watching the meter. But from a bus .top one looks down, part and parcel of all he sees, understanding and being thrilled by a thousand activities. It is true that one sees the centuries without order or sequence; but that is as it should be in London, where today, tomorrow, and 1,800 years elbow each other companion-ably- . left-han- tin-ca- n rnsfl if Dcfls rafetaf' tow S Turn in your worn tires at prices they may never bring again! Ail makes or kinds of tires accepted! is one of the most HERE safety offers ever made dont drive another day in fear of punctures or slip or skid to motorists. blowouts. No matter what make or kind of Look up your Goodyear dealer now and get the worlds greatest tires at real savings by using your old tires for money. When you get his liberal allowances youll certainly say to yourself: Why be satisfied with any second-choic- e tire when FIRST-CHOIC- E costs no more! tires you are now using Goodyear dealers will give you real money for them to get old, unsafe tires off the road. tires ruin your pleasure of driving. 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