Show MOST VISITED ENGLISH CITY liverpool however Is least known of all by travelers washington the last city to have its civic week at the wembley empire exhibition was liverpool and liverpool says a bulletin from the national geographic society has seen more visiting americans than any other english city while it Is safe to say these am americans saw less of liverpool than they did of any other place in europe they know that the city has miles and miles ot of docks that the world in general unloads upon lupori V tv se docks vast quantities of 0 raw mali nials no mean part of are the alie cargoes ot of grain crittle cattle cotton tobacco and meats from the united states they also know that the busy factories of lancashire yorkshire and the midlands converge their wares upon these ducks docks pouring out into the world commerce stream shiploads ship loads of woven linen woolen and cotton machinery and metals the flags of 0 sixty steamship lines which ply in and out of liverpool were on display at wembley two other features of 0 the exhibit were horses find and art tr treasures ensures the liverpool dray horses are famous never ending lines ot of trucks drawn by these handsome massive ard animals move along Liver pools streets between docks and warehouses and stations the trucks are the lie type known as lorries which orl originated in tills city annually the city hns has a spring carnival at which parades of the horses form a principal attraction at wembley one liverpool horse Is reported to have registered a n pull of 21 tons and then with a second horse borse to have exceeded the ibe capacity of the register which was 29 tons tona coal smoked greek architecture the art treasures were from liver live pools museum wherein may be found a gallery g ot of paintings an aquarium and a public library the most beautiful building in the city however Is not the he museum but st georges hall which even though it has been called a piece of coal smoked greek architecture Is impressive tor for its fine simple find dignified lines it was the conception of a twenty four year ild ar chite ct one of the notable collections of the museum Is that of joseph slayer mayer a silversmith and in this collection Is a box of silver coins with a label bearing an interesting story when the juvenile joseph was walking with a relative in the fields one day a plowman turned up several coins the relative offered the boy adeward f lie he would decipher the inscriptions the boy earned that reward and become became so interested in relles relics of that sort that he became a distinguished antiquary ti quary liverpool once was a city of slums tut even before the world war the city corporation I 1 bad ad begun tearing down unsanitary dwellings and put ting up low price tenements for its workers there are more than dock workers here and more unskilled labor and racial strains than in any other city ot of england it has an abundance of parks and many ot of these tire are partly given over to the ancient game ot of outdoor bowling which nourishes flourishes here as it aces nowhere else in england edgland A novel sight akin to the old time curb market in new york Is the spot known onn ns as the exchange rings flags where po port rt merchants transact much of their heir business during seemingly casual meetings liverpool also has a famous institution the seamans orphanage known to sea travelers because many of the great liners carry an orphanage box bos to collect funds for this institution and some ot of them give entertainments for its benefit geography pla played nn an unmistakable part la in the fate of liverpool it Is located throe three miles from the open sea up the mersey river which widens from a width of less than a mile into a three rolle ralle wide basin kin king john founded a town here but even in the early eighteenth century when US ua first dock was built it had bad only people it engaged in slave traffic with the spanish main and played a ir rIar part in the romantic days of smuggling ol of run rum sugar and tobacco its prosperity really began in 1810 1840 with the establishment ot of regular evenin ship service between the old world and the new port of many immigrants one of its principal articles of 0 export to america up until the time oc cie the world war wert were our immigrant citizens it was 11 pioneer port of 0 english emigration and in addition many of the american from spain france russia poland and the baltic region embarked here there are nearly two score consulates in liverpool that of the united states it will be recalled was distinguished by the service of nathaniel hawthorne the gladstone family have letl lid here tor for gerier generations atlow william efert gladstone was born here anti and relatives still are fictive active in the cites affairs birkenhead across the mersey Is a busy city and would be known as an important port in its own right even it were divested from its overshadowing dit dif neighbor though there Is a tunnel connection the ferries between the tw files constitute the busiest in englana |