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Show ,. LCiJCCfl ft TWO DAYS , cuat do WMtmlnster Abbey ia ' t-ranty nlnnteB.' aaid one of party- of i four' Americana, who allfWad from an omnlbna at t,h corner of Parliament j tret oa Saturday. Th party- consisted of a man and hi j wife and two grown-up daughter, and It ' was one of the latter who made the re-1 re-1 mark. She hurried her three companion toward the great north door, and glanced j at her watch twice on the way. They 1 were member of. the advance guard of J the army Of American holiday maker 1 who from sow onwards through the turn- Itoer will Te" Invading London "with the purpose of seeing the capital of the world In three, or It may be two, brief day. Cinematograph celerity la 'the keynote of their proceeding, and after a voyage of , j 4000 miles they have. In some case only fifteen minutes to see Westminster Ab- bey. A great many of our American visitor ? make England their .first objective in a continental tour and ''see" London In two day, before they go on to P 8.om 04 them are in thir own wonderful faahlon seeing It now. They have no. tune to waste. They haV com her to e London- In two day and they do it with a ytematio rush that would leave the English En-glish provincial visitor breathless. Aa a rule,- the two days are scheduled oat beforehand.. be-forehand.. Tne little party of three or four aweep out from one of large hotel near ' Charing Cross aftet breakfast, break-fast, and dash Into their day programme pro-gramme with the set purpose bf those who are face to face with an arduous but Inevitable duty. " And th curious thing is that they thoroughty mloy it. They want to ee as many idei of London Lon-don they can, and In pursul of that they sometimes tart out befor breakfast. break-fast. A Sample "Hustle.". Her 1 the programme for a day of one recent party. " " Morning: 7:00 Covent Garden Market. 8:00 Breakfast. 9:00 St. James Park and ,Buc agham Palace. . . 9:45 Apsley House. ' 1 10:00 Omnlhu ride along' PlccaBlly. ' 10:20 Walk through Pall Malljto e the club. I A 11:00 Wtmlntr Abbey and fouie of Parliament. . Afternoon: 12:15 Tower of London. 1:45 Lunch at Cheshire Che la rieet street. 8:00 Omnlbu ride to Whltechaj 1 and walk through Petticoat lan. 1 4:00 Bank ef England and- Mplon House. 6:00 British Museum. 7:00 Dinner at hotel. 8:00 Theater. 11:80 Bed. American who have not been hep before be-fore form strong like and dl.lllo at once. They like the panoramlo ajyan-tage ajyan-tage of a .eat on the top of an omttbus, but they are filled with dlsguat at the slowness of the horses and the freuent top. They greatly .admire the Loidon policeman. "A real gentleman," (they call him. The "leUurellness" of the people peo-ple in the street, however, amuse them. There 1. no lel.urellnes about th visitor. A young American on Saturday found himself with just a day on which to "see" London. He chartered a cab by the hour. Her is the time he set himself him-self to see some of the sights: Buckingham Palace, S minute. ' -Hyde Park, 15 minute. Houses of Parliament, 20 minute. Bank. 5 minute. Monument; 8 minutes. Lord' cricket ground. 10 minute. His programme, of course, allowed him little more than a casual outsld glance, but he was enabled without wasting tlm to take In a good many sights as he traveled trav-eled about in his cab. Pedigree Hunters. ' A favorite pursuit of visiting American Ameri-can Is the hunting of pedigree, and they search diligently many of th old church registers. "My name f Jone of Ohio," said a middle-aged man to the verger of a city church last week. "I had an uncle un-cle living her a hundred year ago. Col. Jone's.x Ever heard the name? A Colonel, you know. Not heard ef it? No; well 1 am surprised." There was another American who, arriving during th week, said that he had already picked out bis lineage and bad discovered that considerable consid-erable property belonged to him. "I find,'"" he said, "that Peckham belong to me. Where is this Peckham? A village, I suppose." sup-pose." - . Northumberland avenue was thick with motor cars yesterday afternoon. Most of them contained Americans. On of th latest methods of the hustling American holiday maker to 1 hire a motor car for a day or two, or two day, or, it may be, a week, and to "do" the eight in a motor car. Th two-day visitor covers London, while the man who stay a week or more rushes over aome of the principal princi-pal sight in the country. -London Mall. |