Show f OF i STREET 1 n 2 It 11 I la not known generally at cast not In that to a member of the sery first tins graduated from liar Har Harvard vard England I Indebted for Its hl historic Downing street whIch is II a roW ot mil buildings In that Street In which the th premier of Great and several of the ministers have their ibid rel dencH dences For this interesting bit of In Information Information formation we VI art are Indebted to dor or Choate Choat who gave It away at tI the reo re recent cent banquet to the Incoming Lord Mayor of London LondonI I doubt Mr Ir Choate whether many within the found lIand or of my voice alee know why It Is CAlled Downing street I NOW Noll at the school which I hall had the good fortune to attend in the belt beet colony that was all planted un tin ter ler the l n lIh lol liag and planted In Inthe time the but best way a because you ou drove droe them out to for that school over oer the an or entrance there were 11 the words word I publics lire school Iced in Massachusetts Wl was Inscribed the name of George Downing the Bret pupil of that school Then lit at WI we find him a graduate of that Institution In th the first year that It sent any youth into IntI the year leU lie loon eoon found hi his Way war to Colonel Oakley arm army under Cromwell And soon began to display the most ex faculty In th the art Rrt or of m mac lie Ile developed Into a wonderful muter master of the art of hoodwinking In which that kind of diplomacy chiefly y consisted In time the first place he hood hoodwinked winked Cromwell himself elf which that he was Val a very fr astute young oung man and him to sent lent hIm us 08 am ambassador balladur to The Hague after the protector died he tried lie arts rl upon the rump and ond hI he hoodwinked the rump and the they all op pointed him ambassador to The Hague the rl came he be practiced hla hl wily arts upon the merry monarch IOn after afler lime his return and Induced him himIn In him agnin oa as ambassador to tn The Tit II Hague II Ill Ile mode made lote 1018 of anti nil 55 X ew r I finally hI he Induced the merry m min I I 11 grant him a grant or of at 11 W provided that thai the Jr ii lJ to tn be built buill ups fl Un III o n tiro roYAl palace should bl be hen and graceful o he built a hI hIo Ii aI o opposite Whitehall anti and lie hl built hullt II a I t more mo m between there u I W Abbe and old annals annal r that time describe those II pleasant mansion having A bark upon St James Jamel park lark In n the I 1 course of things h ho would have b i hauled to Tyburn and b I II neck until he Will was dead but hI he non on h II t way Into the favor of King 1 Y c convincing the kin king that he hc must t f live give hili ling hc Deane II II ot of the vicious prin received s I p said In his bill early New w edu II then Finally he Bled and hl II I I ed hi his immense estates iii W s to hi his children Ju Nou Ihn th all lone gone leaving no wrack b hh J i JI I cep Pt lilt little II bit of ground ruun loo Inn long 1 and tent twenty far yard wide H sm m narrowing tu to ten which bran lIa hl hilt name It II le III the t Jn n the came time lime the greatest i t I II world rid hRU e It 11 lieu nt al tit thc huh f gigantic ble w h enI I IM t titi h hunder i under the nil name me of the British n |