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Show London and Its Lumber. London is the most conservative city in Europe, if not in the world. It loves its lumber. You may still see those notices attached to lamp posts which announces "Standing for Four Hackney Hack-ney Carriages," or whatever the number num-ber may be, though for ten years (in one case, to my own knowledge for twenty-five) no vehicles of any kind have stood there. Perhaps it is as well that these relics should remain; they are a tiny part of our social history. They will probably remain when we are flying to dinner or the theater in omni-aeros. By that time people won't know what "hackney carriage" meant, and there will be discussions in the "Notes and Queries" of the period. For each generation hands down to the next certain nuts to crack. I |