Letters from Europe

Front matter

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BY

JOHN W! FORNEY.

Preface

These letterS; now collected into one volume, in response to what seems to be a very general desire on the part of my friends and the public, were written as well to occupy the hours of anxiety common to all strangers in foreign lands, as to present to the readers of the Philadelphia Peess and Washington Cheonicle my honest impressions of men and things abroad. Some errors may have occurred in the haste of unassisted composition, but every line was inspired by a sincere desire to promote the cause of human progress, and to prove to my countrymen the incalculable advantages of their own government over that of any other nation

upon earth.

J. W. F.

Philadelphia,

November, 1S67.

Contents

I.— OUTWARD BOUND.

Life at Sea — A Floating Street — Occupation and Amusements on Board — Captain Judkins — George Peabody — Aristocratic Preservers of Game and Fish — Scandinavian Experiences., . . 19

II.— FIRST DAY AT LIVERPOOL.

Conclusion

Conclusion 375

ADDENDA.

THE TIMES OFFICE.

Labyrinthine Approach — Imposing-Room — Telegrams — Proof- Reading — Composing-Room — Old-Fashioned Cases — Editors and Reporters — Library — Restaurant — Sick-Fund — Not in the Union — Compositors'" Earnings — Stereotyping' — Paper- Wetting Machine — Presses — Steam-Action Machines — Konig and Applegath — Hoe's Lightning Press — Circulation of " The Times " — Economy — Private Telegraph Line 379

THE SCHUTZENFEST.

The Schwytzers — Gessler's Castle — The Hople Gasse — Death of Gessler — Lake Scenery — Altorf — The Tellen-Platte — Was Tell a Myth? — The Schutzenfest — Swiss Soldiers — Military

' Education — The Festival — An American Speech — Prizes 386

PAVEMENTS, COACHES, AND CABS.

Streets of Paris — Asphalt Pavement — How to Make It — Place de la Concorde — European Roads — Parisian Streets — Carriages — Fares and Regulations — London Cabs — Hansoms, Broughams and Clarences — Cheap Locomotion — The Toll Nuisance 393