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DOWN RIVER TO THE DOCKS.
HOW LONDON GREW INTO A GREAT PORT.
Not many authers bave taken 40 years to write one beck, states the
Erening Standard,
Meat at the Victoria and Albert Decks, COCKTAILS FOR WOMEN.
West India Docks, Surrey Docks, and West Smithfeld. Coffee at the Lon- don Dock and West India Deck,! whilst tea is divided between the Cutler Street and Commercial Road warehouses."
Some of Sir Joseph's most interest- ing pages are given to the men who work in and about the docks and
riverside; and bis defence of the docker may give the ether end of Lendon a better and more just idea of that much-abused class, which is certainly not so black as it is painted.
A HUMAN CRANE.
"To wheel a truck along a smooth
MORE BRAVADO THAN
HARM IN HABIT.
Women have acquired the cocktail habit.
A visit by a Daily Chronicle repre- sentative to some of the biggest cock- tail bars, with managers drawing four-figure salaries, showed that a number of the fair sex indulge in the newest appetisers.
But net many authors have at- tempted such a colossal task as to write a complete history of the port of London. That has been almost the life work of Sir Joseph Guinness! Broodbank, for many years chair.. man of the Dock and Warehouses quay is the simplest form of work Committee of the Port of London till it is tried, then the experimenter Misses to a waiter just before dinner and the cryptic utterance was easily interpreted.
Authority. The result is seen in his will learn that even this elementary History of the Port of Londen, which operation is not as mechanical a one was fittingly published when the Kings are maltitudes of operations in and Queen went down river to open factories. The attack on the charac- ter of the men employed is altogether London's new dock.
No wonder this histery took so long beside the mark in these days. Their to write, for rever has London had a werk is often rough and dirty, but Sit on the whole the men are a steady more conscientious historian. Joseph traces the growth of London and bonest class of worker, especial- as a pcrt from the time when Juliusly having regard to their opportuni- Caesar came cruising up the Thames ties for pilfering both food and to the present day. He traces the growth of trade, which gradually led to the network of cocks that lie fa: down the river, shows bow one dock after another was built to cope with the demands of London's merchants. He takes us up and down the river,
drink."
And as contrast to the life of the docker to-day there is a picture of the docker of the middle of the nine teenth century, when the cranes for unloading vessels were worked by a sort of tread-mill.
"From six to eight men entered a xplaining just how the port grew wooden cylinder or drum, upon which and grew tells us all about the battens were nailed, and the men, ccckers, the wharfingers, and thei wherrymen and the river police; and laying hold of ropes, trod the wheel
"Give me a Twelve c'Clock " of the Mixed-Drink- shouted one
"It sounds very wicked, but on i vestigation it was found that things were not really so dissolute as they might seem to the uninitiated.
Ladies' cocktails are a speciality in some of the big bars, and they are more or less innocuous, compared with the cocktail of the elderly gentlemen who appears regularly at the same lean-to.
THE HARMLESS "PUSSYFOOT." There is, for instance, an expert cocktail mixer explained, the Pussyfoot, which ladies are especi›lly fond of. As it is composed of white
orange juice, o harm is done. of exg, grenadine, and lemon and
manages all the time to invest his round, singing the while. The wheel Besides, it looks so "sweetly pink." subject with more romance than ever was about 16ft. in diameter, and 8ft. lirgered round the name of Execution bread, and it was estimated that they would lift 18 10 20 cwt. forty times Dock, where the pirates once swung in an hour an average height of
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Then one can have an Alexandra. which is made of creme of cocoa, grenadine, and plain fresh cream. Not much harm in that. Or, if it is preferied, the dashing girl with
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patibility of temperament, or as it is put, in a term of rather wider significance. inmpatibilite des aurs." This plea is..of course, a very convenient one, and saves much washing of dirty linen, besides the fact that the cause which in England constitutes the most potent plea for divorce is in certain cantons of
The cost of diverce proceedings Switzerland a criminal offence. in Switzerland is never prohibitive.. Divorce is available to the poorest. According to the Swiss Constitution,
Divorce is within the reach of ail It takes a real enthusiast to make! Some pages that will have a more the Lordener see the romance of personal interest for many Londoners yellow hair may be so shocking as to in Switzerland, and the facilities ure dockland and riverside, To many deal with the rise, and decline of indulge in a Prairie Oyster. She gets taken advantage of to a considerable Lordoners nearly sil Londen east of steamboats on the Thames. Many for her money yolk of egg, a dash of extent. About 700 rivil marriages Aldgate is terra incognita. "The people sigh for the good old days brandy, and some Angostura and
no citizen is allowed to suffer by Decks" are some vague spot very far when penny steamers cruised up and not too much brands, either, in these take place in Geneva each year, and east and there are plenty of London down the river; the regret will be hard times i
reason of the fact that he is too poor ers who could not give two of intensified by the description of the When you hear anyone shouting them their proper names, let alone steamer service nearly hundred for a Bronc, you can tell they are simple. It is necessary to go to a to invoke the law, and if he proves inability to pay for legal representa- tell with what sort of business each years ago when there was a daily getting orange juice, gin, and Italian lawyer, who prepares the case and tion his costs are paid from a fund is concerned. Sir Joseph explains, service of four sleamers down river, vermouth.
there are about 140 divorces.
Divorce procedure is comparatively
The
in an interesting passage, how the and they usually raced down the But it is mostly men, and not the brings it in the first instance before raised under a tax known as the Droit des Paurres" (Right of the various docks and warehouses are de river together. There were Margate coqtailleuse," who shout for a Star, the Court of Conciliation.
privately before Poor). The cost of divorce, however, Gravesend boats from St. which is just one desperate shake up parties appear voted to separale trades and im and
"The Parts-
wool Katherine Wharf, and Margate and of brandy, gin and rum. It deserves this Court, and the Judge endeavours depends on circumstances, and wit-
from . at Graverend boats business is carried on..
London all that the gallant Mr. Johnson.can
to persuade them to renounce theirnesses are sometimes paid consider- the London and St. Katherine Docks; Bridge." The first steamer between call
intention, and live amicably together. able sums to give evidence. Never- the tobacco business is at the Victoria London and Gavesend, the "Margery,"
Flips, which are simply eggs If he does not succeed the lawyer theless, persons of small means, who Dock; the rum and West India sugar began to run as early at 1816. business is at its original home, the The quotations can only indicate beaten up with a little wine
matter comes again before the Court children to complicate the situation, more--can be agery-nothing West India Deck, whilst wine and the interest of this fire book, which and spiced with picturesque ima proceeds to collect evidence, and the ages to seek divorce and have co brandy, which, under the
old may be summed up as being at once counted as cocktails, and these are! after a lapse of three months. The may bope to obtain their desire-for monopolies were assigned to the Lona bistory, an encyclopædia, and a don Dork, still remain there. The guide book of the Thames below often in demand by ladies who have witnesses are heard in private, but a matter of, say, £12. Surrey Commercial Dock is the only bridge. And the reader will also had tiring days st shopping or dan-the lawyers pleadings take place
cing the night before.
before the public Court known as depot for soft wood. 2
Ostrich gain from it some idea of the many But beware of the girl who calls the Tribunal de Ier Instance. Al-1 feathers, chinaware, Oriental carpets, and varied duties and responsibilities and other articles of high value are of the Port of London Authority, Londly for Monkey Gland. She together, divorce proceedings uially kept at Cutler Sheet. The special which is, first and foremost, as Sir mually has her fingers excessively take about a year. sheds required if the bandling Joseph says, the greatest warehouse, manicured, ber hair is a chemically There are a large number of possible and storage of hard words are at the keeper in the world, and sper sé barnished colour, hd her complex reasons for the granting of divorce, West India Dock poly Grain is As for the Port of London, Well, I kwa dream-st's distance,
red at the Millwall, Sorrey Com should be proud of its history and There absinthe in Monkey mercial, and West India Docks, graseful to its historian,
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