Frost ce Owx Cossrsroxsexr London, Aug. 7.
It was rather a poor Bank Holiday, since the weather was very undecided, there being a good deal!
intermittent rain, while it was not particularly warm, and there no doubt that people suffered a good deal from economic pressure which made the limitation of holidaymaking very noticeable. Of course, all the means of transport claim that they did exceptionally well. They always do. Nobody believes a word of, it. Ail that can be said was that the trafic was probably rather less than normal.
The main roads out of London were never so empty, although the charabanc proprietors claim that they sent, collectively, at the week fend about three-quarters of a million people into the country. The trains, of course, were crowded, ince numbers of people have to Teave town for their holidays in August, but there was nothing whatever of an exceptional nature. Traffic by the District, Metropolitan and Underground Railways and by the tramcars and motor-omnibuses was exceptionally light. In the words of one authority, from the standpoint of traffic, it was "a dead and alive Bank Holiday"—a description that might be applied to much more than traffic. Restricted services were run by the Underground. and, tors who stood by in the morni in anticipation of the usual Bank Holiday pressure were not required.
Appy Ampstead No Draw Visitors to up-river resorts were comparatively few, and even Hampstead Heath was a poor magnet. To many thousands it was a stay-at-home Bank Holiday. During the morning, while the skies were overcast, the streets of the City and the West End were almost deserted, and the parks were nearly fal as rural meadows. In the noon, with the advent of bright weather, crowds came out into the streets again. They lined up for cinemas and theatres, and they crowded into the museums, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Tower, the Royal Academy, Madame Tussaud's, and other pi i The Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral were also crowded times. As the sunshine increased the parks, too, attracted some thousands of strollers. Nearly 60,000 persons visited, the Crystal Palace.
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