The Archive · 1932

The First Waterworks

"In the northernmost arch are London's first waterworks. One re-rots to think it was a Netherlander, eter, Morris, who first had the Ingenious idea of putting a water Wheel in the passage under the arch bare hands: and thes there was [fies pine its apologists, who were (Ata, ther coan oan Leen ne ies, Prodection Tt a special session should be|thenaclees suffered from the $24 pumping up water into the by the pressure of the tide. There City hardly bear to look. But no less|sammons!, so that the economic scenvie suggestiveness was detveazion: A Precedent is a working model of the whole this dreadful old iron fork. And it]! lation, in a most difficult: posi-Inv. Hoover in addition ix disliked: Ey apparatus, simple but most effective, not "playracting," bat rel It] tat Instead "of concentrating on thoroughly of the President had Congressmen approved especially the arrangement of floats and weights by which the tide wheel always kept. automatically"

Seavea og, ud with wht ids nce wath "nae ied the same depth in the water, Peter Morris got a lease of his arch for "Gri the ole fr all the pesarer- the Have spent mont tine in/him) for committing "the © epeatal 500 years at ten shillings a year—lueness' of Old London, itis best partisan attack on the macrae om meaner etd a think of itt—ard supplied "water Tive in the 20th Gentry. ncriee of attempts osset instigation" not of the elected Toe the" Guldhal ud thy through pipes tothe Lord. Ma Effects of Tariffs Senator Moses. of New Tampshire|fretentatices of the people, but of weal Bois Tar han eared egeess "Bons 56 for having called the insurgent|the mani Arcrican' end' Continental "fern. The sites, for factories wild] independence'. "Combine: "those bankers who have been merchants, besides stand having Tosuryents took this phrane|PaToU" motives, wilh the very various motives. with include American, French, [YC2Y much to heart and decided to poltteal eersncer, MMAFEaRNING, 8 water "aslaked' But (slacked). But Belgian, Swiss and [vote against Senator Moses. when Jerowth of nationalistic spirit which Peter's descendants carried on until Czcehosiovakian manufacturers, and put forward despite communist theory ix often 1822! when, by Act of Parliament, such industries as rubber boots, 'President, pro Tempore" the they were' bought out for, £10,000 perfumery, iron, steel, ribbon, ate. bred of common adversity and the fault was found with present "attitude of Congress 18 and their' machinery' passed to' the surgical apparatus, electro-plating, the way he had conducted himself partly explained, It must be re-New River Company. Twenty-five garters, and matches, in office during past and membered too that America, unlike years ago T attended an auction of Not all the inquiries are foreign, the Progressives. action "used a England, hus no tradition of con King's Share in the New River however. Several British firms are ood deal of satiric comment that tinuity in foreign affairs or party Ca. which was sold in hundredth Jextending their plant. The Great ten who professed to he inspired parts, at £1,200 to £1,300 a part. bs unity in dealing with other nations. Western Railway' Ca. says that it lofty motives. and to treat all Finally' though: powerful she still The shade of Peter Borris must has dealt recently with 48 applicarabjects with long. has the mentality when the surface have chuckled at the thought of tions for factory sites near its [should devote their attention to such cratched of the nation of fifty that ten-shilling lease, lines, 22 being British, Ten of a trifle. The outcome of every roll years ago- ry off the beaten Our ancestors had a sense of Jeall was the same, these have been fixed, and one track expecting slights and scott humour even in the truly brutal notices that Slough, which sprang idly for their nomines (in found. them-insults where none were intend follow paar of ig pantchments, Ths Ino importance as on inde the Scold's, Bridle, for scandal: centre during the war, is to provide [Mil Sunt tes foun lwutar Republicans for Senator slaves ther: rede ata on be digit alor Petre oars: fins. <alwd oalts bert men or so Insurgents for onelthe old roues of tights ageing' the guile of

of iron going over the head and nd} the length of time during which contently Chantel ne an ewery at Listening to the debates in Con Europe.

Joined to another band round the the foreign skilled workmen. will be allowed to remain England tolveguiay votes, the Republican They refused get these works going. The Ger-vote for the Democrat man inquiries include housing f0r|Sinee mo successor has. Ween ape gress where these sentiments are voiced is like listening to the con= Jversation at w nad hatters" tea party, our White House has be:

Cloak, on a life-size model man,' which is. simply a. barrel, slipped over the body with two Holes for the hands to come through, chained: and fo the convicted Jdrunkard paraded the town.

The Stake Recalled There Tittle} appalling tableau of an open houses in the centre of whi woman is being burnt at the there is an imitation electric fire below and the flames. flicker dreadfully about the feet. of the victim, who is raised a good height above' the ground, for all to. sec. People must have had strong stomachs in those days... Even at clit of the model one woman beside me covered her eyes and. turned Away with disgust. The stake was the penalty for" witchcraft and poisoning a husband. Neither seems worth the risk, though, if you had money, you might bribe the execu-Uioner" (here seen stoking _the flames) to use wet logs. which rained smoke that stifled you before the fames kot to Work, The stocks are here, of course, another humorous penalty, except

at you as you sat in them," Also Anat people might throw ration opus we headman's axe and his block, it have needed strength and accuracy to take off a head at one blow—which was not "universally done by any means, as the unhappy Dake of Monmouth knew; the four-edged dagger with which Sir Wil-iam Walworth, the Lord Mayor, killed Wat 'Tyler in 1381; a model Jof Guy Fawkes' lantern," with the look of a conspirator all over it—the, oval ¢ Ashmolean xford; and an appalling man trap, tone of those that used to be set about the Bank of England and the mint. You put your foot on it and steel jaws sprang. together that must have bitten half through the ankle. traps and spring guns were forbidden by Act of Parlia ment in the middle of Inst century, but as a very small boy I can remember one" or two. moulderng'

(which must have been overlooked) at the edge of fields Rear my home, inscribed "Man Traps Set Here."

The Lord Mayor's Show One very charming exhibition is a working model, quite 20 ft. long, of the Lord Mayor's Show in 1616, passing through Cheapside, which, with its lovely old timbered houses, was far more attractive then it is This Lord Mayor was a m Lemon, so" one of the triumphal ears had an enormous Temon tree on it; he was also. 3 Fishmonger, s0 another car bore huge sturgeon. "The Lord Mayor, preceded by. the outgoing Lord Mayor and. followed by pikeman, rides by on horseback with hat in he British trade unions will at [rob stitute for the Vice Dresiden my [ministers of Europe with their least get plenty of support in his role of presiding officer, See oe Gri Soldier Fen monkeneainst an infnx of for~} othe main business done before [unider's wet" wih thes Hold of [the recess was the tardy parsagelthem" said one The death Centenarian Cut is reported. in her[Attempt was made to push ofthe Hoover Aotaiaian." Xo] Another iced sean Sear of Mu adeiai [tanabe trout Berar her when the debt payments fell due emer [cating all, Stree the [bie bankers: whom

100th" birthday, tu. duly of" last [APA the foreign debtors were allnont [the endorsers of Liberty bonds have of Sydenham. On I! your poor constituents, Year, she received congratulations RHeTully placed in technical default. the debte mat upon their back 80 vi she extra cen She er long life on the ground hem, #84 each Congrensia [in RIS Way Roath a thw st" muke fortunes on be. maceseful It anybody gt age German paper rot subscribe this uld Rose who should it be, your involve them in "no just criti constituents or these greedy diss Unless a remarkable charlie [counteres"

The "argument behind sat whit I like wad] occurs in the temper of Congress the above statement is this." War there is no ehatice of a.reduetion in debts to the Unite States are to be bern: a rads Test, We the wr debts Mein ce icT nae [ede setae Svope inca "uni recently.

Wat 1 dont yee me exteed [German "Teparaians"Gerinan Hut nonlier Nang life nor Raya e another sen. or series of sours parations are te be reduced to ave messages made Mrs. Spooner toler which would wipe out credits held TaichE her Juniors" goings on. In) sche! funding commission ter neces [im Germany by Wall Siceet Backers, rome other centenarians. en of i, sificientiy. which respect she differed from abt iotats shawld: be, reconstituted ierefore o"save the bankety Me toa re Paci antes" an] Senater Boras remand" gt the [Ree one back of dhe Ametiean great "for justife|fouver proposes fresh mannerless. I think short Sbominable. The project was dead and buried xo deep [citizen. The underlying senile that the Archangel Gabriel himecit [Situation—-that it is not a case of them "beesse they" could not revive i the one [assuming $250,000,000 "worth of teen aaa ies sich red osa tit [eet oberon ant were at their best in the ninety re it they would have voted trade and prosperity depend, from eolutes Sind wore brig ore as far as the modern

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