Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — London Undergoing n Change. [ARTICLE]

London Undergoing n Change.

London is undergoing such a remarkable transformation that Returning travelers hardly know some districts. The most miserable courts between Tottenham court and road and Piccadilly circus have already been turned into fine thoroughfares. Chelsea has suddenly risen from a dilapidated suburb into an aristocratic quarter. In the neighlx>rhood of Charing cross intricate byways, flanked by houses moldering through age, have become palaces of the caravanserai sort, or mansions like those Of Whitehall < <n:rt. Now an old section further east along the Thames is to be modernized with fine buildings. The Thames embankment is rapidly becoming, by reason of its buildings, the finest walk in Europe. The gloomy walls of Newgate prison ar.) also soon to disappear and be replaced by shops. The Newgate calendar thus becomes obsdi lets. , a L? s