Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — Christopher North. [ARTICLE]

Christopher North.

The name and fame of “Christopher North,” once the leading figure in Edinburgh, seem to be held cheap by the present-day magistrates. These gentlemen have just decreed the destruction of the old-time tavern in Gabriel’s Row —now called St. Vincent street—where the “noctes ambrosianae” were wont to be holden. And that, too, despite the appeal of counsel to let it live for'The sake of a great memory. It was condemned on the simple ground that it was little else than a cellar, approached by a flight of “down stairs,” and so hopelessly out of date and unsuited to its aristocratic surroundings.—London Chronicle.