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AN OLIO. (By Yz.). The London correspondent of the "New York Herald" recently wrote that the English hotel proprietors and keepers of boarding hooves and watering places are grumbling at the bad seas-m and that one symp ithiser, evidently a hotel keeper, asked why this is when there are such attractive seaside resorts and comfortable hotels at home. To this the correspondent answers: If some attractions, taken at random from the advertising columns of one of the daily papers, form the best inducements to people in search of pleasure to go to home watering places, perhaps it is little wonder they are becoming less popular every year. One important seaside resort adver- tises a great temperance fete on a certain date. Another announces that negro minstrels, so long associated with the town, will give a refined enter- tainment daily. A third makes parade of the grimly pathetic fact that a cripples' home gives an entertainment, while a fourth offers the riotously rollicking and feverishly exhilarating inducement of a flower show under the auspices of the local clergy." This should give" pause" to those in Rhyl who live by catering for visitors only seeking health and rest-not the excitement of a conti- nental carnival. To the authorities I suggest the wisdom of preventing the obstruction of the streets by bands and other itinerant "entertainers." They are unmitigated nuisances, for which there is no excuse, as on the Promenade for bands and on the foreshore for the fun (?) and folly of freaks of every kind there is abundance of suitable space. It appears, however, that the Parade residents don't want bands, and it has been suggested that Rat Island, in the Marine Lake, would be more suitable for them certainly there they could only annoy or disturb the rodents. Note that I doa't, per se, object to a town's band, but only insist that it should not be stationed or allowed where it could be a nuisance—e.g., near my house before I can g,t up in the morning. and want sleep. The German horror and the organ grinder may be ordered off, but the Council's band cannot be treated as a nuisance. Is Rhyl Dull for Visitors ? I have just tead the article in to-day's "Journal" on The Changes in a Welsh Seaside Resort." Its assertion that r, Blackpool has greater allure- ments for Lancashire folk requires explanation. When I was in business in Lancashire, before residing in Rhyl, I frequently visited Blackpool because it was the nearest seaside resort. I and many friends left business at noon on Saturdays and got to dinner at Blackpool (with family or friendsi, and returned early enough for business on Monday morning. For such week-end visits Rhyl would have been too distant. For the gay, the frolic, and the loud," out for a day, I admit that Rhyl is dull and uninteresting- wanting in variety and liveliuess. But for the pleasant spending of a vacation or an annual holiday Rbyl is very much superior, more alluring|"(than Blackpool, especially for a family. The comparative dullness of Rhyl is a great advantage for those who only seek health and rest. The multitude of rowdy or romping day- trippers who make Blackpool lively would ruin Rhyl. I trust that the railway servioe will be improved, but hope that it will not be so cheapened as to bring the poor and noisy mob. Mr Editor, was it not cruelty to the wise men of Gotham to give publicity to the fact that having stocked the Lake with fish they opened the sluice-valve to allow the piscatory beauties, treasures, to escape or to be carried out to the sea ? Reporting this in the "Jonrnal," which circulates the country over, is publishing our weakness, folly or misfortune, for the amusement and triumph of the uncircumcised of other places. Of course, I see the difficulty of informing the ratepayers of the mismanagement of their affairs without exposing them to the scorn of the people of Gath and Atkelon. Truly we pay a big price for the blessings of a free press Foryd Bridge. A pertinent colloquy respecting it :— Verdant Councillor: "Why all this fume and noise about the Bridge ? The Council could have bad it at the price paid by the present owner, but did not think it worth the price of an old song." The owner is bound to keep it in repair for the traffic he can toll, and the tollage is fixed by Act of Parliament. A courteous business not? from the Clerk, or the suave word of Councillor Maltby, would settle the matter without chucking the owner into the river or robbing him. Do you wish, most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, to be known as the chuckle-headed senate P" Arrogant Councillor Shut up! You know nothing about the case. If we can't rob him we'll bully him." The green Councillor, accordingly, did shut up collapsed. But if the Bridge should be purchased (to remove the anomaly of a tollgate, or for any other reason) how is the price to be fixed ? In con- sidering and fixipg the price, itwould be as idle to urge that the owner was simply and purely a speculator who obtained it for an old song," and ought not to make a profit, as to urge that the price should be what the structure and approaches originally cost. All that should be considered is its worth to the public. In determining this, regard must be had to the fact that it is only a temporary structure that increasing traffic will in a fevr years necessitate a stronger and more durable structure (and one of stone for preference) with a different alignment and an easier approach from the West. Tie vendor will, if prudent, give this due consideration; if he do not he may have a worthless ramshackle left on his hands. Rbyl, Oct. 6, 1902. Yz.

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