Underground Overground
While on a train journey yesterday I was reading a book about the underground. As you do. I came across this and just loved it. I had my first experience of Hades to-day, and if the real thing is to be like that I shall never again do anything wrong. I got into the Underground Railway at Baker Street. I wanted to go to Moorgate Street... the smoke and the sulphur fill the tunnel, all the windows have to be closed. The atmosphere was a mixture of sulphur, coal dust and foul fumes from the gas lamps above; so that by the time we reached Moorgate Street I was near dead of asphyxiation and heat. I should think these Underground railways must soon be discontinued, for they are a menace to health. From the diary of R. D. Blumenfeld, 1887 I just thought it was a fantastic way to describe it. When I started reading the book I'd never really stopped to think about what the underground was like before the first time I'd ever ridden on one. As I got further in to the book I was amaze...