A FAMOUS LONDON STREET

The average American may not quickly recognize in Pall Mall, the "Pell Mell which the London policeman calls it, as he directs him thereto. So far as can be learned it was so called because the French game Paille-Mail was first played here in the reign of Charles I. It was the first street of London to possess a gas lamp, which was set up in 1807. It has had many famous residents, among whom are found Daniel Defoe of "Robinson Crusoe" fame, Dean Swift of "Gulliver's Travels," Laurence Sterne of the "Sentimental Journey," Gibbon the historian, Coleridge the poet, and Captain Marryat, the novelist. Anne Oldfield, the actress, was born in 1683 and Gainsborough the painter died here in 1788. It was in "The Star and Garter Tavern" here, that the fifth Lord Byron, great-uncle of the poet, fought his famous duel with Mr. Chaworth. The dispute was over the amount of game each had on his estate, and fighting with sword across the dining table, Chaworth was mortally wounded. Lovers of the poet will recall the romance of their descendants, when Mary Chaworth was all the world in Byron's eyes.