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CREMORNE GARDENS. 235
with, the drolleries of Mr. Merriman; ballet performances,
exquisite statuary, and well-finished transparencies add to
the attractions; and these gardens are famous for the
numerous balloon ascents which have been made from
them. Towards midnight, the entertainments close with
an unequalled display of fireworks, the back-ground repre-
senting the Kremlin at Moscow, the castle of St. Angelo,
at Rome, or some other edifice of world-extended renown.
Sometimes an intrepid female ascends a tight-rope, appa-
rently too narrow to afford secure footing to a cat, enters
the fire work-tower, and thence returns to terra firma,
pausing midway, to receive the salutations of a host of
rockets, serpents, and other pyrotechnic artillery. The
fireworks conclude what may be called the sight-seeing of
Vauxhall, but the quadrille bands remain, and Terpsi-
chorean revels commence, and moreover the supper-rooms
and boxes gradually fill; a Vauxhall supper, succeeded by
Vauxhall punch, being deemed integral parts of the
entertainments.
In the time of Mr. Tyers, the admission to Vauxhall
Gardens was one shilling; as the resources of entertain-
ment became more numerous, the price fluctuated until it
reached the sum of four shillings. At length the per-
manent price of admission resolved itself to half-a-crown;
a charge which, during the closing nights of the season,
is reduced to a shilling, to afford the mass an opportunity
of visiting this pleasant spot. Under the management of
Mr. Wardell, much has been done to revive the past fame
of the gardens, which are among the metropolitan sights
that foreigners and strangers should not leave unvisited.
Cremorne Gardens are one of the pleasantest summer
resorts near London, and being accessible by water as
well as by land, the aquatic journey forms no inconsider-
able inducement to the pleasure-seeker to travel to the
melange of nature and art which this pleasant demesne
exhibits. The gardens are located in the most picturesque
part of Chelsea, on the north bank of the Thames, a little
above Battersea-bridge. Although of modern appellation,
with, the drolleries of Mr. Merriman; ballet performances,
exquisite statuary, and well-finished transparencies add to
the attractions; and these gardens are famous for the
numerous balloon ascents which have been made from
them. Towards midnight, the entertainments close with
an unequalled display of fireworks, the back-ground repre-
senting the Kremlin at Moscow, the castle of St. Angelo,
at Rome, or some other edifice of world-extended renown.
Sometimes an intrepid female ascends a tight-rope, appa-
rently too narrow to afford secure footing to a cat, enters
the fire work-tower, and thence returns to terra firma,
pausing midway, to receive the salutations of a host of
rockets, serpents, and other pyrotechnic artillery. The
fireworks conclude what may be called the sight-seeing of
Vauxhall, but the quadrille bands remain, and Terpsi-
chorean revels commence, and moreover the supper-rooms
and boxes gradually fill; a Vauxhall supper, succeeded by
Vauxhall punch, being deemed integral parts of the
entertainments.
In the time of Mr. Tyers, the admission to Vauxhall
Gardens was one shilling; as the resources of entertain-
ment became more numerous, the price fluctuated until it
reached the sum of four shillings. At length the per-
manent price of admission resolved itself to half-a-crown;
a charge which, during the closing nights of the season,
is reduced to a shilling, to afford the mass an opportunity
of visiting this pleasant spot. Under the management of
Mr. Wardell, much has been done to revive the past fame
of the gardens, which are among the metropolitan sights
that foreigners and strangers should not leave unvisited.
Cremorne Gardens are one of the pleasantest summer
resorts near London, and being accessible by water as
well as by land, the aquatic journey forms no inconsider-
able inducement to the pleasure-seeker to travel to the
melange of nature and art which this pleasant demesne
exhibits. The gardens are located in the most picturesque
part of Chelsea, on the north bank of the Thames, a little
above Battersea-bridge. Although of modern appellation,