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| ROYAL AVENUE, BELFAST. -The above thoroughfare is one of the brightest and busiest in Ireland's Northern Commerical Metropolis, which, by the way, is the most modern of all the important cities of the Emerald Isle, and has much that is strikingly American in its architecture, "institutions" and business methods. As will be seen by reference to the sketch, Royal Avenue is traversed by a street car line, called in Anglo-Irish parlance a "tramway," and this enables the traveller to observe the fine thoroughfare rapidly, and, at the same time, comfortably and completely. The handsome stone building on the left is the Provincial Bank of Ireland, which does an enormous business, and is regarded as being as safe and solid as the "Rock of Cashel" or the foundations of Belfast's time-honored mountain sentinel, Cave Hill. The Ulster Reform Club and General Post Office buildings are also situated on Royal Avenue. We many say, in passing, that while Chicago is noted for its "whiskey sours," New York for its "Manhattan cocktails," London for its "h'English h'ale," and Dublin for its "Double X," Belfast is famous for its "Presbyterian cocktail," compounded of equal portions of "Bushmills' best" and native "ginger ale." |
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