The sun., 1891-06-21

Dufrs company. Another American girl who
will mako her London debut In Tho Rajah
is Cora Finnie. formerly OF Dixie's company,
who played in the American production Of
The Gondoliers"
Mr.. and Mrs. Bronson Howard accompanied
by four dogs. a cat, and parrot, will sail for
New YORK on tho Ems tomorrow. They have
rented their pretty villa, Sandy Hook" in st.
Johns Wood. and intend to make long resi-
dence In America. Tho Savage Club gave q
farewell supper to Mr.. Howard on last Thurs
day night that was presided over by Charles
Wyndhnm and attended by largo delegation
from the literary. artistic. and dramatic world
Of London.
Mrs. John Mason, better known In America
a. Marion Manola. sailed on tho Normannia
to-day for New York. accompanied by her hus-
bands brother. Lowell Mason. Mrs. Masons
trip Ia OF business nature. she having re-
ceived large offer from her former manager.
John Mason will return to America IN August.
after tho "1der" is taken OF at the ST. James
Theatre. 1t 10 probable that he will 20 back
to the Boston Museum. although no has many
hattering offers In London. A. il. Candy.
Francis Wilson's business manager, ia not
going to allow the American travelling public to
forget that The Merry Monarch" Is to be re-
produced at the Broadway Theatre in October.
At the landing stage in Liverpool at the lakes
OF Killarney and the Giants Causeway in Ire-
land. at the channel steamer termini at New
haven and Dieppe. Folkestone and Boulogne
Dover and Calais. the tourist is confronted BY
huge posters. upon which are portrayed Will
sons merry features. heroic size. and tho an
nonncomont Of his fall opening in big tyre.
Canby says be Is going to decorate the entire
Continent with the Wilson poster and carry It
yf nd N thA
T. q. Shortiss the American banjolst. has ar.
rived at the pinnacle Of fame. He gavo a con-
cert at Lady Julian Goldsmid's magnificent
house in Plccadilly on Monday afternoon un-
der the auspices OF no less q person than the
Princess Christian. with Board Of patronesses
that included tho Countess OF Erne. Lady
Auckland. Lady Joune Lady Wolvsrton, Mrs.
Ronalds. and others Of lofty station. There
were plenty mole OF tho nobility ana English
and American gentry present. the audience
being as distinguished q ono as 10 often gotten
together even In London In the height OF the
season.
Mrs. Mckee and Mrs. Russell Harrison have
been having good time In London this week.
At The state concert they achieved the crown
ing honor that is reserved for distinguished
Americans. being presented to tile Prince and
Princess OF Wales and their royal offspring. A
reporter who was present says that tho
Princess was particularly pleasant to the two
ladies. On Thursday Mr.. Henry White. First
Secretary OF Legation. entertained them at o
luncheon party, and on the same evening
Minister Lincoln gave them dinner. at which
thirty people wore present. including Miss
Blaine Mrs. Cameron. tho Belgian Minister.
and several members OF Parliament and peers.
On Friday night they went to the opera. &C.
companied by MAJOR Post military attach6 to
the Legation. and Secretary White. and to-day
they we're entertained at luncheon BY Consul
General New On Friday they listened to the
debate on the Child Labor bill in the House Of
Commons, sitting with Mrs. Peel. wife OF the
Speaker. and attended by Major Post and
Lieut. Commander Emory. our military at
tsche Ono reporter was unkind enough to
say. In his report Of Sir William HArcourts
speech on the occasion:
''Sir William set of under the ire Of two
ehRttetfng American ladies in Mrs. Peel's gal
Iery. one OF whom I have reason to believe was
the daughter OF the President of the United
States."
Nevertheless Mrs. Mckee and Mrs. Harrison
have had q pleasant time. London has been
at its best since their arrival the weather
has been perfect, the season is at its height,
and they have been courted and sought after
on all hands. Senator Vance of North Caro-
lima and Mrs. Vance are in London. as are also
Senator Gibson OF Louisiana. Congressman
Leopold s. Morse Of Boston. Horace White OF
the New York Erening Post Martin Townsend
OF Troy. and William H. ]. Shook. retired
Engineer In Chief OF the United States Navy.
SUN reporter ut Hudderstleld teleRraphs
that on enormous crowd Of people went to the
Huddersf1eld Cricket Club grounds to-day to
SEQ the American team take part In the annual
athletic festival held there. Fully 1900 peo-
pie paid their way through the gates and at
least thousand gained free admittance by
scaling the fence. So great did tho crowd be-
come that the late comers forced those in
front Of them on to tho track. and
hundreds had to find refuge on tho
grass inside the enclosure. This put
a stop TO the proceedings for fully
q half hour. but finally the place was cleared
and the game went on. but the seats and
standing places were packed to suffocation.
Tho regular track was in good order. but tho
sprint path was very bad. the cracks in tho
freshly sodded ground gaping very wide. This
made the going slow. and In addition to this n
strong wind blew diagonally across tho track.
impeding the llght.buIlt men.
The American contingent had not recovered
from their sea voyage. but they made good
showing. although the Handicapped asked
some OF them to do too much. He was very
hard on Luther Cary. who would have had to
beat all existing records to win the l20-yard
race. He was In the first heat and starting
from scratch won on tho taps by six inches In
q shade better than IL l-5 seconds
Mortimer Remington, 2 yards start. ran
third to @. A. Beal. 0 yards. who Won in 12
seconds. II. L. Hallock. l0a1 yards. was In the
third heat. but he was not bstter than second
to C. A. Bradley in IL seconds. D. Basan OF
the London Athletic Club. 4 yards. won the
flflh heat In 12h seconds. In the final heat
Cary could not get better than fourth. W. 8.
SH yards. won by 1S inches in l1ts
seconds. Swift second. basan third. A foot
parted first and second. with six Inches be-
tween second nnd third. Cary was only three
lnches behind tho third man.
A. b. George. Manhattan. scratch, and J. 8.
Roddy. six yards start. ran unplaced in the
hall. mile race to ]. W. howell. 10 yards. Time.
I minute sos seconds. George ran q flno race
for 300 yards.
Tho 22D-y yard race was won by Luther Cary
In 22n seconds He literally ran away from
his field: ID. Bassn second. foot In front Of
Mortimer Remington.