The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-08
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OF Life i'm London.
Miss Kaiser Concludes an Interesting Series
OF Letters from the Great Metropolis.

Velope for me, from the agent VINO
manages these concerts, and in It were
two of the fifteen-shilling tickets
for each one Of the four Richter affairs.
Think of 1t! How rich / felt, and how
did proceed to rejoice So now we in
dulge In the Richters, and take one of
the ladies and we go in state and at
tend the Richter concerts. How grand
we feel Last Monday was the first,
and we went and enjoyed both the con-
cert and the audience immensely. There
Is no finer audience, from both mus
ical and social point Of view. than
what one finds at q Richter, and we
saw simply dozens OF celebrities all
over the house. Singers, .violinists,
pianist conductors, composers, all sorts
| OF people in the musical world, can be
seen here in a bunch, while the royal
| family Is sure to be represented, along
| with the highest church dignitaries in
the United Kingdom. There is really
no other place where so much of the
| very best in all the branches of art can
| be seen TO such an advantage as at a
| first night Richter, and we saw 1t all.
| The duke and duchess Of Edinburgh
sat very near us, to their intense salts
| faction, no doubt. and several other
grandees whom did not know, how
| ever, were in our neighborhood.
Picture of Richter.
But to proceed to Richter. What q
| reception this grand, old German did
get! They simply overwhelmed him,
! and / do not blame them now, for
have seen him conduct. He is a large,
| fine looking old man, with a kind
fatherly face, and a patriarchal beard,
and is the most beloved and adored OF
all the German conductors. His or
chestra simply worship him, and so dc
some who are not Of his orchestra
You like him Immediately. He IS
accepted at sight, at least he was by
me, and ] am Richter-mad, too. He
| conducts with no mannerisms at all
with a grand. large sweep Of arm and
| with kindness of eye on his perform
er0 that makes them response to the
very expression of his face. Once in q
while when something has been partic-
ularly well done, you can see him say
| ing an approving word to his men and
smiling at them. He impressed me
clever, but not at all so lovely and
fatherly as this grand, old man was.
| happen to know his principal bass play
er, of whom he is great friend, and
who says that after the concerts are
over, they so out and lunch together
and II you would like to know what
Richter has, it is just a pipe, pint
of lager and German sausages.
| A Glimpse at Parliament.
On Monday Miss Radical and I did
the houses of parliament, taking for IL
| a whole afternoon. 1t was something
of a task, and very firing, indeed, al
| least to me. We had an invitation
| from a government member, whom we
know, and, starting at 2 we reached
there at 8. and walked through the
| long, dim corridors to the outer lobby
where we We're to wait for our friend
| the member of parliament, to meet US
| Policemen abound here, and stand a,
every door and turning to offer you
help or hindrance, according to which
they think you most need. Packages
and parcels cannot be introduced here
since the explosion of 1885, for fear they
| contain some hidden internal machine
which might blow up the place, and
you must leave them behind you. We
had some chocolates with US, with
| which to stave off the pangs of hunger
| later in the session, and we smuggled
! them in under our arms and in our
pockets. 1t Is a most stately and
beautiful old pile, occupying over eight
acres of ground, having four principal
frontages and containing many queer
open triangular and quadrangular
courts, besides numbers of royal state
apartments, eighteen official residences
anu 500 other apartments The clock
tower with the great bell In it called
Big Ben of Westminster, is very high.
$50 feet, / think, and the hands of II
are IA and II feet long, while the little
minute ticks or spaces are large
enough for a man to stand within
them. We did not remain long outside,
but went. as / said, into the outer lobby
or Octagon hall, where we met our
member at 3. He then conducted us
over the place and showed us all of 1t.
We saw the lords committee room. the
lords robing room, and the lords di-
| X
counted when there is division. All
of these places are very handsome
chambers, indeed. being done in dark
red carpet and leather, and ornamented
with most beautiful and costly old
carvings, pictures and dark, dim
stained glass windows let In the walls
way up high. The frescoes in these
| halls, also, must not be forgotten, as
they We're most beautiful, and our
friend told us almost priceless. From
the division lobby we passed into the
| house of lords, which was not sitting
| then, and so we passed about seeing it
all.
AT Nictoria's Throne.
The throne Of Queen Victoria Is at the
head of this room, and on each side of
1t smaller and lower throne chair
| for the Prince and Princess of Wales.
In front of this throne is the famous
wool-sack, red cushion, on which the
lord chancellor sits. asked our MEM
ber If might touch 1t, and did, with his
permission, but 1 did not sit in II.
Having sat in the chair of the duchess
OF Albany 1 was quite content, in the
line of chairs, at any rate. The lords
sit on benches which run down the
sides of the room, while the peeresses,
when they wish to be present, sit in
galleries at the side, parallel with the
lords benches. There are not so
many lords as there are members of
the house of commons, and the small
number of four are quorum to trans
act business, while in the house of
commons forty members are necessary
for the purpose
We passed from the lords chamber
into the queens robing room, where
her majesty comes when she assumes
robes of state for the purpose OF open