The Indianapolis journal., 1895-09-29
HOT WEEK IN LONDON
TEMPERATURE WAS 20 DEGREES
ABOVE SEPTEMBER AVERAGE.
Mrs. Langtry and Sir Robert Peel to
NOblemen and American Girls.

England tnlS week. On TUESDAY the lneT-
mometer indicated eighty-six degrees in the
shade of London and 1S5 in the sun. The
record is twenty degrees above the Sep
tember average and four degrees higher
than on any previous day of this summer.
The weather since Tuesday has shown lit
tie improvement, the mercury on each day
rising to eighty-four degrees or higher.
There have been numerous cases of sun
stroke during the week and several fatali-
ties have resulted in various parts of the
country. AT Newmarket. where the first
October race meeting opened on Tuesday.
the heat was terrible, ninety degrees in
the shade having been recorded. This has
had a disastrous effect the horses and
has greatly affected the attendance at the
races. Only a handful of people witnessed
the big race of the meeting on Thursday.
the Jockey Club stakes. in which last years
and this years Derby winners ran. The
majority of men on the grounds followed
the example which was set by Lord Rose
berry and wore white flannel suits and car
ried green umbrellas. Throughout the coun-
try the suffering from heat has been ex-
treme. In many large factories 1t was
found necessary to suspend work. In Lon
don there has been a general abandonment
of frock coats and tall hats and straw
hats and suits of the thinest material have
been adopted in their stead
The great rush homeward of tourists from
the United States seems TO be over. None
of the steamers which sailed this week was
quite full The Lain took Mrs. William
walter Phelps, of New Jersey; Mrs. Brand
er Matthews. of New York; Mr.. Norman
Williams and family, of Chicago. and Mr..
IL >tA,~ rfa<aI q av~ fr
returning % after an absence Of eighteen
months, which he has spent In making q
tour around the world. Mr. M; n. De
Chronicle, and Mrs. De. Young and Pr.
Trmeworthy. of Los Angeles, sailed by the
Aurania Mr.. De Young has secured many
n mmsenm. among them being the throne
chair Of Napoleon the Great
The Daily Telegraph has been inter-
viewing shopkeepers regarding the amount
Of money that American tourists have spent
in England this summer. The mercnants
saw that while the number Of people COM
ING to London from the United States is
increasing yearly, the visitors are largeiy
composed of 'trippers' who do europe on
$3.50. 1t is admitted, however, that hundreas
of wealthy Americans spend thousands OF
pounds in a single shop. One OF this Grass
spent $1,000 in a jewelers. store ana he-
gent-street tailor sold f2,OO0 worth 10 one
Jewelry seems to be the chief article pur,
chased Shopkeepers say that the royal
arms exhibited over a shop door is worth a
from the United States. One big firm of
hatters in Oxford street says hats labeled
ssThe same as the Prince OF Wales wears
sell rapidly during the American season.
IT is rumored that Mrs. Langtry contem-
plates marriage with Sir Robert Peel in
the event of her securing a divorce in the
courts of California. 1t is openly limited
in the society papers that Sir Robert whose
sion of a great deal of gossip on both sides
of the water has little beyond his title, but
Mrs. Langtry is still rich. Sir Robert is
twenty-eight years of age, while Mrs. Lang
try is in her forty-fourth year.
MANY protests, more or less serious, are
appearing in the newspapers of London on
the depletion of the ranks of eligible no
blemen by marriage with American women.
In connection with the Marlborough Van
ing letter signed 'Dowager Duchess" in
which the writer says that she has con-
verted her home into judicious combina-
tion music hall, burlesque stage gambling
rooms and club, and has had her daughters
Instructed in the most seductive steps and
highest kick. They have been, she says,
encouraged to sing the broadest songs, and
no restraint whatever has been attempted
on their conversation. They have dined at
all the fashionable restaurants, and sat al
most beside the most notorious women Of
rying either actresses or Americans Truth
says that men like good women. and they
like combination of the two characters;
besides, with the pace set here for wealth
above every other consideration. there is
no wonder that the men Of to-day have no
greater ambition than to attain it. The
Daily News says that the engagement of
the Duke of Marlborough and the million-
1~-k~ ~~sx~
port to the theory that the principle of
equality is doomed In America.
Reform OF the House of Lords has in the
last two days become topic of principal
discussion. While nothing may come OF it
Immediately or in the near future. the vgor
with which the subject is being handled
in the press and in public addresses indi-
Gates that the leaven is working which will
ultimately give the House of Lords at least
some semblance Of representative char
acter. The speech of the Marquis of Lon
donderry at banquet in Ripon last night,
In which he admitted the House of Lords is
the hope that the Unionists would grapple
with the question, is heartily welcomed by
the Cnionist press and appears to confirm
the statement published in the Daily
Chronicle yesterday morning that the Con-
servatfve leaders mediate introducing a
measure for the reform Of the House of
Lords. 1t is suggested. however that there
is a possibility that this is another scheme
emanating from the circles dominated by
the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain with.
view to further 'dishing' the Radicals.
The latter, however. would consent to no
reform. which would leave the House of
Lords in existence, with the power of re-
jecting or modifying bills adopted by the
House of Commons. 1t is thought possible.
however, that the Radicals might be in
duced to accept as an alternative OF aboh-
ton some reform measure which would
Ieave the Lords the mere power Of refer.
epdum to the people regarding any bill
which they might decline to accept
There is trouble in the Jewish colony
over Lord Rothschild's scheme to build a
colossal synagogue. clergy house and Jew
ish settlement in Whitechapel at the cost
of s2O0.000 Sir Manuel Montague declares
that he will fight the scheme 20 the utmost
Whitechapel Is already congested with
Jews and rents there are as high as in
Mayfair. 1t would be madness. says Sir
Samuel, while the government is meditating
anti-alien legislation, to attract still more
Jews to London. 1t would be far better,
he thinks to try to induce Jews to leave
England for homes in colonies beyond the
ocean.
According to the Pelican. upper Bo-
hemia's latest craze is a gorgeous opium
den near Park Lane. which is also the
paper says, attracting many of the highest
society people, including two young ma
irons whose names are household words.
The Rt. Hon. A j. Baffour's golf play
ing has greatly deteriorated this season.
and he has lost in all the friendly matches
that he has played in Scotland. This week
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