New-York tribune., 1901-05-19
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
LONDON.
THERE is NO SOCIAL SEASON. REcAU;SE
ROYALTY KEEPS ALoOF.
INTERNATIONAL DINNERS TO PROMOTE
BETTER FEELING TOWARD AMERICA
THE CONCERT SEASON DIsAP
PoINTMENT IN SHAMROCK II
TBY cARLE TO THE TR1BuSE.l


fBY cARLE THE TRIBrNF.l
Copyright: 1901: BY The New-York Tribune)
London, May 1S-The chief function of the
omniscient Jenkins. who writes the society COL
umn for the daily weekly press is that of
advertising fashionable restaurants There are
no court functions. no dances and no weddings
The London season. which during recent times
has been beginning earlier and ending later year
by year. can hardly be said to have started at
ali House agents complain that families which
have come up to London regularly year after
year have stayed away, and that there has
been utter collapse of the business of letting
furnished houses at special rates The London
families Of moderate means who ere in the habit
Of securing fashionable tenants at high prices
for four months have been deprived of this
source Of income: the demand for furnished
houses and fats has been light and the hotels
are not profting by the usual influx of wealth
and fashion. Jenkins is able identify a few
peeresses and smart women in the church pa
rade takes note of occasional hoy and girl
dance. and finds refuge after midnight in the
restaurants. where the boxholders at the opera
have supper and gossip He is constrained
admit that everybody is bored and that there
IS no social activity this The moral
drawn by the social chronicIers is that the mid
Ole class rich dependent upon the smart
sets for their limitations of fashionable life. and
that the smart sets cannot get without the
patronage and leadership of royalty. Since the
royal family is out Of everything this year there
is no season. Another year there will be
carnival Of wealth and fashion under royal
auspices.
The King instead of setting the style for
country house and week end parties. and in
creasing the attendance Of smart people at the
race courses, is now engrossed IN State affairs
the renovation OF palaces and the minor details
Of investiture and decorations. He will receive
Sir Alfred Milner at Marlborough House pre-
cisely as Queen Victoria welcomed Lord Rob
erts at Osborne. and will set the seal of royal
approval upon the public appreciation of the
High Commissioners services. This is a
proof OF the Kings desire follow his mothers
example; just as his decision that her birthday
shall be celebrated and not his own is fresh evil
dence OF his tact The Kings influence in pub
lie affairs is likely be more potent than hers
because he is a better neutral in politics. While
Lord Salisbury and Mr.. Chamberlain singled
out for the honor of escorting Sir Alfred Milner
TO Marlborough House. their relations with the
King are official and ilpersonsl. The King is
not likely 10 consider Lord Salisbury's wishes
when he persists In retiring from office and the
selection OF his successor is necessary. Nobody
knows whether Mr.. Chamberlain stands as we'll
with King Edward he did with Queen Vic
toria. The King is true non-partisan and
has favorites among statesmen and politi-
clans.
Public banQuets more conspicuous this
year than other seasons. In addition to the
usual dinners of city guilds, served with costly
plate and old wines. there is a new series of
metropolitan borough banquets like the Lam
beth feast tonight. Vestrydom having expand
ed since the borough elections into the full dig
nifty Of a congeries Of cities. with Mayors and
aldermen, the inaugural banquets follow one
another The Lord Chancellor presides tonight
at the Newspaper Fund dinner. and the East
Anglians are dining ar the Hotel Cecil. The
Stock Exchange celebrates the centenary Of it's
establishment in stone and lime by ordering a
holiday rather than arranging a dinner. The
London Chamber Of Commerce is gradually COM
pleting its programme of four days OF enter
tainment for the New-York Chamber of Com
merce. which will include three receptions. two
dinners and a luncheon. The hospitality offered
the Americans is timely, and will revive good
feeling. The action Of the Senate the canal
treaty excited little resentment in comparison
with the irritation caused by American indus
trial and commercial competition. American
enterprise in buying UP one English interest
after another is satirized in amusing doggerels.
The gambling mania among New-York and
Chicago spectators is condemned by the 1nan-
ciai journals a menace to European stability
and the gentle Spectator warns American
rnillionaires that instead of seeking luxury and
keeping quiet, like Lord Iveagh and other
.nnocuous princes of brewing banking, they
are becoming a great nuisance in the world,
and showing the foibles OF kings while
verting the field OF enterprise into capitalist
realms There countless exhibitions Of Eng
lish annoyance the magnitude OF the forces
of American capital and enterprise. The
change OF compliments and Jokes at these in
ternational receptions and dinners will have a
beneficial effect
The opera will be crowded tonight for the
best music OF the week. Tristan und Isolde"
Johan Rubelfk '-the young Bohemian Paganini."
IS drawing crowded houses at ST. James's Hall
This afternoon he VIII play a varied violin pro-
grarnrne and he Will be the chief attraction at
next weeks Philharmonic concert, when he will
play q chaconre from Bach and Paganinfs con-
certo in D. He has delighted music lovers by
the exquisite refinement OF his violin playing.
Ysaye also plays to-day at Queens Hail. and
sarasate VIII appear next week While there
have been few novelties on the programmes. the
concert season has been OF a high order and the
entertainments have received good patronage
There win be changes OF bill next week at the
Comedy and Royalty theatres. where MI FORBES
Robertson and Mrs. Campbell will each try
daring expertment-one with ''The sacrament
OF Judas" and the other with "Mariana'
Lady Curzon is again in London. as the guest
of Lady Miller after a holiday in the Riviera
Mr.. Henry White has returned TO the American
Embassy from visit Washington and OF
tawa Mr. Andrew Carnegie has retired tc his