Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-27
ROYALTY PAYS.
Operatic Stars Receive Large
 Sums for Performing
IN LONDON DRAWING ROOMS.

But Their Harvest is Over and Aristo-
 cracy Are Closing Their Town Man.
 sions-Lady Cooks and Lady Scul-
 Hopes That God Will Grant a Cure
 for Cancer.
 London, July 27.-Never before have musicians and operatic stars received such very large sums for performing in private houses in London as they have this season. Kubelik, the youths ful yiolinist is easily the lion of the lot. He never played at private concert for less than 120 guineas and generally got POO, and there was scarce ly an evening that he was not found at the house of some millionaire. One well known woman gave kubellk party each week and, not satisfied with paying the maximum sum for his ser- vices presented the virtuoso with a Stradiyarius worth 1,500.
 Mime Melba's London agent asserts that she has received 800 guineas twice for appearing at private parties, or about 125 guineaS per song. Paderew- ski got 1000 guineas for two perform ances in houses on Carlton House ter race. In many cases these large sums are paid by Americans.
 An agent who generally supplies these luxuries to London's millionaires said, in the course of an interview, that only few years ago all the leading ar-
  ty for what one now demands. Per formers he added, receive far more for this class of entertainment, which is organized mostly by Nouyeaux rich- es, who want to do everything on a scale beyond the means of all except the very richest, than they get for pubs lie appearances"
 This harvest from the foibles of tb<f rich is practically over now, howey t. The town mansions are closing and ehe aristocracy are departing for <sood- wood, Cowes, house parties, Scotland and the cures at AiX. the Wagner fes- tival at Bayreuth and other continental resorts
 The difficulty of securing domestic servants has long been the bane ot household life in England; this condi- tion is responsible for creating q de- mand for lady servants. This phase of affairs has now reached climax and the Morning Post this week printed the l following advertisement: .Wanted: A lady to groom and take l care of q small poIy and to assist in | the house work of a small house in the country. The cook is a lady and no | servants are kept. Only gentleWomen need write.''
 Lady cooks and lady scullery maids are now quite common and apparently l lady grooIhs and lady coachmen arc likely to become equally so. A remarkable record has recently | been brought to light concerning the | distances at which the firing of heavy | guns can be heard. These discoveries have an important bearing upon rain making experiments and throw side lights upon the Sampson -Schley contro- | Versy. An expert named c. Davison made elaborate preparations to take 1 observations of fleet firing when the l late Queen Victoria's body was taken from CoWes to Portsmouth. The re- | suit Of these observations established | the fact that the reports of heavy guns | were clearly audible at the extraordi- nary distance of fourteen miles in- land, while at a distance of eighty-fou l miles the reports were so loud that la- I borerS in the fields put down their l spades to listen and at sixty-one miles | from the guns windows were shaken and other symptoms of concussion | shown. These statements bear upon l the Sampson-Schley controversy in SO l much as Admiral Schley'S statement. | made May g, 1898, concerning the | hearing of guns forty miles away which he believed was the Spanish fleet, was received by many persons I with considerable incredulity God grant that before long you nav | be able to find a cure for cancer or I check its course.'' This sentence in King Edwards address to the delegates l to the British congress on tuberculosis has been subject of much private | comment and has given vitality to the l gossip of some months ago that the I king was affected with cancer of the throat, for which, however, there Is no sort of foundation
 In this sentence King Edward doubtless referred to the sufferings of his sister, Empress Freedrick of Ger@ many, who is daily reported to be in a more painful condition, and whom l King Edward will shortly visit. The American delegates to the Brit4 ish congress on tuberculosis which ter- minated July 26, are now leaving Lon- don. They express themselves as great ly satisfied with the result of the
 weeks work. pr s. A. Knopf of New York said to q representative of the Associated Press:
 ssThiS congress- has hppn rniurp i'm
 regard to attendance as well as to Dr
 Robert Roch's sensational announces
 ment, which coming from the discovers
 CT of the tuberculosis germ, necessarily
 attracts worldwide attention. Person-
 ally, we feel we must suspend judg-
 ment for the time being, but we urge
 the continuance of al present precau-
 tions until the matter has. been fully
 solyed''