Evening star., 1903-07-13
ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY
President Loubet's Visit Ex-
pected to Aid It.
ROSEBERY IN FAVOR
PROPOSAL FOR COLLEGE OF AP-
Piled SCIENCE.
Something Greatly Needed in London
to Meet German Competition
Foreign News and Gossip.


| Special correspondence 0t Inc Evening star
LONDON. July l. 1903.
Friends of the movement in favor OF
permanent treaty of arbitration between
| England and France are hoping much for
| the visit of President Loubet to London
| There has been undOubted change in the
attitude of the two peoples toward one an
other since King Edwards stay in Paris
and all accounts show that the French are
| most favorabiy impressed by the arrange
ments that are being made in London to
the honor to the head of the French re-
| public. There is good reason to believe that
| President Loubet regards with complete
| personal sympathy the movement with
| which so large and influential a section of
| the house of commons has identified itself.
and it is probable he may take some public
| note of the developments now In progress.
| But whether he does so or not, 1t is con-
fidently believed that one result of the
| friendly greeting accorded to him in the
! English capital will be to draw public at
| tentiOn on both sides of the channel to the
| Cancellation movement.
For College Of Applied Science.
The proposal which Lord Rosebery has
embodied in a letter to the chairman of the
county council is a scheme at once Of
great significance and great utility. Lon
| uCH mas fOlS Decn III neeu OF Il OittSe Cl
| Applied Science on the model of the insti-
| tuition of the character at Charlotten5urg,
| but the idea first took definite form after
the address which MIR. Haldane. NJ. p. de-
| liVered on the subject about eighteen months
! ago. The scheme which Lord Roscbery
| explains in his letter is very largely the
work of Sir T.. Mowatt, Mr. Haldane and
Mr.. Sidney Webb. The site for the college
will be given by the commiSs onerS for the
national exhibition of 1851. This is in
| In twill, Of n.A ont
| toward the scheme and its value is placed
at t201.0tn. About $3.50 900 will be required
! to equip the institution. and of this sum
| Mr.. WcTnher of Wernher. Belt q Co. has
! already promised f10D.aD.. and may. if
| necessary, give another t1o"0er. Sir
| Ernest Cassel is also to be large con-
| tribut0r, and Lord Rosebery and his col
| leagues were practically assured that the
necessary sum would be forthcoming before
they communicated with the chairman of
| the county council.
The next steps rest with the London
| county council. Lord Rosebery and his
| friends to supply them with a com
pletely equipped college of applied science,
! but they Will have to be responsible for its
! annual maintenance This will cost about
| f2D.OrD, hut there can be no doubt what the
| answer OF the council will be In few
weeks they will be the sole educa tional au
| thority for London and they will readily
| undertake to maintain and administer the
great Institution with which they have to
| be provided. The sum and substance of the
matter is that in year or two London will
possess one of the best colleges of applied
| science in the world.
Germany Ahead in Practical Education
| Germany has confessedly outstrrped
| England in technical education. The great
| college of applied science at Charlotten-
| burg. near the University of Berlin. was
erected at cost of more than half mill
lion. and is maintained by an outlay Of
t55.0OO a year 1t sends out annually 200
Young men, perfectly equipped in various
! branches of practical science. chemical
| technology electrical engineering. ship
| building, etc, and it may be safely affirm
ed that a good proportion of them find their
! way over here. and take the place English
men might take.
The good fairy who presided at Lord
| Rosebery's birth lowered him with one
very valuable gift, the faculty Of timeli-
ness. Whatever he does says has the
merit of Ginning in with the striking hour.
Sometimes. it is true. this marvellous ia
Clity or luck, of OpportuniSin makes his
political speeches sound like a Greek chor
us underlining the morality and meaning of
some particular act in the political drama,
but when all allowances are made for its
drawbacks its picturesque advantages still
remain. And Lord Rosebery's ''Charlotten-
burg letter. though it only deals with a
specific educational object. yet has d high
political value.
For a decade past Englishmen have been
| lS,
herself a formidable industrial competitor,
not because of her protective tariffs. but
because of her protecting system of cduca-
| ton. And just at the moment when this
| German competition is being used to riiaFe
an excuse for an electoral batue cry of
| retaliation" Lord Rosebery comeG rlietly
on the scene as the sponsor Of a vast phil
anthropic scheme which whilst containing
| no political reference whatever. at on ra
turns mems minds into the channel of
timely political thought.
Favorite London Resort
One of the favorite resorts of sweltering
| I4ondoners during the last few days has
been the Embankment Gardens, where
| every night band provided by that much
| abused body, the London county council,
| plays a delightful selection of music by
| Wagner, Strauss, Sullivan and even more
popular and less classical composers. Chairs
| near the bandstand at a halfpenny each,
and programs at the same modest price
| have been in great demand by a crowd OF
| orderly lovers of music who after the days
| work seek the gardens and read their pa
| pers, smoke their pipes. and sip their glass
| mug Of lager. lemon squash, coffee, to
| the sounds of music.
| The open air tables of the London county
! councils automatic buffet have been so
we'll patronized that last night the supply
| of ices and cooling drinks gave out long
| before the demand was satisfied. With the
| nghtS or the Savoy HCtel and the Cecil
| flashing out. the river cleaning cool and
| gray, and light breeze rustling the trees,
| the scene was more like one in Paris Ber-
| lin or Vienna. than In drearily conserva-
| tive old London. Among the well-to do
middle class living In the neighDorhood OF
| the embankment it is becoming quite the
| fashion to take their after-dnner coffee
| and cigarettes outside the automatic buffet.
1t is to be hoped that the county council
| Will be encouraged by the success of this
continental innovation to provide other op-
pOrtuGities for the workers CT London en-
| joytng the cool summer nights. 1t is hardly
! necessary to add that the behavior of those
| who attend these al fresco concerts shows
| an entire perception of the fact that deco
rum and British dullness need not go to-
| gether. Perhaps as nation the English are
| gaining In ght-heartedness and losing some
of their insular prejudices. London certainly
| Is getting sufficiently accimatized to cafe
| concerts to make them one Of the most
| pleasant features Of it's summer life II
| only the chance were more literally given
| No Peerages for Commoners.
| 1t Is well known that several of the SUD-
porters of the government are disappointed
| that no peerages have come to members
| of fho Of