Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28

hideous new house, and the palaces OF few
OF the maharajahs. There were three
hotels but one was quite empty and the
others not OVERLOOKING. for they asked such
enormous sums for board, $50 a day. which
did not include light, fire or much else, l
fear: and exorbitant prices for carriage
hire. A narrow-gauge line had been lalo
around and through the city, and for the
season ticket and be in special train.
Having a carriage Of our own we had not
thought fit to take the season ticket, but,
owing to the dreadfully blocked roads we
frequently made use of the ordinary trains
and paid our rupee to and from the polo
grounds or the durbar building. The great
place for meeting was the polo ground.
where one paid 10 rupees entrance fee for
the season and was presented with a little
silver monogram. D. D. p. c., on blue rib
Don There every one was to be round al
most every afternoon between and g.
There was covered stand with tea
room. and there were several open stands
and tea tents. Ladies' did not pay for their
tea, but the men were obliged to pay q
small sum, which. however. did not amount
to much. and for which tea, cake and few
sweets were to be had.
Best Of Polo Experts.
Polo was played on both sides of the
stands almost every day, by the best polo
and hockey could be seen not far of.
1900 musicians, played at the Polo grounds
and the camp world met en- masse for
the first time and the Delhi coronation
durbar began.
We drove out among hundreds Of car
riages and were greatly interested In the
names on the different camps.
The largest and most splendid of the
camps, which had a great arch for en-
trance and palace surrounded by tents,
and which was gayly decorated by flags or
pennons stuck into the ground every two
or three yards on lances, announced to the
passing world both in English and in Urdu
that 1t was the camp of His HighneSS the
Nizam Of Hyderabad," the greatest and
most powerful of the native princes. An
other signboard had the naming Of the H.
h MaharaJah of Travancore and others
H. H., the Rajah of Cochin, or H. H., the
Rajah of Pudukkotai Such delightful
names as these were, for instance, in the
Burma (native) camp: Hkun H. H, X. 8.
NJ Sawbwaof Mong Pawn. Could any
thing be nicer than that? except perhaps in
the Central India (native) camp, the Jagir-
dar of Alipura c. 8. l.. or Her Highness
the Begun OF Bhopal. In the Bengal ina
tive) camp after the Maharajah Of Cooch
Behar, who Is entirely too civilized to be
interesting, as he wears London clothes and
his handsome wife is arrayed in Partisan
costume, comes the Maharaj Kumar Sid
yong Tulku Of Sikkim, whose name quite
charmed our western eyes But we hear
III the distance the massed bands and soon
after we leave our carriage at the little
gate of the Polo grounds and spend two
hours strolling about, meeting many
friends and wishing that we had portable
camp chairs to carry about with us. A
huge open place 1t Is, and not very dusty,
considering all things, but that Is because
coolies innumerable with great skins full
of water spend hours in splashing the
grounds. taking the place Of a watering
cart which would do it in twenty minutes,
but the people Of India must live.
MARGARET STERLING,