Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-24
AFFORD % yIsIt tnc south IN exalted

afford to visit the south In exalted
company.
judging from the arlstocratio and
cOroneted invitation circular that was
sent out nobody would have supposed
that anyone outside the pccroge was
identified with the management of ms
sumptuouR tour
The committee included the noble
lords mentioned above and the Lord
Braye H. Vernon llarcourt NJ Po ana
Capt. W W. Chichester And apple
cants were requested TO "R. $, v, T.. to
the Lord Muskcrry,'
Really, Il sounded Ike the best
chance TO hob-nob with the aristoCracy
at comparatively trining expense "eyer
offered TO tho public For although
Lord rankcryille's invitation started
with q bt of blu0 the concluding
phrases made 10 plain that pretty nearly
any one With 'thc price could get In
on the trip "The above committee
said the circular "has been formed
to invite ladies and gentlemen of rec-
ognized social standing who are likely
TO form q congenia company for a
pleasure cruise 90 visit the Meditorran-
can during tho coming winter I'm the
parliamentary recess As this invita-
ton Is personal the honorary secretary
VIII be obliged by receiving The names
OF our guests who intend to accompany
those invited. II is scarcely necessary
To say that ladies win join the cruise,
Evidently quite o rush was anticl-
patcd, for mo- smaller craft than one of
the tWin-scrow Dominion liners the
Canada In fact had been chartered
for the accommodation OF the "con-
genial company" The tour arranged
by the noble lords embraced MarseI-
les, Naples Capri Palermo. pireus,
tfor Athensl, Constantuople. AlcXan-
dria Jana, Tunis and Algeria. It was
10 cost the noblemen's guests $50 "a
week for the month on two that the
cruise was to last Some one has fg-
ured that that works out at about %
cents an hour which is little enough
TO pay for travelling With peers Of the
realm.
As VIII be- seen, there was absolutely
nothing 10 show that the noble lords
hadn't started In active rivalry To the
famous Arm Of cook. and that some
day the phrase might not run Follow
the man from Tankerville's." Il was
through Lord Muskerry, the honorary
secretary that the cat was released
from The bag. lie Is an Irish baron.
third Of the title, and the owner Of
Springfield castle, County Limerick.
and 1890 acres. Lord Tankervilles
circular advised applicants 10 address
Lord Muskerry at "a certain apartment
house In London. but inquiry there re-
vealed the fact that Il was only an "ad-
dress at which the nobleman's secre-
tary called TO get his mail Who was
his lordship's secretary? MIR. Edward
Lunn' Suggestive name on this side
OF the water almost as famous as
Cook. And sure enough. when Mr. I'd
ward Lunn's address was gained IL
proved to be the renowned DR.. Lunn's
head Office for cheap trips to SWltzer-
land and other foreign parts!
Since this discovery was made. Lord
TankerNille has been busy dlsclaiming
all connection with the cruise though
not IN an especially convincing fnsb.
ion, while Lord Muskerry explains that
the tour was to be largely educational
In It's nature-object being TO rive 81.
clety, as II were an insight into The
STATE OF the British mercantile marine
IN the Mediterranean. But Il IL the
opinion here that the several peers
were not nverse to turning an honest
penny by "iigure-headlng" for Or
Lunn and that the only uufortunotc
part OF the business from their stand
pQlnl was that the well-known tourist
agents connection with the mobile
cruise became public property