Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-23
TO REvAMP OLD PAPER
Reorgan cation Of London
Standard Excites Interest.
LORD MAYORS SHOW
SITE CHOSEN FOR LoNG-PRoJEcr-
ED GLADSTONE MEMORIAL.
Stock Exchange to Exercise Greater
Vigilance Over Prospective Mem
bers-Harcourt's Will.
LORD MAYORS SHOW
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

chase or the Standard by Mr.. Arthur Pear
son. In an interview the new proprietor
states that he is to conduct the paper on
the old lines. but on up-to-date methods.
He is going to keep 1t as a penny morning
paper. and there is no doubt whatever that.
though In general politics 1t may remain
conservative. it will support the fiscal pol
icy of Mr.. Chamberlain. The paper. says
Mr.. Pearson. is to combine the brightness
of the halfpenny with the observation-disclosures
of the penny paper Whether the old read
ers of the Standard will appreciate jour-
nal conducted on the lines of the halfpenny
sensational papers is at least doubtful The
transfer of the paper has been followed
by several changes in the staff. The pres
ent editor. Mr.. Byron Curtis will not be
responsible for paper which is going to
revert to protection, and the principal leader
writer now on the staff, Mr.. Sidney Low,
is a firm free trader. Free trade upioniSts
are profoundly irritated at the capture of
the paper by the protectionists. This leaves
them without organ or mouthpiece in the
London press Some of the unionist free
traders are talking of starting a new morn
ing paper. This would be matter of
great difficulty and would require large
capital, and doubt whether such scheme
could be carried out with success.
The one sentiment expressed about the
sale is summed up in two words-''deep re-
greet" The traditions of the Standard
were The highest of any paper in the me-
tropolis, while, of course, it is the essence
of the success of the new controller of the
paper that he knew not traditions The
question that is being asked is. VIII there
be any room in journalism for the Standard
IL 1t changes its traditions? But though
the Standard is looked upon as being the
most staid of all the old ia shoned papers
l remember that 1t did one thing in it's time
which not even the most perky of the
halfpenny papers has excelled. 1t was the
Standard-the story is quite authentic 1 am
told-which sent it's descriptive reporter to
describe the lord mayors show from his
howdah on the back of elephant which
took part in the procession. 1t was Mr.
John Augustus O'Shea, 1.-THE Irish Boz
hemian" and war correspondent, who per-
formed this remarkable journalistic feat.
The Evening Standard also during the siege
of Paris billed London with the news
that the same Mr.. O'Shea. its special corre-
spondent in the beleaguered city, had met
his death while striving to leave the place
In balloon, but Mr.. O'Shea has sur
vived his obituary notice to this day and
now lives In London, though not in good
health.
Very little interest was being taken in
the lord mayors show today. AS a pro-
cesSion, more or less meretricous, but not
particularly striking, 1t Is about played
out" The only excuse there can be for its
continued observance is that the city IS
extremely tenacious of old customs, and
likes to remind US of ancestors. The
banquet is, of course, time-honored GUS
tom. Turtle and the loving cup will never
be abandoned while the way to an English
mans heart is through his stomach. 1 have
always been struck with the gorgeous dis
play of plate at these feasts-a display
probably only excelled when the marvel
Gus gold service Is used at Windsor Castle
on important state occasions 1t is always
being added to, for 1t is the habit of every
lord mayor to leave something in silver as
souvenir These presents range from
cups to tankards. tureens. ewers coffee
pots, rosewater dishes and cigar boxes. l
have had the pleasure of seeing them all
at close quarters. Many of them are ex-
tremely beautiful. The contents of the
loving cup have many times tasted The
mixture is both nice and seductive. or
course. you only take a mere sip. If you
treated 1t as an ordinary exhilarator the
result would probably be undignified and
exasperating. H.'E
don't wonder at the lord mayor being
the most miserable man in London on the
9th-he has to eat meals enough to upset
the stomach of an ostrich. / am told that
1.JO0 meals at least will have to be pro-
vided on this eventful day. The mansion
house on the 9th always resembles a COR
geous restaurant. Itbegins with breakfast,
and gets down slowly to the great dinner
and the speeches and the black coffee 1t
Is only at this high pressure for this par
tfcular day, yet all through the mayorafty
the mansion house is the home of feast
ing. Its stately saloon. its great Egyptian
hall and its splendidly decorated rooms
witness the coming and going of the great
and distinguished and after it all the out
gone lord mayor is no more thought of than
IL he were a logarithm.
Absurdity Of Long Names.
The absurdity of giving children an
abundance of Christian names was Illus
trated in the London divorce court today.
when the Marquisa Blanche Mastelloni was
granted judicial separation. Her hus-
bands name was given as francesca Di
Sala NJ It acta
give her husbands name the lady replied
Francesca adding that she did not know
them all. The rest would follow by freight
perhaps, as Mr.. Dooley makes the car saw
when wiring to Kuropatkin that the first
name of the infant czarewitch was Alexis
But even the czarewitch would have to
play second fiddle to some of the children
Of the late Rev. Ralph William Lionel Toll
lemache, an English parson, the son of Mr.
Hugh Francis Tollemache. The Rev Ralph
Tollemache married twice and the names
given to the issue of his second marriage
are curiosities in nomenclature. The first
son by the second marriage bore thu names
of Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert
Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon
Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Rysart Plantag-
enet Born in 1876, he is still living His
brothers and sisters have almost equally
long names, one of the sisters bearing the
following Christian designations: Mabel
Helmingham Ethel Huntingtower Beatrice
Blazonberrie Eyangeline Wise De Low De
Orellana Plantagenet Toedmag Saxon The
ten children by the second marriage of the
Rev. Ralph Tollemache have between them
101 Christian names, one of the daughters
having to support no fewer than seventeen
A lad of twelve has eleven.
The fixing of the site for the long project
ed Gladstone memorial appears very suit
able one, for the recent widening of the
Strand to the westward of st. Clement
Danes Church-forming part as 1t does of
the county councils great Holborn to
Strand improvement-will afford conspic-
uous position for such statue 1t had been
proposed, indeed. at one time that the
whole of the new crescent. which takes its
spring from the point where presumably
the statue will now be erected should DE
named 'Gladstone-Creseent.'' but the sug-
gestion eventually gave way to the style
of "Aldwych," now given to It, As afford
ing the most striking garb associated with
Mr.. Gladstone, the deceased statesman will
be represented In the statue, which Mr.
Hamo Thornycroft will execute, in the
robes Of chancellor of the exchequer-the
Office upon which perhaps he left his indeli-
Bile impression.
Stock Exchange Membership.
The committee Of the stock exchange in
tends to make renewed efforts to prevent
other than substantial men from entering
its dingy portals. Henceforth IL any young
gentleman anxious to become millionaire
in q week or fortnight wishes to become
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