Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-11
Official Suggestion From King
Edward Impossible.
INFLUENCE OF KAISER
GUESSES HAZARDED ON COST OF
WAR TO RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
King and Queens Visit to Ireland
Opening of Academy OF Drama
tic Art-Notes.

lpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.
LONDON. April u. 1901.
From several continental centers To-Day
comes comments the prooaplhty vi
otherwise of European Intervention III 'ie
far east Rumors have been current more
than once since the struggle assumed an
active shape of an Anglo-trench proJect
of mediation. 1t has been renewed iateiS
only to meet with an ofhcial dehiai III
Paris More general is the report tha'
King Edward has offered his good OFFICES
to the czar. This. | know, is rejected in
Washington as absolutely impropapie' II
is pointed out that King Edward in pri-
vate correspondence with the car may
very well have expressed his readiness to
do all that he could to bring about a set
tler1ent. but that is very different from
an official suggestion of mediation. A Rus
san paper declares that Russia does not
vlnt any intervention. She has never
pronted by any aid, though she mas oItei
give 1t to others.
Many guesses are being hazarded as to
the cost of the war to Russia and Japan.
A continental contemporary has been at
great pains to investigate the subject nav
ing amassed immense amount OF mater
ial of one kind another from all aVaH-
able sources. 1t has come to the conclusion
that in the case of Russia, the expense
for the first six months of the campaign
will amount to a little over luJlOoo,VoV
francs, or rather more than S2D,ooo,ooo anu
In the case of Japan to rather over $lfo
100000 The computation assumes that
there will be in the field 4OO,OOO Russian
troops and $50. 900 Japanese. or the fore
going expenditure. 7O6,OOO,OO francs is as
signed to the Russian army, and 2liooo,UV
francs to that of Japan, the naval expendl-
ture being estimated at respectively 391.-
100000 francs and 422OOO,OO0 francs. In
these estimates everything appears to have
been allowed for down to the minutest de-
tail. including the cost of the ambuiances
and the depreciation of war vessels.
English Sovereigns in Ireland.
Just after 1 o'clock on Monday King Ed
ward and his consort departed In state for
their second tour in Ireland. In the cir
cumstances pageantry was not to be elimi-
mated from the program. In an ordinary
way their majesties come and go without
pomp or parade, sometimes a single mount
ed policeman is their only guard, sometimes
even this unpretentious precaution Is dis
persed with. But on this occasion the
household troops were out in waving plume
and sparkling cuirass, royal coachmen and
fOotmen were ablaze with scarlet livery,
royal landaus were drawn by teams of
housekeeping horses, and there were crowds
out In the busy, sunlit streets to cheer the
king and queen as they passed in all their
regal splendor, and more crowds at Euston
station to give them greeting as the brave
procession dashed into the station yard.
This intrusion Of gay color and chivalric
pride into the thronged and work-a-day
thoroughfares Of the capital was gladly
welcomed. Even the weather Joined in the
high conspiracy. It was charming day
a good omen for the visit to the Emerald
Isle.
A train consisted of brake van in front,
two large family carriages, two saloons.
dining car, the queens saloon, the kings
saloon, a second brake van, q saloon for
the chief officers Of the railway and the
directors saloon. The train measured $50
feet In length-6ne Of the longest ever used
in this country for royal travelers-and Its
total weight was $40 tons. The private
saloons Of the king and queen form separate
compartments The kings smoking room Is
paneled In mahogany, with inlays Of rose
wood and satinwood.
When the king and queen fulfill their in
tention Of visiting the Duke Of Devonshire
at Lismore Castle during their stay In Ire
land, they will have an opportunity of In
tpecting, among other treasures the ancient
sword end mace Of the City of Youghal,
which. having been pawned by the corpora
ton, were bought out by one of the dukes
ancestors There IL also the crozier Of DR..
Macgilugan. who was bishop Of Lismore
200 or 500 years ago.
It was built into the wall of Lismore Cas-
tie for protection during the rough times
following the Norman invasion, and after
ward discovered there with the Book Of
Lismore' 1t is settled that the king and
queen 8 re to pay visit to the Windsor of
Ireland" as Kilkenny Castle, the seat of
the Marquis of Ormonde, is called from Its
imposing bulk, Its ancient history and its
elevated site, 100 feet high. The Marquis of
Ormonde is hereditary chief butler of Ire
land, an office which has been held by the
head of the family for 200 years, and which
gave them the surname of Butler.
Among other treasures the Windsor of
Ireland is noted for Its tapestry. the great
er part OF which is the product of industries
"a &c az hy. hn otx-tI -, Il % ~.
monde and his Countess Margaret. Though
BOO or 400 years ole, this precious tapestry is
H. good preservation.
Art Notes.
The vanishing days for members were
held last week at the Royal Academy. Yes
teIday the outsiders had their innings. 1t
Us sacred function to which none but
those who have pictures hung can enter,
bu. an artist friend who has given me
some previous remarkable information
about Burlington House has given me
some notes of his experience. you take
your ticket said he, Ito a uniformed sal
aired official at little desk, who scruti-
nizes you narrowly, and IL you have the
requisite flush OF honest pride at being
hung he llows you to sign your name in
the book and on ticket which permits
you to be present at the leading conversa-
xicEe, and to visit the exhibition at any
lawful time.
The Academy, he continued, retains
your autograph in it's book until you be-
come famous. and then sells it. These sales
there can be little doubt bring in a hand
some sum every year. You go upstairs
and enter the roomT, where you will find
crowds of people saying loudly to each
other, Just look where they have hung
my picture The proper answer is Ter
Tible, but II is an awkward size. you know.
out of the 1890 people present perhaps
twenty working at their canvases,
usually heightening their color TO hold its
own against loud neighbor. You want
10 know about the merits of the show this
year? Well. to begin with, my picture is
called How peaceful is the evening hour
IL Is hung in the corner place of honor in
the sky line in room CXl. On the left a
village spire is seen against the golden
No. I'm sorry. didn't notice the others"
The 1905 obtained at Sotheby's yesterday
for the warrant under which John Bum
yam was incarcerated in Bedford JAIL
much TO the worlds advantage, illustrates
the recent varying value of literary relics
Sir Walter Scott's pen was sold three or
four years ago for S1z guineas, but the
walking stick OF the Wizard OF the
North recently fetched something under
1--WE times the price OF his pen. The stick
was an ashplant pulled from the woods of
Abbotsford.
The silver taper stand which Sir Walter
bought with his first fee of five guineas as
an advocate. and which he presented to his
mother realized f72 A cumbrous souve-
mir of Dickens one of the old stone halus-