New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-28
NETWORKS SANDOWN.
Rslmomt Park To Be Ran ON Lines
of London's Suburban Racecourse.

OnT
he sandoWn Park racecourse near London. The
ssndoHn Park races, which for number of years
East have been Of the principal features of
London life, owe their existence Hwfa Williams
,bo IS younger brother OF the late General Owen
Williams. Of Temple Park. near NARROW one of
che most beautiful places on the Thames San
down IS Of all the English racecourses the one
which IS the most popular with society. The rae
ing is OF a high order and the Objectionable ele-
rnent is to great extent eliminated. Another
NJ his creations is the Niagara Club Skating Rink
which however. has not proven so great success
as the saudown Park Racing Association
Williams is a good looking man. with gray hair
dark eyes and clean cut features Of the Byronic
style. and has a wife who plays quite as great
A part In English society as himself In fact both
Of them go everywhere. do everything. and are
not only in the swim but right in the very thick
of it. Mrs Williams is capital rife shot. having
grassed some fine stays. yet Is not a horsewoman
and Is never seen in the hunting field nor even
on horseback in the Row She is above the
medium height, thin, and elegant in her
nents. She has long. aquiline face wide
open gray blue eyes and fair but rather nfeless
hair. She dresses well-remarkably weIl-and al
ways in the mode of the moment In fact her
taste in dress IS indisputable and while she
makes mistake she ventures on things that
other women have net attempted and what many
beautiful women dare not do. As p CONVERSE
tionast she is brilliant; this. too spite Of the
fact that she is rather deaf
Formerly her financial circumstances and those
Of her husband rather straitened and their
monetary difficulties frequent and among the
many devices which she adopted 10 make both
ends meet the starting Of a steam laundry
at Combe. in the outskirts of London. which for
6 tine had great vogue among fashionable peo-
pie.
But the Hwfa Wiliamses IN smooth
water, pecuniarily speaking. For only have
the Sandown Park Racecourse Association and
other ventures Of Hwfa Williams proved successful
but Mrs. Williams has likewise come in for con-
siderable bequest comprising. it is said. annui-
T. Of $1,000 $4,000 year and place in the
country, under the will of the late Sir Henry
Meux, a token Of gratitude for her services
20 his wife social sponsor and pilot Lady
Meux is a big hearted. impulsve but wholly
educated woman who was the bright particular
star Of music hall variety show at the time when
es Valerie Langdon she captured the heart and
ultimately the hand Of Sir Henry Meux, OF brew
ing fame, whom she married in spite of the opposi-
tion Of all his relatives.
II is only fair to Mrs. Williams to add that she
has been very useful and loyal friend to Lady
Meux. and that she has not abused her opportuni-
ties 10 bleed the latter in the heartless and cruel
way that has covered with oboquy the social
sponsor, as class both in London and in Paris
Mrs. WiIliauess legacy. indeed. served to open up
a vista before the eyes of those who devote
their social qualifications, position and experience
70 the role Of pilot. For it shows If they
treat their charges fairly If they really play the
role Of mentor. guiding the steps of the new-rich
Ulysses. instead Of that of a hawk plucking a
pigeon, their services may be recognized, not mere
-ly by payments and gifts at the time when these
services are rendered. but likewise by post mortem
beouests of country seats and generous annuities.
People who have amassed colossal fortunes by
their own cleverness usually shrewd enough to
perceive when they being swindled and bled by
their social pilots They quick to when
they are being duped and subjected to extorton.
and while they may tolerate II for a time from
motives Of policy they will neither forget for
give it. On the other hand. they frequently
grateful 20 those who have their interests really at
heart. and who honestly endeavor 10 give quid
pro quo for the advantages. pecuniary and other
wise which they are deriving from the parvenus in
question. If and women of the type Of Lord
and Lady Kenilworth, in Ouidas novel The
Massarenes,' would only realize this. would un-
derstsnd that ii is not easy 10 hoodwink forever
their 'AIassarenes" they might find that loyalty to
their proteges-or rather clents-paid in the end.
AN HISTORIC SPOT IN PARIS.
All Americans who have ever visited Paris will
be interested TO learn that the government has at
length taken in hand the long contemplated changes
in the Place du Carrousel. changes which will be
of a most radical character. They involve the
Tnoval of lot of unsighty buildings, statuary
of a very mediocre character. and the transforma-
ton Of the Place into beaa1ul piece of landscape
gardening, with strawberries and flower beds and
fountains with the Louvre a background
The Place du Carrousel Will always remain asso-
ciated, however with memories of the First Ma
poleon. who. both as First Consul and as Emperor,
wont 70 review there weekly those regiments
which made Europe tremble and IN particular the
Old Guard which he repeatedly led to victory.
The figure of the small in his severely plain
uniform. all the conspicuous by of the
gorgeousness of his staff and with the red ribbon
OF the Legion OF Honor his only decoration,
passing In front OF the serred ranks of the vet
Grams of his guard, remains so firmly impressed
upon the imagination Of the French people, despite
dynastic and constitutional changes, that 1t may
be seid to haunt the Place du Carrousel.
When he attained supreme power he found the
ground between the Tuilertes and the Louvre COW
cred with a mass of houses. offices, a church or
tvo and even q theatre. There small square
IN the midst called Place du Carrousel, because
Louis XIV had given tournament there IN honor
OF Mile de Ia Valliere. and during the days OF the
Terror the lillotine raise there its omnous arms
iust where the arch stands-until the Place de Ia
Revolution. now known as the Place de la Concorde
was found TO offer larger capacity for gratifying
the sargIinary appetite Of the mob. 1t was in this
maze Of buildings, formerly occupying the actual
Place du Carrousel. that Queen Marie Antoinette
lost her way on the fatefuI night when, under the
guidance of her devoted cavalier, Count Fersen, she
fed with the King and her two children from the
Tuileries only 10 be recaptured at Varennes and
brought back &c Paris to meet death or the scat
fold.
Napoleon when he took his residence at the
Tuieries AT once resolved upon making clear
ance Of the whole rookery OF shabby buildings at
his very gates, and the explosion Of an Internal
machine in the Rue ST NieaIse the result OF
conspiracy against his life Matched in these suns
FASTENED the execution of his project He swept
al the mean looking buildings away, ana thus
created the immense Place-adorned only with the
arch designed by Fontaine and Percier TO perpetu-
ate the memory of his campaigns-on which,
framed IT by the Tuileries and the Louvre
ne was wont 20 review his soldiers and where he
presented to his troops MS infant son. the King OF