Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-15
ENGLAND OPENS
SOUP KITCHENS
MUCH DISTRESS PREVAILS IN
GREAT BRITAIN
Fifty Thousand Men, Women and
Children Starving In one Lon-
don 5oroush-No Employ
nent for Idle
spseIai csble 70 The IIeraId.

bONDON, Jan. l4,-lHe HlBHt I1ois
Walter Long, M. p, president of the
local government board, has promised
TO preside at a dinner in Clarige's ho-
tel on Monday, January %, in aid of
the soup kitchens Of the Borough of
Stepney. which, Owing TO the great
distress prevailing this winter through
scarcity of employment in the neigh
borhood are sadly in want Of funds.
Ladies' will act as hostesses on the
occasion. The executive committee in
cludes the Marchioness of London
derry, the Countess of Derby, Lady
Llangattock, Baroness Percy De
Werms, Mrs. Steven Schlizzi and Mrs
Greenlees. while Julia Marchiness of
Tweeddale and Lady Samuel, whose
husbands are members of parliament,
for the district, are acting as joint
honorary secretaries to the committee.
Out of population Of nearly 100000
there are over $4,000 men, women and
children starving in the county bor-
ough of West Dam. This Is the larg-
est borough OF London over the bor-
der. It's population consists almost en-
tirely of the working classes and of
casual laborers. 1t has landed gentry,
no wealthy residents and few indus
tries.
The duke and duchess of Connaught,
accompanied by their families, left
England this week for Egypt. The
cruiser Essex conveying the royal par
ty, will call at Cadiz, Lisbon and Glib
raltar, and at Lisbon it is possible that
King Carlos will visit the ducal pair.
Nothing has been heard of any inten-
ton Of the king of Spain to receive the
duke and duchess at Cadiz neither
have their royal highnesses any inten-
ton of going to Madrid. The duke will
remain in Egypt only long enough to
make thorough military inspection
of the country, as he intends to call
at Crete, Malta and other Mediterran-
can stations on the way.
Although no official arrangements
have yet been formulated 1t is under
stood that the king and queen will
make a trip to the Mediterranean next
spring, and in all probability their
majesties will embark at Portsmouth
about the end of February, calling at
Gibraltar and very likely at Malta
also. At present his majesty's yacht.
the Victoria and Albert, in which the
trip is to be made, is in dock at Ports
mouth undergoing an extensive reft,
and the royal apartments are to be re-
decorated. This has to be finished by
the beginning of February, after
which the vessel will have a weeks
steam trial.
Lady Ardilaun has promised, in the
event OF the project for the establish
ment of a modern art gallery in Dub
lin being carried to a successful issue,
to subscribe a sufficient sum to pur-
chase a fine picture, "The Sand Pit"
by John Constable, r. A. This cam
vas is included in portion of the
Stats Forbes collection, which has
been for some time on view at the
Royal Hibernian academy, and which
the promoters of the modern art gal
lery scheme have now the opportunity
of securing for 100000 sterling, if the
requisite funds can be obtained
promptly.
A Belfast correspondent telegraphs
that a marriage lis announced to take
place shortly between the Hon. Hugo
Barring, youngest brother of the present
Lord Revelstoke, and Evelyn, Lady
Magheramorne, widow of the second
baron of that title, who died last year,
and sister of the earl of SALISBURY.
The Hon. Hugo Barring, who is % years
of age, was formerly a lieutenant in
the fourth hussars and served in South
Africa, where he was severely wounded
during the recent war.
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal
has agreed to preside at a festival din
ner at the Whitehall rooms, in aid of
the national Hospital for the para
lyzed and epileptic on April 13 next.
Lord Kelvin has accepted the nomi
nation for the presidency of the Fara-
day society, in succession to Joseph
Swan.
Bishop-Stratford Urban District
council has definitely declined the offer
from the Rhodes memorial committee
of a site and the balance of $500 for
the erection of volunteer drill hall.
to perpetuate the memory of late Rt.
Hon. Cecil Rhodes in his native town.
The council arrived at this decision
after a long discussion, in which it was
pointed out that another $4,000 would
be required from the local rates to
carry out the proposed scheme.
TO commemorate Shakespeare's con-
nection with Southwark. a sapling from
the famous mulberry tree planted by
the poet at Stratford-on-Avon has been
set in front of the Southwark town
hall.
Tohr IIap,iIton of I,ns,