Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-26
TRUE BRITISH STYLE
London's Reception to the
French Officers.
VISITORS SHOWED TACT
CoWES REGATTA WEEK NOTABLE
FOR THE EXCLUSIVE.
Comment Over Whistler's Pictures
VISITORS SHOWED TACT
Comment Over Whist1er's Pictures
-Carnegie's Former Newspaper
War Offices New Home.

Special Correspondence or The star.
LONDON. August -. 1905.
London has had its opportunity of cele-
brating the entente at last, and has risen
to the occasion in true British style. The
only discordant note In the harmonious con-
cert came from the clerk of the weather,
and even he allowed the guests to travel
up In the sunshine and to enter London
without q drawback. 1t was about noon
when the special train of Pullman cars
came into Victoria bearing eighty French
officers. twenty Interpreters and fifty Brit
ish officers. Even the railway company
participated In the prevailing zeal for dec
.orations. and the engine itself bore the tri-
color and was adorned with flowers. Over
the station foated banner greeting the
union between the two great naval powers
In excellent French.
All along the route to the city the process
sion passed through thrcngs of enthusiastic
people. and the sight Piccadilly corner
was turned was IL brilliant and impre ssive
one Apsley House the town house of the
Duke of Wellington. distinguished Itself
by the b:iliianCy of its decorations AS the
guests passed on down St James street
and through Pail Mall the Frenchmen were
evidently greatly interested in looking at
the clubs. the war office and the palaces
one little incident was highly significant
OF French tact and good taste As the car
ADMIRAL Caiilard and his officers saluted
the Nelson statIe-a tribute to the hero
OF trafalgar which ELECTED a warm re-
Spouse from the crowd. They also saluted
Queen Fictoria's statue at Rlackfriars
bridge Everywhere there was good order
ana there was also the unfaiiing good hmm
or or an English crowd The crowd itself
must nave been not the least interesting
spectacle to the visitors many of whom M
douot were in London for the first time.
me city, of course displayed its char
acterlsic hospitality to full ADVANTAGE
4 ne occasion had the charm of novelty,
never before has il entertained tho oei'
GERS of foreign fleet. There was. however
less formality about the reception than is
necessarily the case when a royal guest is
, me,r"Lneu' ne lord mayor and lady
mayo7ess received their guests in the IL
brary. II had been wisely arranged that
they should be announced by Frenchman
N ORDER TO secure correct description but
"a consequence some of the English names
came to grief However, that mattered less
THAN blunder of the opposite kind The
nan was soon filled by a brilliant company.
Altogether the affair went off as pleasantiv
ana as brilliantly as could have been de-
sired
In the civic decorative efforts some one
mas been invading the signal locker of the
mercantile marine. with amusing results To
those who can interpret what the little
nagS mean. Help, help" Is how one flag
can be interpreted ''Mutiny on board is
another message. Send us a doctor bids
third In quarantine; don't approach"
says fourth In putting up the legend
GU on est heureuX sur un nayire'' the
decorators at Blackfri-lrs somehow made
un navire" read one word, but at the
eleventh hour the mistake was detected
and remedied To searate the indefinite
article 1t was necessary to make a "botch-
But what did that matter so long as the
citys reputation for French scholarship
was saved?