Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
NEVER WILL Be MISSED
Peace ENJOYS Escaped a
Unique Delegation.
PORTSMOUTH PALAVER
AMUSING SCENES AND INCIDENTS
ON THE SIDE.
Funny Aspects of Cosmopolitan Life in
and Around Hotel Where
History is Making.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOTEL WENTWORTH, NEW CASTLE.
N. H., August 19.-The envoys will never
know hat they missed. Secretary Peirces
gasoline wagon had started them to the
navy yard " hen chartered bus drove UP
and dlsgorged eight soemn-appearing g
tlemen, four with long whiskers, one with
whiskers on the way, and three whiskerless.
They were dressed In pall-bearers black,
and wore badges on the left-hand side
lapels These badges were commanding in
appearance. They consisted of individual
size butter plates, superimposed on roller
towels, the whole being suitably inscribed.
Lining up on the piazza, they removed their
hats and presented their company faces TO
the cameras, while the photographers got
busy. Then they marched in single file into
the lobby and the spokeSnan-his " htskers
were a good four inches longer than any Of
the others-asked in the English of New
England for Mister Witte, Mister komura,
Mister Rosen and Mister Taxa hira. The
clerk was sorry, but the gentlemen were
out. Would any one else do? No, no one
else would do.
On the way back to the bus. the leader
paused and made short proclamation to
a bunch of newspaper men. With MS seven
associates he composed the park and street
commission of the city council of the town
of Dover n. II. Being on their Way ID
clam bake, and outing at Chr'stianshore,
hard by, they had called mere to pay their
respects to the plenipotentiarles and to eX-
tend them the freedom of fair Dover and
vicinity.
Impressed by Feather-D -Duster Chins.
The park and street commission made
Impressions upon several of the Japanese
correspondents, although they did not ex-
Da}y Hr,t
sparsely whiskered themselves the jap
anese We're readily impressed by feather
duster chins The badges won their ori-
entail eyes, too. Anything on lapel means
decoration to them. They believed We
Dover men wore the highest honors that
grateful country could bestow
But that's about the only thing here
abcuts which impressed the able represen-
tatives of the lever which moves Nippon.
They decline to be surprised, excited, upset,
fustered. Mostly they flock by themselves,
ask no favors OF the American newspaper
o. their own.
There is a general belief here that Tokyo
has everlastingiy scooped New York and
London to Ceath. Only today reporter
trying to pry a Sunday story out of the
peace conference discovered that one OF
the Japanese, spectacled, round-1aceo
man, who wears cap and family reminds
you of deep-sea diver rigged for business,
was a literary light of many candle power.
1t appears that ne has written either forty
five or seventy-fve large essays and his
torical tones, has translated an American
political novel into Japanese and then
dramatized II and has turned out so many
novelettes, magazine stories and poems that
ever his own Boswell last count long ago.
Dignified as Squinch Owl.
This prodigy is twenty-five years old. He
can read English, but doesn't speak 1T well.
He spends much time in a secluded corner,
locking as quiet and dignified as a squinch
owl caught out from home in the day time,
with an introspective smile on his face and
a japanese book on his knees.
Another of the Japanese correspondents
gave rather a good morsel of news today to
an American who had done him some IA
vors.
where did you get this" asked the
American.
II receive him from representative of
the Russian press was the reply. There
should be war among Journalists. is II
not so, so l exchange information with Rus
slams on occasions frequently
Hundreds of crank letters pour into the
Newcastle post office addressed to the en-
voys of both nations. Most of the authors
pre- mise bouquets or bomb shells. The Rus
slams come in for the majority of these.
Others who aren't crazy, but merely of
faulty Judgment, may want komura to buy
preferred stock in the double cross mining
company, or they are simply dropping a
line, hoping to have the pleasure of enter
tanning him at Live Oak, Ark, or Horse
Neck Bluffs. Ind, on his way back to
Japan. The Japanese secretaries invariably
make carefully worded. polite replies to
such OF the letters as contain invitations or
requests.
Jealousy Among Small Fry.
The story that there is open friction
among the Russians is beginning to bob up
In the lobby gossip. 1t is known that some
of the cars secretaries and small fry OF
the commission cannot conceal their jeal-
ousy OF one another. 1t has made them as
green eyed as ghosts There Is also re-
port. well grounded. too, that Mr.. Witte OBJ
jected to adding NJ. Martens, the interna-
tional law expert, 10 the Russian suite, ana
that he has snubbed him more than once
since the party reached this country.
magazine editor who interviewed NJ. Witte
yesterday almost swooned with surprise
when, mentioning Martens name, the chief
envoy made a petulant gesture and eXcla-
ma ton. The magazine man was not looking
for that sort of thing in a world diplomat.
A photographer took flashlights in the
lobby last night and everybody inhaled
smelly smoke and went around barking for
fifteen minutes afterward. but il was a di-
version. Except for the newspaper men, the
guests generally spend the evening drifting
about the lobby aimlessly and as con-
stantly the iingerlngs in the trout fry
tank down at the battery aquarium. They,
or some of them. seemingly regard sum
mer hotel a place where you go when
you don't want to think.
Every morning a little girl from up the
island comes TO the hotel with a basket
full of punches of sweet peas. She sells her
stock out clean in less than no time The
secretaries of the two legations are among
her best patrons.
To Study Yellow Fever.