The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-23
LOST LEGION GETS RESTLESS.
Portsmouth LIFE PALS on
5 THESE MEN or ACTION.
Believe Pnacr Conferences Has Failed and
Are Thinking Of Their Haunts In Paris.
Berlin. ~. Petersburg o. Elsewhere
Willie Poses with Correspondents.

-WIte Poses with Correspondents.
PORTSMOUTH. y. H.. Aug. 22.-The en-
voys and their backstairs conferees have
been here two weeks now. The assembled
company has begun to break up into groups
and to get acquainted. We have found our
congenial company at the tables in the dinin g
room; have even begun to strike agree
ments as to our hour Of dining, 30 that the
company may assemble at the same time.
There are Russian tables. Japanese tables
French tables. Chicago tables. California
tables, Irish tables and most OF all. inter-
national ables.
At one time last week we even took to
adjouning to the palm garden to have our
black coffee in hearing Of the Tenth Artil-
lery band. The weather cured us OF that.
for the nights are cool and changeable.
and dinner dress Is slim protection to the
human chest. A week ago the common
place was How do you like the mosquitoes
Now it is -How's your cold''
There is no doubt that the Lost legion
and backstairs conferees in general want
to go away They'd like peace. certainly,
but selfshly they are longing for action
along the boulevards or Broadway or Inter
den Linden or the Nevsh Prospekt. Per-
haps the selfish wish has been father to the
pessimism Of the last week. fashion
able. dressy girl-haunted summer hotel
Is the last place on earth to attract the
members of the lost legion. The palm
garden stories now are all Of action. OF old
tines in ship and camp. Of the intrigue OF
courts and the delight Of armies, OF the
places where a man Ia a man, not an annex
TO a summer girl and a canoe.
So to-day. when Sato came out OF the
elevator and posted notice stating that
the conference had adjourned again. the
backstairs conference groaned. 1t mattered
not that the delay is a good omen for peace.
| The backstairs members have made up
their minds that there will be no peace
anyhow, and there's an end OF it.
WEN wrrrE POSED.
Baron Rosen and Mr. Witte we're photo
gratthed yesterday in the midst Of those
who wear the white and yellow ribbons
! and Of several other correspondents. The
photographer had made nice little ar
| rangement Of chairs for the group, and
| had set in the middle a mahogany settee
for Rosen and Witte
When the big Russian appeared the
rest Of the group was in place and half the
rubbernecks were lined up behind the
camera watching As Witte rolled down
the piazza with that Boer gait Of his every
one applauded. 1t is easy to see who is
the favorite envoy in this hotel. Witte
did not like the settee; it seemed to suggest
Q throne too much.
MET MET he said, and without waiting
for assistance he sung the settee to one
side and showed two chairs into its place.
He sat down, crossed his hands over the
head OF his cane and got ready to be taken.
Mr.. White, in this small action, showed
that he is a man Of decision.
A half dozen Of the Russian ENJOYS sat
in the palm garden yesterday playing that
game, which the Cantonese Chinese call
Men Gee Yat-See.- It's a sort Of count
ing out game, something like Simon Says
Thumbs Up" One OF the attaches who
has lived in Pekin taught 1t to the crowd.
They played for half an hour and enjoyed
It like children.
THE TEA DRINKERS.
The supply Of tea at the hotel has had to
be renewed twice in the last week and the
four samovars bought for the conference
are kept busy all IL, time. Both Russian
and Japanese attaches drink tea con-
tinually while they work. Every afternoon
at s o'clock Pokotilon's Manchu servant
and Whites French one cross over from
the hotel dining room and return with two
steaming samovars. '..I ~,
The Japanese tea is made in little pots
and their servants are busy all day running
for hot water
MIND READER TRIES sATo.
Zanoni, psychologist and mind reader, is
exhibiting in the ballroom tonight. He is,
a living psychic wonder. He admits it
himself. Number one was the test which
killed Washington Irving Bishop. He per
formed it without so much as disturbing a
iril OF chiffon on the pretty, slim summer
girl who led him around. Each feat was
more difficult than the last. until at No. Q,
which was entitled voluntary contribu-
TONS" he found money on the guests after
the hotel had got through with them.
Mr.. Sato attended. He sat in the front
row and acted as the pleasant citizen who
always obliged when knife was to be
hidden or letter picked out of a word on
a page of a book hidden in any part OF the
room, all unknown to the medium, who
was blindfolded, anyway. II is reported
that Prof. Hanoni was engaged privately
to read MIR. Sato's mind in the course OF the
evening, but that just under the scalp he
found a shell Of thought-resisting. pro-
jectile-proof arnor plate. this being the
most remarkable experience OF his pro-
fessional career.