Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-24
AMONG THE PEAcEMAKERs.
Scenes and incidents Round About
portsmouth

ference portsmouth has achieved n pla CO
In the history Of the world and obtained
vast amount OF profitable publicity with
out money and without price Enterprising
residents appreciate the opportunity and
are working It to the limit. Correspondents
are not allowed to slumber when news
slumps or a crisis escapes They are
shown things, entertained and jolued in
such a fascinating way that letters over
flow with complimentary notices Of the
quaint old town. Supplementing these ad-
vance notices are pictorial booklets de-
scribing and halftonizing the attractions
OF the town Old as It Is. Portsmouth
has large bunch Of Johnnies- ont the
spot.
let us have peace!" quoted one Of the
japanese peace commissioners when he Of
fered cigars to couple of officers from
the Boston navy yard who were visiting
Portsmouth . few days ago. He said the
cigars were from a supply presented to
the members of both the Russian and
japanese commissions by a Cuban in bust
ness in New York, who saw many years
OF war in his own island" Each cigar
was wrapped In silver tissue. with tinted
American flag bearing the motto, Peace
to all nations" on either side OF which
was NAlG lldlllt lNeOOOfe hOOSeNel.
Nearly all the japanese names, II ap-
pears, have a more or less poetic slgnlfi-
cance, but they don't always ft the wear
ers. For example Komura means a lit
tie village" and the barons first name,
Tutaro, means live long, big fellow"
Komura isn't big at all and he lives in
Toxic, which isn't a village by any
measurements. Takahira means "a high
level" and his first name, Kogoro, means
small fellow" Now, Takahira isn't small
as his people go, but II isn't denied that his
Intellect is on a high level Kaju Mako
mura, the name of one of the correspond
ents here, might be translated by a little
stretching into the simple life in a town
abouththe size Of Manayunk," for "Kaju"
stands for HAPPY live long" and Mako
mura is "medum-sized village"
The Japanese are perhaps earlier risers
and are last to retire. This grows in part
out Of their more deliberative methods and
the care and attention which they give to
details. Baron Komura and Minister
Takahira are in the public dining room
ready for their morning repast by s
o'clock. Komura eats sparingly. One Of
the female summer boarders who was
seated not far from his table, noting his
dimnutive stature. his stoop shoulders,
his thin, dried-up look, and the soft-boiled
egg, the half of an orange and the single
piece OF toast which usually contents him
for breakfast, commented. They ought to
feed him on bird seed"
NJ. Witte seldom leaves his bedroom
until $3.50. The moment his door is heard
TO slam by the other Russians along the
same corridor the whole procession comes
trooping out. They make their way down
the long hall to the private dining room
on the second floor of the hotel and
breakfast is served. Witte, like his asso-
ciates. enjoys his meals and each is of
generous proportions. Steaks, chops fruits,
eggs, and our much-advertised breakfast
foods and rolls, all go TO the plate OF the
big Russian and eventually to his capa-
cious interior.
Hotel Wentworth is a great place for
dressing. AS soon as the ENJOYS return
! from Kittery they rush to their apartments
! to get into evening toggery, although
Komura and Takahira rarely wear dinner
coats. One young woman, a handsome
westerner, by actual account appeared in
four different costumes yesterday, and it
was raining at that. Some of the others
were only one gown behind her, and run
! ming fast.
! The best dressed woman at the hotel, and
the best looking, too, is the mother Of a
wonderfully large family. She might easily
pass for the older sister of two of her
daughters, who are also at the Went
worth.
The Russian ENJOYS show a decided pref
erence for automobiles in returning from
/ ba baT fpr he ,,f
the Mayhower in going over. The first
sure sign that the Russians are about to
| depart and that the hour of o'clock has
| arrived, is the appearance at the right
and left Of the porte cochere Of the two
! body servants of Witte and Pokotiloff A
| still more certain sign that the exact mo-
| ment for the appearance of Witte and
| Pokotiloff has come is the springing from
| the doorway of a six-foot-siX Chinaman,
whose imposing proportions have already
/ been described in this correspondence He
! swings the door open and Witte and Poko-
| tilofr march forth. The Chinaman dashes
| into the hotel and a moment later jumps
| cut with a sole-leather case as large as a
generous sized steamer trunk, but held by
handle like a woman's handbag and
| almost with as much ease by the big
Manchu. Baron Rosen is next 10 appear,
and in the order OF their rank and impor-
tance the secretaries and attaches come
silently marching forth.
II the trip is TO be made by water, the
distance is a mile and a half through the
! Pisacatqua river out into the Atlantic and
back again 10 reach the island. II It is
| over the land route, usually taken by the
| Japanese, the distance is three miles
through as picturesque a country as can
be found east OF the Rocky mountains. AS
the machine pufrs out from under the porte
cochere and down the broad driveway
fronting the hotel, the ENJOYS can look out
| 10 sea across a placid harbor and toward
a semicircular horizon, interrupted at one
place by the crags and rugged rocks OF
the isles of Shoals. made famous to all
the reading world by Celia Thaxter. whose
home was there, and whose poems, aside
from their literary excellence, have given
TO the world permanent pen pictures OF
New England types OF the last two de-
cades Down the driveway the chauffedI
sends his machine 20 the perfect dirt road
which rises and falls in an undulatng way
20 Portsmouth and the quaint old town Oi
Kittery. First they pass the small farms
OF the New Englanders, which out on tho
broad prairies Of the west would hardly
be considered more than truck patches II
size. Each Is separated from the othel
by walls OF rough stones taken from th'
not too fertile ground. Through the towI
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