The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-28
READY 10 QUIT PORTSMOUTH,
WATCHEES or THE PEACE. COW
FERENCE PLAN TO GET Away
Hotel Managers Expect General Exodus
To-day and TO-mOrrOw-Gioorny Sun.
day At Hotel-Church Services Not
Well Attendeti--Nitte Takes = Walk.

PORTSMOUTH. n. H., Aug. Elf this
conference ends in peace the joke will be
on the Wentworth. Nine out of ten among
us Is sure that the break will come, If not
tomorrow at least at the next meeting after.
That has been the feeling before; some
pessimlsts have been taking farewell kodak
views and autographs for fortnight.
but hope was never 30 low as 1t Ia tonight.
We are starting our preliminary packing.
telegraphing dates to New York and WASH
ington and fendng in hurry calls for our
washing. Some canny people are even
getting their excess baggage to Ports
mouth in order to avoid the Monday and
Tuesday rush.
II this thing does run over Monday,
clean collars will be as rare in the Went
worth rs cowhide boots on Broadway.
Most of us have lived for the past week
in daily expectation that the conference
would break at IN next meeting That
being the case, what was the use OF send
ing out washing seeing that our wholly
irresponsible laundry Is usually week
getting into action1 But the conference
has dragged on and the supply of collars
in the bureau has dwinded. Saturday
any evening since we arrived. The lobby was
positively questionable. 1t was not care
lessness, simply famine in clean shirts.
One born pessimist who lost hope at the
second meeting hasn't sent any washing
out since he came. He has bought years
supply Of haberdashery since he came
and will take home an extra trunkful Of
washing.
The real summer season is about over at
the Wentworth. At this time the greater
part Of the summer guests are usually gone.
Some have left. but a lot Of sum-
mer people linger to see it through. They
have got the responsibility for the confer
ence on their nerves, and intend 10 stay until
1t breaks or until the very last moment.
One family which intended to go two weeks
ago ia still here. The summer people will
be in on the general exodus Of Wednesday,
if the conference breaks on Tuesday.
Just how will the hotel get out all the bag
gage on that busy day? The answer looks
easy: 1t won't.
The foreign suites themselves have a
whole baggage room Of TRUNKS, the summer
girls have the Gust omary ten pieces Of
baggage apiece. and there Is the humble
luggage Of correspondents, financial agents
and telegraph operators who came grad
ually but will 60 in herd. The manage
ment has posted a modest card asking for
a day 3 notice from people who are leaving,
in order that arrangements may he made
for baggage. II things come out as the
backstairs conferees expect, the notice for
nine -tenths will be furnished when the
cordial Mr.. Sato or the calm Mr. Korosto-
vitz posts a notice reading about like this:
Their excellencies the peniroteniaries of
Russia and Jaran have signed the protocol
of the last meeting and agreed to discontinue
the conference"
On this third Sunday of the conference
the ENJOYS and their suites dropped even
the pretense Of going to church. Rose n
was in Magnolia. Witte took his little
stroll to Newcastle. and STOPPED to
study the architecture Of it's eightee nth
century church. The Jaranese ENJOYS
took an automobile ride and worked the
rest of the day. Takeshita taught shuttle
board to Adachi and Ochiai. The Rus
sian underlings ran down to Portsmouth.
A good part of the corresponds nts had
luncheon aboard the Maynower at the
navy yard as guests of Commander Wins
low and Secretary Peiroe. Fishing was
fine when the tide was in. A rarty of six
sat at the end Of the Wentworth pier in
the early morning and caught forty hake
and founders.
Father Brine of Christ Church held SER
vices in the hotel ballroom at O'Clock.
The attendance was small and unofficial.
Mr.. Witte is relaxing. Late this evening
he came downstairs followed by most CT
the Russian attaches and proceeded to the
ballroom, where First Secretary Hansen
Of the Russian legation gave a little concert
on the piano. Hansen is an accc mpished
musician. and his musicales are the feature
of the Washington season.
For half an hour he played. The hotel
guests drifted in from the piazzas. formed
a circle at a respectful distance and listened.
Mr.. Witte thanked Hansen when the con-
cert YVES over, took one turn about the
hotel with Mr.. Shpoff and went to bed
Komura, Sato and Takeshita called
last night on Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Aston
Carey of Cambridge, Mass, who have a
cottage on IIarbor road. Mrs. Carey met
the jararcso at Secretary Peiroc's last