The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-10
WATCHING THE PEACEMAKERS
WANDERERS or THE. WORLD ARE
NOW IN PORTSMOUTH.
Newspaper Correspondents and Diplomatic
Swap do You Rom ember" Stories Of
Many Lands Russians Moro socisblc
Than the Japanese--Gaiety at Hotel.


PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Aug. o-Surely
never In this country, and never In the
world since the close OF the Dreyfus trial at
Rheims, has there been such convention
Of the lost legion the wanderers Of the world,
as Is going on now In the Hotel Wentworth.
There is hardly region on the face OF the
globe, except interior Tibet. where some
one now quartered In this big white building
has not been. East and West meet here.
Nearly all the tongues Of the world even to
tho Pekinese dialect, are spoken In the big
dining room.
Alarge, sunburned man In Panama hat
will drift through the corridors and meet
another large sunburned man In another
Panama.
Hello, Jonesl" he will say, only tho nane
Is usually twenty times less pronounceable
than Jones.
Don't you remember me7 We bunked
together In front Of Ladysmith in 1900
1t may not be Ladyvmith. Equatorial
Africa interior China South America,
Odessa. the Nile, the Phnippines-all these
have served as a basis for introductions
and reunions this morning In home staying
New Hampshire.
There are the correspondents, first OF all.
and the hotel resounds with the babel OF
their languages. Energetic little. French
men talk over the tables on the back piazza
with gray eyed calm faced Russians.
Italians match their quick gestures with
the lordly fourishes Of Spaniards. At
every other table some one ia talking in
Deep bubbling Russian. Most Of these
foreign Journalists wear some decoration
or other. The Frenchmen. almost. to q
man, sport the tiny red ribbon Of the Legion
Of Honor So do some OF the Russians
and Italians.
The diplomatic corps in the stats Of the
ENJOYS have travelled almost as widely.
Then there is a background of world wan
derers attracted here by the convention.
II you want to know the inside history Of
the Boer War; the Boxer campaign. the
English occupation Of Samoa. the Dreyfus
case or the Russian advance on Afghanistap,
you can find some one who can tell the
story If he will only talk. There are men
here tonight who have laid On the South
Sea beaches with Stevenson, interviewed
Kitchener between battles, been under
arrest because they tried to break the
Japanese uarantine against ccrrespo ndents
mittee in Macedonia. There are more
stories under the roof of the Hotel Went
worth tonight than R. Kipling and his
kind ever wrote.
RUSSIANS THE BEST MIXERS.
II the Russians continue to mix with
the people and the Japanese to stick to
business there will he an immense change
L. H. - H., y
concerning the war. The ENJOYS and their
suites have been in the hotel for thirty
hours now, and no one has seen a Japanese
do a thing apart from the routine Of bust
ness. That with hundred summer girls.
more or less. right on hand and dying to
know celebrities! The members of the
Russian suite have made score Of ac-
quaintances already. One or another Of
them is always on hand when anything is
doing about the hotel. The Japanese
keep very much to their quarters.
Half the mountehanks in New England
have packed up and started for the Went
worth. This afternoon We had three little
negro boys and two trick bicycle riders.
The negro boys stood on the piazza and
sang about the way to spell chicken and
MY Louisiana Lou" The bicycle riders
did headstands on the saddle and orawled
through the frames on the carriage drive
way before the hotel. One Of them was a
low comedian, who closed the act with a
series of approximations and asked, did
you mean all Of this for mep" when some
one threw him penny. Half a dozen
members Of the Russian suite watched
both performances from beginning to end,
applauded heartily and seemed to be
amused.
p The only member Of the japanese dele
cation in sight was Adachi. He stood on
the piazza with his back to the performers
and talked strict business with party Of
Japanese journalists. When the low come
dian passed the hat Adachi dropped in a
quarter without so much as looking at
him.
row to hoe. All Japs look alike to most
Americans. So guests and even CORE
spondents are continually taking them for
of the diplomatic force. When
ever this happens the Jap bows and says:
"You mistake. am correspondent sir
The sight OF one Of these correspondents
working always draws few rubberrecks.
He takes out small ink pot and brush and
makes hen tracks in vertical columns all
over a piece Of rice paper. This is after
ward translated into code for the cable.
THE GIRL AND THE PUPPY.
There are some Boston terrier pups for
sale back of the hotel. One of the young
women quartered here bought pup yes
terday and carried her prize through the
lobby. One OF the Japanese correspond
ents, with that appreciation Of animals and
children which is essentially Japanese,
looked up and smiled.
II would be pleased II you would name
my puppy, sir. said the pups owner, stop
ping and blushing slightly.
Certainly, he shall be called Sago,'
the Jap. The summer girl was
heard boasting later in the day.
Just think, one Of the diplomats named
my puppy
Perhaps the parsonage who attracts
most attention among the celebrities Is
NJ. Pokotiloff the former Minister to Pekin.
He is taller than Witte. but younger and
more vigorous in build, and he looks every
inch the man that he is His complexi