Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-02
EXODUS FROM LONDON
American Tourists Seen in
Many Quarters.
ROAM THE STREETS
SHOOTING ON THE MOoRS NEAR
INVERNESS.
Hamburg Half Ruined by Failure Of
King to Visit There-Gen-
eral Gossip.
rpeeial Correspondence of The Star.

| lists who are everywhere in evidence. have
| the town practically to themselves. They
fill the tops of buses roam about Fleet
street. explore the city and make discover
| les not mentioned in the guide-books- Large
| wagon loads of American sightseers drive
| ali London much like the crowds on
| the automobiles go seeing New York"
| The Londoner who can, however. has gone
| to seaside and grouse moors taken him.
self to the continent for the waters or baths
and the exodus continues for the fine wealth
Ell makes the country attractive in the eX-
| trtme
Pedestrians have to submit to many an
| noyances by having their progress stopped
| and safely imperled by the constant stream
of cabs and luggage omnihuses making for
the railway stations. The latter are piled
with high boxes. portmanteaus, suit cases,
and dressing bags gun cases. fishing rods,
and other apparatus of sport The stations
are indeed in ptiable confusion. and the
pGrters, in unwonted compleXity. try to
overcome their difficulties by Titanic eff
forts They struggle with bags and bag
gage as If they loved to handle them. in
stead of their activity being due to hopes of
reward. Trains have been sent off to the
north in duplicate and tripltcate, and nearly
every night the Scotch 'sleepers' go away
with the heaviest loads of slumbering hui
man beings they have ever carried. num-
be- of trains left with passengers bound for
Inverness and further north, carrying no.
body for intermediate destinations. Leav-
ing here at o'clock, they will be in In
verness in twelve hours. and a sportsman
car be on the moors soon after breakfast.
1t is not unusual for ladies to be seen on
the grouse moors, and few of them can
bring down their birds with toIerable skill,
but some of the people who were passing
along in Piccadilly today had n opportunity
of seeing lady leave for the Highlands in
ali the glory of her sporting kit. She was
a member of the greatest of the ladies
clubs, and not at all as forbidding or mas
culine in appearance as one might be apt to
expect from the items Of her luggage as they
We're placed upon the top of four wheeler.
First there came out on the tmale) porter's
shoulders (fOr even in ladies' clubs they are
still dependent upon the superior sinews of
the male), the usual great ladies' trunk.
Next the page boy came out with bag of
golf clubs, and placed them carefully in
side the cab. Then the porter returned
with two splendid gun cases while the
page boy almost simultaneously appeared
again with two sets of fishing rods. Then
in succession came bicycle a hat-box,
trout basket, dogs whip and three walk
ing sticks, a camera. and a folding seat
Then last of all appeared the sporting
Amazon herself standing on the club steps,
viewing with evident approval the hetero-
geDeous collection on the cab roof. She
was tall and handsome woman. dressed
in a tweed costume, a pleated short skirt
revealing a pair of strong brown boots. On
her head she wore a sort of Tam o Shanter
with jaunty cocks feather. and over her
shoulder hung a pair of field glasses. She
looked like a modern edition of Helen Mac
Gregor, and one almost wished for the
faithfuness of the picture to see her &C
companied by a killed Rob Roy.
Homburg Half Ruined.
The fact that it is now clear the king will
not go again to Homburg has half ruined
that pretty place, but his majesty much pre-
fers 1t to Marienbad. Indeed he was so
bored there last summer that he suggested
| golf links should be laid out. and himself
subscribed five and twenty pounds toward
| the cost. There is, otherwise, nothing to do
| at Marienbad except to attend the concerts.
| The spot is as dull as dishwater. and in
some of the hote,s. as in one big hotel on an
| Italian lake, it is not the custom to speak
| to other people unless you have been pre-
viously introduced a fact that materially
| binders the innocent gayety which in other
places so materially assists the cure AS
a rule it rains great deal at Marienbad.
and as the place is very stury in not
weather, people swarm up to the neighbor-
ing hill peaks. whittier omnibuses ply. and
near the submits of which you find cafes.
The environments of Marenbad are not pic
turesque. and decidedly do not suit the
kings taste. though, of course. he is too
polite TO say much to the local authori-
ties. a few well-known people have pre-
coded him. The most notable are Madame
Nordlca Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman.
Lady Romney, Lady Abingdon. Lord Clan
william and Countess Kinsky. who used to
be on the stage before she married. and
who appeared in a few revivals last week.
Element Of Romance.
The element Of romance which attaches
to the history of most men who have been
the architects Of their own fortunes is not
wanting In the career Of Mr.. C. D. Harrod.
whose death occurred yesterday. He was
the founder Of Harrod's stores in London,
g1h L1r,. ~
the great stores at home. have told me far
surpass any in America in size, elegance
and variety OF goods.
He came to London at an early age an
assistant In a wholesle provision agents.
| He was there about three years. and In 1864
| took over his fathers business In the Ken
| sington district, and Immediately justified
| his position by the success he attained In
| increasing the turnover. In 1867 Mr.. Har-
| rod started advertising against the COM
| petitive stores. which were then being de-
| veloped In London. and commenced the
| trade in a similar way, and from that time
the business began to grow rapidly. In 1883.
just when the business was in a hourishing
condition, he experienced a great disaster.
The premises. which We're then being re-
built and extended to make room for IRON
mongery, jewelry, china and glass and
stationery were burnt to the ground. dam
age being done to the extent of $4,000. The
following day, however. Mr.. Harrod took
offices in Brompton road. and from there
directed the business for the moment as
best he could
The following week he took Humphreys
Hall at Knightsbridge. and in the short
space of three days, working day and night,
he fitted it up as a general store. The
premises in Brompton road were then re-
built. and the business began to increase
and flourish In the latter part of 1884 Mr..
Harrod reopened the premises in Brompton
road with marked success. AS time went
on the business developed vastly. and. Mr..
Harrod not being in the best Of health. 1t
was fioated In 1889 a company. The
profits were then but $4,000. Mr.. Harrod
received half million for the business, and
afterward retired from business life. He
left London and went to Somerset, and
there took great interest in the local life
of the place, but occasionally came to Lon
don. He intended to stand for parliament.
but bad health put an end to his ambitions
In that direction. Since flotation OF the
company the concern has gone ahead even
| more rapidly than before. and now between
5000 and 1000 are employed. and the turn
over Of the business is now between $1O,-
600, 900 and SIS, 0OO0 900 year. last years
net profit being $685.. 600 Mr.. Harrod was a
]. p for Devon and Somerset. He was a
keen advocate of Sunday schools, and three
weeks before his death entertained a large
Sunday school party at his house in Sus-