The San Francisco call., 1906-07-28

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man may be both an ideal hus
band and most excellent man
of business The women were all
charmed with the self-effacing devo-
ton he displayed for Princess Alice,
being seemingly quite content with
the obscurity of back seat while
the limelight of adulation played full
upon the Presidents daughter. And
now it is the mems turn to confess
their admiration for the skill and in
genuity he has shown into put it
bluntly-making his honeymoon pay,
and that without giving any cause for
offense Everybody in America
knows that he is large producer of
Catawba wine. That is variety OF
the grape product which has hereto
fore been practically unknown here.
But not for long are we destined to
remain in ignorance of 1t How he
managed it is "Nicks" own secret,
but it is certain that soon after the
King met him his Majesty ordered
several cases of the Longworth brand
of sparkling catawba. The Kings
physician, too, Sir Francis Laking,
pronounced a highly scientific bene-
diction upon it. That counts for
great deal About the same time, in
some mysterious fashion, the man
ayers of several of the big London
hotels awakened to the discovery
that they had been grossly negligent
in failing to place catawba on their
wine lists. Sir Thomas Upton has
been made acquainted with its delect-
able qualities and will sell it at his
innumerable shops. So one result of
Mr.. and Mrs. Longworth's visit will
be boom in catawba wine. And yet,
nobody can say that Mr.. Longworth
has "touted" for orders. He never
talked catawba to any of the people
he met in society. But somehow
they heard of it and wanted to try it.
Nick" is a business diplomat.
The Manchesters' arrival in London
at this belated hour of the season has
given rise to great deal of comment,
and every one is asking, What has
brought them?" They are here solely
on business which the Duchess is ar
ranging. She has been interviewing
certain of her husbands creditors and
in her own inimitable manner is fixing
up matters with them. There never
was known among Duchesses such
business woman as her Grace. 1t
must be an inheritance from her Gin
cinnati father. Her powers of persua
sion, her diplomacy and her tact
prove irresistible with every one she
tackles. The house the Duke and
Duchess are living in is in unfash-
ionable South Kensington, COM
modious mansion enough in Queens
Gate. They decided to take large
house, as the Duchess would have all
her children with her, but they have
no intention of entertaining, for Con
suelo Duchess of Manchester has put
her foot down, as she can do, and
says Kim" who is the Duke, is to
pay up every penny of his debts be-
fore he spends any more money. This
is sentiment in which the young
Duchess quite concurs. The Man
chesters' town house used TO be in
Great Stanhope street, which runs off
the Piccadilly end of Park Lane, a
perfect position, though the residence
was an ordinary one enough. Con-
sueIo Duchess of Manchester called it
"a miserable little hole" and refused
to live in it. 1t was sold some years
ago, and ever since the Dukes of
Manchester have had no town house.
William Waldorf Astor's two pri-
vate concerts this season at his mag
nifcent town residence in Carlton
Terrace surpassed all his previous eff
forts in his pet form of entertain
ment 1t is a fact that he paid Pade-
rewski $4,000 for his services. In
the first instance the great pianist
refused $4,000, and a second offer of