Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-21
LAVISH EXPENDITURE
Army of American MiIIionaires
invading London,
spceia, c.blesram to The Star.


LONDON, May 2I.-An army OF Ameri-
can millionaires with the usual accom-
paniment of pretty daughters and open
check books is sweeping down on London
and creating a record In lavish expenditure.
The keynote of this campaign OF extrava-
gance was struck this week by a man from
Philadelphia. who walked into the Carl
ton and said he would just take an entire
moor Tor himself and his family. Suisse
quent arrivals were informed that there
was no more ROOM
The great East End hotels were already
crowded. yet the rush has hardly begun
Every steamship is fully booked for the
next three months, and so great Is the de-
sire to spend the winters profits in Europe
that hundreds of tourists are cheerfully
paying first-class rates for second-cia IS
berths, rather than wait until the season"
Is over
More money will be spent by Americans
in London this summer than ever before.
They are coming prepared to scatter dol
lars with a reckless hand. for the past
year has been one of unexampled pros
perity in the United States, and many men
have jumped from comparative poverty into
afffuence.
All the steamships arriving at British
ports brought well-known American mil
lionaires and their families Among the
Cedric's passengers were DIR. Seward Webb
a railway magnate, whose private car Is
said to be the most luxurious in America:
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Hanan and Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Carstairs of Philadelphia all
OF whom are at the Carlton.
Among the Americans
Among the other Americans at the Carl
ton are Mr.. Rodman Wanamaker of Phila-
delphia, who engaged the entire floor afore-
said Mr.. and Mrs Havemeyer whose for
tunes represent the great American sugar
interests, and Mr.. w. B. Henderson of Bos-
ton
All the great hotels, such as the Savoy
the Cecil, the Carlton. Claridge's. the Rus
with Americans.
Many millionaires had the forethought to
engage apartments months in advance.
Others who find themselves without accom-
mediation are Offering fabulous sums for
suites with a bath.
Even the Bloomsbury district where
numberless embryo millionaires lodge real
ICES that this is to be a record year for
Americans. and hurried preparatio are
being made to provide extra sleeping ac
commodattons at most OF the large boarding
houses.
Picture dealers, curio dealers and book
sellers see prosperous season ahead The
old furniture industry Is already booming,
and 1t is believed that this years output
of antiques" Chippendale chairs for Amer
lean export will break all records at the
midland factories.
There will be many kinds OF million
aires in London in the next few weeks.
Fashionable millinery and dressmaking es-
adjustments are already executing orders
for American millionairesseS, who are buy
ing more in London and less In Paris every
year.
Gable Companies VIII Profit.
Even the cable companies will profit
greatly by the invasion. for all of these
millionaires. who have made their money
overnight. would not consider a trip to
Europe enjoyable unless they could con-
duct their financial operations by cable.
The American who breaks into the aris
tocracy of dollars continues to think in
thousands to the day of his death.
There will be many personally conducted
tours. In which the gentle "schoolma' am"
from the New England states will predom
pate. Schoolma'ams of the pie belt, which
is the old English district of the northeast,
where the people eat fruit pies for break
fast. have only one ambition, and that is
to do England" the home OF their an
cestors.
Tours are also arranged In every state in
the Union. and many prize tickets are is
sued in various ways. Chicago news
paper is sending the ten most popular shop
girls. voted for by their colleagues and
Kansas City pork packer Is paying for the
tour of twenty-five OF his employees who
have not been late for work during ten
years.
Baron Takaki, x-surgeon-in-chief of the
japanese navy. is delivering a series of in
teresting lectures at st. Thomas Hospital
this week on the means by which the health
Of the Mikados soldiers and sailors Is pre-
served.
Baron Takaki, who for five years 0s15-
1880 studied at st. Thomas Hospital, has
introduced into the japanese army and
navy reforms in the matter of hygiene and
dietary.
1t was he who suggested that during the
campaign the Japanese soldiers and sailors
- Yng- ,lDf 1. GO
that it might be rendered antiseptic in case
of wounds. The title of baron was con-
ferred him by the mikado for the per-
lection TO which he had brought the di
etary of the navy.
In England for Holiday
II have come to England for a holiday
and to study new methods at the hospit
ais" Baron Takaki said On May % 1
sal, Tor America, where 1 intend staying
until July 2
II went through the war with Russia as
a spectator. being In Manchuria with the
army, and as the medical men of the navy
have supplied me with many facts and
figures. l shall be able to show the effects
in war time of our official diet on the
troops.
Mr. E. 8. Cation. editor of Tobacco" is
authority for the statement that the reduc-
ton of the tobacco leaf duty will be very
welcome to manufacturers.
The smaller manufacturers will benefit
greatly he said When Mr. Austin Cham
berlain put 3 pence per pound on stripped
tobacco 1t was great hardship. for they
had not the facilities for manipulating the
ribs OF the unstrpped leaves. Consequent
ly they had to buy the stripped tobacco
and pay the extra duty.
The reduction comes at a very oppor-
tune time, as the price of the American
tobacco leaf is advancing considerably
In view of that fact. / do not think re-
tatlers can expect more favorable terms
from manufacturers. The consumer will
benefit by getting better and purer to-
bacco at the same price"
The striking declaration of Sir Gorell
Barnes president OF the divorce court, de-
nouncing judicial separations. and limiting
broadly at the desirabilty of altering the