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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
KAlSER'S TRAIN C0zY AS HOME
Beer and Cigars Enllven His After
Dinner Unrestrained Chat With
His Companions
Special Cable % The Herald.

special Gable to The Herald.
BERLIN. June 9.-when Emperor
William travels by rail in Germany
he insists that his train shall go to its
destination without stopping The time
of departure is fixed in such way that
his nights rest is not interfered with.
the start being made either in the
morning or shortly before his usual
bedtime.
His special train is fitted up so COM
tortably according to his own tastes,
that he feels quite at home in it. on
entering it, should it be early in the
day, he goes to his study and sits at
his writing table, where the rays of an
electrip lamp fall on a beautifully
framed photograph of the empress and
their children.
He first hears reports from the vari-
Gus ministers, then signs documents,
looks through the newspapers and de-
votes a period to reading.
Then he summons a secretary and
dispatches letters in several languages
to other monarchs or personal friends
He often consumes several hours
Though the sentences are spoken rapid
ly, corrections are never necessary.
The emperor has the gift of concen-
trating all his faculties on the subject
in hand, and he expresses himself as
precisely in the foreign language as in
The meals are taken at the usual
times and the dinner may not last more
than an hour.
After dinner the emperor assemblies
his suite for an unconstrained chat, ac-
companied by beer and cigars.
The bedroom is very simple. His
always sleeps we'll in the train,
rises early. takes a bath in the bath
room adjoining his bedroom and then
puts on the clothes he will wear on
leaving the cars, either gala uniform
If there Is to be a great reception, or
simple forester's costume if he is Wis
iting friend for the shooting.
If the train arrives at its destina tion
very early in the morning 1t is run on
a siding until his majesty awakes and
finishes his toilet.
This method of travelling explains
why the kaiser always looks so fresh
and bright when he appears before the
public.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
ARE GREAT RIVALS
OVER CONCERTS
MRS. MACKAY AND w. w. AS
TOR LAVISH WITH MONEY
Mrs. Mackay Has Closed and Dis
mantIed Her Paris Home, to
the Fear of Disturbances
in the French Capital
pecIal cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON. June 9.-In view of the
trouble in Paris, Mrs. Mackay has had
her famous house there completely dis
mantled. AS every one knows, it was
full Of art treasures. Sevres china,
Carara marbles and furniture of the
first empire. which is priceless. 1t was
Mrs. Mackay's express wish that the
valuable things should be removed as
quietly as possible, and her desires
were most successfully carried out.
The greater portion of these precious
belongings are now at her London
house in Carlton House terrace and
the remainder is stored. Mrs. Mackay
was told several weeks ago that it was
essential she should take this step, as
there was bound to be trouble in Paris,
IL not at that moment, most assuredy
in the immediate future. According to
present arrangements these things are
to remain in England indefinitely, and
her house on the Bois, which is now
closed may not be reopened for year.
Meanwhile Mrs. Mackay will entertain
in the magnificent style for which she
is famous at Carlton House terrace
where her sister, Countess Telfener, and
Mrs. Mackay's young granddaughter
who is still d bride, will be among her
guests.
stars" at Musicale
Mrs. Mackay and William Waldorf
Astor are great rivals in concert Civ
ing. Every London season each tries
to outdo the other in the number of
stars who appear at their musicales
Once it so happened that each had ar
ranged a concert for the same evening,
and Mr.. Astor, finding that Mrs.
Mackay had secured the services of
Paderewski, made the great pionist an
offer of an extra $1500 if he would
throw over Mrs Mackay and come to
him. This PaderewsHd absolutely re-
fused, and the offer was increased to
$1,000, but this was again rejected, the
sending back word that mot
all Mr.. AStor's money would ever in
duce him to break his pledge to a lady"
When Mrs. Mackay heard what had oc-
Cured she sent the pianist a check for
$1,000.
Concert giving in private houses is
the most luxurious form of entertain-J
ment, because of its enormous expense, |
and of late years very few have cared |
to spend the immense sums which it in |
wolves. The glory of treating their |
friends to Melba, Jean de Reszke ETC., |
has rested almost exclusively with |
Mrs. Mackay and Mr.. Astor, who each |
makes a point of entertaining his or |
her friends twice each summer to a |
which includes half a dozen |
stars of the first magnitude in the |
operatic and concert world.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
ScoRN FOR YACHTING PARTY
French Writer'S Opinion Of Mrs. Goe-
let's Visit to Venice Is Not
Very Flattering
Special Gable to The Herald.

special cable TO Inc Herald
PARIS, June 9.--Mrs. Robert Goelet's
yachting party at Venice has been
made the subject of an outpouring Of
scorn on the part of a picturesque
French writer, who says that the Amer
leans in the party are wholly devoid
of artistic emotion or appreciation of
Venice as it appears with its thousands
of scintillating lights at night. The
writer pours out his indignation thus:
"On the still waters in the moonlight
thousand lanterns throw a sudden
glow on barks and gondolas as they
pass, flaming from tip of mast to the
water line. In the distance st. Marks
CLEANS and the palace of the Doges
remembers it's ancient splendors. We
are in a fairyland of ancient beauty.
But upon the great yacht Nahma, a
floating palace of unheard of luxury,
lounge, with their hands in their pock-
cts and bored to death, the guests of
Mrs. Goelet. They make no movement
and never even turn their heads to see
the wonders that pass before their
weary eyes. They are morose and moth
ing can move them in their perfect
hold respectfully aloof and are not
more susceptible to the seduction of
Venice by moonlight than are the em-
p!oyers, the weary, dreary guests of
the yacht Nahma."
The French writer goes on at even
greater length and gives instances to
show that Mrs. Goelet and her guests
are devoid of all sense of the artistic
and beautiful. Apparently he did not
shut the foodgates of his wrath until
he had exhausted his supply of ad
jectives. The reader is led to infer
from the Frenchman's outburst that he
has been keeping close watch on the
decks of the American yacht since her
arrival at Venice. 1t is thought that
he must be a French nobleman who
has found 1t necessary in the stress of
hard times to pilot gondola in the
canals If so, he has at least preserved
his artistic taste and supply of ad-
jectives.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
POULTRY RAISING HER FAD
The Countess of Craven's Chicken
Yard Now Is in the Park at
Combe Abbey
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 9.-The Earl and
Countess of Craven have left England
for the Canary islands, and will be
absent from England several months
The countess, as will be remembered,
was Miss Cornelia Martin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin.
Frederick Townsend Martin is her
uncle, and Julien Tappan Davies, who
married Miss Marie. de Garmendia, and
Frederic Martin Davies, who married
Miss Emily O'Neill, are cousins.
Lord Craven is the fourth earl and
married about ten years ago, when 20.
He succeeded to his title just before his
fifteenth birthday. Viscount Ellington,
the only child of the earl and countess,
is in much demand to act as page
at fashionable weddings, Lady War
wicks little son, the Hon. Maynard
Grenville being a bit ahead of him.
The viscount is now only s years old.
The Earl of Craven has several fads,
one being for carving and turning,
particularly in ivory. Another is poul-
try raising. He goes in chiefly for the
English game breds, and at Combe
Abbey, near Coventry, which has been
in the family almost 80 years, a corner
is fenced off with wire for the fowl.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
DAYLIGHT GHOST HAS FUN
Its Merry Antics in an Essex Cottage
Have Stirred Up Sleepy
Special Cable to The Herald.

special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 9-Great Baddow
is sleepy little village near Chelms-
ford, but it sleeps these last few nights
less easily than of yore. A ghost--a
real ghost, so at least runs the village
story-has made its appearance in this
Essex Sleepy Hollow!
1t is. too, a ghost Of highly original
pattern, for it gambols free in the light
of day.
1t made its appearance a day or two
ago in cottage occupied by an elderly
couple, Mr.. and Mrs. John Wallace.
Mrs. Wallace had just made the bed
when the spook strewed the clothes on
the floor.
Then the ghost descended from the
bedroom and cleared the kitchen man-
telpiece of all its ornaments, which it
placed, in a spirit of unghostly care
fulness, uninjured on the hearth rug.
At this the village constable, and af-
ter him the village blacksmith and q
parish councillor, were called in. But
even they could do nothing, and few
minutes later the frolicsome spirit set
several flower pots dancing on the VIM
dow sill before the frightened eyes of
Mrs. Wallace.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
QUESTION, WHAT is WHISKY?'
London Court Tries Quaint Case and
Monkeys Are Made Drunk to
Settle Issue

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 9.-All London smiles
over the quaint case being tried in
Clerkenwell sessions before Mr.. McCon-
nell. the kings counsel, the title of
which Is, What is Whisky?" The
question is being threshed out by
number of illustrious lawyers and some
quaint witnesses. 1t is all a question
as to whether potstill whisky can be
equaled by still liquor. In order to
give practical illustration two mon
keys We're taken and one made drunk
with potstill, the other with patent
still. According to the evidence, the
monkey treated to undue potions of
potstill behaved after the manner of a
gentleman under the influence of malt
liquor, whereas the one dosed with
patent still got mad drunk and mis-
behaved disgracefully after the man
ner Of an Irishman at Donnybrook
fair.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
EASIER TO MAKE KINGS BED
Quaint Old Rules Have at Last Been
Completely Abolished and
Bedmakers Rejoice
Special Cable 10 The Herald.

Special Cable 10 The Herald.
LONDON, June 9.-Those who are
responsible for making King Edwards
sleeping hours as comfortable os pos
sible are no longer confronted with the
quaint rules and regulations with re-
gard to the making of his bed which
have been handed down from Tudor
times. Every one knows how stead
fastly Queen Victoria respected ira
dition in matters of court etiquette and
state observanceS. While she lived, she
insisted that the elaboratey mounted
rules to be observed in the making Of
the soVereign's bed should occupy a
the palace set apart for ladies of the
bedchamber. They have now been re-
moved and there is much speculation
as to what has become of them.
A few extracts from this awe-in-
spring documents will give some idea
of the time that must have been oc-
cupied in making the kings bed:
"A yoeman or groome of ye ward
robe will holde We syde curtens and ye
toote curtens. A yoeman of ye crowne
to leape upon ye bedde and role hym
up and assaye ye litter. Then laye
upon 1t ye fether bedde and bette 1t
we'll and make it even and smoothe
Then shall yoemen of we stuffe take
We fustian and caste it on ye bedde.
handles thereon and laye it streight
upon ye bedde without any wrinkles
and ye skeete in Samewise. Then take
bottle sheetes and fustian by ye bor-
dure and put them in under we fether
bedde at both ye sydes and at ye feete
also Then laye on ye over sheetes and
go to ye bedde's head and shake down
ye bedde. Then laye on tother stuffe
Then role down ye bedde ye space of
an ellie. Then let We yoemen take ye
pillows and bette them well and cast
them up to ye squyers and lette them
iaye them on ye bedde as it pleaseth the
kings grace
After a considerable amount of ad-
citional labor is to be expended on
placing more sheets and fixing cur
tains, "a squyer is to caste holy water
on ye bedde" and then as a grand
nnale, "alle that were at We making Of
ye bedde music have bred and ale and
wyn'-the most pleasant part of the
performance, one would imagine Who
would dare to maintain after this that
Uneasy lies the head that wears the
CROWN"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
LONDON PRESS COMMENTS
ON PHENOMENA OF GHOSTS

friends at distance. One day during
her absence her dog. CHANGING to look
out OF drawing room window, uttered
q bark Of joy and rushed out upon the
lawn, where II began leaping and bark
Ing on one spot, as If in recognition of
good friend standing there.
Then, suddenly stopping, It looked up,
uttered a howl Of terror and rushed
bac ktrembllng into the house. News
soon after arrived that at that very
time the absent owner of the dog had
died.
Novelist Rider Haggard's experience
in this connection is worth retelling
He dreamed that his daughters re-
trieve dog was lying among some
brushwood beside water. II was try
ing to speak and MIR. Haggard realized
in his dream that IL was dying II was
afterwards discovered that the dog
had been run over by train on the
night of the dream and its body was
found i'm a neighboring river.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
FINED $500 FOR A SPREE
Peculiarities of the Case That Led
Up to This Extremely Heavy
Penalty
speclal Gable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 9.-It sounds rather
astonishing that man should, in this
country of all others, and in London of
all cities, be fined $500 for being drunk.
And yet this is what practically hap
pened at the Mansion House The
penalty was not of course directly i'm
posed, but the delinquent and his surety
between them had to pay it, and that
comes to very much the same thing.
A man who had been too frequently
convicted of being drunk was at last
bound over on his own recognizance
In $3.50 to be of good behavior, and had
to find a surety In the like amount.
Before the time limit had expired he
was again convicted of drunkenness
and in the ordinary way fined So. But
then came the question of the bonds.
and he had to appear before the lord
mayor to show cause why they should
not be estranged. He had no cause to
show, and so the money had to be paid.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
RAGE FOR ROSES IN LONDON
Enormous Demand for Them for Din
ners and Social Functions In
British Capital
speeIaI Cable to Nc Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 9.-The present sea-
sons fashionable rage for roses for
dress and table decorations eclipses any
fad that has prevailed here for many
years. Separate petals as well as COM
plete blossoms are used. Dinner tables
are sprinkled with petals. which some-
times are busted with silver powder.
Women pull artificial roses to pieces
and scatter the petals on their tables
At the Forthcoming society wedding
the brides train of white tulle will be
sprinkled with white velvet petals. in
each of which a small brilliant will
be fixed to represent dew drop.
The bridesmaids dresses will be sim
ilarly sprinkled, one with pink, anoth-
er with crimson, another with yellow
petals. Bouquets all will be of choice
roses
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
specIal cable 10 rhe Herald

LONDON. June 9-"Can animals see
shosts2" is a question that has been
raised in the London press and curious
examples of the prenomenon are re-
lated.
One story is that of parsons ex-
perience with his horse and an alleged
ghost. He was driving along q coun-
try road when the horse suddenly
stopped, pricked UP its ears and looked
straight ahead, as II startled. At the
same moment the parson save the APP
partition of n man. Had the same
ghostly figure been apparent to the
horse? Later the clergyman learned
that other persons had seen the APP
partition at the same spot and that a
man had committed suicide there.
The following is related i'm one Of
Canon MacColrs books: A young lady,
who possessed a dog of which she was
very fond. left home on a visit to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
TIGERS SHOT BY PRINCE
Indians Work Flim=Flam on Royal
Sportsman Who Went Out
for Big Game
Special Cable to The Herald,


LONDON, June 9.-with his blush
ing honors from the jungle thick upon
him, the prince of Wales is coming
home from India. While he and the
princess have been in the great eastern
empire he has had his pet Weakness
the shooting of big game-fattered for
all 1T is worth. He is convinced that
he is the greatest shot inside or outside
of Europe, for a hundred tigers not to
speak. of leopards and bears. have
fallen to his gun, and he is going to
distribute their skins as souvenirs
among his friends. l have learned Just
how the princes shooting expeditions
were organized.
For weeks before each took place,
plenty of tigers and other wild an
imals were trapped. Shortly before the
royal party set out they We're judicious-
ly drugged and placed about the jungle
for the prince and his friends to en-
counter, which they invariably did. The
more than semi-dazed animals mooned
around in the most amiable moods, the
prince fired, and If he did not hit one,
he did another. His friends said
bravo and the dead were carried off
in triumph and the future king felt
a hero.
When the duke of Connaught was in
India at the Durbar, this same game
was tried with him. The duke is, how
ever, man of sense. He saw through
it directly and was most irate
mo nonsense for me-" he said.
"Tomfoolery l detest and flattery is
impertnence 1 sail never again ham
die a gunt to shoot big or little game
while | am in India" And he did not.
But the prince of Wales is a man of
utterly different caliber than his
uncle. The many toadies who surround
ed the prince during his mission in
India soon became cognizant of the
type they had to deal with and they
humbugged and hattered him right,
left and center
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
SEVERE ON WOMAN PLAYERS
Actresses Mustn't Fool Vienna Court
About Age or They Get
Into Trouble
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
VIENNA, June 9.-Ilka Triska, an
actress subpoenaed as witness in.
court, gave her age as twenty-seven. A
few days later the judge received an
anonymous letter In a feminine hand
affirming that the actress was twenty
nine. A warrant was Immediately is
sued for the actress and she was ar
raigned before her judges to answer
10 a charge OF perjury although the
question OF age had nothing TO do with
the case IN point. The actress escaped
with the warning that a second such
offense would be severely punished.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
THEIR INCONGRUOUS MIXING
OF PARTISAN MILLINERY

famous milliners In Paris. Every pur-
chaser had to solemnly promise to wear
the hat she bodght to the theater, and
furthermore to undertake for q whole
year not to appear inside a playhouse
with anything on her head learger than
the purchased model All the hats
were, of course, very small and con-
sisted more in graceful arrangements
of fruit and flowers than in anything
that could properly be called hat.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
THINKS HIS DUKE
A BIT EXPENSIVE
ZIMMERMAN WON'T INCREASE
DAUGHTERS ALLOWANCE
Hence the Duchess of Manchester
VIII Be Forced to Lease Her Beau.
tiful Home in Ireland to the
King of England
Special Cable to The TJeraId

Special Gable to The Herald
LONDON, June Skiing Edward. I
nave learned from source unusually
well Informed in court matters. will
spend month or six weeks next
autumn at Kylemore castle-but not
as the guest of the duchess of Man
chester. To entertain his majesty there
was at one time the American duch-
ess greatest ambition, and readers of
this correspondence will recall what
prodlgious preparations she made last
year in anticipation of realizing her.
fondest hopes. And sore was her dis
appointment when the king concluded
his visit to Ireland without accepting
her hospitality When he does ar
rive there it will be as her tenant.
For some time past the duchess has
been trying to lease the place, as she
finds the allowance her father makes
her insufficient to keep it up in the
style she started to maintain, for she
spent mint of money in furnishing
and decorating it. But Mr.. Zimmer-
man won't increase it, for he is of the
opinion that he pays quite as much as
it is worth for the privilege of having
duke for a son-in-law.
King Wanted to Buy Place
llCil INiuS IedTQ JndC the
duchess wanted to get Kylenore off her
hands, he told Consuelo, duchess of
Manchester one of mis- most intimate
women friends, that if her daughter
in-law was willing to sell outright, he
would like to acquire it as a royal
residence in Ireland for the prince and
princess of Wales He was told that
she would be very glad to let it, but
as to selling it--not even to accommo-
fIafA
was a gift from her father. AS royal
residence would of necessity have to
be a permanent one, the king aban-
doned his original idea and decided to
take the place himself for the term of
his projected visit to Ireland
The duchess greatly regrets having to
leave Kylernore the dukes own Irish
ancestral CASTLE but while Papa Zim-
norman remains obdurate there is no
help for it.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald
PARIS, June "a veritable ex-
odus of young French architects is taxi
ing place. All are westward bound
San Francisco being their destination.
They have heard of the success met
with by French architects in the United
States and think this Is golden oppor-
tunity To make name and reap a for
tune. These young men, mostly re-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
MANY YOUNG WOMEN OF PARIS
STUDENTS AT CITY HOSPITALS

held a meeting to protest against the
admission Of so many women. as they
say that in few years Frenchmen will
be driven from the ranks of many pro-
tessions II this sort Of thing Is kept
up There are already three women
druggists in France. one of whom Is
praeticing IN Paris. The College OF
Pharmacy here is very serious insti-
tuition, and the coarse Is a six-year one.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
FRENCH ARCHITECTS ARE
BOUND FOR SAN FRANCISCO

cent graduates from the school of archi-
lecture here, are possessed with fever
for the golden west not dissimiar TO
that which possessed the Forty-niners.
They look upon the new San Francisco
as the Eldorado Of their dreams and
are madly racing toward the shores OF
the Pacific TO take part I'm the building
operations. AS none of them speaks a
word of English II looks as II there was
going TO be a lively time for interpret
ers In San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
WIFE READS IT
IN ACTORS BOOK
.ENRAGED, SEEKS HUSBAND,
WHO DENIES THE AFFAIR
The Woman's Queer Fad-lndulges 1t
by Buying All New Books and
Autoeraphing Them to Her
Own Sweet Self
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald
PARIS, June 9.-"The Author of the
Lady With Much Love-" These tell
tale werds, the wife of a we'll known
romancer read in a book she found on
the parlor table of a fashionable ac-
tress, the declaration being signed
with hubbys name and a recent date.
Madam had gone to the apartment in
search of references for a new maid,
and getting tired OF waiting had care
lessly opened one of the books before
her.
Angry Wife Seeks Husband
Maddened with rage and jealousy,
she rushed away and sought her hus-
band. The latter swore that he did
not know the woman, and handwrit-
ing expert was engaged to back up his
statement that the inscription had not
been written by him. The expert so
reported. He also reported that on
the lady's parlor table he found books
from nearly every French author SINH
larly inscribed-the actress evidently
sought TO impress her visitors by the
fiction that she was a literary woman
and the friend Of all the literary lights
Of the age.
Ansv' to Authors Complaint
II appears that she secures speci-
mems OF the handwriting OF all authors
whose books she covets and hires a
Jim the Penman to autograph them
In imitation Of the authors handwrit-
ing. Some of the dedications are very
warm indeed For instance: ITO the
most beautiful of actresses by the
worst of writers-PreVost," etc. One
of the victimized authors nude COM
plaint to the states attorney, but was
told that he had no case, since the
woman did not try to make capital out
Of his handwriting and, indeed, had
never told anybody that the books
were actually inscribed by the writer's.