Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-26
TOURISTS IN LONDON
EOts Are Crowded BY Wealthy Americans
and Families
( TAKING THEIR RECREATION ON THE MOVE
Automobiles Help to Keep Visitors Engaged
During Summer
BARRING 1.-THE MKADC" STRANGE ACT
Action Of Br,tish Authorities Hes Caused
Comment Generally,
START FIGHT AGAINST SHOE TRUST
london Paper Exercising Vigorous
Warfare Upon Boot and shoe
Organization, whose Acts
it DecrieA.
START FIGHT AGAINST SHOE TRUST

LONDON. May E-(special. )-London is
fast filling up with Americans. They are
arriving by every train filing the hotels
and the boarding houses and keeping the
motor cars busy from morning until night.
From the continent just at present there
is almost as much travel there is from
America, The two streams in fact are
meeting just now. The wealthy half Euro
pean-American who has been spending the
winter on the shores OF the Mediterranean
is homeward bound. The often wealthier
American. who has no time for idlins in
the winter. is rushing over to take few
weeks rest and recreation in different parts
of Great Britain.
Many OF the Weather visitors are bring
ing their motor cars with them. Many
ninionalres, by the way, now keep a car
or two on this side Of the Atlantic all
the year around. Whether wealthy or not,
the Visiting American does not feel that
he has seen England until be has taken a
run down to shakespeare's country or into
DevonshIrc in an automobile.
The automobile" said Mr.. F1agg. the
london manager of the American Express
company. in whose HaymRrket rendezvous
Americans foregather. rs helping to keep
Americans In this country. Where for
merry they would stay only q day or two
ia London and then go on to Paris. they
are now spending the best part OF their
holiday in touring England by car. We
encourage them to do It, planning tours
for them by automobile and putting them
in the way OF seeing the most beautiful
and interesting parts of this country with
out trouble"
FFNt.. -.
tho lord chamberlain raised by his remark
able action in banning The Mikado," is
still arousing widespread discussion and
comment, especially now that cable dis
patches say that the production has been
revived at the West End theater in New
York City and In other parts of the world
n Japanese Are Surprised.
y 'Innuential japanese In London declare
emphatically tLat no representation OF any
kind whatsoever has been made on behalf
OF Japan which can have led to the extra
ordinary attitude taken up by the au-
thorities Among those interviewed may
be mentior'd Mr.. X, sugimura, the dis
hnguished special correspondent OF the
Toxic Asahi, one OF the leading japanese
newspapers. Among other things he said:
The only part of the play TO which OBJ
lection might be taken by some Is the pre-
sanitation of the mikado on the stage as a
comic character. This would be impossible
In Japan where my countrymen regard the
person OF the emperor as too high for such
treatment. Yet oven with Ms one OF our
most famous novelists. saiiaka OF the Cen
Foku period did treat the figure of the em.
peror humoTously, describing one OF his
characters as the Emperor Doll. The novel
iS still circulating IN Japan. It has not
been prohibited there.
I'VE recognize that in this English play
It is not any particular mikado represented.
and that the empero: is not shown as a
cruel and frivolous monarch. L am not
among those who put art before morals,
but do not think It justihable to suppress
the opera for such trivial reason. Be-
sides the mikado in this play is not a GER
tain emparor OF Japan OF n certain period
He II neither historical nor modern but
purely an imaginary creature. II the name
'Mlkado were TO offend some (not sane
JapaneseJ let It DC changed 70 aotono.'
'Shogun, OF any other one pleases. Then
there could be no possible cause OF offense
to anybody
''Of course, the play is not In the least
like Japan, showing as It does an imaginary
world The characters embrace and kiss
quite publicly. In my country this would
be quite shocking. No properly brought up
young ladies like Yum-Yum would ever
dream of doing this.
And speaking OF Yum-Yum cannot
understand from what part OF Japan the
author got the names OF his characters.
Yum-Yum I thought al FIRST 10 be Num-
Mum. an Incarnation TO Buddha. Real jap
anese girls would never be called Yum
Yum or Peep-Bo Then. too, the name OF
the man Pooh-Bah Is not a Japanese
name"
Public Regrets Loss of MiI<ado.
Mrs. D'Oyly Carte says that she has
been fairly inundated with letters and tele-
grams from the public expressing their in
dignation and disappointment at the pros
pect OF The Mikado" being lost 70 them.
hr. Henry Arthur James being interviewed,
said.
i am unable to Judge how far The
Mikado' might possibly offend the patriotic
and religious susceptibilities Of the Jap
anese and how far II would be polite 10
pay Difference to those feelings
Apart from this. which is indeed the
whole question, confess 1 am amused at
nnoinS 90 blameless and strenuously In
nooent an author as Mr.. NJ s. Gilbert un-
der the ban Of Lord Chamberlain
Ihe London Daily Mail. which had SO
much to do with bringing about the speedy
dissolution OF the Soap trust, Is now en-
gagged In war upon the so-caHed Boot ana
shoe trust which It appears. has some
American connections. Says the DaUv
Mail;
I'VE viii have tax on every pair Of
shoes made Is the openly avowed ideal ana
ambition OF the great Shoe Machinery
trust
The Shoe Machinery corporation. with
a capital Of td0oooooo Incorporated under
the laws OF New Jersey. Is going the right
way 70 realize It's aims. II controls corn
panies IN America Canada. France. Ger
many Scandinavia. Switzerland ana else
where. In England its branch corporation
q known as the British United Shoe Ma
chinery company. limited From seven
eighths 20 nine-tenths Of the British shoe
mAnufacturers are bound 70 Il ana The