Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-16
AMERICANS IN LONDON
Many Linger Sightseeing Despite
Freezing Cold.
INTEREST IN HORSE SHOW
New Electric Tube Will Revolutionize
Conditions.
G0RGI'S SOJOURN UNN0TICED
King Edwards Business Methods at
Buckingham Palace-system and
Up-to-Date Conveniences.
GORGI'S S0J0URN UNNOTICED
Special Correspondence Of The Star

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, June 7, 1907.
London is full Of Americans as usual at
this time of year, but peculiar interest
holds them here, even though 1t Is freezing
cold for the season. 1t is the great inter
national horse show, which opens next
week. l cannot remember SO much Ameri-
can interest in anything of the kind, even
for boat races in which transatlantic crews
took part. Of course, on those occasions
parties were made up to go to Henley to
see our boys row, and the banks of the
Thames for the Henley mile were painted
In good American colors and the United
States practically owned dozens of house
boats along the course. The horse show,
though, caps it all, and every day 1t be-
comes more evident that Americans will
make the bravest showing of any nation
(bar British, of course) there.
1t opens next week and lasts only for a
week, but 1t has secured exceptionally
fine entry. Practically all the leading show
harness horses and show jumpers in Great
Britain have been entered and 100 entries
come from America. From France, MN.
Thorne and Roy will send large entries of
harness horses or jumpers both, and NJ.
Roy, the famous dealer who supplies the
Prince of Wales and the court with big
state carriage horses. will send some
French coach horses which should prove
very interesting to breeders of Cleveland
bays and Yorkshire coach horses. From
Spain, the Duke of Angerin will send
several exhibits. and from Belgium. NM.
Phillipot and Matthew, Loewenstein and
Lieut. Daufresne send harness horses and
jumpers. Mr.. Hoboken some fine horses
from Holland and Mr.. kreym from Ant
werp.
Not the least interesting item will be the
gray team which Mr.. Armour sends from
America. This team consists of half a
dozen, and for purposes of comparison
though not for competition, Messrs. GUM
ness and the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company will send teams of half
dozen each. For the last day of the
show the executive have made arrange
ments with the Coaching Club for the lat
ter to have a meet in Hyde Park and
drive down to the ring at Olympia where
a gold cup will be given for the best team
coach and appointments. Lord Lonsdale
judging on behalf of the international
horse show, while the Coaching Club will
appoint judge of their own.
This will undoubtedly be the largest
horse show ever held. Entries number
200, and each day will find full and
varied program. The show seems to have
caught on with the public well as
with the exhibitors, for there has been a
keen demand for seats, and most of the
boxes are already sold.
New Electric Tube.
The new Hampstead electric tube, which
last destroying agencies of old London and
its sleepy suburbs 1t connects by electric
train two beautiful old-world villages,
Golders Green and Hampstead Heath, the
latter with Its large common dear to the
heart of the coster and his girl on bank
holidays, and which has also been immor-
taliZed by Dickens and other writer's The
villages will now be thrown open to the
ordinary vicissitudes of the London suburb
But the Hampstead tube will mean a rev.
oiution In more ways than in the material
change II will bring about in the habits OF
the northern suburbanites. 1t will mean a
revolution in their inner life. The matter is
one that every newcomer to London must
have pondered over. 1t does not apply to
Hampstead alone, but to all the suburbs
within bus ride of the city The motor
bus began the change, but the tube fin
lshes 1t. A certain type of Londoner will
disappear with the horse bus In the case
of the business man or woman who works
In the west central district and lives in
Hampstead the journey home each night
takes an hour. For the greater part of the
year it is impossible to read inside the bus
and conversation is always difficult even
If one were fresh and luck brought a con-
genial neighbor. AS an almost unvarying
rule the passengers sit quiet and languid
letting their bodies sag as they NAV t. the
1olting of the bus.
You can see by their eyes that they have
surrendered themselves to their memories
or hopes. or that they are simply thinking
OF nothing, and. droned into sleep by the
motion of the bus and it's steady noise. are
blissfuily, dreamily happy. There they sit
SIDE by side as oblivious of one another as
sepulchral figures. stepped in privacy
concentrated by habit which no other hour
or their life can know. At one end their
offices; at the other their home with its
claims and cares and excitements In the
creaky old horse bus they are as If they
mad fallen out of the world for an hour
In the other big cities people dash home
In great flashing cars big enough to hold a
acQua1ntanceS bright
for reading a reprint of the classics. Only
In London does the blessed hour in the
horse bus tarry and now even in the
Hampstead road 1t is threatened But the
social historian will never understand the
Londoner of the age that is passing unless
he notes 1t well.
Gorki Unrecognized.
1t Is curious that man whose fame and
physiognomy are so universal and well
known should have been in London for
nearly fortnight and still remain unno-
ticed and unrecognized. 1t was something
OF surprise to most people to learn that
Maxim Cork. the grim Russian novelist,
has been daily attender of the meetings
or the Russian revolutionary party, now in
secret conclave here but the fact is merely
q striking Illustration of the precautions
taken by these conspirators in the cause
of freedom to conceal their personalities a.
well as their plots.
Cork, although his movements have been
cautious and clandestine. has been in the
habit of dining publicly in German res
taurant not very far from the Angel, the
famous hosiery of Islington. 1t is a some
what remarkable place. and is frequented
almost entirely by foreigners and English
men of cosmopolitan habits and associa-
TONS
Cork went unrecognized here generally,
except by those associated with him in the
movement" who concealed their knowl-
edge, but last Thursday artist who
dropped into the restaurant to dinner roc
ognized the novelist and forthwith began
to sketch him.
Cork was accompanied by two friends,
both editors of revolutionary organs recent
ly suppressed by the car. They were
greatly excited by the unconcealed work
OF the artist. and finally one of the three
approached the artist and asked him what
he was doing. The sketch in rough outline