Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-14
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ence in the way of speed of about ninety
kilometers an hour. When NJ. Loubet was
In Madrid the king took him for auto
mobile drive. and nearly scared him to
death by the speed at which he drove
The Briar Pipe Industry.
Pipe smokers who have lately heard 50
much about their pipes costing them more
have found at last that the prices Of good
briars have actually gone up. An old
fashioned Haymarket dealer told me yes
terday that he had tried for two years to
keep to the standard prices familiar to
smokers of his pipes all over the world
The difficulty of securing good root briar-
1t only grows In certain places on the
French Pyrenees-haS now compelled them
to add Is. or Is. Sd. to the prices which
have held good for years Thus his half
guinea pipe Is now lis 3d.. the lbs. Cd. Is
lbs. 3D., the lis. is los. Sd. and the Ell Is
Ell Is. Sd.
The smoker who. not protesting to make
an art of his pleasure. Is content with
shilling pipe will not be much affected. The
pipes one sees piled up in thousands in the
East End wholesale windows prices I'd. to
1OAd., are innocent of briar root. They are
turned out by rapid machinery fed with the
waste briar or other wood for which manu-
facturers Of pipes from well-seasoned.
knotty briar root have no use. The reason
why the root Is so scarce is because since
briar pipes were introduced forty years ago
Inc ldtuId l III tuo HAS De-
come exhausted. and no one has thought it
worth while to cultivate the root 80 as to
make up for this diminished supply.
His Excellency Ii Chin Fan, the newly
appointed Chinese minister to the court of
ST. James, will arrive In England. under
stand, in October. His excellency has
sometimes been COMPOUNDED with his
brother, who is the ChinesJ minister at the
court of Vienna. and is now on leave of
h,o, pr<,, hie, T To to nr,n
of China's ablest men. having been minis
ter at Toxic at the time of the outbreak of
the Chino-Japanese war and also Chinas
second plenipotentiary during the negotia-
monoseki. Up to the date of his recent ap-
pointment Ii Chin Fan was director of
railways in his native province of Han
Hui. The railways are not yet built, but
over the processes of surveying and capt.
talza ton his excellency has had full con-
troll. AS for delay in his starting for his
London post, it is pointed out to me that
he has had good deal to do. He has had,
for example to find a successor in Han
Hui; then there is the formal visit to Pc
king; and, lastly, the duty of returning to
his native province and paying worship at
his ancestral tombs. Ii Chin Fan is no
stranger to England, as some fifteen years
ago he was secretary of legation here, and
he speaks English well. He is reputed a
wealthy man both in his own right and as
the adopted son of the late Ii HUNG Chang.
Modern Methods in London.
The cosmopolitanism of London is not
new thing, but modern commercial enter
prise has brought it out more sharply thah
1t appeared in days before business received
the stimulus of advertising. 1t was star
Ting object lesson to Londoners few years
ago when a well-known west end shop, re-
ahzing the possibilities of the custom OF
American visitors, set out the prices OF us
goods in dollars and cents, with their Eng
fur
power Of 1.-The almighty dollar was palo
when some firms dropped giving the price
of their goods in the English currency, ana
marked them in the American currency
only This, however, Is merely an astute
trading device designed to tickle the vanity
of Americans in their weakest part-the
purse. In the east end OF LONDON cosmo-
politanism is full of practical drawbacks
A candidate for the Stepney borough coun-
Gil recently found it necessary to print his
election address in half a dozen languages
In order that he might effectively appeal
to the SURFACES of the naturalized aliens
of all nationalities in the borough. Now
the District Railway Company, which is
being smartened up under Sir George Gibbs
management is displaying bills at its east
end station printed in Yiddish wherein is
set out the time tables and the scenic beau
ties of the riparian districts served by the
District Railway Company.
With the production of Mr.. Henry Arthur
Jones play, 1.-The HypOcrites,' at the Hicks
Theater the autumn theatrical season may
be said to have begun In earnest. The pro-
duction of musical play last week and a
little one-act Japanese play last night were,
so to speak. the hors d'oeuvres. The lat
ter, adapted from the Japanese by Miss
Loie Fuller, the famous dancer, afforded
Miss Pauline Chase another opportunity Of
showing that her departure from the realm
of musical comedy was justified, for she
acted danced and mined" with much in
telligence and delicacy. The little play.
however. was made absurd by the char
acters. who are all Japanese, talking in
pidgin English.
Among the immediate productions OF great