New-York tribune., 1909-06-06
JOURNALISTS GREETED
THE HORSE SHOV OPENS.
Church Pageant another Feature m
the London Season.
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Especial by French Cable The Tribunel
London, June 5.-The Imperial Press Confer
ence and the International Horse Sho" are III
congruous rivals for public favor with inc
church pageant In reserve as unique eccleSl-
astical spectacle The conference has been
opened tonight with a dinner at the Palace OF
Music at shepherds Bush, with fifty guests
from India and the colonies and more than hve
hundred hosts mainly journalists. The dining
hall was ablaze with imperial embems ana rang
with national songs There was the best afteE-
dinner oratory available in England, FOR Loru
Rosebery proposed the health of the guests
and with Lord Burnham in the chair and Sir
Hugh Graham to respond for the colonies there
was an authoritative exposition Of the opJectS
of the conference.
These objects are likely to be obscured by the
elaborate circuit of hospitaity-planned for
the colonial Journalists They will be enter
tained at Marlborough House, the Foreign Of
fee the houses of Parliament, the Mansion
House the Constitutional Club sutherland
House the Duke of Wellingtons, Lord North
ciffes Lord Burnham's and numerous other
places and will witness the military and naval
reviews and other imperial ceremonies This
roetronolitan iunketing will Ali nine days and
there will be fortnight of lavish entertainment
in the provinces and Scotland. There VIII ce
little leisure for business and this is confined
by the programme to safe professional topics
like cheaper cabling and all red press agencies
for communication between the mother country
and the colonies.
The conference might do important work Il
it were allowed to discuss a practical measure
for securing representation of the colonies in
genuine imperial council. not under the control
of the Colonial once. Imperial federation would
be hastened if public opinion in the empire were
concentrated upon progressive policy. THIS
sort of talk about cheap cabling and press
agencies is not likely to promote the unifica-
ton of the empire by means Of organic institu-
tions
The international horse show. which has be-
come an annual social function, opened to-
day with enormous crowds. an unrivalled dis
play OF roses. orchids palms and rhododen-
drons and the largest collection of foreign
horses and equipages among the $500 entries
exhibited in London. Olympia. with its
trellised walls, sweeping arches and verdant
levels. was converted into an immense con-
servatory and decorated with consummate skill
The opening scenes even more brilliant
than those of previous years. and the attend
ance large that il evident that the
increased expenses for prizes and management
would be covered before the close Of the show.
Among the American exhibitors were a. G.
Vanderbilt. Julian Morris, f. II. Wetherbee.
Judge William H Moore. c. W. Morris and L II.
SALISBURY. The British section included horses,
harness and equipages belonging to the Marquis
Of Anglesey, General Brocklehurst. Lord Dal-
meny, Sir Edward Stern, Walter Winans. Louis
". Winans, Lord Ludlow Sir Walter Giibey
and Lord Errington. The early competitions to-
day virtually the same those Of last
year, a pageant of heavy horses. four-in hand
competitions and high jumping being prominent
The coaching Marathon next week will be a
striking novelty. and the military contests will
be conspicuous events
The church pageant. which will open on Thurs
day at the grounds Of Fulham Palace VIII CON
tinue for ten days and Will be a fairly complete
pictorial display OF the history Of the English
Church. The programme is so long that there
will be tNo sections-an afternoon and an even
ing one. The record will be brought down from
the days of the primitive British church 10 the
nineteenth century. 4 large number of prom
inent clergymen are among the actors in this
extraordinary ecclesiastical play. y F