The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-28
LONDON GABLE LETTER
The League Against SeascknesS Proves Grand Failure
in Paris.

stride is twenty-seven and a half inches
and during her hours Of duty she was
compelled to take no less than $500
steps, or distance Of some twenty-five
miles
Commenting upon this fact, a German
newspaper says that this represents an
eight-hour march, and that it shows what
hard tasks are now being performed by
women when obliged to earn their own
living.
The Berlin police officials report that
nearly 1000 Americans arrived in Berlin
during the first week OF August. The
total OF American registrations during.the
year will exceed that of 1909. when more
than $4,000 visitors from the United States
visited Berlin.
Hunting elephants for their ivory is a
profitable business. John Boyes a noted
African hunter and explorer who gave
Col Roosevelt the tip where 10 find the
white rhinosceros, has returned to Lon
don after eight years in Africa. In the
Congo in that period he obtained ivory
worth $4,000
For several years Mr. Boyes was king
of tribe called the Kakerus. and com
mander OF their army Of 5000. When the
British government learned that ne was
king he had TO les~e the tribe
France is the first country to appoint a
commander-in-chief of aeroplanes. The
minister Of war has just appointed Gen.
Rogue TO that office IL is said that the
minister has also decided TO ask for an
appropriation OF sio0OoO for the aeroplane
department.
The minister intends TO order fifty aero
planes this fan, and he is also going to
offer prize TO army officers for a new
military aeroplane that shall be an mn
provement upon all existing types.
The hanson cab is rapidly disappearing
from the streets OF London 1t can not
compete with the taxicab The hanson
cabman is bewailing his fate, or else
learning how TO drive a taxicab.
The hanson cabmen report that this
summer they would have earned little
save for the fact that American women
used the hanson for shopping. The han
som charge is so cents an hour. while the
taXicab is l6 cents a mile. The waiting
time tor taxis averages about H.3 an
hour, which makes the hanson a cheaper
vehicle for shopping. II is expected that
the hanson will have completely disap-
peared from the streets within another
year.
I'm sorry to read about the destruction
Of the Brussels exposition by fire." said
an American tourist at the Hotel Cecil,
but my sorrow was increased when I
learned that none OF the Brussels hotels
were burned at the same time
The Brussels hotels have been gouging
visitors TO the exposition. They have
nothing 10 learn in that respect from any
American hOtelkeeper. They demand s.
and $40 day for the rooms they used 10
let for 81 and 50.
The Brussels hotelkeepers don't have
an exposition every year, and it is ap-
parent they are making a rich harvest
of hay while the exposition sun shines.
OF course. Brussels has been packed since
the exposition opened. and you wouldn't
complain If prices had. say, been ptft up
50 per cent. but when they are trebled
and quadrupled it is time 10 make
kick"
A few Apericans who happened to be
visiting the principally Of Monaco at the
time when II was struggling with its first
elections had an exceptional opportunity
% enjoy themselves.
Some r1Oufhc Mr,orO e,,lqe,f..
woke up one morning with a thirst for
parliamentary government and marched
upon the princes palace A revolution
was averted by the prince consenting TO
receive a deputation, to whom he said:
If you want TO elect each other to some
thing, by all means do So" or words to
that effect
The Monegasques accordingly elected
each other to a body which they called
the communal council after going
through all the proper formallties Of
shouting and spellbinding The body
electorate at once split up into four dis
tipct parties the Real Monegasques. the
ffie Monegaspues, the Monaco Patriots,
and the Progressive Nationalist OF Mon
AGO. The last named party came out at
the top Of the polls and holds the ma
jority in the commercial council.
The prince has granted the council
supplies of $4,000 a year The question
before the council. improbable as it may
seem. is what to do with the money.
Every public expenditure IS covered al
ready several times over by the profits
Of the Monte Carlo gambling tables. The
councils budget therefore will work out
something Ike this: Annual revenue.
100000; expenditure. nil.
The day Of the political boss has not YET
dawned in Monaco. but it will probably
come. and then there may be some mod
ihcation in this unique balance sheet.
A little story OF an expert and an an
tique has been amusing the collecting
world Of Paris A Partisan antiquary OF.
fered the National Museum at Budapest
twelfth century enamel representing the
Alteration OF Christ" II was nearly ten
inches long and five wide. and the price
5000
The curator thought he recognized an Il
an article stolen from the Cluny Museum
at Paris. and teleTaphed 10 NJ. Homome
TO that effect. whereupon great indigna-
ton was expressed at the Cluny Museum
that any one should think anything could
be stolen from there.
Then the curator recognized the piece
as one stolen from the Gueret Museum
IN April. 1903. as it answered the descrip-
ton in the Gueret catalogue. So the
would-be vender was thrust into prison
and the article intrusted 10 an expert. NJ