The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-18
Special Cable from the international
News Service)
fav Herbert TemnIel

Especial Cable from the international
News Service.)
(ey Herbert TempIe.)
London. April 18-A determined eff
fort is to be made to remove the re-
proach that England has few flying
men.
Lord Mantagu OF Beaulieu, chairman
of the aviation committee of the Roy
al Aero club meeting to be held at
BOurnemOuth next July, has issued an
appeal for a special fund for the en-
of British competitors.
"Here is the position" he said to me
yesterday. "At Bournemouth, $4O,-
600 will be offered in prizes for inter-
national flying competitions. Unfor-
tunately, it is certain that foreign COM
petitors will sweep the board so there
Is little inducement to the British in
ventor and flyer to compete. He is
generally a man with little money,
who can not afford to compete II he
stands no chance of making good his
expenses.
''What I want to see, therefore. is a
prize fund for British Aviators.
propose that this be devoted to a sub
stantial prize for the British competi-
tor flying in foreign machine, and a
still larger prize for the competitor us
ing an all British machine.
Ten years ago l was laughed at for
my enthusiasm over motor cars; today
we lead the world. So hope we may
yet do the same in flying machines.
One calm day In May steamer with
% miles Of telephone cable on board.
will start from Dover and will proceed
very slowly across the Channel to Cape
Girls Nee. Thus will be laid new
link between England and France,
which will mark the beginning of an
important development in the cross
Channel telephone service.
One Of the principal officials at the
general postoffice says that two new
cables each containing four wires. will
be laid by the British government and
the other by the French government
1.-THE object of the new link" he said.
lis to make conversations possible be-
tween towns in the Midlands and in
the North and Paris and the towns in
the north of France, and also to relieve
the present congestion on the London.
Paris line. Theoretically, Birming-
ham. Liverpool, Manchester. Hull and
other towns are on the phone to the
French towns, but when it comes to
practice we find 1t Is very difficult to
be heard at all.
Cardiff has the greatest success
with Paris calls, and q great deal OF
business is transacted over the phone
by South Wales coal exporters"
It is hoped this year to establish au-
dible communication with towns as
far north as York. and probably, as the
service improves, with New Castle and
Glasgow.
Miss Ellen Terry's tour in America
actress declared yesterday. ] am sim
ply going to visit those places have
been before. and the people know me
we'll. and deliver little informal lee
lures discourses- call them-on
Shakespeare" she told me. 'sThe tour
will not start until next October, and
the arrangements have not yet been
completed. All can tell you is that
l shall discourse on Shakespeare plays
and Shakespeare acting generally, and
shall, of course, recite extracts from
those Shakespeare plays in which !
have acted. There will be no costumes
or scenery, or lantern slides. or any
thing Of that sort-only myself in plain
everyday clothes, to talk about Shakes
peare for an hour and a quarter"
quite a pleasant little romance
comes from Lewisham and one which
shows that even the stone walls of the
workhouse sis not a prison make, y
when love wants to find a way beyond
the barriers.
One OF the inmates OF the Lewisham
Workhouse Is an old woman named
Elizabeth Forest, and it has just come
to the knowledge of the guardians that
she is about to make q second matrt-
monial venture with an old sweetheart.
In the dear dead days OF long ago. =
their ways parted. and each took an
other partner. Death robbed the man
Of his wife and the woman OF her hus-
band. After her husbands death,
some years ago, Mrs. Forest became an
inmate or Lewisham Workhouse. BY
the marriage she had two children. =
boy and girl. and they have both
proved credit to her. The boy Is In