New-York tribune., 1910-08-14
POLITICIANS ON MOORS
Radicals Plan New Methods OF
Bleeding Wealthy Glasses.
AN EXODUS OF AMERICANS
Publishers Turning to Airshlp
Stories-A New Automatic
Rifle-Grouse Shooting.
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| fresh issue, are seeking 10 IIidhe d 'eS'
case of the shooting season. 1t is. true
that in spite of the budget and the ne"
methods of bleeding the titled and rich
| classes. the grouse moors and deer for
ests have been taken on better terms
than have been obtained for many sea-
sons. Not more than a dozen superior
shootings remain unlet and unoccupied,
and their owners have made better bar
gains with the tenants than usual The
rush of northward traffic has been ex-
ceedingly heavy. and sportsmen are not
showing any signs of being taxed out of
existence.
The King has set the example of shoot
ing promptly on the noors at Balmoral
with the Prince Of Wales and members
of the royal household.
Lord Savile is shooting in Yorkshire
the Duke of Portland in Caithness- shire
and Lord Crewe Alfred Lyttelton, ]. W,
Lowther Speaker of the House, and H.
Stonor are with tn Duke of Devonshire
at Bolton Abbey.
Lord Esher, who is regarded as a pos
sible peacenlaker between the rival
houses In November, Is in Scotland after
grouse, and the veteran Lord Strathcona
has put the burdens of Victoria Street
behind him and taken extra shootings in
Argyllshire-
For once golf is abandoned TO lawyers
and parsons and there is a marked re-
vival Of interest in shooting Large bags
are already reported, as the grouse are
strong on the wing and the n1oors are in
an excellent state for the sport The
prospects for partridge shooting are less
promising. as the harvesting will be
fortnight behind time.
Lord Kitchener and r. B. Haldane are
among the earliest guests at Balmoral,
where they are likely to talk about
new automatic rifle which has been sat
isfactorily tested for military use
Lord Rosebery will not complete the
cure at Vichy in time to open Dalmeny
for shooting parties before September
Sir Eldon Gorst still fingers in Eng
land and rumor Inongers insist that Ron
aid Graham, who has been suddenly
summoned to London, will be his sue
cessor before the year ends. Sir Edward
Grey wants the best possible Information
respecting the political conditions in
Egypt. but is not likely to make drastic
changes in the British staff.
The exodus of American travellers
opens to-day with the departure Of five
great liners without an empty berth
Before the end of October the largest
number of transatlantic travellers ever
carried in a single season will have re-
| turned by hundred liners.
! There is also a steady increase in the
number of Englishmen crossing the A.
| lantic for New York or Quebec. The
Archbishop of Westminster and the
Bishop of London have already sailed
for Canada, and the Bishop OF Salisbury
will follow them next month.
Wall Street men who are sailing on
the Campania to-day talk about getting
up pools on the price Of rubber. The
! fuctua tions of that elastic material have
been fully a half crown a pound in
| forty-eight hours, and spectators have
prematurely assumed that a revival of
the boom of last spring would be in
evitable before Christmas.
The publishers are bent on bringing
out an early autumn crop of literature
before the frosts of general election in
the fall. Murray will have an English
edition of Mr.. Roosevelt's book, and ex-
poets to find large sale for it. Lady
Dorothy Neville has found abundant ma
terial for another volume of reminis-
| cences with fresh sheaf of letters from
Lord Beaconsfeld and other celebrities.
| There will be several books for airmen,
in view of the passion developed among
the leisure class for adventure among
the clouds. These will describe the art
of flying. notable flights in Germany,
France and America by dirigibles and
aeroplanes, the uses Of the new mechan-
ism in scientific warfare and thrilling ad-
ventures of men like J. A. Drexel. Robert
Lorraine, NJ Paulhan and Graham White.
The publishers assert that women of
fashion take more interest in books on
flying than they do in novels.
! H. G. Wells is dramatizing "Kipps' for
an early production at a London thea
| tre.
By the death of Lord Spencer to-day.
England loses high minded statesman
| of unblemished character, who narrow
ly missed being Prime Minister on two
occasions. Mr. Gladstone had selected
him as a successor who would keep the
Home Rule question foremost, with John
| Morley as his chief lieutenant, but
Queen Victoria did not ask for advice
from the retiring Prime Minister and Sc
lected Lord Rosebery on her own initia-
tive The second miss was when Rose
berry and Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-
man had agreed to serve under him and
he was suddenly disa bled by stroke of
paralysis. Earl Spencer's memory failed
him after that seizure, but until within
a few weeks was he able to ride and
walk on his estate, unlike Joseph Cham
berlain, whose mind has remained un-
clouded, but whose arms and legs have
been partly disabled. The earl con-
sidered himself the special guardian
| Of the Washington churches, and enter
tanned T. F. Bayard, John Hay Joseph
H Choate and other American ambas-
| sadors at Althorp Park. His heir is his
half brother, who, under the style of
Viscount Althorp, is a most efficient Lord
Chamberlain.
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