Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-22

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aire, news of whose death reached LONDON
this week. She has not been very long
! IN England. but has made herself very
popular at court as well as IN general
| society.
| Lord Granard himself is an Irish peer
and a Roman Catholic. He knows Dublin
Castle well. having acted as aid-de-camp
| to Lord Cadogan du ing his lord lieuten-
ancy. Another point which would tell
for his popularity in Dublin is that he Is
not politician OF very pronounced party
views. Indeed. he was not generally
! known to be a liberal until the late Sir
Henry embellishments discovered
him and made him a lo-d-in-wafting.
| Lord and Lady Aberdeen will hardly
feel any very great regret at their I'M
pending severance from the Irish capital.
not very popular one. 1t has been
| marked by several untoward circum-
| stances. of which the loss of the crown
jewels was the most unfortunate. Even
| Lady Aberdeen has been gently criticised
for trying to turn the whole OF Ireland
! into a sana forum.
Among the claims which Haiku Bey.
the Turkish ambassador at Rome, who
has just been appointed grand vizier. pos
sesses to English good will is. so a dis
tinEMshel friend of his and brother Turk
tells me- that he is pronounced Anglo
| phile. He is not only perneated with
English ideas. but he speaks English
nuently as we'll AS French. or medium
l
tache. Haiku Bey is man not only OF
| brilliant intelligence, but of charming
| personality.
| AS a jurist his reputation stands high
| in Turkey. and he is one Of the greatest
authorities on law In the Ottoman en-
pire. In fact. his career has been largely
| identified with law. as for many years he
| was legal adviser counselor legiste)
| of the sublime porte. He was under the
| previous sultan once thought Of az
to r
don, and before he went to the embassy
| at Rome he had been nominated minister
of the interior. He is a Young Turk"
| OF capacity. truly competent to fill with
conspicuous talent the great post to
which he has been appointed.
10000 to the Square Mile.
The first effect OF the report which the
London traffic branch Of the board OF
trade has issued is to make Londoners
cape at themselves. The report takes
in the largest area that can be called
London the metropolitan police district,
and that gives us space of close on 100
| square miles and population Of seven
and one half millions. So we live and move
and have our heing at an average OF ten
thousand to the square mile, and as 50
| much of our ground is merely business
ground the presumption is that the con-
gestion is really sitter than that. Thirty
| municipal bodies in the administrative
county and AZ local authorities in outer
| London. all charmingly independent.
muddie us with reforms or lack Of them.
| And we are SO eEregiously behind the
| times in the matter of tramways that the
| tramway map in last years report has
| had to be replaced by an entirely new
one for this year. Imagine a place 80
| badly Off for trans that in 1909 1t made
enough changes to require a new map:
The idea of this enormous population all
more or less concerned with one place,
yet all without any single unifying idea.
without any single public authority. mud-
ding along haphazard. and getting what
it can out Of private builders. private
landlords. private railway companies, pri-
vate bus companies, private cab COM
! panies, will make some future historical
.ither weep bitterly or crack with
| laughter.
Three important and stately public
Buildings will shortly be opened. The
| first commissioner OF works anticipated
that Christmas would see the completion
| Of the handsome renaissance buildings
| erected from the designs Of Sir Aston
| Webb for THE first lord of the admiralty
and the senior sea lord, with beautifully
formed triple arches in the Mall and
elapse before the buildings are ready for
| occupa ton. The formation of a. roadway
| from the Mall into Charing Cross under
! the arches is nearly finished. Almost con-
1
| and forests will take possession of their
| headquarters, which have imposing
| 'acades with allegorical sculptures in
Whitehall and Great Scotland Yard
Old Buildings Demolished. !
The old buildings are now pretty well
| demolished and a new military recruiting
depot is rising on part of the ground.
In about a couple Of months the hand
- 81 Noko Nall
will be ready for opening. The late Sir
Joseph Duveen presented the trustees
with fJ0,O0O for extensions. and the new
wing thus provided will be named the
NAL Turner room the Tate Gallery will
in future have five rooms in the new wing
all devoted to Turner. Many of the
water-color drawings and sketches which
Gallery will be removed from Trafalgar
Square to Milbank. and will then find a
permanent home. There is still plenty
Of crown land in the rear for further
extensions in future. If necessary.
There is a divergence Of opinion among
the lovers of Dickens with regard to the
scheme for the purchase and preserva-
ton from demolition of the Old Curiosity
Shop. on the border OF Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The apathy on the subject. as
result of which only half the s2.OOO re-
qnired has been guaranteed. is due to
the existence Of strong doubts as to
whether this quaint 1ittlO landmark OF
old London Is really the original home
of Little Nell and her grandfather. Thou
sands of tourists, however. especially
Americans, visit the shop every year
under the belief of it's association with
Dickens.
A proposal which would probably make !
a more general appeal to admirers OF |
Dickens to mark the centenary of his |
birth. in 1912, is that one OF the London |
residences Of the great novelist should |
be acquired as a permanent memorial, |
like Carlyles house in Cheyne row, and |
filIed with q selection Of the numerous |
relics in existence of Dickens. |
Gerry lane and Fleet street. Is now being |
rambling old place are piles Of dusty |
bricks and yawning CULTS propped up
with wooden supports. One quite misses |
its dingy and familiar gateway, which !
always seemed as If it must have been
associated at one time or another with |
ssergt. Buzfuz. And it's next-door neigh |
Dor Ciford's Inn. stands rather dark |
and forlorn against the flaming gas Jets |
that guard the ruins looking as II at any |
minute 1t might share a similar fate. |
Serjeants' Inn. has had long but very |
eventful history. 1t was one Of the inns
f. Tia Honorable Society OF
Judges and Serjeants-at-Law. and con- |
/. -. - serve functions till the end
{ the eighteenth century, when 1t was
largely rebuilt and used as Offices and |
private chambers
The success which has come to- Lady |
Cardigan's "reminiscences has spurred on |
several Of the dowagers OF society to. put