The evening world., 1910-12-17
KING GEORGES
FINDS NEW YORK
JUST LIKE LONDON
TaXiS, Clothes, Servants, Even
the Tea the Same, Says
Boer War Hero.
RIGHT AT HOME.
None of the Comic
Views of Americans True
to Real Life.
FELT RIGHT AT HOME.

There isn't a particle OF difference.
Now York Is exactly like London
that 10, for a person who comes over
here and goes into society. IT'S most
extraordinary and totally unlike any
thing / was led to expect. One meets
the same sort OF people. wearing the
same sort OF clothes. speaking with the
same infection and behaving In all re.
spects just as those one meets In Lon.
don.
one Is attended by the same sort OF
servants-all servants here. at least ali
that I have seen. appear TO be English
or TO have cultivated the English tone
and manner-one rides In the same
sort of taxis, hansoms and four wheel
ers and Yes, It's quite true--dashed
IL the very tea Itself isn't the very same
that one gets in London"
1t wasn't a belle Of the latest London
season who spoke, nor yct a top.hatted.
frock-coated type Of Nhe fashionable
young man OF London's smart set. JuS,
the opposite. Col. the Hon. H.. p.
kcnna, A. ID. O., V. Il and other CAM.
tai letters too many 60 set down here.
the hero or half a @ozen engagements
or the Boer war AND one OF the mos,
widely known experts on military mat
ters In the British army. settled him
self in a tapestried arm chair in his
suite at the Hotel St Regis and told
how he had been impressed with New
York society on his first visit.
Not Like a 0rIzzled Warrior.
He isn't exactly a grizzied warrior in
appearance. lie IL under the average
height. partially bald. with a tanned
complexion. keen black eyes and with
the short mustsche that most English
officers wear.
His hands are small and we'll mani
cured. his feet unusually small, for a
man and his clothes OF the most correct
Bond street cut. Yet the Victoria Cross
that he wears-the small bronze decora-
ton that 10 oniy awarded to a soldier
who saves comrades life at peril OF his
own-and a less definable quality mark
him at once as a soldier and q man OF
action.
One OF the first things King George v.
did after his accession to the throne
was to appoint Col. Kenna his aide de
camp. The Colonel II always in close
touch with the War ONCE; he Is one
OF the best judges OF a horse In the
United Kingdom and always Is con-
suited when His Majesty buys a new
saddle horse; In a hundred other ways
~ -. -, g. - a 20. hi. a. A.. L.
elgn n his country, Yet he pulled a
cigarette to-day and talked OF New York
and London society.
i've been here about a month now"
he said. "and from the very first / felt
absolutely at home-absolutely. I re-
peat. It's most extraordinary. My wife
and ] have met with none Of the char
acteristics that the London comic pa
pers invest Americans with. We have
heard nothing OF the nasal twanE, We
nave seen non OF the crudities, the
evidences OF nouveau richie. the lack of
cultivation that we feared to ind. It's
just like home--that's about all can
say OF IT., and the best.
"And why shouldn't It be so? We are.
Natter all. the same sort OF people, and
It was natural to expect that after he
newncss wore away from Amerlca-of
course II takes a hundred years or so
to get the shine of a new country, Just
as II takes with our colonies-socicty
here should be just like our own. 1
realize, OF course. that our experience
here has been only with persons OF the
same station that we would meet at
home. but, Just the same. It shows
the general trend. and ! believe in. say
a SRnFa nf NaAra all anntnfN In All.
country-in New York and the nearby
cities. at any rate-wnl be no different
from society at home"
Col. and Mrs. Kenna have been the
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Bret.
tung nj the st. Regis. The Colonei's
first wife was the daughter Of the
Earl of Abingdon and her sister Is
Lady Edward Talbot. wife OF a brother
OF a Duke OF Norfolk. England's pre-
mier duke. The present Mrs. Kenna
Is a sister of Lord Cliveden.
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