New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-20
KING PASSES VACATION
ON THE GROUSE MOORS
Prince Arthur of Connaught to
Visit the Car at Imperial
Summer Palace.
ASQUITH GOES TO SCOTLAND
Westminster Deserted Notwlth-
standing That Adjournment OF
Parliament Has Been De-
ferred Owing to Strike.

lBy Cable TO The tribune
London. Aug. 19.-The King viii leave
Wharf Valley on Monday and be enter
tanned in Scotland by the Macintosh
and by Arthur Sassoon before settling
down at Balmoral. While he has not
rivai,ed at Bolton Abbey the fine bag
~ grouse obtained on the DalloWgili
Nioors, he has had excellent shooting
with picked sportsmen beside him. NJ
birds are shot until he arrives, and
drives are organized on scientific lines
This remains the Kings favorite sport
since he IS an expert shot and seldom
misses his bird. He will have deer
stalking at Balmoral, but no grouse
shooting.
There ere rumors that the visit to
India will be postponed indefinitely put
they are baseless. as Is the story that
the King has ordered a racing yacht
The Duke Of Fife, Lord Plymouth, the
Duke OF Rutland. Lord Knoilys, Lord
Enfield and many other peers will be IN
the Highlands until october.
Mr.. Asquith. who is pale and Jaoed
from overwork, will spend long vaca-
ton in Scotland His physician has or
dared him not to make vacation speeches.
but a party leader cannot remain silent
in times Of excitement.
To Visit Peterhof.
Prince Arthur Of Connaught, who has
assisted the King effectively In court
functions. will start on Monday for
visit 70 Peterhof. where the Russian I'M
rerial family are protected by swarms
Of score, police and not allowed mucn
privacy.
The American Ambassador is spend
ing the week END quietly at Wrest Park
Westminster has been deserted, not
vithstanding the fact that the adjourn
r,ent Of Parliament has been deferred
until Tuesday. David Lloyd George
winston Churchill. sydney Buxton and
Lard Haldane will remain on guard with
the Primo Minister for a few days, but
viscount Morley and other members OF
The Cabinet have headed northward Tor
the east coast golf courses.
Lord Halsbury is cooling off at pict-
uresque Mortehoe, near Ilfraconbe, and
Lord wiucughby de Broke has found
pleassnter retreat than the last ditch
II Lord Ancestors country house.
The political back water will soon
empty out, for Augustine Birreirs an
nouncement that there will be Home
Rule bin next year has been accepted as
a challenge by the stalwart Unionists.
Sir Edward Carson will take the field
before long in Belfast and Dublin in
quest OF another and more defensible
last ditch
Stranded Owing to Strike.
The hotels are filed with belated
American tourists who are not permit
ted by the steamsip agents to Join the
ships at Liverpool and other ports
where the liners are either without
crews. without provisions or without
coal.
some travellers are without money and
have taken refuge IN cheap lodging
houses where jocose paragraphers make
copy out Of them. Their ''privations,"
however. are easily exaggerated. Ameri-
can society in London has well ad-
rninistered charity fund for such I'M
fortunates, with arrangements with the
steamship lines for sending them across
the Atlantic at less than half rates, but
these funds have not been seriously
rsided
The steamship offices are eesieged with
anxiOus tnoiIirers who are urged 10 re-
mair where they are and await tele-
Srans telling them when special trains
viii start for the ships.
Summer. from the theatrical point Of
view. is already a thing Of the past.
Rehearsals ere in progress at several
theatres. and the season VIII be opened
IN the course Of a fortnight. Macbeth
and Romeo and Juliet" will be produced
early and Henry Arthur Jones's new
play. THE Ogre" and Alfred Sutro's
"Perplexsd Husband" viii be rival at
fractions.
Charles Frohman's first production will
be THE Concert and there will be
several other American plays. The
Drlrry Lane melodrana this year viii
supply Oriental scenes from the durbar
st Delhi.
. $500, ~A1H rntDIIAE