New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-30
LONDON NEVER So FULL,
NEVER 50 PROSPEROUS
Eastbound Transatlantic Vessels
OverCrowded All First
Glass Hotels Filled.
PROBE FOR ASCOT SCANDAL
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Wander
bilt and Lord and Lady
Camoys Prepare to Visit
Newport.
rBy Gable 20 The Tribune

London, June % ne Lo''"'4
which only began to wake up fort
ri,bt ago now bids fair to become one OF
The busiest and most prosperous OF the
las quarter Of century. The streets
and sbops of the West End are crowded
with foreigners in clothes Of all cuts
and hats of all shades and shapes. the
big steamship companies all tell Of ves-
sells coming from America crowded ana
overcrowded 1t is reported from Ne"
York that the President Grant ana the
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Of the HAM
burg-American Line, are full up ana
that the advance demand is very great
The Kaiser Wilhelm II, Of the Nora
deutscher LLOYD Line, IS on her way
here with an enormous passenger H't'
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse Is que
at Plymouth on Monday with every
berth occupied. and bookings on the Ma
,estic the Oceanic and the olympic or
the White Star. and the demand lot
massage on the Cunard ships all sho"
rush t. see at least part Of the Lon
don season when the season is at II pest.
& Faddou Chambers, who is really
Australian. and who. like all colohlaIs'
is more English than most men porn
in England. remarked one day this week;
Americans, Why. they own London
They block the crossing at trafalgar
Square and choke the entrances TO the
Houses Of Parliament. We poor Eng
lishmen stumble over them when we try
10 walk our own streets perhaps;
but II is undoubtedly this great influx
of foreigners that makes the LONDON
season what il is.
The English metropolis is becoming
more every year for Americans colo
mails. Continentals and proyincials alike
the centre and starting point or summer
holidays suspend the railroad and
steamship services and close the hotels
and there would he little left Of the Lou
don season. Business men, at least
understand this and are constantly 60
ing to greater trouble and expense tot
the convenience and pleasure Of visitors.
The steamship companies have added 10
their schedules this year any number IT
short holiday trips 10 Continental points
and the railroads have made it almost
as easy TO cover England as it is 10 get
around New York in taXicab, and not
much more expensive, while the rail-
roads. the steamship lines and the hotels
combine to guide and cheer the traveller
on his way.
Peeress in Ascot Scandal.
The Ascot scandal, concerning traffic
in tickets to the royal Enclosure, is prob
ably the result of the change in the
Kings official family 1t is not limited
that any official has been guilty Of SELL
ing tickets, but one Of them has certainly
exhibited remarkable leniency in passing
upon applications and issuing the tickets
Which made the traffic possible. He is
expected soon to retire from his official
position at court.
Actual dealings in the tickets were con-
Quoted by two women, one of no title
but whose friendship has been for sew
eral years a passport to the most eXclu-
sive social circles. The other is the
American born wife Of a peer, who bears
one Of the oldest titles in England, but
who comes unfortunately from a family
without money and who in the past has
been hard put TO it TO keep up appear
ances.
The first ", IAN found clients usually
among wealthy Americans without So
cial influence. while the other partner
applied for tickets TO be issued to some
When the tickets arrived the name was
carefully erased and that Of the pur-
chaser substituted.
The price obtained has been $50 each
and the business added from 1900 to
1900 sterling annually to the income Of
the noble but impoverished family in
question. At the last court neither OF
the. women involved was present
Flood, the Magnificent.
Barney" Flood, Of District Attorney
Whitman's staff, who has been at the
Waldorf for some months at the ex-
pense Of New York County, is now con-
templating a visit to the Continent be-
fore returning 10 America. Barney
has added about thirty pounds to his
avoirdupois during his stay in London,
as we'll as a remarkable collection of
waistcoats and tweeds to his wardrobe
that has startled Piccadilly and amazed
and confounded Scotland Yard. On his
last visit there a high official Of the
Metropolitan police was obliged to ask:
81 beg your pardon, but did you say you
were the Governor Of New York or a
detective on the District Attorneys
staff?"
Mrs. John Aston, first wife Of the late
Colonel Astor, is going about a little in
society, though she has not been seen at
balls or gay festivities since Colonel
Astor's death. She has been wearing
complimentary mourning - handsome
black silk and satin gowns with touches
of white lace. Vincent Aston is ex-
pected in London soon to visit his
mother, and it is understood that he
will remain in Europe several months.
Some Movements in Society.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt are
preparing to leave London for Newport,
where they will reopen Oakland Farm
for the remainder Of the season.
The annual report is current that the
Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are to
visit Mrs. ogden Goelet at Newport this
summer.
Lord and Lady camoys are also going
10 Newport They will stay with Mrs.