Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-05
STRAY TOPICS FROM LITTLE OLD new YORK

New York, May 3.-Although no de-
finite plans have been announced for
the social entertainment of the Queen
of Bulgaria, who is to arrive in this
city the latter part of this month. it
is understood that society will open
it's door to the royal visitor and enter
tain for her on a large and regal
scale. 1t is considered unlikely, how
ever, that the element OF society com
monty known as the "smart set will
take any part in the entertainment
of the Queen, since her Majesty cares
little for the mere gayeties Of social
life. The probabilities are that the
royal visitor will accept few invita-
tons except from those women OF
society who are allied with the great
charitable and philanthropic enter
prises at home and in the Orient.
Yelling styles this season are moth
ing if not unique. A number OF eff
fects which ven a year ago it would
have been thought impossible to sell
are now being shown and are said to
be proving popular with the buyers.
Variations of the, beauty spot idea
show the greatest latitude in design.
One of the prominent houses in the
trade is now bringing out these effects
with a question mark taking the place
Of the ordinary dot, and for the cir.
who likes baseball there is another
effect in which a bat and ball are
worked into the veil. Another popular
effect made by the same house shows
a lizard in place of the dot.
A large number Of fine books, rare
manuscripts and important autograph
from the library OF the late bishop
Boane of Albany were sold at auction
here this week. Included among the
beautiful old manuscripts were mar
riage contracts signed by the mem
Ders of the royal family of France, in
Guiding Louis XIV. There were also
first editions of Dickens, Thackeray
and George Eliot and original manu-
scripts by Mark TWAIN" Wilkie Col.
Inns. Leigh Hunt, Thomas Moore and
others. The collection included also an
interesting letter to Mrs. Doane from
Harriet Beecher Stowe about the
health of her son, who was wounded
at Gettysburg, and a letter from Will
ham Wordsworth. the poet, to Bishop
Doane, in l845. on literary and eccle.
siastical matters.
When Italians sail from this port il
the steerage of the big liners to see
their families in the mother country
they are searched at the gangway:
by expert seamen who take away al
revolvers and knives and give eacf
man a check with which he can re
claim his property on arriving at the
port of destination. The same rule i:
applied by the steamship agents whel
the emigrants embark in Italy fol
America. The object of deprivins
these passengers of their weapons i:
to prevent any trouble arising among
them while aboard ship. On I steam
err recently, where the lie were al
lowed to keep their clasp knives, {
small fire was discovered in the for
ward steerage, and before the officers
realized what had happened, the Sici
liam passengers rushed on deck, ripp
ed the canvas covers off the life boats
and sat in them waiting for them tt
be launched.
The winner of the $4,000 prize of
fered by Winthrop Ames of the Little
Theatre for the best American play
by an American author is expected tt
be announced next week. The confess
was begun a year ago and closed last
August, when more than 1900 manu-
scripts had been submitted. The
plays were submitted anonymously.
The prize was the largest eve Offered
in a contest of this kind. OF the great
number of plays submitted a surpris
ingly small number were rejected as
ineligible, which left the Judges witt