New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19
Hotels and Shops Bewail
One of the Poorest
Seasons i'm Years.
BLAME HARD TIMES
AND SUFFRAGETTES
Three Sporting Events Helped
TO Induce Americans to
PrOlong Visits.

London. July IS After spectacular
invasion for the last three weeks the
number Of Americans arriving last
week was considerably smaller. giving
the hotel managers and the merchants
an opportunity 70 again bewail one OF
the poorest seasons IN years. They are
wondering, as they did early in the sea-
son, what the causes are. Cndoubt-
edly the idea is prevailing that the me-
tropolis has been sidetracked by many
this year, and the bugaboo of the mer-
chants is whether il will develop again
next year. There is no doubt in their
minds that financial disability is help
ing to curtail the invasion this season,
while il is believed also that many
American tourists have boycotted Lon
don because of the number Of places
closed because Of suff:agette ouLrages.
American visits of short duration are
conspicuous, with the consequence that
money is lost to the merchants.
When hotel men and others stop 10
analyZe the situation they VIII con-
graduate themselves that three sport
ing events helped to induce many
Americans in London TO linger here.
These include the Henley regatta and
the subsequent entertaining by Amer
leans. the Richie Welsh fight and the
"Gunboat" Smith-Carpentier match.
while during the last week 100 midship-
men and their friends greatly boosted
the social activities Of their country
men.
Officers Presented TO the King.
de.r MI oh
among the Americans present were
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Miss
loan Whitridge. Between the dances
the following officers Of the American
battleships Illinois and Missouri were
presented to King George: Captains
Fullam. Burridge, Price and Flag and
Lieutenant Bagley.
Among the Americans at the RITZ
tins week are Mrs. Charles Potter
King. Mr. and Mrs. Davids Walton. Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick Robinson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Rhinelander Stewart, Ernest lsc-
lin. Isaac Guggenheim, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Mann, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Con-
nell. F. y. Watrous. Mrs James Henry
Smith. ex-senator and Mrs. Chauncey
Il. Depew. MIR. and Mrs. J. y. Puckman
and Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Ryan.
The New Workers at the Berkeley in
clude Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Flagg, f. Grew,
:. ". Whitehousc. Mr.. and Mrs. j. X.
Sheffield and family. who arrived from
the Continent: Mr.. and Mrs. +. S. Pike,
Mrs. A. Winters. Miss Jean VI. Henry,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Clarke, Livingstone
Phelps. who came from Paris, and Mr..
and Mrs (. Hall
Americans at Claridge's are Mr. and
Mrs. J. N. Hill, Charles Matthews, Mr..
and Mrs. A. ID. Russell and family. Mr..
and Mrs. Irving Lehman. Mrs. ". +.
Carter, Mr. and Mrs. William Cove and
family. Mr.. and Mrs. William Leonard
and daughter b. K. Winthrop. b. A.
Bcale. Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Viller and Mrs
William Warden.
Americans al the Cecil.
Americans at the Cecil include Mr..
and Mrs. Owen Davis and family. DIR.
d. A. McAulifFe, Miss Alice McAulifre
and Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Underwood
and daughter.
At the Carlton the arrivals include
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Glazier, Of New
York: Mrs. Nelson Curtis and daughter
and Courtenay Guild. Of Boston.
These New Workers are at the Savoy:
Charles :. Parker. VI. c. Benthan. Will
lam A. Brady, who arrived from the
Continent; Mrs A. II. Storess, j. NJ.
Moller. Lymington Clifford. George A..
p. Oliver, ". j. Baxter, Franklyn A.
Wilson. Mr.. and Mrs. S. +. Muirhead,
Mrs. ". G. Post, Mrs. Frank ".
Brookes, Henry Savage, who is going
70 Paris; also B. +. Griscom Of Phila-
delphia
At the Buckands is the Hon. George
Duncan. OF Boston, heir Of the Earl Of
Camperdown.
Miss Estelle Kilischere is here 70 or
game and arrange meetings o. the
Americana English women's polo teams.