The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09
AMERICAN WOMAN |WAS OR|G|NATOROF B|G HUMBLE SALE" CaledOnian Market One of Unique Features of War
 Relief Work HIGH AND LOW ARE MINGLED TOGETHER lmost Everything Conceivable Was Placed on Sale in the 1S0 Stalls
 at the Great Market
 of England
By HAYDEN CHURCH

|London, June Especial. )-What ,ould England do without her American tughters-in-law? Who would replace |ady Paget, Lady Randolph Churchill, e Duchess of Marlborough and the rest organizers of big benefit" stunts. pth in peace times and in war, should 4y undreamt of combination of circum- ! hnces result in the repatriation of the hny daughters of the Stars and Stripes Ith in upper tendon and out of it, who le resident in this country as the wives Britons? It is difficult to see, for Aglish people will say to you quite lnkly that the talent for getting up" entertainments, monster bazars, etc., one that their country women do not ssess, but which seems to be born the American woman.
 One could not help pondering upon sse things after being informed, the her day, by no one. less than Arnold nnett, the famed novelist of the five Rvns, that it was an American society man, unknown, as yet, to wide re- Nvn, who first thought of and later car Nd through to triumphant success the tgest, most ingenious and infinitely lst picturesque enterprise which any ty in this country has yet devised as Imeans of raising money for good lrk in connection with the war.
 This scheme was the great war fair
 the Caledonian market, London s ,atest cattle and rag mart, which has It come to an end in a blaze of glory which, though it is too soon yet to 6 the exact figures, is known to have hlted in profits of some thousands of bnds sterling for the wounded allies ef fund on behalf of which it was u. At the Caledonian market, during
 two days which this gigantic Jum-
 sale,'' for such it was, lasted, east k west and west east, in spite of Kip Ks dictum. For one this occasion the ers at the five miles of stalls Of tch the market consists were for the Bt part women of title from the swag-
 West End" while among the vast bngs representing every class that ged through the turnstiles to spend tr pounds, their shillinss and their Ice, the denizens of the district s1ed largely. And this district of hgton, if it be not literally the East h," according to the map, is own Sin to Whitechapel and Bshopsgate
 the 'other shabby and poverty strick- districts that are.
 .MARK ABLE INTERMINGLING
 ever in the history of England. per- $, was there such an intermingling or
 classes and the masses as the Gale ian market witnessed on those two oric days. To begin with, though, t of the stall holders were swells, duchesses and countesses as thick olackberries among them. there were $ kept by coster and "char" women,
 some of these cheek-by-jowl with ;e of the titled ladies. In this, it's lnguishing feature. the thing was tue. Heretofore, when the great ones society have "helped'' at benefit
 ts, they have sold things to folk heir own class, expensive things for ch they extracted as many times value as cajolery could manage, but he Caledonian market it was differ
 It had been widely advertised that
 big war fair" was for the poor as
 as for the rich, that there were to be
 gains for all and for contributions le sale the organizers appealed to all ses of the community. And as re-