Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-07-15 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

LADY COMMERCIA.L TRAVELLERS.  A correspondent, writing from Roumania to the Queen, calls attention to a system which exists there, and throughout the East of Europe, with regard to the procuring of wedding trousseaux and similar outfits. To meet the wants to which these occasions give rise, ladies journey thither from Paris laden with the necessary wares from large houses in the French capital. They are generally well dressed and presentable women, who thoroughly understand their business. They proceed from town to town, exhausting each ere they pass to the next, calling at all the hest houses, and endeavouring to get introductions from one to another. The system is usually to begin with small articles, of fine linen, which they sell cheap and of good quality; and, having established relations with their customers, they widen their field, and obtain more important orders for gowns, jewellery, &c., by which they make larger profits. As a rule,they succeed so well that, ere they leave, they have done enough businers to secure large sums, and there is no doubt that many English ladies would, as soon as they were invited, find this a pleasant and profitable career.  At the luncheon of the council and the judges, held in the dining-room, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Manchester, on Thursday, Mr. Bruce Findlay, the curator, proposed "Happiness to the newly-married couple," and in the course of his speech said: "I may perhaps be excused for mentioning an incident (not a secret, inasmuch as it is known to her Majesty the Queen). In the year 1821 my father was a gardener in the then Duke of York's garden at Oatlands Park, in Surrey. The Princess Victoria, then a baby, was in the garden with her nurse, and fell into a pool of water. My father, who was near at hand, pulled the baby out of what might have been a watery grave."  'the tireat Eastern Railway Company have given Messrs. Earles, of Hull, an order for two twinscrew steamers for their Continental traffic via Harwich and the Hook of Holland. These vessels will be of the same speed and type as the steamer Chelmsford, which was placed on the service on June Ist last, with greater beam and length, in order to improv • the passenger accommodation.  About half-past six on Atonally morning a fire broke out at the Wandsworth Goods Station, Battersea-rise. It originated in a timber building, used as a coal office, and the flames had obtained a good hold when the alarm was given. Two steamers were promptly in attendance from Wandsworth and Battersea; but on their arrival it was not found necessary to put them into operation, the flames having been already extinguished by means of the appliances on the adj-xent premises. Shortly before 2 o'clock on Sunday, Henry Durrent, aged 27, a barman in the employ of Mr. Crow, the landlord of the Grave Maurice public house, Whitechapel-road, committed suicide under peculiar circumstances. It is stated that he and his employer had had a trifling quarrel over some matter of business, when Durrent went straight upstairs and threw himself from the third - flior window. He was at once picked up, and conveyed to the London Hospital, where he died.  Mr. Henry Fowler Broadwood, till recently head of the great pianoforte manufacturing firm of John Broadwood and Sins, died at Horsham,on Saturday, at the age of 82. After studying at Harrow and Cambridge. he entered the house of Broadwood in 1632. He was a deeply read theorist and acoustician, and took a very prominent part in the development of the modern piano. In 1846 he brought out a square piano with complete iron frame. Under the advice of Professor Pole, he caused new scales to be drawn up. With his workmen he was extremely popular, and in 1847 he founded a library and reading-room for them. In 1860 he enrolled among his employes a company of the Queen's Weamiasters. He was a keen sportsman and Wittman.