The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1903, Page 45

l oy T 4 Mo all. } Pages 45 to 48 ! NEWS OF EUROPES BULGARIA'S PRINCE IS MOST UNPOPULAR WITH HIS PEOPLE Says He Can Do What He Likes With His Sub- Whom He Treat National Fete jects, te exception is a remark made to nother, was ng to appear at important aoe the Prince is a large, retreeting forshead and prominent nose. streets of Sofia he passes unsaluted and upen one occasion that he approached a “Why do you y. At last one s as Dogs and Whose s He Avoids. Aug. 28.—Princes usually are popular, but Prince Ferdinand of Bul- Perhaps the chief reason of his un- a Russian diplomat some time ago, made public, and is still remembered “I can do anything I like with that disregard for his peo- national ceremonies and fetes, and it is t he lives as little as possible at Sofia. heavy man with hard, pale blue eyes, o It seems that when he is abroad in the unnotic and this so annoyed him group of workmen who had scarcely not salute me?” of the workmen answered, “If you wish t most {ronically was the Prince salut- Y VANDERBILT ART SCHOOL PLAN FAILS Will Not Carry Out His Idea in French Capital. , Aug. 29 b what might art schools 1ave been on Pa he part of de 1a Muette. was formulated by Cor- ffered the heirs the residence of te, 15,000,000 francs. Ce e des Cen- dants, of Sebastien E i et an er of 20,000,001 ered 4 be consid- Fanderbilt refused to make the dif- erence, and the other side was stubborn. however, rec passed wit being arrived at was to be received by Germany, was obliged enbad us the matter has is probable nd fine pari that k LOSES WIFE IN GAMBLE AND COMMITS SUICIDE Wealthy Russian Stakes His Better Half Against $160,000 in Game of Cards. MOSCUW, Aug. 29.—A rich man of Mos. cow named Ivanoff sat down to play a game of cards at his named Maximoff, lost last, having n wife as a wag! heavily, an more money, proposed his Maximoff had been pay- ing court to Mrs. Ivanoff for a long time and accepted eagerly, putting up $160,000 at as a cou beside hi ter wager. He won. Ivanoff, self, went into the next room mself. —— FIELD OF WATERLOO TO BE MADE ATTRACTIVE Roeds Leading to Battle Ground Are Be Transformed Into shot to Wide Avenues. ong other things the 1e Lion of Waterloo to s of Mont St. Jean, Bin be transformed into an -five feet wide. The route o Namur is likewise to be enue six Br bronze head of recently digcovered he head of He carried away b er death Hersilla, like her husband, was deified and took the name of Ora. This name is perfectly de- cipherable on the head e “':g’ o QUEE SOME OF THE DISTINGUISHED RBSIDENTS OF HIGH STATION AND GENTLE BIRTH WHO LAVISHLY EN- TERTAINED AT THEIR HANDSOME AND PALATIAL OFFICIAL RESIDENCES KING EDWARD VII AND N ALEXANDRA DURING THE ROYAL COUPLE'S RECENT VISIT TO THE EMERALD ISLE. FAN SOUVENIRS FOR THE FAIR VISITORS Continental Custom Will Be Adopted by Famous Restaurateurs of New York. LONDON, Aug. American an who has been to Armenonville, the Cafe de Paris or Maxim’s for the last few years has probably carried home one of the souvenir fans which it is the fash- ion on the Continent; and In some places 29 —Every in England, to provide for the fair vis- itors. ew York restaurants are not go- ing to be left behind, I hear. M. Martin has placed a big order with a Paris h r unique designs. Mr. Rec- tor also has done likewise. Thus Broad- way becomes a step nearer the boule- vards NEW LINE WILL SHORTEN DISTANCE TO GREECE Daily Trains Will Make Trip From Paris to Athens in Sixty- Two Hours. PARIS, Aug. 20.—The first section of a new overland line to Greece will be opened in November next, thus establishing a much shorter through line to Athens than the present route via Brindisi. The fat- ter necessitates a sea voyage of forty- eight hours. The new line reduces this by half. When the line is completed palatial through trains will daily make an unin- terrupted overland trip from Paris to Athens in sixty-two hours, at an average speed of fifty kilometers an hour. FAMOUS HUMBERT HOUSE MAY BE HOME OF CLUB Mansion in Parls Will Probably Be Occupied Soon by a Tour- ing Association. PARIS, Aug. 20.—The famous Humbert house, No. 65 Avenue de la Grande Ar- mee, will probably soon become the prop- erty of the Touring Club de France, which secured an option on it recently. The price agreed upon was 410,000f ($82,000). The executive committee of the Touring Club strongly recommends the purchase, which will be put to a vote at the general assembfy of the club on September 22, The house would be used as a general head- quarters, which is sadly rieeded by the organization which has done so much for cycling and automobiling, ZAVB: 5 Gy KING EDWARD’S IRISH HOSTS ARE DEVOTED TO THE . CROWN Earl Dudley, the Viceroy, Has a Splendid Record for Services Performed During Recent War in South Africa. UBLIN,' Aug. 2.—On their arrival in Jrelant trom T and Countess of Dudley, Viceroy and V The Earf and h Gurney, were married in 1891 and Ladies Gladys Honor and M. Lillian Ward public eye until the Boer war assumed Alexandra were the guests, regal lodge, Dublin. most substantial gervice to the crown b equip the Yeomanry Cavalry, with whi close of the war. The King and Queen also stopped from ear until the following Monday morning with the N donderry at Mount Stewart, the family, near Newtownards, a few m sixth of the name, was Viceroy of Ire land owner, his estates comprising so who was Lady Theresa Chetwynd-Talbo Shre'wsbury, make ideal hosts even for roya Lord Mayor Fitzgerald of Cork, whom King Ed in recognition of the royal party’s cordial ree of the New York Bowery order. On taking leave of King Edward the other day “I'll see you before long again, as I'm goi Both the King and the Queen were tells everybody about him. Electricity to Be Medicine of the PARIS, Aug. 29.—Electricity will be the known savant of he to Mr. d'Arsonval, a well At a recent meeting of the institute Actlon of Electricity Upon Human Bein electricity, as well as the slow method by w He s without the patient being sensible of it. cellent for certain maladies of the skin fect on m the person operated on, strongly on cellular vitality. He added that électricity will bring about a therape The Psychological Institute, which has been in exi counts among its members some of the most co letters and science in France, among them Th. Ri Tardes, Duclaux and Brouardel. robes and accelerated circulation and respira Moreover, what is r I King 1 /Satér Edward and Queen f the Earl the vice hel the s in the He endered elping to raise and South Africa till near the who is the created a baronet city, i3 a politiclan 1a consolingly said: sher.” and t Future. f according stitute of Paris. ‘The s.” He spoke of the sudden shocks of made exhaustive address on man sy=tem without fatigue to ald that it acts ic revolution. nce about three years, and brilllant men of y-Prudhomme, Seailles, A T CourrESY s et P ijfl! gezee 0 o k % | | + VUSRS S Kaiser Sends Widow Gift. BERLIN, Aug 20.—The Kaiser has sent a gold chain with a diamond-studded cross to the Widow Weinberger, the mother of twelve fine soldier boys, who, after retiring from the service, formed the very successful Endhaller Orchestra. —_————————— The World’s Oldest Teacher. BERLIN, Aug. 29.—The oldest teacher of the world is presumably Herr Dorfer, in Sodehmen, Prussia. In spite of his 97 years he is still teaching. He never has been ill In his life. Mascagni Engaged on Four Operas. ROME, Aug. 20.—Mascagni is doing an- other unprecedented work. He is now busy on four new operas, to each of which he devotes two hours per day—two hours to “Marie Antoinette,” two hours to “Frou-Fou," two hours to “Destilia”’ and two hours to “Stella.” . ——————— ¥ Carnegie Gives Dublin Library. LONDON, Aug. 2.—Andrew Carnegie has offered the city of Dubiin the sum of $140,000 toward the erection of a free pub- lic library, 3 - PRESS WARNS KAISER TO ABANDON GAG German Newspapers Demand Amendment of the Law. ERLIN, Aug. 20.—Liberal newspa~ B pers warn the Kaiser not to try and have the present lese majests laws amended to the extent of making it a punishable offense to report the Kalser's sayings and speeches with~ out authority “Nothing degrades Germany as much in the eyes of the foreign world as the lese majeste persecutions as practiced now,” says the Tageblatt, “and even if the Kalser succeeded In muzzling us alto- gether, what would he gain thereby? He can’t muzzle the American press, and the papers of the United States will continue to paint him as he is and to repeat his words whether he likes it or not.” A man named Jullus Kotzke was sen- tenced to six months for lese majeste. This was the fiftieth time that he was sent to jail, his former crimes including theft, acts of violence and gross inde- cency. How a contemptible individual of that sort can libel an honest man, and a monarch at that, is a puzzl —_——————— War Costs Millions. LONDON, Aug. 29.—The report of the commission which investigated the pre- valence of dysentery and enteric fever among the British forces during the South African war fills a bulky Blue Book, which is issued to-day ,The Commissioners express the opinfon that there is no connection between the two maladies. The comparative immunity of the Boers from enteric fever is attrib- uted to the boiling of théir drinking water. he commission finds that flies were the active agents in the dissemination of en- teric fever In standing camps. It is caleu- lated -that enteric fever during the war entailed an expenditure of upward of $38,- 000,000 v -y et