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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-07-07, Page 10GREAT Li NDO�'�: T1 °,tE F PLENTY OF MONEY IN WORLD'S METROPOLIS. Servants Are Scarce, and Good Cooks Have to be Handled Very Gently. Fashionable London, on cursory inspection, seems to have suffered from the effects of the war less than any other part of the metropolis. There are few empty houses to depress the y• e in Mayfair or Belgravia, and "to let }• "ured boards are not more frequently than usual. indication of how the war has crushed People stillhave the es the to en -buy out the smaller shopkeeper. All this or to take on long theses the ese ee unlet property presently must have a sive mansions in these two select , areas, and house agents frankly ad- f serious effect on the rates. mit that they experience no difficulty I One explanation of the demand for in the West End and the Id !prosperity they are enjoying is P expenses has come home to most of has forced Mayfair and Belgravia the tenants of Fashion Corner, no mat- t largely to have its meals out.. The ter how prosperously they may bei cook to -day, like the female caretaker, placed, and visible signs of economy !has gone munition -making ; of those are the absence of the customary! who do remain the mistresses stand spring decorations and the cutting • in fearsome awe and, with munition down of the inotor ears in use. work always offering, criticism of the spoiled dishes or of unsavory omelets Bargains in Garages. This last measure has had a serioas influence on garage property. Before the war garages could not be had for love or money ; they commanded easily a rent of £55 a year. Now there are scores available and nobody wants them. Such bargains in gar- ages as Mayfair and Belgravia have to offer to -day were never heard of be- fore. Expenses have been saved not only by retrenchment in motor cars, but in the number of servants employed and • in the outlay on fruit and flowers., Florists and caterers have passed through the worst season in their his- tory. War widows in receipt of an. ade- quate income from marriage settle- ments have not given up their houses, but have drastically cut down the em- ployed staff. The day when every daughter had a maid is long since Past ;, ,People going into the country for xirzenfhs hate chosen to shut up see lr w . ee.ei.e ,n,carge " tt caretaker rather than retain their servants an. board wages. But offers of 14s. a week, with sleeping accom- modation, light and coal, fail to find a caretaker to -day. A West End firm of house agents, after a month's search, have to give up the quest as hopeless, and yet it was not long ago that they were ,besieged with appli- cations from caretakers for houses to occupations. He is an electrician by mind. ; profession, but he has been a sailor, Still Flenty of Money a mechanic, a waiter, a pantryman, a fitter and an associate of criminals. From America he went to France and for some time lived in Paris, where he was captivated by crime. Bonnot, the famous motor car bandit, was one of his friends. A few months before war broke out he mar- ried a French girl in Paris. He join- ed the French army at the outbreak of war and was among the first troops to be sent to the front. On the very first day he was in action--. August 22, 1914 --"he was reported to be missirea and later it was found that he had deserted and had been taken by the Germans at Charleroi. He told them he was a German and per- suaded them to allow him to make his way through Belgium to Holland. He then saw a chance of going to 1rrS,16 f. b •�i<(lr%'�p 'lr�lr:'f/l•ypS4 �`,, ucd74{ .;dl., 1,.� ,.N, n,R mho, -Fairly Obvious Visiting Chaplain: "1 trust you've got ail you want?"—London Bystander, for the most part in disposing of any restaurants property which is to be let or sold. that But the necessity of cutting down : the difficulty of obtaining good cooks has necessarily to be gentle, with consequences that can be imagined. GERMAN IN ALLIED ARMIES. 'GRT BRITAIN NO NGS INSULAR FRENCH STATESMAN PAYS TRI BUTE TO THE BRIT'1SIt& Says They Dave Performed a Miracle in. Raising Huge Army b- . Record Time. oubtable the best of all possible worlds. The til. C;temenceau, the French statesman and editor of that Prussian officer, though he is partly most pungent of newspapers, " L'Home a dupe, has a pretty good time of it. GERMAN OFFICE IS JUST GERMANY BEGINS TO LEARN EIS 'MADE AT TEN YEARS OF AGE. An Insult to Dim Is An Ins:11t to the Uniform and the Fag. " If I can make the Prussian officer clear. I can make modern Germany clear," says a writer in the New York Tribune, who is a German by birth, has served in the German army as an officer, and who appears to have emancipated himself from the spell of his earlier environment. He says that the Prussian officer is Germany, the Germany whom the Allies are trying to defeat in this war. He writes of the German officer with understanding and with sympathy. At birth the Prussian officer is like any other baby. What he becomes is not his own fault ; it is the fault of a system. Brought up under this system, he finds, in the majority of cases, that it works to his advantage and he becomes a supporter of it ; just as the child of a Socialist, if he happened to be adopted by a member of the capitalistic class, might well say that all happens for the best in me Enchaine," contributes a remark- He does not protest. The system may h able preface to the French transla- be bad, but it suits im.• tion of a book describing Great Bri- The Training of an Officer Deserted Teutons and French and tain's effort in the war, by M. Jules As a rule the German officer begins Joined the Belgians. Destree,. the Belgian. Socialist Deputy, to learn his trade at the age of ten. Destree gives almost unmeasur- By the time he is 18 he has become a The record of Max Kohler, a clever ed praise to the British nation ; M. and crafty German, aged 26, Clemenceau endorses his eulogy with sub -lieutenant, with certain principles made a brief appearance at Marl- enthusiasm, and his endorsement has deeply engraver. He has Iearned to borough Street, London, police Court, a special value as M. Clemenceau is obey the orders of his superiors with- out question. He has learned that the private soldier is a mere pawn ; that the civilian is of still less account. These lessons are not modified by any- thing he may learn in the future ; they are emphasized. They are the basic Married a French girl in Paris two has done and is doing. facts of his existence, and whatever year: ago. his subsequent actions may be, so long { A Military Power as theyaregoverned bythese prin- France taken from England to France as a deserter in the Sussex " This war," he writes, " is not be- ciples, they will be vouched for by his when she was torpedoed. ; ing waged for the possession of a town 1 superior officer and by the Kaiser Was rescued and taken to Folke- i or a Province, or a colony. We are himself. In a sense the German of - stone, where he escaped rearrest and ` fighting for our freedom, for the ex- firer can do no wrong, so long as he went to London: istence of our race." remembers what is due to the uni- Worked in the West End of London ` Monsita.1r Destree, in the book be- form he wears. fore us, tens us about Eng = nd, at "ut a e The Sacred Unrkeini ha naval " and military., effort, the Sole Y Some- things are due �e solutions that inspire her, and r tells us the finest and most eomfort- to it It is the Kaiser's coat, and the ing things. theory is that an officer must „bear up for service in the German army, "England did not want war ; one himself•as though he were the K. rice. but after a few weeks' service he de- must repeat this in her praise, but The uniform is like the flag. If it is insulted the insulter must perish ; and of course, an insult to the wearer of the uniform is interpreted as an in- sult. to the uniform and to the flag. We had some hint of the sacredness of the uniform in the Zabern affair a few years ago. The Tribune corres- pondent gives another. A subaltern stationed near Berlin was roughly handled by a drunken civilian, who came tap behind him and tore off one of his epaulets. Then he fled. The officer pursued him, and after a con- siderable chase caught up with the man and ran him through with his sabre. The rough died. It might have seemed a somewhat drastic punish- ment, but if the officer had not killed the man he would have been asked for his resignation from the army. An insult to the officer is an insult to the Kaiser, and he who fails to avenge it is not worthy to wear the uniform. This is the German theory. Death to Insulters. is interestni;. His record follows . the most typical Frenchman of this Served in the German army and de- day. He frankly takes a purely serted. i Freuch standpoint, and starts by Served in the French army and de- I stating the French '" will -to -win." serted. - ;From this standpoint and by that aim Joined the Belgian- army. i England is approved for what she end -Alas "again•.arredted, when head- mitted that he was a German, Kohler speaks English, French and German fluently. At the age of 20 Kohler was called serted from the army and made his one must add, alas, to her confusion, way to- England, and then to Ameri- that she did not at all foresee it. But Ica. He served in a weird variety of for the violation of Belgian neutrality no one can say when she would have drawn the sword. "Behold her now in the struggle l Slowly, but With an obstinacy that nothing shakes or disturbs, great Al - 1 bion has made herself a military !power. She has piled up guns, shells, and battalions. She bristles with 4,- 000,000 ;000,000 bayonets. Over the whole vast globe, wherever the German net. tie has had to be torn up, her soldiers have turned up their sleeves and cleared the field. Ceased to Be An Island "One renders thanks to -the Eng- fish fleet because it has been able to annihilate the German menace, to blockade the enemy, to assure sup-. plies for our armies. It is true, though silent, its mounting guard is none the less full of grandeur. " But the English miracle is not true of faehran one now discovers , England. He posed as a Belgian re- there. The English miracle has not eeveral M. P.'s in residence. i fugc.e and as such was admitted. He been wrought at sea. Dreadnoughts,. The luxury streets that eater to visited several towns in England and cruisers, torpedoes I Well, it is all feshienahle London have undergone a! Scotland, where he obtained employ- only the British tradition. But what niuvh greater change. Motorcar shops' ment in a well-known munition works. mei picture dealers' galleries have "To That was in the early part of '1915. Let ••,:.;•ns. in the windows and several In Newcastle he made the acquaint - of the most handsomely appointed ante• of the daughter of the foreman f1C1'el stores also give warning of lm- of one of the departments in the muni - peeling removal. tion works, proposed to her, was ac - There are a tremendous number of eepted, and they were married about upper parts to let. Here smaller six, months ago, leu rnrr•ser used to thrive. The owners hese tether epee to the war or the 't' war has suite d them. On the other The Smokehouse. bend, upper parts made available for The smokehouse should be eight or and, above all, the high serenity with • alving ong svittlprsee are in sm smeller or great bachelor flats, !ten fop our eet high and of a• size suited to wlciehtt soil She la destiny es tofu pan and The bachelor has gone to the war, i the amount - of neat likely to be blttex• struggle." �rnulted, Ample ventilation shoulel but a great demand for the concen- e traced accommodation he sought has I be provided -to carry off the warm air, rn od°der to prevent over -heating the Told the Exact Truth. come from the lame number of. officers miss Brown told me that you paid tem Drain • or y i n}cat. Small a rearings- under the « p y pernrarlentl • stti tined .� -r~ .-w•�,-� r I ee.ves,, or a chimp y IT -the roof, will her such a charming compliment the i.1 Landoll tat(' ,runt the people. tts: d soeiated with the attivity of the Min -I be suelelently, if so arranged as to other evening." said. Mrs. Coodington istry of Munition:. i be easily controlled. 'flue there is still plenty of money i in London may be gathered from the{ inv 1r alile reply of the fashionable house agent that it is useless to seek a Mayfair or Belgravia house worth living in under £300 a year. Where residenee in the West End I is imperative and £•100 a year cannot he afforded, a careful Search reveals newly developed property at half this price. Improvements have been tak- ing place in the property opposite Teav is gham Palace and behind Buck- ingh en PaInce road. Dingy houses, formerly occupied by lodging house ke rc: s. have been enlarged by the process of knocking two houses into one, and in streets where one never eepccted to came across any sugges- has made the ancient northern island soar inthe esteem and admiration of mankind, is that she has, for the first• time in her thousand years of history;.: ceased to be an island, ceased to think and act as a mere island. She has;' embodied herself into the Continent by her fine, handsome men who have heroically held the line in the trenches of Flanders, their short pipes in their' teeth, by her guns and her convoys, to her husband, "something about her The Dining -Out Habit per,with a. flue through which the s p ' he poor yout ewns so pleased, I don't see how men can The war has developed the dining- ske may 11e conducted to the meat be so untruthful." out habit, and many new restaurants ; chamber, gives the best conditions for :,I should think you'd know by this have sprung up in. the West End, par- ! smoking. When this cannot well bo time that I'm never untruthful," said tinier atterrtiorl being paid to pastries 1 arranged, a fire may be built an the Mr: Coddington, reproachfully, "I and chocolates, The women who floor of the house. The contatn'uetion said she was just as pretty its she errve tell you they sell more chocola- l should be sueh as to allow the sinoke coulel be, and so :she was," A fire -pot outside of the house pro- being retry. 'T tc " th • n ever. nee ent Street haw little property ttrlet, but the street, leading from. Iielrt:t street have .a different story tr, tell. The "'l'o Let" board assaults the vis+on on every side, an eloquent to pass up freely over the meat and out of the house. Brick or stone houses are beet, though the first cost is greater than if they are built of lumber.•--A.ndrew Boss in Parmand Dairy. Work which is loved generally ceases to be a painful toil. Woman pins he faith to man; bait not always with a safety pin. Not all German officers live up to the code. The Tribune correspondent says that he has seen officers on the streets of Berlin at night shrink into doorways or lanes at the approach of an intoxicated soldier. They did not want to see him ; they did not want him to see them. They feared that the drunken private might permit his na- tural feelings of manhood to get the better of hiin, in the course of which process he , would be likely to say something derogatory to the officer, or even to make an attack upon him. In that case the ploin and unescapable duty of the officer would be to shoot the drunken man. If he failed and his failure became known he would be discharged from the army. Obligations of Officers. hotted to run other bills as long as be pleases, and, presumably; to run through eivilian creditors wigs present bills. He is taught that lee has but one business on earth, and that is to do the will of the Kaiser, who is his superior officer. If this is done all is done. All is forgiven if this principle is adhered to. THIEF OBEYED THE LAW. How He Implicitly Obeyed An Order of the Magistrate. " Breaking and entering" is a rare ciente on the island of Mangaia, in the Cook group, 'but an amusing in- stance of it is described in "Rt. Eton. R. J. Seddon's Visit to the South Sea Islands." The criminal, whose outward de- meanor was of the quietest, but who, to a close observer, was more nervous than he thought he showed, pleaded guilty. The judge, after taking evi- dence as to his character and so forth, said, "You have admitted committing a very serious offence, and one that rarely occurs in the Cook Islands. You have brought discredit on your- self, on your people and on this is- Iand ; and you will now pay a visit to another island, upon which you have no friends, and will have to work hard." The culprit was then sentenced to six months' imprisonment on the is- land of Manual, •one of the Hervey Islands. In extenuation of his crime we were told that, as often happens, there was a woman at the bottom of it. A trader bad imported some ladies' patent -leather boots of fashionable Parisian style, with silver buckles in front. Several of the young islanders. School teachers in some districts whose means permitted had bought having volunteered to act as post - boots and presented them to their women on Sundays, the Postmen's lady loves. The sweetheart of the Federation has lodged a protest with prisoner had said, "Why don't you the National Union of Teachers. led me a pair ?" So, having no mon- Cannock Chase and Pelsall Coal- ey, he had gone to the store when the owners and Miners' Association have owner was asleep, was caught in the decided to provide an ambulance con - act, owned up like a man, and had to voy .of 10 cars for the Bristol Red do pennance. Cross Society, at a cost of $30,000. The visitors asked if there were no ' A scheme for new electricity mains, probation act ? But Judge Gudgeon ;estimated by the Islington Council said, ' No ?" 'two years ago to cost $37,500, will " Seeing," said one of the visitors, now cast $52,500, owing to the dearth "that he did not, like Adam, make the of labor and increased price of cop - excuse, ` The woman tempted me,' pee. . can't he be fined ? We will pay the A carved oak reredos and a brass fine." tablet are to be erected in Holy " No," said the judge, CQ nothing but Trinity Church, Heigham, Norfolk, in deportation will meet the case.' - memory of Nurse Edith Carvel, whose The prisoner was told to go- and family were connected with the say good-bye to his friends and to church. meet the boat at three o clde. . He At the British Music Convention, made no atempt to escape, but went which recently opened at Harrogate, home, some distance away, and when one of the chief objects was to .de - next we saw him he was running hard vise means whereby Germans will be to catch the boat, for he was a little ousted from the musical trade in Eng - behind time. Meanwhile the cause of land. this trouble has to wait for her boots, A serious accident occurred in Shef- which the swain has promised to bring field owing to the bolting of two on his return from Rarotonga. horses attached to a funeral coach. NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOIU-NI• IIUI.L AND BIS PEOPI:.I's'. Occurrences In the Land That 'Reig. Supreme fn the Commer- cial World. Nino ^women are now being em- ployed as engine -drivers and stokera by the London Hydraulic Power Com- pany. ' London dock laborers are now earn- ing as much as $60 a week, it was stated during a case .in the City of London Court. Thirty women employed by the - Islington Borough Council have asked' that they, like the men, shall have a war bonus. The Lancashire cotton operators al- most solidly voted in favor of a strike if an advance of 10 per cent. in wages is not granted. $15,000 was paid at Christie's for a pair of William III. pilgrim silver bottles, probably belonging originally to the first Earl of. Egmont. - Mr. David Webster, a superinten- dent of the Manchester City police force, has been appointed chief con- stable of Wolverhampton. A number of gypsy van -dwellers,. living at Shepperton, were at Felt- ham fined $25 as absentees under the Military Service Act, and handed .over to an escort. A number of afficials of the " No Conscription" Fellowship, have been fined $500" and $50 costs for the issue of a leaflet -which was prejudicial to recruiting. The Prussian officer is the child of the State. - He has his privileges, such as shooting or stabbing civilians and privates, But he has his commensur- ate obligations. He has to dress in a eertain way. Be is forbidden to make ,any display of his wealth if he hap- pens to be wealthy. If he has an au- tomobile he is supposed to offer it in torn, to every officer in the regiment. They are supposed to refuse. His horse must not be worth more than a certain amount. Ile cannot marry without the permission of his colonel, mild this permission is given only when ft le known that the bride has a con- siderable income. Certain debts he must pay immediately, the expenses connbcted with the service. He is per- ' SCIENCE FACTS Russia leads the world in the pro- duction of fax fiber and Argentina of its seed. Of the 23,332 miles of railways in the United Kingdom 10,306 miles are single line. For automobile upholstery an arti- ficial silk is beiig made from spun glass in England. Sliding racks for silverware instead of shelves feature the bottom of a new sideboard. Irrigation projects under considera- tion for India involve about 10,000,000 acres of land. Sharp points in the inside of the lid of a new egg cup cut the shell away without disturbing the contents. Forty-eight different materials are employed in the construction of a pi- ano, which sixteen countries are called upon to supply: Italians maintain wireless telephone communication between Rome and Tripoli, a distance of 600 miles, main- ly over water. Operated by a gasoline engine, an Illinois inventor's post hole digging machine is claimed to do as much work as fifteen men could with hand tools. ` New regulations of the United states steamship inspection service require persons to be 21 years old before being licensed as masters or chief engineers. Supported by spectacle bows from the ears, a respirator has been in- vented for surgeons, dentists and bar- bers to prevent their breath mingling with that of the patients or patrons, The discovery in an Austrian ceme- tery of glass mirrors dating from the second or third century upset the theory that the ancients depended up - 011 polished metal to see themselves. For vessels using the Suez Canal there has been developed a search- light throwi.rjg branched rays of light to prevent blinding the pilots of ves- sels coming from the opposite direc- tion. An electric searchlight less than three inches in diameter but very powerful has been invented to be mounted at any convenient point on an automobile to aid in picking out objects along the roads at night. Twelve women and children were seriously injured, eight having to be removed to hospital, and many are in a critical condition. Mr.. George Cecil H. Vyse, a mem- ber of a distinguished Northants and Berks family, has just died at Stoke Place, Slough. For over 16 years he had been a cripple, but by holding a brush in his teeth he illustrated thousands of children's books. The Liverpool Roll of Honor Fund for -widows and orphans of the fallen, now amounts to over $200,000. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool recently re- ceived a donation of $5,000 from Lieut -Col. Harrison, who is at the front with the King's Liverpool Regi- ment. At the annual meeting of Dr. Bar- nardo's Homes, the report showed that during the year 13,424 boys and girls were dealt with. The new ad- missions numbered 1,578. The new income for the year was $1,248,220, and the expenditure amounted to $1,216,835. Owing to the scarcity of labor the vicar of Bourne, Lincolnshire, the Rev. H. Cotton Smith, and the curate, Rev. H. O. Henderson, assisted by the verger, emptied a truck of coal at the railway station and deliverEid. it by hand truck to various custom ers in the town. PUT PRISONERS AT WORK. Germans in Britain Employed on The Roads And in Mines. Following the German exarnple, Great Britain is putting war prison- ers to work. There are now about 15,000 German combatant prisoners in the islands. About a thousand of these will as- sist in building a great dam in the valley of. the Conway, -North Wales. Other •detachments will be sent to do iron mining on the island of Beastly, off Skye, and timber euttir(g in In- verness, Yorkshire and other places. Civilian prisoners are already at work on the roads and in the quarries: of the Isle of Man, and on the' farms in Cheshire. The military and naval prisoners • are paid the wages prescribed by the Hague Convention. Few prisoners'will.be employed on farms.