WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931.
THE CHINA MAIL.
FOOTMAN TELLS NEW YORK
ACADEMY PICTURES SELL SLOWLY.
An Earl's Sapphire Studded Glasses.
SOLID SILVER PLATES.
British people in New York are smiling at a delightful story of the British Motorman who Turned
Poct.
,
The story must be told in two parts. In the first part the joke was on the Motorman, a Mr. Wil liam Whiting Barford, native of Northamptonshire, and new living
"Dear Sir,
you might say.
l'ave several obbies, including water colours, philately, pen-and-ink sketches of buildings and landscapes.'
"The reporter asked Mr. Barford whether he had not during his life parsued other vocations than trol ley car motoring.
Majority Bought for Small Sums.
MANY WITHOUT AN OFFER.
There was
SKYSCRAPER LONDON DEATH PLOT
MIND.
THE
How It Is Acquired in America.
DOMESTIC INTERIORS,
AGAINST THE DUCE.
Italian Secret Service Discovery.
GANG'S MYSTERY CHIEF,
ני
Schirru, when he was captured, drew a revolver and wounded threa
A Jew with a chestnut beard, policemen.. Then he turned the
weapon on himself in an attempt atf. A beautiful Italian girl, wash-auicide.
praying.
ing dishes.
walked into the Royal Academy proletariat lives in New York. London has been
once a man who It is not hard to see how the
Information which proves that and was attracted by a large The Elevated Railway track, of a carefully organised plot to: the headquarters painting the moment he saw it running through crowded dis assassinate Signor Mussolini, the said,
"I'll have that," was all he triets, affords a cinematograph Italian dictator, has been secured
without Inquiring price. It cost him £1,500.
the record of myriads of third-floor by officers of the Italian Secret
backs and fronts. Sitting in the Service... But that sort of thing does not toy-like wooden train that curves "We might say so, eh, Mrs. Bar- happen to-day. Money is more along the East Side, one gets the arrest of Michele Schirru, who Their inquiries originated after on Lexington Avenue, New York.ford?' he said jovially, smiling at scarce, the fashions of house de-fragmentary glimpses of a varie is shortly to be charged before a
He wrote to the Rector of the his wife, who had laid aside her coratión decree almost bare walls, ty of domestic interiors. Grace Episcopal Church, Broadway, cooking, to join the conversatinu. and there are, in any event, few-
special tribunal with planning to like this:
"The young gentleman should have er and fewer houses capable of laughing, arguing, or not being
Families eating their meals, kill the Duce. acen me 28 years ago. I didn't accommodating large paintings. interested in one another. know when I was lucky.
The experience of the present In 1903 I was footman to the exhibition at Burlington House Earl of Onslow in Surrey. They is that the small paintings and ate over solid ailver plates and black-and-white works are those drank champagne out of cut glass for which the picture-buying
He was grievously wounded in the studded with anpphires and rubies. public looks.
A room with a hideous three head, but has been nursed back to colour picture of Garibaldi and a strength in hospital. The dessert set was of pure gold, In three weeks from the open- worse one of Teddy Roosevelt, He was closely cross-questioned and only rose water was used in ing of the exhibition, 150 pfc-showing all his teeth. Children as he lay in hospital, and made a the finger bowls,
tures had been sold out of about fighting. 1,000 which are for sale.
An old woman in a green and Last year the total number red shawl, dozing as she tells her Three Men Involved. You should 'ave seen Motor- sold during the three months' beads. A placid German in shirt- man Barford then! I wore patent run of the exhibition was 309. sleeves, with a lager beer be involved three men who were then The information which he gave leather pumps, white stockings, The first month always produces side him, lolling at the window, living in London. He declared that red breeches, a blue coat with gold the largest sales, inasmuch as reading a paper, probably the he had received Instructions from braid, a great deal of gold braid, any exhibits wanted for national New York Volkszeitung. I may say, and a waistcoat of pure acquired at once.
and local collections are usually cream. Powdered 'air, of course, sir-I only wore the white wig once or twice when I filled in on the
were many, dis tinguished guests in those days, The Prince of Wales-King Ed- ward, he later was he was what
"Kindly pardon me the liberty of sending this letter to you. As a Motorman on the Madison Avenue cars, I pass your Church four times a day, and at Noon hour every day you do not no how happy it makes me to hear the Chimes of your Church. So I have made up a little song about your Bells: You! can print the song in your Church magazine if you think it is worth publication as I would like to no what the members of Grace Church think about it from an old trolly car Motorman, I am repecfully
yours.
'WILLIAM WHITING BARFORD
And the Rector did publish the
poem. It run:
Grace Church Bells. Grace Church bells are chiming In New York, noisy street
And the echoes fills tail buildings
With memories, cords 'so sweet.
O: charming bells, of Grace
Church
Your enll, and sweet refrain For memories that It brings to:
me
Of my old country lane
In sweet toned harmony you
chime
As I here you every day
In the country far away.
For those who once did
them
Even as I here' them now May be, did labour near them - By harvest, wain, and plow.
coaches.
And He Wore.-
"'An,, there
•
Youths throwing dice. Democratic party' clubs.
A Living Picture..
statement which led to immediato investigations in Britain.
an organisation get up in London to shoot Mussolini, ́and that he was being paid from the London head- quarters for the attempt..
Officers of the Secret branch of
Many of the prices paid are no more than one guinea, two, five, or ten guineas the smallest
The whole panorama of life is the Fasciati organisation were im amounts for black-and-whites, presented in a friendly and can-mediately sent to London to follow sale, so that the artist in some for which one comes to feel re- on their arrival to the Italian Am for which there has been a brisk did way. It is a living picture up this statement. They reported cases will have to make several spect even affection. One would bassador, and began, their work. copies of one work. constant visitor.
like to be a part of it, to salute been in sums between £10 and ings in a thousand lighted win-la
The bulk of the sales have that world of fellow human be- the full dossier of all they learned is Now they are buck in Rome, and £40. The biggest price paid sodows.
the hands of the Italian tell it.. Buch things are confiden- far is £1,000 for Mr. McMillan's
The masses are willing to share Prosecutions.
equivalent of the Director of Public tial. Professional secrets as we "Birth of Venus," bought by their secrets with anyone. The
"I remember once one of the nation, and the largest private richer, the coyer. They live an/Schirra have now been substantiat
the Chantrey Bequest for the rich, however, are coy.. And the All the declarations of Michele | www
I might call a
Why, if I could only describe his conversation. But I would never
say,
ladies, very apritely and gay she purchase was £420. was, too, placed a bent pin on the
intimate, withdrawn existence ined by these investigations. The least desired of all the those towering cliffs of apart- It has been proved beyond doubt chair of His Royal Highness. As paintings seem to be the works ment homes which, in spite of that a band of Italians in London Makes me think of my boyhood soon as His Royal Highness sat on which represent modern treat the depression are increasing in have been working for the destruc
the pin he realised who was respon- ment. There is very little de-numbers and height. day's
sible. He looked at herd said: mand for them.
tion of Mussolini at all costs. "Your joke is rather pointed." I
The millionaires of to-day Schirru was their first instrument here almost broke down, sir. The Prince are mostly sought, and flowers and no traveller on the Elevated the first and most favourble op Landscapes, always favourites, dwell as far out of sight as eagles He was ordered to kill the Duce at himself laughed about it for quite easily take second place in order is invited to share their joys. Portunity.
of popularity. Almost all the Having given up the old mansions portraits, of course, have been along the avenues, they now in a skilful code, and payments. Frequent letters were sent to him painted by commission and are make their homes high up among were make to him from London, not for sale. A few statues have the clouds. The higher one rises He was advised that further at been bought at prices between in these buildings, the costlier tempts at assassination would be £30 and £40, mostly for collec-existence becomes, and the more made if he failed, but he was warn- tions.
rarefied. They pitch their silken ed not to fail. » : "The sales so far, I think, are tents among the stars. extremely good considering the
The Italian quarter in London Although these, dwellings are was combed out by the Secret Ser- Then Mr. Barford spoke of his time of depression," said an called apartments, one should not vice men, who managed to trace the
official. urge to write poetry, ending with:
bo misled into thinking them headquarters of the plot, and secure "It's only an 'obby, after all.
"While the number sold does small. Some of them occupy two the names of three men who had It's a pastime. Now that poem not vary much from year to or three entire floors in one of been operating as the inner circle about the Grace Church chimes Year, the total sum is always these tall towers, the rooma im-of the conspiracy. I wrote it just because the bells affected by the number of pur mense in height and width. Often
O Charming bells of Grace
Church
Your call and sweet refrain
For memories that it brings to
me
Of my old country lane
In aweet tone harmony you chime As I here you every day Makes me think of my boy hood
days
In the country far away.
a time afterwards. But I could never tell you the name of the lady who placed the pin. A matter of professional confidence, you under "There was a style in England in those days that you don't see nowadays, not in this country"-"
stand.
In East 'Addon.
A Bombing, Aeroplane.
chases made for the nation. Last rebuilt to meet the whims of felds and year's total sum at this time was their owners, they include ball- Some evidence was also obtained greater than this year's, but was rooms, libraries, picture galleries, of a still more spectacluar plot entirely accounted for by Chant-Roman swimming pools gorgeous against Mussolini that was to be rey Bequest purchases."
At that a newspaper sent a re- porter to see the Motorman Paet. reminded me of the bells back in He wrote: "Calling yesterday after-East Addon.. All noon at the Barford, hose four meadows there, you can hear the flights up at 1516 Lexington Avante, I discovered the Motorman Poet leaning back in his chair be- side the open "kitchen window,
bells for miles.”
LEAKAGE OF GAS.
wrinkling his brows as he correct Firemen Obliged to Use
ed a newly composed work called:
"I Am Sorry I Loft You Deer
Mother.'
Gas Mask.
"Mr. Barford concentrated for a A sudden leakage of liquid moment upon his verse before | chlorine gas from a cylinder at the rising hospitably to make the Yaumati Pumping Station, in visitor welcome.
Shanghai Street, at 4.80 o'clock yesterday afternoon, poisoned tho air in the vicinity, but fortunately caused no damage.
When I Was A Pushman.
"It's more of an 'obby with me than anything elac,' he said, apeak- Ing with the accent of his native Northamptonshire. *A pastime,
Build Firm
The Police and firemen were summoned, and the latter, wearing gas-masks, removed the cylinder.
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adopted. If the shooting effort fall- ed. This was to send an airplane to bomb him in his home.
A plot was declared to be ready
when a wealthy American con-
Of course, there is no knowing Communing Bachelor.
One bachelor, it is common tempted to buy a few thousands loneliness in an apartment of 20 obtained, and a supply of bomba nolaseur may not enter and be knowledge, communes with his for the task; a machine had been of pounds worth of pletures..
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE,
The Churches View on Modern Tendency. DEFINITE LEAD URGED,
rooms, regally adorned.
This living in silken tents was ready."
among the stars has grace and All the information collected by culture about it. Far above, the the Secret Service agents has been rattle of the streets are these sent to the Italian Embassy in beautiful homes, decorated with London, and the Britian Foreign the loot of the ages, furniture, Office has has been fully. Informed. pictures, tapestries, the metal
Questions have been: raised here work of. Florence, visible only to as to the possible extradition of the aviator, there are gem-like the three men. The prime mover in little gardens where stone Cupide the affair the man who apparent admire their reflections in stillly sent Instructions to Schirru and pools, where the wisteria twines passed to him considerable sums of about lattice work, where the money has not yet, however, been rose and lily-bloom. These are definitely identified. The demand for greater facili the hanging gardens of this new It seems that he is not now in ties for divorce is becoming even Babylon.
London. He appears to have heard. more insistent. The main reason All the refinements of civilian-in a subterranean way of the in- for it is to be found in the new tion meet to add rich colours to quiries, and left. Britain. Where views on marriage which has led this life. An elaborate fireplace he is now has yet to be discovered. to increasing Impatience of the from a Venetian palace. The Hefs the Great Unknown behind thraldom of the marriage tie. portrait of a young Renaissance the scenes of this International plot. These outspoken views were ex duchess with braided red hair It is even uncertain whether he is pressed by the Bishop of Salisbury and a wicked smile. For some an Italian subject.
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