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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1012. THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER 35 4 LONDON BERLIN ROME VIENNA PARIS Ernst Wallenberg Edward T.Heyn William T. Stead Chester Overton' Marquis de Castellane Paul Pierre Rijrnaux JE Hugo Bettaur Eugene Colonye J. M.E.D'Aquin Edward C. Strutt UN'S HI OF Watching King George Slaughter Man-EatersjH QUEEN Iff ill COURT I1CIZED Former Financier of London Sent to Jail Sentenced to One Year for Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses.

tw twv ewy wt Children See "Peril" Invited by Their Monarch OF 1912 COLORS Entree Limited to Uncle Sam's Fair Daughters Who Have Married English Peers, FRED GUEST HAS BARGAIN Secret Reason for Procession of Mystics and Their Strange Pov.er at Court. San Francisco Visitor to Paris Has a Green Hue to Her Head Covering. Henry Phipps' Son-in-Law Buys Beit's House for the Cost of Stables, OTHERS ARE SUFFERERS Special by cable to New York, and by leased wire, the longest in the world. I IONDON. February 10.

Ernest Ter-ah Hooley. who was one of the leading men in the financial world of London a few years ago, was sentenced to-day at the Old Bailey to a year's imprisonment on a charge of obtaining money by fraudulently representing as free of encumbrances some property he had sold to the complainant. Hooley was one of the leading financiers in England from 1890 to 1898, when he was declared bankrupt. He had been regarded "as one of the wealthiest men of the country, acquiring his riches by the promotion of numerous companies. In Hooley launched a tire company and is supposed to have made a profit of $12,500,000.

He owned many race horses and yachts, including the racing cutter Britannia, formerly the property of King Edward, and he possessed several historic country seats. After his bankruptcy he was known as the "splendid bankrupt," as he continued to live in princely style on money which had been placed in his wife's name. Mrs, Clinton Cushing of This City to Marry a Brooklyn Lawyer, HOPES TO STAY HIS DOOM Rasputin, the Latest, Cheats the Emperor and Czarina With Ghastly Visions, Ry Charles H. Manners. Special Correspondent of "The Exam-Iner." Special by rahfe to New Voile, snd by leased vtr, the longest In the wrld.

ST. PETERSBURG, February 10. "Beware the year HOI, After that all is dark." Such was the dreadful prophecy an astrologer delivered to Czar Nicholas seven years ago. This prophecy and the Czar's fear of some vague danger account for the tremendous Influence which Gregory Rasputin, a reputed holy man and "mystic," possesses over the Emperor. So, at least, declare those very near his Imperial Majesty, CARMEN SYLVA' ON LUXURY (1 yx S- sv A A i 7 v'1 I i I I I I Sii i- I JlHX iff Houmsnliiu Quern Declare It Hespon-Hililc for Decline of Nation.

MUNICH. February 10. The Queen of Roumania, "Carmen Sylvia," responding (o an invitation from a spondlng of women in Munich founded fo stem the tide of luxury, has addressed to the society an interesting letter, in which her majesty expresses sympathy with the movement. The decline of nations, the queen says, is generally traceable to luxury: but one cannot draw a hard and fast line in regard to all peopjes. Climate alone has a great effect on some countries.

Tne term luxury is, at the. best, relative, and what is luxury in one country may be simplicity Itself in another. Other factors have to be taken Into consideration; for Instance, many of the industrial class depend for a livelihood on the fabrication of what is termed luxuries. The queen condemns excessive luxury. who are equally jealous with the mem-ters of the Duma of Rasputin's powerful hold on the ruler's mind, always inclined to religious mysticism and spiritualism.

Rasputin, whose antecedents are obscure and whose origin it is believed Is most humble, is now installed in private apartments in the Winter Palace. He Is busy consulting oracles, the stars, cards, summoning spirits, gazing into crystals and pretending to seek to learn what this year of fate holds for his credulous master. Rasputin receives an ample salary and costly gifts when the Czar is pleased by his necromancy. Latest of the Mystics. A a rtisnati'hes have told, th" Duma has made Rasputin's control an affair of national importance, yei im ti 1 last of a succession of more or iess holy men who have TO CROSS OCEAN IN 2 DAYS played on the Czars fear ana areaa oi the occult.

In his youth Nicholas was fonder of lifting a veil from a pietty face than, of attemnting to tear away the curtain that hides the future. But when he Tuat'a What 'an Snym He Invention Will Mean. LONDON, February 10. To ross the Atlantic In two days Is the ambition of a sanguine inventor named Burdet, who claims to have created an entirely new system of marine locomotion. He calls it the "Burdet lever traction." Its principal feature is a large horizontal fin projecting flush with the water from the stem of the boat.

The slow flapping of this flh propels the boat through the water at a remarkable speed. A small boat fitted with one of these fins and operated by hand was navigated by a child seated in a boat so successfully that it attained a speed equal to an eight-oared skiff. Burdet believes the same principle on a big scale applied to ocean-going vessels would have the Mauretania classed among the old windjammers. FKKK-SPEAKIXG Britishers tire vastly ninusml over Hip roinmorfiiil cotirtiership of the London illustrated weeklies, which are crowded with pictures of the King's fearless tUer hunting in India. He is represented as slaughtering these terrors of the jungle without a tremor, while the htinim- of the whole slaughter is emphasized another photograph, which shows the three little daughters of the Hon.

Francis St. George Manners-Smith, resident of Nepal, perched on the hack of an unait'riglited elephant, enjoying 1 1 to terrifying sight as though occupying box seats at a circus. It is that humorously tell-tale photograph which is here reproduced. GAMBLING TO AID NATION By Chester Overton Special Correspondent of "The E-nminer." Special by cable to e- York, and by leased wir. tJie basest in the world.) LONDON, February 10.

The agitation grows as to the list of Invitations for the various courts to be held this season. Jt was announced some time ago that no further application for attendance could be entertained, but American -peeresses have brought a plea that extra courts be held, as they have many friends coming over who desire to be presented. To this Queen Mary on her return from India tuniied a deaf ear and has allowed it to be understood that she is in sympathy with the Kaiserln of Germany, who disapproves of the "Invasion" of the German court by wealthy Americans, and who commented adversely on the number of presentations made by the American Ambassador to Berlin recently. It seems plain that she is carefully sorting out all unattached Americans and the statement is made that, owing to the number of women desirous of attending; the courts, it Is regretted that their applications cannot be received. Entree will he given only to Americans who have married English peers and therefore have the right to be present.

Meanwhile steps will be taken through the embassy to point out that this procedure is likely to lead to undesirable friction. But Queen Mary is very stubborn and apparently she has set her face against "Americanizing" London society and wishes to return to the old Victorian days of lumheritig barouches, jet crowns, and there Is little douht that she will have her own way. Buys House As recently announced by the "Examiner," Captain Fred Guest, who married Miss Amy Phipps, daughter of Henry Phipps, the steel magnate, has purchased the late Alfred Beit's magnificent home in Park Lane. It now develops that the price paid for the home out of the Phipps fortune Is $25n. uon.

In other words. Captain Fred, who is the second son of Lord Wtm-bourne, got a great bargain. The land where the house stands, like all in its neighborhood, Is the property of the Duke of Westminster. Beit obtained this site after Westminster had stipulated that, the house should cost not less than to which Belt replied curtly that it was his intention to spend that sum on the stables. As the Guests have secured both house and stables, they are to be congratulated.

The mansion has been untenanted ever since Beit's death. Mr. and Mrs. William Phipps of the American embassy are doing considerable entertaining at their home in Great Stanhope street in the absence of Ambassador Reid. There is much discussion in diplomatic circles concerning the departure of Itidgeley Carter, formerly Minister to the Balkans, for home.

It is believed that he will not stay out of the diplomatic service, despite his resignation from the position of Minister to Argentina. Mrs. Astor's Name. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has definitely announced that she wishes in the future to be addressed as Mrs.

John Astor instead of Mrs. Ava Astor. It was generally supposed that, in view of her divorce, she would prefer to be known by the latter title, but It appears that she dislikes it. intensely. Mr.

Astor's secretary, In writing to the "Examiner" denying the report that she Is engaged to marry a diplomat, referred continually to Mrs. John instead of Mrs. Ava Astor, as formerly. LeliiVid Harrison, the second secretary of the American embassy, who has been much In the company of Mrs. Astor.

declared emphatically he believed Mrs. Astor has no intention of rrarrying anybody. Mrs. Astor expects soon to leave the Ritz hotel, where she has been living for the nast month, so as to get everything ready for the big season's en-, ttrtainirg, which begins in May. Although there is no official confirmation of the rumor, it Is generally believed that Mrs.

W. B. Ixeds intends to marry Lord Falconer, now her guest aboard the yacht Semiramis. He is the second son of the Karl of Klntore and heir to the title, owing to the death of his brother, Lord Inverurie. He is 32, was educated at Eton, served with the Scots Guards in South Africa, and has been honorary attache at Buenos Ayres, where he made many friends.

Falconer a Good Shot. Lord Falconer Is one of the best shots in England and prefers to spend his time at the family place. Keith Hall, In Aberdeenshire. His mother was the daughter of the sixth Duke of Manchester. On his father's side be claims royal blood through the marriage of William Keith.

Earl Marshal of Scotland, and ancestor of Lady Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of James the First of Scotland. I-ord Falconer will be a valuable guide in the East to Mrs. Leeds, as he. was with King George on his world tour, when the King was Prince of Wales. Ills name, Keith Falconer, dates from the twelfth century to an ancestor who was king's falconer to William the Lion-Hearted.

Felice Lyne, the young soprano who has made such a wonderful success at Hamnierstein's Opera House, Is now being taken up by the American Society in London, even the American Embassy staff taking cognizance of the fact that, being an American, she Is entitled to marked considerations. Mrs. Slocum, wife of Major Slocum, the military attache of the embassy, this week entertained Miss Lync st tea. among those present being Mrs. P.onalds, Mrs.

Astor. and several other American hostesses. Miss Lyne Is also receiving much attention from men, particularly from former King Manuel of Portugal, who attends the opera each time she sings. NVxt on the list, however, appears to be the third secretary of the American Embassy. Mr.

Crosby, who is also an ardent opera lover, and who sent Miss Lyne a huge bouquet of flowers on the occasion this week of her first appearance as Marguerite in Faust." By Paul Pierre Rignaux (Ppecittl Correspondent of the $aa FrantlMro Special by cable to New York, and by leased longest in the world, PARIS, February 10. There is a weeping and gnashing of teeth among half a dozen American women, mostly widows, who claim to be the victims of Imperfect art on the part of the Parisian coiffeurs. The women, who do not conceal their chagrin against those hitherto unquestioned decorators of women's hair, are Mrs. Peter Lars, the widow of a well-known Montana mining man; Mrs. Schroedter of Paris, Havre and New York; MiHg Scoffey, of Pan Francisco; Mrs.

Lanehart, of New York; Countess Maokin and Mrs. Charles Carroll of Paris. The trouble began with a young French actress named Lebrun, who brought suit against a coiffeur because all her hair fell off one day when undergoing a certain color treatment. Then the two well-known Western women began to notice curious and hitherto unknown shades In their natural covering. Miss Scoff ey frankly declares that there is a pronounced green in her hair since it has been treated by the artist whose parlors are so much frequented by the American women.

Society Women Indignant. As Miss Scoffey has many friends, the leeklike color of her hair has become the talk of the salons and called forth much indignation against the hair man. "My original hair was auburn," said Mrs. Schroedter, "and now I And In it an unnatural red." A dead red or moribund brown seems to be the colors that show in spite of all the efforts of hair artists. One woman's hair has been colored jet black.

She finds that the hair near the scalp Is a bright vermillion. The cost of such treatment is forty francs, and when the women found the treatment didn't work out as evpeetej they returned In desperation to the artist and were charged forty francs more for touching it up. The women insisted that the dye be taken off with chemicals and for this they had to pay an additional forty francs. The hair men blame the chemists. Mrs.

Clinton Cushing of San Francisco has returned to America to make preparations for her approaching marriage with Lawyer Hoye of Brooklyn. Mrs. Cushing is the widow of the late Dr. CusHing of San Francisco, and has lived in Paris several years. While she was on the ocean, her friends announced her engagement to the Brooklyn lawyer.

Mr. Hoye is now In Paris and it was here that he wooed and won the widow. Though both have passed the poetic age of courtship, there is a pretty romance about the lovelorn pair In the. American colony. It seems that he used, to pursue his dulcina through the leading tea houses in Paris and when under the Influence of several cheering cups of tea he proposed to her.

Mrs. Cushing asked a week to consider, but within forty-eight hours gave the answer that made Mr. Hoye one of the happiest men in Paris. The prospective bride is sixty. Facial and foot treatment have taken Mrs.

Cushing to America and she will come back rejuvenated. The marriage will take place in Paris, where they will make their home. Romance Short. Another matrimonial romance, shattered by reason of Parisian gayety and Berlin high jinks, is that of Mrs. George Draper and her young husband, whom she married some eighteen months ago.

Mrs. Draper was originally Miss Pomeroy of New York and later Mrs. Morrison of Newport. After a divorce from the latter military man of fashion, she became the wife of George Newell of New York and Paris. Here Mrs.

Newell and her sister, Miss Pomeroy, took a prominent part in the social life of the gay capital. After some years of widowhood, she fell In love with young George Draper, whom she had met a few times in a social way. Draper is from Boston and frequently has been far from wealthy. At the time of his marriage he was living in a small flat on the fifth floor of S9 Rue Galilee. The chief cause which induced New-ell's distinguished widow to marry the young man was that she felt she needed a protector.

She and her sisters had lost stocks and bonds to the tune of half a million dollars because they reposed too much confidence in a whilom stockbroker called Count Louis Hamon, by himself, Lee Wagner by his enemies, and known as Cheiro to numerous American women who went to him to have him tell their fate and fortune through reading their hands. But One Reception. But ill hick marked this marriage from the first In order to get her young husband formally into society, she announced a big reception and invited all her friends to meet him. That very day Mrs. Di aper fell so ill that she was unable to receive and had to get the Countess Rodelao de IVoseic.

formerly Miss de Trobriand of New York, to take her place. Draper was fond of clubs andone of his pet clubs was located behind the Parts Grand Opera. This was mysteriously closed and the closing of another club by the authorities in Berlin, where tie is said to have lost a large sum of money, mortified Mrs. Draper very much. Now Draper has left Paris and Mrs.

Draper doesn't know his whereabouts, but they hatf agreed to separate and the final chapter will soon come up in the divorce courts. FRANCE'S CABINET IS TOO CLEVER EARLY DISSOLUTION IS PREDICTED Portugal to Permit C'nslnos Like Those In Biarritz and OMend. LISBON, February 1J. The government lias published the condition of the projected law whereby gambling will be allowed throughout Portugal, the islands of the Azores and Madeira. Great hotels with casinos on the same lines as those at Biarritz and Ostend are to be built at Lisbon, Cascaes Clntra and Oeiras, and there will be smaller gambling saloons in other towns, especially at the seaside and pleasure resorts.

The government is thus hoping to attract British and American tourists. Fifteen per cent of the net profits will revert to the government. Concessions can be made to foreign capitalists, but all the employees at such casinos and saloons must be ascended the throne he sought tne neip of a church of which he became the titual head and of certain of its theatric exponents. First came Father John, "the miracle working priest" of Cronstadt and Nicholas really began his reign ruled by the advices of this village priest. Father John was regarded abroad as an ignorant charlatan and a fanatic; the Russian faithful looked upon him as a saint.

Next Pobiedonostzef. the famous Procurator General of the Holy synod, twisted the Czar around his thumb and diverted him from the liberalism he had imbibed In his youth. Philippe Sundard, son of a shepherd and born in the French Alps, succeeded; then others "Divinely inspired" Bishop Hermogenes. Heliodorus, abbot of Tsarltsyn, and the rest of them. Seances Every Evening.

To-day Rasputin Is reigning over him who reigns over Russia. Rasputin presides nearly every evening at spiritual seances which the Czar attends and often tne Czarina, whose nervous temperament has always been highly exalted. The imperial pair seem enraptured by the seer's solemn prophecies. Often Rasputin is commanded to call up the spirits of former Czars from Peter the Great down. It Is said Nicholas believes his son and heir is a reincarnation of Peter, for the boy.

like so many other hoys not yet eight years old. is fond of ships and the water. In a word. Rasputin influence is so great that the Czar consults him whenever he is in doubt even on the highest questions of state. Small wonder that the Duma is anxious nervous and the people uneasy, since the fate of Russia may hang on the word of this mystic, steeped in superstitious lore.

elijaTtas an opera Mendelssohn's Magnificent Orntorlo to He tilven la Form. IONDON February 10. Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" has Just been licensed bv the Lord Chamberlain for stage performance by the Moody-Manners Opera Company, and the production of the work In its new form is announced as shortly to take place. The opera company's chorus will be reinforced by local choral societies in the various towns where the spectacle is to be produced. The project is remarkable, and can certainly not have been dreamt of by Mendelssohn when he wrote his oratorio for the Birmingham festival In There is.

however. a para. lei In Liszt's oratorio "St. EUsabeth," which was not written with the stage in view, but is often produced as an noera on Continent. Special Correspondent of the San Fran cisco "F.amlner." Special by cubic to New York.

nd by leafed wire, the longest in the world. 1 PARIS, February 10. Already there are signs of dissolution in our latest ministry because of its very great PRINCES ASK YACHT RACER ness including, as it does. Delcasse, who frightens the German Emperor; Briand. who was the first Socialist Minister the world ever has wit By Marquis de Castellane the past four years we have had six.

Ever so ninny well known Americans are turning Dinard, the ancient, capital of Brittany, Into a winter resort. Hitherto it has bren known chiefly as a fashionable summer resort where Mrs. Hughes Hallet of Philadelphia and Andre de Founuiere of Paris furnished the chief amusements. Americans linding that during the depth of winter the climate is tempered by the proximity of the gulf stream are disporting themselves in great numbers there. (if our cousins from over the ocean who are spending this season In villas there iirn Countess de la Forest Dl-vonne, formerly Miss Andenreld of Washington; Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Marce-lln of Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Vllliers Forbes of Paris and New York, Mrs. James Jackson of Paris.

Mrs. Ballard Smith of London and New York. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E.

Valols of Paris and Mr. and Mrs. Parsons and their children of Charleston. S. C.

Thanks to our American friends, we have one more winter resort in France. Never have I seen the secret of perpetual youth hotter demonstrated than In the case of a distinguished American gentlewoman now at Monte Carlo. I refer to Madame de Hesermann Llndn-i i ciiic, formerly Mrs. Charles Moulton. I knew her as a belle at the Palace of the Tuilerles in the days of the empire, and now at.

Monte Carlo she clnnees at halls and attends long-drawn-out evening parties, just as she did forty-live or fifty years ago. Madame de lb germann is the granddaughter cif the late Judge Fay of Cambridge. and was brought up in ti old Kay mansion, now a part of the University of Harvard. Though she Is wife of the Danish minister at Berlin, we look upon her as a Parisian. It is said the Princess Eugenie was mightv iealous of her when she was Mrs.

Moulton. nessed; Leon Bourgois, who hopes to succeed Fallieres; Eugene Dupey, who a nPWBTinnPr which 1 1 a a circulation of a million and a unar- ter, and Mlllerand, tne most, levelheaded public man In France. Critics say it cannot last long. There is not room enough for so much genius around one council board and we have a habit of short-lived mini.trt! in France. We have aver King leorgr to Give Their Appeal an Karl? Consideration.

LONDON, February 10. One of the King's first acts will be to consider a request from the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert that a new royal racing yacht should be built. Both the young princes are extremely fond of yachting and handle a vessel with considerable skill. Last year the old cutter Britannia was put Into commission for their entertainment, but the result was rather a disappointment to the Princes, and Prince Albert, In particular, was very contemptuous of the sailing powers of the vessel. They now desire to have a boat of their own which will have a reasonable chance of carrying an occasional winning flag.

aged one a year since the establish ment of the Republic, uuring me pam vear we have four ministries. During of 300 years during which the House of Romanoff has reigned in Russia. To begin with, the Russian postal authorities have arranged to Issue new-postage stamps. Instead of the Imperial eagle these stamps will bear the portraits of the different Romanoff Czars who have ruled Russia for three The kopek stamps, for example, will bear the pfflev of Peter the Great. TELLS 115 II TO GET I OF BAD GOLDS AND GRIPPE I FEW HOURS.

Turks Solve Problem Of Huge Theatre Hats First Three Rows Recline, Next Three Get on Their Knees and the Remainder Stand. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 10 An amusing and curious notice Is to be seen in one of the theatres in Constantinople. effectively solves the problem of people at the back obtaining a clear view, and is very much more radical than the polite request made in English and French theatres that women should not mar the view of the stage, with their huge hats. The notice-reads: "In order to render the performance agreeable to all those present, the management of the theatre lias decided that the spectators in the first three rows should recline, those in the next three rows be on thir knees, and all the others be standing. In that way everybody will be able to enjoy the play." This notice Is followed by a suggestion implying the Turkish woman's lack of romance: "It is strictly fo-bidden to laugh, for It is a tragedy that is being performed." rtrx rM I1" t't f-m trurper wearer; tm mHclieincin't proflt.

TLt Bit rur Store. 1S7 Gnat Airt. Ring Worn by Kaiser's Daughter Stirs Court It's a Wonderful Affair, With the Setting in the Shape of a Peacock. BERLIN. February 10.

Notwithstanding the official denial of the engagement of the Kaiser's daughter to the Grand Duke of MccklenburK-Stre-litz. court society is wondering who Rave Princess Louise the most elaborate ring which she is wearing constantly of late. It is a very large affair, coer)ng the lower half the middle finger of the right hand completely. The metal parts are of gold and platinum, ami serve as a suhsti ueture for a p' acock with spread tail. The pea -cork's eyes are rubies, the tail is of chip diamonds, yellow diamond, s.ipphlrt-s and other precious stones, representing all the colors of the laibbow.

The ring Is said to contain more than two hundred and fifty small tns, and is ratlif hrav, thoush made in a most a rt ist ic m.i tmcr. liA RS 7) I A ST. PETERSBURG, February 10. Arrangements are already being male to celebrate the completion ef the period FLOODS CAUSE SUFFERING Rivers In Portugal Break Bounds and Destroy Properly. LISBON.

February 10. The floods continue in every part of Portugal, but the southern districts are most seriously affected, and reports received today show that the distress among the population is actito. At the city of Oporto a large number of barges on the river have been swept away and several small coasting vessels have been driven to seH and lost. At the port of Leicxes, the damage done by the inundation on the water front is estimated at more tnan $1,000,000. ILL "RESIGN hTsC HAIR President of Reichstag Objects to SoclnliM lor-President.

BERLIN. February 9. Dr. Spahn. ler.dtr of the Clerical center party, who y5trday was cl-cted President of the Reichstag, announced, tq-day that be will resign the chair on Monday.

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