Show I HORSE MNO NOW SElDOM USED Motor Cars Have Displaced Mans Best Friend in the Streets of London BOOM OF FISH FOR FOOD GENERAL BOOTH PROVIDING FOR HOMELESS ONES ONESBY ONESBY BY PHILLIP EVERETT Lon London on Jan the loss ot of an anold anold old friend the people ot of London regard the disappearance ot of the horse hone omnibus On the famous routes ot these horse where they have been running for the last fifty years you will wUl now seethe see the he speedy motor steadily increasing in numbers and the low Jow but sure horse omnibus just as rapidly disappearing The other day I happened to be pass ass Ing an aged woman who vho was waiting patiently In the Strand for a white Putney horse omnibus She turned and asked me why one was so long In coming com coming ing She Sho did not know that on this famous route which was one ot of the first routes a horse omnibus ever traveled over scarcely more than a dozen horse vehicles vehicles cles are aro now running and that even they are doomed to vanish soon Between Putney and Liverpool street nearly ot of these well known buss s used to run hut but within the last i few days most of them have been taken oft off the road Everywhere now the old time omnibus Is giving place to the mo motor motor tor It will wUl not be long before with a afew afew few exceptions all the horse omnibuses In London will wUl have disappeared A truly melancholy sight for lovers of the comforts of the horse omnibus with its genial loquacious driver and persuasive beckoning con conductor conductor ductor may now be seen at on ono or two of the omnibus depots In long desert deserted ed rows cast aside and neglected stand the old omnibuses The principal companies com companies have acc accumulated dose close upon f them Down the Strand before the motor omnibuses came at least twelve services servIces Ices ot of the horse omnibuses found their way Now there are not more than remnant of the Putney om omnibuses the old favorites and a service between and London bridge Eighty and more of the old Green omnibuses used to run down the Bays BaysWater BaysWater Water road Every one of them has now gone Forty vehicles until recently maintained a service between Clapham Junction and circus They are gone from the streets Only In Incases incases cases where the routes are especially congested or hilly will the horse omni omnibus omnibus bus be permitted to remain on th the streets of London Fish as Food A campaign has been Inaugurated I under the auspices ot of the National Sea I Fisheries Protection association to pop popularize popularize the use of fish as food tood Fish Is recommended very strongly not only for Its nutrition and digest but its cheapness It Is s generally known that Englishmen as a majority are ve very conservative In the matter of their food The kinds ot of fish they eat nn be readily named and numbered on the fingers of one hand Ot Of the many other varieties ot of cheap nutritious and savo savory fish food they know nothing from the culinary point of view and for that reason venture nothIng t There are many strong arguments gIven for the more extensIve use ot of fish as a food At tho present time meat Is at prices so hIgh In n fact that many have eIther to deprive them themselves themselves selves of it or If they buy It at the present resent prices deprive themselves of other necessary foods The prIce ot of fish In England Is ex exceedIngly exceedingly low and If there was a greater demand for the cheaper kInds among the working classes the fish fishmonger fishmonger monger might be able to reduce his charges aU all round One of the great difficulties In the fish trade Is that a avery avery very perishable article is dealt In Much of It has to be destroyed while In many country distrIcts It Is s often otten extremely difficult to get fresh fish at all Practical Charity One ot of the most practical of the charities now receiving the support of smart society Is s Queen LeagUe for tor Crippled Children for which a two days fete has just been held at the Mansion House The fete was opened by Princess Henry ot of Bat Battenberg Battenberg tenberg Sir William Treloar father and founder of the Alton Home for Young ripples Cripples read an address to the princess giving some interesting Information Information mation about the growth of the league It now numbers upwards of mem members bers each of whom Is prIvileged to wear th the queens badge and Is pledged to tJ help the cause Qt of crippled children Her majesty the queen saId Sir William reviewed the children of the league last jast June and they will never forget the gracious encouragement which her bel presence afforded It Is indeed in indeed deed to her ber great and sustained Interest that the wonderful success of this child movement Is due Sir William defined the work of the league In one ne admirable phrase when he said that It t had linked the children who arc well Into sympathy with the children who suffer and are in pain An appeal In behalf of suffering little ones goes straight to all hearts and at atthe atthe the Mansion anston House many distinguished people gave e their work and their ser services Ices and their genius to this charity so that more crippled children might bE provided for and obtain a chance of health and happiness Tribute to Poe The only building in London dedicated dedi l to poetry Such was the compliment com compliment paid recently bythe American consul to the Boudoir theatre In Ken Kensington Kensington where was gathered a 9 brilliant galaxy of distinguished and fashionable folk to witness the unveiling of a tablet to c celebrate the Edgar Allen Poe cen centenary centenary The theatre is IR rather of the nature of an esoteric temple Over Oyer the tiny vel ye stage rises from a bower of roses and lilies a Grecian pediment of while marble Hard by Is a statue ot of Buddha suffused suffuse with a my tc glow from some unknown source Opposite Is a Grecian Grecia altar strewn with rose petals from which also streams a radi radiance radiance ance Apart from the actual c ceremony remony n was performed to the strains of The Stars and Stripes For ForI I ver there wore were speeches and recitations recitations by bv people General Gen ral Booth IR s making a determined effort to copt cope with the vexed question f homeless s when In London Recent he gained possession slon of a l large rge nv story In Great Po trept Westminster which will h he 1 r forthwith for tor housIng homel homeless s strom mcc tram 12 midnight to 6 In tt th horning It Is proposed f fo give them q tread unon to tip r Jr r ant en to feed th winn n And when th 1 nt at R RAs As the building has a superficial area p of about square feet some 1200 men can be accommodated at one time and when alterations have been made It will become a permanent night shelter with sleeping accommodations for halt half that number |