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Show BELIEVES I FUTURE OF 1 1M1 Woman Offers to Back Scheme for an Aerial Passenger Line. BY PAUL LAMBETH. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. LONDON, July 30. Lady Abdy, who recently isecured the honor of being the first Englishwoman to make a flight ln an aeroplane, Is an enthusiastic believer ln tho future of air navigation. She has offered to back a scheme for an aerial passenger line between London and Paris to the extent of 5250,000. A committee Is to be formed by Messrs. Grahame White and Prosldcnt Grey of tho Aero club of eminent aviators, who will utilize tho gift ln tho construction of an airship, air-ship, a combined airship and plane, or aeroplane, which will carry passengers from London to Paris. One condition of tho gift is that it must be an all-British scheme from tho formation of the committee com-mittee to tho material employed In tho airship or aeroplane. Plans for the machine ma-chine have been Invited. It is proposed that it should have a carrying capacity of twenty passengers. Tho prices realized real-ized for tho seats are to be devoted to charity. An aviation factory, to be called the "Abdy aviation factory," will be commenced on a site near London shortly. short-ly. Bomantic Document. Though the phraseology is quaint and formal, and the facts aro related with the studied pruciscness of an old-fashioned lawyer, tho will of Arthur Joseph Munby of 6 Fig Tree Court, Temple, E. C, and of Pycford, Surrey, barrister at law, a well known poet and litterateur, remains one of the most romantic docu-monts docu-monts ever lodged at Somerset house. To all but two or three intimate friends who wero in the testator's confidence, it reveals re-veals for the first time the story of his secret marriage to a domestic servant, Hannah Cullwlck, forty-five years ago, and tho elngular almost pathetic, as far as tho woman was concerned relations which existed between man and wife. "The sal'd Hannah," runs one of tho extracts ex-tracts from tho will In which Mr. Munby refers to his wlfo, "has always refused and still she might and could have had, and has always Insisted and still Insists on being my servant as well as my wife." The author of this strange disclosure dis-closure died January 29 last, aged 81 years, and as his will, which has now been proved shows, left an estate of tho value of $125,000. Elitchener Is Reconciled. Lord Kitchener Is qulto reconciled to a period of idleness from military employment, employ-ment, and is now seeking a house where he can take up his permanent rcsldenco. This will bo somewhere within easy reach of London, and will be surrounded by large gardens. Ono of Kitchener's favorite favor-ite pastimes is gardening, and he hopc3 to be ablo to give full play to this in the future. He aluo proposes to provide a permanent home for his largo and extremely ex-tremely valuablo collection of old china. This collection Is especially rich ln specimens speci-mens of eastern pottory ware, and received re-ceived some considerable additions when he visited China and Japan a short timo ago. A3 Boon as ho has obtained his houso Lord Kitchener proposes to havo this collection systematically catalogued and valued by experts. Beyond obtaining obtain-ing thl3 houso he has made absoluter no plans for the future; but somo years ago ho Informed a group of friends that ln the event of his ever being without military employment, ho might turn to the city for something with which to occupy oc-cupy his mind and his timo: and It may be that this is what he will now do. |