Show NEWS AND GOSSIP OF EUROPEAN CAPITALS ASTOR ACTIVE IN WORK Of P. P PARLIAMENT Is Is Chairman of Committee to Report on Tuber- Tuber I t CHEAP DINNER BECOMES BECOMES' QUESTION OF STATE Commoners Reluctant to Give Up Official 25 2 Cent Meal LONDON March 30 Mr Mr Waldorf Astor member of parliament e t fo for Plymouth Ply mouth the eld eldest son of Mr William WilHam Waldorf Astor ha has made another step forward in his po political career which commenced only at the last general election elec tion lion a year a ago o. o He has been appointed chairman of a 3 committee to report upon the problem of tuberculosis in n th the United Kin Kingdom dom in its preventive curative cura cura- curative tive the and other aspects Mr Astor has hasy made a special stud study of the subject and his first h in inthe inthe the house of commons was in support of the governments government's insurance bill in which provision was made mad for dea dealing in with patients suffering from losis Mr Lloyd Goor George e the chan chancellor of tho the exchequer who appointed Mr 11 Astor As As' Astor tor althou although h a political opponent to the chairmanship of the committee had intended that tho the funds raised under the act should be employed for sanatoria sanatoria sana toria but many man medical men are absolutely absolutely opposed to sanatoria treatment and it will be the tho work of tho the committee commit tee to investigate te and report on tho thc best way of using the money Tuberculosis Decreasing Tho mortality from tuberculosis ha has I steadily decreased in En England land and Wales bein being less being l less ss than half what hat It W was wat In in 1860 The Thel death rate rato however is IS still very hea heavy and in 1909 persons per per- sons eons succumbed in En England land and Wales Wales- Th The o disease is even en more deadly in in Ireland Ire land but th there re an active campaign campaign n inaugurated in in- in au rated b by bt tho the countess of Aberdeen has h bOOn been n Jr going ln od for some years ears and ana conditions are in improving Home title rule Welsh disestablishment and the suffrage o question all promise to te tobe tobe be eclipsed i in the tho house of commons by the d danger n er to the members' members shilling or oi cent 25 dinner There has been a great reat strain train upon the finances of the l kitchen itchen L committee of the 1 house ouse and Colonel I Lockwood its chairman chairman threatens to tomake tomake toP make up the deficit by bl rail raising in inthe P the tho price a of the tho dinner Now ow that each member of the house is receiving r a a salary of 2000 a year the le legislators I may be compelled to pay at least tho thc I actual cost of the tho dinners they con con- annie sume Cheap Dinner Popular Colonel Lockwood declares that tho thc receipts of the kitchen have not in increased increased in creased since since the tho members b began an to tc draw pa pay but he ho intends to get t some I of this thiB money Oven even eu if it means the up up- of on one of tho the most cherished perquisites tes of parliament The dinner was origin originally lly established for the benefit benefit benefit bene bene- fit of the tho labor members but when the tho th theother I Iother other commoners coni saw aw what th their ir labor laboi colleagues were getting settin for their mono money they deserted the tile a la Ia carte table until I It at the present time tinia fully full two thirds ot 01 t the house partakes of the cheap dina din a nero ner er neroTh Th The American government o has baa beet been 1 looking London for a home homB for foi forthe the embassy but it has d decided not to make any purchase at it pr present A N. very cry complete report a ah 88 to the residences available has been een sent sont to the state department Embassy Needs Large L rge Quarters H Heretofore for J tho the residence of the em em- I and tho the embassy offices have havo bec been established in buildings Should tho the United States government dc decide ide to purchase a residence it is understood that tho the office and liv liv- in ing ng quart quarters rs of or the embassy would be in fl the Ule sane house This Thi wo would ld tate tate tate-a a very lar large e building for while the staff is not lar largo large c tho the Americans have o to receive a great e t many more moro visitors than do the tho and ministers of the European powers In the fir first t place there ther have ha to bo be separate rooms for the tho and his three secretaries and two attaches and a couple of extra rooms rooms for tho the use of visiting officials Then there are the clerks clerk and still more difficult to 1 find And Dd a lar large e re reception room where the tho hundreds of Amr Americans cans who visit the tho embassy durin during tho the summer er can be he ro re ed cei In addition to the offices the tho Bador must havo have a ver very lar large e. e convent ent house where he can entertain on ori boh behalf lf of his c country I It has been rather difficult to find lInd the tho right house but one has been offered of of- fared to tho government which would 1 be ba eminently 8 suited for the purpose purpose- The cost of the necessary land and residence residence resi resi- dence deuce has been bern estimated at t anywhere from to l to Revive Bartholomew w. w Fair Bartholomew Bartholom w fair which was held heM at West Smithfield in London from 1133 to 1855 will be revived red at the Shakes Shakes- Shakespeare's peare peares peare's 8 En England Jand exhibition which will willbe willbe be held under the tho management of Mrs George Cornwallis West Cornwallis-West West daughter of or orth th the late late- Leonard Laonard Jerome of New York at Earls court this summer The Tho charter for tho the ori original nal fair fairfa was fa granted by Henry I. I to the famous monk Ra Racers who for y years ars had been Henrys Henry's jester cater and who founded the priory of St. St Bartholomew as well as the famous St. St Bartholomew hos hospital The Tho fair opened annually on the feast feat of St. St Bartholomew and tasted lasted fourteen days When it was first established it was one one no of the great annual markets market of the kingdom and the chi chief cloth fair of the times Smithfield as it existed I in tho early days of the fair will be reproduced and some of the brutal pastimes pas times thea which grew ew to mark the festival win will be imitated |