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Show London Trades People Povery Stricken A large section of the London west end population popu-lation is looking forward anxiously to the time when Americans may be expected on their summer visit to Europe. Business there is dull in the ex-" treme. The king is doing his best for the west end tradesman by remaining in town and encouraging social gayety to the full extent of his power, but the fact' remains that the people are keeping their purse strings as tightly closed as possible. This is duo not to any excess of parsimony, but to the fact that there is little money in the purses. The leading hotel proprietors, managers, dealers in works of att and bric-a-brac, caterers, florists, jejv-eler3 jejv-eler3 and every class of people who profit by the luxuries of the rich are in the doldrums. Their only hope is American visitors, and just at present their great fear is that the St. Louis exposition will keep on the far side of the Atlantic many people peo-ple who otherwise would have spent their money in London. 4 |