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King Edward, in his perambulations round the Royal Show, stopped quite an appreciable
The King time at the stands Interested, of the agricultural motors, evincing the closest interest, making many enquiries, not leaving until he had been supplied with numerous details.
Milnes-Daimler and Straker-Squire buses were doing first-rate work, at Gloucester, between Sixpenny Fares, the station and the showground. Th had evidently been requisitioned from Bath, Bristol and other surrounding towns. Although 6d. was charged, they were well patronised.
My mission on the opening day 1%as to present a copy of our Royal Show
report to the chief
QifiCz exhibitors. The de
Work. livery of these copies
on Tuesday, before people had finished their afterluncheon cigars, was in all cases a surprise and delight: many of the photographs were not taken until Monday afternoon. I scurried up to town on Monday evening with the last items of news, writing up my notes in the train. Photographs had to be developed and blocks made, and the final proof passed after midnight, but here I was again, at the showground, on the day following, and copies were selling at W. H. Smith and Son's kiosk by 2.30 p.m. The thought occurred to me once or twice, during the
preparations and my own particular share of the work, that our Editor was a base-born tyrant who had mistaken his country and his century. South America, I felt, was his sphere, among the coloured people, and he armed with a whip! We had, all the same, our compensation in the unqualified chorus of appreciation and approval, and the knowledge that we had done our best for readers at large.
On the opening day of the loyal Show, I stepped into the enclosure of
the fine stand of
" Look Like Thomas Green and Advertisements." Sons, Ltd., of Leeds, and confronted Mr. Penrose Green. " You look like advertisements," he said to me, querulously, and drawing back. I replied : " No, not this once," upon which he resumed his usual happy expression. He thought. our report was very good indeed.
The action of the S.M.M.T. in declining to recognise the Manchester
Motor Show caused A Likely Revolt, a special committee
meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire agents' section to he held on Tuesday the 22nd ult., with the result that the Committee unanimously recommended the section to disband and to support the Manchester and District Motor Trades Association, Ltd. I should think that this voices the general feeling in the district. An old friend of mine travelled with me up to Glasgow recently, but
we separated at St.
"Starving Enoch's Station, as Money." he was proceeding to a different hotel, and, anyhow, he was later on going through the Highlands with the pleasure cars on the Scottish Trials. Now, as is well known, it is the custom in large hotels to make a specified charge for room and attendance, and it is clearly set forth in the hotel handbooks, and usually on the walls of the bedrooms, that in the event of no meals being taken in the hotel, an extra charge will be made for the bedroom. Well my friend usually is as handy with a knife and fork as most in fact, I have often watched him at meal-times with something akin to adniiration, if not envy, as his particular procession of edibles has disappeared. Like some others, however, breakfast is not his meal; it is later in the day when he warms up, and then to; does not wait until he returns to the hotel; he just eats where he happens to be. At this Scotch hotel, my friend gazed wistfully at, and pondered over, the notice in the bedroom, and came to the conclusion that, if he had tea and toast. at the bedside, it ought to satisfy their absurd requirements. When the bill for five days was presented to him, he was, of course, duly charged for his matatinal tea, Os. 6d. for his bedroom, and 2s, extra for each day. In reply to his enquiry for the reason of this extra charge, he was told that that same was for " starving money."