Earl v. Haberdasher

After taking thought, Great Britain added one Cubitt to Bermuda last week. Lieut. General Thomas Astley Cubitt was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief, succeeding Lieut.-General Sir Louis Jean Bols who died last September. Any other week this would have been great news in Bermuda, but last week Hamiltonians gave it scarcely a thought. In their midst for six hours was the Earl of Chester, otherwise H. R. H. Edward of Wales. His lanky younger brother Prince George was also present, but attracted little more attention than the coming Cubitt.

Twenty-four hours late, the liner Oropesa dropped anchor in Hamilton harbor. Wearing grey flannel suits, which Edward of Wales topped with a startling broadbrimmed "wideawake" hat, the two Princes stepped ashore, posed for photographs, shook hands with Acting Governor Edward W. Evans and his staff, then boarded a tender and putt-putted to the swanky Mid-Ocean Club at Tuckerstown. The Earl of Chester celebrated the beginning of his trade tour by playing golf with Bermuda's leading tradesman, Eldon Trimingham of Trimingham Bros. (clothing store), famed yachtsman and Bermudian socialite. It was a close match. H. R. H. canceled an official luncheon, hastily gobbled sandwiches in order to finish the round before his reception at Government House. On the 17th green Tradesman Trimingham won, two up and one to go. Back from the club in an open barouche rode the royal brothers through lines of cheering Bermudians, solemnly shook hands with 650 chosen people. So thrilled was one Bermuda lady at the prospect of meeting royalty that she forgot to put on a skirt.

"This defect," cabled a correspondent, "although partly concealed by her long coat, nevertheless was evident to the 650 assembled guests. A titter went up as she bent to curtsy to the princes."

An hour later the Oropesa pulled out of the harbor with the princes on board and a parting gift of twelve boxes of ripe red Bermuda strawberries. Four days later the slow Oropesa was in Havana harbor, dropped anchor for five hours. Possibly because of Cuban political unrest, officially because the British Court is still in mourning for the Princess Royal, H. R. H. Victoria, sister of King George, Their Royal Highnesses set no foot on Cuban ground. Only potent gentlemen to meet them were British Minister Thomas J. Morris, Cuban Secretary of State Francisco Maria Fernandez and President Machado's Introducer of Ambassadors and Ministers, Enrique Soler y Baro, who were entertained by T. R. H. in their suite.

At Princeton N. J. last week, Charles Augustus Lindbergh announced that his widely announced tour of South America would be postponed for several months. Reason: lest it be construed he was going as a rival attraction to T. R. H.

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