Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
WC'S BIRTHDAY.
Her Seventy Third Will Be
Celebrated Tomorrow.
USUAL LOYAL SERVICES TO-DAY.
Not Indifferent to Popular Opinion, as Dem
onstrated BY Little Incident.
She Will Straighten the Prince of Wales
Out Financially-There Is an Under
standing, However, About
the thereafter"
Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria.
Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, May 23-The queens birthday
will be officially celebrated ON Monday al
though usual loyal services will be held IN
the churches tomorrow. Her majesty,
who will begin on Sunday her seventy
tnlrd year, and about a month later the
tifty-tifth year of her reign, is in excellent
health. Her stay at Grasse was of consid-
cradle benefit to her, although she was in
good health when she went there. and she
IS as active in state affairs as ever. That
she is not Indifferent to popular opinion,
was singularly illustrated at railway sta
ton recently. The queens train had
stopped for few moments at country
place, the people not being aware that she
was on board. A woman sentenced to i'm
prlsonnent for having done a servant CIR.
TO death by gross cruelty, was at that mo-
ment brought to the station TO be conveyed
10 jail. The mob who had gathered TO see
the criminal
KISSED AND HooTED
her roundly. The queen, thinking the
boots might be intended for the royalty was
greatly agitated and nearly tainted. An
explanation revived her. and the hearty
cheers of her subjects when they heard of
her presence made Victoria herself again.
Both the queen and Prince of Wales are
more popular than the royalty, fact which
NOSp
should he, like his COUSIN the German
kaiser, be- called preInaturely to the throne.
clarence appears to be a weakiing, without
| the stybbornness Of the Georges or the tact
and aniability of the Coburg line.
{ The Prince of Wales. it is noticed has of
hate avoided the company of Baron Hirsch
and other prominent Hebrews, to whom he
had formerly been very affable. and who
often had the prince on show at their city
and country residences. The familiarity of
the prince with such society has offended
the taste of other royal houses connected
with the Guelphs and Coburgs, especially
as common report has charged the prince
with receiving
PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE
from these people. The action taken by
the queen to relieve the prince of his
debts is said to be prompted by a desire TO
relieve him of diSagreeable connections in
Il financial way, and especially of his obi
cations to Baron Hirsch, who is looked
upon as an offensive upstart and far in
ferior to the Rothschilds, separated by
several generations from the pawnshop of
the red shield. 1t is reported that the adj
vances made by the queen are with the eX
press understanding that the prince will
square things when he comes into the royal
civil list with his younger brothers and
sisters, for whose benefit the queen has
chiefly intended her savings of half a
century.
The prince, notwithstanding his extlava-
gance Tor perhaps because of it,. is gaining
in popularity. He was one of the first to
CALL not alone, but in company with the
princess, on Gladstone, during the 'latter's
Illness and he has a firm hold on the friend
ship of the Liberal leader Even the Irish
parliamentary representatives are not
without liking for the prince, whose views
of home rule are believed to be much more
tolerant than those Of the Tory magnates.