The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
FOOTBALL FATALITIES
An Appalling List of
Casualties in Great
Britain.
ONE SEASONS MISHAPS
Twenty Deaths and Hundreds
of Minor Injuries Caused
by the Games.
THE LATEST LONDON GOSSIP.
Wales Has Seventy Uniforms and
an Enormous, Costly
Wardrobe.
THE LATEST LONDON GOSSIP.

LONDON, ENG, April Z7.-Ihe Engllsl
football season is closed and the West
minister Gazette publishes its annual foot
ball butchers BILL" The chill" shows
that during the season there were
twenty deaths from injuries received
on the football field and that over $50 legs,
arms and collar-bones were broken, be-
sides many cases of conclusion of the BRAIN
or spine, paralysis, kneecaps split and hun
dreds OF minor casualties.
The committee appointed to raise funds
for the purchase of the residence of the
late Thomas Carlyle in order to fit it up as
Carlyle Museum have already collected
91700, and it is expected the purchase will
be completed in May and that the museum
will open in June.
Carlyle's writing-desk was among the
articles recently auctioned off at the sale
of the belongings of Oscar Wilde. 1t
brought fourteen guineas, and was proably
secured by an American.
Some curious details have been pub
lished here regarding the wardrobe of the
Prince of Wales.
1t appears that he possesses seventy uni
forms, at an average cost of G170. 1t is
added that he pays II guineas 1852 SOY for
frock coat, Is guineas (about $78) for a
dress suit. For trousers he pays guineas
($21). His ordinary trousers will cost to
10 guineas ($42 to $52 50).
During the London season the Prince
consumes two frock coats per month, and
he uses about dozen suits annually. He
has an immense number OF ordinary suits
of clothes, and never wears one more than
two or three times.
In addition his shooting suits cost 300
guineas year. The Prince has three silk
hats every fortnight and never wears pair
of gloves twice. In shoes he is the best
dressed man in the kingdom.
During the week the continental carnival
with its battle of flowers, ETC., was intro
duced into England at Eastbourne, the
fashionable watering place, and will
doubtless become an annual feature here.
Buyers from all countries, including the
United States, were present this week at
the annual horse fair at Lincoln, where
horses of every class were on exhibition.
The great wheel at Earl Court, initiated
from the Ferris wheel, was finished to-
day, with the exception of the woodwork.
1t is said to be an improvement and is
much larger than the Chicago wheel, and
has been sixteen months in building.
The Earl of Lonsdale, who is member
of the Dunraven syndicate which is build
ing Valkyrie III to compete for the Amer
ica's cup, has been elected commodore of
the Royal London Yacht Club.
The late Mr.. Corney Grain, who died
shortly after his partner, German Reed,
seems to have done fairly well with the
management of st. Georges Hall, for he
left a fortune of $4,000.
Kisber, the winner of the Derby of 1876,
is dead. Kisber was bay colt by Bucca-
neer, and in 1876 was owned by A. Bal
tazzi. There were 226 subscribers to the
Derby stakes in that year, and fifteen
horses started Kisber, ridden by Made
mont, won in min. A sec.
Viscount Peel, the late Speaker of the
House of Commons, is to receive the free
dom of the city of London.
The Lancet says that Professor Huxley,
though suffering seriously from influenza
and bronchitis, is slightly better.
Ellen Terry is again able to appear at
the Lyceum Theater after her illness.
Miss Terry has not been well all winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beerbohm Tree arrived
here on Thursday from New York. They
were met by crowds of friends and pro-
nounced themselves to be immensely
pleased with America, the audiences and
especially with American theaters.
On Thursday last "The Passport" by
Stephenson and Yardley, had its first per-
Torrance at Terry's Theater. 1t is partly
taken from ''My Official Wife" is an ex-
cellent comedy and was distinct success.