Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-07
Copyrighted, 1880


which Will follow, are doing their ut
most to rush their entertainments in
before election.
Every night of the past week has
been crowded with balls, dinners and
parties of various descriptions and
those who cannot find a night during
the next few days are being compelled
to abandon the idea of carrying out
their social programme, and will,
therefore, postpone their projected en-
tertainments or give them up alto
gether.
This years invasion of London by
Americans is the strongest ever known.
They are to be seen at every turn, oc-
cupying the best apartments in all the
popular hotels, and visiting all places
of interest The leading restaurants
are packed with them, and they half
fill the theatres nightly. Finally, the
Americans flock in crowds TO the big
music halls and enjoy themselves gen
orally in every way possible. They
are good customers everywhere, free
with their money, and content only
with the best of everything. There
fore, it need hardly be added, the Lon
don hotel keepers, storekeepers, and
public entertainers are not grumbling
at the sO-called
AMERICAN Invasion"
If proof was needed of the presence
here of a multitude of Americans, it
was furnished by the crowds of patri-
otto citizens of the United States who
attended the several Independence Day
celebrations in London on Thursday
last, and strange TO say, the screeching
of the Eagle upon these occasions
seemed to give the Lion a certain de-
gree of healthy satisfaction.
The Daily News. for instance, COM
menting yesterday on the banquet of
restaurant, said: The American In
dependence Day was celebrated more
publicly than on previous occasions.
This is as it should be. The day brings
no bitterness of memory TO the present
generation of Englishmen. But for
that day and its lessons our empire
might by now be- a thing of the past 1t
is never so fttingly celebrated as when
Englishmen and Americans meet in
honor of it at the same ceremony, or at
the same social board
Then. again, during the banquet,
cordial message was received by the
Americans from the past and present
members of Emanuel College. Cam
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part of the building, which caused the
Hon. Wayne MacNeagh, the United
States Ambassador to Italy, who pre-
sided in the absence Of the Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard, the United States
Ambassador to
THE COURT OF ST. JAMES,
to remark that blood was thicker than
water. Not to be behind hand in cour-
tesy, the Americans sent the Emanul
men a reply, proposing as a worthy
sentiment Of the evening, the memory
of John Harvard. a son of Emanuel
College. and the father of liberal learn
! ing in the new world.
AS a further proof or the presence
here of vast throngs of Americans, it
may be added that at the Savoy Hotel
one night this week, half a dozen ia
nous dinners were in progress. MI
George GOulds party was at one table
and near them was the party of Mr.
NJ. II. De Young. proprietor of the San
Francisco Chronicle. At another table
Mrs Writ Dexter, of Chicago, was en-
! tertaining a number of friends. and
there We're fully twenty more persons
Of more or less prominence at the va
Tious tables in the room.
The registers Of Loves and Gill
ling's American exchanges show a laYg-
er number of names entered than for
| years past. Mr.. and Mrs DeYOung ar
| rivel from Paris a few days ago, and
| they are receiving much attention in
society They have been the guests Of
Mrs. John Mackay and other prominent
people
The sixty cases of art objects which
Mr.. DeYoung purchased in France for
the California Exposition Memorial
| Museum have arrived in London and
win be shipped to the United States on
| Wednesday next by the steamship
/ CUthera The collection is one of real
ly marvellous variety and value. 1t in
cludes old tapestries,
RARE SEVRES VASES,
plates, etc, Louis XIV. and XVI clocks,
and other admirable selections from
the best collection it is best to draw
| upon in Europe.
There was considerable comment
among the New Workers who attended
the reception given on the Fourth of
July by Mrs Bayard. wife of the United
States ambassador, upon the fact that
Mr. William Waldorf Astor, who was
among those present, had aged greatly
since the death of his wife.
Bret Harte created much amusement
at the reception by displaying great
anxiety that the English butler should
announce his name correctly. The but
Ter announced "Bretharte, whereupon
the novelist called out Bret Harte" at
the top of his voice three times and SCI
everybody laughing.
There is much dissatisfaction at the
| careless manner in which the mails are
| dispatched to the United States. The
] North German Lloyd Company adver-
tised a steamer to sail last Sunday, and
notified the pOstoffice authorities to that
effect. But without giving notice TO
anyone or changing the advertisement,
the company withdrew the steamer en-
| tirelv. and in consequence the mails
waited at Southampton for several days.
Archibald Ross Colquhoun, the well
known explorer and first governor OF
Mashonaland, has just returned from
several months mission to Nicaragua,
where he thoroughly inspected the
Nicaraguan canal route and visited the
Panama canal. He says: From what
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