The San Francisco call., 1897-12-26
YULETIDE
ENJOYED BY
ROYALTY
Queen Victoria Has
a Merry Party at
Osborne.
Devon OK, Wild Boar's
Head and WOodcock
Pies in Array.
Prince and Princess Of Wales
Purchase and Distribute
Customary Presents.
AN EXPLORERS VOYAGE.
jackson Has Now Changed His Plans
so They VIII Not Conflict With
Lieutenant Peary.
Prince and Princess Of Wales
Purchase and Distribute
Customary Presents.
AN EXPLORERS VOYAGE.
jackson Has Now Changed His Plans
so They VIII Not Conflict With
Lieutenant Peary.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch 10 Ihe Cali.
LONDON. Dec. 25.-The temperature
is seasonable, the yellow fogs in the
middle of the week having given way
to comparative brightness. The week
has been the coldest of the season,
ten to twenty degrees of frost being
registered. and skating has COM
menced. All who could do so have
gone to the country. Christmas house
parties are more numerous than usual
OF the United States Embassy En-
bassador John Hay and Mrs. Hay
alone remained in town. Henry
White. secretary of the Embassy, and
Mrs. White spent the first part of the
week at Hatfield, where the Marquis
of Salisbury has been entertaining a
large shooting party. Thence Mr.. and
Mrs. White went to Blenheim, where
they participated In the Christmas re-
joicings, which included two balls and
the presentation of two playlets, in
which the Duke and Duchess of MARI
borough and Lady Randolph Churchill
had parts. James R. Carter, Second
Secretary of the United States EN-
bassy, and Mrs. Carter have gone to
Biarritz and Lieutenant Colonel Well,
Mrs. Well are in Paris.
Queen Victoria has a merry party at
Osborne. There was a Christmas tree
loaded with presents for the royal
children, the members Of the house
hold and servants. The party in
cludes the Battenbergs, Connaughts,
Lornes and AIbanys. A royal baron
Of beef cut Of Devon OK, fed on the
nd cd af
Windsor by cooks sent by a London
caterer, was forwarded to Osborne on
Friday, with the boar's head and
woodcock pies, which traditionally oc-
cupy the Queens board at Christmas.
This years boar's head is a genuine
hure de sanglier from the Coburg pre-
serves in the Thuringian forest.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
early in the week purchased presents,
as customary, from the royal trades
men, who displayed the wares in an
apartment of Marlborough House,
which the royalties selected. The
Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess
Victoria Of Wales, the Duke and
Duchess of York, Prince and Princess
Charles of Denmark, and the Duke
and Duchess of Fife all assembled at
Sandringham for Christmas, where
the usual festivities took place.
The Earl and Countess of Craven
formerly Miss Cornelia Martin. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martini,
are entertaining a house party at
COmbe Abbey. They gave their ten
ants a ball on Christmas Eve. Lord
William BeresfOrd and Lady Beresford
formerly Mrs Louise Hammersley of
New York, and later wife of the eighth
Duke of Marlborough, who died in
1922 are also entertaining at Deep
Dene.
Lord Alfred Rothschild made his
usual distribution-6000 pheasants to
the omnibus drivers and conductors, a
brace of birds each.
According TO the newspapers, the Ia
dies Of uppertendom, married and sin
gle, are tired of the hackneyed Christ
mas cards and are sending their IA
Vored friends photographs Of them
selves, as attired for bed. The Chron-
icle thinks that although such souve
Mrs are suggestive of good deal,
night dress pictures are less improper
than presentments of the same figures
in ball dress.
AS soon as Jackson, the explorer,
completes the work connected with his
Franz Josef Land expedition, he will
start for the north pole. He Informed
a correspondent that his original plans
were identical with those Of Lieutenant
Peary, but that he intended to make
the most easterly end of the inland in
stead Of the west. But since he heard
the Peary lectures Jackson has changed
his plans, considering that the Ameri-
can has prior claims. Jackson now
purposes to proceed via Davis Straits
and Bafins Bay up the west coast to
Elsemere Land and Grinnell Land and
thence across to the farthest point
reached by Aldrich in 1875, whence he
will push north, making in the direc-
ton Of any land visible from the coast.
The date of his departure is unsettled
Jackson will have only one companion
outside of his crew. Talking over his
plans he said:
Il hope to push my ship considerably
beyond Coburg Island, at the entrance
3 to Jones Sound. and at the point far
thest north with sledges dogs and
ponies and with one companion. 1 ex-
pect to be absent two years."
The Times editorial, expressing sat
isfaction at the Bering settlement and
protesting against the loose insinua-
tions Of bad faith on the part Of the
United States Government which have
been thoughtlessly and unqualifiedly
made in England and Japan's with
drawal from the attitude she had as
sumed in Hawaii, intimated they were
indications for a desire for an Anglo
Japanese American alliance
The alleged attempt of the Prince Of
Monaco to bleed" the Casino com
pany has led to the publication of a
pamphlet by a group of shareholders
full Of interesting reading While
everybody is aware that the Casino
contributes largely to his revenues
few people know that besides the sub.
sidy Of the Prince, the establishment
keeps up the judges, police, lighting.
water, postofice, clergy and chart
table institutions. Last seasons ex-
penditures of the principality, apart
from the maintenance of the Casino.
which was G834,0 amounted to
e130,000 of which sum the Prince had
100000. the courts, police, ETC., a20,-
O00 clergymen and schools, $4,000;
charities. $1,000: Srizes for sports,