The record-union., 1897-08-22
The Big City Practically Deserted
by the FashiOnabIes.
The Leading Clubs Are Also Closed for
the Season.
The Queen Starts for Ba1morai
This Week, Accompanied by
Princess Henry of Battenburg
and Their Suites-Irish Nation
alists Disappointed at the En-
thusiastic Reception Accorded
the Duke and Duchess of York.

thusiastic Reception Accorded
the Duke and Duchess of York.
LONDON, Aug 12.-The bad
weather and many sharp thunder
storms which have prevailed during the
week found London empty Of the fash
ionable throng. Rotten Row deserted
and many of the leading clubs closed
for their annual overhauling.
The Queen starts for Balmoral next
week, accompanied by Princess Henry
OF Battenburg, and their suites. Her
majesty who is in the best of health
is following very closely the events
transpfring in India.
AS soon as the Queen gets to Balmo-
raj she will take up her project for
widows pensions, which plan will pro-
vide every deserving widow of 20 years
of age and upwards, who is in want,
with a pension from a State fund for
that purpose.
The enthusiastic reception which the
Duke and Duchess of York have met
with in Dublin is said to have greatly
disappointed the Irish Nationalists. The
visit has been managed with excellent
tact, Gin marked contrast to the visit
of the Prince and Princess of Wales to
Ireland, when it was sought to make
party capital out of the event. At Dub
lin the reception of the Duke and Ouch
ess was made heartier than at Kings
town, where the royal party landed,
and more general than anticipated by
even the most enthusiastic. The enthu
clio e,a1 ha aytxy
ceeded from the railroad station
! through the street and the occupants of
the steps of the City Hall, over which
the flag of the City of Dublin defiantly
floated in place of the Union Jack, were
among the loudest in welcoming the
Duke and Duchess of York to Ireland.
1t is not to be wondered at that the
suggestion is now regarded favorably
to create the Duke of York, Prince Of
Ireland and to make that title per-
manent one for the eldest son of the
son of the Prince of Wales.
The permission accorded Prince Fran
els of Teck to join the Anglo Egyptian
expedition up the Nile is accepted as
proof that he is restored to the favor Of
his influential relatives. The Prince
was packed off to India for mourning
heavy gambling debt to his friends,
being compelled to find money to sat
isfy it. This, however, they only did
on condition that the Prince join the
district staff at Bombay, where the con-
duct Of the Prince has been most ex-
emplary.
The heir recently born to the Earl of
Craven, whose wife was formerly Miss
Cornelia Martin, only daughter of
Bradley Martin, of New York, prom
ises to make q great financial differ
ence to the Earl, whose estates are
extensive, but heavily encumbered and
not very valuable. 1t is understood
that Bradley Martin, since he has be-
come a grandfather, has been showing
a disposition to do something substan
tial in the way of wipinv out the mort
cages on the Earl's estate.
Prince Max of Saxony, after years
of missionary work in Whitechapel has
returned to Dresden. He says he
awaits the decision of his bishop
whether to return to Whitechapel,
though the members of the royal fam
lily at Dresden are exerting their infiu-
ence to withdraw him from such work,
and install him in some court religious
position. The Prince, however, is dis
inclined to accept such an office.
The Count and Countess Of Castellane
are now at Bouville, after an extended
cruise along the Norwegian coast in
the big yacht Walhalla.
The son of the late John Millais, the
former President of the Royal Academy
will shortly publish life of his father.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland fatty
refuses to marry Prince Bernhard OF
Sake Welmar, whom her mother the
Queen Regent Emma, selected as the
young Queens husband. The little
Queen declares she will remain single
until 1899 (she was born in August,
1SSO, and will then select her own
husband.
Captain Kane, who commanded the
British warship Calliope at Samoa in
1889. has been obliged by ill-health to
give up his appointment at the ad1ni-
ralty as Director of Naval Ordnance.
The first real effort of horseless ve-
hicles in London was made on Thursday
when a company placed a dozen elec-
trical cabs on the street. They resem-
bic coupes and the accumulators con-
sist of forty cells capable Of propelling
them fifty miles at a cost of 80 cents.
The rear wheels do the driving and the
front wheels do the steering. They
have heavy rubber tires, have uphol-
stored spring cushions. are lighted by
electricity. are speedy and almost
noiseless. They appear to be giving
every satisfaction. The machines
seem under perfect control, and thread
their way wonderfully through the
traffic. The tariff is the same as that
Of the cab.
Henry Tanner an American negro
who has been studying painting in Par
is for some years, has won the greatest
distinction that has come to q member
of his race in that field. He recently
exhibited in the salon a work entitled,
''The Raising of Lazarus" which re-
ceived signal praise from the critics
and has been purchased by the French
Government for the Luxembourg. The
artist is a son of a missionary Of the
African Methodist Church He has
studied under Constant.
Nicolfni who has been suffering from
cancer of the liver for long time past
is somewhat better.