The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-01
Actors Plans for LavlSbly
Entertaining.
Bayari's Stay Emoarrasses
Embassy to st. James. !
Agitation Over Scandal In Family
OF Duke OF Edinburgh.

Copyrighted. 1897, by Associated Press)
London, May with the return OF the
Prince of Wales and his family to Mari-
borough house, the opening OF the Royal |
academy and next week drawing room |
In sight the season has fairly begun.
The big houses are rapidly opening and
preparations for lavish hospitality are
being made on all sides. The Prince and
Princess of Wales are already busy doing
the theaters nightly and visiting the art
galleries. etc. On Thursday they had "a
special private view at the academy.
Fridays private view attracted the
usual crowd. The cool rainy weather
prevented the usual display OF spring cos
tunes and the attendance was chiefly com
posed of professional celebrities OF both
sexes
MIR. William Waldorf Astor is making
great preparations TO entertain lie mas
taken Lord Norinhnton's house Tor the
Jubilee procession and has already issued
Invitations for two parties in June anu a
big dinner on the 9th, To meet royalty.
Vanity Fair complains that MIR. Astor s
Invitations are so far ahead'that even for
Saturday and Monday parties he gives
TWO months notice.
The arrival and departure Of 30
queen TO ana from London in 1uoiIee
week will be matter of semi state. On
Monday, June II, the journey from
Paddin9ton station To Buckingham
palace will be imposing and on June ~,
the procession from the palace 60 Padding.
ton station, on the return 90 WinGsor, VIII
10 the occasion for even liner display,
The Indian and Colonial troops Will form
the escort on the latter occasion. Inc
queen will hold special court on juno
81 the day after the ceremony at ST.
Paulsl Cathedral a. Buckingham palace
She will then receive the representatives
OF foreign papers.
ministers and - lay helpers and teachers
or "a in all i shall shortly sail ION the
| steamer Roma for the Congo to visit our
| missions up the river, then to st. PAM
! DE Loanda Angola and out $50 miles In
| tire interior to hold the Congo mission
| conference at Quihangoa, then TO SCUM
Africa and up the east coast To study the
condition and needs OF a mission in the
| Zambesi region. My plan is TO continue
up the east coast and tuuy the nethous
| aud resources OF the mission work in
| Eastern Central Africa, and along the
| Mediterranean. l expect To return To the
west coast by next January. hold three
! conferences in Liberia and Angola again,
aud then return TO ANA and report the
results of my observations and needs OF
| the work By January, 1899 hope to he
| hejpers and money. l have had my first
| experience with the African fever It
took me ten days TO recover. "
Mr.. Thomas f. Bayard continues his
| stnv heI.s 20 the slight embarrassment of
the United states embassy. the situation
| being complicated by tho absence of the
queen.
IL is said that action Of the oonsistorlal
court on Thursday in deciding 10 make
AIR l}ayari its accredited agent TO carry
the so-called log of the Mayilowor 10
Boston, was taken in response To Mr..
Bayard's personal request; but, to some
degree at the expense OF his successor, and
the seeming rivalry between the am bassa'
dnrs has caused considerable gossip. MIR.
Bavard says the recovery Of the log II
solely due To his personal efforts, as th1
papers he had from America were OF q
nature calculated to cause the demand t.
be refused If presented. The situation
will he relieved on Monday when 10y
special arrangement the queen Will re-
cei,e Colonel Hay at Windsor
Letters have been received from BishoI
Jnseph G.. Hartzell, of Cincinnati, from
Freetown, Sierra Leone. bearing date q
March 80, which gives interesting detail
of his work and the condition of tha
country . The bishop writes: Il hay,
now been in Africa two months and over
and thus far in my Episcopal tour, hav
given my time TO Liberia and Sierrl
Leone / made thorough visitation o
the 400 miles of Liberian coast and TIL
principal places. That republic needs ant
, deserves the sympathy and help of II
! friends Its commercial possibilities ar
Great The work of the Methodist Epis
coral church in Liberia includes thre
: institutions of learning. We have 5
The library of the late sir Augustu
Harris the we'll known theatrical mana
GER, was sold at auction on Thursday last
: ! The most important lot were some hun
, dreds of dramatic works oil all kinds
fNm drama TO pantomine, some in Ms.
:. | some Of them managers copies and other
; | i'm urint. There were besides many book
| on subjects connected with the stage |
England and on the continent.
: p.Spencer Eddy of Chicago, has arrive
: here and has taken up his duties as secrt
!. tarv TO Colonel John Hay.
Tho Quarterly Review publishes n
/, interesting article on the queens lterar
taste. written by some one we'll acquainte
+ with her majesty. Her favorite noyelist
|, il appears. are Jane Austen, Charoti
= Brontc Mrs Oliphant George Eliot ap
= Edna Lyall. No mention is made of Mari
q Corelli.
Coaching rs pastime increases
= porularity Beginning on Monday thei
= will 10 fourteen regular coaches runnin
!, 10 Mcll-known places around Loudoi
!, against eleven coaches in 1896
The fifth member OF the House of Con
;, mons chess team which will compete wi,
= "A corresponding number of chess plsye
;, of the United States House of Represent
tivcs will be Mr.. Il. W. Wilson, memb
\ of Parliament for the middle division
= Norfolk \ csssre message sent to Was
4 ingtop suggests May ., or May IL as sui
:. able tlays for the match. Postmaster pil
y of the the House Of Commons has arrange
q for q special wire TO committee room y
- IL The telegraph operator detailed 4
~ the service will DO n practical che
|, PLAYER. Ii Is suggested that play begin
! ! o'clock Greenwich time, which wou
> be noon in America.
- The British and German courts n
=, agitaicd over n - iandal la ire family
y the Duke Of Saxl-Coburg and Got
a lthc duke Of hdin mrghl Tho secOi