Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-04
LONDON DoFFs JUBILEE CARD.
Tearing Down the Decorations
slow and Difficult Task.

Copyright 1897. by the Associated rress)
LONDON, July 3-The jubilee functions
are ended and London is reluctantly dofing
lite holiday garb But the undressing ap-
parcntly takes as long as the dressing Car
penters are still slowly tearing down the
stands. Meet OF the princes and special en-
voys have departed. The special embassy of
Hon Whtelaw Reid ended yesterday and did
so with continued marks Of attitude from
the British government for the manner In
which the United states has been repre-
scntod. While MIR and Mrs Reid's official
task Is over. their personal engagements
promise to be almost as important and
numerous.
General Ne'son A. Miles L. s. A. has been
rather embarrassing element in the Untei
States special mission and to the British gov
ernment as he insist ed upon taking mere
than they intended him to do The govern
ment had provided rooms, servants and
carriage at the Alexandria hotel for Rear
Admiral ]. n. Miller U. S, n, and General
Miles. but the invitation was not extended to
their wives General Miles arrived first with
his wife and occupied both rooms, leaving
Admiral Miller the room the court officials
had intended for the servants accompanying
the two officers Admiral Miller thereupon
declined to remain at the hotel and repaired
to lodgings in Half Moon street, where his
family was installed. The court officials wetc
generally distressed and wished to take a
suite OF rooms at the Victoria hotel for Ad-
miral Miller but the latter declined
The British naval officers are greatly dis
turbed at the Brooklyn leaving Spithead on
Sunday. thus preventing the American Off
tn, ,bp f...t Gvi which
occurred all the week at Portsmouth. On
Weine. day, while the Brooklyn was at Sou h.
ampton, Sir William White, Great Britain'e
greatest naval constructor, with a party,
came upon the new marvel torpedo boat Tur-
bina. Sir William was shown over the ship
and examined everything with the greatest
interest. He was specially complimentary OF
all the arrangements connected with the
guns and for the protection Of the engines.
The secretary of state for the colonies, Mr.
Joseph Chamberlain, provided royalty with
A new sensation on Wednesday. Wishing to
| have an overwhelming social show, Mr..
! Chamberlain took the late Sir Julian Gold
! schmldts big house in Piccadilly and in
vited 1000 guests to a banquet and recep-
| tion following It, all Of whom apparently
accepted resulting in the greatest crush
| eight or nine hundred carriages into Piccl-
| dilly quite upset the police and made an
| interminable jam in the midst of which the
| prince and princess of Wales drove up St
! James street The prince. finding that the
police were unable to Immediately clear his
| royal way. ordered his coachman to drive
| back to Marlborough house and for the first
time in the life of their highnesses, their
progress to honor a commcner was barred.
| Inside the house the crush was terrible
Mr.. and Mrs. Chamberlain vainy tried to
| edge their way to the foot of the stairs in
order to receive the prince and princess OF
| Wales. Hundreds were unable to get in at
| all. and the duke and duchess of York were
obliged to make their exit by way of the
| kitchen and the area steps. The fiasco is the
talk of the town and many bitter remarks
| are circulated in society. The old tories are
| delighted at what they call Mr.
| Chamberlan's bad breeding and want OF
taste, etc, and predictions are made that
the prince and princess of Wales will never
again accept their invitations
| The United States and Canadian bishops
are being royalty entertained everywhere.
| Every bishop has more invitations to hospi-
| tality than he can possibly accept, and the
| same is the case with invitations to preach.
| The archbishop of Canterbury received them
! all most cordially and influences by the
| wholesale, it is reported in the press, are
| being brought to bear in favor Of the arch
| bishop of Canterbury's great scheme to OBJ
| tain the adhesion of all the colonials, and
Of all Americans, If possible, to such an
| acknowledgement OF the archbishop of Can
terbury's headship of the Church of Eng
| land and its offshoot as to practically per-
nit him, in a large measure to control the
| internal affairs of such churches. The idea
| finds but little favor with the United States
| bishops.
DR. E. l.. Godkin, editor OF the Evening
| Post Of New York, has taken a house near
| Sheen for the season.
| The sensational stories circulated by a
New York newspaper regarding Queen Vic
toria's alleged blindness and her alleged in
| tention to abdiCate in favor OF the prince Of
| Wales after the jubilee festivities, which
| have Just reached here by mail are exciting
great derisIon among the few newspapers
| which have designed to notice the cruel
| and utterly unfOunded report Truth, re-
| ferring to the abdication Sensation" says:
| This very, very ancient himnam has been
| imposed upon credulous prints at regular
| intervals during the last thirty-four years.
| Ihe queen mas no more idea OF abdlcating
| than she has of touring central Africa"
| Regarding the sensation" cruelty engi-
| neered by the New York papers on the
subject OF the queens eyesight a high
| oacal who ia in daily contact with the
| queen informs the Associated Press that
the statement to the effect that Queen Vic
| tOria is almost totally blind is an absolute
untruth.
Mr.. William Armstrong, musical critic of
the Chicago Tribune, by request of the
| president of the Royal Academy OF Music
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, leCtured on We'd
nesday before distinguished audience on
American Composers" Mr.. Armstrong. at
the conclusion of his remarks, was pre-
| sented with a laurel wreath.
The Jubilee attractions of last week and
the warm weather have interfered sadly
with the profits of managers. and but few
Of the theaters can be said to be doing a
paying business
Charles Frohman's Secret Service" COM
pany at the Comedy has been here so long
and has been warmly received that Mr.
Gillette and the other members Of the COM
pany may be said TO have already acquired
the freedom of dramatic London, 1t is a