Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-01
THE LONDON SEASON.
Preparations for Lavish Hospitality Cd
All Sides.
AN INTERNATIONAL CHESS CANE.
Royal Cours Agitated Over a Family
Scandal-Notes on Plays
and T ayers.


the return OF the prince Of Wales and
his family to Marlborough house the
opening Of the royal academy and the
next weeks drawing room In sight,
tue season has fairly begun. The big
houses are fairly opsning and prepar-
atoms for lavIsh hospitality are being
made on all sides. Mr.. William
Waldorf Astor Ia making great prepar.
atoms to entertain. He has taken
Lord Normanton's house for the
Jubilee procession and has already
issued invitations for Two parties iu
June and big dinner on tue OH, 10
meet royalty?
The arrival and departure OF the
queen to London on Jubilee week will
lie matter OF eemi-state on Monday,
June II. The journey from Padding.
ton station to Buckingham house will
be imposing AID on June "a to Pad
diDgt0n station on the return t.
Windsor will be the occasion Tor even
hner display. The Indian colonial
troops will IRON the escort OF the latter
occasion.
THE U. S, EMBASSY EMBARRASSED.
Thomas Nj. Bsyard continues his
stay here to the slight embarrassment
Of the u Diled States embassy, the stu.
alton beioR complicated by the absence
OF Queen Victoria, as Colonel John
Hay is not really the embasssdor until
he presents his credentials.
1t 10 said that the action OF the con.
eistoriul court on Thursday in deciding
to make Mr. Bayard its accredited
agent ofthe so-caiIed log OF the May
flower to Boston, was taken In re.
sponse to Mr. Bayard's personal
request, but TO some degree At the
expense OF his SUCCESSOR, and the
oIming rivelry between the embassa-
dors has caused considerable gossip.
Mr.. Bayari says the recovery OF the
log is solely due TO his pefaonsi Efforts,
as the papers he had from America
were Of n nature calculated to cause
the demand to be Reused n presented.
The situation will be relieved on Mon
day next, when, by special aTraDge-
ment, the queen Will receive Colonel
Hay at Windsor.
LIBERIA, AND SIERRA LEONE.
Letters have been received from
Bishop Joseph G. HsrissI, Of Ctpcin-
natl. from Freetowp, Sierra Leone,
bearing date OF MarcD 30, which gives
condition OF that country. The bishop
writet:
III nave now been In Africa two
months and over and thus far In my
episcopal tour, have given my time to
Liberia and sierra Leone. 1 made a
thorough visit over 400 miles OF
Liberian coast aud the principal
places. That republic needs anu
deserves the eympathy anu help OF it's
friends. Its commercial possIbl lities
are great. The work OF the Meth odist
church In Liberia includes three insti-
tu,icns OF learDing; we have So
ministers and "a lay helpers and
teachers or II In all. l shall shortly
sail on the steamer Bona tor tue
Congo to visit our missions up the
river, st. Paul de Lsona, Angelo and
out $50 miles In the interior, to hold
the Congo mission conference at
Ouihangen. Then to South Africa
anu up the coast TO study the needs OF
the mission in the Z,mbzei region.
My plan 10 now to Continue up the
east coast and study the msthous ami
results OF mission work In easter u
central Africa and along the
Mediterranean. L expect to rel urn to
the west coast by next January, hold
three conferences In Liberia anu
Augoly again and then return TO
America and report the results OF my
explorations anu the needs anu condi.
non OF the WORK.
A DRAMATIC LIBRARY.
The library Of tue late Sir Augustus
Harris, tbs we'll known theatrical
manager, WAS sold al Auction on
Thursday lRst. The most impo rant
Lots were some hundreds OF dramatic
works OF all kinus from drama TO
pantomime, some In nannuscripi,
many OF them managers' copies, anu
Others in print. There We're besides
many books on SUBJECTS connected
with the stage in England ami on re
continent.
COL, HAYS SECRETARY.
Spence Eddy OF Chicago has arrives
here suu has taken up mis- duties us
secretary 10 Col. John Hay.
THE QUEENS LITERARY TASTE.
The Quarterly Review publishes an
interesting article on the queen's
literary taste written by some one
well acquainted with her msjss.y.
Her favorite novelists, IL appears, arc
Jane Austen, Charlotte BrontO, Mrs.
OiipGant, George Eliot and Edna Ly.
NIL. No mention is made OF Marie
Corelli.
COACHING BECOMING POPULAR.
Coaching as u pastime inoreates In
popularity. Beginning on Mondsy
there win be IA regular coaches run.
ning 10 well known places around
London against II coaches In 1885
PARLIAMENTARY CHESS GAME.
The fiith member o! the House OF
Commons chess tesmi (which will com.
Iete with corresponding Dumber Of
cness players OF the United States
HOUSE OF Representatives will be Mr..
+. w. Wilson, NJ. Pr for this mid.
die division OF Norfolk. He Ia
the iauth0r OF Our National
Debt, ETC., anu was prsHiueut OF
the Newspaper society OF the u nited
Kingdom In 1894. A cattle message
sent to Washington suggests May 9th
10 May llih Ms suitable days .or the
match. Postmaster Pike OF the House
pf Commons has arranged Tor special
wire to committee room No. IL. The
telegraph operator detailed for the
Istvioe Will bs o practical chess player,