The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30
LONDoNERS FEAR FIRE
BUILDINGS FACED WITH WOODEN
STANDS FOR THE JUBILEE.
List of HonOrs to BE Conferred by
Queen Victcria-POpe Leo's Poem
on the Evils of GIuttony.
Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press)

Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press)
LONDON, May 29.-The jubilee prep
arations at present are in a state of
more or less chaos. The Queen
has not yet finally approved any of the
programme. But sight-seers' stands are go
ing up at every possible place from the
easements to above the roofs. Many of the
seats are only twenty inches wide and are
on the faces of steep buildings. 1t is esti-
mated that million seats now line the
route, but their sale is not lively and prices
are falling, as the arriving Americans are
not eager to buy at top prices. a genuine
fire scare prevails on account of the timsy
stands erected everywhere. An expert who
was connected with the department for
twenty years has written a letter to the
newspapers pointing out the danger from
fire, especially to the priceless treasures
in the National Gallery which is now sur
rounded by huge pine structure, several
tons of resinous wood being stacked close
against the building.
The list of jubilee honors is definitely
closed and notice has been given to as
pirants that their names cannot under any
circumstances be added to the list. 1t is
stated semi-officially that the Kings of
Wurtemhurg and Portugal, Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, of Austria, and Grand
Duke Sergius of Russia will be made
Knights of the Garter and that Prince AL
bert of Prussia and Prince Rupert of Ba-
varia will be knights Grand Cross of Bath.
The Marquis of Salisbury the Marquis of
Tweeddale and the Marquis of Londonderry
will be made dukes and Sir John Lubbock
and Sir John Gerst will be elevated to the
peerage. The honor of knighthood will be
conferred on hundreds of people, including
the premier of Canada, Mr. Wilfred Laurier
and Mr.. Alfred Harmsworth, proprietor of
the Daily Mail. the Evening News and six
teen other journals.
The Marquis of Salisbury gave a full
dress banquet to the ambassadors and min
inters plenipotentiary at his residence, No.
20 Arlington street. on Wednesday night
last, in honor of the Queens birthday
The Prince of Wales was among those
present. The banquet was followed by a
reception at the Foreign Office, for which
more than three thousand invitations were
issued 1t was one of the most brilliant
Of the functions of the season and is gen
orally regarded as launching the long list
of festivities which will be in full swing
until after the jubilee. The display of dia-
mondS was really magnificent and the bril-
liancy of the scene was heightened by the
fact that all the men were either uniformed
Hay, the United States ambassador, ac-
companied by Mrs. Hay, was among the
members of the diplomatic corps present.
The Due d'Alencon, whose wife lost her
life during the charity bazaar fire in Paris,
May 4, last. WILL it is said, take holy or
ders and retire to a monastery.
The news that Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, pro-
prietor of the New York Tribune, is com
ing here as special envoy of the United
States on the occasion of the Queens jubi-
lee, is received with satisfaction on all
sides. A larger delegation, as was intended
would have been embarrassing, as her Maj
esty had intimated that she could person
ally receive only one special envoy from
each country.
The Post alludes to President McKinleys
message on the Queens birthday as being
"a cordial expression of the personal good
will Americans feel towards the Queen
and adds: THE eloquent prayer of the
chaplain of the House was even more re-
marka bic.
Americans are already prominent at the
jubilee festivities. In addition to the United
States ambassador, Col. John Hay, Mrs.
Hay Mr.. Henry White, secretary to the
United States embassy and Mrs. White,
and John w. Foster, the United States seal
commissioner, and Mrs. Foster, were pres
at yesterday evenings state concert at
The Jacobites are preparing to celebrate
the marriage of H. r. H. Princess Mary
Louise Theresa and H. r. H. the Prince
of Calabria, by banquet on White Rose
day, June 10. The Princess Mary is, after
her elder sister the direct representative
of the Stuart line and the Prince of Gala
bria is the son of the eX-King of Naples,
whose portrait was drawn by M. Alphonse
RoHdf Ros n As ne Of roya Weddng takes
place on June g. and besides the banquet
already mentioned, dinner will be given
in honor of the occasion Ola the day of the
ceremony by the order Of st. German,
founded by the old pretencer
The Associated Press has been requested
to give publicity to the fact that the dedi-
cation of the John Robinson Memorial
Church at Cainboro, Lincolnshire, will take
place on June g. This event is of especial
interest to Americans of other New Eng
land stock for the reason that it was at
Gainesborough that the Puritan movement
took shape by the formation in 1902 of the
first separatists' community.
An international motor-car race from
London to Birmingham ard back has been
arranged by the proprietors of Engineer,
who offered prizes amounting to LOO
guineas 1t is expected that about fifty mo-
tor cars will take part in the contest and
the conditions require that they must com
plete the race which begins and ends at
the Crystal Palace, within fifty hours the
distance being about 1l5 miles
The suspension of john Redmond, Par
nellite leader in the House of Commons on
Friday last, for a week, and his companions
in misfortune William Redmond, member
for West Clare, and William Field member
for the st. Patrick's division of Dublin,
who were removed from the House by the
sergeant-at-arms for being grossly dis
orderly in calling attention, in commit
tee, to the overtaxation of Ireland. which
was also John Redmond'S crime, can re-
sumo their seats on Monday The Con-
newspapers ridicule the scene.
claiming it was a put-up job and merely a
piece of theatricals presented lin order to
dish the Dilonites," the Conservative ex-
planation being that MIR. Redmond heard
the Dillonites had adopted a manifesto set
ting forth their reasons for not taking part
in the Queens jubilee, whereupon the Par
nellites determined on the scheme to get
suspended and thus enable them TO pose as
martyrs and take the wind out of Dillon's
sails The plan, supposing the Conserva-
tive allegations to be well based, was GER
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