The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
LONDON SEASON" OPEN
WILLIE WALDORF Aston TAKING
THE LEAD IN s0CIAL FUNCTIONS.
Continued Stay i'm England
Embarrassing His successor-Bish-
op HartseII's Travels.
Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.)

LONDON. May Wit the return or the
Prince of Wales and his family to MARI
borough House. the opening of the Royal
Academy and next weeks 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. William Waldorf Aston is making
great preparations TO entertain. He has
taken Lord Normanton's house for the
jubilee procession, and has already issued
invitations for two parties in June and a
big dinner on the 9Th to meet royalty. The
arrival and departure of the Queen to and
from London in jubilee week will be a mat
ter of semi-state. On Monday, June q, the
journey from P~addington Station to Buck
ingham Palace will be imposing, and on
June "a the procession from the palace to
P~addington Station, on the return to Wind
sor, will be the occasion for even a finer
display. The Indian and colonial troops
win form the escort on the latter occasion.
Mr.. Thomas F. Bayard continues his stay
here to the slight embarrassment of the
United States embassy, the situation being
complicated by the absence of Queen Vic
toria, as Col. John Hay is not really the
ambassador until he presents his creden-
tials. 1t is said that the action of the Con-
s%istorial Court, on Thursday, in deciding to
make Mr.. Bayard its accredited agent to
convey the so-called log pooh of the May
flower to 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 embassa-
doris has caused considerable gossip. Mr..
Bayafd says the recovery of the log is solely
due to his personal efforts, as the papers he
had from America We're of a nature calcu-
lated to cause the demand to be refused, if
presented. The situation will be relieved on
Monday when, by special arrangement, the
queen Will receive Colonel Hay at Windsor.
Letters have been received from Bishop
Joseph c. Hartsell, of Cincinnati, from
Freetown, Sierra Leone, bearing date of
March 80, which gives interesting details
OF his work and the condition of that coun-
try. The bishop writes: Il 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. | made
a thorough visitation on the four hundred
miles of Liberian coast and the principal
places. That republic needs and deserves
the sympathy and help of it's friends. It's
commercial possibilities are great. The
work of the Methodist Episcopal churches
IN Liberia includes three institutions of
learning: We have tifty-three ministers and
tWenty-four lay helpers and teachers. or
seventy-seven In all. / shall shortly sail
on the steamer Bona for the Congo to visit
our missions up the river, then to South
Africa and up the east coast TO study the
condition and needs of a mission in the
Zambe region. My plan is now to continue
up the east coast and study the methods
and results of mission work in eastern
central Africa and along the Mediterranean.
| expect to return to the west coast by next
January, holding three conferences in Lii
IBERIA and Angola again and to return to
America and report the results of nv OBJ
s~ervations and the needs and conditions of
the work =
The Quarterly Review publishes an inter
esting article on the Queens literary taste,
written by some one well acquainted with
her Majesty. Her favorite novelists, it
seems, are Jane Austin, Charlotte Bronte.
Mrs. Oliphant, George Eliot and Edna
Lyall. No mention is made of Marie Cor
relli. ***
Coaching as a. pastime increases in popu-
larity. Beginning on Monday there will be
fourteen regular coaches running to we'll
known places around London, against
eleven coaches in 1896.
The fifth member of the House of Cou-
mons chess team, which will compete with
a corresponding number of chess players Of
the United States House of Representa-
tives, will be Mr.. F. w. Wilson, member
of Parliament for the middle division of
Norfolk. He is the author of ''Our Ma
tlonal Debt, and was president of the
49, NDt~Po PO1lCby VI the OIllGQ hlDSuOll
in 1884, A cable message sent to Washing
ton suggests May 8 or IL as suitable days
for the match. Postmaster Pike, of the
House of Commons, has arranged for a
special wire to committee room No. -.
me telegraph operator detailed for the
service will be a practical chess player. It
IS suggested that play begin at 5 O'Clock
Greenwich time, which would be noon in
=
The position of the British bicycle in
dustry is regarded with anxiety. American
competition is increasing, while the general
demand is very dull. British exports have
1alen on more than a quarter, a. reduction
or the British output is impending, and the
shares of the bicycle companies are dwind-
ling. y
The British and German courts are api-
tated over a scandal in the family of the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1.-THE Duke
OF E~dinburgh.) The second daughter of the
luke, Princess Victoria Molita, refuses to
I'VE with her husband, Ernest Louis. Grand
Duke OF Hesse, to whom she was married
on April IL, 1884, at Coburg. in the presence
or Emperor William and Queen Victoria
ana remains with her sister, Princess Maria
Alexandria Victoria, wife of Prince Ferdi~
nand OF Roumania, at Bucharest. The Co
burgs, Queen Victoria and others take tha
part OF the husband. who is now stavine
with the CoburgS at Gotha.
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