The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-09
GAY TIMES IN LONDON
B~RITISHERs WILL TRY TO ECLIPSE
THE BRADLEY-MARTIN BALL
Five Fancy Dress Affairs to Be Given
by Prominent HOstesses-DOrOthy
Drew and the Queen.


Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.)
LONDON, May S.-Although the town is
"fulr' and summer clubs like the Hurting
ham and Ranelagh are open, out-of-door
gayeties hang fire. The ladies are still wear
ing their furs and overcoats and are quite
comfortable. Society is already on the qui
vive in anticipation of the five fancy dress
balls to be given by prominent hostesses.
They promise a commotion approaching the
Bradley-Martin ball. A feature of the
Duchess of Devonshire's will be an Oriental
quadr1lle, with Lady De Gray as Cleopatra
and Lady Dudley in a Byzantine costume.
Mrs. Arthur Paget, Lady Colbroke and Miss
Muriel Wilson will give the second ball
at Holland House The guests will appear
in the costumes of their ancestors as paint
ed by Gainsborough and Reynolds. At Mrs.
Cavendish Bentick's ball the costumes worn
will be similar to those which were the
fashion at the beginning of the reign Of
Queen Victoria. Lady Naylor-Leyland, for
merly Miss Jane Chamberlain, of Cleve-
land, O., will also give a costume ball.
The Queen did a graceful thing on Thurs
day and delighted Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone
by summoning their granddaughter, Doro-
thy Drew, to Windsor Castle. Her Majesty
was anxious to see the child who has fig
ured SO prominently in Mr.. Gladstone do
nestle life. Dorothy left Hawarden on
Wednesday, accompanied by her mother,
and from London to Windsor travelled with
the Princess Louise. On arriving at Wind
sor they were met by Hon. William H. T.
nary, with a royal carriage, to take them
TO the Castle. After luncheon with the
Queen Mrs. Drew returned to town.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and
Princess Maude of Wales princess Charles
of Denmark are spending Sunday with the
Duke of Westminster at Eaton Hall, Ches-
ter, where a large party has been gathered
to meet them. On Monday the Prince and
Princess of Wales will drive to Hawarden
and lunch with Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone.
Each member of the royal family will plant
a tree at Hawarden as a memorial of the
occasion.
The appeals to the charity of the London
ers are English and are generally answered
generously, The Mansion House Indian
famine fund has now reached nearly the
sum of $3.50, 900, or $4,000 more than was
raised during the whole course of the last
famine. The Daily Chronicle, within a
week, has raised nearly SO, 600 for the Greek
wounded. The Prince of Wales hospital
fund alone hangs fire. The yearly deficit
of the London hospitals is over G100. 600,
and the prince hoped TO raise 93,00O,G 900. 1t
is doubtful If even $500, coo will be obtained,
but the Prince of Wales will personally ad-
dress a meeting of bankers, merchants and
other prominent people in the city and Will
appeal for more money for the hospital
tunQ.
Great Importance is attached to the de-
cision of the Transvaal Volksraad at its
session held at Pretoria, the capital, on
Wednesday last, to repeal the Transvaal
immigration law. The meeting was held to
discuss the answer to be made to the dis
patches of the British secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
who demanded a repeal of the law. The
law was repealed, but it is explained this
step was taken not because the measure
was a breach of the London convention,
but because It was dlstastetul 20 nelghbor-
ing states. The Transvaal state attorney
rendered his resignation in disapproval of
the repeal. This action of the Transvaa1
government, it is said here, clearly indi-
Gates a back down on the part of President
Kruger and the Volksraad and renders the
chances of war remote. 1t is the most i'm
portant concession yet made by the Trans
vaal, and removes the chief cause of fric-
ton, not only between the TranSvaal and
Great Britain but between Cape Colony and
the Transvaal. 1t was on this point that
Mr.. Chamberlain's dispatch took almost the
form of an ultimatum.