Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-14
Social. GAYETkS
Parties Given by Hostessas Prominent
in London Society.
THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN SHE
WILL HOLD A DRAWING ROOM
AND LAY THE FOUNDATION
STONE OF THE KENSINGTON
MUSEUMLA RUSH OF GREAT
LADIES TO ATTEND THE DRAW
ING ROOM.
Copyright. Associated Press

son seems to be finally in full swing.
The hotels, picture exhibitions and Rot
ten Row are crowded daily, while nu-
merous parties given by hostesses
prominent in the social world fill every
night. The polo season has opened at
Nottingham and Ranelagh, and these
country clubs are also attracting large
numbers of fashionable people. Many
Americans are already here, and the
hotel and shop-keepers are jubilant at
the prospect Of large invasion from
overseas. The greatest interest centers
in the Queens visit to London next
week to hold drawing room, naturally
will be the most brilliant of the season.
There has been a rush of great ladies
to attend this particular function, but
great deal of heart burning has been
oecasioned by the system Of ballot
which the new Lord Chamberlain has
inaugurated and under many prominent
people are excluded. By this novel
mode of selection the names of we'll
known Peeresses and of people I'M
known to fame are mixed together in a
manner that is very distasteful to the
former. Several titled ladies, when
they found that they had been unsuc-
cessful in the ballot, made representa-
tons to the highest quarters, with the
result that even at the last moment
there have been changes in he list. In
spite of this, number of wellknown
ladies had their claims ignored. Mrs.
Joseph H. ChCate, wife OF the United
States ambassador here, will present to
the Queen Mrs. Alfred Parish, her Sis
ter; Miss Jennings, of New York, ana
Miss Nora Neff, of Chicago.
The Queen is to come from Windsor
On Monday, and will visit Kensington
Palace where her oil: apartments have
been renovated preparatory to opening
the Palace to the public Her Majesty 5
visit will be of a sensational nature,
as the rooms where she lived as a
young girl have been restored to their
former condition. Her bedroom con-
tains show cases nllel with her old toys,
and her dolls house stands upon a
table in the ante-chanber.
The ceremony Of laying the founda-
ticn-stone of the Victoria and Albert
Museum on Wednesday will be very
interesting one. The Queen will drive
through streets lined with troops from
Buckingham Palace, the royal cortege
being escorted by the Life Guards. Her
Majesty will be accompanied by several
Princes and PrinceS5es, and other royal
personages will meet her at the site of
the Museum, where raised dais will be
reserved for them. A great pavilion will
be erected, in which will be seated the
ambassadors, members of the cabinet
and leading State officials. The Prince
of Wales will receive the Queen. The
National anthem will be sung by pupils
of the Royal College of Music. After
wards a madrigal specially composed by
Mr.. Alfred Austin, tie poet laureate,
will be sung to special music written
by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, principal
of the Royal Academy of Music. His
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Primate OF all England, will read the
prayers. The events is certain to be
the occasion of a great patriotic DEM
onstration.
There has been considerable anxiety
this week relative to the health of the
Duke Of York, who has been confined
to his rooms with severe cold. The
Duke of York himself however, made
light of the matter, and, speaking with
visitor about the solocitude of the
press on his behalf, said: Really, l
might almost be a Kipling."
The smart racing SET headed by the
Prince Of Wales, has been at Newman
ket all the week. where Tod" Sloan,
the American jockey, gave wonderful
exhibitions of horsemanship and gain
ed some of his victories by amazing
skill and judgment Sloan now holds
the record for the Newmarket course,
which UP to Thursday was 50 wins and
81 losses. The Rowley mile, over
which most of Sloan's victories have
. been achieved, has been christened
TOD Sloan Avenue" The Prince of
Wales chatted with Sloan in the pad
dock on Wednesday and congratulated
him upon his success.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain blossomed
this week as successful beggar in the
cause of philanthropy. He recently
asked s250,000 Isl, $50, 0O0) for the Biz
mingham University, and Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie's gift practically completes
the sum required. The conditions of
Mr.. Carnegie's donation meet the warm
approval of the press. The Daily News
suggests that Mrs. Chamberlain's sweet
compulsion was instrumental in secur-
ing Mr.. Carnegie's handsome contribu-
ton. Mr.. Chamberlain on Wednesday
presided at a dinner in aid of a fund
for the establishment of his school Of
tropical medicine, and by the time the
coffee was reached subscriptions