Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-27
Queen Victoria Well Pleased With
Her Birthday Celebration.
WILLIAM TO VISIT ENGLAND
German Emperor to Be Entertain
ed at Osborne Castle.
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP
Copyright. 1899, by the Associated Press.


LONDON, May 27.-The queens birthday
celebrations and the Whitsuntde holidays
have occupied the public mind this week.
The celebrations went off without a hitch
at Windsor, though the festivities in the
provinces were marred by rain The
weather throughout the week was ex-
tremely cold and unreasonable in Great
Britain, especially in Scotland.
Queen Victoria started for Balmoral on
Friday evening and the royal party which
has been staying at Windsor Castle is dis
persed, the Prince and Princess of Wales
and the Duke and Duchess of York going
to Sandringham The court returns to
Windsor at the end of June and will stay
there a month. In August the queen will
go to Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Cowes
regatta has been fixed for the first week
in August.
Emperor William of Germany is expect
ed to arrive at Cowes, on the imperial
yacht HulenzollcrE, July %, and to stay
there until August ). His majesty will
probably attend the Goodwood races on
cup day. The queen will entertain the
emperor twice at Osborne and the Prince
of Wales will entertain him on board the
royal yacht. Ills majesty will give dinner
parties on hoHrG tn HCnCnZollern and will
attend the annual diEr. Of the royal yacht
squadron on AURus, |. Ino regatta of the
royal yacht SCu;.drGn VIII r.. the occasion
for sathc"inis of royalties at Osborne and
will attract the cream of society to Cowes.
1t is understood tha the en.reror's trip is
of a strictly private r&t.,"r. and there will
be 10 Hubble ceremonies during his visit.
Convent Garden opera has been the scene
of brilliant Sa-hC. ii."s ,his V k, and t.ere
was n strong muster of wealthy and tiled
Americans. The Ouch sssC' Ma.lbocg Ugh,
Tuesday, made her first ai.,.yaTaf.ces o; the
season. she VS. dressed in mourn ng.
cow Z t" the recent &eath "i the Wi low
of the seventh Duke OF Marlborough
Frances Ammo Emil, daughter of The tGird
Marsiuis of i-o-GUnGerfH}. relieved by
beautiful crescent of diamonds and a wide
collar OF pearls. Lady Randolph Churchill,
Who occupied the same box, was also in
black. The Duchess of Marlborough will
open bazaar at Twick cnham. June o. in
aid of the refugees for homeless children.
Misses Letter to Tour India
According to advices received here the
Misses Letter are about to start on d short
tour of The towns in upper India embark
ing at Colombo. Ceylon in August on their
way to Paris to rejoin their parents They
have been visiting the Viceroy of India
Lord Curzon of Kedleston. whose wife was
a Miss Letter.
Tod" Sloan has had remarkable run
of bad luck. Up to Friday he had ridden
fourteen consecutive losers. His form is
lnexplicably bad, as although the quality of
lis mounts was generally poor, he had one
or TWO capital horses. such as Bettyfield
whose victory was regarded as a certainty
His host of hackers came a cropper with
Sloan's failure. The American jockey takes
his place this week in Vanity Fairs gallery
of caricatureS. The short description ac-
Conpanyfng the cartoon concludes:
He is a great little jockey, who is popu-
lar but he is hardly polite as a good
American should be-
T~,.f. -. i
seph II. Choate 2na Mrs. Choate are Wis
iting the Earl of Leven ard Melville at
EolyrOod.
A new paper. to promote Anglo-American
friendship entitled the Anglo-Saxon, APP
pears this week. A number of letters from
prominent men are published in the first
number. Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, the sec
rotary of state for the colonies, writes that
he wishes well of every movement which
has for it's object a closer union of the peo-
pies of the United States and Great Brit
ain. Alfred Austin. the poet laureate, says
the consciousness of the brotherhood
among the EngliSh-spea king communities
comes home closely to my heart" Algernon
Charles Swinburne expresses cordial sym
pathy with any enterprise designed to
strengthen friendliness and promote re-
union, for which, we must hope. for the two
great branches of our race, that their prin-
ciples and destiny are identical, and that
there is most hopeful and trustworthy
promise in the future" Former Justice
in similar strain.
Gossip About the Paris.
The reticence of Capt. Watkins of the
stranded American line steamer Paris and
of the officials OF the company respecting
the possible causes of the disaster have
caused unfavorable comment in the papers,
but there is nothing but praise for the be-
haviOr of the officers and men after the
81 Th.
netic current theory. Vanity Fair says:
The Paris certainly did not know where
she was. One single company has sent
ships past the Manacles twice a week each
way, for many years. If the current sucks
or the rocks are magnetic enough to af-
feet the compass. why have these ships
escaTed So often?'
Other papers express themselves in
similar Str@in.
Capt. Verney, formerly commander of the
British warshp OberOn. writes that he
spent a winter steaming at full speed up
and down the channel to test boiler and
can most positively assert that with atten-
ton, a good lookout and soundings, the
navigation Of the channe' is free from dam
ger.
A representative of the Associated Press
saw the authorities OF Trinity House on
the subject. Chief Pilotage Clerk keigain
characterized the magnetic theory as ut
ter nonsense and said the disaster must
be due to ''inexplicable laundering" He
added:
II know every yard of the British coast
line and | can see no satisfactory reason
for he wreck"
Ca Creak, head Of the compass depart
ment. said:
However close the ship got TO the Man
acleS her conl3asSeS could not be affected
more than a mll'onth part of q degree and
even that coIld not b. felt outside of three
hundred yards from the shore. No ship's
course ought TO be nearer than two miles
from hat coast.
AT The leNee On May - the United States
antS's 'aior VIII present Col. Samuel s.
sumner, the new United States military at
tache here; Mr.. Alfred Parish of Philad del
phia and Mr.. Frederick Lister of \ W
York.
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