Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
The Past Week Has Been One
Of Gaiety.
EMPEROR WILLIAM COMM G
To England for the Yachting Season.
Reticence Regarding the Wreck
Of the Paris,

| London, May 27.-(Copyrighted, 1899,
by the Associated Press. .)--The queens
birthday celebrations ana the Whitsun-
tide holidays have occupied the public
mind this week. The celebrations went
off without hitch at Windsor, thous h
the festivities in the provinces We're
marred by rain. The weather through
, oat the week was extremely cold and un-
! seasonable 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 dispersed, the Prince and Prin-
cess 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
| Isle of Wight.
! The Cowes regatta has been fixed for
the first week in August. Emperor Will
/ liam Of Germany is expected to arrive at
Cowes the imperial yacht Hohenzol-
lern on July 26, and to stay there until
August 5. His majesty will probably at
tend the Goodwood races on Cup day.
The queen will entertain the emperor
! twice at Osborne and the Prince of Wales
| will entertain him once on board the
royal yacht. His majesty will give din
| ner parties on board the Hohenzollern
and will attend the annual dinner of the
! Royal Yacht squadron on August 1. The
regatta of the Royal Yacht squadron will
I la ~ Al,
royalties at Osborne and will attract the
cream of society at Cowes. 1t is UNDER
stood that the emperor's trip is of a
strictly private nature and there will be
no public ceremonies during his visit
| Covent Garden has been the scene of
brilliant gatherings this week, and there
was strong muster of wealthy and titled
Americans. The Duchess Of Marlborough
on Tuesday made her first appearance of
| the season. She was dressed in mourning
Owing to the recent death of the widow
Francis Anne Emily, daughter of the
third Marquis Of Londonderry relieved
by beautiful crescent Of diamonds and
a wide collar of pearls. Lady Randolph
Churchill, who occupied the same box was
also in black. Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley
! Martin, their daughter the Countess of
Craven, and the lattel's husband, the Earl
of Craven, were among the fashionable
| assemblage, including the Duke and
/ Duchess of York, which witnessed the
first appearance Of Madam Melba as JUL
let on Thursday. The Bradley Martins
are staying at Clardges hotel with the
/ lot, i,,T 1nc
! terfeld gardens, which cost 100000 is
ready. Mrs. Bradley Martin wore only
! a few of her jewels al the opera b ut her
appearance attracted great interest
among the audience in view of the cable
| grams relating to the circumstances OF
the family leaving America.
| The Duchess of Marlborough Will open
bazaar at Twickenham June in aid
of the refuge for homeless children.
According to advices received here, the
/ Misses Letter are about to start on a
short tour of the towns in Upper India.
embarking al Colombo, Ceylon, in August
on their way to Paris, to rejoin their
parents. They have been visiting the
viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, of Kedles-
| ton.
Tod" Sloan has had a remarkable run
of bad luck Up to Friday he had rid
den IA consecutive losers. His form is
! inexplcably bad as, although the quality
of his mounts was generally poor, he had
one or two capital horses, such as Lille
Field, whose victory was regarded as
certainty. His host of hackers came
acropper with Sloan's failure. The
American jockey takes his place this
week in Vanity Fairs gallery of carica-
lures. The short description accompany
ing the cartoon concludes: He is a
great little jockey who is popular. but
he is hardly so polite as a good American
should be-"
The United States ambassador, Joseph
II. Choate, and Mrs. Choate are visiting
the earl Of Leven and Melville at Holy
rood.
A new paper to promote Anglo-Ameri-
can friendship, entitld 1.-The Anglo
Saxon appears this week. A number of
letters from prominent men are publish
ed in the first number. Joseph Chamber
lain, the secretary of state for the
colonies. writes that he wishes we'll Of
every movement which has for it's OBJ
ject closer union of the peoples Of the
United States and Great Britain. Alfred
Austin, the poet, says the consciousness
Of brotherhood among the English speak