Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-12
SOCIETY Is Complaining.
London Displeassd by the Queens Alb
sence From a Drawing Room.
| ROYAL SHOW DEMANDED-THE
PEOPLE PAY THE PIPER AND
EXPECT THE PRESENCE OF THE
QUEEN OR THE PRINCESS OF
WALES-AN OIL WAR IN PAR
LIAMENT-INTERE IN KIP
LING'S CASE.

London, March 11.-London has been
favored with ideal spring weather dur
ing the week, and Their has been
marked diminution Of influenza.
The Marquis of Salisbury caught a
bad cold while returning from Windsor
on the occasion of the formal presenta-
ton of the United States Ambassador,
Mr.. Joseph H. Choate, to the Queen, he
has been confined to his home ever
since The Premier is unable to pre-
side at the Cabinet meetings or hold
the usual reception to the members OF
the Diplomatic Corps. Thus, Mr.. Choate
has not yet called formally at the For
eign Office. Mr.. and Mrs. Choate have
been inundated with invitations to So
cial events which are about to take
place. All the ambassadors have left
their cards
The absence of the Queen and the
Princess of Wales respectively from
the opening drawing room and levee of
the season has given rise to much critl-
cism and a great deal of grumbling
among society people. AS one of the
papers says: This is one of the du-
ties belonging to the throne and the
heir, and the public, who pay the
piper, expect royal music"
Another paper says: "OItside of the
charmed circle of the Marlborough and
Manchesters, there is a very smart
American set in London now-Ladies
Abinger and Oxford, Mrs. Offby Sor-
roster, whose daughters were the bellies
of the Rivera season last year; Mrs.
Blake, Mrs. Alfred Paris, who is holding
the most pleasant weekly receptions in
Chesham street, and Mesdames Batch
ellor and Freeman Schulge, of Phila-
delphia London will lose one of its
MOST POPULAR BEAUTIES
during the trip of Lady Mary Sackville
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. J. Gould next
month.
The newspapers still pay considera-
able attention toward recovery made by
Rudyard Kipling. The Times printed
on Friday prominently set of verses
after the style of "The BarrackRoom
Ballads" and supposed to be from
Tommy Atkins to Kipling on His Ill
ness" The last verse runs:
1--WE card that you were fighting ard,
just as we know You would,
But we ardly 'opeG you'd turn is flank;
they said you 'ardly could.
But the news has come this morning, an
Pm writing ere to say
There's no British son more Apply than
your old friend, Tommy A"
The bill Of Mr.. Harold James Beck
lit, Liberal, member of the Brigg divis-
ion of Lincolnshire, raising the flash
point of petroleum from 73 to 100, is
the result of a bitter campaign waged
by certain evening papers against the
deadly lowfiash." 1t comes beore the
House Commons next Wednesday and
will meet with strong opposition. it's
opponents. contending that the origin
ators of the agitation against the Amer
lean oils are the Scotch petroleum re-
liners. Moreover, it is shown that
many of the accidents during the past
year We're not due to American oil, but
to Russian Oil, whose test point is 1O3.
The bill, it is declared, seeks to compel
the public to use oils which apparently
have been but little favored by the peo-
pie up to now and favors Russia at the
expense of America. Three represent
atives of
AN AMERICAN SYNDICATE
are here negotiating for a combination
of the English and American oil mills.
They expect to carry the scheme
through and in about three months
time there will be the biggest trust
ever formed on this side of the Allan
tic, involving capital to the amount OF
about S75,000,0 600. The idea is that
each side abandon competition on the
others ground and come to a working
arrangement regarding the continental
business, especially that of Southern
Europe, in oil and seek-cake. The oil
milling industry here is confined to
Hull, Liverpool and London. Hull is
the principal centre, but Liverpool has
the largest concern of the kind in the
world.
Inc LOTO Mayor VI LOluOI. or JOHH
Voce Moore, presided at the meeting, held
at the Mansion House this week, to fur
Their the proposed national commemora-
ton in 1901 of the one thousandth ami
versary of the death of King Alfred. The
queen has given the movement her pat
ronage and the memorial will take the
form of a bronze statue of King Alfred,
to be erected in his royal city ofWinches-
ter. The United States ambassador wrote
regretting that his visit to the queen at
Windsor on the day of the meeting pre-
vented his attendance. The secretary,
who is a former mayor of Winchester, an
nounced that a committee had been form
ed in America to cooperate with the
movement here, and that its members in
clude Col. John Hay, the secretary of
State: Bishop Potter and the presidents
of Yale and Johns Hopkins universities.
King Alfred being the founder of Great
Britain's
MARITIME SUPREMACY,
a naval display will be held and the larg-
est armored cruiser in the world to be
launched in 1901, will be chris;ened King
Alfred
Wolvesey Castle, the ancient residence
of the English Kings near Winchester,
will be secured as a memorial museum
The sum of $4,000 is asked for to carry
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