The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-13
Americans Are Pouring In With
Money to Spend.
The Queens Drawing Room
Causes Heartburnings.
NEW BALLOT SYSTEM
Brought Into Use In Making
Selections.
Americans Who Are Among the
Favored Ones.

ICopyright, 1899. by Associated Press.1
London, May 13.-With beautiful sum-
mer-like weather this week, the season
seems to be finally in full swing. The
hotels, picture exhibitions and Rotten
Row are crowded daily, while numer-
Gus parties giving by hostesses promi-
nent in the social world fill every night.
The Polo season has opened at Hur-
lingham and Ranelagh and the 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
a large invasion from overseas. The
greatest interest centers in the queens
visit to London next week to hold
drawing room and lay the foundation
stone of the Albert and Victoria mus
cum at KensingtOn.
Tuesdays 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
occasiOned by the system of ballot
which the new lord chamberlain has
fnaugurated and under which many
prominent people are excluded. BY
this novel mode of selection the names
of well known peeresses and of people
unknown to fame are mixed together
in a manner thu is very distasteful to
the former. Several titled ladies, when
cessful in the ballot made representa-
tiOns to the highest quarters with the
result that even at the last moment
there have been changes in the list. In
spite of this number of we'll known
ladies had their claims ignored. Mrs.
Joseph H. ChOate, wife of the United
States ambassador here will present to
the queen Mrs Alfred Parish. her sis
ter Miss Jennings of New York and
Miss Nora Neefe of Chicago The queen
is to come from Windsor on Monday
and Will visit KensingtOn Palace. where
her old apartments have been renOVa-
ted preparatory to opening the palace
to the public. Her majesty's visit will
be of a sentimental nature as the rooms
where she lived as a young girl have
been restored to their former condition
Her bedroom contains show cases filed
with her old toys and her dolls house
stands upon a table in the ante cham
Der.
The ceremony of laying the founda-
tion 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 pr1nceSSeS and other royal
personageS will meet her at the site of
the museum where a raised dais will
be reserved for them. A great pavilion
will be erected in which will be seated
the ambassadors, members of the cabi-
net 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
Afterwards a madrigal. specially COM
posed by Mr.. Alfred Austin, the poet.
laureate will be sung to special music
written by Alexander Mackenzie prin-
cipal of the Royal Academy of Music
His grace, the archbishop of Canterbury
primate of all England, will read the
prayers The event is certain to be the
occasion of a great patriotic demon
stratiOn-
There has been considera BILE anxiety
this week relative to the health of the
duke of York, who has been confined to
his rooms with a severe cold. The duke
of York, himself however made light
of the matter and speaking with a vis-
itor about the solicitude of the press on
his behalf, said:
:. Really, 1 might almost be a Kip
ling"
'TOD. SLOAN AVENUE"
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 exhi-
bluOnS of horSemanShip, gaining 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 50 losses.
The Rowley mile over which most of
Sloan's victories have been achieved
has been christened Tod Sloan ave
nue." The Prince of Wales chatted
with Sloan in the paddock on Wednes-
day and congratulated him upon his
success.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain blossomed
IorJh this week as a successful beggar
In the cause of philanthropy. He recent
ly asked &250,0O0 ($1, ,250, ,OO0) for the
birmingham university, and Mr.. An
drew Carnegie's gift practically COM
pIeteS 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
securing Mr.. Carnegie's handsome con-
tribution.
TROPICAL DISEASES.
Mr.. Chamberlain on Wednesday pre-
sided at a dinner in aid of fund for
the establishment of his school of trop-
icaI medicine. and by the time the cof-
ing to S15.S00 ($79 000) had been an
nounced. Mr. Chamberlain in the
course of an interesting speech at this
dinner on THE White Mans Burden -
dWelt upon the fact that the greatest
enemy of the white was not the hos
tllity of savage chiefs, the influence of
barbarous customs or the physical diff
culties of tropical countries but ma
1arial fevers. A new school devoted to
for tropical diseases, will be located in
the vicinity of the docks, where sub
JectS are never lacking
President Seth Low of Columbia uni
verSity, New York, who is here en-
route to the peace conference at The
Hague, in discussing the conditions of
Mr. Carnegie's gift to the Birmingham
university with the correspondent of the
Associated Press, said: The conditions
attached to the gift are wise and char
acteristic of the donor Our American n
universities from the first adapted