Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-04
QUEENS TRIP
TO FRANCE
Friends Trying to Dissuade
Her From Going.
RABlD FRENCH PAPERS
Unfavorable Comment of the Prince Of
Wales Charity Scheme--
Miss Ast0r'S Debut.

London, March 4.-(Copyrighted, 1899,
by the Associated Press. )-Influenza has
reached an epidemic form in London, be-
ing responsible for one in eighteen deaths
during the past week, where the deaths
from the disease reached a total of 113.
But the increase was accompanied by the
least number Of deaths from pulmonary
affections recorded during the present
winter.
The cheering news comes from Berlin
that Prof. Waserman, one of Prof. Koch's
ablest pupils has discovered a serum for
the cure of pneumonia. Experiments
with animals have been successful and he
is now operating upon human beings.
The weather has been bright and cold.
The two drawing rooms this week brought
the people to town. The Duchess of Bu-
cleugh presented Miss Aston, Who wore a
white toilette, with silver embroidery
and a satin train, bordered with single
pearls. She carried a bouquet of white
lilies.
Ambassador Choate is busy house
hunting. He has accepted an invitation
to attend the annual dinner of the asso-
SlihSo IA VI III lillll
Is. The other guests will include the
lord high chancellor, Earl Halsbury; the
lord chief justice, Baron Russell, of Kill
loWen; Rear Admira Lord Charles
Beresford and the president of the board
of trade, Mr.. c. I. Richie.
The arrangements for Queen Nictorla's
departure for the Rivera next Thursday
have been completed. Her majesty will
travel to the south of France by way of
L Dl ~~,, Co., M, ,.,rt@~ ~e ,;~ Tlo,
bourg, being the first time she will have
visited Boulogne since the Crimean war.
Some interest is taken in the fact that
the queens yacht will be conveyed by
eight of the fastest torpedo boat Destroy
ers in the British navy, five of them being
80 knot boats. Cruisers ave been pre-
viously employed for this duty and the
use Of destroyers, it is limited in some of
the papers. is intended to set off the
French papers talk about submarine tor
pedo boats.
There is much indignation in England
at the scandalous and coarse attacks
made upon Queen Victoria by some of the
newspapers of Paris this week. The Lii
bre Parole in an insulting article, said:
"Frankly. the queen will be well advised
if she does not come to France this spring.
The constitutional fiction that it was
Lord Salisbury and not the queen who in
! hicted the outrage of Fashoda and the
4 laci vi AI ISNSiN III l. hii$ WA iicl
suffice. It is We'll known that the queen
has directed England's policy throughout
her long reign and she has never missed
an opportunity of displaying her anti
pathy for France. Unde the circum-
stances therefore,, her visit is an addi-
tional insult and defiance of public opln-
ion. After this warning it will only be
her own fault if she meets with a hostile
: reception in France"
NJ. Cassaignac's Autorilie says:
1.-The queen becomes our guest at a mo-
ment when the British government has
made itself more than ever our enemy.
Her journey will be full of the same
risks as the Maine incurred in entering
Cuban waters and the French government
IS committing the same foolish act as Sem
or Sagasta by not preventing France
from being placed in such position that
the smallest accident might p~recipltate
4 both powers into a terrible conflict
After such inSinuatlon as the foregoing
it seems possible that the queens visit to
France will not pass without some Chau-
whist incident. A special police staff has
left Paris to watch over her majesty at
Cimiez, where her heavy baggage is al
ready arriving. Queen Victoria pays
81, 900 monthly for her w rooms, with
out counting the expense of her suite,
numbering 60 persons, although her trip
will cost her about I 5000. Her chaise,
f~avorite white donkey and numbers of
pet dogs and birds have been sent ahead.
Her majesty also has a curious whlm
about sleeping in her W bed, which is
taken with her wherever she goes.
The Prince of Wales went to Paris this
week and visited the exposition grounds.
He proceededs to James on Sunday. The
princes wonderful scheme, known as the
League of Mercy, in connection with
which a new order has been established,
for those who collect and promote the
collection of subscriptions for the Prince
of Wales hospital fund, five years work
! being required for admission to the order,
is severely criticized in several quarters.
! The Daily News thinks the prince has not
been fortunately advised in committing
himself and in securing the sanction Of
the queen to such a scheme. The paper
calls it an organization of snobocracy by
the aristOcracy which is r%epugnant to the
idea of charity and not calculated to add
t. the dignity # the throne
The annual report upon recruiting Tor
the army shows a slight increase in the
physical development of the recruits, hut
So per cent have still been rejected owing
to unsatisfactory physique. The an
nouncement is made that Is per 1000 are
utterly illiterate and that only 49. per
1000 are described as we'll educated.
There has been a revival of the sensa-
ton caused a few weeks ago by the al
legged disappearance of Prince Ludwig
Won Wertheim, who married
Lady Anne Sayille, a daughter of the
Earl of Marlborough. He moved a good
deal in English society and then disap-
peared mysteriously. An advertisement
inuuiring after his whereabouts caused
considerable speculation in the London
press and now a telegram from Manila
has been published saying the prince is
at Manila, has been there for many
months, was present during the destruo-
ton of the Spanish fleet and was q men,
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