Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16
THE PROMINENT INVALlDS
Who Are Laid Up by the Cold Weather
Which is General Throughout
Eur0pe-Prospects For Yacht Rae
ing-News of the TheaterS.

yAAN ANNSJ' IAN CN"o -
vities which usually mark this season of
the year in London, nave never been SO
few and far between, and they are quite
unable to dispel the gloom overhanging
! all classes. The brave SHOW kept up by
the majority of the organs yoicing public
opinion. is merely an instance of the grit
OF The British race. But it is powerless to
aliay the feeling of bitter grief and dis
appointments that ~pervades the length
and breadth of the land.
Nor is this confined to the regrets, pent-
up criticism of the military authorities is
finding vent in quarters that heretofore
have studiously avoided as premature
any structures on either the war Office. or
the generals in the field. Unless some
change for the better soon marks the
course of the British arms, there bids fair
to break over the head Of the government
a storm Of Indignation, such as has not
been seen since the Crimea. That such a
movement is not without cause, is evil
denced by Information CLEANED by a rep
resentative of the Associated Press, that
the authorities have already decided that
a reorganization of the wal office is alb
soluteiy necessary. and that it will not be
delayed a day longer than can be helped,
though it can scarcely be done until hos
~tilities cease.
The st. James Gazette this week COM
nenting on the Canadian contingent
says: They have shown that their long
home training. and colonial campaigning
experience has not been lost on them, and
they are now getting their reward in be-
ing pushed to the front. We should like to
see a little more notice of this taken in
the london press. The colonists are in
tensely loyal, but they are a little sensi-
tive, and appreciative notice of the work
they are doing would be good imperial
cement"
Gen. Montgomery Moore, formerly in
command in Canada. has been selected to
succeed Gen. kelly-Kenny at Aldershot,
where the latter has been in charge of
the mobilization.
England with the rest of Europe. has
been suddenly plunged into intensely
cold weather cOmpanie in London by
dense fogs, the mercury in the country
falling TO seven above zero. Skating has
begun and hunting has been suspended.
With the inspection of the American
hospital ship Maine today, and the fare
We'll dinner Sunday, the work of the la
dies who have been so active in collect
ing funds ends. Curiously enough their
efforts have not always been appreciated
in England. The members CT the COM
mittee have have been told on more than
one occasion that Great Britain did not
want foreign charity. and some of the pa
pers have said many i'll natured things.
Vanity Fair, following a thinly yelled al
fusion to one Of the committee who was
received by the queen, remarked: so
she has been received at last. She must
have been surprised and gratified by the
unexpected honor. Charity does so much"
Lord Salisbury was no sooner recover-
ing from the blow caused by the death of
his wife than he was afflicted by another
personal sorrow. in the severe illness of
his faVorite daughter-in-law, Lady
CraRborne. At one time this week, her
life was despaired of, but it is now hoped
she will recover from her sickness, which
started with a severe attack of influenza.
The cold weather with the first snow of
the year. is responsible for a long list Of
prominent inva!ids. among them being
the Duke of Westminster, who is now re-
covering from %larynsitis.
According to Vanity Fair. Mr.. and Mrs.
W. X. Vanderbilt found Nice SO dull
that they went for a ramble in an auto
mobile, aud We're last heard from at Mar
settles. which they reached in record
time.
Several new publications are on the eve
of birth. Eyrie and Spottiswoode are
bringing out an illustrated weekly on the
lines of the illustrated London News"
edited by Mr.. Clelnentshorter, who was
ten years editor of the News. Sir George
NeWnes, proprietor of the Westminster
Gazette and other papers,, is responsible
for another six penny illustrated weekly
entitled The King. A still more ambitious
production under consideration, is the
starting of a radical daily in London.
Since the anti-war editors were removed
from the Chronicle and the Echo. no pa
per in London has opposed the govern
ments policy out and out. Radicalism. az
represented by the weekly Speaker, is not
representative CT the metropolitan press.
The Shamfocks shippers, Hogarth and
Wflnse. VIII take an active part i n next
seasons yacht racing, the former in sail
ing a 65-footer now building for Mr.. John
Gretton. 1t is said they have refused
much larger American offers and are de-
terHlined to stick to England.
The American liner St. Paul. which
sails for New York from Southampton
tomorrow, will have among her pas
sengeis. Mr.. Henry Savage Lander, the
Thl6etan explorer, who will lecture fer
several months in America. Mr.. Lander
has just returned from his second expedi-
tion to Inibet and Nepaui, where he
broke the worlds record in mountain
eefins. reaching, at the summit of one of
the Lumpa peaks, an altitude of $500
feet.
In spite of the war the theaters are gen.
orally prosperous. VIM. Archer has re-
ceived the final proof sheets of Ibsen's
new play. on a translation Of which he is
busily engaged. Marie Tempest has left
Days because George Edwards objected
to her tights. requesting her to substitute