Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-12
LORD SALISBURY IS SICK
Catches a Severe Cold While Returning
From the Royal Castle,
SMART SET COMPLAINING OF ROYALTY
Neither Queen Nor Prince of wales
Present ut Opening Drawing
Room-Pnpers Devote Much
Space to kipling.

Copyright, 1899, by Associated fIessJ
LONDON, March 11.-London has been
favored with ideal spring weather during
the last week and there has been a marked
diminution Of influenza.
The marquis of Salisbury caught a bad
cold while returning from Windsor on the
occasion of the formal presentation of the
United States ambassador, Mr.. Joseph II.
Choate, to the queen, and he has been con-
fined to his house ever since. The premier
is unable to preside at the cabinet meetings
or to hold the usual reception of the mem
bers of the diplomatic corps. Thus Mr..
Choate has not yet called formally at the
foreign office. Mrs. Choate has been in
undated with invitations to social events
which are about to take place. All the am
bassadors have left their cards.
The absence Of the queen and the prince
of Wales respectively from the opening
drawing room and levee of the season has
given rise to much criticism and a great
deal of grumbling among society people.
As one of the papers says, This is one of
the duties belonging to the throne and to
the heir and the public, which pays the piper,
expects royal music
Another paper says: "Outside Of the
charmed circle of the Marlboroughs and
Manchesters there is a very smart American
set in London now, Ladies Abinger and
oxford, Mrs. Offby Sorester, whose daughters
! were the bellies of the Riviera season last
year; Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Alfred Paris, who is
holding the most pleasant weekly recep-
lions in Gresham street, and Mesdames
Bachelor and Freeman Schulge of Phila-
delphia.
London will lose one of it's most popular
beauties during the trip Of Lady Mary Sack
Vile to visit Mr.. and Mrs. George ]. Gould
next month.
Much Space to KipIinR.
The newspapers here still pay considerable
attention to the progress toward recovery
made by Rudyard Kipling. The Times on
Friday published prominently a set of verses
after the style Of The Barrack Room
Ballads" and supposed to be from Tommy
Atkins to Kipling on His Illness The last
verse ran:
We card that you were fighting ard, just
as we knew you would,
But we 'ardly 'oped you'd turn his flank;
they said you 'ardly could,
But the news has come this morning, an
I'm writing ere to say
There's no British son more Apply than your
old friend Thomas A.
The bill of Harold James Reckitt,
liberal member for the Brigg division of
Lincolnshire, raising the flash point of
petroleum from 70 to 100, is the result Of a
bitter campaign waged by certain evening
papers against the deadly low flash It
comes before the House of Commons next
Wednesday and will meet with strong OPP
position, its opponents contending that the
originators of the agitation against the
American oils are the Scotch petroleum re-
finers. Moreover, it is shown that many
of the accidents during the last year were
not due to American oil, but to Russian
oil, whose test point is 1903. The bill, it is
lacIo rod caolye 20 oo,,-o A. ,lI; - $50.
oils which apparently have been but little
favored by the people up to now and favors
Russia at the expense of America.
international OIL Trust.
Three representatives of an American
syndicate are over 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 Atlantic, involving capt.
tai to the amount Of s75, 900, 900. 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 seed cake. The oil milling in
dustry here Is confined to Hull, Liverpool
and London. Hull is the principal center,
but Liverpool has the largest concern of the
kind in the world.
The lord mayor of London, Sir John Voco
Moore, presided at a meeting held at the
Mansion house this week to further the pro-
posed national ommemoration in 1901 Of
the one thousandth anniversary of the
death Of King Alfred. The queen has given
the movement her patronage and the
memorial will take the form of a bronze
statue OF King Alfred, to be erected in his
royal city Of Winchester. The United States
| am A dor yrpta ranrattipr tL,. Il -s-t.
to the queen at Windsor on the day of the
meeting prevented him attending.
The secretary, who is a former mayor OF
Winchester, announced that a committee
had been formed in America to cooperate
with the movement here and that its mem
bers include Colonel John Hay, the secre-
tary of state; Bishop Potter and the presi-
dents OF Yale and Johns Hopkins universi-
ties. King Alfred being the founder OF
Great Britain's maritime supremacy, a naval
display will be held and the largest armored
cruiser In the world, to be launched in
1901, will be christened King Alfred.
Wolvesey castle, the ancient residence of
the English kings near Winchester, will be
secured as a memorial museum. The sum
or $4,000 (sl5O,O0O) is asked for to carry
out the whole scheme.
Shamrock Taking Form.
F. Fife, jr., the yacht designer. has heen
In London frequently during the last few
weeks, studying the lines of the Shamrock
as 1t grows into shape. He has not modified
MS plans in the slightest detail, evidently
being as pleased with it's appearance as an
actual boat as he was with the designs. The
workmen have now succeeded in surmount-
Ing the worst difficulties in working the
Manganese plates, several of which were
ruined during the first attempts to do so.
But the work is now proceeding smoothly,
though slowly. 1t is expected. however, that
the yacht could be ready If desired by the
end of May.
The name, Golden Rod, which 1t is said
will be given to the Americas cup de-
fender, is rather startling to Englishmen,
most Of whom never heard of the American
flower. The Yachting World says: mo
fault can be found with the name; but all
the same 1t is unpleasantly suggestive of a
beating for Sir Thomas Upton"
The owner Of the Shamrock returns from
the Riviera on March 16, when the date of
the launch of the cup challenger will be
fixed.
The Daily Telegraph announces that it will
: shortly start a Sunday edition. 1t will only
> be an experiment, and except for the New
u York Herald's experiment, the Daily Tele-
graph will be the first London paper to have
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