Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-13
SEASON
IN FULL SWING

London, May 13.-With beautiful, sum-
merlike weather, this week, the season
seems to finally be in full swing. The
hotels, picture exhibitions n Rotten
row are crowded daily, while numerous
parties given by hostesses prominent in
the social world fill every night. The
polo season has opened at Hurllnghame
and Ranelagh. and these 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
lars e invasion from oversee.
The greatest interest centers in the
queens visit to London next week to hold
a d~rawing-room and lay the foundation
stone of the Albert and Victoria museum
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 a great deal of heartburn
ing has been occasioned by the system of
ballot which the new Lord Chamberlain
has ~inaugurated n under which many
prominent people are excluded. BY this
novel mode of selection the names of
well known peeresses and OF people UNI
known to fame are mixed together in a
manner that is very distasteful to the
former. Several titled ladies, when they
found that they had been unsuccessful
in the ballot, made representations to the
highest quarters, with the result that
even at the last moment there have been
Changes in the list. In spite of this, a
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. AL
fred Parish, her sister. Miss Jennings Of
New York and Miss Nora Neef of Chi
ago. The queen is to come from Wind
sor on Monday and will visit Kensington
,a 1onn xsir- How. ~1I ~ " , r% 49, ~ : r. Io,,~
been renovated 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 con-
ditiOn. Her bedroom contains showcases
filled with her old toys and her dolls
house stands on a table in the ante
chamber.
The ceremony of laying the foundation
stone of the Albert and Victoria museum
on Wednesday will be a very interesting
one. The queen will drive through the
streets lined with troops from Bucking-
ham palace. the royal cortege being es-
colted by the iifeguards. Her majesty
will be accompanied by several princes
and princesses and other royal person.
ages will meet her at the site of the
museum, whore a raised Us will be
reserved for them. A great pavilion will
be erected, in which will be seated the
AMBASSADORS, ministers OF the cabinet
and leading state officials. The Prince
of Wales will receive the queen. The ma
tlonal anthem will be sung by pupils of
the royal college of music. Afterwards
a madrigale, especially composed by Mr.,
Alfred Austin, the poet laureate, Will be
sung to special music written by Sil
Alexander Mackenzie, principal of the
royal academy of music. His grace, the
archbishop Of Canterbury, primate of
all England, will rea the prayers. The
event is destined to be the occasion of a
great patriotic demonstration.
There has been considerable anxiety
this week relative to the health of the
Duke of York, who has been confined ia
his rooms with a severe cold. The duke,
himself, made light of the matter, and,
speaking with a visitor about the solicit
tude of the press on his behalf, sad:
Really, ! might almost be a Kip
ling"