Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-19
REJOICING N LONDON
Populaoe Of the Great Metropolis
Wild With Joy Over Relief
Of Mafeking.
Unequalled Demonstration Succeeds
Receipt ofthe News-A Patri-
otto Frenzy.
Streets Are Thronged All Night
Long by a Cheering Joyous
Mob

London. May 19.-London's millions
spent half the night in the street, and
even at o'clock this morning troops of.
young men We're promenading, singing
and cheering. and there We're crowds in
front Of the Mansion House, Marlbor-
ough House, the clubs on Pail Mall and.
the war office andin Parliament square,
waving flags and joining in the national.
airs.
This sustained believing and uproar
of hundreds)of thousands amaze the
Englishman who ceases for a moment;
to be an actor and becomes merely an
observer. Sober, phlegmatic London is.
beside itself With emotion. Gust. OF,
patriotism have set the town quiveAns
twice or thrice before during the Nal.
but nothing has quite eaualed last
nights hundred square miles OF almost
furious demonstrations.
lit vas curious thing for the onlooker
to see solemn, sray-hairsd men toss
their opera hats into the air and joir. in
the hurricane ofScheers When a wreath
crowned banner, With the portrait of
Col. Baden-PoWeil on IT, was borne
along Piccadiily. Smart women III
broughana waved union jacks out of
the windows. Conventional family par
ties stopped at street corners 10 take
part in singing God Save the Queen
and Soldiers of the Queen Every
where were abandon, good feeling and
astonishing roar Of human voices.
1t was all brought about by a twenty
word telegram from Pretoria that
AIafeking had been relieved. Altho the
government has not q word. and altho
nothing contirmatory has been received
from any African source except Pre-
toria, nobody apparently questions the
news.
Arthur j. BalfoErs government leader
in the house of commons. speaking from
the government bench late last evening,
said:
The only news l have is thru the
courtesy of the press. We have no in-
formation at the war office, Nor would
we have IT az soon as it would arrive
thru other channels. Therefore the fact
that We have not received it neither
confirms nor disproyes the accuracy of
the information. need hardly8sny that
we all trust and we have good reason
II TO thirk is Is probably rue 0.heersl
George Wyndham. parliamentary un-
der secretary for wiir, replying 10 sew
eral members of The house Who had pri-
vatels interrogated him. Said
.Altho the government has nothing, j
am disposed To believe the Boer bulletin.
1t may be tomorrow. and perhaps even
Monday, before the government would
get dispatches from our military con-
manders. even If the siege were sased
sb1n- days ago, az the news would need
to be conveyed OYER q very long distance
by messengers on horseback whereas
the enemy would probably he able to
avail themselves of Geographic commu-
nication.
Col. Baden PowelHs brother in Lon
don has received telegram from a
Dutch friend In Pretoria saying that
Mafeking has been relieved.
The performers in the London music
halls and theaters last evening had little
use for stage business or for the lines
of their pieces The audiences which
\ crowded the All1ambra. the Empire.
Covent Garden and the theaters had ne
desire to attend to stage performance
The first sight Of a biograph scene in
the Transvaal or the first glimpse OF a
military or naval costume on he stage
was sufficient to create an uproar. \
leading actor in one of the Strand thea
tors said:
II did not attempt to read my lines
last evening. II was of no use. The pub
lie had no interest in me, beyond thu
fact that ! Wore d military uniform
AT Her Majes;y,s Theater at thu
Garrickt Where sZaZa'' is being played
4 and at the other houses whore legiti
mate drama holds the boards. the occu
pants of stalls, boxes. and galleries san,
in chorus The Absent Minded Beggar'
and Soldiers of the Queen betwee,
acts in orderto give Vent to@their en-
thusiasm, altho they settled down Il
the program aTterWards Al the uiusi
halls. however, no one pretended to in
terest in anything not having a Mill
tary color.
The princess of Wales, the duke an,
duchess Of York and the Portuguese
minister. Senior Pinto do Several. oc
cupied box a Covent Garden, wher
"Lohengrin" was being presented an
when the relief of Mafeking was an
nounced they joined heartily in the ap
plause.
The London fire insurance laws max
fireworks impossible. and the cit.
II lacked Inc DldZe OF illumination CHAR
acteristic Of American cities durin
similar rejoicings. The Britishel
therefore, relies upon lung power. an,
from st. Paul's Cathedral to Westmin
ster Abbey and up thru Piccadilly I
Hyde Park there was a Niagara -lik
roar incessant. rising and falling hou
by hour. az the surging masses poure
thru London's thoroughfares like TIL
professions on the evening cf presi
Dental election in the United States.
Every cabby and every 'busman i
London had union jack futterin
from his whip. and the stars an
stripes we're by no means lacking. Pat
rone OF four wheelers were not conten
to ride inside the vehicles. and top
were crowded with fiag-waving. cheer
Ing. sprawlIng enthusiasts.
At the Carlton Hotel, which is file
with Americans. the bands playe
Marching Thru Georgia." which ha
been recently adapted to an Englis
song entitled Marching to Pretoria.
Dixie" and other American airs wer
also played.
Ten thousand people stood in front &
Mrs. Baden-Powell's house In S
Georges place. cheering and singing
4. ana score OF cabs brought congratula
tons. Miss Baden Powell. the colonel