The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-15
BRITAIN IS IN GLOON
Nitral's Neck and China Cause
Depression.
OrEEN'S PARTY SUCCESS
CENTRAL CONTEMPT FOR WILL
LIAM WALDORF ASToR.

,c,,yrirht, 1900, by the Associated Press.)
london, July 1.-THE most brilliant
don party of Queen Victoria's reign
hos proved quite Intellectual to dispel
tbs anxiety anu gloom hanging over
Great Britain.
The escape from Kumassi of Sir
frederick Mitchell Hodgson, the COVER
ror Of Cold Coast colony, and mis- wife
o,d PARTY and the safety of the ma
i,ritv Of those who so long were in
SaDger of massacre at the hands of the
tsbgntis. created mOmentary feeling
Of thankfuiness and iubilation. But
this was quickly dissipated by the news
II the disaster at NitraTs Mex and the
gravity of the news from China.
week that opened with high hopes
from all quarters of the globe where
creat Eritain's interests are Imperfect
snds with none of these hopes realized
evcept as regards Ashanti, and even
there an English garrison still awaits
relief
I'm South Africa the nation was pre-
nared for though it did not really an
ticipate guerrilla warfare. But repeat
OIL disasters of such magnitude as that
nj NitraIs Mex create dismay. 1t is
email wonder that the government has
rrarticaIly decided to put off the cleo
ton until 1901
Garden Party Wonderful.
While the royal garden party failed
IN its purpose it was a wonderful al
fair. Peers and peeresses. generals and
Indian rajahs, princes and prinCesses.
leading statesmen. heads of professions
and church dignitaries intermingled
cavly. forming a dazzling mass of color
against the green background of the
buckingham palace lawns. After chat
ting with q few guests, the queen drove
out through double lines of visitors
probably as distinguished as were ever
formed in England. Cabinet minis
tiers. ambassadors, actors, princes, doc
TORS and lawyers stood bareheaded till
the sovereign was out of the grounds.
Contempt For Astor.
Apart from the garden party the talk
Of the week in society has been the
Aston Milne affair. MI AstOr's de-
parture for Marienbad created no ends
Of Quips and comments, but there
seems no reason to believe it was in
any way due to this circumstance.
"Mr. William Waldorf Aston" says
Vanity Fair. lis at Marienbad, and
Marenbad is quieter than London"
adding that most people support the
sailor man
Mr. Astor's dinner party III London
vas attended by forty persons, but
the host was unable to appear owing
10 ar attack of scia;ica.
The Saturday Review, of which Lord
HardWiCk is editor. and with which
several other prominent persons are
connected, scathingly denOunces Mr..
Astor's treatment of Captain Milne and
refers 70 It as d gross violation Of ETH
qu-tte' adding:
Milne IS a naval officer of high rank
and distinguished service, the latchet
Of whose shoe Astor. with all his mill
lions is not worthy to unite. We only
regret that the gallant servant of her
majesty so far forgot his dignity as to
accept a secondhand invitation 10 the
house Of the Durse-DrOuJ American
whose dollars could not save him FROM
the contempt of his cOuntrymen. Mr..
Aston wishes his entertainments TO be
exclusive. His desire is likely to be
EratGed in future beyond his eXpecta-
tions"
FoXhaU keene's temperance in the
ranks of gentlemen riders has created
interest in England. His victory in the
race for the Andover stakes on SinOpi
caused The Daily Mail to say:
He should prove a welcome acquisi-
ton 90 the ranks of amateur riders.
He has nice style. though his seat,
perhaps. is too upright for modern
ideas. still he gets there all the
same"
Pleased at Names Departure.
The departure Of the American hos
ptal shin Maine for China meets with
warm approval both from official and
unofficial England The way this de-