The age-herald., 1900-04-09
DUBLIN NOW A
 CITY OF GAIETY Coming of the Queen Has Start
 ed the Festivities.
THE PAST WEEK IN ENGLAND
Work of Her Majesty Has Greatly In- creased as She Grows Older, and Now Her Duties Are
 Very Arduous

ECopyright 1900 by the Associated Press.]
 London, April S-From a city of nervous forebodings, political excitement and al- most stagnant business Dublin has been transformed into capital as gay and busy as any European center. The coming of the queen, though a Catholic country in the middle of Lent has started whirl of festivities such as there has not been in Ireland since the good old days of which Lever wrote. The Irish nobility have focked across the channel from their English homes in unprecedented numbers, and from the south, the west and the north of Ireland itself old country fami- lies have poured into Dublin. There is sufficient number of the members of the ministry on the banks of the Liffey to hold a cabinet council, and there are enough lovely women nightly dining in gorgeous dresses and shining with jewelry which has not been worn for many dull day, to make an Irish levee of which any country might be jealous.
 {. The castle where the lord lieutenant holds sway. is naturally the center of at- traction, but the ancient building can hold only few. There the Duke of Devon shire, the Duke of Abercorn, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Home Secretary Rigley and a number of peers and peeresses have been dining in state every night this week. The brilliant uniforms of officers of the Life Guards from London, of the Duke of Connaught's staff, and the court uniforms of Ireland's dignitaries are nightly blended with the black attire of celebrated civilians. Nor could anything be more superb than the big-calfed, be-powdered lackeys that fit in gold and red through the great corridors
 Center of Gaiety
 Outside the castle the Shelbourne hotel most every visitor has a title, though many of the most distinguished found with chagrin that they could not get rooms and had to be satisfied with humble lodging and dinners. Owing to the presence of thieves In the town and the large amount or Jewelry carelessly displayed, no one who is not staying at the Shelbourne is al- lowed to enter the outer doors of the ho- tels without specifying whom they want to see, and are often kept in the cold for further inspection. we'll known but badly dressed peer who seldom visits Ire land, underwent this ordeal the other day and almost exploded with wrath when A gold-laced porter barred his way and made him show his card before allowing him to enter.
 The most popular form of evening amusement has been the charterine of trolley cars by large parties and taking rides through the crowded streets. With the Influx of money and social gaiety. po- litical considerations are temporarily in abeyance.
 The more advanced the queen becomes in years the more her work increases The extension of the empire, the increased &C., tivity of modern life and the delevopments Of the times have quadrupled the work the queen has to deal with at 80. Therefore. she has to work harder than at any pre- vious period of her reign. It is estimated that she has to sign 50,000 documents year. ly, an average of 137 day, including Sum- days Secretary of state papers goes to her now while in Ireland. She never real 1y has two days holiday together.
 In one of the three parliament house din- Ing rooms is a long, oval table. At this the members of the cabinet dine every evening when the houses are in session No private member would think of taking seat at this table. The ministers there discuss the plans and prospects of the night or go over the speeches delivered or to be delivered. Owing to the absentees in Ireland only small group of cabinet min- isters gathered there on Thursday evening. when some random war talk took place The first lord of the admiralty. MT. George J. Goschen, twitted the secretary of state for the colonies, MT. Joseph Chamberlain. pleasantly on the length of the war.
 Chamberlain Replies Good NaturedIy
 Mr. Chamberlain made good humored re- ply and is then reported to have said seri- ously: "I think we are dealing with better fighters as individuals, than any regular soldiers of the continent. The Boers seem to me to have both caution and dash"
 The depressing incidents of the week have caused Englshmen to resign them- selves to the long struggle. The disposi- tion to find fault with the war office for not having anticipated the necessity for the enormous number of horses seems un- justified for it is learned that before the dash on Kimberley and the destruction of horse flesh caused by the surrounding of General Cronje, the war office wired to it's agents all over the world, particularly in North and South America, giving them unconditional power to buy horses unlimi- tedly until further orders. The conditions in the way of assembling and transporting the animals were such, however, that horses bought month ago can hardly reach Lord Roberts before June.
 Nothing more was heard this week of the movement initiated by the ministerial members of the house of commons to pe-
 tition the government to proclaim the Orange Free States annexed to the British