The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-04
1t Apparently Taints All the
House of Hanover.
Queen VictOria's Eldest Daugh-
ter Afflicted With Cancer.
HUMBERT IN LONDON.
Visited Slums and Anarchist
Resorts in 1892.
English Metropolis Enjoys De-
light of Electric Transit.

copyright, 1900, by Associated Press.1
London, Aug. 4.-The kings evil' OF
George II seemingly taints all the Han
over blood. The death of the queens
most accomplished son, the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-for he could
lead an orchestra, play the violin, catch
salmon with a Scotch expert or sail a
ship-has caused much solemn talk at
court about the maladies Of other MEM
bers of the royal house.
Notwithstanding the denial Issuing
from Berlin it is quite certain that En-
press Frederick, the queens eldest and
most beloved daughter. is afflicted with
cancer and that great specialists con-
slider her life a matter of months. She
is too i'll to leave the castle at Fried
richshof, near Homburg, for her custo-
mary summer visit to England. Queen
Victoria knowing her desire to possess
an English home, gave her the Whits
Lodge at Richmond last year. But she
will probably never be able to occupy
it.
Scotland yard, in averring that Bresci,
the assassin of King Humbert was never
in England, is understood to allege that
the instigator of the crime is probably
man who made no secret of his inten-
tions concerning high Italian person
ages" while in London several months
ago He was SO closely watched while
here that he departed and was last heard
of in Paterson, N. ].
King Humbert during a private visit
here in 1892, took extraordinary inter-
est in the Slums and anarchist haunts
where had been planned Orsini's plot
to kill Emperor Napoleon III with a
bomb and the czar's assassination. While
visiting one anarchist resort his majesty
noticed a flaming picture, designed by
the proprietor of the place representing
a ST Ia oh h.
men, statesmen and capitalists into
hades- The proprietor give the king a
copy of this picture, not knowing who
his visitor was The London editor of
an Italian republican journal who was
standing by, suggested to the kings
guide what a strong resemblance his
friend bore to the king of Italy. His
majesty also visited at night several OF
the most wicked resorts in London, in
cognito, and accompanied by one conf
panion-
Londoners have been revelling this
week in their first experience with mod
ern rapid transit as furnished by the
new central London electric under
ground syStem-"the twO-penny tube
as some of the papers call it. Eighty
thousand persons have daily learned for
the first time that it is no longer neces-
Sary to waste two hours on an omnibus
in order to reside five or six miles from
their place of business.
England never seems to have recover
ed from the primitive idea" said an
American electrical engineer, that a
railway train is not a stage coach. Their
methods in regard to rolling stock con-
StructiOn have never till within the past
few months, departed one iOta from
those in vogue when stages were the only
means of transportation. Pullman cars
are in use, or at least an English edition
of the Pullman, on many roads; but un-
til last Monday, an electric lighted and
electric propelled corridor train, running
through pOrcelafn-lined stations was as
Innovation Lon
lie Aladdin's lamp was to the Arab
ians.''
Mr.. Albert L. johnson. of New York,
who has built electric ra ilroads all over
the United States said 10 a representa-
tive of the Associated Press, before leav-
ing here for America, a few days ago:
Il see no reason why ele ctric railways
should not be as popular in London as
in New York and Chicago. It is evident
that many of them must be under
ground; but I see blockadrs in the
streets an hour after the tneaters have
closed and 1T seems sham that these
crowds should not be relieved The mod
ern electric car can go anywhere in Lon
don that a bus can. 1 will guarantees
that American constructors could deliv-
er these great crowds to their distant
homes by electric railway hours before
they are able to reach them now. Pat
ronS of the London Central discovered
this week that omnibuseS which a week
ago were packed to their capacity are
now running empty. Moreover, house
rents at the termini of the lines are in
creasing and the public are riding in
cars well lighted and well ventilated for
the first time in history"
Mr.. w. K. Vanderbilt is understood to
be in Europe for the purpose of estab-
fishing a racing stable. He is going to
AK next week.
A number of prominent Americans are
still in London. American yachts which
had been cruising in Norway waters are
arriving at Cowes, among them being
the Norma, with Mrs. Goelet aboard.
Eugene Higgins Varkna and the Al
fredo. owned by Joseph E. Widener. will
be at Cowes next week. Sir Thomas
Upton is cruising on board the Erin
thereabo