Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-08
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DUBLIN, April From city or
nervous forebodings, political excite
ment and almost stagnant business
Dublin has been transformed into a
capital as gay and busy as any Euro
pean center. The coming of the Queen
thought to 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 f1ocked across the channel from
their English homes in unprecedented
numbers, and from the South, the West
and the North of Ireland itself, old
country families have poured into Dub
lin. There is a sufficient number Of
the members of the ministry on
the banks of the Liffey to hold cab
met council, and there ? are enough
lovely women nightly dining in gor-
geous dresses and sitting with jewelry
that has not been worn for many day
to make an Irish levee of which any
country might be jealous. The castle,
where the Lord Lieutenant holds sway,
is noturally the centre of attraction;
but the ancient building can hold only
q few. There the Duke of Devonshire,
the Duke of Abercorn, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Home Secretary Ridley
and 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 Connaughts staff and the
court uniforms of Ireland's dignitaries
are nightly blended with the black at
tire of celebrated civilians. Nor could
anything be more superb than the big
called and powdered lackeys in the
great corridors. Outside the castle the
Shelbourne hotel has been the center
of gaiety. There almost every visitor
has 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 of jew
elry carelessly displayed, no one who
is not staying at the Shelbourne is
allowed to enter the outer doors OF
that hotel without specifying whom he
wants to see. A well known but badly
dressed peer who seldom visits Ireland,
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 allow
ing him to enter.
The most popular form OF evening
amusement has been the chartering of
trolley cars by large parties and taking
rides through the crowded and illum-
mated streets. With the influx of
money and social gaiety, political con-
siderations are temporarily in abey-
ance
The more advanced the Queen be-
comes in years, the more her work in
creases. The extension of the empire,
the increases in the activity of modern
life and the development of the times,
have quadrupled the work the Queen
has to deal with at eighty. Therefore,
she has to work harder than at previ-
GUS periods of her reign. 1t is esti-
mated that she has to sign fifty thous-
and documents yearly, an average of
one hundred and thirty-seven a day,
including Sundays. Masses of State
papers go to her now, while in Ireland.
She never really has two days holiday
together.
The children's demonstration, which
closed Queens week in ireland. was prob
ably one of the most gladstone days either
the Queen or Dublin has known in years
Certain it is that the Queen is making
fresh conquests daily and her majesty's
many acts of personal self-sacrifce have
completely won the hearts of the people
of ireland.
To-day's demonstration had elements of
joy which the Queen has experienced, out
seldom in the recent gloomy months.
There We're miles of cheering children
under continuous canopy of tiuttering
flags with background of thousands of
holiday making elders who accompanied
them.
The charming weather tended to make
the celebration in every way delightful,
not only to the Queen, but to the. little
princes who followed in the royal pro-
cession. The genuneness and spontaniety
of the children's welcome kept her males
ty in continual good humor and yet visibly
affected her deeper feelings as we'll The
fact that $4,000 children arrived here ard
departed from Dublin without serious ac-
cident is not the least remarkable feature.
of the day.
On Monday the Queen will pay another
visit to Dublin and the event promises 10
be quite the equal of her first entrance
into this city. The route will be through
one of the important districts not yet Wis
tied by her majesty. and was arranged
at her own request to crafty the pre-
viously disappointed public
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