The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-22
SPECIAL TRAIN READY.



LONDON, Jan. %. $3.50 a. ma special
train is held In readiness to convey the
members OF the Cabinet to Osborne at any
moment. Thus far it has not been required
Up to 3 a. m. no further bulletins had
been received in London since the one
issued at midnight.
Emperor William is spending the night at
Osborne where the accommodations are so
severely taxed that the Battenberg children
slept Monday night at Lord Gort's resi-
dence. East Cowes castle. and the royal
yachts al Cowes are being fitted up for the
accommodation of visitors
The Queens illness was so sudden and.
in the first onset. was expected to be so
brief that no arrangements were made for
the posting and circulation of bulletins. An
agitation is on foot to have them posted
Immediately in all postoffices throughout
the United Kingdom. At present the prov
inces have no means of knowing anything
except from the newspapers and the result
is that all kinds of baseless rumors are cir
culated. For instance, at Chalmensford
County Court, yesterday. a report was re-
ceived that the Queen was dead, and the
judge In tears and great emotion referred
to the sorrowful tidings. which later on
he was able to deny. The hopeful bunetin
received from Cowes yesterday at noon
hardly lessened the universal appre-
hension. Everywhere that bulletins are
posted sorrowing crowds gathered, await
ing the outcome of her Majesty's illness
Preparations made in all official quarters
for all eventualities indicate the expecta-
tions of those who might be supposed to
be best informed. The royal apartments in
Windsor Castle are being made ready for
a sudden return of the court and any state
officials Immediately concerned in the issue
are holding themselves in readiness for
prompt action.
THE THIRD PHYSICIAN
Another of the Queens physicians, Sir
Thomas Barlow, reached Osborne House
yesterday morning. little before the car
riages dashed up bearing Emperor William,
the Prince Of Wales, the Duke of York and
the Duke of Connaught. On his
arrival at Portsmouth yesterday
Emperor William was met by
guard of honor. The party. however,
dispensed with the usual formalites and
Immediately went on board the royal yacht
band on the flagship Majestic struck up
the national anthem and Emperor William
and his royal relatives reverently barred
their heads.
The scenes about the Mansion House here
yesterday exemplified the intensity of the
common anxiety which has made all in
terests akin. Thousands gathered there
as the day wore on, and nothing could be
more impressive than the profound silence
with which the announcement of the alter
ing phases OF the crisis was heard. A
painful mistake was made early in the
afternoon. The flag over one of the en-
bassies was lowered and people rushed off
with the news that the Queen was dead.
Without waiting for verifcation other
flags were lowered, and some time elapsed
before the error was reetified-
Up to a late hour last evening crowds
were gathered in the vicinity of Bueking-
ham Palace and Marlborough House, and
there was a constant stream of persons
anxious to enter their names on the visitors
books. On all sides it is a tale of public
and private engagements and functions
postponed, and settled gloom rests over
all classes of society.
NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
The newspaper editorials reflect this feel
ing and the suspense the country is endur-
ing, together with the qualification and
consolation derived from the sympathy
testified on all sides from abroad. Bishop
Potters allusion to the Queen in his ad-
dress Sunday evening in New York city to
students and college men is everywhere
commented upon with very keen satisfac-
ton.
The Daily News says: Bishop Potter
compared her Majesty to Washington. No
American could go farther than that
The Daily Telegraph says: 1T seems but
a brief interval since England was the GEN.
ter Of almost universal hostility. To-day
all international hostilities are hushed and
stilled as they never were before by any
other single event in the annals of the
world"
The Chronicle observes: I'm the United
States the nation and the government DIS
play once again the irrepressible sentiment
of cognate people. The strain of common
blood which flows in British and American
veins has been rarely more manifest or
warmly recognized"
'In the United States, as we were en-
titled TO expect" says the Times, ''the sor-
row which overshadows the mother country
has silenced ungenerous criticism. The per-
sonality of the Queen is understood and
honored by Americans and we can hardly
desire any higher tribute to her admirable
qualities. both as sovereign and woman
than those quoted by our New York corre-
spondent."
This evidence of universal sympathy to
England in her hour of trouble is i'm fact
the leading theme; and the Standard re-
marks: There Is no enemy of England tco
bitter and no protesting contemner of
crowns and thrones too fanatical to admit
the virtues and services to mankind cf
Queen Victoria"
While expressions of sympathy and love
are pouring in from every quarter of both
none are so appreciated as
those from the United States. The Globe
voices the general sentiment, saying:
From other lands hopes come of the re-
covery and eulogiss passed ON the charac-
ter of Queen Victoria. In America, almost
without exception, II is under the simple
title of The Queen that the illustrious pa
tient is referred TO and deep affection i'm
piled. The term can hardly be overesti-
mated"
BELGIUM AN EXCEPTION.
The dispatches received here from nearly
t,1 In, fro, T.lg