Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26
OEARTH Of BLACK
ENGLISH MOURNING EXHAUSTS
BLACK GOODS STOCK.
RANSACK EUROPE FOR CREPE.
Tneaters Closed Until After the Fun
eral-Insurance Gamblers Made
Money on Queens Death.

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London, Jan. o6-The after effects of
queen Nictoria's death on business is vi
tal ana remarkably widespread. 1t par
tleuiarly affects dealers in all sorts of
clothing and furnishings and all good,
connected with >uusemeEts. festivities
theatricals and dinners. Black is the
only color displayed in the shop windows
throughout the EMPIRE. The milliners
stores are filled with black bonnets and
other IS ADJUSTMENTS have a funeral show
hats. In London every Englishman who
can afford it is wearing black clothes. IL
black necktie and black gloves. The wo-
men are all attired III black and the Off
GERS of the army and navy have crepe on
their arms. All army flags are draned
with black. Naturally there will be loss
on stocks of colored goods. particularly
in the case of London firms accustomed
to depend on court and society business.
On the other hand. dealers in black goods
will be able to sell their entire stocks at
a very great profit. In fact a famine in
black goods threatens the British mar
ketkets and offers an opportunity for
American enterprise. British orders are
already exhausng the stocks of the
4,
is said that Dresden and other CONT
mental centerS are already refusing Or
ders. The same story comes from other
factories, which are running night and
day to supply demands. Says one whole
sale dealer:
at is difficult to say where the de-
mand will end. Assuming that the
period of mourning will be prolonged for
do L>
ized ana some branches will be paral-
lied Another authority estimates that
by the Weekend 100000 had been spnt
in mourning.
Extraordinary reports are current as to
the amount of insurance on the queens
life by storekeepers and theatrical mana
gers to prevent losses under tn conditions
prevailing. The sum of c25O.OOO is one
estimate of the total Theatrical mana
gers FASTENED to apply t. the insurance
companies when her majesty's illness be-
came known, but the reports from the
beginning We're so grave that they found
the rates of most of the companies pro-
hlbltlVe. The shares of certain insurance
companies have fallen this week from
one quarter to one point but the majority
are unchanged. Reputable brokers in
press that the amounts are exaggerated.
The best companies considered the risk
too speculative, but the majority of the
assurances We're taken so long ago that
plenty of reserve has accumulated The
premium on the queens life month ago
was five per cent. When her illness was
rumOred it rose to Is per cent in a day
Saturday last it was 80 per cent
Of no
are draped with crepe and have posted
blackboard announcements that they will
be closed until latter the funeral of our
beloved queen The associated managers
held a conference and afterwards pub
fshed the facts that music halls would
not open until after the day of the funer-
al. This action is popular. The people
think the managers are right in carry
ing their employees through the mourn
ing season.
Sober English Journalism was shocked
at the display around Osborne house by
the correspondents of the new English
sheets Of what the Times terms Amer.
lean methods" The scene before the
lodge gate, following the solemn an
nouncement of the queens DEATH GER
tainly did not fit the occasion. A crowd
OF reporters assembled with cabs, horses
and bicycles. Hardly had the words
Her majesty has passed away fallen
frCm the officials lips when the re-
porters and messengers, with a wild
Nhoop. started to race down the steep
Hill. half mile. to the telegraph. some
OF them baWling to their assistants be-
low. The queen is dead" One English
reporter sent a rival sprawling from his
bicycle which skinned his face in the
dirt, Whereupon he knocked down the
aCgreSSof
The court officials have been exceed
ngly active in running to earth false
reports. like the fictitious deathbed state
ments and have already secured the re-
call of two correspondents. They are
now investigating the source of the pre-
nature announcement of her majesty
| death, published in America, for the
purpose of acting against the authors
Having Inspected all the telegraph and
telephone messages, they have discov-
cred that no report was sent from Cowes
before the queens death, therefore it
must have been faxed in London or
America.
An unique Illustration of British tradi-
tions marked the signing of the procla :
nation at st. James Palace. The lord
mayor is also one of the Signers where
ui;on. according to the view of the privy
councillors he must retire before the
king enters and the speeches are made
An ancient picture represents the lord
mayor among the receivers of the king
therefore the mayors invariably claim
this right. Wednesday, however the
Duke OF Devonshire lord president of
the council requested the lord mayor to
leave the room, which he reluctantly
did 49, :
The hay-Pauncefote treaty amend
inentS, among the portentous events of
the week, We're lost sight of, and the cab
net may be unabla to reconsider The
lINALN for some time nAA.inn - tho In, .