The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-20

quenters of the. st. James club. COM
ported with the drizzling rain Lon
don's comment on the first official state
ment vas that it might mean little or
much The bulletins yesterday forced
the conviction on the public mind that
they meant much. The officials told
] the newspaper correspondents that they
hoped for the best. but their manner
showed they feared the worst WlthaL
/ the intelligence did not surprise people.
The unanimous comment was that
they feared it. While the queen was
wonderfully strong physically for her
age, the cares and sOrrOws not only OF
the war. but arising from the death OF
her grandson in South Africa and OF
her faVOrite lady-in-waiting. Lady
1 Churchill, at Christmas, affected her
vitality and the empire awaited the
news from Osborne with the keenest
/ suspense, in the memory'of the queen
subjects.
Crowds Watch Bulletins.
The official bulletins regarding the
/ queen, posted at the Mansion house,
/ and Marlborough house Saturday were
I read With evident anxiety and dis
! cussed by the large crowds constantly
/ surrounding them, until a late hour of
/ the night. At the clubs the last bull
/ ietin, saying there was a slight inn
/ prOvement, was received with some in
/ credulity, as more than one private
/ telegram was shown expressing the
J most unfaVOrable view of the progress
! of her majestys illness.
! Among the OminOus items of news of
/ the previous evening was the state
/ ment that the Rev Thomas Davidson,
/ d. D., Bishop of Winchester, had been
summoned and had reached Osborne
| late last night.
Some of the newspapers issued edi-
J tons LATE II o'clock and these
/ were eagerly sought. They contained,
/ nothing, however, to satisfy the panied
/ interest with which they We're perUsed.
/ The Duke of York was at York house
/ late in the evening, when it was an
/ nounced that he was not going to Os-
/ borne until today.
/ Besides giving columns filed with
/ the latest scraps Of Information con-
/ corning her majesty's condition, the
movements of mem berS of the royal
family and persons connected with the
court, all this mornings newspapers
reflect the fears of the nation of a ia
/ tai termination of the illness which has
! 50 unexpectedly stricken down the
I aged monarch. They dwell at length
upon the deep love and reverence
which the people cherish for the SOW
ereign who so long has guided the ship
/ of state.
( The Sunday Times says:
The news from Osborne house in
I TIC last lew uOuIS A4dS sent d III III u
anxiety, not only throughout those
realms, but wherever the electric wire
/ has flashed the intelligence. There will
/ be keen suspense and anxiety among
/ her subjects until it is known that she
I is out of danger. Queen Victoria is not
/ only reveTed by her own people, but
without exception is the most univer-
sally beloved living monarch. Even
/ the COUntry's present enemy, Kruger,
! the consequences of whose fatal ulti-
matum caused no small part of her
majestys sufferings, has frequently
/ spoken admiringly of her. Whatever
may be thought on the continent about
our cOuntTymen, the queen is an OBJ
Z jeCt of veneratiOn and respect. and il
would excite universal sorrow were her
majesty now to pass away"
The Sunday Sun says: There never
was a time when the queen was more
| beloved. Never has she been 50 near
her people in the course of her long
! reign as during the course Of the war
which has knit the empire together 1t
; is impossible for any one to seriously
consider England and the English
without the august presence of one
who has endeared herself to her people
IN peculiar manner and to a degree
unattainable by the sovereign of any
other land"
Takes Death for Granted.
The Sunday Special says
Under the circumstances the nation
may mourn for the sovereign they
! have lost; but surely the sovereign is
as happy in her death as in life, nor
has there ever been ruler more
( worthy of the epitaph Sir Henry Law
renee wished to be his. the nOblest a
man or woman can desire: She tried
TO do her duty
LlOyds Weekly Newspaper says:
History viii proclaim, in the words
of the poet. She wrought her people
I lasting good There can be no gain
saying the fact that the people in re-
turn love the queen as no sovereign was
ever loved before"
The Observer says
The temporary deprivation of her
majesty's guidance and counsel in the
present circumstances must be a SeTi-
GUS blow to the government. 1t is well
known that she has personally exer-
cised a profound influence on the policy
of the country. both internal and ex-
ternaL If her health should. unhappily
necessitate a temporary accomplishment
of the cares and eXhauSting routine Of
the state, we may console ourselves
that she has marked out the path of
duty which her representative will only
have to follow to achieve assured sue
cess.
Praised in Vienna.
Vienna, Jan. 2O.-The Aftenblatt