The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-15
FLhCSAT HALF-MAST
CITY og LONDON N MOURNING FOR
TIE DEATH OF PRESIDENT
N,IS4NLEY
CALLERS AT THE EMBASSY
In Constant Stream Testified to Ann
bassRaior Choate the Esteem ia
which the President
was Held.

LONDON, Sept 14-United States AM
bassador Choate arrived at the embassy
from Scotland at an early hour this
morning. No official news of President
McKinley's death had been received there
prior to his arrival, but the Associated
Press dispatches announcing the death of
the president were taken as sufficient
justification for the lowering of the flag
upon the embassy to half-nnast. AS the
crowds hurrying to work passed the en-
bassy many persons barred their heads
upon seeing the mournful droep OF the
flag. Callers commenced to come early,
and write their names in the book OPP
ened for the purpose of condolences. 9Fhe
first of these was Mr.. Charles Spencer
Francis, United States minister to Greece,
who is now in London.
All the papers are issuing extras lined
with deep black, and sympathy is uni
versally expressed.
The lord mayor sent to United States
Ambassador Choate the following mes
sage:
The citizens of London are profoundly
me we'd and deeply affected by the sad
Intelligence Of President Mckinley s
death. They had hoped that, under Prov
idence, so valuable a life might be spared
fol the welfare of his country. In their
name | beg to tender your excellency
heartfelt sympathy, and shall be grateful
If you will convey it to Mrs. Mckinley
and the people of the United States. The
eminent career and public services OF Mr.
Mckinley are widely appreciated here,
and Will be long remembered by the Brit
ish people, who, having themselves sus-
tanned the loss of a beloved sovereign.
more keenly sympathize with the United
States in the sudden removal of their
distinguished president"
A meeting of the London corporation
to pass Q vote Of coincidence will be held
Thursday next.
King Edward telegraphed to Ambassa-
dor Choate as follows:
Most truly do ! sympathize with you
and the whole American nation at the
loss of your distinguished and eyer-to-be-
regretted president.
Edward. Rex
From the towers of Westminster Abbey,
from the gray buildings where the gov
eminent of the empire is administered,
from the Mansion house and law courts,
from churches, hotels and business and
private houses in London. Union Jacks
are floating at half-maSt as a mark of
sympathy for the murdered president All
the stock and commercial exchanges are
closed.
At the American embassy a sorrowfu
and quiet crowd, many being in deep
mourning, passed in and out, according
their respect for President Mckinley. 1t
seems as if every little town in England
is individually telegraphing an expression
of sympathy and horror. Everything, as
yet. is rather unsettled, but it is prob
able that a memorial service of imposing
proportions will be held in Westminster
Abbey as was done at the time OF the
death of Gen. Grant Whether the Brit
ish government viii issue any official
notification of mourning rests chiefly with
King Edward.
Affecting scenes marked the announce
rnent of the death of the president at the
ecunlenical Methodist conference, which
passed resolutions declaring that the
whole Christian world sympathized with
the American people.
Throughout the length and breadth of
Europe feelings similar to those evinced
in the British metropolis seem to have
been evoked. This is best voiced by the
Vienna Neues Wiener Tageblatt, which
says:
The ocean is not wide enough to hold
all the sympathy that is streaming from
the old world to the new
The number of callers and kilograms