The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-30
Queen Is Suffering
From Physical
PrOStratiOn.
WALES MAY TAKE
| THE REGENCY
Latest Bulletin Shows indications
| of Slight improve
ment.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-A cable te
the World from Cowes, Isle of Wight
says: There are signs of considerable
commotion in Osborne House tonight
The private telephone wire to London
has been in constant use Sir James
Reid, the Queens resident physician
and Sir Edward Laking, surgeon to
Her Majesty, who was called in, are in
attendance. The Queen has had sever
al fainting fits in the last four DAYS
and her weakness. insomnia and de-
Ispondency are proving quite obstinate
in yielding to treatment.
The officials at Osborne House at
first denied that anything was wrong.
Since then they have been giving out
information so as to minimize the gray-
ity of the Queens condition. = 1t is quite
probable that her present condition
may continue some time. Neverthe-
less, royal special train is kept in
readiness at the Philadelphia station of
the Great Western railway to bring the
Prince of Wales and other members of
of the doctors. The greatest reticence
is observed by court t-4eireies, but in
Cowes, where there are underground
channels of communication with Os-
borne House, the belief is general that
the end is not far off.
A cable to the Sun from London says:
The Queens reign has been so long and
her hold upon the affections of her sub
jects has been so strong that she has
become in the popular heart the per-
sonification of the enduring empire over
which she holds sway. Never have
heard the possibility of her death dis
cussed as a factor in any question, po-
litical, social or other, in this country.
What more touching evidence than
that could be given by Unconditional,
calculating people Of the estimation in
which they hold their aged sovereign?
But today the subject has been fore
cd Upon them. The alarming rumors
Of the past two or three weeks have
given place to knowledge, only too well
authenticated, and 1t is impossible
longer to deny that Her Majesty is
seriously i'll. This is not stated in the
official bulletin issued at Osborne House
tonight, but. unhappily, the reassuring
tone of the bulletin is not justified by
the facts as known in official circles.
The sad truth is that the Queens days
are numbered.
The collapse of her energies began
with the recent death of Dowager Lady
Churchill, senior lady of the bedchan-
Der, Her Majesty's Oldest and most in
innate friend. It first took the form of
nervous depression and melancholy
Symptoms of catarrh of the stomach
appeared a few days ago and, although
there was slight amelioration of this
malady, today her general condition
shows steady decline, which greatly
alarms her medical attendants 1t
must be remembered that the Queen
for many years has shown a chronic
tendency toward difficulty in breathing,
which has been combated by her spend
ing hours in the open air daily in all
sorts Of weather. Her drives were kept
up until three days ago. Their aban-
donment now is in itself a serious mat
ter.
I forbear at the present moment from
quoting medical statements made prt-
vately regarding the probable course OF
Her Majesty's Illness. 1t is sufficient to
announce that there is reason to fear
that the Victorian era is almost closed.
and that the woman whose days to-
day passed the limit of those of any
previous British sovereign must soon
lay down the scepter of an empire on
which the sun never sets.
The following was issued tonight by
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur John
Bigge, Her Majesty's private secre-
.tary: 'The Queen during the past year
has had a great strain upon her pow
ers, which has rather told upon Her
Majesty's nervous system. It has,
therefore, been thought advisable by
Her Majesty's physicians that the
Queens should be kept perfectly quiet
in the house and should abstain for the
present from the transaction of busi-
ness"
WALES MAY BE REGENT
NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-A cable 10 the
Journal from London says: One of the
first effects of the official intimation
that the sovereign is temporarily pre-
vented from the transaction of bust
ness of state will necessarily be the
appointment of a regent, who will be-
of course, the Prince of Wales The
signature of the sovereign is indispen-
sable to every act of the Government
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