Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-25
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
London Slowly Recovering From Shock
of Yesterdays Events

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most expensive varieties are crowdns
| every refrigerator in London, while orders
| for many tons more, geographically can
| celed yesterday, will remain 4 source of
| litigation or compromise. The caterers
| of the fashionable West End establishments
| have already announced that they will
| ing TO share the losses of their patrons who
| had given large orders for delivery tomOr-
| row and Friday Few of the caterers or
| hotels availed themselves of insurance. the
/ recently offered LlOyds rate of 10 per cent
| being considered too high. Many proprie-
| tors of reviewing stands were thus pro-
| tected. But the important question re-
mains as to whether the money paid for
| seats will necessarily be refunded. Only
few seats out of nearly half million were
sold with any specific proviso on this point.
Medal Makers Hurt
| The manufacturers of medals and SOU
venirs are badly hurt. One of these said
| that ten million medals, dated June 2i and
June -, already struck, were now value
! less
| Altogether. Londons business loss is in
caIculable and the people of Portsmouth,
where preparations involving big eXpend-
ture had beer made TO reap a harvest from
the naval review. are simply crushed.
The streets Of London today seemed de
serted. compared with the beginning of the
week. The chief points of interest were
Buckingham Palace and Fleet street. At
both localities crowds of people surrounded
every bulletin board and anXiousIy bought
numerous extras"
y curious fact in this connection is that
some Of the outlying suburbs had no gen
eraI realization of the postponenient If the
coronation till the residents read the morn
ing papers The demand for papers in This
city and the nearer suburbs Yesterday an
sorbed the whole supply before reaching
the outer fringe of London.
The general post office is cverburdeEed
with kilograms. Many private messages
filed Yesterday could not be transmitted
and were not delivered today.
Inquiries From Abroad.
Anxious suspense over the condition of
King Edward VII, shared, as is evidenced
by shoals Of kilograms from abroad, by the
whole civilized world, hardly will be much
/ IesssEed by the bulletin issued by the at
tending physicians al 1890 o'clock this
morning.
Earlier unofficial reports had been more
favorable than the official medical pro-
Hounccmeut. They spoke Of the king as
rest and the announcement of his majes-
| tvs restessness and lack of sleep are re-
garded by the general public as by no
means reassurng, although court officials
( profess satiSfa ctiou. The absence of all
mention OF the patents temperature causes
comment, although, probably, the state
ment that up To the present. no untoward
| symptoms presented themselves is intend
cd to indicate that there has been no dan
scrous rise in temperature.
In medical circles the opinion IS express
| Cd that in the phrase just quoted the sur
! geons are saying all they possibly can.
In fact. the whole meaning of the bulletin
/ is concentrated therein, the rest being
| purely corollary thereto.
Anxious News Seekers.
! Throughout the morning the vicinity of
| the palace was invaded by anxious seekers
| after informa tion- curiously cosmopoli-
| tan crowd gathered about the railings
awaiting the morning bulletin, and direct
| ly after it was posted there was a great
| scramble to read its contents The Prince
( OF Wales arrived just as the bulletin was
being issued Lord Lister. who came d.
rectly from the kings apartments after
/ having assisted in drawing up the bulletin
/ left shortly afterward. and the more cheer
! ful expression apparent in his face was
| taken as an indication that ne was salts
fed with the condition of the patient
Callers continued to arrive in great num-
! bers throughout the morning. Among the
earliest distinguished personages were
Lord Salisbury. who rode up on a tricycle.;
/ Archduke Francis OF Austria and the Duke
Of Norfolk.
The Duke Of Cambridge. who arrived
] later had nTeIiolSly
colors 10 the Middlesex regiment address
ing which he said the kings illness was
I very grave bow and very trying one
| But lie added, he was very glad TO be able
/ 70 speak hopefully of the progress made by
/ his majesty because he had received favor
able news from those IN attendance upon
! the king.
Private Information from Buckingham
/ palace substantially bears out the official
/ bulletin issued at 1890 o'clock EXCEPT that
! the king had rather worse night than was
! Indicated therein. His majesty, however. is
/ resting easily and was sleeping at 1O:30
O'Clock this morning.
! The exodus of the coronation embassies
already has commenced. The next two or
three days doubtless will see the depart1lre
OF all but one or two, and these will close
! up their official establishments and remain
i ''' i'''-'''Ll iitiSlN as private persons.
Medical Bulletins Posted.
/ The medical bulletins are rapidly posted
: about London, and the same scenes as wit
messed yesterday were enacted today. Bv
/ noon long strings of carriages were waiting
% put down visitors at the ambassadors
Ssnd main entrances of the palace.
/ Tomorrow has been officially appointed a
day of intercessi for the king and in
| every parish church in the united kingdom
| special intercessory services will be held
! catholics, Nonconformists. Jews, Saliva
tionists, and other religious bodies are all
! arranging special prayers, while in the
/ camps of the colonial and other vistin;
| troops, be they Mohammedans, sun wor-
! shippers. Brahmfns or fire or fetish worship
! ers, whether from China Borneo, Fiji. Cen
| tral Africa or Hindustan. or from the In
dian reservations of Canada, the usual hour
| for prayers finds them suppicating their
deity in behalf of the king
| iS hat