The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-22
LONDON HAS HAD
HISTORIC WEEK *
Royalty Has As i Been a Mum. m !.
Der Of Times Before
the Public.
THEFUNERAL OF
SIR HENRY IRVING
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This Doubly Sad Because the
Great Actor Might Have Been
Yet Alive Had He Taken
Warning in Time.
Heart Over
taxed.
Especial Cable to The Times. Dispatch nm
New York licrald)

Especial Cable to The Times. Dispatch and
New York Hcrald.)
& Copyright. by the New York Herald COD 0
LONDON, October 2l.-rhis has been q
historic week for London a weakl5of
mingled excitement gaiety and pathos.
The streets have been profuscly dccorat-
ed with banners and bunting. and once
moro tho Union Jack and the tricolor OF
France have been seen floating side by
slde. and amid all these signs OF rcjoic-
Ing from the many buildings might have
been seen floating that sign of mourn
Z Ing. nngs at half mast.
TO begin with. tho King aud Queen
have been in residence at Buckingham
Palace. and Londoners have seen His
Majesty lay the foundation stone OF the
new posofiice buildings OH the historic,
site where once stood Christ Church
College. the old homo Of the blue coat
boys. They have seen N His Majesty
open the mn gnihcent new thoroughfare,
called Klnssway. whichtis destined, SO
z tbs claimed here. to be one sof the finest
streets In the world. and SO remove to
q great extent the stigma upon London's.
character a being a city Of dingy narrow
Z streets. ri
Londoncrs have also scen the depart
/ ure OF the Prince and Princess OF Wales
Ion their long Indian tour. The week,
S too. has seen the entente cordiale be-
4 tween Great Britain and France, strength
ened by the visit OF the Paris councillors,
who have had a gay, Il not an instruc-
tive, week. Is. sy t.7 !5 4.
Y Y Irving's Funeral. Ii.
Last 81 all, the week ia. closed With
i The burial Of the cTemated remains Of;
Engiana.a first actor knight, Sr Henry
Irving;sin Il the S poets corner In Yves tmtna2
stergA bbey This deaf hawns all the more
sad on rejecting that the great actor
I might have been alive yet had lie taken
warning from his experience on his
previous provincial tour, when he was
stricken down by syncope at Waiver
hampton, though It was not allowed to-
Z transpire at the time that&h his abandon
nent Of Ills tour then was due to QUITE
80 serious a cause. At any rate. he had.
only partially recovered from that ser!-i
lE ols Illness when he started on this (his
lasD fatal -FOUR. !85{ 3 ~ 5s5f n III s3
He had only reached the second week
Of this tour. the first week being a {
Sheffield, when, worn c1it by the feting to
which he had TO submit. he promised that
there would be no more OF 1t, and that
during tho remainder OF his tour he
would reserve his energies for Ills work
3 In beStheatre at night. but when he
reached Bradford he found that he same
preparations had been made for present.
ing hm With an address and banauetting
him and SO. good-naturedlr. not wishing
TO disappoint his many friends, he sub
I mittcd with such Dire results.
Lesson to Be Learned.
Here Is a lesson. which DR.. David
Walsh. writing in the Medical Press and
n. n circular. seeks TO teach from this
{ perhaps unavoidable. death:-'.D cath was
almost certainly due to an ovcrtaSed,
heart Irving had been suffering from
what was given out 10 be a slight cold
only, and "a week or ten days before the
end he showed married. signs of feeble
ness at o public reception, My, reading
q OF this event Is hat the slight cold was
4 rnrscognizeil influenza, and that tho
fecbleness was due to n weakened heart
muscle that so constantly accompanies
that malndy. 5s,s ~ y
a .,Then comes his strenuous work on the
stage, for n whole week on end. which
caused his overtaxed heart to give way
al medical men in busy practice must
y have seen many cases OF this kind, where
absolute safety may be found only ~
rest and quiet, X II "
''Evcn apart from the Influenza. the
3t,r,ltal syncapc In this case was almost
certainly the result of violent and pro-
longcd physical cxertion at n time when
the circulatory system was for some,
rsasoil Or otl,cr below par. t is to be
hoped that medical men generally viii
not fail to point TO the moral ofSthlst
"A calamity, In that way a great national
loss may become to some extent a
national gain that Is, II people may
thereby be brought 10 recognize the
folly OF attempting to shake o IT, slight
a ailments and Of Trusting TO the DOCTOR
y ing OF ofschemists and amateurs, instead Of
seeking tlleln st,lful and res ponslpl
j. medical advice al their command.