The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1901, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY JANUARY 2 29 1901. TRIUMPHS AND PERILS OF BRITAIN'S SOVEREIGN! QUEEN’S CORONATION AS INDIA’S EMPRESS Question of Court Precedence Precipitated by a Member of the Royal Famiy of Rus- sia One of Reasons for Addéd Title VICTORIA was pro- impress of India on is satd the las 11, as the n, Prince Al- ch e rqu-rp 2 a8 hed not been ga modern times. s ered regarded nts of In- fMP‘BflR ViSlTS THE QUEEK Continued From First Page. The e feeble words. Ge , greeted ot bed- ever lon lfiuchew the n a conple only by a n road to Cowes oo by a few respectfully and sad- her sorrowful cour urning ight closed in the 2 the lodge whose eless by t the bedside, who, anxiety for news, t reports. But ve been all the change,” they | = ther day begins to dawn, er it will the last for | Many members of the ighter, Prin- scarcely nights, byt she loving duty and KAISER STAYS AT OSBORNE Accommodations of the Royal Man- sion Taxed to House Those Who Would Be Near the Queen. LONDON, Jan. 22, 3 a. m.—A special t s held in readiness to convey the bers of the Cabinet to Osborne at & Thus far it has not at's motice. quired Up to £ & m. no further bulletins had been received in London since the one issued at midnight. Emperor William is spending the night at Osborne, where the accommodations are #o severely taxed that the Battenberg children slept at Lord Gort's residence, ast Cowes castle, and the royal yachts at Cowes are being fitted up for the ac- commodation of visitors. The Queen's illness was so sudden, and was expected to be so arrangements were made sting or circulation of bulletins is on foot to have them in all postoffices United Kingdom. At present the provinces have no means of anything except from the news- result is that all kinds of nors are circulated. tance, at Chelansford County t yesterday a report was received Queen was dead and the Judge n t emotion referred to the Wlings which ToIae ho rug able STEAD SCENTS TROUBLE AHEAD Predicts a B.evivn.\ of Republican Agitation When Edward Ascends the Throne of England. ———— NEW YORK, Jan. 21. —W. T. Stead cables to the Journal {-om London as fol- lows: The shock of the news of the end of the Victorian era came too recently for much discussion of volitical prospects un- der the mew reign. Oue thing is certa the British empire will be mmuch less ol = To Cure & Cold in One Day ‘#&e Laxative Bromo Quinine Tabilets. Al drizgists refurd the money if it fails to cure: K, W. Grove's siznature is on each box. 25c. * t Mogul, | I S e T e 2 , better known | the transfer of its ministration to the ht to a close by re authority and a wn. Che act for the better government of | yal under da pre ion made to the chiefs | T of India announced the reso-| n r Majes to assume the gov-| TImME the territories in India ‘“‘here- | tofore nistered fn trust by the hon- rable East {ndia Company.” Lord Can- n of Gover until = ith who held the. po al, remaine he was Lytton was suc of Ripon u\wm the Marquis of Duf- (1884-88). prominent as the president London and Globe Financial Com- which so disastrously failed lately; Lord Lansdowne (1888-03), latg Secretary { State for War and now for Foreign | rl of Elgin and Kincardine | i lastly by the Right Hon. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who took office January 1, 1899. | The political effect of the assumption by the Queen of the title of Kaisar-i-Hind, or Empress of India, and the assertion of her supremacy has been very marked as regarde the native rulers and peo- | India proper, but has made but| flerence with the rulers of the bor- hill tribes, by whom the suprem- acy is not so fully recognized. narchy than it has been for the last rty years. The influence of the Queen s immense, and wherever her Cabinet ivided 1t was almost supreme. The wvereign Queen, although somewhat mited in the range of her ideas, held the utmost tenacity to the principles on which she believed the empire should be governed. bhe was also per- nally known to almost every reigning sovereign, and with some of the most im- portant she long had been in close per- al correspondence. Hence she became permanent Prime Minister of the em- pire. It is obvious that her successor, even w he a much better man than he is, could not possibly fill that position. He jealously puarded by his mother from tions of responsibility and he has an opportunity; even if possessed capacity, of learning his business. . although he is a man of 60, he is to some extent a political tyro. While he inherits the undiminished formal author- ity of a sovereign, he has none of the ubtle but potent influence which made the Queen mistress of the empire. * On the other hand, the disappearance ‘of the Queen has led already to mutterings | of a revival of republican agitation. This present rnunls for nothing. It is thirty ars since there was even a nominal re- publican party in this country. It was snuffed oub by the outburst of sympathy occasioned by the iliness of the Prince of Wales. Since that time there has been practically no republican agitation in | any part of the empire. The colonies are | republican already, but at home the trend of events has. been in the direction of im- perialism. : But in the troublous times which are awaiting us we may count with certainty upon the revival of a republican propa- ganda, which will become serfous only | when financial and military ' disasters thicken around, the throne. Abroad the | disappearance of the Queen will add per- ceptibly to the feeling of political unrest. | Tt 15 not that any one distrusts the Prince. He simply does not count. If not a polit- ical cipher, he is at least an absolutely unknown quantity. OFFERS PRAYER FOR THE QUEEN Chaplain of the United States Senate | Pays a Tribute to Her Virtues as a Sovereign and a . Woman. m,,, | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—At the open- ing of the session of the Senate the chap- lain in his invocation referred with deep | p:athos to the condition of Queen Victoria, | paying tribute to her virtues as a -sov- ereign and a woman, and invoking divine tenderness and sympathy for 2ll the mem. bers of her family and for the people of her realm. LONG PERIOD OF MOURNING Lord Chamberlain May Order That the Manifestxtions of Grief Continue for Bix Months. Bpoctal Cable to The Call and New York Her- Copyright, 1201, by the Herald Pub- n-h:w - LONDON, Jan. 21.—The Herald's soclety correspondent says that the Lord Cham- berlain, Lord Clarendon, is in London, and so are Lord Pembroke and Lord Stewart, prepared for eventualities, There seems to be considerabld differ- ence of opinion in society as to what mourning orders will be issued when the end does come. Some say six weeks will be the longest general mourning, while otners say three months. I have heard that it might be six months. This, of course, is a matter for the Lord Chamber- jJain’s office and the Earl Marshal. 1t s always the latter who gives orders for general mourning, and the Duke of Nor- folk is in St. James square, where doubt- less evervthing will be arranged. The Queen has always been a great stickler for mourning, but the Prince of Wales, though always most particular that every one about him shall observe mourning orders, is not so fond of the trappings of woe; and It will be remem- bered that when the Duke of Clarence dled neither the Princess nor her daugh- ters wore crape. The old story is revived about a trades- man who made a fortune by buying up every piece of crape which he could find { in London when the Prince Consort's con- dition became so serious; but nowadays crepe is very much less worn, except by widows, than it used to be. A t na- tional ealamity, such as that with which we are now threatened, means terrible loss o some of the big-wholesale houses in London, many of which are just begin- ning to deliver the season’s goods. Orders were given as Jong back as July last, but, of course, in all probabiilty, they will not be required. s | & briet inter ENGLISHMEN APPRECIATE SYMPATHY OF AMERICA Gratefyu! for Bishop Potter’s Allusion to the Queen in His Address to College Men and Declare the Ties of Blood Binding the Two Nations Have Never Been More Cleatly Mamfest ONDON, to a ) Jan. 22, 3:20 a. m.—Up e hour last evening ecrowds were gathered in the | vicinity of Buckingham Pal- ace and Marlborough House there was a constant ram of persons anxious to enter thelr names on the vis- itors’ book. On all sides it is 4 tale of public and private engagements and func- tlons postponed, and a -Ntlfld zloom rests over all cl. The newspaper e Ttoriatarefiect this fosts 5 and the suspense the country is en- | during, together with the gratification and consolation derived from the sympathy testified “ides from abroad. B.shop on all Potter's s dress on 'Sundoy City to students and college men is every- where commented upon w satisfaction, The Daily News say: sh- op Potter compared her Majesty to Wash- : No American could go farther to the Queen in his ad- eve 2 that he Daily Tel graph says: “It seems but ul since England- was the center of almost universal hostility. To- day all international hostilities are hushed and stilled as they never were by any sin- gle event in the annals of the world. The Chronfcle observes: States the nation and the Government dis- play once again the irrepressible senti- ment of a cognate people. The strain of common blood which flows in British and American veins has been rarely more manifest 3r warmly recognized.” This evidence of universal sympathy to England in her hour of trouble is in fact the leading theme, and the Standard re- marks: “There is no enemy of England too bitter and no professing contemner of crowns and thrones too fangtical not to Mg in New York | ith very keen | ‘In the United | | | [ | of Queen Vietoria.” tled to expect,” says the Times, row which overshadows the mother coun- admit the virtues and services to mankind | personality of the Queen is understood !and honored by Americans, and we can “In the United States, as we were enti- [ hardly desire eny higher tribute to her *‘the sor- | admirable qualities, both as sovereign and woman, than those quoted by our New try has silenced ungenerous criticism. The | York correspondents."” B e e e 2 2 @ MOTHER OF EMPEROR WILLIAM SERIOUSLY ILL News From the Bedside of the Royal Invalid at Osborne Has a Sad Effect Upon the Dowager Empress Frederick. BERLIN, Jan. 21.—The Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung makes the following announcement; “Dowager Empress Frederick because serfously {ll is, to her very great sor- row, prevented from going to Osborne to meet her exalted, mother. The effect of the sad news regarding Queen Victoria upon her eldest daughter has been very unfayorable. Erppress Augusta Victoria, upon learning of this, had intended to go to Cronberg in order to inquire personally as to the condition of the Kalser's moth- er, but later news from Cronberg wis somewhat reassuring and for the moment “he gave.up the idea of the trip. How- ever, Prince and Princess Henry of Prus- sia, Prince and " Princess Frederick Charles and the hereditary Princes of Saxe-Melningen, who arrivéd at Cron- berg yvesterday, will remain with Empress Frederick for a time.” The following statement as to the con- |ditfon of Dowager Empress Frederick appears in the Daily Chronicle: “It s with sincere regret that we an- nounce that the Empress Frederick's con- dition has become materially worse. There has been a serious development of the disease from which she {s suffering and her physical pain is intense. “All idea of any journey in pursuit of health has been definitely abandoned and it is in the highest degree improbable that she will ever leave Cronberg.” This i{s somewhat at variance with re- ports from Berlin to the other morning papers, which report that the condition of "the Empress Dowager is a trifle more fa- varable, but the news that Queen Victoria is dying has a very serious effect upon her oldest daughter. The Dowagés Em- press was very anxious to go to Osbomne and did not abandon the hope of going untfl it was represented to her that it would be utterly impossible for her to undertake the journey. L e e o o e e e e e Y ) FRENCH PRESS GROWS BITTER Anglophobe Writers Publish Ruth- less Excoriations of the Dying Queen of Great Britain. PARIS, Jan. 21.—The dispatches from Osborne are eagerly read here. The even: ing papers publish more frequent editions, which are quickly sold. The articles In the papers are sympathetic, though they give evidence of the anti-British feeling aroused by the South African war. Many of the -writers ascribe Queen Victoria's collapse to the cloud of melancholy en- shrouding her on account of the situation in South Africa and the ever-increasing death roll. Joseph Chamberlain is spoken of as the evil spirit responsible for the painful cir- cumstances of her end. Anglophobe writers, like MM. Drumont and Hille- voye, publish, however, in the Libre Pa- role and Patrie, respectively, ruthless ex- corfations of the dying Queen. President Loubet has recelved a mes- sage from the Prince of Wales thanking him for his message of sympathy. The Figaro says that the death of Queen Victoria will be much regretted in France not only because she has always been pa- cifie, but because she has always shown a fondness for France. It refers to the hostile attitude of the Nationalists toward England as leading to a desertion by the English of the health resorts of France, and asks if the Prince of Wales when Klng will abstain from visiting the coun- FLAG LOWERED THROUGH ERROR Orowd Surrounding the Mansion House Rushes Off With Reports That the Queen Is Dead. o LONDON, Jan. 21.~The scenes about the Mansion House to-day exemplified the anplety of the common interest that has made all here akin. Great crowds thronged the grounds all day and nothing | could be more impressive than the pro- found silence with which the alternating phases of the crisis was heard. A painful mistake was made early in the afternoon. The flag over one of the embassies was lowered, and the people rushed off with the news that the Queen was dead. Without waiting for a verifi- cation other flags were lowered, and some time elapsed befora the error was rectified. —_— GLOOM AT VANCOUVER. VANCOUVER, Jan 21.—Anxlety over the condition of the Quecen has overshad- owed private and public business consid- erations in Vancouver and throughout British Columbia to-day. Constant streams of anxious faced citizens have been scanning the bulletin boards from an early hour. Telegraph and newspaper offices have been besleged. . As each brief bulletin was displayed its nature could bs judged without referring to the text by the appearance of the faces of the watch- ers. In officlal and semi-official cireles preparations were made during the. day for the worst. At the City Hall Mayor Towley had Jaideaside all ordinary munj- cipal business in order that nothiug might be left undone to testify the deep- et sadness. MESSAGES OF CONDOLENCE How Official Washington Will Re- spond When Formally Notified That the End Has Come. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The greatest interest and sympathy are manifested in official circles here in the condition of the Queen. Hvery bulletin is awaited with anxlety. Moreover, the character of the Inquiries indicates clearly that the inter- est 1s not confined to official classes, nor is it perfunctory. and members of his Cabinet and other high' officials. are by their own request sad scene at Ogborne, all of the employes in the executive departments, even to the humblest messenger, are equally diligent in seeking the latest information. There is little to be done officlally here, when the end comes, and that little Is perfectly well defined by precedent. The President will communicate directly from the White House an expression of his re- gret to the Prince of Wales, or, rather to King Edward VII, as he be by the time the message is indited. Becretary Hay will communicate Em- bassador Choate an official expression of the sentiments of this Government. This will be by cable also. Later on more for- mal exchanges will take place by mall. By this means the State Department will be officially informed of the accession of the new, monarch to the throne. It will return its official acknowledgment and that will be all that is prescribed by the rules of official etiquette. - At the British embassy the usual period of mourning for a year in the event of the death of a soverelgn will be strictly ad- hered to. The German and Russian em- bassies also will observe court mourning. In all probability the ball or reception which always marks the celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the German Emperor, January 27, will be postponed or canceled altogether. Other nations whose representatives will observe court mourning for a period will be Belglum, the Netherlands, Denmark and Portugal, while other European diplo- mats will cancel all social engagements untll after the burial of the Queen. NO MESSAGE FROM KRUGER. THE HAGUE, Jan. 21.—The report that Mr. Kruger had sent & telegram of sym- pathy to Osborne House is without foun- dation. Up to a late hour this evening he had not done so. ———— GRIEF OF COLONIES. LONDON, Jan. 21.—The Colonial Office has received dispatches from the gov- ernments of Australla and the South Af- lflun colonies exnrenln; their amxiety and distress at the Queen’s {liness. MINERS GO Ol'l' A STRIKE. Quit Work Boum Two Drillers Are Discharged. HAZLETON, Pa., Jan. 21.—The 1200 men employed at the Lattimer colliery of C. Pardee & Co. struck to-day because of the alleged un-nrn.nted discharge of two drill-runners and company’s refusal to reinstate them, as n\luuted by a com- mmg of_the mllu H iardvega en to sn.u.-un % -ym. i;uhaue nrlk( K lllttnl are not ‘While the President | promptly notified of every change in the | ’nm‘l SENTIMENT ON THE CONTINENT Italian Senate Officially Asks for In- formation Regarding the Condition of the Queen. ROME, Jan. 21L.—In the Italian Senate to-day General Count Giuseppi du Sonnaz, commanding the army corps, recalled the ‘warm friendship and sympathy that have always united the governments of Great Britain and Ttaly,” and moved that the Senate should ask for information of- ficlally regarding the condition of the 2 1 Queen and should express heartfelt wishes for her recovery. Marquis Visconte Ve- nosta, Minister of Forelgn Affairs, jolned in the sentiments expressed by Count du Sonnaz and supported the motion, which was carried unanimously. BERLIN, Jan. 21.—The palace In Beflin has become. as silent as the grave. All the guests have departed. Most of the German newspapers ex- press sincere concern as to Queen Vi toria and pralse Emperor Willlam for go- ing to- Osborne. The agrarian and Pan- German journals, however, take a differ- ant tone. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung, the leading agrarian organ, concludes an abusive article in this style: “The rising of English power {s now fol- lowed by a decline. That she has seen the beginning of such a decline has given Queen Victorla a death stroke. She saw the commencement of the decay of that nation whose splendid development sh had witnessed during a long life. This is the tragic finale of her prolonged reign. “The most important question for Great Britain now'is whether the new King will be able to find his way out of Bouth Africa again.” Some of the papers already discuss. the Prince of Wales as the coming sovereign, and the Berliner Tageblatt prints a dis- patch asserting that he is Germanaphobe in his feeling. e —— THINK CROWE ESCAPED ON LIVERPOOL STEAMER Many of the Officers and Crew, by Means of a Photograph, Id.an tify a Suspect. BOSTON, .hn 21.—When the steamship Michigan, which arrived to-day from Liv- erpool, last sailed from this port, on De- cember 22, she carried a suspiciously act- ing stranger, who, although well dressed, shipped at the last moment as_ a eattle tender. He gave the name of Robert Lambert. The police were notified that this man, who lovtsked like Pat Crowe of was steams] S late to intercept him. & cablogrom: woo sent to Liverpool, and after the Mic] reached that word came back t the officers had found no one who wo, IJ answer Crowe’s description. e officers and crew of th to-day were shown Cr ° ;zetun:m falh o that the and man Of Tambert is certain that the 1 Crowe are identical. rt queerly toward the end of the trip, away the clothes he wore on aboard. He told the deck offi erpool that he wished to ly, as d frie] He seemed to have in conversation wld West in an impersonal __‘__ House Asks cun!emm.‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Tha Houss Committee on Military A!guu 10~ ¢u. i 1 Peorianisstion BT oot 10 army reor; lon - ized theyeln.lrm‘:: to move llmfl.;mh“ In the House with request for a confer- lmtivo Blvmo-innm nuwul the cause.® | ence. VICTORIA’S ESCAPES FROM ASSASSINATION Seven Times Attacks Queen’s Life and Assailants Are EVEN times during her reign | Queen Victoria has been made | the cbject of personal attacks | or attempts to_either do her | bodily injury or kill her out-| right. These had lttle or no\ poliveal significance ana were in every case but one the work | of persond more or less mentally deranged. It was perhaps because no precautions | were thought necessary to protect the life of a constitutfonat sovereign so generally | beloved by her people and whom no one | could have had any motive In wishing dead that Victoria was sét upon so many | times by crack-brained desperadoes. | The first attempt on her life was made on June 10, 1840, when'a youth named Ox- ford fired two pistol shots at the young | Queen as her husband was driving her down Constitution Hill in a phaeton. The first shot was fired at a distance of three paces.. Prince Albert turned and saw the would-be assassin as he pointed a,second | pistol, and warned the Queen to dodge, | which she did, and escaped unhurt. Ox- ford was tried for high treason and ac- quitted ‘on the ground of insanity. He aftefward. declared, when two other at- tempts had been made on her life, that if | he had been hanged there would be no more shooting at the Queen. | On May 20, 1842, as the royal couple were driving near the palace a man stepped out of the crowd and fired at the Queen at a distance of not more than six feet, but missed. Her consort heard the shot, but no one else speaking of it concluded that he must have been mistaken. Later in the | day, however, a small boy told his parents | of having seen a man shoot at the Queen and the police were notified, but no fur- Are Made Upon the With One Exception Mentally Deranged ther trace of him could be found. A few days afterward, however, the same man fired again at her jljeszy and was promptly arrested. He proved to be a half-witted young man named Francis. A month later a man named Bean took | alm with his pistol at the Queen, but tha Wweapon missed fire. These succesgive attempts on her life much affected the young sovereign, all the more that they were entirely unpro- voked, and aroused great excitement and indignation among her subjects. In 1849 an Irish bricklayer named Ham- fiton fired a shot at the Queen, but the pistol was loaded with powder only. He either only wished to frighten her or for- got to put In the ball. In 1550 Robert Pate, an ex-lieutenant hussars, for some fancled against her attacked the Qu n with a cane, but was seized before he had time to strike a second blow and was nearly torn to pieces by the crowd In 1872 a boy thrust a petition for lief of some Fentan priso Queen with one hand w ot grievancs the le with the he presented a pistol. He was seized disarmed before he could fire. On March 1882, another man, one Roderick McClean, fi at the Queen as she was pass the train to her carriage at the station. The shot very narrowly her. McClain was seized and tric high treason, as were all the others, & it only required a short time in the room to demonstrate his hopeless i it yurt- sane After that incident, however, more caution has been taken to forestall a attempt on the part of cranks or crim- inals to hurt or frighten her M @it e e ATTACKS SOUTH | AFRICAN POLICY o-Boer Newspaper in Brussels Makes the Queen’s Illness the Occasion for a Political Onslaught. LOND! Jan. 21.—The dispatches ve- cetved here from nearly every edpital in Europe, from Indla, Australla, Jamaica and all the British colonies, show the press and people are sympathetic in thelr comment on the Queen's illness. The one exception seems to be Belglum. A ma- jority-of the Brussels comment is in good taste: but one pro-Boer paper there takes the occasion to make a political attack on Great Britain's South African policy. A dispatch from Pretorla says the Queen'’s {liness has caused a profound sen- sation there. Speclal prayers were of- fered in all the churches of the garrison towns yesterday evening. Many functions in Great Britain and on the Centinent have been‘abandoped ow- ing te the Queen's condition. mperor Franels Joseph has countermanded the court ball at-Vienna, fixed for this even- ing. The engagements of Cabinet Minis- ters and other notable persons to appear at public dinners, at charitable fairs or at the dedications of new public buildings, etc., are being canceled, and it seems likely that all functions of this sort will be postponed throughout the United King- dom. Many private dinners have been de- ferred. ‘While expressions of sympathy and love are 'pouring in from every quarter of both hemispheres, none are so appreciated as those from the United States. The Globe volces the general sentiment, saying: “From all lands hopes come of the re- covery and eulogies passed on the char- acter of Queen Victoria. In America, al- most without exception, it is under the simple titie of ‘the Queen’ that the illus- trious patient is referred to and deep af- fection implied. The term can hardly be overestimated. = ————p Russian gold mines average an annual yleld of 86,668 pounds. SEE DANGER IN ALBION'S PATH Russian Editors Belleve the Queen’s Death Will Mean a Change in Great Britain’s Policy. ST. PETERSBURG, Ja® 21.—In the comment of all circles not Influential on Queen Victoria's f{liness the personal note dominates the political. The Czar's subjects freely admit that her Majesty has been ome of the principal bulwarks of peace. The Rossla and the Novostl alone touch the political chord. The Ros- sia says: ‘England’'s prestige is largely e the Queen. To spare Queen Vi much has been forgiven her Minis With her will depart Britannia's genius. The Novosti says; “England !s discon- ténted with the situation and the dissat- isfaction will possibly be expressed moro plainly if Queen Victoria dies. Her suc- cessor will probably entertain Wifferent views on many questions. He is credited with strong French sympathies. The power of an English sovereign is greater than commonly stated, therefore the change may produce a revolution in inter- national polictes. —_— BARHAM AN ASPIRANT FOR FEDERAL OFFICE California Delegation Will Recom- mend Him to Succeed Coombs as District Attorney. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.—It is na longer a secret that Representative J. A. 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