The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1906, Page 2

CHANGES IN HOUSEHOLD OF BRITAIN'S RULER Many Friends of the King Lose Soft Positions. Exalted Personages Are | | Thrust Into the Cold. TS TR | New Prime Minister| | Distributes His | Patronage. i Special Dispateh to The O YON, Feb. 4 is a singular and | the k b ld affected Government is \ the K i be no more striking ¢ the Prime Minister and vereign who is the real ruler makes the appointments 1o suggest billets in his irage. appointments g an Theoreti- are | r who makes | -t e King merely con- | S esu of the elevation of Sir H Bannerman, the son of a B to the position of the Firs the Crown, several s sers ©of the royal s riends of the King . and various less exalted personages eir jobs. | court dignitaries are | King is supposed to s of his own and enjoyed by all | but the n, which has | writing, requires | of administration | mbers of his house- | een given ew batch The a brought into the closest at him ehould belong to the ~: | st of Chamberlain, from | been the Clarenc has n nfery confer on Lord Spencer. | as he w | ¥ nicknamed, for | s him, has for years en- | ation of being the best | e House of Com- | slarly famous for | nto them collars?” The all not lose a single vote | aroused a roar of “Bobby” was driv- nd thrust into | pology was murmured | given to vote for “the f wot could stand being | he will do rray stately when it becomes himself in the rai- office, which does to be worn, the | to contemplate. | $10,000 a year will deprivation. That | the tremen- 1 be has been | at among | rs of the Upper fble for the smooth | ‘above stalrs” except | sleeping apartments e First Lord of the Bedchamber shudders MEN FOR ONE JOB. il of the Lord Chamberiain's mounts to 3265000 a year. distinguished | keys, including a | gets $4620 a year; a Marshal of | a Deputy Marshal of | Loxgs in waiting, grooms extra grooms in waiting, the great chamber, a lot of ushers, pages of the back f the presence and state | Chamberlain, Comptroller, | Lords ip Waiting are all | intments, and included ils of office which the new distrfbutes. The Lords in | | peers. There are seven | for every day in the week, | extraordinary occasions | have to be on show, they | for every day that the)" ttendance on the King. | fact, the pay, $%5lv a | but out of it they have their own gorgeous outfits. te is in the Lord Cham- . but although Alfred | chosen as the chief poet in by a Conservative adminis- is probable that the Prime will allow him to retain the | the salary that goes with it is 5 f, however, Mr. Aus- ere to produce another line like that And they cry, ‘“Hurry up, for red again upon such and “‘wrestle” it is Sir Henry's patience to the strain, for he is e muses. DUTIES OF LORD STEWARD. When the Lord Chamberlain is doing official’ work, he carries & white stall and a goid key, which never locks or un- anything, attached to his person by ibbon. There is & greater than hamberlain—to wit, the Lord | berlain. His office is an her- and therefore he cannot be n there is a change of ad- He is the most exalted sort 1 s regarded as far too im- trotted out except on the greatest occasion He has the Palace of Westminster un- @er his control and among his privileges fs that of selecting the peer who makes | other peers envious by carrying state when the sovereign ament. He has precious lt- / ally and few responsibilities, quite in accordance with the of remuneration where ex- ¥ it bu British scale alted flunkeys are concerned that his pay s more than double that of the hard- worked Lord Chamberlain, amounting to $22,500 a year. Below stairs, among the kitchen pots and pane, the Lord Steward holds sway over the King's household. Lord Hawkes- bury has just been given that job by the new Premier, displacing that stanch. Conservative nobleman, the Earl of Pembroke. The pay is the same as that of the Lord Chamberlain—$10,000 a ar. Associated with the Lord Stew- rd in the management of the depart- nent is the Treasurer of the Household and the Comptroller of the Household, who are paid $4520 a year each. But they are political appointees and for that reason Viscount Valentia and Lord Hamilton have been turned out to make room for Sir Bdward Strachey and the Master of Blibank > The stock of Lords is not nearly 8o encer, the dapper and | | | of existence. | | TWO PROMINENT MEMBERS OF KING EDWARD'S HOUSEHOLD WHO WILL i ENJOY LUCRATIVE POSITIONS DUR ADMINISTRATION OF BRITISH NG GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS BY THE NEW PREMIER. — large in the Liberal as in the Conserva- tive party and consequently less august folk have to be chosen to fill the minor | court billets. BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH. The Lord Steward, the Treasurer and Comptroller and two or three perma- nent household officials comprise that mysterious institution known as the Board of Green Cloth, one of the most | venerable props of the British consti- tution. In the course of its long ca- reer, dating from before Henry I it has defied the onslaughts of many re- formers who would have swept it out But the reformers have succeeded in abolishing a lot of high- salarfed sinecures that formerly enjoy- ed its protection, so that now its pay- roll, year, is only $145,000, of which $65,000 represents the amount paid domestic servants. It derives its name from the fact that ite members, when they condescend to make a pretense of earning their sala- ries, sit arbund a table covered with green cloth. By way of living up to its name, the board has a green seal. It has a king- dom of its own extending two hundred vards in every direction from Bucking- ham Palace. Within this little kihg- éom, the verge, as it is known, round the green tablecloth, the board has power to punish all who break the peace, and it has a limited power, too, ve any of the King's servants from | arrest No servant of his Majesty can be ar- rested for debt without a warrant sign- ed at the green table. And no trades- man can display that highly prized doc- ument which proclaims him a purveyor of lollypops, eggs, bacon, or anything else to nis Majesty, unless it bears the green seal and signature of the Lord Steward The King’'s cooks and the King's “Gentleman of the Cellar” are in e Lord Steward's department, but fortunately for the satisfaction of his Majesty's eplcurean tastes, their berths are not included among the spoils of office. MASTER OF HORSE HAS SNAP. There i8 a curious division of labor between the Lord Chamberlain’s and the Lord Steward’s departments when the King has his annual spring house cleaning. It is the Lord Chamberiain who is responsible for the beating and | shaking of his Majesty's carpets, while the Lord Steward s responsible for the proper cleaning of the royal chimmeys. When it is stated that there are no less than 2600 of them, it might be inferred that the Lord Steward really has a stiff bit of work to tackle occasionally. But as a matter of fact he never concerns himself with the chimneys or anything else suggestive of labor with which his department is nominally saddled. It is a permanent official, the Master of the Household, who bosses all the work that has to be done. and gets $5790 a year for it. The Lord Steward simply drops round on state occasions in a gorgeous uniform, pockets his $10,- 000 a year and rejoices that some soft snaps are still reserved for the nobility. Another sinecure, the best paying of the lot, is that of Master of the Horse, which has been bestowed on the Earl of Sefton, who takes over the job from the Duke of Portland. The latter. how- ever, is too rich to miss the $12,500 a year which is the salary of the office. Nominally, the Master of the Hors looks after the royal “mews,” as livery stables are called here, and the various equipages of his Majesty. But it is doubtful If he ever crosses the thres- hold of the Kirig’'s stables; anyhow, his pay would never be docked 4f he didn't. He is only required to turn up on state occaslons. At big functions re- quiring the King's presence, his Majes- ty Is under the charge of the Lord Chamberlain until he leaves the palace.! door. From that moment his sacred per- son -is in the care of the Master of the Horse until the place of ceremonial is reached, when the Barl Marshal be- comes responsible for him. The Master of the Buckhounds is an- other easy billet which is numbered among the loaves and fishes of office, It pays 37600 a year, and can be held s which was once over $500,000 a ! only by a peer or the heir to a peer- age. Similar salaries are also paid to the Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms and the Captain of the Yeomen of the | Guard, the two bodies which are sup- posed to do what Scotland Yard really does, guard the person of the King at | big royal shows. The captains are shift- ed in accordance with their politics when there is a change of administra- tion, but it is only members- of the aristocracy who can flll the posts. NEARLY MILLION IN SPOiL. Some queer billets exist, outside the royalshousehold, which are includel among the spoils of office. Of these the positions held by the Junior Lords of the Treasury afford the best illustra- tions of the absurdities that are sanc- tioned by the British system of party government. There are three Junior Lords, and they may or unay not. be real Lords, though under a Tory ad- ministration they are usually sons of peers. They are paid $5000 a year each for work-that they don’t do, and noth- ing for the work that they do do. Apart from their initiatory function all that they have to do with the treasury is to draw their salaries, When appointed they betake them- selves to a certain room in the build- Ing where the business of the treasury is carried on., and seat themselves at a table there. Suddenly an official stately and impressive in demeanor, opens the door but advances no fur- ther than the threshold. “Will your Lordships?” he solemnly asks, “allow your secretary to enter?” At this they all bow and in walks the Financial Secretary of the Treasury. The officlal who spoke before, now say “Will your Lordships allow yolur secretary to take a seat at the table?” Again they all gravely incline their heads and the Financial Secretary takes his seat. With that the three Lords of the Treasury vanish and are seen in the place no more. Yet mention of them is constantly made in all officlal docu- ments, as for example, “I am directed to inform you that my Lords do not see their way,” etc. The Financial Secre- tary who comports himself so humbly is really somebody at the Treasury, and does work there for his salary of $10,000 a year. He is the right hand man of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the admiiistration of his department. The work which the junior Lords do for which they get no pay consists in asgisting the chief whip to muster the followers of the Government when im- portant divisions take place and ing to it that they vote straight. In vari- ous other ways, too, they are expected to help thelr party in ParHament and at elections. > The transfer of the Government from one political party to the other in- volves no such clean sweep of office- holders as tak®s place when there is a change in the Federal Government in America. Still, with the outgoing of one administration and the incoming of another, there are sixty-two offices which change hands, their aggregate salaries amounting to the substantial sum of $792,905. Therefore the substi- tution of Sir Henry Campbell-Bahner- /| man for Arthur Balfour, as Premier, means that sixty-two men, of grester or less distinction, have had that sum added to their annual incomes and an- other sixty-two have lost it. —_— Dinz on Trip With Big Party. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4.—President Diaz and party left Vera Cruz to-day for Progreso. The President and the men of the party boarded the Mexlcan man-of-war Bravo, and the women members went on board the steamship Fuerst Bismarck.” “Accompanying the President on his trip was the Governor ' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1906. CITY HONORS HERO DEAD OF FIRE DEPARTMENT Men, Women and Children Pay Homage at Funeral of Dakin and Hennessy. Continued from Page 1, Col. 7. 72 of the Native Sons of the Golden West. After viewing the remains the police and members of the order grouped themselves around the rotunda, while the throngs pressed in from the street and filled every available space. Then Archbishop Montgomery, pre- ceded by the boy choir from St: Mary’s Cathedral, entered the rotunda from the main corridor of the City Hall LAST RITES BEGIN. Slowly the little boys in white de- scended the steps, headed by the acolytes bearing the crucifix, and sta- tioned themselves beside the bler of Thomas J. Hennessy, the hero who died in the Catholic faith, while the Arch- bishop ascended the platform, where | were gathered the city officials. As the choir sang the opening hymn, that has rung the requiem of the de- parted for two centuries? When our heads are bowed in woe, When our bitter tears o'erflow, When we mourn the lost, the dear, Jesus, son of Mary, hear. Sobbing of women could beheard above the sad, sweet strains. Overcome by ‘ i ! | grief, the mother of Hennessy fainted, while the bowed head of Mrs. Dakin rested on the shoulder of her nephew. Mrs. Hennessy and Mrs. Dakin bore the ordeal bravely untfl the coffin slides were drawn above the faces of the dead. Then ft was that Mrs. Hennessy sobbed forth her grief above the coffin of her husband, while the fainting mother was borne to the carriage. Mrs. Dakin, supperted by her nephew, was led to the carriage, but before reaching it she collapsed and was assisted by her relatives in entering the vehicle. THE FUNERAL. Following the hymn Archbishop Montgomery announced his text as chosen from the second chapter of the Book of Wisdom and from/the second chapter of St. John, the twenty-first to twenty-eighth verses, and then spoke as follows: My deer friends: These words of the wise man and of our blessed Lord have been the hope and the consolation of mankind and must remain so. There are in human life—coneidered as such simply—so many shortcomings, so many dis- appointments and discouragements, that left to ourselves one would dften be inclined to pessimistic view, it not to despair entirely of Detter things. But thamks to occasions like the nresent—sad and sorrowful as it Is—a s#hock comes to us from time to time and man- ifests other quallties of human nature. that shine out by contrast, and come to us all when we need them most. One of these redeeming quelities is _that death has not lost its salutary and” refining influcnce on the human heart. Death is never trivial, never commonplace; it Is not a specu- lation, mot an abstract something, but the most impressive and significant fact witnessed in human experience; it is ever a solemn and sacred thing. Thé bared hiad, the huched Vofce, sthe light and careful step in the pres- ence of the dead attest this. Agaln, more than life and speech and mu- tual intérest. death {mpresses upon US OUr cOm- mon humanity, our common nature. “Death, With impartial fate, i Knocks at the palace and the cottage gate. At no other time are men more ready to forgei everything else and acknowledge nobil- ity of character, greatness of soul, courage and bravery in a noble cause. . 4 life spent in duty done appeals to the best there is in ihe human heart, and when the life or action passes the boundary line of duty and becomes generouy self-sacrifice, then it imj homage. Truth Himself hae eaid, love than this no man bath, that @ man 18y down his life for his friend.” E No matter how sordid some may become, no matter “how absorbed with the cares of riches and the pleasures of this world,” so long a8 these nobler gentiments animate the multitude there is hope and & power of re- generation into the higher things of existence. It s true these are but natural virtues, yet when touched and quickened by a divine grace they become capable of supernatural things. It is upon such foundation as this that the great superratural lives of history have had existence and have warmed and enlightesed the world. But as the Soul is needed to ani- mate the body, So. too, that supernatural ele- ment e needed to give to life the fullness of its meaning and to realize God's purposes in its_salvation. N The wise man's words remind us that when Solomon wroté there were then, even as Now,two standards of thought, two philosophles of life, one that leaves out the lmmortal soul, claim- nig “‘that we are born of nothing and that atter this we shall be as if we had not been,' “‘that the breath in our nostrils is smoke and peech & lrrk to move the heart, which being ut out, ofir bodies shall be h epirit shall be poured abroad the wise man answers: ‘‘Thus they ri but not right.’ ‘“The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the un- ise they seemed to dle, and their going away from us utter destruction. But they are at peace, and their hope is full of immortality.” Two heroes die in discharge of & duty and a reverential and appreciative public do hom- age to thelr memory, This outflowing of warm and generous hearts is in Its very nature, and speaking the voice’ of nature, a solemn prot t against that cold, materialistic philosophy that makes of the soul at best ‘‘a mere function of matter.”” This protest of the human heart comes to-day loud and strong. even as it was spoken by divine wisdom 2500 years ago—that man s more than matter. ‘We to-day surrounding the bler of the noble and heroic dead, In paying our homage of duty. toward them, so declare by our every word and action. We cannot feel that an- nihilation or any form of unconscious exis- tence can be the end or the evolution unto which such actions as these men exhibited are (o find their final term. It is & pontradiction in jerms even to think it. ; but with our own sweetest singing poet pwe say: “Life is real, life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.” This magnificent demonstration of respect for our dead ls only their due. It is no dis- paragement of any other branch of the public mervice to say that the fire department of any clty. that does its duty deserves a place in the hearte of the: public second to none. Our city is bullt mostly of wood, and largely upon hille, with posed to winds from ihe ‘ocean. All these 80 many severe tests of the efficlency of the Fire Department. And we believe that if we have bad the protection of life and property that We krow we have enjoyed, we owe it %o the personnel of th ent an ex- ample of which we have before us in the silent dead. The whole city, as is meet and proper, strives to show a city’s gratitude for those noble lives surrendered in the discharge of duty. A particularly touching incident in the death of these brave men is 1 understand, that one, a “subaltern, voluntarily exposed and his life in an effort to save that of his captain. _ The sympathy of this whole penle goes cut to the bereaved families, whilst we who be. lieve and live on the hope of & glorivus im- mortality pray God thut light peroe‘ual may +hine upon them. i THE SERVICES CLOSE. After the oration a brief address was made by Mayor Schmitz in behalf of the city and in praise of the Fire Department, after which the boy choir of the cathe- dral chanted the impressive responses to the burial ritual, performed by Father Hannivan. At the conclusion of the services fhe relatives entered the carriages, while the honorary pallbearers of the Fire and Po- lice departments carrfed the coffius to the hearses on City Hall avenue. Clearing the way™on the west side of Marshall square, the mounted pofice wheeled into Market street, followed by of the Federal District, Guillermo Lan- | their brethre comm: day y Hscandon, the Ministers - of | of Captain Grecz:n.“:‘:;n:m the Dt;-l:g France, Germany, Merida. New Vaudeville VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 4- Sullf- van and Considine yaudeville circuit | heads of the municipali foll?:d. Then ~night, | came the one hundred gmo! the ne:ulre,d the fivo‘{ Theater last nigh an rebulld ft and add the house to their circuit. S o ¢ Ttaly and other | ¢ame th 3 Infan! guests. Extraordinary precautions have | playing &n:r‘.fldm“m'mktgn flrg 121 been taken to guard the party from | talion of the Fourth Infantry, under Ma- vellow fever, should any develop in |jor McIvor, was the next in line. After the regulars came the city of- © | ficials, headed by the members of ¢ Board % o of Fire Commissioners and the! Board of Bupervisors, while varfous 2 de- partment, followed by the veterans of the older days. Rincon Parlor No. 72 was next in line, and was followed by the hearses and the fumeral carriages that brought up the cortege. . The march continued out Market street and over Valencla to Sixteenth street, ‘where the funeral carriages passed in re- view of the escort and continued on the way, one hearse going to Holy Cross, whife the other journeved to Cypress Lawn. At the grave of Hoseman Hennessy an- other pathetic scene was enacted. Far away from the pomp and_ perfunctory mourning of the city, the childless, wid- owed and brotherless wept as the 'sod fell upon the rough redwood box. At Cypress Lawn the Native Sons held their Impressive ritual over Captain Da- kin, and as Willam J. Wynn and John Hannon pronounced the solemn words of farewell the tears of the widow and the fatherless boy fell fast. Far away from the stately reverence that the city gave the dead heroes, the loving ones mourned s mankind has mourned ever since hu- man love was born. e CROWDS THRONG THE STREETS. Citizens and Their Representatives Do . Last Homor to Hero Dead. To the living as well as to the dead is of- fered the tribute of admiration and love that the people of San Francisco showed yesterday in the outpouring of her citi- Zens. Along the line of march of tl funeral the people thronged the sidewalks and filled the windows of the bulldings affording a view. At the City Hall every available space was fllled, whilg the huge windows of the hall and the roofs of the lowlying adjacent buildings held crowds. The march of the cortege along Market and Valencia strects was without special incident until the head of -the column reached the quarters of Truck Company 3 and Engine No. 19. There the men on duty at the firehouse formed in line and stood with bared heads as the slow- marching procession passed. At Sixteenth and Valencia streets the hearses and car- riages passed the escort, which was drawn up on the south side of the street. As the carriages passed the civic bodies and firemen stood with heads bared, the police with draped stars glittering on their breasts presented batons in salute, while ‘along the company's front of the infantrymen the blue-barreled rifles were held at present by the white-gloved sol- diers. From the time the proceedings were in- trusted to the supervision of Assistant Chiefs Dougherty and Shaughnessy no hitch occurred, and the solemn beauty of the funeral yesterday was marred by no accident. Equally to be commended is the spirit of the Fire Commissioners and the other municipal officers, while the army's representatives in the rotunda in- cluded Major General SBumner and Briga- ier General Funston, also Captain J. H. Riley of the quartermaster’'s department. On the black-draped platform in the ro- tunda were seated almost the entire of- ficlaldom of the city. In front were Mayor Schmitz, Chief Engineer Sullivan of the Fire Department, Chief of Police Dinan and Fire Commissioners Wreden, Parry and Bollo. Back of them sat the wives and relatives of the Chiefs and Commis- sioners. Among those gathered to do honor to the dead were the Judges of the Supcrior t, the Judges of the Palice Courts, the' Supervisors and other officials of the municipality, prominent and philanthropic citizens, including “Uncle” George Brom- ley and Raphael Weill, and officers of the Fire -and Police Departments who were off duty. The list of pallbearers Selected as rep- resenting the firehouses of the city in- cluded many of the friends of Captain Dakin and Hoseman Hennessy. The pall- bearers for Captain Dakin were K. Bridgeworth, engine 4; J. J. Kenny, en- gine 17; Captain H. Rice, corporation yard; George McLaughlin, truck 3; L. Walters, engine 15; E. P. Courtney, engine 1; Captain I Germandz, corporation yard, and Walter Cline, engige 9. The pallbearers for Thomas J. Hennessy were T. Cashin, engine 28; A. McDonald, engine 13; N. Mathewson, engine 4; John Quinn, truck 1; Rinaldo Cuneo, truck 2; George Stolzenwald, truck 8; Frank Me- Cluskey, water tower 1, and Harry Car- ter, engine 12. The sixteen honorary pallbearers from the ranks of the Police Department were H. 8. Prowse, Robert M. Barry, R. M. Bilver, W. Rice, C. J. Carroll, J. F. Den- nan, A. Winslow, J. O'Connor, J. Mo- riarty, D. J. Driscoll, W. P. Dalton, A. B. Thompson, G, Wollweber, P. A. McIntyre, J. H. Failrweather and B. C. Wood. REV, DR. RAINSFORD BEGINS - RECTORSHIP Dr. Birckheadk Will Suceeed Him in New York Epis- copal Church. NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Rev. Dr. Wil- liam 8. Rainsford, for twenty-two years rector of St. George's Protestant Epis- copal Church, this city, has resigned the rectorship owing to continued ill health, and the Rev. Hugh Birckheadk, the as- sistant rector, has been elected by the vestry to succeed him. The resignation of Dr. Rainsford was in the form of a letter to J. Pierpont Morgan, senior warden of the church, from Cairo, Egypt, dated January 7. Dr. Rainsford wrote that while his health was better than it was a year ago he had definitely concluded that he had not strength enough to continue in the rec- torship. Mr. Birckheadk, the new rector, has been assistant. rector for several years. He is-but 29 years of age. Dr. Rainsford is one of the most wide- ly known Episcopal clergymen in the country, being noted both as a preacher and as a writer and has been very agtive in philanthropic work. —_———— BIG REVIVAL MERTINGS BEGUN IN PHILADELPHIA Torrey and Alexandes Inaug- urate a Three Months’ Mission % n City. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4—After a four years' evangelistic campaign, which took them through Australasia, India, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Canada, Réy. Reuben A. Torrey and Charles M. Al der, the revivalist: to-day began in this city a thr months’ mission, which is expected to eclipse any similar movement ever un- dertaken here. Two large meetings ‘were held, the first in the afternoon and the second to-night. There was an overflow of several thousand persons unable to gain admission to the big Handbills and cards annodncing the meetings have been distributed by thousands and throughout the city, side by side with theatrical advertisements, large posters bearing a picture of the cross and appropriate Bible verses may D hate senisd et e that e en e work hope that Ao % fasivar Domin. Bave o 000 il Rev. spread th out . th:h, country and | arouse an rest su. that wit- nessed Britaio. 3 in Great Brit CRISIS SITUATION AT HAND. — | | 1 | ' | | | | | 1 i ONE OF HUNGARIAN COALITION LEADERS WHOSE CONFERENCE WITH EMPEROR WAS FUTILE. MANY FRIENDS NOURN AT THE ALOR'S BIER Continued from Page 1, Col. 6 side of Post street, troops K and M of the Fourteenth Cavalry stood ready to salute the remains and accompany them. | to the depot. At the close of the services | the troops came to a “present arms" and | remained in that position until the re- | mains had been placed in the hearse, and then taking the lead they marched down | Third street to the depot, where they | lined up on both sides of the street and saluted the remains for the last time as | the hearse passed between them. The officers of the Masonic Lodge ac- companied the remains te the cemetery, where further ceremonies for the dead were gone through. Wallace had ever been a good and faith- ful officer and sailor. He had spent most of his life upon the sea, and when quite young sailed to many of the ports of the world with his father, Captain James ‘Wallace, who is at present superintendent of the Brown Tugboat Company of Syd- ney, Australia.. He came to this country | about fifteen years ago and later joined the transport service. He has served on the transports Lawton, Thomas and Meade and had just returned from Alaska, where he had been serving as third offi- cer on the Government cable ship. He was discharged from the cable ship about three weeks ago in order that he might accept the position on the Meade. The pallbearers were: A. S. Shapley, second officer of the Meade; J. Dahl, fourth officer of tha Meade; John Trebell, of the transport dock, and George R. Dol man, H. D. Watson and John Beckley of Doric Lodge No. 216, F. and A. M. DAY OF MARRIAGES THROUGHOUT SPAIN Thousands of Betrothed Cou- ples Await Date Selected by Alfonso. Special Dispatch to The Call. MADRID, Feb. 4—All marriage ar- rangements in this city and throughout Spain are being postponed in view of the fact thaf the King is to be married some time durlng the summer, as all wish their marriages to take place on the same day. The same thing occurred when his sister, the Infanta Maria Teresa. was to be married. All couples that had be- come engaged in the previous six months delayed their marriage until that day and the priests of Madrid were Kept busy performing marriage ceremonies in every one of the chapels. It is expected that several thousand marriages will take place in Spain on the day that the royal marriage is celebrated. PARIS, Feb. 5.—The Madrid correspond- ent of the Echo de Paris says that owing take place in the spring and that for the same reason King Alfonso’s marriage to Princess Ena of postponed until June. —_—ee————— CHICAGO TO HAVE Will Be Ereeted in Connee- tion With the Audito- : rium Annex. mmm-—mmw . CHICAGO, Feb. 4—A new theater, such as will be unequaled in architec- tural beauty or the class of its produc- tions outside of New York. erected by the Congress Ho pany in connection with the rium Annex and the Auditorium Hotel. The deal by which the hotel company ired possession of the property ad- Jjoi the annex in Congress street was brought to a close yesterday and Battenberg has been | [t is the only Audito- | in plain IN THE HUNGARIAN | |Emperor Refuses to Accept Coalition Programme. Francis Joseph May “Try to Establish Absolutism. SRS VIENNA, Feb. 4—The negotlations looking to the settlement of the Hunga- rian situation ended in a complete fail- ure to-day and Count Jules Andrassy, one of the leaders of the coalition parties, returned to Budapest after a long Inter- view with the Emperor-King, who refused to accept the modified programme of the coalition. Unless the coalition yields at the last hour this fallure to reach an agreement must, it is thought, result in an effort by the crown to establish aa absolutism in Hungary. DELECATES SEE ~ A BULL FIGRT Bloody Spectacle in Honor of Diplomats Attending the Algeciras Conference ALGECIRAS, Feb. 4-The brilliant though bloody spectacle of a bull fight in honor of the conferees on Morocco re- forms was the event of the day. Crowds came from all parts of Andalusia to the vast stone amphitheater inclosing the bull ring, and more than 6000 persons saw the fight. A box gayly decorated with the Span- ish colors accommodated the Embassa- dors and officials of many countries. Most of the delegations to the confer- ence were represented and many of the envoys were accompanied by their wives and daughters. The Luke of Almodovar, the Spanish Foreign Minister, who Is president of the conference, accompanied by the Duchess, was the center of a group of Embassadors, and whiteé garbed Moors and throngs of Spanish women, in picturesque costumes, lent a touch of quaintness to the amimated sceme. The American and British delegates did not attend. Three celebrated bull fighters provided the sport, and the bulls were of the fa- mous herd of Don Marino Santa Maria of Seville. The first animal brought into the ring, a huge, black Andalusian beast. killed two horses before the matador. Lagartibo, skillfully drove his sword to the hilt Into the animal, which fell dead. Thousands cheered this and the band played a Spanish fandango. The second bull was ceremoniously ded- fcated to the Duke of Almodovar by Matador Morenita, which is the custom of the country. It proved to be an ugly fighter and gored the blind horse of a picador. This bull also was dispatched. Another bull killed five horses, four of them dying in the arena, while the fifth. terribly gored, staggered outside and 4 The picadors were often unhorsed, b none of them were seriously hurt. The skill of the matadors was shown as they pirouetted before blo%ing animals which were stung to madness by the darts with their gay streamers stuck into them. The foreigners present witnessed the scene with mingled admiration at the audacity of the matadors and horror at its cruelty. GUNNERY ON BRITISH WARSHIPS IMPROVING Channel, Atlantic and Medit- - erranean Fleets Make Best Showing. LONDON, Feb. 4 — The forthcoming gunnery reports for the British navy for 1905 will show the remarkable all-round improvement in average points of #8.26 against 43.22 for 1904 The best showing was made by the Channel, Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets. Some of the squad- rons abroad made a lamentable showing, notably the China Sea squadron, which, if it had been engaged during the recent war, would have given a poor account of itself. Admiral Noel's flagship, the Dia- dem, made only 117, as against 748 achieved by the Exmouth, the flagship of Admiral Wilson the Channel fleet. DR. PIERCE’S REMEDIES. 7 Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, Is not a secret or patent medicine, against which the intelligent jple are quite naturally because of she nun- certainty ag to their character, butisas cine oF a full list of printed, in wra, 00 in large ? i : ated t it Is the U contaios 503 the work of construction will be be- | Monials” fl-gm The theater will be connected with the Annex by overhead bridges and an underground passage, such as connects the Auditorilum and the Annex. Annex has entered upon the construc-- tion of an addition south of the pres- ent site of the hotel. which will cost $2,000,000, and with the proposed thea. L b