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Johfl Ball Smiles on the World. This Month He Is Keeping Open House in the Chief City of the Empire. Special to the Globe. LONDON, June 19 —Despite the mod ern conventionalities, London reminds me of nothing more than the scenes of festivity which used to precede the grand fetes and tournaments in the days when bluff King Hal ruled over "Merry England." London is commonly called a city of shopkeepers, and truly it is, but now one must reckon on the Visitors, gorgeous in purple and fine linen. Today with the jubilee some time in 1 the distance, London is en fete. She is like a bride preparing for the wedding and all the dressmakers in the tcwn are at work upon her finery. As you walk about the city's streets, the thought comes to you that surely this must be the modern Babylon. There runs through my head nowadays The Prince of Wales as he appeared at various ages. He was really better looking than his earlier portraits make him. In a never ending: stream of familiar melodies that dear old hymn — "From Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral Btrand, "Where Afric's sunny fountains roll down their golden sand." That is it exactly. You hear about you, even on the Strand, that prosaic highway of commerce, all the tongues that were included in the ter ritory which the psalmist poetically de scribes. It reminds me of the world's fair. Every nation seems to have sent its representatives already, and though I live in and love New York, I must admit that this is the most cosmopoli tan place today on the face of the globe. The Lunnoner, I must be English you know, and it would never do to say Londoner just at first, Is perplexed. He is reading the prologue of the jubi lee festivities. He wonders what in Heaven's name will happen to him when the first act is really on. As a matter of fact, it is quite difficult to secure anything like prompt service in a Lon don hotel or restaurant. Every London restaurant ha? the unpleasant habit of closing at midnight, anc 1 . they are in no hurry about opening in the morning. Therefore you have to eat when you —rot when you want to. The Eng lish people are what are known here as good trenchermen. So are the vis itors. Between the two the poor res taurateur is kept flying about seeking what he may devour. Today, London is entertaining 300.000 visitors. The 22nd of June, conservative people estimate, she will have a million and a half of strangers withki her gates. What will she do with them? The descent of the locusts upon the traditional tasseled corn field would not result in a cleaner sweep of all that was edible than will the advent of this hungry crowd into the highways and byways of London town. People must eat, but only a kind providence knows where they all will get food during the days of the jubilee. Any person, writing from London just now, can discuss nothing but jubilee matters, for that is all that any one talks about and that is the objective point of everything that everybody does. Indeed, it is openly stated that hereafter it will be a serious dispute as to whether we shall consider as the "beginning Of time the fall of Adam or the Queen's diamond jubilee. You take Up the papers and you see how this dignitary and that, or some town or another are preparing addresses to her majesty, telling her how rejoiced they are that she has attained so signi ficant an honor as to have reigned for eixty years. It is safe to say that no one on earth ever had so many good wishes as those which are preparing to fall to the lot of. Victoria Regina. It is a very old truth that the dls- SLEEP FOR SKIN-TORTURED BABIES And rest for tired mothers in a warm bath •with Cutioura Soap, and a single application of CuticurA (ointment), the great skin cure. Cuncr/RA Remedies afford instant relief, and point to a speedy cure of torturing, dis figuring, humiliating, itching, burning, bleed ing, crusted, scaly skin and scalp humors, With 1033 of hair, -when all else fails. tiold throat hont ths world. FottbbDbuo ass Cbkk. Corp.. Bole Prow., Bottoo. OT» "How to Cure Skin-Tortured Babies," fret. . OIT 111 Gftll D wd Tla!r UoantiflM by OMN ouAl.r cuticura soap. tance from the sublime to the ridicu lous is short, but really the subject which is agitating the public mind, next to the addresses and good wishes to the queen, is the agitation against the silk hat, both crush and steadfast. It is proposed that, as a lasting mon ument of the celebration of the jubilee, that this variety of hat should vanish forever. Strangely enough, there is not such a vigorous objection as one would imagine at such an assault upon so old a custom. What would the an cient shipmaster have thought of a project to celebrate the sixtieth anni versary of Victoria's reign by abolish ing his most cherished article in the nature of head gear. Of course, it may amount to nothing, but it has been suggested, and the suggestion has tak en root. Despite the disappointing results such property remains firm, and there is nothing in the nature of a slump (UEEX VICTORIA'S DIAMOND J I HI LEE. in prices. Perhaps there has been a slight slackening in the inquiries for windows, due to the fact that specula tors have apparently a sufficient sup ply on hand for the moment, but seats are being sold in considerable num bers and at rates which are invariably higher than those obtaining in the cele bration of a decade ago. Seventy-five to $100 is the average price for front seats on ground or first floors in the best seats of the West end, but chairs in less favored positions in the same thoroughfares are to be had at from five to ten guineas. Here and there the tickets for seats include the provision of luncheon, an arrangement which is likely to prove very convenient. The jubilee bureau has secured a frontage in St. James street in the form of the show rooms of a well-known coach building firm. Here seats which command a view of al most the full length of the street have been let for as much as forty and fifty guineas apiece, which is in the neighborhood of $200 and $250. In Pall Mall the bureau has sold ground floor seats at prices ranging from four Lo twenty guineas, in the Strand at from four to fifteen guineas, and in West minster bridge road and the Borough at from two to six guineas. From these figures the prices risie to $250 for half a window, while three windows in a particular good location have sold for $5,000. It is not the En glishmen who are paying these prices. Let our British cousins talk of Yankee thrift as they will, at no time in any city of the United States, upon any occasion, have the visitors been as un mercifully mulcted as they are being and will be in London until the jubilee becomes history. Never was the pur suit of the almighty dollar more agile. If many a fortune is not made in Lon don this month, it will not be the fault of those who have the power of fixing prices. A charming Idea was brought to my attention the other day in connection with the jubilee. It is the arrange ment which has practically been per fected to light, in every county of the United kingdom, at 10 o'clock the morn ing of June 22, a huge pile of in flammable material which shall de velop into a premium bon fire. It is a great way of celebrating in England to have bonfires. Every American who has read the stories of the English elec tions remembers that sentence which tells of bonfires blazing in every coun ty. Ordinarily, that would be an ex aggeration. This year It will be a literal truth and cheers and smoke will mingle all through the shires and vil lages of the Island. And the celebrations. Just sit down and think of every sort 6f jubilation of which you ever heard. Then add a hundred per cent to that and you will have a faint idea of the schemes that are in progress to observe the queen's anniversary. Not the least among them will be that of the Salvation Army. Gen. Booth promises that in all the history of his organization there never have been such "volleys" fired as there will be on the 22nd of June. Of course the Salvation Army is an Imitation of the British army in a way, and every soldier, not only in the British empire, but elsewhere, will be expected to shout "Hallelujah," and "God Save the Queen." I wonder how that will please some of the American converts. We have no objection, you know, to singing "God Save the Queen!" when we wish to— not that 1 am a convert— but to have to sing it; well, ttiat is different. The lone exception, the black sheep, or the one ewe lamb, whichever you prefer to call it, that is going to flock by itself, as it were, and stand off in a corner and turn its back on the rest of us, is the Irish party. With much pomp and eclat the members of that organization have resolved that they will not celebrate the queen's jubilee, but will go into retirement and pray for the forgiveness of the sins — of others. This is the one thing needed to make the observance natural. For the Irish party to agree to anything that the queen and the majority ap prove, would simply be too unnatural to warrant belief. The Irish party In the house of com mons reminds me of nothing so THE SAINT PAUt, GLOBE: SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1897. much as the late and famous "objector" Holman. If he agreed to anything it was a mistake. So it is with the Irish party. Thus I could go on and write and write of the strange things that are happening here and the queer sights that I have seen, sufficiently to fill al most endless space. It will be a won derful affair, the jubilee. I do not know if it is too much to say that, considering all its ramifications, it is an epoch in the history of the world which cannot be considered as too im portant. There are Americans here from all over the United States. Every steamer is bringing fresh additions to the mul titude. Will they all have a good time, you say? The answer is simple: It depends entirely on the length of their purses. RELATIONS RESUMED. Prance and Venezuela. Are No Loug- er at Outs. PARIS, June 19.— At the cabinet meeting today, the minister for foreign affairs, M. Hanotaux, announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with Venezuela and the apology of that re public for the incident which led to the rupture. M. Hanotaux further an- ncunced that France had obtained a settlement of the pending indemnity claims with reference to a special com mission and by arrangements on the subject of tariffs, in which France had special advantage. The minister for foreign affairs also announced that an agreement had been signed at Pekin conceding to France commercial and political concessions in the districts ad jacent to Tonquin, especially conces sions for pushing the railroad towards the interior of China, and the permis sion for France to penetrate into Yun nan and work the mines on the Chinese frontier provinces with French engin eers. _ Cheap Rates to California Via "The North-Western Line." From St. Paul and Minneapolis to San Francisco only $26.75. Tickets on sale June 29th, 30th, and July Ist, 2d and 3rd. For information as to stop over privileges at Salt Lake City and other points, and for sleeping car ac commodations, call at city ticket office 395 Robert street, St. Paul, or address T. W. Teasdale, general passenger agent, St. Paul. _ SILVER ISSI'E DEAD. CHICAGO, June 19.— Eugene V. Debs de clared today, in an interview, that the free silver wave had receded to such an extent that it was a dead issue. Mr. Debs says he intends to encourage socialism as the issue in 1900. The constitution which was today adopted by an overwhelming majority, favors the public ownership of all industries con trolled by monopolies, trusts and combines, such as railroads, telegraphs, telephones' transportation, waterworks, gas and electric light plants. It also favors public proprietary control of all mines, oil and gas wells. It favors reduction of the hours of labor in proportion to the progress of production. Relief for the unemployed is suggested In the undertaking of public works and Improve ments, the public credit to be used for that purpose. 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Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets cure it They never gripe. VIGTOIP'S JUBILEE Continued Front First Pagrc. and famine in Ireland, she was visibly affected, though then the distress there was only at its commencement. After the dissolution of parliament the royal couple, with their children, started on a voyage to the western highlands of Scotland, where, however; they were not favored with "queen's weather." When parliament reassembled there was much to harass the queen and her ministers, but by thjs time it was a recognized fact that in all weighty matters the queen should have the benefit of the advice-of h*r impartial judicious consort, who, though he nev er obtruded himself on the nation, was yet at all times a faithful and trust worthy counsellor to her majesty, and who was now honore_d by. the title of "Prince Consort," and by 'his installa tion as chancellor of Cambridge. A few days after parliament was opened the crisis came in France, and the Orleans government was replaced by a republic, this revolution occurring just a few weeks before the arrival of the queen's fourth daughter. In August, 1849, the royal family vis ited Ireland, winning golden opinions on all sides, one old lady exclaiming: "Och, queen dear," as the royal chil dren passed, "make one of them Prince Patrick and all Ireland will die for you!" a plea graciously granted by the queen in the following year when her third son was born. The year 1554 witnessed the preparations for the great war with Russia. Early in the morning- of Feb. 2S the queen and prince stood on the balcony of Buckingham palace to bid God speed to the gallant soldiers told off for duty. We have not space to dwell upon the great battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, nor to dilate on the glorious charge of the Light Brigade, the tedious siege of Sebastopol, and the hardships of that bitter winter, redeemed by the beautiful heroism of Miss Florence Nightingale and her devoted band of nurses. The following year, when the nation was dissatisfied with the story of the misery abroad, Lord Palm erston succeeded Lord Aberdeen, and the capture of Sebastopol led up to the treaty of Paris, where peace was made with Russia. For a brief while, with the exception'of a war in Persia and China, the land was at rest, and then suddenly the discontent of the natives of India blazed out, trifling circum stances serving to arouse the ire that had long rankled. A new rifle Had been invented a short time before, in which greased cart ridges were used, and the Sepoys, believing this grease to be the fat of cows and pigs, deemed it sacriligious, ana rose in revolt. It was the year in which the queen's youngest child, Princess Beatrice, was born, whilst the engagement of her eldest daugh ter, the Princess Royal, was announced to Prince Frederick of Prussia, the handsome young German prince, who had won his suit in offering the young girl a sprig of white heather, the emblem of good luck, found as they rode up Craig-na-ban. The queen was terribly distressed by the massacre at Cawnpore, whilst the nation was wild with Joy at the relief of Lucknow, where the starving people had heroically held out for months. It is pleasant to turn from this gloomy picture to the bright ceremonial of the Prin cess Royal's marriage, resembling in many features the queen's own wedding. Naturally enough, the royal mother's heart was full to overflowing, as she saw her, dear husband give their eldest child in keeping to the prince, whose home was over the sea. The opening of the year 1859 saw the queen, still in the prime of life, promoted to the dignity of grandmother by the birth of a son —the present German emperor — to the Crown Princess. In America, in the year 1861, owing to the slavery question, a. civil (war broke out In the United States, and as the raw cotton used in Lancashire came chiefly from the Southern states, whose ports were now block aded by the North, the result was a distress ing cotton famine in Lancashire. A second love affair was now developing in the royal circle, and the Princess Alice, whose sweet amiability made her beloved by all, was sought in marriage by Prince Louis of Hesse, and the engagement was duly sanctioned, al most at the time when the Prince of Wales returned from America, and the sailor Prince Alfred from South Africa. The year which thus closed so auspiciously was succeeded by the saddest in the queen's reign. Early in March death took from her majesty the moth er whom she had loved so tenderly, and who had so well earned the generous need of de votion which Queen Victoria had always lavished on her. In some measure, owing to his increasing work, the health of the prince consort be came gradually undermined, and a feeling of prescience told him that he could not with stand any severe illness. In the latter days of November he was already assailed by an Insidious malady when a delicate question arose between Britain and the Great Republic, which necessitated much finesse to avert a war, and the queen and prince consort worked hard together in amending the letter Lord Russell suggested should be sent to the Amer ican government. On Sunday, Dec. 1, when the prince gave the draft note to the queen— his last piece of work for the country he had served so well, and yet so singularly un obtrusively—he complained of his difficulty in guiding his pen, and from that day the dangers of the malady deepened with awful rapidity. The record of those sad days, when the gallant prince grew weaker, and his adoring wife watched at his bedside with in expressible anguish, should ever remain sacred. It is the story, not of a queen, but a loving, faithful wife, utterly broken-hearted at the thought of a separation from the part ner of her earthly joys— from the husband for whom she had entertained an absolutely ideal love. As the dull December afternoon closed in, the distinguished patient grew momentarily weaker, but was eons-Vous, when the wife, bending over him, addr #■ ed him in his native tongue, telling him it wua his little wife, his "kleines frauehen." the pet nams that had so often risen to his lips, but he could not answer her in words, only the weak, farewell kiss showed that his brain followed hers, and that their hearts still throbbed in unison. Before midnight fell the solemn tolling of the bells announced that the queen, in the flower of her womanhood, was struck down— a desolate widow— and that the nation had sustained a loss which, in the first blow, they were incapable of realizing to its full extent. In the terribly sad days that followed, when nothing could assuage the queen's anguish, naturally enough she shrank from appear ing before her people, remembering the happy days when she had been amongst them with her husband at her side. Nevertheless, no single state duty was neglected, though un thinking people scarcely knew the magnitude of her tasks, doubly hard at this time, be cause deprived of him whose wise counsels had ever been offered her. With admirable self-denial, at a time when her heart hun gered most over her children, she sent the Prince of Wales to distant lands, in further ance of her late husband's scheme for his education, and in her heavy mourning at tended the wedding of Princess Alice with Prince Xouis. With her sad loss still ever present, on March 10, 1863. the queer, witnessed from the royal closet the brilliant celebration of her eldest son's marriage, and as, in her widow's dress, her majesty received the handsome young brida? pair, standing at tho threshold of life, with all its joys to come, her heart again ached for that loving father, who was not there to bestow a blessing on his first-born son. In 1866 two wedding ceremontes claimed the queen's praserce. Bonny Princess Mary was led to the altar by the handsome Prince Teck, whilst early in July her majesty's third daughter, Princess Helena, was mar ried in St. George's chapel to Prince Chris tian of Schleswlg-Holstein. In the autumn, when the queen opened the new Aberdeen waterworks at Inverarry, again struggling with that natural wish for retirement, she read an address m answer to that proffered by th« lord provost, though gfc« confessed to feeling very nervous. It being, to quote her own words, "the first time I had read any thing since my darling husband was taken from me." It was on May 20 that* the queen laid the foundation stone of the Royal Albert hall, the building raised in he"r hiisband's honor, and which her majesty hoped would become "such a center of institutions for the pro motion of art and scienfte as It was his forid hope to establish." Every year marked somo progress con nected with England's internal affairs, and an important measure in 1866— the sanitary ' or public health act— difl much for the pre vention of any outbreak of disease that might arise from overcrowding or imperfect sanita tion. During the summer of 1867. her majesty was visited by tho queen of Prussia, the sultan of Turkey and the Empress Eugenic, the autumn of the year being, as usual, spent at tho favorite Scotch home". Whilst on this trip tho queen visited Abbotsfqrd, and wrcte her name in Sir Walter Scott's diary. In Ireland, 1869-' TO, Catholic* and Protes tants were placed on an equality, and the State church disestablished, a measure con sonant with the wise religious tolerance which has so greatly distinguished Queen Victoria. This measure was mainly brought about by Mr. Gladstone, who then became prime minister. It was in 1870 also that the premier passed an Irish land act, giving a much fairer hold on their land, whilst at the same time Mr. Forster passed the important English education act, which resulted in what was practically the establishment and endowment of board schools. In noticing this step, of such importance to tho education of working classes, we may here pause to review the great strides education has made in this reign, and this, in no small degree, was due to the influence of the prince con sort. Another new notion of this time was the ballot act, to prevent voters from taking bribes, which was the introduction of voting by ballot at elections. In 1871, shortly after the marriage of Prin cess Louise, the queen opened the beautiful Albert hall, and a little later, with tender courtesy, went to visit the exiled Napoleon and his empress at Chislehurst. Just ten years after the death of the prince consort it seemed that the queen would again be called upon to sustain a terrible loss, for the Prince of Wales was attacked by a similar illness to that which proved so fa-al to his father. We can feel for the mother In her passionate anxiety for her first-born son, the one who was to succeed her on the throne, and every day brought with it a remembrance of that sad time when death had hovered near the prince consort. But. happily, this time their mourning was turned into joy, and the beautiful letter which, a week later, the queen published on her behalf and that of the Prince of Wales, in acknowledgment of the heartfelt sympathy they had received from the | nation during the days of their bitter anxiety, seemed to still further cement the bond of union between the queen and her people — that queen whose life as daughter, wife, mother, and queen will always appeal to the sympathy and romance of her women subjects. It now seemed as if every year brought some trouble to the queen; the death of the exiled Napoleon on the first month of 1873 oc casioned her much regret, and in May* her heart bled for her beloved daughter Alice, whose infant son died in her arms a few hours after a terrible fall from her bedroom window to the- stone terrace below. The marriage of the queen's second son, the Duke of Edinburgh, with the Grand Duchess Marie, of Russia, was celebrated in St. Pe tersburg in the beginning of 1874, the young couple driving a little later through London with the queen, and receiving a right hearty welcome. In April, 1877, the queen invested twelve ladies with the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, and in November of the same year her majesty bade adieu to her daughter, the Princess Louise, who went out to Canada with her husband. A month later the hand of the Reaper was once more busy in the royal circle, and on the anniversary of the prince consort's death, the broken-hearted mother learned of the death of her dearly-beloved daughter, Princess Alice. The fate of this well-beloved princess, who, unable to refuse her child's plea for a kiss, drew the terrible infection of diphtheria from those pleading baby lips, and speedily succumbed to the cruel malady, made a profoundly sorrowful impressioji on the English nation. In 1879, ere she had attained her sixtieth year, the queen became a great grandmother to the first-born child of the Princess of Saxe- Meiningen. Turning to other events, one marks the marriage of the Duke of Connaught with the Princess Louise Margaret of Prus sia, and when the young couple were feted" a» Balmoral, the queen, on her pony Jessie, rode nearly to the helgth where Arthur's Cairn now stands as a souvenir of the young couple's home-coming. In November, 1882, those men who had dis tinguished themselves in Egypt were decorated by the queen with medals and. orders. An event of domestic interest in the commence ment of this year was the marriage of the queen's youngest son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, to the Princess Helen, of Waldeck, and as the year drew near its close, her majesty delighted her people by opening the new law courts in the Strand In person. A serious accident caused the queen some pain in the ensuing year, her majesty having received an acute sprain, caused by slipping on one of the staircases at Windsor castle, and following close upon this came the death of her favorite personal attendant, John Brown. A far heavier bereavement, however, fell on the queen in 1884, when her delicate son, Prince Leopold, who had been temporarily ex iled to Cannes on account of his health, died very suddenly, leaving, to console the widowed young duchess, a little daughter and a son, whose eyes only opened after his father's were closed. Since the sumptuous ceremony of the coro nation there had been no pageant like the Jubilee procession when the nation delighted to do honor to their beloved queen on the com pletion of her fiftieth year of sovereignty. This happy event is still fresh in the min&a of most of us. The loyal subjects who thronged the stree.s on that golden summer's day will not readily forget the wonderful ceremonial, . the noble array of royal guests, and the con course of distinguished personages who fig ured in the gay procession. It was unani mously conceded that the bravest figure in that splendid train was the Crown Prince of Prussia, in his handsome white uniform, and the ready sympathy of English people was once again extended to the queen and her eld est daughter when, scarce a year later, the prince, having succeeded his "father as Ger man emperor, he was cut down in the hey day of his manhood by that mos; dread of all diseases, cancer, and the royal circle included yet another sorely stricken widow. From the brilliant jubilee year we can pass somewhat ] quickly over the peaceful years that have fol | lowed, till the present day, when every loyal i English heart triumphs in the fact that our beloved queen has accomplished the longest, most glorious, and most remarkable reign of j any British sovereign. Considerable interest I has centered round the private life of the heir | apparent, whose eldest daughter, following j the dicates of her heart, became the Duchess I * of Fife in ISS9, and who has addea two little j ! girls to the list of the queen's great grand- I children. One of the most tragic events in the royal annals was the sudden death of *Jis Duke of Clarence and Avondale, who, in the natural course of events, would have one day ascended the throne. By contrast, the year of 1593 was the most brilliant since the jubi lee, the season culminating with the wedding ! of the Duke of York and the Princess Victoria i Mary, of Teck. An event of much interest was the birth of i Prince Edward of York, the English great grandchild destined one day to wear the crown. In latter-day politics Mr. Gladstone's resignation, on account of increasing years, was followed up by the accession of Lord Roseberry, who, after a somewhat brief term of office, went out. Lord Salisbury then came j into power, and is at present premier, in ad dition to which he has accepted a new office for himseluf as warden of the Cinque ports. The most modern engineering feat is the great Tower bridge, which the queen opened in person in 1895, and the most recent event I of royal interest is the marriage of the Prln- I cess Maud of Wales with her cousin, Prince Carl, of Denmark, which brings us to the closie of the season of 1596. FOUR BOXES DID IT. Remarkable Success of a >ew Pile Core. People who have suffered for years or months from the pain and incon venience of that common disorder, piles, will look with skepticism upon the claims of the makers of the new discovery for cure of all forms of piles, known under the name of Pyramid Pile Cure; nevertheless the extraordin ary cures performed by this remedy are such as to warrant the investiga tion of any sufferer. 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Your choice or *> *S them V | At 81c Per Yard. | y* On fourth table in Dress Goods aisle we have placed 0 V£ about 10,000 yards of Wash Goods, including a lot of slow © ww styles, in Lappet Mulls, Applique, Covert and Corded © Q Dimities, goods that were 15c, 20c and 25c per yard. We *> 0 have added to them a lot of 36-inch Sea Island and Wind- )£ X sor Percales, regular 12£ c goods, and make the lot go at 5c Jjf one price, v£ & 5c Per Yard. $ *> We also have cut the price on 40-inch Roubaix Fou- © Q lard, a printed Organdie which is worth ordinarily 15c © 0 per yard. We have about 10,000 yards of the newest pat- X 0 terns in navy or black colorings, and make them )£ X All at 6c per yard x Q From a recent importer's sale we have just received about 2 500 5? X? yards of Lace Stripe Embroidered L,inen Lawns. They were 'im- S? W ported to sell at 40c per yard. The late season forced them and © now we make you the unprecedented offer of the lot x At 15c per yard g 0 They are fine g-oods, beautiful weaves, and as cheap in price as 5> yj^ cotton goods. Come in and see us tomorrow. \f i habigßsTT co., i © CORNER SEVENTH AND WACOUTA. © fltyeficaqs Wact| it) Evidence. People From This Side Are Playing: a Prominent Part in Jubilee Ceremonies. LONDON, June 19.— Two questions are agitating London; the prospective weather on jubilee days, the procession da 3', Tuesday, especially, and how to get to the seats from which to view the procession. A storm on Tuesday would almost amount to a calamity and would spoil the entire show. The majority of the immense stands along the route are quite uncovered, and even the house of commons' stands do not boast of awnings. In many cases seat owners have been notified that they will not be allowed to use um brellas. There is an absolute corner in all kinds of vehicles, and it will cost more to drive to the seats than it has cost to purchase the seats themseves. Since early morning shoals of royal personages and foreign special mis sions have been pouring into London, this being the date from which they are the guests of the government. The principal railway stations of the con tinental lines present an animated ap, pearance. Their platforms are covered with red carpets, and royal carriages are continually arriving and departing with bland officials and brilliantly uni formed officers. The situation is com plicated by a furious gale in the chan nel, which is upsetting all calculations. Ex-Empress Frederick, of Germany, who started in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert from Flushing, was obliged to put back. Each royal party comes in a special boat and on a special train. The first arrival today was Prince Waldemar, of Denmark. He was due to get here at 6, but he did not reach London until noon. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and a large suite; Prince Albrecht, of Prus sia; Prince Mohammed Ali Khan, the brother of the khedive of Egypt; Munir Pasha, the Turkish envoy; the papal nuncio, and a lot of others were all expected within a hour of each other this afternoon. Americans generally are to the fore in the jubilee, though vast numbers, after a few days in London, fled to the country. Nearly all the American residents and those who have taken houses here for the season will enter tain largely and are making elaborate preparations to illuminate their resi dences. Mrs. John W. Mackay will not entertain extensively on account of being in mourning, but her sister, Countess Telfener, and one of the of ficers of the pope's guard, who accom panies the papal nuncio, are staying with Mrs. Mackay at her residence on Carlton House Terrace. William Wal dorf Astor will entertain the visiting colonial premiers at Cliveden next week. Among the prominent Americans who are enjoying the jubilee festivities are M. H. De Young, proprietor of the iffflEr^^f^ZZ^^TOlSv Non-Intoxicant. All druggists. at^/^fii^liiT^r^vi^K VAL BLATZ BREWING co - S^^^^^ KJjOEP^ *oot of St. John St. Telopheno 1414 San Francisco Chronicle, who, with his family, is staying at the Hotel Cecil and will witness the procession from the Hotel Cecil's stand; Gen. E. Burd Grubb and Mrs. Grubb, of New York* John Shults, of New York, and George Raum. of California. On Wednesday last Mrs. Mackay gave a small lunch eon in honor of Mr. and Mrs De Young, and on Thursday Mr. Shults drove Mr. and Mrs. De Young and a party to Ascot in his coach. The United States ambassador Col John Hay, the staff of the United States embassy, Rear Admiral J N Miller, Commander William H. Embry Chief of Admiral Miller's staff and Capt. Cook, of the United States crui ser Brooklyn, have been given seats in the St. Paul"s church yard for the ceremony on Tuesday. Lieut J C Colwell, U. S. N., naval attache of' the United States embassy, will ride in the procession with the queen's equerries After the procession Col. Hay will en tertain the prominent American? His official dinner to Whitelaw Reid, the United States special envoy to the jubilee, is fixed for June 20. Many prominent English people and Ameri cans have been invited, and invita tions have also been sent to several foreign envoys. Rear Admiral Miller gave a reception today on board the United States cruiser Brooklyn. Ad miral Sir Newell Salmon, the* British naval commander at Portsmouth, and many other British and foreign ad mirals and commanders were present. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who represents the United States army at the jubilee, and his aid-de-camp, Capt. Maus, took up their quarters at the Buckingham Palace hotel today. The jubilee has furnished a fine op portunity for poets to break out into verse. In addition to Alfred Austin's production, the Saturday Review pub lishes an ode by Austin Dobson. and the Academy publishes one by Lewis Morris. Both are very harshly treated by the press. The military invasion of London be gan this morning. Camps have been formed in Hyde Park, Battersea Park, and elsewhere. The popular side of the celebration opened this afternoon with a march throught the east end of Lon don of all the detachments of colonial troops now in this city from various parts of the country. The colonials were escorted by detachments of the royal artillery and the life guards. Several bands of music took part in the dis play. The Daily Chronicle expresses the fear that the colonists will take away with them the worst kind of an impression, as the result of official blundering and it especially resents the fact that the colonial premiers do not take part in the procession proper, say ing: "They must keep at a proper distance from the regular troops, from the Indian escort and from the heredi tary grand princes of German doll house courts." The presence in London of the Rev. W. IT. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the senate of the United States, has . attracted, a great deal of attention. 6