Show DOINGS OF ROYALTY t Queen Transfers Her Court to Isle of Wight HER CHRISTMAS GIFTS 4 BUYING PRESETS FOE HER IN tTHEABLE RELATIVES + Coming of a Persian Prince Arouses No EnthuiasmPnce of Wale Efforts t Stop the Ivage of Onumptionntst For the Portland Dukedom t Copyright 1ES by the Associated Press London Dcc 17ueen Victoria on Friday trnsferre the court from Windsor to Osbore Isle of Wight The anniversary of the death of the prince consort who died Dec 1 1861 1as scrupulously observe on Wednesday Wednes-day The memorial service at the Frogoe mausoleum was attended br the queen Pnc of Wales the Duke and Duchess of York and the entr royal family each member placing a wreath on Prince Alberts sarophagus The queen is enjoying particularly I good health at present She has ben busy buying Christmas gifts wh1h were ten to Windsor castle for her seleton Her majesty makes It a poInt in choosing presents to see that her gifts a peculiarly suitable to each of her Innu rble relatives or friends The Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York have been visiting the stores in the wet end of Indon and have frequent been seen gazIng In store windows and choosing Christmas purchases Society is aready discussing the spring drawing roms The queen will personally hold one or two and the others will be presided over by the Princess Christian and the Duchess of I Connaught the Princess of ale not Y being available owing to the fact that she is In deep mournIng Princess Margaret Mar-garet of Connaught who will be 17 years of age in January will be the only royal debutante Prince Mailk Man ur Mirza Sliua I second son f J shah of Persia a young man about 19 years of age is comIng to England in January His visit has not arouse particular enthusiasm enthu-siasm In view of the experIences re suiting from previous sis of Persia I royalties The manners of Prinre Ma i Uk who Is describe as a diminutive weakly youth are however said tobe pleasant and he Is fairly cultured CONSUMPTION CAMPAIGN Tee has been a great deal of talk recently of the ned of some widespread action to cope with the increasing ray age of Great Britins national disease dis-ease consumption The PrInce of Wales has now summoned a private meeting at Marlborough House to promote pro-mote a war against tuberculosis The Marquis of Salisbury and z number of famous medical men will take part In it I is hoped the outcome will be somethng more successful than the Princ of ale wonderful stamp scheme to assist the London hospitals ithich prove more or less a fasco colors col-ors refusIng t touch the stamps as they were not available for postage The last Issue was thrown almost entirely en-tirely upon the hands of the organizers of the scheme I 15 announced that Mr L Z Liter of Chicago atherinlaw of Lord Curon of Keleston the new viceroy of India paid for the IndIan outftf Lord and Lady Curzon who started for India under the happiest auspices and after a splendid sendof from their friends Lady Curzon enter upon her duties I as vicerene with a trousseau of un preedente magnificence while Mr Loiter presented Lord Curon with three official durbar conference cloak of the finest velvet and gold in pale > blue ruby and white each with the star of India In gold and diamonds The question was recently broached of placing a statue of Washington In Westminster Abbey Den Bradley now announces that no such proposal has e ben submitted to the authorities and he is of the opinIon that It is impossible entertained im-possible for the mater to be officially BRITONS AND YANKEES An Interesting letter from a marine onboard On-board the British frstclass cruise Powerful recently at Manila on the relains between the British tar and the American tx QPs ha been published pub-lished The writer says Our men and the Yankee soldiers are awful friendly Very few of the Americans were In uniform The often only had the number of their regiment regment written on a pIece of paper and pinned to theIr jackets I was a sight to see the come < n board speaking to everybody body When we saw them go up t officers without saluting we felt a if we must drop on the Epot They offered cigar cases to our men with Have a cigar my boy and afterward handed us visiting cars saying Now be sure and 101 us up i roure down our way Thc awful fate of the passengers of the Prince line steamer La Bouogc wa vividly brought home to the BritIsh BrIt-ish thIs week by details which are just leaking our regarding the disaster to the Clan Drummon which foundered in the Bay of Biscay while on her way to Algoa bay These details have also 7 serve a a waning of the danger which ha been frequently pointed out of having a large proportion of Lascars in the crews of British vessels Great reticence Is maIntained on the subject but I appears that the Lascars became paicstricken and fought like demons A survivor relate that sevpral Euro peas were drowned by being dragged down by the ferocious and frantic Lascar ca coole who lost aU discipline The captain of thE Clan Drummond was being be-ing hauled on board the rescuing seam cr when a number of Lascars Sped I the rope and pulled him back with the result that the captain was drowned The Malaya also crowded Into the boats which were swamped and caused bot a cause 1 their occupants to perish The new law enabling conscientious objector to escape vaccination Uy I making a statutory declaration nhs been wIdely availed of throughout the country and Is causing serious mlsg togs and strong protests from the press Thousands of chIldren have thus ben exempted from vaccination Sir Rich I I ad Thore the principal medical of e I eel to the local government board in i I his official report on vaccination during the pat ea announces that metbird of the children in England aDd Wales shave escaped vaccination Hc cOncludes cOn-cludes with remarking r I The country Is being prep red for idepratl epidemic of smallpox such las unkovn t the present enett P lon > lonI is suggested In order to cuntar dlct the antaccinaton1sts that insur ancO companies refuse to Issue po11E t uuyaclnae people f Lr t MRS DRUCES BONDS t1rs Druce ate apparently sur m untng the lat dIffIculty In the way of oenhi the Dc vault by securing secur-ing permission n from the consistory cot4rt in her attempt to establish that bert son Is the rightful sixth Duke of Poijtland by determining whether or not the body of Her fatherinlaw T C rce Is real buried there is now com Iorlted by a stIll more serIous b stc e In the refusal of Mr Herbert Drue whom the cemetery company r reco4roizes a the owner of the vault < to give his consent t II 111 t9 tt1 IlIp c r 1orfer the nome secretary la in I tere1ed He declares his Permission Ift I I < hW Is necessary and the proceedings thus seem interminable Nevertheless Mrs Druce Is issuing 10000 500000 of Druce Portland bonds the holder of which she claims will receive 5 25 wi for ever ol 5 within twelve months after her son succeeds to the dukedom and estates She declares that 1000 55000 of the bonds have already ben East End Mothers Hoie In addition side that the present duke cannot lose his dukedom as he ha taen the oath in the house of lord and that if Drce succeeds there will be two duke t is also declared that the estates owing to the conditions of the succession cannot be alienated from the present holders holdersTHEATRICAL THEATRICAL GOSSIP The reappearance of Robert Arthur at the Comedy theatre after a long absence ab-sence in the provinces is the only theatrical the-atrical novel of the week His ulav Milford SIr SmIth is a weak musicat comedy but it served to give an opportunity op-portunity to Ada Reeve who quite eclipsed Robert and the others in the cat and mae a brilliant success Jest Is to be withdrwn from thc Criterion on Wednesday and Charles Yyndham Wi close the theatre for a month Clement Scot announced this week his jntenton of retiring from thepost of dramatic critic of the Daily Tele graph He says he is going on a lecture lec-ture tour in the United tSates Princess Louis the Marchioness of Lre has promoted a matinee performance per-formance to tae place next Monday at the Strand theatre in aid of the East End Mothers Home n addition to the leading actor and actresses the Duke of Manchester the Earl of Ya mouth and Lady Grvle are bled to appear |