Show PREMIER A8A A GOLD + f I IIIarquis of Salisbury Confined to His House LONDON SOCIETY GOSSIP ROYALTY CIUTICISED FOR SNUBBING SNUB-BING THE PUBLIC + Smart American Set Attracts Attention Atten-tion of the PressTommy Atkins Message to Rudy d Kipling Formation pf a Big Oil Trust Americas Cup Yacht 1 Copyright 1599 by the Associated Press London March 11London has been favored with Ideal sprIng weather during dur-ing the past week and there has been a marked diminution of influenza I The Marquis of Salisbury caught a bad cold while returning from Windsor on the occasion of the formal presentation presenta-tion of the United States ambassador Mr Joseph S Choate to the queen and he has been confined to his house ever since The premier Is unable to I preside at the cabinet meetings or to hold the usual reception of the members I mem-bers of the diplomatic corps Thus Mr Choate has not yet called formally at the foreign office Mr and Mrs Choate have been inundated I undated with Invitations to social I events which are about to take place All the ambassadors have left their cards The absence of the queen and the I I Prince of Vales respectively from the opening drawingroom and levee of I seaSon has given rIse to much criticism criti-cism and a great deal of grulJlblins among society people As one of the papers says This Is one of the duties I du-ties belonging to the throne and the I heIr and the public who pay the piper I expect royal music I Another paper says Outside of the charmed cIrcle of the larlborollghs i and ianchesters there is a very smart I American set in London now Ladles Ablnger and Oxford Irs Offby Sores ter whose daughters were the belles of the Riviera season last year MrsBlake Mrs Alfred ParIs who Is holding the most pleasant weekly receptions In Chesham street and Mesdames Bachelor Bach-elor and Freeman Schulge of Philadelphia I Philadel-phia London will lose one of its most popular beauties during the trip of I Lady Mary Sackvllle to visit Mr and Mrs George J Gould next month TOMMY ATKINS TO KIPLING The newspapers here still pay considerable con-siderable attention to the progress toward recovery made by RUdyard I Kipling The Times on Friday published pub-lished prominently a set of verses after the style of The Barraclroom Ballads Bal-lads and supposed to be from Tommy Tom-my Atkin to Kipling on his illness The last verse ran Ve card that YOU were fighting ard I just as we know you would But we ardly oped youd turn his flank they said you ardly could But the news has come this morning and Im writing ere to say Theres no BrItish son more appy than your old frIend Thomas A The bill of Mr Harold James Rick itt Liberal member for the BrIgs dl Islo11 of LlncQlnshlre raisins the flash point of petroleum from 73 to 100 Is the result of a bitter campaign waged by certain evening papers against the deadly low flash It comes before the house of commons next Wednesday and will meet wIth strong opposition Its opponents contending that the originators or-iginators of the agitation against the American oils are the Scotch petroleum refiners Moreover it Ie shown that many of the accidents during the past year were not due to American oil but to Russian oil whose test point Is 103 The bill It Is declared seeks to compel tile public to use oils which apparently have beep but little favored by the people up to now and favors RussIa at the expense of America BIG OIL TRUST Three rpr sent Uves ofan American j < O syndicate are over here negotiating for a combination of the English and AmerIcan oil mills They expect to carry the scheme through and in about three months time there wlll be the bIggest trust ever formed on thIs side of the Atlantic involving capital to the amount of about 75000000 The Idea Is that each side abandon competition com-petition on the others ground and come to a working arrangement regarding the continental business especially that of southern Europe in aU and seed cake The oil millIng Industry here is confined to HuB Liverpool and London Hull 13 the principal center but Liverpool has the largest concern of the kind In the world The Lord Mayor of London Sir John Voce Moore presented at a meeting held at the Mansion House this week to further the proposed national commemoration com-memoration in 1901 of the one thousandth thou-sandth anniversary of the death of King Alfred The queen has given the movement her patronage and the memorIal me-morIal wlIl take the form of a bronze statue of King Alfred to be erected In his royal city of WInchester The United States ambassador wrote regretting re-gretting that his visit to the queen at Windsor on the day of the meeting prevented his attendance The secretary secre-tary who Is a former mayor of Winchester Win-chester announced that a company had been formed In AmerIca to cooperate coop-erate with the movement here and that its members include Colonel John Hay the secretary of state Bishop Potter and the presidents of Yale and Johns Hopkins unIversities King Alfred belng the founder of Great Britains maritime supremacy a naval display will be held and the largest larg-est armored cruiser in the world to be launched in 1901 will be christened King Alfred Tolvesey the ancIent residence of the English kings near Winchester will be secured as a memorial me-morial museum The sum of oE30OOO 150009 > Is mkcdfor to carry out the whole scheme BUILDING THE SHAMROCK W Fife jr the yacht designer has been in London frequently during the last few weeks studying the lines of the Shamrock as she grows Into shape He has not modified his plans In the slightest detail so he 15 evIdently as pleased with her appearance as an actual I ac-tual boat as he was with designs The workmen have now succeeded In surmounting sur-mounting the worst difficulties In working I work-ing the manganese plates some of vhlch were ruined during the first attempts at-tempts to do so But the work is now proceeding smoothly though slowly It is expected however that the mcht could be ready if directed by the end of May The name Golden Rod which it is said wll he given to the American cup defender is rather startling to Englishmen most of whom never heard of the American flower The Yachting World says No fault can be found with the name but aB the same It is unpleasantly suggestive of a beating for SirJoseph Tipton The owner of the Shamrock returns from the RivIera on the 16th when the date of the launch of the cup challenger chal-lenger will be fixed The Daily Telegraph announces that it will shortly start a Sunday edition It will be only an experiment and except ex-cept for the New York Heralds experiment experi-ment the < Daily Telegraph will be the first London paper to have a seven days issue The success of the thgatrical world at present is Chailes4Hawtrey In The Cuckoo at the Avenue theatre wherein where-in spite of the charges of Impropriety all fashionable London Is flocking The criticisms on A Lady of Quality Qual-ity < as a play are generally very severe se-vere and It is not likely that It wlll succeed here Lady Brown Potters success In the Musketeers has finally established her In a position from which she Is now able to dictate her own terms She will play the leadinglroie In Henry ATones A-Tones Carnac Sahiba which Beer bohm Tree will produce at Her Maj ests theatre on April 5 The new play wlll picture AngloIndian life with soldiers and rajahs galore Kyrle BeBew has contracted to appear ap-peAr with SIr Henry IrvIng at the Lyceum theatre atEaster Advices from Vienna just receIved here record the success of an American Madame Blauvelt at Thursdays phil harmonic concert I rm |