Show = ENfLANDZS QUEEN DYN1 Monarch of Great Britain Still Alive at 750 i Oclock This Morning but All Hope Is Gone Members of Royal Family Gathered in Room Adjoining Queens Bed ChamberHer Majesty Is Unconscious and End Is E < pected at Any oment Doubt Expressed Whether Prince of I Wales and Emperor William Will Arrive Before De3th Occurs ft Cowes Isle ot Wight Jan 21 O 750 a mThe Queen is still O alive but all hope is gone 0 L The members of the royal Tarn < S 0 lly are gathered In n room ad O 0 Joining the Queens bed chamber O Her Majesty Is unconscious and leI unconscous the end is expected at any moment mo-ment Doubts are expressed as I Q to whether the Prince of Wales and Emperor William will arrive Qi I l here before the end < DAn e D-An enormous crowd of newspaper CD news-paper representatives and others 0 0 with carriages and bicycles has fcoJected at the lodge gates G waiting In Intense excitement to i convey the news momentarily t i expected that the Queen has O breathed her last Q 6 I Everybody is up In Qsborne 6 0 house and terrible anxiety pervades e I > per-vades all Quarters I the Queen I 1 llves until Tuesday she will surprise I e sur-prise her doctors who have been Q fearing that she would not be able to survive beyond 5 oclock 6 f this mornhjg A special train left the Vic t 9 torla station for Osborne this O 9 1 morning with Emperor William the Prince of Wales the Duke of O t York and the Duke of Connaught Q aboard O e e 1 G C e 8 E Osborne House Isle of Wight Jan T lTfie official bulletin issued at midnight mid-night says that the Queens condition late last evening became more serious with increasing weakness and diminished dimin-ished power of taking nourishment At e2 oclock this morning she Is In 0 comatose com-atose condition and passing away The rector of Whippingham was sum tnoned at midnight and he l arrived at 1246 oclock this morning vAt v-At 10 oclock last evening a collapse or what the physicians feared was a collapse occurred immediately a message mes-sage was sent to London summoning I tho Prince ot Wales and Emperor William Wil-liam The Prince of Wales was In such a condition of health that It was utterly utter-ly Impossible for him to leave London at that hour but it Is hoped that he will start for Osborne house at S this morning I Details as to the collapse are not obtainable ob-tainable at this hour but it is asserted that the Queens condition is chiefly due to a severe sinking spell and an Increase of the paralytic symptoms I is understood that the physicians have resorted to artificial methods to prolong pro-long life such as are used only In cases of persons In extremes POWER OF SPEECH GONE At C oclock last evening the malady had not reached the vital organs although al-though It had naturally caused an almost al-most total loss of the power of speech What was so much feared was that the brain might be attacked SENSITIVE TO HER AFFLICTION Keenly sensitive to her affliction and appearance the Queen has absolutely refused to see anyone but her nurses and doctors and it Is understood that the Prince of Wales Is the only exception j excep-tion to this rule and that his interview t with the Queen lasted but n few moments I mo-ments Hence the exact nature of the malady Is known only to a very few I and It is the royal wlah that the public pub-lic should not be Informed of the existence I ex-istence of paralysis SPELLS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS So far as the Queens Immediate safety safe-ty Is concerned her extreme weakness causes almost more alarm than the paralysis Much difficulty has been experienced in administering nourishment nourish-ment for sho appears quite unable to masticate To this weakness musLcate are probably due the long spells of unconsciousness uncon-sciousness through which she has been passing although it is almost impossible impos-sible to distinguish these from the inr eldlous encroachments of paralysis SANG TO HIS GRANDMOTHER For more than a week the court at tcndantK have had hard work to PIe vent her from sleeping at the wrong time The last time she drove out the villagers were astounded to hear the clear treble of the son of the Princess of Battonburg singing popular DaLGlurg songs from the royal carriage The explanation expla-nation is thai he wns singing to keep hiM grandmother awake Now and again aha dozed awakening to tell the boy to keep up his chant which to the onlooker 1 contained a world of pathos Emperor William the Prince of Wales and Duke of York are all ex pittcd to arrive at Osborne house to day Monday The only royal personage person-age who arrived yesterday was Thin CCHS Victorlsv SohlcswlprHolestcln Who arrlvcd liurlnJ the afternoon TOUfJIIING SCENE Yes lwd 1 Osborne hedged around with Intense secrecy began with a begni a tolrhll Ilon I 1 ll n > IIIuLIb lUC J Ijj IlL HUH shine fn mar contrast to the gloomy sklcfi of Saturday there drove out from the palncc grounds n carriage containing wreaths for the tomb of Prince Henry of Battenburg In the lIt Battenbulg tw It tie church at WhJpplngham about ten VhfpplnEham nil mi IPS ride from the royal residence Thpn followed carrluges containing the PrlnrcsH of Wales the PrlnoesH of Bat lonburg PrInce Louise and others all al dropped In the deepest black The face of the Princess of Wales allowed signs of the anxiety she was undergoing UNUSUALLY SORROWFUL The annual memorial service for Prince Henry always n sad occasion was more than UHtfally sorrowful for the shadow of a still greater bereave mont waa uppermost In l mInds The Princess of Wales and the Princess of uattenburg sobbed bitterly and there Was scarcely one of those royal heads lent In prayer that did not shake with a grief which could not be suppressed pKlCYED HIS MOTIJKirS WISH The doparUira uftho Prince of Walca for London shortly after J oclock to meet Emperor William was quietly accomplished ac-complished The Queen had been informed In-formed of Clio Kaisers coming and had signified her desire that the Prince should go to meet him Rather against his will the man who for the moment was practically the King of England obeyed his mothers wishes I was remarked I re-marked that the Queen wanted the Emperor to postpone his visit to Os borne house as she did not wish to < receive him in her present condition Apparently In her lucid moments she beliccd that she would be able to conquer con-quer the dread disease which had fastened fast-ened itself upon her During tjie afternoon the long hilly road to the ualacc grounds was crowded crowd-ed with people particularly young men and women arrayed In their Sunday Sun-day garb dotting the landscape with vivid patches of color The local gentry gen-try after church services wiotc i their names In the visitors boolc at the lodge which contains no signatures that would I mean anything to the world outside of the Isle of Wight FLOODED WITH TELEGRAMS Inquirlcs of Importance all came by telegram and these were legion Hundreds Hun-dreds of people of all sorts and conditions con-ditions clergymen predominating flooded Cowes with telegrams asking for the latest news A sunrm of people peo-ple among them correspondents from all quarters of the globe mingled ceaselessly converged toward the lodge gates Their inquiries generally took the form of a timid How is she addressed to the policeman who barred all comers and nn Inquirer who had been answered would be immediately answerel mediately surrounded by others less bold who sought the news HEFERRT3D TO BULIETINS When night fell the place became dcscrtedj except for the newspaper writers who waited wearily In the lodge Strict orders have been given to the court attendants and the Os borne house servants to make no answer to Inquiries except by referring to tho official bulletins L Nevertheless any yokel who has over been on an errand to the castle is willing to detail minutely what is W png with the Queen pnb King Leopold of Belgium who is kept fully Informed regarding the I condition regaldlntthe dition of Queen Victoria will proceed to Osborne house immediately I The Duke of Cambridge who arrived In Paris Saturday evening on his way I to the Riviera received a telegram for him to return at once He wqs pro paiing to start when another dispatch reached him this evening of a more favorable character and ho decided to wait further news before returning to England 1 Berlin Lokal Anzieger says the German Ger-man imperial yacht Hohcnzollcrn the cruiser Eymphe and the torpedo boat Slepner now at Kiel have received re-ceived orders to prepare for sea and It Js understood the orders are connected con-nected with the condition of Queen Victoria Vic-toria The news of Queen Victorias Illness caused consternation In Capetown Sir Alfred Milncr and his stat attended services in the cathedral where prayers pray-ers were offered for her Majestys recovery re-covery The Prince ot Wales spent the night at Marlborough house and Emperor William at Buckingham palace A telegram from Cronburpr Prussia announces the irrlval there yesterday ot Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia Prus-sia and the Hereditary Princess of SaxcMeinlngcn to stay with Dowager Empress Frederick who is described as Qs terribly depressed by the news of her mothers condition 1 ENTIRE KINGDOM ANXIOUS I No One Outsid Court Circles itnew Real Condition of Queen London Jan Thioughout t the United Kingdom yesterday Sunday was one of anxiety and suspense No one in England outside the cIrcle oC the court knew the real condition of the Queen or the nature of her disease > The London newspapers had not learned that her Majesty had suffered t shock of paralysis Extra editions of the Sunday papers contained no In I fOIm ton but thcie were many of the otllcial bulletins and they were eagerly ea-gerly bought There were small gatherings gath-erings in the vicinity of Buckingham palace and Marlborough house an well ns other centers where the bulletins were posted Crowds ansembled to aHaepbl witness the arrival I of Emperor William Wil-liam Apart from such incidents however how-ever the customary quiet 1 a London Lon-don Sunday was not disturbed ALARMING REPORTS SPREAD The most alarming reports of the day came In the form of telegrams from the Princesses at Osborne house The coming of Emperor William and the news that King Leopold was about starting for London inspired fears thut death was at hand On the < jjher hand the fact that the Priijce JhcI Wales waa able to leave Osborne house had an encouraging effect When the Prince arrived at Victoria station London ut 1 oclock with Sir Francis Knoellys attending several hundred people wore there to greet hjm But there was no demonstration beyond a icspcftful raising hot The Earl of I Clarendon and the Earl of cmbroke received the Prince When they inquired in-quired regarding the Queens conch Ion he replied You ECO they have let mo come away The Government had arranged to send the last cruiser Mlneuva to bring Emperor Wllllanl but lie cm I I Uorked on a mall packet before he I learned 1 of the plans being accompanied accompan-ied by the Duke of Connaught The steam had a rough passage and on enteringSheerneiw harbor she went by the warships without any ceremonies I Admiral Kennedy and Count Sflerbach of the German embassy received the 1 Emperor > and escorted him toc special wa I ti ag room ANXIOUS TO SEE EMPEROR Two hours before his Majestys train was due In London people began to gather about Charing Cross station The crowd Included not the only usual I iangerson but many fashionable people peo-ple and hundreds of Germans anxious j to ace the Emperor on his first appear J I C > 1 J JJfY1 1 pd j1 Ft iY rU11 7 r frlZ q ii ii 4 Lv ifJI7 P QUEEN VICTORIA From Her Latest Photograph i I ance in London for years The throng J became so large that the authorities erected wooden barriers and L hundred anc of the tallest police of the metropolitan metropoli-tan police force with squads of mounted men lined up the people on the streets forming a lane for two blocks to Nelson monument In Tra I filgar square Through this lane moved a procession of royal parriages each bearing two footmen in yellow liveries behind The carriages entered the railway station and drew up near the track The Prince of Wales arrived ar-rived just before the train entered the station which was at G20 p in The Duke of York Prince Christian Prince Albert of SchleswlgHolstein and Prince Arthur of Connaught completed 1he group of royal personages KISSKD PRINCE OF WALES Emperor William stepped out of a saloon car wearing a traveling suit wearlnr elng sull He saluted the Prince of Wales by kissing him on both cheeks and the Prince returned a similar salutation He then embraced the Duke of York and shook hands with the others The people who looked on as the carriages drove off uncovered their heads and Emperor William and the Prince of Wales asknowledged the courtesy by raising thou hats No cheers broke the mournful silence The crowd In the vicinity of PuckiMgham palace maintained the same demeanor when the 1 Emperor and the Prince ot Wales retired together At 10 p 1 m the Prince began a conversation con-versation with Osborne house which lasted nearly I an hour As a resultof this the Emperor and the Prince decided I de-cided t start for Osborne this Monday Mon-day morning Orders Ire given that I a royal yacht should be kept In waiting wait-Ing to convey them to the Isle of Wight During the day Ihe members of the diplomatic corps and other notable persons entered their namca In the vls ilorh book at Buckingham palace The rumors that the Marquis of I Salisbury and the Archbishop of Canterbury Can-terbury had bean summoned to Os borne house were Incorrect PRAYERS FOr THE QUEEN In churches of ill denominations prayers were offered at the morning services and In them the latest bulletins bulle-tins regarding the Qufcns condition wen read Tho following notice wns rcnd in the Roinan Catholic procathodralat Kensington Ken-sington The prayers oC the congregation congre-gation arc naked for her Majesty the Queen the condition ot wheat Jieulth Is u cause of anxiety and sorrow to all We pray that by Gods help her Majestys recovery may be speedy and I complete v j The dean of St Georgts chapel Windsor read the prayer for i a sick I person when there is little hopeof re covory beginning For as much In all appearance the time of her 1 diqso lutlon draws nearer r 1 ANOTHER GRAVE MATTER In 1 the closing momentfa nf Queen 1 Victorias life another gnivo portent allies nartieljVlhc serious luafsfposl > lon of the Prince of Wales So worried I wor-ried tired and cxlmuotcd was he lust evening that he could not respond 1m H 4 1 no 0 h r I ill VllLLUIJt IV Ulv ou III 1IIIMI JIUIII > borne house The most he could do was to promise that he would leave London atS oclock this morning if possible J It ID I worthy of note that even today the London papers do not mention by even the most veiled allusion the fact that the Queen has had a paralytic stroke Pages are devoted to the mournful scenes at Oshnrno hpuse and to I the 1 descriptions of occurencoF here as well us to the telegrams from the colonies and foreign countries testifying evoked testify-ing to the sympathy everywhere NOT AS EMPEROR According to the Dally Telegraph Emperor William who has expressed 3 desire to be received at Osborno Jiouse not nn Emperor but ns grandson grand-son said on hearing of the Queens ill ijess I am my grandmothers eldest grandson and my mother IIR unable from Illness i to hasten to herf bedside Grief in British Columbia > Vancouver B c Jan 20 Bulletins regarding the condition of the QtieCIi were rend at Intervals durlnp thO r vices in all the churches here this eui Ing and Sere listened fo with cvSry manlfestallpa oC grief Crowds sur round c the telegraph once waiting for the latest news from Cowes DISSOLVING OF PARLIAMENT Winston Churchill Talks of Policy of British Government Minneapolis Mimi Jan 20 Winston Win-ston Churchill the English war correspondent cor-respondent and lecturer is greatly concerned con-cerned over the report of the Queens failing health In the event or the Queens demise he said the natural sequence would be the dissolving of Parliament Whether this Is done in accordance with a statuto or as matter mat-ter ot precedent I cannot say However How-ever those in Great BrItain who know what this would mean would not I am sure desire such to thing There is absolute 1 no question that the Conservatives will be again in power pow-er If another general election were ordered but knowing the facts as I do I will say that In my opinion Parliament Par-liament will not be dissolved Whatever What-ever comes I know that the continued cont policy of the Government Is assured Mr Churchill left at 730 oclock this evening for Wlnnepeg I tho Queen dies 1 will return to England at once EMPIRE WILL DISINTEGRATE Chancellor of Nebraska So Predicts in a Sermon Lincoln Neb Jan 20pr E B Andrews Chancellor of tho University of NPhLnskn preached tonight at the First Baptist church on the life of Qu en Victoria She hath done what she could was the chosen text or Dr Andrews The Chancellor predicted that after her death the empire would gradually disintegrate Australia would first seek Independence and then South Africa and perhaps Canada would follow This he thought would come to pass because there was little likelihood of such another ruler as the Queen QUEESPS LONG REIGN Wielded Wonderful Influence in European Politics London Jan 21 Tho bulletin Issued at midnight was too late to become known in London except to a very felt fe-lt when the metropolis awakes the Queen issUI living her people must recognize that there Is really no hope This I mornings newspapers have thrown off all pretense of any possibility possi-bility of recovery and they sadly admit hut tho end may come at any moment While there is life there is hope they say and the Queens constitution is mnrvr lrmc1v stronrr hut tI It I 5 lillo i in 1 n Ln I deny that the danger Is extreme Thoi eforc the papers proceed to review her Majesty long and Illustrious reign ns though she was no more und to dilate di-late upon the wonderful influence she wlelrled In European politics v for so lan t years n WONDERFUL INFLUENCE Wo all know sa Hthe Dally Mall that there Is danger of losing perliaps the greatest personal force of our lime The Daily News recalls the fact that even Bismarck who detested feminine interference in politics formed an estimate esti-mate of the Queen after a personal Interview In-terview with her which bordered on the idolatrous and adds This is ono of the niost striking tributes ever paid to a great character BRIGHT SPOT IN THE GLOOM bright spot In the universal gloom Wfi tho unexpectedly prompt sympathy sympa-thy displayed t by Emperor William in Continued on page 2 Cont I I QUEEN VICTORIA DYING I Continued from Page 1 I giving up Important engagements to com to the deathbed of his grandmother grand-mother This says the Dally Mall IIM calculated to endear his name to every Englishman and we feel at such t I an hour what true sympathy means I IS BUT ONE SENTIMENT The Times says There Is but one sentiment today In the hearts of En gllshepeaklng people throughout the world Their eyes arc turned tln keen anxiety to the sickbed where lies tho I venerable sovereign i who commands I not merely the loyalty but tho personal affection of countless millions It needs no great medical knowledge to understand I under-stand the meaning of the last bulletin We must admit however that all our hopes and fears are alike based UDOU Imperfect knowledge We can only I await the result and bear the painful suspension with such calmness and fortitude as we are able to summon I to our aid I PRAISE FOR BRITISH QUEEN History alfords but few examples rulers who have wdn the affection af-fection and regard enjoyed by our beloved be-loved Queen Even among those not of our blood or speech even among those who have little thatjls kind to say of the British people tfievc are instin ted I I praIse and warm regard for the British Queen Were we more like her were our official and Individual relations with foreigners carried on with more of her Catholic urbanity and graclousncss who knows but that we too should win something of the kindly regard testified today Jn every foreign capital capi-tal a V GERMANYS HOMAGE Referring to the presence of the r Kaiser the Times sa RHls presence is Germanys homage to those very 1 human feelings and sympathies so unl f formly displayed by the Queen As such It will be understood here and be all the more honored and appreciated appre-ciated because It Involves a certain lofty disregard of mere politics As such we do not doubt It will be understood under-stood In all other countries and It will be watched with respectful I sympathy WHAT STANDARD SAYS The Standard says If tho Queen were aware of the German Emperors arrival the circumstances could hardly fail to bring some satisfaction to her I I mind IL Jsn consolation in this hour I ofjiatlonal distress to listen to the universal uni-versal chorus of respectful esteem which her Majestys illness has evoked i abroad In the United States the progress prog-ress of the patient has been watched as anxIously as in London and the bitterest bit-terest critics of England have only words of respect for Englands Queen The Morning Post says Out of the most reverent and profound respect for our sovereign we must stand silent si-lent for the sorrow which holds us The love and admiration of her subjects are unhappily of no avail Nothing in these dark days when sorrow is heavy on us will have so sweet an effect on the minds of tho Queens subjects throughout the world as the arrival Emperor William SYMPATHY OF THE WORLD The Dally Telegraph sayst I A precious pre-cious and beloved existence hovers at last upon the brink of the great mys teryA life of lives Is drooping toward the valley of the shadow and the empire em-pire awaits In Its silence and sort w But bpyond life empire are the I I unexampled unex-ampled sympathy concern and wonder of the homage of mankind Emperor William above all has expressed this wonderful feeling not In word but In act with a fervor of natural affection which England will never forget Ill is one oC the saddest circumstances of the hour that Empress Frederick is not able to be present Therefore Emperor Em-peror Williams presence is doubly dutiful and at Osborne house it will be doubly dear Proceeding to refer in detail to the sympathy displayed In all parts of the globill says For the American people tho character and domestic ex ample of thin Ouecn have been a con secration of the AngloSaxon ideal They have been regarded as hardly less the possession of the United States than of ourselves and they have gone fat to restore the moral unity of the race and to heal the worst effects of its political separation |