Show INTO A GAY GAPIT AlA Al-A Great Transformation Has Occurred in Dublin BUSY AS A EUROPEAN CENTER Queens Visit Though to a Catholic Country and in the 3Iiddlo of Lent 1 J5UirLcd a Whirl of Festivities Such I ns There JTns not Been in Ireland I Since the Good Old Days of Which Lever WroteIrish Nobility Havo locked Across the Channel in Un prcccdcntcd Numbers London April Copyrighted 1POO by the Associated Proas From a city of nervous forebodings political cx cIlemenL and almost stagnation in business Dublin hns been transformed Into n capital as gay and ns busy as any ISuropcnn center The coming of the Queen though to a Catholic country coun-try In the middle of Lent has started a whirl of festivities such as there t has not been in Ireland since the good Old dayS of Vhlch Lever wrote The Irish nobility have floclced cross the channel chan-nel from their English homo > In unprecedented un-precedented numbers and from the oulli the ivost and the north of Ireland Ire-land itself old country families have poured Into Dublin There Is a sufficient number of the members of the Ministry on the banks of the Llffoy to hold a Cabinet council and there are enough lovely women nichlly I I dining In iror cous dresses and Ghinlng with jewelry which has nol been worn for many a dull day to make an Irish lee of which any country might be jealous CBNTKR OP ATTRACTION The castle where the Lor Llcuten ant holds sway Is naturally tho center of attraction but the ancient building build-ing can hold only a few There tho Duke of Devonshire the Duke of Aber corn the Marquis of Lnnsdowne Home Secretary Ridley and a number of peers I and peeresses have been dining In state 1 t very night this week The brilliant uniforms of officers of the Life Guards I from London of the Duke of Con naughts staff and the court uniforms of Irelands dignitaries are nightly blended with the black attire of celebrated I cele-brated civilians Nor could anything L be more superb than the blgcnlvod I bepowdered lackeys that flit in gold and red through the great corridors Outsldo the castle the Shelbourne has been tho scene of gayety Almost every visitor has a title though many of the most distinguished found with chagrin that they could not get rooms and had to be satisfied with humble lodgings and dinners BARRED FROM HOTEL Owing to the presence of thieves In the town and the large amount of jewelry jew-elry displayed those who arc not staying stay-ing at the Shelbourne are not allowed to enter the doors of that hotel without L with-out specifying whom they want to sec and are often kept In the cold for further fur-ther inspection A wellknown but badlydressed l peer who seldom visits Ireland underwent this ordeal the other day and almost exploded with wrnth when a goid laced porter barred his way and made him show his card I before allowing him to enter TROLLEY CAR PARTIES The most popular form of evening amuaeoient has been the chartering of trolley cars by large parties and taking ta-king rides through the crowded and illuminated streets With the Influx of money and Social gnyety political considerations aretemporarily in abeyance abey-ance Superlatives have been olmosl eliminated elimi-nated from the war comments and with the disappearance of possible fort for-t complication the editors and public speakers take quite a moderate tone and treat what is hnppenlrrg In the war field with a certain historical perspective RESIGNED TO LONG STRUGGLE The depressing Incidents of the week have caused Englishmen to resign themselves to a long struggle The disposition dis-position to find fault with the War office for not having anticipated the necessity ne-cessity for tile enormous number of horses acorns unjustified for It Is learned that before the dash on Kim honey and the destruction of horseflesh horse-flesh caused by 1 the surrounding of Geh Crone the War olllce wired to its agents nil over the world particularly In North and South America giving them unconditional power to buy horses xmllmltedly until further orders The conditions in the way of assembling and tlonsJ > oIling the animals were such however that horses bought a month ago can hardly reach Lord Roberta Rob-erta before June Nothing more was heard this week of the movement Initiated by the ministerial min-isterial members of the House of Commons Com-mons to petition tho Government to proclaim the Orange Free State annexed an-nexed to the British empire JnlS0 ErS rrTE IN COMFORT Ldndon bankers are transmitting gold or Its equivalent regularly to the Transvaal in paying checks of British officers who arc held prisoners and tho Standard bank of Pretoria honors all such checks Therefore aN no limit Is placed on the luxuries bought by the prisoners they live In much comfort In fact their messes are probably much better provided than are those of the officers at Bloemfonleln Some of the captives have been there four months and have a regular service via Hamburg and Lourenco Marques which brings them good things to eat smoke and wear The British oillcera box fence and play various games including in-cluding billiards an old table having been bought in Pretoria ATTACK ON PRINCE OF WALES There Is no disposition here to make much over the attack made on the Prince of Wales bySIpldo the anarchist anar-chist last Wednesday at Brussels l while his royal Highness was on his way to Copenhagen but the British see in II the direct consequence of the continental con-tinental picss attacks on Great Britain IP conrcctlon with the war ThuH the London Times says The suppression of notorious facts the propagation of glaring falsehoods and triKulous abuslveness operating on weak minds arc almost certain aoonor or later to have an Issue i In actions from which to do the writers Justice they would ahrlnk with horror l GERMAN PRESS RESPgNSIBLE The Times holds the German press especially responsible for the personal Fcurrllltuis delegated against the Prince of Wales referring to the Kladdera catseh which Is not a Socialist sheet but which ranks up toward London Punch Such alleged scurrilities as the Kladdadntsch prints are systematic yet the Times ewers that the German press Is controlled guided cajoled or coerced by the Government and that the German law of lese majcate ia tho most stringent In Europe The fourth number of the Anglo Saxon Review appears this weok with a gorgeous canovarl binding and a por trait after Sargent of the editor Lady l I Randolph Churchill The list of sub prrJhcrs Is published showing that the Ilvlcws supporters are morn numer i ous In America than In Great Britain I 1 |