Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-04-10 | Page 1 | Queen's Courier Arrives Prepares for Her Visit Hers an Errand of Mercy

QUEEN'S COURIER ARRIVES o5 PREPARES TOR .HER VISIT HERS AN ERRAND Of MERCY li Queen Eleanora of Bulgaria. Eleanora' of Bulgaria Will Study Hospitals and Training Train-ing of Nurses. NEW YORK, .'April . William Caa-pur, Caa-pur, personal representative of Queen Eleanora of Bulgaria, arrived ar-rived here' tonight to make final arrang-emonts for tho visit of tho queen to tho, United Stalos. Tho queen, ho said, will sail late' in IN ray and will vislt.all. of the larger cities as far west aa Chicago. She will remain In this country coun-try about, flvo weeks. Mr. Caspar, who was born In the United States, has been a resident of Bulgaria for many years. He is a contractor for tho Bulgarian government and n close friend of King Ferdinand and Queen Eleanora. ' "Tho queen Is coming to the United States ao a atudent." he said. "Sho desires de-sires to. study tho methods, employed by the United States In handling immigrants. Sho Is also Interested in hospitals and the training of nurses. Saw Service as Nurse. "During the recent war in the Balkans It wa5 American nurses who did the most to' relievo tho sufferings of tho wounded and. sick Bulgarian soldiers. During tho Russian-Japanese war, tho queen, who was then princess of Rouss. saw much service as a nurse. lSver alnce she married mar-ried tho king of Bulgaria she has spent the most of hor time bettering conditions in tho hospitals of the country. Tho queen now owns three hospitals in Bulgaria, Bul-garia, "In Bulgaria there is a lack of professional profes-sional trained nurses. The queen will brlnir with hor four young Macedonian women whom she will have instructed hi an American hospital. Theso young women will then go back to Bulgaria and Instruct others. Tho queen Is also p alining ali-ning to take back sevoral Ainorlcan nursos as teachers "Tho queen will have a suite of about fifteen, and several of tho leading physl- Oontianod on Page Two.) BU QUEEN WILL SOON VISIT MM (Continued from Page One.) clans and surgeons of Bulgaria may also join the party. "I understand newspapers In this country coun-try have published dispatches to the effect ef-fect that the queen had received a number num-ber of letters threatening her life. That Is true; the queen has received them. But she has not paid tho slightest attention to tho threats, as sho realized that they were mado by Ignorant, persons. She knows sho will be protected in this country." coun-try." The queen will sail from Hamburg for New York either on May 22 or on May 27, and, according to her personal representative, represen-tative, desires to travel j In the Unltea Slates as a private Individual. May Visit Coast. "It Is Impossible at this 'time to glvo. a complete list of the cities the queen will visit during her tour of tho country. coun-try. I am here now to complete all the arrangements. It Is certain, however, that sho will visit Philadelphia, Chicago, Chi-cago, Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Rochester, Minn. In tho last-named place sho will bo the guest of Dr. Mayo. "It may he that Quoon Eleauora will go out to tho Pacific coast. That, however, how-ever, depends upon developments," Mr. . Caspar would not say whether the queen's visit was likely to lead to the establishment of a Bulgarian legation at Washington, Professor Oliver Balnrldge, tho English author, will arrive next week to aid Mr. Caspar in putting the finishing touehet to ' the arrangements for the queen's tour.