2 THE SAN FRANCISCO GALL. j^DlSESDAY, JANUARY Vi5,ltJVl, PASSING OF GREAT BRITAIN'S AGED QUEEN McKINLEY EDWARD VII,KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANDAND EMPEROR OF INDIA. SYMPATHY EXPRESSES SHOWN IN SORROW THIS CITY Cables Condolences to Hags at Half-Mast Great Britain's on All Public New King* -Buildings. Official Washington's Semi State FuneraT Unusual Display Service Will Be of Grief, Held Here.

news of the death of Queen «THT "^y *"yASHINGTON.* Jan. 22. Victoria was received in San j|k / our days of anxiety Francisco yesterday with ad 'n a lar rncas- widespread expressions of \& /«& / K« and X*a/ tm prepared official deepest regret, all classes Washington, for! nationalities joining In the * the by V nrws which was THE' sympathy called forth flashed across the the passing of Britain's cable this great sovereign. The first Intima- afternoon was of thp death of the Queen of England; so tion conveyed to the public flag placed it'happrned that al> things that could bo when the American was deremly done in anticipation of the at half-mast on the flag pole sur- sail the Claua f-nd ha<1 h~en disposed of and all was In mounting the lofty dome of readiness for tM<» Queen Victoria time of the came, crowds congregated around the newspa- all news which from details of Osbome House, po per offices, eager to learn the when the end came All over the city later in the afternoon Itfound appropriate the sovereign's death. messajrrp flags were lowered to half-mast out of of condolence framed and even banks, order™ respect to the dead monarch. Over ready for execution looking to the and the- half-masting of flags hotels, business houses stores the over the execu- emblem hung, and along the tive departments ami the carrying out of national the usual formalities. The half-masting water front ships of all nations lowered their ensigns. At the ferry building tho of the national ensign ,was an unusual displayed, and tribute to the memory sign of mourning was of the deceased was conveyed to Adjutant sovereign. It Is said this has been done when word rarely upon General Babcock of the United States the occasion of the funeral headquarters and that of the American Consuls, city officials, people in you;- personal bereavement and in the England. The loss i:r.i!a;i;!.r.r- suffered in the death of its members of the clergy, army and navy ver.frat»le and Illustrious sovereign, who«e officials and prominent citizens willbe in- noble life and beneficent influence have pro- vited to attend. moted the peace and won the affection of th» The British societies, together withCon- world. WILLIAMHcKIXLEY. sul Plckersglll. will arrange later for a Secretary Hay cabled the followingmes- grand memorial service, to give all Brit- sage to Embassador Choate at London: ish subjects the opportunity of taking Cho&te. London: You will express to Lord part in the expression of sympathy and Laasdor.ne the profound sorrow of the Gov- tribute to the mother country. Sacred ernment and people of the United States at music and addresses will be the feature the death of the Queen and the deep sympathy of the memorial service. we ferl with the people of the British empire Consul Pickersgill and* a number of In their great affliction. JOHN HAV. prominent British subjects desire to ex- Lord Pauncefote had expected that the press their thanks to the press and the end ctfuld not be long deferred and had public In general for the outburst of sym- been prepared for the sad intelligence pathy shown when the news of tha more; death arrived In San Francisco. that the Queen was no but It came Queen's to-day lo Ifim almost as a personal affliction, for Consul Plckersglll will send a It was only a few months ago cablegram to the- new King, tendering to that he family was guest Queen Osborne, him and the royal the condolence the of the at city When he received of the British residents In this ' and from her hands his ele- : '-' vation to the peerage. Aside from this State. the Queen had frequently shown most gracious consideration to the Embassador and Lady Pauncefote. Inviting them to EULOGIZES THE Windsor and to Osborne for visits which were something more than brief official DEAD SOVEREIGN exchanges. On the last occasion when Lord Pauncrfote saw the Queen she was in excellent health, considering her years. Benjamin and her mental faculties were keen and Ex-President Harrison observant. Pays High Tribute to Her . Formal notice ofthe Queen's death was "Worth, as a Queen, and ¦ | - communicated by Lord Pauncefote to the President through Secretary Hay this as a Woman. jg afternoon. It contains the simple an- nouncement of the fact of death as sent to the Embassador by Lord Lansdowne, INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 22.— When noti- the British Secretary of State for Foreign fied of the Queen'a death .to-day Ben- Affairs. jamin Harrison made this statement: "No other death could have excited so LIFE RECORD OF general a sorrow. There are persona In— SHOPS CLOSE THE MAN WHO SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE every nation— other than Great Britain whose death would more profoundly move the people of that nation, but Queen Vic- AS BELL TOLLS MADE VACANT BY THE PASSING AWAY OF VICTORIA briny more sadness • • toria's death will to OF WALES yesterday, ceeds the position of ¦ heir apparent QUEEN to cuining or me great granason oi v^eorge proceeded to ueyion and Calcutta.. Alter ne captured every jack Tar in tne tsntisn hearts of more men and women than King of Great Britain and Ire- which his father held so many years, was III,and forgetting all the" animosities of visiting all the principal cities of, the em- navy by having the admiral, Sir Nowell the 6, •- any other. The drumbeat did not define land Emperor India, as married on July 1893, to hls^ cousin. Prin- 1776 1812, ¦ pire," Gloom Settles*Upon England's Capi- and of and welcomed him. with' th« the Prince arrived in London in.May, Salmon, commancJer-ln-ehlef. signal an or- dominion; the Union, Jack was not ' ' Edward VII'to-day. cess Victoria Mary, daughter of the Duke greatest cordiality and 'enthusiasm, which 1S76. "He brought with him about der for the "malnbrace to be spliced." her tal Upon Receipt • He is the cf.Teck. fact, - home ' the symbol of her large empire. More of the first of the name since 1553, They have insured the succes- In marked' his whole \tour through 500 animals, and these he presented to the pulsated with love for • VI, sion to their branch of the family-for a the he proceeded Zoological Fond of Outdoor Life. hearts her and News From Osborne when Edward the only son country. From Detroit j Gardens. , bowed before her queenly per- and of Henry VIII, time :n the persons pf three sons and one to Chicago, St. Louis, "Pittsburg, Harris- ,He- attended the Paris expositions in Since 1S07 the Prince has represented his more knees PRINCEsuccessor on important sonality than before the of Great daughter. Albert, born 23, burg, Washington, and 18S9, being mother every occasion. His Queen died and left the throne to his EdwariT ' Jifne Baltimore and where 1878 to the .latter accom- Save hadv half-sister, Mary, 1894; Albert Frederick Arthur, burn De- he arrived '. panied byhis In*lSS3 he Royal Highness has always oeen fond of Britain. 'God the Queen* be- who was succeeded. at October. 3.' .-'. two sons. went life and every kind athletic well nigh a universal . her death five years later by her half-sis- cember 14, 1855; Victoria, born. April 25, The next day he was entertained at a with the Princess, to Berlin to attend the outdoor of come anthem. 1897; sport?, yachting being one Heredity does not stay our quest LONDON, Jan. 22.— ter Elizabeth, the virgin With her, Henry, born May, 1899. .¦• diplomatic dinner at the White House by silver wedding of.his sister, the Princess of his favorite for the Thi$kevening there Queen. pastimes, yacht upon a reign forty-four years, Princess Maud, the youngest -daughter President on the 5th paid Royal, and the Crown Prince of Germany, and In S33 and 1S94 his real man or woman whose head a uere -few visible signr in London that after of the Tu- . Buchanan and Britannia, taking part In the races of the 'Indeed, anyth!ng <*inuBuai;.had*iappened. dor line failed, to be by the of the King, was married July 22, 1806, a visit to the tomb of Washington at and later paid many visits to Berlin, Co- crown has* fallen. that has coma A driz- followed to Vernori, Royal Yacht Club off the Isle of Wight, to be the way of the world. The sover- zlingrain kept most people doors. Stuarts for one hundred and eleven years, Prince Karl of .Denmark. Mount. .at.the side of which he penhagen and Belgium to see his various . wtthi» 1894, carried off the prize. He has also been eign is clean, "noble, lyra- Those who were turned away and then, in 1714, by the House of Hano- : planted a young chestnut tree. relatives. In April, he 'went to Co- whose life not from the- Albert Edward's Travels. burg devoted to horseracing and maintains pa tic: whose personal aters or music halls wandered along ver, to which the present monarch be- Leaving Washington October 8, -he went v.ith his wife to attend^ the wed- the character la be- tho longs. '. - Both before and after his marriage the by way of Baltimore to'Philadelphia, ding of the Princess Melita and in July fine stable*. InlSDS'his horse Persimmon low the best thoughts of his people, is not streets of the West End without ppec'al ' Prince of Wales won the Derby and several other races loved, object. large boyhood training traveled extensively," both where he visited the places of Revolution- to St. :Petersburg to attend the ¦wedding and the powers of an.unloved King Xo crowds gathered any- Jlis education and at home and abroad. first visit abroad ary and In1500 Diamond Jubllle won the Blue short, may where. w%s intrusted to the Rev. Henry M. His interest. Thence he went on to New of the Czar's daughter. In .November. or Queen are however the law year, America, ,he' Ribbon, and three other races with rich ¦ shops Birch, Prestwich; Gibbs, was in his 'nineteenth to York,. where he arrived; on the 11th,- and 1S94, hastened, to St., Petersburg ;with run. Queen Victoria's power was lat/ger~ The closed us soon as the bells rector of Mr. where he spent making son, stakes. began to toll and the blinds barrister-at-law; the Rev. C. F. Tarvee three months, the took up his quarters at the Fifth Avenue his the Duke of York, to attend the, than the law. of the Maa- f rounds of the principal cities of Canada Hotel. Great, preparations '.'had obsequies of Alexander, His Royal Highness, as eldest son of the tslon House were drawn as soon as ihe and H. W. Fisher. Later he attended for - :been UI. -'.'... "Ido not* care to speculate as to.the and the United States.- He crossed the made to receive and entertain him. J The Grand Master of Free Masons. sovereign, in addition to being Duke of upon message from the Prince of "Wales one session at Edinburgh and then en- Saxe-Coburg- effect of the Queen's death Euro- was Atlantic In H. M. 8. Hero, and landed at British resident* wanted to capture and grand Cornwall, was Prince of pean politics further say received by the Lord Mayor. The tered Christchurch College, Oxford Uni- . In1674 he was made master of the Gotha, Saxony, Rothsay, than to that a rung b&l Halifax July 30. -1860, with the! Duke iof monopolize^ him, but 'the young; Prince England Duke of Duke of mighty peace In St. Paul's Cathedral was versity. After a year of attendance on ¦*¦' Freemasons 'of. In succession to influence* on the side of has the gift Newcastle . and Major General Bruce. would have none of it. Earl of Garrlck, Earl Baron of "public ' ¦ ' - the Marquis of Ripon and Installed In of- of\Dublin. been lost- -The' British people will find of William IIIand la used -only on the the lectures at that famous insti- Near where he landed his grandfather, . Renfrew (under which title he traveled occasion of the death tution to Cambridge for the On the 12th- he attended»a grand ball at fice at' a lodge.held at Albert Hall, Lon- .It hard to adjust their mind* and of royal personages. he went same Kent, , headquarters through 18C0). hearts Archbishops purpose Duke of had his :." the Academy, of,Music and danced every don, in 1S75.':¦-InMay,.lS75, at Freemasons' the. United States in Lord juccesslon. will be a dispo- of Canterbury, Lord Mayors and remained three or four terms. troops High Steward of Jo a There of London and Bishops when he commanded the British in dance.but one, during which ;he had. a Hall, London, he was installed as first of the Isles and Scot- sition make the pause unusually long of London. Tho Marriage of the Prince. North 'America some decades ivery/agreeable supper. : ; land. la also the patron of twenty-six to before. He partner at principal of Royal Arch r Masons of He tollingcontinued for two hours to-day at £ Leav- \ .the/ after the first member of the proclama- On March 10, 1SC3, In his twenty- spent the early and middle part of August ing New York he visited iWest .Point and Great Britain. .-In 1870days. his marriage tion The Queen Is Dead.' other for the cecond year, he was married to Princess in where"'he 'remained : Thames jembankment, Iwhich runs along On the occasion of he was follow, and Live miles in direction of the wind. August 23, Leaving < 17th, , £10,000 per member Will *Lon«r the hundredg Alexandra, eldest daughter of King rived at Montreal where he there on the he went to one side of ;the river.from "Westminster granted an Income of annum, spoken resolutely by Some of people stood In front was greatest embarking on the the, King* will be Brit- Christian IX of Denmark, a sister of received with' ;the' ' * enthusi- Portland.^ Me.r.and. 20th Bridge; to the limits' of old' city of which with his. other revenues made an of the cathedral around spot ¦ ¦ • '• everywhere. the ..where ; -. : ; '.¦¦ -. ,';¦• the Hero isail :f home, j aggregate per year,' ons prayed Princess Marie Dagmar, .married In:1S66 asm. . r on % jset orI accom- London'r"ilnce which time he has.offlciated of £100.000 which, sovereign willb« loyally sup- Queen Victoria on tne sixtieth an- After Inaugurating Bridge. at ;panled by,a squadron of war vessels. however, has not been more than •The new niversary of to Czar. Nicholas H,-by*whbm he has had Victoria" on numberless occasions at .the laying of expenses sufficient' constitutional prerogatives, her accession to the throne • Montreal and laying the ; inaugurations to keep up the enormous entailed ported In his At the usual dinner of the Hilary five children,' one of whom, the eldest, corner stone of h Visits -\the -V-^ cornerstones and j .of public by position he has filled. On- that be denied an opportunity to term Victor, Duke of Clarence, the new Parliament building? at 'Ottawa 1862, Cfentinent.^ and enterprises In Great Britain. the relinquished right oc- and will not of Gray's Inn the master teacher said: Albert born ;iIn? C the' Prince" made his first .visit events casion he his to the suc- win that dominion over the hearts of his 8, ho visited Toronto and Niagara, at which * represented ¦ "Amid great sorrow we must January 1864. died January 14, 1S92. • to the ;Continent;- traveling through Ger- >:He;has- .. • the Queen when cession to the throne m of Sajce-Coburg- they yielded to"his mother." follow the The livingchildren latter place he saw; the celebrated 'Blon- Jerusalem; she was unable ;to be present at Vmany Gotha In favor of his younger people which practice of the copslitution and are: George,' Duke tight* many,-' Italyiand SyriaMo In \ brother* " recite of York, born June 3. 1S65; Louise, Duch- 4ln:perform on his rope -over'the 1863 he visited Denmark,r and public ¦;• ceremonies, V both ;¦ -at home and by a formal act. 'God Save the Klnc* The chapel ball Sweden" Rus- abroad, her, Prince has suffered the loss Fla? Half-Masted for victoria. ess Fife, February falls, and 'by which he 'was? much. Im- sia, - ; • \ and as representative The of two eighty-two of born 20, ¦ In paid a was the ' tolled times and the benchers 1867: .Victo- ;.".. ;' '¦:]'¦: ¦"¦'.-."".¦'¦. r. ; 1860 he I visit• to of his children, his eldest son, the Jan. 22.— The city flag at ria, born July 6, 186S; Maud, pressed.' •: V-\. •. s. Egypt to; inspect , ¦ ; principal>;figure" liij,connection Du£e OAKLAND. drank the health of the King. born Novem- Tuesday the third' week -'he the Suez Canal. :In 1S7S with the of:Clarence, died on January 14. 1392. a of Broadway and Telegraph ber 1869. On 'crossed Parliament set apart £100,000 defray naval.review on the occasion of the. great above, baby -» the junction . At a late hour this evening 26.- Windsor, to the ¦' mentioned and his son, Alex- It.was not over from Canada, ., to;Detroit, 1 • ;'1897. was displayed at half-mast to-day . InMay.1891, the Prince became a grand- expense.pf. his India. diamond -jubilee in After making ander, who died at Its birth in 1371. avenue known whether the King would Michigan, dropping title ofiPrince on -vlsltlrisr .. the receipt of the dispatches an- return to father by the birth of a~ daughter. Alex- h!§ HeT left Dover, on :October 11 and landed the circuit of the lines, of warships he 9 Ripe inexperienc&and knowledge of his after London before morning, fibt it was ex- Victoria, the way and landing on United . ' *25th;:Jand a reception' on :; royal people, thoroughly in nouncing the Queen'a death. pected andra to the Princess Louise ~ States soil at\Cairo on'" the "Invested? Mo- held?- • board the touch with the:-i he would hold a privy council at who had married the Duke as ¦ Baron ',.Renfrew. $ which Incognito ihe yacht. :Albert and Victoria, to which all beloved and respected by v all over the early of Fife, July ' hammed .Tewflk,'son of the Khedive.vwith' foreign 'officers taking part empire, St. James Palace to-morrow 27) XEcv* held during all" his stay withtus. ,- :, ; ;; the . in the re- vast Albert Edward should have Prevent the Grip (Wednesday) morninjp George, . the 'Order of the Star." ofiIndia. He ar- view,,as well as. the English admirals and as glorious and useful if not long To Dake of York, who now thousand people .witnessed, 1 as a * sue- .the Uved-aUBombay- irr