The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
Liberal - UnioniStS Becoming
Alarmed at the Leaning
Toward "Fair Trade"
CROKER AND DIVERS HORSES.
American Strings Giving English
Turf Experts Considerable
Uneasiness.

general EXODUS from LONDON on InuTSudY
last everybody who could do SO hurrying
away to the country or seaside for the
Easter holidays. The fashionable houses
of the metropolis are as rule closed for
the present, and Brighton and other re-
sorts are crowded with holiday makers.
The Princess of Wales has abandoned
her contemplated journey to Denmark,
where she was to visit her parents, and in
stead family party. including the Duke
and Duchess of York and the Duke and
Duchess of Fife, has assembled at Sand
bingham for the Easter holidays.
Parliament will not meet again until
April %, which will give time for change
in the political atmosphere. The situation
is now charged with electricity and rup-
ture between the Conservatives and the
Liberal Unionists is predicted.
There are growing differences in policy
between the Right Hon. A. ]. Balfour, the
Conservative leader III the House of Com
mons, and the Right Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain, the the leader of the Liberal
Unionists. The latter is known to bitterly
resent the recent criticisms upon his con-
duct which have appeared in different Con-
servatlve newspapers, and as result he
has sounded a note of warning in his
newspaper organ at Birmingham, for which
city he has been representative in Par
Lament since 1878. There is no doubt that
the Liberal Unionists are becoming
alarmed at the leanings of certain promi-
nent members of the Conservative party
toward what is known here as ''fair trade"
The Birmingham Post the other day,
n fao t,,~a r1f 4boC ir-a
policy declared: eff free trade and free
corn are to be put in the balance against
an Irish Nationalist Parliament, then we
say that the latter would be an infinitely
lesser evil than return to protection"
Those who are in charge of the string of
American horses belonging to Mr.. Croker
and Mr.. Dwyer of New York. which are
now in active training at Newmarket for
a number of important events of the racing
season here, are retieent concerning the
date of their first appearance in public.
But the American horses are beginning to
be looked upon with more respect than
when they first landed in England at the
end of January last. Consequently the
chances of Stonewell, Don Alonzo, Banquet.
Harry Reed, Montauk and others are being
quietly discussed by the sporting fraternity.
The Newmarket correspondent, ''The Man
of the World" of the midweekly edition of
the Sporting Times. says:
'The Americans are gradually coming
into favor at Newmarket as their trials
progress. They are certainly fne-look-
ing lot and there are already several good
judges who think they may give US trouble.
If our handicap horses are bad, Stonenell
may cut us up as easily as Parole and Fox
hall did some years ago. AT any rate
have seen enough to make me regard them
as extremely dangerous"
The English newspapers announce that
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. K: Vanderbilt, and Miss Ger
trude Vanderbilt, will both be presented to
the Queen at the drawing-room which her
Majesty is expected to hold in April.
There was picturesque scene in West
minister Abbey on Thursday, when, in the
presence of a large congregation, "Royal
Maundy" was distributed to seventy-six
poor men and to seventy-six poor women
selected from the various parishes to re-
ceive the Queens bounty. Each woman
received FL Is shillings and each man re-
ceived So In addition both men and
women were given specially coined
pennies.
The Criterion Theater is announced to
reopen with Oscar Wilde's Gan Ideal
Husband" which has been transferred
there from the Haymarket Theater.
An American society has been formed
in London on the lines of the Ohio society
of New York. The United States Embas-
sador, Mr.. Bayard; the United States
Consul General General p A. Collins, the
a mum Der of well-known resident Ameri-
cans are on the committee.
The feeling of alarm which has been
caused in the wooden manufacturing dis
tricts by the announcement that an Ameri-
can firm had sold to Bradford house a
quantity of wooden goods comparing favor
ably with anything Bradford could offer
continues and is widely commented on.
The Pail Mall Gazette has investigated the
matter and tries to quiet the alarm, saying
the shipment is not likely to be repeated,
and explaining that the American house
had a quantity of stuff which it could not
dispose of in America, and consequently
offered it to Yorkshire at a great sacrifice.
The Armenian agitation has received a
fresh impetus by letter from Mr.. Glad
stone written to Mr.. Atkin. The Con-
sentative newspapers pronounce the letter
another indiscretion" upon the part of
the great Englishman. In the letter Glad
stone says: 1.-THE snare lying ahead is that
we may be tempted to abandon all useful
action by promises of reform. Mere words
from the Turks are not worth the breath
in speaking them"
Mr.. Gladstone to-day received at Ha-
warden three Armenian refugees who are
being exhibited in London as a means OF
exciting sympathy. The refugees We're
persuaded to leave Bitlis by an Armenian
named Hoyadjanz, who arrived there re-
Gently from America. The Armenians of
Bitlis are indignant at the action of
Hoyadjanz, and say the refugees were vir-
tually kidnapped and that they wanted to
return to their own villages.
The fight arranged for tonight between
Frank Craig, the Harlem Coffee Cooler"
and Ted Pritchard has been abandoned,
owing to the latter's illness. Pritchard
pays the forfeit, and Craig thereby be-
comes the middle-weight champion of
England, which title he declares he will
defend AGAINST all Corners John O,Rrian