The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-17
ENGLISH CREW EXPENSES.
4N INTERVIEWING ARTICLE FROM
 THE ST. JAMES GAZETTE,

| HI Q AE O 4A4u Esc HElLEIIEs ! Full Statistics Given by One Who Has Made Close Study of the subiect-The Whole Government Under Cloud Because of the Influenza.
 London, March 29 1895. Tothe Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The inclosed article from the St.
 James Gazette will be of interest to
 those of your readers who are suff1- ciently acquainted with the native bot
 tom facts to institute comparisons. There are some prospects of the race being rowed tomorrow in ulsters, wa terproofs and life-preservers. Two fire
 tugs are to accompany the race, each
 with Its suction pipe in the bottom of
 the particular boat 1t accompanies.
 Life lines are also to be fastened about
 the waist of each oarsman and held on
 deck; so that when the boat founders
 he can be immediately yanked on board
 his particular tug. When boat found
 CTS the exact spot Is to be buoyed; and
 the race recommended from that par
 ticular spot when everything has been
 righted once more. After every four
 minutes there will be a pause of one minute to disembarrass oars and out triggers of icicles and to thaw out slid ing seats. If the course be not tra- versed in four hours the race will be declared off. The preparations for so extraordinary contest, and especially the yank line and sucker pipe practice, have attracted quite a number of peo- pie from out of town, who are trying to enllven the city and to arouse it from the dullest period in it's whole written history. What is the matter?" is on everybodys lips. The matter Is that every one who can get away has got away, and that the few who are left be- hind are so bunged up with influenza that they can't possibly be jolly. Lord Rosebery has got it; so the whole gov ernment is under a cloud. The Duke of York Is laid up; so society must come to a stand-still. The theaters are so unutterably stupid that to save your self from freezing bedroom you can't sit a performance through. The poor little ballet girls of the Alhambra are so laden with the clothes the Lord Chamberlain makes them wear that they stagger and pout, and look woeful- ly forlorn. It storms all the while, but | that's what you expect In England in March The American millionaires who always come over at this time of | the year to buy frocks for the coming ot al folK one sniff of this abominable dullness and then fly away to Paris, leaving | American resorts as empty as barns. | You meet a few old frumpies in the of the British museum cramming up some out of the way topic in which they imagine they can interest their felloWmen, but there isn't one of | them who, under such depressing sur doesn't recognize what a he is; and what stupid non- sense it Is to make any sacrifice for the purpose of interesting anybody in any thing. If you take day off and go to Brighton southwester will pelt you and drive you round the corner like chaff. If you take refuge within one of the huge caravansaries which line the esplanade for miles you will be greeted by a thousand sneezes and the blowing of a thousand British probosces,
 The newspapers are Wretchedly stu pid. Not one of them seems to have had spunk enough to refer to the ab- snrdity of presenting a brand new sword to Bismarck on the poor old gen. Eleman's eightieth birthday; or to the worse than absurdity of the intimation that it might be used in civil war, The Emperor William, instead of growing wiser with years, seems growing more silly, more despotic.
 Coming up from Brighton the other lay there was quite row on the plat 'orm A nice old gentleman seemed to oe having quite time with his wife lnd daughters. They apparently want d him to go, and he apparently wanted 0 stay. Finally when they all saw hey were making public spectacles of themselves the ladies got into the car Lhead, and to my surprise the old gen. leman bounced Into the compartment where l was sitting and sat himself town with a large round bang of con- ent and victory. He looked too good Iatured to keep 1t to himself; so I waited with sympathetic smile. Fi- lally out it came: "I told her I yet she would take seats in ne of them. I hate those nasty Pull nans D---n all Yankee inventions any yayv And we chatted delightfully."- all he way to London, where he joined his amily; they quite abashed; he full of lee. This is only as an introduction 0 the article from the "St. James,"
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