The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-09-26
CHANGE OF SENTIMENT OVER
ENGLISH YACHTsMEN IN RE-
GARD TO RECENT RACE.
PROPOSED RECEPTION TO DUN
RAVEN MAY BE ABANDONED.
Rumored Lady Churchill Will Soon
'Marry-Wild Speculation in South
African Stocks-Miss Vanderbilt
Liable to Become Duchess.

the Associated Press. 1.-THE information
al yacht race controversy has had its
place as topic of first interest with the
London public during the past week
With the publication of the full cor
respondence between the earl of Dun,
raven on one side and the cup commit
tee of the New York Yacht club and
Mr.. lselin on the other, decided change
| OF sentiment has come over English
yachtsmen. While it is impossible to
| alter the opinion which prevails among
Englishmen in general that Valkyrie
III was done out of the Americas cup
by unfair means, there is reason to be-
lieve that authorities on yachting are
not all disposed to endorse the course
that has been pursued by Lord Dun
raven. The most significant indication
of this is Admiral Fitzgerald's letter
to the Times today condemning Lord
Dunraven and praising Mr.. Iselin for his
offer to resail the race. Equally signif-
cant is the fact that the Times gives
Admiral Fitzgerald's letter such promi-
nence in its columns.
1t now seems likely that the plan of
giving Lord Dunraven a public recep-
ton at Cardiff on his return from New
York, as well as the arrangements for
Is
will be abandoned.
If the Defender should come to the
Mediterranean or to England next year
she will find plenty of competitors. Mr..
q. D. Rose has bought Samantha which,
with the Britannia, Ailsa and Callunna,
goes to the Mediterranean.
1t now transpires that Godfrey Per-
kins, who long figured in the English
papers as an American journalist and
lawyer, and whose career was inter-
rupted this week by a sentence of 10
years Imprisonment for swindling, was
born in Kent, England. A few years
ago Perkins became prominent in the
smoking rooms of the big hotels. Since
then he has attempted some species of
swindling upon nearly every known
American who has come to London.
His career as blackmailer was remark
able, his victims representing all ranks
of society, from earls to street walkers.
He claims that Governor Perkins of
California is his uncle. Among his
achievements was getting possession of
title deeds to farm in California from
it's owner, John Thompson, last year.
This case attracted much attention at
the time.
A mysterious paragraph is going the
rounds of the newspapers to the effect
that the engagement will shortly be an
nounced of an officer of the guards to
the widow of titled member of parlia-
ment, recently discussed. The lady,
it is added, is wealthy, dark and beauti.
fuluSIt is supposed that the woman al
luded to is Lady Randolph Churchill.
King Leopold of Belgium has sold to
Colonel North the nitrate king" a mile
of the sea front of Ostend, the sum paid
being $1,50O,OO0. 1t is said that Col
onel North intends to found there an
sporting club, which will
be the center of horse racing, glove con-
tests and athletics generally with thea
ter, gambling rooms, public gardens,
etc. The tract purchased being just be-
You'd the kings pavilion. Ostend al
ready shares with Monte Carlo the repu-.
totion of being the fastest place in all
Europe. During the past summer it has
been visited by some of the most noto-
rious gamblers and members of the demi-
monde in Europe, but under the new
auspices it promises to eclipse all pre-
vious efforts.
By far the greatest dramatic event of
recent years will occur this evening in
the production of Romeo and Juliet" at
the Lyceum. 1t is stated that no less a
sum than 100000 has been expended
by Forbes Robertson on this play, and 1t
goes without saying the mounting OF the
play, the costuming and the accessories
will be on a scale fully equal to that OF
the best traditions of this famous thea
tire. Mr.. Robertson will be remembered
by those Americans who witnessed his
performances while supporting Mary An
derson and Henry Irving on the other
side of the Atlantic. In this connection
an old story is recalled, that while he was
in Mary Anderson's company he fell deep
ly in love with her and that they were at
one time engaged. Mr.. Robertson's sterl-
ing character and individuality have won
him influential friends, and the interest
in tonights performance is something
The demand for seats
has been enough to fill the house four or
i've times over. Much interest also pre-
vaiis IN the Juliet of Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell. The papers have been for weeks
rondoling with Mrs. Campbell upon the
fact that her impersonation of the part
must inevitably be contrasted with that
Of the late Adelaide Nelson, who is still
as the ideal Juliet of the
English stage. The audience tonight will
all that is best in the literary,
artistic, fashionable and dramatic world |
If London, many leaders of these circles
having returned to town especially for the
purpose of attending. Mr.. Robertson. of
course, will be the Romeo of the caste.
Charles Coghlan will play Mercutio; w.
Dennis, Tybalt; A. Greenville, Paris;
Neut Combe, Friar Laurence; Ian Rob
artson, the apothecary, and Dolores
the nurse.
The Shakesperean revival seems to
nave siezed upon others of the promi- |
lent London managers, and it is now init |
mated that both Mr.. Willard and George
Alexander have in contemplation pro-
auctions of Hamlet" in the near future. |
Not for many years past has there been
20 much excitement on the 'ondon stock
exchange as has prevailed during the
asst few weeks, and it is alleged that
more money is being made in Capel Court
now than in any time in the history of
the stock exchange. The speculation,
which can only be described as wild, has
been confined principally to South Afri- |
can stocks, locally known as the KAT |
irs." Many young stock brokers, among
Them scions of nobility, who few weeks
,go had absolutely nothing, are now
spending money with the utmost lavish |
ness. The shops around Capel Court, |
md especially those of the jewellers, are
-eaping a rich harvest in consequence.
In connection with the boom on the |
stock exchange the Pail Mall Gazette |
mas been printing a series of letters in |
which it has been alleged that frightful
reigns supreme in all the finan- |
:ial newspapers of London and to large |