The herald., 1896-01-10
A FEW BRIEF INTERVIEWS
Prominent Men in Different Walks of
Life Talk Interestingly
The Rolling Of Armor Plate, the Affairs in
South Africa and the Trade In AL
paccas Touched Upon

The influx of winter tourists is fairly
started. Among them are quite number
of skilled mechanics and proprietors of
large iron and textile fabric industries at
the chief eastern manufacturing centers.
W. B. Armstrong, an expert roller of
armor plate at the Bethlehem, Pa, iron
works, is on a brief visit to his sister, Mrs.
Lloyd Davis, on Downey avenue. He said !:
"Concurrently with the opening of 1895,
the iron and steel industries in Penn
sylvania and indeed throughout the coun-
try were crowded with orders for immediate
delivery. My specially is the rolling of
armor plate. The scrupulous care with
which this has to be done is very trying
and one engaged in it has to obey as rigid
hyGienic and dietary rules as one who is in
training for championship fight. Our
company obtained the last contract for
armor plate awarded by the Russian gov
ernment. l shall be back at my post by
the 1st of February"
Prof. Albert Doepke of The Hague is
spending long vacation with relatives on
Grand avenue. He said: II have many
friends, and indeed some distant relatives.
in the Boer country, as it is popularly
called. The South African republic is the
more correct appellation. The Jameson
efforts to dominate South Africa. The
Beers are stub5ornly averse to the recogni-
tion of those principles which, to Use II
wide designation, we may call the rights of
man. The Kaffir is more despised, con-
temned aud rejected than is the egro
today in the old slave states of this coun-
try; and besides this, they persistently
deny the suffrage to the Uitlanders, nearly
all of whom are men of culture and wealth,
simply for the reason of their want of
Dutch ancestry. The same unfinching
churlishness is shown, regret to say, to
any immigrant. no matter how desirable
he may be; but it is always more intensely
exhibited toward an Eng.ishman.
"Of course you will remember that the
British suzerainty was annulled after the
disaster to the English troops at Amajubu,
think in 1884, but know that the Brit
ish resident was removed and an inferior
representative of British rule was substi-
tuted. My fellow.countrynen (the Boers)
are, many of them, men of fine Intellectual
attainments; they realize the great future
which is now dawniEg upon the dark conti-
nent. The coming race of Beers, be-
lieve, will dispell the petty prejudices be-
gotten of early colonial strifes, and as the
resuscitation of decayed governments
seems to be imminent, it is not impossible
that on the great silent African continent,
Holland may exhibit those splendid traits
of patriotism, hatred of superstition, III
domitabIe courage and love of liberty that
made the Dutch republic the admiration of
the world.'
Robert Gilmore of the National Tube
| Works at McKeesport, Pa. is visiting
friends on Water street. He said: Like
every other branch of the great iron indus
try, we had good share of the wave OF
prosperity, which began in the early
months of last year. There is, at the
moment less activity. but we are full up
with orders which will take us till next
June to fill. We think that the revival of
the mining industries in California will
augment the large sales we are now work
/ ing on for shipment to Arizona. Southern
| Oregon and Utah"
Benjamin Rhodes of Bradford. England,
a large manufacturer of alpacas, mohairs
and fine cashmeres, is visiting friends at
Santa Monica. He said: 1.-THE Wilson
tariff bill increased slightly our shipments
to the United States, but we have had for
forty years steady line of custom which
seems to be quite unaffected by any fiscal
measures on this side. We are running
full. at least we were when I left, and
don't feel any anxiety over the pending
tariff bill in congress. l expect to see
American wool growers obtain much better