New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-08


mas oeen the worst In many years. 1t had been
anticipated that the jubees OF Queen Victoria and
OF King Oscar would attract large numbers OF
transatlantic visitors, but the shipping returns
show decline OF no less than 80 per cent In first
and second class passenger traffic below the figures
or the season of 1896, which demonstrated that
over fifty thousand American tourists had been
disembarked at English ports alone. without taking
into account those who landed Continental ports.
Assuming that American tourists carry abroad an
a ave Of at least aM each i is manifest that
during the summer must have resulted in a great
benefit to the United States as the money remained
IN the country instead OF going abroad
AMERICAN BIDS WANTED. Railroad supplies
to the extent OF sl.ON,0o comprising machinery,
rolling stock and rails, required by the Nor
wegan State Railroad Department. and tenders
are about to be asked for. Any American firms
connection herewith would do well TO communi.
cate without delay, with the United states Consul
at Christiania
NO GERMAN FINGER IN RUSSIAN PIE-No
moro striking and significant illustration could be
given of the anlmosty which preTails in Russia
toward Germany than the treatment accorded to
Baron Blechroeder. the Berlin and New-York
banker, who has just returned from St Petersburg.
lie went there for the purpose OF inducing the
Muscovite Government to permit mis- firm and a
number OF other Berlin banking houses associated
with him to take up a large block of the bonds
with the extension Of the Russian railroad system.
The Baron's mission proved frultless. for not only
did the Muscovite authorities decline his oher, out
they refused even 20 discuss his proposals, on the
ground that they had no intention OF permitting
Germany to have anything whatsoever To- 70. do with
with Russian finance The Russian Government
retains vivid recoecti9n Of the nm SuHsO con-
Blechroeder and the German Government which
openly demonstrated at the close Of the
Franco-German War OF 1870.
STILL WAITING FOR AN ANsWER-Soon af-
ter the Dingley tariff went into effect the United
States Ambassador Informed the German Govern
ment that the United States, on the strength OF
Clauses III and " of the new law, was quite dis
posed to enter into negotiations in order to bring
about reciprocity treaty between the two coun-
tries. To this communication. notwithstanding the
lapse OF several months, no reply OF any kiId, not
Berlin Government which can only be interpreted
as CONSTITUTING an expression OF me resentmeht
ter having inflicted a more severe blow upon the
industry Of Germany than on that OF any other
country.
BICYCLE OPHTHALMIA-The French medical
Journals just issued announce the discovery OF
a new form OF eye disease. opnthalmia. which at
tacks cyclists II is asserted TO be due TO the fact
that the air which envelopes the cyclists head
when he Is travelling rapidly Is anything but pure.
being charged with fine dust and the substances or
the road stirred up by the wheel. the eye being
opened 10 Its widest extent for the purpose OF oh
serving any impairment obstacle that may lie in
the path The Paris PHYSICIANS nave gwen oS new
and apparently infectious, the name or the eyciis'
CRETE'S NEW RNOR-GENERAL"-Baron
Won Schaeffer, the new Goyernor-General OF Crete
nominated BY the great Powers, whose appoint
ment has been sanctioned by the Sultan, Is native
OF Luxembourg. was trained as lawyer, and mas
served first OF all In the Turkish and then In the
aYeha oil no hen
ters staff Of Lord Wolseley during the latters last
Nile campaign with the rank Of colonel For sew
era years ne was at the head OF the Department
OF Public Safety and OF the Suppression OF me
slave Trade in Egypt where ne dlstinS uiShsa MN.
self by his Independence OF character and his cour-
age in arresting some of the leading men OF ne
country for purchasing slaves from traders HS
mas Inherited A large fortune from his mother. ana
is married to Armenian princess or me Illus Illus
through whom he is related several OF the prln-
cpal houses Of the aristocracy al 81. PetersOure'
ages in the encourage OF the Sultan. Few Europeans
possess more profound Knowledge OF Oriens sa
manners life and language than thus gallant OIL
cer who for three years has been living upon MS
estate In Luxembourg.
ANOTHER PARIS LANDMARK GOlNG-one
Of the results OF the establishment Of the new
terminus of the Orleans Railroad on the site no"
occupied by the ruins of the palace of the Cour deS
Complies which was destroyed by the commune ne
,hosa old bookstaiis along the adjoining quays
which for nearly two hundred years past nave con-
eli fea,ures Of parisian life Nearly every savant
of the present century has found deshtiut ,
ZION among these treasured volumes loreIIost
arnorC them having beer Mr. Gladstone, Dom
pedro OF Brazil Nassau Senior Tha skeray b u
iytton and in the last century Benjamin rranAiir
Rousseau and Voltaire The Disappearance Vi inc
bookstas will be widely regretted
OsIRIS'S $4,000 PRIZE.-M Osiris. the we'll
known French philan,hropist has shown his inter
es, in the Partisan Exhibition OF 1900 In tansloie
vav He has lust deposited at the Bank Oh ffance
a sum of s9OG0. which he has placed at VT u, Us
nosnl Of the Partisan Press syndicate 10 rt"diu 'lo
aayhthitor Of the most merltorious work IN the eN
hIbition from artistic. ndustrlal or NIL
tartan point of view. NJ OSIRIS prlze VIII "a W. his
comnetiug for, and two purposes are server ny me
,i,,ing il. He provides what VIII no DOUBT DC ga
interestng feature OF the eXhibltlcn ana AT t'ie
same time promotes opJeCtS III WIN" -" ~
greatly interested.
DrsCoyERY OF COAL At BULUWAYo'-Sim-
,nulta neously with the starting of the rairoau az
Ruuwayo comes the news OF the discovery OF
coal in large quantities in the immediate hels"-
borhool Of the place, the prospectors having oee"
ohln 20 ascertain that the coal fields in question
- a., immense area extending, indeed. 10 the
1ornhesi River IL il this discovery, destined 10
,1Iav 20 great a role in the commerclal anu mus
trial development In me so9'eIn PPbo1s 70 Je
Dark Continent, that has led CeSil hhod,s 10 ne ne
a. m continue the railroad without decay 10 tne
y,mhcs River, which will then ne IN unin'o o
rupted railroad communi,cHinUn rtarcn H. finding
~ coal fields I'm Zambesi Will doubtless aIioIu
scientific Information OF great interest,"
s'hr ire southern half. Is declare ny seoIosists
tathe' ,bo Oldest continent OF the world. ana the
ror,ior Of the globe which has been tne loiITrSt
apoNG a. thn discovery of fossil and other relics
biological and botanical entirely new 10 the ''''"
tie world.
cuprcrr,y SCIENTISTS EXCITED.