The record-union., 1897-10-03
TOPICS At The
BRITISH CAPITAL.
Steamers Crowded With Americans
Returning Home.
ChuIaiongkom, King Of siam, Generally
Voted a Bore.

of One Hundred and Twenty
Gases Daily-EngIish Newspa-
pers Say Gunpowder May be
Needed to Suppress the Yankees.
LONDON, Oct 2.-(Copyrighted, 1897.
by the Associated Press.)-Returning
Americans continue to fill the London
hotels and restaurants, and all the
transatlantic steamships during the
week sailed with heavy passenger lists.
The King of Siam has been the lion
of the week, lunching with the city's
companies and dining at the Mansion
House, but the novelty of his visit has
worn off, and Chulalongkorn IL. is gem
orally voted a bore. His majesty is
voted to be very angry at the fact that
he mas not received the Order of the
Garter. He thought as the Shah OF
Persia and the Sultan of Turkey were
both Knights OF the Garter, he ought
to be equally honored; but Queen Vic
toria is determined that only Christian
sovereigns shall hereafter receive the
Order of the Garter, as the Knights
oath can only be taken by Christian.
The whole kingdom is excited by the
epidemic of typhoid fever which is at
tracing so much attention to Maid
stone, Kent. There have been l,300
cases in that town and its vicinity, and
about fifty deaths have occurred. The
epidemic is spreading at the rate OF
120 cases daily, and the authorities are
working night and day in their efforts
to crush out the fever. The hospital
accommodations are inadequate, tenn
porary hospitals are being erected
and the schools are being converted into
sick wards. There have been numer-
Gus cases of typhoid fever throughout
the country among people who recently
visited Maidstone. The town authori-
ties Of that place are held responsible
for the outbreak, owing to their refusal
to renew the appointment of watch
man for the water supply at a salary
of $500 yearly.
The Marlborough baby will be chris-
tened at Blenheim toward the end of
October, and it is reported that the
Duke and Duchess of York, who will
visit the Duke and Duchess of Marl-
borough for the shooting season, will
be the sponsors of the infant
Congressman John DalzelI of Penn
sylvania, with his wife and son, sailed
for New York to-day from Southamp-
tOn'on board the American line steamer
st. Louis, after spending several weeks
in England, Ireland and France. To
a representative of the Associated
Press he said that unquestionably there
would be famine in Ireland. Mr..
Dalzell added: Indications of this can
be seen from the car windows Hay
stacks are floating in the fields; the
peasants are unspeakably wretched and
the country seems to be more miserable
every year"
Referring to the new United States
tariff, Congressman Dalzell said: Il
have had very little opportunity to OBJ
serve the effects of the tariff, but I
judge it is fulfilling our antfcipations,
and that it will give American mer-
chants, manufacturers and working
men more to do / say this from the
fact that all the business men I have
met in Europe are denouncing it, and
complaining that it has lessened their
business. This is particularly the case
with the merchants of Paris, who COM
plain that their American trade has
decreased
Truth prints a statement, said to
emanate from a prominent Spaniard
accounting for the Cuban situation. He
is quoted as saying that in Spain there
is no such thing as a public opinion,
and that the Government of that coun-
try is a mere struggle between num-
Der of professional politicians, and
with very few exceptions these poiti-
clans endeavor to feather their own
nests. aptain-General Weyler is cred
tied with having amassed a fortune in
the Philippine Islands, and he is said
by the Spaniard referred to to have in
creased it in Cuba, although probably
he has had to divide with a good many
politicians at home. The Spanish army
is pronounced to be as rotten as the
Spanish civil service system. and still,
according to Truths" informant, when
a Spanish regiment is sent to attack
force of insurgents, the Spanish COM
inander sends an emissary with purse,
who makes arrangements which pro-
vide that while the Spanish march one
way, the insurgents go away by anoth-
er route.
The retiring Lord Mayor of London,
Sir George Faudel- Phillips, has achiev-
ed a record, so far as charitable funds
are concerned. During the twelve
months he has been in office Sir George
mas raised f700,G00 (S3, 3,50O0O0, the
bulk of it being the Indian famine fund.
The British public seems to be con-
vinced that Americans are trying to
lead Great Britain into a trap bl includ-
ing Russia and Japan among the par
ticipants in the Behring Sea seal con-
ference, and the newspapers and Cow
ernment officials are fostering this idea.
Not only was the letter of the United
States ambassador. Colonel John Hay.
of July Doth, excluded from the blue
book on the Behring Sea question, but
with two exceptions the newspa pers
did not publish Colonel Hays letter
when it was furnished to them by Reu-
ter's Telegraph Company, and not one
of them has commented upon it.
The comments of the Globe" and
Vanity Fair on the situation are es-
pecial1y offensive. Vanity Fair says:
TT looks as if we must do something
to suppress the ankees. Unless the con-
stant annoyance of Washington ceases.
gunpowder may have to be used We