The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

is now near, for the former have tightly
closed their purse strings and the latter
have had the audacity to press for a set
tlement of their long standing accounts,
a proceeding which is very like crying
for the moon. The porte has got no
money, but he will be oblivious of his
tory who would lightly assume that that
fact indicates that Turkey is not in
position to wage war. The troops who
lately passed through Salonica were with
out ambulance equipment or surgical APP
planes of any kind, but their arms were
evidently all right and the ammunition
trains appeared to be ample. The artil-
lery, too, was in good condition and the
batteries were well-horsed.
The popular scare over the dangers of
the compartment system of railway travel
here, a scare which had its origin in the
recent mysterious murder of Miss Camp
here, has been increased this week by two
or three fresh outrages. A woman has
been the victim in each case, but fortu-
nately the culprits have been arrested. The
panic among women travellers is leading to
many absurd and ludicrous incidents. Few
women enter a compartment occupied by
zone man, and no man cares to enter
where there is only one woman, for her
evident nervousness in most cases is by
no means hattering. One thoughtless in
dividual, who found himself alone with a
southwestern railway
train this week, was foolish enough to
take out a pocket knife to cut the pages
of magazine. His companion instantly
opened the door, although the train was
running forty miles an hour and climbed
out on the footboard Shrek
ing for help. The passengers, in ad1oin-
ing compartments, heard her, and sig
nailed to the guard. The train was stop
ped and the terror-stricken girl was res
cued. The public panic has become so
general that the board of trade has writ
ten letter, saying that they are in COM
munication with the railways on the SUBJ
ject, but no plan which would meet gem
eral acceptance has been devised. 1t will
seem absurd to American readers that
the boards consoling reflection is that
the question is one of much difficulty,
and it will continue to receive the best at
tention of this department" The honest
fact is, 1t is simply a matter of expense.
Cars Of the American pattern, weight for
weight, Will carry less than half the num-
Der of passengers conveyed by the little
boxes used on the English railways. There
is an interesting illustration on the
| Southeastern road, where the only Amer
lean built train in England runs between
London and Hastings. This train is very
| popular. 1t has a capacity of $50 pas
| sengers. 1t will, however, be taken OFF
in summer, when the travel is heavy, be-
! cause an English train of the same weight
will carry SO passengers.
England is the last place in which one
would expect to find any criticism of the
| United States for failure to protect Its
! citizens in Cuba, and yet even the Lon
! don Times comments on the weakness OF
| the American government in this respect
! The Havana correspondent of that jour
! nal cables: There is much comment by
! all classes on the fact that the United
! States government make no strong Cf-
| forts to secure protection for the lives
and property of American citizens" This
and other independent testimony to The
| weakness of the American attitude in the
face of gross outrage and indignities by
the Spanish authorities is arousing deer
feeling among the Americans in Europe.