The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-09-28
WATER AND CARS
Shortage Of Both AgitateS the
London People.
DROUGHT AND A STRIKE
WreCking of Railway Trains Com
mon-Prince of Wales Rebels.
Duke of Connaught.

LONDON, Sept 1.-THE drought
continues throughout the greater part
of Great Britain, though a temporary
fall in the barometer early in the week
raised hopes which were doomed to
disappointment The temperature has
again risen and London continues
bathed in sunshine
The outcry in the East End of Lon
don, where the supply of water has
been reduced to dangerous limits, is
taking the form of influential public
meetings, which violently denounce the
East End Water Company for neglect
ing to take proper measures to assure
supply of water, and call for muni-
cipal control of the water works.
In the meanwhile sanitary conditions
are so bad in some districts that there
is serious fear of epidemic.
The North of London is also suffer
ing undeserved martyrdom in the shape
of a street car famine, due to a strike
of the hOstIers and the consequent dis
missal of a couple of agitatOrs. The
many thousands of business people
who rely upon cheap conveyance to the
city have been seriously inconvenien-
ced by the sudden stoppage of traffic,
which occurred on Wednesday last
Public sympathy inclines to the side
of the company, which has taken the
bull by the horns and dismissed all the
strikers, engaging outsiders to take
their places.
The whole of Great Britain has been
startled by an epidemic of railroad out
RACES. On the Northwestern and Mid
land railroads, in the neighbOrhOod of
Northampton, there have been several
attempts to wreck passenger trains.
Formidable distractions were laid
across the track and one express train
had a most narrow escape from disas
ter 1t plowed through a veritable
barricade, but did not leave the rails.
The most alarming feature of the out
rage is the fact that the police have
not been able TO obtain the slightest
cIew to the perpetrators, though a
hundred detectives have been securing
the district. Consequently a panic
prevails. One theory is that the crimes
are work of a band of train-wreckers
looking for plunder and emulating the
Far West hOId-ups.
After passing eight weeks in an in
valids chair, the Prince of Wales this
week, for the first time was able to
walk a few PAGES with the aid of
stick. He travelled to BalmOral from
his yacht at Portsmouth. Private let
ters declare that the Prince lately has
been very irritable at the enforced re-
and that he has even declared
that a permanent limp would be a
cheap penalty to pay for release from
his floating prison. 1t is added that
the attending physicians finally yield
ed and allowed the Prince to journey
to Scotland in order to appease their
patient and also to arrest the strong
stimulus which rest and sea air appe
tite have given to his increasing stout
ness. The heir apparent will still con-
tinue to wear for many weeks to come
the apparatus which has been fitted to
his knee.
The Duke of Connaught has been the
hero of the French army mapeuYers
around Mouline, which he attended as
President Faure's chief guest. He first
distinguished himself by a splendid dis
play of hOrsemanship before the
French staff, when borrowed horse,
startled by the firing, tried to bolt,
reared and fell, the Duke skilfully dis
engaging himself unhurt.