The record-union., 1898-09-18
Hopes Raised by a Fall in the Barometer
Doomed to Disappointment.
The Supply in the East End Of
Limits-Sanitary Conditions in
Some Districts So Bad That a
Serious Epidemic is Likely to
Follow.


LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE drought
continues throughout the greater part
of Great Britain. A temporary fall IN
the barometer early in the week raised
hopes, which were doomed to dlsap-
pointment. 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 means to assure a
supply of water and calling for munich
pal 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 suffering
undeserved martyrdom in the shape or
a street car famine, due to a strike or
the hostlers and the consequent dis
missaI of couple of agitators. The
many thousands of business people who
rely upon cheap conveyance to the city
have been seriously inconvenienced by
occurred on Wednesday last.
Public sympathy inclines to the side
of the company, which has taken the
bull by the horns and has dismissed all
the strikers engaging outsiders to take
their places.
-he 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 con-
structed across the track and one ex-
press train had a most narrow escape
from disaster. 1t plowed through a, ver-
liable barricade, but did not leave the
rails. The most alarming feature of
the outrage is the fact that the police
have not been able to obtain the slight
est clew to the perpetrators, though
hundred detectives have been securing
the district. Consequently a panic pre-
walls. One theory is that the crimes are
the work of a band of trainwreckers
looking for plunder and emulating the
Far West hold-ups.
After passing eight weeks in an in
valid's chair the Prince of Wales this
week, for the first time, was able to
walk a few PAGES with the aid of a
stick. He Travelled to Balmoral from his
yacht to Portsmouth. Private letters
declare the Prince lately has been very
irritable al the enforced restraint, 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 yielded and allowed the Prince
to journey to Scotland in order to ap-
pease their patient and also to arrest
the strong stimulus which rest and a
sea-air appetite have given to his in
creasing stoutness. The heir apparent
Will still continue 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 maneuverS
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 a borrowed horse, startled
by the firing, tried to bolt, reared and
fell. The Duke skillfully disengaged
himself unhurt
On the following day, during a halt,
he minutely examined a French SOL
dier's knapsack. He had one of them
emptied on the ground, weighed the
articles and finally took the knapsack.
strapping it on his own shoulders. and
walked up and down in front of the
President and the Generals in order to
test whether the straps hampered his
mr. fof r
ly amused and the private soldiers
loudly cheered him.
Yesterday the Duke of Connaught
visited the French camp kitchens and,
following the great Napoleon's prece-
dent, he asked to be allowed to taste
the soldiers food, remarking: II must
only take tiny morsel. as I am rob-
bing somebody's share Then he
forked out and ate piece of beef, which
he pronounced to be of excellent quail
ity. The Duke also examined the mems
overcoats, testing their weight and tex
ture
These incidents have made the Duke
very popular with the French soldiers
and villagers.
At the hamlet of Ennomond they had
a great treat in seeing the thirsty
President of the Republic and Queen
Victoria's son stop before a little public
house and call for and toss CT glasses
of light beer, while the hurriedly- as
sembled band played, God Save the
Queen" President Faurel then decorat-
ed the Duke with the Grand Cross of
the Legion of Honor.
The leading newspapers here scath-
ingly review Herr Moritz Busch's Life
of Prince Bismarck" which was re-
Gently published. The general opinion
is that both the author and his idol
suffered greatly by the revelations
made. The British naturally chiefly re-
sent the late Prince Bismarck's express
sions of hostility to Great Britain and
to the Queen and her daughter, the
former Empress Frederick of Germany,
with which the book teens.
The Daily Telegraph says that if
the work reveals the real Bismarck, he
lowered the moral tone of the whole of
Europe, adding: Every one knew he
made INSCRIPTIONS use of the press,
but, according to Herr Busch, he de-