Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-03
Derby Day Losing Its Char
acter Of Peoples Day
HE IS A NEW POLITICIAN
YOnng Churchill Has Made FavOra-
bic Impression on the English
PeOple--Americans Are Flocking
to the Old Country.


the Associated Press.)-England was
plunged suddenly from winter into sum-
mer during the week. Last week fires
were necessary. Now the temperature
is over 20 and the sky is clear and blue
London seems so full of people and Hyde
Park presents very gay appearance,
the light summer tolettes and bright
colored sun shades making brilliant
picture daily. The Princess of Wales,
accompanied by the Princess Victoria,
have been driving in Rotten Row, this
| beng their first appearance for a long
time. A number of coaches We're also
out. One very smart team, driven by
Mrs. Frank Mackay of Milwaukee, was
often seen.
Considerable interest is being aroused
in auto-cars. The Dukes Of Marlborough
and Manchester are doing all they can to
start the fashion. A great automobile
show will be opened on June II at Rich
| mond by Prince Edward Of Saxe-Wei-
| mar. There will be tests Of hill climb
ing and races between fast trotting
horses and automobiles. An American
company is establishing works at Cow
entry for the purpose of building motor
cars invented by q son Of Hiram Maxim.
| Derby day is rapidly losing it's charac-
| ter as the peoples day, and, judging from
| the character Of the attendance at Ep-
som on Wednesday, it is becoming as
fashionable as Ascot. A vast majority
OF those occupying the stalls and boxes
in the grand stand and on the jockey
club stand We're ladies well known in So
ciety, while their bright costumes made
the paddOcks look like a garden party.
The sensational collaps Of the French
horse Holocauste, whose death repre-
sented loss Of $50, 900 to his owners, was
an intense disappointment to the large
French contingent which came over to
see what was confidently predicted to
be a victory for their representative.
The Paris papers are furious, and blame
the EPSON authorities for leaving the
course in disgraceful condition, for it
is gravely. declared Holocaustee slipped on
piece of orange peeling. There was a
great rush for relics after Holocaust
was slaughtered. His ears, name, tail
and hoofs We're cut off and the gypsies
did roaring trade in selling punches of
hair cut from their own gray horses and
palmed off as genuine Holocaust souve-
Mrs.
A we'll known veterinary surgeon,
Marcus Stevenson, who witnessed the
accident, attributes in a published inter-
view, the disaster to Sloan's method of
riding, declaring that if the jockey had
been sitting in his saddle instead Of
crouching on the horses neck, he could
have helped Holocauste to recover, after
a first mistake, when he wrenched his
ankle. Holocauste, he adds, was then go
ing very WE'LL and at so yards Flying
Fox was only neck ahead when Holo-
causte broke his post rein. Sloan, ac-
cording to Stevenson, has no control over
his mount, and his method has tendency
to scare the mount
Eo1o
foregoing views. He said empha tically
to representative of the Associated
Press:
"Sloan's jockeyship was consummate
and 1t is acknowledged on all sides that
he had the race well within his grasp
when the accident occurred. 1t was in
deed i'll luck to have victory snatched
from me. Moreover, in Holocauste l lost
a pet. The sympathy expressed on all
sides will be extended to Sloan, whose
disappointment is second only to mine"
Lieutenant Winston Leonard Church.
i'll, eldest son of the late Lord Randolph
Churchill, is making a distinct hit in the
political field. He has been elected pres
ident of the Midland Conservative club.
and at a meeting held at Birmingham on
Thursday to welcome him he made an
extremely able speech, during the course
OF which he evoked much merriment by
saying the expression of presidential
address always reminded him of the high
politics OF queens speech, a rescript
or the car or message Of President
Mckinley. or, coming to lesser matters,
OF Emperor Williams kilograms, or for
mer secretary Olney's dignified styles OF
public utterances. Churchill also treat
ed Rosebery. Sir William Vernon Har-
court, Mr.. John Morley and other big
leaders of the opposition to a dose of
chafing, but his clever criticism and
speech generally attracted considerable
attention. The conservative Morning
Post says:
'The old politicians had better look to
their laurels. Churchlrs speech has a
force of movement and humor that de-
lighted his hearers and discloses sense
of form and consciousness that oratory
is an art, which will leave the public to
expect more in that respect than has
been supplied
The hotels are now full Of Americans
Senator Wolcott of Colorado is staying
at the Claridges hotel. on his way to
Carlsbad. In conversation with rep
resentative of the Associated Press the
senator grew enthusiastic on the Subject
or growing prosperity in the United
States and the rapid increase in the ex-
porta ton of American manufacture
and predicted the triumphant reelection
of President Mckinley by an increased
majority. He also said the democracy
would not re-adopt William ]. Bryan's
silver platform. but would make the
chief issue hostility to trusts and ex-
panslon. He was keenly interested in