New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-21
THE PASSING THRONG.

LIE / ASOlNO IL HDNO.
William J. Youngs OF oyster Bay. Governor
hoosevelts private secretary. is an enthusiastic
yachtsman and takes 4 keen in
sex RETARY terest in the sport He is the
/ GOVERNOR owner Of the fast twenty-five footer
! AND RACE Eleanor built boy pat Magec. Of
New-Jersoy with which he has won
4 large number II races. including nineteen con-
secutve wins At the Fifth Avenu" Hotel Mr.
foungs said yesterday.
Governor Roosevelt left the Grand Central Sta
ton at o'clock this afternoon. on route for Gin
Ing. The Governor will be in Albany on Monday
nn 1,d NE mas some PARDON cases 10 st,'n" W ai,I
speak at Frederick on Wednesday and Baltimore
IN, me aguo"lns week the Governor Wh go 20 bos-
ton. where he will mako a speech but wish you
! one speech in Massachusetts,
The Shamrock is good boat and think by
ntre atter the cup. The conduct Of Sir Thomas
Upton mas been most sportsmanlike from start 70
nnisn, and ] would like 10 SOC him challenge again
II haven't been able 10 attend the races hut have
followed them closely and with keen interest and
It would seem TO me that the Shamrock was CON
structed 20 meet heavy weather. hut with light
spars and with n sail area that ia too heavy for
those spars. | haven't as I said before. been able
good deal Of wind from her sails II seems to be- a
trick Of American yachts to win their races on
WIEN thew S T'rS to ana b tHir ear work IN the
ilrS' leg 81 course. II IS proverpia Ola sayns;
Il a
II IN" competing yachts round the mark WIN one
boat leading the second boat experiences great
boat OF course il must hc remembered that II
they are running free the second boat has line
run down on and pass her If sufficiently near"
William Murray Of Pittsburg who is the Hotel
Cambridge. said yesterday. business continues TO
be extremely good i'm Plttsburg.
PIG RON and the business interests there
BUSINESS have made moro money in the last
THRIVING year than in any previous year IN
the city's history. This is particu-
larry true in the pig iron districts where old fur
nacos have started mp that have been closed for
years. and which il was meyer thought would come
into use again.
"Another great company. OF trust. is about To boz
formed there called the Crucibe Steel Company
ne saId which VIII he COMPUTATION ol tnr pm
cipal houses manufacturing che finest kinds OF
steel such AS used TO- razor. and knives II VIII
bo heavily capitalized ami will be- principally made
I'D Of he goat houses of Park Brothcrs Singer
Mnick d 90 and Howe. Brown x Co.
The coal combination which started ont 20 gain
control OF the coal along the Monougahela Kiv.r
and the boats on that stream has been successfully
carried through. 30 much so. in fact. that It's stock
The Pressed steel car Company is lust about
to make an important move. as IL Is on the eve ~
manufacturing CLOSED cars OF pressed steel Here
t0fore il has MANUFACTURED only open cars. but
plant where it could build closed cars. and this
plant is now an but completed.
"Piusburg ~ my home ana am tond OF IT, nut
FOR AN that wish it ~as cleaner II l. really a~
M there now but 1t e. ms TO me- that IN thesc dtys
some genius ought e. invent something that would
would confer boon a suffering community and
prove a bcnetactor 20 a large number Of people.
William y Madden president Of the Madden
Lumber COMPANY one of the largest I'm Northern
New-York. said of the present state
A GREAT OF the trade yesterday. The last
LUMBER year has been the most successful
YEAR. in the history Of the lumber trade.
There never has been anything like
IL There IS slump though. just now. which
think attributable to the high Price Of labor AMI
hardware and 20 the almost ncessant troubles IN
the building trades ! think however. that things
Will soon turn round. The year Just past has oeeu
notable one :or Us, with lis good prices ana Dig
81 have jus, returned from Europe" said William
Wredan. of san Francisco. at the Giisey House
Yesterday after a summer spent
4 TOURIST on the other side. ] went over 10
or EUROPE NEE, and say goodby 10 my
AND AFRICA brother who has just completed Il
mining course in Germany and
who went ont some weeks ago TO South Africa TO
accept position that had been offered him In one
81 me nSnH NINA ma r fh c' now, AWAITING the re-
suit Of Ga. present before trying 10 reach the
Kim written from Cape Town he says. My inn
nre.son Of Cape Town is favorable. streets and
shOpS Quit. European American. but a mixed
ponrlation consisting Of whites. Kanirs. Malays
I,asf Indians and mulattoes The town itself Is
situated ar the foot Of table mountain the
suburbs are beautiful. There are electric cars,
theatres bars and bicycling. and altogether forty
three doctors. peuitentary for thieves churches,
priests and. In fact everything that 'ivzed city
should have is here There - great distress among
The people from The Transvaal who I'll this town,
and the Rand Relief Committee spends thousands
every day. Even here business IS az A standstil.
and the streets fun Of soldiers and the hotels
full of officers
IN London when ! left" continued Mr.. Wreden.
"the excitement WAS intense and you heard no tax
Of any kind save Of tho 1ransvaal trouble heard
while there. and pretty good authority, that the
Beers have more than one plot 10 murder Rhodes.
whom they think and perhaps Justly is responsible
for the present trouble also heard while there
that the seventy thousand troops which England
considers necessary TO fight the Beers cannot reach
the Transvaal before December. Ia London il was
said that England would declare war before Christ
mas but the Beers find my arrival have fore
stalled this by declaring war N their own account
The English think the war Will last until about
March-that h. three months after they get their
troops into the field.
The excitement that followed the Dreyfus yer.
dict seems have died out. You hear nothing Of
II IN London and but little IN Paris. Popular Euro
pean interest AT present is wholly centred in South
Africa
by the way. the streets OF Paris in bad con-
dition and arc constantly caying In. While was
there heard Of daily accidents AZ tho result Of
their awful condition