The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-22

extra quick. passage for their benefit,
The Saturday Review, commenting
upon the Alaska modus viveHdi, says,
The talk of Anglo-American good will
which has been INDUCED in even more
freely than usual during the week, il
mere moonshine so long as the Alaska
boundary question remains unsettled
American obstinacy has resulted in q
temporary arrangement, which Sil
Louis Davies, the Canadian minister OF
fisheries and marine, says cannot be
dignified by the name of modus vivendi
Such an arrangement in itself is a men
ace. 1t may break down at any mo-
ment, and what would happen then? So
lar as diplomacy is concerned, we are
at an absolute deadlock"
The Alaskan Question.
Despite the foregoing there is no
doubt that the Anglo-American entente
has received much impetus by the ac-
ton of the United States government
IN undertaking to look out for British
interests in the Transvaal and, al
though Americas refusal to perform
that function would have raised howl
1t does not deter the general feeling
from being one of satisfaction and
gratefulness to the United States.
The weekly papers and all serious
minded publications voice the general
abuse of the sensational war reports
appearing in the daily press, especially
IN the London afternoon journals. The
Speaker, devoting a long summary rs
the numerous fakes perpeterated, says:
And all this from organs of British
opinion which last year stood aghast
at the crudities of American journal
ism, and which this year poured con-
tempt on the infatuation and deceit of
the Paris press
The London county council has adopt
ed the conduit system of electric street
cars on the projected large extensions.
This is the first time an English corpo-
ration has adopted this method, over
head wires being IN use throughout the
United Kingdom. The innovation was
only accomplished after considerable
opposition.
umbia-Shamrock Race.
Sir Thomas Lipton's failure to win
the Americas cup has caused scarcely
more than a passing regret, for the
British triumph in South Africa has
robbed that defeat of it's sting. Public
interest had also been practically killed
by the repeated failures TO bring off
the race and the forecasts of the yacht
ing experts that the chances of the
Shamrock were slim. The most notice
able feeling is one of general satisfac-
ton that the contest ended without a
row.
Major Baden Powell. brother of Colo
mel Baden-Powell the British COM
mander at Mafeking, has caused a re-
vival of the discussion regarding flying
machines by drawing attention to the
Importance of the one now being con-
structed in Germany by Count Won
Zepplin. He describes it as resembling
the slender skeleton of a huge battle
ship made Of aluminium, containing a
large number of balloons. Attached
to this frame are cars of the same met
al. Its total lifting capacity is about
ten tons. enabling the vessel to carry
stores sufficient to remain in the air
several days. Seventy thousand pounds
have already been spent in the con-
struction, the plans having been ap-
proved by the German government
Major Baden-Powell says it is hoped
to drive the. vessel at the rate of
twenty-five miles an hour.
Navigation In the Air.
This. according to a royal engineer
and flying machine expert interviewed
by the Associated Press, kills ti.ezforce
of Major Baden-Powell's previous as
sertions, FOR the British authorities
hold that no flying machine can hope
thirty miles is reach. Navigation,
even a short distance from the earth
and under normal conditions, is held
to be impossible unless the power de-
veloped is equal to the currents, which
circulate on the. average at a, speed of
thirty miles an hour and often above
that figure.
General Benjamin Harrison and Mrs.
Harrison spent the morning in eXplor-
courts of justice. This evening they
witnessed the performance of The Gay
Lord Quex." On Monday General Har-
rison will dine with Mr.. Arthur ]. Bal
four, first lord of the treasury and
government leader in the house of
commons, and on Tuesday with United
States Ambassador Choate.
On Wednesday night he Will be ten
dered a banquet by the president and
council of the London chamber of COM
merce at the Hotel Metropole, at which
Mr. Choate, United States Consul Gen
eral Osborne, Mark Twain, Mr. Maxim,
Lord Woieeley. Mr.. Balfour, Mr.. Earle,
chairman of the American society in
London, and other notable people have
been invited to be present.
General Harrison was entertained at
dinner on Thursday evening by King
Oscar of Sweden and Norway. He will
sail for the United States. accompanied
by Mrs. Harrison, on Oct. rs.
Rumors of Royal Engagements.
Rumors of royal engagements and
marriages multiply. 1t is now said
that the czarowitch has fallen in love
with Princess Margaret of Connaugilt,
with whom he has been aSsociating
great deal in Scotland.
The announcement of the betrothal
of the Austrian Archduehess Stephanie
to Count Elmer Lonyay, former secre-
tary of the Austrian embassy in Rome,
seems to be correct 1t is said that her
sad experiences as the wife of the i'm
perial Crown PRINCE Rudolph, whose
tragic death with Baroness Marie Vet
sora was one OF the great scandals of
Europe, made her thoroughly Disguised
With the folmalities of court life. EN-
peror Francis Joseph and King Leopold
of Belgium have both given their ap-
proyal TO the marriage. Count Lonyay
threw UP his diplomatic career shortly
after becoming privately engaged to the
and he has since been pre-
pairing = me for his royal bride. -
Vanity i9ir predicts the forthcoming
divorce of Prince Herbert Bismarck
who, since the death of his father. has
resumed his bachelor mode of living.
In Theatrical Circles.
The uncertainties of theatrical pro-
duction were never better exemplified
than in the chilly reception given Hall
Gaines THE Christian, which, despite
its success in the United States and
the reception given it at Liverpool, has
totally failed to meet the requirements
of London theatre goers. On the other
hand, Mrs. Langtry has successfully
moved 1.-The Degenerates" to the Gar
rick theatre.
With the Kendalls in the United
States, with Sir Henry Irving and Miss