The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
GOSSIP Of OLD LONDON
Armies of American Merchants
Invading the City.
THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS
John Bulls Dander Is Up and He Won't
Back Down = Severe Famine in
Russia-Tod Sloan Has
Dangerous Rival


'ii' "'i @''-
uation is still the all-aosorbing topic of
discussion in Great Britain and even
tho continent has cauoht tho aisa,sa
e,.,.-,. ~. ,,:,,,-. Le>' -sse'
aithousn ~ 9 $50 Ntu tu'eliI form. out-
Wardly the queston seems to have ad-
yanced hu+ littIe though those x,,b, ,ro
inside think the cause of tbe 17,t,,naars
o,,ar,, So
mas gone up seVerai pegs Ihe publlca-
ton OF the TransVaal blue book, with
the emphatic denunciation of tba
Transvaa1 settIns forth +, a.s,,,aa
IA
paragraphs the alleged political, finan-
clal and judicial incompetency of the
administration of President Krugar
st.
u Niie govern
ments s programme all the grievances of
the Uitlanders, constitutes a sten of the
hjehast in,nort n vos ,,.rt.,.,,
n,.,.,
WANING i'ii's - N.he N aiaiisNaai as Wen as an
indication ito the people of South Africa
generally that the government has ,r-
rived at a fixed decision imnossihla "a
recede from. and there are not 1ack;n.r
indications that the hint has NOT been
the first at Pretoria Although it is dir
ficult to separate facts from fictio, In
the multiplicity Of dontictin. sto,,ias -
is the general impression of those in a
position 10 know tbat tbo ,oi1i1:, a. d
dispatches which Dr.. Ipvds tha reI,,a
sentative in Europe of tba ,rrans1Ioal
received on June Ia renrasants 49,, +,.,,a
situation, while President Krnper,s do
fiant position was intended FOR bon,a
consumption.
The opinion is now growing that the
delay necessitated in awaitine cir AZ
fred Miners fun report of the RIoan-
foentin conference will ma1,a 60, -,
cific settlement As an oeio;aI =; ps .1s
close confidence of the government a.
clared it would give President Lln,,,re, Wv"
time to set his house in order,
But unless the talked-of ,oo,oos.;,,,-
are speedily inaugurated momanto,,s
consequences are nredjntad a,hn ~. .ous
ton in England Of tbo soo,.l.. - posir
state for the colon;ee A., C,s.y oI
however is readii,, daa,tr:i Ghaiiloefiaih'
a,,rt,t. 40 IedunS uecnnlnS and the
ential quarters to t,ons,fnr ~ u III i2Stth-
of, the neeatia tions fr1,,, -, l1e Soiio sSS.t
the foreign ofTice 'Ne eoioi'iai. 10
The tide of American n trava, =,
was az birb 80 - vei 20 EUROPE
and as ras,,1+ 49, N ,iils week,
hotels turnina ,po,'Ias oiis are the London
tors arc i,,a,e, away, put Visi-
lodgine TL,.s my ihu ordinary
rived ti,i, e1 S'eahlshlps which ar
nassa,an,s li"u from ooo to loo
broupht / ooo H. III TACT one
Ths a,,,;, a,oo.
hotels .ro lis ~. scenes at the fashionable
witnassad a,.'usl U.s. counterpart of those
Mrtnessed at the Waldorf-Astoria, and
An,amia "a n I'VE" fork Every phase of
~ , ieah li1e Is represented Besides
o,,1,tnI t,ihi@ehse @ now OF tourists, it is cal
stna u,atu tnat more American financial
Tarsaar. MS shave nave Deen f1oated and more
~ a .Ifasl,,
iaGturlng concerns have been estab-
M, tiiaH ever before
ne lnfluX Of American commercial
- 10 d constant surprise to the Eng
a,. .isi:Len, VINO are just beginning to
zane Wnat American business rivalry
means. Entire sections of streets here
are now hned with the signs of Ameri-
san Trims IN every line of trade.
pLoliilnent Manchester iron man said to
.iie correspondent of the associated
PiGSs. ,.,s's
Inc many significance of this pour
ms .! manufacturing firms is that the
Amerlcans are not only underselling
US mere, put they are making their
agencies bases from which they are
sradually reaching out into every coun-
try IN europe. | know of an immense
SleVeland firm which established an
agent mere, who for year did not un-
dertake an English order, wholly con-
Iiiiis almSelf TO Germany, France and
huss1a. Now the concern has more
orders from England alone than it can
supply. ana the agent has been in
structed not to book any order for six
months
me shoe trade has also been greatly
agltated by the immense increase in
American imports to England, which
have increased As per cent during tha
last 10 months. The American firm
seems likely to have a walkover here as
1t becomes better known.
Vice President Albert johnson of the
Nassau electric street railroad of
Brooklyn has been investigating mos
poets here and will return home m tho
Majestic. He said to a Representa- five
of the associated press:
London is the greatest field in tbe
world for the future develonment of
electric surface roads. I have made
only preliminary examination here hI,t
shall return in a few weeks whan
expect to thorourhlv take I'm tba aro
ject. There is no doubt London in q