New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-13
THE PASSING THRONG.

| a y,
which Is administered by governor. an executive
| council made up OF the officials Of
| TRINIDAD the colony. and legislative coun-
AND THE Gil consisting OF eight official and
| TREATY. nine unofficial members. The senior
unofficial member OF the legislative
council is the Hon. G. Townsend Fenwick, who Is
in this city at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. on his way
| back to Trinidad from England When seen yes
| terday Mr. Fenwick said:
| THE people at home all but unanimous In the
conviction that the hands Of the Government should
be strongly upheld In present difficulty with the
| Tfansvaal Republic. or course the peace at any
! price party bowls and makes a great TODD.
minority you know, always makes more noise than
majority but that the people are behind the
Government there can be no doubt.
| "As to how long the war will last, the views
OF those best able to Judge have been greatly modi-
| fed. The Beers have undoubtedly shown good gen.
eralship. and have treated to some surprises
| that not wholly agreeable. As to what will
be Great Brltains course toward the Transvaal
and the Orange Free State republics when once the
war is over am not able to say, and there have
been practically no official utterances this point
except Lord Salisbury's speech of November g.
wherein he stated that this not war TO ac-
| qure either gold or territory, but simply in order
to guarantee equal rights to all; but there can be
| no doubt that the longer the lasts and the
| greater the expense and sacrifices that England is
put to the sitter will be the final of settle
ment
the affairs Of Trinidad and this country at present
| Is the reciprocity treaty. When passed through
| from The Tribune. the local government in Trini-
B nee Sp ANY by II
ested and who would benefit by such treaty has
Imperial government instructed its representative
at Washington to get a treaty with this country
With our other West Indian colonies The Dingley
Tariff law limits the time within which the Presi-
sSsordnsy signed Srior to that date and i Is g
the government of Trinidad intends taking action
dad affairs. may say OF this reciprocity treaty
ha DO as net IS hR Rere felt hn h
asking great deal and giving very tte IN
ment exacts that we shall make no alterations in
our tariff affecting American goods, while on the
action in respect to us But the greatest objection
OF all is that after shall make these sacrifices
there is nothing prevent the American Govern
ment from admitting sugar free and to render OF
advantage over other countries
II am an old graduate of the University OF Vir-
| gina" said Henry Randolph. Of Baltimore. at the
Imperial yesterday. land have just
| THE UNI returned from a visit to my alma
| vERSITY OF mater at Charlottesville. Money
VIRGINIA has never been plenty at this uni
yersity and from the need or II
| single brick walls for the gardens and walks be-
| came necessity, and to build them called TOT
their being curved in and out. which gives quaint
| and beautiful effect The old lawn ana ranges
| look much as of yore, and what changes there
have been since the fire all for the better. Al
! though comparatively young In years. to my mihu
! the university gives impression or greater age
! than any other college In the country IL Is es-
! sentially a Southern college, and as such reaches
! the men who are descended from those WHO lous"l
! and lost the war.
! "With the surrender OF Lee at Appomattox the
ruin of the South was completed. or their actual
money and other possessions they had given with
! both hands. until the supply had run out Emanci-
! patton had taken from them the property they had
in their slaves and the cessation OF hostilites left
! them with nothing bu: the land they owned, and
without either the training the capacity to
| work 1t. For those among them who reached the
educational age subsequent TO 1860 collegiate
either OUT OF the question absolutely: or
ony to be a5 5 by b fs on O yrFsa
! offered an education at minimum cost both for
! fees and living. The same holds largely true to
| this day and a large body Of men, who make the
! best uses OF the Opportunities there afforded to
! them. the history Of the alumni OF the uni
! OF the college course Charlottesville to get an
education hich they might otherwise be debarred
versity has some private resources but the total
income is small the need is great and the pressure
! OF Virginia goes further than with most Of our
colleges, |
great milllonaires, who have SO literally endowed
! other institutions of learning throughout the land
University which was established through the ef-
| forts of the second President OF this country, |
new TU regret ri the GIFT"
| "a rather amusing thing happened at a fishing
| camp at which was last summer" said r. r.
Reynolds. Of Hartford, at the Hotel
! MEAN Manhattan yesterday. zone OF our
xrbfl oil arvv h
| REVENGE. going good fellow an inter-
minable taker, and, such, an
! awful bore The description, once applied to GER
| tain statesman, that he used to set mouth going
| and then go away and leave II talking. fitted him
to T. We stood It for couple OF days. and then
we put up a game on him. After supper, when he
started In on his regular evening conversazione we
| got I'D In a body and decamped. He the
point and gracefully yielded to the inevitable, al
| though he swore revenge. About this time we
found had PaynE cards car with with s and wSsb
arrived in due time, and that night we had game
After had played some Tine me the nS baO
picked up my hand held four tens.
the other two whooped her for the limit The
dealer dropping out l raised again. and so DID
every re e end n them the some
pat and the balance drew one card each After the
had gone up long since and the falling I Q US
looked like snow storm II finally resulted in a
| show
four tens. When recovered from the trance We
were at first thrown into we looked for the dealer,
wise in his day and generation he had disappeared
and returned no more that night 1t took about an
hour and a hafs hard work to get that pot
straiehtened out 1t seems that the dealer had
been alone in camp when the cards arrived and all
the twenty packs happening to have the same backs
suggested the idea 10 him and he put up the dummy
pack which he held In his lap. The substitution
was easy and we did the rest
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB AT CAMBRIDGE.
MEETING TO EXPRESS APPRECIATION OF THE