The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-03-12


We card that, you were fighting ard,
just as we knew you would,
But we ardly 'oped you'd turn his flank;
they said you 'ardly could
But the news has come this morning, ana
I'm writing ere to say,
There's. no British son more Apply than
your old friend, Thomas A.
The bill Of Harold James Rickett,
Liberal member for the Bragg division
of Lincolnshire, raising the flash point
of petroleum from 70 to 100, is the re-
suit of a bitter campaign waged by GER
tain evening papers against the dead
ly low fash" 1t comes before the
House of Commons next Wednesday,
and will meet with strong opposition,
it's opponents contending that the orig
inators of the agitation against the
American oils are the Scotch petroleum
refiners. Moreover, it is shown that
many of the accidents during the past
year were not due to American oil, but
to Russian oil, whose test point is l0o.
The bill, it is declared, seeks to COM
pei the public to use oils which appar-
emily have been but little favored by
the people up to now, and favors Rus
STA, at the expense of America
Three representatives of an American
syndicate are over here negotiating
for a combination of the English and
American oil mills. They expect to
carry the scheme through, and in about
three months time there will be the
biggest trust ever formed on this side
of~the Atlantic, involving capital to the
amount of about $50, 100000. The idea
is that each side abandon competition
on the others ground and come to a
working arrangement regarding the
Continental business. especially that of
Southern Europe, in oil and seed cake.
The oil milling industry here is con-
fined to Hull, Liverpool and London.
Hull is the principal center, but Liv-
erpool has the largest concern of the
kind in the world.
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir John
Voce Moore, presided at, a meeting held
at the Mansion House this week to fur
Their the proposed national commemora-
ton in 1901 of the one-thousandth
anniversary of the death of King AL
fred. The Queen has given the move
ment her patronage, and the memorial
will take the form of a bronze statue of
King Alfred, to be erected in his royal
city of Winchester. The United States
ambassador wrote regretting that his
visit to the Queen at Windsor on the
day of the meeting prevented his at
tendance.
The Secretary, who is a former Mayor
of Winchester, announced that a COM
pany had been formed in America to CO.
operate with the movement here, and
that its members include Colonel John
How afor re
Potter and the Presidents of Yale and
Johns Hopkins Universities.
King Alfred being the founder of
Great Britain's maritime supremacy,
naval display will be held, and the larg-
est armored cruiser in the world, to be
launched in 1901, will be christened
King Alfred. Wolvesey Castle, the an
cient residence of the English kings,
near Winchester, will be secured as a
memorial museum. The sum of f3O,O0O
(S15O,OOO) is asked to carry out the
whole scheme.
W. Fife, Jr., the yacht designer, has
been in London frequently during the
last few weeks, studying the lines of
the Shamrock as she grows into shape.
He has not modified his plans in the
slightest detail, so he is evidently as
pleased with her appearance as an act
ual boat as he was with designs. The
workmen have now succeeded in sur
mounting the worst difficulties in work.
ing the manganese plates, several of
which We're ruined during the first at
tempts to do SO. But the work is now
progressing smoothly though slowly. 1t
Is expected, however, that the yacht
could be ready, if directed, by the end
OF May. The name Golden Rod which,
it is said, will be given to the Amer
ica's Cup defender, is rather startling to
Englishmen, most Of whom never heard
of the American flower. The Yachting
World" says:
mo fault can be found with the
name, but, all the same, it is unpleas-
antly suggestive of a beating for Sir
Thomas Upton
The owner of the Shamrock returns
from the Riviera on March 10Th, when
the date of the launch of the cup chal-
lenger Will be fixed.
The Daily Telegraph announces
that it will shortly start Sunday edi-
ton. 1t will be only an experiment,
and. except for the New York Her
AIDS" venture, the Daily Telegraph"
will be the first London paper to have a
seven days issue.
The success of the theatrical world at
present is Charles Hawtrey in 1.-THE
Cuckoo" at the Avenue Theater,
where, in spite of the charges of i'm
propriety, all fashionable London is
flocking
The criticisms on "a Lady Of Quail
ity as play are generally very Sc
we're, and it is not likely to succeed
here
Mrs. Brown Potter's success in .sThe
Musketeers" has finally established
her in position in which she is now
able to dictate her own terms. She will
play the leading role in Henry A. Jones'
CarEac Sahib," which Beerbohm Tree
VIII produce at Her Majesty's Theater
on April 9th. The new play will pic
ture Anglo-Indian life, with soldiers
and Rajahs galore.
Advices from Vienna just received
mere record the success of an American.
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