New-York tribune., 1899-06-22
THE PASSING THRONG.

Joseph r. Holmes. OF Glasgow. director-gensrsi
OF the Holmes Light Company and an inventor OF
wide repute arrived in this city yesterday morning
on the Allan State Line steamer
TORPEDoEs MongoGa. He Is the Inventor Of
AS TORCH the torpedo indicator small
BEARERS conical canls.er containing a chem
ical the composition OF which is a
secret known only 10 Mr.. Holmes. The canister
which is perforated Is put into the torpedo tube
and as soon II strikes the water gas Is gener-
ated. which. rising to the surface bursts INTO .
brilliant flame and follows the projectile In its
course. When seen last evening at the Grand Hotel
THE torpedo Indicator Is no longer an e1per.
ment. IL has been proved practical by tests, and
has been adopted by the governments OF Great
a TaT now on NV WAY I TO Washnston to endea~or
make contract with the United States Govern.
ment."
Kentaro KanekO. who will receive a degree q
III. D. from Harvard next week, Is staying at the
Waldorf-Astora. where he expressed himself In
strong terms yesterday the slb-
CONDITIONS ject Of an article which was re-
IN JAPAN. Gently published in which the
people OF Japan spoken o, a.
bad and unworthy OF confidence and the country as
a poor place In which 10 do business.
The man who expressed these opinions" he said.
was I'm Japan two months and probably saw MOTH
ing OF the country except what could be seen in
the foreign settlements where the population 10
made up OF foreigners and class OF japanese with
whom the better class OF native would not ssso-
ciate. Taking these men as samples, the person
who said mean things about the japanese may be
forgiven, just as man from my country should
be who came here and met only the scum OF the
population and then judged al Americans by their
standard We are mlsJudged IN many ways. Men
who to with letters from friends or from our
representatives are well received and are made &c
feel that consider II our duty to entertain them.
and they away well pleased. and often say too
people by the few whom they meet. Then the globe
trotters go to the other extreme and form their
yInfop o. bo fhs
other japanese whom they meet in the foreign set
Elements. Coolies. runaway clerks men who nav.
vulgar amtsements which are maintained for the
globe trotter are supposed by them to be popular
with the better part OF the community
"As to the assertion that American goods cannot
be sold because Of the cheaper products OF Japan.
that is also mistake. Many cheap goods are sold,
come from Germany, and there is no reason why
the same grades OF goods should not be made here
and sent to Japan. There is one statement in the
article in question for which I can find no other
criticism than to call II deliherate rnIsstatement
portant places in japanese banks are are hlled by
Chinese That Is not true OcGasonay oar & we nave
Chinese, but the important positions are all hed oy
Mr. Kaneko will be the guest Of Professor J. c.
Gray while in Cambridge.
Ex-senator Henry ". Blair. OF New-Hampshirs.
gave out statement at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
last evening in which he said that the question Of
trusts mas become so serious that
TRUSTS AND the Republican party can no longer
THE PHIL avoid 1t. He said that In all proba-
IPPINES blity II will he the turning point
OF the campaign OF 1900. That the
tariff is the mother of trusts he denies most en-
phatically and goes on show that trusts -four
! ish eouallv as well in free-trade countries as in
this land OF the protective tariff he believes, now.
that Is subject f9r leg egsatGn Ion ad az nasi .ns.
Hr Rair told a Tribune reporter last night that
! ted Phiippine
ton. General Otis" he said. has done well put
II he was not misquoted in the statement pur-
porting to come from him. 10 the effect that ne
could put down the rebellion with the troops al
ready at Mana ne e, rs nI' tSa tbe President should
raise an army OF one hundred thousand yolunteera @
jnpnes. Then think that he should dispatch Gen.
eral Miles 10 the Islands 10 take comWsho Oh tnes
rooPss ire souS s6f be es Compelled % to be sureead
The war in the Philippines Is not trng ao1g Hhs in
definitely Vigorous methods. good generalship and
large forces are needed-badly needed
Edwin Van D. Paul. Of Pittsburg. general man.
aeer OF the Duauesne Distributing Company. bet
ter known as the Red Raven Splits people," Is In
the city, staying at the Hotel I'M
DRI-MMERS perial He has just completed
LOSING business trip through the west,
THEIR and he told a reporter last evening
PLACES that in his travels through the
country he was astonshed at the
great numbers OF travelling statesmen who are be-
ing thrown out Of employment by the formation OF
The great tobacco combines" said Mr. Paul
threw about three thousand saesHeh n en- di ,ne
Continental Tobacco Company telegraphed tne @ ois.
charge OF $50 in one day. The baking powaer mus' @
has % o S!n saesen a who schaTgd
the trust Of whom received a., saIary ret oL rem
.tn,ive ana tn. Of leather establishment who had
received three days notice Of his dlscharge hs
saiary d y~nS,s5 was S to 81 eco @ @ annually know these
fgures to be All the trusts have dismssea
many Of their statesmen and reduced the sa'd''e' u
those whom they retained
Joseph Letter who cornered the wheat market
in Chicago about a year ago and became famous
IN a dav Is at the Waldorf-As;oria He told
reporter yesterday afternoon that
CONFIDENT he did not consider the stock mar
AsTO ket in unusually bad shape.
STOCKS '.If you will take the trouble 70
look back twenty-five or thirty
years you will find that prices always ran on az
this season Of the year Operators want 70 ra, ey.s
up and get away for rest. Naturally the ia rh1s
slumps but It Invariably rallies later 60 o, Tho Vest
is a bugaboo and will do no harm Stocks VIII TO-
vive again soon.
Judge J. b. c. Drew. OF Charestown W. w.
was AZ the Hoffman House yesterday. the poh''
ical situation In West Virginia" he said Is ra'ne'
peculiar 1t is very close sta.e
poi 1rICs there being scarcely 5000 votes dn-
IN WEST ference between the two pd'"e'
! VIRGINIA Undoubtedly the Democracy o'
West Virginia is strongly IN Ia'oi
| Of the denomination Of Mr. Bryan on the Ch0ae
! patform hardly think a delegation Ioi "'.
| would be contested There is some dile'e usa
| opinion In West Virginia on the question go, 90"
expansion-that is the acquisition ana go'ei.n A,,s
| OF outlying territories acquired by our war VIZ"
| Spain OF course, there can have been no su' .Sa,
tative expression Of the Democrauo pa'v ~.
couId hind any State OF Congress district ana ",
| Democratic party will enter the next Masy MHdstsr.
| Convention with this expansion Issue oerned
mined 40 far as | individually am cohCeiu,rt,, ,ut,o.
regret very much that this issue mas o.e' ,ssnes
| duced upon the discussion OF Denocr11HIS 1ISo cuba
vet considering the fact that Porto h!So, war
and the Philippines came TO US by the cans Iate 70
consider II The duty Of all loyal Anne, aurlsy
oUn1, ,ha Adminis tration OF President Mch..ss .ss
in holding this territory and performing , nnnsuest and
| duties that deyolyed upon US by ls co.tS shov
| cession until the people OF those countries '
| themselves