The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-28
A NOTABLE WEDDING.
All London is Still Talking About
the Primrose-Crewo
MARRIAGE

All London Is Still Talking About
the Primrose-Crews
Marriage.
Lufidon, April 22.-The ostent atiU,s
display ut the marriage Of the Earl OF
Crewe to Lady Margaret Primrose, SEC
Old Daughter Of Earl Rosebefy, at West.
iifinster abbey OH Thursday, comes up
perfume is sufficient reply to the invidi-
GUS distinctions drawn here between
British and American society methods,
The Vanderbilt and Sloane weddings
called for Trades from the press against
Americans for hasiliness and millionaire
extravaganza, ctr. But lord H,sebery
certainly capped the record by the ar-
engagements to have the bridal party
ciHenategraphed Oh entering and leay.
ing the abbey. For this purpose be had
the awning at the entrance removed and
the party on leaving the Old edifcc,
marked time to d certain degree, i'll Or
der that the pictures might he cUII-
pIete sucress,s The bridal party drove to-
and from the abbey il open carriages
and everything was done to ensure the
arrangements and a description Of the
presents:
Usually at this time Of the year there
is long list Of advertised festivities,
but up to the present very few dances
| and only one big bah have been an
nonnced The latter viii be given by
William Waldorf Aston in June and will
be one Of the leading events Of the sea-
son.
Marlb oroughs IN Mcurninx.
The death of the dowager duchess of
Marlborough, widow Of the seventh duke
| Of Marlborough. was a severe Dlt,w to the
| social season. She never completely re-
| covered from the death Of her son. Lord
| Randolph Churchill. Her demise put q
long list of members of the peerage III
| mourning, intending the Duke and Ouch
ess Of Marlborough, who have already
had to forego several engagements, polit-
iger duchess took place on Friday aft
eruoon at Blehh%im.
! AS Il result of the incident uf the Eg.
SOM spring meeting which resulted in the
disqualification of Tod Sloan. the Ameri-
can jockey. who was riding Ecu dor.
the stewards were careful to make it
clear that they did not consider SIoan
| blamable. The course is extremely Diff
| ficult to q stranger and Ecu dor proved
practically unmanageable. The sporting
wiSeacres deduce tl1erefrom that Sloans
! method Of rifiug does not give him great
command of Ills leTse and that he cannot
get enough leverage II his neunt is in
cfined to swerve.
Sloan's defeat Oh Jolly Tar in tie race
for the Tudor plate was a great disap-
| polntment to his supporters. who are in
dignant ut the manner in which he was
treated 10y the other jockeys. One Ut
the sporting experts writes that the Tu-
| dor plate was 1.-THE most unsa satisfactory
race this year" adding. mo one watch
ing the race with Il fair open mind. can
have any hesitation in saying Sloan wa.
hammred and knocked about in a Seriex
of pockets which annihiated all chance
of winning. and the sequel was that ht'
eased up, seeing that all effort was USE
| less"
English Jockeys Tactics.
This means that the English ttrkcY.
have begun Il repetition of the tactics of
last year.
The same writer declares the tactics
OF certain jockeys towards foul riding
should get them warned off the track.
The Iachtsman believes that although
there will not be series of matches be-
tween the cup challenger Shamrock and
valkyrie III. the former will undouit-
eddy take part in orelifary matches, az
such racing will enable the crew to get
together and bring the boat up to her
best speed.
American industrial competition has
again ctnne prominently to the front tbi.
week. Hardly day passed without an
article or letter on the subject in the
contract which has almost assumed the
proportions of a national question. came
before the House Of Commons On Thurs
day, when the government was asked Il
striig Of questions on the subject. IT,
which tho parliamentary secretary of the
foreign office, Right Hon. William st,
John Broderick, Ng. only able to reply
that he had no information beyond what
| was contained i'll the report recently is
sued by Lord Cromer, the British agent
i'll Egypt.
American Com petition.
The Times has printed lengthy arti-
! Gle on American competition III the iron
trade and called attention to- America s
jump in exports of iron and steel. one
result being that English price. and ex-
ports al like are not entirely fixed by home
or continental competition. as they used
to he, but the prevailing tone of the m, r
ketS and industrial situation generally 1T
the United States. 1t adds that a nota-
| bic case in point was the combined eff
fort of the British rail manufacturers to
keep up the price of heavy sections which
resulted in the partial ruin Of that
branch of the business the Americans
taking the orders. instead OF the British.
Continuing. the Times remarks: The
|
manufacturers. who are asking two fun
! damental OueStionS-whetlter Americas
competition must inevitably regulate in
the future British exports and prices.
and whether it is worth while struggling
on under such an ovcrmasterlng 'ncu'
Dealing with the imports of American
manufacturers. the Times thinks that
| the prospects are rather brighter, and
says: THE British manufacturers mind
is somewhat relieved by the fact that
the prices i'll America are rising in L
manner which must satisfy even the
average American aspirations for Il
boom, the duration of which is the up
| permost topic of concern.
The article concludes with the hopeful
remark that there is less reason to al-
prehentl IL flood of American imports of
iron and steel in 1899 than there was
last year.
The newspapers in the iron-workins
districts are taking the matter up. The
Darlington North Star says: The
American entry into British markets is
positive danger. Everyone knows it is
never safe TO let customer so else
where. There is good reason for all in
terested in the iron and steel trades i'll
Great Britain to seriously consider the
question:
Don't Want Sunday Papers.
The Non-C onformists in their church
es and organs, continue their bitter de-
nunciations Of seven-day newspapers and
it seems likely that the agitation will de-
Yelop into a widespread boycott. The
ministers are appealing to their consre-
cations to pledge themselves to not read
newspaper publishing Sunday edi-
ton. The British Weekly calls on the
church to fight the battle and advises
that the boycott be extended to every
publication of the firms involved The
Methodist Times urges Metholists not
only not to buy the newspapers. but to
influence tradesmen against advertising
in them.
i. \ protest meeting was held in London.
on Thursday, at which 1000 persons were
present, against the ~cven-day papers.
Mr.. Sydney Webb, chairman of the
Technical Education board, and some
time lecturer on political economy at the
city of London college and workingmen's
college. and now at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. pro-
claimed his opinion that the Sunday