The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-10

80 to go Americans thus stranded in Lon
uOh. Inc manager of a tourist agency
told representative of the Associated Press
guineas premium offered to secure the right
70 sleep in a barber chair of the St Louis.
IL Is believed that next year with the Paris
exhlbltlon In progress the conditions in this
respect will be worse.
The American hackers, who last year
made immense profits on the wins of Tod
Sloan, find themselves in a peculiar situa-
ton this season owing to the influx of other
American jockeys on the English turf.
Riley Grammar, who, ii was reported, won
10000 at the Derby in a single day. said in
an interview with a representative of the
Associated Press: 1.-The report of my win
nings on that occasion is untrue 1t is alb
solutely impossible to get any odds against
at 80 to l on. With the Reiffs Martin and
Sloan ali here the days of good things have
passed. 1 would be glad If anyone would
take up my weeks losses for Zoo"
The hold which racing has on the public
is manifested by the immense crowds at the
Doncaster September meeting this week.
The postal authorities report that no less
than two thousand money orders were paid
in three days and that nearly 1900 private
kilograms am So were received; 1t is estimated
The dead heat between Bishopswood. on
which j. Reiff had the mount, and Uncle
Mac. in the race for the Alexandria plate
Thursday was one of the most exciting con-
tests ever seen on the turf. BishopSwood
is a gigantic horse with vicious temper
and little Reiff looked mere speck on his
back When the dead heat was run off
Bishopswood got out of Refff's control and
il seemed as if the English jockey on Uncle
Mae had the race well in hand. But Reiff,
fighting his mount. forced him into the
course and with a terrific squirt, won
brilliant race by a length. Much to Reiff s
dressed woman in the paddock reached him
and kissed him raPturously.
The Hill coteries and cliques described by
Rudyard Kipling in his stories of Anglo
Indian society are threatened with ex-
termination by a recent order that in future
the troops must spend the better part of the
cold weather under canvas instead of in
ages of enteric fever, said to be due TO the
proximity of the mems quarters TO the
bazaars, Living under canvas means exile
prophets foresee the end of racing, polo and
society.
1t is said that the Amalgamated Coates
Thread Company has absorbed a leading
Belgian firm and intends taking over others
with view OF controlling the South Ameri-
can markets. now supplied by Belgium
From Constantinople comes the report
that Russia has objected to the Sultan plac-
ing pneumatic guns at the northern en-
trance TO the Bosphorus on the ground that
Cars friendlinesS. The result is that the
Sultan has agreed not to place the guns
there and has Cancelled the contract made
with the New York Pneumatic Gun Com
pany, who had arranged to supply the
weapons. 1t is said the Sultan got the idea
of employing pneumatic guns from the ac-
counts of the actions of the United States
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius during the late
war between the United States and Spain.
Lord Rosebery presided this evening at
dinner of the Caledonian Railway employees
at Carlisle. In proposing a toast to the
railway interests of the United Kingdom
he alluded to the recent correspondence in
the Times on the relative advantages of
the American and British systems of trav-
cling and said the American system suited
the American and the British system suite
the British. One difference, he said, would
strike every traveller in the United States.
The Americans did not like the aristocracy,
but did not mind plutocrats. But Ameri-
ca" continued Lord Rosebery, has an
aristocracy so exalted that our proudest can
hardly compare with them. They are the
railway presidents, who are little more than
equivalent 10 English dukes, but they have
almost despotic power, travelling in style
that no English duke could aspire to and
exercise control unparalleled in England. -
Lord Rosebery declared that he preferred
the British form of director and chairman.