Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-07
Copyright. Associated Press.

London, May 6.-The personality of
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes has been a towering
| figure this week. His welcome at the
meeting of the Chartered South Afh-
ca Company at the Cannon Street Ho-
| tel on Tuesday, was one of blind zen-
| thusiasm. Mr. Rhodes carried his
audience away with his breezy optim-
ism, which served as a gilded coating
for the unpleasant fact that the nego-
/ tiations with the governmental aid
| for his Cape-to-Cairo railway had fail
ed and that the company needed an
other e3,000.000. The audience, among.
whom were a number of fashionable
ladies, cheered him wildly. At the
conclusion of his speech- MIR. Rhodes
was obliged to address san overflow
meeting outside the halE Such an en-
| ormous crowd surrounded him, enthu-
siasucally cheering hjn, that police
men were required to- escort him back
to the offices of the Chartered Com
pany. Tie after-efffct of Mr.. Rhodes's
speech was less favorable however,
and shares of the British South Africa
Company suffered-a decline
Mr.. Rhodes's reference to the Carne-
gle Companys fender of railway iron
for the Rhodestan road, and his expla-
nation of its projection. has attracted
considerable attention. The cores
pendent here of the Associated Press
interviewed=M Mr.. Rhodes upon that sub
ject. He said: My policy has been to
support Eome industries wherever it
can be dpne, from business point of
view; bit there is no need for Ameri-
cans to- be discouraged We positively
will go into open markets in the future.
1, personally. believe the open market
to be the best in every interest. l can
see no reason why the American iron
aHd steel industry should not watch us
even more closely than in the past, for
E'2hodesia is going forward without gov
eminent support, and we want to at
tract enterprising Anglo-Saxons and let
them see the enormous scope before
them. The governments caution in
supporting us is no new thing. Take
Madagascar, for example. No man has
done so much for the island as Gen.
Gellieni, and yet even now he is obliged
to go upon his knees and supplicate the
French government to follow even our
limited example and open the country
The German Emperor, who is a man of
immense intelligence, sees clearly the
ultimate value of present support in
similar cases. | believe that Americans
are quicker to see business possibilities
than the average Englshman, who is
cautious, conservative and insula2 as a
rule; but once the Briton sees clearly,
then no amount of capital is enough to
sink. You can say that Americans are
as welcome in Rhodesia as brothers.
Three years will see us on the cresp Of
an enormous wave of prosperity"
Regarding the opening of the Philip
pines, Mr.. Rhodes said: IF my obser-
walton is correct the Americans will be
quick to see the great possibilities of
trade in that direction, and will not
stand waiting, but will rush with cap
ital to develop the industries of the is
lands. 1t is impossible to believe that
the American government, with such
facts and possibilities beyond shadow
of doubt, will hesitate a moment as the
British government has done regard
Rhodesia"
Mr.. Rhodes concluded the interview
by the statement that the whole of the
100000 needed for railways in
Rhodesia has already been assured.
Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, gave it to
be understood, when he accepted the
vice royalty of India, that he did so
because he thought that the climate
would improve his health. Private ad-
vices, however, intimate that the con-
trary has been the effect, and that
Lord Curzon has been suffering from
iii health ever since his arrival in In
dia. According to Today, the Curzons
have been rather OVERRIDING the dig
nifty of the viceroyalty, in contract to
the ways of former yiceroys. The pub
LEGATION mentioned says that the pres
ent practice in Simla and Calcutta is
all on lines of the most rigid etiquette.
In former gatherings the hosts always
enter last. and only when dinner is an
nounced do they go in first together,
through long lane formed by the
guests and an obsequious suite They
sit facing, and commonly address each
other, according TO Today, as Your
Excellency." Old hands. il is added.
are inclined to Singer at all this.
which is bad imitation of Windsor or
other royal residences; ''but," con-
cludes Today sarcastically. 1T must be
very pleasing 10 pretty Miss Letter and
her sisters. all republican born
Vanity Fair has compiled an exhibit
of the weights Of European queens.
Queen Victoria weighs III pounds.
Queen Margherita, of Italy. 176 pounds.
Queen Regent Christina. of Spain. lat
pounds: Queen Marie Henrietta. of Bel
crfr.r, rouuds. Qr,oa,