The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-12

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 10000, 600. The
idea is that each side abandon COM
petition on the others ground and come
TO working arrangement regarding
the continental business, especially
that of southern Europe, in oil and
seed cake. The oil milling industry
here is confined to Hull, Liverpool and
London. Hull is the principal center,
but Liverpool has the largest concern
of the kind in the world.
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir John
Voce Moore, presented at a meeting
held at the Mansion House this week
to further the proposed national COM
memoration in 1901 of the one thou
sapdth anniversary of the death of
King Alfred. The queen has given the
movement her patronage and the me-
mortal viii take the form of a bronze
statue of King Alfred, to be erected in
his royal city of Winchester. The
United States ambassador wrote. re-
GREETING that his visit to the queen at
Windsor on the day of the meeting
prevented his attendance. The secre-
tary, who is a. former mayor of Win
chester, announced that a company
had been formed in America to coop
crate with the movement here and that
its members include Colonel John Hay,
the secretary of state: Bishop Potter
and the presidents of Yale and Johns
Hopkins universities.
King Alfred being the founder of
Great Britain's maritime supremacy, a
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, the ancient
residence of the English kings, near
Winchester, will be secured as a me-
mortal museum. The sum of 100000
($150,000) is asked for to carry out the
whole scheme.
BUILDING THE SHAMROCK.
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 ac-
tual boat as he was with designs. The
Workmen have now succeeded in sur
mounting the worst difficulties in work
ing the manganese plates, some of
which were ruined during the first at
tempts to do so. But the work is now
proceeding 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 viii be given to the American
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 unpleasantly suggestive
of a beating for Sir Joseph Upton"
The owner of the Shamrock returns
from the Riviera on the 18th, when the
date of the launch of the cup chal-
lenger will be fixed.
The Daily Telegraph announces that
it will shortly start a Sunday edition
1t will be only an experiment, and ex-
cept for the New York Herald's expert
ment, 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 The
Cuckoo" at the Avenue theatre, where,
in spite of the charges of impropriety,
all fashionable London is fiocking.
The criticisms on "a Lady of Quail
ity," as play, are generally very Sc
we're, and it is not likely that it will
succeed here.
Lady Brown Potter's success in the
'Musketeers" has finally established
her in a position from which she is
now able to dictate her own terms She
will play the leading role in Henry A.
Jones "Carnac Sahiba," which Beer
bohm Tree will produce at Her Maj