The age-herald., 1899-07-09
LONDON THRONGED
 WITH AMERICANS Steamship Companies Unable to
 Cope With Travel. DeW0LF COPPER OVER THERE His Towering Form Contrasted Strange ly to That of Diminutive Jockey
 Martin As They Entered
 The Hotel Cecil.
DeW0LF COPPER OVER THERE


 presence of thousand American ladies at
 the reception held at the embassy during
 the afternoon was the most impressive
 evidence he has yet received in regard to
 the importance of the ambassadorship to l the court of St. James, he gave only faint idea of the crowds of Americans now | in London.
 l So great is the rush that the steamship l companies admit their inability to cope with it. All the transatlantic companies | have ordered from one to four new ships l But it is impossible for many of these to be ready in 1900. The American and North German lines are pushing work on their i new vessels to the utmost possibility, but they hardly hope to have them ready for l the Paris exposition. The Atlantic Trans port company has four vessels, averaging 1 12o0O tons, in course of construction. They 1 will be eco feet long. The new Leyland 1 liner Winfredan for the Boston trade has 1 her trial today. Even the cargo boats are I constantly increasing their passenger | oommodations with the view of meeting the l growing demand tor passages. The Win | fredian will accommodate 140 saloon pas | sengers. Vice President Williams of the Atlantic-Liverpool company, who was
 among the representatives of the ship owners society appointed to confer | with the Thames conservancy board with the view of having the entrance of the Thames improved, has been holding up the New York harbor management as a model Tor the Thames people, and the fact that New York has contracted for the annual | removal of huge quantities of silt has l startled the guardians of London's water 1 way, which is now so seriously threatened l by the increasing silt deposits. Scenes About Hotel 1 The scenes at the Hotel Cecil Metropole 1 and other hotels on the arrival of the l Majestic and St. Paul passengers at mid | night "Wednesday were the most exciting of | the season. Many Americans waited De | Wolf Hoppers arrival at the Hotel Cecil. | lis towering form entrusted strangely
 with the diminutiYe Jockey Martin who | was carried off by Tod Sloan, who had | already secured Martins license. An idea
 of the pressure may be gained from the
 fact that De Wolf Hopper was unable to | enter the Hotel Cecil and was compelled
 at o'clock in the morning to seek tenn | porary quarters elsewhere.
 Sloan was greatly rejoiced at the arrival l of Martin. He says the English jockeys
 who have been using every device to pre-
 vent him from winning will now have two
 Americans to look after. Sloan thinks he
 and Martin will keep them away.
 Although they only landed Tuesday the
 
 | ing at Bisley Wednesday. They had an | unpleasant experience Tuesday. The vis- | itors arrived in London late, missed the
 last train at Bisley and drove about Lon l don for hours seeking lodgings. Finally | they had to separate and each man had
 to hustle for himself. Bsley is already white with tents. The attendance promises | to be unprecedented and the entries have | increased immensely, aggresating hundreds
 above those of lS9S A preliminary return | issued in regard to the number of churches | or England in which there are confessional
 boxes seems to show the accusation of the | anti-Ritualists in regard to the specific al- | legged lawlessness are practically ground | less as in all the dioceses except five say l not one exists.
 The Five Exceptions
 The five exceptions are London, Chester,
 Exeter, Oxford and Southwell. At the | same time there are scores of churches l especially in London, where confessions | are heard at the altar rails or in chairs | placed in definite positions in the nave in | order to avoid possible scandals through | hearing confessions in the vestries or rec | tories
 | There is great excitement in the tea trade l owing to the decision of the Indian and | Ceylon sellers to abolish the practice of al- l lowing pound' extra in every hundred as l compensation for waste The dealers in | London are in arms and have resolved to l A d counter blast is the decision of the sellers | of Calcutta yesterday, who withdrew all | their teas refusing to sell for London. 1 Twenty thousand chests were withdrawn | at Calcutta alone, and auction was stopped. 1 Out of 240,0W,000 pounds required for Great | Britain, planters and exporters representing | 215, GOO, 600 have promised to stick to the 1 abolition resolution. Thrty-four planters are starting for England immediately to | open agencies in this country for the sale ! Df t1,Aiq tAoC In t.tx.a tl., 1D1a
 have been opened for China teas of lower l grade.
 Basis fer Friendly Settlement
 The news of the Volkdsraad's reported | action on July in deciding to grant the | franchise immediately to all settlers in the | Transvaal from 1890, and to other classes of
 settlers within seven years, the naturaliza- | ton to be optional, which is confirmed from | several sources, appears to offer fair ba- | sis for a friendly settlement. It was gen. ! erally expected when Herr Hoffmeier, the | Afrikander leader, and President Steyn, of 1 the Orange Free State, co-jointly exerted i pressure upon the president, the latter l would be obliged to concede what they de- l mandcd at the price of Dutch unity in ! South Africa. In the meantime Great Brit | ain is keeping up a chatter of arms for the | double purpose of quieting British demands
 for activity and hastening the Boers. l Lord George Hamilton, secretary of state | for India in a speech Wednesday, described | English feeling, saying: "l am certain no l government could remain in office if they | attempted to in any way run away from | the enforcement of Alfred Miners pro- | posals."
 i The double liberal victory at the Oldham
 election July is taken in conjunction with | other recent by-elections and votes in the l house of commons as being most humlliat- ing to the ministry, and there are signs in 1 many directions that the liberal unionists are asking themselves why they sitting on the tory benches and supporting meas
 ures exemplifying the old and discredited l devices of conserve tisna.
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