Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-15


play in restraining the violent counsels OF
the many ignorant extremists by whom ne
is surrounded
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes left London last Sunday
for Southampton, en- route for the Cape.
amid something like enthusiasm from a
large concourse of people. He was accom-.
panied to Southampton by the Duke OF
Abercorn, Earl Grey, Mr.. Belt and others,
while Lord Rowton, the Duchess of Aber-
corn and Mr.. Hawksley were among MI
Rhodes friends present on Waterloo plat
form. In a few weeks Lord Kitchener will
return to Khartum so that IL after all
hostilities should break out in the Trans
vaal the two men who have done more than
any one else to make Africa British en-
pire will be in the dark continent, the one
near Cairo and the other near the Cape. In
the steamer which took out Mr.. Rhodes
there We're twenty British officers, and nan
a hundred other officers viii sail In rev
days for the same destinations; in fact,
every preparation for war is slowly but
surely being made.
Until the outlook in South Africa Is bright
er the admiralty will not finally decide
whether or not there shall be naval ma
neuvers. These maneuvers cost f35O,OOO IN
coal alone. and in the event of war 1t would
be deemed prudent not to undertake sucn
an expenditure. The vessels are, however,
all being got ready for the maneuvers,
should they be ultimately decided upon. On
this occasion extensive experiments Will be
made with pigeons, those in the navy being
the best trained in the world.
The old trees and green lawns and the
gray walls of the bishops palace, with it's
arches and towers, made an effective set
ting and background for the crowds of
gafly dressed women who, at the invitation
of the bishop of London and Mrs. Creigh-
ton, attended a garden party at Fulham
palace on Saturday afternoon. Fortunate
ly the rain clouds which had broken In
heavy showers in the morning cleared away,
and there was nothing to mar the pleasure
of one of the most delightful of the Wo-
mems congress gaieties. The chief rooms
of the palace were thrown open.
The delegates have nothing to complain
of on the score of entertainment during their
stay in London. The chief gaeties of the
closing days of the congress have been Mrs.
Wynford Phillips lat home, at the Gros-
venor Crescent Club on Monday, Lady Leo
pold de RothSchild's garden party at Gun
nersbury Park on Tuesday, and Lady Aber
deems farewell reception at the galleries
of the Institute of Water-Color Painters on
Tuesday night Monday the Society of
American Women in London entertained
some specially invited guests at lunch, and
also at an afternoon lat home" at the
Hotel Cecil To the farewell reception on
Tuesday night and the lunch to delegates
at Glastonbury Park on Wednesday, Lady
Aberdeen added an early morning break
fast party on Tuesday at the Westminster
Palace Hotel for foreign speakers and WISH
tors to the congress.
Some practical results seem likely to fol-
low from paper on the housing of the pro-
fesSional working women in great cities
by Mr.. Gilbert Parker, the Canadian novel
ist The subject seemed to interest so many
that rs there was no time left for discuss
ing, Lady Aberdeen made two suggestions
first, that a resolution be passed recon-
mending that the National Councils of Wo-
men throughout the world should make in
CURRY into the subject with a view to taking
Steps to remedy the deficiencies in the way
hyr arl-n
and, secondly. that she should convene
special meeting on the subject which Mr..
Parker, Lord RowtOn and others interested
in the subject should be invited to attend
Both suggestions were cordially agreed to-
and the resolution asking the councils to
take the subject up was proposed by Mrs
Wllioughby Cummings, a Canadian dele
gate, and seconded by Frau Norrie, Copen-
hagen.
Hooker T. Washington in London.
Much interest has been created in Lon
don by the negro educator, Booker T.
Washington of Tuskegee, Ala, who dis
coursed on the negro problem in America
at meeting on Monday at which Mr..
Choate presided. The ambassador in in
Producing the lecturer described him as a
great leader of most important race,
numbering 10000. 600 among a white popu-
latiOn of G0,0O0, 900 in the states Their
condition, he said, constituted a problem
the prophetic faculty to indicate what the
outcome will be of the efforts to lift them
up to the level of white civilization. Mr..
Washington gave an interesting and i'm
pressive picture of the utter helplessness
of the negro without education, and he
dilated upon the poor prospects there were
of his getting instruction at present unless
outside interest was excited in the matter
as the state provision for the instruction of
the negro child only amounted to 76 cents
per head, as against S15 to $50 in some
states for the education of the white child.
The lecturer then went on to supply a
graphic account of the efforts he has been
making to train the negro child in indus
trial crafts in the TuSkegee Institution, and
of the excellent moral and material results
achieved. He said he looked to this kind
of education as the most certain means OF
enabling the negro to live up to 1.-The high
| est type of a Christian gentleman and to
| secure the treatment of a Christian gentle
| man from his white neighbor." remark
| able fact bearing on the condition OF
| the negro, he added, was that whereas
| while in slavery he was the only skilled
| laborer in the south, since he obtained his
| freedom no one has taken the trouble tC
| train his children to succeed him, with
| the result that the old type has gone and
| the present is more helpless than ever be-
| fore All this interests London at present
as numerous stories of lynchingS in the
| United States have recently caused the
/ negro question to be revived here. In
| deed. Washington bids fair to prove as
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| garden parties as Paul Laurence Dunbar
| the negro poet was year or so ago.
| A New Atlantic Liner.
The order which is said to have been
| given by the American line to Clydebank
| for an Atlantic liner of the highest class
to take the place of the stranded Paris will
| give to that shipbuilding yard the oppor.
| tunity for which it has waited for a gooG
| many years to make another try for the
| honor of producing the swiftest ocear
| steamer in the world. No ocean steamer
| designed to attain the. highest speed ha:
| been built at Clydebank since 1883, the
| year in which the Paris was built at tina
| yard; and no swift Atlantic liner has beer
| launched on the Clyde from any shipbuild
| ing yard since the Lucania was launched
| at Fairfield in February, 1898. A very con
| siderable advance in the speed of swift
| cruisers has been made since that date IL
| the vessels launched both at Fairfield ant
| Clydebank, so that when Clydebank get
the opportunity now to build another At
lantic racer it is likely to do its work well
The American line, for which the new
| steamer Is to be built, has always beel
ambitious to own the fastest on the At
lantic, and the two steamers which it hat
built in America-the st. Louis and the ST
Paul-were the fastest the route be
tween Southampton and New York till tn