The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-31
LPIh's NEW PRESIDENT HERE
Has Never Been There, but IL Sure There'n
BE No INTERNATIONAL ComplicntiOns.

DIR. II. W. Soil. the new President OF the Apia
Municipal Council. arrived in this city on the
Trave yesterday. He will sail from San Fran
cisco on April 10 and will reach Apia early in
May.
DR.. Solf heard for ths first time OF the bonn
bardment when the Travo reached the bar at
/ o'clock yesterday afternoon. During the
two hours before the Trave reached her dock
in Hoboken DIR. solf chatted freely .with.his
fellow passengers and the customs inspectors
about the news. The trouble at Ania. he said
quite positively. did not amount to much and
would not increase. without doubt. he said.
1t would be n closed incident;by the time he
reached his post Of duty. There was not the
slightest probability OF any trouble between
Germany on the one hand and England and
the United States on the other with regard to
Samoan AFFAIRS. He was very positive about
that he laughed at the idea.
DR.. Solf declined to say any Of these things
to the reporters who met him as he came
ashore in H3boken. He is big and fair and ak
eanGway by a remarkably attired 1O-year-old
Or, solf assured the reporters that he was
a. %Gf0 aons s srem Y YsFe h Sy w:s at n 1' hirIea. r:so
duties q my friend Dri RaffsI; Since ! have
bCNCl % III htlloh tiltlo u OtiltI W nv
70 tell you about the place. am alone except
.o %Ths 1 4oss |OS aSsllu SsFy d IGin n iPd 5slky q 4
10, he stood under the shadow OF a white. pith
helmet that came almost to the edges q his
American. The helr1et had a strap across the
brim at the back. to hold a cloth screen for the
S %.Ss vi sRasr Wien VI 0f tie Sssss %ni's was st oiiea Sn
the pier. the boy took up his solemn stand be-
hluu the seventeen pieces belonging 10 DT,
Solf. In one hand he held Q hat boy and In
fhs %ther u cane; o ESGfep tt when toH WITH grave
tors chalkinR the baggage under his. care.
the boys expression never changed; He de;
Tor him. however, that he had come from Lake
Syasss and was g swahile: He rode on the
solf to the Holland House and was a great JOY
70 the small boys about the lighthouses in Ho-
o@ Wien sn Dr.. Ns sSli YETI isif berlin it vas announced
that he would 90 to Washington on his way to
Samoa; He would not say, Yesterday when he
br. Rafrsi whom br; Soil Is to succeed at
samoa, lust, missed him here py a day; Or.
the HS"e Kaiser is,'ru F 'Ht 4 S%taaise eants"S' r SI
porter interviewed Elm jSst before he sailed;
f6l has bsi 9ssn m nspH,tsd that sn Pr . h traSS, lost S. he lob
He:toid the !Stoats. Zeitung Reporter that he
had b. not been =, nd dismissed. but had resigned for
With Hs .ne Doftor ' Raaei: ~'o'' "''e' taxing
III nHb SDlDlOh. tneT6 Will DC u VOhbtdnl re-
currence Of the troubles In Samoa the natives.
who are now for Mataafa,. will In a few years
demand his son for their King. The influence
Of London is respon sible for all the trouble.
said the DOCTOR. As TO Justice Chambers. the
by his decision. on Dec. 81. that Tanu was King
Of Samoa because the opposition candidate.
M~ataafa, had made himself Ineligible accord
ing to the terms of the Berlin conference. al
though as late as Oct. ; Justice Chambers had
declared that il Mataafa were chosen King he
must be confirmed in the office. When his at
tantiOn was nAllp1 IN the CONTAMINATION InEtipD
Chambers simply said that the declaration Of
Oct. . was unofficial. Even the British resi-
dents held Chambers to be a fool.
Or: Rafel said further that Mataafa's party
was in the majority among the natives. and
that the powers must submit to the will OF the
people and declare Mataafa King. The new
plan that Is talked of. to anportion the islands
among the. three mowers, the doctor hold to be
impracticable. because the cost OF governing
It's share would lie greater TO each OF the DOW
ers than ANYTHING that. could be got out Of It:
The customs regulations especially would
capse. no end OF trouble. OF the American Con-
sui. Mr.. Osborn. DIR. Raffel said that he was q
Idea OF his duties"