The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-04
PEOPLE FLOCK TO
BRITISH CAPITAL.
London Has Seldom Been So Crowd
ed as at Present.
Many Americans Are Now DsmIciIed at the
Leading Hotels.

Senator Wo1cott, Who is Stopping
at the Claridge, Very Enthu-
siastic Over the Growing Pros
perity in the United States,
and the Rapid Increase in the
Expectation of American Man
ufactures.
| Copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press.)
| LONDON, June 3.-England was
plunged suddenly from winter into
summer during the week Last week
fires were necessary. Now the temper
| AZURE is over 20 and the sky is clear and
| blue. London seldom seemed so full of
people, and Hyde Park presented a very
gay appearance, the light summer toll
cites and bright colored sunshades
making a brilliant picture daily. The
Princess OF Wales, accompanied by the
Princess Victoria, have been driving in
Rotten Row, this being their first APP
pearance for very long time. A num-
| Der of coaches were also out One very
smart team, driven by Mrs. Frank
Mackay of Milwaukee, was often seen.
Considerable interest is being aroused
in autoears. The Dukes of Marlborough
and Manchester are doing all they can
to start the fashion. A great automo-
bile show will be opened on June 18th,
at Richmond, by Prince Edward Of
Sake Weimar. There will be tests of
hill-climbing and races between fast
trotting horses and automobiles.
An American company is ablishing
works at Coventry for the purpose Of
building motor cars invented by a son
of Hiram Maxim.
Derby Day is rapidly losing its char
acter as the peoples day, and, judging
from the character of the attendance at
EPSON on Wednesday, it is becoming
as fashionable as Ascot. A vast ma
jority of those occupying the stalls and
boxes in the grand stand and on the
Jockey Club stand were ladies we'll
known in society. while their bright
costumes made the paddocks look like
| a garden party.
The sensational collapse Of the French
horse, Holocaust, whose death repre-
sented loss of $4,000 to his owner,
was an intense disappointment to the
| large French contingent which came
over to see what was confidently pre-
dicted to be a victory for their repre-
sentative. The Paris papers are furi-
Gus and blame the EPSON authorities
for leaving the course in a disgracefully
dirty condition, for it is grayely de-
clared that Holocauste slipped on a
piece of orange peeling.
| There was a great rush for relics af-
ter Holocauste was slaughtered. His
ears, name, tail and hoofs were cut off
and the gypsies did a roaring trade in
! selling punches of hair cut from their
own gray horses and palmed off as
genuine Holocauste souvenirs. A we'll
known veterinary surgeon, Marcus
Stevens, who witnessed the accident.
attributes, in a published interview, the
disaster to Sloan's method of riding,
declaring that if the jockey had been
| sitting in his saddle instead of crouch
ing on the horses neck he could have
helped Holocauste to recover, after a
hrst mistake, when he WRECKED his
ankle. Holocaust, he adds. was then
going very WE'LL and fifty yards further
frying Fox was only a neck ahead,
when Holocaust stumbled and broke
MS pastern. Sloan, according to Ste
vents, has no control over his mounts,
and his method EFFORTS speed by fright
ening his mount, as Johnny Gilpin did
Holocauste's owner, M. de Bremond
certainly does not share the foregoing
views. He says emphatically to a re-
/ porter of the Associated Press: "Sloan's
jockeyship was consummate. and it is
acknowledged on all sides that he had
the race well within his grasp when
the accident occurred. 1t was indeed
i'll luck to me. However, in Holocaust
lost pet. The sympathy expressed
on all sides will be extended to Sloan
whose disappointment is second only tc
mine"
! Winston Leonard Churchill, eldest
son of the late Randolph Churchill. is
| making a distinct hit in the political
] field. He has been elected President of
the Midland Conservative Club, and at
a meeting held at Birmingham on
Thursday to welcome him, he made an
| extremely able speech, during the
course of which he evoked much merri-
| ment, saying the expression Of Presi-
| Dental address always reminded him
Of the high politics of a Queen S
speech, rescript of the Car or a mes
sage of President Mckinley, or, coming
to lesser matters, of Emperor Williams
kilograms, former Secretary OIneys
notes or the dignified styles of public
utterances. Mr.. Churchill also treated
Lord Rosebery, Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, Mr.. John Morley and other
big leaders of the opposition to a dose
of chatting, but his clever criticism and
speech generally attracted considerable
attention. The conservative Morning
POST says:
The old politicians had better look to
their laurels. Churchills speech has a
| force of movement and humor that de-
| lighted his hearers and discloses a
sense of form and consciousness that
oratory is an art, which will leave the
public to expect more in that respect
than has hitherto been supplied"
| The hotels are now full of Americans
Senator Wolcott of Colorado is staying
at Clardige's Hotel, on his way to
Carlsbad. In conversation with a rep
resentative of the Associated Press. the
| Senator grew enthusiastic ON the sub
ject of the growing prosperity in the
| United states and the rapid increase in
the expectation of American manufac-
lures, and predicted the triumphant re-
election OF President Mckinley by an
increased majority. He also said the
| Democracy would not readopt William
j.. Bryan's silver platform, but would
make the chief issue Of the party q
| fight against the trusts and expansion
He was keenly interested in the forth
coming report of the Indian Currency