The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-09
CROWDS OF AMERICANS
Steamship Lines Cannot Handle
the Rush.
NEW VESSELS ORDERED
Exciting Scenes at the Notes.-The ErR-
lish Jockeys Will Now Have
Two Americans to
Look After.

copyrighted, 1889, by the Associated Press.
London, July S.-When Joseph Cho-
ate. the United States ambassador. de-
clared at the banquet here July that
the presence of a thousand American
ladies at the reception held at the en-
bassy during the afternoon was the
most impressive evidence he had yet
received in regard to the Importance of
the ambassadorship to the court of st.
James, he gave only a faint idea of the
crowds of Americans now in London.
So great is the rush that the steamship
companies admit their inability to cope
with it. All the trans Atlantic COM
panies have ordered from one to four
new ships, but it is impossible for many
of these to be ready in 1900.
The American and North German
lines are pushing work on their new
vessels to the utmost possible, but they
hardly hope to have them ready for the
Paris exposition. The Atlantic trans
port company has four vessels averag-
ing 1000 tons in course of construc-
ton. They will be 600 feet long The
new Lyland liner Winifredan for the
Boston trade, had her trial to-day.
creasing their passenger accommoda-
tons with view of meeting the grow
ing demand for passages The Wini-
fredian will accommodate $40 saloon
passengers.
The scenes at the Hotel Cecil Met
ropole and other hotels on the arrival
here of the Majestic and st. Paul PAS
sengers at midnight Wednesday were
the most exciting of the season. Many
Americans awaited DeWolf Hoppers
arrival at the Hotel Crest. His tower
ing form contraSted strangely with the
jockey, Martin, who was carried off by
Tod Sloan, who had already secured
Martins license. An idea of the pres
sure may be gained from the fact that
DeWolf Hopper was unable to enter
the Hotel Cecil and was compelled at
o'clock in the morning to seek tenn
porary quarters elsewhere, while
patches of chorus girls were still riding
about at 3 in the morning in hope
less quest for shelter.
Sloan was greatly rejoiced at the ar
rival of Martin. He says the English
jockeys who have been using every de-
vice to prevent him from winning will
now have two Americans to look after
A parliamentary return, issued in re-
gard to the number of Church of Eng
land chures in which there are con-
fessional boxes, seems to show that the
accuse tons of the anti-ritualists in re-
gard to this specific alleged lawlessness
are practically groundless, as all the
| dioceses, except five, say not one exists
| The five exceptions are London. Chi
| chester, Exeter. Oxford and Southwell
| At the same time, there are scores of
| churches, especially in London, where
| confessions are heard at the altar rails
or in chairs placed in defined positions
| in order to avoid possible scandals
| upon hearing confessions in the vest
| ries or rectories.
There is great excitement in the tea
| trade owing to the decision of the In
| dian and Ceylon sellers to abolish the
| practice of allowing a pound extra in
every hundred as compensation for
| waste. The dealers in London are in
arms and have resolved to boycott the
! Indian and Ceylon teas. As counter
| blast to this, is the decision of the SELL
ers at Calcutta yesterday who with
| drew all their teas, refusing to sell for
| London. Twenty thousand chests were
withdrawn at Calcutta alone and the
auction was stopped. Out of 24o, 000,-
| 900 pounds required for Great Britain,
planters and exporters representing
$4,000, 900 pounds have promised to
stick to the abolition resolution. Thirty
four planters are starting for Eng
land Immediately to open agencies IN
this country for the sale of their teas,
| In the meantime, the doors have been
opened for China teas of lower grade.
The liberals are exulting and even go
! to the extent of predicting an early dis
solution. 1t is rumored that the cabinet
| meeting of Tuesday was stormy, and
that many differences developed, but so
long as the ministry can adjust its diff
ferences, it is probable that a dissolu-
ton will not occur before the autumn Of
1900.
The Author has published letter
from Rudyard Kipling which ends by
setting forth explicitly the grounds on
which his case against certain Arneri-
can publishers rests. He says:
They made me responsible before a
public to whom | owe peculiarly the
best and most honest work | can turn
out, for an egregious padded fake, and
all these things they did taking advan-
tage of that public interest in my ILL
ness when 7 lay at the point of death,
do not see how l can permit their
action to pass without challenge. 1t
establishes many precedents which will
do evil to the honor and integrity of the
profession that so far has given me
| countenance and profit"
!