The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-16
ENGLISH CAMPAIGN ON.
Date of Election Is Not Yet
Fixed, However.
DEATHS MANY IN AFRICA
AMERICANS MAY CONTROL LON
DON TRANSIT SYSTEMS.

AohuOH, sept l9--Wh hen a clear cut
issue is again discernable in the con-
fusion surrounding the Chinese diff
hculties, there may be a re-awaken-
ing Of real interest, but at present
China holds quite a secondary place
In the public mind in England. The
parliamentary campaign is in full
swing, but Lord Salisbury has not yet
taken the country into his confidence
as to balloting day; and the conse-
quent uncertainty gives the stump
speaking that is going on in every
constituency an academic tinge So
Great Britain, lacking a more inter
esting topic, has returned to the con-
sideration Of the war in South Africa;
ana the newspapers are eagerly
scanned for signs of the real end of
the campaign as Great Britain is
tired of carnage.
President Kruger's dramatic retreat
mas led the commentators to re-an-
nounce the close of the war, but the
long lists of casualties and deaths in
hospital, aggregating 200 a week. which
continue to NIL up the bulletin boards
at the war Office, belle their state
nents.
Heavy Percentage of Deaths.
The claims hither to made that the
British losses in South Africa have
been small as compared with those
OF other campaigns appear to need re-
VISION, judging from recent caIcula-
lions made by a well known actuary
who finds that Of the officers in South
Africa, III per thousand have been
killed or died from wounds; 3O6 per
thousand of the officers have died from
disease, while of the men 10 per thou
sand have been killed or died from
wounds, and 31.8 have died from dis
ease. These startling statistics not
only illustrate that while the officers
and men have suffered approximately
equally from disease, the risks of the
officers In action have been hugely dis
proporttonata ard also that the rate
or mortality in South Africa is much
greater than in the Franco-German
war.
Kruger's millions are the subject Of
dtsrespectful paragraphs and long
narratives of dispraise The lowest
estimate of his wealth is 100000 in
vested abroad; while some calculators
ngure his wealth at 45.oOO,0oo The
Transvaal government is supposed to
have &2,Oce,000 or e3, 0OO. 900 in ,,onti-
metal banks, which VIII be boarded bv
the managing committee, DR.. Leyds
says, Tor future rising when England
is in other difficulties.
Americans to Solve Traction Problem.
All kinds of rumors are current re-
gardfng the coming OF American en-
don's congested traffic. That the
metropolis is far behind every pro-
Vincial center in many things that go
to make up modern city is beginning
TO be realized by Fnglishmen as well
as by Americans; and q demand is
arising for new blood-American or
otherwise-capable of solving transit
problems.
One had only to attempt a Journey
to the city this week to realize the
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business is subjected under present
conditions. The main artery, TrafaI-
gar Square to the bank. is so torn up
that it takes cabs and busses thirty or
forty minutes TO cover Journey of
less than two miles. Connected with
all this CONGESTION is the great problem
of housing the working classes, at
which the closest students of London's
social problems are aghast, though
they readily perceive that the only
remedy as in the case of Iessening the
congestion of the street, lies in wide
spreading network of rapid transit
which, under the county council rules,
must hereafter be subteranean.
London, therefore, will gladly well
come American aid: and there is no
lack of indications that Americans are
actively seeking investments in this
and other dire ctiOnS. There is scarcely
a hotel in London that does not con
tain an important representative
of some American industry or enter
prise which he is actively engaged in
promoting.
Yerkes Said to Control One Road.
There is much gossip over the state
ments that Charles T. Yerlxes of Chi
cago and New York has secured con
troll of the stock of the Charing Cross
railroad, and II is limited that the
day by Mr.. Smith, the secretary of
the company, as already cabled to the
Associated Press, is by no means con-
elusive. Il is pointed out that there
are some evidences of truth in these
reports and Mr.. Yerkes' friends openly
declare that he has not only secured
this valuable opening but that his
coming to London means that he will
control the electrical traction system
of the metropolis.
Nor Is London the only place where
American capitalists are engaged in
electrical enterprises. The next few
days will probably see the completion
of plans for the construction and con-
solidation of a system of 120 miles of
suburban lines connecting Manchester.
Liverpool. Bolton and a score of small
towns of northern England. This pro-
ject IS in the hands of Messrs. Tom
and Albert Johnson Of New York.
Opening For American Coal.
American coal and railroad magnates
are also busy here. Robert Pitcairn,
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad is
still with the Carnegies. and President
Cassatt is watching developments at
one London hotel while the baltimore
& Ohio people have their headquart-
ers at another hostelry. Both parties
are confident that American coal has
found a permanent place on the CONT
nent, If not in England. Every
American consul in Europe has been
set 10 work to supply statistics as to
the possibility of finding a market.
The great drawback said a promi-
nent member OF the. Baltimore & Ohio
syndicate, lis lack of transportation
II Messrs. Carnegie and Pitcairn can
equip a fleet of vessels specially con-
structed for carrying coal. such as our
iron ore and oil fleets, and give a true
rate from the coal mines to Marseilles
and Odessa. the United States would
have the European coal market at her
feet for all Jime.'
Howard May Succeed Pauncefote.
AS the period which Lord Salisbury
has extended Lord PaUncefOtes serv-
ice as British ambassador expires in a
few months, there are many coniec-
lures as 70 who win succeed him at
Washington. Sir Henry Howard. who
has been British minister at The
Tague, and Luxembourg since 1896, and
who is described in this connection. as
"a straightforward diplomatist, lust
such a character as Americans like to