The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
LOOKING ACROSS TIE SEA
AMERICA OCCUPIES A LARGE
SHARE IN BRITISH PUBLIC
INTEREST
BOTH PRAISE AND CENSURE
Find Their Place in the London
Press-EngIish Industrial InVas-
ion PFesaged as n Result of
Our Expanding Commerce.

LONDON, Dee. 29-Revews of the
year and century fill the weekly and daily
papers In the latter and broader field
the writer's find greater satisfaction that
Americas part in Englands history
figures prominently. Sir Edwin Arnold
signalizes the new century with sen
net Greeting Columbia"
That Sir Edwin ArnOlds's views are net
unanimously shared can be guaged from
a letter to Mr., Cunningham-Grah a
former member of parliament, who, in
July, 1898, wrote a series of articles most
insulting to Americans in the West
minister Gazette, which is given a place
of honor in the Saturday Review. 1t is
the most bitter arraignment of Anglo
American friendship that has appeared
for many a day. The writer derides the
after dinner speeches of Senator DepeW
Lord Salisbury and others, and declares
this friendship has resulted only in kicks
for Great Britain in the cases of the
Venezuela, San Juan, Alabama and
Boring awards. He says:
1--WE went on patting ourselves upon
our diaphraSmS, making certain that all
those kicks were but symptoms of af-
lection and love the Americans bore Us.
In return for our moral help, which we
gave them in their brave punching of
their brother Spaniards, they gave us
nothing OF kindred sort when we start
ed in to thrash our brother Beers Last
a cold bath upon drunkard. come the
clauses of the senate in the Hay-Paunce-
tote treaty, in which we are commanded
TO assent to kick number 20, and l sup
pose Lord Salisbury is foing to turn his
ample shoulders to receive it and assure
the kickers of his distinguished consid-
GRAFTON and thank them for the energy
with which it is bestowed. 1t seems i'm
possible, SO the experts tell US, that the
canal could be defended, even though
fortified, in case of war; but then the
T. Ia a nd nnTt &c
pariSon almost proverbial in this com
mercial age. 1t looks as if we had vol
unfairly. by our mean and senseless con-
duct in the Spanish Yankee war, placed
ourselves in the position of a man who.
having lost the world imagined he had
gained his SOUL but. on consideration
found his prize was mere hypothesis
WILL INVADE AMERICA.
In connection with the proposed Mica
raguan canal, it is said that when the
United States definitely decides to build.
one of the greatest p-building con-
Germs in England will simultaneously
open on one of the gulf ports an i'm
mense shipyard. Several steel manufact-
urers are also said to be considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of establishing American
plants.
The Manufacturers @Record, speaking
in behalf of English trade says:
The men who have dominated the
A'ACNoAIul SICdl lliGT0SlS OF the world for
so many years, whose trade ramifications
extend to every civilized country, are
not the men TO yield to Americas su-
pfemacy without sharing in it by becom-
ing factor in Americas production. To
these giants of industry it is not very
material whether the source of produc-
ton is England. or Pennsylvania, or
Alabama. The people of America should
welcome the incoming of this capital. NOT
only for its material benefits, but for
that close klnship into which the United
States and Great Britain would be
drawn"
LIPTON'S CHALLENGER.
Mr.. George w. Watson's desertion of
the Hendersons, and his employment OF
the Dennys, who have never built sail
ing yachts of any description. to con-
struct Sir Thomas Lipton's second Ameri-
cas- cup challenger, has created much
discussion, and, hitherto has not been
explained. representative Of the AS
ISOLATED Press learns, however, that Mr..
Watson was Influenced by the benefits
of the Dennys testing tank. which he
nrSt tried with the yacht Lysistrata.
Alter this he utilized the tank for a SER
les OF experiments to determine the best
null shape for Shamrock II. before he
slghed the contract with Sir Thomas
Upton EIe is convinced he has d:scov-
cred hull much better than ANYTHING
ne mas ever designed. The testing tank
is in reality pond 2G0 feet long, % feet
broad and feet deep. Over it is a rail
road with a car drawn by a stationary
engine. The model is attached to the
carriage, and the speed got from every
model, for every ounce of power is an
tomaucally recorded. There are arrange
ments also for testing at all keel angles.
The apparatus is said here to be the onlv
one of its kind in the world BY its means
MI Watson has tried a dozen models.
lie Importance Of these experiments can
be judged from his admission that # was
due to fault of the hull that Valkvre
and Shamrock failed. 1t is believed that
the new boat viii stand driving hard
without drawing a big quarter-wave be-
hind Hence &