New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-05
TAMMANY SYMPATHY FOR Beers.

sympathy for the Beers was proclaimed last
evening by the Tammany Hall organization in the
With Assembly District, which met in Its new
headquarters at No. $40 West Fourteenth-st. James
w Boyle, the Tammany leader in the district. pre-
scented resolutions which passed unanimously.
They declared, after some references to American
traditions, that the General Committee of the
Tammany Hall organization of the With Assembly
District sympathze with the Beers in their struggle
against foreign invasion and oppression, and sin
cerely cherish the hope that Notwithstanding the
great odds against which they are contending.
the God who presides the destinies of nations
will prosper their arms and lead their brave SOL
diers from victory to victory"
spoke in favor of the resolutions. His speech was
bitter lite de t Of the BTsR Government e,
ing the Dutch REPUBLIC in South Erica, and said
god AND diamonds We're O dscoyered Within its
borders Then the overthrow CT the South African
Rhodes s9 and the others Mr. Keller SAD that Eng
them, but in her encounters with the Beers she
had discovered that they brave men and better
hoped that the republicans of South Africa would
ATTITUDE OF AMERICAN MERCHANTS.
Mr.. Eddy of Flint, Eddy & Co.. who shipped
considerable merchandise from here for Deagoa
Bay on the Mashona, whose cargo was seized by
the British. said yesterday that American
chants did not consider the money side of the
matter of so much Importance.
I'VE contending for the principle involved
in this seizure" he said. IF cargoes shipped TO
neutral port to be considered contraband be-
cause they likely to be resold by the
signees TO of the belligerent parties want
to know it. The point may become of great
Importance. These shipments were made before
the outbreak of the war. We sent our goods to
our regular correspondents just as we have done
for years past There is little doubt that part
of the three cargoes seized would have gone into
the Transvaal for Delagoa Bay is the natural
have been reached only by reselling by
correspondents and at that time our interest in
he dismissal goods would have
entirely.
RECRUITING FOR BOER RED CROSS
Recruiting for the Boer Red Cross service goes on
daily in New-York Gustav Simon, who is direct
ing the movement and whose headquarters are a
cigar stand in a saloon at Mulberry and Houston
SITS, informed Tribune reporter yesterday that
when he advertised for nurses week ago to enter
the Boer service he received about five hundred ap-
plications in day, and that applications were
coming in average of fifty day. Altogether
about thousand men and women, the majority
of them men, he said, had gone from New-York
Gently to South Africa. number came from other
States.
Mr.. Simon said that all who went were willing to
go for Red Cross work. and about seventy-fve had
paid their own expenses. They received the spe-
cial rate given to the Red Cross and would be able
to reach Pretoria at expense Of 500 apiece
1t was stated by Mr.. Simon that he had
about nine hundred applications in hand. and that
as soon as the references of an applicant had been
investigated arrangements were made to raise the
amount necessary to pay transportation expenses.
Among the applicants, he said, number of
specially trained nurses, who were well recon-
mended. and about five hundred men, recently e.
lected. would go to South Africa in the next three
penses, he explained, had been raised among
wealthy men in New-York number of whom
members of the South African-American Club,
which has branches in South Africa and New-York
and which has contributed needed transportation
money which could not be raised by subscription
among New Workers.
Mr.. Simon added that as the number of applica-
lions now averaged fifty day he should not ad-
vertise again at present, but probably would in
about three weeks He remarked that he did not
wish to violate the neutrality laws and he did not
desire to anything about the possibility of the
Red Cross recruits joining the Boer military
vice. as he had nothing to do with that.