New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-06
THE PASSING THRONG.

TO the intensity OF the enthusiast and OF the
believer in the righteousness of the she adyo-
Kiss Aaude Come unites
Mss CONNIE beauty and an attractive personal
TALKS OF ity, and when seen at the Fifth
HER MISSION. Avenue Hotel last evening she said
of her present visit 70 America Il
cane tc America 70 lecture behalf OF the Beers
ard 20 STR I'D II possible a pro-Boer sentiment
among the Americans At least. such was my idea
vhen left the other side. for the English papers
~ led ne 70 believe that America wholly
x-frh TIE English in the present conflict but from
Eaal come to the cenciasion that America Is in
sympathy WITH the Beers. The fnesssn pres mas
: great habit CT supPressine news mat they re-
arc as UnfaTorable 70 England. and this false re-
sootse- insTsnce Of * The sympathy of ireland is
Shosly with the Beers in their present Struggle
ms Aste Or ptsbFs - $50 Teesrs Il as ireIsnds
gans r. secure freedom For herself or al least
enar.s &c a long step in that direction That we
gal sgss 1staf fe eossn by the Enssh 90 Of n s
avenues prefernent N Ireland save at the price
esl,sed the men . enigrate by wholesale. and this
naer twenty or over nfty the resi- naylng sought
z.s- army I credibly informed, now numbers
three thousand men, ana l should not ne sur
tE-1nosedly prisoners at Pretoria When men or
sd 70 e ar r9Ie on board ships handcued and
oSenly display and publicly cheer the flag Of the
country they are going 70 night il would not seem
Sx--aordinarv Z those same men, captured threw
Il sne5TTs-rsted with for going out to tight the
Roers significantly replied; W hist, miss It's the
English that's paying our fare out there
with the Civil War came the disappearance OF
80 4-nited states as Power. both In merchant
marine and Navy" said A. D. Git
-uE~PROOF tings. OF San Francisco, at the
f.AY n THE Hotel Majestic the other day. and.
MACHINES. although with great coast
lines large part of our population
.slazed the for livelihood and we had re-
,esredy proved that no better sailors than Amer
sops existed in the world both in their abilities
agG5 z nas slowed 10 iapse until our goods were
eS-ost wholly carried IN foreign bottoms, our flag
q nss1- lsrre and gher taeT started on a cruise
zee --ee OF anxiety 10 every one interested lest
-s- Should turn up al their point of destina
s,rsht 70 overcome the inertia OF the people in
s. far as Navy was concerned, but the people
were occupied with other things. railroads were
hiking rev and rich territory was being settled.
ans Sc they turned naturally 10 things nearest az
land s9c ts s5 their limited hoTizonl But after
- fEhfug the White Squadron was finally
Ss+5or noSitivplv swellei with pride AT that
-5Hv feet An officer once told that when they
sr-sved or their cruise Gibraltar there two
M = Rlieh exceeded the united tonnage of the
White sgsaT9 6v @ t Toge q snt 1s h hsye
driven Il deeper and deeper In until to-day our
Nav is Of suck proportions as TO be able TO put
ID an argument with that OF any other nation ex-
cepring only that Of England and our officers and
al their courage has known no abatement ana
their hands have lost none Of their skill and cum
mig because q the years Of tnnocuous desuetude
Navy 70 1ghr with. would that II could see the
value OF subsidies, and by this means build up q
Navy trade with well
-Bzt the extraordinary part OF Il. TO my
mind continued Mr.. Cuttings. sis that this Navy
has been built within borders.
ALL We nave produced the material
AMERICAN from our OWE mines and forests
ZADE. CUR men have drawn the designs
and our shipyards turned out the
Finished products. and al Of IL well done that
Il SPITE OF generations Of actual experience in
England an American built battleship to-day
holds az records and ranks first In the world.
O. course am speaking OF the matches Ore
Eo1- snE her unequalIed race and subsequent
wonderful performance Santiago. What have
done with batllesnips is an epitor1e OF what we
and viii DO and have done In other things, and
today contractors competing IN engineer
ing enterprises the world over. and americans are
trend Of mine happened be "a Manchester, and
listed the works OF John Muir & Son, a member
unto that OF Bombastes Furioso. II must be con-
fesEeo- he made the statement that America led
The z-prlc II most forms OF mechanical work and
parucElariy IN the manufacture OF machinery. His
friend indignantly repelled the idea, and offered
IS proof taat i was not so the machinery in the
works Of Muir & Son They were making the tour
q ire shoDs when nv friend stopped to look al a
Ei0rIing machine from which his friend tried 10
drag him. but could Tot before he had found the
UIou IL and later located three more machines in
TIE works similarly marked. Whereat the partner
somewhat Izmey acknowledged that America could
huiid some machines better than England. but in
Others she exceIled by the product Of Great
Britain.