Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
COMING HOME
AMERICANS CROWD THE STEAM
Frs FROM ENGLAND.
ENGLISH RAILWAY STRIKES.
May Spread All Over the Kingdom
American Coal Going to
4 London.

London, August 25 Copyright. 1900, by
the Associated Press).-Forgetting the
Chinese cryptogram and the %unending
war in South Africa and the reconstruct
ton of that country, a strike on a 100
mile Welsh railroad stirs more interest
in England this week because it is closely
related to the supply and the manufac-
turing vitality of the kingdom. The
Taff-Vale railroad carries the product OF
$4,000 coal miners into Cardiff. The fifth
day of the strike sees small gu antilles
of the best steam coal commanding 35
shilling. All the Cardiff factories are
shut down and the merchant fleet are
unable to leave the harbor because they
have not been supplied with coal. Most
of the mines are still piling up coal at
the pit mouths. All will probably be idle
an another week. The cause of the dispute
lis that 1000 railway servants want a half
penny an hour more and are upheld in
that demand by the union of railway men
of the United Kingdom, with ESQ, 900
in the treasury and a strike income of
$4,000 a week. interviewer in the dis
,cussion anent the coal scarcity, trouble
is brewing elsewhere in the railway
world. The Great Eastern men have
handed in an ultimatum demanding in
creased wages and threatening to strike
df this is refused. The probabilities are
that American coal will be imported. The
arrival in the thames on Thursday even
ing of the British steamer Queenswood,
with 1000 tons of coal, and the sailing of
the British steamer Armstor from Nor
folk. Va. on Wednesday, with 1900 tons
destined for Bantry Bay for the British
navy, afford a text on which hangs
abundance of speculation. English writ
ers seem to take a melancholy view in
pointing out Americas exhaustless coal
supply and the ultimate certainty that
large exports will be made from that
country.
PASSENGERS FLEECBD.
Passengers are requested to beware of
gambling This penciled notice was
aposted in the Campania's smoking room
when she arrived a week ago. Several
Americans who had lost rather heavily
at poker after the game compared notes
and decided to repudiate their debts. be-
ing convinced that they had been playing
against card sharps. The principal loser
was a South American rancher whose
paper debts amounted to over Ell, 900.
The winners were two New Yorker who
were apparently u~nacquainted with each
other when the Campania left New York.
The South American alleged that he had
been cheated. He paid ten pounds and
notified the winners that he would pay
the balance of his losses when they pro-
duced satisfactory references. He also
telegraphed from Queenstown for a de-
.tective to meet the steamer at Liverpool.
One did so, but beyond telling the victim
that the winners were sharpers. he did
nothing.
The taking by American bankers of
the exchequer bonds seem to impress the
i shah of Persia immensely. The st.
James Gazette has some curious infor-
nation from Paris on the subject. 1t
says:
'The shah is convinced that financial
conditions render the alliance between
France and Russia less important every
day because France is tired of giving
money to Russia. The only nation tina
can give money to Russia is the United
States. The shah has a brilliant idea
that by cultivating friendship with Am
erica, he may secure himself with Rus
STA, whose relations with America is like
ly to become very close before long"
Mary Anderson Mrs. Antonio Navarro)
admits that she is as young as when play
goers knew her, but she has confessed to
having received q shock at a bazaar held
in Broadway, Worcestershire, the Other
day when the rector of a religious com.
munity told her she was I mother to
them. She made a little speech in which
she remarked II am somewhat over
whelmed by the clerical compliment but
he might have said Sister,
Y LONDON RAILWAYS.
Charles Stewart Smith. a member of
the New York Rapid Transit Commission
who has gone to Scotland to visit MI. and
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, has devoted con
siderable time to studying both the Paris
and London underground electric rail-
ways.
II have been afforded every opportunity
ito study the working of both sysems,'
said Mr.. Smith, respectfully in London,
where I have ridden during almost every
hour of the day, and I am prepared u
make a complete report to the oiumis-
sion on my return to New York. The
lLondon Electric railroad is certainly a
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don has ever had, but after all il is not
a rapid transit in the sense we under
stand it in the United States. The dis
tance from the Bank of England to Shep-
ards Bush is 40 yards short of six miles.
This is covered in twenty-five minutes,
Including thirteen stops. This is done by
means of two single track tubes, which OF
course, prevent the running of express
trains. The New York line will contain
four tracks and express trains will run
from the city hall to the northermost end
of the island in from eighteen to nineteen
minutes
1.-The engineering work in London is ad-
mirable and the rolling stock is an inn
"provement ven on that of the New York
Elevated Railroad, as the cars are better
lighted and better furnished"
The middle of August find London in
the apogee of the season, while the exc
dus of returning tourists is limited only
to the carrying capacity of the outgoing
steamers. C. A. Gillig, who is an expert
at calculating American travel in Eu-
rope, said to a representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press.
ut is nonsense to talk about $50, 00t
Americans crossing the Atlantic this sea
son. Their number are always exagger.
ated. There is only a certain number oil
transatlantic lines, each limited to a
lumber of ships of we'll known capac-
ity. Going over the question with a lit
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