Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-17
GLOOMY AND RAIAY WEATHER.
Londoners Getting More Rain
 Than They Want.

For American Jockeys.
 London. Nov 17.-AIinimum news and maximum rains were the distin guished features of the week. Such gloomy. wet days, as experienced nefe recently are unusual even for Lon don. Joseph Chamberlain, that cen ti'al figure in British politics. can con graduate himself. for more reasons tkan one. upon his absence from his murky. native land. He is diSportinls Himself 'on the sunny Mediterranean. Thus. the colonial secretary is temper arily safe from the effects of the wig orou$ personal attacks which continue to be made upon him by the liberals. from Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman down. The latest and most important of these is q statement made by the Morning Leader showing MT Chamber lain holds E1,OUO in shares of the Colombo Commercial company. Which is receiving large contracts for housing Bocr prisoners in CeyIOn. What makes the c:lS;. still more damaging is the fact that MT Ciamberlaip sanctioned, as colonial secretary. q regulation laid down hy the governor of C"ylon, strictly prohibiting any officer of the local government from interesting himself or his family ill private busi- rcSS In other words. Mir Chamber lain forbids his SuhOrdinateS, under pain of severe penalties, to do what he himself is doing on q large scale. It now seems impossible for AIr Cham herlain 10 avoid cXplana tion$. for which he will undoubtedly he asked when parliament reasSpmbleS.
 Another feature in the same con ncctnn. of which the liberals are mak- ing no little capital. is the eXtraordi- nary number of directorships in pri- vate companies held by government officers Of the twenty cabinet min iSterS, thirteen are directors. while be- tween all the thirty-SiX ministers twen- ty-scven GircctolShipS are held. The list commences with Lord Salisbury, who assists in the management of an insurance company. and includes Lord Selhorne. who is both first lord of the admiralty and q director of the Penin- Sula and Oriental Steamship company; Gerald Balfour. who uniteS q director ship in an aluminium company With the presidency of the board of trade, and many other incongruous asSocia- tionS. several of the companies being financially discredited. With. such fiagrantIy weak spots in the armOr of the new cabinet it is no wonder the liberals are imploring Lord Rosebery
 
 bell -Bannerman's appeal to the eN- premier. forecasted in the dispatches of the Associated Press several weeks ago. only voiced the feeling of the ma iority of the party. but it was accom- panied by such bitter denunciations of the so-callcd imperialists that it can scarcely be expected to produce much rcSElt.
 American enterprise in Great Brit
 ,i, fn h, jnn methods of the war office. The prob lem of the transportation of stores. guns and men over country having no railroads has long exercised the army experts. Traction engines. bullockS. elephants. horses and mules have been tried with only moderate siiccess. With the view of displacing these a series of experiments is occurring in Eng land before a war office commission in which an American motor car, suitable for war service. having on board the driver. an American. and the inventor. attained q speed of thirty mile an hour on grass. going over obstacles and undulations with out the slightest difficulty or injury.
 Further trials are still necessary but the British officers were faVorably i'm pressed with tEe performance of the motor car and are likely to recOm- mend us auoDlloll tllt Wal oiiltt.
 The fact that so conservative paper as Punch dcvOteS q cartoon this week to the representation of an American jockey perched on a horses neck. while the trainer says: NOW. this horse is as lit as chemicals can make him: you have got q %alvanic saddle. an electric whip and hypoder
 mic spurs. and if you shin a bit fur ther up his neck you ought just to lick anything with hair on. fairly indi- cates the length to which British rancor towards American jockeys has gone. As a leading American trainer said this week:
 It is true Americans use iinimentS and lotions to take soreness out of
 horses. What a few of the English
 need is a lotion to take the soreness out of a few of their bad losers.
 The failure of the stewards of the
 jockey club to announce any decision
 after two days Investigation of Lord DHrhams charges against Lester Reiff leads to the belief that if any
 action is taken it will appear when Reiff applies for q license for 1901. The tone of Lord Dunham's letter to the stewards of the jockey club and the personal inconvenience and hnan- cial loss Reim has been put to bT the failure of the jockey club officials to | notif. him in time of the place or thelr ] meeting have, served to create d re- action of%sertiments not only towards [ I,x1if but towards American jockeys in general Americans who have watch ed the progress of the recent crusade against their jockeys and trainers point out the significant fact that since their importation began every important English race, from the five furlong dash to the Derby. has been run from four to thirty seconds faster than ever There is q strong intima- tion in many quarters that Lord Dur ham is particularly anxious to curtail Richard Croker's English racing career and that the fight against the latter's horse. the Scotchman II. was largely due to his being the owner of | that rcecr.
 Prosperity continues to be the key nete of the theatrical season. Broadly speaking. all the houses are doing well. The two much discussed problem plays. "Mrs Dane's Defence" and Mr and Mrs Dayentry," are dividing the most fashionable patronage with ..Herod' Assuccess equal to Charles Wyndham' has long been unknown il, london and the aStute actOr-man-