Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15
LOSING HEAVILY.
HEAVY MORTALITY OF BRITISH
IN SOUTH AFRICA.
AMERICAN COAL COME TO STAY.
Great Invasion of England By Ameri-
AN Rapid Transit Pro-
motors.

can haplu transit Fro
motors.
London, Sept. 15.-(Copyright, 1900,
The Associated Press. )-When Il clear
cut issue is again observable in the con-
fusion surrounding the Chinese diff
culties, there may be a re~-awakening Of
real interest, but at present China holds
q secondary place in the public mind in
England. The parliamentary campaign
Us ln~fu1l swing, but Lord Salisbury has
not yet taken the country into his conf
dence as to balloting day; and the con-
sequent uncertainty gives the stump
speaking that is going or in every con-
stltuency an academic tinge. So, Great
Britain, lacking a more interesting
topic, has returned to the consideration
OF the war in South Africa; and the
newspapers are eagerly scannedfor signs
of the real end of the campaign, as Great
Britain is tired OF carnage. President
retreat has led the
commentators to ~re-announce the close
Of the war. but the long list of casual
ties and deaths in hospital, aggregating
zoo a week, which continue to fill up the
bulletin boards at the wal office, belle
their statements. The claims hitherto
made that the British losses in South
Africa have been small as compared
with those of other campaigns appear to
need revision, judging from recent cal
culatlons made by a ~well-known actu-
Ct III HUI llldl Vi the O1lCGIS IN
South Africa, 72.1. per thousand have
been killed or died from wounds, 3O.6 per
thousand of the officers have died from
disease while of the men 10 per thousand
nave been killed or died from wounds,
and 3l.S have died from disease. These
startling statistics not only illustrate
that while the officers and men have
suffered approximately equally from dis
ease the risks of the officers in action
have been hugely disproportionate and
also that tho rnta nf mort n Iifxp io| Sp,,tl
Africa is much greater than in the
Franco-German war. Kruger's millions
are the subject of disrespectful para
graphs and long narratives of diSpraise.
The lowest estimate of his wealth is G1,-
600 OOO. invested abroad; while some call
culators figure his wealth at G5, 900, 900.
The Transvaal government is supposed
TO nave two or three million pOunds in
continental banks, which will be hoard
ed by the managing committee, DIR.
Leyd says, for a future rising when En-
gland is in other difficulties.
INVASION OF AMERICAN RAPID
TRANSIT.
All kinds of rumors- are current re-
earding the coming of American enter
prise and capital to relieve London's
traffic. That the metropolis is far be-
hind every provincial center in many
things that go to make up a modern city
is beginning to be realized by English
men as We'll as by Americans; and a de-
mand is arising for new blOod-Ameri-
can or otherwise-capable of solving
transit problems. One had only to at
tempt journey to the city this week to
realize the costly delays, and vexations
to which business is subjected under
present conditions. The main artery;
trafalgar Square to the bank, is so torn
up that it takes cabs and busses thirty
to forty minutes to cover a journey of
less than two miles. Connected with all
this congestion is the great problem of
housing the working classes. at which
the closest students of London's Social
problems Are aghast, though they read
lily perceive that the only remedy, as in
the case o lessening the congestion of the
street, lies in wide spreading net work
of rapid transit, which. under the county
council rules, must hereafter be subtcr-
,ranean. London, therefore, will gladly
welcome American aid: and there is no
lack of indica tions that Americans ara
actively seeking investments in this and
other directions. There rs scarcely a ho-
tel in London that does not contain an
important representative of some Amer
dean industry or enterprise which he is
actively engaged in promoting. There is
much gossip over the, statements that
lMr. Charles r.. Yerkes of Chicago and
New York has secured control of the
stock of the Cnaring Cross, Euston &
Hampstead underground railroad and it
lis limited the denial made in this connec-
(tion Thursday by Mr.. Smith, the secre-
,tary OF the company as already cabled
ito the Associated Press, is by no means
conclusive. 1t is pointed out that there
are some evidences of truth in these re-
ports and Mr.. YerlAes' friends openly de-
clare that he has not only secured this
valuable opening but that his coming
ITO London means hat he will control the
electrical Traction system of the met
tropolis. Nor is london the only place
where American capitalists are engaged
On electrical enterprises. The next few
days will probably see the completion of
plans for the construction and onnec
ltion of a system of 100 miles of subur-
ban lines connecting Manchester, Liver
pool. Bolton and a score of small towns
of northern England. This project is IN
the hands of Messrs ''Tom'' and Albert
johnson OF New York
COAL MARKET IS OURS IF WE
WANT IT.
American coal and railroad magnates
ARE also busy here, Mr.. Robert Pitcairn,
Superintendent of the Pittsburg division
of the Pennsylvania railroad, is still with
the Carnegies and President Cassatt is
Watching developments at one London
hotel while THE Baltimore & Ohio people
have their headquarters at another hos
Nelry. Both parties are confident that
American coal has found a permanent
place on the continent if not in England.
Every American consul in Europe has
been set to work Ito supply statistics as
to the possibility of finding a market