The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-22
BeIated by Storms I'm the Mediter-
ranean AID n Slight Accident to
Her Machinery.
MANY PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED
HAD GATHERED TO WITNESS THE
LANDING OF PAUL KRUGER.
Everything Was in Readiness to We'll
come the Fugitive President, hut
Preparations Were for Naught.

MARSEILLES, Nov. 21-There was no
welcome to the fugitive President OF the
Transvaal to-day. The Dutch cruiser Gel
derland, on which Mr.. Kruger is a passen-
ger, did not arrive on time. The Colder
land signaled Cape Cepot, off Toulon, at
D. m. and continued her voyage to this
port. She reported that she was delayed
by slight accident to her machinery.
The reception fizzle was due to a blunder
in the calculations of the time the Colder
land would require between Port Said and
Marseilles. The French reception commit
tee did not take into account the gale that
is sweeping the Mediterranean and the low
speed of the Gelderland. but allowed all
their arrangements to stand. The Boer
delegates. victims of the organizing COM
mittee, awaited expectantly at their hotel
from early morning until the afternoon for
the arrival of the cruiser. For several
hours the carriage intended for Mr.. Kru-
ger remained at the entrance of the hotel,
the horses, which were decorated with ro-
settles of Boer colors, paving the ground
impatiently until the equipage was dis
missed
Various delegations and societies that
had assembled at the landing stage re-
manned there through heavy showers until
they realized, in the nonsisnaling of the
Gelderland, that their presence was futile.
Then they disbanded. The fiasco was un-
fortunate, because thousands among the
days concourse will shrink from the posi-
bility of losing another morning to-mor-
row. To-days great crowds were for the
greater part made up of shopkeepers and
workingmen who lost money by attending
the gathering and who are not likely TO re-
peat the experiment. Bad weather and the
element OF uncertainty as TO the time of
Mr.. Kruger's landing kept many thousands
even to-day from the route. Thirty thou
sand would be a generous estimate of the
crowd, which was massed thickly at sew
eral points, while only sparse assemblies
We're TO be seen elsewhere.
The French and the Boer delegates were
all intensely disappointed and especially
as. up to a late hour, no news had been
received OF the Gelderland's entry into the
harbor, although IL is fully expected that
she will anchor there before daybreak to-
morrow. No Importance is attached to the
report of an injury to her machinery, the
theory being that she is going slowly in
consequence of the heavy sea, which is
chiefly responsible for the delay An anus
ing statement appeared in a local paper
this afternoon, in which an alleged rumor
was published to the effect shat the delay
was due TO the capture of the Gelderland
on the high seas by British squadron, or
to deliberate damage TO her machinery by
a mercenary. These statements only pro-
voked the laughter Of those who read them
The Boer committee has issued a state
ment that the programme intended for to-
day will be carried out tomorrow.
The scene at the dock was very pictur-
esque. Every coign of vantage was occu-
pied by sightseers. The landing stage was
gaily decorated with the Transvaal and
Free State colors. the French tri-coior
and shields bearing the blue cross Of the
arms of Marseilles. A red carpet covered
the ground. forming bright splash OF col
or at the quayside. Decorations elsewhere
in the city were practically nonexistent
only few flags being visible along the
route which Mr.. Kruger will traverse in
going from the quay TO the hotel.
The attitude of to-day's concourse. while
unanimously favorable 10 Mr.. Kruger and
the Beers. was. nevertheless. quite free
from anything offensive to the British