The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-05
COAL QUESTION IN ENGLAND
EXPORT DUTY PROPOSED IN ORDER
TO CURTAJv SHIPMENTS.
Much Interest Taken I'm American Pol
itics-Sir Thomas Upton on
American Yachting.

the new centrdl LOnuOH ciSSIiS
ground system-"the two-penny tube as
some of the papers call it. Eighty thou
sands persons have daily learned, for the
first time, that IL is longer necessary
to waste two hours on an omnibus in order
to reside five or six miles from their place
of business. England never seems to
have recovered from the primitive idea,
said an American electrical engineer, that
a railroad train is not a stage coach. Their
methods IN regard to rolling stock con-
struction have never, till within the past
few months. departed one iota from those
in vogue when stages were the only means
of transportation. Pullman cars are In
use, or at least an English edition of the
Pullman, on many roads; but until last
Monday an electric lighted and electric
propelled corridor train, running through
porcelain lined stations, was as great an
innovation to the London public as Aladin's
lamp was to the Arabians."
Mr.. Albert L. johnson, of New York,
who has built electric roads all over the
United States, said to a reporter for the
Associated Press, before leaving here for
America a few days ago: al see no rea-
son why electric railways should not be as
popular in London as in New York and
Chicago 1t is evident that many of them
must be underground. but when see
blockades on the street an hour after the
theaters have closed it seems shame that
these crowds should not be relieved The
modern electric car can go anywhere In
London that bus can. L will guarantee
that American constructors could deliver
these great crowds to their distant homes
by electric railway hours before they
able to reach them now. Patrons OF the
London Central discovered this week that
omnibuses, which a week ago were packed
to their capacity, are running now empty.
Moreover house rents at the termini OF the
lines are increasing. and the public are rid
ing in cars well lighted and well ventilated,
and for the first time in history"
XXX
While deep in discussions of anarchism
the obscurity of Chinese affairs and the
issue OF their own general election, Eng
lishmen are attentive to the course of the
American political campaign. Rather
curiously, the journals here are taking sides
in American politics according to their
views not on currency questions, but on
the South African war. Thus Mr.. La
bouchere laments that the English Radicals
have not so positive a rallying cry as have
the Democrats in the anti-imperialistic por-
ton of their platform. The Speaker touches
on American politics from the standpoint
that the dominant issues in the general cleo
tons of both English-speaking peoples are
about the same. Inquiry in London edi-
torial rooms indicates that unusual arrange
ments have been made to report the de-
velopments in the campaign in the United
States.
England has had. a coal question for a
generation, but thirty shippings for mid
summer house fuel and the likelihood of
prices going several shippings higher is
making 1t a political question IT is widely
contended that the time has arrived to
irpi 10 ShinmentS- n
1910 600 tons, by an export duty, even
though continental buyers go to the United
States; but from the drift of discussions an
export duty on coal seems quite unlikely.
Welsh colliery owner points out that
American bituminous coal can be sold
cheaper in the Mediterranean than can the
Welsh bituminouS.
A. j. Balfour, speaking before Cam
bridge University meeting, said that, in the
use of their material resources the English
people little better than brilliant
spendthrifts.
A feature of the volunteer maneuvers
beginning to-day is several thousand
cyclists holding forty roads in the north of
Sussex. with the object of checking an in
vading army until British troops of all
arms can collect nearer London to give
battle in force to the invaders Citizen SOL
diers from all over the kingdom are gather
ing in huge camps on Salisbury plain and
at Aldershot.
Three weeks yacht racing began in
the Solent to-day. Despite the season of
mourning in court circles the Prince of
Wales has promised to appear at Cowes
next week Sir Thomas LiptonS party,
which included Lord Charles Russell and
Senator Depew and other Americans, re-
turned to London for a few hours yeSter-
day Previous to proceeding to Cowes Sir
Thomas said: There are many points of
difference between American and English
yachting. and only when one has spent
seven weeks at Sandy Hook can he really
appreciate them. England's insular posi-
ton has done much to make the sea at
home to many of our people, and there is
much more attention paid to yachting here
than in the United States but individually
Americans are the best yachtsmen know.
They are thorough in that as in all else,
and 1T is due TO appreciation of this that
my sole ambition in life now is to take the
Americas cup. One thing seems strange,
in view of American cleverness. that they
are sending here for captains for seventy
footers, does not seem right, and / am
unable to explain why, holding the blue
ribbon of the sea so long, they are sending
to England for Wringe and other captains.
What has become of all the New England
blood that made Hank Kaffs by the score?
1 should think New York yachtsmen would
promote American sailors TO the best posi-
lions by way of encouragement. j say this
for my regard for American yachtsmen.
OF course, so far as / am concerned,
could not complain, as the captain of the
Columbia was naturalized American citi-
zen. and in young a country that is
quite good enough citizenship for any one.
am sorry the cup which I am presenting
the New York Yacht Club is not completed
but it will be raced for all the same and
forwarded as quickly as possible. II Is of
handsome design and a small expression
of my friendship for the club"
Lord Dunraven, who has been invaded
home from South Africa, arrived this
morning. He will probably appear at
Cowes. His new book on navigation, by
| the way, has been accepted in England as
one of the most valuable contributions to
practical maritime work in recent years
London continues to demand new hotels
and one of the newest schemes which is
ready TO take substantial form this autumn
is what is claimed to be the first real
American hotel I'm England. This will be
located opposite the new Waterloo railway
station. IL will be entirely of steel con-
struction. The directors of the syndicate
which is TO build this hotel brought New
York architect here year ago, and are
now amazed at his methods. as the steel
beams are already being cast at Sheffield
before the ground Is broken here.