Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-30

LONDON, December 29.-Reviews of
the year and century fill the weeklies
and daily papers. In the latter and
broader held the writer's find great sat
isfaction that Americas part in Eng
lands history figures prominently Sir
Edwin Arnold signalizes the new. cen
fury with a sonnet Greeting ''Colum-
bia,' England" says:
1 send thee raotheriy kiss and benson,
love me or love me not;
Hap what may hap, my pride and pray
ers watch thy bright course begun.
Thou dost uphold the lessons learned from
me
And speakest my shakespeare's speech
God 60 with thee.
Columbia" answers:
If thy foes TOO much dare, think we
shall no more be kept asunder
Than two great clouds in Heaven that
hold the thunder.
That Sir Edwin ArnoIds views are
not unanimously shared can be judged
by a letter Of Mr.. Cunningham Ora
ham (former member OF Parliament
who in July, 1898, wrote a series OF
articles most insulting to Americans,
in the Westminster Gazette) which is
given place of honor in the Saturday
Review 1t is the most bitter arraign-
ment of AnglO-American friendship
that has appeared for many day
The writer derides the after-dinner
speeches of Senator Depew, Lord Sal
isbuTy and others, and declares this
friendship has resulted only in kicks
for Great Britain, in the cases Of the
Venezuela, san Juan and the Alabama,
and Boring awards. He says:
I'VE went on patting ourselves upon
our diaphragms, making certain that
all those kicks were but symptoms of
the affection and love the Americans
bore US. In return for our moral help,
which we gave them in their brave
punching of their brother Spaniards,
they gave us nothing of kindred sort
when we started in to thrash our broth
er Beers. Lastly on top of all our
condescensions, like a cold bath upon
a drunkard, come the clauses of the
Senate in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
to which we are commanded to assent
to kick No. 20. and l suppose Lord
Salisbury is going to turn his ample
shoulders to receive it and assure the
kickers of his distinguished consid-
Grafton and thank them for the energy
impossible, so the experts tell us, that
the canal could be defended, even If
fortified, in case of war, but, then the
liar damned liar and expert, is COM
parison almost proverbial in this com
mercial age 1t looks as if we had
voluntarily, by our mean and sense
less conduct in the Spanish Yankee
war, placed ourselves in the position
of a man who, having lost the world,
imagined he had gained his soul, but,
on consideration, found his prize was
more hypothesis"
In connection with the proposed Mic
araguan canal it is said that when the
United States definitely decides to
build, one of the greatest shipbuilding
concerns in England will simultaneous
ly open, on one of the gulf ports, an
immense shipyard. Several steel man
ufacturers are also said to be consid-
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing
American plants.
Mr.. George w Watson's desertion Of
the Hendersons and his employment Of
the Dennys, who have never built sail
ing yachts of any description, to CON
struct Sir Thomas Liptons second
Americas cup challenger, has created
much discussion, and, heretofore. has
not been explained. a representative
OF the Associated Press learns, how
ever, that Mr. Watson was Influenced
by the benefits of the Dennys' testing
tank. which he first tried with the
yacht Lysistrata. After this he util-
ized the tank for a series of expert
ments to determine the best hull shape
for Shamrock H. before he signed the
contract with Sir Thomas Upton. He
is convinced he has discovered hull
much better than anything he has ever
designed The testing tank is in real
itv a pond two hundred feet long, TWEEN
ty-two feet broad and nine feet deep.
over it is railroad with a car drawn
by a stationary engine. the model Is
attached to the carriage and the speed
got from every model, for every ounce
of power is automatically recorded.
There are arrangements also for test
ing at all keel angles. The apparatus
/ is said here to be the only one of It's
kind in the word.
A SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTION.
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