Evening star., 1901-09-14
An EDglishman Says We Are a
Wonderful People.
MRS. NATIONS VISIT TO new YORK
Two Neat Swindles That Went
Through Successfully.
SIR THOMAS AND THE CUP
special correspondence OF The Eyenlng Star.

yacht races, to the writer on the second
day after the Buffalo tragedy, 1.-The Amer
leans are probably the quickest thinkers
and the swiftest emergency meeters on
earth Their brains seemingly always on
the alert. They tackle any condition that
confronts them, matter how suddenly,
with instant power and effectiveness Moth
Ing appears to surprise them out of their
senses even for a moment and / don't be.
lieve that anything big enough could hap
pen to addle their head-pieces for any ap-
preciable space of time. One might also
safely wager that If terrific tidal wave
were to sweep the eastern coast of the
United States for hundred miles inland,
there'd be a lot of quick-thinking chaps
spring up who'd attempt to utilize the force
of the receding wave for Industrial pur-
poses.
Where in the whole world could there
have been such amazing promptness In the
handling of the case of a suddenly down
struck ruler as was exhibited In Buffalo!
AS quickly as the human eye could see and
the human mind and muscles act, the as
sassin was In the iron grip OF twenty hands
mot the hands of such persons as COM
prise the ordinary encourage of European
rulers, but the hands of quick-thinking men
of comparatively humble station. This
seen to, the stricken Presidents immediate
staff instantly organized themselves, with
out any lamentations or wringing of hands
whatsoever, into sort. of committee on
ways and means for the immediate relief
of the chief magistrate. From the &C
counts I've read, the wounded President
was being borne out of the building in
which he e~was shot within less than ten
minutes after the attempt to XIII him
took place. Renowned surgeons, men. some
of them, whose works on surgery are as
highly considered in my country as they
are here, seemed to come right out of the
ground to take their places around the
operating table. A famous surgeon who
U n tn ha at he n
was actually speeding special train
toward Buffalo within twenty-five minutes
after the shooting occurred. The organi-
xation of the surgeons and physicians
around the Presidents cot was SO quickly
effected that there appeared to have been
no organization at all; there was none OF
the Jealous pickering such as has occurred
at the dying bedsides of some Of the Euro
pean rulers. The surgeon who was looked
upon as the most capable to perform the
operation was pushed squarely to the front
by his associates. They were all agreed,
with scarcely any sort Of consultation,
as to the nature of the operation to be per-
formed, and not a half hour had passed
since the shooting before the right man
with the knife was doing his work with
bold swiftness and precision. He did just
exactly what should have been done, it ap-
pears from the commendatory messages
from eminent surgeons all over the world
remarkable country, remarkable peo-
pie" concluded the Englshman. Il used
to find 1t puzzling to account for the as
founding strides of the United States, but
am not puzzled any more now The
Americans get there to employ one of
their pattest~ and meatiest phrases. be-
cause they're never caught mapping. Wasn't
1t one of the confederate generals who
said that victory lay with the army that
got there fustest with the mostest men,?
Anyhow, that idea has been applied, with
suitable and fitting variations to every
American circumstance, big and little,
and that, in my opinion. Is why the states
now comprise power that Is looming over
the world"
Mrs. Nation In New York.
New York would have none of the wo-
man with the hatchet. When she first
burst upon this community all hands looked
upon her, quite naturally, a joke. She
was guyed goed-naturedly when she ap-
peared upon the streets, but it takes more
than the spectacles of a pudgy middle
aged woman In baggy linen dress to ex-
cite New York, and she eXcOriated the de-
mon rum and the venders thereof to empty
seats when she mounted the platform, so
that financially she was frost of the most
dismal dimensions here. Even the elephau-
tine Devery, virtual police chief frankly
accepted the hatchet wielder as a joke and
when she climbed alongside him at the po-
lice trials he poked ponderous fun at her.
which she obtusely accepted as the ex-
treme of courtesy.
But when, on the day following the at
tempt against the President, this hatchel-
at Coney Island and declared that she. was
glad of the tragedy she instantly ceased to
be regarded in the light of merely funny
parsonage. Even the callous Coney Island
crowd utterly declined to stand for this
declaration. and, after three rousing cheers
for the stricken President, they hooted the
woman from the platform, and had she not
discreetly retired from view she would un-
questionably have suffered much more yio-
lent treatment. The Coney Island cops
We're glad to have chance at her when
shortly afterward she smashed cigar
case with her hatchet, and the swift and
unfeeling manner with which they bundled
her into black maria with about twenty
five bawling drunks and disorderlies Of
both sexes was really the of acute
pleasure in the bosCms of those who had
heard her harangue against the wounded
chief magistrate. Now she has gone away
from here having given New York up as
bad job, and II Is more than intimated by
certain authorities who ought to know
that her wholesome course In the future
will be to stay away from here.
The Coming Yacht Races.
The news from Buffalo has, of course,
served TO completely overshadow the news
of the preparation for the yacht races dur
Ing the past week but the preparations
have been going steadily on since Monday
last. when 1t became obvious that the Pres
tdent had an excellent chance to recover
in this connection the fine attitude of Sir
to which he gave utterance when he heard
of the attack on Mr.. Mckinley, cllnched
the good opinion which all hands over this
way have of the Irish sportsman. He said
that of course he wouldn't hear of holding
the races until the President was entirely
out of danger, and that in the event of
anything more serious occurring he would
as a matter OF course insist for his part
upon an absolute postponement of the
races until next spring. Il shall willingly
remain in the states all winter, IL neces-
sary, he said, with dignified emphasis
That was pretty fine talk for man who
has spent nearly three millions Of dollars
so far toward his ambition to carry away
the Americas cup, AMI there are thousands
of folks over this way, and good patriotic
Americans, at that. who are actually root
ing that Sir Thomas will be successful In
his attempt TO lift the cup. They not only
believe that he has already earned Ii by
his splendid sportsmanlike conduct upon
all occasions. but they believe that there'd
be more fun In going over to the other side
after il again after Sir Thomas had won
1t. number of New York Yacht Club
members who were, to their extreme re-
gret, thrown into contact with Dunrayen
when that spiteful-tongued man and bad
loser was last over here with his boat
were picturing the pettishness to which he
would unquestionably have given vent
had he been in Sir Thomas Liptons place