New-York tribune., 1902-04-24
SHIP OWNERS QUIET.
vr,-NARD SHARES RISE, BUT STATE.
MENTS WITHHELD.
DIAN FOR IMPERIAL LEAGUE-SPEAKERS
AT MEETING FOR SHAKESPEARE
MEMORIAL.

fcop1r.ght: 1902: By Tho Tribune Association)
Especial The Tribune by French Cable.l
Ioneon April "a 1 q. m.-The shipping trust
continues to draw diffuse and contradictory dis
norches from America, but the information OBJ
fainable by the press here is meagre. 1.-The
cbipping Gazette which is about the only
naper with trustworthy details, announces def
,itelv that the Holland-America Line has agreed
10 ioin the combine.
II is premature to state either that the new
.ornoration viii be known as the Atlantic Secu-
rites Company, that Clement a. Griscom and
Rernard n. Baker are to be respectively presi-
dent and Vice-president, with Bruce Ismay
chairman Of the English board of control.
These matters, The Shipping Gazette"
gathers, are not definitely settled. On the Stock
exchange yesterday the Cunard Steamship EGO
shares rose from Il to 1875. on the belief that
that company will be absorbed in the scheme.
Nr. Morgan has fed from the combined onset
of interviewers, and silence reigns in the dingy
Offices in Old Broad-st. There is blank stare
of uninquisitive Ignorance young Mr.. Nor
san's face when questioned respecting the trust.
Colonel Denison arrived yesterday from TO
ronto bringing with him propaganda for
British Empire League from Canada and energy
enough for dozen men. He said at the
National Liberal Club that he ready to
address all sorts and conditions OF men the
subject Of imperial federation. series Of i'm
portant addresses will be delivered by him IL
England, and he will exert much influence 'r.-
rectly on Mr.. Chamberlain's conferences.
The Prince and Princess OF Wales took :-s<t
in the charity functions yesterday, and the cSie
Of Marlborough presided at St Georges GOn,f.
The japanese Minister whose prominence S-s
Increased since the alliance with England, en-
yelled the restored statue of Queen Anne at
Kingston. Lady Tweedmouth's evening party
was the chief social event
The most comical episode of the day was the
meeting held in the quaint hall at Cliffords Inn
tn support of 2 movement for a Shakespearian
memorial. Frederic Harrison opened the proceed
tngs by disclairling any responsibility for any
thing that might follow, and by expressing the
pious hope that any one referring in any way TO
the author Of the "Novum Organum" would suf-
fer the extreme penalty Of the law. William
Martin. in the course Of a rambling address,
condemned the idea OF increasing the number
of bad statues Of Shakespeare already in Lon
don, and strongly favored the erection of an
Elzabethan theatre on site which the County
Council might choose in the new thoroughfare
running from the Strand To Holborn.
Mr.. Harrison shook his head onainously, and
suggested that it would be like setting up the
model Of the hulk Of the Victory, instead Of
putting up the Nelson column in Trafalgar
Square. A resolution in favor Of forming per-
ranent memorial league was languidly carried,
after both the mover and seconder had united
in throwing cold water upon it, and ridiculing
Mr.. Martins project.
The second resolution, in favor Of the erection
of an Elizabethan playhouse, was condemned
with faint praise. a large model Of q playhouse,
similar to the Globe and Fortune theatres OF
Shakespeare's time, exhibited at Centre
Hall 1t was horrible warning against a fan
tastic attempt to perpetuate the memory or the
poet by reproducing a theatrical curiosity shop
instead of enacting and supporting Shakespear-
ian drama with power and enthusiasm, as was
done last night at Stratford, where Ellen Terry
appeared with Bensor's Company in Henry v
The Deutschland arrived at Plymouth last
evening from New-York with a broken rudoer
Lord Revelstoke who was a passenger, SAD
that the crack steamer was handled with con-
surnmate skill and that there was no panic or
excitement Several hours elapsed before the
accident became known among the passengers.
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