Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-05-22
R00SVELT'S OFFER,
The President Tenders His Serv.
ices in St. Vincent Calamity.
INDIFFERENCE MANIFESTED IN PARIS


An Eruption Predicted In
Nicaragua.
London, May 16.-By direction Of
President Roosevelt Secretary Hay
sent the following cablegram from
Washington to Ambassador Choate
here: Express to British govern
ment the sympathy of the president
and the people Of this country in
the affection which has befallen St.
Vincent and our desire to share in
the work Of aid and rescue"
The colonial secretary, Mr.. Cham
berlain, last night wrote to the for
eign Office desiring Lord Lansdowne
very gracefully to acknowledge and
accept President Roosevelt's offer of
assistance and to inform Mr.. Roose-
welt that Mr.. Chamberlain cabled to
the governor Of st. Vincent yester-
day asking for information as to the
best method of utilizing the United
States offer. Until the governors
answer is received nothing definite
can be done. The Associated press
is authorized to announce officially,
on behalf of both the foreign office
and the colonial Office, that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's offer has created
the deepest gratitude here. All the
officials declare that no occurrence
of recent years has so brought home
to them the deep and material friend
ship existing between the two gov
ernments.
A cable message from Kingston,
Jamaica, yesterday confirms the pre-
vious dispatch of the Associated
press referring to the possibility,
owing to the frequent disasters, that
the government will decide to aban-
don st. Vincent and transfer the PEG.
pie now there to other islands.
Indifference Manifested In Paris.
Paris, May 16.-The American Wis
itors here cannot understand the
seeming Indifference Of the Parisians
in regard to the Martinique disaster.
Beyond the half-masted flags over
the government offices there are no
signs of public mourning. The peo-
pie flock to their usual resorts, at
tend the races, fill the theaters, none
of which has been closed, no sex
tras" are issued and there is no de-
mand for them. But the evening
papers, containing bulletins of the
automobile race, are eagerly pur-
chased. The various funds being
raised for the relief of the Mar
Unique sufferers now only total $685.
900 francs, including the large sub
scriptions of the foreign potentates
and the 10000 francs from the mu-
nicipality. The provinces seem more
interested in the disaster than the
capital They are actively organic
ing committees to raise funds and
there Is much mourning at the sea-
ports whose ships were destroyed.
An American who has resided
here for long time said: "The
Parisians are constitutionally unable
to become deeply interested in any
thing not connected with the capital.
Have you not noticed that the pa
pers are giving more space to the
Humberts' case than to the terrible
loss of life at Martinique, while early
this week they devoted pages to the
death of Severe, the aeronaut, and
only two columns to the West In
dian catastrophe"
The situation at st. Pierre.
Fort de France, Martinique, May
16.-St. Pierre is infested with pill
layers, who are forcing safes. The
authorities are taking severe meas
ures. Fifty of the ghouls have al
ready been arrested and imprisoned
in Fort de France, where the popula-
ton wanted to lynch them. There
were 663 bodies inferred yesterday,
total of 1000 buried thus
far. The work of interment is pre-
senting great difficulties.
st. Vincent Cut In Two by Lava.
Castries, st. Lucia, May 16.-Re-
ports from the island Of St. Vincent,
B. W. l., are slow. The rescuing par
ties that have been sent out have
not succeeded in making a landing,
SO far as is known here. At last re-
ports the island had been cut in two
by streams of lava and was a mass
IF fame.
An Eruption Predicted In Nicaragua.
Chicago, May l6-The next serious
eruption will be from Mount |
Conseguina, Nicaragua, according to
he prediction Of Henry H. Windsor,
who has made an exhaustive study |
If the proposed interoceanic canal
-outes. Mr.. Windsor years ago pre-
licted the eruption Of Mont Pelee.