The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
PIAZZA DEBATES ON PEACE.

PIAZZA DEBATES W PEACb'
HOTEL GUESTS DIVIDE on RESULT
or THE CONFERENCE.
Between Arguments They Slap the New
Hampshire Mosquito. VINO Works
Quietly-Ssto's Dramatic Announce
=. ment Of tho Receipt Of Russia's Answer
| PoRTsMouTH, N. H., Aug. i2.-Thls has
been duh day about the Hotel Wentworth
| 1t has raiped to begin WITH the ENJOYS and
their suites have been at the navy yard
all day. and the uncertainty Is getting on
the nerves Of attaches, correspondents and
even guests. The hotel people have caught
the infection now Girls, mstrons and nice
old gentlemen who will tell you that they
| have been coming to the hotel for twenty
years are debating on the chance for peace,
on Sakhalin, on indemnity. They ask you
at the table for the latest news from the
navy yard and whether Mr.. Witte will
pay for the war. -.
Peace or no peace--the debate Is on all
over the corridors. Every man, woman
and child above the knee LIS on one side or
the other. The war party points to the quick
exchange OF propositions which seems to
indicate no." to the dispatches from st.
Petersburg, to the few pessimistic words
which sato dropped In the morning. The
war party is In the majority. The peace
side says that no bargain ever opened with
an offer Of genuine terms. They ask what
Mr.. Witte came all this way for II he is
going to call 1t of In the first week.
The debate has ragged hot and heavy
between the Japanese and Russian oorre-
spondents on the front stoop. They have
held an unofficial imitation conference all
day The Japanese and Russian oorre-
spondents have mixed from the first With
genuine good feeling. BY tadt consent they
limit their debate to the prospect OF peace,
outing the war and Its causes.
I'VE will not be here next Saturday.
We will be gone by Wednesday, said Rus =
sian.
what was witte sent for II not to make
peace2 Did any nation ever fall to mako
peace after q conference was oalled2" asks
Jap. with spirit
And then they are off, Sakhalin Island,
the Liaotmg Peninsula, indemnity these
words fly thick and fast In Russian basso
and Jap tenor. 1t ends always with the
Japanese declaring that peace will be de-
clared and the Russians roofing for war
Mats,moto, the Japanese parliament
tartan, walked into one Of these arguments
and declared his own opinion. He said:
|. Just at the moment when 1t seems as
though negotiations must be broken Oh
they will go on. and by Russian initiative.
From the beginning the Japanese have
xkok tha Pno tn III n
anese terms would be the threat to break
of negotiations. But they'll never carry
out their threat. Mark my words. there
will be peace
THE ENJOYS BUSY DAY
There was scarcely q glimpse of the Official
parties to-day. The ENJOYS got away at
O'Clock for the navy yard. The regular
crowd watched Takahira and Komura take
their carriage at the front entrance. Taxa
hira, who never puts on dog" when he
can help 1t, was dressed in plain business
suit and Panama hat. Komura wore
frock coat and light soft hat.
Their automobile carried the Russians
away q few minutes later. just after noon
the japanese auto returned. and out jumped
Sato. He was surrounded like the man
with the ball in a football game.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, q little room, he
said, and made his way to the back piazza.
Standing on a chair he announced that he
was the bearer OF q message from both
sides. It looked like "a break; the Went
worth held its breath. With the delibera-
ton Of judge at a prize debate he unfolded
q paper and read q statement to the effect
that the Russian terms had been received
l., ~, IL ~ Ht,oI To nd hat
the Japanese would return their answer
to-day at SO clock or tomorrow at 8 o clock.
The whole Wentworth. which had hung
breathless on his words. gave a groan OF
disappointment. Mr.. Sato stopped to shake
hands at the door with Miss Pilsen. his
partner in the Going to Jerusalem game
last night, and went back to the conference.
There was just a glimpse Of Karasko-
vitz at lunch time. His auto scorched up.
He jumped out, ran for q paper, and was
OF again. He brought news, however,
that the meeting would 60 on tomorrow,
and since then the Wentworth has done
little but hold debates and slap mosquitoes.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE MOSQUITO.
Surely this New Hampshire mosquito
deserves scientific study. He Is neither
lAIk0 anu UNuuh0 LII lid uoNCLuohV Aho
the Jersey mosquito. nor yet graceful,
agile or noisy, like the Long Island stinger.
He Is a direct. voioeless, hand singing
mosquito. He doesn't talk about 1t. He
approaches you with the business-like
dreotness Of Japanese envoy. quietly
gets his drill in place and lets you have 1t.
II they are thick at the navy yard these
negotiations will 60 through fast.
While the ENJOYS labored at the navy
yard the underlings Of the Japanese party
we're having trouble Of their own. They
ssnt to Portsmouth early IN the week for
safe to hold papers Of state. A small
safe was hired from local store and placed
Ia the Oriental headquarters, and, with the
state papers inside, locked up. This morning
some Of the secretaries tried to open 1t and
failed. They had forgotten the oombi-
nation. An auto was>despatched to Ports
mouth and the safes owner was brought
back with the combination. The Japanese;
who had been afraid that the papers might
be demanded on this historic day ,breathed
freely AGAIN.