The sun., 1905-08-13
PIAZZA DEBATES ON PEACE.
HOTEL GUESTS DIVIDE on RESULT
OFTHE CONFERENCE.

or THE CONFEhENtE'
Detween Arguments They Slap the New
Hampshire Mosquito, Who Works
Siuietly--sato,s Dramatic Announce
ment OF the Receipt Of Russia's Answer
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug i2.-This has
oeen dull day about the Hotel Wentworth.
1t has rained to begin with; the ENJOYS and
their suites have been ut the navy yard
all day, and the uncertainty Is getting on
the nerves OF attaches, correspondents ana
even guests. The hotel people have oaught
the infection now. Girls, matrons and nicd
old gentlemen who will toll you that they
have been coming to the hotel for twenty
years are debating on the chance FOR peaoe'
on Sakhalin, on indemnity. They ask you
at the table for the latest news from tne
navy yard and whether Mr.. Witts VIII
pay for the war. 81,
Peace or no peace-the dobate - ON AL
over the corridors. Every man, woman
and child above the knee Is on one side or
the other. The war party points TO the quick
exchange Of propositions whlch seems 70
indicate NO. to the dispatches from ~.
Petersburg, to the few pessimistio woros
which sato dropped In the morning. Inc
war party is in the majority. The peaoe
side says that no bargain ever opened WIN
an offer Of genuine terms They ask what
Mr.. Witte came all this way for II ne 10
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 miIed from the first with
genuine good feeling. By tacit consent they
limit their debate to the prospect OF peace
cutting the war and It's causes.
I'VE will not be here next Saturday.
We will be gone by Wednesday, said hus-
sian.
What was Witte cent for II not to mako
peace? Did any nation ever fail to make
peace after a conference was oalled?' asks
a Jap, with spirit
And then they are OF. Sakhalin Island.
the Liaotung Peninsula. indemnity
words fly thick and fast in Russian basso
and Jap tenor 1t ends always with the
Japanese declaring that peace will be de-
clsred and the Russians roofing for war.
Matsumoto, 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 on
they will go on, and by Russian initiative.
From the beginning the Japanese have
known that the Russian answer to the jap
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 ENvoY's BUSY DAY
There was scarcely glimpse Of the official
parties to-day. The ENJOYS got away at
0 O'Clock for the navy yard. Tho regular
crowd watched Takahira and Komura take
their carriage at the front entrance. Taxa
hra, who never puts on dog when he
can help it, was dressed In plain business
suit and Panama hat. Konura wore q
frock coat and light soft hat.
Their automobile carried the Russians
away a few minutes later. Just after noon
the Japanese auto returned, and out jumped
Sato. He was surrounded like the man
with the ball In football game.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, q little room, he
said, and made his way to the back piazza.
Standing on chair he announced that he
vas the bearer Of a message from both
sides. 1t looked like a break; tho Vent
worth held its breath. With the delibera-
ton Of judge at prize debate he unfolded
a paper and read a statement to the effect
that the Russian terms had been received
by their ex cellencies, the Japanese, and that
the Japanese would return their answer
to-day at so clock or tomorrow at O clock.
The whole Wentworth, which had hung
breathess 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 glimpse Of Karasko-
vitz at lunch time. His auto scorched up.
He jumped out, ran for . paper and was
of again He brought news, howove,.
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
large and birdlike In his movements, like
the Jersey mosquito. nor yet graceful.
a gile or noisy like the Long Island stingef.
He is direct, voioeless, hand singing
mosquito. He doesn't talk about it. He
approaches you with the business-like
directness OF Japanese envoy, quietly
gets his drill in place and let's you have 1t.
If they are thick at the navy yard these
negotiations will 60 through fast.
While the envoys labored at the navy
yard the underlings OF the japanese party
were having trouble Of their own. They
sent 10 Portsmouth early In the week for
a safe to hold papers Of state. A small
safe was hired from local store and placed
in the Oriental headquarters and, with the
state papers inside. looked up This morning
some Of the secretaries tried to open It aud
failed. They had forgotten the combi-
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