Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-01
TRIBUTE TO GORDON
Church to Be COnSeCrated at
khartum.
BUILDING COST $4,000
Bishop of London Will 0fficiate at
the Ceremony.
WELSHMAN'S STRANGE DREAM
Japan Will Send Her Best Athletes
to the Next olympian
Games.
VELSHMAN'S STRANGE DREAM
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
| LONDON. January 20, 1912.
The Bishop of London has arrived at
| khartum to consecrate the cathedral in
| that city. The conservation will be an
event of considerable interest, and the
| fulhllment of hopes long deferred. 1t is,
OF course, primarily a memorial to Gen.
| Gordon on the spot where he died. When
| Lord Cromer was at Khartum in 1900 it
was decided to appeal for funds to build
a church, but the South African war was
| then in full progress, and the response
| was far from satisfactory, and even
February Z, 1904 when the foundation
| stone of the cathedral was laid by Prin-
cess Henry of Battenberg. the fund was
very small. By means of great efforts, in
which the governor general, Sir Reginald
Wingate, and Lady Wingate took an ac-
| tive part, money to go on with the build
ing was obtained.
Two years later Weir Schultz was APP
pointed architect, and the British Archi-
/; tect in 1906 said: Mr.. Schultz has dealt
in a mastery way with the study of
Byzantine architecture. For want of a
better definition We might perhaps call
the design 'Sudanese, but we may feel
| sure that its simple dignity and solidarity
of effect will not be out of harmony with
it's SURROUNDINGS
The site of the building is close to the
gardens of the palace, within a stones
throw of the spot where Gen. Gordon was
killed The building is in the shape of
Latin cross, the arms forming the tran
septs, and the north transept will be used
as a memorial chapel, in which will be
placed panels in memory of those British
subjects who have laid down their lives
| In the Sudan in discharge Of their duty to
their country.
Large Crypt Underneath.
1t will. be fittingly identified with the
hero of khartum, and will be called the
Gordon Memorial Chapel. There will be
a large crypt underneath, available for
church meetings. Connected with the mar
| thex, on the south side, will be a tall,
slender tower or campanile containing a
baptiStry, and above accommodation for
| a peal of bells. Round the main body Of
the cathedral there will be an eternal am
buatory, which will give pleasing effect
| of light and shade to the walls, and per-
| NIT of the windows being so placed as to
| be protected from the direct rays of the
| sun. The roof of the cathedral, which
will be covered with green glazed CORFU
gated tiles, will be laid to a slope and
| have wide projecting caves. Proper ven
| tilatiOn, most important matter in a hot
climate, has been provided according to
| the most approved methods, and there
will be electric light. The total cost of
| the building has been about $4,000.
The diocese of khartum covers a ter
ritory as large as the whole of France
and Germany together.
The report that a wealthy syndicate has
been formed with the object Of raising
cattle on an enormous Sca.e in Brazil for
export to the principal markets of Europe
has been received with considerable in
terest in this country. and in some quar-
tiers even with surprise, 1t being imagined,
apparently, that Brazil would never be
likely to enter into serious competition
with Argentina as a beef-producing cOun-
try In the past lack of transport fac1li-
ties certainly rendered enterprise Of this
kind out of the question, but the develop
ment of the railway systems of the coun-
try has been SO remarkably rapid in re-
cent times that the difficulties which pre-
vailed are fast disappearing. On the
score of the suitability of the country for
cattle-ranging those people intimately ac-
Quainted with BraZifS vast areas OF rich
pasture lands have no doubts They
prophesied long ago that one day she
might easily occupy a leading, If not the
first place among countries competing Tor
the custom of the European consumer re-
curing large supplies of meat from
abroad
No Details Received.
Discussing the project an official of the
| Brazilian consulate in London stated that
| they had not yet received details con-
corning the territory acquired. but it was
| considered likely that it would prove to
| be situated in the state of Plainly, in the
north of the country. This state contains
some of the finest pasture land in Bra
| Zil and already does small export trade
| in oxen. Some people,, he added, nave
| made the mistake of imagining that Bra
| zil is not suitable for cattle ranging on
large scale. They seem to think that her
| coffee and tobacco plantations and miner
! al resources represent her chief CONNER
| cial assets. This is quite an erroneous
| idea In reality the vast stretches of rich
pasture land she possesses may easily be
| the means in the future Of elevating her
| to the position of being the foremost
cattle-raising country in the world.
The announcement that from the be-
| ginning of the new year the duty on
frozen meat imported into Switzerland Is
! altered calls attention to the fact that
| Australia and the Argentine have during
| the last few years been extending their
markets rapidly and considerably, and
| have begun to build up business connec-
| ton with the continent that promises TO
| develop enormously. The duty has been
| reduced from % francs per 100 kilos to
| 10 francs. so that even now 1t STANDS,
| roughly at ID per stone. This reduction,
| though. is a notable one, and its causes
| and the state of business in continental
countries. to which it directs attention,
have been explained by MT; valentine,
the manager OF the BRITISH STANDARD
Produce Company, who has played
| large part in opening up the foreign
markets to the beef and mutton that he
ships from Australia.
Difficulty in Switzerland.
| 1.-The difficulty in Switzerland, Mr..
Valentine explained, has been that
which always exists where you have
artisan and agrarian classes in conflict
The artisan wants to feed as well and
as cheaply as he can. He requires meat,
and if he can get it good and cheap
from Australia he wants to remove every
obstacle that stands in the way of his
obtaining it. His agrarian neighbor. on
the other hand. is less concerned to have
meat than he is to sell his own produce,
and he fights hard to maintain the duty
that gives him and his goods a prefer
ence. Thus it is that the duty in Swift
zerland has been high in the past, and 1t
is still high but the reduction Is Dig
one. and 1t shows that the demand for
Australian meat Is growing in strength.
lis this demand for frozen meat becOm-
ing general on the continent? was
asked.
1T is increasing very rapidly. In Aus
tria and Hungary there will soon be
very large market. Since 1 first took
| Australian meat into Italy-fve years
ago-a big market has opened up there"
| Cardiff Wales. has been discussing the