New York Times, The (Newspaper) - October 10, 1901, New York, New York AH the News That's Fit to Print COPYRIGHT 1901 BT THE NEW YORK TIMES THE WEATHER Showers fresh southerly winds becoming westerly VOL NEW YORK THURSDAY OCTOBER 10 1901..-SIXTEEN PAGES ONE CENT City n York mill Newark BOTHA LIKELY TO ESCAPE of His Force May Elude the British Cordon THE BATTLE AT FORT Gallant British Action and the Defense of Fort Prospect Saved Natal from Invasion BETTER OUTLOOK IN CHINA Natives Restoring Order Prospect of Settlement of Railway Questions Good LONDON YORK TIMES LONDON Oct Peking of The Times says the situation in the capital and in North China is It is the general consensus of opinion that the Chinese are fulfilling their pledges and restoring order in a way which stands in welcome contrast to the chaos created by the spasmodic ing by Count von LONG-DISTANCE TRIP ABOARD A COACH New York to Philadelphia and Re- turn on a Four-in-Hand Was Planned by James H Hyde fred G Vanderbilt and Maurice E the Famous Whip LONDON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON dispatch from TJurban to The Times says there has been silence lately regarding Gen ton's operations on the border of Natal which have been directed against the attempt of the to cate themselves from the critical corner in their bold dash on placed them Though he is still in an unsafe place it seems as though Commandant Gen Bo- tha is likely to the inner cordon of British troops put in the field to in- his retreat but he wUl be obliged to leave part of his force behind With the troops at his disposal it was sible for Lyttleton to blockade the distance from the Natal border across to Gen north on Sunday passed the British line with half force Leaving their wagons and cattle In laager the Boers made a night march under Botha and Emmett They were caught up in Northeast Vryheid by Gen Kitchener Lord Kitchener's and an engagement followed the Boers retiring north Four of their number are known to have been wounded The operations are but Gen Botha has secured a wider and less restricted area his future movements A dispatch to The Times from Dundee gives fuller details ot the Boer attacks on Forts and Prospect on Sept 20 The Boers who attacked Fort Itala numbered from 1.800 to Their op- under the tion of Commandant Gen Botha by means of the heliograph and dispatch riders It is estimated that the Boers lost killed and 270 wounded ant was killed with a revolver fcy Lefroy Major Chapman in command at Fort Itala had been warned of the Boer ad- vance in the afternoon His force com- prised the Fifth Division of Mounted In- fantry two guns of the Sixty-ninth and one Maxim Some mounted in- Lieut Lefroy of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Lieut Cane of the South Lancashires occupied the highest point of the mountain away from the camp At midnight the Boers opened fire on this post and two later they rushed the position the few defenders were not escaping to the main body of the British The action now became general the Boers attacking on three sides They led by Chris Botha Scholtz and The attack ceased toward the morning and recommenced soon after dawn continuing ail day The garrison exposed to a terrific fire and were food and water The guns were In action only early in the day as it was found that they were too great an at- traction for the enemy's rifles Between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening the Boers retired Major Chapman withdrew at midnight to leaving a tenant and twenty men field pital appliances In the fight at Fort Prospect the Boers led by Commandant Grobelaar and numbered 500 while the small garrison was commanded by Capt Rowley Mosely of the Durham Militia Artillery The at- tack began at A M and the fighting lasted all day The garrison lost 1 killed and S wounded The defenses of Forts Ilala and are regarded as among the finest performances on the part of the British Jn the course of the entire war They eaved Natal from invasion and greater loss was inflicted upon the Boers than in engagement of the campaign ex- cept The coaching trip from New tions The other york to Philadelphia and return on the have ceased to cause anxiety i French four-in-hand vehicle Tantivy began in this city ii A W yesterday and ended at the Holland this morning The coaching trip was planned by James Hyde who defrayed its Alfred Vaiuk.-bilt find Maurice E lett tho French who at the Horse Show last year won Mr Hyde's prize for driving The cle used was Mr Hyde's The outlook in regard to the railways is promising There is now no reason to doubt that Russia is prepared to com- plete Count undertaking of Nov 8 and to restore the line to the Chinese j upon the repayment of the Russian out- lay on the amount will be upon the Chinese under- taking not to allow foreign soldiers to police the railway The Russians declare that they are j preparing to leave and re- i running gear and scarlet box and roof store the city to the Chinese There is adds the correspondent every i reason to believe that the unfortunate dispute in connection with the railway siding at can be adjusted by friendly agreement between Sir Ernest M Satow the British Minister and H Lessar the Russian Minister GOVERNMENT BURDENED WITH TOO MUCH MONEY Next Congress Will Be Called Upon to Apply Remedies the schedule time being a crowd had gathered here to welcome the coaching party they were cheered on their and departure The party reached Franklin Park at seven behind schedule time The six horses which had brought the coach from New Brunswick showed the effects of a hard pull over the sandy and heavy road between here and that place A fresh relay of six horses was substituted and the roach left here at A M accompanied by a volley of cheers from the bystanders Princeton WHS reached at A M eighteen minutes late Trenton's change of horses took place at noon schedule time with the party lunching on the roof of the coach and very jolly over their progress and prospects A new team hitched the conch dashed off for Bucks County Perm and Tullytown The Pennsylvania roads found in bad condition ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA The Tantivy made bettor progress that was anticipated after crossing the Penn sylvania line and reached Cornwells at o'clock forty-four minutes late ford was reached at losing only on minute in the and a half miles with i now to show an excels of re- P M thirty-seven over expenditures for the ir or schedule time out the trip been j possibly more than Over in the Treasury and This Year's Surplus Probably Will Be Special to York Tints WASHINGTON Oct a stock of gold in excess of in the j ury inclusive of the redemption fund of j and steadily Increasing with I the surplus accumulating at a rate that hand coach Tantivy which was built in Paris for James Gordon Bennett by Million Its body is black with maroon panels nud vermilion hour The coaching parly was covered with dust but enthusiastic to a degree when they entered the hotel where they staid j tive minutes and then the return journey to New York way begun A large crowd in i which was Cornelius greeted j the party the fagged horses came to a j standstill Mr Hyde after laying aside i the reins jumped down and was followed 1 by Alfred Vanderbilt and the guests sandwiches awaited them Mr effected lasl Winter and with nearly of money into RECIPROCITY LAW LIKELY TO BE PASSED Measure to Avoid Attempts to Revise the Readjustment of Present Conditions to The York Times WASHINGTON Oct Cullom of Illinois evidently has concluded that there is so much sentiment in the West in favor of reciprocity and so much belief that the tariff may be amended without danger to tiny substantial interest that reciprocity will have to be supported as a policy to avoid entering upon a ducing session ct Congress Like other advocates of reciprocity he is aware that the men who are most op- revision the tariff are also op- posed to Hie ratification of reciprocity treaties that will in a measure secure to some foreign customers of the United States advantages that would be enjoyed by the world in case the schedules law were to be modified It gives me a said Henry C Payne of Wisconsin to think of under- taking to revise the tariff But there is to keep it from getting no doubt a feeling among some of our out of the reach of business men who need Western producers and manufacturers that SETH LOW SPEAKS OF THE POLICE Says If He Is Elected Mr and Mr Must Go it members of Congress who will have the i something done while it can be Tells An Audience at the Grand Central Palace that the Commissioners Heads Will Roll Upon the Remarks About Speeches by Gen Tracy and Mr Grout Although it without or baggage about a ton and a waited to turn the coach after the new re- quarter its balance is perfect and it is an i horses had been hitched up which easy runner The guests of Messrs and were William Gulliver Secretary of the Club Frederick II Davles of T ami Bradish Jo FOREIGN PEKING Chinese Trying to Expel the Ministers that They Have No Right There LONDON YORK TIMES Cablegram LONDON Oct of The Times says the Chinese have raised the question of the residence of foreigners in the capital far purposes of trader The Chinese have reminded the ters of the powers that the agreement of November 1858 stipulated that ers had not the right to live in Peking for such purposes son Jr With the party were the coachmen j of Messrs Hyde and Vanderbilt both ex- on the coaching horn Mr Hyde's volet who looked after the commissariat as In view of the character of the time test it possible to leav for refreshments a he o the steps the others were coining out i on Hewlett Mr Hyde as Mr gathered uy tho reins flipped his whip over I he horses backs and they started off the City Hall and was lost to view to gathered at the hotel that the trip over was a splendid one Much of the time lost however was due to the one of the leaders going lame Immediately nnd 1 i after leaving Trenton at which place the parly was on time The Black Horse Tullytown was reached at only three minutes being lost between this point and Philadelphia twenty-seven md a half miles and the State of New Jersey was entered and By The Associated Press PEKING Oct Ohing has ten to the Ministers the powers ing the withdrawal from Peking of the for- eign business establishments Me says that Peking is not a treaty port that foreign business houses have been illegally here and that all such houses should be moved to treaty ports He desires the Ministers to secure their removal The Ministers have arranged a meeting at the request of Dr Alumni von stein German In order to en- deavor to come to an agreement in regard to joint representations in opposition to Prince Ching's demand A controversy regarding the payment ot octroi by foreign merchants appears to have precipitated the issue One foreign house doing a large business with the nese objected to the octroi tax arguing that the goods were for the use of the tions Prince Ching points out that goods by the legations can be ordered by them from treaty ports and when so dered are not dutiable The foreign business community in king although small is Important Its presence is essential to the and convenience of the legations and its bers hope their status may now be ly settled THE AFGHANS NEW AMEER Habib Lilian's Brothers Accept Russia to Expect a Conflict LONDON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON Oct Simla of The Times says that Habib brothers and all the leading no- bles of Afghanistan have unreservedly accepted Habib as the Ameer The Government of India will nize the new Ameer when he formally announces his accession coach mechanical expert with a kit of suitable for any accident or emergency The first hitching up was at the stables of the Fashion Coach Horse Company West Fifty-fifth Street under the super- vision of Mr who was in cor- rect Continental coaching garb The good things to be disposed of during tht trip of sixteen hours and ti half were conveniently stowed away in the inside of the coach by valet with wraps and other necessaries for tlie Journey of Itil miles and the kit and tlie paratus were put on the roof When the team for the first stage to Newark was brought out it was seen that the pick of Mr Hyde's had been selected Two of them were bright ing bays one a showy gray and the fourth a handsome black nag full of mettle The bays were harnessed as off horses tlie gray as near wheeler and the black as near leader Mr mounted the box at A M sharp and as he started the team for the rendezvous the Holland House there was a fanfare on the horn and the strung animals indulged in some ballet steps until they turned into Fifth Avenue and settled down to a trot Mr Hyde was at the half an hour before the official start when the crescent moon that now and then peeped through the clouds in the dawn He was in coaching costume a tall white hat o'clock two hours and long of the trip having responsibility of applying a remedy or j done by the Republican Party to get ri edies are discussing the with in- of son terest our tariff laws Opinions differ as to the advisability of Just what the measure of reciprocity abolishing all the war taxes imposed in A river and harbor of L do that the President will be able proportions will lake up some of the i willing to suggest Great familiarity surplus but not of tills yea A canal with the law and Low nt the Central Palac last night told an audience of several thousand people what he would do with across the Isthmus will be expensive but it I countries our is admitted that not be a very heavy i revenue are expense The concern of the I needs ill the way ill matters to be borne in urging reciprocity I the Republicans ought to ury Is to have some plan put In operation do to be done by Congress that will release to the country i rather than the opposition Hie chance to undertake revision or reciprocity witli to the effects upon our now 1 highly prosperous trade senator will be Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee the ale u is assumed und his talk for reciprocity indicates that should he be- come Chairman there would strong advocate of friendly action in com- lie knows that there is obstinate the excessive accumulations that from time to time s the business world Secretary Gage lias done what he to keep down the surplus by purchasing bonds and by diverting from the Treasury funds that otherwise would have gone there but these expedients do not fully answer the needs of the country in the way of making money accessible to with a crape band and MEXICANS AMERICAN Monterey at the tlon of W H Mealey u Mine Owner to A eiv York AUSTIN Texas Oct dispatch from Monterey Mexico says W H Mealey one of the most prominent American mining men in Northern Mexico was arrested here this morning on complaint of claimants to the Norias de Bajan mine situated in the State ol to which Mr Mealey has a clear title Mr Mealey before being placed was allowed to wire friends in the United States of his arrest and to-night telegrams were received from Philadelphia Mating that his case had been brought to the attention of Secretary Hay The ican colony of Monterey are greatly wrought up over the arrest and unless his release is immediately obtained the effect foreign investments In that part of Mexico will be disastrous By The Associated Press LONDON Oct dispatch from St Petersburg to The Daily Mall It is regarded here as certain that there will he an outbreak of civil war in from the claims of the son of the late Ameer Mohammed Lmar Khan who is favored by Russia grams were sent to Kush to-day ordering large reinforcements of Kussian troops along the frontier to be In readiness necessary to seize Herat SIMLA Oct Ullah Khan has been officially proclaimed Ameer and his accession has been accepted by his ers and the Sirdars All Is quiet at Kabul THE NEW INDIAN PROVINCE LONDON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON Oct at Simla says Lord Curzon of Kedleston the Viceroy has fixed- Nov 9 King Edward's birthday as the date for the inauguration of the tration of the new Northwest Frontier Province A staff has been appointed with Col Deane as Chief Commissioner The services of the members of the jab Commission now in the frontier dis- will be retained in order to cause as little administrative disturbance as possible coat Mr Vanderbilt and tKe guests almost prompt He wore a tall black felt hat and a long black coat All the party were in enthusiastic spirits and hopeful of the of the round New trip experiment WHAT MR HYDE SAID I Mr Hyde that we shall be back here on schedule time P M We shall spare no effort to do this and make an initial in this trip there is no record to tie or beat It been attempted before Even if we dd get back on time I know that I shall be tired enough to want nothing but to fall Into bed when we pull up here I cannol see any that we have not provided against We eat on the coach and our mechanic is about the best that could have been Our photographer will operate at every stage so that interesting features of the trip will be recorded Mr is to tool first and drive us Into Newark i will alternate with him When the guard of Mr Hyde's coach gave a flourish on the horn at fourth It lacked eight minutes of the scheduled starting hour 0 o'clock Mr pulled up the team In front of the hotel In expert and the coaching parly and a dozen of their friends and Aurel Batonyi the professional whip devoted a of minutes to admiring the horses and then came the bustle of departure Mr took the near box Mr the driver's after gathering up the ribbons Mr was the last to show himself on the roof Then at o'clock Mr asked and re- an affirmative reply had the on its way to Newark by way of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third Street in two seconds the team going at a smart trot The official of the round trip was reached after a delay due to a sion with a truck resulting In no damage at o'clock hour and late Here was an enthusiastic crowd of students and townspeople who cheered heartily when Mr Vanderbilt gathered the reins and started nn the next stage for Ten Mile Hun Franklin Park's relay was harnessed at o'clock one hour and fifty-four minutes late The land House was forty miles away and the mites covered had been at the rate of a fraction over ten miles an hour ins the time lost In twenty-four relays New Brunswick was reached at o'clock two hours and one minute late was reached by the inK party at o'clock two hours and minutes behind schedule time While the new horses were being hitched up Mr denied a report that n horse fell The animal was taken sick cut out of the team and in of a groom the coach to Trenton with only three horses the relay was taken up at reft minutes been with New York 21 away nnd speed per hour reduced to less miles Tin party reached at and started again at being and eighteen minutes behind the scht was reached at P M and the nt The party reached the sylvania ferry in Jersey City at this morning A special ferry boat of tho Twenty-third Street line had been held in readiness to rush the party across the river The party dashed down Exchange Plice at full speed and into the house without drawing rein The pace was not even slackened to make the turn into the leading to the boat and it was not until the the deck of the boat that the lenders were The boat the Philadelphia cast off and ed the river More than 100 cabs ami and a throng of several hundred and coaching assembled at midnight in the neighborhood of the Holland House to welcome return of Ing party They had the ar- rival of the Tantivy nt that hour but were Informed Wv telephone from abeth N J that it could not be expected before 1 o'clock ot the very earliest They were content tn wait and distributed selves about the hotel until the coach ar- rived THE PRESIDENT APPOINTMENTS Mr Fowler and other advocates the retirement of would follow this policy until tht Treasury contained ngthms but gold or its in Treasury removing the danger of the d and ot this policy not interfere the In tlie United States ing these treaties provide rid Police Commissioner Murphy and Deputy ne I Commissioner Devery If he should be ed Mayor of New York As soon as practicable after the last day of January if I am Mr Low the official heads of Mr Murphy and Mr Devery will roll upon the ground This declaration was received with applause Men stood upon their feet and gave emphasis to their wild shouts of delight by arms hats papers and umbrellas It was the telling point of Mr Low's speech The report of rockets tind the flare of red lights In front of the Central were the summons which drew a to the vicinity oi Forty-third Street anil Lexington Avenue as early as o'clock Among the first to arrive were a number of Tammany Hall workers j They were there for business The Republicans have moved the District up said one of their they took their places where they could reach crowds from every direction and pass out tlie circulars which they ried The circulars were Low Under the Rays of the Sun His Mayoralty Cost the City of Brooklyn How Lmv Defeated James G for President A Plain Statement from Gen P Tracy A quarter of an hour before the time set for tile meeting all uf the scats on the the hall were taken but there were many vacant scats in the The was graced by the a number of ladies before s luck the Hungarian Republican into the hail led by a band was John Tit drib way received with enthusiasm A if moments later C tli i he wav 6 miles the Albany Hotel 7 miles Whitehall House New Brunswick C miles Franklin Park Hotel Franklin Park 7 miles Latz Farm Ten Mile Hun miles Princeton Inn Princeton 5 than half way to Potts's Trenton 11 miles Black temptation to large sums of money indifferently and ns calculated to cultivate a tendency to dishonesty It is the impression at the Treasury that the limit has been reached In diverting Government funds to National banks though applications are being daily re- from that are prepared to qualify to accept them Toy deposits of bonds for security The uniform reply Is that it is not intended to increase the de- posits at this time THE AUSTRALIAN TARIFF ta Already Severely Criticised and the Will Fight the with All Its Strength YORK Cablegram Oct Melbourne cor- respondent of The Times says the posed Australian tariff is already verely criticised Though the maximum acl valorem ties are per cent some of the ite and fixed duties reach 100 per cent Excluding narcotics and alcohol it is that the remainder of the duties average oU per cent No relief will be afforded to the PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Delegates to Rivers and Harbors Con- gress Object to Passage of lutions of Confidence i york Oct A resolution of by chairman MR The Morris of tho County tee who alter a brief Mi- As Mr Low arose he was ovation which exceeded in and the first 1 to lu started to was in President Roosevelt by of order in the National and hM To-morrow be tlie of ilk city Tlie lor are T A M to P If you do not yon cannot INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS Blocks Irregular 12 and 13 Financial ery Commercial 13 8 Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town 6 Business Troubles 14 Court 10 Insurance 12 Legal 16 Losses bv G Marine intelligence arid Foreign Page 14 Mew 12 ti Heal Page 11 G 6 ti Working in LONDON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON Oct dispatch from Paris to The Times says the Temps a letter from Metz alleging that Germany last expelled British but that Belgians are now seeking recruits at Thionville denhofen with the parent sanction of Germany Numerous Italians have accepted the agents offers The correspondent says the men may possibly be pretended agents though who pays them is a mystery Certainly he adds they are not em- ployed by the Belgian Government ANOTHER CASPIAN SEA CABLE LONDON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON Oct dispatch to The Times from Odessa says another com- plete submarine cable for the Caspian Sea has been dispatched from Odessa to Baku Take the Day Line str en route to Buffalo the Hudson la at tlie height of Its beauty Music Post ii miles 2 P Bellevue Hotel Philadelphia 8 miles and miles from the Holland House P M The return trip schedule Frankford P Bristol Trenton Princeton Ten Mile Run Park 7 E New Brunswick Railway beth Newark and Holland House ending a trip of 191 miles P M This schedule ing changes of teams a speed of more than miles an hour FOUR-HORSE TEAMS The sixteen four-horse teams and a couple of spans to make up six horse teams for heavy work on came from the stables of Messrs Hyde Vanderbilt and DuHand and from livery stables along the schedule route The New the changes were sent to the points between here and delphia on Tuesday on a special Adams Express train of ten box cars The trip to Philadelphia was favored by weather and enjoyable but barren of im- portant incidents and without accident Newark was reached at o'clock teen minutes behind schedule time Mr said that this was due to a miscalculation the ferryboat trip from Twenty-third Streel New York not having been taken properly into consideration The change of teams here occupied two minutes and a quarter The was in excellent humor and confident ng the round trip close to schedule time The conch arrived at Elizabeth at o'clock minutes behind time and the team In a lather Fresh horses were hitched up and the party started at The party arrived at Rahway at A M late It took to change horses The relay team at this station were four strong blacks to give a good account of themselves One was balky and was reached at minutes late At New Brunswick the coach arrived at Saratoga Water fresh from Saratoga is now sold on the plan of all you wish for o rents at the Wilson Drug and way and Broadway and Man Appointed in as to Removals to The York 7 WASHINGTON Oct appointment of William M Heald as Postmaster at mington Del is regarded as significant Mr Heald is an man To-day Roosevelt informed tive Joy of Missouri that no Presidential appointee had right to con- in office As long as he proved himself fit his position was safe but when he proved himself otherwise he would be re- moved The President added that he ed office holders to understand that MR Police Informed that There Was Danger They Re- gard the Information Visitors to the residence ot M Shepard Congress Street Brooklyn last night were somewhat lo see a policeman stationed before the door who carefully noted all who passed and made particularly Close scrutiny of every person who ascended the steps The policeman had lo say about his presence there but at the Butler Street Station from came it was said that some unknown son had called up the Sergeant In charge on the telephone Monday night and warned him that Mr Shepard was In danger of The station house authorities said last night that they did not believe there was any plot but they were sufficiently Im- pressed to establish a special guard at the Mayoralty candidate's home and it was said thai a policeman would probably re- main there during the remainder of the campaign MARRIED ON UNITED STATES SHIP Special to York Times ANNAPOLIS Md Oct Paymaster George P Palmer Dyer United Stales Navy and Miss Marie thv Bell were married on board the United States steamship Santee here The bride is a daughter ot the late Judge Joseph Bell while the bridegroom is a son of the Professor of French and man at the Naval Academy Special mission was obtained from Secretary Long to have the ceremony performed on the Rev r-r McComas officiated at the service To-night the Santee was brilliantly and a reception and dance were tendered Paymaster and Mrs Dyer on the vessel Paymaster Dyer has just returned from the Philippines and is at present on duty in Washington Harbors Congress to-day ll was not that the greater number of tuv tiye business men from States have-not confidence in the an unfortunate incident and the of a delegate the man to bur resolution deploring assassination of President McKmley had been adopted Capt John Mullen oi Annapolis endeavored to present a resolution in regard Naval Academy but several that it was r was ruled out o or York then the ob- it A K uf ex- pressing confidence in President Roosevelt and that It be without urence to committee ing under the of Ills resolution in- tartly If Mr Smith's germane Chairman replied thai it not and that if objection was made it must be ruled out M J Sanders of New suggested that lir Smith's resolution was cultural and producing interests which j but savored somewhat of are deprived of advantage resulting from the duties these having been abolished Mr Reid the Opposition de- clares that the proposed tariff is a measure and says the tion will fight it with all Its strength Mr Barton the Premier asserts that such as have a direct bearing upon borne commerce Attention was directed also to the importance of improving the channels of Great Lukes ing of an isthmian The sentiment of the congress are to be to the National Government the is a compromise between the toria protectionist and the New South Wales free trade tariffs By The Associated Press MELBOURNE Oct wealth Tariff Introduced in the eral House of Representatives yesterday provides the following duties in addition to those given in last wines llis a gallon Other wines bottled in bulk Osr Manufactured tobacco as id a pound Imported leaf tobacco Is Od a pound ex- cise Is Cigars iis lid a- pound plus 15 per cent ad valorem Cigarettes Os tid a pound Sugar Imported K a ton excise with a rebate of if grown by white labor only Cottons and linens 10 and ID per cent Furniture a per cent a political nature and proposed that it be referred This was done but there is no doubt that many of the delegates regretted the action The congress adjourned sine any action by the committee The Congress adopted a series of tions urging the importance of river and harbor improvements In developing the Nation's foreign commerce It was urged funds be set aside ample for the con- prosecution ol this work no im- to be made however except committee representing all the KRUEGER STILL LONDON YORK TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON Oct Brussels of The Times says the second anniversary of the declaration of war with Great Britain by the South African Republic and Orange Free State was hailed 6y local journalists as a suitable opportunity to interview the dent of the Transvaal on the situation in South Africa Mr excused self on the ground of his poor health taut he professes the same unalterable faith the issue of the struggle Special to Washington Clue Line Personally conducted for rents at the Wilson Drug 1 days 13th Nov 1st Only and I ulf Included Detailed Information at ticket and Caddy Injured by Golf Ball to York 1 ORANGE N J Oct Scott a golf caddy of Third Street South Orange Is ill with cerebral meningitis at his home as the result of being struck on the head with a golf Dall on the links of the South Orange Field Club The accident happened last Saturday The boy was standing near a tee on the links The man who drov the ball says he shouted to the boy to get out of the way but that young Scott did not hear the warning tor he did not move The boy was knocked down and when picked lip was In a state A Every Hour for Buffalo Falls and the by the New York Central and West Shore Two-cent mileage are pressed through SUGAR TRUST CHANGES FRONT Recedes from Its Contention that sian Sugar Must Pay a Counter- vailing Duty Special to Tlie York BALTIMORE Oct United States Circuit Court to-day under ment the famous involving the levy of a countervailing duty in Russian sugar imported into this country argument in behalf of the National Association of who had entered a protest against the duty being completed by K H Bigelow of New York The argument of yesterday and to-day brought out the fact that the sugar trust has changed front in the matter This is believed to be due to the conflict with the beet sugar interests which is being made a test case is that of Robert E Downs an importer it cUv He wiis among the first to pay theT countervailing duly under protest and he annealed the case from the decision of the Board ot General Appraisers in New York which had sustained the position of Treasury Department At it was ascertained that the bugur Trust the Treasury officials to Impose the countervailing duty the trust has gone over to the other side The sugar trust people had a legal here during the trial and this active In the ter previous hearings and on this sion appeared to be seeking for points to show that the Treasury's standpoint wat wrong The sugar trust has given the de fendants to understand that henceforth it will not be instrumental in establishing the fact that Russian sugar is subject to a countervailing duly The oi sugar Irust has been reversed and It Is now ready to ally with the National of Manufacturers in having the courts decide that Russian sugar is not subject to an additional duty of Vanilla used exclusively by all hotels and i Own Your O Hasbrouck Heights N J Home real estate minutes when there was ol in the for tbe Tile ol a hand street and the shoms of ie it impossible uir Mr to bi- rd by of Ins ten s of Republican clubs nade a which Mr Low and his The clubs rame in were the Twenty-second District club the District Republican Club the on Semite Club ami District Republican Club On he they carried i Xu fur No East At one time the racket made by the late arrivals was su great that Mr Low was obliged to cease speaking for several ntes when he the con- tant of feet and limn of voices the greater pan ot the from all he calls of from all the hall which by this time was Every mention Mr of with hisses The hisses for Devery were louder and more than the other two When Mr Low the Commissioner Murphy und missioner Devery build them a shrine n Wantage some otic created much ment by shouting Build it on Barnen M Groul the candidate fur t on- troller who was introduced a was greeted with a demonstration not much exuberant that lo the of the ticket speech will with the crowd There was an meeting on tne street at which Charles K Capt Hugh and spolie Chairman Morris the meeting o'clock In his address Mi- Morris the winch had led the Republican Party to assume a attitude MR LOW'S ADDRESS Mr Morris then introduced Mr Low who spoke as 1 do ihc platform of he anti- Fusion applause I am that the Republican Party is on of parties to that fusion for cornerstone of that form ana the ur own form as your Chairman has just said is in the administration of this city I am glad that Gen Tracy is lo to tills the wilier is his with which he supported me twenty years in platform of thai Mr Shepard said in jui ech of that in occult way despite the fusion platform despite nur Mwn despite rny own record for and despite my in some d reserved upon Tammany pledges as an honorable in in that in seme or 1 am a partisan candidate Now let us examine and preliminary to its discussion 1 invite your attention to an In the early days a by r.mne of Coffin who was born on America lolij a that when he got lo he would shuw him a yard Well the Admiral's friend tinned it and they made a reached he could not duce anv lobsters of the length he furnished himself with affidavits made by many fishermen when the Admiral were boys the loiwu-rs In wero a yard long I on the faith of these the Admiral claimed the bet Naturally it had in be referred to arbitration and the dict of the arbitrators was arc lobsters Laughter The point iif this story Is mat vlr saying it is ii does not make it so 1 Now let us consider the facts or
