New York Times, The (Newspaper) - May 27, 1902, New York, New York the News That's Fit to Print THE WEATHER Fair fresh VOL NEW YOKK TUESDAY MAT 27 PAGES ONE CENT In Greater Neir Elsewhere Jerner and J TWO CENTS CONFER IN CHICAGO ON IMF GOAL STRIKE President Members of Civic Federation He Consults with Officers of the Illinois Miners to Call a General Special In The Niw York CHICAGO 111 May John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers reached Chicago last night to learn the sentiment of the Illinois men toward the strike In the anthracite fields He met Secretary W Dv Ryan of the at McCoy's Hotel a short conference with him to-day R Russell and several bers of the Executive Committee left tho city in the morning just missing the tional President Mr Mitchell Insisted that his visit was purely personal he having to cago to meet his wife In j the their home in He declined to discuss of a strike of the In: sympathy with tha anthracite workers or even to ad- mit that It would be considered said Mr there will be a National Convention called to dis- cuss the advisability of calling out all the members of organization I am compelled by our constitution to Issue a call a convention when five districts demand It Four In vania and one In sighed a request lor a call I have no doubt they will be able to obtain after Issue the as possible i I do not care to anything about the situation the East promises to be a day President Mitchell met Frank P Sargent and Franklin MacVeagh of the Civic Federation Samuel Keefe of the Union arid plans for further endeavors on the part of the Federation were discussed The meeting between President Mitchell and the members of the Civic Federation was executive and definite statements as to the details of the conference were not given out It Is under- stood however that the plan agreed upon contemplates calling another conference of the mine operators and the whole com- of the National Civic Federation York with a view of arbitrating the strike It Is that tho plan will be sent to Senator Hanna for approval before a recommendation further arbitration shall be made If the plan sHall be carried into effect It is expected that some definite announcement of It will be made within a week or ten days TWO MINES RUNNING Men at Bernice Drift and Lykens Drift Refuse to Special to Tin Ntw York Times Penn May spite the efforts of the strike leaders two anthracite mines remain In operation and produce tons a- day for an active market They are the Bernice Drift of tha State Line and Sullivan Railroad Com- pany and the Lykens Drift owned by W B at Bernice in Sullivan County a little offshoot of field where the coal is not of as good a quality as here in the heart of the field But It is attached to the First District un- der of President T The Bernice mine is run by 400 men the union men having been on since February 1900 when the owners re- fused to pay per cent increase granted by the other companies Since then the strikers have been evicted from their houses and their places filled non- union men Gunton gave his men cent and they have well satisfied ever since that when the strike was ordered two Weeks ago they refused to go out Since then strikers from here have obtained work with them Vice President Adam Ruscavage of this district was sent to Bernice yesterday but not induce the men to strike effort Is to be made to get the Lenten Valley railroaders to refuse to haul tho coal and the men at Drift Will be declared at tho same time The coal is sent via the valley to Northern New York and finds a- ready market i companies have a number de- on guard but as there are but a hundred of the original strikers left as the region Is some from the basin there is riot much Interferences with tho workers It Is still a matter whether the the anthracite region will bo shut down next Monday when the order Issued by the Executive Boards Mine the hours of labor and wages to be paid engineers firemen Into effect The operators they will have all the help necessary to pumps and engines In running order The United Mine Workers and the cers of the Stationary tion on the other hand claim that coal companies the demands made them the great bulk of engineers firemen and will quit work There seems to be no question but that both sides are straining every make the best showing possible The operators are all the ence they possibly can now at work while the: striking miners also doing missionary work Many of tha engineers do not the predicament are placed In If they quit work they will displease the company officials and may never be reinstated while If they remain at their posts and the miners should win their they would probably find that things would not be so pleasant for them at the collieries in the future In order to reach those who are wavering a call was Issued to-night for a mass ing of all engineers and firemen In the Wyoming region In this city next Friday evening At a ing in this city to-night No 484 United Mine Workers re- ported that they had called upon during the day and that nearly all had given their word that they Join the other strikers next unless the a e While the position that will be taken by DANISH YOUTHFULNESS Astonished M Visit t Copenhagen Has Made an able Impression In France Continued on Page 2 DEPARTMENTS Stocks Irregular Financial 12 and 13 Wheat red corn No 2 oats No li mixed cotton middling 6 iron Northern Western creamery 14 Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town 5 I Business U Court 10 Insurance 13 Legal 18 Losses by G Marine Intelligence Foreign Pace 10 New 13 2 Real 14 United 6 Weather 5 Yesterday's 5 M your1 system la run or you are overworked take Johann Hoff's Extract BE JOBAH NEW Special Cablegram LONDON The Copenhagen correspondent of The Times says thos present on Sunday King Christian visited the French warship could hardly realize that the King Is In hla eighty-fifth year Loubet was astonished to the Czar's jo youthful In appearance and Majesty on It King smilingly I am not eighty-four but still four At the at Castle conversation was of a lively character The King again to his age And you M le President have an old You will allow me to offer a toast in her M Loubet displaying emotion thanked his Majesty j The Paris correspondent of The Times says M visit to has made an agreeable impression in France President's long tion with the Princess Waldemar of mark the daughter of the Due de tres a member of the Origans not escaped of thoughtful Frenchmen TO CELEBRATE THE Men on Warships All Over the World to be Enabled So LONDON TIMES Special Cablegram LONDON May Times states that on the initiative of the Prince of Wales the Admiralty has prepared a general scheme by which all over the world an opportunity will he given to the British fleet to join InJ the tion of King Edward's coronation in manner will be sent to each of principal ports of each station THE CRETAN PROBLEM YORK Special Cablegram LONDON dispatch from Athens to it is reported that Prince Greece High Com- missioner of Crete Is about to make other tour of Europe in to confer with the powers the: future of the island WARDROBE SCHEME Investigated by lice While He Is Under Arrest Special Nrw York PITTSBURG May W Raynor President of the National Wardrobe Com- pany New York is under arrest here while the methods adopted by his concern are being Investigated by the police Chief Titus wired from New York that the office there had only been open a few In Pittsburg had collected about from 000 subscribers The scheme of the company is to keep men's wardrobes in repair and cleaned for a year each patron one year in ad- vance The police learned a similar scheme lad been worked In Springfield Mass Bridgeport and other places where he money was collected In advance the place kept open only a month then closed ind no accounting made of the money col- It was said at Police Headquarters late ast night that inquiries had been received from Pittsburg about Raynor and the wardrobe scheme but that while no such as that described had been ound existing In New York there found evidence of one of the kind in Boston The Corporation Directory con- ains the following National Co N Y Capital Di- W Tf Raynor J M Shaw E L Hunt further inf unattainable no ad- dress KILLED BY LIGHTNING Electrical Around Newburg De- stroy Life and Property Special to Tin York Times NEWBURG N Y May have a succession of storms in this locality within twenty-four hours Last lightning struck a tree near the ity limits killing four that had aken shelter storm At Florida oily Bigart a Polish girl seventeen years Id was killed while seated in her room The electric fluid a chimney hrough the stove into the room the girl side of the body nd killing her instantly A companion in he room escaped Lightning struck the cow S F Barnes near injuring Charles leer who was milking a cow The ge of the Associate in his city was also struck Mrs wife f the pastor had a narrow escape The passed down the lightning rod it at a point midway from the building and tearing things ip generally The barn of Gregory ge at Salisbury was struck burned ast night A COEPER COMPANY FIGHT TO DEPOSE CARROLL Hostile Circular Sent to Democrats in His District CHARGED WITH NIXON'S Manifesto Signed by J D F Daly William F Sheehan and Gambling Com- bine Denounced The fight to John a Democratic leader of the Assembly District is on in earnest A cif cular has been broadcast throng the district and was sent to every Democratic voter the political rec ord of John F Carroll as viewed by hi political opponents in Tammany Hall In the list of those who have signed the antl Carroll circular appear the names D F Daly Edgar A Levy Alfred F William F Sheehan ThomaK C Dunham and Mye J Stein The circular opens with a statement o the condition of the Democratic Party in New York County and The needs ing The that party is at pres ent in control of the combination that run Tammany Hall This clique Is referred tc by the public press as the Gambling Com It consists of the limited circle o men who controlled the Police under the last administration It regulated vice to the tune of millions The Gambling Combine Is on the top in means to be while Tammany lasts I forced Lewis Nixon out Croker and the Gambling Combine perfect har mony It was a characteristic piece strategy on part to make Nixon nominal leader of Tammany Hall 1 Nixon was to be leader as long as he did nothing contrary to the wishes of the Gambling Combine But when he op posed Van Wyck for the position of Sachem of the Tammany Society he to go Now he says he could not remain leader of Tammany and maintain his self- It would be a hard blow to the if it lost the ninth District Rochara votes in the Twenty-ninth District although his home is Regis Engf land John F Carroll ia the Tammany leader of the District Carroll tried to make Nixon responsible for Van Wyck Carroll kept In the ground He still wants to put Van Wyck on the Supreme Court bench but he die not want to appear in the open for him He hated the cry of Trust He dered Nixon to undertake the ity Nixon refused consequently had to go Carroll in defiance of popular uprising of the people last Fall wanted to put Van Wyck in control of Tammany Society without appearing as his sponsor just aa he brought about his nomination for or in and was his for the Supreme Court laal year The future of the gambling combine de- pends upon whether it will win in the Twenty-ninth.Dlstrict at the coming ries It is delegates sent to the State Congressional and Conventions Neither Carroll nor Croker desires to loso the district in which both vote The primary is the new secret of the people's power the new foe of the political boss The Greater New York Democracy will also make a contest for the control of district j DEVERY IN DISTRICT FIGHT to P Goodwin Whose Leadership Is Opposed by the Carroll Forces William S Devery of Police scheduled to take an active part in the political fight in the Ninth Assembly DIs- according to the statements of Tammany politicians The fight In this district Is sure to be a three-cornered ne Frank P Goodwin the present district eader with the assistance of Thomas F Smith will try to hold control of the ar organization r The action of Leader Goodwin In leaving he Carroll forces and throwing his vote 0 the contingent la said o be responsible for the determination to leadership If possible by trie riends of John F Carroll It is known hat Devery is a close friend of Leader Goodwin GET LIFE SENTENCE Tbe Greene Consolidated IB Reported Interests for Special to The New York Times AUSTIN Texas May dispatch from Mexico Officials of the Greene Consolidated Copper Com- pany who have arrived at confirm the report that the extensive In- of the company parties who are closely associated with the General Electric Company It Is said that the Involves about The new owners have in contemplation the building and operating of an extensive system of railways In con- with the mines in Mexico bhn and John C Young of Heavily Special to The New York Times N T May le to-day sentenced John Gidney of this city and John L Barry alias McArdle of Kingston to life burglary Jln the first degree They are about five years of age and have already served terms iri State prison for burglary The second indictment law carried with It a j The men the act of gobbing the Brush residence on Liberty Street were arrested through the coolheadedness of Mrs Brush who rushed to the home ot James G Graham Gov Odell's secretary and the police The sentence Is the heaviest ever passed in the county for the of burglary Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce Suit May F Clements of the Interstate Commission arrived in this city to-day and began taking testimony in the long litigated suit of the Chattanooga Chamber of Com- merce vs the Southern Railway Company and others involving the freight rates to this city from the East This was de- cided adversely to Chattanooga by the United States Supreme Court recently with a proviso allowing it to be reopened for the introduction ot further testimony r A Director of the General Electric Com- pany said last night that certain persons in- Mexico are sending out every now and then tho newspapers about their properties and that he knew ing whatever the General Electric Company having bought stock from the Greene Consolidated Copper Company to California and return from Chicago May to Juno 8th via Chicago Union fic ond Southern Pacific Rys Tho Overland Limited provides the best lot everything Offices 481 348 Languages at Princeton Special to The New York Times N J May first advanced course in the languages ever attempted in American seminaries has pto the curriculum of the ton Theological The course Is to be opened next Fall the personal charge of Prof Robert Wilson who has Railroad Tiro Men from tho Tilt Pocono Delaware Water Gap resorts at its ticket office Broadway corner Howard -St to arrange for the five-day Decoration Day Adv had charge languages In the semi- nary for the past year The necessary books of reference to establish a complete library for advanced study are to be vided Five separate courses have been in Hebrew two In Arabic one in Aramaic one in Syriac one in textual cism of the Old Testament and one oh the Undergraduates and uates can have access to the courses MR HARRIMAN'S VIEWS He Declares Pools Are Obsolete anc Commission Members Generally Know Nothing of Railway Operation Special to Tht Ntw York Times DENVER May Pools are obsolete in my opinion and commissions are composed of men who of the of railroads I do not say this unkindly or to because I am willing that the public shall understand my views E H Harriman President of the ern utterance this sion at the Union Station this morning er Inspecting the Western Division of the Union Why the people of Colorado force to combine for economic he continued and do that which will benefit all by enabling them to operate over the roads having the best grades and shortest Just about reached the limit of economics the cost of operation by reducing grades and shortening mileage It is wonderful how cheaply business can now be handled If cost of carrying freight can the name lower rates Instead of this restrictive legislation con- stantly agitated why does not somebody come out for the rights of the Give us the same privileges enjoyed by other people and we will try to show what can be done I believe the mass of politicians who are fighting railroads to ate heavier burdens for bear do so because they think It is the popular thing to do The people the railroads should get closer together I believe the people are understanding this more every di I believe in combinations but not In co missions combinations we may be able to further reduce expense of moving traffic If we can to the public will be reduced correspondingly NOT PLEASED They Do Not Regard Favorably Em- William's Proposed of to This Country May do not approve of Emperor William's proposed gift of a statue the Great to the United States that matter any special efforts on the part of his Majesty to of the people of the United States Dr Hasse a ber of the a prominent of spoke In aa follows before the annual meeting at Eisenach the The present official German effort to promote German culture -in the United States rests upon a misconception man culture can never make the Yankees It will result in increasing the nobility fit the race in adding to their and their wealth making them more dangerous In tne same manner the Poles by the Introduction ot German ure The Is and will remain the grave of German characteristics Dr Hasse's remarks were greeted with plause Another speech delivered before the Pan- lerman Association in which the granting f English scholarships German dents by the late Cecil Rhodes was de- as a shrewd plan to gef mans to apostles in was received with enthusiastic applause and resolutions calling upon man students to reject the Rhodes ships were unanimously adopted by the sedation The Berlin that a committee of New York citizens Is arranging to offer Emperor William a statue of George Washington in return its gift of a Frederick the Great to the United States BIG OIL GUSHER STRUCK It Is Near Findlay Ohio and Has ated Excitement Among Operators Special to York Times FINDLAY Ohio May largest flowing oil wen drilled in Hancock County last ten years completed on the 7 Conns farm in Marlon Township by he People's Oil and Gas Company of which D T Davis is President The well about five hours flowed continuously over the top of the derricks It is mated that over barrels water poured out of the ground fully ten minutes after the shot was exploded before there was any response Emd the drillers about given up hope fluid came with a rush like a volcanic feet op of the rig The yellow fluid continued to rise high above the and three ward wab still flowing above the gin Mr Davis said he had not witnessed such a flow since the early days if the boom In A creek running tear the was filled with crude: eum to a depth of three feet Is excitement among the operators who wn leases in the vicinity IRON WORK ON SUBWAY TIED UP BY A STRIKE 500 Men Stop Work Many Do Not Know Why Ordered in Sympathy with a Firm of Contractors of Wages involved All the Ironwork In the rapid transit tunnel was tied up yesterday by a strike ordered by the ana men's Union of the 500 Ironworkers In most of the strikers being unaware of any reason why they work Another peculiar feature in the strike j was the fact that it In pathy with a firm of contractors The favored contractors are Terry Tench who about a year ago leased the contract for the iron work on the rapid transit nel from the but It a short time ago on count of the high wages demanded by the union It not pay j The on the strike late last week at a meeting In Central Hall West Thirty-second Street As the union Is used to strikes It ha no fewer than whom Samuel the chief Tho and Henry e J W I a lor three walking delegates J Parks Is looked on as other two ar Roche The three men started the various sections of tunnel early yesterday morning and the workers to quit Host bf them did not know what the strike was for but went out promptly like disciplined soldiers The Iron work was tied up the tunnel from end to end by the strike The following jv re the sections of the nel Involved In the City to Great Street the McLean Company Great Jones Street to Thirty-third Street brook Cabot Daly contractors Street to Street Ira H Shaler contractor Street to Street the Company contractors Forty-sixth Street to Forty-ninth Street contractors Sixtieth Street to One Hundred and Fourth Street Bradley Sons contractors One Hundred and Fourth Street to end of nel John contractor Tha members the firm of Terry ft Tench said when interviewed on the sub- ject last that they did not know what the strike was for I have been trying all day to find out without Mr Terry Henry B Seaman chief engineer for Holbrook Cabot Daly said that no complaints were made and that union wages had been paid union men em- ployed He also said that We had a number of they could not tell why they quit work Samuel J Parks the principal walking delegate made the statement late We a year ago for union in the tunnel arid won It At that time Terry Tench had only a small portion of the Ironwork but afterward leased it all from the for the various sections Terry Tench em- ployed men and paid the union wages a for eight hours The price they received for doing the work was so low that they lost a great deal of and a few days ago were to abandon all the contracts which they the for work It no more than right that as they stood by us we should stand They paid good wages to our men should we not help them out of their The were bewildered over the situation last night Some of them said they could see no way out of difficulty The strikers themselves had caused a and the contractors were less to end it I The only thing we can hope said one of them is for the strikers to come to their senses after a night's sleep BISHOP MCDONNELL SUED Joyle Estate Action Attacks Brooklyn Cathedral Legacy has been made an individual defendant in nn action was begun be- ore Justice Gaynor in the Supreme Court to declare Invalid the will of Catherine Coyle The Bishop is thei ex- cutor of the will The which amounts to about was left to him exclusion of a arge number of of the rlx the provision that the money vas used in the erection of a Roman Catholic cathedral in Brooklyn The In is a Mrs Coyle who desires to have he will set aside and the estate The claim Is made that Mrs Coyle was unduly influenced that she was Incapable of making a will when was executed on the day of her death Several witnesses who were with Mrs Coyle when she died testified that one of hem read prayers to Mrs Coyle and that he seemed to be rational The case was CUBAN CONGRESS VOTES MONEY Allows President Palma for Current Insular Affairs HAVANA May the Senate and have passed a granting Palma for current ex- enses in connection with insular affairs The Senate consumed the entire afternoon f in discussing the best method of municipal Judges whether y or by Discussion of the question granting esty to the Americans now in prison or waiting Cuba has been postponed to-morrow Day Line begins to-morrow New Tork service tor May lath Unrivalled for Decoration Day MR GERRY'S SON ARRESTED Charged with Driving an Unfit Horse Attached to the Coach Pioneer YONKERS coach Pioneer which runs from York to Ardsley dally was held up in Hastings this by Agent Berbert of the Society for he Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Driver Gerry Was placed under arrest for driving a horse which had two sores under he collar taken to a Justice and Several of the men coach him to secure his Immediate re- lease and while was being effected others around looking for a horse to replace the one with sores The ar- rest delayed the coach only about twenty minutes Gerry arrested at Hastings while driving the Pioneer ia a son of Commodore Gerry of this ARREST IN HUMBERT CASE Identity of Prisoner Locked Up In sey City Withheld Captures Expected It leaked out at Police Headquarters last night that Detective Sergeant Davis had arrested in Jersey City yesterday a man who is said to have valet of the Humberts the French swindlers The officials at the Detective Bureau re- fused last night to give the name of the man arrested iiv Jersey Is prisoner made a- partial confession on of which the police expect to make more captures Capt Titus and fifty detectives were ing on the case prisoner It was been living in I of the have been given to Capt Titus by the prisoner was that the swindlers when at Monte Carlo purchased a which to their IS IS Daily Mail Expects It Announced Friday GEN BROOKE FOR GOVERNOR It I Is Thought Senator Quay May port Him for Pennsylvania's Executive Tke Times WASHINGTON May Quay to-day introduced In the Senate a the President to promote Major Gen John R Brooke to the rank of tenant General and retire him The Re- publican State Convention in Pennsylvania meets on June 11 and the politicians at once saw in Mr action an Gen Brooke might be the date for Governor Mr candidate is supposed to be Judge supporters ot Attorney General have making their fight strictly against that gentleman A well-known Pennsylvania ington said to-day In discussing Brooke that State Senator Foulke an Elkin man yesterday offered to beta leader that Judge would not be candidate and the Quay man refused to take the bet Several Pennsylvania Congressmen are authority for the statement that the: President told them some time ago that he favored Gen Brooke for Gen Brooke would not retire until July a month after if the matter were left to the operation of tha general retirement law The Quay men are averse to the matter and their explanation of the Senator's action is that wants Gen Brooke to have the rank of General when he retires Mr Quay Has two things in connection with his that are rather hard to explain unless he Has a strong Interest in Gen Brooke's position before the people Most noticeable is his action In securing as a document of a transcript of Gen Brooke's military record The course when a for the retirement of an officer is presented print his ord If Mr Quay designed to nominate Brooke for Governor of Pennsylvania and anxious to secure some effective campaign literature he could not get a better ment than the three pages of typewriting which he to tho Government Printing Office to be made Of course this transcript of his record would before the but is Senator unusual action in having it printed which arouses curiosity But a Dispatch from Pretoria Says It Is by No tain That the Struggle Will Not Be Continued NAVY COLLIER TO TAKE LUMBER TO ST No Duty Will Be Charged IE Needed VINCENT oh It In This to Rebuild Been TURKISH TROOPS MASSACRED A Whole Battalion Said to Have Been Annihilated by Rebels Near Mocha Arabia May dispatch Daily Express from Cairo says has reached there that a whole battalion troops has been Annihilated by rebels the seaport of Mocha i in Turkish Vilayet of southwestern Arabia The Governor of Is said to have been carried away by the rebels as a rebels It is further reported are be- ing joined by numbers of Turkish troops who are deserting WEST VIRGINIA LAND SAIE Social to Tin York Times West Va George F Miller Judge Thomas H vey Mrs S S Altizer and Mrs to-day sold to a Boston syndicate almost coal and timber lands in Logan County The consideration was about The purchasers Incorporated as the Creek Coal Company will build ty miles of railway to connect with the Norfolk and Western at to give them an outlet arid will then open sive This same lass than years ago for Explorer Peary's Vessel N T May Ex- Peary's vessel the Windward is re- a new boiler and engine at the yard here Capt Bartlett expects to sail for Cape in July with Mrs Peary aboard to meet the explorer I DEINK WATER bottled t the Spring delivered at Home or Office Tel Office and Has Given by Canada WASHINGTON May De- has added one more to the good offices has been called on to form on behalf of the West Indian ferers by undertaking to transport to the homeless people of St Vincent a large quantity of building lumber which the dlan Government has Is by mil from Canada through to Norfolk the izing its passage through the United States in bond and without payment of At Norfolk the lumber will be loaded on the collier Leonidas and transported directly to Having relieved all present necessities of the inhabitant's of Vin- cent the Navy Department lias decided to further activity in that direction and merely to stand ready to re- spond to anv call for assistance The little Potomac which under the able direction of Lieut lins such splendid service In the relief work will not be sent again unless new and She sailed to-day from St Lucia lor Porto Rico will probably finish unloading at St Vincent to-morrow and she too the West Indies returning to New York Gen iias received the lowing cablegram from Capt Hugh J lagher Commissary St: Vincent May i Area or devastation about twelve square northern extremity Population of this area was of which their lives by flight to Kingstown and other places No such overwhelming catastrophe as St Pierre yet many people to be by public because many escaped Outside of area devastated no age done but people very apprehensive This condition will not abate until volcano is still active subsides Second eruption occurred 18th but no additional damage Supplies of all kinds from Dixie most gratefully will with what was on hand fov population for three months ber for rebuilding is Nothing is known disturbance outside of St Vincent and Martinique Now that emergency has been met would advise sending supplies gradually and only after inquiry as to needs as a great quantity bent at once might more Stores on Dixie well selected Secretary of the Navy Moody received the following cablegram from Capf Berry of the da ted St Lucia May Dixie discharging remainder stores at Kingstown where most need Provisions now on hand for several months Lumber for houses needed Volcano active damage Care of refugees and In- jured approximately well in hand by local authorities LONDON May morning says that the Cabinet Council to be held to-day will decide upon points of detail mostly of a financial nature which have been raised by the Boers in the peace negotiations Tha British decisions will then be communicated to the conference by the j delegates at Pretoria and being obtainable terms they Will almost certainly be accepted The re- sults should-be announced officially either on Thursday or this week ably on Friday Peace is certain says Tie Dilly Mail and the delegates at Pretoria ara only engaged In endeavoring to gild the pill for the to swallow The Daily Mail says pur dispatches from Pretoria that numerous communications are ing between Kitchener and Milner in South Africa and London Lord Kitchener although he le still full of energy is much aged in appearance as a result of the severe and continuous strain which he has undergone The con- sensus of opinion is that the recent hare proved Lord Kitchener to be a great diplomatist as well as a great soldier It is difficult to appreciate the magnitude of the difficulties Lord Kitchener has Ihad to contend with The Boer leaders are all deeply impressed with his personality and Implicitly It is understood that Lord Milner has gracefully admitted that the ultimate credit for the accomplishment of tha great is due to Lord Kitchener The Government leader in the House of Commons the Hon A J declined yesterday to make any fore- cast as to when the Government be able sny anything definite regarding peace In South Africa Well informed ple did not anticipate that the Govern- ment would be in a yesterday to of Importance in this connection I i Just before Parliament rose after mid- night a rumor reached the a hitch had occurred peace tions Nothing official concerning this mor ascertained but the dispatch to The Associated Press from Pretoria Jin which it is said that the prevalence throughout South Africa of optimistic Ing is hardly based upon solid facts may bo regarded as an indication that a hitch i Little Information from Pretoria has re- cently succeeded in passing the censor there PRETORIA May prevalence throughput South Africa of optimistic Ing In regard to peace hardly based upon solid facts The the conference at Is necessarily a hopeful sign at the conference although they have abandoned their hopes of still have many points of difference with the British while an minority continues regard the resumption of hostilities as the best outcome of the present situation and nt any moment these points of difference may be accentuated Into a refusal to con- j It is most unlikely that those who of peace the sponge aa long as a decent minority is desirous ipf the struggle and all sonant elements must be taken into account before it Is possible to sort of pre- diction as to the issue of the present j with wagons and cattle surrendered at Balmoral Transvaal 1 THE HAGUE May is said in Boer circles here that the peace proposals made to the conference at included the condition that the Boers in the field be allowed to consult with the Boer gates In Europe before a definite ment was reached is the same thorlty that the British Government fused on May 23 to accede this request 1 The Chamber a wonderful story from the News for May i Sent free on receipt of by G H Daniels Grand Central Station New Adv Don't let your crocer oft a GRAIN TAX MAY BE DROPPED If the Boer It Is Believed the British Government j LONDON the Government yesterday fully the speedy con- of prace in South Africa Is believed to-be by from until Friday or later of the Budget in the committee stage the as frankly admitted on ment side of the of enabling the re- casting of the in- peace being secured j on grain lias proved so unpopular throughout the country has had such an unexpected effect in Party with a most effective election cry that there is doubt that would welcome an to U I Another strong reason for the desire to do away with the tnx is the effect It has had IM the where it has been re- to demand demand which will be strongly pressed -n the coming of Colonial as likely to cause the Government sharply de- divergence of opinion in the Cabinet There the party is advocating a policy and the retention of tax while the Balfour party ad- iust the reverse Sir Michael tho Chancellor Ex- chequer said to be willing W render the tax on grain The Dally News once peace secured present Ministry to pieces in months meanwhile Lord Rosebery Is ing the Liberals together He has consented to preside at a Liberal meeting to be held in London to protest against the Government's Education This has to be ure so of the Govern- ment's its tion Long Island The Sprinc Schedule with Important changes will take effect May 28 The Shelter Island Hamptons Express will leave Street E B at P M Brooklyn at P M except Decoration
