Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1895, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY oe eee STAR BUILDINGS, 01 Pennsylvania Avence, Cor. 11th Btreet, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Kew York Office, 49 Potter Building. The Evening Star 1s serred to subscribers in the elty by carriers, on ihelr own account, at 10 cents Der week. or 44 cents per month. Copies at the gounter 2 certs each. ly mail—anywhere in the United States or Canadu—postage prepald—60 cents ber month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with tere the Post Ofice at Washington, D. ©., | foreign postage add . ee bon ee led, $3.00. as, second-class mall matter. mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Ratee of ‘Advertising made Known’ on Potent ion. Che Leni g Star. Es ——— No. 13,266. EXTRA. — VALKYRIE WON TODAY'S RACE English Beat Takes the Lead From th Sta es a RACING OVER A TRIANGULAR COURSE Details of the Second Contest for the America’s Cup. ONLY A LIGHT BREEZE HIGHLANDS OF NAVESINK, N. J., September 10.—A cloudy sky and a smooth, leaden-looking sea, over which light south- West airs were sweeping gently, was the outlook from here at 6 o'clock this morn- ing. A few stray yachts, fishermen and small coasting craft were to be seen at anchor inside Sandy Hook; but the con- testants for the America’s cup, the British challenger and the American champion— Valkyrie III and Defender—were absent from their usual moorings, having passed the night almcst within biscuit toss of each other, off the Atlintic Yacht Club's anchorage, at Bay Ridge. The Britishers, not much discouraged by the defeat which their yacht met with Sat- urday in light to stronger breezes and a heavy sea, have shifted some of her bal- last from aft forward, at the suggestion of Mr. George L. Watson, her designer, have had her remeasured and have given her a good trial spin since the first heat of the buttle for the cup; therefore they confi- dently expected her to show up in better form today. Real so-called Valkyrie weather prevailed off the Hook this mornirg, a smooth sea end light airs; but no patriotic American doubts Defender’s ability to make it “two straight” previous to making it “three straight” for the Yankee boat and her gal- lant Yankee crew. The only objectionable features of the last race were the crowding VALKYRIE LEADING IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE START. depressing morning, lifeless, jeadeny, glcomy in every respect, a reat contrast to the busy scenes of Saturday last. A dull haze obscured the horizon, cutting off the range except for about five or six miles off shore, but Sandy Hook lightship could not be made out. and tt looked as if a fair Capt. Syenmore of the Valkyrie. view of the race would not be obtained from here. The cable ship Mackay-Bennett at about 6 a.m, put out from the Hook in order to take up her buoyed cable, and after pass- of the excursion steamers and the fact that a good view of the race could not be obtained, owing to the fog and haze. To remedy the first complaint as far as possible, Rear Commodor Jas. C. Bergen of « York Yacht Club, who ts in com- volunteer patrol fleet, has the “ond jal request to the cap- tains of steamers which accompany the Tacers to avoid interference with the yachts, and It Is predicted, i injune- tions are not attended to, $ wat- | ers will never have the another international yacht race under any conditions, for the next ¢ lenger may stipulate that the contest shall take place off some part of the coast where interfer- ence will be impossible. Mr. David Henderson of the Anchor line represented Lord Dunraven on board De- fender today, and Mr, Jos. R. Rusk, owner of the sloop yacht Mis:hief when she de- fended the America’s cup against the Ca- pleasure ing ‘The kyric. nadian sloop Atalanta, the challenger in 1879, represented the America’s cup com- mittee on board Valkyrie. The race on Saturday was a beat of fif- teen miles to windward {cr the first leg, | and a broad reach of fifteen miles, intend: | €d to have been a run, home. Today's race will be around a triangle, ten miles to a leg, thirty miles in all, | starting from Sandy Hook lightship and with the first leg a beat, if possible. With | the wind holding from the southwest, this | would be possible, but the yachts would have to iun very Clese to ths Je shore | to turn. | Among wharf at the yachts off the ndy Hook this government | morning e) the Navahce and Queen Mal and steam yacht rless. On board of these and the | other craft inside the Hook there were scme signs of life, otherwise it was a very | ebb ing Scotland lightship she was soon Jost in the mist. Wind Only Four Miles. Off shore at 7:30 the wind was only blowing about four miles an hour, but this Was an improvement on the light airs of earlier morning. But the coasting craft beating down along shore made but little progres except by the aid of the last of the tide. However, there were breaks the clouds here and at the: pt. Cranfield of the Valkyrie. which seemed to hold, and promise of bet- hen as the « wore on. favorable in ations 1 through the mantle of elc uds in rnest and the wind came breezing up from the | southwest until it was s at the rate of six miles 21 hour. But off shore it was | I very thick, it being impossible to s much further north than the end of the | Heok. and Scotland lightship could oie be dimly seen. ° Valkyrie at 8:42 could be seen following | Defenier through the swash channel Wik her mainsail set and In tow. Defender ay the same time was passing the end of the Hook. ‘There was no change in the weather con- ditions, and it was fully as thick off shore as it had been an hour before. Shortly before 9 o'clock Defender passed outstde the Hook with her mainsail and Jib set, and in tow of a tug. jer The sky at this hour had commenced to clear slightly In the northwest, and Scot- land lightship could be plainly seen. This gave hope that the weather might clear sulficiently to enable the watchers here to see Sandy Hook lightship and the start. ‘The fleet of tugs commenced coming down from New York, and a dezen or-more were running chrough the svash channel at 9 o'clock and following the racers out to the lightship. The Luckenback with her attendant, tug followed astern of Deferder, and Valkyrie was half way dcewn the swash channel. The sea did not bother Defender in the slightest today. Some time later Deferder set her stay- sail, although she held on to her tug. Val- kyrie had then broken out her jib, and was in tow off the point of the Hook. Defender was half way out to the Scotland light- ship at that time, and the weather con- tinued hazy, although the sun had come out very warm and seemed to be burning up the mist. But at 9:10 a.m. Sandy Hook lightship could not be scen from here, al- though the two yachts could be made out on their way there. Valkyrie at 9:15 a.m. was well out past the Hook, with mainsail, club topsail and two headsails set. She was still in tow of her tug, and, like Defender, glided along easily. The wind was still light and from the southwest, and it would seem that the two yachts, in order to sail a windward course on the first leg, would have to start further out than Sandy Hook, or else turn very close to the shore. The Excursion Fleet. The schooner yachts and excursion fleet WASHINGTON, D.©., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1895-TWELVE: PAGES TWO CENTS. If you want today’s news today you can find: it only in The Star. committee boat, preparatory to getting into @ good position for the start. Defender crossed the Valkyrie’s bow to leeward, and was standing inshore on the Port tack, while the Valkyrie was jogging along before the wind, with her sheets well aft. Then she swung around and headed Fabel from Defender on the starboard tack. Valkyrie Lends at the Start. At 10:50 a.m. the preparatory signal was fired, and the yachts began the usual jockeying for positions. The British yacht blanketed Defender, but Defender worked out from under her lee, only to be again blanketed, and the yachts crossed the line in the following official time: H.M.S. Valkyrie . 11 00 13 Defender 11 01:15, At 11:0; , after a short tack to star- hoard, both boats came about and stood di- rectly toward this point on the port tack. Both boats were headed directly for this point, Defender to leeward, and seeming to point a trifle better than the Valkyrie. Detender Protests. Shortly after the start Defender hoisted a protest flag, and the protest was allowed, it being believed here that Valkyrle fouled Defender during their luffing matches. It seemed from here as if one of Defender’s shrouds was injured, but nothing definite could be made out, and Defender's top- The beautiful white mast held on well. DEFENDER BEFORE THE WIND. ~ at 9:20 a.m. began to show up off the end of the Hook, and the Navahoe was just rounding the point. The City of Bridgeport was coming in past the Hook at 0 o'clock, leaving Valkyrie to be towed out to the lightship by a tug. Defender at 9 dropped her tow and was standing out toward Sandy Hook light- ship under her three lower sails, and on the starboard tack. Valkyrie was still in tow, with her large club topsail set and. jib pulling nicely in the light wind. Shortly after 9:40 Defender went about on the port tack, and a couplé of minutes later she went around again and headed out to sea and toward Sandy Hook light- ship. Valkyrie was standing out after her and was a considerable distance behind. The fog at 9:45 was thicker, as Scotland Lightship could only be indistinctly seen. Defender was in a line with it and about a mile from the other side. As seen from this point Valkyrie was about half way out. Defender was then setting the large white club topsail which she used on Sat- urday. Then Defender disappeared in the fog, which seemed to be rolling in separate banks off the coast, for at last Sandy Hook lightship and the Mackay-Bennett cable steamer, anchored to the westward of it, were made out. A long line of ex- cursion steamers, tugs, steam yachts, schooner yachts and smaller craft, reach- ing from the neighborhood ef the Hook to New York, apparently, was seen. At 10:10 the wind was still light, about FUE-STAKE 8247 7 206A FE LUKEN BACK four miles an hour and about south, south- west here. Mr. Lloyd Phoenix's Inrepid led the fleet, closely followed by Barbour's steam yacht Sapphire. The third yacht of the fleet was the Viking. The Course. The committee boat at 10:25 displayed the signal “D,” meaning that the course to be sailed was the triangular course, from the starting line, ten miles to and around a mark; thence ten miles to and around a second mark, and thence ten miles to the finish line, turning the marks cn the outside of the triangle to port or to starboard, ac- cording as the yachts are sent around. The wind was then veering toward the south about south by west. nbla acted as the police boat. There were not one-third as many boats out to- day as were out on Saturday were jockeying about . ignals for the di- rection of the course. These were displayed at 10:45, The first leg of the triangle was to be directly south, the second northeast by east and the homestretch northwest by west half west. When the boats came toward the im- aginary line those aboard the Defender were Capt. Hank Haff at the wheel and First Mate Terry at the spars. Aft were W. B. Duncan, Nat Herreshoff, the design- Newberry D. Thorne, Woodbury Kane, Mr. and Mrs. C, Oliver Iselin, W. K. Van- derbilt and C. Henderson, represent- ing Lord Dunraven and the Royal Yacht Squadron. On board Valkyrie were Lord Dunraven, Latham A. Fish, representing the New York Yacht Club; George L. Watson, the designer; Vice Commodore Arthur Glennie, Sailmaker Ratsey, H. Maitland Kersey, Lady Rachael Wyndham-Quinn and Lady Ailee Wyndham-Quinn. Capt. Cranfield was at the stick, and Capt. Sycamore was busily engaged di- recting the crew. Both yachts were spinning around the silk club topsail was in good shape, and there was not ‘the slightest sign of a break, Capt. Cranficld was constantly luffing Valkyrie, In hopes to keep up with the windward work of his opponent. Capt. Cranfield was standing in the midst of a group made up of Lord Dunraven, Commodore Glennie and others, while Capt. Sycamore was runring back and forth care- fully watching the head sails. On board Defender the crew seemed to be qufeter. Capt. Haff was sitting down as he steered the yacht, while Mr. Iselin, Mr. Lees and others could be plainly seen hud- died over to the leeward side of the boat, well astern. It did not seem from here, however, as If one of the Defender shrouds had been carried away. Unhappily, a thick fcg ‘appeared to be making in from the scutheast, and this may cut off the view of the yachts. ‘The two yachts, at 1143, were not more than a mile and a half off here, and De- fender was sailing along nicely without the aid of her jib topsail. Valkyrie seemed to be gaining a trifle on Defender, as she was getting a better breeze to windward, Defender being in soft sheets, and while Valkyrie’s jib topsail did not set very well, yet it helped her con- siderably. Excursion Boats Not Troublesome. ‘The excurston fleet was giving the yachts all the room they wanted, and as there were not over a hundred’ vessels of all sorts about the racers, they were not in any way interfered with. $ ‘The wind at 11:55 a.m. was very light, and the excursion flect was still doing fincly, keeping from half to three-quarters of a mile from the racers. The scene presented by the racimg yachts and the accompanying fleet was a grand cne. It was possible to look down directly on the decks of both yachts, Capt. Haff ©. Oliver Inctin, could be seen saiting Defender for all there was in her, and Capt. Cranfield was doing the.same for Valkyrie. Both the boats at 11:50 were standing off shore on the star- board tack, and Defender did not seem to be closing up the gap on Valkyrie. Both yachts at 12:07 p.m. were still holding off shore on the starboard tack. Valkyrie was, apparently, about half.a mile ahead. Dur- ing the last half hour they sailed a close race. Defender Went About Quicker. Defender, shortly after 12:10, went about on the port tack and Valkyrie immediately followed suit. Defender seemed to go about five secends faster than Valkyrie, and from the “position they occupied in turning it looked as if Defender had crawled up a Idtle on her rival. But the race was un- doubtedly a very close one. The two yachts were then headed along the Jersey shore, and while they were only about three miles from land the fog bank which had come up made it difficult to sight them accurate- ly. Defender was not carrying her jib topsail, while at of Valkyrie was doing good work. e two yachts, at 12:15, were headed toward Long Branch, and Defender Lord Dunraven. did not seem to be gaining much. The fog bank was then very thick. Shorily after- ward the wind began to freshen and De- fender commenced going through the water at_a great rate. The two yachts at about 12:20 p.m. went about on the starboard tack. Defender was then working Valkyrie and was only a quarter of a mile behind. She was clearly outfooting her British rival. - The Defender Gaining. At 12:30 p.m. Valkyrie was being held by Defender in good shape, it seemed from here, although the fog prevented accurate observations. However, it did not seem as if Valkyrie was getting away from De- fender. At about 12:45 p.m. the Defender seemed to start ahead again and reduce the gap between herself and Valkyrie and her wind- ward werk became really superb. She pointed better than the British yacht and footed faster, and it looked from here as if she was steadily working to windward and overhauling Valkyrie. In fact, it is claimed that the American yacht was cer- tain from the gain she had made to round the first mark ahead of her competitor. By 1 o'clock Valkyrie had disappeared in the fog and the Defender could be seen from here. Valkyrie First Rounds the Mark. So far as can be made out here the yachts rounded the first mark as follows: Vaikyrie Defender The turn, apparently, was detse fog, and the times given are only approximate. ‘The wind at the time of turning was !n- creasing in strength, and blew at ihe rat of from twelve to fifteen miles an‘ hour, kicking up little white caps between here and the first mark, so that the yachts seemed likely to have a good breeze with Which to sail the second leg, over which they should make good time, and if the wind holds out it appeared as if they would firish hefcre 3 o'cieck. HIGHLANDS, September 10, 2:11 p.m.— The excursion fleet is heading for the lightship, which seems to show that the yachts have rounded the second mark. 16 p.m.—One of the yachts had a lead of over a mile and it looks like Valkyrie. The Valkyrie Wins. The Valkyrie finished first. LOCAL INTEREST MANIFESTED. Crowds About the Baltletins From the Yacht Race. The interest in the yacht race today was even greater, so far as Washington people were concerned, than on Saturday, and as scon as the boats were started the excite- ment began, and crowds assembled in front of the various bulletin boards, awaiting the returns, unmindful of the atmospheric dis- ecmforts so marked and plentiful. Those who were on hand when the race began were deeply chagrined at the news that the American yacht had broken her top- mast, but in each throng there was some stalwart American who allowed nothing to diminish his patriotic certainty of the De- fender’s superiority, and at The Star office the announcement of the accident was greeted by one of this genus with the ex- clamation: ‘That makes no difference. Defender can break her back and win anyhow!” Of course, this was all very admirable from a national point of view, but ft did not have the effect of quieting the general apprehension caused by the mishap, as many remembered how unfortunate De- fender had been in her trials with Vigilant, and were afraid her ill-luck had not de- serted her, despite the hopes and prayers of the great people she represented. There was, however, great relief when it was learned that Defender’s topmast was not broken, but merely slightly sprung, and that she could manage to 8ail all right t. Hank Haff of the Defender. with it. Quickly following this came the builetins announcing the actual progress of the race. The raised hopes of the crowd went down like a thermometer transferred to a refrigerator as the information poured steadily in showing the Valkyrie in the lead. There were momentary periods of ele- vation when it was sald Defender wos gaining, only to be followed by depressing dispatches that Valkyrie was holding her own again. There was not sufficient distance between the yachts, however, to allay the excite- ment in any degree, and some of the specu- lative persons in the crowds found little difficulty in making even-money bets and taking the Valkyrie end of them, even when the English boat was bulletined as being three-eighths of a mile ahead. The turn of the first leg showed just the exact difference between the yachts, be- cavse actual time, and not the judging of distance, so difficult In the best of water and under the brightest of skies, was to be depended upon to accurately illustrate the boats’ positions. Three minutes and twenty seconds in favor of Valkyrie in the first ten miles was something to make even the most enthusiastic “jingoists" feel blue, but despite the azure hue of their thoughts, they kept up a stalwart fire of comment, in which the bellef in the ultimate victory of Defender sparkled brightly. And so went the public pulse—up and down—until the result of the race seemed no longer in doubt. —_—.__ Louis Cox of Nunda, Ill, and Charles Sweet of Crystat Lake, Ill, while crossing the railroad tracks at Cory, IIL, last night in a buggy, were struck by the St. Paul imited and instantly killed. HORSES OR TROLLEY? What Presideat Newbold Promises to Do PLANS FOR THE ECKINGTON ROAD He Says It Will Soon Be Equipped With a Good System. THE BELT LINE ALSO President Newbold of the Eckington and Belt railways was in the city last evening. He said toa Star reporter that he had been actively at work upon the improvements of which he had given assurance through The Star. After unexpected difficulties and delays, he had secured, he said, the addi- tional horses necessary to restore the Belt line to its original condition as a belt, and in the meanwhile he kad been preparing the way fur the promised speedy installa- tion of an underground electric system upon the two roads. “I recognize,” he said, “the reasonableness of the public out- cry, to which The Star has given voice, against the continued existence of the trol- ley poles on New York avenue, and the company is willing and even desirous to remove them just as soon as a substitute motive power that will- be satisfactory to the community can be put in. Some time ago I arranged with Mr. Saxton, who made the 9th street electric Ine, to go over the Eckington line from New York avenue and Boundary to Center market, and to suo- mit a detailed estimate of the cost of equipping this section of the road with the system used on 9th street. He has sub- mitted these figures to me, and they aggre- gate in the neighborhood of $250,000, in- cluding some $17,000 for necessary’ enlarge- inent and improvement of the power house which is used for the Eckington overhead trolley. It is reported to me that some of the machinery in this power house is old and crude, and that to supply the power to operate both the underground system and trolley we would be obliged to add two or three additional units to the power house, as it would be necessary to run sep- arate generators for the two systems, the overhead and the underground, “I haye been unwilling to push ahead and incur the large necessary expense in- volved in supplying the roads with rapid transit without the formal! sanction of the system to be used by the directors of the company building the road between here and Ealtimore, and with which I am as- sociated, which owns a controlling interest in the Belt and Eckington lines. Owing to stmmer absences from the country, I have been unable to get together a quorum of directers until today. A Mecting im Baltimore. “A meeting was held in Baltimore this morning of the directors of the construc- tion company, and I submitted Mr. Sax- ton's figures, und urged the Immeffitite equipment of the indicated section of the road with an underground electric system. The only question raised was whether it would be more desirable to put in im- mediately the proposed small section of road, utilizing the present Eckington power house, at a cost for enlargement of some $17,000, which would finally be wasted, since this puwer house is to be abandoned, or to begin as speedily as practicable the imstallation of the derground electric system over the whole of the Eckington and Belt lines, the power to be obtained from the great power house at Hyatts lle, which fs intended to supply the electrikty for the Washington end of the Baltimore and Washington railway and the local sub- sidiary tines. It was decided that Mr. Huff, the electric engineer of the company, should visit Washington tomorrow to make an examination and report of the electric equipment required to operate both the Eckington and Belt lines. As soon as this report is rade, which will be immediately, the question will be promptly decided, and steps taken to put the same in operation. “If the decision is to contract for and be- gin work upon all parts of both railways rather than to equip at this time as a dis- tinct work the section upen which the illegal poles ire found, it will be necessary to put in horses temporarily upon New York avenue, The Horse Question. “I have not been unmindful of The Star’s suggestions on that point, but unless it is unavoidable the company does not wish to go to several thousand dollars’ expense for temporary horses, which will be practi- cally worthless in a short time through the installation of a rapid transit system. I am told that the substitution of horses for the trolley would be injurious both to the ccmpany and its suburban patrons. An official of the Eckington company, who ex- amined the question at my reauest, reports that ‘to take down the poles on New York avenue .,ould, I think, practically destroy all of our Sunday and excursion travel, as there would be no way of reaching the trolley cars except by riding on the horse cars, and very few people would care to ride a couple of miles on a horse car in crder to ride about the same distance on the trolley cars, so that in this way the road would lose one of its principal sources of revenue. The Catholic University at Brook- land opens the McMahon Hall of Philosophy in October and expects a very large num- ber of students from all parts of the world.’ “The greater part of these students must board in the city and ride in and out daily in the cars. It will be a very serious dis- advantage to the university if these stu- dents must trarefer at the boundary and come in town on the horse cars. A major- ity of them ride in to 7th street and New York avenue and take the cable from there. There is a'so to be quite a great celebra- tion at the university in October, at which nearly all the distinguished Roman Catho- lic prelates in the country will be present, and the authorities of the university are particularly arxious that we have the trol- ley cars on New York avenue at that time. Putting herse cars on New York avenue would sericusly inconvenience nearly al the patrons of the goad, and would cer- tainly affect the value of property in Eck- ington and Brookland, and would, there- fore, work injury to the road.’ “Of course, I recognize that the company has no right to maintain filegal obstruc- tions, no matter how much its busines may be injured by their removal, but my hope is that the compar y by beginning im- mediately and vigorously the work of equipping New York avenue with the ur derground system will cause the public i self to be unwilling to inconvenience both itself and the compeny by compelling the use of horses for the short time before the underground system will be in running order. An Alternative Promine. “I feel authorize] to promise the people of Waskirgton, through The Star, either one cf two things; either the company will begin promptly and finish speedily an un- derground system of rapid transit from the New York avenue station of the Baltimore and Ohio to Center market, which will allow the trolley cars to run through to Center market without ¢ghange, or it will decide to begin as soon ag practicable, ant as one operation the equipment of whole of the Eckington and Belt lines with an underground system, utilizing the Hy- attsville power house, in which event, as considerable time will be necessary to ac- complish the change, horses must be put for a while cn New York avenue and the poles removed. I repeat most emphatically what I said before to The Star asthe recognized anti-trolley cham- pion of the city’s interests, that the company has not the slightest in- tention or desire to use the everhead trol- ley in Washington, and I will add that we would have been before this in accord with local public sentiment but for the fact that during the few months since the Baltimore interests bought the Eckington and Belt lines from the Philadelohia syn- dicate we have been absorbed in the stu- pendous work of starting construction upon the main line between Washington and Baltimore, which is now well under way. I told The Star not long ago that beth the Eckington and Belt lines would soon be equipped with an unobjectionable rapid transit system, and in a very short time my words will, as The Star has de- —— be crystallized into acts and facts.” The Local Interest. The company to which Mr. Newbold re- fers as having a directors’ meeting yester- day on the subject of Eckington rapid transit is the Baltimore-Catonsville Con- struction Company, which is building the line between Baltimore and Washington, and which, it is said, is to equip the Belt and Eckington lines with underground rapid transit. When the Washington and Baltimore line has been built and the Belt and Eckington lines équipped ale whole property is, it is sald, to be turned over to the Washington and Maryland Company, under whose charter the system is to be operated. The persons interested in the :at- ter company and the construction company are identically the same. The corporation which has obtained control of the Ecking- ton and Belt lines by purchase from Wi- dener and Elkins is a Baltimore concern, nine-thirteenths of the stock being held by Baltimoreans, and four-thirteenths by Phil- adelphians. The Washingtonians who in the sale of a controlling interest to WI- dencr and Elkins were left with small blocks of Belt or Eckington stock on their hands have no interest as such stockholders in the Baltimore trolley corporation which now controls these two local lines, and have no influence in the concerns of these roads. Their function seems to be to grieve that. they could not have rid themselves of their Belt and Eckington stock at the same time that their more fortunate fellow-citizens sold to Widener and Elkins, and to await the time when they will possibly be frozen out by the controlling Baltimoreans. Mr. Newbold in his talk with The Star reporter recognized this lack of Washington inter- est in the project and the feeling of local hostility against it, due mainly to the trol- ley fight, and he iptimated that the road was desirous, for obvious business reasons, to stand well in Washington, and that it would readily go to large expense in the way of improvements of the equipment of the local reads to secure the support of public sentiment. —>—__ EGYPT AND GREECE. Their Commercinl Agreement of In- terest to the United States. The State Department has been supplied by Deputy Consul Washington, at Cairo, with @ translation of a portion of the com- mercial agreement recently entered into between Egypt and Greece. The agree- ment is of interest in the United States because it directly affects the existing un- derstanding betweer, Egypt and this coun- try. By a protocol to the former Heleno- Egypulan tariff convention its provisions Were made applicable to the United States, So that the probability is that a new agree- ment with this country will now become necessary. This old tariff was denounced by Egypt in 1801, and the Egyptian gov- ernment has several times since asked the United States to consent to a new conven- tion. This country, while not denying the request, had contended that the protocol was still in force. What the course of this gov-rnment will be now that the treaty on which our understanding is based is total- ly abrogated remains to be seen. The iew agreement is in most essential respects similar to the Egyptian treaties with Great Britain, Germany, Italy and other Euro- peaa countries, negotiated by the khedive during the past five years for the purpose of putting the commerce of that country on a harmonious feoting. A “favored na- tion” clause is secured, and Greece also agrees to 2 provision for ad valorem duties, which sre not to exceed 10 per cent on Products of the soil, except in rare cases, When it may be raised to 15 per cent. The new agreement will again permit Grecian tobacco to enter Egypt. It has been in- hibited for four yeers past. ———__-2+____ « THE VACANT JUSTICESHIP. A Rumor That the President Wih Again Nominate Mr. Hornblower. A report comes from New York, alleged to be based on information from some of Mr. Hornblower’s friends, that the Presi- dent is going to nominate Mr. Hornblower, whom Mr. Hill defeated for the Supreme bench during the last Congress, to suc- ceed Justice Jackson, and that Mr. Hill will not this time oppose his confirmation, ————e—-—______ HIS SPREE ENDED IN DEATH. Suicide of Wiliam Palmer, the Thea- trical Manager. ST. LOUIS, Mo., September 10.—\William Palmer, traveling manager of the Trilby Company, now showing in this city, com- mitted suicide early today im a room of the Southern Hotel. Last Friday William Palmer, who is a brother of A. M. Palmer, the New York theatrical manager, disappeared. His broth- er was notified and came on immediately from New York. He interested Detective Sem Allender in the case, and after a lengthy searcn the missing man was found at midnight Jast night in the bar roo! the St. Nicholas Hotel, in an intox: condition, and showing the effects protracted spree. Detective Allender took Palmer to the Southern Hotel, where he put him to bed, remaining at his side until 3 a.m. The de- tective then retired to an adjoining rocm to rest. On arising today and trying to get into the room occupi Detee- tive Allender found the door lockea. He immediately called the hotel people, and together they forced the door. Palmer was found lying on the bed dead with a bullet hole iti his head. He had shot himself while the detective was asleep. —_— WHY GOLD IS EXPORTED. Gen. Brown of the Bond Syndicate Ex- plains, BALTIMORE, September 10.—Gen. Alex- ander Brown of the bond syndicate said to- day: “The syndicate has ample gold on hand and will act at the proper time. There are two reasons for the gold exports. One is the small demand from abrcead for our products. However, Europe will shortly buy cur grain in sufficient quantities as to prcduce enough exchange to supply the de- mand of remitters. “The other is the stock market. Foreign- ers have sold more securities than they have purchased. London 1ow shows a dis- position to buy back the securities that it sold. The treasury will be taken care of.” ——— Bids for Torpedo Boats. Bids were opened today at the Navy De- purtmeni for building three sea-going tor- pedo beats of about 180 tons and twenty- six knots’ speed. The bids were as follows: Mcran Brothers’ Company of Seattle, Wash., $it for one; Wolff & Zwicker ircn works of Portland, Ore., $168,700 for ; Union iron works of San Francisco, 000 for one. Herreshof€ Manufacturing Company of Bristol, R.L, bid $144,000 for cne, or three at the same rate, on plans of their own. The act of Congress provided that the three boats should be distributed among establishments on the Pacific coast, the gulf and the Mississippi river, if the cost should be fair; otherwise the Secre- tary may give the contracts elsewhere. As the department has reserved $25,4) from the $175,000 appropriated for each boat for armament, leaving only $150,000 available, and all of the western bids are in excess of this allotment, the contracts may g» to th Herreshoffs if their plans are acceptable,