The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1900, Page 1

\ scnenmneaatenaaanan PORTING The bd “ Circulation Bi Books uke Open to Au.” id _ PRICE ONE PCENT. PEK) SUBURBAN WINNER - LEGATIONS BURNED AND ENVOY SLAIN. President McKinley is so alarmed by the silence of Admiral Kempff that a fast warship will be sent from Ma- nila to Taku for news. A Cabinet consultation was held this afternoon as to the best way of sending Philippine troops to China. All the foreign legations at Pekin have been burned, a special despatch from Hong Kong declares. Raron von Ketteler, the German Minister, was killed, presumably in the attack upon his official residence. What has happened to United States Minister Conger! is not known and Washington is greatly alarmed. Admiral Seymour's relief force of 2.500 men is sur- , rounded and cut off half way to the Chinese capital. A Russian despatch says 1,764 Chinese Christians have | been massacred in the “Boxer ' troubles, , Baroness von Ketteler, who is in Pekin, was Miss Led- yard, of Detroit, daughter of the President of the Michigan| Central. 260 WE'LL SEND SHIP FOR NEWS __ AND‘ TROOPS FROM MANILA. —_ jeggagaronnnansn aletdatat a alas alaet an ataean WASHINGTON, June 16—Uniess tele. h graphic communication with Adm‘ral | Kempf i restored «peedily n fast vessel | will be ordered io proceed from Manda to Taku for news. Secretaries Hay and Root were in con. NAB DIAL GS beUATIUN AL iv etis ence was that if communication with the United States Consuls in empl is not reestablished wtain a China ports were sient re eonadle time foree: wl be d¢epa'ched Admiral Kemof hat no em Manila 10 reinforte the American from since vest rdey contingent Official reports has miven rise to grave | An inquiry as to what constituted o | apprehenr! jen here, It wae expected that American Minister i in dan} reasonable time failed (> secure @ defl-) there miait be iriay in hearing from ger of being ed in| nite answer, but the impression as eon | Mae, Commer but la (he case of Admiral murder veyed Is that unless Kempf s heard) Keepd an early report was looked for Pekin to-day, from by Monday troops oF 4 navai cou-| 1¢ fe fenred that the officers of been heard Thit absence IN IN FLAMES ST Gade cas ea ces nn.) _ HONGKONG, June 16-—Despatches from Tien- | Tsin say that all the legations at Pekin have been isir"'he“rrkime evs | destroyed. |been killed, immediately on receipt of the ; above ne Dews. , ‘SURURDI _ EXTRA. eS PRICE ONE | CENT. ——_—=_=_==—_s=— a YORK, "SATURDAY, J JUNE 16, 1900. a ne Ae ete Eee VAST CROWD SEES. | THE GREAT RACE, 8) SO Sn BY Le eee ‘ Track in Fine Condition Manétenp 0 Ia Breckiys. for the Contest of the Crack Thoroughbreds of the East and West— Bookmakers Had a Big Day. (Bpectal to The Evening ‘Werit) RACE TRACK, SHEPPRHBAD BAY, June 16—The running of the seventeenth Suburban Handicap is now « matter of history. To the 9,00) people who wit- Reseed the struggles of (he grandest thoroughbreds thet ever went to the) post in a Suburban it will exist as « delightful memory, a pleture indelibiy printed on the brain tissue in photo- minuteness. The eager jostling crowds; the parade of the great racers to the post; the start; the struggle of the horses through the stretch; the fin- ish; the cheering crowd surrounding the happy-faced jockey in che floral horee- shoe—all this made up a moving picture which will be revolved in the mind by delighted racegvers for many years ‘The Surburban afternoon is one day in a year. There ie no other day like it. It ts realiy the Derby Day of America, and, as in Engiand, the people Vegan early to move toward the track with the happy enthusiasm of so many chil- dren. Democracy reigns supreme. There la no reserve. Dignity i* guyed. There is no room for the sedate and serious. Everywhere is life, The fever is t through tse arteries Like a great purb of just entering on ¥ y push into the race course and give them selves up to the reckless abandon of th moment EVERY ONE BETS, |" ite ant coi Soon the ters took on the lok of one Money loses its valve It is mere] giowing, living plece of mosate, most printed paper with which to obtain en-l gorgeously weldet and fitted together. fjoyment. Every one dete The losers) The bright costumes of the women, the laugh and try again. There i# n° TOOM) opal creations in the shape of headgear, for moody spirits, for the racing microd ! made a wonderfully pleasing ptoture. |! seemed ao Mf every man at fe In the air, and it attacks the young] And not the least attractive part were| {vied Se wet late the Incloeure, on . old. man and woman, veterans the | al eager faces of the great mul- |conr weiching the and ingenues a“ ‘ Such was the mak he crowd | And if one \ired of gazing upon the re-|'™S 0968 ‘The mm coped that filled the vast ed grand |markable serne, he had only to turn and) =©MOB IN BETTING stand a beautiful Sheepsheal thi ihe eye met the cool green stretch of the! 1, was 9 afternoon and hysterically cheer reat infield, the stunted pines in (Oi mo) There was great thoroughbreds strugsiing ackground through whose th. greatest turf honor of the ye the middie tler were soclety and the wealthy. Below in the main stand and| The Homan Race. | emptiness beman to be relieved by bits if Ni i iVPX. | 9 | PHIA Pisteg B aA Just @ case of * old thing to get jthe Atlantic could be seen tumbling 19 | 66 the men whe |tng the money. @ringency in thet ring. enough money in sight re at eVOrY |q pale green, Wade of he moving | tranticalty at the grand stand there were pound the strugel of track* and simmering like a stew a \Doller for a chair as the n the boxes. It ARSHIP SAILS ON [sect pic ‘ace | Day | Manhattan @ NEWS FROM PEKIN. 7 %.':; f the track. T load after load |e erush. Automobiles the great iron gates a dled after them. For this ouring stream of humanity « 49, while the r the great | of the orush -' The great race was nearly nd- 4: |nad placed their bets, The od far off tn the paddock, and was scurrying back to the grand « urnetiles clicked 4 me ment. At first it was the stream that begins to pb rowd paid |jouder and ¢ thers on | returned to the judges’ stand, Gnd he mountain side whe eatin LIKE A ROARING TORRENT. Then it grew and grow until (t was a|the bert : rearing tumbling torres that leaped pushed and ¢ crowded In one big swelter anger Theling mass. They fought to get at the "ie pa 4 jammed. But bookmaker They fount their way out as pad “Ye inside, his turbulent stream spread jagain Some of them could have earned pee e The German Minister, Baron von Ketteler, has The British warship Barfleur started for Taku Placidly a8 on the bovom of « eral Time on the oats Ne meadow and wee soon lost in the vastlergy they displayed in their pT appearance yaoe of pave fan ting «Three races had ape oe