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It reported that Mr. Cham-txrUln ham nt, Uiroueh Sir Alfred Mll-ner, ultiinatom to President Krtiger. la the event of war with the Transvaal. England may acquire Delagoa pajr either by leaw or by force. The new Commander In Chief of the British troop In South Gen.

Walker, sailed for the, Cape yesterday. The lower house of 'the Prussian Ilt has rejected th entire Canal bill, and I Cabinet crisis has resulted. Emperor William, It is reported, holds the Minister responsible for his defeat by the Conservatives, and several resignations are likely to follow, but the Diet will not be 4 dissolved at present. Sir Charles Lennox peel. K.

C. died yesterday. He was seventy-six years old, and from 1875 until about a year ago waa Clerk of the Privy Council. The Saturday Review sneer at the proposed Anglo-American alliance, and says that In the years to come Great Britain and the United States must be "enemies possibly, rival certainly." Andrew V. White, United States Ambassador to Germany, who waa President- of the American delegation to the Peace Conference, says that far more was done by the conference than any of the delegates dared to expect or even hope.

He adds that the chief usefulness of the arbitration plan will be In preventing- dangerous delaya In the settlement of International disputes. It Is reported that Gladys Perot has been sent to America on a White Star liner. Mrs. De Bathe (M langtry) has gone to Paris. Her horse Merman Is entered for the Grand Prix, which Is to be run to-day.

WUKam Waldorf Aster's son Is to enter the British Household Cavalry. Prince Henry of Prussia will return from Asia In December by way of the United States. The proposal of two New York delegates In regard to the colonisation by Jews of the Island of Cyprus was rejected by the Congret. of Zionists. The British steamship Andes and the Hamburg-American liner Hungaria are ashore on the reefs outside Cape Haltien.

Gen. Jlmlnex, the aspirant to the Presidency of Santo Domingo, who was arrested while leaving Cuba, has been released by order of Governor General Brooke. A victory of Dominican revolutionists over- Government forces Is reported. The Governor of Newfoundland. Sir Hugh McCallum, has been telling the colonists along the treaty coast that the French have no territorial rights whatever.

The London Local Government Board has adopted drastic measures to keep the bubonic plague from English ports. A leading authority says that if the disease acquired a footing in London It would spread wlfh great rapidity. It Is said that the plague waa to Oporto, Portugal, by a vessel loaded with rice from India. Germany has come to a good understanding with the Netherlands and Belgium and a treaty Is being prepared. Pagea 7, and 15.

Fa ere l. Controller Coler haa outlined his plana for fighting the scheme of the Ramapo Water Company to force the city to accept Its proposition. He will attack the constitutionality of the company's charter. Iasx 3. The cup challenger Shamrock arid Sir Thomas Upton's steam-yacht Erin re- malned at their anchorage attraction to thousands.

Pasre 4. The annual baby parade at Asbury Park took place yesterday. The first annual races of the Hoboken Regatta Association took place on the Hudson River yesterday. Page T. Several overdue steamers came Into port yesterday after lively experiences Weat Indian hurricane.

v. Page 8. -JJore than 40A National Guardsmen participated yesterday In supplementary pistol and rifle practice at Creedmor. -The New Tork baseball team was beaten by the Philadelphia at the Polo Grounds yesterday. The Brooklyn were defeated by the Bostons.

Pace Urs. Lottie Lewis la suffering from malaria, which physicians in charge of the case trace to bitea of mosquitoes. Retail dealers here received notice of a further advance In the price of meat, to be operative to-morrow or Tuesday. Capt Alfred T. Mahan arrived yesterday from Europe, where he had been as a or the Peace Commission.

He said the cause of arbitration bad been advanced by the conference. John C. Sheehan has been defeated in the Bupreme Court In hi effort to have hla list of election officials for the Ninth Aa-, sembly District substituted for those presented to the police Board by Mr. Mediation, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the County Committee. Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyers.

page 4. Marine Intelligence and Foreign Maila. Page 3. National Guard Notes. Page 20.

woman's Department. Page 16. Current Literature. Page 17. Business Troubles.

Page 0. Aew Corporations Page 20. Yesterday's Fires. Page 4. Insurance Notes.

Page tf). weather Report. Page 3. ift by Fire. Page 4.

Amusements. Page 13. Kstate. Page -Railroads. Page 10.

Society. Page 12. PEBOT- CHILD AGAIN MISSING Reported la Londoa that Ik Was Seat Her oa Wtatt Star Ltaer. Sftciat TU Mew York Tim. LONDON, Aug.

19. It is reported thaC the Perot child has been sent to America Jby a White Star liner. The officials of the United StatesEmbassy do not believe the report, as the Magistrate distinctly 'informed all the parties in the that the child must be forthcom-tof at the criminal trial on Tuesday. If the child has really been shipped, the Magistrate will make. It warm for the Party responsible, notwithstanding that the British Government has agreed to withdrawal of the extradition pro-Cedlngs in the case.

The. formal withdrawal of the proceed-tags was to have taken place when the came ub on Tuesday. TEXANs LOSE THEIR PASSES. Social to TkJfru York. Tim.

AUSTIN. Texas, Aug. 19. Gov. Sayera, Attorney General Smith, and all the mem-of the State Government, including the tate legislators, were very much surprised jo receive a circular letter to-day from Superintendent Trice of the nd Great Northern Railroad re-11 tn'm 10 end the annual passes ri Issued to them by that road.

basis for this request Is that the law It the la Legislature which makes a felony for a railroad company, official Worn ye' t0 Rlve rebate on. freight t.V. .7 olm' applies lo paswiiger ukub-purtauon. The Legislature had no such In- WhAn I 1 action will be taken by all the other The new law goes Into eff Similar roads Aug. 2d.

effect on WILL SELL TO BICYCLE TRUST. Stttial Tit S'tw yrk Tim. MARION. Aug. 1.

The stockholder of the Peoria Rubber Manufacturing Company of. Peoria. I1L, have decided to out to the Bicycle Trust that la now rto promoted by A. Q. Spalding of New Chicago.

Present capital stock of the Peoria UDber Manufacturing Company is "Kbut wU1 otI the combination The promoter have uatll Oct 31 to com-P'et the organisation. The capital stock the trust will $40,000,000. None of the i Placed art the disposal of the Public, but will all be taken by the present J-nber of the different companies that sell to the trust Tax CaaaaWaaloaer Kadieott Ia 8tate Tax Commissioner Charles Endlcott Canton, died suddenly yesterday "wig, bs was eignty-twe years 15,479. COLEB'S FIGHT WITH RAHAPO PLOTTERS Attack on Constitutionality of the Company's Charter. MIMICAL TO PUBLIC POLICY Controller Declares the Corporation 'Cannot Fulfill Its Contract.

To Show that the City Can Enlarge It "Own Water Supply Significant Charter Provision The Company's Previous Attempt. Controller Coler yesterday outlined the plan of the fight Intends to make against those who are plotting to deliver the cltya water supply Into the hands of the Ramapo Water Company. This, fight will be conducted on legal and scientific lines, and by the time it Is over Mr. Coler hopes to be able to conduct successfully an attack on the constitutionality of the company's charter, aa, being contrary to public policy, be-sldes showing that the representations made by the company's 6fficlals as to the adequacy of the supply from the Ramapo watershed are not true! To aid him in the legal battle, Mr. Coler has asked his private counsel, ex-Judge Dillonr for an opinion, and Janies J.

R. Croea," a' well-known engineer, haa been requested to Investigate Commissioner Dalton's report, and to make an investigation of the general subject of water supply and the amount of waste from the city's system. In addition to these helps, Mr. Coler has in course of preparation a report in 'which he will endeavor to establish the ability of the city to issue bonds for the purchase of more-watershed and the construction of additional plants, without stopping the issuing of bonds for other public Improvements. The Controller Is of the belief that this can.

be done, and his report will go Into the matter so tnor-oughly that there will be no loophole for escape. Mr. Coler said yesterday that he had been Informed by eminent engineers that the Ramapo Company has not the ability to enter Into the preseni contract with the as It cannot acquire the lands In its watershed and construct Its pipe lines in less than three years, riven lf.lt had such ability. It haa been pointed out to Con I roller that It would take the city fully ten years to build waterways within1 its own limits for the distribution of a day. If thi3 be true, the city would fee-effectually mulcted out of S5.000.0UO a year for seven years without receiving any.

proportionate benefit. In the meantime, the company could content it serf by Bpending little, if any. money on the development of Its plant, and thus save the enormous Interest charges on the Investment of which Its partisans say will be necessary before it Is ready to take up its share of the contract. TO FIGHT TO THE END. Now that the fight has been begun," there Is no likelihood that It will be dropped until the lastUhot is fired and the advocates of the Ramapo scheme are defeated.

Controller Coler has won every battle In which he has engaged since he became a public officer and with the Inspiration of previous victories he enters Into a fight In which not only millions of public money but also the question of municipal ownership are in volved. He cares nothing about the inci dental calamities that may occur as a result of his onslaught against misuse of public funds, and from letters he haa received It Is apparent that the people are behind him. Whether or not political Influences have led the Board of Public Improvements into making this effort to deliver the city over to a corporation, without tangible assets, Mr. Coler Is firm In his purpose, even if it results in political oblivion for himself. There are those who believe that Mr.

Coler will profit politically by the stand he has taken in this matter, and that those who are trying to foist this contract onto an unwilling public will be thrown out of public life forever at the end of the present administration, even if Tammany Hall does not exercise it prerogative of Incontinently dismissing those who work contrary to public interest. The investigation which Mr. Coler haa set on foot may reveal corrup-J tlon, or tne unaue use oi pouuc-ai power iur ihe benefit of par leaders, and If this is so, prosecutions will be started. The friends of Richard Croker who are not in office say that the present is an opportunity which Tammany's boss should not neglect for calling hla followers off and insisting that they shall provide for the city an adequate water supply from Its own watershed. Whether or not Mr.

Croker will see this opportunity remains to be seen, for up to the present he has kept remarkably silent on the topic. If he permits the contract to be entered Into, he will be held-by every one to be the beneficiary of It. while If he defeats It. he will prove that Tammany'a platform declaration of municipal ownership of public utilities Is not a dead letter. President Holahan maintain the aame stand he took at the last meeting of the Board of Public Improvementa.

He said yesterday that any one who appeared before the board on next would be granted a respectful hearing, though he declared that anv one who came for the purpose of achieving cheap notoriety would be silenced. He reiterated his previous statement that there was no undue haste In the consideration of the matter, and that the only thing that led to Its being called up at preseni was the fact that there I a scarcity In the Brooklyn supply, and that action had been delayed too long. COMPANY'S PREVIOUS ATTEMPT. This Is not the first time the Ramapo Water Company has made an effort to grab the ater supply of New York. In 1884 the concern, thsn known as the Ramapo Improvement Company, offered to supply the city with 50.000,000 gallons of water a day at an annual cost of JW3.C50.

This was at the rate 153,73 a minion gallons, or $16.27 less than the price demanded by the present contract for the same quantity. This application was considered by a pedal commission of the Stnl-lng Fund Commission, consisting of S. Hastings Grant and Recorder Frederick Smyth, who reported unfavorably upon it. To thU committee the company's officials stated tht it was ready to make a contract with the city and to gtv a bond of to insure Its performance. At that time the company's officers said the company owned no lands through which the aqueduct was to be built, but had many option.

hen asked by the committee if the price quoted was the lowest amount for which the company could furnish this supoly. the Prel-SJSt of the company replied that the jr would entertain an offer at lower as ws are ready to do as best we can without loss to ourselves." In the present case the only guarantee that the city would be protected hv case of the failure of the company to perform Its part of the contract Is bond of W-mm) which the Controller considers Inade-quiteT in Tvlew of the fact that Ihe court, have fixed fl3.0no.000 as the amount of the bond to beT filed by the contrajwr for the proposed rapid transit 'roJct will cost the city not over It was pointed out yesterday that the charter provision empowering the water 8upplv to eater lato con- I nrinU naxtia of tha I WITH IllUSTRATO WEEKLY 1 I WITH nnrcTBiTrn wrrr, I 1 1 1 I JNLVY iUKK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20. 1899. rnot carefully drawn sections In the char- THE CHARTER PROVISION. This section Mad mm fntlnara.

I shaJI not bs Uwfil for the Commfraloner of Vtater Bunnlv tn Rt lutn ever with aay tertonfbr corporation encased in tne business of supplying or Belling water tor private or public uf and consumption, unless. preliminary to the execution of the contract, the -rm oi tne Board I or Public Improvement, after ubmluri on to If ef the proposed contract in all its details, shkll be given by resolution to the execution of stch contract as submitted, and it shall not be lawful tnr ik. r-n new lorx, or ror shy deiiartment thereof, to Mr contract touching or concerning the public wt supply, knd especially the Increase thereof, with any penWm or corporation whatsoever, save In acoordae with tha provisions and or mis act, which said provisions ana reauiremente an.1 h.r.h ilsh the exclusive rule for the making of such contracts. i It will be seen tHat neither the Board of Estimate, Municipal Assembly nor any other uisucu oi tne city government has any veto power In the! granting of franchises under this section. I On the face of it the section appears tol have been drawn for wi purpose or meeting auch an emergency as now exists, and I opponents of the Ram- company contract point to the fact tnat two of the mek who made the charter racyl and Silas B.

Dutcher-are. or have been, I Presidents of the com- MAYOR VAN WYCK COMING. Saratoga Ramorsi Say the Water Cobb. Paay Seaaaall Haa Caaaed Hla Saddeal Departare. SARATOGA.

N. Aug. 19. Mayor Van Wyck left here suddenly this even in ir for Tork. He refused to e-ive his rea.

sons for his departure, but it is hinted that me ruunapo wateri scheme has something to do with It. I Police Commissioner Sexton also left for home to-day. I John F. Carroll li still here. tf tn.

night that he did (not believe Mr. Croker wouia visit Saratoga. Many of the Droml- nent i ammanyitetjl who are here predict uiai flavor van warcir ann Mr rpnkAi. win iorcea to Kill tne Kamapo water scheme. COMPANY'S I XCESSIVE BATE.

To thi Editor of Tht Vt rc Timet: I have read your article on The Biggest' Steal of All," the (amapo water contract, with satisfaction a seeing how clearly and how nearly comph tely you bring out the appalling effronter: of this latest development In municipal crime. But one point seems to have es aped you namely, the excessive and enori nous price per gallon to be paid by the clt That price is at the-rate of $70 per iulon gallons of water delivered, but not distributed. The Cities of Newark and Jei sey City are now being supplied with watet by the Kast Jersey Water Company at tes of $.12 and per million gallons, or just about half of what it is proposed to Lite New York pay, notwithstanding the much greater quantity, a conslderatk which- should further reduce the price. Mr. Holahan is qi; oted as maintaining that the contract price lees than the present cost of delivering the Croton water, but that Is very far froi i the truth, as every one may know who takes the trouble to separate the expenses of distributing the supply from those of eUvering it at the reser-' volrs or pipes.

Neither has mu been said about the great cost to the in llvldual owner's of adapting the present huise connections and fittings to a high-pr ssure service, desirable as that feature ma be for purposes of fire protection, nor of the necessity of very peatly modifying he present pipe system In the ftreets throughout the city at a very, great aggregate cos It remains to be demonstrated that it is lther economical or wise to supply expensiv. drinking water, for ex- firl" 1 cleaning streets In New 7 City, where nature has provided a lavish supply in th rivers that is available for those purposes. When we consider what Hvl nJll done wl th capitalisation of 5.000,000 per year (amounting at 3V4 per tULt in the way of providing a prope: water supply for the entire city, we eta id still more aghast at this Ramapo pro do iltlon. But there is enoi gh water, and to spare, as -you have said. only not waste it as weliave bee i and ar- with a recklessness that orders crime.

The leakage of an old and worn-out pipe svs-tem may be found to account for some" of the waste; the res is due to simple prodigality. Prior to 1890 ev nty gallons per day-per capita rerved Ne York City: now it Is said by Commh sloner Dal ton to be 120 gallons daily per capita. Why this Increase? Does an one suppose that the city has come to i eed this vast additional amount? A thrifty use wo aid probably not exceed thirty gallons per day; a free- actual use would be about fi 'ty gallons per day, as experience proves amply in metered American cities. Poreii cities get along with much less. What we need Is not more wa'it, but more isdom.

F. C. New York. Aug. 10.

AUSTRIAN CdUNT IN PRISON. His Stay at the! Oriental Hotel, Hla Sudden Departure, and His He- quest from Sing Sing. A rather handsome, hlgh-bred-looktng man about thirty-five yiars of age sald at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach," during the early part of the bresent Summer season. and announced hltnself as Count Marian Gambria of AustriL He carried consider able baggage, including an extensive ward robe, and was allbwed to remain at -the house for about three weeks before the clerk asked him if 1 would like to, settle his bill. He was not i pady.

he said. In a few days the clerk lnsls and then It appeared that the Count was without funds. He left the hotel without his effects, and they are there yet. I Yesterday the clerk received a letter rofa the Count, dated Sing oing -nson. wan tearnea mat the Count requested the clerk, aa a special favor, to send him the photograph of a woman, which ne naa iert in one tr nis trunks.

The clerk found the photograph to be that of a very oeauuiui woman, ruouoiy oi ioreign birth and of exceedlnglj refined appearance. It was mailed aa requ psted. and the hotel people are still wonde ing how the Count nap-pens to be spendi ig the Summer in Sing Ring Prison, and ho the woman la whose picture is to decora te his ceil wall. GOVERNMENT (OFFICES CK0WDED. Trylaar-to ShlftlAroaad the Bareaaa la WlaahlaA-toa.

Sfrcial to TA Nrm York Time. WAiSrti.ui urs, i Aug. in. Early next month the Post Office Department will probably be out the granite building on Street, which 1 has occupied for many years, and will established In the new City Post Office uildlng, on Pennsylvania Avenue. It waa tie Intention of Congress.

when It directed khe Post Office Depart ment to move, to transfer to the old build ing the uenerai una umct and the Indian Bureau. The first named is now badly crowded In the Interior Department Build ing ana tne seconts occupies rented rooms. Land Commissioner Hermann and Indian commissioner joraes, wno naa been congratulating themselves upon an early removal, were recently Informed by the Sec retary or tne interior tnat there waa no appropriation to say for removal of their offices. AS no expense may be incurred without authority lof Congress, the Interior Department Bulking wlu continue to be occupied as it has ieen until December, and the premises rented for the Indian Bureau- win retain ineir tenant, -mis will also prove troublesome to Pension Commissioner Evans. When th large Pension Building was erected, it wi the general belief that it would never be entirely occupied unless some outside offic were brought in to nil It many apaxtr tents.

Now It la also crowded. Commissioner rans had hoped that he would be able to I et some rooms in the old Post Office Buildir or even in the Interior Department ipnin building after the Land Office had been ken out of It. There Is no explanation of how Congress or the Interior Department permitted this blunder to be made. Nine trains a day leave New Tork by the New York Central for Siratoca. America's Greatest Watering Place, at Mi, 10:30.

A. lw. SO. luii. 4:00.

and! 6:25 p. M-. and 13:10 aUd- Blcht-- OOPTRIGHT. 180. BT THK NEW TORK TTVE1! COMP1XT I "II ilLfcUwl Onl tW llttlVUI WAUAint ENGLAND FEARS THE PLAGUE.

Drastic Measures Adopted to Keep It Out of Her Ports Would Spread Like Wildfire in London. Sptcial ft New York Times. LONDON, Aug. 19. The Local Government Board Is taking drastic means to prevent the bubonic, plague from entering England.

Notices have been sent to the sanitary authorities of every pqrt In the kingdom- to enforce the Cholera act of 1896 strictly, and the chief medical inspectors of the Local Government Board are paying visits to all likely ports. Bodies of passengers or sailors dying from the plague will be buried at sea. even If the ship be In port. The Pacific Steam Navigation and Royal Mail Steam Packet Companies have given notice that their ships will cease calling at Spanish and Portuguese ports. A leading authority on the subject, who was for many years a resident of Hongkong and attended many patients there during the terrible outbreak of 1894 and who made special researches to the origin and progress of the disease and Its extraordinarily rapid propagation by unsanitary conditions, says: The sanitary arrangements of many towns in England, including" London, are not calculated to defeat the disease.

If we get the. plague In the East End of London, the chances are that It will spread like wildfire, just as it did In Hongkong. The bacillus thrives amid unsanitary surroundings, while sunlight and plenty of air kill It The period of incubation Is usually Ave and sometimes seven or eight day. I think that a ship coming from an Infected port like Opor to should be subjected to quarantine un- i til ths period of Incubation is over and a thorough medical examination has taken place. 'l think the present regulations of the Local Government Board are quite sufficient to prevent the disease from entering the country.

If-the plague breaks out In London, the present hospital provision would not answer' at all. Special plague hospitals should be temporarily erected. The greatest danger lies In the possibility of the disease coming overland through Persia, Turkey, or Russia! If the Baltic, Black Sea, and Mediterranean ports became Infected, It- would be a fearful menace to England." The Lancet, Commenting on the outbreak of the plague, says it must frankly be admitted that the subject Is one of considerable concern to the population and trade -of Great Britain. It is not so much at ports like London. Bristol, Liverpool.

Southampton, and Plymouth that the danger is to be feared, but at certain smaller ports, where the. medical inspection Is Inadequate, -r THE. IX PORTfOAL. It Was Broaght to Oporto by a Vessel with Rtee from India. MADRID, Aug.

19. It is announced that the bubonic plague was brought to Oporto, Portugal, by a steamship loaded with rice from India, and that fortjn-six cases altogether have been reported. Spanish doctors now at. Oporto report that the outbreak of the disease Is diminishing. According to advices received here' to-day two new cases of the plague have occurred at Oporto, and two cases have appeared at Barcellos, Portugal, a town nine mUea west of Braga.

May Have Reached Delagfoa Bay. LOURENZO MARQUEZ. Delagoa Bay, Aug. 19. Several cases of what is suspected to be bubonic plague have occurred at Magude, two days' distance from this place.

WOMEN IN INDIAN SCHOOLS. Commissioner Xones Is Gradually Ke-( placing the Female Superintendents with Men. Special to Th New York Times. "WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.

Since Indian Commissioner Jones took charge of his branch of the Government service there has been a reduction of five In the number of women holding the position of Superintendent of Indian Schools. There are still eight women holding that position. The prospect is that the number will be diminished rather than Increased. Instead of removing women as Superintendents, Commissioner Jones resorts' to the plan of reducing the women to lower places and substituting men in their places. The Lreason given for this substitution of men for women is that the tasks of Superintendents are too arduous for women to fill them satisfactorily.

Superintendents are on duty practically twenty-four hours each day. Not only does the, Superintendent preside over the school, but he Is the executive head of the school work, directing employes of all kinds, including teachers, as well as matrons, sewing women, laundresses, farmers, and other workers about the schools. The principal objection urged by Commissioner Jones against the employment of women as Superintendents is that in all Indian schools industrial training Is the principal feature, and that wemen are unfitted for this work. Herds of cattle, farms, plans of improvement in buildings, recommendations for repairs, and the accounting for moneys expended and r.eeded must all be looked after by the Superintendent. Unless a person Is competent to manage such an Institution." said Commissioner Jones, he gets efficient work out of the subordinates.

It has been the experience of this office that men are better adapted for this work than women. As teachers of young people women are eminently successful. They are essentially teachers, and in this line of work In a majority of cases they are vastly superior to the merr. rn the general Unea of Indian education their work has been Invaluable, and their-delicacy of manner and refinement has an excellent influence tn the moral training cf 'he Indian youth." THE PRESIDENT GOES YACHTING. ferrtt I to Coafer vrlta Hiat Moaday oa the PhtUoplaca.

PLATTSBURG. N. Aug. and Mrs. McKlnley enjoyed a two hours sail on the yacht Mariaulta this afternoon.

The remainder-of the day was spent very quietly on account of the extreme heat. Gen. and Mrs. Wesley Merritf accompanied by the General's Col. F.

B. Molt, arrived, here to-nlghU Gen. Merritt Is to hav a conference with President McKlnley MoTftRy on the situation In the Philippines, and some day next week he will inspect the Twenty-sixth Regiment at Plattsburr Barracks, and witness a regimental drilL Gov. and Mrs. Roosevelt and party will arrive here to-morrow afternoon from On Monday Gov.

Roosevelt will have a conference with President McKlnley. at which time they will dicuss the appointment to be made from New Tork State to commissions in the ten new volunteer regiments. President McKlnley will attend service to-morrow at the First WeshTterian Charon. urru it i ncTDiTrn urrviviiMi-mic TWENTY PAGES. ULTIMATUM SENT TOTHET Chamberlain Said to Have Taken Decisive Action.

i CONFERENCE AT WAR OFFICE England Acquire, Delagoa Bay by Lease, or Force. New Commander of British. Troops In South Africa Sails "War Preparations Being Pushed. Special to Tk New York Times. LONDON, Aug.

20. The People this morning asserts that It learns from a high official that the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, has dispatched through the British High Commissioner in South Africa, 91r Alfred Milner. an ultimatum to President Krue-ger of the South African Republic, The Transvaal situation continues to hold a leading place in public estimation here, and various measures looking to war are discussed with much Interest. Particular attention is now paid by England to Delagoa Bay. It is believed that in the event of hostilities with the Transvaal, Great Britain will either have an arrangement with Portugal which will allow her to occupy "the bay, or else that she will seize it.

Mr. Jessetfs book on Delagoa Bay, which has Just been published, is attracting wide notice. The author, who" has made a complete study of the subject, speaks of the bay as "our latest acquisition." The bay is of immense strategical and commercial importance, and. If acquired, will complete the circle of British territory around the Transvaal. Notwithstanding Peace Congress strictures, England is Increasing her output of dum-dum bullets.

A slight change, more for appearances than for anything else. Is being made, and the bullets are being manufactured with the greatest expedition in view of a possible war From a political point of view a rapid and successful war against the Boers would probably strengthen the hands ot the Conservative Government more than any other outcome of the present crisis, for the vast, preponderance Of public sen-tlmen already heartily indorses the course of Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and once 4 the British soldiers meet their old enemy, the Boers, few would remain bold enough to openly oppose the morality of the war. The latest franchise kite from Pretoria has failed of its expected effect. It is regarded merely as a device to gain time.

There is no cessation of the war preparations on either side. The Transvaal Gov ernment Is beginning to move troops to the border, and. the police on the frontier have been ordered to strictly prohibit any cattle leaving the country, while the' Treasury of the republic is receiving large amounts of gold beyond ordinary requirements. Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, Commander In Chief of the British Army, was in consultation at the War Office Friday with Gen. Neville Gerald Lyttleton, Assistant Military Secretary, and the Headquarters Staff.

Tenders for an Immediate supply of large stores of forage, and general stores were under consideration. Six months' supply of compressed forage far 10,000 horses has already been sent our. It is reported that Col. Hector Macdon-ald, recently appointed to an Important Indian command, but who has delayed taking up his post, is really waiting to be ordered to South Africa under command of Lieut. Gen.

Sir Frederick Walker, who relieves Gen. Sir William Francis Butler as commander of the British troops Lieut. Grn. Walker sailed for his post yesterday. He wr.s accorded an enthusiastic farewell by the crowds surrounding the train on which he was a passenger at the Waterloo Station.

It was stated by an army officer who is accompanying him that in the event of hostilities In the Transvaal Lieut. Gen. Sir Red vers Bulter wlll take command of the fighting force. Gen. Walker remaining at Cape Town The officer referred to added that Gen Butler's retirement from the command of the British South 'African forces was entirely voluntary.

The Earl of Denbigh, speaking at a Primrose meeting last week, voiced the general feeling of the Government's supporters by saying: "IT the breakup of the British Empire Is wanted, all we have to do Is to show a weak front In South Africa. Great Britain haa to win the next trick there, whether by diplomacy or other means." William T. Stead. In The Review of Reviews, makes a startling insinuation against Mr. Joseph Chamberlain the Secretary of State for the Colonies! He says that if the Liberal leaders.

Sir William Vernon Harcourt and Sir Henry Carhpbell-Bannerman. two years ago, had not made themselves parties to the most scandalous fraud, in the way of whitewashing, ever perpetrated upon the public, Mr. Chamberlain would not be in the Colonial Office Mr. Stead refers, apparently, to the Jameson raid Into the Transvaal, and intimates that Mr. Chamberlain is entirely responsible for the present crisis.

He adds: What Is now demanded, almost avowed, is the destruction of the domination of the Boer oligarchy." Continuing. Mr. Stead berates Sir Alfred MHner. the British High Comisslon-r in South Africa, and says if he was away from the Transvaal there would be no threatening of war in. South Africa.

JULY 4 TXf THE TKANSVAAL. The Fourth of July was not forgotte even In the Transvaal. At Johannesburg en that day Thomas B. Reagan, who signs himself aa An American Cltlsen in the Transvaal." Issued a Memorial of the Fourth of July; Patriotism; Americanism. In this memorial Mr.

Reagan saya: Many Americans are able to be present and witness the spectacle presented by a struggling humanity in South Africa, and which is not unlike the circumstance associated with the Fourth of July. It Is that spirit which emboldens Africanders to face all the points of the compass and proclaim their rights." He sars further that the real Question in South Africa is: Is that country to be a republic or a confederation under the British flag and makes the following aniwer: I can safely say that every foreigner. RANSVAAL except English, tn South Africa, would ask for the t. Geraaaa Araaa for tao Boor LORENZO MARQUES. Bay; Aug.

19. The German steamer Koenlg. from Hamburg July 6, has arrived here with 2,000 cases of cartridges. BRIBERY IN COLOMBIA. -Difficulties, Surround th Exhumation of the Body of a K.

Browning, hut Officials Are Pixed." Serial to Tk Ntw York Time. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 19. The arrival on the fruit steamer Utstein last night at Mobile of the body of Charles K. Browning, a former prominent New Orleans Knight of Pythias, has revealed an odd state jof affairs with respect to certain officials of the Government, of the United States of Colombia.

j. Mr. Browning was killed in a naphtha launch explosion at Boca Del Toro last June and was burled at that place, Efforts were made to have the body brought but, agents of the United1 States there could do nothing, the law being that no bodies could be exhumed under a period of eighteen months. The New Orleans lodge took the matter up actively and sent two representatives to Boca a. There they made arrangements to be permitted to steal the body, suffering expected, arrest and consequent line, amounting to about Soo each.

A priest; a member of the brotherhood from New Tork, the Alcalde of the town. a. an American physician were In the Plan. The scheme was disrupted, however, by the Utter balking at the last moment. "und necessary to work along other line.

A letter from Joseph R. Oer-bes, one of the parties, who went to secure the body, states that they fixed the Alcalde, paid a Government official superior to him, paid the secretary to the Prefect of thei province at also the Prefect and then had to call on the Governor of Colombia at Panama. The letter does not state whether he was bribed or not, but he signed the authority hlch on account of a special clause." as the letter saya. allowed the body to be exhumed and brought to this country. Pythian circles of New Orleans have been much exercised over the matter, and though the members regretted having to connive to break the laws of a country, considered the case Justifiable, and their representatives had prepared everything to steal the body and hurry It aboard a walUng vessel, the Kspana, when the physician abandoned them.

MBS.DE BATHE'S NEW PLAY. Said to be Baaed oa Her Experleacea Walle Mra. Special to The New York Time. LONDON. Aug.

19. Mrs. De Bathe (Mrs. Langtry) has gone to Paris to order the gowns for her forthcoming play. To-morrow she goes to Deauvllle to see her horse Merman run for the Grand Prix.

Theatrical Interest centres In her coming venture at the Haymarklt Theatre, as her marriage has increased curiosity, as to the production. In regard to dresses, furniture. Ac, it promises to be one of the most elaborate and expensive seen In while the company; including as it does Charles Hawtrey and Lily was engaged regardless of expense. Mrs. De Bathe-fold a reporter that the play Would be the boldest produced on the English stage for years.

She added: The scenic artists have reproduced the drawing room at Newmarket House, which I have just sold. All the furniture, is from my London residence. The note of the play lies in this remark of mine in the third act: 'I ought to have been a man. I have men's thoughts, feelings, and It Is no secret, that Sydney Grundy has depicted some of the most interesting episodes In the former Mrs. Langtry's life, especially touching upon the Influence of her daughter on the latter part of it.

Lily Grundy, the author's daughter, will take part in the play. Grariier has composed a special entr'acte dedicated to "the Honorable Mrs. De Bathe." SUE EOE SPECULATOR'S LOSSES. Special to Tk New York Time. CHICAGO.

Aug. Central Stock and Grain Exchange, with Rookery Building, is made defendant in two bills filed to-day In -the United State Circuit Court by Emma Bendlrer nd Amanda Stichtenoth of Cincinnati. The complainants ask an accounting with -the company for money alleged to have been lost through speculation in the concern. tney as a bucket shop. William Stichtenoth' is brother-in-law to on of the women and husband of that other, and it 1 aaid ha ln hnu.h ui.

ulatlng in the company sums aggregatinr almost which had been Intrusted to mim v-are oy tne. complainants. SECRETARY GAGE TO 'LECTURE. Special to Ik Ntw York Time. WASHINGTON.

Aug. of he Treasury Gage, who Indulged In a taste for the platform while he lived in Chicago, and has not lost hla appreciation of the lecture as a vehicle for disseminat ing inrormation, is to be heard next Winter as a lecturer in the District of Columbia: In the course for the coming year- in the' School on -Comparative Jurisprudence and diplomacy at the Columbian University, fhe subject of finance will be treated by Mr. Gage in a special series of lectures, and also by Prof. loseph Frerch Johnson of the Wharton School of Economy' of Phil-, adelphia, who is. regarded as one of the best informed men on this subject In this country.

The subject will be treated broadlv. with reference to International relations in com merce and banking. It will consider the nature end functions of money and credits and their International circulation; also the subject of public finance, including the sources of Government revenue, bond issues. taxation, tne aisoursement oi tne revenues, and the organisation of the Treasury De partment. WILLIAM WALDORT ASTOR'S SON.

LONDON. Aug. Waldorf Aster Intends to put his son' Into' the Household Cavalry. He- wu, educated ax. Eton and Oxford.

tr.1 The British Household Cavalry consists of the crack regiments in the service. It forma the bodyguard of the Sovereign, furnishing the escort on all State occasions; and comprise only three regiment two of Life Guards and one of Royal Horse Guard, which together form the "Household Brigade." The conditions which govern admission Into these regiments, even for private, are stringent. None but picked men, recruited rejrlmentally. are taken. They must be over feet 10 inches high, and the officer must be men of good family and acknowledged position.

From the nature of the service, only wealthy men's sons ran hope to become offir in either of these three regiments. mess charges alone swallow up the pay. The Household Brigade are the only rejrt-ments tn the British Army -In which cuirasses are worn. They wear also helmets and lack boots, and are armed with breech-loading carbines and long, straight rwords. forty Inches in the blade.

From the great sise ef the men. addet to the weight of the cuirass, ihev ride veYy heavy from twenty-one to twenty-two stone when equipped for service. They are quartered In Or near London, and are only sent abroad in case of a serious war. The Horse and Life Guards are the oldest regimental organisation in Great Britain. In the seventeenth century even the privates were men of station, and were addressed as "Gentlemen of the Guards." PRICE FIVE GLINTS.

IE FAILS AS IflCflPUHIS Gonse and De Boisdeffre Are 4 on the DefensiYe. ONLY ASSERT CONYICTIONS Cuignet's Testimony Weakens Under Cross-Examination. iHE ESTER HAZY PLOT Whether the Bordereau Was Written "Bj Order," as He Is Now the PlTot. i RENNES. 19.

The pivot of the case' is now clearly shown to be whether Esierhazy's relations with the Tate" Cot Sandherr "can "Justify theory that Ehterhazy wrote the bordereau by order," aa he has so of ten asserted. If he did not, he Is evidently tho sole traitor, and his only accomplice can have been Lieut. CoL Henry. I had a conversation this evening with CoL" Cordier, who was Col. Sandherr'a lifelong comrade and friend.

Never," said Col. Cordier, emphatic-' ally, did Esterhaxy have the slightest relation with my old friend Sandherr; but, on the contrary, he was acquainted with Henry when the latter was a Lieutenant. V. "In CoL Sandherr'e time the Intelligence Department was also the Statistical Bureau. Henry, who succeeded.

Sandherr as chief Of this SDecial bureau. (Picquart being made Chief of the Secret- Intelligence Bureau proper converted' At into a spy omceA -v T. lng to account EBterhasys spy instincts, and the two, by a certain' system, began the series of forgeries which set the Dreyfus ball rolling." ROWLAND STRONG. WAS WRITTEN BY ESTERHAZY, Madasjaeeap, Soto Meattoaed la the BoraerM Said to fee Now Held fcrPaalaardt, VIENNA, Aug. 10 The AUgemelne Zel-tung saya: CoL Panuczardi.

former Military Attach of the Italian Embassy in Paris, has In his possession the Ide ltlcal note on Madagascar, which Is apecltted In the bordereau In the ureytus affair. "It is in Eaterhaxy's handwriting, and the paper is similar to that of the bordereau. "It was sent to Col. Schwarzkoppen, At tache of the German Embassy, who had It copied. The copy was ent to Berlin, and toe original to Col.

Panissardl that he might have a copy made. This he did; but he forgot to return the original to his brother attach." DECISION ALREADY REACHED 7 Thomas Terrell, 4. C. Says the Co art-Martial Haa-Resolved to Ao- ejaft Caot. Dreyfae; Copyright, 1899, Th Associated LONDON, 19.

Thomas Terrell," one-of-the leading jurists to England, who. has attended, some of the sessions of the Dreyfus- court-martial, says: "There is an air of unreality about the whole proceedings. Dreyfus alone seems in earnest. No fierce conflicts of in tell eat occur between counsel as would be the ease in England, and la. my opinion the.

President of the court has already decided the question in favor of acquittal. "Thi appears to be the case from his. evident anxiety to preserve an air of complete impartiality, and. though "on occasions he Is unable to conceal his hostility to the defense, his Intention plainly Is to acquit. The court-martial Is as fair as a special jury sitting without legal assistance can be.

The opinion it will form must be feeble, and its Judgment cannot have the least weight to the legal mind. Much prejudice i confounded with patriotism on both But instructions from the superior officials State will outweigh considerations of legal evidence." Advocate Mornard. who is assisting Maltre Demange of counsel for the -defense, and who watched the progress of the case today, could not help remarking the partiality Jouaust, the President of the court-martial, displayed, especially his hostility toward Col. Picquart. who gave testimony In favor of the accused man.

Should Maltre Labori, as now seems likely, resume his pUce as chief counsel for the defense Monday or Tuesday, it is probable that-his provocative manner In cross-examination will Irritate the Court much more than M. Demange's suave style, and, further, his delicate political aspect will be A strong agitation Is beginning to be manifested In Paris for the convocation of the Chamber of Deputies. Should a majority of the members support the demand, the Government would compelled, to consent, thus letting loose the floodgates of Interpellation on the Dreyfus plot, Ac. Geo. the Marquis da Galllffet, the Minister of War, is a stronr man.

however, and may perhaps bo able to cope wlta tha situation. GERMANY LAUGHS AT WAR TALK Stateaaeate'of Gem. Mrrri.r tbat There Waa Amy Duster of Hostilities Are RldlealesL -I- Copyright, lsae. The Aaaoclatad Prtas. BERLIN.

Aug. -19. The second trial -of "Capt. i Alfred Dreyfus excited much comment here this week, especially the attempt on the life of Maltre Labori. leading counsel for the defense, and Gen.

Merders se- asl11darf AAnAiiaai'navnf am The latter are not taken seriously. His statement that Germany was oa the point of declaring war with France in iSOA la ridiculed. The whole German press i united, on this point. The extreme itep which Germany would have taken then if President Oaimlr-Perier had not put a stop to the violent attacks on the German Embassy-would have been to send Count von Mun-ster-Lodenburg. the German Ambassador at on a long leave of absence.

In no ease would the relations of the two coun-. trle have assumed a threatening aspect. The Tageblatt calls Gen. Mercier's revelations preposterous, snd the Frankfort ZeU tung saya Gen. Mercier's talk about Germany meaning war In January, lSm aas) 1.