| Show HAl EO WITH DELIGHT I Prospects of Settling Dispute Over the Alaskan Boundary I GREAT BRITAIB PLEASED WILL ENDEAVOR TO AVOID aU TING CANADAS PBIDE i United States to Gain fisheries Prlv ileges Because of Concessipns Made American TouristS In ion don Unable to Secure Steamer Accommodations Ac-commodations 1 Copyright 1SS3 by the Associated Press London Sept 9Yere It not for the extreme friendliness now existing between be-tween thq United Stages and Great Britain the Alaskan boundary dispute would be regarded here as a serious complication and the rumors of its n + + UL h uun lllement are nailed 1t11 delight As it is the public takes little interest in the matter the general Idea being to get it settled as soon as possible pos-sible without hurting Canadas pride A representative here of the Associated Asso-ciated Press learns from a good source that the tentative agreement provides for Canada having free ports only at Lynn canal and Pyramid Harbor but without entailing any recognition by the Americans of sovereignty This is to be in force until the boundary line is adjusted the United States government govern-ment adhering to its claim that it must be delimited from mountain top to mountain top In return for this free port concession conces-sion the United States will it is said gain additional privile qes for New Eng land fishermen Including the bank rights so stoutly advocated by Con gressman Dingley The Informant of the Associated Press representative said also that these proposals pro-posals would all be submitted to the Canadian minister of marine and fisheries 11 fish-eries Sir L H Davies upon his arrival here and that the foreign office hopes he will consider them favorably Until he accepts it was said the terms enumerated I I enu-merated haveno more significance than the friendly suggestions of any third party anxious to settle a dispute Antiexpansion Movement I Today commenting on the anti ex pansion movement in the United States says If this means that the country at large disapproves of extension the Democrats will come in at the next election and drop the white mans bur den like a hot coal and with it the AngloSaxon alliance The British lions tail will be twisted again and Europe will laugh The strike of seamen and steamer firemen which began last Sunday con tinues but as yet It has small effect on the shipping interests The Church of England fight continues contin-ues to attract attention Most of the bishops including the bishop of Lincoln Lin-coln the Right Rev Edward King who was tried several years ago for ritual istic practices have issued letters to their various dioceses ordering obey ance of the archbishops decision Many of the clergy however frankly announce an-nounce they will not do so A weekly church paper compares Jthe church trouble with the Indian mutiny which it says will be remembered arose chiefly over the trivial smearing of grease on the cartridges served out to the Sepoys Beresford to Have a Partner I T P OConnors M A P Mainly I I About People says that although Lord William Beresford had every J J 1 I prospect of being second on the listof J winning race horse owners at the end J i I of the season it is now doubtful whether ne will be ahead as he always j l 1 has been ready to lay great odds on his American horses Referring to the new partner whom Lord Beresford took upon the letirement of Pierre Lorillard M A P hints that it may be the Duchess Duch-ess of Marlborough Incognito Queen Victoria it is reported has j sent to Emperor William a prized copy j i or ner lamuy tree snowing King David at the top A pet idea entertained by the queen is that she is descended from the psalmist through Zedekiahs eldest daughter and It Is said that Emperor Williams conviction of his divine origin is greatly due to his grandmoth ere foible Mrs Langtrys new play The Degenerates De-generates Is receiving many severe criticisms but is nightly filling the Haymarket where it is being produced pro-duced Americans Cannot Get Home Hundreds of Americanbound tour ists are now swarming In London hotels ho-tels and boarding houses unable to secure se-cure steamship accommodation Un doubtedly there are from 500 to GOO Americans thus stranded in London The manager of a tourist agency told a representative of the Associated Press that he had as much as thirteen guineas premium offered to secure the right to sleep in a barber chair of the I St Louis It is believed next year I with the Paris exhibjtion in progress j the conditions in this respect will be I worse The American backers who last year made immense profits on the wfns of Tr > d Sloan find themselves in a peculiar pe-culiar situation this season owing to the influence of other American jocle Bon B-on the English turf Riley Grannan who It was reported > von 40000 at the Derby meeting a fortnight ago when three American jockeys won in a single day said in an interview with a tepre sentativfe of the Associated Press The report of my winnings on that occasion is untrue It is absolutely impossible im-possible to get any odds against Sloan who in one race this week started at OiV 10 x on viin me items Martin and Sloan all here the days of good things have passed I would be glad If anyone would take up my weeks losses for c 200 Itacings Hold On Public I The hold which racing has on the public is manifested by the immense crowds at the Doncaster September meeting this week The postal authorities author-ities there report that no less than 2000 money orders were paid in three days and that nearly 15000 private telegrams l tel-egrams were received It is estimated that 75000 changed hands at the meeting The dead heat between Bish opswood on which J Reiff had the mount and Uncle Mac in the race for the Alexandria plate Thursday was one of the most exciting contests ever seen on the turf Bishopswood js a gigantic horse with a vicious temper and little Reiff looked like a mere speck on his back When the dead heat was run off Bishopswood got out of Riffs control and it seemed as if the English jockey on Uncle Man naa me race wen in hand But Reiff fighting his mount forced him into the course and with a terrific spurt won a brilliant race by a length Much to Reiffs indignation after he dismounted a well dressed woman in the paddock reached him and kissed him raptu ously ouslyThe The Sultan Called Down From Constantinople comes the report that Russia has objected to the sultan placing pneumatic guns at the north f ern entrance to the Bosphorus on the r ground that such action implied that he doubted the czars friendlfness The result is that the sultan has agreed not to place the there guns and has can celed the contract made with the New TorlJ Pneumatic Gun company who had arranged to supply the weapons It is said the sultan got the idea of employing pneumatic guns from the accounts of the actions of the United States dynamite cruiser Vesuvius dur lug the late war between the United JStates and Spain ± < < a 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