Show SYMPATHY FOR THE BOERS GREAT DEMONSTRATION TAKES PLACE IN PHILADELPHIA School Children of that City to the k Number of 22000 Start Message to I Kruger by Special Courier Philadelphia April 30n of the greatest demonstrations of sympathy both in the number of participants and in enthusiasm displayed ever shown In this city for any foreign nation took place tonight when the Academy of I Music was jammed with people for the I purpose of taking part in the Philadelphia Philadel-phia schoolboys proBoer rally The primary object of the gathering was to send a message of greeting to President Krugor signed by L2000 pupils of tho schools of this city So great was the 1 crush mostly of the younger generation I genera-tion that many thousands were unable I to get near the doors and the mass of i I entertained b r S II struggling people was by music while the meeting Inside was in progress Judge William T Ashman of the Orphans court of ibis illy presided and those who addressed the meeting r were Websler Davis W Courke Cock run exDlslrict Attorney Graham of I this city P Louter Vessels of Bloem fonteln and Thomas J Aleck pupil of the high school of this city Edwin I Markham the poet recited his Ode to Lincoln Three hundred singers of the United Singing societies of Philadelphia Philadel-phia sang the Transvaal Volkslled and I American patriotIc songs After the speechmaking was over 0units F Smith a fourteenyearold messenger boy was called to the stage by means of the regulation t call I I box and was givin the message signed by the choolbo > s with instructions to proceed to Pretoria and to hand It personally per-sonally to President Kruger The mcs Honfror irvrimnanleil 1V it committee of throe high school boys left I to attend a reception at the WuldorfAsioi hold by tho students of the public schools of Greater Nuv York On Tuesday theme the-me scngcl will all on Ihe steamship St Louis and before the vessel reaches Southampton he will be takm olT by a French lender and landed at Havre France In order lo avoid En gush territory The message to President l Presi-dent Kruger is as follows I Ve the undcrslgnid I students of the I public schools of Philadelphia the city I whore our own forcfalluTS enlisted I i In I their splendid and successful struggle I against English oppression desire to express lo you and to the lighting mm of the South African republic their I great admiration for the genius and courage thai has checked English Invasion In-vasion of the Transvaal and the undersigned under-signed x tend their most earnest wishes that In the end the South African Afri-can icpubllc will triumph over England In a war i in which the Boer cause Is noble the British cause unjust Delegations of schoolboys from New York and BoSton attended the meeting J |