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Show BRITONS HOE IjflllSOOM! Thirty Thousand Sturdy English and Scotch People Come to America. WILL MAKE THEIR HOMES IN GREAT NORTHWEST First Lot of Settlers Include Farmers and Artisans; All Hare Money. BY PAUL LAMBETH. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, April 2a. One of the most remarkable emigration movements of modern times from Great Britain is now In progress. It is estimated that not loss than 30,000 sturdy English and Scotch of tho farming and skilled artisan classes will havo started for Canada and the L'nltcd Suites during thc month of April, and other thousands are to follow. 31osl of thes; emigrants are bound for western west-ern Can'ada. though some will seek homes In thc ' northwestern American stn tcs. Tho quality of this new tide of emigration emi-gration is even moro remarkable than its quantity. They aro not "assisted emigrants." emi-grants." For instance, among tho 1500 passengers on tho Empress or Britain, which sailed recently from Liverpool lo Canada, 200 of them formed a special "land party," which Is going out under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific railway officials to settle In tho Irrigation Irriga-tion district at Calgary, In tho province of Alberta. Included In this party, which represontnd a combined capital of 3'JoO.-000, 3'JoO.-000, was the first, batch of settlers going out under Sir Thomas Shaughncssy's scheme for providing ready-made homesteads, home-steads, and their members woro drawn from various professions. They Included an engineer, a former Innkeeper; retired civil servant, army pensioner, bnllder,-coachninn, bnllder,-coachninn, dairy farmer, and veterinary surgeon. All Ave Optimistic One of the parly, a breeder of prize poultry, had paid STfi freight un some chickens, which he was taking out lo his ready-made farm. Another member was formerly a horse trainer at Newmarket, but, thing of racing, desired a quiet home for bis chlldrori. Tho whole party appeared very optimistic as" to tho future. fu-ture. One bad married to qualify for a farm, It being sllpidated under the scheme that occupants should bo married men. The youngest of tho party was 23 and the oldest no. Each family was possessed pos-sessed of capital ranging from -51000 to $a;.oo. "I have just settled with a Lincolnshire man who has a capital of ?.'!p.00O." said Hethune Gray of the Canadian Pacific railway land department, the other day. "Ho will bo one of our next parly, and I am now In correspondence with a man who has a capital of $100,000. who will, I hope, tako thc whole of It to Canada." Can-ada." Of course, all these emigrants jiio not so well fixed financially as these, but with few exceptions they are capable. Intelligent, hurd-worklng people, who will make Ideal citizens. World's W. 0. T. U, to Moot. Tho eighth triennial convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance union, which moots In Glasgow, Juno 4. will In ninny respects be a most remarkable remarka-ble Blithering. Earnest women from all quarters of tho world will be present lo discuss the best plans to advance thc causo of temperance. There will bo between be-tween sixty and seventy delegates from the United Status and Canada, while Japan. Australia, Africa, India and the various continental countrlos will be represented. rep-resented. Among thc American delegates will be Mrs. Lillian N. M. Stevens, president of tho National XV. C T. L".; Miss Eva Kllhrufh Foster, Miss Anna A. Gordon. Mrs. .Sarah II. Huge. Mrs. Ella Hoover Thatcher, .Mrs. Mary Sedgwick and others. oth-ers. Miss Sarnb Howell Wright, president presi-dent of thc Canadian W. (?. T. U.. will represent the Dominion Among others who have signified their Intention of being be-ing present are:. The president of the W. f. T. 1. of Australia. Mrs. Sara S. Nolan of New South Wales; IMrs. Cole of Chiist-church. Chiist-church. Now Zealand, president of the National W t T. U. of her country; Mrs Dr. MaoKenzie. president of the Capo Colony W, C . T. I'.: Mrs. II. F. T. Hallowed, president of the India W. C T. U,; MJaa Inabella Hargrave, president of thc Foreign Auxiliary XV. C. T. U. of .Inpan. and Miss Morgan of Japan. Miss A. S. Ohlln, assistant secretary of the National W. t T. U. of Sweden: Mrs. Florence Bannister. National W. C. T. U. organizer for the Transvaal. South Africa: Mile, do Lavcleyc- of tho Belgium W. C T. U.; Frauloln Ottllie Hoffmann of Germany, and other continental white ribbon leaders. Tho women of England and Scotland will see that the foreign dclogutca aro well looked after. 4 |