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Show X American. Boom in London (London Letter ) When American capital sis, heade hy Peekes, steppi-- in and bought t'.i charter of a much needed u d grou i railr(jad tl at had long tiMij j , per, aid tagun the u tu ,ni in, i the it ad hit 're the n.i. oh the onlr.i toagfjil) dri utttul.oj t, d,r i t f -- 1 of the American of London, for In ir1 r on in Farrlng-in- d Arm after Ann me with big offices may . and a tin m Aui-of n g quantity uiiiiii an! .fading home to the i a ! i disk room 'ij ath all of l . o. ' Pi- - r , ' f t t f' 4. I feggM mm JlflfiK1 31, - rl p k t3Tt t. ,L- - A - f!tH " lIlM i Mrim, MM A N. THE HEART OF LONDON S AMERICAN BUSINESS DISTRICT, WHERE SNOW HILL CURVES AWAY FROM HOLBORN VIADUCT AND, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF ST. SEPULCHRES CHURCH, WHERE REST THE BONES OF CAPT. JOHN SMITH. OF POCOHONTAS FAME. ore generally than ever before to the fact that the Increase In American capital Invested in London is out of all proportion to the Increase in English capital Invested In London. At the ptesent rate it will not be long before Lombard street begins to reckon One result has been the growth of a singular colony in the heart of London a colony of which no census has been taken and of which not even the American consul general In London can give much information. You reach the center of It by going first to Hol- - J main office across the Atlantic an Increasing quantity of British pounds, shillings and pence. The London branch of the American business house is comparatively a recent institution. It Is safe to say that as many such houses were opened in London in the last three or four years as had been established here in Alall previous years put together. though most of them follow that mysterious law o attraction' which pulls similar kinds hi business together Into on locality liey have sot hern here long enough tK have much knowledge of or Interest in one another. 0 Though them are always from to 60,000 Americans in London, there Is no American exchange here,-no- r any Immediate likelihood of one, William McKinley Osborne, the American consul general In England, who has a cozy office In St. Helens place said, when asked regarding the development of (American tiade here: Its getting bigger every day. I know that from life talks I have with the manufacturers from home who drop in to chat with me. We do not have any list of American merchants in London jar of the different American businesses that are established here, but 1 know things have boomed. "The Standard Oil compand, for Instance, has been fighting the Rothschilds, and has won at least, the Standard has made a heap of money. The Rothschilds have been selling Russian oil but the Standard people built a line of tank ships and brought American oil .orer so cheap that the English had to" buy 1L The Standard made enough last year to declare an extra dividend, and most of the money was English. I guess the steel people are doing almost as well, and the boot and shoe people are making a pretty good thing. Of course, we beat them all In electricity, and in little machines like typewriters. We know their language and they like us better than they like Frenchmen or Germans or any outsiders. Ths English-speakin- g people are the people. Theyll stick together against the world. To 'Bridge the Bosphortif. Ths schune of bridging the Bosphorus has bn revived at Constantinople and It Is announced that a magnificent structure will span the river ere the lapse of mother year and will bear the name of the eultan of Turkey, Abdul Hinild. It Is to be constructed by the Bosphorus Railway company, which designs a junction between the railway of Europe and the Asiatic railway of Bagdad. Naturally the narrowest dividing line of sea has been chosen for the point of connection. A military bridge, erected by a Corinth- ian long before the Chlrstian era, ones epanned these 600 yards of water at the same spot and over It marched King Darius and bts 800,000 Persian braves. Lord Byron, impatient of bridges sa of many things, swam ths flood and as a result was', addressed In much minor verse as Launder. -- new bridge Is to be erected on lasting lines. Massive granite pillars are to be built and these will support ths steel cables on which the bridge depends. They will provide accommodation for artillery and ornaments will not be wanting in tbs shape of minarets and cupolas, decorated with tiles and arabesques. The cent of the bridge U estimated at about $3,000- ,- r 40,-00- bFFICE OF GENERAL, LONDON. TH-- ST. AMERICAN CONSI L HELEN 8 PLACE, tts dividends In dollars for convenience sake. And everysuch Investmentof Araeri-ta- n money brings In Its train b g new markets for American machinery; for Instance, a large part of the appliances and fittings for the new Yerkes railwill be way, on which 120,000,000 born viaduct Thence you curve around into Snow Hill at St' Sepulchre's church, where rest the bones of Capt John Smith. This doqghty hero of the Pocohontas story, sometime governour of Virginia and admiral of New England," as It says on the brass plate marking bis burial place, sleeps UTILITY PLANT. and so are his ropes, sails, and poles; the paper the Chinese write on, their coffins, musical instruments, soldiers spears, medicines, cooking utensils, pens, brushes, bird cages, blinds, waterwheels fans, measures, and a thousand and one indispensable articles of every day life are all fashioned from it. Its leaves, sewn together, make somewhat rough, but quite waterproof garments, and in the Joint of the stems of some varieties stones resem- Tiling opals are found. The baby sleeps In a bamboo cradle, and In certain districts criminals are executed by being tjefr ovfj yarlety. whlch grows two hours and left feet in twenty-fou- r there until the plant- pierces their bodies and kills them. Golden Penny. say Cm to Which Chlncoc Tut the bamboo. -- COST Dk A FORTUNE. f Marlboroagha Tnuu Worth a Klass Ransom. The costliest picture in the world Is owned by the Duke of Marlborough, who has a large and very expensive It is difficult for anybody who has never visited the Celestial empire to form the remotest conception of what L.e possession of the bamboo means to collection of pictures which has come the Chinese. From cradle to grave down to him from the original Duke their of feature a daily there Is not of Marlborough. The rarest of themJ& Ife, either In work or pleasure, into the Blenheim Madonna, painted by Which It does not enter, nor a corner Raphael In 1507 and now valued at f their Homes In which It cannot be 1350,000. The picture was originally (ound fulfilling one or other of its mul painted for the Church of the Servi at tlfarious nses. In this country we g Perugia. It Is eight feet high, know the bamboo chiefly in the form th? Jna(lQua..an.d child seated miscellaneous articles of furniture, on a throne, with a figure of SL John but In China It not only furnishes the the Baptist on tne left and that of old for framework used the is it but kouse, St. Nicholas of Bari on the right, the f the structure, while the leaves are last two being life size. Its blgb value The water employed to thatch it. Is due to the fact that It Is One of the Ohio St ths B.rr.lo Fair. lupply la carried In bamboo pipes, both for domestic use and for the The state of Ohio' will be represented best preserved of the pictures of RaR at the purposes of irrigating the tea plantaexposition which phael which are now in existence. tions; the bamboo agrestis. a spiky opens at Buffalo next May by a plain has been proposed that the British variety. Is used to form a hedge Grecian Doric building,-- the plans for government buy this picture. Blenwhich have met with the approval of heim palace is so called In honor of ground these plantations and other The shoots of one kind, Gov. Nash. The building will be S4x the battle which the English, under the. Duke of Marlborough,' 'won over Bambusa tnlda, are boiled whenyoung 122 feet and will occupy a commandfind eaten like asparagus, with bam- - ing site on the exposition grounds. It the French, and was given to the great boo chopsticks, or sometimes pickled, may be taken as a sample of what the soldier fv Queen Anne. Every year a It little flag worked with a And the seeds are used as s substitute other, states will do at the great comfor rice. Mattresses and pillows are ing fair, which. In inter sent to Windsor castle by way of rent ftuffed with bamboo shavings; the est will not fall far behlndpaany of and Hung upon the walls of ths castle, fisherman's raft is made of bamboo, the great world exhibitions. j St Louis repre-senUn- - an fleur-de-l- Globe-Democr- 1 r is F-- dutlee on Italian marble. The present duty on rough or squared blocks Is 65 cents a cubic foot In spite of that high duty nearly half a million dollars worth of marble was Imported during the last fiscal year. More would hare been Imported had the duty been lower. If It becomes to the interest of the owners of the Vermont marble quarries to increase the consumption of the product of the Italian quarries It is probable that when the tariff is revised they will not object to a material decrease in the duty on the finer grades of Italian marble. They will not need Boer Campaigning. lots reports from South Africa show H rscent raids orf the British lines In in er more favorable llghL The British had all the advantages of In- terior lines, of established bases of lupplles. and of at least partially fortified eamps. Their lines, in general, extead from the Orange river northern! along the railway 400 miles to Pretoria; east from Pretoria through the Transvaal 250 miles to Komatl-P0- 0 on the Portuguese border; Kutheast from Johannesburg along through the pass at Lalngs Nek to Ladysmith, a distance f nearly 200 miles; then west from Ladysmith through the Drakensburg passes to Bethlehem. Military men looking at the situation a month ago would havt tald that It would be worse than madness for a force of 10,000 or 15,000 man t0 break thesfl lines. ut if la clear now that the Boer commanders organized a campaign to disturb the British, not at one point, but at several. They attacked the British position thirty, or forty anile west of Pretoria In such force as to bring on one of the most spirited bat-flof the war. . Hoag hi by American t. fi ot nr-fe- tr when competition has It Is reported by ths bureau of South American republics that an extensive deposit of rose garnet, situated near Cuautlay, in Mexico la to be worked, on n large scale. It promises to bring in the market a price equal to that of the finest onyx, which It surpasses In beauty. This rosallte, as it Is otherwise called, is a white sandstone filled with beautiful lltttle crystals of garnet, which ars too soft to be useful as , gems. vwwwwwwv Chinese XOomcn Abu heel. The bicycle woman has invaded China, the last place on earth where one would expect to find her., Aside from the national prejudice that exists lmont the Mongol people to women taking part in occupations or pastimes that men ordinarily reserve for, them- - ss R Is reported that Senator Proctor ermont 13 negotiating on his own oehaif and that of the men who are Interested In the marble business with m for the purchase of the Carrara nutrrles In Italy. If these negotiations no successful the owners of the Ver-mQuarries wll secure substantial control of the entire output of superfine marble in the world, Ithey do th representatives of Vermont la the " ou nnd fenate may not be o nt as their predecessors have been the maintenance of specially high protection ceased. among the celestials who may often be seen with her brothers careering along the fine roads of Shanghai There are not more than two or three Chinese girls who ride, though the tons of tha wealthy Chinese merchants And many other Chinese ypuths may often be seen riding ln' the streets of ths treaty ports, the only places Jn China where, riding Ik 'possible. On the whole, the" Chinese have taken kindly to the bike"and many are expert trick riders. The lady referred ip is n Mias Kit-Se- n of Shanghai and was ths first girl in Chins to cycle. She evidently , enjoys ths sport Cen. Wood HeenU Intuit. Governor-Gener- al , Wood servered the official connection of the Hsvana Bar association with the government In consequence of the action of the association in electing to the board of FIRST GIRL IN CHINA TO RIDE A governors five deposed Judges who had been removed for dishonesty. HitherBICYCLE, selves, the size of thFChlnese womens to the association has sustained semifeet- would be; thought a bar against official relations with the government their Indulgence in wheeling. Never- It has 800 members, 65 of whom were theless there is actually one woman present at the election. - ( n |