Black & White Illustrated Budget

BUACRS-WHITE Vol. v.—No. 95.] B GET [Aug. 3, 1901 Regd. at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper.; [Price 2d. i'osi be'-., t'/il angloboerwar.com BACK TO ENGLAND -GENERAL BADEN-POWELL WALKING DOWN THE GANGWAY OF THE "SAXON" AT SOUTHAMPTON (Photo by Gregory) 578 BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Au(;. 3, 1901 NEWS AND VIEWS Sir Henry Slocks to inquire into the suppression of the Jamaica outbreak by Covernor Eyre. But it was not until 1877 that he got his real chance. In that year he London got a wasjli in real earnest last' week during' the was appointed British Representative on the Connnission clase-rangfe bombardment by lightning. Raiii fell in tor- of Public Debt of Egypt. Since then he has fought the rents ; drains burst ; the floor of Westminster Hall was enemies of the country, and from a bankrupt state has raised covered ; the tuniiels of ihc Metropolitan Railway were Egypt to a smiling land. He js indeed a second Moses ot flooded ii€ar King'.s Cross to the depth of 10 feet ; in St. extraordinary talent—soldier, administrator, diplomatist, Pancras 300 people were rendered telnporarily homeless, economist, and financier. ' . and had to take refuge in p'ublic buildings ; a house in ; flag' that floats Bloomsbury was xt on fire ; a'nd the over The Royal lour in Australia has realised the the Victoria highest anlicipa- Tower of the ll<jns, the marked Houses of Par- outburst of Ham e n t was loyalty to the hurled to t.he throne and de- ground. That votion to the was during the Empire utterly War Office vote. silencing the few TTie lightning carpers. To a evidently mis^ large proportion took the House of the inhabit- of Commoms for ants the oppor- fhe War Office. tiuiity of seeing The destruction the Royal visitors of the latter has been a source wp'uld be a bene- pf great delight. fit to the nation. Thousands of Still, we live in i- ' f»^ people have hope. iourne3'ed ' hun- dreds of miles, 'if ^ nf submitting to all That "the sorts of discom- creator of modern fort and crowd- Egypt," as Earl ing, and yet all Cromer is called, animated by a should have been superb spirit, in raised to the their clesireHe to Peerage is not a prove _ to the matter for sur- Duke and prise : the sur- Duchess the prise is that the depth of Aus- distinction had angloboerwar.com tralian feeling. not been con- Melbourne's dis- ferred before. play was a unique He is the ninth and historical son of the Henry one. While the Baring who for people f-ull3- some time was realised that the M.P. for South- consummation ot ampton. The the union of t'ne f a m i I y fro m States was a which he sprung- great event, they was of German at the same time extraction — the could see that founder, a Luthe- the presence of ran minister of the Duke and Bremen, came to Duchess was England in 1697 deeply significant —but for nearl}' in its tendency two hundred to bind them still years it has been closer to the eminent in Motherland. The British c o m - visit has set men merce, finance, thinking about and politics. It the means where- has also achieved by mutual in- th-e unparalleled terests may be " record " of The firework display in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Vorli at improved, and adding within Government House domain, Brisbane if the Imperial less than sixty Government years no fewer tnan four new titles to the roll of Peers. takes advanitage* of thiG feeling to propose preferential These were those of Ashburton, conferred in 1835 o" treatment, Austrafia will doubtless reciprocate heartilj-. Alexander Baring, second son of the first barontet ; of * * Northbrook, bestowed upon Thomas Baring, grandson or * Sir for Francis, in 1866 ; of Revelstokc, a creation of 1885 in I HAVE very much pleasure in thanking the following favcAir of Edward Charles Baring, another grandson of the their kind donations to the Joseph Thompson fund : —Irish '" same ; and, finally, of Cromer, the title taken in 1892 by Reader, 20s., Harrogate, is. ; G. P.," 5s. ; Anonjmous " " L. los. Lord Revelstoke's younger brother, who has now received (Exmouth), los. ; T. E. J.," 20s, ; iind A. H.," an earldom. As already stated, Joseph Thompson, a working engineer, * * ¥ with a wife and children entirely dependent on him, was After serving twelve 3'ears in the Artillery he got killed while trying to stop a runaway horse. He was on his his first chance in connection with the commission under way to look for work. However, as the Stock Exchange \ BUDGET.^ AUG. 3, 1901 BLACK AND WHITE s;9 angloboerwar.com The desolation wrought by the great fire at Rusliden. The town was almost wiped out for the want of water and the TVIayor of Hackney took up the case, helped, in a relief fund has been opened in Rushden for the poorer humble wa}', by Jilack and White Budget, the widow and sufferers. ch'ildren have been placed beyond the reach of the pinch * * * of poverty until the children have grown up. Thr fourteenth annual gatliering ot Pears' Athletic Club (of Pears' soap) •* ' ¥ * . Mat, . went 6ff with great fea- The thriving' and in- one of the principal creasing town of 'Rush- tures being the tug-of- den, in Northamptonshire, war. The entrants were : was visited by a terrible Isleworth Police, Pears' fire on the 19th of last Soap Works (two teams, month. In less than four A and B), Heston and hours a large army boot Iisleworth District Council manufactory, more than Employes, Isleworth a dozen shops, a bank, Brewery, Brentford the Board-schools, and Police, Norwood Chemi- other valuable property, cal Works, and W. Wis- were totally destroyed. A dom's works. For the glance at the illustration final, two police teams will give an idea of the were left, the Isleworth thoroughness of that de- police eventually beating struction. Twenty years their Brentford comrades. a small ago Rushden was ^^H^^^Hl^H^^"'^'''" ' ^^^ -'^^8 ^ ^ V rural village, but so ^^HÎH^^^HhHE^ '..^HH '^"^ Tsar has or- quickly did it increase that HH^^Hj^HK % ..^j^HH '^'''''^'? native it was impossible for the ' ^''^^^ BH^^^HHF iidtfl^^l independent^ Armvot ^ and local authorities to keep ^ ^^^KL ^^.^îî^^^^H shall lê tIis- Finland pace with its growth. ^^^^^^KH^^^BHI^^^^^^^^H '°'''''^ ^'' Local authorities very V'u '"'T'""'"^' I HhHHHHBHHHHH^^^HHI ^^g^^^^sSS igo.^. and be absorbed rarely do in any part of ot Kussian regi- the globe. Five hundred The 120 yards race at the fourteenth annual sports of '" i"<-' occupying people have been thrown Pears' Athletic Club (Pears' Soap) at Spring Grove ments now he order, out of Employment, and House, Isleworth Finland. 1 "ê Copenhagon some forty tradesmen are ^^"X* , Central News, has created intense It ih an ill-\vind that 1 correspondent of the unable to pursMe their avocations. How- blows no good, so perhaps Rushden and neigh'bouring excitement in Finland and great emotion m Sweden. oppose the order. 1 Finland can towns will liave -a water supply adequate to their needs. A ever, neither Sweden nor 58o BLACK AND WHITE BUDGET Aug. 3, 1901 i\liss Edith Kate Bowyer and Miss Ida Florence Bowyer, professionally Itnown as Edith Yeoland and Ida Yeoland, the sister actresses whose tragic deaths have aroused much public sympathy (Photos by Lafayette) While the Moorish Emhassy was being' entertained in fully scaled, after many attempts, the death-roll among England—the term is used advisedlj-, the geographical climbers of that mountain has been a heavy one. On July division south of Berwick being' referred to—the Moors 13th, 1865, a party of eight gained the top, but in descend- themselves were "kow-towing" with the Navy. The other ing five of the mountaineers were hurled into eternity— Mr. Sunday—a fortnight ago— the Mediterranean Fleet arrived Hadow, the Rev. Charles Hudson, Lord Francis Douglas, in the Marthu roadstead, near Tetuan, which in turn is a and two guides. The body of Lord Francis was never seaport town of Morocco. It is situate twenty-five miles found, and the secret of its last resting-place is kept by the south-east of Tangier, and manufactures guns. It was at eternal ice and snow. In 1879 two lives were lost ; in 18S6, Tetuan on February 4th, i860,angloboerwar.comthat the Spaniards, under one ; in 1890, four ; in two ; in 1900, one. 1893, O'Donnell, gained a decisive victory over the troops pi Morocco. However, that did not affect a cordial greeting ¥ * * between the Basha of the place and Vice-Admiral Fisher, The hard life of the stage, even to successful members of commander of the Mediterranean Fleet. The Moors after- the profession, was once more brought vividly before the wards visited the ships, but expressed no surprise, for, public through the' tragic deaths of two beautiful joung although they had never seen better men, they had seen women 'who were standing on the threshold of fame. The better ships and guns. Everybody knows that the Ad- hard . work and uncertainty of their calling, acting on miralty relies on the crews for victor}-, and trusts in Provi- highly-strung nervous systems, caused the two sisters to dence for the rest. take their own lives. They were gifted and refined girls, * ^ * and, as already said, standing on the threshold of fame. Since July, 1865, when the Matterhorn was first success- In a rash moment they took poison.

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