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Motive of German*Ve
Venezuela’s
Presented
NINTH PAGE
cf the territory they occupy, and that
the Venezuelan government is under no
responsibility* for their protection. The
mountains are only 000 feet from the sea
shore. The mounttaineers have a nasty
habit of coming down with rifles, in
groups of a dozen, at night. Germany
would lind herself involved in a guerrilla
warfare which would place the city prac
tically in a state of siege. As a nation
Germany’ would feel little apprehension
of a war with Venezuela, although it
might be well to remember that Spain
needed 200,000 men to hold Cuba, and Eng
land has already used 300,000 men to se
cure a grip on South Africa.
But what Germany has already shown
evidence of remembering is that the 700,-
000 bags of Maracaibo and .La Guayra
coffee are handled by the German com
mercial houses. She cannot afford to
peril her entire trade with Venezuela for
a claim thut can, by no possibility, re
main more than half just. The most seri-
cus outcome of the trouble that need be
looked for, at any time, is a naval
demonstration off the coast.
Monster Canton, Metropolis of Orient; Like a Slice
%
Out of Jlnother Sphere
A bit of natural beauty along the Caribbean
£.y Colon
(Venezuela
Diaz Barcenas
at Philadelphia and
tative of G
States.)
attempt at intimidation
of Venezuela, on the part
of Germany, because of the
Krupp Company’s claim,
will not, in my opinion,
mean war between the two
countries. It will not mean
a seizure of any territory
in South A meric
man forces. It
ilth of her natural resource
sc the trade in Maracaibo
. and be-
and La-
Gua>ra coffee was a thing well worth
having. The commercial world of Ger
many, having fixed its eyes upon the
Venezuelan trade, put its hands there
afterwards, and now it has most of the
trade in its pocket. After the merchants, | embodi
came the financiers. While Paul was
president, the projectors of the railway
company, bearing the same name as the
p v Ger- i erect cannon-making establishment in
will notJ Germany, approached the Venezuelan
*» * ^ ES m ean any conflict between
the I'nited States and Ger- !
many, over the Monroe doc
trine.
There has been a great deal printed
to the justice of the German claims,
as to Germany’s resolution to enforce
them, and as to Venezuela's inability to
pay and her powerlessness to resent Ger
man encroachment. The justice of the
German claim, now for the first time com
ing before the world in its true light, re
solves itself into injustice of an extreme
ly questionable case of railway financier
ing, with bribery and corruption at the
bottom of it originally.
Let us look at Venezuela's side of the
question. The two most Important cities
of Venezuela are Valonzia and Caraccas,
the capital. They are separated by a dis-
tanco of 160 miles—by rafl, a six hours'
journt v. The population of Caraccas
some dozen years ago, was about 100,000
people; that .>f Valonzia was C0.Q00. Be
tween them lay a country tilled with herds
of grazing cattle, which were shipped
abroad from the port of Caraccas.
Rojas Paul, ill 1888, had been elected to
the presidency of Venezuela after the re
tirement from office of Guzman Blanco.
The attention of German merchants, for
a number of years, had been very closely
fixed upon Venezuela, because of the
government with a proposition for the
connection, by rail, of the two large
cities of the country. Venezuela, filled
witli natural resources and anxiously | President
alive to the necessity for speedy trans
portation, welcomed tine proposition
gladly.
Within four years, the people of Vene
zuela saw in operation, between Carac-*
C as and Valonzia, a well equipped modern
leward of Merit.
A New Catarrh Cure Secures National
Popularity in Less Than One Year.
Throughout a great nation of eighty
million it is a desperate struggle to secure
even a, recognition for a new article, to
eay nothing of achieving popular favor.
Gerniiin
Shrewd
ness
Brings
Venezuela
Superior
W acilities
looked
finance,
ailway, carving passen
gers and freight at rates i >
which the public found ^
acceptable, aid serving j
the purposes required; ;
there was some little talk on the part of
the Germans about Venezuela s reluctance
to pay her debts. The apprehension of
what a refusal to comply with the terms
of the agreement might mean to Vene
zuela in international finance, induced
Crespo to go on wjth the payments. But,
d in the national debt as they
were, the surplus in the treasury fre
quently fell short. AH the government
had, it gave—until the arrearages amount
ed to the two million dollars Germany
now seeks to collect. The demand for
full payment of all arrears was made
eight months ago, when the country was
in the throes of several revolutions, and
Castro found his resources
fully taxed to repress them. There was
absolutely no money adequate tor the
payment of two million dollars. But
General Castro, like General Crespo, ab
horred the idea of any charge of repudia
tion cvf debts, lie endeavored to con
vince the Krupp company that Venezuela
would discharge its obligations. And,
when government troops had to he trans-
;i>d in the course of the disturbances,
used the Caracas railway and paid
id r modern, first-class, | t j,
well planned road. 111
i if German enterprise, German
rrd German thoroughness, were
and yet within one year Stuart's Catarrh
Tablets the new catarrh cure, has met
with such success that today it ran be
found in every drug store throughout the
United States and Canada.
To be sure a largo amount of advertising
wits necessary in the first instance to
tring the remedy to the attention of the
public, but everyone, familiar with the
subject ' knows that advertising alone
never made any article permanently suc
cessful. It must have in addition absolute,
i ndeniablo merit, and this the new ca
tarrh cure certainly possesses ir. a marked
degree.
Physicians, who formerly depended upon
inhaiers, sprays and local washes or oint
ments. now use Stuart's Catarrh Tablets
because, as one of the most prominent
stated, these tablets contain in pleasant
convenient form all the really efficient
tatarrli remedies, such as red gum, blood
root and similar antiseptics.
They contain r.o cocaine nor opiate, and
nro given to little children with entire
safety and benefit.
T»r J. J. Reitiger, of Covington. Ky.,
says: “I suffered from catarrh In my
hoad and throat every fall, with stoppage
of th «- nose and irritation in the throat af
fecting my voice and often extending to
the stomach, causing catarrh of the stom
ach T bought a 50-oent package of Stu
art's Catarrh Tablets at my druggist's,
earned them in my pocket and used the m
faithfully, and the way in which they
cleared ravhxnl and throat was certainly
remarkable. T had no catarrh last winter
and spring and consider myself entirely
ifrfp from any catarrhal trouble.”
Mr=. Jerome Ellison, of AVheeling. W.
Va.. writes: "T suffered from catarrh
neoGv mv whole life and last winter my
two children also suffered from catarrhal
colds and sore throat so much they were
out of school a large portion , of the win
ter Mv brother who was cured of ca
tarrhal deafness by using Stuart’s Catarrh
Tablets urged me to try them so much
that T did so. and am truly thankful for
what they have done for myself and my
children. I always keep a box of the tab
lets In the house and at the first appear
ance of a cold or sore throat we nip It In
the bud and catarrh Is no longer a house
hold affliction with us.”
Full sized packages of Stuart's Catarrh
Tablets are sold for 50 cents at all drug
gists.
Send for book on cause and cure of ca
tarrh. mailed free. Address F. A. Stuart
Co., Marshall, Mich.
rta.l blessings to the people of Venezuela
What the country at large did not
know was the manner in which the rail
way concession had been obtained, and
the Shvlock terms on which the road had
been constructed and equipped. With
every item of expense included, the cost
cf the entire project could not have been
more than $7,000,000. From the city of
Caracas, for a distance of 8 miles, the
Country was mountainous, and it was
necessary that several tunnels be built.
But, beyond that, all the way to Valen
cia, the route lay through coffee planta
tions and along savannahs, as level as a
board. Ail the railway company had to
do was to put down its rails and run its
Irains.
The proposition which Krupp company
laid before the Venezuelan congress was
That the republic of Venezuela guarantee
to pay. Irrespective of any returns from
the road—which went into the hands of
the railway promoters—an annual subsi
dy of 7 per cent on the capital stock. The
stock was to be issued on th
basis of the actual cost of construction
The rate of subsidy was so high on the
one hand and was so eagerly coveted by
the Germans on the other, that they made
every possible effort to secure the conces
sion.
Now a subsidy of 7 per cent, clear, on
an actual Investment would have seemed
a Golconda to the modern Spaniard or
Frenchman; a trust of magnificent pro
portions to an English investor, and a
Klondike to an American. As for the
Germans, they made the astute reflection
that 7 per cent on a real investment of
$7,001,(100 was not half as good as 7 per
cent cn $15,000,000. So they issued capital
stock to the amount of fifteen millions.
The Republic, for its part, Tnade the
extortionate subsidy a national debt.
Crespo was in power when the Krupp
Company, 1n 1892, Immediately upon the
completion of the road, made the stag
gering demand t'er a payment of $1,050,000.
in quarterly Installments. He declared
it was plain robbery, and, at that time,
F* ranee
Gets
Finder
in the
Pie
transportation charges in cash. \\ hen
i the revolutionists tore up the tracks, he
1 paid the damages in cash. And he, like
j Crespo, undertook to pay as much if
the guarantee subsidy as was possible at
the first opportunity the finances of Ven
ezuela could afford.
It has happened that a case analgous
to that of the Krupp company has
brought a French claim up for settle
ment between Venezuela
and France. The Orinoco
River Company, holding
a contract with Venez
uela for the navigation
of the Orinoco and the
exploitation of the rub
ber belt, claimed damages to the amount
of $400,(XX) by reason of rhe political dis
turbances. The River company put its
claim into the hands of the French min
ister of foreign affairs for collection. He
investigat'd the case, and came to the
conclusion that the claim was a just one.
On the part of the government of France,
therefore, he addressed a request to the
government of Venezuela for a court of
arbitration The determination of the
j character of the court is in course of
| a.ijustmer.t. France desires that the
legit late j judges of the court be neither Venezue
lan nor French in nationality. Venez
uela, because of the essentially South
American conditions surrounding t,ho
claim, desires the court to bo composed
exclusively of Venezuelans. The two
got ernments are now engaged amicably
in discussing the formation of th<Tcourt;
an 'l the claim will ultimately be heard,
and satisfied, according to
By FranK G Carpenter
ANTON is the biggest city of
the Asiastic continent. It
is the industrial center of
this side of the globe, and
the day may come when It
will surpass any city of the
world in size. London has
almost reached its maxi
mum: New York is in its
prime, but Canton, which is
older than either, seems to
he at its very beginning, for
it has been born again.
Throughout the ages it has
grown into a city of two and one-half
millions through a business of wheelbar
rows, boats and manual work. It is now
to have steam, electricity and all labor-
saving inventions. It is to be the end of
the great trunk line originated by the
late Calvin S. Brice and other Ameri
cans. which shall cross China from Pekin
to Hankow and thence come here, tap
ping the industries of hundreds of mil
lions.
The Canton of today has not a railroad
of any kind. In the future it will have
as many tracks as Chicago, and the cars
will shoot out from here to Tonklng, Yun
nan, Burmah and all parts of the Chi
nese empire. It has thousands of little
factories now. In the future it will have
more steam mills than Philadelphia, more
foundries than Pittsburg, and more
cotton mills than Massachusetts.
1 have spent many weeks in Canton
during my several visits to Asia. The im
mensity of the city grows upon me. It
is a vast hive in which every humon bee
is at work. Chicago covers about the
whole of Cook county. Canton proper is
surrounded by walis only G miles in cir
cumference. The walls are 20 feet high
and arc battered and worn. They now em
brace only the older parts of the city.
business streets und with the magic wand . and, like so many horses or mules, they
of the fairy mak« it Chinese. We have
brought the wall close to
gether; the plate glass
windows have all disap
peared; the big depart
ment stores have vanish-
pull it along from the banks.
But let us go into one of the jewelry sec
tions. The Chinese are fond of fine things.
They have luxurious tastes. The richer ot
them delight in silver plate and they we a:
jewelry of pure gold. The Chinese swell,
ed and the clerks and j woman or man, will have nothing but
merchants have multiplied I gold 22 carets fire. The women are decked
a thousandfold. The complexions of the with earrings, bracelets and anklets and
people have turned yellow; every man the children of the well-to-do wear many
wears a pig tail, slant eyes and long rings. Silver drinking cups are common,
gown, and the yellow-faced women hob- I Most of the ladies use silver hairpins,
ble along on small feet. The 5-foot streets j and the gentlemen drink their wines out
Compar
ing Chi
cago and
Canton
With
Queer
Results
arc lined with booth-like
openings, each
.e all
ot
other by walls of blue brick. Eacl
the booths is a store and every one is
filled with strange merchadise. Some have
glass showcases at the front and all have
counters. There are scores of bookkeep
ers and clerks, many of- the latter bare
to the waist. There are proprietors dress
ed In the silks and purchasers of all
classes embrace the vast variety of the
Chinese world of today.
Notice how business is classified as you
push your way through tin. city, your
chair-bearers shouting to the people to get
out of the way. Here Is an alley walled
with furniture stores. There is one in
which they sell nothing but silks, and on
that siiTe street is a seetir.n devoted to
jade stones, eat rings, bracelets and other
such ornaments. We ride for a mile
through lines of silversmiths, who work
and sell side by side, and go by block
after block devoted to embroidery and on
into streets where there are nothing but
pipes and tobacco.
You may have the idea that all the Chi
nese are poor and that most of them go
barefooted. Come with me through one of
the shoe streets of Can
ton. We shall visit hun
dreds of stores which sell
nothing else. There are
enough shoes in one of
these streets -to shoe all
the girls of Chicago, but
if the said girls came here to he fitt“d
they would have to buy men's shoes and
not women's. This would be the case
Modern Canton has long since overflowed v ™ th any American girl, old nr voung,
, ,1 big or small feet. T hey are among na-
them. and it now extends for miles up j or little. The Chinese have naturally
Pearl river. It covers the
How
They Sell
■Shoes
in
Canton
Chinese
in Canton
Live Like
Water
Rats
international
law.
A enezuela does not refuse to pay the
German claim. But tho republic dne 3
i'tus-' to be bullied into payment by flie
German empire. The dispute will be set
tled in either of two ways. One way is
f°r the German government
General Castro’s engagement t
of 1 he $2,000,000 within the
months, and to pay th? rest as speedily
as the treasury will allow. The other is to.
insist on payment at once, and to en
deavor to collect by force. It is true
Germany could seize and hold any A'enez-
tielan port—preferably that of La Guayra.
But the seizure of La Guayra would m-a n
that German troops must keep the peate
to ai
r> pay
next
teept
part
few
Venezuela's navy consists of more fishing smacks than gunboats
and It
and down th
banks, and it has even gone out and built
houses on the water itself.
The boat population here is enormous.
There are more people living on the wa
ter at Canton than at any single place
in the world. You could
take the floating papula
tion of Venice and lose It
in the floating population
of this city. China has
more boats than all the
rest of the .world put to
gether, and Canton has more than any
other part of China. There are hundreds
of thousands of people here who are born,
live and die upon boats. There are thou
sands of babies who are always within G
inches of drowning. I have visited many
of the boat houses sculling along from
one little floating house to another, cre
ating consternation among both parents
and children by pointing my camera at
them. On some of the boats babies were
playing, on some they were sqaulling and
on some taking a meal from their moth
ers. Many of the small children had bar
rels or floats of w o:l lied to Vheir backs.
These are life preservers to keep them
from sinking when they fall in the water.
Other little ones were tied by ropes to the
boats, but as a rule the children sprawled
about free. They dodged this way and
that as my boat moved toward them, div
ing down into the hold or hiding behind
a sail or mast to keep out of the way of
tTie camera. This morning I pointed the
instrument at four little hoys playing on
the wharf. Each had a barrel on his
back. 1 was about to press the button
When one of them spied me and gave a
yell, whereupon the quartet scampered
away crying, their barrels flying out be
hind them as they ran.
I find the Chinese here decidedly object
to being photographed. AA’hen Hubbard
T. Smith was in charge of our consulate
lie offered his chair bearers 20 cents apiece
if they would hold him up in the con
sular chair while he had a photograph
taken. They indignantly refused, one of
them asking Hub Smith whether he
thought him such a fool as to stand in
that picture all the rest of his life lifting
up the American consul for 20 cents. T
had a similar photograph made the other
day. It cost me a dollar.
From the wharves T went on into the
city. I moved slowly, for Fhe streets were
crowded with almond-eyed humanity, and
I was jostled at every step. Now and
then I stopped in a store to rest, and as I
i did so mad" notes of my sut roundings
1 that T might give you an idea of a pure
Chinese city. I shall try to do it by com
paring Canton with Chicago.
Canton is bigger than our great city on
Lake Michigan, and It could not be more
different If it were situated In the planet
of Mars. The town Is made up of one and
two-story houses built along streets so
narrow that you can often stand In the
•center and reach both walls b.v stretching
out your hands. They are so narrow that
two wheelbarrows can hardly pass, and
so that when two sedan chairs meet, one
has to hug the walls to let the other go
by. A Chicago dray could not get through
them, and a big dry goods box carried on
a pole by two coolies crowds the passers-
by to the wall.
The Chicago streets are well paved. So
are those of Canton, but the pavements
here are of flagstones worn smooth by
the tramp, tramp, tramp of m’lllons of
bare feet through many generations. The
streets are. In fact, little aTTevs paved
with stones, so lltle that the only beasts
of burden within them are men.
Suppose you could take out of Chicago
every street car, every dray and wagon,
buggy and cab. Suppose you could re
move the horses, the buses and the auto
mobiles and take away the elevated roads
and l°t th° only means of conveyance he
shank's mare and box-like sedan choirs
2 feet wide, slung between poles carried
on the shoulders of men. Then you have
ffio rapid transport of Canton.
To carrv out the illusion you must cut
■Town Chicago’s big buildings to ridge-
roofed structures of blue brick of one and
two stories, with here and there a pawn
broker's shop six or seven stories high
rising above them. The buildings must be
close to the streets and their over-hang
ing roofs must almost shut out the sun.
Tn the swell shopping sections you must
roof the space between with oyster shells,
shutting rut the glare and giving an opal
escent light to the crowd below.
You would have to change all the signs.
TYc Americans do not know what fine
business signs are. If I eould have one-
hundredth part of the gold which Is plas
tered over such signs In Canton, my pros
pective grandchildren might ride In their
carriages. The signs are wonderfully
carved. They are inlaid with gold leaf
or enameled In brilliant colors, so that
you see a blaze of red. white, green and
gold as you look through the streets. Each
sign Is a board a foot or more wide and
from 4 to 10 feet long. upcr. which Is cut
the name of the firm doing business. Some
advertise the excellence of the store with
in, and others bear such names as "Lucky
Profits,” “Good Fortune” and "Cheap
John.”
Suppose we take one of Chicago’s chief
of silver cups. You can buy silver toil
articles everywhere. There are combs and
brushes, toothpicks and ear picks, tongue
scrapers and scratch-your-baeks. There
are silver saucers for cups of fine china
and carved tea sets of solid silver. Many
jewels arc sold. The Chinese Ilk? dia
monds and pearls. They are fond of
jade and opalescent stone, which is so
popular that there are whole streets of
jade stores. They also like coral, using it
in different shapes. Coral beads are strung
and wound into balls about as big as a
walnut and used as buttons on the crown
of the hat.
Nearly every American traveler talks of
China's bad smells. I find that there are
more good smells than bad ones, and there
are many which I wish I
could carry home with
me. Much of Canton Is
a Dutch parlor compared
with parts of New A’ork,
Philadelphia and Boston,
and some of it is compar
atively clean. Some sections are perfum
ed with sandalwood. There are streets
which deal in nothing but sweet-smelling
woods. Here you find men cutting the
odoriferous logs into pieces for fans,
workboxes and other things.
Some are sawing them up into dust to
mix with mud for the incense sticks used
In every Chines? temple and house. Such
sticks serve as cigarette and pipe light
ers. They are burned in front of the
stores under little altars to the God of
Fortune hung up on Ih? wall. Sometimes
there are altars of this kind outside the
stores. In this case the incense sticks are
always lighted toward night, and they
look quite weird as dusk cornes on.
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turn's aristocrats
They are among na-
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foim is concerned, and the girls who
work in the fields have feet surpassing
those of A'enus in beauty. Tho ladies’
shoes are so little that the smallest would
hardly hold a yankee girl's list, much
less her foot. They are made of the finest
of satin and are often embroidered in
gold.
The men's shoes are not unlike slippers
with heavy soles. The commonest kinds
are of black satin, with soles of white
wood or cloth, half an Inch thick. For
full dress the most delicate reds and sky
blues are worn by both men and women;
The shoos have no strings and do not lace
or button.
In the- shoe street you see no women at
the bargain counter. I have never seen a
Chinese lady buy shoos, and T am sure no
Chinese shoe'clerk has the (Might of fit
ting the "tootsie-wootsie’’ of the maids < f
Canton. In China it would he improper
for a man to lay his hand on a strange
woman, and a woman's foot is considered
one of the most sacred parts of her per
son.
Every shoe store is also a shoe fac
tory. The most of the goods made in
China are turned out by hand, and there is
a vast amount of home and shop indus-
try. At the back of the store men are
pasting, sewing and stitching on the shoes
soon to be sold at the front. This is so
all over the city, each establishment mak
ing a large part of the goods which it
sells.
Let us go Into one of the rice streets.
At the front of each store are great bas
kets made of bamboo, each holding from
18 to 20 bushels of grain, while in the
rear are the cleaning and hulling mills.
We hear the thud, thud, thud of the
pounders and go In to see the machinery,
f* is largely human. The hulling is done
by men who step on and off a board all
day long, moving the mill by their weight.
It is so with everything In Canton. The
whole city Is moved by human muscle. It
Is a cannibal town, feeding upon the flesh
and blood of its citizens. In some mills I
found fifty men going up and down like
a dog in a churn, moving a circular belt
communicating with a buzz saw. You
would think steam would be cheaper. It
is not. AVages are so low that the whole
fifty do not earn more than $5 a day, and
the fuel for steam and the wear and tear
of the machinery would cost more than
that. These human machines need no re
pairs. If a man gets sick he is dropped
and another takes his place.
In this same connection many of the
Boats on the Pearl river are run by hu
man weight. The paddle wheels at the
stern ‘ are moved by men who walk up
and down on the spokes of connecting
wheels Inside the boat, thus forcing the
great wheel around and moving the boat
through the water. Many foreigners have
bouse boats operated in this way. Now
and then they take the men from tha
wheels and harness them to a long rope
which Is tied to the mast of the boat, Philippines December 19.
But the night life of a Chinese city is
hardl*- worth mentioning, it is not to be
seen on the streets. No business is done
after dark. The stores arc all clt sed as
Tight as a drum, and the only lights are
oil lamps.
It would fie almost impossible to go
Through Canton late at night. In the day
time the city is a checkerboard of densely
packed .workshops;- at night it is a cata
combs with the passages walled up. Every
narrow street has doors at the end of each
Block, and at every street crossing and
alley there are gates provided with locks.
There ar? also great doors at the holes in
the walls, whether at the entrances of
canals into the city or of streets. All
such ; places are closed at a certain hour
in the evening, so that you could not walk
a block without coming to a gate, and
once inside you could not get cut.
There are but few policemen, either day
or night,' and the order on the streets is
excellent. The police call out the hours
as they go their rounds after da-k.
They make the night'hideous by clap
ping sticks and gongs; to show that they
are awake, and possibly to warn thieves
of their approach. The police stations are
immenee wooden boxes not unlike coal
storage boxes; they are placed along the
sides of the streets, and in them the
policemen _Jie down to rest, not a few
sleeping’ on their posts as do our police
men at home.
In fact, I find the Chinese decidedly hu
man. They have about the same classes
as in the United States, and they are
moved by much the same springs of ac
tion. Canton is made up of rich and poor,
of workers and loafers, of business men
and idiotic dandies. The crowd through
which I walk is of all classes, from the
sweating coolie, who, bare to the waist,
drips perspiration as he trots along with
his burden, to the satin-gowned mandarin,
whose long finger-nailed hands are as soft
as the cheek of vour baby. There are big
footed women who toil for 3 cents a day
and there are ''golden-lilicd” painted,
powdered ladies who each spend a thou
sand dollars per year on their clothes.
There arc Chinese scholars with specta
cles as big around as silver dollars, poli
ticians who lick their ltps and look wise,
story tellers and actcrs. solid bankers
and brainless fools, and all the other
classes you will find in our cities. Indeed,
there are the same grades of society, the
members of which have as many petty
ambitions, as many fears and hopes, and
I might almost say as many loves and
hates. This Chinese human, although tn
our conceit we are y.rone to think differ
ently, is about the same kind of a two-
legged animal without feathers that you
and I are. and our dear Lord gave him
quite as good a body and as good an in
tellect, feelings and will.
The Rea-. C. H. Brent, of St. Stephen
Episcopal church, in Boston, will be con
secrated bishop of the new diocese of the
Name
Address.