Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1892, Page 10

we THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. Cc. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 SPORTS TAKE A REST. Preparations Going On for the Coming Season. THE ONE BASE BALL TOPIC. gnature to a Contract Causing Disens ‘rospeet of the Players’ Committee's Assignments Being Overruled—Late Bicycle News. Danny Richardson n—No THREAT HAS BE! ade against the Wash- ington ball club in the Yorks im connection celebrated Richardson case. Itis that if the joesn't see fit to » Danny Rich- arise accept Basse as good the New enous will appeal to the league and b awarded to them. York papers continue to harp on what they call the rights of the New York club in this Richardson matter. Their claim is that an ar- rangement was made at Indianapolis whereby Roger Connor, who was secured by M r Barnie at the same he signed Richardson, was to be left to the Philadelpbias, New York yielding its claim, and Kichard-on Lary i go to New York. obtauned Connor, says New York, now we should bave Richard- ton. Admit for a momen woula upset the a: mittee, Ye New York prove t made? The other ment has admitted nothi: rt. dent Young denies ail k it isnot a spark of eviden ch: it is strange how the New that such an 5 ments mad g and Phel tsuch an agrceme ty to the alleged how can Pre-i- there that it was ever | ball idol for comparison with bright lights of No SUCH ARGUMENT WOULD STAND. Even h: which is argument been made, ut the New York peo- ch an by all Jer by all the contrac ated league. which peuce w: 5 parties form- Ths ae d were were to have the players s1 to December ed by them ton (association ) clubs were to 1. Each club was to select | to submit its list to Phelps, who were to re- > that ‘no player's name the streng nidable undertaking any complaints y the mu son to Washi SEW YORE ENCOURAGES There have been some yp but in every ¥ have been whipped into line and d that rebellion is ucless. In the case of York ba! ly encouraged tit,tor it is known ent from REE certain players. Wh: wcourage revolt i be for nothing. band you must tte all This point was cleariy brought out at the indianapolis peace conference. Mr. Brush nsent of the clubs for three fs. Immediately another delegate jumped If Mr. Brush is to be given this privilege,” be said, - sou is there why it should ne the ranted. arly seeu then that there could be avors. Every club bad equal righ her basis could there be peace. New the other clubs, agreed to those Yet now it is conspicuous in its fight of and threatens to induce the league to ment of Kichardson. no ot AN EMPTY TUREAT. The threat is an empty one. The league could not if it would and would not if it could. Its future existence dep mof the two Phelps. Overrule o there to prevent over iehardson to New York Pittsburg's protest au: At onee a horde of ciaix clibs now ace and mer would Lave twelve dissatisiied clubs nds upon abiding by decision and what is another? Give nd you must heed give Lyons to Temple. would pour in from war. be league ma see this cle that at solidly of the assign- re are more, but it would oppose in base b Ve vely that & has hardly a fric s in this senseless war itis known post it. New Ye ment of pence. Its" illogical « i ruin the league and the league men know it. Ibe Weshi bagement there- cares very little at. of the ll have no more clubs December bere his med clubs. volve bards! That the assig p to a few may by the com- | except in | New York has but one catcher on their list of Players. Some of the New York papers now blame Walter Spalding for fog by get Mike Kelly. Adva is the players’ watch word. Jim O'Rourke played first base for the Boston league team in 1873. Last year Dungan, Anson's new man, played in the Western Association, first with Milwau- kee, then with Omaha, and when the league ed with Kansae City. His batting aver- 355 in 81 gam “SJohn Clarkson bus shaved off his mustache much younger. kk Baldwin’ is exaphatically pj to ing the rule from four bails to three. He | thinks ali pitchers will kick against it. Kennedy, Wheeling s famous brick yard phe- nomenon, is living at Bellaire, but is disen- <i. The reason is plain. He asks £8,000 to h this season. Capt. Anson will take his “colts” to Hot | Springs for their prelitainary work this spring. All ot his yp at Hot Spr vers have been ordered to report # March 7. | Itis now about settled that the league cham- interest of the New| pion sea with the now widely | tke no legal manage- | Febru: to New York and | Louis, | rti- | in Elmir: he effect that the clubs | this se das far as possible un- | into active t rest of us?” and the | b. W biters, Messrs. Youn | © will open Saturday Durg tirectors have’ decided to J action in the Lyons case. They mean to lay the matter before the league at the March meeting. Tuck Ewing will leave for Hot Springs about 10 to limber ap his candy arm. it was Jimmy Wolf's father, and not the ball player, who died in Louisville recently. Cub’ Stricker, who was assigned to Bt. will probably not play there. A deal will probably be made to exchange him for 1. en the new national agreement hubbub, ale business and the coutroversp over fied players, the March meeting of the league and association promises to be a iively attair. Washington,” said a Western League man, ot the pick of the Western League short stops in Schoch, who, besides being a great ground coverer, is an intelligent player and works all the fine points of the game. He also slugs and bunts well ly is said to heard of Pittsburg lay in a big town.” i Pom Liewn may yet be secured by the Phila- delpbia club. es ‘tommy Dowd has accepted Washington's terms. Tim Keefe is coaching tho PI Andover Academy team Saturdays, in addition to his Harvard work. Each particular town has its ancient base April 16. The Pi ave remarked, when he ove for him, “I want to these days. In Boston they compare fielders with Andy Leonard, who in 1872 was the won- der of the Hub m leit tiel e Next season the players must dress‘on the home grounds and use the horse cars to and not stand after the agreement | trom the games. Jim Mautrie will most likely organize a team . Y., for the Ea: The ion league team on Will be 365,000, far in excess of the sulary of any other team in the country. ably the smallest professional the country is the Minneapolis shome. It is called a “cigar box” by the players, and reembies a one-acre lot. Opinions differ as to whether the Brooklyn club will retain or release Foutz and Collins. Heury Gastright, the Washingtons’ new pitcher, one of the II player gun experts, s been challen: Ed. Lackman to meet tum in a b blue rock shoot for a small stake. Miller and Galvin of the Pittsburgs went ining Monday. Boston is likely to make # preliminary south- ern tou Arlie I tham is building a house at Lynn sto have a house warming about janta has extended an invitation to the ts to train im that Georgia city. The Western bas appheatious from good who will play for S8U0 a season. shingtoa will be weil fixed behind the bat y center field for the will head the bat- ting orue Chicago bas agreed to trade Pfeffer and Wil- mot for fom Brown and Canavan. Catcher McGuire has sigued for the coming season. Ihe Pittsburg club has signed Ned Hanlon. He will captain the team. ‘The entire team has now been signed with the exception of Catcher Counte Mack. The club is trying to cut him down $500 in salary, President Hart of the Chicago club will be in Louisville ina few days to consummate the Pietier deal. Reilly is too good a player to drift out of the big league and Capt. Ewing is urging New York to muke a place for the Reds':old first baseman. ‘The opinion prevails in some quarters that the base ball magnates, having secured the upper Land, have determined to grind the ball rs into the dust. There is good reason to Ne that there is no foundation for such an Si N. ¥. Sun. w Yorks lost $5,438.72 last season, r Abell of the Brooklyns thinks the new league will lose money neat season. ‘The astern Association will meet at the Ken- bany, on ‘Tuesday, February 9 at 12 noon. The cities of Providence, New Newark, Lebanon, Harrisburg, ranton, Binghamton, Elmira, Buf . ester. Syracuse, Utica, Troy ny are especially invited to send rep- atives to the meeting. Glasscock is happy and the people who have been talking about his being dissatisfied with Von der Ale and St. Lonis will have to take it all back. Von der Ahe has told Giasscock that he had no idea of trading him, as his services were m on the te Mr. Soden states that the Boston club may win Kelly, as there isadesire to keep him Atany rate, the Boston president rays can best be disposed of when the matter ly discussed by the representatives of the clubs at the schedule mecting. ter Spalding will probably scon imitate r “Al” and retire from base ball. C. ite will succeed him af secretary of the New York club. lcuiating on last year's averages the clubs Tank as follows this year: Batting— nu, New York. Boston, Washinzton, lie, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cleveland. Chicago, Baltin St. Louis, Cinciunati feding—St. Louis, Washimgton, Chicago, Cin- emnau, Brooklyn, Pittsburg.’ Philadelph: Loutsville, Cleveland, Boston, New York, Balti: more. ihe first emphatic movement of the New York Base Ball Club toward geiting ready for the fierce battles om the diamond during the wing season was made yesterday by Manager Powers. He told each ‘player to report at Kichmond, Va., on March 20 and there go into training, whereby stiff joints will be limbered and frozen arms thawed out. ‘he team will stay at Richmond untu March 29. THE SILENT STEED. Bicyclers Must Now take a Rest Until Good Weather Comes. s Would vote | PROPOSED DATE OF THE NEXT MEET OF L. & W. IN THIS CITY—MR ATWATER DEFENDS HIS ACTION IN THE CASE OF ZIMMERMAN—INCREASE professional, although he says he is willing to give his reasons for his action. The prompt action, he says, which may be considered some as eummary, was fully justified by the circumstances. He says that his correspond- ence resulted in the collection of sufficient evi- dence to — any one that Mr. Zimmerman had violated clause D of the amateur rule, and was in his opinion liable to expulsion. Mr. Zimmerman, as all racers know, was de- clared a professional, and upon a telegraphic vote of the members of the board he was rein- stated. Mr. Zimmerman was anxious for an early decision, and the result of the vote was a reinstatement ot the rider, who expected to leave today for Europe to ride against some of England's good riders. DEFENDS BIS ACTION. Mr. Atwater claims that his action was just and says: “It seems to me that the N. ¥. A. Club people, if they are sincere in their desire to have Zimmerman represent them abroad, are the last persons on earth who should take offense at my action, inasmuch as had Zimmer- man gone to England without any action on the part of the racing board there is no doubt in the world but what he would have been pro- tested on account of the unfortunate Worcester affair. Personally I believe Zimmerman to be the straightest amateur we now have on the American path, and while he has undoubtedly violated the amateur rule in this case I am con- vinced that he did so from mere careiessnoss and without any desire to evade the rule or to Profit by so doing. I consider my action in the entire matter entirely above reproach aud think that all who desire to see the United States represented by its best man will applaud my action instead of censuring me.” In conclusion Mr. Atwater says he is glad that his term of oiice will soon éxpire and he says he will decline the chairmanship of any board next year. INCREASE OF LADY CYCLERS. The increase in numbers of lady cyclers, says the L. A. W. Bulletin, is an advance in a direc- tion which should meet with the approval of every wheelman. Laying aside the idea of en- larging the numbers of cyclers there is an un- derlying principle which should be foremost in the mind of every citizen of this country. ‘The physical improvement of the female portion of the community isa point which should be eu- couraged to ity fullest extent, and our sport presents a pleasant medium for the consumma- tion of this improvement. ‘That the women of this country are sadly deficient, with respect to | their physical condition, is a fact very much to be deplored. Social customs are to a great e tent answerable for this state, and on acco of the social polypus which says “na; tain things, otir young women find many branches “of sport, perfectly legitimate for their uses, forbidden to them. When the women of the United States throw subservieney to Mrs. Grundy to the winds and undertake the already too long delayed. exer- cise, then and not until then can we up as ideals for the worship of their male companions, Why should 1: nently social being, enjoy his ¢ fish way wher of us enjoy good work go on, and may the tribe of women cyclers never receive a setback. NOTES. An English rider, upon the bursting of his pneumatic tire while several miles from hom overcame the dificulty by strapping an inch and a half rope to the rim of the Barsted tir By this means he was enabled to ride home without iurther damage to the tire. A Kechester cyclist is suing an ice company for damages arising from his whee! being run over by one of the defendant's teams. ‘The eyele was standing at the curb. Defenduat claims that the cycle was an illegal obstruction in the street. a — THE AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION. The Central Association Wants a Change in Government. Secretary Sullivan of the Amateur Athletic Union has received the following letter from the secretary of the Central Association at De- troit: Dear Sir: At a meeting of the board of mana- gers of the Central Association of the Amateur Athletic Union, held in Detroit last evening, the following resolutiona were adopted: Resolved, That the Central Association of the Amateur Athletic Union is in favor of such | change or changes in the constitution of the union to the same form of government and management as existed before the adoption of the present plan, ; Resolved, That the secretary of this associa- | the records show aj A tion be instructed to communicate with the | secretary of the Amateur Atiletic Union, noti- | fying him of the foregoing actionof the board. | ‘thie is indeed stranger said Mr. Sullivan, ashe read the communication. “Under the | old form of government a board of fiftecn | controlied the athletics of the country. course, a majority of the board were xl by the clubs of this vicinity, and this nat caused an on members said that they saw no reason why bers. In order to satisfy them we organized what are known as divisions, eo that the clubs | of the different sections of the country could govern themselves. Now, strange to say, the Central Association wants the eastern clubs to lock after its interests again. The Amataur Athletic Union is composed about 200 clubs. Of this nun are in the metropolitan division could elect the whole board of wm: ‘The ebange in the managem letic union was made at the meeting held in Washington in 1890 and was known asthe Mille reorganization plan. ‘ihe scheme was Tuliy discussed then and appeared to with general favor as being fairer to the clubs outside New York and its vicinity. ———_ COLLEGE BOAT RACES. They May Be Kowed on the Hudson River at Newbury The Interecilegiate Rowing Association having finally determined to abandon New London in favor of the Hudson, its regatta committee, consisting of C. J. Shearn, rep- resenting Cornell University; mont, jr, of the University of Pennsylvania, and George Woodruff, Yale's old-time fam- ous oar, who is now Pennsylvania's coach, has been devoting the last few days to the exploration of the Hudson, with the view of finding @ suitable course for the races. The choice has narrowed down to the stream at Newburg and at Poughkeepsie, with Newburg decidedly, so far at least, the favorite in the judgment of the committee. ‘The reason for ‘the preference is plain. At Newburg a four- mile straightaway course can be obtained, ex- tending north of Fishkill Ferry up to Dams- kammer Point. It is sheltered from all winds except the easterly, and so, considering the time of the year when the race is rowed,smooth anag OF LaDy cycLERs. After a week's pleasant weather for bicycling within the .city limits the snow promises to cause another lengthy interruption, during which time pleasure seekers and club riders Each | Wl have to lay aside their wheels and again | content themselves with indoor sports. ‘Those clubs that have the privileges of club houses enjoy this season of the year, while the but in the good of the many iy of the beauties of the bya player was ned To insure its nfer- oung and Phelps Brown may Nistence was the objec ud the work of Me: e wath this to ge to Lo sou may not like Wa: won bs the whole the consolidated league to be overthrown? They can retir course, but if they want to stay in the leag: they must co what the league, through its rep- Teseutatives, Las decided is best for ail. SIGNING THE LOCAL MEN. Manager Barnie, as already stated in these columns, is not worrying himself much over Danny. He has returned from a trip to secure the names of several of the players and saw Doth the Richardsons. Hardie is quite enthu- sinstic over coming here and thinks we will havea great team. After Danny bad had a talk with Mc. Barnie he expressed himself very differently from what he did at first. There is little doubt of his coming around. It is either or stay in Elmira. Madiord, Du‘lee, Me- Guire, Dowd, Larkinand Foremen have thus far figned, and there are no indications that any will fail to come to time when Manager Barnie announces that all is ready’for the preliminary Warming-up in the eouth next month. BASE BALL NOTES. Boston has in Lowe about the best utility wan in the profession. , but for that r game | y Kichard- | al cannot always be con- | I writers who used to| The last gathering of this kind was necktie ld | and bonnet party given to the Nomads by Miss | others gather about the houses of their mem- bers and enjoy various sorts of amusements. Laura Wiley at her home on Carroll street last . | Wednesday. The gentlemen trimmed bonnets .d the ladies made neckties, and it is useless remark that the spring bonnets trimmed that uight will uot be worn by the iair riders of the sileut steed. ‘THE NEXT LEAGUE MEET. As the time for the annual meeting of the | league representatives approaches the question of the holding of the annual meet here next fall is being discussed. There is every indication that the meet will be held here in September. ‘The exact date cannot yet be stated. Secretory | Abbott Bassett was in favor of September 20,but Chief Consul Dyer of the Washington division Las written him that that date would be tvo near the Grand Army encampment and sug- gested that ten days earlier would be moro suitable, Not only would the earlier date be better on account of accommodations, but also because during the large crowd there would not be so much pleasure riding over the finest pavements in the world. It is likely,therefore, that September 8, 9 and 10 will be the time of the meoting- Another question being con- lered is that here sidered place wi races cision is being critici Chairman Atwater admits that in bicycle circles. water is practically assured. The current runs at a rate of but thr n hour, and as the stream at that point swells intu «sort of bay over a mile wide, all the crews can keep over to the westerly shore without the danger of a channel favoring one or other of them. ‘The stream at Poughkeepsie, on the other hand, which finds the favor of Capt. MeKee of Columbia, does not afford a three-mile stretch anywhere north of Poughkeepsie bridge unless the crews row across current. Worse than that, the stream is but 2,200 fect wide, and there is a strong midchapnel, so that the mid- dle crew would obtain a great advantage. ‘The accommodations for the crews at New- burg ere also superior. The crews could exch have « large farm house for their training quarters, while the town’s board of trad backed up by such prominent gentlemen as e Recorder Waring, Judge Prows of the court of appeals and the Hon. John J. Adams, ha agreed to erect boat houses for as many crews as shail row there, besides advancing from $2,000 to $3,000 to defray training expenses. Poughkeepsie will aiford the use of ber monetary item, but the training quarters there are not so good, and the committee seems to” think that the close vicinity of ‘the Vassar girls inay interfere with steady devotion to work. jost important of ull, Newburg is more con- venient for New Yorkers, and the eye of New York is what the association wants to catch. If the committee does finaily decide on Ne ery in the west. The western | they should be dictated to by the eastern mem- | * | of the ath-| B. Beau- | burg a unique advantage will be offered to vis- itors—an observation train running on the West Shore road parallel with the crews and only a few yards distant from the river will ac- company them along the course without asin- gle break in the view of the race, ‘The crews using the new Hudson course, whether at Newburg or Poughkeepsie, will be from Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia. Princeton and Bowdoin may possibly join next year, and itis quite on the cards, according to an’ authority in ‘Varsity boating circles, that if the new course turns out a success Harvard and Yale, at the expira- tion of their five years’ agreement to row at New London, wili also make their headquarters ROOM FOR IMPROVING. Col. Long Has Something to Say on a Matter of Importance, THE RECORDS OF THE YEAR. The District National Guard in = Generally Satisfactory Condition, but There is One Thing Lacking—Happenings Around the Armories and in the Gallery. ATIONAL GUARD records for the year just past are, on the whole, decidedly more satisfactory than the history of like periods in the existence of the brigade. In rifle prac- tice there has been won- derful improvement, although many com- panies fell wofully short of the mark. In drill and discipline there has been no falling off, the general char- acter and usefulness of officers is on a higher plane, and there is no lack of solid enthusiasm. But there has been one shortcoming where per- fection was easy of attainment and might rea- sonably have been expected. That was in the matter of papers. Adjutant General Long knows more abont the failure to make proper returns than any one else. He hax seen every er sent in and he has noted the absence of the papers which onght to have been sent, but were not. Responding to a request from’ Tar Sran Col. Long contributes the following re- marks on this interesting subject COL. LONG'S REMARKS. “The District of Columbia National Guard is progressive beyond all militia organizations and is in the van 1m the advanced practice of the military art. ‘This i mainly due to its in- dependence, the intelligence of its officers and men, the hearty interest they have in their work and the fostering care of the commanding general. In only one thing does there seem to bo an indifference, and that is in the failure to promptly and properly render their reports and returns, and this merits the severest cen- sure. ‘But there has been a very great improve- ment within the last in’ this regard, and hy and unconcern only among a few of the company commanders. It scems strange that these two or three co panies should, in other respects, rank among the very best in ‘onunand, Our officers, you know, owe th evation entirely to individual merit, and not to popularity or position. For they are tested by examination, and if net found wanting are commissioned. soldier's duties are manifold; he should understand and attend to ’ them all and be neglectful of none. Ceremony and form, beautiful precision and cadence are attraetive and hold the interest, but practically are of littie use. The highest qMiciency of a soldier 1s not alone precision y at drill. he drill idea is fre- den duty. y eatest pro- in ali the essentials is that which ranks the highest and is rated as the best. “The guardsman is attracted by the practical and coucerned ouly with the details necessary to ac in it. His limited time is naturally essentic!s. In other words, he to beconfe a good soldier in the shortest possible time, with the least possible effort. We try to help him in this and uo returns, re- ports or papers generally are simpler. briefer orplainer than ours. They have been prepared with care and unnecessary detail has been avoided. In fact their exceilénce has commended them to mzny of the states and they have been adopted as improvements on their own, so there is no exeuse for not properly and promptly rendering them. The neglect and inattention of the few, therefore, can now be construed only as a positive disobedience of ders, and as such will doabtless be dealt with ie U: il ch | in the future so far as property accountability ey sis gels tegen concerned, as well us in other important matters, “Headquarters is the repository for every- thing which relates to the personnel of the guard. Here the record of each officer and en- isted man is kept—in fact, his complete mili- tary history is preserved. "If company com- mander faila to forward the records (as indi- cated in reports and returns) of the enlisted men of his company he neglects a duty and 3 an injustice to the man, of which the lat- has a right to is naturally proud and desires to have etly recordes complain, of his" serv- it properly. In'the reg- ice, prompily and eo ular service th orable, but not persistent. tardy in this regurd is notified once, perhaps twice, then—weil, « court-martial follows. seldom his butar ity th It ppens that a false return is rendered, there is but one punishment under of war on conviction,and that is the 1g of the oft ‘the reports reach headquarters they are verified and filed for future reicrence. The recruiting service 18 here conducted aud the deaths, discharges and descrtions recorded. In the © of the guard bemg called into vervice the auditors or the pension office may call for information to assist in the settlement Kules for the keeping of records, he making of rolls aud returns, &c., e Leen furmshed each organizatio yure easy of comprehension and few in number 28 compared with those of the War Department. ‘The printed direction: indicate how they should be made 0 possible excuse for mistake, for delay, for misapprehension, ‘They are orders and must be obeyed.” JOLLY JACK Tans. Perhaps there may be organized in the District of Columbia a naval reserve battalion; perhaps there may not. Congress is to decide, nd as no one knows (not even Congress itself) ‘nat Congress is going to do the matter may fairly be regarded as atritledubious. The idea of a naval reserve battalion first beeams tangible something in the minds of a number of Naval Academy graduates now in civil life, many of them employes in the Navy Depart ment. ‘They have no taste for’ military mi work, but they would like to take an active part in the’ organi: that marine force which will be of ine value when this country finds it necessary to do alittle fighting with a foreign foe. Mr. Gront’s bill provides ‘that in addition to the companies of volunteer militia now authorized in the District of Columbia there ‘may be organized not more than four companies of naval militia, which shall constitute a battalion to be knowns the naval reserve battalion of the National Guard of the District of Co- lumbia.”* ‘The officers of this battalion are to consist of one commander and @ staff to consist of one adjutant, with the rank of lieutenant com- munder; one paymaster and one surgeon, each with the rank of lieutenant, and the following petty officers: One master-at-arms, one yeo- man, one apothecary and one chief bugler. Each compary is to consist of one lieutenant, one junior heutenant, two ensigns and not less than two nor more tian six crews, each crew to consist of not exceeding sixteen petty offi- cers and men, ‘The President is authorized to assign an offi- cer of the navy to act as adjutant of the bat- talion, and provision is made for the iusnance of all necessary stores by the Navy Depart- ment upon the requisition of the general com- manding the District National Guard. Au- thority is granted the Secretary of the Navy to provide such fecilities for the practice and in- struction of the battulion as he may deem ex- pedicnt. He may also detuil such commis- sione] and petty oflicers of the navy (for ser- bridge as a grand stand and will’ also add the j Vie #8 instructors) a# may to him seem proper and necessary. VETERANS TO THE FRONT AND CENTER. When company A, third battalion, appears on parade in regulation full dress uniform, then some of the other companies may wish they bad striven more strenuously to lead the brigade in the matter of attendance. The ac- companying letter needs no explanation: Heapguartens Distuict oF Convmata Wasurxcrox, D. C., February 2, 1892. Maj. T, B. Hannisox, third battalion, D.0.N.G.: ir offered “a Under Par. VI, G. 0. 23, series of 1890, T itable trophy to the com that has the largest average percentage ance ut regularly ordered drills, parades, rifle pigetice snd encampment during the i ‘The records for the year are not yet com- lete, but they are sufficiently so to indicate company A of your bat is entitled to the trophy. “It is worthy-of special mention and pica Er al that "he deeming it best to leave that to the wishes of the company winning it. I would be giad if rou will sabmit the matter to company A to indicate their wishes. The trophy may be some suitable bronze or silver ornament for the company, a badge or medal for each man of the company, or, if they prefer it, a fall-drees uniform for the company. If they should select the latter please have the men carefully measured and give mea memorandum of the number of helmets, uni- form coats and trousers required and the sizes ofeach wanted, Respectfully yours, ALBERT Oxpway, Brigadier General, D. C. Militia A SCRAP OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION. There is probably no urgent demand for ad- ditional artillery in the District National Guard, 80 the local soldiery may not be very much interested in the bill introduced in the Honse some days ago by Representative Cut- ting of San Francisco. The measure provides that on the application of the governor of any state or territory the Secretary of War is au- thorized to issue, for the sole use of tho Na- tional Guard of the state or territory making application, any three-inch " muzale-loading rifle field guns, wrought iron,or three and two- tenths-inch breech-loading ' rifle field guns, steel, or machine (Hotchkiss or Gatling) oF rapid-fire guns with limbers, carriages, caix- sons, implements and harness for the ‘same which may be on hand and not immediately needed for the service of the regular forces. Provision is made that no more than four guns pith equipments shail be issued to any state or territory having less than five thousand regu- larly enrolled, enlisted and uniformed active militia, Specific reference is made to the power of the District National Guard to draw such stores. BUSY ENGINEERS. The engineer corps held its usual monthly meeting on Monday evening Samuel I. Scott, 8. B. Wetherald were enlisted for the rifle platoon, George H. ‘Tichenor for the construc- tion platoon and Arthur E. Middieton for the enginecring platoon. Lieut. ‘thompson preeented the sharpshoot- ers’ crosses to the following members of the rifle plitoon: A, Color Sergeant E. E. Alger (score 325), Corporal P. W. Blazer (331), Cor- IC. W. Dickey ($58), G. W. Albertie (323), C.W. Hecox (337), G. 5 ). Geo. (320); also to W. G. Stew- platoon’ put. F. L. Graham (373), Sergt. W. A. Edwards (352), Sergt. A. O. Hutterly (74), having each won & cro:s last year, were uot entitled to one this Ritle practice is being taken up by the en- gincer corps with great and general interest this year. Albert Jonas is to instruct a class in mathe- matics, beginnin, ¥y 6, Lieut. Thompson wiil give practical instruction in map mount ing, &c., February 10 and Lieut. Graham wiil g talk on “How to Shoot Febru= n appropriation was made of $60 for and for periodicals. GALLERY SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK. Rifle practice will take place at the gallery during next week as follows: Monday—Companies B and D, second bat- y—Company A, second battalion. jay—Company A, sixth battalion. ‘Thureday—Companies A'and C, first separate battalion. NoTEs. The following named enlisted men of the third battalion having made the required per- centages in their examination before the bat- talion board of examination and been regular in their attendance at drills are, upon the recommendation of their company command- ers, & orals: Private J. D. Leeman, company te W. F. Grooms, company B; Private E. Schwenk, company B; Private Frank J. Sylvester, company D. Mounted drills lave been indulged in during the past two weeks by the cycle company. Twenty-nine names are now on the rolls and there is promise of y more. GLIMPSES OF KOYALTY. The Family C le at Oxborne House—Be- trothals Announced. The family circle at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, now includes only the Prince of Wales and family and the Duchess of Albany and her children. The queen is suffering from a more'acute form of rheumatism than usual, especially in her knees. A court report adds that she is sub- | ject to long spelis of depression, varied by at- tacks of irritability. Her physicians deny that there is any cause for alarm. Dr. Jenner's recent visits to Osborne House, which caused considerable talk, wers made in accordance with his custom of seeing the queen at fixed intervals. Ex-Empress Frederick will go to Windsor Castie in the spring with Princess Margaret, when it is expected that the latter's marriage with Prince George will be settled. Although the public announcement of the betrothal is postponed Emperor William looks with favor on the match. Princess Margaret has the repu- tation at court of being the most English of the ex-empress’ daughters, She speake the English guage without a trace of German accent, tends the Engiish church in Berlin rally imbued with English tastes. Viscount Chelsea, son of Earl Cadogan, who was for some time asuitor for the hand of Princess Mand of Wales, hus become engaged to Mildred, daughter of Lord Alington. 1 hiarriage will unite the families of the two | greatest. ground landlords in London, whose wealth is enormous. ‘The Prince of Wales favored the viscount’s suit, but Naud did not. The Prince of Wales with Prince George drove from Osborne House yesterday to view the wreck of the stexmer Eider. The sea was not rongh and Prince George proposed to take a coast guard boat and board the wreck. The Prince of Wales, however, declined to accom- any his son the proposal was dropped. Both listened with interest to the story of" the disaster. ‘Ihe Prince of Wales expressed equal admiration for the rescuers and for the per- sistence of the captain in remaining by his vessel. ———— How a Scientist Died. From the London Telegraph. It is not often that a dying man regards his approaching dissolution with the scientific serenity of the venerable Dr. Richet, who was carried off the other day by congestion of the lungs, _ He was attended by his son, a professor of physiology, and by another medical man, and while ill actually delivered a lecture on the development of his terrible malady, deseribing its symptoms and detailing its prosress with a more than stoical calmness and indifference to his fate. Stranger still, he said that when those who were attending him observed certain signs in the course of the disease his death would be only a matter of a few seconds, His last words were, “You see I am dying!” and it may be said that Richet predicted the very moinent of his death. ‘This “strange cave” as- stredly would have furnished a fertile theme for some of the older and abler writers of weird fiction. ——— To the Mourners. [Tennyson's Tribute to the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale.) ‘The bridal garland falls upon the bier, ‘The shadow of a crown that o'er him hung Has vanished in the shadow cast by Death; So princely, tender, truthful, reverent, pure. Mourn! ‘Tliat a world-wide Empire, mourns with You, That all the thrones are clouded by your loss, Were slender solace. Yet be comforted; For if this earth be ruled by Perfect Love, ‘Then, after His brief range of blameless days, ‘The toll of funeral in an Angel ear Sounds happier than the merriest in: bell. ‘The face of Death is toward the Sun of His shadow darkens earth; his truer name 1s “Onward,” uo discordance in the roll, And march of that Eternal Harmony Whereto the worlds beat time, tho’ faintly heard— Until the great Hereafter mourn in hope. ———~eee ‘Turning the Tables. Good cat ve oyer soca. Take Wt down cad NEWSPAPER WORK. ‘The First of a Series of Talks on Its Various Phases. ‘MR. FRED PERRY POWERS SPEAKS ON THE RELA- TION OF THE PRESS TO THE PUBLIC IN THE Y. M. CA. BUILDING—SOME CRITICISMS OF NEWSPAPER MANAGEMENT ANSWERED. The first of the series of talks on phases of newspaper work by newspaper men at the ¥. M. C. A. building was given last ovening by Mr. Fred Perry Powers. The weather was such astobe a powerful reason for comfortably ‘Staying at home, butin face of that fact the acious parlors were filled with a large and interested audience. With a few brief words of introduction from Mr. W. B. Bryan the lecturer of the evening spoke on the theme of “Tho Relation of the Press to the Public.” Mr. Powers’ forcible and incisive style and his keen and witty threste, os some time-honored mis- conceptions were thorough! and ap- preciated by his hearers oe wnat 18 xEWs? He spoke at the outset of the unreasonable but at the same time universal and instinctive human feeling of pleasure in the vehicle that brings us welcome intelligence. You areunder no more obligations to the letier earrier than You are to the policeman, he said, but you have & more friendly feeling for him. ' The converse of this sentimiont, the dislike for the vehicle that brings us unwelcome intelligence, is more often met in literature. But wi ald the newspapers bo bearers of ill news? ‘Is brings us directly to the question, What is news? Mr. Powers cited ‘the case of a gen- tleman who called on a family of friends who had been out of — the country for some time. He asked all the usual uestions. The travelers had not been ill a day, They had not lost their trunks. Abso- lutely nothing had gone wrong with them. When they had completed their narrative the gentleman remarked, in affected disgust: “You haven't given me a Particle of news take home.” The speaker said_ that he did not give this illustration as an exact or exhaustive defi- nition of news, but merely as a suggestive deti- nition that news is something exceptional. The newspapers, he said, are sometimes bitterly criticised by those who may be called the nice people because they devote so much attention to crimes and to the weaknesses of humanity. ATTENTION TO CRIME. The papers, the speaker said, devote less at- tention to these things than they are charged with doing. He called attention to the fact, however, that crime is quite out of the ordinary run or it would not be news. It occupies more space in the papers than it does in actual life, becanse the papers are not photographs of the body politic in which every detail isreproduced, but sketches of the saiient features of life, car- toons showing the striking and unusnal ele- ment of hfe. An idea of Washing- ton is given to strangers by showing them pictures of scme of the public buildings and views of Pennsylvania avenue. But your friends do not infer that Washingto: is made up of huge public buildings and a ei gle street. It is the unusual that you show when you show Washington. He spoke of the criticism based on an examination of the col- umns of a leading newspaper and the allegation that the accounts of the murders, suici dals, <c., constituted a microcosm of American life and manners. A SERIES OF VIEWR. Butthe epeaker maintained a newspaper's con- tents are not a microcosm of life, but a se: of views. He was glad that the trial of a min- ister for immorality isa piece of news worth a quarter of a colunin, that a difference between @ husband and a wife is so umusual an occur- Tence as to be worth a quarter of acolumn. A murder, he said, is certainly worth « column and the scandals of the British nobility might as well be exposed. “You would take,” he observed, “an asbestos umbrella and a boiler- plate overcoat with you if you had to enter a place where virtue and peace and trath and ‘openness were news. ou would not dare stay over night in a city where the purity of a minister, the harmonies of a married life, the sobriety of a church member, the honesty of a merchant Were worth a quarter of a column or a whole column each on the first page of the leading morning paper. I know of only one city where atwas deemed worth mentioning by a father that his daughters were virtuous, and it is not surprising that on the following day a storm of fire and brimstone blotted that cit istence and destroyed every resi cept the members of Lot's fatuil; m Lot's wife perishes for thinking regretfully of such an infamous place fou may have concluded by this time that you do not like news and want your newspaper to be something other than a newspaper. ‘the press is not the only thing that as been de- nounced for not beimg something other than it is. Plenty of people have denounced the church because it was not a monastery, or a commune, or an emancipation society, or a total absti- or a reform club.” To KEEP THINGS QUIET. As to the amount of space in the newspapers given to crimes, the speaker suid that it was over-estimated, and quoted from « statistical estimate was made of the contents of the papers in six largest cities. From this data it was found that if twenty minutes is given to looking over the morning papers a pro rata distribution of attention would give about two minutes to crimes. He spoke of marrow- nded, short-sighted people who imagine that ¢ publication of criminal news promotes crimes. They are always eager to hush crerything up. They want to keep things quiet. Ifeverything is not all Fight ger Who told her Antony If there be crime it had better Le “Ishould like,” he added he people who imagine the newsp: ake promoting crime tell me whether crime 1s anew thing. TLelieve there was a good deal of it before the art of printing was invented.” THE MISUSED WORD “SENSATIONAL.” In reference to the word séusatiogal as de- scriptive of newspaper matter the speaker re- marked that this word is much misused. “The sensational theory,” he said, “is the event and not its treatment. A paper cannot make a sensation out of a thing that is not in itself sensational. It attempis its occasionally and the result is ridiculous. When people speak of a sensational account they generally mean one that gives the details. For myself admit that I want the details where the event is of special interest. I do not think thatI ama person of morbid tastes or criminal pro- clivities, but I have reada good many de- tailed accounts of hangings and prize fights, though I never saw one of either and have no desire to be a spectator on such occasions. I have read voluminous accounts of an electro- cution at which no newspaper man was mitted to be present. I suppose a member of the Society ot Friends might read a detailed account of the battle of Gettysburg without THING AND NOT WHAT I8 SAID. ‘The sensation inheres in the thing and not what is said about it, and the corrupting in- fluence of the details is not much greater than that of the general statement of the act. A suicide often leads to ayother suicide. In some instances a train robbery seems to have sug- gested another one. After the recent attempt to blow up Russell Sage two or three feeble imitations were attempted. In each of these cases the simplest statement of the event would have carried just as much of sugges- tion to unbalanced minds and demoniac hearts as detailed accounts did. And where the mind is diseased or the heart harbors a devil suggestion is as hikely to come from one source asanother. The school teacher who cautioned the io not to scream “Wire” or “Mariar” lest it — be perrrepriced fire ——— as some of these c of newspapers, but tet the whole school to raising huss however: is due not to any an pose, but to incompatibil of temperament. On account of this the tone of the press seems to the church flippant and offensive, and that Srime af ail-cid Church ‘and proms are #0 crime o} arc! exceeding unlike that they can scareely under- stand ench - other enough to each other justice. The newspaper by its very in for some- e to befouling the reputations of good men. This accusation i# not true. The most atrocious libel of modern politics never dui get fully into the Papera, and it got into hardly any newspapers except afew obscure ones. So far as known it would never have got into the papers at all | but for the pernicious zeal of a man, who, he regretted to say, was @ minister, who told it for publication, and, in spite of an enormous Political temptation, it was very sparingly ab uded to ine press. The public scandals of the past twenty-dve yeara. have affected a very small number of men. When the statement is made that no man's reputation is aafe from an unbridied press it should be considered how few public men have had their characters assailed. There are any number of men prom- at in the affairs of the government and re- combats : and sobric newspaper ever cast a suspicion. Think for a moment of the enormous diversity of views among all the newspapers of this country and of the intensity with which the papers of each Party defend poiiticians of their own stripe, even when the strip it will be seen bow ridicuious ts the ides at aman can be hounded into obscurity or the grave by the unanimous assaults of the scurrilous press when he has afforded no excuse for it. HONESTY IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS. He spoke of the honesty which characterized the management of public affairs at the present time and said that be knew of no countries here the press is more respectful of public men than Russia and Turkey, nor any other country where there is so much roguery in high life. Nowhere, he said, are men less privileged from comment and Criticism by the press than in England and the United State and nowhere is the standard of intelligence, in- tegrity and loyalty to public intereste highe: ‘The speaker maintained that a newspaper. is not indifferent whether the news it publishes be true or not. The papers take a great deal of trouble often to establish. the truth or the reasonable probability of what they publish, It Gothamites. TORK SCOW MEN AT SEA—THE TRIAL—THE SAVANTS OF TH HE EXCISE 1 through their counse Practically does aw: the liquor sellers are next Monday. be heard in opposition t next Tharsday, but in y this question it is doubtful will amount tomuch. A very str ent in the « in active resentment of Sen shod methods in forcing the Here, too, is the text for a great which is to be held im the are some indicat: nervous over the sit nothing yet appeared eation of his program. WORSE THAN a Row or have just spent a week in court records nor Bancroft's History of the 7 ungainly United States before there was any United States. In conclusion the speaker remarked that publicity is light and hight is life and health. Itshows much that 1s repulsive, but | CTUi*e in a heavy mud sec do not imagine that it caused it. Few ‘have | Provisions milk had their p y invaded by a prying press or | S12 ® Bale their characters assailed.” If the really the enemy of the communit: hold, the communit remedy for it ere thn ‘The second lecture in this course will be de- livered on Friday evening of next week by Mr. Francis E. Leupp, the correspondent of the New York Zoeuny Post THE CHESS WORLD. press was us some would have found some chart or sail or rudder, a miles from their start Verne might touch it off, to really do it justi confidence and the grap! our youti, Baron Mun viously been supp position in the street-ci Was required to possess a knc science of navigatic The Havaua Match—Problems, Games, Sola- tions—Notes. The score stands 6 to 5 and 4 draws in Tschigorin’s favor. Steinitz by winning three out of the five last games has nearly equalized matters. Itlooks now asif Steinitz is beginning one of those extraordinary runs for which he is s0 famous. The most notable was in his match with Zukertort in 186 for $4,000 and the cham- | pionship of the world. With the score heavily lish champion’s favor and when his victory was confidently expected, Steinitz, by agniticent combinations, scored neafter game and finally won the match with a large margin to spare. In the present there are signs of the play getting out of the rut of two knights’ defenses and Evans mits, into which it has fallen, as ‘Tschigorin | Adopted the Ruy Lopez in the eleventh game and it is to presumed that Steinitz will gladly make a similar change. PROBLEM No. &7 (TOURNEY No. 3). (Composed for The Evening Star.) capped. read the unsavory is unacknowledged girl wite. feeling seems to be th: plann breath leave responsible body being, believing in him as im Rocent young wite one could truthfully murderer. an tration of ber theories? ‘White to play and mat in two (2) moves. Bs request we publish the following games from the match pending at Havana. We are compelled through lack of space to omit notes, but queries will be promptly answered by woman, not to speak of the the editor. Sixth Game—Two Knights’ Defense. White—Steinitz, 1 PKS was ascending the steps PKA KE BS he rg ia ‘d room. If they escape over. One energetic meter in itor and several NEW YORK NOTES. Topice of the Day That Are Interesting the THE EXCISE LEGISLATION AT ALBANY —THE 3EW RIS MORO TOMEN ENJOYING THEMSELVES—AN ATHLETIC YOUNG WOMAN. Special Correspondence of The Fvenine Star. New Yor, Feb. 4, 1892. LATION AT bany threatens to be as bad as it cam be. The liquor dealers of the state, who have @ very compact and powerful organization, . introduced @ bill which with all the restrictions which have grown up about the business, Sunday liquor selling from 1 o'clock in the afternoon to 1 in the morning is allowed. Policemen are forbidden toenter the saloons for evidence, and other features intended to give fall play to acluded in the measure. There is to be a mass mocting of all the tem- Perance or excise reform associations held bere & delegation will AL- bave, Albany on wof the record on if these protests The air, however, is full . because on more general lines the cratic party tarisen i's rough- L ‘The classic three wise men of Gotham whe went tosea ina bowl may be considered sane — Rag igen pe to “. heme. | Me systematic sailors beside the crews of the Paper and — not a transcript of the | 2°™Ping scows. ‘The last couple to be rescued It hi state convention. ne that Senator Hill tse little sen in one of those Tatt. I said last week that this adven- ture was worthy of one of Clark Russell's lurid sea tales, but when two men take « week’ vlowing and” abs seas running literally mountains high, without nd arezpicked up 160 K place as good as new, thongh their trasty vessel was sinking under them, Clark Russell is simply not in it. Jules 7 Stevenson oF per- haps Kider Haggard could throw in a few pe- ® turesque details for artistic verisimilitude, bat would require thechildli pen of that friend of a8 Dot to be eligible for # ning departiaent one > ge of the . but hereafter a striet examination in this branch will doubtless be Instituted, for navigators certainly need to be well instructed who are so heavily hand A THOROUGE-PACED VILLAIN. People who seldom trouble themselves to ils of © murder trial have been following with real interest the trial of Harris, the young medical student who bas just been convicted of deliberately poisoning The universal the verdict ix a just ‘one and that the world will be well rid of such amoral monster. With their usual calm im- partiality the experts have testified to the most contradictory conclusiohs, but nothing seems to shake the fact that this inan,though #0 young, has been for years a systematic villain, nd executing Lis crimes deliberately and without remorse or shame. Noone bas heard from his lips a syllable of pity for the poor young girl whom he doomed to suffering und death, iis only thought when he saw the ‘Shall I be beid It has been indeed see his mother faituiully beside him every day, itly as did the p2utident thet mo y her darling eon was It is difticult to believe thats man capable of such cold-blooded cruelty was ever alittle innocent baby in his mother's arma, or ® toddling boy saying his prayers at ‘bis mother's knee. And isit not the very irony of fate that buta few years ago his mother, before & great assemblage of women in the Metropoli- tan Opera House, made an address on the Proper training of children, which was indorsed by Miss Frances’ Willard, who ‘that Mrs. Harris’ own children were so admir- ably brought up that they were e living illus- tic to BE SELECTED THE WRONG VicTTH. ‘The modern athletic training of women is not only an ornamental thing, as is shown in the figure and complexion of theathletic young costumes her exercises demand, but at times also it proves its usefulness. The young woman who as sbe ‘of the elevated with her arms full of the results of a day felt in the pocket of her jacket a aa ts O33 was armed for just this €1 ne} PR contained her purse, with was left after ne ber day's shopping und the return ticket to hur Eg” suburban home. With the true in BR stinct, she preferred to her bundles the 4 ures of the chase, and dropped them im time to eu b the man Kto5 gral gt it from her pocket. She cheerfully tumbled ay down stairs with him rather than loose her 4) Bap ne grip, and arrived at the bottom still holding it QS ch K-Ktre fast and calling loudly for help. Help soon = g — came, aud the valiant young woman kept her Hiktiea Kp purse and, let us hope, regained ber bundles fi Fs je METER FIEND. THE GAS re: Gite) = hecogect Another peril seems to be added to the mam- > = ifold dangers of tenement house life. The luck- M_—— Steck Steintts, | lees inhabitants nightly expect to be burned in AER PKS their beds, to say nothing of their chances of having smalipox or typhus fever in the next these dangers and their children do not assassinate themselves by tall- ing down the dark and narrow stairways there is still the active gas meter ready to bowl them basement of four-story tenement on Park avenue got in ite work so eflectually on Tuesday that in one night it nearly succeeded in cleaning out the whole house, and would have quite succeeded had it not been interrupted by an officious jan- ‘men, Who smashed win- dows and skylights recklessly. The 2 ties of leaky meters and occasional eulcides are 3 suilicient to keep lodgers on the alert. $ ‘THE SAVANTS OF THE KITCHEN. $ Noone who looked in at the Metropolitan 8 iP Opera House assembly rooms Tuesday night » K'Qen would have fancied there was any scarcity of xh ch cooks in Ne in spi nu in Now York, in. epite of the frequent SOLUTIONS AND SOLVERS. Contestants in the new solving tourney are cawa reminded of the act that variations must be sent with solutions. or heard of a lamentations of housekeepers to ‘There were perfect cohorts of cooks frisking around in as lively a manner as if they never iron. For the annual ball of the French cooks was in full : ound oy As" . a 3 lively occasion, tat ROH EO Found Ly as N" Boutrite Dust and was, as usual, a prety ively Rey Riad vratiy ates. i Edt by tyrannical employers to broil the beeisteak Jedierim 0. L. Motated, B.A. Cooley. and wash the ‘and scrub the sink. These ee Ginter =" 79. Has three k 7, Q-BS and RxP at Kix All_thrve Wound by AoW. Bente nee | found by gy gt ee LY. sis Mosiad MB Radort: ad tind A.V. E ‘Boatnite, F. A. Cooley, Mleintz, FA Cooley. QO four ke v. rhe tour Rech. Sec O'Farrel and Knight still hold first and sec- ond places in the home club's championship tourney with scores of 7—1 and 9—$ respectively. of 4—3, pressed 6—5. The Von ‘Sclove-Walbrodt match bas been given up as a draw, each player having 4 wins to his credit. We learn from the New Orleans Times- ‘Tm I the hymenea! market, 10 will buy? tired from base ball has become greatly inter- ested in amateur athletics. He takes an especial pride in the Chicago Athletic Club, which will soon have a fine club house. Mr. Spalding said that the Chicago A.C. will be the greatest in Temowent s06 ay VS maee,