Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1894, Page 9

ee aaa te THE EVENING stan, MONDAY, AtousT’ 43, 1894-TEN PAGES, STREET SWEEPING Superintendent ‘Davis ‘Fells How the Work is Done: THE CONTRACT. AND DAY S¥SteMy Se evare e vraee The Cost of Sweepirig Less Here Than Elsewhere. THE AID OF CITIZENS ecg ae ‘The annual report of A. H. S.” Davis, the Superintendent of the department which has charge of the sweeping of the streets and the alleys of the city, has been submit- ted to the District Commissioners. It gives 2 summary of the work of the year and Presents in tabular form the area swept each month, the cost and the cubie yards of debris removed. According to this table the largest amount of sweeping for any one month was done during last August, when an area of 20,108,161 square yards was Swept at a cost of $7,057. The lowest record Was made during the month of February, When 7,519,224 square yards were swept at @ cost of $1,828. The total cost for the year of the sweeping was $60,162. In regard to keeping Pennsylvania avenue elean, the report has the following to say: ‘So far as the work of the scraper gang or this magnificent avenue, im which all residents take commendable .pride, is con- cerned, it needs no special approval from Me, having been’ So unusually good the past year as to call out favorable comments from citizen and stranger alike.” From July 1, 189% to January.-3t, 1894, the work was done by the District at a total cost of $7,757.25. From the latter date to the end of the fiseal year a contractor €arried on the work of sweeping the avenue, and the cost to the District wai $3,947. Making a total cost for the year of $1 T4i.s0; a saving of $15.40,per day was ef- fected by giving the work out By contract, which included the privilege to the con- tractor of owning the Sweepings. “During the past year,” the report states, “the area cleaned has been extended, on Pennsy!vania ayenue from Washington Circle to Rock creek, and alfo by the ad- ition of New York ayenue from 14th street ® 15th street, making a total afea of 167,- 881 square yards.” - The cost of cleaning the tmprovéed alleys Was $13,341.71. During the early part of last year the cleaning of the unimproved alleys and streets was.done by a gang of Jaborers employed by the District. Since April last all this class of work. was per- formed under contract at a cost of $71 per day for forty laborers and eleven carts. Complaints Were Few. - ever in the history of this department, states the report, “have so few °complaints as to streets and alleys been received, a though the summer of 18% must long be femembered as one of unsparing criticism of all public officials having to do with the sanitary condition of the city, on ac- count of the cholera scare. But sixty-five ¢omplaints as to streets and forty-five as to aileys were received—a total of 110, of Which but fifty-three needed attention. “As com with the severe winter of 1802-98 that of 1893-04 was like continuous autumn weather. During the former period the contractor was paid $4,333.48 for remov- ing snow and ice. During the latter, how- ever, only three days’ work in February was done, involving the expenditure of $092.59. The unimproved alley gang was also employed two days in December, three days in February and two days in March in removing snow and ice from street cross- ings, entrances to alleys and sidewalks in front of school houses.” - The total cost of thé service for the year, including superintendence,.{s stated fo be $124,802.45, which left a balance of the appropriation amounting to $297. Will Prebably Cost More. “Taking it as a whole,” says the super- intendent, “if there is a system of sweeping and cleaning the streets and alleys of a ity superior to that in operation in the flties of Washington and Georgetown, or fone that gives better results for money ex- pented, I can obtain no evidence‘of it, after §orrespondence on the subject with super- ntendents of street cleaning departments ‘of all the principal cities of this_country. ‘Certainly the work is nowhere done more ‘economically. So far as the sweeping of four paved streets is concerned, however, jt must be admitted that the commerenriee 7-24 1-4 cents per 1,000 square yards—is un- questionably too low, and that when the ferm of the contract expires, as it ‘will on June 30, 1807, the Conmnissioners (will probably have to allow from 25 to 30 cent more. When it was entered upon e contractor had in view a machine ich he believed would sweep and take up dirt at the same time. Had this proved e he would today bé saving about 33 per coven: (ie alf-mnethed and snabiem some ing handsome out of’ the operatton. tract price for the” preceding five years’ eeping was 35 cents per 1,000 square aris. But, aside from this, the small ‘comparative expense attending the work {incidental to this department may also be ly accounted for from the fact that litical bargaining and promise have no istence here as a controlling factor; con- when a man proposes. to to his bids large enough to cover polit- assessments and other incidental cam- ugn expenses, but places his figures at e lowest price, “But residents of our two cities are in- lebted not so much to Congress as te the mtractor for the exceptionally clean dition of their streets and avenues dur- the past year, as under the old regime € more than two-thirds of the sweeping cleaning that was done last year coul stbly have been done. At the old price % cents—the sweeping of last year, 04,425 square yards, would have cost $33.05, or $26,670.13 more than was paid, Qnd just that much more than the appro- Pyiation of $125,000 for the total expenses ~¢ this department for that period would ave warranted.” Streets Swept Daily. “The thirty-two streets and avenues pwept every day (Sundays excepted) are Wew York avenue from 13th west to léth West, Vermont avenue from H north to omas Circle, C north from New Jersey enue to 8th west, D north from 5th west loth west, E north from Sth west to nsylvania avenue, F north from Sth to LSth west, G north from 5th west fo Isth west and from 17th west to 22d ‘west, H north from 13th west to 19th ws77 north from 6th west to 7th wes> ‘yycu ana at intersection of 7th and * “1. West from B south to F north “.4 West froin ——— avenue i") north, 3d west “ ennsylvanid “venue to D north, 41 fkest from Mis>“urj “avenue to D north, Sth es Fe north to G north, th west Me sourt avenue to G north, 7th west fo". onorth to Mt. Vernon Square, sth est from C north to F north. ?th west m & north to Mt. Vernon Square, 10th fwest from B north to New York avenue, ith west from Little 33 to York ave- h west from i3 north t> New York venue, 13th west fron B ner to New fin w Ivth west from B = to ort 1 and 161-2 from Pennsy eee crcaad to H north, 16th west from H orth to K north, 17th west irom & north K north, Louisiana avenue from EB north loth west, New Jersey avenue from 3 orth to D north, Connecticut avenue from “north to I north. Number of daily e ‘Sumber of square yards, 287,682. rhe grand total shows that 522 streets a, id segregating square yards, to be swe every week. w2 square yards of streets six ‘k, 506,731 Square yards three Square yards twice and 3,47 ards but once a week, Or, of ands of paved streets r half were swept but Thomas Circle, specting the Work. “In several cities contractors are required do report to the superintendent of nage fleaning, within four hours after their work fpas been done, the streets or parts of Btreets swept. The superintendent or a theft makes examination of the ets reported swept, and if satisfled-with manner ff which the work was per- | the superintendent enters in a book th Ga | able matter néw throw kept for ‘that purpose the names of the streets and parts of streets, with the linear feet in measurement of the work so ac- oepted,. Whatever portion of the work “ts not satisfactory the contractor is given no credit for. . “Under our system. the eontractor has: nothing to do with informing ‘the superin- tendent of the amount of work done. That duty devolves upon the three inspectors employed by this department, who follow the machines and carts from the time they commence the route until ‘It is finished, when they maké a written report on blanks’ prepared for the purpose, to the superm- tendent, designating the streets not swept and those not properly swept and cleaned. As soon as -possible after sweeping the superintendent rides over the route him- self. If he concurs with the inspectors the contractor's account is made out in tripll- cate, on blanks containing the names of the streets, with number of square yards swept. After making the necessary re- ductions for streets ‘not swept, ‘not prop- erly swept one-half off,’ ‘dirt not properly taken up,’ etc., these vouchers show the amount due the contractor. After being signed by the three inspectors and approved by the superintendent two are placed on file, one for the office and one for the au- ditor, and the third is sent to the con- traetor. “At the close of each month an account is made out, giving the number of square yards swept during each day of the month, with total amount due the contractor. This account, approved and certified by the superintendent, accompanied by one of the above vouchers for each route swept, then goes to the District auditor, who pays the contractor the amount found to be due him. If the contractor believes he has been unjustly dealt with by the superintendent, he may appeal to the Commissioners. I be- lieve that this prompt method of determin- ing the quantity and quality of work per- formed is the best. It can hardly be dis- puted that the most fitting time to intelli- gently inspect work is when it is in prog- ress, and the most proper persons to fix | compensation for inferior work are those | who saw it done, and everybody must admit | that the system is less liable to error and | comparatively free from opportunities for | wrongdoing. In this way it is virtually im- bossibie for the contracto: to receive pay for work not performed. pose of of su s its introduc | well as dad make even an attempt to clean up after them... In these instances, as im those just referred to, where the streets are swept but once a week, this department should ngt be blamed.” he Fypert refers to the neglect” of! lot owners to keep the dirt, etc., from washing down, also to the dirt scattered about in the butlding and repair of street railroads, and to the carelessness of persons who aré per- mitted to tear up streets for the purpose of putting down gas and water pipes and sewers, Pash Cart Patrol. “Inféseveral of our large cities they Nave what is called the “push cart patrol,” who collect in barrels horse droppings and other refuse found upon the streets. In Boston thirty-eight push carts are in daily servic and twelve more ready for work when and where wanted. When the barrels are filled they are taken to street carts und emptied, and the refuse is taken to the dumping scow and towed to sea. All persons having permits to sell frult are required to keep a barrel in front of their stores, where it will obstruct the sidewalk as little as possible, at the same time being conspicuous enough u ion of any refuse which otherw thrown into the street. Ka be bears the sign, ‘Public wasie barrel. P| hb. “el put rubbish in this barrel street.’ Eighty-nine of these chased from the stre order to secure uni and lettering, have during the past ed in from one to f tents regularly ca cart patrol. The cost in Boston last year was we can scarcely expe r provision fcr at the capital city wi arrel systeni Boston tried cn nd tha 1 pr atter, the hoard lirect some oft ment to v nd not in barreis, cleaning div. m i been gest that a that in be system refer} Dispos: The report The Paved Ateyx. “Next in importance to sweeping and | cleaning our paved streets comes the work | of taking care of the paved alleys, whose | Surface ag@regates some 601,000 yards. The work has been done by tract for a series of years—for the ended June 30, 1892, for 29 cents per 1,000 square yards; for year ended June 39, 1893, | for 38% cents, and for fiscal year just ended, | S81-2 cents. The cause of the jump from | 3% cents to 581-2 cents may be called one | of the anomalies of the contract system. | The 331-2 cents bid was the lowest. and | that Is all there was of It. Some disgruntled | contractors claimed that it was because this department specified the number of | men, horses and carts that it required to | do the work. But if any system of pro- | posals can be less objectionable, or more | just te the contractor and the Dtstric 1} wish some person would name it. When | the number, or strength, of the force re- | quired is given, the contractor is not asked | to make @ leap in the dark—he knows what will be required of him and can bid intel- gently. “But by way of proof against the theory that to specify just what you want, wh advertising for proposals, is wrong, be cause of its causing high bidding, let me | add that the contract cleaning the paved alleys, under precisoly similar specifications and requirements to those which resulted in the 5% 1-2 cents con- tract, has just been made for 42 2-5 cents per 1,000 square yards for the year ending Jane 30, 1895. i “Our system of cleaning these improvel by-places, which, in many instances, are used for concealing matter that ordinarily decent folk would shrink from placing in more exposed places, Is unequaled in point of excellence and for the dispatch and reg- ularity with which the work is done. “As in the street sweeping branch of the service, so in this, if for any reason the contractor fails to sweep any portion of that route the Inspectors note the excep- tions and the contractor receives no allow- ance for it. Prevent Disease. “The work done by the unpaved alloy gang ‘s also as little understood by the general public, but it is of incomparable value in a sanitary point of view. This gang does more to prevent the snread of contagious disease, by keeping the hundreds of pestilentiai spots of our city in compara- tively good condition, than any agency of twice Its size and expense that I know of. They clean 45 of these alleys on the aver- age, once every eight days, the year round, unless prevented by inclement weather When I further add that these alleys are not contiguous, but scattered promi ously throughout our two cities, and t they aggregate a surface of neariy 27 square yards, the magnitude of the work performed becomes apparent. Trees md the Streets. this report, “in this cap- ital city, natural obstacles to strict cleanli- ness that have no such universal existence in any other city on this continent, and yet we would not consent to part with them, for they constitute a prominent feature of the beauty for which Washington is so justly celebrated and our citizens are nat- urally proud. I refer to the hundreds of shade trees fringing both borders of almost every residence street in the city. Many thoroughfares are skirted by a variety of tree that begins its work of littering al- most 48 soon as its first bud shoots out, and continues it almost without cessation until the dry, parching weather of mid- summer, or the frosts of autumn, cause the leaves to fail, keeping our streets almost continually filthy until the last leaf and broken twig are scraped up and carted hindrances to street clean- lable, but this department has to confront others that should not ex- ist, and, to a large degree, could not, if all persons interested, should discharge their oo duties in the premises. “Perhaps the most annoyii comes from the almost constant violations of bolice regulations in the persistency with which too many of our householders, storo- keepers and marketmen sweep or throw refuse matter of all kinds, such as orange ice a week, it is evi- dent that many cf them are disfigured ee = filthy largely by this pernicious prac- “Many citizens have the erron 3 that when cleaning their front and are yards they have a right to pile up in the street any refuse material collected th from, such as bushes, ashes, ti enh nie, tes, ete. Such violations of ip# Gee pe ot means exceptional, and eb}. inereclors, 2S this objecgene fr<a0e.tly complain. that pre sige opeele Yractice is increasing. be ap may Seem, it is nevertheless for sweeping and | i =". of nuisance claim no intention to vio- sate law when asked who they suppose will remove the debris thus piled up. @ almost invariable reply is, ‘Oh, the street Sweepers are coming along tonight, and they will take it awa: Sins of Householders, “Agair, in sweeping off front walks and sidewalks, many persons persist in pushing the dirt into the center of the street, or into piles along the gutter. If they would make themselves less trouble, and be content with sweeping the dirt loosely into the gut- ter, letting it remain there as it falls over the curbstone, the street would at all times present a much neater appearance, and fewer complaints would be made of dirty streets. Nine times out of ten, when the contractor has been charged with leaving dirt-piles in the gutters and along the streets, investigation has fixed the blame upon householders who entertain the erron- eous ideas referred to relative to keeping the street in front of their premises clean. Now, if citizens generally would feel {t to be a duty incumbent upon themselves to as- sist the authorities, so far as their own premises and individual habits are éon- cerned, in their efforts to keep our public thoroughfares tn cleanly condition at all imes, which they can do with very little marr and expense, much of the objection- ie {S°* most of those who indulge in this or or swept into the streets would bé burned, ¢arted off, gr find its way into garbage fedeptacles, ahd, as a result, there would be little heed of police regulations against littering up the streets. “Another obstacle, and still the so1 of many complaints, is the dropping of dirt from carts of excavating contractors. me, perhaps I may say the majority, of these contractors exercise sougmendabte care in the selection of proper carts for their work, and take pride ip keeping clean the streets over which dirt fp ha Jed, but man; others seem to forget that they have an: responsibility in the matter, and neglect to of streets Davis points be mvoived | “wiih str refuse mz question, in point of vie they have creasing, required dividuals. dup an" signs, are rarz listances suggestive of sc img of these dumping be ings, her ties, rentals, t eases of “vile year. Two were employ hauling to boa boat was 812.18, taken to the bea boat system of most lent cites ere: the least filing up { would surg of} Aso ‘ ter feferred to subject of inve Stre “Phe subject ¢ believe, that has » officials of the 1» it has, no practical results lowed, and [ take it up ! you recommend propriation by Cc this important werk within the c as well as on th large city in this cou and macadamized 1 they never receive During cur warm and dir: on them become able nuisances to the imme while all the pavel streets of made more or less unsightly and unclen: by reason of them. The paved strrets, ¢ those. swept by machine brooms, .'¢ sprinkled just before the broo them, and consequently do not require extra sprinkling. Or, w ditional watering may be the abutting property heléer: willing to provide for. iui breeding places, the unpaved be sprinkled every day dur.ng summer and tumn month. a1 make it unnecessary. There are 1° streets or sections of streets inside the two cities. “[ am recommen gress be asked to a sprinkling these street sum for sprini suburban roads. I have co ded with ol many of our ' on the and, after careful am fully convinced that $10,009 d appropriated. for sprinkling urban dirt ang macadamized, streets, and $5,000 for subur- ban macadamizel streets and dirt roads. Needs to Be Repaved. “Although many of the streets referred to in my last report as needing repaying have been repaired, there are still others whose condition is such as to make it { possible to properly sweep and clean them, conspicuous among which is B northwest, along the north side is transacted such an immense ¥ grocery and marketing business, to th between the railroad t+: great thoroughfare ts divcred’cably and uneven, but from #th t 12th the con- tractor runs the rigt gf preaking his ma- chines every timé ne wndertates to sweep and pes ng since peiitigned your 1 to rive It repaved. The following sections of streets are also badly in need of repairs or repaving: Thirty-first from K tg L} 23d from I to K; 26th from G to K; New Hampshire avenue from G to Pennsylvania avenue; 34 east from D to K; 4th east from D to Virginia avenue; Ist west from B to M south; M south from 41-2 to James creek canal, and N south from Water to James creek canak” Considerable space 1s devoted in the re- port to the subject of sweeping and clean- ing streets in other cities. Increase of Salaries, “I must be parioned,” concludes the re- port, “for again asking you to urge Con- gress to recognize and legalize the official existence of this department, by making the compensation of the following officials annual instead of per diem, as at present: One svperinterdent, one assistant superin- tendent and chief clerk, two chief inspec- tors, six inspectors, two foremen, three assistant fcremen and one messenger. As have elsewhere given the compensation similar officials receive in other cities, let me express the earnest hope that our na- tional legislators will not gly make this a department, separate and distinct from any other In the District government ser- vice, with annual salaries for its hard- working officials, but that they will make the salaries somewhere near commensurate with those paid in other cities. I belleve it is not unreasonable to ask, nor extrava- gant to expect, that the salary of the su- rintendent shall be made $2,400; that of he assistant superintendent and chief clerk, $1,800; two chief inspectors, $1,400 éach; five inspectors at $1,800 each, and one at $1,200; two foremen, 31,000 ‘each; three assistant foremen, $90 each; oné messenger, 3600, making a total of $20,000 as the administrative expense of this de- partment.” ‘The estimate of the amount needed for the service during the net year is given, and the total 1s placed at $166,000, ion, a portion of ‘Tt. Business men have re: peate"y Cymplained of its conditi To Participate in a Regatta, Orders pave been sent to Capt, Kempft, commanding the coast defense ship Monte- fey at Mare Island, Cal., to proceed in that vei oat to sto! Ore., in time to par- Uelpate in the cflizens’ regatia near’ that ay on the 17th instant, attract attention and to invite the depo- | would} se | on LATE SPORTING NEWS Peter. Jackson Goes to NewYork to Moot. Corbett. He Says That the sae Persist» jeht—Will Not Fight in the South. ‘im Postponing th ‘ peers Peter Jackson has left Chicago for New York, where he goes to personally learn from Corbett whether the champion is try- ing to fool him out of the mateh. +] will never fight in the south,” declared jackson. “I expressed myself clearly upon the point when I first came to this country, and even when the original erticles of | agreement for my second fight with Corbett were drawn up, it was stipulated that the pontest should take place north of the Ma- son and Dixon's linc 4 the score of th exists there. “T rotite that B: 8 theatr of the r shed to fig part said rece tase I had too . Fil just IT should feel a n I should not only to contend against, > as well.” rot Cor 3 to aveld a piten treas- shad no nnati RAH.E. | 200016 12% 520-42 1 Scame was an | niers. Griffith an? Sehriver, the batt $0101 TO1-G 1e000210—5 at lon; time with archas by Piits- | also Lew Camp and | smal day, but the | about the corri- were the most | s t crow, den’t crow Pittsburg’ has exc! h for Pitcher Me over $506 bonus. ushington is booked to play ti er Col- fee of Louisville, ames in Philadelphia in teday. They return home tomorrow to meet the Cleveiands. Lucid made a good impression in the game he pttched for Brooklyn against Bos- ks the fire at the Phil- of incendiary origin. not made an error in’ twenty- dy been raised for benefit. 1 club will erect a new n handsomer than the one a. 2 of Pitcher Daub’s work management has recalled his and e Lease. Pitchers Quarles and Campbell have been obarre. $ aid Duity of the Bostons are both laid up. Connaughton piays ahort stop and Tenny center fieid. bok This afternocn’s contest fw Baltimore will decide the New York-Baltintoré serics,which now stands 6 te > in favér pf the Balti- mores. Capt. Ward said last’hight that he expected to put Meekin ito’ pitch, The injunction which?*Judge Horton ranted, restraining the Ciicitgo club from Biaying hall on Sunday, was dissolved Sat- urday afternoon and yesterd: played as ci aif's game was a Dan Brouthers flatters Airhself that he knows about as much aboit Buse ball bats as the next man, and he !s serlously consid- ering going into the businés# of manufac- turing them when he quits’ the diamond. Von der Ahe has again stiypended Arthur Clarkson and fined him $1) for indifferent playing. ae Mulvey, Wise and Mill are playing up almost to their pristine’ glory, while Mark Baldwin pitches as well as he ever Ald,—Allentown Special. Jim O'Rourke is catching in great shape for the St. Josephs. He is in fine condition and is far superior to many catchers in the National League.—Bridgeport (Conn.) Let= ter. Sam Thompson hit for eleven bases Sat- urday. . Denny Lyons has signed with St. Louis, AN INDIG T BALTIMOREAN, He Tells How the Senators Have Been * Trounced by the Orioles, Baltimoreans do not relish having their nine’ classified even by implication among the weaker teams, The Oriole city corre- spondent of the Sporting’ Lite writes in- dignantly{ Yt ts amusing to read In @ Washington paper that the Senators can put up an ef- fective gam@ against “thé strong clubs of the ire? ut fal} down before the Orioles, dered erence jg that Baltimore is not conaide: strong club dp capital, although the Senators have every reason in ‘thetr “expefiéité to declare it the very: strongest team jn the league. It has done for the Seby Py no other club jn the league cbu » But perhaps they do not Cohsider it much of a licking, after all. Baltimore nas: won twenty-eight more Sames than Washington, and Washington has lost thirty-one games more than Balti- more, and yet the Senators are said to stand up well against the “strong” clubs of the league. Well, well, well, the Orioles seem to be strong enough, even rank enough, for the Senators, notwithstanding the erftictstn, It is a fact, surely, that Washington has not- found anything in the league as “strong” as BaHimore. And with it ail there has been no “crowing” by Balti- moreans over their unfortunate neighbors ‘Theré has been sympathy expressed for Washir gton patrons over the penurious and il-advised action of the Washington club authorities in selling their most skillful players when the club had shown that it was too weak for the company it was in, anyway. Also for a mistaken economical policy, where the patronage, upder the most discouraging circumstances, justified & more if not most liberal one. In this Baltimoreans have only followed the lines drawn by Washington heme critics, so there should not be the faintest fault finding by Washington writers. Used a Club for Argument. During a match game of base ball on Sat- urday afternoon in Fairmount, Somerset county, Md., between the Fairmount and St. Peter's nines a dispute arose over a de- cision of the umpire. During the dispute Oliver Ford struck William Smith on the ad with a bat. Smith fell to the ground ah insensible condition, and remained so for moned, found th: condition everal how: nd, Dr. John Dale was sum- ing the 1. Smith’ by his phy- 1 for 8 i probably bi Landon of *Fair- af efore Justice AGUE PERN bt ™“ TING. shamton nice. @rectors of the Eastern w yet ensick pringtiesd, iE: Bogart T. Martin of Erle. Aa official unication was received from the’manasement of the Binghamton lub stating that the stockholders of that j ele) were ready to throw up their fran- Waiter £ 6f Toronto, Can- then the floor, He said h ith the Bingham- transfer of the ty, if the k w days’ grace to complete Was given the neces- bin hainton, wil play the sched- imes unt) Toronto formally ad- RA i With Britannia a ats \Vednesdny. es and Mr. George Gould heve sign n agreement to sail for ths Wolverton cup on Wednesday next. ten ex @ not possibly take place to- sali Cie arrangements for it had been the Pyince of Wales in- be fifteen miles uid wanted it to 4. It is pos- sms may have M1 that honest defeat ortsmanlike than a re- of Wales entertained Mr. ‘4 at dinner Saturday evening. g entertained and that the ated the Vigdant sportunanlike er, there 24 Mo dated ou un as to attitude are » of Wales toward the Yankee na her own During the course conversation b a the prince and er3 of the Un t cruiser Chi- cugo on the ion of the prince’s visit to that yoasel Saturday, the prince referred to the plucky and sporismaniike qualities dis- ould throughout the 1g Lerwee itannia Vigilant. prince said thae he was particularly axivus the briiannia should meet the nt cn the opew sea in order that the merits of t two yachts might be ju . ‘lhe prince had seen the crew from the Chicago win the race from the crews of the other warships and he complimented*them upon their splendid victory. rue arly Gaudauer Wants Row Sullivan, . Gaudauer has deposited 00 as a | forfeit for a sculling match with Thomas Sullivan, late of Australia, and now a resileat of England, for $10,000 or more a site. Gaudaver will row either on the Thames or the Tyne two months from date of acceptance, if allowed $250 expenses, or he will allow Sullivan $0) if he will come to America. General Sporting Not Fletcher Robbins, who was hurt in a prize fight at Plattsmouth, Neb., Thursday nivht, is dying. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Jimmy Lindsay, who was pitted against him. The winners at the Saratoga races Satur- jay were Robin Hood, Lehman, The Com- moner, Rubicon, Cactus and Ballarat. WR. Wren of Cambridge, Mass., won the big Mvitation teanis tournament at Norwood Park, N. J., defeating Malcolm Chace. At even erome Park Saturday the various were won by Emma, Berwyn, Terra- pin, Ferrier, Shadow and Daris, The tournsment of the Asbury Park Wheelmen’s Association was held Satur- day and was a great success. The old Louisville Jockey Club has prac- t ly passed out of existence, and a new orgar ization may be formed. The New York Yaeht Squadron has arriv- ed at Vineyard Haven, Long Island sound, from Newport. Tureo, Benjamin, Johnny, Ponce de Leon Carbuncles Large as Hen’: Eggs! Mrs. NANiIE GOULDMAN, of Beul King William Co., Va., writes as foliows: * “For about cight or ten_y my father, Col. T. U. Fogg, of West Point, Var was laid He with carbuncles, the wor? that I ever saw. tried everything he bard of, his doctor . could do nothing for Had six or PIERGE «==. CUR OB MONEY IS REFUNDED. SWL: ABOUT TO GIVE UP IN DESPAIR OF ever being cured of Catarrh of the Bladder, I tried Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Rem and it cured me, thus saving my life.” F. C. Brink, Fonghkeepsie, N. Y. GRATEFUL-COMFORTING Epps’s Cocoa ° BREAKFAST—SUPPER. “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri. 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The struggle for the tennis champion- ships, which begins today with the opening games of the eastern doubles at Narragan- sett Pier, to end when the new champion of America wins his laurels on the courts at the Newport Casino, will be watched with more then usual interest. It is easy to say that this is the greatest year in the history of the game in America, and many good arguments can be advanced to sup- port the statement. The eastern doubles having been decided, the victors will face the western cham- pions at Narragansett, and, after this con- test, the field of battle will be shifted across Narragansett bay, and the big tournament in singles will occupy the attention of the players for ten days or so, the 21st instant being the opening date. In connection with the singles, and no doubt toward its close, will be held the challenge match in doubles, in which some teams as yet unknown wili try conclusions with Champions Hobart and Hovey. In addition to all this, the finals in the interscholastic championship, the “champions’ nursery,” will be held. The winning of this event is considered a high honor, and the fact that the winners to date have been Wrenn, Chace and Bud- long shows that the interscholastic battles are no child’s play. The doubles cannot be made the subject of prediction. The prominent teams for the eastern doubles are Chace and Wrenn, FE. L. Hall and Gcodbody, Ware and Budiong, Foote and Howland, and Parker and Fischer. The last two teams have played a good many times this year, and there does not seem much to choose between them. Larned has no partner so far. Perhaps ex-Champion Campbell is to be the man, as he is reported to be practicing at Naragansett. The Neel brothers will » the winners a tussle, but, whatever the result be, it seems likely that Hobart and Hovey will retain their title, as the combi- nation is unusually powerful. Hovey is un- equaled at the net, and, though Hobart’s ground strokes have made him famous, he is good at turning the ball across the court. Hovey will attend to any short lobs, and there seems to be no weak spot in the tea | m. The interscholastic championship will be contestel by the four players selectel at the spring tournaments held by the Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia Prepar- atory Schools. W. Gordon Parker repre- sents Columbia, Leo Ware appears for Harvard schools and the Yale and Prince- ton schoolboys will send Trowbridge and Thomson. The fight seems to be between Parker and Ware, with the chances greatly in favor of the former. — CoNege Detail. Lieut. George E. Sage, fifth infartry, has been detailed as military instructor at Mt. Tamaipais Military Academy, San Raphael, Cal, relieving First Lieut. D. E. Holley, fourth infantry, ordered to join his com- pany. doesn’t amount to much, with the women who use Pearline. 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