Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1895, Page 13

IN PENNANT FORM The Washingtons Playing First- Class Ball. HITTING HARD AND FIELDING WELL A Gratifying Change in the Past Few Days. PITTSBURG AGAIN BEATEN The ball team that beats Washington nowadays, in the form that the local team has developed in the last day or two, must play the very best arti¢le that is known to man. Yesterday the Senators gave another exhibition of how to win games. They made fourteen hits and no errors, and that kind of playing always means games, unless the other side makes more hits. Pittsburg did not do that yesterday, for Otis Stocksdale pitched a masterly game. He showed head and judgment at every stage, and held his own against some of Pittsburg’s strongest hitters, strik- ing out Donovan, Beckley and Sugden, and three worse men at the bat are hard to find. But Stocksdale was materially aided in winning his game by the marvelous fielding that was done behind him. The infield was staunch as a wall. Joyce covered ground like a colt, and his old glass arm did not crack once. Boyd went after everything and got everything. He shows « decided ability for this fleld, and 1s especially good at scooping up nasty grounders on his left side and throwing them to first true as a die. But Jack Crooks did the star work of the day. It was not so much the quantity of the work that he did as the quality of the little that came his way. He made a stop of what seemed sure for a safe hit from Sugden’s bat in the eighth that brought the spectators to their feet with a yell that must have sounded far down to River View, Roaring Bill Hassamer’s favorite summer resort. Even the visitors joined in the applause, for it was the kind of work that wins champtonships. The runs came easily after the States- men had got their eye on the ball. One resulted in the third from a battery error, @ safe one by Joyce, a base on balls to Hassamer, after he had been presented with a huge red fan by some of his ad- mirers, and a pretty sacrifice by McGuire. Pittsburg duplicated this run by means of @ battery error and two sin; but a &reat catch near the bleachers by Joyce cut their ‘career short. Washington has developed a great habit of late of making a large bunch of runs in one particular inning. YesterJay it was the fourth, when five tallies werg secured nh, McGuire, Cartwright, & double by Ifas- gamer, and a sacrifice by Abbey. Pitts- burg made two fn the same inning on a single by Cross and a homer over the right fence by Sugden. Washington kept up the pace by scoring one in the fifth on a base on balls, singies by Abbey and Stocksdale, and a sacrifice by Selbach. The locals threw away a couple of runs in the seventh by poor base running, nice singles by Crooks and Abbey being wasted. In the eighth singles by Hassamer and Crooks, a double by Cartwright, a base on balis, and a sacrifice by Boyd netted three runs and made the game sure. Pittsburg had a little rally In the ninth, when Sten- zel and Beckley hit for three bases each, and two runs were scored. Washington did not fail to get a man on the bases in any Inring. The score: WASHINGTON PITISBURG. R-H.O-A. “H.O.A.E. 1 0|Donovan,rt.. 00°30 6 1 O|Stenzel.ef... 1 300 2 tockler1b.. 1 29 0 0 1 os 201 2 oos11 0 ool1el 3 E2170 2 4°43 2 10020 oo0000 . 5102612 4 0002-5 5 0 0 3 0-10 arued runs—Washington, 7; Pittsburg, 4. Two- Dase hits— Ca: Smith. Hassanie wright, ‘Three- St ¥ : ure, by Hart, 1. Umpire—Mr.’ Heydler. Other League Games. At Baltimore— Pitchers. R.HLE. . Hoffer. - 16191 - 6125 ~1102 498 The League Record. W. L. i 13 13 othkeba FRE Baltimore Today’s League Schedule. Louisville at Washington. Cleveland at Baitimore. - St. Louis at New York. Cincinnati at Boston. Chicago at Philadelphia. Pittsburg at Brooklyn. CONNIE MACK PROTESTS. fle Denies That His Club Plays “Dirty Ball.” Connie Mack, who was once the receiv- ing end of the Gilmore and Mack battery of the Washington team, but at present the manager of the leaders in the race for the league pennant, resents the allegation that the Pittsburgs are “\lirty ball players.” In refutation of the charges of that char- acter so frequently and persistently circu- lated about his team Manager Mack points to-the fact that not one of his men has been subjected to a fine this season. He then went on to say: “I om aware that some of the members of the Pittsburgs have been repeatedly charged with resort- ing to brutal conduct, with the view of intimidating opposing players. I have cau- tioned the men time and time again to re- frain from doing anything that might look like ‘dirty work.’ There is Jake Beckley, who is continvally being charged with ‘dirty playing,’ when the fact !s he would not intentionally hurt an opposing player. He is full of sport, is an earnest player and sometimes he plays little harmless ranks on his opponents that are calcu- ted to excite and annoy the friends of the bome team. I have frequently told him that while I was aware that his antics are but the natural output of a playful nature they are misconstrued by the general pab- He and often operate to the disadvantage of his team. All my men are working to- gether earnestly and faithfully to make a good showing in the race. We do not re- gerd ourselves as sure pennant winners, for we realize that Boston and one or two other teams may be our superiors indi- vidually. It is unjust to charge us with being a set of brutes, who would willingly and deliberately try to injure or cripple an opposing player simply to win a game of ball. Accidents are daily happening in other teams. but there appears to be a general disposition to charge all the mem- ers of the Pittsburg team with being ‘dirty bali’ players. My friends in Wash- ington and elsewhere know that I have never resorted to questionable methods of winning a game of ball, either as a player or a manager, and I will not stand these accusations without entering my protest.” Not Complimentary to the Senators. The Pittsburg correspondent of the Sport- ing Life writes the following impression of the playing of the Washington nine in that city: Somebody asked what was wrong with the Senators. There was little need of ask- ing that. It isa cheap team and no person could do any better with the material now on hand than Gus Schmelz is do'ng. In the first place the club needs a shortstop. Danny Coogan is an intelligent lad and fair ball player, especially catcher, but he is no shortstop, and he is free to say It. “I don't make any pretensions to being a shortstop,” said Coogan to some friends. was put there with two hours’ practice, and I am doing the best I can.” Selbach and Abbey, both good men, are badly off in their play, especially Charley Abbey, who, somehow or other, lately has lost his nerve at times. In one game here he dropped a fly ball which he didn’t have to move for. As to pitchers, the club is pretty well supplied. One manager here lately sald that all that was wrong with the Senators was that two or three were strong throwers and couldn't hardly wait until they got the ball to throw it. The undersigned did not notice this so much as he did the weak spots in the infield and indifference of a few men to team success. Mr. Wagner Seeking a Short Stop. It has been apparent to Treasurer Earl Wagner that the local team was weak at short field, and he has been scouring the Eastern ard Western leagues for a man. He says the Eastern and Western leagues ‘have nothing in the line of shortstops to offer, and the material in the other minor leagues is not tempting. “It is all very well,” said Mr. Wagner, turning to Presi- dent Young, the other day at National Park, “for people to say ‘Why don’t the Wagners buy a good man for the position?’ But where is there a first-class shortstop, outside of Glasscock, in the market? I would cheerfully give up $5,000 for a Long, or’an Ely, or a Dahlen. Such a man would be worth $10,000 to me, and from a busi- ness standpoint alone, a man would be a big fool who would not spend $5,000 to make $10,000 or more. There is New York, she has been in the market for a first-class shortstop for the past two years, without success. If I can get Glasscock he will steady the rest of the infield, who are a little out of form by reason of their anx! ety to encourage and help Coogan along. Boyd’s Good Work. Boyd's play at short field for the Wash- ingtons is first-class. At the rate at which he got in the game yesterday he will soon be a very desirable man, and there was a tendency among the rooters yesterday to declare that_his work left little to be hoped for from the substitution of Glasscock. This may be unjust to the veteran, whose old-time record as the king of shortstops is not wholly forgotten by local people. Glasscock, in his best form, will unques- Utonably strengthen the team immeasur- ably, and it is sincerely to be hoped that as the hot weather prevails he will find his eye and get his arm in shape. Yet Boyd’s work demonstrates that he is a most valu- able man as an extra player, both in and out of the diamond, while he is a very clever pitcher, He is probably the coming utility man of the team, and his retention for the season should be a settled fact. It is a pity he was not “discovered” by Manager Schmelz earlier, for with him at short—in the ferm he developed yesterday— Washington would easily have won a fourth game from Pittsburg, and would doubtless have brought at least two more scalps out of the west. Notex. Hassamer’s big red fan was af good ser- | vice during the game. He worked” very hard out in his right-field potato patch. Umpire Keefe had rot recovered from his illness of the day before when the gong rang yesterday, and Mr. John Heydler of the Light Infantry team, was substituted and served well. He got his balls-and- strikes eye after about three innings, and was fair and clever on base decisions. Few teams bat so hard as did the Wash- ington players during the series with the league leaders. The total shows that the Senators secured 82 hits as against 62 by the visitors in the five games, making 20 errors against 9 by their opponents. This, if possible, demonstrates still more forcibly the old truth that it is batting that wins games, rather than fleiding, yet strong bat- ting is easily handicapped by rocky field work, as was shown by the game of Wed- nesday, when the home team made 13 hits to 10, and lost because Washington mage 7 errors to 4 by Pittsburg. The most promising candidate for the booby prize of the National Base Ball League, the Louisvilles, came over from Baltimore this morning. They have Just dropped four games to the Orioles. The Colonels include Phil Knell,who played with Washington in 1890, and Dan Brouthers, the veteran of the big four. Besides that there are a number of other players. Fred Pfeffer left the team in disgust some time ago. Manager McCloskey has been trying to strengthen the battery of the club. He exchanged Tom Brown for Shugart, and ed Collins from Boston. It is said that McCloskey is trying to get Dungan of De- troit to play right field. Dungan was with Louisville for a time last year and before that played in Chicago. Kelley, in Robinson's absence, makes an admirable captain. He watches every point and does not hesitate to demand what he believes to be the club’s rights from the umpire.—Baltimore Sun. Herman Long, Boston's short stop, has an illness bordering on pneumonia, and it will be some time before he can play. The Bostons yesterday played the New England Association leaders at Lawrence, Mass.,and won without exertion—9 to 5. Chicago has dropped to fourth place. It’s an interesting race for third place, Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Balti- more and Boston being bunched. Capt. Robinson of Baltimore is now able to walk to the ball grounds and see the games from the bench. The swelling in his injured foot is gradually receding and he is hopeful of getting into the game again toward the close of next week. The champions of the eastern league filled a@n open date with the Cincinnati club at THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. Providence yesterday, and defeated them by 20 to 10. A paragraph is circulating that Will Phillips, the cyclone pitcher, who is doing good work for the Cincinnatis, was with O'Neil's Pittsburg players in the brother- hood year. The writers are ignorant of the fact that he played with Washington that year much longer than he did with Pitts- burg. He played thirty-four games here, and not enough with Pittsburg to secure a record. Jersey Bakeley is a winning pitcher for Manager Jack Milligan’s Allentown team. Pitcher Foreman has recovered from his recent accident, and says his arm is as good as it ever was. President Byrne says he is unable to ac- count for the poor work of his Brooklyn team. Today Ewing weighs from thirty to forty pounds less than he did on January 1, and it is doubtful if he has been in better condi- tion In five years than he is right now. Of the Pittsburg pitchers Hawley hit 11 batters this season, Hart 4 and Killen and Colcolough 1 each. Jack Crooks is playing the game of his life for the Senators.—Sporting Life. Gus Schmelz is such a nice, genial man- ager that I deem it my duty to tell him that there is one man in his club who does not speak very complimentary or respect- ful about his manager.—Pittsburg Corres- pondent Sporting Life. Amateur Fase Ball. The Census Base Ball Team has organiz- ed for the season and would like to hear from clubs under seventeen years. The following are the players: X. Shaffer, left field; A. Shaffer, right field; F. Lane, third base; C. Paxton, center field; H. Dodge, shortstop; L. Butler, first base; R. Mc- Kinney, pitch; E. Freeman, catch. “Address challenges to J. L. Butler, Harrison Flats northwest. James V. Tierney, manager of the Duleys, denies that his team was defeated by the Cady Colts. The Northern Libertys defeated the Blake School by 17 to 16. They would like to hear from ail teams under fifteen years. Challenges should be sent to J. Bogan, 913 6th street northwest. The second team of the Panoramas have organized for the season and would like to hear from teams under fourteen years. Address challenges to E. Hartshall, 1236 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. The Arsenals won the final game from the Portlands yesterday by 20 to 9. Each of the clubs have won a game, and this was to decide the tie. Gilsen’s work in the box for the Arsenals won the game. The Young Stars have defeated the Po- tomacs by 15 to 13. The battery for the winners was Wright and Chappell. The Potomacs claim, that the lack of their regu- lar pitcher lost™the game. ANOTHER BICYCLE MEET. To Be Held by the Potomac Wheel- men at River View. The entries close next Tuesday for the annual races given under the auspices of the Potomac Wheelmen, and entries should be sent to the secretary, J. M. Ober, 909 8th street southeust. The races will be held at River View Tuesday, June 11, at 4 o’clock. There are six events In the program, and some hand- some prizes are up for competition. The races will be held with the sanction of the L. A. W. and will be governed by the rules of that organization. Capt. E. S. Randall has donated a solid gold medal for the one- mile novice race, and Mr. Samuel Bieber a solid gold medal for the one-mile club. race. The events and prizes are 28 follows: 1. One-mile novice, first prize, gold medal; 2. One-mile handicap, first prize, silver pitcher. 3. One-quarter-mile dash, first prize, bicycle suit. 4. One-mile open, first prize, gold watch. 5. Half-mile scratch, first prize, gold cuff buttons. 6. One-mile club race, handicap, first prize, gold niedal. Second prizes will be given in a majority of the events. Beaten at Laurcl. ‘The Freemont Base Ball Chib of Balti- more journeyed to Laurel on Decoration day to play the Athletic Club of that place, and were defeated by a score of 14 to 5. The features of the game were the pitch- ing of Nichols of the Laurels, allowing the visitors but one hit, and striking out thir- teen men, and the batting of Nichols and Langley, both of Laurel, each securing five good hfs. About 700 people witnessed the game. A Spring Run. The third annual spring run of the Cen- tury Cycling Club of Maryland, which was scheduled for last Sunday and postponed on acount of rain, will be run tomorrow, weather permitting. The pace will be slow and all are invited. Crum Not a Professional. The executive committee of the Western t Intercollegiate Athletic Asscciation has ex- onerated John V. Crum of Iowa State Uni- versity from the charge of professionalism preferred against him in the east. Crum was declared an amateur in the fullest sense of the word. Good Day for the Bookies. The torrid weather had no effect upon the attendance at the St. Asaph track yes- terday, a very large crowd witnessing the success of two favorites, two second choices and two outsiders. The best finish of the day was that between Darkness and Grand Prix in the fourth race, Darkness winning by a head, after Grand Prix had led all the way, the others being beaten by ten or more lengths. Ten bookmakers weighed in, and they had a winning day of it. In the two-year-old race, the second, the horses were at the post nearly an hour, and Starter Flyrn had finally to send them off indifferently. The winners were: Chief Justice, 8 to 1; Mural, 5 to 2; Jessie Tarral, 4 to 5; Darkness, 2 to 1; Belisarius, 7 to 5, and R. F. Dee, 12 to 1. Harvard’s Varsity Eight. The Harvard ‘Varsity crew will leave for New London today. A new shell is be ing finished, which will probably be used in the race. The crew have been over the four-mile course several times of late, and, though no time has been announced, it is generally understood that it was good. No change has been made in the makeup of the crew for the last few days. The order 1s: Stroke, Bullard; 7, Fennessy; 6, Wat- riss; 5, Wrightington; 4, Stillman; 3, Chat- man; 2, Shepard; bow, Lewis. ‘This will probably be the order for the race, except that Hollister, who has recovered from tonsilitis, will take Stillman’s place. +o<-— A NOTABLE MAUSOLEU Christian Heurich Erecting a Large ‘Tomb at His Country Seat. Soon after the death of his wife Mr. Christian Heurich determined to erect in the grounds of his country seat near Hy- attsville, Md., a large mausoleum as a per- manent resting place for the dead of his family. He is now building there one of the largest examples of mortuary architec- ture yet attempted in this country. A sketch of this proposed tomb ts given here. It is to be composed of huge blocks of granite, the top stone weighing alone over twenty tons. The monument is thirty-eight feet by twenty-seven wide at its base, and nineteen feet high. At the four corners are four bronze statues eight feet in height, representing guardian angels. A bronze gate closes the entrance. At the rear is a large window of stained glass, representing the angel of peace. The interior walls and ceiling are covered with mosaic in rich de- signs. There is the following inscription. of mosaic in German: “In Tiefem Schmerz Keine Meltmeisheif zurs Herz.” In the in- terior there are sixteen niches for cinerary urns, and in another room underground there are sixteen crypts for coffins. Prob- ably a life-size statue in Italian marble, representing grief, will also be placed in the upper room. The estimated cost of the structure is $30,000. ef Mr. Heurich called upon over a dozen prominent artists, part resident and part non-resident, for sketches, and asked a committee of experts to pronounce the award. The competition was won by Prof. L. Amateis, head of the department of fine arts of the Columbian University. J. F. Manning & Co. have the subcontract for the granite work, and Hayward & Hutchin- son for the mosaic work. = THE BORE’S NEMESIS. He Has Been a Nuisance a Long Time, but Fate Got Him at Last. From Puck. “During our long and somewhat checker- ed career,” remarked the able editor of the Hawville Clarion, “we have encountered bores of many descriptions; but, so far as our experience goes, the biggest bore ever bern in captivity was old man Lincoggle, who used to infest our sanctum from early morn till dewy eve, with intervals for re- freshments, of course. “He levied upon our perquisites of wed- ding cake, circus tickets and early paw- paws, as if vested with riparian rights. When not slumbering—which he did much of the time, to the accompaniment of snores like the death rattle of an expiring bovollipus—he was either arguing with us or snapping up our freshest exchanges and shucking them with a deftness born of long practice. Not content with reading them, he must needs slash out of each such article as seemed to him worthy of preser- vation in the collection he was making of data upon every conceivable subject under the sun, and when he chanced to find an item of unusual interest he would pounce upon it with a sonorous exclamation which was sure to sidetrack and often wreck our train of thought. “He continued to inhabit our sanctum till he could give us valuable pointers on all phases of the newspaper business, and would doubtless be here yet had it not heen for the occurrence of one of those episodes which no man can prognosticate. “One day, upon returning to our office after a brief absence, we discovered Mr. Lincoggle endeavoring to ensconce his en- tire person in the knee hole of our desk, in which attempt he was being ably assisted by a large elm club in the hands of a mid- dle-aged lady of magnificerit proportions. At our entrance the lady paused to explain that she was the relict of the late Mr. Jurnfgan, formerly of Texas, who, having died within a week after his arrival in our midst, had been accorded an obituary notice in the Clarion, in which a typographical error was responsible for the statement that he had gone to his last roastinz place. “We sympathized with the widow, but suggested that she had punished the editor sufficiently for his dastardly insinuation. When she was gone the bore crawled out of his refuge, glared at us in unutterable wrath and scorn and left the office, never to return. The mills of the gods indeed grind slow, but they get there all the same!” 2 Ex-Representative Andrew Dead. Mr. John F. Andrew, ex-Congressman, died of apoplexy at his home, on Hereford street, Boston, Thursday, aged forty-four. Mr. Andrew was a son of Massachusett war governor, a graduate of Harvard, 187: and Harvard Law School, 1875..: He served five years in the legislature, was demo- cratic candidate for governor in 1886, a member of the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses and a member of the Boston park commission. Y EE: SEASIDE AND MOUNTAIN. Resorts Where One Gan Find Comfort and Recreation. It is refreshing to thipk 6f cool mornings in the mountains or reviving sea breezes, even if one has to stay ‘in ‘town. The heat of the past few days hag,set, many to think- ing earnestly on the “question where to spend the'summer. Thé Star’s advertising columns give much infornidtion about many pleasant resorts where one can find com- fort at reasonable prices:; The Star, in addition, publishes and Will'continue to pub- lish at intervals, for ‘the benefit of its readers, notices of resorts ‘where one can be certain of finding those’ things consider- ed most desirable about summer resorts. Up among the eagles,.om the cool, high bluffs at Harper's Ferry, is the Summit House, kept by Miss Baker. It is a de- lightful place. Near the beautiful Cheat river, on the summit of the Alleghenies, at Brookside, W. Va., is certainly a cool ani comfortable summer retreat. There is a hotel, with ten cottages near by. S. Prescott Wright, 1401 14th street northwest, can give all partic- ulars, The Aurora House, kept by Mr. J. H. Shafer, at Aurora, W. Va., hardly needs to be mentioned to Washington people, 80 many have gone there year after year. It is cool as the coolest, and the service excel- tent and inexpensive. Particulars can be had at room 157, Washington Loan and Trust building. The oldest summer resort, they say, in the United States 1s Warren White Sulphur Springs, up on the Massanutten range, 2,100 feet above the sea. There are eight different mineral waters there, good fish- ing, bathing and boating.” Write Cullen & Son, Cullen P. O., Va. The Metataxet House, at Narragansett Pier, is entering its twenty-ninth season. No finer beach fs known than that at the Pier, and for sailing or driving the south county shore is famous. Virginia Hot Springs, in the Great Warm Springs valley, 2,500 feet above salt water, has the most luxurious baths in the world. Fred. Sterry, Hot Springs, Bath county, Va., will be glad to give all possible in- formation about them. ‘ Cresson, Pa., where President Harrison spent a delightful summer, has an excel- lent summer home at Mr. Dunham's Moun- tain House. Pure mountain air and water and a good table are surely to be had there. Everybody knows Green's Mountain House, on Loudoun Heights, at Harper's Ferry. Mr. Green’s big. fruit farm is be- hind the hotel, geographically. and culi- narily, and it is a great place for comfort. Mr. Green is there himself. and he is a great and good landlord. Up In the Blue Ridge, at Buena Vista Spring, Franklin county, Pa., 1,500 feet above ‘tide, is Mr. Resmer’s Hotel. Mr. Mulford, at the Cochran, can tell all about it. 2 Jordan White Sulphur Springs, in Fred- erick county, Va., opens this year with in- creased facilities and capacity. Mr. E. C. Jordan, proprietor, will furnish informa- tion. If one has gout or rheumatism take+ him right up_to Charley Jack, at Berkeley Springs, W. Va. He'll take good care of him, put him in the baths, amd he will come home a new man next fall. Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, in old Fauquier county, Va., is a pleasant resort. Write John E. Baker, there. In the great North mountain range, look- ing down to the eastward on the lovely, broad Shenanloah valléyjiis Rock Enon Springs. Mineral watexg,,.piineral baths, every comfort and an excellent table are tobe had. A. S. Pratt, Sui building, Wash- ington, {s proprietor, and will give all in- formation. a On top of the Blue Ridge, with no mcs- quitoes, is Montersy Sp¥ings, Pa. The scenery Is grand, the water pure, and it is but three hours from “Washington. M. A. Milnor, 227 N. Charles street, Balti- more, will give data. 15 Bedford Springs, always,a famously de- lightful place, is no less,so this year. J, T. Alsip, Bedford, Pa,, ig:glad to give in- formation about the places A note addressed to box 7,Star office, will ‘get particulars about accommodations at a private cottage at OceaarCity, Md., that will lead to a cool, healthful, pleasant summer. : Colton’s, on the Potomac, opens June 15, and affords all sorts of salt-water luxuries. Cottages can be had for homelike house- keeping. Write Hoge & Son, Colton’s Point, Md. St. George’s, at Pirley Point, Md., ts, as usual, a favorite place for summering. Boating and bathing free; good table and rates reasonable. Address your inquiry to C. S. Garrott, Piney Point, Md. ‘At Tolchester Beach, overlooking the Chesapeake, in famofls old Kent county, Md., is the Hotel Tolchester. G. E. No- land !s proprietor. It is a fine place for salt-water bathing, fishing and sailing. At Chapel Point, Md., is Hotel Belleview, reached by the steamer Randall—a good place, with reasonable rates. Mr. Kretch- mar is manager, and E. S. Randall can give particulars. The highest, coolest and most picturesque of Harper’s Ferry resorts, it is claimed, 1s the Bolivar Mountain House and Vale Cottage, conducted by F. M. Pennock, Bol- ivar, West Virginia. One of the attrac- tive features of the establishment will be the formation of a varlety of summer classes under an eminent educator, with a corps of professors. The cuisine of the house will be excellent, and splendid serv- {ce guaranteed. The well known Lockwood House, Har- per’s Ferry, West Virginia, will open on the 4th of June, and will. be conducted by Mrs. S. E, Lovett. Large rooms, plentiful shade and grand views are the features of the resort. Rates, $6. Aurora, West Virginia, is one of the most desirable resorts near Washington, and the Riley Cottage, Mrs. V. York, will open on the 25th of next month for a limited num- ber of guests. Address Mrs. York for par- ticulars. The famous resort, known as Preston’s Sunnyside, on the South mountains of Pennsylvania, 1s but seven hours from Washington. ‘The scenery is magnificent, there is an extensive park, and the ap- pointments are first-class. Address James H. Preston, Wernersyille, Pa. The Hotel Powhatan, Charlestown, W. Va., will be opened on the 5th of next month. It is but two hours from Wash- ington, on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road, and there are four trains daily. The house is a new one and will be under a new management. Special rates for June may be secured. For terms and informa- tion, call at the Buckingham, 920 15th street. Another Harper's Ferry resort, favorably known, is the Hill Top House, conducted by T. S. Lovett. It ts now open, and claims the most breezy point in the locality. The service is excellent, and there is a telegraph office in the house. The Rest, Oakland, Gatrétt county, Md., opens on the 15th of Jume, under a new management. It has beer thoroughly re- paired, new plumbing has beer put in, and the equipments are of the. best. For full information, address Mrs, Bolling, 1225 Lin- den avenue, Baltimore, Md: Manager B. E. McDowell will, on the 15th of June, open the. Morrell House “at Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Guests of the house enjoy one of thgjgrandest views obtainable, and the rooms are cool and airy, the table being excellent. These are the days when’those who know a good thing hie away’ to Asbury Park, place themselves under; the care of W. Harvey Jones of the popular Hotel Co- lumbla, and enjoy solid ‘comfort, all heed- less of the heat and trials iof the city. A splendid place to spéni the summer is “The Engleside,” at Beach Haven, N. J., ona of the most charming resorts on the Atlantic coast. The hotel will open June & under the capable management of Mr. Rob- ert T. Engle. Persons who like the seaside, and who does not in the gentle summer time, will find excellent accommodations at “The Lu- cas Cottage,” at Spring Lake, N. J. This hotel stands right on the brink of the ocean and Is never without a breeze. The celebrated Conanicut Park Hotel, near Newport, R. I., will open for the sea- son, June 20, with increased and Improved facilities for the comfort and pleasure-of its guests. Information as to rates, etc., can be obtained from Mrs. K. E. Brown, | box 139, Providence, R, I. Watch Hill, R. L, is the place par excel- lence to spend the warm season, and the Larkin House, presided over by Mr. F. S. Aldrich, is oné of the best hotels there. It will open June 29. ‘Those seeking delightful board among the mountains of Virg'nia should communi- cate at once with Mrs. John Stockton, at her pleasant home, “The Brook Rio,” Albe- marle county, Virginia. She has limited her season's list of guests, so that early application will be advisable. Famous old Lake Champlain offers ex- ceptional inducements to summer resorters. One of the most beautiful and restful places on the lake is that kept by G. C. Howe, known as the Hotel Windsor, Rouse’s Point. The rates are low, the fishing is the best and the associations are the pieasantest. An art circular is sent to all applicants by Mr. Rowe. Pennsylvania is becoming one of the greatest summer resting states in the east. Up on the peaks and slopes of the Alle- gheay mountains are numerous places of resort, more or less attractive, but none excels Pine He‘ghts Inn, on the main line of the Pennsyivania railroad, at Birming- ham, Huntington county. Every appoint- merit is first-class, and the inn is sur- rounded with every comfort known to va- cation tourists. Proprietor Grier offers persuading rates. "Way down at the jumping off place of the Massachusetts coast are some cool spots, where the salt airis invicorating and the whole atmosphere’is restful. Such a place !s Turk’s Head Inn, at Land's End, Cape Ann, What a suggestive name for a summer resort! Land’s End! Such weather as this the mere thought of getting away from the land is welcome. Communication should be had at once with George A. Keel- er of the American House, Boston. He says Turk’s Head Inn has “the finest situation on the North Shore.” Minnequa, Pa., is so high above the level of the sea, and so cool in the middle of summer, that Proprietor Hinckley has to advertise that his establishment boasts of steam heating apparatus to assare his guests that they will not freeze during the summer. Minnequa is in Bradford county, and is well worth a visit by at least three- score of Washingtonians, who are now looking around them for a nice place to spend the season, Capon Springs needs no introduction to the people of this city. It is one of thy historical features of old Virginia that wes, and West Virginia that is. Mr. . B. Mackall- of 617 14th street is the local agent, and he is filled with information about the precise degree of temperature that is to be experienced at Capon, and the many and varied reasons why eve: body who is seeking health and recreation should go there. So many folks have-an aversion, to travel on the sea, owing to constitutions that cannot endure the restless tossing, that Block Island has come to be for them bet- ter than a sea voyage lasting several months without a stop. It has all the ad- vantages of a trip across the ocean, with none of the uncomfortadle sensations. Ocean View Hotel opens June 27, and Pro- prietor Cundall, now located at East Greenwich, R. L, is up to his ears in busi- ness getting ready for the season. Drop him a line. - Canada is now a favorite among people who seek cool air and perfect rest in sum- mer. Muskoka—also named “‘the healthful” —boasts of ‘Fern Glen,” which is the pride of the heart of Mrs. Baillie, whose address is Box 18, Gravenhurst, Ont. Her rates are surprisingly low. The West End Hotel, at Long Branch, N. J., opens. Tuesday, June 25, but the cottages will be ready for the reception of guests ten days previous to that date. The Messrs. Hildreth, proprietors of this popular place of summer resort, are now busy at 52 Broadway, showing plans to guests and writing letters to anxious inquirers. Long Beach, on the Atlantic coast, is very near New York, said to be within forty-five minutes of the metropolis. This is no draw- back, for the air is cool and che attractions are numerous. Thos. H. Rush, 45 Broad- way, N. Y., announces that his hotel at that beach opens June 20 and that now is the time to subscribe. Hotel Del Monte, on North Carolina ave- nue, Atlantic City, is very near the beach and its terms are low enough to please the most economical summer resorter. Mrs. H. Y¥. Moyer, late of the Hotel Ruscombe, is now in charge. . Seaside House, Atlantic City, is directly upon the ocean front and is open ail the year, so that it is always ready for the re- ception of guests. Proprietor Charles Ev- ans is one of the most popular of summer hotel men and always has a full house through the heated term. At the ocean end of Kentucky avenue, at Atlantic City, stands the Hotel Richmond, which reopened April 11, after having been enlarged and improved. Manager Pease has put in steam heat, a sun parlor, an ele- vator and other conveniences. When the brain reels from too much ad- vice as to the selection of a place to spend the summer there ts always one loophole of escape for tired Washingtonians, and thet is the Hygeia Hotel, at Old Point Comfort. Every one knows what a good time can be had at the Hygeia. It needs no flattering description. It is a part of the summer life of a majority of the inhabitants of the capital. Manager F. N. Pike is now ready to send out his descriptive pamphlet, which will doubtless settle many a problem in many an anxious household. eg GEN. MILES’ POKER STORY. The Boys Had Over a Million in the Pot. From the New York Mail and Express. “I don’t poker, myself,” said Maj. Gen. Miles, “in fact I am glad to say that the game has rather gone out in the army, but I think I can claim to have been a witness of the biggest game as to stakes that was ever played.” “Tell us about it, general,” said Col. Ochiltree. “I have some pretty good poker stcries in stock myself.” “And so have I,” said Henry Watterson. “For instance, Joe Blackburn's about the game played in the trenches at the battle of Shiloh, with a table made of the bodies of the comrades of the players.” “Well,” said John W. Mackay, “as to stakes, I will enter a claim for some of the games played in the good old days in Ne- vada, when the boys had the Comstock lode to draw upon. But, general, let us have your story.” “It was in. the spring of 1865—just thirty years ago this week, when I come to think of it—when Davis, Lee and the rest of you confederates, Col. Watterson, were in full retreat from Richmond toward Danville, and we were pressing you night and day, hardly stopping to eat or sleep. On the eve of the battle of Sailor's creek—" “I was there,” said Col. Ochiltree. “It was in that battle that I was wounded.” ‘That day,” continued Gen. Miles, “we overhauled and captured a_ confederate wagon train, and found, greatly to the de- light of the boys, that several of the wa- gons were loaded with confederate bonds and confederate money in transit from the confederate treasury department in Rich- mond to wherever the government now on wheels might make its last stand. The soldiers simply helped themselves to the bonds and the money, and the officers did not care to deprive them of the spoils to which they were richly entitled. At night when we knocked off work for supper anda few hours’ ‘rest and sleep I had occasion to ride along the line, and found, greatly to my amusement, a poker game going on around almost every camp fire. Stopping to watch one of the games, this is what I heard: ‘How much Is the ante?” ‘A thousand dollars.” ‘And how much to fill? Five thousand. Well, here goes. I raise it ten thousand.’ “Good; I see you and go you ten thous- and better. Twenty-five thousand to draw cards! <* “Then cards were drawn, and presently a bet was made of fifty thousand. Some one went a hundred thousand dollars better, but he was ruled down. Fifty thousand was the limit. However, there was $500,000 in the pot when it was hauled down by the winner, who had three treys and a pair of jacks. I expressed my surprise at the size of the game, and told the boys that they had better go slow or their funds would run out. “‘Never fear, general,’ replied one of them. ‘We will keep within our means. You ought to have been here just now. Why, we had a jackpot of $1,200,000.” -“T think you will agree with me,” contin- ued Gen. Miles, ‘that no bigger poker game than that was ever played.” : ————_+e+___. A Commercial Transaction. From Life. “Can anybody in the crowd change a hundred-dollar bill?” “I can.” “Very well. Give me the change and I'll go out and see if I can borrow a hundred- dollar bill.” His Observation. From the Indianapolis Journal. "I have noticed,” said the corn-fed pkilosopher, “that the man who spends most of his time in getting at the bot- tom facts of things often has a wife who has to spend her time in scraping the bottom of the flour barrel.” ART NOTES. There was general rejoicing among the students at the Corcoran Art School over the success of Miss Annie Hunt in winning the gold medal. Miss Hunt is a pretty, BIAS Miss Annie Hunt. modest young woman, who has been most diligent in her work. .It was predicted be- fore the award that she would be included in the list of prize winners, if she did not take the gold medal. Her posing of the figure in her life study was artistic, and her draughtsmansbip was marked by ac- curacy and a sympathetic treatment of the subject that gave it great excellence. o%s The friends in Washington of Miss Eliza- beth Nourse, and especially those fortunate enough to possess any of her work, will hear with pleasure ofsher recent successes in Paris. She sent six paintings to the Sa- lon in the Champs de Mars, and all were accepted and hung to the best advantage. This is the more to be appreciated, since out of 2,500 pictures sent in by “non-asso- cies” only 300 were accepted. Miss Nourse writes that she lately met the great mas- ter Dagnan Bouveret, who received her with great kindness, and many assurances of his pleasure in the meeting, saying that “for several years past he had noticed her work with interest and pleasure, and al- ways looked for it in the Salon,” together with many other very encouraging re- marks. Miss Nourse has lately sent a large picture to Mrs. Bellamy Storer, which will be hung on her return to this city. oe The hills and picturesque roadways about Washington present a curious appearance these summer days. The local artists and students have taken possession, and set up such a medley of odd protective devices in the way of umbrellas, shawl tents, etc., that from a distance the effect closely re- sembles a growth of abnormally developed mushrooms of eccentric colors. In a few cases the umbrellas are missing, but the artists and easeis are there, just the same. Rock creek and its vicinity, Woodley lane and the banks of the Anacostia are favor- ite working grounds, and a number of the artists have selecte? Sunday as their most valuable day for skeiching, so that at no time during the week is the profession un- represented to travelers along the high- ways and byways that form such a charm- ing feature of the cicy’s attractions. Among the most enthusiastic of these outdoor workers is Wells M. Sawyer, who will spend the entire summer at Riverside, Md., preparing for the exhibition he expects to give early in the coming season. ote After several weeks’ rest among the Adirondacks. Mr. Hinckley has returned home much improved in health, and is energetically working on a zxmber of commissions for portraits received during the winter. Among them is a life-sized, almost full-length portrait of William Rhinelander, which the artist is painting from a miniature taken in 1787, in pic- turesque colonial costume. As soon as completed the portrait will prybably be placed in the chamber of commerce in New York. The portrait of Mr, Calderon Car- isle is also rapidly approaching completion. This is considered one of the finest like- nesses Mr. Hinckley has ever painted. o*s Walter Paris has just returned from a week's sketching tour, and is at present engaged on a series of water colors that will greatly interest the residents‘of Wash- ington. One of these is a view of Mr. Charles J. Beli’s country residence, with a view of the surrounding grounds; another shows the Président’s country home at “Woodiey,” painted for Mrs. Cleveland. At present Mr. Paris is preparing to de- vote the summer to making a collection of water color drawings of the old colonial marsions in Virginia and Maryland. These, with the series just spoken of, will consti- tute an interesting and attractive feature of Mr. Paris’ fall exhibition. ote The portrait of Mrs. John G. Carlisle re- cently painted for her by F. M. Pebbles of this city is a most striking example of portraiture. Other portraits painted by the artist during the winter are those of the late Secretary Gresham, Mr. and Mrs. Bis- sell and the little daughter of Mr. Eckels, controller of the treasury. At present Mr. Pebbles is in Illinois with his family. . oe A few hcurs after Secretary Gresham's death Mr. Dunbar, the sculptor, was sum- moned to take the mask of the dead statesman’s face, from which future busts will be made. Mr. Dunbar rendered sim- ilar service after the death of the late Chief Justice Waite, Justice Stanley Mat- thews, Justice Bradley, Secretary Windom and many others. His method is a simple one. A thin coat of plaster is carefully molded on the features and allowed to set. More plaster is then put on to strengthen the mold, which is divided into two parts on the line of the nose and then removed. The two parts are next joined again and prepared for the fresh plaster, which is run into the moijd in order to re- produce the surface. The original cast is then cut away in pieces. Secretary Gres- ham’s face preserved to a large degree its natural fullness, thus making, as the sculptor says, one of the best and most lifelike masks he has ever obtained. oe W. H. Machen ts putting the finishing touches to the portrait of Cardinal Gib- bons, upon which he has been working for the past few weeks. The portrait has been painted from several sittings, and is an un- usually successful rendition of difficult color values, and the likeness is in every way satisfactory. Before being sent away the canvas will for a short time be ex- hibited In the Veerhoff gallery. ee An interesting summer exhibition by lo- cal artists, is being held in the Veerhoft gallery. Some of those represerted are: Le Grard Johnston, Lucien Powell, Hobart Nichols, Spencer Nichols, Wells M. Saw- yer, Miss Chipman and Miss Reading. oe Some interesting work is being done by Miss Clara Hill, whose delicate reliefs and ideal compositions attracted such favorable notice during the recent Cosmos exhibition. The work referred to consists of several portraits in low relief, and two or three portrait busts. ome Miss Daisy Blackford has finished the portrait of Gen. Heth, about which most favorable notice has already been given, and has also recently completed a finely handled portrait of Mr. F. B. McGuire. Miss Blackford is one of the members of the Corcoran Art School, and her success as an artist is flattering to those who have directed her artistic education, as well as satisfactory to friends who have watched her progress from year to year. o%e Miss Bertha K. Hanson is engaged on a series of pen drawings illustrative of scien- tifie subjects, which will shortly be pub- lished. —__ While firing a salute over the graves of the veteran dead, at Wichita, Kan., Thurs- day, one of the cannon of battery A, K. N. G., exploded prematurely and shot off the arms of Private Joseph Fennell. He will die. This is the fifth man that has been butchered by this gun, which had been condemned. by the government after the war. TUXEDO. We are now offering some of the very choicest home sites ever placed on sale around Washington at beautiful Tuxedo, situated on the mnin stem of the Penna. R. R. in Prince George's county, Md., within a few minutes’ ride of the center of the city and about one-quarter of a mile from the Dis- trict line, with railroad station on the grounds. Commutation fare, six cents. All lots are situated on a high elevation commanding a beautiful view of the surrounding country, and in full view of Washington. Five houses have been built since our opening day; more in course of construction, Also a church. Your Choice of Any Lot For 950. Small payment Gown and $1 weekly; 10 per cent off for cash. Excursion daily at 11:40 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. SUNDAYS, 9 A.M. AND 4:10 P.M. from Penna. R. R. station, 6th und B ets. now. Circulars and tickets from our agents at depot, or at office, TUXEDO ©0., 622 F st. nw. B.—Diing this ad. to office; it will save $5 om your parchase. it THE CARD SYSTEM The New Method of Keeping the War De- partment Records, Opivicnus as to Its Eficiency—Probable Adoption of the System in Othe Executive Departments. What is known es the “card-record sys- tem” has been in fractical operation in all the bureaus of the War Department for ex- actly eleven months today. Its general in- troduction into the “businéss “administra- tion of the entire department was the re- sult of the success of this system in the record and pensfon office, and its subse- quent satisfactory use to a more limited extent, however, in the offices of the quar- termaster general and the chief of engin- eers. These three offices were regarded as specially adapted for the experiment, owing to a variety of reasons, the chief of which was in each instance that the correspond ence jn the record and pension office cov. ered a greater number of individual cases; that in the quartermaster general's office a greater variety of articles, and that in the office of the ghief of engineers related to a greater expenditure of public funds than any other single bureau of the military de- partment. In 1888 a committee of the Senate, with Senator Cockrell as chairman, made @ minute inquiry into the workings of the index-record-card system as applied to the medical records of the army. In its re- port to the Senate, the committee describ- ed the worn and mutilated. condition of the muster rolls of the volunteer armies and the various plans that had been pro- posed for their preservation from impend- ing destruction through constant handling, and stated in its conclusions as follows: “In the opinion of your committee this card-index record system is the solution, and the only practical, feasible and eco- ncmical solution, of the vexed question in regard to the preservation of these rolls without further wear and destruction, and the placing of the data contained in them in an easily accessible and convenient con- dition for use without the handling of the rolis. * * * This work is so important that it should be prosecuted with the great- est vigor and by every available employe, and, if necessary, there should be an addi- tional ferce provided for. In the War Department. ~— The record cards have since been adapted to many different purposes, including that of recording the current correspondence of large offices, and their use has developed into a system which has been adopted, in whole or in part, by several bureaus of the government outside of the War Depart- ment, as well as by state officials and pri- vate business firms. The first successful Application of the method on a large scale to the work of reproducing and preserving the public records, however, was that which was begun in the record and pension office in April, 1887. On May 15, 1594, the Secretary of War issued an order for a new method of trans- acting the business of that great depart- ment. Its principal provisions involved the reorganization of the several bureaus of the department, reduction of the number of divisions in each bureau, the transfer of certain classes of work to designated bureaus, whereby all matters of record pertaining to them were centered in cne office, instead of being partially recorded and filed in several places, and finally the inauguration of a uniform system of record keeping throughout the department similar to that in use in the record and pension office. It is claimed that a great advantage is thus gained by being able to take from a file box such a record card of a case over the former method of tracing the case through several large and unwieldy books, with the prospect of finding no reference to former or subsequent volumes in which action pertaining to the case may be re- corded. Generally, under the old method, there was no system of filing precedents and de- cisions, except in the memory of old clerks, who, by reason of their recollection of them were reputed to possess superior knowledge of certain classes of work, thereby becom- ing indispensable to their respective offices, An Official’s Opinion. “When it is considered,” said a promi- nent official of the department to a Star reporter today in a free discussion of the subject, “that all the bureaus of the War Department are small courts, constantly passing upon various questions, more or less of which are repetitions of similar questions at some time previously pre- sented, the value of the knowledge above mentioned can be appreciated. “When the system was inaugurated it met with all sorts of criticism and oppo- sition, This was to be expected, for wi are all opposed to changing methods an customs which have been in use for years.” Other officials seen by the reporter ex- pressed great satisfaction with the new system, after a trial of eleven months, and indicated that the prejudice that was orig- inally felt against it in some of the offic: has almost entirely disappeared. Accol ing to one of the higher officials, the sy! tem has been an unqualified success, and his judgment on this point was heartily irdcrsed by Gen. Doe, the assistant secre; tary of war, who has been specially charged with the enforcement of the order. ‘As already indicated, the system will robably be extended to the other executive Rpartments, on the principle that what is good for ore is equally good for the oth- ers. Secretary Herbert thinks very highly of the system and has taken practical steps for its adoption by the Navy Departmenw