Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1895, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. A bigger and better Men’s Store here than \\ half of you have \ the slightest ) idea! Our suc- |} cess has not ! / been due to ad- yertising, but to giving sterling qualities at rea- sonable prices, which did our advertising for us. Now we are spreading out—want more of you men to know how well we can serve you. 2 Just now you are looking about for “Full Dress” Requisites. We have every proper article. » need to tell you of the ‘Munbattan"® Shirts. Their name 1s a synonym of all that is best* and “up-to-date In shirt- making. They have been a specialty of ours for years, and thousands of men will wear no other shirt. We have the open front and back and Gpen back. Best &q ‘Shirt in the world today fo1 White Imported Lawn Ties, to tie ourself or ready tied. Others ask Ge. We but.. .. 12¢. Going to sell the regular 40c. Imported Link Cuffs for.........6 25¢. Any style Collar “on the dourds.” Been asking 18¢. yy Hereafter ......... . I2Y4c. AUERBACH, ‘On the Ave.,’”’ No. 623. it 5 Nicest : : -Glasses : : for : Ladies ; < . Are our patent FRAMELESS»| EYEGLASSES. Being frame-* less—they’re less conspicuous! than any other. And our pat: ent nose piece holds thems firmly, securely, without pinch-)} ing. We fit them with our} finest lenses. Only $2. | Gr We sell a good pair of Eyeglasses|*) or Spectacles as low as $1.00. Nothing extra for examination, McAllister & Co., * EXAMINING OPTICIANS, 1311 F St., 2 -aee “SUN" BLDG. as [xR RREREREREAEREREREREEES S-t-y-l-i-s-h F-U-R-S. Prepare yourself against the furies of the blizzard. We are showing the handsomest Fur Capes—Jackets— Muffs—Scarfs—Men’s Collars, &c. —in the city—at lowest prices. i>Men's Driving and Dress Gloves, Canes, Um- breilas, et: VERY LOW. AMES’'Y. DAVIS’ SONS, atters and Furriers, 1201 Pa. Ave. , Soc. Seve eeee FTV eee eee tee ee $1 Dress Shirts, - * Every style of bosom—even the wide Bitte. Best $1 shirts made, and only De. see Seo window full of the “strictly ** © proper’ full dress requisites. “Mayer’s,’’ 943 Pa. Ave. a5-5m, 16 We'll Repair Your Fountain Pen —Fit a new point—and put it In good order at little cost. e fit leads in all sorts of pencils, tov. The LANCASTER Government | Fountain Pen is ‘praised whe Priced from $2 up. Send for catal LANCASTER GOVERNMENT PEN CO., 919 F st. a6-3n1,10 Custom-made Shirts —The difference in price from the “ready-made” kind is small—the comfort gained is vastly greater. I make Shirts on the guaranteed-to-sult-you- in-every-particular plan. © Material and work- er used. mopship—the very best. $1.50 each. Frank Wells, Stirtmaker. 1411 Pa. Ave. ae27-164 The economy of a tightly repaired watch Consists in its staying repaired. Poor work—has nearly always to be done over again. Nothing but the finest re- pair work performed here. Charges ‘small. Hutterly, Tmevlece Poosielan, 632 G St. de27-12d Think of me when you want any printing done. M: My reasons—I turn out work of the very finest ind. Have new tdeas—new type—new presses— and understand my business well enough to turn out work that’s a credit to me and my customer. Ask me for an estimate on your neat job. ‘Phone i 1679. Elliott, Pectle Printer, 506 roth St. de27-10d Great reductions <in Steam and_ Mechanical Toys— Magic Lanterns, Printing Presses and holiday goods of all to close out at once. Don’t forget that we are offering great bargains in Second-band Bikes, gparantee one year. Some as low as Tappan’s, 1013 Pa. ave. RARE Effects in High-class NECKWEAR, Each Scarf Prettily Boxed, 50C. HENRY FRANC & SON, SQ3F8, 0020-8m,28 ae (in all (your calls TO A on New Year's sou will meet hundreds of richly aad stylishly clad men. | Moat of them will w yanlap" Hats, for ere more stylish, Dunlap’s Opera the thing’ fur such ove t lie his silk hat, yet ap so that they cannot be broken crowd. Very “swell.” CHAS. H. RUOFF, Up-to-date hatter, 905 Pa. Ave. 427-244 aaa A SWIMMING LAK Superintendent Stevens’ New Plans, for the Bathing Beach. 10 BE PRESENTED 10 CONGRESS Proposed Use of the Tidal Reservoir for the Purpose. A SAVING OF MONEY In accordance with plans which have for some years been maturing, Superintendent Stevens will present to Congress within a few days a petition asking that the little lake of the tidal reservoir be assigned and equipped as a bathing beach instead of the present premises. ‘The illustration given herewith is from a pen sketch copied from a photograph of the lake in question, looking west from a window of the Washington monument. In the immediate foreground fs the west pond of the fish commission. The further side of the west pond Hes against 17th street extended, and the side to the left !s about 200 feet from the present bath houses. All the trees shown are now full grown, forming fine shade and a beauilful fringe to the lake, but the bath houses, the office, the wharves, the bridge and gate across the inlet to the left and the roads around the lake are not yet in existence. They represent the plan of improvement sug- gested. The line crossing the lake near Its center represents a fence, which, according to the general plan proposed, is to separate the free side from the pay side. ‘This plan may or may not be adopted. It will be for the Commissioners to decide, but Mr. Stevens eays that after five years’ experience he thinks the only way the beach can ever accommodate the best peo- ple and be self-supporting 1s to humor the well-to-do people, who prefer to pay for ac- commodations for the sake of being some- what exclusive, by assigning to them a portion of the lake and one se? of dressiag houses and let them pay, but to make the other portfon of the iake and another set of dressing houses entirely froe to the gen- eral public, who provide themselves with towels and bathing suits, and that the re- celpt of the pay side and the rental cf bathing suits and towels for all who wish to hire, shall pay the running expenses of the whole. Bathing in the “Buff.” Another feature of the plan ts that two small yards, say, one hundred feet square each, be surrounded by high board fences, within which all who wish may bathe naked. One yard ts for the white and one | for the colored boys. An office for this purpose Is shown among the trees to the right of center. Mr. Stevens thinks this will save eight cr ten lives every year of boys who would otherwise be drowned by going to dangerous and unguarded places because they cannot afford bathing suits. Nine boys were so drowned this last sea- son, and there have been about that num- ber drowned in far-off places around the city every year from the same cause. It is planned to build wharves from the shore, each thirty-two feet long and about one hundred feet apart, reaching into the wa- ter four feet deep. Along the middle and extending to the inlet !s deep water, about forty feet wide, for divers, and this deep water is bordered everywhere by 2 wharf about three inches above water level, and outside of this wharf the water is four and one-half feet deep, so that no one can pos- sibly walk or swim from shallow water in- to deep water. The great swimming area of the whole lake will be from four to four and one-half feet deep, so that you may swim as far as you please, and yet put your feet down and stand on the bottom when tired or If caught by cramp. This will per- mit the life guard to give his whole atten- tion to those within the deep-water in- closure, and that is so narrow that he can jump from the wharf almost to any point where a swimmer could be in danger and earry the unfortunate one quickly to the wharf. At the seuth end of the lake a na- tive amphitheater awaits the location of benches, whereon an audience of five thou- sand could be comfortably seated in the shade of fine trees, facing the water on that side where the sun's reflection casts no glare. At the extreme left is the gate that is to stop the rise and fall of the tides in the lake so as to hold the water at one constant level in bathing hours, and through wiich gateway the tide is to be permitted to change the water in the night whenever the water in the big basin is clearer than that in the lake. i Mr. Stevens says that there is great mis- apprehension as to the purity of the water in land-locked ponds. If the bottom and shores are entirely of sand or gravel. and there is no filthy Inlet, such ponds will be kept pure by the winds and the sun until surrggnding vegetation drops into them matter to decay, and that the Impression that open-water bathing is unhealthy in dog days is based only on the fact of decay- ing vegetation, which begins about that time, and if that be kept out there is no unhealthiness in the water. The green scum that appears on the water in early summer ig the fallen pollen of flowering trees and weeds. The latter will not be permitted around the lake, and the attendants will be required to skim the water by means of floating boards every morning when it is required. No Gead animals and none of the floating mat- ter of the river need ever be permitted to enter the lake, because the gate may be arranged to open far down under water where it is clear. The churning of the lake by bathers in the sunshine will tend more to purify it than their washing will to contaminate it, so that while it is de- signed to let a foot or two of water of the whole level run out to be replaced by fresh water every day, yet Mr. Stevens feels quite sure that the water in the com- paratively & area of the lake will, very soon after bottom is all sanded over, be found than that in the open river, and a we will not be desirable very often. The Record of the Beach. Those who have the impression that all this 1s for the accommodation of poor peo- ple only have a great surprise in store if they will go and see it on any hot sum- mer evening from 6 until the closing hour. In the past two seasons over sixty thou- sand bathers have registered on the beach books, and over one hundred thousand spectators In carriages and on foot have thronged the shore to enjoy the spectacle, and to add zest to the enjoyment of friends in the water. Very many ladies and gentlemen, sometimes whole families, who have bath tubs with every appliance of hot and cold water at home, go scveral miles to the beach regularly two or three times a week for the sake of the intense Men’s Full-dress Furnish- ings at Half Regular Prices. —¥ou'll save bal vst of the finishing | touches to pparel by supplying your necds nck Drest Kid loves, $1; ess Suspenders, Full | Dregs 'Shie rs, ete., all at halt price. A full Ine o Shirts at popuk P. T. HALL, ged F'sé- 27-106. and Dress: } | { enjoyment and the invigorating effect that follows a half hour’s romp in the open water, and other thousands have been de- terred by the lack of facilities which re- quires two or three persons to be crowded into a 3x5-foot room in the hours after the departments close each day. Nearly a hundred lives have been saved within the past two years by direct assistance of the guards at the beach, and only two lives have beer lost. If such a record as this were to come from some faraway sea coast, Mr. Stevens said to a Star reporter today, “Congress would not hesitate to ap- propriate $100,000 if called for to protect life, but here at the capital of the nation, right under the shadow of the Washington monument, Congress after Congress has been appealed to in vain for an appro- priation of $10,000 to perpetuate this health-giving and life-saving institution.” Why Mr. Stevens is Hopeful. Now, Mr. Stevens says, the circum- stances are different and extremely favor- able to this project. The hasin asked for was originally intended to flush the 17th street sewer, but that belng now deemed impracticable, this basin has never been connected with the sewer, and is useless. To wall the lake around, like the rest of the flats, would cost the general govern- Trent, it fs estimated, about $27,000, and to fill it up would cost ‘about $20,000.’ As the officer in charge of the Potomac river and flats improvement has no authority to do otherwise, he was preparing to fill up and destroy this basin. On the representation of Mr. Stevens that the grounds around the @asin could be filled up to the grade called for in the specifications of the flats im- provements, and the basin be left unfilled in the form desired for a bathing beach, at a saving of at least $10,000 to the general government, that officer has thought proper to wait a reasonable time for action by Congress before resuming work in the lo- cality of the basin. Mr. Stevens, therefore, has high hopes that a bill will pass this Congress, Instructing the engineer officer to level up the surroundings and leave the basin unfilled, and appropriate $20,000, to be expended by the Commissioners in grad- ing, sanding and fitting up the place as planned. One-half being borne by govern- ment, as usual, in public works, will save $10,000 to government, as above stated, and save the beautiful lake, around which may be a carriage drive, skirting the water's edge on the sand along one shore, forming one of the most beautiful and Interesting Icops in the boulevard around and in Washington. If the bounds set forth in the plan are cstablished, they will include the strip of land on the west side of 17th street ex- terded, and a strip, 100 feet wide, along the northwest side of the lake, and the point of land between the lake and tiidal reser- voir, bounded on the west by a line paral- lel with 17th street. On this point it 1s proposed to have free base ball and foot ball grounds, so that these matters which frequently generate a free fight, may be under the supervision of the policemen of the beach. Here is also room for an arch- ery field within a quarter of a mile of the White House grounds. PANTHER FASHION. Military Methods as Followed in Cen- tral America. John R. Spears in the New York Sun. ‘Their Indian blood makes the Central American soldiers take to shelter and am- bush when fighting. When Col. Garfias with his regiment started up Picacho Mountain, above Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to drive the revolutionists from the Iittle table land where the water works reservoir was found, as was told in the Sun the other day, his men sneaked from rock to rock, and the enemy in falling back did the same. During the same revolution Gen. Vas- quez had the forces of Policarpo Bonilla cooped up in a place called Tatumbla. His men outnumbered Bonilla's, and besides having cannon, they were better armed and better supplied with amunition. The village Bonilla occupied was in a valley, while Vds- quez occupied all the hills around save one. When Vasquez attacked this hill his force, though greatly superior, insisted on run- ning forward from rock to rock, Indian fash- ion. But the most noticeable feature of the Tat- umbla situation was in the length of time the two forces sat looking at each other and doing nothing but fire an occasional shot. They were literally snarling and spit- ting at each other for days. Then Bonilla slipped away in the shadows, and next day was found in the suburbs of the capital and holding the crest of a mountain that com- manded the town. It was here that I found the two com- batants, and for three days I saw them facing each giher, snarling and growling, but doing no more, and then Bonilla slipped away again. When Bonilla left Tatumbla for Tegucigalpa, he made a regular panther spring upon his enemy, but for lack of am- munition, failed to get a good claw hold on his victim’s neck. And, panther fashion, he neither worried over the failure nor made another immediate dash. He waited until he had another chance as good as that and then made another leap. He came back again, this time with his claws so well sharpened that Vasquez was the one to sneak, and he eventually sneaked across the border. There was not one good stand-up-and-fight battle in these wars, nor bave I ever heard of a body of Central Amer- cna troops carrying a position with the bayonet. With these things in mind, every English- speaking man I met in Central America spoke contemptuously of Central America soldiers. They were called cowards, of course, and it was asserted that they had neither tact nor persigtence. It was said over and over egain that one English or German regiment, properly equipped, could sweep the country from San Jose de Costa Rica to Guatemala city. To my mind this is all nonsense. I heard such talk in the presence of natives, and the natives listened, as it seemed to me, in an attitude like that of a panther crouched in the brush when the gauchos are after him. They did not re- sist, but they were right dangerous to at- tack hand to hand in such circumstances. No one who has seen the seventh regiment, N..G. S. N. Y., on parade can look at the ordinary Central American soldier without a smile. His uniform consists of a blue drilling shirt or blouse, blue drilling trousers and a straw hat—nothing more. He com- ‘monly carries an old-style Remington rifle, and this fs held, even when on drill, much us an Adirondack woodsman holds his Win- chester—“at all angles.” And that is the soldler in the regular army in time of peace. The revolutionists that I saw in Honduras had for uniforms only white bands around their hats. Their clothing included the common cot- ton shirt and trousers worn by field hands— they went to battle as they went to plant corn. Their arms were for the most part pitiful to look at. They carried the cheap Uttfe pot-metal, muzzle-loading shotguns, made in England, for the export trade. To put in two drachms of powder and four buckshot would be to load them to the last gasp. It was on such weapons as these that the revolutionists staked their lives. And that they did this is. worth considering in forming an estimate of the men as soldiers. A SPLINTER. KILLED BY A Young Girl of Detroit Gets a Tiny Wound nnd Dies of Lockjaw. Florence Mack died in Detroit recently. The wound of a tiny splinter was the cause of her death, it having produced lockjaw. Last Saturday morning Miss Mack ran a emall splinter under her thumb nail. It broke off. leaving about a quarter of an inch imbedded in the flesh. The family rhysician removed it and told her to poui- tice the thumb on returning home. She, however, disregarded the instruction. She was taken ill Sunday, and Monday became unconscious, and remained so until her death. TO ORGANIZE A UNION Movement Started" Among Local Whteliien. sito Sar SOME OF THE-ORIECTS AIMED At The Proper Control of Road Racing a Desideratum. CURRENT C¥YOLING NE WS ——————— There is a good-sized movement on foot to form a-union of the local wheelmen, ir- respective of clubs, for the general good and advancement of cycling interests. The membership of this union will be drawn on the color line, and most likely the ladies will be admitted on an equal footing with their male friends. The wheelmen ot the city are strongly in need of such an or- ganization. In union there is strength and all wheelmen readily see the wisdom of this simple statement, and if for mutual self-protection any class’of people, had rea- son to band together the cyclists certainly stand away up in the list. ‘The movement has not yet been launched. Those projecting the matter are putting on the final touches to the preparations for its promulgation. Several unattached and well- known rfders are behind the thing, and they have received plenty of support in their scheme. Summarized, the new union will be far more to the riders of the Dis- trict of Columbia than the League of American Wheelmen has been to the whole country. As contemplated, the union will be composed of all riders in the District, irrespective of club membership. Meetings will be held annually, at which an election of officers and board of trustees will be had, every member to have a vote in the meeting. Dues will be only nominal, amounting to about fifty cents a year, probably less, but no more. The only ex- pense will be for postage and printing, the officers working gratuitously. To Control Road Races, With the officers lie the management of all things. A board of trustees or govern- ors can be elected, and their work specifi- cally mapped out for them. For instance, the union would control road racing around the District, and would insist upon fairness in all events of the kind, foul riding to be punished by the suspension of the culprit for an indefinite period, barring him from entering similar events on the road. This beard would also have charge of the cen- | tury riding, ard have one or two runs of this kind in a seasop run on the success- ful plan of the Maryiand Century Club of Baltimore, waich makes an annual pil- grimage to Frederick, carrying the last time a crowd of ninety-six riders of both sexes. The union could also have published a pretty accurate road book of the rides of the surrounding country, describing the roads and giving valuable information in such a publication. At each place a cer- tain hotel or farm house will be selected for meals, and by patronizing such places most likely a reduction in the price of the meals can be sectred.,.If no reduction can be secured a better meal service can be had by selecting a ‘single place in each village for patronage. , : Entertainments. The union could also; give one or two en- tertainments in the course of a year, and perhaps a public. demonstration such as a lantern ride, etc. : The most important work of such an or- ganization would be with the District gov- ernment. It could secure a more rigid en- forcement of the police regulation regard- ing the throwing of glass In the streets, and by denouncing reckless riding could receive the support of the District Commis- signers. The Conduit road could be used again for road racing, and without a doubt the roads within the District bounds could be improved a good deal more. Regula; tions could be passed, something on thé order of the Chicago ordinance, preventing the successful operations of thieves, and all measures detrimental to cycling could be fought with more or less succ One thing which the Commissioners have been considering some time, is the imposition of a tax on bicycles, a very unjust matter, but unless opposition develops there is a certainty of the passage of such a law. It is for just such things as above enumerated that the local cyclists stand in need of a.union. Oniy a partial list of the benelits can be enumerated, and directiy and indirectly many more will follow. When the matter is put in, motion every cyclist in the city should join for his own benefit and for the general advancement of cycling. Ladies’ Night at the Capital Club. Last evening was ladies’ night at the Cap- ital Bi Club, the first of the season, and it was a very successful affair, The friends of the club were present in large numbers ‘The program opened with an entertainment styled “Cotton Picking,” the picking com- mencing at a few minutes past 8 o'clock. It was really a miniature Black America, end the queer antics and natural humor of the isxteen colored participants kept every ene laughing. Dancing was inaugurated at the close and continued until near midnight. One of the novelties introduced in this city is hand warmers or protectors, which the large woolen sleeves, fastened on the handle bars by a bolt arrangement end the other end cpen, through which the hands can be thrust in taking hold of the grips. It is stated that Protin, the fast European rider, will visit this country next season and enter some of the large race meets. Cycling Notes. The New York cyclists have established the custom of running a midnight race on New Year eve, which willbe followed this year. The course extends from 110th street to Tarrytown, and the race fs run regard- less of the weather conditions. Last week the Referee had the following news note, though so far as.can be learned these people did not leave this city: “W. L. Hobleitzell, W. E. Sadler and George Meier started from Washington, D. C., on a tour around the werid awheel, without money. They were to earn their expenses along the route. At Santa Ana they indulg- ed in a three-cornered fight, and Sadler at- tempted to make a meal off one of Hob- leitzell's fingers. The latter wired home for money and has sworn off onthe ‘profesh’ business.” ‘The local paper of Fort Dodge, Iowa, says that there is in the village an old colored aunty by the name of Lucinda Bell, whose age is 103 years, but who rides a bicycle daily for exercise. It is announced that Harry Tyler, who proved his speedy qualities in more than one race, will retire from racing next year. The rumor has been in circulation that H. E, Raymond, ex-presidént of the league racing board, who is now abroad, went away for the purpose of ‘hiring a team of crack foreign professionals for'races in this coun- try next season. Sanger has returned to his home In Mil- waukee, after making attempts to lower Hamilton's unpaced mile of 2.00 2-5. He succeeded in tleing the record, but the change in the weather vrevented any more apparent successful attempts. At the recent meeting of the national as- sociation of Accident Insurance men at Atlanta the following resolution was adopt- ed: “That it is the eense'of this convention that the use of the bicycle adds materially to the risks in accident insurance, and should be covered either by adding to the premium or reducing the Indemnity.’ A Parisian cycle firm has hit upon a novel advertising scheme. The firm employs a number of pretty girls, who,are good riders, and dresses them up in tight-fitting and loud-colored bloomers, and on the back of fe a placard 1s suspended an- nouncing the name of the firm. iffany & Co., the well-known New York jewelers, are going to sell bicycles next year. The firm will purchase wheels in open tmar- ket, touch them up and add a few gold or silver mountings and © same at prices ranging from $u0 and upward. Ernest Wallgren of Appicton, Wis., is the inventor of a sadileless bicyele, the frame of which 1s triangular in shape, while the pedals and gearing are attached to the rear hub. N. H. Pillsbury, the Brooklyn cess cha pion, now at St. Petersburg, is an enthus! tic bicycle rider, and it is said he maintains his wonderful control of his nervous system by long rides. ‘Tom Winder has completed his trip around the coast line of the United States. He left New Orleans March 4, and was to have com- pleted the ride in 800 pos gn § but he finished in twenty-eight days less than that. Editorializing on the mounting of a por- tion of New York's police force on bicycles, the Sun seys:“The use of bicycles by the po- lice is calculated to confer upon them larger chests and smaller waistbands; a change devoutly to be wished. Of course, though, they must ride habitually like men able and unashamed to look the world in the face, and not like the hump-backed, slouch-headed deformities so often seen on the streets cn private bicycles. Only when it becomes im- peratively a question of scorching can the policemen hump themselves properly.” TO PLAY 0 NEW YEAR. Foot Ball Teams of Orient and Colam- bin Athletic Clubs. The f€ot ball teams of the Columbia «nd Orient Athletic Clubs will line up before each other New Year day at National Park. This game has been looked forward to for some time, as in the eyes of foot ballists these two teams are more evenly matched than any in town. Although the Columbias will be materially strengthened by the ad- dition of foot ball giants who are in Wash- ington for the holidays, the Orients promise to make it decidedly Interesting for them, and with good team work they will stand an excellent chance of winning. The Orients’ star half back, Avis, will be unuble to play on account of his injury on Xmas. His place will be hard to fill. The Columbia boys do not even think of defeat and will work with all their strength to keep the Capitol Hill boys down. This game will probably be the last of the season. DUNRAVEN'S CHARGES. They Are Being Heard by a Special Committee. The special committee appointed to hear testimony on the charges preferred by Lord Dunraven that Defender did not sail against Valkyrie in her measured water line met yesterday in secret session at the New York Yacht Club. The members of the special committee—E. J. Phelps, J. L. Rives, W. C. Whitney, Capt. Mahan, U. S. A., and J. Pierpont Morgan—arrived at the club early. Lord Dunraven reached the rooms a few minutes after 10 o'clock. Chairman Morgan called the special com- mittee to order. They sat at a table in the club's model roam, At Mr. Morgan's right and left sat Messrs. Phelps, ‘Whitney, Rives and Capt. Mahan. Near Mr. Mor- gan sat Joseph E. Choate, attorney for Mr. Iselin. Lord Dunraven and his solic- itor had a table to themselves. Mr. Askwith, solicitor for the owner of Valkyrie 1JI, as soon as the committee or- ganized, made the opening statement, set- ung forth Lord Dunraven’'s case. It was almost Impossible to get any tan- gible idea of what was going on inside the model room of the club house, but persist- ent reporters, who were forced te remain outside, ascertained that Lord Dunraven was on the stand during the afternoon, and that his friend, Arthur Glennie, was also subjected to a few questions by Law- yer Choate. The Thirteenth Game. The following is the score in the thirteenth game of the American championship chess match: PETROFF’S DEFENSE. WHITE. | BLA | , WHITE, BLACK. Lipschutz. Showalter.) _Lipschutz, Showalter. 1 PK pK B—R3 °K 2) 58 BRS by BR I8B—-Kt2 PxpP 19 BPxP™ xk Kt—Kt6ch 20 KtxB O-B3 Kt-Bi 21 RB R-KB 22 Ktra RK 23 Rep Kexgr RxQ Rx RxRet "Bx 26 —-Kt = -BBteh K-R Kt—B3 o8 Kt_K6 4B. 97 KR OS Kt—Hten | 99 Kes 100 Kt—Teh WL Kt Wz Kt— 103 Kt—-K6 Jos Kt SHOWALTER THE CHAMPION. He Beats Lipschutz in the Final Game of the National Match. Jackson W. Showalter is chess champion of the United States and possessor of the stakes deposited of $1,500 by virtue of win- ning seven games of chess from S. Lip- schutz, the former champion. The last game, the fourteenth of the match, was won yesterday in New York in brilliant style by Showalter, and will prob- ably obtain the “briliiancy” prize offered by Signor Sterling of Madrid, subject to the adjudication of Signor A. Vasquez of Ha- vana. The game was a splendid illustration of Showalter’s aggressive style of chess play, lis tenth move, Kt—Kt 5, being his own in- vention and the winning stroke. ——.__ UNKNOWN REGION OF ONTARIO. A Vast Wooded Region That Awaits an Intrepid Explorer. From the Winnipeg (fanttoba) Free Press. Of Ontario's area, estimated at 200,000 square miles, 100,000 square miles are in an unknown region, only the edges of which have been explored. This is the ter- ritory known as the Hinterland of Onta- rio. It Hes between Lakes Huron and Su- perior to the south and the Albany river and’ St. James bay to the north. In this vast area {s the Height of Land, which separates waters flowing to Hudson bay from the streams emptying into the St. Lawrence and the lakes. North of the Height ts what ts called the Hudson bay slope, consisting of about 80,000 square miles. This slope may be described as an unknown land. ‘The height of land is not a ridge of hills, but is a level plateau some 1,200 or 1,300 feet above the sea. “The scenery,” says a surveyor's report, “though diversified by hundreds of streams and rivers and thou- sands of lakes and innumerable crags and hills of rock, is certainly lacking in that nobility and largeness of view which only the presence of lofty mountains can be- stow.” Of the rivers flowing north from thie slope, the Albany is the most impor- tant, being about 475 miles long, and nav- igable during the season of high water for 250 miles. Of the short slopes south of the Height of Land, in which are situated the settlements of North Bay, Sturgeon Falls and Sudbury, there is definite and general knowledge, but the whole territory sloping north remains unexplored. The Hinterland 1s Ontario's reserve. Much valuable timber in this region is de- stroyed by fires that sweep south of the watershed. Pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar and cedar are varieties of wood existing in abundance south of the Hudson bay slope. Here, too, are valuable minerals, but the treasures hidden in the region north of the plateau and the resources of the plane itself await the searching of some Intrepid explorer. The Hinterland will reward the eager discoverer, and when he has exhausted that territory the regions of the great northwest remain unsurveyed. oo Literary Criticinm, From Truth. Vokes—“I hear that Shakespeare's are being translated into the Chines Revokes—"What a controversy that will cause among the mandarins, when they dis- cover What a plagiarist Confucius was!” - coe From an Authority. From Truth. First Editor—“Are you going to publish that article on the servant girl question?” Second Editor--"Great Scott, yes! It was written by a policeman.” ‘orks NOT YET DETERMINED Unsettled Who the Big Whist Four Will Be. PLAY FOR THE NATIONAL TROPHY Little Match Chess During the Week. GOSSIP OF THE CLUBS —_>___—_. It has not been settled what team will represent the Capital Bicycle Ciub in the national whist trophy mat, and it will not be decided until after this evening, at least. Mr. Stevens is unable to leave the city at present, and Dr. Lee Harban has been substituted on the “big four,” which now consists of Carr, Barrick, Fogg and Dr. Harban. Last Saturday evening this quar- tet won from Messrs. Wooten, W. S. Har- ban, J. E. Williams and Irving Williamson by two tricks. This evening another team, headed by Mr. Wooten, will attempt to de- feat the “big four." The other members of the team have not been announced. Now that the day for the match draws near, the whist experts are playing a great deal, but sinc2 the trophy has beea carried so far off, there is not so much desire fer a place on the team. Contrary to expectations, the Albany Whist Club contested with the Continentals at New York last Saturday evening, and defeated them by the score of 2# to 17, thus winning by seven tricks, the same number as the Continentals defeated the Philadel- phias. Consequently, they carried the trophy of the American Whist League to Albany. This evening the Brooklyn Whist Club will try to wrest St from ‘them, and next Saturday a team from the Capital Bi- cycle Club wili attempt to bring it to Wash- ington. The crew of the Albany club last Saturday evening were Messrs, Barrington Lodge, jr., C. F. Snow, D. Mabifelder and G. B. Young. 2 < Little Match Chess Playing. Very little match chers playing has been indulged in this week, because of the holl- days. In the tourney at the Capital Bicy- cle Club Mr. Earrick has added another win to his score, and crawled nearer the leader. Falck won 3% out of 5 games play- ed this week. The score is as follows: Usina,. won lost 2; Quackenbush, won 6, lost 1; Barrick, won 12%, lost 3%; Douglas, won 4, lost 3; Carr, n 614, lost 64; Mac- daniel, won 7, lost 9; Falck, won 5%, lost 74; J. L. Wirt, won 343, lost 14, and Cal- ver, won 0, lost 6. - The score of the first prize eligibles in the chess tournament at the Washington Chess Club fs as follows: Wright, 1; O'Farrell,1; Hanna, 1; Martin, 1; Patterson, 2; Gchner, 2; Ustna, 0; Dovglas, 0; Tibbetts, bye. Wright cutplayed Capt. O'Farrell in their second game, a French defense, aud won in twenty-nine moves. Hanna overlooked a mate on the move in his second game with Martin, a Sicilian, and lost in twenty-three moves. The closest match of the tournament i that between Patterson and Gichner, in which first one wins and then the other. The match will continue until one pluyer wins two more than the other. In the second prize list Walker aon two games from Gwyer, the first, a queen's gambit declined, in ‘forty-four moves, and the sccond, a four knights’ opening, in twenty. meves, the score bétween them standing: Walker, Gwyer, 1. Tharp won the first game from Otte, though the latier at one time was a pawn and the @xchange ahead and should have won. This evening another game will be played between Messrs, Wright and O'Farrell, Hanna and Martin and Walker and Gwyer at the club rooms, 614 12th street north- west. What Checker Players Are Doing. Interest in the checker tournament at the Mt. Vernon Club, 980 9th street northwest, has fallen off somewhat by the retirement of McHardie from the race. Mr. McHardie was employed on the construction of the new Congressional Library building, and his vices being no longer required there, he removed from the city, at least for the present. He held the tit of champion checker player of the District of Columbia, which he won from Mr. Mundelle. His re- moyal leayes the title unclaimed, though Mr. Mundelle has heretofore shown him- self stronger than any of the other piayers here. In_the present contest, however, Ward is ahead of him, and can hardly be overtaken. A match may be played between them for the title. The score is as follows, drawn games counting one-half: Ward, won 31%, lost 10l4; McHardie, won 23, lost 9; delle, won 37, lost 25; 171g; Farquhar, won Wendell, won 17, Jackson, won 16, lost 18; Fitch, won 19%, lost 37!4; Miller, wen 2, lest 4; Smith, won 6, lost 18, and Whitford, Won 10%, lost 40's. In class B, Murray is still away in the lead, with Stephenson second, closely fol- lowed by Grove. The following is the score of the six players in the lead: Murray, won 47%, Stephenson, won aig, lost 1 won 21%, lost 12%; Walker, won 28, lost 19; Cramer, won 10%, lost 744, and Burton, won 20%, lost 20%. The St. Petersburg Tournament. The second round and one-third of the chess tournament at St. Petersburg has been completed, and Pillsbury, the young American, leads Lasker, his nearest com- petitor, by one game. During the week PiNsbury has added one And one-half games to his score, while Lasker has added but one-half game, both having contested two games. In his second game with Steinitz Pillsbury outplayed the veteran in the afternoon, but on resuming the game, after adjournment, grew careless and allowed the game to be drawn. . Wednesday Lasker was undoubtedly ex- pecting a queen's gambit declined, but Pills- bury again showed tact by adopting Las- ker's own favorite opening, the Ruy Lopez. Lasker defended with 3P to QR3, which move ho has characterized in published lec- tures as weak, preferring 3Kt. to KB3. The game was well played, and was won by su- perior end-game play. Lasker defaulted a game to Tschigorin Saturday. Through the latter’s efforts, however, the forfeit was not counted. The rattler created a great deal of discussion, which was not participated in by Pillsbury, who cheerfully acquiesced in the decision. a exhibition of skill yet shown in the tourna- ment. Two Local Chess Experts. Mr. James Patterson of this city has just had the honor of having a problem com- posed by him selected as the winner of the first prize in the first national problem tourney of the New York Tribune. There were seventy-five entries, and Mr. Patter- son's problem, “Excelsior A," was consid- ered superior ‘to all others.’ Of this prob- lef Mr. F. M. Teed, the judge, said: “It is a fine problem, showing admirable construc- tive ability and resource.” Mr. Patterson is a veteran in chess, having commenced the composition of problems in the year 1858. In 1807 he won first prize in the New York Clipper problem tourney. He is a strong player across the board. Mr. S. C. Dunham is another resident of the District who has composed a iarge num- ber of problems, and some of them are con- sidered very fine, having taken prizes in tournaments. ee A NEW FOOD CEREAL. The Possibilities of Kafr Corn Developed in the Western Plab From the St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. The question of successful farming in the semi-arid regicns of the great.west Is solved at last. Kaffir corn, first introduced on the Ameri- can continent from the Kaffir country, in Africa, less than a decade since, fs still an unknown product to nine-tenths of the peo- ple of the United States. At first planted here and there as a curi- osity, it was found to grow readily in all. localities and under all conditions, and ex- periments developed the fact that it would mature a crop in the driest and hottest sea- scns on the high western plains. A more ex- tended planting of the new grain and a comparison of results obtained soon devel- oped the fact that whether the season was wet or dry, cool or hot, long or short, this new product would thrive on all kinds of soils with the minimum of care and culti- vation, and planted any time between the first of April and the middle of July it would mature an absolutely sure crop of grain and fodder before the frosts of autumn. The stalk {8 somewhat like a single shoot of common corn, but shorter, attaining a height usually of from four and one-half to six feet, and having pointed leaves of a rich green color. The grain forms in a head at the extreme point of the shoot, where the tassel is on ordinary corn, the heads being from seven to twelve inches tn length and six to eight inches in circumference, and when ripe look like great white or red plumes The grains are almost round, a little larger than a grain of rice and much resembling a grain of wheat in interior structure. ‘There are two varieties, red and white, the latter being the favorite crop. Though raised as an experiment here and through- out the west for several years, it was not until the present year that it became a prominent crop. When the drouth of last spring killed the wheat and oats and seemed almost certain to ruin the corn, the few who had had experience with the new grain be- gan to advise their neighbors to plant Kaffir corn, as it would grow all right in dry weather, and they could thus at least raise feed for their stock. The newspapers took up the advice, and soon farmers were plant- ing Kaffir corn, utilizing the ground where wheat and cats had failed at planting on sod or scattered patches where early corn had been burned out. The planting .was continued until well along in August, the acreage being in many sections greater than that ever devoted to a single crop. In Oklahoma alone nearly fifty thousand acres were planted with the new crop. And every grain of it planted grew and thrived to maturity, and before the summer was over the farmers began to wonder what they would do with it all. They knew it was good feed for stock, but there was not stock enough in the territory to consume it, and the product was yet so new that it was not recognized in the out- side markets. Experience had already developed the fact that it made a most admirable feed, either to winter stock or fatten them for market, but with an abundance of the grain on hand, Oklahoma farmers soon discovered that it was better for horses than either corn or oats, making them fat and stout and giving them a sleek, glossy appearance. When it came to feeding hogs, it was found that they gained fiesh more rapidly than when fed on common corn, and po trymen have found the Kaffir grain an ag- mirable egg producer, and when fed un- thrashed the fowis are given exercise in picking it from the head. The boys and girls soon discovered that it would pop as weil as popcorn, the grains popping out large, white and tender, and women in the country found that boiled like rice, the grain was excellent eaten with cream and sugar, that mashed into a pulpy mass it made an admirable pudding, and it was also a first-class substitute for hominy, Sull the quantity produced’was so great that the people continued to wonder what they would do with it. The owner of the roller mills at Medicine Lodge, Kan., ran some of the grain through his corn meal grinder, and produced a meal pronounced in every way equal to the ordl- nary cornmeal, but he was not content with this, but rigzed up a special set of burrs and produced a new produce that bids fair to create a revolution in the world’s bread- stuffs—Kaffir fiour. Some of this flour was made into light bread. The bread was fully as white as bread made from second-grade wheat flour, and was sweet and palatable. ———— ee _____ SO ALWAYS TO TYRANTS. But if It Happens to Bea Baby What Can Be Done. From the Amusing Journal. A well-intentioned man overheard two women talking together in a street car, and he Immediately let dowr the portals of his ears, for the well-intentioned man always goes about with a lifelong hunger in his heart to insert himself into the affairs of other people. “I tell you, he is a perfect tyrant,” said woman No. 1 “I have no doubt of it,” said the other. “I will listen to this poor woman's tale,” thought the well-intentioned man, “and” perhaps I-may be able to assist the poor sou! Yes, he is a regular tyrant and despot. He has no mercy on me whatever. He rules the whole house like a czar.” “Of course he does,” sald woman No. 2. “I shall have to offer my services to this poor, downtrodden woman,” intentioned man. ‘Yes, he rides over the whole of us rough- shod. And sometimes, when he gets on the rampage, he beraks everything he can lay his hands on.” “Madam,” sald the well-intentioned man, who could stand it no longer, “madam, my services are at your disposal. Let me go to vour home and intercede with your tyran- nical husband. “He ain't my husband, at all, you simples thought the The game between Lasker and Tschigorin | ton,” snapped woman No. 1. “He's my was played Monday, resulting in a draw. | nine-months’-old baby—bless his precious The game is said to have been the finest | soul.” = > THE LEVEL From Punch. CROSSE 0, mum.” ‘0, mum."" s there no special train?" train?” You're qu ‘Yes, mum.” “Then come, Amelia. And no more trains on ‘the down lire’ “Are there no more trains this evening on the up line, porter?” s are to for the rest of the evening.” We can cross the line!"