Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1896, Page 9

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Cooper, an American mining expert, , who was said to have been killed by sav- ‘ages while on an exploring trip. The truth 3s that Cooper tried to swim across the Inambari river, and perished either from cramps or striking a rock. The United States consular agent at Mollendo says the first story was spread by the former own- ers of the Santo Domingo gold mine, with , the object of detaining Mr. Hardison, who (bought the mine for the American com- ‘ pany called the Inca Mining Company of | Carabaya. On his return from the states the mine was giving ten pounds of gold @aily, and it suited them to keep the new wher away as long as possible. Rumors | gf the discovery of rich gold deposits in feat i appear to be supported by this ement. . ¥® 1Soon the Base Ball Season THE CLOSING WEEK of 1896 Will Be Over. IMPORTANCE OF THE LAST. GAMES Senators Straining Every Effort to Secure Ninth Place. CURRENT SPORTING NOTES -_—_+—___ Record of the Clubs. Clubs. W. L. P.C. Clubs. W. L. P.O. Raltimore ..87 37 .702}New York ..61 64 .488 Cleveland ...77 45 -631|Philadelphia 60 64 484 Cincinaat “2776 49 -608| Brooklyn ....56 69 1448 +2570 56 .556| Washington 55 70 1440 St. Louis. 89 1299 Pittsburg +. 6|Loulsville .-35 90 :280 E ing September 1895: Clubs. W. L. Ciubs. L. PC. Baltimore ..80° 42 tsburg ...66 60 .524 ch nal innatt 58 Philadelphia 76 48° .613| New York 1163 60 "I 56 548] Washington 82 56 -3H5|St. Louis 85 57.544) Louisville 91 Today's Schedule New York at Washington. Philadelphia at Baltimore. Cincinnati at Cleveland. Boston at Brooklyn. Louisville at Pittsburg. Chicago at St. Louis. ©. P. Caylor in the New York Herald. Six more days will end the championship season of the National League. The con- test for the Temple Cup will follow during the next fortnight, and then the ball and bat will be laid away for half a year. These six months of autumn, winter and spring will not, however, be barren of events of interest to interest the many thousand de- yotces of the national game. Clubs will reform, recruit and reinforce their teams. Some deals, trades, sales and purchases will be made before the next pennant sea- son opens, but, more important than all, will be the legislation of the magnates when they meet at Chicago in November and again in February. The chances are that these will be the most important councils of the base ball law makers in the history of the game. ‘Though this is the last week of the cham- pionship race it is not without its spots of intense local interest. The pennant itself is beyond dispute. Baltimore had it won a week ago, and in the games which they are now playing they merely determine how high the winning per cent shall be. It is likely to be less than .700. They are “three-time winners.” This honor has been held only twice before during the National twenty-one seasons. The Chi- and the Bostons in 18! The Baltimores next y , 1882 and ar will have a chance to break all records by winning the pennant for the fourth successive Of course the chance is against Which Will Win It? In New York and Philadelphia {t will be a struggle for seventh place this week, or what Is called the head of the second division. New York holds an advantage by being m possession, though by a small margin. They have six games to play, whereas the “Phill have but five. It seems to be a toss of a copper between the two clubs’ prospects, with the advan- tage, if any, In the New Yorks’ favor. Over in Brooklyn it will be a week of anxious expectation—a final struggie to keep ahead of the Washingtons. One month ago the patrons of Eastern Park would have laughed scernfully at a sug- gestion that the Senators would beat them out, but this morning only eight points separate the two clubs in the race, and it looks like tenth place for the Bridegrooms, who are erding the season in a badly de moralized condition. Boston and Chicago are neck and neck in their race for fourth place, with the chances in the westerners’ favor, Even the Louisville and St. Louis team$ are straining every nerve in a very even struggle to see which shall occupy the “tail end.” Th= mest important contest of the week, however, {s that between the Cincinnatis and Clevelands for second place. With them it is more than a sentiment. It means from $5») to $809 to each player of the team which gets ‘the place,” for-that team will » the pennant winners in the Temple i share in the general distribu- With their comfortable final games at home les during the last four of the week, it is hard to see how the -velands can lose the prize, especially as are far superior to their rivals in the style of their playing. Nothing but the win- ning of their three games in Cleveland to- day and tomorrow will give Ewing's men anything like an even chance to beat Te- t, and it is hardly probable that the 1 play a double header with his since he would probably have noth- ing to gain thereby and much to lose. Disappoints the Champions. The Baltimores will be greatly disap- pointed to be compelled to play the Cleve- lands a second time for the Temple cup. The series with the Cincinnatis would have been worth probably $300 or $400 more to every player on the Baltimore club, be- cause a series in Cincinnati would realize three times as much as one will be worth in Cleveland, and, moreover, they would have almost a certainty of winning the series and the cup from the ‘‘Reds,” who are easy foes, but are almost certain to lose it to the Clevelands, who are their Jonahs. Besides the difference in the amount to be realized in Cincinnati or Cleveland, it means probably only forty per cent of the proceeds if their opponents are the Clevelands, but sixty per cent if they should be the Cincinnatis—the difference of a division should they be defeated, or of a larger one should they win. The Baltimores have contested in nine games during two years for the Temple cup and succeeded in but one of them. The New Yorks beat them “four straight” in 1894, and the Clevelands took four or five t fall. If the Cievelands win the cup again they would have a call on a perma- nent title to it. Under the deed of gift to the league it is stated that any team which wins the cup three succesive years shall be- come its permanent possessor. SENATORS WON THE FIRST. Mercer's Deceptive Delivery Too Much for the Giants. The Senators defeated Scrappy Joyce's Giants Saturday in a five-inning game that made the hearts of th: “:ns beat long and lcud with excitement. It was a slugging match for the home team, while Joyce’s hired men could not connect with Mercer with any degree of method. Abbey’s bat- ting was the feature of the game. He made two doubles and a single out of three times at the bat, while Farrell came next with a double and a single. Joyce made a single his second time at the bat, but struck out en Mercer's deceptive delivery his third time up, whereat the crowd cheered. The game was witnessed by a large crowd of rooters, who faithfully gave Scrappy a good hand when he made his appearance at the plate. The score: R.H.E. Washington. 25-880 New York. vold3 Cincinnati Won. Louisville's streak of luck followed ‘the team yesterday, and, though the Colonels made four more hits than the Reds and one less error they could not win, Cincinnati taking the game by bunching hits in two innings. Attendance, 2,800. The scere: LOUISVILLE, t.11.0.4.5. Dexter, ¢.. 12°40 0 Mevrecry.t? 1100 0 Clarke, If..0 1100 Ol Rogers, 1550 111 1 0 rg, £02610 O| Dotan, “ss... 0 10 3 0 i ‘3611130 0} % o000 el oo21 ©9000 0100 Totals +8 912310 1 ler batted for Johnson. folmes batted for Hill. tinterfered with play. 00200200xr4 2100000003 in, ifice_bits— Stolen base—Dexter. Double THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1896—TWELVE P. ‘Irwin, unassisted; Holliday, Rhines; Picker- Dexter. First on balls—By Rhines, 1; by Hill, 1, "Hit dy pitched ball—By Rhines, 1. ‘Struck out— Bat Gan Retinal dh Browms Beat the Colts. The Browns won from the Colts yesterday on McFarland’s drive over the fence, with cne man on base in the ninth inning. Up to that time the score was two to one in the Colts’ favor. Attendance, 3,500. The score: ST. LOUIS. CHICAGO. R.H.0.A.B R.H.0.A.B. Douglas, cf 0°1 10 6 Everitt, If. 00°10 0 Sullivan, 1f0 1 1 0 O|Dablen, ss. 0 1110 Dowd, %..1 8 8 4 | £..003800 Turner, rf. 0 01 0 0| 012 0 0 Panott, 1) 0 116 0 1\Ryan,, rf..0 1 8 0 0 Meyers, 3b 0 0 2 2 0|McOur'k, 300 0011 Oross, ‘ss.. 1 2 2 6 1) Pfeffer,” 23 45 0 McFarl'd,e 1 1 1 3 O|Gr.mth, p..0 10 5 0 Hart, p.:..0 0 0 6 0|Donohue, ¢O 1 1 2 1 Totals... 3 92721 2 Totals. 7251 *One out when winning run was made. St. Louis. 00 2-3 Chitcago. 1012 Harned runs—St hit—Pfefter. balls—Om Har 1. Two-base Stolen bases E + First base on 1; off Griffith, 1." Hit by pitched vall— Donohue. ck out—By Mart, 2; by Grif- fith, 1. Wild pitch—Hart, 1. ‘Time—Two hours. Umpire—Lal ED. CRA NE TAKES HIS LIFE. Suicide of a Once Famous Base Ball Player. Ed. N. Crane, the veteran pitcher, com- mitted suicide at a hotel in Rochester, N. Y., Saturday night by drinking chloral. He owed $65 board, and had been ordered to give up his room. Crane was in poor form this year, and was dropped by Springfield and Providence. He began his ball career at Boston in 1884, and later played with the Nationals of this city, in 1886. Subse- quently he went to ‘Toronto and helped win the pennant for that club in 1887. In "8? and ‘Ss? he pitched for New York, that club winning the championship. He played with the Brotherhood in '90; Cincinnati in and * Wilkesbarre, Haverhill, "9% 4; ‘Teronto, '95, and Rochester, Springtield and Providence this year. In 1888 he accom- panied John Ward's all-American team in its tour with Chicago around the world. THE DEPART: TAL LEAGUE. Arranging for the Presentation of the Trophies. A meeting of the Departmental Base Ball League will be held next Thursday even- ing at the Light Infantry Armory to make arrangements for the proposed reception to be given by the league at National Rifles’ Armory in Octcber. “At the reception the trophies won by the first and second clubs will be presented, and the meeting Thurs- day night is to be held for the purpose of perfecting the details incident to such an affair. The Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing will be presented with the trophy pre- sented by the firm of Parker, Bridget & Co. to the league and the second prize will go to the Washington Light Infantry. Plans for next season will aiso be infor- rally discussed at the league meeting next Thursday night. It had been hinted that some one with a few dollars to lose has signified his intention of backing the league financially next season and seeing to it that it is a success in the money end as well ag the playing end of the combination. ‘The name of the individual has not been given out ag yet, but it is confidently as- serted that such is the case, and that the Departmental League will see its most prosperous seascn in every respect next year. Why It Was a Game. There was some disposition at National Park Saturday to believe that as five full innings were not played thera was no game. The rule, which 1s as follows, shows the reverse to be the cas Rule 26. “No game” shall be declared by the umpire if he shall terminate play on account of rain or darkness, before five innings on each side are completed, ex- cept in a case when the game Is called, and the club second at bat shall have more runs at the end of its fovrth inaings than the club first at bat has made in its five innings. In such case the umpire shall award the game to the club having made the greatest number of runs, and it shall be a legal game, and be so counted in the championship record. Joyce's Eye on McGuire. From the New York Journal. The New Yorks are weak in only two po- sitions, and strong efforts will be iaade be- fcre next season to remedy this. A hard hitter and fast outfielder will be needed in left garden, and an Al catcher will also be signed if possible. Capt. Joyce is thinking seriously of trying Seymour in the out- field in the spring. Cy has played several games in the field for the Mets and ac- quitted himself nobly, besides he is a good hitter. With proper coaching ill thinks Cy would do. Joyce also has his eye on cGuire of the Washingtons. McGuire is a good man, and if he could be secured he would greatly strengthen the Giants. Base Ba The second game in the Steinert cup se- ries of the Eastern League was played yes- terday at Buffalo, and resulted in favor of Providence by 17 to 13 in a great slugging match. Drauby made three home runs. No umpire appeared on Saturday to offici- ate in the Baltimore-Philadelphia game at Baltimore, and Catcher Wm. J. Clarke of Baltimore and Pitcher Carsey of Philadel- Fhia umpired the game. The Richmond and Norfolk teams of the Virginia League are now playing a series of games to decide the championship of the league and incidentally the Nowlan cup. The Virginia League season was divided into two parts. Richmond’ was in the lead at the end of the first half and Norfolk of the last. They are therefore playing the series to decide the championship. Last Saturday's game was a remarkably fine ore. The only run of the game resulted from Gilroy's hitting a batter and allowing a three-bagger to follow. Roger Conner left for Waterbury, Conn., his home, Saturday night. He has been suffering by an injury to one of his legs, caused ly a pitched ball in one of the Washington games. He strained the in- jured member at Louisville and will be unable to play again this season. It is hardly probable that he will ever wear the St. Louis uniform again. Manager Dowd says that he will get a new first baseman and shortstop and second baseman for next year and will play center field himself. Conner, it is said, will own and manage a team in the Connecticut State League, of which Orator O'Rourke is the leading spirit, in 1897. The Giants have no chance to beat the Pittsburgs out in the race, and it is not safe betting that they will beat out the Philadelphias. The giants have three more games to play with the Washingtons, and then they return home for three games with the Baltimores. Marager Joyce and several of the Giants are going’to take a barnstorming trip after the close of the present sezson. Joyce has already secured several good dates. | Notes Champion Local Swimmer. Dr. Grenfell, who recently won the cham- pionship of the District as a swimmer at a series of races. held at Marshall Hall, maintained that title yesterday at River View by defeating Mr. William Kreuger, who had challenged the champion, through Mr. Ernest Gerstenberg. The matches were at 100 and 200 yards, and Dr. Grenfell won beth without exerting himself abnormally. In the 100-yard swim he came in eight feet ahead, and in the 200-yard match had a lead of about twenty-five feet at the finish. Dr. Grenfell was presented with a gold medal by Mr. Gerstenberg at the conclu- sion of the races. Birds Flew From Chester, Va. The Capital City District of the National Federation of Homing Pigeon Fanciers held their first race of the season yester- day fram Chester, Ve. It was a poor day for flying pigeons, as a strong northwest wird blew, which prevented the birds from making great speed. The returns were gccd, but slow. The following is the ordor in which birds were reported: W. H. Key- worth winning first and second diplomas, with 719 yards per minute; A. C. McLain, 692 yards per minute; H. K. Bliss, 685 yards per minute; H. C. Wall, 663 yards per minute; Dr. H. Darling, 644 yards per min- ute. W. R. Keyworth and W. L. Gary re- ported birds home, but no time was given. The club will race from the 150-mile sta- tion, September 27, when a good day is looked for. Wefers From Scratch Beaten. B. J. Wefers, the Georgetown University AGES, ae sprinter, was defeated in the 100 yards handicap Saturday,-at- Philadelphia, in the annual sports of the Pennsylvania Y. M. C. A. The race : ¥, T. Harshaw @1 feet), Pennsylvy; Y. MC. A., won; B. J. Wefers ‘ch, second; H. Speere, Cc. A. C., third. Time, 10 1-5, Australians Far Ahead. The Philadelphia éricketers finished thetr first inning Saturday-with a score of 123 runs in the game, which began at Phila- celphia Friday. Thé’ Australians used up nine wickets of their second inning for 163. Total for two innings 355 thus far. The in- ning will be completed today. Tennis Cracks at Chicago. At Chicago, Saturday, in the tennis tour- nament, Carr Neel’ beat Larned 7-5, 6-4; Fischer beat Larned 10-8, 6-1. Carr Neel beat Evarts Wrenn, 6-1, 5-1. Same Chase eat George Wrenn ‘10-8, 8-6, + - Fister Postpones His Attempt. John J. Fister will not make his attempt to break the American twenty-four-hour track record of 452 miles 1,715 yards this afternoon, or this season, so far as the postponement is concerned. He had been in training for the event of this afternoon for some weeks past, and would have start- ed on his long ride of endurance at the race meet at the International Athletic Park had everything been favorable. His physical condition was such today as tu preclude any attempt for the long distance. His physician has forbidden it. — ARTILLERY CHANGES. A New Light Battery to Come to the Washington Barracks. The only way in which this city is di- rectly affected by the recently ordered changes in the stations of infantry and artillery troops. is by the transfer of Light Battery C, 3d Artillery, from the Wash- ington barracks to the Presidio of San Francisco and the transfer of either Light Battery D or Light Battery F of the Sth Artillery from the Presidio to Washing- ton barracks. The assignment of the bat- tery cf the 5th Artillery to this post will be made by Col. William M. Graham, com- manding the 5th Regiment, subject to the approval of Gen. Ruger, commanding the department of the east, with headquarters at New York. The movement of these troops from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa will tegin as soon after the ist promimo as {t can be arranged. The assignment of artillery troops to the coast posts is In acccrdance with the policy of the War Department to concentrate such troops where they can be rendered most effective in case of a foreign invasion. The orders will involve the departure from this post of the following officers of Battery C of the 3d Artillery: ‘apt. James M. Lancaster, First Lieuts. W. E. Birkhimer and James K. Cree and Second Lieut. Archibald Campbell. As already stated, either Battery D or Battery F ot the 5th Artillery will be stationed at Wash- ington barracks, with the probabilities in favor of the selection of Battery F. The officers of these batteries are as follows: Battery D—Capt. Frank Thorp, Fir: Lieuts. H. C. Carbaugh and O. I. Straub and Second Lieut. C. P. Summerall. Battery F—Capt. H. J. Reilly, First Lieuts. W. P. Newcomb and ‘Thom: Ridgeway ard Second Lieuts. L. R. Bu gess and B. Payne. Whe 5th Artillery will be distributed among the posts along the South Atlantic coast at Barrancas, Wia.; Fort Monroe, v Washington Barracks and St. Francis Barracl I The. last named post is the present headquarters of the 3d Artil- lery, and will probably. be the headqu ters of the relieving regiment. Col. Graham of the Sth.is a Washington boy, born and bred, and commanded the 2d District of Columbia Infantry from April to September, 1805. He has hosts of friends here, and will undoubtedly receive a cor- diai welcome on his return to his native heath. In a general order announcing the trans- fer of trocps, Gen. Miles gives the follow- ing instructions The light batteries will ve. their horses, guns and battery equipments at their present stations and take those of the exchanging battery, The designations of the particular field officers, batteries, aud companies for posts to be garrison by the artillery and by the 15th and 16th Infantry will be made by the commanding generals of the de- partments in which they are to serv except that the battery for Fort Canby will be designated by the commanding officer of the 34 Artillery, and the junior major of that regiment will also take sta- tion at that post. Commanding officers will see that the property to be transported is confined to the lowest possible limit, and that all surplus or unserviceable property is trans- ferred to the proper officer at the respec- tive stations from which the troops are ordered. En route to their new stations the troops will take such ammunition only, per man, as {s usually carried on the per- son of the soldier. All enlisted men of the 5th Artillery and the 4th Infantry who desire to remain at their present station will be permited to do so and be transferred to batteries and companies to arrive. All enlisted ren of the 3d and 5th Artil- lery and the 4th and 15th Infantry who have six months or less to serve and who do not intend to re-enlist will be left at their present stations for transfer to or- ganizations thereat or to arrive. Commanding generals of departments will by concerted action arrange for and give such additional directions as may be neces- sary, and order further details with due regard to economy and the welfare of officers and men. The transportation required by this order will be furnished by the quartermaster’s department, after due proposals from the lines interested, and the cost of each move- ment will be reported to the quartermas- ter general as soon as known. a A Station for Reserve Ships. The special naval board engaged in plan- ning a reserve fleet system for the navy 1s seriously considering the selection of a station on the Atlantic coast, where the reserve ships can be laid up in ordinary to the best advantage of the service. Three yards are under favorable consideration. They are the Brooklyn, the Portsmouth and the League Island yards. Each has points in its favor, and it is possible that two of them will be used, Whitney Basin at Brooklyn and League Island. ch of these has the advantage of being situated directly at a great manufacturing and com- mercial city, where there is always not only plenty of labor at command, but ship- building material of all sorts, with abund- ant supplies. When a ship is laid up in reserve it is with the intent of having her ready to be put in commission at short notice. e+ Visited the Naval Observatory. A party of distinguished Englishmen on their way home from Japan, where they made observations of the solar eclipse, paid a special visit to the naval observa- tery Saturday and’ were recelved with great consideration, by ‘Commodore Phy- thian, superintenden€ ofthe observatory, and Profs. Harkness and Newcomb, his assistants. The visiting party consisted of Royal Astronomer Christie of the Green- wich observatory, London; Prof. Turner of Oxford and Capt. Hill of the English en- gineer corps. They manifested great interest in all they saw, and expressed surprise at the won- derful progress in astronomical work made in the United States in recent years. Prof. Newcomb haz just returned from a five menths’ visit to Europe, which, it is ex- pected, will be fruitful of good scientific results. He attended the international as- treromical conference at Paris in April, urd subsequently conferred with the su- perintendents of the nautical almanacs published by England, France and Ger- mary, in addition to which he represented the United States at the international con- ference in Paris in July. During his at- tendance at Lord Kelvin’s jubilee at the Glasgow University, Prof. Newcomb was honcred with the degree of LL. D. by the Scottish University. The University of Cambridge has also conferred upon him the degrce of doctor of science. er The Report on the Texas. Acting Secretary McAdoo has referred the reports made by Capt. Glass as to the circumstances surrounding the grounding of the Texas to Admiral Bunce, to whose squadron the vessel is attached, with in- structions to him to order a court of in- quiry to fully investigate the matter. Nearly all women have good hair, though many are gray, and few are bald. Hall's Hair Kenewer restores the natural color and thickens the growth of the hair. WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP Sackett Duryea Showed Remarkable~ Skill at Croquet, Defeated the Crack Players of the Country—His Style—National Tournament. Sackett Duryea has won the champion- ship in the croquet tournement which has been in progress all of last week. His work has been phenomenal, and out of eight games played, some of them against acknowledged champions of the country, he has lost but one. Three times he has whitewashed his opponents, carried both balls through all the wickets and put him- self out of the game before his opponeat could get through a single arch. The three men to whom he administered such crush- ing defeats were Jacobus of Springfield, a one-time champion of the country; Harris of Philadelphia, a crack shot of that city, and Bean, among the best of the local players. The one game he lost was to Dr. Veasey of Wilmington. Veasey was, until the opening of the present tournament, a sec- ond division player. He earned a place in the first division after he came to this city by breaking a tle that had existed since the close of last year’s game between him- self, Cooper and Bryant for first place in the second division. By winning the cham- pionship of the second di n he became rated as a first division player, and almost immediately afterward met and defeated young Duryea The game which definitely decided the championship of the first. division was played Saturday afternoon between Bean and Duryea. It was undersiood that if Duryea should be defeated in that contest his record with Jacobus would be tied. and to determine the winner of the tournament it would be necessary to have recourse to the number of points made in the game each had lost, the one doing best in that game being awarded the medal. But Dur- yea did not lose to Bean. On the contrary, in a game lasting little over half an hour he whitewashed his opponent, allowing him but one chance at the balls. One of the prettiest and most difficult shots of the tournanient was made by the young player during the game, by which he made his ball jump over an arch and hit another on the other side. Duryea is an ea! and rapid player. To an observer he seems almost careless in his play, but tais impression is contradicted by his extraordinary accuracy of aim and deli- cacy of stroke. He conducts his game with a great deal of science, and has the fac- ulty of placing his opponent's balls just where he wants them, and in such a posi- tion as te make it almost impossible for the other player to make any kind of a stroke. The visiting players have all left the city, the last to go being Prof. Jacobus and Mr. Strong, who finished up Saturday morning a game which they began the previous af- ternoon. It was a matter of surprise to a great y about the courts that Jacovus finally won tne game, not because he is re- garded as one whit inferior to his opponent, but because he has been unable to keep in form during the present summer, having been badly out of practic here is genuine interest among local S over the proposition to secure for city the annual naticral tournaments, which are now held each August in It is more than likel: will be made to « he Iccal men have the h of all the visiting ssured those who so < entertained them last week that ould much prefer Washington to the Connecticut town for the meeting place of the national tourneys. It is believed that it would not require an unusually large sum of money to af- ford the ne facilities here. It would be 1ecs , of course, to build ad- ditional court le other neces: sarles and conv but this woul not call for an ext nary oullay. There is ample time, al: to give the matier thorough consideration, for it is the under- Nor- that a mplish ‘arty wich, Conn. standing that for at least two years to come the national contests will come off at Norwich, as the national association has a_lease on those grounds for that length of time. W e local men want is to so arrange matters that when the ques- tion of a rew lease comes up the directors may be induced to choose Washington for the future events. During the afternoons and this week the few remaining games yet unplayed will be contested) among the local men in the second division. All of the out-of-town men have completed their scores, so that when the local players finish ‘the complete record ef the tourna- ment can be made up. Up to date the score stand as follow First dtviston, enings of Won. Lost. teeeies Escrow Chalfant Bryant . Coleman > One wekenanens SOSH COMME GEN. GROSVENOR’S FIGURES. His Predictionns Regarding the No- vember Election, Gen. Grosvenor, at Athens, Ohio, last night gave out a table of estimates of the probable result of the presidential elec- tion. He said: “The six New England states, with thirty-nine electoral votes, will go to McKinley, so I head my table as fol- lows: ew England. New York. New Jersey. Maryland . Delaware . Pennsylvania West Virginia. Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Iowa .. Minnesota South Dakota. Kentucky Oregon . Washington . California Total “Here is a total of 278 votes, or 54 more than sufficient to elect. I come to some states which are still in doubt, to wit: Kansas Nebraska . North Carolina. 11 North Dakota 3 Wyoming . 3 “Of the remaining states— “Are one or more of them not within the ne of possibility, I might almost say rea- sonable probability? Louisiana ‘Tennessee Missouri .... Texas . Virginia Total “I concede to Bryan and Watson or Bryan and Sewall: Alabama . Arkansas . Colorado Florida .. Georgia « Idaho . Mississipp! Montana . Nevada . South Carolina. Utah .. S| wowmcwimmar Total “These are practically sure for the op- position, although there may be a possible dispute.” oe Silver in Pennsylvania. A. S. Dulin, the Pennsylvania organizer of the silver party, is in the city. He says that the party is making great headway in Fennsylvania. He says that in the old Sam Randall district of Philadelphia there is a ilver club of 1,700 republicans pledged ‘solidly to silver candidates. Mr. Dulin be- lieves that a number of silver Congressmen will be elected from his state this year. He says that Sibley is certain of election. Our Success Is the stongest argument we can use in asking for business. We couldn’t succeed if we made bad clothes. Instead of going backward. People find things out. They and stay away from places where they have been dissatisfied. If a man comes here for clothes once we can count on his coming twice and thrice, and as long as he wants to be economical. If you’ve never tried Mertz Clothes, here’s a ahead, we should be going good chance to begin: Special sale of trouserings to-order, -65. $ $ etree oats a 4 Special sale of coats and vests to-order, (he Sale closes Thursday night. Mertz and Mertz, New “Era” Tailors, go back to the good stores, 906 F Street. WASHINGTON AND BRYAN The Chicago Platform and the Farewell Ad- dress. Some Observations Ma by Star Renders—Appeals te Sec- tional Feeling. A correspondent of The Star, referring to the references to Washington's farewell address made Saturday afternoon by Mr. Bryan in his specch, which was interrupted by the rainstorm just as he reached that subject, expresses the hope that Mr. Bryan will take opportunity “to reconcile the fol- lowing extracts of ancient and modern morality. In the elaborated ‘Ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio,’ 13 July, 1787, it is solemnly declared that: “In the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in said territory, that shall, in any tever, interfere with or affect contracts or engagements, fide and without fraud previously form) the Chicago platform,” writes The respondent, “upon which Mr. , and every clause of which i olemniy declared that x such legislation as will pre- future the demonetization of by private vent for the any kind of legal tender mone; contract.” “Notwithstanding Gen, Washington was the rich the pr man in America, his election to y was by no means regarded vug triumph, For that reason, in al address, he ‘pray-(ed) that imates for the station in I am placed may, during my con- tinuance in it, be limited to such actual ex- de peaditures aS the public good may be thought to require.’ “Mr Bryan, probably, will not think proper to limit his salary to actual expendi- tures, but then he ought not to forget the nple of the first gold bug President. There is no Altgeldism in the following extract from the farewell address: **All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counter- act or awe the regular deliberation and ac- tion of the constituted authorities are de- structive to this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.’ “Gen. Washington did not disguise the great principle of federal supremacy in the ution of federal laws with any subter- of ‘arbitrary interference by federal authorities in local affairs.’ It is to be ed that Mr. Bryan will reconcile the platform, shington me: and explain what nt when he declared where the government is too feeble to with- Stand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits | prescribed by law, and to maintain all in secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.” “The farewell address enjoins the people to ‘cherish public credit’ ‘as a very im: portant source of strength and securit to ‘observe good faith and justice to all na- tions,” and adds: ‘So far as we have al- formed engagements let them be ful- filed with perfect good faith.’ He is ‘not to be understood as capabie of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is al- ways the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense.” “The Chicago platform is not so clear in its declarations which affect the public credit, and Mr. Bryan would do well to reconcile the ‘genuine sense’ and the ‘per- fect good faith’ which marks the farewell address with that indication of a disposi- tion in his party's platform to squeeze ‘the holders of the obligations of the United States’ into accepting silver when gold was the ‘genuine sense’ of the contracts as un- derstood when made.” Washington and Sectionalism. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The farewell address of the immortal Washington was dated “United States, 19th September, 1796. Used in this way the words “United States” are significant. Washington was not the President of any particular state, faction, party or section. He was the chief executive of all the peo- ple of all the sections. He did not regard any section as “the enemy’s couniry.” Here is the language which he used to condemn the stirring up of sectional strife: “In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminacions— northern and southern, Atlantic and west- ern—whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real dif- ference of local interest and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire in- fluence within particular districts is to mis- represent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart- burnings which spring from these misrep- resentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. ‘The efforts of certain persons to stir up the animosities of 1565 against one of the presidential candidates of this campaign should be met with the scorn and contempt so justly deserved. The majority of voters have grown up since the war. The ques- tions then involved have been settled for all time. The voters of today care nothing for them, except as matters of history. Nor is there any more reason for arraying the west against the east. ‘The sections are mutually dependent. The east needs the vast agricultural and min- eral products of the west, and the west must have our manufactured goods, and she needs eastern capital to develop her vast resources. Eastern money has dotted the western prairies with cities, villages and farm houses. Eastern capitalists have built thousands of miles of railroads, open- ing up vast territory for settlement, creat- ing values for land and property previous- ly worth little or nothing. Instead of en- riching the people of the east, most of these railroads are barely able io pay the interest on their bonds, leaving absolutely nothing to pay as dividends to stockhold- ers. The east has shown herself an “enemy” by lending money to the west at fair rates bona | ‘It is, indeed, little else than a name | | | of interest and on long time, with indefinite extensions of mortgages ad libitum, but the west has profited more than the cast by such transactions. With no capital of his own except his hands, the typical western farmer takes up a homestead of government land, builds his hou: end stocks his farm with eastern mor If the Seasons are good and the farmer is indus- trious and frugal, is able to pay back the borrowed money in a few ye:rs. If he is extravagant or luck goes against him, the political agitator points out the east- ern capitalist as a “Wall street: money shark,” who ts trying to “do” the western farmer. It is well to bear in mind, too, this eastern money comes companies, savings banks and other institutions whose ¢ that most of from insurance sists of the savings of the poor) The warm-hearted and generous people of the great west will not t ve that | their eastern brothers are « The east has never gained any undue advantaze of the west. If there has been any dif- ference !t has been in favor of our western brethren. Is it not the verdant eastern . nderfoot” who buys up all the corner lots in Pumpkinville 2nd Coyote City and other “boom” towns of the west? If these lots are never af: orth the first in- stallment of taxes nderfoot” does Kk of the as the “enemy's & to the dangers of partisanship, | ell address of Washington sj ks dy intim sin the ted to you the dan- ate, with particular ng of them on geo- graphical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive v and warn you in the most solemn m nner against the — ul effects of the spirit of par gen- iy. This spirit, unfortunately, from our nature, having ger of is inseparable its root in the Strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all gov- ernments, more or less = ». ed or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its gre t rankness and is truly their worst “The alternate domi of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of re- venge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpe- trated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful length despotism. But this leads to a more formal and per- potism. he disorders and i result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual, and sooner or later the chief of some prevail- ing faction, more ‘ible or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty. “With ut looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which, less, ought not to be entirely out of sight), the com- mon and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the in est and duty of a wise people to discou: and restrain it.” at ge We cannot doubt that this language re- fers to the spoils sysuem—to the quadre nial scrambi dential for offic which the presi- than and principles. are not con- 1 faith of those s, so long as the ent and faithful. F ll address of Washington wag written a hundred years ago, but it is good aud timely reading now. T. W.G. es BISMARCK ON BIMETALLISM. race is st for great poli at mass of the as to the politic o*hold the minor o} comp Eficct of Independent Action by the United States. In a speech Saturday night at Dallas, Texas, Governor Culberson read the fol- lewing correspondence between himself and Prince Bismarck on the money question: “Prince Bismarck: “Sir: The great question of finance is now of supreme interest to the people of the United States. It is pre ted in various forms, but in a general way it may be said to be, first, whether the United States shall adopt the single gold standard, or, second, whether they shall adopt bimetallism, with both gold and silver as the standard or primary money. The argument in favor of each is well known to you, but it is par- ticularly insisted that we should adopt the policy of bimetallism because the supply of gold in the world for coinage is insufficient to meet the demand, and because such a standard will still further depress the values of all property. “Which, in your judgment, policy to adopt, m is the best the gold standard or bi- allism, giving your reasons? “What effect, in your judgment, will the immediate adoption of bimetallism by the United States have on the cause of bimetal- lism in Germany and other great com- mercial nations? “C. A. CULBERSON, “Governor of Texas.” In reply, Bismarck said “FRISDRICHSRUHE, August 24, 1896. Honored Sir: Your esteemed favor has been duly received. I hold that this is the very hour that would be advisable to bring about between the nations chiefly enzaged in the world’s commerce a mutual agree- ment in favor of the establishment of bi metallism. The United States are freer, by far, in their movements than any nation of Europe, and, hence, if the people of the United States should find it compatible with their interests to take independent action in the direction of bimetallism, I cannot but believe that such action would exert a most salutary influence upon the consummation of international agreement. “BISMARCK.” ——_-+e Prof. Prad’homme Retired. Prof. Prud’homme, one of the twelve offi- cers of the navy of the grade of professor of mathematics, was placed on the retired list today on account of age. For many years he was Instructor in foreign lan- guages at the Naval Academy, but for the past six years he has been on waiting cr- ders. He is a native of France, and was appointed to the navy soon after the close of the war. He is well known to every officer of the navy who has graduated dur- ing the past twenty years. His retirement creates a vacancy in the list of professors of mathematics, which will probably be filled by the appointment of Lieut. Joseph Strauss, who, in the grade of ensign, has distinguished himself in ordnance ir-ventions and devices, notably in connection with the superposed turret of the battle ships. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1885. The practical result of his appoint- ment will doubtless be his detail to the ordnance bureau, where he will contiaue his present services, and without questior as to the length of detail, as in the car of officers of the line.