Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1897, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 65, 1897-14 Ss PAGES. 7 E SI 1. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. Spec ial 3-days’ Cut-price Sale of New Carpets. For thr and Wed 1 wee son these Hines of carpet yetition— Extra_Ten-wire test Z5C, pets, Taid and lined Roxbury Tapestr ade, $days at aster $1.15 -quality Heavy Moquette laid days, and at.. lines of New Linoleums, Rugs, 002-d Wash. B. Williams,7th & D 2 ° Bicycle Sundries. You'll never know what rock bot- tom prices on Bicycles are till you’ve secured our quotations. To save Tepetition—the same thing is true. JON BURR—oth st—No. 513 S16 The best this towncontains. Bicycle Repair | Enterprise Cycle Co., We jer. Siz 14 ith s DW. 005-204 ‘A Camera built ‘like 4 car 4 F DEVELOPING FOR AMATEURS. ete “Walford’s,” oY ATING, ix the em- price it 1 of $100. ‘D CYCLE CO.,, 730 15th “Cresce oC CRESCENT BICYCLES Are Sky High in workmanship Zuaranteed and finish. ‘Their as well as the wheels are the '96 model Ruy 2 tried erd true sitent steed while you're If $80 is the price to be paid, vou Columbia Bicycles, $50. STANDARD OF THE WORLD. ‘We have a few Model 44 still on band, and while they Inst will sell them at $50 cach. These are the best bicycles ever bullt, except 1897 Columbias, Which sre now selling, all medels at $75, Pope M’f’¢ Co., “& HUMAN CYCLONE.” Gey of Tender Yenrs Makes a Bad Record. A very small boy caused great trouble today in the Police Court. The youngster is Richard Hunt, ten years of age. some weeks past he has been a guest at the Indu Home School. It was a ques- tion of abandening the institution or get- ting rid of Richard, so Acting Superintend- ent Elmer E. McCaslin of the home school took the boy to court to have him trans- ferred to the ‘reform school. The entrance of Richard room was most dramatic. He manner that would put an experienced mule to shame. He kicked and bit and fought and scratched and made things gen- erally Interesting for Mr. McCaslin and Po- liceman Marks, who were attempting to drag him into the presence of the court. Finally Richard became entangled with a railing, and it required the efforts of half @ dozen court officials to loosen his grasp. “What's the matter with you, boy, any- how?" inquired Marks, rubbing his’ shin, suggestively. “You don't know, do you?’ was the slang response of Richard. Finally the obstreperous youngster was seated rather forcibly in a chair, where- upon he buried his face in his hands. ‘The acting superintendent informed the court that Richard is a human cyclone, who has passed beyond all control at the institution. A letter was produced from the father of the boy, requesting that he be committed to the reform school during minority, and that action was ordered by Judge Kimball. Se FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL. Young Men’ Christian Association Holds a Mee! The forty-fifth annual meeting of the Y. M. C. A. was held last evening in the asso- elation building, on New York avenue. Among those present were Mr. S. W. Wood- ward, Thomas A. Harding, J. C. Pratt, J. H. Lichliter, Dr. W. K. Butler, Charies Foster, Charles Nesbit, E. W. Woodruff, Frank Brown and N. L. Hammer. A committee of five was appointed to neminate officers for the coming year, and adjournment was taken to Monday evening. President Williamson stated that while the sum of $125,000 was needed for a new bullding. only $30,000 had been subscribed. Secretary Multer spoke of the needs of a new building. e in the court balked in a —_—__—_. If you. want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. For | THE WORLD OF SPORT How the is ee Patronized the National Game. BEGINNING TEMPLE CUP CONTESTS Lee Washington Pugilist Defeats Beck- with. THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT While the figures of attendance at base ball grounds as sent over the country are correct, they are near enough io » truth to form interesting conclusions. ‘The general belief is that the round num- bers furnished from western grounds are exaggerated. Eastern figures are more nearly corre and those from Washing- ten, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Brooklyn id 0 be exactly so. This season $1 persons passed through the twelve jcague turnstiles. The eastern attendance beat the western by over 400,000, Eastern ciubs also drew better by more than 200,000, Baltimore played before more people than any other team, Boston and New York nding second and third, respectively. ‘w York city turned out the largest num- ber of spectators, with Cincinnati and Bos- ton second and third. Baltimore's home at- tendance is sixth on the list, but in drawing powers the Oricles distanced all rivals. From the following table, cranks may pick out eny combination desired: 210, 190,030 Total, west é 332,243 What the Clubs Made. “The Boston Club will make fully $150,000 who looked after the finances of the st. Louis team during the recent eastern trip. “An employe of the Beston mz gement e mated the profits of the club at the above sum In a conversation with me while the St. Louis team was playing in Beantown. me gatekeeper at Boston told me that the attendance there this season was the best in the histery of the danien. the ma of the Baltimores i $0,000 as his club's share of the for three games at boston. New York will make at st $100,000, Like Boston, the atiendance in New York has been tz pment of the son. best-payiag grand stand in the league. jotham regulars patronize new Polo ground verag in gt from the comme ew York has th For uis club » has made plenty ronage did 2 keep up cor ly. The strong clubs only drew big crowds in Baitimore. say what they pl about of the game locally, but i - theless that Mr. Von paid the champion Baltimores y for their games here than he received in return for a similar number of exhibitions of his ciult in Baltimore. One would think that x champion team would be encouraged by ence of big crowds on their home z , but such is not always the case with the Baltimore aggregation. They told me at ‘Cincinnati that they w! : $10,000 on the 5 W. make big money, = ladeiphia started off p! . but the poor work of the toward the finish has cut the aitendance . Louis received $3,000 or its series in Phil- Louis $5,500 for si one . on Apri received $1.50. Quak, Spiders made road. ‘This season there their playing spee! velund has nev nh. The Pittsburg c.ud in a money making way. ce of this club fell off. T pig was FIRST. Attendance n the Tem- je Cup Contest. at in the bleachers at fifiy cents ts extra was in use in th all grounds yesterday. f dreds sat in chairs before Bre stand fifty cents ext: and least a thousand were in the ficld, making probabiy ¥ Viewed as a money-maker ers, the first of the nple cup the at roped-otf uN) receipts. for a great success; viewed as a geme, it was not so remarkable, characterized by heavy hittin; teams, particularly by Baltimor Boston's hits ng bunch ever, and its base running the home team won, Both Nop: ols wer less out of form, t : and Nops being wild. bases on balls, 1 but men scoring. The pitchers’ up to the usual form of port was elther team, While the play was not fast ball, it was vident that each team was anxious to win. d four runs in the first field hits, a double, a clean and three by Collins and Ten- The former came on the field at the last moment, just arriving from Buffalo and having no chance to practice. The whole Boston infield had a bad attack of rattle eming able to do aimost nothing with easy hits. Boston made three runs on Hamilton's base on bal! a double and three singles. In the third Baltimore scored once on dcubles by Kelley and Reitz. Boston went out in short order. So did Baltimore in the fourth, but Boston scored once on Long’s i Bergen’s singles and a put out. In the fifth Baltimore scored twice on singles and a double. Boston did on two bases on balls, a tly out and a wild pitch. In the sixth Baltimore scored three times on three singles, a double and two saci fices. Boston scored five runs on three sin- & es, a double, a base on balls, a sacrifice and Doyle's wild throw. Lewis came in to pitch for Boston. the seventh Baltimore again took the en four singles, scoring two run. had men left on second and third. in the eighth Baltimore went out in or- der on pretty fly catches by Lowe and Hamilton. Boston took the lead on a base on balls, a single, a double and Bergen’s sacrifice. Baltimore made a single and deuble in the ninth, but a pretty assist by Long ended the game in the darkness, with no runs. The score: Bost: ' BALTIMORE, R.H.O.AE.! R.H.O.A.B. Hamilton.ef 2° 2°38 0 O McGraw, 3b 3°3°0 1 i Tenney, ib. 3 O $ 1 1/Keeler, rf..2 200 0 2221 4 O/Jennings, «25 2 6 1 -3 11 © 2/Keliey, it. 4 3400 3.3 0 O/Steuzel. cf. 1 1100 @ 3 1 1 Doyle, Ib.. 0 311 0 1 2.2 8 O Reitz, %..101 3 21 250 06) O18 10 O11 o1010 000 Totals. 122710 20 Boston. 9 Baitimore. 2 Earned runs—Boston, 4: Baltimore, 11. base hits Lowe, Long, Jennings (2) and Reltz. Stolen bases—Hamtiton, St sen. First base oa. balls—Om Nops, 7. = —By Nops, 2: by Nichols, 3: by Lewis, ball-Bergen, Wud pitch Nope: . Passed . | Time—2.12. Um- pires—Emslie and Hurst. Atteudance—10,000. BASE WALL NOTES. First blood for Boston. Uniess the Orioles do well at Boston, they will receive a chilly reception when they return home next Saturday. The tcwn is sore on the birds for losing the championship and all sorts of ridiculous accusations are made. If one of the games cculd be transferred to Washington it would prove a good thing for the players.- ‘The Boston club was given a pennant lest night Im Boston by May Irwin, the actress. Mayor Quincy made the presen- tation speech ard all the boxes at the theater where-Miss Irwin is playing were occupied by the players of both teams. The regular league pennant, for which the league appropriates the necessary money, will be given to the Boston club nexi spring by President Young. Manager Watkins, the new Pittsburg manager, has started in early looking for material for next season. Yesterday he was in Louisville trying to make a deal for Catcher Dexter, offering Brodie in ex- change; but Fred Clarke said nay. Al Selbach was presented with a pretty Fiks’ charm by his numerous friends in this city before he left for home in Ohio yesterday afternoon. The charm was ap- propriately inscribed. Captain Tom Brown, Gene De Montre- ville and Zeke Wrigley are the only Sena- tors in town, and the latter leaves for home tomorrow. If all the games of ‘the twelve clubs are wnalyzed on the past season it will be shown that the Baltimore club when up against good fighting teams, a bunting fame, backed up by bulldozing tactics and inside ball, had no terrors for their oppo- nents. and they had to resort to straight- forward playing. Tt was against the weak. lings of the league, against the teams that Boas in ae second division, that the Ba, ore style of ga D1 4 = “arlene game brought ‘its re ty-one games were taken from the western teams, and from the eastern. The Phillies plz z ved one of the Pennsyl- yania University teams yesterday and de- feated it by the score of 31 to 4. Fifield Ss so effective that the three Philadel- vhia fielders, Delehanty, Cooley and Dowd, came in to the base lines and all went after the grounders in a bunch. It is stated that Pitcher Donahue's vic- tcry in the. last game in St. Louis was worth $300 to him, as Von der Ahe had, it alleged, threatened to hold out. that much unless he beat Chicago. All the Browns played hard to save him. ‘The opponents of the double umpire system are fairly silenced. They are in a ceful minority. If the system is not adopted the magnates will have to carry all the odium that will attach to such a picayunish move.” This is the sensible re- mark of a Boston newspaper. No one man, ro matter how expert and honest, can do the work of umpiring a close game of base ball. If he had wings and eyes in the back of his head he might, but not otherwise. MCKALLS TO COACH YALE. The New Haven University to Follow Harvard's Example. According to a New Haven special to the New York Herald Yale is about to follow the example of Harvard in boating. If she does not adopt Harvard's plan in full of Piacing an English coach at the head of her boating, she will at least have the advice and assistance of two of the most famous oarsmen England has produced Mr. Guy Nickalls, the most famous oar in England, and Mr. J. G. Gold, the stroke of both the Oxford and Lea: eights of the last two years, will come to the United States within the next few wecks. ‘They will accompany Mr. R. C. Lehmann, the Coach, of ithe (Oxfordand ieander crews who last year coached the Harvard "van. y eight, and who will return this tall to ave the Harvard crew of Nickalls and Gold will go to New on the ay invitation of Capt. Payne Whitney of the Yale University crew. Ae. cording to Capt. Whitney's own atement i be invited to coach the the Yate cre The plan to bring the Yale in th candidates » two on has been a state secret, guarc star chamber of Yate’ men to 1 with boating af- . It was not iritende that it should eme known for some time. ‘The Yale management, however, does not deny its truth. F Mr. Cook will remain as Yale's head coach, but will be a alls and Gold. . These two gentlemen have uniqu tions as oarsmen in England. Mr. is wimittedly the greatest oar Eniland has Pru ic at Oxford and there in 1887 he won the Diamond Sculis and‘held them for several a series of splendid victorie: . when Yale was at Hen! alls rewed with his brother, alls, in the doubles and won’ this event. He also rowed in the fours and hi ‘isted by Messrs. Nick- reputa- this event. Finally he rowed in the Leander eight, and here again his crew won. It took several heats to win in each event, e races were rowed within three ald is a much younger man, but has A Splendid reputation by his stroking of Oxford and Leander eigh He has stroked both crews for the last two yea' and to his splendid generalship are attripu! 1 in a large measure the victories won by his eights. BECKWITH KNOCKED OUT. ts in Hix Work in F Rounds, dim Janey of this city knocked out Leon Beckwith of Cleveland, Ohio, last night in four rounds, in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, with a right-hand swing under the Which sent Reckwith over the rop Jim Janey G ur , and j then followed it up several times with right and left-hand arena of the jabs, In Hes Park, the reka Athletic Club's tem porary quarters, om the Shell road, near Baltimore, Beckwith in his former fight h Janey, on September 18, the win- ner in the fifth round. Janey's seconds were Joe Gans, Jerry Marshall and Big Six; Beckwith's, Joe Buttleo of Philadelphia, Charles Roberts and W. F. Coidwell of Philadelphia. Weight—Janey, 146 pounds; Beckwith, 4 pounds. ninary to the Janey: contest was a ten-round contest between Cbris Johnson of Baltimore and Barney Connors of Canton. Connors was given the decision by Referee George Mantz. Timers, Joe Rob and Harry Crowhurst of Phil- adeiphia. Beckwith DRAWINGS FOR SINGLES. e District Teanix Tournament Be- gan This Afternoon. The drawings in the singles of the com- ing District tennis tournament took place | this morning, with the following results: Tobin vs. Parkes, s. Cake, Ogden vs. Glazebrook, Davidson, Warfield ys. O'Leary, Van V " Clarke vs. Davis vs. Wilson, Logan Adams, Birnie vs. McMahon, Greer vs. Waggaman, Goodfellow vs. Wi- mer Doolittle and Hall drew byes. Gemes began promptly at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and the committee have decided to admit all ladies free to the games. Cc. A. C. Tennis Tournament. Tn the finals of the C. A. C. tennis tour- hement Saturday O'Leary defeated Cake in two straight sets, 8-6 and 6-0. The centcstants in this tournament will have a banquet at the club cafe during ‘he com- ing week. Those who will discuss the past tcurnament are Messrs. O'Leary, Cake, Campbell, Wooten, Taliaferro, Davis, Ed- wards, Burnside, Frost, Young, Moore and Norris. Given the Century Club Banner. The Arlington Wheelmen have been awarded the banner for the club team showing in the recent century run. It will be remembered that the Arliugtons, the Capital Bi. Club and the Certury Cycie Club each had teams entered, and on the first ride finished a tie. The tie Was to be run off yesterday, but the other two clubs refused to ride. The Arlington men rode over the course and were given the trophy. _Janior Foot Ball, The Cooke Park foot ball team has or- ganized, with D. Petterson, full bac FP. Edmonston, right half; Capt. P. Alexander, left half; C. Wilson, right end; W. Sim- mons, left end; D. Brewer, quarter back; D. Creesey, center: W. Clark, guard; H. Rittenhouse, left guard; . Welsh, right tackle; coacher, left tackte; G. Boyden Buck. The Second Le Droits have organized, and would like to receive challenges from teams averaging 110 pounds. The team has been practicing for the last week or two and would like to arrange games at once. Address Rob. B. Purcell, 415 Florida avenue, aie eae Judge Miller Visits Police Court. . Judge Miller was a visitor today at the Police Court, after a long absence, due to iliness. The judge is improving, and stated to a Star reporter that he will resume his Seat on the bench as soon as permitted to do so by his physicians. He was the re- cipient of cordial greetings and well-wishes from the members of the bar and all con- nected with the court. x only thirty-nine ; THE ALASKAN SEALS Important Intervigws>With Experts Brown and Lucas. THE FACTS ABOUT BRANDING and'Misstatement Missapprehensio About Coming Conference. MANY ERRORS REMOVED “There seems to be a great deal of mis- apprehension in regard to the approaching seal conference,” said Mr. J, Stanley Brown, the special agent who has been in- vestigating and studying the Alaskan seal herd for the government for several years past, to The Star reporter this morning. Mr. Brown has jus: returned from Alaska and talked interestingly upon the subject with which he is so familiar. “It is popu- larly supposed,” continued Mr. Brown, “that if Canada and Great Britaia would permit representatives of Japan and China to be present at the conference, the former might in some way be outvoted. There is no voting at a conference; it is ply, as the name indicatcs, a meeting of interested persons to discuss a situation of common interest and to ascertatn-to what exient there is common agreement among them as to existing facts. “It will be readily seen,” he went on, “that if in this informal way agreement could be secured on the part of the experts as to existing conditions it would clear the way for, and greatly faciliate, more formal negotiations on the subject. ‘This, indeed, is especially important at this time, in view of the fact that in a year the matter could? under the findings of the Paris tribunal come up again for hearing. There is every good reason why such a conference should be held at this time, and nothing but cap- tious reasons can be urged against it on the part of any nation. The interest of any one nation should be unhesitatinely sacrificed to the preservation of the great seal herd, or to the preservation of any other great herd of animals, which the ine genuity of man can readily destroy, in order that It may be preserved for the benefit of all mankind.” The Truth About Branding. Brown was informed of the various S coming apparently from Canadian sources to the effect that the branding of the seals last year has caused a dispersion of the herd. “The branding Jast year," said Mr. Brown, “consisted of the branding of two adult femais seals and five hundred young female pup seals, three months old, that had not yet been in the water, and just like calves that had not been let out of the barn yard yet or put out on the reage. tuth adults came back this year with orands in perfect condition, the hair a fur entirely destroyed, and the skins p) tically ruined for commercial purpos At the time 1 left the Island, early in Au- gust, the youas ha come in, or, that is, the yearlings t pups when branded Inst sear. It is absurd to suppose that ( pair of female seals and fi shouid have affected t like this. The bran@ing/ this year, whi Was Cn a very muchmoke extensive did not begin until the scaling season to the north of Japan was over, so that any statement about the dispersion of the Alas- kan herd by the branding thus tar done manifestly ridiculous. ;More than eee tire history of seal life thus nown shows the ImpossiMllity of dispers the Alaskan herd by branding : Tried ex an Experiment. “Branding, it must be remembered,” con- tinued Mr. Brown, “was tyken up as an ex- periment, along with! otbtr sugvestions connection with the seals. Thus far it has been shown that branding on a s be done effectively without injur- animal, and at -the cally destroy the skin This experiment has now bee: tried much more extensive scale than form- + and it remains to be seen whether it admit of wide and effective It is only one cf the man h an earnest band of scientific men are tvoring to preserve the seal herd. The servation of the herd, said Mr. Brown with much earnestne should not rest upon branding or upon any other device, but should be obtained through a decent, maniy and rational ur rangement between the great nations in- tereSted.” Grent Decrease of the Herd. “That the seal herd has steadily de- creased is unquestionably true, and this yeur the decadence has been accurately and definitely detezmined by the represen- tatives of both nations, who counted the seals together and figures. But if no other evid hand, the fact that the herd mule skins to the le: than 22,000 young male s would show conclusiy. eadfly decreasing in yi At this rate, it will be p the commercial pidly aimin be extinguished. Views of Expert F. A. Lucas. The Star reporter, after leaving Mr. Brown, called on Mr. F. A. Lucas of the Smithsonian Institution, who has also been investigating the seal question for a num- ber of years, and is recognized throughout the scientific world, as well as in a practi- cal sense, as an expert on the subject. “The: have been so many misstate- ments made cencerning the branding of seals, some intenticral and some through ignorance, that it is high time they were contradicted,” said Mr. Lueas. We have been told that branding was not practicable, that the brand would heal over and do no harm; that the disturbance created would be something terrible and finally that the Seals would be driven from the islands. No one has’ ever proposed to drive up and braud™ the females during the height of the breeding season in July, and any wails over the evils of such a procedure are quite uncalled for,” said Mr. Lucas. “As for the seals being driven from the islands, ithe solicitude of the Canadian sealers on this point and their fears that the seals may suffer are truly touching. One might suppose that the Canadians would be glad to have the seals settle on the islands off the coast of British Co- ‘umbia, when, by following out their the- ores that killing the females increases the numbers. of seals they might kill all the females and thereby: catise an immediate imcrease in the herd. Bast June a Vic- toria skipper discovered,,through the me- dium of his inner conscléusness that large herds of seals had remained near Sitka and never entered Bering sea. To be sure, the revenue cutters cruised over the ground without finding a single:seal nor did any i of the sealers discover any of them in Au- gust, so it was reported that they had fled to some island vaguely eported as being north ef Jepan. 2 “All this is utter rubbish and we might much more consistently. claim that the branding of seals has the effect of attract- if them to the localities where the work was carried on. The twp rooKeries where seals were branded:in 1896 are the two which show the i Uecrease this year, while two rookeries that were little visited and where no branding was done have suf- fered most. The sedis that have left the islands have left them forever, and the only true reports are those which state that seals are extremely scarce both in Bering sea and o2 the Asiatic side. More Facts About Branding. “All this supposititious disturbance is due to the fact that just eleven old females and 377 pups were branded last year, the old ones being marked to test the feasi- bility of branding adults,” concluded Mr. Lucas. “Six of these eleven were seen this mply e branding of a ve hundred pups he pabits of the herd or comm: nly value of the shing and will soon season and this is a pretty good showing. It must be remembered that there are many thousand seals scattered over eight miles of shore, and that not more than half of them are visible at any one time, while a large number cannot be seen at all owing to the character of the ground. Moreover, there is a very large probabil:ty of some dying between the time of leaving the ts- lands in‘the fall and returning in the spring. The prospect of seeing many, or possibly any of the pups branded last year is, for various reasons, small. The yearlings do not begin to arrive until about the middle of August and not more than half of those which depart one year live to return the next. Besides very few of the yearling females come on land at all, so that it is quite likely that we may have to wait until next year when the two-year-old females make their appearance on the breeding grounds. One sealer is said to have taken branded seals on the coast of Japan, but we have his affidavit to the effect that he did nothing of the kind, the fact being that he simply took some seals suffering from a skin disease to which they are liable. Expected Depletion Occurs. “The depletion of the herd,” he went on, “is precisely what was expected by the American commissioners. There were somewheres between 450,000 and 500,000 seals at the time of che seal census in Au gust last. We know that 35,000 of these were brought in as skins, to say nothing | of those killed and lost, and that 16.000 pups starved in consequence of pelagic sealing. Add to these the unknown | from natural causes, and 25,000 is a low estimate for this, and we get the estimated decrease of 15 per cent. “It may or may not be true that the electric branding apparatus failed, but it struck both Colonel Murray and myself a being entirely too smali for its purpose. Even if it did fail it does not in the least affect the practicability of making an elec- tric brander that will work to a charm, and not only is it perfectly feasible 1o! tics in Montgomery county, and, like other | brand the young seals, but many of the old ones, and this without causing any undue | covers between the disturbance. Oddly enough an English writer has suggested the use of a similar apparatus to brand American beef. If the AMONG SPORTSMEN Quail Promise to Be Plentifal in Near- by Maryland. SHOOTING OUT IN SOUTH DAKOTA a Movement to Secure a New Marsh Bird Law. 2 ERE SSY PISCATORIAL Spe POINTS Local sportsmen who have farmer friends in nearby Maryland, whom they know well enough to visit, will be unusually fortunate this fall, because reports from Montgomery, Prince George's, Charies and Anne Arundel unties, as well as some parts of Fre ick county, are to the gratifying effect that coveys of quail are more numerous than for many seasons past. The birds are al- ready approaching full growth. The ma- jority of these birds are much smalier, when matured, than the Virginia quail, or, as it is commonly called in this section, Partridge, and are more rapid in their flight. The writer has recently seen sev- eral coveys of birds with these characteris- sportsmen accustomed to shooting in the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the Potomac river, he is certain that the birds electric brander failed to work there was | 4re the result of the breeding of the couples a gocdly supply of branding irons to take its place. Presumably branding is a pain- ful process and ro one has claimed other- wise, but it has always been supposed that starvation was round numbers, perished of starvation between 1894 anc 1896. Personally the pain of branding ms preferable to the protracted misery arvation. ‘The pelagic catch is reported as small, and this also is what was expected. On the other hand as there were only half as} The native quail will charge along say els in Bering sea this season as | OF seven many v. - there were last the average catch will very likely be greater this season. we shali be told that the weather was bad, that the seals were scattered or that some occult reason prevented their capture, any- thing but the fact ubat the seals have been killed off.” ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE. Proceedings of Buxiness Meeting Held Last Evening. The regular business meeting of the Anti- Saloon League of the District was held last evening in its hall, 623 Louisiana avenue Invitations from the District and Nation- al Woman's Christian Temperance Unions to send tors to their approaching an- ntal convention were accepted. Mr. Jesse ©. Suter was chosen to convey greetings to the Di t W. C. T. U. in this city today, and Mr. Clinton Smith was elected fra- ternal delegate to the Buffalo convention of the National W. C. T. U., which meets October 29. An obituary minute, drafted by Mr. W. H. Pennell, with reference to Neal Dow of Maine, the “father+of prohibition,” was adopted and the president and secretary were instructed to prepare an appropriate minute on the death of Thomas L. Saikeld, late ef this city, one of the original pro- moters of th= league. Copies of both papers are to be transmitted to the bereaved fam- ili ngements were made for compiling signers of applications for liquor ving their business, and also a list of grocery stores where no liquors are soid. It was stated that the number of th places is steadily increa: ‘The special committee on “ant vival” reported that the use of Foundry Church, corner of 14th and G streets north- us been granted for the meetings, inning October 31, and that a guarantee fund to the amount of $150 had been pledged. The committee on “temperance Sunday” sorted that several acceptances of the vitation to deliver a temperance sermon addre Sunday, October 17, have al. y been received from leading pastors. Mr. A. E. Shoemaker, the attorney for the league before the exci board, and chairman of its committee on protests, made a report, and Col. John F. Vinal, chairman of the committee on mass meet= irgs, reperted one held Fletcher Chapel, organized, June are in where the league was 189, and arrangements progress for an early meeting in South Washington, to be announced under special notices in’ The Star the day pre- vious. ‘The communication from Mr. A. N. Can- field, first vice president of the league, which appeared in yesterday's Star, referred to by several speakers as a very important document. Mr. Canfield was ab- sent last evening as one of the speakers at a meeting of the Montgomery County Anti- Saloon League. The officers present last_evening were: Jas. L. Ewin, president; Jesse C. Suter, recording secretary, and J. S. Blackfor treasurer. Charch Entertninment. The young people of Campbell A. M. E. congregation, in Hillsdale, will give an en- tertainment at the church this evening, which will include vocal music, recitations and dramatic productions. The affair will be in charge of W. H. Weims, stage man- ager. Among the persons engaged to take part in the exercises are Prof. John Smith, Mr. Robert Berry, Mr. Willie Williams, Mr. Robert Weims, Miss Mary Goosbery, Miss Susie A. Triplett, Miss Mary F. Spencer, process, and, in| Pose of replenishing the decimated cov Bon ta. 150,000 pups have | 4nd new the indications are that the ex- last Sunday at | chickens, was} when I tell you we saw floc! imported from Kansas. As is well known, a very large number of Western quail were brought to Maryland in the past two or three years, for the pur: periment is proving successful. The Kan- sas quail is a stocky, plump bird, about two-thirds as large, when full grown, as the matured quail native to this v! and its fight, when flushed, is slighty more rapid and higher above the surf: six ragweed when The Kansas bird feet above the Started in the stubble. In any case | Will fy twice as high as that. Good Season for the Birds. The season during the entire year has been exceilent for the birds. Last winter was mild and the birds had more protection than ever before. The great storm of Sep- tember 29, 1896, threw down coun iS trces in nearby Maryland, and the destruction along the edges of wood tracts was parti- ly great. hese failen trees afforded excelient cov- er for birds from dogs, during the shooting season, and from hawks during the rest of ihe year. There 8 been an abundance of food all the year, and altogether the cendit ea propitious for quail. The re orth Carolina, « ly from the counties in the eas re also excelient, more numerous than for ma From Rocky Mount dow: lantic Ci ern part quail ny years past. along the At- st Line and its branches agents of the company have been instructed to make impartial mquiries re rding g: prospects, znd the results ha n hig! favorable throughout, the Scotland territory being this respect. Good Dogs Are Scarce. One thing that will prevent many sports- men from enjoying perfect sport this year will be the scarcity of good, reliable dogs. The diminution of the quail population in this vicinity for the past five or six years has had 4 deterrent action in the raising and training of bird dogs, and now the man Who possesses a good pointer or setter is envied as the owner of a prize. Some of the sportsmen who were formerly ardent qvail hunters and who always owned re- liable dogs are now without animals, and the supply elsewhere seems to be limited. The quail season in Maryland opens No- vember 1, and about all the good hunting land in Montgomery, Prince George's, Anne Arundel, Frederick and Charles is closely posted; so it will be well for prospe hunters to make a ntances in those sections if they do not enjoy them at pres- ent. Shooting in South Dakota. Mr. James M. Green has returned from a shooting trip to Columbia, S. D., taken in company with Mr. Seymour Cunningham of Meriden, Conn. They went after prairie and had steady and plentiful sport. “I never before was satiated with shoot- irg,” said Mr. Green yesterday. “I never imagined that such bird life existed any- where as we found in South Dakota. ery conceivable fying thing was abundant. I know you will find it hard to believe me Ss of 500 and 00 jack snipe and didn’t shoot into them The people out there won't take the time to pick them up if they are killed. You can shoot more sora—our ortolan—out there than you can on the Patuxent, and every species of wild duck, from the blue wing to the canvas back, are there in multi- tudes. The canvas back is not good out there, hovvever, as the flesh is stringy from in food. “Prairie chickens were as plentiful as the other varieties. We hunted, of course, in a wagon and could see our dogs ranging half a mile away, as the prairie is level as a billiard table ‘and devoid of bushes. When a dog would stand we would drive to him, get out and shoot. We only killed enough each day for our own use, as the weather was warm and we couldn't ship birds home. There is a very novel custom among huntsmen at Columbia. They will zo out and Kill a large number of chickens ard ducks, and after taking what. they want themselves will pile the remainder of the gaine up in front cf stores and put Miss Mary L. Day, Mrs. Kate Howard, Miss] a card with “take one” on it above the Lizzie Simms, Miss M. L. Wills and Mrs. Lucy Staples, Mrs. Eliza Weims, Miss Naney Alexander, Miss Annie Grant, Mr. G. Wilkinson, Mr. R. Wilkerson. Mr. Ei Bruce, Mr. W. Phillips, Mr. W. Smoot, Mr. M. Dale, Mr. J. Moss and Mr. A. Smoot. Arrangements have been made with the Anacostia Street Car Company to run late cars for the convenience of persons who may desire to attend from the city. ae 5 Some Musical Notes. A Ferlin dispatch says that Miss Leonora Jackson, the young American violluist who has just won the much-coveted music prize known as the Mendelssohn Stipendium, for- merly resided in Chicago. She was sent to Berlin by Mrs. Grover Cleveland and other ladies ther. in Washington in erder to study music under Jcachim. This is the first oc- casion upon which the prize, amounting to 1,500 marks, has been won by an Ameri- can. The competition aroused the keenest interest, representatives of a score of coun- tries and of all parts of Germany taking Part in it. The National Conservatory of Music of America, Antonin Dvorak, director, 126 and 128 East 17th street, New York, will bold a special singing and operatic exam- ination October 15, from 10 a.m. to 12 m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Victor Capoul and Gustav Hinrichs are the examiners. Mme. Marcella Sembrich, who created such a furore some years ago when she sang in the same company with Patti, will return to this country this season for a concert tour. She will have a fine sup- porting c«mpany, among whom will be Miss Brecdfoot, a pupt of Mme. Murio- Celli, who is recognized as the coming Arerican contralto. —_—_ Fire Department Changes. It has been ordered, upon recommenda- tion of Chief Parris, that Andrew Buscher be promoted to the position of assistant foreman, vice Harper, promoted to the posi- tion of foreman, who succeeds Wilson, re- duced at his own request, and that William D. Cronin be appointed a member of the department. . department has been removed and A. N. Carter -ap- pointed to the vacancy. birds. Town people will come along and make their selections, Lut no greed is ever shown. “ft was amazed at the number of hawks we saw,” said Mr. Green, in conclusion. “They were black and very large and seemed absolutely indifferent to our pres- nce.” Mr. Green will shoct quail this fall in geoeacessesencnces sezece 3 We Are Ready To © S Send Your Carpet Out!* Ready to make it—lay it—and line it FREE! won't be any charge wasted in matching figu Tes. On our from 30c. a yard up. monthly payments—no notes particularly fortuaate in | for the two or three yards that are offer ever made in Washington—and it is Cash or Credit! Carpet floor you will find all that is beautiful and reliable in this season’s area and Velvets. Also a grand display You are welcome to the Carpet— and all the Furniture you want on the easiest weekly or , Solid Oak Bed Room Suites, $13 up. Double Strand Woven Wire Springs, $1.75. Solid Oak Extension Tables, $3.75. 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Arrangements are men to tak lal ssion of Congr nendment to the pre ing the shooting of ortolan, reed birds und other marsh birds in the District, so as to permit their killing only on alternate da This excellent idea was suggested by Mr. William Wagner, the veteran ex being concerts made by t sports- jm in an interview published in The | Evening Star on the eve of the opening of the marsh shooting season this year, and [met at once the universal approval of | every shooter in the District except the pot hunters, who not only favor sho: “— every jay in season, but every day out of it as well. Mr. Wagner, it will be remember ginted out how valuable such a law had oved on the Susquehanna, where duck shooting is permitted only on alternate | days, and the floc thereby reed were given The same law birds and ortolan, and par would be equally advar Under present custom the flocks of 3 in September are not given time ht in this vicinity, but are kept go- ng furcher south, where they can fi | porturity for rest and food. The va | gun clubs and the District of Columbia | Fish and Game Protective Association wil! take formal action shortly in behalf of the proposed law. Bass Biting Finely. to re Bass fishermen have been enjoying cellent sport duritg the past three w Down at the Broadwater and Quantico big ox: | strings have been caught, Mr. Joseph H j ter getting seventy in two days’ fishing | last week at the latter place. Up the river | the fish have been biting well. Members of | the Sycamore Island Club have cau many, and at Great Falls luck has deed | generally good for all comers. At Penny- field's, several miles abov sport has been excellent. Lieut. Col. Huntington and Lieut. Elliott, both of the m corps, spent the last two weeks with ol org Pennyfield, and were fortunate in the treme. Tuck Rabbit ville cau twenty-six at Pennytic ay a week nd ex-Postmaster Aibert Almoney of d eight big one a, White's a . the mouth of the acy, Tuscarora, Weverton and points be yond come similar good reports. eS AT CARROLL INSTITUTE Series of Winter rts ime: gun Last Evening. x Re A series of entertainments, planned for members and friends, during the wint: was begun at Carrol! Instivute last night j with a musicale and hop. The affair was | held at the Institute building. The library and halls were decorated with palms 4 other evergreen: The Institute Club rendered the drs matic skit entitled “Dream Face Th parts were taken by Miss Nora Cacke Mrs. Frances B. 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