Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1898, Page 9

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HOUSE & HERRMANN, Liberal Furnishers, impelled us to reduce iG == AMONG THE CHESS PLAYERS An important meeting: of representatives of the various chess clubs of the country was held at Brooklyn, N. ¥., last Wed- nesday, upon the invitatton of the Brooklyn Chess Club. The meeting was called for the purpose of devising the best methods of completing the cable match team, the Brooklyn Chess Club having already in- vited Messrs. Pillsbury, Showalter, Hodges, Delmar, Barry and Hymes, to play on the team. Invitations had been: sent to thirty- six clubs to send representatives. A num- ber of the clubs failed to send delegates, because of the distance, but there were Present representatives of the Boston club, Franklin club of Philadelphia, BHlizabeth, N. J., club; Washington, D, C., club, as well as the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Metropolitan, Cosmopolitan and Staten Island clubs, ali of Greater New York. The opinion prevailed in many quarters that a tournament would ve held to deter- mine who should fill the four remaining places on the team. The scheme was freely discussed at the meeting, and it was finally concluded to be impracticable because of the shortness of time before the cable match must be held. Many of those who are desirable candidates for the team have business engagements which prevent them from taking part in sucn a tournament. Upon the motion of Wasiington’s repre- sentative, Captain Patrick O'Farrell, the meeting approved of the selection of the six members of the team already made by the Brooklyn ciub, and these players with President Hagen of the Brooklyn club, were also on motion by Captain O'Farrell, chasen a committee to select the other four members of the team, besides two sub- stitutes. President Hagen indicated the liberal spirit that pervades the Brooklyn club by suggesting that the president of the Manhattan and one other club be added to the committee, but his suggestion was not adopted. It was decided to request the different clubs to suggest one or more players who haye the ability and willingness to play on the team. When the clubs have been heard from the committee mentioned above will hold a meetiug, and decide who shall play on the team. It is also stated that the finance committee of the Brooklyn Chess Club will also send out a letter shortly calling upon the clubs for financial assist- ance. As the expense of the match is heavy and the affair is national, the re- quest should meet with a liberal response. Neither Pillsbury nor Showalter were at the Brooklyn meeting Wednesday evening. Both are reported to be in training for their coming match. Pillsbury is at Brook- lyn playing against Napier and Marshall consulting, while Showalter has gone to Boston to train with Barry, whom he de- feated in a match a year and a half ago. One ofthe active delegates present at the meeting was Capt. O'Farrell. He made @ telling speech in which he declared him- self In favor of Americans on the team. | He said the match was a national affair, | and that a national team would be incom- plete with. the capital left out. He spoke a good werd for the Washington Chess Club and suggested the District champion, F. B. Walker. as a suitable person for the team. Mr. A. B. Hodges of Staten island then proposed Mr. Walker as a member of the team. The motion was not put, how- ever, the selection of the four players and two suostitvtes being, as above stated, left to a committee. The Washington club has a number of very strong players. In fact, the playing strength of the entire club has gradually improved during the past four years, since the Libbey cup contests were inaugurated. The players who stand at the front rank today are F. B. Walker and E. P. Hanna. Mr. Walker won the club championship last year and then became District cham- pion, through the default of Mr. Wright. He maintained the title in a match with Mr. Gwyer, whom he defeated 6 to 0, and bids fair to win from Capt. O'Farrell, the score being 6 to 2 in favor of Mr. Walker. Mr. Hanna has not played any match chess since last spring, and so there are no recent scores by which the vresent strength of these players can be compared. Some of the friends of Mr. Hanna regard lim as the equal, if not the superior, of Mr. Walker. Mr. Hanna came out aheaa of Mr. Walker in three successive Libbey cup contests, and two years ago won the individual match contest, among others defeating Mr. Walker. The latter's friends are not boasting. They recall the fact that Mr. Walker, after abandoning chess for eight or ten years, was induced to enter the Libbey cup tourneys four years ago, and in each tourney pushed Wright and Hanna for first place; that last year Mr. Walker finished two games ahead of Mr. Hanna in the club championship tour- ney, though the latter scored a game by default against Mr. Wright, while Mr. Walker was defeated by Mr. Wright in the only game lost by him. It is because of his achievements the past two years that the friends of Mr. Walker have advocated his preferment over his worthy rival for a place on the team. It would not be sur- prising if the outcome is that these play- ers engage in a match tn the near fu- ture to settle the question of supremacy. There are several other strong players in the Washington club, among them being L. ‘Tharp, A. Braid, W. H. Smith and B. A. Tibbetts. These players rank little, it any, behind the others mentioned. Of course, only native-born players have been mentioned, as only those are eligible to play on the cable match team. The championship tournament at the Washington Chess Club is nearing com- pletion. Capt. O'Farrell has yet one game to play with Woodward, and on the result of it depends whether he wins the cham- pionship or whether Mr. Tibbetts ties him for the place. Mr. Tibbetts has yet one game to play with Mr. Allen, but the latter did not appear in the week’s schedule and the game will probably be scored in favor of Mr. Tibbetts by default. Mr. Woodward is making a strong fight, and will finish -near the top. Harris, Thomas and Prender are also having a pretty fight for the re- maining two prizes. z The following is the present score: Won. Lost. Lost. 9 1 | Hodges. 5 8 2 . Mundelle. 6 ¢ le 5 o? Sots 6% 4% 3% Campbell. 8 The following is the score of the game played by Mr..Walter.L. Campbell, the blind man, against Mr. J. W. Showalter, during the ex-champion’s recent visit here: ‘White. ‘W.Campbell.J.Sh 1 P-K¢ ~ P- 12 R-K Castles |24 Resigns, The following is the score of the game played by Mr. Walker against Showalter, the ex-champion, on the occasion of the latter's recent ‘simultaneous exhibition here. It will be noticed that Mr. Showal- ter set a trap for the local player, for if the latter played 22 KtxR Mr. Showalter would have won the queen by Q—Qich and Kt—Bich. Mr. Showalter was himself caught napping by Mr. Walker's offer of a pawn, the capture of which would cost him a rook, whereupon he resigned. —— Charge of False Pretense: Otto P. Smith was arrested in Baltimore yesterday, because of a charge of false pretenses having been preferred against him in this elty. About ten days ago, it is alleged, he ordered fifteen hogs from Jacob Franz of 2713 Brightwood avenue and the goods were delivered to him at Louisiana avenue and 10th street. He gave the driver, it is alleged, a worthless check for $85.92, and then sold the hogs to Hill- man & Co. for $72.20. Mr. Franz notified the police, and Detectives Boardman and Gallaher, who made an investigation, 1o- cated Smith in Baltimore. This morning Detective Boardman brought him here. He admitted having figured in the transaction, and said he had been drinking. FSAI AS OOO ISH OFS 4S 4S 4S 4S 41 S1O 1S HE suffering, no loss of time. It is as safe as sunshine. It is easy and simple to use. What the brother of Ex-Congressman Sibley says: GALENA OIL WORKS, FRANKLIN, PA, During all the sleeping hours the head is enyeloped in a thoroughly disinfected, pure and curative air (tar, iodine, car- bolic and other healing properties). With every breath the in- flamed air passages are soothed and healed. There is no stomach dosing, no douching, no snuffing, no By All-Night Inhalation THE PILLOW INHALER Oures While You Sleep. _ CATARRE, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, GRIP, THROAT AND LONG TROUBLES. | May 27, 1897. Indiscreet Newspaper Writers Mak- ing Enemiea forts New Senator. DANGEROUS QUOTATION MARKS odd New Legislation: -on the “Bunt” Will Injurestthe Senators. a INTERESTING BASEBALLCHAT Unless Jack Doyle's self-constituted press agents take a few reefs in their sails the Senators’ new first baseman wil go upon the field next April with a handicap that will be hard to overcome. Jack is quoted in a- Baltimore interview. as making fun of the magnates who are backing up the reso- lution to expel a player-from the national game for the use of unseemly language on the field. As Doyle is reported to be one of the players at whom the legislation is aim- ‘ed, what he says has more weight for good or bad than almost any other player in the big league. It is all right to make a play- er say funny things in an entertaining way, but when that’same player is made to criticise thé rulers of the game behind quotation marks the. Mberty taken with o man’s name becomes serious. An eastern paper has taken up the inter- view with Doyle, no doubt believing in its accuracy, and whenever possible has’ mag- nified its purport. This paper says that Doyle sneers at the proposed black-list law, and says the magnates do not dare to de- prive any player of his bread and butter. ‘The article concludes by saying ' that “Doyle's unwarranted assault of Umpire Lynch in Boston last fall merited suspen- sion at the hands of-the league.” Any one at ail conversant with Jack Doyle’s conversational abilities would have recognized at once the fine Italian hand of @ newspaper man who was desirous of airing his own opinions. Doyle has been in the base ball business too long, both as a leader and a subordinate, not to thoroughly understand the power of the magnates in the base ball world, and for lim te take chances on making every one of these officials his enemy would be the height of folly. When Doyle was inter- viewed upon his arrival in Baltimore from the west he simply told the newspaper men that he had business prospects*in the east that might keep him out of the game next season, but added, as a sort of amend- ment to this statement, that he thought there would be no trouble between Mr. Wagner and himself in reaching an agreement as to the terms for next sea- son. This was the meat of the interview, but added to it was.a great profusion ot base ball “shop talk,” that is frequently indulged in between the players and news- paper men, but. which, on its face, bore all the earmarks of emanating from the fertile brain of a versatile press agent. As to the reference to the pugilistic meet- ing between Doyle ahd Umpire Lynch, the latter, sitting in Mp, Wagner's office out at National Park, mitten that he was to blame for the trouble, as he had given the first blow. papers all over the country at that timenwere urging the um- pire to press charg inst Doyle before the proper base balb,alwhorities and have him retired from the»game, but being a square and upright man, and knowing all the circumstances sf» &he little fracas, Lynch naturally refase@to act. This case, like many others in which Doyle was ‘made tp appear as the black sheep.is 4 fair sample of them all. But one side is generally published, and if any of the players ee ea eo pugnacious terdencies is mixtd’up in the rows, the player generally hasthisylast say. At least nine out of the twelve cities, six of them being in the wes' ‘ent of the-big circuit, through their daily papers have spoken a kind word for Jack. Doyle, acknowledg- ing his_energetic work op the field, to use a mild term, but alf admitting that they have yet to:hear ‘the gréat first baseman stoop to vulgarisms onthe ball field. The Senators’ new. first-baseman has few friends in Washington in a base ball sense, as it will take time to rub. out the fact that he helped Baltimore to a victory many times last season over the local club through tactics not always aBove board, but neverthelesse effective, and he will naturally have to feel his way. But the local enthusiasts must not lose sight of the fact that seven-eighths of the remarks credited in the newspapers to Jack Doyle are “fakes” pure and simple. There will be plenty of time this spring to size up the new man in @ personal way, and Mr. Wagner will stand sponsor for the state- ment that Jack Doyle is known to make a hundred stanch friends where he loses one. The cry for the abolition of the bunt by Earl Wagner and the demand for a shorter pitching distance by Capt. Ewing of the Cincinnatis are to be numbered among those chats about base ball which are sent out for winter diversion and not meant seriously. The pitchers would then have three or five feet added to their advantage, whiie the change would undoubtedly have seme effect upon the batsmen. If the league was made up of batsmen like Keeler, Clarke, Delehanty and Lange, such a change might be brought about, but while one team is composed of hard hitters and another’ of weak batters it would be sim- ply making bad worse to think of such a change. Certainly the weak batters would be no better and neither would the hard hit- ters, though relatively they might rank, according to the statistics, as really bet- ter than now by reason of the further weakness of the weak hitters. The play- ers and the spectators. want hitting and plenty of it. It is undoubtedly the life of the game, and anything that tends to- ward reducing the batting is a blow against the sport. What is wanted is better hit- ting Dy the confessedly weak hitters, and if the gentlemen who are clamoring for changes would suggest some means by ren and ie patrons, even of taking away a singl the game as it Is played nap, ee In a general sense the plies to the bunt hit. the bunt would’be a large backward, and at this* writing nobody nows that better than Mr. Wagner and Captain Brown. Messrs. Wagner and Brown bump up against thelr own work when they talk of sending the bunt into oblivion. “They haye been scouring the whole country for players of skill. Play- ers are plenty enough, but every man who understands the game and can play it after a style has not the skill which would entitle him to-a front: place in the big league, It is skill; #kf, skill, which Mr. Wagner and all ti—orher magnates are after, what they mstantly chasing, and spending rolls of good money to get. ‘The bunter is a skilled man, a fine player as a rule. How many_bunters are there who are not also top notchers in their positions? It requires skill to become a successful buntér, not merely to make a sort. of bunt. occasionally, but to make a good bunt whenever cailed upon, and to make it in the way it causes the most confusion to the ing side. By all leans retain the ua It is not likely that the magnat give its absolute Poona much congjde fption at the spring eeting. With last year's!¢édh of Senators on his hands, Mr. Wagyerjcand perhaps Cap- tain perfectly right in ad- vocating the abol! mof the bunt, but with the fast tean? thi? has been signed, = rather that ll represent Wash- nM fon Srepe™ it would ap- pear e bunt just exactly what will be needed to land many a for the Senatorial tion. Lool team over it can that outside and distinct step Of a case of bronchitis, so severe that some of my friends 4 began to fear it might be tuberculosis, I was cured in this un- favorable climate, in the month of January, without losing .a day from my business, by the use of the Pillow-Inhaler Rem- edy, after all other medicines and measures tried had proved unavailing. z * You are at liberty to publish this-statement, as I deem it a duty to make known the merits of this simple and inexpen- sive, but efficacious, means of treatment. ours truly, — E. H. SIBLEY. The Pillow Inhale? Is For Sale by All Druggists. .. managerial slump in St. Louis. the Brooklyn club has pulled himself to- gether and will, no doubt, do some tall hustling, with the assistance of Barnie, from now until the opening of the season, but the old handicap of having grounds too far from the center of the city will still be the drawback to great success for the Brooklyn club. In all other cities in the National League circuit the outlook is very hopeful. The Western League's slowness in completing its circuit will prove expensive during the Ing season. The final club to round out the league should have been selected at the first meeting last fall, so that the feel- ing in the cities selected could have been worked up and the benetits resulting there- from placed to the credit of that club. As it is now, the man selected to handle the Des Moines club will have to hustle from the word go, and can consider himself lucky if he breaks even on the season. The Eastern League will be as strong, if not stronger, than it was in 1897, when civic pride carried two of its clubs through. Wilkesbarre and Scranton were tail-enders from start to finish, and money was lost almost continuously, but the men back of these two clubs possessed the necessary backbone aad hopefulness to continue in the league, and it is the wish of all the foliowers of the national game that the prospects of these two cities for the next season may turn out to be of a very sub- stantial and successful nature. The Atlantic League affairs are in good shape, and the Western Association and Interstate League have earned the right to be considered as fixtures. The Southern, Texas, New England, New York State, In- ternational and other minor organizations will be in the field the coming season and should succeed. It is a matter of general rejoicing that the interest in the. national game has been revived to such an extent in California that professional ball will be again played successfully in that state. The umpire's troubles, while for the ost part seriously depicted, are pretty well illustrated In the following humorous clipping from the Buffalo Evening News. It is supposed to be in the shape of a diary loaned temporarily by a tormented judge of play: Monday—Got along pretty well today. Captain Soak called me a liar, but I pre- tended not to hear. I'll fix him later on. Larry Graham -shook his fist under my nose on a close decision in the third, and he'll get the benefit of no close decisions from me. As I wes going out of the gate a hoodlum struck at me with a scantling, but I saw him in ume to dodge. Tuesday—Hot day? Oh, no. Half the game I had both nines around me four deep. The balance of the time I was dodg- ing souvenirs from the audience. In the sixth inning there was a rush for me from the right field bleachers, but the police stopped ‘em in time. I have only words of praise for the officers. They saw that the home club still had an even chance of winning, and they didn’t want the game interrupted. In the seventh Pete Husky struck at me, but I ducked, and the blow took Catther Feeney square in the ear. He told me I dodged on purpose, and we had quite a powwow. Finally I sent him to the bench. Wednesday—I told the police this after- noon if they didn’t stop the audience from throwing beer bottles and cigar boxes and shoe brushes at me I would give the game to the other team. They said they'd try to persuade the boys not to throw the things until after the game was over. Toward tke end of the ninth I stood as far back of the catcher as I could, and when the last man was out I ran for my ee ses See car. As I darted through e door eard the beer bot: against the fence. seer) Thursday—This was a red-letter day for me. Only one rumpus spoiled an other- wise clean record. Fergy McGuire was a little too fresh in the second, and I sent him to the beh He tried an uppercut He aeares rT ygecce him with a left hook. gO e bench. y et poo to him. Se nonEnE riday—It rained today. Thank heaven! Saturday—It took seventeen policemen and a patrol wagon to save me this after- noon. The trouble commenced when I de- clared Finigan out in the fourth. The crowd mentiered me as a “robber” six- teen minutes without cessation. In the sixth, when I called Muggsy Swipes safe on second, the audience broke loose. Men women fainted and dogs - barked. the patrol w: n, chu into it, and then the whole’ outht snong around the field three times, with the crowd in pursuit. It was like one of those Russian races between a slei, igh and a pack of wolves. I lost my hat. had my 5 my co: off, one of my eyes is closed 4 cath D we and the back to the ho- ppen next week? crowd ran us all the way tel. I wonder will tn what will ha; Notes. Captain Griffin of the Brooklyns is out with an original Proposition to hurry the game by getting the Players on and off the field in shorter time, and severai Papers have come back at him with the advice to study up the Proposal himself. Mike is undoubtedly slow, but as he in- tends to reform himself the proposition can be taken as a good one. The report that the spring meeting of the National League will be held in New York is rather premature. The twelve clubs at the last meeting resolved to gather together for the spring meeting at St. Louis, and in proper rotation take in the other citiés on the league circuit. It looks like a small piece of business to try to wipe out this resolution simply because the St. Louis magnate is in hard lines. Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chi- cago are the only clubs that have so far voted for the change, and it takes three more votes to shift the meeting place east. Outside of Chicago, the other west- ern cities are opposed to the change, and {t is more than probable that Brooklyn, Baltimore and Washington will stand by the original proposition. Von der Ahe has promised an elaborate spread to the mag- nates, and it is dollars to peanuts that he will carry out his Proposition, finan- cial difficulties to the- contrary notwith- standing. The Stewart secured by the Louisville club is not Second Baseman Ace Stewart, but a pitcher named Charles Stewart, hail- ing from Tennessee. He played last sea- son with Atlanta, along with Coleman, now of St. Louis, and Conniff, lately drafted by Washington. Algie McBride, the Washington boy, drafted from the Western League by the Cincinnati club, is causing considerable worriment to that club’s officials through their inability to locate his whereabouts. McBride is said to be in this city, but the exact spot is a mystery. That trade of Miller and Richie for Pitch- er Hill looks like a good thing for the Cincinnatis, but it is also far from be- ing a bad thing for the Louisvilles. A good shortstop and first-class right fielder will help the Colonels along a great deal more than a discontented twirler. The Pittsburg players will wear the let- ter “P” emblazoned in script upon the pocket of their white shirts at home. The cap will be blue, with a red “P” in front. The stockings will have red and blue rings. On the road the bloomers will be blue. while the traditional white will be used pes nome grounds. jot o1 has the league engulfed the American Association almost completely, but there is only one left of the promoters cae epee —— aaa Brotherhood revolt. le. Wagner, enterprising President of the Washington club, is the sole relic of the Player's League. The Brotherhood is responsible for many bad things in ‘base but many of the fauits re p ‘The schedules have been arranged as fol- lows: Roanoke April 6; Allegheny Institute, April 7; St. Albans’ and Belle- vue, at Lynchburg, April 8; April 9; St. Mary's, Mary's, April 11; Gallaudet, at Washing- ton, April 13; St. John’s, at College Park, April 16; Delaware College, April 18, at Newark; University of Maryland, April 24, at- College Park; Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, at College Park, April 20; Johns Hop- kins, May 14, at College Park; Baltimore City College, April 27, Washington College, May napolis; Gallaudet College, Washington. Games will probably be played with Washington and Lee Univer- sity, University of Pennsylvania, Epis High School and University of Virginia. Schnefer Breaks the Record. “Wizard” Schaefer, in his game at Chi- cago yester@ny afternoon with Catton, in the 18-inch balk line tournament, ran his 400 points in ten innings, an average of 40, which is the world’s record at the new game. -Catton made %8. Frank Ives last evening defeated Spinks by a score of 400 to 154. The ivories roli- ed hard for both, but later Ives ran 136, the high run of the tournament. SEASON'S BOWLING RECORDS. Work of the Players of the District League. The popularity of bowling as a winter sport has increased so perceptibly through- out the eastern cities that the game is now recognized as an important factor in in- door athletics. Even in Philadelphia, where the interest has long been dormant, @ boom Is on, and the Quaker city bowlers are rolling big scores. Unlike other cities in this section of the country, the teams there consist of six players. The recent organization of a league in Baltimore has given the game a great impetus in that city. New York and Brooklyn have al- ways been hot bowling centers, and it is not an unusual thing to find an entire page of bowling scores in the Brooklyn papers. ‘The large gatherings that have been pres- ent at nearly all of the league games in this city indicate a growing interest here. ‘The season of the local league is now half over, all of the teams having bowled 21 of the ‘48 games scheduled, and a table is presented below showing the standing of all league players who have participated in nine or more games. Fritz Hanold of the Saengerbund is still leading with the good average of 169, while he is well fol- lowed by the rest of the Saengerbund team. This club has developed a remark- able strength and will class favorably with any team in the country. The Business Men's team is apparently hopelessly in the rear in the contest of the local bowling clubs, and the other three clubs, being bunched, may at any time shitt their positions. ied Stone, C.1. Shiesinger, MeCaul | 3 lek | & ej¢] s/8/& a} 2/212] Bl) sie a/ 2/212] | 3/8 g|eislt = Bj) <jojz|] a2} a 1 98] 1) 28 2 1 | 244 3 |-.-| 219 4 |) 2 5 | 164 | 24/65 | 103 |...| 194 @ | 159 | 24/5 (222) 202 7) 158 } 24 93) i | 197 8 | 154 [24/55 102 |...! 211 9 | 154 | 24 | 47 | et | 10 | 153 | 24 | 63 11 | 150 | 21 | 52 | | 12 | 148 | 12 13 | Bae 25 | 128 26 | 132 27 | 126 9|io| 31 aMo: Ee 15 B. M. 5 19 . 208 The Carroll Institute team wi!l bowl in Baltimore tonight with the Catholic Club. 698 TOD SLOAN BACK HOME. Famous Jockey Talks of His Plans for Next Year. NEW YORK, January 22.—Jockey Sloan, the American who has been in Eng- land since last fall, riding English horses, arrived home today on the Campania. Sloan wants to go back to England this year, but Julius Fleischman, one of his American employers, said today that they could not agree to this, as their plans for the coming season were to a great extent based upon their high opinion of the jockey’s ability. BASKET BALL. Cvrecoran Cadet Tenm Defeats th: Ww. A.C. - The Corcoran Cadet basket ball team last night defeated the W. A. C. team, both of the National League, by 7 to 5. The line-up: Positions. W. A.C. right field . Thompson -left field. Mackey Clark center -Taylor Walters-O’Connell.R. G O°Connor Guista-Burlay. ft gue Soomes Seore: ©. A. C., 7: W. A.C. 5. Field goals for C. C..C.—Dodge, 1. Field goais for W. A. C.—J. Thompson, 2. Free goais—J. Thompson, 1. Umpires—Mr. Crupper and Mr. McGlue. Timer—Mr. Brinkley. Scorer —Mr. Phipps. Standing of teams in National League: Won. Lost. P. C. Carroll Institute. Corcoran Cadets. Washington A. National, Fencible: Government P. 0. Interior Department. cumene ne erreeie SANDY SPRING. Conon wonnee The Woman's Association was entertained by Mrs, Charles Sgabler on Thursday. Several mem- bers were absent, Mrs. M. S. Osborne and Mrs. Asa M. Stabler being in Baltimore, Mrs. William S. Bond in Virginia, Mrs. Joseph T. Moore and Miss Mary G. Colt in New York and Miss Ellen Farquhar in Wilmington, Guests of the day were Mrs. George H. Jackson, Mrs. Frederic D. Jack- von, Mrs. Walter H. Brcoke, Mrs. Robert M. Stabler, Mrs. Robert H. Miller, Mrs. Charles F. Brooke, Miss Martha S. Townsend, Miss Helen Lea, Miss Mary E. Gilpin, Miss Mary A. Gilpin apd Miss Alice T. Stabler. Numerous short ar- ticles were read, and the subject of starting a laundry in Sandy S| was discussed, most of the The board of directors of the Montgomery Mu- tual Fire Insurance Company has re-elected Edw. P. Thomas president, Allan Farquhar secretary and treasurer and Benjamin D. secretary for one year. Richard H. Janney gave a at the . Palmer assistant pleasing exhibition at Mt St.) MERTZ’s. Telling — Reductions. Dajutiest, prettiest pieces yon can © Imagine ce at prices like these: i] Tic. EY beaatifully dec- ' erated, reluted tonnes. SE.19 Handsome Chorolate Pots re Sy 23 and $1.98 MERTZ’S | PHARMACY, wal ith and F Sts. Ohe Columbia Medical Company 1224 F Street N.W., Washington, D.C. For the Scientific Treatment and Oure of NERVOUS AND SPECIAL DISEASES. Perfected in Old Oases which have been | Neglected or Unskillfully Treated. EF No Experiments or Fatlares.<3 OMfce Honrs—10 tc Sundays, 10 to 2. Consult Free and Invited. THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1—Justice Cox. Lee agt. Lee; divorce a vin. mat. grant- ed. Gill agt. Appenzeller; sale postponed Filbert agt. Cranford; auditor's report con- firmed and distribution ordered; Greenwell agt. Shoemaker; sale decreed with Lewis B. Parker, trustee, to sell. Ruebsam agt Ruebsam,; defendant's time for taking tes- timony limited to thirty days. Cireuit Court No. 1—Justice Cole. Estate of Anna North; verdict sustaining will. Dashiell agt. Washington and George- town Raliroad Company; time to file tran- script extended and bill of exceptions signed. Probate Court—Justice Hagner. In re Jacob S. Allen, guardian; order of allowance. Estate of Harry L. Chew; order of publication. Estate of Harriet Underhill; will filed. Estate of Thos. I. Gardner; proof of publication. + The Water Meter Question. To the Editor of The Evening 8 The Star's editorial in your issue of the 13th instant on “Water Meters” was just to the point in all particulars and highly appreciated by most of your great army of readers, I am sure; and should be read or | re-read by every one not taking it in full. As usual, The Star is on the right side, where the necessities of the common peo- ple are concerned, and we thank you. Some points are dwelt upon which are most excellent: The great cost of the meters, and then the question as to ac- curacy; the annoyance of having to house and care for added household machinery, to prevent freezing, ete.; the invasion of our premises for inspection, when we can hardly bear such invasion now by the “gas man,” and the increased expenses of the District government for the inspection and keeping accounts of those meters. It would seem better judgment to look out for great wasters—the public institut:ons, the fountains, the leakages, ete., rather than impose hard conditions on the private citizen. We should be about as bad off as the people of Jerusalem of old were when the burden of their lamentation was that even their water was sold by measure to them. AL 8. January 18, 1898. Those Handle Bars. To the Editor of The Evening Starz I noticed in a recent issue of The Star the criticism of Mr. Thomas W. as to the kind of handle bar that he se to think cught to be in use on bicyel and I wish to say through your paper that I think if Mr. Gilmer has ridden for ten years, as he stated, and hd covered the fact that the “rams horn” or drop bar is much better for fast riding or hiil ciimbing he has certainly ridden very slowly and encountered very few steep hills. I am not arguing in favor of the “rams horns” or dr nor do I condemn the upturns, because I think everybody should enjoy the right to se- lect and use the bar that best suits hi taste, and I am sorry that- our whole wheeling public must be punished in order to reach the few reckless scorchers who are to blame for it all, and ought to be punished for violating the law. I am a rider of no little experience and a member of the League of American Wheel- men, and I think the majority of bi sts in Washington agree with me in the above. January 20, 1898. CHARLES L. BOVE! —— Charch Annual Meeting. The annual meeting and election of offl- cers of Zion Baptist Church, F street be- twecn 3d and 4% streets southwest, Rev. W. J. Howard, pastor, took place last even- ing. The report showed the number of members on the roll to be 2,031; Sunday school, 1,254. The two Endeavor societies and all other branches were said to be in excellent condition. The officers elected for the year are J. W. Bransen, clerk; Richard Watts, treasurer; R. H. Phillips, sexton; trustees, R. C, Brooks, C. B. Walker, jr., E. W. Scott, E. W. Burrett and Alexander 5S. Howard; ushers, W. D. Jarvis, J. E. Ennis, J. G. Mitchell, W. R. Cameron, Thos, Sayles, D. T. Opey. —__ A Longfellow Statu To the Editor of The Evening Star: The writer of the article in a recent is sue of your paper, “The Proposed Me- morial to Longfellow,” is greatly mistaken, when he says: “It is unpleasantly true that there is in all the land so often the theme of Longfellow’s poetic inspiration ho memorial to him.” In Portland, Me., the city of Longfellow’s birth, is a fine statue of him, standing in a space where two of the broadest streets cross. On a heavy granite pedestal there is a bronze figure of Longfellow, sitting in a chair, holding in his hand a scroll; his face is turned toward the west, facing the “Deer- ing Oaks,” of which he wrote in his poem, “My Lost Louth,” “A boy's will is the wind’s will, ane the thoughts of youth are Jong, 1o1 ~ ergs ~ ‘A CITIZEN OF PORTLAND, January 21, 1898. —————__ Three Officers Accused. Trial Officer Pugh had before him today three policemen, who, it was alleged, had violated the police regulations. Officer William H. West was charged with refus- ing to make any arrangements for the payment of a judgment for $46.55 obtained