Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1898, Page 9

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Drilled burners, large. oven—brofter and bot water pipes’ at- tachment same as coal range. Gas Appliance Co., 1424 New York Avenue. n0S-28d POOOS ter : = od It matters little what itis that you want— whether @ situation or.a servunt—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need, a - Po | LATE SPORTING NEWS Two Games With Joyce’s Giants This Afternoon. RACES AT THE INDIANAPOLIS MEET Record of Eastern Clubs on the Western Trip. GOSSIP OF THE ee Today's Schedule and Weather. New York at Washington—cloudy. Chicago at Brooklyn—rain. Baltimore and Cleveland at Philadelphia— cloudy, + < TEAMS Record of the Clubs. Clubs. w. Cincinnati... BOSTON WINS TWO. Champions Closing Up Rapidly on the Reds. Only two clubs came together in the tional League yesterday, the Bostons Cincinnatis, in the latter city, dnd the for- mer captured the two games played, the first by 7 to 4 and the second by 6 to 5. Steinfeldt misjudged two flies in the first game that were costly enough to lose the game, while the fielding of Corcoran and McPhee in the second gave the Beaneaters five runs in the eighth inning, which proved enough to land the second contest. Na- and . 1 E wo 4 1 6 . WE. io 4 8 4 WESTERN CLUBS ON TOP. They Won 36 Games Out of 62 Against = ir Opponents. in the battle for the National League pennant was greatly increased y terday, when Boston captured two games from Cincinnati. This was a great feat for even the champions, and these victories not only enabled them to pass Cleveland, but also puts them within striking distance of the Reds. As the western clubs will be in the for the nexi two weeks, the con- test for the pennant should become hotter than ever. The third campaign of the eastern clubs s brought to a close by these Chicago tried to play a “doubie- at Brooklyn, but rain prevented, w York was unable to work off a postponed game in this city The third intersection ser Interest scheduled for the west fattened the averages of the teams representing the latter division. Of the sixty-two games played, enty-six were won by the east and thirty by the vork of of all eleven New York did the best winning eight out west. teams, the Pittsburg and Cleveland made howing of the western clu ew York, Boston was the only majority of the games play- nly won four out of ett showing than they ), When they only won rs bring up the with one win and n defeats, losing in the percentage. » shows the number of by h club in this s and the gain or loss in two out of nine Toss. few Fork tsburg veland ana 1608 017 Boston. . Cincinnati St. Louis. Louisville... Philadelphia. . Baltimore. loik 2087 1016 emo NRBIAMa weet Brooklyn. .- Washington. eacoge ‘ 2021 While the Phillies are at Cape May to- day, Baltimore and Cleveland will play a game at Philadelphia Park. This will be the play-off of the tie contest Which occur- red between these two teams in that city two weeks ago. This is an open date in the schedule, but efforts will be made to play off either postponed or transferred games in this city and Brooklyn. ‘The third trip of the western teams in the east will be opened tomorrow. Base Ball Notes. A double header today. Killen is slated to pitch one of games. Earl Wagner has secured the best catch- er in the Eastern League, and he will join the Senators in September. Another Hi- bernian. If the Senators can make any sort of a showing against the New Yorks today they will have comparative easy sailing for the next two weeks. Louisville, St. Louis and Pittsburg are not strong propositions. Another hammer-and-tongs game will be played at Philadelphia today between the Clevelands and Baltimores. !f the birds expect to make a showing in the champion- ship race they will have to g2t started pretty soon. The Bostons need not-worry about the absence of Hamilton and Stahl if the gait they maintained through two games at Cincinnati yesterday is any criterion. The Louisvilles start in tomorrew on a series of three games with the Senators. The Colonels have been reconstructed and at present are playing at an extremely fast gait. Harry Davis at first is filling a long- felt want on the team; Richie at second is evidently in the position that fits him like a glove; Wagner at third is doing well, while old reliable Billy Clingman has been shifted to short and is doing better there than he did at third, and has always been a star in that position. In the field Fred Clarke is still in left, Hoy in center and littie Dexter has become the perma- nent right fielder on account of sensa- tional work in that position. The series will be important, as the Senaiors can get out of the eleventh hole if they play better ball than the Kentuckians. ‘The announcement by advertisement in the St. Louis newspapers was made Tues- day that the St. Louis Base Bail Club would be sold at public auctioa Septem- ber 1 from the court house zteps in that city. The auction will be conducted by Trustee Von Der Ahe. The club assets will be seld to the highest bidder to sat- isfy creditors. Von Der Ahe has preferred claims amounting to $87,000, and it is said that he will buy the club. The Missis- sippi Valley Trust Company, trustee for the first mortgage bondholders of the club, representing about $20,000, yesterday ap- plied to the circuit court for a receiver tor the Sportsman’s Park and club property pending the sale. : To be released by a tail-end club is néver @ compliment to a player, no matter what the circumstances may be. Jimmy Staf- ford was released by Louisville, gna the word went around that he woul!l have to get back into a minor league. However, Manager Selee thought well enough of Jeems to sign him, and he has been do- ing good work for the champions ever since. He was very much in the game yes- terday. He made three singles and caught two fly balls off Bob Woods that were hit into deep right field foul territory.—Cincin- nati Enquirer. HOW IT WILL END. the The New York Muddle Will Be Al- lowed to Quietly Settle Itself, From the Cincinnat! Commerctal Tribune, President Nick Young and Treasurer Ashley Lioyd l:ft for the east last night. Mr. Young is on his way to his home in Washington, while Mr. Lloyd will spend a few weeks at Atlantic City with his family, Th speaking of the Freedman-Holmes mud- dle, President Young said: “I paid none of the games that the New York club might have woa would have ccunted fiom that time out.” “Would the games that they lost under bree circumstances have counted was Yes, I think so, but I am not certain,” was the reply. “I wired President Fread- man personally, asking him to pay the fine so as to avoid complications, and I also wired another party in New York to urge Freedman to live up to the Izague censtitu- tion. It would have been an awfu! maddle if the New York club refused to pay ihe fine, for all the other clubs would have suf- fered. The board of dir2ctors will take up the case on August 15. No one was injured by the forfeiture of the game in New York save the New York clitb, providing, of ecurse, that the Baltimore club was paid its share of th> gate receipts. If any harm was done it was done to the New York club. In Washington, when Joyce was there, he once took his players off tne field and refused to play, and the umpire for- felted ths game to the Brooklyn club; I think it was by a score of 9 to 0. Well, that case was never taken before the board of directors, because Mr. Wagner satisfied the public by giving rain checks and The visiting club by giving it half the receipts. Ducky Holmes had no right to make any remarks to any one in the stands—no more eo than the spectator had to insult the player, but two wrongs do not make a right.” Judging from what President Young said regarding the forfeiture of the game and who was injured by that action, and his Teciting the incident which happ2ned in Washington, it would seem that there is little chane3 of the New York club being fired the amount they have handed into the treasury. It is highly probaSle that the matter will be settled when the Baltimore club is paid its part of the gate reczipis. AGAIN POSTPONED. The Michael Race Fixed for Tomor- row Night. For the third time the ten-mile paced match race betweén Jimmy Michael and A. C. Moran, the local rider, has been post- poned, the rain of last 2vening preventing the match. Tomorrow night has been se- lected for the race. Michael left the city this morning for Baltimore, wkere a fifteen- mil2 paced match race with Fred. Titus will take place tonight. RECORDS SMASHED. First Day's Racing of the L. A. W. Meet. The races cf the L. A. W. meet at in- dianapolis yesterday were what the enthu- siasts expect at a national meet, about the best of the year. Tyo records were smash- ed during the afternoon, Kim»l2 doing two miles im 4.05, while in the multicyele race a adruplet team made the same distance in making a record which may stand me time. The old quadruplet figures were 3.52, Both the national championships for ama- teurs went to the east, Collett of New Haven winning both. Powell of the New York Athletic Club, in condition, would have had Louisville cay both at his mercy. Kimble of tured the two-mile champion- ship for p breaking the record at the same time. T lor was second and Bald third. This leav s the order of the professionals as follo Kimbie, Bald and ‘Taylor, 69 each; Cooper, Gardiner, Stevens, 21. All the rest have scored’ less than 20'points. Over two’ hours yesterday morning were devoted to preliminary heats at the track, in the presence of several thousand spec- tators. The best performance in the morn- ing was that of “Major” Taylor. In_the ene-mile handicap, in the third heat, Tay- lor showed that he can sprint with the best of them. Becker jumped the bunch end took what looked like a winning lead. ylor By started after him and caught him stretch, winning with something to h, in the excellent t of . This is within one-fifth of a sec- the world’s record for such a race. everal forms of entertainment were enough to suit all tastes. There were century runs for the hardy road-pluggers, and shorter runs for those not so well hard- ened. There was a vaudeville show at the opera house, a smoker at the Park Theater and the annual dinner to the. veterans of the League of American Wheelmen. Pillsbury Returns From Europe. * Harry N. Pillsbury, the United States chess champion, yesterday returned from Europe. After his long and arduous task in playing through the thirty-eight rounds of the Vienna chess tournament, in addi- tion to the four games of the match with Tarrasch, he lost no time in starting for home. He intends to let serious chess alone for some time and devote his time to business. The tournament recently finished proved to be unreasonably long, and after thirty rounds developed into a contest of endurance rather than of chess skill. The standard of chess in the tourney Pilisbury considered higher than that. of preceding contests. He felt at his best throughout the better part of the tourney, and played as good chess as he ever did. At the end, however, fatigue told on him sufficiently to permit the prize being snatched trom him just as it was within reach. Davidson Beaten at Sorento. At yesterday's tennis tournament at So- vento for the Maine charipionship Hack- ett, the young champion of Yale, distin- guished himself by beating the veteran southern champian, J. C. Davidson of is city. Davidson suffered badly from ihe slow courts and heavy balis. Score, 6-2, 6-3. “Hackett will meet either Ewer of Harvard or Gross of Brown in the finals today, and the winner will challenge Pare, the state champion, for his chaileng2 cup Saturday. —_+—__. TRANSPORTING HORSES, They Never Lie Down While on Board the Shipé From the San Franefsco Chrouicle, The transportation of horses and other live stock on sailing vessels on long voy- ages is not altogether new, although much interest is centered in the proposed ship- ment of cavalry and artillery horses to Manila on the ship Tacoma. While- the voyage to Manila is likely to consume fifty days, much longer voyages have been made with horses in the cargo. The Californian and Mexfcan mustangs are the direct prog- eny of Arab horses brought to the Pacific coast in slow sailing ships from Spain cen- turies ago, and they were undoubtedly brought around the Horn, consuming months on the voyage out. The original stock of the droves of wild horses roaming over the pampas of South America were transported thither from the same source. The writer clearly recollects falling in company off the mouth of the Columbia river in the early sixties with a small bark of about 200 tons, bound from New Zealand to Victoria Island, which was a veritable Noah’s ark, as she carried in her hold all the live and rolling stock of a big New Zealand farm, which the owner, who was also the owner and skipper of the bark, was transferring to British Columbia. The bark had been then three months on the voyage when we overtook her in a calm. The cargo consisted of pigs, sheep, horned cattle, chickens, ducks, geese and a pet horse, belonging to the farmer-skipper's wife. The horse was in a healthy condi- ition when it was landed at Victoria, and suffered nothing from the long voyage ex- cepting that it had become stiff jointed from ag2 and long standing, never having Jain down once from the time the voyage began until it ended. Horses are curious creatures in this respect, seldom, if ever, lying down when afloat or traveling on a railroad train. The Tacoma will, however, be so outfitted that the horses carried in her hold will suffer the least possible dis- camfort and will get the greatest possible care. They are, therefore, quite likely to reach Manila in good condition. They will certainly make the voyage in ter con- dition in a commodious ressel than they would in a steamer, for the latter rolls with every swell, whereas the former is held steady by her own sails, mals, like men, soon get accustomed to the motion, or, in other words, get their sea MONTAUK! HORRORS Condition of the Camp to Which Soldiers Are Ordered. MEN SLEPT Dh SRAIN- ALL NIGHT Sck Troops Unprotected and Long Without Food. PITIABLE STORIES TOLD a See Concerning the distressing conditions pre- vailing at Montauk Point the New York newspapers today, through their represen- tatives at the camp yesterday, report as follows: * The New York Times: a ‘Those of the men who arrived at the camp yesterday. found anything. but a pleasant condition of affairs. Tuesday night was an awful one in camp. The whole section was .deluged by rain, which kept falling off and on all day. Yesterday and last night everything from Montauk Station to Montauk light was in a fearful condition. The half-sand, half-clay road which skirts the lake and the camp and winds around through the hills had been reduced to a beautiful state of sloppiness, which grew worse every hour. The road last evening looked like cornmeal mush, and was of about the same degree of con- sistency. Walking through this was next to impossible, while walking through the vines and grass of the dunes was like waik- ing through ten to cighteen inches of water. Bad as the old road was, however, the roads constructed since it was decided to send the troops were wo! Their Uncemfortable Lot. As for the men of the 6th, the first ar- us of all, who had been encamped out on the Point, their lot was most uncom- fortable. Few of their tents were up, prin- cipally for the reason that a large portion of them were stalled out on the railroad twelve miles away, and the few that were vp had to be given over to the men who jot weil and to the shelter of provi- rain began to fall, was a but pleasant, and one that should not fallen to men who are all more or le: ervated by their long stay in Florida and who are shaken and weak yet from their trip from Tampa. Dr. Ira C. Brown of the 6th has his hands full looking after the sick men of his com- rand who remain in his charge. His chief trouble is in getting milk for his typhoid patients. The men must have milk if they ate to have a chance for their lives, and worth from 10 to 15 cents.a quart uk yesterday, although on Sunday » bought at Amagansett at the regular price of 8 cent Mrs. Walworth, dir: men’s Relief vision hospital found just two stor general of the ation, visited the di- yesterday ‘afternoon, and ences st work where there should havé bech one hundred. The two men were doing” what they could toward getting the fidgring down, but their efforts were making Hut a dot in the big task before them- Mvs. Walwarth is now endeavoring to t attention id to the hospital construction, for she says its five hundred beds will be needed at once and that its total proposed capacity will be tested within ten days Mrs. Walworth ernoon ex- pressed h hed at the staté of u she-found the camp, ing she equaled by noth- ékcept the conditions the lines at Santiago. ever 5s which existed behind A Hard, Night. The New York’ Heratd: w It is raining ‘hard R camp, and as ther: is no other sheltéf for the newly arrived} troops they slept air wight “in the rain. Last night was '& hard ove for the troops who have arrived heré,’for the men were trying to get the’tamp ‘into shape. Down at Amagansett, twelve miles from here, the railroad was blocked. with passenger cars and box cars filled with soldiers; horses, mules, baggage and equipments. It was a_cold, wet, disagreeable night and every one felt the discomfort. ‘There was little chance for sleep for Gen- eral Young, Lieutenant Weigel and Colonel Forwood. The railroad men worked all night to relieve the congested road. At one time the tracks at Amagansett were filled with cars containing detachments of troops of different cavalry regiments. The con- gestion was not relieved until after day- light. The trouble was due to the switches not beg completed at Montauk. It was: the old story of not being prepared, and the railroad company blamed the government for not giving it time. ‘There were fifteen army wagons and six carloads of horses with these troops. Gen- eral Young will be fortunate if he is able to provide shelter and rations for half of the troops expected to arrive between now and Sunday by rail from southern points and by the transports from Cuba. While the troops are coming in steadily, the tents and other equipments arrive slowly. This is what worries General Young, and he fre- quently sends dispatches to army headquar- ters in New York to hurry things up. Another serious question troubling Gen- eral Young is the water supply. Not much success has yet been made in driving wells, and water for use in the camp is still being taken from Fort Pond. Slept in the Rain. General George M. Randall, who is to have charge of the infantry in camp, has arrived. Generals Young and Randall found the affairs of the camp little improved this afternoon. They both felt chagrined that many of the soldiers had to sleep out in the open sand hills last night, with the rain pouring on them. Those carpenters who went on strike yes- terday for more pay and better accommo- dation and refused to return to work were sent away. Their places have been filled by soldiers who know something about car- benter work. Colonel Woodruff of the commissary de- partment in the army building returned on Tuesday night from a visit of inspection to the camp at Montauk. Colonel Woodruff said yesterday that he had found things in considerable confusion, but not toa greater extent than might be reasonably expected under the conditions of preparing fer the arrival of a large body of troops. In a few days, he said, everything would be running smoothly. New York Tribune—Parts of the 9th and 10th Cavalry arrived in camp this evening, and brought with them 320 horses. The wites said that more sections were on the way, and all night arid through the early morning hours the,railroad will have all it can do to get thestrdops into the camp. Close on the heelgyof:the regulars will be the men from Col. Roosevelt’s regiment of Rough Riders, ang behind them come the men fromm Fort MiPherson, and, according to the advices whieh.are pouring into camp, there will be a steady, stream of arrivals here for the next, thirty-six hours. The Long Island rafiroad’s facilities will be severely tested, for these troops must be moved rapidly and promptly, and ‘every nerve will be str to prevent a recur- rence of the happenings of last night, when the road became 50! hours for the last dec! The Sick Neglected. s The New York World—The sick men in camp here, numbering about forty, all of the 6th Cavalry, are. suffering for want of Proper accommodations and food. Since their arrival they have been quar- ona the grouna but. 2 Sayer otcanves: They ut .V: have to wear the woolen uniforms and unc | where could not retain after drinking. The food aecrvert at noon consisted of a glass of Dr. Holmes of the medical staff was ex- amining the patients and prescribing for them during the visit of the World report- er. Some of the patients said that the med- icine he gave them was the first they had received since their arrival here. There was not a drop of milk at the hospital at the time and those in charge said that they had expected some from Amagansett, which had not, however, arrived. Searcity of Food. “I'm all right, I think,” sad one poor chap, feebly. “If only I could get some food to brace me up. I have not any strength left in me.” 3 “There was some excus? for our suffering down in Tampa,” said another patient. “It Seems to me that it ought not to be so here. We are only 115 miles from New York, and there are plenty of towns b>- tween here and there where medicines and milk and food in abundance ar3 to be bought. = “T had a glass of milk at noon yesterday, and sinc> tken no food at all, except a glass of milk last night, which was sour and which I could not keep on my stomach. “We've been here two days and have had no medicine, and it’s a hundred-to-one chance many of us will never get weil. We don’t know what's the matt>r with us. It’s a fever that we got from the heat and the rains in the south.” Nobody here blames the officers in charge of tre camp for the condition of affairs. They have not only been handicapp>¢ by red tape and instructions from Washing- ton, but the people with whom they have been obliged to deal have failed them in several instane2s, and orders for imple- ments and stores which they have sent cut have rot been promptly or properly at- tended to. i They were required to perform in a few days a task that they should have had at least two weeks to accomplish. The prospects for the sick folks are mu. brighter this evening. They will sleep in tents with board floors tonight, and the hospital people think they have things run- nirg in such shape that th> scarcity of food will not occur again. Their Pitiable Condition. The New York Sun: The officials in rge ef the escent camp here are beginning to realize that they have a job of tremendous proportions on their han Despite the fact that they have a small army of men at work, things are moving aleng very slowly and the confusion is obstacles . but ve already been sur- are even greater ones can be done at 5: e they are being done there ts going to be serious trouble if the tran: get here on schedule time, which turday next. ak No hetter evidence of th ‘olute neces- sity of completing the hospital is nee han the plight of the sick men of the 6th valry. Ten more were added to the list erday, making forty altogether. Al- t all of the men have fever of one kind nother and their condition is pitiable. The best of them are so weak that they can’t stand alone. There have been ail sorts of rumo: ying around here as to the condition of these men, and today a treope the 6th Sun reporter and a see them. The reporter the men are confined. four tents, ten men in each one. no board floors in them, but strips of : spread on the ground and the men their own uniforms for pillows and blankets for covering. The men are ale and wasted. In one tent two of the men burst out erying when the reporter them if they were get- ting all they wanted to eat. Then a beard- ed . who was lying in a corner of > tent, spoke up. Some Soldiers Cried. “We haven't had a single thing but water y lie on them, with ything but is any milk nk some of we have fever and can milk, but they haven't giv since yesterday, and I Con’t th the boys scon. Last night we were er. when they brought in a pail of milk. only got a glass aplece at noon and were pretty hungry. But the milk was all sour and sume of the boys jusi lay down ‘and cried from disappointment. Some of us, I among the rest, just forced the sour milk down, but, of course, we couldn't hold it. he retching made some of us so weak that we fainted away.” “I'm all right,” said a boyish-looking sol- @ier who seemed ajl skin and bones. “I'm just weak, but the feyer’s all gone, and if they'd give me something to eat I'd get strong scon. We never kicked at all in Tampa or Fernandina, because there weren't many ways of getting things to us, but good God, why should it be this wey 115 miles from New York?” In every tent the same story was told, and the reporfer questioned the surgecas cn the matter. They said that the men couldn't have food under any circum- stances; that milk was the cnly thing they cou'd touch. Every effort, they said, nad been made to get sufficient milk, but it had pot arrived. It had been ordered from Amagansett and Easthampten by every train, but had failed to arrive. In pure Gesperation, they said, it had finally been crdered from New York, and from tomor- row on there would be no lack of t Mrs. Walworth, the directer general of the Women's National War Relief Assovia- tion, ceme here today, and went at once to the quarters of the sick men. She found things about the same as already described. —— se. PHILIPPINES’ ONE RAILWAY. It Runs as Smoothly as Though There Were No War. From the Raflway Age. The Manila and Dagupan railway, the only railway in the Philippine Islands, is running along smoothly as if peace pre- vailed- throughout the land. Ordinarily railroads suffer as much inconvenience and loss in business and damage as any other line of business at times when comparativ, ly small countries are in a state of rebel- lion. This loss is not only because of de- moralization in freight business and from common disinclination of people to travel where the existence of social disorder cre- ates an additional element of risk in travel- ing on public carriers, but because of de- struction of railroad property, as a matter of proper warfare and military strategy, as has been the case in Cuba. The Philippine railroad has been remarkably fortunate in the respect of enjoying immunity from in- convenience and violence at the hands of the insurgents—so fortunate, indeed, as to agreeably surprise and disappoint the man- agement of that property. ‘Thé road is of three foot six inch gauge, and runs from Manila, with a population of over 200,000, in an almost northerly direc- tion, 125 miles, through several large mu- nicipalities to Dagupan, a reasonably pros- perous seapert of about 30,000 souis. The Island of Luzon, of which’ Manila is the eapital, has a population of about 3,500,000, nearly half the entire population of ' the twenty-one islands that form the Philip- pine group, and with an area of nearly double that of Great Britain. The railroad, as might be expected, runs through the most populous section of Luzon. While the railroad is private property and owned ana managed by Europeans other than Spaniards, it was thought the insur- gents would nevertheless try and prevent {ts operation, at least spasmodically, inas- much as it was proving of so great advan- tage to the government in the effort to if they don’t get something rm with joy We had molested a train, and at once gave or- ge the Dexsnens asi] omaperty rights of foreigners other than Spaniards should be respected, and that this order was in- pn VETERANS’ REUNION | Coming National Encampment of the G. A.B ELABORATE PLAN OF ENTERTAINMENT | Private Soldiers to Share Equally With the Officers. THE SPECIAL FEATURES ees Special Correspondence of The Eveaing Star. CINCINNATI, August 8, 1898. All indications are that the thirty-seconi amnual reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic will be the greatest in the his- tory of the order except, perhaps, that at Washington some years ago. The encampment, as heretofore stated in The Star, will open in Cincinnati Septem- ber’5, and continue until the 10th inclusive. The central idea of the reunion will he to afford pleasure to the man who carried the musket during the war, and the program is that the private soldier shall have as much enjoyment here during the reunion, at least so far as those having the arrange- rents are concerned, as wili be furnished to any of the officers, not excep the commander-in-chief. With this end in view, the citizens’ committee, headed by Mr. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Che: peake and Ohio and Big Your Railroad Companies, and Mr. W executive director, have beer | October 1 of last year. The great bulk ot | the Work has fallen upon Mr. Melish, who, | although president of a large manufactur- | ing concern, has labored with untiring ze to bring the arrangements to the perf tion which has been attained. ce the appointment of ti committee nearly a year ago, several changes in its | personnel have taken place. ‘Two cf its members have died and veral ¢: Ss are | at the front in command either of a regi- ment or a brigade. School Buildings as Quarters. An idea of what is in store for the vet- erans who attend the reunion inay be had from the statement that the six lic school hous wards of the n placed at the dispo: he citizens’ committee and the ccmmittee will provide, free of expens the visitors, mattr basins and s All provisiens will be made in thi for sanitary regula and they will under guard day and night. p Sherman, which has been planned 4 veterans, Will be | r Park. This can be | of electric cars, also | tablished at Che: ched by th sengers directly to the different g tering the grounds. This camp fs fully sitwated in the Mill Creek vy away from the dust, smoke and no! the city, and will be arranged wi quate sanitary appliances, electric waier, &c. The time consumed the camp by either of the railroad rrentioned or the electric street r: will not exceed twenty to thirty mi from headquarters or the central part of the city, The camp will the officers of Each tent will placed floors and supplicd with mattr whole grounds will be thorough the and be in charge of the Unite * one in pubiie hi: » ures, at which place: ed distinguished military and civie per sonages to address the visiting veterans It will be arranged so that the most prom- inent of th speakers will be In attend- anc se of the. camp fires eac! evening, which will prevent the overerawd- ing of any one assembiy hall. Untess otherwise notified, these camp fires will be keld Tuesday, Wednesd2zy and Th y evenings of the week of the reunion. There is no feature of the work of ar- ranging for the coming national encamp- ment of the Grand Army of the Republic that has been given more attention than that cf providing free medical attention for the vi ‘ing members of the different posts. Dr. J. GC. Culbertson is chief of the corps, and he has orgunized it so thut the members, all well-known resident vhysi- cians and uniformed. will not only be at the different.railway stations during en- camprent week and at convenient ints along. the line of march on the day of the parade, but will also make regular calls every day at the school houses where posts that come in a boay will be quartered. ‘The regulations of this march will be most ade quate. President MeKinley’s Prom: . President McKinley, the committee states, has given his promise to be present at the reunion. Major McKinley, as his comrades in Canton still love to call him, has also promised to spend some time with | the members of his own post from Canton | and to visit the boys when quartered in one of the schoo! buildings. Cincinnati will afford unusual opportuni- ties for amusement during the national en- campment. ‘The old soldiers will have free access to all the summer resorts about the city, and special features will be arranged for ‘them at all these poinis. At the La- goon, which Is a sheet of water comprising about 150 or 160 acres, a miniature sham battle will be fought every day at a certain hour, and Dewey's or Sampson's or Scliley's fleet’ will regularly annihilate the Spanish | fleet with terrible results. At Coney Island there will be unusual attractions, while Chester Park will be one grand collection of interesting entertainments and actrace tions. Camp Sherman is located at Chester Stedotiesy Put it that way and you open your eyes; and yet that is just what we will do tomorrow in value if not in actual cash. We will sell you a $2.00 Racker for 95c.. Two dollars is no fictitious. value, but the price these Rockers are sold at right along. It is a large and well- made Saddle Seat Rocker. Finely finished and good look- ing. You'll admit it is well worth $2.00. Surely you want one. A Rocker is always so handy to have. “Cash or Cred Mayer & Pettit, 415-417 Seventh St. : | | Use a and Facial Soap Facial Cream Superfiaous Hatr on the face is embarrassing sad annoying. Dermatologist JOHN H. Woopnit L West 424 st., New York. wes it, if li by depil tion free, ry, if strong by Consul‘a- Park, and the crowds that will be to the camp will be furnished suit version there. The day and night dec nations in Gincinnati during ment, it is said, will s before attempted. : for the night, the other for t been busily en: months, and it gone far to make the i orations beyond ¢ be erected at prominent ornamental fountains. will stre be from mere fireworks w of many thousan river there will usual magnificence. On Foun there will be erected the model of piece of the greatest monument of country, to be erected in Washingt memory of the soldiers of the n cap piece will represent two cavalrymen, one Union and one confe te, matched i imost al combat, with uplifted swords and rearing horses. The piece, of heroic size, will be one of the most conspicuous figures of the decoration Sessions in Mnxie Hall. The sessions of the encampment will take Place in Music Hall, which ha ting of 3.500. The Woman's Relief have its headquarters « a in the Scottish Rite dral, Ladies of the G. R. and Daughters of Veterans will hold for the Odd Fellows’ Temple. Other or tions h signed to diff=ren and meeti ¢es about the city, far upward of 200 have be headquarters of capacity ‘ath and so n avsigned. The e national encampment have been fixed Commander-n-Chief Gobin at the G Hotel, and here the Woman's Relief Corps and the Ladies of the G. A. R. will also have official head- quarters. The different state departm=nis have located offcial headquarters at other prominent €otels. is of Cine! The hot have bound themselves: -by >ement to hold to their usual rates during th campment, +o that no comrade or pos’ be made to pay more than the regular rates unless upon the voluntary signing of a con- tract befor2hand. The efforts of the committee which has charge of the grand parade are directed to- ward making the event one that will ever be remembered by~the old rans and their friends as one never heretofore ceeded in an. R. as its gu city which has had the G. he Mne of marca anned to be over the clean and shad- halted streets of th> central part of y, and curtailed in length so as not ceed two mile: Every provision wil! be made by guards and barriers to keep the crowd from ‘encroaching ‘upon th> thereby giving opportunities for ful tion and display vf the several pe hoped by those having the matter in charge that every veteran will bein line in this parade and assist in making it a great suc- cess. reets, forma- ts. Tt is —e Origin of Chinese Opiam Smoking. 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