Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1898, Page 9

SS WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. Hundreds Are Buying Carpets Now! —to save the discount between these prices and the much higher figures that will pre- vail in the fall. Can you afford to miss this chance? Axminsters, 80c. & 85c. yd. Toquettes 85c. yd. Savonnerie $1 yd. Wilton Velvets, 80c.&$1.15 Tap.Brussels,45c.,50c.,65c. These are about 25c. on the dollar lower than fall prices. Wash.B. Williams, 7th & D. anl5-60d POSTPONED MICHAEL vs. MORAN Ten-lile Paced Race UNTIL TONIGHT, August 15, 1898, At 8:30 O’Clock. Reserved seat coupons are good for same seats on thic date. Tickets for sale at Eclipse store, 14th and H. Prices, 50c., 75c. and $1.00 Box Seats, $1.50. aull-4t Removes man’s whiskers like hing else veeeee eoeeroeee ill. us as long as you up. 909 and ‘“Walford’s,”’ 477 Pa. Ave. avl2-20d ate oeereerreroeoes Coeceeeee THE STAR .. VENTILATOR. CHANT & CO. INC, B. Wet tw 517 Arch St. Phila. CHICAGO'S NEW UNION DEPOT. Project That Will Cost Millions Dis- cussed by Railroad Chi ams are busy perfecting plans to build a magnificent unfon passen- ger station on the land between State street and Pacific avenue and south from Poik The roads interested in the project ose now entering the Dearborn stre: ticn, just of the Propoxed new depot. The roads are the Grand Trunk, Chicago and Erie, chicago and Eastern Illinois, Chicago, India: apolis and Louisville (Monon), the Wabasi and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa In addition the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (ig Pour), which is negotiating for the “Monon.” will, it is said, use the new terminal. Efforts will also be made to induce the “N: Plaie™ and other roads to come in the new deal. The cost of the new structure will be in the m Hi for a te about d.pot large —— Four Months’ young colored tor Suspicion. man, giving his name . Was committed to tue months by Judge Tay. arge of being a suspicious s arrested about 4 o'clock Saturday morning by Special Officer Court- who found him the rear of Mr. grocery store. The prisoner had a saw and a b and bit in his possession. y and Policeman Jett have n investigating Johnson's conduct since S arrest. They have not yet finished their tigation. TALK OF THE CLUBS Importance of Last Week's Ball Games. BOSTON THREATENS THE REDS’ LEAD Washington Improved Its Standing ; a Trifle. CURRENT SPORTING NOTES Record of the Clubs. Clubs. W. i PC.) Clubs. wk Cincinnati. 66 36 .647/ Pittsburg... 50° 46 Boston “643 Philadelphia 45 49 Cleveland: - 87 58 | Baltimore. 2 BT 62 New York. B62 Chicago. 129 72 3 Fewer games were played by the Na- ticnal League teams last week than in any similar pericd this season, and yet the con- tests waged between August 7 and 14 will go down in the history of '98 as the most important up to date. Only twenty-three ®ames occurred, but the result of these has caused a shifting of the base. ball camera with the focus turned toward Bos- ton instead of Cincinnatl. New life has been put in the race for the pennant at a most important stage, and the interest areused by the success of the champions and the reverses of the Reds should prove a veritable Klondike to the lovers of the game and the magnates as well. From this out the fight for the champfonship will urdoubtedly -attract more attention than ever, each day's games will be watched more closely than at any time before this season, and the turnstiles of the various clubs should click more frequently in con- sequence. The past week’s play changed the com- plexion of the league race a good deal. The Cincinnatis lost valuable ground, and Boston is now right at their heels, playing at home, and with Hamilton back in the game, while Ewing’s men are on the road and must beard in their dens both New York and Boston. Cincinnati stock took a big drop after the Reds were beaten three out of four by both New York and Beston on the Reds’ own grounds. Another black eye came their way in Brooklyn Sat- urday. Cleveland, also, has lost valuable grcund lately. It looks very much as if Beston would take the lead this week, and if the Orioles can continue their spurt they will be very likely to step into second place during the next ten days. This is a period of sunshine for the birds, and they should not Jet the opportunity slip. Pitts- burg, St. Levis and Louisville look easy on paper and with the right kind of work should prove the same on the field. New York is not out of the race by any man- ner of means. Captain Joyce can be de- pended upon to keep his players right up to the mark, and with Magnate Freedman in a foreign clime the club's upward march will hardly be checked before they land in the third position at least. Looking over the games played last week will be y seen that the western clubs ve been up “against it,” especially those fighting for hoacrs around first piace. Of | the twenty-three contests played, en- teen were victories for the eastern clubs. The four teams that lead the western di- vision lost heavily and their eastern rivals Gid exactly the reverse. As a result Boston is right on top of Circinnati, Baltimore is | again in the fight for third place, New York has tightened its grip on fifth position and pushed Chicago back, and Philadel- | rbia has once r:cre become a factor in the |} race for the leadership of the second di- | vision. During the past six days Boston | has done nothing but win. The club se- cured five winning brackets as against not igle loss. Three of these victories were over the Cincinnatis and_two over 4 land. The Cincinnatis won but one game t of five played, and it looks as if a panic 2 d seized upon the camp of the leaders, | hough that the scores of the games would the Ewingites are battling as er, with but few signs of doing show hard the act. Cincinnati has done too % 1son to raise any such cry. The | the highest praise for. its so far this season. Last week the s lost .023 in percentage, as against a gain of .019 in percentage for Boston. Almost a similar state of affairs exists | in -relation to the Clevelands and Balti- | mores. A week ago it looked as though the Baltimore birdlets were going to be out of the hunt. The: however, won all three games, while Clevelant captured but one out of four. These games caused.a gain 013 in percentage for Baltimore, as rgainst a loss of .016 for Cleveland. Of | th second division teams the Phillies made largest, in fact, the only important . While Pittsburg suffered the greatest Philadelphia jumped .012, while the smoky city lads dropped .011. Chicago also went backward, losing .007. The Wash- ington boys didn’t lose anything in per- centage, which is something to be thank- ful for, although their gain was only .002, winning two and losing three games. The board of directors of the National League meet in Philadelphia today to de- cide the case of Andrew Freedman, presi- dent of the New York club, vs. Edward Hanlon, manager of the Baltimores. Mr. J. Earl Wagner is a member of this board and he left last evening for Philadelphia to be present at the meeting. The special meeting was called by President Young for noon at the Hotel Walton.. The board will consider the New Yorker's appeal from President Young's action in demanding the $1,000 and $100 in fines, provided in the con- stitution, for refusing to continue the game in New York, because Outfielder “Ducky” Holmes had hurled an obnoxious name at one of the patrons. Mr. Freedman claims he was justified in stopping the game. The Baltimore end of the argument is that the power to discipline Holmes lay with the umpire, as far as that particular game was concerned, and afterward with the presi- dent of the league or the board of discip- line, if his offense was serious enough. The hit. THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1898-10 PAGES. Oriole manager also claims that no matter what Holmes might have said or done, Mr. Freedman had no right to punish him or stop the game. Base ball authorities, with practical unanimity, agree that the Balti- more contingent has the better of the argu- ey and is entirely right in its conten- tion. 3 EVEN BREAK WITH COLONELS. Senators Played Some Good and Some Very Bad B: The best the Senators could do in their doupdle-header with the Louisville Colonels Saturday was to split even, they taking the first game by 2 score of 2 to 1, while the visitors in the second, thanks to the miserable work of Mr. Mercer, made a run- away race of it, winning by 9 runs to 2. The first contest was as pretty a game as has been played here for a long time, Weyhing and Magee pitching finely for their respective teams, who “backed them up in good style. Runs were scored in but two of the innings, the Colonels meking theirs in the opening inning on Clarke's single to center, his stéal of second, going to third on Hoy’s fly-to Gettman, and home when Smith threw Dexter's bunt wide to McGuire. The home people got their two runs in. the third inning. Weyhing led off with a scratch bunt down the third base ine, and scored when Selbach doubled to left. Selbach seored on Anderson’s line drive over third base. In the second game the Colonels seared four runs off Mercer in the opening inning, more than enough to win the game, while Cunningham held the Senators at all times. In the opening inning Clarke and Hoy were given passes, Dexter sacrificed, and Clarke scored on_J. Wagner’s slow single to his brother. Davis’ single to left center scored Hoy, Ritchie received a pass, and Clingman scratched a hit to Farrell, sending Wagner home. Davis scored before Farrell got the ball to McGuire at the plate. Although It was evident to about every one on the Brounds that Mercer would not or could not pitch, he was kept in the game, and forced to take his medicine, despite the disgust of the crowd. Clarke’s single in the second to center, A. Wagner's failure to hold the ball on Smith’s throw of Hoy’s grounder, Farrell's muff of Mercer's low throw of Dexter's bunt, and J. Wagner's force of Dex- ter scored Clarke. Hoy went home on Davis’ single to left. In the third inning Mercer hit over Dex- ter’s head in right for three bases, scoring on Gettman’s single over short. The vis- itors got a run in the fourth inning on Hoy’s single to center, his steal of second and J. Wagner's single to right. In the following inning they scored twice. Cling- man reached first ona scratch hit, went to third on Mercer's high throw over second on Powers’ hit, scoring on Cunningham’s sin- gle to right. Clarke bunted safely, Dex- ter’s hit to Smith forced Cunningham, Pow- ers scoring on the play. Gettman’s single to right and Anderson's double to left gave the Senators their last run in the eighth ip- ning. Other league scores were: Baltimore, 3; Pittsburg, 2. Baltimore, 6; Pittsburg, 3. Boston, 5; Cleveland, 2. New York, 9; Chicago, 2. Brooklyn, 2; Cincinnati, 1. Philadelphia, 5; St. Louis, 4 TO PLAY SUNDAY BALL. The New York Club Will Take Part in Games at Weehawken, N. J. A special from New York says that it now seems to be settled that New York is to play Sunday ball at Weehawken. An cffer was made to Washington Saturday to have the postponed game between the two clubs decided on the grounds at Wee- hawken, N. J., in September, and it is un- derstood that overtures have been made to several other clubs, notably to Cleveland and Brooklyn. It is likely that the latter two will gladly accept the offer. The Sunday ball question was agitated last spring, and for a time it was believed that one of the bills providing for it would be passed by the legislature at Albany. President Freedman was eager for it, and Tammany was with him, but the desired legislation was not enacted. Failing to make arrangements for Sunday games at home, the management had the Giants scheduled -to play cn Sunday in the west, something that had never been done befor Why New York should endeavor to have Sunday ball in the vicinity. of New York so late in the season may puzzle the general public, but the cranks and fans understand The games at the Polo grounds have | been very lightly attended and the treas- ury’s vaults are not bulging with 1898 yrefits. Therefore, Sunday games, which are big money-makers everywhere, are to come to the rescue The Weehawken grounds are the most accessible around New York for all lovers of base ball, the Polo grounds and Wash- ington Park’ not excepted, and if Secretary Bunnell succeeds in arranging the desired games over there he will have plenty of spectators in the grand stand. Base Bull Notes. Louisville today, the last time this sea- son, St. Louis Thursday. The first game Saturday was a beauty, while the second— There are only two ways to size up Mer- cer—he is either played out or is not try- irg. From the way he perspired it would seem that the first guess would sult him. A laurel wreath belongs to Gussie Weyh- ing. There is no let up about tho old- timer, and he has the confidence of the men behind him. The way Gus pitched the first game Saturday was simply a treat to look at. Bring Charley Farrell behind the bat. McGuire is getting rusty and his throwing is too hard for either Wagner or Smith. McGuire will do better than Farrell at first, while the latter will help the team from behind the plate. Anderson appears to be coming again with his trusty bat. During the double- header Saturday he hammered out four singles and a double and fielded well. Think of Jim McGuire getting only one hit out of seven times at the bat. “Man- aging the Senators has worried the old reliable player so that he can hardly see the ball, let alone hit it. Why not let one tomorrow, .Wednesday and of the other players assume the captaincy, one of the sort that do not know what worry is? There are about six of this sort in every game. Win or lose, they know their three meals a day are assured. “Dutch” Wagner seems to be the right man at third for Louisville, as Clingman | At Hahn’s | 3 Stores. | ae ee cere Ladies’ $3 and $4 Best Tan Boots, In very finest le Light and Dark Tan EB bright Kid,— ‘sewed Tura or Welted Sole, Laced and Button. All desirable styles. Por 2609S: .c<ac0 Ladies’ $1.50 Nobby Oxfords, Hand-sewed Crash- Linen Oxferds,— Black and Tan Kid Flexible Sole and Durable Oxford Ties. For 2 days...... 0) 3° on Mosh Shoe Profits Ignored Today and Tomorrow The builders are tearing out the wall between our present 7th street store and our new annex, and we must surrender almost half our present shelf space. For the next 2 days we're quoting these remarkably low prices on the following high-grade, up-to-date warranted Shoes, for we’d sooner sell these Shoes, even at a loss, than store them away at inaccessible parts of our houses: Girls’ and Boys’ $1.50 grade Shoes, Splendid-weart and Perfect-ftting ‘Tan and Black Laced, with Flexible Solid Leather Soles Cc. on Dressy Shapes. ° ckaas” O32 For 2 days........ Boys’ and Child’s Tan Shoes. Spring-beel Tan id aot Boots ather Shoes, * for Little Boss and Girls up to 18. For 2 days...... 50° Men’s $4.00 Hand-made Shoes. Very Best Grade Bare ca : Black and Brown Fine Laced Shoes— the very latest and best Shopes. For 2 days ae as Men’s $3.50 Tan and Crash Shoes. Hand-sewed Welt Fine Crash ifm and Best Chocolat ‘Vict Kid Laced and “Oxford Ties. For 2 days......+6 Reliable - $37 is doing finely at shért. Little Richie is also covering second in first-class style, while Harry Davis is digging them out of the ground at first. The team as a whole is a great improvement upon the club that came here in the spring. Manager Clarke has at last persuadg@ the boys to put gin- ger in their work and its good effect is who study form and are downcast by errors and who had decided that “Zeke” Wrigley would not do at short for the Senators have about come to the conclusion that theré are worse short stops than the sailor boy. Wagner may be more reliable on easy chances, that are few in a game, but he fell down on several hard, short hits Saturday: that the Quaker boy would have eaten up without half trying. It will be several days yet before Wrigley gets back in the game, but it has become the wish of all the patrons that he get back at short as soon'as possible. Nearly 26,000 spectators witnessed the National League games Saturday, New York having the banner crowd of 7,000, while Washington had about the smallest. Nobody in Pittsburg will be sorry that Frank Killen won <his first game for Washington against New York at that, for there are few who believe that Frank is a has-been. As stated, Killen is a great pitcher. Yesterday's game is not the only one he will win for Washington.—Pitts- burg Press. Happy Jack Stivetts, who has been with Boston since 1892, was released Saturday. Stivetts is at Ashland, Pa., nursing a lame thumb, and as soon as able will report co the St. Louis team, which bought his re- lease for about $2,000 and a player whose name is not known, The St. Louis club has been after Stivetts for some time, but the trade was arranged only last week. Wilkesbarre enthusiasts have atched the work of Jud Smith for several seasons, and were long ago convinced that he was a National League man. When J. Earl Wagner visited Wilkesbarre in the spring of 1897 he asked concerning Smith, and was advised to take him. Being con- vinced, however, that Pittsburg had a prior claim to the star, if the Pirate manage- ment should desire to land him at the end of the season, Wagner gave up all ideas ot trying for his services and consoled himself by the thought that he might de- velop an available’ man from his Canadian annex at Toronto. Jud Smith is not a Collins, but he is sure to make a winner for the Senators.—Wilkesbarre Correspond- ent Sporting News. Bill Lange is absent from the Chicago team on this trip, but he is laying off now at his own expense. His salary stopped with the date of departure from Chicago. Lange called up by telephone last Monday afternoon and notified the management he would not be able to go east. Whether from irritation at this self-excusing on Lange's part or from dissatisfaction at his repeated lay-offs—three now of some length—Burns ordered the fielders pay stopped until he could report in condition. The opinion of the club is divided on the justice of this course, although most of the men naturally take the player's side and do not altegether believe that he will be deprived of his salary. Burns takes the position that it is not a lay-off; that Lange took himself out voluntarily, and that as the recent injury to his toe was incurred somehow not in the club’s serv- ice he has no claim on account of it. It is hardly expected that Lange will put in an appearance during the eastern trip. Postal, 16; Western Union, 3. Base ball nines representing the teleg- Traphers of the Western Union and Postal companies played the first of a series of ball games yesterday on grounds near Chevy Chase. The Postal team, which won by 16 to 3, comprised.;A. Swan, first base; Lantz, second ej “Kirkland, _ pitchet Chapple, catcher; + P¥ender, center fiel Scott, short stop; Métléer, third base; Jen- kins, right field, ahd*Craig, left field. ‘The Western Union playérs were: Kimball, first base; Hazel, pitéhér; W. Swan, second base; Saffral, catcher!"febyne, third ba: Hart, short stop; Hortier, right field; Car_ penter, center field, and Eubank, left field. Western U 200103 Postal r 93 2 2 x—l6 _ The two teams wijl play again next Sun- day. CHALLENGE WX On ror. First Race of th¢ Series With Cann- _ dian Yachts, wt pede asta he first iace of’ the ‘Series between, the chdtiiptoH ‘boat of thé Royal St. Lawrence Yadht ‘Glub of Dor Quebec, and the Sedwanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club of Oyster Bay, Y., was sailed Saturday and was won by the American boat on a fcul. As the boats were crossing the start- ing line~the Challenger, the United States boat; was on the starboard tack and, there- fore, had the right of way. The Dominion was on the port tack and failed to come about in time to avoid a collision. The committee on the official boat saw the foul and practically formed their decision before the race had properly commenced. Mr. Crane's protest was formaily reeatved and at a committee meeting last night the race wes given to the Challenger. The buoys were two mil rt and the yachts rounded each three times, making twelve miles in all. Had they gone 100 yards longer Challenger vould undoubt=d- ly have won, as sho gained very rapidly on the last leg. The race was sailed in a light but vary- ing southwest breeze,’ On the first leg of thiol wiideued vend ChiedeR ture entero minion ran away from her American rival, turning the first buoy two minutes shea. On the reach, with the d, however, Challenger made up nearly a minute, sFow- ing herself superior in that resp2ct. On the second beat to windward Dominion did little else than hold her own. The storm Jibs were by this time replaced by larger ones, as the wind was falling, and Do- minion did not show to such good advar- tage. However, on the return leg, going with the wind, she gained slightly, but her lead was cut down gradually until she was Winney by but six seconds. ‘The race today will be on a triangular course, each leg one and a third miles in length, three rounis; making twelve miles. Three of the series of five races will de- termine the winner. MeDUFFIE BEATS TAYLORE. The Frenchman Was 25 Yards Be- hind at the Finish. On a sprint in the last lap Edward Mc- Duffie defeated Edouard Taylore, the French lad, in ‘the twenty-five-mile paced cycle race at Manhattan Beach Saturday efternoon. Except in.a few intervals, the Tace was vninteresting, owing to the re- luctance of the contestants to set the pace, and the times were ridiculously slow. It was 5:15 o'clock when the big race was started. Taylore tried a 112-inch gear and McDuffie was mounted on a 120-inch gear. In the last of tho twenty-first mile Me- Duffie sprinted. Taylore followed, and the scramble for the fintsh was on. First Tay- lore wag in the lead, then McDuffie was ahead. Then McDuffie lost his pace and tcok that of Taylore. With the first lap of the last mile Taylore’s pacing machine broke a chain, and) h@-was hard put to hold his own until a fresh crew came out. As they emerged gnte the last lap both were about even. MeDuffie’s team began a fine sprint, and. rapidly drew away from the Frenchman's crqy. Shout as he would. the little Gaui could get no more speed from his pacers, and at the finish line he was twenty-five yards kehind McDuffle. ‘Time—McDufie, 3.45 4-5: world’s compe- tition record, 42.42, made by Elkes. CLOSE OF THE MEET. MeFarlend Wing the One-Mile Pro- fessional Championship. The national méét of the League of American Wheelmeh “dt Indianapolis was closed Saturday, agd'the racing was bril- Mant. It furnished. mpre surprises and more broken records) ‘Eddie Bald was beaten out in the semi-final of the one- mile national professional championship, as” were Tom Cooper and Arthur Gardjner. F. A. McFarland, the new impion, won in record-breaking time, lowering the one- mile single paced competition mark from 2.01 to 1.58 2-5. The two-mile amateur handicap event saw another broken" record, and Kraemer, the one-mile national champion, registered it. By the Sluckiest kind of work he around the oval, and, although he failed to ‘finish within the money, he cut the record to 4.17%. The third record to go to smith- ereens was that of a quad mile: In a trial | against time a team of Vancstt, Horton, Lishner and Bennett cut the ec- ord from 1.47 to 1453-5. in the two-mile tandem professional race creed Dowler was substituted for road inson, whose injuries received on previous night were too severe to permit of his riding. Plucky “Plugger” Bill Mar- tin was out steering his mate, W. KH. Mer- tens of Mi and the pair won the event in 4.57 1-5, doing the last quarter in 0.24. Martin all but fainted after finishing, &nd had to be carried from the track. In the interstate pursuit race, teams en- tering from Dinois and Indiana for the ‘west and from Connecticut for the cast, «the “suckers” won. The distances com- pleted was six miles and three-sixteenths and the time 12.43 3-6. The long-talked-of race of the cust against the west was well contested, ard the western riders captured the events. The Crackajacks for the meet were repre- sented. McFarland was in the western team, as were Gardiner and Bald in the eastern aggregation. The west wiped up the easterners. Three of the western team stayed to the finish. Stevens was the only westerner to give up, while all of those from the east quit except “Plugger Bil” Martin. Glens Falls Trotting Meeti GLENS FALLS, N. Y., August 15.—The most successful and popular meet of the grand circuit of 1898 is what the people of Glens Falls expect to show all patrons of horse racing who will come to this city dur- ing the week beginning with August 21. On Tuesday, the 23d, the first day of the races, as good sport will be produced as any day of the meet, with the possible ex- ception of Thursday, when the 2:05 pacing class will be called for a purse of $2,000. This race has filled with the following eight entries, which comprise the greatest lot ever put’ together in a race: Bumps 2:04%; Planet, 2:04%; Rubenstein Coleridge, 2 Pearl Onward, 2:06% Frank Bogash, 2:04%; Searchlight, 2:04%; Anaconda, - The list ae eerie for the Glens Falls meeting is the largest of the entire circuit, there being over 400 in number, and is made up of the most promising and fastest trotters and pacers in the country. a IN SANTIAGO CITY. “Company F Enterprise,” the First English Newspaper Printed There. From the New York Herald. In the mails from Santiago yesterday ar- rived an illustration of how speedily sci- ier boys can get back to a business basis when victory crowns them in battle. Com- pany F of the 33d Michigan Volunteer In- fantry has published a newspaper in th city of Santiago. “Company F Enterpris is its expressive title, and the work on it was all done by printers in the company. The Enterprise ts full of rews, but some of the best features of it are in Its ecitorial page. “We are the first real thing English reading newspaper to be printed in San- tiago,”” declares the editor. “Aye,” he mod- estly continues, “by the holy smoke, we are the first real thing in the Istand of Cuba. Our old historical friend Christo- pher Columbus landed, we believe, some- where in this nelghborhood four centuries or so ago. We were in a contemplative mood the other night, when the idea streck us that four centuries of white man’s rule in Cuba was altogether too long without an English paper. We saw the opening in a twinkling. and jumped into it. That's why we are here.” That Gen. Shafter approves the business push of Cempany F is shown in a para- graph of thanks to him for allowing the paper to be printed. That those who are in charge of it are sharp business men is proved in its advertisements, which ere so many that a supplement had to be added to the first issue. All the men of the com- pany are from Port Huron, and every business man in that city has been tm- pressed into the advertising columns of the Enterprise. “Our entire staff,” says the editor. “from editor-in-chief to printer's devil, Ii in Port Huren. We expect to retur! ere when the war is over. We will send adv tising bills to our Port Huron advertisers, ard we will be able to camp en their trails till they pay. “Our rates are all we can get; no cord wood taken for subscriptions; rejected manuscripts are fed to our office cat. Spring poems are barred.” Sergt. James Stewart is business man- ager of the Enterprise. Its other officials are: Corp. F. G. Cuykendall, editor-in- chief; Private F. J. McCutcheon, loca! ed- itor; Sergt. John A. Barrow, mechanical superintendent; Privates A, Raligan d G. Maurer, “‘comps.,” and Private T. W. Butler, interpreter. The army mule.and his value furnish material for several interesting items and comment, the best of which is this answer by the editor to ene “Peter Fuzzy.” who complains of corns, and wants to know whether to blame the Santiago pavements: “Our veterinary editor, to whom Mr. Fuzzy's question was referred, is too busy repairing army mules to answer it in this irsue.”” This is taken from a tribute to the army mule: “The American eagle is all right in theol but we ould suggest that the army mul? be given a chance to have his pieture on the American flag and coins. The mule is the soldier’s best frie: rf Santicgo can scarcely be expected to have all the modern appliances for print- ing. One of the things in which it is short is the letter “w,” as fs shown in this thrill- irg story of a battie’s aftermath: “A vievv of the battlefield of July 1 and vyould lead one to vvonder hovv the American army came out of this campaign vvith such a comparatively small loss of life.” But one can forget the lack of this letter when he reads the editor's apology: z exouse the ‘vv's,’ as vve ran shy Punished for ANowing Gambling. Howard Roots ard Jas. F. Lattany, col- ored, were today each fined $10 and sen- tenced to two days in jail by Judge Mills for permittiag gambling in a room occupied by them. AT WASHINGTON GROVE ‘Meetings of the Woman’s Home Missionary e Society y: . Exercises Yesterday and Other Notes From Beneath the Trees—Pa- triotic Exercises Planned. Correspondence of The Evening Ster. WASHINGTON GROVE, Mid., AUGUST 14, 1808. The series of meetings of the Woman's Home Missionary Society and Deaconesses of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened today with a consecration service led by Mrs. M. BH. Cohen, who selected as her theme Paul's exhortation to holiness, found in Romans, 12. At 10:30 the general service was held in the Tabernacle, which had been decorated with flags and large banners bearing the Potted plants and M. mottoes of the society. palms adorned the platform. Dr. Peck presided and-on behalf of the tion and residents of the Grove gave an dress of welcome. Mr. Craleton Hughes continued the welcome in an original p The devotional part of the meeting was led by Mrs. H. J, Gill and Miss Bartholo- mew. Miss Ina L. Saunders sang a solo, accompanying herself with the autoharp, and in response to the welcome extended Mrs. S. V. Buzza made suitable reply. Miss Ella knight gave a violin solo, Miss May Smith accompanying. Mrs. L. B. Street, who was expected to speak upon “The Work of the Woman's Home Missionary Society,” was absent on account of illness and Miss Clara L. Roach responded in her place. She said, in review of the work of that society, that it follow- ed the foreign society in the inception of its work and was an outcome of conditions found existing in the south at the ciose of the civil war; that in Cincinnati July 10, 1880, a gathering of women presided over D. by Dr. Rust proposed the formation of a | home missionary society, and such an or- | /Sanization was effected, Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, the wife of ex-President Hayes, be- ing its first president. The society has had rapid growth and more than a million and a half dollars has been raised to carry on the work. Eighteen missions have be maintained in the south, with 100 mi: aries in the field and 200 de ject to call In their special field of work. The work of the society is not confined t the south, but in Mexico, New Mexico, Cal- ifornia and Utah homes and stations are maintained. Among the Indians in the west, at Unalaska, Alaska, are home schools for natives, which combine educa- tion with Christianity in their teachings. The Mothers’ Jewels’ Home in Nebraska and the Watts De Peyster Home in New York, with homes for women in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, are sustained by the society. During the past year sixty thousand dollars’ worth of supplies hav been sent to missionaries on the f Following Mrs. Roach Miss Ina L ers, a deaconess, told “How I Into the Deaconess’ Work.” An evangelistic and song servi held at 4 o'clock, Dr. Woodman in ¢ arge of the singing; Miss Reeve, a deaconess nurse, Miss Sanders, Miss | Hicks, Miss Rushford and Miss Rogers all giving in- cidents of their work, the later speaking Particularly of kindergarten work. The evening service was in charge of Mr. B. H. Stinemetz, Miss Reeve making the opening prayer; Miss Ella Knight sang a solo, and Miss Ida H. Rogers spoke of the “Heme Life of the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School; Mrs. Woodman solo, and Mrs. Roach spoke of the deacon- ess’ work, saying that upon the authority of Rom., 16:1, the early church recognized the deaconess as a helper in its work, but in later years the Roman Church relegated these helpers to the cloisters, and it wa. not until within a few years that the Pro- testant Church has recognized the order and made it a part of its system. To an obscure German preacher is giv the honor of founding the Order of the Deaconesses, and Pastor Fleetn>r will long | be remembered by church workers. In this country the Deaconess Training School was instituted in Pittsburg in 1SS7, since which time it has sent out 500 work. Jers; 28 homes have been erected in differ- ent parts of the country. From the Washington Training School one hundred have been sent out to do Sts particular work. Mr. Walter Duvall spent the Sunday in camp with Mrs. Duvall. Egbert Roach, son of Roach, i illness. The Young People’s Epworth League of this place have elected as members of their executive committee Miss Nellie Miss Grace Welch, Mr. Cornelius and Mr. Donald A. Tracy, chorister Mr. Peyton Gordon. Mr. Charles Dunham of Washington was t in camp today. Friday evening, the 19th instent, under the direction of Dr. Francis J. Woodman, the closing meeting of this series will be of the patriotic order, at which time Ash M. Gould and Mrs. J. Ellen Foster will make addresses, and a special musical pro- Sram suitable for the occasion is being pre- pared. Mr. Frank C. confined to the house with serious Cissell and as their —__. DISCOVERED RICH DIGGINGS. Grent Stampede in Alaska to Reach the Lake Tagish Fields. 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