Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1887, Page 3

b g me 2 ter & owboys outbatted their 'more bases, but McKim, poor form, which seemed s S, Walsh led the & 5 ‘ollowed by Kreh- =-'.In: the game the time a lead was > & & and caught up. £58 r who ts not 8 the bat, made > ance he has & pre \" Sver. Bartson reated considerable te. ./ mong the Kansas City » the reckless anner in which he hit { with tho ball jd Umplre Hengel was obliged to use his dority to prevent a quarrel. It was any- sgame up to the ninth inning and n the last half of the ninth Inning, ha went to the bat, Kansas City was one d. Legg's fumble of Gening’ grounder. lee base hit by Bartson, and another ble by Legg, gave Omaha two runs and e game. Apjended 18 THE OFFICTAL 8CORE: /ard himself 8 CITY, POS. AB, R. 1B, B! E. 2 138 [ 00 1 10 1 1 0 [ o & [ 01 1 2 0 [ Bl [ 3 1 5 79 ros. AB, 1t 1B [ 4 4 3 0110 3 010 0 0 31810 1123 6 0 ) el W RO A ) H0 e et 002 00 1on 1.8 22115 8 > Y INNINGS. 002 1 3 1-18 0600202 314 ansas City 11, Omaha 9, Lege, McKeon, Crane, Krehmeyer. me runs—Mansell, Groves, Bartson, seft on Bases—Kansas City 8, Omaba 7, Struck out—McKim, Mansell, Double plays—Fusselbach to Dwyer. First base on balls—Mansell,” Groves, P+ lot weatl fous reco thstanding p to one of the crews and the ter was rough attimes and ind were continuously sweep- urse. The entries were the vesternsof St. Louis, and the Pullmans. Forty-two strokes a minute were being pulled by the Westerns to the Pullmans’ forty-six, with neither side showing any material ad- ""w‘] the half course had_been gone over, when it was noticed that the Westerns seemed be eoing a trifle wide, Nevortheless they held to their work savagely. 1t was learned afterwards that Hellmick’'s seat had broken and he was sliding on the runway which cut through his flesh and made the blood flow. The Pullinans were in the lead but by a nose only, and just before the line was crossed the Westérns put on @ final spurt. Over they t, wipning the race in 4:20 by about three feet, the Pullmans being second in 4:90, both crews had beaten the best previous record of 4:34 made by the Faraguts in 1885, The details of the other races are as follows: nior four oared shells, enters Hillsdales, Pullmans, Westerns of St. Louis, and Molines. The race was between the Hillsdales and the Molines, the former ulling 85 strokes and the Iatter b Hlllsdales had the ~lead from the outset and and crossed the line in 9346 closely followed by the Molines, owing to the Molines having fouled the Pullmans in_starting, the Molines were disqualitied and Pullman given second place, ‘Waesterns third. Senior double senlls, entries: Delawarey and Catlins, both of Chicago. The Delawares won 1n 11:37, Catlins, 11:40, Senior pair oared shells, entries: of St Louis, Ex Detroit. This ~ was a close but the Modocs ‘had the best of from the start. Their their thirty-two power- ful sweeps every minute proving more than equal to the Excelsior’s *Clegg and Stan- dish” stroke of 42, ‘Lime: Modocs 12:20, Excelslors 12 Senior single scull—entries: St. Louis, Corbet of Chicag ragut, Metzger o El Westerns, trich — of the Modocs, much superior was Corbet that he led the entire party all the way around, but the fight for sccond place was an excitin, orbet finished in 11:28, Edel i57, with Metzger and Gastrich on his heels in order name Closed the Summer Meeting. CmicAao, July 16,—The Washington Park summer weeting closed to-day. The season has been very successful. The weather was warm. the attendancs lgrge and the track fast. The following is the summarv: Six furlongs: Pearl L. won, Derby sec- ond, Hattie Bennett third, Time—1:15!¢. Six furlongs: Florence E. won, Glennall second, Blue-oyed Bess third, Time—1:14%;. One mile: Jacobin won, Glentisher sec- ond, Wooderatt third, Time—1:41%. One mile: Terfacotta wen, Hindoo Rose hite, Crane, Hassamaer, Lillle, Walsh, elbach, Krehmeyer 3, Dwyer 2. st base on errors—Omalia 6. 1it by pitcher—Hassamaer, Mansell, Me- m. 'assed balls—Croves 4, Jentzen 8. = Wild pitches—Bartson 2. Time of kcame—Two hours. #".7 Umpire—Hengle, 4.1 Kansas City to-day signed Nickof, who 8 been playing as third base for Columbus hio, Hengle, a brother of Umpire Hengle, v imvnml baseman, has also been sigped. n hl“w will be released and possibly Sam 6. Lincoln Gets 1ts Second Wind. irt + TorEKA, Kan., July 16.—[Special Tele- i gram to the B Lincoln won to-day’s ime from the Topekas by superior @ Playing, * the visitors out-batting and A1 out-fielding the home club. The game opened up brilliantly for Topeka with @ Baree scores to Lincoln's goose egg in the & t, but opportune hits and costly errors by e home team gave the visitors the game by e following score: opek: 31001000 3—8 00405311 *13 Topeka 5, Lincoln 7. Two hits—Stearns, Johnson 2, Beckley, olan, Herry. Three-base hits—Stearns, nway, Shaffer, Rowe, Hart, Home runs— kllx. Errors—Topeka 9, Litcoln 6. Um- re—Hagan. Time of game—2 hrs., 10 mins, Standing of the Oluba. w The following figures will shows the record 9f games lost and won by the clubs of the 3 National league, the American association pnd Western league up to and inciuding yes- Jerday’s games: P hiladelphia.. . ~=Pittsburg.. " ‘ashington. o L dianapolis. . . 18 4“4 P AMERICAN Assocu*nw. (\.fistrnpol Al leveland. 13 SHunsen . National League Games. » _'WASHINGTON, July 16,—The game be- ‘,E:en the Washington and Pittsburg teams o s iay resulted as follows: " Washington 101108000-5 2000 0-3 ttsbure, 0100 Pitchers—Whitney and McCormick, Base “9 Wits—Washington 11, Pittsburg 1L _Rrrors— uhllmnon 2, Pittsburg Umpire— : her. 3 "~ NEw YORK, July 16.—The game between . ™"the Noew York and Chicago teams to-day re- v Ited as follows e A X 08014100 0-9 ‘g¥ew York.......0 0 0 0 1 111 0-4 77 Pitchers—Vanllaltrem and George- Base ‘ Rilts—Chicago 14, New York 12. Errors—Chi- 2, New York 5. Umpire —Powers, PHILADELPHIA, July 16.—The gamne be- fween Philadelphia aud Detroit to-day re- +~suited as followi hiladelphia. 303003800 2-10 . 0100100024 itchers—Buflington and Baldwin, Base & ;Ihtl—-l’mludelphll 16, Detroit 10, Errors— 4 >hiladelphia 4, Detroit 4. Umpire—Sullivan, BostoN, July 16.—The gamo between the Boston and lndianapolis teams to-day re- lted as follows: E)llnll..... 40000001 1-86 d1anapolis.....0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0—1 Pitchers -Madden and teuly. Base hits— : ton 14, Indiavapolis 8. Krrors—Doston ;{ Indianapolis 6. Umpire—Holland. ia The American Association, 1 C1NCINNATY, July 16.--The game between i 4%he Cincinual and Brooklyus to-day re- L Uaplted as follow * incinnati 0110000 0-2 > klyn .. 14010000 *¢6 i CLEVELAND, July 16,--The game between leveland and Metropoiitan teams to-day Ited as follow: 000410 0 110 0000000 0—-1 168,~The ¢awe between Daltimore teaws to-day 100310180-9 01400000-5 16,~~I'he gamy between uisville an ulted as follows: isvlile. 0 uly One mile: Hottentot won, second, Probus third, Time-—1 *One and an eighth mile: Wanderoo won ’(i‘.l‘;rdlnnlfih;cclosky second, Allegheny third, me—1:57, second, Safebon third. Time—1:413¢. ]t_;fbu Scout Monmouth Park RRaces. MoxMoUTH PARK, July 16.—T'he attend- ance was large, the weather hotand the track fast. The following is the summary: One mile: Bess won, Stonebuck second, Gardey third, Tine—: .‘fi. Three-quarters mile: Prince Raga won, Mirabeau second, Now-or-Never come in sec- ond but was diequalified on account of a foul. Time—1:15%. One and one-fourth miles, two starters: Hanover won in a canter. One and three-sixtesnth miles: Quito won, Himalaya second, Windsail third, Time— Seven-elghths mile: Milfred won, Ferona second, Panama third. Time—1:30, One and one-eighth miles: Lancaster won, Lottery second, Pegasus third. Time—1:58'. Steeplechase, full course: Jim McGowan vil;m, Major Pickett second, Mentmore third, Time—4: Lefever Gun Club Shoot. The Lefever Gun club weekly shoot took place yesterday. The attendance was good, the scores excellent, and the shoot highly enjoyable. The first was a team shoot with Nason, Ellis, Chrysler and Small against Fitchett, Penrose, Townsend and Ambercrombie, ten jacksnipe each, elghteen yards ris® Score: !}‘l 00 [ (1) o (: Fitchett. Penrose. Townsend ... Ambercrowbie.0 Total coveeneiiiennn = . Ths second event was a match between Nagon and Fitchett, ten birds, for payments of birds and shells. Score: Nason . 01111011118 Fitchett. I11111100 07 The third was a match between Nason and Penrose, 25 birds, for payment of birds, Penrose giving Nason 15 dead birds to start. [J Score: Nason .. 11111 11111 11111 01000 00001—17 Penrose. 11111 00000 11111 11111 11111—20 The final event of the day was for the club medal, o which Mr. Penrose shot, but not asa contestant for the honors, Birds 25, rise 18 yards. Score: Nason..... .,.11110 11101 10111 10110 11000—17 Abererombie.10010 00010 10101 01100 10110—11 Fitchett.. ....01010 10010 11111 11111 0011117 10011 11001 11101 11001 1011016 ..01001 10111 10101 00111 10111—16 10000 10010 10111 10100 llllO—lg off at 6, and azain they tied, each grassing 5 out of the 6. They then shot off at 8 biras each, Fitchett winning with two kills to Nason’s one. O'Leary Outwalks Hoffman. Des MoiNgs, Ia, July 16.—|Speclal Telegram to the BEk.|—Danlel O'Leary fin- ished a free-for-all walk of 124 hours’ length to-night at 12 o’clock. He scorea 415 miles. His competitor was an *unknown,” who has ust been Identified as Georga Hoffman, of ellwood, Neb, Hoffman withdrew this morning, having a record of 365 miles, Locoal Sporting News. Jentzen, the new backstop, caught at Kan- sas City yesterday, A number of the Omaha Wheel club and Councll Blutfs Ramblers will make' the run to Lake Manawa to-day. O. Livingston and F. R. Saddler, of the Councll Bluffs Rowing association are among the entries for the junior double scull race at the Pullman regatta to come off to- y. Harter, O'Leary and Swift, the suspended Omaha alanrl. &0 to Atlantic, Iowa, pln{ in a state league embracing the towns of Al lantic, Red Oak, rontanelle and Creston. ‘There was great rejoicing in Omaha last evening over the defeat of the Lincoln team at Topeka.—State Journal. You are dead wrong, Mr. Journal, It was not because Lincoln was defeated that there was such rejoicing here Friday evening; it was because the Omahas didn’t play. McHenry Johnson will issue a formal challenge to John P'. Clow this week, and Johnson’s backers will make a pershwnl effort to arrange a go between the two men, ‘The Black Star is in good condition. with but little superfluous adipose, and will require but a brief course of training for the fight if it is made. Charlie Fitchett, the popular confidential clerk of Mayor Broatch, won the medal at the Lefevre shoot yesterday for the second time. Mr. Fitchett is one ot the latest mem- bers to join the club, but ho s getting onto the birds with the oldest and best of them. Fitchett is from Troy, N. Y., the city where they do nothing by halves, > ‘The Oniahas spoiled their record yesterday in winning a game from the Kansas Citys by & score of 14 to 13. It was thought at one time that they might, by careful fumbiing and systematic mutfing, go through the bal- ance of the seasou with an unbroken oreide W. uke Wi 1A, By Aol sporting whether Mg 18 marrie the mM assured that'me ‘The prospects a ball park this afterndy cycle and foot races, and & sured. Interest cen C@F1vally in the match ten-mile wheel ri® ween John S, Prince, of this eity, and G. S. Whittaker, of Chicago, for $250 a side. In addition to this, however, there are to be four other even including a quarter of a milé profession foot race, two best in three, with George Kendall, Jesso Butler, Fi unningham and F. O, Hammond as the entrie amateur_foot race, two best in three, with Elmer Kaine, J. J. Gromme, Ed Washburn, , Kirby and W. Wood as the entries: a mile mateur bicycle chase, handicap, with Charles Peabody seratch: Robert Smith fifty yards start, Deal Wertz and George Kosters 200 yards start, and Charles Pixley one hall mile start, as the entries, and a mile 'cyclo chase between the professionals T. W. Eck, of ‘Torento, W. F. Knapp, of Denver, and Charles Ashinger, of Omaha. Cash prizes are to be awarded to the professional winners, and gold and silver medals to the amateurs. The Musical Union band will ¢urnish the musie. Edward Rothery, the well-known sportin| man is about to introduce into this city an: vicinity the new sport of ‘thoming” or pizeon-flying, to which, 1n the easta great denl of aitention I8 now being paid. With this end in view, he some time ago purchased of James_Patterson, of the Game-Cock Inn of New York, a pair of excellent pigeons for which a number of great achievements in the flying line has been claimed. ‘The male is a dark-blue check, numbered B 1578, He is two years of age and was imported from Belgium, The female is alsv a checker with all the best features of a good flyer. Sk a mate to Fair I’lay, which flew from S ville, O., to New York in six hours at twenty minutes, two minutes behind the fastest time on record, made by Albright. These birds were received "some time ago and their progeny, it Is expected, will introduce the sport mentioned. The older birds will be kept in their cotes,because upon being set at liberty they would certainly re- turn to their old "home. The young ones, however, will after a time be allowed certain liberty of pinion, because in them, the in- stinct peculiar to their species, will guide them to return to this city. Mr. Rothery yes- terday recoived three le-bands for his youn, ones, one of which will be nlaced on vne o! the legs of each of the birds. and be marked with a letter and number which will indicate the standing of each in the FKederation of American Pigeon Flyers. These numbers and letters are changed every year. In atew weeks Mr. Rothery will be able to begin this sport, and will commence probably with a *fly”” from Lincoln, which, in the absence of Mm]\u'lmi birds, will be made against time. It is anticlpated, however, that before long there will be a number of vther bird-fanciers in this vicinity who will also have a cote of flyers and thus make more general a srort which, in New York, is attended with a great deal ot pleasure. One of the nearest admirers of ‘‘homing” is R. B. Casty, ot Decorah, who 18 the owner of a promising bird, The latter has made & number of remarkable flizhts, one of which was from Cedar Rapids home, and from Bur- lington in the same direction, covering the distance at a rate of about a mile a minute. 1t made two trips from St. Louls to its home, inone of which it made the journey in twelve hours, Mr. Rothery has not yet an- nouuced when the first test of his young fiy- ers will be made, but 1t is expected that it will taie place long before the close of the present Warm season. WHERE IS HANS YOUNG? 8 sport Is & His Wife and Partner Anxiously In- quiring for Him, Several days ago Tue BEE contamed an item to the effect that Hans Young, a saloon-keeper, whose place is on the cor- ner of Douglas and Twelfth streets, had been robbed on Seward street, near Twenty-ninth, by footpads, of $104 in money and a gold watch and chain. The police have since been in- vestigating the reported robbery, and the further the investigations extended the more convincing it became that Mr. was nowhere near the vicinity of Seward street at the hour at which he claimed to have been held up. He asserted that the robbery occurred between 11 and 12 o'clock. As a matter of fact Mr. Young was seen emerging from Higgins’® joint shortly after 12 o'clock midnight with & questionable female and from that all-night resort embarked in a hack for one of the disreputa- ble road house in the suburbs of the city. Last night Mrs. Hans Young ap, peared at the police station in search of her husbaud. She had not scen him for several days and desired that the police should search for him, She declared that Mr. Young had not been robbed as he had reported, and in proof of ‘her as- sertion said she had the jewelry which he claimed to have lost. Her story but confirmed the investigation of the police officers. In- quiries at Young’s saloon last mght de- veloped the fact that Hans had not been about for several days and that lus part- ner, Hendrix, felt very much concerned over several hundred dollars of the firm's money which could not be accounted for Young's place is one of the sixteen which were notified last week to pay up their license or quit. Itis believed that Young has skipped. English and American Smokors. ‘One of the features of American street life that strikes an _Englishman on first arriving here most foroibly,” said a young Londoner, whose acquaintance I made at the Palmer house an evening or two ago, is the abundance of cigars. I wassimply astouned to observe, on my arrival here, teamsters, porters, cabmen, eye, even fuddlurs with handearts, smoking cigars. n England, you know, where cigars cost just as much as they do here, a man who never smokes anything on the street but a cigar is looked upon as an epicure, and if heis not a geatleman of laudes pranrty 18 regarded as a very extravagant fellow. What do we smoke? Why pipes, of course. 1know of fellows—London fel- lows, too—who are worth all the way from £100 to £1,000 a year, who are in- veterate smokers, and ‘wno yet regard cigars with about as much reverence as you do diamonds, no doubt. The most of them smoke two cigarsat 3 pence or 6 cents apiece per day. No; I must say that the princely extravagance of the American smoker, who, though he may be too poor to buy himself a warm over- coat when the oold winds come, will scorn to smoke a })ipe on the street, floors me. InLondonifa costermonger or a cabman appeared among his comrades with a lighted cigar in his mouth, he would be hooted from one end of the street to the other for endeavoring to as- sume a luxury his circumstances in life did not enntitle him to.” ——— Attention Odd Fellows—All members of Beacon Lodge No. 20, 1. 0. O. F., are hereby notified to meet at I. O, O. F. hall at 2 p. m., Monday, for the purpose of attending the funeral of our late brother, Andrew Granbeck. All Odd Fel- lov!vs are respectfully invited to partici- pate. e United States Senator Paddock ar- rived yesterday wfternoon from Hot Springs, Dak., looking handsome and cool in a mew. light suit and straw hat. The Seuator is at the M.llard, F AMERICA. hht of Foreign Ooun: — R'S _SHAM — raphy of the Chief of the aims Division—The Geo- cal Survey--Capital it iy 14.—[Correspondence urprised at the desire sh across the ocean for bv when wo have so much jnent.” The speaker was spent forty years ot his ithin the limits of the h continent. IHe continued: know that there were free IPORG city of Mexico before Colum- Scovered America. Yet suchis the fact. ‘There are many things to be seen in the Iand to the south of us which show that the Aztecs and the Montezumas were a highly civilized people, and that they were not only versed in many of the artsand sciences of the vpresent day, but that they were far in advance of us in many things in which we think ourselves great. A recent publication of the Smithsonian institution shows that even the Chiriqul Indians of the Isthmus of Darien were versed In the science of metallurgy, and that these people understood the art of gold beating, and were skilled in some degree in gold plating. Yet they are looked upon as a prehistoric people and what knowledge we have of them is gleaned principally from the ves_of their dead. Mexico abounds in attractiei for the searcher after the antique. Noris it neces- sary to go to the land of the ‘‘greasers” for antiquities. One can find all that he desires toseo in the states und territories of the southwest. As for scenery there is nothing in all the old world to compare with what the United States has to offer, Not one man in ten of those who will visit Europe this_year has ever looked upon the granduer of Niag- ara Falls, Not one in fifty has seen the Yel- lowstone or the Yosemite. The proportion of those who have visited the wonders of the Sierra Madre Is Infinllol{ less. Butl think that the strangest of all s the dense ignor- anco_of the local attractions about them which characterizes nine-tenths of our citi- zens who visit Europe avnually. 1 VISITED NEW YORK RECENTLY to bid farewell to a party of friends who were about to sail for KEurope. ‘I'hey were all resi- dents of New York and Pennsylvania, yet they had never seen any more of this coun- try than tbat section between Boston and ashington. Their idea of the uties of the Americau scenery was conlined to that which they had been able to look at while on flying trips to Saratoga, Bar Harbor, Lennox and Long Branch. They were going to urope to see the Alps and the Rhine, ‘housands make similar trips every year, Yet the scenery of the mountains of Penn- sylvania is_incomparably superior to any that the European continent can offer. T'here is, to my mind, nothing so attractive to the true American ns the mountain scen- ery along the Susquehanna and Lehigh val- ley. A week spent in exploring the attrac- tions along the Lehigh Valley railroad would astonish many of our migrating citizen: One need not” put up at the hotels which have been constructed for the use of visitor: but all along that, or' any of the Pennsyl- vania roads,the tourlst can ind an attractive stopping place. I wilt' guarantee that if some of our travelers would defer their visit to Europe nntil they had” looked upon what America has to offérin tle way of scenery— even within a day’s travél from New York— they would hesitate 7some time before bray- ing the discomforts ef an ocean trip simply for the purpose of secinz something new. One of tho worst features of these conti- nental tours is that the youngi) people in every family soon leakn to believe that Amerlca has nothing to show them and they are not satisfied until they can arrange to make annual trips ' gbroad” By this means the, ratce of the geandeur DUEL. grow up in_ igh and tesources of the_grefitest and best coun-_ try on the face of the. wfiu The economic benefits of the work per- formed by the UNITED STATES 6ROLOGICAL SURVEY are just beginning to be apureciated by rail- road men who are laylng out new lines of railroad. The ofticials ot the survey are of the opinion that within the nextten years the center of all the railroad building in the country will be located in the southern states.” They base this_opinion on the fact that the calls for maps of the southern moun- tain ranges is increasing rapidly. The maps thus far prepared by the geological survey cover the eastern coast line trom the Mary land boundary to the Georgian coast with the excption of a small sectloh of Virginia. They are at present issued only tu those directly interested in the ty‘mgranllv of the Appa- laehian range, yet there have been issued al- ready upwards of 38,5000 mavs of the re- glon. That is to say about a hundred different sets. These mnrs have all been distributed to those directly interested in the building of new railroads. 1t is said that there are about twenty ditferent roads in course of construction between the coal felds of the north and the seaboard of the Onio river. One gentleman who Is inter- ested in theconstruction of a road between Charleston, 8. C. and the mouth of the Big Sandy on the Ohio, called at the office of the survey a day or two ago and said that the maps which had been furnished to his com- pnn{ saved the corporation at least $10,000 in rml minary surveys. Krom all sections of he south reports are constantly received of the enormous value of the maps furnished by the sun"cj‘y to topographical and civil engi- neers. The sentiment is general that the overnment waited too long before taking he first steps towardssecuring accurate maps of the topographical formationsojv..e coun- try, and those who have the most at stake mit at last that the work of this oftico i8 o 3 the utmost value to the future development of the railroad Interests, Besides the work which has been done in the southern atates the sur- vey has been extended well into many sec- tions of the north and west. Massachusetts has been mapped on a scale of a square mile to the inch, through the joint work of the state and the general government. A field party has just begun operations in south- eastern Iowa for the purpose of mapping that state on a similar scale. lllinois and In- diana will, in all probabllity, be the next states In which the surveys will be under- taken, Thereis a great difference in the cost of the work in the various states. In the south where thie country I8 broken by moun- tain ranges the cost is ‘about $12 & square mile, while in the prairie states of the west where the country 1s flat the work can be ‘berlurmed at about $5 a square mile. It is he ultimate intentlon of the bureau to wvre- }"'“‘ topographic maps of the entire country. Dwing, however, to the necessary slowness of the operations, it will be many years be- fore the entire scheme of operations is perfected. As fast ag the field operations in each case are perfec! and verified the original maps are sent to.the engraver and a few copies are made for immediate use. Eventually there witl be prepared an atlas of each state, These atlasses will be of enor- mous value, not oh rallroad engineers but to all municipaliti 0 have use for an accurate topographiemap:of the country sur- rounding them. AracA A NUMBER 0] ILITICIANS were sitting in on & fin‘% hotel lobbles talk- ing politics and telllng stories, when it came to the turn of a federal. offictal from New York to relate his wecollections ot public men. It happened thnklmp?' of the New York Star lay on the table before, and that fact reminded of Mr. Dorsheimer. “Some years ago,” lj¢'said, “‘Dorsheimer and Walter Church were ver§ intinate triends. Some of the boys put. u{ a job on the former for the purpose of bygaking up the cordiality. Church was indu to piek a quarrel with the lieutenant-governor, and said something which was regarded by all the others as an unpardonable ~ Insult.” We I urged Dorsheimer to resent the insult in the only manner open toa gentleman, and told him that he must send a challenge to Church. He was very reluctant to do this, but when assured that Church was a coward and that he would certainly crawl in the dust the valiant Dorsheimer sent the chalienge, His surprise was great indeed when it was He was “in a hole” and promptly accepted. was exceedingly anxious to do the crawling himself, He hunted up his friends who had otten him Into the scrape and asked what n the name of all that is good he was to do. “Church,” he said, “has _accepted my chal- Jenge and has selected ritles as the weapous. I never fired a ritle in my life and could not hit the side of a cow at ten paces.”” ~ He was told that there was no way 1o which he could retreat with honor. and ‘that the only thing remalning for him was to practice constantl until lhegour of meeting and then face nl’s enemy Mldlz. He begged us all to find some way out of the serape for him, but we assurod him that that wonld be impossible and that he must fight. Hetherefore began practicing at once and burned nearly halt a hundred weight of powder before the day sot for the meeting. At Iast that” day arrived and the combatants proceeded to the field of honor. ‘There was tsulmlhrn party of spectators, Including the two seconds and the necessary surgeons, all of whom were in the secret except Mr. Dorsheimer. That gentleman was so ner- vous at the thought of taking human life that he trembled frightfully. When Church saw the rifle in the hands of the “governor,” sawing the air like & walking beam of an en- ine, he burst out langhing. ~ That was the irst intimation that Dorsheimer had that the proceedings were a rul up job. He threw down his gun and rushing over to Church seized him by the hand. He seemed to be delighted to shake that paw, but he had nothing to say to any of the others and 1 don’t think that he has really forgiven one of the party to this day.” Thero are very few men in the govern- ment service who are as expert with a pen as the late CHIEF OF THE “IORSE CLATMS" DIVISION of the Third auditor'’s oflice, As a rule the constant practice of penmanship required of aclerk or employe spoils a good hand and the older men in the service of the govern- ment soon develop into scrawlers whose chirography can only be deciphered by an expert, Mr. J, C. Pilling, the chief clerk of the weological survey, Is a striking example of the effect of the seryice upon writers. Mr. Pillings’ handwriting is so bad that he has great difficulty in reading it himself, There 1s only one clerk in the burean who has any success 1n trylng to make it out and even this one has all she can do at timas. short time ago Mr, Pilling had oceasion to send instructions to one of the chiefs of division upstairs. He wrote a note, fow hours afterwards the chief sent a note back to Mr.Pilling, which read: ‘My dear Pilling: We can make out the body of ‘your note well enough, but the P.S.istoo much for us.’ The P. 8. was attached. Mr. Pilling tried to read it himself, but falled. Then he handed it over to Major Powell, who had no better luck. Three or four officials looked at the note, shook their heads, and declined to o further Into the investigation of the hieroglyphics. The lady who was usually assigned to the duty of reading the writing of the chief elerk spent ten min- utes in conning it. She tried reversing it; held it up toa glass and attempted all the ex- vedients for discovering meaning of hidden writings which have ever been heard of. But all to no effect. Finally Mr. Pilling sent it back with a request that the body of the note be sent down, as that might aid the writerin deciphering his own note. Halt an hour after the official np stairs sent word back that the alleged ‘P, 8. had been cut from the border of a Japanese handkerchlef. Mr, Pilling declines to attemnt to read any serap of paper now, even if he knows it to be a part of one of his notes, until he has the en- tire epistle in front of him. - Sam King, the man_whose bull dog attacked a man named Elhs, was held in $50 bonds yesterday by Judge Berka for trial on July 22. - ROOF LIFE IN GOTHAM. How the Roofs of Houses Are Used in New York. From the editorial rooms of the New York Mail and Express the roofs of hun- dreds of houses may be seen spreading on all sid some ligh, others low. Amid the wilderness of smoking chim- neys, flapping clothes hung out to dry and interwoven telegraph wires is enouyl)x rubbish to fill in an acre of mp land. Old kettles, broken bottles, bricks, shoes, boots, tomato cans and garbage make up the conglomerate heap. The low-roofed hovses seem to be the dump- ing ground for the tenants of higher buildings. In the tenement house dis- trict the condltion of things is much worse, for the people habitually throw the ashes und garbage out of their high windows upon the roofs of the adjoining houses. The tendency so natural simple country folk to toss their ashes over a neighbor’s fence has come to be a prac- tice with the city people also. The coun- tryman, how or, has one advantage over his city brother; he can remedy the injury done him by tossing the rubbish back, whereas this _is hardly practicable in the ocity. ‘The only recourse left the injured citizen 15 to shovel it ofl' into the strect or upon the roof of a house lower than his own. Roof life in New York 1s a curious and struetive study. Few know how many thousands of people do their duly work on the housetops, unobserved by passer} in the strects. From the Mail and press windows at least one hundred m and women may be seen on neighboring houses, busy with their ious oceupa tions. On one roof several women are at their washing tubs, while others are hanging up clothes to dry. On hundreds ot roofs long lines of clothes are flapping in the wind. The washing of this city 1s done upon the housectops. Besides the washerwomen scores of telegraphic line men are mending their wires, At night time they swarm with human beings. On the east side, where there are few or no public_parks, the roofs serve a3 play grounds for the poor. Working- men gather in groups to smoko their vipes or play dominoes or checkers. Women sit together, chatting, while their childred run aboyt in play or sprawl at their mothe: ces, ery feature of park life at night may be seen excepting the green trees and the foun- tains. Ou some housctops little gardens have been carefully cultivated. Some of them have graveled vaths between the flower beds, where the people walk in the evening, e ———— BRITANNIA'S SPOONS AND FORKS Ten Millions’ Worth of Domestic Plate for England’s Monarch. London World: The royal plate is usually kept m two strong rooms at Windsor castle, and is valued at $10,000,- 000. The gold service. which was pur- chased by George IV, dines 130 persons, and the silver wine cooler, which he bought about the sawe time, holds two men, who could sit in 1t comfortably. It 18 inclosed with plate glass, and toe splen- did chasings occupied two years, There are some quaint old pieces in the roval on which belonged to Queen Eliz- abeth, having been taken from the Span- ish Armanda, and others were brought from India, Burmah and China, and there is ono cup which belonged to Charles XII of Sweden. There is a peacock of precious stones valued at $200,000. ‘I'he body and tail are composed ot solid gold, protusely studded with pearls, diamonds, rabies and emeralds. Tho tiger’s head, known as Tippo’s footstool, 1s formed of silver gilt, with eyes of rock crystal and a tongue of solid gold. These two trophies of oriental extravagance were taken at Seringapatam. There are an immense number of gold shields, some of which are richly ornamented. One of these formed of snuff boxes under the direction ot George IV, and is valued at $30.000. There are thirty dozen of plates, which were bought by that sovereign at a cost of $55,000, -~ Gen, Logan's Estate. The lnvcnlur( of General Logan's es- tate was filed Monday in the Chicago probate court and the avpraiser’s award of $6,070 to Mrs. Logan was approv. The inventory inciudes fourteen book cases contaming 2,000 yolumes of public documents and 1,048 volumes of miscel- laneous books. The royalties on - eral Logan's books, “The Great Con- spiracy'’ and “The Volunteer Soldier of Americn,” are given at 40 cents and 62} cent a copy, payable monthly. e A Chip Off the O1d Block, New Y , July 16,—|Special Telegram to the Bk, |—Jay @ould’s son Edward stood open all day yesterday in consolidated stock in the petroleum exchange, selling his papa's specialties by wholesale, The young man, mt past his twenty-tirst birthday, was cred- with having sold 10,000 shares of West- ern Union alone, This' same lad pursued the same facties just before the last shake up came to Wall street, Y, JULY 17. 1887.-TWELVE PAGES. A CENTER OF EARTHRUAKES. In Moxioo Where the Earth is Continually Shaken, AMERICA'S ACTUAL VOLCANO. The Only Volcano in Operation On the North American Continent—. Great Geyser—-A Scene of Des- olation—Terrifled Pcople. A correspondent of the New York Herald writes as follows from Kl Paso: “I have just returned from the scene of the only active voleano in North Ameriea. The trip was one of extraordinary hardship, accomplished in the face of ovstacles of which the entire absence of any road, an arid dosert of over one hundred miles neross, apd the blazing sun of a tropical zone were con- spicuous features. 'The voleano lies twelve miles, as the crow flies, from Bavispe, in the state of Sonora, in the extreme northwest corner of the Mexican republic. A rough estimate will place the distance trom El Paso at four huudred nnles, caleulating on a base line. The rugged and desolate nature of the country, the Infrequency of its springs and the almost dendly heat that exists’ thero nine months out of the twelve have effectunlly kept out the American prospector, although the mountains are full of gold; and evon the hardy Moxican has largely left it to its primal solitude. Here and thero are seattering villages, of which Bavispe is n type. The town lies southwest of Casa Grande and is a hoterogencous collection ot adobe shanties and ‘jackals,’ half under and half above the ground and roofed with brush. It contains about twonty-five hundred souls, if you count! asoul toeach mhabitant. They are so miserably poor and live in a condition of such indeseribable squalor and perpetual misery that their lot compares unfayora- bly with the wandering coyote, their nearest neighbor. “We went by way of the Carralitos Haciondu, on the Britton-Davis ranch, lying about due east of Bavispe, in the state of Chihuahu It was from this point that the real journey commenced. To conceive the fatigue and ardor of the trip ono must add a blazing sun that seared and shriveled the very granite, a parched and alkali-laden wind blowing at midday and filling the throat with its smarting particles, and a retlection from the earth that was like the breath of a furnace. We were well supphed with wraps and tackle, which we had frequent ion to use, for although it1s pro- ai that the burro can cross places where angels fear to tread, we were obliged to abandon our pack-train almost at the outset. *The eighth day brought the explorers into the vicinity of Bavispe, but a little priorto this we had the first intimation of seismic disturbance in the shape of a fluttering tremor ot the earth. These shocks, which were slight and undulat- ing, increased 1n frequency as we drew ‘ar the town, e searcely an hour ed without a repetition of them. We came in gight of Bavispe about 10 o'clock in the morning, and the first thing that met our sight was a huddled encampment of several hundred people on the broad mesn that flanks the town. Bavispe itself may be spoken of in the vast tense, for it no longer ex On the st of last May, just at the gray of dawn, the villagers were awakened by a sickening shudder of the earth, followed by & quick tremor that reduced half of the abodes of the place to ruins. Creeping out from the wreck of their dwellings, they sought safety on the level ground, where a sort of encampment was formed, and thence in time the entire village has migrated. Since that morning of desolation and terror there has been no day unaccom- panied by an eartiquake. “Sometimes it has been so violent as to loosen masses of rock and open vast fissures in the mountain side, and some- times it is an almost impercentible vibra- tion, but never has it entirely ceas and the superstitions Mexicans havi given themselves up to the apathy of de- spair. Our appearance, which at other times would have convulsed the village with excitement, scarcely attracted at- tention. A few half-naked men and hag- d women straggled out of their tene- ments of brush to meet us, but many merely glanced from their open doorways and made no sign. The town, or rather, what was the town, looks like the broken toy village of a child. There is not a house left standing, Shattered heaps of adobes and yawning holes mark the site, and mingled in the ruins are the few nsils of th domestic hfe, for which uperstitious terror forbade them to return. Many have gone toward the south, but the bulk of the people are far too poor to undertake a j hich, hout resourses, mean: 0 they have camped within of the wreek of their hom in mute and pathetichelplessn The mor- ty which attended this disaster must ve been great, but 1t was almost impos- sible to draw any of the people into con- versation, and quite so to obtain any ac- curate information. Over twenty sunken places in the mesa marked recent graves, many more dead are probably ng in the ruins. rom Bavispe we had our first sight of our objective point, the voleano. A pennant of smoke, trailed by the wind from a low, square-topped peak to the southwest, detined = its location, while a dull and muttering roar, almost incessant, told that the forces of nature were at work. The voleano lies about tweive miles from the site of the town, but over such an ex- traordinary broken tract of country thut we realized at once that it would take two days’ journey to reach it, and pushed straight ahead” without delay. The phenomena which — we had ob- served at Bavispe increased in vol ume as we anproached the mountain. We followed the dry bed of a stream which at some forgotten period had warn a causeway through the granite. It was broken by fissures of eviecnt recent origin, running from north tosouth, and insome cases four or five fset broad and of unknow depth. Springing from one of thes about four miles out, we encountered a geyser rivaling any of those in the Na- tional park. It isn the center of & cir- cular basin, with sides of sand and mud and about forty feet in divmet At in- tervals of fifteen minutes an immense streameof boiling water leaps out and up to a heighth, I should judge, of sixty feet. The geyser spouts for four or five min utes and then subsides as quickly as it came, disappearing with a mutter that reverberates far down into the bowels of the troublea earth.”” Ll The Biggest Pile arth, Springfield (Mass.) Republican: The United States treasury to-duy is a vast bank in metallic wd money metuls. Probubly greatest hoard of the precious metal ined and uncoined, anywhere on f the earth—and this is not all gathered in one place. On the 1st of July the treasury of the United States had $275,000,000 in gold, $55,000,000 being in bars, and $315,000,000 of silver, of which less was uncoined. notes on hand was less The secretary of the tr y has been able by carrying gold bars to keep down the amount of cash taken from the momentary csreulation to the fowest mit.. It 18 amazing when we think of the momentary condition of this country tl forty yeurs ago, when the supply of botl metals were very small; thirty years ago when money good as gold was un. known between Pennsylvania and fornin; and twenty years ago, when this eide the Rocky mountains not a silver piece was visible, and flold was the cen- ter of o vast dmly speculation, in which the treasury notes passed current at fifty cents on the dollar or less. Itis amaz ing in view of the past that to-day our national treasury is a vast bullion bapk. - " PRETTY PADDLERS. The Feats of Women in the Water. What Miss Kate Bennett doesn’t know about our public baths and about swim- ming in general is not worth knowing, says the New York Herald She was one of the pioneer teachers of women at the free baths and has been more or less wdentified with them during the past tifteen years, She is of the me- dium height, with a wmagniticent deep ches and o vair of shoulders that are di Miloish enough to satisfy the rabidest crank. But the physical-development charm of this i:\dy‘s appearance lies in the grace and freedom of her moye- ments. She is the best illustration of her own theory—that the best swimmers are the most graceful women, An inquiring Herald reporter found her yesterday at her home in South Brooklyn, and without any *leaders” Miss Bennett plunged at once into the subject nearest hor heart, “It is, I believe," she said, ‘a erimnal negleet for men or women to refuse to tako advantage of the opportumties that are available to learn to swim, ‘There is no reason why anybody can not learn; it is the simplest thing in the world. "It doesn't long to learn. I learned my- self very quickly, and & more timud per- son never ventured into the water. But 1 was determined to learn, and I over- came my timidity." **Did you learn to swim first or float?" To loat. And Iusually teach my pu- pils to do that first, 1t gives them conti~ dence, it requires less violent exertion, and it is v, simple, The only thing necessary is to keep the neck stift, the head flat on the water and the feet down. I teach a number of different positions m floating, so that a restful change may be made at any time. y people always prefer to float! I have a little nephew who will never swim far unless I make him; he will swim a few feet, then turn over on his back from sheer laziness, for he bas a splendid stroke. But you shall see him by and by.” “Where did you begin your connee- tion with the public baths, Miss Ben- nett *‘It was not very lon swim that 1 was pls women's bath at L 8 enthusiasm for swimming spread rap- idly, and I had all I could do, for I very soon became a teacher there. Some of my most proficient punils were from the Bast Fifth streot school, There were a great raany Jews in the loeality, and very good swimmers they wore, too. What impressed me at the time as a _little unusual was the fearlessness with which very old women disported themselves in the wal I soon learned that Germun and Swedish women were as a rule swimmers, and it was not an infrequent sight to see the grand- mamma, daughter and granddaughter all swimming along like fishes! It may sound like a fish story, but I have seen a babe of nine months paddling along with 4 baby one to be sure, but Zood enough to keep it from drown- Tt was one of generutions of swim- after I learned to i of ltho ing. mers, and was therefore amphibious!” “Did you know of many instances of the same sort?”’ “No, but I had more than one illustra- tion of the truth that fearlessness is the is the first, and I very necarly said the only, requisite for & good swimmer A baby fell out of it ei's arms once into the bath, and although an alarm was given we thought it was a joke, as the little thing was so swaddled up in rags that no one thought the was a b:\{;y there. Another sister W frightened specchless. And until we discovered the truth and reseued him the little fellow floated about, kicking and moving his arms just enough to keep afloat. When we took him out he was smiling and jolly as a ‘sand boy.' " “And you mean that If grown up peoble had the courage of babies they could as easily keep above water?” “Precisely. If yon have the courage to throw yourself flat on the water ond ki you will have no further trouble in learn- ng to swim; the rest is mere practico. At the Fifth street bath there was an old lady of 72 years whom 1 taught to float. So you sce that if it is never too early to begin it is never too lote to, ecither. Would you like to go over to the bath and see the children swim?” “I should very much like 1t, was the reporter’s reply. - “Tne children,” were little Hannah and James G. Bennett and Alphonsus Leach, the nicce and nephew of Miss Bennett. “What is your name?” the reporter asked the youngest, a sunny-haired duckling. mes G, Bennett, he prsmpt reply the swimmer!" w “He always gives his title laughed Miss Bennett. *‘But ‘floater’ would be better than ‘swimmer. He is tho lazy one, and it takes a good deal of urfling mes to get him in the water at all.” When the bath was reache mg impromptu exhibition w: was the first time the little or d an interest- given, It 8 had been in this season, but some very eclever things w done by little Hannah, who floated, swam on her back or sside, took a “sleeping pose,” used only her arms as propellers—or her legs, took any number of fancy stops, besides diving & number of times sor the “Bennett cup'’—as Miss Bennett ealled an old * tin dip- per encrusted with white paint. Then the boys went in, although the ‘'swim- mer” needed some persuasion. He had, as his auntie said, “a splendid stroke, but was not particular about using it. He could do all sorts of things in the water when ho chose, but he was chary of giving an exhibition before one spe tator. He preferred to bask in the sun- light on the steps of the bath, where he made an_extremely pretty picture in his very shght bathing dress. O ¢ us the sleeping pose again, Han- Miss Bennett. Then as the utiful pose, lying sides :r, with tho feet crossed he head, n sition closely resembliy Titian's fa- mous” “Slecping Ve iss Bennets continued: 1 know sotmething a little peculiar appropos of that pose. - Lately I read that Miss Beckwith, the greatest Eunglish swimmer, was the originator of it. 1 eannot say that she does not think that she is, but I think I am also. I have never seen anybody else take it, and when I tirst used to exhibit it had an enthusi- astic pupl,a wealthy lndy who lived on the Hudson river, where she had a magnifi- cent private bath., Well, naturally,when the pose she was de- nd talked of it more or om what she told me. nah,” eaid child took a be wise in the wal and one arm ove who had been a friend of the Beckwiths in England, aud was extremely incredn- lous about anybody's being able 1o take such a position, ‘For," said he, ‘Miss Beekwith, who is the best swimmer in the world, doesn't takeit.” But he after ward saw me do it, and owned that 1 ild, and furthermore said that Misg sekwith did that now, # nuinb with i8 the originator of ity c— Fanny Gordon, a colored domestie, was arrested lost night for stealing wearing apparel of a woman named Cas- tleman with whon: she lived at No, 811 North Twelfth street, T WU o v e