Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1889, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 21 THE LOCAL WORLD OF SPORT. Inquirfes About the Old Omaha Rowling Association. A HORSEMAN TALKS POINTEDLY, Rounding Into the Homestretch — Latest News From the Diamond— Colisenm Attractions — Rod and G Miscellaneons. The Old Boat Clab, ‘What has become of the Omaha Rowing association? is a question that is frequently nsked. Two years ago this organization was In a very heolthy and vigorous condition, with 1i and enery ic officers, quite a large membership, and complete equipment. A substantial boat house was built at Manawa, and which, by the way, still stands there, and o full complement of boats purchased, and the members of the club could be seen flashing over the smooth waters in friendly competition almost auy evening, To- the boats are locked up in the boat-hous: and all interest in_thein, so_far as Omaha is concerned, seems to have died out. One of the principal intentions of this association Wwas to geton annual amateur regatta on these waters, but the enterprise died a-bornin’, and not even a single race ever took place. Such gentlemen as Dr. Conner, Mujor Clarkson, Arthur Wakeley and others equally well known, were intorested in aquutics formerly, but of late have been undemonstrative. This is to b re- gretted, ns there is no healthier, more beneficial or enjoyable exercise in the whole category of manly sports than rowing, and a miasummer amatour regatta at Lake Manawa would attract as much gencral at- tention and patronage as anything that could be thought of. Cannot the oid club be resuscitated ! POINTED HORSE TALK. What Are Our Leading Horse-Lovers Doing for the Sport? In conversation with a well-known horso- man last evening, the latter grew enthusins- tic over the necessitics of a racing meet of some kind_ or other for this city, but did not look upon the chances of securing such wr cnterprise as very encouraging. He re- marked that a gentleman’s club, for roadster races, such as has been advocated from time to time in Tug Bek, would be an excellent institution, mn itself, and afford a season of pleasure each fall and spring, and even in midsummer, that would be unsurpassed. “This" he continued, “would oventually lead something better, becauso, with the right parties interested in the project it wouldn't require a vory great length of time to give us u full-fledged genue jockey club, such as they have in St. Paul, Min- neapolis, Kunsas City, and in fact every other city in the country of any pretentions or ambition. Why, look at Paul, what magnificont week they have just had of it. All the big running horses in_the country, the crack Derby winn , and all; tremendous crowds and a regular gala time' for cverybody. Do you pretend to tell me that such an eve Dot a good thing for any city. It not onl affords amusement and profit for all her cit- fzens, but advertises the place far and wide, as u thriving, lively, hustling, appreciative and enterprising place. “But I hardly think we can oxpect much here in Omaha, at least at present, when 3 cons.der that the State Breeders’' associa- tion couldn't raise from our merchants, hotels, saloons and horscmen u $700 guaranted to hold their annual meeting here, und it goes to Hastmgs instead. This meeting, too, mind you, is for Nebraska-bred stock alone, and should haye awakened the liveliest kind of interest and_competition throughout the whole state. There are twenty men in this city alone who could have well afforded to subscribe half this amount themselves, in their own private interests. Bat as I in- timuted once before therc is oo muc wind about Omaha's horse and alleged turf- men, to bring forth anything tangible in the shape of a club or association. They will robably bestir thewselves after Lincoln or Iastings, or some other live town in the state, makes u move in this dircction. It would be funny, wouldn’t it, if Lincoln would get up a suceessful running and trot- ting meeting’ HE BASE BALL SITUATION: The Chase Dowe the Home-Stretch Hot and Furious. 1f ever there was an exasperating period in the progress of the western association chase, it was last week when St. Joe, who hado’t won but a siugle game from Omaha durmg the whole season before, ac- tually knocked the White Sox out for two straight games. Had it not been for Papa Sutton's team up in the pine woods jumping upon St. Paul at the same time, and winning threc games from ber Omaha would have tumbled ingloriously back into second place. The Apostles are still trailing doggealy at their Dbeels, however,waiting for au opportunity to dash to the front, However, if oneé takes the troublo to an- alyze St. Paul's work these days they will find that her game is notone whit better than that being put up by Minneapolis, Sioux City, St. Joe, Denver or Des Moincs, and nowhere nearly us strong as thatof the Omabas. The fact is, thut tho wonderful run of luck that atterded tho Saints all through tho early part of the season, has, in a great measure, deserted them, and they are now compelied 1o play on_their mer or mot win at all. Like Kunsas City firsu month’s spurt in the Ameri. can association, and the phenomenal un Cleveland has been enjoying in the Na- ional league, St. Paul has been playing out of her normal form, that is, putting up o gomo that the individual or collective strength of her men did nov_justify, and one which all competent authorities on the game new full well she could not well maintain hroughout tho season. From almost the top noteh in the association Kuansas City has gone down to the very bottom and is making » frantic fight to keep out of the last hole. Then Cleveland, who two weeks ago was erowding the mighty Bostons for the lead in tho league, has won_but two games in tho Iast twelve pluyed, aud has tumbled from a close second back 'to a bad third, and wil! 800n be fourth. But to return to ihe Western association race. Minneapolis and Sioux City are both in it yet, though Omaha and St. Paul huve a Jong lead, which, it is to_be hoped, Omaba ot loast will not lose. However, the gap soparuting tho leaders from tho tivo teams mentioned is not 80 great that it cannot be easily bridged. Some good luck for them, snd, of course, tho reverse for Omaha and Bt Pavl, will ‘inake a big change in a mar- velously short time, The race for the league pennant is still furiously hot, Boston and New York ning neck and neck, with the Bean Eaters with their uose o' the front, and Philadel- phia, Cleveland aud Chicago scrambling rantically for third place, and Indianapolis, Washington and Pittsburg over the tail end, with the chances in favor of the teams a8 named, As fo the lead, Boston must keep & big club in soak for New York when they meet 1 their next series, which will inevitable decide who shall hold the honor, The Anierican association is affording as muoch excitement us any of them, and prom- ises to bo o very sultry chuse 10 the end, Within the pust weok Brooklyn has jumped over the Athletics into second place, and would have jumped still higher hud the other teaws done their duty when they met Von der Ahe's lambs; but they didn't because St. Louis kept right on winning just as the Brooklyns did, so the distance between the two remained, u’:wmu latter part of the week, practically unchanged. = “Der boss elub,” however, has struck an unexpected suag in Clacinnati, and Brooklyn keeps right on knockiug out geme after game and it looks as it she would be able to take the lead in the noxt trip of the western teams east. Cincinuuti, too, is also playing stift ball. She has passed Baltimoreand is rapidly overhauling the Athletics and is yot a dan- gorous factor in the race, if she can but waintain her present pace. Disappointed Sloux Oity. Base ball affairs at Sioux Uity are a little wobbly, The management in their plgue sud dis appointment over the tewm's recent bad showing, bave undertaken to get even by unjustly mulcting thelr best men various- 1y in the sums of §25 to #100. First Basoman Powell caught & 8100 dose, and Webber, Sefbel, Crotty, Cline and_Hellman $50 each. In addition to this, the directors announce that if there isn'ta general bracing up the players will be released and the club dis- banded. The trouble with Sioux City is that they began the season with too great expecs tations. They imagined they had a team of world beaters, and thatthe Western associa- tion pennant was as good ns theirs before a ball had peen pitched, when everybody qual- ifled to judge just what a base ball team is, knew thatthe Corn Huskers had but a mediocre outfitat best, and_that, if they suc- ceeded in_keeping out of the last hole would be getting, as the turfmen y, ® run for their money. If Sioux City should disband, however, Sioux Falls and Lincoln both stand_ready to step in and play out the acason in her stead, and there is litile probability that the association is going to suffer and material incon at their hands one way orthe other. y do_go out, however, without playing out the schedule, It is o safé bet that it will be many a long season before they can hope to got back in any first-class circuit again, and especially the Western. The Polo League, Manager Prince, of the Coliseum, reports most favorable progress in regard to the or- ganization of a western polo league, Barnes, of St. Paul, Morwn, of Minneavolis, and Comuion, of Sioux City, have already signed anumber of men, and are manifesting as much interest in the scheme as they do in base b Manager Prince expects to se- cure the members for a first-class team from out the ranks of the Omaha ball team, and will endeavor to sccure Canavan, Nichols and Willis on the return of the boys this weok. Canavan is au_expert, and will prob- ably be, made captain and manager of the local team. The season, it is thought, can be inaugurated about the middle or last of Octobor. Immediately after the close of tho exposi: tion at the Colisoum, the building will be put in shape tor polo. The organization of the league should be pushed forward with all possible expodition, as the game will afford splendid sport for the long Wintor evenings, aud when once jutroduced here there will be 00 possible doubt of its popularity. Unlawful Chicken Shooting. eXINGTON, Neb., July 17.—T0 the Sport- g Bditor of Tne Bee: In your issue of the 14th you have o briof article touching upon the unlawful killing of prairie chick- ens. You also quote the law, but it con- tains nothing about the close of the season. Pleaso state when the law is up. You are verfectly correct about the birds being killed out of season, however, and your offort to bring the guilty parties to justice 1s a commendable one and should receive the aid and support of every legitimate sports- man m the state. There have boen parties out shooting young chickens in this part of the state for the past week, and the gun clubs should take cognizance of the fact. If they expcet any sport after the season opeps, they will have to bestir themselves and checl this outra - geous slaughter. In the small towns a good deal of this unlawful shooting is done by lawyers, doctors and other professional and business men, and more’s their shame, They pay absolutely no attention to the law in this regard, and never will, until they are made examples of. *Let no’ guilty man es- cape,” should be the motto in this matter. Yours, otc., S.B.E. For the benefit of S. B, E. and others who may be in_doubt about the onening of the season, it is again stated that no cuicken can be legally killed until the first day of Sep- tember.—Sport. 1d. A Tennis Tournament. J. H. Lathrop and R. 8. Nichols, of the Y. M. C. A. Athletio club, have about completed arrangements for a tennis tournament to be held at the parkof the ussociation at the corner of Harney and Twenty-third streets, commencing August 1, and_continning three days. Entrics are open to all clubs in the city, and as there is a larger number of these organizations than 15 generally known, the management is expecting & very interesting meeting. There is o number of ‘crack play- ers in tho city, several of whom are members of the above mentioned club, and it is quite likely that some spirited contests will be wit- nessed during the tourney. The Budding Apollos. “The last run to Manawa by the members of the Apollo club was o delightful snd eventful oue, despite the bad roads. There were ten of the boys who made the trip, and they had some great experiences i getting stuck in the agelutinative soil and getting through miniature lakes and rivers. Beindorf makes o firstclass lieutenunt, but don’t “scorch Oscar.” “The idea that a boys' bicywie club couldn't be successfully maintained in Omaha has been thorougily exploded by the healthy condition of the Apoilo, There are quite as many boy riders as there are grown men. Any boy under eigiiteen years of age de- siring to join tho juvenile bykers’ club should address Deit V president, 1607 Douglas streat, 'wo new members were taken in during the past week. This gives the Apollo a total roster of twenty-five. One of the pilgrims broke his handle-bar on Sunday’s run, but he tied it up with rub- ber bands and completed the trip all O, K. A run will be made to Bellevue on the 21st 30, Members will niect at the club conth street und Capitol avenue. at rooms, Among the Omaha Wheelmen, Run to Missouri Valley to-day. The Thursday cvening runs are beirg well attended, even these hot nights. James Josephi starts on a tour of Jowa next weck, and intends to be gone at least thirty days. William Emerson starts for Zoston shortly and of course takes his Victor with him, He I8 going 10 visit his old home and show the Dean Iaters how the wheelnen of the west ride. It may not be generally known that cattle herding can be done on a tricycle. Of course it 18 not quito a success, but if & header or two be taken the side or top of a cow is a_pretty soft place to alight, so at least is claimed by one of the wheelmen. The run to Plattsmouth was attended by only seven members and all said they had a “large” and quite wet (perspiration) time, and of courso say the Plattsmouth boys are all right, The start home was made at 6:30 and just us the boys got half way across the Plattsmouth river bridge, n tramn was heard coming, and such scrambling for ‘igleopors” was never before doue. How- over, il were in places of safety before the train roached them. The second licutenant was seen lying over a water ba i on to his ice wagon" Jike grim d ride home was made in threo hours. M. F. Van Horn, captain of the Lincoln wheel club, was i town last Thursday and attended the club run. fe thinks the run to Council Bluffs the finest he ever suw. If any unattached wheelman wishes to join the Omaha wheel club he should avply to Perry Badolett, the secretary, at the Omaha National baonk for application blarks. At tho last meeting the following appli- vants were elected members of tho club: C. C. Peabody, J. L. Henritzy, J. H. Reed and ank Bacon, There are soveral applications 1 for the next meoting, and indications are that more names will be acted upon that evening than over before. ‘The boys are very anxious to keep the run 0 Missouri Valley out of the papers, because of the fact thoy thought the proprietors of the cating house and hotels would ciose for that duy 1f thoy heard the club was coming. It scems the last time the boys were there, it took the Valleyites a woek to stock up, and how could they belp it, when tho boys order- ing, sail this: ‘““There is notbing on this bill of fare I do not wen Flastes From the Diamond. Dun Shaunon is now playiug short for Louisville. Umpire Fessondon has boen fired from the league staff Toronto has let Switt, Owaha's old second basoman, €o. Big George Wilson is catcbing great ball for Wooster. Young Freemun is pitoning for an smateur team at Atchison, Des Moines bas signed Pitcher Huston, of the New Orleans club, Old Papa Sutton bas becn deposed us cap- tain of the Milwaukees and Shock appointed in his place. Morton, of Minneapolis, has signed Dev- 1in, of the St, Louis Browns. Washington went back on Denver in thelr deal for third baseman Sweeny. Reddy Hanrahan has sucoeeded Ed Hen: gle as cantain of the Minneapolis team. 1t begins to look as 1f the Corn uskers were about to throw up the sponge. Kuell, of the St. Jods, shut out the Corn Huskers without a hit in' a game last week, Omaha and Denver at the local grounds to- morrow afternoon, also Tuesday and Wednesday—the last games until August 8, Columbus s said to be reaching out for Canavan of Omaha.—Sporting Life. That's all Columbus is doing, though, ‘‘reaching out.” The Corn Huskers are crying like babies because they can't beat anybody. If they don't win a game before long, they threaten to quit. Ted Kennedy has returned to his old-time love—tho Des Moines team. Burdick, too, it is snid, is about to sign with tho Prohibi+ tionists. Minneapolis has signed Outflelder Driscol, late of the Atlantic association. Milt West has been released, and Morrison and Dug- dale are to be lot out. The cranks up in St. Paul went stark mad when the news came in Friday that Mil- waukeo had defeated the Apostles for the third consecutive game, ‘The Denver team are butting like Titians, but their flelding 18 not up to she standard, Howover, Rowe says he wants two out of the three'games of this series. All talk sbout deposing Sam Morton from the secretaryship of the Western assooiation, is tho veriost twaddle, ~He may fail in an electio: another seaso Miller, who is playing short fleld so well for St. Paul, was a catcher in the Tri-Stato league Inst season. This vear he went to Chattanooga and made a Success as a short stop. The Omahas feave Wednesday evening for their second trip to the northern cities. They will be absent until the Sth of August, when they return for a month’s siege on the home grounds. Kid Nichols is without a doubt the strong- est pitcher in the Western association, an by the close of the season will bo worth' sev- eral thousand dollars to the Omaha manage- ment. At present there are no lessthan five clubs after him, The Omahas will return from Sioux City to-morrow mofning and in the afternoon play the Denvers at the local park. McNabb, Denver's new_crack pitcher wili be in the box, and the chances are that a fine game will result. The Milwaukees surprised themselves last week by winniug three straight games, Uncle Ezra has strengthenod his team in the pitchers' box by the addition of Knouff and Davies, and with the old stand-by Grifiiths in good form the brewers promise to do better work from now out. Last winter Omaha was ready to sell the relense of Second Baseman Crooks, vhom Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Washington and Columbus are now trying to buy,for the sum of §500. Selee offered to release him to Can- ton if that sum were paid, but the Ohio team would not give that much. He was consid- ered a “‘white elephant,” and the manage- ment did not know what to do with him. Finally, howover, they decided to give him another trial, and the way he has been play- ing since is' a matter of base ball history. Last wintor his release could have been bought for a son, it would take three! thousand simoleons.—Star Sayings. The players who graduated from the Western association to the American ‘last year are holding their end up. Holliday, one of the contigent, leads the association in batting with an average of .357, while Burns, Johnson, Hoover, Conway and Sterns all, have averages of .300 or over. Long, Earle,: McGarr, Shannon, McCarty, Duryea and; Reynolds all have averages more than .250.") Lovett and Swartzel are over the .200 marlk, while Pickett and Gunson are the only ones who fall under that percentage. In ilelding these players also rank high. Of the pitch- ors, Duryea takes rank over all the associa- tion box-men, while Conway ranks fourth, Lovett ninth, McCarty soventeenth and Swartzel eighteenth, This 18 remarkablo playing. Miscellaneons Sports. . W. G. Albright, Jeft”W. Bedford ani Harry Deuel, spent the past soveral days black bass fishing at Blue Lake, Ia, President Dick McCormick, of the West- ern Base Bail association, and Marsh Ken- nard, are enjoying their usual summer out- ing among the woods and waters of northern Minnesota. The woodcock season is now at its height, and agood many birds are reported in the cornfields and reachés of timber roundabout Horseshoe lake. Thie morceau of all game | birds is a rarety at best, however, and & bag of a dozen would be abig one at any time or place. A great many teal duck bred at Honey creek and Whiting this season, and several broods of young mallads havo been scen. Wood duck are quite plentiful at all the ad- jacent lukes and marshes, but a gun_should not bo raised against thoin before Septen- er 1. Jim Stephonson is organizing a coaching party for the Yellowstono park country. Two six-horse tally-ho coaches will be trans- ported by rail to Ogden,thence the drive will be made. to the geysers, Beaver canon and other points of interest, the party camping wherever nightfall finds them. Lily Williams announces that she nas re- tired from professional bicygle riding. A. B. Palmer, of the Douglas boat building company, Waukegan, IiL., is in the city. He ill make an effort to revive boating intor- csts here, J. R. Hawkins, Valley kennel, yesterday. F'red Benzinger, formerly of e BER's. reportorial staff, how of Lincoln, has been chosen referee of the Iowa Amateir Rowing association’s annual regatta, which will be held at Spirit Lake next Thursday and F day. "Fred is a member of the Cedar Rapids club, Castle, a Minnesota pug, is booked for a fight near this city, on the 10th of August, with F. Murray, an exponent of tha manly art from the fort. Tho Waterworks rifle team of Florence has issued the following challenge to tho riflemen of this city: We, the marksmen of Ilorence, hereby challenge the marksmen of Omaha to select a team of eight men to shoot against our team a match, open sights, 200 vards, for $25 a side, A wrestling match between Evan Lewis, the strangler, and McMillan, the strong man, is one of the probable events down for the Coliscum witltin the next-three weeks. Stillman G, Whittaker, the well known byker, was married to an_estimable young lady in Cleveland, O., on Thursday last. He will renounce cycling'and go into busiuess, Senator Morgan and W. F, Knapp,together with Misses Baldwin, Oales, and Brown,are ruuning a series of races at Denver this week, commencing with to-day. The combi- nation did a flattering business av Salt Lake, and in fact do well wherever they appear. J. J. Hardin, who, with the Senator, is at the head of tho combination, is in 'Frisco, where they are booked for a six-day race, The regatta 1o be held at Spirit Lake next Wednesday and Thursday, under the aus- picos of the lowa Amateur Rowing associa- ton, prowises to be & very interesting affair, The Council Bluffs crews consisting of Heury Bowman, Wallace Patterson, W. H. Sherraden, Lockwood Dodge and 'Charles Heno, as crew number one, and W. Buck- war, Harry Haas, C. F. Reid, Jack Williams and Marsl Treynor, as crew number two, leave for the lake this evening accompanied by a large number of friends. Questions and Answers. To decide a bot will you please state just what constitutes an earned run in & game of bulli—Wallace H., city, Aus.—The ofticial rule governing earned runs is: “Anearned run shall be scored every time the player reaches the home base, unaided vy errors, before chiances have veen offercd to' retire the side.” According to this, everything counts in earning @ run savo positive flelding errors,such us u muffed fiy or thrown ball, & juggled grounder, wild throw, wild pilch, aud base ou balls, The code {s deficient and should be amended in several respeots, Will you please snswer the following in SuNDAY'sS HEe: Who leaas the Western association battersi Of what nationality are John L. Sullivan and Ike Weirl Why do you call Pickett, of the Kansas Cit n overrated playeri—Fair Play, Hotel Barker, Aug led up to July L Irish however, proprietor of the Blue Beatrice, was in the city 1889.~-SIXTEEN English. Bocause 1t is o fach Ho has alroady boen laid off by the Cowboys for un- satisfactory play. Please answor ingowr sporting columns the following te. décide a bet: Have Mitchell and Clearysewer mot in 8 sparrimg coatest or flt(h!,rzf how many times, Where, and who wani—H. L., Omaba. Ans.—Yes. Twice. At Philadelphia and Now York. Mitcheil won both timos, Will you kind'y inform me through T Ber the fastest time on record for a 100-yard foot-race!~W. 8. Oble, Beatrice. Ans, i{s, George Seward (American), turnpike road, Hammersmith, England, September 80, 1884, Rule 85, section 1, National rules, baseball, says: “A blook is n batted or thrown ball that is stopped or handled by any person not engaged in the game.” Is a bail delivered by the pitcher to the batsman a ‘‘thrown ball,” ‘within the rule, and can a block be declared on a pitched ball, becauso it is hatdled by an_outsider after passing tho catchor!—Theo. W. Irving, Glenwood, In. Ans,—They are identical. It Is a block, the same as on a batted or thrown ball. Can you tell me who are the best baso run- ners in the League, American and Western associations!—Ruuner, Starlight B. B, Club, Ans.—In the Western association, Willis and Canavan rank very high, as doos Han- rahan of the Minneapolis team, Carroll of the St. Pauls, Alberts of the Milwaukees, Glenn of Sfoux City, McGarr of St. Joo and McCleilan of the Denvers. In the League, Sunday, McKean, Ward, Fogarty, Brown, Tiernan and Seery are among the topnotch- ers, and in the American, Holliday, Nicol, Hamilton, Stovey, Latham, Smith and Marr aro all fast men, To decide bet, will you please answor the following! Suppose a fly ball is batted to the center fielder, who makes a square muff, the batter makes first, is he credited with' @ base hit?—J. H. Lathrop, Union Pa- cific Headquarters. Ans.—No. What 18 the best bicycle record!for a mile and w ho holds it.—B, B., Avoca, Nob, Ans.—2:20 45, W. A. Rowe, Springfield, Ma: Sogacl A Bed-Time Song. Frederick News. Sway to and fro in the twilight gray, This is the ferry of Shadowtown; 1t always sails at the end of day, Just as the darkness is closing down. Rest, little head, on my shoulder, so, A sleopy kiss s the only fare; Drifting away from the world we go, Baby and 1 in a rocking chair, Sea where the firebugs glow and spark, Glitter the lights of the shadowland ; Tho pelting rains on the window, hark ! Are rippics lapping upon its strand. There where the mirror is glancing dim, A lake with its shimmering cool and still Blossoms are waving above its brim, Those over there oa the window-sill. Rock slow, more slow in the dusky light, Silently lower the anchor downj Dear little passenger, say good-night, We've reached the harbor of shadowtown. In Germany the public schools are all taught by mon. Co-education of white and colored students is practiced in the law schools at Baltimore. New Young Men's Christian associations were founded at twenty-two colloges last year. In Connecticut, “the land of steady habits,"” tho average pay of the public school teacher is $200 a year. ] Boloit has received a gift of 100,000 from Dr. D. K. Pearson, who also enrichied Knox college by a gift of §0,000. The scholastic year at Princeton will here- after be two instead of three terms, and the number of electives will be increased. The average number of pupils in the Bos- ton public school is 64,584, and the total cost per pupil for the year has been $25.01, about the same as for the previous year. The young ladies of Wisconsin university are studying carpentry, and it is said that they are us successful at this as they have been in their intellectual studies. William H. Sage, of Ithaca, has given tho Cornell University Athletic association nine acres of land for an athletic field. An un- nown frioud ias donated $5,000 to tit up the eld. ‘The board of trust of Knox college has been apprised of a gift of $50,000 from Daniel K. Pearsons, of Hinsdale, 11l. This consists of Chicago real estate which will yield an income of ‘about £3,500 a year. Arrangements aro being made for a gath- ering on the site of the old “'Log college,” at Haruwsville, Pa., September 5, to commemo- rate the founding of the college in 1726, and the commencement of the great_educational work of the Presbyteriau church in this country, President Patton and ex-President McCosh are named as speakers. According to recent statistics there are in Cuba 720 public aud 537 private schools, with au average attendance of 40,852 children of both sexes, The annual cost'of maintaining the schools is §560,226, which amount is fur- nished by the 135 municipalities on the islana, The proportion of schools to inhabitants 18 one to every 1,205, and one child attends school for every thirty-eight inhabitants, Eight thousand schoolboys were made happy recently in New York by the pre- sentation of & haudsome gold medal, a prize for their fine appearance in the centennial civic parade, They won this in competition with all of the organizations that marched in that great pageant, and are justly proud of their success. The presentation was made in the main hall of the board of education, which was decorated for the occasion with flags and bunting, The medal is @& very handsome one, and the inscription reads as follows: “Awarded by the Industrial, Com- morcial and Educational Bodies of New York City, May 1, 1880,t0 the Public Schools for fin e bearing in the ic Parade.” e SINGULARITIES, It is reported that a floating island thir ty yards in diameter has beon found in Honey Lake, Idaho, There are three brothers in Terrell county, Georgia, whose aggregate height is nineteen feet. They weigh 600 pounds. A petrified turtle weighing over twenty- six tons has been unearthed in Parke coun- ty, Indiana, and the monster Hoosier is to bo removed to Cincinnati, As Will Durocher, of Escanaba, Mich.,was eating his suppera few nights ago a stroke of lghning violently romoved his sliocs, leaving him badly burned and shocked. A new dog from Holland has a long mane, a short body, a sharp bark, & head like a pig, big ears and' no tail. He has appeared at English dog shows,-and 18 fashionable and expensive, William Mooney, ‘of West Pike, Potter count, Pa., has a peculisr head of hair. When a storm approaches every hair in his head stands dut straighs, and as he wears his hair very long He isquitd a ridiculous sight. On that account be never leaves tho house when it is cloudy. On the lawn of Joel Scarlett, at Kennett Square, Pa., a few evenings since, a circle about four feet in diameter scemed to have been scalded in the grass. On closer look it was found coverad with yellowish fungi, which turned bluish black when the sun came out, The phenomenon has been ob- served several timgs, and was called @ “fairy circle.” A special from ‘Lipton, O., says: *‘The other evening Mrs. Heuben Ryan, living nine miles northwest of here, gave birth to a girl having a double head. The double head rests on one neck, and has four eyes, four ears, two foreheads, two mouths aud two nos The famous Jones double baby, born twel miles northwest of here three weeks ago, was brought to Tipton this evening, and is to remain here for six months, Excursions will be run nere from every direction.’ bl Lost Him the Champa zne. “It’s just 8 o’clock.” “1¢’s twenty minutes after 4.” “Bet you wine for the party I'm right,” said the firstspeaker, emphasiz- ing his remark by snappiog down the heavy gold lid of his watch. “Done,” said the other, —— The Marie Autoinette and Charlotte Cor- day fichus take the lead for light wraps. They may be made in cashmere, iwuslia, lace, crepe au chine, o silk muslin, PAGES, T0 OFFICE SEEKERS, ¢ Palace Office Bulding ol Omaha THE BEE BUILDING. A Superb Court, Perfect Ventilation, Thoroughly Fire Proof. WELL LIGHTED OFFICES, HARD-WOOD FINISH, TILED CORRIDORS Fifty-Eight Vaults, " Lighted by Electricity, Night g2 Day Elevator Service THE BEE BUILDING, Seventeenth and Farnam, offers attractions for Professional Men, Insurance Companies, Brokers, Real Estate Agents and Business Men, who desire eleg ant, commodio offices at reasonable terms. us and fire-proof For particulars apply at the Counting Room, New Bee Build- ing. AT THREE MILES A MINUTE. How. thé' Weems Transit System ‘Will Annihilate Time. AN ELECTRIC BURGLAR BOUNCER It Sounds the Alarm and Lights the Gas at the Spme Time—The Maddaleno -Theodolite— Omaha’s Motor Line. Eurglars, Beware of the Mat, The Weems railway system, incorpo- rated under the name of the Electro- Automatic Transit company, of Balti- more, -has patented a multiplicity of electrical and mechanical appliances as a preliminary to putting the system regularly to work whenever required. By this electro-automatic arrange- ment it is cluimed that a speed of three miles a minute can be attained and maintained on level tracks, and two miles a minute on heavy grades and curves. The motor car is eighteen feet long and two and a half feet square at each end, Itispomnted in front, the wedge or point being below the longitudinal center, adjusting it to the air pressure, thus keeping the car down to the track, To reduce atmospheric friction to a minimum all wheels and electrical ap- pliances are placed within the walls of the cars. The road is to be built on the surface of the ground, with track of twenty-four inches gauge. The mail and express cars are tole- scoped in forming a train, the former into the end of the motor ear, and the latter into that of the one preceding it, forming a flexible train of cars, offering an unbroken sur- i to the air. The reur of the rear car is pointed in a similar manner to the front of a motor car, thus preventing any suction as the train rushes on its way. The motor may pull one car or a train of cars. All trains will be controlled from a generating station,where will be placed an electrical generating plant, Electrical brakes are to be used, and trains are started, stopped, speed lessened and backed at will from the station, Special appliances will inform the operator in chargeof the generating station of the exact location of the train from the time it leaves or passes any given point until it reaches its des- tination. The patents of the company number 143 in the United States and the princi- pal countries of the world, covering the vital details of this novel system. The principles ppatent involve special form of rail, making it impossi- (ble for trains to junp the track atany rate of speed; form of electrical safety rail, carrying the out-going current and returning the same on the same rail this rail ean be passed by pedestrians or vehicles with perfect safety); form of conductors and rails combined, with insulation of the same for carrying cur- rents over long distances; means of starting, stopping, backing and con- trolling trains from the generating sts tion; method of regulating the electri- cal current automatically on trains while in motion, increasing the power in? - mscending and decrcusing, the same in ending Ades; means whereby trains automatically register themselves ut every station as they pass every mile <; form of journals and boxes for fast speed to avoid heating; reducing the air pres- Bure ot h speed to & winiwum by pointed and plitting the air in front preventing suction in the rear while in transit; reducing the cross- section of cars to a minimum and en- closing the wheels and electrical equip- ment within the walis of the same to offer as little resistance to the air possible; telescoping the cars of a tr 10 present to the air an unbroken sur- face; special switch for rails; keeping the centro of gravity of the whole train below the ax Patents have also been secured for a passenger system which applies to the conversion of existing steam railroads into electric railroads A series of experiments have been made at Laurel, Md., to show what the Weems railway system will do, TLis experimental line is ircuit of exactly two miles. Over this route there are twenty-nine changesof grade, some of them very heavy, even to the extent of 108 feet to the mile. 1t is claimed that at this experiment station two miles per minute are made around the heavy curve, or the equiva- lent of ono hundred and cighty miles an hour, or three imiles a minute on a level track. A visitor to this experiment station sees many things to surprise him, says the Baltimore Sun. There are no ex- tensive works, and the motor car, when it comes out from under its shed in obedience to the will of the engineer in the distant plant building where the olectric dynamo generates the current, moves deliberavely, slowly and with absence of all sound The cigar-shaped car, paunted a bright red and moving sharp end fore- most, at first sight does not seem a won- derful thing as it goes guietly along the track, but later, when the eéngineer at the dynamo puts on more power, or as a steam-car man would say, more steam, and the crceping thing on the ground hastens its movement until it fairly ,and becomes a moving speck of pectators feel the progress being in appli ence and talk of the wonders of electricity, and the great things it will accomplish in the activ affairs of life in the near future, Electric Motors in Factories. A late novelty in the application of tric motors to the movement of ma- cry is foundn the new factory of an electric motor company in New York city. Each machine is run by o separate motor, thus doing away with o line of shafting and all the belts run ning to it. T'he vibration is very much reduced, and the machine shop is far less noisy than the average. A dynamo in the basement furnishes electr . Mechanics have for some time used electric motors to run machinery so placed as to make it difficult to get power from a linc of shafting or to ran machines which travel within given limits, such as transfer to aveling e § Chieago Railway Review. In such cases the use of e tricity is especially valunble, In ihe equipment of o new shop el tricity thus applied s vant The amo! quired to 6y ys on the counter able, and when but are in op expended At belts and 1oos shafys, is conside a few machin tion the power chines forms but & small portiou the whole. By this arrange went of motors, however, the pow furnished is used with but little loss in transmission, and when a machine is not in use, no power is oxpended in keeping in motion shafting and beiting used i1l teansmittiog powerw it. “Phe motors should run at a given speed with buta small p wge of variation. The possibility of adjusting the speed of the motor to suit special cuses and still have a uniform motion is an advauta whigh in some classes of work will prove valuable. The results of this application will be watched with wnterest, and, if successful, may be the means of a_much_wider application of eleetricity in machine shops. Noew Wa, The burgla to Catch Burglars. s lot, suys the Washing= ton Post, is not a hap in this lat. tor part of the nincteenth century Not only does Judge Bradley tuke eve opportunity of inflicting long sentencds upon him, but the fertile brain of the inventor, whero the inventions are ap- plied, has either made it almost impos- sible for him to carry on his business or made it easy to cateh him in the act of s0 doing. Inventions of this kind are we perfect, and the inventors are pr cally at a standstill until Mr. Burglar adopts some new way of circumventing them. The devic posit companie: 1 nigh d by our great safe de- uch as the time lock, are well known, as are mu of those for the protection of houses and stores. The latest in the latter line is known as the elect alarm. This simply consists of tor, 4 picce of matting, the tric wires,an the batte The matting is lined with wires, which are connccted with the battery and annuuciator. This mate ting is placed inside the door, near the safo or other place where valuables are kept, or anywhere that the burglars might be supposed to step., The mo- he does step on the watting the annuns cintor rings and keeps ringing until some one comes, It also shows the lo- eation of the burglar, and by an eclecs trical attachment for lighting the gag enables the b ar to be observed, In the dev: used for stores there ave three switches, By raising one when a customer enters the store the bell rings twice, thus indicating the sustomer. If two switched used the vell keeps ringing as long son remains on the matting, ure raised, ns thoy the bell keeps visitor leaves are as the while if all three usually ure at nignt, ringing even after the the mutving. Tn the snme way the wir tached to the doors, and is made to open them the bell if the matting had been steppe An Elcctric Theodolite, At Madduleno, Ttal protects the island of Capre tric theodolite has b set up for the purpose of giving hidden gunners the exact distance and directions of un ene= my's sel—whethc tionary or moving, says Practical tricity: gune stationed behind g hill, on Which is placed the electrical appar tus; and nubled to fire with the ut- most pi ion, while any eficetive re- turn five is prevented by the inability of the foo to fix the location of the ine visible guns, Glngs Experiments are be continent with a novel form of conduit for underground mains, The conduit consists of @ gluss tube, protected by & thin couating of specinily propared ces ment, and inclosed in a cast-iron pipe, the iron being run on hot. Bare con- ors 1 then be used, and it 15 ase d that not only is the insulation high but that the conduit is cheap and perfectly uiv-tight. How the dif= fercnce between the cocflicient of ex= puasion of glass and iron is a ‘u‘mLufi for, says the 1.0ndon Elevtrician, we i ub @ loss to unde retand, s may be at an attempt rings a3 abe Condults, g made on the The Future of Elecuricity, In & recent interview Thomas A, Edi- son suid: **You usk me about the future of electricity, Itisthe coming motive powe It will be used on all the raile voads some day, but the point is to g an economical engine. My theory ig to have immense dynamos located all ng the line of the rond, and have the electricity conveyed from these stationary engines to the locomotives by wires through the ruils, For ex- ample, ald put two big engines be- tweon New York and Philudelphia, and enough power ¢ould be furnished to whisk the lir ot the rate of 100 awiles an hour,”