Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 7, 1893, Page 10

THE MONTANA COPPER KING His Wonderful Anaconda Property on Which | He Has Spent $40,000,000. BOUGHT THE ALICE MIN: FOR A SONG The Biggest Copper Mines and Smelters in the World—Marcus Daly's Horse Faem and Bets Which Netted Him 857,000, ANACONDA, Mont., May 8.—[Correspondence of Tie Bee |- By all odds the most striking character in Montana today is Maicus Daly, the famed Anaconda millionaire, the cele- brated horse owner and the chief of the cop- per kings of the United Sta No one knows how much Daly is worth. He owns a bank or so, an electric railroad, a big hotel something like §1,000,000 worth of horses and lands, and he has, T am told, a one-fourth in terest in the Anaconda copper mines, which are tho biggest and best paying of any in the 'he army of employes who him is as large in number as known universe. work under that whicn Xenophon led in the famous re. treat described in the Anabasis, and his pay roll runs into the tens of thousands of dol lars per day. Still, he came to the United States a poor boy, and when he landed at San Francisco at the age of 18 he had not a cent in his pocket, and he trotted up and down the board walks for three or four days seeking a job. He looked in vain, until about the end of the fourth day he saw an old farmer in a wagon driving through the streets. Ho stopped him and said, “‘Haven't you got something out st your vlace that 1 can do?" “Well, I don’t know, young man. can you do?” T can do anything,” “Can you dig taters?” “Yes, [ can,” said Daly, and the man thereupon told him to get into the wagon and he took the boy home to his ranch This was some place east of Oakland and Daly dug potatoes for the old rancher for three weeks. He sald it nearly broke his back, but he stuck to it until he got a little money, and then, boy as he was, he started for the mines. He grew up surrounded by gold and silver and he soon developed a wonderful ability as an expert miner. When the Comstock lode was discovered he was in Nevada. He had by this time become ac- quainted with Mackay, Flood and O'Brien and they made him the foreman of that mine. After working here for some time he drifted to Salt Lake and was engaged there by the Walker brothers, who have, you know, owned some of the most famous mines of our histor; He served them as a mining export, and it was about sixteen y that he was sent by them from Montana to eqpert the “‘Alice” mine, How Marcus DalysBought a Min The Alice miae is one of the most famous in Monta. It has produced millions of dollars worth of gold and silver. Its out- put for 1501 riy a million and it is still worked at a orofit. At the time that the Walker brothers thought of buying I$ the stock had fallen very low. They koew that it would rise atonce if it was known that they wanted it and Daly was sent here to find out all about it. He came to Butte City as a mmer. He was dressed in rough clothes and pretended that he was dead broke and wanted work. He went to the old Continental hotel and pre- tended to look for work a week, but failed to get 1t and told the landlord that he had no money to pay his board. This seemed strange to the landlord, as all miners were well paid and thore was a great demand for extra hands. The landiord said, “Well, I will see if 1 can’t get you a job.” He then went down to the Lexington mine and got a a place for Daly, and told him about it. Mr. Daly said, “Tam a little particular about my work, but I will go down and look at the éoh," He did so and came back the same ay and said that the mine was too wet, and that as his lungs were not strong he teared 1o go to work in it. He then loafed around for another week, and the landlord, getting more desperate still about the payment of his board, went out and found him another job. Daly looked at 1t, worked in it for two days and then came came back and said that the mine was not timbered properly, and that he would not work it. Now the board bill for three weeks was due and the land- lord got hov. He went up to Walkerville and gov Daly a jobin the Alice mine, told the Walkerville owners that he man loafing around at his place for wanted work long enough to p: weeks board bill. and he came back to Daly. Daly upon his return, telling him he was too d—n particular about his work and too d—n easy about his eating. He said that he had What replied young Daly. hom he got himanother joband that he wanted him to tako it and stick to it. As Daly heard him say that tho work was in the Alico mine his heart must have jumped, but there was not a change in his features and he ouly sald: “Well, T will go and look at it.” It was the opportunity he had waited for and he took bis place as an ordinary miner in the Alico. He worked for three weeks, inspecting the property as he dug and mined, and at the end of that time he threw up the Six weeks later he Ccame 10 the surface as manager of the prop- bought Job and left Butte City. erty. The Walkers, at his advice, the mine and they put him at its head. Millions in Copper. ‘While Mr. Daly was max Jooking about for other mines on his own ac- count, and he invested in a number of silver mines. 1 asked him yesterday whether he had ever made any money in silver mmes and he replied that he had me the figure was the Anaconda mine, for which he paid, 1 think, 0,00 mine, but afte lead developed into one of the b veins on record attention was paid to Daly organized a company and wi to work in this mine. The company con- sisted of J. B. Hoggin of California, thelate Senator George Hurst, Marcus Daly and one or two othe and it has materially added to the millions of these well known million- aires. 1 can't give you any adequate idea of the enormous extent of these great mines. Two thousand miners are employed in the mines day and night, and within the last ten years the enormous sum of #40,000,000 has been spent by Daly in w and in works for operating these mines, of this money has come out of the mines, and no one but the owners know how much more the mines have paid. The stoek is not for sale and the Anaconda mines and smel- ters form o close corporation. he lumber which 1s used each mouth for op mine would make a board walk two feet wide from Washington to Philadelphia, and 100 cords of wood are eaten up each day in the mine. Three thousund tons of ore are shipped out from the mines daily, and overy- thing conuected with them 1s done after the latest methods with the fiuest of improved machinery and on a gigantic scale. The World's Higgest Smelter, ‘These mines are located at Butte City, but the ore is all brought about thirty-seven miles here to Anaconda to be smelted, and the m.:fm smelting works in the world are here. went through them today. They copper, but wall the sides of the mountain, covering | more than elghty acres of space with vast buildiugs packed full of machinery. Great brick chimneys one-third as high as the ‘Washington monument pierce the sky as they stand on the tops of the mountsins above them, and these are conuected with mwor)u by flues 50 large that you could ve & wagon load of hay through them without touching the walls. This is to give the proper draught. There are vast engines and great bollers and a wilderness o! . chinery. The fly wheels of the engines are a8 high a3 4 three-story house and the power is conducted by cables of steel which run from one elevation to another up the sides of the mountain. I cannot describe the wa- chinery except to say that the ore-producing | | over nundreds of great He had a his three They gave him the job He swore at ging this he was but he did ot give Among the mines he bought It was begun as a silver running down 120 feet the sgest copper Up to this time not much ating the rock, containing copper, gold and sflver, 1 pouiided 1nto & Tush with great atamps nod then filtered and refiitered, run through process after process, until at Inst it comes out in the shape of a metal sand, which is taken to other works and reduced to m 1 1 remember one room on which this sand ran table most as big small circus tent, and these were washed by & running stream of water in such a way pipes, while the copper ore remained on the tables. In otner v rooms wvering acres were hundreds of grinding machines which made n noise like a sewing machine, und there were s of sotthing vats and of al most every imaginable kind of muchinery The Atmosphere of Hell, 1droye from here to the smelting works and walked through vast rooms filled with mes of sulphur, which maae you feel as though a bushel of matclies ‘were being burned under your nose, and saw the roast ing of this copper in_great iron coffec pots five times as big as the largest hogshead you have ever seen and watch s reddish golden metal pour out in stre nd run off in cakes the size of nter table or in blocks like those in which pig iron is cas A great many of these processes are secr and elec s now being used to separ the gola and silver from the copp: amount of gold and silver in this Anaconda copper is such that it is believed that it will eventually bear the cost of refining and the copper will be pure profit. It takes about 2,000 men_to work this smelter, and the wages paid them are from §2.50 upward pe day. Iiverything is done on the strictest business methods, but Daly’s treatment of his men is such that he never has u_strike, and they stand up for him through thick and thin, It is this fact that makes him such a great power among the people in Montana, He has thousands of employes, and his fricnds are legion. [ visited ‘the smelter at noon, and a curious sight was that of the men cooking beefsteak on hot shovels which they rested on the kettle of molten copper. How Marcas Daly Looks. Imet Mr. Daly during my stay here and had an hour's chat with_him. He looks a good deal like Proctor Knott of Kentucky, that his hair and mustache are gray or than white and his head 1s slightly than Knott's. He i blue-cyed, s of age nd there are no frills or him. Heis full of vigor and when Irode with him from Butte to condathe other day on the train he soft hat, a rough chinchilla overcoat, a pair of pantaloons which were decidedly without the creases of the New York dude and his shoes were covered with a pair of rubbers spattered with the mud of Butte City. I found him a good talker and full of plain, p al, everyday common sense He h bit of a brogue, but his laugh is a hearty one and he evidently enjoys life. Marcus Daly is married and he has a very ife and delightful family, He has two daughters who are going to school in Paris and s boy, Maveus Daly, jr., and his youngest daughter, Hattie, ‘a pretty 3 conda hotel. Mrs. Daly has been twenty years, yet she does not look » and she hus as riuch common sense \usband, Mr. Daly is especially fond of Hattie. He has named one of hLis horses after her and his palace car bears her name. This car cost something like 40, 000, Tt has bed rooms, parlors. kitchens and bath rooms, and is used by the family when they travel. As for Marcus Daly himself he rides m any kind of a car, and the family live here in Anaconda in the simplest kind of style. This hotel cost something like £200,000 and®s kept up at a big cost. It is owned by Daly, but his rooms in it are as plainly furnisheéd as those of many of his employes’ purlors, and his habits ve simple in the extreme. He rises at about 3:30 in the morning, takes a cup of coffee and a beefsteak and is at work before many of his employes are up. He works fast, de- ciding quickly on everything and showing ut executive abili There is no red tape bout his ofice. Any’ one who has vusiness with him can get to him at once and be will not beat about the bush, but comes to busi- ness with youat once. 'He discharges his obligations promptly and always keeps his engagements, Though he is worth many millions he has entire charge of his great mine property and attends to this in addi- tion to his other pusiness and his private in- vestments. [am told that there are mor than 10,000 dependent upon his orders daily, and he has lumber ‘mills and wood cutters and adds dal to the whoie a first-class newspaper here at Anaconda. The Aua- conda Standard 1s one of the best newspa- pers in the west and though it is run at a loss it nas the best and latest news. I am told that Mr. Daly controls $25,000,000 worth of property in Montana and it is said that the Anaconda property would bring 000 any day. His monthly pay roll for here in Anaconda alone is more than % 000 and he pays #50,000 » mouth for the c he uses. around as a He dresses simpl; turbelows about Daly's Famous Horse Farm. Marcus Daly has some of the fastest horses fu the world, and he has a horse farm not far from here which contains about $1,000,000 worth of horses, and which in- clides 4,000 acres. He is building a big frame house on this now, which will have about t~enty-nine rooms, and he says he expects to retire here when he gets tired of work. He has ideasof his own with regard to his horses, and 1 had an interesting conversa- tion with him today about them. I asked him if he expected to make money out of his horses, or if his racine stock was not merely one of the luxuries of a millionaive. He re- plied: +Of course T expect to make money out of them. No one in Montana goes into luxuries of that kind for the fun of the thing,and if I really thought I could not make a profit out of my stables I would sell them tomorrow. I have a theory that the state of Montana will produce the best horses of the world, and I am testing it. The climate here is cold in the winter, but the air is pure, and 1t in- creases the lung power of the horses, Iam told that the boys nere at 10 .years require suits of clothing as large as those worn by a 12-year-ola boy of the nds their lungs and row big chests, and the same is $0 of horses. As to the coldn. of the climate and the charge that colts will not grow here in the winter, if this is true, T expect to overcome it by ood stabling and good food. Our grass here 1s better than t of California or Kentucky, and it mak better bones and better foet. [am buying the very best of stock, and so far my stables are doing very well. “How are they managed?" “My farm is run on the same business iples as are the mines and smelter yihing is systematized and kept in book shape. Every saddle and bridle is charged, and if a halter strap is broken it has to b brought back beforc a new one can be given I know to a cent what everything and I keep two sets of books, one of \cing and the other of my breeding stables. 1 huve weekly reports, and I know just exactly on what horses | am making and on what Iaw losing.” A Yortune w Horse Racing, “How did your stables pay last year?” I asked. “Fairly well,” was th netted me something like $127,000 and they cost me §2.000. 1 paid §10.000 for Tar many when I bought him as a yearling. He won §78,000 1 win at least £0,000 this th ears old reply. “They on. e is now nd T will take him off the track after this son and breed him. To show you bow I run the stables: When I oought Tammany I of course charged the racing stables with him. All the expense of keeping him has been charged to him, as well as every other item that he has cost 1 also charge against him 6 per cent on the amount invested 1w him, and the difference between the cost and the amount he brings gives me the profit 1 make out of him. When 1 take him over to the breeding stables I will the breeding stables $50,000 for him Il credit that amount to the racing stables. A regular record will be keptof his colts, and he ought to produce thirty or forty a year, which at eleven months old will” be worth $1,000 apiece, und in some cases will bring as high as $10,000 each. I will only keep the best colts of any of my breeding and | regularly weed out the culls. ch of these colts will be charged in turn and the two stables will be kept en- tirely separate, so you see I can tell to a ‘T' just where I am making or losing.” Daly on Horse Trainers, Marcus Daly has the best horse trainers in the United States. Everyoue knows of Matthew Hyrnes, who is at the head of his stabies here, and who gets, 1 am told, sowe- thing between $10,000 and $15,000 a year, he jockey who has charge of Suapper Garrison, who is said to receive $10,000 a year, and 1 got & picture today of Snapper Garrison on Tammany which was hat the refuse went off into | | sport | which will cut it down | stables of North t year and he will probably | THE OMAHA DAILY recently made for Mr. Daly, Mr. Daly sald: 1 think good horse trainers are born, not made, They must have an_ intuitive knowledge of the horse and a good tramer is arare man, We never bused or aworn at on the farm. se, it is different in o race; then the jockeys sometimes cut the 1ife almost out of | them." The Racer Versus the Trotter. “How about the trotter, Mr. Daly? nave a number of fine trotting horses.” “No, not now,"' was the reply. *'1am clos ing out my trotting stock as fast s possible. 1 don't believe that_trotting is legitimate It is the result of mechanical train ing and mechanieal breodiug. 1 prefer to devote myself to running stock and 1 be lieve that there is more money in 1t. The earning capacity of a running horse is much greater, How about lowest limit?" “No, I believe not. T expect to trotied in two minutes before 1 die. “How about the racing record! V be lowered ! “That is hard to say “It is true o phenomenal horse may com below 1.85, the re ord now held by Salvator. There is a limit to the physical possibility of a horse and 1.85 is very fast time.” You record? Has it reached its amile 1l that said Marcus Daly nglish Horses Can't t Us. 1 here told Mr. Daly that T had visited the the nitrate king, in land last susmmer and 1 asked_him wh thought of the horses which North had sent to the Chicago Derby ‘L don’t believe that they will b {0 anything,” was his reply. *“Th chimated and English horses in Ame for the first y The tracks are hara for them and they cannot do them- lves justice. North has some horses which are good in Kngland, but if 1 am not mis- taken th would be considered second-rate in Au . England can mak strain of blood than we canand we go there for our thoroughbreds, but we can breed horses here, put new life into them y feeding and tace them back and beat them on their own track.” /57,000 on the Brooklyn Suburban. n, Mr, Da do_little “Speaking of business u you_ever bet on your hor: “Yes, 100, was the reply, put my winnings and losings profit or loss of my stables upon my horses just as I would on stock which I thought was going up. 1 back them for what I think they are worth and I made £7,000 on the Brooklyn Suburban fast year, but this matter goes into my private expense account and it is not set down against the horses.” FRANK Gio CAKPENTER. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, V. Keenc's next tour begins Sep- 'n Macbeth,” “The Fool’s Re- King John™ will be added to hiis repertoire Stuart Robson has decided to revive Comedy of next scason. and this in view has engaged Giles Shine to play ccond Dromio. orge W. Chadwick “but 1 don't down to the 1 invest in bets “The professor of mus to be Ame 35 years of age. yed a church organ when' a b John Stetson finds “The ¢ a source of great profit. H vanies performing it last in Boston, Philadelph and New England. Helene Mora. who has a remarkable sing- ing voi imost & baritone—and knows how to use it, is to star next season in a new musical farce entitled “Comrades.” ne asserts that he cleared Lloyd & Rosenfeld's play wnd that a good portion of of Society™ had four com- he S the New York is soon to have a daily dram newspaper. 1t is to be called the New York Daily Figaro, and it will be edited by Charles Leonard Fletcher and Mr. Davidson, both of Boston Joshua Phippen, who recently veceived the prize of $200 offcred by the National Conservatory of Music for the best piano- forte concerto, was born in Salem, Mass., and is 45 years old. According to a report in a dramatic pape: any playiog “Uncle Tom's Cabin’ ntly stranded in Lockport bes attached the box-office reccipts to buy her eldest son a new suit of clothes urner will retive from “The Crust - fter the Schiller engagement and go to Boston for John Stetson's produc- tion of “Led Astray.” She will be succeeded in *“1he Crust” by Eiita Proctor Otis. Miss Mar) Linck, a graduate of the Chicago conservatory, has just returned from England, where she made a brilliant professional dabut with the Carl Rosa opera company, with whom she has engaged for a period of three years. Felix Weingartner, the young conductor of the Berlin Royal opera, is now named as the man who will su «d Mr. Niksch as con- ductor of the Boston Symphony orchestra, Hans Richter having been forbidden, it is understood, to leave Austria. The youngest successful playwright in Americi, and probably in the world, is visit- ing in New York now. His name is Paul Kester, and he has not yet passed his 21st birthday. Modjeska produced his “Countess Rondine” and Salvini will shortly give *“The Last of the Moors, Tinel, the composer of the oratorio,‘‘St. Francis,” which was recently sung in New York with great success, is at work on a new religious cantata, “Sainte Godelieve,” the music of which will prove to be of an en- tirely different character from that by which he is generally known. The actresses have a club of their own, which has been incorporated under the law of New York state as the Twelfth Night club. Its objects are the study of the drama by, and the mutual benetit of and promotion of,'social intercourse among women who are on the stage, or students of, interested in, or rons of dramatic art. Six or eight years ago, says Dixey, a bur- lesque on the production of which £5,000 was spentiwould have created a sensation; today unywhere from £20,000 to #40,000 is necess: to make a production in New York wh the public will go to see. Therefore it will be readily seen that burlesque cannot much further m the way of spending mone, A pianist, Henri Falcke, h: reated a sen- tion by his rkable performances m Berlin. "The critics are unanimous in_pro- nouncing him one of the greatest living pianists and in praising his marvelous tone and techuic. He has also appeared at the concerts at La Trompette, Paris, and the Gewandhaus in Leipsic with equal success, ake “King The one which makes such uds upon him as to ren- suitable for touring pur- poses. The chief parts which Mr. Irving will play in America arve the two cardinals (Becket and Wolsey) besides, of course, those in his ordinary repertoire Although Mme. Modjeska ha she has red and educated fi nephews., It is in her California home, twenty miles from a railway station, that she has set up he lares and penates and it is about her ingleside that she gathers her six children. She says that the happiest part of her life is in “Arden,” as she calls her place from the fact that it fuifills the description of the forest of Arden in “As You Like It.” Julia Marlowe was not much more than a chorus girl in *“‘Pinafore:” Agnes Hunting- ton climbed from the lowest round of the ladder in the old Boston Ideal Opera com- pany; Edith Kingdon (now Mrs. George Gould) marched once as an alma ;" Loie Fuller was teleased by Ru- dolph Aronson from an engagement in the Casino_chorus to accept.an offer from Nat Goodwin, with whom in “‘Little Jack Shep- pard” she made her first big hit; Auna eefecame from the same apprent le Archer began her profe: Cousin Hebe in a “Pinaf Golaen, Della Fox, Lulu Glasser, Louise and Cecile Eissing, and even Lallian Russeil began at the very bottom. John Douglass, whose Henley scene in “A Dark Secret” was thought to be a great thing in the way of stage realism, has surpassed himself in his new play, **No- Man's-Land,” now running at the London Grand, Eerly fu the pece there is real water to carry the real boat that bears the hero from the lonely island where villainy has planned he shall starve and die, and there is real water for the storm of rain that is to descend while the thunder roars and the flash-lights make lightning flashes that are just like the real article. last act there is real water to dash and foam about the artificial weir, and there is real water to represent the river into which the heroine is thrown, aond inte which her female friend takes o header to her deliver- auce. At physical the play hurc but one child regatta allow our horses to | Of | A Fow Sobor Wordé on the Decline of the | istic to mention | what able to | are no a better | with | | the | city by the gulf g0 | » njeces and | amazon in | | placed in the royal museum. In the | BEE CHAT WITH THE BOXERS Bport. — SOUNDS P, JAY THE KNELL The Annals of the! Game From 1719 to 1893 Pistic Eyolution-Tho Dolngs of the Bay—Matches and Matehiek Talked OF. That the respectable element of the coun try has sickened and tired of prize fighting | is"a fact that will require o most muscular argument to refute. 1t may sound anomai- respectability in conne sport so degrading snd generally deprecated, to ignore its unlawful phase, but there 18 nothing strange or irregular about the as tion. It is a notorious fact that the vast crowd which assembied in New Or- leans eptember to witness the novelty of a fistic carnival was as representative a gathering as one would meet at an annual fair, u political convention or a conclave of any' of the numerous brotherhoods. The sporting or fancy proportion was of such di- mensions—and notwithstanding there was not a city in the country but was ~ liberally represented—to even be denominated as infinitesimal com ared with those from the commercial and professional walks of life. The sport, fakir gambler and crook were most inconspicu- ous—in fact they were very small potatoes and few in u heap when shaken up and mixed with the vast concourse of merchants, shopmen, lawyers, doctors, bankers and ¢ italists who had gravitated to the Crescent City ostensibly on busmess, but literally in the pursuit of ‘the and_excitement they hoped to ¢ against the ropes of the And then I might add too, correctly all due deference for the cloth, that it was not sporting, business and professional men alone who viewed the sanguinary s en- acted in the Olrmpic's unbatlowed squa circle last autumn, but men whose vocation is to guide and uplift, to expound the truths of the good book and reveal the glories of o life without sin. Even, it is said, one of the gladiators before ma his debut_ upon the ground of strife received the benediction of one of these ministerial onlookers in Venice. Without imputing corrupt motives, let us hope that this part of the crowd, like Dr. Parkhurst, was in quest of eulighten went in the ways of the wicked in order that they might hear the confessions of the sin- ful world and be better prepared to lead aright the lost and astr with o at T have written in the foregoing raph is simply in justification of my {mplied assertion that a respectable element of society has had some considerable associ tion with the prize ring. It may have been xperimental only, for it looks now as if the had reaved itself like a vision in magoria to plague respectability and will « no more of it. verywhere are the conservators of gnmi order and rigors of the law being urged and ated in all corners of th fighter is nearly at the end of hs The glory o | the big metropolitan has rted or is swiftly and surely on the wane. New Orleans'stands alone, a city in which an event of any considerable general interest could be pulled off, and in this con- nection 1quote from a er received but yeste from a business friend, a promi nent sug ges’ and rice man of the ‘Like a majority of spoctable citizens T luve acquired a supreme disgust for the prize fizhter and his busi- ness and a welcome sound is the inging of the bell that is to.cali them down for years to come. The next legislature in this'state will put‘an_end to all their hopes in Louisi- ana, but unfortunately iv does not meet for i year. When it does’ meet, howev it will be all day good and hard for the fighting fra- termit, California already closed her doors against them and New York is sure to follow; then these W to 40 m ll)_{hk'l:o will be tickled to death'to run against a free lunch.” importu; the priz tethe Even P. J. Donohue, the capable sporting editor of the New York Recorder, and a man who has done much—even more than any one man I can mention—to perpetuate and ele- vate the sport, reluctantly acknowledges The Mistory of the prize ring is replete with lessons, but I fear the students of the game have not studied their own interests, and 1 now sce indications that the old story of the man who killed the goose that layed the golden eges is to be duplicated The game has been the hobby of patricians, nas been fostered by the nobility of Eng- land and patronized by the gentlemen of America, but there are evidences that it is on the decline, ‘The professors of the game, always avaricious, have played hurd and fast and loose with the coin producers and the Atter are getling weary. Inthe first year we have had several matches that were financial failures, as far as the promoters were concerned. The most notable of these was the Hall and Fitzsim- mons fight at New Orleans. Recentlv we have had several so-called amateur tourneys which proved to be nonpaying ventures. As straws show which way the wind blows, so does the resuit of amateur events (so called) show which way the boxing game 1s going, and if 1 do not mistake the signs the game is on the decline. Ni even years ago pugilism became an American game. Ninety-seven years pre- Viously the game was established in England aud a champion was proclaimed. In the 174 years between 1719 and 1803 there have been two epochs, the installa- tion of Figg as champion in 1719 and the victory of Jake Hyer over Tom Beasley in America in 1816, In that period. however, the changes in the rules of the ring and the inciderts which make its history have been 15 to cause wonder at the kaleidoscopic t of affairs as seen through the glass to- had the era of bare knuckle fights patronized by the mnobility. We know of Parliament adjourning to permit its mem- bers to witness prize ring battles. We know of the introduction of boxing gloves. of the revision of ring rules preventing a slip-down a blow. We know also of the ori on of the Queensberry code, of its plication tc professional contests, of the ad- vent of Sullivan and the era of knock-outs. For who can deny that John L. revolution- ized the style of fighting and proved thzt a satisfactory settlement of affairs could be had in short order? We have seen champions rise, fall ana pass away, only to be forgotten when the last clod of (lay was thrown on their coftins. We have seen or known of serious accidents in the ring and have in one case, at least, a man acknowledged as a champion who never won a battle r— interests. controlled by boxers today would astoun# champions of a half century ngo. 4y “mugs’ get small for- tunes when fighting Before the *club offer ing the largest purae,” and in almost ever: case the purses are greater than the main stakes for which tried professionals and ac- knowledged champibns competed in the days gone by. Just consider that Heury Sellers beat P. Corcdfan for the champion. ship of England in 1776 for §50, then con- sider that Dixon and Grifin hesitate to fight for less than $L0,000, and with gloves at that. Just consider that John (Gentleman) Jackson, the pal of the prince of Wales. ot only’ #1,000 for ‘beating Dan Mendoza ninety-eight years atdd nine days ago tod: and that the only makerial houor given him (outside the coin) was the making of a plaster cast of his “right arm, which was As a contrast, consider Hall and Fitzsimmons boxing with gloves for three rounds for $40,000. How odd it would seem if & plaster cast of the head of a victorious boxer was made nowa- days for a dime museum. Itis long odds that as & big thing in plaster the head of the modern fighter would exceed in size the arm of the hero of 1776, The vast And now for what is going on. anton Abbott, Ergland’s champion light weight who came across o couple of weeks ago dead bent on measuring strength with Jack McAuliffe, the champion of all champ- jon lightweights, has furnished Gotham line on his capacity. At Dom MeCaffrey's Madison Square garden show the other eveuing, Abbott was pitted for a four-round contest with Jack Hopper, which, however, only lasted one and & balf, for in' that time the American was put into a preludatory state of death, The Briton knocked him senseless with a left smash in the jaw, and the universal opiniun eugendered wi that he Is one of the peo- ple after all, yet not nearly good enough to Well nd and | PAGES [ be classed with Amerd redoubtable champion. Abbott Is particularly handy | with his loft and_nitogether quito like chap, although his performance with Hopper is a meager criterion to go by. If I were to place him it would be along with Billy \‘h~ Austin Gibbons and men of that class Jack McAuliffe put Hopper out easily in five rounds back in the early 'S0s, when the latter was fresh and strong, and at the ver zenith of his fighting career. The Hoppe today isn't the Hopper of seven or eig years ago by a long shot. e has gone ba greatly, while MeAuliffe is as good & man rain a8 he was then, In fact, McAuliffe never better than he is today The match between Jim Hall and Frank | Slavin is not exciting the interest on this that it is on the other side, but a good deal of curiosity prevails to know just what Charlie Mitehiell was figuring on when he made the mateh, Anybody who is anybody over here looks for Slavin to smother Jim id Peter Jackson told me when in Omaha sutly that it Slavin was Slavin, in the merest semblance, he will do this very trick smother him. But what if Hall whips his burly countryman: what then’ Won't the suspicicn of . fake with Fitzsimmons sug gest itself? I think so. here is no new developments relative to the much talked of Johuny Grifin-Ceorge Dixon fight, or the Dixon-Smith fight, cithe They are both very much in statu quo. Since | the Billy Smith-Tom Williams battle—which was a frost so far as financial success is con cerned—the Coney Island people have fol lowed Old Sme: s advice “to lie still and soc nix." They are not chasiug priz fighters with the same enterprise which erstwhilo marked their movements, and the probubilities are that the fighter, tike the base ball player, is going to be allowed to do a littie husthng “The big club by the sea has booked another event, however, to come off some time next month, a finish go between Tke \ the er Spider, and Johnny Van Heest. The boys come cheap, and while the Smiths, ifin and Dempsey are making up their minds,they just e match will furnish sufticient food for gossip until bigger game drops in the net. No. 9" Whe & Wilson makes a stitch with all kinds of thre: of Is. It is by Geo. W. Lancaster & Co. 16th street I WAS BIG. IWASTFAT. I FELT MEAN. I TOOK PILLS. I TOOK SALTS. IGOT LEAN. Handsome Women Can Lose Weign Fast. Homely Men Look Bettor if Thin. 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Feel Better andWeigh 13 Pounds Less Goshen, Ind., Sept. 18, 1802, Gentlemen: Inelosed | send you $i. tor which you will please send me three botties of the obesity piils. & the fourth bottle and feel v d welgh 13 pounds less than whe taking them. 1 will continue your troatiuent. Mus. J. C. Loring & Co: South Sixth Streat. An individual whose hetght Is 5 feet 1inch ould welgh b feet 8 inches 5 feet 10 inches 125 pounds 1. M) i, Dr. Edisonsays: It maay be well to point out that'In my experlence, which 1s nocessarily very considerable, many troublesome skin diseases suoh, eceszema, tazone, proriusis, uticaria, eto., are prim: arlly causéd by obesity, and as the fatand fiash s reduced by tho pills and Obesity Frult Salt and the nction of the band these affections have almost magically disappered.” The Obesity Fruit Salt1s used in connection with the Pllis or Bands, or both, One teaspoonful in s tumbler of water makes liclous soda. 1ike champalgne. 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