Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1900, Page 28

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1900, o = NICOLL'S DECEMBER STOCK-REDUCING SALE!: Known that Nicoll the Tailor i is the Most Popular Tailor on the Americ IYs Co ommonly Known A great sale begins here in the morning! A value-giving effort that will anchor your trade to us pm'mnn(\ntl we collect the surplus stock-——Remnants, Short Ends, ete—bunch them together, and cut themto your order, at about cost of making. cleaning up at end of season, and keeps our tailors busy during the winter months. Nieo\k TAICOR in the future! At the end of every busy season It's Nicoll's way of You'll choose from a bountiful assortment here; not a few or@inary patterns, but you'll make your pick from over #wo #sousand of the choicest Fall and Winter fabrics. FROM FABRICS WORTH NEARLY DOUBLE BEAR IN MiND Every garment is carefnlly fitted to you before being completed, This insures perfect fitting garments in every respect, 209-211 South lth St, 0MAHACUME§0FF UNSCATHED Looal Base Ball Team the Only One to Ercape Official Censure, SHOWING EFFECTUALLY DENIES CHARGES Accusations of Rough Play Shown to Have No Basiv—Magnates Deters mine to Fence in Their Dismonds, In the light of the charges hurled so per- sistently at Omaha and the Omabe ball team by newspapers and fans In other cities of the circult last summer about “rowdy ball,” “unfair treatment of visiting tesms,” ‘ntimidation of umpires” and nu- merous others, it is of iuterest to note that at the recent annual meeting of tho Jeugue the Omaha club was the omly one that escaped without a flue. Every other club in the circuit was taxed in amounts from $100 to $600 for violations of different sorts. The Des Moines team came in for tho heaviest fine, $600, this belug because of its refusal to accept regularly appointed umpires and its use of the Chase ball, which was not the sphere regularly chosen under the rules of the league. This meeting of the magnates has cer- tainly cleared Omaha's skirts of the miry film unavoidably collected by reason of these baseless flings directed at the local club by outsiders. It is certaluly a mat- ter of congratulation to local base ball orthusiasts and of credit to the local man- agement that the league magnates failed to discover anything for which the Omaha club should be held amenable to the pay- ment of & flue. Manager Rourke returned the first of the week from Denver, where he had re- mained after the conclulsion of the meet- ing of the magnates to serve in committee work. Mr. Rourke was chusen as one of tho four representatives of the Western lesgue to attend the meeting of the Na- tional league in New York December 11 to confer relative to the clircult question. The other members of the ccmmitiee are President Hickey, George Tebeau and A. B. Beall. Neither President Keith nor Manager Rourke are saying much just now about the clrcult question. They are di- recting thelr energles toward the gather- ng together of 4 team for next season that will be able to make good and place the pemnant in the city that deserves It. If thera be merit in base ball enthusiasm and patronage accorded the game because of such enthusiasm Omaha 18 certainly en- titled to the pennant mext year, provided the same record-breaking interest and at- tondance upon games is continued next meason as it was last. Even though the circuit problem was left undecided at the Denver meeting the fmportance of the busiuess transacted at that time is by no means to be considered lightly. One of the important pleces of legislation determined upon was the adap- tlon of a resolution that all diamouds should be fenced In next season. This will prevent anyone's gaining admission to the fleld who {8 not entitled to be there and will do away with the swarming into the dimaond of disgruntled partisans, wrought up over a disappointing decision by the umpire. It was the free access obtainable to the flelds that caused most of the trouble to the umpires last season. The circuit committee, which will go to New York this month, was glven to under- and that it should make every effort to get the league In class A and obtain there- by the same kind of protection that fis given the American league, the principal Draped side by side for easy comparison. Trousers o« 4%5%6 Suits >« *15°18%°20 Overcoats o« *15*20%25 Observe the fabrics and prices in our Windows! They are an index of what you’ll find on our tables, YOUR FROM FABRICS WORT NEARLY DOUBLE MONEY BACK It we fail to please you, All garments made by the best Omaha— 209-2 skilled tailors of South 15th St polnt of which s the two- with a drafting price of §1,000. The prominence which the new Western league ha tained In the base ball world 1s {n nowise better lllustrated than in the trequent editorial mention given It by the different base ball journals of the coun- try. The Sporting News, published at St. Louls, devotes much of its current week's 8pace to the affairs of the league and re- ports of the Denver meetiug and says of the meeting editorially: The Western league magnates have ad- Justed their differences and are s a unit on the expansfon question. President Hickey was re-elected for four years and a sinking fund established to provide against emor gencles. One of the best feutures of the eventful meeting was the disciplining of five of the six clubs for offenses against the constitutional laws. The Omaha club alone §ocaped o penalty. The fines ranged from $10 the Des Moines club being Mmulcted In the last named sam for refusing to accept regularly appointed umpires and for using a Chase ball in games on its rounds. Expansion was agreed on and St. aul was formally admitted. The admis slon of other citiea—Minneapolls and Kan sas City—wan referred to a committee. Thi commiitee will report at a meeting to held in January, by which time It Is ex ected the American league will have re- inquished claim on these two citles. The prosram of Iresident Hickey Is said to be ho dropring of Sloux City and the addition of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Kansas City This will give the leaguo cight cities, Presi- dent Beall of the Bloux City club will be given the Minneapolls franchise. Pueblo i3 not cerain ‘to retuin it club, but for cographical reasons the magnates would 1ke to have a club in that cit it with Denver. They correctly argue that they cannot afford trips to and from Colo- fado lo play only one series ot games. Manager Hulen Is trying to get a lease of more conventently located park and 1f he 4 there 8 every reason to belleve blo will be given a trlal for an- other year at least. President Hickey en- oyed @ personal and officfal triumph over hia opponents and all old &cores have been wiped out, ‘The ‘Wentern league executive enforce the laws of the league more energeticaily than e did Ih 160 und wii hold the club owners to strict accountabilily for thetr treatment of umpires. He ex- plains that he permitted irregularities last scagon because many of the men in control of the clubs were Inexperienced In base ball and unfamiliar with thelr duties and requirements. Last season was largely ex- perimental and he did not feel warranted in adopting Aevero Next year he will ent stitution to the letter 1 that the club owners, Bdividuity and Tectively, will give him hearty suppoit and co-aeration. AR, ; THE WHEELING WORID, | Dl o o8 oo o SR S S S S S = Cycling amateurs are demanding more room In the raciog game, and thelr clalms will form the chiet subject for discussion at next month's meeting of the National Cycling assoclation in New York. Track promoters are backing the demands of tho amateurs, believing that if treated with greater liberality they will materially in- crease the popularity of the sport. According to the rules of the National Cycling association, amateurs may be paced by motors ridden by professionals. Next year the speed of the motors will not de- pend upon the leg power of the men rid- ing, and the skill of the professionals In steering and managing the machines will minimize the chances of serlous accidents, while the machine will develop no greater #peed than 1f expert amateurs should be in control. This rule tends to develop local talent, a branch of the sport much restricted by the League of American Wheelmen ruies In most cities there are many fleet amateurs who, with proper training and pacemaking would develop the speed of professionals 1t is the purpose of track managers to bring out this talent so as to add strong local color and partisanship to the races. It is pecullar that the winners of the s son in both the sprinting and paced profes slonal classes should have been amateur champlons of last season. Frauk Kramer, the National Cyeling assoctation amateur | champlon, came out the largest winner among the sprinters and Johnny Nelson, the Leaguo of American Wheelmen ;ued‘ amateur champlon of last season, finished | the largest winner in the paced ramks. Majdr Taylor, the League of Amefican Wheelmen professional champion of last season, won the sprinting championship on tho National Cycling association cirouit. The professionals, who by the steadfast pur- pose to succoed, forced the League of Amerlcan Wheelmen to give up racing fuished well up in the lists. About ffty pace followers gained honors and money and about 150 professionals took down The winnings this season thus far have amounted to $94,000 and the middle- distance men have won $:8,000 of this. Kramer, the leading eprinter, has won fourteen firsts and Nelson, the leading pace follower, has won twenty-three firsts. When Willlam C. Stinson placed the world's one-hour record at 40 miles 330 yards at Brockton, Mass., late last month, he rode a distance almost twenty-five mil greater than that covered in sixty minutes by F. L. Dodds, who established the record in 1876, twenty-five years ago. Stinson added more than twenty miles to the best record of twenty years ago, nearly twenty miles to the best record of fifteen years ago, nearly eighteen miles to the best record of ten years ago, and 11 miles 285 yards to the best recced of 1895, five years ago. Thus the hour record has been length- ened out on an average of a mile a year. Stinson's new record is 20 miles 670 yards greater than that made by the first record- holder to follow pace—Cortis, who covered 19 miles 1,420 yards in the hour. The first hour record on a safety bicycle, equipped with pneumatio tires, was 21 miles 125 ysrds, by H. E. Laurle, in 1888, and this record was improved on by Stinson to the distance of 19 miles 205 yards. The first motor-paced hour record was made only & year ago by Edward Taylor, who covered 35 miles 698.7 yards, on which figures Stin- son improved to the extent of 4 miles 1,391 yards. In the last twenty years there have been but two instances in which the gain made by any new record rider was more than a mile. In 1898, when Elkes covered 34 mil 1,220 yards, the last world's hour record bebind human pace, he made & gain of one mile and about 300 yards on the previous record. And this stood as the greatest single gain, even after the introduction of motor pace, until Edward Taylor, on April 20 of the present year, broke his own record, established earller in the same month, by riding a distance one and three- quarters greater than before. It 1s evident from the names already In the entry list for the six-day cycle race at Madlson Square Garden next month that the event this year will be far better than it has been in past years. Heretofore, the sprinter has not entered for the long con- test, the line between them and the middle- distance and long-distance men belng very sharply drawn. In the last year the sprint- ers have been riding in the distances more than usual. A number of them have en- tered for the six-day race. It has been proved time and again that a man who is butlt for the distance cannot make & sprinter. That takes a pecullar nervous energy. On the other hand, & man who is & sprinter, by training can make himself into a distance rider. The riders seem just to | have discovered this fact, and that they are acting upon its suggestion is shown by the recent entry for the six-day races of some of our best sprinters. These men will be new In the distance game, and If they win they will bring about a revolution in the racing game. Sprinting will remaln pop lar amopg them because the power is something of a gift, and the purses in those events are earned more easily than in other events, But with the sprinters, as well as with the old distance men In the distant races, competition must purses larger and the whole game consid- crably benefited thereb This will be an interesting feature of the mext cycle racing | season. President R. Lindsay Coleman of the American Bicycle company, in his recent report of the doings of the company for the year, said that the demand for bicycles had decreased in the last year very materially. He sald that golf and the automobile craze had caused the slump. In regard to this, & well known cycle dealer “The bicycle 18 just as useful and just enjoyable as It ever was to those who regard it rationally. Persons who rode only because it was the thing to do stopped the ad, of course. Real enthuslusts who used to buy a wheel every year, and two or three If they were racers, now ride their old wheels. Models have been changed so little In four years that there 1s no longer the odium connected with riding last year's wheel that formerly drove 80 many persons to buy new ones each year. Men who used to ride only for exercise have taken up golf instead, with the idea that it givea a better all-around development.” Frank Starbuck, the Philadelphia in the very first filght among fol- of the motor pacg, will never be able to ride & wheel again, and for & year at least will be unable to do any manual labor. He has just left the Phiiadelphia hospital, where he bad been confined ever since he broke his leg in thres places and tore the flesh from the llmb from the thigh to the knee in an accident on the Baltimore track lam summer. While he has been able to leave the hospital and return to his home, he | expected to return there frequently to have his leg operated on. The surgeons have saved the llmb, but it will be two inches shorter than the other and will prevent the crack cyclist trom ever mounting a wheel again, let alone competing in a race. East- ern admirers of the former cyclist are rais- ing & purse for him, and he will probably reap a nice sum for a Christmas gift as a result. A manufacturer of automobiles has recently offered to submit to the War de- partment at Washington a war automobile. He guarant his machine to carry 1,000 rounds of ammunition, four rifiemen, four rifies, two Intrenching shovels, food for four men for three days, four pairs of blankets, two rubber shelters and enough oil to carry the machine 200 miles. The machine is also guaranteed to cover 100 miles between sun- rise and sunset over country roads of the average roughness or the unbroken prarte. Several army officers have inspected the machine and have reported that it was worth consldering, but the department has not ac- cepted the offer as yet. Whist Scores. The following score was recorded Wed- nesday night by the Omaha Whist club: NORTH AND BOUTH. Allee and A. W, Scribner Jordan and Boulter...... Comstock and Meikie. Sumney and Burrell Redick and_Morsman. Smith and Rinehart FAST AND WE Salmon and Rockfellow. Rogers and Burness Anthes and Bushman. Crummer and Coe. Brill and Shelden. White and Miller. * plus. — minus. For the month of November A. W. Scribner won the homors, with Rogers a good second, The following are the high players for the month: 246 Games Plus. Played. ) Hid Burrell Sumney . be keenar, the | 0000 SHORI STORIES. Geoessscscssssssssssssses The carefully reared young man had left his native village and gone to the city to find a situation and a career, relates the New York Sun. His acquaintance was small and because of that he simply went about from place to place seeking whatever fate might throw in his way. He wanted to get into a wholesale grocery house, and of course he only visited houses in that line. He was almost rudely turned away from the first three or four places, but he finally found one where the proprietor himself ro- celved him with courtesy. He stated his case briefly and clearly, as ho read in @& gulde-book to young men starting out in 1t 'm,” he sald, thoughttully, had no experience in this busine “No, sir,” responded the applicant, “but I want to learn it." “Yes, 1 ses. Do you chew tobacto?" “No, slr," Do you smoke?”" 0, sir Do you play poker?* No, sir,” Do you bet on the races?” “No, sir,” “Do you drink?™ “No, sir,”" “Do you run around at mightt* “No, sir,” “Um-er,” hesitated the merchant, “and you have had no experience in this busi- ness.” “No, sir, but as I sald, I want very much to learn it “I'm sorry,” sald the merchant, shaking his hoad, “‘but I'm afraid you won't do. You see, your early education has been negleoted, and you are handcapped now with so much to learn that the Lord only knows when the business would have a chance. Stay in town o year, and then come in and see me. Good morning." The story comes from New York, but its application is country-wide: “You are the plaintiff in this case, I be- leve?' sald the counsel for the defense to Mr. Ferry. “I am." “And you are suing Mr. Train for tea feet of ground more than you own?" “But 1 do own it. That's why I am sulng tor possession.” “You think your land extends ten feet ast on what Mr. Traln claims as his?" 'Yes." How long have you claimed this ten feet ' “Ever since I had it surveyed two years ago. hy did you mot bring suilt sooner?"” “I was trylng to obtaln it amicably with- out golng to law."” “Mr. Ferry, so recently you lald claim to this ten pute?” “What's that?"’ “Did you not one day last December tell Mr. Traln that your ground only came to the point which he claims, and remember you are under oath, The occasion I refer to was on Tuesday afternoon and Mr, Mad- dox was present?’ “W-e-1-1," replied Ferry after a thought- ful pause, “that was when we were shovel- ing the snow oft our pavement."” for 1t President McKinley has a record of pur- chasing 37,000 clgars of one brand ia the fourteen years he was In congress. While this 18 & very large number, yet it is mo more than & great many men smoke in the same period, as It avera; but seven clgars a day. Mr. McKinley had a pecullar custom in handling his cigars. During his service in congress he always bought them by the box, leaving the box at the stand from which all his purchases were mads. It was a convenient place for him to call by to get a bundle of cigars, either in the morning or the evening. He had no ten- dency toward making changes in the brand he smoked. He chose & good one and stuck to it, though since he left congre: and while ho has been in the White House he has not patronized the same clgar, prob- ably simply because it was not as conven- lent to buy fit. Senator Blackburn of Kentucky tells the following good story of & case in a Ken- tucky court: A borse from a livery stable dled soon after belng returned, and the person who hired it was sued for damages. The question turned largely upon the reputation of the defendant as a bard rider. A witness was called—a long, lank boy. “How does the defendant usually ride “Astraddle, sir.” “No, no,” sald the lawyer. he usually walk, trot or kallop?” “Well,” sald the witness, apparently searching in the depths of his memory for ‘when he rides a walkin' horse, he when he rides a trottin' horse, he trots; and when ho rides a gallopin' horse, he galiops; when The lawyer was now angry. “I want to know at what pace the defendant usually able “I mean foes pany rides fast he rides fast, and when his company rides slow he rides slow." “Now, T want to know sir,” the lawyer uch exasperated, and by now very how the defendant rides when he o “Well,” said the witnes meditatively than ever, lowly, and more OUT OF THE ORDINARY, During the fscal year ended June X, 115, wo used 266,868,251 bushels of wheat for Dread making purposes. The mania for combinations has struck even the fraternity which caters to New York's love for fancy dan very pro- fonlonal cakewalkor has <t hin. 1o With tho new organization, which has ralsed the price of “walking” and caused managers to Wax meditative. A confirmed toper of Franklin, Pa., made et previous to the election ihat It Me: Kinley was successful he would subsist entirely on, whisky” for six months, He eseayed to fulfill his obiigation, but after a few diys his stomach revoited and he found it phyaically impossible to continue drink- g. He has now become a strict teetotals The city of Charleston, 8. C., was con- templating having a “carnival’’ this vear, but the subscriptions by the merchants were meager and Ita promoters, disregard- ing that false pride which afMicts most cities in such elrcamstances, have aban- doned the project. But the merchants in- tend that the exposition In Charleston next year shall be a big success, The medical faculty of the University of Holdelborg has made a very Intereating re- ort on e effect of Incandeacent light on he eyes. After having carefully weighed all the proa and cons of the question’ the verdiot fa that the incandescent light is not harmtul. For IEhting large halls oF places of entertainment 18 especially Fecommended from hyglenic points Gf view, Under the headline, “Bounce the Blab- borah Ceanr Hupida paper makes vigor: ous ' protest againat chatterers who Slaturt theater And lecture wudiances.” 1o ofters a reward of $5 to the first usher who will “‘go after such idlots in the proper manner’ and refers to one of them as hav- ing @ mouth that “would be a profitable entorprise if turned into a windmill."” A large Dublin manufacturer has & room entirely furnished with Irish peat. The carpets on the floor, the curtains at the windows and paper on the walls are made from (his substance. For years he has experimented with the material, which is pow very largely exported ns fiel, and he has discovered that from it it |s possible to procure almost any kind of fabrie. The other morning when a teacher opened her schoolroom in Westhoro, Mass., sho found a partridge there. A broken indow pane showed how the bird got into the room, When an attempt was made to capture the partridge it fluttered around the room and finally crashed out through another window. The holes in the ginss are 1 cuty s If made by u heavy object rough the glas Bclence, prompted and urged by the com- merelal instinct, has demonstrated that casein, from ordinary cows' milk, Is quite aw pood for buking is the finest hen ogss and a company with $6,600,000 capital has been formed fo manufacture out of it a Bubatitute for the ‘“fresh’’ and “strictly fresh” product of the poultry yard. One pound of caseln {8 equal to six dozens of eBgs. A 3 bill tssued accordin continental c relic in the Oconomowoc, ures 2%x3Y {nches, was given ent owner by his grandfather. ing words also appear on the face: “Th bill entitles the bearer to reccive fi Spanish milled dollars, or the value thereof In gold or silver, according to a resolution passed at Philadelphia Febru- an act of the is a valuable Paimer of which meas- to the pre: The follo: A war by the farmers and dnirymen of Now York, New lorsey and Pennayivania against the Assoclated Milk exchange, com- monly known as tho milk trust, wili soon bogin. Milk counters are to be’ opened In ail of the out-rate urogery wtorea' (hrough: out the city and the department stores ns bogtnning, which plan of seling Wil in time be extended to overy district of th city, In “This wity the. farmer. will get u better price for the milk and the consumer will save at least 2 cents on each quart, but this means death ‘(o the milk trust and its arbitrary and seifish practices and the utter abolishing of tho milk can svatem. Ench of these tans is supposed to have n rogulation fegni capacity of forty quarts to the can, but in most instances they aro made to Hold forty-seven quarts, the un, suspecting dalryman bein buncoed out of seven quarts of milk at each flling throush the present method of the milk trust. to the germs means health to humanity. The germs which cause Catarrhand Bronchitisand the Grip prepare the way for those which cause Pneu- monia and Con- sumption, Dr. Geo, Leininger's Formaldehyde Inhaler kills 81l theso germs even when they have lodged and begun their work in the deep-seat- ©od air passages of the lungs thomselves. Geo. T. Hawley, M. D., Professor of Lt and Throat Diseases, Chicago Clinical Bchool the largest CHnlcal Behool In the world, says, In writing to Dr. Geo. Leininger: ve been using your Formaldehyde Inhaler for Catarrh, Asthma, Brenchitls, Coughs, Colds and other Nose and Threst atrast. et o N Cilloago, Lii. Book o agw wondertul ver'and Hiad ier roduced M:Cunn-ll Drug Co., Beator Co., Merritt- lguhnm Druj Pharmacy, Tl Bite Drug Btore South Omaba.