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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1895. e e e e e —————————————————————— ORKTORS IN A HEAT Horr and Harvey Con- tinued to Indulge in Personalities. AQUESTION OF VERACITY Each Accused the Other of Willfully Misstating Facts. FRW HEARD THEIR ARGUMENT. When the Debate Was Resumed There Were but Fifty-Three Listeners. [Copyright, 1895, by Azel F. Hatch.] CHICAGO, I, July weather was cooland ple attendance at the Ho Although the nt to-day, the arvey debate There dwindled down very perceptibly. were just fifty-three persons present when Mr. Horr reopened the a n, for the first time since the beginning of the de- bate T g from mantscript. During the nineteenth century all the great coun- tries had a gold standard, he asserted, but had not discarded silver. However, none of them had opened their mints to silver. He dipped into the history of finance in France and was still talking of it when in- terrupted by the bell. Mr. Harvey said he had many requests to putinto the record, the utterances of Ingalls, Blackburn and others on the sub- ject of finance, but owing to the limited number of werds at his disposal, he could not promise to do so. However, he would probably mention them in his 2500-word summary at the end of his part of the de- bate. Anattack on Senator Morrill fol- lowed. “He was not very careful of the truth,” said Mr. Harvey, “when he stated that no silver dollars had been coined for many years pricr to 1873.” Copies of the mint reports for several years previous to 1873 were here submitted, showing that several millions of silver dol- lars had been coined in those periods. “Now,” said the author of “Coin,” *‘if Senator Morrill could not tell the truth in one particular, I have a right to assuma that he could not tell it in another.” Mr. Horr warmly defended Senator Mor- rill. He said: “When Senator Morrill made the asser- tion that there had been no silver dollars coined for many years prior to 1873, he did not mean to be taken literally. He meant that in comparison to the amount of gold coined there had been practically no silyer coined, and that is true. Mr. Harvey has a way I do not like of trying to smirch the character of ever; who differs from . him. Mr. Harvey admits that he made one bad misstatement in his book, and, according to his meihod of argument, I have a right to assume that he is wrong in everything.” Mr. Horr quoted from Mr. Harvey's book that ‘‘the objection to independent bimetallism is that the parity between the two metals cannot be maintained at our ratio of 16 to 1; that is, the gold 22 3-10th grains in the gold dollar will be worth more than the silver 3713 grains in the silver dollar”; and, ‘‘with silver remone- tized and a just and equitable standard of values, we can, if necessary, by act of Congress, reduce the number of grains in a gold dollar till it is the same value as the silver dollar. We can legislate the premium out of gold.” “What becomes of Mr. Harvey’s ratio of 16 to 1?” he asked. “Here is what he virtually says: ‘The gold dollar may be cut down if need be, so that the ratio shall be 16 to 34’ His mathematics, however, are as defective as his veracity. Mathe- matieally, 16 to 4 is the same as 3210 1, so it is not the ratio he cares about.” Mr. Harvey—Mr. Horr says that I deny that the two metals can be kept in circula- tion at a fixed ratio. I have not said that, for they can be, as they have been in this country. I know they have attempted to make you believe that there was no gold in circulation in this country, or seeking the mints, after 1850, but both were misrep- resentations. Mr. Horr flies in the face of history when he says that silver was not used prior to 1873 as a measure of value. Bilver was the unit to that coinage system regulating the size of the gold coins, but the two together were the measure of values, and that is what we mean by the aouble standard. *Now, in 1873, you doubted the length of the yard-stick. [Applause.] Supposeone- Balf of the gold in the world were destroyed to-morrow beyond recovery, would not the gold dollars that were left be twicc as valuable as they were before? Mr. Horr is not a bad pupil and shakes his head. So that when you destroyed one-half of the redemption in 1873, you doubled the value of the money that was left. You can see no harm in destroying the price of a man’s property, cutting the price of his property half in two, but your eyes are wide open when any man proposes to even up with you by proposing to cut the gold dollar halfin two. We don’t wish to do that either; we wish to put back in the coinage system the money that you demonetized in 1873.” [Applause,] Mr. Horr—It is possible that Mr. Har- vey believes thatthe act of 1873, when it demonetized silver, cut the priee of the property of the world in two and that the prices immediately dropped 50 per cent. I was around the world in 1873 and I know that didn’t take place and he knows it. You destroy one-half of the wheat in the world and the chances are you will in- crease the value of wheat probably four times; but wheat is an article that we con- sume from year to year, or after a short time. Gold has been accumulating for egesand if 'you should destroy the pri- mary money quality or half the gold in the world you would not change the price of the metal one-half. As soon as the price would go up there is an enormous store laid away all over the entize world that is not being used for money purposes that would at once seek the channels and be coined into money and take the place of the money that has been destroyed. Referring to his previous quotations from Mr. Harvey’s book, Mr. Horr eaid he read them for the purpose of getting at what the author desired to reach by the free comage of silver, and said that what *‘Coin” wasreally after was a cheap dollar. He would reduce the value of the money unit in this country one-half. Mr. Horr protested against the whole scheme, be- cause it is an effort to cheapen labor. The greatest commodity ever placed on the markets of the world was labor. Was it best to cheapen the unit of value and de- crease the purchasing value of one dollar? He was a believer in cheap prices, and only opposed them when the cheapening of the price was at the expense of th2 men who did the work. Mr. Harvey said that his opponent argued that the dear dollar is of more benefit to laborers than a cheaper dollar. He did net intend to let Mr. Horr cloak himself behind the laboring man. “You have cut in two the number of days that it is possible for men to find labor,” he said; “you have put anywhere from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 laboring men out of employment in this country entirely, and to those laboring men who are now destitute and many of whose leaders are now lying in jail you sing the sweet songs of the high purchasing power of the goid dollar—when he gets it."”” Mr, Harvey then dived into the ratio of bimetallism and reviewed the history of silver in European countries. Returning to the relation that free coin- age bears toward the laboring man Mr.Horr said that in 1879 when the question of metallic money became pre-eminent in this country we resumed specie payments, and the only money of finai redemption was gold. “Do you tell me,”” said he, ‘‘that distress was abroad in the land from that time on? Any man who says so must be ignorant of the work in the United States. Since this Nation began the years from 1879 to 1892 found our people better employed and at better wages than in any other same num- ber of years since this Government was formed. [Applause.] Four million men to-day are out of employment. Where did you get your figures?” Mr. Harvey: “I said from two to four millions.” Mr. Horr: “There is not any truth in either statement. In the years 1879-92 I was in thirty-one States of this Union, and during that entire time I did not visit a ity where the people were not well em- loyed at good wages, and I know that any man who says that from 1879 to 1892 this country was in financial distress and that the laboring men were not then well employed is not well qualified to talk on the subject, because that is not the fact.” Mr. Harvey congratulated the people on Mr. Horr's frank admission that over- production cuts no figure in this con- troversy. never said that.” Mr. Harvey: “Now as to the prosperity of this country between 1879 and 1892—you cannot back down a great Nation like this in one year. It hastaken a short peried to bring us to the bitter cup of disappoint- ment and distress. I know with each four years the present parties have charged each other with having destroyed the pros- perity of the previous four years.” [Ap- planse.] Mr. Harvey referred to the National elections from 1884 to 1892, and said: “Now, since 1892a flood of calamities has come. Don’t you in thls debate refer to the prosperity of this country from 1873 t0 1895? Don’t you refer to the prosperity that has built up miilionaires and multi- millionaires and strewn this country with millions of tramps and paupers and. men that don’t know how they are going to pro- vide for their families in thecoming year?'” [Applause.] The time of the remainder of the debate was occupied in answering questions. RAIDING HEGRD CHURCHES Whites Inaugurate a Reign of Terror in Northern Filorida. The Lights Shot Out and the Pre- siding E!der Driven From His Post. LIVE OAK, Fra., July 23.—The Rev. W. D. Gillislee reports a reign of terror among the negroes of Lafayette and Tay- lor counties. He savs their churches are being raided by white men, congregations dispersed and pastors driven awsy. Mr. Gillislee is the presiding elder of the Live Oak district of the Florida con- ference of the A. M. E. church. Thecoun- ties mentioned are in his district, and he has recently returned from an attempt to fill his appointments. He was roughly treated. He says he was preaching in Laifayette County ‘to a large congregation, when a crowd of armed white men came into the church and stationed themselves near the pulpit. The leader asked Mr, Gillislee: “How long do you expect to remain in this county and live?” Then the whites began to shoot, and Mr. Gillislee and the congregation ran out in & panic. Mr. Gillislee went to Branford, ten miles away, in Suane County. Me made the trip in an hour. He then went to Taylor County, adjoining Lafayette on the west, but was again driven out. While preach- ing at night twenty white men came in and stationed themselves about the pulpit. Gillislee was greatly scared, but kept on preaching. Finally he said, “Sinners, you must be born again or go to perdition.” As he said that there was a howl from the white men and the mob shot out the lights. Mr. Gillislee and the negroes ran out, many being trampled upon. The mob so far have shot no one, their object seemingly being to create terror. Mr. Gillislee said the negroes are scared nearly to death and are fast leaving, many deserting their property. The preacher seems unnerved by his experience, and will never go to Taylor or Lafayette again. He naively says: “Neither Lafayette nor Taylor has any jewels I feel in duty bound to search for.” TR TROUBLE 1IN INDIANA MINES. Ruptures in the Ranks of Unions and Operators. TERRE HAUTE, Isp.,, July 22.—At ‘Washington, Curryville and Star City the operators are paying last year’s scale of 60 cents and the Sullivan company operators have offered to do the same. This dis- pleases the other operators and the miners’ leaders, who say the operators should have expressed a willingness to pay more than the 51 cent scale at the recent conference. The miners’ second vote on accepting the 51 cent scale shows a larger majority in the negative than the first vote. The men are angry with their State officers for re- ferring the proposition to them as they had made known that they would accept noth- ing less than 60 cents, and it is not im- robable that there will be a disruption in he organization. The operators are also at outs among themselves and it will be difficult to hold another joint conference soon. ——aes DEATH CAUSED BY EXCITEMENT. Conductor Bwift Never Recovered From the Effects of a Coxey Soare. TERRE HAUTE, I~p, July 22— Samuel D. Cliit, a veteran conductor of the Vandalia system, known all over the United States, diea this morning from a stroke of paralysis which attacked him in April of last year. The stroke was due to the excitement created b{ the capture of his train by Fry’s army a few miles east of this city when the army was on its way to Washington. Mr. Clift has pot been out out of bed since that day. QUAY LOSING GROUAD The Magee Combine Has the Best of the Fight. AT OUTS WITH CAMERON. Forced to Desert the Silver Champion to Maintain His Strength. CONTROL OF THE CONVENTION. Each Faction Seeks to Manage the Presidential Campalgn In 1896. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22.—The fight against Senator Quay has finally forced that leader to sever his connections with Senator Cameron, and the latter can no longer be regarded as one of the issues of the contest. This action, bad it been taken by Mr. Quay some time ago, might have aided in stemming the tide of pub- lic disapproval that seems to have set in against him. Senator Cameron, with his free-silver ideas and his desire to be a Presidential possibility upon a free- silver platform, made a heavy load for Quay to carry in Pennsylvania, and un- doubtedly aided in the formation of a strong combination against him. It is believed here that Mr. Quay’s decla- ration upon the money question and in op- position to the aspirations of Senator Cam- eron, both in connection with the Presi- dency and another term in the Senate, comes too late to do him any good, but the consequences are more serious to Sen- ator Cameron than to Mr. Quay. The lat- ter runs the risk of losing control of the Republican organization in the State; but even in the event of defeat he has four years in which to recover, while for Came- ron the dissolution of his connection with Quay probably ends his political career. Not even silver men will be willing to treat with him unless he can demonstrate that he has a strong following in Pennsylvania, and this he will be unable to de. Clerk of the House Kerr, who has just returned after a trip through Pennsylva- nia, says the Democrats of the Keystone State will make the most of the opportu- nities which this factional fight in the Re- publican ranks there presents. “From what I observed, the Hastings- Martin-Magee organization has the better of the fight so far,” said he. *‘The cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg are con- trolled by a combine, all of the delegates elected in Pittsburg being anti-Quay, with Philadelphia reasonably sure of going the same way, and the combine is strongin many eastern and eentral counties. The western districts, with the exception of the Magee contingent in Allegheny County, are almost solid for the Senator. “The fact is, Quay was taken unawares. He was not aware that a combination to wrest the control of the party organization in the State was being formed until it had gotten in its work in some of his strong- holds.” The battle of the Quay and anti-Quay factions is attracting not a little attention in Washington, as the opinion prevails here that its outcome will have an im- portant bearing on National Republican politics next year. The belief is general that the control of the Pennsylvania dele- gation in the National Republican Con- vention is at the bottom of the fight, the opponents of Senator Quay raising the issue of Quay or anti-Quay this year to strengthen their organization for the elec- tion of National delegates. It is understood that Quay desires to be chairman of the National Republican Com- mittee, and direct the campaign for the Presidency. WOULD BRL PROSPERITYX. Opinion of a Capitalist on the Effect of a Silver Standard. NEW YORK, N.Y., July 22.—A special from the City of Mexico says: The silyver agitation in the United States is much discussed in financial circles here. A leading capitalist of this city, who has large financial connections in England and the United States, said to-day: “The immediate effects of the United States becoming a silver country would be felt by corporations owing gold in Europe and also by the Government, which has a old debs held abroad, ese Woul geld debs held abroad, Th 1d be the sufferers at the outset of the transfor- mation of the United States into a silver- standard country. “But the United States, having a wide nmqe of climates and varied productions, a self-supporting country, capable of feed- ing the immense population and of cloth- ing it without going outside, and not be- lnf under the necessity of paging a heavy gold premium for many of the necessities of life, a8 is the case of some countries on a ‘silver basis, can adjust itself to the new condition with comparative ease. “Without doubt the United States would become the largest exporting country in the world, having every class of manufac- wured product, would export to the very countries from which they now import heavily. In this the United States would become a formidable competitor of Eu- rope. The cost of labor and production would gradually be regulated by the value of the dollar in silver. “The value to be gained by sellin cuitural products and mlnu{uctumg (the cost of which would be paid in silver) to gold-using countries is the gold pre- mium, which, naturally, would vary with the price of silver. There is no doubt in my mind that products of all kinds would nfiidly increase, just as in Mexico selling coifee abroad for gold, while all the ex- penses of raising are paid in silver, has in- creased the production fivefold within a few years, “‘Therefore, I believe it would not be detrimental to the United States to become a silver-standard country., There would be such an enormous increase in produc- tion and in the volume of business that the railronds would gain in 1increased traffic what they lose by having to pay their in- terest charges abroad in gold.” COXEY FOR GOVEENOR. WAl Be Nominated by the Populists of Ohio. agri- goods | j erty will probably be confirmed and the title fully transferred to-morrow or on ‘Wednesday. Then it wili be incumbent upon the reorganization committee to or- anize the new company and select a new rd of directors for it as the plan and agreement of reorganization provide. No selection of officers has yet been made, and the committee cannot do anything definite until the sale is finally made. e i GRAND STAND GAVE WAY. 4 Catastrophe to Spectators at a Base- ball Game. OELWEIN, Towa, July 22.—Just as the crowd was cheering a good play msade by a member of the Dubuque club, at the West Union baseball park this afternoon, the grand stand gave way, throwing 500 people into one struggling mass to the ground be- low and piling upon them boards and !hins]el from the roof above. Few es- iqvg without bruises or scratches of some ind. The most seriously injured are: O. W. Clemens, ex-County Attorney, internally injured; Charles Schrader of Randalia, Iowa, right leg broken. While no one was killed outright & number of those who were in the accident will carry marks of it for many days to come. rita8 The accident occurred durmg a game of ball between the Dubuques of the Towa league and the Upper University club of Fayette. SRS MINERS IN A RI1OT. Troudle Caused by an Attempt to Levy a Charitable Contribution. SPRING VALLEY, IrL, July 22.—A mass-meeting of miners was held here this morning and broke up in a riot. As a re sult nearly a dozen men are nursing broken heads. The cause of the disturbance was an at- tempt to pass a resolution binding miners 10 pay a b-cent contribution on each ton of coal they mine to their striking brethren in Indisna to sustain them in their fight againsta reduction. The miners of the non-English-speaking class, which is greatly in the majority, proclaim that they are ready to strike in an hour’s notice. LEF A WVTHGAL ESTATE Heirs of Dr. Leet Found Their Legacy to Be Without Value. The Fortune Thought to Awalt Them in Los Angeles Falled to Materiallze. SCRANTON, Pa., July 22.—It was an- nounced to-day that the fortune of $30,000, which the late Dr. Allen Norton Leet, a newspaper man, stated had been left him by Henry B. Carey, a Los Angeles (Cal.) millionaire, is a myth. The legacy, Dr. Leet announced, was bequeathed him in payment of a loan of $500 to Carey when both men resided in Newark, N. J., thirty years ago. Dr. Leet died suddenly in Scranton on June 11 and his executor telegraphed to Wells & Les, a Los Angeles law firm, re- garding the matter. Subsequent corre- spondence showed the whole affair to be a forgery and that no such estate was on record in Los Angeles. Dr. Leet, on Feb- ruary 15, shortly after Carey’s supposed death, went to Los Angeles to secure the legacy, but learning that he had been duped kept the matter secret and an- nounced to his family that he would re- ceive the fortune in installments. The son and widow of Dr. Leet, however, do not believe the fortune to be mythical, and they say they will make a further investi- gation. ATLANTIC COAST PIRATES A Black Yacht That Is Terror- izing Summer Resorts of Connecticut. Young Buccaneers Who Make a Business of Looting Pleasure- Boats and Resldences. NEW YORK, N, Y., July 22.—When Sheriff Hawkins of London County, Conn., rounded up Bill Holloway, the Long Island pirate, it was thought the cruises of the notorious *Black Yacht” were ended for- ever. Holloway was sent to State prison, but a leader has risen in his place, and a gang of desperadoes much more reckless and determined is terrorizing summer resi- dents and yacht-owners along the Con- necticut shore of the sound from Execu- tion Light to Newport. Nearly every day complaintsare received from some point along the shore of cot- tages looted, banks, postoffices and rail- road stations robbed or yachts plundered. The last-named sort of business seems to be the special forte of the sea-robbers, and already this season they have stolen enough rigging, sails, cables and anchors to equip a fleet. It is pretty certain the lunder is taken to New York and pawned, ut, although the metropolitan detectives have been informed, they have not as yet succeeded in tracing any part of the booty. The most daring and” audacious robbe that the gang has yet committed tool place the other night at Fort Adams, New- port. Just at dusk a black {:cht dropped into the harbor. She came to anchor and to all appearances made everything sny; for the night. The next morning the cra! was gone; so were wearing apparel and jewelry valued at $1000, taken from the rooms of two lieutenants in the fort. Sen- tinels are on duty all night in and about the fort, with instructions to shoot any one who fails to halt when called upon, and it shows the expertness ana recklessness of the robbers when they took such chances and so sucoessfully accomplished their ob- ject. [t is reported by a SBouth Nerwalk lob- sterman, who got alongside the craft when becalmed in a fog, that the crew was com- sed of young fellows haraly more than 1 years of age. But the lobsterman was not long in obeying the command to “sheer off."” Three weeks ago the yacht was seen late one afternoon hovering off Indian Harbor, at Greenwich. That night two summer cottages were broken into and a large amount of valuables taken. The next day a fleet tughoat was engaged and cruised for miles up and down the coast, but nota trace of the yacht could be discovered, and this fact gives color to the theory of old shore dwellers that as soon as the crew has ‘‘turned a trick” the boat shoots across the sound and hides in some 1solated inlet. The yacht is sloop-ri and carriesa larze amount of canvas. -It is a fast sailer, and the mannerin w. her crew handles ber shows they are far from being land- CHIOAGO, Irn., July 22.—A special | lub from Springfield, Ohio, says: Jacob B. Coxey, the Commonweal re- former, will be the Populist nominee for Governor. 8o said T. J. Creager of this city, chairman and member of the Peo- ple's party State Exccutive Committee, “Mr. Coxey is the only man nemed for the nomination,” explained Mr. Creager. “Populists with one accord seem to want him for their standard-bearer. Coxey will be nominated by acclamation. The con- vention will be held at Columbus, S8eptem- ber1and 2.” New England lommhat_lm NEW YORK, N. Y., July 22.—New Eng- land advanced to 51 bid this afternoon on statements thav the decree of sale of prop- lubbers. —_—— Coupler Works Destroyed. BUFFALO, N. Y., July 22.—The Gounld Coupler Works on Austin street, near the New York Central tracks, was destroyed bf tire this afternoon; loss about $200,000. housands of dollars worth of valuable patterns are The destruction of the plant throws over a hundred men out of employment. The plant was heavily in- sured and the loss to the firm will be small. —_——— Joined the United Press. AMSTERDAM, N. Y., July 22.—The Morning Sentinel began on Baturday night toreceive the leasea service of the United Press and the I'ew York Asso- ciated Press, GAINED ON EACH LEG Defender Easily Won on the Triangular Course. VIGILANT BADLY BEATEN Friends of the Centerboarder Forced to Admit Its Inferiority. SAILED IN A LIGHT BREEZE The Race Conslidered a Falr Test of the Relative Speed of the Boats. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 22.—If there was any doubt of the Defender’s superior- ity over the Vigilant after Saturday’s race it was digpelled to-day. The new aspirant for the international championship ran away from the old champion on every leg, and defeated her handily over the thirty- mile course by 9 minutes 17 seconds. The official time was: ATART. FIRST MARK. Defender’s gain on first leg SECOND MARK. Defender. Vigilan Detender’s galn on second leg. FINISH. Defender. Vigilant. Defender’s galn on last le; ELAPSED TIME. Defender Vigilant . Difterence of time in favor of Defender. The race was over a triangular course with ten miles to a leg. The start and finish was at the Scotland lightship. The first side of the triangle was a broad reach balf way with the wind light from west- southwest, and a slight change in the wind made it a run free with spinnakers the rest of the way. The second side of the tri- angle was started as a close reach, but a change in the wind made it a beat to wind- ward. This change happened to come ata time when it gave the Defender the most advantage. The last side of the triangle was a reach with wind abeam. The De- fender made gains, and the net result of the race was a handsome victory for the new boat. . The Vigilant sailed a beautiful race, but ouly for a few moments did she appear to have any kind of a chance with the keel boat. It was when the wind, which was light at the start, died down to a faint zephyr that the centerboarder crept up on her rival, remained by her side a few moments and then, inch by inch, moved ahead. There were yachtsmen on the club steamer, who said that the great Ameri- can institation, the centerboard, was about to be vinaicated, and the hated keel type placed in the rear. But the Vigilant did not show more than half her length before her rival’s bow. The wind freshened a trifle and the peer- less new boat made & wonderful response. Like a thing of life she glided forward, parting the waters cleanly and leaving scarcely a speck of foam in her wake. She walked past the Vigilant and continued to leave her during the rest of the run—the close reach, the beating to windward and the reach home. In all points of sailing, the new boat demonstrated her ability to defeat the Vigilant in the light air which prevailed off S8andy Hook. 1In the morning, a couple of hours before the race, the sky was overcast on every hend, and most of those who went down the bay on clubboats and excursion steam- ers provided themselves with umbrellas. In spite of the cloudiness, however, it was clearer on the surface of the water than it had been on Saturday. There was no haze to restrict the spectators’ horizon. In the upper bay there was hardly a breath of wind, and there were many who expected that the tace would be a drifting match. As the steamers and yachts began to gather about the Bcotland light, from where the start was to be made, there was still little prospect of a breeze. The clouds were almost continuous overhead, but now and then a faint glint on the water gave promise of sunshine to come. The two contestants were off Sandy Hook shortly after 10 o’clock with sails hoisted, waiting for signals from the judges’ boat Sylvia to show how the course would lie. The Sylvia had come to anchor near the Scotland lightship, and that indicated that the start would be made from her and not from the Sandy Hook lightship. A little later she ran up three flags, signaling that the first leg of the triangular course would be southeast one-half east, the second west- southwest and the third north one-half east. The wind, which was still very light, was blowing from west-southwest. The yachts were going through their paces near the lightship, affording the spectators an excellent chance to compare them. The change in the Defender’s top- sail, which was shortened about two feet on Bunday, made her resemble the Vigi- lant more strongly than ever. The Vigi- lant was carrying all plain sail with her balloon jib in stops. The Defender had out the same canvas, except that her jib was also in stops. At 11:15 the preparatory gun was fired from the Sylvia, and the two racers tacked and maneuvered for position for the next ten minutes. At 11:25 the second gun was sounded, notifying the yachts that they had two minutes in which to cross the line. The Defender, as on Saturday, was the first over, and was followed by the Vigi- lant 31 seconds later, The start nearly resulted in disaster. The Vigilant was standing for the line a few seconds before the starting gun was boomed. She broke out her balloon jibtopsail and was racing for the line at a rate which would take her across ahead of the gun. The De- fender was pointing diagonally toward the line, with the Vigilant on her starboard bow. Had both held their course there would have been a collision. The De- fender had the right of way and held on, forcing the Vigilant to round up in the wind and narrowly miss hitting the Scot- land lightship. The Vigilant displayed a protest flag as a result of this maneuver. The Defender swnng across the line thirty seconds after the gun-fire. The Vigilant ‘was thirty-one seconds later. The Defender broke out her balloon jib topsail immediately after crossing the line. The wind was west-northwest, and it was a broad reach with booms to port st first. There was barely enough wind to fill the sails. The sails of the Vigilant seemed to set better than those of the Defender. The latter held her lead of about three cable-lengths until the wind died down to almost nothing, when the Vigilant slowly but surely began to creep up on her. Then the wind canted a trifle, and at 11:40 the Vigilant broke out her big spin- naker. The Defender followed suit one minute later. Both retained balloon-jib- topsails and the Vigilant used a larger jib than the Defender. The center-boarder showed the advantage of her type by cut- ting down the lead of the Defender untilat 11:55 both boats were side by side. Yachts- men held their breath while the champion of 1893 and the type of 1895 raced. like the wind, he sloops held together as by an invisible link. At 12 o’clock the Vigilant began to creep ahead inch by inch, until her mast was even with the Defender’s jibboom. With center-board pushed up the Vigilant slipped ahead, while the Defender’s keel, reaching down nineteen feet, held her back. It was a victory for the center-board, but it was not for long. At 12:57:01 the Defender swept around the flag, breaking the other No. 3 jib topsail as she did so. Two minutes and seven sec- onds laterthe Vigilant made the turn. She also broke the other No. 3 jib topsail, and the two yachts started on & close reach with booms to port. The scene on board of both yachts was one of greatest activity. One minute the crews were seen stretched out on deck at full length, the next they were scurrying hither and hither, pulling at one line and tightening another. They seemed to work quickly and with great precision. Sails were taken in with marvelous rapidity on both racers. Cap- tains Haff and Barr certainly had their men well in hand, as the excellent disci- pline of the crews was evident. The breeze had freshened and both boats keeled over somewhat. The Defender pointed higher than the Vigilant and carried her canvas better. This breeze soon began to die out again, however, and haunted the sound more to the west. The Defender had been gaining slowly and was far enough ahead to get the benefit at times of ehanging winds that died out before they reached the Vigilant. Several times when the Defender’s sails were all drawing the Vigilant’s head sails showed a tendency to flutter. The uncertain wind continued to grow lighter. Under these circumstances the Defender made the best gains of the race. She had luck, but it was evident that she was the better as well. At 1:53, after a board which lasted for thirty-tive minutes, the Vigilant changed to the port tack. This was due to a new change in the wind, which was now blow- ing from southwest by west, and in a mo- ment the Defender tacked too. She was then about three-eighths of a mile ahead, Fifteen minutes later both boats were about again on the starboard tack. On this short board the Defender had made a good gain. It was one of the times when the breeze favored her. The Vigilant got the benefit of it a little later, but the Defender continued to out- foot her. The new boat was sailing beau- tifully, rocking gently and sliding quickly through the water. She seemed - to gain every minute. ‘ At 2:19 the Defender again made a short tack to port. The Vigilant kept on her course. Atthe end of three minntes the Defender went back to the starboard tack. She had opened up a lead of a mile by this time. Twenty minutes later she tacked for the second buoy, which was just off Long Branch, pretty well in shore. Captain Haff had figured very nicely and the turn was made by the closest kind of a shave at 2:50:11. A few seconds before the Defender rounded the buoy the Vigilant went about and stood away for the mark. She made it at 2:57:50, more than seven minutes be- hind. The breeze began to freshen again and the two yachts, with wind abeam and aboom to starboard, squared away for the reach home. They were both keeled over and racing through the water. The Defender had opened np a terrible gap by this time, and the Vigilant was plainly out of it. She hung on gamely, though, butin the ten-mile run she lost 2 minutes and 9 seconds more. The De- fender simply outran her. The flotilla of steam yachts and tugs were put to their best to cateh the Defender before she got home. At the end a good sailing breeze developed. The Defender crossed the line at 3:45:00, winning the $200 cup, and the steam whistles screeched joyfully. The Vigilant was far astern, and the De- fender had proved herself the better boat on all points of sailing except in the faint~ est sort of breeze. When the Vigilant crossed at 3:54:48 there were more cheers and whistles for the champion of 1893, The Defender sailed proudly up the bay, escorted by a score of steam yachts and ex- cursion boats. At the Narrows she took a tug and was towed to City Island. The Vigilant sailed up through the main ship channel inside the Horseshoe at Sandy Hook, where she remained for the night. BABY MARION'S BIG TASK, WIll Start in Motion the Ma. chinery at the Atlanta Exposition. When the Button Is Touched at Gray Gables the Wheels Will Turn. ATLANTA, GA., July 22.—Baby Marion Cleveland will probably touch the button that will start the machinery at the open- ing of the Cotton States and International Exposition. The Western Union will run a wire to Gray Gables and another to the exposition grounds here. An operator in Atlanta will give the signal and at the other end, a thousand miles away, atouch of the button will send the current that starts the wheels. The exposition directors desire that the little ‘“Maid Marion” shall tonch the but- ton. If she does not it will be Mr. or Mrs. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland was originally invited to come to the opening on Septem- ber 18. He replied that his engagements would allow him to remain here but a few hours on that day 1if he should come, and proposed to come on October 18, which will be President’s day. e 2 T Assaulted by Burglars. ST.LOUIS,Mo.,July 22.—Morris Lederer, a butcher on Easton avenue, was brutally assaulted and robbed at his home at 3 o’clock this morning by an unknown white and a colored man, who secured $600 in money and $800 in bonds and escaped. He was found later in a dazed and_speechless condition, with his hands bound and sev- eral severe wounds on the head. Ao i, Malden Sailed for Australia. HARTFORD, Coxx., July 22.—John T. Malden, the defaulting treasurer of the Dime Savings Bank of Willimantic, who left that city Thursday, is believed to have sailed from New York for Australia on Saturday. The bank vaults were opened this morning, and the exact shortage found to be 900, WAGHT ICT IVALD Continued from First Page. irrigation district officers relied on the State Supreme Court decision, there will be the worst of confusion, “If the Ross decision is affirmed,’’ con= tinued Judge Lee, “it will undo every- thing. In some places water corporations have been organized and gone to work. These will not be materially affected, bit where bonds have been Ia ued there will be trouble and suits ga . Irrigation is thelife of the central and southern por- tion of the State and the act was a laud- able. attempt at righteous legislation despite the unfavorable features I have mentioned. “The next Legislature will have the task of reforming the Wright law and lopping off objectionable and arbitrary portions. As it is the whole affairis involved in the greatest confusion and no one can tell when it will be cleared up. The measure was both good and bad and it is to be re- gretted that the latter quality invalidated the former.” Capitalists who have facilities for obtain- ing information as to holdings of ir bonds assert that the banking 1nst of this State did not lend much money on bonds of this character. No money be- longing to the State school fund or univer- sity fund was invested in irrigation bonds. The sinking fund securities are mostly State and county bonds ' FOUGHT AT A DANCE. Several Deaths Resulted From an Attempt to Expel a Couple. GALLATIN, Texx,, July 22.—At a dance given at Speakville, in the northern portion of this county, Saturday night West Dixon and his wife, who were disliked by the people there, attended. They were ordered from the grounds, and withdrew to a wagon near by. Dixon was attacked by Bill Davidson, a moons hiner, and shot the latter dead. Dixon and his wife then ran into the bushes, pursued by several men, firing as they ran. Dixon fell with five bullets in his body. His wife received a bullet in her hip that will~ likely prove fatal, while Dixon is expected to die. PRSI Fratricide and Swicide. CEDAR RAPTDS, Towa, July 22.—Henry Rolin, a young farmer living near Man- chester, last night shot and killed his brother. Henry was upstairs when he saw his brother in the yard, and taking a shot- un_fired, blowing away the back of his Erother's head. 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