REFORM IS NEEDED. Public Schools of Washington Are Far Behind the Times. A* Cmigre** Makri Ihr I.aw* for the District of Colombia All Citl icua Are Interented la This Matter. [Special Washington Letter.] "You have been told of the splendid educational advantages which are afforded to young men and young women in this national capital, but there is another story to be told on that subject. Higher education is desirable only for those who aspire to high places in public affairs and in social life. Com mon school education is desirable for the masses. Every child should have a common school education, and it were better far that every child should learn to read and write and cipher than that a chosen few should have collegiate and university advantages. The common schools of this city are not worthy of the national capital, be cause they are not conducted on com mon sense principles. Consequently the children receive educations which are impractical, because they do not fit the boys and girls for practical contact with the world. in the first place, surprising as it may eeem, grammar is not taught in our common schools, nor in our high schools. One of the young lady gradu ates of the high school, a near relative of the narrator, this evening said: *'l am now going to college and am studying Latin and Greek. It is abso lutely necessary to study grammar in order to learn the first principles of those languages, and hence 1 am study ing grammar. I never studied gram mar while I was in the public schools here, nor in the high school. What I know of English grammar was learned by absorption, by the lessons learned at home, when my speech was correct ed by my father and mother. So far as the public schools are concerned, I might have been graduated in complete Ignorance of the correct methods of speaking or writing my mother tongue. "Moreover," she continued, "they did not teach spelling in the public schools, and very few of the high school gradu ates know how to spell correctly. In Latin and Greek I find that it is abso lutely necessary to know how to spell every word, in order to be able to use the dictionary intelligently, when at tempting to translate sentences and paragraphs into English, llence lam beginning, although a high school graduate, to turn my attention to the correct spelling of the English lan guage. Of course, lam not a poor spell er, but I am not a good speller because spelling was never taught me in the public schools." This statement is so surprising that j it would not be deemed worthy of quo- I tation or belief, but for the fact that the writer has personal knowledge of its truthfulness. High school gradu ates have attempted to write short ll llllw v WJP ipl'™ A PICNIC CLASS. fcand and transcribe their notes on the typewriter, and have demonstrated their utter inability to do even that kind of work, because they do not know how to spell. For example, graduates of the Wash ington high schools acting as stenog raphers for years for your correspon dent have written out the word "al right," supposing that the words "all right," so commonly used, constitute but one word spelled as above. Scores of them use the word "anythink" for anything. Hundreds of them say: "1 taken" or "he taken" for"I took" or ' lie took." The young men and young women who syak and spell in that manner are gnduares of the Washington high schools. There is not a common school in the Ohio, Mississippi or Missouri val leys, or in the lake region, where the first principles of practical education arc so neglected. There is probably no" a teacher on the prairies who would not be ashamed to graduate pupils in su< h ignorance of spelling and gram mar. Elocution is something of which the pupils in our schools know nothing. The teachers are graduates of our high schools. They were never taught spell ing, grammar or elocution, and hence they cannot teach what, they do not know. Therefore it is that our boys and girls do not know how to read well. If asked ;o read a column or a para graph from a newspaper they stammer and stumble over it like children in the infant classes. Instead of teaching arithmetic as it slioi'Jd be taught, the children are given lessons whicu they may learn or not, according to their home influences, and when they have been graduated they are unfit for any business requir ing computation. Hundreds of them do not know the multiplication tables, and yet they have diplomas setting forth that they have completed their educations. It is all right for such, young men as Henry Clay. Abraham Lincoln or James A. Garfield to ca»ve out educations for themselves ana attain the highest scholastic excellence by tneir own ex ertions, and it is equally all right for the sons of wealthy men to be carried through the schools ami colleges. Hut the sons of rich men seldom amount to much, and the Clays, Lincolns and Gar ilelds are but few and far between. The common schools and high schools should lie conducted for the purpose of giving practical education to the mil lions who will soon be men and wom en, bearing upon their shoulders, minds and hearts the burdens of the repub lic, and they should be well grounded in the first principles of education. In all of the grades of our public schools the teachers are required, will ingly or otherwise, to make excursions into the hills and woods surrounding this city, taking the children with them with the alleged purpose of studying botany and geology. The days thus spent are picnic days, and they come quite often. The children are obliged to pay their own car fare, no matter how poor their parents may be. This is as unfair as it is unwise. The chil dren do not need botany or geology, nor will they ever have need of knowledge of those branches in after life. But all of them will have need of knowledge of 1 n v=Q ; V !I] TRYING TO WRITE SHORTHAND. reading, writing, spelling and arith metic. And those studies are not taught them. Business men need not less than 2,000 words with which to express their ideas fluently and freely. The average high school graduate in this <?ity does not know more than 1,000 words, and does not know how to spell more than half of those words accurately. And when they come to work for men in journalism, or other literary pursuits, these high school graduates are help less, because they do not understand the words spoken to them, any more than they would understand the words of a foreign language. These extreme statements are made as a result of per sonal experience in dealing with the graduates of these schools. Inasmuch as the boys and girls are not taught to be accurate in their spell ing, they carry through life with them j tlovenly intellectual habits. Some of ! them study law and medicine, but they do not know how to spell the technical terms used in their professions. One of them, now a practicing physician, re cently gave a receipt to a patient, for "fourty-nin dolls." Another, a young lawyer, wrote to a client: "Pleas cal son as possble." Young men so educated cannot rise. Scholarly men know exactly where to place half-educated men. Hut the men of limited or slovenly education never can understand the completely educat ed men about them, llenee the high school graduates of this city seldom know how to choose a profession, or how to succeed in one. It is an imcon troverted truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. The highways and by ways of history are strewn with the wrecks of the iives of men who mistook their callings, or who were not well equipped educa tionally for any calling. Many a youth who would have been a first-rate me chanic is forced into a learned profes sion, and "with all his blushing hon ors thick upon his vacant head" set tles down to kill people scientifically, pouring drugs,of which he knows little, into bodies of which he knows less. "Tompkins forsakes his last and awl For literary squabbles; Styles himself poet: but his trade Remains the same—he cobbles." Thus it appears tii«.t scores, if not hundreds, of men and women become teachers in the public schools, who might better be in trade of some kind. Thus it appears that there are superin tendents or members of school boards who know little about teaching, but have power to employ teachers who know less. Consequently our public schools are in need of competent su pervision. which will result in com plete reformation of method and of means for giving practical education to our young people. Upon whom to flx the responsibility for the deplorable condition of our pub lic schools the writer does not know. It is enough for the present to state the facts. The congress is the lawmaking body of this city, and the facts herein presented will be laid before the con gress by a body of leading citizens, and legislation will be asked requir ing the public schools of the District ol' Columbia to teach reading, spelling, writng and arithmetic in the first, see and third grades. After that, if chil dren require higher education, they may be taught something of the sci ences, and maybe of the dead lan guages. Hut reform must be wrought in our public school system. SMITH D. FRY. A Fnrreone Conclusion. ( holly Weally, Mabel, 1 didn't mean what I said at all. In fact, I spoku without thinking. Mabel <th, I never doubted that fora moment. —N. Y. Journal. Cot Wlmt II)- Ankcil For. Ca-cy—See here! thot dollar ye liul me yisterday wuz a countei feit. Cussidy Well. Casey, didn't ye saj ye wanted it bad? —Judge. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1900 EIGHTY YEARS OLD. Miss Susan B. Anthony Has Reached the Four-Score Mark. InltraKlila Will Observe February IS, lIHIII, a m ■ Day on Which to l'»f Tribute to 'l'liel* UimlnKulaheil l.ead-vr's Work. The National American Woman Suf frage association will celebrate tlia Wghtjeth birthday of their great lead er. Susan li. Anthony, in a manner befitting her grand work for human ity. A committee appointed for tin* purpose is making preparations for a public meeting in honor of the event, which will take place on February 15, in Lafayette opera house, Washington, D. C. In the evening of the same day there will be a card reception for Miss An thony, at which she will receive with members of the birthday committee. The occasion will be one of interest in many ways. Those having the ar rangements in charge are: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chair man; .Rachel Foster Avery, secretary; Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio; May Wright Sewall, Indiana; Mary I?. Clay, Kentucky; Emily M. Gross, Illinois; Mrs. Senator liurrows, Michigan; Mrs. Senator Warren, Wyoming; Lucy E. Anthony, Perinsylvania, and Harriet Stanton Blatch, of England. Prominent women representing all phases of woman's work and experi ence will present to Miss Anthony their greetings, and express their sense of recognition of what her la tors have meant to their respective efforts. There is not a woman to-day, no matter what her position, who hag touched any of the really vital issues of life, who has not been helped to some degree by the efforts of Miss An thony and her compeers. This celebration will follow the close of the National Woman Suffrage con vention, which will be in session In Washington from February 8-15. When Miss Anthony began her work woman was a chattel in the eye of the law; shut out from all advantages of SUSAN 13. ANTHONY. (For Fifty Years Leader of the Woman's Suffrage Movement.) higher education and opportunities in the industrial world; an utter de pendent on man; occupying a subordi nate position in the church; restrained to the narrowest limits along social lines; an absolute nonenity in politics. To-day American women are envied by those of other nations, and stand comparatively free individuals, with the exception of political disabilities. During the 50 years which have wrought this revolution. Miss Anthony is the one woman in all the world who has given every day of her time, every dollar of her money, every power of her being, to secure these results. She was impelled to this work from no per sonal grievance, but solely through a deep sense of the injustice which, on every side, she saw perpetrated against her sex, and which she determined to combat. Never for one short hour has the cause of woman been forgotten or put aside for any other object. Never a single tie has been formed, either of affection or business, which would interfere with this supreme pur pose. Never a speech has been given, a trip taken, a visit made, a letter written in all this half century of her efforts that has not been done direct ly in the interest of this one object. There has l>een no thought of personal comfort, advancement or glory} the self-abnegation, the self-sacrifice have been absolute —they have been unpar alleled. Future generations will wonder what manner of people those were who not only permitted this woman to labor for humanity for 50 years almost unaided, but also compelled her to beg or earn the money with which to carry on her work. Too often these facts are forgotten or ignored by those who have been most benefited by her la bors. They see glory in the fact that money is entirely their own now to do with as they please, but do not know, or will not admit, that the statutes which guarantee this independence were passed by the efforts of Miss An thony and her compeers. That they may express in some small degree their appreciation of Miss An thony's life of self-sacrificing labor, in their behalf, the women have arranged this celebration to take place upon her eightieth birthday. Women >lnl, lnif Uniform*. Over 1.000 women are at present mak ing uniforms for English soldiers. Khaki is a dyed cotton, but what it is d.yed with the government officials themselves do not know. The firm that discovered it keeps the secret very much to itself. To guard against mis fits the English army clothing stores make the uniforms in no less than 30 different sizes. Hot Water for llcmluclicn. Ordinary headaches almost tilwnv* yield HI I lie simultaneous application of hot water lo the feel and back of the neck. RAILWAY TRUST. A Gigantic Combine of Trunk Lines Is Planned. Hallway 'lumiuli* ure Kald to be Working oil a Scheme to < lilte the (•real Itoad* of tin- Country Into the ol All I <1 iistrlul < oimoIl<latlon». Chicago, Jan. 19.—The Tribune says: In order to carry out their an ti-commission agreement it is propos ed jow to combine all the railroads in the country in a big passenger pool and operate it in such a way that each road will get an agreed percentage of the earnings, liy such action no pos sible profit can accrue to any of the roads from ignoring the agreement. Each road is to be allowed to carry all the passengers is can secure, but any road that should manage to get more than its allotted proportion would have its labor for its pains, as the profits would goto the competing roads which have failed to carry their proportion of the business. The eastern roads have all voted in favor of this scheme and a committee of western railroad executive ollicials is now at work to get nil the western lines into the combination. The railroad magnates do not admit that the formation and maintenance of a passenger pool would constitute a violation of the law. It has always been the contention of the railroads that the section of the inter-state commerce act forbidding pools relates only to freight traffic and does not affect passenger business in any way, anil it now seems to be their determi nation to act and fight it out on this presumption. The fact that President Felton, of the Alton, is chairman of the committee insures the co-opera tion of the Alton and I'nion Pacific railroads, have been opposed to pools heretofore. The Great North ern, which always has been a .stum bling block in the way of pools and steadfastly refused to join the combi nations of that kind, is said to have been won over. The Chronicle says: As a result of the recent consolidations and agree ments among the owners of the great trunk railways east of Chicago the en tire transportation system between the Mississippi river and the Atlantic seaboard is to be reorganized, involv ing the following changes: The aban donment of the city ticket offices of all the roads in the syndicate in Chi cago, New York, Philadelphia, Bostou, Buffalo, Haiti more, Washington, Pitts burg. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Peoria and St. Louis and the substitution of joint offices In each city. The discharge of all city, general, traveling and district freight and passenger agents and solicitors 'jf the eastern roads i,i all parts of the United States, Canada, and Europe. This will affect nearly 50,000 men. The abolition of fell forms of com missions heretofore paid for the sale of tickets over these roads will affect the incomes of 10,000 agents and elim inate the scalpers. A number of through fast passenger trains putin service during the past few years as the re.suft of sharp com petition will be abandoned, together with all fast freight trains. All the big competitors of the big systems are in with the combining movement and stand readv togo into any deal that will maintain rates and reduce expenses. Several small inde pendent roads in the west and north west are to be purchased. The fail ure of congress to legalize pooling Is given as the cause of the consolida tion, as the owners are determined to poo I if the purchase of ever'- railroad in the country is uecessarv to obtain that end. THE CABLE BROKE. Two Men Killed and Three Kiidly In jured l>) an Kit-valor Accident. New York, Jan. 1!). —Two men were killed and three possibly fatally in jured in the falling of an elevator yes terday in the storage warehouse of OMJeiily Pros. At the time of the ac cident the elevator v\as at the ninth floor of the building and had just been loaded with five wheelbarrows tilled with firebrick. There were five men on the elevator, .lust as the elevator started downward one of the cables broke, letting the elevator loose, and it went down to the basement with frightful rapidity. The total distance of the fall is 140 feet. The elevator was crushed to splinters. On the way down it fore out the brick partitions and did so much damage that the iron counterbalance weights were loosened, allowing them to fall on top of the el evator. The weights killed the men in the elevator. The dead men were crushed in a frightful manner. The injured men bore no marks on their bodies, nor were any of their bones broken. They were all uncon scious. however, and were removed to a hospital. They are in a precarious condition. The superintendent of the building. Thomas Perry, was arrested, lie claimed that the elevator was reg ularly inspected by licensed inspectors and that no warninir was given of the parting of the cable. A Ileiiiarkable Ca*e. Baltimore, Jan. 19.—The post-mor tem examination of the body of Charles I'. Seeberger, the electrician, who was shot last Saturday night it Brunswick, Mil., by Conductor Swart ly, and died Tuesday, revealed the fact that Seeberger lived 60 hours with a bullet hole through the center of his heart. A Street Car Dynamited. Sprinirfiehl. 111., .Tail. 10. A car of flic Consolidated Street liailwav Co. was dynamited last night in the busi ness portion of the city and near po lice headquarters. The fore trucks of the ear were broken and several windows and the track torn up. Smallpox ii: Indiana. Indianapolis. Jan. 19. The state board of health has received word that 15 new cases of smallpox have appear ed ill Clav county. .Nine new cases were reported yesterday from Vander burg count I '. T he disease prevails in 14 counties of the state. ASKS FOR AN INJUNCTION. niMuurl'a Attorney t.nirral Ht-qiioati tin' Sii|iri'ini' 4 onrt ti> Stop llii' Oper ation* of the t lil< a:;o Washington, .lan. IS. — The state .>1 Missouri by its attorney general, K. li. Crow, has made application in the euprome court and asked leave to lilt a bill praying for an injunction against the state of Illinois aiul the city of Chicago to restrain them from operating the recently opened drain age canal. The court took the mo tion. but did not indicate when action would be taken. The principal ground of objection raised by the bill of complaint filed by Mr. Crow is that the sewage from the canal will pollute the water of tin; Mississippi river. It is set forth that there are several cities and towns 011 the Mississippi below the mouth of the Illinois river which derive their water for drinking and other purposes from the Mississippi and that these waters are "indispensable to the life and health of thousands of inhabi tants of the state." It is contended that Lake Michigan is the natural re ceptacle of the drainage of Chicago, and that unless diverted it would find its way into the lake instead of the Mississippi river. Mr. Crow also represents that not only will the current filth of 1.500,0(10 peonle be turned into the Mississippi through the canal, but also that which has accumulated on the banks of the Chicago river for years past, amount ing daily to about 1,500 tons of "poi sonous and noxious matters." If this is permitted he says the waters of the Mississippi "will of a certainty be poisoned and polluted and rendered wholly limit and unliealthfnl for drinking and domestic uses;" also that it will render useless the various waterworks plants on the Mississippi below the entrance of the Illinois. On this account it is urged that the, health and lives of the people will be endangered and their business inter ests irreparably injured, lie asks for both a temporary and permanent in junction. Lock port, 111. 4 .Tan. IS. —The bear trap dam separating the drainage canal from the Desplaines river was lowered by the sanitary district trus tees with the consent of the canal commissioners and fiov. Tanner yes t< rdav and 200,000 cubic feet of water per minute rushed into the Desplaines river on its way to the Gulf of Mexi co. The bear trap dam is the largest of its kind in the world. It is 100 feet in width and has an oscillation of 17 feet. Chicago. Jan. IS.—Attorneys repre senting the city of St. Louis yesterday made application before Judge Kohl saat, of the United States district court, for an injunction to restrain the board of trustees of the sanitary district, from turning the sewage of the Chicago river into Desnlaines river. Judge Kolilsaat set January'2o as the date for hearing arguments 011 the question. RAILROADERS GET MORE PAY. Tile It. A O. ami IMIIKIIII rji A l.akr ICrlc Koatl* Advance the of (em ploye*. Pittsburg, Jan. IS. —Firemen anil possibly conductors and engineers all over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad system proper are to be the subjects of a substantial wage advance dating from January 1. The advance will be close to 10 per cent. It will vary, i f is understood, 011 different parts of the system so as to equalize the scale, and for the most part the advance will be about 8 per cent. It goes to all firemen, however, the men of the yards and the men of the road. The Pittsburg & Lake Erie manage ment sent out notices yesterday to the various division headquarters an nouncingl what will be a sharp ad vance to all its yardmen. This is also in the nature of a readjustment of wages, the plan being to advance as near to a common standard the men of all the yards. In general the ad vance averages about 10 per cent. All yardmen, including conductors, engi neers, firemen and switchmen of the yards, will be paid the advanced scale from January 1. It is understood that the new scale will fix the wages for the men of the local yards of the Pittsburg & Lake Krie as follows: Day conductors 25 cents an hour; night conductors 20 cents an hour; day brakeinen or switchmen 19 cents an hour; night, brakeinen or switchmen 20 cents an hour: engineers 29 cents an hour. KILLED THEIR JAILER. Two lninati'N ol a lllsmiuri liaNtlln .tlurilrr llx < uMoillan and liH'ape, West Plains, Mo., Jan. IS.—County Jailer Alfred llenry, while feeding the prisoners in the Howell county jail yesterday, was overpowered and kill ed by two prisoners, Men Kichardsou and Ed < i rail v. Kichardsou was un der sentence to the penitentiary for burglary and is an escaped convict, from the Tennessee penitentiary. Henry had gone to the jail to feed the prisoners and. not returning home at the accustomed time, his wife be came anxious and sent a neighbor in search of him. His Ixuly was found in a pool of blood 011 the jail Door. The prisoners had escaped and locked the door sifter them. A posse was organ ized and is scouring the woods. A re ward of SI,OOO is offered for their cap ture. A report by telephone announc ed their appearance two miles south of here, headed for Arkansas. Intense excitement prevails and talk of lynch ing is freely indulged in. Tin* "Uherty Alliance." Chicago. Jan. IS.—The Times-llerald says: A movement which is being carried on in the name of the Liberty Alliance to give aid to the lioers has bi en 011 foot in ( hieago for ten days. Associated with it. are a number of well known citizens of ( hieago. Si".- oral Cnited States senators, it is said, have signified their intention of giv ing the organization support. When asked if the allianc. was recruiting for service in S.iuth Africa, one cf ;he promoters said. "No." lie a,Ul cil that the organization was merely "colonizing" for the Transvaal. A ROTTEN_MESS. A Few Samples of Putrid Pol itics in Montana. A PUGILISTIC PREACHER. lie Gives Racy Testimony in the Clark Bribery Case. A LAWYER DEFINES A LIE. ■ I<- IdentlficM a Letter \V rllH-ii It} lllm and 'l'llAdmit., Iha I Kverj' Stale iiu-nt4 ontuiucdTlicrt-Ui wan a False* hood. Washington, Jan. 20.—The hearing yesterday before tin- senate commit tee on elections in the ease of Senator Clark, of -Montana, developed four new witnesses. They were Represen tative Cooney, T. E. ISutler, a preach er named Warren, who was ehapla'ii of the Montana house of representa tives. and a lawyer named Cason. Mr. Warren said that he had resign ed his ministry in the Methodise church after giving Ins testimony be fore the Montana supreme court be cause of scandalous reports that were putin circulation about him, lie said that previous to going to Helena he had had a difficulty at Sweet (irass. "A man called me a had name," he said, "and I knocked him down and gave him a thrashing." "Isn't it a fact," asked Mr. Faulk ner, "that you were charged by mem bers of your congregation with em bezzlement and fornication?" Mr. Warren Replied in the negative, saying there had )>een no official charge. He said that the stories cir culated after he had given liis testi mony charged him with drunkenness, embezzlement and immorality. Z. T. Cason, an attorney at liut.te, told how he had been sent for to come to Helena to use his influence with Representative Marcey, of Custer county, and that when he went there he saw Senator Clark, who told him he would like to have him see Marcey and talk with him and that Mr. Mar cey had not been approached; that service being left to him (Cason), as he could handle him better. "He authorized me to say to him that he would pay him SIO,OOO for his vote for him (Clark) for the United States senate," said the witness. Mr. Cason said he had seen Marcey several times and after satisfying himself that Marcey would vote for Clark, had so reported to him. He had not. however, made any sugges tion of a money consideration to Mr. Marcey. Afterward Marcey had voted for Clark and on February' 4 he (Ca son! had received a letter from Mr. Clark enclosing a check for SSOO for "professional services." This letter was produced and identified and Mr. Cason snid that the only services he had rendered Mr. Clark were in con nection with the senatorial race. Mr. Cason identified a. letter he had written to Albert (i. llall. of Wash ington. I>. C„ a brother-in-law of Sen ator Clark, who had originally intro duced him to the senator. This letter thanked Mr. Hall in profuse terms for Cason's introduction to Mr. Clark and spoke of that gentleman in the most eulogistic terms. Mr. Cason identified the recanting letter he had given to a Mr. Root. It covered three pages of foolscap ami r,as read by the witness amid roars of laughter by all present, this laughter being to the abject character of the language used. "l)o you pretend to say that when you wrote that letter you knew : t was not true?" said Mr. Faulkner. "Why, certainly," responded the wit ncss. "Then you confess here to having written and signed three pages of lies in that letter," said Mr. Faulkner. In his reply the witness gave the second unique definition of a lie that the hearintr has brought out. "No, I do not." he replied. "I con fess to writing the letter, but I don't think any statement is ever a lie which is made With the understanding that it is false." ■''amine Confront* 1a, 000,000 People. Calcutta, .lan. 20. The council yes terday considered the famine situa tion. The official estimates show that the cost to the government of the te lief works to the end of March will be 40,000.000 rupees. About 22,000,000 persons are now affected in British territory anil about 27,000.000 in the native states. The viceroy. Lord Cur zon. said that the famine area had ex panded. surpassing the worst fears and thev were now facing a cattle, water and food scarcity of a terrible character. Aboul :i.2.">0.000 persons are now receiving re lief. Killed lli« Family and Knlcldcd. North Urookfield, Mass., Jan. 20. Martin liergen, the catcher of the Iloston baseball team of the National leap'iie, killed his wife and two chil dren and committed suicide at his home Friday. An ax was the imple ment used in taking the life of Mrs liergen and one of the children, while a razor was employed to out the throat of the other child, a little girl, and of the man himself, it is thought the action was due to insanity. I'ayiic'* Frt-e Trade Hili. Washington. Jan. 20. Kepresenta tive l'avne. of New York, chairman of the ways and means committee, has introduced a bill in the house to ex tend the customs laws to I'ort > Ki<*o. The effect of the enactment of this bill into law would be free trade be tween the Cnited States and I'orto Rico. Itroad'M Victory. New York, Jan. 20. "Kid" I'.road, of Cleveland, defended Joe I'ernstein, of this city, in a hard fought battle of 25 rounds before the I*roadway AUiLtia club last ndglu. 3
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