rski;4 V-.' Vs. J, ; iij iXjj'r?. vft - w? i -?TVv.-;$ ,, , - h v-rr-fT xvYtfir;:',,vv'v44','TT''- "-' i.,w Vs, !.W" . r'w ii 1 1, 1 tV ", vW3F&KZV7?g&!X W" rv ,'&,'. -A..Mr3"0.. V . $'? ' ' u35- .& " ," "' ' . "v C 'Wi'f.V-i . v : i ' wt "Wi . ' -i'A -' Tfl LANOA8TKK DAILY INTELL1G1CNOER. SATUKDAY, APRIL 19. 1896. v.. 'A? Ay s.,., f r 'A" M"0 Iffll PLAYERS. r "tr ' Y Men Who Will Be Heard from Before the Season Baa, INKITf F TME BAT AM BALL. KeMy. the !, Beeety. Mm Use, e Cew m Jam Butmi Jee C. Be, ta re em ee Artsmt Vtaek, eeduraeee, grit, ambttiea end f osl esl nets are Mm principal characteristics necessary te Mm baseball player of the present Urn. Berear pictoreaef six well known men who essses Umm reealeites. SnCBAXL . XXLI.T. Michael J. Kelly1! the premier Among bell players, the (10,000 beauty and the here of many adventures both en and off the field, If admittedly the greatest trickster in the pro fession. One of his favorite games with new pitchers is te stand outside the ceachcrs' lines when there is a man en third base, and then ask te have the ball thrown te him, en pre tense that it is ripped or etherwlsu unfit for use. If the pitcher is net en, he will tees the ball as requested and the base runner mekes (or the home plate. As a base runner he has few superiors. In a recent game he made hit that te en ordinary player would have been a geed single, but Kelly wanted mere. Qulnn, the second baseman, was waiting with the ball in his hands, but Kelly threw his bed out and shot his hand in, grabbing the bag as he went by. It was a remarkable slide, and no one but the king of base runners could have accomplished the move. Anether of bis tricks is cutting across the diamond when the attention of the umpire is directed elsewhere. He has been known te cut from second base te the home plate, also te call a player te the plate in a discussion and then bluff tbe umpire into calling him out. Yet, notwithstanding these little pecu liarities, he is a ball player from his feet up, and always plays te win. As a batter he is a daisy. He bats altogether with his wrists, and strikes at everything, often jumping two feet from the plate in his eagerness te knock the leather out of sight. JAMS DVRTKA. "Cyclone" Jim Duryea, one of the pitchers en the Cincinnati League team, is an inter esting character. Geed natural and always ready for fun, he takes great pleasure in try ing te threw the ball clear through the back stop, hence his title of the "Cyclone." When Jim became old enough te join the St. Faul (Mshn.) team, In '80, his father, who was a great ball crank, told him he would deed him a farm if he pitched winning ball for a year. "All right," says Jim, "the farm's mine." And he get it. At one time four rival managers were after him te sign him for their respective clubs. There is a law in baseball affairs which makes it impossible te sign a player before a certain date. On the night before the expiration of this time these managers were clese after Jim, keeping sight of him every moment. In some way Jehn Barnes induced him te join in a game of poker at the hotel. A Vine was plenty, and everything went Jim's way. He was net aware that it was prearranged te have htmSvln and se keep him interested un til midnight Barnes also stationed two stal wart "coons" outside the deer, with orders te lug any one who tried te gain admittance. Promptly at midnight Duryea's name was signed te the contract, and the game turned. J. C. Howe, who is new playing en the Buf falo Flayers' League team, is a hustler en the field and a model of propriety off it He played his first ball en an amateur team called the Atlantics, of Louisiana, Me., and JOH!f O. ROWE. it b net tee much te say that it was the best club in the vicinity, bar none, and he was its mainstay. Iiewe came from a baseball fami ly. His brother Dave, new managing the Denver team, will testify te tbe following story, if he has net forgotten it: In the town of Jacksonville, Ills., where the Rowes lived, Jehn was looked upon as a "kid" while his brother Dave was the big gun of the local club. One day Jehn came en the field and played in a practice game. He display ed such remarkable aptitude for the game that th members of the teitn unanimously asked I lm te join. Only one man objected, and that was Dave. Ha did net want te plaj second fiddle te his "Lid" brother, but he n as obliged te come off his high stand. Ren e is one of the famous Big Four that went from Buffalo te Detroit. He is ne er made conspicuous by bis behavior en the diamond. Modesty is bis chief characteristic. Dan Breutbers, the leading batter of last year, new with the Bosten Flayers' League club, U a sufferer from personal admiration, se they say. Before the season began, while he was en the trip south, a young college pitcher struck him out. Last year it was a long time ere such a thing occurred, and when it did happen Mickey Welch was the man who did it When Dan fanned the air recently be felt called upon te vindicate his reputation as a slugger. His excuse was given in this language; "Last season every pitcher had but one idea te strike me out This made it very bard ferme te obtain mere than two or three home runs a day and had the effect of lowering my average. This year I determined te strike out early and save my record." Arthur J. Whitney Is en the list for geed playing this season, and if last year's work is any criterion this handsome brunette will cover third base and scoop up grounders with that ease and graceful style se familiar te all who fellow his actions. Arthur is net a star player, but reliable as the sun and always en hand at critical times. One of his met note worthy fielding feats at third base was In tbe ir.lt m tea twees. Hewfll ever tfcirdbasa ter la Haw Yerk 1 yer' lean dab Uria season. Whlteey" plofs-ewJ career tanas hi lets, when he was encaged by the Fall River (Hasa.) dab, aad took part in many games played by that efcee famous team. One of the meat noted we,that played Oct. 14, 1BW, la Baste, ta which tbe Fail Rivers defeated the Bosten by a aeer of 6 te 4. In 18T7 Whitney joined the Lewell dab, which mad a vary briUiaat record that mason, innhming a fourteen toning game, Jan 8, at;L eweM, tha Indianapolis team than making (keenly and winning ran. Whitney mad two at th aix safe alts credited te hi team. BAW nnOCTHCBS. The Lowells also that season defeated tha famous St. Leuis team by a score of 3 te 0, and played a ten inning game with the Rhede Islands, of Providence, in which no runs were scored. On Sept 7, 1877, at Lewell, the Bes Bes eons defeated the Lowells by a scere of 1 tee, and Whitney was credited with two of tha four hits made by bis team Whitney re mained during tbe season of 1878 with the Lowells, who defeated tbe Springfield club that season by 1 te 0 in a thirteen Inning game. In 1879 and 1880 he was a member of the Worcester club, tbe latter year being Wor cester's first season in the National league. In 18S1 Whitney was engaged by the Detroit club, that being Detroit's first year as a member of the National league. He re mained with the Detroit throughout tbe sea son of 1883. During the season of lb83 and the early part of 1884 he played with the Saginaw (Mich ) club, of the Northwestern league. When that club disbanded in the summer of 1884 Whitney went te the Pitts burg club, where, he played throughout th seasons of 1885, 1880 and 1887. Many a game has been lest through the incempetency of the umpires. A few words about these indispensable worthies from The Sporting Critic may nefbe out of order here: In selecting umpires, it seems odd that these who have that duty te perform seldom think of taking men who are best adapted te tbe position, but are governed in many instances by ether considerations. Fer in- AATHtm WHITNEY, stance, the man who has tbe best chance for an appointment is he who has tbe most in in eorsements of clubs. Thoroughly honest and reliable men are always chosen; but honesty and geed, keen eyesight are net alwnys pos sessed by the same persons. Men of unquestioned integrity have been almost hooted from off the field for erroneous decisions, which were mistakes of judgment, in calling balls and strikes. Tbe hardest men te be deceived by pitchers, while acting in the official position of umpire, are men who spent years behind the bat in tha catcher's capacityr Among them can be named Jehn Kelly, Rebert Fergusen and "Phil" Powers. Fer that reason, the recent selection of "1)11-. ly" Helbert as an umpire is generally ap proved. A New England Ilnsebnll Artist. Themas J. Tucker hails from Holyoke, Mass., where he was born Oct. 23, 1803. In 1833 he played en a semi-professional team of hlsnativetewn, fill ing the position of right fielder and first baseman. Tucker played with the Holyoke team during season of 1883, and was first baseman of the Springfield club of the Eastern New England league during season of 1884. In 1885 and 1880 he played first THOMAS J. TOCMR. bn98 for the New. ark club of the Eastern league. During the next three seasons he played with the Balti more club, filling the position of first base In upwards of four hundred championship games. Tueker is a hard hitting left handed batter and rauked first in the official batting averages of the Amei lean association in 1889. In one game be made flve safe hits, with a total of twelve bases, and seven successive safe bit out of eight times at the bat iu two games played in ene afternoon. He is Indis pensable, as a coacber, and has few equals in that line of baseball work. During this sea son he will fill the position left vacant by the resignation of Breutbers, of the Bosten club of the National league. He has been men tioned as captain of tbe team. England's Champien Runner. Sidney Themas, the champion long dis tance runner of England, Mas born at Chel sea, Londen, en July 21, 1S03. He wen his first race, a dlstance of five miles, en Oct. SI, 1885, and was reasonably successful for the next three years. In 1SS9 he wen the Clutten County's Challenge cup of the Ranelagh Harriers, and was defeated for the fourth time by E. W. Par ry for the National cress county cham cham plenship. Soen after be wen the ten mile champion ship in 51m. 31s., beating the formi dable W. J. Kib blewbite. Themas was t h e n chal lenged by Parry te run ten miles for the championship. They met at Man chester before 15, 000 peeple.and of Ur BIDNKV THOMAS. a grand race for flve miles Parry had run himself off his legs. Then he came te Ameri ca, wen the ten mile championship and breke the American records from ten and a quarter te fifteen miles. In tbe great cress country run at Merris Park he finished feurtli with thirty seconds start, covering the eight miles, ever very heavy ground, in 65m. 47-Ss. Themas weighs, in condition, 11U pounds. He is a member of the Manhattan Athletic club of New Yerk and the IUuelagh Harriers, in England. He is an enthusiastic and ambi tious athlete, and will undoubtedly win many geed races during the summer. Cuttoe the Nagger. It is said that once when O'Connor, tbe oarsman, was pacing through Chicago en route te Australia he went into Scbaefer's billiard hall and expresed a desire te see the Wizard toy with the ivories." Te oblige him Bchaefer end Cattou agreed te play a game at eight inch balk line. Cotten wen the bank and commenced te count. He rolled up tbe points until he had sixty, and O'Connor, get ting restless, commenced te button up bis coat preiiaratery te catching his train, which left in half an hour. Cattou saw the jeke aud kept en lutinmering. At last O'Conuer walked ever and said: "Well, geed-by, Jake; It's train time. 1 will see you tuku your In ning when I return from Australia," DIAMOND ANNALS The Life of Harry Wright Al Al eost an Encyclopedia. AOCtJIATE RECORD OF MIS PEERS. TIs Her Complete, Though Briefly Told. W. I. Harris, ta Offering It Olres Mat Than Halt tit Credit la Mr. Frank Heugh, of the Philadelphia North Amor Amer Amor Ne man In baseball today is mera popular, mera honored, mere mpecied by pjaysrs, magnate and publle than Harry Wright, the veteran manager and piny er. His career Is en of vast Interest te all, anil it is of (self sort of encyclopedia of the national gam. This record of hi life and services, though, condensed, is the most complete ever given, and 1 absolutely correct as te fact. Ft was written la collaboration with Mr, Frank Heugh, of Tbe Philadelphia North American, than whom no one knows Mr. Wright better. I take pleasure In according Mr. Heugh mera than half of whatever credit is dne tha pro duction. Harry Wright was born In Sheffield, Eng land, In 1835. When he was about eighteen months old bis parents removed te the United States, where Daniel Wright, who has been located In California for years; Geerge, tha greatest short step the game ever had, and new a successful sporting goods dealer of Bos Bes Bos eon, and Sam, who is associated In business with his brother Geerge, were born. Frem childhood Manager Wright took a keen In terest in all outdoor sports and pastimes, a trait that be Inherited from his father, who was one of the first, If net tbe first, profes sional cricketers In this country. While serving bis apprenticeship with a manufacturing jeweler in Maiden lane, New Yerk, h devoted a considerable portion of ach summer te playing cricket, and in 1841 he joined th Knickerbocker club. Th latter organization broke up during the war, many of its members going te the front In 1664-05 Mr. Wright joined the Getham club, of New Yerk, playing third and short, and occasionally going behind the bat Hs also played cricket with the St Geerge club en the Red Heuse grounds, First avenue and One Hundred and Second and On Hundred and Third streets, and In 1800 he made an agreement te play with that club, but he was released from his engagement at' his own re quest, aud joined the Cincinnati Cricket club as professional at a salary of 11,200. Seme of the best known citizens of Cincinnati, in cluding J. W. Johnsten, Capt H. A. Glass ford, A. B. Champien and Charles Scanlon, were members of the club. Thoyseon tired of cricket, and en July S3, 1860, the Cincin nati Ball club was formed. The uniform was a gorgeous affair, consisting of red caps, blue treusersand white shirts. The new club played five games with the local amateur teams, win ning three. In 1800 Mr. Wright received an advan tageous offer from the Germantown Cricket club of Philadelphia, which he would have liked te accept, but the Cincinnati people would net let him go, and though they had no legal claim en his services, only his prom prem ise, he declined the offer. Think of that In these days of cast iron, air tight contracts! In 1807 A. T. Goshern, Jehn McLean, Jehn Joyce aud ethers held a meeting and resolved te take the grounds back of 'Lincoln park, Cincinnati, and they were opened en July 4, Louisville being taken into camp by the score of 60 te 34. On July 10 Cincinnati was de feated by the National club 53 te 10, and that se depressed Capt Glassford that be re signed the presidency. That was the only game tbe club lest that season, winning 17. In 1803 Piesident Champien declined th presidency, and A. T. Goshern, afterward director -general of the centennial exhibition, was elected. This year marked the adrent of professionalism' in baseball and tbe introduc tion of the knickerbockers as part of a play er's costume. The Buckeye club of Cincinnati, which was composed of teachers and pro fessors, was anxious te down Wright's team, and sent an agent east, who secured Deckney, Cherokee Fisher, Sweasy and Leenard. Wright was compelled te strengthen, and Jehn Hatfield, Fred Waterman, Asa Brai nard and Deug Allisen were engaged. The Buckeye grounds were opened in May, and In the first game Harry Wright appeared en the field clad in knickerbockers and long red stockings, and caused a sensation, a few of tbe mere prudish of the women folk charac terizing bis make up as indecent. Cincinnati wen all the games from the Buckeyes. The Buckeye people, were anxious te win the second game, and tbe night before they took Hatfield, Bralnard and Allisen out and get them drunk. The next day Wright would net permit Hatfield te play, although the di rectors coaxed Wright te change his decision, but he would net. In KCfJ tbe famous Cincinnati Reds were organized. This was the first entirely pro fessional ball club. Before starting out en that campaign Manager Wright laid down a set of rules which linve since been the basis of all club discipline. The members were te report at certain hours in the morning and after noon, were te practice se long a time and were te retire at a certain hour. Drunkenness or excess of any kind was net te be tolerated, and infringement of any of the rules meant a fine. The writers of tbe day attempted te I idicule Mr. Wright and bis methods, and the players were referred te as "Wright's Babies." But both Mr, Wright and his methods were vin dicated. The club went through tbe season without a defeat in fifty-eight games played a record that no team can even new expect te equal. In 1870 the Reds received their first defeat at the hands of tbe Atlantics, and the interest in ball In Cincinnati died out, although tbe club finished the season. Bosten parties then commenced negotiations with Mr. Wright, and notwithstanding Mr. Murat Halstead's offer te back him in tbe formation of a new club, he departed for the Hub in '71. His relations with Messrs. Adams and ApoIIenls, then running the Bestens, were net of the pleasantest character. The playieg rules having been made from time te time were full of contradictions and distressingly prolix, and in 1876 Mr. Wright, assisted by Mr. Apallenls, rewrote them. When Messrs. Seden, Billings and Conant secured control of tbe Bosten club, they made it disagrecable for Mr. Wright, but be was such a favorite with Bosten ball players that neither of the triumvirs had the courage te request bis resignation. At their suggestion, however, the Providence club directors made a preposition te Mr. Wright te take charge of their club, which he did in 1833. In tbe eleven years that be monaged the Bosten club It wen the pennant six times a per formance which eloquently demonstrated his ability us manager, lit stayed with Provi dence only two seasons, but in that short time he get the team into championship form. In 1&S1 Mr. Wright assumed the manage ment of the Philadelpliia club, which for some time bad been gracefully adorning the tail of the League animal. He seen made the team a factor in the pennant race, and at tbe be ginning of the season (ISS'J) there were mspy, even euUlde of Philadelphia, who thought that the Quakers would land the flag. But an unlooked for let down by tbe pitchers, th lock of a capable captain and the want of a second baseman contingencies against which net even tbe astute veteran could guard ruined whatever championship chances tha Phillies may have had. Personally Mr, Wright is a genial, cour teous gentleman; an agreeable and, when thawed out, a positively delightful companion. He is very deliberate iu everything be does, and never takes or gives snap judgments. While always 'careful of hi employers' in terests, he was never known te de an In justice te any player. He believes In mpral suasion and harmony in a team, but if it be bo be cemes necessary for bim 4e resort te severe measures he can come down en an offender just as hard as an Ansen. Mr, Wright's life work bes been insepara bly connected with the inception and devel opment of the national game. It is te men like William A, Herburt, Henry Cbadwick, A. O. Mills, Alfred H. Wright, Jehn B. Day, A. H. Seden, A. O, Spalding, A. J. Reach, Nicholas Yeung, Frederick K. Stearns, Jehn L Rogers and Harry Wright that is due tbe present high place which professional ball playing new occupies iq th affections of our people. And in the work that placed it there Harry Wright has always been foremost Leving the game for the game itself, he has devoted all his honorable years te Its develop ment and improvement in an arlistle scum, uarinlttina ethers te resn th flnsnrlal reward tatMtebn ieeeesslM. taMhtaea any side yew will, Harry Wright m a noble tamfte of nature's handiwork la her best mood. May his shadow never grew tern, W. IB OBSERVATIONS ON WHKST. The VwaeVasaental Idea of MM Oarne nasi Its DeretosasenU Whist ha been M a constant state of de de veleBsaeet sine th day of Hey le. As knewK edge of th gam laereaesd, new, standard were raised, new rales were adopted, se that what wa appropriately call the grammar eC whist ha constantly become modified and Its language made mere clear and well deflaed. Te trace the ptogressef the gam from th time of Folkstone, te note the changes which hare taken place and tbe efforts which bare been made te reduce the game te an exact science, la extremely Interesting. There are today, as there probably always will be at long as cards are played, players representing every stage of tbe game from Heyle up. Theaeand of people who pUy whist hare never heard nt the tramp signal, and recard with horror 'tbe "scientific player." And se en up ta tbe scale until we find a eeleet few occupying th topmost peak of whist ascendency, who re gard the game as a science as beautiful a geometry, fully as instructive and much mere entertaining. Them last named are few aad de net de serve our sympathy. They are amply able te take care of themselves, but I would ap peal te the large body of these who play whist for amusement, who de net try te un derstand the game. "I have a horror," said a person te me recently, "of playing with one of these scientlfle players." In ether words, this person prefers te play the game In a hap hazard, slipshod way, a constant source et .annoyance te these who try te play it under standing, and net extracting se much pleas ure out of it as he could get from seven up or casino. Ne wonder he doesn't want te play with a ecloutifle player. Ne wonder he expresses himself indifferent te tbe game and would just as seen play euchre or Dem Pe Pe deo. This kind et whist ought net te be called whist It Is nothing mere than a faint echo. And yet the difference in the enjoyment which can be produced by the faint echo and the real game is nothing mere nor lis than a state of mind. Yeu make your mind up te become a student et the game, te try and find a reason for playing every card In your hand, and the game becomes a revelation te you. In this condition the best players are net much hotter off than you are. Se great is the game that they are almost as far be hind the truth as you. What ene et you is there who, having awakened within himself a taste for well, say for books does net stand In surprise and my te himself, "Hew could I have been se blind te this joy I" and henceforth, though you may net have read and digested two authors, you will find some thing iu common with the greatest scholar of the day, simply because your desire is a common one. Yeu are both seeking the sanje thing, and the best of us are humble, sur rounded by tbe mysteries of life. What is the use, I would ask, of playing whist at all, unless it be te play It for all there is in the game. I Better play some ether game. What is the use of reading if you read nothing but dime novels? Better drop it, and learn hew te sketch, or ride horse back, or de anything that you hare a liking ferr "But," exclaims my opponent, "the only thing we play wbUt for is amusement; te sketch or ride horseback Is useful; but of what possible use is it for me te waste whole hours ever something that cannot possibly de me any geed V New you are wrong, and you knew you are, begging your pardon. In tbe first place, you place the cart before the horse. When you take up your drawing im plements, my friend, you don't de it because of the great and lasting leneflt that It's going te confer upon yourself and your posterity. Ob, no. Yeu de it because you like it If you didn't like it you would drop it mighty quick. It is wrong, tee, te say that whist is a waste of time. Every human being is en dowed with a certain nutnber et faculties, and it is by the ita clepmeut of these facul ties that we accomplish results. Whist is probably as geed a mental exercising machine as any ether that can be named. But tbe real aud only reason why we play whist is for pleasure, and as it has been demonstrated in every case that this pleasure Is increased by an intelligent study of tbe game, no better argument than this can tie given in favor of application te tbe game by these who care enough for it te play it at all. Tem Lansing. CHESS AND CHECKERS. Composed for New Yerk State Cbea elation, Selving Tourney. Chess problem Ne. 58. By 8. Lloyd. Black. $M vM y&i 'p$ WM m am Ml m m i fta muisrMiwm White. White te play and mate in three moves. Checker problem Ne. 68, for beginners. By Fcrcy M. Bradt Black-, 18. 23, 28. ai atajsia em m is in mml -m wfa :i aZ m m ii m vM ffjk nri yfk ssxMZi.ix ,yai Mfyi i White 7. 22, 82. Black te play aud win. SOLUTIONS. Chess problem Ne. 57: White. Black. l..QteQ3. Checker problem Ne. 57: Black 10, 6, 18. White-25, 1, 11. White te play and win. White. Black. 1..11 te 7 2.. 20 te 23 8.. 1 te 0 4. .23 tel7 5.. 7 te Sand wins. 18 te 14 Utel2 3.. 2 te 0 4..14te21 Tbe Fert of Hie Maumee. The Maumee Valley Men&mental as sociation Ih taking steps for the preser vation of the old time forte of the Mau meo valley, and has a bill befere con gress te help carry out its design. In 1888 Cel, O. M. Poe, of the United States eiigjiiccrti, maile an elllclal ex amination of thu different points pro pre pObcd for commemoration. He reported favorably, and upon this tepert the bill introduced by Senater Sherman is based. It appropriates for the work the sum es timated by Ce). Poe in detail m fol fel fol eows: rut-ia Bay 2,H Fert Industry 5,000 Fert Miami 7,W0 Fert Meigs 30,500 Battlefield et Fallen Timbers 5,000 Fert Defiance.. 5,000 Fert Wayne. ., , 5,000 Total.... 0(5,000 These estimates were upprered by Chief of Engineers Casey en Nev, 21, 1888. The association wants the United States te acquire the title te the sites and erect thu monuments suggested, and there is a belief, based ou certain assurances, that the bill will become a law. . - . England has evolved a novelty in tbe aquatie line, according te a Londen cable gram, which states: "A popular movement is en feet, with geed presjwets of success, te make up a ladies' eight eared team te race ever the unlver.ity ceurse. There is a con siderable purse, andthe entries are open te all gliU uuder Ls age et W, trnrpunlte ! rank." ttVA KZZM YJ,r WiZf 'iFift VV'A h,i Er&l m mm m tm nam m fitrt . WBe MUM 8L vm n UNDElt THE BIG 110TUNDA, A PORTION OF THE CAPITOL WHEW ONE ALWA.Y8 PAUSES. of the rerseaa One Mar tee Through the Apartment It Mutters. hteprsssatatlvee aad eaatere, initials. Vtetty Wemen aa4 'eareallets. (Special Oarrespoaeeace. Wawhhote!, April 17, There U one pet is the Capitel which never grows old te the Teteran habitue of the big build Ing. It la the greet rotunda, where the aaeet majestic architectural proportion, works et ert of historic interest aad eteadjr etreara of pretty women end famous men combine te attract the eye and enlist the attention. There are benches here, and one may sit down and watch the kaleidoscope of human figures set in a beautiful frame of marble and fresco. Directly through the rotunda passes the walk which thousands take every day from senate te house, or house te senate. In one'deor and out the ether all the fatuous Americans have passed during the last fifty years; each day that congress sits scores of men whose names are known all ever the country may be seen strolling along singly, in pairs, or groups. The senator or representative even the veriest stranger may knew, for states men always pass here bareheaded. Their hats are hung in the cloak rooms, and these they de net take the trouble te get en starting for a committee room or the ether end of the Capitel. Net se with the newspaper men, who are almost as numerous and as well known here as senators and representatives. Journal ists are never seen in the corridors of the Capitel with bare beads, though they have coat rooms as spacious as theso used by the members of the two beuses. Ne one can tell why one class of men who" corn their living in the national state house habitually appear with hats, while another class are always bare headed; but such is the fact. As the men and women couie and go we notice ether peculiarities and eccentrici ties. Ne ene appears te walkthreugh this ball without pausing, or at least slewing his pace. There is se much te see, se many lines of beauty which ene may never before have observed, that instinct ively the eyes wander hither and yen. Simply as an experiment in observa tion we sit down te note for a half hour the notable or known men and women who pass. Tills is always an interesting experiment, no matter where tried. It is doubly interesting hore, for it is a spot that stands midway tetween the two houses of congress, a spot in which his tory is centered and whero history is still being made. The very first ceuple te attract our attention are men whom one would hardly have expected te see together. They are Mills and Gear, of the ways and means committee the one a representative of Republicanism and the ether of Democracy. Gear we ob serve te lie a carelessly dressed man of DO or mere years, with n fuee thickly bearded, and a way of dropping his head down toward his breast which many thoughtful men have. Mills leeks elder than his companion, but as a matter of fact is net se old. Ills complexion is as ruddy as that of a girl, and his eyes have the twinkle of kindli ness and geed nature. Neither of these party warriors seems te care a rap about his dress, though both, thanks, most likely, te their geed wives, are entirely presentable. At first sight ene would say that neither was a genial man, yet this is but another illustration of the rule that appearances are deceitful, for two mere conipanienublo, informal, delight ful men de net walk these marble floors. As we step up the two men are talking about Secretary Ulalne and the scheme of international reciprocity which he is said te have devised. "There is ene thing I can say about Mr. Blaine," remarks Governer Gear. "He has the most phenomenal memory I have ever known. A few days age I was calling en the secretary, when he asked me te sit down. 'Gear,' said he, 'you nre the very man I wanted te see. Fer a long tiuie I have been wanting te ask you about seme families which left my old county in Pennsylvania thirty years age and settled in the part of Iowa which you new represent iu congress. Hew nre the Smithsens getting along? And the BrewnsV And Mr, lilnine went en," added Governer Gear, "te make In quiries about no fewer than twenty-live families, a member of which he had net seen for mere titan n quarter of a cen tury. He net only remembered the names, but characteristics and family histories, and when my own memory was at fault, though I have known nearly evcry family he made inquiry about, he described the heads te me with such par ticularity that I could net fail te recall them had I ever known them. A very remarkable thing was that he could re member the names of nearly all the girls whom these men had married and also the names et their children, and among the children whom he remembered are many of the best men in my slate." At this point the group is-cnlargcd by the addition of a flgure which ten or fifteen years age was well known in the capital and thu press of tiie country. It is that of an old man, slightly stoejttd, witlt an enormous gray mustache, and a pink complexion J. Procter Knett, of Kentucky. "Here," said Mr. Mills, "is the man who lias the greatest collection of canes and pipes iu America. Knett, hew many pipes und canes have you new?' "Well," says the old orator and raconteur, "when I left home I had ninety-eight pipes and 151 canes, hut by this time there are probably many mere there, for my friends all ever the coun try are sending me in Iittle presents of that sort all the time. They knew I am in the pipe and cane business, and I bup bup jkwe they won't step till I have reached my ambition of possessing u different pipe and cane for each of the 305 days of I he vcir A woman next attracts our attention. She is richly dressed and has the car riage of a queen, of ene who has known what it is te be admired, te receive hom age. Slie has sparkling eyes the sort of cyci which sliine in the gloomy galleries which surround the senate and house halls. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague for it is she was twenty )cars age the most beautiful woman known iu this Capitel. New, though htlll a handsome woman, few knew her. She is en her wuy te the supreme court chamber te hear the argu ment tiiere in n case involving the wreck of the great estate of her former hus band. The old justices knew her, every one of them, anil her ey es become brighter thaucter as she iauses te tell, in that mellow voice w hfcli j ears age made her one of the most fascinating conversation alists in Washington or Paris, of the at tentions bhewn her by the members of the court of which her father was ence the chief justice. Mrs. Chase's eldest daughter is just going en the stage, for which she has been carefully educated. She starts out, net te make her debut, but simply te get a little actual work be hind the footlights. By the way, the historic Chase home, Edgowoed, is likely te be seen broken up and covered by the buildings of this rapidly extending city. A syndicate of wealthy senators, who have already made much meney in Washington real wtitte, erp centvniulat' tug irre ircnae ana subdivision et ttte beautiful grounds, nearly lUty acres in extent, which overlook the city aud Cap Cap ieol. "It will seem almost llke sacrilege te me te break up the old home," said Mrs. Chese', "a boekful of memories cling around it. Only today, ns I was riding toward the Capitel, my eye turned in stinctively toward the window of the senate wing in which my father used te hang a piece of red curtain at I in the afternoon if mere than two guests were coining out with him te dinner. Yeu see, we could accommodate ene or two guests without extra preparation, but if four or flve were expected we had te in crease the quantities. Mere often than net tbe red curtain hung in the window." A dark bearded man, with the steeped shoulders of a student or a worker, comes along, arm in arm with a substantial, bright eyed, handsome friend. We may well say these men are friends. The first is Publle Printer Palmer, a sterling fol fel low, who net only has control of the greatest printing office in the world, but who has behind him a record which any man might be proud of. When bis friend whom we see with him, First Assistant Postmaster General Ciarksen, went into Des Moines from the farm te become a newspaper man, his first employment was given him by Palm er. Afterward Ciarksen bought Palm er's paper, and Palmer, against the ad vice of many of his friends, bought The Chicago Inter-Ocean, then a rathela for swallowing up money, and in it sunk $240,000 in a few years. Later en Palm er's sterling honesty showed the stuff it was made of. As postmaster of Chicago he lived almost parsimoniously, en a mera clerk's income, and devoted the re mainder of his salary te paying old debts. Each month, I am told, a certain art of his salary as public printer is set aside for the wiping out of old newspaper lia bilities. Net every man ene meets in the rotunda is honest enough te make such sacrifices for a dead horse. Ciarksen drags his friend up te leek at the paintings in the rotunda. The chief headsman of the postefllco department has a passion for pictures. His band band band seme home here is filled with rare works of art. It is said he has the second finest Coret in America, the postmaster general having the third finest. Clark son narrowly escaped possessing the finest Coret this country can beast of. While In New Yerk helping manage the national campaign of 1880 he wandered into GeupU's picture stere en Broad way. A painting attracted his attention, reused his admiration. He yearned te possess it, as he yearns te possess every beautiful picture which he sees. He asked the price. It was f 1,440. Ciarksen was net then as rich a man as he is new, and $1,440 was a large sum of meney for him te invest in a picture. But he pulled out his check book and was about te make the purchase when a friend who knew his weakness for paintings tugged at his Bloevu and begged him te at least think about tiie matter ever night befere buying. "Yeu may be making a mistake," said the friend, "and, at any rate, the picture will be here to-meaow. Sleep en it, Ciarksen." Tims rationally appealed te, the art lever put bis check book beck in his pocket. Next day be called te buy the picture, and it was marked "sold," Mr. Clark son did net seu the painting again tlthe year 1884, when Mr. Jay Gould asked him te dine and te take u leek through his picture gallery. In the Gould gal lery Ciarksen saw thu picture he had had a check written for four years before. "And may I ask hew long you have had this Coret, Mr. Gould?" he asked. "Only a few months." "Aud if you havenoebjcctionslshouid llke t knew what you paid for It?" "Sixteen thousand dollars." In this way ene half hour passes. Dog Deg ens of ether famous men coine and go, and niore gossip is talked than ene letter can held. Great is the rotunda! Wai.tku Wellman. HE FACED HI3 DOOM BRAVELY, Sauiusl J. Itamlall's Culm Ilereptlen of the Meilical Uaath Warrant. The ninth member of tlw prcseut con gress te die was Samuel J. Itandall, of Pennsylvania, who expired at Washing ton recently. The "Father of the house," as he waH called, because of his long and honorable service, was told seme tlnie age that his days were numbered, and he proceeded te net his liouse in order with calm deliberation and admirable HON. SAMUKI, J. IUNDAM,. serenity. Just befere the clese of the presidential contest et 1883 Mr, Itandall predicted his end. Said he in conversa tion witli an acquaintance: "This is the last general election that I shall live te sec. I did expect until recently that we should carry the next house, and that I should stay here long enough te see the party in geed trim for the next presiden tial campaign, but I have ceased te expect that. I cannot shake oft! this disease, and the doctors cannot euro it. Probably as mucli as I can hope for is te outlast this administration." Then the deemed man dropped the subject, and a few minutes later was the smiling, cheerful center of a group of friends. Mr. Itundall's illness dated hack for at least five years, but the physicians did net ascertain for seme time that the cause of Ids ailment was an oxtensive and malignant abscess. Once this fact was established they gave him no hepe Jilt. lUNDAM.'ti IIE8IPK.NCK. pf pure, nud lm b.nvejy faced the Jnevit rm&Mi able. Mr. Randall succeeded te tha I the "Father of the house" On the death et William D. Keller some months asm. He was first elected te the Thlrty-serantli congress, and served continuously ay id the time of his death. One notable In cident of his career was the spteudM dash with which he pushed through the) bill in effect autherising the president te place Gen. Grant's name en tha retires! list, se that the suffering soldier might die as he wished a member et the amy of the United States. t A New Sebmarlae Beat, An exhibition was recently given as Cherbourg, France, et the workings of new submarine craft, which Is mailed, THE OOUHKT BErORR t-tntCRINO. after its inventor, the Goubet. It is built te carry a crew of four men and showed excellent speed both en the surface and at a considerable depth. Electricity sup-., plies the molive power, and there ara. sternge rooms for air. After the testa had been brought te n satisfactory eon- BrX . ' ' ZeBSTeCpWaWsfHr M rJt' BsWtr r vl Jafy-E-7" 3sbbwI1RI TIIK OOUBKT PARTIALLY SUBMXXOED. ;' elusion one enthusiastic Frenchman de- clarcd that th Goubet realized and mad actual Jules Verne's fanciful tales, -a "Twenty Thousand League Under the y Sea" and "Docter Ox." ., A Girdle" of fit Honed Hi Berth. ;'; New Yerk, April 17. A president of i ene of the big pie baking establlshmenta et this city who has a head for figures, ""( recently figured out that nearly 90,000,- ' 000 pies were eaten in New Yerk every " year. j This sounds like a fairy yarn, but when figured out it allows just fifteen ') pics a year te every man, woman and child in the city. One pie will out into four pieces, fifteen pies will make sixty J pieces, and ene piece eaten every six V days will make fifteen pics a year. There ' are a great many In the city who eat tea .v. times this amount of pie every year, and v- there are a great many who never eat it 't at nil. ,J The avcrage cost of a pie la ten cents." t- and thus the average amount et money .-W spent in this city for pie each year u g 99,500,000, There is a pie for every as ffl eun os iiiu year uunce pie ier winter, tx tm apple pie for fall, winter and,sprlhg,''5; .,;'t huckleberry pie for summer, and peacVAV'l pie, plum pie, cherry pic, cranberrr pleV- M 1 pumpkin pie, custard pie, pineapple pte.pV.J lemon pie, rhubarb pie and every ether '--1 kind of pie for almost every weak ta'thv,3i 1 year. Mince ple is said te have the big gest sale, and In one bakery alone teM ; -wfcf ew (h j4- '-. -fcavdfe aa m mam V- 1UIUW UJTO. 1Q MiWJ- - ;WiCV eva wj --. vat nivn ? vtvvyy ia v jf 5 ri1 fAftf lte-tk t - ! MhAMtt n- u np every aay. y?5i8 The average pie is a feet in diameter. se In n single year the citizens of thia city cat mere than 4,600 miles of pie, and In less than two years and a half they will have eaten enough ple te have formed n band of pie crust around tha cai th at the equator. The nverage pie is two inches thick and if placed one en top of another thu pie eaten in two and a half yean would reach te the height of a thousand miles. Taking the avcrage weight of a pie as ene pound, the total weight ci sumed in ene year would be 13,500 tens. If all this pie were put in ene heapand the avcrage weight carried away by , men, women and cliildren was fifteen' pounds each, it would take the entire population of the city of New Yerk te remove it, if no one took a second lead. Charles Witug, Reunited After Maajr Tears. A romance in real life is that which, has te de with the career et Eli S. Ar Ar eold. He married Emma Eddy at Al bany, N. Y., twenty-five years age. A few months later he left bis wife and went west te seek his fortune. She heard seme time afterwerd that be was dead and married again. By her second bus band she had two children. She was left a widow recently, but did net have te linger long in eingle blessedness, for Mr. Arneld turned up the ether day, told the tale of ills wanderings, was forgiven, and took his wife te Indiana te preside ever the domestic details of a big farm hs owns in that state. "Uglitly Thought of" In England. At a recent sale et autographs In Lon Len Lon eon a letter et Longfellow's brought only 910, while ene of Mark Twain's, labeled "characteristic." went for SI. The latter was dated Nev. 7, 1873, and read: "I shall spend the greater part of next winter here with my family, and may be able te lecture a month during the autumn upon such scientific topics as I. knew least about and may conse quently feel less trammeled iu dilating upon." Referring te the low prices re ceived The Pall Mall Budget says: "American poets and humorists are lightly thought of among the collectors of autographs." Tliey I'lujrcd Hatclifle. Tbe Cincinnati Times-Star has the fellow-,, leg! Butcllffe, the big raw boned catcher of the Clevelands, was initiated by the Chicago. On bis first night out tbe boys piled tbeir shoes in front of one berth fa the sleeping car and told blm; "Every uew man has te stand bis turn watching these at night. Yeu go en this evening." Se while tbe ball players slept "But" eyed tha leathers. When tbe porter came along about 3 o'clock hi the morning and essayed te gather them la "Old Cy" raised Ned. The bejswere awakened by the row. But was blessed if be intended te let that fellow gat away with the shots I It was Tem Burn who calmed the troubled waters. "That's all right, old man, we forget te tell jeu tlm porter relieve you new. Be gees en watch at 3 o'clock t" Aud "Old Cy" turned la and was soea tuering in the land of nod. Jack Brenean says when "Cy" landed in Philadelphia he steed out in the street looking up in wonder at the big buildings until knocked down by a wagon. Shet tly afterward be came limping back te the hotel with the cemplaint: , "They'll kill a fellow la this tewa If he ien't leek eutl A four h'jrse coal cart run ever my feet I" Very elegant uttie capes are made by having yokes of black slik or colored Bilk covered with rich paeenterie tat jet, aud with two full ruffles of black Chantilly lace. Sometimes these have fringe of colored ostrich tips beneath tea lace. which gives an exquisite effect, rat it can be imagined that these are expen Hirer ' ssfs 'M dl nl 5v M i - Jrm w.". M ?I1 I , W J 18. 1 4a V. A y.i 4 m V& ..-"l - t-.a6j.. .. A X. -. . rAHT JJJ?Mkj&?!fir3&L t- iAvv-fc;-- iV ; V f.- T
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers