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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 189L
S&S&ii&SkaiBBA
A REVIEWOFJSPORTS.
Mngs of the Local Baseball Mag
nates and the Prospects of the
Club for Ifeit Year.
MANAGER M'GUMIGLE'S EFFORTS.
Euinoiu Effects of the Actions of Baseball
Capitalists and the
Havers.
PETEE HAIIEK 1KD J. J. OOKBETT.
EoUlren's Latest Beclaratloa Aboct Fighting Genip
ITxtcK. the rugilisU.
None of us can grumble much about the
doings of the local baseball magnates this
week. They are still in a state of uncer
tainty about one or two important thines,
find a whisper in the air tells me so. They
should linger no longer, as lingering is ruin
ing more than one good ball club to-day.
"When a frcebooting system is going on we
must all be freebooters or we'll get left If
we cannot catch another man's bullock
somebody will catch ours, and there it goes.
That simply means that our directors should
put a good hitch of rope around the players
we have, and then they stand happily and
watch how things go.
There is little in baseball at this time of
year for waiting. Manager McGunnigle is
ardently of the opinion, as he sent word
Friday, that he had signed one of the best
pitchers in the country. McGunnigle
knows as many players as anybody, and if
he does not sign those who are available it is
because they are not good enough or that
they do no; want to come to Pittsburg. It
is too soon yet to say anything about what
players will be on the local team. We
know whom wc have, of course, but we don't
know w ho we are to get. There may be
rumors, but we must wait for facts.
A Sure Roid to Ituln.
A casual survey of the baseball situation
will impress all of us with one important
fact, viz., that things cannot go on as they
are now going. To a very great extent ball
players are masters of the situation, and
they are, at least some of them are, forcing
matters in a way that will sooner or later
bring about general ruin if a halt is not
called. What I definitely refer to is the
fact of players demanding such exorbitant
salaries, and if their demands are not
granted by the clubs that have paid them
well for vcars thev go over to the opposing
ride. The opposing side, of course, holds
out stronger inducements in the way of
bigger salaries In many respects I do not
blame the plaver for this, allhoueh the
policy, in my estimation, is cot a good one
even lor the plaver, because, as Mr. Ilanlon
remarked the other day, a reaction will take
place. But the people who will suffer most
Ere those who rgree to pav these enormous
salaries as a means of inducing playen to
desert their club. Depend upon it, those
who pay the salaries will be the tufierers,
because they are dealing with men who
have no gratitude, no reliability and in
manr respects very little conscience. I am
firmly of opinion tLat in the long run the
desertion ol Connor and Uichardson, of the
"Sew York club, and their joining the Ath
letics will not be as disastrous to the former
cs to the latter.
The question is: "Will the New York Club
get along belter financially without Eiekard
eon and Connor with a joint salary of 9,
000 than will the Athletics with these play
er, and who are to receive that amonut of
money? 1 think New York will get along
much better. By eoncedingtheextravagant
demands of the two players, the Athletic
Club magnate' have set a pace that they
cannot possibly keep up. They cannot
afford to pay their players anything like
f-,000 a piece for the season. A very great
distinction of salaries must exist, and this
In itsell i a continual source of discontent
irniong the players in a team, and experi
ence has show n that it has always had very
bad results. Certainly, if the Athletic Club
directors can get along bT paying Connor
and Uichardson, and all their other players
ibr that matter, ?4,000 each, let them do it.
Butihey cannot, and they know it.
The Gratitude of Ball Player.
During the last few days much has been
raid about the gratitude of ball players.
Borne people contend they have none, but 1,
admit thev have some, though it may not go"
cut toward the magnates. I never think "of
the question without one very important
feature impressing me, viz., that every
baseball player to-day who is receiving
E2.W0 or more per season is almost entirely
indebted to the men who have put up the
money, who have racked their brains and
who have labored so Lard to make the na
tional game a successful business. The
popularity of players now and again may
have givpn impetus to the success of the
business, but most assuredly if the money
cud genius of management had not been
forthcoming there would not have been the
star players to take into consideration.
But it is unfortunately true that as a rule
players who are best dealt with are
those who have least gratitude to show
in return. This may be because so many of
these players make such big and sudden
jumps from poverty to affluence that thev
think they own the'world and that baseball
cannot get along without them. It is sale
to bet 10 to 1 that Uichardson and Connor
Figned with the Athletics fully believing
that the New ork club would be ruined
by their absence. They will be mistaken.
I am not arguing against a ball player
making the best of irs condition, bat I do
contend that it would be much better if he
would be a little more gratefulto those who
have aided him to be what he is, and even
at much expense. Nor do I see any unfair
ness in a player who last vear was working
forf 1 a day in an iron mill, asking for 3,000
to pitch ball for six months nest year. A
player has a perfect riiht to do that, and
the'fact of his working for SI per day no
more itnpa'rs his w orth a a pitcher than if
he had worked lor nothing at alL To-dav
there may be land in this vicinity not worth
M.000 an acre. To-morrow oil may be dis
coveied on it, and its value will become
enormous Last year a man may have only
been uselul in carrying pig metal; but this
Tear it mav be discovered that he is a great
baseball pitcher. He is engaged to pitch
ball, and lii salary must he equal to the in
diviaual salaries "of those with whom he
ranks. In short, he is now a pitcher of
ball and not a carrier of metal. There is a
big difference. But notwithstanding this,
ball players should be reasonable, and if
they are it will be better for them.
An Old Idea r.eilvcd.
New York baseball writers have again re
vived the 12-club league idea; that is, to
have only one organization and it to consist
of 12 clubs. This plan has been brought to
the front again because Mr. Prince, ot Bos
ton, wants to sell his club to the League,
and, it is stated, he won't sell except the
League magnates guarantee to take care of
the balance of the Association clubs. Quite
s.n undertaking, by the way. We are also
told that E. M. Talcot thinks the scheme
will be adopted. With due deference to
Mr. Talcott, I venture to say that such a
eheme will not be iu operation yet awhile.
"Wouldn't there be a hilly-billoo if the As
sociation magnates and the League mag
nates were all in one organization and had
to run one common business? Without go
ing into details to show the impracticability
of such a Fchcme, it is sufficient to say that
it would be a baseball monopoly. That
alone kills the 6cheme, in my way of think
ing. If such a monopoly were to be formed,
goodness help the players.
But I am fully convinced that the mag
nates will one of these days do lomething
to protect their interests. A combination
of some kind will be formed under a na
tional agreement, because it cannot be ex
pected that proprietors of baseball clubs
will continue to be in a losing game. I
notice now that eTen Prince, of the Boston
A. A. club, admits that he lost money last
season. Well, when the magnates do come
to a common understanding among them
selves the players will get none thebest of
it. All the present extravagances will have
to be paid for, and what is sauce for the
goose must be sauce for the gander. The
magnates will get an inning, and when they
do, look out, boys.
The National League Meet Inc.
On Wednesday next the annual meeting
of the Nat.onal League will be held in New
York. There will likely be some important
questions to discuss and take action on, but
no radical change ot the constitution is ex
pected to be made. Of course, an effort will
be made to havo a game played between
Pittsburg and Chicago thrown out, and if it
is, Pittsburg will be in seventh instead of
eighth place. That won't make much differ
ence, but if the change is made it will be
satisfactory to know that the local club has
been fairly dealt with. There are rumora
current to the effect that efforts will be
made to have the trouble settled between
the League an ' Association. '
If such efforts are made I have every con
fidence in a good result if the Association
people will only be modest and fair in their
demands. If they want to reign supreme
they will be ignored; if they want to hum
ble the League in the dust they will be
fooled, but if they want a lair and equitable
settlement they will get one, and they will
get nothing else. It may be that a new
president will be elected, and if there is I
would not be surprised if John B. Day is
given the honor. He is not only an able
gentleman, but he is one who has the con
fidences of magnates and players alike.
Altogether the meeting will be one of the
most interesting Held tor a long time.
Tho Football Flayers.
Winter sports are surely taking hold of
the public in and about Pittsburg. A few
weeks ago when this paper be?an to give
prominence to football the game was some
what ridiculed in certain quarters; but it
has so tar this season been a success here all
the same. I am very glad of that because
there is not a better nor a more enthusing
game on the calendar than football. It is
safe to sav that never in the history of this
city has the game been so popular as it is
this season. Svhy, already this year there
have been as many games played as there
used to be in a number of years not long
ago. And the number ot players is getting
larger. But the best of the Rugby games
are to come yer, and before the season is
out I expect to see some very exciting con
tests at Exposition Park. There are nu
merojs excellent Rugby teams within easy
distance of Pittsburg and this suggests to
me that it might be well for them to or
ganize a League. An organization is al
ways better than having teams playing each
other in haphazard form. Besides, without
an organization, it is oiten difficult to tell
what team really deserves the qualification
ot "best" among the lot.
Certainly, it a league were formed the
interest in the game would increase. So far
the Assccia ion League has been a success,
and the six teams in it are going ahead in
the liveliest of styles. The playing is get
ting much better, and I am sure the contest
between the Pittsburg and McDonald teams
a week past yesterday w as one of the best
there has been seen, in this State at least.
The McDonalds are an excellent team and
play very well together. The Pittsburgsdo
not perform so well as a team, bat they are
much quicker than the champions. If they
improve in team work I don t see why they
should not carry off the pennant this sea
son. Local Bowling Clubs.
It would seem that bowling has jumped
into existence in this city just as suddenly
as did Jonah's gourd. Pew of us have
heard of rolling bowls here, except it
may have been in some little alley
run by a speculator. But right in
our midst are a number of full
fledged clubs ranging in membership
of from 200 to 400 each. And there is a
very large number of active members, and
they are now making things very lively
among themselves. Of course, tLey are
more or less the leading business men of the
city, but for all that they can lorget the
toil and worry of their office transactions
and meet in the alleys to knock down the
pins. There is a heap of fun in bowling
down the pins, and those who think there is
not should just havo a try. But matters
have become so enthusiastic among the
local bowlers that Mr. D. H. Hostetter has
offered a valuable silver cup to be com
peted for by the Bellefield, Linden and
East End clubs. The contest will com
mence on Monday evening a week, and it
seems sale to say that it will-be an interest
ing one. The idea of Mr. Hostetter is an
excellent one, and I trust that his generosity
will be rewarded by some exciting and good
contests contests that will add popularity
to the game. I would like to see bowling
become popular here, and I think it wilL
The Amateur Athletic War.
Wars and rumors of wars are evidently
not confined to baseball people. The latest
is a rumored war among the amateur ath
letes. Some time ago there was trouble be
tw een the Western amateurs and the A. A.
U., because the latter prohibited Sunday
games. That difficulty has apparently been
smoothed over, but now we have Mr." Jans
sen to the front with a new scheme, which
many people think is aimed at the destruc
tion of the A. A. U. I am a believer in the
A. A. U., although it may have its faults.
But I do not for one moment think that
Mr. Janssen, aye, even ten Janssens, can
knock the A. A. U. out. I have carefully
looked at Mr. Janssen's side of the matter,
and also at the side represented by triends
of the A. A. TJ., and I am fully convinced
that Mr. Jansscn wants to shake the founda
tion of the A. A. U. He is a well informed
gentleman, but he is a very foolish man for
ever attempting any such "task. Of course,
he contends that his scheme is not all aimed
to injure to A. A. U., but the details of the
proposed organization point to the contrary.
Now, wiiy cannot amateurs, beyond all
others, get along all right ? Amateurism in
this country was never so flourishing, and
never so promising as it is now. The fame
of American amateur athletes is known all
over the world, and present records will
hand their names down to future genera
tions as being the best of their time.
Everything is excellent, and why should a
spirit of jealousy or of revenge be allowed
to disturb and injure the whole business ?
Those who have at present the management
of amateur affairs in their hands should see
that all these attempts to cause trouble are
toiled, and foiled at once.
Amonc the Pugilists.
There has certainly been lots of talking
among the pugilists during the week just
ended. They are now making ur for lost
time, and by the time that Mitchell, Slavin,
Mace and his protoge get here every other
business in the country must take a rest
and listen to the pleasantries of the fighters
and .boxers. But amid all the talk
of the last few days there has been nothing
done in the way of making a definite match.
The California Athletic Club has come to
the front with a definite offer to COrbett and
Maher. The club offers a purse ot $7,500
for these tw o worthies to fight with gloves
for, but it is too small a sum for Mr. Cor
bett. Let me once again say: Times have
changed. Just fancy any of the good old
timers being asked if a purse of 1,500 was
sufficient tor them to enter the ring for.
Well, Corbett wants 510,000, and in making
that request the other evening, he did not
hesitate to say that he was simply in the
Dusiuess for money. His manager and him
self talked much about there being no repu
tation for Corbett to gain by defeating
Maher. That is all right, but how about
Maher defeating Corbett?
Keally I don't think that anybody can
possibly gain much reputation at present by
defeating James J. Corbett. His laurels
are not very prominent on his brow, what
ever he may do in future. I don't know
Maher. I have never seen him, but if he
is a fighter I have a very strong notion that
he will defeat Corbett- I am not at all im
pressed with the latter as a fighter. True,
he is an excellent boxer on the stage and
would be in the ring as long as, he conld
keep his wind and, his legs. He is built to
be a boxer and has an excellent attitude; in
fact one out of the conventional style. But
the question is: What would Corbett do
when forced bv another big man whovwas a
-oatural fighter? I fear that Corbett would
soon collapse. I cannot bring myself to
believe that Corbett would ever defeat a
man like Slavin. The latter would soon
force matters so terrifically that boxing
would be out of the question. And then
Corbett would be beaten. That is, I think
he would, because he cannot hit as hard as
Slavin, nor can he stand tho amount of
unishment the Australian can. If Peter
taher is anvthing like Slavin I think he
can defeat Corbett.
Sullivan's Programme.
After all the talk it seems safe to say that
John L. Sullivan will not fight for nearly a
yearyet, even if he fights then. The other
evening In a few remarks he said that he
would not fight anybody until next October
or November. This means that in his esti
mation he has a better business on hand
than fighting. Doubtless, he is right But
while I am of opinion that he had better not
re-enter the ring, I still think that if in con
dition he is the best glove fighter living. It
may be that as soon as the champions from
the British Isles land here rivalry will get
to such a pitch that all present plans will be
knocked on the head and a match or matches
made in the heat of the moment. In that
event I don't think that Sullivan's chances
would be any too good. At presenthe
weighs 215 pounds and that means that with
the best possible care and training he will
require a long time to get into condition.
But I don't think his backers will be caught
'napping," as they know very well that
Slavin is a desperate man. Whatever way
things go we can look out for one thing,
viz., lots of "champion" pugilists on the
road with shows this winter. Not one of
them is half as anxious to secure a good
fight as he is to secure a good show engage
ment. Mace as an Instructor.
The other day I read a paragraph in a
newspaper to the effect that Jem Mace had
been engaged to teach boxing in an athletic
club in San Francisco. That the engage
ment is a good one I have no doubt; indeed
I have often wondered why one of these big
clubs did not secure the services of this man;
the best boxer that ever put on a pair of
gloves in my estimation. It Mace is as
careful about his boxing and about his
pupils as he used to be he has no superior as
a teacher to-day. It is unfortunate that so
many young men who want to learn the
"manly art" are simply defrauded out of
their money by characteis who profess to
teach and who don't know even the rudi
ments of boxing themselves. Generally
speaking, the amateur boxers of Pittsburg
give evidence that they have been taught
"something" by personswho know nothing
at all about boxing. A young athlete had
better confine himself to punching the bag
than be taught by some of those alleged
teachers who are to be found in every city,
because they get taught methods that will
result in getting their heads knocked off
whenever they meet a good man.
Pbisole.
Namfi or Naval Vessel.
It is curious what a fatality seems to pur
sue vessels that have certain names. For
example, the name Boston for a ship is re
garded as very unlucky. Four Bostons in
the United States service have already
come to grief in one way or another, and
the fifth has been in some sort of trouble
ever since she was built and named by Sec
retary Whitney. There has never been a
steamer San Francisco yet that has not been
lost, and Guerriere is another hapless desig
nation. On the other hand, ships named
Constitution have always been remarkably
fortunate.
AN OLD VETERAN SPEAKS.
THE.WAK BEING OVER, OTHEB ENE
MIES AWAIT KM.
Chronic Catarrh, tho Worst of Foes, Is Met,
Fought and Conquered.
Dr. S. B. Hartman Dear Sir: I have
been afflicted with catarrh of the head, nose
and throat for 12 years. A slight change in
the weather would give me a fresh
cold, producing abundant discharges from
my eyes and nose, also continual sneezing.
I had ulcers at the root of my tongue and in
my throat. I tried several catarrh reme
dies, with only temporary relief. I com
menced taking Pe-ru-na as directed on the
bottle, and improved at once, and continued
to improve as I continued to use the Pe-ru-na.
I am a broken-down veteran soldier, 57
years old, and heartily recommend Pe-ru-na
to all catarrh sufferers.
Andee-w Walkek,
Selma, la.
yrarz some patients find no cure.
The reason that so many patients fail in
finding a cure for chronic catarrh is because
of their unwillingness to continue treat
ment long enough. Many people who have
had chronic catarrh for 5, 10 and even 15
years, will follow treatment for a week,
and then, because they are not cured, give
up in despair and try something else. These
patients never follow any one treatment
lung enough to test its merits, and conse
quently never find a cure. It is a well
known" law of disease that the longer it has
run the more tenaciously it becomes fastened
to its victim.
rAILIATIVES DO ITOT CUBE.
The difficulty with which catarrh is cured
has led to the invention of a host of reme
dies which produce temporary relief only.
The unthinking masses expect to find some
remedy which will cure them in a few days,
and to" take advantage of this false hope
many compounds which have instant but
transient effect have been devised. The peo
ple try these catarrh cures one after another,
but disappointment is the invariable result,
until very many sincerely believe that no
cure is possible.
LOCAL APPLICATION CANNOT CUBE.
The various kinds and modes of local ap
plications such as sprays, atomizers,
douches, inhalants, fumigations, creams,
ointments, lotions, gargles, etc., eta, have
in many cases a soothing effect on the in
flamed surfaces, and are sometimes useful
to assist a cure; but neither of them, nor
all of them together, ever did or ever will
cure a case of catarrh. These things may
give temporary relief, but it is useless to
expect a cure of them. Catarrh is not a
local disease, hence it cannot be cured by
local treatment.
TITE ONLY HOPE OP SUCCESS
in the permanent cure of a case of chronic
catarrh is to devise some remedy that will
remove the cause. I know of but one rem
edy that has this most desirable effect, and
that remedy is Pe-ru-na. This remedy
strikes at once at the root of the catarrh by
restoring to the mucous membranes their
healthy elasticity. Pe-ru-na is not a tem
porary palliative, but a radical cure. Its
action is necessarily slow, but permanent.
CATARRH IS CUEAELE.
In the majority of caes (especially those
of less than two years' duration) catarrh
can be cuied in a tew weeks by the proper
use of Pe-ru-na. Some cases are cured by
six bottles, others by four, and we have not
a few testimonials who have professed a
euro from even one bottle of this remedy.
Where a case of catarrh has existed" for five
or ten years a permanent cure cannot be
reasonably hoped for in less than three or
lour months, and in some rare cases the
continued use of Pe-ru-na for one vear has
been necessary to effect a permanent cure.
But, unless the case is very old and com
plicated, a speedy and "permanent cure is
sure.
A CURE GUARANTEED.
To all those who conscientiously follow
the above treatment for a reasonable length
of time a care is guaranteed There need
be no failures. Each bottle, of Pe-ru-na is
accompanied with complete directions for
use. The remedy can be had of any whole
sale druggist in the United States and most
retail druggists.
A pamphlet on catarrh of use to those
who arc about to begin treatment sent free
bv The Peruna Medicine Co., ot Columbus
Ohio. '
Store and office furniture to order.
Haugh & Keenan, 33 Water street
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EDISON E HIS DEN.
Fresh as a Daisy After Working
Thirty-Six Hours Without Best.
SOME DAY WE WILL NEVER SLEEP.
The Wizard Denounces Uncle Sam's Patent
System as a Fraud.
HIS M05BTEE TELEPHONE TO THE SUN
rcoxnxSFOXDrarcx ot the dispatch.
New Yoek, Not. T.
UK natent avKteiYi nut a
"V premium on rascality. I
have taken out700patents
for my inventions, but I
'have never had one min
ute's protection."
The speaker was the
great inventor, Thomas A.
Edison. The place was
his experimental labora
tory near Orange, N. J.
The time was about 11
o'clock one morning a few
days ago. Mr. Edison had
had no sleep for 36 hours,
and during the 72 hours before this he had
closed his eyes for less than six. Still he
looked as fresh as a daisy when the morning
sun strikes the dew on its petals, and the
sparkle of his eyes and the laugh which
shook his frame from time to time were
those of a boy. He was in the midst of one
of those inventive periods when he takes
but little rest and works away night and
day to accomplish his ends, lie had left
his chemicals to talk to me, and he came in
his shirtsleeves, with his vest of Scotch
tweed open at the front and with his shirt
bosom of white linen decorated with spots
of all the colors of the rainbow. An odor
like that of the broth of Macbeth's witches
came from the chemicals in the room.
Living In His Laboratory.
During these inventive periods Edison
sleeps in his laboratory and his meals are
sent down from his magnificent home at
Llewellvn Park. Upon a plain table cov
ered with brown paper lav the remains of
his breakfast. These were the bones of two
mutton chops, the crumbs of a muffin and a
glass fruit can in the bottom of which was a
little coffee of the same brown color as that
in the glass beside it, out of which Mr. Edi
son had evidently drunk instead of a cup.
This laboratory all told must cover sev-
A TXEW OP THE
eral acres. Its original cost must have been
more than half a million dollars and it
takes it is said more than 5100,000 a year
to run it. It is the most complete labora
tory in the world. Mr. Edison has pieces
of every known material substance, from,
as he says, a spool of cotton to the eyeballs
of an United States Senator. The head of
the workshops, Professor W. .L. K. Dick
son, ha an international reputation as a
photographer and he brings out every week
some new wonder in his experiments. One
of Edison's great suits was gained lately
solely through the photographs made of a
slice of Japanese bamboo from which was
shown the fiber out of which Edison makes
the carbon for his incandescent lamps. This
slice was magnified so that the picture
showed the little fibers of the bamboo.
JIado"o Money In Patents.
Returning to my interview and the patent
system, Mr. Edison went on: "The people
suppose I have made money out of my in
ventions. The truth is I have rever made 1
cent out of my inventions. All I have made
has been out of manufacturing. My inven
tions have not been protected by the Patent
Office. The companies witn wnicn
ich I am j
trying to
connected have snent millions in
defend them. I have spent about J600.000
myself and I believe I would be 5600,000
better off if I had never taken out a patent
What I have made has been because I have
understood the inventions better and have
been able to manipulate the manufacturing
of them better than the pirates. I could
"hot have made anything had I not had large
capital back of me, and the ordinary in
ventor has no protection whatever.
"Let me tell you how it works. The in
ventor has a good thing. He takes out his
patent, thinks he is safe and organizes a
Elant to manufacture it. The pirate sees
e has a good thing, organizes a company,
bribes his men and startS'in opposition.
mm
7
tiPKa In
VIEWS FKOM A KUTETOGItAPH SLIP.
He can Inmost cases now put up for 550,000
what h33 cost the inventor 5200,000. The
inventor prosecutes him, but the court
takes ihree years before tliey will hear his
case. If they decide against him he carries
it. to the Supreme Court, which is three
years behind hand, and it is from G
to 12 years belore he can get a final de
cision. By this time the pirate has made a
fortune. What the courts should do is to
prevent the pirate from manufacturing
until he can prove that he has a right to
manufacture. The man who has the papers
should be given the benefit of the doubt."
Grrat Inv ntionn of the Future.
"Do you think, Mr. Edison," said I,
"that the inventions of the next 50 years
will be equal to those of the last 50?"
"It seems to me," he replied, "that we
ars- at the beginning of inventions. Take
electricity. Vhen we get electricity di
rectly from coal, a lump as big as" this
tumbler will ngut ana neat a whole house
for hours, and a basket full wouldrun a
factory a whole day. I have been working
on it for years, but I haven't got it vet?
When it does come it will revolutionize
everything. We will have flying machines,
but not on any of the plans now pro
posed." "How about the making of tjiel from
water?"
"I don't believe it will ever pay, "replied
Mr. Edison. "Water is the ashes of nature.
There is nothing more like ashes. It took
an enormous degree of heat to make the
hydrogen and the oxygen combine to make
water, and it takes a great degree of heat to
revivify them. I don't believe it will ever
be commercially profitable."
The conversation here turned to the tele
phone, and I asked Mr. Edison as to his
telephone io me uu. xuia veiepnone ex
periment is the biggest thing of the kind in
nature. There is in tho New Jersey Moun
tains a vast mass of iron a mile long and of
about the same width, which runs straight
down into the earth for a number of
miles.
His Telephone to the Son.
"The telephone,", said Mr. Edison, "is,
you know, made by running a wire around
the ton of a marnHn Kir. and this machine,
when charged with electricity, enables us to
register the sounds which come in contact
with lt
We are using this immense natural bar-
of iron ot the New Jersev mountains m
basis of our telephone." We have wound
miles of wire about its top and have formed
an inductive circuit in which we will have
the most powerful of electric currents. We
expect through it to hear the noises made
on the sun, and the explosions which are
supposed to be constantly going on there
will, I believe, within a few weeks be heard
right here. We have been working at the
matter for some time and have it just about
readv for testing.
"We have by no means reached the per
fection of the telephone," Mr. Edison went
on. "Improvements are being made all the
time. If a single wire could be placed
so high above the earth that it would not
touch the mountain tops, yon could whisper
around the world. If we could have a tele
phone from the earth to the sun I mean a
wire we could send sounds there with per
fect ease."
The Wonderful KInetograph.
Mr. Edison took me out into his labora
tory and showed me his latest invention in
connection with the phonograph, which he
calls the kinetograph. The machine takes
27,(50 photographs every minute on a long
strip of gelatine film and in reproducing them
they are made to revolve as fast before the
eye as when they were taken. The result
is that the eye does not see the forty-six
photographs, but it sees only the one with
the motions or gestures of the man taken.
I saw one of these machines in motion repre
senting one of Mr. Edison's employes tak
ing a smoke, and you can see the man raise
the cigar to nis lips, turn nis neaa anu uiow
out the smoke just as natural as though he
were in life.
Another set of photographs represented a
boxing-match, and it was as natural as
though the men were actually fighting be
fore your eyes, and it sometimes took a
dozen photographs to make a single motion.
The machine I saw was a nickel-in-the-slot
machine, and will probably be on themarket
in a short time. The strip on winch the
photographs are taken is about as wide as a
tape measure, but the figures are magnified
through a glass in looking at them.
Future of the Phonograpn.
I asked Mr. Edison as to the profltsof
the phonograph. He replied that the in
vention had not been managed as well as it
should be, and he spoke of Mr. Lippincott.
Said he: "Lippincott is suffering from a
clot of blood on the brain. The doctors say
PHONOGRAPH BOOM.
this clot is about the weight of a gram, hut
however big it may be, it has lost Mr. Lip
pincott 51,000,000. A million dollars a
gram! Sixty million dollars an ouncel
That's the most expensive- material I have
ever heard o I don't Know whether he
will recover or not, but the phonograph
will eventually pay, and pay well."
Mr. Edisoii takes pride in having been a
newspaper man, so I asked him if it will
ever be pcssible to take the page of a news
paper as set up in New York and telegraph
such a photograph of it to other great cities
of the country as could be placed at once on
an etching plate, and one setting up in this
way do for the whole country. Mr. Edison
thought for a minute, and then said: "Yes
that could be done, though I don't know
whether it would be profitable; and the day
may also come when a man sitting at a
type-setting machine in New York may, by
tapping the keys of a typewriter, set up the
press dispatches by means of similar ma
chines in every newspaper office of the
United States."
Edison's New Electric Koad.
Before I left I looked at Mr. !.n.
street railroad, upon which he is working.
The car and track are in the yard surround
ing the laboratory, and the invention, I un
derstand, is ready for use. It will be much
cheaper than the cable, but will be more ex
pensive than the trolley system, and it may
be used on a regular railroad as well as on a
street car.
My wonder as to Mr. Edison's wonderful
vitality increased. What man of 52 who
reads this paper could act and feel fresh
after 36 hours out of bed? Edison is 52, and
he looks as though he would live to be 100.
Said he in response to my question: "I feel
that I am in my prime, and I suppose I am
a better man than I have ever been."
"How do you get along with so little
sleep?" I asked.
"Six hours or 6 are plenty for me, and I
seldom take more. If I sleep eight hours I
find that after breakfast I. want to go to
sleep asain, whereas five hours puts me iu
splendid condition, and I am ready for any
thing. I think sleep after all is more of a
matter of habit than anything else, and that
in the far future, if weshould have an arti
ficial light which would make the world like
day year in and year out, we would never
sleep atalh" Eeakk G. Caepentee.
AH EXHIBITION 07 MUSHB00K8.
The Show Now Beinjr Prepared at Wash
lrton for tho Worlil' Fair.
An exhibit of a most curious and original
description is to be made by the Depart
ment of Agriculture at the World's Pair in
Chicago. Nothing like it has ever been
seen at an exposition before. It.will be.a
show of mushrooms, including all ot the
200 varieties of edible agarics belonging to
the United States. All of them win be
represented bv models painted to imitate
nature as nearly as possible, while the
principal and most useful kind3 will be dis
played actually growing and under cultiva
tion. For this purpose experiments are now
being made in a barn some miles out of
Washington, under the direction of Dr.
Thomas Taylor, an expert fungologist.
Various methods of cultivation are being
tried and every day excursions are made
into the woods around about to gather fresh
species. Already in that neighborhood
more than 100 kinds have been secured. As
fast as they are obtained, thev have plaster
molds made from them. The casts are
painted by skillful artists in close imitation
of the real mushrooms.
i CITY'S SUNNT SIDE.
Pen Pictures of Beautiful and Re
spectable Eighth Avenue, N. Y.
NEITHER SHABBY NOR GAUDY.
The Home of the Steady, Honest, Sympa
thetic Ifiddle Class.
WOULD DO H0X0R TO ANT METE0P0LIS
rCOimKSFONDENCE OF THI DISPiTCS.1
New Yoke, Nov. 7. "Why this con
tinual harping upon the horrible?" inquired
a philosophic friend. "Has New York no
sunny side? Have readers a taste for noth
ing but the shadows of a great city? Are
the haunts of the depraved alone pictur
esque and the daily life of criminals only
worth recording? Turn with me to the
sunny side of the street?"
When the stranger within onr gates
"does" the Bowery, explores the dives of
Bleeker street and staggers forth from Mott
street and other pnrlieus at 2 o'clock in the
morning he imagines he has seen New
York. He passes night after night amid
the surroundings of the vicious and goes
away moralizing on the wickedness of the
metropolis. If he cannot find something
worse than he has seen elsewhere he pro
nounces New York dull and spiritless and
behind the times. It is doubtless a fact
that the wickedness and squalor of New
York attract more attention than the good,
the beautiful and the true. Certainly the
former gain more publicity. Yet there are
Bights of metropolitan common everyday
lite that are worth traveling hundreds of
miles to see.
New Yorkers Don't Find the Good.
They are praclically unknown to the typi
cal New Yorker himself. There is a single
street running through the heart of the
most populous district which the Broadway
lounger and the Fifth avenue promenader
never see, ana tne mere suggestion ot wmcu
as of possible interest would provoke from
them a smile of contempt; yet this street is
the most magnificent thoroughfare in the
city, and in many respects rivals the boule
vards of Paris. I allude to Eighth avenue.
Turn to your map of Manhattan Island
and you will see a broad thoroughfare cut
ting straightway almost through the center
of the city from Fourteenth street to One
Hundred and Tenth, unbroken by angles or
curves, and undefined by straddle-bug rail
roads almost five miles. From Fiftv-ninth
northward it skirts the western boundary
of Central Park, and for that distance it is
faced with splendid residences, expensive
apartment houses and foundations for
palaces yet to come. From the park south
ward to Fourteeth it is a grand boulevard
of smooth and solid asphaltum lined with
shops. It is to these two miles that the
stroller may turn with interest and profit.
Where the Middle Class Lives.
He will traverse a section inhabited by
the great middle class that largely makes
up the commercial muscle and. sinews of
New York. They are neither the rich nor
the poor. No palaces of stone chill the
warm blood of human sympathy; no haunts
of the lowly or dens of the vicious offend
the eye.
Did yon ever note the individuality of
streets? It can be seen even in the smart
village. In a city like New York it is
more marked. A paved carriage way with
sidewalks is a street 30 is a man a man.
But there is quite as much individuality in
a city street as there is in one man compared
to another. I mean a street of ways and
walks and houses and habitues. Even
cosmopolitan Broadway has its own indi
viduality. It is as if a handsome man
wore two kinds of whiskers, a fashionable
coat and hat, a silk shirt without a collar
and patches on his knees. So far as any
resemblance to any other street here is con
cerned Eight avenue might run through the
populous heart of any European capital.
Try Seventh avenue, or Ninth, its next
door neighbor, and you will find fresh indi
viduality. They are no more alike than
Fourth and Fifth avenues. And on this
individuality volumes ot description might
be written.
IU I-lttlo Parisian Shops.
Smoke your after dinner cigar on Eighth
avenue some pleasant autumn eveuing,
walking down this two mile stretch. I say
down, because the sidewalk tide sets up
town at this hour and you get a better idea
of the people. The shops are ablaze with
gas and electricity the little Parisian
shops. How they glow and shine! And
how small and thick they are 1 For it is a
strictly retail street and being the purchas
ing ground of the busy class of thriving in
dustrial life the shops must reap their sub
stantial harvest in the evening. And thus
it is that long after aristocratic Filth ave
nue is shrouded in darkness and upper
Broadway is but a thing of shreds and
patches of light Eighth avenue stretches
a ay through the night shivering and scin
tilating, a monster glowworm.
A retail street for an evening's ramble if
you love your fellowmen and women.
These shops s'ore is too stiff and formal a
word of designation are apparently in the
hands of women, male clerks and proprie
tors the exception. What women buy,
therefore, seems to be actually thrust upon
ycu everywhere. And so cheap! Dear me!
They Split the Nickels.
To see what a woman can buy for a
quarter, or 47 cents, or 84 cents, or some
other split nickel. The prices are placarded
everywhere on everything in sight, in big
black, astonishing figures. Who in the
world buys all these hats and shoes? The
women of course; else there would not be a
half dozen millinery shops and as many
shoe stores to the block. I never saw so
many millinery shops outside of Paris.
Next to millinery and shoes are crockery
and glassware and other household goods.
These are forced out on the sidewalk to the
stoop line where you must see them
whether you wish to do so or not.
The prices range from a cent up. "Onlv
One Cent!" That is the way they put it to
yon on Eighth avenue. The style of the
millinery goods display might not suit
Fifth avenue; but it suits Eighth and that's
what is material. X am not a judge of
ladies gear exactly but I was quite touched
at the sight of something like my mother
wore when I was a boy.
No Bams at tho Saloons.
The conventional New York saloon, with
its swinging mahogany half-doors and plate
glass, monopolizes the corners along the
street, yielding an occasional corner to a
drug store. Four saloons on the respective
four corners of a crossing are not rare.
Whatever they may be later, at this hour
they are quiet. There are no loafers loung
ing about the doors and blocking up the
corners as on Broadway. No old battered
bums anvwhere to hound you for the price
of a drink. These stick to the haunts of
sports and men about town. This is notice
able. The people? They are coming up stead
ily, as you make these mental notes, two
great streams, three, four and five deep.
And here is a sight. This is the great
thoroughfare from the downtown shops and
stores and factories and offices, and these
are they who are returning home from their
daily routine. No car fare for these there
are plenty of new shoes for sale on Eighth
avenue. Men, women and children artis
ans, salesmen, clerk3 or cashiers, shop girls,
tapewriters, seamstresses, factory hands,
cash girls every grade of respectable toil
ers of both sexes and almost every age.
Happy faces, trim figures, rosy complex
ions. Neither Uaudy Nor Shabby.
Plain clothing is the almost universal
rule plain, substantial, comfortable cloth
ingfrom the little black-aproned cash
girls with the jaunty caps to the plump ma
tron who superintends her own shop, clean,
neat, snug and comfortable. There is
scarcely a gaudy ribbon and rarely a shabby
coat. No skirts sweep the walks of Eighth
avenue. There isn't a pair 01 was, a sue
hst or ilk dress on a week day to the half
mile. The men'have'firm faces, the women
independence without brazenness. There
are no painted cheeks here, nor penciled
eyebrows, nor flashy diamonds and calico;
nor are there any aimless dudes lounging
here and there to stare honest women in the
face. The field is not theirs. You will see
such even respectability in no other street
in New York.
There is a single break in this descrip
tion reserved for that part of Eighth avenue
near the Grand Opera House, where there
are some pretentious stores and some drink
ing resorts. But the street people are
about the same. Speaking of the Grand
Opera House, it receives its chief patronage
from these people, and a sight of one of the
immense audiences there impresses one
till ' "ore forcibly with the individuality of
Eighth avenue. You will see no such audi
ence in any other theater in this citv.
Lessons In Human Nature.
By dav Eighth avenue is alive with ve
hicles of all descriptions, it being the great
natural artery of traffic, not to mention its
inviting asphaltum and liberal breadth. It
is the grand course of the bicyclers, hun
dreds of whom are constantly whirling up
and down to the peril of crossing pedestri
ans. Many complaints are being made
against reckless riding, and not a few seri
ous accidents have occurred. In the early
dusk there is danger.
Almost every evening on Eighth avenue
in summer you encounter corner prayer
meetings. A flute, a cornet and a couple of
male and female voices furnish the music,
and the very respectable looking men and
women who pray are sure of a respectful
audience. Men and women pause and,
craning their necks over the outer row of
listeners, get a conception of what is going
on, then, perhaps, go away with a smile or
a look of wonderment. A little further ona
blind sailor mournfully warbles some an
cient forecastle ballad.'and the hat is not
held in vain. Perhaps two or three more
of these street singing beggars will be en
countered on a single trip, for Eighth ave
nue people are honest and sympathetic and
will give pennies here and there where the
richer and more aristocratic would turn the
cold shoulder. A valuable lesson in human
nature may be learned on every block of
this popular boulevard by those having
eyes to see and ears to hear and the inclina
tion to use these senses.
CnABLES THEODOEE MtTBXAY.
A MAN WITH TWIN BRAINS.
Has the Biggest Head In the World Three
Doctors Gave Him a Living to Get the
Body After Death He Has Outlived
Two of Them.
rwitlTTEN TOR THI DISPATCH.
There is a man in Washington who has
the distinction of having the biggest head
in the world. His name is- Loftus Jones
Parker, and his head measures a little more
than 32 inches around. A 21-inch girth is
a pretty fair sized head. Mr. Parker is 48
years old and is a respected citizen of the
National Capital. He has been in business,
with a place on Louisiana avenue, near
Seventh street, but for about 20 years he
has been leading a retired life. He did not
retire upon the accumulations of an active
business career, as many worthy men do,
but upon a bonus or subsidy given by
three prominent physicians of Washington,
who wanted to secure his remarkable head for
Zoftus Janes Parker.
an autopsy when he came to shake off the
mortal coil. He was then 28, and tho en
terprising medicine men thought that he
would not hold out much longer. They
could not see how a man with as big a head
for as little a body to feed it could hang on
beyond 33 years, the average of human life.
So the endowment was set aside for his
maintenance, the conditions being that he
should not permanently leave the District
of Columbia, and that they should have his
bodv for scientific purposes when he had no
further use for it.
I had a talk with this great physical
curiosity not long ago. He has a pretty
clear head; but there is a striking pecu
liarity about his mental processes which
has led some people to think that he has in
his prodigious head two distiuet sets of
brains, which sometimes work in unison
and sometimes do not. It is this singular
feature of the little man's make-up that has
excited the wonder of the doctors. Dime
museum people have been after him for
ten years; but family pride has led
him to refuse some good offers. He re
marked, with a glance of cool shrewdness,
that if it was any object for me to know it,
two of the doctors who put up the bonus
were dead. Then, after a panse, he added:
"In regard to the third, I think my lease of
lite is about as good as his."
A good many people about Washington
think that it is a simple caseofhydro
cenhalns. though this is seemingly nega
tived bv the fact that this peculiar ailment
has never been known to allow its victim to
enjoy 48 years of life, good health and good
wit. Lottos Parker is one of the characters
of the Capital. He is as distinctively an
individuality as Beau Hickman, the most
noted of all Washington characters, and is
a figure at all out-door doings of the gay
political metropolis. Music is one of his
passions. It is singularly like the case of
Blind Tom, but of course he has greater in
telligence. He is a very religious man, and
is a member of the Metropolitan Methodist
Church. He was even an interesting figure
at Parson Newman's fervid discourses, and
helped along with tbe worship by his fine
singing, tie nas a gooa tenor voice, wmcu
has some notes remarkable for sweetness
and vigor.
In tho second year of the Grant
Administration the Metropolitan Chnrch
decided to get a grand chime for the church,
When the "chime was ready for delivery,
it was thought to be prudent to send a
musical expert to Troy to test it before'ac
ceptance. It was tbe intention to have the
best chime in America, and P rker was se
lected for this delicate service. An edu
cated musician went along to supply what
technical knowledge might be necessary,
but Parker was to furnish the nice judg
ment on harmony. The musician I will
not name him, as he is prominent said tha
bells were all right, but Parker said they
were not. Two or three did not suit him,
and he told why, in his peculiar manner.
After a whole week of squabbling, the lit
tle man made his point, and tbe bad bells
were replaced, at considerable cost-to the
founders, bv new ones of truer tone.
When the citizen or visitor at the capital j
is thrilled these bright Sabbath mornings ot
autumn with the "harmonies of "Green
ville," "Nearer, My God, to Thee," or the
Missionary Hymn, from the Metropolitan
chime, he should bear in mind that a part
of his treat is due to the'stubborn persist
ence and tbe discriminating musical sense
of Loftus Parker, the man with twin
brains, "the little man with the biggest
head," the man who has helped bury two of
his would-be dissectors and expects to sing
at the funeral of the third!
Edso2t Bracts.
Ballroad Car He.itlng In Tranee.
An electric system of heating railroad cars,
nsed on French lines, provides for tho use of
load DTiittno. f ifvh TfatatAnca tHrantrh
Jjvhlch a current from a dynamo is passed.
jBEES AS CARRIERS.
An Expert Is Sending Messages by
Them, a la Carrier Pigeon.
DIETING TO PEEVE5T BALDNESS.
A Machine for Blacking- Shoes That Hasn't
Beached Pittsburg.
EAFID TKA5SIT TOE TEE FAEHEB
rwErrrET for thi dispatch-I
Astonishing records have been made by
carrier pigeons, and all the great European
powers have attached a carrier pigeon serv
ice to their war departments for the trans
mission of messages in time of war. But it
would, at first thought, require more than
ordinary credulity to believe that the bee
can be utilized In the same way. It has
long been known that If a swarm of bees
were inclosed in a bas and carried to a dis
tance of, say, two or three miles from the
hive, and the bag were opened, the bees,
after circling around for a short time, would
quickly take flight in the direction of the
hive, with unerring certainty. Under ordin
ary conditions, the most active ones would
cover the distance in 20 or 23 minntes.travel
Ing at a mean speed of seven miles an hour.
M. Teynac, the distinguished bee master of
the Gironde, has turned this instinct to ac
count In the carrying of messages between
the houses of friends at a distance of 2 or 2J
miles and his own. His mode of operation is
not a difficult one to follow. A small hive,
well stocked with bees and food for them, U
sent to the friend. At the end of a few day
the bees have become accustomed to their
new surroundings. They are then placed in
a small shipping box, covered with wire
giuzo sons to allow ofasupDly of air, and
sent back to their destination. After their
arrival they are set free in a room in which
a little honey has been placed npon a table.
A hungry bee Immediately alights on the re
past. At thi- moment the dispatch, a tiny
strip, slit with .1 pair of scissors so as to form
two flaps, fa attached, the two flaps, which
arc covered with fish glue, being quickly
and lightly applied to the bee held with
pinchers. The glue must not touch
either tho head or wings of
the insect, which as soon as i
has had its fill of the honey, takes its flight
and steers straight for tho hive. Rerore the
entrance of each hive has been placed a
small tin box, having apertures in front of
jnst snfllcient size to allow or the passage of
the males or drones. The onposite side,
which is entirely open, is andied exactly
against the entrance of the hive, so that, in
order to enter or make their exit, all tha
bees must pass through these apertures. The
little messenger, hampered by the weight of
the load on its back, exhausts itself in vain
efforts to pass through in its turn, and is
obliged to wait for some one to free it from
the burden that prevents it from entering
the hive.
M. Teynao thinks that through patient
training and proper selection a bee mes
senger can be developed that will De able to
travel greater distances, and he is under
stood to be now experimenting with a hardy
species of bee, which he has domesticated.
Diet and Growth of Hair.
Dr. E. C. llapother says hair contains 5 per
cent of sulphur and i s ash, 2U per cent of
silicon and 10 per cent of iron and manga
nese. Solntions ot beef, starchy mixtures
and even milk, which constitutes the diet of
patients with influenza and other revers,
cannot supply theso elements, and atrophy
at the root and falling of the hair results. A
fact which bears on this view of the case la
that young mammals attain neither strength
nor color of hair so long as milk is their sole
food. Tho foods which most abundantly
contain the elements required for the
strengthening of the hairaro the various
albnmonoids and the oat. tlie ash of which
yields 22 per cent of silicon. With care,
these foods ar? admissible in certain febrile
diseases. Dr. Mapotherhas often found a
dietary largely composed of oatmeal and
brown bread greatly promote the growth of
the hair, especially when the baldness was
preceded by constipation and sluggish
capillary circulation.
Blacking Shoes by Electricity.
Chicago was the first city in this country
to Introduce the electric motor for working
a shoe-blacking machine. New York has
followed suit, and has now quite a number
of these machines worked electrically. They
are principally in barbers' shops, and are
very popular. The machine consists of a
circular brush, attached to a flexible shaft,
the i.irectlon of which Iso ntrolled by the
bootblack. The foot is placed into the ma
chine, and in a few seconds it i3 withdrawn,
polished to perfection. This result is ob
tained by the rapid rotation of three
brushe", so placed with regard to each other
that the whole surface of the shoe can be
operated upon expeditiously The shoe to
be shined is placed on a little platform,
which slides between the first two brushes,
and at the third brush comes into action the
polish is developed. The shafts of the three
brushes are self adjusting, so that all sixes
of shoes can be treated with equal ease.
Bapld Transit for the Farmer.
A practical illustration of the benefit ta
the farmer of the recently proposed system
of freight service will soon bo given In
Maryland,. where an electrioroad 13 miles
long is being run through a first-class farm
ing country that the steam railroads have
not touched. This road will not only -be
used for passenger traffic, but will bo
equipped with freight cars that will have
a capacity of five tons. Ho matter how
muddy the highways are or how stormy the
weather, the motor tracks upon which the
farm wagons are wheeled, will always be
ready to carry their loads to the nearest
market, and to bring back their return load
when required.
effective Way of Cutting Iron.
It Is well known that a smooth dijo of
steel driven at a high -peed will cut In two a
file held to the edge of the disc. This prin
ciple does not seem to have been practically
used save in an instance recently recorded
in a Government armory. Tho ends of tem
pered steel ramrod", such as were in use 23
years ago, were being treated and tbe mate
rial was found to be too hard to cut. Soma
small wheels of iron about 6 inches in diam
eter and 1 inch thick were brought into
requisition. They were driven at the rato
of 6,000 revolutions per minute and melted
or abraded the metal away instantly, at tho
same time drawing the temper so that a
crew thread conld afterward be cut on tho
end of the tempered rod.
Wire Fences as Llghtn lag Conductors.
The data collected by insurance companies
that issue policies on cattlo show that a dis
tinct increase In risk is caused by the use of
wire fences on farms. The number of cat
tle reported as killed by lightning Is very
large. In tho majority of cases the cattlo
were near the wiro fences at the moment or
their being struck, and so convinced are the
companies that the metal strands by acting
as conductors of electricity increase the
chances against the lifo of the cattle, that
they are making a modiflcaton of the con
ditions on which such insurance is given.
Sawdust Zot Generating Electricity-
In parts of the country where coal is dear,
electric light and power companies are look
ing for the cheapest substitute they can
find. An electrio corporation in Oregon has
the good fortune to be near the sawmills of
a great lumber company and has promptly
seized the opportunity offered of securing
an economical fuel for its power plant. The
refuse of the sawmills is taken direct from
the saws and conveyed directly to the
boilers of the electric company without any
handling whatever.
The Telephone for Tire Brigades.
The flremaster of Glasgow has a telephone
especially adapted for brigade purpose con
structed. It is enclosed in a small box, and
comprises a complete receiver, transmitter,
and magneto call bell, no battery being re
quired. On the arrival of the brigade at a
fire one or more or the portable telephones
is at once attached to tho nearest fire alarm
box and communication is established with
headquarters.
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