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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. SUITDAT. MAT 22. 1892.
15
A REVIEW OF SPORTS.
The Good "Work of Anson's
Team and the lessons It
Teaches Other CItids.
PEMAKT KACE FEATURES.
Haltere Pertaining to the Local Ball
Clnb and Burns' Engagement
DB. SHEEADT AND J. L. SULLIYAK.
Fred Johnson's Arrival and the Excellent
Impression Hade by Ilim.
ever there is a time when kind word are of
more good than at another. It is when they
are spoken to friends in trouble. Bv all
means don't let ns tear our hair out because
our baseball team have suffered a few defeats.
TEE GODDARD 1XD 1TAULIFFE FIGHT
There has not been much of an exciting
nature in baseball this week. Rain has
again had much to do In the way of pre
venting games and keeping down the at
tendance, hut despite the bad weather the
patronage bestowed on the games has been
exceedingly good, particularly in Pitts
burg. One of the features in the pennant
race during the week has been the
iorm displayed by the Chicago team.
Anson and his colts are jnst now about as
good as they will be this season. They are
playing first-class ball and it is not too
much to expect that they will land very
near the top in the race for the first pen
nant. Much credit is due to Anson for the
heroic manner in which he has pulled his
team togelher. They setoutby meeting de
feat after defeat and many people under the
circumstances would have been making all
kinds of chances. He did no such thing,
but --tuck to his men and the club owners of
course stuck to him a-id as a result the
team stenped out of the unfortunate rut
nicy iinu gotten into. in mis mere is a
leson for the directorate of other clubs.
Experience has shown that these chances
arc in the majority of cases not very profi
table. I have often thought tint the desire
for chances in the Pittsburg club has been a
little too strong. There is nothing like
giving an honest and capable man a good
try.
The Boston team continue to hold a good
lead in the race and thev are likely to con
tinue to win more cames than they lose.
Some misfortune will have to befall them if
they lo not win the pennant, although
ILc Brooklyn team are now showing up in
jrrcat strengh. Ward has fully demonstrated
lhat he has an excellent team of players
mid after all there is not much difference
between his team and the Bostons.
Thd Louisville team are out of the con
test as ;ar as first place or anywhere near it
is concerned. Their flash-in-the-pan vic
tories have subsided and now they are com
jnratively weak. Our friend Jones, of
Homestead, is no longer a terror, judging
lioin his recent efforts, and altogether the
Colonels are poorly off for pitchers. There
lis been nothing special among the other
teams. Cleveland continues to play a clean
arti steady game and the Xew York's are ini
proviuc. The Phillies are still out of con
dition and the l.altimorcs are playing much
belter than they did.
Loon: Rail Clnb Misfortnnrg.
Like Ii eland, our local baseball club is
hardly ever clear of trouble and difficulties.
Jut as rccular as the season comes, misfor
tune ooner or later environs the club. No
matter how encouraging or how successful
iin- iram may start our, me evil lales are
always in waiting for it and catch it just as
mrc as such a thing as trouble is in the
"norld.
This is all very disheartening, particu
larly to.those gentlemen who are connected
v itli the club and who have been at so
much expense and trouble in ttying to
make and keep things light. Certainlv
there is no disorganization in the club, but
a series of defeats of the team have brought
very black clouds ovcrhea 1. Three consec
utive de:cats are what have caused the
trouble. Host assuredly there is hardly
unvihing that makes us all so discontented,
so disheartened and very often so deaf to
reason as defeat after" defeat Anybodv
who has the least interest in baseball" soon
becomes disgruntled by an over-supply of
defeats of his iavorite team; indeed, this
discontentment about defeats is the great
proof of the interest that is taken in the
game. I would give little for a man's in
terest in the came who would never
grumble, rant and rave when his favorite
team were beaten time alter time. It is
our prerogative to grumble, and, depend
upon it, these honest grumblings often do
pood, as they result in setting our mind at
rest.
Bnt if we'll only stop at a legitimate
grumble thincs will be all right It is
when ue oxersiep the crumbling line and
begin to abusp everybody that it brings
liarm. and real I v there is no necessity tor
It. During the last few davs I have h'eard
many people call our baseball plavers and
everybody connected with the club some
very hard names, simply because the team
Lave lost a few games in succession. Xov,
really, theie is no reason for this particu
larly, because it cannot do any good. I ad
mire game losers, aud a game'loser doesn't
deaf in abuse u hen everybod v is trving his
best to win. But he will investigate the
causes of defeat and set himself to work to
make remedies w hen he has found defects.
1 lie .Ml Are in Earnest.
In speaking of our baseball club, there is
one thing which wc must not lose sieht of,
viz, that everybodv connected with it is in
earnest Every player on the team is doin
ins utmost to be victorious, and a.ter an
excellent start they have reached a point
where it seems almost impossible for them
to do anything but make mistakes, in fact,
some of the best players on the team have
recently comraiUe.f some of the most
egregious errors. Now, these players can
not Sor their lives tell vou how these mis
takes were made, and certain it is that
nobody on earth was more surprised
the committal of those errors than
The Efforts to Sign Tommy Bnrns.
A few straight defeats have caused the
directorate of the local club to make one
more strong effort to sign Tommy Burns.
Up to present writing nothing definite has
been done; that is Burns has not really
signed a contract
His demands are sweeping. He wants to
be assured of a three-vears' position no
matter how things go. The local club di
rectors may consent to this, but if they do,
they will simply be doing what very few
other people would. The demand of Burns
is unreasonable, to say the least of it What
in the world has he done to make him so
important? He is not able to play, and as
to looking after players he has had precious
little experience. I know that opinions are
that he is a "brainy" man, but his record
ought to be one of deeds before he asks for
an iron-clad agreement for three years.
I am aware that it was reported that Man
ager Buckcnberger was to be released. Prob
ably there were good grounds tor such re
port and iudcinc from what Anson said
when here I think there were. But Presi
dent Temple, of the local club, assured me
the other day that he had no notion what
ever of releasing Mr. Bnckenberger. Mr.
Temple said:
"On my honor as a gentleman I have en
gaged Buckenberger to manage our team
and he will certainly remain with us."
"Well, this sets at rest all report and con
jectures on that point and as one patron of
the club I am very glad ol it Jfor the lite
of me I cannot see what reason there is for
anybody to even think of releasing Mr.
Buckenberger. Ifa few defeats form the
only reasons, then the Philadelphia clnb
have a stronger reason to discharge the vet
eran Harry Wright
There are, indeed, many rays of hope for
the success of the team yet Better batting
must come, because such good hitters as are
on the team cannot continue long at the
bottom of the list The team is certainly
shaky as far as pitchers are concerned, but
if Woodcock fulfills expectations he will
add considerable strength to that depart
ment, 'lie has made a very good impres
sion, but we'll wait and see'more of him be
fore saying anything more about his merits.
An Interesting Local Feature.
Now and again it is quite interesting to
talk about any public personages or char
acters, whether they be mixed up with our
amusements or recreation as with the more
serious items of life. So far as the local
baseball season has progressed patrons of
the came wiU have observed one of the
noisiest and one of the most original men
just under the entrance gate ot the ball
grounds. He sells score cards and his name
is Harry Stevens, and it is unnecessary Jor
me to mention his name to any Pittsburg
crank because no man enters the ball
grounds without having occasion to ask:
"What do they call that man selling the
score ctrds." "Really, I have heard that
question asked scoresof times.
Well, our mutual friend Stevens is a base
ball character, and I question whether
he has an equal in his business, and I
really take pleasure in putting myself on
record on this point. Nobody is more re
liable; nobody is more humorous, and cer
tainly Blaine is not more eloquent, particu
larly when Mr. Stevens dashes offa perora
tion ending with something about the score
card being the "alpha and omega of all that
pertainsto the game." AVeli, after all.mcn
of the kind named are very pleasing fea
tures at a ball game and thev are useful
when like Mr. Stevens, they ieep the spec
tators informed un to date as to the score
and all changes that may take place among
the players.
Judge Morrow's Brooklyn Victory.
One of the great events of the week just
ended has been the victorv.of Judce Mor
row in the Brooklyn Handicap. It is a long
time since there was such general interest
centered in an American turf event as there
was in that of Monday last. The national I
enthusiasm concerning the event certainlv
goes to show that the popularity of runuing
races is greatlr on the increase.
There seems to be ,a widespread opinion
that the victory of Morrow was a surprise,
rfailtosee it. True it was a surprise to
many of the talent, but surely if the bet
ting quotations are to be taken as a guide it
wasn't much of a surprise. The awful de
feat of Longstreet was a surprise sure
enough and only goes to confirm what I
said last Sunday about barking horses in
big handicaps down to about 2 to 1 or even
money. But how the victory of Judge
Morrow could be a surprise at all I fail to
see, because some time ago ho was backed
down from 30 to 1 to 5 to 1. That means
that a very large amount of public money
was invested on him. and his starting price
was about 6to L Surely that figure does
not look as if few people did not expect him
to win. The truth is that he was well
backed, the price being such that the public
were induced to speculate on him.
The race was a good one, and doubtless
the terrific pace set by Fairview ruineJ the
chances of Russell and Longstreet The
pace was desperate, and as it turned out
was just the thing for Judge Morrow and
Pessara. Little "Major" Covington had a
deal to do with the victory of Morrow, and
his eflort at the finish stamps him as one of
the very best of the lightweight jockies.
It is also worthy of note that had the Board
of Pontrol not placed an embargo on such
horses as Judge Morrow running at Gutten
burg during the winter he probably would
have been an absolute wreck by this time.
He was almost ruined last season bv con
tinual racing and many people wondered
that the horse held ont as he did. The
winter's rest has done him considerable
good, and his owner may now know that he
is worth taking care ot He defeated some
great race horses and on a track that was
not very bad. Doubtless, we'll hear from
the Judgo again.
at
these very players themselves, and these
extremely surprising mistakes have of late
often been made just when our pitchers
were in better iorm than they have ever
been. Take many of the games that Bald
win has pitched for instance. Time and
time acain he has pitched the most wonder
ful kind ot ball, and still has been beaten
because of mistakes being made that nobody
cyer dreamt of. The game Woodcock
pitch-d and Wednesday's game were also
instances of what 1 mean. Nobody can tell
me that the pUying of the team on these
occasions was thcirrcgular standard of play.
It was no mch thine, and was simply the
consequence of the players being extraor
dinarily out of form.
True it i that weak hitting is another
delect that has brought about our trouble
some defects, but 1 alwajs claim that club
officials are no more responsible lor the
poor hitting of a man than they are for his
inability to sprint faster than Harrv
Hutchius. Each pJaver will have to culti
vate his own hi'tinc. and. rlpr.pnd imnn it
fclf-interest will prompt him to do the best
he can on that point
Well, then, let us look at the situation
fairly and generously. "We have seen that
everybody is doing the best he can, and
when that is being done, of what use is it to
burl oil' abueV I am sure the officials of
the club don t descneit, for if ever men
worked hue Trojans lor success thev are
doin- it now. The players don't deserve
it, because whatever some of their short
comings may be no team in the baseball
business arcmore anxious to win than they
aic All this being so, would it not be bet
ter to give the unfortunates encouragement
instead of adding to their iniscrv and dis
comfiture by administering more ticks? If
Good News for Sullivan's rriendi.
A day or two ago readers of The Dis
patch would see a Dr. Shready's state
ment that John L. Sullivan is in perfect
health, extraordinarily strong and able to
knock any man out on earth. This ought
to settle all differences of opinion as to the
outcome of the proposed battle h'rr
John L. and James J. It may be that in a
few days we'll have some other doctor mot.
ing affidavit to the eflect that James J. Cor
bett is physically the most wonderfully
made man that history has known, not even
excepting S.tmson, and that the "said
James J. Corbett is able to knock any two
men.out that can be produced on earth."
Why I say this is because there would be
just as much reason for the one as the other.
These doctor's examinations are entirely tor
effect and advertising and were never heard
tell of until the show business was a feat
ure. I mean they were never heard tell of
in the way they are now.
Bnt when wc are told that Dr. Shready or
Shrady, says that "with the fat off his
stomach" Sullivan will be in excellent con
dition, falsehoods are cither beine told
about the doctor, or else he knows.as much
about "excellent condition" as a cow does
about the history of the moon. Such state
ments are absolutely ridiculous, and are
made lor swindling purposes. Many of ns
saw Sullivan when he was here, and most
certainly any of us who know anything at
all about a man being in condition to fi"ht
know very well that John L. VM jnai
respects tremendously over weight And
let me remark here that if he is gotten into
as good condition to meet Corbett as he was
when he fought Kilrain he will be luekv.
He was not in "excellent condition" when
he met Kilrain, as his vomiting in the ring
proves. Why there is such a irent.ro l h;
to conceal the shortcomings of John L. Sul
livan and exaggerate his good qualities I
don't exactly know. One tiling I do know,
that such scheming is an imposition on his
admirers and the public generally. If an
extraordinary amount of work is not needed
to put Sullivan into a sound enough con
dition to continue an active pugilistic con
test, under Queentberry rules, lor CO or 90
minutes then I am free to admit that I know
nothing about boxing or anything that per
tains to it I have known pugilists whose
flesh.felt as hard as desirable, but who were
considerably overweight and sadly out of
condition. The hard&css of their flesh led
many -to believe that they -were all right,
but that hard substance was simply hardened
fat; whisky fat or something like that It
wasn'tmuscle; on the contrary, the mnscle
was injured by it A man in this condition,
no matter how well he may look, cannot
last. His wind soon goes and his muscles
soon get weak. Any old and practical man
will tell you this. Nothing but hard work,
and plenty of it, will remove the injurious
substance. The old timers knew this and it
was because of the honest work they did
that they were able to be such remarkable
stayers in the prize ring.
The Arrival of Fred Johnson.
A very interesting event of the week, as
far as pugilism is concerned, has been the
arrival of Fred Johnson in this country,
the feather-weight champion of England.
He comes here to fight our unbeaten
champion, George Dixon. It is two years
since I saw Johnson, and according to pub
lished descriptions of him since his arrival
here he must Tiave developed a little
physically. When I last saw him he did
not impress me as being very strong, bnt I
am aeeni nim a very clever little. leilow.
If he has thickened, so much the better.
He comes here with an excellent record and
he is to meet an opponent who also has had
a remarkable career.
It is much too soon to say anything
about the proposed battle. There will be
opportunity to learn much before the con
test takes place. But one thing I wish to
state at present is that Johnson is quite a
hitter. He may not be as powerful as some
of his class but he is effective and can reach
a mark with wonderful aim. He has de
feated tolerably good men out of his class,
notably Stanton Abbott, who is to fight
Austin Gibbons.
The proposed battle between the little
champions is sure to be one of very great
interest Both lads are sure to be well
backed, as thev contest is sure to bring to
the surface leelings of nationality.
The Battle Between Jackson and Slavln.
After a lot of changes and conferences,
the date of the Jackson and Slavin 20-round
contest has been fixed tor to-morrow week.
Decoration Day, or rather in the evening
of that day. At present I have little or
nothing to add to what I said last week re
garding the contest I still favor the
chances of Slavln.
There was a well defined rumor last week
that the battle would not take place before
the National Club.owingto thestraincd rela
tionshin between Slavin and the manager of
the club. But it seems as if all had been
fixed up.
Charley Mitchell is to be one of' Slavin's
seconds and that ought to quiet these all
wise people who have persisted tor a year or
more in having an unbridgeable breach be
tween Slavin a'nd Mitchell. I have known
all along that there was no serious differ
ences between the two and I know exactly
what was the cause of their two or three
little differences, which never amounted to
very much. But many people have so sig
nally failed to "best" Charley Mitch
ell after trying for many years, that they
lose no opportunity of trying to injure him
either by true or false report
Another BIc .Australian Among Us.
Joe Goddard, "The Barrier Terror," is
now fairly located on American soil and has
had the honor of talking to newspaper re
porters. If reports from San Francisco are
true Goddard has made a very good impres
ion there since hi! arrival. But the funny
thing is that after telling of the good im
pression the reports go on to state that the
odds are on Joe McAuliffe for the fight be
tween the pair.
Now what I would like to know is: If a
big man like Goddard makes a good im-
Sression as a fighter, why all the odds in
etting should be on a man like McAuliffe
defeating him. If he as a heavy-weight
pugilist cannot defeat JoeMcAulifle he had
better remained in Australia. Much has
been said for .and against Goddard, hut I
am induced to think that he is a more ef
fective fighter than many people think he
is. He is a better man than Choynski and
that is sufficient in my judgment to esti
mate him as a better man than Joe Mc
Auliffe. Mark, I am not coming to any
definite conclusion on the point just now.
I will defer that until later. What I want
to point out at present, is that it is
probable that the odds offered, or
alleged to be offered on McAuliffe
is only a "bluS" to create a
greater interest in the contest.
I know full well that anybody who
could succeed in betting 4 to 6 on Goddard
just now would be a very wise man to bet
U, and on a big scale. True.the Australian
is not a clever man. In reading accounts of
some of his battles I have found that out
clearly, but he is one of those customers
who will not indulge in sparring, and tries
to prevent his opponent from doinc so also.
It needs a very powerful hitter to knock
him back, and, big as Joe McAuliffe is, I
do not think be is able to keep knocking
the Barrier strongman out of the way. They
are to fight in the latter part of next'month.
The Difficulty With Fitzsimmons.
It is somewhat difficult to tell what Rob
ert Fitzsimmons will do or what he in
tends to do. One day Robert seem" quite
contifnt to do anything, and the next day he
declareshimself in quite another way. A
week or so ago he stated he was eager to
ngnttiem naii.in any shape or form. Hall
disappeared, and then Fitzsimmons de
clared himself willing to fight Ted Pritch
ard, the Enclishman. Now he won't fight
Pritchard if the latter fights O'Brien.
As things go in modern time pugilism
Mr. F. is probably right in declining to
meet Pritchard except under certain condi
tions. If the latter were to be beaten by
O'Brien there would not be much of what
is now termed glory for the Australian in
meeting a beaten man. But as has been
suggested, why can't Fitzsimmons be per
fectly willing to meet the winner of the
Pritchard and O'Brien battle? I venture to
say that the winner of that contest will
give Fitzsimmons all the fighting he wants,
and it may be a little more.
There is still another difficulty and that
is on the part of Pritchard. He has experi
enced a desire to fight Hall before coming
to America, and, if that programme is car
ried out, then we may give up all hope of
seeing a fight between Fitzsimmons and
anybody else for a long time. This will be
a pity, because really Fitzsimmons has not
been tested by a nrst-rate man of his class
yet We all must admit that he is a good
pugilist, but it would be more satisfactory
to everybody if he was in front of a real tip
topper in a finish contest
IToine Park.Sprinc Kics Mertlnjr.
Secretary McCracken, of the Horaewood
Driving Park, tells me that he expects the
spring races on the Homewood track will be
of" a very interesting kind. Certainly if
hard work will make the meeting a good
one it will be one of the best because Mr.
McCracken has, indeed, labored very ener
getically in making arrangements lor the
meeting. The latter will open on Decora
tion Day, to-morrow week, and a large
number of horses are expected to take part
in the five days' racing. There is a good
list of local horses and it is to be expected
that there will be some very promising
youngsters among the locals.
It is somewhat of 'a venture to have five
days of racing in spring time, but the track
officials think the venture will be a success
ful one. I trust it will. The relusal of the
License Court to grant a liquor license to
the Park club-house is a hard blow to the
association. If that relusal makes matters
any better than they have been in the past
I will, indeed, be surprised. If a license
had been granted I am confident that the
arrangements made by the track officials to
carry on the business in an absolutely re
spectable way would have been carriedf ont
to the letter. It cannot be helped now, and
I suppose that those interested will just
have to do the best they can. I anticipate
some very good racing at Homewood this
year, and it will be well it it is profitably
patronized by the public. Pbingle.
MUSCLE IN COLLEGE.
Walter C. Dohm's Forecast of the
Contests for Neit Saturday.
THINKS HARVARD A SURE WINNER
Fortj roints in Reach With Tale, Prince
ton and Columbia After.
RECORD OF THE MEN 6N THE LISTS
Peter Vredenburg.
rwriTTEN ron THE PISPATCn.1
Nearly COO students, representing more
than a score of the leading colleges and uni
versities of the
country, have been
entered for the
14 contests in run
ning, walking,
leaping, weight
throwing and bi
cycling that will
be decided at the
seventeenth annual
c h a mpion ship
meeting of the In
tercollegiate Asso-
sociation of Amateur Athletes of America,
to be held at Manhattan Field, New York,
next week Saturday.
Each man who is to compete has been
training for this particular event as only a
college man will train. He will go in to
win. And if he sees he can't win, he will
work just as hard for second place. And if
another slips in between himself and the
winner, he will struggle almost to the last
gasp for the third prize. After all it is the
thirds that win the championships. Har
vard won two years ago on her third prizes;
and last year a single place prize, lost by
Yale to Princeton, would have transposed
the blue and the orange and black. I have
seen college athletes in an ecstaey of de
light over the bronze medal given to third
man. It is the keen competition for the
places that makes the inter-collegiates the
most interesting and exciting games ot the
year.
The O'd Champions Are Gone.
As far as individual winners are concerned,
the uncertainty as to results of the various
events is probably greater than ever before.
Cary, of Princeton; AVilliaras ami Ryder,
of Yale; Finley and Lee, of HarvardjVic
tor Mapes, of Columbia, and Shattuck, of
Amherst, have been graduated or have re
tired. In consequence, the 100, 220 and 440
yard dashes, the hurdle races and the broad
jumping, vaulting and weight-throwing
competitions have been transferred from
the column of "stfre things" to the list ot
open events. Fearing, ot Harvard, in fact,
seems the only certain winner. Judging
by his recent performances Fearing is
likely to win la both the high jump and
the lew hurdles.
For the team chamnionshin everything
looks crimson and Harvard will win as she
pleases. A first place counts 5 pointj, a
second 2 and a third 1. Of the 112 points
to be divided among the score of colleges,
Harvard is likely to score more than 40.
For second place, Princeton and Yale seem
to have nearly equal chances. Yale has
carried over one championship from last
year, and Columbia will be represented by
a champion of 1899 and another of 189L
Princeton has no prize winner, but more
place men of last year's team than the
other two together." Columbia will be
fourth. Amherst and the University of
Pennsylvania will fight for fifth place.
The Probabilities in the Sprlntn.
Spectators at the championship meeting
will not see a Sherrill or a Cary in the
EM
I f
I'ictorlal Ian;riie.
It is told of James Nasmyth, the famous
engineer, that, when he was traveling in
Sweden, where he knew not one word of
the language, and where his English was as
little understood, he used to order his dinner
at the inn by drawing in h:s sketchbook
whatever" he wanted. For example, he
would draw a table covered witB a cloth,
and a cooked fowl, smoking hot7 upon it,
with vegetables, bread, cheese, salt, and
anything else a pressing appetite might
suggest as desirable.
.c3ttBb4LU lLif
awjC
sprints, and on this
account they will wit
ness more exciting
races than have been
seen for years.except-
lng lHSftlj wnen these
two great "cracks"
raced against each
other. The fastest
sprinters this yearare
Vredenburg and
Swain, of Princeton,
Harding, of Colum
bia, Swayne and Al
len, of Yale, BIoss,
Cook and Hawes, of
Harvard, and Rnley,
of Amherst Then
there is Connell's
"unknown," who will
probably do as' well
as most of the "un
knowns" who are
credited with ten
second form.
Early in the season
it seemed that Vre
denburg would win II' . hnyM.
both dashes. He is a remarkably strong
runner and comes at the finish with" a rush
that has beaten such men as Downs, Jewett
and Remington. He can run an unlimited
number of heats without tiriug, and lhis
will give him an advantage over the others.
Recently, however, he has been running in
poor form. Swain, of Princeton, who fin
ished next to Vredenburg last year, and
Swayne. of Yale, are the likeliest of the
others, though Allen is doing fast work at
220 yards. The Harvard men are alwavs
dangerous. And the Yale men, under the
coaching of "Mike" Murphy, who is back
at New Haven, may also furnish a surprise.
For the Longer Itaces.
W. H. Wright, of Harvard, and Roddy,
of Princeton, if both are in good condition,
vill make a close race in the quarter-mile
dash. Wright, in previous trials, has run
the distance in 50 seconds. Roddy, two
years ago, was beaten by a" yard
in 50 2-5 seconds. Since that time
Roddy has run poorly, but he may have
trained into his old form again. A large
field of new men will also start in this race.
Ot these the best are McCampbell, Black
and iiroKaw, 01 I'rinceton; Merrill and
Bingham, of Harvard, and Glenny, Collins
and Beardsley, of Yale. Brofcaw is, I
think, the fastest of the lot. He is a dark
horse that will'bear watching. Brokaw has
run in better than 52 seconds this spring.
Wright, however, will probably finish first
Probably the best races of the day will be
the half mile and one mile runs. In the
half such men as f. B. Wright, Jr., of
Yale. T. B. Turner, of Princeton, and Cor
bin and White, of Harvard, will meet
Wright won the championship last year at
this distance in 1:59 1-5. White has a rec
ord of 2:00 1-5. Turner has shown his speed
by.defeatiug W. C Dows at GOO yards, and
his endurance by winning prizes iti one aft
ernoon in qnartcr, half-mile and 1,000-yard
races. The inter-collegiate record is 1:57 1-5.
Frank Lee will run well for the University
of Pennsylvania, but will probably find
himself outclassed. There will be a score
of new men in the race.
The Winner In tho Mile Bace.
The mile race is even more open than the
half. Harvard will be represented by a
strong trio in Carr, Nichols and Lowell.
Whitney will run for Columbia, Wood
bridge lor Princeton, and A. C Williams
and scoville for Yale. Carr is last year's
champion. He won the race in tour min
utes 34 2-5 seconds. Two weeks before
Nichols had won the mile run at the Harvard-Yale
meeting in four minutes 35 1-5
seconds on a very heavy track really, a
better performance than Nichol's. Lowell
holds the Harvard record, having run a
mile in four minutes 34 1-5 seconds. AVhit
ney, Woodbridge and Williams have each
done performances equal to four minutes 36
seconds, or be ter. I fancy Lowell for firsf
place, with Nichols second.
Columbia's men still think Collis will
win the one-mile walk. Gregg, of Amherst,
who wen easily two years ago, is again on
the track, and is in good form. R. S. Hale,
who holds the Harvard record, may repre
sent Cornell this year, but in that case is
not likely to be in such good condition as
he was 'while at Cambridge. Borchcrling
l-iiftllfnaaililni"
and Ottley, a strong pair, will wear the
orange and black of Princeton. Borcher
ling, by reason of his victory in fast time
over Collis, is now the favorite. The
Columbia man was not in his best form two
weeks ago," however, and may turn the
tables on the Princetonians. Hale and
Gregg are very unsteady walkers.
The Miscellaneous Contests.
Columbia has also an excellent chance to
score in the .hurdle races. Harding, who
will wear the blue and
white, will be very
likely to be bothered
by the numberot heats,
if he attempts to run
in both the sprints and
hurdles. Lyman, of
Yale, who beat Fear
ing for third place
over the high hurdles
last year, has improved
so much since then
that he has an excel
lent chance to win.
Van Ingen is another
Yale man, who is clear-
TT. W. Greg!. ing the "sticks" weih
Fearing will undoubtedly win the low
hurdle race the 220 yard. There should
be a great race for the place between Hor
ton, of Cornell, and the Yale and Columbia
men. Ramsdell, of Princeton, gave great
promise early in the season of developing
into a champion. He took up baseball,
however, and this has, in a great measure,
spoiled his chances.
It seems a foregone conclusion that Har
vard will this year win all three places in
the two-mile bicycle race. Pratt, P. Davis
and Hawes outclass the other competitors.
Davis should finish first
Harvard has also a good chance to win
the broad jump with either Hale, Green or
Bloss. Pell will jump for Columbia and
Remsdell for Princeton. The last named is
one of the best jumpers in America, but has
not trained for the event regularly this5
year. i'ell 13 last year s inter-scholastic
champion. He seems a sure point winner this
year.
Bl;h Jnmplne and Taaltinc
In the high jump Howard will again come
tothe front with Fearing, Green and Sher
win. The three are lik'ely to finish in the
order named. Sill, of Princeton, has a
chance for third. Sherwin, besides scoring
points in the high jump, is the favorite for
the pole vault. Last vear he cleared 10 feet
Clinches. He will'probably fight it out
with Cortwright, of Yale, who has a record
of 10 feet 6 inches.
The hammer, like most of the other
events, will also probably go where it went
last year to Harvard. Evins took sec
ond place to Finlay last year when
the latter broke the intercollegiate
record. Evins is throwing the ham
mer even farther this spring than
he did then. Princeton has a number of
heavy football men practicing for this event
The shot-putting competition will probably
he won by one of the hammer-throwers;
Evins, Beveridge and Lyman have chances
in tne order named.
To sum up, it seems that the individual
competition this year will be more exciting
than in 189L It is not- probable, however,
that so many records will be broken. The
one mile wa'lk, two mile bicycle race, the
high jump and pole vault records may be
lowered. Harvard will score more than 40
points; Yale should be second, with close to
30; Princeton may score about 24, and
Colombia will be doing well to get a
dozen. Walter C Dohm.
EXILED TO AMAZONIA.
Consul Kerbey Has a Talk With the
Victims or Brazil's President.
THEY MADE A. JOLLY SHIPLOAD.
A Lot of Cadets Acted as Guards and I.nxir
ries Were Abundant.
PEIXOTTO IS A FIRST-CLASS CZAE
rCORnESPON-DESCE or THE PISPATCH.l
Para, April 26. It may appear far
fetched to compare the Czar of Russia,
whose subjects live nearest to the North
Pole, with the acting President of the new
Brazilian Republic, whose warm-blooded
citizens swelter in the tropics, yet it is a
'difference of latitude and longitude rather
than degrees or decrees of despotism.
The Czar of all the Russians, by divine
right, by n simple imperial decree, banishes
to the foreign wilds of Siberia those of his sub
jects who may, by the fateful process of evo
ution, become so far advanced in their
education as to be "thorns in his Imperial
crown." The acting Vice President of the
Republic of Brazil, Florianna Peixotto. an
army officer, who abetted his predecessor,
Deodora Fonseca, in the military and naval
conspiracy, which overthrew the late Em
peror Dom Pedro II.", and, who in turn,
subsequently seated himself in the chair,
has recently, by a simple manifesto, ban
ished to the Upper Amazon in the equator,
an inhospitable and desolate frontier, as
distant from Rio de Janeiro as is St Peters
burg from Siberia, 22 of the'most cultivated
as well as the most prominent personages of
Brazil, simply and only for politi
cal offenses, or because they ventured
to express publicly opinions differ
ing from him, or to respectfully criticise in
the newspaper his official acts of usurpation.
THE LADY CYCLEE3
Wore TTell Represented at the E. G. W.
Ban Last Tuesday Kyentn;.
The East End Gym t Wheelmen had a
splendid run Tuesday evening. Twenty
eight gentlemen and ten ladies were in the
party. Captain Culbertson lead them over
a circuitous route through the East End,
making a run of oyer ten miles. This is the
first run attended bv the ladies, and the
iboys declare that to be a most charming
leaiure 01 tne event All tne ladies who
were in the run Tuesday, evening are now
enrolled as members and will be expected
to attend the majority of the meetings.
Quite a number of other l'dies are expected
to become members soon.
Another run will be had Wednesday
evening of this week. As soon as the
country roads become good a longer run will
be had.
Notes of the Three A's.
Jomr B. Wade, a new member, is training
for the mile run.
The club field meeting -will be given on
Saturday, June It Entries will be announced
shortly.
Charles H. Petticord, who is among tha
new members, is President of the Allegheny
cyclers.
The date for holding tho spring meeting
has been chanced by the Athletic Commit
tee from July 4 to July 2.
Great progress has been made with the
work on tho grounds, and with fair weather
all parts of them will be ready the first of
the week.
At tho last meeting of tho Membership
Committee the following persons were
elected: Charles Wharron, Jr., Louis Wit
derhold, Jr., William A. Carr, John Ander
son, F. K. Alexander, Paul Beer, A. M. El
liott, Austin G. Nicola. Charles II. Petticord,
Herman G. Veeder. Edward G. Caughey, C.
E. Middleton. William T. McCulIoush. finn.
Irwin Holdshlp, Samuel W. Black, Tom Pat
terson, 1'iestou C. Farrar, James 5. Cooke
and V. II. Hall; also several ladies.
FOUND INSIDE OF TREES,
Toads and Fro;s Itoleased by the Opera
tions of the Woodchoppers.
Tid Bits.:
In some strangely shaped fossil trees ac
cidentally dug out of a stone quarry were
found treasured up the petrified-looking
bodies of reptiles, birds, bats, and such
small deer which had thus been honored
by preservation in. massive mausoleums.
When cutting open the trunk of an elm, a
live toad was found lying concealed about
three feet from the root It skipped away
very alertly, yet, we are told, no tree was
more sound, nor could any aperture be dis
covered through which the little captive
could have penetrated. It is supposed that
the spawn trom which it originated must
have accidentally been treasured up in the
tree from the tirst moment ot its vegeta
tion. In like manner, while some men were'
squaring the trunk of an oak they had"
just felled, they suddenly started, back in
astonishment on seeing an hideous frog,
about the size of a large pullet's egg, en
crusted in the tree, tour inches in from the
bark and 15 feet from the root. Though
mangled by the ax, the creature still
moved, but it appeared old, thin and de
crepit As in other cases, a careful examin
ation revealed no entrance to its prison
house.
A HIGH HAWAIIAN CHIEFIESS,
She Founded the Karaoliomjlm School or
Trchnolosy for the Sandwich Isles.
New York Evening Sun. J
Bcrnice Pauhi, high chieftess, was the
great-granddaughter of Kamehameha the
Great and Italnntopon. These are not mem
bers of the circle of Greek mythology, but
Hawaiian dignitaries. Bernice married
Charles R. Bishop, of Massachusetts, an
early settler of the Sandwich Islands.
When she died in 1884, and being childless,
she devoted a laree portion of her wealth to
founding the Kamehameha School of Tech
nology, which gives instruction in the arts,
trades and sciences to native Hawaiian
youths.
Recently two large buildings have been
added, -one of which is a museum of ar
chaeology and ethnology of these islands,
and in them has been placed the inheri
tance of tools, implements for hunting and
fishing, warlike apparatus and objects for
ceremonious occasions which have come
down in the royaisuccessiontoMrs. Bishop.
A correspondent, Frederick L. Stearns,
speaks highly of their ethnological value,
and points ont that it is the only instance
where a people have themselves preserved
the relics of their savage and primitive life.
I '
' inWflilMrfrri if ifyii
Who Pelxotto'a Victim Are.
All of the banished are Republicans and
were prominent in their early adhesion to
Fonseca. Among them are distinguished
field marshals and Generals of the Brazilian
army, a rear admiral of the navy, the de
posed Governors of the States of Ceara and
Amazonas, who were elected by their
States, and who did not approve of the
usurpation of a Vice President who seated
himself, a Senator and three members
elected to the National Congress, editors of
daily papers, professors of colleges, a
doctor and a dentist, a capitalist who is
reputed to be the wealthiest man in Brazil,
banker, a manager of a large corporation,
and others.
The cable will have conveyed to the' out
side world only that portion of this story
that has met with the approval of their Re
publican dictator's censor at Rio de
Janeiro. As the Amazon is 15 days nearer
to America (bv mail) than Rio, I take this
opportunity afforded by the outgoing Booth
line steamer to outline a few facts that
have come under my personal observation.
There came to anchor at Para, which is
near the mouth of the Amazon, yesterday,
en route to the headwaters, the laree steam
ship Pernambuco, of the Lloyd Brazileiro
line, which had been seized or pressed into
service as a Government transport to con
vey these political prisoners and their fam
ilies over the 3,000 miles of ocean voyage
and 2,000 miles more of river transportation
to their destination on the frontiers of Peru
and Venezuela on the sunrise side of the
Andes, which are as far west in Amazonia
as are the Sierra Kevadas in our own land.
On Board the Prison Boat.
Through the kind offices of s couple of
Brazilian friends I was, as a special favor,
permitted to go on board the transport, and
I availed mvself of thar opportunity to in
terview the exiles. Thevesselhad anchored
some distance, from the city, almost under
the guns of the old fort add close by a Bra
zilian warship. Fortified with an official
permit and accompanied by Senhors Cher
mont, a lawyer and a popular gentleman of
influence, a brother of the late Governor
and Secretary of State, and Sr. Watrin,
who is a member of the Assembly and a
supporter of the present Government, we
were ushered on board without question.
The Pernambuco is a large Clyde
built modern ship, well arranged with ele
gant saloons, comfortable rooms, extensive
promenade decks, etc Whatever else may
be said tending to create a contrary opinion,
it must be conceded that the first impres
sion made upon the visitor was that the
passengers were a jollyparty bound on a
select excursion, rather than that of a cargo
of exiles en route to distant points of ban
ishment The ship was in charge of a
Brazilian naval office, though the regular
captain and crew sailed her as usual
An Amnslns Military Guard.
In addition to this ship's complement of
men, there was an armed military guard
numbering 140, composed ot youngsters in
gorgeous uniforms, oldercadetsfrom the Rio
Military School to the number of 23. It is
said there were 15 officers for the 23 cadets.
Some of them wore canes and all wore im
mense cuffs and collars. There was nothing
in the bearing of the cadets that would, at
all indicate the presence of any prisoners on
board. Prisoners and soldiers mixed pro
miscuously. The boys in their bright uni
forms, sitting on the guard rails like college
boys on a fence, chatted as only Brazilians
can chatter, to the younger of the exiles
who seemed to be quite amused and laughed
merrily over the chaffing about their being
sent to a place whereants were as numerous
as grains of sand, moqueens on every blade
of grass, mosquitos in clouds, and fevers
always in the air.
There were scattered about in the cabins
or lounging about on deck old men and old
ladies, one pretty girl of 16, and some that
were not pretty, mothers and children, and
in two instances nursing babies. Many
wives of the exiles had, like the Siberians,
chosen to follow into banishment their hus
bands. There were colored servant girls,
waiting on their masters and mistresses, dis
tinguished looking men, silently promenad
ing alone on the upper deck, who had pre
ferred to be separated from their families
rather than permit them to risk the priva
tions ot their exile.
A Hero Grizzled bj Age.
, The table was well supplied with good
food, around which officers, privates and
prisoners gathered in a social way and
drank warm beer together. 1 talked for a
long time with a most interesting Brazilian,
a veteran of years, and of distinguished ser
vice in all the wars of Brazil, who was
tremulous with age, and in any country
would have been letired with honor lor the
good he had already done his country,
rather than cruelly exiled because as a
patriot he would not be a witness to the
usurpations of the President without raising
his voice in respectful protest.
This was Field Marshal Rarrctto, who is
now a Senator-elect, but, without regard to
the exemptions accorded to law makers, was
roused from bed before laylight.sent aboard
a ship and is now en route to exile. Prob
ably among the lot there are none who ap
pear to suffer or to feel more keenly the
degradation than this old hero, but like a
soldier, he bears i'jsilently and uncomplain
ingly. The prote.3 that he seemed to em
phasize most was his disgust with the Presi
dent for putting him and his fellow officers
of high rank under the guard of a second
lieutenant and a lot of cadets. It is gener
ally conceded mong Brazilians and even
with the prisoners, that if the offense
charged against them as military officers,
i.e.,of having foundeda conspiracy werejust
they deserve puuishment, and they think
that a military execution would be more
preferable than this banishment to a living
graveyard.
Ihry Do Not Admit An OfT-nse.
But they all assert positively that there
was no attempt at a revolution, that they
had simply, as citizens, given expression to
their respectful protests against usurpation.
tfaJcTi wiirf r utebtejtjl
This is a question of veracity or a fact that
will not now be settled, as the President,
by his summary ejectment of the cnlprits,
has put them bevond the possibility of
making any legal defense by an open trial,
by court-martial or otherwise, and their
story is first told to the world in these lines,
through an American paper.
Perhaps the most striking face was that
of Jose Carlos de Carvalho, capitao tenente,
a distinguished ex-naval officer, who has
for some years been well and favorably
known as the "gerente." or manager of the
corporations controlling the immense
tropeches or docks of the grand harbor of
the capital city of Rio de Janeiro. In per
sonal appearance he somewhat resembles
Mr. Talmage. He courteously and unob
trusively walked up aud down the deck
with me, carelessly dresed in pajamas and
slippers, talking freely but as conserva
tively as a college professor about the gen
eral condition of affairs in his conntry.
This gentleman thoroughly understands the
situation in Urazil. and his views as ex
pressed herein may be accepted as those of
a pessimist He says:
Arrested for Favoring a Democracy.
"I do not know why I was arrested. It
was iiStimated that the action was taken be
cause of my supposed influence with the
mass of people employed about the docks.who
will soon be called upon to vote for a legal
successor to the present acting President
I was given no notice whatever of the in
tended arrest, and not permitted to make
any defense. I did nothing illegally or
secretly, but published my opinions as
others did acainst the acts of the President
in deposing the Governors of States, and re
spectfully suggested that he should make
provision for an election for President by
the people.
"You know," continued the Senhor Car
valho, "that neither Deodora Fonseca nor
the present Vice, Florianna Peixotto. were
elected by the people. Our Provisional
Congress elected them to serve until such
time as arrangements could be perfected for
a proper election by the people, and now
that Deodora Fonseca is out, we think that
the question of a successor should be left to
the people, and the place not pre-empted, as
yonwould say, by a Vice, to fill out the un
expired term. The Congress, it is believed,
will pass laws authorizing an election.
There is generally a motive for every act,
and one.need not look very far to discover
what prompts the present Government to
arrest members of Congress who are opposed
to his usurpation or to discredit and to
banish men who may be able, in a reputa
ble way. to exerciseany influence on the
voters who are to be sent to Congress."
A Pensimistlc View of lSrazi'.
It is well known that Sr. Carvalho took
command of a gunboat at a critical venture.
and assisted the present Peixotto by oppos
ing Deodora's attempt to dissolve the Con
gress so that it cannot be charged that he
is influenced by any intrigue with Deodora's
friends. The Senhor Carvalho is a gentle
man of few words, which he expresses in a
straightforward, business-like manner, very
unusual in the indifferent easy-going
Brazilian, and quite refreshing to a news
seeker. In answer to the remark that if these
military and naval officers were guilty of
conspiracy, they deserve severe punish
ment, he replied tersely: "To begin with,
then, the President Peixotto should be the
first to suffer, as he is the first and head
conspirator against the Empire; secondly,
against his leader, Deodora, and, thirdly,
against the people.
"Our people," he continued pensively.
"have no proper conception of a republic."
Then using his fingers to illustrate Jhese
five propositions, he further remarked.
"First, we have no political education; sec
ond, we have not even republican ideas;
third, we have not enough patriotism;
fourth, there is too much personality and
mercenary feeling; fifth, I am a Naval offi
cer, but strenuously contend that the mili
tary and navy should be subordinate to the
civil. There is no discipline in our army
and navy. All our troubles come from this
source, and will continue until wo reduce
the army to a peace footing, as it is with
your army, and then put the belligerent
ones on the frontier. They are the ones
who should go out there-instead of the peo
ple yon see on board this ship."
Governors Anions the Exiles.
The Governor of the State of Ceara, situ
ated on the north coast, is a well-known
Brazilian, who had been President of an
Amazonian Province bv appointment of the
late Emperor Dom Pedro IL He was a
Republican au rigeur, but because he de
clined to surrender his office to the arbi
trary demands of Peixotto's appointee, and
resisted the attempt to violently depose
him, his palace was shelled for some hours
by a gunboat, and himself made a prisoner
and sent to Rio, where he was released.
but subsequently arrested and now exiled.
The late Governor of the State of Ama
zonas, who made such a gallant resistance
to the demands for his office, compelling the
naval force and the appointee of the Presi
dent to retire discomfitted, but who subse
quently yielded, as he said, to prevent
bloodshed, is also a prisoner en route to the
frontier.
There are among these exiles three of the
most distinguished editors of Rio: Antonio
Joaquin Bandairo, of A'ovidades; Jose Carlos
do Patriocino, Cidada do Hio, and Carlos
Pardal Madeiros de Mallet, Medacta do
Combate. These gentlemen are amonir the
jolliest of the prisoners, and evidently con
sider their exile as a sort of a threat on the
part of the President, of which he will s6on
repent They expect to be pardoned before
they reach their destination. This seems to
be the general expectation, but it is liable
to be delayed until after the election.
AN EL'ECTKIC METER.
Simple Principle Upon Which the
Amount of Current Is Measured.
ASSISTANCE FOR TEE SCULPTOB.
An Underground Conduit of Xon-Conduct-in
Haterials Is Jfeeded.
IHPORTAXCE OP IJGIITIXG IX WAB
I WBITTEX FOR THE DISPATCH.
Many people find it difficult to conceive
how electricity can be measured. The pro
cess is not hard to comprehend. In an or
dinary Edison meter two compartments will
be found, in the upper of which is a thin
piece of German silver running across in a
zigzag line. In the lower compartment,
separated from the upper by a bar, which is
part of the castiron construction of tho
meter, is a spool of copper wire and a bottle.
The bottle contains two pieces of zinc,
separated by a piece of rubber. These thrca
things constitute the meter.
The principle underlying the measure
ment of electricity is that of electro
plating. This is done by means of an elec
tric battery, a piece of copper being placed
in the battery on the positive pole or wire,
and the object to be plated being placed on
the negative wire. The action of the cur
rent eats away the copper from the positive
wire and deposits it on the article fastened
to the opposite wire. In the electric lighfr
meter two pieces of zinc are used. On the
chemical purity of this zinc the accuracy of
the measurement depends.
These two pieces of zinc are separated by
rubber and joined by rubber bolts, so that
they may be near each other and still not
allow' of the inter-passage of the current
One piece represents the positive pole, the
other the negative. The more electricity
passes through these pieces of zinc the more
zinc will be transferred from the positive to
the negative pole, so that if enough cur
rent be used in course of time all the zinc
will be on one pole. This is is the princi
ple ot nieasunnc electv'city. After the
pieces of zinc have been used for some time
one will weigh more than the other, and the
amount of the customer's bill is exactly in
proportion to this difference in weight,
which is arrived at with mathematic3l"ex-
actitnde.
Bnt if the bottle were all that was used in
the measurement of the current it would
require a bottle of immense size to measure
the electricity used in the average residence
or store, and the consumption of zinc would
be enormous. Here the piece of German
silver comes in useful. This piece of metal
is called .a shunt, because it shunts off most
of the electricity.and prevents it from going
through the bottle. This strip of metal is
so accurately adjusted that it takes just 999
parts of electricity to one that passes
throngh the bottle. The current from the
electric light wire, before it goes to the
lamps, passes throngh the meter; here the
one-thousandth part passes through the
bottle with its pieces of zinc, the rest being
shunted of through the German silver.
The weishins of the zinc plate is a very-
delicate operation. The bottles are col
lected by the agent of the electric light
company, the pieces of zinc are separated,
and the negative piece is carefully washed
and hung up to dry. After this theirrecord
is looked up, and the operator knows to a
millegramme how much each piece of zino
weighed before it left the works and was
put in the meter. The zinc is weighed on
mo3t delicate scales, and the difference in
weight is noted down. The decrease in
weight is multiplied by a figure known as
the constant, and the result is the bill of
the consumer in dollars and cents. Before
the weighing is begun every door and win
dow is closed, although the operation is
carried on in an inside room. The least
movement in the air would add several
hundred dollars to some consumer's bilL
The Richest Man In Brazil.
Perhaps one of the most interesting as
well as entertaining characters among the
prisoners is that ot an Enclishman, long a
citizen of Brazil, the well-known Count
Leopoldina. He is not at all an adventurer,
but is a well-born and bred gentleman, bear
ing a genuine title from the King of Portu
gal. In appearance he is the opposite of the'
average Brazileiro, round, ruddy and jolly.
He is reported to be the wealthiest man in
Brazil, yet when I talked with him yester
day he wore a shabby seersucker suit and
soiled linen, although in his shirt front
were studs worth thousands, and his cuff
buttons would have paid his way out of any
prison. He sent on shore a diamond ring
for deposit, valued at $15,000, and ordered
any quantity of champagne for the excur
sion. This gentleman was formerly known as a
clerk in Para, named Henrique Lowndes.
who was without any means beyond his
meager salary. -Ha failed in some business
ventures here, and went to Rio several
years ago. Though lame and not at all
handsome in personal appearance, he mar
ried a beautiful and accomplished lady who
had a fortune, which he has by judicious
management increased until he is now the
recognized leading speculator in Rio.
The Count suggests as a remedy, first to
elect by the people a President who is a
Civilian. This President must call to his
Cabinet members of the former monarchial
government, who are recognized at home
and abroad as honorable and competent
men, who can manage finances successfully.
This would establish confidence all over the
world, and exchange would soon advance.
J. Out ok" Kerbey.
Electric I.I;h tins In Tim e of TVmr.
The immense advantage of the prompti
tude with which powerful electrio lights
can now be installed in commanding posi
tions was exemplified in the recent Civil
War in Chile. An electrician was sent ont
to Chile by a French firm of electrical en
gineers in charge of an electric light and
power plant for the Santiago Exhibition.
Jnst as the exhibition was about to close
the Civil War broke out, and one Sun
day morning the electrician received
a telegram from the Minister of
the Interior at Valparaiso order
ing him to betake himself immedi
ately to that city. On arriving the electri
cian" was told to install, without delay, at
Fort Boreas a projector which would com
mand the Bay of Valparaiso. After an
hour's search in the arsenal a Siemens pro
jector was unearthed. A 12-horse power
threshing machine engine was then bor
rowed and a dynamo was brought up from
the exhibition at Santiago (140 miles dis
tant) by special train, together with a sup
ply of posts and wires. Thirty-two hours
after the receipt of the telegram the plank
was at work. It ran well for six months
nntil the projector was blown to pieces by a
shell.
Search IJghts Versus Torpedo Boit.
It is stated that one of the most effective
means of protecting a ship in these days of
torpedoes, the grouping together of a num
ber of stationary search lights, each illumi
nating its own section so that the ship is
surrounded by an unbroken circle of light,
is to be adopted in the new American war
ships. This has been suggested by a very
pronounced defect in the usual search light
practice. In order to afford sufficient time
for a careful examination of the water's sur
face at points removed from the ship, the
beam of light must be revolved very slowly,
and hence during a great portion of the
time any particular section of the water is
left in darkness. As it takes only fi7e min
utes for a torpedo boat to run a distance of
two miles', it will be seen that the condi
tions are all in favor of the attacking force.
Before the revolution of the search light is
completed there is plenty of time for the
torpedo boat to run up and discharge her
deadly weapons.
A. Suggestion for Electrical Conduits.
W. H. Preece, who is well-known la
England as the electrician in charge of the
Government postal telegraph service, in
writing on the retardation due to iron pipes,
comments on the tendency of engineers to
put wires in iron pipes underground, to
secure safety from wind and snow. This is
done at the expense of effectiv eness, and
long lines of iron piping will probably be
death to fast speed telegraphy. Of course,
in telephony iron piping is seriously
detrimental to single wire working,
but then no one would now dream
of using any but the metallic circuit sys
tem in any underground work. Bat Mr.
Preece offers for the serious consideration'
of electrical engineers another point He
says: "May not wood or earthenware or
cement replace iron as a conduit for elec
trical conductors, and be made equally
effective lor the mechanical and economical
point of view? There is no doubt that this
question will presently be answered by the
production of a conduit that will entirely
supersede the iron pipe, which now is the
nearest appliance to the hand of the en
gineer." Carrlnc Stone by Electricity.
The elaborate stonework which adorns
the exterior of some of oar finest buildings
public and private, is the result of slow and
tedious working by hand. The carving of
stone can now be done in less than halt the
time formerly occupied by the use of an
electrical reciprocating tool. This can be
regulated to strike a series of blows at any
speed and with any degree ot force, and
thus the physical labor hitherto necessary
is done away" with. The instrument is also
coming into use in the studios of sculptors,
who arc much hampered by the material
restrictions involved in the working out of
their ideas. J.he sculptor can now devote
his entire attention to the lines the instru
ment is to follow, and the cutting of the
marble is done far more rapidly and accur
ately than it would have been by muscular
power.
Salaries of English Governors.
The salaries paid to Colonial Governors
are worth recalling. Bermuda, with 15,000
parti-colored inhabitants, and 2,000 acres
under cultivation, pays $15,000; Jamaica
subsidizes to the tune of 530,000; Feejee,
with its handful of white settlers, pays its
Governor ?25,000 a year; and British
Guiana has a Governor", $25,000, a Lieu
tenant Governor at ?;o00, and an ad
ministrative entourage, whose collective
pay is elope upon 5100,000 a year, its total
revenue being considerably' under 500,000.
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