Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-07-16
The Virginia Regatta.


OUR POTOMAC CLUB TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN THE
BOAT RACES AT FREDERICKSBURG.
The Virginia sta regatta was rowed at Fred.
erfcksbuIg yesterday afternoon, commencing at
5 o'clock. The first race was single scull con-
Club, OF the District OF Columbia, and Horace
Hardy, or the Norfolk Cbesapeakes one mile
and return. Roberts won the choice OF position
Hardy led OH with IS strokes to the minutes
ana went 10 the front. but at the quarter mile
Rooerts was ahead pulling 30 stroke, and led
around the turn In seven minutes and ten sec
onds. He finished an easy winner by several
lengths in 1924. The prize for the winner was
handsome silver cup, presented by the citi-
zenS ef FREDERICKSBURG
The second race was for working boats, one
mile straight away, between the AppomattoX
crew, OF Petersburg, Va, and the Kanawhas,
OF Richmond, and was won by the latter by sew.
eral lengths, though the Appemattox crew, &C
corning TO the views OF the boating men, pulled
The third race was between the heavy and
ight crews OF the Potomacs, In four-oared
was composed Of Roberts bow; Snyder, Q, Sny-
der, 3; Zugler stroke, and the heavy crew OF
Dodge, DOW; Doyle, 2; SuppOne, 8; Cropley,
stroke. The heavy crew won the choice of posi-
lions. The boats got away with the light crew
leading, but steering badly. The heavy crew
made the turn first. The light crew caught
them, however, but near the finish ran ashore.
Before getting afiOat the heavy crew went into
the mud and stuck. The light crew freed them
selves and won the race In 9:42. The general
impression was that the heavys would have
won the race.
The fourth race was for challenge cup pre-
scented by citizens OF Fredericksburg between
the Rives Club, Of the Virginia University, and
f me kappaahannock Crew. Fredericksburg, in
away. The University crew was composed of
Redwood, coxsWa1n; Andrews, stroke; Thorn, 9
Gibson, 8, and Carter, bow; and the Rappahan.
mock Crew Of Daniel, coxswa1n; Carswell,
stroke; Grafton, 2; Daniel, g. and Hazard bow
The race was won easily by the Rives Club
by an eighth OF mile
The LONDON Figaro says: "Mr. Mapleson, on
FRIDAY, settled by telegram the engagement for
bis American season OF Miss Annie Louise Cary.
the leading artist of Mr.. Max Strakosch's COM
pany. Mr.. Mapleson contracts to pay her SIS. 900
for five months. The engagement has also been
signed for the United States of Nine. Trebelli,
the greatest contralto In Europe. Signor Mag
mani, who produced "Aida" at Cairo, at the
Scala, and at Her Majesty's Theater, is now du-
pllcatlng The scenery, so that Verd1S latest
work, work may be played with scenery from his
brush simultaneously On both sides of the At
lantic Mr.. Mapleson has also resolved to
further increase the American orchestra, which,
under the direction OF Sig. Arditi, will now con-
sist OF 80 players DC first violins and other in
stIuments In proportion), while another dozen
artists Will De added to the choir, which,
consisting of 70 picked voices, will thus be one
OF the finest opera chorS which has ever visited
the [ ntted States. In regard TO the New York
Academy of Music, the directors have agreed to
construct 70 extra seats on the third tier, new
suite OF Offices Is being made for the director a
new drop-curtain is being painted, and In order
to obviate the necessity for ladies to wait In
draughty corridors, a new crush-room is to be
built on the sidewalk capable OF holding 800 peo-
pie. Mr. MaplesOn has resolved to test the cleo
trio light for the first time In a theater During
his forthcoming New York season the borders
and wings will be illuminated by the electric
light, While the directors of the Academy OF
Music have agreed to heat all the dressing and
stage-rooms by steam
THE Boy MoNKEY.-The Cincinnati ':boy with
a TALL" GeODIe REIN, eyCiteS considerable inter-
est at the west. The medical examination
states that the appendage is fourteen inches
long and covered with slken glossy hair, and
that 1t grows exactly where the tail grows on
the average monkey OF the period. The boy Is
four years old, and surgeons have decided that
the tail cannot be removed without endanger-
Ing the ch1ld's life on account of 1t being ar
ttculated with the back bone. It Is so strong
and tough that the boy can use it for support
as the kangaroo uses his, and when seated .'can
by the aid OF the tail, spring to his feet without
the use OF his hands," The announcement is
made that Chicago has executed the flank
movement foreshadowed the other day, and has
obtained possession OF the boy. When the
newspapers began to print column accounts of
"Georgte," his father, hitherto Indifferent to
the fact that the child was being cared for by
the Cincinnati Medical college, suddenly ap-
peared, burst into tears, and snatched him TO
his bosom, and fled to Chicago, without giving
tional father evidently thinks the boys head OF
comparatively slight Importance The capital
TACT Is that Chicago has added the boy to her
other notable possessions. Are acquisitions and
habeas corpuses unknown In the queen City,
IN. Y, Tribune