Frostburg mining journal., 1883-06-16
CORRESPON d EN- G E
FROM THE Q. G.
Church COnsecrati0n-Legdt end
Comm ercidt Baseball Tribute
to "COniicdJ Jim"- Rough
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Der MIL -",SkiID"

per MIL -"iSkip"
CUMBERLAND, June IA, 1888.
To the MINING JOURNAL:
The most notable event which has
occurred in this city since my last let
ter was the conservation of st. Pat
rick's Church, which took place last
Sunday morning, and was witnessed
by large numbers of people, includ-
ing not only the members of st. Pat
rick's congregation but large num-
bsr of Catholics from the mining re-
gion, who came by special train, and
many persons Of other religious faiths.
The baseball fever seems to have
broken out in Cumberland, where
young lawyers can be seen iDdulging
in the game frequently, which is much
better, in the absence of clients, than
visiting bar and billiard rooms, and
much more inexpensive and health
full. There are enough young law
ysrs in Cumberland to make two
baseball clubs. There are barely
enough newspaper men in the city to
make one good club, and I am glad
to say the latter have very little time
to indulge in baseball.
One day last week the agent Of the
Wheeling Register, who has been
stopping at the st. Nicholas Hotel
for two weeks on business connected
with his paper, was given an item,
which turned out to be a joke, in re-
gard to a game Of baseball which
was to have been played Wednesday
last between commercial nine and
picked nine of this city. Col. Thso.
Luman was to have been the umpire
and the commercial club was to have
been composed Of Samuel Joice,
catcher; Richard Kelley, short stop,
and Comical Jim, third base, etc,
while in the Cumberland club one
prominent hotel proprietor was to
have been first base and another third
base, and a prominent clothing mel-
chant was to have been short stop.
The JOKE was as much against the
players as against the correspondent,
who was not to blame for publishing
it in his paper the next day. Had
the two so-called clubs announced
themselves as willing to play there
would have been almost as large a
crowd present to witness the game as
the rope-walker had few weeks ago,
when he gulled the people of Cum
berland out CT about fifty dollars for
two performances.
The same issue of the same par er
announced also that Messrs. J. w.
Shafer, the clever clerk, and Dan
Danner, the looking bartender
at the st. Nicholas Hotel; William
Allen and wife. and James Donnelly,
familiarly known as "Comicsl jim"
had just returned from Frostburg af-
ter a weeks visit. The only mistake
was the visitors had been to the
Frederick encampment and not to
Frostburg. "Comical Jim" came
home disheartened. The wheel of
fortune had not turned out as well as
he anticipated and he was glad
enough to get away from Frederick
with his expenses paid. "Jim" is an
original character in Cum berland. He
is no longer the mayor Of shanty-
town." but well behaved resident of
Cumberland proper, and is always
ready to afford amusement to any
body who will converse with him.
I saw old man Isaac Long on our
streets tho other day in a rough suit
Of clothes, which one might have sup
posed belonged to a poor man. There
is a great deal too much taken for
granted in this superficial world. A
rich man like Isaac Long can afford
to wear old clothes, but poor man
in beggar's clothes is looked upon ac-
cordingly, and the world judges him
not only by the clothes he wears but
by the company he keeps. have
lived long enough among men to
know that honesty, brains, courage,
strength of character. or any other
quality Of manhood, can not be easily
distinguished by The Eanner Of living,