Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-21
CAPITAL CITY CHAT.
President Young on Umpires - MT. Cleveland's Summer Plans.

Belva Lockwood and the Presidency.
 President Young on Umpires - DIT.
 Cleveland's Summer Plans.
 WASHINGTON, May 2l-Notices were read in all the Catholic churches yesterday detail ing the final arrangements for the ceremonies incident to the laying of the corner stone of the Catholic university on Thursday next The ceremonies will be under the charge of Cardinal Gibbons, and special trains will bs run from Baltimore
 Belva Lockwood, who was nominated for president by the Equal Rights convention, held at Des Moines laNt week, says she has re- ceived a telegram announcing her nomina- tion, but the official notification has not yet arrived. She will wait for the formal docu- ment before making her acceptance public. Mrs. Lockwood's co-partner on the ticket (Alfred H. Love, of Philadelphia, the lady says, is a prominent Philadelphia Quaker.
 President Young, of the National Baseball league, says it is a mistake for the press and the players to criticise the umpires as severely as they generally do, for the reason that i. will have a tendency to make men more care full to avoid the position. From personal ex- perience he thinks the umpire is very much more likely to be right in judging the gams from his position than those who witness it. In venturing this opinion Mir. Young says: "1 speak simply from the standpoint of an old umpire, which position I have filled probably as often as any other man in the country"
 Arrangements are being made to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg on July next. The ceremonies will be con ducted by the First corps on the battlefield where Gen. John F. Reynolds fell The ad- dress of welcome will be delivered by Gov md Inouhlodou will spond. Among others expected to be present are: War Governors Curtin, Blair, Smith, Kirkwood, Holbrook, Sprague and Smythe, and Gems. John c. Robinson, James Long street. Lucius Fairchild, James A. Hall, Joseph Dickinson, J. F. Req (commander-in- chief, Grand Army of the Republic), and J. H. Stine, historian of the First corps.
 The president aud Mrs. cleveland are now established at Oak View for the season. The president continues to receive invitations to celebrations of various kinds and if he ac- cepts tenth part of those which are coming to him he will have to do a good deal of travelling before election time It seems to be settled that whatever time Mrs Cleveland may spend away from her husband this sum- mer will be passed with Mrs. Gen. Greedy, at Pittsield, Mass. The president and Mrs. Cleveland will visit New York on Decoration day, Wednesday of next week, and after talk
 
 and witnessing the parade will be the guests of Governor and Mrs. Green, at the home of the latter, in Elizabeth, N. J., where recep- tion will be given in their honor.
 There are three measures pending in house committees for the erection of statues in this city to officers of the late war. One, pre- sented by Mir. Watson of Indiana, appro- priates $50 ,O00 for statue of Gen. Shields; another, presented by Mir. Townshend of Illinois, appropriates $50, 900 for 'tan eques- trian or other statue of Gen. Hancock D and third, offered by Mir. Henderson of Iowa, gives to the committees of the society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Grand Army of the Republic the necessary condemned bronze guns for statue of Gen. Logan, to be erected in Iowa circle, and appropriates SIC, 900 for the pedestal There seems now to be no doubt that the Hancock and Logan bills will pass and probably the Shields bill also, although the library committee has taken jurisdiction of the latter, which may give rise to some conflict of authority.