Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-07

while here. The quarters are at the corner
Of Prytania and Washington streets, and
are among the finest in the South.
+ Kilrain, of course, did not look at his best
after his long journey, but he presented
quite formidable appearance, clad in a
gray flannel shirt, with a straw hat and
striped trousers of dark goods, as he leaned
mired the low houses with their broad
verandas extending almost entirely around
them-for the Southern Athletic Club house
is in one of the most fashionable parts of the
city.
Mitchell, fat and saucy, did not have as
much to say as usual, but, like the owl,
Charley is "like the dell to think, "and was
probably Matching up scheme that would
benefit his man in some way. When the
clubhouse was reached, 100 members of the
club met Kilrain and his immediate fol-
lowers and escorted them to the parlor,
where Mr.. j. j. Mellon presented the Balti-
moreian with floral horseshoe and crescent
combined, welcoming the guests in a neat
speech, remarking that the horseshoe is
THE SIGN OF GOOD LUCK
and the crescent emblematio of New Or
leans, and that Kilrain might be victorious
in his coming fight.
Kilrain stood playing nervously with his
when he had concluded, said: "New Or
leans has always had reputation for fair
ness. know shall have fair play. That's
all 1 ask, and may the best man win" He
was then stripped, and after bath, rubbed
down. Dinner was served an hour later,
and at its conclusion Kilrain and Mitchell
came down to the st. Charles Hotel, which
is fully three miles from his quarters, to see
Frank Stevenson. He was followed by a
large crowd of curious blacks and whites,
and was at once conducted to Steyenson's
room. He went upstairs two minutes be-
fore the trio came downstairs, passed into
the street, and went direct to the Office of
Bud Renaud, at 4 Carondelet street.
TIRED, BUT NOT DIsHEARTENED.
To THE DISPATCH reporter Kilrain said:
II am feeling a trife tired after nv trip,
but am confident that can hold my own"
Mitchell is sanguine, and his father-in-law,
Pony Moore. declares that there is but one
man in it, and that all his money will go on
Kilrain. The promoter of minstrelsy in
England, however, did not proclaim wildly
that he was dying to have somebody take
his money, and nothing was done,
The Kilrain people, it is said, have S25,-
900 to back their man, but so far none of it
has been seen. They can be accommodated
at odds of 500 to $50, and even 500 to $50,
any time they care to come to the front.
At 2 O'Clock Frank Stevenson, with
paper in his hand and closelv followed by
Bud Renaud, rushed into the st. Charles
Hotel and anxIously inquired for johnson
and Wakely. The latter was speedily found,
and Stevenson broke forth as follows: 81
want you folks to sign this paper, waving
your right to hold us to the original battle
ground selected. 1t is impossible to bring
the fight off there, and something must be
done speedily"
ANXIOUS ENOUGH TO FIGHT.
Wakely's response was characteristic of
the man. 1t was this: "Go ahead and get a
battle-ground anywhere you can. We are
so anxious to fight that we will willingly
relieve you from the letter of the articles of
agreement. We will fight you at any place
you may select"
Sullivan's friends are inclined to think
that Wakely conceded too much, but the
Gothamite said in explanation of his course
tonight: "Why, if We tried to hold them
to the articles of agreement so far as the
battle-ground is concerned, the chances are
that they would have the authorities there to
pinch every mothers son on the ground.
We want to leave them no loophole of es-
cape, and il there is no fight we want the
public to know where the responsibility
lies" Bud Renaud said this evening,
when it became rumored that the men
wouldn't meet on Monday, and perhaps not
at all: "You can rest assured that they
will fight, and on Monday, too. as the con-
tract stipulates.
Nobody here is particularly anxious to
have, Stevenson's job. and the Sullivan
people are congratulating themselves that
they did not call the turn on the coin which
was fipped in Johnson's saloon a month
ago.