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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-03-27

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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-11
PRETTY GIRLS
Who PLAY BALL.
New Jersey Misses Who Are Experts at
The National Game.
Rosy Cheeks and 1.-the Forms Are the Re-
suit Of Their Invigorating Exercise.
It Makes the Boys Gallant.

Just on the edge of the pretty little town
of Westwood, n. j., says the New York
World, there is quaint school-house Its
wavy gabled root sets off the rather fan
tastic coloring Of the structure. Upon its
face just over the big front door is the in
scrption: ''SchoOl District No Ply"
There is bevy of pretty girls in the up
per class which has spread the fame of
Wcstwood's school all over Bergen County
1t wasn't long ago that in county scholar
ship contest this school carried off the honors.
But this wasn't enough The girls yearned for
a local victory all by themselves. Miss
Claude Ottignon interested the girls in base
ball. which the boys played vigorously at
noon and recess. The girls were sure they
could play ball. They tried and succeeded.
Miss Ottlgnon was elected captain. At
the first practice game boys in knicker-
bockers sat on the fence and laughed at
them. But the girls kept courageousiy at
it, The first thing the boys knew they were
challenged. 1t has made the lads very gal
liant and gentle, and it has made the girls
1.-the and rosy-cheeked-this romping fun of
ball-playing in each others companionship.
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A Big PROMISE
IN A NEW GUN.
WhiStlGr'S Invention May RGF0lutiOniZG
tho Worlds Ordnance.
Possibility of Piercing All the Heavy Armor
Plates-The New Engine of War Is Now
Being Constructed at Reading, Pa.

The new segmental 5-inch, breech-loading
wire gun, now being constructed at Reading,
Pa, under the supervision OF Lieutenant &.
n. Whistler, Fifth Regiment, United States
Army, is the outcome of the recent success
full tests Of a sectional part of the segmental
tube at Reading and Fort Wadsworth.
Because of the difficulty in obtaining
steel of such high grade as the gun requires
Lieutenant Whistler will not have it ready
before next May. The majority of artillery
and navy officers firmly believe in the sue
cess of the gun, though opinions are at pres
ent divided respecting the application OF the
new principle for pieces of heavy caliber.
Should the gun prove success it will rev.
olutonize the art of modern gunmaking the
world over, and no iron-clad, however heavy
its armor plates. would be safe from being
pierced from end to end by single shot.
Wire-wrapped guns have been made, and
are still being made in this country and in
Europe. They have invariably proved fall
ures. The new gun now under construc-
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Chief Allison Offering to the exposition a
valuable collection of arms. The collection
includes 100 pieces, including swords, pis-
tolls guns, etc, being a complete showing
OF all the different swords and firearms
made from the time of the invention of gun
powder down to the Franco-Prussian W ar.
Mr.. Jaensch says the collection was left him
by willie He offered it to the exposition
without cost.
Lieutenant Stafford has secured two large.
full-rigged 'balsas," such as are used by the
Indians Of Lake Titicaca in their CONNER
cial trips along the shores. These balSas
will be sent to Chicago, together with an in
teresting collection of musical instruments,
weapons and wearing apparel of the Utica
cans.
A reproduction Of Independence Hall is
now proposed as Pennsylvania building at
the exposition. Prizes of $1,000, $500 and $500
have been offered for the best plans for
State building, but it is thought the State
Commission will seriously consider rejecting
them all and reproducing Independence
Hall instead.
The National Brick Manufacturers Asso-
citation has appointed a committee OF i've to
secure an International exhibition of clay
working machinery for the Worlds Fair,
and the committee has issued an address
inviting the views of the trade.
Choral Director TomIis has returned from
Europe much elated over his success in in
ducing the best trained and most celebrated
choirs abroad TO come to Chicago in 1893 to
participate in the proposed choral contest
More than 100000 feet Of lumber will
be used in the construction of the huge
building for Manufactures and Liberal Arts.
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championship. His physical dimensions
are against him, and the chances are that
he will go tie way OF all such monstrJsitieS.
There has never been time, in fact, since
pugtlism sprang into favor as a pastime that
some candidate for the championship has
not loomed up of the Maher stripe. There
never has been a man Of great height who
ever fulfilled the promises of his admirers.
An eminent Englishman once said that
man feet 1O12, who was strong and cevcr,
could outlook the devil, and the history OF
the ring would seem to bear out the aSser-
ton. Heenan was feet l, and yet he
never won a battle, unless the claims of
his friends are admitted as regards his fight
with Sayers. Mike McCool was a giant, and
yet he fell an easy victim to Tom Allen,
who was under the SiX-foot limit. Joe Me-
Aulife. who punched the witAered laurels
from the antiquated head of Paddy Ryan,
was regarded as a wonder but when he
met a first-cass man lie went down in quick
time. And so on through the annals of the
ring it will be found that the shorter men
Sayres, John L. Sullivan, Yankee Sullivan,
Morrissey, Allen, Goss. COburn and dozens
more who startled the world with their
pugilistic fcats were men who stood below
the six-foot limit. If the history is OF any
value rs a standard by which TO Judge the
future, therefore, the chances are that Maher
will be an exploded phenomenon within
very short me,
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STEALING 4 EASE.

The boys still insist that the girls cannot
beat them, but they admit the playing Of the
girls improves wonderfully.
These girls are daughters of Westwoods
leading people. Their renown as ball-play
ers has spread so fast that now there are
number of anxious mothers who begin to
think it is not just the thing for girls. They
cannot tell why exactly, and they admit
that already its healthful effect is visible.
The girls are shy, and if passer-by stops
at the school fence the game ceases very
quickly.
The boys must look to their laurels before
long. What an exhibition game they cou Id
playl But even WestwoOd'S own people
will never see it. the girls declare.
about baseball. No one likes to risk her
shapely hands catching hot fouls behind
the bat Miss Maggie Brickell discovered
that she could puzzle the heavy hltterS
among the boys and she was rewarded for
her skill by being elected captain.
The little taps of the bell in the town.
One voice, then a dozen, then a mingliDg OF
juvenile shouts, as the rural stiffness was
broken by a rush of boys and girls for the
baseball diamond. 1t was at the morning
recess recently. The girls reached the dia-
mond first and captured it. The lads grace
fully yielded and gathered in groups to
watch the game. Annie lehman dragged
along the ground light bat with shining
varnish and red and brown stripes.
Scrub one!' Scrub tw0W Scrub
threeP came tile calls in quick succession
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ton is rot Wlre- Wrapped-lt Is real wire
gun.
1t consists essentially of segmental core
wound with wire, under an initial tension
of $4,000 pounds to the square inch. This
compression of the longitudinal segments
will be more than sufficient to resist all ordl-
nary powder pressure. The segment5 are
primarily held together by breech and
muZZle nut screwed on hot allowances be-
Ing made for the proper degree OF shrink
age.
The trunious are not attached to the body
OF the gun, but to an outer trunion Jacket,
which is fastened to the gun proper by
means of the breech nut The advanta &c OF
this arrangement is that the recol Is trans
mitted TO the truniOns through the breech
nut and jacket. while the body of the gun Is
relieved from the greater part of the lung-
tudinal thrust. due to powder pressure upon
the bottom of the bore. The gun itself is
free to expand longitudinally within this
jacket, attached only to the breech nut.
The essential feature of the nav gun, as
said before, is the segmental core. Hitherto
segmental guns have not been made and the
wire-wound gun Is nothing but sold cast
iron or steel tube, around which are c0lled
several inches of steel wire. Most of this pat
tern when tested have not exploded, as
overcharged or faulty constructed iron or
steel guns would, but they have pulled apart
This proves that wire-wound guns having
solid core are not practicable. Colonel
Crozer, the Chief OF the United States Ord
nance Department, thought an improvement
in such guns possible after he had studied
Lieutenant Whistler's theoretical discussion
of the Brown segmental tube system OF
wire gun construction. The War Depart
ment allowed $4,000 for the construction Of
such an improved gun, and though the Col
one worked hard and wound the wire
under higher tension than had been done be-
fore. 1t was never tested, and the inference
is that it proved failure.
The core of Whistler's gun has seventy
two segments and the maximum thickness
af each does not exceed AS of an inch, and
it must have a crushing strength of 100000
pounds per square inch aud an elastic limit
of at least $4,000 pounds to the square inch.
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THE LATEST FASHIONS.
Medieval Costumes in The Present Century.
Jet in Millinery.

New YORK. Oct. 5.-Musicales at home
are Just now quite fashionable. and some
thing which is different in style from the
ordinary reception, as more decOllete even
ing dress, is required. Nine. Norman Ne
runa (Halle) generally plays her splendid
wOrld-famous violin solos with her arms
bare. 1t is of course unnecessary to say
that she has very beautiful arms, which are
almost as famous as her music. But then
she plays before large audiences, on which
occasions her toilets are the targets of criti-
cism, the second point of interest being a
nocturEe in d minor, when people wac are
not musical enthusiasts YEARLY interest
themselves in the details of the performers
costumes. Short sleeves are certainly a
good idea for musical costumes, as during
the play Of the hand on stringed instruments
pretty hands and arms show 10 good advan-
tage. But Of late evening dress has been
more Of a covering, and in New YORK ladies
have shown q tendency to wear them long
in the sleeves and moderately high in the
neck. However, this being the case there
is ample scope for pretty designs in dress of
this kind, something a little poetical and
unconventional may be INDUCED in, as in
the following sketch where there is sug
gestiOn of the style of the middle ages in
the pulled sleeves and Romeo-like collar.
1t is made of shrimp pink nuns cloth and
green and pink vatican satin, the patch
like decoration on the bodice the lower
part of the sleeves, the border of the trained
skirt and the outside OF the collar all being
Of the vatican satin, The inside of the
collar is OF s'ais Dreamy satin and the other
accessories are Just piped with this material.
The gown is made in princess shape, aud is
laced broadly down the front with green
silk lace,
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able. No corsets is very important part OF
her philosophy of life, and she says that to
the fact that she has not worn them is due
her smooth skin. East Milestone is little
village not far from New Brunswick She
was born there in 1873, and her father, whose
name was Van Arsdale, was born in 1860,
and served during the Revolution as drum
m:r boy. He was noted as a violinist. He
lived TO be "a years old.
1t was in 1910 that Sarah Van Arsdale be-
came Mrs. Van Nostrand, and during her
married life of fifty three years she had
eight children, Of whom six are now living.
Her descendants are not many, for she has
only twelve grandchildren and thirteen
great-grandchi!dren.
Notwithstanding her age, Mrs. Van Nos
trand attends to some of the lighter portions
of the homework and bustles around in a
much liveler way than many women OF
half her age
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-11
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.
Matters OF Interest About the Columbian EXPOSE
ton.

The Department Of Transportation is Of
fered one of the most valuable relics of the
early days of railroadng In this country.
and will doubtless secure it for an exhibit.
The old locomotive Samson" built in
England in the "tbirties" by the celebrated
Timothy Hackworth, and brought to this
country in 1888, is still in existence and In
working order. Accompanying 1t Is a
quaint old passenger car, built in imitation
of stage coach. both standing on some of
the old scolloped or fish, belly rails. The en-
gineer who first ran the locomotive is still
alive, and if still living at the time of the
Worlds Fair may accompany tile venerable
engine.
The Massachusetts building at the expo
sition will be modelled after the historic old
Hancock House, which stood on Beacon
street, Boston, for fully 1875 years. Built
by his uncle in 1887, this mansion was occu-
pied by John Hancock. the signer OF the
Declaration OF Independence. when Gov
ernor of Massachusetts,, and there he enter
tained Washington. Lafayette and many
other Revolutionary patriots. Massachu-
sets will spend SIS. 900 or $4,000 in imi-
Eating at tie Worlds Fair this famed man
sion The building will he used almost
exclusively as u State headquarters and
clubhouse.
NJ o. Jaensch Of Wahoo, NeDr, writes to
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-11


Yank Adams, the champion fnger-shot
player. has been astonishing the New En-
CHAMBERS with his trick shots. He has not
yet replied to the challenge issued by his
younger rival, Max Mayer.
John Roberts Jr., the English billiard
champion. has been playing some fine exhi-
bition billiards in Australia. At Melbourne
lie crossed cues with the four best players
in Australia. They were: II. Evans, the
champion; c. Memmott, Weiss ana F. Lin
drum. The games were all 5000 points up
and Roberts conceded to each expert a lead
of 1900. equivalent to a discount He de-
feated Champion Evans by a score OF 5000
to 34l7. Mcmmott defeated him, $500 to
1853. This was the opening game of the
exhibitions. Weiss, who played brilliantly,
also defeated Roberts. The score was 5000
to $500. Roberts easily defeated Lindrum,
$500 to 32j4. Having won two and lost two
games, he played another game with Evans,
to whom he conceded 1000 to 1000. The
champion of the world won somewhat
easily. winning by 103 points. He was in
magnificent form, and made breaks of Az,
202, IA and 1874
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ENGAGED.

1 told you loved you-remember the day.
When we stood meath the Oil willow tres,
/ vowed TO be constant, remember my words,
love you, love only thee.
Your eyes compared TO the bright little stars.
That glitter above in the SKY;
Your blusnes, my dear, you tried to conceal,
But the love. darling, beamed in your eye.
Your voice is as sweet as the notes OF the birds,
Your cheeks are like lilies SO fair,
Your form would outgrace that Of the gazslle,
To an angel you did compare
I spoke of your lips ike two cherries sweet,
Your skin, pure and white as the snow;
My heart spoke the truth when told you all this.
For, dearest, do love youso.
You gave me your hand, love, promise as well,
You listened, was willing to hear;
You smiled. then you kissed me, and answered M
yes"
Then your bright eyes gave way to Its tears.
You vowed to he faithful, to love me alone,
And the same promise, dear, 1 made you;
And small hoop Of gold. dear. told OF our troth,
OF a love that IS constant and true.
T.
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ler's calculation, does not seem to believe In
the feasibility OF wire-gun of large caliber.
His chief argument against the system is
that 1t will be impossible to obtain thor
ough fitting of the segments. His opinion
is shared by many ordnance and artillery
officers, yet no scientific argument has been
advanced against Whistler's statements.
Lieutenant Whistler, though compare.
lively young, has studied all wire-guns, and
he is counted the best authority on this sub
ject in this country, and perhaps in the
world.
Illustration / shows the model Of the
new gun on an improved carriage. while No.
2 represents the section Of the segmental
tube recently tested at Fort Wadsworth and
at Reading. AT the first discharge the cylin-
der was loaded with two pounds and eight
ounces of powder The resultant pressure
was IL, 500 pounds TO the square inch. For
the second test it was charged with three
pounds and one ounce OF powder, and the
actual pressure was calculated at 6l,000
pounds to the square inch. These reuits
were so encouraging that the construction
of the new 5-inch gun was begun at once.
Illustration shows vertical cut OF
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IL 1 The gliding

The gliding, easy motion of the gondOla
expresses the whole situation, and the gOn-
dOlier, who, with cOnsummate skill, urges
his dreamy bark amid the thrOng and
in the tortuOuS canals for an hour or two,
and then sleeps 10 the sun, Is Il type OF
that rest in labor which we do not attain.
What happiness there is In dish OF
polenta, or Of few fried fish, in a cup of
coffee, and in one OF those apologies for
cigars which the Government furnishes,
dear at a cent-the cigar with straw in it,,
as if it were a julep, which 1t needs five
minutes to ignite, and then will furnish &C.
eupation for whole evening! Is it a hard
lot, that OF the fishermen and the mariners
of the Adriatic? The lights are burning all
night long in a cafe on the Rva del Sehia-
voni, and the sailors and oilers Of the shore
sit there jabbering and singing and trying
their voices in lusty halloOing till the morn
ing light begins to make the lagoon opales-
cent. The traveller who lodges near can
not sleep, but no more can the sailors, who
steal away in the morning waited by
painted sails. In the heat OF the day, when
the fish will not bite, comes the siesta.
Why should the royal night be wasted
in slumber? The shore of the Riva,
the Grand Canal, the islands CLEAN
with twinkling lamps; the dark boats glide
along with a star in the prov, bearing
youth and beauty and sin and uglness, all
alike softened by the shadows; the electric
lights from the shores and the huge steam
ers shoot CLEANS on towers and facades;
the moon wadeS among the heecy clouds;
here and there a barge with colored globes
of light carries a band of singing meu and
women and PLAYERS on the mandolin and
the fiddle. and from every side the songs Of
Italy, pathetic in their worn gayety, float to
the entranced ears Uf those who lean from
balconies, or lounge in g0ndOlas and listen
with hearts made little he Wy and wistfuI
with so much beauty.
Can any one float in such scenes and be
so contentedly idle anywhere in our happy
land? Have we learned yet the simple art
lesson for US to learn in country OF city.
Alasl when we have learned it shall we
not want to emigrate, as SO many Italians
doP Some philosophers say that men were
not created to be happy. Perhaps they
were not intended to be idle.
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EXPENSIVE HEATHER.
1t Costs About Sc, 900, 900 Apiece to Con

II SOBIS ABOUT SO,OOOyOOO apiece TO COn-
vert Them.
Once upon time-last year we believe it
was-a religious convention was held atSar-
atoga. Among the delegates was a brother
who, besides being skllful in prayer, was
not uniformed about mathematics. He has
learned to cipher-not only to sigh for man
sions beyond the skies. but to cipher out
with lead pencil how much things cost
He was, moreover, exceedingly fluent OF
speech. During the discussion about for
eign missions lie got up and spoke right out
in meeting. He said excltedly that he had
ciphered it out, and it cost Sc, 100000 in hard
cash for every damned heather that was
converted. Then suddenly remembering
where he was and whom addressing he
revised his remarks to read ''every
blessed heathen," whereupon the ecu
menical council drew long breath
and felt very much relieved. although
some of the Iii emberS have not yet quit gig
CLING whenever the subject of the heather
question Is brought up Six millions for
one heather does seem to be little steep.
even to 4 journalist who is accustomed to
deal with large sums. There are a great
many good people who would rather take
the S6,0O0,000 themselves, put it where it
would do the most good, and then allow
Satan to carry of that black 'cuss." st.
Paul in one Of his literary efforts TO the
Romans says: "Ye were bought with
great price" but it would have made his
eyes protrude like the optics Of sand crab
to learn that IT would cost S6,000,oOO TO
loosen the grip of Satan on an ordinary Fee
ice Islander. For the price paid for one un-
savory South Sea Islander a great deal of
good might be accomplished right here at
home, and much real suffering be relieved.
We do not think that the white heather
should be ignored merely because ha is
white and lives in this country.-Texas
Aiftinns
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tending to business and she caught it right
on the trademark. 1t went so far away she
made three bases.
Miss Westervelt batted next. She hit the
ball all right which created great enthusi-
asm, as she is rather a sedate little miss.
run, Sadie" they called. She chung to
her bat and carried it with her to first base.
Frank Smith pitched the balls to her, aud
took very gallant care that they should be
good ones.
So they shifted about with wealth of
laughter. Miss Ottignon was finally guard
ing third base, while Frank Smith was en-
deavoring to steal it. The gritty girl watched
him eleverly and caught two balls that kept
him away. Suddenly he ran. The girl missed
the ball. which struck the ground close by.
Down she went upon her knees after it, Just
reaching the ball by The tips Of her extended
fingers.
'Slde, Kelly, slidep' shouted the small
boys, who knew all the base ball slang. The
girl, quick as fash, reached back and put
the lad out. Everybody yelled admiration,
while the bell announced that recess was
over. The dust on the diamond had not
settled before it was deserted.