Evening star., 1894-03-12

racing associations and improving their
tone in a commercial sense.
VIII there be any sensations among tie
youngsters this year?'
THAT i cannot tell There are general
good reports from the two-year-olds al q
hear Mr.. j. r. Keene has some good ones,
put nave not heard of any individual ex-
pectationS. There were fewer trials of yea r
lngs last fall than has been customary. and
as a consequence there have not been per-
formances sufficient to base opinions upon."
There is one thing about a hotel register
that no traveller can understand" said
Charles NJ. Pratt at Willard's today. "and
that is why in the world the presiding
senius always writes down in the heaviest
strokes a soft pencil can make the word
bath alongside of the name of every
guest who gets tub in connection with
his sleeping chamber. In case the arrival
also cesires sitting room in addition
there is even more emphasis exercised in
making the words 'parlor and bath promi-
nent features on the page. The clerks
Will tell you that those entries are placed
so prominently on the book in order to
asstrt the cashier in fixing the price to be
charged for the rooms, but don't you believe
It. III such Were the case, then every item
charged against guest, from fire to
small bottle should be written on the
register as well. No. my boy, the reason
the fact that a man has rented hath is
SO prominently displayed on a hotel register
is to make those who arrive afterwa rds
become impressed with their own tate
OF uncleanliness and engage a similar lux
ury. The bath is one of the profita BILE
adjuncts of hotel, and that is the reason
II stares every traveller in the face ar a
hotel before the dust and cinders are ont of
his eyes"
T. Edward French, the theatrical man.
ager was conversing in the Shorehap,
smoking room yesterday when the talk
turned on the immense amounts of money
expended for the transportation of lravel-
ing theatrical companies
Il reckon the largest passage nancy evar
paid for single trip of a connan, mas
paid by me last year when took the Ill
Ian russell Opera Company which / or
ganlzed, out TO San Francisco and back to
chicago. We had two Pullmans three ,iay
coaches, three scenery cars and a private
car which was occupied by Miss Russell.
her mother. myself and a piano. From Die
east to San Francisco and back TO Chica-
go the railroad fares cost $4,000
The piano played a great part I'm the
journey. We were rehearsng The Mounte-
banks, and in the morning he leader Of
the orchestra and the stage manager would
come into our car and get at the piano and
keep al II all day, while the train WAS run
ming thirty-eight forty miles am hour
and they did prodigious amount of work
one night we were going over the noun
tains, and heard a terrible humping and
humping in the car. 1t was not in my ccm-
partment, SO L turned over ana went to
sleep again. The next morning when I
went out the piano was In piec.s. and therc
was no more airline rehearsiug of .rhe
Noun tebanks."
Pop Anson as the captain-manacer If
the Chicago Base Ball Club is popularN
called, is visiting Washington but il is the
national game of politics which brings lin
here, or rather the patronage resulting
from it. He is anxious to have mis- father
appointed postmaster at Marsaal!town IA .
while several other aspirants for the posi-
ton are just as strenuously struggling fer
the same thing. The MARSHALL own case is
considered one of the most oeruiexing prob
lens the Post Office Department has ever
been confronted with. A dozen different
interests are involved in the ruction, and
they are tangled up with each o:her I'm a
perfect network of difficulties. Capt. An
son says he has met nothing but setback
in his filial undertaking so fa-. brt he is
stiil hopeful and will not admit the rossi-
bility OF final disappointment He saws the