Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-24
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.


A party Of sporting men were discussing
Affairs that interest them most at VII.
lard's on Friday night, when one Of them
remarked that he had Travelled from St.
Louis q short time ago with Champion
Corbett.
Il was surprised when he assured me that
Mitchell was the fastest fighter he had evef
faced. 1 thought Sullivan was more shifty
Corbett, however. said differently. He told
me pretty interesting thing about his 80
| with Sullivan" continued the speaker. He
| said that when he met Sullivan In the ring
| at the beginning of the fifth round he said
| to him. John. I've got you licked This re-
| mark set Sullivan nearly crazy, according
| to Corbett. and after that the Boston man
| couldn't hit within six inches of him. He
| IL willing and ready to fght Jackson he
| said. and Of course believes he will lick him.
| an opinion 1 agree with entirely"
| Prize fghting amt what 1t used to be,
though" said another of the coterie. with
something like a sigh. They don't have
fights like they used to when bare fists were
| used. / remember we'll one Of the greatest
fights that ever occurred in this or any
other country. 1t was pulled of down the
river below here, too. 1t was the first fight
| between Barney Aaron and Sam Collyer. 1t
| lasted two hours and fifteen minutes, and
the men were fighting hard all the time they
were In the ring. Aaron did everything in
his power to jockey Collyer out of the fight.
! He was an old and experienced fighter and
Collyer had been picked up around here
and had no more science than a cornfield
coon, but he was the gamest man who ever
. lived and had the endurance of a leather
man. The odds were a hundred dollars to
cent that Aaron would win when the boat
ieft Washington. but an hour after the fight
began things looked different. Aaron was
! master of ring tactics, and used them all,
but Collyer was logged and determined. and
kept after his man all the time. Indeed,
nearly all the fighting took place in Aaron's
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every opportunity. Aaron spat water in
Collyer's face once. and nearly blinded him.
Again. when the men came up at the be-
ginning OF round, Aaron said Collyer had
stone in his hand and when Sam opened
his hands to disprove the claim Aaron
struck him in the face. In spite of all these
crooked schemes. Collyer stuck to the bat
tie. and at last Aaron could go on no longer.
When what proved to be the last round was
called Aaron got up off his seconds knee and
started out in the ring, but fell all in a
heap. When Collyer saw that his adver-
sary was whipped he followed suit by
tumbling down. too. Those fellows were in
bed for week. Nowadays a couple of pugs
go into ring with gloves, and smack each
other few times, until one gets 1t in on the
point of the Jaw and goes to sleep. Then
that night the winner and his crowd go out
and get roaring drunk in honor of the VIC
| tory. and the loser and what few friends
that stick to him after he's downed go out
and drown their sorrow. The old fights
were the best
And everybody acquiesced in the opinion,
| without, apparently. any qualm whatever.
"A party of gentlemen were discussing the
financial conditions couple Of days ago."
said a lounger at the riggs House. when
one Of them remarked upon the unusual
scarcity Of silver dollars in circulation in
Washington. He stated that 1t was diff
cult to meet a person who had a silver dol
lar In his pocket. whereas a few months ago
the cart wheels were more plentiful than
the more convenient paper securities. His
| assertion was questioned by one of his
companions. whereupon he remarked that
he would be willing to make q wager of the
cigars to prove 1t.
i will bet he remarked, that you can
not In one hour meet a man whom you
know who has a silver dollar in his pocket
The other, who has an extremely large
acquaintance eagerly accepted the gage
and took up position down at the corner
or 18th and f streets. Every friend and &C
quaintance who came along was requested
to exchange silver dollar for four quar-
ters. Scores of one-dollsr bills were pulled
cut OF pedestrians pockets. but the man
with the change wanted only the dollar of
his daddies. At the end of the hour he paid
for the cigars. because he found not man
In his quest who had a hard dollar in his
pocket / don't know the reason for the
scarcity OF such coins. but Its existence is
beyond doubt"
"Coxey's amusing utterances regarding
his personality have caused a wonderful in
| terest to be taken In the doctrine of REIN
carnation. which theosophsts recognize as
the fundamental principle of their faith"
said Herbert Meyers Of Ithaca at the Airing
ton last night. "A good many Of the more
! advanced Cornell students have been giving
the subject good deal Of consideration of
late, and heard party of them discussing
the other day newspaper publication which
seemed as remarkable to them as IL did to
me Perhaps you have seen the article and
II So you can call me Off 1t went on to
tell the story of a man named Isaac Fulton
A dozen years ago he lived in Illinois and
while there lost daughter named Maria
who was just reaching womanhood A year
afterward he moved out to Dakota where
two years later his wife cheered him with
another daughter. The girl was christened
Nellie. but when she grew old enough to
talk she insisted on calling herself Maria,
saying that the name belonged to her. be-
cause her mamma and papa used to cali her
by II. Now, here comes the most marvellous
part of the story. Mr.. Fulton was conf
PEELED to make a journey back to his former
home in Illinois. and took Nellie with him
When they arrived he was astonished to
see the familiarity the child displayed with
the place. She recognized the old home.
which she had never seen before as well as
many old people with whom her dead sister
had been acquainted. but whom she had
never even heard of. She expressed a strong
ucShS " WISH the OlQ SCnOOl mouse which
her sister had attended and when her IA
Their took her there. what did she do but go
right straight to the desk her sister had
formerly occupied and claim II as her own,
Now, I'd like somebody to explain that to
me. as l am assured 1t is absolutely true
Anyhow, no matter what the explanation
may be. 1t comes pretty close to being an
absolute Illustration of rapid reincarnation 4"
Il am going out in the country some day
soon and hunt up farm house where /
can get good feast of real, wholesome
old-time chicken" said Edgar Hemenway of
Altoona at the Riggs House this morning
1T haven't had such a dish for many weary
moons. and I'm literally famished for it,
Can't l get chicken in the city? Oh yes l
can get any amount of chicken without
making bucolic search for it. but it's not
the kind of chicken l relish. In these ad-
vanced days the chickens we get in the big
cities are, in ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred, fowls that never knew the cluck of
mother hens voice They are brought in
the world by fncubators, and from the time
of their first tweet until they are displayed
for sale on a poulterers stand they are fed.
or rather gorged without any exercise of
either ingenuity or energy on their part The
result is that they have no more the taste
of real properly born and considerably
brought-up chicken. who scratches for food
under an instructive mother until it gets
oil n hug for ia