Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-22
GETTING. AN EXHIBIT.
ColOred People Preparing for the
Atlanta Exhibition.

ColOred People Preparing for the
Atlanta Exhibition.
A ladies' auxiliary board has been ap-
pointed by the commission in charge of the
work of getting together the Atlanta ex-
Eibits of the colored people of the District.
The members of the board are as follows:
Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. ]. NJ Langston,
Mrs. ]. H. Meriwether, Mrs. P. B. S. Pinch
back Mrs. j. r. Francis, Mrs. Jesse Law
son, Mrs. c. R. Douglass, Mrs. NJ. q.
Tucker, Mrs. A. F. Hilyer, Mrs. H. E.
Baker, Mrs. R. H. Terrell, Mrs. E. E.
Cooper, Mrs. B. G. shippir, Mrs. NJ. V.
Catcher, Mrs. A. w. Shields, Mrs. James
G. Clayton, Mrs. H. E. Bailey, Mrs. ]. T.
Layton, Mrs. NJ. E. Hardie, Mrs. R. K.
Morris, Mrs. Paul Mischeaux, Mrs. ]. H.
Butcher, Mrs. H. G.. Henderson, Mrs. David
Messer. Mrs. A. E. Coleman, Miss C. E.
Hunter, Miss NJ P. Shadd, Miss NJ. L. Jor-
dan, Mrs. o. P. Griffin, Mrs. Isaac Robin
son. Miss S. c. Lewis, Miss Laura L. Joiner,
Miss f. F. G. Merritt Miss Mary Male,
Miss ii. 3. George, Miss NJ E. Benjamin.
Miss Katie Molten, Miss jamie Page, Miss
Maggie Robinson. Mrs. Martha Thomas,
Miss NJ. B. Joyce, Miss Victoria Thompkins,
Miss Lulu Hamer, Miss Minnie Lucas, Miss
Minta Campbell, Miss Florence Smith, Mrs.
Agnes Smallwood, Miss Jeanne Wornley,
Mrs. J. r. Wilder. Mrs. A. S. Davis, Miss
H. E..Beason and Mrs. NJ. B. Wood.
At the meeting of the commission re-
versity spoke at considerable length of the
exhibit contemplated by his university. The
medical department, he stated, would like
to conduct an ambulance system on the
exposition grounds, with an emergency
service, similar to that exhibited at the
Chicago exposition. A special feature
would be the work of the trained nurses
from the medical department.
Grumbling From the ..BIcachers."
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
The season of protesting against the base
ball management has come around again,
because, forsooth, the season of manag-
erial greed and inefficiency has itself come
around once more. Base ball absurdity
and base ball injustice are as sure to come
to Washington as Congress. Therefore, let
me put in my complaint, along with those
perhaps of many others who were treated
to the same dose on Saturday last. 1 ar
rived at the grounds at S:45 o'clock i went
because l was curious to witness the per-
formances of that wonderful pennant-win-
ming team gathered together by Napoleon
SchmelZ for the season Of 1895. l am
aware that an apology is due from any
one who went out to the grounds, and
therefore this statement At 3:45 o'clock,
the game being scheduled for 4:3O the
gates to the 25-cent seats were closed. In
quiry of the attendant disclosed the fact
that the gates had been closed because all
the 25-cent seats had been sold. That was
a very commendable thing to do. That in.
sured the people who had bought 25-cent
seats immunity from further crowdng
With feeling of pride in the just men
whom Washington possess as her base ball
magnates, l cheerfully paid 80 cents for a
seat no better than those that were sold
ahead of me for % cents, and finally found
a seat on the second row, in what would
ordinarily have been good position. After
a season of self-congratulation that
l, being an early bird, had caught worm
l was chagrined to find that the same
policy that had been pursued with regard
to the 2o-cent seats had not been carried
out on the more expensive side of the
field and that after every seat had been
taken 5o-cent tickets We're sold in such
abundance that the people came crowding
into the field, filling the ground in front
of the 50-cent seats, and there standing
until, when play was begun, 1t was utterly
impossible for those on the lower rows to
see anything without standing up. This
of course, necessitated the elevation of
those above my position, and so it went
until the greed of the management, the in
efficiency of the police, who could have
prevented the nuisance If they had tried
and the thoughtlessness of the people them
selves. produced the result of every man
who had paid half a dollar for a seat no
better than a 25-cent seat was in effect
deprived of that seat by being forced to
stand throughout the game in order to see
single play. The early bird had missed
the worm and had found stone instead.
SohsiStehSy Is sucu a JeWel tnat II would
have blazed with brilliant light on Satur-
day afternoon. The whole program was
so palpably apparent after the crowds had
begun to swarm over the field thai is was
disgusting-to say nothing Of the antics of
the great team of colts" accumulated by
the aforesaid Napoleon Schmelz. There is
enc great consolation in all this Never
again this season will those who are run
ming the alleged team have chance to
gouge the pubic as that long-sufrering
assortment of individuals were gouged on
Saturday. N Y