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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
A VIGOROUS PROTEST.
The Annoying Frequency of Transfers
for EckinGtOn PnssenEers.

Mrs. Ruth c. d. Ravens. president OF the
Wimodaughsis. has written a communi-
cation to the Commissioners stating that
the proposed system of transfers offers no
relief whatever to the residents or her
section, who, she says, suffer from the
imbecile management Of transportation
company which does not transport-the +.
and S. H. railroad-electric and slow
horse" thereby referring to the Eckington
and Soldiers Home road. She says that she
lives at p NJ street northwest. ana IS
obliged, to go to the Treasury Department
every morning. To do so over the Eck!rg-
ton and Soldiers Home road she is Obliged
to make two transfers, and what with the
long wait at the transfer points and the
slow progress of the cars, it takes a full
hour every morning to go by the cars,
while she is able to walk it In forty min
utes. She details number or her recent
experiences during the present bad wealth
er. and tells how frequently she has been
compelled to get out and foot it in order to
save time. She says that many people in
her neighborhood never think OF riding on
the lexington and Soldiers Home railroad,
because they have not enough leisure for
that luxury.
morning went through from lexington to
the treasury, but that has been discon-
tinued and the suburban passengers, after
waiting fifteenct Eighteen en-, minutes ,I1i for a
Convention Hall for horse car Then at
G street and 5th comes another wait for
the Capitol HIM Gar: If one lives on 4th
street and New York avenue and desires
to go to the patent office it takes three
cars to travel the six squares. Mrs.
Ravens says she often waits fifteen min
utes for trolley car at Convention Hall.
"The only transfer1s that could help our
section" says Mrs. Ravens, would be
from the trolley art 18th street to the cable
and to the Columbia line. and when the
North Capitol line is ready to TRANSPORT,
from that to the Columbia at Fl street.
transfer from 9Th to street. as offered.
is of no advantage to us. and they know it:
That is why they propose it. We should
still have to ride, on three cars, make
three shelterless waits. and walk one
square at the end to get to the treasury"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
EFFECT on PEACH TREES.
The Cold Wave Likely to Knock Out
Next Years Crop.

The peach prophet is off just now on his
summer vacation but if he were here he
would state that this is very cold weather
for peach trees. The fall was an unusually
open and late one. The peach grows just
as long as il can. Bright green leaves Will
stay on a young peach until December. IL
the weather is at all warm. Such was the
case last fall, and with the thermometer
at zero for three days running the outlook
can be measurably foreseen. Many young
trees will be killed outright. The tempera-
ture was zero at New York yesterday,
which argues badly for the Connecticut
crop. Atlantic City also felt the zero
touch, as did Washington and Atlanta
All these are weather centerS, significant
of what has happened to the peach
orchards. The immense plantations made
in Georgia in the last few years by stock
companies organized in the north promised
this year to bring forward their first great
full crop. If this cold wave has struck
them as severely the weather reports
indicate there will be q failure this year
nearly thorough as it was last season
Yet there is something to put down to
the good in this peach business. The
freeze last year came March Is, after an
unprecedentediy warm period in February
and March. The trees were in fun bud.
and the cold brought them up with
sharp chug- There wasn't per cent of a
crop within five hundred miles of Wash
ington. The best peach orchards those
most reliab bic year after year, and especial
ly those large plantations in the south
which bring the early and main crop, are
usually planted on high ground. tableland
or mountain sides. where, under the opera
tions of an old and well-known rule, the.
cold air goes down and the warm air goes
up. In sheltered positions and on eleva-
lions some orchards may escape the con-
sequences of even such freeze this.
In this fact lies about all the hope that
can be cherished for peaches next sum-
mer Undoubtedly this freeze will greatly
increase the spread of the yellows. This
disease. it is now believed, feeds on the
conditions caused by a hard, killing freeze
coming on thrifty and late growing trees.
The outer twigs die. and in them the pro-
cess of decay, inexorably provided by
nature. begins and develops into the dis
ease known as yellows-a disease that is
contagious. incurable and ineNpl:ca BILE.
The only remedy for ii now known is the
AK and grubbing hoe. Besides the loss of
the fruit next season this cold wave has
undoubtedly caused a vast loss in trees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09

mans Part in Republic Annie L. Diggs.
Kansas: The Coming Civiliza ton, Carrie L.
Chapman Gait. New York.
Saturday morning, 10 o'clock. business
session. EVENINGS o'clock March p, clos
ing session Of the second triennial of the
National Council of Women of the United
States: Introduction of newly elected Of
farewell address, May Wright Sewall. pres
ident of the National Council of Women;
address by the president of the Internation-
al Council of Women, Countess Of Aber-
deem, Scotland
To Recedxc the Council.
The local organizations of women who
gates to the tHeni1ial congress of the Ma
tional Council of Women. which meets in
Washington February 10 to March ., IN
elusive, have Offered to the officers and
delegates of said national council re-
ception on Monday, February %, from
to pm, at the Ebbitt House, and Mrs.
Rachel Foster Avery, the secretary. has
accepted the courtesy in behalf of the
council. The local committee on reception
consists of Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey, president
by Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster. president Wo-
mans National Republican Association;
Mrs. John Davis, president District Suf-
frage Association: Mrs. Ruth G. d. HavenS,
president Wimodaughsis; Mrs. Belva Lock-
wood, Universal Peace Arbitration; Mrs.
Clinton Smith of w. c.. 7. T.; Mrs. S. J.
LaFetra, president National Association CT
Elizabeth Stoner, president General Spin
ner Memorial Association; Mrs. Indiana
Cowling president w. R. c. of the Depart
ment of the Potomac.
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ATHLETES AT WORK.
Nearly Fifty Keeping Busy i'm the
Y. NJ. {. A. Gymnasium.

Instructor Sims of the Y. NJ. c. Associa
ton has nearly fifty athletes in training,
oStenSibly for the mems exhibition, but
really in preparation for the inter-club
gymnasium contest in March. good deal
of attention is directed not only from out
siders, but from the wearers of the red
trianeles themselves to the Y. NJ. c. A.
exhibition, which is to take place Mon
day evening the 18TH Of this month. From
this affair some idea can be formed of the
merits of the respective contestants, and
Instructor Sims will Use it as a basis for
the formation of his team.
The program, while not completed and
liable to be changed by Monday week, is
follows: Horizontal bar, fencing, club
swinging (speciaD. vaulting bar (seniors),
wrestling, parallel bars, buck and spring
board and tug of war.
Every evening forty or fifty men may he
seen at work and in the number
are Morsell, Grove. McChesney, Maxwell,
Barr, Koran. Ward. Murdoch, Maxwell,
Anderson, Exlay. Heininger, Herbert, Harr.
Lennon, Harms. Findley. Pinney, Trott,
Marshall. Lea, Burt. Buell., w. H. Beard.
Consaul. E.A Beard, Cannon, Smith, Prem
tiss, Playter, Green, McElroy, Bonnet
Drs. Harry Cockrille and Geo. Jobson,
Fred. Sims. Fenwick. Riggles Nelson,
Mork Houcher, Speiden, Chisholm, Crit
tenden, Jack and Thompson. All these Will
participate in the February exhibition and
event at the c. A. c.
If the class in pyramid work succeed in
reao hing a degree of perfection fit for the
public eye they will also be seen on the
18th. McChesney, Engle, Pinney, Fred
Sims and Harry Ward are the bases, while
Chapman, Lennon. Beall and Murdoch
serve top mounters.
Grant Leet took some fine photographs
last week as the class We're going through
the dumb bell drill with Instructor Sims
leading. The gymnasium floor is crowded
and one has only to look at the pictures TO
see the crying need of new building. The
authorities say that some sort of ground
fo;. field work will be secured as soon as
the season advances, and Instructor Sims
is already casting about for suitable base
ball ma terial. He expects to get together
a team the equal of last years.
An attempt was made to play basket
ball one day this week, but it was hardly
five minutes before one of the shades COW
ering the arc lights was shattered and the
game abandoned. This is much regretted
by the y. NJ. c. A. people, the game is
directly in the line of physical culture and
was first started by a New England Chris
tan Association.
The secretary of the Basket Ball League,
Mr.. John A. Heydler. has just had printed
the constitution and rules of the league.
As in foot ball, however. rules may be pre-
scribed covering the smallest details, but
they must be obeyed. and already some
slight friction has occurred on the subject
of umpires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS.
Ex-ProvOst Pepper Expresses Himself
as Friendly to Them.

DR.. Pepper, eX-provost of Pennsylvania
University, has this to say for athletic
sports: Another feature of university life
has attracted much attention and has
come to hold such important relations to
academic work that its regulation has
properly occupied the serious consideration
of your board. / refer to athletic sports,
in the various branches of which our stu
dents have for several years shown such
interest and skill as to rapidly carry the
university colorS to the front. 1t is obvious
that there are grave risks connected with
these sports; risks of bodily injury to the
participants especially in the more violent
games such foot ball; risks of interfer-
ence with important studies. owing to the
excessive claims of the practice and train
ing required or to TIE unduly frequent
absences incident to the numerous matches;
risks of loss of tone and character from
the spirit of professionalism of unfair
ness which partisan zeal may admit
from the bad surroundings encountered
a. some of the more exciting games. These
risks must be recognized and admitted.
Yet / am forced to state, after careful
and prolonged observation, that the net
results of Intercollegiate athletic sports
seem to me to be enormously on the side
of good, and of good scarcely attainable
in other ways; while the evils incident
seem capable of great ameloration by
proper systems of restraint and super
vision. The rules which should govern each
sport can be fixed only by conferences of
experienced and heightened players. The
extent to which students may be permit
ted to engage in such contests requires the
judgment of the director OF physical edu-
cation and of the several professors who
are familiar with the individuals concern
ed The exclusion of professionalism and
unSportSmanlike practices and the reStric
ton of the temptations incident to certain
contests demand the enactment and the
rigid enforcement of adequate rules. The
details of these questions are numerous and
at times complicated; they cannot be dis
cussed to advantage in a general way.
IF the authorities of each institution
are in earnest in promoting the good and
eliminating the evils of intercollegiate ath
letic sports l have such rooted confidence
in the good tone of American students as
a body to make me assured that salts
factory results will be attained. The ac
ton taken by your board in February,
1S94 was to establish and provide with
adequate authority a committee, consist
ing of representatives of each faculty and
OF the Athletic Association. The compost
ton of the committee insured the imme-
date acceptance of it's authority and fair
ness. The set of rules adopted by them
and promptly enforced throughout the uni
versity exerted an obviously happy effect
and has received widespread approval
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
CARROLLS WILL WIN
Columbus Take Second Place in the
Bowling Tournament.
PREPARING FOR THE TENNIS SEASON
This Evenings Basket Ball Game
Postponed.
CURRENT SPORTING TOPICS

Below are the bowling scores made in
the District League tournament last night
at the Carroll Institute in the match be-
tween the home team and the team of the
Washington Athletic Club. The contests
were close but the team totals are low.
For the CAROLS Armstrong did the best
bowling. He bowled down 4S6 pins In
bis triplet string, and he also made the
excellent run of POI pins, the highest
single game of the evening.
Capt. Kidd of the Washingtons did fine
bowling for his team. He bowled down
500 pins, the best serial run of the even
ing, and also made 1914 pins, the highest
single game for his team.
The CAROLS for the evening bowled down
1903 pins, and the Washingtons got 2,2o2
pins to their credit. This is the closest
set of games for the season.
The lead of the CAROLS cannot now be
overcome The championship is theirs.
The scores of the evening follow:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
University gymnasium.

University gymnasium. Coach Courtney
gives his personal attention to the men
every day from ] to pm. The chief set
back to the working is the lack of room
and OF sufficient rowing machines. The
first freshman crew is manned at present
as follows:
Savage, bow; Fuller, Moore, Sanford,
Johnson, Jeffries. Inslee, Rittler, stroke.
The present candidates for the varsity
crew ere: Slade '96; ChriSwell '9I; Hagor,
30; Spillman, 81 Freeborn, 80: Dyer, 80;
Shape, %; Crawford, 81: Oil, 81.
There are forty-eight students trying for
the varsity crews and forty-nine for the
freshman boats 1t is quite probable that
Cornell will accept Columbia's challenge
and enter a triangular race along with Co.
lumbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
No races have yet been arranged for the
freshman eight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
Moderation I'm College Athletics.

The Cornell University faculty, convened
yesterday afternoon, held a protracted dis
cussion over what restrictions should be
placed on intercollegiate athletics. George
p. Bristol, secretary of the faculty, last
evening said: 1T was the consensus of
opinion and the final decision that the
teams should be restrained from leaving
town as much and from playing many
games as in former years, and also that
certain grade of scholarship should be re-
CURED from those who play on the teams
No. We did not decide to abolish college
athletics and the solution aiming to that
end was laid on the table indefinitely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
LAWN TENNIS.
Annual Meeting of the United States
Association.

The United States Lawn Tennis ASSocia-
ton held its fifteenth annual meeting at
the Waldorf Hotel, New York. Thursday
night James Dwight of Boston, presi-
dent of the association, was absent, and
the Philadelphia expert Joseph s. Clark
presided. The usual reports were received
and the entire board of officers were re-
elected for 1898.
Then a lively skirmish took place over
the adoption of the report of the execu-
tive committee which recommended the
adoption of the old official ball. Various
stitutes, but the committees report was
adopted
There were two competitors for the
honor OF holding the ladies' champion
ships the Philadelphia Cricket Club being
opposed by the Staten Island Ladies' Club
The Philadelphians carried the day by a
vote of Il to 30.
TIE New Jersey state championship went
to the Merton Cricket Club, and the east,
west and eastern doubles went to Nara
gansett Pier. The singles championship
will, as usual be held at Newport. The
executive committee will arrange the dates
and assign the championships.
The list of officers elected is as follows:
President DIR. James Wight of Boston;
vice president, Joseph S. Clark of Phila-
delphia; treasurer. Valentine G.. Hall Of
New York; secretary, Joseph II. Whittle-
sew of New Haven. These four officers
serve on the executive committee in addi-
ton to the following: Clarence Hobart.
New York: r. D. Wren. Chicago: c. s.
Campbell Brooklyn; H. w. Slocum, New
York; Richard Stevens, Hoboken.
Trying for Corneli's Crews.
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Under the FOur-FO1d Pledge.

Undine Juvenile Temple, Mrs Emma F.
Bishop, superintendent, has elected the fol-
lowing officers Grand Superintendent Rus
sell officiating at the installations: Eva
Rock c. T.: Maggie Luke, V. T.; Blanche
Bergman. r. S; Paul Stanford, A. R. s.;
Rosa Walker. F. s.; Evelyn Meacham, T.;
Nellie Bishop. chaplain: Julia Chism. NJ:
Edna Tompkins, d. NJ; Nettie Cole. G.: Ida
Doyle, s., and Florence Tompkins. P. c. T.
Piano and vocal solos were rendered by
Rosina Offenstein, Lena Fowler. Ida and
Carrie Zietler. Undine initiated three new
members making forty-four since the be-
ginning of the last quarter.
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Basket Ball Postponed.

The basket ball game scheduled for this
evening at the Washington Light Infantry
Armory, with the Carroll Institute team as
visitors. has been postponed until Monday
next. Owing to a decision of the infantry
corps board of managers. future contests
in the armory ni'lSt terminate at I::s0 p.
m. This action is the result of the enthu-
sasm displayed in a recent game. which
interfered with the performance going on
in the theater above
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
Fast Trotting at San Francisco.

Four thousand spectators witnessed the
free-for-all trotting at San Francisco yes
terday afternoon. Azote won from Kla-
math in three straight heats-2.0S Ia,
I'll IA, 30 Ia. Flying Jib and running
mate made mile in 2.U6 ii. Alix against
time went in 2.o1 "a. Directly. against
time, in Ill. He went to the half in 102,
and then broke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
The departmental League.

meeting will shortly be held of the
Departmental Base Ball League. AS al
ready noticed in The Star, the champion
District government team has recognized.
and will put d strong nine on the diamond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09

two seasons only. through an outsider
chipping in 800. This gentleman declines
to dc so any longer, and McPhee refuses
to play for s.. 100.
The Washington clubs owners have gen.
erously agreed to give the profits of the
southern trip to the players. The players
will appreciate this at its exact value.
Mercer. Mcclure and Joyce, the MAIN
stay of the local club still remain I'M
signed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
Total. ........... 6S4 Tota
Second Game.
Third Game.
Standing of the Teams.

The games announced to take place on
the alleys of the Young Mems Catholic
Club with the Washingtons tonight have
been postponed until the early part of
next week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
Moses semi-Annual stock-Moving sale.-Ad

The Brooklyn grand jury, in the court CT
sessions has brought in twelve indictments
against strikers and others, who INSTRUCTED
and interfered with trolley cars. and COM
mitted acts of violence during the strike.
All pleaded not guilty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
johnson TO Race DustIund.

John S. Johnson has received articles Of
agreement from Peter Dustlund, the Nor
wegian skating champion, now in Chicago.
to skate two races on the 10th and I'D in
slant, distances, 800 and 1o,o0 meters,
respectively. Johnson signed and returned
them. The races will likely take place in
Minneapolis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09

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Trying for COrnell's Crews.

Tho candidates for places in this years
shells are working regularly in the Cornell
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IA.
peace Organized work in temperance. Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. Frances F.. Willard. Illinois. State
councils Of women. Evening session, s
O'Clock. Peace Universal Peace Union.
The Growth of Peace Principles and Meth
DDS Of Propagating Them, Belva A. Lock-
wood, District of Columbia. National Coun-
Gil of Women of the United States. Report
of work to secure the recognition of wo-
men in church conferences. Address, The
Attitude of the Leading Religious Denomi-
nations Toward Woman's Growing Service
in the Churches, Mary Lowe Dickinson,
New York.
Friday morning session, 10 o'clock.-"Is
Physical Force the Basis of Government
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Pennsylvania;
Lille Devereux Blake. New York; Frances
Il. W. Harper, Pennsylvania. Afternoon
session, 3 o'clCck.-OrganiZed work in pa
triotism: Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary
to the Grand Army of the Republic, Kate
Brownlee Sherwood, delegate Ohio; Ma
tional Association of Loyal Women of
American Liberty. Mrs. L. c. Manchester,
president. Rhode Island. Organized work
in government reform: National American
Woman Suffrage Association, Susan B. An
thony, president, New York. Organized
work in moral reform: National Christian
League for the Promotion of Social Purity,
Elizabeth B. Granns. president, New York.
Evening session, 8 o'clock.-Moral reform.
National Christian League for the Promo
ton of Social Purity: The Equal Moral
Standard, Caroline b. Buell.. Connecticut;
Effect of a Double Moral Standard Upon
Modern Life Isabella Charles Davis. New
York: The Relation of Religion to Morals,
Rev F. ID. Power: A Plan for Providing
Homes and Proper Training for Unfortu-
nate Children. Virginia T. Smith, Connecti-
cut; Physical Health Basis for Purity of
Morals, T.. Marguerite Lindley, New York.
Government reform.-National American
Woman Suffrage Association: Womans
Work and the Ballot, Susan B. Anthony,
New York: Address, Emma A. Cramer.
South Dakota: The Financial Argument,
Alice Stone Blackwell, Massachusetts,; Wo-
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