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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-02
Duchess Manufacturing Co.
HULL & CO..
IOLDuALUrsIE w.
POUGHEEEPSIE, n. Y, August 20, Il
'0IGHhEErsIE \. y.

POUGHEEEPSIE, \. Y, August 20, 1905
Fire LEE BAER, WHEELING, W. Va:
DEAR SAccorJng to your request ordered our book
the of Duchess Trousers you have Pur
. handling goods Below you viii find the guam
W shipped to you, sworn to our Mr. Louis Authouse before no
larry p-eic
Wae proud of your record and shows that the people of
Aen appreciate honest goods and square dealing We venture to
that W other house in your city has sold as many Trousers OF
one make n short time as you have.
have the age -y Duchess Trousers your city
doubt what you double the sale of these goods with
..- next year.
Wishing You the best of success we remain,
Yours truly,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-02

Out of the seventeen games played on
the home grounds during the last three
weeks. Wheeling lost but one. The
first game with Titusville was post
poned on account of rain, after the
home club had it well in hand. This is
a record seldom duplicated in any
league. The individual work of the
players during the past week was eX-
ceptionally good. This is especially true
of the fielding, which was Of the gilt
edged order. The inield has done val
liable work, and the outfeld has had
but one or two eXcusable errors.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-02

POUGHKEEPSE, N. Y, August 25, 1906
H2. LEE BAER:
This to certify that have examined the books of the Duchess
oto Company and find thereom that since You have been
% s. they have hPped you L54I pairs of Duchess Trousers
j. LOUIS AUTHOUSE.
subscribed ana sworn to before me this Goth day Of August 1895.
GEORGE w. SWEET, Notary Public
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-02

It is to be hoped that the fans" will
turn out well this week, as the manage
ment of the local club deserves sub
stantial encouragement in its efforts to
provide good quality Of ball for pat
rons of the game. If Wheeling wins TO-
day. 1t will be necessary to take but one
more game to win the championship Sc
ries. and then will come the tug OF war
with Franklin, and when the Pirates
come down on the 18th to cross bats
with the home club, there will be an
Iron and Oil League pennant flying at
the Island Park.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-02
NCKERY IND C0N1VER
Will be the Opposing Twirlers in the
Game This Afternoon
And it Promises to be an Interest
ing Contest - Results Of Sunday
Games in the National League.
Other Sport Local and by Wire.

1t is very likely that Mr.. Vickery will
try conclusions this afternoon with the
''old gem man" from Kaintuck, sab.
Vickery has speed to burn, and was
considered tolerably fast in the Nation
al League. But our Theodore has a
long head, and while on the lines he
has carried a notebook and pencil, and
has jOtted down a few observations per-
tanning to the weaknesses of the War
rem hitters. They walked all over him
in that now famous watch game" and
Theodore is anxious for revenge. Wick
cry is in good form, too, and the War
rem management is already claiming
a victory in to-day's game.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
MORE CAR-FENDERS.
Experimenting on West Mission Street
With Managers of Men, Women
and Boys.

Yesterday there was another test on the
spur track on West Mission street of fen
ders which the inventors were of the
opinion would prevent people from being
crushed to death by electricians. The ex-
periments were made in the presence of
the Supervisors and large number of
citizens. The victims" were two mani
kins, one representing man and the other
boy. Some unfeeling individual in the
crowd suggested in a loud tone that it
might be we'll to experiment on members
of the Solid Eight.
e. P. Vining of the railroad company,
who superintended the experiments, called
for the Johnson fender, wide-spreading
net. This picked up the man dummy in
good shape but when it came to taking up
the ''boy" he was caught under the ma
chine and crushed out of shape before the
car could be brought to a standstill.
Then the invention of E. w. Tucker,
which can be raised and lowered at will
was tried. 1t caught the standing dummy,
threw it on the receiver, and pushed it
ahead for distance of ten feet before the
car was stopped. Upon second trial,
where the man was laid across the track,
one end of the fender caught him on the
hip, held him fast, and showed him ahead
for some distance.
This was followed by trial of J. E.
Markley's invention, which is an lnstan-
taneouSly adjustable net that when not in
use may be put out of sight under the car.
This caught the standing man, whose
head fell on soft cushion, and was car
ried along on the net. Upon a second
trial the net caught and threw the man to
one side with considerable force. 1t was
the general opinion that this fender was
too narrow.
Then there was trial of wire fender
submitted by the railroad company. The
'man' after considerable difficulty was
propped up, and when the fender struck
him it carried him off his feet. and his
head struck the dashboard with so much
force that had it been live man his head
would have been split open. The ''man"
fell, was caught under the guard and beau
tifully mangled by 1t.
The next was trial with an automatic
fender also the invention of the company
The imam" was caught by a flap which
allowed him to pass under the car where
he was caught in an apron just in front of
the trucks.
None of the tests were entirely satisfac-
tory, and the Supervisors and railroad
officials were divided in their opinions as
to the merits of the several tenders shown.
Mr.. Vining promised to have ready for ex-
pertinent in few days device in use on
the cars in Baltimore, Md, and requested
the Supervisors not to reach. any determi-
nation until this shall have been tried.
The request was granted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07

recent convention was assured Mr..
Fileher was requested to write to the
County Clerks of the counties where the
appropriations have not yet been made,
with view of hurrying up the money
matter.
Secretary Filcher, in preparing litera-
ture for distribution at the exposition, and
for the benefit of the Board of Trade, has
gathered some interesting statistics upon
beet sugar. The first mandatory estab-
lished was by the Alameda Beet Sugar
Company in 1888. In 1891 the Spreckels
Company erected a refinery in Pajaro Val
ley. near jacksonville. That year the
States output of beet sugar was S,175.43S
pounds. In 1892 it was 21,8O1, 1913 In 1898
it was 80, $50, 929; and last year the output
was increased to Is, 191, 296 pounds, or
seven-ninths of the output of the United
States, which makes California far in adj
vance of the other States in the beet-sugar
industry. This year in the Paiaro and Sa-
llnas valleys 700 acres have been planted
in beets, and it is expected that the yield
will be $4,000 tons of beets, which will
yield 5000 tons of sugar The harvesting
this year will begin about September 1,
and last between eighty and ninety days.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
The PRIDE OF SAUSALITO,
A New Town Hall to Be Erected
for Its Municipal
Business.
Street improvements to Be Pushed
and the Boulevard Scheme
Revived.

Sausalito is still an incorporated town,
and the citizens are indulging in good
deal OF pardonable pride over the fact that
a town hall is to be built and the street i'm
proyement prosecuted to satisfactory
completion. Still another cause for re-
joicing lies in the renewed interest in the
movement for a boulevard from there to
Point Bonita.
The disincorporation idea has been prac-
tically dropped, and while the Town Trus-
tees have been blamed for the slow prog
ress of the paving of Water street the
Trustees claim that the fault lies with the
contractor, Z. J. O'Connor, whose contract
will terminate on August %. Charles
Dexter, clerk of the Board of Trustees,
who came to San Francisco yesterday to
make payment on land purcased by the
town, said that O'Connors bondsmen
would be expected to carry out his con-
tract. 1t has been decided that the work
must be pushed This has eased the feel
ings of those who favored disincorporation.
Il have just made the first payment on
the land purchased by the town." said
Captain Dexter. The purchase price was
$4,000, of which one quarter is now paid.
The purchase was made from John Fer
guson of Kearny and California streets.
The land hes south of the San Francisco
Yacht Clubs place. 1t is the intention to
remove the pumping plant there and then
to put up a town building. The lower
floor will be used by the Fire Department
and the upper story for the hall and offices
of the town. We shall start in early this
fall to break ground and will erect the
building this winter. We propose also to
make a loading place for small boats. No,
we have not yet figured on the cost nor
plans of the new building. We did not
decide till last nights meeting of the
Trustees on the purchase of the land"
J. 3. Stetson, president of the North
Pacific Coast Railway Company, made
proposition to the town through General
Dickinson, President of the Board of Trus-
tees of Sausalito yesterday, to grade Water
street from FL Monte lane 10 the county
road. The railway company under the
new rule adopted of requiring each of the
property-owners to do his own share, OF
the work or pay the town for doing it,
must improve a certain part OF the street
President Stetson proposes that it shall
be all alike along that road. He will do
the whole work at a very reasonable figure.
General Dickinson IS inclined to favor the
proposition and will call a special meeting
Of the Trustees to consider it.
The revival of interest in the boulevard
from SaUTalito to Point Bonita is a topic
of considerable interest in the town. The
project has been taken in hand by Congress
man J. A. Barham, who with Congress
man Loud, J. B. Stetson, Commodore Har-
rison, Mr.. Crumpton, John Smell and J. II.
Pryor, editor of the News, made prelimi-
nary survey of the load. A petition will
be sent to Congress asking an appropria-
ton of $40, 600 to build the boulevard. The
right of way has already been granted by
the War Department.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
ONE HUNDRED ASSAULTS.
How Josephine Amiraux, an Actress,
Treated Her Husband When
She Met Him.

The marital troubles of Josephine Ami
raux, au actress, and her husband, Geller
Amiraux, were aired in Judge Campbell's
court yesterday afternoon, when the hus-
band was tried for threatening to kill her.
She told of acts of cruelty and it looked
bad for the defendant. When he went on
the stand ne told his story in such a
straightforward manner that the Judge
altered his opinion.
Mrs. Amiraux is a little woman, but her
husband testified to over one hundred
assaults within year by her upon him on
the streets and elsewhere with sticks,
cobblestones, fists or anything that came
handy. At one end of his watch chain he
wore a police whistle specially to summon
assistance when she attacked him on the
street, not because he was afraid OF being
injured by her, but to save him from
annoyance.
In answer to the Judge he said he never
threatened to kill her-he had no such
bloodthirsty intention-and he did not
want to be annoyed by her. She had left
his house on Page street and gone to live
in disreputable quarter on Grant avenue,
and as she had refused to leave there he
wanted to have nothing more to do with
her. The Judge called up Mrs. Amiraux,
and after warning her to leave her hus-
band alone while the divorce proceedings
were pending, he dismissed the case.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07

have at least five, and probably ten men
| soloists, etc.-who will average $32 so per
week each, and that in view of the circum-
stances a shortage of funds is likely to
occur unless Herr Scheel gives up portion
| of his own pay to make up the differ
ence No one is sanguine that he Will take
] this course.
| In the opinion of competent musicians
| twenty one men will not be able to render
| the programme which has been practiced +,
and unless Scheel can get more union
members he must take men from outside
| the organization, and this will bring him
into conflict with organized labor again.
In any event Herr Scheel seems to be In
| for another batch of trouble, and officers
OF the union 90 not hesitate to say that
| they expect it to come soon.
al Marks, manager for Professor Fritz
Scheel, appeared before the board of
trustees of the Mechanics Institute last
night and, obtaining the privilege of the
board, stated that Professor Scheel had
engaged thirty-two first-class musicians,
the very best in San Francisco. He said
Mr.. Scheel had declined to give the COM
mittee on opening exercises the names OF
these thirty-two musicians. If a musical
committee should ask for the names he
said there would be no particular objec-
ton to giving them. But the committee
could go to Harmony Hall on Bush street
on Thursday ana see THESE tnlrty-tWO
musicians, which would serve the same
purpose as their names. He was positive
the board would be thoroughly satisfied
with the display ofmusicians, and assured
the members that there would be in the
band full complement OF the very best
soloists.
Joseph Leggett asked Mr.. Marks if he
was not aware that he and Mr.. Scheel were
in the employ of the committee on opening
exercises.
Mr.. Marks said he recognized the rela-
ton and recognized the whole board.
"Then you recognize that you have
entered into contract with this board 2"
asked Mr.. Leggett.
mo, sir; 1 recognize that we have en-
tered into contract with the board of the
Mechanics Fair"
"Do you recognize this board of trustees
of the Mechanics Institutef"
YES"
"Then you must give that information. ]"
Mr.. Leggett then submitted report of
the committee on opening exercises signed
by himself and R. P. Jones, recommend
ing that the musicians committee obtain
the list of names and Mr.. ScheeI be re-
quested to furnish all information desired
by the committee on opening exercises.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
FREDERICKS' FATE AGAIN,
The Murderer Was Hanged, but
His Case Is Yet in the
Courts.
HALE MAY HAVE TO ANSWER
Supreme Court Action on an APP
peal May Cause Peculiar Com
pliCatlonS.

The Supreme Court has before it mat
ter dealing with a defendant in the next
world, as it is called upon to determine
whether Fredericks, the murderer who was
hanged at San Quentin a week or two ago,
is still entitled to existence.
This nav not seriously concern the man
who shot Cashier Herrick, but 1t is serious
from the fact that decision in favor of the
murderer may make Warden Hale legally
responsible for the killing of the prisoner,
and besides that the decision may have an
important effect on future executions.
When Fredericks was awaiting execu-
ton at San Quentin an appeal from the
order resentencing the prisoner was taken
bv the prisoners attorney, George e. Col
well. Warden Hale sought instruction
from Acknowledgement Fitzgerald, and by
advice of the latter he carried out the SEN
tence of death.
a hearing on the legality of the resen-
fencing Of Fredericks was pending in the
Supreme Court, and though the prisoner
has been hanged the appeal will be heard.
The case is TO come up in the court to-
day and the decision on the appeal may
result in serious complications.
If the Supreme Court finds that Fred
time the present Issue was raised the con-
demned man Will have a legal right to ex-
istence and to a further hearing in the
Superior Court The prisoner was in
trusted to the care of Warden Hale at the
State,prison, and it will be the duty of that
official TO produce the man.
OF course the prisoner cannot be brought
back into court, for he was hanged. He
will not be affected in any way by what
the highest tribunal of California may do
or say on the legal technicality presented
in his behalf but Warden Hale may be
placed in q position that will be embar-
RAISING at least if he be required to bring
forth the prisoner for a new sentence.
The only explanation that the Warden
can offer is that he hanged the prisoner,
but the Supreme Court may not be salts
fed that the States officer had a legal
right to do that while an appeal was pend
ing.
If the sentence of death is declared to
have been legal that will end the matter,
but the attorney for FrederiCks thinks that
it was not legal, and if his opinion is sup
ported by the Supreme Court Warden
Hale and the Attorney General may have
to answer in court for the hanging that
nobody doubts was deserved.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
JUBILEE CONVENTION.
The Notable PrOgrammesfor the Cath
Ollie Total Abstinence Union
at New York.

A silver jubilee convention of the Cath
Ole Total Abstinence Union will be com
menced in New eYork to-day and continue
till Sunday. The. programme has been ar
ranged as follows:
Aug. 7.-At 8 A. NJ. the convention will open
in Columbus Hall of the Paulist Fathers. 10
A. M.-Solemn pontifical mass in st. Patrick's
Cathedral, Monsignor Satolli pontieating; ser.
mon by Archbishop Ryan OF Philadelphia.
P. M.-Business session and reception of frater-
nal delegates from other organizations.
p M-Grand demonstration in Carnegie Hail. al
which the highest ecclesiastic and civil author
tiles will assist and from whom will be stirring
temperance addresses.
Aug. So A. M.-N[ass of requiem of the
Church OF the Paulists. 10 A. M.-Session OF
conven ton in Columbus Hall.
Aug. Cuisines session all day.
Aug 10-Visiting delegates will be taken up
the Hudson as guests of city temperance soci-
cites.
1t will be the largest temperance demon
stration ever held in New York, as the
Catholic Union alone has SO, 500 members,
and it is expected that between $4,000 and
100000 persons will participate in the pro-
ceediDgS.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
SCHEEL AND THE UNION.
The Leader Will Not Be Al
lowed to Charge Rent
for Costumes.
A Possibility That There VIII Be
Serious Trouble in the Me-
chanics' Fair Band.

The Musicians Union has put itself on
record regarding Fritz ScheePs proposed
exaction of 81 per week from each of the
men who play in the Mechanics Fair
band for the use of the costumes they will
wear, and unless the leader recedes from
the position he has taken in the matter, he
is quite likely to find himself in very warm
water before the fair closes.
At recent meeting the matter was
thoroughly discussed. and it was unani-
mously agreed that Scheel had no right to
demand rent for the costumes and that
such a proceeding could not be allowed.
An order to that effect was accordingly
made, and Secretary Smith was busy
yesterday sending them out to mem bers OF
the union who might be called upon to
help Scheel out.
The result will be that the members of
Scheel's band will obey the orders of the
union and desert him when the first pay
day comes unless some other arrangement
regarding the costumes is made.
Had Scheel been able to carry out his
renting plan he would have Melted the
neat sum of $640, or enough to have taken
up his notes.
Scheel's trouble with the union began at
the close of the Midwinter Fair, when he
owed the musicians who had stuck to him
through that engagement $1l32. His fail
ure to liquidate that debt led to his being
dropped from the roll of the local branch
of the Musicians Union.
He laughed at this at first, but when the
board of trustees of the Mechanics Instl-
tute refused to entertain his proposition to
direct the band unless he was in good
standing with the union he suddenly con-
cluded that the organization was pretty
good thing. He hastily applied for re-
instatement and offered a plan of settle
ment. This was to raise $500 cash which
had been promised him by friend and
give his notes for the balance of $532.
This was satisfactory to the home branch
and on telegram being received from
Jacob Beck, secretary of the National
League, that the matter was satisfactory,
he was allowed to return to the fold and go
on with his preparations for the fair.
There seems to have been an undercur-
rent of distrust of the leader in the minds
of the union men, however. for though the
five weeks engagement at the fair at good
paw seemed to be bright opportunity
men did not fall over each other to get the
Jobs, and only few days ago Scheel was
practicing with twenty-one men instead of
the thirty-two called for by the contract.
The reason that Scheel is not able to get
more men lies not only in the projected
exaction of rent for the costumes, but also
In the fact that the union men look with
caution on Herr ScheePs financial calcula-
tons.
The contract calls for $4,000 for the entire
season, of which he is to receive $500 and
the thirty-two musicians $4,000 among
them. This would give each of them q
trifie less than SIS per week, the minimum
salary set by the union.
Musicians say. however, that he must
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
Wow, WOW; Sir Richard won."

Wow, wow; Sir Richard won."
No, l didn't go yer"
''Say, Peacod, yer gimme the wrong
ticket" etc.
All the while the imperturbable "Nutty"
stands at the base of the tree jingling the
niekels and small silver coins in his
pocket waiting until the next race is on.
All through the afternoon the game
goes on, and if the business warrants it
''Nutty" hires assistants and takes in
another tree for the benefit of his Gus
toners. On some special occasions he has
three or four trees thus occupied, and
rulnor SAYS that he reaps a metallic har-
vest. He appears TO be the boss of the sit
uation, anyhow. On the Topped trees be-
yond dozens of young men, and even full
grown men perch themselves, but they
are not interested in anything except the
races and do not deal in the boys game.
1t is only lately that the managers of the
racetrack became aware of the existen nee
of the opposition bookmakers and they
tried to discourage them by taking out the
spikes which they had driven into the
trees and peeling off the bark SO that they
could not climb them. The indefatig-
able ':Nutty'' and ''Peacod," however,
were on the scene early, and to preserve
their business nailed steps on the trunks.
and when they were removed nailed
others, so that finally efforts to dislodge
them were futile and they now have full
sway. As to the money which changes
hands and the profits which the adolescent
managers pocket it is hard to guess an
approximate figure. The game has been
going Oh for weeks, and each day the at
tendance seems to be on the increase.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
GUM-TREE DOOKMAKERS.
How a Throng of AdOIescentS
Gamble on the Jockey
Club Races.
GAME OF NICKELs AND DIMES.
+" Nutty Quinn" and "PeaCod" Are
the Enterprising ManipulatorS
of the Scheme.

Overshadowlng the fence which girts the
eastward side of the Bay District racetrack,
where the California Jockey Club holds its
races, is a row of spreading eucalyptus
trees. They tower far above the fence. and
any one who climbs among their branches
may see the races almost as we'll as those
who pay their dollar and view them from
the grandstand.
But then, it is claimed by the dollar man,
the tree-climbers may see the races, but
they have not the privilege of throwing up
their money against the pool-boxes and
taking the chances of winning snug little
pocket fortune.
That is just where the dollar men are
mistaken. They do not know, probably,
of the existence OF an organization called