Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-11-12
BASEBALL CLUBS.
Directors of the National Game Hold
ing a Conference at Chicago.
WINDOW GLASS GOING UP.
1t Has Recently Advanced Ten Per Cent.
and Is Likely to he Higher still /,
Pauperized by Bet-Fac-
tories Opening Up.

CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-THE board of
directors of the National league and
American Association of Baseball
clubs began work at II o'clock this
morning There is considerable work
to be disposed of and a number OF the
subjects are of Importance to players
and lovers of baseball. Among those
already outlined are a proposition to
abolish coaching, an effort to do away
with the Temple cup games that have
heretofore followed the regular
championship series, a change in
the championship season so that
it will begin and end from
ten days to two weeks later than has
been the rule, and, possibly, an at
tempt to put through deal whereby
st. Louis will have winning club,
instead of contesting for tail ender
honor, as for the past two seasons.
There is much talk about deals for the
transfer of individual players but the
only thing in that line yet accomplished
is the sale of OutGelder Tom BannQn,
of the New Yorlis, to. Kansas City,
which was arranged this morning.
The terms of he transfer are private,
but the amount paid by the Missouri
city is said to be merely nominal"
The Western Baseball league held
its fall meeting at the Victoria hotel
this afternoon. The meeting will
probably last three days. An executive
meeting was held this morning, at
which the penDant was awarded and
other matters disposed Of So far as
announced, little change will be made
in the membership of the league,
though parties are here from Des
Moines who will endeavor to obtain
franchise for that city, which would,
in case OF success, result in taking Des
Moines out of the Western association.
Window Glass Going Up.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1l.-A morning paper
says: Window glass has advanced ten
per cent in the last three days and an
additional advance of ten to fifteen
per cent. is the specific object of a
meeting of local jobbers held in
this city this afternoon. The trade is
a unit in declaring that stocks Of win
dow glass in this country were never
so small as at present, not even during
the phenomenal years of 1870 and 1879
In those years there was long strike
and the factories were shut down for
many months. This is the condition
at present and the workmen and their
employers are apparently as far apart
as they were when the factories went
out of blast last June. The employees
are asking an advance of ten per cent,
while the employers want TO reduce
five TO seven per cent. The employers
say they can pay no advance and com
pete with the Belgian makers, while
the employees contend that the manu-
facturers' profits at the present prices
Justify all the advance in wages asked
for.
Ills Bet Glade Him PauPer.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Nov. Thames
A. GRAY, a farmer six miles above here,
came in town yesterday to transfer his
farm of 100 acres, with all appurte-
nances, to his neighbor, J. II. Hayes,
in payment of an election bet. Gray
bet his farm, together with everything
he had on earth, that Bryan would be
elected. While the result left him
pauper, he said that he would be as
good as his word, and instructed a law
yer to make out the deed. !
Factories Opening Up.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE World
prints table of several hundred fac
tories all over the country which have
reopened or increased their force Of
workmen since the election, giving en-
ployment thereby to 164,635 men.