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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-17
THE ROOTER's MISTAKE.
MfstOOk n Sparrow for the Bnll and
Became Greatly Excited.

MfstOOlS Sparrow for the Bnll and
Became Greatly Excited.
From the Hartford Times.
He was a rooter, IL there ever was one
His enthusiasm was at boiling heat all the
time. He rooted with joy when the home
team scored, and he rooted in disgust when
the opposing nine added to its score. In
every movement of either team he saw an
occasion for roofing. He knew the game
ami understood it-at least, ne thought he
did. He made his comments whether those
around him liked his complaints or not.
The rooter always claimed the right to be
the critic Of every one connected with the
game. from the lordIy umpire to The mas
cot who hasn't yet reached his teens. and
including the barefooted, ragged urchin
who gains admission to the game by recov-
erins the ball that was battcd over the
fence Our particular rooter exercised this
right, MT totharing himself hit wn=sher
it was allowed not.
The result Of the game was in doubt and
the interest was intense. The Hartfords
were in the field and the opposing nine
were at the bat. A batter made a 'swipe'
at the bail as IL came like a shot from the
hand of Vickery, winding into a graceful
inshoot when il reached the home I.late.
The bat whistled through the air, but didn't
come within hailing distance of the ball.
Just then a sparrow rose from the turf
and flew toward the left field. The death
like silence was broken by the rooter
shouting:
Go for it. Petit"
Every eye was turned toward the place
from which the loud bass voice of the
rooter came. and every one wondered.
Bob didn't obey the command of the
rooter, and this made the rooter mad He
began to abuse Petit, and for a minute
Bobs reputation as a base ball player suf-
Tered.
What did you want to have him go for?"
asked a person who was sitting near the
censorious critic.
field"
THE ball! Why, you blankety blanked
chump, that was q sparrow" replied the
other.
The rooter's roofing ceased.
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From the Chicago Record
Inc failure OF many of the veriscope pic
lures OF the Fitzsimmons- Corbett fight
brings out two points in strong relief. The
electric motor has become such a familiar
device that its full usefulness is realized
only when from any cause its operation ia
interrupted. The usual practice IN the
taking Of veriscope pictures Is to feed the
long strips of film to the camera by cleo
trio motors regulated to carry sufficient
film past the lens for twenty four pictures
per second. On this occasion q crank
turned by a man was substituted for an
electric motor, and consequently the film
lacked regularity. There were serious de-
fects in the spacing between the pictures.
which will cause flashes Of light to appear
when the pictures are enlarged by the lam
tern for the screen. The standard space
between pictures Is 1-64th of an inchi the
spacing of the Carson City pictures varies
from Lea to Is. AS the pictures are en-
inches Is exaggerated in many instances
to feet l inch, /. e., from a scarcely OBJ
servable interruption to q wide break in
the continuity of the series. The reels too.
had been freshly painted only the day be-
fore the encounter and the paint was Tot
dry when the film was put on them The
result Is that the film was splashed with
paint along Its edges and in parts across
It's race, so that many negatives lad to be
cut out. necessitating the cementing to-
gether Of the film ends. and the loss of i'm
portant details. Three cameras were used
In the series, but never simultaneously. The
first few Thousand feet of film bears only
the pictures Of the derby hat of a spec
tator. with penumbra Of ringside Incidents
and the sixth round is obscurad in import
ant parts by fog of smoke from the
cigars Of the favored few inside the rails
All this goes to show that the mast scien-
tihc apparatus may be made OF no avail
by the absence OF judgment In this case
a fortune was lost for want of manage
ment and a little common sense.
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until the next morning. This taught me
self-d:scipiine. 1 learned to hold myself I'm
check, and the result Is that 1 can now
use my brains to the best advantage 1
have bad much experience in courts and
with lawyers. They can't make me lose
my head. and their cross-questioning does
not annoy me-
Il think the lawyers know that they
can't worry me-" Mrs. Green continued
You remember how Choate catechised
Russell Sage about the cost of his clothes
IN court not long ago. He tried to make
Sage ridiculous. 1 would like to have seen
him attempt that with me. If he had asked
me about my clothes / should have said
NOW Mr. Choate, II there is anything
nave on that you think Mrs. Choate wants
or needs, l will go into enc of the ante
rooms here and take ii off and let YOU
have 1t. All that 1 ask Is that you leave
me enough so that ] can. get back home
without Anthony CCmstock or the police
getting after me- 1 don't believe he would
have asked the question twice. / can't see
what business it is of Choate what l wear
or what Mr. Sage wears, and it seems to
me that such questions are rather i'm
pertinent to say the least"
Ameriea's Heireascs.
Your fight with the lawyers has been a
long one, Mrs. Green" said L
''Yes. it has," was the reply II have had
an awful time and no one can realize how
much 1 have been prosecuted. Why, If
1 were asked whether I would prefer to
have my daughter go through what I have
gone through or be burned at the stake
over there in front Of the City Hall,
would say: Let her be burned There
is no place in the world where women can
be prosecuted as here. Americas heiresses
have a worse time than the Indian WI
dows- The widows OF India can burn
themselves on the funeral pyres Of their
hushaT DIS. II they are rich they ought to
De happy. for 1t saves them lots of trouble.
AS for me, have been robbed all my life.
L have had my daughter 50 injured by the
brutality OF lawyers assistant. who
threw her against a safe door. that she can
never recover I have been misreprescntec
ana anused in the newspapers IN the at
tempts to make me out crazy. and for
thirty years 1 have had to fight for every
inch OF my way. You have seen the
stories WI Ugh have been published about
me- Many of them are disseminated by
the lawyers. I verify believe they would
Kill me If they were not afraid of the law. =
Take that story CT myself and my black
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more than 81 a minute, day and night.
year in and year out. Her property is of
many kinds and her investments stand
out like great freckles on the face of the
United States. With the grip of an &C.
topus her mortgages embrace some of
the most valuable properties of our big
gest cities between Boston and San Fran
cisco, and the dollars roll in to her from
every part of the country between Maine
and Texas. In railroads and steamboats,,
in mines of gold. coal and iron, In the tele-
graph and telephone. her stocks cover all
kinds of property and almost every variety
y Industry. The greater part of this vast
sealth is due to her own talents and she
manages it all herself. She had been at
work fo- more than an hour when / met her
at the bank at II O'Clock yesterday morn
ing. and il was an hour more before she
could get RID OF the men who were present
with business matters by previous appoint
ments before she couli me-
Where Iictty Green Docs Business.
During part of this time l waited for her
in her private office in the bank. 1t rs not
easy TO get cess to this office. for it is
q part of the bank itself. Ii is merely one
corner of the big room in which the CASH
iers, tel!ers and clerks. penned up in gid
ed cages, carry on enc of the biggest bank
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remembers Paris.
Wiles of the Flower Woman.
II we were not out to see the hawkers. a
glance might be given to the people Of the
crowd in which they come and go. and
which equally with them form the passing
show that is the charm Of this outdoor life
of the Boulevard. 1t is made up Of young
and old, all sorts and conditions of men
and especially Of women, many Of whom
have no other place IN which to show on
their few fine feathers. But the hawkers
are q sufficient study by themselves for
single evening. bareheaded flower wo-
man, with cheeks hard. like pippins and a
shrewd look, goes along, forcing her bou-
quets of dropping roses on the attention OF
every young man who sits at a table IN
company with girl. She knows how easy
1t is to shame our weaker sex into money
spending when women are along to observe
with superior eyes.
"PeGn1ts-good to eat!' The assurance
seems necessary. for every one looks curl
O, ely into the little basket in which they
are offered. After many years OF Paris
life 1t is the first time have seen them
exotic as his fruit. He is evidently Jew
from Algiers, old, bent. with venerable
gray beard and a gay red fez on his head.
His mouth opens In curve which ex-
peanuts to eat. A young Frencawoman
asks him to show her how the strange
thing works. and his grin broadens until
all his gums are bare. He points to them.
with their smooth, toothless rows. to
STOW why he does not eat the peanuts.
which, however. he recommends. She
looks doubtfully and shakes her head. 1t
would be the same II chewing gum had
been offered her. She is prudent-she never
saw the like! The oriental laughs merrily
aad passes on content. Is not life given to
be enjoyed. rather than for sadness be-
cause his peanuts are not sold?
Observation-Disclosures day Of
sale-only ten centimes-apparatus COM
pleteg The apparatus consists In a col
lection of flexible cards with successive
photographs Of the same scene. SO bound
together that by q motion of the hand such
rs might be, used in 'riffiing'' playing
cards, they pass before the eye with rap
idity enough to give the illusion OF move
ment Of the figures represented
Meanwhile, there has passed silently 4
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formity. Then, all through the afternoon
and long evening, until the electric lights
go out and at l O'Clock in the morning.
they hawk their wares along the BoUle-
The sellers of literature have driftcd into
the employment for want of something
else to do. like Longfellows nuns, who
tried their hands at Christmas songs.
The masterpieces of art-painting and
Sculpture-Of the salons of 1891" 1t Is a
neatly dressed man who has been selling
these albums of engravings. cheap collec-
tons OF music and paper-bouEd panorama
views for many year. The price ranges
from franc-twenty cents-down; the
regular price of the toy is only ten. Per-
haps this is why his dress and air show "a
higher class of society-a social distinction
Tor ten cents! And perhaps this is why
the mustaches of the decayed bookmaker
take on more cynical droop, as he calls
out his two-cent "complet des coursesr
The Japanese cock in parchment-blown
suddenly from its own shell and growing
for surprise in society-ten cents!"
1t Is white egg at the end of pipe
stem. which the hawker puts to his lips,
blowing vigorously Out springs a japanese
paper cock. inflated with its bright colors
and giving vent to a shrill whistle. This is
several years old, but there are always
children to demand it. 1t is followed by
the little north wind cigar FAM" and the
good-looking young man who sells 1t holds
out long cigar. which suddenly discharges
at you wheel-fan, in gay-colored paper,
with which he fans himself gracefully.
The marvellous ball of Robert Houdin."
This is a scientific toy. as there are so
many nowadays. A red ball, like a glass
taw, Is blown from a pipe and kept bal
ancing In the air. Simple and easy to
work." assures the smart young man who
sells it.
"Toothpicks. mounted IN tortoise she'll
two cents!" Until this summer. when trade
Is dull, because English and Americans
are all in London to see the queens jubilee.
these toothpicks, three to one handle, were
three cents-a fall in price which no pro-
tective tariff will prevent. The seller is
also the maker, and has beaten these paw
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been prolonged into the evening, and
among the solid-looking men at the little
tables with their beer or sirup and water
before them there are some who are anx-
ious to know what will happen to the Bank
of France. and IL the duties on American
pork are to be raised, these being the polit-
ical questions Of the day.
Full account of the racesr' This il
more Boulevard literature. In Paris there
are races as often as It rains, and that Is
nearly every day and twice ON Sundays:
and every enc bets on the races. The first
news from the race course. which is some
where in the enthusiastically in the pre-
cincts OF the city park Of the Bots de BON
logne-is hawked about on hastily printed
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Content.

!. l. Stanton In Atlantis Constitution.
He sowed and hoped for reapins-
A happy man and wise;
The ciotkls-tbey his weeping;
The w.nd-it sighed his sighs.
Made all that fortune brought him
Tho limit Of desire:
Thanked God for shade In summer dam
In winter time for are.
When tempest. as with vcngeful rod
HIS earthly mansion cleft,
On the blank sod he still thanked God
Life and the land were left.
Ccntect, his earthly race he ran
And dfed-so people say-
Some ten years later than Tho -
Who worried lie away.
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world and his wife are seated in front of
the cafes, which install their little tables
along the open walk in as many rows as the
tolerant police will permit. For In Paris it
Is more important that people should sit at
their pleasure in the open street than that
mere foot passengers should have free way
They sit and look at the many-colored show
or life as 1t passes. And from out the show
from the crowd of young men and
maidens. of painted charmers and old men
dreaming of their lost youth amid the pre-
vailing odor of femininity-the hawkers
step each moment to recite glibly their lit
tie speech and display their wares to the
idlers drinking and gazing coolly at the
tables.
--latest novelty! The key of Mazas-be-
holdv'
The young man in worn gray suit and cap
to match holds up in his hand great rusty
key that might wei be copy of that which
opens the gloomy portal of the first prison
in France to be built on the philadelphia
system Of solitary confinement Solitary
confinement has already been practically
given up, because it is useless to infict
maddening loneliness as a punishment for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-17

No. II L Il NbiNtSA<<
was in her Office in
the Chemical Ma
tional Rank when i
called upon her one
day this week. Het-
ty Green is said to
be the richest wo-
man in the world.
Her wealth is esti-
mated at from forty
TO fifty million dol
lars. At D per cent
her income mus. be
over e. ODD a day or
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fy-leaves as early as o'clock. when only
a part Of the races have been run. Now
the full results are known, and the little
shopkeepers who are here taking the fresh
air can find out IL they have won or lost
on the pool tickets bought at the wine mer-
chants or from the old woman ut the
news stand; and SO can the butchers boy.
and the bonnie with whom he is flirting as
they walk along the pave, for they all
bet, or intend to do SO another day, and
they keep track of the racing stables.
The seller of the news from the latest
race is himself a character. and has the
air of a decayed bookmaker interested in
his job He must be unusually down on
his luck, for hat and coat are far gone in
the general decay. But the falling ends of
the mustache and the cynical look OF a
man who has known the passion in bright
or days mark him out as he passes.
Up to I In the Morning.
1t would be curious to know the story Of
these lives. Where little toys are sold. or
other ARTICLES de Paris" the vendor is
often of the family of the maker. During
the morning they toll at their handiwork.
in which the art and wit and ingenuity of
the Paris artisan have taken their last
refuge in these days of machine-made uni
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London has added to its parks until they
occupy fourth of the city's area. They
have added to the health and prosperity Of
the metropolis, and the Londoners could
not be persuaded to part with any of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-17
CAMEL0TS OF PARIS
Drift Wood in the Eddies of the Great
French Capital.
WHEN TEE HAVKER Is IN His GLORY
-T>
Various and Sundrry Ways Of Pick
ing Up a Living.
j.
IN FRONT . OF THE CAFES
WHEN TEE HAVKER Is IN HIS GLORY
IN FRONT OF THE CAFES
Special Correspondence of The Evening stnr.


, HEN THE WARM
summer nights have
come. when the late
twilight melts slowly,
at 8 o'clock and past,
into the white glim-
mer of the electric
lamps. through the
green leaves of the
trees which line the
B IL | e v ard, the
hawker of things
sundry and miscel-
laneous Is in his
glory. Then all the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-17
A Chat With the Worlds Richest
Business Woman.
HOW SEE CARES FOR her MILLIONS
Her Idea of the Best Way to Ac-
cumulate a Fortune.
VALUE OF COMMON SENSE

copyrighted 1897. by Frank G.. Cl-pen;er)
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK CITY, July 10, 1897.
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crime, and in another year the frownIng
walls Of the prison itself. which are the
last sight of Paris to the traveller leaving
for the south and Rome, will disappear.
The hawker holds up the key, and pull
ing gently at the end sets free gay-color-
ed fan, to which the key in its pasteboard
imitation Of rusted iron, serves as a handle.
'Behold-latest novelty. fitted to the sea-
son. ladies!" and he fans himself indus
triously by way of example, swinging other
keys in his hand. "Only fifty centimes-ten
sous!' 1t is the union of cheap archae-
Clogy with summer comfort.
The Paris hawkers form a class apart.
about which everything Is curious Like
Malvolio to greatness, some are born to
their position, some achieve it, while others
have 1t thrust upon them because 1t Is their
last chance of escaping from starvation
The French lump them all together under
the common name of "camelots;" and the
name has a singular history. 1t comes
from the same word as our English cam
let" which was a cheap and nasty kind Of
cloth made out of wool and silk and cotton
wastes mixed with goats hair. Then. as
these famous ARTICLES of Paris were
quick-made by hand, cheap, and hawked
about the name of ''camelotee" was given
to them all. and the seller became
'camelot."
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Queer Newspaper Ordinance.

And. finally. when civilization triumphed
in the newspaper sold in the same way
about the streets. Paris intrrsted the sale
to these same camelets. Newspaper boys
there are none in the great city, but men.
in their untidy gray suits and caps, pass.
crying their papers with the same little
speeches to draw attention. They would
say more If they dared. as they do for
their other wares, but the police ordinance
forbids them to call out the nature Of the
news they sell.
La Prosecution of e'clockv' Later
on Il will be: Ten o'clock edftion-Last
debates of pariiamentr' For the session has
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Today the last opportunity OF the sum
mer was given to those who wished Il
make a final tour around the Corcoran Ar
Gallery before it closed for the season. Il
will rot be again open to visitors until
after September 20.
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Miss Mary Berri Chapman has succeeded
In doing quite a good deal of work during
the past few months, in spite of unfavor-
able circumstances. but she has been es-
pecially handicapped for a week or so
on account of Illness. She divides her
time about equally between literary and
artistic work, being one of those fortunate
people who find equal ease Of expression
with the pen or with the pencil Her lat
est story, entitled "A Fashionable Hero"
will appear in Harper's Maga zine for Au-
gust. As soon her health permits she
expects to leave the city for the summer.
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A LITERARY WOMAN.

she suggests nm Entirely New Method
LOT Taktng Care of a Mortgage,
From the New York Sun
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-21
CAMBRIDGE CITY ROBBERY.
Station Agent Gray Assaulted with "a
Piece of Gas Pipe.

The police were last night asked to make
an effort TO capture a man who assaulted
and robbed the Pennsylvania Company S
agent at Cambridge City. The assault oc-
CURED at about $3.50 o'clock, and 1t was
supposed the robber boarded passenger
train No. Z, which was due here at 1915
o'clock last night. If he was aboard the
train the police failed to find him, al
though the train was boarded when it be-
gan to slow up in the Union Railway
yards. Officers employed at the Union Sta
ton and several patrolmen watched the
train ali along through the yards and saw
that no one of a suspicious character
anghted-
Ii is the belief of Conductor Kelly that
he put the robber off the train at Knights
town. He did not know of the assault and
robbery when the train passed that station.
There was colored tramp on the front
end of the train. He was ordered off, but
showed fight, and it required the assist
ance of the brakeman to make the fellow
leave the train. The persistency of the man
strengthens the belief of the railroad men
that he was the guilty man.
The agent at Cambridge City is j. e.
Gray, brother of Col. Samuel +. Gray OF
this city, who is division freight agent for
the Pennsylvania Company. 1t is reported
that Gray is in a serious condition as the
result of the assault. He was returning TO
the station from supper intending TO arrive
there before No. passed When found he
was unconscious, and there was a PAD
wound on his head. BY his side lay piece
OF gas pipe with which he was hit