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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-29
Eastern League Clubs Will Begin the
Battle Of 1897.
SYRACUSE PLAYS IN SCRANTON
Bauer's Band viii he ut the Park
and Mayor Bailey Will Open the
Game--Harper and Boyd Will he
the Scranton Battery--A Trolley
Parade to Precede the Opening
of the Game.
SYRACUSE AT SCRANTON.
ROCHESTER, AT WILKES-BARRE.
TORONTO AT PROVIDENCE.
BUFFALO AT SPRINGFIELD.

This afternoon the Eastern league
lseason opens. Then the cranks in four
cities will gather and root and get ex-
cited over the doings of eight clubs
-Four will win and four will lose, but
one swallow doesn't make summer,
and neither will one defeat nor one vic
tory today determine any clubs
Schances of winning the pennant
In Scranton, preparations have been
made for a signal opening, and it will
be strange If a large crowd does not
gather at Athletic park and fan for the
Victory of the home team over the
Syracuse club. TIE latter is looked
upon as being one of the strongest If
not the strongest team in the league.
TROLLEY PARADE.
All manner of formalities and things
will precede the game. At 1890 o'clock
the Syracuse and Scranton clubs in
Uniform, Bauer's band and a few in
Yited passengers will board two trolley
cars in front of the Westminster hotel
bn wyoming avenue, and a trip will be
made to each section of the city, the
South Side, the HILL the West Side, the
central city and the North End.
At the park the teams will form in
front of the grandstand and receive a
brief and formal address from Mayor
Bailey, following which they will pa
rade to center field and return. The
game will be opened by Mayor Bailey,
who will toss the ball to the pitcher.
The selec. and common councilmen and
pther city officials will be present as the
guests of the association.
A distinguished spectator will be p.
r. Powers, of New York city, the presi-
dent of the Eastern league. He and
Mayor Bailey will occupy chairs in the
owners box.
Harper ami Boyd have been selected
FOR Scranton's battery, but Morse and
funsom are on the card, and will play
occasion demands it.
KENNEDY THE UMPIRE.
DOC will umpire the
came. He Is an ex-player and one of
he best known in the base ball world.
He reached here yesterday afternoon
Ind saw the latter part of the game
with the Moosics. Kennedy has for
hree years umpred in the New Eng
and league.
The game will be called at 3.4s
clock. 1t will not be ladies' day, al
hough on Thursdays hereafter ladies
vill be admitted free to the grounds
nd grandstand.
Following will be the positions of the
layers:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-29
MISUNDERSTANDING.
LOUISVILLE.

Louisville, April 2S.-The Pirates
stopped tho Colonels' winning streak to-
day. Score:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-29
Humphreys No. 10

0UnnO Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Weak
UkfA stomach, HEARTBURN, Loss OF
uUNuU Appetite, Rising of Food, Water
Brash, Bitter Taste, Biliousness, Pains or
Cramps in the stomach, Gastralgia, Consti.
patton, Jaundice, Irritability, Dependency,
Low Spirits; Vertigo and Headache.
Sold by druggists 25c. Humphreys Med.
Co., Cor. william and John Sts., New York.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-04-29

In communications for this column al
ways mention the day on which games
were played. Sign your name. DO not
send a score later than the day following
that on which the game is played. For
feited games will not be mentioned.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
TURKEY AND THE POWERS.

During grave crisis in the affairs OF
England, when dangerous issue was
seriously menacing the Government one
o. the wits of Parliament at that time ex-
pressed the situation as it affected the
House of Commons in the quatrain which
has since become famous:
hear a lion in the lobby roar:
Say. Mr. Speaker, shall we close the door
And keep him out. shall we let him in
And do best to put him out again?
The powers of Europe have not profted
by the wit and WI dom mbodied in the
verse. They heard the Turk roaring at
the doors of Greece, but were not wise
enough to shut the door ana keep him
out. Believing that it would be of some
advantage to have the Greeks beaten and
subdued, they left the way open for the
Turk 10 enter, and are now confronted
with the serious problem of getting him
out again.
Although it is announced that the
march of the Turkish troops on Athens
was sto pped because the Gear of Rus
sia made a vigorous protest, the fact
remains that Edhem Pasha did not check
the advance OF his trooTs until he had
driven the Greeks com plelely out of Thes-
sally, and, by the capture of d ON oko, put
Turkey in possession of the strongholds of
her ancient frontier. 1t does not appear,
therefore, that the voice of the Czar was
decisive in the matter. The proba bility is
that the Turks went just as far IS they in
tended to go, and have stopped because
they are satisfied with the position they
now occupy.
Lord Salisbury, in an address on Tues
day evening before the Junior Conserva-
tive Club, declared the powers would never
allow Christian communities to pass from
Christian rulers and fall to the Sultan's
Government. That, he said, would be
something which the public opinion OF
Europe would not tolerate
There is thing of encouragement in
Salisbury's words, but, unfortunately, it has
been clearly shown ever since the pre-. ent
crisis in the Eevant eliminated in war
that the wishes of Great Britain in the
matter count for little, and that the only
power which can be looked to for settle
ment OF the issue is the alliance of the
three emperors. This alliance may be
disinclinei 10 permit the Turks to remain
in possession OF Thessaly, but it remains
to be seen whether that Discrimination is
sufficiently strong to impel them to make
war against Turkey if the Sultan would
refuse TO abandon his conquest.
1t is clear the situation has not been
rendered in any less degree dangerous 10
the peace of Europe by the success of the
Turks. 1t has simply l,ut new problem
in the place of the old one. 1t is not now
a question of liberating Crete but of liber-
ating Thessaly, and the difficulty of the
powers is increased by the fact that
Turkey is not now respondent as she was
when the Cretan troubles began, but is
erect, flushed with victory, confident in
her arms and apparently ready for any
contest which Europe may impose upon
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
SPEEDING THE WORK.

In an interview with our Washington
correspondent on Tuesday the Supervis-
ing Architect OF the treasury stated that
so far from there being any prospect of
further delay in the construction of the
new Federal building. as was sneeringly
asserted by the Examiner, the plans and
specifications for the work are so far al
vanced that they will be completed much
sooner than was thought. When you
were here last" said the architect to our
correspondent, II thought they would be
ready in thirty days. but am told by the
engineers and draughtsmen that they will
be com pleted in about week"
1t is now the expectation cf the treasury
officials to advertise for bids for the work
of excavation and laying the foundations
OF the building in about two wesks. These
advertisements VIII run until nearly the
end of June, at which time contracts will
be awarded and the work of construction
will Immediately begin. These promises
are so definite in their nature there hardly
seems room for further doubt upon the
subject.
We have virtually won the battle for a
speedy beginning of the work and may
now direct our energies to the end of OBJ
tanning the use of Californian material
for the edifce. Nothing should be i'm
ported from the East which can be OBJ
tanned in this State, for We would lose a
large part of the benefits to be expected
from the construction of the building if
any great portion of the material used in
it we're obtained from distant localities.
THE CALL directed attention some days
ago to a report from Washington that a
Now England company was endeavoring
to obtain the contract for furnishing stone
for the building and urged the commercial
and industrial bodies of the City to exert
their influence to defeat the scheme. 1t is
gratifying to note that prompt response
was made by several of the most infuen.
tial organizations in the City. The pro.
test of our people against the use of East
ern stone has been sent to Washington
and will doubtless have due weight and in
fuence there. We must, however, keep
close watch on the business at this time.
The contracts will soon be let and now is
the time for action on our part If we ex-
pect to obtain all the possible benefits
from them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

Frau Materna will never sing In public again,
either in concert or opera General regret is
expressed in the European papers at her
decision, which she declares is irrevocable. for
while Mate-na's grand voice is far from being
what it was in her zenith, she is much more
accom- plished singer. from the standpoint of
vocal technique, than most OF the younger
Wsgnerian artists now before the pu bic, and
she interprets the Bayreuth masters music
with an authority that no other living singer
can claim. She was Wagner's ideal prima donna
for his heavier female roles, and he himself
taught her exactly how he wished his music to
be interpreted. Materna said farewell 10 the
operatic stage in Vienna in 1894, with the
intention OF devoting herself to teaching and
concert work. About year ago she received
Government pension which made her inde-
pendent, but she still continued teaching and
occasionally appearing in public. The other
day grand banquet was rendered her by q
number OF Viennese journalists and men of
letters. Materna made speech and astonished
the company by announcing her irrevocable
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
LAND AND LABOR.

Now that the promoters of the plan to
provide work for the ployed by fur
nishing them means for obtaining land
on which they can work with profit 10
the selves and eventually establish
homes. have an opportunity to obtain the
cooperation of SO great captain OF indus
try as Claus Spreckels. the chances for
success are so greatly increased as to rem
der it we'll nigh assured. 1t seems that
nothing more is now needed than ordi-
nary sagaci'y and energy TO put the COL
onization plan into operation and make
it genuine triumph for humanity and in
dustry.
In the interview between Mr. Spreckels
and Major Winchell of the Salvation
Army, and ex-Mayor EIlert which was
published in THE CALL yesterday, Mr.
Spreckels expressed a willingness to do
every thing in his power to aid the pro-
iect. He pointed out that more than
hundred families have already been in
stalled on land which he owns and have
been provided with everything necessary
to enable them to cultivate their farms
with profit. There is room for many
more such families on land owned by Mr..
Spreckels, and be specified that he would
soon have 600 acres in one tract and 5000
acres in another. we'll fitted for beet cul-
ture, on which he would be glad to esfab-
lish families, provided the men are indus
trious and really mean to work.
Mr.. SpreckeIs is not the only man who
is willing to give aid to the project, nor
are his lands the only tracts that have
been offered for settlement 1t is stated
that since the scheme was first advanced.
Major Winchell has been offered upward
OF 800 600 acres in different parts of the
State. As 1t is the intention to assign
only ten acres to each family, this would
make room for ZONES for all industrious
unemployed in California.
OF course, the land Is not everywhere
equally valuable and the inducements TO
settlers are not in all cases equal TO those
offered on the beet lands of Mr.. Spreckels
Nevertheless it is probable that there is
hardly a 10.acre tract in all that has been
offered out of which an industrious and
thrifty family could not make a good liv-
ing and save money.
The plan is one of such Importance it
will engage the attention of all who are
ployed. In ordinary hands but little
would be expected from it; bat when d.
rected by an organization like that of the
Salvation Army, which has so frequently
proven its ability to manage men In large
masses, and aided by such experienced
capitalists and business men as Mr..
Spreckels, the outlook is sufficiently en-
couraging to justify the most sanguine
expectations
1t is within the limits of probability
that we are on the verge of solving the
problem of the unemployed and the
problem OF big estates at the same time by
opening land to the landless and making
way for homes for those who are now
homeless under conditions that promise
prosperity to all who Industriously profit
by the opportunity offered.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
ERSONAL.

DR.. W. D. Rodgers of Watsonville is in the
City.
T ]. Field, the banker OF Monterey, is in the
City.
Tom c. Gorril a mining man OF Sonora. is in
town.
William B. Parker of vacaville is at the
Grand.
Joseph B. Hughes of New York is at the
Palace.
j. C. T. Crofts of Calcutta is at the Occi-
dental.
Ex-Judge John NJ. Fulweier OF Auburn is at
the Lick.
F. A. Cressey, the banker Of Modesto, is at
District Attorney Francis A. Free OF MADEIRA
is in town.
A. B. Llewellyn, a business man Of Seattle,
is at the Russ.
DR.. D. W. Edwards of Los Angeles arrived
here yesterday.
Joseph Billion, owner of a general store at St.
John, is at the Grand.
John L. Hudner, an attorney of Hollister,
arrived here yesterday.
J. D. Culp of San Felipe. who is engaged in
raising tobacco, is in the City.
Isaac Upham sailed on the Australia OH
Tuesday for the Hawaiian Islands.
Will w. Edwards and Mrs Edwards OF Gold
eston, Tex, are among recent arrivals.
swillam French, accom- panied by E. Guthrie
OF Butler, Pa, are at the Cosmopolitan.
Mayor w. H. Workman of Los Angeles ar
rived here yesterday and is at the Occidental.
c. NJ. Crosby of Ashtabula, Ohio, who is
touring this State, is staying at the Cosmo-
politan.
Jaret 7. Richards. the well-known attorney
of Santa Barbara, arrived here last night, and
is at the Palace.
Malone Joyce. for some time past City pass
enger agent of the Oregon Railroad and Navi-
gaton Company, has taken the position OF
coast travelling agent for the Missouri Pacific
Hi Rapelje, the Under Sheriff of Fresno
County, is guest of the Cosmopoli .an Hotel.
Rapelje will be remembered as the officer who
was instrumental in the capture of Evans aud
Sonntsg, the outlaws. He came up in COM
pary with his wife.
A. S. Baldwin has returned here after three
weeks IN Chicago, New York and other cities
He says Chicago ana New York are building
boulevards, ZOOS, buying sites for future school
buildings and in every way are showing en-
terprise notwiths anding hard times.
J. Stanley Brown of Cleveland, Ohio, the
agent of the North American Commercial
Company arrived here last night from Wash
ington, d. c., where he has been Ior the past
five months. He will remain until Saturday
evening, when he will sail on the steamer
Del Norte for the Pribylof Islands. Mr. Brown
is the son-in-law of the former President GAR
field. He says 1t is conceded at Washington
that as soon as Congress gets through with
the tariff it will take up the money question.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20

many obtains control of New York this
fall it will be able to exert powerful in
fuence upon the Congressional elections
next year. and may possibly hold lis
power long enough to affect the Presi-
Dental election of 1900. This makes the
issue matter OF National concern. 1t is
to be hoped that sufficient pressure can
be brought upon the leaders of the So
called good citizens movement" TO in
duce them to comb bine with The Repub-
licans. 1t is certainly to their interest to
do 80. They cannot expect good govern
ment from Tammanv. They will be well
assured Of 1t under Republican admin
istration, and it would be monstrous
folly for any num- ber OF men to set up a
third ticket and thus divide the vote of
the better element and leave 10 Tammany
a virtual walkover.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.
A Very Large Attendance Expected at
Its Annual Meeting Tonight

Very Large Attendance Expected at
Its Annual Meeting Tonight.
The regular meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Merchants Association was
held Yesterday Those present we're:
President Dohrmann, Charles Bundschu,
w. G.. Doane, Hugo y. Keil, Daniel V.
Kelly. NJ. s. Kohlberg, Hugo Rothschild
ana Joseph Simonson.
The following parties were elected as
regular mem bers: Dillon e. Co., Fidelity
and Deposit Comp Gray Bros, New
York Insulated Wire Company, Pissis &
Moore, William Schmitz, K. 6. Schwartze
and William Wertsch.
The annual report of the board OF di-
rectors to be submitted at the annual
meeting OF the association this evening at
Academy of Science Halls, was considered
and approved. 1t recountS the main
efforts of the association in the past and
the work that has been accomplished and
is now under way. The subject OF better
lighting of the streets was also discussed
and plan adopted which will be SUBJ
mitted at the next meeting.
Acknow edgments to the invitations e1-
tended to address the meeting upon the
subject of the College of Commerce OF
the University of California have been
received from Regent Arthur Rodgers,
Mayor James D. Phelan; A. A. Watkins,
president OF the Board of Trade; A. Ger
berding, representing the Chamber of
Com merce; Irving NJ. Scott and Colonel
M. H. Hecht. All these parties have
promised to be present and address the
NEE ting.
A large number of invitations have been
sent out and it is expected that the hall
will he filled
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
NEW YORK POLITICS.

The incorporation of Greater New York,
which will 60 into effect the first of next
year, has keenly stimulated the politicians
Of that city. The prize to be struggled for
at the elections, which occur this fall, is
one of the greatest in the United States.
Greater New York will te as populous and
as rich as almost any State in the Union,
and the patronage at the disposal of its
officials will be enormous. The municipal
struggles of the past will be almost as
nothing compared with that which will
engage the people of the com bined city in
the contest to determine to what party or
set of men shall be entrusted the response
blity of beginning the new government
and laying the found atoms of Its future
ad administration.
Under normal conditions Greater New
York will be a Democratic city. There is,
however, large independent vote, and it
is believed that if this vote can be united
with the Republicans it will be possible to
attain com pleie Republican victory this
fall. To that end Senator Platt and the
ADLER leaders of the Republican party are
now directing their energies.
1t happens, however, that among the
independents of New York there are
large number of mugwumps who can
never com bine with any body unless they
are permitted to have their own way. 1t
is this rule or ruin element among the so
called good citizens of Greater New York
that constitutes the danger at the present
time. some of the leaders of this party
seem determined to nominate citizens
ticket senarata from the Republican ticket
although all the wiser leaders OF the party
warn them that such course would in
evitaby result in the triumph OF Tam
many Democracy.
TheIssue is one of ufficient i'm portance
to interest the whole country. If Tam
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20

Wood; "Impromptu" Chopin Roscoe Warren
Lucy; "Elegie' (Mass enet), Miss Carolyn
Boyan; recitation, selected, Mrs Alista Shedd
Langstroth; la 81 Love Thee" (Grieg), (6)
'Time Enough Nevin), Andrew Younger
Wood.
Nine. Nordica has not succeeded in making
a very lasting impression in Paris with her
Elsa in ''Lohengrin." This is an extract from
LIE Figaro's criticism: "Her appearances at
Bayreuth have given to her very exotic
talent the official and very serviceable stamp
which she was in want of before. The pubic
courteously received this artist whose style,
warm, it is true. is lacking in sincerity ana
simplicity; whose pronunciation is very de-
fective, and whose voice. although pretty
when she sings softly, is not always in tune
when she sings with force"
Il Is the fashion in Paris to give song recit-
ais OF every conceivable variety. The latest
song recital has been inaugurated by Maurice
Lefevre. He calls it "Chansons en- Crinoline,"
and in it he reviews a number of popular
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
MEN AND " OMEN.

Mrs j. C. Schaffer Of Evanston, Ill. is to pre-
sent marble bust of Miss Francis E. Willard
to the Northwestern University of which in
stitution Miss Willard is an alumpa.
Commodore Albert Kautz OF the navy, who
has just been promoted to that grade by the
President, is a bro ther of the late General
Kautz. He 1t was who succeeded in bring ring
about the first exchange of prisoners in the
Civil War.
The names in the new city government at
st. Louis sound like Reichstag rollcall Mr..
Ziegenhein is Mayor, and among the other
successful candidates for municipal offices are
Messrs. Besch, Wenneker, Reins,edler, Meier,
CAST, Gaus, Kratz Thuner and so forth.
Max Muller relates that Queen Victoria once
remarked to Tennyson that she did not mind
the stares from strangers he found so an
moving. "No, madam" the poet replied, "and
if could clap sentinel wherever liked
would not be troubled either"
Margaret Katherine Kinds, one week old on
April 6. of Portland. Me-, has a greatgreat-
grandmother, two great-grand fathers, two
great-grandmothers, two grandfathers and
two grandmothers. On her ia theirs side there
are four living generations and on her moth
er's side FIVE living generations.
Sara Bernhardts late husband, M. Damala,
was a Cretan by birth, and the actress is
strongly in sy ympathy with the Greek revolu-
tionists She calls Greece the "ethical foster
mother of France" and denounces the pow
ers for interfering with the liberation of an
oppressed race.
The eight-year-od son OF Senator Mason of
Illinois recently lost the money he had been
saving for a bicycle by the failure of the Globe
Bank in Chicago, and he asked his father by
long-distance telephone whether he was to
have wheel or not. "Well, Roderick," an
swered the Senator, "you get the indorse-
ment of your Congressman and Pll see what
l can do for YOU"
Nine. Patti, who is a wonderful housewife,
has perfect passion for linen. Her cupboards
are among the wonders of Craig-y-Nos With
innocent coquetry, Caroline, her faithful ser.
vitress of 80 years standing, has tied
up the beautiful sets of sheets, pillow
cases and towels and ta tablecioths and napkins
in pink and blue ribbons, with little upsta nd
ing bows. so the cupboard when opened re-
sembles flower garden.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
japanese Tramp Steamers Tied Up.

According to story told yesterday the
scheme to inaugurate line of japanese
steamers to compete with Pacific Mail vessels,
which has been limited for some time, was
merely scheme of some Japanese importers,
headed by Manager Ito of the said steamship
line, and has now fallen through. Ito came
here and was interviewed extensively. The
scheme was to carry goods and passengers ana
there were Intimations that Mr.. Huntington's
boats were liable to go bottom up for want OF
business Ito is now said to be lodged at q
Japanese boarding-ho while the Haki' au
Maru the first oil his tramp steamers. has BEEN
held by the Japanese Government The whol3
project, 1t is now stated was started by some
Japanese importers, who hoped to rush a lot
OF goods here before the tariff was raised.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-20
MILES A WAY.

Up at Athens at break OF dav.
Causing rift in the Greek dismay,
A message was borne to the people scared
Telling that peace was at last declared;
Peace was declared at the eak OF day,
With Uncle Sans general Nil away!
Swift few the smose from tn field of gore
Showing the battle was more.
And grass grew high where the fighters met,
And flowers In he trenches were lhckly set.
And all was calm u summer day,
With Uncle Sans general Mics away!
The first th.t he met WAS gentle maid:
How goes the battle?" he eagerly said
The maiden replied: "You ought, sir, 10 know
The trouble was ended long time ago.
He looked rather blank, and he'd nothing to say
For Uncle sans general had been Miles away.
cleveland Plain Dealer.