Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-02-27
MORE PUCS ARRIVE.
How the Great Building is Being
Constructed.

mysterious Billy Smith, arrived. HI
Was greeted by a crowd Of sports bu'
crack fighters are coming in here
now so rapidly that their arrival does
not excite much at ,raction. Tonor
row. Bill Davis, about the Oldest pugi
list that will be in Carson during thu
light, is expected to arrive. He is q
veteran Of the old school and at one
time fought Mike McCool in ST. Louis
Tor the championship Of the = world
After the match he was arrested and
sent to Jail for 80 days for issuing a
challenge iD Missouri. His time ex.
pired two days before the mill and i,
was supposed hat having had nc
training he would forfeit. He sur
prlsed everybody by appearing in the
ring on time and gave McCool a 6s
round battle before he went out. q feat
pronounced by the press at the time
as the gamest exhibition of courage
ever known in the annals of the ring.
McCeo was then in his prime and in
the pink OF condition, but he nearly
lost the championship Of the world
on that dav. Old Davis was once in
Japan as mate of a vessel, and Minis
ter belong, who knew him in Vir-
ginia City. placed him in charge of
an opium seizure. Bill was offered
100000 to leave the vessel but his
word had gone to DeLong and when
the price had been raised $4,000 everv
every hour until it reached $4,000 be
sert a messenger to belong at 2
O'CLOCK In the morning. DeLong got
out of bed and Davis said to him:
For God sake, stay here and brace
me up. I've been offered $50, 900 to
leave the place two hours and I'm
only getting $50 a month and fear I
can't stand another round with these
d bribers. A forty thousand blow
under the belt might knock me out"
When Dan Stuart heard this story
he ordered a wire sent to Bill to come
up and take the position of night
Watchman in the store-room at the
track, and thus the old man will have
a chance to see n more great big
battle before he quits.
The people who nave sized up Green
think he is not in the best of condition
and hat he will have a terrible bat
tie when he falls up against Billy
Hawkins is regarded as in better
shape but then the town is SO full Of
people who seem to make a special
of sizing up fighters, that
but little attention is paid to what
they say, no more, in fact, than to
periodical rumors that the big fight
ls liked All sorts of reports crop
up, originating from no where in par
tlcular, regarding the way the fight
has been fixed, but no one with
ordinary sense places the slightest
stock in them. The fight is worth
100000 to the winner and no n
could afford to fix a fight when so
much is at stake. Corbett, if he fails
loses everything and his prestape
gone forever Fitz has everything TO
gain and if he loses he is still the un-
disputed champion of the middle
weight class. or the grim determi-
latlon OF each man to win there can
no question. Rumors put in cir
to influence betting are all
discounted by the sporting fraternity
"ho are in a position to know that
he fight will be the most holly con-
ested one in the annals of the RING
julian a somewhat recovered
rom h first shock OF his mothers
leath and the kindly expression OF
ympathy from the Corbett camp has
'een received in the same kindly
plrit that prompted them to be sent.
zone outside of Mr.. Julian's family
egret his affliction more than Cor
'ett and the people with him and on
very side the expressions Of sy,n-
attn are hearty and spontaneous.
Under the management of MI.
)onahue, the architect and c1nt,actor
1e big building is rising as if bv
lagic. He has an army Of men at
'ork and it reminds one of the scrip ,
ial pictures n sees OF the buildinp ;
the W Of Babe. All kinds of (
len are put on at prices ranging s
ON 50 SO. So so and 81 90 a dav. ac- {
to the skill of the men en-. ,
Men who come in as first o
ass carpenters work just about ten 3
Inutes before Donahue has them q
zed up and the men who come in as
oss carpenters and turn Out to he ;
lily roustabouts. are soon leveled \
to the place where they belong T
ID II they don't like it they can take Il
walk up town. The man who y