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SPRAGUE UNIT SYSTEM.
It's Workings Put to a Test at
Schenectady, New York.

SCHENECTADY IN. W, Aug. a.
The General Electric Company officials
are showing the workings of the
Sprague multiple unit system of con-
traction to Isaac d. Barton, general
manager, and c. B. Cornell, chief en-
gineer of the Brooklyn Elevated Rail-
way. The General Electric Company
has an experimental track for the
third track systems and six cars be-
longing to the South Side road of Chi
cago have been equipped with the nee
essary apparatus and are used for the
tests.
The cars are all equipped with the
new Sprague systems of control, by
which any car is operated from either
end by a lower or push button with
automatic return, something after the
method of the Sprague elevator. By its
application a number of cars, without
regard to sequence or heading, may be
coupled, and when so coupled instant
ly controlled from either selected end
of any car. The cars are individual in
all details.
The object is to control them so that
they can be connected together at will
and when so connected, operated from
either end. Controlling mechanism is
the seat inside the car.
Underneath each car is a small cable
terminating in a flexible end with
peculiar interlocking coupling, which,
no matter what the heading of the cars
may be, so connects the controlling
circuits that the direction at movement
of the controller on the platform al
ways produces the same movement Of
the car with regard to the track. There
is, therefore, no such thing as a head
or tail of the car.
When the Brooklyn road people had
watched the workings of the mechan-
ism the train was tested on accelera-
tio1s. Tt takes a Manhattan "L'' en-
gine twenty-five seconds to get going
at rate of fourteen miles an hour.
The test train got up a speed of twen-
ty-eight miles an hour in ten seconds,
thirty eight miles in fifteen seconds
and forty-three and a half miles in
twenty seconds. This beats all pre-
vious records in this direction.
The record-union., 1897-08-15
BASEBALL.
Results of the Games Played on
Eastern Diamonds.

| CINCINNATI, Aug. 14.-It took ten
innings to decide the game between the
Colts and Reds. The Colts tied the
score in the ninth, and won out In the
tenth. This was McPhee's day at the
League Park. Attendance, 1000. Score:
Cincinnati 8, hits Is, errors 4; Chicago
| 10, hits IA, errors 4. Batteries-Ehret.
Danmann and Peitz; Thornton and
Donahue. Umpire, O'Day.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 1.-THE game
was won in the eighth inning by the
good batting of the home team. At
tendance, 1000. Score: Pittsbuhg &.
hits, 13, errors 3; Louisville 3, hits 8,
! errors 3. Batteries-Killen and Sug-
den; Hill and Wilson. Umpire, Nc
Donald.
CLEVELAND, Aug. Thrown was
very wild, and was replaced by Young
in the third to save the game, but with
out avail. The Browns batted Young
for five earned runs in the fourth. At
tendance, 1,200. Score: Cleveland ).
hits 10, errors /; st. Louis 10, hits II.
errors 1. Batteries-Brown, Young and
thinner; Coleman, Donahue and Doug
lass. Umpire, Hurst.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Rusie held
eighth inning to-day, when four hits
assisted by the errors, gave them two
runs Attendance, 10000. Score: New
York 6, hits 10, errors 4; Boston 4, hits
Z, errors 3. Batteries-Rusie and War
ner; Lewis and Bergen. Umpires,
Lynch and Carpenter.
WASHINGTON, Aug 14-The Brook
lyns could not hit Mercer, while Dunn
was an easy proposition for the Sena-
tors. Attendance, 900. Score: Wash
ington Z, hits u, errors 2; Brooklyn 9,
hits H. errors 3. Batteries-Mercer and
Farrell; Dunn and A. Smith. Umpire,
Emslie.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14.-Balti-
more made it three straight to-day, but
only after one of the most exciting cor
tests seen on the local grounds this
season. Attendance. 4100 Score:
Philadelphia 10, hits IA, errors 8: Bal
timore II, hits 20, errors 4. Batteries
Orth and Mcfarland; Hoffer and Clark
Umpire, Kelly.
The record-union., 1897-08-15
BUSINESS REVIVALS.
Reflected Most Fcrcib1y by an
Eastern Journal

NEW YORK, Aug 1.-THE New
York "Financier" says: The bank
statement for the week ending August
18th reflects more accurately than us
ual the revival Of business The item
of loans shows a. continued expansion,
the total now being $500, 170, 500. or
S33 100000 higher than in any record
made previous to this year. In the past
month loans have increased no less than
$21 10000, and in sixty days the expan-
sion has been approximately $40, 600, :
600.
For the past week no less than thirty
nine of the sixty-ffve clearing house
banks swelled their loan totals. the Ma
tional City and Hanover leading. with a
combined increase of S3,3JS, 600 AS
there We're no special causes to account
for the fluctuations in loans other than
reviving stock exchange business. mer-
camille demands and inquiry for re-
discounts, the healthy nature of the
business which the New York banks
are doing becomes apparent.
The interior movement is almost at
a standstill, and great deal of money
is flowing out of New York in response
to the immediate needs in the South
and West. Some of this money is go
ing direct but banks i'm interior reserve
cities are supplying smaller correspond
ents with funds and will draw an their
New York balances later on. In fact,
some of them are doing so now 1t has
been a foregone conclusion that de-
mand for money would cause a rise in
rates and quotations may be expected
to reach a slightly higher level than OBJ
tanning at present.
Even a S38000,0O0 surplus reserve
must shrink rapidly in the face of heavy
local borrowing and losses to the in
terror. On the other hand, there is no
The record-union., 1897-08-15
INDIAN BASEBALL.
Choctaw Bucks Try Their Hand at
the National Game.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. IA big
crowd was drawn to Fairmount Park to
witness a game of Indian baseball
between the two mines composed = of
Choctaw bucks from Eagle County, In
dian Territory.
The game proved disappointment,
lacking excitement, even though it was
played by Indians who participated in
the game in Red River County. In
dian Territory, a few days ago, which
resulted in the killing of one brave
and the manning of eighteen others
The bucks to-day wore no uniforms.
and the contending mines, the Reds and
the Blues, We're distinguishable only
by bits of colOred cotton cloth wrapped
about the sticks, which were on the
order Of those used by lacrosse play
ers. Two of the players discarded all
clothing but trousers.
The game, which proved to be much
on the order of lacrosse, was finished in
about twenty minutes, and resulted in
a victory Q2 to s. for the Reds. The
spectators insisted on more play. but
this they did not get until each of the
eighteen bucks had been paid 81 to
go on with the contest.
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BICYCLE MEET.
A Large Crowd Attends the Races
at Wayelry, N. j.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Between s.
600 and 5000 people attended the Ma
tional circuit bicycle meet under the
management of the Atlantic Wheelmen
at the Weverley track Waverly, N. j.,
this afternoon.
Tnirty-five men started in the five
mile handicap for professionals, and
after the first mile two of them drop
ped out. Mertens, Butler Starbuck and
Gardiner were the scratch men. Nat
Butler won from Becker, who was on
the 1OO-yad mark, by a half wheel
The one mile, open for professionals,
was won by Bald, who made one of his
wonderful finishes, beating Mertens by
a wheel. Kiser did not start in any
of the events, as he was suffering from
a cold.
The one-third mile, amateur national
championship, was won by E. w. Pea
body of Chicago. Summarizes of profess
sional events:
Half mile, handicap, professional,
final heat won by c. S. Wells, San
Francisco 60 yards); c. r. Newton,
Stafford Springs, Conn. GO yards), sec
ond; w. Coleman, Cambridgeport,
Mass. co yards), third; Bald (scratch)
fourth Time-0:5S 40
One-third mile, amateur national
championship, won by f. w. Peabody,
Chicago. Time-0:42 1-5.
One mile, open, professional. won by
Bald, Mertens second, Gardiner third,
Cooper fourth. Time-2:0S14
One mile, open, amateur, final heat
won by I. A. Powell, New York Time
2:17 1-5.
Five-mile handicap, professional, won
by Nat Butler (scratch, w. E. Becker
200 yards) second, Arthur Gardiner
(scratchl third, B. Oldfeld Toledo Q5O
yards), fourth. Time-11:31 3-5.
The record-union., 1897-08-15
WHOLE NO. 17,472.

longer any doubt that gold importations
VIII begin soon, perhaps before the end
OF this month. This WILL of course con-
stitute an extra supply of funds and
may supply some of the losses that
otherwise might occur. Foreign bank
ers do not attempt to estimate the to-
tai of this falls imports, but private
opinion places it at $50,000,0O0 All
the gold will be drawn out this year, as
last, for boarding, but will go largely
into the treasury. 1t is expected in this
connection that the banks of New York
hold only 100000 less gold than le-
gal tenders. The present total of $92,
612,300 is $45,000,000 larger than re-
ported just one year ago. With an act
i've market this fall and winter, gold
may be forced into circulation, both
from the treasury and from the banks.
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Pan-American Conference.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-President
Mckinley is said to be IN favor of an
other Pan-American Conference, to
meet in 1900 This subject is to be one
of the first discussed Immediately after
the vacation period is over. 1t will
come up in connection with negotia-
tions which were attempted by the fea-
ture Of the Dingley tariff bill.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-04
A VillainOus Suggestion

The following is an extract
from an address made before the
State Liquor League of Ohio:
"The success of our business is
largely dependent on the creation
of an appetite for drink. Men who
drink liquor, like others, viii die,
and if there is no new appetite
created, our counters will be emp
ty, as will our Golfers. After men
have grown, and their habits are
formed, they rarely change in
that respect. 1t is therefore need
full that missionary work be done
among the boys. l make the sug-
gestion that nickels expended in
treats to the boys now will re-
turn in dollars to your tills after
the appetite has been formed.
Above all things, create appe-
tite.''
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No % Daily from Gainesville, Live Oak
f:5o,Pa Waycross, Savannah. Mo tgomery
ana eli ointS n-rti, east and west, also from
Jackso lviile and Pala.ka-
No 80 D=ilv from Pert Tampa, Tampa.
100 AN lakeland, Punta Gorda- Barlow,
Fitzgerald. eesburg End IL points sou-h This
train carries through slee. er from Port Tampa
TO New York via Ocala.
No 7S Daily from Leesburg. Fitzgerald.
las Brooksville, Tnlby, T-rpon Springs.
Clearwater, ST. Petersburg, Lakel nd, Tampa
and Port ampe, and daily ex~eIt Sunday from
Eustis, ymatii a and Astor nd Barlow, Punta
Gorda and intermediate stations
No. 81 Daily except Sunday from Homo
Gas N sssss, Cry stat and Ia teImediate points
No. IS Daily from Juliette, Newberry Ar
5:25 N cher and al points north. east and
west, and from istacha;ta, Fora! CITY. Inverness
and al POINTS south.
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No. % Daily, for Leeshurg, Fitzgerald
2:1OPM Trilby. Lakeland, Tampa ard all in
mediate stations.
10 7S Daily for Gainesville. Lake City,
2:O5 M Live Oak, Savannah and all roints
north. east ard west. Connection st Roche le
for Palatka, Jacksonville and all intermediate
St.tionS.
No. 81 Daily for G. iresviIle, live Oak
1870 Am WaycroSs. Montgomery, Savannah,
h.'leSaon, ard I'll points north. east and west
his tram car les through slee. CT from Port
IamFa TO New York. via Ocala, Gainesyil c, S2-
vannah and Charleston.
No. 80 Daily for Tu,iette AMI al stations
2:O5 noon n:Ith 20 High Springs and south
10 Trilby.
No. IS Daily except Sunday for CRYSTAL ard
z 20 HcmosasS3. Com ecis az Juliette With
fast mail fer Tampa and the south.
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Take *: PLANT SYSTEM Fi F,,a as
SCHEDULE EFFECT JUNE 6,l
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS AT OCALA

No. rs leaving Ocala at 2:05 solid connecting
Waycross with Pullman sleeping
Louis Montgomery and & r. Waycross Nashville via
Macon and and Waycross to New York
Atlantic Rail-
Nashville direct connection with the Chicago Limited Ve
bule solid through
Cincinnati Chicago
Gainesville and High Springs carries Pullman sleeping
through New without change Richmond,
and PHILADELPHIA connecting Washington with the Old
Colonial Boston without change
at Waycro through Nashville Montgomery
without change Direct connection Montgomery
New Orleans at Birmingham Memphis
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state.
Sec. IS. All apartments where
there are contagious diseases will
be placarded as follows:
Diphtheria-White card;
Scarlet Fever-Red card;
Measles-Blue card;
Yellow Fever-Yellow card;
with the name of the disease print
ed on the card.
SEC. 70. The following periods
Of quarantine Of infectious and
contagious diseases will be OBJ
served, unless under the provisions
hereof otherwise ordered by the
Board of Health:
SmalI-pox-Thr ee weeks from
the commenCement CT the disease
if every scab mas fallen off.
Diphtheria-Six weeks from the
commencement Of the disease if
sore throat and other sign Of the
disease have disappeared.
Scarlet Fever-Six weeks from
| the commencement of the disease
if the pceling off has ceased and
there is no sore nose or throat.
Measles-Three weeks from the
commencement Of the disease If
all rash and the cough has ceased.
Mumps Three weeks from the
commencement Of the disease if all
swelling has subsidized.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-14
THE WAR IN CUBA.

The Cuban insurgents are again at
tracing notice. News has just come
of one of the most important victories
they have yet gained. Gen. Weyler
finds fighing all around him in what
he has reported as his newly pacified
province.
Cuba seems to be likely to receive
more recognition than has yet been ac-
corded to her by this country. The
news from Washington is as follows:
The report of Consul General Lee
was received Tuesday evening.
and its contents were orally transmit
ed to the Senate committee on foreign
relations Wednesday morning.
The report was discussed by the
committee Oh foreign relations and 4
committee of three Senators was az
pointed to confer with the President
without delay. The committee con-
sists Of Chairman Davis, of Minnesota;
Ex-Chairman Morgan, Of Alabama,
and Senator Foraker, of Ohio.
When the Senate met Senator Nor
gan requested that his resolution pro
viding for recognition of the independ-
ance of the Cuban Republic by this
country should 90 over There was
no objection to the request. 1t was
generally understood on the floor of
the Senate that an important commu-
nication had been received from Gen
eral Lee, and that it was to be discuss
cd in private at the Executive Man
sion.
The committee went to the White
House. There they read the full re-
port and remained with the President
for more than half an hour. Upon
their return to the Senate the mem
bers of the committee were discreetly
nen-committal Senator Morgan said.
however: ~ hive seen no reason re-
Gently to change my opinion that this
country should no longer endure the
conditions existing in Cuba. The
sooner we take action the better will it
he for our reputation among civilized
nations"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-14
HORSEM ANSHIP RENINlNG.

Horseback riding as Il source of health
and pleasure is scarcely appreciated now
adays as it deserves to be, says the Balti
more SIM. Even in many country dis
tricts the bicycle Las been rapidly super
seding the horse in popularity for riding
purposes, while in the cities and suburban
territory, little goody twowheels has hun
dred riders to one which our four footed
friend can claim. Enthusiastic cyclers
have even predicted the absolute disap-
pearance of the horse as motive power
in the not distant future, when with per-
feet roads and streets everything and
everybody will go on wheels. That time
may possibly come, but not until there is
a radical change in human nature. The
love of a good horse is deeply implanted
in the human heart, and though the bicy
Gle has its place and its uses, machine
cannot meet exactly the same wants or
serve precisely the same purpose as liv
capable of understanding and sympathiz-
ing with the mind and moods of his rider.
The benefit of horseback riding can scarce
ly be overestimated. Muldoon, the great
athlete, who his made study of the COM
parative value of the various forms of ex-
e:cise, places horseback riding as among
the very best to restore to health tagged
and wornout constitutions. For pure and
simple exhilaration-as means of driv-
ing away mental clouds as well as physi-
cal ills-it has no superior. With the
breeding of better class of horses in this
country and the natural admiration and
interest stimulated by yearly exhibitions
of fine animals, the riding horse is likely
in time to regain large part of his popu-
larlty and prestige.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-14
GREECE ACCEPTS.

The Greco Turkish war cannot last much
longer if the pacific dispatches from
Athens represent the determination of
the Greek government. These dispatches
state that Greece has, in effect, acceded
to the demand of the powers that she
shall reinquish all claims to Crete and
has agreed to place her interests In the
hands of the powers in the belief that
they will secure for her from Turkey
favorable terms of peace. What these
terms will be it is of course, too early TO
say but there is talk of an indemnity OF
81 ,000, 900. a strategic rectlhcatlon OF inc
Thessalonian frontier a cancellation OF
the right of Greeks i'll Turkey to be tired
by Greek fleet and the withdrawal OF
Greek pretensions to Crete. 1t is also
stated that the Sultan will not claim any
indemnity, believing that the war was
forced upon King George and that he
will treat direct with the Greek govern
ment.
If Lord Salisbury's account of the stu
ation-given to Parliament Monday In
answer to acknowledgements the sltua-
ton at Athens in its latest phase, the
prospect of Immediate peace is less favor
able than the press dispatches from
Athens seem to indicate. The Greek
government, he says has net asked for
mediation, and does not intend, he thinks
as government, to ask for it. Members
of the cabinet as individuals have ex-
pressed IA desire for mediation, but such
requests afford no basis for action by the
powers. The Greek mind has not yet
reached the point of promising to with
draw the Greek troops from Crete i'm
mediately-an indispensable condition. 1t
wishes peace now instead of war, but still
wants all that Greece went to war to get.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-14
NiRHLAND MATTE RS.

The strawberry crop of Somerset is
short
There was slight fire in Wicomlco
county jail.
No war vessels will he sent to Annapolis
for graduation week.
large number of cottages are building
at Blue Ridge Summit.
There is said TO be Il decrease of S2o0,000,
in the tax basis of Cecil county
The peach crop in the Blue mountain
district is now reported uninjured.
In Washington county there was a
killing frost Saturday morning.
Frank Foreaker, who escaped from the
Cecil county jail, was recaptured.
Examinations for admission to the
Naval Academy will begin May II.
The centennial celebration of Charlotte
Hall School will take place June "a.
About hundred students from the
Woman College visited Annapolis Satur'
day.
The Peter Gather damage suit is expect
ed to be tried in Hagerstown the last of
May
A dwelling belonging to Fritz Herzog,
in Mont gomery county, was burned on
Monday.
NJ c. Boone. pattcrnmaker at the Naval
Academy, who is a democrat, is in danger
of removal.
A requisition for arms for the naval
militia has been sent to the Secretary OF
the Navy.
The Middle Conference of the Mary
land Lutheran Synod began at Burkitts-
vile Monday.
Miss TAYLOR, of Williamsport, who had
her throat cut by an assailant, is III an
improved condition.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Taneytown
which has recently been remcdeled, was
rededcated Sunday
Removal of workmcn, made, it is said,
for political causes, are taking place at
the Naval Academy.
The Reformed Church in Frederick will
celebrate its one hundred and tiftiet h
anniversary May 18th to rs.
Mrs Mary Hadra, while trying to stop
the elopement of her daughter, was struck
by locomotive in Cumberland and badly
hurt, on Monday.
The Frederick aldermen find difficulty
in borrowing money in Frederick for the
increased water supply on account Of the
construction the banks put on the law.
In Quneen Anne's county negro man
was sentenced to the whipping post for
wife beating and Il member of the bar was
presented for obtaining money by false
pretenses.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-14
ABOUT THE LIBERTY BELL

The people of Tennessee says the Phil
adelphia Times are holding grand Expo
sition in conn noration of their round
ed out century of Statehood. and it has
attracted very general attention through
out the country, as the people of that
State, and especially the enterpriscing cit :
Zens of Nashville, have fitted up the EX-
position gounds and buildings on Il mag
nificent scale for the display of all the
varied products of the United States. The
Exposition opened last week wi h mpos
ing ceremonies and it gives every prom
Use of more than ordinarily successful
enterprise.
A call has been made upon Philadcl-
phia to send the old liberty bell to the
Nashville Exposition, and as usual tt e
r, q lest inspire; earnest discussion. Pro
tests come from many because of the peril
to the old bell by the accidents common
to transportation, but when it is remen
bered that the perils of transportation
have been reduced to the minimum by our
great railway lines, there is little reason to
apprehend danger to the old bell by send
ing it to grace the Tennessee Exposition.
We sent the bell to the New Orleans
Exposition IA dozen years ago, when the
perils of travel were much greater than
now. Later we sent it to the Chi
cago Exposition, and since then to the
Atlanta Exposition. and ut each of these
places it was one of the greatest of the
many attractions presented. 1t is an OBJ
iect of interest to all classes, conditions
and sections, and in no way could Phla-
delphia show her appreciation of the Ten
nesSee Exposition more than by sending
the old liberty bell there for the season.
The distance to Nashville is no greater
than to Atlanta or Chicago, and the best
equipped railroads of the continent would
be used in transporting it there. True,
there is always peril in railway travelling
but not half SO much as i'll any of the many
private modes of conveyance which seem
to the public to be safe. The risk is so
intinitesimal that it is hardly worth con
sidering, and it would be generous act
of Justice to the people of Tennessee
for Philadelphia to send the old liberty
bell to aid her Exposition.
The history of Tennessee is one of the
most interesting of any of the States add
ded to the Union since the adoption OF the
Federal Constitution. Its records are
amongst the most heroic it has furnished
three Presidents to the Union; if furnish
ed the first President to the Republic of
Texas. and the names of Houston and
Crockett are indisSloublv interviewer in
in the romantic achievements for liberty
in the Southwestern portion of the CONT
nent.
The Exposition is to commemorate "A
great event; Il century of Statehood that
was founded in the wilderness. 1t is not
a mere industrial Exposition, as was that
ofAtlanta or as was that of New Orleans,
and it would be an unjust discrimination
against the people of Tennessee to refuse
their request to have the inspiration of
the old liberty bell for their grand Expo
sition of centurys progress in civiliza
ton and industrial progress