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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-15

Youths Companion.

A man who owned a bicycle, model 1893,
worth $125 when new, tried recently to trade
it at an agency. To his disgust he was Of
fered S.. Finally the bicycle was given to
away. The lad gave it one look and left
without the bicycle. Something had hap
pened, for in five years the wheel had de-
precated in value S125. Something, too, has
Within less than ten years after the intro
duction of the safety bicycle its manufac-
ture assumed enormous proportions. E.v-
erybody rides" From eight thousand to
ten thousand wheels are now used in some
cities of fifty thousand inhabitants
Notwithstanding this extraordinary bust
ness opportunity scores of manufacturers
have lately become bankrupt, most of them
the companies which have become seriously
embarrassed can be so characterized. One
company, making celebrated wheel, is in
a receivers hands, although in one of its
last prosperous years it cleared almost half
a million dollars in profits.
The reason is obvious. Under the regime
of high prices there was extravaganza of
management by makers that could i'll afford
tin expensive agencies, ornamental adver-
Using, long guarantees Then hundreds of
new factories were opened and the market
became glutted.
prices, thus inviting extra competition, and
last year the break came later than it
should have come If the trade was not to
be demoralized. The SIPS wheel fell to SIS,
after the season was well advanced, yet
thousands of bicycles remained unsold when
the season closed
This year extravagances have been Topped
off department stores are more used as
selling agents, and prices have been still
further reduced although the most nicely
finished chain wheels still sell for $50 or SIS.
The bicycle Industry is now in a state of
transition, and the makers who have sur
vived the golden age" are coming down
to a hard business level.
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VICTORY FOR HARVARD.
Yale Defeated in the Dual Athletic
Games on Holmes Field.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 14.-The Har-
vard-Yale dual games which were held on
Holmes Field to-day resulted in a victory
for Harvard by a score of ffty-six points
to forty-eight. Three dual records those
in the mile run, broad jump and pole vault,
were broken, the mile run being also a new
Harvard record. The result of the games
was in doubs till the last Harvard's un-
expected winning of all eight points in the
high jumps being the decisive points.
Three dead heats We're run, one being by
Captain Bigelow and Conway in the pre-
liminary heat of the hundred-yard dash and
the others being Fish, of Harvard, and
Fisher of Yale. for first place in the
quarter-mile, and between HaIlowelI, of
Harvard, and Captain Perkins of Yale, for
third place in the hurdles. Nickerson, the
Harvard freshman who made the new
record in the broad jump was the surprise
of the afternoon. Summaries:
One-hundred-yard dash: First heat won
by f. J. Green, Harvard in 10 2-5 seconds;
second heat won by A. w Robinson, Har,
ward, in 10 1-5; final hea@ won by A. w.
Robinson, Harvard, in 10 is.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES yard hurdle:
First heat won by E. C. Perkins, Yale,
in :16 Is; final heat Won by E. C. Perkins,
Yale, in :16 1-5.
Four hundred nd-forty-yards run: Dead
beat between II. III. Fish, Harvard and T.
r. Fisher, Yale, in 81
One-mile-run: Won by D. Grant Har-
ward, in 4:26 Is
Two huadred- nd-twenty-yar hurdles:
First heat won by +. f. Morse, Harvard,
in 26 10; second heat won by j. w. Halo
we'll, Harvard. in 26 3-5; final heat won by
J. L. Bremen. Harvard, in 20 2-5.
northumberland run: Won
by c. +. Ordway. Yale, in 2:H
wo-hundred-and twenty-yard dash: First
heat won by. E. J. Green, Harvard, in
20 Is; second heat Won by c. c.. Conway,
Yale, in % 3-5. final heat won by c. j.
Gleason, Yale in 30 is.
Shot putting: Wor by E. f. ODonnell.
Yale. Distance. 40 feet 515 inches
Height, II feet inches.
High jump: Won by a. N. Rice, Harvard
Height, 3 feeS liza inches.
Broad jump Won by A l.. Nickerson,
Harvard. Distance, % feet 10 inches.
Throwing the hammer: WOE by w. D.
Hennen, Harvard. Distance, 122 feet 10
inches.
Two-mile bicycle race: First heat won by
J. II. Wear Yale, in 5:15; second heat won
by r. B. Hoard, Yale. in 6:22 3-5; final heat
won by w. McCuteheon, Yale, in 9:45 2-5.
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Results by points
Cyc1er Cooper Wins a Prize.

NEW YORK, May 14.-Bike racing
opened up in earnest to-day at the National
Cycledrome. Ambrose Park, Brooklyn, with
the spring meet of the Riverside Wheelmen
When the racing begun there were about
1900 persons present. The one-mile
professional handicap brought out many
of the fastest riders in the world. In
the first heat the Italian, De Marini
set the pace, but soon had to drop
out. In the sprint for wire John
Johnson won the heat by one-half a
wheel. In the second heat Freeman rode
away from the others. Jaap Eden, of Hol-
land, coming in second. In the final Free
man won by length and Eden took Sec
ond. The event of the day was the one
mile scratch professional for the $1,000 cup
and an income of $25 per week as long as
the winner retains possession of the tro-
ply Three men started in each heat The
final heat was narrowed down to Robert
son, Cooper and Freeman. Cooper took
The lead, but Freeman came around on the
outside and won by several feet. Jimmy
Michael was loudly cheered when he made
his appearance for his fve-mile paced ex-
hbition. Two quads and tandem made
the pace. He did not lower his record.
His time was 9,5S,
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National League
A GARRISON FINISH.
Champions Won the Second Game at
Columbus i'm One Inning.

champions Won the Second GA me at
Columbus i'm One Inning.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, o., May IA grand bat
ting rally by the champions team in the
eighth inning won for them d game this
afternoon that looked to be lost up to that
time. For seven innings Wadsworth, the
twirler recently released by Detroit, pitched
magnificent ball, and, as he was accorded
perfect support, not a visitor scored until
the eighth inning. Then the Indianapolis
crowd planted the necessary hits at the
right time and disappointed crowd of Co
lumbus. rooters filed out of the park. 1t was
pretty and cleanly played game all the
way through, with fast work by the pitch
ers as well as the fielders. Dammann reap
peared in the box for Indianapolis and was
we'll supported In the first inning Mertes
opened with hit, took second on Hulen's
sacrifice, stole third and scored on Kahoe's
low throw to Hoffmeister. In the fifth in
ming Mertes hit for two bases, reached third
on Hulen's sacrifice and scored on Lally's
single. Deadly fumbled Lallys hit, the lat
ter taking two bases, and that was the only
error of the game, barring Kahoe's wild
throw. Flynn banged one up against the
left field fence in the eighth for two bases
and Dammann sent him in with a single
down past first base. Hogriever sacrificed
and Deady's stingy single put Dammann on
third, from which he scored when Hoff-
meister flew out to Mertes. Motz singled
and Stewart followed with a two-bagger,
scoring Deadly and Motz, Aliens out at
first ending the game, Columbus could
do nothing In the ninth
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THE VALUE OF CUBA.
A Rich Bit of the Earth Whose People
Need CiviIizing.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times
is Cuba worth fighting for?" Major John
M. Burke was asked.
Commercially, yes" he answered, ION ac-
count of its proximity to the United States,
being as near to our continent as Philadel-
phia is to New York. 1t runs about seven
hundred miles in length and in parts is $50
miles wide. There is no doubt but what it is
the richest spot Of earth on the globe. Porto
Rico isSsimply a paradise. The strategic
Importance of Cuba has been recognized by
all our secretaries of state, and public men
of foresight since the establishment of our
government, and while continental Europe
may kick at the Monroe doctrine it has
only been the Monroe doctrine that has pre-
vented this nation overlooking it's own well
ware, and not appropriating Cuba long ago.
Practical politics and common sense would
have acquired 1t years and years gone by.
1t is so close to the United States that the
character of the wounded insurgents who
are with us is an establishment to every one
who meets them. When / was boy in 1857,
and went to st. Mary's College, Wilmington,
Del, there We're IN that institution forty
bans have been educated in the United
States. You can find them at Saratoga,
New York, and all our watering places dur
native Cubans have residences in the United
States. AS the racial conditions of Califor-
MIA since 1S49 have been almost entirely OBJ
liberated and also those in Elorida-so much
quicker on account Of the antipathy to
Spanish methods, will Cuba assimilate to
AmericaniSm. In twenty years the Spanish
on Cuban soil.
THE island has had about million and
a half of inhabitants, but is capable of sus-
tanning ten millions from its natural re-
sources, who would become patrons of our
manufactures. At the present time it is es
timated to be worth $500, 100000 to us, as its
trade is over $150,000000 a year when prop
erly handled 1t is so near the United
States that the echo of battle there could
be heard. The cries of oppression are so
close to us that they grated upon our ears.
while our philanthropists were sympathiz-
ing with Crete and the Armenians. And
the oppression of the Spaniard has been so
rapacious and the hygienic laws have been
violated to such an extent that it has been
a neighboring danger of pestilential disease
and yellow fever that, through proper at
tention TO it's natural conditions, could be
prevented. The corruption of the govern
Ing classes. mostly dead-broke adventurers,
has been such that legitimate business has
been stified and bribery and trickery alone
thrived. On the score of humanity 10 was
our duty to interfere. AS to the inhabitants,
they are not over 20 per cent. negroes, and
these are impregnated with a great deal OF
Indian blood. and have aspirations thai. do
them great credit. Many of the dark-fea-
tured people Of Cuba that are classed as
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city. half Spanish half Oriental in aspect
The suburbs are perfect bowers of cult
of artistic design. Some of the finest drive
ways in the world are there. And talk
about drivingi The natives would go with
out food before they would sacrifice an OPP
portunity to get up behind a nag. Every
evening it is a great sight in Manila TO see
the turnouts on the broad driveways. Traps
OF all kinds are pressed into service, from
swell carriages of American or European
make to domestic affairs of sublime sim
plicity and primitiveness. And the variety
of the steeds used to propel them is as re-
markable. There are blooded stock from
abroad for the foreigners and rich natives
and diminutive but spirited little native
in this worlds goods Nobody with any
pretensions to being somebody is afoot at
this time, and even the frugal, hated Chi
nese feel themselves called upon to indulge
the luxury of a drive"
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Baseball Notes.

When the champions get home Tuesday
Dammann and Mcfarland will be with
them.
The Indianapolis team will be home Tues
day to meet the western clubs, Omaha be-
ing the first to play here. Chauncey Fisher
and his team will furnish good sport for
four days and be followed by Kansas City,
Minneapolis and st. Paul in the order
named.
After releasing the big pitcher, President
Colt, of the Indianapolis club, notified
Knepper that his services were still in de-
mand, recalling the release. Colt evidently
thought that Knepper was a good man to
hang on to if Columbus intended to sign,
and will farm him out during the remainder
of the season. Youngstown claims to have
signed Knepper, and if they have it is
through consent of the Indianapolis club.
Columbus Journal.
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A GUN is SHORT LIVED.
1T Is Sent Back to the shop After the
One Hundredth Firing.

Washington Evening Star.
1.-THE life of gun is one Of the most I'M
satisfactory things about it,, remarked an
ordnance officer, in discussing the war ques-
ton, land, though number of experiments
have been made in connection herewith,
there is no absolute certainty as to the re-
suits A general rule has been arrived at
which is thought to be on the safe side or
the matter, and that is that the modern
hundred times. After that, 1t matters not
what the emergency may be, it is safer 10
dsmantle the gun and send 1t back 10 Inc
shop than to risk firing it, for the explo-
sion of a gun is a decidedly and extensively
dangerous occurrence to all in its immediate
locality. The firing Of gun causes the
steel to crystalline and thereby become brit
tie as a file. So far as has yet been discov-
cred, there is no remedy for it. 1t is not
exactly total loss after a gun has become
dead for the steel can be used for thousands
of things in the way Of bolts, braces and
the like for new work and for repairs.
A modern gun is an expensive affair, run
ming from $75 600 way up. 1t is equally ex-
pensive to keep it in operation the cost tor
each cartridge sent from It being over $lVU,
which does not include the puttlng OF the
gun on its emplacement or taking 1t down,
nor the thousands of dollars necessarily ex-
pended in paying salaries and subsistence
Of the oeTs and Of eh the metal Is one Of
the mysteries of the science of ordnance.
The gun could be revivifed to some extent
by heating it to white heat and allowing
it to cool off slowly, but the treatment is
not exactly satisfactory or even approx
mateIy certain as to results. 1t has been
said of us as of other nations that If we
kept every gun we own in actual firing OPP
GRAFTON for even twenty-four hours the pow
der and shell bill would bankrupt u.s. and
there is some truth in it. This crystaliza-
ton of the metal is not confined to guns.
however. The same thing occurs in the
journals or axles used on the railroad cars.
1t is for that reason that careful railroads
put on new axles every five or six years.
In Europe there are laws upon the subject,
though il is custom with us. In Germany
it is unlawful to use an axle on passenger
cars more than four years, though the lin
itation on freight cars IS not so rigid. AS
with the oft-f1red gum the steel in the jour-
nal becomes so brittle by the capitalization
in consequence OF it's use that ii is liable
to snap in a dozen pieces any time after
it's life is ended
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A Pair of Home Runs.

BOSTON, May 14-Free batting and bril-
liant catches by Sheckard and Long were
features of to-day's game. Home runs by
Hamilton and Klobedanz won the game for
Boston. Attendance, 1900. Score:
r. III. E.
Brooklyn .....1 1 0 1-5 10 8
Batteries-Klobedanz and Bergen; Ken
nedy and Ryan. Three-base hit-Yeager.
GONE runs-Tucker, Klobedanz, Hamilton.
Double plays-Shindle, Hallman and Tucker;
Long aeHg and Tenney; Collins, Long and Ten
off klobedanz, 4. Struck out-By Kennedy,
l.. Time-1.42. Umpires-Snyder and Curry.
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I. U. Defeats R. p. 1.
to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 14-Indiana
easily defeated Rose Polytechnic here to-
day. Up to the seventh the visitors scored
but one run, getting it on a passed ball by
c. Harris. Whitley pitched six innings in
splendid style. allowing only one hit. In the
seventh Kohler was put in for Indiana and
allowed four hits in the remaining three
innings. Indiana did some loose playing in
the eighth and ninth, allowing six runs to
cross the rubber. Trumbo, for r. p. L.
was hit freely. In the fifth Moore for In
diana, hit line drive over center for a
home run. Score:
Indiana .........0 3 100 O-12
r. p. I................0 0 0 0 g.
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Cleveland Leader.
Little Horace-Pa, where they are two
babies born at wunst what do they call
them?
Pa-Twins-
Little Horace-And what are they when
they are three?
Pa-Triplets.
Little Horace-what are they when there
are four Of EN-?
Pa-Quadruplets.
Little Horace-What are they when there
are five?
Pa-Then they are too blamed many for
any family that wants to so in good So
ciety.
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Interstate que.

At Fort Wayne RHE.
Dayton ........0 0 0 0 So IL 3
Fort Wayne...1 0 0 3 0 0-5 II 3
Batteries-Brown and Donahue; Patter-
son, Alloway and Campbell
At Toledo RHE
Toledo ....,...1 3 0 8 0 9-19 20 5
New Castle 20 2 0 0 0-9 8 2
Batteries - Ewing and Arthur; Morgan,
Smith and Barley.
AT Mansfield R.HE
Mansfield al 8 0 1 2-2O 81 8
youngstown g 0 0 2 O. 6 II 5
Batteries-Miller and Belt; Brodie, Garv-
cry and Patterson.
AT Grand Rapids Mich r. H E.
Grand Rapids.0 l 5 0 0 O-S IL /
Springfield 80 0 0 0 0 0 2 o. 5 8
Batteries-Campbell and Cote; Dolan and
GraffiuS.
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Rough Treatment of Colonies.

CINCINNATI, o.. May 1.-THE Colonies
were unable to hit Hill to-day. Frazer was
forced to retire after the third inning. At
tendance, $500. Score:
r. H. E.
Cincinnati 81 2 0 o o 81 12 /
Louisville .....0 0 0 0 Ii
Batteries-Hill and PETIT; Ehret, Frazer
ana wilson. Earned runs-Cincinnati, a.
,TrWo-base hits-Peitz 81, Hill, Clingman
Three-base hits-McBride, Mcfarland. First
base on balls-Off Frazer, 2 Hit by pitcher
by Hill, l; by Frazer, 1. Struck out-By
HUI, l; by Ehret l. Wild pitch-Hill. Time
-l:45. Umpires-Cushman Heydler.
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BOSTON. May fiddle McDuffie won
easily his first competitive race of the sea-
son from Fred ]. Titus on the Charles River
Park track this afternoon at distance of
fifteen miles, for purse of $500, and be-
sides made new worlds records. 1t was the
first track event of the newly organized Ma
tionai Cycling Track Association, and the
pacing talent included the most prominent
OF professional cyclers. McDuffie broke the
worlds record, made by Michael, for the
distance by five and one-fifth seconds. and
besides made new records from five
miles up.
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ST. LOUIS, May 14.-The spring and
summer meeting of the st. Louis Fair As
ISOLATION opened here to-day with at least
10000 people present notwithstanding the
counter attraction of the celebration given
I'm honor of Admiral Dewey. Big fields were
the rule, but the track was fetlock deep in
mud and the going was slow. Three favor
ties out of the six were winners. The In
augural stakes, at one mile, worth $1,000 to
the winner was the big event OF the day.
Summary:
Fourth Race-Inaugural handicap. value
s., 600; one mile. What-er-Lou, 102 (Foucon),
to l and to 2 won; Harry Duke, 107
CFreeman), s to 1 and 3 to l, second; DR..
Sheppard, us IN. Turner), to l. third.
Time 1:45 FervOr The Elector, Buckvidere,
Imp. Skate, Judge Steadman, Zarina and
Timemaker slso ran.
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We Pay
Your Fare

All persons coming to Indianapo-
lis, from any point in Indiana, on
the half.fare railroad tickets that
will be on sale MAY 10, II, Is and
10, and MAY "a and IS, will have
their railroad fare refunded by the
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Baltimore 10 2 5 Q 1 o L o oil is Q
Philadelphia A 0 0 2 liz Is 2
Giants Getting LUCKY.

NEW YORK, May 14-The Senators were
unable to bunch their hits except in the sew
enth, while the Giants found no difficulty in
solving weighing. Score:
R.HE
New York.....1 0 5 90 0 SO 9 2
Washington 20 0 0 2 o % s 0
Batteries-Meekin and Grady; weighing
and Farrell Earned runs-New York, f.
Stolen base-Gettman. Two-base hits
Meekin, Wagner. Home runs-Joyce e.
Double plays-Hartman, Davis and Joyce;
Reitz, Weigley and Doyle. First base on
out-By Meekin. 8; by weighing, l. Left on
bases-New York. 81 Washington, 7. Time
-1:H. Umpires-Lynch and Connolly. At
tendance, 5000.
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Gates Did Good Pitching.
Special to the 1ndianapolis Iournal

Special to the indianapolis Journal
LINTON, Ind, May 14.-The opening
game of the season between Princeton and
the Linton Reds to-day resulted in a de-
feat for Princeton. Gates, of the home
team, was at his best and held the visitors
down to five hits. Score:
r. H. E.
Princeton 80 O1O3 90 "a 5
Linton .......2 0 0 2 Ito Is 5
Batteries-Jones and Boiling; Gates and
Moore.
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MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May 14.-Detroit lost
the game to Milwaukee to-day on costly err
rors Rettger pitched good ball. Score:
RHE.
Milwaukee IL o 0 0 o IS Z 4
Detroit ......1 o o 0 1 GA 3
Batteries-Rettger and Spear; Waddell
and Twineham.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ROCHESTER,, Ind, May 1.-THE Reds
have again defeated the Huntington team
by a score of to 4. The Reds showed
their old-time form and have been greatly
strengthened behind the bat by Wicizer.
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Fisber,s Team shut Ont.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 1.-THE Ne
braskans were shut out to-day. as Egan had
them wholly puzzled. Score:
Kansas City. o 81 o o 0 o. 9 5
Omaha IND 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 4
Batteries-Egan and Wilson; Daub and
McAuley.
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Fall Out of the Saints.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May 1.-THE Mil
lers took a brace to-day and played all
around the Apostles. Carey, a new man
from Louisville, was on first base, and the
foam work was materially improved. Score
r. H. z.
Minneapolis 20 S 0 0 0 0 8 % 9 /
ST PaliI1 0 L 0-3 4
Batteries-Norton and Dixon; Mullane and
SDipS
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CHICAGO, May H.-von Oven, of the
University of Illinois, established new
Western intercollegiate record by throwing
the hammer in the dual track meet on Mars
passes that OF r.. w. Edgren. of the Uni
versity OF California, by more than four
feet. The record OF t23 Seet 9lk inches has
meet OF 1895.
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Two-base hlts-Mertes, LaIIy, FLYNN,
Stewart.
Sacrifice hits-Hulen, 2; Hogriever,
Deadly.
Stolen bases-Mertes, Genns, Stewart.
First base on balls--Off Wadsworth, 1;
off Dammann, /.
Left on bases-Columbus, z; Indianap
oils, 3.
Struck out-By Wadsworth, 4; by Dam
mann, l.
Tme-1:25
Umpire-Manassau
Attendance-7:50.
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CHICAGO, May l4.-After playing four
innings in a drizzling rain, the game was
called with the score 8 TO 1 in favor Of the
Orphans. Isbel held the Indians down to one
scratch hit while Young was batted freely.
Pitchers Briggs and Friend were to-day
tradazi to Columbus for outfielder Mertes.