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AQUATICS.

Ten Eyck's father says: "My boy is as
pure an amateur as ever sat in boat,
and since he has been attending the
University Of Pennsylvania he has been
in constant practice on the Schuylkill,
with but one object in view-to again
bring back the Diamond SOULS to Ameri-
ca-and if the stewards finally decide to
reject his entry they will have to do SO
on general principles, for they can have
no legitimate objection to his status as
an amateur or his social standing among
his own countrymen; but l think they
have been misinformed, and after they
have received the letter of the Wachu-
set Boat Club denying the charges made
| am satisfied that my sons entry will
be accepted.
Owing to the early date of the Penn
sylvania-Annapolis boat race, the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania crews have been
putting in some very hard work of late
Tor this contest.
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SELF DEFENCE.

A crowd of about three hundred pcopl,
went to Philadelphia last night to sec
the Dalv-Lavigne contest and all were
pleased, as DAILY certainly made great
showing. Lavigne is clever lad, but
DAILY is cleverer.
Captain Kane was the first man to
congratulate DAILY after the contest.
Most all the sports from here don't see
how Lavigne can stay fifteen rounds
with Daily. If last nights contest had
been longer there is hardly doubt but
that Daily would have put him out.
/ The Wilmington sports said after the
contest, 81 told you SOL!
John Dickey said it was the most
scientific contest he ever saw.
That DAILY is the coming lightweight
champion there is hardly doubt.
Johnny Glynn fought Jack Montroy
at Philadelphia last night, and had
slightly the best of it.
The management of the Arena deserve
great credit for last nights contests, as
most all Of them were good and were
run off without hitch.
The crowd at the Arena was corker,
and all who were there certainly got
there moneys worth.
r. + Nosely, manager Of Joe Laughlin
is trying to match him against Patty
Donovan or Tim Callahan of Philadel-
phia. The contest to take place at the
Arena on Monday April 18th.
Late on Saturday night Sam Fitzpatrick
received despatch from San Francisco
to the effect that the Olympic Athletic
Club OF that city would give purse of
$1,000 and liberal expenses for twenty
round bout between Sack DAILY and Dial
Hawkins. The club prefers to have the
match decided on date between May ]
and May Is. Fitzpatrick quickly &C.
cepted.
Marty McCue has been matched to box
Kid Hogan at Paterson April IA. The
lads will meet for twenty rounds at catch
weights.
In addition to the contest with Charley
McKeever and Tom Broderick, Matty
Matthews has also arranged to box Owen
Xegler limited number of rounds at
Philadelphia on April q.
The friends of Mexican Pete" Everett
who scheduled to box Jim Jefferies at
the Olympic Club of San Francisco on
April rs, are reported to be accepting all
the wagers they can on Pete at the odds
of 6 to 10.
Young Critic, contrary to all reports, is
still in California, and has been match to
box Kid Parker at Sacramento on April
IA. Parker is the favorite in the betting
and his friends think he will knock the
cratic Australian out.
Jim Corbeat" and Tom Sharkey have
been exchanging courtesies at San
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-12
SUMS SPORTING MELANGE
Various Pointers Gathered From
of the Turf.
SELF DEFENSE; OTHER SPORTS
Resume Of the Latest Happenings in
AthIetics---IndOOr and Field
DOings Of Interest
Here.
SELF DEFENSE; OTHER SPORTS
DIAMOND DUST.

How about the Wilmington City Rail-
way Company. Are they going to get a
base ball club together here this year?
Do SO it willpay!:And you will also stand
Ace high with the ball cranks. Read
this twice.
Capt. Arson announced yesterday
that he had the money in sight for the
purchase OF the Chicago Baseball CLUB.
He said that he expected to close a deal
with an Eastern capitalist by tomorrow
night, the man agreeing to take all the
stock not already spoken for. He de-
clined to say who is new hacker was, as
it might affect the deal. Amount Arson
needs is about $4,000.
Billy Sarsig's Allentown team is doing
well Just now. Frs 'opin' it will do no
w'rse in the championship season.
Billy Mailman wants his associates on
the Brooklyn team to call him "Willy."
Isn't that cute?
John T. Brush yesterday made a long
speech to Cincinnati Reds, laying down
the law on profanity and giving dire
warning.
Tim Hurst is quoted as saying that
Pittsburg's team for this season is the
weakest that has re presented the Smoky
City in years. Tim ought to know.
So far but four clubs have claimed the
championship for the coming season,
but it will be remembered that the game is
yet young. President Freedman of
New York, is the latest claimant.
The Phillies are pulling three to one
in attendance at the exhibition games as
compared with New York. And yet
there are those who intimate that this is
not great ball town.
Louisville will carry eighteen men
this season. There are twenty-three
players on the clubs list now. Five
will be farmed out to minor leagues.
The AK will fall today.
The New York papers are now very
freely criticising the management for not
sending the team further South than
New Jersey to train. The players are
said to be lame and in poor condition.
One of the Columbia players received
4 letter from Sandow Mertes, in which
he big fellow said he had decided not to
iollle Edst, Dlit WOulu accept II position
rs umpire in the Pacific League.
St. Louis has refused to waive claim to
Decker, who wanted to 60 to Omaho as
manager, and Decker will now remain
with Chicago.
Now that Louisville is trying Hans
Wagner at second base the photographers
ire telling the public what a splendid
howing that player is making and par
ictular attedtion is called to the fact that
re is an outfelder.
"Tuck" Turner, the old Phillies now,
With st. Louis, is batting up to the form
'e showed two years ago, when he was
top-notcher.
1t was unfortunate for the Phillies that
hey could not play every day last week.
he championship season is close at hand
nd they need all the practice that they
an get to be in shape to stand the sus-
lined Oght which begins on the 18th.
lany OF the players, notably thu pitchers,
low the lack of practice.
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MlSCELLANY.

Along with the track work lacrosse
practice continues regularly at Swarth-
more. The material is now being rounded
up for the first game of the season with
John Hopkins, which will be played at
Swarthmore next Saturday.
The Tigers have a capable trainer and
excellent captains of both athletic teams,
The competition in both base ball and
track has been and still is vigorous and
good natured. Considerable ability has
been manifested on both teams, and
Princeton is quite likely to hold her own
all around this season.
The relay candidates for the team,
which is to represent Georgetown at
Penn's relay carnival, are receiving the
most Of Trainer Foley's attention, and
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FOOT BALL.

There was great surprise yesterday in
student circles when it became known
that D. NJ Mclaughlin, captain of the
Cornell Varsity football team for '9S, had
resigned from the position, owing to a
change OF plans for next year. McIaugh-
lin, who is a Senior, accepted the cleo
ton last fall, believing that he would be
here to finish in law next year. He now
finds it impossible to arrange to return,
and has accordingly resigned his cap
taincy. A new election will take place
tomorrow,
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have gradually gotten into excellent
running condition.
The final acceptances of the dual meet
of Georgetown with Pennsylvania for
May have been formally made.
The steam yacht Corsair, N. Y. Y.C.,
Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan, is be-
ing fitted out for the season. She is at
Erie Basin, n. Y.
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Fights in baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Nd, April 11.--Bcfore the
Eureka Athletic Club last night, Young
Smyrna of Chester, fought draw with
Joe Cans, champion lightweight of the
south, it was the fight of the night.
The George Russell of Wilmington, and
the Jim Janey bout, was stopped by the
police sergeant, it was a hot bout and
Russell put up a good fight. 49,.
Mrs. Joseph Tolton, of New York, has
been the guest of her sister in this city.
Chaplain Chadwick of the Inflated
battleship Maine, passed through this
city on Sunday, enroute to. the South, to
fill the position Of Chaplain on the Y. S.
Cruiser Cincinnati.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
INFORMING FACTS.

Switzerland's greatest industry, the en-
tertanment of tourists. has been offi-
cially computed to bring in lis 600 900
francs a year, 100000 more than the
whole revenue of the Confederacy.
Did the war increase crime? In the
first six months of last year AZ 776 per-
sons were accommodated at the Philadel-
phia station houses as compared with 3D.
27s in the first six months of this year, q
decrease of 5,i9S. The arrests for drunk
enness in that city also diminished from
$4,000 in the first half of 1897 to less than
5000 in the first half of 1898.
The casualties to the three general
classes of railway employees caused by
collisions and derailments last year Were
as follows: Trainmen, killed, 25O; in
jured, 1927; switchmen, fagmen and
watchmen, killed, Il: injured, 7i other
employ es, killed, AZ; injured, 251. The to-
tai number of passengers killed during the
year under review was 222, injured 2, 1875.
Ninety-three passengers were killed and
l,0l1 injured in consequence of collisions
and derailments. Other than employees
and passengers the total number of per-
sons killed was 4522: injured, $3.50. IN
cluded in these figures are casualties TO
persons ella ssed as trespassers of whom
1919 were killed and 4,732 were injured.
From summaries showing the ratio of
casualties, II appears that one out of ev-
cry 4S6 employees was killed and one out
of every 30 employees was injured during
the year. With respect to trainmen, in
Guiding engineers, firemen, conductors
and other trainmen, II appears that one
was killed for every 165 employed, and
one injured for every twelve employed.
One passenger wSs killed for every 2,204 :
70S carried, and one injured for every 1T,
lis carried. Basing ratios upon the num-
ber of miles Travelled 1t appears that rs,
Ell, ,4i0 passenger miles were accomplished
for each passenger killed, and 1885 500
passenger miles for each passenger in
jured.
1t costs between s., 500 900 and SC, 900 900 to
construct, arm and equip a battleship
ready to go into commission. Last year
it cost 1923, sos to maintain the Indiana in
commission, $3.50, 435 for the Massachusetts
and 1891, ,o65 for the New York. These fig
| ures include pay, subsistence, coal, re-
pairs and everything that Is chargeable
| to the vessel IL costs about $4,000 10
equip a regiment of infantry with uni
form, arms, ammunition, etc, exclusive
of camp outfit and TO maintain a regi-
ment of 1000 men for one year would
| entail an expenditure approximating $500,
| 900 in round numbers, depending upon the
| amount of travel and the location of the
| command.
The records of the Union army during
| the civil war show a mortality list OF II
| per cent. OF the entire force, or $4,000 In
all. OF these e3,i43 were killed in battle
| or died subsequently of wounds; lS6,2lt
| died OF disease, the cause OF death =" 'h1
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
POLITICS DID 1T.
From the Buffalo Express.

From the Buffalo Express.
The United States has not kept faith
with it's citizen soldiers. They enlisted
for the war, prepared to take the chances
of bullets and bayonets. They believed
that the government had provided for all
other contingencies. They supposed that
they would be properly housed and fed
and lodged in sanitary camps. They
thought that Uncle Sam insured their
lives when not in action. They were not
undeceived until after they entered the
service. 1t would be much harder to raise
a volunteer army now that 1t was six
months ago. The people have not so
much confidence in their rulers.
Yet the rulers are not to blame-not
this generation of them. They merely
carried out system they found in force
the internal system of politics. Politics
dictates appointments in the regular and
the volunteer armies. in the staff and line
thereof, in the medical and commissary
departments. Politics is in the navy, too.
but not so much as in the army. 1t has
always been so since the foundation Of
the government. 1t is so with the cheer
full acquiescence of the sovereign people
except in such times as these. There Will
be a howl of indignation now, but 1t will
be directed against individuals and not
against the system, and presently 1t will
be forgotten end the people will remem-
her only the glories Of the war.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
A Conspiracy of Defamation.

Not foot of real estate in Penn
sylvania pays a state tax; not
farmer, laborer or mechanic contri-
butes a cent to state taxation; not a
county in the state, excepting Phila-
delphia, pays as much in taxation to
the state as it receives back from the
state; the per capita cost of state gov
ernment in Pennsylvania is lower than
that of any other populous state in
the Union with similar diversity of in
terests, and yet it is charged by
factional opponents of Senator Quay
that his henchmen have robbed the
people and are unfit to be trusted.
The leader in this conspiracy of def
amation, Mr. Wanamaker, is the man
whom Quay defeated for United States
senator, Notwithstanding that the sup
porters of Wanamaker had at their
disposal a campaign fun1 said to
exceed 100000. in the handling Of
which some of them barely escaped
the penitentiary. This man Wana-
maker proposes to get even with Quay
if he has to smash the whole Republ-
around him every politician with a
grievance, every constitutional sore
head and every enemy of Republican,
ism in the state, not for principle but
for revenge.
AS a specimen of Wanamaker's argu-
ment take his assertion that Quays
machine has the support of the prin-
cipal corporations. Yet it is the cor
rorations that pay the giants share
of the state taxation. Thus according
to Wanamaker the corporations are
upholding the political regime that
puts on them the bulk of the state
tax burden. Corporations, it need
hardly be added, are not built that
way. Tom Dolan's corporations, the
DreXel Morgan corporations, the Wan
amaker gas trust. and the big Trac-
tion trust which has it's headquarters
ir Wanamaker's town are against
Quay to the death and nobody knows
this better than Wanamaker. The only
corporations that are for Quay are for
him for the same reason that organ
lied labor is for him-because as an
influential member of the senate he,
like Colonel Stone in the house, has
stood on every possible occasion for
protection to American industries.
Mills and men that got work when
others had none have right to be
grateful to NJ. S. Quay.
But" say the Wanamakerites, 1--WE
have put the Republican organization
| on the defensive" They have, in the
sense that every man who values his
character must defend it against false
| representation. The Republican party
| in Pennsylvania has done a good deal
| of defending in its history because of
| the habitual lying of those jealous of
its vitality and envious of it's success:
but in spite of that it has held it's own
and in fact grown steadily. There is
no reason to fear that the present
conspiracy Of defamation will hurt
anybody so much as those engaged in
| it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
Can Hold Its Own.

If by any turn in events the United
States and England should be COM
PEELED to face a combination of Rus
sia, Germany and France In arms,
which side would be likely to win? In
the North American Review for Sep
tember Sir Richard Temple considers
this question at length, with q show Of
statistics well worth our notice
The comparison as to population
shows for the European coalition a
total of 22l, 100000 white and $4,000 900
colored against 125,OOO0O white and
950,0oO,O 900 colored for the Anglo-Saxons /;
in all, 2S5,0O0000 against AIS, 600, 900. In
area, lS& million square miles would
be pitted against 15h million, with the
important point to be noted that while
the area of the continental powers is
largely populated, that of Great
Britain and the United States Is Capa
BILE Of sustaining double or even treble
Its present population. Comparison as
TO sea coast and ports shows for the
European alliance an aggregate coast
line of only 1900 miles with but one
port-Hamburg-of the frst class;
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
COLONEL STONES PLATFORM.

1t will be my purpose when elected TO
SO conduct myself as to win the respect
and good will Of those who have opposed
me as well as those who have given me
their support. | shall be the governor
of the whole people Of the state. Abuses
have undoubtedly grown up in the legis'
lature which are neither the fault oil one
party nor the other but rather me
growth of custom. Unnecessary inNcstl-
cations have been authorized by commit
tees, resulting in unnecessary expense TO
the state. 1t will be my care ana pur-
pose to correct these and other evils IN SO
far as ! have the power 1t Will be my
purpose while governor of Pennsylvania.
as it has been my purpose in the public
positions that I have held with GOD
help, to discharge my whole duty. The
people are greater than the parties 20
which they belong. l am only jealous OF
their favor. l shall only attempt to win
their approval and my experience has
taught me that that can best be done by
an honest. modest daily discharge or
public duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

remaining cases being for the most part
unknown. The hospital records show
that 6,O496 GAS cases were treated during
the civil war, the mortality list being as
follows: Gunshot wounds, S9,3i9; diar-
rhoea, 35,127; dysentery, 5,5I6; typhoid, %, =
1886; typho- -malarial fever, $3.50; remittent
fever, 4S}5; intermittent fever. 4,l64; in
flammation OF lungs, 1891; smallpox
7,05s; measles, SIT. During the war :S5,-
2I5 men were discharged for disability.
classified as follows: Gunshot wounds.
"a, 2O9; consumption, 2o9O5; diarrhoea. 16,-
4S7; debility, 1000; rheumatism, l26S3;
heart disease, 10, 1917.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
WOMEN AT THE FRONT IN WAR.
erview with Corporal Tanner.

Interview with Corporal Tanner.
From the standpoint of the patient ]
think know hospitals about as fully as
any veteran who survived the civil war.
knew them when the sodden ground was
the couch, and the only canopy the starlit
heavens from which it seemed that the
angels tears came down in the plying
dew. knew hospitals in all their grada-
tions. and l tell the surgeon general that
not under the power OF the infinite God Is
there anything so inspiring to the shot
torn and fever-wrecked frames that lie
there as the swish of a womans skirts
through those aisles of pain, the tender
CLEAN of her plying eyes, and the helpful
touch of her gentle hand. The true wo-
man will prove all her womanliness In
field or other hospitals. We can't have
too much of her ministrations when we
are suffering"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

One Of the items in the demands of
the Filipinos aims at the expulsion Of
the Spanish monks and friars. This is
said to be the thing above all others
upon which their heart is set. 1t is
needless to say that If American au-
thority is asserted in the Philippines
there will be no expulsion of anybody
save in protection of the peace. If the
monks and friars behave themselves
they can stay: If they don't, they will
have to go. and that altogether regard
less of their cloth. American rule
knows no sectarian distinctions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

Letters from Manila indicate that
General Merritt, like Admiral Dewey,
is preventing trouble with Aguinaldo
by ruling him with an iron hand. Be-
fore Merritt arrived Aguinaldo had
given orders to his followers not to sell
any horses to the American troops and
General Anderson was in a pickle
When Merritt took in the situation he
ordered his men to seize what supplies
they needed, paying for them afterward
at the prevalent market price. Aguin-
aldo tried to interfere but Merritt
promptly squelched him. and the re-
suit is that Aguinaldo now has a whole
some respect for the American COM
mander In dealing with takers deli
cacy of sentiment and demeanor is
very often wasted, as this incident
proves.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

while on the other side there is a coast
line of $1,000 miles and 10 first rate
harbors. In Sir Richerd TEMPLES
opinion THIS is the determinative factor
In the problem, since if we give to
Anglo America dominion over the
seas no possible combination of conti-
mental powers could prevail against 1t.
But there are other Points of COM
parison. Russia, Germany and France
have but 79,500 miles of railroad against
25S, 900 for their possible Anglo-Saxon
opponents; their inland navigation Is
immeasurably inferior; their annual
foreign trade is but $500, 900, 900 against
ss, 100000; their shipping is but g.
100000 tons against 11,000,000: their
fishermen, representing potential naval
recruits, number but 100000 against
S2O, 900; in the production of precious
metals they are hopelessly outclassed,
while of coal they produce but 13s,000,-
900 tons against 405, 100000, and of iron
ore 20,000,O00 tons against 25,000,000; the
horse power of their machinery is con-
sidered to be, on rough estimate, less
than one-third that of their supposed
competitors: in finance figures are not
available but taking all factors into
consideration the continental powers
are believed to be far overshadowed; ;
in land forces alone do they have the
superiority, with 100000 regular SOL
diers on a peace footing against not
more than 100000. What the compari-
son would be on war footing, with the
United States and Great Britain both
calling into service their enormous re-
serve strength, can only be conject-
ured. In ships of war they stand 3S1
against 410 but in efficiency the Anglo
| Saxon with one ship will meet the
Latin or Slav with five and not feel
| outclassed.
other comparisons might be added,
| but these are enough to show that
| Anglo-American harmony is sufficient
| ly potential to withstand any opposi-
| ton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

The refusal to allow the Rough
Riders to parade Broadway before be-
ing mustered out seems to be another
one of the studied efforts on the part of
the war department to keep the orig
inator of the "round robin" as far in
the background as possible AS gov
ernor of New York, however, Colonel
Roosevelt will probably have an op-
portunty to indulge IN an occasional
parade if the people desire to see him,
regardless of Secretary Alger's assist
ants,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

The weakest theory of the Dreyfus
case that we have seen supposes Drey-
fus guilty but holds that the history OF
his dealings with a foreign government
is such that the high authorities OF
France are afraid to make it public
for fear that it would precipitate c
gigantic war. Officers of justice have
no right under any circumstances tc
bandage Justices eyes.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
STATE.
LAM 4 STONE.

Governor-MILLIAM A. STONE.
Lieutenant Governor-J. Z. S, GOBLIN.
Secretary of Internal Affairs-JAMES w.
LATTA.
Judges of Superior Court-W. w. FOR
TER, W. d. PORTER.
Congressman at Large - SAMUEL A.
DAVENPORT, GALUSIiA a. GROW.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06

According to Dun's reports the busi-
ness of August this year was the larg-
est on record for the midsummer
month. But as there have been no free
distributions of government bonds or
town lots during the month. it is prob
will still find cause for complaint.