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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
THE ALPHA PHI.
Opening Session of the National Conven
ton at fremont Temple.

Boston, Oct. 19-Delegates from nine
colleges and universities met today at
fremont Tomple. The meeting was the
opening session of the national conven-
ton of Alpha Phi, ladies' fraternity. The
session was called TO order at $50 o'clock
by Miss Helen Meridith of Boston. A full
representation of delegates answered to
are Syracuse University, Depaw, Ann Ar
Dor Northwestern, Boston, Cornell Uni
versity, Baltimore Women's College, Min
nesota and Wisconsin Universities.
The affair took the form of an after
noon tea. and was carried out to perfec-
ton in all its details. This evening the
delegates were guests of the Gamma Phi
Meta fraternity of Boston University, who
rendered them a reception at the club
house on Hancock street.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
Meeting of the Grand Division of Massa
chusetts.

Boston, Oct 1s.-The Grand Division OF
Massachusetts Sons of Temperance met
today in Wesleyan Hall. Grand Worthy
Patriarch Rowland presided, and more
than $50 delegates were present. Various
reports were read, that of Grand Scribe
Bennett showing a slight loss in member
ship with an increase In the financial ac-
count Grand Worthy Patriarch How
land, in his report, recommended to sub.
ordinate and district divisions the neces-
sity. Of holding public meetings, and or.
CARNATIONS Of committees of the local
crusaders, the juvenile branch OF the or
der.
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HARDEST or THE YEAR.
Wesleyan Made the Quakers Work for
Every Point.

Philadelphia, Oct. 10. - Wesleyan gave
the Penn eleven the hardest game of the
season today, the red and blue winning by
the score of II to 0. The ball was Slip
perry. ON account of the wet field and
both teams made rank fumbles. In the
first half Wesleyan was unable to adj
vance the ball to any extent, but in the
second half the Middletown boys went
through Pennsylvania line repeatedly
for gains of from two to six yards. This
was partly due to the absence of Hedges
and McCfacken, who retired at the end of
the first half. Capt. Outland time and
again plowed through the Wesleyan line
for five and ten-yard runs. Harbell, Ray
mond and Lune. for the visitors, did good
work, the tackling of the former being
fine. The teams lined up as follows:
PENNSYLVANIA WESLEYAN.
tOlwell, e..........r e. HartseH (Sargent)
keugenDerg, t.....-...............r I, Hyde
Nare S........-....-........... &, Lufkin
Overheld, ................. c. Montgomery
McCrseken (Desilver), gu g, Townsend
IaInott t..:.....-...-............l l. Yale
Hedges tCoombs). e.............l e, DOdds
iardiner, b.....,....,:,.......q b, G. Dodds
Mcmahon (IIarrison), h b.....r b, Lane
Coombs (McMahon), bl h b, Raymond
Ontiand, b.........,..............f b, Inglis
Touchdowns, Outland 2, McMahon;
goals, Outland 2. Referee Dr. Schfeff
umpire, Wilson. Time, 25-minute halves.
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FOOT BALL AT BRooKF1ELD.

East Brookheld, Oct 19.-No game has
been arranged for the coming Saturday by
the management of the foot ball team. as
on that date. The HodgEins school eleven
will line up for their first game against
picked team of this town on Kings field.
Manager Moreau has arranged a game
for the 10Th with the grammar school of
Rronkfeld.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20

Of the Tigers was brilliant. Fumbles on
the part OF the varsity were frequent,
however and the looseness in the play
ing forbodes danger for the Tigers in the
game with Cornell. Capt. Hillebrand was
taken out of the game after the second
touchdown with badly sprained arm.
Fears are entertained that it will keep
him out of the Cornell game
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
PLAYS BARRE TOMORROW

North Brookfleld. Oct 10. - The local
high school foot bah team, which has
been showing marked improvement in it's
ToFK d9ng [ne pas wee tS WI me up
school team On November 5 the team
will play David Prouty high school.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
RACE FOR BIG STAKES.
The Lynch Brothers Will Meet English
Champions in $500 Match.

Halifax, N. S., Oct. l9.-The hackers of
Lynch Brothers decided this morning to
accept the challenge of Bubear and Barry,
the English champions. for a double seull
race for $500, to take place during the
last week in July at FalifaX. The
Lynches will allow the Englishmen 50
pounds sterling for expenses
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
ATHLETICS PLAY AT F1rcHBURG.

The Worcester Athletic Club foot ball
team, with its lineup considerably
strengthened over that of week ago,
Will play in Fitchburg Saturday after
noon against the Y. NJ c. A. eleven of
that place. Capt. Davis of the local or
ganization has made several changes and
secured some good new men.
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RESTING FOR HIS FIGHT.

Jim Corbett arrived in West Baden. In
diana, Yesterday, where he expects to do
his preliminary training for his fight with
Sharkey. November 70. Corbett believes
he needs rest preparatory to his final
training. and so will remain at the springs
for ten days or two weeks. He is accom-
panied by his sparring partner, Jim Nc
Vey
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
NEXT RUN NEXT TUESDAY.

The second of the series of cross-coun-
try runs to be held by the W, p L. A. A.
will be held Tuesday, October rs, at a.. As p.
m. The course will be the usual one to
Goes square and return, the distance be-
ing about five miles. 1t is believed that
the entry list will be somewhat larger
than was the case in the last contest.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20

than one or two title examiners, while
in the Boston district proper, compris-
ing Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex coun-
ties, there are about rs, the number de-
pending entirely upon the volume Of
business.
Among the title examiners in Suffolk
county is James II. Garrett, one of
the best known title examiners and
conveyancers in America, who is re-
tanned by Congressman Joseph H.
Walker in the confirming of titles to his
estates.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
To Chicago In Ia days.
tn Dan var. In OIL davc

shortest route, offering best seev'ce api
quickest time.
To Chicago In IL days.
To Denver in Oh days.
To California in days.
Through sleeping cars to Buffalo, Cleve-
land, Fort Wayne, Detroit Chicago and
Only line running through Pullman
s1eepers to Chicago via Binghamton and
Youngstown.
Unexce1led service to Montreal and Que
bee. Parlor and sleeping cars on through
trains. Day coach TO Montreal without
Trains leave Worcester week days:
FOR TROY, BUFFALO. CHICAGO and
the west at $40 a. M; 3.45 p. "a, 7.55 p.
m. Sundays at 3 IS o, m.
FOR WINCHENDON and intermediate
stations. week days at $40 a. m, II IS
q. M; 3.45 p. m, 1923 p. m, 1855 p. m.
Sundays at 3.45 p. m.
$40 q. m. connects week days at Gardner
With accommodation trains for all sta
$40 a. M, ii. 40 a. m; s.45 p. M, 7.55 p. m.
connects week days for Bellows Falls.
Rutland and White River Junction.
$40 a. m, II. 45 a. m; 7.55 p. M. week
days, for Bellows Falls, White River
Junction, Rutland, Burlington, -Rouses
Point, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec.
For time tables. rates, parlor and sleep
j. f. HEAL9. City Ticket Agent. sSs
]. R. WATSON Gen. Pas. Agt.
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FATAL BICYCLE ACCIDENT.

Providence, r. T., Oct. 10. William
Busby, the young man who was thrown
from his wheel by an alleged scorcher
last Friday, died this afternoon from con-
cussion of the brain, produced by the
fracture of the skull which he received in
the accident
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
POSTPONED UNTIL SATURDAY.

Gardner Oct 19-The foot ball game
between the local and Leominster high
schools was postponed on account of rain
The two teams will probably meet next
Tuesday,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
SEASON OPENS THIS WEEK.

Westboro Oct. 19,-The Westboro high
school foot ball eleven will play its first
game at Hopkinton Saturday afternoon.
The team will leave for the Hopkinton
gridiron at half-past 1 O'Clock in a special
barge
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
ARE coNrIpENT or success.

A team of local and Millbury foot ball
players go to Wilbraham this morning tc
play the high school team of that town
The team has not had a great deal OF
practice, but expects an easy victory over
its opponents.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20

MORE EVIDENCE.
A Seemingly Strong Case
Made Out Against Curtis.

A mass Of seemingly incontrovertible
evidence will confront A. M. Curtis, the
Meriden wheelman, in case he applies
to the Century Road Club for official
recognition of his New York Boston
ride of last Monday.
James j. Casey and his friends are
leaving no stones unturned in their
desire to acquire complete and trust
worthy evidence that Curtis tactics be-
tween Brookfield and Spencer We're of
such nature as to cause his perform
ance to be thrown out.
Yesterday number Of affidavits ad-
ditional to those that have already
been forwarded to Secretary Pease,
were secured. They are signed by Spen-
Ger and Brookfield men, and deal with
unfair riding between those towns.
Casey feels confident, however, that
there was unfair riding done by Curtis
in other places than those which he has
already specified, but probably will rest
his case upon the Spencer incidents.
Before Casey gets through he expects
to have sworn statements from at least
a score of men who were either upon
the electric car that helped Curtis UP
the hill, or who saw Curtis when he
was DeiHS lOWeu along ny means Oh a
rope attached to his tandem.
The statements sent to Secretary
Pease yesterday were as follows.
Brookfeld, Oct 10, 1898.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
saw a man said to be Mr.. Curtis, on
Monday, Oct. II, pass through Brookfeld
about $50 p. m. He was assisted at two
different times by a wheel ahead by
means of rope or strap, while Mir. Cur
It's was in a coasting position on his
wheel.
c.. A. Jefts,
supt w, B. & S. Street Railway Company
Spencer, Oct. 10, 1893.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
This is to certify that l witnessed a BIZ
cycle rider who said his name was Cur
tbs, assisted up Sumner Hill in Spencer by
means of a handkerchief which was held
by passenger on the rear platform of an
electric car, Monday afternoon. October
H. 1888. w. j. Heffernan.
Spencer, Oct. 10, 1898.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
We saw Curtis hauled up Summer Hill to
the foot of Bell street. The man that
held the handkerchief let go of 1t then,
and Curtis kept the handkerchief.
p. j. Doyle
Michael j Doyle,
W. H. Ratigan,
Spencer, Mass.
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NO GAME AT THE ACADEMY.

Ram Caused the rown-Academy Match
To Be Cancelled.
The game arranged between the Wor-
cester Academy and Brown College elev-
ems at the academy campus yesterday
afternoon had to be abandoned on ac-
count of the weather There was at least
an inch of water over the gridiron, max
ing playing of course impossible Coach
Gammons was greatly disappointed. for
his team is to play Harvard freshmen
Saturday and needs all the practice it can
get
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20

Wasn't it noble in that Vassar giFa
to save three men from drownine?"
'Yes-a husband for herself and foY
two other girls. Chicago Record,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20
RACES CARRIED OVER.

Boston, Oct 10. = On account of the
heavy rain, trotting at the Saugus race
course was out of the question, and the
program was carried over until tomorrow.
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Spencer Mass, Oct 49, 1898.
To Whom 1t May Concern
/ saw the two men on the tandem throw
a line to Curtis, and he fixed it on his
wheel and it helped him up the hill.
Arthur j. Robbins Spencer, Mass.
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RAIN CAUSED THEM.
Harvard Did Well Against
Newtowne.
YESTERDAYS FOOTBALL SCORES.

Harvard %, Newtowne A. c. 0.
Yale %, Brown G.
Pennsylvania II, Wesleyan 0.
Princeton II, Scrub 0.
Williams s, Colgate 0.
Bowdoin "a, Colby 0.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20

Spencer, Mass, Oct 49, 1898.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
l saw Curtis pulled up the Spencer hill
holding handkerchief held from the
hand of a passenger
Edward G. Calvin, Spencer, Mass.
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BACKS DID BRILLIANT WORK.

But Tigers Play on the Whole Was Loose
Capt. Hillebrand Hurt
Princeton, N. j., Oct. 19.-The Prince
ton University foot ball team played an
exhibition game today against the scrub
eleven, and rolled UP a score of II points.
The play was fun of snap, and the work
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20

BoWdoin "a, Colby U.
Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 19.-lIarvard de-
feated the team of the Newtowne Athletic
Association this afternoon on Soldiers
field in ten-minute halves by a score of %
to 0. A heavy downpour of rain began
when the ball was first put in play, and
continued without intermission until the
end, making puddle of the field and pre-
venting satisfactory playing.
Two touchdowns were scored in the first
half by Warren, and two more in the sec
ond by Reid and Hallowell. Warren and
Boal were both very good in breaking the
line, and the former did the best work
for his side. Newtowne had fairly
strong team containing four Harvard
players-G Newell, Gouterman, Minot
Weld and Hennen. The rush line of the
varsity was much heavier and more ag
gressive than that of Newtowne, with the
exception of the latters ends, Newell and
Murphy. who played a good game. Fun
bles were numerous on both sides
HARVARD. NEwTowNE.
Cochrene Farleyl, l e.......r e, G. Newell
Donald (Eaton). l t............r t, Vaughn
Boal, g....................~..r g, j. Newell
Burnett tJatfray), c.......'...i c, Harding
Mills ,Haughton), r t.......l t, Galbraith
ltallowel e..'.....''......'-.. i {, murphy
Gierasch, h b..r b, Gouteman Cobb
Warren, + -......:..;...:.,,,.;l b, weld
Touchdowns. Warren 9 Reid, Hallowell
goals from tOuchdowns, Cochrane, Haugh-
ton. Umpire, Norton Shaw; referee, G.
Sargent. Time, two 10-minute halves.
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GO WEST BY THE rTcHBuRG
dune 9Th. 1881

The scenic route Of New Ehglsnd, Tae
shortest route, offering best seevice AMI
quickest time
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! saw the car help him up the hill.
Peter Gaucher, Spencer Mass
The herald., 1898-07-31

Spaniards have, 1 believe, every possible
falkland yet l love the jades for a that!
They find themselves in the midst of a
commercial age, poor devils with as little
knowledge of bookkeeping the Grand
Turk. But there is something fine In this
impenetrability of theirs, and the grand
way they wrap themselves In their ragged
capa of a past and find warmth in their
pride. Their indifference to legitimate
profit is a continual comfort and they have
no more enterprise than an old Cambridge
man."
The venerable Don stalks through Spain,
for the Spaniards still fancy themselves
always in lineage of Charles " and the per-
feet gravity with which they assume the
airs of a great power is not without a kind
of pathetic dignity. We all wink at the
little shifts of a decayed gentleman, espe-
cially when he is Don Quixote. as this one
certainly is
Describing the death of Queen Mercedes,
Lowell writes:
Anything more tragic thanthe circum-
stances of her death it would be hard to
imagine. She was actually receiving ex-
treme JUNCTION while the guns were firing
in honor of her 18th birthday, and four
days later saw her dragged to her dreary
tomb at the Escurial, followed by the
coach and eight white horses in which she
had driven in triumph from the church to
the palace on the day of her wedding. The
poor brutes tossed their snowy plumes as
haughtily now as then"
The grandiloquence of the ordinary
Spanish phrase Mr. Lowell understood, for
he wrote: 1.-The Spaniard offers you his
house, but never meal in it,
Writing to Thomas Hughes, he remarks
about the Spaniards:
II think they are getting on. They still
employ inferior races Gas the Romans did)
to do their intellectual drudgery for them,
their political economy, scholarship, history
and the like. But they are advancing even
on these lines, and one of these days-but
I won't prophesy: suffice 1T that they have
plenty of brains. If ever they should conde-
scend so far from their hidalguia as to
turn them to advantage"
The herald., 1898-07-31

pital was mpregnated with a subtle. i'm
palpable infection, which could only be
combated after 1t had begun to show it's
effect in suppuration. One fluid result of
this infection was even called, quantity
enough. "laudable pus," because, on the
theory that certain degree of suppuraton
was unavoidable, it was regarded as a
hopeful sign when a wound threw off the
troublesome humor, which. If kept in,
would produce fever. 1t was not then
known, perhaps hardly even suspected, tina t
the surgeon himself was actually inoculat-
ing patient after patient with a terrible
specific disease.
! The surgeons of the civil war would
doubtless have been very much surprised
to hear that their hands, hastily rinsed in
cold hydrant or spring water, were busy
carrying from wound TO wound hundreds
of organism, the proper name of which was,
or was to be, "streptococcus pyogenes.'
Two medical discoveries-one, in the honest
sense of the word. empirical, the other re-
sulting from purely scientific investiga-
| tion-led to the detection and apprehension
of this wholesale assassn.-Boston Post.
The herald., 1898-07-31
MODERN SURGERY IN WAR
Increases the Saving of Lives by at
Least Fifty Per Cent

In the civil war the proportion of Union
soldiers who died of wounds to those who
were killed outright in battle was AZ to 81,
or not far from to II. These figures are
taken from the report of the adjutant gen.
erals office. The statistics on the Confed-
crate side are less exact but 1t may be as
sumed that the proportion there was about
the same, AS there would be little chance
of finding out whether man found dead on
the field before medical assistance had
reached him had or had not been killed in
simultaneously, it may also be assumed that
''died of wounds means died in hospital
the inference on the part of the surgeons
Of those days being that death was the re-
suit of the wounds.
1t Is some comfort to know, now that the
United States is engaged in another armed
struggle, that the number OF deaths from
wounds is not likely to be as much as so per
cent as large in proportion to the number of
wounds received as it was either in the
civil war or in any other prior to the present
generation. And this in spite of latter-day
weapons.
The reason and ground for this hope is
not in the nature of the Krag-Jorgensen
and Mauser rifles, used respectively by our
founding progress in the last twenty years
in the art of surgery. 1t is not because a
man who is hit by an up-to-date rifle bull
| let more often dies on the spot, for that this
| is the case is very far from certain. During
| the first third and fourth quarters of a
| modern nickel-coated slug's flight its rend-
| ing effect is terribly fatal, 1t is true; but in
| the second quarter, or humane area" of
| it's range it has tendency to cut clean
| hole. But all experience of recent years
| indicates that where nine wounded men out
| of ten would have been buried from a field
hospital in the years between 1861 and 1865,
only four would die in 1898, the other six
being eventually discharged safe, whole
and probably in better health than they en-
Joyed before they were wounded.
| In fact, "died of wounds" so far as 1t
applies to the wars of past generations, In
Guiding our own civil war, really means in
most cases that death resulted from "hos-
pital gangrene," "hospital fever" or cry
spelas. The surgeons Of those days were
quite aware of those symptoms, but their
causes had not yet been discovered. 1t was
supposed that the atmosphere of hos
The herald., 1898-07-31

Madrid is the noisest city l ever dwelt
in. The street cries are endless and given
with a will, and with such distortions of
face as must be seen to be believed. None
are musical. One always stirs my fancy
by it's association with Aladdin-the lamp
arero. Shall try my luck? l think not;
for in his cry have the material for rows
Of palaces, whereas if l bought lamp L
might rub in vain The first sound in the
morning is the tinkle of bells on the necks
of the she asses that come In to be MIXED
at the customers door for surety. l know
not who the customers are, but there must
be many if there be any truth in the vulgar
belief that children take after their nurses.
Then there is succession of blind players
on the guitar. on the pipe and tabor on
what l suppose to be the gaita. They
sometimes also sing, but commonly have
with them boy or girl who shreks ro-
nance. All the tunes are the same so far
as can make out, just as in a school of
poetry Then the town is full of parrots
and Gagged quails. I don't suppose we are
exceptional, but there are five parrots in
this house and the next together, all birds
of remarkable talents. One hangs in the
courtyard of our house and sings. shouts,
calls names, ana SWedlS al u'y i'iiS'
was wrong in saying all the street cries
are harsh. There is a girl who passes
every day crying radishes who really
makes a bit of melody with her 'Rabanos:
RI is seldom that one does not hear. night
or day, a drumming or a snatch of nasal
song, and l am pretty well persuaded That
1t was the Spanish dominion which planted
the seeds of the Neapolitan street music"
To Prof. Child Lowell wrote:
"There is something Oriental In my own
nature which sympathizes with this let
her slide temper of the hidalgos They so
through ali forms of business, as they do
of religion, without any reference to the
thing itself, Just as they offer you their
house dating their notes to you de Su
CasaO and everything in it. But they are
very friendly and willing to be helpful
| where they can. They are unenterprising
| and Interchangeable. The latest accounts of
| them are just like the earliest, and they
| have firm faith in DR.. Manana-he will
| cure everything; or If he can't 1T doesn't
| signify In short, there is favor of old
| when l was young and the world worth
| having"
| Spain, Mr.. Lowell explains to Mr.. How
ellis, is FAR away" country:
You can't imagine how far 1 am away
from the world here-I mean the modern
world. Spain is as primitive in some ways
as the books of Moses, and as Oriental.
The herald., 1898-07-31

tiles, Jacky has become a specialist In
1t in two places-at the guns and at the
engines. Correctly pointed guns are of no
use, unless the platform on which they rest
is put in proper relation to the thing to
be hit, and kept there; equally it is useless
to get the ship into proper place unless
can do either of these things must have
natural capacities and be susceptible to
education; and only men of this sort are
eligible for our navy
Accordingly the "beach-comber" or the
"rock-scorpion" or any other variety Of
that ruck of marine refuse which drifts
around the great maritime ports and ships
in any craft where grub Is plenty and
work light, no longer sings his hammock
on Uncle Sans berth-deck. as he used
to do to the shame of the service in years
gone by. Nor can the tramp, nor the
jail-bird, nor the incorrigible black sheep
of the family thus be provided for to the
relief of constables and long suffering re-
lations. No man or boy can now pass a
United States naval recruiting officer UNI
less he is clean, healthy, honest, young,
strong and intelligent; nor can he after
ward get that advancement, which is GER
tainly open to him without fear or favor,
unless he continues to show aptitude and
ability-Park Benjamin in the Independ-
ent.