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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
Anglo
American
Sports.
By r. p. Dunne.

1899, by Robert Howard Russell
The reasons for Mr.. Dooley's
presence in England are not ex-
actly known. Perhaps he is here
for pleasure. Probably not. 1t
may be that the English govern
ment will learn suddenly and I'M
pleasantly of the connection be-
tween the hurried departure of
Mr.. Dooley and Mr.. Hennessy from
Chicago and certain resolutions
passed at a secret meeting of the
Wolf Tones last May. Let Balfour
tremble! At any rate here he is,
with his heels on the window-sill
of an inn called: "The Cat and
Compasses." and with him Mr..
Hennessy. He laid aside his paper
after vain attempt to comprehend
the mysteries OF that tragedy of
national life called a test cricket
match, and rubbing his spectacles,
said:
"Hinnissy, If liver we have war
with what me frind Carl Schurz'd
call tn Mother Country, it'll not
come firm amy Vinnyzwalan quis-
ton. Ye can't get me excited over
tn tnrobbin' debate on tn location
iv tn Orynocoo River or whether
tn miners that go to Alaska FIR
goold ar-re buried be tn Canajeen
or tn American authorities. ye
bet We can't. But some day we'll
be in yacht r-race or done up at
fut-ball an thin what Hogan calls
tn dogs Nv war'll break out Nv tn
kennel an divastate tn wurruld."
well, said Mr.. Hennessy, COM
placently. If we wait f'r that we
might as wen disband our navy.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
REFUSE OH. SUBDu)ES
DUST AND GAINS WATER,
Waste Petroleum Is Better and Cheaper
Than Stone Ballast for Clean
Railroad Beds.

has been adopted by the New York
Central, Boston and Albany. Boston
and Maine and several other large rail-
road companies. The idea, borrowed
from the Peerless State Of the Golden
West" as the Los Angeles Times puts
it. is likely to become one of the most
important factors in maintenance Of
way. in railroad economy.
When W. H. Baldwin. Jr.. accepted
the task of re-incarnating the Long IS
land Railroad, about three years ago,
one of the first big schemes he under
took in the line OF reform was the oil
device of the Californians for prevent
ing the clouds of dust from inundat-
ing the trains on his lines in dry
weather. The new president knew
about the patents in existence and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

firm tn staf, an Cyrus Bod1ey iv
Wadham, Mass, d be paintin' tn
stars an sthripes on tn Nelson
monnymint an maxim it look like
BARRIERS pole, says. 'Whin we
hated tn English. I says. an
yacht r-race was li'ble to end a
war message firm tn prisidint, we
used to bate thim,' / says. Now
says /, 'whin we're afraid to injure
their feelin's,' says, an whin we
'pologise befure we punch, they
bate u.s. says. They're used to
'pologisin' with wan hand an
punchin' with tn other l says.
TIL on'y way is tn way iy me
cousin Nike | says. He was a
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
INDIANS SEE THE vIATAscoPE.

A Chicago photographer recently re-
turned from Flagstaff, A. T., tells an
interesting story of the effect of the
kaleidoscope on the Navajo Indians of
northeastern Arizona. The wonder Of
the aborigines of the things seen by the
aid of the instrument was as though the
day of resurrection had come. The
dead, they said, had been seen TO walk,
and out on the great red sand
stone plain the white mans magic
brought the fire WACO" and arrayed
armies of soldiers that came unseen
and that vanished into the night.
August Is a holiday time with the
Navajos In August the Indian traders
usually give their treats, great enter
tainments combining the feature OF q
wild west show and a barbecue. This
year the most important of the treats
was at Volzs store at THE Lakes"
seventeen miles north OF Canon Diahle
Station on the Santa Fe railroad. Ii
was here the untutored red man was
I-shown the greatest marvel OF OF the
century'S decade. The enterprising
Chicago photographer had brought his
kaleidoscope outfit to Wolpi to catch ths
details of the snake dance. He had
been there the year before and, though
he seemed TO have poor success In the
MoqG villages, had caught the Naya-
jos at their sports at VOLTS. This year
on the plain behind the store. GA 4
canvass screen, he exhibited his nov
ing pictures before an assemblage OF
600 agitated aborigines
AS the Empire express grew from a
pin point in the distance till it fllled
| the frame seemingly to rush down up
on the crowd the Indians gasped IN un-
| ison and would have fed hal not the
interpreter treasured them The march
past of soldiers was something that
most of them had seen, but the exhibit
ton drill of the Kansas city fire de-
partment was an uncanny mystery.
| But the climax came when the pic
lures taken on the same spot the pre-
ceding year were reproduced. Most OF
the Indians had been present when the
pictures were taken. Many OF them
almost shrieked when they saw them
selves in action as they were in the
chicken pulling contest and In the
races OF last August. Last year pop
ular clerk, since gone away. had care
lessly walked across the Instruments
field. The Indians shouted as they saw
him again on the canvas. Real enthus-
iasm was caused by the passage across
the screen OF a traders well known
little dog. Among the friends reoog-
nized number had died during the
winter in the smallpox epidemic. When
the entertainment was over the Indians
crowded around the screen, feeling the
canvas and rubbing their cheeks upon
it. chattering noisiy-ix their amaze
ment.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

I says sH'yah, h'yah!!' too. Win
sign " III effete aristorracy "
England done up sirra1 free-bor-rn
Americans firm Boston in a tut
r-race, me frind the Farthest
North, be grabs his wan glass eye
an says he: Well run. Cam
bridget he says; Well r-run. be
says. An Well r-run. whativer
eolledge we're FIRM, says /, whin
wan iv our la-ads jumped over a
fence ahead iv some eager but com
servative English scholars.
We'll. like good game. it come
three an three. Three times had
victhry perched upon our banner
an thrice-I see it in tn pa-aper-
had tn flag iv tn mother country
proclaimed that Englishmen can
r-run. 1t was thryin' on me nerves
an I wanted to yell whin tn tie
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
uN 5PRlNkLGO, ROAD Be0.
CLOUDS OF DUST.

was r-run on. but Til man IN
Massachusetts, says: Contain
ye'ersilf,' he says. Don't allow
ye'er frenzied American spirit to
get away with ye'er manners he
says. Observe he says, 'th'
cam with which our brother Anglo
Saxon views tn scene he says.
All he says, they're off an be
TIL jumpin' George Wash 'nton, /
bet We that fellow firm West New
ton'll make that red-headed, long,
legged, bread ballasted Englishman
look like thirty cints. .Hurro,' he
says. Go on, Harvard he says.
Go on he says. 'Rah, rah, rah,'
he says. Ate him up, chew him
up, he says. Harvard he says.
Il looked ar-round at the cam
dispassyonate Englishman. He
dropped his eye-glass so he cud
see tn race and he had his cane
in tn air. Well r-run,' he says.
We'll run, Cambridge he says.
Pull him down. he says. Run
over him. he says. "Thrip him up,
he says. They can't r-run.' he
says, except whin they're Ph'lpi-
nos behind thim,' he says. Well
r-run, he says, well r-run,' he says,
an he welted tn man firm Mas
sachoosetts with his cane. Be care
full what ye're dom there says tn
Anglo Saxon. If 1t wasn't FIR tn
lance I'd punch ye'er head off, he
says. An says tn cam English
man, If is wasn't FIR our common
hurtage,' he says, I'd make We jump
over tn gran stand he says.
'Th' Englishman always cud beat
us r-runnin',' says tn sage iv Mas
sachoosetts. TIL Americans start
first an finish last says tn Eng
lishman. An I had to pull thin
apart.
whether 1t is that our American
colleajeens spinds too much>iv their
lung power in provin' their devo-
ton to what Hogan calls their Amy
Matthers or not, / dinnaw, but an
nyhow, we had to dhrag tn ripri-
siutatives iv our branch iv tn
Anglo-Soxan an Boheemyan civil
ization in tn three-rnile race firm
undher two thousand Nv our cousins
or brethers-in-law that was cam
~ an soberly. but hurriedly am
noisiiy chargin' acrost tn thrack
to cheer their own man.
Me frind firm Massachusetts
was blue as ve winded our way TO
tn sthranguiation railway an
started back f'r home. I'm sorry.
he says, to lose me temper. be
says. but. be says. satther al H.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

were the result. All that has been
changed, and refuse oil no longer pol
lutes the streams that flow by the re-
4ining works of the Standard Oil Com
pany. That oil is sold at three cents
gallon or whereabouts.
A bright mind out in California few
years ago evolved the idea that crude
oil mixed with the covering of highways
would make the surface firmer and pre-
went<the accumulation of dust. Practi-
cal tests proved the worth of the idea,
AID its protector went at once to
Washington and got patents not only
for the new oil-sprinkling machine he
had invented, but for the idea itself as
Ms.l. Wheeling, Los Angeles cycling
authority, calls preposterous the claim
that the patent covers the general idea
OF the use of oil in any form on roads,
and that no roads can be sprinkled
with oil without paying royalty to the
California Dustless Roads Company. In
Journal is mistaken, according to some
of the foremost patent lawyers in the
land. There have been no lawsuits
because the intelligent counselors for
possible defendants have found invari-
ably upon proper investigation that the
patent on the idea of using oil in that
particular connection is covered and
protected in the patent issued by the
government That in itself is an in
teresting feature of the new industry
RAILROADS PAY FOR THE IDEA.
Now some of the greatest railroad
corporations in the country are using
the idea successfully in their efforts to
subdue dust along their routes, and all
are paying royalties of $40 a mile to
the Dustless Roads Company for the
privilege. The fact that this refuse oil
is the best adapted for the purpose
openea up the new avenue of prifit for
the oil trust. The Long Island and
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Companies
were the first important corporations
Of the kind to experiment with the re-
fuse oil along certain stretches of thir
roadbeds where stone ballast was i'm
practicable. Both found the oil sprink-
ding to be effective not only in laying
the dust, but in protecting the roadbed
and ties AZ we'll. The scheme is in
extensive use By both systems, and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

seats iv larnin' in tn gran stand
was occupied be tn flower iv our
seminarieS iv meditation or
thought Conservatives. / r-read it
in tn pa-apers. At tn time I come
in they was recitin' a pome firm tn
Greek, to a thoughtful lookin'
young professor Wearin' tn STAR
spangled banner FIR a necktie an
smokin' a cigareet. Now, boys
says tn professor, all together
'Rickety Lord Quex, cock,
hullabaloo, bozoo, bozoo, Harvard
says tn lads. | was that proud iv
me BELOVED country that l wanted
to take off me hat there an thin
an give tn colledge yell iv tn
Ar-chey Avnoo reform school, But
I was restrained be a frind iv
mine that I met comm over. He
was firm Massachusetts, an says
he: Don't make a disturbance
he says. We've got to create a
fav'rable impression here he says.
TIL English, he says, 'niver shows
enthusyasm.' he says. TITS re-
garded as unpolite,' he says. If We
yell,' he says, they'll think we
want to win he says, an we
didn't come over here to win,' he
says. Let us show thin, he says,
that we're gintlemen, be 1t iver so
painful he says. An / resthrain-
ed mesiif be putin me fist in me
mouth.
They was an Englishman standin'
behind me, Hinnissy, an he was
model iv behaviour FIR all Ameri-
cans intindin' to take up their
homes in Cuba. Ye cudden't get
this la-ad Warmed up ii We built
a fire under him. He had an eye
glass pinned to his face an he niver
even smiled whin young gintle-
man firm Harvard threw a sledge
hammer wan mile, two inches. A
fine la-ad. that Harvard man, but
IL THROWN tn hammers sport,
thin tn rowlin' mills is th athletic
cinter iv our BELOVED country.
Whin an Englishman jumped fur
Their thin another ia-ad. me frind
tn Ice-box. says he: .H'yah. h'yah.
So whin an American la-ad lept up
in tn air as though he'd been
caught be tn anchor II q balloon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

& dlnnaw about that. : said Mr..
DooIey, 81 dinnaw about that:
afther ye leftto investigate tn i'm
boundaries an other Picturesque
rooms " this misguided country,
wint out to give a few rahs FIR
me fellow coleajens, who was
attimptin' to dimonsthrate their
superiority over tn effete schol-
ars iv England at what / see be.
tn pa-apers is called tn 0lynpian
games. Ye get to tn Olympian
games be suffocation in tunnel.
Whin We come to. We pay four
shillin's or dollar in our degraded
currency, an stand in tn sun an
look at tn Prince iy Wales. TIL
Prince iv Wales looks at ye, too,
but he don't see We.
Ne frind, til American ambas-
Eadcr was there, an nanny iv tn
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

pretinded affection IN these people
81 rs, be says. an afther Ell we've
done r. thin III Alaska an Ian
iverywhere, he says, an thin
sellin' u coal whin they might've
sold 1t to tn spanyards il til
Spanyards'd had tn money he
says, to see tn conduct iv that
course an brutal Englishman
tn wan that won tn trace p says
/. Yes, he says. No. I mean tn
wan that damned me with his
cane he says. II it hadn't BEEN
he says. that we're united, h
says, Be a common pathrimony,'
he says, I'd We had his life,' he
says. 'Ye wud so, says l. an we're
fright. ! says. If all tn la-ads
enthered into tn Traces with tn
same spirit We show now / says,
tn English fiag'd be dhroopin'
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gr-reat rassler an whin he had
full Nelson on. tn foolish man that
whit again him, he used TO say,
Dear me, am ] breakin' we're neck,
! hope SO.
But tn Massachusetts man
didn't see it that way. An some
time tell We. Hinnissy. an Eng
manll put tn shot wan tut sur-
Their than wan iv our men-th'
Lord save US firm tn disgrace!-
an tn mex day well invade
Canada"
I'VE ought to do it, anyhow" said
Mr.. Hennessy stoutly.
we wud." said Mr. Dooley, .if
we were sure We cud lave it afther-
wards.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

Practically nothing is wasted in these
progressive days in the process Of con-
verting raw material into the manu-
featured product. What was refuse a
Jew years ago is now valuable commo-
dity, bringing profit to the manufac-
tureT instead Of loss.
The great oil trust turns to profitable
use the refuse Of it's crude petroleum
after all Its products for lighting, heat
ing, lubficatlng and healing have been
drawn from 1t.
That refuse was a nuisance to the re-
finer and to the neighbors whose mis-
fortune 1t was to dwell within breathing
distance CT the refineries. It had to be
disposed of somehow, and the how was
usually so offensive to thesconamunity,
and many lawsuits and injunctions
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

waited a full year before putting the
Gil system in use on the Long Island
roadbeds, so as to determine whether
or not the owners of the patents were
entitled legally to the royalties de-
nanded. The most able patent law
yers in the country were engaged to
hunt up the records, the result Of their
research being the opinion that the
novelty of the idea entitled the patent
covering it to full protection under the
laws, and that the patentees can col
lect royalties legally. That much hav-
ing been settled definitely, the Long
Island Railroad started an active cam
paign against the dust early in 1898.
The operating train consists Of q To-
connective and two fat cars, the first Of
which carries the immense oil tank,
connected by piping to the second car,
which carries the oil distributing ap-
paratus, as shown in the illustration.
The sketches show also the differ
ence in dust effect between the ordi-
nary roadbed and one that has been
subjected to the crude oil treatment.
In the latter case passenger car win
dows may be left open without discom-
fort in hot weather.
MR.. BALDWIN'S CONlMENDATION.
Mr.. Baldwin says: 1T has been
demonstrated satisfactorily that the
sprinkhng of crude oil along the
stretches of railroad track where It is
not practicable for one reason or az
other to ballast with broken stone,
serves the purpose of avoiding dust
accumulation, and that it has other vir-
tues. The oil at the surface of the
roadbed prevents rain from soaking
into the earth at either side if the road
bed is graded properly. The oil acts,
too, as a preservative of the ties.
1.-THE cost of the refuse oil is about
three cents a gallon. 1t takes 1900 gal
Ions of it to sprinkle one mile, single
track. Therefore, the cost for mile is
about $50. One good sprinkling year
is enough to keep the road in dustless
condition. On the other hand, stone
ballast involves an initial outlay of
$4,000. Considering that as an invest
ment, and figuring it out at 5 per cent.
interest. the annual interest amounts
to $500. That is $40 more each year
for every mile involved; s400 every ten
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
ANOTHER GAG.

Sandy Pikes-Mister, kin yer give a poor
fellow a nickel? I've got quarter already.
but l wants 10 make It up to 20 cents.
Quinn-what do you want with 30 centsP
Sandy Pikes-T want TO see how I look.
A feRow up the street just told me I looked
like 90 cents-Chicago Daily News.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

A HOME ORNAMENT WHICH is USE
Full FOR HOLDING THE FAM
nv rANrar "
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

ical. Hence, the great oil monopoly
has two big outlets for what once was
troublesome waste, and the outlets
are growing larger every year.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

illustration
posing
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eloquent defendant The
with
which collected interesting relies ut
o ancient primitive printing
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AUCTION SALES.
By z. F. Knox. Auctioneer.


PY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF trust
O dated August 1st 1895 and recorded
in deed book No. Al. folio 516, of the land
iecords Of Alexandria city, Virginia, execut-
ed By Fannie Hall and L. H. Hail. her huE.
band, to US, and beiug thereunto requested by
the holder OF one OF the notes secured by said
trust the undersigned, will at 12 o'clock
m. on
SATURDAY,
the 10Th day OF September, ! 500,
in front of the Royal street entrance to the
Market Building, in the city of Alexandria,
Virginia offer for sale st public aucli IN, for
cash. ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND with
BUILDINGS and IMpROVEM ENTs there
on, si'usted in said city, the same being the
square of ground bounded on the east by Lee,
formerly Water street on the west by Fair.
fax street on the north by Jefier;on street.
and on the south by Greene street containing
TWO acres, more or less. All conveyancing at
the cost of the purchaser.
E. K. BUCHANAN, r...
WM. A CAsSLER. ''"''0eS'
sep1 ts
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AUCTION SALES.

X OVERNEENT PROPERTY FOB SALE.
VI There will be sold at st. Asaph. Va.
between Washington and Alexandria),
September a. 1899, at ten
o'clock m., and continued from day to day
until sale is completed. about go heavy draft
horses. 10 fine Mares 300 to 400 mules
Surplus no longer required for service). 32
horses 9 mules (I. CT Al wagons, 236 sets
of harness and other supplies and equipage.
Information furnished on application TO E.
81 PARSONS, a. Q. NJ. Vols. (P. o Alexan.
dria, Va. aug31 ,sep2, s., ,S,11.13
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Saturday..

SATURDtY
the 10th day Of eptember. 1899
in front OF the Royal street entrance 10 the
Market Building, in the city of Alexandria,
Va, offer for sale al public auction, for cash,
the following real estate situated in said city:
First: All those FOUR FRAME DWELL
ING HOUSES and LOTS OF GROUND, num-
bored 500, SOP. 504 aud SOC, south Patrick
street. described as follows: beginning at the
intersection Of the cast sdo OF Patrick street
with the south side of Wilkes street and run.
ming theLce south OH Pair ok street 81 feet 3
inches thence east parallel to .ilEes street
SO fest to q ten 'ect alley ; thence Lorth par
allei to Patri,k k st-eet 81 feet 3 inches to
Wi kcs street, and thence west on Wilkes
street So feet to the beginning. with all rights
and appnrfenanccs TO the same belonging.
Second: q Il those FOUR FRAME DWELL
ING HOUSES aud lots OF GKOOND mum.
bered 516 5lS $40 and 522 south Patrick
street, described as follows eginning on the
east side OF Patrick street 10 feet, more or
less, south Of Wilkes street; thence south on
Patrick street 56 fest I inches, more or less.
to the centre Of the square; thence east par
al el to Wilkes street S6 feet to an alley 10
feet wide thence north parallel to Pa rick
street 56 feet I inches. more or less, and then
west S6 feet TO the beginning with all rights
and appurtenances to the same belonging.
Third: LII those TIL Rec FRAME DWELL
ING HOUSES and LOTS OF GROUND mum
bered 9OS, $40 and 912 Wilkes street, de-
scribed as follows: Beginning on the south
side Of Wilkes street at the east line Of q teu.
feet alley 96 feet, more or less, east of Patrick
street thence east on Wilkes street 27 feet
inches to the centre of the square; thence
south parallel TO Patrick street 116 feet
inches thence west parallel to Wilkes street
27 feet 5 inches to said ten-feet alley, and
then north 176 feet 7 inches to the begin.
ming, with ali rights and appurtersnces to the
same belonging.
All of TIE above houses are occupied and
rent well, and are good paying investment
All cOnveysnciEg at the cost of purchaser.
JAMES B CATION, Trustee.
Any reliable purchaser at the sale can SO.
cure a loan at 6 per cent. for two years for
80 per cent. of the selling price of said prop
crty, to be secured by deed of trust.
sep1 is JAMES &. CATION.
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