Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-10
The Defeat of Mazet Accomplished
by o. apt Means.
TROUBLES OF BIOGRAPH ARTISTS
Excitement i'm the G. A. r. Over
Incident in Dewey Parade.
SIR GUYS BIG WINNINGS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

yet at all COSTS as 1893 votes-about half
the number of colonists estimated to have
been moved into the district by the Tam
many managers. The other half was
scared away.
The result was not a surprise. 1t was
foreseen when the district was invaded by
an army of negroes from the tenderloin,
wearing Tammany badges. sent there to
influence the 600 and odd negro votes.
This coupled with a mighty roll, said
to have been $4,000, and spent like water
showed that Tammany was determined to
act up to it's original plan. Tammany
moved every influence at its command to
accomplish Mazet's defeat, and the loss of
q half dozen ordinary district would have
caused less regret at the democratic club
than the election of Mazet. Many prose-
cutiOl:s will follow, and 1t will he long
time before the aftermath of what the
Mazet managers declare to have been the
most bare-faCed conspiracy to steal dis
trict ever known in the city is over.
The real object Of Iammany in seeking
the defeat of MaZe,-to prevent his making
legislatiOn-Will not be accomplished. The
Mazet committee, il is announced, Will pur-
sue its work to the finish, and Mr.. Mazets
part of presenting the committees work to
the Legislature will be taken by some one
of his republican assOcia tes-Mr Fellows,
Mr.. Costello or Mr.. Wilson. Neither of the
two democratic members. Hoffman and b.
land. will be in the next assembly.
Ii is said by republicans that instead of
crippling the work of the committee before
the next assembly. the defeat of Mazet has
simply added force to 1t. 1t has, they say
called attention more forcibly than ever to
the need of some check to the shameless
rule of Tammany.
Troubles of the Biograph Artists.
The Biograph Company which made such
careful and elaborate preparations to take
moving pictures of the Jeffries-Sharkey
prize fight, is likely to find its plans baked
and all its costly work worthless.
Another moving picture concern, by
remarkable and secretly carried out plan,
obtained views of the battle, it declares,
and the report is that this company, having
copyrighted it's pictures, will ask for in
junction against the biograph people. The
Edison moving picture machines are said
to have been used for making the films.
The plan by which, it is said, they were
taken into the COney Island Club House on
Friday night and operated during the fight
scores remarkable scientific achievement.
According to the story each man smuggled
into the building a machine strapped about
his waist and concealed by his wearing a
macintosh with white cape. The opera
tors had S15 seats on the meZZanine floor,
where they had good views of the roped
arena. They worked their machines with
hand cranks. Each man wore a bright new
Fedora hat. Operator No l took round
No. 1, and when 1t was over raised
his hat nat. as signal ..d to operator
No. took up the work So each round
was caught, the operator at work throwing
up his hat if anything went wrong and it
was necessary for the next man to begin
work in the middle of round In this way
the fight was caught on thousands of feet
of film.
When the battle was over, says the
story, the machines and films We're rushed
q n "a a r1n Hnfa al
where they We're developed in a hurry and
a set of the pictures was rushed off to
Washington by the first train and copy
righted. 1t will be several days before the
biograph company's pictures are developed.
In the meantime its opponents are trying
to make contracts for exhibitions and the
report says they will start an agent to Eng
land this week. The biograph company
were 400 arc lights. four big machines. fir-
teen operators and ten miles of film. The
electric current alone cost $3.50.
Excitement In the G. A. r..
A general order, recently issued by De-
partment Commander Joseph W. Kay of
the Grand Army of the Republic, order
ing all post commanders to send to him at
department headquarters the names and
addresses of members of their commands
who took part in the Dewey parade wear
ing their uniforms or badges, has created
a great deal of excitement in CT. A. K. cir
Giles. Commander Kay, when at his
home in Brooklyn, expressed much sur
prise that his order should have been made
public, and said that he intended it purely
as a department matter
He said that he was aware of the fact
that Lafayette Post, G. a. r., had had a
number of copies of the order printed and
he believed 1t was of these copies that
given to the public.
THE trouble over the Dewey parade"
says Commander Kay, lis due to the fail
ure of General Roe and others to appre-
ciate the obligation Of Grand Army men
to their order. The Grand Army was
treated with scant consideration by those
who had charge of the arrangements for
the parade
Indeed, it was impossible to accept with
dignity the invitation to parade, and so
the invitation was declined. Not only this,
but We felt it incumbent upon us to show
how We regarded the matter by ordering
members of the Grand Army in this de-
partment to refrain from taking any part
in the parade.
General Roe is a Grand Army man only
because he was at the Military Academy in
1864 The organization of the Grand Army
of the Republic" continues Commander
Kay, lis modelled upon that of the regular
army. Especially do we require of all that
orders be implicitly obeyed and all the
members are pledged accordingly.
Gen. o. o. Howard an ordinary comrade
from Vermont post, knows this as well
as l do, and he was fully cogniZant of
the order that no G.. A. r. man should par
ticipate in the parade. Yet he led an I'M
armed division of the CT A. r. men. Men,
bers of Lafayette Post and others also set
out deliberately to induce Grand Army men
to disregard the order of their superiors
Such men, we hold, are subjects for dis
cipline, and they will be punished
Sir Guys Winnings.
When the big, awkward bay colt Sir Guy
galoped past the judges an easy winner in
the last race at Aqueduct the other day his
owner, w. NJ Barrick, was richer by $780,
600 for the victory. Barrick will probably
be remembered as the winner of more than
$4,000 from Tenderlon faro banks two
weeks ago. With this money he bought
several horses. For one of them, McMeekin,
he paid $4,000 to ]. E. Madden. Barrick
backed McMeekin and McMeekn lost.
He bought some other horses and backed
them, and they lost. He bet on his two
year-old, Sir Guy, and Sir Guy fell and
nearly killed his jockey. When the last
race referred to came round, the bookies,
who had been accepting all these losing
wagers from Barrick, smiled when he be-
gan backing Sir Guy again, this time at so
to /. Presently the odds went down to 10
to 1, then to 30 to 1, finally to Is to 1.
II stand to win $35 co.," said Barrick as
the horses went to the post. Every book in
the ring suffered. George Wheelock laid one
bet of 5000 to $1OO; Max Blumenthal bet
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