The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-30
THE WEEK
~ NEW YORK

Ew YoGsK. ApriI A-The
teoethEext win he represented
= 4 uD&y r~mAFkAbie ray IN
the coming snsernAtiouai race
hefneeu - assHrock ard the
ColumhaA. The spar and bcom OF tee
fcrnns- are TO be made OF timber from
Vancouver island and the boom ct the
latter Is TO be 81 Douglas spruce. The
big race il heGsnnsnK to attract general
attention. The Nsw York yachssnisn are
ali anxious tina, there shall be nothing
unsatisfactory about the contest a. they
have the Dunraxsn incident In mind. and
the conditions win be made a. fair ~
possible. Sir Thomas Upton has accepted
the invitation Of tie Atlantic Yacht Club
TO make hts headquarters At Sea Gate
The contest Is TO be remarkable Tor the
number OF prominen, Englkesmen who
viii come over WITH tas challenger. TIE
party VIII include Lord Charles Beresford
and Lord Chief Justice Russell. and New
York society Il in training for their visit
Nex York sports saw the nghs OF the
century at the rooms Of the New Broadway
Athletic Club on Friday night II was
between Jimmy Handler. protege of Bob
Fysxsimmons. and Dick OBrsen. who lick
ed The Coffee Cooler In England some
tinae ago. I, WAS q whirswand from the
starr and for pace has never been eQuaied
In q ring in America Both men took
terrible punishment and showed marvel
eue endurance and II was anyoofsy's fight
TO the end. Every round Was regarded
a. the last ny the wildly excited crowd
iha. surrounded the ring yet /, went on
for nearly an hour before o'Brien's Sec
onds took him from the ring. George
Considine brother OF John Considsne. Of
Seattle. was timekeeper of the contest
XyyILLdAM J. BRYAN Is at outs
w with a large number OF the work.
Ing newspaper people, and according 10
the latter the ofYense IL all on one side.
IL all came about over two alleged
speeches. When Bryan started East he
opened the ball at Milwaukee, where he
addressed q large gathering. As Is Gus
tomary he gave out advance copies OF the
speech and almost before he had begun
tbs delivery the leased wires Of the Asso-
ciated Press had flashed II all over the
country. IT contained lot OF silver ut
terances which IL developed afterward
were never delivered. 1t seems that the
crowd was not Of silver tendencies and
on the advice Of the committee Bryan
had gone into the subject very lightly.
When an explanation was asked Bryan
sid something about II being a little
mistake When he left Philadelphia for
New York where he was to deliver an adj
dress at the famous dollar dinner an A.
ISOLATED Press reporter accompanied him
and on the way up Bryan dictated
speech which he said he would deliver
that night, The notes We're Transcribed.
but the Associated Press not 10 be caught
again held the speech until night sure
enough Bryan delivered entirely differ
ent speech. When asked again for an ex-
PLANTATION he smiled and said tina. he was
juA giving the press a little copy for ear
~ editions. He smilingiy said that he had
been newspaper man himself and knew
the game. In future advance copies OF
Rryan.s speeches Will go into the waste
basket and ssenographers will take his
actual remarks. Nearly every orator OF
note ohliges the press with advance copies
and instances Of "fhrow-downs" are very
rare.
TT big Bin LANCE keeps up the pace at
l. which he started he will again finish
among the leaders in batting, base run
ming and fielding In the National league.
He II hitting the ball very hard and for
his size IS q marvel along the base lines.
He Is one OF the popular men ofsthe big
league and il almost well received on
the circuit as at Chicago. LANCE IS not
very popular with few of the men who
own stock in the Chicago team and there
trade him of The protest amounted TO
rear and LANCE was retired. 1t doesn't
seem so long go that LANCE. great
raw. boned toe-headei boy came 10 Seat
tie with the Port Townsend team ana
played his first professional game He
had just been given watch by group
OF those proyerbiaiiy pretty Port Town
send girls and was very proud of II. He
still carries the timepsece and Is stu very
proud OF IL.
PEAKING OF baseball brings TO mind
~ a very remarkable state OF affairs In
New York 10 the national game. The
New York team II In unpopular hands ana
has been made such a commercial venture
that the sport is dead Practically no one
goes 10 the Polo grounds these days while
In every other city in the league the ar
tendance Is immense. New York is the
largss, city. yet 1t has the smallest base
BAH crowds All the old Manhattan fol-
lowers OF the game go 10 Brooklyn.
A cfYor; has already been made to
~ induce the nayy department to
bring the bodies Of Lieut.. Landslide aud
Ensign Monaghan home from Samoa,
whore they fell before the bullets OF the
Mataafa rebels and IL Is very probable
that the navy Departing will gran, the
body OF Lansdsie Will probably be buried
at San Francisco ani that OF Monaghan
al Spokane There has been a lot cf senti-
mental talk about Eng.ishmen and Amer
leans refusing 20 retreat and DYING to-
getaer, but cool critical examination Of
the facts rather takes The sentiment out
~ The iaciaen. and creates the impression,
that somebody erred or was cowsr,fly
Landslide and Monaghan were evidently
fighting bat the same can hardly be said
as 30 MI OF the rest NJ the party that
numbered over Il" A. Washington they
are waiting sor full official dispatches
CELLS circus which In the oiden DAYS
~ paid an annual visit 10 sHs North
west. ~ the tag amusement attraction lust
NJ present 1t has Of coIree been erlarz.
81 and there hss Sear a fasning Of forces
with she Bailey people and II makes one
OF the b@sg SHOWS ever seen here There