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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-25

Dr. w. W. Parker is quite sick at his
home on north Third street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-25

The last tea Of the season VIII Poe given
at The Woman's club on Monday after
noon from nye O. eight O'Clock. Tho
club rooms win be kept open during july
but there viii be no more meetings unui
the fan.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-25

Cadet Beverly lewis Of the V NJ J..
returned % the city Friday and will spend
his vacation with rls grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. W J. Westwood.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-25

Mrs. John Dooiey. Miss Alice Do0ley
Mrs. Josephine Houston and Miss Nora
Houston leave tomorrow for the pic
Sweet Springs.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-25

Mrs William W. HAYNES IS spending the
summer ia Middlescx and King and queen
c0untlca
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-06-25

Mrs. clayton g. Coleman and Misses
Lucy and carrie Coleman left last week
Cor their summer home ia Louisa county.
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19

made $500 in his whole life although
his family have plenty of money. Tom
Cooper is accredited with being rich
but he had a disastrous season last
year and never made what the public
thinks he made.
The palmy days of professional rae
ing are over and gone never TO return
and it is better so. The sport had de-
generated. The old crowd of amateurs
who We're true sportsmen and nothing
else, gave way to a class who bought
and sold races. One man would pock-
ct or upset a rival for the sake Of a
bribe. Corrupt judges gave out fake
records, The bicycle manufacturers
have done well to refuse longer to
countenance that sort of thing.
The only kind of racing that interests
the public now Is local amateur racing.
In many places, there is the keenest
competition between the cracks Of diff
ferent towns. 1t Is that way with the
towns Of Gardner, Winchendon and
Athol in Worcester county. Each town
has several star riders and local pride
enters into the contest. Aside from such
contests. there is little interest in rae
ing. Not long ago, great popular inter-
est was taken in the Springfield races
and the names Of Cooper. Bald and But
Ter were on everybody's tongue. Now
such racing is viewed with apathy.
Professional racing is bound to die a
natural death, now that the manufaC-
turers have withdrawn support Pac-
ing and training cost much money and
purses offer no adequate recompense.
The average pay Of a professional up
to 81 was $50 a week salary with the
expenses Of trainer and manager de-
frayed into the bargain. The highest
salary ever paid to racing man was
that paid John s. johnson by the
Stearns company in 1893. Johnson got
Sl00 week and expenses.
johnson was in his day without a
peer But he is now off the track So is
Zimmerman. Butler no longer has any
speed. Cooper and Bald are not what
they used to be, and Major Taylor
seems to be about the only first class
professional left.
Mr.. Gleezen has no use for the crowds
who attend six day races. They are not
sportsmen, he says. but the same class
that attend cock fights and prize fights.
They go only to see men fall from their,
wheels in faint. He once took a racing
team to Mexico and the only time O.
Mexican appeared pleased was when
some rider met with an accident and
blood flowed. Then they applauded.
1t is the same spirit he SAYS, that
attracts people to six day races. He
greatly doubts Mller"s big score in tn
recent San FRANCISCO race. Il once knew
a case" said Mr.. Gleezen, where the
attendance dropped off and the MARKERS
scored two miles where enc was ridden.
This policy increased the attendance
next day. I don't believe Miller ever
rode more than 1900 miles in six days"
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19
oF WIDE INTEREST

Athol Mass March s, 1s93--Lydia NJ.
Wheeler Of this place was troubled for
several months with dyspepsia she
could not eat anything without suffering
distress. She began taking Hoods Sar-
saparilla, and 1t has entirely cured her.
'The best pill I ever used" Is the fire.
quent remark of purchasers of Carter :
Ldttle Liver Pills. When you try them
you will say tho same.
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19
Professional Ny Gle
lIacing.
GLtEZEN TALKS.
Taylor is the Greatest Man
on the Track.

Major Taylor is beyond question
the fastest sprinter ever known to the
racing world. He is the peer of Butler
in his best days. He is a wonderful
rider. / am free to say that ne is the
only professional in the country who
still finds racing profitable lie is the
only noted rider now on the track, who
is fresh ana as good as he ever was"
That is Dad Gleezen's estimate of
Worcesters greatest rider.
Dad" Gleezen is one Of the few vet
eran racing men who have kept in ac-
tive touch with racers from the earliest
days of the old ordinary down to the
present time. In his day he was one of
the best known racers in the country.
At present he is New England agent
for the Stearns bicycle. What he does
not know about racing and the bicy-
Gle business is not worth knowing. He
entertained a large crowd of friends
one evening last week at Lud Have
ners, relating anecdotes and expert
ences.
AiOLe9HtullaI RACING - ueddt uedu III
ever said Mr.. GleeZen. Not one BIZ
cycle manufacturer in the country will
hire a racing team or crack rider this
season. In the old days when they
got SlO0 for a wheel, they could afford
to pay the cracks good salaries. Now
they no longer do SO and even the
stars cannot live on the precarious
means of existence afforded by purses
No rider can live on purses. The fabu
lous amounts said to have been earned
by the crack racers are mere press
agent stories like the accounts Of the
princely salary OF a. theatrical troupe's
leading lady.
Take Steenson. One day last sum-
nler all he made out Of race was $50.
His pacing cost $500. The pace-makers
make all the money. Harry Elkes was
stranded m New York. Bald never
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19

ployment during the middle of the
night, nevertheless there is much of
an interesting nature that goes over
the wires at night in the way of i'm
pFCmptu concerts. A few years ago be-
Tore the rules Were drawn as fine as
they are at the present time, it was
an almost nightly occurrence for some
OF the night men in the different ex-
change offices to provide entertainment
for their fellow operators.
There was plenty Of talent in the
dlfrerent offices. In one Office an oper-
ator had a friend employed in a music
store next door to the office and two
or three evenings a week after the rush
of business was over, the signal would
be given that a concert was ready, and
within the space of very few min
utes most of the all night Offices in New
England and often times New York as
well, would be connected and enjoying
popular songs with piano accompari-
ments.
Still another operator was possessed
of an auto-harp and a fine tenor voice
while banjo and harmonica solos were
common attraction, The funniest
thing in connection with the whole
performance, however, was a night man
who occupied a room in the rear of the
public station in a Springfield suburb.
This individual was always figured out
by the boys as "rube." He would keep
awake nights for the privilege of call
ing up young woman who worked un-
til midnight in neighboring exchange
office, and after telling hard luck
story, would recite poetry for the
young wornans entertainment. Every
operator was switched on as matter
Of course, and as a general thing
wound up by guying the poet unmerci-
fully.
Several newspaper reporters gathered
about music box in a local restau-
rant few nights ago and after Sc
curing the combination which did away
with placing money in the slot to make
the machine run, called up the central
office and started it. Events of this
sort are not infrequent, and taken as
a whole. there are many things that
go to brighten the existence of the night
telephone operator.
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19

Dr. Marie Merge
the
Medical
believes
soft S ohavep
of
Momans Medical College
of
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19

tAiC ilFNN 9ldpNi OlDftSs anu III Sbilt VIZ
les, extras" were got out Saturday
night containing just these few bold
facts, and they sold literally like hot
cakes, for almost any price the news
boys dared to ask. But the great story
Of the tragedy graphically descriptive
and circumstantially complete was ac-
tually sent by cable to the cities Of
America and Australia, and was pub
lished and read by the transoceanic mil
lions, "a hours before the masses of
Great Britain and Ireland were given
chance to read the narrative in all its
astounding detail!
Going some years farther back for an
other illustration there. comes to mind
the sensational transaction that passed
between Benjamin Disraell and Baron
De Rothschild, when the former pur-
chased on a Saturday afternoon in the
early '70's, the controlling interest In
the Suez canal, and thus gained for
England the practical ownership of that
important waterway, that was con-
ceived and constructed by French ge-
MUS and French gold. The people of
New York read all about that bold
stroke Of the shrewd Anglo Hebrew
prime minister, on Sunday morning
while the people Of London remained in
ignorance of the news till the following
day.
But all is not slowness, by any means
with the British press, during the other
six days of the week. While news is not
sought after so alertly and so closely as
II is by the press of this country, there
Is yet vast amount of energy and en-
terprtse and variety of resources stored
up in the transatlantic newspaper
office. And when great occasion arises
which calls for extraordinary display
of these qualities, the British editor can
give the world a demonstration at
which no American newspaper maker
could afford to sneer
Gladstones memorable speech on
home rule at Liverpool in 1886, is case
in point. Every leading newspaper III
the English-s speaking world wanted a
large portion, and some every word of
that address, in which it was known
beforehand for weeks the premier would
outline his new Irish policy and not
only as d me minister. but as leader of
the great liberal party, attack repudate
and abandon for ever the policy of CO.
ercion. Some days before the meeting
| it was learned that Mr.. Gladstone was
| not going to have manuscript. that he
would speak without notes, and there
| fore it would be necessary for the
| shorthand men to take him as he spoke.
Nothing but verbatim report would
satisfy the British or Irish papers and
the New York Herald also wanted every
syllable sent by cable. The heaviest
share of the burden fell on the three
Liverpool dailles, the Daily Post. the
Mercury and the Courier. Each printed
an extra afternoon edition, and the task
set the staffs of those papers was to get
a verbatim report OF the speech into the
evening issue.
The meeting opened at 2.3O in the
afternoon and IL WAS q Faut noinrIts G
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19

OF these two, one was a daughter of
the Orient, the other a daughter Of the
Occident; but they were both women.
and, as the Dutch prettily have i, the
don't buy their wives In your country"
the daughter Of the Orient repeated in
credulously
dent proudly, "Why sometimes they
don't even buy tlIstt' own neck1es P-De-
trot Journal.
The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19

When you suffer from sick headache
dizziness, constipation. etc remenber
Carter,,s Little Liver Pills will relieve YOU
One pill a dose.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
EMPERoR's THANKS TO WHITE.
Continued from First Page.

Continued from First Page.
dispatches, published yesterday by the
Relchsanzeiger, saying that they bear out
the former German official statement and
hatiy contradict the essential points OF
Mr.. Chambers letters The Nossjsche
Zeitung thinks the documents show the
German officials in Samoa have strictly
adhered to the Berlin treaty, and the Co
logne Nolks-Zeitung Teproduces the YER
sion of the affair credited to Mr.. II. 1.
Moore, an American merchant at Apia,
saying it fully corrobOrates the German
contentious
A number of papers attack the govern
ments so-called concessions at Manila.
The Rhenish West Phaiian ZeItung says
the withdrawal of German ships is mex
ptieable, ''as the danger to German life
and property in the Philippines is more
imminent now than in 1898. "
The paper also condemns the superces-
sion Of Admiral Won Diedrichs, and asks
If the admiral IS now to be thrown upon
the scrap iron heap merely because the
foreign office suddenly feels the necessity
of becoming friendly with the Americans.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
LOCAL Personal.

Mr.. J. II. Davidson of Thonasvlle is at
the Pulaski.
Mr. John l.. Coleman of Atlanta was a
guest of the Pulaski on yesterday.
Mr. L. E. Floyd of Chipley was among
yesterdays arrivals at the Pulaski
DR.. w. b. Millmer of Greenwood, S. G..
spent yesterday in the city, and was reg
istered at the Pulaski.
Mai John Cunningham of Marietta is
visiting his old home. The major was for
more than a third of a century one of
Savennah's most prominent merchants.
Mr. W. d. Champion is quite i'll at his
home, No 1912 Bull street. For a week
lie has been suffering from nervous pros
tration. His friends trust he viii soon be
himself again
DR.. r. B. Burroughs of Jacksonville is
visiting his brother, John w. Burroughs.
Esq, at Isle of Hope. DIR. Burroughs Is a
Savannahian by birth, but has lived for
many years in Florida, where he is one
OF the best known men in medical and
political circles.
The Students Art League win give a
concert at the Guards hall Thursday
March %. under the auspices of the Sa-
vannah Music Club. A programme OF
great interest has been arranged The
most talented members of the club will
take part which win undoubtedly insure
its success.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
H u M P H RE VS.
FLOWERS IN THE PARKS.
Park and Tree hoard VIII Next At
tend to This Feature of It's Work.

Park and Tree board VIII Next At
tend TO This Feature of Its Work.
The Park and Tree Commission has about
completed its work of planting for the
ason. The next work viii be the setting
out of flowers, which viii demand the at
tention of the commission for several
weeks.
There is an ample supply of plants and
flowers in the city's green house on Bar
nard street. so that the parks will soon
take on a pretty and attractive appearance.
While the cut i'm the commissioners ap-
preparation for this year win interfere with
the original plans, which were to expend a
considerable sum in beautifying the parks
with flowers. it is stated II will be able to
make a good showing. Forsyth and Colo
NAL parks will be given the larger share
of flowers the commission will have to dis
tribute.
Chairman Daffin is again at the head of
the commission, having returned after a
short absence from the city. When there
is any special work to be done, Chairman
Daffin gives it his whole attention. The
good taste he has displayed in improving
the parks is enough to insure that he will
see The flowers properly set out.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
SMALLPOX WE'LL CoRRALLED.
Acting Mayor Tiedeman Says Every
PFecautiOn Has Been Taken,

Acting Mayor Tiedeman Says Every
PFecautiOn Has Been Taken.
Acting Mayor Tiedeman was at the city
exchange yesterday in place of Mayor My
erss who is out of the city on business.
Mayor Myers is expected to return to-
morrow.
The acting Mayor was asked about the
development Of smallpox, and repeated
the assurances he recently gave the public
through the Morning News, that the facts
viii be. given out. He said there is no
effort on the part of the city to conceal
information of this kind, but the health
authorities desire to guard against exag-
geFations. There Is no doubt the acting
Mayor said, about the authorities having
complete control of the situation, and the
few cases that have developed have been
so thoroughly isolated that there can be
no possibility Of further infection.
Acting Mayor Tiedeman said there are
no cases TO his knowledge which have
not already been announced in the pa
pers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
shad in the satiIin,

Waycross, Ga, March 1.-THE govern
ment put several million young shad into
the Satlla river at the Plant System
Railroad bridge about FIVE years ago. Late
ly parties have reported seeing shad I'm
the river a few miles below this city, and
1t is believed the stream has good supply
of the fish.
John Mccall. an Appling county darlxey,
has regular rattlesnake dog He will
trail and tree rattlesnakes and will point
them as an ordinary dog would point A
covey of birds The past three years the
negro is said to have killed "a big rattle.
snakes with the aid of his dog.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
FOUND IN AN INDIAN MOUND.
VIII Startling Acquitted of the
Charge of Murder.

Charge of Murder.
Valdcsta, Ga, March n.-Mr. L. A.
Halnes ran upon an old Indian mound at
his place this week, and decided that he
would dig into it and see what could be
found. To his surprise, he found the skel-
of pots and vessels, one of which was
made of bone, and very much resembled
a crucible for melting gold. 1t was glazed
with a substance much like mother-of-
pearl in It's variety of its colors. The skel-
eton and some of the ware were brought
to the city.
The commitment trial of win Startling
for killing Reuben Oliver in Echols coun-
ty last fall was held at Tarver this week
and Startling was released from custody
il being proven that the killing was done
in self-defense. The two men had been at
outs for some time. and when they met
near Haylow Oliver opened upon Starting
who was struck three times and seriously
wounded before he began to shoot. His
aim was clear, and when the smoke clear
ed away Oliver was dead. Starling's
wounds were thought to be mortal and
he was carried home. He has recovered
since then, and he was put upon commit
ment trial before Justice d. r. Stevens
Wednesday.
The door, sash and blind factory of the
johnson Lumber Company was sold at
public outcry this week. The building and
grounds were bought for Messrs w. l..
w. F. and r. L. Thomas, and it is an
nounced now that the place is to be fitted
out with new and improved machinery,
and operated regularly in the future.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12

NEW COLONY NEAR PALATKA.
Receiver Appointed for COrdeIe's
National Bank.

Macon, Ga, March 11.-Maj. Glessner
immigration agent of the Georgia South
ern and Florida, has just sold 5000 acres
of land near Palatka, Fla, to a sugar
growing colony from Michigan. They Will
raise cane and manufacture products.
Families are already arriving there, ten
thousand acres having been bought up by
individual members of the colony.
Judge Speer to-day appointed Iverson l..
Harris receiver of the First National Bank
of Cordele on the petition of Hall and
Wimberly and Thompson & Whippe of
Cordele. He has gone from Macon to take
charge. The capital stock of the bank is
$4,000 Insolvency is alleged.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
Many Inquiries About the Presi-
dents Coming visit.

Townsville, Ga, March 11.-General
superintendent B. Durham, Division Sup
eritendent S. S. Fitzsimmons and Col. A.
A. Wiley, all of the Plant System. have
been inspecting the company's property
here. Several new side tracks will be put
in as a result. These are necessary TO
accommodate the increase in business
Col. Wiley has just returned from Sam
tiago, where he held a commission as col
onel of volunteers. Col Wiley Is one of
the most genial men and fine story tel
Ter. and he comes back to the states with
a fresh stock of jokes.
Newspapers from all over the country
are sending here for information about
Townsville, preparatory to the Presi-
dents visit The hotels and boarding
houses are fun Of people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
MIAMI TOURNAMENT CLOSED.
Merrill of Boston Takes Champion
ship From Ballard.

Miami. Fla, March 1.-THE Miami
events of the annual tournament of the
Florida East Coast Golf Club closed to-
day. In the finals for the Miami cham
pionship, Merrill of Boston beat Ballard
one up. The match was close throughout.
neither player being more than one up aft
er the third hole. on the eighteenth and
final hole, with the score tied Merrill
made a fine approach, then an excellent
put, winning the match by the stroke.
In the finals for the consolation Gun.
Sutherland of New York beat Maddox
OF Brooklyn and Palm Beach, the cham
pion of the South, four up and three to
play. This play attracted much interest.
and the outcome was a complete surprise.
The winners of the Miami cups are NIer-
ril, first championships Ballard. second
prize. and Maddox, the qualification prize
on gross score; Lind of New York. handl-
cap cup for best net score, and Sutherland
the consolation prize.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
BROOKLYN AND BALTIMORE.
Official Lists of the Two Great Base
Ball Teams.

New York, March 11.-Manager Edward
Hanlon of Brooklyn gave out the official
lists of the Brooklyn and Baltimore teams
to-day, as follows:
Observation-Disclosures, Kennedy, Yeager,
Dunn, McJames, Maui, Hughes, Castor;
catchers, Grimm, Heydon, Crisham;
inhelders, Mccain, Daily, Jennings, Dab
len, Cassidy, Magoon; outielders, Jones,
Kelly, Keller, Anderson.
Observation-Disclosures, Nops, Kitson, Nc
Farland, Miller, McKenna, McGinnerty;
catchers. Robinson, Ryan, Smith; infeld-
ers, LaChance, O'Brien, Keister, McGraw;
outfielders. Sheckard, Brodie Holmes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
POOL ROOM LOST HEAVILY.
Races Played by Friends of Men
Who Tapped the Wire.

Who Tapped the Wire.
Scranton, Pa, March 1.-THE tapping
Of a wire between this city and New York
city yesterday cost the pool room men Of
Scranton and Wilkesbarre s., 500.
The races were literally played and
there were many surprises when 1t was
announced that Barataria at to 1; Friar
John, at to J. and Memo at 80 to l.
were the winners of big races. The bet
ting had been heavy. and in this city the
pool room lost over 300.
The discovery that the wires had been
tapped was not made until too late. and
row the bettors on the winning horses
will have their claims satisfied at a fur
Their loss to the pool room men.
Where the wire was tapped is not known.
The horses staked at heavy odds were
made winners by the wire-tappers, and
their friends literally backed the right
ones.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
Colored Ministers Oreanige.

Waycross. March 1.-THE colored min
listers of this city have organized for the
purpose of taking up matters pertaining to
the material and moral welfare of their
race. The following officers were elected:
Rev. f. Snelson, president; Rev r. H.
Singleton, secretary; Rev. w. H. Styles
treasurer. Their next meeting will be held
next Wednesday at the colored school
building in Reidsville, a suburb of the
CITY
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-12
TURNED OVER TO CITY COURT.
Recorder HartrIdge Remands Three
OFFENDERS


Irwin johnson, charged with assaulting
John Hodges, and Edward WEIGH, charged
with cutting Johnson with a razor were
both turned over to the City Court by the
Recorder yesterday morning, the former
Tor assault and battery and the latter for
staoDng not in his own defense. The cir
cumstances of the difficulty, in which
Hodges and Johnson were injured. were
given In the Morning News of yesterday.
Johnson turned up in the Police Court
with his arm ia bad condition and caus-
Ing him much pain. Hodges is much i'm
proved, and with the exception of the
weakness incident 10 one who has received
so serious blow, is in good condition.
Fanny Ballard was turned over to the
CITY Court on a charge of larceny from
the house of Col. NJ. w. Dixon. Col.
Dixon is still ont several suits of clothes
by Fanny's rogueries, which her defective
memory has not allowed her to discover.