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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
WORCESTER.


Two-base hit, Yeager; stolen bases,
Yeager, Kuhns, Sharrott (2) double
play, Horton and Carr; struck out by
Kimble 2 by Horton l; first base on
balls, off Kimble /, off Horton 1; time,
III. Bonn: umpire, Wise.
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Totals .............,....29 8
PITTSBURG.

Earned runs, Boston 4, Pittsburg 8; two
bases, Hamilton, Duffy, Beaumont,
O'Brien; first base on balls, by Lewis 8,
by Sparks 4, by Hoffer 4; hit by pitched
ball, Beaumont; struck out, by Lewis 8,
and McDonald
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
WAR BETWEEN PITCHERS.

Toronto, July H-springfeld outplayed
Toronto in the game today It was a
pstchers' battle but the visitors were
much better run-getters, and with the
assistance of errors they had walk
over. Score:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
MINOR GAMES.

AT Lancaster Lancaster 4 Reading g.
At Wilkesbarre-Wilkes /, New
ark 2.
Al Notwithstanding s, Rrockton 49,
At Taunton--Taunton T. Manchester s.
AT Allentown Richmond Allentown
game postponed, wet grounds
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18

Earned run, Philadelphia; stolen bases.
Phee Thomas, Childs; sacrifice hits,
Deiehanty, Cross; two-base hits, Nc
Phillips 90; double plays, McPhee, Cor
coran, McPhee, Beckley and Corcoran;
first base on balls, Off Phillips 3, off Dono-
hue I; hit by pitcher, by Phillips j, by
Donohue /: left on bases, Cincinnati ID
philadelphia 2: time Oh. Ism; umpires,
Manassau and Smith
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18

fruit for the Orioles in the second game.
and the contest soon developed into a
farce. Schmidt and Bates exchanged no.
sitions in the fifth, and the fusilade
stopped for just one inning Scores:
R ST G AME.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
n DoIan out for Interference.


Stolen bases, Phelps, Campbell, Dolan,
Myers; two-base hits, Roat Campbell
aeuble plays, Curley and Hemming
Shannon and Hemming o. first base on
Balls, of Hardy 8, off Pappalau 2; hit by
Qltched ball, Phelps; struck out, BY
Hardly Z, by Pappalau L; left on bases
Toronto 6, Springfield g. time Oh. 15m. !;
umpire, Doescher; attendance, S0O
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
MOUNTING UPWARD.
With Hamilton in
Game Boston Wins
Again.
HIS WORK MIRACULOUS.
At Bat, On Bases and in
the Field He Leads
Them All,
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

Boston .; Pittsburg 8.
Brooklyn q; Chicago A.
Philadelphia 3; Cincinnati, 2.
Cleveland a; Baltimore 2.
Baltimore III; Cleveland @.
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LEAGUE PERCENTAGES.
EASTERN LEAGUE.
GAM eS TO-DAY.

Worcester at Syracuse; Providence at
Rochester Springfield Mt Toronto,
Hartford at Montreal.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
SOMETHING EASY,
Worcester Finds It
at Syracuse This
Time.
HORIZONS PITCHING SUPERB.
Stars Could Knock Lots Of
Pop-ups, Nothing
Else.
HORIZONS PITCHING SUPERB.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

Woreester e; Syracuse o.
Prevalence 9, Rochester 3.
Springfe1d 6, Toronto L.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18
PHILADELPHIA,
CINCINNATI.

No one out when winning run scored.
Philadelphia o O. /. 0 o 90 1-3l
Cincinnati 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 N-2I
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18

When Major Taylor and Jimmie Casey
push their tandem in the international
championships at Montreal they'll show
the way to some of the crackajacks.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-18

Walter Curley is playing great game
for the Ponies Mr., Gleason probably
wishes he hadn't kicked over the traces.
His legs were like the brick They stayed
nm
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Providence people keep wondering why
that team doesn't win Well Providence
people are not the only ones who wonder.
It's a good team and ought to stand
higher
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.

With the close of 1898 the United States
had been upon a specie or gold basis twenty
years. The resumption act was passed just
before the Republicans lost control of Con-
gross in March 1879, by almost a strict party
vote in each branch of Congress. 1t was
the last great measure Of Republican states
manship before the House. for several terms,
fell into the hands of the Democrats. In
the election Of 1874 close upon the heels of
the financial revulsion Of that year. the
Democrats carried the House and held sue
cessive Houses until that which was elected
in 1850. The three Democratic Congresses did
all in their power to repeal the resumption
act repeal bills were passed by the House,
and the Democratic rational convention of
1876 demanded it's repeal. At times the sent-
ment Of the country seemed to be against
specie resumption. Several States were
swept into the imitation heresy, but the Re
publican majority in the Senate during two
Congresses and the closeness OF third, with
the certain veto Of President Hayes, saved
the resumption act.
1t was fortunate beyond measure that the
last Republican Congress enacted the re-
sumption act as it did. Had it not taken
such action then the country would have
embarked upon the shoreless sea of paper
imitation and it's consequent ruin The Re-
publicans did not again have a majority in
the House until 1881. If specie resumption
had not been successfully accomplished on
Jan. l. 1879, it is not probable that the Re
publcans would have carried the election in
1880. Therefore no one can imagine what
would have come if the resumption act had
not been passed when it was.
In spite of all the predictions Of calamity
ites of the certain failure Of the Republican
plan to bring the country to specie payments,
business easily adjusted itself to the pro-
visions of the law. AS the date of resump-
ton approached the premium on gold melted
away. When the morning of Jan. l, 1879,
came the treasury was prepared to redeem
greenbacks with gold. The member of the
New York Exchange who three months ear
Her had declared that he would give $780, 900
for the first place in the line of those taking
greenbacIs to the subtreasury for redemp-
ton did not make his appearance. The
whole volume of the currency became as
good as gold, and industry and business
leaped into activity after four years of de-
preston. Since that date the silver agita-
ton has made war upon the gold standard,
but now. after fifth of century of gold
payments, the United States has come to an
err. of prosperity which is due largely to the
conviction that the country is firmly planted
on the gold basis. 1t is, moreover, vindi-
cation of the wisdom of Republican states
manship.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

The last Legislature provided by law for
the appointment of a committee from the
members of the Legislature-elect to visit all
of the state institutions, inquire into their
needs and report to the Legislature The
purpose in creating this committee was to
obtain data for the committees having to do
with appropriations and to place before the
Legislature accurate Information which
would enable members 10 act inteligently
For the work designed by the act Governor
Mount appointed Senator Go1dwine and
Representatives Roots and Herod. They
have performed the task in a most thorough
manner. thus establishing a precedent for
future committees. Their report will place
before the Legislature an amount of ac-
curate information that no Legislature has
ever had put before it for its guidance. Ev-
cry institution is taken up and its expendi-
lures are presented in detail, even to the
wages paid to every employee. Estimates
are based upon the expenditures of the year
which closed last October. The recommend
atoms for the extensions of buildings are
fully explained.
The information which this committee has
collected should take the place of the vista
tions of large committees and the examina-
ton of trustees and superintendent by the
ways and means committee. Indeed it is
we'll known that the legislative committee
which spends twenty-four hours in an in
stitution cannot obtain any information that
is valuable as basis of opinion or that
can be of use to the ways and means COM
mittee. AS to the usual estimates of the
officers of institutions there has been a
conviction on the part of members of the
Legislature that they ask for twice as much
as they need in the expectation of getting
half the amount. This assumption not only
does the larger part of the officers of insti-
tutions an injustice but it makes it neces-
sary for them to appear as lobbyists, which
they should not do, and which most of them
do not wish to do. Members of the Legis-
lature should feel that they have the same
interest in the states institutions as have
trustees and other officers. 1t is fair to as
sumo that members of the Legislature pro-
pose to deal fairly with all institutions, and
that they will do so when assured of ac-
curate data upon which to base legislative
action. If the report of the visiting COM
mittee is placed before each member, he
will have information upon which he can
rely, and the information is of such charac-
ter that it will be unnecessary or, at least
should be unnecessary, for the officers of in
situations to come up to the Legislature to
urge appropriations. The report of the COM
mittee should be printed for the use of the
Taoislatura
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03
IN sEARCH oF An ISSUE.

Colonel Bryan is talking the worst sort of
nonsense when he declares that the United
States must not deny the Filipinos what
our fathers fought TO obtain for themselves
the right of self-government. In the first
place. Colonel Bryan should understand that
there is a vast difference between the men
who signed the Declaration of independence
and the people they represented and the in
habitants of the Philippines. They were
the foremost men of their times in intelli-
gence. and they represented people who had
intelligent ideas regarding popular govern
ment. There is no such leadership in the
Philippines. and the inhabitants. crushed
.,nder the despotism of Spain, have no idea
of self-government. They need to be taught
as children must be taught If they are to
become intelligent people.
In the next place, it can be said that there
is no disposition to "oppress'' the Fiipinos,
as Colonel Bryan assumes in all of his fire.
cuent speeches. If he We're a man who keeps
himself informed of current events he would
know that the President has sent a procla-
nation to the people of the Philippines de-
claring the course he proposes to pursue in
reference to them. The full text Of that
proclamation has not been given. but the
brief resume which has been published
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03
SOCIALIST SWORN IN
J. C. CHASE INSTALLED as MAYOR
OF HAVERHILL, MASS.
every Atom of His POvver'' to Be Ex-
crcised in Carrying Out the
Ideas OF His Party.

HAVERHILL, Mass. Jan. 2.-John G.
Chase, elected on a socialistic platform, took
the oath of Office as mayor of Haverhill
to-day In his inaugural speech Mr.. Chase
assured the members of the city govern
ment and the people that every atom of
power possessed by the mayor will be Eek
ercised in the defense and support of the
principles of socialism in so far as they
may be applicable to a municipality" The
mayor then referred to the desirability of
preserving equal rights upon which 1.-The lib
erty and happiness of every man, woman
and child are conditioned" and asserted
that these are possible of attainment "only
through the establishment of the co-opera-
tive commonwealth" Continuing, Mayor
Chase said: Il believe that every power the
municipality possesses should be placed at
the disposal of the people in the interest of
civilization. With that aim in view I sub
nit the following specific recommendations:
'First-The passage of an order establish
ing the minimum wage for street employees
at 81 for eight hours work.
'Second-Union wages and conditions to
prevail in all brick and stone maSonS' work
performed under the direction of the street
department.
fThird-An city printing to bear the union
label"
The mayor then took up the subject of the
from the displacement of labor by machin-
cry and the concentration Of capital and a
question which, he said, no municipality
could solve, as it had become national and
international one. Yet" he said 'some
little relief at least can be afforded by this
city government. 1 therefore recommend:
"First-That you proceed to secure a tract
CT land suitable for the raising Of food prod
ucts and that such of the unemployed as
desire be permitted to use said land, the
city to furnish proper seeds and tools.
'SecOnd-The enlargement of the fuel yard
at the city farm to such proportions as will
permit all who desire to earn by their labor
such fuel as they may require.
"Third-The appropriation Of such an
amount of money as circumstances may
warrant to be used in providing employment
directly upon public works not in cOmpeti-
ton with the regular employees of the city
but upon special works, two kinds of which
I herewith uggest-improvement Of the
park system, and construction of a system
of bicycle paths through all principal thor
oughfares."
Mayor Chase condemned the system Of
contracting with the lowest bidder for city
work and said the system should not be
tolerated. He said: Low bids mean cheap
work. Cheap work means cheap men and
low wages and low wages lower the stand
ard of citizenship. The city should perform
its own work and furnish it's own material
giving employment to its citizens
The mayor advocated increased apprOpria-
tons for educational purposes and municipal
ownership of the electric lighting plants and
RAILWAYS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03
LOTTERY At KANSAS CITY.
100000 Prizes Drawn from Two Glass
Wheels by SighIess Boys.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Jan. 2-Kansas
City's new great public buildings, the con-
vention hall, practically completed. was
dedicated to the public in unique way to-
day. The building, which will seat fifteen
thousand people, and is one of the largest
in the country, was erected by popular sub
scription and through other means Of rails
ing money Business men had donated the
greater part of the money when it was found
that more funds were needed. First thou
sands of Convention Hall buttons at 81 each.
each of which entitled the holder to one
share of stock in the building company,
were sold. Later gifts were donated by
business men until no less than seven thou
sand presents, ranging from a sheet Of
music to d S4 eco lot and including a lion cub
a race horse and three 81 600 thoroughbred
heifers had been received by the building
company. These presents, il was decided
should be drawn as prizes and $50 900 tickets
at . cents each and emitting the holder of
each to a grab for the prize, were sold
To-day the drawing" was begun and thou
sands of people of all degfees and conditions
fiocked in and out of the building to take
their turn at a chance. A band discoursed
music while she judges, with the aid Of two
blind BOYS from the Kansas City Kan
ASYLUM awarded the prizes. tickets number
ing from l to 10000 and corresponding with
those sold being drawn from two glass
wheels, presided over by the sightless boys
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

The opponents of legislation designed to
restrict to a reasonable limit the powers
of township trustees and other officers are
now expressing fear that the proposed leg
islation is not practical. and say they will
oppose it, Is it not practical to have a
board of advisers for an executive oficero
Would these opponents favor a change in
the Constitution which would authorize the
Governor to levy whatever taxes he might
see fit, expend the money as he might see
MT and keep public money to loan on his
own account? The proposed legislation will
simply bring officers who now have too
much power into conformity with our gem
eral form of government, which consists
of legislative, executive and judicial de-
partments
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

When the Grand Central Station was built
in 1871 Commodore Vanderbilt is reported
to have said that it would be sufficient for
the railway needs of New York city for fifty
years. His thoughts We're concerned mainly
with freight traffic from the West and
Northwest, and his calculations based on it's
probable rate of increase He failed to con-
slider local passenger traffic, but curiously
enough it was the increase in this that
made the station inadequate in less than
twenty years to the business that passed
through it. Improvements have been added
from time to time, and within year or so
further changes, including the building of
the largest waiting rooms in the country,
will be made. 1t is the suburban travel
that necessitates this, and it's extent shows
the changes in manner of living that have
taken place in New York, business men no
longer finding it necessary to make their
homes in the city. There are so many COM
muters. that is men who buy tickets at
reduced rate by paying for them monthly
in advance. that it is said a single one of
the roads running out of the Grand Cen
trail Station receives considerably over $780,
600 each month from this class of patrons.
The commodore's successors have consid-
cred this fact, and think quite as well of
this line of business as of Western freight
traffic whose returns are much slower in
coming in. The history of the station
shows how difficult it is for even the
shrewdest business man to consider future
possibilities in this rapidly growing, swiftly
changing country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

The agricultural appropriation bill as it
passed the House contained a paragraph
which is designed TO give the President
power to retaliate upon other nations whose
governments refuse to accept the certif-
Gates OF American inspectors that the meats
ne would export are wholesome. The Senate
committee is considering further amend
ment to the bill by giving the President
power to recipTocate as well as to retaliate
in our trade with other nations. If Ger
many and France continue to impose un-
necessary restrictions upon our agricultural
products. the President may impose restric-
lions upon their exports to this country. If
the French government places an embargo
upon our meats. the President could require
. chemical analysis of every case Of cham
payne or other wine which the people of
that country might send to the United
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03
Bit of Hotel history.

Washington Special.
Caleb Willard, proprietor Of the Ebbitt
House, one of the famous Washington hos
telries, will now be able to realize one OF
the ambitions of his life and extend the
frontage OF his building down to f street.
The way was blocked for forty years by a
brother who owned a twenty-fve-foot lot
adjoining the Ebbitt House on the east,
which tongue of land he would not sell for
any price. The two brothers We're at outs,
and Henry. who owned land south of the
Ebbitt House on Fourteenth street News
paper Row. as well as east of it on +, fed
his grudge by hemming Caleb in and pre-
venting him from hotel expansion Henry
died a year ago. leaving his son Joe" $lO,-
100000 and his grudges. The heir accepted
the former, but not the latter, and day or
two ago let his uncle have that long-coveted
twenty-five feet of real estate on F street
for $6S.o00-a fancy price, but not large con-
sidering that 100000 and S125,000 had been
repeatedly refused for it by the original own
er. Negotiations are also under way for the
property adjoining the hotel on the south,
ard If a sale is effected a new and magni-
fieent Ebbitt House may take the place of
the old structure which savors rather too
much of We olden days to suit modern no
tons. Thus ends family feud that has in
teTested Washington for nearly half a cen
fury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

The township and county bills are bot
toned on the principle that each government
should fix it's own taxes and direct to what
end they should be spent. The treasurer of
the United States cannot spend a dollar I'M
til Congress has passed a revenue law and
appropriated the money So the treasurer
of this State cannot pay out any money I'M
til the Legislature has passed an appropria-
ton law. Every city and town levies and
disburses its own funds Why shall not
townships and counties do the same? In this
city the proper boards submit their annual
estimates to the City Council; all of our
state institutions, penal and benevolent
must submit their estimates for future
needs to the Legislature which must revise
and pass the appropriation bills No state
officer can create debt beyond the sums
set aside therefor in the appropriation law
If an emergency arises the Governor can
call a special session, but the appropriations
are so wisely made that it is not necessary
1t will not do to say our people cannot do
for township or county what they do for
the State. These bills provide for emer-
gences. and their spirit will encourage local
self-government and inspire interest and
care in affairs near at home. The principle
is right. Let it prevail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

The Journal desires to reiterate, for itself
and for all those who believe that there
should be change in the system of town
ship management. that this movement is not
inspired by a fresh conviction that the
township trustees as body are corrupt or
even inefficient men. There are as many
and probably more faithful and intelligent
men holding the office of township trustee
now as there ever was. Moreover, a very
large majority of them administer their
trusts in the interest of the people. 'All of
the trustees in Hamilton county" says the
Noblesville Ledger ARE competent and
faithful men," The same can be said of
those of other counties Nevertheless, hon
est men may fall into lax ways under a
vicious system. 1t can be added that the
upright trustees who fell in with those
who wrote the resolutions adopted by the
trustees association last week put them
selves in a false position and are liable to
be misjudged. Scores of trustees are known
to be in favor of the proposed legislation,
and they should at once make such Gee
laration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

It is now proper to say Cuba libre."
This does not mean that Cuba is free from
everything. but only that she is free from
Spanish rule, against which she fought
valiantly for many years. She is not yet
free from a lot of fool. mongrel Spanish
notions of things, until she is rid of which
she will not be fit for independence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

One of the ministers of the city announces
a course of lectures to be given for the
purpose of stimulating an interest in poetry,
history and otner literature. The subject of
the opening address will be Hall Caine"
The Journal cannot speak with authority
for this minister's congregation, but, as he
is a newcomer, considers it as well to in
form him that the community in general
has passed the Hall Caine stage Of develop
ment and that q considerable portion of it
does not regard that gentlemans produc-
tions as literature at all. His books have
been sent to join those of Marie Corelli
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03

The Brooklyn Eagle, with commendable
enterprise, issues a forty-page supplement
with it's New Years day number, which con-
tains a history from start to finish, of the
war between the United States and Spain.
Filed for reference it will serve very well