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The colored American., 1901-06-01

cOlOred American rider and JaCquelin
the crack French cyclist at the ParO
des Princes In Bois de Boulegne, dis
tRnce one kilOmeter, JacquelIn won.
Three races had been arranged. The
first l, 1888 meters was won by JacQuelin
by a wheel, The second one kiIOmeter
was won quite easily by the French
man. The third 1000 meters was there
fore unnecessary.
There can be no doubt that "MajOr
Taylor" at the present hour stands head
and shoulders above any other rider on
The continental path, and the only
question, whenever he starts in a race,
is not whether he will but by how great
a distance. He is 80 much superior to
all that he can win with any tactics,
start his sprint when and where ne
likes, jump long way from home as
he did in Berlin or leave it to the last
fifty yards, as soon as he lets himself
out, the race is as good as over barring
the shouting. 1t is stated that Taylor is
popular to such an extent in Europe
that no colOred man on the continent
is now safe. Any one of them is likely
st any time to be surrounded by cheer
ing fanatics despite his defeat.
BOXES NOTES.
Chicago May ia resolution intro
duced in the city council last night TO
license boxing in Chicago was turned
over to a committee. This means de-
lay Of at least two weeks before boxing
can be revived here.
Jimmy DOugherty, Of Chester, Pa.
says that his feather weight, Eddie, Is
open to meet any one in his class, Nc
Govern barred. Kid Broad, Dave Sulli.
van or Tim Callahan are preferred.
Meantime Lenny and Eddie Gardiner
have been matched to meet before the
Peoples a. e. of Cincinnati on May "a.
Jack Bennett and IsidOre Strauss
have been matched to meet in q fifteen
round contest before the Delaware
Atheletic Club of Whining on Delaware
on May s0Gh.
McGOvern fights his next battle next
week In San Francisco.
George Dixon the ex-feather weight
champion Will re-enter the ring again.
BASE BALL
Chester, Pa, May 18-The Cuban X
Giants rolled up q score of 20 to 4
against the strong Athletics. The fes-
ture of the game was the batting and
fast fielding of the colored team. Score
by innings:
Athletics 10000 2 2 o.
Cuban X Giants 2 O125 512 6---2C
Chester Pa. May 18-Chester ard the
Cuban X Giants tied today in q hard
played and exciting game. In the
ninth, two out and the bags filed
Chester lost its chance to win by fou
fly to Smith. Burns and Carter were
In fine form and the fielding wal
sensation al. The score: RH
Cuban X Giants OO:O 21OOO--4 II
Chester O2O0 OOOO--4 2 z
BatterIes-Carter and Smith; Burns
and Eby.
Mannings boys still continue to play
q steady game. Four straight victOrie
over Boston is history to Washington
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
REVOLUTION IN HAYTI.
The Situation Serfous-Many Promi-
nent Men Arrested.

Kingston, ia. September 2S.-Reports
of a revolutionary outbreak in Hayti
reached here today by the German
steamer Alene from New York via
Jeremie, Hayti.
According to the statements of those
on board the Alene a large number of
prominent men in Jeremie were arrest
ed yesterday on the charge of conspir-
acy and Immediately removed to Port
au Prince and imprisoned.
The situation in the interior Of Hayti
is reported to be serious, owing to the
opposition to President Sam continuing
to retain Office.
NJ. Fouchard, the former Haytien
minister of finance and said to be one
of the ablest men in Hayti, who is now
in this city and who is said to be the
choice of the members of the Haytien
national assembly for the presidency to
succeed General Sam, declines to speak
on the situation at present, but friends
of Haytians here say that the revolu-
tionary movement was planned long
ago.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
IN THE PERSIAN GULF.
England Concentrating Der Warshfps
Turkish Troops Assembled.

Bombay, September 2S.-A British
naval force is concentrating in the
Persian gulf. Three warships are al
ready on the spot, and they will be
augmented by the gunboat Assaye,
which has already left Kurrachee and
the flagship, the second class cruiser
Highf1yer. The third class cruiser
Pomone will also sail for the Persian
gulf so soon as she has coaled. 1t is
believed that fresh trouble is impend-
ing at Koweyt.
According to report, Turkey has
10000 troops at Basra commanded by
Edhem Pasha, with the object of seiZ-
ing Koweyt, though the Turks assert
that the troops are intended to traverse
Arabia with the object of suppressing
disaffection in Yemen.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
TRAIN wRECKERS' WORK.
They Draw the Spikes and Derail n
Seaboard Express Train.
Especial TO the Messenger.)

Especial to the MeSsenger.)
Raleigh, y. c., September 2S.-Delay-
ed trains from the south of here on the
Seaboard Air Line arrived late this af-
ternoon and brought five persons who,
the railway officials say, were all who
were wounded. The officials then gave
out news as to wreck, saying the spikes
were drawn and rails so priced apart
with an iron bar as to let the engine
drop; that there was no washout and
no rain there amounting to anything;
that the bar was found and signs found
where men had crawled under the tool
house and procured the bar; that the
engine and tender, baggage, two ex-
press, mail and second class passenger
cars, five in all, were derailed; that the
injured are. Engineer D. K. Wright
formerly Of Fayetteville, hand scalded
and injured internally; Commercial
Traveller Robert o. King, leg broken
and body and head bruised; Fireman
Price. back wrenched, and two negro
passengers, one with a broken leg, the
other bruised. The officials say this is
the second attempt OF train wreckers
on their line recently, the other having
been in South Carolina, and that ar
rests are expected.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
Messrs. William Mclean S Co.. the
Nun Street section Next Tuesday
Morning-Two Hundred Hands VIII
Be Employed.

Owing to the ordinance prohibiting
city proper. between the first of June
and the first Of October. no work has
been done down town in the cOnstruc-
ton Of the sanitary sewer system which
the Wilmington Sewerage Company will
construct in Wilmington. During the
summer, however. Messrs. William Nc
Lean & Co., the contractors, have had
a hundred hands at work outside of the
settled district next to Oakdale GEM
etery. On Burnt Mill Creek where the
system will discharge. they have built
the extensive, scientific disposal plant
which will take the 1angs out Of the
sewerage, SO to speak. before it is dis
charged into the creek. This plant
consists of a series OF brick structures
into which the sewage empties and is
purified by aeration and percola ton
through immense gravel beds. so it will
not contaminate the waters Of the creek.
From the disposal plant up to Wood
street and down that street to its in
terSection with Campbell street near
the cemetery gates, the contractors
have also made excavations for a dis
tance of three quarters of mile and
laid the sewer main for that distance.
Yesterday Mr.. William Mclean, of
Philadelphia, arrived IN the city to take
charge of the work on the general sys-
tenn and push it to completion. He
states that the work will be commenced
in earnest on Tuesday morning, which
is the 1st Of October. He will employ
from $50 to 200 hands. and will begin
work on Nun street going from the
river front eastward to Eighth or Ninth
streets which is the dividing ridge be-
tween the eastern and western sections
of the sewer system.
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abeam and half a minute later was the
leading boat. Slowly she crept, and
at 2:14 was all OF half a length ahead.
From that time on TO the finish line
she kept in the lead. The wind was
now dropping, but, in spite Of her much
larger sail plan, the Shamrock could
not prevent the steady. though slow,
gain of the Columbia.
SHAMROCK NEARLY CATCHES UP.
For nearly an hour the race contin-
ued without further event. Then at
3:15 the wind freshened slightly. filing
out the immense sails of the Shamrock
Slowly she crept up and lessened the
gap between her and the defender.
Now she was only half a length be-
hind Now she was very nearly on
even terms and it became a matter of
doubt as to which boat would first
cross the finish line, less than a mile
away.
1t was the last of the many exciting
moments in the contest for very soon
the Columbia. getting her wind free
again, pulled out and with surprising
rapidity opened up on the challenger
and pulled out lead that left the re.
suit no longer in doubt. She crossed
the line a winner not only on time al
lowance but boat for boat.
Shamrock-Finish, 3:31:5S; elapsed
time. 4:31:44; corrected time, 4:31:44.
Columbia-Finish, 3:31:23; elapsed
ir,1n f.o1 In
The next race will be over trian
| gular course ten miles to a leg and will
| be sailed next Tuesday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
ACCIDENT AT THE RACE.
Erin and Revenue Cutter Gresham in
Collision.

New York. September 2S.-Sir Thomas
Lipton's steam yacht Erin narrowly
escaped serious accident today when,
just after the Shamrock and Columbia
had rounded the turn rhe United States
revenue cutter Gresham collided with
her.
Both boats were doing patrol duty.
The Gresham in the hands of Cam
mander Bomas B. Walker and the Erin
for The day in charge OF Lieutenant
John Boedecker. of the United States
revenue cutter service. In starting to
clear the course for the home stretch
the Gresham apparently tried to cross
the bow Of the Erin. There was evi-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
THE w. e.. T. z.
The State President Here and VIII De-
liver Two Addresses Tomorrow Az
ternoon and Night at the First Bap-
tist Church.

Mrs. n. E. Garland, of Greensboro,
n. c.. state president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, arrived
in the city yesterday and wishes 70
meet with the ladies Of the Wilmington
union (and all other ladies who will
attend. at the lecture room Of the
First Baptist church tomorrow after
noon at O'Clock. She will address the
ladies on Christian Womanhood," and
at the same place at o'clock Monday
night she viii speak to the public on the
subject, rs the boy safer"
Prompt attendance and full houses
are desired at the hours named.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
STATE TEXT BOOK COMMISSION
It's Declarations as to Book DEPOSIT
tories and Exchange of Book.
Especial to the Messenger.

Especial to the Messenger.)
Raleigh, n. c., September 29.-The
state text book commission at its meet
ing this morning adopted the follow
ing resolutions:
"Ordered that the superintendent of
public instruction be authorized to use
his discretion as to location and time
of establishing repositories and that
this board adopt his decision.''
1t declares, "Usuable book is eX-
changeable under the law" as proper
construction as to the condition OF
books presented for exchange and that
Certificates required by publishers
from teachers as to copies which were
presented shall not be required or filled
out as condition of exchange"
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MORE CONTRADICTIONS.
By Simpsons WitneSSeS'Of Evidence.
Previously Given in the
SChley Case.

IDENTIFY a misunderstanding Of signals by
the Gresham, and it was too late when
at last she tried TO back out, and the
Erin put on full steam ahead. The
revenue cutter struck the yacht blow
on the port quarter thirty or forty feet
from the stern. 4 plate was bent, some
paint rubbed off and the rail bruised.
Inside a thwartship deck-beam was
buckled.
The Erin's small boats were prompt
ly manned and within a few seconds
after the crash men stood ready to
lower away if necessary. but fortunate
ly it was not necessary.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01
COLUMBIA SCORES ONE
She Defeats the Shamrock in One of
the Most Exciting Races
Ever Sailed.

She Passes Finishing Line Thirty-nine
Seconds Ahead of the Britisher-Bril-
liant Maneuvering at the Start-Cap-
Shamrock Gets the Wfndward and
Keeps 1t to the Turn, which She
Passes Four Hundred Feet in the
Lead-Coiumbfa Pulls Up With Her
Running Before the Wind-Neck and
Neck for q lyhIle-Columbia Takes
the Lead Then Comes Near Losing 1t.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

McCalIa Testifies that the Marble
head and vixon at Night Patroilc0
Several Miles Within the Line or the
Blockading Ships-He Says Schleyss
Fleet Had Never, to HistKnowledgc,
Been Withdrawn to Any Distance
Fro Santiago While Blockading-He
Tells of His Secret Code-Explanatfon
of Alterations In the Missing Dis
patch From Schley-Testimouy as 20
Rough Weather.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

tcoNTINUED ON FIFTH rxuEy-
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Excursion From Rowland.

An excursion from Rowland, n. Z
and points in South Carolina, arriys
here yesterday at 1:43 p. II over IL
Atlantic Coast Line by way Of Marion.
s. c. The train brought $50 excursion
lists most OF whom were colored. The
train left here on the return trip last
evening at 7:15 O'Clock
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-01

i-eiating the particulars Of the block
ade Of Santiago before June 1st. Can
tam AcCalia said the MarbIehead and
tne vixen had at night occupied POSI-
tions inside the large ships about tvo
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08
Chapel of the Pyx.

The ancient Chapel of the Pyx at
Westminster is to be thrown open to
the public. This is one Of the oldest
and most interesting parts of the Alb
hey, the greater part of the fabric
belonging to the reign of Edward the
COnfessor. 1t was used in early Nor
man times as a royal treasury, and a
robbery from the chapel In the reign
of Edward l. Of treasure valued at
100000, created a great deal Of STIR
Later 1t was used as a record cham
ber for the treasury, and more re-
Gently as receptacle for the appara-
tus necessary for the trial Of the Pyx
the standardi2ing Of the coin OF the
realm. The documents formerly de-
posted in the Pyx chapel have been
removed and henceforth the public
will have the privilege OF penetrating
the recesses OF this mysterious cham
ber.-Newcastle Eng) Chronicle.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08
Our Railroad Kit tnE.

A railroad president and a United
States Senator We're talking about Gov
ernment ownership of railroads.
81 believe" said the Senator, "that it
would be a good idea for this Govern
ment to buy and operate all the rail
roads in the United States"
"Well," replied the railroad presi-
dent smiling significantly, "if the Gov
ernment has the money to pay for 20O,.
600 miles Of railroad, with an aggre-
gate capitalization Of nearly S5,OO0,-
100000, / can point out the shop where
most Of the goods can be bought"
"The shop| echoed the Senator. in
quiringly.
THAT is what II amounts to, Sena-
tor. There are seven or eight men that
control all the railroads of the United
States, and most Of them can be found
in New York City on any business
day."
"Who are they" the Senator asked,
eagerly.
"Propounded in Wall Street, OF in
any semblage Of well-informed rail-
road men, this question will invariably
elicit mention of these names:
j. Pierpont Morgan, W. X. Vanderbilt,
e. H. Hartman, George j. Gould,
William Rockefeller, Jacob H. Schih,
James j. Hill, A. ]. Cassatt."
-Ainslee's Magazine.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08

While the British matron noans as
each successive British youth is led
captive to the altar by American girls,
her Canadian niece is avenging the
English cousin. She has swept across
the boundary line and descended On
the professional young woman Of the
United States. While the Canadian
girl is now prominent in all the profess
sions in the States her greatest dis
tirction has been won in trained nurs-
ing. In the most noted training schools
and the finest hospitals the Canadian
trained nurse is in places of responsi-
bility. Not content with all this Cana
diaas estimate that for every English
title wen by American heiresses Cana
Clan nurses have bound as many as
ten American doctors in matrimonial
chains.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08

The people Of this counry-that is,
the average citizens-are the most vir-
tuous and high-minded people in the
world, because they are the best
taught and trained. They are not 60
sordid and so commercial as the people
Of Europe. They are not, as e nation,
like all European nations, seeking for
plunder in arms. 1t is not true that
they are all coming their ideas and en-
ergies into money. There is more
idealism here than elsewhere. There
are more sacrifices made here than
anywhere else both for what is right
and for what is only thought to be
right. American manhood is the high
est type Of manhood in the world, and
be who talks about US as a corrupt
people is guilty Of slander, observes
Harper's Weekly.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08
Practical Economy.

1t Is a pity so many people "shy" at
the word economy-those at least who
are well provided with this worlds
goods-and that, merely because they
choose to think it Synonymous with
stinting, though this is not the real
meaning of the word. In the same way
plenty is often looked upon as waste,
yet there is a vast difference between
the two. But the amount of waste
that goes on even in the best regulated
households where the mistress and ser.
ants have not set their minds on
fighting against It is incredible; waste,
not always wilIful certainly, or likely
to cause the favored ones any serious
discrepancy in the years total, though
it is never desirable, and becomes a
positive danger for such as have to
reckon their weekly expenses pretty
closely. For every housewife, Of high
or low degree, there is a duty which
should stand pre-emincnt, VIZ: that
Of checking waste in order to provide
her establishment with the maximum
OF comfort with ecOnomy--that econ.
omy which implies order, regularity,
cleanliness and daintiness, according
to her means, and without allowing
Of countenancing carelessness and in.
difference, which often go a long way
to make everybody discontented whilst
they materially increase the difficult
ties Of home bookkeeping .-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08
The Largest Ship in the World.

The Celtic weighs 967OO tons, the
Park Row building only 10000 tons.
She measures 700 feet, only nine
feet longer than the Great Eastern,
but will draw eleven feet more water.
She win carry 2T42 passengers and
crew, and 1900 tons of cargo.
She will draw too much water 20
come into New York harbor when
loaded to the mark.
She has twelve decks, and the cap
tain's bridge is 100 feet above the keel.
She is one-fourth larger than the
Oceanic, hitherto the biggest ship
New York Journal.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08

The sentinels Of the Kings English
might wisely cry cut against the over
use Of the word evidence" both as a
noun and q verb. every much in evil
dence" is a stilted phrase which is
unpleasantly frequent in books and
magazines end newspapers in these
days. 1t means nothing more than the
single word Conspicuous" or prom
inent' or debated" or discussed" !"
and it is q sadly everworkc6 allocu-
tion. 10 evidence" and "to be evi,
denced" are blots on the purity Of the
language which are also too often rec
ognized in current speech and print.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08

ure who are short lived. These have
divided into three groupings:
Group ~" - Races smallest sized
men and women and short lived: Es-
kimo, Mongul, Burmese. Siamese. Jap
anese, Jukaghrites, Koriakites, Benga.
lesc, Jayanese, Malays, Hottentots
Group "B"-Races moderate sized
men and women and longer lived: Chi
pese (South race, Georgians, Arabs,
Turks, Syrians, Egyptians, Italians,
Spaniards, French.
Group "C'-RGces largest sized men
and women and longest lived: Chinese
Tmtar raccl, Scandinavians, English,
Russians, Films, Bulgarians, Irish,
Scotch, Germans.-Albany Argus.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08
Defends Newspaner Reading.

In his attitude toward the daily press
Lord Kelvin presents a curious con
trast to Bishop Creighton, whose ig-
norance Of journalism has been re-
ferred to in this column. 10 an inter-
viewer who asked him whether he
read a great deal Lord Kelvin a little
while ago made the rathec startling
reply that he had not read a book for
thirty years. Il read nothing but the
daily papers. Wen, perhaps that Is an
overstatement; it may not be thirty
years, but it IS long time. OF course,
1 am continually referring to books,
but l have not the time for steady
reading, except the daily pagers, aud
l feel especially bound in crises OF our
history to study the course of events"
Compare this with Mr.. Balfours
statement: 81 never read the papers"
London Chronicle.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08

: Scarcely a single month has passed
of the new century without the atten-
tion Of the world having been called to
some new use for electricity, some
new appliance for the working OF mod
ern scientific miracles. Round-the-
world telephony has just startled us
by looming at once into practical pos
sibility. The wireless telegraph is
just born. The "telegraphone" has
appeared-an artiice by which a tele-
phone message may be stored away,
captured and held automatically, to
be tapped when leisure comes. With
this the dreaded "busy" will cease to
be bugbear. Seeing by wire has been
one of the fairy promises of the
past; now 1t is almost in view. When
Smith in New York City can call up
Brown in Singapore, pass the time of
day, smell his curry and remark upon
the becomingness OF his pith helmet,
distance will lose its frightfulness and
absence. stingiess, drop to the measure
OF a mere passing annoyance. 49,.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08
An Automatic Ticket Machine.

Recent experiments by railway Off
cials in Berne with an automatic ticket
machine, Invented by a Swiss, have
given entire satisfaction, says a Berne
correspondent. The machine Is similar
to the ordinary automatic machines,
bat the glass cases contain the tickets
on which are printed the names Of the
stations and the price Of the ticket.
By dropping in the right amount and
pulling a handle the ticket Is sat free.
The machinery is so we'll constructed
that an insufficient sum Of money or
any base coins will not work the
spring. and there Is no danger Of the
purchaser losing the whole amount.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08

From more than one nation in the
foremost files of time come reports OF
wonderful inventions and improve
nents in firearms. But the men behind
the guns win still count as the chief
factors IN successful warfare. The
best cannon, the best rifles, viii do
much deadly work, but the strongest
bcttalions will be made up Of the sol
diers who know their quarrel just, and
therefore cannot be affrighted or dis
mnYed.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08
Testing Fireproof stairs For Flats.

In frankfort, Germany, official tests
have been made of fireproof stairs for
apartment houses. Fires fed with a
material which gave forth an intense
heat were built in the yard of one of
the fire department houses, and over
these fires the stairs were placed. The
longest resistance was shown by the
stairs which had covering OF plaster,
and it was found that they could be
used twenty-five minutes after the fire
was started. The stairs covered with
fireproof paint were made Of SO many
different materials and Of such vary
ing strength that no definite results
could be arrived at, but they were
servlceable after five or ten minutes
in the heat. OF the stairs OF wood
and not covered with fireproof paint,
those Of oak withstood the fire the
longest.
The suburban citizen., 1901-06-08

Another waterfall has been found IL
the Yellowstone National Park. The
water has a fall of over 800 feet, and
the surroundings are said to be pic
turesque in the extreme, and it is be-
lieved the newly discovered falls will
become more popular than even the
famous Yellowstone.