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Evening journal., 1903-04-02
NATIONAL LEAGUE MOTIFS

The Pittsburs team arrived at Hot
Springs for spring practice on the 18th
Instant.
Fred Crolius Is coaching the Vest
ern University OF Pennsylvania tqepl,
lat Pittsburg.
Tommy Leach says he is going TO
chase the big fellows for batting hon
ors this season.
Jake BeclSley looks and acts no older
than he did when he was star on the
Pittsburg team.
Harry Kane and Fred Vail are the
new pitchers Manager Clarke. OF Pitts
burg. has to try odt
Mrs. Christy Mathewson is a sister
in-law 10 David Jayne Hiil, formerly
assistant secretary OF state
The pttsburg Club groundkeeper.
James Coyle. has been succeeded by
John Mckay. late OF Montreal.
Manager Donovan thinks pretty we'll
Of his new pitcher. War Sanders. whom
he purchased from Nashville.
Frank Selee objects to calling his
Chicago team the Orphans" lie says
he is trying to be a father to them All.
The deal exchanging Jimmy Burke
for Otto Kruger. OF st. Louis, has been
called off by the Plttsburg Club.
Catcher Jim Mcclure has sent his
measurement TO President Ebbetts
which means that he will report TO
Brooklyn.
Wigs, the giant pitcher OF the Reds.
who has the biggest hands and feet Of
any man In baseball. is an expert
bookkeeper
Pitcher Eddy Poole owns house
and lot IN Malvern. o. He wintered
these. and put i'm considerable time
hunting and fishing.
President Pulliam presented the
Pittsburg champions with two boxes Of
cigars on the eve OF their departure
for Hot Springs.
Young pitcher Corridor is showing
up so we'll al Los Angeles that Man
ager Selee Is convinced that he has
unearthed the find OF the season.
Manager Fred Clarke will erect a
handball court at Hos Springs. Fred
says the exercise Is benehting to the
muscles OF the arms and legs
81. Louis new third baseman Dave
Brain, IS showing up apleudldly in
practice nt Dallas as fielder. batter and
bunter, lie Is also fast on his feet.
Evening journal., 1903-04-02
STREET AND SEWER
REPORT READY
Covers a Period of Twelve
Months, Ending February
/, and Shows Active Year
ENGINEER HATTON WELL PLEASED
Says That the Men Working for the
Department Could Not Have Done
Better Work for Contractors Than
for City.

The annual report of the Street and
Sewer Department has been completed
and after the committee appointed by
Counsil audits the boards accounts. a
number of copies win be. printed. The
report covers the twelve months ended
February, and shows a busy year.
Sewer Engineer Hatton praises the
work of all the men under him. and
says:
Better work could not have been
secured by a contractor had they been
working for one, than they have given
the city. The report in part shows
the following;
The balance February 1, 1902 was
SS,557.S6. In the year the receipts
We're: From sewer liens, paving bills,
sewer permits, interest, sidewalks and
curb, curblines, ETC., $92,176.1s; from
general appropriation, 100000; bond
issue. S25,000; total, $225, ,734.04.
a The expenditures for salaries, sewer
extension, street improvements,
removing ashes. lighting. sewer clean
Ing. sewer repairs abolition of grade
crossings cutters and crossings side
walks and curb grading, and opening
streets, street sprinkling, etc, were
HNrHfA''"A"r ANtNfAfAei tl btAittAiNC IRA "a
airy 1, 1908. OF $4O,9SO.90.
The salaries We're s13,769.60. remov-
ing ashes, and cost of equipment, s10,-
1905. lighting S41.s52.3S; street
sprinkling. S35449.
Paving was done as follows:
Granite block. north side Eighth
street between Orange and Tatnall. in
tersections OF Fourth and Jefferson,
Twenty-third and Market; Eighth and
Orange; Fourth and Madison.
Vitrified brick pavement-Wilson
between Eleventh and Twelfth. Ninth
between Market and King, Trenton
Place. Jefferson street between Second
and Eighth Monroe between Tenth
and Eleventh. Poplar between Taylor
and Eleventh, Eighth between Shipley
and Orange.
Macadam-Market between Thir-
tieth and Thirty-sixth, intersection
Sixteenth and Washington. Union be-
tween Shallcross and Lowering ave-
nues. Shallcross between Jackson and
Van Buren, Scott between Wawaset
and Park Drive. Seventeenth between
Evening journal., 1903-04-02

West md Washington, Greenhill ave-
nue. an Willard street.
Curb was set to the length of 1877
feet and the cost charged to the own
Iers Of abutting property.
-Four hundred and twenty-five
square yards of sidewalk were paved
and the cost charged to owners.
In the year. 26 new ere lights were
added and 29S are now used. Twenty
incandescents We're discontinued and
two more added, and the total incan-
descent gas lamps SIS are in use, and
Of plain gas lamps 81. The cost for
arc lighting was $1S,64l47; for incan-
descent electric lighting $7.75T36; for
incandescent gas, Sll331.2G; for plain
gas. $2.234.30, which covers the period
of changing lights last June and July.
The department spent S19,Sl2.74 for
brick payenents
Gilpin avenue was resurfaced for its
entire length at cost Of s5.4S615.
The cost of grading towards aboli-
tion OF Lowering avenue grade crossing
on b. & o. was $l,7l9.O9.
Park avenue, Scott between Second
and Third, Pine from Twenty-third TO
Twenty fourth, Twentieth street west
Of the Boulevard. Concord avenue
from West to Washington and La
motto street from Twenty-fourth TO
Twenty were graded.
The total expenditures Of the sewer
department were S42,41G.99. divided az
follows: Sewer extensions S3S,377. 81:
sewer repairs, S2.919.40; clearing and
keeping in condition, S1,120.22. There
and 62-1O0ths miles of sewer were
built. making a total of 56.37 built since
1887. under the departments direction.
and a grand total Of 62.7S miles. The
total expenditures for sewer extension.
repairs and cleaning since the organi-
zation of the department have been
$SS9,6SS.23.
Engineer T. Chalkley Hatton, who is
the consulting engineer, recommends
the extending of sewers in advance of
private improvements which VIII save
the owners expense and be OF benefit
to the public
Urging the necessity of building a
sewer to take care OF Prices run. in
the Ninth ward, he tells of the flooding
of cellars in the low sections and the
spreading Of filth. Many of the dwell
ings are the homes Of the poor, who
have put their all in them, and cannot
give them up, 50 must put up with the
filthy conditions that we. upon the
hills, would not endure an hour"
The Boulevard section should have
sewer facilities. but a main sewer
must first be built in Twentieth street.
He recommends the condemning OF
Twentieth street as n street and the
building Of a sewer The Silverbrook
sewer should also be built. South VIII
mington needs both underground and
surface drainage. The section between
Eleventh and Sixth and Locust to Ben
nett needs sewers.
In the past year the principal sewer
work was in Walnut street from the
Brandywine creek to Ninth street in
Union, from Pennsylvania avenue to
Sixth street. and in Third street from
Webb to Bayard avenues. In this Third
street sewer the worst quicksand ever
handled by the department was en-
countered. 1t was near Woodland ave-
nue. and was at least 200 feet long, and
Evening journal., 1903-04-02

dexterous twirler.
Lave Cross has become one OF the
most noted OF American pigeon fam
eiers.
Goc11a1er. OF the clevelands. is
strongly opposed to the 'four-strike
rule.
Harry Bemis win do the bulk OF the
catching for the Cleveland team this
year.
Jimmy Ryan says Moran. the snort
stop, picked up by Tom LOTUS. is a
good one.
Catcher Bob Wood. formerly Of
Cleveland, has signed with the MIL
waukee Association Club.
The Conroy- Ferris exchange was
baked by Ferris. who refused TO leave
the Boston Club.
The Cleveland batting order will be
the same aa last season. Bay leading
of. Bradley doesn't like to bat Sec
ond
Jimmy COLLINS IL very enthusiastic
over his pitching stan and says there
isn't any in the country can best t.
Pete Husting, who twirled for the
Athletics last year, IL making a success
of practlcing law ut Fond du Lac. wis
Manager Jimmy Callahan thinks the
club that beats Cleveland out viii win
the pennant That's an easy guess.
Elmer Flick had his lip cut and two
teeth ioosened by colliding with Hess
during practice game at New Or
leans.
Manager Armour, OF Cleveland. has
already closed with Campau for the
use OF the New orleans grounds next
spring.
President Ban johnson states there
Is no possibility Of streets being cut
through the New York American
League grounds.
The Browns, at Baton Rouge. have
shifted from the University campus 70
the Battle Park. which contains n
much better diamond.
President Comisky has appointed
Jimmy Callahan team manager Of the
White Sox. That team Is now IN train
ing at Mobile, Ala.
The Cleveland team win be the heov-
lest team In the arena this year ana.
therefore worthy of the much-abusol
name of Giants"
Manager Barrow has sixteen OF hir
Detroit players with him az Shreve-
! port, In. Innelder George Smith has
been appointed cnptain
Evening journal., 1903-04-02
THE World OF SPORTS

when the season. is further advanced,
however. The score by innings:
r. IT, r.
vii. B. e....1.101510O0-91O 10 G
VIII. II. S.-.1 0O0120 &c 8 s
Batteries II Wilmington Business
School. Sparks and Stldham: High
School. Price, Greenwood. Homewood
and Halter. Umpire-Kleitz. OF the
Wilmington Military Academy.
Evening journal., 1903-04-02
Special one-way Mixed Class colonists'
Fares, to Western Points Via B. & o.
Railroad.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company will sell daily until April 20.
inclusive, very cheap tickets to points
in Arizona. British Columbia, Callfor-
MIA, Colorado. Idaho, Mexico, Montana.
Nebraska. Nevada. New Mexico. Ore
gon, South Dakota, Texas. Utah, WASH
ington and Wyoming. To Portland.
Oregon, Tacoma. Seattle. San Fran
cisco. Los Angeles. and other points in
California at rate OF s49.75. To other
points, proportionately low rates. For
full particulars write or apply to II. A.
Miller. T. P. A.. or to B. & o. Ticket
Agents.
Evening journal., 1903-04-02

although the ditch was sheathed from
top to bottom, underdrained. and
pumps running, yet weeks elapsed.
sometimes while so feet OF sewer was
being built. The sewer has so far cost
S5,OG2.sS, and is about two-thirds COM
pleted
Evening journal., 1903-04-02

The extra session Of the Senate did
not last long after the bar had been
abolished.
Evening journal., 1903-04-02

from its infancy: records OF ball players
classified under one head, showing at a
glance the comparisons between players
in some positions in different leagues:
college baseball; schedules for 1893; ar
Ncles on the game in Australia, Cuba.
Porto Rico and the Philippines. and ca
ages Of PORTRAITS OF an the LEADING faaur
Evening journal., 1903-04-02
AMERICAN LEAGUE DOINeS

Earl Moore is developing as an ambi-
dexterous twirler.
Lave Cross has become one OF the
most noted OF American pigeon fan
ciers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12

son for the invariable hole in the CEN
ter of the loaf. The loaves as they
come from the fire are strung on pole.
When the pole has all it will hold, it
is hung on the rafters overhead. Some
times, Immediately after the baking
bee. a half dozen such poles loaded
to the limit may be seen close under
the ceiling.
Sweden has an area of 17O,1O0 geo
graphical square miles. Over one
twelfth part of the whole is water sur
face. inland seas both small and great,
20, Land! Thou land of the thousand
seas!"
was originally sang of Finland, but it
is just as true of Sweden. Four great
lakes each support an extensive com
merce, and the largest lake. Venern, is
the third largest of all Europe. This
lake alone covers 2,15O square miles.
OF the entire dry-land surface of
Sweden $4,000 square miles is forest,
or nearly A per cent, Almost as much
land (about $4,000 square milesl is not
susceptible of cultivation, consisting of
high barren plateaus, rock, extensive
morasses, fens and swamps. This
leaves only eight per cent. of-the en-
tire surface of Sweden which has been
brought under cultivation. Figures
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.

A careful housekeeper has banished
her tin dish pans and substituted small
wooden tubs. The breakage of china
has been lessened by the change.
Make the covers of couch cushions
rather smaller than the pillows them
selves, and they will not fatten out
and look thin as pillows usually do
after being used for few weeks.
Very serious illness may often be
traced to sleeping in damp bed. To
test it, lay between the sheets hand
mirror for five minutes. If it is at all
blurred or misty take off the sheets
and sleep between the blankets.
In selecting a cheap or medium quail
ity of table damask, choose a pattern
that nearly covers the ground. Such
cloth will wear and look better than
one of the same quality where there is
a good deal of plain surface displayed.
1t is commonly the way when one is
trying to fit large cork to a small
bottle to get knife and trim the cork.
This is a waste of time, for it is only
necessary to let the cork soak in boil
ing water for five minutes and it will
fit the neck of the bottle without any
further trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
The News Condensed.

Thirty cases of smallpox have been
discovered at Stuben, village on the
Wisconsin Western railroad.
Mai. A. F. Bovay, aged IS, a longtime
resident of Ripon, died at Santa Mon
lea, Cal He is said to have been one
of the original organizers of the re-
publican party.
Andrew Gullickson, a farmer at Ster-
ling, was butted to death by large
dehorned bull.
After ten years of waiting Kenosha
saw her first electric street car when
the Kenosha Electric railway line,
which is to form the through connec-
ton between Kenosha and Chicago,
was opened for the use of the public.
Tilted by Paula Klemm, the girl for
whom he had left his home three years
ago, Henry Dankert shot himself in the
head and was found dead on the steps
of his grandfather's cottage in Milwau-
kee.
The receipts at Milwaukee from
customs duties during January were
$49,53S, an increase of $11,759 COM
.
The value of exports through the
Milwaukee port for the same period
was $22, O87, or an increase of $4,107.
The Elks of Kenosha are planning
for the building of an Elks' clubhouse
in that city.
The Winrebago Indians in the vi
cinity of Baraboo held a feast at
one of their camps at Big Slough,
six miles north of Portage.
n. ?. Swansen's general store with
the post office and contents, were
burned to the ground at Richardson,
entailing loss of $4,000; partly in
sured.
P. P. Pratt, the first settler in Bara-
boo, Wis, died at his home in that city,
aged "a years.
David S. Foster, aged II years, died
at Beloit, after long illness. He re-
sided in that city for so years and for
25 years conducted a large grocery
business. Ten years ago he retired
from active business. He was mayor
of the city for three terms. a widow
and three sons survive.
After making tour of Spring
Prairie, Lafayette, Troy and East
Troy a mad dog was shot near East
Troy by farmer, whose cattle were
being harassed.
A. r. Van Nocker a shoe manufac-
turer at La Crosse, died from pneu-
monia.
The dry moss industry is of more i'm
portance to land owners in the cram
berry region than the raising of the
cranberry 1t is always a sure crop
and needs no cultivation. Last year
over $4,000 worth was shipped from
Juneau county.
Following the iron excitement in
Sank county, it is now claimed that the
metal has been discovered in the mar
rows of the Baraboo river, about ten
miles from Portage, the vein extending
| well into Caledonia.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12

They were enormously rich for those
DAYS. The last of his race made no eff
fort to grasp at more wealth; L pre-
sumo he may have had million dol
lars or so besides his unique art col
lections. He was acknowledged lead
er in the best society, the society that
is not willing to measure everything
by the dollar mark. Some have called
him the leader of that society upon its
masculine side as Mrs. Astor is upon
the feminine. They have called him
prettie: names than that--the Penden-
mis- of New York, for instance; and,
best of all, "Uncle Peter" title given
him no more often by the golden girls
of the avenue than by the children of
the poor whom he loved 1t was title
of homer for one of natures noblemen.
The man had romance. What 1t
was neither you nor | shall ever know,
but it left it's traces in him, not in bit
terness, but in gentle manners. 1.-The
loyeliest thing under the sum-" he used
to say, sis beautiful woman" And
to his last day he lived surrounded by
women worthy of the adjective. Fol-
his hobby it was to have miniatures
| painted of the women whom he knew,
so that In time he came to have a col
lection of $50 little portraits by fla
nous m1niaturists of both continents
of such women as Mrs. Ladenburg, Mrs
Henry C.ews, Jr., Mrs. j. Kennedy Tod
Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, Mrs. Richard
Hunt, Mrs. Lloyd Brice, Mrs. Astor
Mrs. Elliott, who was Sally Hargous
the famous belle of more than a day;
Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop and Mrs,
| Grover Cleveland.
These he has left to the metropolitan
Museurn of Art, and a valuable legacy
they are for the public.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12

NOrrbOtten you maym see structures
of poles that look like short sections
of tall rail fence. These are called
"hasior," and on them the grass is laid
up to dry as fast as it is moved. Thus
the wind is made to help the sun in the
curing process.
Dairying and the raising of cattle
and horses are important branches of
Swedish agriculture. In fact, the
Swedes are going more and more into
these lines, and cultivating the regular
crops somewhat less than formerly.
The quality of the grass in the fields
and pastures makes this prOfita BILE.
Sweden exports butter to the value Of
81 SOC, 900; live Enthusiastically cattle,
horses, sheep and swine-worth $2,-
600, 900; pork worth $1,000, 900; besides
beef, eggs and cheese. Taking the pro-
ducts of agriculture as whole Sweden
raises sufficient for the maintenance
of her own people and a surplus for ex-
port.
Sweden'S fisheries are also a source
of profit. Immense quantities of fish
are eaten at home and about S., OO0, coo
worth are annually sent abroad.
NetaIy half the land, as shown by the
figures quoted above, is forest, and it
is natural that wood should be the chief
export of the kingdom. A great part.
The Scandinayians liken their country
in it's ply features to boat turned
bottom up. Along the boundary be-
tween Sweden and Norway runs a high
plateau, and this is called Kolen, or
the keel. This runs in the same general
direction as the peninsula. In this
high field numerous rivers have their
sources. Upon this enormous water
shed the chief timber forests stand.
Into these woods the Swedish lumber
men go every fall with their axes, and
it is in this great numbering district
| that the famine now has it's grip.
| The average export of unmanufac-
! tured lumber from Sweden approx
mates $26,OOO.O0O, chiefly sawed stuff
| About one-ffth of the lumber exported
| is in the shape of square timber, spruce
! logs for piling in Holland, yards and
! boOms in England, and masts of fish
! ing craft in Scotland and France Some
are short timbers used for propping up
the rock strata in English coal mines.
One of the regular economies of the
Swedes, in good times as in bad, is the
winter fodder for the sheep In Au-
gust the traveller seeslittle yellow bun
dies hanging upon the birch trees in
the field. These are little sbeafs of
birch twigs. They are cut off, bound
up, hung up until they are thoroughly
| dried, and taken home for the sheen.
Family life in Sweden is beautifully
patriarchal in its simplicity. Families
keep together as much as is possible,
and the father is with his wife and
children as much as his business will
allow. The women make it a particular
point to remain much at home. 1t is
a life of hard work, close economy.
thrift and frugality, simple amuse-
ments and an ideal home domesticity.
HECTOR C. LEXINGTON
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ALL WITNESSES HEARD.
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Concludes Tasl<-Argunlen
to Be Taken Up.

Philadelphia, Feb. 6.-After sit
ting of exactly 81 days, the anthra-
cite coal strike commission cOnclud-
ed the hearing of witnesses at 5
o'clock Thursday afternoon and adj
iourned until next Monday, when it
will begin to hear the arguments OF
counsel representing the several
sides. The arguments will take up
SIX days, the operators having been
assigned three days, and the miners
the remainder of the time. In all,
the commission heard 566 witnesses.
Nine of these were called by the
commission, 244 by the union miners,
155 by the nonunion miners and 158
by the operators. The stenographers
took down approximately 5000 type
written pages of testimony, or 2,4o0,-
900 words.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
THOUSANDS ARE DROWNED.
Tidal Wave and Hurricane Sweeps
over Society Islands, Causing
Terrible Disaster.

San Francisco, Feb. 9.-News of fear
full loss of life in a destructive storm
that swept over the South Sea islands
last month reached here Sunday by
the steamer Mariposa direct from
Tahiti. The loss of life is estimated
at 1000 souls. On January IS last
huge tidal wave, accompanied by ter
rife hurricane, attacked the Society ISL
ands and the Puamotu group with fear
full force, causing death and devasta-
ton never before equalled in a land of
dreaded storms. The storm reigned
several days, reaching its maximum
strength between January IA and jan
uary 16. From the meager news re-
ceived at Tahiti up to the time of the
sailing of the Mariposa it is estimated
that 1000 of the islanders lost their
lives. 1t is feared that later advices
will add to the list.
The first news of the disaster arrived
at Papeete, Tahiti, January &c, on the
schooner Eimeo. The captain of the
schooner placed the fatalities at 500.
The steamer Excelsior arrived at
Papeete the following day with 400
destitute survivors. The captain of
the Excelsior estimated the total loss
of life to be 500. These figures com
prised only the deaths on the three
islands of Hao, Hikuera and MakOkau,
whose ordinary population is 1880.
On Hikuera island, where 1000 inhabi-
tants were engaged in pearl diving,
nearly one-half were drowned. On an
adjacent island 100 more were washed
out to sea. Makeno and Hao are de-
populated. Conservative estimates at
Tahiti place the number of islands
visited by tidal wave and hurricane at
so. All of them are under the control
of the French governor at Tahiti. The
surviving inhabitants are left desti-
tute of food, shelter and clothing. all
having been swept away by the storm.