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New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
n. Y. CENTR4L'S OFFER.
Three Posfofice Sites Near Grand
Central Station.

Washington, Feb. 25-W. ]. Wilgus. fifth VICE
president of the New-York Central and Huosoh
River Railroad offered 20 the Postmaster General
to-day behalf of that company for the uptown
postoffice to be located the Grand Cehti di
Station in New-York. three alternative sites over
the proposed depressed yard of the railroad COM
pany in Madison and Lexington aves. and between
Forty-ffth and Forty-eignth SITS What is oesls7
ma ted as the Madison-ave. site extends from foits
fifth to Forty eighth st the east SIDE OF the
The site is $50 feet long with the TWO cross
streets-Forty-sXth and orty-seventh-arched
over l20 feet wide first floor, with 4o-fool
street in rear, making total width above the hrst
story 16O feet or in other words. eco feet front by
$50 feet deep. The the first floor would be
$4,000 square feet, and each floor above the hrst
floor los 500 square feet The total value OF the
land. excluding the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation and American Express buildings, IS placed
by the railroad company at s256S,5oO less value to
railroad Of the sub-surface rights. part OF WHICH
win be used for solid mail trains, $O6S,5oO; net
price of land to government. H.50000o; value et
Young Mems Christian Association and express
buildings, $4,000: total to government
S,SO.0oO
The Lexington-ave. site runs from Forty-hfth 10
Fortyeighth st. the west side of the avenue l's
value of the is fixed 1909 200. less value TO
railroad of the sub-surface rights $Sls2oO; to'a'
What is designated the combination site ex-
tends from Forty-sixth to Forty-seventh St IN
connected by electric belts-one building for ncom
ing mail and the ouner for outgoing mail: & Each
block would be 200 by 40 feet with 4ofoot drive
in the rear on the first floor. and all hooIS
above the first woqd pc 200 by 100 feet IN IN 4 @
square feet the first floor and 6i500 square feet
on each floor above the FIRST The total yaine OF lfe
land. excluding the American Express building is
placed 81 43l 600 less value to railroad of the SUD
surface rights s4$ 600 net price Of land to n m
total cost to the government $115OO0O
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Army Bill Sent to President-Fowler Bill
Discussed.

washington, Feb 25-The House to-day adopted
the conference report the Army Appropriation
hill and sent the bill the President The bill to
establish union station in this city also was hnally
nassed the House abandoning its amendments to
raduce the amount to be given to the Pennsyl-
yanis and Baltimore and Ohio railroads from
81 100000 EACH as fixed in the Senate BILL to acoOOoo
each as fixed by the House.
The Fowler Currency bill was debated In des-
uItorv way Mr.. Clayton, of Alabama, delivered
. r,ock funeral oraton on the bill. The other
speakers were Messrs Pugsley. Of New YORK;
ShaIIen berger of Nebraska and Thompson or
AIahama In opposition the bill. The Speaker
annointsd a committee to represent the House at
The dedication of the Louisiana Purchase Expos1-
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
LOOKS TOWARD ACQUIRING CANADA
A Remarkable Resolution introduced by
Representative De Almond.

Washington. Feb. 25-Representative De Ar
mond. of Missouri, to-day introduced concur
rent resolution in the House providing as fol-
lows:
That the President be and is hereby requested
to learn and advise the Congress upon What
terms, If any, honorable to both nations and
satisfactory TO the inhabitants Of the territory
primarily affected, Great Britain would consent
TO cede to the United States all or any part OF
the territory lying north of and adjoining the
United States, TO be formed in due time into one
or more States and admitted into the Union upon
equality with the other States. the 1nhabit-
ants thereof in the time to enjoy all the
privileges and imuunities guaranteed by the
federal constitution.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.

Washington Feb 25.-The following army and
navy orders have been issued:
ARMY.
First Lieutenant FREDERICK NC SMITH, artillery
corps transferred from the unassigned list TO the
74th Company. coast artillery
First Lieutenant A BARRY artillery corps will
proceed relieve First Lieutenant Fred
erick McC. Smith artillery corps.
The retirement Of Brigadier Generals TULLY MCREA.
FIJI |, HUGGINS and GREENLEAF A. GOODALE
announced.
The resignation Of Second Lieutenant kLGERNON E
SARTORIS 10Th Infantry has been accepted. 10 take
effect April !.
Surgeon E. II. MARSTELLER. TO Panther, via Raleigh
Lieutenant A T. KALBACH. resignation accepted
Chaplain a A MALLISTER. retired
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
EXCLUSION OF ARMS FROM CHINA
This Government Doing All It Can to Carry
Out Its Agreement.

Washington. Feb. 25.-As the United States Gov
ernment has recently been addressed by the .ther
signatory powers to the treaty Of Pekng respect
ing the exclusion OF firearms from China, 1t may
said that this government is doing all it to
carry out the treaty agreement on that point Its
efforts largely in the direction of cooperating
with China to prevent the entry of into that
country, it cannot prevent American merchants
from exporting arms. Investigation has satisfied
the officials, however. that there have been no
really heavy importations Of firearms into China.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
MEXICO's ACTIVE VOLCANO.
people Flee from Colima's Flames and Lava.

Mexico City, Feb. 25-News from the region
surrounding the volcano of Colma continues
alarming The people, terrified by the belching
flames and pouring lava, are seeking refuse IN
distant towns and villages The city of Tuxpam
IN the State of Jalisco continues under heavy
cloud Of smoke. The volcano is alight with flames
The new eruption yesterday afternoon has in
creased the general fear.
An American who slept near the volcano on the
night of the eruption awakened by ue-
mendous explosion, and the mountain ejecting
flames enormous height He waited TIL
morning enjoying the magnificent spectacle, ana
then deemed 1t prudent to leave the vicinity
There is not much alarm in the city or GONNA.
but fears felt for the farmers In the nelghDor
hood of the volcano.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
TO ENCOURAGE AMERICAN SHIPPING
Mr. Elkins Proposes 10 Per Cent Extra Duty
on Goods Imported in Foreign Vessels.

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Elkins has in
troduced a bill providing for the imposition of
duty of 10 per cent ad valorem in addition to
present duties all goods imported into the
United States vessels not owned in this
country The bill is intended to encourage
American shipping. and Senator Elkins says
that while he does not expect action by the
present Congress. he will reintroduce the bill
early in the next session and press its consid-
Grafton
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
STANDARD OIL BolLERMAKERS STRIKE

Two hundred boilermakers employed by the
Standard Oil Company at Constable HOOK quit
work yesterday because the master mechanic re-
fused TO discharge a man who the boermakers say
does belong to their union. The men stated
that the work the union was doing should
he done bv a union man The union wages are So a
day and the non union man receiving only y
A committee waited upon the master mechanic
and he refused call off the non-union man, ana
then the two hundred boilermakers employed IN
the works laid down their tools and wen; out
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26

Chicago Feb. 25.-'The Record-Hera1d' to-nor-
row will say that 1t is reported on almost official
authority that the Rock Island has secured control
of the Frisco system. and that the deal Is the fore
runner of a new and far reaching community OF
interests among Western lines Within one or two
months according to the report, the Rock Island
will have representation the Santa Fe board
and the Santa Fe interests will have an equal
representation the Rock Island board Inc
term upon which the Frisco passes 10 'ne NUN
Island are said to be follows: .oo =.
For every share of Frisco common stock S5o IN IN
cash s45 in 41b per cent bonds and 500 IN ROCK
Island nreferred stock 1t Is also reported mat
President Yoakum will be placed In charge OF the me
new Rock Island system. which VIII De one OF the
largest if not largest, railway systems IN ths
world under managemt II me acquisaeiiiHm ii % %
the Frisco Wou d add about five thousand miles 10
the Rock Island making It system po OF neaay Ma
thirtee, thousand miles. Should the Pere Mar
oI.ette be included the system would have more
than fourteen thousand miles.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT.

Washington, Feb. 25.-The President sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate to-day:
FRANK 1. CAMPBELL. Of Ohio, Assistant Attorney
General.
MELVILLE W MILLER. of Indiana. Assistant Secretary
of Interior.
Nayy-Passed Assistant Pa--raster WILLIAM T. GRAY.
to be a paymaster; Medical Inspector JAMES r.
WAGGENER be a medical director.
Postmasters in -YorE-JOHN A. RASER, at Harrt-
son; HAROLD r. EVERY a Athens: DAVID G..
MONTRESS. Peekskil
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
SCHROEDER TO SUCCEED sIGsBEE

Washington Feb. 25.-It is the understanding in
naval circles that Commander Seaton Schroeder
will succeed Captain C. D. Sigsbee chief of the
Bureau of Naval Intelligence. Commander Schroe-
der is returning from Guam. where he has served
;roa 1aoo as tts naval governor. He appointed
to the service from South Carolina in 1864.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
NICKEL PLATE RAISES WAGES.

cleveland Feb 25.--As result of a conference
hatween officials OF the Nickel Plate road and rep
resentatives OF the conductors. tralnmens ana
s,itcnnnen,s brotherhoods it is announced that the
cornnapv has granted increase In wages averag-
ing about per cent to those employees The In
nrea Ga is effective from February l. About seven
benefited.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
TROOPS FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

San Francisco. Feb. 2.-One battalion or the 18th
Infantry which is to sai for the Philippines on
the transport Fitzpatrick has arrived here from the
East The Fitzpatrick will sail on February 2S
and will carry the troops direct TO the island Of
Samar The Logan viii sail for Manila on the
same day. carrying 2S6 men OF the 18th Infantry
thirty casuals and iS0 cabin passengers The
ICgan's cargo amonats 70 SOO tons
New-York tribune., 1903-02-26
u,,sr WAIT FOR SIR CAVENpIsH.

81 Johns N F.. Feb. 25.-The opening OF the
Colonial Legislature has been postponed another
uvaek owing to a curious circumstance. Sir Caven-
dtsh Boyle Governor of Newfoundland. is due to
arrive here tomorrow on the steamer Glencoe
from Halifax. His authority Is revived "neh nc
.tor. tho territorial waters three miles of Cape
Race and Deputy Governor Norwood VIII theIe- t
fore be unable act at the opening oI ine lSsis @
istnra sIthonRh Governor Boyle may not yet nave
landed Tha postponement was Accordingly
orde
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-01

st. Louis fans are apparently well pleased
with the work done by Donovan aud Ne
Aieer during the winter.
At Sportsman's Park this season the fans
will have 4 chance to feast their peeps
on practically the same bunch of faces
that ornamented the diamond at the Nc
Aleer grounds last season.
The rumor going the rounds that Ander-
son is not going TO be retained has no
truth to It, and the friends of Big john can
rest assured that he will be scooping them
in al the initial sack with the McAleerites
this season.
King Dick will be back on second again
and Sir Rodericil is due to exercise his
mighty right between the Keystone sack
and the third corner. Mccormick will be
and Utility Fielder Friei to watch the outer
defenses. the Browns look to be "A very
strong fielding and batting team.
They will have Sudho!f. Sievgr. Powell.
Red Donahue and Billy Reidy on the firing
line. and with Kahoe and Sugden and Don
ohue doing the act of receiving. the Browns
should make very strong bid for the pen
n2nt.
At League Park the old staEd-bys. Dono-
van. Smoot. Barclay. Farrell Nichols Ry-
an and the ONeills will lie assisted bv
band of hustling youngsters as long as Il
Chinese bill Of fare. but Donovan says that
his youngsters will occupy 81 higher posi-
ton i'll the pennant race than they did last
season. and Donovan ia not going around
telling his friends how much better the
other National League teams are than the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-01
W. Il. CUUk W. IT, SO Olive ' S. .eS. NO. NO

cies of interference allowed Is riding off.
which for the benefit of nephytes may be
EXPLAINED as using yourself and pony to
from the ball. All this hand work and at
triton takes deal out of pony who is.
at best. a little bit of horse flesh, II hands
rider weig hing from 100 to ~ pounds.
The English players accomplish qlste as
much by crooking their Inalhts in those of
an opponent when he attenpts 10 hit the
ball as the American playefs do by riding
OH. A deft touch at the fight time puts
player out of action, immediate action.
American players who have PATCHED English
teams work. and who haze played with
them agree that "crookings is play to be
favored. 1t saves the hard work of riding
off and renders a player Opt in using the
stick on both sides OF thekpony. Then It
gets man angry and hurtifis game TO find
his stick deity hooked at tie moment he is
taking swift crack at gal. He has. OF
course, due opportunities fuf retalia ton.
1t is hoped by polo pIayes that when the
American Polo Associatbn meets next
month due arrangements will be made to
permit stick crooking. lttmeanS more at
bottom than II does on thessurface. Though
apparently n slight chance in the game it
really weakens the strength of attack very
much, and ii may affect come mems play
so thoroughly that a rev siQn Of handicap
may he necessary.
Take. for instance. very heavy and pow
erful players of the stampof which MesSrs
John d. and Samuel G Davis are leading
local eXemplars These players have al
ways been extremely hard TO ride off and
block. Their own weight and the essential
superiority and strength Of their ponies
make them veritable racing Rocks of Gil
braltas.
When crookng is permitted it is reason
able to suppose that such players will be
deprived of many advantages derivable
from weight and strength
This is something that Is to be devoutly
sought. as any change which tends to en-
courage speed and dexterity at the ex-
pense of weight and strength is following
the true gospel Of the spokesman. The fact
quite heft for a lad of from 10 10 % the
average age Of college football players-is
rated heavy enough to play football is
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RICHEST STAKE IN
WORLD IN AMERICA
Promoters of New Belmont Park
Propose to Make Inaugural
Stake Eclipse English Derby.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York, Feb. 2S.-The richest race of
its kind in the world, it is said by man
in the confidence of the promoters of Bel
mont Park. will mark the Inauguration next
year OF the magnificent new race course
that is TO be built near Jamaica, l.. l., TO
5aKs the place of the historic old Morris
The race will be a handicap for the older
division of thoroughbreds of a mile and a
haii or thereabouts, with $4,000 added, of
winch S10.oO will be the prize of the second
morse and 5000 to the third. 1t IS the in.
lcn,ion OF the owners Of the new track to
make ii the most sumptuous race course in
the world in all its appointments
In keeping with this general plan. IL is
proposed to make the inaugural stake the
richest in the world and to establish il as
yearly event that will overshadow in i'm
portance even the classic English rerby
such race would attract the equine stars
OF the world and would surely deveirp Into
inc greatest international sporting event of
The century
The details OF the proposed race have not
been settled absolutely, of course oct il is
understood that the entrance and starting
ices, probably about sl0o each, shall be
merely nominal in comparison with the
vast amount of added money
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of military discipline being enforced by
the head keeper-they find it q difficult mat
of the fact that poaching in England is
held as a grave and dissraceful crime. and
that the magistrates who rigidly enforce
the game laws are, as a rule, owners of
game preserves themselves.
So it may be taken that the preservation
of game is difficult matter. Laws bearing
upon it should be made to preserve the
game. The best of these laws-if properly
enforced-shoud be the intercounty law. IT
forbidS the transportation of game from one
county to another. If trains were thorough
ly searched during the game season-passen-
ger and freight-and an eye kept on the
wagons on the main roads. game might be
more plentiful.
The intercouIty law would protect the
game against the pot hunter farmer. As for
shipping game to friends. etc: he might be
allowed to ship so many head or brace per
week as presents to friends There should
not be any game in the market.
As for the city, man, he has no right to
shoot save upon his own preserves or upon
land on which he has obtained permission
to shoot. His shipment of game should be
restricted to 4 certain amount per week.
enough to satisfy the most avaricious pot
hunter and the most murdurous city sports
man. There IS nothing in the new laws
to recommend them to the farmers. or to the
true lover OF the harmless and often or
namental. useful and beautiful animals
which come under the head of game. 1t
is TIE D!u HsIlt VI pbl w.
city hunter and would-be butcher.
With It's strict game laws and efficient
game police wild game is scarcity in the
English markets. 1t should be so here
until such a time at least as the game be-
comes a menace TO crops. Nature and
Providence seem to have decreed that game.
proper. shall never increase so as TO menace
agriculture. Rabbits are about the only
species of game that multiply and endure
sufficiently to injure the husbandman, and
they can scarce be deGominated game
When the American Polo Association holds
its meeting next month II will have the
'crooking stick rule to deal with. As the
American rules stand to-day the only spe-
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TOPICS WHICH WILL INTEREST
LOVERS OF AMATEUR SPORT
Automobiles and the Dutchman nd the
lacyMssouri Game Laws and Proposedpolo puos
and Stick CrookngAmercan Polo Association TO Hold Is
Annual Meeting.
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
They are telling goodish sort of a story
on Il young Insurance man who IS much
given to fast automobiling. He was tear
ing in the Clayton road when he footed for
IL German who was taking W the middle
of the road with rather good-looking set
ter dog at his heels. The ''whoop- whoop''
of the horn behind him made Hans hit his
back against the sky. but the dog turned
to look. and was fit "iixins'' for a sausage
in jiffy.
The young man stopped his machine so
sharply that he almost wrenched her in
two
Sorry. old boy" he said, approaching the
farm hand, open pocketbook in hand. "hut
l am in deuce Of hurry, and il you will
now
Veil. hood" began Hans.
The automobiles thought he was going
to get stuck up proper"
Here be a good fellow and take that
showing So at him. and call 1t square"
Then to save money he leaped into his ma
chine and was soon lost in cloud of dust.
Hans took a long look a the bunch of
bills, the lacerated remains OF the dog, and
the fast disappearing cloud of dust
VEIL he finally said he vas goot
fellow. l wonder who belonged to dot deaf
tog?'
.1read with much interest all about the
trinity of clergymcn sportsmen, Father
Dempsey, Mr.. Duckworth and Rnbb. Har-.
'rison. in The Republic last week" said n
/, local sportsman the other Gay. 1T gave
me some food for reflection on affairs be-
yond sport and sportsmanship. I. happen
70 know theithree reverend gentlemen quite
well. Each one o. them is a credit to his
manhood. his nationality. humanity and re-
ligion. But we have been hearing so much
Of the superiority of the Anglo Saxon race
since, We have become GOOD friends with
England that fell to asking myself IL the
American progress owed everything to the
Anglo-SaNon. Here in these three rever-
end gentlemen. splendid specimens Of man
hood, enlightened and developed by educa-
ton, We find an Anglo-Saxon, Celt and a
Hebrew.
Mr.. Dnckworth is a perfect type of the
great Norsemen, lords OF sea and land, big
blonde, blue of eye and fair of hair and
skim true son OF the isle whose captive
children, exposed l., thee Roman market,
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gen comment OF Pope Gregory and led to
me civil ton OF England
| 1,; IN amer Dempsey We have the perfect
Imools the DARK haired Irishman, worthy
PHYSICAL rival of the fair Danes and Morse
| men, whom his countrymen, Brian Boru
most famous OF Irishmcn, defeated at CIon,
In Rabbi Harrison we have a truo
prince OF the House of Hur. Not so large
as his Northern brothers. he is agile of
limb IN and mind. snewy and plucky-a type
OF the 'man-at-the-oar. who outliyed
s.uro'er and coarser rowers many years he
W .,. good breeding alone confers.
Taking these three admirably selected
men as renresentative specimens of Ameri-
can caitizens;ltp what deduction are we to
good IN America to our Anglo-Saxon
strain. Rather do We owe it to the good
mess OF al the great strains of all the great
great, not because Of the Anglo i.5.s Saxon rs
strain. but because 1t acquires ali that is
e oest IN an the great human strains OF the
man French. they all send their best blood
10 America. The Anslo-Saxon strain is ali
right but it makes only one-tenth. not
hine-tenths, OF our greatness"
missouri legislators are worried a good
deal with game laws at the current ses-
sion of the State congress As usual. and
as might be expected. the interests Of thu
game are not protected by any OF the laws.
existing ,,sa,dn or proposed, The laws and their
tinuance. of the old battle between the
pot hunter.farner on the one side and city
hunter on the other. The farmer pot hunter
wants TO Kli all tina. ne cares to Kill for
home and market use. The city hunter
wants to. Waste powder and shot where
when and upon whose property he chooses.
OF conrse both are wrong. The pot
nunter and tho farmer are enemies of game
for they kill. kill without end to make
money. The city hunter Is really a friend
OF game, because, as rule, he hunts but
seldom ana kin blessed sight schooner.
But he Isl usually q trespasser upon farms
the law.
1t is pretty hard matter to reserve eama
from the pot hunter and the farmer In
England. where the pot hunter is known
as rpoacher. as many as four men per
LOO acres have been employed to protect
game Though these gamekeepefs. as they
are called are well acquainted with the
neighboring poachers and though they take