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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS SPORTS

6 Tic track team OF. the South Side high school
Is likely to lose its mainstay, Myrtck, the colored
'sprinter, who was counted on for from IL to
20 points in the interscholastic meet, has secured
4 position which will necessitate his leaving
school. Myrick is the most promising sprinter
ever developed in the twin city high schools, and
has also been tower Of strength on the South
high football team for some years.
Tho business men Of st. Peter have decided to
give June race meeting and will hang up 81, 900
In purses. The meeting will cover three days.
AZ F. Evanson, John A. Johnson and Charles
Fny are the officers chosen to conduct the
meeting. 1t is expected that large number
Of st. Paul and Minneapolis horsemen win par
5licipate.
Tanforan Park, near San Francisco. is to be
hereafter given over to the light harness horses.
IA B. Spreckles has secured the track for the
Golden Gate Driving Association and it is not
unlikely that there will be a revival Of trottnig
and pacing in California. :7s
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
BILLIARDS

Thayer Of st. Paul last night won third place
in the amateur, billiard tournament for the
championship OF the twin cities. The score was
900 to 1857 This gives St. Paul the three
first places; Parker having won first and Wilcox
second. Last night S. score:
@ .Thayer-@12si2 80 o 1868 22eso1
o Z 8 16 ss1s2s1sD 23 3SIs9s4s3s % 4 III @
o 5ss11.ls ~ s 2s Total, goo. Average
Hogue-1sllo g. ~. IS 81 20 / II 5z1g47sO 8
3 o 90 0s5so s. o Q s15i1 4 IS 81 i {
3 sO#S 8 1sS.Ss s1s04 Total, 165. Average,
8 Tie High run, az
The billiard match between F. E. Carr and
H. e. Schoonmaker, scheduled for last night in
the Commercial Club tournament has been post
poned, Mr. -Sehononlaker being unable to appear
on account of illness 8s$ s.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
Boys Handsome, Swagger, Rich Apparel


Boys 2-piece double breasted and Norfolk suits
Sizes to 49, made from American Woolen Mills pure
worsted eerges medium weights, fully lined g OK
Boys 3-pece knee pant suits-In serges, clay wor
steds and fancy worsteds and cheviots finished with
costliest trimmings and high class making, cE M
worth $780, at .QO.UU
Boys Fine Russian Suts-This seasons most pop
ular garments, size from 2 to years. from
imported serges, in royal blue, brown and e. K en
navy, with novelty trimmings, at QO.OU
Boys Spring Refer Top coats-sizes to years,
made from rough serges and tan-c -colored Coverts
with military button, embroidery sleeves, cE n0
Werth $3.50 for pO.UU
Young Mems Trousers-In the new Spring patterns
Of English Worsteds entirely designs latest cuts
in sizes from % to 30, worth $500 and $780, nE
As enose loi =. 80: ~
1000 Pairs Boys Knee Pants-Made from all-wool
Cassmeres, plain colors we'll as mixtures, double
seats and knees, double stitched, worth to 81 ~ fCC
" Boys spring neckwear-Made from 80 and = >
75c silks all desirable shapes, at. Zs0C
Black Cat Hosery-Double heels and toes 4 n
at only AO\
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
pitched Too Hiqh.

Puck. q - =.
Whose lines are cast in pleasant places?
Alas! know them not;
For mine are strung with family washing
Across my neighbor's lot.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
ENTRY BLANKS ARE OUT.
Fifty Hve:Men Teams Are Expected
to Enter the State Bowl.
!. .:... ing Tournament, !.

Entry blanks for the state bowling tour
nament, which begins April q, are now
out, and may be secured from Secretary
W. II. Barnes of the state league, AIS
Third street S, or President HIN: Fowler,
346 Minnesota street, ST. Paul. The prize
list will aggregate $500. The officers Of
the state league predict an entry list Of
from forty-f1Ve to fifty f1ve-men; teams. d
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09

|. The Scotland, SD, Bowling team was
defeated at Parkston, S. D., by the Parks
ton team by '405 pins in series Of five
games. zS*ss1e I. b + ss14 %sts5
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
The Rnfealos team i, The. nea nolia

= The Buffalos team in the Minneapolis
league took three straight from the City
Statesmen last night at the Cooperative.
alleys: The match was a walkaWay for
the Bisons and the statesmen were never
dangerous. Sloan got high score with 232
and high. average with 201. IS.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
Known the ! World over

For is wonderful cures DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consunip iption; Coughs and
Colds. It cures or no pay.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
70 California. s32. 90.

The Good Old Summer Time is.at hand
in California: Spend the spring among
the orange groves of Southern California,
where you can live an out OF door life.
The. Minneapolis & ST. Louis Railroad is
selling tickets daily to California points
via the Scenic, Line Of the World, ]. = !. at
the remarkably low rate OF 1920. Per-
sonally conducted tourist car excursions
every Thursday. Call on w. L. HatIa-
way. City Ticket Agent, No. I Washing
ton avenue s.. 8
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09

Garsy's Mapnesla Cement Roofing, &
Cannot rust OF leak IfiEe metal roofing
w. s.. Mott Company, Both phones 376.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
Swell Spring Furnishings

Have you seen the new Manhattan Neggee Shirts for
1902 They marves Of beauty in plain white new
combination coor highest grade imported materials
tom finished plated plain fronts, cuffs attach En
ed detached at So. 90 and y .OO
Beautiful o3 stiff boso, make
custom patterns finished hand laundered shaped
bosom quality of French percales in light grounds
dark figures and stripes, cuffs attached or de- M
-Superweight natural wool and cames chair
Underwear magnificent quality, non-irritabls, Enc
English finish, all sizes, worth 75c OOS
Swell neckwear, from choicest Silks shades of
silver gray gun metal we'll plain black and plain
white in the French fold and Ascot Imperial TO-
shapes better $100, at @fCl
Tes-loO adossn midget bat wing ties and bows in
dots stripes and solid colors, made from soc and E
70c silks, at. AoN
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
CITY SALESMEN..
The standing of the clubs in the Min
leapOlis league follows:

s To- nights game in the Minneapolis
league will be between the Turner's and
Olympias. morrow night the Tasrnos=
and Oly1npias will roll the match post
poned from Feb. IS.
The Columbias won three straight from
the-Twentieth Avenue team last night In
the Greater Minneapolis league j. sGres-s
ser had high score with s226.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09

& The: st. Anthonys naint tanned; their lead
in the Greater league. BY. taking three
straight from, the Sheridans last might.
The score: z@.s<Z .s.5@;f.F %@z5
xs First Second Third
= -. Game. Game. Game.
st. Anthony ............. s14 831 773
Sheridan 759 6Sl 069
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09

The standing Of the clubs in the Great
n Bowling league follows:
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-09
TWENTIETH AVENUE.r:

:. .,sTsSsf First st.second Third
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
Good Country Roads.

Of the twelve or thirteen hundred miles of country roads in Jefferson county, about 23O miles are macadam- ized. and the common dirt roads are kept in fairly good repair. Twelve miles of new macadam road have been completed this year and the amount of betterment, including the repair and construction of bridges, during the past summer and fall has been more extensive than in any previous year.
 The poorest dirt road in Jefferson county is better .Aan the best road in some parts of the country, while Bir mingham has few streets equal to the best roads of the county. The facts speak well for county administration. No money that the board of revenue expends annually Is so prof1tably ap- piled as that which is paid out for the improvement of the highways. County values are greatly enhanced by our good roads work and every year will mark an increased ratio of progress.
 By 1910 Jefferson will have four or five hundred miles of macadam roads and it will then be more than ever a garden spot" The great development  of truck farming and the dairy indus try in the county has been made pos sible by the excellent roads, and in five or six years the few stretches of land not covered by industrial plants or suburban town houses will be cul- tivated to the highest degree of pro- ductive capacity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
Mcclellan and stallinus.

Congressman John l.. Burnett, in speak ing of the accidents which have occurred during the time he has been a member of the house of representatives, said: George B. Mcclellan and Jesse Stallings were the warmest personal friends dur ing the time they served together in con- gross. For three years they lunched to- gether every day In the house cafe. When the hour of luncheon came they would, arm in arm, stall to the cafe There they would put their heads close together and converse with each other for an hour or more. It seems strange that these men should have such an affinity for each other The one was an ardent free silver advocate while the other was a champion of the gold standard. These two men differed widely in some of their opinions but they certainly had an affeetionate feel ing for each other and nobody was more delighted at Mcclellan's success in New York than MT. Stallings."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
BOOKS AND THE YEARS,
From the New York World

From the New York World.
 It is estimated that from the invention of printing to the present time about 125oO,O0O separate publications entitled to ranks as books have been put forth. This estimate is speculative to a large degree It serves to remind one however. of how small drop from the great sea of print- CTS ink goes into the editions even of such literary rush" years as we are witnessing
 Book publication began late in the sea son which is now rounding out with the holiday editions. There is no doubt, how ever, that in its summing up the current year will be found to have kept pace with these just ahead of it. It would have been better for the forests and worse for the pulp mills if a great share of the years books had been left imprinted and the public would have missed noth- ing. However many must write and some must read. and, after all. self-ex- ploitation may take more harmful ways than in the soiling of white paper with black type.
 Fiction has it's usual conspicuous place in this years literature. If there is a change ir it's general nature. 1t is in tha direction of having stories told more for the stories sake. A notable proportion of biography and autobiography is found in recent publication lists-Morley' s Gladstone" Senator Hoar's story of his own seventy years and Wilfrid Meynell s unconventional biography of Beacons- field being even now freshly at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
CLOTHES OF PREMlERS.

From London Men and Women.
 The late Lord Salisbury shared with MT. Gladstone a disregard for clothes, and several times his attire was refer red to with regret by sartorial writers. So long as his coat hung fairly well from the shoulders the deceased Premier cared little, but he never went the length of MT. Gladstone, whose clothes were often so shabby that only an eminent person would wear them. Lord Sallsbury's hats were enormous affairs, qltDe equalling MT. Gladstone's in size and much more re- spectable, Indeed, MT. Gladstones head gear was generally in the shocking bad hat" category. While in attendance in the Commons MT. Gladstone dressed fairly well, but outside the house he paid little attention to his garments The success sors in office of the great departed are, on the other hand, careful dressers, es- pecially Lord Rosebery, who designed a collar for himself with the turnover peaks rounded for greater comfort and durability. MT. Balfours appearance is usually very smart on social occasions, al- though he seemingly does not endeavor to attain the well-groomed condition of MT Chamberlain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The burning of the Brooklyn Acad- emy of Music last Monday morning removed a landmark, but the New York papers found consolation in the fact that the building was empty when the fire broke out. The rapidity with which the flames gained headway showed that the academy would have been death trap for an audience of even ordinary size.
 While the academy was not very old, as buildings in Brooklyn go, it was historic, and many memories of national interest clustered about it. Great singers and actors had appeared before it's footlights, and great politi- cal meetings had been held there.
 The academy was built just before the civil war Henry Ward Beecher and other famous orators addressed immense throngs there and stirred the passions of the people against the Oonfederacy. Beecher made his last political speech in the academy in 1884, when he spoke in behalf of Gro yer Cleveland, candidate for President against James G. Blaine, and it was one of the happiest efforts of his life. It was the first time that Beecher had espoused the cause of a democratic standard-bearer.
 Edwin Booth made his farewell ap- pearance on the stage in the Brooklyn Academy, and in that house Lawrence Barrett achieved some of his finest triumphs. It was there, too, that Theo- dore Thomas gave symphony and or chestra performances year after year, and Adelina Patti was heard there ire quently in the seventies. The acoustics of the academy were perfect.
 A new and more safely constructed building will go up on the site of the ruins, and in that way Brooklyn is the gainer by the fire. Every city needs such a fire from time to time. There are spots in the business section of Birmingham that would be greatly benefited by big blaze. Mean, ram shackle houses often stand for years to impede the progress of city, and some of them would stand till doom's day but for the benefcent fire which comes soon or late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03

iron. the committee made a great hut Something like $2O.OOO was needed tc defray the expenses and it was as little as Jefferson county could do to con tribute $5O0O of that amount
 The members of the board and tax payers who urged the appropriation took broad and commonsense view of the matter and readily decided that this WIS not the time to hold back on teehnicalities.
 Obstruction tactics may do very well in parliamentary bodies, where party interests are at stake. They are never in order in city or county matters when enterprises intended for the advance ment of the community's interests arc under consideration. Birmingham should always be a progressive city, but it never could be such if obstruc- tionists are often in evidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
About Persons.

J. E. Timmons. manager of the Royal hotel of Opelilxa, is stopping at the Metro politan. MT. Timmons was editor of the LaFayette Sun for a number of years. He made a decided success as a journalist. He conducted bright and newsy paper. He says that the East Alabama metropo- lis is in a prosperous condition. Opelika, he thinks, is destined to be a great city some day.
 J. W. Riley of Atlanta was one of the Morris late arrivals last night.
 George Peterson of Baltimore is stop ping at the Hillman.
 IT. F. Bowden of Jacksonville. Fla. is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 C. D. Stewart of Attalla was one of the Hillman's late arrivals last night.
 w. w. Johnson of Gadsden is stopping at the Morris
 Sheriff J. M Walton of Lafayette is at the Florence. He is in Birmingham look ing after some business connected with his office Mir. Walton was appointed by the governor few months ago to fill an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03

unexpired term and is making splendid record as sheriff of Chambers county. He says that the people of Chambers are happy and prosperous. Politics, he says. are becoming lively in his county. There will be a large crop of candidates for the various county offices.
 w. R. Flalk, of the Royal Brush and Broom company of Toledo, ohio., is at the Metropolitan. Mir Flaik Is in Birming- ham for the purpose of establishing a gen. eral office in this city. His company he says proposes to make Birmingham a general distributing point for the south.
 
 w. H. Payne and R. H. Jones of Att lanta are registered at the Hillman.
 
 IT. E. Miller af Knoxville is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 W. P. Williams and w. P. Cambell of Alabama City are stopping at the Metro politan.
 Dr. J. c. Walker of Mayline and w. c. stone of Dadevlle are at. the Morris.
 
 The Hon. A. J. Driver. probate judge of Chambers county, is in the city looking af- ter business interests The Judge is one of the best known and most popular young men in the state.
 E. R. Pierce of Chicago was one of the Hilmans late arrivals last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
Jefferson CountY-PrimarY.

Since a majority of the members of the Democratic Executive committee or Jefferson county express themselves in favor of an early spring primary, date about the middle of April will prob ably be selected at the meeting called for December 12
 Party men outside of the committee see two sides to this question of dates. The State committee favors a general primary in August, and good reasons are advanced for such a plan. But there are certain practical reasons urged why Jefferson county should be an exception to the rule and vote in the spring.
 No matter what date is finally agreed upon, it is of much interest to know that the primary will be full of life. It will, indeed, be an occasion of the highest importance. Many officials are to be nominate, including the judi ciary, solicitors, tax assessor and a tax collector.
 It is a good sign that the aspirants flor the diff rent positions are going to be numerous. This will give the voters an opportunity of making first-class selections. The candidates announced up to this time are worthy men, and the list vii, be largely increased be- fore the time for voting arrives.
 The campaign promises to be the most exciting in the history of local contests. It is hoped that it will be conducted on a high plane. There will be no excuse whatever for vituperation or mud-slinging. The contests for the different offices being within the dem ocratic fami., a spirit of good feeling should prevail.
 Harmony at this time is particularly desired, and the chances are we will have 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
Reunion for Rirmlnnham.

prominent local confederate veteran said: 'I think Birmingham has a fair chance to secure the annual reunion of the United Confederate veterans in 1905 if the proper efforts are extended. The next annual reunion will go to louisville and then the old soldiers should and probably will be invited to come to Bir- mingham. In the early 9Os Birmingham entertained the veterans loyally and many have wanted to come back again. Camp Hardee and other camps in the Birmingham district as well as the en- tire state of Alabama will probably get together and make pull for the re- union for this city.
 Many of the veterans" he said, do not approve of the Idea of Commander John B. Gordon to make New Orleans the permanent reunion city. They think the body should meet in different towns of the south every year. There is not a city, l do not suppose. but what would be glad to have the veterans with them. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
THE PROFITS FROM "zAZA."
CuunseI Places Revenue of the Play at
 $200,Oco for One Year.

From the New York Times.
 During the argument of counsel for and against an injunction asked for by Henry Mrs. Leslie Carter from presenting the play "zaza," yesterday before Justice Scott in the supreme court, it was brought out that the play made pront of s200,000 the first year and that in view of her success in the title role Mrs Carter's sal ary, which was $350 when she first ap- peared, was increased by stages to s50es $65O, and then 5000 a week.
 Ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, counsel for MT. Belasco, said that while Charles Frohman had done nothing but secure the right to use the play from the French authors, he had obtained s10O,0O0 of the s200,O00 profit. The play, he said, would not have been the success it was had 1t not been for the genius of Mir. Belasco and the art used only the name and the salient fea- lures of the life of tlle French actress, as in original, the dialogue being his own.
 Mir. Dittenhoefer said that Mir. Gressitt, who claims the right to produce the play east of Omaha and Kansas City, was a mere nominal plaintiff, and that Charles Frohman was the real plaintiff in interest. He said that certain correspondence be- tween MT. Belasco and MT. Frohman. which he put in evidence. proved that Mir. Belasco had reserved for Mrs. Carter the sole right to produce '1Zaza' in this city, and the current right to her to ap- pear in the play in the United States.
 A. H. Hummell, who appeared for the plaintiff Gresstt, told how MT. Frohman had acquired the rights to the play from the French authors, and how he employed MT. Belasco to adapt the play to English. He said that after it's success MT. Belasco and Mrs Carter abandoned it for "Du Barry relinguishing all their right to 'Zaza." MT. Frohman, he said, had en- tered into a contract with MT. Gressitt. who produced the play with Miss Eugenia Blair in the title role.
 De Lancey Nicoll, counsel for Mrs. Car ter, and Charles E. Hughes. also for MT. Belasco, made legal arguments against the injunction. Justice Scott reserved de- oi sion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
MECCA FOR DIPLOMATS.

From the London Sketch.
 Lord Palmerston used to say that there suited every type of diplomatic constitu- ton, and that that, curiously enough, was the cold. and windy or torrid and breath less one of Paris. The same might almost be said nowadays of Washington. AL though the pay is less and the worry, 1t Is whispered more, the post of British ambassador to the United States has come to be regarded as one of the blue ribands of the diplomatic service, and Sir Morti- mer Durand is much envied in his ap- pointment by his many friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-03
Grover Cleveland.

"No democrat" said a prominent pro- fessional man, "could admire Grover Cleveland more than l do and had hoped to have the opportunity of voting for him in 1904. In 1884 I voted for Mir. Cleve- land in perfunctory way. but he had not been President very long before I found myself a Clevelandite through and through. Notwithstanding my eagerness to vote for him fourth time, however, I am free to admit that he did wise and a patriotic act when he wrote his letter last week declining to run.
 MT. Cleveland has most wonderful record. Thrice nominated for President by the democratic party and twice elected, he was the choice of large number of leading men in the party for the unpre- cedented honor of a fourth nomination. I believe he could be nominated and elect ed.
 ''The southern people should never cease to be grateful, or rather to appreciate Mr Cleveland's ready and hearty recognition of ex-Confederate generals and statesmen in filling the high positions at his dis posal As he got the solid electoral vote of the south, he would have been ungrate- full or lacking in courage had he ignored southern leaders after he got in the white house. Yet a democratic President less fearless than Cleveland would not have done it as far back as 1885 to the extent President Cleveland did. Suppose the lamented Tilden had been installed in the presidency in 1877, would he have included two -Confederates in his cabinet and ap- pointed ex-Confederates to foreign mis- sions and given hundreds or those who wore the grey lucrative and responsible places in the departments at Washington? I very much doubt it.
 Another thing about Cleveland that drew me to him was the way he treated the race question. He simply left it to the southern people.
 "I am reading with delight the warm hearted praise of Cleveland that comes from some of the southern editors, but I vas pained when I opened a copy of the Louisville Courier-Journal today and found a disparaging, not to say bitter, reference to the ex- President. But Cleve- lands rank in history is secure. Fifty years from now Cleveland's name will shine, while the names of his distinguish ed enemies will have faded away and been forgot"