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New-York tribune., 1904-09-25
COST OF YALE FOOTBALL.
Sam Of S28, 900 Paid Out in One
Year.

New-Haven, Sept "a (specaD.-With the return
OF the university football season again begins.
especially at New-Haven. the annual struggle OF
undergraduate managers and graduate advisers TO
cut down expenses. Considerable criticism has
oeen directed at Yale, where the annual athletic
expenses have amounted including all branches of
undergraduate organized sport, IN recent years
close to $1,000 The last annual report of the Yale
Financial Union. which embraces the reports OF
the football. baseball, crew track athletic and
1ale Field arrangements, showed expenditure in
IsVz-OS or $Zs4n for football Sl4,712 for baseball.
S6l6 for the crew. 1915 for the track athletic
Socauoh and S2260O for the maintenance of stands
and grounds at Yale Field These figures have
been severely criticised for being much too high
and there Is a strong feeling among Yale alumni
that greater part OF the immense income from
athletics at Yale should go toward partial support
OF worthy university causes instead Of for the per-
sonal expenses of members of the various teams
and their coaches. Especially is this true of foot
pan at yale which concerns a larger number OF
men than any other Yale sport, and which brings
IN by tar the most money 1t Is expected that this
years Yale football management will make a
strong effort to meet the ideas of the alumni as to
cutting down tho cost of football
few of the last audited figures for Yale foot
ball will give an idea of the great business end
of this branch of Yale sport No figures have yet
been made up the 1898 season. For the last foot
ball year in which football expenses have been re-
ported on the total expense of the season was
SIS. fl The total receipts were S56,i40. The i'm
mense profit In Yale football. within few dollars
of half the total receipts went to fill the deficit
in track athletics. the crow and Yale Field ex-
penses. This profit Of practically $28,0Oe not
exceptional for the year referred TO- 1t will be as
much and probably a Great deal more. this year.
especially as the expenses win be cut down to a
degree.
An itemized list OF the Yale football expenses.
as given IN the last accessible report. shows that
what cost the most travelling. meals and hotols
when out OF town: merchandise and sporting goods.
training table, clerical services IN handling the
enormous job of alotting tickets to the big games
and labor and material on the 6ridiron. The single
largest itsm in the Yale football expense account
is hotels and meals. This annually now amounts
TO. shown in the last report $i424 This large
figure for less than ten weeks of tho football sea-
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of his nature 70 be interested in things going on
about him. When only sixteen he showed MS
political independence by refusing to be guideo
by his father in his political affiliations his
father was a Democratic supporter Of Greeley.
The boy was for Grant. boy of sixteen is not
usually considered a great political power but
what he may have lacked In power he made up
for by energy and enthusiasm. In 1888 ne was
sent TO the national convention which nominated
Benjamin Harrison. When he returned home
his father came to him and said. You have
nominated a good man for President and I am
going TO vote for him" This was the first word
Of politics which had passed between the two
after the time of the Grant-Greeley campaign
Mr. Higgns's Introduction to public ottice
came to him through trick of practical politics
which he did not understand at the time, but
which he has since learned all about He had
won the respect OF his party in the district by
his exhibitions OF common sense. His use Of this
quality often settled differences between fac
tions.
In 1891 the district had come under absolute
Democratic control The Republicans were look
ing around the following year for a Republican
who could carry the district, and hit upon Hig-
gins. When asked II he would run he absolutely
refused. From that time he began TO receive
letters from different parts OF the district asking
him TO permit the use of his name for State SEN
ator These letters became so numerous that IT
looked as If there a spontaneous demand
for his services. He acceded gracefully to what
he afterward found was a stimulated demand
He was the right man. however. and carried the
district For ten years he served a State
Senator BIS value TO the State the reorgan-
izer OF its finances is well known. His sound
business instinct has been of great service to the
people of this commonwealth. Two years ago.
when he desired to retire from the Senate, he
was persuaded 10 become the candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor. Every time he has been NOM
mated for Office his nomination has been
made unanimously.
Those prominent in the politics of his part of
the state say that he has always stood for
clean politics. He would never permit any one
over whom he had political influence TO use
methods which vera not square"
2 A keen business man. with broad mind and
a conscience. Is the impression hs creates upon
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

ir accounted for because of the fact that more
and more substitutes, rubbers and camp follow
ers" have been taken away TO out OF town games
lately. Usually tbirty go with the team
10 West Point. and forty or more to Harvard or
Princeton the New-York Columbia game. An
other reason for this item is that II includes the
hotel expenses Of the out OF town coaches who
average three four daily throughout the season.
and who run up 70 a dozen or more Just before the
final games. The Yale idea IS that Il the coaches
are generous enough @ ,ake time from their bust
help mould the eleven their Ncw-Haven
EXPENSE should be paid II IS an idea that is not
confined 10 Yale
The second largest Yale expense is merchandise
and football supplies. including sweaters. good
ones and strong. footballs. leather goods. shoes
and suits. In 1902 this item was $3.s56. The third
largest item each year IS labor and material at
Yale Field. where q corps Of workers has to be
employed during the season; grading. cutting the
grass painting the seats. repairing the stands. etc
This Item is annually 2.tss Next most ex
peusive is the training table. This costs at Yale
for less than ten weeks S2.4Sl About fifty men
use the accommodation and each pays back to the
association, he does WHOM out OF town with the
team. the exact price he Is accustomed 10 pay for
weekly board In term time Guarantees from the
gate receipts amounted 70 S2,+25. paid In figures
running from 500 to $3.50 10 the minor college
teams who played at Yale Field. Finally. among
the big expenses comes travelling. which amounted
to nOss. Yale annually goes out OF town TO West
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

a stranger. There is something in his bearing
and manner of speech which indicates that his
yea is yea and nay nay. He has been called
cclorless. He is not colorless, but gives that
impression because he lacks contrast. He ut
ters no striking sentences and does no sensa-
uonal things. He does not play to the galleries.
but to his conscience and to his common sense
When he makes statement upon a subject it
is based upon mature thought and genuine con-
viction. When he says anything he means it.
and. he does nothing hastily he seldom has
anything to retract
Those who know Frank w. Higgins only from
having met him in the corridors OF the State
Capitol are likely to call him unsympathetic
When he was a member of tho Senate, and was
to be seen hurrying back and forth between his
seat IN the big chamber and the room of the
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

old, and F. Harrison. eighteen years old. who Is
preparing for college in a Connecticut private
school
When ne returned home he was made mar
ager OF the extensive grocery business Of Hig-
gins Blodgett & Co. acquiring an interest IN IT,
Only remnant Of the business now remains IN
his possession. and to this he pays no attention.
leaving II all 10 his partner. This remnant con-
sists OF four stores in Clean He rarely enters
Of them. II IS said that he continues 10
operate the stores because 10 close them would
work an injury TO the employees. This feeling is
characteristic OF hts attitude toward his fellow
men. The source OF his wealth is large holdings
Of timber and ore lands in the West. He is ~
the head OF six corporations conducting opera
tions in Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon and Wash
ington. The selection Of these holdings and the
success of his undertakings are evidence OF his
ability = business man. Every year he visits
the scene Of the operation Of his companies. So
systematized is his business that nothing can go
wrong without hfs Knowledge.
From his boyhood Lieutenant Governor Tig-
gins has been interested IN politics. His IN
terest, however, not that OF the ward poll
tician-"for what there is in St" 1t was a part
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25

Point, and either to Cambridge or to Princeton.
and to other games. The team IS
composed of practically fifty sixty players and
attendants each time. and good train accommoda-
tions furnished. Clerical service steno2ra-
pliers and typewrtting cost each year S213s.
The smaller expenses ran from nearly a thousand
dollars down to hundred. The annual purchase
or trophies for the players costs sS64. Streetcar
fare. including the OF from to four special
trolley cars from the gymnasium to the field and
back again, amounted in 1902 to Ss2l Football
shoes and repairs OF the same came to 1871: The
Item OF 1886 for coaches expenses Is regarded at
Yale another necessary thing. This is used for
occasional railroad fares and other items Rubbers
were paid $3.50. and thought they ought TO have
more. The police and satekeepers at the big
games cost S6SS; printing, score cards advertise
ments and buying office stationery, sS61: doctors
on the neld and at the gymnasium and between
times, 1905; referees at the games and time keep
ers. s5S7; carriages for the coaches captain and
managers out TO Yale Field each practice after
noon. s5o7 sundries. not itemized. $780, labor and
material at the gymnasium for In practice,
NSS rubbers materials and bathing alcphol. s1i3;
aanneay: sisi bands FOR the Dig games and 70
such smaller bills kilograms and telephones,
s53; express. freight and carriage 81; advertising
T5 posting bills OF games te4; score board at the
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Finance Committee of which he was chairman
few dared to stop him. Unless the message was
most urgent, or its bearer a close personal
friend he would scarcely pause TO listen. Wheth-
er before or after session. he always seemed
too full of business to have time to talk.
On the other hand. those who were able to
obtain a closer view of the character of this
man found depth OF sympathy far beyond the
average. Here is only an instance:
photographer had visited the house where
Mr. Higgins, together with several other Sen
ators. lived in Albany. to obtain a picture of
the drawing room In the manipulation Of his
hashlight apparatus a shower Of the magnesium
fell on the photographers wrist, and on explod-
ing burned deep into the flesh. The man squirmed
with pain. and yet all of the assembled Sen
ators looked at him in mute establishment. with
the exception Of the Cattaraugus member. Jump
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25
7ag REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.
prGHLY REGARDED IN HIS HOME CITF OF OLE4N-
CHARACTERISTTCS 4S Il PUBLIC OFFICIAL

said he then being nineteen years old. A young
woman from Sparta, Wis. came TO Rushford
about this time. When she returned westward
Higgins decided that he would engage in busi-
ness in the Middle West When he returned
home. which was three years later, he brought
her as his bride. They have three children.
orrin Trail. twenty-five years old. who is mar
ried and lives in Denver for the benefit of his
health; Josephine, who is about twenty years
New-York tribune., 1904-09-25
Le ROu1ilLier Brothers
HOUSEKEEPING LINENS

HaUd7g purchased from leading manufacturer at prices
showing Oey material reduction from z6oesale figures, an
unusually fine line of
HIGH CLASS LINENS
Ztirh comprises enched and Embroidered Bedsrrsad
Sheets PHloZv Gases. Shams Tea Cloths Scarfs Centres
Doyes, &C.. qu PLACE the goods on sale tomorrow and
following days at prices that 1u proUe specially attracive
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23


San Francisco, Jan. 2o.-The
greatest Fl ght in the history of the
salt trade on the Pacific coast is
now at Its height. Conflicting H.
terests are warning for the control
of the market.
On one side is what is left of the
old combination known as the Fed.
eral Salt Trust. now known rs ,hs
Imperial Salt Company. On the
other side is the Amalgamated Salt
Company, which includes in its
membership the owners of many
salt works around the Bay of San
Francisco.
The market for salt has fallen so
low by reason of the war that no
more quotations are made In the
open. A cargo OF salt was brought
from Mexico. The market in the
North had some of this salt. That
which was sold in San Francisco ia
reported to have cost 50 per ton, in.
.cluding duty and freight, and was
put out at rate of $l.5o ton.
1t is reported that the Amalgs.
mated company has on hand some.
thing like loo, 900 tone Of salt and
tina Imperial company has remain.
ing of the Old Mission Rock sup.
ply 10000 tons. 1t is claimed by
the Amalgamated people thst when
the salt, trust was dissolved the old
magnates of the Federal Salt Com
pany went over to the Imperial
company and tried to control the
salt market which eventually led te
open war. ~.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

ers are marrying, Notwithstanding
they have contracts to teach the
year out. I don't understand why
itia."
NEBRASKA never bad 30 many
pretty teachers BEFORE" was the ex-
PLANTATION ventured by Superintend
ent Pearse, of Omaha.
"The present generation of young
men realize that teachers make
good houaekeepers," Supt riutend-
ent Fowler, Of Lincoln, stated.
The three educators tod the at.
torney general Of the shortage of
teachers. and asked if legal remedy
can be had to prevent further an
noyance from matrimony among
them.
"Wben teacher signs a contra ct
she can be compell-d to keep it,
was the attorney-general's advice.
"You can't epjoin the young men
from marrying the girls on the
board of education pay-rolls. but
mandamus proceedings will com.
pei the young women to live up to
their contracts"
A test case will be made of the
next marriage planned.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

Sioux City. Ia, Jan. 2o.-Rev.
Andrew Moe. pastor of the Metho.
dist church at Mclean, Neb., hear
ing the nitroglycerine explosionswith
which robbers were wrecking the
safeof the Mclean State bank early
this morning, got up. dressed and
with shotgun started to prospect.
He saw two men with Wischesters
patroling the street, while two 9TH
ers were working on the safe. He
reused Emil Boiler, Charles Bur-
rows and George jerks and going
to hardware store presently emerg-
ed armed. Posting themselves, they
began firing rapidly toward the
bank. The four robbers were lined
up and returned the fire. The rest
of the villagers were awakened and
hurried to the streets, when the
robbers took to their heels. They
got away with 5000, which wat
found in the outer safe, and miss
ing three times as much more il
inner compartment. The robberI
escaped.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

Johnstown, Pa, Jan. 21.-An
immense steam pipe directly over
the engine in the boiler room of No.
2 mill of the Cambria Steel Compa-
ny exploded about I:3O this morn
ing, bringing down the whole sec.
ton Of roof running from the pud-
ding mill to the finishing shed of
the mill. The woodwork at once
took fire from the furnaces, and at
this time is burning fercely. The
number of dead is placed at IA. It
Is known that at least two or three
men are under the debris, and it is
not believed that these can be res
cued in time to save their lives.
About Is men have been taken
out, and have been either sent to
the hospital or are lying on cots in
Offices near by. 1t is impossible at
present to learn the extent of their
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

New York, Jan. 2O.--The body
of George Francis Train, who died
early yesterday morning, has been
removed from Mills Hotel to a NOR
tuary chapel, where it will lie in
state until the funeral hour tomor-
NOW. Thousands of children, in
whom Mr.. Train displayed remark
able interest, are taking a farewell
view of the remains. The funeral
will be private and the interment
will be made in Greenwood cemete-
,ry. OF bis once considerable for
tune, Mr.. Train retained nothing
personally except the interest be
had in 3ooo lots he once owned in
Omaha. Protracted litigation has
taken place about them, and will,
it is said, be continued by his
daughter.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

Omaha, Neb., Jan. Cupid
has invaded the ranks of Nebraska
school teachers so often of late that
the state officials are seriously con-
sidering Injunction proceedings.
at is .choice between recourse
to the law or dispensing with edu-
cation till the matrimonial epidem-
ic abates," declared State Senator
Pemberton, of Beatrice, to Attor-
ney.Genefal F. N. Prout at the
state capitol yesterday. ''At Beat
rice teachers cannot be had to in
struct our children. Marriage is
responsible. ALI the pretty teach.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

San francisco, Jan. 2o.-The
jury in the case of Martha E. Bow
ere, on trial on the charge of murd-
ering her husband, Martin Bowers,
brought in a verdict tonight of
murder in the fret degree, and fix
ed the penalty at Imprisonment for
life.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

Bloomfountain, Orange River Col
ony, Jan. 19.-1t is announced to-
day that go persons we're drowned
in cloudburst which occurred
Sunday. 1t destroyed. many build
ings in the vicinity and did 9TH
er great damage. Twenty-four bod
les have been recovered.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23
Fer Sale.

o. <, Grubbers. Best in Oregon;
three state premiums; one horse has tha
power of SO; can grub an acre day.
James Finney,
Brooks, Or.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23
GROWING MORE VICIOUS
EDUCATION MAKES THE NE.
GRO WORSE SAYS COVER.
NOR VARDAMAN.
As Race, Negro Is Deteriorating
Morally Every Day-Terrible
Explosion ard Deaths at
Stsel Works.

Jackson, Mss, Jan. 19,-In his
inaugural address delivered today
before joint session Of the Missis-
sippi legislature, Governor James
K. Vardaman declared that the
growing tendency of the negro to
commit criminal assault on white
women is nothing mure or lees than
the manifestations OF the racial de-
sire for social equality. In strong
terms he declared that education is
the, curse of the negro race, and
urged an amendment to the state
constitution that will place the dis
tribution of the common school
funds entirely within the power of
the legislature. Continuing his dis.
cussion of the negro question, Gov
ernor Varlaman said:
'.As a race be is deteriorasing
morally. Time has demons trated
that he is more criminal as free
man than as slave; that he is in.
crossing in criminalty with fright
full raridity, being one-third more
criminal in 1S9J than he was in
1880.
The startling facts revealed by
the census show that those who can
read and write are more criminal
than ths illiterates, which is true
of no other element of our popula-
ton. I am advised that the mini.
mum illiterscy among the negroes
is found 10 New England, where il
is ala per cent. The maximum is
found in the black belt, Louisiana
Mississippi, and South Carolina,
where it is 65.7 per cent; and ye,
the negro in New England is fou,
and one-half times more criminal
hundred for hundred, than be is il
the black belt.
"In the South, Mississippi partic
ularly, know be is growing worse
every year. You can scarcely pick
up a newspaper whose pages ar,
not blackened with the account ofar
unmentionable crime committed by
a negro brute, and this crime, !
want to impress upon you, is bu
the manifestation of the negro's as
piration for social equality, encour
aged largely by the character o
free education in vogue, which tn
state is levying tribute upon tn
white people to maintain.
1 "The better class of negroes i
not responsible for this terrible con
dition, nor for the criminal tenden
cy Of their race. Nor DO I wish t.
be understood as censuring then
for it. I EN- not censuring ar Eybody J
nor am l inspired by ill-will for th
negro; bet I am calling attention
to a most unfortunate and unendur
able condition of affairs. Wha
shall be done about it?
my own idea Is that the charac
ter of the education for the negr
ought to bs changed. If, afte
years of earnest effort and the ez
penditure of fubulous sums of mon
ey to educate his head, we have on
ly succeeded in making a crimins
out of him, wisdom could sugges
, that we make another experimen
, and gee if we cannot improve hir
by educating his hand and hl
heart.
''There must be moral substra'
um upon which to build, or yo
cannot make him q desirable Cit
zen."
The governor also declared tina
the people Of the nation should ris
up and demand the repeal of th
18th amendment.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23

Syracuse, N. Y, Jan. 20.-The
east bound train on the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western, which left
here at 1O.o'clock last night, be-
came stalled in the snow at Sum-
nit, and was unable to move until
pearly noon today. The trolley line
to Auburn was forced to suspend
business. Heavy drifting snow has
paralyzed all the railroads except
the main line Of the New York
Central, where trains are late.
The worst blockade in recent years
prevails on the Rome, Watertown
& Ogdensburg road. Trains are To-
to Is hours, late, and many have
been abandoned. The road between
Watertown and Syracuse is COM
pletely closed, no train having
passed over the line since Yesterday
afternoon. Several trains are STALL
ed in snowbanks near Richland, :,
and every snow plow is in use to
release them.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-23
injuries. but it is known that sev-e
ersl ara in critical condition.

injuries. but it is known that sev-e
ersl ara in q critical condition.
A large water pipe burst, and ig
flooding the ground about the scene
of the accident. One man caught
in the debris is in plain sight, but.
cannot be rescued. owing to the in
tense heat. Itis probable that not.
one Of the men penned in can es-
cape death either by drowning or
fire.
At 2;40 o'clock it was said the i'm.
jured will number Is or more, many
of whom are terribly scalded and
cannot live. Two bodies have been
recovered.
The accident occurred just as the
turns were being changed. and was
the result of the engine in the mill
rcnning off as the result of the gov
ernor belt breaking. The wheel
was about 80 feet in diameter, and
exploded With terrific force, smash
ing into large steam basin that
ran along the roof of the building
and CAUSED it to burst. The entire
roof was caved in, and the whole
mill is complete wreck.
The force of the explosion, ac-
cordipg to the men who we're work.
ing in the mill, was terrific. Large
girders were twisted cut If shape
and everything is a tumbled mass
Of ruins. How many men may be
buried in the mass, it is now inn
possible to tell aud it will be sew
eral hours ttfore definite informa-
tion can be secured.
There were 50 men at work in
No. 2 mill and few of them escaped
without at least some injury. The
fact that the victims are foreigners
complicates the enumeration of the
dead and injured, One millwork-- :
er, who was near No. 2 mill, but
far enough away to escape the force
Of the explosion, says he saw men
writhing on the ground amid the
wreckage, rolling over in the flames
while others appeared to be almost
submerged in the deluge Of water
pouring from the broken mains.
Two of the victims in the hospital
are Americans, one of whom is be-
yond all hope of recovery. Neither
of the Americans has been identi,
fed.
| Such devastation has not been
seen around the plant OF the Cam
oria Steel Company since the Johns
town flood, when the entire plant
was submerged and practically all
the valuable machinery wrecked.