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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-11-10
CANDIDATE HEARST
CONTESTS ELECTION
He Is Aided By An Array O
Prominent Lawyers.
BALLOT goxEs HELD BY POLICE
Justice Gaynor, Of the Supreme Court
Ordered the Police to Turn Over Bal
lots to Election Board-Chairmau
Would Not Accept Them.

New York, Nov. 9.-Aided by an ar
ray of legal talent in which are law
yers of great prominence 10; only d:
masters of their profession, but alst
as leaders in more than one mOvamen
for good government in this city, vii
liam r. Hearst has begun his fgh
in the courts for the mayoralty which
ne believes he won in Tuesdays elec
tion and his first step has created {
situation apparently without prece
dent Last night ne obtained an OF
der from Justice Gaynor of the sd
preme court directing the police tC
turn over all ballot boxes to the boarC
of elections at once. The police
obeyed the order as far as they could
but when they proceeded after mid
night hours, to the election boards Of
flee, there was no one there to take
custody of the boxes and tne police
men were compelled to remain in the
street for hours guarding the reposi
tories of the peoples votes.
Later John K. Voorhees,, president g
the board, refused to accept the re
sponsibility in the matter pending ad
vice from the corporation counsel. Mr..
Voorhees, is a Democrat and when his
decision was made known, the Hearst
men turned to Charles w. Page, a Re
publican member of the board, but he
also declined to act and then the presi
dent was left in the strange position OF
trying to carry out the courts orders
but was unable to do so.
The street in the vicinity of the elec
tion board offices presented a strange
sight as hundreds of policemen stood
on guard around the patrol wagons
and other vehicles in which the boxes
had been conveyed from the various
precinct station houses
Mr.. Hearsts order was obtained
from Justice Gaynor after the circu
lation of a story That a printing firm
mad been turning out large numbers OF
fac SMILES of the official ballot and
that these were to be marked fol
Mcclellan and placed in the ballot
boxes in place of Hearst ballots to be
removed. The moment this rumol
reached Hearst headquarters it was de.
cided that the ballot boxes ought not
to remain longer in the station houses
and the application of Justice Gayno1
was made as quickly as the papers
could be drawn up.
Among the attorneys aiding Hearst
is William NJ WINS, the Republican
candidate for mayor in Tuesdays elec
ton. Mr.. WINS volunteered his ser
vices to Mr.. Hearst and the offer was
accepted Another attorney acting
for Mr.. Hearst is Judge John F DA
Ion, who was at one time Judge of the
supreme court of Iowa,
Will Prosecute Election Frauds.
Philadelphia, Nov 9-Two magis
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BIacksmiths Go on Strike.

Waycross, Ca, Nov. 9.-All the
blacksmiths in the shops of the Allan
tic and Birmingham Railroad company
in this city are out on a strike. The
blacksmiths are all union men. The
strikers claim that the employment O.
a negro blacksmith was the primary
cause Of the strike.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-11-10
Prince of Males in India.

Bombay, Nov. 9.-Tne Prince and
Princess of Wales arrived here. today
on board the British battleship Re
nown. They were greeted with salutes
from the forts and warships and were
accorded an enthusiastic reception by
the immense crowds along the water
front. The city is filled with Wis
itors from all part of India. The towns
people alike are bedecked in holiday
attire.
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Will Prosecute Election Frauds.

Philadelphia, Nov 9.-Two magis
trates wiz alternate on the bench ir
the disposal of the election cases.
There are 288 defendants charged
With fraud at the polls and beginning
today a full investigation will be made
Of either case In case of HarboI
Master Samuel G. Maloney, Republic
an leader of the fifth ward who is
charged with conspiracy to conduct ar
Illegal election, twenty witnesses have
been summoned. The charge is based
or aIleoed charoes of fraud
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TROOPS IN MUTINY
AND PILLAGE CITY
Fighting Occurs in the Streets
of Cronstaot, Russia.
MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED
The Infantry Fire Upon the People
With Machine Gun-The City Is in
Flames and the Inhabitants Are Flee
ing-Other Russian News.

Cronstadt, Russia, Nov. 9.-Tne
troops here have mutinied and are pill
laying the city. Fighting is going on
In the street. The Inhabitants are
panlc-stricken and are fleeing from
the town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-25

I can frankly say 1 owe most of my
success to the kind, yet strict, rules en-
forced by DR.. Hennen. 1 mean par
ticularly my success in the long dis
lance events. Had I stayed in New
York 7 would probably not have had
endurance enough to win that Cruel
ling mile that Handey obliged me to
swim in such fast time in the cham
pionships.
Lest any one should misunderstood
me. however, let me say that during my
last three days at camp. the three pre-
ceeding competition. I was neither al
lowed to paddle or use an ak or indulge
in any exercise that might tend to make
me slow. Captain Handley said it was
all right to build up and strengthen the
muscles. but such work must not be
kept up too long. I found his views
excellent. While I experienced a little
soreness of shoulders and arms until
stopped hard work, I found it had
greatly benefited me. and couple of
days rest drove away all semblance OF
stiffness.
During my stay at camp I had two
chances to compete in relay team.
but the facility with which we won de-
t prived the contests of all interest.
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C0LLEGIANS WORKING
FOR BASEBALL LEAGUE.

The project Of an intercollegiate base
ball league which was suggested last
spring by William A. Tilt, captain OF
the Columbia university baseball team.
is slowly reaching maturity. Letters
have been sent out to the managers Ct
Yale. Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania
and Cornell asking that their sugges-
tons and ideas on the subject be pre-
pared, and then a meeting of the col
1eges interested may be held some time
in the near future. It is proposed that
a league be formed of such size that it
may be possible by playing a series Of
two games apiece among its members
that a schedule of not too great length
may be originated and a satisfactory
settling Of baseball supremacy may be
obtained. Furthermore, college base
bah viii be placed upon an organized
basis of unity, and by means of the or
ganization much of the quality Of the
game viii be Increased. As a matter OF
fact, the first reason is the least i'm
portant, because from time 10 time the
best baseball college may be easily de-
termined. But there viii be an inesti-
mable advantage in having baseball put
upon a plane similar to that of track
athletics and rowing, where at least
there is an intercollegiate association
which has some control over Its mem
bers- Baseball certainly will benefit BY
having a league among the>colIeges.
The chief difficulty, naturally win Be
in arranging q schedule that win prove
satisfactory to the college faculties. No
college will permit its student athletes
to make during term time extended
trips that call for long absences. There
fore, it will be necessary to form a
league among colleges not very far re-
moved geographically from one another
It will be possible for almost any one
of the six colleges mentioned above =,
include a game in one day trim. ex-
cepting, perhaps, Cornell, and snac5a4
permission might of course, be hs5 IL
each college for the game with the Ttb-
acans.
According to the plan, It would he
home and home affair. Each oolleva
would play one game abroad ana 49,
one at home. With six COLLEGES ee-r
playing two games with the other So
there would be but ten games on ~
schedule Of the league. It would u.
possible to increase either the nurrba-
Of colleges or the number Of games a.
most every college under present con
ditions plays at least tvventv-fo.,--
games IN a season.
The plan of the organization -y,,,.t
be such that all colleges applying -
membership would be voted tlDo1 ~.
those already in the league, and carae,sf
consideration would be taken Of -
adaptability Of each institution 80
membership OF course, having de bese
percentage in the league series womb
mean nothing more than that s7leb !
team was champion of the intercoI-
legiate league. That, in any event
would be more satisfactory than the an
solutely indeterninate condition
which most college teams finish -
season. Some years it is possible =.
pick out a team that is better than al
the others by virtue of victories. ana IL
other times there would be a doe
claimants with equal apparent right Il
the championship.
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AGAINST ATHLETIC CLUBS.

A not unexpected step was taken by
the Western Conference intercollegiate
association at a meeting only a short
time ago when it was decided to bar
students in the colleges during vacation
and term time from competing = mem
bers of athletic clubs. The idea has
been getting under way for a long time,
starting when w H. Liginger of the
Central Association of the A. A. T.,
adopted an idea set forth by James F.
Sullivan, secretary treasurer Of the
general body, and said that the athletic
clubs should bar college athletes. Mat
tiers like the bringing of Rose and
Lightbody to New York. while they
We're still in college and supposed to
be at work. as members of the Chicago
A. A. made some sort of action neces-
sary from one side or the other. The
colleges at the recent meeting adopted
the rule which makes a track team like
that which the Chicago A. A took to
Portland an impossibility. All OF, the
point winners We're active, except Blair
and Rose, colIegians.
There is little chance that such rule
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nurse took him in the park. Not being
found, he reached the Never, Never
Land, where he became captain of the
noted band of Lost Children.
One night Peter had a misfortune.
While setting on a window ledge listen
ing to Mrs. Darling tell her three little
ones all about Cinderella the window
was suddenly shut down and Peters
shadow was shipped away.
Dear, me, that was awful-a boy
without a shadow
Later he returned to get his shadow,
and in the same nursery room, when
just about to secure it, one Of the three
children. Mendy, woke up. Mendy and
her two companions were eventually
persuaded by Peter to go with him to
the Never, Never Land, and so they all
flew away. Peter told them all about
the fairies, how that every time child
says it does not believe in fairies a
fairy drops dead and how once a baby's
smile broke into a thousand bits and
each piece became a fairy.
Peter and his three companions have
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One Of the features is a song in which
the chorus sits in electric swings. This
ideaewas first seen in New York in the
Rollicking Girl" The following note
appears on the programme in heavy
black type:
The device of the electrical swings
shown in the second act Of this piece was
used for the first time in America on
March 10, 1905, when 1.-THE Earl and the
Girl was given its initial performance at
the Garrick theater, Chicago. Charles
Frohman adopted it without formality as
a feature of 1.-The Rollicl1ing Girl when
that play was presented on May 1, 1905
at the Herald Square theater New York
The Aessrs, Shubert have continued this
effect in 1.-The Earl and the Girl relying
upon the priority of their claim to con-
vince the public that they alone have the
right to use it in America
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an sorts of adventures. meeting Indians,
pirates and many other strange folks.
In the end they return to the children
home. Peter wants Mendy to go back
with him to the Never, Never Land, but
Mendy thinks she must stay home and
wants Peter to remain with her. Peter,
knowing he would have to become like
other people if he did so, decides to go
back to his home in the tree tops. for he
does not want to grow UP. Mendy then
concludes that if she can't be with
Peter all the time she VIII visit him
once a year, to do his housekeeping
Our analysts and discerning think
ers state that imagination. and hence IL
fusion, Is fruit, even evidence Of igno-
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Eddie Foy. as Jim Cheese. a dog
trainer, was the real Gargonzola. Per
haps the playhouse was drafty and cold
to keep him in shape. Anyway, these
two clever witticisms are much more
brilliant than seventy-five others that
have appeared concerning the name of
Foy's role
Nellie AcCoy's dancing on the open
ing night was excellent. and she scored
a striking hit with her songs, 1.-The
Poor Little AIarionette," shopping
and a sporting song. Later Miss Mo
Coy, through Illness, was compelled to
retire from the cast
Miss Caine received several encores
for How Would You Like to Spoon
With Me?" Most of the hearers
thought they'd like to very much.
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DANIELS AND HANDLEY ON RE
TURN FROM A FISHING TRIP.

Gated, and it shelved gradually for
about twenty yards when there was a
sheer fall into a depth of fifteen to
twenty feet of water.
The cove was protected by a densely
wooded island, so situated as to protect
the inclosed water from much heavy
wind. making the surface calm almost
all the time and consequently we'll
adapted TO swimming
A light lunch was INDUCED in about
1890. then a short siesta, and during
the afternoon, except when a trip was
made to other camps or to some show
place-the country is full of them-one
walked, or fshed. or played tennis, the
more strenuous ones INDUCING in shot
putting, hammer throwing, wood chop
ping and similar muscle raising occu-
pations.
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LEFom Our New York Dramatic Core
spOndent.l
N Peter Pan" by James NJ. Bar
RE. AIaude Adams has one of the
most delightful and captivating
a plays that ever have been seen on
a New York stage At the Empire
have achieved a noteworthy success.
This drama is a splendid successor to
eThe Little Minister" in which Miss
Adams scored her greatest hit. AS is
well known, that play, too, was written
By Mr.. Barrie.
Peter Pan" tells The story Of a boy
that would not grow up. We meet
plenty Of boys in this world who can
not grow up-they are men in years.
but stil boys IN mental makeup and
accomplishment. A rise in the price Of
Bermuda onions, or the merits of Hen
Dinkey's three minute PAGER, give them
food for thought and discussion for
weeks at a time. But Peter Pan is the
first boy I have met who VIII not, who
absolutely declines, to grow up. Lucky
goungster he. not to fail in carrying his
wish into effect. He managed to per
petuate the scintillating days Of boy
hood. NO painful sessions with the
landlord for hims no heart failure for
him, after q five minute talk with the
question Of salary for the coming year;
no encounters with agents for " DR..
Fluns Great History of the Middle
Ages terms a dollar down and one
every day. that you are broke"
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Just what that regime does to an
athlete in a few days was demonstrated
by my gaining ten pounds in less than
week AS for my speed, it increased
so suddenly that I began to think the
course snort until. in my first race after
leaving camp, [ Won the Sackett cup in
Philadelphia, negotiating the hundred
yards in siXty-two and one-ffth sec
onds, over a poor course, establishing
new worlds record
Then I realized all that camp life had
meant to me. And why shouldn't it2
The fine air, the outdoor life that one
is bound to lead. the continuous exer-
else, the keen appetite one has and the
impossibility to break training in any
way make camping an ideal prepara-
ton for an athletic contest.
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Bundle of Words and Several Poor
Songs"
In this brief legend is told the story
Of the production. Brought from Lon
don, where, It's said, hit was scored,
the play has but little to appeal to in
telIgent or experienced theater patrons.
The book Of the play, written by Sey-
mour Hicks, is as bad as that of THE
Baroness Fiddlesticks." which failed at
the Casino a year ago. The music, by
Ivan Caryll, and the lyrics are some
what better than the book, but only
somewhat, and that in spots.
Were it not for Eddie Foy, Georgia
Game and the well trained, versatile
chorus 1.-THE Earl and the Girl" would
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The role Of Peter Pan is, OF course,
played by Miss Adams. and into it she
throws all her personal charm, sim
certify, daintiness, expression and art.
The play is imaginative. and Miss
Adams sympathetic temperament and
physical makeup render her particu-
larry potent in conveying across the
footltghts the authors intention. Miss
Adams wears boys panties in this role
and she seems perfectly at ease in them.
Possibly Miss Adams in her youth at
tended a girls boarding school At any
rate, the modern boarding school girl is
considered a sissy If she does not put
on a struggled suit Of her brothers
clothes and smoke cigarettes at dead
O. night with sister cOnspirators at
least four or i've times in q term.
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assist talented students who are as
poor and possibly as gifted as he was
then, has decided to establish scholar
ships in several of the important music
schools Of Europe and America. The
new Institute Of Music, in New York.
of which Frank Damrosch is the direct
ing head, is to benefit literally by this
generosity. as win the New England
Conservatory Of Boston and the Gin
cinnati Conservatory.
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nell; Seitz, Georgetown; C6halan. Yale;
Sullivan, New York university; Tip
petit, New York university; Weber.
Stevens; Cook, Cornell, and a few
others. The New York Irish-American
A G. had Van Dyn, Syracuse; Castle
man. Colgate; Knakal Columbia;
Squires. Syracuse; Allen, Syracuse. and
Baudermann. New York university.
These are the only athletic clubs that
take in college athletes to any extent n
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OF English humor and the absence of
the genuine American material in the
book, written by ]. Hickory Wood and
Arthur Collins. Harry B. Smith
adapted it to the American stage and
wrote most of the lyrics. Ludwig
Highlander wrote most of the music.
Additional lyrics and music flowed from
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Ho6v Z econ
The S6e'f1nmff26
Championship

BY c. M. DANIELS,

New York Athletic Club, Champion
~ N my return from my trip to
England. prior to the Ameri-
can swimming championship
~ contests, I was in miserable
condition. The excessive heat of Lon
don. the constant competing and a poor
passage home had brought me down to
a shadow. I was weak, listless and
several pounds under weight. My time
trials were hopelessly below form.
While wondering over the best thing
20 do I received a very cordial invita-
tion from Dr. w d. Hennen, a mem
Der OF the New York Athletic club
swimming team, to 90 and prepare for
the championships at his camp in New
Hampshire.
Il cannot promise you excitement or
a gay life" wrote the doctor, but air
such as you win find nowhere else, good
food, comfortable quarters, every facili-
ty for training. Several of the swim
mers viii be UP here. and our friend
Handley win look after the coaching"
Coming at the time it did. this letter
seemed a message from heaven. Here
was the very thing needed, with a
healthy outdoor life, a medical adviser
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The programme for each day was
about as follows:
would rise early, and~w with Handley,
DR.. Hennen, the swimmers Kitching and
Crane and other guests at the camp. I
would take brief dip in he cool, clear
waters of the lake. Breakfast was then
in order
An hours Longing after breakfast
allowed one to read the papers and take
care of correspondence, then a trip was
made by canoe to the village, tho miles
away, and by II Captain Handley was
ready to put each man over the racing
course, either on a time or on a coach
ing roll The course was but a few
yards away from the camp. A white
sandy beach extended from end to end
of the cove in which the camp was To-
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Mr.. Shaw Aoain.


George Bernard Shaw is in high
dudgeon over the excoriation heaped on
that dramatic rot of his creation en-
titled Mrs. Warren's Profession Bfr
Shaw evidently thinks American critics
to be a hopelessly incompetent lot Mr..
Shaw should open a school for the edu-
cation and reform Of dramatic writer's.
Mrs. Warren's Profession" is not a
pleasant thing to talk about, and Mr.
Shaw will do every one a favor by
dropping the subject altogether.
FREDERICK TREGELLES.
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Will be adopted in the east. In the
first place, there are not so very many
college men who compete for athletic
clubs in the summer time. In the Met
ropolitan championships it was home
bred talent that was to the fore most
of the time The New York A. c. had
Parson, Yale; Willgoose, Cornell;
Gates, Yale; Mertz, Yale; Phillips. Cor
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rance. Poetry is elementary, Il was one
Of the first, the crude forms of language,
and as poetry is imaginary and Elusive,
so imagination must be crude or ele-
mentary,' they say. Even Macauley
said, in substance, in his essay on Mil
ton that to write or to understand
poetry. to be a true poet, one must
first become as little child. If these
things be really so every theater going
person should make it his business to
become more ignorant than he is at
present. even IS child so that he can
thoroughly appreciate Peter Pan"
The play is a sweet song of youth,
song Of dreams and fancfes q song of
the Never. Never Land, where once We
grownups mingled with the good fairies
fought the bad fairies and perchance
met little Mendy. who remained to be
the good fairy of a lifetime.
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Eiahinn 40 NenIeoted.

The fishing was excellent, and wish
ing TO put on weight I generally chose
it in preference to the harder sports.
We got plenty of perch and bass. a few
pickerel and clubs and at night no end
Of horned pout.
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"The White Cat"

1.-THE White Cat" is the spectacular
sensation of the hour in dramatic New
York. This much talked Of English
importation is a veritable avalanche of
color and beauty. Yes, that is my own
language. not the managers.
The eye feasts continually on scenic
splendors that atone for the presence
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opera bouffe IS as instructive as It is
enjoyable. 1t serves to furnish the
present generation with an excellent ex-
ample of the delicate and melodious
comic opefa which delighted its fathers
in those DAYS before the eyes grew 70
be more importunate than the ears and
the spectacular became dominant
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the founts. yclept William Jerome and
Eugene Schwartz
William Nacart, as Methuselina, Is the
hit of the entire performance. Methu-
selma is an aged fairy lady, a "veter-
anarian" of many mythical wars. She
might have carried a spear in her young
and innocent years for Ajax, the ia
vorite hero of the Sophoclesian school
of playwriting.
VIII T. Hodge, as Jonah XIII.
king of Malaria, is adequate to the i'm
portant task, and Hugh J. Ward, as
simeon, the missing link, and Maud
Lambert, as Prince Peerless, are ex-
ceuent.