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what he can do, and expects him to live
up to his reputation. When Jack Demp-
sey was matched against Bob Fitzsim-
mons everybody who thought that he
knew anything about the game con-
Guided that Dempsey had an ironclad
cinch on the result, and figured that the
Cornishman was in for severe thrash
ing. But Dempsey was whipped just
the same, and by man who it was
thought had not the slightest chance OF
a victory. So great hold had John l.
Sullivan upon the affections of the pub
lie that when he was matched against
Jim Corbett for the heavyweight title
in 1892 the large majority of the sports
refused to look upon the young bank
clerk from California in any other light
than as loser. The same thing was IL
Illustrated in che case of Jim Covbett
against Bob Fitzsimmons at Carson
City, in 1897. 1t was admitted that Fitz
was great fighter and all that, but to
beat man of Corbett's known clever
ness and reputation WEES thought to be
impossible, especially by man like
Fitz, who had the worst of the bargain
in point of weight. But again the dark
horse" triumphed. After that mill the
CornishmanN was regarded as invincible
by every one who thought he knew how
to size up real mighty pugilist But
his turn came when he tackled Jim JEFF
ries, at Coney Island, in 1899. Dark
horses nave upset calculations among
the little men, too. After Terry Meow
ern'S winning streak, and especially SO
after he had conquered the mighty
George Dixon in a manner to convince
the critics of his greatness, it was whis-
pered all along the line that he could
not lose. So when Terry was matched
to meet Young Corbett, McGovern's
friends were laughing in their sleeves and
were figuring upon just how they would
spend their money. Ring followers re-
member the outcome of that mill pretty
well. Terry was put to sleep In just two
rounds, and by man of whom little
was really known in the east. Meow
erns friends thought that their man
had been whipped by a chance blow, SO
another match was arranged. This time
the affair took place at San Francisco,
and The result was the same. Young
Corbett's recent defeats by Jimmy Britt
and Battling Nelson were instances OF
the talent going wrong again. Joe Bow
ker proved to be good dark horse when
he defeated frankie Neil recently in Eng
land So did Pedlar Palmer when no
fought Billy Plimmer the first time and
repeated the dose later on. Terry Nc
Govern surprised the fight sharps when
he conquered Palmer at Tuckahoe, N r..
as did Kid Lavigne when he went abroad
and dethroned Englands pride among
the lightweights. This list will be in
creased as time goes on, and dark horses
are certain to figure in ring history. In
nine cases out of ten the man who bets
against the favorite in a fight will come
out winner in the end.
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that might have been reaped by Far
He began his harvest by getting ar
rested and having his eyes blackened
by the "caress of pair of brass
knuckles." Fretting over the orders
of physician that he remain in a
darkened room, the strike breaker
showed his impotence to his few call
ers. "I've only got cinder in my
eye," said Curry. "But it don't make
me want to duck these poor colored fell
lows l have to break this strike with"
You study this man and see how
far short of Farley his capacity for
executive ability falls. Homestead's
iron works cooled the mold in which
Farley's spirit was shaped and then
the mold fell into the Allegheny river
Curry had his fighting spirit case
hardened in a struggle of less impor
tance-he seems to have some molten
material in the interior that needs
the reyerses of conflict to harden.
Defies Death for Gain. III
It's money-on1y money that Curry
is working for. He nonchalantly tells
you that. eff the strike lasts 80 days, :"
said Curry, as he dropped some medi-
cine into his inflamed eye from the
blade of knife-disdainin to use the
little rubber syringe that his doctor
has left for him-''I'll slip out of the
city $4,000 richer than l was when
l came in
'But haven't you any animosity-
isn't there some of that hatred that
the correspondents have written about
that impels you to fight unions?" Curry
was asked.
Look here," was the quick reply.
"Put down in your note book these
few things, and when I'm a back num-
Der study them:
"a man who would not take chance
against a mob for money is not per
son to look for the future
Capitalists play golf, count their
coupons, lean on bright young men to
pilot their great enterprises and write
essays for their club parties on the
growth of union tyranny They need
Drawn, brains and grit to help them
in their troubles.
Must Please Men of Wealth.
'The young man who has a few
ounces of brains, carload of grit and
enough Drawn to not know he has a
stomach needs that capitalists money.
He can't win, taking it from the rich
mamie must please him to get it.
please the capitalist by showing
him that law and order will spread
out before you if you fight disorder and
lawlessness and you will get more
from the rich man than a bookkeeper
could earn in so times your period
of work.
Fat Checks Salve Wounds.
"No physical pain you can get in
a riot lasts long. The nice cneck that
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Want Consumptive Hospital.

Workers among conSumptiyes or Inc
state are exerting every effort in push
ing the Kinney BILL which provides
for an appropriation of 100000 for g.
tuberculosis hospital. The measure is
now before the joint committee on
claims, and extraordinary efforts arc
being used to have it reported out
After being favorably considered bt
the assembly committee on state af-
fairs it went to the claims body, and
there it sticks. The measure, it is
said, may be reported with the budget
cut down somewhat; but to this the
bills sponsors object, as they declare
the amount is little more than neces-
sary. An institution like the one con-
templated would furnish accommoda-
tions for hundreds of patients in the
winter time, and a larger number in
the summer. The report estimates that
about $500 persons die from consump-
ton each year in Wisconsin.
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Farley never forgot mans mans
II he passed scrutiny and got his de-
scription on his little red book that he
kept in safe in his Office in Pittsburg.
Those names were fund that he drew
upon for the railway and street trans
portation chiefs when they needed
strike-breakers. But Curry has no
list He would not be bothered with
a book. He will take the leadership
of the biggest and most nondescript
throng of nonunion men, black or
white-and black prcferred-that any
employment agency ever hustled into
day coaches for long train ride.
".s he man? Can he drive team
and fight?" Those are the only que
REG Curry puts to his recruits after
they are turned over to him. He will
talk of the rich merchants of St. Louis
putting rifles on their shoulders, shut
ting themselves up in their Washing
ton street barracks and fighting the
mobS of unionists. He will say that
their hands trembled when their fin
gers pulled the triggers that sent mes
sengers of death to rioters. But his
sickly smile follows his conclusion:
t.They Eroke the strike"
''It's what guns were made for-to
shoot ] shot at men lots of times.
They had me tingling with pain when
/ did it and, may it please the court
ha. ha! hall think my aim was bad
very bad-worse than that of a
woman. You see it's better to hit a
striker than lad playing a block
away and you can afford to shoot into
the ground once in awhile"
Farley, the Silent.
If Curry is studying to simulate Far
ley he is poor student. Farley never
talked that much to anybody. The
skill of Farley, who had 5000 employees
rushed up the East river to the Inter-
borough power house on the steamer
C. II. Northam, ready after midnight
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to man New YOrk'S cars that the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees had
deserted, never was menaced by gar
rulity. Union men, richer than other
workmen, naughty because they had
powerful and rich unions behind them
and ignorant of the true strength of
Farley as strike breaker, scoffed
when the Northam left her Jersey City
anchorage.
"Her decks are deserted" they said.
''This man Farley has bakers dozen
of ours in the hold" Farley never
spoke except in low tone to a lieu
tenant of "Farley's own" He had
made trips to the principal cities of
the country, selected his men and had
brought them to New Yorlz's portals.
A few hours later he put them in
charge of the cars and one day later
had the unions suing for peace. There
was scarcely an interview with Far
ley in a Manhattan paper that was
bona fide. Capital spent no time in
foolish praise of the man who gave
IL IAS WCdpOA " AuAuO1C 0Il1hSIS
whose ultimatums to the company i'm
posed impossible conditions. 1t paid
him and filed his name for future use.
Curry Once a Motorman.
Curry learned the use of the motor
mans controller handle. He could
stop trolley car at a street crossing
so that a passenger could alight at
the same spot every time. He knew
also the way to use the Westinghouse
air brake. He could mend blown
out fuse" He could climb onto car
roof and cut live wire or fix a twist
ed trolley. In short he was of the
world of front enders motor men.
We watched him guide car through
a mob, dodge missiles and defy the
stockyards thugs in the City railway
strike. "I'll take car through to the
terminal and back If there is only a
platform left" said Curry.
Strikers visited his home and plead
ed with his wife to teach him fear.
She knew that he was fearless even
to the death struggle. She also knew
that his goal was the dollar sign
that he had no specific fight with
unions. Mrs Curry realized that the
current of his ambition could not be
grounded and pleaded with her callers
for justice for her spouse. Frank S
got the nerve-he has a right to work
for his living and if he gets the re-
porters to call him hero, bruise on
his head will hurt just the same" she
is reported to have said
Brains VS.. Drawn.
Considerable brute strength was an
asset used by Carry in the street car
strike. Farley used his brains more
and directed brute strength along lines
of least resistance. The strategy of
the Pittsburg Office went into effect
wherever Farley strung his ''live
wires" without a hitch. Curry, after
all, was strike-b breaker who needed
a general manager or a superintendent
to help plan for the trips.
Then there was the ice wagon driv-
ers' strike in st. Louis. Farley did not
aspire to breaking" that. Maybe he
was not asked 10 help. But Curry
bobbed up. He gave his opinion of
the situation three hours after view
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comes at the end of your work will
make you forget few bruises and
scars.
And this from man whose eye was
bandaged, whose head was swollen
from club wounds and whose body bore
bruises from the brick shower he had
defied. Look for the cynic's smile
when he concludes his epigzammatic
talk and you will be disappointed.
Curry has new science-he will mas
ter it and have bank account that
viii take him far from the madding
crowd. as it were. Some day he may
have a sheep ranch and extend an in
vitation to some old and broken for
mer labor chief to come and be his
herder.
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been conducting during the last two
and a half years for the purpose of
ascertaining whether the railroads OPP
Grating in Wisconsin have reported
their complete gross earnings for tax
alton purposes. Accompanying the
communication was copy of the COM
missioner's report to the governor. The
governor says that the investigation
so far shows that the roads failed to
report since 1897 about $9,5O0000 OF
their earnings. which would make
$4,000 due in back taxes from them.
The explanation of the roads is that
the states experts have included many
amounts in their totals that really wore
not gross earniDe.s.
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Medical Bill Thro,,eh

The state medical boards bill Civ
ing the examiners thecontrol, thep power
to revoke the licenses of practitioners
was passed by the assembly after a
warm fight. The board has absolute
power to revoke a license or refuse to
grant one without the slightest explain
alton and the only solace for the in
jured person is to appeal to the circuit
court
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well dinner when his work is over?
No. The forces of the executive COM
mittee of the Employers association
that were instrumental in enlisting
Curry for the perilous work speak
with the checkbook to such an en-
ploye. They regard him as a soldier
of fortune. Curry will pass on to
some other center where organized
capital decides to declare it's inde-
labor-where a dormant citizens asso-
citation or an employers association
arises to present a slogan: "Open-
shop city or fight to the finish" and
again the will O. wisp of money will
dance before Strikebreaker Curry's
eyes. He will do the work asked of
him. Given enough industrial strife
problems to solve and Curry will
swing around circuit that will end
only with his period of usefulness.
There was grave talk of putting the
national guard in the streets of Chi
cago when Curry was busiest directing
his men. my boys IN a saloon?'
oueried Curry in his telephone Tell
them to steer clear of the saloon.
That's what makes it possible for
breakers to work, lots of times
the saloon" Then settling back for
another chat the wounded leader dis
cussed troops and their bearing on a
strike.
Troops and the Strike.
when you find the union men are
Just plain law haters-not high-class
men-you learn that they do not fear
the police as much as they should.
And 1 guess the bluecoats do not want
to get the union men down on them.
was arrested for picking up brick
that union sympathizer hurled 1T me,
while the latter was not caught.
While two policemen held me a thug
used his brass knuckles on me. That's
not fair. If militia were on guard law
lessness would cease and we strike
breakers would have a chance to put
through the teams as directed
Then the presence of troops would
not make your own leadership futile?'
Curry was asked.
Troops might have to fire few vol.
legs and then the peaceful stage would
begin. A short time of this and l
would fit"
Out in the street a rich man drove
his automobile up to the department
store. Fifty policemen were guarding
caravan of wagons manned with the
negroes who blindly obeyed the orders
of Strikebreaker Curry. A man who
was fixing the cement sidewalk drew
near to the automobilist.
ssThey do be sayin' that this Curry,
the strike breaker, will have Farley
wild him tomorrow, mister. I'd hate
to be teamster in the procession"
MY good fellow, strike breaker
can sleep ten hours a night, like yo1
do, perhaps" was the reply of the
man in the auto-one Of the merchant
princes whose word in the Employers
association was law.
And the wonder is that a strike
breaker of prominence can find q room
in which he feels secure enough to
drop into slllmber
Il. G. WESTLAKM
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play" and for that reason will try to get
good men to punt, which will be an es-
sential feature of modification Of the
rules. Only few men are doing any
thing at Princeton and Harvard as prac-
tice in the east Is mainly for the purpose
of getting q line on material in the uni
yersities not hitherto dealt with.
Princeton wants some heavy men in the
coming freshman class. 1t is unlikely
that Michigan will get game in the east
this year. The intercollegiate football
rules committee, composed OF Paul
Dashiell, chairman, United States naval
academy; walter Camp, Yale; l.. NJ.
Dennis. Cornell; John G. Bell, Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania; Robert D. Wrenn,
Harvard: John B. Fine, Princeton, and
A. Stage, University Of Chicago, held a
preliminary meeting recently at the
RACQUET club in New York City. Posi-
BILE changes in the rules and matters OF
like import were thoroughly discussed.
The demand by prominent educators all
over the country that football be made
a less violent game will probably result
in changes tending to that result.
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resort in North Carolina this greatest
of geniuses the labor troubles of the
country has produced is coughing.
The harsh, frame-racking cough that
he has means that there is a great
strike going on in his anatomy that
even his indomitable courage cannot
''break." 1t will break him. And
when this is done black wagon will
traverse the streets OF Pittsburg to a
hillside where men who wear even
the ubiquitous union button will I'M
cover their heads and mutter: ''Well,
he had the nerve"
Curry a Man of Nerve.
When the planet is webbing in its
orbit the satellite must endeavor to
keep up the equilibrium. The honors
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Reconsiders Lobby Bill.

killed some time ago prohibiting lobby
lists attempting to influence legislators
anywhere except in committee meet
ings. The measure was passed after
some debate. There has been much
trouble with lobbyists in the 1905 ses-
s.on and action has been taken against
them in the assembly as well as in the
senate The motive for reconsidering
Tie measure is said to be because of it's
drastic provisions
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ing e. Plenty OF good police-a chief
who knows the department will do as
1t is told-union men who have a rev.
erence for the law that Chicago team
sters do not possess and he said to
the millionaire leaders who conferred
with him: Its a cinch."
In that strike Curry coined an ex.
preston that only one man heard.
It was: Negroes have blood,
nerves and a desire to work. I'll
fight to put them at par with the
same stocks of the white men," And
it was Curry who saw in his throngs
of big, loose-jointed. silent, powerful
though not altogether cleanly. colored
recruits from st. Louis and the south
a force that could break the warfare
that international President C. P.
Shea. of the Teamsters' brotherhood,
had precipitated 10 Chicago.
How Curry Defied Strikers.
The first thing that Curry did when
put in command in Chicago was to
march 300 colored strike-b breakers
through crowded streets to "teach
them the lay of the land" 1t was only
a picnic for Curry. The marchers
were tired and footsore. Not so with
Curry. A call went out: 1--WE have
lost a wagon Who will find it? 1t
has federal injunction placard on it,
but that means some one will lead
the mob TO make kindling- wood of it,"
cts a cinch." came the familiar re-
mark of Curry. "Step out here, you
fellows. Follow me-"
Policemen never lodged the show
ers of missiles that were directed at
Curry and his band. Time for a grim
joke even by Curry. "They are not
trying to curry favor but curry Curry. .
said the breaker. He found the
wagon.
Wealth His Reward.
Will Strikebreaker Curry ever get
into the Union League club for a fare
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leges, and the COM
ing stars of the
gridiron are re-
C eivin 6 their
sprin 6 training.
Yost, at Michigan,
is planning to de-
velop punters and
clean handling of
kicks. 1t is expect
ed from this that
he foresees a rad
ical change in foot
ball rules, leaning
roora m tho 0Onpn
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People VIII Not Decide.

After passing the bill for submitting
for vote of the people the capitol re-
moval proposition, by IL to Ia. the SEN
ate reconsidered it's action and refused
been much talk during the session of
removing the state headquarters from
Madison and there is some mystery in
the senate's action.
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Alone, without food, or place to rest.
a bird belonging to the Mishawaka
1nd.) Homing Pigeon club will be re-
ouired to make a fight across the Att
lantic from Belgium to this city. The
carrier has been shipped and the captain
of the steamer carrying the aerial
racer will release the pigeon Immediate
Iy upon reaching port, then notifying the
local organization by cable regarding
time of liberation. 1t is predicted by
pigeon fanciers that the fight will be-
successful, although never before at!
tempted by American bird owners. The
winged racer, which last season flew
from New Orleans to this city-a dis
lance Of 1000 miles-is expected to OBJ
tain food and rest on the ocean liners
which it will encounter on its homew lrd
Journey across the foaming pillows. The
bird to be shipped is the best and hardi.
est in the state.
r. w. Walden, prominent turfman
and breeder, aged rs years, is dead at his
home, Bowling Brook Farm, near MID
dleburg, Md. He had been identified
with the turf since a boy, and was
breeder of many great horses that have
won some Of the biggest stakes in this
country. He was director of the Mary
land Jockey club.
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Roads owe State Much.

The governor recently transmitted to
both houses Of the Legislature a COM
munication on the Investigations that
Railroad Commissioner Thomas has
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SPORTS AND
A review of the history of the prize
ring goes to show that dark horses have

as a rule been the
safest b e ttiRg
propositions in
c h 2 m pionsh ip
fights. When the
cha.epion of a GER
t al division is
matched against
an aspirant he is
sure to be made g
strong fayorite, no
matter what the
reports of his con-
d It'll on may be.
Tho rNY1lN1in lyn nxxySs
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Football plans are being laid at most
of the leading eastern and western coll
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RATE LAW CERTAIN
WISCONSIN SENATE PASSES ADJ
MINIsTRATIoN BILL.
HARMONY IS RESTORED.
Throwing fractional Lines Aside,
Every Senator Casts Vote for
Measure-La Toilette viii
Soon Don Toga.

CIV W. Garrison. Staff Correspondent
Madison, Wis.,, May 22.-With fac
tional lines thrown to the four winds,
the senate last week passed unani-
mously the administration railroad rate
commission bill, thus giving Gov. La
Toilette the most complete victory in
his career and making his appearance
in the national senate assured. Before
the passage of the measure the bitter
est fight in the history of the Wiscon-
sin legislature took place on the floor
of the senate and the assembly above
was deserted of spectators, the lower
branch members and gallery habitues
centering their attention on the battle
below. All of one days session and
nearly all night were spent in argu-
ments, wrangling and the introduction
and rejection of amendments. Thirty
one senators were present and not a
single dissenting vote appeared to mar
the color of the governors Victory
Now the measure goes to the assembly,
which has gracefully withdrawn its
bill in Difference to the committee docu-
ment
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Provisions of Measure.

The bill passed was the substitute in
tToduced into the committee in the
senate and provides for an appointive
railway commission of three members,
with salary of $4,000 per year, with
power to prescribe just and equitable
rates, charges and regulations, to gov
ern and regulate freight and passenger
rates and switching and other charges,
to correct abuses and prevent unjust
determinations in railroad rates. 1t
will be remembered that Senator North
had measure before the senate and
the solons by vote of Is to 6, decided
to reject it. Then came the landslide
of amendments. AS limbering exer-
else, the senate killed the McGillvray
amendment providing that John w.
Thomas should be a member of the