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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-30

arc "pikers" compared with the r:,cc
crack boolmakcrs, and only about 10
in Chicago take any real" money.
Football. although an immensely
popular game, affords means 3f live
lil!pod for only few men. 1t Is est
mated that only 1G men in Chicago
make their living out of the game, and
ills Includes association football. al
tl.ougl it docs not figure in any way
tie rumors concerning the University
CT Chicago team. These men are
coaches. rubbrrs and their assistants,
the players getting nothing out OF the
game.
Tie newspapers arc forced to carry
large sporting STATS and these men,
skilled i'll every branch OF sport ana
n.rned with expert knowledge, conf
mand good salaries. The estimate in
citdeS the racing form sheets. Anutn-
CT class that makes u living OF. of
sport is that which circularos the
score cards throughout the city every
night employing about 125 boys and
25 Office men.
Golf, naturally the rich mans game,
affords IL means of livelihood to hu;l-
drcds. The &c courses in and around
the city employ more persons direct
~ THAI any other branch of sport,
AMI the pay is higher. Each club keeps
from one to seven professionals AMI
club makers. There is an army OF
ground keepers and each club has
from - To 55 cnddics The caddic
boys make good moncy--thcir regular
pay of 8 cents an hour being swclca
largely by tips from the rich men and
women who play the game. Besides,
the club houses are filed with EN-
ploycs, hartcndcrs, stewards. BATH ut,
PENDANTS, walters &c, who make good
money during the season.
II is estimated that over 81 ,0OO,o 900
is spent on golf each year in Chicago.
The reports of the So clubs show c:y.
penditures of $2SG,0O0 directly, and
this does not count the pay of cad.
dies, &c. or even give hint as 10 the
amounts the game costs the players.
Yachting furnishes employment fer
40 salaried persons, although almost
every boat IS handled and cared for
by its owners. The trotting horse fol
lowers make fair moncy-thc owners
being usually men OF wealth. Tho
owners themselves make little out of
the game. II Is stated that only three
Chicago stables of harness horses fail
cd to show a deficit for last year. The
sport is expensive to owners, aud
they add to the expense by paying
comfortable wages TO tho trainers,
jogsers, lostlcrs and shin Scorers.
Sport. from the estimates of the
promoters of various games, would nc
appear To be Il profitable means Of
livelihood. But the estimates do not
include the men who make big mo,r:y
selling sporting goods. There are
over dozen places in Chicago thu,
deal in nothing but sporting goods,
AMI hundreds of places that sell sport
ing goods as part of their businesses,
But, in spite of the charge that
Americans arc not sportsmcn and ,ilat
the commercial idea" enters into all
orr sports, the fact remains that few,
even of the professionals. make auy
large sums out of tho games. Which
would seem to Indicate that. although
they are admittedly after the mon
ey," the love of the sport Itself is what
keeps mon In the games.
Chicago Trib,ine)
Wnertzburger now out. Ask the
man. lN.t h 7o0 2
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-30

fighter is less than IS week, which
drags the average down The esti-
mate of S12 a week is based on the
known earnings of Chicago fighters
during the last year-including the
earnings OF managers and promoters
and also including the big stakes won
by Battling Nelson yet that only
brings the figures UP to what a cheap
clerk would receive. This same Bat
Ting Nelson-in one ycar-fought II
battle in Chicago and drew only $2Sb
from the managers.
The baseball players also offer Il
wide range of salaries. There arc In
Chicago GO professional players earn
ing from $500 TO $500 year. The
estimate made includes managers,
scmiprofcssiOnals who arc struggling
along, hoping to make big money some
day, gronndkccpcrs, score card boys,
popcorn men, gate tenders, ticket
takers and sellers, &c, and they serve
to drag down the average.
the professional players arc among
the best paid men in the country, and
some OF them draw fabulous salaries
for few years; then drop back'among
the low salaricd men. There arc doZ-
ems Of men and boys who work for
starvation wages around ball parks he.
cause OF love of the game.
Bowling is another low paying game.
The pin boys average less than 10
cents day, while the bowlers who
make profession of the game cam
only fair salary. dependent upon
their skill anu luck. Most Of them
have other sources III revenue. Every
one of the rs recognized bowling re-
sorts in Chicago has ono or more we'll
paid employees, whose salary goes to
Increase the average.
Booknialing-thc gambling end Of
racing pays, and pays well. No csti-
mate is attempted of the thousands
who think they can beat the races ana
attempt 10 make Il living by betting
against the. layers Of odds. On tho
race tracks there arc 10 bookmakcrs,
each employing four men. and The av-
erage pay of this class of racc-track
labor is above $40, the ordinary sheet
writer drawing that much and skilled
men commanding more. Besides, there
arc outside" men who work for smnh
salaries.
Tho count of bookmalcrs includes
the thousands of handbook" men, the
exact number of whom is unknown
1t was stated u year ago that there
were 1.So0 policy shops in Chicago,
and at that time there were mDre
handbooks than policy books. The
number has been reduced to ut least
one quarter, so that, all told. there are
not more than $500 bookmalicrs and
their employees. touts anu outside
men, working in Chicago during the
season, and many of them scarcely
making living. These handbook men
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-30
CHICAGO SPENDS $2,4l4,0OO
ANNUALLY IN SPORTS
Yet the Men Who Follow the Games for a
Living are Very Poorly Paid
Fighters Work for Less
Than Clerks.

Over SCALA 900 is spent annually on
sports i'll Chicago, and upward of 15,-
600 persons make Il living out of
games and sports. The count, as
made by experts i'm every linc-Imany
OF the figures being from actaul rec.
ords-is 1851.
The great majority Of those who
make a living from sport arc poorly
among the poorest paid work
ers in the world. A few make
enormous salaries and profits, but the
workers in most lines draw starvation
wages. Scores work for bare living
for the privilege of being near the
sport that they love, or for the hope
of some day getting to the higher pu-
sitionS. The range of earnings is
greater than amy in the world. The
golf caddics, the stable boys at race
tracks, the pin boys at bowling, the
boys around ball parks earn scarcely
enough to supply themselves with
spending money, while the racc-horsc
owners, the Jockeys, the pros" nj
golf, the ball players, managers anil
owners. the booknakcrs get the mon
cy.
Here is the estimate Qncludins
many accurate figures taken from rec
ords) of the number of persons who
live by. or for. or on sport:
Est. nv.
wage
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-30

Old Dominion Wuertzburger, the
anest beer i'll America.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-30

Wnertzburger now out. Ask the
man. 7.20 IL
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
cATTLEoEs A SUCCESS.
They Inherit Great Many Of the
Traits OF the Buffalo.

Mr.. G. J. ("Buffalo") Jones, OF To-
peka, Kan, game warden of the Yel-
lowstone National Park, was in Wash
ington lately to file his report with the
Interior Department.
Mr.. Jones is interested in the breed
ing of "cattleoes," or the cross be-
tween buffalo and domestic cattle. Do
mestic cattle have to be fed and
housed during the long, cold winters
of the northwest, but the "cattleoes"
inherit the traits of the buffalo in the
respect that they require no feeding or
shelter in the Dakota winters, paving
up the snow and eating the dry grass
underneath. In the spring they fat
ten rapidly on the young grass, and
can be thus prepared for market at
one-half the cost of cattle.
Mr.. Jones called on the President
and showed him a robe taken from a
"cattleo." The color is black with
beautiful reddish gray, in places near
ly white, shading on the back, and
black dorsal stripe. The under parts
were pure white, so that the robe
looked very much as if it were trim
med with ermine.
President Roosevelt greatly admired
the robe, and expressed the opinion
that the Government should by all
means establish an experimental
ranch for the breeding of "catteoes."
In 1902 Congress appropriated $14,-
600 with which to establish herd of
domesticated buffalo at the Yellow
stone. At the same time, Mr.. Jones
was placed in charge of the work. and
as warden of the park he purchased
twenty-one animals and placed them
in the reservation, under fence. AL
ready the herd has been increased to
twenty-eight.
I'm addition to this herd" Mr. Jones
said: There are thirty-three wild
buffalo in the park. / at first had an
idea of getting these animals in with
the tame buffalo, but they are the
widest things | ever saw. The mo-
ment they see or smell man they
are off like a shot, and if captured
would surely kill themselves in half
an hours time by their efforts to
escape. Therefore, to protect these
animals | am simply picking up their
calves as fast as they are born and
turning them in with the tame herd.
have thus far secured four wild
calves in this way"
Mr.. Jones has been quite busy the
past winter and fall months killing
mountain lions, or pumas, of the Vel
lowstone, which have become alto
gether too numerous. He had his
pockets full of claws Of these animals,
which he kept, he said, as trophies
of his puma hunts.-Baltimor Sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05

There are lots Of people who are
naturally quick and witty in ordinary
conversation, but the man who can be
both at a gathering is not as numer-
Gus as you may think" said a man at
Il dinner uptown few nights ago.
81 was asked a few days ago to come
here and say something. ! am not
speaker, either before, at, or after the
feast | said so to the man who urged
me to come. Then he told me that il
| wanted to say anything, and didn't
feel quite up to the job, as he put It,
he could put me on to a man who
made such things a business. | was
curious to know more, and asked the
committeeman who the manufacturer
Of and dealer in wit was. He said to
me, I'll call him right here and he
did. Then ! realized that what the
man had said to me was dead earnest.
After he had got the dealer on the
phone, and told him what he wanted
he turned to me and said. He wants
to know if you want to talk in prose
or doggerel, or if you want some Jokes,
and whether you want the jokes on the
raw, or something that would do for
lady's party?'
Then | quit. | would not have
believed that If it had been told as
story. And | am sorry enough about
1t, for every time anybody has said
anything smart or funny here tonight
have wondered whether it was man
ufactured or genuine. Some of it was
genuine, of course for it was apropos.
but some of the sayings am satisfied
had been hammered out by the joke.
smith"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
Honey prips Out of Wall.

The honey in the wall of the home
Of Dr. c. H. Brooke, or brooklyn, Anne
Arundel County, is still dripping. So
far about three or four gallons have
been caught in the pans and buckets
placed under the drip.
About twelve years ago DR.. Brooke
erected an addition to his house and
a swarm of bees built a rhst between
the walls, having found an opening.
No attention was paid to them at first
but they finally became a nuisance.
They have stored away great qua1ti-
ties Of honey in combs, and in some
manner one of the combs must have
been punctured and the honey allowed
TO drip out The honcyis not beingused
in the family Of Dr. Brooke, as it has
gathered dust and dirt in its way out
of the wall.
The bees have been a great source
of trouble to the family OF Dr. Brooke.
At meal times they would swarm out
on the table and compel the diners to
drive them away and kill numbers Of
them.
The nuisance became so unbearable
after a while that Dr. Brooke decided
to eXtermnate them. He has removed
part of the wall and in so doing it is
thought that the honeycombs were
unctured.-Baltimore Sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
INDIAN TERRITORY sKuNKs.
Wealthy New Yorker Backs an In
dustry for Their Fur.

Among the new industries estao-
lished in the Indian Territory there
are none more novel than the Skunk
farm" just two miles southwest OF
Herbert. The industry is backed by
wealthy New Yorker who has made
fortune in the fur trade, says the
Kansas City Journal
This farm" as it is called, consists
of about twenty acres inclosed with a
stone wall five feet high located along
rough mountain side with natural
overhanging rocks being an ideal place
for rattlesnakes and polecat dens. The
neighborhood is said to be infested
with all kinds of reptiles, and by the
establishment of this skunk farm the
promoters claim they will make
money.
Tip" Lewis, who will have charge
of the farm, is a noted hunter and
trapper, and those who know him say
he really enjoys the work of skinning
polecats. He has made a livelihood of
the work for twenty-five years, and
now that a real breeding farm has
been established, he is assured of
plenty of work in his line.
9 In conversation recently Zip" had
the following to say of the novel in
dustry: we propose to cross the
breeds of polecats until we get them
all of one color, either white or black,
and by proper care we hope to en-
tirely get rid of the offensive odor
Every polecat carries a muck bag for
protection and when tanned and cross.
ed with the civet cat they lose this
weapon. Their fur can be improved
by cultivation and interbreeding with
other animals"
When asked about the much adver-
tised skunk OIL" Mr.. Lewis said:
81 believe skunk oil will cure many
ills, such as rheumatism and other all
ments. but the musk, which is so Cdo-
riferous and offensive is cure for al
most any ills flesh is heir to. 1t will
keep away disease, and | believe It
will cure consumption in the earlier
stages"
Mr. Lewis says that each polocat
will raise from five to eight kittens
every year, and he proposes to catch
about 800 cats and kittens and place
them on the farm. Skunk skins are
now worth from 90 cents to $1.25, and
by improving the breed they hope to
get double this price for the skins.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
Mountain Goats.

From a point nearly 1000 feet be-
low an observer with good glass oc-
casionally may make out against the
rock shelf a something which looks
not unlike white rabbit sitting upon
its launches. In reality it is an an
cient Billy, roughly speaking as big
as two fine rams and bearded like a
prophet. His shaggy white coat knows
neither spot nor curl, his daggerlike
horns are ebon black and his topac
eyes have in them that cold, inscruta-
bic expression, something of which
we see in the eyes of an eagle and a
snake.
They are marvels, these thought
cCncealing yellow eyes Perchance
they kindle a more baleful light when
loves lamp flares and a snowy rival
IS stamping and snortiug only ten
yards away. 1t may be they soften
when a timber legged kid caroms
against the paternal ribs or rams his
diversified head through the paternal
whisker. But these things | doubt,
for the topaz itself is not colder or
more unchanging than the windows
Of the souls of husky mountain
Billy.
Because he knows, or thinks he
knows, that no enemy will come down
upon him. all his precautions are di-
rected against possibilities from be-
low. I fancy, too, that he trusts al
most to his eyes, that his nose lacks
that wonderful keenness characters
tic of the deer tribe and that his ears
play little part in the protective game.
This latter is mainly surmise, based
upon the fact that the worst noise
a still hunter would be apt to make
would be the rattle of displaced
stone, which is a thing the goats often
hear and doubtless thoroughly under
stand
When ones object of pursuit is an
animal which dwells far up the noun
tains which keeps pretty close watch
upon all visible lower territory, but
seldom bothers its head about what
may be going on above and behind,
ones wisest plan Of campaign, natur-
ally, is a flanking movement, followed
by an attack from aboye.-Illustrated
Sporting News.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
Wheat Prices and Exports.
European Buyers Are Waiting for Rush OF
Product TO American Markets.

AS wheat prices go down it NAV
be expected that the tide of experts
will rise. European buyers have
been fully advised that this country
and Manitoba will uave a large sur
plus for export, and thus far since
the crop year began they have been
disposed to await the effect of tie
completed harvests and the early
rush OF receipts upon American
markets.
Domestic values are now very
near the point where they should
stimulate more active foreign buy
ing. The crop is large, but the
growers are more prosperous than
ever before, and therefore less anx-
lous to hurry their wheat to market
unless they can get fair price for
1t Any check to the movement of
Wheat from farmers hands at this
stage OF the season would be likely
to induce speculation for a rise in
prices ard delay the revival of ex-
port business, for which the condi-
lions are now more favorable than
at any time since the 1908 crop was
maIketed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
Where They Differed.

Barbour Lathrop, the champion
talker of Bohemia, has left for the
East Indies His departure leaves an
aching silence in the Bohemian Club.
At the last low jinks Abe Hur said to
one of the minor characters: "Stop
talking for a minute, can't you? Do
you think you're Barbour Lathrop?"
This was not the first reference that
had been made in the club to La
throp's chatterboX proclivities. At
one Of the club Christmas trees ne
was presented with the jawbone of an
ass, to which Lathrop instantly re-
piled that the difference between him.
self and Samson was that while Sam
son slew his thousands with the jaw
bone Of an assNhe Uathrop) had slain
thousands of asses with the jawbone
Of a man. And it was decided that
Lathrop had scored one.-San Fran
cisco Town Talk.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
Prices for Jail Board

There seems to be a great diver
gence i'll prices paid for Jail board
throughout Pennsylvania.
These are the figures furnished
by the Department at Harrisburg:
Adams, 35; Allegheny, 27 $500;
Armstrong, rs; Beaver, IS; Bed
ford, rs; Berks, I515; Blair, IS;
Bradford, 10; Bucks, IS; Butler so;
Cambria, IS; Cameron, so; Carbon,
55; Center, IS; Chester, s no;
Clcarfeld, 25; Columbia. IS; Craw-
ford, rs; Cumberland, 25; Dauphin
has three classes Of prisoners and
three rates-I5. go, IS cents; Elk,
SO; Erie, 80 1T; Fayette, so; For
est, SC; Franklin, IS; Fulton, IS;
Greene, So; Huntingdon, 40; In
diana, SO; Jefferson, SO; Juniata,
571a; Lancaster. 10; Lawrence, so;
Lebanon, 25; Luzerne, 10; Lycom-
ing, IS; Mexican, 25: Mercer, 30;
Mlfllin, 10; Monroe, IS; Montgom-
cry g Of; Montour. IS; Perry, 81;
Philadelphia, 43; Pike, 40; Potter,
IS; Schuylkill, 9 $40; Snyder, so;
Somerset, 25; Sullivan, IS; Susque-
hanna, so; Tioga, IS; Union, so;
Venango, 40; Warren, 321l; Wash
ington, 25; Wayne, so; Westmore-
land, IS; York, 80.
The counties not reported are
Clarion, Clinton, Delaware, Lacka-
wanna, Lehigh, Northampton,
Northumberland and Wyoming.
In Columbia county the rate is
IS cents per day, and IS cents per
month for washing. In Cunber-
land and Franklin counties the rate
is IS cents for regular prisoners
and 9 cents per day tor vagrants.
In Juniata county 371a ceuts per
day; illegal train riders, so cents.
Bradford county is the only one
reported as working Jail prisoners
on stone pile.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
Mr.. Vanderbilt's Game,

Much has been heard of Mr.. George
Vanderbilts game preserve at Bilt-
more, N. c., and Of the means taken to
increase the original stock of game
and fish in the territory. During the
eight years the preserve has been es-
tablished trout and deer have been
liberated, the quail and The wild tur-
keys have been fed, salt licls have
been maintained to attract the deer,
hundreds Of traps have been kept at
work in the woods for the destruction
of wildcats, mink, 'coons and other
vermin; forest rangers nave patrolled
the tract; and in all these ways the
covers and waters have been we'll
stocked. All this has naturally given
the public the impression that the
owner Of Biltmore is a sportsman; but
the curious feature Of the Vanderbilt
game preserve Is that its oWner never
touches rod or gun, and personally
cares not in the slightest degree for
fish and game,-Forost and Stream.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-05
LIFE IN PERU.
Experiences Of American in the Min
inu Reuions.


A letter to a friend in this city
from r. T.. Bottenus, Cincinnati boy.
who is engaged in mining in Peru,
tells of his recent explorations of an
unknown part of that country's inte-
rior Leaving the Santa Domingo
mine. in the heart Of the eastern slope
of the Andes range, the party started,
under MIR. Bottenus's command to
find n forest of rubber trees for the
company's exploitation. MIR. Bottenus
writes.
"Our party consisted of myself, five
other white mon, three Peruvians and
ten Indian qupcres. Nine of us were
armed with carbines and siXshootcrs.
As we expected, in view of my expert
ence in the last expedition, to encount-
er hostile savagas, it was necessary to
keep our party intact and also carry
our supplies with us. Since we had
some 1900 pounds Of provisions, you
can imagine TO transport these on our
backs over q rough country was not
easy. Our first task was to ford a
river That same day we killed a
courle of monkcys-big fellows. which
would stand three foot Highland
some pheasants, and also dynamited
some fish in the river. The monkeys
we gave to the Indians. who, after
once tasting them. ate them with great
gusto. 1t is rather hard for a white
man to eioy a repast of monkey stew,
unless he becomes very hungry, when,
without a doubt. it is most palatable.
The taste of the meat is not at all
bad but after sEinning them the mon.
KEYS look so much like human babies
that one scruples as to whether or
not he is practising cannibalsm.
After getting down seven miles we
ran across another big river, which |
afterward named the Surprise River,
We We're surprised day after our ar
rival on the river by visit from the
Chunchos, or native savage. We ex.
pected TO find them hostile, but found
them to be friendly in the extreme.
rows. these being from four to seven
feet long, varying in size for boys and
men. The workmanship on the arrows
is very neat, especially when one con
siders that the only tools which they
have are such as they can fashion
from rocks. They are very skilful
with the bow and arrow at distance
of twenty-five or forty yards. They
shoot their game, their fish, even
tigers, with these weapons. The ar
rows do not weight four ounces and
are constructed of nothing but wood
the shaft being light bamboo and the
head being a species OF palmetto
called 'chunta.' Their clothes are a
very pronounced decollete; all that
the men wear is a sleeveless shirt
coming below the loins, the same be-
ing made from the bark OF a tree. The
women are not nearly so we'll PRO
viGed for, wearing generally but a
small loin cloth. We had taken the
precaution to bring some gaudy arti-
cles as presents with us, in the shape
Of gewgaws of many descriptions.
which we distributed, but they gave
us to understand by means Of signs
th7t what they would particularly like
WIS an aX, a machete, or knives, or ar
ticles Of any kind that would cut.