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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-08
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GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
Speculation as to Where the Contests
Will Be Held.

With the annual meeting of the United
States Golf Association only a few days
off speculation Increases as to the proba bic
links for holding the next national cham
pionships. The amateur. generally regard
ed as the blue ribbon event on this side of
the water will undoubtedly be played over
some eastern links this year. Logically, it
should go to either the Boston or Philadel
phia section. as il has never been held in
either district, save when 1T went to the
Atlantic City Country Club, which is some
times classified as one of the Philadelphia
group, even though it is located on the New
Jersey coast. One of several of the Massa-
chusetts clubs could doubtless handle the
amateur championship in a manner most
satisfactory. but as yet no club has shown
any keen desire to obtain the plum.
The Country Club of Brookline, near Bos-
ton, is said to be out for the amateur This
club is better fitted to run off a champion
ship now than formerly, as its course has
been increased to a playing length of about
5000 yards. There are few sections of the
country able to claim so many of the high
class golfers Massachusetts. In the pa st
II has been the scene of the women's ma
tional event, while the open championship
has thrice been held over the renowned
Myopia links.
1t seems odd. but 1t is a fact, that there
are golfers of exceptional ability through
out the country VINO rarely play except on
courses in their immediate locality This
holds good with the Massachusetts men.
some of whom will probably never compete
for national honors until the champtonshIn
tournament goes their way.
The Huntingdon Valley Country C,,h
near Philadelphia, has also been mentioned
as championship possibility. Thus far the
course a Noble has not been generally con-
sldered as possessing championship qualif-
cations. and when the oxford Cambridge
golfers played there In '93 they did not
speak in complimentary terms of its condI-
ton, the green's especially coming In for
severe criticism. Huntingdon Valley has
improved wonderfully since then brit n
doesn't look like a winner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-08
Motor Boat Races at Palm Beach.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January S.-Theodore D.
Wells, chairman OF the regatta committee
OF the coming motor boat carnival at Palm
Beach from January 20 to February 2, has
issued the program of events. The racing
will begin Tuesday, January 80, and will
continue on Wednesday and Thursday
There will be three events each day
Among the entries will be some Of the fast
boats that were seen In races in New York
waters last summer. Henry NJ. F1agler Is
president of the Palm Beach Power Boat
Association. The executive committee is
composed of w. Gould Brokaw Lieut.
Hugh l.. Willoughby, Leland Sterry, John
s. Clarke, A. D. Proctor Smith and Theo-
dore Donald Wells.
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proper, Georgetown and outlying districts
That of 1880 and subsequently cover the
District as a whole, now practically the
city of Washington. not by legislative en-
actment simply, but by reason of its prac-
teal extension by natural growth to the
uttermost limits of the District. The local
municipal government Is the government OF
the District of Columbia. but, in fact, the
District Of Columbia is become just the
city of Washington.
These generalizations are emphasized by
still another tabula ton showing the growth
of the District outside the original city
limits shown in the first table above
Population Of the District Outside the
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Growth of the City of Washington.

Practically for more than thirty years the
city has been conterminous with the Dis
trict.~ Now 1t Is laid out and being built up
in all directions to the District limits, and
at some points considerably beyond into
the state of Maryland. But for distinct
purposes OF comparis the tabulati
above was compiled to cover only the. orig
inal city proper. The falling off in the
ratio Of increase between 1890 and 1900 oc-
CURED wholly in the first five years and
was caused by the panic of 1898 which
thereafter paralyzed business all over the
country for two or three years.
The progress of the true city of Wash
ington, however, Is more definitely shown
in the following table showing the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-08

was recommended to Cleveland by the
veteran Sam Thompson. Mansl1e, the Des
Moines pitcher, will probably be allowed
to remain with Mike Canullon another
year. West, the Knox College man. who
was with Cleveland the last month of last
season. ia due for further trying out, as
he showed promise of being a cracking
good twirler last fall.
Manager Lajoie has heard such good
things of little Shipke, the Omaha third
baseman. a ST. Louis boy, by the way, that
this youngster will be seen at Atlanta.
where he viii have for competitors for
the utility infieldship Jap Barbeau. the
Columbus third baseman, and Ingerton.
big boy. whom Larry picked up on the
lots near Cleveland.
The only new outfelder Is Congalton of
Columbus. He has only to repeat his work
Of last fall to be assured berth upon the
team, for in the twelve games he played
here he batted we'll over 800 and folded
perfectly, his throwing being immense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-08
Cropping Ears Of Dogs.

cpeeini Dispdtcu 10 lHe 6tdr
NEW YORK. January s.-The question OF
cropping the ears of the bull terrier and the
Great Dane. or German boar1ound, often
comes up both among the fanciers and the
laity. Some years ago a law was passed
In England prohibiting cropping. and it
was then prophessed that the breeds on
which cropping had been practiced would
degenerate. On the contrary, these classes
have become more popular. and are Just as
highly priced in their natural form as when
a veterinarys shears had trimmed them
into fashionable figure
One thing can be said in favor of CROP
ping. and that Is the operation removes a
PARTON OF the ear that Is very susceptible
to disease and injury.
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Death of Atheling.
Special Dispatch to The Star

PHILADELPHIA, January s-Atheling,
the imported stallion, who for several years
has been at the head of the stud OF the
Messrs Clyde's Goughacres Farm, is dead
Although Atheling was only twenty-three
years of age his days of usefulness were
at an end rheumatism and other physi-
cal infirmities had overtaken him to such
an extent that it was deemed a humane
act to put him out of his misery and he was
destroyed.
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A $4,000 Trophy for Auto Cars.

SpecIaI Dispatch 10 The StHr
MINNEAPOLIS. January S.-The Mime
apolis Automobile Club has offered a So 600
trophy for competition at the Ormonde
meet. 1t is for stock or touring cars at FIVE
miles and must be won three times by the
same driver for permanent possession. In
the general design of the trophy speed Is
symbolized by racing tire encircling a sill
yer glove. From the swirl evolve decora tive
bronze figures of victory upholding a shall
low silver bowl. The base is of ebony and
onyx.
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sullivan's Hard Job TONIGHT,

Kid Sullivan is in good shape for his
match tonight In Philadelphia with INK
Russell. The latter is one of the best boys
In the Quaker City at present, and a warm
time Is surely due when they clash. SuIli-
van will not break training but continue
for his meeting with Rice. the iron man. In
Baltimore Friday night.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL Bow1ERs.
Western Presbyterian Won Two
Games From Mt, Vernon.

The Western Presbyterian and the Mt.
Vernon teams Of the Sunday School League
clashed Saturday night on the Y. M. Z. A.
alleys. and the former took two OF the
three games. The first game rolled by the
winners was the best Of the series, as their
total went for 800 pins. Crouch was high
man with score Of 206 pins In the opening
game. The scores:
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feet deep. while another green is guarded

feet deep, while another green Is guarded
by @ brook.
A remarkable shot was recorded the other
day at St. Andrews, Scotland. A player
sliced his drive from the first tee the ball
rolling to the home green (about hum
dred yards distanD, and into the cup. He
now claims the course record OF one stroke
Percy Barrett. the Toronto professional.
who Is to compete IN the Mexican tourna-
ment, reached New York last night from
Boston. accompanied by Alec Findlay. Bar
rett and George Cummings, the other Ca
madam professional, Will make worthy addi-
tons to the British team in the interna-
tioual match.
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o. w. Meadows. a prominent farmer and
merchant OF Hancock county, Ga, was
found dead Friday abou tsunrise some
two miles from his home. Meadows was
shot through the body near the heart, and
must have died Instantly.
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Matched With Baker.

Bobby Baker, 140-pound fighter of this
city. and Jimmy OLeary. will meet for
fifteen rounds on the 18th of this month
near here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-08

By way of comparison. the records made
by the same three players in their tourna-
ment in Brooklyn in December are sub
nlitted.
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An Interesting Study.

The figures showing the capitals growth
since 1900 are worth a study. For nearly
forty years the official city of Washing
ton" remained little more than a country
village The census of 1850 the first to
show any decided change from the state OF
torpidity which marked its growth from
the time 1t was located and laid out 1191-
90, up to 1910. In this fifty (nearly) year
period the annual increment was no more
than about ATS. The total population in
1910 was only 1884. These figures have
to do only with the city proper, and do
not include Georgetown the outlying
portions of the District. There was yet no
territory District. of Columbia when
the first national census was taken in 1890.
BY the way, the original official designa-
lions of both the District and city were
fixed by the commissioners appointed by
President Washington, in the following let
ter addressed to the Frenchman, Major
l. Enfant, the engineer who was then sur
veying and laying out the new capital:
Georgetown, September 8, 1871.
"Sir: We have agreed that the Federal
District shall be called The Territory of
Columbia" and the Federal City The City
Of Washington the title of the map will
therefore be A map OF the City of Wash
ington in the Territory Of Columbia &"
Nobody now pays serious attention to
any crack-brained proposal for the removal
of the national capital. But in it's youth
the ''city of Washington" was menaced by
that danger, and at one time seriously so.
This threat hung over the town until about
1870 since which time all idea Of a change
has been abandoned. 1t was long ago per-
ceived that the removal would benefit no
section particularly, would in nowise facili-
tate or cheaper the public business. Most
obviously, from an economical standpoint
it's removal IS totally impracticabe There
Is about as much likelihood of the capitals
removal now as that the course of the Mis-
sissippi Will be changed. But for the first
forty years of It's life this uncertainty had
a depressing influence on the growth of the
town, and to this its slow progress may be
almost wholly ascribed.
The census of 1850 disclosed an increa sing
confidence in the future and thereafter, as
the following tabulation shows, this conf
dence was maintained, Notwithstanding the
depressing circumstances of the civil war
Here is the population of the city at each
of the eleven censuSeS of its history from
1910 to 1900, inclusive, with the increase in
each decennial period The figures relate
only to the city proper, and cover no part
OF the District outside the old city limits:
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THIS C|TY'S GROWTH
Senator Elkins' Prediction May
Be Verified.
RAPID RATIO OF INCREASE
One Hundred Thousand More Expect
ed in Next Census.
SOME INTERESTING TABLES
Showing the Growth of Population
in the District in the Various
Decades.
RAPID RATIO OF INCREASE
SOME INTERESTING TABLE

All the characteristic signs which have
portended and accompanied the upward
rush of our most progressive American cit
les are now visible In the accelerated
growth of Washington. The prediction OF
Senator Elkins that this city will have
million inhabitants within twenty-five years
Is by no means an extravagant estimate
The Stars recent epitome of the data for
the forthcoming city directory demonstrates
that the increase Of population in the last
five years Is on the average more than dou-
BILE the annual average of the preceding
thirty years, from the census of 1870 to
that of 1890. In the last year 1t has ap-
parently been nearly three times as great
The population is now shown to be approx
mately $4,000. an aggregate gain since the
national census of 1900 of about $4,000, or
more than the total gain In all the ten
years between 1890 and 1900 This gain has
accrued in about five and one-half years, or
at tine rate of nearly 10000 per annum Ihe
figures of the new directory will show that
the increase in 1905 was considerably above
that average being in round numbers about
10000 That there will be still greater
increase the present year is morally Ger
tain, In view of the visible general growth
clearly with an increasing rather than
waning tendency.
In the remaining four and a half years
before the census of 1910 is taken there will
be a further aggregate increase of between
10000 and 10000 people in the District.
These figures look large, but it is not i'm
probable that the greater number may be
exceeded. The total aggregate increase IN
the decade will hardly be short of 100000.
Many keen observers look to see Washing
ton show a roster of 100000 names In 1910
Men of affairs familiar with the phenomenal
growth of several of our greatest cities and
the causes thereof are now confident that
Washington has taken the grand stride
which has marked their later progress. No
mere secondary or temporary adverse infiu-
ences can now check the growth of this
town. This somewhat belated growth Is
liable to be all the more rapid because we
have not already discounted our natural
and artificial advantages-in other words,
the future.
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g standing of the teams in the Y. NJ.
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Y. M. c. A. Bowlers.

IOtais -. ..-.-... 80. oto ooo
sBerch rolled second and third games.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-30
MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF

Don't for one moment lose sight Of
the important fact that the Boxer can
didate for mayor was brought into the
field by the milling company that is
attempting to hold up the city for
100000 or more as a condition for the
dismissal of it's suit for permanent
injunction forever restraining the city
from making any use of it's Mill creek
water system for which the taxpayers
almost unanimously authorized the
expenditure of a quarter of a million
dollars. The same milling company is
financing the daily dodger-which is
advocating the election of the COM
panys candidate for mayor and doing
scheme. If you are opposed to this
plot vote for the reelection of Mayor
Hunt, who will not pay the milling
company one farthing more than Is
allowed by a jury in condemnation
proceedings.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-30
WHY BRIDGES IS IGNORED.

1t is matter of frequent comment
that the little evening dodger saws
nothing in advocacy of the reelection
of Councilman Bridges OF course
Bridges majority will be the bigger
the less the dodger says in his favor.
but as he is one of the original Box
ers, many people wonder why the
dodger does not give him its enthusi-
astic support.
The explanation is probably found
in the fact that last year Bridges was
exceedingly active in thwarting the
voting of nine or ten guards from the
penitentiary illegally registered from
Lewis precinct by the clique to which
the editor of the Boxer organ still
belongs. After these guards had been
ordered dismissed from the service of
the state by Governor Mead, as a re-
buke for their alleged fraudulent reg
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-30
TO SHIFT BLAME

1t is reported on apparently good
authority that Chief of Police Brown
is preparing a statement to the effect
that Mayor Hunt was only half
hearted in the suppression of gambl-
ing and that is why it was so long
tolerated. The public being quite ia
miliar with the weak and vacillating
course of Chief Brown in dealing with
the gamblers will not take much stock
in his attempt to shift the RESPONSE
biity to the mayors shoulders.
The fact is we'll known that Chief
Brown stated repeatedly during a
period of several months after the new
state law making gambling a felony
had gone into effect that all gambl-
ing games in Walla Walla had been
suppressed, when it was a notorious
fact that they were running in fifteen
or twenty places. 1t was only when
Mayor Hunt set his foot down en-
phatically and declared to Chief
Brown that gambling must be stopped
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-30

istration, the present reform editor of
the dodger was highly indignant at
what he termed an injustice and an
outrage" and he proposed giving a
banquet and reception to the dis
charged guards as manifestation OF
the public appreciation of their polit-
ical services and the high regard
in which they were held by their party
associates.
The guards charged with fraudu-
lent registration were arrested on the
complaint of Attorney John H. Nc
Donald, now assistant editor of the
dodger, but they escaped conviction
on a technicality-the fact that the
city clerk had failed to observe the
law recurring them to make oath to
their statements at the time of regis
tration.
Bridges and Mcdonald were the
leaders in the fight against the al
legged attempt to carry Lewis pre-
cinct by fraud, and the men who
were back of the scheme and those
who defended it as legal and proper
and deserving of a banquet have never
quite forgiven Bridges for his part in
the exposure of the plot. Mcdonald
is tolerated simply because of the use
that is now being made of him in the
attempt to pull chesnuts out Of the
fire for the same gang that he fought
last year.
The manager of the Boxer dodger,
then the servile tool Of what he now
denounces as "a corrupt and corrupt
ing machine" afterwards tried to get
even with Bridges by ridiculing the
effort of his firm to have its taxes
equalized by the county commission
ers, referring contemptuously to the
head of the firm as Mister Jaycox,"
and attempting to show that the firm
was not disposed to pay its fair share
of taxes.
The resentment felt against Bridges
for his part in frustrating the scheme
to carry Lewis precinct by Philadel-
phia gang methods is probably the real
explanation of the dodgers silence re-
h; Cot FIJI nd off
vice as councilman during the last two
years. OF course he does not need the
election, but his friends may have
wondered why he does not even re-
ceive a word of praise from the
Boxer organ.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-30
MAYOR HUNT ON PAVING
CONTRACTS.

Mayor Hunt has always stood for
full and free competition in the
awarding of all paving contracts. In
vetoing the ordinance for the paving
of Fourth and Elm streets with War
ren's bituithic macadam, he said in
his message to the council on Octo-
Der 18th of last year:
Il return herewith Ordinance No.
1015 without my approval for the fol-
lowing reasons:
1T is against public policy and in
valid l will not consent to sacrifice
the acknowledged rights of the peo-
pie for the benefit of any individual
corporation. On all street improve
ments the people demand and are en-
titled to competitive bidding To name
only one kind of pavement and that
patented, owned and controlled by one
corporation shuts out every other
competitor.
"As to the legality of the ordinance
l base my decision on the opinion of
my attorneys, they having made a
careful research of the decisions Of
many courts They find the weight of
authority against the validity of the
ordinance so great that there seems
but little question as to its illegality.
Section 50 of our charter provides
that any freeholder may take the con-
tract from any successful bidder under
certain conditions. This would be
impossible if the contract was for a
patented pavement"
The fact that Mayor Hunt stands
for free and open competition in the
awarding of paving contracts accounts
for his being opposed by both paving
companies contending for business in
this city. 1t is worthy of note that all
the attorneys recently employed by
the Barber Asphalt Company in this
city are fighting Mayor Hunt, and it
is well known that the Warren Con-
struction company's agents and at
tOrneys are making an aggressive fight
against he reelection, not hesitating
to spend money lavishly to accomplish
his defeat
All taxpayers believing in free and
open competition in letting all paving
ton of Mayor Hunt
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-30
GREAT THING FOR WALLA
WALLA.

AS a railroad man expressed it
yesterday; "Walla Walla in securing
jobbing rates has accomplished in one
day what Spokane got only after tif-
teen years of hard fighting" The re-
suit of the hearing accorded Walla
Walla shippers and railroad traffic
agents by the state railway commits
sion this week has terminated most
happily for Walla Walla, and the
transportation committee of the Com
mercial club, Messrs. Fred Kaser,
Fred Glafke, H. B. Strong and Ben
Holt, are entitled to the everlasting
gratitude of the shippers and the gen.
eral public of Walla Walla for the
good work they have done in securing
fair distributing rates for this city.
]. G. Woodwork of the Northern Pa
cific is also entitled to great credit
for his splendid tact in bringing the
contending forces together and pour
ing oil upon the troubled waters dur
ing a protracted and heated confer
ence yesterday when an amicable set
Element seemed almost impossible The
members of the railway commission
displayed admirable diplomacy in in
ducing the railroads to give what the
commission had no power to order,
jobbing rates for Walla Walla.
1t was a great day in the CONNER
cial annals of Walla Walla and it will
mark the starting point in a new era
of growth and prosperity.