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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-29
"RINGER" AT NEW ORLEANS

Every horseman quartored al New or
leans is talking about ringers" The
substitution mlcro5e Is In the air and n
evesy story told recently IN regard TO
the big winnings on the horse Friendless
and Northwind were true many of the
pool rooms would be out OF business I'M
ftead of IN n fOtHishing condition
The stewards of the Crescent city
Jockey club. where Frlondless ran and
won a race last week. are investigating
a report that he II ringer" SO far
there has been no evidence 90 prove that
be II other than the horse claimed
friendless. by 'Dunois-Sood Friend.
FitendiNe has a hip down ard looks
sxacty like the horse of that name, bred
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-29
SIGNS NEW MAN

The announcement comes from Clcve-
land 90 the effect that Providence will SEQ
new man among the candidates for
second base on the local team. in the per
son OF Hugo Krieger This announce
mont leads TO the speculation as TO what
Manager Dunn intends TO do with himself.
as he filled the position with great salts
faction last season.
II ie barely possible that Dunn will
manage the team from the bench. but the
captain OF last years winners r. such n
lover OF the game that one can hardly
imagine him not I'm uniform. and cover
ing the space around second base him.
self with himself No the pivot around
which the inficd would reycivc the com
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-29
BASEBALL TALKS

Third Baseman Charley Atherton may
sign with Buckenberger' Rochester Bron-
Dale Gear, once with the Washington
club. and afterwsrd with Kansas City.
has signed 10 play In the outf1eld for
Birmingham.
outfeider George Henry. with Nashua
last season. has nm offer TO go 10 Water
bury, Conn. but will scarcely accept, as
he has other plans IN view.
Charles w. Hadden has been elected
captain OF the Colgate baseball team. He
is the third man to be chosen for the posi-
ton this year Whitaker was disqualified
and Kimmock died.
that ne will not report next spring owing
TO the delicate condition OF his wife 9
health Shay Is conducting n cigar store
in stockton. Cal, which he calls The
President Charley Murphy Of the Chi
cago Cubs" says there is no doubt IN
the minds OF tha fair minded that Ned
Hanlon Is the best manager in the bust
ness today. and he looks for tho young
sters under Hanlon 10 improve more than
the In 10th. 1tssr tear teams For,
that he is feeling finely and weighs less
than he did AZ any time last season.
Chick is an out and out roller polo hend
and never misses a chance 90 see the team
Of that city play. Of which Jimmy"
Canavan Is member.
There Is talk OF national organization
~ amateur "socker' football clubs n 10
York. and as many more around philadei-
pha. not 10 speak OF large. but less im-
portant groups In Chicago ST. Louis and
San Francisco.
Jondan was easily the best ali-round
fret baseman OF the Eastern league. ac-
cording 20 n Buffalo writer This same
Jordan u was who went TO Baltimore
from Nashua. and The Herald picked
him out az that time for conner. Balti-
more took the tip and secured = mighty
Aa.n al
zenith.
catcher Mike kahoe of the Indiana polls
club. and once with Cincinnati and other
teams, is confined 20 his house in Cincln-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-29
AMATEUR LEAGUE.
INTERCOLLEGIATE, LEAGUE.
lO-YARD RULE ADOPTED

tpou his return from New York yester-
day az Cambridge. William r. Reid Jr.,
secretary of the Football Rules commit
toe. gave out the following additional
modification OF the rules which was omit
"a I'm the statement issued last night In
New York.
The ten-yard rule was passed. with
out however, any action as To the mum
her OF downs that shall he allowed a team
I'm which to make the distance. The mat
ter ~ the number OF downs will Se taken
up subsequently,"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-29

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

respects than one, and he ruled his company with
rod of iron, not allowing even the naughty Italian
tenor to call his soul his Much less the
soprano allowed to put the airs of prirna donna
prematurely. And SO the concert company passed
triunphantly the land from New-York to San
Francisco as if it was reaping machine garnering
pure gold.
Having reached the Pacific Coast, they returned
by another route, everywhere winning applause and
wealth. The adulation Madam Sombra received
would have turned the head of any ordinary per-
son, but she remained the quiet, dignifed per-
sonage she had always been, and not only gave the
donineering mpresario less trouble than any other
member of the company, but magically soothed
away differences when they through the almost
brutal lack of tact which Herr Schwartz sometimes
displayed. The attitude of HEIR Schwartz became
more and more imperial time went and his
riches increased. He began gracious1y to accord
interviews, rather than invite them. Then the
press fell into the habit of poking fun at him One
of them headed an account thus:
Herr Schwartz thinks he's concert grand,
whereas he is only a pianola
Another remarked Herr Schwartz is going to
ask permission of his friend William, when he
turns, to change his name to Rubinstein.
These and similar comments made Herr Schwartzs
upturned mustaches bristle with rage. The humor
of the irreverent reporters struck him vergng
lese majesty and he regretted he not in land
where such things We're summari1y dealt with.
However, even he breathed sigh of relief when
the lucrative tour was ended and when three weeks
of rest all that interviewed between the final
concert and the sailing to the East on the German
liner The concert company could now stand at
ease for nearly a month The Italian tenor reveed
in the New-York restaurants of his countrymen;
the soprano received permission to appear various
social functions and sing for the enjoyment of those
present, receiving substantial remuneration there
for. Indeed, Madam Sombra herself might have
acquired another fortune during the next twenty
days by consentng to play at the behest of million
aires whose only desire that the fee should be
larger than that before paid for private enter
tainn.ent and it nearly broke the financial heart
of Herr Schwartz that he compelled to refuse
all such invitations.
Yet notwithstanding his love of money, Herr
Schwartz knew that the valuable woman in his
charge had almost reached the breaking point.
The incessant travel, the immense distances ira
versed, the playing night after night, the natural
excitement of the tour had brought about reac-
ton that dangerously near to collapse. He
engaged for her quiet house surrounded by its
grounds, some thirty miles from New-York, and
there kept off all intruders with the grff fidelity of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-21

Schwartz, the conduct of madam was gracious
and altogether charming that it pleased the
exacting inpresario. The newspapers next morn
ing treated the talented with the lavishneSS
which her musical reputation deserved. They pub
l1Shed portraits of her and of many other people
who had influenced her career, giving with various
embellishments the romantic story of her youth
They told of her early days in Petersvile, Vermont
her native town. Her father they characterized
a neglected musical genius, who made precari-
living teaching the piano to unappreciative
generation, and Vermont is essentially for the
survival of the fittest only the music master had
faded away unhonored and unsung, but not before
he had grounded his little girl upon the rudments
of that art in which she was afterward to excel
All this might have gone for little, had it not been
for fateful gathering at Petersville of section of
the Grand Army of the Republic, under the chair
nanship of their old commander General Coonbes
Here in the great hall of the agricultural fair build
ings the soldiers met in afternoon session to listen
to orations from well-known invited for that
purpose, and in the evening they enjoyed
social festivity called a campfire where stories
interspersed with songs and instrumental
music.
1t to this jovial congregation that some local
enthusiast introduced shy confused, awkward
little girl of twelve, whose embarrassment was in
creased rather than allayed by the applause of the
soldiers, who appreciated her reluctance and en-
deavored to encourage her. But seated at
the piano, all fear left her, and the veterans
delighted and amazed at her rendition of the ia
miliar old battle tunes they knew well. And
thus Marcilla experienced the first ovation of her
life.
Not the least enthusiastic General Coombes
and his wife, and the upshot that the two
being chidless and we-to-do, sent the little wa;f
over to Europe, where passing through much neCes-
sary discipline she at last received final instruction
from the greatest living master of the piano. The
good General and his wife lived to hear their pro-
tegee belauded in Berlin, Paris and London, and
than journal expressed regret that this
worthy pair no longer on earth to enjoy the
triumph they predicted for Madam Sonbra in the
United States.
The forecasts of the newspapers than
fulfilled For the popular voice and the critics
in agreement. All the large cities of the East
gave Madam Sombra enthusiastic reception
and the plethora of money that poured into the cof
fers of the concert company delighted the merce-
nary heart of Herr Schwartz, much that he
crimped his bristlng mustache more and more after
the fashion set by the German Emperor. That
energetic potentate Schwartz's model in more
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
First Steam Warship.

The Fulton, built as the DemOlogos
was the first steam warship. She
was built in 1914 by Robert Fulton
In addition to the radical innovation
Of steam she was fitted with the
wheel in the center. Her battery was
composed of twenty long 32s and a
submarine gun projecting a hundred
pound shot. There was also mon
ster pump, to be used against the
enemy by filling her with water
through portfolio. In one hull was
the boiler. of copper; in the other
was the engine; the wheel was IL the
fifteen foot space between the two.
She had four rudders, two at each
end, and could go in either direction.
At the end of the war of 1912 the
DemOlogOs was assigned to :he Davy
yard in Brooklyn as receiving ship
While on this duty she was I'Own up,
June 4, 1929, and twenty-six rersons
killed 1t was popularly supposed that
the explosion was caused by old sail
ors who wished to testify thc'r disap.
prOyal of steam.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
DISASTERS DURING THE YEAR.
Earthquake in Italy the Worst Calam-
ity Recorded in 1905.

Disasters were numerous during
1905. though there was no calamity
involving such great loss of life or
such horrors as accompanied the burn
ing of the IroQuois theater at Chicago
in 1903, or of the steamer General Slo-
cum at New York in 1901. Leaving
out of consideration the RussO-Japa
nese war, the greatest disaster of the
year occurred in Calabria, Italy, where
400 lives were lost through an earth
quake Sept. s. Nearly as many deaths
were recorded as due to the collapse
of a partially constructed reservoir
near Madrid. Spain, April s.
The most serious disaster III the
United States was the tornado in
Texas, April %. At Laredo 100 lives
were lost. A tornado in Oklahoma,
May Il, caused nearly as many deaths
in the town of Sidney. fire in a
shoe factory at Brocton, Mass, re-
sultinG from an explosion. March 20,
also resulted in 100 deaths.
Railroad accidents probably have
not caused so many deaths as in 1904
Dul StNcIdl StIlOuS OucS OCCuIItu uuI-
ing the past year. In collision on
the Western Maryland railroad. twen
ty-eight miles from Baltimore, June
/. twenty-three persons were killed
In each of three other wrecks twenty
lives were lost, and two wrecks
caused twelve deaths each.
By an explosion in the Rush Run
and Red Ash coal mines. near Thur.
mond. w. Va. March 10, twenty-four
lives were lost. A gas explosion in Il
mine at Ziegler, H., April 10, en-
tombed fifty miners. July II more
than 100 miners were killed by an
explosion in the pits at Wattstown
Wales
OF disasters on the water the most
serious was the wreck of the South.
ampton Railway company's steamer
Hilda. off st. Malo, English channel
in which 100 lives were lost. The
explosion of the boiler OF the United
States gunboat Bennington in San
Diego harbor, July 81, caused the
death of sixty of the crew.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
MURDERS HAVE BEEN FREQUENT

Inc number of hOmicidcs and
deaths by violence of every kind in
1903, as reported by telegraph. shows
a considerable increase over 1904, be.
ing 9,2l2, as compared with S,4S2 in
the latter year. This record is brought
down to Dec. 81, so that the com.
pi"te record for the year would have
been slightly in excess of the above
figures. The startling feature of the
record Is the increase of murders COM
mltted by hishwaymcn. burglars and
that particular class OF criminals. the
number being $50. as compared with
AGA i'll 1904, 4OG in 1903, 333 in 1909
and lO3 in 1901
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
VEGETABLE THAT KEEPS TIME
Plant Of sorneo Has Remarkable
Peculiarly.

There is a venerable old riddle. so
venerable that il may have gone round
the cycle and become young again
which asks. When do YOU ge.
vegetable timepiece2' The smart nan
who knows it all or was expected to
answer: When get a turnip"-tur-
nip being at one time facetious for 4
watch that wouldn't 90. The correct
answer is: When | get up at s
O'clock Say that aloud and YOU will
recognize a pun that would blush to
Dlazon into print.
Now it appears that in BOrneo Il ere
is plant whici is known as the
cloCE-rlant. and which in a rough sort
of way registers the time Of day. 1t
acts in the capacity of a minute hand.
which keeps moving until 4 o'clock
p. m. and the other keeps going ul.il
morning. The larger leaves act as
the hour hand. Starting in a position
when all the leaves lie close to the
stem, with the points hanging down.
they rise gradually until they turn
toward the top. and then they drop 10
their former position. 1t takes the
smaller leaves about one minute to
go through this performance, and :he
longer leaves just about one hou',.-
The Sunday Magazine.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
PLAYED Music to Dead Wife

Sounds Of music coming from the
cemetery in the middle of the i.ich;
have terrified the inhabitants of the
Swiss village Of BrcgcnZ, near the
Austrian frontier. Two gcndarmes
lid themselves one night behind a
tombstone in order to investigate.
They saw younL tradesman climb
over the cemetery wall, pull violin
from under his coat. and standing over
q newly-made grave, began to play the
Bohemian Girl They listened 10 the
end, and then went up to tn, man.
who said he had been playing over the
tomb of his bride. who had died the
week before 1T was the piece she
liked best" he said to the gendarlnes.
who led him away
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS OF 1905,
List Of Those Attaining Pre-emnence
] nuripo he

List Of Those Attaining Pre-eminence
During the Year.
The following persons stand at the
head in various lines of sport:
Amateur Athletics Martin J. Sher.
idan.
Automohiling Barney Oldfeld.
Billiards-Charles f. Conklin.
Bowlins-Charles NJ. Anderson.
BoXing-James J. Jeffries.
Chess-Frank J. Marshall.
Cycling-Frank l.. Kramer
Golf iOpcn Willie Anderson.
Golf lAmatour)- Chandler Egan.
Golf (Women's)- Miss Pauline Mae.
kay.
JOckey-David Nicol.
Rifle Shooting C. F. Orr.
Skat-IiCrmaI Dietz.
Skating professionally Norval Bap.
tie.
Skating (Amateur) Morris Wood
Swimming-C. NJ. Daniels.
Tcnnis-Beals c. Wright.
Tennis (Women's)-Miss Elizabeth
Moore.
Trap ShOOting-R. r. Barber.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12

ion between the two feet may be
imagined. Constantine appeared to be
i'll at ease. and it was manifest that
he was tired and wanted to rest. He
sat down in the street, probably be-
cause he is very democratic, and
really did not care rap who saw
him sitting on the pavement. To show
his friends that he was not proud he
sat down real hard, and then held his
breath for about five minutes and ap-
peared to be engaged in thought.
The boots are similar to miniature
automobiles. They are about fifteen
inches long, and each has four rubber
tired wheels eight inches in diameter.
The electric motors are carried in a
belt. They carry one and a quarter
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
YEAR ONE OF GREAT PROSPERITY
of


Tn" Washington officials who deal in
the statistics OF muGuf. ctuTcrs hold
Tat there is every apparent iL.Gica-
tiun that the prosperous showing of
the last year is to be more than du-
plicatcd in the year that is to come
1t is fairly well established fact
that coming unhappy events cast lon"
shadows before. The students of the
situation look not only at the matter
Immediately in hand, but they look at
all the conditions OF commercial life:
the stat" Of the countTy's finances,
the likelihood of tariff changes, the
possibilities Of commercial wars. and,
in fact, at al other things upon which
government agents make reports.
They look at all these things before
Lhey attempt anything of prophecy,
and when they do consent to prophecy
they do not put Il IN black and white
because there is always a chance Of
the arising of something hitherto un-
known; but they do consent to give
an expression of their belief in the
future, founded upon the best knowl-
edge which is given to them from all
available sources. II is only the crop
expert who in the winter the time
OF the death Of vegetation, refuses to
say one word as 10 the future, for the
time of long distance weather fore
casts has not yet arrived.
Tho view of the coming year as Il
touches exports and imports and the
manufacturers of the country is to be
expressed only by the mucE-uscd and
apparently well-,ikcd word, rosy.
Should there be those who look
only to the purse as the standard Of
a peoples happiness, it may be said
that there is more money in Circuia-
ton among the inhabitants Of the
United States to-day than ever there
has been eloro. Despite ranii trOub.
les here and there the financial inst.-
tUtional solidity and prosperity Of the
country seems to have Il foundation
of rock which cannot readily be worn
away. The light SHINES ahead.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
"Writing for Bread"

In an article on Edmund Clarence
Stedman in the National Magazine
Yonel Noguchi. the JaUanvso poet
says:
"IIc told ne that making a liyin"
by writing was the most Wretchcd sort
of thing. But he made me assure him
that shall never forget to love beauty
and sing songs. Like a nightingale
on a spring morn. he exclaimed
There you have th@ testimony of a
far-famcd American poet and critic,
who is "A singer Tor the love of song
and a banker for business. fOu cant
keep the brethren from singing; but
it should be a sort of recreation aftc
the rail splitting for "Ono can't break
fast on an ode or dine upon 4 sonnet"
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12

marvellous boots serving as his motor
iower, says dispatch from the
French capital. The sevon-leaguc
boots were a mere childs toy com
pared with the motor boots
The inventor is named Constantini.
who says he means TO start for St.
Petersburg in few days per boot.
Great crowds gathered all along his
route to watch his flight over the
smooth pavement of the avenue The
exhibition was a great success until
he was about to turn toward Bois de
Boulogne, when something went
wrong with the motor In one boot
the motor hit up a pace of about thir-
ty miles an hour. and in the other
foot the motor thought SIX miles was
swift enough.
The result of this difference of opin-
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
Adventure of 4 Sbip's Cat

The ships cat of the mail steamer
ortona had a remarkable experience
on the last hOmcWard voyage of that
vessel.
Soon after the OrtOna left Austria.
in the cat was missing. ana it was
,nonght that it had been left behind
but when the vessel was thirty-two
days out f.om sydney one of the en-
Sinc"rs heard a faint meWing in the
rclrt2c"ating chamber. This cham
Der. which had not been opened since
the vessel started, was promptly en-
amincd and the unfortunate cat was
found lying upon Il box OF butter in a
very ymaciatca condition.
one Of its ears and portion of its
nose haL been bitten off by the cold.
but its inr had grown to great
length during its Imprisonment. The
cat has Size recovered Melbourne
Argus.
The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
YEAR AS SEEN BY BRADSTHEET.
Period Of Heavily Increased Purchas.
ina Power

FS'lCu VI f1eaEily increased turClaS-
ing Power.
The year just ending has been one
of almost bOunGloss activity, accord
ing to BradStrectG. 1t was a period
OF rich rewards to agriculture, though
not of uniformly record yields; of
abundance of employment for labor
and of few serious strikes: of build.
ing and constructive activity in all
lines; of enormously enlarged bank
clearlnGs totals. and of striking small
failure damage, considering the i'm
menSe business done and the unpre-
ccdented number engaged therein.
That it was, on the whole, year
of heavily increased public purchas-
ing power seems certain. in view CT
the fact that commodity prices were
maintained at record high levels.
Continuing the report states:
"The multitude of records broken
shows that new 2uideposts have, in
deed been set up. The revival which
began in the last half of 1904, far
from spending its force, as was pre-
dicted in the early part of 1905. grew
as the year advanced. The CONNER
cial. financial and industrial move
mect surGed forward, weather draw
backs and disclosures of financial rot
tenness in high places failing to stem
the upward trend. Disregard of pre-
cedents was. perhaps. best illustrated
in the persistent advance of securi-
ties despite high money prices, and
the tendency to discount prosperity
was Irresistible"
Speaking of conditions in the lat
ter part of the year it is stated:
in September car shortages began
to affect traffic and collections, clear
ings reached new high figures, while
failures and liabilities for nine months
were below 1904. Lifting of southern
Quarantines gave zest to southern
trade, which was further helped bv
high cotton quotations when the
movement was heaviest In the last
quarter open weather favored out
door activity, but retarded retail
trade. which was also hampered by
farmers holding grain and cotton ani
the car congestion, which likewise de-
!ayed collections. Stock speculation,
though lacking marked public partici-
patton and displaying manpulative in
huences, was Of large volume at rec
ord prices. despite high money, in
luenced by active trade and dis
turbcd foreign markets. Iron and
steel outputs advanced: ore sales,
clearings and STAPLE prices all scored
high levels in December"
OF The outlook for the new year the
report says:
IF satisfaction with the past and
confidence in the future arc at all re-
liable guides, 1906 Is likely to equa.
if indeed It docs no, surNass. the year
drawing TO a close Tk.- volume of
orders booked ahead exceeds any pre-
vious year in he country's history,
and high prices as yet seem to eXer-
else TO effect ulon cCusumptiye de-
mand. Iron AID steel of all kinds are
heavily sClt ahead. as are also shoes.
cotton ana WDu,on goods lumber,
hardware and myriad 0" other prod.
uctS. Wheat enters ;Eo ,liutor in eN-
CCllcnt condition and with an en-.
lar@ed area. Predictions as to 1906
building arc even more sanguinc than
a year ago