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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
LEADERS CONFIDENT
DEMOCRATS SURE OF ELECTION
 IN NOVEMBER.
Colonel Wetm0re Says the Popular Subscription Fund Is Great success--A Repub Subscriber
 to the CnmDnign.

licago. Sept 27.--(Special. )-Chair- man Moses D. Wetmore, of the Finan. clal Committee. who opens the mail that brings dollar subscriptions tc Democratic headquarters. feels mighty confident of the result of the election.
 "The popular subscription fund is a great success" observed Col Wet more. Dollars come in by every mall, but we used more than dollar sub scriptions In this campaign. Today I received contribution of $100 from Republican who asked that givL him Iwenty-five cents In return He dtd not want the, fact known that he as a Republican is contributing to the election of Bryan and Kern and in order to escape publicity made his con tribution $s9:75. There is not mail that does not contain letters including contributions from Republicans whv declare they will vote for Bryan. Il have been much impressed with this active Republican support for our nominees. fne. only Way Taft could be elected is for Mir. bryan .o ~.,... draw as a candidate.
 Chairman Lloyd of the Congressional Campaign Committee. left tonight for Washing ,on. to visit the branch head quarters in that city. lie will be gone a week.
 T am greatly pleased with the pro- gress of the Congressional contests" Salu MT. 1Iloy0. III tHo -Aiip1lS anu far Western states, the situation is even better than l had expected and am .Ifident of the election of Demo- cratic house. The reports l receiVt. and l am In commun;cation with every Democratic candidate for Congress where there is a hght. indicate that we will elect a Democratic house as well as our presidential candidates. am receiving letters from Democratic congressional candidates. living in dis tricts heretofore considered staunchly Republican. who say that conditions are such this year that they will win. l suit.
 Mayor Dahlmnn. of Omaha. left Chicago today for a speaking tour through the states os Illinois and In> diana.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
REPUBS IN MICHIGAN
STATE CONVENTION WILL CON-
 VENE TUESDAY MORNING.
Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New York, Will Address the COnven- tIOn-COntest on For the
 GOvermOrEhip.

Detroit. Mich, Sept. 2T.-With a recount of the votes cast in several hundred precincts for the Republican candidate for Governor at the recent primary in progress in Lansing to de termine whether Governor Fred M Warner. or Dr. James B Bradley. State Auditor General. shall head the State ticket, the Republican State con vention will meet In this city next Tuesday morning to nominate candi- dates for the offices below Lieutenant Governor on the ticket and adopt a platform.
 Governor Charles E. Hughes. of New York. will address the convention Tuesday morning. Under the Michi- gan primary law. only the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor are selected by direct vote. the other offices being filled by a delegate con vention Patrick IT. Kelly. had no op- position for the Lieutenant Governor ship at the recent primary.
 An almost unprecedentedly bitter contest was waged in the primary be- tween Dr. Bradley and Governor War ner who was seeking a third nomina- ton The bitterness was increased when Dr Bradley filed an application for a recount in 213 precincts. Govern or Warner having been nominated on the face of the recount by a plurality of 1.hOn votes. Governor Warner im- mediately replied with an application for a recount in a number of precincts where pr Bradley boiled heavy, ma torities. The possibility that this con test may be injected into the conven- tion through a resolution expressing disapproval of the contest Furnishes the greatest likelihood of an exciting struggle in that body. But leaders are said to strongly disapprove anything of the sort
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
Ed Greminger's Team
 For Season of 1909

Krebs doing the catching-and its a pair that will be hard to boat Hart showing wonderful improvement during the past few months of last heaviest hitters in the league and has great arm. Gremlnger of course Will be on first next year Rockenfleld at second. Joo Pope at short and a
 Charlie Schwartz Is dead crazy to come back to Montgomery and the To- cal association could not do a wiser fellow. He has been playing third base this summer and 1t is said that his work there is as good as 1t was on second and the local fans know
 There will be a change in the. out feld-Archie Persons will be back In left. Hopkins will be shifted to right. Sard cener on noW sdsr ss apd fast are that Steve Reagan will be sold or traded and the club that gets him will get a cracking good man.
 ,n,.n ne pira,nIns ,s stan VIII be virtually CT club draft Thomas within the next tWo weeks. he will be again the dean Ss Sa the corps Whitey Guese will be equals his record of the. past past summer. inner he will be one of the wastest pitchers In the South. Lively will Of course be back unless Lajoie decided to plank uOWh lsVVV TUT tue DIlCHcT LO Montgomery. Tho draft of Cleveland from Gnlfport has already been thrown out. the National Commission deciding 1t and President Chambers having in his desk an official statement from Secretary Farrell of the National As sociation. turning the pitcher over to Montgomery.
 From his work. of the past season Herbert Hul will be one of the star pitchers of this league next year. Bliss will hardly be back and if he Is in earnest about wanting to get away next year. the local association will possibly sell him his release brother of Forest Thomas will be given trial next season and if he Is anything like his big brother. Grem- finger will have a pair of Thomas that will make them all go some.
 Take it all round the outlook for next year Is unusually good and the chances are that Greminger will make flying start in April-and the same kind of finish In September.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
Where Once Our Athletes Did
 Wonders Is Now Desolate Scene

screeching a little as they rub the wire of the grand stand.
 Can they be the ends of the tele- graph wires that flashed the news of victory in mad notes of sizzling joy, or told 1t with sweetly solemn benedic- ton if the day wrs lost.
 Tn mute testimony of the spiendor of a day that is dead, pile of rain checks torn and the ink blurred in the dampness bestrew the ground about the turn-stiies that at one time had to have a boy present pouring water on their axles to keep them from melting as the fiamboyantly frantic fans pour cd through a ceaseless stream.
 The gates. of yore closed. like the portcuIlis of a harem. to all who did not have the necessary two bits. now swing de1ectejly open. and solemnly a billy goat masticating by substl- tuition. surveys the scene of desolaY ton.
 The songs of little birds twittering in the meshes of the wired grand stand now take the place of that mad. fu- rious roar that once swelled a diapason of conglomerated majestic thunder of Hrornbat ton for crashing whack that wiped, the pedestrians from the four corners Of the sacred square.
 Oh well. it's all in the game-a day. week. and twentytwo sturdy gladiators wilt battle on tho old field Mayhap twice they will do so. Strang- er things have happened.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28

Sweet Auburn. loveliest village or tho plain" would look like the Brook lyn bridge station of the subway at ' o'clock on a Saturday evening, com pared to the anti-coztness of Vandt- yer Park these days Where are the heroes of yester-year?"
 Gone. alas. like our youth. too soon."
 In verdant luxuriousness the grass has wrapped the stamping ground of Persons Hopkins. and Began. the rub her foot mark standing out of the red slime in ghastly whiteness like bleaching bone Tn clumsy. laborious dignity a COW gnaws at the stubble where once the fleet footed Pope be- eapered himself. snatehinE the hot ones from the bosom of the earth and hust, ling them over to the mild -eounten- enced Greminger. to gag the aspira- tfons of the would-be singIers.
 In a little pool beside the home plate where of yore the spiked footed athletes fJgeted while the pitchers wound up, something of cloth is half submerged. It would be hard to rec ognize 1t as the sky pieces of the stern -visaged Spike" but 1t is so. Oh, thnt 1t should come to thist Shannon's hat left soaking in a mud puddle. but such is lifs
 Like the tentacles of a dead and drying octopus two long, black, wig gIy things swing purposelessly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
Will Make Only Few
 Changes. SHANNON WILL BE MISSED Hart and Krebs Will Be the
 Backstops. Rockenneld, Pope, Hopkins, Persons, Thomas, Guese, Juul and Lively Will Come Back--May Land
 Charlie Schyyartz.

There will be meeting of the Montgomery Baseball Company some day this week to go over the financial ana other things of the past season and to begin to shape things up for next year.
 At this meeting it is very probable that Ed Greminger will be officially named as manager of the Climbers flor the season of 1909 and possibly good many years to come. It would be a dif1cult matter to find a man more suited for the position than this same big Ed Greminger-a hard worker himself. he keeps his men on the jump from the first inning till the last man Is out in the last Inning. As honest as the day is long. everybody likes GremiEger and nobody any more so than the members of his team.
 He has already been instructed to go ahead with the work Of getting up hls team for next year and has lines out for four or five good men that he IS pretty sure to land. Just as it stands now. Greminger could make great start with his present team next year, but there will be at least three changes. Nothing has heen done yet but the. chances are that Spike shan non will not come back. Hub Hart and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
CALENDAR OF SPORTS
MONDAY.

MONDAY.
 Western Women's Golf Association sS oI Wonen's championship of the Royal Canadian Golf Association begins at Lambton.
 Weeks race meeting of the Queens County Jockey Club begins at Aque- duct.
 Three weeks race meeting begins at Weeks race meeting opens at North
 TUESDAY. Wash.
 Opening of race meeting at Hamilton. Ont - aOwens Moran vs. Eddie Hanlon. 20 rounds. at San Francisco. Opening of horse show at Brackton. Football: Yale vs. Wesleyan at New Haven; Harvard vs. Bowdoin at Cam bridge; Pennsylvania vs. North Caro- lima at Philadelphia; Dartmouth Ns. Vermont at Hanover.
 THURSDAY.
 Two days reliability run of the h. dianapolis Automobile Association. opening of annual horse show at M0rristOwn' N FRIDAY.
 Twenty -four hour automobile race at Brighton Beach track.
 Opening of annual horse show at Lo- eus' ~ SATURDAY.
 Championship meet of the Amature Athletic Federation of Canada at Mon treal
 Haven: Harvard-Maine at Cambridge i; Princeton- Springfield Training School at Princeton; Annapolis Rutgers at An napolis; West Point1T Tufts at West Pooint. Cornell Hamilton at Ithaca.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
BISON RANGE SITE
 HAS BEEN SELECTED

Washington, Sept 27.-(Special)- The bison range In the Flathead In- dian reservation in Montana, to es- tablish which Congress at its last ses- sion appropriated $4O,0Oo, has been se- lected.
 The location of the range is the one recommended by Prof. Morton J. FL rod, of the University ol montana. af- ter he had carefully examined several parts of the country. It lies directly north of the Jooke River near the towns of Ravalli and JoO!:o Approxi- mateiy 12.soo acres are embraced in the tract. which will be fenced in a substantial manner under the direction of the Engineering department of the United States Forest Service.
 Of the $40,L-0 appropriated only &C., oOO will be available for fencing the range and constructing the shelter sheds and other buildings necessary for the proper main'enunce and care care of the bison. The remaining $30,O00 will be paid to the owners of the land, many of whom are Indians. Funds for the purchase of bison are being raised under the auspices of the American Bison Society. which was largely instrumental in securing the appropriation.
 The first person to spend actual mon ev in the effort to preserve the Ameri- can bison from total extinction was f. :, late Austin Corbin. who many years ago fenced some 5000 acres at Blue Mountain Park, New Hampshire. and secured a herd of bison. The Cor hin herd became in course of time the inspiration of the national movement which is now furthered by the Ameri- can Bison Society. This Society, of which President Roosevelt is honorary n-csident, and William T. Hornaday. director of the New York Geological Park. is president, was founded In 1904. and the Montana bison range Is direct Iv inc results of its efforts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28

It's coming. there's going to be circus The advance agents car is at the Union Station now and the signs are pasted about the city
 Lions and things and the frizzle- headed lady, and the steam 'cally -ope," as many call the caliope. sure nun steam pianner" And it's going to be elephants and "hippopotamusses ana them big rabbits with legs like mules and the rest of them rail. what car. ries their children around in schooi bags sewed on their stomachs
 And there's going to be iirane An Irishman once described a tiraffe as a nineteen hand pieballed horse with an engerruber neck. that walked along wiping its nose on the tops Of the trees" and the description hts Ana then its going to be "chayot races. and the lady driver will win, and folks is going to dangle in the air holding onto ropes with their teeth and its going to be a p-rade, and clown on a donkey and a few cages on wneels with bears and deers in them. and whole lot of other cages with. nothing in them at all. but the sides will be shut up with most beautiful pictures. and they will be just as good as If the sides were down. for the imagination can run riot surmising what is inside.
 And then at night there will be tents and smoky torches and a swarm of ne- RrOeS SeIllnB iidSb1
 will be about the place. and there will be straw scattered about. and ropes to trip on and men bawlinR out about tickets, and long canvass pictures of big snake twisted up about lady. and it's going to be a giant who will sit down all the time and never stand up
 so you can see him
 And inside the tent there will be pink-but never mind about that. for
 there Is going to be a platform with
 gentleman bawlinR out about things
 so adroitly that no one can understand what he says-and after an intermin-
 able time while the band plays music that never was before heard inter
 spersed with some of Sousa's tentative marches, a canvas flap will swing back and people will see elephants and peo- ple on horses and oh. lust. lots of things that were seen in the p-rade all come p-rading about And then some soldiers that look like cross between a crusader and modern Ger
 man cavalryman will ride about smash ing swords together and that will be a fight but-no one will krpw It.
 And then there will be a policeman
 what ain't a policeman at all ana ne
 will do fool stunts that will set the ne groes into an ecstacv of delieht and bore everyone else to death. and then there will be other things and after ward crowded street cars. and people
 will step in ditches trying to get 10 them and after awhile YOU will gef horne and tell one man 1t was fine and another that you juH went to take the children. that circuses bore you aw- fully. but you'll go again next year ali inc same, for somehow circus pulls a crowd and take the older ones back
 to the days when they used to crawl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
Telephone Talks l|||!l
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NO. B.

fN1ESPITE the time. money
 ~ and energy we spend in
 our constant efforts to give efficient telephone service troubles are liable to occur and do occur. Whether the trouble is with the operating. with the instrument or with the account ing department we want prompt reports. Oftentimes subscribers do not report troubles to us but tell all their neighbors and friends and give the impression that our whole system is improperly con- ducted. This is unfair to us and unfair to the subscriber,
 We take every precaution to prevent troubles and we are anx- ious to correct those that do occur. Our whole success depends upon the quality of our service. It is all we have for sale. If the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
Both National and American
 Leagues Nearing the End

By this time next Monday morning the National League race of 1908 will De thing of the past. and somebody Will be getting ready for the worlds series.
 McGraw's people have the best of it for the balance of the season as far as the schedule goes, there being six more games at home and three on the road. the road. and one at home. while Pittsburg has three at home and three on the road Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday Philadelphia is at the Polo Grounds, the Giants jumping to Phil adelphia for the last three days of the week: Boston winding up the season at the Polo Grounds the first three days of next week. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday and Saturday the Cubs are in Cinrinhati, Pittsburg closing the season in Chicago next Sunday
 Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday St. Louis Is at Pittsburg, Piasburg playing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28

in St. Louis Friday and Saturday and winding up the season in Chicago next sunday with three games with Wash ington in Detroit. The Tigers nave the Browns there Friday and Saturday, winding up the season in Chicago Sun day, Monday and Tuesday of next week.
 Boston has couple more games in Chicago. the White Sox playing in Cleveland Friday and Saturday, the Ti- gers winding up the season in Chicago sunday. Monday and Tuesday of next week
 The Athletics are in Cleveland the hrst three days of this week and the White Sox there Friday and Saturday, Cleveland winding up the season in St. Louis Sunday. Monday and Tuesday of next week.
 New York has two more games in St. Louis. the Browns playing in De- troit Friday and Saturday. Cleveland winding up the season in St. Louis the hrst three days of next month,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28

operator appears to you to be at fault or if your instrument does not seem to work properly we want to know about it immediate ly. We can explain how certain defects occur. but we have no excuse for poor operating. It is our worst enemy and you can help us and help yourself if you will make prompt report in detail.
 Sometimes annoying incidents occur for which we are not to blame. Our subscribers are req sonable people and We are sure each of them will be glad to help us, in this small way, to give good telephone service.
 A visit to one of our exchanges will aid you in understanding the intricate details of our business. We hope you will accept this invitation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
preacber Scores OH Company.

New Orleans La. Sept 27-Recent n utical disclosures were touched to- day in a sermon by Rev J. E. Wray' naStor of the First Methodist church bore and formerly pastor of churches in Macon and Columbus Ga. He com n-red the Standard oil Company with the Louisiana State Lottery. saying that inc oil company does more harm than the lottery ever did. because of the denial of the oil company officials that anything wrong has been done. This was masquerading. he said. and tt arefore most pernicious, whereas the evils in the lottery business were pub iiciy known to every one
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
AN EXCITING FINISH
IT Is ANYBODY's RACE FOR THE
 PENNANT.
The Leaders In Both LeaSues-Detro,t And New YOFk-HOld The Hon- Ors By Only One
 Point.

New York. Sept. 27.-Never before Tn the history of professional baseball mas the home stretch in the race for .he pennants of the two major leagues been reaefed with the leading clubs so closely punched. and with the follow. CTS or the game excited to such pitch
 In both leagues, the leaders-N Nao, I. ork in the National, and Detroit in sne American-hold the honors tonirbt D., ny on, one point. Chicago. in second place or Pfttsburg, while Chicaeo in the American is but three points behind Cleveland for second position. to which pace the latter club fell today through the defeat of Philadelphia by Detroit.
 The standing of the leading clubs in the two leagues including Sundays games is as follows:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28

Only casual glance at these fig ures is needed to show that at the present moment in both leagues, 1t is anybody's race. and probably until the last game is played next week, the decision. as to which two clubs shall have the honor of unfurlIng the ban ners emblematic of superiority and of playing each other for the worlds championship will remain in doubt.
 The worlds series which the pennant winners will play. immediately after the regular season. means much to the men financially. for they get a goodly share of the receipts of the first four games played Under the ruling of the National Commission, this series con sists of seven games and the winner Is the club which scores the first four winning games. The contests are played on the grounds of the clubs fighting for the championship. Of the receipts. the national commission gets ten per cent from all the games. while from the first four games. the players receive the remainder after the com mission has received its percentage. The money in the players pool is dl- vided. sixty per cent to the winning club and forty per cent to the loser. The receipts of the remaining games belong to the two clubs.
 Last year Detroit and Chicago played to box receipts aggregating $l0I,72S.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Divided Double Header.

 Cincinnati, Ohio. Sept. 27.-Each club won game in the double header between Cincinnati and St. Louis this afternoon, In the first game the wis itors hit Rowan and Spade hard O'Tooles wildness was responsible for sncond game. which was called on ac- count of darkness in the fifth inning Scores: First game .o h n E St I,ouis. :. 900 22l 0O2-7 15 ? Ratteries-Rowan, Spade and Me Lean: Rhodes and Bliss. Time 2;05
 Second game: IL st' st Louis. =, 900 1OIl 3 I Ratteries-OToole and Schlei; Ray nond and Bliss. Time l:00. Umpires RiEler and Owen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
Three Hundred Thousand Protest
 ARnInat Llccnaing RIII.

Against Licensing Biu.
 London. Sept. .27.-Of the great dem- onstration held in Hyde Park in re- cent years, that of today. to protest against the licensing bill. was by far the largest
 The crowd today was estimated at BOO, 900. filling the open space which stretched from Hyde Park corner to the Marble Arch. They came to this section in fourteen processions and in countless small groups from all the nearby counties, and all parts of the metropolis Close to 200 special trains brought in those from the outside dls- tricts. who numbered fully 60.000. and who joined in the various processions which were accompanied by one hun dred bands
 Ninety speakers acclaimed against the bill at different central points for an hour or more. and at bugle call. A resolution condemning the bill was proposed and carried with a great out burst of cheering.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
Detroit Wins.

Detroit. Mich. Sept. 27.-Detroit went to the front in the American League today by beating Philadelphia in their anal meeting Both pitchers did good n!,rk the difference in the running ,araeiv deciding results with the ad- ded fact that Mulin wss better sup por'eu' R. H. E. DBtsiiadstnhia 900 0O0 02O-2 g 4
 Muffin and Schmidt; Coombs and Powers. Time 1:65. Umpirss Hurst and Evans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
ELEVATED rEMPERATURE.
Two Patients Taken on Steamer Al
 MtssismippI River Quarantine.

New orleans La, Sept. 27.-Two cases of elevated temperature were taken off the steamer Cartago at the Mississinpi River quarantine station to- night and were held for inspection
 The Cartago arrived at quarantine tonight from Colon and Port Limon Costa Rica. Among her passengers Is Colonel Goethals. U. s. A." chief engi- neer in charge of the Panama canal. who Is reported to be coming to the United States for vacation.
 The Cartago remained at quarantine for fumigation tonight and will arrive at her dock in this city tomorrow night