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he again made a hit. AS he tore around
the bases. what was his surprise to see
the entire club take positions on the
coaching lines This time they were not
silent. for the game at that moment was
a neck-and-neck affair. They began to
shout: Come on. you crippled turtle!
"Oh, you ice wagonr Pick them Trilbys
up, you one-legged snail" Are you try
ing to throw the gamer etc. This kind
of coaching went on until the general
reached third base. at which point the
idea suggested itself to him. that while
base bail was an all right game. still
there were a few drawbacks connected
with it. especially for a brigadier gem
eral when he was being coached by lot
OF enthusiastic privates. so, 1t is stated:
the general put on his coat and watched
the rest of the contest from the side lines.
Among other Washington business men
who are constant visitors at the park are
Ed Walsh. r. ]. Beall. James keliher.
James Alexander and W. B. Hibbs.
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Up to date I think I must have. igura-
lively speaking. cruelty murdered no less
than twenty-five grandmotherS-Whic
only goes to show what think of Amer
me- the present crowd of ball Players who
are representing the Capital city are all
right and they will show the people of
Washington that they are the goods be-
fore the season is over
c. B. Hunt engineer of highways, is a
great base ball fan. as are E. +. Helm,
chief clerk. engineer department.: w.
Lapham civil engineer; Ralph B. Pratt.
secretary to Commissioner West: Daniel
Garges. secretary to Commissioner Nor
row; Ed Fuller. clerk in the engineer de-
partment. and one of the best amateur
ball players that Washington ever pro-
duced. having been at one time the cap
tain of the champion Commissioners
team; DR. P. G. Smith. superintendent of
the Municipal Hospital: Louis Wilson. an
assessor and Bob Barr, who at one time
was a member of the Washington team.
All the above gentlemen connected with
the District Office. and many more en-
ployed therein, are daily visitors to the
ball park, and they are loud in their ex-
pressions concerning their fondness for
the game that has made America Ia
nous.
Popularity Among People.
A. Chester Flather. the banker. when
questioned about base ball, said as fol-
lows:
II tell you that there is no game In the
world that has the hold on the American
people like base ball has, and say what
you might. but it is the healthiest tonic
that a man can have prescribed for him.
When you get out to the park you 1orget
the business cares of the day, and instead
of going home worried and tired you feel
like another man with an appetite that
Sandow would be proud Of.
Dr. Connors is a base ball ian VINO en-
Joys the game. He says: We'll, II don
like base ball. then l don't IKE living: i.
appears to me as If every man. woman
and child in Washington Is interested II
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xDROMINENT Washing !,
y / ton Base Ball Fans-The
I Kind That Would Miss a
8 Good Meal - Order to Wit :
= ness a Gar. Their Express
j sions in Regard to Their (
s Favorite Sport - Statesmen, \
Y Bankers and Business Men !
y Who Make Regular Pilgrim 4
HI ages to the Ball Park \
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Cen. Grosvenor of Ohio. who. leaving
nolitics aside. thinks that base ball is
the greatest game under the sun
With a merry twinkle in his deep-set
MERGING eyes. he exclaimed Since the
latter sixties. when the famous Red
Stockings were in their prime. I have
never lost interest in the national game.
and | tird as keen enjoyment in Witness
inc a game today as l ever did. 1 never
miss an opportunity of being on hand
when the gong sounds. Nothing in my
mind adds so much zest to an after
Moons enjoyment as does a snappy base
ball game
Rupert Is an Authority.
Another representative who literally
lives at the ball park when the Wash
ingtons are at home and when Congress
is in session is Jacob Rupert of New
York, who is one Of the best authorities
on base ball that ever held down a seat
in the United States Capitol. This big,
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am brought into contact with the visiting
players who stop with me. and they are
unanimous in their statements when they
declare that the Nationals are hard
proposition to go up against. They con-
slider Washington one of the hardest
towns in the circuit in which to get away
with a game
DR.. Edward Stevens says: 1T is the
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Overstreet Enjoys Game.


Representative Overstreet of Indiana
VINO can be found when in town in box
seat over near first base, says:
III is a source of great pleasure to me
t. sit behind first base and watch the
plays of the Washington infield.'
Representative Cousins of Iowa, one of
the jolliest men in the House, is a rooter
of the Warwhooping variety. The Iowa
product is gentleman so overcharged
with animal spirits that he loves to give
vent to them by loud and healthy excla-
nations when attending a base ball game.
The Strdent voice of the represent ative
from Iowa can be heard all over the
graEdstand, and in speaking about his
fOndness for the national pastime Mr..
Cousins says:
when the boys are playing in WASH
ington 1 am right out at the park to see
them do stunts. and when they are away
from home 1 find myself making a break
for the sporting section of the paper the
first thing, in order to follow up what
the individual members of the Washing
ton club are doing"
Chairman Tawney of the House COM
mittee on appropriations is one of the
hottest of fans attending a ball game at
the 9TH street grounds and. like Mr.. Cous-
ms Representative Tawney is very open
and above board in his roofing. When
this famous MinnesOtan unreels a few
cheers the people in his neighborhood are
apt to put their hands up to their ears.
Mr.. Tawney is not only a simon-pure
rooter. but he is one OF the legislators
who is a student of the game. and at a
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7HAT Washington at the present
time is city literally overrun
with base ball fans is a fact,
for the great American sport
certainly has the hammer-lock
hold upon the denizens Of the Capital city
and no mistake. The base ball fever is
rampant at the present time. and the
fever heat of interest is rapidly mount
ing. so that it is lowering dangerously
near the hysteria point. but with every
body happy.
Base ball. unlike any other sport under
the sun. is the greatest leveler known. so
far as social conditions are concerned. At
~ base ball game the rich man. beggar
man. poor man and thief can be seen
fraternizing as freely though they were
all of the same social set; for "A base ball
fan in the excitement of the moment plays
no favorites, and he will talk animatedly
with any one upon any point of the game
that may arise at the time.
Washington city SO professional ball
players tell you, contains more rabid fans
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14

row on the fair grounds. Midgets, after
the ab We had been written out, made
affidavit to the same before Justice
Psdee.t.
Midgets said he made this confession
in order that no innocent man should
be arrested and hanged for crime he
had committed, ssseniug he was about
10 pay the penalty for dsed committed
by another.
ksv. Alexander Tfustt wrote to the
Mayor of NorristowD, Pa, for facts in
connection with the murder described
by Midgets, aud found the latter had
given the substance OF what had occurred
near that place on the date given.
Ia the face of these admissions, aud
while 10 sight of the gsllows and later
while standing on the trspdoor be re-
asserted bis innocence of the murder for
which he had been sentenced to hang.
Midgets was negro above the average
in intelligence. There was nothing Of
the surley 10 bis makeup, and his de-
meal or was respectful and pleasant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
Virginia News.

Mr.. Armstesd L. Wine, died at his
home nea. Ida, Fairfax county, on
Sunday last, aged II years.
Miss Louisa Osburn, of well-known
family, died on Wednesday at Bluemout,
Loudoun county, from pneumonia, aged
sixty years. she is survived by one
brother.
Mrs. Mary Barbour, widow Of Edward
Barbour died at her home near Mid
land, February 9th, in her 18th year.
Mrs. Barbour was a Miss Tsckett, Of
Stafford county, and a sister Of Mr..
John E. Tsckett, of Alexandra.
The LoudOun county grand jury
Yesterday indicted John Philips, Of
Luckeits, charged with the murder of
Charles Ambers. The defense contends
that the shoe ing was accidental. Two
indictments we're found for ielonious
assaults, one against Henry Bryant, Of
Leesburg, and one against Joseph Will
liams, of Round Hill. Fourteen it,
dictments were returned, charging va
rious persons with the sale of whisky
without license ia Leeburg district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
TROLLEY CARS COLLIDE.

A number Of passengers were injured
By the collision between two trains of
the Washington and Rockville Electric
Railway at Resides Station, four miles
southeast OF Rockville, Md, early last
night. Among those most seriously
iojiIed were Conductor Robert B.
Paxton, Mr.. aud Mrs. George Smith,
Bruce Carr and Samuel Butt, OF Rock
vile, and Brooke Edmondson and
Harry Moff,tt, of Washington. Mofett,
who is employed at the New Willard
Hotel, 10 Washington, had his jaw
bone broken, while the others we're
injured about the head and body. The
cara were going in opposite directions
when the crash occurred. Both cars were
demolished. The motormen escaped
IL jury By jumping when they saw that
the collision could not be sverted. The
accident is said to have been due to the
failure of the signal block lights to work
properly.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
FRIDAY EVENING. FEB. IA, 1903.

PROTECTION cannot be taken ont OF
politics. but the tariff can be. A little
over fifty years ago the country had q
revenue tariff, and neither political
party mentioned the subject 10 Its plat
form. The tariff was out of politics.
Bot protection is invariably political
issue. Ii is an immoral scheme for trans
fsrring money from one man to another
"a felouious use of the taxing power
for the benefit of Northumberland it
will always create political opposition
Every nation that has a protective
tarfi has the tariff question in politics.
10 England, says the Philadelphia Re-
cord. the tarif was in politics constantly
until the abolition of the grain taxes and
the ensuing legislation. Theu the tariff
was out of politics for a good deal more
than half a century, at the end OF which
time Mr.. Chamberlain injected the issue
OF protection again.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
From " ashingtOn.
Of the Alexandria Gazette.l

TC,yro~r9a5 eRce Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, d. c.. February IA.
Although William Barrett Ridgely,
comptroller of the currency, today en-
phaticslly reiterated his declaration bat
ne had not received an offer to take
the presidency of the National Bank OF
Commerce, of Kansas City, it is believed
that if his wishes are fully met In the
plan now under consideration for the
banks reorganization, he will assume
its management Sens.or Cullom of
Illinois, had an early conference with
the comptroller today. He scofed at
the idea of his son-in.lsw's retirement
from the government service. On the
other hand, closed friends of Lawrence
o. Murray, assistant secretary OF the
Department of Commerce and Labor, are
firm in the conviction that Murray will
be in charge Of the comptroller's Office
within sixty days. Murray has long
had an ambition to preside over the
office in which he served some years
ago as deputy comptroller, and the fact
that he is especially favored by President
Roosevelt 10 bis councils the impression
is that he can have the post whenever 8
vacancy occurs.
Advices from Congress that the House
committee on appropriations has omit
ted to incorporate in the legislative, ex-
ecutive snd judicial appropriation bill, 3
number of important recommendations
made BY Attorney General BOnsparte
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14

in his annual report aud in person, have
act the officials Of the Department OF
Justice by the ears. The action OF the
House committee is practically irrits-
ling to the department, because, 10 his
seal 10 execute the Roosevelt policies,
the attorney general broke The prece-
dents Of the department and appeared
and in personal advocacy OF bis recon-
mendatIonq. Tue committee not only
didn't give bin what he wanted In the
way of additional assistance, and salary
increases, but failed to meet bis Wishes
10 abolishing a $4,000 position. Tue
question is now being ssked 10 some
quarters whether opposition to the Roose-
gelt antitrust policies is maniftsting IT.
self 10 determination TO cripple the
motive power of the "trust busting"
machinery. !,
A dispatch from Admiral Evans
tender the Yaukton, now at Valparaiso,
re ports that the battleship feet will pass
that point this afternoon and Will reacn
Callso February 70, two days behind the
schedule.
The House committee on military af-
fairs today decided not to vote an To-
crosse 10 the pay of the officers of the
army. The pay Of enlisted men ia to he
increased however. The priyates will
be raised from thirteen to seventeen
dollars month and the non-comms-
stoned officers will be giyea a proper
tioDste increase.
"Ths railroads have given disastrous
service to the shippers" said Judge
Oowau, of Texas, representing the
American National Live Stock Associs-
ton and the Cattle Raisers' Association
of Texas, before the Senate committee
on interstate commerce today. This
Is admitted by themselves and proVable
by the common knowledge Of everybody
and the individual experience of every
shipper" he continued. "By their
own sworn reports it is shown they are
possessed of more facilities for perform
ing the service in the way of cars, loco
motives and mainline tracks In proper
ton to the traffic than they had In the
year 1900, a period Of generally salts
factory service"
The house committee on banking
and currency, by party vote, today,
decided to report a financial measure to
the House. The bill is yet to be framed
The statement is authorized that il
will not follow the lines of the Fowler
bill. The democrats OF the committee
will endorse the Williams bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14

M1NCE PIE and iced water were put
10 the category Of things deleteriouS to
health and liable to produce crime dur
ing a recent hearing by the House COM
mittee on the Judiciary on the various
Iiqnor bills pending before that body
The man who placed the ban on pie and
cold water wss Theodore suiro, Of New
York, representing the National Ger
man. American Alliance. 1t is said that
during the Oliver Cromwell regime in
England, when Christmas was made a
day of fasting and prayer, that the eating
of mince pie during the Christmas season
was made misdemesnor. 1t was sup
posed that the world had outlived such
silly notions, and laws against mince
pc, wilchcraft, &C., had been RELOCATED
to museums; but it seems that the world
may have use again for Sancho Panzas
court phsician, if Theodore sutrO's de-
d1ctions are to be needed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
NO REPORr IN RHEA CASE.

No report was made last night by the
i1int committee of the General Assem-
bly, on combinations, in whose hands
lies the verdict in the investigation OF
Judge William F. Rhes, of Bristol,
nominee for the State Corporation Com
mission.
The best advices are that q subcom-
mittee was appointed BY the joint conf
mittee in executive session, who will for
mulate a report and communicate to the
whole committee tomorrow night. Tns
entire committee report will be pre-
scented TO the General Assembly Satur-
day morning.
There is no doubt but that Judge
Rhea will be confirmed. Il is stated
that Senator Wickham, of Henrico, who
has attracted attention throughout the
investigation by bis attempts to check
proceedings, will be the only obstacle to
q unanimous report.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14

For THE first time in thirty-five
years a man was hanged in Alexan-
dria this morning and it is hoped that it
may be fully thirty-fve more before there
is such another occurrence in this city.
From the time of :he mans trial serious
doubt has been entertained by many as
to his guilt and his positive assertion Of
his innocence while standing on the
scafiold this morning awaiting death,
will but strengthen this doubt. 1t is
hoped that no mistake has been made,
but the taking of human life is a terrible
thing under any circumstances, and while
it is too late now to correct a mistake
even if one was made, yet most reason
able people will sgree that ii would have
been better to have given the man another
trial and not to have hanged him through
q technically.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
CONGRESSIONAL.

Discussion of the currency bill in the
Senate yesterday was confined 10 O
running debate on the subject of the
proper uses to which a banks reserves
can be put.
Senator La Toilette introduced bill
to fix the liability OF the employers for
injuries suffered by employees OF inter-
state common carriers.
A bill crestiug captain of Philippine
scouts, one incresing the exempted
classes under the sn,i-pass provisions of
the rate law, and several minor bills
were passed.
Senator Martin offered to provide 10
Washington a memorial pillar to Col.
Burgess Ball, Of Revolutionary fame.
During consideration of the penal
code bill, Senator Clay secured the
adoption of so amendment to prevent
the mailing Of spurious liquors.
A bill extending the time of making
final proof OF desert land entries in cer-
tain cases wss p used by the House.
The fnal conference repor: on the ur-
gent deficiency bill was agreed to.
The House proceeded to the further
consideration Of the legislative, execu-
tive, aud Judicial appropriation bill in
committee ofthe whole.
During general debate on the bill
speeches we're made by Mr.. Champ
Clark, of Missouri; Mr.. Gillett and Mr.
Terrell, of MASSACHUSETTS,; Mr.. Rsiuey,
of Illinois, aud Mr.. Hammond, OF In
diana.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14

The Pennsylvania Railroad has on
It, lines east and west n, 900 idle cars,
representing an investment of 81, eOO' :
600. OF these idle cars, which repre-
sent approximately 30 per cent. Of the
c,mpany's freight car equipment, 6l,-
600 are standing on the sidings and
Yards over the system and 16, 900 are in
the various shops undergoing or await
log repairs. The loss Of revenue on this
large investment is not the only loss aus
tanned by the company through the idle
ness # these c9fs. Officials say that in
times like these the yards and sidiDgs
where the cars are stored are infested
with thieves, who carry off when posi-
bic every part of car that is portable,
and that before many of these cars can
be restored to service again the missing
narts will have to be restored. This
state of affairs does not look like an
early return of prosperity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
Sixtieth Congress.
Washington, Feb. IA.
SENATE.

Dsnouncing the Aldrich financial bill
as wrong and vicious, and fsvoring in
stead the plan advanced by Senator
Bailey for the issuance of $500, 900, 900 Of
Treasury notes by the government, Sen.
stor Clay today discussed the finsncisl
question in the Senate for an hour and
a half. "Talk about fiat money" said
the Senator, call of the paper money We
have in circulation today, except the
gold certificates, is fat money TO a large
extent-your national bank note is re-
deemable upon The bonds OF the United
States, aud, while they are redeemsble
in gold, no one will contend that We
have the gold to redeem them. They
arc good because the pledges Of The gov
ernment are behind them, and they have
been made money by an act of Congress
and legal tender iu the payment OF
d ,bs."
Mr.. Clay said that 1t would be sad
day for this country when Congress
should absolutely surrender the sovereign
right to regulate our circulating medium
and leave it to individuals aud corP2r.-
lions; for then gradually the country
would be owned By the banking associa
tons. He severely criticized Congress
for allowing a surplus of three hundred
millions to accumulate 10 the Treasury.
Mr.. Clay contended that the State
and municipal bonds of the south and
west, were now being held by eastern
capitalists, and that therefore the south
and west could no. secure any additional
circulation by making these bonds a
basis OF circulation. He declared that
the class of railosd bonds mentioned in
the Aldrich bill spilled solely to the
railroads in the east, and that the rail-
roads in the south and west had never
paid dividends as provided in the AID
rich bill. He asserted that the bill was
drawn Gin favor of the rich and power
iul, enabling them to control our money
issue, and not in the interest OF the
American people,"
The Senate decided today that when
It adjourned it be until Monday.
An amendment to the Aldrich 6usn-
cisl bill, making bonds of Porto Rico
basis for bank circulation, was intro
duced in the Senate today by Mr.. Lodge.
HOUSE.
The constitutional question involved
10 the proposed establishment of forest
reserves in the Appalachian and White
mountains was today referred by the
House to the committee on judiciary for
lis opinion thereon.
Mr.. Sherman, as member OF the COM
nittee on rules that recommended The
reference, said that some of the mem
bers questioned the cons.itutionalty Of
the project and it was deemed wise to
get an opinion before further action on
the bills establishing the reserves had
been taken.
A movement to cut down the twenty
cents mile allowed members snd sena-
ators for travel to and from Washington
lived Just one minute in the House to-
day.
Mr.. Crumpscker offered an ame0d-
ment 10 the legislative appropriation bill
to reduce the twenty cents to eight cents,
in view of the increase of salary last
year.
81 make a point Of order" exclaimed
Mr.. Englebrighi, who gets about 81 900
a year for mileage.
"Bang" when the chsirmsn's gavel
and Mr.. Crumpscker's amendment was
Knocked out of existence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
SAYS He tias Thlrty-Two Wives.

London, Feb. 14.-Arthur Hyne,
the bigamist sentenced yesterday at
Bristol to seven years imprisonment for
bis too numerous marriages snd to five
for fraud has made full confession, in
The form OF an autobiography Of which
the Evening News publishes the first
installment today. Hyne admits ne is
the "Wilzhof" wanted for bigamy in
60 many American cities, but that his
real name Ia F. A. Scho;z. He admits
that be has passed under twenty-eight
names, but denies that he has 100 wives;
he says be has only thirty-tWo, some CT
whom he married in Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-14
SUICIDE IN HOTEL.
Lying across bis bed in 8 position 4

Lying across bis bed in 8 position that
showed conclusiyely that the deed was
done with elaboration, J. w. BOsche,
of Buffalo. committed suicide in the
Astor House, New York, early yester-
day by slsshing the rsdisl artery Of the
left arm with rszor. 10 the loom we're
found letters sddr ssed to the manager
Of the hotel, the coroner and his wife
In the former, Bosche spologiEsd for the
trouble he was causing the hotel. To
the coroner he wrote: "There is no ne
cessi'y for any Inquest. The waiter Is
10 the room as / am writing this. am
simply issuing myself transportation to
smother and better exist nee, no matter
what its conditions or circumstances. "
No motive for the deed is known.
Bosche is said to hsye leen member Of
the firm of Bosche Bros, manufacturing
jewelers., OF Buffalo.