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SURVEY WORK GROWS.
Two Service Steamers Preparing
for Work Off New England
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The United States coast and geodetic
survey service steamer photographer.
has completed her annual overhauling at
a Baltimore shipyard and has gone TO
the Curtis bay station Of the service 10
take aboard boats and gear preparatory
TO sailing for the New England coast.
There she will be employed during the
warm weather of the summer. Capt.
John Ross is in charge, with George
Olsen and G. l.. Parker deck officers,
and NJ r Flannery. chief engineer
The coast and geodetic survey service
steamer Bache. which recently completed
a tour OF several months survey duty on
the coast of Porto Rico. is at Baltimore
being overhauied and made ready FOR her
summer work. in company with the by
drograpner upon the New England coast.
She will be ready to sail for her northern
station about July /.
The coast and geodetic :urvey work OF
the United States has reached such pro-
portions that II now employees meet or
fifteen steamers. three sailing vessels,
many smaller craft and nearly 90 men.
The uniform of the coast survey Is
slight modification of that of the navy
It's special duty is 10 make soundtngs
along the seacoast and in all the tribu-
tary waters of the United States and
prepare charts of its findings. 50 that
DaElGaloGS may ltIN upon
Were conditions in channels ard har-
bors constant. and not changing con-
tinuaI!y in consequence of the shifting
OF sands and changing of currents. the
work OF this branch of the government
would have been completed long ago.
But the changes constantly taking place
make frequent soundings necessary; also
the correction of charts.
To keep mariners informed of these
new findings the service issued monthly
leaflets entitled. Notices to Mariners. -
and annually rev tide tables and in
formation asto the action of the tides
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TO BATTLE ON The DIAMOND
BOARD OF TRADE AND CHAM
Der OF COMMERCE WILL PLAY.
Plan Base Ball Contest for Benefit of
the Fairgrounds Fund-Prize
a Silver Cup.

National Base Ball Park next Satur-
day afternoon will be the scene of base
ball game between teams representing the
Chamber of Commerce and the Board OF
Trade for the benefit of the Fairgrounds
fund The contest rumors Of which have
been in the air for several weeks. was
originally intended to be a sort of anna
teur affair but owing to the tales OF for
mer prowess on the diamond that various
members of the two squads have been
whispering to one another it was an
nounced Yesterday by Mr.. Cuno II. Ru-
dolph that 1t will be serious. hard fought
battle and that the humorous features
will he introduced as extras between in
nings
Certain members of both of the or
CARNATIONS concerned can recall the time
when they played ball out on the com
mons back OF Lincoln Park. and claim 10
have distinct recollection OF having
batted the ball farther than any o.iier
PLAYER in the city. For that reason they
| do not care to he involved in a mere pre-
tense of base ball They want the rea!
thing and they want their TRENDS 10
know that their tales of high batting aver
ages and remarkable neluiilS HdNe Soiiie
| foundation in fact.
Two practice games have been played
and the team members are being seiected
with care There will be another pTact-ce
game tomorrow evening and by TUESDAY
| the personnel of the teams as they VIII
| face each other for the final honors VIII
! be known.
/ The winning team will be presented with
silver cup the gift OF the F. G. Smith
Piano Company.
Distribution Of Tickets.
| Tickets are being distributed by the fol-
| lowing: F. r. Richardson & Co, Sd and
Penn sylvania avenue; George j. Mueller,
1886 Pennsylvania avenue; Christiani. 4S4
| PENNSYLVANIA avenue; S. T Stott. 505
| Pennsylvania avenue; Stone & Poole, 6o3
Pennsylvania avenue; Auerbach. 623
Pennsylvania avenue; Christani. 63S
| Pennsylvania avenue; Saks & Co, 18th
and Pennsylvania avenue; Stevens Phar-
macy. 9th and Pennsylvania avenue; d.
N Walford, 909 Pennsylvania avenue; L.
| F. Droop & Sons Company. 925 Pennsyl-
| vania avenue: d. j. Kaufman. 1907 Penn
sylvania avanue; L. II. Snyder I'LL
Pennsylvania avanue; Dunbar & Co. 1919
Pennsylvania avenue; F. G. Smith Piano
Company, 122J Pennsylvania avenue;
| Ogram's Pharmacy. 18th and Pennsylva-
MIA avenue; Dan Laughran. 1347 Penn
sylvania avenue: Affleck's. 1929 Pennsyl-
vania avenue; Delmar Cafe. go 18th
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The Cattle Business.

There have however. been a good many
little disturbances occasioned by the eff
forts Of the tenants Of certain estates.
particularly those that are now devoted
to cattle breeding, to force their land
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Geodetic Survey Affairs.

The United States coast and geodetic
survey steamer Bache. which recently
completed a tour of survey duty on the
coast Of Porto Rico, has been laid up at
Baltimore for general overhauling
preparatory TO going TO the New England
coast for summer work.
Capt. p. A. Welker. commander of the
Bache, who was at Ithaca. n. Y. to at
tend the fortieth anniversary of the
Founding OF Cornell University. from
which he graduated, has returned to his
ship.
Robert +. Luce of the steamer Bache
has been granted leave of absence while
the ship is laid up. He has gone to Bos-
ton to spend the holiday.
DR.. Thomas Denne. medical Officer OF
the Bache. has been granted leave OF
absence, which he will spend at his home.
at Waterloo, n. Y.
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a Similar Scheme in Russia.


the landlords because the commissioners
from lack of force and lack of money
have been unable to close up the deals as
apidly as might be desired.
Up to the LIST of January 1898. 2,07J
estates have been sold and divided among
O.9S3 tenants and other purchasers for
which the government had advanced the
sum of $40. 7363lS. which is equivalent to
nearly $1OO,OC0OW.
Advances amounting to f54, 123O34.
equivalent to nearly 1921 100000. have
been asked for by 153530 tenants and
other persons for the purchase of o3S.'
other estates. These transactions have
nearly all been agreed to by the estates
commissioners" as they are called. But
the condition of the treasury has been
such that the money has not been paid,
and the commission is considerably en-
barra Ssed, while both the landlords and
the land are becoming very impatient at
the delay
A Very Large Business.
This has been a very large business.
For example. the estate of Lady Wallace
in Antrim county has been divided among
5000 purchasers, that of Lord Lurgan in
Armagh has been sold to $50 of his ten
ants; that of the Marquis of Londonderry
in County Downe to 600, and that of Sir
Victor Brook in Fermangh to SIT of their
tenants. The Marquis of Bath has sold
his property to l,24O of his former ten
ants, and the Duke of Leinster who was
one of the largest land owners in Ireland.
has sold to about 500 of his tenants all
but about 1000 acres of the lands around
his castle at Kildare, and the government
has paid him more than four million dol
lars in cash upon a basis of the rentals
paid by them. Lord Castletowne, the
Marquis of Lansdown. the Earl of Gren-
arde. the Duke Of Abercorn. the Marquis
of Waterford Lord Kilmaine. Lord Fitz-
william. the Earl of Annesley and others
have disposed of nearly all of their prop
erty in Ireland in this way. And the gov
eminent has paid for it in cash. as 1 have
already explained. to the amount of near
ly 500. 900. which is to be reimbursed
to the treasury in small installments dur
ing the next siXty-eight years.
We have similar system Of disposing
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of the lands that are being reclaimed Dy
the construction Of irrigation systems III
the arid districts of the United states.
Our government through the reclamation
bureau. is expanding many millions of dol
lars derived from the sale of publlc lanos,
in building reservoirs and canals TO lrrl-
gate large tracts of territory, and the lana
is disposed of in tracts of l6O acres 10
homesteaders. who pay s12o an acre LOT
if and agree to pay from SO TO $40 an
acre additional in ten annual instruments
for the perpetual water rights Alter ten
wears. when the installments ara all PAID
and a patent is issued by the government
to the purchasers. they become the own
ers of the irrigation system and organize
a company among themselves to manage
its affairs. The government. having peeh
reimbursed for its investment, releases the
settlers from all obligations and uses the
money received from them to build an
other irrigation plant and redeem an
other section of desert.
But the operations Of our irrigation ou-
reau are simple and insignificant COM
pared with the extensive and compllcateu
operations of the Wyndham land act IN
Ireland We have no politics mixed up IN
it, as they have here, where everything
that everybody does is unfortunately IN
volved in political complications or pro
duces some political effect.
Almost Continuous Disturbances.
Some of the landlords are willing to sell
their estates; others are glad TO get rid
of them because the average tenantry in
Ireland are a very determined class and
are always making trouble Very few
landlords have been able to get along
peaceably with the men who till their
soil. There have been almost continuous
disturbances over land questions OF one
form or another in Ireland since the be-
ginning of time. The rents here are low.
compared with the American standard.
and have been difficult to collect. and
when there is a failure of crops they
cannot be collected at all. The landlords
complain that all the laws that nave peeh
enacted CT late years are entirely in the
interest of the tenants; that the landlord
has no show at all. And perhaps that is
riably with the tenants. and they cast
many votes, while the landlord has only
one, even If he tries to vote at all.
Therefore it is perfectly natural that
landowners-and especially those who have
had a good deal of trouble with their
estates for cash. which they can invest
10 much better advantage. The Earl OF
Ieinster for example. who is a minor.
has realized more than GSO0.TO in cash.
which his trustees have invested in brew
cry stocks. railway bonds and other Sc
curities which pay regular dividends and
give him no anxiety.
In some cases the government has been
compelled to exercise considerable pres
sure to induce landlords to sell estates
which have been the scenes of a good deal
of political disturbance. But. a rule.
the noblemen who have held large tracts
of troublesome land have been eager to
get rid of them on any terms. They have
been enjoying quite as much. and per-
haps more benefit from the Wyndham act
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street: Thompson's Pharmacy. 7o3 18th
street; Crown Lunch Company. 1417 New
York avenue; Sims Pharmacy, 14th and
New York avenue. A. G. Spalding & Bro.
18th and G streets: Hickman & White
1919 G street; Garges' Pharmacy. 14th and
F streets; Evans Pharmacy. 90 street;
Guide Bros, 1214 F. street; II. D. Feast.
1913 F street; StinemetZ Sons, 18th and F
streets; Brown & Shaw, ITO F street :;
Sidney Reizenstein. 18th and F streets;
II. f. Bittinger. Crown Lunch Company
30 18th street; Z. F. Albert, I'd and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast; O'Donnells
Pharmacy, Sd and Pennsylvania avenue
southeast; f. PitZer 9Th and East Capt.
toll streets; f. Powell. 32S East Capitol
street: II. c. yesterday. LIST and streets:
F. Schafhirt, North Capitol and H streets;
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Virginia Bankers Elect Officers.

HOT SPRINGS. Va. June 20.-The Vir-
ginia Bankers Association at the final
session today elected the following Of
ficers for the ensuing year: President
Joseph Stebbens of South Boston: secre-
tary. " P. Calling OF Lynchburg. and
treasurer II. A Williams of Richmond.
A committee was appointed to select
and present silver cup 10 the retiring
president, Richard H Smith of Rich
mond in recognition of his service to the
association
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Statements of a Commissioner.

d SUluI1lSSlOuSTs
Mr.. Bailey. one of the commissioners.
tells me that the good estates have been
disposed of without difficulty. The dispo
sition of the poor lands has been more
difficult because the tenants are not as
eager to get them. the owner is not always
satisfied with the price and the commits
SIGN Is not willing to make advances upon
small bits of lands among the boys and
rocks and other tracts of unfeptie soil
that would not be considered good secur-
ity by anybody. The commissioners. he
tells me. have treated these transactions
very much as they would have done ii
they were mortgage bankers. They have
refused to make advances on land that
banker would not have considered good
security. They have not been willing to
make advances en- farms that cannot be
made to pay There have been complica
tons in certain cases that have perpleXed
them. but as a rule. Mr.. Bailey says. the
law has been working out in a most sat
isfactory and gratifying manner.
The chief object of the commission and
the purpose OF the law have been to break
up the great estates of Ireland, so far as
possible. in farms of not more than 100
acres and sell them to the occupants so
as TO create nation of peasan' proprie
tors. and that. he says. is being accom-
pished more rapidly than any one had
reason to expect. OF course. he does not
pretend that everybody is satisfied That
would be impossible. The millennium has
not yet come and the Wyndham act has
not brought it. although it has undoubt-
edly done more than any previous legsa-
ton to promote peace in this distracted
country and offer promises of future pros
perity and contentment.
Naturally some of the land owners have
not been willing to sell their property and
their tenants have been trying to force
them to do 50. That accounts for the
cattle driving and similar disturbances
that you read about in the newspaper
cablegrams from Ireland 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the tendency of the news
papers is to publish sensational occur
rences and unfortunate events. If a man
commits a great crime 1t is advertised
from one end of the world to the other.
If he does good deed very little is said
about it: and a false impression concern
ing conditions in Ireland has been created
by the widespread publication of every
little outage or disturbance that occurs
over here. while the enormous usefulness
and the satisfactory application of the
Wyndham land act have been almost en-
tirely neglected by newspaper writer's.
The Cattle Business.
There have, however, been a good many
little disturbances occasioned by the eff
forts Of the tenants OF certain estates,
particularly those that are now devoted
to cattle breeding, to force their land
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
Philosophy of Selfishness.

From the Irish Homestead.
If man thinks only of himself the
world soon gets to feel that the thinking
is done very efficiently. and that he re-
quires no aid. 1t forgets him and turns
to more sociable people.
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Dangerous Imitation.

From Judge
Fat man Ito dentist)-Are you going te
give me gas?
Dentist-Certainly. sir.
Fat man-Then better anchor me dowr
first
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l.. f. Forster. 18th and F streets: William
{. Downey. nth and Vermont avenue;
William F.. Mattingly, 18th and streets;
Portman 18th and Rhode Island avenue;
l.. ii. Day & Co, 14th and P streets; r.
II. Helphenstein, nth and r streets;
Gentner's. nth and L streets; George w.
Hurlebaus 18th and V streets; C H. Eli
Oft 14th and Girard streets; O'Donnell's
Pharmacy. 9th and F streets; Temple
Pharmacy, 9th and F. streets; Criswell's.
eth and T streets; Koss. 9TH and Florida
avenue; Rudolph & West Company. 1922
New York avenue; Quigley 2n36 G street
Wilson Cafe, GIL 18th street. Browneley's.
1903 G. street also at the rooms of the
Board of Trade, Star building. and the
Chamber Of Commerce, Brentano building,
18th and streets.
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than their tenants. Taking 1t as a whole.
it has been described as "a gigantic meas
ure Of pacification" Both landlords and
tenants have shown themselves more than
willing to avail themselves of ii. The
land question is on its way to settlement
and the greatest source Of internal strife
in Ireland is being damned at the foun-
tain head.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-09
ALL SERENE AT YALE.
Not Much Curtailment in Athletics Present System Satisfactory.

New Haven. April 9.-Yale yes terday disposed of the question of a curtailment of her intercollegiate through the Yale News, the under graduate organ, that so far as Yale was concerned there would be few changes in the present arrange ments. According to the News, the present system of athletic contests is satisfactory to the undergraduates and with a few minor changes should be to the Yale faculty. The News sums up the situation as fol- lows:
 At last the Harvard athletic committee has broken the suspense, and the football schedule for next fall is announced with as many games as usual With affairs in this condition at Harvard, with Cor nell undecided and with Princeton and Yale in favor of the present sys- tenn, the outlook appears much brighter than 1t did a short time ago. At Yale the situation has never been fin much doubt. The faculty as rule leaves the decis- ion of athletic questions in the hands of the undergraduates, who. would object very strongly to any curtail- ment of the various athletic sched- ules. One of the chief objections is that by decreasing the number of contests the interest will not lessen to any extent, and with all attentioa centered on two or three contests the excitement would rise to a high pitch.
 The decision of Yale in the mat ter has been influenced largely, &C., cording to the News. by ze opinion of President Hadley. In discussing the situation President Hadley said:
 "As matters stand to-day the stu dents in our large colleges have the greater part of Saturday at their disposal. Some of them wish to go home for Saturday or Sunday; oth- CTS go to the nearest city to amuse themselves. Each Of these things. particularly the latter. is a more se- rious cause of interruption to col lege work than are most of the in- tercollegiate sports. If sports keep the students together, ! am afraid We shall do more harm than good by diseouraging them"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-09
MURPHY WHIPPED GOODMAN.

Tommy Murphy of Harlem out pointed Kid Goodman of Boston in their six round fight last night at the Sharkey Athletic club. The fight was fast and furious throughout. Murphy rushing his opponent around the ring landing right and left swings, while the Bostonian cleverly spared and landed hard straight jabs.
 The Harlemite was not very az gressive in the first round and with the result that the clever down east erner pecked at him and landed many stinging straight jabs Goodman had the better of the second round also.
 When the bell started the third round Murphy sprang at his opponent like tiger and chased him around the ring. Goodman cleverly dodged many of the blows rained at him, but those he received contained much force.
 From then until the end the Har- lemite battered down his opponents defence and repeatedly landed hard right and left swings to the jaw and body. None of them was sufficient however, to more than stagger Good man, and at the end both were h good condition, although Goodman was much bruised.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-09
FAMOUS TOE HOLD.
Tremblay Used It on Harvey Parker and Won.

Harvey Parker of Brockton lost his match with Tremblay at New Bedford Monday night. The Kew Bedford Mercury's story of the con test follows: --
 "Tremblay, the champion wrestler of Canada, threw Harvey Parker, an ex-champion welterweight. last even- ing before a large crowd of specta- tors in Sharpshooters' nall. The match was to be two out of three falls, and the first fall was given up by Parker, after Tremblay mad se- cured the toe hold for the third time in the match, and the last fall was secured by Tremblay in the same manner. The first fall took an hour and 40 minutes. while the sec ond was an eleven minute 80.
 Both men were In good condi- ton, and barring the long time it took to get fall in the first part of the match, the contest was enjoyed by the 500 spectators.
 Parker is 49 years old and his opponent was younger and more up to the latest tricks in the same. But the Brockton man is still a hard proposition for most of che coming wrestlers. and he puts up fight from start to finish.
 Both men received greeting of applause as they stepped into the ring and were introduced by Joe Perra, who acted as referee. It was some time before the men went to the mat, Tremblay finally getting his man. but after q short time both men regained their feet, and when again they went to the mat Parker was on top, and he tried for an hour to tire his man by getting his right arm pinioned under his jody, but after tedious hour of this sort of work. when there was little action to please the spectators. Tremblay woke up. and in a short time tried the toe hold on Parker. Parker broke his hold twice when 1t seemed as if he must be thrown. but the third time Tremblay secured a firm CT grip and Parker finally exclaimed I'll give up,' and the first fall went to Tremblay.
 ''The referee announced that it took an hour and forty minutes to go the first fall. while the second fall lasted but eleven minutes. This time Tremblay secured the toe hold again and he put his man on his shoulders very neatly. Parker ac- knowledged that the hold was a good one. The match was not over till ll:45."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-09
A GREAT bATllNG RALLY.

Says Third Baseman Billy Brad ley of Cleveland: Tt may be that some people like to go out to the ball games and enjoy watching a pitchers battle where the score is l to 0, but the most excitement that have ever witnessed was when there was good old slugging match, with the home team ahead. of course. I remember one game that we played with Washington the first year I played with Cleve- land. We were not supposed to be the best batting team in the league that year, but occasionally we woke up and clouted the ball for keeps. When we went to bat in the ninth inning the score was 13 to 5 in fa- vor of Washington. Bill Hoffer was in the box for us, and he did not pitch a half bad game, but his SUD- port was full of holes. Bill was the first man to bat in the ninth, and the crowd yelled to him to hit over the fence and run round nine times. But Bill struck out, and Pickering, who came next, hit an easy one to Case Patten, and was thrown out at first. Most of the crowd started home, but fingered a little when Mccarthy singled to right. was up next and hit one to left for base. Candy Lachance smashed one over second and Mccarthy scored our sixth run of the game, which left us only seven runs be- hind. Bobby Wood was hit with pitched ball and the bases were lnIed. linen sneibeck, who used to be good pinch hitter. doubled to right center and drove me and La chance in. When frank Genius also singled, Tom Loftus took Patten out and sent Wyatt Lee in to pitch. Lee had not warmed up, and he started of by giving pass to Egan, a man we were trying out at second base that day. McAleer sent Frye Beck to bat in place of Hoffer, whose turn it was again. and Frye smashed it up against the left field fence for two bases. Then Pickering sim gled. IL would have been a triple. but the crowd went crazy and ran out on the field and the umpire would allow him but one base. A passed hall, though. put Pick on second. and when Mccarthy singled for the second time that Inning, Pick ran home with the winning run. Pretty good hitting. and after two men were out. at that. Wash ington had Pete Everett on first, Joe Quinn on second. Clingman at short, Bill Coughlin at third. Gettman. Dungan and Farrell in the outfeld, with Grady catching"