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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
BOYS INDULGE In LIGHT
WORK ON EVE OF FIGHT

According to my figuring"
said Ritchie's manager, Billy
Nolan today, willie will come to
San Francisco Thursday morn
ing weighing about 1891
pounds. Excitement is sure to
take off that extra half pound
before he steps on the scales"
Neither boy will do any more
boxing, each fearing injury to
his hands. A little road exercise
will be taken each morning, how
ever, to keep them from going
stale.
Wolgast today bemoaned the
scarcity of Richie money.
1--WE have $1,000 to bet," he
said. So far we have had to
almost break our necks to get
down $4,000. 1t seems like
won't win much money on this
mill"
Both Joe Mandot and Joe
Rivers pick AID Wolgast to retain
his lightweight crown when he
meets Willie Richie at Daily City
Thursday.
Furthermore, down in the
heart of each of these boys turks
deep and abiding respect for
the Dutchman and his methods.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
DOb|E PLAYS
SAME GAME
PAGE TWO.

SEATTLE, Nov. &c AL
though Coach Gilmore Dobie is
there with his usual statement
that the University of Washing
ton will have the hardest game of
the season when 1t meets Wash
tngton State college in the final
northwestern championship game
on Thursday. all indications point
30 a sweeping victory for the var
sity. which will give Dobie the
remarkable record of coaching a
championship team for five sue
oessive years. In fact the uni
versity of Washington may tie the
game and still win the champion
ship.
Dobie has been giving his men
strenuous practice in defense of
tho forward pass, which proved
their weak point in the game with
the Oregon varsity team, and all
along the line 1t looks like a
ctnch for the varsity on Thurs
day with the odds two to one in
their favor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
WILLARD SCHOOL CLAIMS
CITY CHAMPIONSHIP

Completing remarkably good
football record for grammar
school team, the Willard school
retained here claim to the city
championship by gaining a vic
tory by forfeiture from the
Emerson team which was to play
the Wizards in the stadium to-
morrow.
During the year the kids have
run up 101 points on the other
teams of the city and have never
been scored upon. The 0 to O. tie
with the Washington school was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

Los ANGELES, Cal, Nov. &c.
Little more active work will be
done in the Rivers and Mandot
camps preparatory to the Thanks
giving day bout at Vernon. Light
road and gymnasium work and
shadow boxing will form the rou-
tine of each boy and each already
is practically at the required 1873
pounds.
Mandot still ruled 10 to s IA
vorite. although there Is much
Rivers money in sight.
Early ticket sales have been
enormous. Promoter McCarey
predicts the crowd will be as
large as on July 4, when Rivers
boxed Wolgast for the title.
By United Press Leased Wire. }
SAN FRANCISCO, Now
Both AID Wolgast and Willie
Richie let up today In the train
ing grind for their 20-round bat
tie here Thanksgiving day. The
champion is several pounds I'M
der 1873, while Ritchie does not
bulge the beam at 1874.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
ANOTHER MATCH
FOR GUN CLUB

Next Thursday night will wit
ness the second match of the Ia
coma Rifle and Revolver club in
It's competition in the United
States Revolver association, when
II meets the Portland team here.
The teams meet Geographically
only, scores of each club being
simultaneously wired to each 9TH
er, and the results sent to eastern
headquarters. Next week Spo-
kane meets the Tacoma team.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26

Horejs for practice yesterday
afternoon put hope into the
hearts of the fans. An X-ray
photograph of the supposedly
dislocated vertebrae was taken
yesterday, and much will depend
on this picture as to whether or
not Horejs will be able to play.
The annual football reception
will be held in the armory Fri
day night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
HOREJS OUT TO
PRACTICE FOR GAME

Scrimmage work and signal
practice was the order of work
for the Tacoma High school
team yesterday in preparation
for the Thanksgiving day game
with Lincoln High of Seattle in
the stadium which is expected to
be one of the hardest fought
games of the year.
The appearance of Capt. Leo
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
JIMMY COFFROTH PLANS
FOUR BIG BATTLES

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26.-
While fight fans are figuratively
licking their chops in ant'cipa-
ton of the Wolgast-Ritch:e nut
Thursday, they are also casting
an eye upon the good things in
pugdom announced for the future
by Promoter James w. Coffroth
here today. Coffroth has four
promising bouts in view. Should
Wolgast beat Richie, he plans to
send frankie Burns of Oakland
against the champion December
IA.
Heavyweight division: New
Years day, Frank Moran of Pitts
burg and the winner of the Jim
Flynn-Luther McCarty bout in
Los Angeles, December 10.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26

The picture the left taken a
wonderful little fighter his
giving day fight Notice appearance
pictures.
Ad Wolgast lightweight champion, a tough,
hard without of
his
excellent outline Of bay window while his whole
all the other
Wogast has lost the look of strength and endurance
few scarCe.
Wogast admits that he is the today
adds "theres
sized up the two
shake their but
Wolgast will have to Thanksgiving he
against Willie Richie
Franci
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
Short Sport

ASHLAND, Ore, Nov. 26.AThe
footballers of the Oregon agricul-
tural college are today on their
way to Los Angeles, stopping off
here long enough to advise the
local townsfolk that they are go
ing to tie Occidental college into
q double bowknot Thanksgiving
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26
What Texans Admire

is hearty, vigorous life, accord
ing to Hugh Tallman, of San An
tonic. I'VE find" he writes,
''that DR.. Kings New Life Pills
surely put new life and energy
into person. Wife and / be-
lieve they are the best made"
Excellent for stomach. liver and
kidney troubles. Csc at Ryner
Malstrom Drug Co.. 93S Pacific
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26.-It
appears almost certain today that
Los Angeles will be represented
against Sir Thomas Upton in the
proposed International yacht race
during the San Francisco exposi-
ton in 1915,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26

Featherweight Champion John
ny Kilbane VS.. Eddie Morgan, the
English crack, in January.
Winner of Flynn-McCarty fight
VS.. AL Palzer, Washington's birth
day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26

PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 26.[
A score of friends of Albany coll
lege today started raising $751;
600 to complete the sum of $780,
900 which will qualify the school
for the James J. Hill gift of $780,
mn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26

wiped out by trouncing of the
Washingtons at the hands of
the Whitman team, which was
twice defeated by the Willard
eleven.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-26

EUGENE, Ore, Nov. &c. -
Judging by the pep they throw
into their work, the members of
the varsity football squad appear
today to be in fine shape for their
game with the Multnomah club
In Portland Thanksgiving day.
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
OUR POLITICAL SOLONS

The bosses are pluming them
selves on having turned out at
the late state Convention a per-
feet vote-tight "machine for the
coming campaign here in Della
ware. And they are be asting
they have steam rollered Bob
Houston, Senator Drexler and
the rest of the Republicans who
still think they own their own
souls, very flat-but just you
wait till7 the November inn
ings of the people have come
around, and the bosslets will see
their error.
Yet that the bosses are not too
cock sure of "where they're at,
is suggested by their refusal to
commit themselves on that
mighty "onsartain" thing, Mr..
Taft's renomination-or worse,
still, his reelection. So they
have provided a set of colorless,
"uninstructed" delegates, lie. a
bunch of political cats so placed
as to be able at the psychologi-
cal moment; to jump on the a0in-
ming band wagon. Admirable
valor! Crystal candor! Great
craftsmanship.
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
SOME WEATHER WISDOM

THE TRANSCRIPTS weather
prophet is trying his hand at for
casting political conditions. We
give a few of his prognostica-
tions.
"Taft's stacked" deck won't
be in it, when Teddy shows his
''full hand" on the Convention
floor next June-a royal straight
aush!"
"Tafts's machine made erec.
tions will tumble like a baby
boys card houses, at the first
touch of Teddy's contemptuous
toe"
'Taft's "Solid South" of 265
beefeaters, will melt away like a
lump of ice In the sun, once
Teddy's big sn lie salutes 'em!'
''Like rats leaving a slnklne
ship, these same grub-hunting
officeholders 'way down in Dixie
will soon begin to look for safer
quarters"
(The dispatches have already
told of North Carolina defections
from Taft's Solid South column,
and now Fridays news tells OF
like desertions of the South
Carolina faithful. Ed
"Any of THE TRANSCRIPTS,
readers got the blues? Let 'em
watch the Taft boomers so busy
now flinging mud at Teddy on
his triumphal progress to the
White House. After June 18th
it will split yonr sides to see 'em
frantically scrambling to get on
the Teddy band wagon! And
lots of your foremost Delaware
statesmen will be among 'em to-"
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20

The EUeqy EUening now says
the Boulevard bill as a fact never
passed! That the Senate and
House bills got mixed, and each
house passed a different bill. The
situation reminds US of the after
ney's defence of the CHAP that
stole a kettle. IF the Court
please, my client is not guilty
1st, because he borrowed the
kettle, 2d-if he stole it, it was
cracked, and 3d-there never
was a kettle!"
1t would seem then that the
Boulevard law is not unconstitu.
tional-there never was any such
law!
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
THE Loss OF THE TITANIC

A heartbreaking tragedy OF
the sea. this sinking of the Titan
ic with her precious freight OF
over 1900 souls-all the more
terrible because unnecessary!
Perhaps the loss Of this su'
perb achievement in ship build
ing, was uupreventable amid the
many and unseen perils of that
ice-beset ocean pathway; yet
with the bolometer, an instru'
ment. so sensitive that it mea'
sures easily the heat of a talloW
candle five miles away, it does
seem shat this $10,000,00O ship
with its 234O passengers, might
have had some apparatus to warn
it of the proximity of the enor'
nous body of ice, either aloft or
submerged, that doubtless caus-
ed the disaster.
But one horrible fact is now
certain-these 1900 human lives
fell a sacrifice to the greed of the
White Star Steam boat Company
which for dividend earning rea-
sons utilized the ships space for
every conceivable comfort and
luxury, but was not willing to
provide life.boats to keep more
then one-third of its passengers
and crew aaoat, even for a few
hours until some passing or sum-
moned ship might reach them!
And amazing to say, this shocking
disregard of human life is true
of all the ocean passenger steam
ships!
Again, this horror may prob
ably be fairly ascribed to the
modern craze for speed-the
same mania that so, often makes
the auto a deadly plaything. The
lower or Southern route is known
to be freer from this insidious
peril, especially fatal in the
Spring, of the floating iceberg
but it is the longer one, and no
doubt had Captain Smith chosen
it and thus saved the 2400 valu
able lives and the $20,000,000
ship and freight, he would have
been censured by the vessels
owners for his pains, and like as
not, rated by the passengers for a
weakling!
On land and sea, nay in the very
clouds above us-this mania for
haste is all the vogue, till one
wonders "Are all the moderns
going stark mad!"
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
[Communicated]
THOSE BAD PAVEMENTS

EDITOR TRANSCRIPT: Every woman
that has to drag her skirts through the
wet places on some of our pavements
every time it rains, wants to say ''amen"
so loud to the remarks of "J' in your
paper that every Commissioner will hear
it:
Mercy, right at the door of our New
Century Club, there's pool clean across
the pavement, and IN the evening the
trees hide the light, and everybody goes
kerslop into it, before sbe knows il and
the men, too, but Of course they don't care
The ladies hope you Commissioners will
either make the owner level up the walk
and repave at that place. or else provide a
ferry for the lady guests who will visit the
club room on the 10Th and 18th of May;
for if it happens to rain on either OF those
lays, our lady visitors will need gum
boots if you don't. There are other places
almost as bad in the same block.
Mr.. Editor I think you have been Civ
ing these Commissioners too much taffy
about their "fne work" and so forth.
Inotice they have put down big cross
ings near their own residences, but let the
peoples streets, and the comfort of the
ladies of the town go abegging for any at
tention. Why don't you big men make
these property owners with such mean
psvements in front of them, do what's
right? Are you afraid to do it? If you
are, you had better let some of US business
women take hand. Gentlemen, if you
wont do anything for the comfort Of
your own sex. at least be men enough to
do something for the comfort of women
and children. A WOMAN.
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
WANTED!

a live, hustling man, we'll acquainted
in Cecil County, Maryland, to represent
one of the largest furniture and clothing
stores in the State. Steady position and
a fiattering proposition to the right party,
Bond and reference required. Address
Box 10, Morning News Office, Wilmington,
Del.
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
TAFT OUT OF THE RACE

Throughout the whole nation
many expressions of popular
opinion, by means of "straw
votes, have been fairly and
carefully taken, in the past
SIX months, often upon a very
large scale. The big preponder-
ance-from 8 to so fold for Roose.
velt as against Taft, clearly fore.
shadowed the overwhelming VIC
tories for Roosevelt in the recent
primaries in Missouri, Illinois
and Pennsylvania.
Wherever, in fact, there has
been anything like fair pri-
mary held, the vote has been
startlingly adverse to Mr.. Taft. He
won in New York because a con.
spiracy of his standpat machine
so ruthlessly forbade an honest
vote, that even the leading
journals in New York City,
though heartily hating Mr..
Roosevelt, were unanimous in
characterizing those Taft-approv.
ing primaries as "brutally far.
ciaiv' Yet Mr.. Taft congratu.
lated boss Koenig, who engi.
neered those primary frauds,
upon his shameful work.
Again. In Kentucky, one of
the Taft oficeholders, in the face
of a majority of over 1000 for the
Roosevelt delegates, impudently
issued the certificates to Taft's
delegates, and when Senator
Dixon demanded that this out.
rage be disavowed and his place
man disciplined, Mr.. Taft refused
to do either, and, thereby justif.
ed the severerebuke the Senator
administered when he likened
that dishonorable course to "re.
ceiving stolen goods,
1t is now pretty generally con-
ceded that these rebukes Of Taft's
administration following upon
the heels of over three years of
continuous disasters that have
cost the Republican party 2S
states, and the loss of control in
both branches of Congress, re
moves him as a possible candi
date for renominaiioL-indeed
many believe his name will
never come before the National
Convention.
A more crushing rebuke by
the people of an Administration,
and a more emphatic Reputation
Of the president responsible for
it, has never been seen in. Ameri-
can politics.
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
NoTIcEl

ALI property owners and tenants are
hereby given notice to clean up their
back yards, alleys, ETC., within the next
ten days. Those who fail to comply with
this request will be fined.
By order of
THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
Farm for Sale

Evergreen Farm, ION the
road from Middletown#o Odessa,
containing forty acres, comfort
able dwelling and ample out
buildings, all in good order. The
soil is a loan with yellow clay
subsoil, finely adapted to fruits
and intensive farming. This
farm is in close reach of both
rail and water by a macadam
road. Apply to
MARTIN B. BURRIs,
Middletown, Del
Middletown transcript., 1912-04-20
WANTED

On Ladies' Lawn Waists, all parts, city
wages. We are here to stay.
The Del. Star Apron & Waist Co.
Townsend, Del.
Formerly Townsend Shirt Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-21
FIERCE FLAMES TANNED BY HIGH WIND NEARLY
 WITHOUT HOUSTON, TEX.
Burned Area Covers y City Blocks And The Estimated Loss Is Put UP
 To S6,OOO,OOO
When Gets Beyond Control of Firemen Experts in Explosives Are Employ ed to Fight the Blaze
 With Dynamite.

Few were permitted to save any thing from the danger zone Instead, many women and children were hur- ried by the police and citizens hur- riedly pressed into service to places of safety in the parks and the open spaces of the town.
 The wind seemed to increase in volume as the day wore on and car ried the blazing embers blocks ahead of the main body of the fire. Citizens, with wet blankets and anything that could be used to dislodge the fire brands, mounted to the roofs of the frame houses everywhere and did their best to protect their property.
 A num- CT of factory buildings were filled with infiammable material di- rectly in the path of the fast spread ing blaze and they burned, like so much finder. Churches and school houses were also consumed
 The following is a partial list of factories destroyed or damaged by the flames:
 Ed. IT. Harrell Lumber Company, mills and yard covering three blocks. Co-Operative Manufacturing Com pany. Dew Brothers, syrup mill. Acme Mill. Houston Packing Com pany. Standard Compress Houston and Leggitt Lumber. Magnolia Com press. Rogers Paint Company and Hudson's Panel Factory.
 Fortunately. there was not much suffering. The weather was severo but mos" of those driven from their homes were able to carry their cloth many families were separated. Wild reports that nothing could be saved were circulated although the better part of the business section was not endangered up to 10 o'clock.
 The fire spread across into the Southern Pacific yards where a num- Der of Ia den box cars caught fire and were quickly consumed.
 Hurry orders were sent to all of the yard force of the road and en- zines were rushed to the scene to drag out all of the equipment that could be reached.
 When it was seen that the fire was beyond control the firernen resorted to dynamite to clear a space ahead of the flames. They were hampered in this work by lack of knowledge of explosives and experienced men were borrowed from the railroad to take charge of the work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-21
Further Reductions Total ling $8O,OOO Given to Ger tain Corporations Whose Lists Had Already Been Largely Reduced.
No Reasons Given for Hur- ried Reopening of Lists and Additional Rebates from Figures Found by the Board of Assessors.

Following hurried conferences be- tween representa- atives of leading man ufacturing corporations, Mayor Wilson and the Board of Relief, the original list of reductions, which had been signed, sealed and delivered by the board, was revised. Further reduc- tions of sS0,OOO were granted, princi- palIy to manufactures. The total of such reduction, previously granted, aggregated $439, ,735. about 90 per cent of the total relief granted by the board
 But V. hen the report Of the board was placed before Mayor Wilson, and it's contents became known among those principally interested, hurried conferences were ca led. Mayor Wil- son participated in some of these The result was the granting of addi- tional reductions on the tax lists Of the companies.
 The Bridgeport Malleable Iron Go. enjoys the largest cut of all in the final figures of the Board of Relief. It is to be taxed upon $360,912. Tn the list of 1910 the company was valued at $314,750 The new list for 1911 az gregated S541, ,750. The Board of Re lief orfginaly fixed the final figure at S406,O1s But after their supplement tary conferences, the list was brought still further down to the figure given above, SS60. 912.
 
 the other big manufacturers interest ed, co-operated with the Board of As sessors in arriving at their figures, through a committee representing the Manufacturers Association. The man. ufacturers and Board of Assessors sought to work in harmony
 Having a 15 mill rate in mind, the manufacturers and assessors agreed upon Frank T. Staples, the well known banker, to be the referee. MT. Stables and the two committees agreed on figures for the manufactor- ies These were filed and due pub licity was given them- But when the total tax lists fell cOnSiderab bly, short of the promised s1oO, 100000. and the administration began to contract for considerable expenses, the manufac- turers took alarm. The Brass CO, the MalleabIe Iron Co., American & Brit ish Co, and other concerns who had kept in closer touch with the pros poets of a high tax than the other manufacturers, entered appeals and the Board of Relief acted favorably 1lpon a number of them.
 The Board of Reliefs report did not stand. however AS originally pre- pared 1t granted considerable relief to several of the larger manufactures, but as finally readjusted, 1t grants them still more relief.
 The Bridgeport Ma1!eable Iron CO profits greatest under the Board Of iRelief's second estimate The Bridge port Brass Go. is a close second
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