Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1887 — Page 2

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T.ELE IKDIAKAPOIilS JODBNAL. MOKDAT SEPTEMBER 5, 1SST.

Totten are now en route together for South America. Mrs. Totten has taken her child with ber. WISDOM FROM WASIIINGTON. Talk witti Eb Henderson on State and National Folltics. Washington Special. ? "It has been intimated that Colonel Matson's real purpose in bringing Governor Gray forward as a vice-presidential possibility is for the eurpose of making a bid for the influence of the Bray faction for its support of him as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. What

lo you think cf ill" "I do not think that is true, Matson is a caniidate for Congress and not for Governor. The snly object he has is the success of the party in ihe State." "Suppose the State convention should beheld d advance of the congressional convention in Colonel Matson's district, will his name be presented for Governor?" Matson is partisan and could not refuse the Domination for Governor should it be tendered lim by the State convention, either before or ifter'the district convention is held." "Is it not a fact that Colonel Matson is ambitious to be the administration candidate for Governor should be be selected as the nominee?" ivas next asked. "No. No candidate can be nominated for Governor in - Indiana by the Democrats unless he heartily supports the present administration, as the resolutions of the State convention will unuestinnably indorse President Cleveland." "What, in yonr opinion, is the condition of the party in Indiana?' "The Democracy of Indiana, like that of the entire country, concede and concur in the renomination of President Cleveland, - but Oit doesn't follow that the entire party of a political State like Indiana is enthusiastically supporting the policy of the administration so far as the "retention of Republicans in office who are not protected by the civil-service law is .concerned. But my idea is that Mr. Cleveland is not altogether responsible for these retentions." "Who, then, is responsible?" "Why, the heads of departments and of the different bureaus." "But in pursuing this policy do not these subordinates labor under the impression that they are pleasing the President and following out his idea of civil-service reform?" "No. I am inclined to believe that the heads of departments and bureaus find it easier to run their bureaus with trained Republicans than with Democrats who have not had an opportunity of experience in federal office for the last quarter of a century; therefore they do not recommend removals to the President who has designated these officials. It is not of record to my knowledge that the President has asked the retention in office of any Republican not in the classified service. Bnt, on the other hand, Democratic Congressmen have intetfered in behalf of Republican officials, and their requests . to Lave the bold-overs retained are on file in all the bureaus of the government." "Mr. Henderson, yon have been acting Commissioner cf Internal Revenue for eight weeks. Do you think the removal of the hold over Republicans above the civil-service class and the appointment of Democrats to succeed them would em harass the business of the government ? In other words, do you thing Democrats could be found who are competent to fill the places of the present Republican incumbents?" "No man or set of men. in my opinion, are Indispensable. But look here," said Mr. Henierson, "this is not an interview, is it?" and the talk ended. Indiana X'ensions. Washington Special. Pensions have been granted the followinglamed Indlanians: Rebecca, widow of William Halstead. Loganssort; Margaret C, widow of Aaron Shaper, Prairie Creek; Sarah, widow of Daniel Harris, Clay City; minors of Daniel Howell, Goodland; minors of Jacob Holley, Terre Haute; James. Hater. Alfordville; John Spelz, Manville; Samuel Wells, Callonia; Jonathan Hazlett, Butler; 3eoree Engleman. (deceased) Mifflin; Isaiah Dennis, Hitchcock; George Jones, Liafayette; Riley Brooke, Chestnut Ridge; James Graves, DecKpr; Sanford Williams. Sparksville; Thomas Irueblood. Seba; John Hamilton, Indianapolis; Jerry Sullivan, North Vernon; William McCleane. Somervi'.le; Daniel Howell, Goodland; Henry Ballard. Medaryville: Philip Kissel, Six Mile; William Rnbey, Richmond; Joseph Drasb, liuntineburg; Thomas Whitmore. Eagleton; Amos Stephens, Rushville; Major Jones; Mndora: John Nelson, Anderson: Oscar Mcllvain, Warren; Charles Syraonde, Wolcottville: James Turname, Indianapolis; Samuel Ferguson, Ve ray; Lewis Lawrence. Cambridge City; Willlam Thompson. Harlan; William Penson. Clinton; William Rogers, Stepps Hill; Meredith Carney, Prairietown; James Haskins, Brazil. THE GERMAN VETERANS. How the Ex-Soldiers of the Empire Spent the First Day of Their Chicago Reunion. CniCAGO, Sept 4. Iron crosses emblems of bravery bestowed by Emperor William, of Germany, on the defenders of Vaterland adorned the breasts of several hundred of the G,000 German warriors who marched in procession through the streets of Chicago to-day to the camp-ground of the North American Krieger Bund. In additi on to the crosses tb ere were medals innumerable, and the colors of Deutschland brightened ever participant in the day's reunion -and f estivities. It was the fourth anniversary and grand "come-together" of German-American citizens who ever soouldered arms for the sake of their fatherland, especially in 1871. To these German exsoldiers the occasion seemed a veritable Fourth of July. Representatives from almost all the large cities in the United States were in line, and the hearty cheers which greeted' them as they marched made tham a very proud and happy set of men. As the gayly-uniformed verterans passed north on Clark street to the sharp-shooters' park, keepingsteD to "Die Wachtam Rhein" and other airs so familiar to them all, tbey presented a magnificent spectacle. At the head, as master of the day, came Lieutenant Baus, of Chicago, on a royal looking cream-white charger. Behind him was a cordon of police. Then came the Cincinnati Landwehr Verein, wearing white sashes and- silk tiles; the Cincinnati Krieger Verein. Blenker Post Grand Army of the Republic (through conrtesy); German Red Crosses; Milwaukee Krieger Verein and ladies; Chicago Westphalians, Northwest Verein of Chicago; Town of Lake Veterans, and the Chicago Krieger Verein, the latter numbering 600 men. Following were carriages containing President Vogelsang and the various committees. Peoria and Aurora, I1L; Hamilton, O. ; Batesville and Fort Wayne, Ind., and Pittsburg were also largely represented. AH along the route private residences and busioess houses were hung with wreaths and mottoes and German colors. So great was the enthusiasm that more than once the musie of the bands, to say nothing of the Sabbath t tillness, was lost in the outbursts of old German war-cries in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm and the first reunion of German war Teterans which Chicago has ever teen. At the park tbe day was given up to a volkafest, an affair corresponding to the American picnic That jollity was the rule goes without saying. The only event of-a formal character was late in the day, when Mr. William Vocke. of Chicago, delivered a festival address. He contrasted the Germans and French, eulogized the German soldiers, and urged his hearers to be as loyal to the United States as they had been to Germany. The sentiment was cheered to the echo. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. John A. Cockerill denies that he is to leave the New York World to become managing editor of the Herald. Mrs. Mary Dunlao and her six-months-old babe were burned to death, near McKeesport, Pa., on Saturday. The woman tried to start the fire with oil. At Shelton, Conn., last night, Joseph Bolton hot and probably fatally wounded Captain iliiier, whom he found in Mrs. Bolton's company. Bolton was arrested. It was stated at Newport, R. I., last night, on pod authority, that Admiral Luce would be reJeved from the command of th North Atlantic iquadron this week, and be made president of the War College at Newport. Editors Krackwintzer. Caok and Parks, of the Milwaukee Labor Review, were arrested, on Saturday, on a charge of criminal libel preferred by Alderman Garrett Dunes, whom the paper iermed a "boodle alderman" and "a Buddensiek Builder." They are out on bail. Fireman Garvey, of Louisville, was killed in in accident on the Newport News & Mississippi galley, at Big Clifty station yesterday morning. The engine pulling the . south-bound passenger irain was thrown from the track by an obstrtieiion placed purposely, it is thought, by wreckirs. Garvey jumped with the above result. Several of the coaches were derailed, but no lerious injuries were received. A tablespoonfnl of lime water to each tumbler Df milk will aid digestion and prevent coagulation which is the cause of distress with many persons after drinking milk.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

A Farmer Shot and Killed While Trespassing on a Field of Watermelons. A Vigorous Protest Against Payment of the Dmen-Well Royalty A Rejected Suitor's ReTensre State Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. Ell Williams Killed While Trespassing; on a Neighbor's Melon-Patch. Special to tbe Indiananolia Journal. PoktIiAnd, Sept. 4. Last evening, while Eli Williams, who lives ten miles northwest of here, in the country, was returning home with a yonng man named Paxson Miller, he proposed to go over the watermelon-patch of Levi Pence and get a melon. Unfortunately for Williams, Pence was expecting some boys who had been there a few nights before, and was armed with a shotgun. When the roan got fairly in the patch Pence fired, and twenty-eight No. 1 shot entered Williams's back, killing him instantly. Williams and Pence are both prosperous farmers. Williams leaves a family, and stood very high for honesty and industry. It is reported that Pence denies doing the shooting, but by others it is said that he admits it. Protest Against the Drives-Well Royalty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Vincennes, Sept. 3. A mass-meeting of citizens was held last night in the Mayor's office to protest against the driven-well royalty. Attorney J. T. Goodman presided, and editor Boland. of the Commercial, acted as secretary. A committee of ten, including several prominent citizens, was appointed to call on L. Johnson, the local agent for the collection of tbe royalty, for the purpose of requesting him to resign his position. Great feeling was shown by the meeting and it seems pretty well settled that any attempt to collect tbe odious royalty will meet with the most determined resistance. The committee will report to a mass-meeting of citizens at the court-bouse on Monday evening. Mass & Watson alone own one hundred and fifty driven wells in this city, and there are few landlords in Knox county who have not one or wore. A Kejected Suitor's Revenge. Special to the Indianapolis Jop.rnaL Attica, Sept. 3. For some time past John North has been paying occasional attention to a Miss Beverly, who resides five miles east of Attica. North had more than once proposed marriage, but Miss Beverly rejected him. Last evening North appeared at the Beverly house, and after a few words, drew a revolver and fired at the girl, tbe ball passing through her thigh. Her brother, hearing her cries, seized a shotgun and fired at North, who fell to the ground, and was subsequently captured and placed in jail at Attica. He says he was drunk and knew nothing about shooting the girl. He had made threats to kill the girl and her accepted suitor, Frank Allen. Minor Notes. At Leavenworth John Scott struck his wife's sister. Miss Alice Conrad, on the bead with an ax. inflicting a dangerous wound, because she refused to lend him $5. Scott is a deacon in a church. James Milligan, an aged resident of New Albany, was stabbed in the left lung and probably fatally wounded, Saturday night, by an unknown person, who is thought to have escaped to Louisville. Lee Scott, a prominent and well-to-do farmer of Delaware county, was gored by a mad steer on Saturday afternoon, and the attending physician says he will not live. Scott was loading cattle for shipment when he was attacked by the infuriated animal, and the assistance of those who witnessed the fight is all that prevented him from .being killed outright. On Saturday morning Edward Hermanheiner, residing five miles west of Fort Wayne, was engaged in polishing the barrel of a loaded gun. He accidentally moved tbe trigger and tbe gun was discharged, tbe charge taking effect in his heart, causing instant death. Deceased was twenty-five years of age and unmarried. ILLINOIS. An Old Artesian Well Itreaks Loose with a Natural-Oas Accompaniment. Olsey, Sept. 3. -To-day an experiment was made by tapping the pipe of the old artesian well at this place. The result was a surprise to every one. A stream of salt sulphurous water burst forth, and has been flowing ever since, increasing in volume. The flow of water is also attended by natural gas in large quantity, which, when touched by a match, produces a flame twelve to eighteen inches. The artesian well enterprise was started several years ago by the city, but was abandoned when the drill had reached a depth of 2,700 feet. Since that time it has been lying idle. Great excitement prevails over to-day's discovery, and influence will be brought to bear on members of the City Council at the regular meeting Monday night which will doubtless cause them to take official action towards drilling the well deeper. An Exciting: Panther Chase. Geneva, Sept. 4. Great excitement prevails here and at Batavia over a panther, which, it is supposed, escaped from some menagerie and is now roaming about in the woods between the two places. It has killed half a dozen dogs, two cows, and exhumed several bodies from the East-side Cemetery at Batavia. It has been seen by several persons, and last night a man named Ilnntley shot at it as it was prowling about his house. Large hunting parties are in search of it, but thus far without success. Brief Mention. The Clinton water-works well has been completed. The system will be in operation in two or three months. Mr. J. D. Johnson, k prominent citizen of Urbana for a score of years, was buried yesterday, a great throng attending the obsequies. Mr. Johnson was for several years sheriff of Champaign county. Myrtle, the five-year-old daughter of D. J. Watson, a prominent grain-dealer of Assumption, died on Saturday morning, having been poisoned by eating a box of vegetable pills. A coroner's inquest was held. Dr. Lewis Sheldon, the Mayor of Knoxville, showed symptoms of insanity four days ago. Since then he has been violently insane, and was so adjudged in the county court. He will be taken to Jacksonville. The busy bee is declared a nuisance by many fruit-growers about Mattoon. A lack of blos soms, caused by the dry weather of the summer, drove the bees to the ripening grapes, which they ruin by puncturing the skin to obtain the rich juice. Tbe telephone war in Champaign county is as suming considerable proportions. Tbe Central Telephone Company announces an advance in rates Oct. l.and the instrument at Savoy Station has been promptly surrendered. Others threaten soon to follow suit. All the members of the Champaign exchange are up in arms about the increase, declaring tbe service less valuable now than before the outside towns were cut off, and that a reduction rather than an increase in rates would be in order. The telephone company tried tbe same experiment in Charleston, Paris, and Mattoon, but in each case it proved a failure. Three Trainmen Killed. Lawrence, Kan.. Sept. 4. About 11 o'clock Friday night a terrible accident occurred at the junction of the itvavenwortn brancn or tne Union l'acihc witn tne main line, some miles irom this city, which resulted in the death of three men. A coal-tram was coming over the line from Leavenworth, and had almost reached the Junction before the engineer discovered that tbe switch had not been turned to allow the train to run out on the main track. The locomotive and several cars plunged from tbe track down an embankment. Toe engineer, J. Munden, of Wamecro, was instantly killed. Tbe fireman. Frank Davis, received injuries from which he died a few houts later. The bead brakeman, Thomas Brown, was also killed. Seven cars were thrown from the track. The caboose and several cars remained on the rails. A Foul Girl and Fascinating Drummer. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 4. Two detectives are here looking for the belle of St. Joseph, Minnie Waldron, daughter of a well-known capitalist of that city. Mr. Waldron's daughter, a seventeen-year-old girl, last week eloped from her home with a Kansas City drummer named Bogart. The officers, who accompanied the fattier from Topeka to Kan? as City, state that at the former place Bogart and the girl registered as A. T. Bogart and wife, and occupied the same room. Frera there tney came to Kansas Citv. The girl is quite pretty. Her parents are wealthy and move in the best circles of St. Joseph society. The girl was returning from a

visit to her brother, who lives on a farm between here and St. Jo, and while on the train met Bogart, who persuaded her to go to Topeka with hira. Mr. Waldron is willing to forgive his erring daughter, but it is evident that it will go bard with the author of her ruin in case he gets within reach of the father.

THE GERMAN CATHOLICS. Exercises Incident to the Opening of the Conventionthe Pnrpose of the Meeting. Chicago, Sept. 4 A huge triumphal arch of flowers, surmounted by a crown, with the plain figure of the cross, was tbe center of a throng of thousands this, morning at the entrance to St. Michael's Hall, on North avenue. The proceedings began with an address of welcome by Mayor Roche to the three hundred delegates present. He predicted for tbe organization an honored place in the history of the country for its great work of benevolence and charity. President Spannborst, of St. Louis, replied, thanking the Mayor and alluding to the steady growth of tbe German Catholic Society, already one of the most powerful benevolent societies in the United States. He dwelt upon the objects of the society benevolence and charity and then, doubtless referring to the rumors of antagonism between tbe Irish Catholics and their German coreligionists, said: "We are not here for any purpose but'to consult upon the best means by which the most good can be done to the members, to promote their interests and tbe interests of those depending upon them. Our purpose is not and never has been national rivalry or strife. Therefore all allusions, sometimes harshly made, about a fight between those of different nationalities, but of the same faith, are ridiculous and out of the question for discussion in any of the meetings to be held here this week. Questions of discipline and order in our church are not submitted to societies of laymen for their discussion. Such matters are regulated by those in authority, and if occasion requires, may be finally settled by the Propaganda." The delegates then proceeded to St. Michael's Church. Detachments of Knights of St. George and St. Joseph marched into tbe church and formed a passage through which the priests entered in their robes. Pontifical high mass was celebrated b7 Bishop Vertin, of Marquette, Mich., and Bishop Wiggin, of Newark, N. J., preached. His utterances were a plea for the religious school as against the existing secular institutions for the education of the youth of the country. This afternoon representatives of the societies composing the union paraded, making a complete circuit of the. city. The total number of persons in the procession was at least four thousand, by a careful estimate. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN, Indications. Washington, Sept. 5, 1 a. m. For Indiana and Illinois Fair weather, nearly stationary temperature; light to fresh winds, generally southerly. For Ohio Slightly warmer, fair weather; light to fresh winds, generally southeasterly, veering to southerly. For Lower Michigan Slightly warmer, fair weather; light to fresh winds, generally southerly. For Wisconsin Light local rains; light to fresh winds, generally southerly; slightly warmer. Local Weather Record. Indianapolis. Sept. 4, 1887.

Time. Bar. Ther. Ham. Wind. Weather Rain . 6 A. M... :0.17 6G 61 East. Cloudy. 2 p. M... 'JO.ll S3 3U Seast Clear 9 P. M... 30.14 7G 00 East. (Clear.

Maximum ture. t54. temperature, 88; minimum temperaFollowing is a comparative statement of "the condition o temperature and rain-fall for Sept. 4, 1SS7: Tern. Ram. 0.09 .00 0.0!) o.3; 10.18 Normal. .......................... 71 77 Mean Departure from normal.. Total excess or deficiency since Sep 1. 1 . 15 Total excess or deficiency since Jan. 1.. 131 Plus. General Observations. Washington. Sept. 4, 9 p. if. Stations. Bar. Ther I Wind R.F.;WeatherW f Clear. Clear.' Clear. Clear. .04 Clear. ; Clear. Clear. . .... Clear. ..... Clear. . .... Clear. Clear. ; Clear. .....j Clear. j Clear. .18 Clear. ......Clear. -Clear. .OllCiear. 1 Clear. .....jClear. . ....jClear. .... Clear. New York citv 30.26 68 West Philadelphia. " Pa. ,30.30 66 South Washington Citv... 30. JS Charleston. S. C... 3O.10 Jacksonville, Fla... 30.00 Atlanta. Ga 30.14 Pensacola. Fla 3O.O0 Montgomery. Ala 30.0S Vicksburg, Miss.... 3O.O0 New Orleans. La... 30.0-4 Shreveport, La 30.04 Little Kock, Avk.... 30.04 Galveston. Tex 3O.02 Palestine. Tex 30.04 Hrownsville. Tex iiU.y-4 Memphis. Tenn 3O.O0 Nashville, Tenn 30. lO Louisville. Kv 30.12 70 Calm 74 74 74 East. Neast East. 73 Lowest 76 Calm 73; Calm 76 LS'east SO 'S'east SO S'east 82 South 78; S'east SO Neast 78 East. TotEast SO North TOiEast. 78 1 Calm. 6-1-1 Neast 56 Swest 64!Neast 64! South 76j.S'east 70 S'east GOiNeast G 4' East. 66; West. 78 S'east 80;South 84i South 78 S'east 78 East. 78 South SO South 76 South Indianapolis, Ind 30.14 Cincinnati. O . . 30.16 Pittsburg. Pa 130.20 Oswego, N. Y. 30.26 Toledo. 0 30.22 Escanaba. Mich 30.04 Clear. Cloudy. .04 Chicago. Ill 30.03 ....1 Clear. .... Fair. Cloudy. .... Fa-r. .... Cloudy. Fair. Cloudy. I Fair. .OliClondy. ....! Clear. ...: Clear. ....(Clear. j Clear. Clear. 'Clear. ,5G Rain. .... Clear. .... Clear. .... Cloudy. .... Cloudy. .... Cloudy. .... Clear. .... Clear. . Clear. .... Clear. . . . Clear. .14 Clear. ....! Clear. ....IClear. .30, Cloudy. ....Fair. .. .'Clear. ....j Clear. ....j Clear. Milwaukee. Wis 30.06 Duluth. Minn 30.00 St. Paul. Minn 30.04 I.a. Crosse. Wis 3O.O0 Davenport. la 3U.02 Des Moines. Ia. 30. OO Dubunue. Ia 30.04 Keokuk, la 30.02 Cairo 111 30.08 Snrinirneld. Ill 30.03 St. Louis. Mo 30.0S Lamar, Mo . 30.O3 Leavenworth, Kan. . 30.03 Omaha. Neb 29.93 Yankton. D. T. 29.90 Moorhead, Minn 29.9G Bismarck. D. T 29.94 Fort Puford. D. T. 29. 8 O Ft.Assinaboine,M... j29.9 Fort Custer. M. T J30.14 Boise City, I. T 129.90 Deadwood, 1). T 129.86 Cheyenne, Wv. T.. 129.32 North Platte, "Neb.. 1 29. 84 Denver. Col 129.74 W. LasAnimas. Col.3O.02 Dode City, Kan...! 20.9-4 Fort Elliot. Tex.... 29.92 Fort Sill. 1. T 30.02 Fort Davis, Tex.... 29.96 El Paso, Tex 29.86 SaltLakeCity 29.70 Santa Fe. N. M 29.90 Concordia 29.90 80 South' 66 South G4:South 72 East. 70 ! Neast t2 North N'wst N'wst Swest S'east South North 64 58 66 64 70 74 76 78 South ' 76 South 78 i S'east GO! Neast 72! East. 64 East. 66; S'east 74! South The Rejected Socialists. New York, Sept. 4. Over eighty organizations, includin g fifty-six trade organizations, nineteen assembly district clubs, and five purely socialistic societies, sent three delegates each to the conference of Socialists in Webster Hall, this city, to-day. These were nearly all from this city, Brooklyn and Buffalo. Several trades and socialistic organizations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennyslvania . sent delegates, but they were not admitted, as the conference was of New York labor men who had been read out of the United Labor party at the Syracuse convention. There were about three hundred men present. George Block, the secretary of the National Bakers' Union, presided, and Col. Hinton and Erne3t Bohem were the secretaries. Speeches were maae by Editor Sbevitch, Edward King. Thomas O'Neil, Wm. Penn Rodgers, and others. A committee of fifteen was elected by the conference to prepare a platform for the party, the Central Labor Union platform of last fall to be used as the basis for such declaration of faith. This committee will report at the next meeting, which was appointed for Thursday evening. Iron-Mine Operators in Trouble. Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 4. According to advices from Hurley and Bessemer, on the Gogebic range, great excitement has beau caused there by the attachment of the Bourne, Iron King, Valley, Blue Jacket and First National mines, known as the John E. Burton properties. Five hundred miners are on strike and demand two months' wages due them. A number of them threaten to flood the mines, which would entail a loss of $100,000. Mr. Burtou is in New York to consummate the transfer to the Bessemer iron syndicate of tbe five mines mentioned. Ex-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey is president of this corporation, acd Jesse Grant, ex-Assistant United States Treasurer Coon, and other New York capitalists are directors. It is claimed here to-night that the money due the minerswill be sent on Tuesday. The attachments thus far made are for small amounts, and unless a shower . of additional attachments follow to-morrow, as threatened, the storm will be weathered. The trouble will cause a great sensation throughout the mining region."

Obituary. Boston, Sept. 4. Mra. J. R. Vincent, member of tbe Boston Museum Dramatic Company, died shortly after 2 o'clock this morning, of apoplexy. Washington, Sept. 4. Dr. Whitmore, of Waterloo. 111., who fell off the platform ot a sleeping car on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, near Cornwallis, W. Vs., yesterday morning, while on his way to attend the medical congress, died at Cornwallis to-dajr. . s , V

MORALITY ON TUE STAGE.

Price of a Woman's Success as an Actress Facts of Interest to Stage-Struck Women. New York letter in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ' A group of players stood on the platform of the railroad station at Cincinnati one day when I was traveling that way. They were a sorry -looking lot The chorus girls were huddled together, chatting in low voices and drawing their wraps closely around them. The weather was bitterly cold. Many of the girls were thinly clad. It was 8 o'clock in the morning. While I stood looking at the baker's dozen of shivering young women, the comedian of the company, who is now a famous man, came up, and looking hard at me,' put out his hand: VI scarcely knew you under all those coats," he said genially. -'Are you traveling West?" "I am. Is this the company you played with in New York!" - "The same. The ladies are apt to look a bit roefcy iu the morning, you know late hours, 6 o'clock breakfast, badly heated rooms, and all that? They do look pale, don't they?', "Most pathetic-looking group I ever saw." "That's because most ot them are good," said the comedian, succinctly and dryly. When they have relaxed their morals they'll be better cared for and have pleasanter times. It is our first week out, and nearly all tbe girls are new to the business. Many of them are highly respectable, but they will all go tbe same way of tbeir predecessors. It ia inevitable. The conditions are such that they cannot avoid it." I glanced at him sharpiy. At first I thought he was guying, but it was evident the man was thoroughly in earnest. His mobile face was as glum as a mourner's, and he looked at the girls sympathetically. "When that discussion was going on last winter in the New York papers about the morality of the stage." he continued. -"I thought that if some of the members of the symposium of newspaper writers who discussed the question at such length could travel for a few weefcs with our burlesque or light opera companies they would find out how far wrong they were in holding stage life as a calling in which any woman could be respectable if she chose. ' I have been in this business eight years now, and always iu traveling companies. The conditions are such that it is just as impossible for a woman of any attractive qualities to remaiu decent on tbe stage as it is for a man to voluntarily go without food for two or three days every week of his life. The very instant a girl is " Here he stopped and put his hand on my arm, and said: "Watch this little tableau." He drew me half aside. A carriage rolled up to the station, the door was yanked open and the manager of the company, a portly, red-nosed aud flabby man, stepped out. lie was smoking a cigar pleasantly. Pie put bis hand back in tbe coach and helped a young woman to the ground. She was clad in seal-skin from her neck to her heels, well gloved, and her chubby face had a healthy color. She bad'a little poodle iu her arms, and after giving it an ecstatic hng she passed it over to her maid, who followed ber out of the carriage. The manager paid the cabman, smiled amicably upon his companion, and they swaggered toward the train, with the maid walking amiably behind them. Tbe manager nodded half surlily to the women of the chorus who stood there, and the girl gave them a bright little nod. Most of them bowed in return in a restrained and far from cordial fashion. The chunky young woman was assisted into a parlor car, where she had a compartment to herself. They began to lay the table for breakfast before tbe train started from the station. The chorus girls stood in the cold and gazed at the luxuries and warmed interior of the car. Presently one of the agents came along and huddled them all back to the rear of the train, where they were bundled into a rickety, chilled and ill-smelling car, with rattling windows and no other warmth except that imparted by a queer and far from effective stove at one end. Here tbey disposed themselves amid their miserable and dismal surroundings as best they could for an eight hours" journey on one of tfle worst days of the season. "That tells tbe story," said tbe comedian shortly, nodding his bead first toward the rear car and then toward the window where the plump young woman was at breakfast. "The girl who came in with the manager was one of the chorus when we left New York. Her salary, like that of the other girls, was $14 a week. We bad not been out a day before she saw the inevitable, took the plunge, and there was the whole story. She lives at tbe very best hotels, has comfortable apartments, servants in plenty, furs, nutritious meals and tbe best of traveling arrangements. The other young women, who started with ber on an even footing, live in cheap and nasty boarding-houses, are transported from one town to tbe other like cattle, and tbey wait for promotion with a very dismal premonition that, whenever a vacancy occurs in the upper ranks, it is the manager's favorite who will get it, and not tbe girl who deserves it according to merit Virtue on the stage and in a traveling company means what you can see in tbe rear car. The women have to carry their own luegage, pay their own bills, and fight tbe thousand extortionate demands that are met with at every turn in traveling. But if they once give way tbe way is clear. Some of them stand it a couple of days, some of them a week, and others stick out for a month or two. But the result is almost as inevitable as death, and any man who can blame the woman after seeing what tbey have to endure in the way of privation, hardship and insult, mu6t have a heart of stone." This instance was brought to my mind very forcibly last night by an accideutal meeting with a young woman who went on the stage two years ago. She was the sister of a classmate of mine in college, and when she went on the stage it almost broke her mother's heart I happened to be going through the street where she lives, and 1 found her sitting on the front steps wielding ber fan vigorously. I sat down and listened to her story that I have heard before, but never in such absolute and elaborate detail. Her ways are, of course, her own, and the morality of theatrical managers is not my business to any particular extent I do not care to advertise ber or tbe man with whom she had dealings, but he is about as eiaoorate ana consummate a scoundrel as I know of. The details of the patience and ingenuity that he displayed would have done credit to a Mephistopheles. He was fatherly and benevolent He introduced the pretty soubrette in his company to his family, and insisted upon her stopping a week with him in his country place. He took her to drive with bis two daughters to the park, and he was so careful of her reputation that he would not allow her even to meet the members of his company except at rehearsals. Then he performed the introductions himself. He was exceedingly careful to see that she al ways had an escort to her house at night at the play, and he held special rehearsals just for her benefit, so that she might make as much of a hit as possible in the parts that she played. All of this went along for nearly seven months. The girl had naturally grown fond of him, so unremitting and respectful were his attentions. But in the end she had to face the inevitable. He placed the matter before her as absolutely and baldly as though it had been a hunk of cheese, with the alternative of success in her profession or an absolute and instant discharge. She tore up tbe contract, threw it in bis faoe and accepted the discharge. Then she joined a company in a neighboring city. She is not a particularly robust girl, and she has the gentlest and sweetest manner in tbe world. She is, in fact, precisely the sort of a woman whom any man who is half a man would feel called upon to protect rather than to abuse. She is of admirable family and j excellently bred. The second manager that she went with was of the gruff and hearty type. He was going to send her to the top of the ladder at once. He spoke to ber in an open and ingenuous manner about his facilities for aiding ber, talked over certain parts that it was her heart's ambition to play, and arranged with the stage manager to give her special tutoring in these very characters. She played in this company three weeks and then came home. This particular rush was simply brutal. She escaped' without broken limbs, and in that alone she was fortunate. I recall the instance of two girls who started almost even in theatrical life less than four years ago. They were warm personal friends, thouga in no way related. The first of them is a cold, statuesque handsome sort of a woman with a dash of Hebrew blood in ber veins and a manner that nothing ever ruffled. She took lessons in dancing, singing and elocution hour after hour every 'day, and she worked like a Trojan, even though she was only in the chorus. Having perfected herself in this part of her work, she saw that she needed gorgeous costumes to make any sort of an impression, and she took the usual means of getting them. Tbe last time I saw her in the spring she had a brougham of her own, wore $18,000 or $20,000 worth of diamonds on the stage, and was a majestic, complacent, handsome and successful woman. The girl who started oat with her is still respectable and esteemed by her small circle of friends. Occasionally she capers about in tbe chorus; at other times she and her mother teach a children's dancing class. They are in wretched circumstances, and the dramatic career of the daughter is an emphatic and fiat failure. Yet she started out more thoroughly equipped than her companion. Had she gone the way tbe other did, her success would have been much greater. Tbe conclusion of every man who is honest and whose experience of stage Ufa is at all extensive must bo absolute on ques

tions of this sort There is about one chance in 10,000 on the stage for a woman who is thorouihlv honest and virtuous, and who is not backed np by influential friends. The other 9,9'J9 chances go to the women who accept things as they find them, and swallow the pill with as light a grimace as possible. Those are the facts, stripped of all tawdry sentimentality and wishy-washy gush.

BASE-BALfi YESTERDAY. Eight Thousand People Witness the Defeat of Brooklyn by the Louisville Club, New York, Sept 4. Fully 8,000 people tramped through the dust to Ridgewood Park to-day to see the Brooklyns defeat the Louisville club, but tbey were doomed to disappointment, for the tables were turned and the Louisvilles won easily, hitting Porter when and where they liked. Brooklyn played a new short-stop, Otterson. He is young and inexperienced, but he played fairly well. To-day's game was the first time he has faced a pitcher like Hecker. and he could not hit him. White made a ludicrous error in the first inning. McClellan was on first and started to second on McTammany's grounder, which White had got White started to make a double' play, but changed his mind and threw to Mack, who ducked his head, thinging some one else was behind him. Mack bad left the base when White started in to male the double. Terry made a three-bagger in the second inning, and made a run with the help of a very prettv hit by Peoples. In the third inning Terry made another three-bagger, but after that be subsided. In the second inning Browning hit a liner over McClelian's head, and Swartwood, who got it, was so slow in handling it tbat Browning went to second. "That will just cost him a ten-dollar bill," said Manager Byrne, savagely. He relented, however, when tbe big right fielder made a threebagger in the next inning. The Brooklyns were ahead till the fifth inning, when the visitors got on to Porter and hit him for five runs. McQuade umpired the game to the satisfaction of alk Score : Brooklyn O 2 3 O 0 O 1 O 17 Louisville.. ...O O 015120 9 Earned runs Brooklyn, 7; Louisville, 7. TwoJ base hit Phillips. Three-base hits Phillips, Smartwood, Terry (2). Stolen bases Phillips, Werrick. Double plays Otterson, McClellan and Phillips and Mack. McClellan, rhilUps and Peoples; Kerins First base on hqlls Swartwood (2). Colins, Kerins. Errors Brooklyn. 10; Louisville, 4. First base on errors Brooklyn, 4; Louisville, 3. Struck out Brooklyn, 4: Louisville, 3. Passed ball Peonies. 1. Wild Pitches Porter, 1, Hecker, 1. Time 1:50. Umpire- McQuade. Playing Under Discouraging Circumstances. New York, Sept 4. The St Louis and Metropolitan clubs played a postponed game today at Weebawken, N. J. There were between 12,000 and 13,000 spectators at Monitor Park, and the crowd used the field as much as the players. When the game opened the mob had invaded the playing ground, and neither first nor third base could be seen from the grand-stand. The insurgents were little less aggressive all around the field. An inning was played under those conditions, and Umpire Ferguson said that no base-bail could be played with such surroundings. The St. Louis men got in their carriages and drove about the grounds vasking the gang to "please dis perse," but the gang , cia not men one of the horses that had brought the Browns from New York was detached from one of tbe carriages and ridden into the crowd on all sides with little more effect. After half an hour of tbat kind of business Ferguson refused to order the game on again, and Joe Battin was called to till his place. Battin told the men to go ahead and they did for five more innings, when darkness made a stoppage necessary. --The reporters had to sit in the stifling grand stand, where no effort was made by the authorities to prevent people from standing in front of them. Therefore, an accurate score could not be kept It was a miserable game, no batter being allowed more than a singe base on any hit tbat went into or past the crowd. The only brilliant play was ny Robinson, who stopped a hot grounder from Jones and threw him out in tbe third inning. In the fourth inning, O'Neill let bis bat slip from his hands and the stick hit Welch who was standing behind O'Neill, full in the face, knocking him insensible for a moment. St Louis played with eight men after that Score: Metropolitans 1 O O O O 5 O St. Louis. O 1 1 a T. 416 Earned runs St. Louis, 8. Stolen bases O'Brien, Latham Robinson. Errors Metropolitans. 11; St. Louis, 8. Boub'e plays Lynch, O'Brien and Jonet; Gerhardt and O Br.fn; Boyle and Robinson. First base on balls ilogan (-), Hoyle. iirst base on errors Metropolitans, 3: St. Louis, 9. Struck out (u'hman (2). Gleason, Corniskey, Kobinson Passed ball Drnohue. Time 2:15. Umpires Ferguson aud battin. Base-Ball Motes. Philadelphia wants Wheelock of Boston. Since tbe organization of the League it has had thirty-five different clubs. At Lafayette, yesterday, the Logansport Stars defeated the Indianapolis Clippers, 10 to 4. Robert Pettit, Wilkesbarre's third baseman, has been sold to Chicago for $500. He will join tbe Chicagos at Philadelphia. Dnffv. one of the great nlavers of the New England League, in a game against Manchester, made three home runs and a triple off McDermott. The Brooklyns have secured pitcher Cunning ham, who has been winning so many shut-out games lor tne unampaign mi.) cuppers tnis season. The Eastern Stars defeated the Diamond Blues yesterday bv a score of 1 to 0. The bat tery for the Stars was Deamos and McCarty, for the Blues, Read and Summit The Peru-streets defeated the Yandes-streets by a score of 19 to 15 yesterday. The batteries were Cavender and Kav for the 1'eru-streets and Clark and Long for the Yandes-streets. The Irish Hull Shamrocks defeated the Nickelplates by the score of 10 to 6 yesterday. The battery for the Shamrocks was Labey and Bushong, and for the Nickel-plates, Sheen and The Standards defeated the Davidson-street nine yesterday by the score of 17 to 2. The bat teries were: for the Standards, Sughrow and Dufiiecv, and for the Davidson-streets, Hartmann and Seener. The Stalwarts were defeated by the Black Diamonds yesterday by a score of 15 to 16 m fifteen innings. The batteries were: McPeek and Cook for the Stalwarts, and Barkley and Birtler for the Black Diamonds. Tbe features of the game were a triple and home runs by Cook and McPeek. Chicago Tribune: Radbourn, of the Bostons. is very sore, but is likely to be more so before the season is over, because it is believed he is directly responsible for several defeats through opposition to Kelly, and the feeling in Boston is that he will be dropped at the end of the season. An exchange says: "Veach, of Des Moines, sent the ball over tbe fence at a critical moment the other day. This is what he got for doing so: A gold watch, a gold-headed cane, a suit of clothes, a shave and a bair cut for a year, box of cigars and numerous other trifles, such as neckties, etc. Finally he got the 'big head' and was suspended' In regard to the syndicate's alleged offer to the Brotherhood of Ball-p avers Mr. Soden. of tha Boston club, said recentlv that he did not think the offer would have any effect upoa the dealings or the League with tbe players. The League gave the players a pretty good thing now. and they would realize it very soon if thev chased such a wild-cat scheme verv far. The League was willing, as it always had been, to treat the players fairly, and the existence of tbe offer of this 6o-called syndicate would not be taken into account at all in settling any questions which might arise between the League and the play ers. There will be two umpires In the great games between the Leaeue and Association pennant winners for the championship of the world. As the Browns will be the Association club to contest for that, honor. Von der Ahe has already engaged McQuade as one of the umpires. The other will be selected from tbe League. Both umpires will officiate in each game. While the Browns are at bat JltUnaae will give the ball and strike decisions, and tbe other umpire will be stationed at or near second base to calf the base decisions. When tbe League club is at bat McQuade goes to second base and the League umpire rails balls and strikes. Tbe plan is a good one. and onght to insure as nearly a correct game as it is possible to play. Steamship News. New York, Sept 4. Arrived: Furnessia. from Glasgow. London, Sept 4. The steamer Aurania. from New York for Liverpool, passed Fastnet to-day. Lynching Narrowly Averted. Kansas City, Sept 4. Herman Beherus. alias Win. Burns, a brick-layer, aged twentvtwo yea's, has rained tbe enmity of his neigh bors in the southeastern part of the city bj fre

quently abusing bis family. This afternoon, about 4 o'clock, be went home drunk and attacked bis father. Upon bis mother and sister intervening he beat both of them severely, and . then obtained an ax and defied arrest By this time the. whole neighborhood had become aroused, and he was overpowered. Two hundred men took charge of him with the avowed determination of hanging him, and he was marched down two blocks, where the Belt road crosses over a bridge. A rope was procured and matters began to ".ook serious, when two mounted policemen appeared and took charge of the culprit, who was quaking with fear. Ha was locked up in the Central station.

TUE PRESIDENT AT PHILADELPHIA. ' Official Announcement as to DMs Movements During His Visit to the Q uater City. Philadelphia, Sent 4. Chairman Thompson, of the reception committee of the constitutional centennial celebration, has addressed the following to the Associated Press: "During the past few days a number of letters and telegrams have been received by this committee, in addition to a large nuruber of personal inquiries, asking information as to the arrival and movements of the President of the United States and Mrs. Cleveland during the week iOf the constitutional centennial celebration. In response to these inquiries, I deem it my duty, as chairman of the reception committee, to give the public such information as is in our possession. The President of the United States, accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland, will arrive here on Thursday, Sept. 15. and will be at once escorted to the Lafayette Hotel, where rooms have been secured for them. On Friday morning, from 9 to 10 o'clock, be will be present at a reception tendered him by the Commercial Exchange, From this reception be will be escorted to the graud stand in Broad street, arriving there at -11 o'clock. Mrs. Cleveland . will view the military parade from the Lafayette Hotel. In the evening the President will attend a reception at the Academy of Music, tendered him by the constitutional centennial commission. At this reception lrs. Cleveland will receive with the President, assisted by the members of the Cab' inet and their1 ladies. On Saturday morning, from 9 to 10:39 o'clock, at a public reception, the place to be hereafter designated, the President will be happy to receive all those who may desire to pay their respects. From this reception be will proceed to Independence square, where he will participate in ceremonies there and deliver an address. Mrs. Cleveland will occupy a seat on - the stand during the ceremonies. In- tbe evening the President will attend the banquet at the Academy of Music, given bv the University of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Societv, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Colga of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Law Academy of Philadelphia. Immediately after the banquet be will return to Washington. Mrs. Cleveland will be entertained on Saturday afternoon and evening by a number of her friends, but will be present at the Academy of Musie during the latter part of the evening to hear the addresses made on that occasion. "The chairman of the committee has personal assurances from the President and Mrs. Cloveland as to their approval of the above arrangements. The constitutional centennial commission and the executive committee are laboring earnestly and enthusiastically to make this celebration a grand success, and will in a few days issue a programme giving full details and par,' ticulars." The Transfer of the B. & O. Philadelphia, Sept 4. The Inquirer will print to-morrow an interview with President Roberts of the Pennsylvania railroad, on the Baltimore deal. Tbe B. & O., Mr. Roberts says, will hereafter be operated in harmony with the other trunk lines, and there will be no more rate cutting; by that road. Increased revenues will result to tbe railroads. All reports tbat the Pennsylvania is to get the passenger traffic and the Reading the freight business are merely guesses. Mr. Roberts does not think that either A. J. Cassatt or President King, of the Erie, will consent to become Robert Garrett's successor. Anarchist i'arsoni'a llazor. Chicago, Sept. 4. Under orders from Sheriff Matson, the cells of all the prisoners iu the county jail were searched to-day. In the cell occupied by A. li. Parsons, the Anarchist, was found a razor. This was pounced upon by the officers. Parsons claimed that he had it for the purpose of shaving himself, but the piece of steel was confiscated nevertheless, though tbe condemned Anarchist cursed and swore when it was taken from him. The Federal Constitution. Alexander Johnson, in Princeton Review. The best reason for American pride in tbe Constitution lie?, not in the creative genius of its framers, nor in the beauty and symmetry of their work, but ia the fact that it was and is a perfect expression of the institutional methods of its people. It is for that reason that it meets their needs as well to-day as ia 1787-89. 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