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There was another document used at this meeting, which is now In possession of Mr. Dewar. This Is a typewritten sheet, prepared in the office of the Park Board, containing a list of the properties under consideration and the approximate amounts to be paid for each. As it came into the meeting it was as follows: Fall-creek system - $258,000 Davidson (Dot 15 Davidson's third addition) 15,000 Dean (corner Madison avenue and Coburn street) 12,000 Chadwick and Ray (Ballweg & Co.'s subdivision) 1,80) Junction of Michigan street and English avenue (Christian) 35.000 Approach and corner of Garfield Park 7,500 Brookside 15,000 Mansur property from the Fall-creek system 17,000 Bobbs (southeast corner Dillon and Meek streets) 16,750 Corner Sanders and McKernan streets 8,250 Kirland (corner West Washington street and Miley avenue) 8,000 Capitol avepue and Sixteenth street (old Seventh) 26.880 Belt Railroad and White river 30,000 Two points about this will attract attention. One is that the Davidson property, which was later taken in at something over $23,000 was here valued at the ftgure_ real estate men generally put upon it. $15,000 but that is another story. The main point is that the Taggart bog land here appeared as ‘Belt Railroad and White river,” valued at $30,000. There were one hundred acres in it. The gentlemen assembled knew that $350,000 would be the amount appropriated and the thing they had to do was to bring down these figures within that sum. Mr. Dewar insisted that it be cut to $300,000 lor land purchases and $50,000 be devoted to labor, so that the men could be put to work at once. Much was said about, land for propagating purposes and it was finally agreed that fifty acres of the White-river land (Taggart’s hog) would be enough, so the amount agreed upon for it was fixed at $15,000. It was agreetl to cut off the Fallcreek system at Indiana avenue, thus reducing the cost to $193,000. It was also agreed to drop the land between Garfield Park and Shelby street, the Christian property, the Brookside Park, the Mansur tract find the old baseball grounds. \A hen they got through with it the document was in this shape: Fall creek system, above Indiana avej'lUfa $196, W) Davidson (Lot 15, Davidson’s third addition) Dean (corner Madison avenue and Coburn streets) 12t0uy Chadwick & Ray (Ballweg & Cos. s subdivision) I.B*' Bobbs (Southeast corner Dillon and Meek streets) • Corner Sanders and McKernan streets •••• Kirland (corner West Washington street and Miley avenue) Belt Railroad and White river Ia.IXW This figured up a total of $269,800, leaving the board $30,200 and some of this went to boosting up the price of the Davidson propeiCoun'ilman Duncan Dewar. Democratic member of the Eighth ward, has in his possession the agreement reserving the right to purchase the Taggart bog land, about which so much has been said in connection with the deal. On Saturday the mayor and two members of the Council finance committee were interviewed by the News. Taggart flatly denied the existence of the agreement and Messrs. Clark and Ohleyer denied that the mayor’s land was mentioned at their meetings. Mr. Few 3 . l ! is an honest man and does not like the idea of having his word impugned. In order to vindicate his word in this matter, he yes'terday permitted the agreement to be etched and the Journal presents a sac-simile of it. ‘‘l can readily see how Messrs. Ohleyer and Clark can honestly state that no mention was made of the mayor’s land, said Mr Dewar, “for I had no idea that the land described was owned by the mayor and I do not suppose they did either. Mr. Taggart however, was present when the agreement was signed by Messrs. Lieber and Kolt and he probably knew who owned the land We discussed various pieces mentioned in the agreement and there was discussion of the ground in question to be used for propagating purposes, but I do not recall that the fact that it was owned by Mr Taggart was mentioned. It was spoken of as th.B land at the Belt and White river. “After that meeting of the full Council (committee I drew up a report at Monlnger’s. I agreed to draw this other one up and it was agreed that if this was signed we would not need the one drawn at Moninger’s. I drew this up at home and it came up at the meeting at the Grand Hotel about Fob. 26. I had given the paper to Mr. Holt, who was to get Mr. English’s signature, hut he brought it to the meeting at the hotel with the statement that Mr. English was too ill tc sign. The memorandum was then discussed and the last sentence, reserving the right to purchase the land at the Belt and Bluff road, was written in by me with the general assent of those present. We were in the room off the bar downstairs and there was no ink there. Mayor Taggart called a porter and sent him for the ink and I wrote it in. Messrs. Lieber and Holt signed the document, leaving a •pace for the signature of Mr. English.” STORY OF THE AGREEMENT. ‘"The way that agreement happened to be tnade was this.” said Mr. Bookwalter last evening. “On Dec. 21 the Park Board asked the controller to recommend an appropriation of $500,000 for parks. A few days later the controller replied that he had sounded the members of the Council, and felt sure they would not appropriate so much. He suggested that enough land be cut off so that they could get along with $400,000. On Feb. 8 the Park Board, in a communication to the finance committee of the Council, did eliminate certain lands, among them that fit White river and the Belt. Here is where Mr. Taggart pitched his line of defense. It was then that he began to say to members of the board that he did not want his land In anyway, and when Clerk Spencer made up his record of the proceedings of the hoard, he stopped with the Taggart bog on Feb. 8. Then is when it began to come in at the back door. “About Feb. 16 the finance committee of the Council had an open meeting in the basement of the courthouse to discuss the question of making the park appropriation. At this meeting Messrs. Allen and Cooper, Republicans, protested against taking in this Belt road land, as it was spoken of. Mr. Wolcott also protested, because he wanted the West Side park to come down to Washington street. Previous to this meeting Mr. Dewar and some of the other members had been told that if they were not willing to trust the board as to what tracts were to be purchased, the members of the board would sign an agreement, setting'out what lands were to be bought. At this, the only open meeting held by the finance committee, Mr. Dewar presented a report including the ‘Belt road’ land. When Mr. Walcott objected to the report it was destroyed. After the adjournment of the open meeting the Democratic members, with the exception of Mr. Walcott, met at Monninger’s saloon. They there agreed that Mr. Dewar draw up another report, and he did so. They discussed the question of having an agreement signed by the Democratic majority of the Park Board, and it was agreed that Mr. Dewar prepare such an agreement, and if the park commissioners should sign it, this second report would be unnecessary. This agreement Mr. Dewar wrote at his home, just as the facsimile is except the last sentence, ‘ln addition to the above named and described, we reserve the privilege of purchasing for $15,000 land at Belt road and White river.’ He gave this agreement to Mr. Holt, who was to take it to Mr. English, who was ill, for his signature. “A few nights later this meeting in the basement of the Grand Hotel was hold. Mr. Taggart has said that he was not present at that meeting. When I first began the Investigation of this matter, I ran across the story of this meeting and w'ent to Col. Perry, who, 1 had heard, was in the hotel on other business that night. He told me he was there and saw Taggart, Lieber, Holt and members of the finance committee about the lobby, and when he asked what was going on, he was told that they were fixing an agreement as to what lands should be purchased. “Now Mr. Dewar had prepared this agreement and give it to Holt to get English’s signature, hut Mr. English was too ill to sign it. and Holt brought it down unsigned. It was seen and discussed upstairs by Taggart, Holt and Lieber, and downstairs It was seen by all those present and generally discussed. When it came to writing in the last sent nee, whi h was the ma n objeet of the meeting, there was no ink in the little wineroonj and Mr. Taggart called a porter and sent him for ink. When it came there was no hesitation about what should bv written in. That had been agreed upon. I would like to call the attention of the public to the fact that a cross was drawn at this point in the presence of the mayor and these two members of the park board, and another cross was drawn just following the mention of the Kirland property. Mr. Dewar states that when the agreement was signed Mr. Taggart gave him a fervent grasp of the hand. “This agreement next appeared at the Council meeting at which the appropriation

ordinance was passed, where it was show'n to a number of the Democratic members. “The News stands in a peculiar light on this question. It got reliable information •late in April that the Taggart land was in. It was not then committed to Taggart, and on the 17th day of April, sixty-seven days after it now says that Thomas’s land disappeared, it had this editorial: “ ‘We trust that further consideration of the subject will convince the board that the important thing now is not to fritter away money on many of the smaller tracts, and out-of-the-way tracts, like the Taggart farm, away dow'n in the southwest part of the city, by the river, but to get the Fall creek system under way at once.’ ” PLATS MADE I\ JUNE. Campbell, n Draughtsman in Park Hoard Office, Worked on Them. Every day that passes further traces of the Taggart bog scandal are found. It now appears that plats of the bog were made in June, for what purpose does not appear. H. E. Negley learned of this fact and informed a reporter yesterday that Henry R. Campbell, a real estate man living at 1065 North Illinois street, had a son who was employed as a draughtsman when the Park Board suspended, and that the young man was at that time working on plats of the Taggart land. Mr. Campbell was seen and corroborated the report. He said that his son was given temporary employment by Park Engineer Power with the understanding that he should have permanent employment after the board began purchasing land and there was work to be done. Mr. Campbell gave the two plats his son made to the Journal, and they are now in the office of this paper, Mr. Campbell says that his son brought the plats home the night the board quit doing work to show to the family, and that as he did not return to the park office Monday morning, they had remained in the house ever since. Saturday night, before starting down town, it occurred to Mr. Campbell that he had heard his son mention the Taggart farm while he was working in the park engineer’s office. Young Campbell was upstairs and his father called to him, asking if those piats he brought home were not of the Taggart land. He replied that they were, and on his father's suggestion went into library, secured them and tossed them down to his father. Saturday night Mr. Campbell showed them to Mr. Negley. Young Campbell was seen last night. He said that ho went to Mr. Power with a letter of introduction from a friend who had also seen Mr. Power on his behalf. The park engineer referred him to Harry Reinshagen, the chief draughtsman, who selected a field bcok of Mr. Power’s survey of the Taggart land from several others and handed it to him, directing him to “try his hand on that.” “Were you told what was wanted with plats of the Taggart land?” “No, nothing was said to me about what they wanted with it. All I know is I was ordered to do the work.” No explanations were ever made to any of the subordinates of the Park Board when they were required to do anything touching the notorious bog. They were kept in the dark as to the plans of their principals. “llow long did you work on the plat?” “I don’t know—three or four days I guess. It was a little off. I made an error in the calculations somewhere. Then they put nre making tracings of plats. When I had w'orlted on the tracings a while Mr. Power directed me to make another plat.” "How long did you work at the park office?” “I went there toward the last of May and stayed until we were informed that if we continued work we would have to do so at our own risk, as the board could not pay us on account of the suit. I saw that I had no show of getting work that would be permanent and I left.” “What sort of data did you work from? “Reinshagen gave me Power’s field book of his survey of the Taggart farm.” "Was there anything to indicate the day the survey was made?” “My impression is that it was some time in May, but I cannot be positive as to that.” ,„ , x , . . J. C. Power, park engineer, said last night when ae was asked if he knew Henry Campbell: 1 “You mean Harry Campbell, don t you? He worked at the office two or three w'eeks off and on for pleasure, just to show what he could do. He had not had much experience.” a “What did you have him do? “We had rough draftss of the survey I made of the Taggart land. They were rather intricate—the work was difficult, and would be a pretty good test of wha.t he could do. He was slow. I remember the boys laughed at him about it; it took him several days to make the plat. Then wo put him making tracings. I suppose that the plats are lying around the office yet. Mr. Power was informed that they were in possession of the Journal. “Are they?” he said, looking rather surprised. “I thought they were at the office. Really, I did.” He insisted that Mr. Campbell was only given a place to show whether he could do efficient work. Al _ _ “When did yop survey the Taggart land, Mr. Power?” “It was late last year, October or vember; I do not recall the exact time. “You have done nothing on it since? "Nothing.” , ~ Mr. Power said that the last time he was on the farm was in February. He, with members of the board, was looking at property near Morris street, and went ever to the Taggart land. , . . . A man who Is rather pessimistic In his ideas smiled sarcastically when he heard, explanaions about errors being made in the records. .. ~ . .... . “It is peculiar, isn’t it. said he, that Taggart’s land should have such a tempestuous time? I regard it as funny that so many things turn up that have to be explained away. Why does not that occur with regard to other things the board does? It seems remarkable.” TO CLEAN TIIE RECORD. Park Board Will Probably Order TagK urt Dog Ont To-Day. That $15,000 bog of Mayor Taggart's Is to be dropped from the park system to-day. The commissioners are about convinced that the records of the board and the Circuit Court are in such shape that the land can be taken into the park system. As the Journal has shown, all the records prove that condemnation proceedings were ordered by the board April 16, and assessors were appointed by the court to fix the value of the land April 20. When the commissioners read the Journal yesterday and had their attention called to the statements made by City Attorney Curtis and his deputy, J. E. Bell, to the effect that the proceeding in court was an application de novo and was intended to begin the whole thing over again “just the same as if nothing had been done,” they were as much surprised as they have been by any of the startling disclosures of the scandal. Mr. Perry will consult with Chairman Claypool and Mr. English this morning as to the advisability of holding a special meeting to investigate the subject and find just “where they are at.” If on investigation they find that the land is still included in the system, they will direct the city attorney to file an application in the Circuit Court instanter asking leave to amend the application of April 20 by striking out all reference to Mayor Taggart’s bog. If this is ordered, the city attorney and mayor will have no option in the matter and will not care to opppse it in the face of persistent statements that have been made to the effect that it was not in the records at all. The Journal yesterday pointed out that this course was the only one' that could be pursued to expurgate from the records the mayor’s land. If the commissioners meet this morning, as they probably will, they will also consider whether their pretended correction of the minutes Saturday was valid. As was said yesterday, a question has been raised as to the rights of the commissioners to change their record of April 16, when the hog was included in the park system, as a certified copy of it was subsequently transmitted to the Circuit Court by Charles Herbert Spencer, clerk of the board. As pointed out. the alleged record of the board must consist with copies of them in the Circuit Court. The attorney quoted yesterday said that the Circuit Court at once acquired jurisdiction of the board’s records when a certified copy of them was made to the court. At any rate the board intends to consider this subject very carefully, if not to-day then after the election. The commissioners do not Intend to allow the records to show, as they now do, that the Taggart land was “ordered Included in the park system” at the meeting of April 16. They were under the Impression at that

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time, so they stated Saturday, that their action on April 16 was simply to correct a former error in the court record made 3y Colonel Holloway. • who failed to describe the specific tracts that were under consideration in his application for assessors, made in September, 1896. v It was not their intention at any time to begin the park system over again “just the same as if nothing had ever been done,” if that involved the condemnation, appraisement and seizure of the Taggart land. RECORD MUST BE CHANGED. Commissioner Perry was asked yesterday If the board would meet in special session this morning to direct the city attorney to make application to the Circuit Court for leave to amend the application de novo by striking out the Taggart land. Mr. Perry was unwilling to say whether a meeting would be held or not, until he had time to confer with Messrs. English and Claypool. He could not see that there was any particular hurry. At the same time he said that if the records were in such shape that they showed it to be the intention of the board to take the land, he wanted them corrected as soon as possible. If he finds after the board has taken legal advice that the records can only be amended by asking leave of the court to strike out all that part of the application de novo (anew) which covers the Taggart land, he will so vote. Commissioner Perry always opposed taking in the Taggart land, as he looked on such a proposition as scandalous, and if he finds that the board has been deceived into taking action to include the land by misrepresentations as to what his action would amount to, he will insist that the records be changed at once. Mr. English says that he will not oppose a meeting if the other commissioners favor holding one to-day. The points raised in the Journal were new to him and he wants to be fully advised as to the exact status of the records before acting. Mr. English said that if he found on investigation that the only way to coriject the records was by asking leave of court to strike out the Taggart land, he would be in favor of it. He would want to know that such action would not vitiate the other portions of the application de novo which cover the Davidson, Dean, Bobbs and Ballweg lands. Mr. English said that he did not wish the board to be hound by the records to take in the Taggart land. lie has always opposed that proposition, both because he considered the land unnecessary and because it belongs to the mayor and if it were taken the action might be misconstrued. A reporter called to see Mr. Claypool to ascertain whether he would favor meeting this morning to direct the city attorney to ask leave of the court to drop the Taggart land, but he was not at home. COMMISSIONERS WILL ACT. There is no doubt that the three commissioners who are now in Indianapolis do not intend to allow the records to show that they were parties to taking in the Taggart land, as the records now show Mr. English and Mr. Perry were. Mr. Claypool was not present at the meeting of April 16. At the next meeting, held April 27, if the minutes of the meeting of April 16 had been read it would have been perhaps discovered that they did not show' that a correction was intended by the action taken on the later date. It would have been too late to change them at the meeting of April 27, however, except by leave of court, as at the time of this meeting the application de novo had already been made and the plot was brewing most charmingly. The Journal has already shown that the reading of the minutes of the celebrated meeting of April 16 was dispensed with on April 27, when all the commissioners were present. Now that it has been proven conclusively that the land is in and that it was taken in by deceiving Commissioners English and Perry, they are disposed to take immediate action to vindicate themselves. All through the bog manipulation Mr. English’s name was used by the mayor and his Democratic associates on the board. Advantage was taken of the fact that ho was ill and knew nothing of what was being clone. It is evidence that his name was bandied about by the mayor and that the mayor and Commissioners Ilolt and Lleoer relied on him to support the scheme when it came to a show-down. Elsewhere is published a facsimile copy of the original agreement of the mayor, who, when it was handed to the finance committee by Mr. Holt, assured Mv. Dewar that Mr. English would ratify the agreement when the time came. The mayor reckoned without his host. Mr. English informed him that he could not approve the taking of his land into the park system. Finding that Mr. English could not he relied on to vote for its seizure by the board, the plot extended to slipping it in under the very eyes of the opposing commissioners themselves with the hope that at some time in the future another could be won over. It required three votes to get the land in by regular and legitimate action. By dispensing with the reading of the minutes of April 27, neither Mr. English, Mr. Perry nor Chairman Claypool had their suspicions aroused. Who made that motion to dispense with the reading of the minutes at the meeting of April 27 is not shown by ill© record. \ll the ramifications of the plot are not vet unearthed. Additional evidence of Its existence and the fact that it was progressing rapidly at the time the board ceased operations on account of the injunction suit was discovered yesterday. IJuts the Taggart bog—dignified to a farm m the nark engineer's office —were made In „une in the Park Board’s office. They are now in possession of the Journal and can be seen by any one who car<?s to look at them. RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS. Their Hazards Greater than Any Other Class of Public Employes. Kansas City Journal. The remarkable number of fatalities among railway mail clerks in recent wrecks calls fresh attention to the extreme hazards taken by these public ser\ants. It is claimed bv those who have taken some pains to gather statistics that the death rate is greater in proportion to numbers than in actual warfare. This seems almost incredible, yet it is apparent to every one who investigates that of all the positions in the railway service that of the mail clerk is accompanied bv the greatest risk. It is generally supposed that the engineer and fireman have the most dangerous posts, but they always have at least a moment s warning and are often able to save themselves by jumping. Active preparations are being made among the mail clerks to petition Congress for better protection. Those who have the matter in charge are considering various suggestions that may take the form of recommendations. One reform that will probably be asked is that the mail coaches be placed after instead of before the baggage cars, the through baggage coach, which is usually unoccupied by baggagemen while the train is in motion, to take the place next the engine, now invariably assigned to the mail coach. It is also probable that the government will be asked to supply its own cars and to make them of steel, and without platforms, which facilitate the telescoping pTocess and its frightful results. There certainly ought to be some way to lessen the danger to these clerks, who are of so much service to the public in facilitating the rapidity of mail distribution, and whose compensation is small considering the danger they encounter. Doubtless the railway managers themselves would be ready to co-operate with the government in securing better protection, both for the clerks and the mails—the latter often being destroyed In wrecks by the burning debris. As an economic expedient alone it would seem that the best protection would he the cheapest, since it would save the companies from many costly damage suits. Did He Cut His Hair? Springfield Republican. It is a disappointment to musical people to learn that the famous piano virtuoso, Rosenthal, is not coming to America this year, in spite of his contracts. Like Paderewski, he has been ill. and has recovered so slowly that his physicians have ordered him to spend the winter in the Riviera in absolute rest. He will give no concerts until spring, when he will appear in London. With Rosenthal and Paderewski cn the sick list, and Joseffy liable at any moment to retire into the seclusion of his practice room, there seems to be no danger of a surplus of pianists of the first rank. He Loved His Wives. New York Evening Sun. Here is a man who doesn’t want to live because of grief for the two wives whom he has buried within nine months. There is still somo constancy in the world. The mission of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is to cure disease, and thousands of testimonials prove it fulfills its mission well.

THE LEAGUE AVERAGES KEELER LEADS IX BATTING AND SEYMOUR HEADS THE PITCHERS. ♦ Right Fielder Nance, of Louisville, Holds the Record of Twenty-Seven Games Without an Error. • • The St. Louis Republic has compiled the standing of League players for the past season as follows: Keeler, Baltimore, leads the procession of League batters in the final averages, with a lead of 30 points over his nearest competitor, Clarke, of Louisville. Delehanty, of Philadelphia, who led the League up to July, is third, with .393. The leading batter of each club, besides the three mentioned, is Burkett, Cleveland; Stahl, Boston; Lange, Chicago; McGuire, Washington; Davis, New York; Beckley, Cincinnati; Griffin, Brooklyn; Douglass, St. Louis, and Donovan, Pittsburg. Zimmer, Cleveland, leads the catchers; Tebeau, Cleveland, the first basemen; Cross, Philadelphia, the second basemen; Quinn, Baltimore, the third basemen; Jennings, Baltimore, the shortstops; Duffy, Boston, the left fielders; Brodie, Pittsburg, the center fielders, and Nance, Louisvlle, the right fielders. Nance played in twenty-seven games without an error, having a total of fifty chances. Seymour, New York, heads the list of pitchers, with Rusie, New York, second. Hamilton, Boston, is the champion run scorer, with 150 to his credit, leading Keeler, who ranks second, with 143; Griffin, third, with 135; followed by Jennings, with 132; Burkett, with 131, and Dusty, with 130. —Club Batting.— Clubs. Games. A.B. R. H. P.C. Baltimore 136 4*BB 941 1536 .321 Boston 436 4414 1013 1547 .3i6 Cleveland 128 4007 70l 1358 .193 Washington 135 4662 797 138,. .297 PUuudeiphut 133 4634 750 13.>6 .295 New York 138 48u3 300 1395 .287 Cincinnati 136 3483 759 1300 .285 Pittsburg 133 4432 601 1202 .283 Brooklyn 134 4697 703 1323 .282 St. Louis 134 4752 603 1275 . 268 Chicago 137 4717 832 1248 .261 Louisville 137 4660 670 L 35 .203 —Club Fielding.— Clubs. Games. O. A. E. P.C. Boston 136 3478 1669 280 .948 Cleveland 128 3265 1610 267 .948 Baltimore 136 3439 1717 286 .947 Pnilttdeiphia 133 3491 1682 302 . 945 Cincinnati 136 3357 1569 2u4 .944 Brooklyn 136 355 l I<o3 383 .9.,2 Bittsburg 133 3460 1489 360 . 632 St. Louis 134 3425 1839 384 . 932 Chicago 137 3578 1814 403 .931 "Washington 135 3463 1716 394 .929 Louisville .137 3325 1771 399 .927 New York 138 3553 1696 417 .926 There were sixty-two batters in the League with a percentage of .300 or better, the first twenty being as follows: ( Games. A.B. R. H. P.C. Keeler, Baltimore 130 568 143 242 . 426 Clarke, Louisville 130 525 124 208 .396 Delehanty. Philad’phio .130 522 110 245 .393 Burkett, Cleveland 128 522 131 196 . 376 Lajoie, Philadeloiiia ....128 542 107 203 . 375 Kelley, Baltimore 129 491 113 177 .360 Jennings, Baltimore 116 442 132 158 .358 Stahl, Boston 114 469 113 167 .356 Stivetts, Boston 61 200 41 71 .353 Lange, Chicago 118 454 10S 171 .353 Stenzel, Baltimore 131 535 112 187 . 349 Hamilton, Boston 126 495 150 173 .349 Doyle, Baltimore 115 462 87 160 . 346 Childs, Cleveland 114 429 110 448 . 345 Duffy, Boston 134 550 130 189 .344 Sockalexis, Cleveland .. 66 270 43 96 .344 Wallace, Cleveland .....131 518 99 178 . 344 Everitt, Chicago 92 338 62 116 .343 McGuire, Washington .. 92 321 53 109 .340 Collins, Boston 124 534 113 181 .339 —Pitchers’ Averages.— Games. A.B. R. H. R.E. P. Seymour, N. Y 29 867 119 201 34 1.17 Rusie, New Y0rk...34 1162 137 296 42 1.24 Hill, Louisville 20 658 86 171 26 1.30 Mercer, Wash 35 1214 159 324 46 1.31 Cuppy, Cleveland ..13 123 43 104 17 1.31 Powell, Cleveland ..24 826 lul 221 32 1.33 Dwyer, Cincinnati. .20 713 77 196 29 1.45 Corbett, Baltimore..l9 593 71 131 28 1.47 Rhines, Cincinnati. .27 891 115 221 43 1.50 McJames, Wash ...34 1165 175 317 56 1.65 Hotter, Baltimore... 46 1580 ISO 404 83 1.80 Breitenstein, Cin ...32 1096 138 288 60 1.88 Pond. Baltimore ...S3 1127 125 275 62 1.88 Lewis, Boston 20 610 99 155 39 1 5 Meekin, New York. 29 1016 131 282 57 1 MacMahon, 8a1ti...19 641 72 167 38*: Noptl Baltimore ...13 391 39 101 26 2.. J Nichols, Boston 54 1863 230 467 109 2.02 Kennedy, Broolt!yn.44 1148 214 369 89 2.02 Frazier. Louis 32 1095 211 311 67 2.03 Thornton, Chicago..l6 535 87 160 34 2.12 Young, Cleveland ..37 1133 160 339 81 2.19 Swalm, Wash 14 474 82 145 31 2.21 Friend, Chicago 43 1505 229 389 96 2.23 Terry, Chicago ....25 843 137 236 57 2.28 Magee, Louisville...l3 428 74 121 30 2.31 Fifield, Philadel 23 135 121 219 54 2.35 King, Wash 14 501 88 152 33 2.36 Payne, Brooklyn ...40 1358 194 389 97 2.43 Hawley, Pittsburg .33 1115 184 316 81 2.45 Hughey, Pittsburg .13 425 73 124 32 2.46 Briggs, Chicago ....27 965 156 269 67 2.4S Esper, Baltimore ..14 471 52 134 35 2.50 Daub. Brooklyn ....16 561 64 14S 40 2.50 Wilson, Cleveland... 26 918 136 273 67 2.58 Cunningham, Louis. 26 915 87 271 67 2.58 Sullivan, Boston ...25 9(83 146 249 65 2.00 Stivetts. Boston ....35 1250 196 132 94 2.61 Griffiths. Chicago ..51 1819 293 532 137 2.68 Tavlor, Philadel ....35 1252 198 349 95 2.71 Wheeler, Philadel...l7 581 83 165 46 2.71 Hemming. Balti ....20 677 84 174 56 2.80 Dunn, Brooklyn 18 629 111 207 51 2.83 Killen, Pittsburg ...39 1360 227 399 111 2.85 Carsey, Ph. & St. L. 13 462 78 140 37 2.55 Klobedanz, Boston .27 902 125 239 82 3.04 Orth, Philadelphia .30 1069 163 412 97 3.23 Hart, St. Louis ....31 1081 232 330 100 3.23 Donohue, St. Louis. 39 1299 269 444 132 3.3S All-Ainerlea, 5; Picked Nine, 3. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—The All-Americans played a picked team, including some of the Boston League players, at Hoboken to-day. Score: R TI E All-Americans 0 0002012 o—s 11 2 Picked Team 0 0000000 3-3 7 1 Batteries—Hastings and Donahue; Kennedy and Smith. Football at Rose Polytechnic. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 10.—The attitude of the faculty of De Pauw in opposition to football has brought out the following statement by President Mees, of the Rose Polytechnic, which has led in the interstate collegiate field day sports, but has not taken part in the football championship series because the faculty has thought the game occupied too much time. The Poly has had a football team each year, however. Dr. Mees says: “Although no football enthusiast, I believe the game as laid down by the rules, is to be commended, as it tends to good physical development. However, when the circumstances are such as to breed ruffianism and the loss of selfcontrol, then it is time to stop. The Polytechnic athletics come directly under the supervision of the faculty, and no athlete is allowed to enter the game until a thorough estimate has been made of his qualifications, both physical and moral. The faculty must be consulted as to the arrangement of the schedule and the games are never to be allowed to interfere with work. Football will be sanctioned by the Polytechnic as long as these conditions abide.” Anderson Running: Meeting. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, ind., Oct. 10.—Seventy-three bangtails are i# the Anderson Driving Park stables to-night, ready for the first meeting of the Anderson Jockey Club during the coming week. More are expected to arrive to-morrow. Every one of the great running tracks of the country Is represented in the list of horses. Ten are here from Latonia. A special feature has been arranged for Thursday. Lady Hunt, one of the best Indiana horses, has been matched against Vengeance, a well-known Detroit runner, for a purse of $1,200. Each owner puts up SSOO on the event. The races have been well advertised and every indication is that the attendance will he large. If this meet be a success, the Anderson Jockey Club will become a permanent feature. Five running races are booked for each day. No trotting or pacing will be given.^ Longest Fly Cast Ever Made. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 10.—At the annual tournament of the San Francisco Fly Casting Club, Walter D. Mansfield, the champion long distance caster, who broke all existing records at Chicago a few months ago by a cast of lilt* feet, again broke the world s record held by himself. Increasing his cast by one and one-half feet. His score of 113 feet now stands unrivaled. Earlhunt After CK.*taln Lister. Special to t!ie Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., Oct. 10.—The Earlham College football eleven is making an at-

tempt to secure Lister, Butler's former captain, as a coach. He has had a iong experience. The Miami University eleven will play at Eariham next Saturday. Hagerstown, 21; Centerville, 10. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WAYNETOWN, Ind., Oct. 10.—The Centerville team was defeated here yesterday by a score of 21 to 10. Batteries —Working and Warfel; Roberts. O’Ryan and Sewell. “SPIRIT” IN ’ A COTTAGE • ■* CURIOUS RAPPINGS A SENSATION FOII MALONE, N. Y., PEOPLE. Old Lady’s Spirit Returns to Tell Her Friend Wliicli Is the Rest Church to Join. o MALONE. N. Y., Oct. 10.—Friday night a press correspondent, accompanied by a lawyer, visited the house in Edward street, In this village, occupied by the Tailman family, for the purpose of obtaining information as to the “spirit rappings’’ which have attracted such wide attention. Before entering it a visit was paid to the house of neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Gravell, who said that the rapping has been continued from time to time for more than a week, and sometimes so loud that they could hear It distinctly sitting in their own house. They are not on intimate trems with the Tallmans and therefore have not visited the Tallman household, but they have shared in the excitement and are feeling much disturbed. Mr. Tallman gave the writer a courteous reception and told this stdry: “My wife was brought up by a Mrs. Lasabe, who lived with us a number of years after our marriage. She was a kind old lady, and we knew her as a mother and called her so. She w r as a devout Catholic, and she frequently spoke to me in regard to joining that church. My wife was a member of that church, also my children. She importuned me frequently to join the church, but I refused until I should know more about it. I was not a regular member of any church. “Fourteen years ago she died, and on her deathbed she called me up, and, while holding her hand in mine, asked me to promise to join the church. I told her I would on one condition—that she would come back and let me know which was the right church. She said she would. Now' she has come back. “About a week ago we first heard these rappings. I became somewhat frightened, and so did my wife. We were busy around the house all the while and had a sick boy to attend to, and the almost constant rappings annoyed us. We closed and locked all the doors and made a thorough examination of the whole house from cellar to garret, but found nothing that would explain the mystery. The rapping has continued at intervals since then; sometimes it is a light tapping, and sometimes a heavy rapping. “1 have sent for the clergyman, who has visited here two or three times. After repeated prayers he gave us to understand that there would be no harm done to us. 1 wanted to converse with the spirit, hut was so timid that I dare not try. But while I was after the priest Mr. Aubrey, a neighbor, who was here, asked it questions, %hich w'ere answered, and when I returned he told me that it was Mrs. Lasabe, come to fulfill her promise. “Then I began to converse with her In the same manner by speaking to her and receiving raps in reply. She said that she had corne back as she agreed to do when she died, and asked me to comply with her request and become a Catholic. She informed me that it was the better religion, and I have promised her that I will become a Catholic. I am not yet a member of the church, but I am preparing to become such, and I have no doubt that the rappings are made by the spirit of the old lady. I made my peace with her yesterday and bid her good-bye and a farewell greeting, and promised that I would become a Catholic that she might leave me in peace to take care of my sick boy.” In answer to the question if it were true that the rappings had continued since then, he said: “It has been revealed to me by the spirit of the old lady that my boy, Arthur, Is soon to die, and I, therefore, believe that the rappings will continue until his death, when both spirits will leave the place together.” In the room where the rapping has been going on lies the sick boy. He is about eighteen years old, and had just had a severe fainting spell. He is very ill and weak from heart trouble. In conversation with him, strange to say, he said he had not heard any of the mysterious rappings, and was only indirectly annoyed by the crowds of curious persons who constantly were attracted to the place. He is bright looking and intelligent. The bed was several feet from the wall, and the writer could discover, after diligent search, no mechanical contrivance or physical means by w'hich the rappings could have been produced. There is a single board partition, papered on both sides, with no window or door in it. separating two rooms, in one of which the sick boy lies As the writer, in company with Tallman, stood close to this partition the rapping began, three slight raps being given. It seemed to come from below' at one end of the partition. This was followed in a short time by a dull, heavy noise three times, as if made by a human hand on the outside of the house. Nobody could be seen outside there, and Mr. Tallman went to look, but found nobody. A few minuets later three more light taps were given, and subsequently there were more raps, seeming to come from the outside wall adjoining the partition. At this time Mr. Tallman went closer to the partition and called. “Mother, dear, do it louder.” but there was no response. The correspondent’s legal friend was all this while in the room with the sick boy, standing close to the partition, and heard all the raps distinctly. Mr. Tallman seemed to be much affected about this matter. He takes it seriously, and seems to be religiously inclined, and from all appearances he is not given to anv deceit whatever, and seems not to court" any notoriety, and, to use his own nhrase, does not wish to “traffic” in the matter. He has no objection to people coining there, but does not like to have them come out of mere curiosity. Some Spiritulists of this town have been to the Tallman house and expressed desire to hold a “seance” there, but the Tallmans refused to give them any encouragement, and would not have anything to do with them or their proposal. W ork of the Mothers. Chicago Post. General cause for congratulation exists in the widespread interest in the convocation of mothers at Handel Ilall. The newspapers inform us that not only are the ma-< trons, the maidens and elderly and iniddieagod gentlemen well represeutfxl at the meetings; the mothers have brought along their little children that they may absorb some of the teachings designed for their improvement. We have every reason to believe that the little ones must have been vastly delighted yesterday with the lucid and entertaining remarks on symbolism, and that they must have followed the observations of Miss Helen Lloyd with juvenile satisfaction. We take the liberty of reproducing one of Miss Helen’s symbols as an incentive to childish appreciation and glee; And how Is life expressed through mathematics? Look at the beginnings of nature’s forms, and we find In all seeds a spherical likeness; in all crystals a resemblance to ihe cubical; in all growth an approach to tho cylindrical. It is not to be denied that Miss Helen has summed up the situation exactly, and we hope that every mother present was impressed with this simple, homely truth, let us also sprak eommendatorily of the ta. nest words of Miss Josephine Lock®, who said to the mothers and children in language of charming simplicity: Symbolism is not all of art. hut it is a factor in that W'orld. So w r e have symbolism in poetry, in music, in architecture, in fiction and in statue. But more than this, wherever tho law of correspondence is understood there the initiated always finds symbolism. And vice versa, symbolism is a part of tho great fundamental principle connecting hoaven with earth, and relating things material to things spiritual. In the face of these practical and homely teachings shall we wonder that the death rate among children has been materially reduced this week? Enough. Washington Post. 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NEW PASTOR PREACHES - rev. Charles e. bacon in Roberts J’AltK CHURCH PULPIT. Received with Word* of Welcome— Service* at the Catholic Retreat at St. John's. Rev. Charles E. Bacon, the new' pastor of Roberts Park Church, preached his initial sermon yesterday morning to a large audience. Special music had been arranged for the occasion. Prior to the sermon V. WWoodward spoke words of welcome to the new pastor, the latter responding briefly. Mr. Bacon spoke on the “Greater Life Within Our Methodism.” He selected his text from Matt, xii, 6: “Behold, in this place is one greater than the temple.” Mr. Bacon said, in part: “The Revealer is always greater than any of His revelations. Life is more marvelous than any of its manifestations. Back of this past summer, with its blade and leaf and flower, and a little later Us ripened grain and luscious fruit, was that greater thing, the life of nature. As the shopkeeper exhibits in the show w'indow only the samples of his wares, so back of nature’s show windows is the far more abundant life, however profuse and magnificent the display. Back of the golden glory of the sunbeams is that more glorious thing, the radiating orb, the sun. Back of this wonderfully complicated body of mine is the greater and mysterious life. Back of thought is the power to think. Back of the house, with its brick and mortar, its timbers and plaster, its furnishing and adornment, is that greater thing—home. Every thing is great in proportion as it reveals the greater that is behind it. Everything fails as it fails in this. The sun fails if it does not shine. The heart fails when it does not beat. The brain fails that will not think. The home fails that does not reveal fellowship, protection and love. The frost-bitten bud is a failure because it was intended to be the basis of the fruit that never appeared. The bush is a failure that by blight blooms not. The seed is a failure that by rot germinates not. Christ said to the Jews, ‘Thy house is left unto you—desolate.’ The house is left, but it is a frosted bud, it is a rotted seed, a blighted bush. “There had appeared God’s geeater thought—God’s broader idea than Judaism. Judaism was great as it revealed the greater behind it, and it failed as it failed in this. As Christ spake the multitudes flocked to the Temple, the stately and holy pageantry of worship proceeded, the high priest in ’garments of beauty and gold’ officiated, the incense in sweet perfume ascended, the chanted psalm made melody, the blow’ing trumpets resounded, the sacrificial animals spoke of the lamb of God that taketh away tne sins of the world. ‘Behold, in this piace was One greater than the Temple.’ The Temple was not rubbish. It was of divine origin. It was God’s thought. It was primary instruction. It w'as God’s primer. It was a letter in God’s alphabet by which He was spelling His plan to save the world. It w'as God’s kindergarten. It w r as a cube in the great Revealer’s hand, by which the straight line of rectitude, the angle where love and holiness met in sacrifice, and the equal sides and equal angles of the divine character were revealed. “Every nation, Institution and church has an idea or character greater than itself, from which it drinks its vitality, and it is great in proportion as it is loyal to this greater than itself.-JThe fundamental idea, of this nation’s life is equality of citizenship or civil liberty. Slavery was a living lie to this greater principle underlying our Nation’s life as expressed by the preamble, ‘All men are born free and equal.’ The crisis came. Should this greater within us be vindicated, or should this Naiion be a mocking corpse before the nations of the earth. The principle triumphed and slavery w r ent down. This Nation’s greatness was never more fully revealed than in the Anarchists’ trials, when months of time and mints of money were spent that the world might know that the groat right of all under the law w r as revealed and it was understood that even the enemy of law might have its fullest protection. We said, to nations of the earth: ‘Behold a greater than Asiahc and European governments can sJvow.\_ “Every church has its tap root of vitality, its truth greater than itself. Scotch Presbyterianism drew its vitality from the right to worship unrestricted by prelate or king; Puritanism from the great truth of freedom of conscience, which truth has given this Nation some of its strongest fibers. Methodism, we believe, was raised up with providential design. It was to spread scriptural holiness through these lands,’ It was to proclaim a conscious knowledge of salvation. It was a people taught to depend on God. Where w'e depend on social cast in our temples of worship, on elaborate musical or pulpit attractions, and on two Sabbath entertainments a week, we are of all churches the greatest failure. “Methodism was the touch of God in the lower classes of society which filtered up the highest, recognizing that all are sinners. whether high or low, and where we cease to become the people’s church we are failures. Methodism was a practical, beneficent religion. The systematic laying of her pennies on the altar and the visit of the holy club to the prisoners and criminals at Newgate were among its earliest activities. Where we are true to this practical religion we succeed. There is a life that is greater than the temple of Methodism. It is said that some have joined the temple. Their w'orship is temple worship, not Christ worship. They give their gold to the temple, not Christ. They are faultless critics of the service, and they worry more about a flawin the ceremony or a note struck wrong in the music than of many souls going to perdition. The greater One in our midst should ever be manifest. Let the people come through the massivw . arches of the church with their offerings of time and talent and money and let them proclaim ‘behold a greater than the temple.’ Let the music be enrapturing, but let it proclaim ‘a greater is here.’ Let the pulpits be learned and eloquent, but pre-eminently let it proclaim a ‘greater One.’ Back of communion is the One commemorated. Back of the creed is the One believed in. Back of the revelation is the great One revealed. Man’s individual greatness back of his physical and mental and moral nature is in having Christ reign in his fcoul. The physical is great as it obeys the greater in reason, and the intellect is great as it is governed by the moral nature, and the moral nature is great as it is cultured by the presence and rule of the Sovereign of Souls. Back of the great is always the greater. “Heaven’s glory as well as earth’s is in Christ. When we enter Heaven and its splendors burst on our vision, each new glory will proclaim ‘Behold a greater is here ’ The saints who reflect Christ's holiness will tell us ‘in this place is One greater than the temple.’ ” FORGIVENESS OF SIN. Father Mngevney Preached at St. John'* Church Yesterday. At St. John’s Church the pulpit was occupied at the 10:20 o’clock service yesterday morning by Rev. Eugene A. Magevney, of the Society of Jesus, from Chicago, who is conducting the exercises of the retreat for the clergy. He took for his text w-ords from the gospel of St. Matthew ix, 1-8, relating to the forgiveness of sin. He said in part: “There are three illustrious circumstances in the life of our divine Lord which, when studied in connection one w ith the other, establish to the satisfaction of every reasonable mind the institution of one of the sacraments of the church. .1 mean the institution of the forgiveness of sins. You know that outside of the Catholic Church there Is nothing of the sort, unless among the schismatic churches, which still retain some fragments of this sacrament of the church, from which they seceded centuries ago; or is found among latter-day denominations which feel the want of such an institution, and whose reading of the Scriptures is no longer done in a biased frame of mind. They go through certain formalities, but without the divine sanction, which can only come through the church of God. “These three circumstances are the one read to you in to-day’s gospel, one of which we read in St. Matthew's, and another which occurred after the resurrection. If we strictly follow to-day’s gospel what do we find? We find our divine Lord forgiving sina, we find Him working miracles. And that you may know that He has {tower to forgive sina, mays the evangelist. In the words of the gospel. He turned

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And the multitude marveled and said: ‘He blasphcmeth.’ And He made use of the only evidence that they would accept, the evidence of the senses, and worked a miracle: ‘Which is easier, to say thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say rise and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath pow-er on earth to forgive sins, arise, take up thy bed and go into thy house. And he arose and went into i's house.’ Another supplementary instance is found In St. Matthew s gospel. Our Lord is seated at table in the house of Simon, whom He had probably cured from leprosy, and who is spoken of In the Scriptures as Simon the leper. This man was a person of distinction in that locality, and he had gathered a coterie of friends, Pharisees like himself. To the surprise of every one except our divine Lord, the door opened and a woman rushed in and fell at the feet of Christ. She anointed His feet and wiped them with her hair. To the Pharisees it was an inexplicable spectacle. But Christ knew' the secret ,of her heart, knew that she w'as there in penance for her sins, and He said to her: ’Go in peace; thy sins are forgiven thee.’ And the Pharisees said in amazement: ‘Who is this that says thy, sins are forgiven?’ POWER CONFERRED ON APOSTLES. “On another occasion, when the apostles were gathered in an upper chamber, He conferred on them the power of forgiving sin, which, as man, He had exercised. He stood in their midst, and, with all solemnity, invoked the Holy Spirit and said: ‘Do not doubt the power which I am going to bestow upon you. All power Is given me in heaven and on earth.’ He breathed on them and said: ‘Whose sins you shall forgive are forgiven them; whose sins you shall retain are retained.’ The circumstances of this divine commission are found in detail not only in our own Scriptures, but in those of noncatholics. The church has always understood these words only in the sense in which we now understand then#. They are susceptible of no other translation. Did He intend that the power of the forgiveness of sins should be handed down in His church for all time? He certainly did. That power became an institution of the church. That church was to last forever. He said: ‘I am with you all days, even unto the end of the world.’ Remission of sin was to be part of the church, and the sacrament would endure as long as there was sin. And there w'ill be sin as iong as the world lasts. Penance is part of the sacramental system. No one has a rignt to reject penance and retain baptism and the eueharist. Why do those outside the church baptize? Because Christ told His apostles and their successors to go and preach the gospel, they say: Why do they baptize? Because Christ commanded it. Why so logical on one side and so illogical on the other? What right have they to throw out one sacrament and retain the other? No sacrament was more explicitly instituted than that of penance. Open the pages of history and find confession in the early history of the church. In recent excavations in Rome have been found sculptured pictures which go back to the time of Tiberius and Nero, and which show priests of the church with penitents kneeling before them in an attitude of penance, showing that confession w'as practiced at that time. In other words, pictures showing the early Christians carrying out the injunction of Christ. The early fathers of the church in the third and fourth centuries wrote of confession in treatises, some of which give formulas for making confession. “The early schismatics who broke away from the tr"e church took with them this sacrament. Some of them impeached the divinity of Christ, some of them denied the supremacy of tho Pontiff, but all retained the sacrament of confession. In the Greek Church, the greatest of all the schismatic churches, the sacrament is kept intact. Penance is to-day practiced in every part of the Russian empire. The sacrament was in undisputed possession of tho church until the sixteenth century, when the standard of rebellion was set up, and then, and not until then, was it impugned. But it came too late. The sacrament had been in possession of the church for 1.800 years. “How can a man forgive sin? ask those not of the faith. It is not man, but the power of God invested in man, v\ ho absolves in God’s name; and it is ratified in heaven. The President of tfie United States, when giving a decree in a distant part of the country, acts through his representative, who acts in the name of the President. It is a delegated power. It is delegated from the people to the President; nevertheless it is there, and must be respected when brought properly into play. “There are two practical conclusions to be drawn from to-day's gospel That this sacrament whicli has been in existence 1,800 years is divine in origin, divine and profoundly significant in power. The works of God are all for a purpose. The purpose of this sacrament is the sanctification of souls. If men fail, and the majority of men do fall, what hope is there without the sacrament of penance? What exertion will we not make and how many miles will we not travel in the effort to regain lost health? Should we not he as reasonable where our soul’s salvation is concerned ? I am speaking to those who have experienced the peace and satisfaction that is found in the sacrament of penance. If you would find rest, make use of the sacrament and hear ths< consoling word*, ‘My child, thy sins are forgiven thee.’ ” At tlie New Church Chapel. At the new Church Chapel (Sweder.horgian) the pastor, the Rev. W. R. Gladish. yesterday morning preached on “The Error and Hurtfulness of the Doctrine of Instantaneous Salvation.” He said It was entirely opposed to the whole teaching of the Bible and could only be taught in Christian lands by persistent misinterpretation of the word of God. “It is founded upon entire ignorance of the nature of God and of man,” said he. “It involves that God treasure* anger against the sinner and will not forgive him except he do a ce.rtain arbitrary act which has no relation to life. Man says, with his dying breath. T believe,’ passe* straightway from a life of sin and shame to ail the happiness possible to any child of God. God never turns from any man. How could He require us to forgive until seventy times seven If He does not forgive all men always? It involves also that what man does has no effect on his character when yet we know' the opposite to I>6 the case. The Blender reed failing to the ground fifty thousand years ago left an impress in the sand that is still to be seen. The place may have been covered by successive layers of rock, of vegetable mold, trees and gardens may have grown about it, but the mark of that reed is still there. Dig deep enough and you may find. Even so every cat. good or laid, indelibly affects us. It can never be as though it had not been. The Lord forgives our sins by taking away from us the love for them. When we cease to do an evil because it is sin against Him He lifts us above It and enables us to form anew, higher and better stratum of character in which we may live and love and act. But etxeeptlng as we are wtthheld from self by Him w might at any time return to the sins we have loved and dona.”