Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1898 — Page 3

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AMUSEMENTS. For years the Bostonians have been the leading light-opera organization in the country, and their productions have been unrivaled. The secret of this is in the array of great singers who continue to co-operate in this organization. Jessie Bartlett Davis, W. H. MacDonald, H. C. Barnabee, Eugene Cowles and Alice Nielsen might each head independent opera companies and star, as many others are doing, but they decide to remain with the Bostonians and give the public the greatest light-opc * ..asf ever got together in one company. - Serenade,” which the Bostonians will gi\ at English’s to-night and to-morrow night, comes here with the strongest indorsement of all cities where it has been sung, and promises to be an unusually fine entertainment. The management of English's desires it slated that good seats may still be obtained. Nansen's lecture at the Grand to-night will be illustrated by one hundred marvelous views of the polar region. A good company of fifty people Is announced to appear in “The Geisha,” which comes to English’s for a matinee and night performance next Thursday. The sale of seats begins to-day. Mme. Herrmann, who takes a large part in the Herrmann performance at the Grand the last half of the week, has a repertory of dances as numerous as the famous Loie Fuller. The dancer Papinta and the other strong features of the Transoceanies, at the Park this week, make up the biggest vaudeville attraction at that popular theater this season. Pat Reilly will probably eclipse his former record at the Empire this week with the added attraction of Kid McCoy on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Notes of the Stage. Mme. Dyna Beumer, the Belgian soprano, bears the title of “cantatrice to the court of Holland.” Str Squire Bancroft, the English actor who was knighted during the Queen’s jubilee. will give a series of readings in this country and In Canada, beginning in February. It. N. Stephens, author of “An Enemy to the King.” has decided to present that play in England and in Germany as an opera. Richard Stahi will compose the music. The word vaudeville, it Is said, Is derived from the name of the village of Vaudevire, in Normandy, the birthplace of the poet Oliver Basseiin. a composer of songs, who lived in 1418. Jacob Litt has found in “Shall We Forgive Her?" one of the Adelphi successes, a worthy successor to “In Old Kentucky.” He is exploiting the piece with a big company headed by Marie Wainright. Pinero Is now forty-two years old. He was a lawyer and an actor before he became a dramatist. He is a hard {worker, rewriting a great deal. It is said *that he was ten months writing “The Princess and the Butterfly.” Richard Mansfield is constantly in search or new and striking dramatic material. It is suid that notwithstanding the success of “The Devil’s Disciple” he is shortly to produce two new plays, one of which is a dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, “St. Ives.” Olga Nethersole cannot be enjoying her absence, though there is a certain hopefulness in the lines which she bas sent to her friends in New York on a New Year's card. They are: “There is no night but has its morning.” “No sorrow that is everlasting.” and “No cloud but. passes by.” Miss Nethersole's name is signed to these optimistic quotations, which may be inspired by the fact that she will return to this country next autumn. f Mnmie De Campl, the actress, secured a divorce in Chicago Saturday from her husband. Alexander Humilton, against whom ehe filed a hill some time ago. Mrs. Hamilton says her husband was addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors, and during the major portion of their married life her parents supported him. Mrs. Hamilton waft formerly identified with the Carlton Club of Chicago, the same organization from which Olive May, now Mrs. Henry Guy Oarleton. made her stage debut. Miss Pe Campi made her professional debut with Frohman’s “Charity Ball’ Company. Mr. Richard Mansfield is said to be most resourceful of ideas. Avery good idea occurred to him with which he Intended to exploit with the tour of I*l. M. ami Joseph Holland, who were starring under his management. liis Idea was to have the brothers appear In New York bay on a tugboat •a though they had just arrived front Holland. They were to be mot by a party of newspaper men on a yacht. The Hollands, who behaved as though they had never been In America, before, were to air their views regarding New York, even before they had seen it. They were to be driven to the Holland House and were to order Holtmd gin. „V. “Jack” Bloodgood’s appearance in the third act of “The Conquerors” Introduced her In short skirts. In the can-can that was danced she exhibited an entirely ■uua uujuji* ut tauiiiiv btr di-fejui down.

The other dancers were willing that their feet should go high* and that their skirts should follow them up, but Mrs. Bloodgood lifted her slippers only a little way trom , the floor. Even then, for fear that there might be some display, she followed a plan which is worth the study of all aspirants who huve to wear short skirt when they do not want to. As her knee lifted the skirt her hand quickly dropped and held it down. Her dancing may have lost some abandon from that process, but her stockings were hid. - Miss Adeline Walker Mann, a young lady well known in New Orleans society and prominently connected with some of Louisiana’s oldest families, has replaced Miss Edythe Wentworth Skerrett in the cast of “The Conquerors,” at the Empire Theater, New York. Miss Skerrett, who is a dAughter of the rate Rear Admiral Joseph S. Skerrett, of the Ctiiied States navy, has beer, obliged to give up her professional career tor the present, at least, on account of the serious illness of her mother. Miss Mann is a, very vivacious young woman, and has already achieved a reputation for herself as a talented amateur actress. She decided to adopt tlxe stage as a profession some time ago and lias been studying with Mrs. Stan-liope-Whoutcroft, in New York. Her part in “Tho Conquerors,” although only a small one, is that of one of the case chantant girls in the festival scene, one she is well qualified to play. A Frenchman's hatred of tho Germans had a humorous exposition in New Orleans. Otis Skinner had just been filling an engagement there, and the leader of the orchestra at the theater where he played is an intensely patriotic French creole who loathes the Teuton. All the music in “Prince Rudolph,” Otis Skinner’s new play, is taken from old German songs, the final curtain being rung down to the Strains of the “Wacht am Rhein.” About his incidental music Mr. Skinner is something of a crank, and during the week he had had several passages at arms with the leader of the orchestra. There were many mutterings on the part of the musician, who had been overheard vowing vengeance. Saturday night came and as he picked up his baton for the last act a diabolical gleam shot from his eyes. Something was evidently in the wind. All went well, however, and he never was late at a cue nor did anything but attend strictly to business. The last scene of the play was on. The prince and princess were reunited, and the princess’s cousin had entered to say that tho kingdom had been saved. Far away in the distance could be heard the sound of martial music. Very, very softly did it steal upon the ears of the auditors; then suddenly all was silent. The little man in the chair gave a couple of quick beats and then there burst upon the astonished Skinner and his company the strains of a triumphant march, but not the “Watch on the Rhine.” The German army marched to victory with its band playing the "Marseillaise.” It was the vengeance of the leader. Since Clement Scott’s expo—, or, rather, attack, on stage women, many stories are being sprung on the great London critic. Poor Salina Dolaro, who ir, now dead, used to tell the story, and told it until it had reached Scott's ears in a thousand different ways. With the greatest glee she would joke about Scott’s infatuation for her, and the climax came when she explained how he used to write poetry for private circulation. One day, while at luncheon with two other actresses who were among the public favorites of the hour, the three women began to compare their notes. ”1 say, girls,” said Miss Dolaro, “anew poem was sent to me this morning. I'll tell you the first line. Then I want you to guess who it sounds like.” With roguish twinkle in her eyes Dolaro struck a mock posture and began: “Oh, promise me that some day you and I—” But, without waiting to give her an answer, the second actress burst in hastily: "May take our love together to some sky—” Then suddenly the deep contralto voice of the third actress intoned solemnly: “Where we may be alone and faith renew And find the hollow's w'here these flowers grew.” That was enough. In less than another minute those three women had tried and convicted Scott of three-ply deception, and the story of this duplicity—thanks to the vivacity of Miss Dolaro's tongue—was soon a standing joke in every club in London. And, mind you, this all took place years and years before Reginald De Koven had discovered this poem, and, with the assistance of Jessie Bartlett Davis, made It once more famous.

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Miss Maud Weller, of Louisviile, Ky„ is the guest of Mrs. A. C. Holmes, 1848 North Pennsylvania street. Mrs. Katharine Griffis and Miss Swing, of Cincinnati, will be with Mrs. T. C. Day and her daughter Florence this afternoon, their day at home. NEWCOMB—CORWIN. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 9.—At the residence of the bride yesterday evening Mr. Zala Newcomb and Miss Grace Corbin were married. The ceremony was performed by Rev. M. S. Marble, presiding elder of the Kokomo Methodist District Conference. Slow Sale of fiieyele License;*. Up to last Saturday night but 178 bicycle licenses were issued by Controller Johnson. For the first week of last year 334 were issued. People who are required to procure vehicle licenses are equally slow. Anew sort of tag has been secured by the controller, so that patrolmen will be able to detect whether the license has been paid. All who fail to do so are subject to arrest. Small Fire LoHses. At 11 o’clock last night fire caused a SSO loss In Martin Sunley’s grocery at (old) 417 West Washington street. It communicated to Lung Lee’s laundry at 415 and Isaac Bell’s grocery at 413, and caused losses of $25 and $75, respectively. WEARY OF EMPIRE. Reasonn Why England Does Not Covet Chinese Territory. London Saturday Review. As long as our statesmen have free-will left them we would not take, or even accept, a single province on the mainland of China. We would ask for, and if necessary seize, tho position which the Admiralty consider best adapted for a great naval station—we are not sure that it is Chusan, but that is a question for naval experts and hydrographers—and we would hold that station, by battle if need be, against all the world: but we would have nothing to do with governing tens of millions of Chinese. Their revivification is not. our business: the work could not be done effectively without legions of cavalry: we have riot the smallest evidence that the people would aid us effectively, and if they did not the back of the “weary Titan” might be paralyzed by the effort. Cruisers cannot steer into the interior of China, and to suppose that we can govern another fifty or sixty millions of difficult subjects, iri addition to all we already have, with a voluntary army, is not statesmanship, but rash and uneonsidered adventure. We might do it with conscription, but even if we could get the vole for a conscription, would it not be madness to surrender the freedom and happiness of our ruee for so inadequate an end? We are already seated on the Nile, where, if we were only permitted, we could build up a stately and a fruitful civilization. and there we would stay, making Europe understand most distinctly that a free hand from Alexandria to the cape was our price for abstaining from resistance in China, which, as we should have behind us fifty thousand Sikhs and fifty thousand Japanese, would be fatal to all the plans now rapidly coming to light. But in China we would take nothing save a point from which we could as a thoroughly armed power watch over our trade, prevent injustice, and if the necessity arrived, veto the introduction Into the far East of Napoleons “continental sjstcm.” We have already so much to do that wc see signs of exhaustion not only in our recruiting arrangements, but in the mental caliber of the classes from which we draw our statesmen. Where arc the new men for India, not to mention the Liberal party? We are going to have ten years at least of strain and difficulty in India; after a quarter of a century we huve not legalized our position on the Nile; we have not thoroughly digested one morsel of the immense and hurried swullowings wo have made in Africa; and to begin anew meal, even if the diet is appetizing, in Asia would be to the last degree unwise. For ourselves, we deny absolutely that it is appetizing, believing that Christian men cannot govern Chinamen without spasmodic outbursts of cruelty: but even if we waive that argument as founded on inadequate experience, wo still maintain that the work is too heavy, that it, will compel u< to rack our people with taxation, and that at some point or other, it may tie in South Africa, it may be on the Yang-Tse-Kiang. it may be. and very probably will be, under the mountains of Abyssinia, we shall break down, amt be forced to choose between an acknowledged and public failure or conscription. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Arrived: Umbria, from Liverpool. Sailed: Mohawk, for London. QUEENSTOWN. Jan. 9. -Sailed: Servia, from Livernool. for New York-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1898.

AVERAGES OF PLAYERS - ♦ WESTERN BASEBALL LEAGUE STATISTICS FOR THE PAST SEASON. President Johnson's Compilation of the Ratting, Fielding, Pitching and Catching of Clubs and Individuals. V Special to the Indianapolis journal. CHICAGO, Jan. B. .•’resident “J3ar” O. Johnson to-day announced the official averages of clubs and players of the Western Baseball League lor the season of 1897. In ciub batting Indianapolis is first, with a per centage of .314. In club fielding Columbus is at the head of the list, with .934 per cent., while Indianapolis is third with .929. In individual work the tables give Mcßride, of St. Raul, a batting average of .387. Wood, of Indianapolis, is third, with .375 points to his credit, in fielding McFarland, of Columbus, leads the pitchers, his per cent, Being .972. uoar, however, is only one point behind. The highest tielding averages in other positions are; Catchers, Twiueham, .9?u; first basemen, Mack, .999; second basemen, Cickelt, .ptiis; thiru basemen, Hollingsworth, •956; shortstops, Kuehne, .938; tieiuers, McCarthy, .95u. Uoar leads the list ot pitchers in general averages, while Frank Foreman is luurth, Phillips thirteen?:-. and W oiters eiglueenth. The following table shows the ciub batting, the recoru being based on number of games, times at but, runs scored, first-base hits and runs earned: Club. G. AB. R. 11. RE. Pc. 1 inuianapolis 136 496* 1131 1663 514 .oil 2 Columbus 133 4338 lU*B 1545 404 .313 3 Detroit iu7 4388 1003 1518 4us .*u* 4 St. Paul 133 5103 lio7 1*45 381 .30* a Milwaukee 133 4(33 308 1418 345 .238 8 Minneapolis 138 4812 777 1-32 261 .289 7 Grand Rapids 138 4840 604 1352 304 .273 8 Kansas City 142 4825 836 1360 330 .276 in club fielding the record is based on number of games, put-outs, assists, errors and total chances. This table shows: Club. G. ro. A. E. c. Pc. X Columbus 138 3601 1705 373 5679 . 331 2 Milwaukee 138 3721 1824 417 5962 .‘330 3 Indianapolis 136 3*53 16*3 3*33 6606 .323 4 Minneapolis 138 3330 J 0... . */15 .316 5 St. Paul 133 3840 1720 507 5867 .014 0 Kansas City 142 3580 1769 508 58*7 .913 7 Grand RupldS ....136 3610 1748 510 5/08 .012 7 Detroit 137 3563 1606 500 6768 .012 BATTING AVERAGES. Name and Club. G. B. K. H. Pc. T. S. 1 Mcßride, St. P 133 528 170 20l .387 281 44 2 Dungan, Det. 137 648 143 207 .3/8 2/0 2c 3 Wood. Ind 88 330 62 127 .375 176 21 4 Dead}'. in-Mn-Dt.. 72 267 57 05 .360 120 22 5 Carney, KC 40 218 34 73 .358 10u 0 6 McFarland, 1nd....131 633 136 10U .357 305 4. 6 Frank, Col 130 515 126 184 .357 24a 2o 8 Gray, Ind .....125 6jo 131 182 .351 286 15 8 Isbell, St. P 60 101 44 67 .351 04 13 10 McCarthy, Ind 86 351 82 123 .360 101 23 11 Stafford, Mil 134 405 118 172 .348 2*2 28 12 Glasscock, St. P... 132 663 137 105 .34/ 2*3 :>6 13 Weaver, MU 138 663 102 103 . 343 200 2* 13 Dillard. Det 02 307 84 136 .343 100 4 15 Motz, Ind 136 548 121 187 .341 248 38 16 George, St. P 133 616 141 208 .340 29* 40 16 Niolioll, Det 127 500 00 170 .340 226 26 IS Butler, Col 103 418 94 141 .338 166 27 10 Merles, Col 134 623 155 177 .337 235 07 20 Miller, Min 134 543 107 182 .336 218 4* 21 Newell, Git 42 176 41 69 . 335 92 0 22 Nvee. St. P ill 432 100 144 .331 209 20 22 Daly, Ml! 137 602 106 167 .333 230 46 24 Slagle. GR 132 546 136 170 .328 254 40 25 Buckley, Col S6 309 52 101 .327 130 7 26 Hines, Det 124 513 120 177 .326 240 20 27 Leivee, Mil 126 462 01 150 .325 100 11 28 Gauzel, GR 125 534 87 173 .324 254 6 28 Beard, Det 23 105 35 34 .324 48 4 30 Fear, GR 10 65 14 21 .323 29 3 31 Steinteldt, Det 136 641 112 174 .322 £6B 2o 32 McGarr, Col TS zo9 65 06 .321 *0 14 33 Kinney GR 54 227 34 72 . 318 96 . 34 McVicker, KC 140 3*7 114 17* .31a 268 .1 35 Shugart, St. P 88 370 82 116 .314 183 31 36 Genins, Col ~.132 646 117 160 . 300 20 / 21 37 Delehanty, Mil-Det 02 377 01 116 . 308 159 2a 38 Davis, Det 61 109 33 61 .3u7 88 1. 30 Frost, Det 93 324 54 00 .306 126 7 40 Wadsworth, Det... 20 50 13 18 . 305 18 2 41 Campau, GR 132 648 109 166 .303 **3 2o 42 Crooks, Col 131 454 S7 137 .'302 187 2,. 43 Pickett, KC 127 607 81 151 .298 106 2* 43 Sm.th, Mil 15 57 12 17 . 208 27 2 45 Nicholson, KC-Dt.lll 464 95 137 .296 186 31 46 Bannon, J., KC.... 76 207 62 88 .-9a 118 30 47 Tebeau, Col 135 517 99 I*l .-03 -12 3* 47 Hulen, Col 130 556 140 163 . 293 233 34 47 Blake, Mil 85 321 63 ?4 .203 126 20 60 Parrott, St.P-Mtn.l2B 528 92 152 .200 22 1 21 51 Foreman, J..KC-CI 30 83 14 *4 . 289 33 1 61 Speer. Mil 132 509 70 147 . 289 1/6 29 53 Hogrlever, Ind 140 54* 108 I*7 .-88 24- i--53 Burnett, Det 82 285 71 82 .288 146 20 53 Mack, Mil 2? 73 12 21 .288 .7 4 56 Whistler, Det 46 167 40 48 .287 ,1 6 67 Goar, Ind 39 140 27 40 .286 61 3 58 Baker, Min 21 63 10 18 .28a 23 2 58 Gillen, St. P 41 151 40 43 .-8a 61 L 60 Stewart, Ind 132 522 105 147 .282 221 27 60 Mvers, Mil 115 439 91 124 .-82 16 la 60 Dake KC 47 170 20 48 . 282 ,o , 63 Hatfi’elihGß. 45 182 23 51 .280 64 11 63 Letcher, Min 104 446 <6 12a .280 173 -3 65 Phillips, Ind 48 158 34 4b .2,0 bo - 66 Truby, KC 18 72 10 20 .2/8 32 1 67 Twineham, GR....112 387 62 107 . 277 144 16 67 Meeks, KC 19 76 11 21 .277 32 1 69 Dowling, Mil 12 29 7 8 .2/6 11 0 70 Pappalau, GR 24 80 7 22 .27a 28 1 70 PhlUtpi, Min 23 69 6 19 .27a 27 0 72 Gi'nalvln, GR-StP.lll 423 101 116 . 274 176 2a 73 Griffin, St. P 75 297 39 SI .273 124 10 74 Flynn, Ind 121 459 129 120 .272 1/8 3b 74 Kahoe, Ind 88 335 59 101 114 la 76 Jones. MU 15 60 8 16 .267 20 0 77 Hagerman, GR.... 11 34 / 9 .26., 9 0 78 Mullane, St. 1’.... 53 156 31 41 .264 49 6 79 Gettinger, KC 97 370 50 9* .262 13b 10 80 Ball, n Min 120 430 96 112 . 261 130 41 81 Nicol, MU 136 592 114 153 .2*9 215 28 82 Terrv MU 35 10a 11 2, .2*7 33 l 83 Wright, Mil 66 195 43 50 .256 62 ,2 84 McCauly, Det 72 263 40 lb .2*3 9a 13 84 Blanford, KC 92 301 44 /6 .-*3 101 a 86 Strauss. GR 52 101 32 48 .2*2 62 4 86 Thomas, Det....... 48 1/5 20 44 .25- 60 88 Kuehne. Min 84 364 39 92 .250 118 11 88 Fisher Col 76 260 46 6a .250 102 a SO Holllngsw'th. StP. 93 363 65 SO .245 116 33 90 McGill, St. P 15 4a 8 11 .24a 14 0 MO' Hburke. KC 99 391 79 95 .243 117 37 92 Cassidy. Min 39 148 23 36 .243 46 13 94 Friend. KC 16 62 10 13 .-41 -1 1 94 'Eustace, Ind-aun.,122 437 77 105 .241 143 4 94 Rust. GR-Min 118 452 66 109 .241 137 19 97 Welters, Ind-C01... 28 , 5 9 18 .240 19 3 97 Tavlor MU 17 i>o J 12 .210 17 0 99 Cartwright. Mtn... 24 96 1 4 23 . 239 35 5 ICO Allen, Det 61 211 40 50 .237 Ob 4 101 Daniels. Col 19 56 9 13 .232 lb 1 102 St. P 112 521 69 129 .229 159 23 lb 2 Boyle Min 89 332 43 76 . 220 108 >• 2 McKihben GR 77 261 42 CO .220 134 37 102 Menefe ™KC 131 438 66 10*) .229 134 37 106 Foreman, F., Ind.. 46 140 18 32 . 228 41 2 107 Keener C 01.... 2a 80 10 18 ,-2a 22 ± 108 Hutchinson, Min.. 44 134 19 30 .224 40 1 100 Barnes, Mil 39 116 18 25 .-16 30 1 110 Gauzel Min 22 72 10 la .208 19 3 111 Ban non, T.. KC.. 21 85 16 17 .200 20 12 112 Driscoll. GR....... ao 131 11 26 .109 31 1 13 Rettger. Col 37 125 19 24 .191 SI 0 114 Jones 8.. Col 32 85 11 16 .189 28 4 115 Cross. St. P-GR..*. 44 140 14 26 .186 31 6 116 Kricken. St. P 33 94 12 17 .181 21 3 117 Clarkson. Mil-Det. 21 61 7 11 .ISO 13 0 118 Carney, Min 28 /a _/ 13 .173 17 0 119 Eagan, Det 30 87 , lo .1,2 20 0 120 Moran, Min 15 56 3 9 .161 10 1 I*l Hahn Det 39 128 13 20 .la7 24 1 122 Brady, GR 27 84 9 11 .131 18 0 I°3 Ficgemier, Min.... 41 123 13 15 .122 20 0 124 Scott GR 28 92 G 11 .120 If. 2 125 Reidy, Mil 38 116 10 12 .104 13 0 In the above table the sacrifice hit column is omitted. It does not figure in the percentage. The sacrifice hits made by Indianapolis players follow: McFarland. 12; Gray. 2D McCarthy, 15; Motz, 17; Hogriever, 6; Goar, 4; Stewart, 14: Phillips, 6; Flynn, 16; Kahoe, 7; Foreman. 5. FIELDING AVERAGES. —Pitchers.— Name. G. O. A. E. Pc. W. 1 McFarland, Col 15 7 28 1 .972 4 2 Goar, Ind 39 11 90 3 .371 8 3 Foreman. F. K., Ind 46 12 81 3 .obO a 4 Daniels, Col 19 6 45 2 .962 1 4 Pardee, KC..... 19 4 47 2 .962 3 6 Figgemier, Min....... 41 19 97 6 .9*l 7 6 Bernes. Mil 39 17 80 5 . 951 6 6 Taylor, Mil 17 6 33 2 .951 6 9 Keener, Col 25 13 53 4 .943 5 10 Barnett. KC-St. P 25 11 69 6 .930 8 11 Phvle, St. P 31 22 55 6 .928 3 12 J ones. 8., Col 31 11 65 6 .927 < 13 Wadsworth, Det 20 2 23 2 . 926 4 14 Friend. KC 16 1 0 38 4 .923 2 15 Phillips, Ind 48 20 107 11 .920 9 15 McGill. St. P 15 3 20 2 .920 12 17 Mullane, St. P 30 11 57 6 .919 It IS Hahn. Det 39 10 63 7 .913 14 19 Bradv, GR 27 7 45 6 .912 6 20 Terry, Mil 54 16 80 10 .911 4 21 Fricken. St. P 33 11 58 7 . 908 5 22 Cross, GR-St. P 40 9 78 9 .906 7 22 Welters. Ind.-Col 2S 12 46 6 . 906 4 24 Foreman. J-. KC-Col 30 3 62 7 .903 13 25 Hemming. GR 11 1 17 2 . 900 1 26 Rettger. Col 37 10 52 7 . 898 3 27 Jones. Mil 15 4 48 6 .897 2 28 Hutchinson. Min 39 13 71 10 .894 9 29 Egan. Det 30 8 52 8 .889 10 30 Abbey, KC 41 6 97 13 .888 6 21 ftsbeli, sot. P II 5 3., 5 .884 4 32 Clarkson. Mil.-Det 21 340 6 .877 11 53 Pappalau, GR-MU 9 1 H 38 7 .875 8 SI Thomas, Det .48 14 86 15 .869 11 35 Scott, OR 38 6 80 13 .867 1 36 Herman, Min 10 4 20 4 .657 5 57 Carney. Min 23 13 60 11 .851 8 38 Dowling. Mil 12 2 14 3 .842 2 *9 Phillipi. Min *1 * :*? H -531 4 40 Reidy, MU 38 13 69 14 .805 3 —Catchers. X arnc O. O. A. E. Pc. P. 1 Twineham, GR 96 310 111 13 .970 10 St P 134 “ 0 1-4 2. .962 20 J 1.U,/ KC 44 187 68 13 .955 15 4 Wood, 1nd..... 38 353 SI 22 .9*2 16 5 Speer, Mil 132 456 210 35 .95-1 l.i Bucklev. GR-Col 84 311 92 22 .948 5 7 Boyle, Mtn *7 3*2 126 32 .936 17 S Kahoe. Ind 60 227 52 20 .929 10 9 Blanford. KC 88 298 76 £9 .928 2b 10 Moran. Min 15 54 18 5 .925 2 11 Fisher, Col 72 211 76 21 .922 8 12 Miller. Min -4 60 32 8 . 920 4 1" Most. Det 82 292 90 25 .516 12 14 Kline, St. P 17 38 4 4 .911 4 15 Mack. MU 13 35 13 5 .I*o6 0 16 IX gdale, KC 10 29 8 4 .902 2 17 McCaulev. Det 72 174 91 85 .881 23 is Fear, GR 16 39 li 9 .855 2 —First Basemen.— Name. G. O. A. E. Pc. 1 M.iok. Mil 11 99 4 1 ,K> 2 Gauze!, GR 125 1205 84 22 .9-3 8 Tebenu. Col 133 1169 74 £4 .581 3 Carney. KC 49 445 16 9 .981 5 Dillard. Det 7S 679 33 15 .976 6 Gauzel. J.. Min 22 250 5 6 .977 7 Motz, lad 136 1359 64 36 .875

8 Glasscock, St. P 127 1235 59 30 .973 9 Whistler, Det 44 442 17 13 .972 9 Cassidy. Min 31 246 38 8 . 972 11 Stafford, Mil 127 X2bß 62 38 . 965 11 Pickett. ICC 70 440 30 17 .965 13 Cartwright. Min 24 220 18 9 . 963 14 Menefec, KC. 15 iu 4 5 .959 15 Meeks, KC 19 171 g 8 .957 16 Parrott. Min 268 15 13 .936 17 Trost, Det u gi 3 5 .944 —Second Basemen.— 1 Pickett. KC 39 S5 98 C .968 2 Crooks, Col 131 353 378 39 .951 3 Beard, Det 26 57 70 8 .941 4 Hollingsworth. St. I* 59 ng iti9 20 .935 5 Nicholson, Det-SP. P-KC....1U 269 294 40 .931 6 Stewart, Ind. 132 350 335 5* .931 7 Glenalvin. GR-St. P m 296 311 49 .92* 8 Daly, Mil 137 394 3y4 74 .914 9 Driscoll, GR 35 87 79 18 .902 10 Delehanty. Mil-Det 81 217 24-i 51 .900 11 Roat. Min 70 190 216 46 . 898 12 Steinfeldt, Det ll 37 31 10 . 897 13 Hines, Det 41 94 122 27 14 Truby, KC IS 44 41 H .885 Is Nyce, St. P 27 47 65 31 .781 —Third Basemen.— 1 Hollingsworth, St. P 14 15 28 2 .956 2 Kuehne, Mill 54 6b 145 14 .936 3 Eustace. Min-Ind 81 99 168 26 .911 4 Gray, Ind 125 145 218 37 .908 5 Hatfield, GR 45 62 108 18 .904 6 McGarr, Col 78 98 122 24 .902 7 Genins, Col 54 80 112 25 .885 8 Pickett, KC 18 20 40 8 . 882 9 O’Rourke, KC 99 138 167 42 .879 10 Steinfeldt, Det 125 194 220 62 .86a 11 Kahoe, Ind 12 15 31 7 .868 12 Myers, Mi 1..... 115 145 249 70 .849 13 Smith, MU 15 14 £5 7 .818 14 Nyce. St. P 84 103 144 49 .S3* 15 Gillen, St. Paul 13 18 30 10 .828 16 McKinney, GR 44 62 93 33 . 824 17 Newell, GR 30 30 68 23 .816 18 Reilly, KC 39 43 82 39 .762 19 Preston, St. P 13 10 26 14 .750 —Shortstops.— 1 Kuehne, Min 25 36 90 9 .936 2 Dewee. Mil 126 276 462 57 .928 3 Allen, Del 61 121 220 40 . 895 4 Hulen. Col 130 294 401 92 .883 6 Connaughton, KC 135 317 432 104 .878 6 Wheelock, GR 13 24 60 12 .875 7 Shugart, St. P 88 203 319 77 .871 7 Hines, Det 83 151 207 63 . 871 9 Grifiin, UP 72 142 222 65 .869 10 Kahoe, Ino 12 15 31 7 .868 11 Ball, Min 112 248 344 91 .867 12 Flynn, Ind 79 140 22S 65 .849 13 Eustace, Jnd-Min 41 86 121 37 .848 14 Hollingsworth, St. P 20 41 87 26 .834 15 Gillen, St. P 27 52 90 £3 .830 16 Delehanty, Mil-Det 11 27 29 12 .823 —Fielders. — 1 McCarthy. Ind 83 163 8 8 .655 1 Wright. Mil ; 56 76 8 4 .9*5 3 Genins, Col 66 174 11 9 .954 4 Weaver. MU 138 308 IS 18 .948 5 Nicoll, Det 127 305 21 19 . 945 6 Mcßride, St. P 133 314 18 24 .933 7 Flynn, Ind 40 66 8 6 .925 8 Nichol, Mil 136 316 17 28 .923 9 McFarland, Ind 131 310 20 29 .919 10 Bannon, TANARUS., KC 21 38 6 4 . 916 11 Parrott. Min 100 211 17 20 .915 11 Frank, Col 130 930 28 24 .915 13 MeVicktr, KC 140 252 25 26 .911 14 Butler, Col 106 204 8 19 .913 15 Blake. Mil 84 164 12 17 .912 16 Miller, Min 79 98 12 11 .909 17 Preston, St. P 33 56 4 6 .908 18 Merles. C<d 123 286 27 32 .907 13 Hogriever, Ind 140 216 28 26 .904 20 Dungan, Det 137 244 31 30 . 901 21 Letcher. Min 104 220 7 26 .897 21 Gettinger, KC 97 219 17 27 .897 23 Slagel, GR 132 353 27 44 . 896 £3 George, St. P 139 213 11 26 .896 23 Davis. Det 51 98 6 12 .896 2b Menetee, KC 106 197 16 30 .876 27 Camnau, GR 120 187 15 29 .87* 28 Strauss, GR 21 49 6 8 .8/3 29 Burnett. Det 58 111 4 17 .871 30 Gear, KC 76 149 39 26 .870 31 McKibben, GR 69 137 7 24 .857 32 Bannon, J., KC 76 149 39 26 .850 53 Isbell. St. P 72 138 13 29 .839 34 Deady, Ind-Min-Det 33 64 1 12 .Sll PITCHERS’ AVERAGES. The following table is based on the work of the pitcher's opponents, and shows the runs, hits, etc., charged against him: • Name and Club. G. AB. R. ER. H. Pc. Av. 1 Goar. Ind 39 1226 146 61 290 .237 1.30 2 Jones, Col 31 939 127 45 225 .240 1.45 3 Henzer, St. P.... 20 655 98 30 166 .253 1.50 4 Foreman. F., 1nd.43 129* 176 65 338 . 261 1.51 5 Friend, KC 15 455 70 23 115 .252 1.53 6 Flicker St. P.... 34 945 172 66 263 .278 1.64 7 Daniels, Col 23 579 88 38 146 . 252 1.65 8 Mullane. St. P.... 30 907 165 52 260 , 2Mi 1.73 9 Isbell. St. P 13 367 71 23 96 .261 1.76 10 Phyle, St. P.' 30 981 167 55 261 .266 1.83 11 Dowling. Mil 13 306 54 24 90 . 294 1.54 12 Jones Mil 17 558 89 32 144 .258 I.SB 13 Phillips. Ind 46 1372 193 87 363 . 265 1.89 14 Terry, Mil 32 1059 150 61 271 .256 1.90 15 Reidy, GR-Mi1....38 1247 199 73 347 . 278 1.92 16 Keener. Det-Col. V 714 135 55 204 .274 1.96 17 Rettger, Mil-C01..40 1180 172 80 343 . 290 2.00 18 Wolters. Ind-C01..30 701 141 61 238 .340 2.03 19 Thomas, Det 45 1441 235 93 405 .281 2.06 20 Barnes. Mil 38 1193 ISO 79 339 . 284 2.07 21 Cross. GK-St. * ..37 1272 218 80 367 .288 2.16 22 Foreman, J., GR-KC-Col 32 898 194 71 269 .299 2.21 23 Clarkson, Mil-Det.22 645 137 49 188 .291 2.22 24 Barnett, KC-St.P. GR ..26 782 172 58 234 .299 2.23 25 Wadsworth, Det..l6 477 109 36 146 .308 2.25 26 Scott. GR 30 915 180 68 268 . 293 2.26 27 Tavlor, Mil 18 514 97 41 I*6 .303 2.27 28 Phillipi, Min 22 672 154 52 204 .303 2.36 29 McGill, St. P 17 509 114 41 146 .287 2.41 30 Egan, Det 29 848 185 71 263 .310 2.44 31 Halm, Det... 30 1168 255 97 374 .320 2.4S 32 Figgemler, Min... 41 1339 255 109 422 .315 2.65 33 Pardee. KC 18 587 136 49 186 .317 2.72 34 Brady. GR 26 834 209 71 279 . 334 2.73 35 Hutchinson. Min-. 42 J 302 286 115 413 .317 2.78 36 Carney. Min-KC.. 21 597 163 69 195 .325 2.81 37 Hetman. Min 15 394 97 46 136 .345 3.06 38 McFarl'd. KC-C 01.13 408 101 41 132 .323 3.15 39 Abbev KC 42 1412 335 140 443 . 314 3.33 40 Papp'lau, GR-MU.2O 760 196 72 247 .325 3.60 Games won, lost, tied and taken out of games. Taken Name. Won. Lost. Tied. out. Goar, Indianapolis.....2B 8 1 2 Jones, Columbus 17 <i 0 8 Denzer, St. Paul 9 8 0 3 Foreman, Ind'pTs ....27 9 0 7 Friend, Kansas City.. 4 10 0 1 Fricken, St. Paul *ls 12 1 6 Daniels, Cotumbus ....13 5 14 Mullane. St. Paul 14 11 0 5 Isbell, St. Paul 6 5 0 2 Phyle, St. Paul ID 8 0 3 Dowling. Milwaukee... 4 3 0 6 Jones, Milwaukee 11 3 0 3 Phillips. Indianapolis..3o 10 1 5 Terry, Milwaukee 22 5 1 4 Reidy, G. It. and MU..19 15 0 4 Kenner, Det. and C 01.14 5 0 9 Rettger, Mil. and C 01.24 8 0 8 Wolters, Ind. and Col. 9 16 0 5 Thomas, Detroit.., 26 14 0 5 Barnes, Milwaukee—l 9 17 1 1 Cross, G. R. & St. P.. 15 20 0 2 Foreman. G. R., K. C. and Col 11 14 0 7 Clarkson, Mil and Det 6 11 0 5 Barnett, K. C., St. P. and G. R 7 14 0 5 Wadsworth, Detroit... 7 6 0 3 Scott, Grand Rapids..lo 16 0 4 Taylor, Milwaukee 9 6 0 3 Phillippi, Minn'polis... 8 13 0 1 McGill. St. Paul 9 6 0 2 Egan. Detroit ...13 11 0 5 Hahn. Detroit 17 17 1 4 Figgemeier, Min 13 25 0 3 Pardee, Kansas City.. 3 13 1 1 Brady, Grand Rapids. 5 15 0 6 Hutchison. Minn..* 16 . 20 0 0 Carney, Minn. & K. C 4 12 0 5 Herman, Minn 1 8 0 6 McFarland, K. C. and Col 4 8 0 1 Abbey. Kansas City..ls 26 0 1 Pappalau. G. R. & Mil 8 11 0 1

SCHEME TO DEFRAUD EX-SLAVES. Sonthern Segroen Become Victims of a Pension Swindle. Washington Special to St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. Information has reached the Pension Bureau of a big scheme started by pension sharks to defraud the ex-slaves of the South. A great many of these negroes have undoubtedly been alreudy swindled. The scheme is based upon a bill introduced by Senator Thurston over a year ago to pension ex-slaves. The Pension Bureau has learned that agents of certain organizations have been traveling through the South anrl obtaining from ex-s!aves fees for the alleged filing and prosecution of pension claims. Three agencies have been located. One of them is located at Madison, Ark., another is located at Nashville. Tenn., and a third is located at Union City, Tenn. The department has already succeeded in convicting three men, and the most important arrest is that of J. H. Harris, who is to be tried next April for alleged embezzlement in obtaining money from ex-slaves upon the promise of securing for them a pension. The following circular letter has been sent to agents of one of the organizations: “Sir—This bureau is advised that you are an agent for the Ex-Slave Petitioners’ Assembly. organized with a view to securing registration granting pensions to ex-slaves. While any class of citizens has an unquestioned right to associate for the purpose of attempting to secure legislation believed, to be advantageous, it is an unfortunate fact that certain impostors have taken advantage of the organization of the United States Assembly and of similar associations to prey upon the innocent through false and fraudulent representations. On Feb. 6. 1896, a bill was introduced into the United States Senate by which it was proposed to grant such pensions. This bill was read twice, referred to the committee on pensions, and failed, on the adjournment of the Fiftyfourth Congress, and there is no provision of law under which an ex-slave can be pensioned as such. “This bureau has received many complaints that certain unprincipled persons have been traveling through the Southern States representing that the bill had become a law: that various sums had been appropriated to pay the pensioners thereunder, and that they were officers of the government of the United States, fully authorized and empowered to cause the names of exslaves to be inscribed up n the pension rolls; and under cover of these false and fraudulent representatives these impostors have collected various small sums from their dupes, and by so doing have rendered themselves liable to a fine of not more than $1.0)0, or to imprisonment of no longer than three yrars, or l oth, in the discretion of the court, under the provisions of the act of April 18, IXS4. This bureau would appreciate any information which you may he able to furnish as to the name and whereabouts of any person who has thus Impersonated an officer of the government in connection with this matter.”

OLD RED CLOUD DYING + NOTED SIOI X INDIAN CAN LIVE MIT A PEW DAYS LONGER. An Eselnsive Red Skin Who Gave the United St'*te Much Tronble Thirty or More Years Ago. * PINE RIDGE AGENCY. Neb.. Jan. 9. Old Red Cloud, the noted Sioux Indian, is dying in his shack on the Ogallala reservation here. lie can live but a few days longer. Red Cloud is the single survivor of that famous coterie of Sioux Indian leaders of which Old-Man-Afraid of-His-Horses, Spotted Tail and Sitting Bull helped to make history on the Western prairies. It canpot be truthfully said, however, that "Old Red,”* as he is familiarly known, was as powerful in war or debate as the three great chieftains who have been mentioned. He possessed all their craftiness, and it cannot be denied that he enjoyed certain elements of personal magnetism which marked him as a leader among his tribesmen. He was pre-eminent in planning mischief, but ho was, as a rule, mysteriously absent when his plans were carried out according to his mapping. Perhaps the most atrocious piece of work in which he took a hand was the Fort McKinney massacre, in which over a score of United States soldiers were led into ambush and slaughtered. That was when he was a vigorous young buck. Before this lamentable tragedy “Old Red" was a common marauder, full of devilment and it is probable that he took many a scalp from the wagon trains then on their way to Utah and the land of gold beyond the Rockies. But for the last thirty Red Cloud has led a comparatively peaceful life. hile his crafty counsel was often sought by his tribesmen, and his rank among them was that of a leader, the government did not clothe him with the dignity of chieftain, but reckoned him only as Red Cloud, powerful enough wdthout a title and yet too dangerous to be its possessor. When the Sioux and Cheyennes rebelled against the invasion of gold seekers in the Black hills in 1876 Red Cloud did not go on the warpath, although many of his band cast their fortunes with Sitting Bull, Gall, Grass and Rain-in-the-Face and were finally forced to sue for peace on the British line. But while Red Cloud was to all appearances a friendly Indian his heart was with the host lies, who were crimsoning the grass along the Little Big Horn with the blood of the Seventh's troopers. Red Cloud, however, was too cunning to leave his agency lor war. While the Sioux had the benefits of the workings of the red leader’s why brain Red Cloud himself knew too well what would be the ultimate outcome of the uprising and therefore held aloof. HIS HOME AT PINE RIDGE. It was in consideration of “Old Red's” absence from the theater of conflict that the government built the warrior a substantial two-story frame house at Pine Ridge and painted it white. It is to-day the most pretentious dwelling on the great Ogallala reservation. The building stands near White Clay creek, rifle shot distant from the agency buildings, and at the foot of a long range of buttes. Red Cloud watched the construction of his house with satisfied curiosity. He figured that it was a sort of payment for his ponies which the government confiscated during a time when the soldiers were at war with the Sioux and for which he had never received a penny. This bit of robbery, for it amounted to little else, rankled and still rankles in the breast of the old fellow. Always a bitter enemy of the whites, this wholesale swoop on his herd forever sealed his hatred. When the house was finished the carpenters erected a pole in front of the house and hoisted the American flag. The spectacle of the emblem flying above his own abode so angered Red Cloud that he cut the halyards and tore the flag into strips as soon as it fell fluttering to the ground. The staff still stands in front of the house, but no one again tried to float the emblem from its towering peak. Red Cloud was a vain and exclusive Indian. He seldom offered counsel. It was always sought. He was too pompous to mingle in dances unless they were held in the. round omaha to the east of his house. He was conscious of his power and fame. If the agent was lax or vacillating "Old Red” ran the reservation to suit himself. Laws governing Indian reservations were held in contempt by him unless there was a strong, firm hand administering them. In that case Red Cloud, although cowed, would stalk past the agent's office with a meek and lowly air, but one could rest assured that his old red heart was in rebellion. One day several years ago "Old Red” was missing from his reservation. Not one of his wives or followers knew whither he had gone. At least they said so. Runners were sent here and there, but no trace ol’ tho old fellow could he found. Days passed, when finally the agent received a telegram from Washington to the effect that Red Cloud, dressed in a ready-made suit of clothes, had called at the White House to see the President on his own hook. Later it was learned that the aggrieved traveler informed the executive that the agent was a baby, that his people were getting pickaxes instead of beans for rations and that, above all other things, he had not yet been paid for the ponies the troop had taken from him. A week later Red Cloud appeared on the reservation as unexpectedly as he had disappeared. He had made the long trip without escort or permit and had made his appeal single-handed and without the presence of a delegation of his tribesmen, a custom which he held in contempt. Os all the agents at Pine Ridge Red Cloud held but one in respect. This was Dr. McGilliouddy, who now lives in Rapid City, S. D. When the latter took charge of the reservation Red Cloud at once attempted to hold the officers in contempt. He even went so far as to laugh at the doctor’s slender phvsique and to pooh-pooh the way affairs were being conducted in the agency office. KICKED OUT OF THE OFFICE. One day Red Cloud was particularly offensive. McGillicuddy, who was not courting trouble, but who is not afraid of the devil himself, took the pompous, conceited leader of the Ogallalas and pulled his big Roman nose and swatted him hip and thigh. As Red Cloud emerged from the office door he was kicked in the most ample part of his royal carcass and sent sprawling upon the walk. From that time until McGilli- 1 cuddy left the agency he and Red Cloud were the best of friends. So much did the Indian think of the doctor, in fact, that he bestowed upon him the name of ThundeMn-His-Neck, observing, it is supposed, the hoarse voice of the doctor. One night Red Cloud was sorely troubled with an obdurate liver. He called at the agency pharmacy and told McGiilicuddy by means of signs and an interpreter that he was ill. Two doses of calomel were given the red man, who swallowed the powders and proceeded to make payment. When he was told that the medicine was free he demanded two more doses, which he tossed into his mouth. Later that night there were wild howls and grunts from the white house by the creek and it was nearly a week before “Old Red” appeared for duty. His face then looked like an old russet apple, so wrinkled and shriveled was it. So profoundly weak was he that he could smile but feebly to Dr. McGillicuddy, who found the old man squatting on a knoll above the agency and gazing wistfully at the setting suri. Red Cloud was a very old man w’hen the Sioux war of 1890 filled the West with alarm. Those who were in that campaign well remember him as bent and tottering, wrapped in a long faded purple overcoat and baggy trousers, the legs of which fell upon a pair of poorly-decorated moccasins. His face, deeply creased with age and woefully shrunken, was made doubly repulsive by a huge pair of blue goggles, which he wore because of his eyes failing night. Red Cloud wore neither paint nor feathers. He looked like the veriest "coffee cooler" of the agency—a red gnome, a desiccated, 111sinelllng savage, who seemed ready to be crunched by the hand of death any time. That was over seven years ago. There is now' little left of the Indian, who for over three generations has been a bloody, crafty yet interesting character of the Sioux nation. Counties, towns and horses bear his name, but the savage himself will soon be no more. The lust of the reaily great leaders of his tribe is now passing over the divide, where doubtless his untutored ears hear the chant of those who have gone before. But when Red Cloud dies it will be with a heart still steeled against the whites and a protest against the injustice of their government. He will die an irreconcilable, as did Sitting Bull. Red Cloud took no part In the last Sioux war. but it is said that he sanctioned the ghost dance and covertly aided the hostiles until their cause was doomed to defeat. He

will leave a daredevil of a son, ack Red Cloud, for the troops to subdue at some future time. OBITUARY. Judge Albert G. Ilojnton, rolltleal Editor of the Detroit Free Press. DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 9.—Judge Albert G. Boynton, for twenty-five years political editor of the Detroit Free Press, died this evening at the Alma (Mich.) Sanatorium. He had suffend from kidney troubles for two years past, which finally caused other complications. Last September he relinquished his work and was taken to Alma three weeks ago, but was unable to rally. Boynton was born March 31, 1837, at Bangor, Me. His father was of English ancestry, and his mother a lienal descendant of John Alden and other pilgrims. In 1854 he abandoned study at Bowdoln College on account of ill health and went to Montreal, where he later began law practice, and also contributed to the Canadian press. He w'ent to Detroit in 1857, practiced law* and became acting city attorney and later police judge. In 1572 he resigned office and purchased an interest in the Free Press, and had ever since been the principal editorial writer of the paper. He was vice president of the Free Press Company, and usually represented it, together with ex-Minister William E. Quinby, in the meetings of the Associated Press. Deceased was always a Democrat, and an uncompromising gold Democrat since the money issue W'as raised. He was a skillful and clear but eminently fair and dignified w'rlter on all questions of public concern. He leaves a widow, three daughters and a son. John D. Scully. PITTSBURG. Pa., Jan. 9.—John D. Scully, aged seventy-three, died to-day of inflammation of the brain, after a week's illness. Mr. Scully had been connected with the First National Bank of this city for forty-four years. As an officer of one of Pittsburg’s greatest financial institutions he was noted for fidelity and courtesy. His reputation as a banker was national, and his opinion on any subject connected with banking carried great w’eight with it. In 1863 Mr. Scully was treasurer of the Pittsburg Trust Company, when the institution became the First National Bank, and he was elected cashier. It was not only the first hank in Pittsburg to apply for a charter under the national-banking act, but the first in the United States. Because of some delay, however, in the granting of the charter several banks in New York began business under the national-bank law before the license to the Pittsburg institution was issued. The passing of the nationalbanking law’ in 1863 was largely due to the efforts of Mr. Scully, assisted by Charles Hurlbut, a Cleveland banker, long since deceased. Dr. William S. Tremnln. BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 9.—Dr. W illiam S. Tremain, one of the best-known physicians in this city, died to-night, aged sixty years. During the civil war he served as assistant surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry, as surgeon of the Thirty-first United States Colored Infantry and as assistant surgeon in the regular army. At the close of the war he settled in Baltimore, but later went West and was one of the founders of the Kansas City Medical College. He came to Buffalo in 1881. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and at the tti. e of his death' was managing director of the Fort Erie Jockey Club. Sir Robert Henry Meade. LONDON, Jan. 9.—Sir Robert Henry Meade, permanent under secretary of state for the colonies since 1891, is dead. Sir Robert Meade was born in 1835, educated at Oxford and appointed a clerk in the Foreign Office in 1859. He was attached to Lord Dufferin’s special mission to Svria in 1860, and in 1862 accompanied the Prince of Whales on his tour through Germany, Italy and the East. From 1871 to 1891 he was assistant under secretary of state for the colonies. Charles H. Kendall. CINCINNATI, 0., Jan. 9.—To-night at supper at the Burnet House Charles F. Kendall, of Camden, N. Y., fell dead of heart disease. He was president of the Kendall Knitting Company, with factories at Camden, Utica and Syracuse, N. Y. He had been to Flori la and reached here this morning on his return. His body will be sent to Camden, N. Y., to-morrow.

STARS AND STRIPES IN AFRICA. Enthnslanm Roused by Bishop Hartsell at Ilulawayo Festivities. New York Tribune. A report baa been received by mail from a correspondent of the Associated Press at Delagoa bay giving an account of an interesting incident in the recent tour of South Africa made bv Bishop Hartzell, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church. The jhatter was briefly reported by cable from Buluwayo on Nov. 9, but the mail advices contain interesting details. The correspondent says: “American spirit and enterprise are making great headway in Central Africa. During the recent week of festivities at Buluwayo. in Rhodesia, in connection with the completion to that place of 1,400 miles of railroad northward from Cape Town, that vigorous young town w r as often referred to as the Chicago of Central Africa. A descendant of Washington was secretary of the festivities committee. The splendid hotel and banqueting hall, where the two hundred guests from South Africa, Europe and American and two hundred more from Rhodesia were entertained, was built and is owned by an American, and side by side wdth the dozen or more large flags of England which adorned the walls hung equally large American flags. Many business men of the town and vicinity, and several of the scouts and fighters in the late Matabele wars, were from the United States. A remarkable scene occurred at one of the banquets. Bishop Hartzell, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the guests of the town and railroad authorities. was requested to present the toast, ‘Our South African Judges.’ After presenting the toast the bishop spoke of the essential unitv of the English-speaking peoples of the world, and especially of those in England and America. Pointing to the two flags hanging side by side, he said: “ ‘The union jack and the stars and stripes, the flags of the two great Englishspeaking nations of the world, both blending in their folds the red. v'hite and blue, symbols of bravery, purity and loyalty, may the people thev represent ever be one in all that is brave and pure and loyal, and at every strategic point on earth where the conflict rages between civilization and barbarism may thede flags float side by side, over Englishmen and Americans—one in thought and purpose—to defend the weak and uplift the race.’ “As the speaker sat dowm the more than four hundreds guests sprang to their feet and shouted and cheered for several minutes. ending with three tremendous cheers for the stars and stripes. Stanley, the explorer: Sanderson, the Irish leader, and several other members of the English Parliament, as w T ell as governors, jurists and others from the South African states, were present, all of whom joined in the demonstration. To add to the impressiveness of the scene while the gue~ts shouted the band piaved ‘Yankee Doodle.’ “Bishop Hartzell is being received wdth the greatest cordiality on his episcopal tour as bishop of Africa, and concessions in lands and other valuable properties have been offered him for missionary purposes. One gift Includes 6.000 acres under the British flag in a mountainous and healthy region. As this letter Is written the bishop is at Delagoa bay. on his w#y to Beira, ftfW miles further north on the east coast, from wdilch point he will go inland several hundred miles to locate this concession. His plan Is to make this point a base of operations from which to extend missions northward to the equatorial lake regions, and northwestward toward Angola on the w’est coast, from w'hlch a chain of Methodist missions is already being pushed eastward. The bishop’s wife accompanies him.” Germany ns a Producer of Steel. M. G. Mulhall, in North American Review. Germany holds third place among the nations of the world as a producer of steel, the output in the above period having risen from 35,000 to 2.500,000 tons. The annual output of iron and steel goods is of the approximate value of $-130,000,000, of which nearly one-fifth is exported. The value of all hardware manufactures is about $525,000,000. home consumption standing for $440,000,000, equal to $5.25 per inhabitant. against 10 in France, sl2 in Great Britain and sl6 in the United States. The weight of metal consumed annually averages 205 pounds per inhabitant in Gerna nv, as compared with 240 pounds in Great Britain and 320 in the United States. There are 750 first-class machine factories in Germany, of which Prussia has three hundred, turning out everything requisite for railwavs. agriculture, mining, etc. Krupp’s covers one thousand acres, employing 310 steam engines and twenty thousand workmen and consuming one million tons of steel yearly. The rapidity with which the manufacture of hardwnre has grow n in Germany may be judged from the fact that it compared with that of France in 1H75 as four to three end In 1595 as five to two. Its present position is compared with that of Great Britain as three to four.

DR. JOHN HALL RESIGNS NOTED NEW YORK DIVINE SURRENDERS HIS PASTORATE. f * For Over Thirty Yearn In Charge of tlie Fifth-Avenue Presbyterian Church—Sketch of Ills Career. NEW YORK. Jan. 8.-Rev. Dr. John Hall to-day announced to his congregation hi* resignation as pasrtor of the p-ifthnavenu® Presbyterian Church. Many of his old parishioners heard it with deep emotion. He haa held the place since Nov. 3, 1867. The Rev'. T)r. Hall has been for over . quarter of a century one of the most prominent divines in the Presbyterian Church. He was born in Armagh, Ireland, in 1829, and is of Scotch lineage. He was a precocious scholar, entering the College of Belfast in his thirteenth year, and it is not without significance, in a study of his sermonizing, to mention that he was during his educational training frequently a Hebrew prizeman, so that a well-grounded scholarship underlies his earliest studies in the Scripture. In 1552 he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church n Armagh, and in 1858 he was advanced to the pulpit of. St. Mary’s Abbey Chuicb in Dublin. In 1867 he visited the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States as a delegate from the corresponding body in Ireland, and such was the impression which grew out of these official relations that before the expiration of the same year he had received, and accepted, a call from the Fifth-avenue Society, of New York, the negotiations having been conducted by cable communication. He had already enjoyed the unique distinction of an honorury appointment by the Queen to a commissionersnip of education in Ireland. Dr Hall entered on his work Nov. 31, 1567, in the old church at Nineteenth street and during these thirty years a steady and vigorous growth has followed his ministration in all its departments. He is now nearly seventy years old. Fourteen years ago a writer said of him: "He is tall, burly in figure, suggesting the athlete rathet than the pietist, and enjoys a puysique built up In generous yet symmetrical proportions. Ills eyes are blue, vivacious and beaming with kindliness and at times genial humor. He preaches in gown and bands, llis voice is low, rich und musical in quality, yet so modulated and managed that it catches and holds attention and is easily heard in every part of his church. His words come deliberately yet with the candid simplicity of an innocent, great-hearted life, in which intellectual arts and refinement clearly take the second place. The congregation are straightway hushed to reverent attention and while the speaker never wastes or tritlcs with a word, each word seems to invest a loving welcome in the hearers, so sincerely in sympathy are speaker and people. A taniiiiar hymn is read with much tenderness and unction. The organ gives out the tune; hymn books rustle in every pew, the tenor precentor takes up the melody, and the solemn fervor of the great volume of song brings to mind the traditions of the old Covenanters at their simple devotions. The pastor reads a chapter from the Old Testament, and almost every one finds the place and follows his expressive delivery, word by word. The conventional long prayer is discursive, and surcharged with the sj>eciul purpose of the morning’s ministry. Another h>mn follows in which everybody joins heartily, and the full voiced choiare arouses emotions of solemnity rarely touched by more elaborate ritual worship. "The text is short, epigrammatic in form, easily remembered. The sermon seems to send down a tap root far and firmly Into the great, underlying verities of personal, social and national life, its growth and development are rather indigencus in type. The germinal impulses are ethical and moral and its direction objective with a sturdy urgency towards the shaping of life and character. There is a marvelous fertility and abundance of resource, for the soil is rich and Inexhaustible, and the methods pursued ore molded by an instinctive and certain intelligence. The preacher keeps steadily in range of the people, touching their needs, temptations and opportunities with quick, tender solicitude, and at all points is too fondly wrapped up in the immediate pressure of such a personal try to indulge in idealisms or the mere elegancies of composition; yet the firmly braced argument, which is felt rather than seen, its easy, irresistible growth, the dense, richly hard quality of his words and the unconscious harmony of an occasional paragraph, bear witness of a sensitive culture and a splendid intellectuality. But the doctor is greater und stronger at the heart than at the head, and the glowing humanity that pulsates througli his utterances is something nobler and more precious than the cold scintillations and auroral flashes of scholarship and philosophy, it is said that his sermons are carefully written and then left in his study when lie enters the pulpit. Any sketch of this distinguished preacher must be incomplete which fails to note the healthy, w’holesomo temper that characterizes his discourse. While, technically, a strict theologian of his school and unswervingly accepting its traditions, there Is a fine flush of optimism that brightens his methods. Indeed, not infrequently a touch of grim humor or of homely illustration ripphs on the surface of his thought, a heart throb of that single touch of nature which makes the whole world kin. He is indefatigable as a worker; often preaches three times on Sunday; exercises important trusts and an unchallanged influence in the counsels of his denomination, and finds time to enter into the humanitarian and purely social issues of the day.” This pen portrait of Dr. Hall and his methods was made w’hen he was fifty-four years old. He has now liegun to show the effe< ts of age, but Presbyterians hope he may continue in health und be able to give his wise counsels to the church. For the last fifteen years no great question has come before the General Assembly in which he has not given advice. The Fifth-avenue Presbyterian Society, of which Dr. Hall was tho head so long, dates hack in its history to the first society of that denomination, which was established in 1707. A colony from this society, comprising many of the most celebrated families of that period, organized anew church in 1807 and built their house of worship in Cedar street, between Nassau and Liberty. In the old list of pcwholders may bo read the names of Archibald Gracie, James Lenox, Stephen Whitney, H. Auchlncloss, W. Codman. Dr. Hosack, J. Hyslop, J. Aspinwall. the Strongs and Elisha Colt. In 1834 the then up-town movement carried the society to Duane and Church streets, whence a further removal to Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street took place in 1852. In 1875 the society, after another and probably final concession to tin push of trade, worshiped for the first time in the magnificent sanctuary where the same avenue is crossed by Fifty-fifth street. The congregation fills the chun-h. which provides two thousand sittings. The building, with Us chapel, cost $1,060,000. The material is brown stone and tho architecture a freely modified Gothic, and the spire for symmetry and effectiveness may be ranked with that of Trinity Church and that of Holy Trinity Church on Brooklyn Heights. Tho interior is a frank attempt to subordinate the limitations of a proper Gothic church to the sole and supreme one of an auditorium or assembly room, where the pastor is himself liturgy and evangelist. The attempt is successful, although the lines worry the eye and the floors seem to subside at first like the unsteady deck of a ship. But every individual commands a perfect view of the pulpit und preacher, and the absence of columns and pillars, and the fine management of the ceiling secure absolutely perfect acoustic effects, as the gentlest tones of the preacher are distinctly audible throughout the immense Interior. Spacious galleries encircle the four walls, the organ and pulpit completing tho cincture. The finish Is In ash. and the organ case and pulpit are of the same materia!. The effect, therefore, is cheerful and inviting, and under the great elongated skylight and pleasantly toned windows an all pervading harmony of light and color is ecured. An enormous organ fills tha western urea, and the loft for the choir which consists of a single precentor—is worked out into a reflecting canopy above tho pulpit platform just underneath.

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