Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 August 1893 — Page 1

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PARTNERS WANTED.

We want lOOhew partners—and don't want tbem stlent ones, either—in the shape of that number of bright, energetic boys to sell The Ma'l every 8atarday afternoon. A boy oftbis kind can make from 25 cents t»» dollar, and more, by a little hu»tli g, and besides keeping himself in

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money, will

get his first Ideas of business. There pre many communities in the city, ^vrhere a few hours'canvassing will secure

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customers. The Mail is sold

to boys for 2K cente per copy, «nd to -^customers foroc. The Mail has a host i| |of wide-awake partners now, but desires 3to increase the number.

MAN ABOUTTOWN.

The Wey-Kennedy conflict over the conduct of the city's fire department had Its semi-monthly airing at the meeting of the counoll Tuesday night, aod the conocilmati from the Fifth ward finally preferred the obarges against Kennedy that he has long been threatening. He prefaced this by charging the chief with wantonly destroying 3,600 feet of hose la ah effort to prove that the city needed 4,000 feet of new hose, and to prove this read a letter from one of the companies whose hose was bursted at the test, and whose agent was unsuccessful at the recent hose letting. The letter charged Kennedy with being unfair in his test, and with the hose of this certain company, and was just such a let ter as might have been expected from a company that had been called on to furnish two or thiee hundred dollars' worth of goods to replace that which had not come up to its voluntary guarantee. The chief roplled to the councilman, olaimlng that the hose had been glyen a fair test and offered to submit to competent experts—naming Supt. Williamson of the water works and the Polytechnic professors—as to whether or not the manner he adopted of testing the strength and pressure was not fair. Ho grew a little warm, and declared that he "had tested a good deal of hose in his time, Imt never for such a narrow brainod man as Frank Wey."

~v The charges preferred by Mr. Wey

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S4SI T*BKB HAUTB AUG 1st 1808. Charges against John Kennedy Chief of the Fire Department of the aty of ferie Haute. 1. Buying Goods without orders-of Cora*

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It too. Doatrojrtng Wilfully City'a Property. 2. Charging |^?«ommnte« Of being to libera? with Uitj'Tmoney In expenditures, when he himself Is the person spending it.

Is not able to Head the English Language intelligibly FRANK A. WKY. When presented, the charges were ruled out of order by the Mayor, not being sworn to as required by the ordinance, but before the meeting closed Mr. Wey made the proper affidavit, and swore that they were true to the best of his knowledge and belief." The oharges were referred to the lire committee, of which Mr. Wey is Chairman, before whom the chief must be tried.

Whaieve? may the merits of the hose question—and like every other It has two sides—it is the general opinion that the third oharge preferred against Kennedy, that of being unable to read was about as unmanly a thing as could have been done, under the circumstances. It is Kennedy's misfortune that this charge is true^ but It no new thing, it was well known hen he was elected chief before hlspiesent incumbency, and it was known when he was la«-t chosen— and when Mr. Wey doubtless voted for htm, No qualification of that kind is required of a ire chief, and while it would be wise if such were the case, It has in no manner been shown that the lack of this ability has impaired Kennedy's usefulness as a chief. That Prof. Eddy, of the polytechnic, Is a highly educated man, Stone will question, but it would t*ke him along time to acquire the knowledge and experience to handle a tire aa cleverely as Kennedy does

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Mr Wey may be right in the matter and Mr. Kennedy may be wrong—and of oourse opinion is divided—bat the public, whose servants they both are, likes to see fair play, and it wan oertalnly unfair to make this third charge against Kennedy, when it is possibly not his fault, and is certainty his misfortune. More especially is it true In a case behind which there seems to be a great deal of personal feeling.

One thin# Is certain, that this prolonged controversy between, the chairman of the fire committee and the chief of the fire department, does not tend to Increase the discipline that should prevail among men who in entrusted with such great responsibilities There Is no other city In the country, of anything like our alse, that has as efficient a fix* department aa Terre Haute**, and it is certainly time thai a halt should bo called before the example set by the two head* produce* demoralisation.

p. B. O'Reilly, whose pleasant face had come to be looked upon as one of the permanencies about the court house, retired from hit poalUou in the county clerk's office on Monday last, after a continuous service of n«trly a quarter of a century the actual Ume he has been there bain* nearly twenty-nine years. Bis first service libera waa to l&B, under

Andrew D. Wilkins, father of George D. Wilkins, route manager of the Express, {who was then county clerk. In 1884 he again entered the clerk's office aa deputy to Rufus H. Simpson, the father of

Frank Simpson, foreman of the Daily Express. He served for awhile as Martin Hollinger's deputy, was two terms under Med Smith, and bad charge of the crimioal and probate dockets during the incumbency of John C. Warren. His long service in the office gave him such familiarity with the records, that it is said some of the old time dockets would open of their own accurd to smile at him. When the political aspect of the clerk's office was charged Mr. O'Reilly was retained temporally, his term of service being concluded on Monday,and for the present Mr. Koquet will have charge of the probate and criminal bus! ness. Mr. O'Reilly was ever kind and obliging to the newspaper reporters, aod he will be missed by them, aa well as by lawyers and others.

One of the earliest recollections the Man About Town has of P. B. O'Reilly was when he wa« iu charge of the uld Fourth Ward publio school. The M. A. T. was only a boy then (and a pretty bad one, too, if the whole truth be told) and one fine day in an effort to relieve the monotony of school life, be scattered a bushel (more or less) of wheat over the floor. Mr. O'Reilly made htm gather up every grain of it, and deposit it on the principal's desk—the whole sohool enjoying the ludicrous spectacle of a very mad boy groping around the floor picking up grains of wheat. There was then and there recorded avow that when the aforesaid very mad boy "got to be a man he'd llok P. B. O'Reilly." But like many other similar vow, it was never carried out, and be stands to day a spared monument, and, besides, if one carried out when a man all the oaths be solemnly took when a boy to "lick" somebody he'd have very little time to hustle for bread for the babies, and so Mr. O'Reilly along with many others will remain spared.

A story is told on acertaln young man of this city—and who is something of a bicyclist—who while calling on a young lady from a neighboring city visiting friends here, jokingly placed the chain from his bicycle around her neok and looked it. During the evening the incident was forgotten, and when he made his adieus, he negleoted to remoye the chain. The young lady left for her home on the early morning train expecting to find a key that would open the look. She was disappointed in her efforts, and the young man was obliged to make a trip to her home for the purpose of removing the ohaln. Now he plays no more suob jokes.

The council on Tuesday night approved the appointment by City Treasurer Hauck of Charles Balch as his deputy, and by City Clerk Goodwin, of Will Hatcilton, a* his deputy. The new deputies are mighty olever young men, and they will fit! the duties of their new positions with oredil

The man who composed "After the Ball," made a hundred thousand dollars on It. He ought to be locked up In a room ono hundred thousand hours with the street band we've had with us this week, and have "After the Ball" played to him every second of the time. It is openly asserted that the Wichita Plccalo Band him challenged the visitors to mortal combat—musically—the scene of the conflict to be located In the deepest recesses of Forest Park. The survivors will have to live through "After the Ball," "Mary and John," and "If you love me, tell me with your eyes," as that is the programme each band is obliged to play. The survivors will get the others' instruments.

There will be a large-sized and very well-developed yell go up from the property owners on oast Wabaah avenue, between Nineteenth street (the old city limits) and Rose Orphan Home, when they realise that the council has ordered them to pave their sidewalks with brick. Their sidewalks are yet in embryo, and the needleea expense of paving them with brick will cause a kick. Hie resolution called for paving sidewalks from Fifteenth street to city limit* east, and doubtless intended to teach Nineteenth only, but what waa intended and what waa ordered axe different things. The city limits on the south aide of Wabaah avenue run only to Nineteenth street, the property east of that having never been annexed to the city.

The council entered Into aa Ironbound contract with Sonnefieid St Knots, Tuesday night, tor the erection of a Brownlee garbage furnace, which is to be started within fifteen days from date of contract and completed In forty-five, the contractor agreeing to forfeit *10 a day for every day required beyond that limit. The furnace will be four-and-a-half feet hi*h, avefeet wide, and twentyeight long, and will have a guaranteed capacity for burning seventy-live yards of sl^ garbage per day. The tern "city garbage" Is to include garbage from houses, weed*, refuse from markets and stores, stable manure, contents of vault* *nd privies, the sweepings of atone tad shop*, aod the usual accumulations

of animal and vegetable matter, including dead animals, but of course includes no incombustible matter. The*furnace is to be tested to the entire satisfaction cf the crematory committee of the council, and if it does not come up to the guarantee it may bo rejected either by the committee or the council, and the contractor will be out his time, labor and expense:. The work is to be done under the supervision of the city engineer, and is guaranteed for five years, the contractor to furnish all repairs needed except grate bars and garbage grate bars. The contract price, as hss been stated, is f7,000.00. The contract is signed for W. N. Keller, of Dallas, Texas, by Sonnefieid A Ennls, attorneys in fact, and the bond in the sum of |7,000, to insure a faithful carry* ing oat of the contract is signed by J. S. Sonnefieid, E. Dodson, E. L. IATttlns, G. A. Lyon, and Joseph Frisz. George Sonnefieid, of Dallas Texas, who is interested in the contract, is an did Terre Haute boy, beinga son of Jonathan Sonnefieid, the well-known contractor. He has a good thing in this garbage 'furnace, and it is a matter of congratulation that the cfty could patronize an ex-Terre Haute man, when it became necessary to invest in this business.

From present indications, there is a possibility of the oil boon being revived in this vicinity. The old Phoenix oil well, southwest of the guarantee's well, had Stopped flowing altogether, and in an effort to startf the flow again, the well was thoroughly oleaned. To the surprise of Superintendent Cooper, the oil began coming again, in increasing quantities, until at present the output is from fifty to seventy-five barrels a day, with possibilities that it may reach a hundred, as the proportion of water is decreasing. This oil dells for one dollar a barrel, which would indicate that the Phoenix is a good thing. There are many in this community who h&ve had faith that there was oil in abundance beneath us, and this will increase their faith—although possibly they will not be willing to back their faith just now, to as great extent as before.

Superintendent Burke, of the Street Car company, turned out one of the open motor cars this week, and expects to have them all out next week. They're better late than never, and when they put in an appearance, countless thousands wilj rise up and oallrh|m blessed^.

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CAN YOU TELL WHYTT IS

That one's piety strengthens as health weakens. That people will get married When courtship Is so sweet.

That oondolence is never extended to a newly sacrificed bride. That ladies never fail to oomplain of hoarseness when invited to sing.

That so many men try to pull themselves oit of trouble with, a corkscrew. That we are so muoh angrier with him who shows us our fault than with him who leads us therein.

That a woman will make excuses for her bread when she knows it is the best she ever made, and knows that her company knows it.

That a man's stomach will be so ever* lastingly squeamish at homeland at the easing house display a faith like a grain of mustard seed.

That It is so much easier to be polite to people whom we shall probably never see again than those whose good opinion we have reason to cultivate.

Another ohapter was added to the history of the ill-fated Forest Park enterprise this week, when the owner of the dam just below the park raised it, and allowed the water of the creek to run out, thus depriving the park of one of its ohief charms. Then Wea McPeak surrendered his lease of the park, and turned it over to Receiver Conzman, who is at a Iocs to know what to do with it. To add to his perplexity, one of the notee given in payment for the^park, falls due Aagust 19th, and he hasn't enougtmoney belonging to his trust to pay the Interest, $540. By the terms of the sale, If one of the notes is sot paid when due, the entire unpaid balance be? oomes due, and If thia note la not paid August 19th, the original owner P. C. Henry, Will be in a position to sue for the amount due him, 19,000.00 and It is not likely he will neglect the opportunity. Besides the nine thousand due him, there are obligations outstanding of 930,000, the holders of which will doubtless Have to whistle for their money. It ia greatly to be regretted that Preeidsnt light's reckless expenditure of the funds of the park company left it tn suob shape as to be affected by lite shortness of money sow pttvalast, for there is so question but that it Is one of the most beautiful spots in tile State, and if improved judiciously, and mansged eoon omioally, could be made to pay hand some dividends. It Is said that a couple of saloon keepers of thia city offered to make a lease of tfaepeark, wlfh the intention of making a place of popular rssort, and divide the profits with the park company, through Its rsoeivsr. The offisr was declinsd, howerer, sad the lease given to McPeak

TERRE HAUTE, END. SATURDAl^^KNiNG, AUGUST 5,1893. Twenty-fourth Year

THlMliL'S GRADUATES.

The prlde bf The Mail has ever been its newstoy^'' From the date of its first issue^ nepuriy twenty-five years ago, it has hadga^hercd around it a group of bright-faoed, hustling little fellows, getting their first ideas of business, by selling on the streets every Saturday the paper that has always been so cordially welcomed in every household in the eity. They are so different from the general run of newsboys to be found in the great cities that they are not to b\ mentioned in the same breath. They arOmot hoodlums—as is too often the with the great city newsboys—but me from the homes of the rich well as from those perhaps not so ejl blessed In this world's goods— ambitious and energetic—to them The Mail greatly owes its prosperity. Many

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man who is now prominent among business men Of this community made his start in life as a Mail newsboy, and still retains in his heart a tender spot for The Mail and the associations that cluster around it.

Glancing through the reoord In The Mall office we find among the qames of newsboys that of James W. Land rum, the successful manager of the Terre Haute Coal and Lime Company Spencer F. Ball, who clung to the newspaper business, and to whose energetio management the present great prosperity of the Daily Gazette is due. Charles W. Conn, a Mail boy, once, and little

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uglit, doubtlessthat he would be the of successful an institution as t$ie Vigo County National Bank. Charles Baur was among them, too, and a good one he must have been to develop into one of the shrewdest hotel managers is the country. In the procession was Robert Hayman, who gathered some clever I4*a8 about newspapers in those days, for he well knows how to usb tbem nowadays, when he is the most succes*f ul of all the managers of the numerous amusement places controlled by the Dioksons, who are well up t# to his abilities. Ernest Whitehouse was a Mall newsboy, too, In those old days, and while perhaps the record he thade isnotas enviable as those made tjfy some of his associates, it can truly saidi|i ftls j^ebalf that persecutions, much anything else—after he i^ade his first misstep—led to his down-

M^x^^B^^^fie^lever assistant oashief of tbe First Natioaal bank, had tt Mail route then, as d|d John Seaman, who is the successful manager of J. Biel's wholesale tobacco business. Bam Farmer sold Mails, too, and it is to be hoped that he was more successful as a newsboy than he has been since as a prizefighter. Ed Moorehead, who Is a successful physician in Chicago, Louis D. Smith, the newsdealer and ticket broker, George Maier, secretary of the Terre Haute Brewing Co., Eugene Hess, who is bookkeeper for a big Kansas City wholesale houBe, George Holloway, the artistic photographer, were among the crowd that every week besieged The Mail's front doors in times gone by. So was "Willie" Dorsey, who has long since outgrown the Willie part of his name, and is now plain "Bill," and after being assistant city engineer, is now oarrylng out? a big sewer contract in Ishpeming, Micalgan, in company with Frank H. Cooper, ex-city engineer, who is likewise a Mail graduate.

Albert Bantais in the wilds of western Texas, engaged with an uncle in the lumber business. Wesley Glover is also in the lumber business in the northern part of this city, and Mort Gould Is likewise in that business in Chicago, with his father-in-law, Ex-Mayor Dickason, of Danville, 111. Eugene Glover is in the drug store business in Denver, Col. Will Kelley and Charles Kelley were as energetic selling Malls then as they are now In soliciting insurance. Emo BlchowslCy is a big fruit grower in lower California, and was back here on a visit a short time ago. Patrick Walsh was is It then, and as he witnesses some ol his colleagues scrap"in the city council now, it probably reminds him of the wars that were indulged in, is the effort iter get a place in line, Chas. C. Glfford, blU clerk at the Big Four freight offioe, MAX Frank who travels for a New York house, Fred Tyler, the contractor, were among the earlier newsboys of The Mail.

Further dows is the years are to be found the names of Chas. Fox, bookkeeper for Nelson Morris dt Co., Thomas Shannon, the railroader, John Bryan, the paper-hanger, Martin Ryan, of the B, AT. H. freight office, Michael Ryan molder, Adolph Neukom, bookkeeper for Zimmerman A Staht, Jobs MoArthur, bookkeeper for the Terre Haute Coal and Lime Co., Cbaunoey Pointer, painter, Gar! Wittenberg, of Freitag A Wittenberg, plumbers, Herman Moencb, wltfe A. Z, Foster, Ed Dorsey, machinist at the Van shops. Chas. Hammerstelu, roller for the Wabaah Iron Oo^ JSdwsrd Duncan and Cosny Walsh, of t&e fir* department, Will Katxenbwjb, pOMeuger agent for the

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St. Lottie* Herbert Diekhout, clerk In the secretary of state's office at Indianapotis, Thatcher Parker, saperintendentofabig machine abop at Burlington, Iowa, Fred Longman, of the Van jkpditor*a office, Herbert Travloil, travel­

ing matt for E. H. Bindley & Co William Garvin, of Garvin Commercial College, Harry Burget, with a big drug house in New York City, Fred Freers, witb the telephone company, Frank Buckingham and Will Hamilton, the retired actors, the first named of whom is a photographer at Princeton, Ind., the latter deputy city clerk, Michael O'Brien, who now spells his name "Mtque," one of the brightest reporters on the Cincinnati press, Frank Hedges, an expert with a large Chicago establishment, Chas. Wood, commonly known as "Cap.," traveling for Elliott A Johnson, hatters, Ross Miller, the Vandalia engineer, Otto Brewer, with E. L. Feidler, the grooer, Clair Dobbs, with John G. Dobbs, furniture, Albert Neukom, druggist, Louis Naylor, olerk Van freight office, Augustus Markle, the eleotricrtl expert, Willis Miller, real estate and insurance agent, Adolph Joseph, clothing, Louis Katzenbaoh, undertaker, Wm. Bensinger, machinist at Van shops, Frank Sbewmaker, manager new Pittsburg Coal A Coke Co., Robert Paige, olvil engineer, Wm. Nasb, painter, Van shops, WillNeukom, druggist, Frank Connelly, cashier E. A T. H. freight office, Jacob Strauss, manager Union Paotfic Tea Co., George Lintz, policeman, Frank Borgstrom, of the Vigo County Bank. Lee Greiner, shoe manufacturer at Vincepnes, Harry Eoulkes, the popular clerk with Schluer, James MoGrew, with W. A. Roberts, the shoe man—and so on indefinitely. As they earnestly devoted their juvenile energies to their embryo business in those days, so are they as men devoting their time and energies to the calling of their maturer life—good citizens, assisting to promote and advance the welfare of the several comunities in which they reside. May the lads who, to-day, just as earnestly devote their time to prospering The Mall, as did the boys named here, make asexoelleut a reoord for themselves as have the boys of old. And they will, too, for the future bankers, merchants, and professional men of this community, are to-day the Mail's advance guards. Right well do they perform their workmay their shadows never grow least

"TWO."

One of the cleverest fellows ever in the newspaper business in tbls .clty was Frank Seaman, who started the Dally News several years ago, but who is now in oharge Of a big printing establish rnent in Kuoxvllle^-^Bsmn. He is***# poet of no mean tbility, and the following little gem from his pen would be oreditable to one who makes greater pretensions to the possession of the poetic fire: Two gather lilies and wade the sweet clover,

Bhoutlag glad Bongs in their morning and May Odd are their dreams and the clouds that float over.

And golden the future stretching faraway. Two launch their boat tor a voyage of long The^liglfi ripples play, and the wind is off the shore While the red light of the morning Is falling

Sturdy and strong sails the boat—dips the oar. Two, band In hand, climb over the moon-

Footsore and weary from tempest and toil With only a moment to drink from the fountain,

Renewing their strength for to-morrow's turmoil. Two, when the autumn hath putonitsglory, 81t by the shores of the beaattful past. Whose soleraft waves break witb a wonderful story

Of fancied ships that went down in the blast.

Of castles In the air andfflfrds on the wing,

Two lle at rest under blossoming rosesWinter sifts over them gently the snow Sunlight of summer above tbem reposes, ilrplaci and go.

Their places »re flHed and the years come eta

AMUSEMENTS.

The opera house, after thorough renovatioo, reoarpeting, and general brightening up, will be opened for the season next Saturday night, with Clark A Williams' combination, In "Our Married Men*" Misa Sadie Farley, the well known Terre Haute actress, supported by Col. J. H. Hantiey, sn actor of much ability and experience, will appear during fair week, In a round of standard plays. The company is under the efficient management of 3. W. Barry, and contains msny Terre Haute favorites*

NOTBS.

Pauline Hall's new opera Is to be oalled (The Honeymooners." Mrs. Langtry has again made op her mind to try an American tour. preparations are under way for the production of "In Missouri," by Angus tus Thomas, at Hooley'e Theatre, Chicago, next month, with Nat Goodwin in the peart of a red-headed aberift

Elmer E. Vanoe, knows In theatrical drelee as the author of "The limited Mall," has anew play for this season in which will be introduced a ten-hor»e power electrical engine built entirely of steel*

The Oou&cil of Administration of the World's Fair has decided to assign space within Jackson Park for as open-air theatre, Is which it is planned that SbaksspeareV plays shall be acted by professionals. Duncan Harrison Is as itouaoedas manager.

ONCE MORE, BURGLARS-

When John R, Hager got out of bedl last Wednesday morning, and had ad* vanced his toilet to that stage wnere a man reaches for his trousers, lo, and behold they were missing. Mr. H. doesn't drink anything stronger than lemoa phosphate, and was therefore certain that he hadn't desposlted themissing apparel on the stairway th» night before, and he was naturally little curious. Further search showed that his vest was also gone. He pursued his investigations after completing hlsr toilet and found the trousers and vest had been rifled of their contents by a. burglar, and left on the grass on the tofr adjoining his. He is minus a gold watc&4 and fifteen oents in cash, and acknowledges his willingness to surrender alll title to the fifteen cent if the burglar will only return the watoh, which h® will no doubt do when he sees this.

Two doors north of Mr. Hager's, lives* E. H. Bindley. The burglar doubtlessthought that a man who could putup suoh a handsome house as Mr -. Bindley is ereoting.on south Sixth street ought to have something about his clothes. He pried up a kitchen window, in the effort to find out, but after abstracting seventy-five oents from, the pocket of Mr. B.'s son, left without, pursuiug his investigational! &

The same night, Tuesday, Martixr Hollinger's residence, 308 south Sixth street, was broken into, where the visitor secured ten dollars.

Conrad Flnkhouser's place, on Hul«man street, was visited Tuesday night, but $3 in money and some cooking utensils was all that, waa^ taken by the visitors. fl§ 4&L

The best haul ef the week was m£de Thursday night at the resldenoeof JohnsHarris, at No. 28 south Seventeenth' street, Harris had drawn 115 from MoKeen's Bank, and after paying some bills went home with |02. When he arose' yesterday he found that his trousers were gone, and likewise his money. His trousers he found in the alley, but not his money. The burglars, whoever they were, seem to have been on to this cash, as it was two o'clock In the morning when Harris went home, and at fivowhen he arose his money was gone.. This, at least, Is the story told by Harris^

At high noon yesterday, the week's reoord of felonies was increased by a bold robbery at the residence of WillBeaoh, No. 810 Spruce street. The rear door was broken open, and a large bun-' die of olothing, a silver watoh and gold chain were taken.

The police believe these burglaries* have been the work of the numerous tramps who have been around here and! are making every effort to locate the prepetrators. Captain Hyland arrested?, a tramp yesterday named R. B. Rogers, who had been in town two hours, and had succeeded in stealing some olothing, from a Big Four engineer, which he was trying to pawn. The fellow made a bold break for liberty, but was captured after a chase.

VIGO FAIR.

The Terre Haute fair and races, week after next, promise to furnish, as usual, some sensational features. Every year in some, respects old Vigo beats all other fairs.

The first exhibitor to ask for big space was the Terre Haute Carriage dtr Buggy Company which will show some oftbe stook made for the World's Fair. The first entry from a distance was frona the state of Kansas, for the fine art hall. The entire exhibit of ladies' work, from kitchen to fine art, will be showed in the big hall. ?.

The raoing features of the.fair, this year, can be pronounced in advance ft powerful attraction. The prodigious number of entries, from Boston to California, only prove what a magnet the Terre Haute track is, but like a magnet bar it has a positive pole to attract fast, horses and a negative pole to scare away the slew ones.

Speaking of poise, the Hamlin trotting team, to beat the, world's pole reoord, is a great card for the fair. "Blue Ribbon Day," on Monday, Aug, HU»» is a happy Idea by which everybody oaa see three geod races, without paying any gate fee, that day being free. Reserved seats for apart of the amphitheatre will be sold nsxt week. Many of the fair* have skipped this year, but the Vigo will* be on hand with its ball displays (for which space should bs secured itosee) and a more vailed and lengthy race programme than was ever offerer to a Terr# Haute audlesce. This will be tbe first, big meetly to test the sew rules by which a horse winning two heats out of three Is first hone. It will shorten the raoee, increase the speed and give trickery a black eye. Some of the best races this year have been damaged by poor judgisg, but the fair is always noted for geod judges, good raoee and good horses^, and lots of them.

Three hundred pounds (English, money) or 11,500 United States money I* what aa English jury mulcted Lottie Collins Is damages for staying is thiscountry to get f800 per week, and thereby* breaking a contract to sing •^Ta-ra-ra'^ in London.