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  • TJILHTB HERE, f; Senators and Representatives Eager …chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1892-07-18/ed-1/seq-6.pdf · THE TJILHTB HERE, Famous Drivers and Train-ers Arrive
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THE TJILHTB HERE, Famous Drivers and Train- ers Arrive for the Homewood Races. SPLAtf IS YERY HOPEFUL. The Biggest Grand Circuit Entry List Known for Years. ED O'DELL WILL DRIVE EEBDS. President Brash Tenies a Rumor About the Baltimore Club. GENERAL SPORTING KEWS OP THE DAT There was qnite a gathering of horsemen at Homewood Park yesterday afternoon? and everyone ol them was tell of confidence relative to the success of the races which begin there Some of the most notable trainers and drivers in the country are at the track with their horses ready for the commencement of the meeting. Among the most prominent of the arrivals yester- day were John Splan, Uncle John Turner, T. D. Craig, of Fort "Worth, Tex., W. II. Grant, Trenton, X. J., Mr. Hawes, of Buf- falo, "Billy" "Weeks and others. The veteran Splan was just as talkative as ever, and as soon as he got his eye on Tom Ulman he said: ".Now, Tom, I just want to wear your diamond while I'm driv- ing and I'll be a winner." "All right," said Tom, "you can have it and wear it until you lay up a heat. "When you do that you must return it." An Important 2ffew Kale. Splan laughed and remarked that the new rule would stop lots of "laying up." The famous driver has all the horses here he has entered, and he has some good ones. He thinks the entries are remarkable and are the largest he has known in the Grand Cir- cuit for a long time. On this point Tom Ulman said: "I've been arranging Grand Circuit programmes for 13 years, and most certainly tbe Homewood entries are the largest I have known. The list is simply wonderful." "Uncle" John E. Turner and his son Prank will have all their horses here, and that means they will have a starter in almost every race. Abbie V will be here, of course, and will likely start in the 2:17 class trotting. But such good ones as Lake-uoo- d Prince, Sadie "tf and Miss Alice are also in that race, and Uncle John's chances of victory are not of the best. Mr. Craig, of the Texas Stock Farm, has a good horse here in HC1 The horse will start in the Mononcahela House stake event and a good deal of money will be in- vested on his chances. Captain S. S. Brown's nomination. Ainboy, is also greatly landed. But all the good judges stated yesterday that it wSII be a very difficult thing indeed to pick the winner either in the big stake race or in the majority of events, t A New Driver fofUKAbus. Ed O'Dell will drive Iflsbus, the pacer tlut made a mark of 2:15'..' fast week. Ul man, Splan and others consider Rebus a wonderful Dorse. The big entry list caurcd I drivers yes- - terday to hope that a com;; V starter has been secured, un tnis po, officials of the traci: havexercit-cdth- i est care, as the new rule relative to up" will have to be strictlv enforc J judges will insist that every dr( "y them when it is intended to & a heat tST3j)nitji0jsaa-i- & ini.-je- d before th heat is started. Altogether, the meet- ing promises to be one ot the best ever held here in all respects. Following is the programme for 2:3 CI.ASS. TROTTISG. PUBSE 1 1.000. Earls Lai, c, s.; by Earl. J. M. Carr, Sewick-l- e. Fa. Highland Bov, g. g. : by Edgewater. J. R. Mo Falden. Boxtiorough. Fa. IVicklnw lior. b. c: bv Aaron Pennington. atsnu Tax lor. Washington. Pa. Kuby. h. m.: by independence. Tandegrlft & OdeiUJameslown. N. V. Merrv Christmas, b. 6.: by Santa Clans, rlem-lngt- Stock. Farm. Flcinlnglon. N. J. (ilcnmnre, b. g. ; by Ilamdalab. S. Hewey, arren, O. Dingo, b. s.: by Principe. Cloverdale Stock Farm. Colmar, Pa. Hose Filklns, br. m, ; by Melrose. J. E. Turner. Ahibler. Pa. l:obcrt K. b. g. ; by Black AUle. M. McCormlck, Plttblmrg. Pa. Wlilte Flag. h. m.: nyMcCurdy'sHambeltoulan. W. J. Kcrlln, Binghamton. N. Y. Susie C h. m. ; by llerold. John Frash. Hunt- ington. Ind. Nellie K. b. m.: by SanU Claus. S. B. Clark, Be'mont Park, Pa. Peter K, b. g.; by Leslie. J. C Collins, Home-woo- d, Pa. Lenox, b. s.: by Quartermaster. W. E. "Weeks, Parkvllle. X. Y. Quarterstrelrli. bk. s.; bv Quartermaster. W. E. Weeks. Parkvllle. X. Y. Senator K. g. g.: bv Clark Chief. W. K. Wcld-er?au- L ML Carniei, Pa. Pickett, ch.g.; by Pickett. W. H. Lockwood, orwalk. Couti. Raven, bl. It.; by Hambeltonlan Mambrlno. Charles S. Green, Elmlra. . v. Onev. b. g. ; by not given. Charles S. Green, Elmlra. N. Y. Brookle, b. m.: by Knickerbocker. G. W. Achcr. Rochester, N. Y. r.lrFnnr. by Hambeltonlan Mambrlno, 3d. Jlcwd? flTalrcnr Pa. OjIaSS MASCFACTITBERS' STAKE, FOB PACEBS ELIGIBLE TO I:5 CLASS: FCKSE. 11.C00. Rebus, b. g.; by Ciiesterwood. SI. Deinarest, Providence. IE. L. nmed Jacob Livingston, Car-'ll- c. Pa., horse. J S A. b. g. ; by Smuggler. W. H. Klane, Cleve-n- d. O. Vtlan tic King, bk. h.; by Atlantic H. C Shoe-ie- r. names Centhlre Bros. horse. al Uraden; by Browu Hal. Tltley Bros., u. Pa. dge Thompson, g. g. : by . F. E. Reynolds, es Watson Taylor's Washington, Pa., horse, o. ch. s. ; by Mdney. Flcmlngton Stock Farm, tington, K J. ss C'umskv. b. m. ; by Embassador. Charles & iat, Allegheny. Pa. ..arry Van. c g.: by General Washington. S. lewey, Warren, O. Beechnut, b. h. ; by Louis Napoleon. John Frash, Huntington, Ind. Joe Jctts. W. B. E. Lockwood, Jr., Xorwalk, Conn. Favornla, ch. m. : by Brezant. A. W. Harbison. 'ew Castle. Fa. Maud Jictiregor: oy captain Sletiregor. C. A. Williamson. X lies. J. Newcastle, eh. g.: by Kentucky Prince. Dlx-la- Stock Farm. Lexington. Ky. JtaudiClay. ch. m.; by Harry Clay. W. H. H. oiewsrw rry. i Altiraria, bl. f by Absolute. E. D. Wiggins. Bellngton. Iass. Pituburgii Wilkes, b. h.; bv Bed Wilkes. P. Ulgglns. PltUburgh. Pa. 2:19 CLABS, TBOTTI1TG, TUBSE, tUOOO. Billy A, b. g.; by Boy Tom. Jr. Ed Odell. Mo- bile. Ala. Dandy, b. g.; by Atlantic. Sherrlck Bros., Pennsvllle. Pa. Evangeline, br. m. : by Director. Cloverdale Stock Farm. Colmar, Pa. Abble V, gr. m. ; by Aberdeen. John E. Turner. Ambler. Fa. Dan son. b. g.; by Mansfield. John E. Turner, AniTjIer, la. Bert Sheldon. Jr., bk. g. ; by Warwick Boy. G. O. mltli. Orange, X. J. Zcmbla. br. m. ; by King Almont. W. E. Weeks. Tarkvllle. X. Y. Sadie M. b. m.: by Prince Orion. D. H. y. Chester, Pa. Martin K. ch. g.; by Hannibal. Thomas Grady, Belmont, 'Pa. Illinois Egbert, b.g.; by Egbert. C S. Green, Elmlra, X. Y. Bush. b. m.; by Alcyone. Silver Mine Slock Farm. Copakc, X. Y. Itrlclitnn Beach Card. Ixjuisville, July 17. Special The follow- ing pools were sold hero last evening on Monday's races at Brighton Beach: First race, of a mile Jav Quel 113. ;: Poly Dora 110. V. Mart 109. Finland. 109. illlletdoux colt 107. 5: Martell 107, 5; Ella 103. H: Menthol 103. King Arthur 105. Bralnard 103, Airtight li5, 420; Hurry Away 103, Daisy Woodruff .ia ?m; Silver Thread filly 100. 10: Tiara filly iuu. ;i. vcond race, of a mile Marr nerlte IIS fj: Lisbon Maid lis. (3: Yci.onanie 115. Vir- ginia Hi Maria Stoops 115, t!S; Mary 115, Florence Belle 115. Bounce nl.T 113. 17: Lizzie T US, Pansy US beabright 115. Japonlx IIS, tlS; Courtship 115. 25: Faithful 115. 10; Kocuele 115, V. field. I0. Third race Innovation 117. Lester HZ. $20: False B 112. SS; Poverty lltfi: Quartermaster 110, Arnica 110. Sic: Mote 107. SS; .Magic 105. Zamimst lie. f 1C; Macintosh 102. J12: Detroit 102. Thlcrsl 102. Ab- sconder 102, Deboualr 90. 7: Cancbreak V7. J7: fichl. fio. Fourth race, one and miles, selling My Fellow 112. J.0: ltoonefort ill. IT; irin 100, 20: Fronteuac 1(, 2: India Iiubber J09, as; Pelham 107. Mountain Deer 105. Nomad 102, 7; Ab- ble 11 no: field, H- - Firth race, mile Alcalde 105. .3: Logan 101. JS; King Thomas 103. Sports- man 105. 15: llraclnthe HB, Little Jake lOS, Lord Dalraent 105, fU; Mabel Glen 100, f; Ballyhoo 100, tpo: Held. 4. Sixth race, one nto W4: Onoway IM, Wattersnn 1st. V: Erie 1H 8.1: Commonarnse 112, Cerebus 132. Centaur 124. $5:. Hoey 118. 115; Air-sh- 109. AzraellC4, Dallabldl. fi; field, S4- - Fatnrday'a Leacae Games. AtXewYork XewYork 7 12 11 10 0 13 Pittsburg 0 0 4 10 0 0 0 05 Batteries-Ru- sle and Boyle, and Crane and O'Rourke; Eh ret. Smith and Mack. Al Brooklyn Chlcsgi 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0- -2 Brooklyn 0 2 2 10 1 0 -- 9 Battcrles-Lu- by and Schrlver: Stein and KIus-lo- At Baltimore Baltlmort- - 0 0002030 0- -5 Cincinnati 0 2 0 0 0 6...0 8 -- 16 Batteries Cobb and Guuson; Bettgerjhnd "Har- rington. At Fhlladelphl- a- iAmlBTlUe 0 40020200-- 8 Philadelphia I 0000110O-- J Batteries-Sand- ers and Grim: Esper, Carseyand Clements. At Washingto- n- Washington 2 0 t 0 0 0 0 0 -4 Cleveland 0 3 1110 0 0 6 Batteries Duryea and McGulre; Cuppy and Zimmer. At Boston-Bos- ton 0 0 r 0 3 2 I 2 -- S SI. Louis. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 Batterie3 Staler and Kellv: Getzeln and Buck ley. To-d.i- league Schilalo. Pittsburg at Boston, Cleveland at Balti- more, Cincinnati at Xow York, Lonlsvllle at Washington, Chicago at Philadelphia, St. Louis at Brooklyn. Th Record, w r. rrl w ro Brooklvn ..2 0 1000 Cleveland 1 .500 Xew York... ..10 lOOOl Cincinnati .... 1 .500 lUltimore. ..11 .500; Louisville 1 .5 0 Boston ..II ,oM Washington .. 1 .300 M. Louis 1 .SOO Pittsburg. 0 .000 Philadelphia. 1 .SOOIOhlrago 0 .000 Planning: to Prevent a Total Wreclc Kaksab Crrv, Ma, July 17 There Is a plan on foot to prevent the total wreck of the Western B.ill Leasne. It is to join forces with the weakening Eastern League, keep- ing Kansas Cltv, Toledo. Indianapolis and Colnmlms In tho Wstrn Clrcnit, and four Eastern clnbs lor the Eastern Circuit. Pres- ident Speas. of the Kansas City team. Is at- tempting to nrrango the detailsand believes he will succeed. I5rnsb. Denies a Humor. Ikdiakapolis, July 17. The Western League will probably go to the wall. Bnt four clubs are now left, Columbus. Indian-npolt- s. Toledo and Kansas City, and It is very doubtful If they will piny the season ont. John T. Brush said y that there was no likelihood of Indianapolis taking Baltimore's place in that organization. The Diamond. It's bad business to play pitchers In the out- field. Now Is tho time to pick out the next pennant winner. Thirteen men are not enough to go through a hard season with. The prospects of the Baltimore team are cer- tainly uot brls-ht- . onn Sluggers, it Is to be hoped, will, wake un to- day and down the champions. The statement or the release of Keefe by Phila- delphia seems to be but a rumor. Umpire Mitchell Is Imposing fines now likes veteran. That s the way to don u 'em. .Toiixxy Wakd and his Brooklvn team are ont for the pennant this time by all means. Good luck to them. Titr. Haielwood Records defeated the East End Record In a very easy contest on Saturday bv a score of IS to 9. SECRETARY GEOR1E MtTCSOIf is with the St. LoiI team, anil said yesterday that Jimuiv Galvln was giving perfect satisfaction. New Orlfaxs' new pitcher. Ortmann. shut Memphis out "UhoutahltlastTieck. Germany" Schmidt, mho was with Macon, turned the same sort of a trick on Atlanfct. The Louisville expressed the hope before they left for the Eist that the would make a bad start. They declared that whenever thev got off la frout they always finished near last place. The schedule or the Xational Leaguels one or the worst that was ever arranged. A George X agner said when he was here: "The railroads are getting all the money." Courier-Journ- al Herman Long was made np a la Frank Bnsh, the three-ba- ll merchant.in that Chicago bnrlesone. Huzh Duffv wore red Culwnv clnn.r, inri hi.. red nose. title King Kel. looked Ukc an English uuiii- - niiu uunuiK WIIISKITS. Efldll T?lY was the artist wno worked the great transformattoi When Decker, the new man signed by the mildly aked Anon If he was to play first base, the big Captain flew Into a terrible rage. Anson drew himself up 10 his fiiliest heirht. and. in language ulai wou;a not appear very prcttv In print, he proceeded to crush any ambition "that Decker might have hail of plavlng find base Tor the Chicago Club. He Informed Decker that he was the only man that would play first base Tor Chi- cago, and when he couldn't do It he would retire from the business. Brooklyn has now 14 men on the pay roll, says the Brooklyn Under the 111 advised 13 pltv-e- rs ru'.e. one or them will have to go. It has been proven In the first season that victories depend to a great extent on the effectiveness of the pitchers. Ward'stwlrlersare all Al. and It would be poor Judgment to let any of them go. It. therefore be- hooves him to place lilnslow In the pool, and de- pend on Con Dailey and Turn Daly to do the catch- ing. Klnslow will be inlicd. of course, but It Is a case or compulsion, and Tom will easily find a Derth with one or the other clubs. He would greatly strengthen Louisville, which clubhaslust put in a bid for his services. Tennis Championship Points. The tennis experts have been doing some figuring on the championship game be- tween Ewlng and Buch of Saturday and especially on the first set. It took 20 games to settle this set and In theso games 1G3 points wero made. Of these Ewlng made 92 and Buch 73. Tabulating tho points made in the three sets the following results: Setl. Set 2. bets. Total. Ewlng. points 92 2C 23 148 Buch, points 73 11 17 111 Total 165 37 53 257 Donovan Defrnts White. Lima, O., Jnly 17. Jack Donovan, who Is training for his fight with Joe Tansey at Memphis next month, fought Ed White, formerly of Cincinnati, here y for $i50 a side and gate receipts. Marquis ot Queens-bur- y rules governed. Donovunwon in the fifth round. Fast Lone Distance 'Cycling. Halifax, K. S., July 17. E. Boak, Jr.. of Chicago, who has been riding from Tar-mout- h to Halifax on a blcyclo tonr, has ar- rived here, having successfully completed his long lide of 223 miles in 2i hours aid 27 minutes. Miscellaneous Notes. Jim Hai L's row wltn Peter Maher has hurt his Hall's chances to defeat Frltchard. Nick DEXMAEsn. of the Southslde. stated that he Is anxious to row Fat Luther for (100 or KM a side. The police surprised a crowd of mill men who were enjoying an lmpromtu prize fight on Bru-no- fs Island, yesterday morning. Charles Stevenson, or Builer, and John Newman, of Frankswwn. will run a foot race at old Glenn ood Grove, Augusts, for a purse of fXa. Peter King. ofClucInuatl. and Dan McCabe, or Chicago, have been matched to fight to a finish on July a at 12S pounds, for S250 a side with lour-ouu- gloves. C0HVTJLSI0KS BESTJXT IN DEATH. Boss Woodrnfl Worried Jnto Her Grave by a Wbltecap Letter. Jacksojt, Mich., July 17. Kose Wood- ruff, aged 28, the adopted daughter of Mrs-Geor- "Woodruff, of .No. 224 Cooper street, died tinder peculiar circumstances Several davs ago she was taken with spasms which attacked her periodically, caus- ing heart and lung trouble. A month ago she was made the victim of unwar- ranted stories, which made her despondent Her friends attempted to trace the origin of the stories, but were unable to do so. Two weeksago she received a Whitecap letter in which a large skull and cross-bon- were drawn in red ink with the following warn- ing written underneath: "You are white-cappe- d by 12 of your best Iriends. Look out; we give you but two more ol these warnings." The receiut of this Utter so affected her mind that it resulted in convul- sions. A BEKABXABLE EK&DD0CK FATALITY. The Ticllm Bolls Out of Bed and a Sec ond-Stor- y Window at tbe Same Time. Beaddock, Jnly 17. Special John Giaydus. a boarder with George Smith, re- turned to his domicile about 11 o'clock in good health. At 3 o'clock this morning his dead body was found in the alley below the window of his room. The window is very low, and as the bed is near it, it is thought he rolled out and lell to the ground. His neck was broken. He was aged about 43 years, was married and leaves a wile and four children. MILLIONS AT STAKE. Little Wonder at the Fight Being Made by Chicago Brokers AGAINST AN ANTI-OPTIO- N LAW. Dow the Windy City's Big Poard of Trade Would re Affected. THE TAST SUMS WHICH ABEIXYOLYED CHICAGO, July 17. Suppose the Hatch-"Washbu- rn anti-optio- n bill or some similar measure should become a law, and its en- forcement should turn out to be practica- ble, just how and in what way would the great speculative interests centering about the Chicago Board of Trade be affected? This is the question which the 5,000 men doing business daily in and around the board arc devoting mote thought to than they have given to any subject in a lifetime. Well they may, lor it is of vital importance to them. It Involves the bread and butter of a great many thousand 'persons, the em- ployment of a great many million dollars in money. Tho effects of the bill would be infinitely more far reaching than those who have not given the matter careful study would im- agine, possibly necessitating an entire readjustment of bnsiuess methods relating to contracts involving future performance, for the application of a lecal principle might not be confined to commodities men- tioned in a specific bill. It is not that phase of the question, how- ever, which agitates the persons on 'Change at this writing. They are guessing at the probable direct efiects of the enforcement of a law prohibiting speculative trading in grain and provisions the immediate local consequences. 'Ahe Financial Interests Involved. It is possible to arrive at a fairly intelli- gent estimate, of the financial interests di- rectly and specifically composing the specu- lative branch of the business by a careful analysis of the board's membership aud clearing-hous- e lists. By that it is not meant that a statement of the individual wealth of the members is intended, but an estimate of the capital actually employed in carrying on a line of business which is threatened with total extinction. That is the plain English of it Blind faith that some wav may be de- vised to "beat the law" does not alter the fact that the anti-optio- n people set out to get the scalps of the commercial exchanges and that they believe the pendine measures are going to do the business. There are over 1,800 members of the Board of Trade, but only 311 firms and in- dividuals are on the Clearing House list Some of the. firms are composed of halt a dozen partners and others of only one person. They will certainly average less than three persons to a firm. Seven hundred and fifty would bp a liberal estimate. The remainder of the member- ship is represented by nossibly 600 brokers and clerks in the employ of these recog- nized 311 firms, by unattached brokers who do their trading through other concerns (thereby saving office expenses) and by non-acti- members or Tolum-no- f tho Easiness at Present. The specnlative branch of the trade prob- ably gives employment to 1.500 clerks, be- sides contributing indirectly to the labor and emoluments of 2,500 more in lines tribu- tary to or interwoven with it In this cal- culation no account is taken of the tens of thousands of men here and elsewhere who are in the cash grain trade and in the meat industries, the aim being to confine the question to the persons and interests selected for sacrifice by the Farmers' Alli- ance and their Iriends in Congress, the view being strictly local. A careful study of the Clearing House list warrants those familiar with the rating of Board of Trade people in the statement that the commission firms thereon rep- resented require at least $10,000,000 in cash to swing the , speculative end of their business. That amount of money may not be employed at all times, but it must be actually invested subject to cnecs, or wnere u can oe naa at an hour's notice. The firms and individuals on the list are, of course, worth vastly more than 510,000,000, at least a dozen members of the board being rated that high singly, but that sum is necessary to be kept on hand for the safe conduct of business. In theory the customer's margins are all the capital needed by the commission merchant, hut in point of fact he requires a large cash capital, lor he is always "in the gap" and subject to calls of which the customer is in a state of blissful ignorance. ' Duties of the Men In lh Business. He must protect his contract under any and all conditions, and it is not an unusual circumstance lor tens of thousands of dol- lars ot a commission man's money to he tied up in a deal months after the customer has drawn his balance and gone off about his own affairs. Thus the commission mer- chant who has 550,000 in his business never feels quite safe unless he knows where he can put his hands on an additional 550,-00- 0 in case of an emergency. No account has been taken of the reserve capital. That is necessarily an indefinite nuantitv. One man worth 51,000,000 may limit his liability to a 525.000 investment, while another might feel in honor bound to protect a sim- ilar investment with his whole fortune. The 510,000,000 estimate of capital em- ployed in swinging the speculative business of the Chicago Board of Trade is very con- servative. It is altogether within safe bounds and does not include the money kept busy by the army of professional speculators, nor the margins put up by the great host of outside operators commonly stvled "'he pub- lic" These two latter items vary. Theymay aggregate 55,000,000 at one time and 525,000,-00- 0 a month later, depending on the volume and activity of trade. Neither does it in- clude the capital employed in grain hand- ling and pork packing" branches, further than to make proper allowance for the money required in the speculative end of the provision' market as standing capital Packing Industry of the Windy City. The packing industry of Chicago easily represents an investment of 545,000,000 to 550,000,000, of which possibly 35 per cent only is in plant The new International has a $10,000,000 capitalization, tho Armour concern has more than as much more in the business, Nelson Morris is worth more than 510,000,000, every dollar of which is behind his meat interests, and then there are the Swifts and half a dozen smal- ler concerns. This great interest will be seriously inconvenienced by the enforce- ment of an anti-optio- n law of drastic properties, bnt not to the same extent as grain. Speculation is lighter, and a few great distributive houses worked up direct connection with retailers and consumers in all parts of the world. Manufacturers will feel keenly their inability to insure against losses by selling current production for future delivery a species of "hedge" very popular with grain as well as provision men. The grain elevator interests and the grain receiving firms will also be vitally affected. The system of buying and selling futures is part and parcel of the grain handling busi- ness as now conducted. The onlyinstirance against losses resulting fro& a declining market which holders of grain now enjoy is to sell for some future month, tinder the present system speculative capital can al- ways be found to carry the grain from the time it leaves the hands of the producer until it reaches consumptive markets, but with a cloud thrown over the business and restrictions built up around it capital will look elsewhere. Capital has an unconquer- able antipathy to being knocked on the head with a club. It is apt to resent that sort of treatment by going elsewhere after a few experiences of that kind. Necessity of n New System. Therefore elevator people and receivers will be obliged to construct an entirely new system ot, trading. The elevator capacity of Chicago, "regular" and private, is about 40,000,000 bushels. On a basis of 40 cents a bushel on capacity, which will be voted too THE FLTTSBUKGr DISPATCH. MONDAY, JULY 18. 1892. low by most persons, thU represents an investment in property and work- ing eapital of 510,000,000. The grain receivers, many of whom own lines of country elevators, have .probably 510,000,-00- 0, all told, invested In the cash branches of their business. Last year tbe elevator companies and receiving houses handled 211,000,000 bushels of grain (flour not in- cluded), requiring from 5105,000,000 to 5120,000.000 in its payment and care while In transit to consumption. A summary of the principal financial In- terests represented on the Chicago Board of Trade directly subject to serious disturb- ance by anti-optio- n legislation shows up thus; Capital invested in commercial business Specnlative $10,1.00,000 Receiving 10,000,000 Klevator companies 16,030.000 Packing 45.000,000 Total $81,COO,000 If the movers of the crusade against trad- ing in futures succeed in passing a law that will accomplish the purpose the now in the specnlative branch of the commission business will be forced to seek other fields of investment The elevators, grain receivers and packers would continue to do business, but necessarily under radi- cally changed conditions. Just what these conditions would be" no one pretends now to be wise enough to foretell. y I'lannlnc to Brat the Proposed liar. Various schemes have been proposed to "beat the law" in the event of the passage oi the Hatch-Washbti- bill. Some one suggested establishing a board in Canada and ostensibly executing all orders there, presumably much as '"Plunger" Shaw proposed to run a Chicago poolroom in St Paul. This was received with contempt on 'change. 'Another plan was to inaugurate a system of dealing in cash grain broad enough to meet the requirements of speculation, but the fear was expressed that the quantity of cash wheat in Chicago would be too small for such a plan to be satisfactory. Then it was snggested that the law be ignored and knocked out in the courts, business going on meantime as if there was no such statute on the books. Timid capital ob- jects to taking that risk, however. Finally Henry Clews came to the rescue with the brilliant and merchant-lik- e sug- gestion that operators go right along as usual, but that they call grain "hay." It seems to be recognized, however, that subterfuges and evasions will not go, and something broadgauge must be proposed. A select commit- tee composed of Messrs. Chandler, "Wright, Eumsey and Logan, has been at worn ior a moutn trying to hit upon a plan big enough to meet the exigencies of the case. They frankly admit that they are still groping blindly for a way out of the trouble. One of them candidly 'stated that in his opinion if Congress enacted any such law as is now on the ragged edge of a favorable vote, the commission houses engaged in the speculative branch of the trade might as well shut up shop, and that those who drew their money first and embarked in other pursuits would be the wisest They would get that much the start of their fellows. What a ChRngn Won d Mean. It is barely possible that the unpleasant experience tnrougn wnicn the board is now passing may result in the adoption of a uniform system of grading in dfnerent cities under which warehouse receipts for grain in Kansas Citv, St Louis, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dulmh and other large centers could fee traded in upon this market and deliverable upon Chicago con- tracts or made interchangeable. It is said to take 540,000 to 550,000 a day, or about 515,000,000 a year to "run the Board of Trade" that is, to pay office rent, clerk Hire, telegraph bills and the thousand incidental expenses of the members. In return for this sum, which the charge is a useless tax on trade, the 1,800 members give their services and the use of 580,000,000 capital Invested in the business. The elimination of the purely specula- tive feature would necessarily cause the shifting of at least 810,000,000 to other investment channels ,in this city alone, and to the readjustment of not less than 3,000 commission merchants, brok- ers and clerks to new conditions of employment. Such is the nrnMom ,that confronts the Board of Trade man, and it sufficiently explains why he gets np with the Hatch-Washbu- bill in the morning, carries it with him through the day, goes to bed with it at night, and allows it to torture him in his sleep. IRELAND AT HOME. The Archbishop Fall ot Praise for the Fopp 1,-- Interest in America and in Krpnbiican Institutions Ills Holiness Not In Fr.ill Health. St, Paul, July 17. Archbishoplreland presided in the Cathedral of St Paul again after an absence of six months, spent principally in Eome. He was glad to be home once more, and said so in his open- ing remarks. His discourse had most to do with the Pope, of whose interest even in this remote region the Archbishop assured the people, and told ot his health, his labors and the details of his everyday life. He said: If It Is nny pleasure to you to know that he takes a deep interest In the welfare of the church in the United States, in the welfare generally, temporal as well as spiritual, of our beloved Republic, I can assure you he does take such a deep and abiding interest in nil that concerns It. In regard to the health of Pope Leo XIH. the Archbishop said: All you may hear and read about the Pone being on tho threshold of death has no foun- dation In fitct. Tlioo who see him for the first time ate somewhat struck bv his thin ahd ascetic flunre, and " would believe that he is attached to the earth by very fragile strings: but thinness of body nnd nsceticiim of features indicate by no means weakness or approaching dissolu- tion. Durine my entire stay in Rome he was not indisposed for a single moment, and. from all I heard, there was scarcelv an interruption from his assiduous labors, even for a little while, because of tailing health. Details were then given of his daily work and of the various duties of the differ- ent days of the week. High praise is given the statesmanship of the Pope, the Arch- bishop considering him "the greatest states- man of the world." He paid considerable attention to the high abilities of the Pope's advisers, and eulogized the Catholic Church for its adaptibility to all forms of govern- ment, saying: Leo XIII shows us how the Church not only admits of those changes, bnt helps to olvo them. Whenever any movement pre- sents Itself to the world which leads to its development, she takes a hand. BUN SOWN BY AN OLD CHUM. A Suspected Mnrderor Traced by Another Man Accused of the Crime. SCHENECTADr, N. Y., July 17. Spe- cial Cornelius Loth, the suspected mur- derer of Mrs. Etta Demacsek, reached here this evening, in charge of tbe local police. A mob of over 1,000 persons followed the prisoner to police headquarters, filling the air with cries of "Lynch himl" "String him up!" eta ' ' At police headquarters Loth was picked out by Mrs. McCann, Jrom half a dozen strangers, as tbe man she saw leave the Demacsek house on tbe day of the murder. Detective Feldhemer, who was instrumental in causing Loth's arrest, formerly worked with Loth, and was himself at first sus- pected of the murder. He easily estab- lished' his innocence, and then set to work to find the real murderer. A Negro Marries a German Girt Elmiba, N. Y., July 17. Isaac Gould, a colored man, giving his age as 30 years and occupation a coachman at Wilkesbarre, was married in this city this morning to a white girl named Louisa 'Bicker, from Germany, aged 21 years. Tne ceremony was per- formed by Bev. M. XL Boss, 'a colored Methodist minister. Gonld celebrated his wedding by getting drunk, THE SOFT SHELL CRAB. A Man Who Gets Rich on Them Tells flow They Go to Pittsburg. NOVELTIES IN CATCHING THEM. Experiments in Preventlnc Tle'r Getting Hard After Shedding. HOW TIIE EEL M1KKET IS SUPPLIED HVJUITEN FOR Tfflt DISPAJCIM T no matter what time of year, from March to November, whoever sails the waters of the great South Bay, or of the many smaller bays and inlets that extend from Brookhaven up to Quogue, on the south shore of Long Island, is pretty sure to meet dozens, sometimes scores, of" small skiffs, each under spritsail and each carrying one man who maneuvers the craft with one hand while he holds a pole or an oar in the other. As a rule the men who sail these boats are rather a seedy looking lot of customes They look as if they had slept in their boats, and doubtless Borne of them have, and lor weeks at a time. An old flannel shirt, a pair of oil overalls and an oilskin hat complete the costume of the persistent sailors. "Watch them as they flit about the bay and you will see that from time to time the boat rounds np at a stake and the sail Is allowed to flop in the breeze while the man does a few moments' work; then he pulls in the sheet and is off for another stake. Their peculiarity is that, unlike the oysterers, these boats never work together. Boat and man are always alone. A Ilonse That Will Float. These are the eelers. They are the men who furnish to the New York fish market from 10 to 100 barrels of eels a day in the season. In all there are nearly 200 men who make a living in the humble vocation of eel and crab catching. When the eel season closes the crab season begins. I hap- pened last week to discover a little house or shanty on the bay side. Its foundations consisted of four noden rollers, each about eight feet long. The object of this as I found later, was to move this residence from place to place by water. When the time comes for a move a few men apply their shoulders to the cabin and away it rolls into the water, where the big rollers form a rait; then, when the wind is fair, it can be towed at the rate of three miles an hour. The little house had two small windows, one in either side, through which I could see the remains of a meal on the table, and, in the "end furthest from the door, two bunks. Around the door were scores of eel pots. On one side of the shantv were painted in big letters "soit shell crabs." It belonged to Phil Terry, of Moriches, the most famous soft shell crab expert in lhU 'ferry, the CiuO Kmy. these waters, who had been living in it for the last month while eeling in this part of tbe bay. He is a good-lookin- g fellow and a bright and ready talker; so I shall let him tell his own story. He skinned eels as he talked, and, although he stopped occasion- ally, I noticed that his pile of eels grew faster than that of either of the two men who helped him. Has to Follow Up the Eels. "My sailing shanty," said he, "is a de- vice of my own and answers every purpose. When we exhaust the eels in one part of the bay we have to move our poles and pots, aud this sometimes takes us 20 miles from home, so that we have to live wherever the eels call us. A houseboat would do, but that is an expensive luxury, and has to be pumped out it it leaks. By this plan we run our house up on any shore we choose. drive a few stakes at which to tie our sharpies, and our camp is ready. We can move our house five miles without putting out the fire in the stove. "The. eel business just now is about over for the apparently absurd reason that no one has yet discovered a means of keeping toadhNh from getting into the mouths of our eel pots and wedging themselves there so tightly that the eels cannot get in. At this time of year out of 50 eel pots you may find 40 stopped up by this same nuisance, and we cau devise no remedy forjt. Eels are as plentiful as ever and will be all sum- mer, but we cannot catch them in the only way which offers a profit owing to this toadfish. There is one of the critters now." Terry kicked over to me a small, ugly looking fish, about six inches long by three or four broad, a sort of magnified pollywog, or better still, a miniature whale. It looked ugly enough to scare away even an eel. The Finances of E.il Flshlne. "Does eeling pay better than crabbing?" I asked. "There's not much money in either," said Terry, throwing a handful of beach sand over a pile of squirming eels in order that he might get a better grasp upon them. "It's rather a dirty and a lonely life. But we get plenty of fresh air and enough bread and butter." Terry might have added that while New Yorkers were baking in an atmosphere of 08 degrees at that particular moment, he was cool and comfortable in his little shanty. Before him lay as pretty a picture of river and bay as ever delighted an artist's eye in this haunt of artists southern Long Island. "Tbe average eeler," he went on, "needs an outfit costing from $100 to $150. His boat when new is worth $30. He must have from 60 to 80 pots, costing 60 cents apiece, and as many poles, to which they are tied. Then he has to have a few 'cars' or floating boxes in which to keep fish, some nets, lines, etc, for catching bait. His work begins at dawn, by which time he is off on tbe water, his boat full of bait for the pots. Hhat an Dol Pot I Like. "All of the pots are alike, and, while dozens of new fangledones have been tried, this one, made of oak strips, with an open- ing which grows narrower and ends with sharp points turned inward, remains the only useful eel trap. Some wire rat traps are made on the same plan. The rat walks in easily, but finds only sharp points when he tries to get out It is the same story with the eels. "The bait for the eel pots consists either of bunkers, otherwise menhaden, a small fish caught in nets and used by the million for making fish oil, or horsetoot crabs caught on tbe flats. One blow with a hatohet makes the crab fit food for eels. , "The poles are usually set 150 feet apart alone the edge of a channel. Thev are so set that the line can be easily followed with the eye. When the skiff rounds up at a stake the rot is hauled up and opened, the bottom and top being on hinges. The eels, if any, are emptied into the boat, a new bit of bait is pnt in, and the trap is dropped overboard again. On sunny days you will often see hnndreds of eel pots hanging to the tops of tbe poles and far out of water. The tide has not left them high and dry, as many people think, but the eelers want to dry them out in order to keep the pots from rotting. On Sala In Twenty-Fo- ur Hoars. "By 10 o'clock the eeler ought to be at his shanty again" nnd ready to skin the catch. It takes him two hours to do this if tbe catch is fair, aud then the product of the day's work is boxed up and sent to New York by the freight train which passes here in the afternoon and reaches New York in the evening. Twenty-fou- r hours after the eel leaves the pot he is on the slabs at Fulton Market. "An outfit of from 50 to 75 eel pot', if properly looked after, ought to give an average of GO pounds a day. The returns to the fisherman vary from 5 to 10 cents a pound, 'accord- - Eeler's Headquarters. ing to the demand in New York "With me, crabbing is the important work of the year. Last season I sold 8,000 dozen soft shell crabs at SI a dozen. I sup- plied every hotel and big boarding house from Quogue to Sayville, a stretch of 30 miles. The common wav of getting the soft shell crabs has usually been to pole over the flats at low tide and scoop them up wherever found. But this method is slow and uncertain as compared with my system of keeping crabs in confinement until they shed. How the Crjbs Are Canght. "I get my crabs from the men who make a business of catching hard crabs. These men are the eelers of the spring. For crab- bing they stretch in the water a long hue, sometimes half a mile, baited at intervals oi a ioot or two witn pieces ot salted or picklsd eels. We use for that eels that were too small for market When the line is stretched, with half a dozen poles to keep it in place, the crabber sails along within four or five feet of it and scoops in with his net every crab he sees feeding on the bait. If the catch has been fair he will get four lime barrels full of crabs in eight hours' work on the bay, and his net returns from New York for them vary from 35 cents to ?1 25 a barrel Out of his four barrols of hard crabs each man may get from one to two dozen crabs that will soon shed, and these he turns over to me at 25 cents a dozen. In Moriches Bay there are 16 crabbers upon whom I depend for a daily supply; and from Shinnecock, on the east, and Brookhaven, on the west, I get twice as many more. I also buy 'shedders,' as we call them, from the boys within 20 miles. "As my crabs come in they are sorted and" placed into one of the big 'cars' you see.on the edge of the creek there. I take no crab that is not within ten days of shedding, because while kept in cars crabs refnse to eat any food that'l can offer them, and they grow thin and watery. I have the crabs graded into six cars. In the first are the crabs that will shed inside of 12 hours; then those that will shed inside of 48 hours and so on. Crabs Are Itecu'ar Cannibals. "The crab that is going to shed will eat one thing, and that is just what I cannot afford to offer him a softshell crab. That is the reason I have to grade them so care- fully. If a crab sheds in a car containing crabs that will not shed tor several days the unfortunate will be set upon and devoured at once by the other crabs. There is no mercy among them. "The way in which we tell a crab that Is about to shed can scarcely be described, the signs varying so much; but as a rule it is by the color of the breastplate and the creases in the joints of the big claw. There is one infallible way of knowing that you have a shedder whenever you find one crab carrying another; in this case the smaller crab is alwavs a female, or, as we call it, a 'cow' shedder. The big crab is a male, which will continue to carry the shed- der around, and will protect it from attacks during the whole period of shedding and hnrdeniug. This is one of the most curious phases of crab life, but I have watched the process too often to doubt it A crab sheds four or five times once every year. When it has attained its full growth it lives two years and dies, bo that the average life is about six years. When the crab reaches the last stage before shedding, say within 12 hours, it becomes torpid, and you can see the joints beginning to open; it becomes elastic at the joints. Then it is safe to leave the crabs all together, because they will eat nothing. The crab which comes out is one-thir- d larger than the shell he leaves. Crabs That Come, to riltsbnnr. "If left in water, a softshell crab becomes hard again within 48 hoars. If they are in- tended for consumption nearby I take them out of water at once alter shedding. If they are to go any distance, to Pittsburg, for instance, I leave them in the car for two or three hours, in order to make the skin tough enough to stand transportation. "There are a few experiments that I in- tend to make this coming summer which may prove interesting. I want to find some way of keeping crabs in captivity longer than ten days so that l shall have a larger number of possible shedders. They will eat nothing but Boftshell crabs while in cap- tivity, so that instead of cars I may put them into small ponds. Another problem is bow to keep the crab from hardening bo quickly and at the same time keep it alive. The first crabs come in about July 4. By the second week in July I have lots ot busi- ness and it will last until the hotel season closes in September." G. DUE 10 THE H'KINLSY LAW. Fostering of Pearl Bntton Factories as Told by a BlannfjcttHMT. New York, July 17. Thomas A. 'Webb, a pearl button manufacturer, has just pur- chased a large property in Newark for the erection of a new factory. Mr. Webb said to-d- that the new structure was entirely owing to the McKinley bill. "When the bill was passed," said Mr. "Webb, "there were 12 or 13 manufactories in the country, with an average ot " from 8 to 12 operators. Now there are about sixty plants, with an average of from 55 to 60 workmen. My own business began with eight workmen, and I now em- ploy 103. Wneu the new factory is com- pleted I shall have nearly 300. My orders now amount to between $150,000 and 5170,000 yearly. Before the McKinlev act I did well with $2,500." The wages of pearl bntton makers, were formerly $8, 510, and $12 a week. They now earn $18, $20, and $22, according to skilL Tho State of tbe Granite Strike. Barre, Vt., July 17. The local Granite Cutters' Union, has taken no action upon the manufacturers' proposition. Dealers are taking all apprentices that they can find. It is reported that if the union refuses to accept the proposition many" members will withdraw and go to work. MXIOUS TO ADJOURN. Senators and Representatives Eager to Leave Washington FOR PLEASANT SUMMER RESORTS. A Quorum of Either House a Very Hard 3 ting to Get From Now On. GREAT HELP TO A T0UNG WEST POISTEE iruoa x stapt cOBREsroirorirr.i Washington, July 17. The eagerness to adjourn and get away from Washington is manifest and undisguised in both Honse and Senate. Quite a number of members have been absent for-so- weeks looking after tbeir district conventions and local politics, and will not return. So great is the anxiety and so pressing are tne de- mands from home, it will be next to im- possible to hold a quorum in the House after the middle of next week. The weather is hot, and there is little comfort to be had sweltering in the badly venti lated chambers. With the exception of the sundry civil and deficiency bills, all the appropriation bills are practically disposed of. The sun- dry civil, however, is in the throes over the provisions and appropriations made by the Senate for the World's Fair, and Mr. Hol-ma- n is indisposed to let go his clutch upon the House so long as the fight can be kept up between the two bodies over this matter ot disagreement. If the vote to be taken on the World's Fair matter next Tuesday shall result in a triumph for Mr. Holman and others who antagonize it, then the ses- sion must be prolonged by conferences be- tween the two houses until one branch or the other-shal- l yield. Ilolman'it Usual CbJ-ctl- looked For. The deficiency bill, now undergoing con- sideration by the Senate, contained various amendments to which Mr. Holman will un- doubtedly take exception, especially to the items for payment of the awards of the Court of Claims in the French spoliation cases, and this disagreement will doubtless add to tbe length of the session. It is stated, however, that effort is being made bv the advocates of the Hatch anti-optio- n bill to prolong the session through disa-- between the House and enate, so that opportunity may be afforded to bring that bill up for consideration and pass it m some shape through the Senate. Mr. Wasnburn asserted yesterday mat the opponents of the measure wanted to "talk it to death." but so far Mr. Wash- burn is the only Senator who has spoken on the bill. It was not debated in the House, but passed under suspeusion oi the rules. One Prormcted Debate I'recllcted. As the Senate Judiciary Committee could not agree concerning the constitutionality of the bill, and reported it back without recommendation, and Senator George has reported a substitute changing the measure from a revenue to an inter-Stat- e commerce bill, it will occasion protracted debate in event it shall be taken np for consideration and made a special order to continue from day to day until disposed of. . As an illustration ot the contrarity of opinion regarding the constitutionality of the pending measure, Senator Morgan sig- nificantly remarked to-d- that "there was six months debate on that out. While a- - majority of the Senate undoubtedly favors some legislation repressing, dealings in "options" and 'futures." a majority does not favor the Hatch hilL The opinion is therefore expressed that inasmuch as the bill cannot pass without extended discus- sion, and that amendments will be offered to include stocks, bonds, coal, petroleum, flour, meats, real estate, and all transactions in "options" and "futures," in addition to dealings-i- grain and cotton, the bill cannot be considered and passed at this late i'ar of the session. M. F. X HELPED ON HIS COURSE. The President and Senate Advance a West Pointer Two Years Over Bin Claaamatrs Advantages of Ha vine Friends Who Are Politicians. "Washington, July 17. Special The Senate late on Friday afternoon, and after many Senators had gone home, held a short executive session and confirmed, among others, the nomination of Robert Sewell, of New Jersey, to be a second lieutenant of cavalry. Young Sewell is the son of Sewell, the duck-huntin- g compan ion of the President, as well as a colleague of General Harrison on the Committee on Military Affairs when they were both In the Senate. Two years ago young Sewell was nomi- nated as a cadet to West Point, but failed to qualify under the severe physical and mental examinations, but his ambition to be a soldier did not wane with his failure. This desire was not lost sight of by the fond father, but not a word on the subject was uttered to the President until jnst before the Minneapolis Convention. Then an appeal was made to the President on tho grounds of long and uninterrupted friend- ship, evidenced by frequent excursions and coupled with an ofler of ardent political support. The first condition was almost enough for tbe President to accede to the proposi- tion of General Sewell, but the second clinched the subject, and the nomination was made. It stands ont boldly as being a j nomination more closely baed on Dersonal . friendship than any the President has made. Under the law the'President is entitled to appoint second lieutenants in the army lrQtn civil life after the cadets at Wesi Point have been assigned. These civilians are required to stand a rigid examination at least, the rules and regulations of the War Department make the examination a condition precedent to the nomination. When the nomination was made it was learned that this examination of young Sewell had been evaded. Protests were made by his former class- mates, who would be outranked two years by Sewell, and Senators were informed of the irregularity of the nomination and pro- tests against its confirmation n ere made. But the President informed his friends in W. the Senate that he very much desired the nomination confirmed, and out ot deference to this request aud the Senatorial courtesy extended to an old colleague. General Sewell's sou was confirmed. He has now a start of two years over his old classmates, aud is in the best branch of the service. This advancement and preferment counts more in tbe m.itter of promotion in the long run than four vears' hard study at West Point A 8350,000 Gift to a Texas City. Houston, Tex, July 17. William Kice, New York, has supplemented his gift of $200,000 to the city of Houston for a library and industrial school by a further gilt of 9,000 acres of land aud $17,000 in cash and securities, making v.alue of $350,000. Highest of all in Leavening Power.- - S2& TBE WEATHER. ForWetternPemu fjlvania: Warmer, Generally Faii Weathers SeuO teett icindt. For Wat TtT. ginia and Ohioi 'wSiWy Warmer, Fairr Winds Shifting to South, The pressure has increased on the Atlan. tic coast, and the area of hieh pressure cov- ers the region east of the Mississippi, the barometer beinff" higher on the Middle At. lantic coast An extended depression coven tho Eastern slope of the Booky Mountains, where the barometer has fallen from two to three-tenth- s of an inch in the past St hours, the center of disturbance being apparently to the north of Dakota. Local showers have occurred along- tho. Eastern slope of Texas to North Dakota, and also tbe Gulf and South Atlantic states. Fair weather prevails In 'all other districts, with a slight rise in temperature in the Northern States, except in the extreme Northwest,where It is slfcthtly cooler. Warm- er, fair weather will prevail In the Northern States east of the Mississippi on Mondav,and showers will contlnne in the Atlantio and Guir States. Comparative Temperature- - PrrrsBURO. July 17. The Tocal Forecut Oflctsl of the Weather Bureau In this city furnlsnes the '" following: X j)C :' Jutyn.WL July B Vn. o o SAM 78 UX 08 11AM ... 11AM .- - 12JI 88 12M 09 2FM OO 2TJI 73 trM ... 5PM 7S ens 79 sra 7a o o 4 M V Tr.MPZBATCRX AXD KAIXrALb. Maximum temp. 75.0Ranjte ....2D.0 Minimum temp 55.0 Rainfall ........ .00 Mem temp 65.01 RIVER NEWS AND NOTES. Louisville Items Tbe Stage or Waters and the Movements of Boats. mrjtCTAI. TTLZGRAMS TO TIH DmPATCH.l XotnsvTLUC Jnly 17. Weather clear and coot Klver falling, with 3 feet 11 Inches on the falls. 6 feet 3 Inches In the canal and 10 feet 5 Inches below. The New South pat ed up from Memphis to Cincinnati. The Buckrve State parsed down from Cincinnati to Memphis this mornlnjr. The John P. Lewis arrived from St. Louis. epart nres, BlgSanay. lor Cincinnati. What Upper Gawres Show. WATtniN Hirer 1 foot. Fair and warm." MORGAHTOWN Klver 4 feet and stationary. Clear. Thermometer 80 at 4 P.w. Browssvilli River i feet 7 Inches and sta- tionary. Clear. Thermometer 78 at 4 r. M. Th News From IJelow. WnEEltlfG River 4 feet 6 Inches and risin ' slowly. Departed-B- en Hnr. Plttuhnrir: II. Pituburz: 'Lizzie Bay. I'lttsbure; Kev-sto- ne State. I'ltlsbnrR; Congo. Cincinnati; C. W. ItatchMnr. SIsterYlIle. YlCK6HIJR(J River falling. Arrived City of Providence. Passed np City or Hickman. The heaviest rain for Tears: Scinches of rain fell hero y. Great damage done. St. Lonts: J. K. Speed, Cincinnati. Biver S3 feet 7 inches and riling. Clear and wann. St. Loci' Weather clear and pleasant. Elver 20 feet 6 Inches and falling. News From the Klver. The Ben Hur came In last evening.. The wharfs were almost deserted yesterdar. Tue water has fallen Ave Inches within 24 hoars. TnE Scotia will make no trips down the river tin the river rises. Stags of water below Davis Island Dam, 3 feet 9 Inches. River fairing. Tnr. Lizzie Rav. Captain Keever, the Kanawha river Tros Adam Jacob,- - Captain Cox, arrived from Morgantown late last night. ' THE Keystone State was dne last evening and wilt go out ht at lire o'clock, for Cincinnati. THE excursion boat rity of lttbnrg can carry 1.500 people. The J. M. Gnsky Is about the same size. Tnr Keystone State. Captain Calhonn. passed Wheeling yesterday morning at 9 o'clock on her way up. TnE IT. K. Bedford. Captain Greene, was the Wheeling packet la last evening. She leaves to- day at noon. TUB Charley Hood, recentlv brought here from Marietta. Is having a new cabin built and other re- pairs made. The James G. Blaine. Captain Jacob, came In from Morgantown last evening, bbe goes out to- day at 3 o'clock. IF the water gets much lower the packets wilt have to stop running. The water In the channel now scarcely measures three feet. The water about the wharfs register S feet Inches. Some of the needles were again removed from the Davis Island Dam yesterday morning. Both the Cltv of Pittsburg and the J. M. Cusky have been engaged to take a picnic party to Kin- ney's Grove to-l- from the bmltbfleld Lutheran Church. TnE Bennett yesterday brought in a spile driver, which Is now lying at tbe Smlthfleld bridge. II will be taken up the rlrer to be used near tbe Carrie Furnace. CaptaIX Eeho'S excursion boats to and from McKee's Borks and Chartlers did a lively business yesterday. A boat left the wharf every Jo minutes, and each one took out a good load of passengers. TnE water has been holding out longer than usual this year. The river was so low lrfst summer that the packets had to stop running May 7. Un- less there Is a rise soon traffic on the rlrer will be practically stopped. THE City of Pittsburg was to have run an excur- sion down the river yesterdar. The tlciets had been sold, and alt arrangements made, but for some unknown reason the boat did not leave the wharf Many passengers were disappointed. Ocean Steamship Arrival. Steamer. Where From. Destination. Adriatic. Liverpool .. ..Xetr York. Gellert ... Hamburg... ..New York. Zaandam. Amsterdam. .New York. Columbia Hamburg. . .New York. aesland .New York. .London. Serria. .New York. ..London. 'Jf'l .New York. London. California Baltimore. .London. Bourgogne.... .New York. London. Auranla ....Liverpool New York. Alaska ....Liverpool New York. LaChsmpague ....Havre New York. Scandia ....Hamburg New York. Taormln ....Hamburg New York. Enchantress... ....I'.lo Janeiro New York. British Prince ....Philadelphia Queenstowa LaRourgogne . ....New York Havre. ....New York London. Klchmond'iiiii ...New York London. Minnesota London Philadelphia THE FIBE EEC0KD. Akron The factory of the Western lin- oleum Company. Loss, $100,000, fully Insured. Origin unknown. Independence, la. Two grain ware- houses belonging to W. S. Carllffe and P. Brown. Loss, $50,000; partly insured. Staynor, Ont. Fire Sunday night de- stroyed all the business places between the Cameron House and Sanderson's brick: block. Losers: John Pieter. grocer; W. B. Henderson, harness; C. Newton, photo-granh- D. G. Gillesoie, C Livingstone, A. Swalloe, Jewelry, and Mrs. Daniel and Misa Sanderson, diessmakers. Loss and 'Insur- ance unknown. Cholera Infantum Prevalent. "There are many cases of cholera Infantum hi town," said a prominent physician yesterday, "and mothers should be very watchful of their children's health. It Is far better to prevent this disease than to attempt its cure, and mothers should know that nothing has kept so many babies well as lactated food. It has actually saved the child's lite In many cases of this disease that I hava attended this year." -- Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE i

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Page 1: TJILHTB HERE, f; Senators and Representatives Eager …chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1892-07-18/ed-1/seq-6.pdf · THE TJILHTB HERE, Famous Drivers and Train-ers Arrive

THE TJILHTB HERE,

Famous Drivers and Train-ers Arrive for the

Homewood Races.

SPLAtf IS YERY HOPEFUL.

The Biggest Grand Circuit EntryList Known for Years.

ED O'DELL WILL DRIVE EEBDS.

President Brash Tenies a Rumor Aboutthe Baltimore Club.

GENERAL SPORTING KEWS OP THE DAT

There was qnite a gathering of horsemenat Homewood Park yesterday afternoon?and everyone ol them was tell of confidencerelative to the success of the races whichbegin there Some of the mostnotable trainers and drivers in the countryare at the track with their horses ready forthe commencement of the meeting. Amongthe most prominent of the arrivals yester-day were John Splan, Uncle John Turner,T. D. Craig, of Fort "Worth, Tex., W. II.Grant, Trenton, X. J., Mr. Hawes, of Buf-

falo, "Billy" "Weeks and others.The veteran Splan was just as talkative

as ever, and as soon as he got his eye onTom Ulman he said: ".Now, Tom, I justwant to wear your diamond while I'm driv-ing and I'll be a winner."

"All right," said Tom, "you can have itand wear it until you lay up a heat. "Whenyou do that you must return it."

An Important 2ffew Kale.Splan laughed and remarked that the new

rule would stop lots of "laying up." Thefamous driver has all the horses here he hasentered, and he has some good ones. Hethinks the entries are remarkable and arethe largest he has known in the Grand Cir-cuit for a long time. On this point TomUlman said: "I've been arranging GrandCircuit programmes for 13 years, and mostcertainly tbe Homewood entries are thelargest I have known. The list is simplywonderful."

"Uncle" John E. Turner and his sonPrank will have all their horses here, andthat means they will have a starter inalmost every race. Abbie V will be here,of course, and will likely start in the 2:17class trotting. But such good ones as Lake-uoo- d

Prince, Sadie "tf and Miss Alice arealso in that race, and Uncle John's chancesof victory are not of the best.

Mr. Craig, of the Texas Stock Farm, hasa good horse here in HC1 The horsewill start in the Mononcahela House stakeevent and a good deal of money will be in-

vested on his chances. Captain S. S.Brown's nomination. Ainboy, is also greatlylanded. But all the good judges statedyesterday that it wSII be a very difficultthing indeed to pick the winner either inthe big stake race or in the majority ofevents, t

A New Driver fofUKAbus.

Ed O'Dell will drive Iflsbus, the pacertlut made a mark of 2:15'..' fast week. Ulman, Splan and others consider Rebus awonderful Dorse.

The big entry list caurcd I drivers yes- -terday to hope that a com;; V starter hasbeen secured, un tnis po, officials ofthe traci: havexercit-cdth- i est care, asthe new rule relative to up" willhave to be strictlv enforc J judgeswill insist that every dr( "y themwhen it is intended to & a heat

tST3j)nitji0jsaa-i- & ini.-je- d beforeth heat is started. Altogether, the meet-ing promises to be one ot the best ever heldhere in all respects.

Following is the programme for

2:3 CI.ASS. TROTTISG. PUBSE 1 1.000.

Earls Lai, c, s.; by Earl. J. M. Carr, Sewick-l- e.

Fa.Highland Bov, g. g. : by Edgewater. J. R. Mo

Falden. Boxtiorough. Fa.IVicklnw lior. b. c: bv Aaron Pennington.atsnu Tax lor. Washington. Pa.

Kuby. h. m.: by independence. Tandegrlft &OdeiUJameslown. N. V.

Merrv Christmas, b. 6.: by Santa Clans, rlem-lngt-

Stock. Farm. Flcinlnglon. N. J.(ilcnmnre, b. g. ; by Ilamdalab. S. Hewey,arren, O.

Dingo, b. s.: by Principe. Cloverdale StockFarm. Colmar, Pa.

Hose Filklns, br. m, ; by Melrose. J. E. Turner.Ahibler. Pa.

l:obcrt K. b. g. ; by Black AUle. M. McCormlck,Plttblmrg. Pa.

Wlilte Flag. h. m.: nyMcCurdy'sHambeltoulan.W. J. Kcrlln, Binghamton. N. Y.

Susie C h. m. ; by llerold. John Frash. Hunt-ington. Ind.

Nellie K. b. m.: by SanU Claus. S. B. Clark,Be'mont Park, Pa.

Peter K, b. g.; by Leslie. J. C Collins, Home-woo- d,

Pa.Lenox, b. s.: by Quartermaster. W. E. "Weeks,

Parkvllle. X. Y.Quarterstrelrli. bk. s.; bv Quartermaster. W.

E. Weeks. Parkvllle. X. Y.Senator K. g. g.: bv Clark Chief. W. K. Wcld-er?au- L

ML Carniei, Pa.Pickett, ch.g.; by Pickett. W. H. Lockwood,orwalk. Couti.Raven, bl. It.; by Hambeltonlan Mambrlno.

Charles S. Green, Elmlra. . v.Onev. b. g. ; by not given. Charles S. Green,

Elmlra. N. Y.Brookle, b. m.: by Knickerbocker. G. W.

Achcr. Rochester, N. Y.r.lrFnnr. by Hambeltonlan Mambrlno, 3d.

Jlcwd? flTalrcnr Pa.OjIaSS MASCFACTITBERS' STAKE, FOB PACEBS

ELIGIBLE TO I:5 CLASS: FCKSE. 11.C00.

Rebus, b. g.; by Ciiesterwood. SI. Deinarest,Providence. IE. L. nmed Jacob Livingston, Car-'ll- c.

Pa., horse.J S A. b. g. ; by Smuggler. W. H. Klane, Cleve-n- d.

O.Vtlan tic King, bk. h.; by Atlantic H. C Shoe-ie- r.

names Centhlre Bros. horse.al Uraden; by Browu Hal. Tltley Bros., u.

Pa.dge Thompson, g. g. : by . F. E. Reynolds,es Watson Taylor's Washington, Pa., horse,o. ch. s. ; by Mdney. Flcmlngton Stock Farm,tington, K J.ss C'umskv. b. m. ; by Embassador. Charles &

iat, Allegheny. Pa...arry Van. c g.: by General Washington. S.

lewey, Warren, O.Beechnut, b. h. ; by Louis Napoleon. John

Frash, Huntington, Ind.Joe Jctts. W. B. E. Lockwood, Jr., Xorwalk,

Conn.Favornla, ch. m. : by Brezant. A. W. Harbison.

'ew Castle. Fa.Maud Jictiregor: oy captain Sletiregor. C. A.

Williamson. X lies. J.Newcastle, eh. g.: by Kentucky Prince. Dlx-la-

Stock Farm. Lexington. Ky.JtaudiClay. ch. m.; by Harry Clay. W. H. H.

oiewsrw rry. iAltiraria, bl. f by Absolute. E. D. Wiggins.Bellngton. Iass.

Pituburgii Wilkes, b. h.; bv Bed Wilkes. P.Ulgglns. PltUburgh. Pa.2:19 CLABS, TBOTTI1TG, TUBSE, tUOOO.

Billy A, b. g.; by Boy Tom. Jr. Ed Odell. Mo-bile. Ala.

Dandy, b. g.; by Atlantic. Sherrlck Bros.,Pennsvllle. Pa.

Evangeline, br. m. : by Director. CloverdaleStock Farm. Colmar, Pa.

Abble V, gr. m. ; by Aberdeen. John E. Turner.Ambler. Fa.

Dan son. b. g.; by Mansfield. John E. Turner,AniTjIer, la.

Bert Sheldon. Jr., bk. g. ; by Warwick Boy. G.O. mltli. Orange, X. J.

Zcmbla. br. m. ; by King Almont. W. E. Weeks.Tarkvllle. X. Y.

Sadie M. b. m.: by Prince Orion. D. H. y.

Chester, Pa.Martin K. ch. g.; by Hannibal. Thomas Grady,

Belmont, 'Pa.Illinois Egbert, b.g.; by Egbert. C S. Green,

Elmlra, X. Y.Bush. b. m.; by Alcyone. Silver Mine Slock

Farm. Copakc, X. Y.

Itrlclitnn Beach Card.Ixjuisville, July 17. Special The follow-

ing pools were sold hero last evening onMonday's races at Brighton Beach:

First race, of a mile Jav Quel 113.;: Poly Dora 110. V. Mart 109. Finland. 109.illlletdoux colt 107. 5: Martell 107, 5; Ella 103.H: Menthol 103. King Arthur 105. Bralnard 103,Airtight li5, 420; Hurry Away 103, Daisy Woodruff.ia ?m; Silver Thread filly 100. 10: Tiara fillyiuu. ;i.

vcond race, of a mile MarrnerlteIIS fj: Lisbon Maid lis. (3: Yci.onanie 115. Vir-ginia Hi Maria Stoops 115, t!S; Mary 115,Florence Belle 115. Bounce nl.T 113. 17: Lizzie TUS, Pansy US beabright 115. Japonlx IIS, tlS;Courtship 115. 25: Faithful 115. 10; Kocuele 115,V. field. I0.

Third race Innovation 117. Lester HZ. $20: FalseB 112. SS; Poverty lltfi: Quartermaster 110, Arnica110. Sic: Mote 107. SS; .Magic 105. Zamimst lie. f 1C;Macintosh 102. J12: Detroit 102. Thlcrsl 102. Ab-sconder 102, Deboualr 90. 7: Cancbreak V7. J7:fichl. fio.

Fourth race, one and miles, sellingMy Fellow 112. J.0: ltoonefort ill. IT; irin100, 20: Fronteuac 1(, 2: India Iiubber J09, as;

Pelham 107. Mountain Deer 105. Nomad 102, 7; Ab-ble 11 no: field, H- -

Firth race, mile Alcalde105. .3: Logan 101. JS; King Thomas 103. Sports-man 105. 15: llraclnthe HB, Little Jake lOS, LordDalraent 105, fU; Mabel Glen 100, f; Ballyhoo 100,tpo: Held. 4.

Sixth race, one nto W4: Onoway IM,Wattersnn 1st. V: Erie 1H 8.1: Commonarnse 112,Cerebus 132. Centaur 124. $5:. Hoey 118. 115; Air-sh-

109. AzraellC4, Dallabldl. fi; field, S4- -

Fatnrday'a Leacae Games.AtXewYork

XewYork 7 12 11 10 0 13

Pittsburg 0 0 4 10 0 0 0 05Batteries-Ru- sle and Boyle, and Crane and

O'Rourke; Eh ret. Smith and Mack.Al Brooklyn

Chlcsgi 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0- -2Brooklyn 0 2 2 10 1 0 -- 9

Battcrles-Lu- by and Schrlver: Stein and KIus-lo-

At BaltimoreBaltlmort- - 0 0002030 0- -5Cincinnati 0 2 0 0 0 6...0 8 --16

Batteries Cobb and Guuson; Bettgerjhnd "Har-rington.

At Fhlladelphl- a-iAmlBTlUe 0 40020200-- 8Philadelphia I 0000110O-- J

Batteries-Sand- ers and Grim: Esper, CarseyandClements.

At Washingto- n-Washington 2 0 t 0 0 0 0 0 -4Cleveland 0 3 1110 0 0 6

Batteries Duryea and McGulre; Cuppy andZimmer.

At Boston-Bos- ton

0 0 r 0 3 2 I 2 -- SSI. Louis. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3

Batterie3 Staler and Kellv: Getzeln and Buckley.

To-d.i- league Schilalo.Pittsburg at Boston, Cleveland at Balti-

more, Cincinnati at Xow York, Lonlsvllle atWashington, Chicago at Philadelphia, St.Louis at Brooklyn.

Th Record,w r. rrl w ro

Brooklvn ..2 0 1000 Cleveland 1 .500Xew York.....10 lOOOl Cincinnati .... 1 .500lUltimore. ..11 .500; Louisville 1 .5 0Boston ..II ,oM Washington .. 1 .300M. Louis 1 .SOO Pittsburg. 0 .000Philadelphia. 1 .SOOIOhlrago 0 .000

Planning: to Prevent a Total WreclcKaksab Crrv, Ma, July 17 There Is a plan

on foot to prevent the total wreck of theWestern B.ill Leasne. It is to join forceswith the weakening Eastern League, keep-ing Kansas Cltv, Toledo. Indianapolis andColnmlms In tho Wstrn Clrcnit, and fourEastern clnbs lor the Eastern Circuit. Pres-ident Speas. of the Kansas City team. Is at-tempting to nrrango the detailsand believeshe will succeed.

I5rnsb. Denies a Humor.Ikdiakapolis, July 17. The Western

League will probably go to the wall. Bntfour clubs are now left, Columbus. Indian-npolt- s.

Toledo and Kansas City, and It isvery doubtful If they will piny the seasonont. John T. Brush said y that therewas no likelihood of Indianapolis takingBaltimore's place in that organization.

The Diamond.It's bad business to play pitchers In the out-

field.Now Is tho time to pick out the next pennant

winner.Thirteen men are not enough to go through a

hard season with.The prospects of the Baltimore team are cer-

tainly uot brls-ht-.

onn Sluggers, it Is to be hoped, will, wake un to-day and down the champions.

The statement or the release of Keefe by Phila-delphia seems to be but a rumor.

Umpire Mitchell Is Imposing fines now likesveteran. That s the way to don u 'em.

.Toiixxy Wakd and his Brooklvn team are ontfor the pennant this time by all means. Good luckto them.

Titr. Haielwood Records defeated the East EndRecord In a very easy contest on Saturday bv ascore of IS to 9.

SECRETARY GEOR1E MtTCSOIf is with the St.LoiI team, anil said yesterday that Jimuiv Galvlnwas giving perfect satisfaction.

New Orlfaxs' new pitcher. Ortmann. shutMemphis out "UhoutahltlastTieck. Germany"Schmidt, mho was with Macon, turned the samesort of a trick on Atlanfct.

The Louisville expressed the hope before theyleft for the Eist that the would make a bad start.They declared that whenever thev got off la froutthey always finished near last place.

The schedule or the Xational Leaguels one orthe worst that was ever arranged. A GeorgeX agner said when he was here: "The railroadsare getting all the money." Courier-Journ- al

Herman Long was made np a la Frank Bnsh,the three-ba- ll merchant.in that Chicago bnrlesone.Huzh Duffv wore red Culwnv clnn.r, inri hi..red nose. title King Kel. looked Ukc an Englishuuiii-- niiu uunuiK WIIISKITS. Efldll T?lY was theartist wno worked the great transformattoi

When Decker, the new man signed by themildly aked Anon If he was to play firstbase, the big Captain flew Into a terrible rage.

Anson drew himself up 10 his fiiliest heirht. and.in language ulai wou;a not appear very prcttv Inprint, he proceeded to crush any ambition "thatDecker might have hail of plavlng find base Tor theChicago Club. He Informed Decker that he wasthe only man that would play first base Tor Chi-cago, and when he couldn't do It he would retirefrom the business.

Brooklyn has now 14 men on the pay roll, saysthe Brooklyn Under the 111 advised 13 pltv-e- rs

ru'.e. one or them will have to go. It has beenproven In the first season that victories depend to agreat extent on the effectiveness of the pitchers.Ward'stwlrlersare all Al. and It would be poorJudgment to let any of them go. It. therefore be-hooves him to place lilnslow In the pool, and de-pend on Con Dailey and Turn Daly to do the catch-ing. Klnslow will be inlicd. of course, but It Is acase or compulsion, and Tom will easily find aDerth with one or the other clubs. He wouldgreatly strengthen Louisville, which clubhaslustput in a bid for his services.

Tennis Championship Points.The tennis experts have been doing some

figuring on the championship game be-tween Ewlng and Buch of Saturday andespecially on the first set. It took 20 gamesto settle this set and In theso games 1G3points wero made. Of these Ewlng made 92and Buch 73. Tabulating tho points madein the three sets the following results:

Setl. Set 2. bets. Total.Ewlng. points 92 2C 23 148Buch, points 73 11 17 111

Total 165 37 53 257

Donovan Defrnts White.Lima, O., Jnly 17. Jack Donovan, who Is

training for his fight with Joe Tansey atMemphis next month, fought Ed White,formerly of Cincinnati, here y for $i50a side and gate receipts. Marquis ot Queens-bur- y

rules governed. Donovunwon in thefifth round.

Fast Lone Distance 'Cycling.Halifax, K. S., July 17. E. Boak, Jr.. of

Chicago, who has been riding from Tar-mout- h

to Halifax on a blcyclo tonr, has ar-rived here, having successfully completedhis long lide of 223 miles in 2i hours aid 27minutes.

Miscellaneous Notes.Jim Hai L's row wltn Peter Maher has hurt hisHall's chances to defeat Frltchard.Nick DEXMAEsn. of the Southslde. stated thathe Is anxious to row Fat Luther for (100 or KM aside.The police surprised a crowd of mill men whowere enjoying an lmpromtu prize fight on Bru-no- fs

Island, yesterday morning.Charles Stevenson, or Builer, and JohnNewman, of Frankswwn. will run a foot race atold Glenn ood Grove, Augusts, for a purse of fXa.Peter King. ofClucInuatl. and Dan McCabe,or Chicago, have been matched to fight to a finishon July a at 12S pounds, for S250 a side with lour-ouu-

gloves.

C0HVTJLSI0KS BESTJXT IN DEATH.

Boss Woodrnfl Worried Jnto Her Grave bya Wbltecap Letter.

Jacksojt, Mich., July 17. Kose Wood-ruff, aged 28, the adopted daughter of Mrs-Geor-

"Woodruff, of .No. 224 Cooper street,died tinder peculiar circumstancesSeveral davs ago she was taken with spasmswhich attacked her periodically, caus-ing heart and lung trouble. A monthago she was made the victim of unwar-ranted stories, which made her despondentHer friends attempted to trace the origin ofthe stories, but were unable to do so. Twoweeksago she received a Whitecap letterin which a large skull and cross-bon- weredrawn in red ink with the following warn-ing written underneath: "You are white-cappe- d

by 12 of your best Iriends. Lookout; we give you but two more ol thesewarnings." The receiut of this Utter soaffected her mind that it resulted in convul-sions.

A BEKABXABLE EK&DD0CK FATALITY.

The Ticllm Bolls Out of Bed and a Second-Stor- y Window at tbe Same Time.

Beaddock, Jnly 17. Special JohnGiaydus. a boarder with George Smith, re-

turned to his domicile about 11 o'clock ingood health. At 3 o'clock this morning hisdead body was found in the alley below thewindow of his room.

The window is very low, and as the bedis near it, it is thought he rolled out andlell to the ground. His neck was broken.He was aged about 43 years, was marriedand leaves a wile and four children.

MILLIONS AT STAKE.

Little Wonder at the Fight BeingMade by Chicago Brokers

AGAINST AN ANTI-OPTIO- N LAW.

Dow the Windy City's Big Poard of TradeWould re Affected.

THE TAST SUMS WHICH ABEIXYOLYED

CHICAGO, July 17. Suppose the Hatch-"Washbu- rn

anti-optio- n bill or some similarmeasure should become a law, and its en-

forcement should turn out to be practica-ble, just how and in what way would thegreat speculative interests centering aboutthe Chicago Board of Trade be affected?

This is the question which the 5,000 mendoing business daily in and around theboard arc devoting mote thought to thanthey have given to any subject in a lifetime.Well they may, lor it is of vital importanceto them. It Involves the bread and butterof a great many thousand 'persons, the em-ployment of a great many million dollars inmoney.

Tho effects of the bill would be infinitelymore far reaching than those who have notgiven the matter careful study would im-

agine, possibly necessitating an entirereadjustment of bnsiuess methods relatingto contracts involving future performance,for the application of a lecal principlemight not be confined to commodities men-tioned in a specific bill.

It is not that phase of the question, how-ever, which agitates the persons on 'Changeat this writing. They are guessing at theprobable direct efiects of the enforcementof a law prohibiting speculative trading ingrain and provisions the immediate localconsequences.

'Ahe Financial Interests Involved.It is possible to arrive at a fairly intelli-

gent estimate, of the financial interests di-rectly and specifically composing the specu-lative branch of the business by a carefulanalysis of the board's membership audclearing-hous- e lists. By that it is notmeant that a statement of the individualwealth of the members is intended, but anestimate of the capital actually employedin carrying on a line of business which isthreatened with total extinction. That isthe plain English of it

Blind faith that some wav may be de-vised to "beat the law" does not alter thefact that the anti-optio- n people set out toget the scalps of the commercial exchangesand that they believe the pendine measuresare going to do the business.

There are over 1,800 members of theBoard of Trade, but only 311 firms and in-

dividuals are on the Clearing House listSome of the. firms are composed of halt adozen partners and others of only oneperson. They will certainly averageless than three persons to a firm.Seven hundred and fifty would bp a liberalestimate. The remainder of the member-ship is represented by nossibly 600 brokersand clerks in the employ of these recog-nized 311 firms, by unattached brokers whodo their trading through other concerns(thereby saving office expenses) and by non-acti-

members orTolum-no- f tho Easiness at Present.

The specnlative branch of the trade prob-ably gives employment to 1.500 clerks, be-sides contributing indirectly to the laborand emoluments of 2,500 more in lines tribu-tary to or interwoven with it In this cal-culation no account is taken of the tens ofthousands of men here and elsewhere whoare in the cash grain trade and in the meatindustries, the aim being to confine thequestion to the persons and interestsselected for sacrifice by the Farmers' Alli-ance and their Iriends in Congress, the viewbeing strictly local.

A careful study of the Clearing Houselist warrants those familiar with the ratingof Board of Trade people in the statementthat the commission firms thereon rep-resented require at least $10,000,000 incash to swing the , speculative end oftheir business. That amount of moneymay not be employed at all times, butit must be actually invested subject tocnecs, or wnere u can oe naa at anhour's notice. The firms and individuals onthe list are, of course, worth vastly morethan 510,000,000, at least a dozen membersof the board being rated that high singly,but that sum is necessary to be kept onhand for the safe conduct of business. Intheory the customer's margins are all thecapital needed by the commission merchant,hut in point of fact he requires a large cashcapital, lor he is always "in the gap" andsubject to calls of which the customer is ina state of blissful ignorance. '

Duties of the Men In lh Business.He must protect his contract under any

and all conditions, and it is not an unusualcircumstance lor tens of thousands of dol-lars ot a commission man's money to hetied up in a deal months after the customerhas drawn his balance and gone off abouthis own affairs. Thus the commission mer-chant who has 550,000 in his businessnever feels quite safe unless he knows wherehe can put his hands on an additional 550,-00- 0

in case of an emergency. No accounthas been taken of the reserve capital. Thatis necessarily an indefinite nuantitv. Oneman worth 51,000,000 may limit his liabilityto a 525.000 investment, while anothermight feel in honor bound to protect a sim-ilar investment with his whole fortune.

The 510,000,000 estimate of capital em-ployed in swinging the speculative businessof the Chicago Board of Trade is very con-servative. It is altogether within safebounds and does not include the money keptbusy by the army of professional speculators,nor the margins put up by the great host ofoutside operators commonly stvled "'he pub-lic" These two latter items vary. Theymayaggregate 55,000,000 at one time and 525,000,-00- 0

a month later, depending on the volumeand activity of trade. Neither does it in-clude the capital employed in grain hand-ling and pork packing" branches, furtherthan to make proper allowance for themoney required in the speculative end ofthe provision' market as standing capital

Packing Industry of the Windy City.

The packing industry of Chicago easilyrepresents an investment of 545,000,000 to550,000,000, of which possibly 35 per centonly is in plant The new Internationalhas a $10,000,000 capitalization, tho Armourconcern has more than as much more in thebusiness, Nelson Morris is worth more than510,000,000, every dollar of whichis behind his meat interests, and thenthere are the Swifts and half a dozen smal-ler concerns. This great interest will beseriously inconvenienced by the enforce-ment of an anti-optio- n law of drasticproperties, bnt not to the same extent asgrain. Speculation is lighter, and a fewgreat distributive houses worked up directconnection with retailers and consumers inall parts of the world. Manufacturers willfeel keenly their inability to insure againstlosses by selling current production forfuture delivery a species of "hedge" verypopular with grain as well as provision men.

The grain elevator interests and the grainreceiving firms will also be vitally affected.The system of buying and selling futures ispart and parcel of the grain handling busi-ness as now conducted. The onlyinstiranceagainst losses resulting fro& a decliningmarket which holders of grain now enjoy isto sell for some future month, tinder thepresent system speculative capital can al-ways be found to carry the grain from thetime it leaves the hands of the produceruntil it reaches consumptive markets, butwith a cloud thrown over the business andrestrictions built up around it capital willlook elsewhere. Capital has an unconquer-able antipathy to being knocked on thehead with a club. It is apt to resent thatsort of treatment by going elsewhere after afew experiences of that kind.

Necessity of n New System.Therefore elevator people and receivers

will be obliged to construct an entirely newsystem ot, trading. The elevator capacityof Chicago, "regular" and private, is about40,000,000 bushels. On a basis of 40 cents abushel on capacity, which will be voted too

THE FLTTSBUKGr DISPATCH. MONDAY, JULY 18. 1892.

low by most persons, thU representsan investment in property and work-ing eapital of 510,000,000. The grainreceivers, many of whom own lines ofcountry elevators, have .probably 510,000,-00- 0,

all told, invested In the cash branchesof their business. Last year tbe elevatorcompanies and receiving houses handled211,000,000 bushels of grain (flour not in-cluded), requiring from 5105,000,000 to5120,000.000 in its payment and care whileIn transit to consumption.

A summary of the principal financial In-

terests represented on the Chicago Board ofTrade directly subject to serious disturb-ance by anti-optio- n legislation shows upthus;

Capital invested in commercial businessSpecnlative $10,1.00,000Receiving 10,000,000Klevator companies 16,030.000Packing 45.000,000

Total $81,COO,000

If the movers of the crusade against trad-ing in futures succeed in passing a lawthat will accomplish the purpose the

now in the specnlative branch of thecommission business will be forced to seekother fields of investment The elevators,grain receivers and packers would continueto do business, but necessarily under radi-cally changed conditions. Just what theseconditions would be" no one pretends now tobe wise enough to foretell. y

I'lannlnc to Brat the Proposed liar.Various schemes have been proposed to

"beat the law" in the event of the passageoi the Hatch-Washbti- bill. Some onesuggested establishing a board in Canadaand ostensibly executing all orders there,presumably much as '"Plunger" Shawproposed to run a Chicago poolroomin St Paul. This was received withcontempt on 'change. 'Another planwas to inaugurate a system ofdealing in cash grain broad enough to meetthe requirements of speculation, but thefear was expressed that the quantity ofcash wheat in Chicago would be too smallfor such a plan to be satisfactory. Then itwas snggested that the law be ignored andknocked out in the courts, business goingon meantime as if there was no suchstatute on the books. Timid capital ob-jects to taking that risk, however.

Finally Henry Clews came to the rescuewith the brilliant and merchant-lik- e sug-gestion that operators go right along asusual, but that they call grain "hay." Itseems to be recognized, however,that subterfuges and evasions will notgo, and something broadgauge mustbe proposed. A select commit-tee composed of Messrs. Chandler,"Wright, Eumsey and Logan, has been atworn ior a moutn trying to hit upon a planbig enough to meet the exigencies of thecase. They frankly admit that they are stillgroping blindly for a way out of the trouble.One of them candidly 'stated that in hisopinion if Congress enacted any such law asis now on the ragged edge of a favorablevote, the commission houses engaged in thespeculative branch of the trade might aswell shut up shop, and that those who drewtheir money first and embarked in otherpursuits would be the wisest They wouldget that much the start of their fellows.

What a ChRngn Won d Mean.It is barely possible that the unpleasant

experience tnrougn wnicn the board is nowpassing may result in the adoption of auniform system of grading in dfnerent citiesunder which warehouse receipts for grainin Kansas Citv, St Louis, Toledo, Detroit,Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dulmh and otherlarge centers could fee traded in upon thismarket and deliverable upon Chicago con-tracts or made interchangeable.

It is said to take 540,000 to 550,000 a day,or about 515,000,000 a year to "run theBoard of Trade" that is, to pay office rent,clerk Hire, telegraph bills and the thousandincidental expenses of the members. Inreturn for this sum, which the

charge is a useless tax on trade, the1,800 members give their services and theuse of 580,000,000 capital Invested in thebusiness.

The elimination of the purely specula-tive feature would necessarily cause theshifting of at least 810,000,000 to otherinvestment channels ,in this city alone,and to the readjustment of not lessthan 3,000 commission merchants, brok-ers and clerks to new conditionsof employment. Such is the nrnMom

,that confronts the Board of Trade man, andit sufficiently explains why he gets np withthe Hatch-Washbu- bill in the morning,carries it with him through the day, goes tobed with it at night, and allows it to torturehim in his sleep.

IRELAND AT HOME.

The Archbishop Fall ot Praise for theFopp 1,-- Interest in America and inKrpnbiican Institutions Ills HolinessNot In Fr.ill Health.

St, Paul, July 17. Archbishoplrelandpresided in the Cathedral of St Paul again

after an absence of six months, spentprincipally in Eome. He was glad tobe home once more, and said so in his open-ing remarks. His discourse had most to dowith the Pope, of whose interest even inthis remote region the Archbishop assuredthe people, and told ot his health, hislabors and the details of his everyday life.He said:

If It Is nny pleasure to you to know that hetakes a deep interest In the welfare of thechurch in the United States, in the welfaregenerally, temporal as well as spiritual, ofour beloved Republic, I can assure you hedoes take such a deep and abiding interestin nil that concerns It.

In regard to the health of Pope Leo XIH.the Archbishop said:

All you may hear and read about the Ponebeing on tho threshold of death has no foun-dation In fitct. Tlioo who see him for thefirst time ate somewhat struck bv his thinahd ascetic flunre, and " would believethat he is attached to the earth byvery fragile strings: but thinness of bodynnd nsceticiim of features indicate by nomeans weakness or approaching dissolu-tion. Durine my entire stay in Rome hewas not indisposed for a single moment,and. from all I heard, there was scarcelv

an interruption from his assiduouslabors, even for a little while, because oftailing health.

Details were then given of his dailywork and of the various duties of the differ-ent days of the week. High praise is giventhe statesmanship of the Pope, the Arch-bishop considering him "the greatest states-man of the world." He paid considerableattention to the high abilities of the Pope'sadvisers, and eulogized the Catholic Churchfor its adaptibility to all forms of govern-ment, saying:

Leo XIII shows us how the Church notonly admits of those changes, bnt helps toolvo them. Whenever any movement pre-

sents Itself to the world which leads to itsdevelopment, she takes a hand.

BUN SOWN BY AN OLD CHUM.

A Suspected Mnrderor Traced by AnotherMan Accused of the Crime.

SCHENECTADr, N. Y., July 17. Spe-

cial Cornelius Loth, the suspected mur-derer of Mrs. Etta Demacsek, reached herethis evening, in charge of tbe local police.A mob of over 1,000 persons followed theprisoner to police headquarters, filling theair with cries of "Lynch himl" "String himup!" eta ' '

At police headquarters Loth was pickedout by Mrs. McCann, Jrom half a dozenstrangers, as tbe man she saw leave theDemacsek house on tbe day of the murder.Detective Feldhemer, who was instrumentalin causing Loth's arrest, formerly workedwith Loth, and was himself at first sus-pected of the murder. He easily estab-lished' his innocence, and then set to workto find the real murderer.

A Negro Marries a German GirtElmiba, N. Y., July 17. Isaac Gould, a

colored man, giving his age as 30 years andoccupation a coachman at Wilkesbarre, wasmarried in this city this morning to a whitegirl named Louisa 'Bicker, from Germany,aged 21 years. Tne ceremony was per-formed by Bev. M. XL Boss, 'a coloredMethodist minister. Gonld celebrated hiswedding by getting drunk,

THE SOFT SHELL CRAB.

A Man Who Gets Rich on Them Tellsflow They Go to Pittsburg.

NOVELTIES IN CATCHING THEM.

Experiments in Preventlnc Tle'r GettingHard After Shedding.

HOW TIIE EEL M1KKET IS SUPPLIED

HVJUITEN FOR Tfflt DISPAJCIM

T no matter what timeof year, from March toNovember, whoeversails the waters of thegreat South Bay, or ofthe many smaller baysand inlets that extendfrom Brookhaven up toQuogue, on the southshore of Long Island, is

pretty sure to meet dozens, sometimesscores, of" small skiffs, each under spritsailand each carrying one man who maneuversthe craft with one hand while he holds apole or an oar in the other. As a rule themen who sail these boats are rather a seedylooking lot of customes They look as ifthey had slept in their boats, and doubtlessBorne of them have, and lor weeks at a time.An old flannel shirt, a pair of oil overallsand an oilskin hat complete the costume ofthe persistent sailors.

"Watch them as they flit about the bayand you will see that from time to time theboat rounds np at a stake and the sail Isallowed to flop in the breeze while the mandoes a few moments' work; then he pulls inthe sheet and is off for another stake. Theirpeculiarity is that, unlike the oysterers,these boats never work together. Boat andman are always alone.

A Ilonse That Will Float.These are the eelers. They are the men

who furnish to the New York fish marketfrom 10 to 100 barrels of eels a day in theseason. In all there are nearly 200 menwho make a living in the humble vocationof eel and crab catching. When the eelseason closes the crab season begins. I hap-pened last week to discover a little houseor shanty on the bay side. Its foundationsconsisted of four noden rollers, each abouteight feet long. The object of this as Ifound later, was to move this residence fromplace to place by water. When the timecomes for a move a few men apply theirshoulders to the cabin and away it rollsinto the water, where the big rollers form arait; then, when the wind is fair, it can betowed at the rate of three miles an hour.The little house had two small windows,one in either side, through which I couldsee the remains of a meal on the table, and,in the "end furthest from the door, twobunks. Around the door were scores of eelpots. On one side of the shantv werepainted in big letters "soit shell crabs."

It belonged to Phil Terry, of Moriches,the most famous soft shell crab expert in

lhU 'ferry, the CiuO Kmy.

these waters, who had been living in it forthe last month while eeling in this part oftbe bay. He is a good-lookin- g fellow and abright and ready talker; so I shall let himtell his own story. He skinned eels as hetalked, and, although he stopped occasion-ally, I noticed that his pile of eels grewfaster than that of either of the two menwho helped him.

Has to Follow Up the Eels."My sailing shanty," said he, "is a de-

vice of my own and answers every purpose.When we exhaust the eels in one part ofthe bay we have to move our poles and pots,aud this sometimes takes us 20 miles fromhome, so that we have to live wherever theeels call us. A houseboat would do, butthat is an expensive luxury, and has to bepumped out it it leaks. By this plan werun our house up on any shore we choose.drive a few stakes at which to tie oursharpies, and our camp is ready. We canmove our house five miles without puttingout the fire in the stove.

"The. eel business just now is about overfor the apparently absurd reason that noone has yet discovered a means of keepingtoadhNh from getting into the mouths ofour eel pots and wedging themselves thereso tightly that the eels cannot get in. Atthis time of year out of 50 eel pots you mayfind 40 stopped up by this same nuisance,and we cau devise no remedy forjt. Eelsare as plentiful as ever and will be all sum-mer, but we cannot catch them in the onlyway which offers a profit owing to thistoadfish. There is one of the critters now."

Terry kicked over to me a small, uglylooking fish, about six inches long by threeor four broad, a sort of magnified pollywog,or better still, a miniature whale. It lookedugly enough to scare away even an eel.

The Finances of E.il Flshlne."Does eeling pay better than crabbing?"

I asked."There's not much money in either,"

said Terry, throwing a handful of beachsand over a pile of squirming eels in orderthat he might get a better grasp upon them."It's rather a dirty and a lonely life. Butwe get plenty of fresh air and enough breadand butter."

Terry might have added that while NewYorkers were baking in an atmosphere of08 degrees at that particular moment, hewas cool and comfortable in his littleshanty. Before him lay as pretty a picture ofriver and bay as ever delighted an artist'seye in this haunt of artists southern LongIsland.

"Tbe average eeler," he went on, "needsan outfit costing from $100 to $150. Hisboat when new is worth $30. He must havefrom 60 to 80 pots, costing 60 cents apiece,and as many poles, to which they are tied.Then he has to have a few 'cars' or floatingboxes in which to keep fish, some nets,lines, etc, for catching bait. His workbegins at dawn, by which time he is off ontbe water, his boat full of bait for the pots.

Hhat an Dol Pot I Like."All of the pots are alike, and, while

dozens of new fangledones have been tried,this one, made of oak strips, with an open-ing which grows narrower and ends withsharp points turned inward, remains theonly useful eel trap. Some wire rat trapsare made on the same plan. The rat walksin easily, but finds only sharp points whenhe tries to get out It is the same storywith the eels.

"The bait for the eel pots consists eitherof bunkers, otherwise menhaden, a smallfish caught in nets and used by the millionfor making fish oil, or horsetoot crabscaught on tbe flats. One blow with a hatohetmakes the crab fit food for eels. ,

"The poles are usually set 150 feet apartalone the edge of a channel. Thev are soset that the line can be easily followed with

the eye. When the skiff rounds up at astake the rot is hauled up and opened, thebottom and top being on hinges. The eels,if any, are emptied into the boat, a new bitof bait is pnt in, and the trap is droppedoverboard again. On sunny days you willoften see hnndreds of eel pots hanging tothe tops of tbe poles and far out of water.The tide has not left them high and dry, asmany people think, but the eelers want todry them out in order to keep the potsfrom rotting.

On Sala In Twenty-Fo- ur Hoars."By 10 o'clock the eeler ought to be at

his shanty again" nnd ready to skin thecatch. It takes him two hours to do this iftbe catch is fair, aud then the product ofthe day's work is boxed up and sent to NewYork by the freight train which passes herein the afternoon and reaches New York inthe evening. Twenty-fou- r hours after theeel leaves the pot he is on the slabs atFulton Market.

"An outfit of from 50 to 75 eel pot', ifproperly looked after, ought to give anaverage of GO pounds a day. Thereturns to the fisherman vary from5 to 10 cents a pound, 'accord- -

Eeler's Headquarters.ing to the demand in New York

"With me, crabbing is the importantwork of the year. Last season I sold 8,000dozen soft shell crabs at SI a dozen. I sup-plied every hotel and big boarding housefrom Quogue to Sayville, a stretch of 30miles. The common wav of getting thesoft shell crabs has usually been to poleover the flats at low tide and scoop them upwherever found. But this method is slowand uncertain as compared with my systemof keeping crabs in confinement until theyshed.

How the Crjbs Are Canght."I get my crabs from the men who make

a business of catching hard crabs. Thesemen are the eelers of the spring. For crab-bing they stretch in the water a long hue,sometimes half a mile, baited at intervalsoi a ioot or two witn pieces ot salted orpicklsd eels. We use for that eels that weretoo small for market When the line isstretched, with half a dozen poles to keepit in place, the crabber sails along withinfour or five feet of it and scoops in with hisnet every crab he sees feeding onthe bait. If the catch hasbeen fair he will get four limebarrels full of crabs in eight hours'work on the bay, and his net returns fromNew York for them vary from 35 cents to?1 25 a barrel Out of his four barrols ofhard crabs each man may get from one totwo dozen crabs that will soon shed, andthese he turns over to me at 25 cents adozen. In Moriches Bay there are 16crabbers upon whom I depend for a dailysupply; and from Shinnecock, on the east,and Brookhaven, on the west, I get twice asmany more. I also buy 'shedders,' as wecall them, from the boys within 20 miles.

"As my crabs come in they are sorted and"placed into one of the big 'cars' you see.onthe edge of the creek there. I take no crabthat is not within ten days of shedding,because while kept in cars crabs refnse toeat any food that'l can offer them, and theygrow thin and watery. I have the crabsgraded into six cars. In the first are thecrabs that will shed inside of 12 hours; thenthose that will shed inside of 48 hours andso on.

Crabs Are Itecu'ar Cannibals."The crab that is going to shed will eat

one thing, and that is just what I cannotafford to offer him a softshell crab. Thatis the reason I have to grade them so care-fully. If a crab sheds in a car containingcrabs that will not shed tor several days theunfortunate will be set upon and devouredat once by the other crabs. There is nomercy among them.

"The way in which we tell a crab that Isabout to shed can scarcely be described, thesigns varying so much; but as a rule it isby the color of the breastplate and thecreases in the joints of the big claw. Thereis one infallible way of knowing that youhave a shedder whenever you find onecrab carrying another; in this case thesmaller crab is alwavs a female, or, as wecall it, a 'cow' shedder. The big crab is amale, which will continue to carry the shed-der around, and will protect it from attacksduring the whole period of shedding andhnrdeniug. This is one of the most curiousphases of crab life, but I have watched theprocess too often to doubt it A crab shedsfour or five times once every year. Whenit has attained its full growth it lives twoyears and dies, bo that the average life isabout six years. When the crab reachesthe last stage before shedding, say within12 hours, it becomes torpid, and you can seethe joints beginning to open; it becomeselastic at the joints. Then it is safe toleave the crabs all together, because theywill eat nothing. The crab which comesout is one-thir- d larger than the shell heleaves.

Crabs That Come, to riltsbnnr."If left in water, a softshell crab becomes

hard again within 48 hoars. If they are in-

tended for consumption nearby I take themout of water at once alter shedding. Ifthey are to go any distance, to Pittsburg,for instance, I leave them in the car for twoor three hours, in order to make the skintough enough to stand transportation.

"There are a few experiments that I in-tend to make this coming summer whichmay prove interesting. I want to find someway of keeping crabs in captivity longerthan ten days so that l shall have a largernumber of possible shedders. They will eatnothing but Boftshell crabs while in cap-tivity, so that instead of cars I may putthem into small ponds. Another problemis bow to keep the crab from hardening boquickly and at the same time keep it alive.The first crabs come in about July 4. Bythe second week in July I have lots ot busi-ness and it will last until the hotel seasoncloses in September." G.

DUE 10 THE H'KINLSY LAW.

Fostering of Pearl Bntton Factories as Toldby a BlannfjcttHMT.

New York, July 17. Thomas A. 'Webb,a pearl button manufacturer, has just pur-chased a large property in Newark for theerection of a new factory. Mr. Webb saidto-d- that the new structure was entirelyowing to the McKinley bill. "Whenthe bill was passed," said Mr. "Webb,"there were 12 or 13 manufactoriesin the country, with an average ot

"from 8 to 12 operators. Now thereare about sixty plants, with an average offrom 55 to 60 workmen. My own businessbegan with eight workmen, and I now em-ploy 103. Wneu the new factory is com-pleted I shall have nearly 300. My ordersnow amount to between $150,000 and5170,000 yearly. Before the McKinlev actI did well with $2,500."

The wages of pearl bntton makers, wereformerly $8, 510, and $12 a week. Theynow earn $18, $20, and $22, according toskilL

Tho State of tbe Granite Strike.Barre, Vt., July 17. The local Granite

Cutters' Union, has taken no action uponthe manufacturers' proposition. Dealersare taking all apprentices that theycan find. It is reported that if theunion refuses to accept the propositionmany" members will withdraw and go towork.

MXIOUS TO ADJOURN.

Senators and Representatives Eagerto Leave Washington

FOR PLEASANT SUMMER RESORTS.

A Quorum of Either House a Very Hard3 ting to Get From Now On.

GREAT HELP TO A T0UNG WEST POISTEE

iruoa x stapt cOBREsroirorirr.iWashington, July 17. The eagerness

to adjourn and get away from Washingtonis manifest and undisguised in both Honseand Senate. Quite a number of membershave been absent for-so- weeks lookingafter tbeir district conventions and localpolitics, and will not return. So great isthe anxiety and so pressing are tne de-

mands from home, it will be next to im-

possible to hold a quorum in the Houseafter the middle of next week. Theweather is hot, and there is little comfortto be had sweltering in the badly ventilated chambers.

With the exception of the sundry civiland deficiency bills, all the appropriationbills are practically disposed of. The sun-

dry civil, however, is in the throes over theprovisions and appropriations made by theSenate for the World's Fair, and Mr. Hol-ma- n

is indisposed to let go his clutch uponthe House so long as the fight can be keptup between the two bodies over this matterot disagreement. If the vote to be takenon the World's Fair matter next Tuesdayshall result in a triumph for Mr. Holmanand others who antagonize it, then the ses-

sion must be prolonged by conferences be-

tween the two houses until one branch orthe other-shal- l yield.

Ilolman'it Usual CbJ-ctl- looked For.The deficiency bill, now undergoing con-

sideration by the Senate, contained variousamendments to which Mr. Holman will un-doubtedly take exception, especially to theitems for payment of the awards of theCourt of Claims in the French spoliationcases, and this disagreement will doubtlessadd to tbe length of the session. It isstated, however, that effort is being madebv the advocates of the Hatch anti-optio- n

bill to prolong the session through disa--between the House and

enate, so that opportunity may be affordedto bring that bill up for consideration andpass it m some shape through the Senate.

Mr. Wasnburn asserted yesterday matthe opponents of the measure wanted to"talk it to death." but so far Mr. Wash-burn is the only Senator who has spokenon the bill. It was not debated in theHouse, but passed under suspeusion oi therules.

One Prormcted Debate I'recllcted.As the Senate Judiciary Committee could

not agree concerning the constitutionalityof the bill, and reported it back withoutrecommendation, and Senator George hasreported a substitute changing the measurefrom a revenue to an inter-Stat- e commercebill, it will occasion protracted debate inevent it shall be taken np for considerationand made a special order to continue fromday to day until disposed of. .

As an illustration ot the contrarity ofopinion regarding the constitutionality ofthe pending measure, Senator Morgan sig-nificantly remarked to-d- that "there wassix months debate on that out. While a- -

majority of the Senate undoubtedly favorssome legislation repressing, dealings in"options" and 'futures." a majority doesnot favor the Hatch hilL The opinion istherefore expressed that inasmuch as thebill cannot pass without extended discus-sion, and that amendments will be offeredto include stocks, bonds, coal, petroleum,flour, meats, real estate, and all transactionsin "options" and "futures," in addition todealings-i- grain and cotton, the bill cannotbe considered and passed at this late i'ar ofthe session. M. F. X

HELPED ON HIS COURSE.

The President and Senate Advance a WestPointer Two Years Over Bin Claaamatrs

Advantages of Ha vine Friends WhoAre Politicians.

"Washington, July 17. Special TheSenate late on Friday afternoon, and aftermany Senators had gone home, held a shortexecutive session and confirmed, amongothers, the nomination of Robert Sewell, ofNew Jersey, to be a second lieutenant ofcavalry. Young Sewell is the son of

Sewell, the duck-huntin- g companion of the President, as well as a colleagueof General Harrison on the Committee onMilitary Affairs when they were both Inthe Senate.

Two years ago young Sewell was nomi-nated as a cadet to West Point, but failedto qualify under the severe physical andmental examinations, but his ambition tobe a soldier did not wane with his failure.This desire was not lost sight of by thefond father, but not a word on the subjectwas uttered to the President until jnstbefore the Minneapolis Convention. Thenan appeal was made to the President on thogrounds of long and uninterrupted friend-ship, evidenced by frequent excursions andcoupled with an ofler of ardent politicalsupport.

The first condition was almost enoughfor tbe President to accede to the proposi-tion of General Sewell, but the secondclinched the subject, and the nominationwas made. It stands ont boldly as being a j

nomination more closely baed on Dersonal .

friendship than any the President has made.Under the law the'President is entitled toappoint second lieutenants in the armylrQtn civil life after the cadets at WesiPoint have been assigned. These civiliansare required to stand a rigid examinationat least, the rules and regulations of theWar Department make the examination acondition precedent to the nomination.When the nomination was made it waslearned that this examination of youngSewell had been evaded.

Protests were made by his former class-mates, who would be outranked two yearsby Sewell, and Senators were informed ofthe irregularity of the nomination and pro-tests against its confirmation n ere made.But the President informed his friends in W.the Senate that he very much desired thenomination confirmed, and out ot deferenceto this request aud the Senatorial courtesyextended to an old colleague. GeneralSewell's sou was confirmed. He has now astart of two years over his old classmates,aud is in the best branch of the service.This advancement and preferment countsmore in tbe m.itter of promotion in thelong run than four vears' hard study atWest Point

A 8350,000 Gift to a Texas City.Houston, Tex, July 17. William Kice,

New York, has supplemented his gift of$200,000 to the city of Houston for a libraryand industrial school by a further gilt of9,000 acres of land aud $17,000 in cash andsecurities, making v.alue of $350,000.

Highest of all in Leavening Power.- -

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TBE WEATHER.

ForWetternPemufjlvania: Warmer,Generally FaiiWeathers SeuO

teett icindt.

For Wat TtT.

ginia and Ohioi

'wSiWy Warmer, FairrWinds Shifting to

South,

The pressure has increased on the Atlan.tic coast, and the area of hieh pressure cov-

ers the region east of the Mississippi, thebarometer beinff" higher on the Middle At.lantic coast An extended depression coventho Eastern slope of the Booky Mountains,where the barometer has fallen from two to

three-tenth- s of an inch in the past St hours,the center of disturbance being apparentlyto the north of Dakota.

Local showers have occurred along- tho.Eastern slope of Texas to North Dakota,and also tbe Gulf and South Atlantic states.Fair weather prevails In 'all other districts,with a slight rise in temperature in theNorthern States, except in the extremeNorthwest,where It is slfcthtly cooler. Warm-er, fair weather will prevail In the NorthernStates east of the Mississippi on Mondav,andshowers will contlnne in the Atlantio andGuir States.

Comparative Temperature- -PrrrsBURO. July 17. The Tocal Forecut Oflctsl

of the Weather Bureau In this city furnlsnes the'"following:

X j)C :'

Jutyn.WL July B Vn.

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SAM 78 UX 0811AM ... 11AM .--12JI 88 12M 092FM OO 2TJI 73trM ... 5PM 7Sens 79 sra 7ao o

4 M V

Tr.MPZBATCRX AXD KAIXrALb.Maximum temp. 75.0Ranjte ....2D.0Minimum temp 55.0 Rainfall ........ .00Mem temp 65.01

RIVER NEWS AND NOTES.

Louisville Items Tbe Stage or Waters andthe Movements of Boats.

mrjtCTAI. TTLZGRAMS TO TIH DmPATCH.lXotnsvTLUC Jnly 17. Weather clear and coot

Klver falling, with 3 feet 11 Inches on the falls.6 feet 3 Inches In the canal and 10 feet 5 Inchesbelow. The New South pated up from Memphisto Cincinnati. The Buckrve State parsed downfrom Cincinnati to Memphis this mornlnjr. TheJohn P. Lewis arrived from St. Louis. epartnres, BlgSanay. lor Cincinnati.

What Upper Gawres Show.WATtniN Hirer 1 foot. Fair and warm."MORGAHTOWN Klver 4 feet and stationary.

Clear. Thermometer 80 at 4 P.w.Browssvilli River i feet 7 Inches and sta-

tionary. Clear. Thermometer 78 at 4 r. M.

Th News From IJelow.WnEEltlfG River 4 feet 6 Inches and risin '

slowly. Departed-B- en Hnr. Plttuhnrir: II.Pituburz: 'Lizzie Bay. I'lttsbure; Kev-sto- ne

State. I'ltlsbnrR; Congo. Cincinnati; C. W.ItatchMnr. SIsterYlIle.

YlCK6HIJR(J River falling. Arrived City ofProvidence. Passed np City or Hickman. Theheaviest rain for Tears: Scinches of rain fell hero

y. Great damage done.St. Lonts: J. K.

Speed, Cincinnati. Biver S3 feet 7 inches andriling. Clear and wann.

St. Loci' Weather clear and pleasant. Elver20 feet 6 Inches and falling.

News From the Klver.The Ben Hur came In last evening..The wharfs were almost deserted yesterdar.Tue water has fallen Ave Inches within 24 hoars.TnE Scotia will make no trips down the river tin

the river rises.Stags of water below Davis Island Dam, 3 feet

9 Inches. River fairing.Tnr. Lizzie Rav. Captain Keever, the

Kanawha riverTros Adam Jacob,- - Captain Cox, arrived from

Morgantown late last night. 'THE Keystone State was dne last evening and

wilt go out ht at lire o'clock, for Cincinnati.THE excursion boat rity of lttbnrg can carry

1.500 people. The J. M. Gnsky Is about the samesize.

Tnr Keystone State. Captain Calhonn. passedWheeling yesterday morning at 9 o'clock on herway up.

TnE IT. K. Bedford. Captain Greene, was theWheeling packet la last evening. She leaves to-

day at noon.TUB Charley Hood, recentlv brought here from

Marietta. Is having a new cabin built and other re-pairs made.

The James G. Blaine. Captain Jacob, came Infrom Morgantown last evening, bbe goes out to-

day at 3 o'clock.IF the water gets much lower the packets wilt

have to stop running. The water In the channelnow scarcely measures three feet.

The water about the wharfs register S feetInches. Some of the needles were again removedfrom the Davis Island Dam yesterday morning.

Both the Cltv of Pittsburg and the J. M. Cuskyhave been engaged to take a picnic party to Kin-ney's Grove to-l- from the bmltbfleld LutheranChurch.

TnE Bennett yesterday brought in a spile driver,which Is now lying at tbe Smlthfleld bridge. IIwill be taken up the rlrer to be used near tbe CarrieFurnace.

CaptaIX Eeho'S excursion boats to and fromMcKee's Borks and Chartlers did a lively businessyesterday. A boat left the wharf every Jo minutes,and each one took out a good load of passengers.

TnE water has been holding out longer thanusual this year. The river was so low lrfst summerthat the packets had to stop running May 7. Un-less there Is a rise soon traffic on the rlrer will bepractically stopped.

THE City of Pittsburg was to have run an excur-sion down the river yesterdar. The tlciets hadbeen sold, and alt arrangements made, but for someunknown reason the boat did not leave the wharfMany passengers were disappointed.

Ocean Steamship Arrival.Steamer. Where From. Destination.Adriatic. Liverpool .. ..Xetr York.Gellert ... Hamburg... ..New York.Zaandam. Amsterdam. .New York.Columbia Hamburg. . .New York.

aesland .New York. .London.Serria. .New York. ..London.'Jf'l .New York. London.California Baltimore. .London.Bourgogne.... .New York. London.Auranla ....Liverpool New York.Alaska ....Liverpool New York.LaChsmpague ....Havre New York.Scandia ....Hamburg New York.Taormln ....Hamburg New York.Enchantress... ....I'.lo Janeiro New York.British Prince ....Philadelphia QueenstowaLaRourgogne . ....New York Havre.

....New York London.Klchmond'iiiii ...New York London.Minnesota London Philadelphia

THE FIBE EEC0KD.

Akron The factory of the Western lin-oleum Company. Loss, $100,000, fully Insured.Origin unknown.

Independence, la. Two grain ware-houses belonging to W. S. Carllffe and

P. Brown. Loss, $50,000; partly insured.Staynor, Ont. Fire Sunday night de-

stroyed all the business places between theCameron House and Sanderson's brick:block. Losers: John Pieter. grocer; W. B.Henderson, harness; C. Newton, photo-granh-

D. G. Gillesoie, C Livingstone, A.Swalloe, Jewelry, and Mrs. Daniel and MisaSanderson, diessmakers. Loss and 'Insur-ance unknown.

Cholera Infantum Prevalent."There are many cases of cholera Infantum hi

town," said a prominent physician yesterday,"and mothers should be very watchful of theirchildren's health. It Is far better to prevent thisdisease than to attempt its cure, and mothersshould know that nothing has kept so many babieswell as lactated food. It has actually saved thechild's lite In many cases of this disease that I havaattended this year."

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