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TRUCK AT GOOD PRICES.
A LAROSR ACREAGE PLANTED
THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
E. C. Palmer of New York on the Crop
Outlook—An Increased Demand In
All the Markats-Farmers to Realize
Well on Their Produce—Savannah
Truck Sought After-
Mr. E. C. Palmer of Palmer, Rivenburg
& Cos. of New York, extensive produoe
dealers of that city, is stopping at the lie
Soto. He is on a trip through the south
eastern states soliciting consignments of
vegetables, fruits, and such produoe for bis
firm during the approaching season.
Mr. Palmer is well acquainted with the
crop outlook in the truck line, as be makes
that a part of hie business, and he says tbe
prospect is that there will lie a much larger
crop this year than last.
"The earlv vegetable crop in this section
has had some setback," said he, “on ac
count of the cold spell, but this has not been
confined to any particular locality, so no
section will gain any material advantage
from It.
“The shipments of strawberries and early
vegetables from Florida have already begun
and tbe New York buyers are receiving
these goods in large quantities. It will be
some few days, however, before many ship
ments are made from this point, as the crop
is not quite far enough advanced to begin
gathering yet.
“The demand is increasing every year for
the supply of early vegetables, and
this year the growers seem to have increased
the acreage in every section to meet it.
Prioes, too, have gone up on almost every
species of vegetable, and it is highly proba
ble that the heavy demand will keep them
up, if not in some Instances cause an in
crease.
“I have just taken a look over the truck
farm of Maj. G. M. Ryals, and find that
it is one of the largest and best conducted
to be found in this section.
He has about 150 acres planted
and bis crop is well advauoed. Mr.
Beebe also bas one of the largest truck
farms around Savannah.
"I predict a prosperous season in this line
if we have no other setback in the shape of
a frost to damage the crops. New York is
one of the largest markets for produce in
the world, and the early demand which
must be met, draws as largely from this
section, perhaps, as from any other in the
oountry.”
RIDING OVER THE BRIDGE.
Crowds Enjoy the Novelty of Cross
ing the Market Elevated Road.
The opening of the market bridge yester
day netted the Eleotric Railway Company
many extra niokels. The novelty of a rail
road ride through the market attracted
hundreds of people to make a trip over the
inside belt, and last night the company’s
treasury was heavier than usual on Sundays
by many hundreds of nickels.
The biggest rush was in the afternoon,
and every car whioh passed over the ele
vated road between 4 and 7 o’clock was
jammed to an uncomfortable degree. All
day people loafed around the entrances or
in tbe market to see the cars go through,
and tbe bridge was subjected to inspection
by probably 1,000 foot passengers during
the day. The silver spike was the center of
interest aDd its polished head was looked at,
rubbed, felt and admired sufficiently to
have made it consider itself as of much im
portance as President Cleveland were it an
animate object.
A number of gentlemen took positions In
diderent portions of tbe market building at
one time in the afternoon during tbe pass
age of cars to see if tbe running of tbe oars
made any impression on the building in the
way of a movement or jar of any kind, but
at tbe conclusion of their observations each
bad the same report to make to the others:
“No effect.”
When the bridge is painted and the in
candescent electric globes strung along on
the pillars it will be an ornament to the
market both day and night.
A BLAZE UP THE RIVER.
The Old Mill Weßt of the Water
Works Burned.
A telephone message to fire headquarters
about 9:30 last night said there was a fire in
the neighborhood of the Central railroad
wharves. The alarm brought out the en
tire department in a hurry, but when the
Central wharves were reached (the firemen
found that they were apparently no nearer
the blaze than when they started.
The fire started shortly after 9 o'clock,
and for awhile appeared to be a pretty
serious one. It was found to be tbe old saw
mill sheds on the river between the water
works and the Hermitage, aud on the
Hermitage farm belonging to Capt. McAl
pin. The building was an old one, and had
not been used In some years.
It is supposed that tbe building was set
fire by some vagrants who have been ac
customed to haunt the place.
The blaze caused by the fire w!?ich was
•een in the western part of the city created
no little excitement when first noticed, as
it was thought to be at the Central's
wharves, but those who started out to see
the blaze which they thought so near, gave
up in disgust before going half way. The
department went out a Bhort distance be
yond the Ocean steamship wharves, but
seeing that it was so far outeide the city
limits they turned back. Chief
Puder saw that the fire would do little
damage,so did not attempt to make the
trip.
A SUNDAY ACCIDENT.
Two Motor Cars on the Coast Line
Collide at Thomas' Station.
When ooming into tbe city yesterday
afternoon two cars on the Coast Line
collided near Thomas’ station. Both cars
were badly damaged and a number of
passengers were reported bruised as a result
of the collision.
It has been customary for the cars to stop
at Thomas’ station, but Motorman McKee,
who was on the rear car, saw the other oar
pass the station, and thinking it
was not going to. stop he went on
at full speed. Tbe front oar stopped,
however, a few yards beyond the station,
but McKee was powerless to stop his car,
which ran into the one in front with consid
erable foroe, smashing both platforms and
breaking out a number of glasses.
Several passengers were thrown from the
ear as a result of the collision and a number
were slightly bruised but no one was seri
ously hurt.
A BLAZE IN GROCERIES.
William Jobnson’a Btore Damaged
Yesterday Morning.
William Johnson’s grocery store, at Presi
dent and Reynolds streets, was damaged by
fire yesterday morniDg at 1:30 o’clock. An
alarm was sent in from box No. 16 at
Broughton and Reynolds streets, and when
the department arrived there was quite a
lively blaze in the stock of groceries. It
was extinguished in half an hour.
The building is the property of the Shiels
estate. It was damaged to the extent of
about t!00, whioh is oovered by insurance.
Johnson’s loss is about $250, also covered by
insurance.
FOR BEABICKNE3S
Use Eorsford’a Ac and Phosphate.
Dr. Price of the White Star steamship
Germanic says: “I have prescribed it in
my practice among the passengers traveling
to and from Europe in this steamer, and tbe
result has satisfied me that if taken in time
it will, in a great many cases, prevent sea
sickness."—ad.
Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint cures all
eorna, warts and bunions.—ad.
THE DANGER OF WIRBa
Ch ef Puder Points Out How They
Menace the Lives of Firemen.
Tbe reoent fatal fire in Boston, at which
several firemen lost their lives on aocount
ol being thrown from tbe ladders by over
head electric, telegraph, telephone and
other w ires, has started speculation about
the probability of a similar occurrence iu
Savannah some day.
This city probably has a greater tha-a of
overhead wires through its streets than any
other city of equal size in the country. In
some places there is a perfect net-work of
wiree directly in front of large buildings,
and in case of a lire occurring in one of
these buildings the fireman would not only
be hampered in getting their ladders in po
sition, but would also be in constant dan
ger of a fatal accident from an electric
shock or a fall from an entanglement.
Chief Puder has, for several years, in hla
annual reports, called the attention of the
mayor an I board of aldermen to the con
stantly Increasing wire stringing of the city,
and offered suggestions to oomfiel the
plaoing of wires underground wherever
practicable, but nothing has even been done
in the matter. In shaking of the Boston
fire Chief Puder said: "The authorities of
Savannah ought to take warning by such
experiences iu other cities, and not wait un
til they undergo the same with tragic
realism before acting. Tbe time is rapidly
approaching when all w.ros will have to go
under the ground iu order to protect the
people from danger. Home people argue
that in ase of a fire near eleotric wires the
fire ohiof oan order the current off
and thus obviate danger, but
they do not stop to think
that often a blaze may burn the wires aim
send death-dealing eleotricity in e\ ery di
rection before the firemen arrivo on the
soene or have time to sc-nd word to the
electric works to shut off the ourrent.”
The fire chiefs, at their last annual meet
ing passed resolutions asking city govern
ments to compel the putting under grouud
of electric light wires at least.
SOME ALDERMEN TALK.
Necessity for Renumbering the Streets
But funds Not Available.
The renumberiug of houses in the city is
being talked of on all sides by these inter
ested, in fact it is a matter of interest to the
entire business population of Savanuah.
Alderman Myers thinks there is pressing
need for remodeliug and reorganizing the
system at once, but there seem to be some
difficulties in the way which will make it
necessary to postpone it for some months at
least.
"I am in favor of changing the plan as
soon as practicable,” said he, "and I think
every other member of the oouncil sharesjthe
same opinion. It it very difficult in oertaiu
lines of business now to iocato mauy places,
and in some instances it has given a great
deal of trouble. I was unaware of tbe ex
tension of the system by letters and numer
als until I read the article in the Morning
Ntws. That 1 think is a farce.
“The renumbering of tbe city was under
taken some years ago, and this method was
adopted for the sake of eoonomy. I think,
however, it was false economy, as it has
put things iu a worse condition than they
were before. It pays in the long run to do
a thing of that kind properly, no matter
what the cost. If it had been done prop
erly at the time the system should have
lasted for twenty years or more.
“The trouble is, however, that the oity’s
budget for the year has been made up and
that item was not included in the expenses,
and so was not provided for. If the city
tides over the summer without any heavy
expenses for sanitary purposes the matter
might be taken up in the fall. But at pres
ent it can hardly be considered.
“I approve Mr. Sholee’ suggestion in re
gard to South Broad street. I don’t aee
what the significance of the term south is
anyway, as it cannot properly be called
South Broad In any sense of the word."
Alderman Cann said he believed every
body is in favor of some step being taken in
tbe direction of numbering the houses as soon
as funds are available. But at present, he
said, there is not money enough at tbe dis
posal of the oouncil to undertake the work.
He is of the opinion, however, that the
oouncil will take the matter up as soon as
practicable, and when the work is done it
will be done properly and thoroughly.
PABTOR BLBNDB RIiBIGNS.
He Ie Urged to Retain His Pastorate
by His Congregation.
Three months ago Rev.T. H. Blenusof the
Christian church gave notioe to his congre
gation that be would tender his resigna
tion as pastor of tiie church yesterday, and
yesterday after the morning services a bus
iness meeting was held to consider the mat
ter which then came up.
The members of the congregation were
very much averse to losing the valua
ble services of Pastor Blenus, who
will have been with them five
years next May, so after a brief consider
ation they decided unanimously that they
would not accept the resignation, but would
appoint a committee to wait on Mr. Blenus
to endeavor to induce him to withdraw his
resignation.
Mr. Blenus has learned of their action,
though the committee has not yet met him
formally, and he says he thinks it probable
that under the circumstances he will accede
to the wishes of bis congregation and remain
with them. Their request to him to with
draw his resignation was unanimous and he
hardly thinkß he oan resist tbe appeal.
Since Mr. Blenus has heefi with the
church almost the entire indebtedness has
been paid off and the church membership
has been materially increased. Tbe mem -
bers of the Chrlßtlan church will be glad to
learn in advance of his meeting with the
oommittee tbat Pastor Blenus has thought
so favorably of their request.
A MEXICAN VETERAN GONE.
Mr. Reuben Jones Surrenders to Death
at a Ripe Old Age.
Mr. Reuben Jones died at the residence
of his son, Mr. J. F. Jones, No. 211 Aber
oorn street, early yesterday morning. The
deceased was surrounded by hiß entire
family when be passed away. His death is
a severe blow, it being the first death in
the family for more than forty years. Mr.
Jones leaves a widow, one daughter and
three sons, besides a large circle of friends,
to mourn bis loss.
Mr. Jones was 78 years old. He was one
of the few surviving veterans of the Mexi
can war, having served in Company J, First
North Carolina Volunteers.
Hi* body was forwarded last uight to
Fayetteville, N, C., for interment iu the
family burying ground.
“THE BLACK FLAG" TO-NIGHT.
The Baldwin-Melville Company’s
Opening Performance.
The Baldwin-Melville Company will be
gin its week engagement ia Savannah to
night in “The Black Flag.” The repertoire
of the first four performances was an
nounced in the Morning News yesterday,
“1 he Black Flag” Monday night, "Michael
Strogolt” Tuesday matinee, “Two Or
phans” Tuesday night aud "Wells Forgo
lieesengers” Wednesday night. The reper
toire for the remainder of the
week will be announced to-uiorrow
uight. The oompany arrived from Charles
ton yesterday. The Charleston News and
Courier says of the company’s engage
ment: “People were turned away at the
Grand opera house last night, so great has
the rush become. Nothing like it has ever
been seen iu Charleston, even in the early
days of the summer opera."
Waste no money. Buy Salvation Oil, the only
good liniment. It kills all |iain.— ad.
At thz BEU.EVirt—"How that fellow at the
next table does stuff himself.”
’ That's natural. He's a taxidermist."—Phila
delphia Record,
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1893.
MUST NOT DIG IN SUMMER.
The Council to Revise a Health Ordi
nance.
An effort will be male at the next meet
ing of tbe oity oouncil to amend the ordi
nanoe prohibiting the upturning of tbe soil
in the public domain between May 1 and
Nov. 1 so as to prohibit the disturb
j lug of the soil anywhere in tbe city either
on the public domain cr private property.
The present ordinance is not thoroughly
effective as a sanitary measure. W bile it
! prohibits tny disturbing of the soil on the
streets or other public property except by
approval of the sanitary board, individuals
1 have the right to dig as much as they like
ion private property. A street crossing
< may not be laid in front of a man’s lot if in
| laying it the soil is disturbed, but tbe lot
owner may dig up his entire lot inside the
street line and as deep as he likes without
| any violation of the ordinance.
Leading sanitary authorities agree that
I upturning the soli anywhere iu warm
weather endangers health. Some of the sani
tary hoard, however, differ on this point.
Health Officer Brunner, when asked
about the matter, said that the sanitary
board looks at tbe upturning of the streets
and the upturning of soil for cellars or
building purposes In quite a different light
from most of the oitlzens who do not stop to
think over the matter. The sanitary board
bolds tbat there is seldom any accumula
tion of filth in vacant lota, while tbe streets
and lanes are impregnated with the filth of
years, especially the lanes, and that is why
tne distinction is made. Health Offioer
Brunner cited the fact that when
West Broad street, from Brough
ton to River, was upturned last
year for sewer purposes the soil was found
to lie soiled as deep as thirty-six inches.
ThL, he says, is never thecase In excavating
a lot for cellar or bui ding purposes.
Mayor MolJonough said that the ordi
nance is so framed that the sanitary board
can stop any excavations it likes, and sup
poses that the board will not allow any
thing to be done detrimental to tbe health
of the citizens, Personally he does not put
much faith iu the theory that the npturn
ng of soil causes sickness.
Alderman Haines is of the opinion that if
it is dangerous to dig up a few feet of earth
to lay a street crossing it is proportionately
more dangerous to dig a cellar ten or
twenty feet. He is in favor of stopping all
excavations during the warm weather.
Alderman Dixon wants excavations of
every sort stopped during the heated term,
and will bring the matter up for discussion
at the meeting of council Wednesday night.
Alderman Folliard thinks that it a man
cannot lay a sidewalk from May to Novem
ber he ought not be allowed to dig big holes
behind a fence probably bordering on the
same sidewalk.
The city ordinance has long been recog
nized as defective in that it does not pro
hibit the practice of upturning the soil to
the extent that is acknowledged by sanitary
authorities to l>e necessary to the preserva
tion of the public health. The members of
the oouncil who have looked into the matter
agree that an amendment covering private
as well as publio property is required.
Tbe council has a number of important
sanitary measures to deal with it and that
relating to the upturning of the soil is the
first to be disposed of.
LOOAL PERSONAL.
C. Hess of Mobile is at the De Soto.
T. F. Howell of Rome is at the De Soto.
D. M. Burns of Augusta is at the De
Soto.
Fred M. Hull of Meldrlm is at the Pu
laski.
S. MoGarrat of Amerious is registered at
the Pulaski.
A. H. Patterson of Barnwell, S. C., is at
the Pulaski.
Henry Adams of Washington, D. C., is at
the De Soto.
R. H. Taylor of Griffin is registered at
the De Soto.
J. H. Clarke, Jr., of Darien is stopping at
the De Soto.
R. F. Sbedden of Atlanta is registered at
the De Soto.
Charles A. Dunn of Jacksonville is stop
ping at the De Soto.
The Baldwin-Melville theater troupe is
at the Pulaski house.
J. R. Saunders of Alexanderville, Ga., is
stopping at the Pulaski.
M. W. Meyer of Statesville, N. C., is
registered at the De Soto.
Miss Eva Brown of Albany arrived yes
terday, and Is visiting Mr. Riohard Robin
son, No. 105 Bull street.
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
Passenger Agent Clifford of the Canadian
Pacifio is authority for the statement that
President Cleveland has virtually promised
that, if nothing turns up within the next
four years to alter his intentions, he will
take a trip around the world. The trip will
be made via the Canadian Peoific from
Quebec to Vancouver by rail, 5,666 miles;
from Vancouver to Yokohama, 4,283 miles;
from Hong Kong to San Porte. 1,437 miles;
from Han Porte to Columbo, 1,274 miles;
from Columbo to Aden. 2,0113 miles; from
Aden to Port Said, 1,395 miles; from Port
Said to London, 3,570 miles; from London
to Quebec, 2,(501 miles; or from London
across the continent to Vancouver, 5,715
miles. The entire mileage is 24,330 miles
via one route, or 27,890 via the other.
Cycling Stuff.
Dunlop, the inventor of the pneuraatio
tire, received in payment for his patent
£15,000 in stock in the Pneumatio Tire
Company. Besides the dividends he has
been paid on bis holdings the stock is now
worth $300,000 in the open market.
Russia’s tax of $2 50 per annum on each
wheelman is to be devoted to road improve
ment.
A9hury Park haR made a formal applica
tion for the League of American Wheelmen
meet in 1894.
The Frenoh oro going to try a steeple
chase on bicycles. A good chance for tue
repairers, sure.
Zimmerman will sail for England in
April instead of May, as supposed. He will
return to this country so as to ride in the
international raoes at. Chicago in August.
Last year England granted 2,400 applica
tions for cycling patents, while America
issued 4,000 during the same time.
Edward C. Zallner, of the Philadelphia
Bicycle Club, made 294 seiiarate runs and
rode 6,062 miles during tbe past year.
A German wheel paper insures all its sub
scribers against cycling accidents.
Frenoh wheel papers are arguing as to
what is the proper feminine noun of
“cyclist.”
“I cannot do this work, pa"
The young man gravely said
Uu hearing the Injunction
To weed the flower bed.
"This constant bending over
Is straininx on the back.
And wiil for days thereafter
My spine with torture rack.’’
And when his pa excused him,
With wild athletic shout
He jumped upon his cycle
To knock the record out.
Aud from ten hours thereafter
ills spinal cord was bent
Like jack knife of an urchin
On •inumbelpeg’’ intent.
Paris, France, is to have another bicycle
track one-half mile in length and twenty
five feet wide. The surface is to be ma;e
of wood block and tbe cost is to be $30,000.
Prince Albert of Belgium is an ardent
cyclist, and president of the Antwerp wheel
men.
Coughing is at ones stopped by Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup. Keep it always in tbe house.— ad.
BASE BALL IN THE CITY.
WHEELMEN’S PARK GIVEN UP AND
BOLTON STREET PARK SECURED.
The Change Made Because Manager
Manning and the Bicycle Club Could
Not Agree on the Guarantee—lt is
Looked Upon as a Wlße Move From
a Financial Standpoint —A New
Grand Stand and ‘'bleachers’’ to be
Built—Four of the Players to Arrive
To-day.
Base ball will be played this season in the
city, and lovers of trie game will not have
to take a two mile ride to Wheelmen’s park
to witness it. Manager Manning has leased
the Bolton street park from tbe Coast Line
railroad and ha suerendered all claims
which the ball club had on Wheelmen’*
park. He and the wheelmen oouli not agree
upon the guarantee and all negotiations
were broken off Saturday.
Ever since Manager Manning arrived
hero be baa been importuned by people to
have the game iu the city, because the dis
tance to Wheelmen’s park Is too far. He
considered the matter carefully from a
financial standpoint and came to tbe
conclusion that it would be more
advantageous all around to have a park
nearer in the city if possible, but, never
theless, as negotiations for Wheelmen's
park had already began, he decided to go
ahead for awhile a: 1 see how the first few
games there would be patronized.
' When Manager Manning undertook to
close the matter, however, a little hitch
arose about the question of a guarantee,
and, seeing that satisfactory arrangements
oould hardly be made under the circum
stances, he began to look around for another
place. Mr. Parsons of the Coast Line was
callod upon relativo to the Bolton street
park and in a few hours Manager Manning
made satisfactory arrangements with him.
The railroad company will begin work oil
the park to-day witn a large force of hands,
and by the latter part of the week it will
be ready for bail playing. Anew grand
stand with a seating capacity of l,5u(J and
two *' bleachers," one for the whites and the
other for colored people, will be erected.
The grounds are already in good condition
with the exceotion of the filling in of a
small place near second base. In fact Man
ager Manning says tho Bolton street park
diamond as it stands at present is better
ball playing ground than could be secured
at Wheelmen’s park this season.
It is already hardened, while
the ground in the other park is soft, and
would require a season’s playing to get it
into proper shape.
The general impression seems to be that
the change is a good move and will attract
more patronage to the game than if people
had to take a long ride to see it. The Bolton
street park is in easy reach of both the
Electric and Belt Line, as well as the Coast
Line, and there can he no complaint about
lack of transportation facilities.
The first game will be played there Fri
day with tbe Catholio Library team. The
members of the club will begin
arriving to-day. Meakin, McGarr,
Hurley and Connaugbton will
come on the New York steamer due this
afternoon. By to-morrow uight the full
team is expected. The uniform which will
be worn by the Savannahs has arrived. It
is dark blue with black trimmings aud
black stockings ana tho word "Savannah”
worked in a half circle aoross the breast.
The club’s ball name will be the “Black
Stockings.”
Diamond Gossip.
The C. L. A. Jr. and the Railroad Boys
had a game Saturday, which was won by tbe
C. L. A. Jr. by a soore of 14 to 16. The
batteries were Elsinger and Kehoe for the
C. L. A. Jr. aud Runey aud Foley for the
Railroads.
Frank Richardson, one of the best known
all round amateur players in Southern
Ohio, has signed a oontract with tbe At
lanta club for the coming season, and will
leave for that place about April 1. He has
signed as catcher.
Birmingham’s team, as now made up, is
as follows: Earle, Hammond, Ulrich, Niles,
McMahon, Gans, Southard and Parrott,
making in nil eight men. Four men are
yet to be added for the completion of the
team, and they will be signed within a short
while. The management was after Emmett
Seery, who played oenter field for New
Orleans lost season, but received notice
that he had been signed by the Cincinnati
Reas.
The manager of the Charleston club has
brought down the wrath of the New Eng
land club upon his head for having taken
away from them Kdlleu, Todd and Mc-
Carthy, who were all under "reservation”
to the New England League clubs.
The New Orleans Base Ball Club has
offered a season pass to the person who
submits a design for a spoon to be presented
to tbe young lady who made the Southern
League schedule by the home olub. Each
club in the league will present a spoon in
token of their appreciation of her services.
Folding opera chairs %rill be used in the
stand at Augusta, aud every comfort possi
ble will be provided for the patrons there.
Season tickets admitting a lady aud gentle
man both to the grounds and grand stand,
good for seventy games, are being sold at
$25.
The people of Montgomery are very sore
Indeed over the way they are losing their
players one right after another without get
ting anything for them. Manager Me-
Closkey received a telegram from Billy
George,Thursday, saving that Nick Young
had instructed htm to report to Cincinnati
instead of Montgomery. McCloskey has
George’s contract to play left field for bitn
this seaton aid if he does not report here by
March IU there is going to be trouble some
where.
The new park in New Orleans will be an
elaborate affair. The grand Etand and
bleachers will be elegantly fitted up. The
latter will be arranged after the fashion of
the Polo grounds stands. New York, with a
double deck. The diamond and greater
portion of the outfield will be underlaid
with tile, which will be so arranged as to
absorb the moisture iu the ground, leaving
it in a fit condition fora game half an hour
after the heaviest rain. Another advan
tageous feature the new ground possesses is
that it is much higher than the old park,
and cau be fitted up with less expeuse.
New York now has nine men signed, and
could put a pretty snug team in the field.
Tho inen engaged are Ward. Crane, Tier
uan, Davis, Burke, Keeler, Doyle, McQuai.l
and Lyons. Rusie, King, Fuller, Boyle
and a first baseman are all that are needed.
The Sporting News says: “With Killen,
Meakin, Sullivan and Ink 9 in the box and
Larkin, W ise, Jos Sullivan and Joyce in the
infield President Wagner thinks Washing
ton will have a strong team this season.’’
It seems to have been forgotten that
Savanuah has secured Meakin. He will be
here to-day, and if tbe “Senators" are
counting on him they will be badiy fooled.
Mauuger Manning signed him several weeks
ago.
The Loulsvilles will be walloped on new
grounds next summer. The management
have secured a desirable lot at Twenty
eighth aud Broadway and $30,000 was the
price.
Andrew Carnegie has made himself solid
with tho base ball cranks at Braddock, Pa.,
by donating a plot of ground 300 feet square
to the ball club. It is located near the Bes
semer steel works.
The Middle Statue l>eague mot an early
death. Reading, Easton and Allentown
dose.-tod to the Pennsylvania State League,
Hoboken, Waterbury, Poughkeepsie aud
BAKING JOWDKB.
The New Bread.
TANARUS) OYAL unfermented bread, made without
yeast, avoiding the decomposition produced
in the flour by yeast or other baking powder;
peptic, palatable and most healthful ; may be
eaten warm and fresh without discomfort, which
is not true of bread made in any other way.
Can be made only with Royal Baking Powder.
Receipt for Making One Loaf.
rjNE quart flour, i teaspoonful more or less according to the brand
salt, half a teaspoonful sugar, and quality of the flour used. Do
2 heaping teaspoonfuls Royal Baking not make a stiff dough, like yeast
Powder, half medium-sized cold bread. Pour the batter into a
boiled potato, and water. Sift to- greased pan, inches, and 4
gether thoroughly flour, salt, sugar, inches deep, filling about half full,
and baking powder ; rub in the The loaf will rise to fill the pan
potato; add sufficient water to mix when baked. Bake in very hot
smoothly and rapidly into a stiff oven 45 minutes, placing paper
batter, about as soft as for pound- over first 15 minutes baking, to pre
cake ; about a pint of water to a vent crusting too soon on top. Bake
quart of flour will be required— at once. Don't mix with milk.
Patterson will play independently next
season.
Buck Ewing tips Boston to win the cham
pionship of ’93, with Cleveland and Pitts
burg close behind.
CITY BREVITIHS?.
Hundreds of jessamine parties went into
the country yesterday to gather the fra
grant little flower. The jessamine is blossom
ing luxuriantly in the woods and lowlands
around the olty and is gathered in quanti
ties.
The old Sunday gambling orowd at Jeffer
son and Hall streets was caught again yes
terday afternoon, and three of the negro
cruppers were pulled after quite an exoiting
chase. There were seven of them in the
gaug, smd they were quietly aud busily en
gaged in shooting craps when the police ran
in on them. All but three, however, man
aged to escape through the hack door.
Two Thieves Captured.
Two orack nejro thieves are now resting
behind jaii bars as the result of Officer Bus
sell's • detective work. James Washington
went into the store of 3. Blumenthal a day
or two ago with another negro, and while
his pal was examining some shoes he picked
up a pair a.d hurried out the door. De
tective Bossell took his description and soon
had him lodged behind the bars.
Bob Parker, another negro sharper, was
caught in the same way. He took a basket
of commodities from Anny Cross’ stall in the
market, pretending that he would peddle
for her. Parker was not seen again until
yesterday, when Officer Bossell discovered
his whereabouts and arrested him.
When you feel tired out and broken up
generally, you need a good tonic. Hood’s
Harsapariila is the best. Try it.—ad.
CAPRICE OP THE AURORA.
People’s One Young Man’s Mind With
Spooks.
From the Boston Globe.
“One of the curious features about in
duction,” said a wire chief at the Western
Union yesterday, while explaining the mys
teries of “quads,” duplexes, conductors and
the big switch to a bevy of bright young
women from a suburban seminary, “is the
mischief it plays with the wires.
“It is more apparent on the telephone,
the construction of which is so extremely
sensitive and the current generated so deli
cate, that it is easily overpowered,especially
where the line is strung in the immediate
neighborhood of a telegraph or an electrio
light wire.
“Under these circumstanoes it becomes
an easy prey to their superior currents.
Try to use it for conversation, end you’ll
hear anything from the whirr of the tna
cinery in the power house, to the impatient
'Morse' of the undecided girl operator in
some far-away station asking the sending
operator to repeat that address slowly.”
“Are girl operators always impatient!”
questioned one of the chief’s listeners. ,
“Well—er—not always,” replied the
chief, seeing that he had gone a bit too far.
“Sometimes it’s the fellow at the other
end. But to return to induction.
“At intervals between the strange out-of
place noises that come to your ear, will be
heard the angry ‘hello’ of the one you are
trying to do business with at the other end.
“You let him know that he is heard, and
prepare to listen to his message when the
distant rumble of an eleotric car sounds un
pleasantly in your hearing.
“ Then it is, (and the ebief looked at the
young woman who asked about the im
patience of girl, operators) that even girls
are angered into saying things less sweet
than prayers, and not quite so soothing as
a June twilight, and before the imp induc
tion has finished with his pranks, up go
both receivers to their respective hooks, and
two mortals mentally curse the man that
invented the device.
“The same mischief is played with tele
graph wires, but, of course, it’s not quite
so bothersome, for operators know the na
ture of the trouble and watch their obance
to get a word in between the interruptions.
“But its no uncommon or eveu strange
phenomenon for an operator on one wire
to be able at times to read the sending of
some out-of-the-way sender on altogether
another circuit.
“Speaking of that reminds me of an inci
dent that happened in a little country town
not far from Boston.
“Two young men, one of whom had been
a student at tbe Institute of Technology
and had dabbled more or less ioto electrical
studies, concluded to string a telephone line
between their separate abodes.
“Well, they succeeded in potting up a
tolerable good line and enjoyed their sight
unseen conversations hugely. There were
no telegraph, electrio light or trolley wires
to create induction, and their eDjoyraent
went on uninterruptedly until one night,
when the aurora began to shoot its spears
of purple and white in the evening sky.
“They knew little about the effects of the
aurora, and neither believed in ghosts, but
the memory of the scare that one of them
received that night will remain with him
till his dying day.
“It was about 8 o’clock on this particular
evening when one of the young men went
to the telephone, rang ttie bell and placed
the receiver to bis ear.
“He was alone in the bouse and the dead
hush of a woodland midnight prevailed.
He received no reply and rang again. For
fully a minute he listened and was about to
leave the telephone when a sweet almost in
audible voice came to bis ear in song.
’ ’lt lasted for nearly half a minute, when
it was overcome by the notes of a piano.
“Thinking himself the victim of a joke he
said, with a half-hearted laugh, ’Ah, I’m on
to you, Chauncey, you can’t fool me like
that,’ aud he would have continued but
that tbe same sweet voice that first at
tracted his attention came again, this time
intermittently and wave like in sound, now
swelling and then dying away to the verge
of silenoe.
“The piano accompaniment was plainer
this tune, and it occurred to the listener
that If his friend were patting up a job on
him be must have hired a piano for the
occasion, os there was none iu his apart
meuts.
“Fear was growing on him like a chill,
and after one more attempt to raise his
friend liejjung up the receiver, put on his
coat and hat, and started for his friend’s
bouse.
“ When he arrived it was to learn that
there was no one at home, and so mystified
and terrified Was he at this disoovery that
he spent tbe remainder of the night at the
hotel.
“He might have continued to this day to
place credence in ghosts and Mme. Blavat
eky’s ‘Askos’ were it not for the common
sense of a hard-headed professor, to whom
he had with much mystery revealed the
affair.
“Putting on his hat with a contemptuous
grunt, the professor, with a mixture of un
graciousness and oommiseration for the
quasi-electrician, sailed out with him to
trace the ghost-inhabited wire in its devious
pathway from one house to tbe other.
“Nothing irregular was found until they
came to the friend’s boarding house, where
tbe ’ground connection’ seemed hardly to
p ease the grunty professor. The student’s
friend was still absent, but the wire, after
passing through his room, was soldered to a
water pipe in the bath room, whiob was
upon the same floor.
“ ‘Here lies the secret of the sweet voice
and angel musicsaid the professor, sar
castically, as he tapped the water pipe with
his cane. ‘Follow this up, and you will tree
your orchestra spook.’
“The young man was still in a stupor of
profound ignorance as to the professor’s
meaning, aud when he asked the old gentle
man for an explanation, the dignity of the
old man softened a bit, and he joined him
in a thorough following of the oourse of
the water pipe.
“The route was not a crooked one, and on
the next floor the mystery was solved and
the vision of warbling spooks and self
sounding pianos vanished from the youth’s
mind,
“The water pipe, after its exit from the
room above, changed its course and passed
through the parlor to an adjoining bed
room.
“Its direction was along the mopboard,
and unlike the piping in modern houses,
ran its course on the ouMde of the wall.
Close against it rested the two rear legs
of a grand square piano.
“ ‘Now,’ said the professor, severely,
turning to his companion and pointing to
the water pipe, ‘now, sir, you have the solu
tion of your mysterious music,’ And as the
lady of the apartment looked in wonder
ment at her strange visitors, the professor
interrupted himself with: ‘My good
woman, have you a daughter that siogg?’
Receiving a reply in the affirmative, ho
turned to the young man- ‘You see, sir,’
said he, ‘that that telephone is grounded on
the water pipe. Do you see?’
"The young man ‘saw.’
"’Well, sir,’ and the professor pulled
himself together till he looked two iuebes
taller and forty-five around the chest.
‘Well, sir, ;tbe auroradid the rest. It was
merely a case of earth currents furnishing
the battery, aud the vibrations from the
piano were simply transmitted to your ears
by that ageuoy,’ ”
BHOT AT HIS SHADOW.
A Burglar Alarmed at His Own Reflec
tion in a Looking-Glass.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
Shortly toward 12 o’clook last night there
was a rapid succession of pistol shots in the
basement of the Hub clothing house, at the
corner of Kearny and Sutter street*.
Citizens and police rushed ’ against the
barred door and broke a way in.
Cautiously the police made their way
down the stairs into the basement. There
was little light down there and what there
was was made dim by powder smoke.
Special Policeman Linville was in the
lead of those who broke in.
At the head of the basement stairs he
stopped and called into the cloudy regions
down below, “Come out of there!’’
There was no answer.
The order was repeated often enough to
make it certain that if there was anybody
down there the shots had done for him, anil
then the posse boldly plunged into the base
ment.
They trod on broken glam and moved
around cautiously, for a wounded burglar is
not a nice persou to run upon in the dark.
They found no burglar, but they saw a
great paue of glass shattered by pistol bul
lets, and presently someone came in from
the outside with word that just after the
firing a man had been seen to dart out the
back of the clothing store and over a fenoe.
It took some time for them to puzzle out
the mystery of the shooting, but at last
they solved the problem. A burglar had
entered the store. He bad taken off his old
suit aud dressed at leisure in anew suit
taken from the shelves. When be went
into the basement dressed in bis new store
clothes he saw in the big mirror, as in an
arohway, the figure of a man. In the dim
light he did not reoogmze himself, and
tuink ng himself discovered by the ap
proaching figure and seeing ths imposibillty
of escape be fired.
There was a crash and an answering
flash that quite likely gave him the idea
that the other follow was shooting at him,
and he continued firing until be either dis
covered his mistake or heard the people
forcing their way into the store from the
street. Then, of course, realizing that \Me
time for a desperate fight was past, be
fled.
Two valises paoked with goods and also
the burglar’s old clothes were found in the
store. In the coat were found two fine dia
mond-pointed safe drills and two pairs of
fine nippers. The burglar escaped by break
ing through a window In the basement and
going through a skylight into the alley back
of a saloon, when ne passed through the
back rooms into Hardy place. Iu going
through the saloon marks of his hands and
feet were found in the passage way. In
getting into the saloon the burglar had to
climb a fence, and he was seen by people in
tbe saloon, who thought they saw someone
peeping over the fence.
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HOWEVER
Great an artist may be, he is at eloss to
electrify the world with his predomi
nant attr.butes unless he has a medium
for the full conveyance of his powers
Paderewski has created a furor.a cyclone
of amazement and admiration, until
Amerioais at his feet; yet, we must
none of us lose sight of the piano whioh
contributed so largely to his success
Here is a portion of tbe letter or Pad.
erewski giving his opinion of the BTEIV.
WAY.
“Nothing new can be said of the Stein
way Pianos, it is true, for they have been
justly praised by all modern masters,
and I thoroughly concur in every word
that has been said. But I muet tell yo U
that although I was delighted and In
spired with your Pianos at my first con
cert, my enthusiasm and inspiration in
creased*! my seoond concert, and be
came still greater at tbe third; and thus
it went on CREBCENDO until my final
appeal ance. at which my joy iu the
grandeur, the power and the ideal
beauty of the tone and the perfection of
touch and mechanism was unbounded
All who play your Pianos can but think
you. I also do so, and at the same time
congratulate you most heartily.
PADEREWSKI.”
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