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NEW YORK- REPUBLICANS FOUGHT ROOSEVELT OPENLY „ - e Teddy Gets Fame From Police Job i f.*! f. , ■ !• ■ Platt Machine and Gotham G. O. P. State Convention Hos tile to Ambitious Commis sioner of public Safety. T.R. Doubts His Strength Copyright. i»»s. . fThr dimes of Theodore Itooxerelt'x n'-tlvltlrx as police comniloeioner In New lurk rlty wax reached In IMS and HIM, and hie name had become well known nil over the country by the time Prexldent McKinley appointed him axxlxtant xecre tary of the navy tn 1W>.) Now Turk, August 27, 1S*5. Dfar Cabot: < I have spoke nagaln and again In halls on th« east aids during ■with th# temperature at boiling point, both as regards the weather and the audlpnce.' It hag been in some respects like a campaign. Gen erally I have been Interrupted and frequently some speaker has Jump up and at my request very often has taken the platform to speak against me; but I have never failed to carry the house with me at the end. • All the respectable people and almost all of our own leaders who flrere at first doubtful about my fours* now heartily support me. I grn Inclined on the whole to think that It will have a good effect upon Jhe republican party, from a political standpoint. At any rate It was the only one I could possibly follow. But we are not In a satisfactory condi tion altogether In this state thanks, primarily, to Platt and what he rep resents. He acquiesced in turning down three senators who had done most of the dirty work last year; and now two of them are running as in dependent republicans. On the other hand tie nominated Raines; there is a big bolt for him. Moreover, he Is trying to make us run a straight tick et in this city, which will alienate all the decent people and- will be perfect ly futile. . . » . Quigg is heart and soul for Trim again at the bottom, though keeping on good terms with me; as indeed Platt, himself, I believe, is. So the outlook is not very favorable; yet I jannot help thinking that the drift is xo much our way that we sail win anyhow-. If we do not it may possibly have a good effect by preventing any overconfidence in the presidential contest. If we keep the legislature even though Tammpny gets the city, we will have held our own. As I said before. I think that my action on the whole will keep the re publican party, even though It may not avert a Tampnany^victory here; it would only lie a chance If we avert ed such a victory, anyway. But you must not be under any delusion as to the effect of my actions upon me personally. I have administered this office so far with what I may call marked success; but I have done so by Incurring bitter enmity. 1 have not In any way Increased my grip on the party machinery. In other words, my victory here does not advertisement. How to Remove an Unsightly Complexion Cosmetics can never really help • P°or complexion; often they are positively harm ful. The sensible thin* is to actually re move the thin veil of stifling, half-dead scarf skin and rive the fresh, vigorous, beautiful young skin underneath a chance to show itself and to breathe. This Is best done by merely applying mercolized wax *at night, like cold cream, washing it off in the morning- The wax ran be obtained from any druggist in or iginal one-ounce package. It absorbs the disfiguring cuticle gradually, harm lessly. leaving a pure young, natural com plexion. 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SMI tiatcwa j station, ^aaraauity, Mo. 1 ■ 1 '■ ,» Cha.tles'OocAerty * George McIntyre, right, and Charles Docherty. left, are featured In Mrs. Henry Doorly's playlet, "The Mole," to be presented at the Orpheum thea ter the week of March 22, under-th*: auspices of the Omaha -Womanif , i>'" H I-*’.:,1.1 .'V >V " j leave me with, any, opening.-4t 'lead*, nowhere. ^A For the momatyt the good govern ment club people and their ilk regard me as a hero; and the bulk of the re publican party are very strongly with ine; but such feeling, as you well knpw, is very evanescent. I,have not ay permanent "hold; it is simply a spo radic feat; and at the end all I shall gain is a chance, and probably a re mote chance, of being put into jome similar place, in the very unlikely event of our side's again winning another such municipal victory. Don't think from this that I feel blue, for I do not. I have thoroughly enjoyed this work and I feel that it Is honorable and creditable; I have been far too busy to waste a' thought on the future; bat I do not want you to get false ideas about the position. You look at my deeds trough rosy glasses—no one else shares your view. Give my best love to Nannie. Yours always, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Raines was tha New York stats sen ator who fathered the famous 'Ruined I-aw’1—for years the atate'a excise stat ute. Hotel deg Deux Mondes. • Paris. August 31, 1895. Dear Theodore: I ant glad tha,t I ,hav^ lgtptvp you long and loved yyu well and that you are a person of a loyal disposition, for you are rushing so rapidly to the front that the day is not far distant when you w;ill come into a larga king dom,* and by that- tthra T shall* prbb ably be a back number and I shall expect you to look after me and give me a slice. It Is true that .your per formance has come at a fortunate (time) when you had no rivals in the public attention except large straw berries and sea serpents. Neverthe less, you have doq^ well after all de ductions. We are all well. Give my best love to Edith. I am glad she is looking after you properly—you need it. Ever yours,i if. c. i.., C^eorc/e ^Hc Jnti^rc Press club. Mr. McIntyre lias the title role of "The Mole," .and Mr. Docherty that of an English army officer. Proceeds from "The Mole*' will be uiftSl M prize money in the Woman’s Press club annual writing contest. v»*> rr -. one. ‘I cannot r° In with him; no honest man of sincerity can. Yet, his Influence Is very great. He can gain victories over republicans In primaries nnd conventions; but he cannot gain victories against demo crats; and he has no hold on the rank and file of the republican party. On the contrary they are reluctant to vote for any man whom he con trols. • At present, I. do not see how I can get to the national convention as a I delegate. The Platt people will prob ably control the district. This summer, I have, as you know, been careful to Identify myself in every way with the republicans. H1U has attacked me violently as a re publican; and l have made an equally savage counter-attack upon him. He has made me the arch foe of the democracy. The clergy of all de nominations are standing by me with the utmost enthusiasm. Hill has committed "the democracy to attacking me and my course; and also to attacking the principle of closing the salpons on Sunday. Not only common honesty, but every con sideration of expediency, Indicated to the republicans to follow the oppo site policyvto the one pursued by the democrats; yet . the Platt, people pre IiSred a platform from which every allufdon to the excjse matter was struck out; and In the committee on resolutions they voted down even a resolution endorsing our course in honestly •^rtfPrelng the law. If the platform had gone through in this shape I would have been absolutely debarred from saying a word for the party; and what Is much more im portant, we would have been beaten overwhelmingly, for the excise issue is the main issue in'our state. War ner Miller, however, made a bold flsht In open convention and got in a plank, which while not very satis factory, still does give us a chanc^ of success and enables me to support the party. 'This was (lone In spite Of every effort of tWe PJatt people. J bore you with this account of our mther parochial politic* Just so that you may understand that I seriously mean what I say when I tell you that I have no real hold on the party ma chinery here, and cannot under the present circumstances get such a Jiold without sacrificing my self re spect. The chance for future politi cal preference for me is Just about such a chance as that of lightning striking. In the meantime, however. I have certainly accomplished a great deal in my present position; ami I have what Is perhaps as great a satisfac tion as any man can have, the knowl edge of having performed a difficult and Important work well. It would be mock modesty for me not to say this. Hut It would he self-deception If I thought that I had gained a per manent position, or opened my future career. However, I have bad a thor oughly enjoyable time, and I am overjoyed (hat I took the position. Give my warm love to Nannie. Yours always, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. T- * POLICE DEPARTMENT. NEW YORK ' October, 1895. POMGP5 'DEPARTMENT?. New'York, September, 1895. Dear Cabot: I did not suppose that Ted had kept much of an eye on the yacht race, but it appears that he had, for entirely of his own motion, he has Just christened the new pig "Bulky Dunraven.”* The fight is on here now in earnest. I am greatly angered at the course of the republican state convention. They were too cowardly to endorse our ac tion in enforcing the law; and the democrats were too cowardly to con demn it. Both sides shuffled on the excise question. The Platt machine people are wholly Impossible; they ac tually proposed to make no mention whatever of the one question which was engrossing the whole sttention of the committee to the exclusion of every other. If our convention had had any sense it would have hailed with delight the Issue given by Hill as to the honest enforcement of the law, and would have made this the first plank In their platform. Had they done so, we should have swept this state as it has never been swept before. Now, the fight is doubtful, though I think we shall win, and If we can only make the party man agers, even at this late day, take our ground and fight for the honest en forcement of the law, we can win with a good •majority. Tha irritating feature in the con duct of the machine leaders Is Its ut ter fatuity. They cannot placate the liquor men In the least. They will not win a brewer or saloonkeeper to our side, but they will succeed In render ing a great mass of men who would have turned to us luketgarm, or even hostile. Dr. Parkhurat** Is back and full of fight. He Is a very good fellow. Joe Murray,••• under stress of opposi tion, has developed Into an anti saloon man of ferocity, which makes my at titude toward the liquor men seem one of timid subserviency. , From now on I shall have but little time for myeelf until after election. I don't have enough time to myself even to envy Nannie and you your trip through southern France and Spain. Edith and I still fairly revel In your letters. Always yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •Lord Dunrevon wna tha British chal lenger In the International yacht race. ••The Rev I>r Charts* II Parkhurat, the mint noted clergyman refomer of that period •••An active republican politician end g devoted follower end frlehd nf Roues velt In hie dtatrlrt. POLICE DEPARTMENT. New York. Sept., 1895. Dear Cabot: . I amYvery much touched by your persistence In far overestimating the position I hold; but you really make me a little uneasy for I do not want you to get false Ideas of my stand ing. I undoubtedly have a strong hold oh the Imagination of dec^flt people; and I have tha rourageoua and enthusiastic support of the men who msl;e up the backbone nf the republican party; but I have no hold whatever on the people who run the republican machine Platt's Influence la limply poison Dear Cabot: I had a chance at the civil aervlce dinner the other day to hit Oodkln* and hla local civil service reform col leagues square between the •yea. Oodkln was not present. He will not come to dinners where I am;-but hla colleagues were present, and I Included him specifically by name. I explained that they were ut terly Inefficient; that they grossly mismanaged ihe law; and that I would have been quite unable to get material for Ihe police If I had been kept, under them; and that our own civil service board was 10 times as effective and really did rule out all questions of politics, while theirs did not. It was not an Important matter, but I enjoyed It nevertheless. The country republicans and all the decent church going republicans are very strongly In my favor. The I’latt machine people, especially In this Hty, are on*the verge of open war with ine. I have never alluded to I’latt or any of hla henchmen In any speech Ihls summer. 1 have made a warfare on Hie democracy, which I von Id very easily do, as If was con trolled by HIM and Tammany. I have even kept out of factional fight Inf between the Brookfield and Platt people. . The truth simply Is, that they will not pardon me for having administered this office honestly and fearlessly. Dnulerbach, the chair man of the republican county com mitter, the other day gave nut an authorised Interview as chairman. In which he staled that (he republican party was not In any way reaponal ble for Rooseveltism and that there was but one republican, and that was Grant, on the police board. I am having Just about such a time as you would have If Barrett and Elijah Morse** had complete control of the republican party In Massachusetts. The republican machlneenten have been loudly demanding a straight tick et; amf those prize Idiots, the "Goo Goos,” have just played int^i their hands by capering oft, and nominat ing an Independent ticket of their own. The ticket Is of excellent gen tlemen, many of them good republic ans; but whom the republican party won’t accept, find who cannot possi bly be elected. I am speaking almost every night with houses jammed and packed with people wherever I go; but all I can do is lo stand up for the republican state ticket and ferociously' denounce Tammany and the state democracy. The cowardice and rascality of the machine republicans; and the flaming idiocy of the “better element” hava be^n comic, and also disheartening. As for my being a United States senator, I have, as I wrote you, Just about as much chance of being czar of Rflsaia. Always yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 8E. t>. -godktn, editor of the New York Evening Pest. ••tvilllem B- Berrett, Massachusetts re publican hoaslat, and hit aeaoclate, Elijah Mnfee. member of congreee. Inventor of "Rising Sun Stove Polish." ; •• 1 689 Madison Avenue, October 11, ’95. Dear Cabot: Another note, to’ be filled full of my cwn Interest In these parochial poli tics! I can’t help writing you for 1 literally have no one here to wi)om to unburden myself; I tqake acquaint ances very easily, but there are only one or two people In the world, out side of my own family, whom I deem friends or for whom I really care. Well, at least the greatest danger; are past, I am In line with my party; we have nominated a fusion ticket locally and can give both that and the Btate ticket hearty suppCTt. But the attitude Of the Germans has caus ed a regular panic among our peo pie, from Platt to Strong; and they have all run away from the Issue with the result, of course, they have not helped themselves In the least, and have Immensely strengthened the enemy, Strog has actually been endeavor 'ng to make me let up on the aaloon, and Impliedly threatened to try to turn me out If I refused! It Is need less to say that I told him I would not let up one particle: and would not resign either. The republican county convention came within an ace of passing a res olution which went through their commltte of resolutions, disavowing all responsibility for me and stating that the republican parly had nothing to do with me. Two or three of my friends, by threatening a bolt, stop ped this; but neither the republicans nor their local allies made any allu sion to our work, or dared even to say they believed all laws should he enforced. Tammany, fortunately. Is less reticent, and they have attack ed me by name and denounced me for enforcing the law In a "severe and unintelligent” manner. It la almost comic to see the shifts of our state and city party managers In keeping me off'fhe platform; It Is at times a little difficult for them, for when they let me go on, I attract more of an audience and receive more applause, three times over, than any other speaker. I have no real stadlng among the party managers of either side; and I have too much support from the cranks. But at any rate I shall go right on In the course I am pursuing. Yours, T. R. POLICE DEPARTMENT New York, Oct. I*. 1**5. Dear Cabo*: You are doomed to read another letter filled with parochial politics. One danger at least I hav* surmount ed: I met the mayor fair and square on the excise question and I told him no matter what he did or what stand he took, I would not alter my course a particle: and that T should make It clear that the entire responsibility for tiie spilt between us on this Issue rest ed with him. He was terribly’angry: hut when he found I would not change, and the crisis came, he was more afraid of me than of all the Herman# who were pushing him from behind and he said he would do nothing until after elec tion. I care very little what he does after election. • The republican machine ha# acted as badly toward me as It possibly ran. The Platt people really seem bent on making me refuse lo vote the fusion ticket. Lauterbarh read me out of the party. All the state senators within a striking distance of New York are riatt men pure and simple. You con gain an Idea from this of the abso lute helplessness of my trying to dq anything with the machine as It now Is. Nevertheless, I speak for the state and city republican ticket every night and two or three times a night. The meetings I address are more largely nttended and more fully reported than those of the regular party organiza tions. Last evening I spoke at an Im mense republican mass meeting In Rsltlmore, where I was the guest of the evening. We have a good chance of carrying Maryland. I went to Ral tlmore on the 3:20 p, m. train, and took the midnight train back. I have, so far, with not little self command, refrained from hitting at any of the % republican people; but after election is over, I am far from certain that I shall keep my hands off them. How ever, it is possible I shall wait until I see you before taking action. Their conduct toward me has been base to a degree, and they have greatly In jured themselves by flinching from the issue. In great haste, I am THEODORE ROOSEVELT. P. S.—Tom Reed* appeared here on Thursday and calletj on me at once. 1 went around to see fcim on Friday morning. I had a very pleasant talk with him. 1 was amused at his hu morous anti thorough understanding of tny own relations with the machine here. He asked me with great interest about you, and laughed himself pur ple over my account of the persist ency with which you look at my po sition here through spectacles which are not merely rosy, but crimson. Ho is in excellent health and temwr, and thinks the drift is his way. ■*le telle me I may have to go on to Boston next week to speak at a dinner for him. •Speaker Thome* B. Reed, who we* be in* talked of as a nominee of the repuh ltrana for the presidency In 1*98. Rooae velt via always a Reed man, but Mc Kinley got the nomination. POLICE DEPARTMENT, NEW YORK. October 20, 1S95. On Monday last in pursuance of a long standing promise, I had to de liver an address lrt Boston. I found the audience much more in sympathy with me than, I regret to say, a cor responding New York audience would be. I api sorry that Qulgg* will no longer have anything to do with me. He Insisted upon being given the police advertising which, as you may recollect, was taken away-from the Tribune last year and given to the Press by Platt. The Tribune also ap piled for It, as did the other repub llcan papers. I followed what was obviously the proper course of giving It to the lowest bidder. Qulgg. him self. then put In a bid of Just one sixth the amount that he charged the city last year, but the Tribune, undei bidding, got it. Quigg took the result in high dudgeon and went about ex plaining that I was his "creation," his personal appointee, and had been guilty of base Ingratitude. He is a goose. This morning I had a note from Edith (I have not seen my family for nearly a week), in which she says: "1 think you have been wonderfully ju dicious in your speeches. I think Cabot would approve of them. I only wish you had not said the 'Goo-Goos' had gone silly." Edith always keeps you In view as a mentor. I did com pletely lose my temper with the "Goo Goos," and gave them two at three slashing blows. Our fusion ticket Is, on the whole, very good. It Is decidedly better than the fusion ticket last year. Last night there was a big repub lican meeting held by the eounty com mittee in Carnegie hall. Of course I was excluded, bo I went up and ad dressed a meeting of the same size in support of the fusion ticket and against Tammany, this meeting being organized specially for me. So far the Incident la commonplace, but to my Immense amusement, the audience at Carnegie hall most loudly demanded me. They are ail republicans, of course, and thfey gave Lauterbach** and Qulgg and the other speakers per functory applause, and then of their own accord they would cheer for me. The result was that Lauterbarh in his speech had to incorporate some statements as to my worth and serv ices. I spoke at the republican club din ner In Massachusetts where we gave Tom Reed a aendoff. It was like a fresh spring after a fetid pool to get among those repub licans in Boston: I ruean Greenhalge, Wolcott, Lyman, Prank Appleton. Frank Lowell, George Meyer, and that very good young fellow Moody, who is running In Cogswell s place. What a contrast they ars to the men w ho manage our republican campaign here. Of course they are literally un able to understand why any repub lican could pcaaibly question the pro priety of what I havs been doing here, or Indeed the neceaalty for it: and they were most curious in their Inquiries as to what Platt and hla lieutenants could mein It seems to me as though, through no fault of mine, we are to meet defeat in this city. The only thing that ran save us is the campaign that I and three or four of my friends have waged. I doubt if thle will be I NOTICE! I « On and after Monday, ■ March 18th, we will be ■ located temporarily at 1910 FARNAM ST. ■ Lower expense to ns ■ means lower prices for I y°u ft Highest Quality Foods at lowest possible ■ prices. Plenty ot Parking 8pace I FOOD CENTER All phones, AT. 3857 i I I Creighton Students to Sell 160,000 Sucks of Cement to Aid Stadium Fund U | of them, went on sale Fri day to raise fund# to build the Creighton university stadium, a $225,000 struc ture, which Is expected to be ready by October 4. Over 2,000 student# of the i school are disposing of the sacks at $1 each. Prizes are offered as award# to the best salesmen a^d nr/. . x 4. A 41 4. On the sample bags of JLA JU) OSAJutU AflCU/*) cement Is a sketch of he ^pWVcfuUHid stadium as It will appear f when the north and south I vneAac/tcfcemmljfcrtl unit# aVe completed / Jfe OleioAtcrV . / jdtadlu/nt \ b*mu»t K Quit* *11 active In the Plata machine. Sagamore Mill, Dec. '?•, 35. Dear Cabot: * Just a line to wish a merry Xma* to you and Nannie; Edith and I have been rather gloomily commenting on the fact that our last five Xmas din ners were eaten at your house, and now we shan't see you at all. Early in January I must get on to see you If only for a couple of days, for I must unburden myself. Here 1 am living In a welter of small political Intrigue, of the mean est kind. Qulgg lias been telling me he wished me to go with him as a delegate; and I find he has also prom ised Abe Gruber, and is merely waits Ing to see which way he can best tur® over his own forces. I find that Whltelnw Ueld has given orders that In the Tribune I am not to be men tioned save to attack me. unless It Is unavoidable; this came to me In a curious fashion, first hand. Mayor Strong has been guilty of flagrant double dealing, and intend* to attack us in his message to the board of aldermen. The Platte people are plan ning to legislate ms out of office un der cover of a necessary amendment to the Greater New York bill; and are getting Horton's help by insist ing that I am for Tom Reed, whereas they are for Morton—and are trying to impress Reed to the contrary meanwhile. Many of the Brookfield wing, headed by the mayor, are really hostile to me because they wish either McKinley or Harrison. Every now and then I feel a mo mentar.v discouragement; for it really ' seems that there must be some fear ful shortcoming on my side to acrounc for the fact that I have not one N. Y. city newspaper or one N. Y. city poli tician of note on my side. Don't think that I even for a moment dream of abandoning my fight; I shall con tinue absolutely unmoved on my pres ent course and shall accept philosophi cally whatever violent end may be put to my political career. There. I've made my wall to the only person to whom I can make It, and feel better. T^he fourth volume of Winning of the West Is done. You have done admirably In your" speeches about Venezuela; I do hope we shall not back down. Yours, T. R. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) sufficient In view of the folly and stupidity of our own party managers and of these "Goo-Goos. However, whether defeat comes or not, I am entirely prepared for every attack that will be made; and I shall not alter my course here one hand s breadth, even though Tammany carries the city by 50,000. I cannot but believe that in the end decent republicans, not only here, but else where, will support my course. Al ways yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •Lemuel E. Qutgg, New fork city re publican leader ••Kjlward Laut*»rbach. a local repub llcan/powtr In the Platt-Qul** machine. POLICE DEPARTMENT, NEW YORK. December 2, 1895. Dear Cabot: I am getting seriously alarmed lest Platt's utter unscrupu lousness and cynical indifference to the welfare of the party, unless it rebounds to his own personal benefit, should make the decent people here indifferent on the presidential ques tion and muddle everything in a de sire to beat Platt. I wish Qulgg could have gotten me a chance to see Platt, talk with him. and sound him on the Reed matter.* I now see two rocks ahead; first that Platt may decide to throw over Reed: and second, that tha anti-Platt people, many of whom are for Mc Kinley or Harrison, may be thrown by Platt into a combination against him and whomever he s iports. The minute I And out anytl. g of Import ance I shall communicate at ofice with either you or Reed. Don't think that I am gloomy as to the outlook, it Is only that I wish to keep the dangers in mind. Always yours. THEODORE ROOSEVI.E. •Thomas R. Reed’* candidacy for the president!*! nomination In the following year's republican convention, •Governor Levi P Morton, Thomas R P.erd WtlltalVi McKinley and ei-Prealdent Harrison were all aspirants St this time for the presidential nomination. POLICE DEPARTMENT, NEW YORK. Dec. 20, 1895. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. • Deer Cabot: I am very much pleased with the president's, or rather with Olnev's’, message; I think the immense major tty of our people will back him. I earnestly ^hope he will receive full support from both houses of congress. This Is a most remarkable vindication of our attitude last spring. I think that feature of it has given the na tion peculiar anguish. I do hope there will not be any backdown among our people. Let the fight come if It must; I don't care whether or seaeoa-st cities are bombarded or not' we would take Canada. Always yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. P. S. The decent republicans who are not for Reed are getting perfectly willing to throw the whole apple cart over; and If Platt continues In his present frame of mind we shall un doubtedly have some ugly talk to meet If Reed is nominated through him. If we can secure a few decent Reed republicans and delegates horn this city through the regular organiza tions it wili prevent much of the criticism which would certainly arise if Platt delegates of the stamp of the Abe Gruber”, lauterbach and com pany are the only ones that go for Reed from this" city. As I said, the danger is temporarily over, but the Lauterbach people seem literally rfazv In their desire to run any risk to the party if they can benefit them selves; and I don't know how much more the decent republicans will stand. The primaries next Tuesday will of course go overwhelmingly for Platt, and it is a bitter thing for the decent republicans to have to submit to a victory of people at least half of whose vote will be fraudulent; there never has been anything like the frauds of the late registration. I write you so much at length be cause I think it most Important that you should try to shape the Reed canvass so that It won’t look as if he was being nominated by Platt and , Quay. I get nervous for fear of popu lar clamor being aroused by this. If Morton is a candidate, all will have to go as Morton men from here. * T. K. •Th» V«neiu«)t message the Cleveland administration's ultimatum to Great Britain when war with that country n>»m. ed possible. even imminent. Richard ulney w as Cleveland's secretary of state Roosevelt wrote to Cpeveland conipratu-j latlne him on the message, and tfc* . president promptly acknowledged the let ter. closing with these words "It seems j to me that you and I have both been va J little misunderstood lately *' ••The late Abraham Gruber of New j York who with Kdward I.auierharh and 7 BOYS WIN IN “Y” HARP SEMI-FINALS A dozen boys went Into the semi finals In the Y. M. C. A. harmonica contest yesterday noon and seven were picked by the judges to play in the finals next Saturday night, when the best player among the 800 "Y" boys Will be picked. The Judges. H. E. Ohman, Dr. O. A. Runyan and Charles E. Gaddie, had difficulty In selecting the best players and could not eliminate more than five in the semi-finals. First, second, third, fourth and fifth . places Will be picked it the finals next Saturday night. First place will receive a beautiful harmonica, pre sented by Ed Patton. Second place will receive a silver Y. 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