Nebraska Newspapers

    TTTE BEE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. JANUARY 3. 1911.
Russian Lion Makes First Public Appearane in Omaha Tonight at Auditorium
JOHNSON PICKSJOT WINNER
'Champion Jack Look to Monohan aa
the Next.
TALKS OF HIS HARDEST BATTLE
rrrilrr Hniiili I nrtrr Moiling
Trim Una U Ithnnt Wnlor for a
Pars of Tea Hollars Foot
Rail Hairs I P Thla Wffk.
It ths Clilrano Tribune which gi't
"Jsrk" Johnon to drsrrlbr- the hardest
flKht he ever hud In his llf-. anil Johnson
did not stipulate that the match with Jef
frie belonged to that Imcs. I'mbably It
didn't.
Here Ik wha Johnson did say:
"I have bein nxki'il to nay a few woru
concwnlnK the hardist battle of my
career. (
"This battle took place In Galvrston In !
ths month of AiiKUHt. !, hi twcn myself
and a negro flKht'T nameil John I.ee.'
"I v will never forKet that firtht. It took
lac - In a field. In tho hot sun. and we
could not net any walr even to rinsv our
months with. For seventeen rounds we
battled In the hea'. when I knocked him
out. I received for IhW fight the sum of
$ifl. :
"Some ten or twelve yeura ftiro when I
wag quite cleve.r In the boxing line, I tried
to get a manager, but could not. After 1
became noted men from all sldfs tried to
get the position, Including 'Tom' o'Uourke.
"When t took 'Sam' Fit Jipatrlrk for man
ager every fighting 'fan' In America and
othsr parts of the world knew that I had
beaten all the goid men. So no one can
aay that 'Sam' Fltxpatrlck made me a
champion, and furthermore. It makes no
difference how good and how shrewd a
tnanngir may he, the fighter must have
talent and ability to beconii a champion.
"Zeke" Abr.ims has looked out for my af
fairs In San Francisco for quite a few
years and we have always been friends.
"i huve made a careful study of boxing
and today I do not think there Is a man
In the world who knows the game and can
execute It us veil i I. 1 am willing to de
fen the charrpionohip c-f the world against
any , man tht public, may select. pro1dlng
tny end of the urse is enough to warrant
doinu so. I have alto a great man In
Walter. Monahan, and 1 believe that he Is
one of the many who will make good. I
hops some day sooner or later he will take
iny ilace."
Then Mi'iiahnn was easily outpointed In a
alx rcund "no."
, You never tun be sire.
Base Ball Manaaters. ".
A St. Louis Newspaper sums up the basle
ball managerial situation this way:
"A manager with the personality and
the brains will win." Might add the play
ers. They are slightly essential, for peron'
alltles will get run down at the heel and
brains will become fizzled and scrambled
If the weather la hot enough, and the
team bad enough.
Alaar o Weather.
If New York had about ten Inches of
ica from the first of November to the mid
dle of February, It's safe to say. that
Oothan would be one of the greatest hockey
centers of the World.
Ther la no winter game- which seeuis
to have so much rasclnatlon for most of
the young folk. The only chance to see
It is at an Indoor rink, and there Is yet to
be paid a- visit to -, the rink that some
youngster In the crowd has not expressed
his disappointment that the city Is not
blessed with more ponds and more Ice.
liven that crude old game of shinny,
which waa played years ago when "Tom"
nd the other fellows were not so "slow
on their pegs" as they are now, could
bring out half the neighborhood whenever
word waa spread through the town thathe
Ice was thick enough to "bear up."
Foot linll Kales Attain.
This week the foot ball rules committee
Is to gather around. Very likely the mem
bers will do nothing but consult, and It Is
.not probable that any gnat changes will
be mado this year, no matter what the
consultations bring forth.
It is quite true that there are many per
sons who do not think that the forward
pass Ik an ornament to the game, but that
point may be waived for another year's
trial.
Some of tho young folk cannot get over
their baket bull training.
Indoor Sport Season
Opens First of Year
Tri-City Indoor Base Ball League Will
. Offer Series of Games This Week
-Others Want Games.
With the advent of the first genuine cold
pell on January 1, the Indoor sport sea
son waa fairly opened up. Vp to date the
attention of the sporting world has been
only half-hearted because of the outside
Interests, kept alive bv the continued warm
Veils.
Omaha's Stove league opened officially
Naw Year's day. Brother Dave la chief
boas and manager and he has an able as
sistant In Captain Hill. Anyone who will
discusa sporting topics, whether he knows
anything about them or not. Is an eligible
member and welcomed.
The Trt-City Indoor Haae Hall league will
bold another series of games this week,
probably at the Young Men's Christian
association gymnssiuin. The local teams
are training tor some out-of-town games.
Hastings, Neb., wonts Hill Phlpke and his
Oniahas up there at once. ar,d Lincoln has
. team lined .up ready to play. Ths Im
perials of Council lilutfs, one of the fast
autdoor amateur teams, has lined up for
the Indoor game and has sent a challenge
to all of the members of the Tii-Cliy
league.
At the Omaha Racquet club the finals
of tho tournament will be played Monday.
E. Crelghton Is one of the entries In the
finals, and the winner of a match to be
played off between Colpetser and Yates
will be 'the opponent vt Crt-ighton. The
winner of the tournament will afterward
play "Spike" Kennedy, the present holder,
for rhamp'onship honors.
The new granCitand being erected by
"Pa," Rourke was Just put beyond the
danger Zone before the cold wave tilt the
Vinton lark. All the' cement work that
comes In connection with the ground was
In and hi lust week and now the upper
work can be pushed along no matter how
Ould 11 becomes.
riraa hawkt Oat lapoal.
IJS ANiiKLKS. Cal . Jen. i-Jiin Flynn
cf Pueblo knocked cut Tony Capon! of
Chliaso In ti e ninth round of a scheduled
twsi.o -round bout st Vernon today. Flynn
utaeighed Caponl tenl pounds.
I)tr Kin gwlmralagr Mare.
TACOMA, Wuh . Jan. -At the mid
winter rrxatta of ths Ta'oina Yacht clu'i
today Phillip Denny won the PO-)ard swim
ming rac, liich was contested In the
lll.il u' Iiursl sound.
Pirates Will Make
LongerSpring Trip
Schedule Calls for Eight Garnet in
Little Rock. Memphis, Dayton,
Chattanooga and Columbus.
PITTSHfRO. Jan. 2. The spring train
ing plsns for the Pittsburg base ball club
calls for n more strenuous period of prep
aration thnn has been attempted In pre
vious seasons. The team will report at West
iiailm. Ind., on March 7 snd the spring
i.chidule calls for eight practice games In
Little Hock. Memphis. Chattanooga, Co
lumbus.' and f'ayton. O.
The team will remain at West Paden
t;ntll March 17. when It will depart for Hot
Springs. Ark. For sventeen days it will
be at Its training quarters at Whlttlngton
Park. On April 4 the club will play Its an
nual game with the t'nlverslty of Arkan
sas at Little Ilock.
There will be one game at Memphis on
April r,. and beginning April three games
wiil be played at Chattanooga. On the
Oth and 10th there will be games at
Columbus. Spring exhibition series will
close at Dayton. April 11. the day preceding
the opening of the national league.
Iowa Collegians
at Indoor'Work
Track Men Busy in Preparation for
Coming Meets Des Moines College
Adopts Conference Rules,
Basket ball and Indoor track work will
begin at all the smaller Iowa colleges 'this
wek. All the schools will have Indoor track
teams this year and prepare their athletes
for the outdoor season.
Coach Chalmers at Des Moines college
has organized a new plan, starting the foot
ball class now and keeping It up during the
eohool year in preparation for the next
seaon. He announced at the beginning of
the basket ball season that the rules of
the Missouri valley conference would pre
vail this season Instead of the Young
Men's Christian association rules, which
have been used heretofore. Home of the
schools of the conference named may be
played this year.
Orake university will start Its basket ball
and track work this week. Coach Hackett
having put out his notices Monday night.
Track work under .Coach Griffith and a
foot ball class under Dr. Hobbs will be
started with the basket ball season. The
Drake men have plans for entering an In
door team and taking a few of the honors
at the national Indoor meet In Omaha In
April.
'At Highland park practice went on stead
fly through the ordinary vacation week,
as no vacation Is, given there and a num
ber of fast players developed.
C00LEY TO GO ON THE STAGE
Former Owner of the Towrks Team
Tells of the Snccess He Had
at the Game.
Dick Cooley, former Louisville manager,
who with old Kd Delehanty, Lajole. Flick,
MeFarland ar.d , Monte Cross gave the
Phillies ,one of the best teams they ever
had. Is ' getting ready to produce a Vase
ball ct in vaudeville. Cooley Is married,
and his wife, who is a clever singer, will
be Included In the act. Cooley, who, yrars
ago, hud a reputation as a pretty wild
boy, lias settled down and Is now a bus!;
nesslike man. He sold his Tnpeka club
laxt .year and says he has $25,000 to show
for tils four years In Kansas.
"Hut I never worked so hard In all my
life as I did In Topeka." said Richard talk
ing to a friend the other day. "I played
first base find wasn't out of the game a
single ofay. Think of It, I had a town of
40,000 up thefe bucking cities like Denver
and St. Joseph, and when these clubs
started to put In thousands of dollars to
strengthen their teams I decided It was
time for Richard to get out. Well, I sold
all my good players during mldseason. get
ting about tll.OOO out of these sales. Then,
at the end of the year I sold the franchise
and now I have 123,000 In bank ready for
the first good opening I find to buy an
other minor league club. When you have
a bank roll you can do something, and 1
never felt more Independent In my life than
I do today."
There are many more players like
Cooley; In fact, every ambitious player
whuse big' league career Is drawing to a
close Is beginning to branch out as a minor
league club owner. In many Instances
(layers who were never regarded as good
busiiu-ss men go out and make good In
these minor league ventures.
EVENTS OX HlMMi THACKS
C hester Kraa Wins New Year's II s u
dlcaa at Emeryville.
OAKIiAKU, Cal., Jan. I. in the presence
of the largest crowd of the season, Ches
ter Krum won the New Year's handicap
at Emeryville today. Port Johnson made
the early running, but waa headed by
Hpcllbound In the back stretch. Chester
Krum closed fast and outgamed Spell
bound and beat him a neck. For the fourth
time In fu'jr years O. A. Hlanchl won the
first 3-year-old race of the year with a
youngster out of Levant C. He was rep-rt-sented
by Oakland, a Bear Catcher colt,
which bioke the track record of 0:3iV for
three furlongs, running It In 0:31V Sum
mary: lirst race, seven furlongs: Uraxton
I Aichlbald). 7 t ) 1. won; Ada Mnulu
i(.ii.es), ii io a. srcoiul; Anna May (Up
hn, to 2, third, i.mr, 1:.'.;S.
I 'urt-ington, t.tsaro, French Cook,
Hick hen (1 . Tltlls and John J. Rogirs
tir.lHhrd aa namd.
.-cond iuce. live and one-half furlong:
Likely Dleudonne uilassi, 7 to 2, won;
1'iu.f ot l.lsmoie (Callahan). 7 to 1. xc-
;oml; Thistle Helle iB. Martin), I to 1,
third, lime,
Roy Junior, k-lf.n lieau. Binocular and
Teins link finished as named.
Ti.ird rac', three fuilong: Oakland
(Aiciiibaldi, to 1, won; Amos (Glass), 2
to 1, second; Lem lisle (Uarner) to 2,
third, 'lime. O.WV
Pico. I'enang, Derfllnger. F. L. Proctor
and Hitnct Conrad ftnisned as named.
Fourth race, mile and an eighth. Xew
Year s liaiioicnp: Chester Krum (Mentry)
IS to S. uon; Spellbound (Archibald), 3 to
2, second ; Arasee (Ulaas), ( to 1. thlid.
lime. 1:5m.
Fort Johnson and Duke of Ormonde fin
ished as i.amed.
Fifth race, one m.le: Lotta Creeds
(Callahan), t to 1, won; Crex iKederlsi,
10 to 1. sxrond; Responseful tTaplln), J to
1, tidrd. Time, 1 A
Alliimor, lioggs, cdviin T. Fryer, Court
Lady and Masts finished aa named.
bixin race, six furlongs: Home Run
tTaplln). 7 to i, won; captain John (Men
try . i to 1. second; Dacia tCalialiaui, 10
to 1. third. Tim-, p.lJV
Kiuiiia U.. Rosey l-oisey. Ureal Caspar,
Busy Man, Winona Winter and Henry o.
finished as named.
DEATH RECORD.
Iter. Dr. Morris Klarald.
CHARIiOTTK. N. C. Jan. J. Rev. Dr.
Morris Kincald, pastor of the First Pres
byterian church of thla city and w el I
known throughout the north and south,
died at his home here today after a brief
lilcess. He had been pastor of this church
for four years, coming from Honolulu.
RUSSIAN LION HERE TONIGHT
Meets Jess Westcrgaard at Audito
rium with a Handicap.
DES MOINES FANS ON HAND
Followers of the ftame Are Amlont to
See llarkrnsramldt and! Look for
laterettlng A nnonnremeats
at Hlaaslde.
Seventy-five or more wrestling fans will
be on hand from Des Moines to see the
big Hackenschmldt-Wesergaard match to
be held In the Auditorium this evening.
The Bunch of fans Is said to be leading
clt liens of Des Moines doctors, lawyers
and business men all of whom are Inter
ested In Westergaard and protid that he Is
a Des Moines product.
All Is ready at the Auditorium for the
two wrestlers, a twenty-foot ring built
and Sandy (irlswold procured to referee
ths bout.. The preliminary men report that
they are all In shape for their meet. Ueorge
Miller having arrived from Kansas City
Monday night. Tollver, who will be
Miller's opponent, has been training care
fully, as he realizes he Is up ngalnst some
thing strong
It Is confidently expected that several
Interesting announcements will be made
from the ring before Hackenschmldt and
AVestergpard get together. Jack Curley
will probably announce IIuckenchmidt as
the world's champion, now that Qotch lias
retired absolutely. The . possibility of
Mahmout challenging the Russian Is an
other of the announcements that many of
the fans are expecting and worrying about.
Mahmout In the last year has had con
siderable hard luck, due chiefly, many
think, to bad management. He had three
or four managers, each with different
Idea, and aa they are all making matches
at the same time he doesn't get to wrestle
at all. At the present time he is still In
Chicago and doing nothing but light
wrestling work to keep himself In trim.
j A few early birds In the Des .Moines
K ... i j ii v n i i r n Li ' 1 1 1 i r a, i r- nrviai iS
that the mighty Russian will have his
hands full to put the Iowa wonder down
twice In an hour. Westergaard, they point
oilt, weighs 218 pounds by the statement
made by himself and that he Is In th
finest condition he has ever been. When
he tackled Hackenschmldt In Chicago he
weighed 199 pounds at the ringside, which
Is fifteen pounds below his normal weight.
! The Injured ankle of Westergaard Is now
perfectly good, says Thorson, hlsmanager,
and he expects his man to hold off Hack
enschmldt from even one fall In an hour.
"Cy" Young to Quit
the National Game
Many Tans Will Regret the Depar
ture of the Veteran from
the Diamond. -
So "Cy" Young Is to be given kls uncon
ditional release by the Cleveland club and
wilt go back to the farm In Tuscarawas
county, from which he came as a young
man. .
It was a long time ago, as ball players
go, that Young began his career on the
diamond.
There Is no ball player who has been
less affected by his surroundings than
Young. He Is the same simple, big-hearted,
well-balanced man that he was the first
day he started away from the farm to see
if he could earn a little money ;n the na
tional pastime. 1
Year after year ho has pitched for pro
fessional teams with nothing but conv
niendation ringing In his ears, and he is
more modest now. If anything, or If he
could be, than he was when he started. -
Bane ball to- him not only has been a
means to a good livelihood, and he has
saved much tl at he has earned, but It Is
an occupation so highly esteemtd by him
that he frequently said he knew of noth
ing i f which a man could be prouder than
to give his bent efforts In its behalf.
Unlike some pitchers of , renown, he did
not go tluough his long career without be
ing a member of a champlonehlp team.
! When he was with the Boston Americans
they won a pennant, and when he was
I w.lh the Cleveland club lie assisted In the
games of one season when Cleveland beat
Baltimore for the Temple cup.
There will be more than one base ball
"fan" over the big circuits who will bs
i-oiry that he Is to retire. His genial fuoe
will be missed from St. Louis and Boston.
It was only last summer that the "fans"
of New York , showed the high honor In
which he Is held when they applauded him
vigorously as he was leaving the field.
THORSON TOUTS JESS TO WIN
Manaaer of Westeraaard Bays the Big;
Dane Is In the Prima of
Condition.
Oscar Thorson, manager for Jess Wester
gaard. who is to wrestle George Hacken
schmldt at the Auditorium Tuesday night,
came to Omaha early Monday morning on
a delayed passenger train and In gleeful
mood.
Thorson believes that his protege will
take the rubles from the Russian when
they tangle Tuesday evening, "Jess," he
raid. "Is In Des 1'olnei, training. He Is In
much better condition than the last time
he met Hack, although he won then. When
he wrestled Hack. In Chicago December 7
he was sick and eight pounds under weight,
lis had lost eight pounds In his match
with Dr. Roller two nights before. He
now Is at his normal weight, 21 pounds,
and la In fino condition. This weather
should be conducive to a lively match. One
feels as It they could wrestle a bear after
being out a little while In this wind. West
ergaard will come to Omaha Tuesday morn
ing." Hackenschmldt did not arrive here Mon
day morning. A stack of mall Is awaiting
him at the Rome hotel.
LIKES AMERICAN FIGHTERS
Sirs. Pries of Australia Kays Our Pol
llata Are Perfect tiea
llemen. One Australian woii hii has been to look
at the exhibition of the American boxers.
She knows athletics well uud she teems
to have taken quite a fancy to the young
men who have traveled from the I'nitt-d
States to thrt so itll seas.
Her name Is Mrs. Sarah F. Pries, and In
discussing the merts of boxers and athletes
In general Mrs. Pries says that the Ameri
can boxers have proved themselves to lie
perfet-t gentlemen In every way, and would
hardly be taken for men of their profes
sion. Rav Hronson. "B1IU-" Papke.
"Jimmy" Clabby and "Hpcamore Johnny"
Thompson all come In for compliments from
Mrs. Biles. Mrs. Pries further stutis that
ratter n from their American rlsltors. who
have set an example ti at will always be
remembered by Australian people.
Our boys seem to be making a hit
National Commission
Meeting Will Be Short
Chairman Says Entire Proceedings
Will Be Over in Ten Minutes to
He-elect Orricers.
CINCINNATI. O.. Jan. i-fnless some
thing unforseen Intervenes1 the meeting of
the National Base Ball commission at 10
o'clolk tomorrow will break all reeords for
shortness of duration. Shalrman August
Herrmann shortly before departing for
Blaughery lafcind, here the meeting will
be held, snld:
"The entire meeting will be over in ten
minutes." .
The commission will hesr tho report of
Chairman Herrman nnd Secretary Bruce.
Following this. President Lynch of the
National league, snd President Johnson of
the AeniriCan league, will meet and re
elect August Herrmann of Cincinnati,
chairman.
This will be followed by the re-election of
Secretary Bruce.
President Herrman's report Is expected
to deal with the question of allowing play
ers to play In the winter months, but no
action Is expected at this time.
President Ban B. Johnson of the Amelcan
league, accompanied by Chairman Herr
mann, departed for Laurghrey island this
afternoon, while President Lynch of the
National league, Secretary Johnny Heldler
and Barney Drey fuss, president of the
Pittsburg club, who constitute the National
league schedule committee, motored down
tonight. President Johnson will assume
the role of the entire schedule committee
of the American league.
SIX PERSONS ARE KILLED
IN WRECK IN KENTUCKY
Victims Are Four l'assenaers Who
Were Riding; on Pilot and Two
Trainmen.
ASHLAND, Ky., Jan. 2. 8ix persons
weie killed In a wreck on Miller's Creek
railway, near Vanlear, a few miles from
Paintsvllle, Ky., last night
Of the victims four were passengers and
the others trainmen. The latter were rid
ing on the pilot of a locomotive. The dead:
WILL LI AM AKKHS, brakeman. Cattles
burg. Ky.
JOHN WORLEY, conductor, Iouls
vlllo, Ky.
L. O. PINSON. Vanlear, Ky.
F. K. Fl'QATH. Vanlear. Ky.
LF.MCKL MILLf, Vanlear, Ky.
L. A. SMELTZER, lronton. Oi
The accident was caused by a collision
between a locomotive and three coal cars
of a mixed train which broke away while
the accommodation was coming down the
branch line to connect with the Chesapeake
& Ohio passenger train at Vanlear. On
the return trip the mixed train collided
with these cars.
VAUGHAN MURDER TRIAL .
BEGINS AT LANCASTER, M0.
Prosecntlon Asks for Continuance Be
es a se of Illness of Principal
Witness.
LANCASTER, Mo.. Jan. 2. Mrs." Xtrna"
P. Vaughn and Dr. J. T. Hull of Monroe
City, who are accused ot poisoning the
woman's husband. Prof. John T. Vaughn,
appearedybefore Judge fihelton tbls afterj
noon for trial. . .Tha prosecution filed affl-,
davits with an application for a continu
ance and the defense asked for a dismissal
of the charges.
The affidavit related to the physical con
dition of Dr. Paul Schweitzer of Columbia,
who examined the viscera of Prof. Vaughn.
Dr. E. C. Clements of Macon testified that
because of a growth on Dr. Schweitser's
eye. he thought the chemist would never
be able to testify. Dr. Schweitzer Is the
state's mairl witness.
Arguments on the motions probably will
take up the entire afternoon.
SUN FISH STOPS A STEAMER
Story of a Deep Sea Catch that Beats
Inland Alarratlvea "to a
Frnssle.
Few maritime experiences have been re
corded stranger than that wiilch befell the
Fiona, a twin-screw steamer belonging to
the Colonial Sugar Refining company of
Sydney, New South Wales. When the
Fiona was off Bird Island, about forty
miles north of Sydney Heads, on Its way
from the Clarence river to Sydney, a little
after 1 p. m., all hands were alarmed by
a sudden shock, as though the steamer had
struck a solid substance or wreckage. The
result was strange and remarkable, for
the port engine was brought up "all stand
ing." The starboard engine was quickly
stopped and a boat lowered and sent to
Investigate. On getting under the steamer's
counter the boat's crew were astonished
to find that a huge sunflsh had become
securely fixed in the bracket of the port
propeller. One blade was completely em
bedded In the creature's flesh. Jamming the
monster firmly against the stern-post of
the vessel. It was impossible to extricate
the fish at sea. so the boat was hoisted
on board again and the steamer proceeded
on Its passage to Sydney with the star
board engine only worktng. On reachlng
Port Jackson the Fiona was anchored In
Mosman bay, where all hands were set to
work to remove the fish. After much
difficulty, and with the aid of the steamer's
winch, the sunflsh was hoisted clear and
swung on beard. The Fiona then pro
ceeded to the sugar company's wharf. The
fish waa put on the company's weigh
bridge, and found to weigh two tons four
hundredweight. The measurements were:
Length, ten feet.; across the body, six
feet; across the body and fins, fourteen
feet; mouth, eight Inches wide; dorsal f.n,
four feet high and two feet six Inches
across: anal fin. three feet six Inches; and
the caudal or tail fin, twenty-two and one
half Inches long a hhort fringe-like stump.
The Jaws were comparatively very feeble,
but well adapted for masticating its food,
which principally consists of minute pelaglc
matter, Crustacea, and small fish. The skin
in color was shazreen. and the texture
that of the elephant. The naturalist to the
B.ard of Fisheries of New South Wales,
Mr. David G. Stead, who closely examined
this specimen, stated that It was perhaps
the largest ever killed, and certainly much
larger than anything hitherto recorded or
known of in Australian waters. Wide
World Magazine.
ARMED PEACE IS EXPENSIVE
Coat of l'.aropan Armies aad Navies
fur Quarter featarr Tnrrnty
Mur Millions.
PARIS. Jan. I Kdmund Therv. the
French economist, figures that the ina'n
tenancu of Furoue's armed ptace footing
in theast twenty-fie years cost H5 0O).
francs, approximately S!"9 000 0UO O 0
which Involved an Increase In the publlo
I debt of the European states of from 1UYC0).-
0OJ.C01 to rl.0O.0uo MM francs and rons.antlv
excluded from productive industry lai.WI
officers and 1. 100,000 men.
Kennedy Re-Chosen
- School Board Head
R. V. Cole Elected Vice President at
Organization Meeting Com
mittees Named Soon.
Alfred C. Kennedy was re-elected presi
dent of the Board of Kducatlon at Its
reorganisation meeting after four new
board members had taken their seats last
night. R. V. Cole was elected vice presi
dent. No other business was transacted
by the board after the reorganization.
As Is customary the board met first with
the retiring members In their seats. Foms
ordinary claims were allowed and a hand
ful of other business wns given attention.
The board then adjourned.
At 8:15 o'clock the board met for reorgan
ization, with the new members, W. T.
Bourke, George Cott, Jacob L. Jacobson
and Millard F. Sears occupying the seats
vacated by the retiring members, Messrs.
F. B. Kennard. Paul W. Kuhns, J. C.
Lindsay and J. II. Vance.
It wns agreed that the officers be nomi
nated by Informal ballot. . On the ballot
for president Mr. Kennedy received seven
votes, Mr. Cole four and Grant W. Will
iams two. Mr. Kennedy having received
a majority of the total vote a motion to
instruct Secretary Burgess to cast the en
tire vote of the board for Mr. Kennedy
was carried and he was unanimously
elected. Similar action was taken for Mr.
Cole after the Informal ballot, which re
sulted as follows: Cole, ten; S. P. Bost
wick, one; Grant W. Williams, two.
Mr. Kennedy snld he will announce his
appointments of committees within a few
days.
FAITH A SPUR TO SUCCESS
An Incident of the Early Hays of
Telegraphy and Enthusiasm of
Theodora Vail.
The recent election of Theodore X. Vail
as president of the Western Fnlon Tele
graph company was but an Incident In
one of the most active and successful of
American careers. In another sense. It
was a natural sequence In the progressive
order of events. Mr. Vall's cousin, Alfred
Vail, was a co-worker with Mors and
won a fortune as his share In the famous
patent. While he was experimenting at
Morrlstown, N. J., the lad Theodore was
making toy lines of his own and learning
the alphabet and how to send messages.
When he went west to make his fotune
he entered the regular service, but pres
ently found himself In Washington at the
head of the railway mall service.
There he was found by Gardiner O. Hub.
bard at the psychological moment In the
development of the telephone. The prac
ticability of the new device had been fairly
well demonstrated, but the promoters
lacked money and the creative and execu
tive capacity. Where to find these essen
tials was the puzzle. "One morning," says
Casson In his "History of the Telephone,"
"the Indefatigable Hubbard solved the
problem. 'Watson,' he said, 'there's a
young man In Washington who can solve
this situation and I want you to run down
and see what you think of him.' Watson
went, reported favorably and In a day or
so the young man received a letter from
Hubbard offering hlrb the position of gen
eral manager at a salary of $3,600 a year.
'We relrv" Hubbard said 'upon your ex
ecutive ability, your fidelity and unremlt
ting zeal." The young man replied in one
of those dignified letters more usual In the
nineteenth than in the twentieth century.
'My faith in the success of the enterprise
is such that I am willing to trust to it,'
he wrote, 'and I have confidence that we
shall establish the harmony and co-operation
that is essential to the success of an
enterprise of this kind.' One week later
the young man, Theodore N. Vail, took
his seat as general manager in a tiny of
fice in Reade street. New York, and the
business began." Harper's Weekly.
VIEWING LIFE IN FAR EAST
Why America Most Play the Game of
Diplomacy In the
Orient.
Price Collier, whose articles about "Eng
land and the English from an American
Point of View" created something of a
sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and
were accepted In England -with surprising
good nature and appreciation of the au
thor's evident fairness, will begin a new
series of articles In the January number
of Scribners. They will deal In a broad
way with the great problems that confront
the west and the east, with a special view
of what England has achieved In India.
The first paper. "On the Way to India,"
summarizes with clearness the changes
that recent events have made In the rela
tions of all of the great nations In the
east. America can no longer sit Idly by
and watch the game of diplomacy from
the vantage-point of a disinterested ob
server. "Americans, must accept the responsi
bilities of the new situation whether they
like them or not. They may not shirk the
trust imposed upon them, whether for the
present or for posterity. The Washington
dictum of 'no entangling alllanoes" Is a
thing of the past. We cannot play the
game single-handed." The author well says
that next to our own affairs those of Great
Britain are of most importance to us. His
comments on some recent acts of our State
department will be read with interest, espe
cially In view of the constant rumors of
probable trouble with Japan.
There are some most Interesting facts
given with regard to England's national
business policy; "she is taxing time and
taxing energy the most cruel of all forms
of taxation." In India Great Britain has
a population of ,j0.O00,O0O and there Ilea
her greatest problem. The one Insistent
and constant Impression the east makes on
the western mind Is that "here we are
Journeying through a world where the best
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the author's former articles, there Is here
a most remarkable array of facts presented
In a way that gives them vital signifi
cance and an unfailing appreciation of the
picturesque contrasts In oriental life. The
Bible, the Arabian Nights, the Odyssey
and Iliad, Virgil. Herodotus, and Xenophon
these are among the books of which yon
think on going there and to which you
wish you had devoted more time.
GETTING NEXT TO THE GRAFT
Publicity Cnta Into the Profits of
Tipping- Trust In Nf it
York.
The profits once garnered daily by the
one-man monooly In the big hotels and
restaurants In the "Lobster Palace" dis
trict of New York has dwindled percep
tibly In the last few months, according to
one who should know. The authority for
this Is a man who has been In the employ
of the "tip trust," part of his duty being
to receive and audit the cash turned in
by the uniformed boys who are employed
to squeeze coins out of the gullible publlo.
The falling off In the dally receipts from
this source of hotel and restaurant graft
began some six months ago, when the
i publlo discovered through the newspapers
I that the uniformed boys who check your
hat and coat don't get the coins that the
, patrons give them, but that the money
goes to a man who pays for the privilege
of keeping the boys In these places.
For several years this trust In tips
reaped a fine harvest. The person who
conceived It and put It In operation gath
ered in profits at an astonishing rate. Be
ginning with only a few boys, he soon
found his Industry growing to a point
where he could advantageously employ
scores of them. Every boy represented an
asset In the traffic. If the boy turned In
less than $5 a day he was not looked upon
as fit for he trade of making the public
stand and deliver every time it entered a
hotel or restaurant.
The inventor of the monopoly was an
Ingenious person. He realized that for the
boy who checked the hats and coats there
was great temptation to pilfer part of his
day's plunder. Not infrequently the boy
would take In as much as 110 a day. To
assimilate a share of this seemed so ridic
ulously easy that something had to be
dona.
There was no way of removing the temp
tation. But there were other ways of
getting at It Ha tried several plans, one
of them being a system of rewarded espion
age among the boys themselves. This
worked well enough until the boys got to
gether and decided that the rewards for
turning reformer were less profitable than
striking dally dividends on their own ac
count. Then the tip monopolist hit upon the in
genious plan of putting every boy In a
pocketless uniform and that solved the J
problem. The boys had to be content with
the S3 or S4 a week wages allowed by their
employer.
The employer has always exercised the
greatest care and caution In employing
boys for this business of making patrons
of hotels and restaurants pay toll for wear
ing hats and coats. He wants only those
who are endowed with a wistful look which
seems to say:
"I am the sole support of a widowed
mother and seventeen hungry brothers and
sisters."
Put that kind of a boy at the hotel coat-
and-hat room and who would have the
courage to check his property and not give
away a dime?
'I'd be glad to give you a dime for taking
care of my hat and coat while I waa at din
ner," said one prosperous looking man on
leaving a Times Square restaurant a day or'
two later, to the uniformed boy at the
door, "but I won't do it because I happen
to know that you wouldn't getfhe money."
Apparently he was only one of a good
many thousands who take the same view
of the situation. New York Times.
Francis Joseph JSot Herlously III.
VIENNA, Jan. I. Emperor Francis Jo
seph, who yesterday was compelled to
forego the usual New Year festivities be
cause of a slight indisposition, enjoyed an
undisturbed night and arose at his accus
tomed early hour, which is 4 o'clock. After
attending to his correspondence his maj
esty held private audiences as usual.
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HYMENEAL
MrfJnlre-lsehrtte.
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Jan. I. R. p''-. i
atlve Bird S. McUuite of the First m'-.b-homa
district nnd Mrs. Ruby Maelicttc
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Rld;e
way of Kansas CMy, were married Ith
this afternoon. Mrs. Machette was :i
widow. Mr. and Mrs. Mctitilre left for
Washington following the ceremony.
Pcterson-I'helits.
Miss Bertha Phelps of Sioux City, daush
ter of Frank Phelps, and Mr. lingo Peter
son of Holdrege, Neb., were married by
Rev. Charles W. Savldge Sunday after
noon at t at M2 North Seventeenth streo:
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Miss Minnie Phelps, nnd Mr. Clinton CoM
of Holdrege.
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