The Reporter. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1903 Page: 2 of 8
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MM III THE Hill
Peculiar New Line of Road Just
Opened In Germany.
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS
The Ci r« Unit* Downward from •
Steel Framework—Grent Speed
!■ One of |«a Many
AdviBiage,,
There has been opened in Germany
the first suspended railway the world
has ever seen. It runs between Barmen,
Elberfeld and Vohwinkel in Qermany.
The cars are suspended beneath the
track, and run on a single rail. The pe-
culiar character f this unique line mer-
its some description, especially as it
seems to point to a possible solution of
the problem of express passenger traffic
both In congested districts and over long
routes.
Barmen and Elberfeld are two of the
most Important manufacturing towns
in Germany, and are situated on the
mer Wupper, a tributary of the Rhine.
The principal industries of both towns
are textHe, dyeing and calico printing
works, iron foundries, iron and steel
manufactories, paper mills, chemical
Under conditions which were any*
thing but good, Alexander Smith, the
professional of the
Naussau Country
club, of Glencove,
Parks a Cure for Crime
By HON. CHAS. S. DENEEN,
Bute'. Attorney for Cook County, Illinola.
B
Alexander Smith
SIDE VIEW-OP THB STRUCTURE
L. I., won the
Western open
golf championship
at Milwaukee with
t h e remarkably
good score of 318
strokes. Laurence
Auchterlonle, o (
the Glenvlew Golf
club, and David
Brown, of Wollaa-
ton, Mass., tied for
second place, and
Henry Turple, of
Auburn Park, Chi-
cago, was third. Lawrence Eustis, of
New Orleans, who is also a member of
the Milwaukee Country club, led the
amateurs, with a score of 328, Na-
thaniel F. Moore, of Exmoor, being
second with 333, and Louis N. James,
the national champion, third, six
strokes behind young Moore. Alexan-
der Smith, the champion, is a native
of Carnoustie. Scotland, and is 29
years old. He is a brother of Will
Smith, of Midlothian, and was profes-
sional at the Washington Park club
in Chicago for three years, beginning
in 1898, when he arrived here from
Scotland. Laurence Auchterloule, of
Glenview, was the national open cham-
pion last year r.nd the second open
title holder of the Western Golf asso-
ciation.
Exmoor and Onwentsia golf cluba
introduced an innovation recently, not
only for western golf circles, but for
the whole country, in a 43-man team
match on the links of the Lake Forest
club. So successful was the event that
there is very little doubt but what an
affair of this kind wUl be an annual
feature of these two clubs as well as
many other local organizations. There
are indications that it may become a
fad in a very short time. Onwentsia,
the home team, won, though bv the
narrow margin ot 5 up. Among 'those
prominent in tin competition were H.
Chandler Egan. Walter Egan, of Ex-
moor. and W. H. Yule, Brice D. Smith.
E. P. Cobb and A. Poole, Jr., of On-
wentsia.
Reduce the conditions under which the criminal
classes thrive and multiply, and at the same time
establish that environment which produces sound
bodies and clean habits, and a great stride has been
taken in solving the crime problem which confronts
every large city. Ninety per cent, of the criminal
class in Chicago is due directly to environment.
Here in a city that has the largest criminal court in
the world the acquired traits of criminality must be
attributed to physical conditions on the West side,
in the First ward, and along the river, southwest
and northwest, where 90 per cent, of the criminal class is found.
Our jails .ire not filled with elderly criminals, but with boys from
16 to 20 years old, who have taken to crime as the natural outlet for
their restless disposition, and they make the most dangerous class.
Whether David in his hasty declaration that all men are liarj
was correct in his judgment or not, I am not prepared to say, but of
this I am strongly convinced, that all children are liars. They tan't
help it. l They see things in the concrete, and until they are trained
they can't associate ideas with truth.
For this reason the surroundings of child life must be those
which will most surely aid in overcoming these natural tendencies.
Crowded tenements must give place to sanitary and wholesome and
roomy buildings in which the poor can live. The street as a play-
ground must be abandoned for the greecn sward and welf-cquipped
ana well-managed playground.
There were 70,000 arrests in Chicago last year, and if crime is to
be reduced, the city must spend less money for police pro-
tection and more for parks and playgrounds in the congested dis
tricts.
Peace and War Strength
ol the Czar's Army
A Monster Fighting Machine Composed of the Best Material in
Europe - Pictures by the Author.
1TH Japan carrying a chip on I kit bag, and on the top of the kit bag,
her shoulder which she is also hanging from the right shoulder,
Is an aluminium water bottle whica con-
tains 1V6 pints. To the greatcoat la
strapped a pair of boots and an alumin-
ium mess-tin. Besides this, every six
men carry between them the materials
for one tent.
STRATFORD HISTORIANS.
works and bre\fc>rles. The abundance
of coal in the vicinity has been of great
importance to the town, and the indus-
trial development of the population of
both has increased very much of late
years.
In 1893 the municipalities of Elberfeld
and Barmen determined to provide bet-
ter facilities than then in existence for
intercommuncation. At first they con-
templated the erection of an elevated
electric railroad similar to the Liver-
pool overhead railway, but this type
was rejected in favor of a mono-rail
suspended railway, invented by Herr
Eugen Langen, an engineer of much
distinction, who died in Cologne in
1S95.
The idea of suspended cars was sug-
gested to Langen by the transport dif-
ficulties of the sugar works which he
had Inherited, and he accordingly pa-
tented a method for the conveying of
goods by aerial cable-way. Later on he
adopted the system for passenger traf-
fic. and thus was evolved the very in-
genious railway which was opened a
few weeks ago In Germany, and which I .... „„„„ liai,ttIU
Is the only one of its kind in the world. > with 4 hits and 8
In choosinga meansof communication 'strike-outs; Penn- Michael j. Lynch
the authorities had to ta..e many point* j sylvania, t> hits. 15 strikeouts; Yale,
into consideration. The four towns of j 3 hits, 14 strike-outs; Georgetown
Barmen. Elberfeld, Sonnborn and Voh- j hits. 14 strike-outs; Princeton 3 hit3
winkel almost join one another, each | and 12 strike-outs. In all of these-
mc-rging with the other. The absence ! game3 the opposing teams were shut
of main streets rot allow the build- : out. In the Harvard game he retired
ing of a lfne Oft the road level, and as in I the first three batters on strikes. In
the Langen system, it was possible to the game against Williams he retired
Self-Impoaetl Duty of Neighborhood
Uo>-a About the Home of
Shakeapeare.
The most remarkable record ever made
by a college pitoher was made during
the spring college
baseball season
by Michael J.
Lynch, twirler for
Brown university.
In the last game
against Columbia
he struck out 21
men. His per-
formance in the
box against all of
the eastern col-
leges was certain-
ly wonderful. He
let down Harvard
£
enstruct certain portions of the line
over the river Wupper. which runs
through the valley in which the towns
lie, this scheme was finally adopted.
The Mono-Rail Sucpended railway
was commenced at the close of the year
1696, and at the end of 1898 the first sec-
tion was ready for the trial runs. Some
portion of the line was opened for traffic
at the commencement of the year, and
in a few weeks' time the whole line will
1 be declared open with much ceremony.
1 The permanent way of the Langtn
j suspended railroad Is suspended from
| tripod girder sections, placed at inter-
vals of 30 yards apart.
A word may He said, in conclusion,
•with regard to the future of the Lan-
01' ' • 8en mono-rail system, and its possible
use In crowded localities may be first
considered. Locomotion may be of three
kinds: on the road level, underground,
and In the air. In London and other
cities of the United Kingdom the under-
ground railway is favored; although
Liverpool has followed this example,
New York, Berlin, and other places have
gone in for an elevated electric railway.
From the point of view of space econ-
omy there is a good deal to be said for
| suspended moflo-rall, for It can be con-
structed along the streets without in-
terfering with the traffic, and over riv-
ers and canals without interfering with
navigation.
Doubtless such a line down the streets
of American cities would seem strange
to us, but we would get used to it in
8|;|} ; time. Considering now the question of
express passenger traffic the advocates
of the Langen system point out that a
suspended track could be built overthf
Si If existing metals, and used exclusively as
a high speed line. Experimental runs
on the Barmen-Elberfeld railway have
been made up to 70—80 miles an hour,
and it is confidently believed that with
a fe.v modifications 100 miles an hour
wou.'j easily be obtained.
. LOUIS LONG
An Averisc Portrait.
Artist (angrily)—Why did you sky
my "Portrait ot h Gentleman?" Can't
pee it without a stepladder.
Hanging.Committeeman—Very sor-
ry; but, you see, he looks like (he
sort of a person who would feel more
comfortable up there than down on a
level with ordinary people.—N. Y
Weekly.
three batters on nine pitched balls.
Not only was Lynch a great pitcher,
but a strong hitter. As a fielder he
had a percentage of l.OuO. He has had
offers from most of the professional
league managers of the country; one
club alone offered, him $5,000 a year.
He refused many offers to go into the
business as a professional, but will
remain at Brown university two more
years when he will graduate. He is
a six-footer, and weighs 175 pounds.
"Rube" Waddell, the sensational
left-hander of the Philadelphia Ath-
letics, when he fanned 14 of the While
Sox batters recently, was credited
with having established a new profes-
sional strike-out record. While the
performance is the banner one of the
season in the junior league, it has been
beaten. Charley Sweeney, the old
Providence pitcher, in a game at Bos-
ton in 1884, fanned 19 batsmen in a
nine-inning game. That record has
stood ever since. Sweeney's brilliant
strike-out record has never been
equaled, and bids fair to stand through
another generation.
The American League has won
double victory in its latest fight with
the National body. An injunction has
been secured enjoining Davis from
playing with the New York National
League club until August 6, and the
injunction preventing Elberfeld from
playing with the American League
team has been temporarily dissolved.
McGraw holds the record for tender
years in playing professional baseball.
He had not reached hi3 sixteenth
birthday when he started his profes-
sional career with the Olean (N. Y.)
team. He is 30 years old now. This
is his fourteenth year as a profes-
sional.
In Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakes-
pearean pilgrims pay their summer
homage, the schoolboys have a sober
sense of duty. Their duty is to tell travel-
ers all about Shakespeare. The stranger
In the dreamy town walks with delight
through its quaint streets. Suddenly he
looks down. Whence comes that buz-
zing? No, he is not mistaken. It comes
from a group of schoolboys, writes
Arthur Folwell, in Youth's Companion.
"William Shykespeare, the gryte
poet," they are almost humming in
chorus, "was born in Stratford-on-Avon
in 1564—the 'ouse in which he dwelt may
still be seen—'is father in the gryte
poet's boyhood was 'igh bailiff of the
plyce—one who shykes a spear is the
meaning of 'is nyme," and so on, in an
even monotone, undisturbed and tran-
quil, almost like the distant hum of bees.
That is about all the stranger can un-
derstand. The rest is lost in faint, in-
coherent mumblings, only an occasional
word being at all intelligible. The boys
do not look at any one in particular.
One gazes vacantly across the street,
another at his shoes, still another at the
sky; but all unite in telling the one
weird tale. Hor it, of course, they ex-
pect toi be tipped.
The tourist, used as he may be to
guides and their parrot-like descrip-
tions, is amazed by the Stratford boys.
As he listens to their chant he is at first
Inclined to say:
"What's all this about?"
But he gets over that bravely. Inter-
rupt the Stratford youth in his studied
story of the bard, and he will start again
at the very beginning, without stopping
to answer the question. He will show
no surprise, no vexation; he will simply
commence all over again.
The story the boys tell is not contained
in any accepted life of Shakespeare. Any
one who can comprehend it will fipd it
a collection of local traditions. There is
never a laugh in its delivery, not even a
smile. It is just a self-imposed duty
ceremony bequeathed by one generation
of Stratford boys to the next.
LONDON'S AMBULANCES.
The Service la Far Short of What the
Ureal City Stand* In Sore
Need Of.
And 80 They Are.
"Jack told me I was not like other
girls."
"That's what he tells all of us. He's
jeai somewhere that all women are
Uifierent."—Chicago American.
In a half-mile driven against time,
Dan Patch equaled the world's pacing
record for that distance, 0:57%, made
by Prince Alert at Memphis.
Minor Details.
"Father," said the little boy, "what
is a mathematician?"
"A mathematician, my son, is a man
who can calculate the distance be-
tween the most remote stars and who
is liable to be flim-fiammed in chang-
ing a two-dollar bill."—Washington
Star.
A Chinaman's Pocket.
A Chinaman's pocket is more diffi-
cult of access than the proverbial
pocket of our grandmothers, which
furnished the theme of many ancient
Jest*. On occasion Chinamen produce.
They buy for ready cash. Money
comes from them at remote Intervals,
but from what exact location no Cau-
casian has been able to ascertain.
Each Chitrk is a sort of a prestldigita-
teur. He contracts to purchase a thing
and, presto! there is the money on the
counter. There is no delving In the
depths of coat or trousers, as with the
white man. The coin materializes, aa
it were, before your eyes. Enterpris-
ing highwaymen have held up China-
men and dissected them, but discov-
ered no pockets. Where does the
heathen carry his change? It is a
question that vexes. It is easy to hold-
up a Chinaman, but until we locate
his pockets it is not worth while.
Young Davidson was perhaps seeking
to perform a public service. He could
not be a pickpocket where there was
no pocket to pick.—Chicago Chron-
icle.
SoniethlnK WronK.
Meeker—There's crape on the door
over the way. Old man Jones must be
dead.
Mrs. Meeker—That's queer. I haven't
seen the doctor there for over a week.—
Chicago Daily News.
In Frnnce.
President Loubet, who recently
visited England, was prime min-
ister of France and president
of the senate, but it was not
until he became president of France
that his name attracted much attention.
Frenchmen sometimes take Bingularly
little interest in their political repre-
sentatives. and it was not until M.
Loubet attained the dignity of chief of
the state in 1899 that his features be-
came known even to Parisians.
l/'ncle Itralirn ftaym
When I find a wallet in de road I
'00k at de facts In de case an' keep if
'• hen I lose my own I look at de prin'
iple of de thing an' expect de finder to
return it.—Detroit Free Preaa.
One of the most urgent needs of the
metropolis is a properly organized and
well-equipped municipal ambulance
service, says the London Express.
London is the only great European
city which is lacking in an effective
service of this kind, and there is no
European city in which it is wanted
more, for, according to the latest re-
turns, there is an average of 500 serious
street accidents every week in the year,
and o? these the police ambulances can
deal with only 200 at the outside.
The metropolitan asylums board has
a complete horsed ambulance service in
existence, maintained in a high state of
efficiency, in order to meet sudden out-
breaks of infectious disease. Under nor-
mal circumstances, however, the ser-
vice is far larger than the requirements,
and the board is accordingly planning
to extend this into a regular municipal
service.
In London there is no uniform system
for dealing with street accidents; no
central authority controlling ambu-
lances and keeping in close touch with
the hospitals. Even the telephone is
unknown as an adjunct to the haphaz-
ard systems which exist. Thus the
London hospital receives twice the num-
ber of accident cases in our antiquated
ambulances.
To the objections which are urged
against using infectious ambulances for
ordinary cases it is pointed out that
there are only two infectious diseases
which might be communicated to %
sufferer in a journey to a hospital-
smallpox and scarlet fever—and special
ambulances are retained for those cases
and are disinfected continuously.
In Liverpool and Manchester there
are six-horsed ambulances under the
control of the police. In Birkenhead
Newcastle, Hull, Leeds and many
other towns horsed ambulances can be
called to any part by means of street
telephone call boxes.
In New York a surgeon, with surgical
appliances and medicines, accompanies
the ambulance to the scene of an acci-
dent. In most American towns the
pair-horsed ambulances flash through
the street like fire engines, and there
are always horses ready to be harnessed
and doctors on duty. The average time
between the striking of the telephone
gong and the departure of the ambu-
lance is 15 seconds.
In Paris are the best horse fcmbu-
'ances of any city In Europe, and in
scores of chemists' shops telephones
have been specially fitted up for acci-
dent calls to the ambulance stations,
and Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg]
Moscow and Warsaw have followed the
lefcd set by the French capital.
It Is London alone which in this im-
portant matter is 20 years behind th«
age.
Albnnla.
Albania lies 180 miles on the Adri-
atic sea and is 50 to 100 miles wide
It was formed originally, says William
Jackson Armstrong, in his "Heroes ol
Defeat," from part of Ilyris, all of Epl-
rus and part of Macedonia in the elev-
enth century. From this territory
sprung Pyrrhus. who defeated the Ro-
man invader; Philip and Alexander ol
Macedon, the conquerors; Perseus
whose fame as a soldier covered the
world 60 years after Christ, and
Skanderbeg, who tor 40 years defeated
armies sent against him by the Turk
Ancient Albania lay in Asia, just east
of the Caucasus.
inviting Russia to knock off,
and with the bear seemingly
willingly to accommodate
the empire of the mikado,
the world becomes Interested In the
fighting powers of these two nations,
and the following sketch of the Rus-
sian army should be of more than
passing interest:
The Russian army of to-day, as at
present organized, is only about 28
years old. It was called Into existence
by the imperial ukase of January 13,
1874. by which the whole male popula-
tion of the empire, with the exception of
certain outlying districts, Is liable,
without distinction of rank or class,
to military service from the beginning
of the twenty-first year to the end of
the forty-third year—of which time the
first 18 years are passed in the stand-
ing army, and the remainder in the
opolchene or mlHtla.
Service with the colors last four years
(which may be extended to five), and
with the reserve 13 years, during the
latter of which a man is liable to two
trainings of six weeks each. In any
given year about 1,200,000 are liable to
service.
The law admits of many exceptions,
and of the 850.000 who should Join the
forces, not more than half actually Join.
The annals of the Crimean war and of
the Russo-Turkish war tell us of wlmt
good stuff the Russian soldier la made
and Archibald Forbes, who, with a
vast experience of military matters
was a keen critic, once said of the Rus-
sian private: "I regard him as the
finest material for a soldier that the
soldier-producing world affords. He la
an extraordinary weight-carrying
marcher, tramping on mile after mile
with a good heart, with singular free-
dom from reliance on sustenance and
with a good stomach for immediate
fighting at the end of the longest food-
less marches. He never grumbles. Mat-
ters must have come to a bad pass in-
deed, when he lets loose his tongue in
adverse comment on his superiors in-
tired to privation from his childhood,
he is a hard man to starve, and will live
on rations at which the British soldier
would turn up his nose. His sincere
piety, according to his narrow lights,
his whole-hearted devotion to the czar—
which is engrained into his mental sys-
tem, and is not the result of a process
"*L
COSSACKS OF THE URAL IMPERIAL GUARD.
Pretty Near ltiKht.
Citlman—You hear of "journeymen
carpenters," "journeymen plumbers
and all that, but you never hear ol
'journeywomen" at all. Funny, isn't
it?
Subbubs—Yes, it certainly should b
proper to speak of "Journeywomen
cooks." They merely Journey from
place to place.—Catholic Standard.
Paying K*pen«en Now.
Madison Square Garden paid expense!
laM year, for the first time since U wai
built.
For Instance, young men who reach
certain standards of education are
granted diminution of their service to
one, two, three, or four years, accord-
ing to their degree of service. It is from
this class that the majority of reserve
officers are obtained.
Cossacks serve under special regula-
ions. Service with them begins on
the completion of the eighteenth year,
and lasts 20 years, of which seven are
I spent actually serving. These rules do
I apply, however, to the Ural Cossacks,
who are volunteers, although they must,
however, serve actually once a year.
Since the days when the allied armies
entered Paris no part of the Russian
army has taken such a hold on the pop-
ular imagination as the Cossack cav-
alry.
Like the French Zouave and the Prus-
sian Uhlan, the Cossack has acquired
a certain air of romance, and lives in
story far more than his less known com-
rades. The Cossacks make excellent
fightingTuaterial, and furnish the best
scouts in the Russian army. On active
service tho Cossacks are the eye and
soul of the army. Like a pointer, they
seem to smell the enemy when no one
else seems to think of his existence.
Neither Cossack nor his horse appears
to know what fatigue is, and man and
beast seem never to want to sleep. The
Cossack finds his way everywhere. If
a commander wishes to send an.order to
a distant column whose exact position
he ^mnot quite locate, he employs a
Cossack, who is bound to find a way of
delivering the message. Cossacks are
splendid hands at guerrilla warfare and
give an enemy no rest.
In peace the Cossack regiments num-
ber 52—44 of six squadrons each and
eight of four squadrons. There are be-
sides 21 independent squadrons. But
in war times these figures are consider-
ably increased, there being then 130
regiments of six squadrons, 18 of four
squadrons, and 53 independent squad-
rons. The term Don Cossacks, which is
most often used. Is derived from the
fact that the Don province, north of
the Sea of Azov, furnishes the largest
number of regiments. With regard to
the armament of the Cossack regiments
it is curious to note that the sword
which they use has no guard. The men
are armed with rifles which take the
same ammunition as the infantrv rifles
but have no bayonet. Front " ranks
carry a lance nine feet long, but, unlike
our troops, they carry no pennon on
their lances. The Kuban Cossack cav-
alry have no lances.
The Russian infantry consists of 209
regiments, each of four battalions of
four companies and of a noncombatant
company—17 companies in all. Of these
209 foot regiments. 12 are regiments of
the guard, 16 are Grenadier regiments
and 181 are foot regiments of the line.
A Russian infantryman is admiralv
equipped. His belt contains 30 rounds
j( ammunition. He wears his overcoat
-oiled over his left shoulder; beneath
,s a bandolier with 30 rounds, and a re-
serve pouch with another 30 rounds
hangs from a strap oyer the left and is
attached to his belt.x From the right
moulder la suspended hi* waterproof
of reasoning—and his constitutional
courage combine to bring it about that
he faces the casualties of the battle-
field with willing, prompt and long-sus-
tained courage."
The predominant color in the uniform
of the Russian army is dark green. The
infantry wear double-breast blouses
and knickerbockers of this color. The
footguards have a colored collar and
cuffs, and piping on the knickerbock-
ers, and patches of the same color on
their overcoats. Grenadier regiments
have yellow shoulder-straps. The cav-
alry also mostly wear dark green tu-
nics. but with distinctive facings; but
Lancfers wear dark blue, and the em-
peror's hussars scarlet. The dress of
the Cossack regiments is mostly dark
green or blue, but the guard Cossacka
have scarlet tunics in the emperor's,
and light blue in tho Ataman regiment.
COSSACK OP THE CZAR S GUARD.
Kuban and Terek Cossacks wear a dark
gray Circassian frock. One of the most
comfortable uniforms is that worn by
the intantry in summer time, it con-
sists of white linen blouse and trou-
sers. with caps like the forage caps worn
by our Irish guards, only of white with
a distinctive band of color. The horsa
guards, too, in their white blouses with
scarlet collars, and dark green breeches
took very picturesque in the summer!
Hie officers shown in our last illustra-
tion belong to the Kuban Cossacka
whose headdress is a conical lan.bswooi
busby with a red top.
Finland had. until recently, an army
of its own which was distinct from the
Russian army, and was commanded by
Its own commander In chief, but by the
new military service law recently pro!
mulgated, the national army was prac-
tically abolished, and a body sub™-
Of the "h
hrllnhnn,army Flnnfi arc I" fu-
ture to be called upon to do duty In other
districts than their own, while Russian
iXld.may be calle,i lyK)n l" earrl8°°
CHCORGKS SCOTT.
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