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Show . J ONE OF UNCLE SAMS NAVY YARD s Norwood R. Gibson, .Notre 'Dam uy long and faithfuL career on University's star pitcher, who hu th: diamond. I do not want such n foul Just aimed with Indianapolis for the slander as this to go sncontradictsd d vest of the present season was and registered against me." from Notre Dame recently, re cel vina a degree tn tbe advanced Breokljra Barpla fl ve course In pharmacy. Gibson entered The surplus players disposed of by uniof the preparatory department the the Brooklyn club during the spring versity in September, 1890, at the age are scattered throughout the country of fourteen, and has been a student and are all n doing well. McGraw, of s that Institution ever since, For and Keister are among-t- be ' three years he followed the electric strongest players In the St Louis outengineering cotrrae; tjtrt finally decided fit,. Robby leading the learn ta "batting,'" upon the study of pharmacy. During while Keister Is pUytnga star game his stay at the university he has also at second. It is unnecessary to apeak The One at Portsmouth Was Founded a . Century Ago. grad-ante- a Rob-Inso- -- ' - done special work in the sciences and mathematics, and has always stood high in his classes. His baseball career began In 1896, when he succeeded In getting on the varsity team. Before that time he had pitched for the second team, and on several of the hall nines and had shown great speed. Since 1896 be has of McGraws work. Casey, Holmes and Yeager are doing good work for Detroit Fultz and Anderson are tbe mainstays of the Milwaukee team, Fultx playing nearly every position and being figured aa a sure National league start next year. Lachance le doing well for Cleveland and Brodle Is hitting in good style for the Chicago White Stockings. Steelman Is catching great ball for Hartford while Donovan tr pitching tn good formr Pittsburg has farmed out Catcher Latimer to Syracuse. Last Tuesday was tbe 106th anniversary of the establishment of a navy yard at Klttery. Me., on the Piaeataqua river, opposite Portsmouth. N. H. The land was In 1800 purchased by the government for 5,500. April 25. 18,00, Secretary of tbe Navy "Benjamin Stod-der- t, In a report , to the president advocated the purchase of suitable site Tor navy yards at Portsmouth, N. H- -, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Va, and Washington, D.C. The sec- retarys report stated that at Portsmouth tbe yard of Mr. Langdon. hired folr'the frigate, might be used tor the ship, but an island (Fernalds), quite convenient for all purposes of a Urge establishment, can be procured for $6,004, and believing it the truest economy to provide at once permanent yards which shall be publie prop-stand alvsyi worth .to the public tbs 74-g- y, d, money expended on them," he among others, "the purchase of a building yard at Portsmouth, and to commence it on a scale aa If It were meant to be permanent" There are many things connected with the various ahops which are not found in any other navy yard. For ecom-mende- Battled mtrbera. Many a game of base ball Is lost because a pitcher gets worked up when the first batter reaches the bases. Bays the Brooklyn Eagle. This has been the cause of many n rally and consequent Victory when the game seems to be safe. Take for instance the game at Pittsburg in which Kennedy had the Pittsburgs 6 to 0 when last halt of the ninth egan.'The first man up Bill, got" his base and Roaring that If the man - got forgetting around it meant only one .run, kept a close eye on him Instead of working the batter. The consequence was that the second man up also got to first and then the trouble began in earnest Tbe proper caper NORWOOD R. GIBSON, is to let the man on the bases go in developed into one of the fastest pitch-or- s such cases and try to dispose of the in the west, and stands high batter. This will prevent n rally In amongweiteriL college twlriera. Gib- nine cases outjof, ten. son has shown his greatest speed this season, and his curves have proved a Before the Gang Sound. puzzle to most of the teams against should be restricted to tbelr Players which Notre Dame has played. He practice before a game and the regular has not lost a game for his college, Impromptu bees In front of and has never allowed any opposing and close to batting the grandstand .should be fieldHis tenm more than four hits. stopped. When many balls are going. ing average Is 1.000 and his batting It Is impossible for tbe players or average .272. Two years ago Gibson spectators to watch them all and it ia received an offer from Pat Tebeau to a wonder that accidents are not much go with Cleveland, and since that time more numerous and serious. It Is not several of the National league teans uncommon for bait a dozen balls to be have endeavored to secure him. It Is fouled into the in an afterunderstood that Boston will try to noon while the grandstand are amusing players - Sim" klTft next, season.. themselves and on several oftaaions Gibson, however, will - likely go players have been knocked down by wherever Powers, now catching for In- wild throws or drives from an unexdianapolis, goes. Powers was csptaln pected source. If 15 minutes is not and catcher on the Notre Dame team sufficient for practice, let the time be In 1896 and 97. and is the only man but above ail let it be reextended, Notre Dame ever had who could hold stricted to the regular diamond. The Gibson. It Is due to Powers that Gibstyle ia not sate or son has been secured by Indianapolis. a ve. Sporti n g News ttractl Gibson Is twenty-fou- r years old, and ia the son of N. R. Gibson, of Peoria, 111. He will pitch his last game for LEAGUES GREATEST SLUGGER, his alma mater tomorrow, against the The" batting' of Elmer Harrison South Bend Greens. Thursday mornthe right fielder of the PhiladelFlick, ing he will receive his degree, and club, is one of the surprises of leave immediately for Chicago, where phia the season thus far. Flick has been he will join the Indianapolle team, and the bail even harder than the hitting pitch his first game agalnBt Comiskey's great twin sluggers of tbe PhiladelWhite Stockings on Saturday or Sun-- phian, LaJole and Delehanty, his avday next. erage being over the .400 mark. Flick Gibson is one of the most popular was born in Bedford, Q., 24 years ago. stude&ta at Notre Dame, and his abFour ago he secured an engagesence will be felt on tbe baseball team ment years with the Youngstown club of the next year. in number and of 22 normal horsepower, the draughts being supplied by a steel stack on a brick foundation. The present officers of the yard are: Rear Admiral Bartlett O. Cromwell, commandant: CapL P. VrHarrlnftonr captala of the yard' Capt W H. Harris, Chief Vhgfneer; Constructor John G. Tawreaey, conk t ruction and repair; Commander W T. Swinburne, equipment; Civil Engineer Luther M. Gregory, yard and dock; Pay Director Edward Bellows, Paymaster J. T. Camm, Assistant Constructor William Dubose, Lieut. J. H. Sypher, admiral's aid. At Washington plans are being prepared for the plant for handling and storing coal, for which $100,000 ia already available. This plant will have a capacity for 10,000 tons, and will be erected on Seaxeya Island. During the past year a telephone system was Installed, giving sn Instrument ta each officer's house and thr mala offices and shops, the old chapel being utilised as s central station. In 1874 the present gas works were installed. The electric Ughtlrg plant will soon be completed. summery and, as the muslin U semitransparent, the effect is sometimes very odd and prettyTTled silk or twill, for instance! appears under its white cover a soft rose color, and the flowered brocades look doubly ptetty under their- - white ve la N - Y or k Cqbi J meretal Advertiser, 1 ta education. Tbe medical literature consists of ancient manuscript family prescription books and printed volumes distributed by pedlars. The older tbe prescription the greater the credit. The peasant nowadays, while carefully concealing hla ancestral beliefs, la yet, when disease affects him, inclined to revert to the bid charms and remedies. Dr. Zahler attributes such efficacy as they possess to what Is now called suggestion," but - admits the part played by the' use of herbs la all primitive medicine.--- -- " CORBETT SUPERSTITIOUS. risa to Hera MTnto Keto (be . ...... If, J lyeW "Variety' performers' and "baseball' Hla ... CASK NEVER EMPTY. Draws frees It to Celebrate Orest KSssto. AH really excellent champagne is the result of judicious blending. Time was when each big vineyard owner had hia own cellar and hla own brand. But It has been found advantageous to bell the raw wins to deaiera, who make one district supply what another lacks. But there are U 11 a few pro- vlnclal'esUbllahmenU that cling to the old ways crowning with a wreath of flowers the first ' tubful of ripe grapes, and keeping "the bride of tbe cellar full from year ta yeas. Tbs bride, be It understood. Is a special wine cask, filled with tbs first running of tbs press. More accurately It holds tbe Juice which drlpe away be For Veers Wtoe 1 players are responsible for two-thirof the slang that italicises thejtmerl-ca- n language, and they, are also to be held accountable for a similar amount of superstitions of the day. They believe firmly In "mascots" and "hoodoos," and so do a large majority of fighters. Anent this fact, Billy Brady played It low dowpn on Corbett at the Coney island fight One of Corbetts supers tiUons.isthst Itlsunlucky for tbe Qyst to enter the a fighter to ring, when he is about to engage ia a contest He forced Bull Ivan to SBter tbe ring first at New Orleans, and he defeated him. He Intended to make Jeffrlei enter the ring first 'at Coney Island, out Brady bad big Ed Dunk-horwear a blue sweater similar to the ons that encased Jeffries body. ds st vrv Ilmmlltoa Defend Himself. Because be has not stolen as many bases In the past season as he did in previous years, and through his failure to beat out as many bunts aa of yore, Billy Hamilton, at one time accounted to be the fastest man on bases in the business, is accused of being alow and having lost his old-tispeed. Hamilton takes exception to this accusation knd says that white he is as fast aa ever, the game has gotten faster. "Players are getting wiser light along, said Hamilton, stating his aide of the case to Charlie Zuber; "they are playing more base ball than they formerly did, and when It comes tn matching a well and properly developed brain against a pair of legs the legs are carrying a handicap. -- When a man gets a reputation for being fast aaf doing linexpecled turns on the bases,' the opposing players are on the alert all the time, and are studying, season after season how to counteract the advantage the funner g has in the matter of legs. Am improvements follow these studies and a runner can not improve hia speed, the handicap on the runner gets greater every year. And that is my fix exactly." ELMER H. FUCK. Interstate league. He was severely injured about the middle of the year and was obliged to retire for the season. The Dayton club secured his services la 1897 and be stood at the bead of tbs batteries In the Interstate league that year with a percentage of .286.1 He went 'to the PbiladelphU team in 189$ and soon proved his ability to remain In fast company. Ho filled tbe place of the veteran Sam OlMBeoek Baton Pea Hit deThompson aa a regular outfielder of -' John W. Glasscock vigorously Hla great pork this year ales that he tampered with any .of the the team.much1 ta do with keeping the has had team the of after Ft. Wsyne players City nine at tbe head of the tbs severance of his connection with Quaker that club or that he induced any of Its National league. members to "make the rotund of sa- Now that Taylor has paid hla $500 loons at Dayton. 'to' such an extent can ones more raca under tbs and as stated to were unfit play," that they of tbe Cyders Union, on auspices la the last issue of The Sporting News, wheel-meta confirmation be forward! a signed more Is added to the list of star to into The get expects of "Majah" of 11 the from players statement shape to folio the drcult and will Che Ft. Wayne club In which they allege that the article in question la aa make Cooper, Eaton, Stevens, Kramer, -aamertted reflection upon - Claeaeock McFarland and th other, fast ones and themselves, and does all the par- look well to their laurel. ties referred to marked injustice. One About TOO' Icelanders are coming, of the paragraph! In Glasacock'a communication reada: "I do not know this spring, to Uke up farming In whether I will ever again engage In British America In the neighborhood active service as a ball player, but of the poukhobor settlements faat-flyln- m Instance, In the block shop, there la a machine for manufacturing buckets,, which, when run by one man, will turn out 10 buckets n Jay. Over on one side of tbe island are the 30 graves of Spanish prisoners who died of fever or wounds when the Spanish prisoners were quartered there. At tbe . gun park are may ktylea of ordnance, from tbe old eannon marked with tbe date of 1809 to the two Spanish rifles taken from Spanish ships at the battle of Santiago. The new dry dock, upon which the future prosperity of the yard will depend in u grot measure, .will bo 750 feet long over all, 725 feet on the floor end 130 feet wide from coping to coping, and 80 feet wide on tbe floor. The greatest depth will be 39 feet 3 Inches, with a draft of $0 feet over the sill at mean high water. It will be built of granite on a solid rock 'foundation. Tbe pumping arrangements are for three powerful centrifugal pumps, capable of throwing 43,000 gallona of water a minute, no that the estimate of the time for pumping out the dock will be a little over two bourn. The will be bnilt 60 feet below pump-houtbe yard, level, o that tbe drainage culvert will be nearly 20 feet below the foundation of the dock. The building will bejof granite and steel, with the inside wall of glased brick and tne top of glass and Irom Ths power Tor running the pomps and working the docks will be supplied from the electric light end power station, now under construction, wherein will ''bo set three vertical, cross compound, condensing, sutomatlcklly governed engines, each engine having direct connection with six dynamos of ISO kilowatts each, thee to rnn three motors of 300 kilowatts each, each connected with a pump, the motors to be placed fa the pumping well The bo'lers will be six the mm left dressing rooms Jeffries procession prr, ceded that of Corbett and hla seconds When they- - got to tbs ring, however, Jeffries squatted down outside of it surand Dunkhorst, rounded by Jeffries seconds, ascended tbe steps in ths ring and took a seat on Jeffries stoo', Jeffries' seconds then closed in a count him and Corbett was then notified that "Jeffries is In the ring." lie made hia appearance immediately thereafter and entered the ring', clothed in a big bath robe. Hardly had he taken Us seat Z on ht stool before Jeffrie climbed Into tbs ring, dispossessed Dunk borst and took fcla seat In his corner. When Corbett eaw hla maneever be was visibly chagrined. When tbelr sketches In uncLebaits navtyardat kittert. The lire protection system Jm lately attracted considerable attention. The new plan ia for a separate system of pipe in all parts of ths yard, which be supplied by a number of hydrants. Powerful pumps will be Installed in .tbe power station, and a high pressure of salt water, will be kept at all times. Automatls sprinklers sad alarms will be placed In the principal buildings. wlU se reniura wltk M rails. Tbe French housewifes love of fin fabrics U only equaled by her solicitude for their preaerrallon. and her thrifty mind hag been at work all Plater devising some plan by which ahe could rent her "elegantly appointed apartment" to rich foreigner in Paris for the exposition, and yet keep her fine brocaded furniture fresh and fair fqc her own future use and pleasure. An usual, her ingenuity proved itself equal to the emergency, and now the big hotels, as well a the most egpe live of the apartementa meublee bar adopted her idea. Every chair and is covered with whit spotted piMllit. The effect Is fresh, clean an I mb.- - for any pressure is applied. Wins from it is never sold, but used upon high days and holidays, passed about as a gift or devoted to ths comfort of ths sick and the poor. Something akin to the bride exist in ths German free cities. Each of them has a wine cellar, and in each cellar there ia a cask always yielding wine, but never empty. Any burgher is entitled to a bottle of its contents when be marries, when his first son is christened, and If also when the son ia twenty-on- e. the eon Is adventurous; or the burgher himself, for that matter, ha gats another bottle from tbe cask when be comet borne from: far countries.- - But thers is an official specially charged to see that wherever a bottleful ia drawn out another bottleful of as near as possible tbe same quality at once goes in. Aad thus it happens that th city cask is nsver empty. ' Exploration . f CxlMwto An appeal baa been made to archaeologists and others who are to- terested In Christian antiquities to subscribe toward the further exploration of tbe catacombs. Tbe commissioner of sacred archaeology baa been performing ni excellent work in continuing tbe excavations Phere'De'Roe--1 ended the work. - Tbe present pope, Leo XIII., has aided tbe work generously, but the means at th disposal of the commission are still inadequate Of the forty-fiv- e cemeteries only about five are at present accessible to the visitor to Rome. German students are returning to the medieval notion of wandering about the world. The modem s, however, are personally conductGqll-ard- Braul Tiratraeel of Dtoue In a pamphlet on tbe superstition and medical practices of Bernese peasantry Dr. Zahler, himself a native of the Bernese Oberland, elates that th belief In witchcraft ia slowly yielding i ed and know beforehand precisely what their journeys will eoet than. Last year they visited Italy; this ytar 1,500 of them will go to Constantinople and to Asia Minor. |