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Show Device Which Enable s Ships to Coal af Sea pick of the would be the league. A National rwe will do tlm one-side- game harm throughout the circuit and a sportsmanlike spirit should prompt Mr. Dreyfus to divide bis players with his less deserving ami less provident associates. Glenana Hum tn l,l lls'l.lplil.i. Harry (Kid) Gleason, the brilliant young player who covered short field so acceptably for l'tl& Inst season, has been signed by Connie Mark for Strong. The American Association has the 1'bilauelpiiia American Lcaguo' nothing to fear from rivalry with the team. Ills release was secured from Yestern league in Kansas (lily and Boston, although Manager Collins Milwaukee. Five of the cities of very reluctantly agreed & lot him go, President llickeyB circuit are in good as he considers Gleason a wonder. condition. Columbus is the bulwark Harry is next to the youngest of of tbe Association and Ixnilsvlllo is seven brothers, all of whom earned giving Tebcaus team satisfactory enviable reputations as base ball playsupport. St. Paul can be depended on ers throughout New Jersey. He playand Kansas City and Milwaukee have ed In the Eastern league for two seadone well so far. Toledo will not sons before going to Utlra. During support the makeshift team that Stro- his connection with that team he asbe! has, Watkins lias transferred bis tonished patrons of i lie game throughSunday games to Marion, and the in- out the New York State league cirdications are that Indianapolis will cuit by his brilliancy as a player. bo abandoned before July 4. Minneapolis is a good or bad ball town acJohn K. She. cording to the team it has, ami John E. Shea, one of the catchers must make several additions to of the Ilion, New York slate league the Millers before they will be up to team, is a native of Ware, Mass., and the standard of St. Paul and other started his professional career at rivals. The American Association's chief danger lies in the salary list of its clubs, and its victory over the Western league will be barren if there are breaks in the circuit before the half of Its scheduled games are played. American Aiiurmion YVil-m- top-heav- "All hands coal ship!" American men as a rule dont shirk their work, whether it be fighting or shoveling coal, but when, after the piping of the "boBuns" shrill whistle this order was heard during the blockade of Cuba's porta it was often with a feeling of distaste, to say the least, that preparations were made to begin the work. Bringing a collier alongside a battleship in a seaway and keeping her there for several hours while hundreds of men under a tropical sun shovel coal in the hold involves not only the hardest kind of work, but it Is often attended by accidents of a more or le88 serious nature. In spite of cotton bales used for fenders to keep the Ehips apart while coaling during the war, the heavy plates of several colliers were stove in, men were injured and it cost the government thousands of dollars to repair damages, to say nothing of the loss of the use of the collier while it was sgnt to a drydock for repairs. . This has all been changed now by the introduction and adoption by the navies of the United States and other countries, after extended experiments and severe tests, of a device known as the Miller marine cable way. Invented by Spencer Miller, of this city, a mechanical engineer and a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Almost Identical with the present overhead cableway system used in New Yorks streets by the subway contractors 1b this new device, which has, instead of derricks at each end. In other the masts of two ships. words, while the warship tows the collier, the bags of coal are sent whizzing across the water by a series of wire ropes kept at a uniform and suf- mcn-o'-war- 's Spanish-America- These things have been suggested by the series of bowling games which are now in progress between New Orleans and Mobile games which are being played over the wire. It is a good thing. I like the idea. It might not do In poker. You couldnt see the other fellow's face. You couldnt tell a bluff from a dead straight thing. But wire playing is all right and I guess after aw'hile men will be dying by Theres no telling." New telegraph. Orleans ficient tension to prevent them from touching the waves. On the day before the Illinois sailed from this port to attend the coronation of King Edward, Mr. Miller was seen on her deck Inspecting his device which had been recently installed by the navy department. Mr. Miller's device will permit the battleship to take coal at sea from any vessel It may meet. In war time it could not only replenish its coal bunkers from a captured ship, but it could also transfer at sea provisions, supplies, or, in fact, anything it desired. n Times-Democr- at. Sommer Online Tabloid. Air in pastilles is the latest novelty for those who look forward to a Utopia in which the hours of the working day will no longer be cut into by breakfast, dinner and tea, but when mankind will simply have to swallow a few meat tabloids and leave Nature to do the rest as he goes about his business. The invention is the work of M. Georges Jaubert, of the Ecole PariBwho has discovered a combination which, when dissolved in water, gives off oxygen. Two pounos of air pastilles made of this combination will produce 260 litres of oxygen, and the benefit of the invention in theatres, hospitals, mines and submarines is evident at a glance. It means, in fact, that a trip to the seaside is to be bought from the nearest chemist and enjoyed in OF TELEGRAPHY. POSSIBILITIES running the WirM for Grant Variety of Fnrpote. Doing things by telegraph Is a hobby now, says an observant man, and it seems that there are but few things which may not transpire in this way. I read a little while ago about a marriage ceremony which had been performed in this way. It was a Chicago man, of course, who figured as the main principal, for they do strange things, you know, in Chicago. Chess games are played over the wire. The cable is even pressed into service by the experts who engage in the inones own room. ternational game of chess. games are becoming common. A sure remedy for divorce dont In a little while, I guess, progressive euchre, Bevcn-upoker, cassino, get married. old maid, solitaire, and all the other Never Judge a widow by the length games will be played over the wire. of her crepe veil. Poly-techniqu- Long-distan- e, ce p, Machine "Bores Largest Aperture on "Record I rant and the West. there will be light shed on Tlia Soon some very puzzling baseball questions. None of the wise ones have been able to figure out why it Is that the batting in tbc east bus been so much heavier than in the west. Shutout games have become tirosomely common at this eud of tbe circuit, while in the east double figures in the tally and hit columns are a sort of usual thing. It can hardly be a matter of better hitting teams, for both Chicago and St. I .outs must be The figured as batting aggregations. natural argument would lie that the pitchers are better advanced here, hut Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston all had preparations as good as, if not better than, that of western teams, only excepting Cleveland, which began the race tue best prepared club in the league. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington are favored with better weather at this season than are the western cities, but this would naturally operate in favor of the pitchers Just as much as In favor of the batsmen. Brocton, Mass., in New-Englan- League for two successive seasons. Several managers were after his services for this season, but Manager Earl secured his signature to a contract. tail-ende- r, Jlmnij Rjr:in Crjungalid Jimmy Byr.n, who played for a generation nr mure on the Chicago team, is us agile us a youngster this season. He is taking euro of the right garden for tin; and the way he Lundies liimsclf is a treat to behold. Aiiu-ricnns- Wa.-iiMigt- (iiihIIod team in its last game here wph only four safe Iiiis, am! showed ih.vi unin a h pucker usual good control of curves. 1 The a hoi in:: min bine in Li iii; 1,1 j1! an l;i i, !:' l.i ri1 i ; : boring tii.' li'-- I i ' ii i: is 1o i" iii- ;i mini rH i l i'l ii'. .1 plant pi'iiiii:;; which fi-- i : i ' t !: 1 i . , an. I . I'1 i bar I, i i fi -- tatinii purposes. The tn.iebine boros the largest- iiouluic mi rcconl. namely at i !i I i .!. r end'; fool in bmctli ;i boi-t!- mu'-hli.- 'i'ii i i ; i ii'iit-i- '! j j .. - The n.:i'h.in.o is ii'I.i,i:i;iMo as to spe v Tun r.i.'ii from tlw iii!iV'iii!;i of tin1 luiuhim. which Is upcriifnl by oler- the wind Iridiy. When in ' runs Miim.ihly as pussihllo Ini: lnun1 ilyiini-iu.il.,,l are that nre I" ill l,ii ilt in furnish ili-great ninuiiiif nf cm er.t fur t ran p . boring iipi'iu'miis :nv Variitv is the shim c; life, and v is tin cayenne pepper. Tmst not your mency to one whi eyes arc bent on the ground. n , Trriniirr. tbc Chicago rifJir iidilcr. is starting off well. Ibv bus shown liimsclf to bo uu excellent !: bier u:i :uls the team in baitius thus f.ir. Ooner.liiiti. ,vm con- The American League. The American League struggle MrGInnltjr Not In Goad Shnpn. promises to be way ahead of that of dors not know why It is McGinnity In of so view last year, and especially more freely this year, so is he hit that the fact that there seems to he no ever than before, lie claims to far, as was the case last rank same the have speed, the same curves season. Cleveland has opened well. same command over his deand the It is exceedingly strong in pitchers. as heretofore, and yet he has Detroit and St. Louis start off well, livery been easy. Robbie incomparatively but it is the general opinion that Chi Joe that sists may think he though cago will win. has the same curves, they do not have the same deceptive break that has Jimn Sturnln. made the iron Man so unhittahle in Chicagos sou' paw twirler has the past. The captain believes, howmade good the early season promises ever, that it is only a matter of a few which Manager Selee saw in him by more games before McGinnity will bs pitching steadily in one of his games as effective as ever. Baltimore Nows, even under adverse circumstances. He easily shut out the New York rrnlta for VtrRrtv. McGraw merits praise for the spirit in which he submitted to suspension. He declined to discuss the matter and took liis punishment philosophically. The charge that Sheridan is an incompetent umpire conics front Baltimore alone. In the other cities whore he lias o ill dated he has given satisfaction. and it is safe to say that ho will have the same experience with tlio Orioles that he had iii 1901. In the early games of the last race ho as unfair and domiwas neering, but later on he was highly praised by McGraw and liis players. i Ill He 1895. tinued in the New England league until 1899, when lie became a member of tbe Rome, N. Y., team and remained with Rome until the close of last season. He 1b a player of exceptional ability, being strong in every department, and is considered one of the best backstops in minor league ranks, having led all catchers in the Xall-vnnl- 1 |