Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 128, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 13, 1889 Page: 5 of 8
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J. H. M’VICKER.
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your Water Coolers, Refrigerators
and Ice Cream Freezers from L. E. Sien, n.s.
THE AMERICA CUP.
Opening; of the Baseball Season.
The league season will open on April 34
and close on Oct. 5. The eastern and west-
ern clubs will open between themselves, and
then the western clubs will come east. The
association’s season will be inaugurated on
April 17 and will continue until Oct. 14. Take
the league, the eastern and western clubs
will open between themselves, and then the
western clubs will come east.
A LARGE LINE OF WOOD, COAL,GAS-
XjL oline and Oil Cooking Stoves, ranging
in price from $1 to $60, at L. E. Sien’s, n. s.
Market street, between Tremont and 24th»
LOST AND FOUND.
A Short History of the America’s Cup
from the Start to the Volunteer-Thistle
Race—The Earl of Dunraven and His
Boat.
England has by no means decided to give
up the America’s cup, as the Earl of Dim-
raven’s recent challenge proves. The yacht
that has been selected, the Valkyrie, is fitted
_,to carry a center board. She measures 56.76
tons, is 85 feet over all, 69 feet 8 inches on the
water line, 15 feet 9 inches beam, and 11 feet
6 inches depth of hold. Her draught, is proba-
bly not less than 13 feet. She was designed
by Mr. G. L. Watson, who has devoted much
time to the study of American models and
who told Mr. Charles Sweet two years ago
that he thought he could construct a yacht
to beat anything in the world. It was Mr.
Sweet’s intention, before the publication of
the new deed of gift, which he thought con-
tained some unsportsmanlike strictures, to
build a yacht of the third class to fight for
the America’s cup.
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TXT ANT D TO TRADE — A GOOD
Vr horse for a second-hand piano. It
must be in good condition. Address, Music,
Tribune office. 10
T. BYRNE, UNITED STATES COM
missioner and Notary Public, Office, Me-
chanic Street, next to News Office. Deposi-
tions carefully taken, Legal Instruments
drawn up and‘authenticated. Charges, mod-
erate.
< »T DYE TO LIVE AND LIVE TO DYE.”
JL—F. A. P.—Galveston Dye House. R.
James, dying, cleaning and scouring, re-
pairing and alterations of all kinds neatly
executed. 164 Center street, between Post-
office and Market streets. Orders collected
and delivered free of charge. 18
YNALL ATL. E. SIEN’S, N. S. MARKET
VJ between Tremont and 24th streets, to
examine his stock of fine China Toilet, Din-
ner and Tea Sets, and Crockery in general.
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SITUATION WANTED—FEMALE
TITANTED— WORK IN A PRIVATE
v V family by a competent dressmaker.
Good reference. Address Mrs. E. F. Brown,
city. 8 J
MY ICE-CREAM PARLOR
is now open for the season. Don’t ask for
Milk Shake, but call for
ICE-CREAM SODA,
5 cents a glass, at A. Rosenwald’s, Manufact-
urer of FINE HOME-MADE CANDIES,.
Twenty-second and Postoffice streets.
ICE-CREAM DELIVERED
to families also.
honest penny by lecturing
come a Millionaire.”
Young Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, has just
set out with his new wife and a steam yacht
for a two years’ bridal tour.
Rev. Dr. Selah Merrill, of Andover, pos-
sesses one of the finest collections of Pales-
tinian antiquities in the world.
Joaquin Miller takes a great interest in
trees, and has been appointed a member of
the California Forestry commission.
Browning says that “How the Good News
Was Brought From Ghent to Aix” was writ-
ten on a vessel off the African coast and has
no historic basis.
Valentine Prinsep, the famous English
artist, best known as “Vai,” stands six feet
three in his stockings. He is a play writer as
well as a painter.
George B. Lane, just elected state superin-
tendent of public instruction in Nebraska, is
a graduate of Dartmouth college, Chandler
scientific department, class of 1867.
Congressman “Sunset” Cox is over 60 years
of age, although his wit and vivacity keep
him young. His hair has become thin and
gray, but his tongue is ready as ever.
Mr. Palmer, Mr. Belmont’s successor as
minis ter to Spain, will be able to talk Spanish
to Queen Christina, as the ex-senator is a
proficient student of the language of the Don.
The emperor of Austria intends to visit
England this year in such strict incognito
that no one but himself and his attendants
will know anything about it till he is at home
again.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough are
fitting up the house in Carlton square with
great magnificence, and when completed it
will be one of the most sumptuous abodes in
London.
Allen Thorndike Rice is one of the richest
writers in the United States. He is but 33,
handsome and a bachelor. He has a stable
of fast horses, a steam yacht, a New York
mansion and a cottage at Tuxedo Park.
Moses Lyman, the inventor of the “Pigs
in Clover" puzzle, lived on a farm near
Waverly, N. Y. He made the puzzle in
order to amuse his children, and a New York
firm heard of it and purchased his rights.
Sir John Pope Hennessy, who will return
to England in June from the Mauritius, in-
tends to take an early opportunity of re--
entering the house of commons. Sir John is
an advanced Radical, and also a strong Home
Ruler.
Andrew C. Bradley, who has been appoint-
ed to the bench of the District of Columbia,
is an alumnus of Columbian university and
of the Harvard Law school. His grandfather
was first assistant postmaster general under
Washington.
Prince Bismarck spends a great deal of
time of late in the Napoleonic practice of
playing solitaire with cards. Ee claims that
the game quiets his nerves, which have given
him a good deal of trouble since he gave up
brandy and tobacco.
Mr. Ruskin was recently the proprietor of
a study by Meissonier of Napoleon on horse-
back, for which he had paid 1,000 guineas.
When he disposed of it it realized 6,000, and
soon afterwards, when sold in Paris, it
fetched 7,000 guineas.
The last letter written by Explorer Stanley
before starting for Africa was addressed to
Mi-s. French Sheldon in New York. Mrs.
Sheldon is also the custodian of most of the
explorer’s literary effects, which he confided
to her care before starting upon his expedition.
Among Mr. Irving’s pensioners are a family
which, when he was a very young and a very
poor actor in Scotland, once invited him to a
Christmas dinner, and took occasion at the
same time to present him with a suit of clothes
prepared for the occasion, and offered with
much delicate kindness.
Rev. F. A. Grace, vicar of Great Baring,
Essex, England, who recently published a
catechism in which he denounced as a sin the
visiting'of a dissenting place of worship, has
been censured'by his bishop for the publica-
tion. The bishop says that the vicar’s asser
tions are most unrighteous.
“Kid” Miller, the noted confidence man,
made an effort to secure his release on the
ground, as stated by his lawyer, that Miller
was a “courier” to sttangers in the city of
New York. Miller speaks four languages and
was once an intimate friend of Oscar Wilde’s,
as Oscar found out to his cost.
Phil Armour’s wealth is estimated at $25,-
000,060. He is stout and pudgy, with bow
legs and broad girth. His face is in shape
like the full moon, fringed by yellow English
cut side whiskers. He ascribes his success to
good memory, and is said to carry all the de-
tails of his enormous meat packing business
in his head.
The Duke of Portland will be married to
Miss Dallas-Yorke on Monday, June 11. Some
of the bride’s Philadelphia relatives are ex-
pected at the wedding. The duke has given
his fiance the most magnificent sable cloak
and a pearl necklace, said to be the finest in
England, and he is having all the Portland
jewels reset for her.
The Rev. Dr. Scott, President Harrison’s
father-in-law, keeps steadily at work at his
desk in the pension office. Shortly after the
election Mrs. Harrison wrote to her father
asking him to quit work and live at the
White House, but the old gentleman sturdily
refused the temptation and said that he had
been so long used to the routine of his office
that he could not give it up.
Cardinal Haynald, the Hungarian prelate,
was leaving his hotel to go to his carriage,
when a child begged him for alms. He felt
in all his pockets without finding a coin, and,
seeing a richly dressed woman passing, beck
oned to her, asked for her purse, and taking
from it a liberal sum, bestowed it upon the
child. Then he thanked the woman gravely,
and, entering his carriage, was driven away.
The pope is a very fine chess player, and
one priest in Rome has the especial honor of
being his adversary over the board. This
priest—Father Giella—has played chess with
Leo Pecci for thirty-two years. When Car-
dinal Pecci was raised to the papacy Father
Giella got an invitation to take up his quar-
ters in the Vatican. Giella is hot tempered,
but the pope takes his temper good naturedly,
and is said to often improve the occasion by
a homily on the virtues of resignation and
meekness.
Tello d’Apery, a 13-year-old boy, has start-
ed a paper in New York, and intends to de-
vote the net profits to the purchase of shoes
for poor children. The paper is called The
Sunny Hour, and it has attracted much at-
tention. The little fellow has received a let-
ter from Mrs. Harrison commending his en-
terprise.
Black toilets are more than ever in favor
with the Parisians.
In spring millinery the toque and the round
hat divide honors about evenly.
■White and black bonnets are much trimmed
with gold ribbon and gold embroidery.
Wise persons predict a silken season and a
riot of bright colors for the summer of 1889.
Many mohair skirts are cut in points at the
foot, bound with galloon and worn over a.
perfectly plain foundation skirt.
A knot of real flowers, matching the bride’s
bouquet, and tied up with a bit of silver cord,
is the present London substitute for the old
time wedding favor.
Bonnet strings of ribbon or velvet will give
place to wide thin ones of lace or net to be
tied in a big bow under the chin or else to
form a big loop and hanging end at one side.
A new fancy in tea gowns is to have a big
upstanding bow of a contrasting color at the
back of the neck instead of a collar. Some-
times the loops are lined with stuff of the
gown.
In fans those with flowers wired all over
with invisible net divide honors with the em-
pire of carved and painted ivory, decorated
with a loose lace bow in the center that shows
whether the fan is closed or open.
An English milliner deserves immortality
at the hands of the theatre going public for
her invention of the “collapsible” bonnet.
The wires in it run from a common center, it
folds like a fan and can be pocketed or sat
upon at pleasure without the least damage.
The flower pockets now so much the fashion
for bridesmaids are cut out of cardboard,
covered with the gown stuff, and then have
the chosen blossoms sewed thick all over them
and are hung from the waist by ribbons
matching or contrasting well with the cos-
tume.
Round hats have low crowns and a deal of
brim in front with next to none at back.
Directoire styles have the brim straight out
and are trimmed with many plumes. Empire
ones are in poke shape and simply overrun
with flowers. Roses are always and every-
where first favorites.
Cotton stuffs for summer come in ail shades
of red, in a dozen tones of blue, in pink gray
and in lavender. Black and white are com-
bined with them in nearly all the big broken
plaids, that are immensely stylish if well
worn, but confusion worse confounded in the
hands of an unskilled dressmaker. —New York
Commercial Advertiser.
THE THISTLE.
sailed over the usual course of the yacht club
holding the cup, and subject to its rules and
sailing regulations, the challenging party be-
ing bound to give six months’ notice in writ-
ing, fixing the day they desired to start.
THE CAMBRIA.
Eleven years after the transfer of the cup
to the New York Yacht club Mr. James
Ashbury, of the English schooner Cambria,
wrote to the club that he was ‘ ‘disposed to chal-
lenge all America for the possession of the
cup. ” It took Mr. Ashbury two years to thor-
oughly understand that he had to comply with
the conditions of the deed of gift if he wanted
to race for the cup. The Cambria came across
the ocean in a race with James Gordon Ben-
nett’s keel schooner yacht Dauntless, and
beat her by two hours, making the passage
in twenty-three days seven hours.
The first attempt to recapture the America’s
FOR RENT.
A JFOUR-ROOM COTTAGE On'p~O.
YA. street, bet. 28th and 29th. and a 5-room
cottage on Winnie street, bet. 19th aud 20th;
also a two-story 7-room house on s. s. Broad-
way near 15th street. Apply to J. P. Davie,
corner Church and 19th streets.
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T OST—RED WATER SPANIEL, SIX
JL months old. Finder will be rewarded
by returning same to M. M. Jordan, chief of
police. 13
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The Empress Frederick will receive about
$1,000,000 from the Galliera legacy.
Displays of women’s work will be made by
thirty odd nations at the Paris exhibition.
Japan’s greatest heiress is Marchioness
Maida, with a fortune of $6,000,000 in her
own right.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife is said to
bear a strong personal resemblance to Lotta,
the actress.
Mary Kyle Dallas, a writer of short stories
for the last twenty-five years, has just pub-
lished her first book.
Mrs. Humphry Ward’s “Robert Elsmere”
has acquired undying fame. A new linen
collar has been named after it.
Miss Catherine Willard, Mrs. Cleveland’s
some time friend, is now in Berlin, and lately
sang before the all powerful Countess Wald-
ersee.
Mrs. Chamberlain has captured London by
her graceful and charming manner, and her
kindly smile is always ready for the poorest
beggar.
Celia Logan, who after twenty years of
quiscence has just blossomed out into a novel-
ist, lives in New York, and is, in private life,
Mrs. Connolly.
Some one has discovered that women never
reckon time by calendar years, but always
say so many years ago instead of in the year
1888, or whatever year may be meant.
Private letters lately received from the
Duchess of Marlborough announce that both
herself and husband will visit America next
October to spend the social season in New
York.
One of the newly elected aidermen of the
city of London is Miss Emma Cons, a woman
who has considerable reputation in England
as a practical philanthropist. She was elected
by the new city council.
There are women in the east end of London
who slyly squirt dirty water out of syringes
on ladies’ dresses and then overtake them
and wipe it off with their aprons in order to
get the small fee that is usually forthcoming.
A well known English actress is angry be-
cause a manufacturer of false teeth has pla-
carded his town with pictures representing
her “before and after” taking a set of his
famous teeth. The “before” portrait is the
one which makes her angry.
Mrs. Gatewood, a negro woman, just dead
at Scottville, Pa., claimed to be 117 years old
and to have a distinct memory of Gen. Wash-
ington. In addition she had eleven children,
fifty-six grandchildren, forty-six great-grand-
children and ninety-six great-great-grand-
children.
Sorosis has celebrated its twenty-first
birthday and is congratulated by 100 organ-
ized and incorporated woman’s clubs. When
it was formed there was no woman’s clubs,
no church or missionary societies officered
and carried on solely by women; in fact, no
purely woman’s societies at all.
Miss Shultz, who has just taken the degree
of M. D. in Paris with highest honors, is
only 21 years old and is described as a particu-
larly pretty young woman. She means to go
at her professional work earnestly, although
she has one regret—that she cannot go to
balls and the opera as much as of old.
“One hears a great deal nowadays about
the difficulties between author and pub-
lisher,” said an author, “but I can think of
at least two women who discovered an ad-
mirable plan to avoid all trouble of this kind.
I refer to Miss Braddon and Miss Muloch,
both of whom married their publishers.
The Minnesota State university has estab-
lished a school of journalism, and placed at
its head a lady who has had some experience
with newspaper work. “Prof.” Sanford, as
she is called, will edit the copy of her staff of
writers, and will have it printed in some
local journal. She herself will act as manag-
ing editor.
Princess Alexandria, of Greece, who is be-
trothed to Grand Duke Paul Alexandro-
vitch, is to be presented with a dowry of
$80,000 by the chamber of deputies of
Athens. The duke of Sparta, her brother,
will also receive $108,000 on the occasion of
his marriage to Princess Sophie of Prussia
from the same source.
A peculiar fact about American literary
women is that many of them are domestic in
their tastes and have great ability as house-
keepers. Lucy Stone is a noted homemaker.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s domestic pro-
pensities are well known. Mrs. Annie Jenness
Miller, the lecturer and advocate of dress re-
form, has a husband who worships her. Mrs.
Livermore, the lecturer, is another good
housekeeper, and in addition to her public
and private duties takes care of an invalid
daughter.
FOR SALE.
A FINE SELECTION OF NEW STYLE
-<cL decorated Flower Pots and Lawn Vases,
Rockingham and Yellow Porcelain lined
ware, at L E. Sien’s, n. s. Market, between
Tremont and 24th streets,
TXIG BARGAINS THIS WEEK IN
JU^Boys’ Suits and Boys’ Cassimere Knee
Pants. A new lot at half price.
JOE BON ART,
Market and 20th Streets.
MISCELLANEOUS.
■■pONYWXNTE^^
JL would like to take care of and use a
pony with the option of purchase. Apyly
to Hanna, Waters & Co., Tremont and Me-
chanic street. 11
ArEN OR LADIES WANTED TO SELL
Jk-VILthe Latest Improved Singer Sewing Ma-
chines on installments. Salary and com-
mission. No experience necessary. Apply
to Singer office, 25S E Market Street, be-
tween 19th and 20th. 11
It Will Be One of the Finest on This Side
the Atlantic.
To Col. Albert A. Pope is due the idea of
establishing in Boston an out-of-door inclo-
sure to be devoted exclusively to all that is
manly and healthful in fresh air exercise.
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Herdic thinks that the greatest phenom-
enal pacer in the country today is Roy
Wilkes and he will soon equal and even beat
the great Johnston, and that the free-for-all
pacing race will be the greatest event ever
known in the grand circuit of 1889.
J. H. M’VICKER.
actresses of means sprung forward with their
checks in their hands and McVicker did not
want for means wherewith to rebuild.
Mr. McVicker has occasionally appeared on
the boards to assist some noted star with
whom he was on terms of intimacy. He
would take the part of the grave digger with
Booth, who was his son-in-law, and Charlotte
Cushman once got him to play with her in
“Simpson & Co.” He is such a favorite in
Chicago that his name on the bills in any
part is no light assistant in filling the house.
cup was made on A ug. 8,1870. The Cambria
was the tenth yacht in at the finish.
THE LIVONIA.
Then Mr. Ashbury returned to England
and had a new yacht, the Livonia, made,
and again announced his intention of win-
ning the silver trophy. But he objected to
racing against a fleet. He also insisted on
having a series of twelve races withan Amer-
ican yacht selected by the New York Yacht
club, claiming that he was entitled to one
race for every yacht club he represented, and
sending the club twelve certificates of repre-
sentation to prove it. After a lot of corre-
spondence, somewhat acrimonious, it was
agreed that the Livonia should sail a series
of seven races, in which Mr. Ashbury should
represent the Royal Harwich Yacht club
only, and the New York Yacht club should
select only one boat to sail against the Livo-
nia in each race. Only five races were nec-
essary, and they occurred on Oct. 16, 18, 19,
21 and 23. The Columbia won the first race
over the New York Yacht club course by
27m. 4s., and the second, twenty miles from
the lightship and return, by 10m. 33s. The
Livonia won the third race over the club
course because of the carrying away of the
Columbia’s steering gear. The Sappho won
the fourth race over the outside course by
30m. 21s., and also the fifth over the club
course by 25m. 27s.
CANADIAN YACHTS.
The Canadian yacht Countess of Dufferin
attempted to capture the cup in a series of
three races, the best two out of three to win,
in August, 1876. The first race was sailed on
Aug. 10. The schooner Madeleine was se-
lected to defend the cup. The Canadian was
beaten over the club course by 10m. 59s.
The second race, on Aug. 12, twenty miles to
windward from Sandy Hook and return, re-
sulted in the defeat of the Canadian by 27m.
14s.
Another Canadian yacht caught the “mug
hunting fever” in the summer of 1881. She
was a “single sticker,” the Atalanta, and the
New York Yacht club pitted the sloop Mis-
chief against her, having selected her after
several exciting trial races with the Grade.
The Atalanta was disposed of in two races,
one on Nov. 8, over the regular club course,
and the other on the following day, sixteen
miles to leeward from Sandy Hook and re-
turn. The Mischief beat the Canadian by
28m. 30^s. in the first race, and 38m. 54s. in
the second.
The expense attending the protection of the
cup under the old deed of gift caused the club
to return it to its donor, Mr. George R.
Schuyler, on Dec. 15, 1882. It was reaccept-
ed by the club on Feb. 2, under conditions.
RECENT RACES FOR THE CUP.
On Dec. 20, 1884, Mi-. J. Beavor-Webb, de-
signer of the Genesta and the Galatea, owned
respectively by Sir Richard Sutton and
Lieut. W. Henn, R. N., notified the New
York Yacht club of the intention of Sir
Richard and the lieutenant to challenge for
the cup.
The story of how the Puritan beat the
Genesta, of how the next year the Mayflower
walked away from the Galatea, and how in
1887 the Volunteer sailed around the Thistle,
is familial" with the yachting public.
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Want to Employ? Want
Board? Do You Want Trade?
Do ton Want to ]?iad Scmn-
thing- You Eav« X.ost ?
The other day Tony Pastor celebrated his
twenty-fifth anniversary as a New York
manager.
Mansfield has booked Richard III for a run
of thirty weeks in the United States next
season.
Mrs. Langtry is negotiating with Henry
Irving for the use of the Lyceum during the
summer season. If she fails, she will prob-
ably secure the Drury Lane.
While W. H. Crane, the comedian, was
standing in front of a Pittsburg hotel the
other evening a rather dilapidated looking
individual, under the influence of nose paint,
approached him and said: “Can yer give
(hie) a man a dime to (hie) get er drink?” The
comedian replied, with a sardonic smile,
“Look here, how do I know but what you’ll
go and buy bread for it if I did?” This was
too much for the inebriate, and with a look
of disgust he asked Crane if he took him for
an ass, and walked away.
Clara Morris gave the Parnell fund a bene-
fit before she broke down in St. Louis, which
netted $800.
Mr. Abbey announces that his contract
with Mrs. Potter, by mutual consent, will
not be renewed. It expires in June. He has
had enough. Her friends say she has, too.
But she will retain “Antony and Cleopatra”
as her chief play and tour it on her own
financial responsibility next season. Kyrle
Bellew may be interested with her in the
scheme.
Grace Hawthorne, who has never been on
the stage in New York, has decided to try
i her luck there next November, opening in a
new play by Mr. W. G. Wills, called “Jo-
sephine.” Her manager, W. W. Kelly, has
sailed from England to secure a theatre and
arrange for a tour.
Francis Wilson has engaged Hubert Wilke
for his new opera company, and Pauline Hall
has consented to stay at the Casino next sea-
son. Thus two theatrical problems of pon-
derous moment are satisfactorily solved.
Miss Hall has, to use the stage vernacular,
stood out for big money, and probably Mr.
Aronson will give up heavily. Contrary to a
wide and hopeful supposition, Mi". Wilke
seems to be in demand among comic opera
managers.
Mme. Patti did not take her jewels to
South America. They are all locked up in
the City bank, London.
There is a new company in process of for-
mation in London, whose purpose is to build
a new theatre at a cost of $750,000. The site
will probably be close to the Criterion.
One of W. H. Crane’s engagements for
next season is that of Harry Braham, the
English comedian and ex-“facialist” of the
vaudevilles. He played Ben Chibbles in
“Hoodman Blind” last season and most of
this.
George Meredith is writing two new novels.
Cardinal Newman, now in his 89th year,
began life as a lawyer.
It is reported Victorien Sardou contem-
plates a visit to the United States.
Marion Crawford, the novelist, reads Latin,
Greek, Sanscrit, Arabic and Persian with
facility.
The Duke of Westminster is worth about
$80,000,000, and his annual income is set down
at $4,000,000.
Adirondack Murray is trying to turn an
honest penny by lecturing on “How to Be-
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Citizen (to Uncle Rastus)—What are you
doing these days, Uncle Rastus?
Uncle Rasttis—Teatricals, boss.
Citizen—Teatricals?
Uncle Rastus—Yes, sah. I’m boss scene
shifter at de Union teatre. Dat am a very
’portant posishun.
Citizen—It is, indeed. How do they get
along when you happen to be sick or away?
Uncle Rastus—Dey manages to pull through
all right, kase you see I’se got f oah under-
studies.—Harper’s Weekly.
Points in tlie Tafe of a Veteran Theatrical
Manager.
Mr. J. H. McVicker, the prominent Chi-
sago theatrical manager, is one of the best
fepown and most universally respected men
Who have ever had anything to do with the
stage. Every one in Chicago knows him,
and many are conversant with his efforts to
elevate the profession. For nearly half a
century he has been connected with the stage,
and has been the personal friend of many of
the most noted actors and actresses.
Mr. McVicker was born in New York in
1822, of Scotch-Irish stock. He lost his father
when a child, became a printer, and in 1840,
while in New Orleans, decided to take to the
stage. In 1848 he went to Chicago, which he
has since always made his home. In 1851 he
purchased the right to Dan Marble’s plays
and began to star. He went to England and
was well received there. But Mr. McVicker
was destined to become a manager, and he
built his theatre in
Chicago. It is one
of the oldest in that
city, and for many
■j years ranked first,
gBr if indeed it does not
so rank now.
® The fire of 1871
H? swePt away> an<i
just as he had spent
a considerable sum
ht. on its improve-
ment; but so pop-
7 ular was he with
the profession that
several actors and
MAP OF THE PARK.
Col. Pope and his associates have pur-
chased a tract of land covering an area of
about 1,000,006 square feet in Cambridge, and
is bounded by Front street, Sidney street, Pa-
cific street and the Grand Junction railroad.
Front street will be connected with West
Chester park by the new Harvard bridge, so
the grounds will be directly on one of the
principal thoroughfares between Boston and
Cambridge. The accompanying diagram will
show the location of the grounds, and give a
general idea of how they will be laid out. It
is proposed to cut a street through the com-
pany’s property from Front street to Pacific
street, and lay a line of horse car tracks upon
it. A depot and waiting room will be erected
at the entrance to the park. The main en-
trance will be on Front street near the grand
stand. Work has already been commenced,
and it is expected that when the grounds are
thrown open to the public in the summer,
they will be in every respect the finest athletic
outdoor inclosure in this country. The bi-
cycle track is to be two laps to the mile, and
wiB without doubt be the finest in the land.
It will be oval in shape, as this has been found
best adapted to a high rate of speed.
There will also be a baseball diamond laid
out inside the track and a smaller track con-
structed for foot races. The grand stand
will seat 15,000 people. There will also be
about a half dozen tennis courts, which will
be laid out according to the most approved
principles.
California’s Breeding Interest.
Not long ago when a legislative committee
was examining witnesses upon the pool bill
before the California legislature a turfman
on the stand was asked what he thought the
breeding interest of the state amounted to as
a financial matter. He replied that he
thought it would compare favorably with
the raisin interest. There was a smile from
those in the crowd who were not conversant
with horse matters—a smile of incredulity;
but if they had seen fit to look a little more
deeply they would, perhaps, have seen some-
thing to surprise them. L. J. Rose sent
thirty-six head of young horses to New York,
his first public sale. They brought $102,865.
Count Valensin sent fifteen head that sold for
$17,620. William Corbett sent thirty-four
head that brought $^9,495, and Hancock
Johnson and Charles Durfee sent each a small
lot that swelled the total for the sale to $200,-
015.
Then since the 1st of January Orrin
Hickok has sold his Arthurtin gelding, Arab,
for $8,000, Joseph Cairn Simpson sold his
stallion Antevolo for $18,000, B. C. Holly dis-
posed of his Wanderer for $20,000, C. C. Sea-
mans sold Bell Boy for an even $50,000 and
S. J. Rose sold Stamboul for the same
amount. That makes a grand total of $346,
000 ’ hich has gone to purchase California
horseflesh since 1889 was ushered in, not to
mention the number of minor sales that have
taken place. Haggin’s stable of 108f thor-
oughbreds and Palo Alto’s consignment of
trotters will be heard from in May, and the
amount will be considerably swelled.—New
York Mail and Express.
THE VOLUNTEER.
It may be interesting just at this time, to
review the history of the America’s cup, and
the long series of triumphs which has held it
in the United States for so many years. The
big, ewer shaped, solid silver trophy known
as the America’s cup, emblematic of the
yachting supremacy of the world, was origi-
nally offered by the Royal Yacht squadron as
a prize to be sailed for by yachts of all na-
tions over the squadron’s course around the
Isle of Wight. It has been frequently, but
erroneously, called the Queen’s cup.
The first internation exhibition held in
England, in 1851, greatly interested Ameri-
cans. They wondered what contributions
would be sent from their country. It was
suggested to Commodore John C. Stevens, of
the New York Yacht club (then in its sixth
year) that, as there would be an unusual collec-
tion of yachts at Cowes, the club should send
over a representative yacht to sail in an inter-
national match. Commodore Stevens deter-
mined to have a typical Yankee yacht built
to beat any thing afloat, and George Steers
was selected as the designer.
THE AMERICA.
The America was launched in March 1851.
Mr. Stevens had agreed to pay $30,000 for her
if she beat the sloop Maria. She failed to
do this and was purchased by her five owners,
Messi’s. J. C. Stevens, Edwin A. Stevens,
Hamilton Wilkes, J. Beekman Finley, and
George R. Schuyler. The America crossed
to Havre in twenty-one days. She was then
rigged like the pilot boats of those days, hav-
ing neither foretopmast nor jibboom.
The cup for which this race was to be sailed
was the One Hundred Guinea cup of the
Royal yacht squadron, but since the race it
has been known as the America’s cup. It is
elaborately ornamented. It stands full two
feet high and weighs at least 100 ounces.
Around its broadest part are medallions,
variously inscribed. The first inscription is
as follows: “One Hundred Guinea cup, won
Aug. 22, 1851, at Cowes, England, by the
yacht America, at the Royal yacht squadron
regatta, open to all nations, beating,” and
then follows the names of all the vessels
which started in the race of 1851. On the
next medallion is engraved “Schooner Amer-
ica, 170 tons, Commodore John C. Stevens;
built by George Steers, New Y ork, 1851. ” On
the other spaces are inscriptions recording
the results of the races with the schooners
Cambria, Livonia and Countess of Dufferin
and the sloop Atalanta.
Nine schooners, including the America,
and nine cutters were entered for this re-
gatta. They ranged from 392 down to 47
tons. There was no time allowance for ton-
nage and no prescribed time for accomplish-
ing the distance, about sixty miles, from
Cowes, around the Isle of Wight.
The owners of the America kept the cup
until July 8, 1857, when they conditionally
offered it to the New York Yacht club, with
the view of making it a perpetual challenge
cup. The conditions were that any organ-
ized yacht club of any foreign country,
through any one entitled to claim the right
of sailing a match for the cup with any yach*
of not less than thirty or more than 300 tons.
The parties desiring to sail for the cup might
make any match with the yacht club in pos-
session of the cup that might be determined
upon by mutual consent. In case of a dis-
agreement as to terms, the match should be
y
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