Bill Hoffer vs Kid Nichols 10/13/1897, @ South End Grounds III

ORIOLES WIN SERIES IN THE RAIN AND THE WIND

A rain soaked field, 2 lengthy  rain delays, and 24 MPH winds didn’t deter the Baltimore Orioles as they win game 6 easily to win the DMB World Series.

Kid Nichols started the game for the Beaneaters but was removed after an 84 minute rain delay in the 5th inning, thus banishing the hopes of Beaneater fans of a possible game 7. 3 Beaneater relievers gave up 5 runs in the last 4 innings to give the Orioles the victory.

The always clutch Wilbert Robinson hit a 2 out 2 run double in the 4th to give the Orioles the lead, and Doc Amole pitched the final 3 innings to pick up his 2nd save of the series. There were no strikeouts registered in the ball game.

10/13/1897, BLN97-BSN97, South End Grounds III
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1897 Orioles           0  0  0  2  0  1  1  3  0     7 11  5     9  2
1897 Beaneaters        0  0  1  0  1  1  0  0  1     4  8  3     8  2

Orioles              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Beaneaters           AB  R  H BI   AVG
Keeler,W          rf  5  1  1  1  .333    Hamilton,B        cf  5  0  1  0  .154
McGraw,J          3b  5  0  1  1  .091    Duffy,H           lf  3  0  1  1  .261
Stenzel,J         cf  5  1  3  1  .238    Collins,J         3b  5  0  1  1  .240
Kelley,J          lf  4  1  2  1  .350    Tenney,F          1b  4  0  1  0  .316
Jennings,H        ss  5  1  2  0  .259    Lowe,B            2b  4  0  1  0  .261
Doyle,J           1b  4  1  1  0  .125    Long,H            ss  3  1  1  0  .304
Amole,D          p   1  0  0  0  .500    Stahl,C           rf  2  0  0  0  .286
Robinson,W        c   4  1  1  2  .400     Sullivan,J       p   0  0  0  0  .000
Reitz,H           2b  2  1  0  0  .316     Stivetts,J       ph  2  0  1  0  .400
Hoffer,B          p   2  0  0  0  .000     Lewis,T          p   0  0  0  0  .000
Clarke,B         1b  0  0  0  0  .000    Ganzel,C          c   3  2  1  0  .286
                     37  7 11  6          Nichols,K         p   1  0  0  1  .143
                                           Klobedanz,F      rf  3  1  0  0  .000
                                                               35  4  8  3
Orioles                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Hoffer,B         W 1-1           6.0  7  3  1  3  0 100  59  3.21
Amole,D          S 2             3.0  1  1  0  0  0  28  19  4.05
                                 9.0  8  4  1  3  0 128  78
Beaneaters                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Nichols,K                        4.2  5  2  2  1  0  82  52  2.91
Sullivan,J                       1.1  2  1  0  1  0  41  26  0.00
Stivetts,J       L 1-1           2.0  3  4  4  2  0  52  32  9.45
Lewis,T                          1.0  1  0  0  0  0   6   5  1.08
                                 9.0 11  7  6  4  0 181 115
BLN: Clarke,B inserted at 1b in the 7th
BSN: Klobedanz,F inserted at rf in the 5th
     Stivetts,J batted for Sullivan,J in the 6th
     Stivetts,J moved to p in the 7th

E-McGraw,J, Stenzel,J, Kelley,J, Jennings,H, Reitz,H, Collins,J 2, Tenney,F.
2B-Stenzel,J, Jennings,H, Robinson,W, Ganzel,C. SB-Stenzel,J(2), Tenney,F(1).
CS-Duffy,H. BB-Robinson,W, Reitz,H 2, Hoffer,B, Duffy,H, Long,H, Ganzel,C.
SH-Clarke,B. HBP-Kelley,J, Duffy,H. HB-Hoffer,B, Sullivan,J. WP-Hoffer,B.
GWRBI: Kelley,J
Kid Nichols was removed after a rain delay
Jim Sullivan was removed after a rain delay
Temperature: 59, Field: wet, Sky: threatening, Wind: right to left at 24 MPH,
Rain Delays: 84 and 90 minutes.

SUMMARY: The Beaneaters lost all 3 games that Kid Nichols pitched. The Orioles had 11 extra base hits to the Beaneaters 6. There were no home runs hit by either team. Billy Hamilton hit just .154 and scored only 2 runs at the top of the Beaneaters line up.

Wilbert Robinson hit .400 to lead all hitters and just missed his 2nd straight DMB World Series MVP.

Joe Corbett won 2 games for the Orioles, one of which was a 4 hit shutout, and he just edges out Uncle Robbie for MVP.

MVP- Joe Corbett 2-0,  0.95 ERA, 4 hit shutout and a solid 4-8 at the plate with 3 rbis.

DMB team batting — 1897 Boston Beaneaters                            
                              League championship — as of 10/13/1897                              

S Name               P    AVG   OBP   SPC    G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS
  Stivetts,J         of  .400  .500  .400    3    5    2   0   0   0    2    0    1    0   0   0   0   0
  Tenney,F*          1b  .316  .458  .316    6   19    6   0   0   0    2    2    5    1   0   0   1   0
  Long,H*            ss  .304  .333  .348    6   23    7   1   0   0    4    3    1    2   0   0   0   0
  Stahl,C*           rf  .286  .348  .476    6   21    6   0   2   0    2    2    2    1   0   0   0   0
  Ganzel,C           c   .286  .375  .429    2    7    2   1   0   0    2    0    1    0   0   0   0   0
  Duffy,H            lf  .261  .308  .261    6   23    6   0   0   0    2    4    1    1   1   0   0   1
  Lowe,B             2b  .261  .320  .261    6   23    6   0   0   0    1    1    2    2   0   0   0   0
  Collins,J          3b  .240  .269  .280    6   25    6   1   0   0    3    3    1    1   0   0   0   0
  Bergen,M           c   .231  .333  .231    4   13    3   0   0   0    2    0    2    1   0   1   0   0
  Hamilton,B*        cf  .154  .214  .192    6   26    4   1   0   0    2    3    2    3   0   0   0   0
  Nichols,K#         sp  .143  .143  .143    3    7    1   0   0   0    0    2    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Allen,B            ss  .000 1.000  .000    1    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    1    0   0   1   0   0
  Hickman,C          mr  .000  .000  .000    1    1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    1   0   0   0   0
  Klobedanz,F*       sp  .000  .000  .000    3    6    0   0   0   0    1    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Lake,F             c   .000  .000  .000    0    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Lewis,T            sp  .000  .000  .000    2    2    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Sullivan,J         sp  .000  .000  .000    1    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Yeager,G           c   .000  .000  .000    0    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Total                  .244  .311  .284    6  201   49   4   2   0   23   20   19   13   1   2   1   1

                             DMB team batting — 1897 Baltimore Orioles                            
                              League championship — as of 10/13/1897                              

S Name               P    AVG   OBP   SPC    G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS
  Amole,D            sp  .500  .500 1.000    3    2    1   1   0   0    1    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Corbett,J          sp  .500  .556  .625    3    8    4   1   0   0    2    3    1    0   0   0   0   1
  Nops,J*            sp  .500  .667  .500    1    2    1   0   0   0    1    1    1    1   0   0   0   0
  Pond,A             sp  .500  .500  .500    1    2    1   0   0   0    0    3    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Robinson,W         c   .400  .500  .533    5   15    6   2   0   0    4    5    3    1   0   0   0   0
  Kelley,J           lf  .350  .458  .450    6   20    7   0   1   0    5    1    3    0   1   0   0   0
  Keeler,W*          rf  .333  .414  .417    6   24    8   2   0   0    5    4    3    2   1   0   0   0
  Reitz,H*           2b  .316  .417  .368    6   19    6   1   0   0    5    2    4    0   0   0   0   0
  Jennings,H         ss  .259  .259  .333    6   27    7   2   0   0    1    1    0    1   0   0   0   1
  Stenzel,J          cf  .238  .333  .286    6   21    5   1   0   0    3    4    4    1   0   0   2   0
  Doyle,J            1b  .125  .154  .125    6   24    3   0   0   0    1    2    1    1   0   0   0   0
  McGraw,J*          3b  .091  .231  .091    6   22    2   0   0   0    1    1    4    1   0   0   0   0
  Bowerman,F         c   .000  .000  .000    1    1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    1   0   0   0   0
  Clarke,B           c   .000  .000  .000    3    7    0   0   0   0    1    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Hoffer,B           sp  .000  .286  .000    2    5    0   0   0   0    0    0    1    0   1   0   0   1
  O’Brien,T          ut  .000  .000  .000    1    1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Quinn,J            3b  .000  .000  .000    0    0    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Total                  .255  .339  .315    6  200   51  10   1   0   30   27   25    9   3   0   2   3

DMB team pitching — 1897 Boston Beaneaters                            
                              League championship — as of 10/13/1897                              

S Name               P     ERA   W   L   S   G  GS  CG SHO     INN    H    R   ER   BB    K  HR GDP    BF
  Sullivan,J         sp   0.00   0   0   0   1   0   0   0     1.1    2    1    0    1    0   0   0     8
  Lewis,T            sp   1.08   0   1   0   2   1   0   0     8.1    9    4    1    4    1   0   3    38
  Klobedanz,F*       sp   2.70   1   0   1   2   1   1   0    10.0    9    3    3    4    1   0   0    43
  Nichols,K          sp   2.91   0   2   0   3   3   2   0    21.2   16    9    7   10    4   0   3    92
  Hickman,C          mr   9.00   0   0   0   1   1   0   0     4.0    5    5    4    3    0   0   0    20
  Stivetts,J         of   9.45   1   1   0   3   0   0   0     6.2   10    8    7    3    3   0   0    33
  Total                   3.81   2   4   1   6   6   3   0    52.0   51   30   22   25    9   0   6   234

                            DMB team pitching — 1897 Baltimore Orioles                            
                              League championship — as of 10/13/1897                              

S Name               P     ERA   W   L   S   G  GS  CG SHO     INN    H    R   ER   BB    K  HR GDP    BF
  Corbett,J          sp   0.95   2   0   0   3   2   2   1    19.0   10    2    2    5    3   0   4    70
  Nops,J*            sp   2.25   1   0   0   1   1   0   0     8.0    7    3    2    2    2   0   0    33
  Hoffer,B           sp   3.21   1   1   0   2   2   1   0    14.0   16    7    5    8    2   0   3    66
  Amole,D*           sp   4.05   0   1   2   3   0   0   0     6.2    7    4    3    0    2   0   0    27
  Pond,A             sp   8.44   0   0   0   1   1   0   0     5.1    9    7    5    4    4   0   2    28
  Total                   2.89   4   2   2   6   6   3   1    53.0   49   23   17   19   13   0   9   224

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Hark! hark! ’tis SOZODONT I cry
Haste youths, and maidens, come and buy.
Come and a secret I’ll unfold,
At small expense to young and old.
A charm that will on both bestow
A ruby lip, and teeth like snow.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Jun 25, 1884

*****

Hie, lads and lassies hie away
Nor brook a single hour’s delay,
If you would carry in your mouth
White teeth, and odors of the south.
Haste, haste, and buy a single font
Of the unrivalled SOZODONT.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Aug 13, 1882

This is the poem, which is hard to read on the above image:

Yes, barber, what you say is true,
I need a number one shampoo,
And came in, as I always do,
Because I can rely on you
To choose pure Ivory Soap, in lieu
Of soaps ol divers form and hue
From use of which such ills ensue.

Well, sir, we barbers suffer too,
From humbug articles, and rue
That we have tried before we knew
Poor toilet frauds to which are due
More scalp-diseases than a few.
I know we are the safer who
Use Ivory Soap for a shampoo.

Carroll Sentinel (Carroll, Iowa) Oct 3, 1893

The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Jun 11, 1890

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The Georgia Buggy Co. 39 S. Broad St., 34-36 S. Forsyth St.

In the dead hour of night,
While sleeping with all your might,
The Genii made a sweeping flight,
And took the street cars out of sight.

In this hour of dire distress
The public their indignation express;
You to the courts go for redress
And get a forty-eight hour request.

To our friends we kindly advise,
Let the street cars go in demise,
Buy a vehicle, which is wise,
And show the boss your despise;

If not street cars by the door,
You have carpets on your floor;
To and from work you can go
In a fine vehicle bought low
At the only Georgia Buggy Co.

LAST WEEK the buyers kept us busy from start to finish. Mighty bad weather though for imitators to be left out in the cold. The Georgia Buggy Co.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Mar 8,  1896

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MEA CULPA!

How sweet to love,
But Oh! how bitter,
To love a gal,
And then not git her!
And know the only
Reason why
Is because you didn’t
The furniture buy
Of Stowers.

203 West Commerce street.

San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Texas) Jul 25, 1897

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This one is my favorite:

Machine Poetry.

Dear friends, we are modest, decidedly so,
But sometimes our pen at random will go;
And we now feel inclined to let the thing run,
And write a short notice abounding with fun.

Our neighbors, good fellows, who are all on the track,
Cry “Hurrah for the West!” and never look back;
And not wishing to linger or fall in the rear,
We crave for a moment your poetic ear.

Our scribbling we think resembles the kind
Once written by Homer, the man that was blind;
But only like his in regard to the eyes;
Not at all Homer-like viewed otherwise.

He wrote with gravity, candor and sense;
We write for the purpose of getting the pence;
And if we succeed, and obtain our desire,
We’ll throw down our pen, make our bow, and retire.

The facts of the case we are willing to tell;
We have a few things we are anxious to sell;
And we take this queer way of letting you know
That you don’t save the coppers if by us you go.

Of Superfine Flour we have “piles” upon “piles,”
To supply all our friends for a circuit of miles;
We sell on commission for a profit quite small,
Believe what we say, and give us a call.

Of Sugar we have not a very small “heap,”
Which we are selling quite fast, for we’re selling it cheap.
One dollar will buy eight pounds of the sweet;
And now the dear children may have cookies to eat.

Of Coffee and Spices we have a supply,
That are fine for the palate and nice to the eye;
Ground or unground, roasted or not,
Cinnamon fragrant, and Black Pepper hot.

If Fremont’s elected, and for it we hope,
For the disappointed ones we’ve plenty of Soap
To cleanse their long faces and banish their tears,
And keep them contented for at least eight years.

Saleratus and Soda, and Teas you may find;
Cream Tartar in packages just to your mind;
Caps,Percussion, by the box, the thousand or more,
You can have whenever you visit our Store.

In the Furniture line we make no pretensions,
But we have some chairs of ample dimensions,
Which are faithfully made and painted nice,
And are offered for sale at a very low price.

Nails, Sash, and Glass we have always on hand,
For those who are building in this glorious land.
Six cents for the Sash, for the Glass four and a half,
And Nails at a price that will make you all laugh.

Do you want Gunpowder, and a little cold Lead,
To finish old Bruin with a ball in his head?
Come along with your shot gun, revolver, and rifle,
And we’ll fill up your horns and ask but a trifle.

We have Salt by the barrel, and Syrup so nice
That if you trade with us once we know you will twice.
Dried Apples we sell to those who like pies,
And Cheese that would dazzle an epicure’s eyes.

Of Nicknacks and Notions, such as Baskets and Matches,
Warm Coats and thick Pants for those who hate patches,
With Mittens and Gloves, and Cotton and Thread,
We have a few left, and a Comb for the head.

And now, kind friend, we propose to retreat
From the stomach and back and come down to the feet;
Just after our measure, our metre, and time,
And give you some sense along with the rhyme.

When Mother Eve in Paradise was staying,
And ‘midst those shady walks and sparkling fountains playing,
‘Tis said that she revolted, (what a shame!)
Then took fig leaves, made aprons of the same,
Ingeniously attempting thus to cover
Herself and guilty man half over.

Banished from Eden’s calm and blest retreat,
She wandered forth with unprotected feet;
To scorching sand her pedals were exposed,
And, grov’ling in the dust, spread out her ten fair toes.
A flaming sword hung o’er those scenes of sacred mirth;
Barefoot and sad she trod the sin-cursed earth.

How long her children wailed and wanted Shoes,
Is no recorded by our homely muse.
One fact is clear: No longer need they weep,
For Boots and Shoes, nice, strong, and cheap,
To suit the foot and please the eye,
We have to sell just when they please to buy.

We keep on a corner where two roads meet,
And when your faces there we greet,
With treatment kind and prudent pay,
We’ll send you smiling on your way.

JAMES & NUDD.
Richland Center, November 3, 1856.

Richland County Observer (Richland, Wisconsin) Nov 18, 1856

*****

CUBA AND CALIFORNIA

Let Stutchfield, Hoyt, and all the rest,
Boast of  their wares the very best,
But if you wish to make a trade,
Call at my shop, where ready made,
And made ‘pon honor, you’ll be sure
To find all kinds of Furniture
Bedsteads — the plan best e’er invented –
On which a man may rest contented.
On which bugs, white, black or yellow,
Fleas, dogs or snakes, ne’er bite a fellow
Its match you ne’er saw in your life,
It opens and shuts just like a knife.
My neighbor says, “If I had tools,
I’d make a few to gull the fools,”
But mine, when tried, you’ll surely find
Will suit a very different mind
Come, get a little wife, young man,
And a bedstead made on my new plan,
You’ll want some Chairs, a Table and Settee,
A Boston for the wife, a Crib for the baby.
My prices, too, so very low,
You’ll wonder why you waited so.
Bring your Lumber, or Cash in hand,
Opposite the Old Whyler Stand.

E.W. JACOBS

Norwalk, Oct. 10, 1849

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Acrostic Advertising #2

The Globe (Atchison, Kansas) Jan 18, 1878

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Gresham’s Answer to Queen Lil
When I received your cablegram
I thought I sure would faint
For though I often used Parks’ Teas
‘Tis not for your complaint.
I feared that Mrs. G. would think
Wrong about our connection
Till on her dresser there I saw
Parks’ Tea for her complexion.

Sandusky Register (Sandusky, Ohio) Sep 13, 1894

Charles Hickman vs Arlie Pond 10/10/1897, @ Oriole Park II

When I started this World Series Replay I wanted to make sure, where possible, to use the actual starting pitchers that were used in that seasons post season series. Actual as-played line ups are much more difficult because in the 19th Century the information is very difficult to get, but as I get closer to the advent of the actual World Series this will become much easier. So unfortunately for the Beaneaters of this 1897 replay, I am forced to use Piano Legs Hickman for this game 5 start. The Beaneaters and Manager Frank Selee were not too thrilled with having to play in the ill fated Temple Cup Series, so they didn’t take it too seriously. They won the Pennant outright and had nothing to prove, and went down in 5 games to the Orioles. Thus the unfortunate start for the seldom used(7.2 IP) Piano Legs Hickman in the 5th and possibly series deciding game.

BEANEATERS COME BACK LATE TO WIN SLUGFEST

Charles “Piano Legs” Hickman found more success as a hitter, finishing with a .295 life time average over 12 seasons. He did however finish with a 10-8 record as a pitcher. In 1902 he finished 2nd in all 3 Triple Crown categories. (.361-11-110) The Piano Legs moniker came about because of his massively proportioned legs.

The Boston Beaneaters scored 3 runs in the 9th to beat the Orioles in a high scoring slugfest. Trailing 9-7 the Beaneaters banged out 5 straight singles to start the inning against Doc Amole, scoring 3 runs. Fred Tenney’s single drove in the game winner.

The much maligned Piano Legs Hickman started for the Beaneaters and lasted just 4 innings, leaving on the tail end of a 5-1 Orioles lead. The Beaneaters fought back scoring 2 in the 4th and 3 in the 5th, with the big blow being a bases loaded double off the bat of Billy Hamilton in the 5th.

The Orioles came right back in the 6th on a 2 run double from Joe Corbett. Doc Amole pitched a scoreless 7th and 8th for the Orioles but could not close the deal in the Beaneaters 3 run 9th.

The Orioles still lead the series by a 3-2 margin.

10/10/1897, BSN97-BLN97, Oriole Park III
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1897 Beaneaters        0  0  0  1  2  4  0  0  3    10 15  3     7  0
1897 Orioles           1  1  0  3  0  3  1  0  0     9 12  3     5  3

Beaneaters           AB  R  H BI   AVG    Orioles              AB  R  H BI   AVG
Hamilton,B        cf  4  1  2  2  .143    Keeler,W          rf  4  1  2  1  .368
Duffy,H           lf  5  1  1  1  .250    Jennings,H        ss  5  0  1  0  .227
Stahl,C           rf  5  1  2  1  .316    Stenzel,J         cf  3  0  0  1  .125
Collins,J         3b  4  1  2  2  .250    Doyle,J           1b  5  0  1  0  .100
Tenney,F          1b  5  1  1  1  .333    Kelley,J          lf  2  1  0  0  .313
Lowe,B            2b  5  0  3  1  .263     Amole,D          p   1  1  1  0 1.000
Long,H            ss  5  1  2  1  .300     O’Brien,T        lf  1  0  0  0  .000
Bergen,M          c   4  2  2  0  .231    McGraw,J          3b  4  1  0  0  .059
Hickman,C         p   1  0  0  0  .000    Reitz,H           2b  3  2  2  0  .353
Stivetts,J       ph  2  2  0  0  .333    Robinson,W        c   3  2  2  1  .455
Klobedanz,F      p   0  0  0  0  .000    Pond,A            p   2  0  1  3  .500
                     40 10 15  9           Corbett,J        lf  2  1  2  2  .500
                                                               35  9 12  8
Beaneaters                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Hickman,C                        4.0  5  5  4  3  0  81  51  9.00
Stivetts,J       W 1-0           4.0  7  4  3  1  2  64  38  5.79
Klobedanz,F      S 1             1.0  0  0  0  0  0   9   6  2.70
                                 9.0 12  9  7  4  2 154  95
Orioles                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Pond,A                           5.1  9  7  5  4  4 102  62  8.44
Amole,D          L 0-1           2.2  5  3  3  0  2  43  29  7.36
Corbett,J                        1.0  1  0  0  0  0  10   5  0.95
                                 9.0 15 10  8  4  6 155  96
BSN: Stivetts,J batted for Hickman,C in the 5th
     Stivetts,J moved to p in the 5th
BLN: Corbett,J inserted at lf in the 6th
     O’Brien,T inserted at lf in the 9th
     Corbett,J moved to p in the 9th

E-Hamilton,B, Tenney,F, Long,H, Jennings,H, Kelley,J 2. 2B-Hamilton,B,
Reitz,H, Corbett,J, Amole,D. 3B-Stahl,C. CS-Corbett,J. K-Hamilton,B, Duffy,H,
Collins,J, Lowe,B, Bergen,M, Hickman,C, Jennings,H, McGraw,J. BB-Hamilton,B,
Collins,J, Bergen,M, Stivetts,J, Stenzel,J, Kelley,J, Reitz,H, Robinson,W.
SF-Keeler,W, Stenzel,J. WP-Hickman,C.
GWRBI: Tenney,F

A la fotografia es poden veure les obres de reconstrucció al 1937 que van continuar fins la restauració de 1958-60. Els ermitans que vivien a l’habitatge adossat a la capella, la Pepeta (ermitana des de 1897) i el seu fill Antonet Tobau, van salvar la imatge de la marededéu, guardada dins d’un feix de llenya durant tot el conflicte.Aquesta imatge fou retornada més tard i conduïda en processó des del poble fins l’ermita, on fou restituida després d’acabada la Guerra (Text i imatge del llibre “L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Recull gràfic 1890-1965″ de Mireia Mascarell i Llosa ISBN: 84-95550-29-6)

Lamentablement es van perdre les capelles i el mobiliari que podeu veure a les següents imatges de 1914, copiades del Fons fotogràfic Salvany de la Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Capella central, 1914

Capella lateral, 1914

Ted Lewis vs Jerry Hops 10/7/1897, @Oriole Park III

UNCLE ROBBIE  COMES THROUGH FOR THE ORIOLES

Wilbert Robinson had a 7 hit game on June 10, 1892. A record that still stands.

Wilbert Robinson doubled in Jake Stenzel with the winning run in the 8th, giving the Orioles the 4-3 victory and a one game lead in this best of 7 series.

The Beaneaters were shut out my Jerry Nops until 2 outs in the 8th inning. Nops walked Fred Tenney, then Hugh Duffy singled him to 2nd. Herman Long singled in Tenney, Chick Stahl singled in Duffy, and then Long scored the tieing run when Willie Keeler misplayed Stahl’s base hit. Doc Amole pitched a scoreless 9th to pick up the save.

10/7/1897, BSN97-BLN97, Oriole Park III
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1897 Beaneaters        0  0  0  0  0  0  0  3  0     3  8  4     7  2
1897 Orioles           0  1  0  0  1  1  0  1  x     4  8  2     9  0

Beaneaters           AB  R  H BI   AVG    Orioles              AB  R  H BI   AVG
Hamilton,B        cf  5  0  0  0  .077    Keeler,W          rf  5  0  1  0  .385
Tenney,F          1b  2  1  1  0  .500    Doyle,J           1b  4  0  0  1  .083
Duffy,H           lf  4  1  2  0  .364    Reitz,H           2b  4  0  1  0  .364
Long,H            ss  4  1  1  1  .333    Kelley,J          lf  3  1  1  0  .455
Stahl,C           rf  4  0  2  1  .400    Jennings,H        ss  4  0  2  0  .154
Lowe,B            2b  4  0  0  0  .167    Stenzel,J         cf  3  2  0  0  .100
Collins,J         3b  4  0  0  0  .167    McGraw,J          3b  4  0  0  0  .100
Ganzel,C          c   4  0  1  0  .250    Robinson,W        c   3  0  2  2  .750
Lewis,T           p   2  0  0  0  .000    Nops,J            p   2  1  1  1  .500
Stivetts,J       p   1  0  1  0 1.000     Bowerman,F       ph  1  0  0  0  .000
                     34  3  8  2           Amole,D          p   0  0  0  0  .000
                                                               33  4  8  4
Beaneaters                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Lewis,T          L 0-1           7.1  8  4  1  4  1 134  79  1.23
Stivetts,J                       0.2  0  0  0  0  1   9   7  0.00
                                 8.0  8  4  1  4  2 143  86
Orioles                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Nops,J           W 1-0           8.0  7  3  2  2  2 124  85  2.25
Amole,D          S 1             1.0  1  0  0  0  0  14  10  0.00
                                 9.0  8  3  2  2  2 138  95
BLN: Bowerman,F batted for Nops,J in the 8th

E-Tenney,F 3, Stahl,C, Keeler,W, Stenzel,J. 2B-Robinson,W. SB-Stenzel,J(1).
K-Tenney,F, Lowe,B, Nops,J, Bowerman,F. BB-Tenney,F 2, Kelley,J, Stenzel,J,
Robinson,W, Nops,J. SH-Lewis,T.
GWRBI: Robinson,W
Temperature: 60, Sky: cloudy, Wind: in from right at 10 MPH.

10/4/1897, @, South End Grounds III

Bill Hoffer vs Fred Klobedanz

HAMILTON WINS IT FOR BEANEATERS IN THE 9TH

Billy Hamilton had a lifetime .344 average with 912 stolen bases, and was not elected to the Hall of Fame until 1961.

With the score tied at 3 in the bottom of the 9th Chick Stahl led off the inning with a long triple. 2 intentional walks brought Billy Hamilton to the plate with the bases loaded. He stroked a line drive single into center for the game winner, tying the series at 1 game apiece.

Willie Keeler doubled twice for the Orioles and was driven in both times by Heinie Reitz.

This is the 1st game in the history of the DMB World Series Replay where neither team committed an error. A total of over 100 games. All I can say is it’s about time.

10/4/1897, BLN97-BSN97, South End Grounds III
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1897 Orioles           1  0  0  1  0  0  1  0  0     3  9  0    10  1
1897 Beaneaters        0  0  0  1  0  2  0  0  1     4  9  0     9  0

Orioles              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Beaneaters           AB  R  H BI   AVG
Keeler,W          rf  4  2  2  0  .500    Hamilton,B        cf  5  0  1  1  .125
McGraw,J          3b  3  0  1  0  .167    Collins,J         3b  4  2  2  0  .250
Reitz,H           2b  4  0  2  2  .429    Lowe,B            2b  4  1  2  0  .250
Doyle,J           1b  5  0  1  0  .125    Tenney,F          1b  2  0  1  1  .500
Jennings,H        ss  4  0  0  0  .000    Long,H            ss  4  0  2  1  .375
Kelley,J          lf  4  1  2  0  .500    Duffy,H           lf  3  0  0  1  .286
Stenzel,J         cf  3  0  1  1  .143    Stahl,C           rf  2  1  1  0  .333
Clarke,B          c   4  0  0  0  .000    Bergen,M          c   3  0  0  0  .000
Hoffer,B          p   3  0  0  0  .000    Klobedanz,F       p   3  0  0  0  .000
                     34  3  9  3           Allen,B          ph  0  0  0  0  .000
                                                               30  4  9  4
Orioles                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Hoffer,B         L 0-1           8.0  9  4  4  5  2 126  66  4.50
                                 8.0  9  4  4  5  2 126  66
Beaneaters                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Klobedanz,F      W 1-0           9.0  9  3  3  4  1 143  82  3.00
                                 9.0  9  3  3  4  1 143  82
BSN: Allen,B batted for Klobedanz,F in the 9th

2B-Keeler,W 2, Collins,J. 3B-Kelley,J, Stahl,C. CS-Hoffer,B. K-Keeler,W,
Long,H, Stahl,C. BB-Keeler,W, McGraw,J 2, Stenzel,J, Tenney,F, Stahl,C 2,
Bergen,M, Allen,B. SH-Tenney,F. SF-Reitz,H, Duffy,H. HBP-Hoffer,B.
HB-Klobedanz,F.
GWRBI: Hamilton,B
Temperature: 45, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from left at 11 MPH.

Joe Corbett vs Kid Nichols 10/3/1897, @South End Grounds III

KEELER WINS GAME ONE FOR THE ORIOLES

Wee Willie Keeler has a .341 lifetime average. He had 200+ hits in 8 straight seasons, 1894-1901.

Kid Nichols took a 3 hit shutout into the 7th inning, but a walk and an error put runners on 1st and 2nd with 1 out. Oriole’s starter Joe Corbett dumped a fly ball into centerfield to drive in a run, and Willie Keeler laced a single into right to tie the game at 2 apiece.

In the 9th Wilbert Robinson came off the bench as a pinch hitter and singled to right. A laboring Nichols then walked Joe Corbett to put 2 runners on with 1 out. Willie Keeler stroked another single to drive in Robinson with the game winner.

Winning pitcher Joe Corbett had given up single runs in the 1st and 2nd innings to the Beaneaters, but allowed only 3 hits over the final 7 innings.

10/3/1897, BLN97-BSN97, South End Grounds III
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1897 Orioles           0  0  0  0  0  0  2  0  2     4  7  0     8  1
1897 Beaneaters        1  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     2  5  3     5  1

Orioles              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Beaneaters           AB  R  H BI   AVG
Keeler,W          rf  4  0  2  2  .500    Hamilton,B        cf  3  1  0  0  .000
Stenzel,J         cf  4  0  0  1  .000    Tenney,F          1b  2  0  1  0  .500
Jennings,H        ss  5  0  0  0  .000    Collins,J         3b  4  0  0  0  .000
Kelley,J          lf  4  0  2  0  .500    Duffy,H           lf  4  0  2  1  .500
Doyle,J           1b  3  0  0  0  .000    Stahl,C           rf  4  0  1  0  .250
Reitz,H           2b  3  1  1  0  .333    Lowe,B            2b  4  0  0  0  .000
McGraw,J          3b  3  0  0  0  .000    Long,H            ss  4  1  1  0  .250
Clarke,B          c   3  1  0  0  .000    Bergen,M          c   3  0  0  0  .000
Robinson,W       ph  1  1  1  0 1.000    Nichols,K         p   3  0  0  1  .000
Corbett,J         p   3  1  1  1  .333                         31  2  5  2
                     33  4  7  4

Orioles                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Corbett,J        W 1-0           9.0  5  2  2  3  1 116  74  2.00
                                 9.0  5  2  2  3  1 116  74
Beaneaters                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Nichols,K        L 0-1           9.0  7  4  3  5  3 131  76  3.00
                                 9.0  7  4  3  5  3 131  76
BLN: Robinson,W batted for Clarke,B in the 9th
     Robinson,W moved to c in the 9th

E-Hamilton,B, Tenney,F, Long,H. 2B-Long,H. K-Keeler,W, Stenzel,J, Doyle,J,
Hamilton,B. BB-Keeler,W, Doyle,J, Reitz,H, McGraw,J, Corbett,J, Hamilton,B,
Tenney,F 2. SF-Stenzel,J.
GWRBI: Keeler,W
Temperature: 60, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 10 MPH.

                               Front: Jimmy Collins, Chick Stahl, Bobby Lowe Middle: Herman Long, Kid Nichols, George Yeager,                Frank Selee (manager), Hugh Duffy (captain), Fred Tenney, Billy Hamilton.
Back: Jim Sullivan, Jake Stivetts, Bob Allen, Charles Ganzel, Fred Klobedanz, Ted Lewis, Fred Lake.

The mustache ratio is 29% which includes Manager Frank Selee. Hugh Duffy seems to be distracted by something shiny off to his right. Charlie Ganzel looks like he’s 6’8”, and has a striking resemblance to the guy in the 1st The Hills Have Eyes movie. Ganzel is listed at just 6 ft tall, so he must be standing on something. (Maybe one of his victims!!!!???)

The Beaneaters and Manager Frank Selee wrested the National League crown from the Baltimore Orioles by 2 games thanks to a thrilling late season series won by the Beaneaters. Kid Nichols won 2 games and the final game of the series was played in front of 25,000 fans.

The Beaneaters proceeded to stink up the Temple Cup series and lost to the Orioles in 5 games. The Beaneaters and Manager Selee cared so much that he pitched Piano Legs Hickman in the 5th and deciding game. Hickman had only pitched 7.2 innings during the season.

The Beaneaters hit .319 as a team and led the National League with 45 home runs. Hugh Duffy led the team and the league with 11 of those long balls.  The 1045 runs that they scored led the league as well, and would be the last time a team scored over 1000 runs in a season until the 1930 NY Yankees.

Also on offense the Beaneaters had Hall of Famer Billy Hamilton and his .343 average, 105 walks, 152 runs scored and 66 stolen bases. the Beaneaters had 5 players score more than 100 for the season. Behind the dish  Boston had the troubled Marty Bergen. His murder suicide in 1900 was discussed previously.

On the mound the Beaneaters were led by Hall of Famer Kid Nichols and his 32 victories. Fred Klobedanz won 26, and Ted Lewis had 21.

PREDICTION: The Beaneaters put forth little effort to win the Temple Cup Series, but the DMB software doesn’t care. Unfortunately for the Beaneaters I’ll be using actual line ups as used in the 1897 Temple Cup Series, which means Piano Legs Hickman and his 5.87 ERA will start Game #5. Offensively the teams stack up pretty equally, but the Orioles will be much more aggressive on the base paths. Despite Piano Legs Hickman, Kid Nichols will start 3 games for the Beaneaters, if it goes 7.  I’m looking for a 7 game series, and predicting a Beaneaters victory. Plus all the Orioles are afraid of Charlie Ganzel and his Hills buddies.

Top: Boileryard Clarke, Doc Amole, Bill Hoffer, Joe Corbett, Arlie Pond, Jeremiah Nops, Wilbert Robinson.

Middle: Heinie Reitz, Hughie Jennings, Harry VonDerHorst (president), Ned Hanlon (manager), Joe Kelley, Jack Doyle.

Bottom: Joe Quinn, Tom O’Brien, John McGraw, Mike Bowerman, Willie Keeler, Al Maul, Jake Stenzel.

 Ned Hanlon’s Orioles found themselves in the thick of another pennant race as they hosted the Boston Beaneaters in a 3 game series at the end of September. The Orioles led by the slimmest of margins, leading by just 1 percentage point over the Beaneaters. The Beaneaters proceeded to take 2 out of 3 from the Orioles behind 2 Kid Nichols’ victories. The 3rd game was won by the Beaneaters 19-10 in front of 25,000 disappointed Oriole fans. The Beaneaters would not relinquish the lead and would win the NL pennant by 2 games. The Orioles found little consolation by winning the Temple Cup Series 4 games to one. The Beaneaters played with little enthusiasm, with nothing to prove, and the 750 fans that showed up for the final game didn’t seem to care either.

The Orioles fielded a strong team as usual, leading the league with a .325 average, a .394 OBP, as well as 401 stolen bases. Willie Keeler hit .424, Jake Stenzel hit .357, Joe Kelley hit .362 while leading the team with 5 home runs and 118 rbis. Hughie Jennings hit .355 and was hit with a pitch an amazing 46 times.

The Orioles went with a strict 4 man rotation.  Joe Corbett(24), Bill Hoffer(22) and rookie Jerry Nops(20) each won 20 games, while ZArlie Pond finished with 18. Their 3.55 team ERA was 2nd to only the NY Giants.

Martin Bergen

BORN: 10/25/1871-North Brookfield, Mass

DIED: 1/19/1900-North Brookfield, Mass

Marty Bergen was the older brother of Bill Bergen, both catchers in the National League, but  with decidedly different stories. I have always morphed them together confusing their stories. It might have to do with all the catchers with the same sounding name:Marty Bergen, Bill Bergen, Wally Berger, Yogi Berra….how’s a guy supposed to keep them straight?

Bill Bergen has the distinction of being the worst hitter in the history of the game. His lifetime .170 average in 3,028 at bats is by far the epitome of the good field no hit ball player. No other player with over 2,500 at bats has hit under .210.

Marty Bergen’s story is one of the most tragic in the history of the game.

Marty Bergen played just 4 seasons(1896-1899) all with the Boston Beaneaters and finished with a .265 lifetime average. He was considered a fine defensive catcher with The Sporting News reporting that Bergen had one of the strongest throwing arms for a catcher ever.

His Manager Frank Selee was quoted as saying that Bergen was, “…one of the greatest ball players who ever went upon the diamond.’ And…."I knew Bergen was not in his right mind.”

He was moody, a loner, paranoid, confrontational with his fellow teammates, and a constant cause of dissent in the dugout. He would sit sideways on the bench during games….”in case one of my teammates tried to attack me.”

When his oldest son Martin died of diphtheria in April 1899 his behavior got even more erratic. He felt that the other players were plotting against him, and  would leave the team on several occasions to be with his family. He had numerous altercations with his teammates and was quoted as saying that, ”….he wanted to club them to death.”

When the Beaneaters finished in 2nd place, 8 games back in 1899, some felt it was because of the dissension caused by Bergen’s behavior. During the off season Bergen was even more despondent because he felt he was to blame for the teams play. He sought help from his physician, as well as his Minister, because he felt that he was,”……having strange ideas.” And he felt….”he was not right in the head.” He would accuse both his physician and wife of trying to poison him.

On the morning of  January 19, 1900 Bergen woke up early and started his day like any other. He lit a fire and started to prepare breakfast when he just snapped. He grabbed a long handled axe, entered his bedroom and beat his wife numerous times over the head with the blunt side of the axe while she lay sleeping in their bed. He then entered his son’s room and killed him with 1 blow to the head, using the blade side of the axe. He re-entered the kitchen and proceeded to bludgeon his daughter to death with his trusty axe.  He then picked up a straight razor and slit his own throat, almost severing his head in the process. He died on the kitchen floor next to his daughter.

Bill James compiled a list of baseball related suicides that occurred between 1900 and 1925. There were 25 suicides that also included Win Mercer, Chick Stahl, Arthur Irwin and Mrs Joe Tinker.

Batting Record
Year Team        G    AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI   BB   SO HBP  SH   SB   AVG   OBP   SLG   BFW Year Team
1896 BOS N      65   245   39   66   6   4   4   37   11   22   3   4    6  .269  .309  .376   0.3 1896 BOS N
1897 BOS N      87   327   47   81  11   3   2   45   18        4   2    5  .248  .295  .318   0.1 1897 BOS N
1898 BOS N     120   446   62  125  16   5   3   60   13        1   9    9  .280  .302  .359   0.4 1898 BOS N
1899 BOS N      72   260   32   67  11   3   1   34   10        2   0    4  .258  .290  .335  -0.1 1899 BOS N
Total(4 Years) 344  1278  180  339  44  15  10  176   52   22i 10  15   24  .265  .299  .347   0.7 Total
Year Team        G    AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI   BB   SO HBP  SH   SB   AVG   OBP   SLG   BFW Year Team

It’s 1897 and the National League has maintained another year without any franchise changes. All the usual suspects have returned with the same 12 team format, the anticlimactic Temple Cup Series, and the continuing progression of player rowdyism, roughhouse play, umpire baiting, and all-around unprofessional play. The owners took the bull by the horns and instituted a rule allowing the umpire to fine any player $5 for intentionally defacing a baseball. That’ll teach ‘em!!!!

The Orioles put together another strong team that actually featured a pretty strict 4 man rotation, highly unusual in 19th Century baseball. The combination of Joe Corbett, Bill Hoffer, Arlie Pond and rookie Jerry Naps combined to start 123 of the Orioles 136 games. The Orioles however, would not win their 3rd straight NL Pennant, finishing 2 games back of the Boston Beaneaters. The Beaneaters and Orioles would battle for most of the summer with neither team leading by more than a couple of games. On Sept. 24 the Orioles would host the Beaneaters for a 3 game series, leading by 1% point. The Beaneaters would win 2 out of 3 behind 2 Kid Nichols’ wins to take over 1st for good.

This replayer’s favorite Cleveland Spiders would actually fall to 5th place and would be bestowed the name Indians, thanks to the play of fan favorite Chief Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian that would light up the baseball world for 3 months in the summer of 1897, before he flamed out from alcohol and its related abuses. He would play in 66 games in 1897, and would be out of baseball in 1899 after playing in only 28 more games. When the American League Cleveland franchise was looking for a team name in 1915 they would choose Indians to honor Louis Sockalexis.

The final(It’s about time) Temple Cup Series would feature the Beaneaters and the Orioles. The Beaneaters would play with little enthusiasm, feeling they had nothing to prove and would lose to the Orioles in 5 games. Only 750 fans showed up for the anti-climactic game 5.  Mercifully this poorly conceived post season series was terminated to little fanfare or debate before the 1898 season.

The St. Louis Browns put together a 29-102 record(.221) a horrendous season that gets little press because of the historically bad 1899 Cleveland Spiders. Starting pitcher Red Donahue lost 35 games for the Browns, the most losses for any pitcher at the 60 ft pitching distance.

OTHER EVENTS:

4/19- The Washington Nationals would be the guest of President McKinley at the White House. The 1st time a baseball team was so honored. The Nationals would finish 32 games out, and McKinley would be assassinated 4 years later. There is no know connection.

4/22- Wee Willie Keeler would single in the Orioles season opener, starting his 44 game hitting streak.

6/29-The Chicago Colts defeat the Louisville Colonels 36-7, the most lopsided defeat in MLB history.

9/18- Cy Young pitches his 1st no-hitter, besting the Cincinnati Reds 6-0.

George Davis(NYG) would drive in 136 runs. This would be the highest total for a shortstop until Vern Stevens drove in 137 in 1948.

Harry Davis(Pitt) would hit 28 triples, but would hit only 10 doubles. That is the highest differential in baseball history. Davis would go on to lead the AL in home runs for 4 consecutive years(1901-1904).

A guy by the name of Honus Wagner would debut with the Louisville Colonels.

NL

Team Name                        G    W    L    T   PCT    GB    RS   RA
Boston Beaneaters              135   93   39    3  .705     -  1025  665
Baltimore Orioles              136   90   40    6  .692   2.0   964  669
New York Giants                138   83   48    7  .634   9.5   899  696
Cincinnati Reds                134   76   56    2  .576  17.0   763  705
Cleveland Indians              132   69   62    1  .527  23.5   774  678
Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers       136   61   71    4  .462  32.0   802  845
Washington Nationals           135   61   71    3  .462  32.0   777  793
Pittsburgh Pirates             135   60   71    4  .458  32.5   676  835
Chicago Colts                  138   59   73    6  .447  34.0   832  895
Philadelphia Phillies          134   55   77    2  .417  38.0   752  792
Louisville Colonels            136   52   78    6  .400  40.0   675  870
St. Louis Browns               133   29  102    2  .221  63.5   592 1088

LEAGUE LEADERS

AVG- WILLIE KEELER(BALT)- .424

HRS- HUGH DUFFY(BOST)- 11

RBI- GEORGE DAVIS(NY)- 136

WINS- KID NICHOLS(BOST)- 31

ERA- AMOS RUSIE(NY)- 2.54

KS- DOC MCJAMES(WASH)- 156        CY SEYMOUR(NY)-          156

WORLD EVENTS:

Bram Stoker’s Dracula                         Moe Howard                 Amelia Earhart or Hilary Swank?

BORN:

3/4-Lefty O’Doul

4/7- Walter Winchell- Father of the “Gossip Column”

4/10- Ross Youngs

6/19- Moe Howard- Everybody’s 3rd favorite Stooge

7/24- Amelia Earhart-Looks just like Hillary Swank

10/2- Bud Abbott-Who’s On 1st?

10/7- Elijah Muhammad

10/29- Joseph Goebbels-Hitler’s propaganda minister, and all-around nice guy

DEATHS:

2/5-Charles”Old Hoss” Radbourn

3/5- Dave Foutz

4/3- Johannes Brahms

EVENTS:

3/4- William McKinley becomes President of the United States

5/18- Dracula by Bram Stoker is published

9/1- The Boston Subway opens, the 1st underground transit system in North America

This is another family legend. I expect I will get different versions as cousins and aunts read today’s post. I hope so.

When my grandmother’s mother was 5 she was orphaned. Her father had died in a silver-mining accident. Then her mother died giving birth to what would have been my grama’s aunt or uncle.

She lived in a small village in Chihuahua, Mexico.

At the end of her mother’s funeral, everybody followed the hearse carriage down the dusty road. It was too fast for her, and she was separated from the procession.

No one noticed that she was left behind.

She was lost in the mountains, and night fell.

Then a woman in white appeared and took her by the hand.  They walked together through the village to the child’s aunt’s door.

The woman in white never spoke.

She knocked on the door, but the aunt, who answered the knock, never saw her. When the girl turned around, she had vanished.

I think it’s assumed it was her mother, come to lead to her to safety before crossing into the light.

Either that or it was a hiking lab tech who didn’t know Spanish.

Yukon River (Image from www.hougengroup.com)

MR. W.J. ARKELL, of Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper and the Judge, is organizing an expedition of special correspondents and artists to explore Alaska this coming summer. It is believed that a thorough exploration of this comparatively unknown region will reveal more wonders than were discovered by Stanley in Africa.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Mar 20, 1890

The frontpiece of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated newspaper for the week ending June 28th consists of three pictures showing the start of the Alaska expedition on its long journey. An article accompanies the pictures giving the experiences of the party up to the present stage of their travels. It tells of the difficulties encountered to obtain natives to carry the necessary provisions and equipment into an unknown land. This expedition promises to be one which will rival Stanley’s in interest, especially in the minds of the American people.

Bismarck Daily Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) Jun 29, 1890

Headwaters of the Copper River, Alaska - 1902

Image from the “Alfred Bennett” files on rootsweb. Lots of good old pictures!

LOST IN A WILDERNESS.

Anxiety Regarding the Fate of Two Members of an Alaskan Exploring Party.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6. — Much anxiety is felt here over the fate of Wells and Price, two members of Frank Leslie’s Alaskan party, who started last fall with a small stock of provisions into the unknown Copper river country in Alaska. The last seen of them was on Forty Mile creek, where they bade good-bye to Schanz, when they declared their intention of pushing south down Forty Mile Creek, thence across Dividing Mountains and down Copper river canyon to the coast, a distance of about 800 miles.

They took a guide, who, after conducting them down that creek to the mountains that form the waters’ head between Yukon and Copper rivers, returned to Yukon. He reported they had set out boldly to pass through the almost unknown Copper river country, which is infested with hostile Indians, with few provisions and no winter clothing. Nothing has been heard of them since, and their relatives in Oakland and Kentucky are anxious regarding their safety.

New Castle News (New Castle, Pennsylvania) Jan 7, 1891

Chilkoot Pass - 1898

Above image also from Univ. of WA Digital Collection

THE FATE OF WELLS AND PRICE.

The Frank Leslie Arctic Explorers in All Probability Lost.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Jan. 11. — [Special] — News received by Professor George Davidson of the United States coast and geostation survey, stationed in this city, settles beyond doubt the fate of the two explorers, Wells and Price of the Frank Leslie Alaskan expedition.

Professor Davidson declares that there is only a ghost of a chance of their safety. The two men left Forty Mile creek for the unknown Copper river country last August at the same time that Schanz started for the coast with Greenfield, the Alaska census agent.

Schanz and Greenfield got through all right, though they made a thousand miles’ journey in the native canoes. Price and Wells were dissuaded from attempting to cross the divide and explore the Copper river country, as the season was far gone and the chances were that they would be caught by early snows. When they left the last outpost at Forty Mile creek they had only twenty pounds of rice and twenty pounds of flour and no fur clothes for winter. Price, however, who had spent two years in the arctic regions, said that they could easily buy supplies from the natives.

Since then absolutely nothing has been heard from them. The chief of the Copper river Indians, who left his home in October, reached the Alaskan Commercial company’s station at Alganic in November. He reported that nothing had been heard by his people of any white men up to October 20. The supposition from this is that Wells and Price have either perished or wandered from the regular trail and taken refuge in one of the widely separated Indian villages. If they were lucky enough to find an Indian village nothing will be heard from them till next month, when the natives come down to Alganic or Port Etches with skins to trade.

The chances, however, are greatly against their safety, as any news of white men is carried from one village to another over great distance in Alaska in a wonderfully short space of time.

Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas) Jan 12, 1891

Frank Leslie’s Alaskan expedition, sent out last year, has arrived at Port Townsend, after suffering great hardships. Claim they discovered the source of the Yukon river.

Daily Huronite (Huron, South Dakota) May 4, 1891

Men Bartering With Eskimos

Image from Univ. of WA digital collection (C. Hart Merriam’s Expedition Description)

A Member of the Alaska Exploring Party Returns.

Special to the Journal.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. — A.B. Schanz [Alfred B. Schanz], a member of the Wells-Price Alaska Exploring Expedition arrived here to-day. He was taken sick at Camp Davidson and left behind. He descended the Yukon river in a boat. He made his Winter quarters at an Esquimaux village and in company with John Clark, a trader, made a forty days’ trip north on sleds. On this trip Clark lake and Nogbelin river were discovered.

Daily Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada) May 7, 1891

FRANK LESLIE’S Alaskan expedition is back, claiming to have discovered the source of the Yukon river in the Chilcot mountains a lake they were pleased to call Arkell. As nearly all the recent maps show this lake to be the source of the Yukon, it is not quite clear where the value of Arkell & Harrison’s discovery comes in.

Bismarck Daily Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) May 8, 1891

SEVERAL members of the Alaskan exploring expedition sent out a year ago from New York under the guidance of Hazard Wells have arrived at Port Townsend, Wash. thus contradicting the report that the party had perished.

Stevens Point Journal, The (Stevens Point, Wisconsin) May 9, 1891

Alaska Packers and Miners - Yukon River - 1901

Above image also from the U of WA Digital Collection

Those of our people who knew E. Hazard Wells, at one time with E.T. Cressey on the Daily Leader, and at the same time a special correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette, will be glad to know that he and his party have returned safely from their exploring expedition into the wilds of Alaska. About a year and a half since Mr. Wells and party were sent to Alaska by the Frank Leslie publishing company.

For 13 months they were lost in the wilds of the northern portion of that country, and suffered privations and hardships almost innumerable. Their escape from starvation was really miraculous. Mr. Wells says the swamps in Alaska are worse than the glaciers, and the mosquitos are more ferocious than the bears. He also says the geography of the country as represented by publishers, is very inaccurate. The experience of the explorers, together with a complete write-up of Alaska, will soon be published.

Daily Huronite (Huron, South Dakota) May 20, 1891

From: Gold at Fortymile Creek: early days in the Yukon
By Michael Gates, 1994 (pages 58-59) Preview only on Google Books:

In 1890, three hundred miners were located in the Yukon basin. The Arctic was refloated and began to make more regular trips into the interior. Being newer and larger than the previous river vessels, it represented the gradual change which was taking place in the country as the population and gold production increased.

Eighteen ninety was also the first year in which a new route to the interior was opened up. The Chilkat Pass was jealously guarded by the coastal Tlingit, who denied White people access; but in the spring, a party of White men changed all that. Working for an American newspaper, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Magazine, E.J. Glave, E. Hazard Wells, and A.B. Schanz crossed the Chilkat Pass under the guidance of Jack Dalton, a seasoned northern veteran. The party arrived at Lake Arkell (which is now called Kusawa Lake) and divided into two groups. The first, consisting of Glave and Dalton, struck out overland to the west; the latter, including Wells and Schanz, continued to the mouth of Lake Arkell and into the Takhini River, from which they entered the Yukon just above Lake Laberge.

Glave and Dalton had an exciting journey overland along the Alsek River (now known as the Tatshenshini River), down which they travelled, stopping at Native encampments and chronicling the countryside as they went. They eventually arrived at the mouth of the Alsek River.

Wells and Schanz travelled down the Yukon River, arriving at Harper’s new post at Fort Selkirk on 18 June 1890, and encountering Al Mayo on the New Racket (which was carrying a few prospectors to the Pelly River) two days later. They arrived at Forty Mile on 22 June, where, due to Schanz’s ill health, Wells continued on alone. Departing Forty Mile on 3 July, Wells started upriver and arrived, a week later, at Franklin Gulch, near the upper limit of the gold-bearing creeks on the Fortymile River. Here he found forty miners, each working placer claims of 150 feet. The miners, usually working in partnerships of two or more men, were mining a zigzag paystreak some six feet below the surface and were making from six to seventeen dollars per day each. Those who were being paid a wage were receiving eight dollars per day; everyone was making money, but few were doing much better than that.

Wells continued his trek overland from the upper reaches of the Fortymile River until he reached the Tanana River, down which he travelled, arriving at St. Michael in September. He spent the winter travelling overland through Alaska and eventually arrived back in Washington state in early spring. This expedition was the first of a succession of journeys, made by gentleman travellers’ through the Yukon over the next few years. These observers left their mark on the history of the region in the written accounts of their travels. Glave and Dalton returned the following year to further explore the southwest Yukon. As a result of their discoveries, a new route into the interior was established. The famed Dalton Trail was used by Jack Dalton to transport horses and cattle north to the Yukon River and then downstream to Forty Mile. The trail became one of the minor routes of access to the Klondike River during the gold rush.

*****

The Deseret Weekly: Stories of the Klondike Aug 21, 1897

A Chat with W.J. Arkell in which he talks about the Alaskan expedition.

Julie Godard of Wilderness Soap Company will be at Western Welcome Week this Saturday in Littleton, Colorado.

Come out and enjoy the fun, festivities and parade! Stop by Julie’s tent and check out her goods!

Western Welcome Week

Julie’s website is www.wildernesssoapcompany.com , email addy is julie@wildernesssoapcompany.com

MUST SHE WEAR THEM?

We do not speak in disparaging tones when we say that a woman who wears bloomers has loose habits.

– Syracuse Post.

*****
The queen of Spain now knows what pain
And woe and ruth are like.
No legs has she; and so, you see,
She cannot ride a bike.

– New York Recorder.

*****
“Woman is still far from her ideals.”

“Oh, I don’t know. We don’t wear them as loose as we did.”

– Detroit Tribune.

*****
There’s a bicycle girl in Weehawken
That has set all the neighbors to tawken;
This feminine biped
Wears bloomers bright striped,
And red is the shade of her stawken.

*****
“I hear,” said the cheerful idiot, “that they are talking of revising the costume of the Goddess of Liberty.”

“And what will it be pray?” asked the typewriter boarder, who has a wheel.

“Red, white and bloomers,” said the cheerful idiot. –Indianapolis Journal.

*****
Bobbie — Say, fellers, let us holler “Rats!” as that woman passes.

Freddie — What’s the use? Don’t you see she has bloomers on? — Judge.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Jun 16, 1895

Image from http://empressofdirt.blogspot.com

MORE ABOUT BLOOMERS.

There were more bloomers out on bicycles in this city yesterday than ever before and fewer accidents. The new woman is rapidly ceasing to be a public danger.

– New York Evening Sun.

*****
It is only a reversal of condition. The society girl wears bloomers on her bodice and the bicycle girl wears sleeves on her pantaloons.

– Nashville American.

*****
“I don’t for the life of me see how you can uphold bloomers,” said the conservative man.

“I supposed not,” said the fluffy girl. “The suspenders fad has been out of date more than two years.”

– Indianapolis Journal.

*****
Bicycle bloomers should be proud of the sensation they have created. They appear as topics of earnest discussion on the lecture platform, in the club, and even in the pulpit. And the agitation is still growing. Not the silver question itself has more hopelessly divided families, separated friends and made sworn enemies than the now end-of-the-century theme — the bicycle bloomers.

– Baltimore American.

*****
“Do you keep bloomers to rent?” she asked, as she sailed into the fashionable dressmaker’s on Fulton street, yesterday.

“No,” said the polite saleswoman, “but we keep materials for repairing rents in bloomers. Have you –”

But she was gone.

– Brooklyn Eagle.

*****

“Mother, may I go out to bike?”

“Yes, my darling daughter.
But when you reach the Schuylkill pike
Don’t tumble in the water;
For if you do you’ll get a fall,
With a melancholy thud.
And then yourself, your bike, and all,
Will be a was of mud.”

– Philadelphia Inquirer.

*****
The bloomers or the knickerbockers of the lady bicyclist of the period present a neat and tasteful appearance. To say that the wearers look like men is unadulterated nonsense. The men who say so themselves disprove the assertion by the very fact that they denounce them and stand on the street corners, as too many of them do, leering and sneering at them as they pass. If they looked like men, these cheap and nasty fellows would not waste a minute looking at them.

– New York Recorder.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Jun 19, 1895

Image from http://costume.altervista.org

BIKE AND BLOOMERS.

Pity the blind. hey have never seen the bloomer-clad woman on a bicycle.

–Sonerville Journal.

*****

To a Bicycle Girl:

Whenne on two rims of stele this maid doth go,
Within my hedde I fele
A whele
Alsoe.

– Washington Star.

*****

When money for a modish gown
The modern maid desires,
She has a scheme that’s sure to down
The most unkind or sires.
Should he refuse, she does not pout,
Nor into weeping go,
But knocks him quite completely out
With: “I’ll wear bloomers. So!”

– Detroit News.

The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) Jun 30, 1895

The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois) May 30, 1897

*****

Previous posts about bloomers:

Amelia Bloomer, Dress Reform and Bloomers

No Fillings for the Whangdoodle in Bloomers

A DISTINGUISHED MISS.

The Honolulu Heiress Who Wears a Humane Officer’s Badge.

Miss Helen Wilder, youngest daughter of Mrs. E.K. Wilder, the mistress of a large fortune and one of the most popular society girls in Honolulu, has been specially honored by the attorney general by receiving a commission as a humane officer. The badge of her office, a handsome silver plate, was pinned on her breast by Marshal Arthur M. Brown a few days ago, and Miss Wilder wears it with much pride.

Miss Wilder has the distinction of being the first woman in the Hawaiian Islands who has been appointed a humane officer. The honor was conferred upon her unsolicited by the attorney general in recognition of her frequent efforts to relieve dumb brutes and bring cruel masters to punishment. Miss Wilder is reputed to be the wealthiest heiress on the islands. She is a great favorite in society, and has a very wide circle of friends and acquaintances on the coast.
– San Francisco Chronicle.

Hornellsville Weekly Tribune (Hornellsville, New York) Apr 16, 1897

SHE WEARS A STAR.

A NEW WOMAN IN PACIFIC ISLANDS.

She is One of Hawaii’s Finest — Helen Wilder Wears the Star of the Hawaiian Police Force and Wears it Very Creditably.

(Special Letter.)

Helen Wilder wears the star of the Hawaiian police on her breast. She is probably the only woman police officer in the world. She is wealthy, too, at that, the heiress of a vast Hawaiian estate, and prominent in Hawaiian society. She is simply a plain woman with plain ideas, no fuss or fizzle, believing herself on an equality with man, neither asking nor giving favors. Helen Wilder calls a spade a spade. She chooses to be called a policeman, disclaiming her right to the title of “special officer.” She does not even object to the sobriquet of “cop.” But then the things that Helen Wilder does object to are the very ones that are most dear to the heart feminine. She wouldn’t give a lei of sweet scented maili for all the gowns that Worth ever made. She doesn’t care a fig for dances teas or the dilly dallying of society. She snaps her fingers in the face of conventionality without so much as a “beg pardon.” She dons a short skirt, a shirt waist, a military hat and rides her horse with the daring of a vaquero, or she handles the reins with the dexterity of a pioneer stage driver; in a rowboat she can paddle as swiftly and as easily as a Kanaka fisherman. Wherever she is, whatever she may be doing, she carries a pair of handcuffs to snap on the wrists of the tormentor of children and animals. Above all, she is always Helen Wilder. Like no one else in dress, manner or speech, she can always be depended on to do the unexpected. Honolulu did elevate its eyebrows though when her engagement was announced to Frank Unger. ‘Twas strange, indeed, that she should choose this bon vivant, this light-hearted Bohemian, prince of good fellows. A beautiful cottage was built for them at the beach of the Waikiki.

But the house at the beach has never been occupied. Helen Wilder broke the engagement when the wedding day was almost at hand. Honolulu sighed in relief. “That was just like Helen Wilder.”

Then there came a dashing young officer who laid siege to her heart according to naval tactics. And when he sailed away on the seven seas from each port came a letter for Helen Wilder. But alas! the same mail would also bring a missive for one of the many Afong girls. And gossip said that the officer had plighted his troth a deux. And under its breath it whispered that he was addicted to French perfumes. So the second time Helen Wilder took the circlet of gold from her finger. Helen Wilder is not the girl to droop and pine and wear her heart on her sleeve. Instead she wears a five-pointed bit of silver on her hat and breast, and she is proud of this policeman’s star, for it gives her the power to stop abuses. The native policemen are very fond of this member of their force. On Christmas day she gave them a dinner in the police station. Only those on the “force” sat down to the feast, and many were the grateful thanks which the policemen heaped upon their sister member. The soldier lads who landed at Honolulu have likewise reason to be grateful to Helen Wilder, for right royally did she treat them. Her mother, “Aunt Lizzie,” as she is called, was not less hospitable. A funny story went the rounds, and none laughed heartier or told it more gleefully than Helen Wilder herself. Aunt Lizzie invited a number of the boys in blue to dine. Helen happened to be away. They are Aunt Lizzies _odies and listened to her stories, for which she is noted.

Then a youth asked, “Who is the funny looking girl who wears stars? She’s a freak!” The question made those who knew the truth see stars. Helen Wilder goes wherever her duty calls. If the checkrein of the swellest turnout in Honolulu is drawn too tight she commands the driver to stop and fasten it. Fear she has never felt. Collie, Jap, Kanaka or white man, she arrests them all, in spite of threats. Let the drivers overload the ‘buses, or the Waikiki tram cars pull out overloaded, and out will come her handcuffs. She will brook cruelty toward neither children nor animals. It was reported that the captain of a steamship that put into port at Honolulu had maltreated his children. Helen Wilder boarded the steamship and investigated the charges. She found that the captain for some slight offense had locked the children in a state room for several days, keeping them on bread and water. To the surprise and indignation of the protesting captain this young woman promptly marched him down the gangplank and straight to jail.

But arrived there, she was told that the captain, not being a resident, must be released. So the steamship put off for Victoria, the captain vowing vengeance. When he landed there he found a local society for the prevention of cruelty had been requested from Honolulu to take him in charge, and was met with a formal request to explain things. In this way Helen Wilder followed him up and endeavored to have him punished for breaking the law, as she claimed. Other women in other cities have been made special officers. But Honolulu claims that there never was a special officer like Helen Wilder. She wear her star constantly and she uses the power which it gives her constantly.

Helen Wilder is as much a part of Hawaii as is Mauna Loa. Visitors never fail to ask who she is. For with close-cropped hair and confidant stride, her soft hat and shining star, she never fails to attract attention. Hawaiian society, which is itself complex and odd, does not often frown upon her eccentricities.

They like her because she is bright and original, because her personality is as refreshing as it is peculiar. They recognize her clear-grained human worth. Men who are tired of the inane or the clinging vine act find in Helen Wilder a comrade who is interesting, amusing and altogether charming.

Daily Iowa State Press (Iowa City, Iowa) Apr 29, 1899

POLICEWOMAN WILDER

A Honolulu Heiress Who Has Her Own Way.

UPHOLDING THE HUMANE LAWS.

In Her Capacity as Police Officer She May Make Arrests Without Warrants, and Brutal Mule Drivers Must Curb Their Anger.

Helen Wilder the Hawaiian heiress, has just been given a judgement by a Honolulu Jury in a suit for damages brought again her by a man she had arrested for cruelty. The case was of unusual interest to Honolulu, because it determined the fact that Miss Wilder, in her capacity as a police officer, may make arrests without a warrant.

The suit was brought by Oloof Hollefson who drives a street car in Honolulu. One day Miss Wilder noticed that one of Hollefson’s mules was bleeding on the shoulder from a chafing collar. She compelled him to leave his car and passengers and drove him off in her carriage to the police station, where she had him booked for cruelty to animals.

There was a heated argument over the legality of the arrest, counsel for Hollefson claiming that as no warrant had been served the arrest was illegal, and therefore $5,000 was due for a damaged reputation and durance vile.

When the jury brought in a verdict in favor of Miss Wilder, she put on her soldier hat and sauntered out of the court room humming “My Honolulu Lady.”

Then Honolulu puckered its brow for a moment over a knotty little problem, ‘Who would have paid that $5,000 had the decision been otherwise? Would the government have been responsible or would Helen Wilder have been compelled to sign a check for that amount?’ However, in Hawaii ?et people do not worry long over useless conjectures.

Even if Miss Wilder had been forced to pay the money it would not have been such a dreadful calamity, for a girl who has $150,000 in her own right, besides “great expectations” can afford to pay for the privilege of arresting a man.

And if it had fallen on the government? Well it is worth $5,000 to have a policeman ?whose? an heiress.

…..[the rest of the article repeats text from other articles]

Fort Wayne News (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Apr 15, 1899

The Only Policewoman.

Honolulu has a policewoman. Her name is Helen Wilder, she is 23 years old, and is a regularly appointed officer of the Hawaiian police force. She wears a soft felt hat, on which glitters the silver star that shows that she is a policewoman. She carries a revolver and is not afraid to use it. She has made several arrests unaided. Miss Wilder loves children and animals, and wherever she is, or whatever she may be doing, carries a pair of handcuffs, which she is quick to snap upon the wrists of the enemies of her small and lowly friends.

Daily Iowa State Press (Iowa City, Iowa) May 3, 1899

The Honolulu Heiress a Bride.

San Francisco, June 5. — It has leaked out that Miss Helen Kinau Wilder, the Honolulu heiress, who has gained fame through her humane work in the Hawaiian islands and her eccentricities abroad, was secretly married on May 16 to Horace Joseph Craft, manager of the Pacific Cycle company at the Hawaiian capital. The wedding took place at midnight in the Honolulu Theological seminary, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Jolin Nua, a native theological student. The bride went immediately to her home after the ceremony. On the following day she took passage on the steamship Australia for this city.

Naugatuck Daily News (Naugatuck, Connecticut) Jun 5, 1899

Eccentric Bride.

In a little country cottage near San Francisco an eccentric young heiress is spending the queerest honeymoon in the world. Helen K. Wilder of Honolulu always declared that when she should get married she would spend her honeymoon alone, says the New York World. A few weeks ago she married H.J. Craft in Honolulu and told him he had given her the opportunity to carry out her wish. The next day she sailed alone to San Francisco. She is now waiting for the month to elapse before going back to take up her wifely duties in Hawaii.

Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) Jul 17, 1899

This refers to her husband, that she divorced:

ELKS FOLLOW THE FLAG.

The Baby Elk Lodge in the Newly Acquired Hawaiis.

Tom Reed, esteemed leading knight of the local lodge of Elks, has received from Honolulu a group photograph of the latest lodge of Elks that has been instituted. The Elks cannot go outside of the United States, but now that the Hawaiian islands have been annexed there is a baby Elk lodge there, instituted on April 15 last.

In the group are two well known Butte Elks, who have removed to Honolulu. They are Horace J. Craft and Francis Brooks. The number of the Honolulu baby is 616.

The Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Montana) Jun 23, 1901

HELEN WILDER’S ROMANCE.

Writes my Hawaiian correspondent: “Like the scent of pressed roses recalling an old romance was the suit in court last week for the cancellation of a trust deed conveying to E.D. Tenney the property valued at something over $100,000. The deed was executed in 1897 by Miss Helen Wilder and was made in contemplation of marriage to Frank Unger of San Francisco, to whom she was then engaged.

The engagement was soon afterwards broken off, and Miss Wilder a couple of years later married Horace J. Craft, from whom she was afterwards divorced, though I understand they are still very good friends. Unger was quite a prominent figure in society on the coast in those days. He had traveled extensively, he had a pleasing musical skill, could tell good stories, and was altogether companionable.

Incidentally he had furnished two or three of the musical selections in the “Geisha Girl,” which was then in the height of its success. Helen Wilder was the daughter of the late S.G. Wilder and grand-daughter of Dr. Norman Judd, one of the early missionaries. Her father died, leaving a very comfortable fortune as fortunes were counted those days, the days before some of the sugar barons began paying taxes on incomes of a million yearly.

Helen was an athletic girl who rode and drove the best horses in Honolulu. It was her fondness for horses that led her to start a movement, the first in Honolulu, for the prevention of cruelty to animals. When she found that the native police showed neither enthusiasm or judgement in the matter of making arrests she secured a commission as a special policeman herself, and spent her time, or a good part of it for several years, in looking after animals that were being cruelly treated. The work she did in this line was of the most wholesome and effective sort, and its influence last to this day.”

THEY SUSPECTED UNGER.

“When she was on the witness stand the other day giving testimony in behalf of her petition for the revocation and cancellation of her deed of trust, she very frankly explained the reasons why it was made. She said that her family believed that Frank Unger’s affection for her was inspired largely by her wealth and yielding to their advice she had made the deed whereby only the income of the property was reserved for herself, the principal to go to any children she might have, or, if she died childless to be disposed of by will. The engagement was broken off soon after the deed was made, and she never married Unger, the consideration for the deed had failed and she therefore wanted it cancelled, so that she would again have the direct control of her property. After her divorce from Horace J. Craft she resumed her maiden name, went to California and bought a ranch near Watsonville. There she has lived ever since.”  — Town Talk.

Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) Dec 8, 1906

It appears her family’s suspicions were probably correct:

The Late Frank Unger

Bohemians gathered Monday on the sad mission of laying in the grave all that was mortal of Frank Unger. He was a strange and singular character — traveler, musician, wit, bon vivant, raconteur and good fellow. He was a man of the world in the fullest sense. Without considerable means and not following any occupation that brought in wealth, he lived like a prince. He was ever the companion of rich men and women, yet it never seemed in an unworthy sense. For more than thirty years he came and went, and no doubt he found congenial friends wherever he might chance to be — whether in his own land or at the ends of the earth. For many years he was the fidus Achates of Harry Gillig and wandered with him and Mrs. Gillig about the globe. He was as much at home in Paris as in San Francisco. He traveled around the world a number of times, the last time within a year as the guest of Raphael Weill, himself one of the most notable of Bohemians. And so Frank Unger went through life, getting more out of it than men generally do, counting his friends by legion, brightening existence for all with whom he came in contact, but coming at last at the age of 65 to that final scene which all must meet. He would have like it that way — with friends and companions with whom he was wont to gather when life was at its full, performing the last rites, saying the heartfelt thing, dropping a furtive tear into his grave.

Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) Dec 26, 1915

Helen K. Wilder Passport Photo

Passport application: Click for larger image:

Passport Application 1918

The letter that is attached to her application, explaining her reason for traveling to Russia is very interesting:

I am not sure if she ever made this trip because I cannot find her on the passenger lists and according to Britannica.com, Russia was in a state of unrest at the time:

During World War I Vladivostok was the chief Pacific entry port for military supplies and railway equipment sent to Russia from the United States.

Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vladivostok_intervention.jpg

After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Vladivostok was occupied in 1918 by foreign, mostly Japanese, troops, the last of whom were not withdrawn until 1922. The anti-revolutionary forces in Vladivostok promptly collapsed, and Soviet power was established in the region.

Samuel Gardner Wilder

The following biography text images refer to Helen Wilder’s father,  and come from the book: LEOMINSTER MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL AND PICTURESQUE By William A. Emerson
LITHOTYPE PUBLISHING CO. Gardner, Mass. 1888: (Click for larger images)

Samuel G. Wilder Biography

I think it is rather interesting that Helen is not mentioned at all, but then some of the information doesn’t seem to be exactly correct, as it does not mention his son, Samuel Gardner Wilder, Jr., unless they just got his name wrong.

Guardianship Over Man, 23, Is Sought

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. — The guardianship petition was filed in the superior court today on behalf of Miss Helen K. Wilder, of Watsonville, over the person and property of her nephew, Samuel Gardner Wilder, 23 years old, son of S.G. Wilder, a banker of Honolulu. The young man is at Lane hospital and is about to be removed to the Livermore sanitorium. It is declared that he is mentally and physically incompetent following illness in Hawaii. He was brought here by an uncle, A.L.C. Atkinson, who filed the formal petition yesterday in behalf of Miss Wilder.

Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) Oct 4, 1921

Helen Kinau Wilder died Feb 4, 1954 in Santa Cruz County, California. I was not able to locate an obituary for her.

As a light mist of rain settles on the window, here’s a few songs that have been keeping me company lately. Enjoy your Sunday …

Fare Thee Well - Robert Fischer (Willard Grant Conspiracy)

WGC main man Robert Fischer here in solo acoustic mode. Word is the whole rambling ensemble are hitting our shores early 2010.

1897 - Seaworthy

Recorded in an a decomissioned ammunitions bunker, this album blends the bands atmspheric instrumentation and field recordings. Perfect for late nights and early mornings…

Lost Coastlines – Okkervil River

And to finish off… the perfect country-pop of Okkervil River. One of the live highlights of my musical year.

Image from McNamara’s Blog.

The American Protective Agency’s Oath.

Brother Jonathan Opens Fire On The A.P.A.
BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

With his plain-patched curderi breeches, an’ his red an’ yeller coat,
He has just come up and registered and casted his fust vote,
Talkin’, tellin’ abeout the Bible, an’ our institutooshuns grand,
An’ that the Stars an’ Stripes must float from each schoolhouse in the land!

Tearin’ up an’ deown on platforms, lettin’ steam off agin’ priest,
An’ bishops, popes, and cardinals that eat heretics at feasts.
Sayin neow’s the time or never to defend the flag we’ve saved! –
Our homes, our wives an’ children, er by Rome we’ll be enslaved!

Well, I’ve stood an’ I’ve listened till he got his rantin’ through,
An’ last night I stood in meetin,’ an’ I sez: “Why, who by you?
Never heard on ye till yesterday! — since that time I riz the axe
On my ole man at Concord an’ ye run to Halilfax!

Ye were mighty still when Sumter’s guns went shakin’ up the land,
An’ I had my Irish regiments march in an’ take a hand!
Great strappin’ fellers, shot right deown, with a shamrock on their breasts,
The Stars and Stripes above um, and a cross inside their vests!

‘The last guard of McClellan, an’ Burnside’s furthest dead! –
No, I guess not stranger — jest yit, I ain’t goin to lose my head!
Like ’nuff in goin’ to heaven, our roads may be apart,
But in pintin’ to the general end, we’re all the same at heart.

Some of my folks were Catholics as fur back’s ‘76!
An’ thirty six years later helped me out ev a nasty fix!
An’ as fer Irish — in Mexico — of all Zach’s bloodiest fields,
He found at Cerro Gordo his biggest hoss was Shields!

But the way you’ve been talkin,’ St. Peter raves an’ swears
When comes along an Irishman that kneels and says his prayers.
But now I come to think on’t an’ look ye in the face,
I’ll be hanged if you ain’t Irish — no credit to the race!

But if you come to the United States to jest kick up a stew,
‘Tween Abner Jones an’ his man Mike, and neighbor Donahoe.
Tell ye here, right sqeea an’ how, ye’d better shack fer home!
I don’t want imported patriots to help me to keep out Rome!”

The News (Frederick, Maryland) Jun 3, 1895

*****

Oh, the irony!

A.P.A. WEDS A CATHOLIC.
Member of the Ohio “Inner Circle” Astonishes His Brethren.

Monday evening a wedding took place at Toledo, Ohio, that caused a genuine sensation in A.P.A. circles. The contracting parties were Joseph D. Batch, charter member of Council No.2, A.P.A., and of the order of Zodiacs, commonly called the “Inner Circle.” present state secretary of the A.P.A. order, and Miss Tessa Cracknel, a pronounced and devout Roman Catholic. Rev. Father Barry of the Church of the Good Shepard performed the ceremony. The groom says he will resign his position as state secretary of the A.P.A. and will withdraw from the local council.

Carroll Sentinel (Carroll, Iowa) Jul 08, 1897

Benedict XVI and Roger Cardinal Mahony, leading the flock across the Rio Grande.

Image from Dyspeptic Mutterings

AN AGGRESSIVE ORDER.
The A.P.A. Busy Propagating Their Ideas in This Country.

BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 21 — The American Protective Association is putting forth every effort to increase its membership in this city. Two sets of circulars have been distributed here that clearly explain the purposes and workings of the order. One set of circulars was distributed quietly among the avowed opponents of the Roman Catholics and another secretly among those who have taken the obligations of the order. The first circular recites that the order is about two years old; that in that time it has grown to a million membership; that in certain Western cities every official from the mayor down is a member; that it is aggressive without financial benefits and political, yet non-partisan; that it is a secret order, fighting a secret foe — the Jesuits. The circular concludes:

“The charm of the order seems to be in the fact that it means fight. The members are sick of apathy and supineness so prevalent in Protestantism. Of Americans generally who allow Rome to trample in the dust their most cherished institutions without a word of protest; and allow the many tentacled monster to seize and control city after city without a murmur. This is the grand reaction; a revolution, if you will, and if properly guided and controlled it means the annihilation of the dominancy of the old parties in 1896 and a new political heaven and earth.”

The Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Sep 21, 1893

1897 Model (Image from /www.winchestercollector.org)

The Mayor Got a Winchester

TOLEDO, O., Feb 24. — The suit heard in a local justice’s court of A.J. Rummel, dealer in firearms, against G.W. Ostrander and others, members of council No.2, of the A.P.A., has revealed the fact that among those who purchased Winchester rifles wherewith to repel an anticipated invasion by Catholics last Labor Day, was Mayor Major. Among others who obtained guns were Police Commissioner Doville, James W. Caldwell chairman of the Republican city committee, Workhouse Superintendent Brown, Joseph D. Batch, Joseph Doville, W.C. Harris, G. Ostrander, and George H. Jay Republican candidate for street commissioner.

Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) Feb 24, 1894

Tonight I was watching Sports Center, and saw the Phillies – Reds score. 22 – 1! Wow. I got to thinking, what are the biggest blowouts in MLB history? I could only find so much information about this, I guess people just don’t find it interesting. But, in spite of that, here they are. The Phillies huge 22 -1 win tonight? Nope. It was The biggest blowout was the Chicago Colts, who are now the Cubs, and the Louisville Colonels in 1897. The Colts won 36 - 7. The second biggest? The Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 30 – 3 in the 2007 season.

Who’s up, who’s down? It can change pretty quickly. And who knows what’s going on beneath appearances? Here’s a poem titled “Richard Cory” (by Edwin Arlington Robinson, written in 1897):

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked,
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich–yes, richer than a king–
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

You thought that music piracy was a product of modern times, didn’t you? Have a look at the image below (and the original PDF linked at the bottom) for a New York Times article from June, 1897 discussing music piracy – of course the perpetrators were Canadian.

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Kid Nichols vs Joe Corbett 10/8/1897, @ Oriole Park III

CORBETT SHUTSOUT BEANEATERS AS ORIOLES WIN GAME 4

Pictured is the only known collectable of Joe Corbett. A picture from the “Portfolio of Stars” collection issued by the National Copper Plate Co. His older brother Heavyweight Champ Jim Corbett has considerably more sports memorabilia with his likeness on it.

Joe Corbett tossed a 4 hit shutout to win his 2nd game of the DMB Series. The Beaneaters managed just 4 singles and did not have a runner reach 3rd after the 1st inning.

Kid Nichols allowed just 4 hits as well, but struggled with his control in the 1st inning. Willie Keeler walked to start the game, and after a flyball out, Bobby Lowe walked. Hughie Jennings doubled down the 3rd base line to score Keeler, and after another walk and a Jack Doyle sac fly the Orioles had a 2-0 lead, and all the runs that Corbett would need.

The Orioles take a 3-1 lead in this best of 7 series.

10/8/1897, BSN97-BLN97, Oriole Park III
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1897 Beaneaters        0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     0  4  3     6  1
1897 Orioles           2  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  x     3  4  3     7  2

Beaneaters           AB  R  H BI   AVG    Orioles              AB  R  H BI   AVG
Hamilton,B        cf  4  0  0  0  .059    Keeler,W          rf  2  1  0  0  .333
Stahl,C           rf  4  0  0  0  .286    McGraw,J          3b  3  0  0  0  .077
Lowe,B            2b  2  0  0  0  .143    Kelley,J          lf  3  1  0  0  .357
Tenney,F          1b  4  0  1  0  .400    Jennings,H        ss  4  0  2  1  .235
Duffy,H           lf  4  0  0  0  .267    Stenzel,J         cf  3  0  1  0  .154
Collins,J         3b  4  0  1  0  .188    Doyle,J           1b  3  0  0  1  .067
Long,H            ss  3  0  0  0  .267    Robinson,W        c   4  0  0  0  .375
Bergen,M          c   3  0  1  0  .111    Reitz,H           2b  3  1  0  0  .286
Nichols,K         p   3  0  1  0  .167    Corbett,J         p   3  0  1  0  .333
                     31  0  4  0                               28  3  4  2
Beaneaters                       INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Nichols,K        L 0-2           8.0  4  3  2  4  1 130  71  2.65
                                 8.0  4  3  2  4  1 130  71
Orioles                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Corbett,J        W 2-0           9.0  4  0  0  2  2 136  86  1.00
                                 9.0  4  0  0  2  2 136  86

E-Long,H 3, McGraw,J, Jennings,H, Doyle,J. 2B-Jennings,H. CS-Jennings,H.
K-Hamilton,B, Long,H, Robinson,W. BB-Lowe,B 2, Keeler,W, McGraw,J, Kelley,J,
Stenzel,J. SF-Doyle,J. HBP-Keeler,W. HB-Nichols,K.
GWRBI: Jennings,H
Temperature: 69, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 4 MPH.