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THE 'STPTDAY T QRECrtoSWSV' POlttTAKD, 3TAY 31,' 19it --
WORLD'S EVENTS BY TELEGRAPH ARE TOLD BY PHOTOGRAPH
Biggest Merchantman Afloat, the Steamship Vaterland, of the Hamburg-American Line, Reaches New York and Tugs Have Difficulty in Warping Her Into Her Pier.
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NEW YORK May SO. (Special.)
The . biggest merchantman - In
service, the steamship Vaterland.
of the Hamburg-American line, reached
this port a. few days ago. Twenty-one
snorting:, puffing: tugs, after ' working
for an honr trying: to get the mighty
sea giant , into her pier, finally suc
ceeded, though the ebb tide swung the
big vessel from the pier and the' tugs
were compelled to steam to safety.
The mighty sea giant has proven her
self the fastest of German ships. Dur
ing the 34 hours preceding her arrival
here, her speed exceeded 24 knots an
hour. The Vaterland is the first trans
Atlantic liner to be eaulDoed with the
wireless telephone, as an additional
safeguard to navigation.
The keel of the great vessel was laid
s.t Hamburg in 1911 and she was
launched April 3, 1913. She carries one
captain known as commodore, four
other captains, seven navigating offi
cers, a chief engineer, 35 assistant en
gineers and electricians, 13 chief fire
men, 15 oilers, 187 stokers, and 180
trimmers, with a total crew of 1234
men and. women.
The Vaterland has four great screws
driven by turbine engines, each pro
peller making more than ISO revolu
tions a minute.
. Mexico's future status and the future
attitude of the United States toward
that troubled country will depend
largely upon the outcome of the media
tion conference now in session at Ni
agara Falls, Ont.
Representatives of this Government
.nd the Mexican Government are meet
ing with a committee of mediators. One
each from the republics of Argentine,
Brazil and Chile. The conference has
made substantial progress toward the
pacification of Mexico, and it is ex
pected that a full agreement will be
reached within a few weeks.
Manuel Esteva, Consul-General of
Mexico t New York, is in attendance
on the meeting of the mediators. With
him is his pretty wife. She is an
American and was once a belle of
Washington.
The youngest member of the Mexi
can group of envoys and their secre
taries is happy little Manuel del Camno.
the: 6-month- old eon of Martinez del
Campo. an . attache of the delegation
That he is a defiant little Mexican is
seen by the lovable pose of tbe little
fellow when his photo was made.
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President Wilson spoke at the un
veiling of the statue to John Barry,
the father of the American Navy, at
wasnington. May 16.
The British polo team, which will
meet the lankee players for the Inter
national " championship, left Liverpool
for America aboard the Germanla.
Lord Winborne's polo ponies were
hipped a few days previously.
The Lambs held a real old-time min
strel parade through the streets of
NewTork preceding their annual gam
bol. All of them wore the dusters and
high hats of the wandering minstrels
of another generation. John Philip
Sousa, for the first time in many years,
kicked up the dirt of the highway at
the head of his footers and thumpers,
Just as he used to do when he headed
the Marine Band in Washington. The
parade was headed by William Court
leigb. the Shepherd of the Lambs;
Bruce McRae, George Hobart and De
Wolf Hopper. After two rousing per
formances at the Metropolitan Opera
House, in New York, the Lambs took
to the road.
The Army will have to do a lot of
road-making in Mexico if the troops
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with the Mexican capital is likely to be I march over the mountains.
SHERIFF'S QUICK TRIGGER PREVENTS
CHANCES FOR FIGHT IN ARKANSAS
Governor Clark Resorts to No Special Session Methods of Texas, out Tells His Officers to Kill First Man Who
Talks Battle in That State, and Fitasimmons-Corbett Match Is Off. "
Copyrtbt: By William A. Brady.)
BT WTM.IAM A. BRADY. -CHAPTER
XIII.
THE general demand for a match
between Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons became at last a public
clamor, and, notwithstanding Corbett' s
aversion to meeting "Lanky Bob," we
found it impossible to avoid the issue.
And right here we were confronted
with a paradoxical situation. Although
ve had made the match because of
public insistence and for no other rea
son, there wasn't a state In the Union
that would let us pull off the contest
in its territory.
No sooner were the articles signed
than we received wonderful offers
from all parts of the world. Dawson,
la the Klondike, offered us 1100.000 to
gre up there and fight. But that was
out of the Question. -
Presently came Dan Stewart from
Dallas, Tex, a persuasive gentleman
with a good front and plenty of money.
He convinced us that it was possible
to have the fight in his state and of
fered us 140,000 to go down there and
pull it off. To allay our doubts he de
posited f 5000 to cover training - ex
penses. Eo we went to Texas and
started hi on a race track at an An
tonio to get ready for the -contest.
Fltssimmono established training Quar
ters at some place near Dallas, I think. I
Almost as soon as we got there Gov
ernor Culberson warned us not to
fight. We retorted that there was
nothing on the statute books of Texas
to prevent the contest. " The Governor
replied that even so he would not al
low it to take place in tbe state and
he asked us in a very nice way to re
frain and leave. Stewart, who was a
political power in Texas at that time,
assured us that the Governor would
not dare to interfere; that he Stewart
had the advice of high-priced law
yers to that effect.
The Governor and Stewart engaged
in a battle of words in the newspapers,
and finally the Governor called a spe
cial session of the Legislature, which
cost the state about $25,000. The law
makers were summoned from all parts
of that vast state to meet in Austin on
a week"a notice. They met. The Gov
ernor sent in a message demanding the
enactment of a law preventing pugi
lism or boxing of any kind in the
state. The law was promptly passed
and all our hopes of contesting in
Texas were over!
, Movie Rights Valuable. .
Let me say right here that when this
match was made moving pictures were
just, coming into vogue. .There were
no moving-picture theaters. But I
foresaw the value of such a thing, and
when the match was made demanded
that as a bonus to me for bringing it
about I should have the picture privi
lege. But very soon Fltxsimmons
found out that I had this and Stewart
realized what a plum he- had given
away. The picture privilege for the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons contest eventu
ally realized for its owners more than
$750,000,
Disgusted with the treatment he had
received in ; ; Texas, ' Stewart Jumped to
Arkansas, where also there was no law
on the statute books to prevent a box
ing contest. At his request the Corbett
party went on to Hot Springs, in that
state, and installed themselves in train
ing quarters in the suburbs of . the
town.
Fitzsimmons refused to leave Texas.
I firmly believe that at this point Fits
simmons was afraid of Corbett and did
not want to meet him, or that - he
wanted to break off the present match
and make an entirely new one and by
so doing deprive me of the moving
picture rights-
Upon our advent Governor -Clark rose
up on his hind haunches and d'x:lared
there should be no pugilism in Arkan
sas if he could help it- Tbe citizens
of Hot Springs, replied there would be
a. fight in Hot - Springs, even if -they
had to surround the town with vol
unteer militia and prevent the invasion
by the Governor If he attempted to in
terfere. The Sheriff of Hot Springs at that
time was a man named Reb Houpt, and
he stood in with the citizens of the
town. The Governor knew this and so
summoned Houpt to Little Rock and
told him that, if he did not produce
Corbett there within a week he would
remove him. ' This left us in a very
dubious position. The citizens of Hot
Springs urged us to pay no attention
to the -Governor's talk. And then, as
things were getting very warm, indeed,
to the amazement of everybody Mr.
Lanky 'Bob Fitzsimmons" crossed the
Arkansas state line at Texarkana and
deliberately rave himself up to two of
fleers who had been sent by Governor
Clark to meet him. Right there it
looked as if Fitzaimtnoni did not want
to fierht.
. Corbett by this time had got himself
into magnificent condition. We were
all Banguine that he would win. and
I honestly believe to this day that if
we had not been stopped In Arkansas
Corbett would have beaten tbe Cornish
man easily.
After the arrest of Fltzslmmons. who
was promptly taken to Little Rock, we
realized that Corbett could not fight
the battle by himself, and so accepted
a polite Invitation from the Governor
to visit him at the capital. When we
got there we found that the Governor
had put. Fltzsimmons in charge of a
Sheriff called Jesse Hurd. who was the
most villainous-looking man I had ever
seen and who had tbe proud distinction
of having killed 17 men.
Hurd and Houpt were exceedingly
jealous of each other as man killers,
Hurd felt keenly that his rival was
after the laurels which patience no less
than enterprises had placed on his
brow, and that he would avail of any
provocation, however Blight, that did
not put him beyond the pale of the law
to bring his own line of achievements
up to that of hlB enemy. The margin
was a small one. Houpt had the rep
utation of having killed 16 men.
Bfavn Killers Eager lor Trouble.
The influx of boxers and their ad
herents not only gave Houpt a chance
to cut another notch in his gun stock,
but made it incumbent for Hurd to
maintain his superiority. So you see
we vera in the position of being com
pelled to "pay the freight "should the
ambition or caprice of either of these
gentlemen prompt him to act on any
so-called "provocation." In conse
quence it behooved us to walk very
thin" indeed.
It- was unfortunate, under the cir
cumstances, that the night before we
were to meet the Governor one of our
party named O'Farrell had run into
Jesse Hurd somewhere In tbe town and
had made some injudicious remarks
about the attitude of the state toward
this contest. ' Hurd promptly grabbed
O'Farrell by the back of the neck and
took him to the town jail.
I learned of the affair about mid
night and called the Governor up on
the phone. (We were then in Little
Rock.) I told him what Hurd had done
and reminded him of the fact that he'd
guaranteed us protection if we would
come to the capital., and demanded the
release of O'Farrell. At the same time
I made some pretty strong remarks
about Hurd to the Governor. While I
was at breakfast next morning I saw
Hurd enter the room. - From his looks
I Judged that the Governor had told
him what I said about him -and had
reprimanded him for what he had done.
He walked over to where Fitzslmmons
was sitting, and I knew from the way;
he looked around the room as he spoke
to that gentleman that he was asking
where that man Brady was.
Fitzsimmons pointed to me and Hurd
promptly rose and walked over to my
table.
"Is this Brady?" he demanded.
"Yes," I said.
My two hands were on the table and
I was shivering in my shoes. It was
lucky I had the presence of mind to
put my hands where he could see them.
If I had not done so there Is no ques
tion he would have killed me then and
there and then reported that he did it
in self-defense. He saw that I had
outwitted him and stood looking me
through and through for a few minutes,
then snarled something and turned on
his heel and walked back to Fitzsim
mons. That was the narrowest escape I
ever bad in my pugilistic experience.
I've often thought that if I had been
less conspicuous at the time, that if
I'd been some inoffensive citizen who
had been rash enough to comment upon
any act of this arrogant gentleman, he
would have assassinated me, even if
Fd held my hands in the air as a token
of my utter defenselessness. But feel
ing was running so high that Hurd
knew that any act of his would have
subjected him to a rigid investigation.
so he chose the part of wisdom over
that of "valor."
We met the Governor in the State
house at noon of that day. At one side
of the table was Fitzsimmons in charge
of Hurd and at the other eat Corbett
in charge of Houpt. The room was
filled with newspaper men and fol
lowers of pugilism. The Governor sat
back, chewed a cigar deliberately for
some moments, which added impress
tveness to the pronunciamento of which
he was about to deliver himself, and
said:
"Gentlemen. I have a few words to
say to you. I do not propose to do as
my brother Governor of Texas has
done. I shall not put this state to an
expense of 820,000 or 830,000 by. con
vening the Legislature just to pass a
law to keep you gentlemen from box
ing within our borders. I've a simpler
way."
He turned to the pugilists.
"I want to tell you this: You, Mr.
Fitzsimmons, are in charge of our esti
mable citizen, Mr. Jesse Hurd, who has
the reputation of having killed 17 men.
and you, Mr. Corbett, are in charge of
our equally estimable citizen, Mr. Reb
Houpt. who has killed only 18 men-
Remember, there is a keen rivalry be
tween these gentlemen. It is Mr.
Houpt's ambition to catch up with Mr.
Hurd, and it is Mr. Kurd's ambition to
keep ahead of Mr. Houpt. Now, I in
struct both of these officers that if you.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons, so much as
bat an eye at each other in this state
while I am Governor of it, you will go
back home in a box!"
Turning to Mr. Hurd. his excellency
said: "You understand?"
"Yep." said Hurd.
Then the Governor looked signifi
cantly at Houpt
And then we were politely ushered
out of the Governnor's room, and I
never saw a crowd make dust to gat
out of any state as we did to get out
of Arkansas. In fact, we slunk down a
side street to find the train to take us
to the Tennessee line. Governor Clark
had found a way to stop prizefighting
In Arkansas without the help of tho
Legislature.
This practically settled that contract
between Fitzsimmons and Corbett. In
fact, we declared the match off our
selves. For a time things remained in
status quo. Corbett went back to
showing in the theater and Fitzsim
mons went about his own "business.
(To be continued.)
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