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BOXISCS WEIGHT LIMIT ft IS NO LONGER "STICKLED" FOlt AS IT WAS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS POUNDS NOW GIVEN AWAY There Was n Time When Cunt-en Would Disqualify a Gladiator Cbuuea BacU? lirokeu toy the C'nroleM Euforefment of the Wcisln Limit Xot a Legitimate I.lK'htwciKht Champion. Strange as it may seem to the aver age follower of ring sports who fail to k«>k after tiie little technicalities, there has not been in America, aor in the world, for that matter, a legiti mate lightweight champion since the days of Jack Dempsey, and pool Jack was one of the most unfortunate fighters in the weight limit. How about McAuliffe? Well, the best Jack could make when he fought Billy Myer was 138, and 133 is the light is eight limit, you know. Dal Haw kir.s and Frank Erne have just made a "lightweight" match at 135 pounds — two pounds" over the limit. And they are like the others— not light weights—but too light to go against the heavy men who are neither lights nor welters — too heavy for the former and too light for the latter class. Jaok Daly comes nearer the notch than any of them, and it is claimed that Joe" Gans can do the figure — but he doesn't, and so he is not a light weight. "Kid" Lavigne has been box ing welters, and I know of no recent real lightweight event in which he has participated. There are any num ber of good welters, but few, If any, top-notch lightweights. WHERE OUNCES COUNT. When the middleweight division is passed the weight limit cuts a tre mendous figure in a boxing match. The lighter you go the more it counts. In the feather and bantam classes ounces are to be taken into considera tion. To the uninitiated It will possi bly be news that a boxer loses weight rapidly in a severe contest. That is where the limit cuts a big figure. If a fight is prolonged the mar who has conditioned himself to, say within three or four pounds of the limit, and who could take off another ounce, has a big advantage over the one who has easily made the weight at which the match is fought. The careful man ager will not give away an ounce, to say nothing of a pound. And that is as it should be. If there are no light weights let there be a revision of the rules so as to change the limit. But so long 1 a? 133 pounds are the limit, any lucky boxer who can welghin at the figure should rigidly insist that his opponent do likewise. UNEQUAL CC.XTESTS. In late years there have been many unequal contests in the roped arena. Notable among the number was the battle between Bob Fitzsimmons and ODD m CURIOUS EMPLOYMENTS TMKJ UP BY WOlflE^ BUSIIJGr THE PfIST YEP. WOMAN ORCHESTRA LEADER, Nothi?ig in the science of social life has been more significant, in a certain sense, during 1898 than the enlarged sphere of woman's employment and ambition in the business of the world, says the Chicago Times-Herald. It is not necessaiy to discourse here upon the philosophy of the case. Those pcs- Bhuistic growlers who assert that wom an has descended from her pedestal in the home to go out and usurp the spe cial vocations hitherto considered by divine right to belong solely to man will attend to that side of the affair. In this retrospect nothing further will be attempted than to puint out a few of the novel and untried paths which in the last year woman — the new wom an, of course — has undertaken to travel, whether for pleasure or profit, but gen erally speaking for profit. Women have assumed many new roles in 1898. They have invaded many new fields of service in the world's economy which were strange and at times perhaps almost overwhelming to the feminine mind. They have sought and won recognition and success in divers masculine occupations. Some have offered their services for war, with a patriotism unsurpassed. Poli tics, mechanical trades, merchantile lines and the learned professions have a.l had a larger share than ever be fore of feminine followers. What will the new yeai bring forth in this mod ern phase of social evolution. It remained for the passing year to show to the world two young women brave and self-reliant enough to un dertake and carry out the dangerous and responsible duties of United States deputy marshals. Th-^y were Miss Sadie Burche and Miss Mamie Fossett, of Oklahoma. Originally employed as stenographers in the office of United States Marshal Thompson in Guthrie, they volunteered to make a perilous journey into Indian territory to serve subpoenas in a murder case. This 'T^MAN WATCHIfAK^ WOMAN 3UBMARINH WTSBC WOMAN ORAVB DIOOW. . WO MAN COAL DBAXJBB. . WOMAN BOOT«LA<at WOMAN HORaBKffiAKB«. WOMAN JOCKBY. '•TOMAN WATCHMAIfi^ J-vk Dempsoy. And tho peculiarity of it is that Dempsey tipped the beam at near the middleweight limit— ls4 pounds — while Fitzsimmons weighed 151 I '-. That is where tho Australian gained his sobriquet '"Freak." Fitz was n?ver a middleweight. Dempsey knew that he was going to meet a man of larger frame than himself, and he made the mistake of taking on flesh to offset the advantage possessed by the Antipodean. On the other hand Fitz starved himself down to muscle and bone, and when he put up his hands on that memorable night, In New Orleans, there was not an ounce of soft flesh on his frame. He was hard as rocks, and Dempsey was as soft as mush. It is related that after the battle Jimmy Carroll took Fitz to a near-by restaurant where the hun gry Australian devoured two porter house steaks and begged for more. He was so hungry from starving him self to weight that nature rebelled and demanded food. Poor Dempsey could have made within a few pounds of the welterweight figure— l 42 pounds — Fitzsimmons could not have taken off another ounce. FITZ A HEAVYWEIGHT. Fitzsimmons was always a heavy weight. At Ms best he tips the beam at 165 pounils, and there is a time honored maxim of the ring that a man who weighs that much is big enough to wallop a giant. Perhaps there was never another boxer who could make weight as easily as did Fitzsimmons in the days when he was fighting mid dleweights. Yet he never hesitated to take on heavies. He trained for the heavyweights in the good old way, and was much better In that division than in the middle. And so it might have been with Jack MeAuliffe. I believe tiiat Jack would have been the master of all the good welterweights of today, had they been in the lists when he was nt his best. He found it difficult to make 138. Four pounds added would have made him a welter. And four pounds would have helped rather than injured his chances. When Billy Myer fought Charlie Daly, of St. Louis, win ning from him in thirty-nine rounds, he was a lightweight — but he was a meie boy thtn, and later on was in the predicament that placed him In the welterweight class. He could not make 133 pounds by starving himself. He was only too willing to concede Mc- Auliffe's demand that their battle for the lig-htweight championship be at 13S pounds. AMONG LITTLE MEN. George Dixon was a wonder as a featherweight, because he was the only legitimate feather in the world. When he fought "Nunc" Wallace, the famous English feather, Dixon had all the best of it, for the reason that Wal lace did not rightfully belond in that class. He could easily have taken off a pound or so, and ounces counted there. Dixon, on the other hand, could not have trained down an ounce lower than he fought Wallace at. Later on Dixon's matches were at a little above the feather figure, for the reason that all the little men were anxious to rob him of his laurels, and were, therefore, willing to give away a few ounces in order to make the match. Jimmy Barry, the greatest man of his inches and weight in his palmy days, was handicapped by being compelled to give away weight. He, as a rule, met. not bantams, but men who weighed" 110 ■^ WOMAN MAIL CARRIER. was in January. They made an over land trip of several hundred miles from Guthrie to the Sac and Fox reserva tions, driving their own horses and carrying an arsenal of li rearms. And, what is more, they got the people they went after, without losing their scalps. CHICAGO'S WOMAN COOPER, Early in the year it was discovered that Chicago had the proud distinction of claiming for a resident a woman who makes barrels. That is to say, she is a cooper, and in the making of barrels she has made a barrel of money. Her name is Margaret Buggee, and her shop is in the southwestern part of the city. Not only has she great executive ability, but she is also a practical cooper, and when any of her employes show incompetency in perfecting a big hogshead she simply picks up the proper tools and gives them an example of what skilled labor really is in this line. The worst trouble she encounters is in the necessity to fight off curiosity seekers and adven turers who would like to wed her and her bank account of $50,000. Annoy ances of this character have caused her to post this sign over the entrance to her cooperage: "This place is for business— keep out." Perhaps that is the keynote to her success. Chicago also claims to have the only woman watchmaker known in the an nals of that trade, so long monopolized by selfish man. She is Miss Mamie Frey. and at a watchmaker's bench and lathe in a West Madison street jewelry store she sits and works daily like any faithful journeyman or ap prentice. Who would have dreamed of a woman watchmaker in the early days of your grandfather? In Miss Frey's case the aptitude for the trade probably was bred in the bone, for her father before her was a watchmaker, learning the trade in Switzerland, where his father and grandfather were also watchmakers. The young woman loves her calling. In spite of parental WOMAN SUBMARINE DIVBR. THB ST, PAUL GLOBE SUNDAY JANUARY 1, 1899. pounds and upward, while Barry could easily score 105, and In a pinch, 103 pounds. TOMMY RYAN'S HANDICAP. Tommy Ryan is perhaps the moat unfortunate of boxers in the weight line. He is nothing as to class. Neith er a welter, middle or any weight box er. Ryan is compelled to take them on as they offer. He could, for a time, come within a few pounds of the wel ter limit, but 145 pounds was a strain, and greatly weakened the Syracusan. In building up for a middle-weight battle, Ryan can do little better than 150 pounds. He fought Jack Bonner at 149. He is willing to take on Fltz simmons at 154, and yet if these men ever meet Ryan will not weigh that much. He cannot, without doing: as the Jockey does — putting a few "plates" in his pocket. Dempsey made his best weight in his battle with Fitz simmons — 15^A. And yet Dempsey took on many a heavyweight by fight ing men at 156 and above. Had he in sisted that men meet him at hia prop er weight — 145 pounds — he would, per haps, never have suffered defeat, for he was unquestionably the greatest man of his weight the world ever saw. There is scarcely a fighter who will tell the truth about his weight. Sulli van was perhaps an exception to this rule. Sullivan was best at a shade un der 200 pounds, and perfect at 195. Cor bett gave out that he weighed 185, when he could not have tipped the beam ait any such figure. Corbett's best weight is 176 pounds. Never in all his career was he as perfect as when ha faced Sullivan at New Orleans. He weighed In on that oc casion at just 176. Sullivan tipped the beam at 212%. That tells the story of how Corbett won. McCoy would have the public believe he is a middleweight. He is not. He is a heavyweight. His best weight is 168 to 170 pounds — "big enough to fight a giant." Of all the other heavyweights there are none but are big enough to meet any in their class. A few like JO6 Cboyns^i art handicapped by weighing just a pound or so over the middle and yet not up to the standard 165 of the heavy. But in the heavyweight division pounds do not cut so much figure as do ounces among the little men. WOES OF AN OVERWEIGHT. There is no man in the boxing busi ness so unfortunate as the overweight. When Creedon was to meet Alex Greg gains, at Roby, he found, to his con sternation, that on the evening of the battle he was over. In order to not forfeit Creedon donned "blankets" and ran around a circle for several hours until he reached the proper figure. Creedon was in distress when matched with Frtzsimmons. On the train ba tween St. Louis and New Orleans he was denied, as much as a drink of water for fear that he would arrive overweight, and be compelled to weak en himself by extra exertions to at tain the figure fixed for the match— and fixed by Creedon — 158 pounds. And Creedon was heavier than Fitz in that battle. He weighed 156%, while Fitz simmons was at 155*£. The little men who find themselves above weight are worse off. They find it torture, of the most excruciating sort to take off a few ounces, and that Is one reason why matches are made these days re gardless of real weight limits. If there is room for reform in the boxing line WOMAN DEPUTY U. S. MARSHAU opposition, she took it up and began at the beginning, just as a boy appren tice would be compelled to do. Now she is admittedly a past mistress in the art, and in addition has learned how to adjust glasses scientifically to de fective eyes. Miss Frey's future seems assured, leaving the perplexing mari tal problem out of the question. She says that her highest ambition Is to become one of the best watchmakers in the business. The boy apprentices must in future look out for their lau rels. WOMAN LEAI>S AN ORCHESTRA. Who ever heard of a woman orches tra leader before this year of grace, when Miss Lolla Stephenson, of Cincin nati, took the baton and boldly step ped into the ring? It was heralded in the papers that she was the younge3t orchestra leader in the country, and probably in the world. Miss Stephen son is now only eighteen, having been born in Wabash, Ind., in 1880. She be gan to study the violin at the age of seven, and when eleven years old play ed first violin and directed the local orchestra, which furnished music for all entertainments at the Wabash op era house. After retaining this post for four years she went to Cincinnati to study under the concertmeister of the Cincinnati orchestra. In three years under him she finished the five years' course. Now she is going abroad for a little post-graduate polishing, after which she will win fame and fortune. Two women of exceptional grit and enterprise this year proved to Uncla Sam their ability and fidelity to serve ad mail carriers, under circumstances and trials which would have knocked out many a man. The first, Miss Cas sie Natrick, rides eighteen miles a day on horseback in the performance of her duties. She is the main support of a large family, though her earnings are far from munificent, being only $1.25 a day. She wears bloomers and WOMAN GRAVB DKHJBR. it is certainly in the way of rear rangement of weight limits. Let the classes be divided, and the weights fixed strictly adhered to, and they will be fewer mishaps and more interest in the contests for 1 the premiership in the respective divisions. —Willie Green. BOXING DOOMED. St. Lonls Promoter I» Denied a New Trial. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 81,— A now trial was to day refused C. W. Whitney, president of the Commercial club, who waa fined $500 and coats for conducting prize fights several veeks ago. A further motion in arrest of Judg ment was made by Attorney Napbon on be half of the defendant, and an appeal will rbo made to the supreme court BUCKWA'S GREAT FEAT. Brolke AH Running; Records Front 1 1-2 to 2 1-4 Miles. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31.—Buck wa, bay gelding, by Buckra-Wewa, the property of B. W. Purser, ran a remarkable race at Oakland today, breaking all previous records from the mile and a half up to and Including two and a quarter miles. Buckwa, together with Daisy FFt. t Volse and Wheel of Fortune, went to the post in the Athenian club selling stakes value $1,500 over a distance of two and a quarter miles. Daisy F. was made favorite and was 7 to 5, while Buckwa went to the post as good as 2 to 1. To an even start Buckwa took the lead and was never headed. At the mile, which was run in 1:41%, he had an advantage of ten lengths and was run ning under a strong pull. The mile and a half was made in 2:32^, a quar ter of a second less than Lamplight er's record for the same distance. At the mile and three-quarters Buckwa was leading by a half dozen lengths and made the distance in 2:58%, half a second under Ben Holliday's record. At the two miles the horse had clip ped 2% seconds off Ten Broeck's rec ord (against time), making the dis tance in 3:25 flat. At the last quarter Jockey Henry Martin, who had the mount on Buckwa, began urging his horse, although he had a lead of two lengths over Daisy F. Buckwa never faltered, respondingly gamely to Mar tin's call, and finished the two and a quarter miles in 3:51 flat, knocking (5%, seconds off the best previous rec ord, which was 3:56V4. made by Spring bok and Preakness in a dead heat, at Saratoga, July 29, 1875. Daisy F., the second horse, timed separately, ran the distance in 3:54^4, which is two seconds below the record. AT IjEXIKGTOIV PARK. Bin tries for the ska tine race at Lexington park tomorrow afternoon wer« closed last evening. The following are enlisted: Louis Johnson, George Sudhelmer, H. Per kins, T. O'Leary and J. O'Leary, of St. Paul; Andre Lansen, of South Dakota; O. Rudde, of Chicago, and C. P. Paulson, Joseph Kvit tum and George M. George, of Minneapolis. This afternoon there . will be a polo Kama between the Summits and Mascots, the teams lining up aa follows: Summits— Gerber, Potter. Miller, Haas Moahofaky, Mooler, Sargent or Moorecraft and Schneider. Mascots— Machek. Heck, O. Peterson, Hora tsh, C. Peterson. Spurr, Hinderer, Crist. 1 WOMAN COOPER. bifurcated skirts, and rides In her father's saddle. She is an expert shot and goes armed for protection. She wears spurs with- huge rowels, such as are affected by horseback riders on the Western plains. The second mail carrier discovered was Miss Sadi£ Webb, of Ohio. She is the contractor on mail route No. 31,277, which takes in five thriving towns. Every day except Sunday she drives thirty-two miles, making 192 miles a week, and before her four years' term expires she will have reeled off 39,936 miles. Miss Webb is just out of her teens and is the pride of all the coun try boys, who speak of her as a "crack er jack." Besides carrying the mails for four postofflces she buys all the goods for the general stores in the towns along her route. She also car ries passengers in the wagon at rates of fare much higher than Mr. Yerkes demands. She enjoys her work and gets a good living out of it. RUNNING STREET OARS. Women, for sweet charity's sake, have often been known to run the street cars for a day in such towns as Elgin, Rockford, Davenport and De 3 Moines, and they were very success ful in cajoling dollars from the hyp notized male passengers, for usually the handsomest ladies in town were appointed to this task. But Mrs. Ma bel Brierly, of Port Jervis, N. V., was this year the first woman who had the courage to become a regular "mo torman" on the front platform of an electric car. She obtained employment In this capacity on a line In 'Middle town, Conn. Although she said she found the work a lot easier and more congenial than doing housework for some fretting man, her jealous husband made a fuss in the offices of the com pany and forced her to quit. Since this brave pioneer set the pace women have been employed as conductors and motor manipulators on electric lines In Vincennes, Ind.; Chlllicothe, O.; WOMAN COAL DBAJJBB. EIGHT-CLUB LEAGUE THAT IS THE LATEST OUTLOOK FOR THE 810 BASE HALL, ORGANIZATION DEPENDS UPON ST. LOUIS Should the Courts Akiilu Decide Against Yon der A lit-, 'Which Is Expected, Cleveland Will Get the Mound City Franchise and Louis ville Will Drop Ont Colonels Are In Demand In the East. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 81.—Con trary to the announcement made today that the directors of the Louisville Ease Ball club would hold an Impor tant meeting tonight, at which deals of general public interest would be settled, no such meeting was held. However, the base ball news brought here from the East by Director Barney Dreyfus was made known- by that gen tleman tonight, and it throws much ad ditional light on the eight-club league scheme recently hinted at in New York at the meeting of the base ball mag nates. Mr. Dreyfus says several offi cers have been made for the star play ers of the Louisville club. The consid eration of the deals and their settle ment will be made at the annual meet ing of the stockholders next week. More Important than this, however, is the statement, unequivocally made for the first time, that the eight-club league scheme is a reality, and that its consummation hangs on the decision of the St. Louis courts, which will be made this week in the case of Mucken fuss vs. Yon Der Ahe. If the courts decide in favor of Muckenfuss, and thereby oust Yon Der Ahe, there will bo but eight clubs in the league, and Louisville will not be one of them. The league has already made an offer for the Colonels, with certain provisos, and the local magnates have practically agreed to the terms. If the courts of St. Louis decide in favor of Muckenfuss the Cleveland team will play in the Mound City; Louisville and Washington will be bought out. and abolished, and the Baltimore team will play in Brooklyn, thereby reducing the league to eight clubs. If Yon Der Ahe wins his suit", and he is kept in power by the St. Louis courts, then the reduction deal will be blocked, and the Louisville club will probajjly , dispose of some of its star players. It can be said, however, that the magnates expect the courts to decide in favor of Muckenfuss, and they have already made arrangements for a meeting of the heads of the eight clubs. While Mr. Dreyfus would not go into deals regarding the offers from the Eastern clubs, he admitted that the New York and Philadelphia clubs were the ones that seek the Colonel's best players. He also admitted that one of the offers was $16,000 for Outfielders Fred Clarke and Charley Dexter. Mr. Freedman also made an offer of ?4,000 for Pitcher Cunningham. Philadelphia has also made offers for Clarke, Dexter and Klttredge. Magee and Cllngman are also sought. WOMAN HOBO HUSTLER. Madison, Ind., and other towns. In some cases they earned $14 a week, working ten hours a day. Families of men thrown out of work by the new women conductors made a great fuss about it, and in some towns the citi zens boycotted the cars, declaring they would walk before they would patron ize lines conducted by feminine com petitors. BLACKING BOOTS. The evolution of the woman boot black reached its climax in 1898. Of course, in tjre dark ages some women were compelled to shine their hus bands' shoes in the secrecy of the home, but this year, at the corner of Sixth street and Grand avenue in Milwaukee, a pretty young woman sets up a public bootblacking stand, and did a rushing business. She said it was her ambition to obtain a good mu sical education, and she adopted this novel plan to raise the means. Still retaining her self-respect, this young woman for obvious reasons withheld her name. A fearless and resolute woman diver was an Innovation for men to talk about this year. The woman subma rine diver made her appearance in the state of IMalne. She -was Mrs. Lillie Gordon, of South Portland, the wife of a man who had long earned his liveli hood at the same business. While he was t constructing a stone wharf at Hurricane island, Mrs. Gordon donned the diver's suit and went down to work in thirty feet of water. She went down as steadily and fearlessly as a vete ran diver,- said a man who was pres ent, and, though at first she felt as if she were smothering, she reported the sensation at the bottom of the sea as a very pleasant one. In October s}x horses, straining ev ery nerve and splendidly ridden by trained jockeys, raced swiftly around the Reno, Nev., track and came down the stretch In magnificent style. They WOMAN BOOTBLACK. CT* A FIT* TIJTC si "' ; " -liar MAKi lflij IBrx- ST. RAUL Give some meaning to the much-abuaed phrase, PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY Our Pre-Inventory Sale of 25, 30 and 35 Per Cent Discount on ALL OUR STOCK ia THE HIT OF THE SEASON ! Come early in the morning, as we close at noon tomorrow to celebrate The Ne>\A/ Year. Rem- V^r V>©WV 7^ N^SmJ3\ Robert nants « i iiii rr^g^^^m^mi&mmimmmas^J^^J^. Streets BROOKLYN AND BALTIMORE. Consolidation of Their Base Ball Teams Practically Effected. TpJW YORK, Deo. 81.— For the first time Blnee the announcement of the proposed con solidation of the Brooklyn and Baltimore olubs, Henry Yon d«r Horst, treasurer cn4 principal owner of the latter organization, ha» conferred with F. A. Absll. who holds the majority of the «tock of the BrookrJTi club. It had- been given out that the eonreren-e was mot to be held until Saturday, but, true to the traditions of National league men as to seorecy and mystery. Yon der Horst, ac companied by Edward Hanlon, president and manager of his club, quietly arrived in the city Thursday night and met Mr. Abell at the Hoffman house. It was not until earjy this morning that the conference was ad journed, all the principal details of the con solidation having then been satisfactorily agreed to. It has been thought that Yon der Horst would ba a,.stunnbiin« fcl-..0k to the deal, but it seems that he thinks it wise to follow the advice of Hanton. "fWe came to a perfect understanding," said Mr. Abell today, '"but did not sign pa pers, as that cannot be done until it is found out how the clubs can legally consolidate. "WOMAN BOOKMAKER. made a finish so close and interesting that hundreds of onlookers rose to their feet, waved hats and shouted in their frenzy of excitement. Of the three horses first under the wire the last was ridden by a woman, who, sitting astride, plied whip and spur in mas terly style, and, though her animal was beaten, clearly outrode her com petitors. This remarkable new woman was Mrs. W. H. Bagwill, a native of Carson City, and probable the only fe male Jockey in the world. But then woman has always loved horses. BOOKMAKER ON RACE TRACK. If she can play jockey why can't she make books on the races? That Is the question. Miss Daisy Francis, of Eng land, answered the question in a prac tical way which indicated that the new woman is also enlarging her orbit amid the more ancient civilizations. She set up business in the street in Bat tersea, receiving bets and "making books" on the Brighton races. As it was only a step from this place to the betting ring of the race meetings, the enterprising woman, of course, aroused the ire and antagonism of her for midable male competitors, and they had her arrested and fined for obstruct ing the .public highway. But this only made her a martyr to the cause. Un doubtedly the next step in the evolu tion of the sportswoman will be a reg ular place in the betting ring at race meetings. Mrs. Annie Benson, wife of a farmer near 'Fowblesburg-, Mi, has won suc cess and local fame as a breaker of colts and untamed horses. She has been kicked and bitten by wild horses, thrown out of buggies and otherwise bruised and beaten, but never has she been thrown, from a horse's back or conquered in her training experiences. She is a slender, blue-eyed country woman. To "round-up hoboes" is the queer WOMAN HORaBBREAKBR. 13 Even though Mr Van der Honrt h*s at last agreed to the scheme as for the test inter ests of both c'.ubs, there may be somo le*al obstacle that may frustrate it. Everything however, looks favorable." "I thii 'c everything will come out a'l right," H.dd Mr. Ys:n der Horst, '■'but th re are many minor details to be celt'ed before consoUdaf -n is an accomplished tact. I dd not desire to be htrty In arriving at a c n clusion, but havo ai last decided that bo h clubs will rroflt by coming together." Haclon is ot the opinion that :here will be no combination among the Baltimore players not_to Join_ heartily in the movement MILWAUKEE GETS HALLMAS. MmWAUKEE, Wls., Dec. 31.—•Will lam Hallman, fornerly of Brooklyn, | has been signed by Connie Mack, man ager of the Western league Milwau kee team, to play second base the com ing season. Hallman will also be cap tain of the team. The securing of Hallman was part of a contract with the Brooklyn club, which secured Tom Daly, of Milwaukee, last September, the Hallman end of the deal being an nounced today for the first time. t??u MOTORWOMAX. occupation that Mrs. S. J. Atwood re cently adopted. She calls herself the "Hobo Hustler of the West," and there Is possibly no other woman in the world who holds a similar position. Her business is to gather up all the idle laborers she can find and put them to work on the Union Pacific railroad in Colorado, Wyoming and other West ern sections. The Union Pacific finds her services indispensable and pays her a good salary. The "hobo hustler" is a little woman about thirty years old. She has short, curly hair that is as black as night. She walks with an agile step, and always has a pleasing smile for even the toughest hobo. At Dunkirk, N. V., Mrs. Nellie Kim ball, a widow, has eclipsed all the men as a coal dealer. In addition to her local_ trade, which is large, she has a contract to "coal up" several govern ment dredges employed in the Lake Erie harbor. She is her own and only bookkeeper, weighs every ton of coal sent out from the yard, hires and dis charges her men, and gives personal attention to the care of her horses. SEXTON AND GRAVE DIGGER. The town of Lewis, England, has a novelty In the person of a woman grave digger— Mrs. Steel. She is the sexton of the leading church in Lewes, anil every one knows her. Although now sixty years old, she says she will never give up her calling until some one has to dig- her grave. Mrs. Steel recom mends the cemetery as a fine field f«»r women, as the work has made her un commonly strong and healthy. She is said to handle a spade, shovel and pi<'k in a vigorous way, which would make the average Chicago street hand shud der to contemplate. Who shall dare to say, after this re view, that woman's orbit must be con fined to the kitchen, the laundry, the nursery, the drawing room? WOMAN JOCKBY.