World (Newspaper) - December 6, 1897, New York, New York The Christmas World Good GREAT With 100 Pages of Five Sections in Surpassing Splendid Twentyfour Out Next Circulation Books Open to AIL XX Circulation Books Open to CHRISTMAS WORLD Will have a Special Section on THE BIRTH OF NEW NEW YORK Dazzling Galaxy of Holiday Out Next The Christmas World Maketh the Heart by the Publish Ins New York I NEW DECEMBER PRICK In Tork anil TWO of Greater New It City and on SPAIN TO THE Ramon Blanco Cables a Frank and Forcible Statement to the American BIVES HIS WORD TO THE UNITED STATES Cuba Assured a Home Rule as Complete as Canada En joys and Even More Than the Autono mists Ever OFFICIAL MESSAGE OF SUPREME IMPORTANCE TO TO AND TO FUTURE by the Press Publishing New York Special Cable Despatch to The To the Editor o The World The autonomy which Spain freely offers to Cuba is genuine and Ib is more than has been asked for by the Autonomist It is more than is implied by the autonomy of The Crown merely the functions of foreign rela the Supremo Court and the Navy and War Depart All powers which have colonies retain the natural attributes of a mother The Cubans have home They may enact their own interpret them and execute For a sufficient time to allow the manufacturing interests of Spain to adjust themselves to new foreign competition will be maintained a differential duty in their But ultimately the disposition of its tariff regulations will be uho lv iu the power of Peace will follow the establishment of the new God I hope to finish its implantation within one I urn more than satisfied with the number of insurgents already have laid down their arms since I arrived in There 1ms been treble the number of homo duels been accompanied by their entire Two hundred men have surrendered at one I expect shortly to reduce this destructive war to the condition of more of the insurgents have died from tireless pur hunger and Ninety per of them were Today the Army of Liberty is mostly a collection of and blacks under leaders of every color and Such men do not fight for a I think that when those men find that there is food as well as peace beneath our flag they will flock to Many are and will make good irregular cavalry under ex because of their peculiar knowledge of the rebel topography and I shall attack the insurgents upon their own ground and in their own With my regular troops and native assist ance I expect shortly to bieak the backbone of the insur Your Indian adopted the same and the English employ them in The is in a greatly bettered It has lost its most poignant I have done for these unfortunate people everything that hns lain in my power necessary to their actual I have allowed the ablebodied to go to work wherever thov find and have ordered food to be given to I have given and intend to add soon another gift of equal New private charity organizations have been and I am the v municipalities of the island with juntas for of the hun gry I expect to save threequarters of the now With what the government is doing with of the organized and with the expected resuming of work by the sugar I consider that the trados soon will bo able to resume their usual mode of Military operations are being In the last ten days the army has inflicted very severe losses upon the in of del Matanzas and Santa I have most vigorous steps to improve the sanitary condition of the The hospital facilities have been greatly sanitariums established and clothing ordered suitable to ward off the alternate burnings and chill ings of the By activity in implanting autonomy harassing the rebels I expect to shortly reduce the to un organ The the climate and the fertility of Cuba insure the continued existence of widespread brig andage as Jong as the roving bands are supplied with and In the duration of the war is simply a matter for Hie American to If you continue to to leave your against will enable the i V V UNCLE SAMS PANDORA gents to at least in part keep up the war aga rut against their own against the interests of Cuba and against the interests of American Spain is the historic friend and real of the United States the greatest of the republics of the their are and and I must when you know the full scope of the autonomy now given to you come to realize fully it is best for for Cuba and for the United you will cease to support the men who alone pre vent and of Bertha Who Disap from Mount Wrote a Tho foregoing signed statement by Marshal Blanco was given to The World correspondent after being translated first Into English and then back again Into Spanish by the official It sounds sincere and is the frankest statement oJ tho Cuban from a Spanish point of over SYLVESTER Von Gammon Induces Georgias Governor to tha ball HER KILLED ON Hurried to Avenge but Mother for Ilia Cherished to Tho Atkinson to morrow will veto the now famous anti football Ho is preparing a state ment be sent to tho Georgia Legis lature explaining why he has decided to withhold lilu Tho act that tho measure panned the Legislature with only a taw dissenting votes makes Its future somewhat prob but It seems safe to predict that Atkinsons veto will be sus The was passed In the heart of a against football aroused by the killing of young Von Gammon of the University of Georgia team on tho local gridiron last and the legis lators felt that they wero avenging his death by so promptly making future ao of similar nature Uut it turns out that Von cawo from a Spartan family and that neither his relatives nor his friends are that sort of it Is the dead mans own mother who the Governor to veto the Gannon In tier petition says that her sons favorite and that 1C he could bo consult ed ho would In the request of his for tho of the In her this mother calls the Governors attention to the fact that two of Will and Arthur have recently met accidental one by falling over a precipice and ono by falling down Shu asku If It is not equally sensible for the to abolish precipices and stairways nn account of these deaths as It Is to abolish football because the death of her Letters from all parts of the country have poured In upon tho Governor and tho has also been thoroughly It has boon argued that If football Is prohibited at the Georgia University and tho other colleges of tho State those Institutions will bo un able to compete with the big schools of the North whore football ia Ono of tho most forcible arguments for tho veto la contained In tho follow ing paragraph from Von Gammons letter to tho Governor You aro confronted with the proposi tion whether tho game IB of such a character as should bo prohibited by law in tho Interests of In an unquestionably It Is the the conditions necessary to Its highest development aro total ab from Intoxicating and stimulat ing dringa alcoholic or otherwise as well as fro and tobacco In any form strict regard for proper and healthiest diet and for all the laws of health persistent regularity In the hours of going to bed and absolute pur ity of ITALYS Mmle It for Premier to Cabinet has re action In persisting In resigning because the Chamber of Depu ties amended a military contrary to his Is regarded as a political move to make It possible for Premier nudim to secure a unanimous The of Justice and Public Works In tho retiring Cabinet will not The Stolla has a har mony Mid volume ol lone lound In no self TOOK OWN UlL thu to tho that walloi uji hear no Tho was yot I sound warned mo that river hail Itn Then 1 limit my aulf lost my hold and found us both Hint night Mario ul it with nono o tlm loath nn hor face mo covered with a mass ol at foot of a low In my afterward I felt about than I hart felt for Heavens mercy had Ice tor out from her stilled life to A Story Which tint In I ho would appear that Lano tho romantic Mount College who disappeared as Tho World lias thoughtfully laid out for herself the road by she waH to Miss today made a novelette by his daughter it would pointed to the fate to she Wiis hurried by the delirium of Hut thin weird so lamentably realistic by Miss shows she had studied tho nature of men and least human na ture as demonstrated In tho mill where she This novelette Is called La Petite A Story of lloss of tho puts La a new to burl with tho Bertha Luna The now hand called herself Mario Writes Miss for whoso body tho river Is 1elng whoso fate is tho most tragic story of tho of the She was a tiny quite French from tho heels of dier brown leather shoes to the little aigrette on her straw It rained that and the raindrops had made white streaks down hor pink Tho girls woro Tho little ones washed her rouge off crying for hazel eyes held no She cheerfulness in tho oily What a big dance she and my us French o foot came lumbering up with a load of Teaching Mario to burl was not With her little hands she had taken out every knot and was running lonK before Bertha Lane Mellish was Joo won La She was tho more willing to leave her homo because papa was not Jim took her to his cottage over the Bha too that French Joe hod a She girl whose way ran the way pursued by her Who wrote of seeks death pursued by French who seeks to her from her willing Miss Down u hill wo across a stream at Us foot and up a slight Incline through a narrow bolt of hemlock trees that skirled the of the moun She lightly scaled tho sparred face of tho Sho wont straight us death to the river on tho other A deep sorgo cleft tho heart of the I ran with all my might up the streams climbed the precipice At Ita clinging to tho clefts in DUEL OVER mill ut Ill r Shoot at lOuah Other lull duel was fought oday tho woll deputy and editor of he Polite and foseph Conservative deputy for a wellknown author and of the encounter grew out of some hoi exchanged In tho Chamber lay tho Dreyfus men Neither waa lit and their declared Unlit Honor was Lo Journal that In reply to an ap leal by tho Dreyfus to William to Dreyfus Innocent Chancellor says he has into the but cannot advise tho to comply with the The Kronch newspapers generally counsel avoidance of urging thait Justice be allowed to toko Its Most of them think tho stato nent of the Minister of In tho Chamber of Deputies on that aa a soldier and tho Chief of tho Army he regarded the sentence has placed the honor of the army above DONT Overdid mid Fa tally Injured to Harvey Mitchell and Lena Pitcher en gaged in a kicking match today at Mrs Mitchells They wero kicking at a mark on thi whon after one o her fell on tho floor unconscious Investigation showed thai she had rup tured the lining of her stomach and otherwise Injured herself Bh will It the of Jacob thirtyfive years old of returned to that place after a visit to While early yesterday as It was raining hard sought shelter beneath a freight car 01 a There he went to A train arrived and pulled away th car under Knowlton lie visa dragged COO and found by tho trainmen he was Hli who Is wealthy and resides a was Any ono wbo hat tho idea that a Just that und more iho rooms ot 39 Union The Louis and Bui lay a larger tbv of REAT RACE BEGINS AT THE immy Most Wonderful of All Writes of Big Event for The and Says It Will Be a Remarkable PERSONS ON HAND TO SEE THE he Track is But the Curves Are Well Made and the Cyclists Speed Along Like So Many Ghosts All Are EDDY HALE IS THE FAVORITE WITH THE MICHAEL WRITES OF RAGE FOR THE The Greatest of Bicyclists Thinks Affair Will Be One of the Most Remarkable Contests Ever Editor of World I that this will bo one of the greatest bicycle the world Ims ever Never before In the history of the sport has such a congregation of cham pions been The men who arc riding represent almost every country on the face of the mid the majority of them are riders who are known all ovar the 1 have never been In n race and have no particular fancy to bo In I am with riding HO or 100 I think physical strain and the long six days against the demands of nature for rest and sleep Is a good thing for a man who would live a long life to fight why I often feel the effects of my hard work after a long season of ani I have no doubt that 1 have shortened my lite In looking over such a remarkably strong Held of riders It puzzles me to pick a winner or even to say who are likely to ha In the first The result of the contest will depend greatly on the positions of the men at the the first twentyfour The pace that the men are now going will soon tell on some of the weaker ones and they will be In Those who nro hard seasoned riders and have spent months and months In preparing for the will gradually forge ahead and continue to lo BO for the rest of the Stephana and the Frenchm are fust enough and can aro among the best men on tiho but whether they have been affected by the change of climate I cant tell this early In the If they nro IH they will bo heard and are men whose work needs no They showed what they could do in last years Among the other dangerous men aro and TRACK ONLY EIGHTEEN FEET How forty each of whom will occupy more than three feet of space when on his are going to race on a track that la only from eighteen feet to nineteen feet wide la a puzzling Out tho experi ment will be tried during this The truck now In Madison Square Garden la a masterpiece of and was built by an old It Is banked at the turns so that miles In less than two minutes can be ridden on and yet It la The elevation of the track at the outer edges of the banks on the turns Is seven feet and on the stretches three Notwithstanding that tho track is considerably wider than any ever laid in the It Is much too narrow for the big Hold that started this STARTERS IN THE BIG RAGE AND THEIR Teddy Joseph rod and Albert black and old Gaston green and Fred green and Maurice Von Den Charles ma roon and white and Thomas blue and Oscar blue and Nod blue and Burton blue and James Edward black and white and black and Charles black and Frank Burns blue and Macleod and Andrew ma roon and Frank Stars and Peter blue and Harry red and light blue and Louis white and Albert Enterman white and dark blue and yW Joseph black and Stephen Harley red and Fred cook blue and George i
