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1 -creditors can force their debtor' into. . •3 SSI, and admittedly the .-best player to Paris and remained about eighteen ver chessmen was taken by Walter Denegre, acting for . tho Manhattan, •the court andi have an equal'settle- 'In Europe. Tn'-addition to the match months. , ' ~~- 1 ment for their accounts per ratio. games, Morphy and Anderssen played Durhig- the ten years following his Chess club of New York, price $.l.r,50: BANKRUPTCY and the silver -wreath .sold for $250, This is the involuntary act and it-;li THE LIFE OF six informal games, of which the return from Europe .in .ISM Morphy's considered by lawyers and- judges a* also bouffht by Mr. Samory. : Prussian master scored only one. The practice ot chess was limited to cas- 1 a whole just and equitable. . • informal and match fiumes made a ual.games with intimate friends, chief- An engaging pastime oil chess wrlt- : sra and critics of. late years has:.been "Now comes that -portion, which B total of seventeen games played hy •ly with Charles A. -Murlan ot New COURT BUSY so generally abused, the sectlon"of that o" comparing the laf.ter-day mas- these masters, of which Morphy won Orleans and Arnons .de Riviere of which so many take advantage^-to- twelve, Anderssen throe, and two-were Paris, It Is thought,tiie total number ters with Morphy, but so far" the most flatteri-ng; comparisons have nev- ward- off the host or honest-creditors; PAUL MORPHY drawn. -Such a. result was so over- of games played during these ten who are trampellng on their. Heels,--a1 years would not exceed 7f>. The com- er exceeded that of-equality with the whelming as to cause consternation cloak which covers the dishonesty of. •1n European chess circles, and the pleteness of his abandonment of the immortal Morphy. None have claim- SOMETHING OF THE BUSINESS 1 game may be inferred from the fact" ed v that he has been surpassed by a vast multitude, a. shield that pro- chess writers of the' time sought to tects . the worthy- few. • A man ;|may sustain the shattered prestlg-e of, that although the. great international his successors. It is safe to venture DONE UNDER THAT LAW. chess tournament ot 1SC7 was going the opinion, however, that a great pile up any amount of debts), .if his. Interesting Sketch of the World's Greatest Chess Player, their master by explaining That An- credit Is good, spend all his money derssen was in poor health and out on in Paris during Jiis third visit to majority of chess players award.Mor- that city he never once visited the phy the palm of superiority over play- in rlotious living or otherwse/ enjoy, of practice at the time. As to the Local Attorney Comments on Some all the luxuries of life: for which ' he Whose Life Has Been Little Understood Even by question of practice, Anderssen' him- scene of its excltins and splendid ers' ot all times. Certainly, taking into- contests. Morphy played . absolutely consideration the' fact that he. was Interesting Phase* of the Much-Con- can get trusted,' become indebted to self felt that he could play good the greatest extent and then11.', go the Devotees of the Game of Games. enough to win the match, and as to- no chess with anybody after the year in no sense a chess student, that he 1SC9. regarded the game solely as a pas- demued Measure — .Deputy Clerk through the court of bankruptcy.have- his health, hv was well enough to his debt wipedi out and1 all it will cost, travel from Breslau' to Paris in order WAS SADLT AFFLICTED. time and himself as an amateur; not Stuart's BootK Show Kumorou* to play. On the other hand, Morphy The mental derangement which over- forgetting his extreme youth when he him is a paltry sum. ". . whelmed Morphy's brilliant mind and achieved his woncerful victories, nor "It-is disgusting- to- a honorable had been 111 in bed for several weeks 1 Debtor'* Ulabihurared. ' " ' ~i before the match, was still confined clouded his later life is a curious the- fact that his <;hess career cover- man to read_ the Ifrst ot debts which: C. A. Buck of Toronto, Kansas, a Chess Enthusiast, is the chapter in his career, and has. given ed a perjod of less than two years- One ot the most opaque laws of thf some of these adjudged bankrupts to his bed when .Anderssen arrived, have- turned In, a long list footing-iip. and was unable to sit up for several rise to no little wonder among chess remembering all these facts .in addl- many stern rules set down by our Biographer of the American Who Achieved Inter- days thereafter. His physician finally players .as to.the causes and condi- Uon to his sublime chess play and government Is the bankruptcy law- to a considerable amount and. the" to- permitted him to play the match in tions o£ his mania. Without going: jthen comparing him with the season- which went Into effect in July, 189S, tal a.mount of their assets is- usually; the- hotel and thus avoid, the fatigue into the details of his mental trou- ed veterans ot. the checkered field, and was '.'an. attempt by the legisla- nothing-. Among the Items whlehmav national Fame as Among the Masters. incident to playing In -public at the bles; two conclusions stand out very who have devoted years to the anal- tors to cause a just rule for the en- be found In some of the 'lists are: Cafe de- la Kegence. clearly, namely, that chess in no'way ysis and 'practice ot the g-ame, it tire nation and make .the law uni- Mrs. A board $2.50. Mestirs BEGAN TO DISLIKE. CHESS. . contributed ao -,it. and that the re- would seem not beyond the bounds form in every state in the union. It B merchandise 95c, Mrs, Z It was while in Paris, during the verses he experienced in his material of moderation and reason to regard is all contained in a small paper washing $1.25, etc., and) in. some of the month of December, 1858. that Mor- affairs did. The latter conclusion is Paul Morphy as the greatest chess pamphlet of but twenty-three pages, petitions there will be a long'string Tlio Ca/euc; Ihrousli 'he courtesy 18-tii and 1SOO, an* Morphy won nine- borne out by the 'act that his player that ever lived. of these same debts, insignificant in, tenths of them. phy's so-called aversion to chess be- 1 and yet there are few attorneys who nt C. A. Buck of Toronto, Kansas, gan to manifest itself, and his feel- mania toolc the form- o!! a. delu- C. A. BUCK. a.re able to fathom all of its mean- themseive's but of greEtt importance to Regarding the games with Lowen- sion .that his brother-in-law, Sybrant the poor, hard working women to one of Uic beat known chess experts thal, It Is- ii curious circumstance that ings in this particular" became so Ing-.. by name, administrator of his fath- Bankruptcy proceedings Involve a whom they are justly due,women who hi lho middle west, presents here- live years after M.orphy's death there aggravated In later years as ' tn create the general belief that he grew er's estate, had dc-frauded him of his great amount of labor and no one depend on the honesty of the fellow with nn Interestinc and compre- appeared! In the Chess Review of Ha- legacy So Intensely did this delu- beings whom they feed for her -sup- vana an npoehryphal game wherein to positively dislike the game. This receives any pecuniary benefit except hensive biography of the late Paul Is a. mistake. His experience in Eu- sion dominate him that his perverted the bankrupt. One cannot say this port. There are a.- number ot. .cases Morphy accepted the odds of pawn mind- conjured up machinations .on which have come before referees In, Morphy, who ranked onions the ajid move, the claim being made that ropean chess circles was a revela- law was created that the officials tion to him. It should- be remem- the part of Sybrant to poison him in might line their pocket's with gold, this d-istrict where men, who. travel world's masters ut tlie chess table. the game was the third one of the order to quiet his proposed action at considerable have contracted."numer- series played with Lowenthal in 1550. bered that he was a b03', inspired by as the tees are- fixed by Uncle Sam Several biographers have attempted law to recover. Morphy was perpetu- and prove- very poor pay for the ous -petty bills with women who run The game had previously been sub- che ardor, enthusiasm and high ideals ally in fear of DeinR- poisoned, anil the task, but none of thorn have suc- of youth; and loving chess as he amount of labor that must be per- boarding houses in. the various'towns mitted: to no less a chess scholar than as'a precaution would eat nothing ex- formed. There is also what seems to where they. stop, have , gone into ceeded us has Mr. Buck in Catherine Max Lanire who pronounced it genu- did."he was shocked and disgusted at the sordid conventionalities of chess cept at the- hands of his mother or be an endless chain of red taps. court' and had all these small obli- from authentic sources data anil .inci- ine. There were several thing's, so it his unmarried sister. Helena, Tlv.s When one proceeds- to make a peti- gations wiped- out by the' voluntary, was claimed, that clothed this bogus practice that was In vogue. The dents In the life of Mr. Morphy, whose taint of professional ism was repellant proposed s.etlon against his brother-in- Below we give the game won by tion for a discharge in .the bank- act of the bankruptcy law. , •" ' ' game with verisimilitude, chiefly the law absorbed Morphy's attention for Claude H. Coyle of 'Humboldt, Iowa, ruptcy court he has his attorney fill " 'Then why Is not that portion memory will endure as long as there fact that of the three games played to .him, and when he saw how the game was made a. business ot his many years: being a lawyer himself from Frank .Beckley ot Montezuma,' out the necessary blanks. In which repealed?' is a question asked by; l« chess history. Several books have the scores of only two were pre- he busied himself with the details of Io\va. Coyle Is n. lad 17 years of ag-? •he states the amount of his liabilities many. It has its good features' as served. Fortunately, however, for disgust led him to- forsake the-haunts been written which detail closely Mr. of chess. Morphy's ' Ideas regarding his suit, and was muuh about • the and has the making- of a, fine chess and assets. These are sent to the well as Its bad. To demonstrate this Morphy;'s reputation. Charles' A. law courts in consequence-. It should player. He is playing in section 2 deputy cierk in their division) where 'fact one need -but take an example Alorphy's early iife, but Mr. Buck Maurian. than whom no one is better the morals of chess is not suggested 1 for the purpose of making any in- be stated, however, that" Mr. Sybrant of the second Iowa, correspondence they are recorded and referred to the which occurred- within our own.'midst. has, from research covering a period qualified tit pass an opinion on any- discharged the obligations of the trust tourr.ainen". and will emerge from, the referee in the county where the A merchant failed in business . fcut. thing pertaining to Morphy, has vidious comparisons, but simply to nf several years, -related Incidents establish the fact that it was not entirely to the satisfaction of the preliminary -round with nearly, if bankrupt resides. Notice Is given to managed to make a settlement and proved that Morphy did not accept court, which is a matter of. record. not a clean sweep. In sending in the the creditors for two different meet- continued to run his place of business a nil '.'acts In his later life thai have odds on that occasion. The claim, chess that • he grew to dislike, but the practice of it by those who It is difllcult to fix the time when game he enclosed a few notes which, Ings which are held and all proceed- under his 'son's name. Again the firm, never before been printed or pub- notwithstanding: Max Lange's sup- Morphy's mind was noticeably unbal- Awhile brief, are so concise and to the- ings reported to the judge of the di- became deeply Insolvent, failed' 'and port of it, has been' utterly exploded. would make a living by it. As Mor- anced. When the second American lished. phy was fated to be in n. way an point that we could not refrain from vision w-ho gives a decision and re- left some'$5,000 in debts on the son's YOUTH OF PAUL MORPHY. HIS FIRST TOURNAMENT PLAY. involuntary victim nf his fame as a chess congress was held in Cleveland using them. turns the records to the deputy clerk, shoulders, debts which were • not his From his thirteenth to his twentieth in 1S71 strenuous efforts were made EVANS GAMBIT. The chronicles oC chess, ninplilied chess player, his ideas ir, this re- who flies them away for future ref- o-.™. It was not . justice that 'lie _ year Morphy was devoted to his to secure Morphy's attendance., .but White. Black. erence. There are two districts in should be required to pay the obli- ;ss It !s by a literature richer than spect are important as explaining a he persistently deelivied all invitations studies, but during his vacations, peculiar phase of his character. Frank Beehley. Claude H. Coyle. Iowa, the -northern and southern. We gations of others and he went that of any other frame, offtr to the which were spent for the most part DIDN'T LIKE PROFESSIONALISM. that were urged upon him. Rumors- 1 P—K 4. P—K 4. belong to the northern district, which through -bankruptcy. In this case the student nothing to compare with the at home in New Orleans, he played of his malady were abroad then; 2 Kt—K B 3. Kt—Q-E 3. is divided into four divisions. These voluntary part of this strange law Morphy returned to America, in some people who were in a position career of JPau-, Morphy, the game's chess with the strong- amateurs of May, 185!). and was greeted with all 2 B—B 4. ' ^—B 4. are made up of about the same ter- performed a noble duty and removed; greatest master A number uf elr- the. city and with such players of the enthusiasm due a conquering to know aver that his mania was 4 P—Q Kt 4. BxP. ritory as the judicial dstriets. This the heavy cloud that would otherwise (jurnstnnces conspired to make Pn.ul force" who were sojourning . there. perceptible even before that date. H p—B 3. B—R 4.' district has four courts. They are at hero. In the presence of a vast, as- Morphy. was never legally declared in- have hung over the young man dur- ilorptiy an unique and monumental Hence, when the first American chess sembly in the chapel of the Univer- 0 P—Q 4L PxP. Dubuque, Sioux City, Fort Dodge and ing a great portion of hie life." ' . character In cheiis history. The two congress convened In New York in sity of New York he was presented sane; he was so harmless and reti- 7 Castles. P—Q 3. Cedar Rapids. Judge O, P. Shiras, salient factors o£ his fame were, of October. 1SQ7, his renown as a. chess cent and- lived ia such quiet retire- 5 PxP. B—Kt 3. presiding over all of them- with a with a testimonial in the shape ot a menr at his home, that there was no OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.-. .'.'. course, his wonderful cliess play and player had preceded him and he was magnificent, set or gold and silver 9 Kt—B 3. Kt—R 4. deputy clerk at each place. The work It ia this type of men. whom the his extreme youth during the period the cynosure of the chess enthusiasts. need ot putting him under any re- 10 B—K Kt 0. Kt—K 2, of the referee is to filV,out a good chess men, with board to match, thp. straint. In June, 1882. his family tli-J law meant to protect. To show the uf h s active cneLouisiana Retreat, located near r had always considered as a friend augmented his prestige; .and then, too. of pawn and move. This was ac- phy's growing- sensitiveness to the L ) K R—K 1. Q—Q 2. i The Cedar Rapids- deputy clerk of and said, "Here, I am In a hard his personality, marked as it was by cepted by C. H. Stanley, who was one New Orleans, and under the patron- IB Kt—Kt 5: BxQ P. court is J.. O. Stewart, and in his of- "profession of chess." Colonel Charles age of -the Catholic church. Those in place. My shoulders are burdened many graces of the rnlnd, added of the foremost players of his time, D. Mead, president of the American 17 P—K S (b). B—K L, 4. Jice are heaps of schedules of the with debts wtUch I never con,,pay lustre to his I'ame. His later life, having- defeated- Rousseau in a match the party that accompanied Morphy 15 P—K G. ' PxP. debts of bankrupts who have been 1 Chess association, was chairman of were his mother, his. brother Edward, and I have come to the conclusion, during which hi.' met with many dis- by a score of K to S. The proposed the reception committee which greet- 19 RxP. BxQ n. finally discharged and these hun- that if I could get rid of my debts. appointments and reverses, finally re- maeh was for' seven games up. but and his intimate friend, C. A. Maur- 20 Q-R 3 (c). BxB. dreds of books will be stored away fn ed Morphy, and in Ills address of ian. When they reached the asylum I could start life anew and do .bet- siHlUnt: In a mild form of mania, adds Stanley resigned after, five games had welcome he made an allusion to chess1 21 Kt—K Kt G. P—K K 3. \ some dark corner for centuries to ter. There is but one salvation, the 11 me'lancholy interest to his career. been played, Morphy winning four Morphy protested- against his deten- 2?. Kt—K T ch (£). QxKt. come. In 1898. the year -the law went as a profession, and referred to Mor- | tion with such evident sanity, and bankruptcy court, but I am -finan- It was such a contrast to what his and Stanley om>. This challenge at phy as its most brilliant exponent, 2" RxQ. PxKt. into effect, from July to January cially embarrassed and thought'. you. youth gave promise of that it seems the odds of pawn and1 move was also discussed his civil rights with such 24 QxP. B—B S. there were twenty-five petitions for Morphy took exception to being char- a learned knowledge of the law. that might- be kind enough to lend me almost tragic in its aspects. leveled at Jamei Thompson, a player acterized as a professional player, •2~< Q—Q 5 eh. K—R 1, discharge in this district, which is J50 to pay for the proceedings." The it is curious 10 note that while the of. some force, who participated in the the Sisters.in charac were afraid to 2G R—K 3. B—R 2. composed of the counties of Linn, even by implication, and he resented assume the responslbllty, and he was friend took pity on his o!d.7>al and name of Paul Morphy is known main tournament of the congress. it in such a way as to overwhelm 27'QxKt. B—Q 3. ^ Johnson,' Iowa, Cedar, Eenton, Tama, made the loan. When the bankrupt wherever chess is played, and most Morphy and Thompson had played as Colonel Mead with confusion. Such taken back home. 25 R—K E 3. B—K 5. Jones, Hardin, Grundy and Clinton. entered' his liabilities he included the> every practitioner of the game is fa- many as eight trames together, on was his mortification at ' this un- During all these years of misfor- 29 R—K R. 3 ch. K—Kt 1. In 1S99' tbere- were 10S petitions, and $50 loaned him by this friend, who millur with his chess, yet there are even terms, Including the games in toward ev.ent that Colonel Mead with- tune Morphy still lovc-d chess, and. 30 Resigns. '- this year there were 91. showing a had -to worry for his money and few players of today who know of the tournament, and Jlorphy had-won kopc run of the current news of the NOTES. decrease from last year. Of all the drew from farther participation in game down -to his death. But he was finally was given for his share- among his later lift, diting from his .return all of them, yet Thompson was not the Morphy demonstration. Tr.o (a) White selected 11, BxKt. etc., petitions of Linn county people this the host of creditors the insignificant from Europe In.lssp. A sketch of prepared to admit that the disparity •Union Chess club of New York pre- annoyed, zund at times 'even enraged, believing it would give him a better year only eight of the records have sum. of 30 cents. Morphy's later iife, however brief and of pawn and move existed between at the mention of It. This may seem game than the usual continuation, been returned to the deputy clerk for sented Morphy with a superb ster- rather contradictory, but it should be although it did not seem to give the Another case which will bring up a fragmentary, should properly be pre- them. As Thompson would not ac- ling silver wreath :'.s a token of vic- 1 record of final discharge. The total new question.will soon be decided. It faced by a re\ ieu- of his chess ca- cept the odds in casual play Morphy remembered that his experiences and attack that the Evans .should. amount of liabilities given in by these tory over all. In'Boston, also, Mor- environments were (peculiar. It may (b) Threatening mate. eight bankrupts is $44,789.08, and the is a petition filed but a few reer, not Only in the interest of an sought to tempt ham with the odds phy was given a. banquet, at which be worth while to- relate an episode (e) Usually an attack on a castled weeks ago by a, man named harmonious whcle, but thtit the read- in a match. Referring- to this mat- Longfellow. Holmes. Lowell, Agassi z assets amount to nothing. Generally Campbell, who has for liabilities that discloses Morphy's feelings re- king ot three or four pieces- is enough the- personal property is listed on the er may have a better understanding ter in a letter home -at the time Mor- and many other eminent citizens were garding chess better than anything a. judgment given against him'; of some phases ot his character that phy observes that "he seems to fancy to win, but this seems an exception. asset schedule but this ' is exempt. present to tender him their congratu- else. Under the pretense of assisting (d). Winning the q.ueen under pen- This shows that the insolvency of amounting.-to $5,000 to a woman .for developed with the maturity of years. that it Is beneath his dignity to ac- lations. him with his suk against his broth- alty of mate in four moves. The play a breach-of promise to marry. .'Here Paul Morphy was born In New Or- cept odds of a player who has won the average bankrupt Is $5,598.63 and the state law concerning breach of 1 MORPHY AS AN EDITOR. er-in-law, a lawyer ot New Orleans eventually leaves black with a rook the actual cost .of going through, the leuns, June 2:!, liiuT. He learned chess every game contested with him. My So great an interest did Morphy's examined the papers In the case and .and two bishops against a queen, bankruptcy proceedings and obtiinlntr -promise and. the United States bank- at the age ot 10. graduatedXat Spring- impression is that I can give him the achievements create in chess, in this gave his opinion in Morphy's favor. which wins. a final discharge amounts to less than ruptcy law.clash. -It Is anticipated- Hill college, near Mobile. Ala., in 1S54, odds and make even £ame&." But country that Robert Bonner, the en- He gained confidence to such, an ex- (c) Black threatens RxP and there S100. The greatest amount of liabili- that some sensational development?, studied law and was admitted to the Thompson did not accept the chal- terprising publisher of the New York tent that Morphy ate a piece ot rock seems no satisfactory reply. ties given in by one person- was $27,- will come out-of. the Hrst meeting of bar in April, 1807. He was gifted lenge. Attention Is called to the Ledger, started a chess column in his nar.dy from a package in the lawyer's 778,98 while the lowest was $65S.D9. It the creditors to -be held in this city with n wonderfr.1 mind, its precocious chess vanity thc-.t prevented Thomp- paper, and secured for it at. once hand, first seeing that the lawyer CHESS NOTES. Is of interest to note the number of January 3. • •' powers being revealed not only In son from playing Morphy and take widespread popularity by engaging himself bad eaten a piece. The law- On lost Saturday evening at the cases filed- by people from Linn and "What will r-p the ultimate effect o£ ' chess but in his studies as well. It the odds of .pawn and, move, because Morphy as chess- edltor"~at a salary yer then suggested that he would T.' M. C. A. rooms a chess and other counties in the dlstrlc-t. the now existing bankruptcy law onr should be noticed that before he was after Morphy's return fro.*n Europe of $P,,000 a year, paid in. advance. like, at some convenient time, to play checker club was organized with the SOME STATISTICS, commerco?" Is a question which when a> years old he had graduated at col- eighteen months later he defeated The '.v-ature of the .Ledger column a game -of chess with him. Morphy following officers: President,' Chas. Following !s a schedule showing the propounded to the local attorneys • lege andi at a law school, his learn- Thompson decisively at the odds ota was the publication of about fifteen seemed alarmed; made sure that no H. Harmer; secretary-treasurer, Har- number of coses filed each month by elicits a variety of responses. There ing embracing fluency in lour lan- knight: Winning this match at such of the -games between '.De La Bour- one was in hearing, and then replied: ry A. Weyand. A committee com- parlies residing in the various coun- are none, however, who belie.ve that guages and ability to recite from odds against a player of Thompson's donnals and MacDonnell, annotated "I dearly love chess;- but not now, posed of. Messrs, Weyand, Donaldson ties in this diatrict and the total it will ever Induce a wholly , cash memory nearly the entire civil code ability is regardeci by some as Mor- by Morphy. Morphy intended to pub- not now—when we win the case." and Fisher was appointed to prepare number filed during the year in each business as it has been demonstrated) of Lo-ulsiana. phy's greatest achievement. lish all the games- between these two NEVER LOST HIS POWER. plans for the coming . season. One and all counties: to the satisfaction of business 'men. SHOWED EARLY ABILITY. Before leaving New York Morphy masters, as he considered them the 1 that the credit system Is x. great pro-, When Steinitz was in New Orlean ; of the first will probably be, a tour- WORK OF BANKRUPTCY LAW TN 1 Morphy's chess practice during' his amended his challenge to the New finest specimens of chess on record. in 18S3 he . persistently tried to see nament to ascertain the strength uf moter of commercial transactions- childhood was mainly with his father York players to embrace any player Shortly after reaching: New Or- Morphy, and Morphy as persistently the various players so they can he- TEN COUNTIES THIS YEAR. •"The credit system," said one, "has and his uncle. Ernest Morphy. He In America. The effect of this-was to leans Morphy issued a final challenge, avoided him. Aftev four failures to placed in classes. After that It is been a great detriment in eome ways > 5 gave evidence of a keen aptitude for offer the odds of pawn and. move to offering to give the odds of pawn effect an interview between .these two expected that there will be'a- handi- 's O to trade but only because ot the lack, the game and was soon able to de- Louis Pnulsen of Iowa, the second and move to any player in the. world.- celebrated chess players, friends of. cap tournament. All members of the of diligence on the part ot wholesale feat them both, although his uncle prize winner of the congress—a play- and receiving no response thereto he Morphy finally secured his promise tc association are eligible to member- and retail dealers. The present exist- especially was i strong player. His er -who, like Morphy. made his first declared his career as a. chessplayer meet Steinitz on condition that chess ship and it is hoped that all lover.-5 ing law may be the means ot cre- natural capacity for chess was shown appearance before the chess world at finally and definitely closed, a dec- of these two games will join. £ 5 3 ating that happy medium for which,

would -not even be alluded, to. This Augus t Septem l Marc h 3 Octobe r Novem l Decem b in his seeming divination .of the prop- this congress, and who, with Mor- laration 'to which he held with un- condition was adhered to, and the In- 'januav j 'Februa l commercial men have longed for many er moves in the openings before he phy eliminated, wouldi. have been th.i broken resolution during the whole ILLINOIS CENTRAL, R. R—OF IN- Linn ,,•: 5 2 0 1 i 1 Cl 11 1 0 0 4 years. It will certainly force the terview lasted about ten minutes, but Johns'n 0 0 3 1 0 -4 1 0 0 0 0 1 had ever studiel them. Ernest Mor- most conspicuous player there. No of the remainder of his-life. was mutually embarrassing on ac- TEREST TO STOCKHOLDERS- 2 merchant, both wholesale and- retail, phy wrote to Kleseritzky in October, result came of the challenge however. Morphy made arrangements to prac- FREE TRANSPORTATION TO Iowa . . . 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 to be more particular aboui. looking; count of the- forbidden subject. When Cexiar .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 c •0 0 184!*. that his -nephew, then a little ENGLISHMAN WAS AFRAID, tice law soon after his return to his Morphy was first approached by 'a ATTEND THE SPECIAL o Into a man's credit than hitherto. Ir. over 12 years fid, had never opened Morphy went to England in June, •no.tive city, but his fame as a chess friend in regard to meeting Steinitz, MEETING AT CHICAGO. Benton . 3 2) 1 0 0 0 0 •0 0 0 0 is~certain. that few of these who have a chess treatise but that "In the player, was.so overshadowing that it Illinois Centra-l Railroad Company. Tama .. 1 3! 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 '0 0 1 taken advantage of this law unfair- 1SDS, to play Staunto'.i, the represen- the remark was made that "Steinitx 1 2 5 openings he plays the coups justes as seemed people were disinclined to- re- Notice to Stockholders: Jones ... .2 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ly will be able to avoid paying a tative of English chess, but failed to Is In the city," to see what effect it Hardin . 1 1 4 0 0 0 1 If by Inspiration." As a matter of meet him In a match -owing to de- gard him seriously In any- other ca- would have on Morphy, He replies: .'Public notice Is hereby given that a 1 1 1 3 1 host of honest debts'a second•' time. • fact, Morphy did not at any time pacity. His fellow citizens looked special meeting of the stockholders Grundy 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Instead o£ killing the credit system as fault by Staunton. They did meet, "I know it." and after a pause he Clinton. 0 2 2 0 Q 2 1 have the benefit of chsss books In the however, in consultation play, Mor- upon him simply as a marvelous continued, "His gambit is not pood." of the Illinois Central Railroad- com- 1 0 1 0 C 0 many have supposed- It was intended sense of keeping a number of them at chess player and nothing more, and There is a world of 'meaning in thppi1 pany will- be held at the company's to do It will only "make that manner phy's ally being Thomas Wilson 1 Total '.. 12 13 17 9 5 •4 r hand for study and .reference. What Barnes and Staunton's confere being this so irritated him that he began words to one who is -familiar with all otfice in Chicago, Illinois, oh Satur- I'll 1 ~s| of tranaction a purer business meth- few books he made use of he went Rev. J. Owen ("Alter" In chess cir- to ha.ve an aversion to. playing the .the particulars to which the words day, January 26, 11)01, at 11 o'clock In od and i;ause that condition of affairs through quickly as possible, and af- cles). Two games were played, and game even privately. In fact, he be- may apply. Morphy "was then asked the forenoon. SOME PHASES OF THE LAW. which will. be. neither strictly, cash, ter having- mastered the contents he Morphy and Barnes won both. Mor- came so morbid on the effect of chess "it he kept a board and men at hand To permit personal attendance at There are two phases to the bank- nor wholly credit business. Commer- gave them away. James McCinnell, phy played a match ' with Lowenthal on his career as a lawyer that. In to play over games, and he admitted this meeting there will be issued, to ruptcy law, the voluntary and the cialism will not run to extremes in the elder, of New Orleans, has a book and won by a score' of nine games spite of ail the efforts of his friends he did, but he could not be Induced each holder of one or more shares of involuntary, and the consensus of either direction but.enforce a care on ot the tournament of 1S51 which Mor- to three, with two draws; also- a and relatives, he gave up the work to 'talk further on the subject of the capital1 stock of the Illinois Cen- opinion among those who are • well the part of 'all which will be highly; phy gave him v.-hen 15 years old. The of chijss editor of the Ledger, and tral Railroad1 company, asv registered Informed as to • the merits of this beneficial to the commercial world-at match with Rev. J. Owen, at odds chess. rule now being enacted over our en- book had been Issued but a short of pawn and move.winning five games tlie contract lor which he had been It IE said by those most qualiti':'! on the books of the company, a tick- large." ______,. . engaged was completed by W. J. A. to speak that Morphy's mental de- tire nation is that the- Involuntary Urne when Movphy secured this- copy. and losing none, with two draws. In et enabling him, or her, to travel free HAMMOND, LOUISIAN>A',AN IDEAL. He soon iplayed over all the games France he played three matches, win- Fuller. Morphy was associated with- rangement aid not impair his chess over the company's lines from the sta- part is all right and the voluntary W. D. Fiske In the publication of powers in the least: that 'at anytime part all wrong. This fact is real- HEALTH AND WINTER RE-. and then gave it to-his friend. The ning against Anderssen, 7 to 2, and tion on the Illinois Central railroad ized by all who have made a study SORT. - '•• - volume is especially interesting on two draws: against Harrwilz 5 to 2, the American Chess Monthly, and during his later years he-could have nearest to his or her registered ad- although, his name was- carried on played with all his pristine brilliancy oi the system and.it is possible, yes • The passenger department o£ the account of numerous marginal notes and one draw; asalnst Mongredien 7 dress to Chicago and return, such Illinois Central Railroad company, has In Morphy's own handwriting by to 0. While In Europe Morphy gave the publication, as one of Its editors and accuracy. ticket to be good, for the journey to probable that a. radical change will during rthe five years- of Its existence - When Dr.. Zukerlort was in. New be made in the law in the near fu- just issued a new edition of. vHam-' which he expressed his opinion of the four seances In blindfold .play, at Chicago only during- the four days ture . In an Interview with a Ga- mond, .Louisiana, as a Winter .Re- games and certain moves. As is well Birmingham, at the London Chess (1S57-1S61). it is known that he did Orleans in 1SS2 he met Morphy on immediately preceding, and the day very little ot the work. Canal street' and handed him his zette reporter J. 0. Stewart, deputy sort." a beautiful illustrated . folder known, this book was edited by club, at the St. George's Chess club of the meeting, and for the return clerk to the United States courts; showing a few of the winter attrac- Staunton, and: young Morphy, like a (London), and at Paris. In each con- UNHAPPY LOVE AFFAIR. card-. Morphy put the card In his journey from Chicagb"onCy on the day An incident may here be related pocket without looking at it, and then said: "I believe the -next.session of tions In and about Hammond, copies child of genlu;i, made a captious test he played eight 'games, and made of the .meeting, and the four days congress will either repeal or amend- of which will ibe mailed -free on ap- comment on Stnunton's- chess play .by the unique record of losing- only one as showing; how Morphy was oftefr- greeted-the doctor by name, speaktnn: immediately following, when properly crucified' on the cross of his fame.. in French. Zukertort was amazed, the bankruptcy law so that it will plication to the undersigned-. •-. ; ' writing on the title page to. make the game,"" although several were drawn, countersigned and stamped during be more stringent." For. those in good or moderate- cir- six by asreement. His , performance He became enamored of a wealthy arid exclaimed: "Why, how is it you 1 authorship read Hke this: "By H, 'business hours—that is to say, be- "The meaning of the law is -all cumstances, no point Jn the south of- Staunton, Esq., author oi' the Hand- at Paris, considering the strength of and handsome your.g lady In New- know my name without looking'-at tween 0 a, m. and 5 p. m.—-in the of- Orleans and informed a. mutual friend my card? And how. did you know I right but it Is taken advantage of by •fers.such Inducements. The climateLs book of Chess, Chess-Player's com- his adversaries, ia held by some crit- fice of the assistant secretary. Mr. W. many .-unprincipled parties • mererjrjto.: jln'surpassed. The artesian water-ex- panion, etc (ard some devilish bad ics to be the crowning- achievement of the fact, who broached the sub- speak French?". Morphy satisfied his G. Bruen, in- Chicago. Such ticket curiosity1 by remo.rking: "I met you escape paying their -honest debts," cellent. Society almost entirely.north- games-)." In blindfold play. Morphy never re- ject to the lady, but she scorned the; : may be obtained -by any registered said a leading.attorney. "A merchant garded this form of Chess seriously; idea of marrying- a "mere chess in Paris in 1867, and'you spoke French ffrn, and the hotel and boarding house, Paul Morphy Irst showed the genius 1 holder of stock In application, in •who' runs his business on an exten- accommodations far superior to. any of a coming mister in the three he remarked one time that "it proves player." Small wonder that he be- then." ' •-'-'• ' 'Paul. Morphy died,suddenly at his writing, to the president of-the conv sive-plan -is at -a general rule "held; -town of its size .In the north,--and at' games he played with Lowenthal, the nothing." He held to the opinion came morbid and abjured the prac- pany in -Chicago. Each • applicant strongly1 in trust with- the houses of tice of chess. - - home in New/ Orleans July 10. 1K84/ moderate -ates. . .-. • • distinguished Hungarian player, in that » player's strength was meas- must state the full name- and- address which he buys. A great deal ot con- - - J. F. MERRY,' - May, 1S50, when he was 'not quite l.i ured by his play .against a single ad- 'During -the year 1S61 Morphy vis- He'had indulged- in'a long- walk dur- ing the heat, ot-tlje'-:day, and on/,his . ot, the • stockholder exactly as given fidence 'and-.reliance Is vested in him Ajs't.. Gen. PMS,-Agt,, 111. Cent, R. R years old. Of these games he won versary across tlie board. ited- Richmond, Va.(, seeking to obtain, ir/his or her'certificate oC stock, to- by,.his creditors and it is- to.che'iri-ln- After his sojourn in Paris. Morphy an -appointment In the diplomatic ser- return home •went'.sto "the- bath .room •".Pub'ugue. Iowa. two and/ drew the other. - His en- to bathe. It is supposed', the shock of gether, with the number and date -of .terest that hifl business flourish and counters, about' this time,' with Eu- returned to London and played many vice of the- southern confederacy, but such, certificate:• -No more than' one to the'r detriment 1C he, has"-..poor EXCURSION RATES TO CEDAR informal' games with the strongest he did not succeed and. returned to .the. cold water onv.hls overheated tofly gene Rousseau, a native of France caused cougestioaVof''the. brain,; for person will be carried free in respect management, becomes deeply - insolv- RAPIDS. ; but then a resident o£ New Orleans, English players, notably with S. S. New Orleans. He was there • when the to any one: hc'-lding of stock as regis- ent .--and; -tangled In his. -financial ;.-at-'- '.-, For the annual exhibition. Western further showed a surpassing- mastery Boden and Thomas Wilson Barnes1. city was captured by the federal he--was found -dead.' in. the bath tub ^Poultry Fanciers' association, at. Ce- shortly.-.afterward. ,.•' •" . :. 1 tered-'bn the. books of the company.' . 'fairs. ThlS'is often the case where of chess for-a boy Just entering his Morphy regarded Mr. Boden as the forces.- In October, 1S02, he went to For the, purposes of • this meetins •merchants -through lack oC • judgment dar Rapids, Jan. 31-19,- excursion tick- 1 strongest English player. Havana., in' a Spanislv. rnan-of-war, taa . After-his-death : . Ms;-, trophies.---were 1 teens. Rousseau rating as a chess sold . at auction. . '.The'- silver service, the *tock''-transfer booksi .will be closed or poor -business transactions ^plainly ets at very favorable rates -win- bo player may be>Judged by the games •HIS GREATEST. ACHIEVEMENT. Blasco de Garay,-and -after..remaining •at -3-o'clock1 "p." m.- on Thursday, De- demonstrate .that they are liable to sold via the B., C. R. & N. Ry. The concensus oJ opinion seems to 'there a few weeks he sailed- for 'Ca- 'consisting of z. pitcher/', lour goblets he played with Kleserltzky on even and .a'.salver, being ithe,'-first .prtz? cember 20. 1900,- and remain closed un- sink all they have and all their cred- Full • information may- be obtained terms, of which there were more than be that Morphy's chief claim to pre- diz-' From there he -went- to-; Paris • tlh tKe morning- of Monday;- January itors .have' in . their . business. , The upon application to agents of rthe eminence in chess Tests upon his vic- by. rail,. where foe remained until the won..at. Mhe chessvi'coneressY -was 100 the latter winning a bare major- boug-ht -for -S400--by,. Sir.;•.Samory of " 1901:' • A. G. HACKSTAFF, bankruptcy law. "provides- that when, 'Cedar Rapldg . Route" within 100 tory over. Anderssen,-. winner of; the spring of 1865, 'when ' he returned to Secretary such ifi the., condition...'of affairs the ity, Morphy S'.nd Rousseau played New Orleans lii 1867 he again went I :New 0-leans the. set of gold and sll miles of Cedar .Rapids, 't, over fifty games d-uring the years world's' tournament 'In. London in