The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-09-20

done with the salaries paid the Paducah
ball team. This is easily explained.
While ball players are generally looked
upon as high rollers, the standard does
not apply to all, and some are gentle.
men of the best type who send their
money home. For instance several
members of the Paducah team are mar
ried men and all the money made was
sent home to their family except what
was absolutely necessary to live on. The
ball player does not make so very much
money in league Of the size Of the Kit.
ty, and "a the season is little more than
three months duration. but little money
can be saved. Ball players are a hap.
py go. lucky set of fellows who have
hearts as big as their hats, and they
are liberal in donations TO all deserving
objects They spend their money TO the
best advantage, as rule, those who
are single men, and some have not the
price of a ticket home when the season
ends. Several Paducah players live a
long way and the fare would cost half
a months salary.
Talk about your army discipline and
what is required of you in the way Of
gentlemanly behavior" n well known
railroad man stated, but IL does not
compare in one sense of the word with
the discipline enforced in the shops all
over the I. g. system.
. For instance, whenever employees Of
the ]. G. have a fight, they both get
canned and this without delay. When
men get into a fight and no matter who
Is to blame, both may at once prepare
To turn in their time and take walk
There are a few cases. however, where
employees Of long service get into alter.
cations when they are not to blame, but
il rarely ever comes to pass that he gets
back in To the good graces of the road,
unless he could not avoid the difficulty"
DO you know" wen known tray
cling man asked, that your little town
is pretty well advertised all over the
United Statesi Well. II IS. and well ad-
vertised too. You can go most anywhere
and find some one from Paducah or who
Is acquainted with the place in some
way.
register from Paducah and see what
You will get. so you are from Padu
cab, are your the clerk will inquire.
Well. knew so and so from Paducah,
one Of the best men ever met lie says
YOU have got one of the finest towns,
taking IL all around in the state, and |
want TO take a run down some time
and see for myself This will be the
talk you will get most everywhere. 60
Ia New York and buy something in a
drug store and in your conversation IL
you should incidentally remark from
where you hailed its ten TO one he will
tell you, %. yes. that's the place DIR. So
and SO makes his cough syrup This
firm you know advcrtises thoroughly.
You may 60 into saloon and ask for a
certain Paducah brand of whiskey and
You will more than likely get it. There
are people Of all walks of life. theat-
rieal, baseball, newspaper and legal cir
Giles. who have made names for them
selves abroad. and Psducah gets her
share of free advertising"
There was something doing" in Pa
ducah last week for every one. Seldom
before in the history Of the city were
there so many different things inside
Of seven days. First the opening of the
schools called the little folks together,
and the closing Of the baseball league
was feature that attracted no little
attention and Paducah won the pen
nant. The visit of the Pittsburg national
league baseball team was a big thing
TO the fans and the marksmen had the
biggest tournament in the history of
the city in which Paducah boy captur-
ED the state championship. The Great
Wallace circus drew large crowd and
possibly the biggest week of the year
ended with the visit of the Hon. Thorn
as l.. Watson the Populist nominee for
president and the district populist con
yention, while the big revival attract
ed hundreds of good citizens day and