The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-03
BASEBALL CRAZE
sT.|RSAL|.L GOTHAM |
Great Crowds Gather at Bulletin
Boards to Await News
From Diamond. #3
SUNDAY GAME IN BROOKLYN III |. ' ! '
Something About Pierre de Dam
SUNDAY GAME Il IN BROOKLYN { 'l:'I. !. I ! !
Something About Pierre de Dam
dois, Who Is Buried iii
New York.
{specIal to 1,he rlmes. plspalct.)

Especial to The Tlr11cs-D ispatch.).
NEW YORK, May 2.-Tho interest that
is 8takcni IN baseball in this city has been
tinles Reference has bccn made to the
great crowds that collect In front OF the
bulletin boards and watch the playing
OF the games as reflected over q special
wire from the ball ground. Thcr6Sis moth
ing particularly interesting In this except
in the size Of the crowds that gather,
which shows the remarkable interest the.
game excltcsf In New York.
1t. is also a costly feature for the pa
pers that carry the scheme out. A man
is required to mark up the changes on
the board a special telegraph wire must
be paid for, and an operator must he
employed to receive the messages. Not
content with this, one Of the papers that
has a skyscrapcr for q home, has adopt
ed. the scheme OF displaying from Its
| flagstaff certain colored penants TO in-l
dictate that the local team has won or
lost. ses}S 4 g 81 i
Sunday base ball seems to be a fixture
cver5in Brooklyn. The Trolley Dodgers
L
Sunday, and there was not the slightest
| hint Of interference from the police. That
| Sunday base-ballgis POPULAR with a goodly
portion OF citizens here was attested by
| the fact that Washington Park has never
before held such a crowd of "fiends. 4 The,
small boy was also largely in evidence,
and the Sunday schools of many Brooklyn
churches must have ffered bad ly In cons
sequence, not that;ttho kids saved Sunday.
L. for
they did nothing OF the sort. THE ave
Ierage Brooklyn boy does not believe in
paying for this sort Of pleasure. He knows
oflSways that appeals more strongly to.
| him. Il. II
AT the Sunday game there was a crowd
OF at least half OF a hundred OF them that
formed flying wed - against the east
ern fence and IT. went down in a heap
admitting not less than five hundred
youngsters before the police could reach
1.-The breach and stop the Aflow Of self
made dead heads
| Since automobiles have been so gem
orally used in this city, I have often Won
dered at the seeming carelessness with
which their owners and chaffeurs would
leave them standing in the street. with
power up, and unguarded except to such
extent ay the safety lever or catch, may
be regarded as guard against their being
lstaHsn. ~ ss$,S g ttSs5t
i Yet until the present week q cannot RE-
i call a case Of an automobile being stolen.
4 or course, It may be offered in explana-
,I$tion that an auto Is a somewhat cum
I5bersome sort Of property to dispose of II
| stolen as because OF the factory NUM-
j bers would be very easy to trace. But
! on the other hand thieves are fond OF
stealing brass and such like junk, and
There are few movable pieces of property
lthat carry more va uable pieces OF brass,
than an automobile. For this reasony autos
should prove fairly attractive plumber.
The auto that was stolen this week wa a
| big ponderous touring car, valued ut $4,000.
lit seems to have disappeared as com-
.pletcly as though 1t had gone up In vapor.
Maybe 1t did. for autos have an ernbar-
RAISING way of blowing up, now and then.
With all the agitation that the local
papers is stirring up to have the re-
mains of Paul Jones buried in this city
lit Is strange to note that the great
admirars most bitter enemy is also In
tered here. This enemy was Pierre de
| Landlns, WHO more than once almost
turned Jones's sea triumphs into defeat,
| and who to the end OF his days cursed
and vIllified the generous admiral who
had so freely pard him.
Landlas's bones ireporse in the strange
| little cemetery Sof st. Patrlck's at the
corner OF Mott and Prince Streets. On
| one age worn. grayish- white slab may
be seen the traces, now almost effaced,
\ Of lettering. This is supposed to mark
1 tho last resting place OF Pierre de Ian
i dais q though now unde clpherable its LETT
lstcring has been preserved by historians.
i and Is as follows: .5 X &