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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-05
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-05
CHATTER XII

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-05

II bury, $55, ,75O, ,OOOOO ' N ~ Grand List of the District Inside of tho City of Waterbury, $46,9 ' Grand List of that portion Taxation District of the City of Waterbury established Assembly of 1885 and within the limits Taxation District s established by the amending the City of Water bury consolidating the City passed by the General Assembly session in 1901, $345OOOO. .OO. ' And if the appropriations made with the above and foregoing estimates of the commencing January 1S0S will necessary to lay tax of mills the dollar the City f Water oury within the limits Of the First Taxation District the City or Waterbury and tax of 10 mills raab estates of the City Waterbury within the limits of the Second Taxation District of the City Waterbury exclusive of prope and raa0le estates lying outside the limits of Water bury established by the and within the limits of the Second Taxation City off Water bury established by the General of 5 mills the dollar ratab estates of that portion of the City of Waterbury limits of the said SaonJ Taxation District lying outside the limits of the City of Water bury established by the said aYes to become due and payable May 1, 1908.
 On the foregoing appropriations rate necessary or the District would on the dollar on tbs stsbls estates within said district for all other -ons expenses o the said Second Taxation District the of hlIs on the dollar would be atabe estates within of the City off Watev as established by the General Assembly of tax rate of mills on the dollar for the the raable estates that City of within the limits of said Second ng outsra h limits of the City of established by inc o,. Assembly of 1885, and further mills on inc oIsr the atabe estates of that portion City of wsterbrv within the limits of said Second District lying outside the penses of said Second District
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 BY w H. sANDLAND ClarE The above and foregoing copy the original o the BoaTd of Finance on the estimates and CI,y of MsteToaTy for the year 1sos as received and
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
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opera performance in any part of the United States but what, at some stage or the other of the performance, the house will take up the call for that celebrated baseball lyric and stop the production of the piece until it gets what 1t wants. Such Is the popularity of baseball.
 Stop the average boy on the street and ask him to name the capital of Texas and he Is as likely to say Ohio as Austin. Ask him, however, who led the Ameri- can League in hitting last year and he will tell you 1t was Stone, with an aver age of .354 per cent. He may think that Napoleon Bonaparte won the battle of Bunker Hin, but he will be certain sure that Chicago won the National League pennant last year. And he will have pretty pronounced ideas on which team Is going to win 1t again this year.
 The Baseball situation.
 It takes man with more than ordinary nerve to forecast the baseball prospects for this year, thus early in the season. To the man up a tree, however, 1t looks as if the winners In the two big leagues should be the same as last year. At the very beginning this year Chicago began to pull away from It's competitors in the National, and. after very few games had been played, showed clear space Of water between it and the next best club. The New York Giants, however. are said to be stronger than they were last year, and Murray the new manager of the Philadelphia Nationals, has astonished the natives all around the circuit by the speed and snap of his indeld. Last year
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often break up a champion team and put a crimp in the ambitions of the fastest aggregation of ballplayers ever gotten together. One year Muggsy McGraw's team of New York Giants seemed un- beatable. They carried off the National League pennant with a rush, and In the after-season worlds championship series made the Philadelphia American League winners look like novices. The next year the great Christy Matthewson-one man, star, 1t Is true, but still only one man-was off in his form; had gone back, as the saying goes, and the Giants nn- fshed poor second. This was last year.
 when, as everybody remembers. Chicago made runaway race of 1t In the Nation al After they had so far outdistanced the other clubs in the league as to make them look ridiculous. fans turned their attention to the race in the American League. Up to the very last-unti
 Chicago nosed its way out and won by the tenth of an eyelash-the race was uncertain, and the betting was at heavy odds that the wonderful Chicago Nation als would beat their sister American League team to frazzle in the worlds championship race. But did theyf His tory answers nay. The Chicago Ameri- cans, tired and on edge from their hard battle, turned to meet their sprightly foe, and before six crowds-each one the size of small city-won the world IS championship. Does this prove that bet ter ball is played in the American than in the National League? Not any more so than McGraws victory over fn,ia- delphla the preceding year proved that the Nationals put up the better article
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the Chicago Nationals had a clear lead of 131 points over New York when the season was over and Pittsburg was but 22 points behind the Giants. Cincinnati is playing better baseball this year than 1t did last year and St. Louis seems stronger. In the American League Phila- delphia, which only finished fourth last year, made a good start and held It's own with the other leaders, despite the ab- sence of Rube Waddell, who was sus- pended for refusal to obey orders. Pres ent indications are for hot race In the American League. Close finishes and hair-raising windups have been the order for several seasons past now, and this year will apparently be no exception.
 The chief charms of baseball are US uncertainty and its democracy. No game has no chance to win. No lead in the pennant race is ever so commanding that no other club can overcome 1t. Teams have batted out a victory with the score Q to 1 against them in the last half of time, an error or so in the field. poor misjudging of a fly ball, the bad bound may fill the bases and put the best is usually the case that the better his balloon does begin It's ascent. The illness of Catcher Lou Crieger made the Worlds Champion Boston Americans bunch of pitiful tailenders. The loss of one. player-eyen If the new man seems to be more clever worker-wii
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02

YZE HEN 10000 men and women shout kk and boot and yell like mad because W an ordinary man, armed with an ordinary-looking stick, has banged leather-covered spheroid-not much bigger than lemon against an out field fence, 1t Is sign that something affecting the national heart Is transpiring.
 When 15,000 men and women go to the opening game of the season in New York and sit through a snowstorm to see 1t played; when 10000 people in four cities of the Eastern, League brave a coldness to freezing to see the season open; when some baseball players get as much salary as the vice president of the United transfer of a player from one club to another; when a single victory of one club over another will arouse more en- thusiasm than did Sampsons victory over Cervera: when Hans Wagner's name Is on the tongue more often than Roose- yelt's: when Napoleon Lejoie Is more popular in Cleveland than Mayor Tom Johnson; when every day more people than the total population of Pittsburg and Allegheny combined attend the yari- ous ball games in the country, 1t Is small wonder, indeed, that baseball Is called the national game.
 What the bull-fght is to Spain, the cock-hght to the Filipino, hockey to the Canadian, cricket to the Englishman, that baseball is to America. De Wolfe Hopper has been reciting "Casey at the Bat for over 10 years now, but he can. oot come upon the stage in any comic
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can't believe all you read about them.
 Baseball Is well organized. The business heads In the game-the fellows who put up the money and stand to lose If the team proves a disappointment-have com bined all the fine points in labor lunlonism and trust monopoly-and have then gone them some better. The managers of the 300-odd clubs, comprising the 31 major and minor leagues in America, have the strongest union in the world. And they have a trust that out-trusts all other trusts No magnate in the baseball field, be he ever so powerful can take player from another magnate, and no player be he ever so great star, can change the place of his employment without his eN- ployer's consent. With ball parks running up into the millions on real estate values alone; with expenses for transportation training, salaries and advance money run-I ming up into the hundreds of thousandsl before a single ball is thrown or a singld game is played. it is natural that they want some protection. It is natural that they should want to know that the man whom they have dug out of some obscure backwoods nine and trained and developed, put into condition, and given advance money, will stay with them when he be- gins to amount to something. Of course, a man who is sold by a minor league club to a major league club does not have to play on the big nine If he does not want to. But if he does not play with the nine that bought his services he does not play at all.
 The first National Baseball Association was organized in 1858, and at that time most of the teams were amateurs, though a tendency towards professionalism was; early noted. The Civil War put a stop tot the progress of baseball for time, but In the early eos the Cincinnati Reds organ toad hQ Grcf too1 nf fIaI country. This led to the formation of the National Association of Baseball Players, in 1871. This was not exactly a successl Gambling crept in and games were thrown
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in the interest of pools. Scandals resulted and guilty players were expelled from the game forever. The Athletics of Philadel- phia won the first pennant ever won by professional club, and for the next four years the Bostons finished first in the pen nant race of the old National Association of Baseball Players. The Bostons' record of winning the pennant four straight years is one that has never been equaled. The first campaign of the National Association of Baseball Clubs-not players-began in 1876, at the close of the career of the previous organization of players. Chicago won the first pennant of this organization. In 1877 only six clubs comprised the cir cult, and Boston won the pennant again, and also in 1878. In 1879 the league circuit was extended to eight cities, as follows: Providence, Boston, Chicago, Buf- falo, Cincinnati, Syracuse, Cleveland and Troy The clubs finished in the order named. In the decade of the sos there were several changes in the circuit, and tho league was hard pressed, both the Ameri- I can Association and the Players Union springing into existence to fight the league. In 1891 there was a secession of players and much trouble for the old National. Iu 1901 came the great baseball war, when Ban Johnson broke into the National Leagues 12-club circuit and enlarged the old Western League Into the present Amer ican League, raiding all the old clubs and taking many of its best players away from the National. The two leagues have patched up truce, however, and ase rec ognized as being on a par-botli bring major leagues. There are at presU4 Fl professional leagues playing baseba | :. ith a total of PAS clubs and about 4,iuu p.a,'- CTS, to say nothing of players belonging to amateur and independent professional clubs. Last year $69,950 changed hands on the transfer of players from club to for entrance fees on some days were as high as S700.000. Small wonder that the magnates insist upon q perfect organiza- tiop.
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EM more certain evidence that auto N Emobilng is becoming a great national D ksport of America is needed than the fact that already the automobile men of the nation are banding together to se cure uniform automobile ordinances in all parts of the United States. Other eYi- dences are found too, in the fact that women have entered the field, not only of automobile running, but automobile manufacturing as well, md in the fact that in several instances automobiles have been made the subject of carving on tombstones.
 The determined propaganda which has been started for a universal automobile law had Its origin in New England, where William H. Black, of the New England Automobile Journal, is leading the forces in battle array. This matter has pro gressed so far that a draft of the new law has been made. This draft is yet in its rough state but it provides, among other radical things for the abolition of all speed limitations, the general ofense on which arrests are to be made consist ing of dangerous driving, or driving to the common danger. This clause, 1t must he said in all fairness, is causing great deal of discussion, many automobilists holding that such a law would be little
 
 of laws, especially as the decision as to whether or not the driver was going at a dangerous speed would, in many cases, have to be left entirely to the judgment of an incompetent rural official, whose in- terests would all lie in the direction of se- curing conviction. The new law abolishes the local regulation of fines and penal ties and establishes the civil and criminal liability of drivers. This clause of the law compels the automobile to avoid the pedestrian and provides that the sound ing of whistle, the footing of n horn or the ringing of a bell does not release the driver from liability in case his car hits, or injures any person, or does dam age to other vehicles.
 The law provides, too, for the annual registration of all cars and the annual licensing of drivers and owners. Further than this, 1t Is proposed to so frame the law that persons who have proven them lelyes to be habitual fast or careless
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or bali.
 Then there Is the democracy. Random levels all distinctions. Ice wagon driver roots with banker, and hodcafrier calls no louder for the umpires blood than does the leading lawyer and prominent business man. The star pitcher may be a physician, graduated from one of the big colleges of the country, while his re- liable old backstop Is only the product of and evolution from the corner-lot nine, who gets a job each winter tending bar or sweeping out some bowling al- ley. Men who couldn't earn So a week driving coal wagon earn from $3,000 to $6,000 per year prancing about the diamond, while others who have in them the making of S10,000 lawyers and mil lionaire physicians neglect their practice year after year for the sheer love of the game. They'd rather earn $200 month In summer on the ball ground than $500 per month all the year around In some other calling. They simply can't get out of the game. Like the actor who insists on remaining on the stage after the fire has left his acting and the fickle audiences have sought new stars to throw their favor on, so the ballplayer returns to the diamond year after year, drifting into lower and lower company. until not even the semlprofes- slonal hines will have him on their com paratiyely meager pay-rolls. Bailplayers are sensitive creatures, and bit Of harsh criticism from the press, or little roasting from the fans at the wrong time. will put them in the sulks for weeks to come. Many of the old timers were happy-go-lucky, free spend CTS of their money, whose pay was usual- ly gone before they got It. The younger crop of stars, however, are of more frugal lot, and many of them are wealthy. Jimmy Collins, of the Boston Americans; Harry LaJoie, of the Cleye- lands; Hugh Jennings, of Detroit; Me Ginnity and many others are reputed to have small fortunes, though bailplayers are much like prizefghters in that you
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England. which is in the very heart of the automobile country-and a favorite field for tourists because of its many historic spots-a list of 120 of those traps has been compiled. Many a constable, whose ordinary fees would not amount to $10 month, is waxing prosperous out of the holdups practiced on automobile men. In most instances the traps are located at way-station towns, which have no interest to the tourist, and rather than be de- tained there to fight the case, the car owner pays the exorbitant fine and gets on. A favorite method of constables is to make arrests Saturday night after court has adjourned. Ordinarily this would mean a wait-over until Monday in some town with three houses, no church, no saloon, no nothing. The willy constable, however, instead of placing the tourist In the town lock up, by gosh," usually suggests a way out of the difficulty.
 "The fine our judge usually assesses is S20," says the constable to his prisoner, "and If you want to take a ride here abouts on this beautiful Sunday you can do so, provided you leave the $20 with me as a surety that you will come back"
 Nine times out of ten the tourist does this and never comes back. Why should he? If he did he would suffer the loss of both the time and the $20. This way all he loses Is the double X. I had the good fortune to accompany the Glidden tour ists part of the way on the last great tour, and one constable in a New England State personally told me that he had made $240 in one month in this way. This was perhaps a better month than the average, but all of them make pretty good money. The man who drove the car that I was on had been on several tours before and was onto every vile of the auto-trap man. We were never ac- tually caught, but came pretty near 1t once. We were on a deserted piece of road and noted a man trudging along the
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highway ahead of us He seemed to be llmplng and signaled us to stop. We did so. and he asked us for ride to the nearest town. We told him to climb in. and after he was comfortably seated he showed us tin badge and placed us un- der arrest. I'm the town constable he said. You fellers were speeding and must take you to the judge. Drive to the town hall. at Darby, there ahead AS the car approached Darby the driver put on speed. and when we struck the town we were going so miles an hour"
 'Slow up now, so you can stop" said the constable.
 Were not going to stop till we get to Boston," was the reply.
 Holy stars" said the constable; that's 180 miles away"
 "Yes, and it'll cost you s4 railroad fare to get back" came the answer.
 The poor fellow begged and pleaded. with the result that we let him out 10 miles beyond Darby a sadder and better constable No doubt many unfortunate automobilists who have since fallen into his clutches have paid dearly for that 10-mile trudge.
 Women i'm MotordOm.
 Nothing ever becomes truly national in scope until the women take an interest in
  drivers of public automobiles and our fair English cousins, with the athletic quality which always characterizes English girls have long driven their own cars. And the American girl is not far behind either There are probably 10000 women motor ists in the United States-maybe more and the ranks are being added to every day. Miss Blanche Walsh, the well-known actress has designed a special motor truck -I,. ,lrffC mobile building, and out West there is a small automobile plant which is not only owned by woman---the widow of the founder-but Is actually managed and directed by her. Miss Dorothy Levitt, of London, England, Europe's champion wom an driver has recently thrown down tAe gauntlet to the women motorists of Amer ica, and it is said that her challenge for a race is soon 10 be accepted by wealthy woman who is a great deyotee of the auto sport Miss Levitt recently drove her car 96 miles an hour in a race and is real wonder Carrie Nation, the great temperance crank and worker it is said, is learning to drive car and will soon conduct her crusade with the aid of a gasoline wagon. Miss Marjorie Gould, a wealthy and love- ly member of New York's 400, is one of the most enthusiastic of America's women cyclists and drives her high power car with such speed and skill that many be- lieve she could beat Miss Levitt. She has never expressed any desire to enter speed contest of this kind, however, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt has recently pur- chased new car, and hundreds of leading society women of America are devotees of the sport. Many cities have women automobile clubs. The latest to form one is Chicago. Every day sees additions to the ranks of women devotees of Americas latest national sport.
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states, and that in no instance were the tourists In any one state long enough to become familiar with It's laws, it can readily be seen that the trip was not all one sweet dream of joy. In addition to the various state laws must be taken into consideration the fact that dozens of little localities in each of the 20 states men toned have local ordinances of their own, which local constables administer In their own way. These rural constables are past masters at the art of batting what are commonly known as automobile traps.
 Some unsuspecting motorist goes whiz. zing along the country road at the rate of 15 or IS miles an hour, we will say. He will notice, perhaps, whitewash line drawn across the road, but pays little