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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

old Melczer team, Is in the employ OF
the Southern Pacific as night calboy.
Jack Gamble, First Baseman Rip
linger and Right Fielder Cline of the
Athletics are thankful that they are
alive today. Saturday night they were
on the Redondo car that ran into a
telephone pole. at Santa Barbara ave-
nue. and were badly shaken up. Gamble
sustained several minor bruises about
the shoulders.
Kelley played short for the Athletic
team yesterday and got two hits.
Tommy Leahy was seen in the uni
form Of the Edison team yesterday at
Athletic park and played to his old
form in right garden.
Cleveland, catcher for the Athletics
was not playing up to his usual form
yesterday and at times was ''off" in
winging them to first and third bases
Catcher Grindle was put out of COM
mission for few moments on the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

The fielding of Centerfielder Encoe OF
the Edisons was the feature OF the
game and robbed Saeng out OF a nice
two-bagger.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

The Modern Woodmen of America
won from the Euclids on the Euclid
diamond by the score of to 1. The
battery for the winners was Ash and
O'Connor, while Tompkins and Mule
were in the points for the losers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Catcher Eagle has signed with the
Edison team as right fielder and made
good yesterday by making one run and
one, hit out of three times at bat.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
WELLS
SUMMARY

Two-base hits-venable and Combs Left
on bases-Redondo 3, Wells-Fargo 7. Dor
BILE play-Brown to Eichsteadt to Tilley. Hit
by pitcher-Miller, Thyng, Maddy. Wild
pitches-Smith g. Bases on balls-On
smith 2. Struck out-By Venable H. Smith
S, Time of game--1:15. Umpire-Hossler.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

The manager Of Athletic park should
see to it that two balls are in play all
the time instead of one. This unrea-
sonable delay causes the fans to get
disgusted with the game and should
be remedied at once.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Gabe, who formerly was connected
with the Schoolmasters' team, is re-
quested to call up Manager George ID.
Ward on important business.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
SAN PEDRO
SUMMARY

SUMMARY
Three-base hit--G. Kemmerle. Two-base hit
--Androde Bases on balls-Off Andrade. 1;
off Ford 1. Struck out--By Andrade. ~: by
Irord O. Double play--McDonald to Cline
Tlme-1:45 Umpire-Bateman. a.
Following is the tabulated score of
the Salt Lake and Pasadena game at
EfadAo orlr
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Lawrence Fernandez, who umpired
at Athletic park yesterday in both
games, was there like a duck in the
water and has the making or nrst
class s.unp" il given a chance. Not a
bad decision was rendered throughout
the games.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Second Baseman Allen, for the
Chutes, played good game at Ath-
letic park yesterday and stopped sew
erai probable three-baggers for the
Edisons.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Bill Lucero, formerly of the Edison
team, will depart today for the north to
play on the San Francisco outlaw team.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
CHUTEs
sout for interfering with fielder.
cEHiB WIN
SUMMARY

Struck out-By Lyman. 8; by Mcknight g.
Passes on balls--off Lyman 2; off Mcknight, 2
Sacrifice hits-McKnight. Goodwin. Stolen
bases-Lucero, 8; Wilhoit, 8; Allen, Height, /;
Encoe, g. Double plays-Salyer to Lucero. um-
pires-Langdon and Fernandez.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
SUMMARY

Two-base hits-Mohler. Melchoir, oakes,
Berry zeider, Williams. Sacrifice hits
Williams, Beck, hicArde, Melchoir First
base on errors-Los Angeles 2, San Fran
cisco a. Left on bases-Los Angeles 4,
san Francisco 8. Bases on balls--on 6utor
4 Hosp A. Struck out-By Sutor 7, Hosp
B. Double plays-Delmas to Wheeler to Dill
lon Zeider to williams. WHEELER to Dillon to
Delmas to Dillon, Wheeler to Delmas. Time
of game-1;55 Umpires-o'Connell and
Lane,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

1t was ladies' day at Athletic park
yesterday, there being fully seventy
five present One woman fan bawled
out, when Tom Iseahy struck out.
"Back to the bench, you lobster" and
all had the laugh on the truck-driving
kid.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Jeff Moser, the crack catcher of the
old Melczer team, is in the employ OF
the Southern Pacific as night callboy
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
GORE BY INNINGS

Three-base hits-Pendletcn, Finley Two-base
hits-C. Leonard, Hoffman. Struck out-By
Latferty, Z; by Ferraris, 6. Bases on balls
Off Lafferty, e
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Robert Knight is one of the best
pitchers in the semi-professional ranks
and with little better support would
be very hard to beat, barring no club
in the mi-professional ranks about
the city.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Five stolen bases were made Off
Gamble yesterday--Schmuck, Gray,
Lamar, Cline and Donation being the
lucky ones.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24
BY RED PERKINS
Totals
SCORE BY INNINGS

RHE
salt Lakes 2 0 0 1 %
Pasadena .. 0 0 0 o OIL 3
SUMMARY
Struck out-By waits, Al by Pittss 5. Hit by
pitcher--Leahy. Umpre-Lloyd
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

In the Edison-Chutes game Earl
Haight made a hit to right field that
went to the top of the fence and bound
ed back and for time it looked as II
he would circle the bases for a home
run.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

Three-base hit--Fitzgerald Two-base
hits-Dutweiler. Neary. Struck out-By
Long 5, Ritchie 3, Terry 10. Bases on balls
OF Ritchie l. Terry l. Hit by pitched
Ward. Sacrifice hits-Collins,
Ritchie, Futz. Stolen bases-Ascots 8.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-24

The Melczer ball team was defeated
by the Pacific Coast Syrup company
team on the county hospital diamond
by the score of to 4. The Melczers
lost the game in the ninth inning by
a wild throw by one of the intlelders.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
Part Played by Campaign Button
Continued from Page one.)

whatever, and these men naturally prefer
the quiet and buslness-like. They wear the
button on principle rather than as a per-
sonal adornment and they stand altogether
apart from the great army of miscellaneous
button wearers who make the bushes a
source of continuous profit, The east wears
fewer buttons than the west and middle
west.
These buttons range from four inches in
diameter-which are expensive and cost $5
a thousand-to about the size of a nickel,
when you can get them for $3.50 a thousand
II you are economical and purchase in iC0,-
OO0 lots. They cost more when you are pa
triotically minded to buy them of a street
vender and less when you get them for
nothing from the party managers at the
end OF a rally. Their fundamental intent
is exactly the same as those that advertised
the original cigarette-to keep the face and
the name on the button prominently in
the public consciousness Therefore no
button is altogether wasted-at least such
is the theory.
The secret hopelessness OF the prohibit
tionists and socialists is plainly visible in
their lack of buttons. The number of de-
signs, moreover, is an inspiration to youth
full collectors and a complete collection Of
the different Taft or Bryan buttons of the
present season would probably run into the
hundreds.
What is most interesting about these de-
signs is their excellent draughtsmanship
and almost invarlable good taste. The ele-
ment OF humor in political campaigning
finds no place on the political button. II
you wish to be funny you may indeed
adorn yourself with one of the 'presiden-
tial Billies'-a: little celluloid goat with a
picture of your chosen candidate and the
cheerful motto "'Who is your Billy?" Or
you may ask your friends to marvel at the
remarkable Likeness of Candidate Bryan to
General Washington as shown on a folding
card on which is a picture of Washington
with the face cut out and Mr., Bryan's in
serted under 1t, while a complete portrait
of Washington stands on the opposite leaf
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

for purposes Of comparison. The likeness.
however, is a little too startling, for II
leads an attentive observer to the conclu-
sion that both of these portraits are Of Mr..
Bryan and that Washington has nothing
to do with it. But the button is neither
humorous nor deceptive. 1t is a serious
and successful effort to produce a cam
paign token that is at once cheap, digni-
fled and attractive.
Despite the millions and millions of but
tons already in circulation and the mil
lions and millions yet to be manufacturer
the demand of the present campaign is
merely "normaI'-in other words the but
ton feels the effects Of the panic and the
competition that 1t represents is not as ex-
pensively keen as might otherwise be ex-
pected. So the button constantly reflects
the condition of the nation or the condition
of the community. Let a great man be I'll
and Doctors bulletins are likely to find an
echo in the orders that reach the button
agency, for If a great man dies the little
street fakir may fairly hope to turn many
an honest penny by disposing of his por-
traits to the sorrowlng public. But for the
vice presidential candidate the demand is
very much less active. He may appear
sometimes on the same button with his
chief there are even some buttons on
which he appears in isolated glory; but
there is comparatively little demand for
him.
And what becomes Of all these buttons?
Their life is ephemeral. Human nature
being what It is the average button wearer
soon tires of his adornment, loses 1t, and
must be Immediately supplied with another,
That is one reason why so many are cir
culated and so few are visible, although
In the west we should see moro Of them.
Even so, Is seems a little surprising that
anything produced In such quantities should
disappear so completely. "They are con-
sumed," says the button authority. But
tons are the nourishment of a political
campaign as bread Is the nourishment OF
a family, After the campaign is over
they've been consumed" Like the mys-
terious pin, they vanish and none can say
exactly what has become OF them. But
many Of them so to the dump; and So
the little campaign button, having honor
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
Elopes Once Every Year

cit keeps me hustling to make enough
money so that my wife, Goldie, can take
her annual elopement," Harry Green told
Magistrate Carey in a Philadelphia court
as he swore out a warrant for Samuel
Shore, his brother-in-law. Green averred
that his wife, whom he married in Russia
thirteen years ago, had formed the habit
Of clipping with Shore, a tobacconist, about
once every year.
He didn't mind II so much, Green said,
only Goldie had left him a near-bankrupt
when she took her unannounced pilgrim
ages with Shore, who is married to Green's
sister and has a 6-year-old son. A year
ago last July this pair ran away together,
said Green, his wife carrying with her
$500 OF the family funds. They were traced
to Montreal, Hartford, Conn, and other
places, and returned to Philadelphia only
when they became financially embar-
raised.
Green declared he has been saving up
ever since the last elopement, which came
recently, when his wife took every
thing that she could conveniently carry, in
Guiding 800 cash and about 800 worth of
jewelry.
"She even took my wedding suit that I
have preserved all these years" said
Green in a pathetic tone. Maybe she
WIFI marry Shore some day, when my sister
and I obtain divorces, and then he won't
have to buy any wedding clothe She
also took a number Of household articles,
and 1t looks as though they mean TO make
a long stay this time. I have done my best
to keep them apart, but It's no use.
"She packed up while ] had the two
children out for n walk. and when I re-
turned, shortly after 10 o'clock, the rooms
upstairs looked as though the sheriff had
been there, Maybe they had a wagon-I
don't know. Well, 7 must get busy now
and make some more money. because Goldie
may want to elope next year again
adelphia Inquirer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

an electric light at a crossing a mile or
so in the distance.
Everywhere we went the natives were
working. Here they were loading the blue
rock upon cars, and there they were dump
ing it down through the wells to the reser-
voirs below. In one place they were blast
ing. The rock is of such a nature that
compressed air cannot be used, and the
men were cutting holes five feet deep by
means of long chisels worked by hand.
Many holes are made in a chamber and
then the blasts are all set off at once.
l cannot describe the terror inspired by
these blasts, as they 30 off down there 500
or 500 feet below ground. The boom is
like that of a big naval gun, and It strikes
the drum of your ear as though it would
break II. The vibration blows out the
candles and the dynamite fills tho tunnels
with a sickening smoke. Thirty-six thou
sand blasts are shot off In that mine every
week, and nevertheless the accidents are
few. During the last year only two men
nave been killed, and this is a small NOR
tality considering that there are 1900 ma
tive workmen and that the mines are
usually operated both day and night. The
amount of explosives used is In
1906, in all the mines OF the De Beers com
pany, there were consumed more than
100000 pounds of dynamite, and 70 set this
off were used more than 600 coils of fuse,
each twenty-four inches long. The De
Beers company has it's own dynamite fac
tory, not far from Cape Town. 1t finds 1t
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
Pipes of Diamonds.

Until these Kimberley mines were dis
covered all the diamonds found were picked
up out of gravel which lay on or near the
surface of the earth. The Indian diamonds,
among which were the Kohinoor, the Great
Mogul, the Regent and the Orloff, came
from alluvial washings composed of a mix
ture of broker sandstone, quartz, jaspar,
and granite. The deposit was about
twenty feet thick and was covered by a
few feet of black cotton soil. 1t lay near
the bed of a river in India not far from
Golconda, which was the chief city to
which the diamonds were taken and sold.
The diamonds OF Brazil were first discov-
cred in 1873. They were found in deposits
Of clay. quartz, pebbles and sand, buried
under about thirty feet of other earth.
They lay along the banks of rivers and in
a few cases were imbedded in sandstone,
1t was the same with the diamonds of
Borneo, of British Guiana, Australia and
California, and also of those which were
first discovered along the Vaal river near
here in South Africa.
1t is now over forty years since the first
African diamond was found. A man named
O'Reilly-not the one who ran the hotel,
but John O'Rellly, the hunter-made the
first diamond discovery. It was when he
was stopping over night with a Boer farmer
not far off from Kimberley. During the
evening he saw the children playing with
some beautiful pebbles. He admired the
stones and took some home with him. To
his surprise he found one would cut glass,
and upon showing It to a jeweler he was
told that 1t was a diamond and worth
1850.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

pany. and 80 large that the Kimberley
pipe and the De Beers pipe, which to-
gether are now producing something like
S15, 000,0 900 worth of diamonds every twelve
months, could be lost inside 1t. 1t has
thirty-eight miles Of tunnels in its under
ground workings and that although it is
not yet one-third as deep as the Kim
berley.
Before entering the mine I was shown the
maps of the surveyors. The blue ground
area covers about thirty acres, and this
is all drawn to a scale so that one can tell
the condition of every tunnel from the
surface down TO the 75O-foot level where
the bottom now is. A great shaft has
been sunk outside the pipe. and tunnels
nave been run in at intervals of forty feet
to get the diamond earth out. BY this
shaft this thirty-acre pipe has thus been
explored to a depth equal to one and one
half times the height of the Washington
Monument, and the blue ground has been
found peppeTed with diamonds throughout.
From some of the upper levels mulch of
the ground has been extracted, but mining
is now going on at every level, the amount
of earth taken out decreasing until at the
bottom there are little more than the tracks
used to carry the cars of blue clay to the
shaft.
All the ore is taken from the lowest
level. Great wells have been sunk through
the pipe from top to bottom, and the blue
ground of each height is carried through
tunnels to these wells and dropped into res
ervoirs at the bottom. There 1t is loaded by
gravity onto the cars which carry II to the
shaft. At present they are raising 10000
loads to the surface every day. Four
thousand negroes are employed, and in
busy seasons the miners work day and
night.
1t was in company with Mr., Fuller that
l went through the Dutoitspan. The
mines are dirty and the rock is so sharp
that it cuts ones shoes. For this reason
we were given boots of sole leather such as
are used by the miners, and were clad in
miners clothes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
American Electric Locomotives.

Entering the shaft we dropped quickly
to the 75O-foot level and made our way by
foot through the tunnels into the great pipe.
We went along a car track, passing trains
of this blue ground hauled by American
electric locomotives. AS the cars reached
the shaft they were dumped without stop
ping. Their contents fail into a great iron
skip and a touch of a button sends them to
the top. The arrangements are such that
two boys can unload 1900 cars in eight
hours, and so that, working all day, they
can hoist 1000 cars to the surface.
AS we watched the blue ground flying
by l asked Mr.. Fuller to give me some
idea of the profits of the mining. He re-
piled that the Dutoitspan was one Of the
richest of the De Beers Company's prop
critics, and that the profit on the ore then
going up was something like $S7, coo a day.
That means 81, 800 an hour day and night,
or SOS per minute week in and week out.
In addition to this the blue ground pays
the mining expenses, amounting to $145, 900
per month and of that more than 800, coo is
for wages alone. Talk about your golden
streams. AS for me ! would prefer one of
these streams of diamonds.
We passed a continuous line of such cars
on our way into the mine proper and then
walked for miles through the tunnels made
in the pipe to get out the blue ground.
Much of the mine is unlighted and we had
to pick our way along with candles, jump
ing to this side and that to avoid being
run down by the cars. The tunnels are
just about as high as ones head and just
wide enough for the cars to run through
them. They are cut here and there by
cross tunnels, and at times we could see
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Two years after that another big stone
was discovered by a Hottentot who traded
II to this same Boer farmer for 5000. The
Boer sold it to a diamond merchant and It
was sent to England and was eventually
sold to the countess of Dudley for 100000.
These two finds set South Africa crazy.
Diamond seekers came at once by the thou
sands, and the Vaal and Orange rivers were
soon covered with mining camps. Men
went aobut everywhere digging up the
gravel and searching for stones. As the
river beds became exhausted the miners
spread out over the country and finally
got here to Kimberley, which is fifteen
miles from the Vaal. One day a Boer dis
covered some diamonds In a clay bed out
Of which he was taking material to build
a mud hut. He kept on digging and the
result was the Dutoitspan mine, which has
proved one of the richest diamond pipes
ever found. About the same time other
claims were taken up and developed. and
as a result came the five great mines which
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
DInmonT CapitnI.

These mines lie right close to Kimberley,
They form a necklace around 1t, and that
one of the most valuable necklaces on
earth. The necklace is decorated anew
every year with sos, Ooo.O 900 worth Of bril-
liAnts, which are taken from these mines.
They are allowed to blaze away for a few
months under the African sun, and are
then shipped off to dazzle the drawing
rooms of all parts of the globe.
The town is a strange one to be the cap
ital OF such wealth. 1t has no palaces nor
skyscrapers, and, like the jewels of Por-
tia, its treasures are kept in baskets of lead.
The offices of the diamond trust themselves
are no better than many a 6x9 factory in
the United States, and a few thousand dol
lars would equal the cost of any building
inside the town. The most of the houses
are bungalows of brick rooted with galva-
nized iron. They all have wide porches
about them, and many have gardens filled
with beautiful flowers. The city has wide
streets and amusement grounds. 1t has a
theater. churches and hotels. It's stores
are large and It's business is good. The city
is lighted by electricity and it has all the
modern improvements. The water comes
from the Vaal river, which is seventeen
miles away.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

Job II he did not keep his eyes open. The
same economy Is shown in the engine
management OF the blue ground on the
floors, and, in fact in every part of the
works. The De Beers company pays big
dividends because It is thoroughly well
managed, and 1t makes one feel proud TO
know that, although operated almost en-
tirely by British capital. the managers are
Americans.
In another letter I shall take you over
the floors where the blue clay melts from
the diamonds and leaves them out in the
sum-. and also into the mighty washing
factories, where the briilants are taken
out and made ready for shipment to all
parts of the world.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
A Great Organization.

.
A Great Organization.
In going through the mines and works
I have been surprised at the care and
economy everywhere shown. Although the
company pays big dividends, not a cent
is allowed to go to waste, and the most
careful watch is kept TO avoid any ex-
travagance. AS we went through the Dut-
oitspan we passed a chamber where an
electric light was burning, although the
work had been stopped for the time. The
man in charge was reproved, and the light
put out. In another place a white boy, who
was keeping tally Of the cars, allowed one
to go by which was not quite full, He was
warned that he must not credit half cars
for full cars, and that he would lose his
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27
Bird's-Eye view of the Mines.

Ali of the mines are within a rifle shot Of
the center of Kimberley. II we climb to
the top of the higher buildings we may
see the skeletons of the washing machines
on every side and between them the vast
weathering floors where the precious earth
containing the brilliants is allowed to lay
and melt. Moving to them, from the
mines, are great lines of what. In the dis
tance, seem to be ants. They are marching
In single file and are racing with one an
other as they pass to and fro. Now tai
your glass and you will see that each ant
Is a steel car filled with dlamondiferous
earth, and that It is flying along under a
wire cable from the mines to the fields.
These fields are called floors. Every mine
has it's own floor, and in every direction
you can see the cars moving. The black
pygmies who are handling the cars are the
natives, and the white ones on the outside
are the guards to see that the blacks do
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

ably served its first purpose. becomes per-
manently useful as part of the foundation
of future cities. Boston Transcript
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-27

not steal as they work.
Now turn your glass again TO me mines,
About each is a mighty pit dug out Of
the earth, That is the opening of the mine,
the wide basin where the earth has been
cut away until the great rock pipe, which
contains the blu clay and the diamonds,
is found.