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time, at another yard not many miles
away and with the same resources, at
a cost of $1,250.76? Where one yard
was able to make sos ditty boxes for
$1,S99.77, was it just to the Money for
the Navy to spend $4,259,66, at the
same time, at another yard, in making
a similar number?
Prices Vary Greatly.
THE boats for the battleships
are built, as to kind, on the same
model and of the same material. Re
Gently, at one yard, it cost $1,S90.63, to
make a 30-foot steam cutter, while at
another, not many miles away, it cost
$2,6S462 to build exactly the same
kind of boat, to put on board the same
kind of battleship. A 30-foot barge
cost $671.0S at one yard and 81, ISL at
another Several 30foot cutters cost
on the average, $59S.61 at one yard
and $84S13 at another. A 14-foot
dinghy cost $1040S at one yard, while
at another the same kind of boat was
turned out for $15361. A 16-foot
dinghy cost $10417 at one yard and
$196.34 at another-pretty close to
twice as much, it will be observed A
20-foot dinghy cost $217.S9 at one yard
and $36244 at another. A 30-foot gig
whaleboat cost $509.3S at one yard,
and the same kind of boat, for the
same kind of service, was turned out
at another yard for the euphonious
sum of $SSSSO.
Turning to furniture A mahogany
desk for cabin cost $13676 at one
yard, while at another one made for a
sister ship cost $3.50, there being no
cents wasted on this latter price. An
oak desk cost $1l2.07 at one yard and
S16330 at another. Toilet racks for
officers rooms, of which there are
more than 40 made for each battle
ship, cost $l460 at one yard, while at
another exactly the same article was
turned out for the neat round sum
of $40
Curious Variations in Price.
"To make and fit into a battleship
six galvanized boxes, for fire clay,
30x24x15 inches, cost at one yard, for
the job, $1G7 OF, and at another yard,
TO make similar boxes and to fit them
on board a sister battleship, it cost
S3S412. These same boxes, untitled,
cost at one yard six dollars each; at
another, $S.47, and at still another,
$20.S4."
The pay inspector asks if a change
in the method of appropriating money
looking to the increased economical
efficiency of the shore plant would
affect the fleet, and answers his own
question in the affirmative. Yes" he
says, materially, perceptibly, abso-
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Months

These figures show that it costs
considerably more than $500,0O0 a
year to keep a battleship in commits
sion. The Connecticut, flagship of the
feet, may be chosen as an example
of the various directions in which the
money is expended. During the nine
months of the fiscal year the main
tenance of that vessel cost $41O,53102.
OF this amount 1922, 2,749.SS was for the
pay of her officers and crew. Com
muted rations amounted TO $1S,S76.90.
For pilotage and postage the sum of
l$1,61771 was expended. The value of
istores expended in the various depart
Iments was as follows; Ordnance,
$11, ,645.09; construction and repair,
S7,339.62; steam engineering, $780,
4s29.45; equipment, $7,2S7.O9; supplies
and accounts, $42,233.45; repairs to
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this little bundle of nerves and
muscles when a battle is on. He loves
to win, and fights to the bitter end be
fore he will acknowledge defeat. 1t
is the nervous tension under which he
labors that he has undermined his
strength, he thinks, and the rest
cure" he is confident, will rejuvenate
him. when l joined the Chicago
club in the fall of 1902 | weighed only
115 pounds" says Evers. Now
am up to about 1871, stripped That
isn't enough to stand the strain of
many such seasons as we have had
the last two years when we won the
National league pennant, each time
followed by a worlds championship
series No one loves to play the
game more than ] do, once | am in
uniform ! could stay on the diamond
all day, morning and afternoon, but |
dislike to go get ready. Before l put
on my uniform | feel as though I'd
have to be driven to get out. Once
the game starts l forget everything
else and | want to fight all the time.
I've got to talk If l can't can't play
ball. that's all. Chance won't let me
chew at the pitchers so l take it out on
him and the umpire, and what a lac
ing | do give the manager sometimes.
Fortunately for both of us Frank
doesn't hear distinctly, and some of
my talk goes by without notice. Long
ago ] made up my mind | was going
to lay off one year while still young.
am none too strong. The nervous
tension under which | play is telling
on me and it is my desire to quit
for one year at least and have a good
time like other young men. | had
figured on quitting in 1908, but the
fact that we won the worlds cham
pionship and that my contract called
for one more year caused me to
change my plans and play this season
But fully intend &c lay eff in 1909.
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Bankers Liable for Advice.

The highest court in Germany has,
in several recent cases, fixed the re-
sponsibility of bankers when advising
investments to their clients.
One of the latest decisions was rem
dered against a bank which, upon re-
ceiving an order from a customer to
invest $500 in certain mortgage
bonds, instead of executing the order,
advised its customer to buy instead
the bonds of another company, as
equally safe and possessing advan-
tages over those ordered. The Gus
toner followed the advice, and when
the company failed he sued the bank.
The court in its decision against
the bank, held: The bank has not
done its duty in taking care of its
customers interests when it recon-
mended the purchased bonds to be as
safe as those originally ordered to be
purchased, because the bank should
have known that the latter had the
quality of legal or trust investment
funds for widows and orphans, wards,
etc, whereas the bonds advised and
bought for the customer lacked that
important qualification"
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sums which it requires to maintain
them. The tables prepared by the
paymaster general show that while
the battleships average a little more
than 100000 a year, the armored
cruisers average more than $7O0,OO0
The squadron of this type, which is
under the command of Rear Admiral
Dayton, and known as the Big -Four"
is composed of the West Virginia, the
Colorado, the Pennsylvania, and the
Maryland. For the fiscal ended June
so the West Virginia cost $755, 15147,
the Colorado $706, 6,05716, the Pennsyl-
vania $735, 5,l11.49, and the Maryland
$685., ,526.06.
Cavalry of the Navy.
The armored cruiser has been com
pared to cavalry. A distinguished
naval officer says that it is not com
parable to cavalry. Moreover" he
adds, mo one has proved that a navy
needs anything comparable to the cav
airy. 1t is not comparable to the cav
airy for the reason that it has not
nearly the same speed, relatively to
the other vessels of fleet, that the
cavalry has to the other branches of
an army; aud because it has not near
ly the same power, either offensive
or defensive, relatively to the other
ships, that the cavalry has to the
other branches. And person would
have to labor hard to prove that a
navy needs something comparable to
| cavalry; for how can one find on the
open sea, and within the restricted
space which even the largest enemy's
fleet can cover, any opportunity for
those quick surprises, or those sudden
attacks on exposed lines of communi-
cation, stretching away for miles,
which is one of the principal employ
ments of cavalry; and can one even
imagine squadron of armored
cruisers making a charge in battle
to those charges of cavalry which
again and again in history have been
hurled with irresistible violence
against vulnerable point?"
This officer does not wish to be mis-
understood as questioning the useful
ness of armored cruisers; he merely
questions the logicalness of an oft-re-
peated argument But at the same
time" he says, ''it may be well to
point out that, though we can find a
use for our armored cruisers, now that
we have them, yet nevertheless, if we
had ten battleships instead of our ten
armored cruisers, our fleet would be
much stronger"
Cost of Establishments.
AS has been said, no one has yet fig
ured out just what our ships cost
when the cost of the establishment is
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DZGZROILR Or TFlE 'LLINTAUR" " CZ,ASS.

the maintenance of a British battle
ship, But ii is likely that he has in
cluded in this estimate the cost of the
establishment which maintains the
ships. No mathematician has yet fig.
uTed out the cost of our ships of war
on lines which would include the cost
OF yards, docks, etc. If this were
done ii would be found that under our
present very absurd system, or rather
very absurd lack of system, in CON
Quoting naval affairs, the cost of main
tanning a British battleship would be a
poor, cheap, and tawdry thing in com
parison with the cost of maintaining
an American war vessel of the same
type.
Over a Billion Since Spanish War.
The new navy, which dates from the
Spanish war has cost to date $1,244,-
G51 900. OF this sum 5000 100000 has
been expended on ships. The rest has
gone to the maintenance of the naval
establishment. The cost of mainten-
ance of individual types is shown in a
series of tables prepared by the bu-
reau of supplies and accounts and in
corporated in the annual report of the
paymaster general of the navy. Dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80,
1907, the cost Of maintaining the 16
batteships which are now in the Pa
cific was as follows:
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included. The one who has made the
nearest approach to it is Pay Inspector
John A. Mudd. In a paper which is
published in the naval institute, this
distinguished officer says that of the
hundred millions annually appropri
ated for the navy's support $1S,000,000
III round numbers is spent to pay the
wages of labor in navy yards.
This amount, says the pay inspector,
is nearly equal to what it costs to sup
port the fleet in commission. The ac-
counting for the actual disbursement
of these eighteen millions is thorough,
too thorough. perhaps. The accounting
for why the money was spent is
simply the unregulated and generally
unexamined show of results. with lit
tie or no proof that the results equal
the values expended.
For the fiscal year of 1906 he adds
that the cost of maintaining all ships
then in commission was $23, ,655 ,950.41.
Returns for this year show that there
was spent for repairs to hulls, ma
chinery, and equipage of the ships
$3.50, ,309.01. Thus the total cost of
the floating part of the establishment
during the year, excluding cost of new
construction 1891, ,764, ,556.58 alone)
was 500 ,206, ,259.42. 1t cost during the
same fiscal year to maintain all the
navy yards and other shore stations
5,0SO.S1. Besides this there was
expended for buildings, chattels, etc.
and for machinery at these places the
sum of 1858, 1873 09, making the total
of the real maintenance cost of the
shore part of the establishment $Z0,-
694 263.90. or course this latter fig
ure does not include the work done at
the yards on or for ships; il is solely
the cost of keeping the yards in such
shape as to fit them for doing their
work for the floating part of the estab-
lishment. This cost alone of main
tanning the shore plant was more than
two-thirds the cost of the floating
part. the fleet
Extravaganza of Shore Plants.
Enumerating the various other ex-
penses of the yards and stations, the
pay inspector makes the fiat assertion
that over half of the total appropria-
tions for the navy are absorbed by the
shore plants OF the finished product,
the warship in commission and be-
yond the control of the land establish
ment force, there is, he says, little to
say. Admitting the absolute necessity
for that product, finished as it is to-
day, its administration, away from the
navy yards; is apt to be economical
enough, comparatively speaking. 1t is
about the accounting for the necessity
for the expenses of the huge establish
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lutely, at once Every time a navy
yard clerk bungles or shirks his work,
the fleet feels 1t; every time navy
yard mechanic goes to sleep in the
bowels of the hull on which he is
working, the fleet feels it; every time
a supervising authority on shore is
overcome by feeling of laissez faire
the feet feels it; every time two de-
partments at a navy yard waste hours
in friction, in bumptious quarreling,
the feet feels it, The fleet is as q
seismometer, for inefficiency on shore.
The shock of the full-paid workman
idle at his job may not attract or
dinary notice, but it is recorded there
just the same, and its mark may be
deciphered by those who search and
weigh and measure. IN. Y. Times.
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v Hzw wASHINGTON-A cal
n VA culation of the an
"a IVA nual cost of main
w w tain ng individual
v v types of craft in the
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-07

Johnny Evers, second baseman of
the Chicago Cubs, says that after this
year he is going to retire from base
ball for one season at least. His de-
termination to do this, he declares, is
irrevocable. He planned to rest in
1908, but as the Cubs won the worlds
championship and his contract eX-
tended over this year, he decided to
play out the season. Lack of health
is the reason given Dy the wonderful
little second baseman for his deci
sion. He is young, and does not want
to take any chances of prematurely
impairing his health. If, after rest
ing and recuperating one year, he
feels stronger, he is willing to don
the spangles again, if wanted, hut in
sists that he needs the rest and is
going to take it. No ball player in
the game to-day works harder than
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~R2R4zNG
AzHeCc;Yz0 z
r. AND
6<AN NCXES
! sxznzHsnzmzzuzEuzaznnzMnms

Baseball is king again. The big
leagues have opened up another sea-
son and the game started off pro-
pitiously, with good crowds and fine
weather. Only one game was post
poned-the ST. Louis-Pttsburg game
in the National league. The White
Sox gave the Detroit champions
terrible drubbing and the Cubs played
a wonderful uphill game and won out
in the ninth, after Cincinnati had
scored five times in the opening in
ming. The finest game played was the
New York Philadelphia game in the
American league, where not run was
scored until the twelfth inning. The
attendance at all the games was un-
usually large, the total attendance
being considerably larger than on
opening day last season. The work
of the st. Louis Browns was a very
pleasant surprise. McAleer's team
had been considerably ridiculed but it
showed a form that may well land
the Browns close to the top. Every
fan in America will personally re-
ioice in the splendid showing made
by old Cy Young. After 19 sea-
sons of pitching in the big leagues Cy
began his twentieth year with
notable victory, pitching as well as
he ever did. That a man Al years
old could be pitching about as we'll
in his twentieth year of service as
he ever did in his younger days must
be a wonder for years to come. There
is no man past or present with such
a record as Cy himself. The race is
now on officially, and for the coming
six months some millions of people
will give large part Cf their atten-
ton to the great American game.
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ment that supports the fleet that there
should be concern.
The paymaster thus pays his re-
spects to the bureau system of the
navy department: THE bureaus" he
says, do not represent principalities
within clear, uncrossed dividing lines.
There are portions of the personnel re-
source that directly or indirectly, are
under the influence of more than one
bureau, and there are portions of the
money resource that cannot be eX-
pended properly by one bureau with
out advice or suggestion from another
This necessitates coordination in Or
der to accomplish. What an accept
able, inspiring word coordination is!
The mention of it brings ones
thoughts to peaceful achievement, to
modern triumph over that business
demon, waste. In the navy it means
something like the general peace in
Europe, where the dusty boundary
stone is not needed to mark division
between neighboring mighty states.
the demarkation being more clearly
shown by unbroken lines of waiting
bayonets. Such is coordination to-day
among the bureaus
Defects in Present System.
Knowing that navy yard work,
even under businesslike administra-
ton, cannot be done, with the neces-
sary government methods to contend
with, as cheaply as similar work in
commercial shops. let us be liberal
minded. Then, also knowing that for
every boat tiller made there are thou
sands of pick handles and lawn NOW
ers, let us admit that the minimum
price of boat tillers made at the yards,
one dollar, is a just and proper value.
Does this give excuse for manufactur-
ing others at three dollars each?
When 40 metal stateroom boxes. for
officers uniforms, were made at one
yard for 1857, was 1t good policy to
manufacture 40 more, at the same
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Grand totals. .121
Morrissey Wins Marathon,

T. r. Morrissey of the Mercury Ath.
letic club, New York city, won the
twelfth annual renewal of the Boston
Athletic associations Marathon road
race the other day at Boston, covering
the &c miles from Ashland to the fin
ish mark on Exeter street IN
2:25:43 Is. The time is second only
to the record of 2:24:24, made last
year by Tom Longboat, the Canadian
Indian runner.
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Gently made by Admiralty Secretary
Edmund Robertson. BY this it is
shown that it costs $1.157 500 to keep
81 British battleship in commission one
year. A destroyer involves an annual
outlay of SIS, 800, a torpedo boat $780,,
600.
1t was with cable brevity that these
figures were transmitted. The enor-
nous sum required to maintain a bat
tleship for a year makes one wonder
if there has not been some error in
transmission That a vessel costing,
say, $6,000,00 should in the course of
less than six years equal it's entire
original cost in the mere matter of
maintenance would seem inconceiv
able at first glance. But when one
compares the figures given with our
own expenditures in this direction the
calculations do not seem to be so
much astray. The fiat cost OF main
tanning an American battleship in com
mission in no instance equals, or near
ly equals, the sum which the admir-
atty secretary finds is necessary for
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-07
He Got the Money

When Bill Bradley made those four
home runs in four successive days al
Philadelphia, in 1902, he was reward
ed with SO bill which an enthusi-
astic Philadelphia sent to him:
Make another home run this after
noon and I will give you q tennAza%
Well, Brad got the coin. -
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EVEN SPLIT in
MAJOR LEAGUES
AMERICAN AND NATIONAL EACH
WIN NINE GAMES PLAYED
BEFORE SEASON OPENS.
SCORES OF SPRING CONTESTS

Johnsonites Won Both Championships
in Philadelphia and St. Louis
Other Informal Battles-Records
for Five Previous Years and the
Grand Totals to Date.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-28
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt Weds
Hungarian
CEREMONY AT THE HOUSE
Crowds Of Curious Persons Throng the
Street 0utside--De Decorations of Or
chids--Bride's Dress Of White
Satin-Many Presents.

New York, Jan. 2s Miss Glalgs
Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, was married to Count
Laszlo szecnenyl, younf Hungarian
nobleman in the Fifth avenue home Of
Mrs Vanderbilt at noon yesterday The
wedding was probably the most brilliant
that has taken place in this city for a
number Of years. Although the number
Of guests was limited to about $50,
mainly relatives and mediate friends Of
the two families. there were included
Baron Hengelmuller Won Hengervar,
Austrian ambassador TO the United
States, James Bryce, the British ann
bassador, ana several Of the prominent
members Of New York society
Outside OF the Vanderbilt house a
great crowd of curious people gazed,
hoping for d glimpse Of the count and
his bride and watching the arrival Of the
guests There was no disorder in this
crowd, for the streets surrounding the
Vanderbilt residence We're patrollei and
kept clear by force Of nearly 100
policemen. Police lines were drawn
across 57taf and 5ath streets between
which two streets the house stands and
the unlimited public was not permitted
on the Fifth avenue sidewalk IN front
OF the Rouse. They gathered in large
numbers in the square in front Of the
Plaza hotel but their curiosity was sat
isfied only BY witnessing the arrival Of
4ho cottnt a,t4 I'll. ,r.,ae4a NJ .tt...,,-..
Of the interior Of the house could be
obtained BY them
From ! 70 IL o'clock the guests ar
rived Ia a procession al carriages and
automobiles and on foot. Promptly at
noon the wedding ceremony was per.
formed IN large drawing room on The
Fifth avenue side Of the house IN which
a bower Of palms and arbar of orchids
were constructed Beneath the arb0r
temporary altar WAS erected and III
front of this the ceremony was per
formed bv MaHsignor Niehale j Law
ellie, rector Of st. Patrick's cathedral.
The bride was escorted by her elder
brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt, down al
aisle bordcred with palms, entwingl
with a great abundance OF orchids, t.
the altar Cotint SleahenYl WAS attend
ed b. bis brother, Count Dionys S2ecn.
enyi
The ceremony Of giving the bride
away was performed By Cornelius Van
derhilt.
The bride wore gown Of ivory satin
with embroidery, point lace and par
kinds Of orange blossoms Her veil was
OF point lace caught with sprays Of
orange blossoms while she carried
shower bouquet Of orchids and qarIanls.
The bridesmaids were Miss Ruth Van.
derbilt Twomble, her cousin. and Miss
Dorothy Whitney, daughter OF William
G. Whitney. The bride was also attend
ed by her little niece, Miss Florence
Payne Whitney daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney.
Among the usliers were Count Stefan
szeehenyi and Count Paul Esterhazy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-28
EARL TO DEMAND
MONEY OF THAwS.
Sum Of 100000 Mentioned by De-
tectiye. or No Divorce.

Pittsbrug, Pa, Jan Is. The Thaws
have been notified by attorneys for ths
earl Of Yarmouth that the latter will
demand a settlement financially before
submitting to a divorce, AZ he holds an
agreement signed by Alice Thaw before
Der marriage that all her fortune shall
pass to the house Of HEREFORD ia che
event o. her dying ehiidless
A detective who has been working on
the case admitted yesterday that the
Thaws expect hoid-up for $1,000 900 on
the part OF the earl. but were ready
for It.
Detectives who, disguised as servants.
were in and around The Thaw house at
The time Of the Thaw Yarmouth wed
ding. are now discussing the troubles be-.
tween Harry Thaw and Yarmouth. One
who served as butler in i.vndhurst
yesterday said that Harry Tlaw. on
finding that the earl had sent Alice a
loving cup d gold. hurled Il through 4
window and threatened to kill SER
want who would have returned It 10 the
house.
Then Mrs. William Thaw brought
peace by threatening TO have Harrv's
income cut on for five years if he
made another effort to interfere with
the preparations which the family had
made 10 marry title into the family.