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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09

dence was elected secretary-treas
urer of the N. A. p. B. L., as posi-
Ition he has held continuously. The
snarled skeins were Strengthened
out quickly and the association
Iprospered. Today only the majors
and the coast outlaws are without
the pale.
Farrell's administration was
founded upon business principles
and clean baseball. He forced own
ers and players to live up to con-
tracts. He gave weak leagues new
territory. He secured managers for
weak clubs. The Southern league
which blew up annually, was put
on firm footing. Farrell induced
Judge w. M. Kavanaugh to take
the leadership and the Southern
thrived.
The thriving minors led the way
for the then fighting majors and
after a three-year war they signed
a peace treaty. The national COM
mission resulted and with 1t pros
perity. A working agreement with
the minors was necessary and in
1902 a new national agreement
was adopted. 1t is a plain-speaking
impartial document.
The minors now have rights. A
tribunal composed of the presi-
dents of the majors and third man
chosen by them, settles all ques-
tions between major and minor
leagues. Farrell settles minor
league troubles alone, as secre-
tary of the national board of arbi-
tration. In this office he had
made name that will live while
baseball lasts.
Farrell's decisions always give
satisfaction. They are drawn as
skillfully as documents handed
down by the highest courts and
with less verbiage. AS chairman
he lives in an atmosphere of con-
flict. He has written $500 decis-
ions involving hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars and valuable
players. These form baseball pre-
cedent as important as the fire.
ports" of the civil courts.
The National association pro
tects minor league owners, pro
tects and advances players. This
is accomplished by recognitiot OF
ability, systematic drafting. coHec-
tion of salaries in dispute and
guaranteeing a players service
The association represents the pub
lie by guaranteeing clean baseball
and blocking wild cat organiza.
ltions.
Farrell conducts four-fifths d
the country's baseball, setGinf
claims, getting evidence, giving de
cisions. securing managers fol
weak clubs and doing Thousand
things to keep the wheels moving
The National association has nj
recourse when representing |
minor league owner imposed npoI
| by a major club, other than al
appeal to the national commission
but the prestige Of the association
counts in obtaining justice. II
such cases Farrell acts as attor
ney.
The association ad~~ -~oz ms
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
PETER POWER WRITES
ON live LABOR
TOPICS

women in every section Of the
country, from Boston to San
Francisco, will hold national
convention in Chicago, beginning
Monday, Sept. 81. 1t will be one
of the most important gatherings
of the year, and fraternal dele
gates will come all the way from
Europe to attend it. Among the
latter will be Miss Mary Macar-
thur, secretary of the British
Women's Trade Union league;
Miss Agnes Herman of Berlin,
secretary of the Verband Kauf-
mannischer Weiblicher Angestell-
ten. and Mrs. Werner Hegemann
of Munich, a celebrated orator.
One of the women members of
the parliament of Finland, is also
expected.
Briefly, the Chicago convention
will take steps to abolish sweat
shops, stamp out tuberculosis, or
ganize the women in all trades,
demand equal pay for women for
equal work performed as men.
the abolition of child labor, eight
hour day for women workers, san
itary regulations. no night work,
rigid inspection of workshops
and factories, etc.
A great public mass meeting
will be held on the evening of the
opening day in the Y. M. G. A.
auditorium, and addresses will
be- made by prominent men and
women.
The British labor press is COM
menting sareastically upon the
alleged chivalry of some American
men. The London Labor Leader,
edited by ]. Keir Hardie, leader
of the so Labor party men in the
British parliament, contrasts the
reception received by women suf-
fragists in Wall street and upon
the docks among the longshore-
men. In the financial district the
women speakers were hooted and
insulted. Down on the docks the
longshoremen listened attentively
and respectfully, and although
many declared they could not
agree with their arguments, new
ertheless the lockers thanked the
women cordially for their visit
and wished them good luck.
Hardie wants to know whether
there is anybody or anything in
the wide, wide world except the
sign of the dollar that Wall street
He suggests that LON
broso, the worlds leading crimi-
nologist, invade New York city
and make a careful study into the
of it's "best people"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
WOMEN IN LABOR AFFAIRS
CONVENTION OF WORKING
WOMEN.
BY Peter Power.

| Women are nowadays playing
an important role In labor affairs.
During the great strike of
clothing workers in New York, in
which upward of $4,000 persons
were involved, the girls were
among the most enthusiastic in
standing out for a raise in wages
and shortening of the hours of
toll.
When Gov. Fort of New Jersey
made an effort few days ago to
settle the hatters' strike, one of
the provisions in the agreement
that he suggested was that mem
bers who had deserted the union
and returned to work should be
|reinstated. The men accepted
the proposition, but the women
trimmers vetoed It. Some thirty
odd of their number had left the
organization.
From Chicago It is announced
that manageable union girls are
inaugurating movement to boy
colt young men who are not mem
bers of labor organizations where
such unions exist in their trade or
profession.
One of the reasons advanced by
the United States Steel corpora
tons attorneys for applying for
an injunction in the United States
court at Elwood, Ind, to restrain
the tinplate strikers and sympa-
thizers from interfering with the
trusts employees, etc., was that
the wives and daughters and
friends of the unionists sur
rounded the houses of the strike
breakers at night and serenaded
them by. singing topical songs,
making sleep impossible.
One young woman at New Cas-
tie, Pa, has taken up the cause
of the steel trust and is attempt
ing to break the tinplate workers
strike. Her father is one of the
bosses in the trust mill, and every |
day she rides to and from the
plant in big touring car, guard
ed by several private police, and
armed to the teeth with the cut
est little bejeweled revolver that
may be found. Her particular job
Is to encourage the men at work
to stand by papa and ]. P. Nor
gan.
That reminds me that Mrs. ] |
Borden Hartman, one of the Four
entertained several hun
bred delegates to the stationary
convention just held in
New York. A sumptuous >repast |
or what some of the stokers
pronounced "a swell feed'-was
served on the beautiful lawn at |
Mrs. Harriman's summer home at |
Yonkers. The hostess made a |
neat speech, too, saying that she
and Mrs. w. III. Taft, Mrs. John |
Hays Hammond and Mrs. Nick |
are trying to teach |
selfish employers to be good.
Mrs. Hartman concluded: 81
am firmly convinced that the uni
versal brotherhood of man will
be a tangible, splendid fact in the
near future, and such gatherings |
as this are doing much to bring |
It about" !
The coal shovelers gave her
hearty applause, and their presi-
dent, Tim Healy, responded and
declared that the universal broth
erhood of man couldn't come any
too soon to please the firemen.
Representatives of working
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09

AUBURN, N. Y, Sept. 9.-Base-
ball is a gigantic industry. Its
magnitude is appreciated by few.
To be told its problems are as
numerous as those of the Stand
ard Oil Co., or any other great
system of administration, seems
exaggerated. To compare a sport,
however great, with a commercial
giant is at first thought contemptu-
ously dismissed.
YET BASEBALL, FROM PORT
LAND, ME-, TO SAN DIEGO AND
FROM NEW ORLEANS TO WIN
NIPEG. is UNDER THE MAN
AGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSION
AL BASEBALL LEAGUES, IN
vOLvING MORE COMMITTEES,
employees AND PATRONS
THAN ANY OTHER INDUSTRY.
LIKE EVERY SYSTEM, IT HAS
AN ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD
CAPABLE OF SUSTAINING THE
POSITION.
And because he sustains it, they
call Secretary John Farrell of this
city, the Hartman of baseball.
The biggest man in the worlds
greatest sport, Farrell is directly
responsible for the position base
ball occupies today. He comes
pretty near being the national as
sociation.
Baseball may be divided into
three groups-the California out
lay leagues, the majors and the
leagues in the national association
which have become a unit, forcing
baseball ahead-with increasing in
fluence.
The national association con-
trolls baseball in 256 cities, with
more than 1000 players, in 80
leagues. 1t dominates the minor
field. And the man who made this
possible is Secretary Farrell.
Minor league property interests
represent more than $40, 900, 900;
plants range from the $4,000 field
to the $125,OOO parks i'm San
Francisco and Toledo; last season
100000 paid to see games be-
tween national association clubs.
The financial transactions runs in
to millions.
Farrell keeps this nationwide
organization working smoothly;
he conceived and developed it; as
player manager, owner, league
secretary and president, he
dreamed of the day when base
ball would be under one head,
working on economical, business
like lines.
Ten years back there was no
baseball photography. Farrell
gathered data. He stored facts on
every angle, from the standpoint
of player, owner and spectator. He
knows its law from the coming
1910 rules to the NTH division of
Pitcher - contract.
Farrell has made baseball law.
He has interpreted it. He has adj
ministered it. AS legislator, law
yer and Judge, he has become the
supreme court of the game.
Since he organized 1t 10 years
ago, Farrell has been president
secretary-treasurer of the New
York State league. Even then he
dreamed. He saw leagues organ
lie yearly. only to blow up. Play
ers and managers were transient.
Discipline was unknown. The
old national agreement governed.
operated by a committee of ma
tionaI leaguers. who let the minors
drift.
In 1901 the baseball structure
trembled. Realizing cooperation
was necessary, Farrell and 10 9TH
er league presidents mt I'm Cbica-
go and formed the national ASSOC
citation, which today governs %
per cent Of baseball.
The national agreement was abb
rogated- Farrell, whose knowledge
and grasp Of detail gave him Drsssr
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
NEGRO IS 10 TO 4
FAVORITE I'm FIGHT

erly awaiting the tap Of the gong
that will start them OF on their
1O-round sprint this afternoon at
Coffroth's Sunshine arena.
The weather conditions are
ideal.
The betting today Is 10 to 4
that the negro will win the contest
on points and 2 to l that Kauf-
man will stay the limit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
HIGH SCHOOL HAS
fine FOOTBALL
TIMBER

1t looks as If Tacoma will have
Just as god football team In the
High school this year as last de-
spite the loss of some of the stars
by graduation. A lot of new men
have come in who have both
weight and speed. Coach Perkins
expects to be able to put as hard
q battle as ever. Fifty lads were
out last night trying to get into
the game.
Aberdeen, Olympia, Bellingham
and Everett will be taken on early
In the season.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09

not take the fight out of this boy.
All day long he kept pinching his
well muscled body to see IL he
couldn't wake up. That night he
went into the ring and fought the
greatest fight of his career-he
wanted to quit with HIS record
clean and with right to keep
the cognomen Of Fighting Dick. /"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LAY BIG ODDS IN FAVOR OF
JOHNSON IN MILL WITH
KAUFMAN TODAY.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. o.
Fit as the proverbial fiddle and
with each man brimful of conf
dence, Champion Jack Johnson
and smiling AL Kaufman are Gag
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
FRACTURES HIS
SKULL BECAUSE
he hit WOMAN

(By United Press Leased Wire
PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 81
hated to hit him but l could not
stand by and see any man hit a
woman" H. STANCE, local con-
tractor, Is quoted today as hav-
ing given the foregoing reason for
striking and probably fatally in
juring J. B. Davis, who is at St.
vincent's hospital suffering from
a fractured skull.
According to STANCE and his
story is supported by Mrs. Nina
Olson, the woman Davis is alleged
to have struck.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
Rather Quick.

From Tacoma to Seatt]e via
steamer Flyer. Five round trips
daily. Actual time each way one
hour and thirty minutes. Leaves
Tacoma s:35 a. M, 1915, 1856,
1880 and IL p. m. ***
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Standing.

Games Yesterday.
Portland 8. Sacramento 4.
Oakland 3, Vernon 2.
San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 3.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
CUBS CAPTURE SERIES
FROM PITTSbURG
CHICAGO AGAIN CUTS DOWN
LEAD OF THE PIRATES IN
RACE FOR THE NATIONAL
LEAGUE PENNANT.

PTTrSBURG, Pa, Sept. S.-By
winning yesterdays game the Chi
cago Cubs not only captured the
most important series of the sea-
son but also succeeded in further
reducing the lead of the Pittsburg
Pirates In the race between the
two clubs for the National league
pennant.
The game was nip and tuck un-
til the ninth inning when the Cubs
solved Camnitz' delivery and
scored two runs. The score:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
EASTERN GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Games Yesterday.
Cleveland 7, Detroit 4.
Philadelphia 8, New York 6.
Boston 6, Washington 3.
Chicago A, st. Louis 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09
ONE MORE ZERO
MARK FOR THE
TIGERS

SPOKANE, Sept. 9.-Tacoma
went down in the whitewash tub
yesterday at the hands of Dode
Brinker. Brinker came in from
center field and went on the slab
for the Indians and let the visi-
tors down with hits.
Hall for Tacoma held the In
dams down to one hit until the
eighth when, after Burnett had
been walked, the boys began hit
ting the ball and three men were
put over the plate.
Blankenship caught his first
game and showed himself a great
ball PLAYER. He put lot of new
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09

Str. Flyer will make special ex-
position trips DAILY, leaving Sc
attic $3.50 p. M, Tacoma 11:1S.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-09-09

Other Games.
Philadelphia 6-5, Boston 2-3.
Brooklyn &c, New York TO.
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rke association ad~~--7a 'he
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-02

at the Sea Rivers Club, Center Marsh field, Mass. He writes that life is tennis, bathing, canoeing, and auto mObiling." I could spend the rest of my days in this glorious spot for it is eraced with a full sweep of the ocean and backed up by wooded hills. It is the old Pilgrim country and our al farm of Perigrine White, the first white child born in America. The original home of Peregrine Whites father is still on the grounds down by the marshes. Daniel Webster's home is just below us as is also the old Win slow homestead"
 It is thought. the placing of a picket fence six feet inside the roadway leading to the old cemetery back of the library. has been done simply for strip of ground some six or eight feet in width Injunction proceedings will probably be instituted to bring the matter before the counts, where the question will have to be settled. The old burying ground belongs to the First Ecclesiastical Society, and was set off many generations ago for the purpose for which it has since been used. Probably the documents con- cerning the original gift have been CT the town or the church should take the matter up. The fence which has been moved further to the west, had long stood in it's old position, and pos sibly it was the intention, of the Mo Ewens to dedicate a strip of ground to the use of the public, as a high way to the cemetery. The laws in re- gard to the evolution of real estate are very strict and well settled, and there must be good documentary proof that the land now claimed by the new owner, is legally his. The Lii brary has not encroached upon the original highway, and makes no claim to more than belongs to it. The ground about the library has simply been graded down to the edge of the road.
 The library association is thankful and grateful to the public for the gen. erous assistance afforded at the last garden fete. A few unclaimed articles remain at the library which can be had by calling for them.
 The installation of electricity in Christ church is still being talked about.
 The bridge section of the Colonna Art club met on Tuesday at the resi- dence of Mrs. Frank Patterson.
 Miss Louis Nicholson is to teach the coming winter in the Gilbert school at Winsted.
 The Devon club will hold a meeting. on the 9th inst, to nominate and elect officers.
 Miss Belle Wood is taking her vaca- tion.
 The W. c. T. union will meet to- morrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. George Burbank to talk over temper ance matters.
 Mrs. Charles Rogers, Miss Mabel Rogers, Mrs. Joel F. Wilcox, and Mrs. Edgar Beardsley intend to spend La bor Day at a. cottage at Highland Lake.
 Arthur Derby has gone to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and will soon sail for China.
 Yesterday Miss Ethel Lowell started for Greeley, Colorado.
 MT. and Mrs. Richard BiIton are re- toicing over the birth of a daughter.
 The Mosie Along has taken a party of local people, some from Long Brook avenue, to Long Island for a fishing outing. Capt w. B. Futile was at the tiller.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-02
FAIRFIELD

The town was very quiet, newswise yesterday, owing to the fact that there were no sensational eases before the court, and many of the leading citizens had gone to Plattsvi1le to attend the good roads celebration. MT. Boyle took Dr. w. H. Donaldson and Post master Pickett over in his automobile, and other gentlemen who took auto loads for the grounds included Samuel Wheeler, Simon Bradley. Commission CT Pease, First Selectman Fox and M. Banks.
 The public pavilion at the beach will close on the evening of Labor Day. and George Baldwin, who has had charge during the season, leaves town on Tuesday for his home in Brooklyn, and later returns to Rutgers college.
 Appeal papers were made out yester- day in Justice Wakeman's office for the following men who are not satis- fled with the judgments rendered in the local court but wish to try their luck in Bridgeport. They were all found guilty of breach of the peace, and three of them we're also indicted for intoxication. They are as follows: John Kruimyer, under $50 bonds for intoxication and breach of the peace, Daniel Dolby bondsman; Daniel Dolby, under bonds for the same cause and for the same amount, Joseph Zsenhyi being bondsman; Steve Malnor, for both intoxication and breach of the w man; and Frank Pap, for breach of the peace,with Dolby for bondsman.
 Frank Catone, of Italian parentage, was the name of the little boy in knickerbockers sent to the reform school at Meriden a few days ago.
 Messrs. John A. and George B. Gie- Ian of New York, are guests for a week or two of MT. and Mrs. George Lover. Greenfield Hill.
 Mrs. George Gregory and Miss Edna Gregory are home from the White Mountains
 Miss Evelyn Banks of Westport. has been the guest of Miss Alice Lyons.
 Mrs N. B. Hill has gone to Mime sota for the winter.
 MT. and Mrs. V. B. Hill are enter taining guests from Pittsfield, Mass.
 The Memorial Library report for August, just issued, shows that the in stitution is growing in popularity and usefulness, there being a larger num- Der of visitors and readers during the month than for any four weeks in it's previous history. The figures are. as follows: Total number of visitors. g., 424; daily average, 93; new members, 22; total number of books taken out, 1,789, as follows: Juvenile fiction, 354; travel, 55; literature 55; fine arts, IA; useful arts, B; science, 30; philology, 19; sociology, 80; religion, 8; philoso- pry, g; general works, 1S3.
 Isaac Burgess of Greenfield Hill has moved to Bridgeport.
 Mrs. William Wakeman of Banks North District, has a. house full of guests for the, rest of the season, in cluding the Misses Susie and Lena Bulver of Ansonia-; MT. and Mrs. Jo- seph Jennings of Southport; Misses Mary,f Maud and Maria Bradley Miss Barbara, MT. and Mrs. Henry De Hardt, and the Misses Harriet and Edith De Hardt, .Mrs. B. De Hardt, and Cyrus De Hardt, all of New York.
 Rev. J. B. Kettle and family of St. Joseph, Mo-, have been the guests of Deacon and Mrs. Dwight M. Banks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-02
GA e TO E IA. Bears the ,Ihe Kind You Have Always Rough Signature " NYN- of IS-<ZI <Scc<<I
 STAMFORD

The coming attraction for Labor Day in town will be the regatta to be held by the Pootatuck Yacht club, for which prizes, or challenge cups, will be offered, the same to rena in in the possession of those who win them three. times. There will be three classes of sailing craft for the cups. First for motor boats over 31h horse 31a horse power, and third for sailing craft. This will be a handicap event for all classes. A large number of entries is expected. The committee event a success. Mir. M. B. Russell is the chairman, and other members are D. H. Beers, Ivan and Varnon Morehouse.
 The proposed excursion of large company of townspeople, which was Oyster Company. yesterday, on their ship, 'Stratford,'' to Oyster Bay, I. l., has been indefinitely postponed, owing to the discovery, of leak in the boil er. of the ship.
 It can safely be announced that at least two -more lecturers have already been secured for the winter course at the library. One of these is Prof. Willis I. Milham, of Williams Col Iege, Mass. where he is connected with the Field Memorial Observatory. He is an authority on astronomical mat ters, and the author of a book titled: How to Identify the Stars.' MT. Charles Packard of this town is tu- tor in biology at the same institution. The second lecturer who has agreed to come is pr. Thomas Edward Pot terton of Columbia College. In let ter just at hand, dated Hotel Bellevue, Dresden, he writes that it will be pleasure for him to lecture in Strat- ford. He sails for America on the Fist inst, and will arrive in New York by the 1st of October. During the summer he has visited Norway, Swe- den, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Ger many and will finish his outing in England, which he says, is a good loaf1ng place.
 Mr. Wilbur F. Thirixield, who was visiting in town fast summer. is now
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-02
CA o E EA. a..+h. ,Ths Kind You Have Always Bought signature st &zzzz@
NEWTOWN.

MT. and Mrs. Herbert Hawley, Miss Lillian Weeks and MT. B. Hawley of Bridgeport were Sunday guests or MT and Mrs. Fred Northrop.
 Miss Julia B. Duncombe and Miss Mabel c. Baylor returned today from a weeks visit in Scarsdale. N. Y.
 Among the latest arrivals at the Inn are: George Pratt Trigersoll. Mrs Trigersoll of Ridgefield. Charles Rus sell, James B. Russell. Jr. of New York, William R. Finch of Brewsters N Y., s. G. Sterling and wife, B. G. Allyn and wife, MT. Beecher of New CT. Misses Marjorie and Helen Walker, Miss Mary Walker of Brooklyn. Mary J. Hartman of Paris. France. MT. and Mrs. William A. Markey of New York. Stephen c. Stone and family. George H. Denver H. H. DeWolfe, Mrs. H. H DeWolfe, Miss Ruth S. DeWolfe of Bridgeport, Mrs. Joseph Dolan. Miss Constance Dolan of New Haven. Mrs. L. Cowan. Mrs. c. H. Russell of New port Miss Julia B. Peck. Mfrs. Foster of Brooklyn. Miss Lena Gallup. l.. B. McIver of New York, MT. Randell Dugue of New Orleans. Mrs. s. A. Bassett of Milford. w. H. Beers and wife of New York. and J. s. sGardiner of Huntington, l.. I.
 Misses Genevieve and Catherine Brown of Bridgeport, are the guests of their cousin, Miss Florence Gaffney.
 A whist party will be held at the Newtown Inn Saturday evening. Sep tember 4th. Admission 25c.
 Miss Catherine Honan of the Dan bury Training School for Nurses pass ed Tuesday with her sister. Miss B. Frances Honan.