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The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
"The Red Symbol"
BY John Ironside. Publ.
E. IN Roefon prfco

By John Ironside. Published by Little, Brown
Co. Boston. Price $150.
We have in The Red SymboP'
tale OF love, mystery and adventure
which is Of genuine breathless interest
throughout. The author, John Iron
side, has never had book published
in America before, but you may be
sure he will have a fine market here
from now on for anything he may
write The book is a strong story
and well written, the great secret of
the tale being unrevealed till the
very end, and so cleverly concealed
during the story telling that it is
never for a moment suspected. The
title indicates that the tale is Rus
sian, the symbol being a, red blossom,
whose Wearers are scattered through
out Europe.
Maurice Wynn, young newspaper
correspondent, is the hero. At few
hours notice he is ordered to st.
Petersburg to replace the correspond
ent who has become involved in some
revolutionary doings and assassinated.
Wynn is in love with Anne Pendennis,
daughter OF an expatriated English
man. She is beautiful, but elusive,
and there is a strange something
about her which at times makes Wynn
vaguely uncomfortable.
On arriving in Russia what is his
amazement to discover that Anne is
apparently connected with a secret So
ciety Of desperate Nihilists. She is
also evidently in love with a Russian
grand duke and though this is heart
breaking he is loyal to her and is able
TO keep her out of several difficulties.
Incident follows incident in one long,
dizzy whirl. The whole plot is most
Ingenious and filed with puzzling cpl
sOdes. At last the girl who is so i'm
portant in the secret society is killed
in a dreadful fight with Cossacks and
then Wynn learns the secret of her
identity, which has so often puzzled
him.
The book is powerfully written and
the author has evidently been a close
student Of Russian affairs. It is the
best story of adventure to appear in
many a day.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
''Britz of HEADQUARTERS"
BY Marion Barber. Published By Monat, 4ai
& Co. New York. Price $50.

By Marion Barber Published By Monat, Yard
Co. New York. Price Slso-
II you love a good detective story,
get 'Britz OF Headquarters" and sit
UP ell night to finish it-though that
last need not be said, for nothing but
force can take the book out OF your
hand once it is begun.
Britz. the hero, who names the story,
IS a member Of the central once force
OF New York city. lie is OF the de
ducing" variety OF detectives and, like
the great Sherlock Holmes. solves most
OF his difficult problems at his desk.
The Missioner diamond case is most
mysterious. Mrs. Missioner, a very rich
widow, is occupying her box at the
opera one night and has three guests,
two men and a young girl. During the
performance the clasp Of her diamond
necklace parts and It falls to the floor
broken. All join in the search and all
the stones are found but one, the
treasure Of her entire collection, called
the Maharanee diamond. At the last
moment one Of the men guests, NOV
ing back quickly, steps on something
and crushes il beneath his heel. It
proves TO be the diamond. or at least a
paste imitation Of II. Mrs. Missioner
sends for an expert when she reaches
her home and is informed that the
whole necklace is paste. When was the
substitution made and by whom2
BrItz is brought into the case di-
rectly. and his moves are most inter
esting. The persons involved have a
pretty difficult time and there is ex-
element aplenty to suit everybody.
Romance IS here. too, but not much.
for all the attention is given TO Britz,
and he has nc time for anything like
that Not q hint can be given as to
The solution OF the mystery and the
crimes, but II all comes right in the
end The orientals who figure IN the
tale are the weakest spots in the pic
ture but Britz is the main thing, and
he could not be improved upon.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
IT O. HENRY,s FUNERAL.

AT the funeral of William Sidney
Porter, known to the world of readers
as o. Henry, there were present many
of his friends among the writer's and
Journalists of New York. Mrs. Sara
Lindsey Porter his widow, was the
only relative present The honorary
pail bearers were his closest friends
John H. Finley. president of the col
lege of the city of New York; Walter
II. Page, editor of the Worlds Work;
Don C. Seitz, Richard Harding Davis,
Will Irwin and John O'Hara Cosgrave.
Others present were Gilman Hall, Will
liam Griffith, Morgan Robertson. Bliss
Carman, Robert McCullaugh. Seth
Moyne and Ray Brown.
The services were held Tuesday,
June Z. in the Church of the Trans
figuration, around which the author
constructed several of his stories. The
coffin was taken to Porter's old home,
Ashevi1le, n. c., for burial.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10

The author has caught the spirit OF
the times and never allows any Of her
characters to get out of the picture.
The description OF the gambling and
drinking bouts are splendidly done.
and one finds it hard to remember that
the tale is written by woman. Miss
Dean has studied her period with the
greatest care and the successful pic
ture she gives is the result
In the course of an interview the
author has said: Every class is the
outcome of a condition. In the best
known of these butterflies. ranging
from Beau Nash to Beau BrummeL
there has appeared 10 me to be much
that was human and pathetic as well as
what was empty and absurd; and amid
the procession of the best remem-
bered of this class one grows ac-
quainted during a perusa1 of eighteenth
century literature with a host of more
distinguished if less conspicuous fig
ures-mere men of leisure. enforced
idlers. victims of a false social code.
triflers by necessity of caste. From
such men as these 1 built up my
hero
1t is a brilliant and dramatic story.
and Californians are proud to claim
this clever author.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
Brief Reviews of New Books

Little more OF praise can be added
TO the already world wide popularity
OF the Karl Baedeker handbook The
latest to be issued Is the 1910 edition
OF Southern Germany which includes
Wurttemburg and Bavaria. This book
contains SO maps and As plans and is
the eleventh revised edition. It is
published at Leipzig by Karl Baedeker
and imported by Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York CPrice sLSo).
s-TangIes Cntsngled" is described as
q romantic novel OF the good old
fashioned kind. It Is written by some
one who uses the beautiful pen name
OF Pat Rice, and the story is quite as
elegant as the name. It is a long
tine since anything so cheap and tenth
rate has found its way to the review
ing desk, and Il seems necessary to
condemn so poor a thing. There is no
excuse for such abominably bad writ
ing as is to be found on every page
OF the improbable story. q. S. Ogil-
vie publishing company. New York.
rs oents.)
The Commercial Travellers Maya
zine" is devoted especially to the trav-
cling man, but IL has some features
which VIII interest all readers. Short
stories, essays. anecdotes, samples Of
wit and hUmor and some good illus
trations. There are over 100000 trav-
cling men IN the United States, and it
was eminently fitting that they be given
g publication OF their very own. Charles
Clark Mum is the able editor Of the
magazine, and knowing his success in
other fields one can predict that this
new venture VIII go" It is issued
quarterly at 50 cents a year (The
Comm nrofa7 Ira E-eIercf o1s
field, Mass.)
Z An "Epitome Of the Aeronautfcal An
nual" is just issued. edited by James
Means. The original numbers of the
annual were published in 1895, 1896 and
1897. The Epitome contains articles
by Cayley, Wenham, Lilienthal. Cha
mute, Maxim, Langley and others, Civ
ing accounts Of their researches and
experiments. The editor says: ITO
know aviation one should study the
writings OF those who laid the founda-
ton Of the science and he has chosen
so wisely his articles for this book that
one gets almost a history Of aviation in
outline 1t is not only interesting, but
a valuable addition 10 the photography
Of aviation. CIV. B. Clarke company,
Boston SD
The student volunteer movement for
entitled students and the Present Mis-
sionarv Crisis" 1t consists Of addresses
delivered before the sixth international
convention Of the Student volunteer
movement for foreign missions, held in
Rochester, X. Y, December %, 1903, TO
January .. 1910. All people who sym
pathize with the missionary teachings
viii be glad to know Of this book, and
fl viii he a revelation to outsiders, who
little dream Of the tremendous scope OF
the missions
"T. r. in Cartoons" is the title Of a
paper bound booklet by John l. Nc
Cutcheon. The cartoons originally ap-
peared in the Chicago Tribune, but are
saved from oblivion by this collection.
The author-artist says in foreword
entitled IT r. as Cartoon Material
The historian of the future who delves
through the newspaper files of the
years 1900 TO 1903 viii con-
clude that the most important news
Of that period was Mr.. Theodore Roose-
vet. president, politician, statesman.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10


The prentice hand which wrote
'"Travers' has acquired much skill
since then and now offers US a Geor-
gian romance which will bear compar-
ison with any. Miss Sara Dean is an
artist and earnest in her work, for
which now she deserves all praise A
tiny opening chapter is like the open
ing scene for a Shakespearean play; it
sets the time of the story; gives the
local color. The second chapter opens
the tale.
At Whites chocolate house one
night a crowd of young bloods haYe
spent their time in gaming. Finally
Lord Yerington, the hero, and another
baronet, who has little else to do with
the story, make a wager, the stake be-
ing the formers life against the lat
ter's fortune. In consequence of this
reckless foolishness the hero finds him
self desperately entangled in a vile
conspiracy. The plot is ingenious and
but for the fact that we know that
heroes never commit suicide or. lose
their lady loves we should be pretty
well worried about Lord Yerington.
His adventures are never tame and
we are always proud Of his share in
them He reseues fair maid from
grave danger, and she in turn saves
him from something much worse.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
Books Received

The Care and Culture Of Men,. By David
Starr Jordan. Whitaker & Ray Wiggin eOEaDAzz
Saz francisco
students and the Present Crisis" Student
volunteer movement for foreign missions. New
York
History OF the Great American Fortunes" By
Gustavus Myers. Charles II. Kerr Co.. Chi
cago.
Road Rights OF Motorists by Twyman o.
Abbott. Outing publishing company. New York.
English Poems.~ by Walter c. Bronson. Uni
yersity Of Chicago press. Chicago
The Yosemite Valley" by GaIen Clark Nell
son L. Salter. Yosemite valley.
Calvert Of Maryland" By James Otis. Ameri-
can book company, New York
..Bonb0ns" by E. p. Savinien Broadway pub
fishing company, New York
..The soul Of a Serf.' by j. Breckenbridge FL
lis Laird & Lee. Chicago
Tile Cave Woman. By Viola BCrhans. Henry
Holt & Co. New York
..The Mountain That Was Cod - by John
H. williams. Tacoma
Poems" by Dorothy Landers Beall Mitchell
Kennerley, New York.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
BOOKS REVIEWED

"The Song of the Wolf" by Frank Mayer
"a Discipline of Chance" by Sara Dean
"Britz of Headquarters" by Marion Barber
"The Red Symbol by John Ironside
"A Life for Life" by Robert Herrick.
up the Orinoco and Down the Ma9dalena" bv H I
Mozaus A. M, Ph. D.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-10
"A Discipline of Chance"

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By Innk MEe rnbIshed Price $50
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-17
Miller Signs Up eresneviIIe Team.

Manager Miller of Greeneville has practically completed his team by the signing of pitchers Tom Doherty and Ed Ensling and outfielder and pitcher Micky Shahan.
 Miller says he believes this gives him the best pitching staff in the league, for In Shahar he has a man with no equal in the city and Doherty is considered by. everyone as the best left handler in these parts. Ensling fig Of unknown quality. but Miller pre- diets that he will make them all go some for regular place.
 Budge Harrington and Dave Cam pion are a pair of backstops hard to beat. while in Captain Mcfntire, Char lie Bradley. Jack Savage and Goose Gleason. he has a duartotte of infield- CTS that are classy and he considers he can pick an outfielG from Jim Me Clafferty. Jupes Mcintyre Whit Hen derson. Nick Nealon and M. J. Mur- phy. Shahan and Doherty will also play in the field when ot pitching.
 He would like to arrange q few games for Sunday afternoons during April. the Westerly league team pre- ferred; also like to play the Academy team Good Friday if they are ready or any team that wishes games will be given them. w. W. Miller. POS West Main street, City.
 Bill Bowen's F. A. C.'s take notice.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-17

sack, and in a very few weeks Claude was ioirg duty on the bench. Now he is to go back to the minors. ac- cording to report. It seems shame that a player who can hit the ball like Rossman, in these days when hit ters are in demand, is to be lost to the majors.
 The great Wagner took advantage of the little things In the worlds se- ries of 1909 and helped the Pirates to the championship honors. No chance was too desperate for him to take on the bases, in the field or at the bat. But behind all his desperate efforts was plenty of gray matter.
 Ty Cobb is dangerous man because he never let's an opportunity slip by in fact. he is always trying to induce the opposition to give him a chance, and once that chance is offered he is on the way. Many victory has been added to the Detroit teams games won simply because Cobb was quick to grasp the opening.
 A ballplayer of fair ability with brains is always preferable to bone head with all the natural ability in the world, so say big league managers.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-17
Fielding Averages.
cLARBY- GARDNER FIGHT
 A POOR SPECTACLE.
Gardner Was Too Fat-CIabby Bunged
 Up by Previous Injuries.

Of the Clabby- Gardner ten round fight in Milwaukee last Friday night, E. W. Smith has the following to say in the Denver Post:
 If Jimmy Gardner of Lowell and Jimmy Clabby of Milwaukee had re- hearsed their ten round bout last night in the Cream City, rehearsed 1t Tor the purpose of bringing it out to an even ter.
 Of course, they didn't have a re- hearsal but they could have fought a lot better than they did. Gardner was tions. so fat and loggy that he gem erally stood in his own way
 Clabby, with two ioosened teeth that he feared parting with altogether, a hand, injuries received two days be- fore the contest doubtless did the best he could
 The net result was spotty, badly balanced, wishy -washy and at times dreary contest, with Clabby the leader for about seven rounds and Gardner coming slowly at the finish as if to even up what advantage the others early aggressiveness and force had given him.
 A draw doubtless would have been declared by nine out of ten referees had a decision been possible, neither being entitled to anything under the circum stances.
 Considering the circumstances. with  the Milwaukee Y. M. c. A. trying to put the lid upon the boxing game and the promoters trying to keep it off through the medium of clean, decent shows, it is just as well that nothing rougher than boxing match was flashed in the ring of the Hippodrome. If the affair displeased the fight hun gry 400 fans who went up from Chi cago, it just suited the Cream City conditions.
 So what's the use of finding fault?
 If one is forced to remark that Jim my Gardner should be ashamed of him. self for daring to shed his bathrobe to display such a miserably unkempt pugilistic condition, one must with the next breath sound high praise for the young 'Irishman's wonderful boxing skill. His defense was truly marvellous and was all that saved him a worse licking than he received. As it was, his soft, butterlike face was badly puffed from the visitations from Clab- by's gloves, both eyes being cut and swollen. Mulkern's man got never a mark.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-17
M'LEAN's cLEvERNEss OUTcLASsES KID FEENEY.
Two Boxing Bouts and a Wrestling
 Match Before Windham A. c.
Especial to The Bulletin

Especial to The Bulletin.)
 WiIlimantic, March 16-The card at the Windham Athletic club this even- ing comprised three events, a wrest- Ing match and five round boxing bout as preliminaries to the main go, Q five round boxing bout between Kid F'eeney of Danielson and Frank Mc- Lean of this city.
 Mansfield in minutes and 50 seconds and five minutes, winning the match in straight falls. The boy from the country was pretty green at the game
 The second preliminary, between Kid WilkerSon of Lowell, Mass, and Young Brooks of Mystic was pretty fair for the opening rounds. but the Mystic lad was a trifie clumsy and the bout was easily Wilkerson's, who was generously applauded by the spectators.
 The main event, between Feeney and Mclean, had nothing to it but Mc- Lean. Kid Feeney was heavy and very clumsy upon his feet and lack the fine points that denote the fistic conception of ring tactics Mclean showed up very nicely and OutpOinted his sluggish op- pOnent all the way. Each round show ed him stronger and stronger and the Danielson man Outgeneraled in every respect Shaun Sullivan was referee. William Mallon timer.
 Announcer l.. N. DonderO stated that Sam Anderson of Canton, Mass, the undisputed middleweight champion of the world, was matched with Copa De- ora the famous Cuban wrestler, for this city next Wednesday evening"
 AnderSOn'S belt and parapherndlla will be on exhibition tomorrow in the window of Main street shoe dealer. A fine preliminary boxing bout will be carded for the same night, a real hum mer. Anderson is willing to stake $500 that he can best any claimant for the title of middleweigbt champion at any time.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-17
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
CONTINUED WEAKNESS.
Bulk of the Days Selling Aseribed to
 Western Centers

New York, March 16.-The clear un- deriving explanation for the stock markets weakness today is t.le dispo- sition to take profits on the extent of the recovery which has been achieved from the low levels of last month. The shrewd suspicion that the most pow erful speculative forces had sold heav- fly at the high levels last week had withdrawn their benevolent control of the market and were not averss even to see prices recede again to afford to advantage was harbored in the minds of the professional element, which helped on the decline aDd fol- lowed up the selling today
 The bulk of the days sales was as cribed to sources outside of New York city, mostly western speculative cen ters. more especially those where the steel industry is active.
 Greater confidence was professed about the stock exchange in the pros pects of settlement of Ia abor troubles, but the outside selling seemed to be prompted partly by uneasiness over the ultimate outcome of the wage con troversies which are so numerous in the railroad world.
 The pressure to sell United States Steel was sympathetic influence on the whole market. The publication of the pamphlet report of the corporation disclosed the favorable details of the years opera tioIfs, which furnished the avowed motives for the latest ad- Morgan's illness were supplemented by airy emanations having to do with the supposed doings of the vaguely de- fined but undoubtedly powerful steel pool. The elaborate details On the re- port offered no striking additions to the main outline as already known
 The digestion of the facts of the steel report and the needs of the un- covered shorts contributed to the ef- fective rally Of the latter part Of the day oMuch of that was lost before the closing, which was weak
 The rise in foreign exchange halted and money did not rise above 5 per cent. Exchange was offered against bonds placed with foreign subscribers. Interior exchange moved in favor of New York. Rates for time loans, however. were firmly held
 Bonds were heavy Total sales, par value, $2,606,000. United States bonds were unchanged on call.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-17
LITTLE THINGS IN BASEBALL.
Successful Players and Managers Must Be Awake to Every ChRce.

It's the little things that play the big part in baseball.
 It's the correct doing of these little
 things at the proper time that invari- ably spells pennant at the close of every season.
 The sensational features alone ap- peal to the average baseball fan, the minor details being lost in his enthus- iasm over that players great catch, this fellows home-run drive or the masterly twirling of some crack pitch er- The player who gets an almost fabulous sum for his six months work every year is the player able to grasp every opportunity and immediatelv take advantage of the same. He is the fellow who can think quickly and correctly and use his gray matter to the best possible advantage. Every manager is lookine for just such a player. He is always willing to pay almost any amount for man who can pull off the seemingly impossible
 The successful manager is the one who can judge best when it is time to use the derrick on his pitcher, who selects the proper place to use his pinch hitter or at the timely moment takes out some slow runner to let a faster man take his place, and thus probably change the entire complexion of the game. says Umpire Billy Evans
 The taking advantage of a little thing drove Claude Rossman out of the big league There are very few Inen Ddil lOos1y Cdu CiOCt the sphere any harder or any better than Claude Rossman. If you have any doubt on this point consult any Arneri can league pitcher who has worked against Rossman. He is as good a target as there is in the American league for an inf1elder to throw to, and although he has good arm, for some reason or other he is not an ac- curate thrower
 Rossman's inability tO throw for some reason was not discovered for a couple of years and during that time no first bsseman in the American league was more valua ble. His work helped Detroit to two spennants. and in the al1-important series of 1907 between the Cubs and Tigers his play was the one redeeming feature. Sud- denly ROssman's weakness became known Az soon as a man reached a base he started for the succeeding