The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-11
Baseball Jars Mdgn1tes' Nerves
Dignited Officers of Standard Oil in New York Have Com
plant-Gossip From the Gay Metropolis
Copyright National News Service.

Copyright National News Service.l
New York. June 1l.-For some time
the highly sensitized nerves of the dig
nified officers of the Standard Oil, the
Produce Exchange and other large cor
porations facing on Bowling Green
have been Jared by ONCE boys play
ing baseball in the streets in front of
their Offices at lunch hour Sidestep-
ping baseballs in transit through the
air proved too exhilerating a diversion
week they complained to Mayor Gay
nor for redress of their grievance.
Their contention that the plaza. which
is hallowed by memories OF Peter Stuy-
vesant and the Dutch forbears of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, who in the pas
toral days of New York's early settle
ment bowled on the velvet sward of
Bowling Green. was not suitable for
baseball, impressed the mayor and he
ordered the custom house side of Bat
terry park thrown open to the boys dur
ing lunch hour. The site selected is
opposite the big Office building of the
coal barons and around the corner
from 70 Broadway, the home of John
d. Rockefeller's giant monopoly.
Fraunce's Tavern, where Washington
babe farewell to his officers is down the
street. Every day the youngsters play
by some of the grizzled old albatrosses
of the financial world who sympathized
with them in their troubles.
AS proof of widows insanity a
lawyer in the surrogate's court this
week introduced evidence to show that
she had directed that her pet dog be
inferred in the same grave with her
deceased husband.
Mrs. Fanny Mogg, the widow, died
recently leaving $4,000 to Christ Hos
pital. Her nephew. George Innell. OF
England, claims that she was mentally
irresponsible and asks that the beQuest
be set aside, submitting in support OF
his contention. the strange provision OF
the woman for the burial of her dog
In view of the recent decision of the
surrogate to probate the will of a
wealthy butchers widow who evinced
sentimental regard for the source OF
her husbands fortune by erecting q
costly granite steer over his grave and
the more recent refusal of the same
court to accept the will of a woman
who to symbolic her solicitude for hel
lamented hubby, implanted on his
grassy mound replica OF the stau
esque form of well-known Broadway
chorus girl to whom he was partial, Il
is regarded as highly probable that the
ent..
That the customs regulations are NJ
longer a respecter Of persons is being
emphasized anew every day under tht
administration of Collector of the Port
Loeb. Last week 1t was former Gov
ernor Rollins of New Hampshire who
ran afoul of the law: this week Col
onel Henry c. Stuart of Virginia, soI
of the famous Confederate cavalr,
leader: Mrs. Henry c. Prick, wife Of
the Pittsburg multi-millionaire, and
Count Tedeseo, of Italy. got tangled II
the meshes of the customs net, now
spread out with more care than evel
to catch those who either by design Of
through lack of information contrive tt
evade the payment of duty on importa
tions. The Stuarts had their baggage
held up pending an investigation o.
their declaration as to the value Of
their dutiable foreign purchases ant
had to pay 81 1913 to secure the RELEASE
| of their property. Mrs. Frick neglect
| ed to make any declaration at all ant