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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21

and stopping them. It is the duty of the engineer not only to design and construct, but to design and construct economically. That Is what we are trying to do here at Panama"
 But are not the wages on the canal excessively high. and can they be so maintained in the future2'
 "The wages here were fixed at the be- ginning of the work, and It would have been difficult to change them while in process of construction. The chief thing about the work was that 1t had to be done well. and done quickly, and every thing else had to be subordinate to that As 1t is now there will probably be change in the wage scale, and this should be arranged for by Congress at it's pres ent session. If Congress will act we shall be able to select the operating force from our present employees, and this will be q great saving as to time, money and in other respects. Congress Should fix a wage scale for al lthe positions of the permanent operating force, doing away with the inequalities which now exist. As 1t is some of our present wages have been made in connection with organized labor and the unions have succeeded in increasing the wages of certain classes far above what is paid others of like character. For instance, some kinds of laDOf are feCelNlnE 50 per cenl tlOIe lndll similar labor in the United States, while other classes. equally capable, have had an increase of only Ia or 20 per cent. My Idea would be to make fixed percentage of increase, say 25 per cent over the wages of similar labor in the eastern part of the United States. where the la hor scale Is the highest. This matter should be fixed at once, ip order that we may he able to hold the best men of our construction force. Good labor does moi go begging. and If not so held these men will soon have secured permanent jobs elsewhere"
 Some Lessons of the Canal
 Has the world learned any new thing; through the construction of this canal?s 'YeA. think It has, said Colone Goethals. Ut has learned a great dea about how to take care of ones healtl Tn the tropics, and in general sanitation do not mean that the canal has taugh the world anything as to malaria ano yellow fever as far as the mosquitoe, arc concerned, or of the methods of dc stroying those insects. These discoveries were made by others, and In other part. of the world. It was an English army surgeon who brought to light the fac
 that the malarial mosquito transmitted malaria. He found 1t in India. and proyet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21
The Canal Cost To Be Less Than
 S375. .00O. GOO

"What will be the probable cost of the canal when 1t is completed?"
 That will depend very much on the ae- cessories, such as dry docks, terminals. coaling stations and supply houses. It will certainly be less than $375. 100000. At the same time we are expecting to save from s15.0O0,00O to S20oOO,ooo on the esti- mated cost.
 How can you make such calculations as to job of these mighty dimensions? ?"
 Ut Is very simple said Colonel Goeth als. We make our measurements and estimate the quantity. Then from the records of similar work elsewhere we can fix the cost per unit of cubic yard of ex- eavation or construction or pound of steel work, and by the ordinary sources of arithmetic find just what 1t should be- In the present case the unit prices were those adopted by the board of contracting engineers for 19O6."
 Have you kept within those prices?"
 Yes, we have cut most of them very considerably. Take the unit price of the concrete. The engineers put that at sS per cubic yard. We are making the locks on the spillway at Gatum for s7 a cubic yard and on the Pacific division we have got the concrete work down to s5 a cubic yard. You may know what that means when you remember that we shall use over 100000 cubic yards at Gatun and over 2,S00,o0o on the Pacific division. This means a saving of at least $2,000,0O0 at Gatum and of S7500000 on the Pacific. Altogether 1t Is a saving of s9,500,00o. But that is a saving on but one unit price. We have done equally we'll in others.
 Watching the Leaks and Scientific
 Management
 "But how can you make such reduc- tion?"
 We do it by keeping cost sheets oi everything and by watching the leak:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21

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 Copyright 1912, by Richard spilane)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21

construction. It is nothing but hill built across the valley with the spillway in the middle. You understand how 1t Is made. We have formed two great dumps of the waste material, mostly the rock from Culebra and the rock site and Mindi on the outer lines of the structure, and have filled in the space between these dumps with the material from the hy- draulic dredges. The spillway Is so ar ranged that it controls the height of the lake and at the same time gives us elec- tric power sufficient for the machinery of the canal, including the locks. The features"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
BARKER DEFEATS HALL AT COUNTRY CLUB WITH EASE
sSs Barons Play Crackers Today 5S4#@s'9
BARONS MEET CRACKERS
 ION RICKWOOD FIELD TODAY
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They had day of rest yesterday ana will be ready to meet the Crackers of Manager Hemphill this afternoon.
 The Atlanta team will reach Birming- ham this morning from New Orleans. The Barons are determined to meet the visitors and beat them from the start.
 The Crackers are made up of old heads. trough among them there is stlll consid- ersble vigor and animation. Hemphin. apparently, has made good in the south. He Is popular in Atlanta and the news papers give him credit for knowing the game. The little trouble that brewed when he attached the can to Otto Jor- dan has not entirely died away it is claimed but is quietly dying.
 In Chattanooga the Barons won the first two games of the series and lost the third by the close score of to 8. As is remembered the game came to an end when Ellam was called out at the plate on close decision. Ellam believes that he was safe. Yesterday he told his friends that he knew it would make lit- tie difference, but that he did not hesl- tate to express his belief that he had touched the plate before the ball touched him.
 Had that close decision been given In favor of the runner the score would have been tied and the Barons might have made it three straights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
SOUTHEASTERN CLUBS SEEM
 EVENLY MATCHED IN STRENGTH

The first Southeastern league season Is progressing and it will not be long before there will be race for the rag Which team looks strongest? That question is being asked constantly Although the teams in the Southeastern league look pretty evenly matched, one must be stronger. at the present time, than any other club in the association. Stickney has two seasoned pitchers who will prove very hard to beat. Molly and Verneuile should win two-thirds of their games this season. Both will improve as the season advances Behind the bat, Gutierrez has proved to be a very able receiver, while Pierre is much better catcher than an outfelder. The infield looks very good, while the outfielders Hanna and Chas- tant, have proven hard and timely hitters Stickney will play in the outfield and he is a corlIing good man.
 Selma looks better than any other club and 1t would cause little surprise should it win the rag.
 The Bessemer and Anniston teams look to he the two teams that Selma will have to beat in order to be called the champs The Pipemakers have three good pitchers. one of the fastest infelds in the league, and two good outfielders Baker, Williams and Hickman are three good pitchers. The only department that is at all weak is the receiving station.
 It is probable that the outfield will be strengthened soon, ands that another catcher will be- landed. With these addi- A. With lawn Cochran as cleanup man Bessemer should win many games He is a wonderful batter
 
 Anniston probably has the best club in the league to have got such results up 10 the present moment. The Models have had hard luck, but not as much as Gads-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13

den. With Gray Hill, Smiling Sam Nell son, Lefty Woodruff and Batson on the hurling staff, Fisher has the strongest in the league. The infield is a fair one. while he has Wasem, who lead the league in hitting last season, and Karl Eubanks, catcher and outfielder, of class. His catchers are mighty good for the South eastern.
 He will be right up in the race.
 
 Art Riggs has a club at Huntsville that will be heard from. His pitchers do not seem to be very strong, but he has good fast club. With another first class hurler within his ranks, he would be right up in the running for the pen- nant.
 It has often been said by ball players in the Southeastern that John seigle has d fine club and that he would be hard to beat by May 15. There is little doubt but that Elmer Randall will prove to be the Christy Mathewson of the fast little circuit as soon as hot weather comes to stay. Deore Chaput should be able to win through his control, which was perfect last season. Besides control he has very little save a little curve.
 He now has a good catcher. a fair in field and outfield. He needs another good twirler.
 Harry Matthews has fair club at Rome Outside of Lanford. he has no pitcher who will star. ''Wild BilP' Evans, Justus and Wolfe are good men, but the others will not set the world aflre with their brliance. Matthews is a good catcher, but lacks the throwing ability that Is neded to stop the wild base run ners. However Matthews is a mighty good batter for the Southeastern league and his slugging should help lot
 The Selma club, or any other club that happens to win the bunting. will do so by a close margin. There will be no run away race In the Southeastern this sea- son. The clubs are too evenly matched for such a race. The league Is prosper ing and has fine prospects. It Is a fact little league. R. A. L.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
PELICANS WIN ONE
 AND CRACKERS OTHER

New Orleans, May 12.-Atlanta split a double header with New Orleans here to- day, while the fans were satisfied with four and half hours of baseball At lanta won the first 3-9 and New Orleans won the second 50.
 In the first Atkins struck out F New Orleans batters and Atlanta rapped Swim dell for nine hits and stole bases at will. Atlanta made it's first three runs off Baiey's two bagger, four errors and two passed balls.
 Atlanta batters could not find Wagner's curves in the second and only Ganley. Odell and O'Brien connected, O'dell get ting twu hits to his credit Callahan's and Barr's triples were the features of the second game. Scores:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
ROME TO PLAY
 BEssEMER AT O'CLOCK

With Harry Matthews Rome club as their opponent, the Pipe makers will play this afternoon at 1 o'clock at Bessemer. AL though the Bessemer club lost more games than it won on the road, the team lost by very close scores. Manager Hick- man believes that he will take every game of the series from the Romans and is going to work hard to get back up in the running.
 The time of calling the games has been set back 30 minutes. {, Instead of calling the game at 3:3o, as has been the custom. the contest will begin at o'clock. President Manasco ex- pects to have better crowds than upon previous occasions and for this reason put the time of play back to { o'clock. : II Is propable that Matthews will place his best twirler, Lanford on the hill, while Ray Baker will twirl for the Bes- semer club. All of the men are [ in good shape.s The Rome club plays here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Umpire Luzon will officiate. ttsf
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
BARKER EASILY DEFEATS
 c. HALL OF COUNTRY CLUB

Barker led, up.
 From the beginning Barker obtained a lead and held 1t practically to the end. He played strong game and an ag- gressive game. Hall at times, rallied gamey, but was never able to overcome the advantage held by his opponent.
 The match had created great deal of excitement among the members of the two rival clubs and a gallery of 75 fol- lowed them throughout the play. The ms tch' was started in the morning, and after a short recess for lunch, was re- sumed in the afternoon. It was about 5 o clock when the play was concluded.
 1t is understood that arrangements for another match between the two is well under way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13

baseball. One.in connection with Bakers bat may be interesting enough to bear watching. Both Simmons and Bush de- clare there's a hoodoo in Bakers stick that will get fellow sooner or later. The first time in his life that simmons fell from the 900 hitting. class was when he used this same cudgel, Bush started out tpon his ownership of the club like a Ty Cobb Tn d couple of months he couldn't hit a lick with it.
 Frank Baker had his renowned ash but a short time last fall before the opening of the world series. With it he swatted like demon. He is using the cudgel still but his hitting so far this season has been away below par Is there jnx in that piece of timber and Is it worki>, on Baker now? If you are at all interest ed in superstitions watch the batting ay- erageS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13

SUMMARY. Two Base Hits Wares, Schweitzer, Kerr, Newton, Moulton. Three Base Hit--McElveen. Home Runs-McElveen Stingle. Wares.
 stolen Bases--Stingle. Netzel, Ab- stein, Moulton.
 Sacrifice Hit--kerr Struck out-Radabaugh 2, Newton 4, Ferguson ,.
 Passes on Balls-Miler ?. Radabaugh l., Newton 2.
 Hit by Pitched Tonneman (Miller)
 fIits-Miller 9 in innings; Rada- baugh in innings; Newton in 3-2-3 Innings, Ferguson 3 1 Is in- nings.
 s-ime--2:00.
 umpires- -Pfenninger and Carpenter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13

SUMMARY. Two Base Hit-Callahan. Three Ease Fits-Callahan. Barr. Stolen Bases--Knaupp ?. Hendryx, Barr. Sacrifice Hit-Johnston. Struck Out--Wagner !. Paige 6. Bases on Balls--Wagner ?, Paige 1. Time of Game-2:i5 Umpires-Breitenste and O'Toole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
%Batted for swindell in the ninth.

Sl MMAR4. Two Base Hits-Hendryx. Bailey g. AL perman, ODell. Stolen Bases-Bunting Hendryx, Ganiey O'Dell. Alperman 2 O'Brien. Kerr. Struck Out-Atkins 12. Swindel G. Bases on Balls Atkins 1. Swindell f. Hit by Pitched Ball-Atkins Callahan, Johnston).
 Wild Pitch-Swindell. Passed Balls-IIaight g. Time of Game-2.15. Empires Breitenstein and O'Toole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
SCORE AT END OF EIGHTEENTH HOLE WAS 1 UP AND AT END OF THIRTY SIXTH, 6 UP AND 5 TO GO

H. H. Barker the golf expert of the Roebuck Springs club, had quite an easy task yesterday in disposing of his rival, c W. Hall, the expert of the Country club.
 The score at the conclusion of S6 holes was 6 up and to play in favor of the English At the conclusion of IS holes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Reds Cannot Lose

Cincinnati, May 12.-Cincinnati ham mered Fucker hard today and won from Brooklyn by score of to 9 The game was played on a slippery field. while the weather was cold. Suggs kept the hits we'll scattered and pitched good ball throughout. Egan, Bates and Phelps car ried off the batting honors. Score:
 R.H-E. Brooklyn .....-..--.....-. 100 O01 000-2 2 Cincinnati ...-............ 003 O0O 10>-4 Il o Batteries: Fucker. Barger and Phelps; Suggs and Mclean. Time, :50. Umpires, Brennan and Owens. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
BILLIKENS DEFEAT
 THE TURTLES AGAIN

..dopfgomery, May 12.-Newton blew up after retiring two men in the fourth. Montgomery securing two home runs, a triple. a single and a base on halls netting them five runs and the game by the score of to 6. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
Cardinals Finally Win

St Louis, May 12.--A base on balls. errors by Miller and Campbell and Ev- ans doubles in the eighth inning en ab1ed St Louis to win again this alt ernoon, to 3. Willis held the visitors titless up to the seventh. Score. R H K. Boston o00 900 30o--3 2 st T.o,,is GOO 0o1 03s--4 1
 Batteries: Tyler. Dickson and King Willis, Laudermilk and Bliss Ilme' 200. Empires, Rigler and Finneran-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
TEXAS LEAGUE

At sBeaumont: Beaumont f, Dallas 1. At Houston Houston g., Fort Worth B.
 At Austin: Austin 10. San. Antonio i.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
Games Today

Games Today Atlanta at Birmingha Chattanooga at New Orleans. Memphis at Mobile. Nashville at Montgomery. The Barons returned to Birmingham late Saturday night and were highly elated over their successes in Chatsa- nooga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13

New York. May 12-(Special. )-The worlds championship baseball series of 1911 is a closed book. It dwells now in the public mind-the sport loving public, that is--as an interesting epoch of ancient hstory.. Random lives in the present; never upon the past. Even to an analy- tic mind the carnage and glory of last fall must have faded long ago. Memory is revived here only to throw additional light upon one feature of the past classic
 That feature embraces the chubby, big bat that robbed McGraw of the world s championship pennant. The bat belonged to Frank Baker, third baseman of the Athletics. He garnered two home runs in the series; the first off 'Rube" Mar quard, the second off the master of all pitchers. christy Mathewson. Phiadel- rhia could never have won either game without Bakers pinch home runs. Had the two games in question fallen to the lot of New York. the Polo grounders
 would have taken the series by four
 games to two, the margin by which Con-
 nie Mack's wonderful team triunphed.
 Now about the well oiled bat of Baker
 A dozen different stories have been told as to how he came into possession of it.
 Here is the true story, told, we sincerely believe for the first time. The existence
 O. that famous stick of second growth ash is due to the good fellowship that obtains in professional baseball as iu other walks of life. The bat was made especially for George Simmons, the Rochester recruit of the Yankees, who had done considerable infeld subbing for ITarr,, tyVnlverton this spring An admir- e., of this Brooklyn lad, a couple of years ago. while Simmons was a member of Hughie Jennings Tigers, turned the stick with his own. hands and presented it to the consistent minor league slug ger. -H yts t.tf.fa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
International League

At Newark: Rochester s. Newark |. At Montreal: Jersey City 12. Mon treal 13.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
Simmons originally Had Bat

Simmons never had a great amount of luck with the cudgel It was trihe short and top -heavy for him. He gave it a thorough trial, then discarded 1t, He kept 1t only because ii had been pres ent to him. Owen Bush. the clever little shortstop of the Tigers, borrowed Sim mons bat one day.7after he had broken his own favorite shillaleh As a, result he had d very favorable and profitable after noon. With that innate superstition of ball players in general he fell in love with the stick. He wanted to buy it; but Simmons wouldn't sell Finally simmons was turned back to the Eastern league by Detroit Bush begged so hard for his favorite weapon that Simmons finally made a present of it to the midget short stopper. ft-.
 For a time Bush prospered in his new mace Only a fair hitter, he began tp climb up to the 200 notch, He had many extra hase hits in his collection of swats
 But after a couple of months he fell away in form He stuck to tbe bat, until it was apparent that something was rad ieallv wrong with, his form, Mentors ad- vised him that the bat was too heavy and clumsy for such a little fellow. Bush found new stick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
TEAM PLATED OVER ITS sUC- CESSES IN CHATTANOOGA. LAST GAME LOST ON CLOSE DECISION AT PLATE
SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING

Results Yesterday Mobile 3, Nashville 1. Montgomery 9. Memphis 6. New Orleans 3-5. Atlanta 90.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
Baker Gets the Ash

More than q year later the Athletics were in Detroit for a very important se- ries Prior to the game the third sacler of the Athletics borrowed Bushs discard- ed blidgeon for batting practice. He was so well pleased with it's swing and. balance that he approached ownie on tae matter of a swap. Bush had no paste- ular use for the club Besides he E a generous little chap. If the stick is any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13

Mike Kahoe went to Mobile to look over Dee Walsh, so the report goes 1t would be advisable for him to come io Birmingham and look over Marcan He is hitting over 300 and is fielding like a fiend
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
Cotton States League

At vicksburg: vlcksburg 2, Meridian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13

At chicago-New York; raln.
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There are -some strange superstItions In
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-12-19
PARDONS CAUSE
MANY CHANGES
TO COST STATE S3,378.55
ONE PHYSICIAN. SIX WARDENS
AND SIXT YGUARDS TO BE
OUT OF A JOB.

Little Rock, Dec. 19.-It will cost
the penitentiary board $3,378.55 to
carry out the omnibus pardons issued
by Governor Donaghey Monday. Su-
perintendent Pitcock says that he is
releasing the men as rapidly as the
pardons reach him, and outfits can be
provided for the men. Each man. as
he is released, is given 50 in money,
a suit of clothes, a hat, pair of
shoes and suit of underwear. Mr..
Pitcoek says that the suits could be
made at the walls for $4 each, but
such Wholesale order cannot be
turned out there, and they must be
especially ordered at cost of ST
each.
At meeting of the penitentiary
board Wednesday, the superintendent
was ordered to take all the convicts
left with the contractors when the
contracts expire on December 81, and
place them on the state farm, to be-
gin preparations for next years crop
There will be about 130 white men.
and the board decided to erect a
stockade at the farm for their special
use, patterned after the one of the
Mississippi state farm
The superintendent reports that it
will take about 80 days to straighten
out the affairs of the institution after
all the men are released. He says
that the services of one physician can
be dispensed with, and six or seven
wardens and about 60 guards will lose
their positions.
The log cabin Democrat., 1912-12-19
A. J. TR0BAUCH CLAIMS
CABINS" FAIR PRIZE

The Conway Printing Co. offered
as premium at the Faulkner county
fair, years subscription to the
Weekly Log Cabin Democrat for the
best one-horse harrow manufactured
in Faulkner county. The judges have
just awarded that honor to A. j. Tro-
baugh of Mt. Vernon, ,and we have
very promptly placed his name upon
the subscription list. Mr.. Trobaugh
was raised at Naylor, and has lived
for a number of years at Mt. Vernon,
where he runs blacksmith and
woodworking shop. He is one of
Faulkner county's most substantial
and progressive citizens, and we con-
gratulate him on his success in hav-
ing made the prize-winning harrow