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The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
Fu|tZ Poses as a Moses
Leads the Players On
By SAM CRANE

| homo. They have more imagined
grievances than any other set of men
who are as well used as they. They
imagine so many, in fact, that finally
they have perpetual grouches-and
then they do not know why.
Many of them are easily led, par
ticularly the younger ones, who are
readily influenced by the older play
ers And 1t is the veterans, those who
are verging on the sere and yellow as
players and who know their baseball
life is very short. who are foremost
to take up with any proposition
that looks favorable to extending
their baseball careers They are the
foxy guys. And then, for fear the
younger players will be called vel
low or "quitters" by their fellows.
they follow like sheep and without
knowing any more than sheep in the
majority of cases, of what they are
kicking for.
/ will venture to say that those
players almost TO a man who went
through the brotherhood war of 1890.
which resulted in the dismemberment
of the Players league. will acknowl-
edge they, made a mistake. and yet
they had much more cause for griev-
ance than have the players Of today.
HALF HEARTED SPIRIT
That no member OF the Players
fraternity wants to present their de-
mands to the powers that be. through
fear Of being ousted from baseball, Is
a convinving illustration to my mind
that they are only half hearted in the
justice Of their claims.
If they were convinced they were
right there would not or should not
be a laggard in the ranks or weak
hearted member. There would be a
rush for the honor of presenting the
demand for reforms
What to my mind is the worst fea-
ture of the players end is that the
Federal league has been brought up
evidently as a bugaboo to frighten
the magnates. But instead of doing
that it will act as boomerang. And
If the Federal league is made the
"Elysian Field to which all dis
gruntled players will flock. players
salaries. instead of being gigger in a
couple of years. will drop to half of
what they are now. And the National
and American leagues will come out
on top and the Federal league be a
thing of the past
Such a result is baseball history.
1t is beyond the ken Of the layman
how players who are getting as big
salaries as they are. can manufacture
a grievance. No class of people are
used better or more literally. They.
in fact, are treated much better in
every way than they would treat
themselves.
But the national commission, that
has made a reputation that is well
deserved for justice and fairness to
players, can be depended on to use
the larger in this latest reform cru
sade with the same spirit.
But a declaration of war by the
players-pish. tushl foolish.
And away down in their hearts
and pockets, too-they do not want It,
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18

A rumor has il that Walter Nc
Credie of the Beavers plans to send
Zip Hagerman and Ty Lober to the
Cleveland club. McCredie held sew
erai meetings with President Somers.
and 1t is the general belief that both
of the above players viii go to the
Cleveland club in exchange for other
r11ayers
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18

Del Howard did not return home
with the other Coast league delegates.
He went to visit his old home in Illi-
nois. President Baum stated that
Howard was elated at his success in
getting O'Leary and Hoffman, as he
figures that they will bolster up the
weak spots Of the club. O'Leary, who
IS a shortstop, will be used at third
base instead of Walter Cartwright
Hoffman viii be given a position in
the outfield.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18

| If the professional baseball players
who have Joined the Players Fra
ternity are sincere in their demands
for the reform they are about to pre-
sent to the national commission and
club owners. all well and good. 1t is
their right and privilege to organize
for protection and to make public
their grievances in the attempt to
gain public and popular approval for
! their course.
But the players themselves did not
organize their fraternity. The found
ing of the organization was the act of
a lawyer who was once a professional
player himself but entirely away and
out of all active participation in the
game at present.
! That he did not at the time he was
playing make any attempt to better
/ the condition of himself and fellow
| players, or voice his own grievances
to those in authority is evidence that
4 he was satisfied to accept the condi-
tions that then existed and visit the
captains office" twice every month
to receive his pay.
The conditions of the professional
ball players when he was playing too.
were just the same as now.
Worse. possibly. owing to the fact
that the national commission was
comparatively new then and had not
got fully into its well meaning
stride to do justice to the ball players,
as it surely has given convincing evil
dence that it has since Dave Fultz's
day as an active player.
DID NOT ACT WHILE PLAYER
/ The president of the Players fra
ternity may be honest and sincere in
4 his belief that the ball players are
a pitiable collection of down trodden
humanity, than whom there are none
so i'll used, but as he did not take
up the cudgels for them until he was
/ out of all danger of any reprisals in
i the shape of being released uncere-
moniously or having his salary cut
or being showed back into the minors
as a has been" and escaped other
possible horrible calamities that the
national agreement players contracts
called for in his day as well as now.
he can hardly hope to escape impress
sions that his organizing, personally.
the Players fraternity was tinged
with something besides great mental
disturbance and fierce heart throbs
for fear of the down trods" being
forced into abject slavery.
If president Fultz has been and is
thoroughly loyal as an old ball player
to those who have come after him on
the diamond and conscientious in his
feelings that they are as down trod-
den as he proffesses to believe. and
really thinks he is their Moses. all
web and good but still / personally
would have more faith in the solidity
of the crusade for the uplifts if he
had been first approached by dis
satisfied players. instead of announc-
ing himself as the Moses and trying
TO influence the players to that rather
doubtful belief.
Professional baseball players are a
very peculiar class of the genus
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18
NEW GIANT PITCHER

Manager McGraw has signed AL
Williams, star pitcher and football
player of Fordham university The
collegian stands 8 feet inches In
height and weighs more than 200
pounds. and Is declared to be the best
pitcher ever turned out of Fordham.
In spite of his size. he made a repu-
tation at college for speed.
The San Francisco call., 1913-11-18

President Baum and Magnates Cook
and Leavitt of the Pacific Coast league
returned home yesterday after their
trip to Columbus, where they at
tended the minor leagues convention.
The meeting this year they reported
as being quiet The delegates spent
most of their time buying and ex-
changing ball players.
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MRS. DAVID j. LEWIS,
Wife of representative from Maryland.
tCopyrght hy Harris a. Ewing.l

course when he comes home at night he
is too weary to care to go out ut was
the old old tale that so many wives tellb.
j expect after all that home should mean
relaxation TO "A man. In fact, that is
my idea OF the solution of the problem
of public mans domestic life.
When Mr.. and Mrs Lewis went to
Panama not so long ago. Mrs. Lewis was
delighted that here at last would be
chance for her husband to enjoy real
leisure. He could not possibly overwork
while he was out at sea or inspecting
the Gatun dam.
Just as she was about TO begin packing
her trunk. Mr.. Lewis went to his wife.
He asked that she let him put some few
little things into one of the trunks.
When she came TO put few frocks and
hats into that same trunk she found that
there was less than fourth of it's in
terror left untitled. Three-quarters of
the space was jammed with huge thick
volumes post office statistics.
No, he didn't read them. But Ii
wasn't because he didn't want. to. He
WAS desperately seasick. II 1t hadn't
been unsympathetic l would have been
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His Only Thought.

A CERTAIN Philadelphia architect
"A who is par excellence the architect
of the millionaire said at the annual out
ing of the Associated Architectural So
ceties at Englewood:
1.-The palaces of our millionaires are
undoubtedly the most beautiful in the
world The American millionaire has, as
rule an esthetic sense. He isn't like
Cashley of Chillicothe.
'Cashley last winter visited the Riv-
iera. Arriving at the Palace Hotel in
Nice, he said to the clerk:
- Gimme the dearest room in the house,
young Teller.
Yes. sir said the clerk. And would
you prefer. sir "A sea view or a mountain
view-a view of the Mediterranean or a
view of the Maritime Alps?'
"'Oh, L don't care nothin' about that.
said Cashley. The dearest room in the
house, young Teller. that's what 1
want
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Continued From Sixth PageD
The scheme succeeded.
Edwards barely had started on his
errand when bells began ringing inside
the house!
Watt" snapped Ethan, aud rushed
indoors.
, A moment later he was out again, his
eyes cleaning madly.
above the moat. he painted. And we
were off en- masse round the edge OF the
trees.
1t was dark above the moat, but not
so dark as to prevent our seeing mar
row ladder of thin bamboo joints and
silken cord hanging by two hooks from
the top of the twelve-foot wire fence.
There was no sound.
Hes out!'' screamed Ethan. Down
the steps,
We all ran our best and swiftest But
Ethan outran US. Like a fury he tore
at bolts and bars and like a fury sprang
out into the road. Straight and white 1t
showed to the activity by the Roman
ruin. But no living thing moved upon
It, The distant baying of the dog was
borne to our ears.
"Curse it! he's crippledr' Kissed Smith,
"Without him, as well pursue a shadow"
A few hours later the shrubbery yielded
up it's secret a simple enough one-a
big cask sunk in pit, with laurel shrub
cunningly affixed to its movable lid,
which was further disguised with tufts
of grass x slender bamboo jointed rod
lay near the fence. II had hook on the
top and was evidently used for attaching
the ladder.
..It was the end of this ladder which
Miss Ethan saw" said Smith. ''as he
trailed it behind him into the shrubbery
when she interrupted him in her fathers
room. He and whomever he had with
him doubtless slipped in during the day
time while Ethan was absent In London.
bringing the prepared cask and all neces-
sary implements with him. They con-
cealed themselves omewhere-probably
in the shrubbery--and during the night
made the cache. The excavated earth
would be disposed of on the flower beds;
the dummy bush they probably had
ready You see, the problem of getting
in was never big one. But owing to
the 'defenses' II was impossible while
Ethan was in residence. Al any rate)
to get out after dark! For Fu-Manchu's
purposes, then, working base inside
Redmoat was essential His servant-for
he needed assistance-must have been in
hiding somewhere outside; heaven knows
where. During the day they could come
or 60 by the gates. as we have already
noted"
You think Ii was the doctor him.
self?"
at seems possible Who elese has
eyes like the eyes Miss Ethan saw
from the window last night"
There remains to tell the nature of
the outrage whereby Fu-Manchu had
planned to prevent Elthams leaving
England for China This we learned
from DENLY. For DENLY was not dead.
1t was easy to divine that he had
stumbled upon the -fiendish visitor at the.
vorya entrance to his burrow; had been
stunned Judging from the evidence, with
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glad of it, For while he was lying i'm
his berth, his mind was resting from
parcel post problems. even if his body
was not exactly comfortable"
Mrs Lewis declares that her husband
has not read piece of fiction since
ne came to the House. He doesn't
have time. he says. Truly there are
occasions she laughed, when / wish
he were a laboring man with union
hours Them at least. when he was
home his work would be done
Considering the time that Mrs. Lewis
spends at the Capitol, it is not strange
that she doesn't find much opportunity
for parties.
Il am very fond of social life" she
declared. but / know that once / get
into the whirl / will be absolutely
engulfed by frivolity. That is the rea-
son I hesitate to accept many invita-
lions. If l ever begin / know / shall
never be able to STOP.
Mrs. Lewis would be immensely pop
ular IL she would decide to make her
debut" She has frank, unaffected
manner that not only is quite in ac-
cord with "Wilsonian simplicity" but
is appealing as we'll Her face is
animated and sympathetic. Her slight
Iy retroussef nose will preserve her girl
ish looks for years and years. Her
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Confusion.

CENATOR THORNTON of Louisiana
- was talking about the tariff bill,
which he opposed OH account of tho free
sugar clause.
This BILL he said, viii land the su-
gar industry. the cane sugar industry, IN
almost irremediable confusion.
The sugar industry will be as badly
off. alas. as the government mule.
This government mule was left at the
Nola Chucky station in charge of unc1e
Wash White. Its destination was OH
label tied by string TO its right foreleg
We'll. before the mule could be got
aboard the car II managed to reach down
and eat its label. When Uncle Wash dis
covered this he threw up his hands and
roared
What / swine ter do wiy dish yeKe
mule now? He done ct up de place whsr
he's gwine teri"
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decked with rich growth. The vines have
climbed the buttresses of the gray stone
walls as high as the roof. The Wash
ington Heights Presbyterian Church and
the broad, low-roofed church at the north
west corner of Connecticut avenue and
Bancroft place are overgrown with green.
The north and south walls of the Church
of the Covenant are overcast with a
net of green leaves and tendrils. the
Church of the Epiphany. All Souls Uni
tartan Church, the Church of the Incar-
nation at 18th and n. Calvary NJ. Z.
Church on Columbia road between f4th
and 18th streets, and Luther Memorial
Church have growths of vines.
Ivy entwines the four pillars at the east
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vINE-COyERED HOUSES ON DUPONT CIRCLE.

travelling over the garden wall north
ward along 10th. The light-colored house
next door to the Hay house on II street
has been crept over by wistaria. The
entrance to the court and the wall OF
the old art gallery of the w. w. Cor
coran house have clinging vines. and
along the tall brick wall extending north
along Connecticut avenue ampeiopsis and
trumpet creeper are thriving. The gar
den wall of the house at the northwest
corner of Connecticut avenue and II
street the house where the stuffed duck
has rested on the window sill Tor hfty
years. is also taking on a dress of vines
Three fine examples of the vine-house
are those on the west side of Dupont
circle between p street and New Hamp-
shire avenue They are the green stone
houses so familiar to the thousands OF
Neutrality-suspicious. who daily pass that way.
The middle house is No. and Is the
home of Gen. Arson Mills. The vines
have spread themselves over the tront
of this house and those ADJOINING Ch
No. l. which is the house to the SOUTH
Wistaria has climbed to the top OF the
little red cupola. No. 4, which is nearer
N street is a red brick with black uih-
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II Is frequent in those little side courts upon
which the older buildings face. And IL has a charm
that IL enhanced by the smart up-to-dHtencss "I
the surrounding skyscrHpers. This ivy-covered
wall. 800 feet long and nineiySiN feet high, has
been grown in Ave years There Is no good rra-
son why similarly effective stand would
not reward the copServators OF tbs numerous
churches. libraries. reading rooms or other semi
public buildings that are scattered through chi
csgo. The result would he real Softeniug OF the
harsh and monotonous outlines OF the city.
At 10th and | streets one sees two
deeply vine-matted houses, At the north
west corner is the house in which jus
tice Gray lived. and opposite. the
south side of the street, is the house in
which the Misses Tuckerman lived, ana
which is now known as the Porter house.
Another line house on | street is that
which was the Tracy house. but which
has lately been remodeled and enlarged
as the home of the Commercial Club.
The John Hay house. AT the northwest
corner of 18th and III streets. has a
growth Of ivy over its south front as
high as the second story, and il is climb
ing the east front on 10th street and
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on the left This road. If followed will
lead you over a high bridge that crosses
Piney Branch vale and reaches the valley
of Rock creek at Pierce Mil bridge
Where Park road bends 10 run down Lin
mean hill there is guide post which will
tell you that the road branching TO the
left is Klngie road. which. of course,
leads down to the north end OF the Zoo
grounds and over Rock creek on the
Klingle Ford bridge
Now. at this guide post take neither
the right nor the left road. but strike
nearly straight ahead into shadowy
path worn by people on foot and by sad
die horses. This path begins it's course
through young, e-growing hard
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with a brownstone wall-has a wealth
of vine and some southside ivy feeds
on the brick and mortar of the Dewey
presentation house, next door There
is rathersa feeble and discouraged vine
growth on the Washington Mclean
house. at the northeast corner of Con-
necticut avenue and X street. the west
ernmost house of the Shepherd row.
row in which a large number of dis
tinguished persons have lived
A vin's-tangled house and grounds is the
Fuller home on the heights immediately
west of and adjoining the Henderson
castle property. The house is buried in
vines. Along Florida avenue runs a low
cement wall in front of this property and
six flights of cement steps, guarded by
an iron railing lead up the bluff through
the deep mat of honey and a grove
of trees in which bay trees are promi-
nent.
If you are looking for such things as
vine-robed houses you will probably
notice the four-story red brick at the
corner of 18th street and Riggs place and
the five-story yellow brick-and-stone
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If Only

MRS. MARIAN SIMS. the suffrage air
Iva woman, was advocating the univer-
sal ballot at the Hampstead Plains aero
drome.
And another type of woman who es-
pecially needs the vote said Mrs. Sims,
lis the spinster. 1t isn't the spinster
fault that she is spinster. Many nice
girl goes through life without meeting
single nice man..
She smiled, shook her head. and added
earnestly:
Love, they say. makes the world 20
round All. IL it would only make the
eligible men go round, too.'
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DARP COMMISSIONERS SLOWER Of
! New York was talking about the
abolition of .'spooning I'm Central Park
I'VE have pretty well abolished spoon
Ing" lie said. THE way TO abolish IL alte-
gether is TO have fewer copses and moro
cops. But those who persist in spoonins
In Central Park now. i'm the face OF All
the difficulties, pretty determined
sweethearts. and when they marry they
should be able to pass all their lives
the happy marriage test.
According TO the happy marriage test
you know, marriage Is success as
long as both husband and wife delight
In reading their old love /! .tters to eaoh
other"
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house on 10th street between r and Cor
coran streets. The vines have climbed to
the top of the chimney and cover the
south wall of this large house.
The Foraker house. the big yellow brick
at 10th and p streets, with two stealthy
white lions lurking by the sides of the
footwalk from the street to the front
door, has a coat of vines. The house
1445 Massachusetts, avenue. a red brick
on the beautiful terrace along the north
side of that great avenue between 14th
and 18th streets, and the house at the
southeast corner of Massachusetts ave-
nue. and 18th street have their growths of
vine. The Louise Home. at this point.
once had perhaps the thickest growth OF
vines on Its walls in the city, but the
vines have been cut away. however. the
wistaria which lives on the fence around
the grounds Of Louise Home is. when the
vines are in flower, one of the floral spec
tacles of the Capital.
The broad-fr onted double house, 1I2o
Connecticut avenue, has its front so deep
~ overgrown with ivy and other hardy
vines that there is just enough open
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The Third Fw Mamchw Story----REDMOA

a sandbag) and dragged down into the
cache, to which he must have lain in
such dangerous proximity as to render
detection of the dummy bush possible I'm
removing him The quickest expedent,
then. had been to drag him beneath.
When the search of the shrubbery was
concluded his body had been borne to
the edge of the bushes and laid where
we found il.
Why his life had been spared ] cannot
conjecture. but provision had been made
against his recovering consciousness and
revealing the secret of the shrubbery.
The ruse of releasing the matsiff alone
had terminated the visit of the unbid-
gen guest within Rednoat.
DENLY made very slow recovery, and
even when convaIescent consciously
added not one fact TO those We al
ready had collated, for the reason that
his memory had completely left him!
This. in my opinion. as in those of the
several specialists consulted, was due,
not to the blow on the head, but to the
presence, slightly below and to the right
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their green vine trimmings, make
picture of many colors.
The great brown house at 1701 New
Hampshire avenue is almost hidden
under mat of vines, their leaves now
turning warm red wine tints. At the north
east corner of Goth and r is the Thropp
house, one of the private palaces OF
the capital. Its red brick and red
stone walls are vine covered, and with
it's big grounds rich In shrubbery there
is poem in red and green. The Letter
house at Dupant circle and New Hamp-
shire avenue has growth of ivy over
the lower and back walls and Ivy
creeps over the stone balustrade which
surrounds the green parking set with
small and various conifers.
There is a good example of the vine
house on n street opposite the Church
of the Covenant. and looking east
along n street. though the view is
pictures quely fnterfered with by the
large hard naples of that street. you
can see that between Connecticut ave-
nue. and Scott Circle a number of the
house fronts are screened with vines.
The house at the northeast corner OF
the intersection of Connecticut and
Rhode Island avenues red brick
that rests on "a verdant terrace bound
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or the first cervical curve of the spine,
OF a minute puncture-undoubted
caused by hypodermic syringe. Thur.
unconsciously. poor DENLY furnished TIE
last link i'm the chain; for undoubtedly
by means of this operation Flu Manchu
had designed to efface from Elthsu,s
mind AL plans Of return to Holman.
> The nature OF the fluid which could
produce such mental symptoms was a
nystery-a mystery which dcfied wesJ-
ern science; one OF the many strange
secrets of DR. Fu-Manchu
Ho-Nan-Have abandoned visit.
ELTHAM-
upnderlined the above, which appear
ed in the personal column Of a daily pa
per q few days after our sojourn VA
Norfolk. and laid the journal beside
Smiths plate on the breakfast table.
Il am glad for kltham's sake-and for
the girls was his comment. But 1t
marks another victory TO- Fu-Manch1.
Just heaven why is rctribution delay
edt'