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The San Francisco call., 1913-10-07

begging tickets at any price Ihey
did not get them at any price. The
price was $50 set OF three-one for
each game You paid that or you
didn't go--just as you elected. There
was no compulsion.
The argument advanced by hum
dreds of bitter men was that you
couldn't be made TO pay Ave times the
price of a ticket. The argument OF
the speculators was ribald laughter
The national commission in the mean
time contended that Pinkerton de-
tectives were what was needed.
Other fans held TO the position that
they had sent their good money TO
the New York Baseball club and were
entitled to the tickets.
The management of the club argued
that the ticket spectators did not
have any tickets at all. Furthermore,
that # they did have any tickets, they
did not get them from anybody con-
nected with the club, but if they did
get them from the club, the club
would pay $4,000 to charity If any one
could prove it. Also, and finally, that
there were a lot of liars and scandal
mongers around here.
oUssING RECORDS BROKEN
But this was not all. In our midst
was an excited collection of foreign
fans. many of whom had journeyed
from as far as South Bend, Ind, and
Frostburg, Nd. Being unused to our
city ways they had fatuousiy supposed
that when they mailed checks a couple
of weeks ago and got no reply II
meant that their checks had been ac-
cepted in payment for tickets. Arriy-
ing here they went TO the offices OF the
New York club and requested that
their tickets be forked over. A hire
ling met them with hollow laugh.
They gathered in scores and each new
conner went through the same per-
formance.
Finally they grew indignant and de-
manded their money back. This was
funnier than ever After spending
hours in vain effort to get either the
tickets or the money they invoked the
sacred right of an American citizen to
ease his mind on such occasions and
good judges along Broadway admitted
that the visitors had given one Of the
finest exhibitions of free hand cussing
ever exhibited in our city.
Then there were others. The club
MANAGEMENT announced the tickets
had gone to none but accredited fol-
lowers of the baseball" This. they
said. did not include spectators, but
doubtless included Jim Gaffney,
owner of the Boston club In the
National league. Mr.. Gaffney was
sent an order and check for Al sets
OF tickets, and found his allotment
sliced considerably. Thus the loyal
public enjoyed the uplifting spectacle
OF magnate being gaffed by his own
harpoon.
C;AFFNEY SHOWS UP GRAFT
In these premises. Mr.. Gaffney for
got that he was a magnate and be-
came one of the loyal public. He
made a great oration and declared
that tickets were being turned over
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Be PRETTY! TURN
GRAY HAIR DARK
Try Grandmother'S Old Favor
ite Recipe of Sage Tea
.and Sulphur

Almost every one knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed. brings back the natural color and
1ustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray; also ends dandruff, itching
scalp and stops falling hair. Years
ago the only way to get this mixture
was to make 1t at home, which Is
mussy and troublesome. Nowadays.
by asking at any drug store for IVY
eth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Rene
dy." you win get large bottle Of this
famous old recipe for about SO cents.
Don't stay gray, Try Il! No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as it does It so naturally
and evenly. You dampen sponge or
soft brush with 1t and draw this
through your hair, taking one small
strand at time; by morning the gray
hair disappears. and after another
application or two your hair becomes
beautifully dark. thick and glossy.
Advertisement.
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SOMETHING ABOUT
! ISLAND OF KAUAI

The island of Kauai is the smallest
Of the four large islands of the Ha-
waiian group, containing SAT square
miles, which is somewhat less than
half the area of Rhode Island. The
highest part of Kauai consists of the
mountain mass called Waialeale, which
occupies the central part of the island.
Waialeale peak is 5000 feet above the
sea level. Kawaikini peak, about a
mile farther south. is more than 5000
feet high The east side of Waialeaie
is almost vertical for 1000 or 1000
feet. There are numerous streams in
the island, some of which have cut
deep canyons with vertical walls.
Waimea canyon is a most remarkable
gorge for so small an island 1t is 10
miles long, mile or more wide and
2 1000 to 1900 feet deep. Its coloring
and sculpture are exquisite and some
what resemble those of the Grand
canyon of the Colorado.
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JAILED AS TRAMP,
FOUND TO BE INSANE

Thomas Honnas, aged 70 years, who
had been an inmate of the county
home at Batavia, N. Y, for a
few days. was taken to the Rochester
state hospital Honnas was sent to
Jail as a tramp two weeks ago from
Bergen, where he was picked up,
and at the expiration of his sentence
he was sent to the county home. Hon
mas is under the impression that he
was injured by an automobile and a
policeman, and that his Offenders
have been sent to prison. He can
not tell where his home is, but claims
10 have been born in County Clare,
Ireland. and thinks that he has s10,,
600 in a bank and real estate worth
SO. 090.
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CLYDE c. WeStOver
WedS on Vacation

Clyde c. Westover, amateur play
wright, secretary of the Press club
and clerk in the United States Gus
tom house, has included a marriage
In his vacation trip to Los Angeles,
according to reports from that city.
The bride is Miss Hildur Heide of
Oakland
When Westover left his apartments
at 119 Hillside avenue, Oakland. more
than a week ago for a trip to south
ern California. he failed to inform
his friends that he was to end his
bachelor days. Miss Heide has been
living at the same address In Hill
side avenue.
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Yankee Film Slang
Puzzles English Folk

1t is becoming almost necessary for
the proprietors Of picture palaces to
provide their patrons with American
English slang dictionaries, says an
English paper.
Some of the titles and wording
which now accompany so many of the
pictures shown at picture theaters
throughout the country are so
strange to British audiences that it is
some times difficult to make head or
tail of them.
This is because America is the
greatest film producing country in the
world, and the explanatory matter at
tached to pictures there is not altered
and anglicized on their presentation
here.
Depot" is one of the most frequent
ly recurring words. This is American
for railway station. Another tray
cling" word is grip, which is equiva-
lent to our hold-all.
OF all pictures shown on the screen
cowboy ones are easily among the
most popular with English audiences,
and some OF the words made use of in
connection with these are very puz-
zling at times.
There is "rustIer,'' for example. This
means cattle thief "Rustling a bron-
co." therefore, stands for stealing a
small horse; a bronco being the kind
of animal generally ridden "out west"
that Is, on the western plains.
Other cowboy terms are: "1oldup,' .
demand for money; thug" a high
way robber; "quitter. coward {;
'.rube,'' p yokel, and shack" an old
Gradually we are, through the me-
dium of the "movies''-the moving
pictures, we mean to say-learning
several new ways of saying hooligan.
"Hoodlum" is one and tough an
other. For our tramp, too, there are
hobo" and dead beat" while dive
is equivalent TO thieves Kitchen" or
a resort of bad characters.
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BY FRANK G. MENKE

o'clock yesterday afternoon. As the
weary hours of the night dragged
along the line began to lengthen and
the walters cheered themselves and
their nelghbors to the front and the
rear of them with little witticisms.
or swapped back and forth their
views relative to the merits Of the
two contending teams.
But when day dawned. cloudy and
muggy, with fine mist of rain dying
through the air. nature began to re-
volt. The hack of sleep and the strain
of the long hours of standing in a
fixed place began to show in many
faces. Eyelids grew heavy and swol-
len eyes became shot with blood. The
cheeriness. the effervescent spirits
that had made many of them forget
the torture of waiting began TO droop.
The line began to lose Its animation
of the night and from a cheerful,
happy. gossiby group became band
of grim. dogged men and women.
SCORE OF WOMEN IN LINE
For there were women in that line.
perhaps q score of them, who. because
of their love of the national game,
willingly endured the hardships that
fell to the lot of their masculine COM
panions- AS the hour approached for
the gates to open some around the
head of the line began to totter lit
tie. Their legs became numbed, their
brains dull and tired from the intense
mental and physical torture.
Some there were who had circum-
vented the attack of WEAKNESS by
bringing little cots with them. On
these which they placed In their
position In the line, they snatched
few hours of fitful sleep. Others sat
on soap boxes and chairs which vend-
ors sold at exorbitant prices, while
some few spread papers upon the
damp earth and lay down and went
to sleep.
A small army of sandwich men fed
many of the hungry during the night.
When dawn came many In the line
broke away and hurried to nearby
restaurants to get some hot food. and
then hurried back to give their neigh
bors, who had saved their places In
the line. chance to go do likewise.
When tho gates were thrown open
at $40 o'clock the nrst four in line
were John Harris. aged 90, of No. 8
Spring Garden avenue, Philadelphia; !;
william Farrell. Edward Pfeffer and
James Cullen, all New Workers.
At midnight perhaps 500 were in
line. And then the line began to
grow much faster. When daylight
came perhaps 1000 were in line in
single file that stretched along In
zig-zag fashion through four streets
for distance OF perhaps mile and
half.
TWO HUNDRED POLICE ON GUARD
Fifty regular policemen and as
vx,o o1 rI
out the night At q. m. $50 more
regular policemen were added to the
protective force. but their presence
seemed hardly necessary The crowd
was orderly and quiet.
AS the time drew near for the gates
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AdeIstein Guilty in
Tunnel Deal, Vote
Fillmore lmprovers
Association convicts Member Of
Taking Money to Boost Bore,
Then Working Against It


Samuel Adelstein was found guilty
early today by the Fillmore Street
Improvement association of charges
Of conduct unbecoming an officer and
member of the association. The
charges were that he had caused the
association to spend money in sup-
port of the Fillmore street tunnel
project and that after the association
had paid him money. which he as
serted was for the benefit of the tun-
mel he had turned about and worked
against the tunnel, influencing super
visors to that end.
Arthur Joel. M. Schwartz and j w.
TreadweH preferred the charges, and
after session that lasted until
o'clock this morning he was voted
guilty, 20 to 10. A three-f fourths vote
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Stole Three DobeI
Bari Schot Guns

Is confession of crime valueIess
when crude and misspelled," such as
this?
On the night of Sept. the
twenth In the viledge of Port
Morris, N. j. at the suggestion OF
one Robert Pruden. Chas. CIouse
and Jos. Whalen did steal and
carry away three Dobel barI
Schot guns and three single barl
Schot guns to the value OF SIS
This document, signed by Clouse
and Whalen, was offered against them
Yesterday in Newark. 1t was written
out by Port Morris justice of the
peace, whose name. mercifully, was
not made public. The boys were ar
rested in that town Wednesday. Pru-
den, their companion. escaped.
Harrison p. Lindabury, counsel for
Whalen, contended that the confess
sion should be disregarded because of
its crudity. United States Commits
sioner Stockton, who heard the case,
did not agree with that view and held
the lads in $4,000 bail each.
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to open and the early crowd found
that its long waiting was nearly over
there came recurrence Of the cheeri-
ness and animation of the night Hew
arrivals, coming at the rate of 80 a
minute, added new life to the line,
which then was marshaled four
abreast by the police.
short time after the gates werc
flung open and the first fans scram-
bled into the big stands, the drizz le
stopped. the clouds lifted little and
the prospects Of a game grew brighter
as the minutes passed.
At O'Clock the elevated trains. the
subways and the surface cars pumped
fans up against the Polo grounds
gates at the rate of $500 an hour, and
the SO ticket sellers at the windows
and the score of gate tenders rushed
the fans through into the grounds at
almost an equal rate.
Many people stood in line all night.
but sold their places In the front part
of the line to late arrivals at prices
ranging from 50 to SIS.
EAT LUNCHES IN PARK
Once inside the grounds many of the
fans unpacked their lunch boxes and
proceeded to their breakfasts, while
they rested their weary limbs on the
grandstand and bleacher seats.
The possibility of Snodgrass, the
Giants centerfielder. not being in the
first game and perhaps not in the se-
ries at all because of severe Char
ley horse" was one of the big topics
Of discussion among the fans The
question whether Snodgrass' absence
would be detriment or help to the
Giants was exhaustfvely debated.
Many of the fans never have for
given Snodgrass for his $685. 900 muir
In the last game of the 1912 worlds
series, which enabled the Red Sox to
win the deciding game. 1t was pointed
out by some that Snodgrass, at his
best, was only an ordinary fielder and
that In crucial game he is very like
ly to go to pieces.
DIAMOND NOT AFFECTED
Just as the first woman in line
Mrs. Maurice Hutchison OF New York
squeezed her way into the big in
closure. ground keeper William Fabian
and squad of assistants spread huge
pieces of tarpaulin over the infield
and around the home plate. The rain
had not greatly affected the playing
field. being little more than to settle
the dust and 1t seemed certainty at
9 q. m. that the game would be
played IL no further rain fell.
The Giants practiced the early to
bed early to rise" teaching. Most OF
them were In Sunderland before 10
o'clock last night. but they were up
early today, worked the kinks out OF
their muscles and, with the exception
Of Snodgrass, they reported to Man
ager McGraw in tiptop condition.
The Athletics. who arrived here last
night. breakfasted early at the Som
erset hotel, where they are staying.
They. too. reported to their leader in
fine fettle today, confident of grab
bing OFF todays game-called by the
''dopesters" the psychological or the
Jump" game.
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POLICEMAN BREAKS
HAND ON MANS HEAD

While in a scrimmage with Samuel
Cherry, Patrolman Reilly of Niagara
Fails broke several bones in his right
hand and is now on sick leave. In
arresting the man he found it neces-
sary TO use his club, and he swung
pretty hard on Cherry's head. His
hand bothered him. and DR.. Wal
ter A. Scott put it under the x-ray.
1t WAS then discovered that several
bones were broken. Cherry's head
was haEder than the officers hand.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-07
Missing Heiress to
Chateau Bellevue
Located in Chicago
Daughter of Thomas Duval, Absent
Many Years, Can Now Claim
Fathers Vast Estate

Attorney A. p. Leach of Oakland
has received word from Chicago
attorney that Mrs Amelia Duval
Stevens, heiress to the Chateau Belle
vue at Livermore, is in Chicago and
can be identified. Leach has wired
for her description and has informed
the attorney that the large estate of
her late father is ready to fall into
her hands ii she is the rightful claim
ant. The daughter of Alexander
Duvai. owner Of Chateau Bellevue,
married Thaddeus Stevens against
the wish of her parent several years
ago and then left home. Since then
she has not been found and since the
death Of both father and mother there
is no legal claimant to the broad
acres. "A sale of portion of the
property was held last Saturday.
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CROWD WATTS ALL NIGHT
IN RAIN WHILE BAT TIE Of
SPECTATORS IS FOUGHT
Annual Scandal Over Tickets Breaks Early and
Clique in Control Harvests 400 Per Cent Profit
at $50 for Three of Much Wanted Pasteboards

to the speculators--that the public
was being turned over to the specu-
lators, and finally, above ALL mag
nate was being turned over to the
spectators.
President Hampstead urged him to
remember that a few tickets We're
nothing between friends and that the
spectators did not have any, any
way. Mr.. Gafney's reply to this ar
gument was TO step to telephone,
and within 80 minutes he~purchased
16 complete sets of tickets for $500
at the regular rate of s5e. He was
also told he could have any number
at that price
At this interesting juncture the
meeting of the magnates went into
executive session and IL is regretta BILE
that history may never record what
Mr.. Ga6ney said to Mr.. Hampstead
or what Mr.. Hampstead said in re-
buttal.
AS matter of fact. it is estimated
that about 5000 or 1000 reserved
seats found their way TO street spec
ulators-or about half the supply.
These were not in dribiets. as the
management asserts, but in very
large blocks.
AS it is. any of the loyal public who
has been Loyalty paying his rs cents
all season to support the New York
club and make the worlds series pos
sible can walk up to any well organ
ized speculator and get a single re-
served seat for a mere $40 bill In
some cases single tickets were going
at only S1b, but these were the more
timid of the spectators, who didn't
want TO take the business risk in
yoived in a profit of more than 400
per cent.
OH, YES. FANS FORGET
But you are not to suppose that
these loyal but unwealthy ones were
forgotten Not a bit of il. They were
told that they could buy the cheaper
tickets-the ST. and 81 kind-at the
park yesterday morning at o'clock.
They went up at the rate of about 500
to each IL" train With happy shout
gs they surged down to the box Of
fee, and were told that there was
never to be sale, or if so 1t had been
cancelled - the parties in charge
couldn't remember which But. any
how. there was to be no sale until this
morning Was the loyal public daunt-
ed2 1t was not. IT talked in tone
that can not here be reproduced, be-
cause this newspaper Is read by women
and children, and declared that they
would never come to the Polo grounds
again al any Time unueT any Gil cuAs
stances, at any price. Then about dark
last night they began sneaking up and
forming in line for the big sale today.
waiting patiently all night to be
among the first at the gate this morn
ing.
There was some betting here and
elsewhere Along Broadway the odds
were at about even money on the
Giants, with a number of freak bets
on single games for which you made
up the odds as you went along. Many
q misguided enthusiast offered odds on
the Giants, but his offers were
grabbed so eagerly that this species
of alteration disappeared
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DR.. Palmer in Plan
To Merge Churches

Answering the offer of the pulpit
of the First Congregational church
of Oakland, Rev. Albert w. Palmer.
pastor of the Plymouth Congrega-
tional church, submitted plan for
the amalgamation of the two
churches at conference of the board
Of trustees and deacons of the First
church last night. Doctor Palmer s
plan will be settled Friday night.
When the offer of the pulpit was
made to Doctor Palmer it was under
stood it precluded the PROBABILITY of
the union of the churches. The pas
tor has been offered a salary of $4,000
by the First church.
Doctor Palmer and Mrs. Palmer,
who recently returned from an ex-
tended tour of England and the con-
tinent, will be rendered reception
tonight in the church by the congre-
cation.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-07
3 Rowing Clubs. to
Compete in Races

Three rowing ciubs-the Ariels, the
Dolphin and the South End--have
made complete list of entries in the
program Of boat races to be made q
feature Of the Columbus day cele-
bration.
The executive committee met yes-
terday at the headquarters Of the
Recreation league of San Francisco
and chose all OF the officials for the
swimming and boat events.
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Polo Grounds Are Alive With Rooters
Rain and Cold Hold No Terrors

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-When Father
Knickerbocker jumped from his
downy couch this morning he rushed
to the window of his boudoir. swept
aside the curtains. took one look at
the outside world and then promptly
and completely tainted.
A squad of physicians rushed to his
side, and after using the ordinary re-
storatives without success, they an
nounced that the case was beyond
them-that 1T needed the immediate
services of DR.. Weather Forecaster
the specialist, and the only man, they
declared, who could bring Father
knickerbocker back to life.
The sight that Father Knicker-
booker gazed upon was one that not
only struck terror to his own heart
but to that of his millions of children
and to the millions of other baseball
fanatics throughout the length and
breadth of the land. For the day
dawned dark and muggy a misty rain
was falling and it looked as II the
first worlds series game might not
be played.
Dr. Weather Forecaster. consulted
score of times. held out little hope
during the early hours for betterment
in the condition Of the weather. He
said that he might be able TO use a
little Of his famous and exclusive
sunshine treatment tomorrow, but
that there was little chance of his
doing out any of 1t today.
WOW: WHAT A CALAMITY!
A great calamity could not have
saddened New York more than did
the appearance of untimely weather
conditions today. The greatest
amount of interest in world series
combat usually centers in the first
game. The fans had patiently waited
for today, that had promised to bring
them either a sight of the game or
detailed news of the fight
Yet at that they did not utterly
despair. Hope that the weather might
clear sufficiently before game time to
permit the staging of the combat
sent them scurrying from their homes
at dawn to join the already big line
that had waited outside the gates OF
the Polo grounds all night.
From all parts of the United States
and from Cuba, Mexico, Canada and
Europe, too--came the vast army that
battled for the unreserved tickets
that were placed on sale an hour
earlier than had been originally
planned.
SUFFER LIKE MARTYRS
The night was damp and foggy.
The raw wind cut through even the
heavy overcoats that soma of the
fans wore. 1t chilled them to the
marrow, set their teeth to chatter
ing and sent shivers up and down
their frames. But they minded It
not. They were suffering, yet they
suffered with the patience and FORTH
tude of martyrs, willing and eager
to endure what must be endured be-
cause to them 1t seemed that 1t was
for a good and noble cause.
The line had begun to form at 4
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CITIZEN MOTHERS ONLY
TO HAVE STATE AlD

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 7.--According
to Attorney General Webbs opinion
given to the state board of control
state aid TO widowed mothers can not
be extended unless the mother il 4
citizen of California and has been q
resident Of the state for three years.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-07

would have been necessary for ex-
pulsion.
Adelstein said he worked against
the tunnel because OF the Inequality
Of the assessment.
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will You Hook Up
NV vrDeSS? !" 4 Should
Say Not Divorce!
Refusal Of Husband to Play Lady's
Maid Final Blow to Hooper's
Dmestic Felicity
4will you hook MP my dress, Ed
every wen. ri ret ! divorce, i,

Such was the conversation that pre-
ceded the fling Of . divorce complaint
by Mrs. Harriet e. Hooper against
Edward H. Hooper In Oakland. There
had been differences before in their
married life. according to her COM
plant, bur this was the final, crushing
home smashing blow that sent Mrs
Hooper to the Office OF the nearest at
torney for-the necessary papers. The
couple were married in Grass Valley
on Christmas day Of 1898.