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The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
Slaves Of the Ball Park"
Demand Their Rights
Good Faith Shown by Players of National Game Making
Their Fight This Time

baseball diamond" preparing their
emancipation Ty Cobb the Uncle Tom of the clubhouse
his trouble with the agnates when he
the beaches led the organization of the Baseball Players
tenity which numbers 700 major and minor league players
The fraternity the moguls of the national game
petition of grievances bill of rights containing clauses
enuerating alleged evils which recied effect ball
players have what mechanics and extent profes
sional have done-esablished national labor union"
The magnates their sde have taken the attitude
employers always taken rs-and usually with
fuity They say they will with the players
official of their organization treat
the players meeting but organization
players that they will organized
Aside the merits of the controversy the ball
showing of faith the public by making
the longest before
opening another If they delayed petition
opening of the the midst of
have a incenSed action.
The players their grievances have taken stand
against clause" their agreements
of the clubs This clause provides that club has
player from without clause
the integrity club especially of the clubs smaller
cities which naturally afford high for the
ices of player a rich organization
One of the chief grievances of the players against
tice of club in sending player can't team
rather than trading him OF its standing
Philadelphia might second basenan almost as
good Collins He would say than the
the Chicago team instead of selling him Chicago
the Philadelphia has right sell him
Galveston small The players
should be protected from being sod down the river
majors"
There will be much discussion during winter
of this franlty the ball players The public
is interested for mat
ter will be settled before spring training begins
1he national game isn't in danger of being exparated
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
Educating Children With Nov
ing Pictures
Edison Predicts That the Future Books Will Be Sheved
and the Film Unreeled

drug market the grocery, the bar
Der shop the cobbr and the four comes
the moving picture show has within dozen years from
luxury necessity and the business of making movies has
developed into gigantic industry.
Today has its mllonaes its periodical literature
of thousands Of employees millions of It's promoters
development of the achievements of civilization
And yet, the development is hardly begun
The chief equipment of the school of the futuree near
future-win be A MOVING PICTURE MACHINE. The child
will way through the eye He will learn
quickly remember what he has learned because this motion
photograph form of instruction will call into activity cross hbers
in the brain which ordinarily atrophed by lack of
81 intend to do away with books in the schools says
THAT try This, Edison explains, the destiny
of the moving pcure-to revouonze education He foresees
eight year with virtually every lesson portrayed in
fascinating interest before the eyes of the children
perpexites alphabet glories of
astronomya plain this impress the
geography andbyond that he will get the school
unfogettabe knowledge the agriculture
and civilization generally.
Edison points the child taught will inevitably have
active brain and larger life than the victim of the
the miracle growhs OF nature and bud and leaf and
insect will thereafter tell its his mind He will in
living motion the unnubed and ngenuties of indus
try and comnonest existence carry
vivid meanings with stimulating suggestions of natural laws
and human adaptations of them
today He will the schoooom half taught and half
developed but fit become useful worker for himself and the
world
thoughts of education of young, by
respect for the moving picture, rudimentary
stage of gratifying the human passion for
suggestions fields of activity
worlds of ignorance be conquered countless ross hber
brains that in this fashion may be awakened from the
atrophy of disuse.
mot many persons-gownups well chldren-can think
abstract terms says Edison They have SEE the thing
before they comprehend it,
Quite We all school, studying learning idling
way through the lessons of life until day the dismissal
bell for PASS OUT
Which of faculties whered undeveoped? How far
negectng the lmess opportunities See" to "compre
hend" the facts of life around us?
Suppose possible operate school of observation
for grownup studenthe average citizen the business
the lawyer banker editor for those who
have achieved the stewardship of wealth power What if the
moving picture could be employed in system of COMPULSORY
EDUCATION FOR MATURE PUPILS, teach them the
truths of existence, will teach children the of
nature? What school that would be and how improve
ment there might be in general knowledge!
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
A SHATTERED IDOL
By WILLIAM F. KIRK

IN his arms he carried muscles
| Larger than old fashioned bust1es
And his neck like column made of steel
Not field he couldn't dash through,
Not line he couldn't smash through
He was such an awe inspiring mass of veal
This tremendous football hero
Held all rival teams zero,
So his comrades worshiped madly at his shrine;
Now that they had broken training
And long it raining,
They sitting at McSherrys buying wine
Suddenly there was shakeup;
Percy said Let's smash the place upl
Follow me, boys, and we'll do it. never fear"
Then the boys, all neatly battered
Followed up their idol shattered
AS he lit upon the track his ear.
When you gentle waiter
Bringing you a cold pertater,
Pause and think of all the fights that he has fit;
Danish every thought of fighting
Or you'll find yorself alighting
On the track where the football hero lit.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31

of Walter Down, signaIman in the
Elmesthorpe signal box. on the Lon
don and Northwestern railway. near
Leicester.
The Toulon police recently arrested
a young woman in whose hair. which
was beautifully dressed. large pot
of opium was found Smaller quanti-
ties of the drug were concealed in
each Of the high heels Of her shoes.
Grapes contain from II to 26 per
cent of sugar-more, that is. than any
other fruit.
The first temperance society IN
England was formed at Bradford ID
February. 1880.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
CURIOUS FACTS ;:
-
. .


Said to be the oldest ship In the
world. In active service. the Copen-
hagen yacht Constance has been sold
to fisherman of skaw. in Jutland.
The Constance was built 1913 years
ago. and In her long. life she has
sailed into almost every port In the
world. Her timbers are stili stanch.
and her new owner declares he can
see no reason why she should not
sail the seas for a century to come.
New York is building the largest
hotel in the world, containing 1900
rooms. at a cost of $4,000. 900.
Forty years continuous service In
one signal box is the wonderful record
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
Footnotes of Hurmor

colonel. who was regular brick, I
might be sleeping with my martial
cloak around me now"
Why. how was that?" asked the
listener.
We'll, the enemy were in sight and
we We're getting ready to go for 'em.
wasn't feeling the least bit comfort
able, when all of sudden up jumps
the old colonel on stump and shouts:
now then, boys, up and at EN-!
Strike for home and country
Some OF them-a good many. In
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31

A wag asked barrister, DO you
think any office would insure your
lifeg"
Certainly was the reply. Mine
is good life, hope"
"Ah, but you should remember that
yours is brief existence" came the
rejoinder.
Yes. sir, I've been a soldier, and
once came mighty near being mixed
up in a battle. and If 1t hadn't been
for obeying the orders OF our old
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31

audience was getting hysterical. when
the victim struck an attitude and
said:
Your pistol has missed IRE. Sir
Reginald; but what difference does it
maker Tho thought that was to bc
shot has frightened me to deathl-
And he rolled over and died.
Affable Waiter (handing soup)-
Looks like rain.
Cantankerous Old Gentleman-It
does Butt smells IKE SOUP
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31

lfact-struck for their country. I
struck for home, and precious glad I
am did itl'
Claude Fleming. the famous barry
tone, relates an amusing instance Of
"gagging" on the stage In San Fran
cisco.
Die. villain!" the hero Of the drama
said, and shot on his revolver at the
villains head.
But the gun didn't so on. six times
the hero pulled the trigger. and not :
single explosion took place. The
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
Announcement Is Made in
Hope of Making Men See
Value in the Soil

/ am writing this in the hope
that thousands of young Ameri-
cans who now crowd the cities
to overfowing and pass their
lives in occupations that add vir-
tually nothing to the wealth and
we'll being of their country will
perceive how interesting and
how worthy of their utmost pow
ers and efforts is the life of the
modern tiller of the soil, aided
by the discoveries that science is
continually making for him
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31

THE Swiss farmers have
taken hint from America
and are beginning to plow up
the soil and stimulate its pro-
ductivity with dynamite, after
the fashion of those whom they
still call Yankees.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31

A blind pig" always has glasses
will be hill when
the ball operation
It's record phonograph!
The editor recognized the debutante"
license clerk
Sam conducting farmers wives 70
make them happy Have Uncle Heretofore your has been
rom suspicion. -
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
Ground Thus Prepared Pos
SeSSeS Great Deal of
Fertility

Ground that is thus prepared
possesses more than ordinary
fertility, because not only is a
greater depth of soil, filled with
nourishing elements, brought
into action to feed the plants,
but the pulverizing by the explo-
sions of virgin layers that were
never before broken up into soil
brings a fresh store of plant
food into use. Then, too, it has
been shown that the greater de-
gree of fineness to which the
explosions reduce the particles
of earth is an important matter,
since it results in the freeing of
chemical elements, even from
soil that is regarded as worn out,
that the usual methods of cult
vation do not reach.
The Swiss experiments con-
firm the previous ones made in
America in showing that cultiva-
ton by explosion can be con-
Quoted without danger if the
most elementary precautions are
used.
A single dynamite or gamsite
cartridge exploded at depth of
about yard produces a cone of
pulverized earth from So to 40
square feet in area at the sur
face, and the force of the explo-
sion is SO completely used up in
the trituration of the soil that
there is no serious throwing
about of fragments at the top. A
young fruit tree planted in one
of these cones of triturated earth
shows Immediately the stinu-
lating effects of the process.
Evidently we have hardly
scratched the surface of the
earth hitherto. 1t is filled with
riches only a few feet down,
which only need to be brought
to the top in order to double the
capacity of the land for the pro-
duction of grains and fruits.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31
Old World Just Learning of
Dynamite as Aid to Till
ina the Sell

We on. this side of the ocean
have known for some time that
this is an excellent method of
breaking up hard soil and max
ing worn out land astonishingly
fertile, and now they are learn
ing the truth in the Old World.
They have set about it very
Systematically in Switzerland,
under the lead of the federal de-
partment of agricultural chemis-
try, and they have obtained re-
suits which fill them with enthu-
siasm. The cultivation of fruit
trees has been their first care,
and they are delighted to find
that this Yankee notion of shak-
ing the earth awake works like
a charm. Trees planted in soil
prepared by dynamite explosions
grow faster and produce much
more fruit than those standing
on land cultivated in the old
way.
The explanation is plain and
easy. The fertility of the soil
which is mostly nothing but dis
integrated rock worn and rest
ing upon the hard skull of the
earth-depends upon certain
chemical elements that nourish
the life of plants. Some of these
elements are soon exhausted by
the plants, where crop rapidly
succeeds crop, and thus constant
manuring is required to keep the
land in a productive state. An
other portion of the plant food is
washed away by rains or buried
deep in the soil, beyond the
reach of plows and cultivators.
At certain depth, below the
level ordinarily cultivated, there
is often an accumulation of val
liable chemical elements that the
roots of plants can not attain.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-31

They surely have militant suffrage in Mexico
Baseball strike breakers would probably strike
local hooouse have playground
steadily being
No appear Pennsylvania Well the
choruscs will
Blanche Bates ( C making her first role
football
in feelings of play against ~
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23
MAN AND WIFE ARRESTED.
Milwaukee Woman Charges Them
With False pretenses.

Franklin C. Goodale. forty-nine years
old, and his WIFE, Mrs. Pearl " Goodale,
twenty-five years old, who were staying
at a rooming house near John Marshall
place and c street northwest, were ar
rested this morning by Detectives EN-
brey, O'Brien and Springmann at the in
stigation Of the Milwaukee police authori-
ties. The local police received a request
that they be arrested from Chief Jansen
Of Milwaukee, who states that Mrs. Hat
tie Kluber Of that city lbs sworn out a
warrant charging them with obtaining
1854 on false pretenses.
The money IL alleged to have been OBJ
tanned in connection with tho sale OF
stock Of the Goodale Photograph Com
pany Of Tacoma. Wash. where Goodale
and his wife lived until coming to this
city to attend to some patent business.
Goodale was locked up at the station
house and his wife sent to the house of
detention. A valuable dog which they
had in their possession has been turned
over to the poundmaster for safe keep
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23
FRIEND CHEF BENEFICIARY.
Mrs. Virginia Thompson Wills Prop.
erty to josephine PostleWait.

Josephine Postlewait. described as a
close friend of Mrs. Virginia Thompson
and her siSLer. is named as chief bene-
ficiary under the will Of Mrs. Thompson,
dated February "a. 1911, and offered for
probate. The testator leaves to her
friend stock OF the Capital Traction Com
pany and Of the Washington Gas Light
Company, diamonds and other jewelry
and real estate at 2i7 West Preston
street, Baltimore
Other specific requests include money
and jewelry to Clara p Elliott, to Emily
Elliott, granddaughter; to Annie Pindy
Reager and Virginia Pindy Carley
nieces, and Ellen Rebecca Wallace, q
sister The residue is left to Josephine
Postlewait and Clara P. Elliott. the for.
mer being appointed executrix.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23
EDWARD 3. DUvALL, ~. and VII.
LIAM HENRY WHITE, Attorneys.
RECEIVERS SALE
OF
HOTEL POWHATAN

BY virtue Of an order Of the Supreme
Court Of the District Of Columbia pass
ed August Ii. 1913, In the cause Of G.
G. COrnwen 4 Son. Inc.. ct al. Va. the
Lewis Hotel Company. Inc., ct a.,
Equity No. S10O0, the undersigned re-
ceiveFs hereby call for proposals for
the purchase Of the following property
and assets Of the Lewis Hotel Com.
pany, Inc. namely: Lot 81 In square
1G6, Warrington, ID. c.. improved BY
building known and designated N
Hotel POwhatan; nlso all leasehold In
terests Of said Lewis Hotel Company,
Inc.. namely, lease ON thPee-atOry brick
building, 1857 Pennsylvania avenue ad-
Joining said hotel. expiring September
30. 1917, and all Of the furniture, Ax-
lures, paraPhernalia, stock Of goods,
wares and merchandise. licenses and
good will, and other personal property
Of the Lewis Hotel Company, Inc.. now
located upon said real estate, the said
real estate subject to the certain hrst
trust thereon Of $l5O,OOO, bearing inter
est at the rate Of 5 4-1OGo per annum.
payable semf-annually, and maturinx
september 1, 1915, and the said personal
property and leasehOld Interests free Of
encumbrances. The real estate contains
eDout S.O44 square feet Of ground 'front.'
80 OA ACAMOyAv0mI0 avenue, 18TH ana
streets northwest Opposite. public
park. Improved by new eight-st0ry
hotel building Of stone and brick, Are
PROOF construction throughout, fully
Iurnished and equipped. with cold
guest rooms and 81 baths, all outside
rooms. The location In within q few
squares Of the White House, the Met
ropoHtan. University and Array and
Navy clubs, COrcOran Art Gallery and
MAAv H~~Sl
tel was first opened to the public last
october, and is now being operated. 1t
has attained the very highest standing
among the hotels Of Warrington and
high In Ofhcial, diplomatic and social
circles.
Terms of sale: Ohe-third Of purchase
money i'm cash. balance In one and two
years from date OF sale, and to be rep
resented by the promissOry notes Of
the purchaser. bearing interest ut the
rate Of so per annum, payable semi-
annually. and secured by deed Of trust
ON the property sold, or all cash at the
option Of the purchaser.
Sealed proposals. for purchase Of the
| above property s.Aust be submitted ON
or before IL o'clock noon, SEPTEMBER
16, 1913. at Office Of receivers, Room 0ls
Bond building, Warrington, ID. c.,
when and where the same will be OPEN
ed. Each bid must he accompanied by
q deposit OF $4,000. All cOnveyancing ut
cost OF purchaser. Terms Of sale to he
complied with within thirty days after
approval of the sale by court; otherwise
the property may be resOld at Risk and
cost Of defaulting purchaser. after Ave
days advertisement OF such resale in
some newspaper published in Washing.
ton, ID. C..
EDWARD 8. DUVALL, Jr.,
j. BARRETT CARTER,
THADDEUS G. DULlN,
ReceiveFs,
Once, 81. Bond Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23
SHOW RAILROAD EXPENSES
Reports From 159 Carriers Received
by Commerce Commission

Nearly 3.O00 miles were added a,r;n
the year closing yesterday to the ro.a'
way of steam railroads Of the co,,n.-,,
earning less than 100000 a year 81
cording to statement issued today hv -.
interstate commerce commission. Rano..s
were received from 159 railroads. ona
these show that the average numb. =.
miles operated during the year Just closss
was 2O3, 69J, compared with aOO9SG sea
the corresponding period of the year No .or
vious. pre-
ported to be $2.S23, 555, S73 for the yas-
just closed. as against $3.50 7S2, III lest
yea. TIE net revenue per mile is Civ.
as sl.2St. rs a; ainst s.;,3it last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23
SUES FOR $4,000.
Ellen Pierce Claims Damages TO
Nervous Shock Aboard Train.

Detention for thirty minutes in a Dress
ing room of a coach Of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Company. because she was un-
able to open the door, owing to an alleged
defective lock, forms the basis of an
action to recover $4,000 damages filed
in the District Supreme Court against
the company by Ellen Pierce
Through Attorney Nelson Wilson the
plaintiff says she entered the dressing
room en- route between Washington and
Baltimore. shutting the door after her.
When she attempted to leave the room she
found the lock caught. she alleges. She
says she was imprisoned in the room for
half an hour. and that as result she
was made sick and has since suffered
from various troubles caused by the ner-
vous shock.