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Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-07

This picture shOUS the Athletics "COnne' Mack UH
send them out the diamond in the first struggle NTH the
Giants. As be the players cOUering the
spectre positions they H be found in this afternoon
Cte Bender, the great Indian her Of the Philadelphia
team, uCU be the pitching mound steel h
the "Peerless Maty Mack makes secret of the fact
that he expects the Chippewa tcrer defeat the king
National League pitchers.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-07
|NARQUARDW|LLINGT TOP|TCH
EVERY BAT TIE IF NECESSARY

better team now than that OF two
years ago. The Athletics, in my es-
timatiOn, are weaker.
There is no disputing the fact that
Connie Mack has a wonderful in
field. He has speed and fielding
strength and hitting power. Only in
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-07

a close, hard series, unless the dope
curdles.
s.s,I.f,s 1855
w ELL. chats fafr enough.
Let's make our little pick, and
bet if we can afford to lose; and lay
off, if we can't.
And let's every one, pull hard for
the realization Of that grand old
prayer Of the True Sportsman:
"A free field. fair fght-and may
the best team win!"
= Y the way-here's a bit of an in
- terlude, If YOU can hold your
breath long enough to scan 1t, while
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-07
Worlds Series Dope
Sy GEORGE {. PHAIR.--~

The experts lrl'otc a Tot Of dope about
old SteUG HcSEdtt-
His batting eye, has lCOHdrOUs speed
and al that sort Of rot.
His thrOiCiHg arm, has magic brain
they praised to beat the Ddnd.
But tChen the bags lccre flIcd lrith
men he hedUed 10 to the stand.
They lcrote a book on oscar Hip, a
fielder tried and true.
A man irhO corered miles of ground
as felderS seldom do.
Sir games he plGBed in tCOHdrOuS
style and ICOH eternal fame,
And then he dropped a dlpky fy and
lost the fHaI game
Bat tchen yoN back the dope toitb all
the money in pour jeans
Some roUghHeck dliCdyS makes .
bredk and spills the gOl darn
beans.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-07
Cobb Batted 1888;
Daubert Hit 1859

CHICAGO. Oct. Complete unof-
fetal batting averages compiled to-day
show TN Cobb as the real seasons lead
er in the American League and Jake
Daubert as practically the top man in
the National. Records for the season
for the first four men in each league:
American Leadue.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-07
Rr Rube MarQuard.

,rv YORK, Oct. Sure as
you're born we'll win the
Worlds Championship this
.-,a Luck can not break against
. srv-avs. We should have won our
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-12
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X NoRE than two years in advance
MI of its opening, the Panama-Pa-
lV4 cific International exposition is
assured a degree of participation by the
nations of the world and the American
states that brings 1t to a point where it
overshadows any commemorative and in
structive exposition in the history of
the world.
Final architects drawings of the ex-
position call for a city of palaces inside
the Golden Gate, that viii stand alone
among expositions not only in its ar
chitectural treatment but in its setting
at Harbor View, in the adornment of its
grounds and in a vivid glorious color
scheme
On New Years day San Francisco eele-
brated ground breaking for the first
of the great exposition palaces to be
built at Harbor View. The building
the palace of machinery, will occupy
more than eight acres and Will be al
most 1000 feet long and 367 feet in width
The building is to be constructed in 2iS
days, with a penalty of 800 for each
days overtime. Within two weeks after
construction begins upon machinery hall
q contract will be awarded for the build
ing of the palace OF education, to cost
$500,000.
BY next August IA of the great expo
eition buildings to be devoted to general
exhibits will be under construction and
all will be finished by June, 1914. The
early completion will permit of the adorn-
ment of the grounds and courts with
thousands of palms, plants and rare
shrubs that are now being grown in
nurseries.
Superb Effects Embodied
Color and life, warmth and brilliaacy,
and at the same time artistic and su-
perb effects are embodied in the final
plans For more than one year a notable
commission of American architects work
ing in harmony with a celebrated board
Of colorists. sculptors and landscape gar
deners, has planned for an exposition
that will stand apart in its originality
and splendor The department of works
has kept in close touch with the men
who are guiding the artistic destinies of
the exposition. The work has been re-
markabe for the blending of the best
ideals of those who guide its different
phases
Among the architects are Messrs. Nc
Kim, Mead and White of New York.
designers of Madison Square garden. the
Boston public library. the agricultural
building at the Worlds Columbian expo
sition and many great structures through
out the nations This firm has charge
of the principal court effect of the ex-
position a great court of honor, that
will divide the main group or the expo
sition palaces from north to south and
will open out upon the esplanade along
San Francisco bay Mr.. Thomas Hast
ings, of Carrere and Hastings, arch
itects-in-chief for the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo, has charge of
3 great memorial tower which viii
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trees of the average peach orchard
They are planted among the half
burned logs and grow without culti-
vation. The only thing is to keer
down the weeds, when the logs will
soon rot away. I have seen plants
growing among trees as big around as a
flour barrel, and in going over the
plantations have had to keep to the
paths in order to make my way through
upon horseback.
About year after setting out the ba-
nanas they are twenty or thirty feet
high and are ready to fruit Each tree
bears but one bunch of bananas, and
when this is taken off the tree Is cut
down and the sprouts which have grown
up about it's roots are left to pro-
duce the next crop.
The cutting of the bananas is with a
sharp knife on the end of a pole, the
cutters catching the bunch as it falls
The bananas are carefully handled. The
piles, which wait for the train. are laid
on soft beds of leaves, and the cars are
padded with leaves in order to keep the
fruit from being bruised.
Banana Settlements
1t is a big task to start a banana
plantation, and the plans must be care
fully made. The estate is first sur
veyed and paths and roads are laid out,
the same being commented by tramways
and railroads. And then the farm set
Elements have to be built and in each
there must be a store, carpenter shop
and a blacksmith shop and also the
stables and the homes of the workmen.
Some of the managers and overseers
bring their wives with them from thu
United States and they must have com.
Portable homes screened with wire net.
ting.
Some of these houses here are beauti-
fully finished and well furnished. They
have the latest magazines and papers,
and in some of them you will find many
novels, histories and scientific books.
Many of the white employees have hob
bies. One may be an ornithologist, an
other a bug hunter and there are no end
of collectors of orchids and other strange
flowers. At the Virginia banana planta-
ton near here they have quite an aviary,
containing many of the quaint birds of
Guatemala. These include the wild tur-
key, which has a brilliant yellow color.
the tuna with its gorgeous plumage, and
the policeman bird. which makes a terri
BILE screeching if strangers come near the
house.
] do not know Just how many thousand
acres are planted to bananas in Spanish
Honduras, but the Guatemala estates be-
longing to the United Fruit company
cover tens of thousands of acres. and 20.
0oo acres are already in bearing This is
divided up into banana farms OF 1000
acres each, each farm having sections
of 20 acres each. Every farm has its own
manager. the account sheets being kept
separately so that it is known just what
each section costs and what it is yield
iHg from year to year. Indeed, a cost
sheet is kept of this business just as in
our factories and machine shops at home.
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of Color This color plan, that of maxim,
the group of buildings a veritable blaze
of glory and at the same time avoiding
the garish or barharic, is the great new
salient feature of the exposition.
The Natural Surroundings
With the stupendous setting at Harbor
View with its surrounding ampithea-
tire of hills with the Golden Gate upon
the west. the islands in the bay. the har-
Dor, the ocean, and the mountains of
Marin county towering up into the hun-
dreds and often into the thousands of feet,
only the proadest and boldest scheme Of
construction would do, and so the expo
sition has been planned in huge block ef-
fects all for great beauty and grandness
10 match in their plans the giant scale
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centerNaive Hut Guatemala Belowsawng Mahogany Into Lumber

or seaffold has to be erected where the
sawmen and aXmen can stand.
After the trees are felled roads have to
be made to the rivers and the streams on
the way must be bridged. Much of the
wood is hauled upon rude trucks which
have wheels of solid wood sawed from the
end of a log and having iron boxes fitted
into the center Much Of the work is
done in the night by torchlights of pitch
pine. All this is In the dry season. The
rafting is done in the late summer or
fall and the camps break up about the
middle of December. After that the la
borers return to Belize, and they then re-
oeive the balance due them. which re-
suits in another great spree
In Spanish Honduras
! understand there is a great deal of
mahogany yet uncut in Spanish Hon
duras or the Honduras republic. Mahog-
any grows in the valleys all over that
country and especially in the lowlands
along the northern coast of the Caribbean
sea.
1t is near this coast. running inland
so or more miles. that the chief banana
plantations are, and not far from the sea
in the same region are immense cocoanut
groves with tens of thousands of bearing
trees.
The most of the banana industry be-
longs to the United Fruit company, and
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Horticultural Building at Panama
Pacific Iternational Exposition

plan will face out on San Francisco bay
end four of them win face the hills OF the
city of the south.
Outside Wall 65 Feet High
Around the rectangle of the eight ex-
hibt palaces will run an outside wall 65
feet in height and broken only by a
number of stupendous entrance ways
which will give access to the three great
interior courts and their approaches. The
group will be divided from north to south:
in the center by the court of the stars,
designed by Messrs. McKim, Mead and
White; on the left the walled city will be
divided from north to south by the Fes-
tive Court and on the right by the Court
of Four Seasons. Two south courts will
be cut like great inches in the walled
city. A huge court in Italian Renais-
sance will lie between the rectangle and
the Palace Of Fine Arts
Most imposing and largest of all the
courts will be the grand Court of Honor.
the Court of the Sun and Stars. $50 feet
in width from east to west. and 800 feet
along its main axis. At the south end Of
the court will be the huge tower of the
administration building, rising 400 feet III
of the exposition The upper part of The
tower will take the form of terraces Lead
ing up to a group of figures surrounding a
globe typifying the world; the tower will
be lined with Jewels which will glitter Ike
diamonds when searchlights are turned
upon them. At the base of the tower.
hich will occupy an acre in extent. will
be huge arcade 125 feet high. beneath
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in which nature has provided for the Pan
anna exposition mas been the guiding
thought of the architects.
The grounds at Harbor View occupy
625 acres. and the exposition city will face
outward upon the stream of traffic hat
passes through the Golden Gate.
There will be three great groups of pal
aces at Harbor View, as one looks toward
the exposition from the harbor. The CEN
ter group win comprise IA palaces to be
devoted to general exhibits. the left haEd
group will comprise the concessions CEN
ter. occupying IS acres, and the right hand
group will include the buildings of the
states and the pavilions of the foreign
nations rising upon the slopes of the
Preside reservation.
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at distance it will appear almost wni,e'
but there will be no glaring renectiohs.
The courts and facades, the spires ana
domes of the exposition will be OF richer
color than the prevailing tint. The domes
will glitter with gold and will produce ah
indescrbable effect in the far distance.
Imagine saws Mr. Jules Guerin. di-
rector of color. "a gigantic Persian rug
of soft. melting tones, with brliiiant
splashes here and there. spread down Ior
rnile or more, and you may get some
idea of what the Panama-Pacifie expcs,-
tion will locke like if viewed from a as
tance, say from the Sausalito Heisnts
across the Golden Gate For San Fran
cisco is to be unique among the exposi-
tions OF the world in that it will be Sity
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that an increase in the working efn-
cheney of the men has come from such
treatment.
Farm Methods in Central America
The Americans are Introducing our
farm machinery. They have American
wagons and carts and also American
plows and other farm tools. AS to the
native methods, everything is rude
see the farmers still using the one
handled plow of the Scripture, shod with
a strip of pointed iron about as big as
your hand This turns the soil both ways
and only scratches the surface. The most
common cart here has wooden Wheeis
with holes in the center for the axles
and il is drawn by oxen yoked by their
horns The loads are pulled by the head
instead of the shoulders and necks, ana
the treatment of the animals seems cruel
to an extreme.
American axes are gradually coming
into use, but the most of the cutting
of the lighter sort is done Win 'he
machete, much like a corn cutter. Every
native Central American carries
machete. 1t is a good weapon of de-
fense against man or beast, and 1t en-
ables him to make his way through the
jungle. 1t cuts his grass for hay and
the green corn for his cattle. After the
cattle are dead the machete chops them
in hog killing. 1t serves to cut out tie
weeds from the corn patch and with il
the native punches holes in the ground
where he drops the grains of corn at
planting time. He then covers the corn
with his heel and sitting down, let's ma
ture do the rest.
Teaching Stock Farming
The Americans here are teaching tho
natives something of stock farming, and
the day may come when meat from Con-
trail America will reduce our big butcher
bills In Costa Rica there are large
ranches belonging to the banana plant
ers where working cattle for the planta-
tions are reared. The United Fruit cum-
pany has some dairy cows and its men
tell me that the grass there makes ex-
cellent beef. Indeed, there is money to
be made in raising stock all the way
from Panama to Mexico. These highlands
have fine pastures and the stock oriDgs
good prices. In upper Panama they are
now raising beef for Colon and Panama
City, and the future meat supply of the
cainal may come from there.
Costa Rica has live stock numbering
more than half million, besides mules.
sheep and goats, and Honduras has al
most a half million head of cattle alone,
and large number of mules, pigs and
sheep. 1t has 1900 acres devoted to
pasture.
Here in Guatemala the cattle are fewer
but the grazing grounds on the high
plateaus are of great extent, and well
fitted for sheep, cattle and hogs. Mica
ragua has more than a million of cattle
and Salvador in proportion to its size has
more live stock than any other Central
American republic
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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(Copyright 1912, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
PORT BARRIOS Guatemala.
WRITE you from the edge of Ma
hogany Land. This Montague valley.
which lies at the foot of the Guate-
mala mountains. back of Port Barros,
has hundreds of mahogany trees, which
are being cut down by the United Fruit
company, that the land may be used
for banana plantations. The mahog-
any is so valuable that it sells by the
pound, and a few trees would make
good income. l have been in the ma
hogany country off and on ever since
1 left Panama, and I learn that yaiu-
able timber is being taken from the
northern part of the Panama republic
Costa Rica and Nicaragua. and am told
that many mahogany camps are now
working in both British and Spanish
Honduras There are American lum-
bermen sending mahogany to Panama
all along the west coasts of Central
America. The logs are sent over the
isthmus by rail. and thence shipped to
Europe or the United States. The trees
they are now cutting here still lie in
the clearing, but they will be taken
by train to Port Barrios. and thence
shipped
Central American Mahogany
The mahogany of this part of the world
is the real article. We have so-called
mahogany in the Philippines, and there
are false mahoganies in Nigeria, Ceylon
Madeira and California. The true ma
hogany, the wood which makes the
finest furniture on earth, comes from
this region. It Is found in the lowlands
along the east coast from Mexico TO
Panama, and also in Colombia and
yenezeula and in the islands of the
Caribbean sea. The trees are magnifi-
cent. / have seen some one hundred
feet high and thirty-six feet in circum-
ference Not few sixty feet above
the ground before the branches begin
and some so large that five men join
ing hands, cannot encircle them.
There Is no such thing as a mahogany
forest. The trees do not grow close to-
gether. but at wide distances apart; and
the mahogany hunters climb the high
est trees OF the forest and pick out the
mahoganies by their bright colored leaves
The leaves change from season to sea-
son and at times, they are as gorgeous
as our leaves in autumn. The hunters
mark the mahogany by the color and
then leads the cutters through the jungle,
hacking a road TO where the doomed tree
stands Often only two or three trees
are found on an acre, but two trees pei
acre are enough to pay dividends. There
is record of one corporation which had
a mahogany concession of about 250oI
acres, the total yield of which was Unls
50 trees or less than two per SQUARE
mile. / doubt il ii paid.
How the Logging Is Done
The ordinary tree ought TO be at
least yard In diameter, and the aver
age tree is usually one or two hun
dred years old before it is ready for
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The Oxen Pull By Their Horns

lumber. The most of the wood Is cut
in the rainy season, but as the trees
grow in the lowlands the hauling can
only be done in the dry season when
the ground is hard. As soon as the
trees are felled their limbs are cut off
and the logs are then taken to the
nearest stream. They are RATED down
to the market, or !hey may go to the
railroad and be taken to the ports
on the cars. They are put upon ship
board as soon as they reach port 10
prevent their being attacked by the
toredo and other boring insects. The
wood is so valuable that it is handled
like fruit. and a close record Is kept
of 1t from the forest to the hands OF
the consumer One of the chief mar
kets is London. and others are New
York and New Orleans.
In the WoOdeof Honduras
great deal of our best mahogany
now comes from British Honduras. and
we get much also from the Honduras
republic The British Honduras tim
ber is exported from Belize which is
not very far from Port Barrios, and |
am told that the wealth of that town
has largely come from this trade. the
forests are exploited by lumbermen,
who hire gangs of natives for the sea-
son. and have the exporting houses
to advance the provisions and cash to
carry on the cutting. The labor con-
tracts are usually made during the
Christmas holidays, the men being
hired by the year. Six months wages
are usually paid in advance, one-half
of which is in goods and the other half
cash. The lumbermen are as dissipatcd
as are those of our own and other
countries, and they usually have
carouse before they leave Belize, dur
ing which time the cash disappears.
They now leave and go into the
woods, where they build camps of
huts thatched with palm leaves, in
cluding a larger building for the store
and dwelling of the oyerseer. The Ia
Dor is divided into gangs each Of
which has a captain. The work is done
by the task. The best laborers are out
at daybreak, and a good man can
finish his task by Il o'clock. He can
then spend the rest of his day in
hunting or fishing. or he can cut out
of mahogany paddles and other things
for which there is a ready market. The
lumber camps are not pious places.
Many of the laborers are roughs, and
there are frequent fights and considera-
BILE drunkenness There are also bad
women who follow the camps, and the
crowd is not Sunday school one. The
overseers live we'll Each has his own
boat with from 12 to 20 Indian row.
ers, and his own cook and Indian
valet.
Telling Mahogany
The green mahogany is not easy TO fell,
and the bringing of a large tree 10 the
ground is a days task for two men. The
cutting is done about 10 feet from the
base on account of wide spurs which
project from the trunk, and a platform
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Preliminary Plans for San Frarciscos Great Exposition

which the visitor may enter into the court
of honor from the south garden.
In the vaulted archways of the tower
itself will be grouped series of mural
paintings designed by Mr.. Jules Guerin
and expressing the keynote of the expo
sition color scheme. But perhaps the
most impressive feature of the court of
honor will be found in superb classic
colonnade extending entirely around the
court and surmounted upon the one side
by figures to represent the spirit of the
east and on the other the spirit of II e
west. These figures, of which there will
be 40, will be IA feet in height and each
will stand out in radiance through a
crown of dazzling jewels of light.
To the west one will pass from the
court of honor through a huge commem.
orative arch. greater In size than the
Arc de Triomphe at Paris, to the Court
of -Four Seasons; TO the east one will pass
through similar commemorative arch
to the east court or Court of Joyousness.
The arch upon the east will be surmount-
ed by a group of statuary, camels and
elephants, typifying the civilization OF
the orient: that upon the west will be
surnounted by group representing west
ern civilization.
Sunken Garden
In the center of the court will be a
great sunken garden with benches to seat
In the sunken garden will be groupings
of classic statuary, dancing figures.
fauns, satyrs and nymphs; flowers, trees
and vines-will contrast with the statuary
and with the superb colonnades and the
towering golden domes.
The illumination of the exposition will
be one of it's most beautiful features and
will harmonize with it's color plan. In
the last few years the study of ilumina-
ton upon vast scale has become not
only a very real science but an art Mr..
w. d. A. Ryan. who had charge of the
illumination of Niagara Falls of the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration, and who has
taken a contract for the lighting of the
Panama canal, is director of illumination.
Throughout the entire exposition tho
illumination will be such as to bring out
the colors of the courts in their proper
tones to sharpen and intensity the color
effects.
Along the harbor in front Of the Expo
sition City will be a great tree lired
csplanade, adorned with statuary and
fountains From this point the exposition
sightseer will view the battleships OF the
world in maneuvers, and will observe the
batteries of colored searchlights that will
transform night into gorgeous day. Upon
the south of the main group will lie an
other boulevard which, sheltered frcm
the winds of the bay. will be transplanted
to tropical growths.
characterization on Waterfront
The ornamentation upon the water
font will be upon a colossal scale. The
Court of Four Seasons. opening upon the
harbor. will be entered by stupendous
gateway. to be called the Gate Of Colunl-
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