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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-16

gate and report. unless later 4 child
should be placed In his charge.
Judge Schwenk said that he Ord not
purpose to draw a complaint and sen
tcnce a respondent under it, and he did
not purpose to assist an officer TO draw
one that was later to come before him.
He looked at State 5 Attorney 4. Y. j..
Piper, who had dropped in 10 see how
the first session of the juvenile court
was to progress.
The states attorney informed the
court that he was not guilty of having
anything to DO with such eases. lie
had read the law carefully and was
pleased to see that there was no men
ton made of him in an official capacity
You can search me, he said. 81
don t know how you arc going to hold
court session and have ANYTHING
about il legal The court ccineided
III that opinion.
Probation Officer c. Menzies Miller
did not hesitate to express to the court
that he considered the law unconstitu
tional he was certain that no one
should be adjudged innocent or guilty
upon report made by him and equally
positive that his duties ended with hi,
report to the Judge after nm iuvestiga
| tion.
This being the complicated nature oil
the first attempt TO hold a juvenile
court session under the new law. Judg,
Sehwenk announced that he would con
tinuc the whole matter until May II al
: o'clock i'm the afternoon and mean
/ time would consult the attorney genera
i'm an effort TO have some authority OK
plain why the law lacks so much Z,
make il effective.
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Hanged In Ehgy.
dren to force the removal {


Heeter was hanged in effigy, and
many street parades of school children
were held all over the city. Thousands
of children marched through the streets
downtown, on the north side in Law
renceyille, Bellefield and Bloomfield
and calls for police We're frequent.
Signs bearing the words, "Heeter
Must Co" Kick Heeter Out" We
Want Il Clean Man at the Head of Us
and even more inflammatory lines were
carried by the marchers. Cow bells
and noisemaking instruments of all
kinds We're carried. Many more eff
gies of Heeter We're burned
\ squad of policemen went to the
Fulton building and dispersed a crowd
Of about 500 men and women waiting
to get a view of Superintendent Hee-
ter one afternoon. After the police
had forced the crowd to move away
Heeter left the building for lunch.
The first arrest of striking school
children took place in front of the pub.
lie safety building when patrolmen
/ locked three children in n cell, charged
with violating Il city order. The ar
/ rests were made on orders issued by
the assistant superintendent of police
who announced that all children who
| refused to dispense would be placed un
/ der arrest. The three prisoners were
/ at the head of a parade.
Later in the same day seven boy!
We're arrested in Larimer avenue. The,
We're at the head of parade of abou
i 400 children, of whom half We're girls
\ They We're lodged in police station.
H On one occasion 1000 children march
\ ed in the downtown north side streets
/ Traffic was blocked, and police captain
called the policemen in that vicinit.
into the police stations to be held Their
in reserve for an emergency.
Many women standing on the stree
corners urged the children to remain
away from class. The children mad
Il demonstration outside the schools
Their shouts drowned the teacher,
voices in their efforts to conduct classes
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Unconstitutional.

The cases of larceny preferred
against Albert Birch, Is, Norman Birch.
:, and Demarcio Falchero. IL. in con.
neetion with the disappearance of arti-
cles of provisions from the Swift beef
house, which were to have been heard
Yesterday afternoon at o'clock by
Probate Judge \. +. Schwenk. were at
that time continued TO MAY 81 ut
o clock because the court could not find.
under the new law by which the cases
are brought before him, that there WAS
any provision for prosecuting the cases
Besides, the older Birch boy was among
the missing, and his mother. who had
the Youngest of the deliquents in court,
explained that she had been unable to
get track of him since school. Proba-
ton Officer c. Menzies Miller made a
report of an investigation he had con
Quoted into the history of the delin-
quents.
Judge Schwenk then asked what the
complaint was and where il was. Lar
ceny was the complaint, it was gener-
ally admitted, but no one had prepared
complaint. No witnesses had been
summonsed. Police Chief George Viii
| son. who made the arrests. was present,
! but he had drawn no complaint and
under the vagaries of the Vermont law
| the drawing of n complaint that will
hold is not the kind Of a job a Iayman
is always able TO get away with. The
probation officer allowed that he had
| drawn no complaint and could not find
| in the new law anything that said he
was to do anything more than invcsti
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WARDSBORo CENTER.

Mrs. Alice Robinson has been in.
Mrs. Charles Kennon Is i'll with ncu-
ralgia.
Naude Edwards, who has typhoid
fever, is gaining.
Mrs. Naher Sage has returned from
her trip TO Athol and Worcester, Mass
Rev. o. ~. Hever has gone to Hol-
land 10 supply the pulpit Of the Advent
Christian church, the 18th and 18th Of
his pastorates. Mrs. o. W. Heyer Is
caring for her mother, Mrs. J. 5. sham
pine. who is i'll.
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~CENES without a precedent in
- any American city attended the
. strike of Pittsburgh school chill
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-16
March to Office.

The boys and girls from the Tenth
ward school marched over to the Full
ton building, in which are the offices
OF Superintendent Heeter. Several of
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-16
A General Strike.


The strike became general the second
day. In some of the schools more than
half of the pupils remained away from
their classes, and in other schools the
attendance suffered greatly.
Reserves We're called from various
patrol stations to the schools where the
actions of the pupils threatened to be-
come riotous. On the south side moth
ers stood on the street corners and
urged their offspring to strike and
cheered other children as they made
demonstrations against Heeter.
About thirty boys of the upper grades
refused to go back to the Forbes school
at Forbes and Stevenson streets. The
boys carried signs of all descriptions,
among them being Down With Hee.
ter" 1--WE Do Not Want Heeter, +"
''Heeter Must Co. and Strike, Chill
ilren, Strike While the Iron Is Hot"
The boys Haunted the signs into the
faces of all the children entering the
school and told them not to go back.
Two hundred boys and girls from
/ Tenth ward school No. /, East street
north side, marched from their school
over the streets of the north side and
through the downtown thoroughfares,
carrying banners and singing their
/ slogans.
Some Of the boys carried a banner
/ six feet square, on which was paint
/ ed: Kick Heeter Out! Come Alongr'
| While marching through the streets
| the children sang:
/ Stand him on his head,
Stand him on his feet;
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-16

Many faulty servants DO good
work; few wagon wheels are perfectly
round.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-16

"a superstition is a premature expla-
nation that overstays its time.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-16
UNIQUE STRIKE OF
PITTSBURGH'S
Scenes Unprecedented In America
Attended DemOnStr alton
Against Superintendent.

%CENES without a precedent in
- any American city attended the
~ strike of Pittsburgh school chill
dren to force the removal of S.
L. Heeter as superintendent.
The troubles back of the unusual
strike extended over several months
In the first place, in his tenure of little
more than a year superintendent
Heeter made changes in the schools
and thereby incurred the disapproval
Of many of the teachers. So indignant
were members of the teaching corps
that they attended mass meetings and
protested against his retention in of
fee.
The cause Immediately back of the
strike was charges made against Hee-
ter by two young women, one of whom
was a nurse employed in his house
hold, and the failure of the school
board to take what the public cOnsid-
cred proper cognizance of the charges.
There was a demand for Heeter's re-
moval, but the board retained him.
Pupils in practically every school in
what is known as Greater Pittsburgh
went on strike at the beginning of the
general demonstration. Greater Pitts
burgh includes what formerly were Al
legheny and several districts not orig
inally a part of the Incorporated city
/ of Pittsburgh.
/ Many of the children were urged by
their parents to stay away from school
! the parents feeling that Heeter was
unfit to remain at the head of the
/ schools,
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PAYERS REFoRMER
WANT ADS.
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IN
NEW STATUTE
Judge Schwenk Declined to
Sit in Judgment in Juv-
emile Cases
NO WARRANT TO TRY
BOYS FOR LARCENY

Cases Against Albert and Norman Birch
and italian Boy Continued to May 81
Probation officer Miller Thinks Law
Unconstitutional
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-06
PITTsBURG LOOKS LIKE THE BEST
BET TO BEAT OUT NEW YORK

Ola Foxy Clark orimth spilled in the
American league a year ago. These,
however. will he the exceptions.
The writer shall not at this long
range attempt to forecast the outcome
Of either race. for that would ba folly.
] do think that on the whole the first
division clubs will pretty nearly main.
tain as good as they nov enjoy. In
the National league. Pittsburg may
hustle New Y0rk's champion Giants
and even Chicago has a mighty good
chance Of finishing as we'll as shc did
in 1912. II not better. Give Evers u
pitcher or two and he will make
things interesting enough for both
Smoke Town and the Big Town. In
the American league the fight, should
be among Philadelphia. and Boston,
and Washington all the way. The
Athletics are likely to nip tho worlds
champions il Connie Mack's old pitch.
ers are to be depended upon. for the
wise Connie has picked up two won
derful ~OutlelderB.
He already bOasted by far the I lass
lest infield in organized baseball.
Washington will be dangerous, too. as
much so as a year ago, for now the
wonderful Walter. Johnson has aon,e
sort of team behind him for the first
time in his life. Griffith's young men
should he ninch moro dependable now
than they we're a year aSo. Their
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-06
HURRY BATTERIES
TO SPEED GAMES
Play Faster is Now the Slo-
gan in the American
League.

ITO speed the ball games" is now
the slogan of the American league;
following the suggestion made by
President Ban johnson at the annual
meeting of the magnates in Chicago
last month. Umpire Tommy Connolly
recently offered a few suggestions
that may help. In Connollys opin-
the way to speed the games is to
make the batteries work faster and
to begin play at once upon the strik-
ing of the gong announcing that the
time for play had arrived.
Connolly claims that some of the
pitchers use up, in the aggregate,
probably ten minutes in a game in
pretending to moisten the ball, when
1t Is all a blum and no moisture is an.
piled, the object being to mislead the
batsman into believing that he was to
ne served with a splitter" He said
they generally used more time In their
efforts at deception than would be
used II the actually applied the mois-
ture. simply because they overdid the
thing. Some of the pitchers lose
time by Withholding the signals while
men are on h bases. Some Of them
start In with these tactics at the very
beginning of the game and keep II up
all through. The worst Of It Ii that
1t usually accomplishes nothing, for
so much time Is spent on 1t that the
opposing players have an opportunity
to dope out" what Is coming Of ana
prepare themselves accordingly. some
times turning what follows to their
own advantage.
Sometimes the substitute PLAYERS
who are on tho field in practice with.
draw reluctantly at the sound Of tho
gong, and make way too slowly for
the regulars who are to begin the
game.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-06

(By W. 7. McBeth.)

New York. Feb. s.-The open sea-
son OF baseball is fast approaching.
Two weeks hence John J. McGraw
will have ~inaugurated the active CAM
paign by leading his rockies to the
celebrated watering place of Marlin
Springs. Texas. Thereafter. at short
periods. the other fifteen big league
clubs will hike to lands Of sunshine
to get In the first props for the big
campaign Of 1913. All the clubs have
selected their various training camps.
1t but remains for them TO rendezvous
to start the wires humming with the
glad tidings Of prospective pennants
in no less than sixteen major league
ball grounds. Every fan Is entitled to
N pennant each spring for his be-
loved idol.
1t will be much the same this
spring. 1 suppose. as the many springs
that have gone by. Training OF 10
training class is bound to tell. Be-
fore The fields get Strengthened away
for the back stretch run about July
4 the habitual trailers are very likely
to be trailing again or ~thereabout. OF
course. there is no telling what may
happen in bascball--a little circnm-
Stance that makes the great game
what II is. emo or two of those clubs
now selected for the iown-and-out
society is likely TO spring q surprise as
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-06
(By ':shortstop.")

The first major league team eve
renowned Tor its base running ability
was Charley Comiskcy's celebrated ST.
Louis Brown aggregation. W. Airing
ton Latham. Curt WEIGH. Yank Robin
son. the Old Roman himself. and GER
tain others making life weary for the
American association backstops by
the way they r%urloined cushions. says
Ernest J. Lanigan. in the Sporting
News. Yet when the Mound City
men got into a worlds series with
". II. Watkins Wolverines, the3
couldn't steal at all. while Detroit's
big men. who didn'c have regulations
did turn many pilfering tricks on
Commy's maskmen, the same being
Doc Bushong and JAG Boyle, both Of
have passed across the Great
Divide.
There is nothing a fan lies to see
more than the execution Of a success
full steal unless it be the throttling Of
Ewing and Charley Bennett were sup-
posed to be the best throwing back
stops in the profession. Whether
they were or not no n nows, be-
cause no one ever tried to keep track
of the number of men they turned
back from the bases who mad set out
Gu robbery inclined. Last year I kept
SAdSh VI "a l1lSA III wCkO AJo66So IL
trying to steal by the various Ameri-
can league backstops. and the figures
are interesting besides being rather
in instructive. Unfortunately. the dope
does not go quite deep enough, for
where VIC once considered that p
catcher was the man who was tn
principal factor in stopping a steal.
|if his pitcher allows the would-be
Raffles to get a long lead.
Sixty Per Cent Successful.
Also there is the steal that is not
meant for a steal. but the start OF d.
htt-and-run play OF a hit
play. Hughey Fullerton being the dis
|%coverer of the latter. AS statistics g,
nowadays. however. the fans put the
burden OF blame for steals on catchers
and do not consider. when they con
slider the record Of the premier base
runner. the possible number Of times
he stole by getting a long lead. More
over. they don't figure, when he il
thrown out. that 1t has been because
a hit and run or run and hit play has
been wrecked by the cunning OF the
That being the case. let Is plunge
boldly into the dope regarding base
stealers and the men who cut them
down. and announce that the chance
of a man making an attempt to beat
his way to another bag and getting
there, is nearly sixty per cent. sta
;istician Irwin Howe OF the American
league has doped it out that 1910
successful steals We're pulled off in the
Junior organization: I have a run.
played by the Johnsonites last sea-
son, and from my records I find tina:
1,34G athletes wko tried to do the
Raffles act were prevented from do
ing So by the backstops.
The Chicago White sox were Gu.
down %oftenest, the opposition check
ing 193 steals tina, were sta rted by the
Galatians. The Highlander had 1874
men tagged: the Speed Boys. 1872:
1863; tho Tigers. 1853; the Nationals,
ISL. and the Maps, 1871. Each team
had more successful steals than un.
successful ones Ty Cobb E. CO.. being
tagged loS times and getting away
With 275 la~rcenies-a balance in thei1
favor of III.
Red Sx No More Speed Boys.
Oddly enough, the champion Red
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lo"s we nave had frankie Murphy.
.ne English boy: Australian Billy Muir.
pny' Johnny Murphy. Tommy Warren
and Jack Havlin.
APE Willis was imported speciaily
fom australia to give George Dixon
a hght for the Championship. and
now Dixon almost settled the VISITOR.
aspirations with vicious left rams in
the opening round?
VINO can forget the Dempsey-Le
sianch and the Jack McAuliffe-Jim-
Is Sarfon bout: And doesn't the
jimmy Carroll-Blakelock affair ling
er In memory equally as viyidiv,
Blakelock was a British Iiehtwe;oh.
ana carroll an Irish cockney. who
through long residence has become
Americanized. When the date of the
contest at the old California club
are" near Carroll found he needed
more time to train. He dislocated his
hnee n day while doing road work.
~han n.akeIock was mad clear through
Mnen a postponement was demanded.
ne was up To CAROLS tricks. and
knew that Jimmy would throw his
knee out of joint whenever il suited
him. 0''e
When they met at the club to "a.
iect a new date Carroll smiled.
Mot are yer GRIMM at?" asked
ilStlcuiS.
II was Jest lawffin' ter think err the
mug y'rl! ave on yer goin' back to
l-unn9n when ] get through with YER"
said Jimmy. YOU
Soy" said Sammy, fairly tremb,ine
! with passion. I'll take yer houtsiJe
r"1gnt now and give yer a 20 with the
raw uns.' LUZ
But Carroll merely shook himsel,
and "lawff.d' the harder.
sure enough. when Carroll got
through with Blakelock the latter's
mother would not have known him.
We also had to do with Ike Weir.
tn. celebrated Belfast Spider. who
VIII forget the night he boxed Billy
Murphy, from the antipodcso The
SPIDER Just tied the other foreigner
INTO a Knot. Once he fcinted at MUIR
ply, and hen tn. latter unwound his
arms from his head the Spider was
over by the far ropes tying his shoe
laces. ~
These are merely "reminiscences tina,
come to mind as l write. Mingled
with these recollcctions are others OF
Joe Goddard. Jim corbett, George
Dawson, Bob I'itzsimmons. Ton
Tracy. Dan Crcedon. Jake kilrain,
George Godfrey. Danny Needham
Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll, Younr
Mitchell. Tommy Ryan. Shadow Ma.
her, Jim Hall and a host Of other,
who have no further place in pucilism
Assurcdly when the moving pictures
IF memory start unfolding IL wonder
full procession OF old-timc ring hcroc.
pass in review.
l Nv. W. Eaughton.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-06
TO HOLD A A. ].
MEET MARCH 6
National Indoor Champion
ships will Bring Together
Great Galaxy of Stars.

New York. Feb. c. ~nounccment
has been made ofticiall. hat the am
nual national indoor track and field
championships will Do staged in Mad:-
son Square Garden on Thursday even-
ing, March s. Entry blanks are he-
ing mailed to all parts uf ;hc country
for distribution.
James f. Sullivan. VINO is chairman
Of the championship committee, says
that from all points of view his
years meet will be a hummer. The
caliber of this years athletes and the
have shown in board foor competi-
ton this season Is an indication that
more than record is in danger of
being wiped off the books on the night
Of the games.
If present plans materialize those
who attend the games will see the
greatest galaxy of indoor stars ever
meet. The men who will battle for
the championship laurels will include
many members Of the American Olym-
pic team.
Olympic Stars to Rattle.
In the 75-yard dash, Alvah Never.
the century and furlong national
champion Splinter. will have a chance
out TO him by Drew. the wonderful
Springfield high school fier. Lippin-
colt and Rice also will be asked 10
compete. Halpin. the national quar-
ter-mile champion: Lindberg. Merri-
hew and Jim Rosenberger will be seen
in the 3oo-yard dash, while Tad Me-
redith, winner Of the great Suburban
quarter n worlds record holder for
the s0o-meter and half-nile u will
face Mel Sheppard. Caldwell and
Davenport In the half-nile run.
The 1.o00-yard run is sure TO bring
such wonderful athletes as John Paul
Jones. Abel Kiviat. Tabor and He'd
lund. and with that fast quartet "a
ther Time appears to be in for a heavy
Jolt. Hannes Kolehmainen. hero Of
the Olympic games: Will Kramer.
Harry Smith and Louis Scott will be
seen in the two-mile run. and Nichol-
son, Wendell and Filler will be among
the hurdle performers.
Field Events Should Draw.
In the field events the A. A. T..
officials expect to have Erickson, Bar.
wise. Richards and tombstone in tho
running high jump; Mcdonald. Whit
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ney and Beatty in the ol-pound sho,
put: McGrath. Ryan and sherman in
the 5o-pound Weight for height: Plat
and Ben Adams and Leo Goehring In
the standing high and broad jumps,
and Marc Wright. Babcock and Dukes
in the pole vault for distance.
The usual A. A. L. gold die medal.
cmblematic Of the indoor champion.
ship Of America, will be awarded to
the winner Of each event. A silver
medal will be awarded for second
place and a bronze medal for third
place The track will easur ten
laps to the mile and athletes will be
permitted to wear spiked shoes. En-
tries will close on February "a. with
James e. Sullivan. 81 Warren street.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-06
TEAM
TO HELP THE RED
SOX LAST SEASON

Now the statement is made by sew
eral OF the Boston Red SoN players
that Manager Connie Mack Of the
Athletics actually sacrificed second
place in the American league race last
season in order to help Boston beat
New York in the worlds series. The
Athletic chieftain saw his own chanc-
es for engaging in the worlds series
were aoundering. He had looked long
team slump. Tina was his only hope.
Unless the Red SoX slipped and fell
by the wayside the Athletics had no
chance on earth to glide ahead.
Mack had weighed the matter long
and carefully. Going to Boston late
in the season, he still refused to re-
linquish hope of coping the pennant
His team had been primed for a last
ditch stand. His players knew that
the final test was at hand. To lose
then meant the loss of that last
chance. Doubt was soon removed.
Mack realized the hopelessness of the
task. The Red Sox convinced him
that they could stand the pace. Mack's
thoughts shifted to other things. He
reached the conclusion that his team
could not win, that Boston would win,
and he wanted Boston to win the
worlds championship.
He gave III all the information he
possessed regarding the New York
team. He took his team to the field
in Fenway park and told Jake Stahl
n his men that his team would play
the game as nearly as they could like
the Giants would. He picked Bender,
Coombs and Plank to pitch three in
nings each. thus guaranteeing pitch
Ing OF a brand which would be unex-
celled. His players ran wild on the
bases. The Red Sox watched and
studied. They benefited much. AS
one Of the Red Sox said: .'It va one
Of the finest games of the entire year.
We beat them by a low score, but II
was a whirlw-ind battle and We gained
a lot Of useful knowledge"