The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-13
on THE GREAT WHITE WAY.
BY o. O. M,INTYRE,

New York. Aug. 12-John McGraw
once bought Charlie Herzog when II was
reported that other managers could not
do anything with him. McGraw methods
prevailed and Herzog was soon eating
out Of the Giants leaders hand. Now,
however, HerZog is manager himself,
plotting the forlorn Reds, and he hasn't
him. He and McGraw have been having
some highly acrimonious times on the
field, and only the presence of some of
the players has prevented fisticuffs. II
is said that shortly after Herzog left the
Giants he met the doughty McGraw and
borrowed s.. About six months later he
wrote him thusly: Dear John I'D
rather owe you that money than beat
you out Of II. Just wanted to let you
know how I felt about It. Yours, Her
zog." McGraw studied over the letter
it was something that could never be for
given-hence the feud
Capt. Frank Guyette, of the Stony
Point Lighthouse, is still doing light
housekeeping on his lighthouse without
lighthouse housekeeper. The keeper of
the lighthouse could not keep his first
housekeeper, Mrs. Guyette, who deserted
him with a handsome policeman in the
neighborhood. Guyette, when his wife
disappeared, advertised for a second
hght-housekeeper for the lighthouse, and
invited the curious of Haverstraw. n. J.,
to come out into the park at a certain
hour and the housekeeper backed down
And lighthouse housekeeping without a
light housekeeper is hard, take it from the
lighthouse keeper, who under the circum-
stances-but go on, you finish IT!
Ebert Hubbard, the East Aurora sage,
was standing beside the ticket window
of the Grand Central Station the other
day preparatory to taking his friend,
DR.. F. NJ. Planck. of Kansas City, to
Roycroftville. While they were waiting
for the clerk TO stamp the tickets an ex-
cited man rushed up. gasping for breath.
Mister, Mister" he wheezed, please
give to me kvick a ticket to Springfield,
kvick"
The clerk replied: which Springfield
Springfield. Ohio; Springfield, Mass, or
Springfield. Il.?"
The customer wavered a few seconds
in thought and then replied: Just give
me whichever one is the cheapest"
Another policeman has shown how alb
solutely brainless a man can be and still
be on the force. DIR. Isidor Warsaw, a
AdDDl VI w dCOs LEA-t hdS DEGh III view
York for several weeks visiting. The
other evening he was out walking and
CHANGED to stop for a few moments to
listen to the speakers at a suffrage meet
ing. Patrolman Broderick roughly or
dered him to move on and to do II quick
ly. The clergyman asked for the police
mans badge number, which vas per-
fectly proper and justifiable, and the po-
liceman Immediately arrested him. He
was Immediately discharged, with apol-
ogies, by the magistrate. and the inspec-
tor in charge Of the district wrote to DR..
Warsaw: Il desire to apologize to you
for The deep humiliation you must have
suffered. The patrolman has been sus-
pended and charges will be filed against
him at once"
A rich Irish brogue may be an accom-
plishment, but you cannot get into the
United States on II unless you have other
When Charles Frohman
was abroad. he picked up lad in Dub
lin who had wonderful oral accomplish
menis; and Frohman decided to bring
him here to appear in one Of his plays
When the boy arrived the inspectors ad-
mitted his brogue was perfect, but they
shunted him TO Ellis Island and 1t is
probable that he win be deported.