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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-12
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u Ew improvements will have to
be made on the playing field
l. at Rickwood before the opening
of spring training, according to Man
ager Wordsworth. The Baron leader
has thoroughly inspected the local
diamond, and states that 1t Is almost
in perfect condition. Outside the
need of a little dirt on the side lines,
state Moley, the field is now in good
enough condition for regular league
game. The sod in the infield and out
field is beautiful and will need little
attention besides a good moving.
Although during the early part OF
the fall the local management was
considering enlarging the stands, TINS
plan has been abandoned and no al
terations will be made in them for the
1911 season. Moley states that the
present ones are fully adequate for
next season and that it was deemed
a useless expenditure to enlarge them
this year.
A letter was received yesterday at
the Baron headquarters from Tragres-
ser, the young backstop purchased
from the Boston Braves. Tragresser
states that he is pleased over the
prospects of playing in the south next
season and that he is eager for the
training season to commence. AS he
is fully satisfied with being traded,
Tragresser should prove valuable
addition to the Baron roster and
capably fill the vacant shoes of Walter
Mayer.
Although the. Baron contracts are
coming in very slow, Moley attaches
no significance to it and expects little
trouble in bringing his henchmen into
the fold While Captain Ellanl's con-
tract has as yet not been received.
the Baron leader is not worrying as
Roy has already agreed to terms.
However. Molesworth expects that Ell
lam will wait until he reports for
spring training before he signs up.
Elam has done this for several years
past, and it is thought that he will
again wait until he reports to sign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-12
MAJORS COPIED MANY
MEN SOUGHT YMOLEY|
FORMER TIGER
JOINS FEDERALS

Detroit. Mich, February 11-Davy
Jones. former outfielder of the Detroit
American league team, and later with
the Toledo team of the American associa-
ton. announced here this afternoon that
lie had signed a two-year contract with
the Pittsburg club in the Federal elague
Il got what 1 asked for" said JONES'
of eventually securing from the majors
any of the above mentioned five van
ished, as several clubs In the class AA
hae entered claims for their services
in case they should be relegated to the
minors.
No Chance for Leary
Leary, who was counted upon to sup
plant Bill McGilray at the initial cor
ner, Is lost to the Barons. Two clubs,
Toledo and Buffalo, have entered claims
for his services, and 1t Is unlikely that
both will consent to his release to the
Barons.
The claim of Toledo on Roche, who
was drafted by the St Louis Cardi-
nails, will prevent the Barons from Sc
curing this sterling young catcher un-
less that club will consent to the deal.
Kavanaugh, who led the Tri-State cir
cult in batting last year, and was
drafted by Detroit, is claimed by Provi-
dence of the international league, In
dianapolis of the American association
and Sacramento of the Pacific Coast
organiza ton.
-Four clubs have put in bids for Moll-
witt, drafted by the Cubs. These are
San Francisco in the Pacific Coast
league, indianapolis and Toledo in the
American association, and Buffalo in the
international. Murphy had promised
Moley to let him have the first chance
on Mollwitz, but the entering OF these
claims makes this impossible
Have Claim on Miller
However, the Barons will have first
claims on Infielder Miller, who was
other club has put in a bid, and as he
hit .933 lest season, besides scoring SO
runs and stealing so runs, it is not
unlikely that Moley will exercise his
option, should he get chance.
There is now likelihood of Messenger
being returned to the Barons by the
St Louis Browns. Both the Oakland
and indianapolis clubs are after him,
and it is already known that neither
club will waiver it's claim on him.
One of the other players lost by
Moley in the drafts was Catcher Gel
bles, who played in 1913 with the Sa-
vannah club In the South Atlantic
league. Geibles was drafted by Connie
Mack and later turned over to Kansas
City.
A glance over the following averages
of the above mentioned players lost to
the Barons will show that Moley was
right on the job during the drafting
season looking after the interests of the
local club:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-12
Wife of Army Officer Dead

Omaha, Neb., February 11.-Mrs. f. A.
Smith, wife of Brig Gen. Frederick A.
Smith, retired, L. 5. A., died at her
home here today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-12
Five Hefty Sons of Swat
Wanted by Barons Gobbled
Up by Major Clubs
FIRST BASEMAN LEARY
AMONG PLAYERS LOST
Local Club Now Has No Chance to
Secure Players-An Had Batting
Averages Better Than .300-TwO
Clubs Stand in Way of Mes
senger Coming South Again
BY ASA RoUNTREE, JR.

Failure to land the players sought
by draft will necessitate Manager
Molesworth of the Barons turning to
the majors for aid in strengthening tho
weak cogs that are apparent in his
machine. The activity of major league
scouts and representatives and the
watchfulness of class AA managers
during the drafting season almost COM
pletely upset the plans that Moley had
laid for the 1914 season.
without the aid of scouts for assist
ance from any quarters, the Baron
leader last fall made careful survey
of the minors. and by the time the
drafting season rolled around had a
large number of exceptionally prom
Using players on his string ready to
draft. Moley from the start went af-
ter players who were displaying abil-
ity to make good in faster company,
and not dead one received his at
tention. In fact he picked up such
players of such promise that they were
too good for the minors, and as a re-
suit major league teams stepped in and
gobbled up all but one of the topnotch-
ers that Moley had an eye on.
Five Players Lost
Through this activity of major
league clubs the Barons lost five play
ers who had batting averages of .311
or better. The five lost by the local
were First Baseman Leary of the Utica
club, in the New York State league:
Third Baseman Kavanaugh of the York
club, in the Tri- State; Catcher Roche
of the Calgary, in the Western Canada
circuit; Infielder Miller of Lowell. in
the New England league, and First
Baseman Mollwitz of the Green Bay
club, in the Wisconsin-Illinois league.
The only stellar performer landed was
Jimmy Magee of the Lowell club, in
the New England league,
Had the major league clubs been the
only ones desirous of securing this
quintet everything would have been all
right and Birmingham would have been
in a good position to secure them from
the majors But it happened that sew
eral clubs In the various class AA or
ganizations We're tipped off as to the
ability of these youngsters, and as a
result put in claims for their services.
With this, all hopes fostered by Moley
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-12

of eventually securing from the majors
any of the above mentioned five van
ished, as several clubs in the class AA
hae entered claims for their services
in case they should be relegated to the
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
IS SLAIN ON STREET
IN NEW YORK FEUD
Han Accused of Killing Woman
Is Stabbed to Death by East
Side Gunman.

NEW YORK. Feb. 2o.-Murder in the
street, while hundreds of Mortified
assers-by looked on, was the latest
ruit here today of the vendettas of the
.ast Side gunmen. Angelo Lasco ran
to Luigi Lazazzari in East 10Sth
rect, thrust knife three times into
: body and fled.
Police reserves had to use their clubs
% disperse the crowd which soon gath
ed about the dead man. The police
ere informed that the slayer had fled
nto a nearby cellar. with pistols in
and they entered the place and found
Lasco, who they said. had handker-
.hief bearing the bloody outlines of a
astily wiped knife He was overpower-
d and rushed to a cell.
Lazazzari's murder was the third in
he neighborhood within a short time
nd is expected to result in more slaugh-
Ter. The dead man was accused OF
having stabbed to death woman part
ner. Mrs. Spinelli, as the result of quar-
-els over the operations of horse steal
Ing band. He was discharged for lack
4 evidence, and had been a marked man
since. He usually was accompanied by
an armed bodyguard-
Lasco, the pol ce believe, took ad-
vantage of the absence of Lazazzari'S 5
cuard to settle the feud. Today, po-
Iicemen are on guard throughout the
prepared to nip any further
outbreak.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
How She Discarded
Unsishtly Complexion
tMoaa Morrow in To,cn Tdttier)

Mona Morroo IN Totcn Tdttier)
How often / exclaimed as bcheld my
ugly complexion in the mirror. IF
only could tear off this old skim" And,
do YOU know, I've learned how to do
that very thing? Not to actually re-
move the entire skin Ill Of a sudden;
that would be too heroic n method and
painful, too, | imagine. The worn-out
culicle comes off to such tiny particles.
and 50 tradually-requiring about ten
days to complete the transformation
il doesn't hurt bit. Day by lay the
beautiful complexion underneath comes
forth Marvellous! No matter how mud
dy, rough, blotchy or aged vour COM
pleNion You can surely discard it by
this simple process. Just get an ounce
of ordinary mere oliZed wax at your
druggists. apply nightly like cold
cream. washing it off mornings.
Ny wrinkles 1 got rid CT by an equal
~ simple method BY dissolving an
ounce Of powdered saxolite In a half
pint witch hazel and bathing my face
in the solution, every line completely
disappeared. First the fines lines. final
~ even the deep crows feet, vanished
entirely.-AdNt.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
Inquiry Is Asked Into
Alleged Wheat Monopoly

\ resolution introduced in the House
yesterday by Congressman Monahan of
Minnesota. and referred to the Rules
Committee. provided for Congressional
inquiry into the organization and Cp-
Grafton Of the Chicago and Duluth
boards of trade and the Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce to determine
their influence on wheat and -four
prices.
The constantly changing price OF
wheat to the farmer and the continued
hisI price to the consumer, 1t was
asserted, are due to the manipulation
or the purchase and sale of the wheat
by the three organizations named.
Each of the three, it is charged. is a
monopoly controlling wheat prices.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
New Evening Classes.

Popular evening classes at moderate
fees are being organized at the Wash
ington School OF Secretaries. in the Nc
Lachlen building. Tenth and -G streets
northwest. Early morning sessions al
SO are conducted there. At the Lucia
Gale Barber. School, the secretarial
class now meets at o'clock in the aft
ernoon.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
81 Fiber Rugs, $4.38

9xl2 largest room size WOOL Floer
Rugs, reversible and seamless; III
rreen red. blue, tan, and brown.
Medallion and conventional de-
signs.
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$500 Trousers, $1.OO

Mems and Young Mems Separate
Trousers, of cheviot. worsted, ana
cashmere; desirable pattern; sizes
80 to l..
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Sl.SO Smyrna Rugs, 75c

3ox6O Reversible Smyrna Rugs, N
medallion, floral, and mottled de-
signs. Colorings of green. red.
blue. tan, and rose.
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81 to 81 Shoes, 81. AS

Boys and Youths Shoes. button
and blucher styles. of patent colt
and gun metal. Sizes from to
81. but not of each style.
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FREE-With all purchases at the
Toilet Goods Department from 10
to l., trial bottles of Arnica Cream,
an excellent lotion for chapped or
rough skin.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
SOC and 6Oc Rubbers, 35c

Misses and Children's Storm
Ruhbers, Bay State and Old Col
ony; all sizes from 6 to lo1s ana
IL to >.
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29c Mating Rugs, 15c

e7xa japanese Mating Rugs,
closely woven. in Oriental, floral,
medallion, and conventional de-
signs.
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$3.50 and 81 Suits, $1.85

Boys Fancy Cashmere Schooi
Suits, with full cut knickerbocker
pants; dark patterns; sizes To II
years.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
Bows Suits, Csc

Boys White and Colored Russian
Belted Wash Suits, sizes to
years.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20

25c Tooth Brushes, 15c
Rubberset Tooth Brushes. bris-
Ties warranted not to come out,
set In hard rubber. All shapes.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20

Soc Tooth Paste, 29c
Regular SOC tubes OF genuine Pc
beco Tooth Paste.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
Csc Hose, 12hc

Women's "Burson' Hose. seam
less foot double sole. heel. and toe.
Hemmed or ribbed top. Fast black.
Medium weight.
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Csc end 39c Blouses, 17c

Boys Collar-attached Blouses, oi
chanbray. madras. and percaie; !;
sizes . TO 10 years.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
Women's Gowns, 29c

women's Nightgowns, Of good
quality muslin. with yokes Of clus-
ter tucks; v shaped necks and long
sleeves.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20

Sc Floss, z for Sc
Genuine d. NJ. C.. Long Skeins
Embroidery Floss, sizes 8 to IS.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
Brass;eses, lie

Brassieres Of Batiste, trimmed
with embroidery, reinforced shields
and steel boned. All sizes.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20
Children's Gowns, 2Se

Chiidren's Nightgowns. good
quality muslin; yokes Of cluster
tucks and embroidery insertion.
Sizes 3 to II years.
The Washington times., 1914-02-20

Talcum Powder, sc
Wilbert's :-pound Talcum Pow
der: violet, rose, or carnation;
large gilt-top cans, with piece OF
soft-finish face chamois, both for
Sc.
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29c Pillows, 19c
Sofa Pillows. covered with white
cambric, filled with silk floss. Size
1Sx18. 9th Floor and Art Dept.)
The Washington times., 1914-02-20

A new section has been devoted to this larS
important feature of our.millinery department.
fame of our $500 Trimmed Hats has reached
proportions that it is necessary to devote sep
space for them.
There is no other showing to compare with
hundreds of beautiful Trimmed Hats here for
choosing at IS that cannot be matched in value
where for less than So and $40.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-22

allow him TO die. / cannot conceive
that decent man In the governor
chair, given the power 10 do away
with such iniquities. will let him die.
The interesting question to me is
Frank. We are rather callous TO
vastly greater wrongs than his unjust
execution would be. Many miners
die every month from preventable &C
cidents.
II Leo Frank is executed, 1t will be
only mistake in human justice. They
take place all the time. In our jails
are thousands Of men tonight whose
only crime Is poverty. II they were
well-to-do, or even comfortably poor,
they would be at liberty; but 1t is
hard to get people excited about him.
The newspaper men are saying in ed
itorial offices that readers are tired
OF hard-luck stories.
Go into any place where hoboes and
buns congregate, the open parks. the
cheap lodging houses. and allnight
saloons, and you will see men grad
ually dying body and soul of social
wrongs.
Leo Frank may die. though / hope
he may have a good deliverance, but
IL so. he will die a good man, be-
lieve.
But these men gradually lose all
semblance to uprightness and real
manhood. Their spirits are dead long
before their breath leaves their
The Detroit times., 1914-12-22

bodies; and when they die, ii is un-
der the granding wheels Of railway
train, In q wayside brawl, under the
snow OF a storm, anywhere the Angel
OF the Darker Drink may happen TO
ind them. And the women OF. their
class-who can tell of the mysterious
dreadfulness OF their passing away
from the scenes OF their long dissolu-
-tion?
And yet, we who greedily read OF
the efforts to save Leo Frank, refuse
TO concern ourselves much with the
throng or birds OF the shadows who
are lost every night in the tempest OF
this modern life.
Perhaps" one may say, I'VE feel
a sense or guilt at the thought that
the law We have made takes hold or
Leo Frank and kills him wrongfully."
But are we not equally 10 blame on
account OF the entombed miner, the
voorhees, outcast, the woman trampled
into the mire, the hobo engulfed in
the social Quicksand?
Unless civilization Is delusion and
Christianity a fraud. we are as much
10 blame In the one case as the other.
But We may cry out for Leo Frank
and spare not without disturbing any
body's vested rights. When we come
to the salvation OF the poor and disin-
herited we attempt to make an ONE
lette for the construction OF which We
must break eggs.
That's why we prefer to specialize
on Leo Frank.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-22

SO its an III wind case" say tn,
toymakers OF Toytown as they road
the news OF the war,
''In 1913, said manufacturer. "the
importation OF toys from Germany
was valued at wholesale rates al S..
s56,575 The factories OF the United
States produced playthings. worth
about as.264000. Eliminating such
articles as sleds. velooipedes, etc. the
American output OF what we makers
call real toys was not much more
than $4,000, 900.
The market In low-priced mechani.
cal toys must come TO a standstill
We cannot compete In this country
with the cheap German goods. do
not mean the really good mechanical
toys; those we>can and shall make In
America; I mean the kind you buy on
the street for Ave and 10 cents"
The Detroit times., 1914-12-22
Toys! Toys They Came In Abundance From G
Americas Toytown," Wnchendon, Mass.
BY NORMAN ROSE.

wINCHENDoN, Mass. Dec. az
The busiest season Americas famous
'Toytown" has ever known is about
TO end here as result OF the close
proximity OF Christmas!
Thanks 10 Americas Nuremberg,
Winchendon, Mass. (official geography
nance, the shortage OF toys predicted
at the outbreak OF the war is nullihed
For Toytown has been as busy as a
beehive all summer, fall and early
winter.
Rocking horses, drums, ten-pins.
Noah's arks, have been pouring from
Toytown in a constant stream TO NIL
the rush-orders from American mer-
chants,
It's wonderful place, Is Toytown.
But don't you say Winchendon TO
anybody in Toytown. The folks there
like their unofficial name whole lot
better than they do the official one,
With something less than half the
towns population making its living
out OF the toy industry. with the big
gest toy factory in the whole world
whirring and buZZing and hammering
away in their midst-is il any wonder
they feel proud OF their unofficial
name?
Nuremberg, in Germany, everybody
knows, is the famous toy city OF the
old world. When the war started,
American merchants gasped, I'VE will
get nothing from Nuremberg! What
will we do for toys"
Could those merchants but alight
at the railroad station In Toytown and
behold the great rocking horse, IS feet
high, proudly champing his bit and
glazing at every locomotive that rolls
past him, they would take heart
There is Toytown's proclamation
and challenge-the biggest rocking
horse in the world is the first object
that meets the eye Of every visitor to
Toytown, and he stands for Toytown's
toys-an output that would have
taken very good care OF all the Santa
Clauses In America, even IL Nurem-
burg hadn't gotten a fair percentage
OF its shipments into this country be-
fore the war began-which, as a mat
ter or fact, Nuremburg had.
1t was 3S years ago that Morton f.
Converse started Toytown's first toy
factory, with 20 men. Today there
are two Converse factories, employ
ing some 500 hands, and there is
third factory, that of the Mason Il
Parker Co., with about 200 people.
The annual output OF these three fac
tories runs into millions OF dollars
the number of toy-flled freight cars
which the big rocking horse has sped
on their way. from his perch beside
the depot, would undoubtedly make
the good folk OF Nuremburg gasp.
II those German toymakers have
The Detroit times., 1914-12-22
LEAVES CELL
FOR FIRST TIME
In % YEARS
Human Fiend Allowed to Attend
Church in Company With
His Fellow Convicts
HAS READ 5000
VOLUMES DURING TERM
Criminal Develops From Ignor-
ant Newsboy to Well
Read Man
ey NIxoLA cREELgY-sMiTH.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.--After 81
years OF solitary confinement In a cen
Jesse Pomeroy, the human nend,
has been permitted TO worship COD III
the company OF his fellow conyicts
for the tirst time.
During a whole generation of time
this extraordinary criminal, who has
grown TO manhood and into middle
age In cell No. 20 OF the ChariestoWn
prison, was regarded by the authori-
ties OF Massachusetts, to be too pao
to 20 TO church" ..
At the age Of Ia Jesse Pomeroy' q
newsboy, was sentenced to be hanged
for the killing Of a little girl and sew
eral boys. Because or his extreme
youth. the sentence was committed 10
solitary confinement for life.
Never permitted TO look upon the
faces OF his fellow-prisoners, Jesse
Pomeroy received the frst mitigation
Of his sentence when he was per
mitted, on the fifty-flfth anniversary
OF his birth, to enter the prison chapel
and listen TO q sermon by the prison
chaplain.
Al special keeper sat beside him
during the services. Pomeroy inter
est In the proceedings was breath
less. He studied every face in the
chapel as though he sought to carry
back to his gray cell fresh memories
10 dispel the maddening monotony OF
those SO years of silence and despair.
In every other recorded instance
OF lonely and protracted Imprisonment
twilight of the mind has followed.
But Pomeroy has not gone crazy. On
the contrary, he has developed from
an ignorant newsboy into an omnlv-
erous reader of books. The prison IL
brary numbers 5000 yalumes. The
man who was ''too bad TO go TO
church" knows them all by heart.
He has learned French and Spanish
and has become an expert book
keeper.
He has made nine separate attempts
10 escape, and on several occasions
has very nearly succeeded. For this
reason he is not permitted, as other
prisoners are, to keep knife and
fork In his cell.
His meals are showed through a slit
In the wall three times day. and he
Is Obliged to return all utensils and
cutlery at the end of 20 minutes.
Once Pomeroy complained to the
governor that his cell was badly ven
tilated. A transom was Installed, and
he obtained possession of the hinge
which operated II and made 10 into a
saw, with which he escaped from his
cell and reached the outer courtyard
before he was apprehended.
Since Pomeroy's arrival at Charles
town, the Judge who sentenced him,
the prosecuting attorney. the lawyer
who served him as counsel, the Jury
which tried him, and the governor
who COMMITTED his sentence have all
died.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-22
Leo Frank, Who May Be Executed
And Other Men and Boys Who Are
Dying. Body and Soul of Social Wrongs
By HERBERT QUICK.

The whole nation Is excited about
the case Of Leo Frank, of Atlanta.
He is young Jew of good charac-
ter. who is accused OF foully and de-
generately staying young working
girl.
An eloquent prosecuting attorney
got him convicted on the evidence OF
a criminal Negro who lied over and
over again. Public anger against the
murder, rather than the murderer,
coupled with some anti-Jewish feel
ing, enabled this eloquent lawyer to
get from a jury verdict that this
miserable witness told the truth when
he said Frank did the deed, and lied
when he said something else.
/ think there Is very little probable
ity that this unfortunate young man
Is guilty. think he has been rail
roaded to conviction. And think
that the governor of the state Will not
The Detroit times., 1914-12-22
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