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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
CAUGHT A SEA BAT THAT
WEIGHS MORE THAN TON
Monster TOwed Launch for Six
Hours Before Ii Gave
Up the Fight.

MOBILE, Ala, June 20 Second OF its kind
ever caught In the waters OF Mobile n giant
devil fish WEIGHING more than ton lost
an all day battle with Thomas c. Cairns
OF Birmingham ono day last week and
twenty-five men hauled him out at Bayou
Ia Batre after he had towed a gasoline
launch for six hours.
The lsh was fourteen feet across the
back and ten feet six inches from the mouth
10 the beginning of the tail Though he
was not weighed, old fishermen believe that
he Is the largest specimen ever landed in
the Gulf of Mexico. The other one caught
near Mobile weighed twenty-five hundred
pounds, II is said
Mr. Cairns says that the fish was sighted
on Dauphln Island in the early morning
The launch was driven alongside and a
harpoon thrown into the FISH The harpoon
was attached TO 8O0 feet of one Quarter inch
sash cord, The flsh towed the eighteen
foot launch occupied by AR Cairns and the
boatman. developing a high rate of speed
Several times whom tho fish would come
TO the surface Mr. Cairns would nre at il
with a as callbre revolver but with appar-
entity no effect.
Finally. late in the afternoon, tho fish
was tired out and lowed alongside the tug
Laura Next morning the Laura toved the
launch and the devil Ash into Bayou Ia
BatFe. MT, cairns SAYS tnat the harpoOn
lines were put over the stern OF the launcn
and the engine run ahead for six hours IN
an effort to tire out the monster. When
Bayou Ia Batre was reached IL required
twenty-five TO haul the monster up on the
beach. No scales large enough to weigh
the fish were available at Bayou la Batre.
The only other case on record where one
of the fish was captured dates back TO the
occupation OF Mobile Bay by tho Confed-
crate fleet during the civil war. One Of
the monsters was sighted and members of
the crew of one OF the war vessels nut of
In small boat with harpooning OUTFIT
The FISH allowed the boat to go alongside
but as soon as the harpoon was thrown IL
started for the sea at high speed.
One of the commanders seeing the peril
of the men In the small boat pulled up his
anchor and started after the small boat
overhauling II after several miles. By that
time the fish was swimming far below the
water and the gunners had no chance to
fire at IL. After n chase of about twenty
miles ont into the gulf the fish came TO the
surface and Tn" gnnDers finished " with n
shot from one Of the three pounders
The fish was towed up 10 the ~ity and
piacsd on exhibition Tor several Gays.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Gated. but roughly speaking huge pipe,
divert tons of water from the rapids JUST
above the fall This trapped watt' "
then allowed TO fall some hundreds OF
feet and the force of its fan produces
enormous power. The falls of Niagara
are made to produce little short OF l'"'"'
00o horsepower
Still more ingenious Is another nrthon
of producing power from sea water p'
the rise ana fall OF the tides. Portions o.
the coast where high tides are int Iu''
are chosen and n number OF clcfts 10 N"
cliffs are constructed or those OF nature
especially adapted. The water runs iA'
into the openings at high lido ana W
means of pipey is trapped INTO uuse
reservoir. When the tide fails hun1t'm
of gallons OF water are thus left heh'hu
Being on high level It IL then a CON.
paratlvely simple matter 10 drop 'Hs
water by means OF pipes to 'eV.' ",",.
feet below and utilize the power IUus
obtained by the usual water Jets acting on
specially constructed wheels
Wind Is still trapped and converted mo
power by windmills. but these machines
are very different from the Old type OF
mill with Its four big sails. The modern
windmill Is scientifically constructeu
apparatus, the driving force CONSISTING
OF n wheel containing number OF stee.
DluOtS, placed AT suCn an hHI'' '''''
respond to every puff OF wind 30 cen
cate is the construction OF these lns'ru,
nents that even n moderate breeze WIN
whirl the large wheel around az man
hundred revolutions n minute, rms nv.
ton acts on a shaft which provides ro"e'
for electric dynamos below. THESE ma
chimes are used mostly in coast towns %
those situated on high levels, where WIN
blows more or less constantly.
One OF the most ingenious proJects 10.
Harvesting the forces OF nature II INA
conceived by Sir william Ramsay al
despite its daring nature II has been w. W.,
received In high scientific circles ~
plan Ia TO take the heat ~ the car ~
interior by means OF huge bore h'!ys
These shafts would he sunk deep In'o Nv,
earth. so that they penetrated mo ar az.
coal seams by means OF electr'rl'E w., w..
coal would be fired until 1t burned ~ ~.
some powerful internal furua'.
means of pipes the gas given OF Nv ~.
burning coal would he conveyed 10 CIV,
surface and in yHrltis ways utll",' O..
power purposes The advantaS' "' "s
scheme IS that power could De- ','
from coal AS 1t lay In It's hIlH,', ,a-
ment, and the cost of mining II ana "''"e
ing II up wouid ne avoided
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
NATURE YIELDS POWER
IN INTERESTING WAYS
Suns Rays, Waterfalls, Tides,
Wind and Unmined Coal
as Sources.

WASHINGTON. June 2O.-In several in
genious ways the forces OF nature are
now exploited In order to provide power
Tor machinery necessary for various
human activities, Such apparatus is es-
pecially favored by engineers for not only
can enormous power be obtained but the
running expenses are extremely low, one
or the most ingenious OF these inventions
Is that which obtains power from the
rays OF the sun. The apparatus IL at
work In Egypt where II pumps up water
onto h'gh levels In thousands OF gallons.
This novel device consists OF a number
Of rejecting mirrors which concentrates
the rays OF the sun onto a glass covered
trough containing water. In short space
OF time this water becomes sufficiently
heated by the reflection from the mirrors
TO give Off steam, which passes into n
pipe to an engine OF the usual steam
variety When some thirty or forty of
these heating boxes are boiling water
by means OF the SUMS heat sufficient
steam Is obtained to keep powerful
pumping engine at work with IA minimum
OF expense
Some idea or the enormoAs power which
the sun machine conveys to the engine
can he gauRed by the fact that a,OO0
gallons OF water can be lifted forty feet
In one minute. In many ingenious ways
water IL now trapped by means of dams,
gigantic reservoirs and great stretches
OF piping and converted into power for
various purposes.
Many great waterfalls are now har-
messed in such fashion, two OF the most
important being the falls OF the Rhine
and those of Niagara. The machinery
used to obtain power from these great
products or nature is somewhat compn-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
COAST LOTTERY KING"
GETS OUT OF THE GAME
Was Widely Known as a Tray.
cling Seller Of
Tickets.


Los ANoELhs. Cal, June GOV. n. n.
iouhs. % years old. known on the Pa
c.nc coast as the lottery king" has
gwen ms word That he will never sell
ano.ner iottery ticket On that condition
nc mas peen released IRON jail. to which
ne hau oeeh sentenced Tor los days for
Nio,ating the lottery law.
"h'le WORKING IN san Francisco more
man thlrty years ago foung's closest
'ilehd' EDWIN Shaw. bought lottery
ticket ana made several hundreds OF dol
lars The friend continued TO play the
lottery unt' ne mad won more than s75,-
wv which ne invested In land that has
since made MIN very rlch.
Iho success or the friend induced
Young 10 try his fortune In the game
The hrst six months OF his play reached
climax when he won capital prize Of
$4,000 During the next five years he
won $4,000 more, and with the money
came To Los Angeles, where he purchased
an orchard near Whittier.
The lottery that had made him rich
became his passion. After he had can
nily Invested his winnings In property he
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
CALIFORNIA EGG FARM
USES ELECTRIC POWER
Lights Turned On at Daybrcak
to Fool Hens Into
Early Laying.

A. w. Foster OF Hopeland. Cal. has a
large commercial egg farm with about
six thousand layers. He raises alfalfa.
kale and Burbanks spineless cactus for
green stuff. and uses electricity for pump
Ing water for Irrigation purposes. The
power house Is located on the bank OF
river that runs through the farm and
underground pipes carry the water 10 hy-
drants In different parts OF the field. The
water Is run from the hydrants without
any bitches 20 direct its course and the
fields are flooded in this way once after
each cutting. which makes IL necessary
to grade the field. II is fairly level but
by no means sufficiently level TO be irrl-
gated by the ditch method.
All OF the buildings are lighted by
electricity. and at s 80 each morning the
lights are turned on and both the men
and the hens begin work With this
early start the hens are busy long be-
fore the average fiocks are about, the
eggs are laid earlier. gathered and packed
early In the afternoon and shipped be-
fore the new laid bloom has had time
to wear of Mr., Foster has Installed a
complete mill In his feed barn and an
electric moror shells corn, grlnds feed
and mikes II. One man Is kept busy at
this Job most of the day.
Gas Is used for heating the incubators
and brooders. Electric motors operate
the gas machines, and because OF the
Importance Of n constant supply OF gas
two electric motors have been installed
one of which IL used as an auxiliary
In addition TO this there is a hot air
engine which serves In extreme cases
when something interfcres with the
electric current Near the residence Is a
large centrifugal pump to which Is Mt
tached an electric motor which furn' shes
water supply for the place. \ ten thou
sand gallon tank Is used for storage and
the motor keeps this full by an auto
matte switch that Is operated by a nnat
! IN the tank. Little more thought Is given
10 the water supply than Is given to city
supply by the average consumer The
tank Is always full and the pump always
starts when the water level has been
lowered little. When the water level
Is again at the right height the float shuts
or the motor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
ALIEN GIRL MAKES A HIT.


RITINOrE, lun" ~ A pussian rirl
with hlaphanous skirt. who arrived
from Bremen on the North German
Lloyd steamship Rhrin, proved the sen.
satlon Of the hour at the landing pier
on Locust Point. The wenrer of the rare
carmen: was Miss Rebccca Fine, who
said her age was 90 summers and that
she was On her way TO Chicago.
Customs and immigration officials were
startled when the young woman pa ssed
down tho gangwav tn tn pier and all
eyes were turned In her direction, The
appearance Of the skirt WIS heralded
with almost a complete cessation OF bust
ness on the pier.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

At the Birmingham (England) poultry
show. pair OF dressed cockerels six and
a half months old weighed twenty-five
pounds fourteen ounces. They were n
cross Of Indian game and Orpingtons, a
magnificent mixture.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Washing eggs hastens decay, takes
on the bloom and makes them appear
ancient Soiled eggs should be used at
home or sold TO parties for immediate
use.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

A. feature Of the Panama exposition
at San Francisco In 1915 1t has been sug-
gested by an Australian that an egg lay
ing contest be held In which hens from
every nation in the world may compete
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Fat. baggy hens do not pay for their
feed, and certainly do not add beauty to
the landscape. They lay some eggs In the
cheap season which are seldom fertile.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Old hens soon become unprofitable II
YOU hate to kill that old tame biddy give
her to the preacher. lie will kin her
without any conjunction of conscience,
and she cant get to a better place than
to enter the ministry
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

Eggs from hens played out by hard
winter laying show large percentage OF
unfertility. This Is natures revenge for
a violation OF natures laws.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

As corn is n fat producer. SO musty
grain Is flock reducer. Whatever YOU
feed will be reflected In the health ana
product Of your hens
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
BRITISH PRIZE WINNERS.
Pair six and One-haIf Months Old
weighed Over rs Pounds.

"eiKheu Over 20 rounds.
At the Birmingham (England) poultry
show. a pair OF dressed cockerels six and
half months old weighed twenty
pounds fourteen ounces They were
cross Of Indian game and Orplngtons. a
magnificent mixture.
Washing eggs hsstens decay, takes
on the bloom and makes them appear
ancient Soiled eggs should be used at
home or sold TO parties for immediate
use.
As feature Of the Panama exposition
at San Francisco In 1915 1t has been sug-
gested by an Australian that an egg lay
Ing contest be held In which hens from
every nation in the world may compete
Fat. baggy hens do not pay for their
feed and certainly do not add beauty to
the landscape. They lay some eggs In the
cheap season which are seldom fertile.
Old hens soon become Improbable. II
YOU hate to kill that old tame bddy give
her to the preacher. He will kill her
without any conjunction of conscience,
and she can't get to a better place than
to enter the ministry.
Eggs from hens played out by hard
winter laying show u large percentage OF
unfertility. This Is natures revenge for
a violation of natures laws.
As corn is n fat producer. 20 musty
grain Is flock reducer. Whatever YOU
feed will be reflected In the health ana
product OF your hens.
The Poultry Bulletin. New York. 1870,
was the first poultry journal published
In this country. 1t wasn't an elaborate
affair, but 1t served It's purpose.
It's getting to be white chickens. white
ducks. white Embden geese and white
Holland turkeys on American farms.
Why? Because white Is n color easy to
breed. and white fowls have no dark pina
feathers 10 pick.
You don't find that chicken thieves
bag many Leghorns. There's too much
squawk about them and too little meat.
The thieves want the big. plump. juicy.
meaty Rocks. Wyandottes. Reds and
Orpingtons.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21

The Poultry Buliedn, New York. 1870,
was the first poultry journal published
In this country. Ii wasn't an elaborate
affair, but It served It's purpose
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
English Expert Says American
Public Shows Bad Manners
at Big Matches.
PRAISES YOUNG oUIMET
Says BrookIine Lad Showed Won
derfuI Control of His Nerves
in Title Game.

TARRY vARDON, the great Eng
II fish golfer, in an article in
the January issue of the Golf
Magazine, rebuked the American pub
lie for its bad manners while in at
tendance at golf matches.
Vardon declared that not only at
Rrookline, where the open champion
ship match was played, and won by
Francis Ouimet, but in every other
city in America which he and his
partner, Edward Ray, visited while on
their tourney last summer. they en-
countered mannerisms on the part OF
the spectators that handicapped the
players.
Americans Need Teaching.
Vardon did not touch on the incl
dent at Brookline, when it was ga id
that the crowd hemmed him in so
tightly near the final holes that it in
terfered with his play, but said IN
part, in his article:
The American golf spectator has
much to learn. A golfer always wants
to give the public the best he's got
nut I'D his best exhibition; but the
American public will not let him.
Not only at Brookline, but in near
Nv every other city where Mr.. Ray aad
played, the crowd never seemed 10
appreciate good shots and even mar
velous playing at times never brought
murmur of applause. But, strange
" enough, the crowd frequently Would
break into cheers when some rotten
shots were made.
Before leaving for England Ray
declared that the American golf spec
tators often violated the rules OF goiI
and broke into cheers just When .
player was on the point or trying LOT
some difficult shot, and just at a mo
ment when silence was demanded.
Ouimet's Greatest Game.
Continuing in his article Nardcn
said
ut is a pity that people in charge
of the golf matches in America DO nor
manage things better. They can ma
an example in the way Things We're
handled when we played at VancoI-
yer. B. C. The spectators there were
as keenly interested in the matches
as the Americans, yet the CROWD w
so mannerly, so well instructed IN so.t
etiquette, that it did not eneef uhtll
the match was over" 49,. g..
Vardon paid a fine compliment 10
Francis Ouimet, who defeated ootil
Vardon and Ray at Brookline, ana ae-
clared
IF Ouimet lives to be hundre l.
that game in which he won the cham =
pionship always will be his most re-
markable game. He has a wonderiu'
control of his nerves.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
ER CAMP ADVOCATES RETURN OF FIELD JUDGE AND NUMBERING OF M AYE
Big 6 on a Plain
Envelope Goes to
Matty' Directly
You Can't Fool Uncle Sans Mail
Clerks on Little Thing
Like This.

Los ANGELES, CAL, Jan. ga
baseball fan in Chicago, G. Irwin
by name, thought he would stump"
the Postoff1ce Department. He scrib-
oled a note to man whom al
ways calls by his first name, though
this man never heard of him in all
his life, placed the note inside a long
envelope, and pasted big. black
figure "6'-four inches long, cut from
an evening paper headline-on the
envelope.
Placing a two-cent stamp on the
envelope, Irwin dropped the letter
into mail box and sat down and
laughed heartily over the joke on
Postmaster General Burleson and
all his subordinates.
An hour later the long envelope
with the big black IS" as it's only
address, fell under the eye of a postal
clerk sorting mail
That's easy" grinned the clerk.
Nothing to it; the letters for Mat
", the Big Six Get me? He's ont
in Los Angeles" And with a blue
pencil he wrote on the envelope,
Try Los Angeles, Cal"
Straight to Los Angeles the letter
came, and the very first distributing
clerk in the Los Angeles Office knew
at first glance that the big st" meant
nothing else in the world than big.
Six, and that the designated gentle
man lived at No. 1887 West Forty
seventh street. But not a scratch
did he write on the envelope. He
passed it up" to the carrier. and the
carrier missed four blocks of his route
to get that letter to Christy Mathew
son, the Big Six" greatest pitcher
in the world idol of the Giants and
of all fandom, just as soon as pos
sible.
The note inside was to this effect:
"Matty, if you get this please let me
know. G. IRWIN,
Big Six" doesn't know G. Irwin.
but Irwin has demonstrated that if
any of Uncle Sans postoffice en-
ployees are not baseball fans" those
particular individuals are not scat
tered along the line between Chi
cago and Los Angeles.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
Geo. Stallings Kicks
Himself Every Time
He Hears Of Wagner

Every time George Stallings, now
manager OF the Boston Braves hears
the name OF Honus Wagner, the great
Pirate shortstop, the said George almost
weeps: Something like twenty years
ago George. then manager Of major
league team, fixed up deal whereby
he was TO have the pick, at the end
Of the season, OF any man on the Pat
erson, N j., team. At the tail end Of
the season he journeyed to the Jersey
town and looked over the athletes ca
Vorting on the green.
Stallings decided 10 take an tnsieder
named Heidriek, graceful. 1.-the
limbed athlete.
~ don't want TO dictate your choice,
said the manager Of the Paterson club
but il | were in your place I'd take
the fellow Wagner. He's q diamond In
the rough.
stallings took one long look al the
clumsy. awkward person named Wag-
ner and glggled.
Say. that guy is too clumsy TO even
mind the bats" said Stallings, He
might do in the minors. but he'll never
be any good In the majors. He's too
slow and too clumsy
IAN right. MIR Staliings said the
Paterson manager just suit yourself
only / think that some day you'll re-
gret that you didn't take this Wagner
fellow"
The Wagner referred to was the peer
less Honus.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

He is a brother of Gene and Mont
gomery, who played with the yellow
Jackets four years. 1907
Another Holland on Job.
Merrill Holland, brother OF Harry
and Sid, will make a strong bid for
the. midway job
No new men are out for the job
behind the bat They wouldn't have
much chance with both Attridge and
Wttnerington7 back again
There sure is big bunch OF old
men out for thelteam this year. Elev-
en- men that either made their ~
last year or the season before will don
uniforms. They are:
Catchers, Witherington and At
fridge; pitchers, Eubanks, Fielder
and myself: Amason first, who played
that peg immensely after Holiday
was ruled off second base. e. Mon
tague. who is a, good man If he shows
Improvement in hitting shortstop
Donaldson. The 1T" men for right
field will be Tyler Montague and my
self played this position when
Eubsnks was hurting and Montague
filled the place when ] was pitching
Wooten is sure of center field and
Captain Murphy Pound is a cinch in
left field.
Pitchers and catchers will start
work in the gymnasium in about two
weeks. The other candidates won't
start before the middle of February
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

berths. There sure are a raft of
hurting candidates 20 being in line
for slab work.
The new pitchers with the
best records are Shaw, Bryant,
Johnson and Golightly. Shaw
pitched for the Gainesville High
School team for several years, and
has a ton Of smoke behind his fast
ball Bryant halls from Texas, where
he was raised on a ranch. He is a
husky looking individual. and heaves
from the port side. He is sure to
develop into a valuable man. John
son. of football fame, is big. we'll
proportioned fellow and looks good.
He made a corking record with the
famous Chattanooga High School
team last year. Golightly needs little
introduction to Atlanta fans, as he set
the Bankers League on fire last sum
mer. He is small, but has a heap of
stuff and a good head.
Fifteen New Outfielders.
Ut the fifteen new outflelders there
are two men who have good enough
records for special mention. They are
John Is. McLin and Henry Clay Burr.
McLln was at Tech last year and
tried out as a catcher. Coach Heis-
man, however, saw that he was fast
and a good hitter, so McLinl was
shifted to right field. He played this
position with big success during the
1912 season and is sure to make the
yellow Jackets good man this year.
Burr. Albanian. Was an All-Prep man
at Riverside last year. He is a cork
ing good right fielder and also a hard
and timely hitter. He topped the
prep league in batting last season,
hitting over 400.
The new catching and outfield can
didates appear TO be extra good for
the two open berths. but the veterans
at the other positions will probably
have but little competition for their
places. AS Fax Montague and
"Scrappy" Moore are gone, second
and third base holes must be plugged.
The men that look best for these
positions are Hill, Holland, Montague
and Clay.
Hill is from Washington. He Is
almost sure to land a regular berth.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
Carolina League to
Open Season April %

GREENSBORO. N. c.. Jan. 24.-At
a meeting here of representatives. of
the six clubs in the North Carolina
Baseball League. schedule for the
1914 season was adopted. The season
opens April 20 and closes Septem-
Der g.
game series. Winston Salem opens
the season at Greensboro, Raleigh at
Durham and Charlotte at Asheville.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
Dodgers Sign Move
For Three Year Term

r,ApoRTE. IND, Jan. 24-Ray Move.
~ Rochester Ind. who has been play
ing with the Pittsburg Federals, has
signed a three year contract with the
Brooklyn Nationals.
,rhe Superbas think well of Move,
VINO formerly played with Springfield in
tho Central League; Troy. in the New
YORK State and Indianapolis. American
he viii fiji Tinker's position at short
IL the latter fails TO report.