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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
FEDS Will
TRY TO SIGN
GIANT STARS

Chicago, March 4-Presi lent
Weeghana. of the Chicago Federal
League team made the statement
late today that the F'ederals have a
war fund" of 100000 to use in legal
battles against organized baseball
This announcement was made when it
became known that Manager Nc
others in organized baseball were
picking up players recently signed
by the Feds.
Indications point to another season
Of fighting in the courts, and if pres
ent promises are made good the fans
will be deprived of. seeing Walter
johnson, Bill James, Frank Baker,
Jimmy Austin, Ray CaIdweIls Ed
Konetchy and other stars in action
on the field.
James, it was said,s had wired
Weegham asking to be taken into
the Federal League 1t was stated
here today James declared he signed
a. three year contract with the Bos-
ton Nationals only after he had re-
ceived what he said turned out to be
deceptive Information regar ding the
financial strength offtFle Federa1s.
James's contract with Boston, was
said to call for $4,000 a year for three
years He signed it after he had de-
clned an offer of $4,000 a year from
the FederaIs, it was stated.
Information was given out that the
big pitcher has made repeated efforts
lately to get contract from the
local Federa1s. It was said that three
messages came from him yesterday,
but President Weegham refused to
negotiate until after the Sherman
law case has been decided.
It was rumored here that by get
ting ssPoIT Perritt,s signature to a
Giant contract, the Federal League
is planning to turn its guns on the
New Y oHIz club.
The Feds were none too pleased
over the double hurting stunt of
RUDE Marquard. but now they are
touched to the quick by desertion of
ssPoll'' Perritt. They are. in fact, as
mad as hornets and want to fight
back.
It is rumored that Federal League
sleuths are already on their intri-
cate way to Marlin to spy on the
Giants camp, and will seek to do
some flirting with both regulars and
rockies.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
LEW WENDELL FROM WATERBURY
MAKING GOOD WITH GIANTS
St. Louis Owner Says He Wouldn't
Have A Nut Like Rube
Vanguard

Hans Washer signed his 18th an
nua1 contract with the Pittsburgh
yesterday. The veteran always
keeps them guessing until the last
minute.
The football committee at the Uni
Versity ofePennsyIvania has arranged
matters SO George Brooke won't have
much to say about coaching the foot
ball squad ssBSs'a Dickson will have
charge OF the actual work and will
he known as field coach G. s. Whar-
ton will coach the line and Harold
CASTOR is to boss the scrubs. Brooke
will have the name of head coach
but that's about ALL He has a con-
tract which cannot be broken.
Pitcher Marty McHa1e is anxious
to get on the New York American
difference all winter. He wired Man
ager Donovan about returning to the
fold but the manager told him to
see Owner Rupert in New. z ork.
The first important injury Of the
training, season happened at Macon,
Ga, yesterday when Outfie1der Ma
gee fell during practice. He tore a
tendon in his right arm and may be
out OF the game for several weeks.
- After months of diekering, George
Whitfield utility man of the Boston
Braves. has consented ito be traded
to the Philadelphia Nationals. He
and Inhelder Dugey were snapped
for. Magee. Whitfield wanted a boz
nus of $4,000 to pay him for the
worlds series money he might lose
and he probably compromised by
taking an increase in salary.
The Atlas i've which furnished
HifaI~i
bons Tuesday night will play the New
York State stars in New Haven
March 4 q. Jake. Fuller is in charge
of the New Workers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
BRICEzLEY WILL
COACH FOOTBALL
AT JOHNS HOPKINS

Cambridge, Mass, March 4-Chas.
b. Brick1ey, Harvards football cap
tain for 1914, will coach the John
Hopkins football team next fall The
great Crimson drop kick star has sig
nihed his Intention to accept the
Hopkins offer. but will sign no con-
tract or enter any other agreement
which will affect his amateur status
until he receives his degree in
June.
For two seasons BrickIey was the
star in Harvard football and perhaps
did more than any other man to
place Crimson football on its present
high plane. Last season he was in
capac1tated early through an opera
ton for appendicitis but got in the
Yale game for about five minutes,
scoring one point on kick after
touchdown.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
(BY Wagner.l

Icy wagner #ss4
Lew Wendell, the catcher who act
ed as understudys for Lee Fohl in
Waterbury last season, has made
quite a. hit with writer's who. are with
the Giants in Marlin. Tex. Those
who saw Wendell in action in the
Eastern association were not impress
ed with his ability. He lives in New
York and the chances are that some
friend of McGraws got the youngster
booked for the training trip. They
always need plenty of scatehers in
camp to warm up the big pitching
squad. Maybe McGrasw will be able
to find a job for wendell in the
minors.
Bugs Reisigl, the former New Ha-
ven pitcher. has reported to the San
Francisco club in the Coast league
He was sent there by Detroit
While some club owners are max
ing idle threats, Manager Jack ZeMer
Of Pfttsheld is signing players. He
has received the contracts of Pitch
ers Sherman and Rettig of last year, s
team and also OutfeldeT Hyatt. In
fielder Sabourin, a youngster from the
Montreal City league, has been sign
ed. This is the league from which
Pittsf1eld got Pitcher D11ches1iI.
President O'Rourke declared today
that the Eastern association would
retain title to the Hartford territory
even if Jim Clarlkin does refuse to
start the season It Will he worth
the trouble and expense to get rid
of CIarkin,s' he said. In any event
the Eastern will have club IN Hart
ford. =
Rube Marquard is safe from the
dread posi- bility Of being ba1ished
to ST. Louis as part Of the deal for
Pitcher Perritt. President BrItton
| OF the Cardinals says, II would not
| have a nut like Marquard in nay ball
! club. .
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
CLYMER TO MANAGE
TORONTO AND DONOVAN
FOR BUFFALO LEADER

Buffalo, n March THE
franchise Of the Buffalo International
League club passed into the hands of
its new owners yesterday with the
approval of President Edward q. Bar
row. The sac, 900 stock is now owned
by more than thirty individuals, all
residents Of this city
Patrick J. Donovan. manager of
many National League teams, has
been selected as manager by Presi-
dent Simon.
President j. y. McCaffery of Tor
onto international League club signed
William j. CIymer. as manager of the
Toronto team for the coming season.
C1ymer, whose home 1t at Wilkes
barre, Pa, managed the Buffalo In
ternationals last year
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
THE STATES.

Today marks the anniversary of
the organization og the District of
Columbia in 1871 and of number of
State and Territorial governments On
March 8, 1917, the Territory. of Ala
bama was formed out of the country
east of what is now Mississippi, and
two years later Alabama became a
state of the Union on the third
of March in 1915 Florida took its
place in the sisterhood of states, the
country having been ceded to the
United States by Spain in 1919, for
which Spain received $4,000 On
March 5, 1849, Minnesota Territory
was established. its western boundar-
les being the Missouri and White
Earth rivers Minnesota had pre-
viously been a part of the territories
of Indiana, Upper Louisiana Michf-
gan, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin On
March 8, 1863, Idaho Territory was
constituted, having been set apart
from Washington Territory. This
date is also the anniversary of the
recognition of the independence of
Texas from Mexico by the United
States in 1897.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
WOMEN PLAY polo IN
CALIFORNIA RESORT

San Diego, March 4-Hor the first
time women participated yesterday in
a polo game on the Coronado Field.
The score was 3 to 81
The players, who are prominent So
cialIy in their home cities in various
parts Of the country, handled their
mounts and ma1lets with great skill.
Miss Elfnor Sears of Boston, and
Miss Louise F1eischmann, of Cfncin-
natl, playing against each other
were the stars of the contest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04
EN- c. TO
HOLD NEXT BOXING
SHOW IN CASINO

The Emblem members have
e oNfTg permit for his month and
ne engaged 4Ile services OF Match
iSstl 81 iii11ns 20 arrange
Nszeiss card The show win probably
STA gea he Casino on Thursday
es ening March %. but ths date has
net been dednIteIy decided upon.
7fatchfnaker Williams is now 1ookina.
4 &, the boys and ri II be ready to make
al announcemei1t sometime next week
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04

About twelve Thousand men and
boys are thrown out Of work by the
closing OF the Delaware g Hudson
collieries IN the wilkes Barre, Pa, sec
ton.
The House committee on the judi
ciary voted to drop the proposed Inn
parchment proceedings gainst Fed
eral Judge Aston G. Dayton Of Vest
Virginia.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04

Farmer want Ads. one Cent a Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04

n Raster custom Wooaens
NEW LYFORD BROTHERS SEE
W East side and West E@
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04

Totals SIS 465 ISL q
Game tonight: Crane co, IS
Batchellers.
Dispatches received al. the State De
parement from Vera Cruz now State
that 20 persons were killed In the blow
ing up Of the mexican gunboat Pro
greso.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-04

Bugs Refsigl, the former New Ha-
ven pitcher. has reported to the San
Francisco club in the Coast league
He was sent there by Detroit
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19

behind the barbed wire fence which she
has strung along her German and Bel
gian frontier. That fence is like the
dunes and diSes with which she keeps
out the sea.
Its strands alone separate her from the
theater Of the great conflict. On one
side is peace; on the other war. with no
mountain barrier. not hill between and
often nothing but a village lane.
This. however. is only the first. not the
best defense of Holland. She would fight
fire with fire at the frontier. But II she
should fail to stop it there she would
next try to put it out with water.
have spoken Of the cleverness Of Hol-
land in taking advantage of her disad-
vantages. She made the floods that fain
would submerge her win her liberties for
her. She opened the sluices. drowned out
the Spaniards. and the Dutch took Hol-
land" On the other hand, the Belgians
on higher and dryer land. continued in
subjection 200 years longer.
The deterrent effect Of fire hose on
street mob is well known. The Dutch
have found the same weapon equally
eficacious against an army with banners.
And they are better prepared now than
ever to turn the hose on an invader.
Back in the middle Of the country.
stretching ninety miles from the Zuyder
Zee to Dordrecht. runs Hollands famous
water line" There her engineers have
provided the means of suddenly inundat-
ing section after section. which they
have carefully separated like the water
tight compartments of a ship. This Is
the last and strongest reliance Of the
Dutch.
Covering the German Flank.
Yet not the barbed wire fence, with
the ill-trained Dutch army behind 1t.
nor that water line" has been re-
quired thus far to save Holland from
the fate of Belgium. AS the Germans
advanced from the Rhine in their
close against her frontier. But their
columns bent to clear the little corner
Of the Dutch province Of Limburg.
which runs down in front Of the Bel
gian province Of the same name. Not
a rod Nof Dutch soil was trespassed
upon.
why was one Of the Kingdoms OF
the Netherlands left inviolate while
the other was violated? The Dutcn
were spared for the same simple. mil!-
tary reason that the Swiss have been
left in possession Of their neutrality.
Belgium offered the str aightest line
and . wide enough front for the ad-
vance. Switzerland and Holland.
therefore. II left neutral. would cover
thu" German flanks without trouble or
expense to Germany.
The Swiss and Dutch armies are a.
well as drafted into the service Of the
Kaiser without cost to his treasury.
They protect his communications and
thereby relieve just 20 many German
soldiers for offensive operations.
The neutrality Of Holland performed
another highly important service for
the German army II has kept the
Schelde neutral. because the mouth Of
that Belgian waterway Hes wholly within
the Dutch kingdom. Hence. England
could not send her naval ships mp the
neutral schelde. where their big guns
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19

arbitrarily created her kingdom for his
brother Louis. With his fall. the House
Of Orange returned. and it8 princes since
have reigned as kings rather than stadt-
holders.
The great crisis through which Holland
now is passing finds a princess on the
throne Of Orange. the one lone queen in
world Of war. The superstitious might
view this as an augury Of evil. For the
fate of Holland has not been fortunate
when it rested in the hands Of woman.
After 500 years. the Dutch still sigh
over the sorrows of their good Queen
snatched her scepter and fastened upon
their stiff necks a foreign yoke. But
still worse was in store for them under
the reign Of another woman. when by a
the Hapsburgs gained title to Holland.
and next. by a marriage with the
daughter of Queen Isabella. they brought
the rebellious province beneath Spanish
mained under the government Of two
Hapsburg women. acting as deputies for
the monarch; and then Charles sent
Prince Of Orange to govern the Neither
lands.
This family quickly became as Dutch
as the Dutch and the leader Of the ma
ton in it's long war Of liberation. But
by no means the least Of Hollands mis-
fortunes was the marriage Of one Of her
Orange princes, William III. to Princess
Mary of England. For while the hus-
band ruled the Dutch. William and Mary
together ruled over the English. and
they sacrificed the vital interests of Hol-
land to those Of her rival on the sea.
For twenty-five years now Holland has
had a queen. And Queen Wilhelmina's
only child being a girl. presumably
queen will succeed her on the throne.
But that does not alarm the Dutch
man. For he 10 master In his own house.
While paying due respect to the simple
and virtuous woman who wears the
crown of william the Taciturn and fnd-
ing as much fault as they choose with
her German husband. the Dutch are none
the less republicans for having q titular
sovereign who reiEns but does not rule.
The Mouth Of Germany.
Beset on all sides by the war. Holland
has troubles enough without consulting
the omens Of history or going a-borrow-
ing. The most insupportable thing about
q great war il not what the combatants
do to one another. but the evil they IN
fiict upon Innocent and hslpless bystand-
ers.
Perhaps no neutral country more
affected than Holland By this war. It u
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19

could have defended Antwerp And Ant
werp fell.
Dutch neutrality also serves both
the economic and military interests OF
Germany. For the ports of Holland
and Scandinavia, in spite of the vigil
ance Of the Mistress Of the Seas, are
vitality useful to the empire.
The Road to the Rhine.
Dutch neutrality offers no temptation
to the Germans. but England and her
allies may yet feel strongly tempted by
it. Their one chance to avoid the heroic
land. across which runs the shortest
and easiest road to the German flank
and to the Rhine. II they are ever going
to dig OUT the German feet like rats
in a hole as Winston Churchill said.
where will they find better digging than
in Dutch soil?
In the great war 100 years ago Hol-
lands neutrality quickly went up in
smoke and she became Englands
bridge-head for British expeditions to
the Continent. II she should be drawn
would have to expand nearly 800 miles.
There are arguments with which the
Dutch might be persuaded from their
neutrality, other than those spoken out
Of the mouths Of the 15-inch guns Of Q
Dreadnought.
Already they show an increasing un-
easiness as they see the Germans set
tling down in Belgium. They remem-
Der that the Kaiser's foreign minister,
Herr Won Jagow. while insisting a year
ago that Germany was sincere in her
announced purpose to retire from Bel
gtum at the end Of the war. declared that
the empire could not annex that country
without encroaching on Holland.
The Dutch still believe this Ia true,
even II they have come to doubt the
pledge. They know that. as q German
province, Belgium would be an undesir-
able neighbor politically and that. as a
German port. Antwerp would be a most
unwelcome rival commercially.
Besides q second bite at the cherry
would take in Holland as well For Ger
many never has been any better pleased
to have her at the mouth Of the Rhine
than the United States was to have an
other nation at the mouth Of the Mis-
sissippi.
slippery Footing.
Philip II cried out that the Neither
lands were the nearest to hell Of any
ish empire helplessly foundering in the
morass Of the low countries. To Ma
poleon Holland was only the mud Of
French rivers, and he sent his military
machine. like q steam shovel. to scoop
It up.
But when the last day Of reckoning
came for his empire It was In the Meth
erlands that he met his Waterloo. And
there he saw the Belsians and the Dutch
army.
Today the Netherlands are as near the
inferno as Philip saw them 800 years ago.
For Belgium IL In the very depths Of
the hell Of war and Holland between the
devil Of German militarism and the deep /;
sea of Britain's maritime despotism.
But let the conquering empires beware
the fate Of their predecessors. They
stand IN slippsry placrs.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19

less windmills and compel them to pump
out the rain they bring.
When We see them thus getting the
better Of the elements we well may
wonder after all If anything really does
beat the Dutch Consider these peo-
curses into blessings.
Holland chains the waters that come
to drown her and makes them do her
work for her. They are her messengers
and carriers. They are her washer
women, scrubbing her until Dutch clean
illness is the standard test throughout
the world of that shining virtue which
ia second only to Godliness. They
breathe upon her mismatic disease and
destruction. but she deluges the germs
in their native element. They seep
through her dikes and leave her only a
bog to stand on. But out of it she digs
the peat to keep her dry and warm.
Nothing comes aniss to the Dutch
the dog. the pest Of the slothful East
and the idle plaything of the rest Of
mankind. and make him haul their
products to the canal or the market.
A Republic with n Crown.
Such a resourceful and self-reliant peo-
pie inevitably are republicans. even
though they maintain a throne and
crown. A leg that stands in a wooden
shoe cannot be very supple in its hinges.
The essential repubhcanism of this peo-
pie is clearly reflected on the canvasses
of Dutch art. While contemporary mas
ters in other lands were portraying kings
and prelates. great ladies and great gen.
tlemen In their fripperies. Rembrandt
was portraying burgomasters and ship
builders: Franz Halls was busy with fish
ermen and tavern loungers: Gerard Dou
with spinning women: Paul Potter with
bulls and cows in the pasture, and Ruys-
dael with ships and windmills.
The art of other countries lives in the
portraits Of princes and the frescoes Of
palaces and cathedrals. But the Dutch
galleries are crowded with nameless i'm
mortals like Rembrandt's Man in Ar
NOR" Portrait of an Old Woman" "old
Man with a Stick "old Man with
Beard" or Halls Portrait Of Man with
a SLOUGH Hat
A Woman ON the Throne.
Royalty is but a shadow in Holland. 1t
was as q republic that she won her inde-
pendence Of the Spanish Empire and en-
circled the earth with her conquests. She
did reward her Washington. her William
Of Orange. or william the Silent. by
making the post Of stadtholder heredi-
tary in his family. But she withheld
iinsiy honors and stubbonly chung to
her republican character until Napoleon
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not only that she has to maintain 3oo. .oot
soldiers for her defense and care for
nearly as many more unbidden guests,
but she produces little and must live by
the commerce which the war has de-
moralized.
Holland is the servant Of other nations
and dependent on them for her livelihood.
But with her employers at war, naturally
her employment is precarious.
1t is the fortune of this strange land
GUM. their great rivers. the Rhine. the
Schelde and the Meuse, running through
Holland to the sea. On the other hand.
she is England's wharf on the Continent.
Thus it was that Rotterdam and Am
sterdam became immense and prosperous
warehouses and the Dutch the express
men. the draymen Of the ocean.
But today the rivers that flow down
from warning lands are no longer crowd
ed with barges. and Hollands seagoins
ships have to run the gauntlet Of Ger
man submarines in the North Sea and
British cruisers in the English Channel.
It must be seldom that a Dutch skipper
succeeds In steering between the Scylla
andlCharybdis of those rival menaces to
the freedom of the seas.
The Burdens Of . Neutral.
It is the normal state Of Holland to be
in peril Of water. but now she Is in peril
as well of fire, the flames sweeping
around her borders and threatening to
break through and engulf her. With
anxious eyes she saw the smoke curling
to the August sky as the German army
blazed its way through her twin king
dom in the south.
While she watched she saw swarms of
burning city. Suddenly 100000 refugees
were cast upon the bounty Of a little
nation Of s.ooo.o 900 people. And through q
year and more the Dutch have had to
feed. clothe and shelter tens Of thou
sands Of helpless people without a home
and without q country. One charitable
society alone has had as many as 10000
homeless Belgian children in its care at
one time.
Not only the unarmed populace in the
war zone. but the vanquished defenders
of Antwerp also took refuge in Holland.
And these. together with straying Ger
man soldiers and English sailors seeking
haven from torpedoed wrecks. she has to
keep interned and guarded in great
camps lest they violate her neutrality by
re-entering the combat.
The Dixie Agatnst War.
Like community close BY the patch Of
4 great forest IRE whose flying brands
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
The Dixie Agaiast War.

Like = community close BY the patch Of
. great forest IRE whose flying brands
an the air. she has called out her army
In its fun war strength TO- stand guard
The Washington herald., 1915-09-19
Trials and Perils Of Holland

The Stransest of All the Neutral
Lands Is the Wonderful Little Re-
publican Kingdom of the Dutch.
Which for Good Reasons the Ger
mans Spared When Belgium Was
Invaded. but Which Still Is Beset
by Grave Dangers and Weighted
with Heavy Burdens.
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ANY violations OF the contract were to
be- reported by the postal clerks in
charge OF the substations where the mall
was received to the superintendent OF
mails. IL was the duty OF Cadigan to
open these complaints. record them In a
book and require the company to an
swer them. If the answer or excuse was
not satisfactory the matter was turned
mitte,l the report to Washington. where
the postmaster-General fixed the amount
of the fine and deducted II from the
company's compensation.
Cadigan. il Is charged. had been
secretly on the payroll OF the Postal
Transfer Service since February, 1914,
and in that time had destroyed 5000
complaints against the company, which
would have cost II at least 10000 in
fines. Cadigan. II IL alleged. received
from s2J to $50 a month for this. II is
said hat he Mt first held back reports
and later falsifed the records on his
books to make IL appear tina the com
pany had made satisfactory answer to
the complaints. thus preventing the re-
ports from ever reaching Washington.
Then, IL Is charged. he found II more
effective 10 destroy the reports i'm
mediately upon receiving them. failing
TO even record them In the books.
More sensational allegations concern
ing the company's methods OF increasing
its income are expected IL the Federal
Grand Jury takes up the case.
During the past year or so the Postal
Transfer Service has extended it's bust