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New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
MIGHT JUST AS WELL KEEP STILL IN HUB"
Highly Educated Conductors Can
 Argue Till Blue in the Face

NO, it is impossible for me to per-
 Just consider the hazard, the possi-
 bllities of a casualty. Mathematicians have approXimated the odds in favor Of death as seventeen to three Of
 course it is within the realm of possi-
 bility that you might ascend to terra firma unscathed but such is not prob able. Only last week at lecture I attended at the Massachusetts Inst- tute of Techn nology I learned of the
 great danger from our third rail. No,
 I am sorry gentlemen, but I cannot allow you to throw your lives away.
 Electricity, as you are perhaps aware, is one of the most deadly agents known to mankind and I fear me your blood would be on my head
 should I be so reckless as to open the doors."
 The above was the speech delivered by a conductor in the new Beacon
 street subway in Boston yesterday
 It was presented in a calm, impassion-
 ate manner, indicating the heights of education reached by the blue-coated attendants on the trolleys in the pie
 and bean belt. But it broke it's shafts
 against an impenetrable desire to get out of the subway, said desire being
 in the possession of number of base ball fans from New Britain. The con-
 tingent was led by Dr. H. T. Bray former health officer. The New Britain men argued and argued. The | trains for New Britain left at 5:50 and 5:52 respectively and they had been
 waiting in the subway for nearly an | hour while the Boston Elevated Rail-
 road company had sent to Harvard l for a deck of professors to come out 1 and diagnose the ailment of the car ] ahead, which refusel to move.
 The Hardware city IT CT, left Braves ! field about o'clocN and were sailing 1 along pleasantly through the "sub" when the car entered state Of coma l The car ahead was stopped. The | delay was not considered of moment
 until the minutes grew into quarter l hours. Then the men from Connecti- cut became nervous and began to con-
 suit their watches. The conductor
 was besought to allow them to walk | the tracks to the next station But l what was the use of arguing with a l man who could show you you were | wrong from standpoints theological and physiological, and according to
 the rules of international law. Coun- | sel for the respondents withdrew the
 case just as the conductor was dip
 ping into his pocket for his Harvard sheepsllin.
 It was a tight squeeze. The trolley
 remained stalled in the subway for nearly an hour. The local men were the only ones who didn't enjoy the
 delay. All the others, being Bostonese
 to the backbone, spent the time pleas-
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
WILSON IS SHIFTED
 BACK TO OLD JOB
Yale Captain Sent to Quarterback
 Smith at Right Half

New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. 12.-Yale began another reorganization of her football forces yesterday afternoon. The first move was the transfer of Captain Alec Wilson from right half back to that of quarterback on the varsity. He has been playing at half back all season, but the failure of Thompson and Bentley to develop quickly has necessitated @ shift, and Wilson was sent back to the position he played last season.
 Smith, whose playing during tue past two weeks has been satisfactory to the coaches, took Wilson's place at right halfback, Charle Taft, whose gain on forward pass Saturday. made possible the only touchdown scored against Lehigh, was sent i'll at left halfback instead of Scovil, who Was unable to report because of reel tattons. Harry LeGore was at full back. a place left vacant by the in jury. of Guernsey.
 Whether the shift of Captain Will son to quarterback will be permanent depends entirely upon whether an- other quarterback can be developed, the coaches says off a man can be found to fill the place satisft ctor- fly the Blue leader will return to half
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

1 back, where his bulk is an asset ra-
 ther than the handicap it is in the
 quarterback position. At either post
 however, he can play a defensive po-
 sition back of the rush line with equal effectiveness
 Wilson's work in signal practice yesterday afternoon was sharp and snappy, and the backfield worked smoothly and well, considering the fact that it was the first time this
 particular combination has worked to- gether.
 Fears for Guernsey. None of the men on the hospital
 list appeared at the field. Baldridge and Black, both of whom had ankles
 twisted in the Lehigh game, will not
 be able to play for several days, i'b was said, but Belts and Thompson
 who had their knees twisted, will be out shortly. Otis Guernsey, who suf- fured an injury to his shoulder, was
 not able to report. He will have n X-ray taken to ascertain whether the collarbone is cracked or the shoulder
 tendon pulled. If the latter proves to be the case Yale will be minus her
 best drop-kicker indefinitely. Durfee. who has been on the Var sity squad two years and has shown
 rapid improvement this season, took
 Blacks place at left guard. It was i his first appearance on the varsity. c. Sheldon was unable to report on ac-
 count of recitations, and Gates took his place.
 The varsity lineup was: Left end, Moseley; left tackle, Gates; left guard, Durfee; center, White: right guard; J. Sheldon; right tackle, Osgood; right end, Allen; quarterback, Wilson;
 left halfback, Taft; right halsyac ok, Smith; fullback, LeGore. Another evidence of the football re- organization was the announcement that a number of graduates have
 been asked to come back and help round the team into condition. The first to arrive, it was stated, would be
 Jim Rogers, '97, football captain and
 star tackle. He will help train the Yale tackles. Fudge" Heffelfinger, of Minneapolis, also may return late in the season.
 This invitation to graduates marks change of policy, for last season no graduates returned to help coach. with the exception of Tom Shevlin, who spent only two days at New Ha- ven.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

antly discussing Ibsen, Keats and the effect of color tones on the brain of an ant. Just as the gates at Track 15 the New Britain delegation arrived and the day was saved.
 But their troubles had only com- menced. J. J Walsh, the well known restauranter, had engaged two seats in the Pullman for h'mself and Or. Bray. But when thek not there the seats were occupied and no amount of argument could persuade the dusky autocrat in charge of the car that two seats had been reserved. He grinned until his face looked like the bay window in hotel with all southern exposure. Like the Japanese, he was sorrow for them.' Yes, he was very sorrow, but the gen'rmen could see he couldn't do a thing except express his regrets because the seats had been sold.
 Among those who saw the game yesterday in addition to pr. Bray and MT. Walsh were Daniel Collins, John Moore, James P. Sullivan, John C. O'Brien, Jr., John F. O'Brien, Fred O'Brien, P. J. Riley, Edward C. Schieblin, Dr. Andrew J. Barker, John l.. Smith, James J. Naughton, Sealer Of Weights and Measures James J. Welch, James, Daily, Frederick Nc Enroe, Thomas Crowley, Frank O'Brien, C.. A. Bell, Thomas w. Murphy, Frank A. Reilley, B. w. Brown, Charles Johnson and Arthur Taylor
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

From his place as a twinkler in the Armament of motorcar drivers, Gil Anderson became a fixed star when he won the first of the series o~ five races for the Astor challenge cup over the new Sheepshead Bay Sped way. He drove his white Stutz car the $50 miles in 3:24:42, equivalent to a speed of 102:60 miles an hour, and faster by 74-1O0ths of mile practically three-quarters of a mile than the worlds best competitive rec ord, that made by a Peugeot car in the Chicago Century challenge race of only 100 miles. Anderson's effort
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

whether Alexander could work two days in succession if called upon to double up, the Giant veteran gave this view: Tn my own case would much rother work two days in sucv cession than to work two games with one days rest. There are times when that extra day stiffens up mans arm, whereas if he went back in the next afternoon no soreness would have time to develop.
 Any number of pitchers have worked two games in one day by pitching double headers. Rube Mar ouard pitched twenty-one-innins rame-both Marquard and Adams d!d, and both were as strong at the finish as at the start If a pitcher can pitch two games in one day, why not two games in two daysf l don't think. Alexander would lose any part cf his effectiveness by working two cays in succession, and it wouldn't surprise me much to see him turn the trick. If the series starts going against the Phillies, Pat Moran will
 more than probably rush Alec back in. Or if Boston should win three lames to the Phillies' two, Alec would almost certainly pitch the last two"
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

netted him the first money prize
 $20,000 and several hundred more in accessory prizes, a portion of which he, of course, shares with his mechan- anician, c. w. Scott. Tom Rooney, driving a Stutz, finished second, forty seven seconds behind Anderson, with Ed O'Donnell, in a Duesenberg, a distant third. Here are some of the facts in connection with the race:
 Winner, Stutz Gil Anderson) time, 3:24:42; average, 102:60 miles per hour. Second, Stutz (Tom Roohiey); time, 3:25:29; average 102:19 miles per hour. Third, Duesenberg (E. O'DonnelD; time, 3:39:55; average,
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

95:45 miles per hour. Fourth, Due senberg (P. Henderson,; time, 3:47- 26; average, 92:21 miles per hous Fifth, Ogren (Tom Alley)! time, B. 4S:21; average, 91:97 miles per hour. Sixth, Delage (Carl Limberg); time, HOOPER; average, 84:22 miles per hour. Seventh, Sebring (Ora Haibe) 1; called off the track after completing 296 miles Eighth, Mulford Special (Ira Vail and G. Sebold); called off the track after completing 256 miles. Value to the winner, $20,750; number of starters, twenty; number of cars finishing, eight. Attendance (official fgures) 97,000.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
TRIBUNE BOWLERS.

The Tribune bowling team will journey to Southington Thursday night to roll against the team of that town. It will be the opening night for Southington's new alleys A large roofing delegation will leave on the 7:O7 trolley. The following men make up the team: Nyack, Capt Pluecker, E. Leupold, Richter, Ander- son, C. Erickson, r. Bretschneider All wishing to accompany the team should be on hand to catch the 7:07 trolley
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
;|0(sP 3}aHr }!:! T:
 N.Y. GuAamd Rice

Those who figured that baseball was an expiring pastime have another guess coming. Already more money has been taken in than ever before gathered at this stage of a series. The greatest crowd in baseball history has broken past records. Interest has been as keen as 1t ever was before, and the grip of the old game has never been stronger.
 Stands the Test.
 All of which brings up point. There seems to be a general tendency in certain directions to hand baseball a rap at every chance. There is tendency among more than a few to miss no, opportunity to give the game a downward shove Yet no amuse- ment yet devised has ever furnished one third the pleasure or the recrea- ton that baseball in its fifty-year his tory has furnished to too many mill lions to be counted Baseball has Eeen the greatest factor for pleasure and for health to more people than any other two games ever put for ward. Cricket in England has sur vived for centuries, so has golf in Scotland. Baseball, from the point of the spectator, is a game far beyond either Yet by many it is being awarded an early death, when within 2 few years from now it is sure to be more popular than it has even been before.
 Here to Stay.
 You can get the answer to this in the present worlds series. No game IS going to fade away that can thrill the big crowds as baseball has been doing for the last few days. There is no other game in the world that re- | quires as great a combination of speed, power, quick thinking, stamina and team play as baseball requires. To say that baseball is upon the verge of collapse means nothing else than to say American sporting blood is be- ginning to run sluggish and that the nation as race is sliding backward. 1 Baseball has it's defects in certain quarters. It has several details that must be remedied. 1t isn't always run as it should be run. But this is no weakness for the game itself, which still stands above them all, and W hich deserves the support of all who care for a public institution that has rendered far more than its share of good to the big majority.
 Another variation of sport in its uncertainty Is being shown in the present series. This was supposed to be baseball's off year. Tn many ways it has been. Public interest was to be below past standards. Probably it has heen. Yet the players will divide more money than any other world series has ever given them, and for the first four games the attendance will be we'll beyond that of any other four games ever played.
 Case of Alexander.
 "Why should not Alexander work four games in seven days if called upon?" queries Arthur Irwin. ''I re- member we'll enough when Radbourne pitched three world series games in three successive days and only allowed enc run, the result of a high peg made over first base. He was as strong in the third game as in the first, and could have easily worked four games in a row without a days rest"
 Matty's Opinion.
 Mathewson adds an interesting feature to the point. When asked
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12

All of which sounds reasonable enough. It is a cinch that if Boston ever gets the series to 3 and in her favor she will meet Alexander in the sixth game. and if she wins, this will catch the Big Boy from Philadelphia in the seventh. The only thing that might upset this arrangement would be that Alexander had pitched and lost the fifth game.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
WORLD SERIES FIGURES.

Played at Braves Field, october
 II, 1915.
 ( Official attendance .. 42,Soo
 Total receipts ....... $SS.l9l.Oo
 } Players share ...... $44,92S.l4
 Club owners share .. (equally divided) .. 29,94s.T6r
 National Commission S,31s.1O
 } Total .............S Ss3.lel.00 Total receipts for first three games:
 Official attendance ... 75,94s
 Total receipts .......$ls6, 2s6.1O Players share .s1Oo. .5sL44 \ Club owners share...
 (equally divided) ... e7,oe3.Os National Commission 1S,62s.6o Total .......... .Slob'zo " J The paid attendance of the third game last year between the Braves and the Athletics, played at Fon- way Park on October 12, was 35,52O, and the receipts were
 $6S,S6s. The players will share in the receipts of the first four games. The winning team will receive 60 per cent. of the players share and the losing team will get the re- mainder. The .Phillies have twen- ty-three eligible players and the { Red Sox have twenty-four. On the basis of 60 and 40 per cent division each member of the win winning team will receive s1,17I- .S7, and the members of the los- ing team will receive $74s.70 of yesterdays game. Today's game is the last in which the players will share.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
WHY DE-. JAMESON LAUGHED
Really Amusing That Offended Indivio.
uai Should Make Such a Com
plant to Him.

Sir Leander Starr Jameson still
better known to thousands as Doctor
Jim, has been predicting a great
change for the better in South Africa
as result OIL the stirring events that
have been taking place there.
A good story is being told about the
days when Doctor Jim" was a minis
traitor of Rhodesia. One of the otfieials
under him was very pompous indi-
vidual who resoiced in a high-sounding
doublebarreled name He was very
much upset because his colleagues
would ignore his real title and persist
in clubbing him ''Muggins.
At last he could stand 1t no longer.
and went straight to his chief before
whom he made long and indignant
complaint
Il think you will find" said Doc
tor jim" that you only get called
this name when you are inclined to
put on side"
Put on 'side'!" spluttered the 9th
er, now thoroughly angry Il sin
cerely hope, sir, that you do not give
countenance to people calling ME by
this unseemly name?"
Well to tell you the truth, my
dear boy" replied Doctor jim"
laughing genially, Il am afraid that
invented it myself"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
ONLY TRANSMITTED BY MILK
Man Cannot Get Foot-and-Mouth Dis
ease by Eating Meat, Declares
Doctor.

That the foot-and- mouth disease can
aot be transmitted to human beings
by eating the flesh of diseased ami
mails, but can be contracted by drink
ing unboiled milk or butter made
from the milk of an infected COW,
Is the statement made by DR.. E J.
Danek of Chicago. who has studied
the disease.
The symptoms in man. he says,
are as follows: There is fever; this
is usually low, but may reach as high
as l04. 1t may be accompanied with
chill, loss of appetite, pain in mus
cles, back and head, with a cramplike
pain In the abdomen Nausea and
vomiting are common. The primary
seat of infection is the mouth The
disease when. uncomplicated is mild
Its average duration is two weeks
from the onset. Severe cases may
last six to eight weeks
This disease is transmissible to
man through unboiled milk or butter
and cheese and also directly from the
saliva or contents of the vesicles of
injected animals gaining entrance
through abrasions of the skin. 1t is
especially frequent in children and in
those whose work brings them in con-
tact with diseased cows. 1t appears
that this disease cannot be trans
mitted by eating the flesh of infected
animals"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
Oh, Ye GOOD Old Times.

That the big New York hotels are
not homelike or comfortable is the
plant OF western Pennsylvania man
who makes frequent trips to New
York. Il suppose this is New York's
idea OF what a regular hotel ought to
be like" said the visitor as he looked
disdainfully about She gold and gilt
trimmings OF the music room at the
Naldorf-Astoria. But let me tell you
there are lot of things missing right
here. Where are the big. comfortable
chairs fellow can sit in while he
rests his feet on the brass rail and
looks through big plate glass win
dow at the crowd passing on thu
street? Maybe you think your regu-
lar hotel dweller doesn't miss that
window, but you re wrong And these
steam radiators, all gilt and silver or
bronze or whatever color they happen
to be. Suppose you think they make
a fellow who is thousand miles from
home feel so comfortable and home
like as the old round iron stoves that
used to decorate every hotel lobby?
NO stree. Give me the old-fashioned
hotels every time New York Times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
HIS UNLUCKY DAYS OFF"
Fireman Breaks Ankle. Leg, Foot.
Arm, and Head in Five of His
Rest Periods.

His left ankle broken when caught
with several other fremen under a
falling wall at the big fire in Ceilings
wood, Capt George Wade recalled at
the Homeopathic hospital, Camden,
that all five serious mishaps he has
sustained while in the Camden fire de-
partment were met in responding to
calls on his day off, says the Philadel-
phia Record. Such was the case the
last time. He just dropped in at fire
headquarters to see how things were
going when the call for aid came from
Collingswood. OF course, he could not
resist the temptation to lead his COM
pany.
On another OF his days off in 1907
he was thrown from the engine and
suffered a compound fracture of the
left leg. At another time, in a like
accident, also on his day of. his right
foot was crushed At still another
time, Captain Wade suffered a frac-
ture of his left arm by a fall at
fire at Eleventh and Cooper streets.
Fighting a fire at the Graves varnish
plant on another day when he Just
happened around, he sustained a con-
cussion of the brain when struck by
a falling cornice.
Still it's all in the game" said the
captain, forcing a smile.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
Goldsmith at Edinhurnh.

The roll OF honor in the book, ga
nous Edinburgh Students" includes
the name of Oliver Goldsmith-which
may surprise many people, the fact
that he had at any time any associa-
ton with Scotland being little known,
says the London Chronicle 1t took
several universities to complete the
education of Oliver Goldsmith and Ed
inburgh was one of them. After he
graduated at Dublin he spent three
years in verse writing, flute playing
and in more or less perfunctorily
studying law at London and medicine
at Leyden and the Scottish capital.
He was in Edinburgh somewhat too
soon TO have met either Burns or Rob-
ert Ferguson, both of whom would
would have been men after his own
heart. Each could have piloted him to
distinguished and di.ceputable boozin
kens
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
ACCOUNTING FOR OLD MAIDS
Various Reasons Why Girls of Home
burg Are Living Lives of
Single Rlessedness.

They say there. are one hundred
thousand old maids in Massachusetts.
III bet that's just about the number
of Massachusetts young men who have
gone West or somewhere, and haven't
remembered the things they said at
parting as well as the girls did.
We've got plenty of girls in Home
burg who are getting intimately ac-
quafnted with the thirties-fne girls,
still pretty, bright and keeping up
with the world. Young men come into
town and do their best to get on
''thou-beside-me" footing, but somehow
the girls don't seem to marry. At the
root of almost every case there's an
old Homeburg boy Maybe he's max
ing good somewhere, and they're both
waiting until he does Maybe he isn't
making good and is too proud to ask
her to wait. Maybe she's waiting
alone-because some other girl was
handler in the new place. And maybe
1t wasn't a case of wait at all, only the
boy who went away looked better to
some Homeburg girl than any of those
who stayed at home
There's Carrie Moore She's our
prize maid and dresses like a mail
sack full of government seeds, but
they say she was the prettiest girl in
Homeburg when young Cyrus McCord
went to Chicago to carve out his fu-
ture so that he could come home and
marry her. But Cyrus didn't carve
out his future. He married it instead,
and Carrie is almost sixty now, living
alone and getting peculiar, like so
many Of our lonely old folks do
George Fitch in the American Maya
zine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
The Joker.

Apropos of the German spy scare i'll
France and England, Lapsley Wilson,
at a luncheon at Nice, on the French
Riviera, told an anecdote.
1T was at the time" said Mr.. VIII
son. when concrete beds for guns
were being found, according, at least,
to rumor, all over the allies territory.
At this troublesome time an American
in Paris went up to policeman and
said. mysteriously:
psf! Are you looking for German
spies?
Mais QUIZ said the policeman. TAX
ing from under his cape his note
book and pencil.
Then. said the American. go to
the Hotel de Blanc and arrest the
proprietor He's put in at least two
concrete beds there. | know. because
my wife and I slept in EN- last
night Washington Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-23
Swattlng the Fly in Korea.

The Japanese administration of
Korea has adopted a queer but very
effective method of stamping out dis
ease due to the common fly, says the
London Globe, The Anglo-Saxon slo-
gan of Kill that fly" would prob
ably not stimulate the Imagination of
people which regards disease as in
evitable. so the administration has hit
on the idea of buying flies from the
populace. and an illustration in the lat
est annual report on reforms and prog
ress in Korea bears the enticing head
line. Purchasing flies from natives by
government officials"
The report is, however. tantalizing-
ly reticent on a matter of such human
interest as the price per pound or by
the thousand, and the nature of the
local "swatters."