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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-05
PERSONAL.

Donald Dixie of Brown university, a
member for the last two seasons of the
Brattleboro baseball team, is visiting
friends in town.
James Bruten, who had been spend
ing a vacation at his home in Rutland,
returned last night to resume work at
the Brooks House as night clerk.
Miss Bessie L. Farnum went to Wor-
cester, Mass, Saturday on business
and to visit her brother and wife, Mr..
and Mrs. John A. Farnum, over Sun
day and Monday.
Paul Convey, who spent some time in
town with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. f.
Z. Covey of Western avenue has gone
to Pittsburg, Pa, before going to Pan
anna, where he has position.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dettinge1
have moved to Philadelphia, where
| they lived before coming to Brattle
| boro. Mr.. Dettinger was employed
while in town in the Carpenter organ
factory.
Paul s Emerson. who is a legal. res
idcnt of Greenfield, Mass, is one o.
the five census enumerators chosen af
ter an examination to take the census
IN that town. He will begin his worl
this week. Mr.. Emerson is well quail
lifted for the task, having taken tn
statistics of Vernon and Ludlow IN TIN
state in 1910. He has worked as proc
reader in the ATorey printing establish
ment in Greenfield most of the tim
two years and during the past fey
weeks has filed a similar position 4
The Reformer Office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-05

Falls. The other teams are going to have
baseball. Without Brattleboro in the
league Bellows Falls may have to take its
medicine, or go without baseball. With
Brattleboro in, the conditions not
much different. Berger of Keene is will
ing to play in any circuit, and apparently
Newport and Greenfield are.
The next meeting of the league will be
held here Tuesday, April 13 That is the
day county court convenes and precludes
the possibility of President T. Z. OBrien
being present, and it also is the date of
one of the biggest local talent shows Bel
lows Falls has had in recent years. But
somebody will have to 90 to the league
meeting. The fans here will be invited to
a meeting to be held next Saturday even
ing Conditions will be explained to them
and they viii vote on what they wish
done The baseball bazaar will be thing
of history and it will be a little easier
to decide whether they care to continue
the task Of raising funds If the fair is a
success, the vote will be different than II
it proves to bring in less money than Is
now expected As in Brattleboro, it Is a
matter of money and loyalty
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-05
Brattleboro Pays in Four
Years $4,000 Besides
Gate Receipts
GRAND TOTAL NOT
FAR FROM SIS, 200
Economy Practiced Each Alternate
Year, by Which Token Season of
1915 Should Be Successful - Many
Players Likely to Want Jobs.

Viewed entirely from the financial
side, Brattleboro has been quite liberal
in the matter of baseball since the
Twin State league was organized.
Something over $50, 900 has been spent
for this sport in town in four years.
OF this amount. $4,000, in round fig
ures, enough to buy and equip good
ball field, has been in the form of con
tributions, pure and simple, and an
average of over $4,000 has been paid
for admissions to Island Park. In 9th
er words, Brattleboro has averaged to
spend 5000 a year for four years to
support team in the Twin State
league.
Only in the first year, 1911, was the
game self supporting here, although in
1913 it was nearly so. The directors
that first year raised by subscription
81 455. The weekly salary average
for players, not including the manager,
was $l77.95 and this included the keep
ing of G. II. Ivers on the payroll after
he broke one leg. The team won the
pennant and the directors turned over
TO their successors practically all of
the subscriptions collected.
This was such highly satisfactory
showing that ne one could he found in
Brattleboro who believed that league
baseball could not be conducted profit
ably here, or at least without excessive
expense
Deep in Hole in 1912.
1t was not many months before that
fairy vision was dispelled. The man
agement of the team which represented
Brattleboro in 1912 started with a bal
anee on hand of 4 400. Not only tina
was used, but the team went into tn,
hole in addition 10 the amount Of $3.50.
Is, a grand total Of $2,29l.lS spent TO
baseball above gate receipts in tina
brief season of - weeks.
Another board Of directors tackle,
the proposition for the season OF 1913
They raised q subscription Of 81 50.
and when they completed tho season
they had found it necessary to use onl,
$l49.S6 of that amount. They the1
voted to pay off the indebtedness lef
them from the year previous and final
ly turned over to the management 70
1914 the sum of $942.l9 as Il nest egg
The speed with which Brattlebor
baseball eats up the coin of the realr
IS eNluenccd by the tact that with Il
most 81 600 in the treasury to start tn
season last year, on July II, when ther
came 4 change in management, Their
was less than $3.50 in the club treasury
But that speed was nothing con
pared to that with which money wa
spent during the next few weeks. TIL
season closed Labor day and the trea'
ury was not only busted but was shol
$l,157.2l Considering the grade c
ball played by the Rrattleboro tear
last year, there are many who believ
the players received all they wei
worth and some besides.
But Brattleboro never quits, and tw
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-05
Possible Combinations.

Naturally. the present condition of af-
fairs was fruitful Of much speculation and
guesses as to what could be done under
certain conditions The following is a list
of Twin State league possibilities the COM
ing season.
Newport, Keene, Bellows Falls, Brattle
boro, Greenfield Northampton.
Newport, Claremont, Keene, Bellows
Falls, Greenfield, northampton.
Newport Claremont, Keene, Brattle-
boro, Greenfield, northampton.
Greenfield, Northampton, Newport,
Keene, Claremont, Greenfield.
Newport, Claremont, Keene, Bellows
Falls, Brattleboro, Greenfield.
Newport, Keene, Greenfield, Northamp-
ton.
Newport, Claremont, Keene, Greenfield.
Readers of The Reformer are at liberty
to form other combinations lad hbitum, =
but they should remember that the Moon,
Venus and Fort Worth, Tex, are barred.
Newport Wants Claremont.
| Newport has every reason for wanting
/ Claremont to come into the league. 1t is
within few miles of the home of the
Polar Bears and there always has been
rivalry between the two towns. This
would mean better crowds for Newport
| Since the Bears have been IN the league
the Claremont fans always have rooted
against Newport, whether they were at
tending a game in McElwainville or Bel
lows Falls Claremont would be a good
town for Bellows Falls, providing the
hackers of team there could be hogtied
to a respectable regard for a salary limit
1t has been some years since that tow
has had real ball club, although the ma
tives of the burg swear by their Sunse
league and stay out until after supper ;
good many nights during the summer t.
watch the wooden mill boys put it on TIN
shoemakers, or whoever it IS that play
the game up there. Being without expe
rience in spending the cold months in dig
ging up mamma for directors to spend Oh
telephone calls and pitchers with broker
wings during the summer months, there
always danger that @Claremont might year
for the experience of dropping into til
habit of overpaying its players. To g
back to Newport, it is barely possibl
that Murphy and the others might nc
object to dropping 'Hamp if necessary t
get Mont in One might almost say
is more than barely possible that such
result would not cause much loss of slice
among the inhabitants of the north cour
try
There you have it. As matters stan
now it is up to Brattleboro and Below
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-05
BRIDE DIES IN FIRE.
Burned in Toledo Hotel - Many
Guests Unaccounted For.

TOLEDO, OHIO, April ). = The body
Of Mrs. John /. Frye of Adrian, Mich,
was recovered late yesterday from the
runis of the Niagara hotel, which wa>
destroyed by fire in the morning. Her
husband is missing, and it is believed
was suhocated or burned to death. They
were marred three days before and
were on their honeymoon
The hotel sheltered at least 200
guests, many of whom have not been
accounted for. Police and fremen con-
tinue search of the ruins Vernon
Gates and his son, Hal. of Chicago were
burned so badly that they arc not ex-
pected to recover.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-05

President George F. Sherman Of the
Brattleboro team said this morning that
lie had understood that Mr. Fenton would
attend the meeting and that Mr.. Fenton
had understood that President Sherman
would go as Mr. Fenton would not be
able to leave Brattleboro until afternoon
Mr.. Sherman said that Brattleboro would
have a representative at the next meeting
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
RED AND BLUE CHIDES
THE PENNSYLVANIA
U. of P. Daily Publication Is
Charged With Lack Of Ag-
gressive Leadership

The Pennsylvania, the undergraduate
daily newspaper Of tho University OF
Pennsylvania, is taken to task in rather
vigorous editorial fashion by tho Red and
Blue, the illustrated monthly publication,
for It's failure to be a real, aggressive
leader OF University thought and action,
instead OF a mere chronicle Of events.
Here are some OF the "lost opportuni-
ties" which the Red and Blue thinks the
Pennsylvanian should have taken up and
settled:
First The problems OF the present foot
ball season.
Second. The absurd story printed by
Sensation monger newspapers" OF huge
damage and general lawlessness" in the
poster fight. etc.
Third. putting the cost of Athletic AS
ISOLATION books on the tuition bills.
Fourth. Resenting the action of the
Athletic Association In Withdrawing the
Pennsylvanlan's complimentary seats In
retaliation for its editorial on the football
situation.
Fifth. The question OF tho amateur
athlete"
"The Red and Blue believes" remarks
the editor that a college daily paper
should be more than mere chronicle
The daily alone possesses the power of
driving to finish those things which It
advocates. Punch Bowl and Red and
Blue can point out editorially various
phases of University life and urge i'm
provements, but to the Pennsylvania be-
longs the ability to see that these i'm
provements are carried out"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
BOYS GOOD CONDUCT WINS
Twelve Get Certificates Tonight From
Juvenile Court After Proving
Worthy of Probation

Twelve boys, who have been on proba-
tion by the Juvenile Court, will feel the
spirit OF Christmas time when. in Nickel.
vey Hall, at 42d street and Lancaster ave-
nue. they will receive certificates showing
that because OF continued good conduct
they have been discharged by the court
Each certificate will be signed by Judge
Raymond MacNeilie, who has charge Of
the Juvenile Court
The boys who will be discharged are
william Shanahan, Charles Cahlll. Albert
Magliano, Leo Hills Anthony Scully
Charles Callahan, william Mammelc, Ed
ward Murray, William Murray, Maurice
Duffy. Joseph Moriarity and William
Clark. Those who will be placed on the
honor list are Philip Reiss, Harry Ash,
william Mulhern. Catalan DcChico, VIII
liam Rogan. Harry Blair, william Cor
nelly and John Gavin.
There will be an entertainment. gifts
and refreshments for the boys John
Dennis Mahoney, head of the English de-
partment of the West Philadelphia High
SCHOOL, will tell the boys some things they
ought TO know.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
PLAN IMPROVEMENTS
IN WASHINGTON SQUARE
Association Will Beautify Park
by Planting of New Trees
in Spring

Washington Square is to be beautifled
when spring comes along by the planting
of new trees to replace those planted
there in the days after the Evolutionary
war and which now show signs of de-
cay, after more than century and
quarter of exposure to Philadelphia
weather. This is the plan of the Wash
ington Square Improvement Association,
which is cooperating with the city in
improving the appearance of the park n
many ways.
The association was formed two years
ago for the specific purpose of improving
the square, once the site of prison for
British soldiers and n potter's field for
the burial of the dead. Since the associa-
ton came into being the park has been
slowly transformed and in the last few
months worlSmen have been engaged in
strengthening out and beautlfylng the
walks, through the square.
Plans have been made for removing all
the old trees which have fallen into de-
cay. There are 1l6 varieties of trees in
the square, and during the last few days
Raymond Pond, city forester, and WILL
lam +. Dreer, an expert horticulturist
have examined every one of them to
decide which should be replaced.
Included in the membership OF the
Washington Square Improvement Asso-
citation is virtually every person whose
property faces the square. and more than
Si5O0 Is available for the work proposed
Cyrus II. X. Curtis is president and
Edward Box is treasurer of the associa-
tion. Other active members are Charlie
magne Tower, j. Bertram Lippincott G.
Colesberry Purves, Eli Kirk Price, George
*. Johnson. e. NJ, Johnson and the Rev.
Edward Yates Hill.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22

Massachusetts Bay Of Colonial times, to
which the action was transferred when
political reasons made the censors pan
the work as originally written. For there
is an assassination in it-and assassina-
tions set bad object lesson to ardent pa
triots in the DAYS of unrest during which
Verdi wrote his opera. What Is virtually
the Covent Garden version was used, and
IL relieved the stage Of tho palpable alb
surdities OF the changed location. The
reason for the absurdity Is not that the
scene was changed to Massachusetts, on
the stern coasts OF which balls were In
congruous, but because the change, as
hastily made by Somma, Verdi's librettist
was not n complete transference of locale
and atmosphere. IT Is hypercritlcal to
say that composer and lbrettist were
guilty of anachronism on the score that
balls were unknown in Colonial Massa-
chusetts, as Is often charged by histori-
cally uninformed persons. AS matter of
proof they may be referred to that real
New Englander, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
who wrote a story in his "Legends OF
the Province House" about Governors
Ball, precisely what Somma used in his
book for Verdi
Mr.. Caruso had good support. Amato
was the Renato, who ls chief OF the con-
spirators; Melanie Kurt the Amelia, who
causes the trouble through her good looks
and her trust in potons prepared by
witches; Maria DuChene the brewer OF
spells as potent as those Of the Gilbertlan
John wellington Wells, and Giorglo Po-
lacco, the rhythmically illumnative con-
ductor OF the pronouncedly Verdan melo-
dies of the composers early period, In
which tune counted for all.
The outstanding artistic figure OF tho
performance was the personation OF
Amato, who sang with faultless technique
and romantic fervor. and brought con-
. vlnclng Illusion to the drama of his roo.
Nine. Kurt, suffering from grip. recov-
cred from her lrst-act hoarseness and
sang volumnously If somewhat stridently
later i'm the evening. Edith Mason's page,
Oscar was n piquant and attractive
figure.
As for the half dozen reasons why The
Masked Ball' is worth occasional revival.
the other five are that 1t Is quintessenu-
ally melodious! w. II. NJ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
CARUSO COMES BACK;
VOICE GOLDEN AGAIN
His Reburnished Notes Shine
Through Revival of Verdi's
Masked Ball"

Mr.. Enrlco Caruso, who received last
night at the Metropolitan Opera House.
made "melodious moan'-as Shelley
phrases it-not (what you would expect
after hearing his husky endeavors in
I'll Trovatore") that he was losing his
voice, but that he was singing badly the
role of Riccardo. his ringing vocalism in
which Is one of the half dozen reasons
for occasional revival of Nerdfs I'm
Ballo In Maschera." His misgivings the
tenor connded with pathetic shrugs and
much affecting dumb-play in display of
n disobedient 'pomum Adonis,' an ap-
parently CONSTRUCTED trachea and
laryngeal laxity that was distressing to
him He confided them to the invaluable
Mr.. William ]. Guard, who, as well as
penning adjectives about the singers, Is
ever and anon called upon to explain
their colds before the curtain and to offer
soace i'm such tristful moments as that
last evening. Mr. Guard told him to "go
to- or substantially that and then con-
veyed the tidings to the assembled critics
In the pressroom, or such of them as are
devoted to the Lady Nicotine, as well as
the Muse Of Song.
Mr.. Guard said Mr.. Caruso was singing
all right. OF course, he Is paid to do
something like that. But he Is rather
frank at proper times and does not try
to deceive the critics with anything more
deadly than adieCtives. Mr.. Guard spoke
sooth. His distinguished colleague of the
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company has
no cause for worry. Nothing Is wrong
with his tubes or his pipes His notes are
gold again. They are fair barter for the
gold of Uncle Sam, which was exchanged
last night for them. a goodly store of
eagles and half-dittos was turned In, for
the house" was almost capacity"
The sour notes and coarsened tones of
al Trovatore" are forgiven. Operagoers
are reassured that Mr.. Caruso can sing.
Let Mr.. Caruso be himself assured If he
has any lingering doubts after what the
papers say this morning This reporter
of musical functions has not read them,
but is willing to wager on the affirmative
consensus.
AS for the Verdlan opera, It had all the
interest of Italian opera of the old school.
The locale seemed to hover between
the Swedish city of the later middle ages.
in which the plot was originally laid, and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
ACCUSES FELLOW BLUEcoAT
Court Investigating Charge Made by
Policeman Seeking Divorce

Judges Bregy. Patterson and Shoe
into the circumstances of the divorce pro-
ceedings brought by George w. West, n
policeman, against his wife, Catharine
West, in which William II. Frying, an-
other bluecoat, was named correspondent.
The Court decided on the investigation
owing to the conflict of testimony and.
after the hearing. held the case under
advisement.
West testified that he found his wife
and Frying In n compromising position.
Both Frying and tho woman denied this.
Fryllng was acquitted by the Police Board
OF Inquiry some time ago on charges Of
conduct unbecoming an officer. The
Vests were married % years and had
10 children, flve OF whom are living
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
FRANK PETERSON DEAD
Proprietor of Famous "Stag" Cafe
Collapses on Street

Frank Peterson, we'll known in Phila-
celphia and throughout South Jersey as
proprietor OF the Stag" his famous hotel
and cafe, at 3lS Market street, Camden.
Is dead today at his home, 42l State street.
Peterson, who was 81 years old, was
walking home at 2:3O this morning with
James Long, chief of the Water Bureau,
when he suddenly reeled over and col
apsed. He was taken to the Cooper Hos
pltai, where he was pronounced dead.
Heart disease was given as the cause.
Peterson suffered n similar attack a
week ago. but had apparently fully re-
covered. lie was Mason, an Elk and a
member OF many other fraternal organ
ilatlons. He is survived by a wife and
four children.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22

Physicians In the Roosevelt Hospital are
Gaay trying to ascertain If dog that
Dl three little boys last night was mad.
me animal attacked everything in sight
near 9th street and Fairmount avenue
iAst evening and was not overpowered
until Policemen Kelly and MCGOWAN, OF
he .i Sd street and Fairmount avenue sta
uon, threw barrel over it. Then they
procured some cholorform from drug
sore and killed the animal. The boys
IN the hospital are Abraham Abrahams,
wears Years old. of $50 North Sd street; Behler
nneuerman, 10 years old. of 93l North
randolph street, and George Brunckle,
years old, Of 7T North American street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22

Watch for the new two-cent stamp
1t may be n case of watchful waiting, as
the stomps. or rather the new stamped
envelopes. are not expected at the Phila-
delphia Postofflce for more than a
month. George Washington tired, per-
haps, of having his profile framed In an
oblong on two-cent stamped envelopes; ;
at all events, the new stamps Will bo
round, but otherwise will be almost iden-
tical to the old ones. The new stamped
envelopes are being issued at WASH
ington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
Mother StrangIes Daughter

CINCINNATI, Dec. 22.-Mrs. Minnie
Schmitz awoke her husband, George
Schmitz, n carpenter. early today and told
him she had killed their daughter, Ger
trude. II. Schmltz found the child had
been strangled with one of his neckties
The police say Mrs Schmitz told them she
had killed Gertrude because the latter
had been wayward.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-22
THE KITCHEN GRoe SHOP.

An article in a magazine says:
"The home is the proper place for
man to do his drinking. He should
not spend his money in the saloon,
paying high price for the liquor he
gets and helping the owner pay his
enormous license fee. Here is the
proper way for a married man, adj
dicted to the use of intoxicating liquor,
to do his drinking. Begin by giving
your wife So with which to purchase
gallon of whisky. Then patronize
the wife exclusively when you want
a drink. Pay her Is cents glass for
each drink. Every one knows there
are approximately sixty-nine drinks in
a gallon of whisky. When the first
gallon is gone your wife will have So
to put away in the bank and enough
besides to buy a second gallon of
liquor to start in business all over
again. Keep this up for few years
and soon your wife will have enough
money to give you a proper burial,
should you die, and to buy herself a
house and lot, educate your children
and marry a decent man."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-22

4
condition and, through the Sacra-
ment of Penance, to lead it back
to its former allegiance to the
Most High. The Holy Ghost is the
shield Of the soul in temptation,
it's consolation in distress, it's light
amid the darkness Of passion s
hour, it's guide in the midst of the
mazes of an earthly existence
made tolerable only by eternal
hope.
If the, soul could not have re
course to the Holy Ghost for the
strength to rise above the waves
of passion which seek to engulf it,
| it. would be miserable indeed. He
is the rock of hope in the shadow
of which is safe anchorage from
the elements that leave ruin and
destruction in their wake. Upon
Him, the. soul must call if it would
be saved: Him it must adore and
love: to limit must pray with q
perseverance founded on, and sus-
tanned by, the promise made by
the Savior to His Apostles in days
of old: 81 will send you another
paraclete, the spirit of truth, who
shall abide with you forever. y