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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-26


Washington 100 100 0o1---3 8 8
Batteries; James and Htanage: Gal
liza. Harper. Ayers and Williams. Um-
pires Wallace and Evans,
White Sox Win.
Philadelphia, Sept, 2b.--Chicago
took two more games from the Ath-
letics today. winning tho opener 8
to /. ana the final setto. 6 to 8. Joe
REM held the Mackmen to three hits
IN the fret game.
The second game was battle be-
tween Faber and Harry Weaver. a
local boy. until the eighth inninS,
when the latter weakened and allowed
/ four hits and three runs
First game:
Score by innings: r. H. e.
Chicago 49,. 021 Dol 2ol--s II
Philadelphia 100 600 000--l 3
batteries: Benz and Schaik; Ray
Majors and McAvoy. umpires:
o Loughlin and Hildebrand
Second game:
Score by innings: r, H. f.
Chicago 100 01o e30--5 10
Philadelphia 900 100 100
Batteries: Faber ana Mayer; Weav-
er and McAvoy. Empires: Hide
brand and OIoughlin.
Honors Divided
| New York. Sept 25--Honors were
evenly divided today by New York
the first, s to 5, and the Yankees an
nexng the second by count OF
/ to ].
First game;
Score by innings; r. II. f
Cleveland o06 600 ooo--s +;
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-26
PILLS DRAW CLOSER
To COVETED GOAL
Ladder BY Defeating Chicago
Cubs In Eleventh Inning.
RAVES DOWN PIRATE CREW
Brooklyn Dodgers Triumph Over Gin
cinnau Reds. Winning by s to 4
Count--Giants Send Cubs In Cellar
By Defeating Cards.

Chicago. Sept. 25.--The Phillies
drove another nail into their cham
pionshtp ladder today when they took
an eleven-inning game from the Cubs.
D to A. The Cubs tied the count
in the ninth when williams doubled
and McCarty knocked homer.
Iavender's wiidness and a sacrifice fly
won the game for the Philies in the
eleventh.
Score by innings: r. II. E
Philadelphia
001 200 100 o1---5 10
Chicago -. 200 900 Q02 00--4 3 2
eleven innings.) Batteries: Dem
aree and Burns; Hoff, Vaughn,
Lavender and Archer. Umpires,
Quigley and O'Day.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-26
Herbert In Form.

st. Louis. Sept 25.-The Giants
turned over eighth place to the Cubs
by defeating the Cardinals today. s
to 3. They hit Doak hard in the early
innings and Robertson's single scored
two of Sallee In the fourth Her.
bert. a recruit from the International
League, was tight In the pinches
Score by innings: r. II. f.
New York -. 200 800 o00---5 10 3
ST. Louis $50. 200 oi0 o00---3 8 3
Batteries. Herbert and Doom.
Doak. Sallee and Snyder. Umpires
Byron and Ortiz -
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-26
Braves Get Another.

Pittseurg, Sept. 25.--Boston defeat
ed Pittsburg in the last game of the
season here today. TO .. Harmon
was forced to give way to Mamaux In
the third and Tyler was also taken
out for Hughes in the same inning
Score by innings: r. H. E.
Boston ....... 1913 ol0 o00--5 o
Pittsburg 49,. Dol 0l0 O0o--2 s 2
Batteries. Tyler, Hughes and
Whaling: Harmon. Mamaux, Slattery,
Gibson and Murphy, Umpres. Klein
and Emslie
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-26

The fall pastime Is with US once
more. The curtain was strung up yes
terday afternoon when the Union
Theological Seminary and the Rich
mond Light Infantry Blues staged the
initial football struggle Of the local
season.
The game yesterday is but the hrst
of number of good games that will
be played at the local pastiming
grounds this season. There will be
contest at Broad Street Park every
Saturday until the last one in Novem-
Der, making a total Of ten In all.
There Is also the big football game
between the University of Virginia
and Carolina hero Thanksgiving Day
and the usua, prep-schocl encounters
once a week.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-26

Next Saturday afternoon at Broad
Street Park the Blues viii meet Coach
Dobson's Richmond College Spiders
This annual struggle between the two
ancient enemiee Is always looked for
ward to With much interest. Up to
the time Coach Dobson assumed
charge Of athletics At Richmond Coll
lege. the Blues were not performing
much OF feat to administer the
Spiders a druhhing. However, Coach
Dobson has put more pep" and foot
ball sense into the Richmond College
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
The Safety Oyster.
lNeM York Sun

Announcem that oysters are hereafter to be regulated by the pure food law in order to prevent the dan ger of typhoid fever is only another improvement in the estate of the bivalve. For the past decade there has been a constant tendency to re- store the condition of the American oyster to what it was when it's great reputation was made.
 For the oyster as a delicacy has passed through evil days. Ten years ago it was entirely negligible as an article of food The tasteless and Dulpy article advertised under various attractive and native names possessed none of it's fabled flavor. Sometimes the cooked oyster possessed mini- mum of it old-time chara cter, but our native hor d'oeuvre was passing al- together out of favor when the inn provement set in.
 The importation of them from deeper waters, the willingness of the dealers to put on the market a savory and well favored oystcr rather than one that had been fattened in fresh water. these were important steps in the gradual restoration of the oyster to it's former importance among American dishes. Nowadays, thanks to the recognition of it's taste as it's most important characteristic rather than it's size or appearance, it is al- most restored to it's original high place in the opinion of epicures
 Now that the beds are to be regu larly inspected there is the satisfac- ton of freedom from all danger al though in the opinion of some au thorities this was always exaggerated.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
ZeppelinS in Peace.
Washington Post. )

A recent interview with Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin presents that distinguished inventor and man of world affairs in a most pleasing light With the clouds of war lowering over himself and his country his is still able to cast a cheery and hopeful glance into the future. By his own confession, the gigantic airsnips that bear his name have a greater mis- sion to perform than that to which they are now being mainly devoted Predicting the day when the trans atlantic voyage will be made through the air, he hopes to live to pilot a dirigible of his own making to the shores of this country on a mission of peace.
 How much better this than all the dreams of empire! What an improve ment over the view that makes of the Zeppelin an engine of destruction is the happier outlook which sees it pursuing it's unhindered way across the vast sea, upon which it will be privileged to look down at the slower argosies of commerce, representing the enterprise of all nations each fly ing it's own flag without fear or favor, Doubly to be desired is the coming day, when doing instead of undoing will be the rule of the peoples
 Back of Count von Zeppelins ex pressed desire appears to be the fur ther incentive of it's entire prac- ucability. For sustained flight under the most adverse conditions the. di rigibles are in no wise at a disad- vantage with the aeroplanes. As a means for the transportation of numerous passengers or appreciable, amounts of material. they are far ahead of their rivals in aerial naviga- ton.
 The ingenuity that has been ex- pended in aking of the dirigibles a menace to the enemy will find a bet ter and probably more successful field in it's applications to the arts of peace.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
Buying a House. (Newark NeWS.)

I have bought a house. O, the fool that I am. I have bought me a house like an innocent lamb. Many years I have dreamed of a house of my own, many years have I schemed with one object alone. Now dwell ling is mine, with a lawn and a tree: yet the sun doesn't shine, not ray can I sec for my kind, loving friends one by one come along, with look that portends something awful. Is wrong, and their eyes fl! with tears and they waggle the head, and they chill me with fears till my courage has fled.
 I am feeling quite gay in the house l rossess. You are stung," they all say, "You're a sucker. no less. The foolish man buys him a house, is their claim, "while the wise, knowing guys, they inhabit the same. You are up to your eyes in a quagniire of debt, and the tax rate will rise fifty notches. you bet, and your house will run down for the want of repair, you will land on the town with your bur den of care. You will never know rest, never more will you sing, you'r be ground and oppressed by the keep of the thing You will have it to paint, you IIuSl paper It, tOo' Sou llldN live, and you mayn't--very few ever do: you will have it to shingle to keep cut the breeze, you'll have nothing to jingle excepting the keys Pretty neigh borhOods change. as d season may prove, and it wouldn't be strange if you wanted to move, but you can't sell houSe-no one ever could yet and it goes to the bows when you put ii to let; and the hangers are hard when a mans in their power and a man has to guard lest the lawyers de- vour; and the building-and-loans, they are risky; and dear-oh. the fellow that owns leads a hunted career!'
 I have bought me a house, I had deramed since a boy of the fun of that house, of it's comfort and joy; but my friends come along with their st orieS of woe, and I know I'm in l wrong. I am ruined, I know
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
Marketing Farm Produce.
(Farrn and Preside

Under present methods of market ing and distributing farm crops, it | costsl $7, 900, 900, 900 to get $6,00O, ,OOO,- 900 worth of farm products to con- sumers. The shipping of farm pro- ducts in carload lots and selling, them straight from the car door to the consumer frequently offers a way out of this difficulty. Just how this may be done is demonstrated by the ex- perience of some Texas farmers de- scribed iii part as follows:
 When the farmers who comprise the Winnsboro Truck and Fruit Growers Association of Winnsboro, Texas, harvested their 1912 sweet po- tato crop they found before that all the marketing centers were over stocked with potatoes, and fifty cents per bushel was the best price that re- liable commission houses would of fer, despite the fact that potatoes were then retailing at from $2 to $3 per bushel in the same cities.
 ''Fortunately, however, this associa- tion had an enterprising manager, who decided to quit the beaten track and place the potatoes of his growers directly into the hands of the con- sumner.
 Some hundred miles to the west of Winnsboro lies the great black land belt of Texas, which is ideally adapt ed to cotton growing, but this black soil will not grow potatoes. The man. ager decided to market his potatoes there if he could only get in touch with the demand. After careful con- sideration he sent man directly in- to this territory to locate the de- mand. When a lilSely-looling dis rt,4i 4iyf, of the truck growers would book ad- vance orders for potatoes, and when enough weer secured to insure the disposal of a carload the information was communicated to the home office and a car was promptly loaded and sent out. Then when the car arrived at it's destination the potatoes were delivered direct from the car door to the buyers
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24

if applied to the working Of the fuh crew law. The funds which It re- quires the railways to spend aboVe what is sufficient for the work to be done would provide the public with these desirable facilities: 20o steel Cars or eighty locomotives, 67,000 tons of steel rails. block signals for Soo miles of track, or the elimination ol sixty-five grade crossings
 Public opinion would not counte- nance any appeal to it for underpay- ment of wage earners in order to supply the pubic with railway facili- ties. Still less would public opinion allow any increase of railway accom- modations at any sacrifice of safety or unemployment of any needed workers. But these conditions are not the present case. The S2,000,000 which the law orders to be spent in New Jersey and Pennsylvania alone IS ordered to be wasted. It is equivalent to the income upon S40,0OO,o0o ln- vested in the service of the publle. To that extent it is d waste Of the public wage paid to the railways. It is the public which is defrauded, al- though the railways spend the money. If the railways are to overpay or overemploy. and also to discharge their duties. they must find another 4O,000,000.
 The alternative is that the laws re- duiring the double expenditure should be repealed. The enactment of the law is more a discredit to the legisla- ture than to those who secured it's passage for selfish reasons, on false pretense of the public interest. The rrattar ic better understood now and publicity ought to protect the public in getting full value for the wage it pays.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
Windy Boston.
(BC stOn Herald.)

Boston, though some of our citizens may be unaware of the distinction, is one of the Windiest places on the map. The weather bureau does not find any city that has a higher average hourly velocity of the wind-eleven miles an hour. There arc several other places that equal this average rate-Buffalo St. Louis, Dodge City. ka., Abilene, Tex, and Havre, Mont.--but none where the wind keeps up a higher speed the year around. Even Chi cago, the "Windy city" has an hour ly average of two miles less than Boston, Nearer home, in New York, the hourly average of the wind s movement is the same as that of Chicago, nine miles, and in Portland it is only five miles.
 There are a score of cities where the wind has attained a higher yeloc- ity than the Boston record of seventy two miles, but that is another story. The thing that counts is the daily and hourly average through the year. east wind that makes Boston one of the pleasantest and most healthful places in the country for summer residence, but it has it's serious dis advantages when the air is full of dust, as it usually has been in spring Many thanks for the present effort to lessen this nuisance.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- office.
Louis XIV. Furniture.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.D )

Great StatelinesS and an air of splendor are the predominating notes of the Louis XIV. furniture. But there is a certain hard and uncom- fortable air, too. It is certainly sub stantial and rather low, with massive columns and pilaSters supporting the tables and heavy Straining rails on the chairs that are often crossed like an X.
 In the early part of the period the chairs were nearly all straight and very severe in line, but the curved lines continued to gain ascendency. They triumphed altogether at the end of the reign.
 The prices of Louis XIV. furniture are exceedingly high, but many excel lent limitations are on the market to- day. The bureau of Madame de Maintenon, of walnut with ebony inlay, is a triumph of beauty. Bur- eaus of those days sometimes had their tops covered with what was called a carpet" Their carpets were made to fit exactly, and were fashioned of leather, brocade serge, velvet, tin or damask. The bureau of Madame de Maintenon boasted q cover of red leather for every day and one of red damask and gold moire for holidays and Sundays
 A drawing-room furnished in the Louis XIV period will always look stately and beautiful. Certain mod ifications may be made in the sever ity of the style, and the little finish ing touches will give the air of inti- macy so ply lacking in furniture of that period.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24

already piled up. And if the ocean year will go out from our shores all through the spring and into the sum- mer. For there is no question now that the war has not decreased but has increased the worlds need of cotton.
 While foreign spinners have been taking 5.000,0O0 bales of our gigantic crop of 1914. American spinners have taken more than 3,500,O00. They are nc more done with buying supplies never will be done so long as cotton is relatively cheap-than the foreigners. Yet give the foreign markets only 2,oOO,OOO bales more in the few weeks Before the spring blossoms come, with only 5O0,000 more for our own spin ners in the same time and there will have gone, say by the first of April, II 900, 900 bales of that unprecedented crop of more than 16,000,000 bales. What is left then, with the outside world still calling insistently for it, will soon disappear, as if the South had indeed set a torch to it!
 Nobody will be astonished now if, before the next cotton crop comes to market, we sell abroad more than 10,- o00,O0 bales. Some students of present economic and trade conditions will be surprised if the cotton crop of 1914, half a year ago deplored for it's prodigiOus volume, does not yet add another quarter of billion dollars to our foreign trade balance for this cal endar year of 1915
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
Seeing Chicago on the Way. Chicago Tribune.

A campaign to be heartily com mended is that of the Chicago Asso- clatlon of Commerce with reference to the commercial, cultural and social opportunities afforded by the San francisco fair. Hundreds of thou sands of men and women, boys and girls, will pass Chicago on their way to or from the exposition. It is our business and duty to induce them to see Chicago first" The benefits will be mutual and manifold The stran- gers will thank us for our efforts and become friends and propagandists of the Chicago gospel
 Only, it is our business to make proper arrangements for the hosts of visitors and see to it that they see the best our city has to give them. Many think that Chicago is another name for the great stockyards, but it is another name for a good many other things as well. Let us show them the other things-the university grounds and the Midway, the parks and playgrounds, the Art Institute, the Auditorium, the symphony orchestra
 at work interpreting, say Brahms or the passionate Russians, the many social settlements, the world famous department stores, the Field museum, the City club, the School of Civics and Philanthropy, the made land" north of Lincoln park. the drainage canal, the new Tuberculosis sanitar- ium, and so on.
 Of Chicago's faults and shortcom- ings our friends in the east and south hear good deal. Of Chicago's mar vicious progress and achievements they hear little or nothing. To see these is to understand the spirit of the west and of America, to catch glimpses of American idealism and genius Many men have treated Chicago as a way station; some of them have learned to be ashamed of that attitude To see Chicago first and spend few days here is to make sure of an in- spring introduction to the Panama Pacific exposition.
 The visitors who may stay out of curiosity will stay longer-if we'll guided-because of real interest and fascination, and they will leave with gratitude and pleasant memories.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
Public and Private Wages
(NeW York Times.)

What a railway pays it's employees is a provate matter between them only up to a certain point. When the wages paid to the employees be- come so excessive that they impair the utility of the railway to the public ther earises conflict between the private wage and the service for which the railways are paid by the public. The railways are public utilities, hired by the gift of franchises and the loan of funds to perform certain duties. They are just as much bound to earn their wages as the employees, and they are deficient in their public duties if they allow their resources to be depleted If they are able to per form the work required of d certain train with five men, they are bound in the public interest not to hire six This principle runs into large figures
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
The Cotton Crop Going.
(NeW York Press

In the first two months of the war, hen virtually no cotton was going abroad, the favorite calamity howl in this country was that the seasons huge crop of more than 16,00O,O 900 bales might as well, for all it was worth as market commodity, be burned on the southern plantations.
 At the close of last week very nearly 5,000,OOO bales of cotton had been shipped to foreign ports. But tEat only begins to tell the story It is the brilliant chapters now in the writing which are to complete a mar vicious history of Americas greatest cotton crop and the year of the world greateSt war.
 If cotton exports were negligible for part, and trivial for all of the time up to the end of October, there has been no week since the third in November, with the single exception of the holiday period from Christmas over New Years, when we have not shipped abroad very considerably more than 200, 900 bales. And by February the volume had so risen that in the first three weeks of the month the ex- ports were at an average of more than 100000 bales a week.
 In that same recent period the gain over the corresponding period of last year was at an average of more than 100000 bales a week
 No man can declare at this moment exactly what effect visible blockade of Germany by the Allies and an in visible blockade of Great Britain and Trance by Germany might have upon our foreign commerce. But nobody doubts that if any of our products go abroad unhampered. cotton will be at inc ton of the list. And everybodv knows that the demand for our cotton is; expressing itself more strongly to- day than it was expressing itself be- fore we sold and shipped the five million bales which already have sailed across the seas.
 continued export volume like the 400. 900 bales a week thus far in Feb ruarv would take little more than . month to add another 2,00l,O00 bales to that export score of 5,O0e,0OO bales
New Britain herald., 1915-02-24
THAT SJFFTELD MURDER,

It is interesting, if not always true,
 that some strange stories are often
 brought out in the investigation of a murder. One Wilson killed a man named Mum in Suffield last Sunday and at the time it was said that the fense, it being claimed that Mum had threatened Wilson with an ax. An investigation mas shown the lat ter weapon to be under the stove and the opinion is now being expressed that as the floor was covered with ashes that the ax could not have out the ashes having been disturbed The conclusion seems to nave been arrived at that the ax did not figure in the murder at all and that the mo- tive must be looked for in another quarter HaTe it is.
 When Wilson used to work on the roads he had a habit of quoting from the Bible, Mum kept teasing him about it and also for his praying around the house. It is thought that Wilson had prepared to leave the, house in Suffleld Sunday so as to es- cape the annoyance caused by Mum, that the latter started bis criticism again and that Wilson shot him. This theory has been published in thc Springfield Republican as well as the statement that Mum had borrowed small sums of money from time to time from Wilson and the case is be
 ing gradually built upon the theory that Wilson killed the man because of the annoyances he had been sub jected to rather than because of any fear that he would be or had been attacked with an ax. The dcvelop- ments are so foreign to the story as first given out that it looks as if the murder may have been another com mitted in the heat of passion. Will
 son admits the crime, the only point about which there is any question be- ing the motive. Rut the novel fea- ture about the Whole case is that the 1 man should have been annoyed over 1 his inclination to quote the Bible and | that he may have. resented it by talk = ! ing the life of his alleged tormentor.