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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
Bill MoKechnie Has Dropped Out Of
sight MysteriousIy.

MEANWHILE there is mystery
HA at the local headquarters Of the
Federal League club. Since the base
ball season closed, nothing has been
heard of Bill McKechnie, the Peps'
manager. p. T. Powers has written
TO him more than once, has told him
about plans for next season and about
the new players he had signed-,Joe
Gedeon and Jim Johnston. Perhaps
the mail nliscarried or else Bill is out
in the woods somewhere on q hunt
ing trip. Anyhow, not line has
been heard from Bill, and p. T..
Powers is wondering what is the
matter with the thirdsacker IT may
be that Bill is worried about his arm
and is not giving much attention to
baseball At any ratio there is a
mystery here which is fascinating.
It is said that Bill Is quite independ-
ent, SO far as the goods of the world
are concerned, and that It would not
take much to make him quit base
ball. He did not report last spring
until few days before the team
started North from its training camp.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
SCHOLASTIC GOSSIP

Staub. the former Bloomfield High
School boy, is expected TO be a con-
sistent point winner for the st. Bene-
diets Prep School track team this
season. Staub, McCraith. Joey and
Nulty make fine material for relay
team.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Prospects for another successful
season in 1916 Is looked for at Bar
ringer, as practically every player of
the 1915 team will be on hand Perry
Foster, Charles Hopkins and Charles
Schneider are doubtful.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Carpenter joined the colors when
war was declared, and has been in the
thick of the fighting ever since He
was first with the signal service, and
twice had his apparatus blown away
by German shells. Later he became
an alltomobile courier on the firing
line. and then was assigned to the
aviation corps in May last.
Carpentier's last important pagilis-
tic achievement was to win from
Gunboat Smith on q foul in London
in six rounds on July 16, 1914.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
Carpenter Decorated for
Brilliant War Service

PARIS, Dec s.--sergeant Georges
Carpenter. champion heavyweight
pugilist of Europe. now attached to
the French aviation corps, has been
decorated with the military cross for
brilliant and daring reconnaissance in
an aeroplane.l
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

J. J. Simmons has secured the prom
Using four-year-old trotter Status,
brown fllIy. a:245s, by Peter Wood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
Feds Not SO Badly on as Tt Might
seenl--They Say.

CSAYS the New York Times:
~ When one delves into figures,
no reason can be discovered for Ban
johnson blowing his horn about the
Federals falling to draw any people.
But two OF the Federal League clubs
lost money. The Brooklyn Federals
lost about 100000 on the season--the
largest amount dropped. They didn't
draw at home or abroad and had a
high salaried club. Baltimore casfied
in about $4,000 to the bad. Newark
broke even because of the. Sunday
crowds. and Buffalo barely got
through.
Pittsburgh, Chicago and st. Louis
cleaned UP a nice pile because the
teams were right in the pennant hunt
until the last day. The Pittsburgh
club got $4,000 for Its part of the
CUTE In the last series in Chicago
apd this is about what the club is
ahead on the season. The last game
in Chicago attracted $4,000 persons.
Chicago made about $4,000 and St.
Louis about $4,000 on the season.
Kansas City just stuck It's nose in
front.
Tho decision by the Boston Ma
tional League Club that in the future
all rowdyism on the team must stop
is a move that will be received with
delight by the fans OF the country.
The Braves made themselves the sub
ject of conversation all over the
country Hast summer because of their
rowdy tactics on the ball field. Man
ager Stallings will have to lend q
helping hand to eradicate the rowdy-
actions of his players before it will
be q success. Many fans were OF the
belief that Stallings was more to
blame for the bad acts of his players
than the players themselves.
Gus Csetz, who lives in this city. has
Just been pastiming for rabbits and Is
back home, after a successful quest.
He chose Wadlung River, Long
Island, for his happy hunting grounds,
and Bert Daniels, former Yank, for a
mate. In one day ne brought down
i've jack rabbits in five tries.
Manager Bresnahan was mum to-
day on the subject OF a reported swap
between the Cubs and the Cardinals.
cozy Dolan, utility man, and Artie
Butler, shortstop. are said to be the
sSt. Louis end Of the deal. The Dodgers
also are mixed up In the deal.
James McGin, a western league
magnate, wants to give good money
for the st. Louis Browns And then
they laugh at the Feds for invading
New York.
Fred Mitchell, the Braves coach,
was referred to as Stallings' right eye
when the Hub team won the worlds
series.
George Stallings' right eye is going
to coach the Harvard baseball nine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
EVERS MENTIONED
AS N. Y. MANAGER
After Jennings Makes Denial
Name Of Braves Second
Sacker Comes Up.
WHERE IS BILL M'KEcHNIE? !?

NTER Hughie Jennings, Fielder
- Jones and Johnny Evers as pos
aible managers of the new New York
Club which will represent the big
town in the Federal League circuit
next year. Hughie Jennings is men
toned as an ideal leader by Harry +.
Sinclair, who stops IN Chicago on the
way East, and, presto change, as IL
by magic, the word is shot over the
wires that Sinclair says he is going to
sign Jennings to manage the New
York Club. What Mr. Sinclair said
Was probably something like this:
I'VE are going to build ball.park in
New York that will make the Yanks
and Giants sit up and take notice.
For a manager can see nobody bet
ter than Hughie Jennings" The
hustling acribes in their haste to get
the story to Gotham took the I'VE
and changed 1t to IT. On this fraii
Foundation the New York papers print
stories about Mr. Sinclair selling his
Newark stock and backing the New
York Club P. I. Powers declared
today that Mr. Sinclair would back
the Pops as heretofore and that no
change had been considered. With
New York and Brooklyn in the
league. Newark should draw better
than ever next year, particularly on
Sundays. Brooklyn will play Sunday
ball in 1915, and Mr.. Sinclair can't see
whe~e the Peps are such = bad IN
vestment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
HoIlenbaek and FelweE Lead as Pear
Possibilities.

IT is a dull football season that d6es
4 not make or break a few coIIes
coaches. BY Dickinson has had liia
fling at the u Of P. and now they are
talking OF reorganizing the entire aFk
tenn and choosing either Bob FoiseIt
the W. and J. celebrity. or Bill tiblsct-
back. FolWell is a graduate 81 PenF
and was the star haifback Of the 1856
team Hoilepbaclx performed around
the same time and WIS an All-Anlef
isan selection in 1908.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
Two DeniaIs Right on the Reef on
Chicago Story.


Chicago Story.
HUGHIE JENNINGS. who happens
II to be In New York. was quick
TO deny that he might lead a Federal
League team in New York. though
they could not get better man than
Jennings He is hustler Of the fiery
type that Mr.. Sinclair likes. and he
is popular In the big town. The Tank
owners in other years tried hard to
land him. That let's out Hughie.
Fielder Jones-well, Fielder has made
good in St. Louis and he Is an Al
leader. Johnny Evers-that is pretty
nearly brand new. Johnny wouldn't
make. bad leader at all. 1t Is figured,
but his nerves are uncertain. The
same dispatch contained an account
of the possibility. of Finley Shepard
being the angel of the New York Fed
eral League Club. This Mr.. Shepard
misunderstanding the story as a5very
frail piece of news at best.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Burton Barring, a brother Of Gene
Barring, who was ON the swimming
team at Barringer High School a few
years ago. is expected to prove a star
amphibian this season. Swimming
candidates at the BarTinser School
will be called out next week
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Johnny wilson. the HaFTison
feafheiweiehf. challenges Carl Heais.
II the latter desires 70 come back.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03
TROTTING NOTES

Seven colts and iillies, yearlings. by
The Harvester. sold for $l,S70 at the
New York sale, and three two-year-
oIds for $3,750.
Allie Lon (s), e:12%. the California
chamRion three-year-old, by Kinney
Lou, Is out of Lady zombrc.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Banty Lewis, the local lightweight
hoxer and kid Boonton, OF Orange.
win meet at the Evening star ofiice
tomorrow at noon TO sign articles for
their ten-round bout
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

The Athletic Association of the
Barringer High School yesterday held
a meeting and elected Bob Dempsey
secretary.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Fred Mitchell, the Braves coach.
was referred to as Stallings' right eye
when the Hub team won the worlds
series.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

George Stallings' right eye is going
to coach the Harvard baseball nine.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

James McGi1l, a Western league
magnate, wants to give good money
for the St. Louis Browns. And then
they laugh at the Feds for invading
New York.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Irish Patsy Cline. the sensational
New York boxer, win meet Eddie
Morgan. Of England, II tic hnai bout
at the National A. c., Philadelphia
tomorrow night.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-03

Johnny Ertle. the st. Paul bantam-
weight. will make his Philadelphia
debut at the Olympia A. A., on Mon
day night. when he boxes Young Dig
gins, Of Philadelphia. in the final bout
OF q bantamweight show.
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
EXPRESS COMP ANIES
 WIN RATE CASES
WILL BE ALLOWED TO INCREASE THEIR GROSS REVENUE 3.s6
 PER CENT.

Washington = The Interstate Com meree Commission decided that tho revenues of the principal express com panies of the United States are made quate. and modified it's former orders to provide additional income.
 The present rates are based on three factors: An allowance Of 20 cents for collection and delivery of each shipment, which does not vary with weight or distance; rail termi- nal allowance of 9 cents per 100 pounds, which varies with the weight, but not the distance; and the rail transportation rate per 100 pounds, which varies with the weight, the dis tance and the zone.
 Tn accordance with the companies petition, the commission modified It's order to permit transposition of the first and second factors, increasing the collection and delivery allowance five cents for each shipment and reducing the rail terminal allowance at the rate of one-twentieth of one per cent pound. As the weight increases the fve-cent increase gradually is reduced, so that on shipments of more than 100 pounds the readjustment will make no change Substantially no commodity rates will be affected. Tn all events any change in the rates will, with few exceptions, be substantially lower than those prevailing when the com mission established the zone system in February. 1914.
 By that means the express com- panies are expected to increase their gross revenues about 3.S6 per cent. The commissions report shows that the net operating revenues of the four big companies have decreased to a deficit of s1,132,S11 in the year 1914 1915, and in the same period operat- ing income decreased s2,449.S63.
 While the financial condition of certain of the petitioners is more fa- vorable than that of others" says the report, 'it clearly appears that as a whole they are operating at loss"
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
ONE SAYS FAULTY INSPECTION
Secretary of Steamship Company
 Locked Up.

Chieage-Detectiyes located and ar rested Walter C. Steele, secretary of the St Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company. He was on his farm near St. Joseph. Mich. when notified of the disaster, and came to Chicago by train. He was questioned by States Attorney Hoyne and First Deputy Su- perintendent of Police Schutler. Then be was locked up for the night. The St Joseph h-Chicago Company owned the Fastland and leased it to the ln- diana Transportation Company to car " the Western Electric Company picknickers to Michigan City, Ind. It was said that the officials questioned Secretary Steele regarding his knowl- edge of the boats dangerous reputa- tion at the time his company pur- chased it, and regarding>w special warning, if any. his company gave 70 the officials of the Indiana company when the latter took over the ship.
 Victor OIander. secretary of the Lakes Seamen's Union, denounced the government inspection of the lake boats.
 "The men to blame for this ealam- ity." said Olander. are George Upler, supervising inspector general of the Federal Steamboat Inspection Service, A. L. Thurman. solicitor of the De partment of Justice, and Edwin r. Sweet, assistant secretary of the De partment of Commerce. l wrote to Secretary of Commerce Redfield last year that the lake inspection service was faulty, and notified other officials that 12 ships had gone down with their crews. The letters were referred to Upler, and nothing was done"
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
STEAMER EASTLAND TURNS
 TURTLE IN CHICAGO RIVER

left side of the ship, as the other steamers drew up the river toward the wharf A tug was hitehed to the Eastland, ropes were ordered cast of and the steamer engines began to hum. The Eastland had not budged, however. Instead, the heavily laden ship wavered sidewise, leaning toward the river The lurch was so startling that many passengers joined the large concourse already on the river side of the decks.
 Ship Never Riehted.
 The ship never heeled back It turned slowly, but steadily toward it's port side Children clutched the skirts of mothers. The whole cargo was I'm pelled toward the sinking side. Wa ter began to enter lower port holes. The ropes snapped off the piles to which the vessel was tied
 For nearly five minutes the ship turned before it finally dived under the swift current, which, owing to the drainage canal system, flows from the lake. During the mighty turning of the ship with it's cargo of humanity, lifeboats, chairs and other equipment on the decks slipped down the slop- ing decks, crushing the passengers to- ward the rising waters.
 Then there was plunge, with a hiss of air escaping the hold, mingling with crying of children and shrieks Of women and the ship was on the bot tom of the river
 Man Acts as Ladder.
 One nan was seen to cling to spike in the side of the wharf while two women and three children stepped up his body as on ladder to safety. He fell exhausted into the river as the last one of the five reached the pier Whether he was lost could not be dis covered.
 Instances of heroism were numer- ous. Boats took rescued passengers to the wharf or to the steamer Theo- dore Roosevelt. In an hour the water was cleared. Those not taken to land Lad sunk or were swirling up the river toward the drainage canal locks at Lockport, H.. many miles away. The locks were raised to stop the current and arrangements were made to take
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
VEGETAP'.E FIDDLER
 WITNESSED DISASTER
MANY LIVES MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED HAD WARNING BEEN
 HEEDED.

Chicago.-Not moro than an hour after the Eastland had turned on her side in the river an aged vegetable peddler rang the back door bell of d North Side flat
 Why. John," said the mistress os the apartment when she answered the call. you look sieki"
 "Seeck!" replied the old man. "Oh, now for days l will be seeek. I see that boat fall over. All those poor womens and childrens-they cry who was to help. and we could not Oh. all my life l see them" and he stumbled down the stairs blinded by tears.
 Many lives might have been saved had the warning by the peddler been heeded. Mike Javanco, 1119 Larrabee street, was driving across the bridge when he saw the Eastland begin to keel over.
 Hey" he yelle4 to the throng in the bow of the steamer almost beneath him. Get off. O'boats tippin' over"
 There was burst of laughter "Gwan!" shouted an eScursionisc, you're crazy"
 Jayanco went on, but almost before his wagon had cleared the bridge the Eastland was on her beam ends and the peddler went back to aid in the rescue work.
 Policeman John Root told of an aged woman who, when he scrambled on the upturned side of the steamer. was clinging to beam in the interior of the ship. He could see her through a port hole and called to her to hang on. He found a rope and dropped the end down.
 Her head sank beneath the water" said Root, but her hand grasped the line. dragged her up, but found to my horror that the port was too small to get her through. I encouraged her to hang on while I got help. but when l returned with men and tools to en- large the opening she was gone. A half hour later when we had cut through the steel walls we found her. @
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
CAUSE OF DISASTER
 IS NOT YET KNOWN
Investigation Is Being Conducted to Determine Whether the Ship Was Top Heavy From Faulty Designing, improperly Ballasted, or Poorly Handled in Warping From the Wharf.

Chicago.-More than 1000 persons, possibly 1900. most of them women and children, were drowned within a few feet of land by the capsizing of the steel steamer Eastland as it was about to leave it's wharf in the Chica- 20 river with 2.500 relatives and friends of employees Of the Western across Lake Michigan. The ship rolled over on it's side in 25 feet or water within five minutes after 1t be- gan to list
 Coroner's Physician Springer de- clared that 1,300 persons were killed, while other estimates ran as high as 1000, but these did not agree with the statement that not more than 2,500 passengers were aboard the vessel. During the day more than S20 bodies were taken from the river and from the hull of the overturned steamer whose sides were cut open with gas flames to admit divers. Severel per sons were taken out alive from the cabins of the ship, after 1t had lain on its side in the river for four hours, but the 300 other persons said to be in the hull are all dead. Seventy-five per cent of the passengers were women and children.
 Under the glare of searchlights. scores of men worked in the hull of the vessel to remove the bodies. The steamer lay at the bottom of the river, one side protruding.
 Cause of Disaster Not Decided.
 The cause of the capsizing has rot been determined, but federal, city and state officers were conducting inveS- tigations to determine whether the ship was top heavy from faulty de, signing, improperly ballasted, or was poorly handled in warping from the wharf
 Marine architects asserted that the Eastland was faulty in design, that the top deck had been removed be- cause of the tendency of the ship to list, and also pointed to the possibil- fty that the ship had been unevenly, or insufficiently ballasted. The East land used water ballast, so that it could pump out some on entering shal- low lake harbors,' and investigators are working on a theory that the bal last tanks were not filled, and the rushing of passengers to one side of the decks caused it to roll over.
 1000 in Five Ships.
 Under misty skies, 1000 men, wom- on and children wended their way to the river wharf early to fill five large lake steamers with holiday mirth in q trip to Michigan City. The steamer Eastland, brought to Chicago from Lake Erie. after an unsatisfactory ca reer, wfs the first to be loaded.
 Rain began to fall as the wharf su- perintendents lifted the gang blanks
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29

two or three instances. II was said many injured would die.
 Mayor William Hale Thompson was in San Francisco and Chief of Police C. c. Healy was also out of town, but Acting Mayor Moorhouse sent out a request that the city display signs of mourning. Flags on public build ings were placed at half mast and many places were draped with mourn ing. Baseball games were postponed and festivities largely ceased.
 While those on land were disposir z of the dead, injured and rescued. the
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29

vereiy injured and these were taken to the Iroquois hospital. built in mem ory of the 600 women. children and a few men who were burned and crush ed to death in the Iroquois theater New Years eve several years ago.
 Efforts to resuscitate those from
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29

and the carrying of corpses up the river toward the canal locks
 Federal Judge Landis ordered a and Jury empaneled to investigate the catastrophe. City Attorney Hoyne prepared county Grand Jury u,- quiry Coroner Hoffman selected a jury to look into the cause of tha deaths. The police arrested all off. cers of the Eastland and the health commissioner arranged to purify the river for fear disease might be spread by the presence of so many bodies in the stream.
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29

divers in the heart of the sunken yes. sel sent up an almost constant stream of corpses from the submerged decks. First 1t was a gaily dressed girl in her teens who had been caught between a pile of chairs and a cabin wall. Next it was boy gathered from the lifeless arm of a father who had clung to his offspring even in death. Then follow ed an old woman who had gone aboard the ship to watch her grandchildren, or a little girl with bare legs and bootees with gay ribbons, sodden against the lace of her holiday gown.
 A thrill passed through the crowd as word came that a baby girl had been found alive among the dead of the ship. The child was discovered in a starboard stateroom. where she had been held from the water by a chair damned against the berth The baby only half awakened as it was carried to land. Its mother could not be found.
 300 Dead in Hold.
 Two women were found alive in an-
  other stateroom on the protruding sid of the Eastland, but that ended the hopes that any number had escaped death in the steel trap. There were still 300 persons in the hold when these three persons were taken out alive, and the explorers of the hull said they all were dead
 Work of tagging the bodies of the dead and placing them in accessible places for identification proceeded all day and night. Tabulation became so confusing 1t was decided to take Ill bodies to the Second Regiment arm ory so that those who were looking for lost friends and relatives could view all the victims in one place.
 Identification was slow. Scenes at the morgues were affecting. Mothers fell across the biers of children whom they had sent away a few hours be- fore on what was expected to be I day of pleasure. Men had to summon all their stoieal qualities to retain eomposure as they made their way through rows Of corpses looking for missing children or wives.
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
City Does Not Lag.

Yet amid all the horror and heart aches, officers of the various city de partments attended to pressing duties of disposing of the dead and injured. tracing the missing. inquirtng into the cause of the disaster and guarding against disease from sunken bodies
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
To Probe German Acts.

Washington.-At the instance of the British government, the State Depart ment has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the activities ot certain German sympathizers in the United States, who are alleged to have been employing unlawful means uo strike at Great Britain and her allies.
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29

underwater suits. A bridge of boats was formed between the pier and the capsized ship.
 To the Iroquois Hospital.
 As the divers gained entrance to the hull, the scene of distress moved for the time being from the river to the extemporized morgues. Scores of per sons taken from the water were se-
The Monticellonian., 1915-07-29
Apply Direct to Wilson.

hington.-President Wilson be- gan consideration of request of ma ckinists employed at the Washington navy yard that he increase their pay and thereby overrule Secretary Dan- iels, who has taken the position that he can do nothing until wage board meets in December.