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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04
Another Shock

In the course of the evening two other
men dropped in. but the visitor failed to
catch their names, They We're both fash
ionably dressed, yet without any touch of
hashiness.
In conversation they were quiet, pleas
ant, nonaggressiye in argument and well
versed on the general topics of the day,
They talked very little baseball, Their
diction was without a flaw, There was a
certain dignity in the bearing of both that
was distinctive.
The visitor was surprised to hear they
were ball players. "Umpring," he said
after they had left must be pretty easy
now with men of that sort in the game.
' no were they"
When he heard that they were Johnny
Evers and Lee Magee, two of the hardest
fighters. two of the most aggressive,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04
Northeast Gets Soccer Trophy

Northeast fIish has been presented with the
socccr trophy FOR winning the Scholastic
League championship last year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04
MACK YANIGANS TO PLAY
TENNESSEE COLLEGE NINE
Richardson Pitches Well-Stellbaue
Shows Ability With Bat

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. April 4.-The
Athletics Yanigans will spend another
day here, their opponents this afternoon
being the University of Tenness@.
Richardson was given a chance yes
terday to face the Maryville college team
for the entire game and the big right
handler looked better in the last five
innings than he did In the early part
of the game, when the college boys got
four of their five hits. Before the game
Ira Thomas coached Richardson for half
an hour. and the big chap showed the
benefit of the instructions which he re.
ceived.
IRA may decide to let another one of his
twrlers go the entire route against the
university boys this afternoon.
Stellbauer. who has looked well on the
training trip this spring, did his best
batting Of the sc with a triple, a
double. a single and base on balls in
five times up yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04

Atlantic Motor Oils will offset that condition
like magic They will diminish carbon to an
absolute minimum-and the knock will take to
the tall timber in the bargain
Atlantic Motor Oils are not prescribed as a
panacea for car-troubles but they are recon-
mended by the oldest and largest manufac-
turers of lubricating oils in the world as the
correct lubricants for all makes of motors
POlarine, the famous year-round lubricant, is
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04

AMERICANS TIRED OF BEING
5 MERE SPECTATORS; THEY NOW
GO OUT AND PLAY COLE
Over Million Indulge in the Scottish Pastime.
Professional Baseball Players Now
Haunt Links

WE rreatonis and where few years
watch others play prefer to do our PLAYING It may cost
professional who formerly
and that
the attitude who took their athletics in home
there that they
always national pm But may be sur
baseball the
great rec. recreation d and sport Of the American 3 PeGns @ n It % may ] S NEWS 5 @ @
United States GOLF courses mum
Million Golfers in United States
Perhaps you will scott at the statement tenn mt ina, % ee @ 5 I , %
and Mexican borders Have you heard that there are twenty oa
inside the city limits of phiadelphie?
but if you belong to the rapidly diminishing
tury it may open your eyes Bit You may think is 2 gan game Tor the "
the public in jackson Park the links long before up
boys and
srlous
but that demand than the supply
Philadelphia Municipal
1t has taken Philadelphia 20 to get its first public course and it
ago Those who have seen our new public course say that "0" doubt
Many of the municipal only nine holes in extent but the c0b
supplied with natural hazards such no other public course affords
do motif it
judge yourself
Philadelphia
diversity gohng other ghns section in this country
ge Of years a
Honorable the fathers and mothers and their and daughter"
10 strokes for the
whose ratings much higher the association has scheduled tourney
rbr for what is known as an association dinner match This held over
to remain in town in august there is midsummer handicap The only gold
golf cup in this country played for once year at one of the local clubs
ne PhIadelpfian.
Big Championships
Next to the championship events the two greatest golf events in Ae
will than hundred representing than
With in the United States The May fewer than pa en
Is clubs similar struggle and it " by all odds the biggest thing of
$4,000 The bills of these thousands
odd professionals earn from $1,000 $4,000
Spend Sums
rhadephns spend every year small fortune on golf balls which
street for the rest of % your life There or 30 Co % golfers % IN % Pb E % e @
more than $4,000 aRuay There are more than thousand BOYS
and Sundays will each earn dollar BILL and in the season these thousand
sum Of $4,000 put INTO '"' the very comfortable
just remember that it game for the young and
hurtfu that takes into the that
the o
Baseball Players Indulge Extensively in Golf
That golf is making a in
y and m other manicpies is admitted
fts On the two Philadelphia major league clubs numbers
preferred golf to
pnoehe the wkoWn products Of the hop But now it different
tunty belongs local golf Athletics
Eddie Collins splendid
o ne
On the Phss now are number Of good golfers Bender
On other club the majors
Aahewson good with the clubs and plays nearly
summer
evident the baseball
and themselves beautiful
the
at
believed
nased BY the Hearst a
azaeven point decision their
EVENING IEDcER MOVIES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04
New Johns Hopkins Coach

BALTIMORE, Nd, April 4.--Hauk BreuulcS
has been made head coach OF the Johns Hop
kins football squad. He succeeds Charles
Brickley, who returned TO Harvard.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04

Spring Garden A. C. E3PAE EPRfh, 4,
Big Joe Butler, l95 lbs.
Young Jack O'Brien, 154 lbs.
-Four other bouts. 25e and soc. Boxers send
names, Mgr. kearns, 18th Spring Garden.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-04

LINCOLN A. C., Gs9 fs,s Decker Mgr;
ALL ) T AR SHOW
SAMMY DECKER Us. EDDIE SFIGEI.
Popular Priees-25-5O-75
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

A candidate for favor, among the
coats of spring, that needs only to be
seer to provoke approving smiles,
presents it's plainness and its graceful
ness and its modishness all 1t one
glance. The charm of simplicity be-
longs to it, or, at any rate, it looks
simple, but with a simplicity which
attests that it has been thought out by
an artist.
A material in black or a very dark
color with a narrow but pronounced
stripe in white gives the garment a
very fine start in the good graces of
fashionable women Its lines are cor.
rect, assuring one of the two accepted
~silhouettes. and 1t is distinguished by
certain original touches in it's finishing.
All of which goes to prove that it
belongs to the smart set in the world
of apparel.
AS pictured, the coat is made in
black and white and fastens down the
front with five large black buttons
having varying stripes of white on
them. No two are exactly alike. The
coat sleeves, as plain as can be, are
finished with oddly shaped cuffs that
evidence no intention of following the
example of the sleeves in the matter
of plainness. They are adorned with
two buttons, like those on the front,
but in a smaller size.
A slit pocket is set in at each side.
And, since it would never do for peck
cts to be negligible this season, they
make opportunity for shaped bands.
applied about the slit and a garniture
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25
AMONG THE coATs FOR SPRING.

two of the accepted modes in millin-
cry for spring, AT the left of the
group a straw sailor has a wide, fiat
brim. The crown is covered with
faille ribbon put on in four sections.
Over this ribbon covering ladder"
bows extend from the center to the
base of the crown at the middle of the
front and back and Of the two sides.
They terminate in loops and ends that
lie fiat on the brim.
A milan hemp. in gray, is shown at
the right. 1t is covered with gray
crepe. At the right side the brim
turns up sharply. A band of narrow
velvet ribbon e~ncircles the crown, fin.
ished with a bow at the left side. The
striking feature in this hat is its bead
embroidery. The peacock feather
motif appears on the front and side
brim and on the crown, embroidered
in small beads set close together.
A bell-shaped black hat at the top
of the picture is a perfect example of a
popular type. 1t is of lustrous straw
trimmed with loops of taffeta ribbon
perched on top of the crown. Lac.
quered rose foliage cover part of the
crown, and springs up among the loops
of ribbon. This hat is all black ex.
cept for the large pink rose at one
side.
Lacquered or vanished flower and
foliage trimmings are immensely pop
ular. Everything has a shiny. bril-.
liant surface. covered either with
transparent or with black lacquer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

strings to the sticks at the base of the
framework. Run the root strings both
ways.
Inc covering material must be
woven In and out around the strings,
as shown in Fig. 2.
If the roof poles have been crossed
and allowed to project, as shown in
Fig. 2. strings may be tied to their
ends, and the roof covering brought
out over the string, to make a roof
projection.
After the roof and walls have been
covered, take grass and leaves and
stun any openings that you find. Then
your brush hut will be all complete.
ready to play in.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

end is completed by erecting a corner
pole B opposite upright A. and fasten-
ing a roof pole c across A and B.
When the end frames have been put
up, connect the tops with three poles,
as shown in Fig. 2. These poles can
be tied in place.
Figure 8 shows how to make the
doorway frame by driving stick D into
the ground each side of the opening,
and binding the ends of an opened
barrel hoop to the tops with string.
The hoop window frames are held in
position by Irvine Gig. ~. First tie
four strings to the hoop, spacing them
equidistant from one another Zig.
g., then tie the string ends to the
framework so as to bring the hoop in
the center.
Figure 2 shows how the framework
| strings are tied. The distance between
them should not be more than nine
inches. Tie the lower end of the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

Designed to meet the requirements
or b~ookkeepers and clerical workers,
a comparatively inexpensive rapid cal
culating device has been introduced,
which is capable of adding. substract-
ing and multiplying quickly and &C
curately. The instrument is about
ten and one-half inches long, two and
a quarter inches wide and a half inch
thick. 1t is provided with a series of
seven dials, which are revolved by a
stylus when making calculations. A
single turn of one of the wheels adds
a figure to a previous register and
simultaneously shows a total. The de-
vice may be used on a ledger page
and moved downward as the work pro.
ceeds.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

easily made. Fig, 2 shows by ar
rows how the fly, attracted by
the bait, enters one of the side bot
tom openings, and reaches the bait
pan F; then how after leaving the
bait pan it rises in the wedge-shaped
inner wire enclosure, and passes
through a quarter-inch opening into
the larger enclosure, where it be-
comes trapped.
First prepare the two end pieces of
the inner enclosure "a, Figs. 8 and 81;
then cut the side strips B one inch
square by 16 inches long, and
nail to ends A at the point
where the edges start to slant. Tack
a piece of screen wire to each side OF
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25
WELL SETTLED STYLES IN HATS.

Of four buttons. like those on the
sleeves. There is a velvet inlay on
the back Of the collar.
The sailor hat and black-and-white
laced boots, worn with this DAT pro-
claim a sense of clothes which prom
Uses distinction for it's possessor.
There are wide hats and high hats
and variety enough in both sorts to
insure several shapes that will be be-
coming to each face. But the variety
Is not confusing as 1t was a year ago.
The styles are very we'll settled and
the hats are beautiful.
Each of the hats in the group of
three pictured displays some one or
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

Twenty-Five Negro societies. repre-
senting about 5000 members, reported
through their chairman, j. Rosamond
Johnson, to the Shakespeare celebra-
ton, that they would join in the cele-
bration of the Shakespearean ter
centenary at New York. There will be
a group festival at the Manhattan
Casino, the last week in April. This
will be under the auspices of eight
prominent Negro societies: Ye
Friends of Shakespeare, the Beaux
Arts Dramatic club, st. Marks Lyceum,
st. Philips Mems Guild. the Round
Table of the Colored Branch of the
Y. NJ. c. A. the Ebenezer Literary and
Dramatic association, the Douglas So
cial Center, and the Music School Set
Element for Colored People. There
will be scenes from "Othello," The
Merchant of Venice" and Loves La
boris Lost" A chorus of 200 mixed
voices recruited from the Music School
Settlement. will sing, and an orchestra
of Negro musicians drawn from the
New Amsterdam Musical association,
the Clef club, and the Temple club,
will play the incidental music for
"Othello," written for Beerbohm Trees
London production of the play by Col
eridge-Taylor. the colored composer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25
A HOMEMADE FLY TRAP.

Flies breed in ilth-garbage, stable
refuse and decayed vegetable and
animal matter, strewn about alleys
and lots, or left exposed in uncov-
cred receptacles, their very existence
points to neglected cleanup work
which should be given our immediate
attention to prevent the spread OF dis
ease germs. Make and set several
fly traps like that shown in Fig.
Ia most excellent form Of trap
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

the sides of the doorway and to place
around the ba of the framework. An
old mop handle, rake and hoe handles
broom handles, clothes poles, a rug
pole, curtain poles, wornout shade roll
ers. any of these will do for the
framework. Broom handles and other
short pieces al be spliced end to end.
by binding stick splints to opposite
sides with string Gig. 81. In addition
to the poles, you will need a barrel
hoop for the framework of each win
dow opening, and another for the
arched top of the doorway.
Figure 4 shows how to begin the
framework by mailing uprights A to
the fence top, for two corners of the
hut, and how the framework of each
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25
wAFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

of skin? A like ratio as to the ma
tional population would give the Unit.
ed States nearly a million soldiers
right off the bat!
Other northern states have colored
militia. though none in such creditable
proportion as Illinois. There are four
companies in Ohio, constituting two
battalions. with headquarters in Co
lumbus, and one company in the Dis
trict of Columbia. 1t seems odd that
Pennsylvania, from the beginning the
most encouraging northern home of
the freedman, has not yet made a mil
itiaman of him; neither has New
York.
There is naturally a first-class col
ored militia company in Massachu-
setts-company L of the Sixth regi-
ment. All the remaining eleven com
panies are white. If memory has not
gone awry this is the historic organi.
cation that was stoned in Baltimore
en- route for Washington early in
1861, the first blood Of the war"
Now the lovely city at the head of
Chesapeake bay, whence sprang the
soul-thrilling but larynx straining
"Star-Spangled Banner and in 1861
disloyal but beautiful Maryland, My
Maryland" has an excellent company
of colored state infantry!
At the recent civilian training, Of
brief but invaluable experience, at
Fort Sheridan, Col. John R. Marshall,
head of the colored Eighth regiment
Illinois infantry. was one of the regu-
lar students at this useful and inter
esting adult military Kindergarten. If
the outlined immediate increase of the
regular army to $4,000 materializes
Colonel Marshall has no doubt that
enlistment of colored men will be in
full and effective proportion.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25
Digging Up an Old Yarn.

The suggestion of an American pa
per that certain orchestral parts Of
Strauss alpine Symphony" sent
from Germany to the New York Phil
harmonic society. but which have not
reached their destination. have been
seized by the British navy as secret
codes in the d~isinternment on an old
story circulated about the organist of
st. Paul's cathedral Just before the
South African war began. the London
Chronicle states. Sir George Martin
was at the time In the Transvaal ex-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

aiming on behalf OF the r. A. M. and
r. c. NJ, and n morning the story
appeared in the Press that he mad
been arrested at johannesburg as a
spy. In his possession were found a
number of mysterious documents
which none of the Boer officials could
understand, Sir Georges assertion
that they were musical scores being
ridiculed. Eventually, however. Presi.
dent Kruger remembered he had q
granddaughter who was learning mu.
sic. and the documents were submitted
to her.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

There are ONE seven hundred col
ored soldiers in Chicago. They have
their numerical place in the state de-
fensibles as the larger portion of the
Eighth regiment of Illinois infantry
and have a good armory. There are
four other colored companies else
where in the state, making up the re-
mainder of the Eighth regiment. The
claim for colored population in the
city is about 10000. If. therefore, one
man out of every hundred people of
his race is a soldier it seems a fair
ratio in times of peace. Can any
other race show up proportionately
here or elsewhere, no matter what tint
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

covers to the center for bait pans.
Fig. 2 shows how the bait-pan base
should be placed so there will not be
more than a half-inch opening be-
tween its side edges and the edges
of side strips B, for the flies to en-
ter through. The base need not be
fastened to the upper part, but the
two enclosures should hook together
so they will not separate when re-
moved for killing the flies.
Nail a crosspiece &c. Fig. p across
the tops of ends C to brace them and
keep the screen-wire taught, and
make a handle of a screw-eye CH)
with a peg QD run through 1t.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25
A BRUSH HUT.
(CopyrlRht. By a. Nicely

The loosely constructed walls and
roof OF the pretty little playhouse In
Fig. 1 will permit breezes to pass
through when any are astir, yet keep
out the suns rays.
Figure 2 shows the completed
framework. To make this strong II
is easiest to support n side on a
fence top. You will need poles for
two corners, a couple of short pieces
to nail to the fence to increase It's
height, If the fence is a low one, V
or six poles for the roof. and sticks for
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

A half century Of as noble and effac-
ing sacrifice as was ever given in the
name of Christ by any set Of mission
aries, and for any race, has brought
its reward. The Negro is being edu-
Gated and trained into industrial. intel.
lectual, moral and spiritual manhood
and womanhood. Thirty-five thou
sand Christian ministers speak to him
the word of life each Lords day, from
as many pulpits, in as many churches
Of his own. Intelligent and trained
men and women in the same
churches, to the number of over a hun
bred thousand as Sunday school
teachers. open up this same Bible to
more than 100000 children and
adults. Schools have multiplied UNI
til 75 out of every 100 over ten years
of age can read and write. Five hun
dred colleges and normal schools are
turning out common school teachers
for the $4,000 or 10000 schools that
house nearly 100000 of his children.
Nearly fourteen millions are eXpend-
ed annually on his education, of
which he himself, who half a century
ago owned nothing, not even himself,
contributes n million and a half.
More than that, he is giving a good
account of himself. and is becoming
a useful and prosperous citizen. He
owns farms, village homes, banks, and
all ann of business enterprises to
the value of seven hundred millions.
] IIp hos nh NretpfonC 1ovr,-nrc anH vrnaf
leaders of his own race, of which any
race might be proud. In the South
he is an economic necessity, and his
education has immensely increased
his value to the community. All of
which is surely working out a vast
change in southern Anglo-Saxon SEN
timent with reference to his training
and education. AS usual Christian
educators and philanthropists first
caught the vision. While politicians
were using the Negro as a scarecrow
to keep modern progress out of the
southern states, and to retain their
places at the public crib, ~far.seeing
ministers and public educators we're
organizing for "a square deal" in the
South for the black man.
The Southern Sociological congress,
composed of leading philanthropists
and educators in the South, organized
for the purpose of studying the eco
nomic, social, educational and re-
ligious conditions of the whole south
ern people, in its annual meeting at
Atlanta, Ca, last year gave the largest
share of its attention to the ques-
ton of the educational. social and re
ligious condition and uplift of the Ne
groes. That section of the congress
devoted to this subject proved to be
the most popular and wideawake OF
the entire gathering. 1t was particu.
larry notable for the fact that all OF
these men recognized the necessity for
a larger recognition on the part OF
the southern people of the education
and moral welfare of the Negro
Northern Christian Advocate.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

The congress Ecuador has granted
a concession for a steamship line be-
tween Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Phil
adelphia, The vessels of the company
are to navigate under the Ecuadorian
flag. and at least one-half of the en-
ployees are to be natives OF Ecuador.
1t is stipulated that the steamships
must begin running within one and
one-half years after the signing of the
contract.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

The town OF Nottingham. England,
disposes of its sewage on a farm of
about 1000 acres lying a short dis
lance away. Rags and coarser mate
rails are screened out and the sewage
is applied to the soil as a fertilizer.
Most of it is given to the soil in a
liquid state by ean of bitches. This
requires a thorough system of under
drainage. This farm not only solves
the problem OF disposing of the towns
sewage but 1t also nets a good profit;
the income from the sale of it's prod
ucts during the last fiscal year was
500, 600.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

American manufacturers of musical
instruments, with IN annual OUTPUT
valued at about $1,000 coo, export
only 100000 worth annually to for
eign countries. American pianos are
chiefly exported to Canada, where
they constitute about 80 per cent of
the total imports of that class, to
Great Britain, for reshipment to other
parts of the world, and to Central
and South America. Our player pianos
are sent in about equal numbers to
Australia, England, Italy and Argen-
tina, and in much larger quantities to
Canada.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25

Records of a justice of the peace in
Butler county, Ohio, from more than a
century ago show that the magistrates
fee was then 12A cents in all cases and
that civil actions often were brought
over sums of less than 81. The posses
scr of these records also has a wall
clock known to have been in use for
1870 years. with the weight ropes
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-25
evidently an un,ruth.

THAT man u you Of being the
greatest CRATER on earth" YES"
replied Senator Sorghum. but he
doesn't mean 1t. II he believed | was
the greatest CRATER on earth he'd be
right with me in every campaign, try
ing to get next and make himself
useful"