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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
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RIXEY TWIRLING
 AGAINST PFEFFER
 WHEN RAIN CAME

New York, Sept. 30.-They tried to play a baseball game yesterday after noon at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. but old Jupiter Pluvius stepped in and knock ed the attempt on the head before any damage mad been inflicted. The dia- mond carnage was to have been be- tween Colonel c. H. Ebbets' Dodgers. and Pat Moran's Philadelphia. clan, but. the combat had not proceeded two full innings before the venerable Bill Klem bawled out an order which sent every player running, through a heavy downpour of rain, to the benches. Then the baselines and pitchers box were covered by tarpaulin, as they had been on several occasions previously in the afternoon. and, after confer once in the dressing room 1t was an- nounced that there would be two games played today, one at 10:30 a. m. and the other at p. m.
 At the scheduled starting time om- inous clouds hovered over the field, and this caused the 4,000 or so srecT tators present tinge. of uneasiness, for 1t had been raining slightly in the early afternoon. Well, the elements permitted start, and the teams took tho field. Jeff Pfeffer going to the mound for the Robins. against Eppa Jeptha Rixey. Pat Moran's elongated southpaw.
 At the, start Pfeffer seemed to have some difficulty in ascertaining the location of the plate, and out of five balls. hurled at Paskert. only one or them looked good to Umpire Klen, So .Dode romped Bancroft flied to Wheat and when Milton Stock lifted one to Johnston in right fieid Paskert was caught off first for the third out. In Brooklyn.s half Johnston started with a sfy to Paskert. and Jake Daubert fan ned. while Niehon threw out lily Myers r3
 Pfeffer settled down considerably as he faced the fighting Philis for the sec, ond time, and the side went out in orr der on two outfield flies and strike out. Zach Wheat started the Brook .lyn second frame with a clean single to left field, He hovered about first until sacrificed to second by Cutshaw, and then the deluge came which caused halt.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
Soccer Players Will Be Busy Tomorrow
 On Numerous Fields

The local soccer teams will put in a strenuous Sunday. In the State league the Bridgeport City team will clash with the British-Americans of Waterbury. This game will take place at the Meadows at 3:15. Ar rangements have been made with the Lordship Go. to run extra cars. ! The Remington City team will play New Haven in the Elm City. In the Amateur league the Bridgeport Swed- ish club will tackle the New Haven Rangers at Black Rock. The Rovers will go to .Ansonia to take on the home team.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
BOB MOHA TO MEET
 WEINERT OCTOBER F

New York, Sept. S0-Accerding to the mandate of the State Athletic Commission the Show Corporation will have to stage the Bob Moha- Charley Weinert bout before any other affairs are staged at the Garden This well necessitate the postponement of the. Frank Moran tussle with Fred Fulton.
 It is the intention of James John ston, manager of the Garden, to put on Moha and Weinert on Oct. 12, the date selected for the Moran-Fulton fracas. The latter bout will be staged on Oct, 2b:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
sTAxp1NG or THEE CLUES.

GAMES TODAY. New ! drh in Boston.
 Washington in Philadelphia (two)
 Detroit in St. Louis.
 Chicago in Cleveland (two),
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
GAMES TO-DAY.

GAMES TO-DAY. Boston in New York (two). :. St. Louis in Chicago.
 Cincinnati in Pittsburgh (two). Philadelphia in Brooklyn, GA. M. and P. M.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
American League

YESTERDAYS RESULTS. Boston, 3; New York, O.
 Detroit. A.; St. Louis. I. The Washington-Philad delphia and Chicago-Cleveland (two) games were postponed on account of rain.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30

Crown Prince Rupprecht in an inter- view expresses entire confidence in the situation on the SomuA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30

Manager Johnhy McGraw is rather sweet on <Ferdy Schupp, his young
 pitcher. For two seasons the Giants leader kept this boy on the bench to have him pick up the Fundamentals of big league twirling. Last year he gave Schupp chan Ice pitching the last few innings of already lost games. This year he has demonstrated that he is
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30

YESIERDAX'S RESULTS
 The New York-Boston. Brooklyn Philadelphia and Cincinnti- Pittsburgh games were postponed on account of rain. 5/.st Iafa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
FREE TO THE SICK /!

Dr. Naughton making X-Ray examination of the Lungs, with Improved Magnoathis Skiascope aid to Diagnosis This other wonderful methods animation Free te all who call him at the HOTEL LORRAINE
 MONDAY, OCTOBER END HOURS ......................1o A. NJ. ITO F. M.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
SPECIAL SALE OF FERNS
 AND PALMS. S0ziN HECK q SON

Farmer w.Rs AA.. one oens . wora.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
National League

YEsTE:RDAY's REsUITs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30

and his extensive practical experience enables him to determine whether a case is curable or whether 1t is incur able.
 Not only will you be surprised at his wonderful knowledge of disease his plain, concise explanation of cause and effedt, but at the marvellous rapidity with which his common sense treat ment goes to the seat of the trouble, giving relief, and in all cases that have not progressed too far, a cure.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30

THE SICK MULTTTUDES CROWD his offices from morning until night, and if you would avoid disappointment you should call early. Dr. Naughton makes regular visits to Bridgeport from time to time, to personally attend to his many patients who are unable to visit his Worcester office.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
FREE FOR THIS VISIT

Never before has such an should not fail to take advantage of visit the young. the old, the rich, the remember the Days, Dates and office
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
Charles VI. Schwab, Patriot n. ..

Another name in this list that
smacks of war trafficking is that OF
Charles NJ Schwab Mr.. Schwab was
named as one of the founders Of the
Navy league in the first issue of the
Navy Journal ever published, the is
sue for July. 1903. Mr.. Schwab was
at that time president of the United
States Steel Corporation. owner of the
Carnegie Steel company Some of his
fellow directors Of the steel corpora
ton at that time were J. Pierpont
Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Henry
H. Rogers, Henry c. Frick and Gilbert
H. Gary. Previous to the formation
of the United States Steel Corporation
Mr.. Carnegie had been president Of
the Carnegie Steel company
Mr.. Schwab also became connected
as indicated with the following con-
Germs:
Director American Mining company.
Director American Steel & Wire
company
Director Bethlehem Steel company.
President and chairman board of d.
rectors Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Director Carnegie Steel company.
Director Chicago, Lake Shore &
Eastern railroad
Director Chicago Pneumatic Tool
company
Director Duluth & Iron Range Rail
road company.
Director Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
Railroad company
Director H. C. Prick Coke company
Director Huron Water company.
Director Illinois Steel company.
Director Masontown E. New Salem
railroad
Director Minnesota Iron company.
+ Director Mount Pleasant Water COM
pany
Director National Tube company,
Ohio.
Director National Tube Works COM
pany.
Trustee New York Trust company.
Director Southwest Connecting COM
pany.
Director Trotter Water company.
Director United States Coal & Coke
company.
Director United States Realty & In
provement company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
Sex Hygiene in Germany.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the AS
ISOLATED Press Some of the Difficult
ties which, for the present at least,
confront many Of the details of plans
Tor increasing the birth rate of Ger
many, have led TO strong companion
movement to lower the infant death
rate, Its proponents argue that MANY
steps are possible along this line at
the present time.
Professor DR.. Langstein, director OF
the Acknowledgements Victoria House
for combating infant mortality in the
German empire. believes that it will
be possible TO reduce Germany's loss
in infants to seven or eight per cent.
Sweden's present rate. and thereby
gain about 100000 in population an
nually. He relies largely upon educa-
tton TO accomplish this educa-
ton beginning with children in the
folk schools. and extending upwards
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14

Director Youghiogheny Northern
Railway company.
Director Youghiogheny Water COM
pany.
Director American Locomotive COM
pany.
Director American Universal Mill
company
Director Empire Trust company.
Director Lehigh Valley Transit COM
pany.
Director Montgomery-Shosh Con-
solidated Mining company.
Mr. Schwab is now president and
chairman of the board of directors or
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, one
of the largest war trafficking firms in
the world, the common stock of which,
as result of war orders, jumped
from $40 at the outbreak of the Euro
pean war to nearly $500 The Bethle-
hem corporation controls the San
Francisco Dry Dock company and the
Union Iron Works Dry Dock company
Of San Francisco, the Fore River Ship
building company, Harlan & Hollings-
worth Corporation, and the Titusville
Forge company.
Bethlehem has obtained more con-
tracts for armor plate from the United
States government than any other
firm. complete record of its orders
for the single item of armor plate be-
ING as follows
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
Position of SalOniki.

Saloniki.-(Correspondence of the
Associated Press The arrest of the
members Of the consulates and the
agents Of the central powers, what
ever the point of view of international
ethics, has put an end to an absurd
state of affairs here. Before the agents
eft the hostile powers were driven out,
the allies were in much the same po-
sition as if their enemies had free &C
cess to such bases as Calais, BOu-
lOgne or Havre. Saloniki now occu-
pies the same position in reference to
the AnglO-French troops as Lisbon did
to Wellington over a century ago in
the Peninsula campaign. Yet before
the recent orders were carried out.
enemy agents did not even take the
pains to conceal their activities. Ger
mans, Austrians, Turks and Bulgars
had as much right to the streets as the
British or French soldiers. They
watched and made note of the landing
Of troops, guns and supplies, sat in
cafes and lived in hotels freauented
by British and French army men.
They freely wrote, telegraphed or took
the train into Turkey or Bulgaria,
where their information could be safe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14

fronted by mighty American feet
which. according 10 the view of Con-
gresham Gardiner. the leading prop
agandist of the friends of armament
must he at least equal in prestige to
the English feet. America will win
the war"
The prophecy of conflict between
America and England will be testing
ly received in America, but we cannot
but consider seriously what d menace
this rivaling of England's naval power
may be to us. for English history is
TOO full of wars waged on no weight
Ter preteXt. President Wilson may
even have sensed something Of the
sort, which provoked him to declare,
as he did a few days ago, that we must
have navy second to none.
II American business men are az
shrewd in building up our foreign
commerce as they are given credit for
being, the end Of the world war will
see this country arraigned against
England in commercial conflict and
holding powerful industrial and fl
nancial position which it will need to
defend. To do this navy is neces-
sary, navy powerful enough to at
tac,; a foe, for, as Admiral Mahan
points out, Defensive power consists
mainly in ability to take a powerful
offensive"
The American people have always
desired a powerful navy, and have
stopped their desires short only OF
such an extreme as that Of Great
Britain But politicians and congress-
men have curbed that naval ambition
by diverting the necessary funds to
pork purposes. Now that the people
are thoroughly aroused to the real
need of this nation for powerful navy
and have convinced congress it is dan
gerous to trife with their desires, We
should make the most of the oppor-
tunity and increase the navy to the
limit before apathy and the pork bar
rel return.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
Rubber Elastic Scarce.

Vienna.-The scarcity Of rubber
elastic has caused all the garter fac
tories in Austria Hungary to close
down, as we'll as most of those in Ger
many. Elastic garters and suspenders
are no longer to be had, except where,
here and there. dealer has some
stock left on his shelves. Elastic
strings which could be bought before
the war at the rate of So for 200
pounds, now cost from eight to twen-
ty-four dollars for the same quantity
and are hard to get even at those
prices. Thread has gone up from 70
cents to =, and dyestuffs have also
doubled in price.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
Sidelights on the European War

so as to include every person who has
anything to do with babies. mothers.
nurses, physicians, and SO on.
He advocates a mild form of sex n.y.
giene instruction in the schools, as well
as both theoretical and practical edu-
cation as to the care of children which
shall extend from the lowest through
the highest schools.
The newspapers can be great edu-
cative power for good, he believes, and
he recommends that they publish help
full articles at regular intervals. They
must, however, eliminate advertise
ments of Offerings, the use of which
already costs the lives of a not incon-
seQuential number of babies"
Maternity hospitals and like institu-
tons have in the past, he believes, had
too great a tendency merely to give as
sistance at birth and have failed to pay
any attention or to exercise any super
vision over mothers or children after
wards. This must be altered, he says,
so that by some system of inspection
the hospitals may continue to exert
wholesome influence
In every corner of Germany there
have sprung up so-called Care lnsti-
tutions," where the wives and families
of soldiers have been given all sorts OF
aid-from meals to clothes and money.
advice and general oversight. Profess
sor Langstein hopes that these institu-
tons will not disappear after the war,
but rather that they will continue, and
develop so as to fit into his whole So
cial plan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
AMERICAS SEA POWER

When Napoleon coded TO the United
States the vast territory known in
later years as The Louisiana Pur-
chase, he said, Il have given England
a rival on the sea who will curb her
naval power some day" He spoke
with the remembrance ofAmerican vic
tories al sea during the Revolutionary
war still fresh in his mind Eight
years later he watched the conflicts
between the warships of America and
England and found no cause to revise
his opinions. Had he been alive to OBJ
serve the tremendous sea power which
this country developed during its Civil
war he would have been the more
firmly convinced OF the truth of his
prophecy.
AThe shock Of war that shook the
country with horror and left it gasp
ing after Appomattox seems to have
debilitated American naval ambition.
and from power that in 1855 disput-
ed the supremacy Of the sea with any
nation, the United States deteriorated
in naval strength until the early COS.
the period that marked the beginning
Of modern naval types. BY what shock
the nation was reused from its leth-
argy to begin the building of The
White Squadron" il is impossible TO
say, but that really marks the starr
of the present American navy, advanc-
ing slowly TO that position Of strength
which the dignity of the nation de-
maDds.
Vorwaerts Of Berlin. commenting on
Americas revised interest in naval
strength and the agitation for prepar-
edness. said:
What the building up of the al
ready powerful American navy is airy
ed at is clear. At the end OF the war
England, which follows the building
Of naYies by other nations with grea,
anxiety, always will find itself con-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
The Daily Story
The Pity Of by M. Quad.

just an even hundred men answered
Here as the sergeant called the roll
Oh the morning we awoke beside the
Potomac. There was an even hundred
as we marched away-as we took our
first turn at picket-as we first sighted
the enemy. as we went into battle for
the first time. After the roar OF guns
had died away and the dead had been
buried, only eightynine men answered
Here" to the sergeant's roll call in
the morning
few weeks went by, and we stood
shoulder TO shoulder in CATTLE line
again, and when the sergeant called
the roll, now only seventy-eight men
answered "Herer'
Then came Cold Harbor and the fall
ing back to Malvern hill. Cannon
doomed and musketry cracked all day
long and far into the night Wounded
men cursed and groaned as they limp
ed away or fell helpless-men pitched
forward with but single cry and
died with their faces hidden in the
weeds and grass. After Malvern Hill
the sergeant called the roll again-not
the same sergeant as before. for be
was lying dead in the thickets at Fair
Oaks-and this time only f1fty-two men
answered ''Here!''
And so could you wonder that when
recruits came down to US we looked
upon them as intruders, even though
they were good men and true. and
had come to help US win victories?
Their names were called with ours,
and we heard them answer Here"
But they were only with US: they
could not be Of US. They had come
too late.
And at last came Appomattox and
the surrender and then peace and the
return to Washington. We were al.
most u full company again as we turn
ed out-on the meadows Of Arlington
for the last roll call. Upward of sew
enty living men could have answered
here TO their names.
Fail in. company G. Attention to
roll CALI
1t was not the sergeant who had
called the roll after Fredericksburg,
after charlottesville, after Gettys-
burg. 1t was new man-one who had
been promoted before his cheeks had
scarcely been burned by the southern
sun. But he had heard Of the ties
which bound the old veterans together
he realized what this last roll call
meant to the survivors. And from the
musty archives Of the past he took the
roll of the dead and called:
"Anson. Armstrong, Armitage" No
one replied.
. Berry. Bloomingdale. Benson. Bar
ston. Renham!" No one replied.
Cary, Carter. Carnahan. Cummings,
Comstockr No one replied
And so he called, and 50 the silence
of the death roll grew deeper.
Young. Yeomans, Wager" No one
replied.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14

york"
Here
And so he Of all was the sole su,r,.
or. the last living man Of couanen, n
the only one who had a right m &C..
there in that line and answer IA Nv
last roll call. The others-nine,v srs
nine-were crippled at home or slo.,
ing their last sleep on the hillsidss :.
the valleys. in the forests and ~.
thickets OF Virginia.
The line cheered him as be ..o.,
apart. the last survivor Of a plor,ons
band which had fought in dozen ho.
ties. but he turned his head awav a.
wept.
Perhaps no act OF war engendersa
more bitterness than the burning Of
the barns and houses in the Sben.r
doah valley under Sheridan's of,c,,,
order.
No warning was given unless the
great clouds of smoke rising I'D her.
and there to signify destruction wsra
taken as warnings of what WAS N
come. A squad Of men galloped m
the women and children were told tho
substance Of the order. and the nstch
was applied. An hour later they s.t
on the grass houseIess and homeless
some of them naked and dumb in To-.
ror. There were tears and prayers
and pleadings. but the order had gone
forth.
By and By, as we rode up to quaint
old farmhouse. half hidden among the.
fruit trees. a rife cracked and troonL
er. shot through the head, fell of his
horse. The black pillars of smoke dot.
ting the valley had told the peopls
what was coming. Here was one de.
termined to protect his proportions
man 'gainst company after COMPANY
riding up and down and across. Ten
minutes later the barn and the stacks
were on fire and men under cover were
keeping up a hot fire on the rife pit
Just as another squad. attracted BY
the firing. came up second man was
hit and grieyously wounded.
There was no more firing from the
pit. Some Of the scores of bullets
fred into it must have found a target
There was a rush from all sides and
the pit was captured Fifty men had
captured one. And that one? II was
a lad not day over fourteen. and one
OF our carbine bullets had taken his
life. And when We laid him on the
grass and saw that he had come home
wounded from some battle up the val
!ey-when the mother came out to us
from the house and fell on her knees
and walled and sobbed-when an old
white haired grandfather stood in the
door, helpless to come out and look
into our faces. but wailing out as II
the sight &C the dead boy was break
ing his heart. what could we say:
Nothing. What could we do? Only
tide away and bemoan the cruelties Of
war,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14

Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
taken step which will encourage en-
listments in the navy by ordering that
all of the 50 midshipmen at Annapolis
who were recommended for dismissal
because they failed on their midsession
examination be permitted to resign in
stead Of having the blot of expulsion
from the service against their record.
After approving the academic board S
recommendation that the midshipmen
be dismissed. Secretary Daniels wrote
70 Captain Eberle, superintendent of
the naval academy, authorizing him TO
accept designations. The effect of the
act will be to convince young men
whose hearts are in the right place
that they are not TO be disgraced be-
cause they fail in response to patri-
Sic impulse. 1t is the just principle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-14
Brady,M.D.
Bad News for ButtermiIk Fans

Every new cure" has its early day
of working, then a day of
doubt, finally day OF desuetude. Now
comes the desuetude of the Bulgarian
bacillus, the sour milk cure. 1t ap-
pears that the Tactic acid germ, the
old age specific of MetchnikOff, has it's
untoward effects
When you drink buttermilk, soursd
milk or any of the Bulgarian bacillus
cultures, you are aiding and abetting
the formation OF Tactic acid in the in
testinal canal. Now, just for the sake
OF argument, let's say you are anemic
cachectic from some chronic disease.
or emaciated. In such case YOU would
probably be already more or less poi-
soned by "acidosis," which means the
accumulation of carbonic acid gas and
other acid combinations in the blood
and tissues. To feed on an acid-pro-
duclng substance of the nature of but
termllk or Bulgarian bacillus cultures
would obviously be adding fuel to the
fire. take it from DR.. Orvall Smiley.
who has studied the matter carefully
and knows whereof he speaks.
DR.. Smiley has observed a number
OF patients suffering from symptoms
OF aggravated acidosis, due to the
taking Of Bulgarian bacillus prepara-
tons on their own initiative. Among
the symptoms he enumerates in re-
porting his observations are increased
blood pressure, sweating, increased
nervous irritability.
Here are some of the conditiona in
which the authority cited believes
bulgarian bacillus, or other acid-pro-
iucihg medication, is Objectionable.
tuberculosis, cancer, diabetes (thougb
some physicians insist that Bulgarian
bacillus cultures often do good in dia-
oetes), excessive acldity of stomach
mot that caused by fermentation of
'oodl, any form of toxemia. gastric ul-
GER. Bulgarian bacillus preparations