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New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

A queer freak of nature it is how habit or memory hangs on.
 You have read in lyrical verse how some John, obtaining a whiff of roses or mignonctte, suddenly recalled with amazing tenderness some Jane of other years.
 Or it may have been that some Jasper heard an old-fashioned melody and straightway before his vision scme Bessie or some Ethel drifted by. To borrow an illustration from the late Orth Stein-
 Last night as I leaned from my
 window,
 High over the darkening street, A song came floating upward,
 Broken and incomplete
 "What delicate wrath of passion,
 What ghost of the yester years Twas something as sweet as kisses,
 Something as sad as tears" You get the idea So with us. For some reason or other each breath or waning February brings back again the fragrant odor of baseball. It may have been from the fact that
 
 no part of a bonny one. each passing February brought tho instinctive de sire to get out and throw baseball.
 That desire has never passed, and if we were up around Baffin's Bay in 1 February it would be the same. For the last days of February are the out- ! posts of spring. And when the ball ! club starts South and you are one of the party, you and spring have met halfway.
 A Big League training trip is quite an institution. To the casual inspec- tor it is mostly routine. But beyond that it is a good deal more.
 It is a very human section of life. There is nothing else just like it. Here are forty young and middle aged men working and living together in peace and happiness. Yet twenty cf these are out hustling for the other twenty's jobs. And only twenty can stick Either the Busher goes l back again to the Bush-for one more year or for his entire career cf the Busher sticks and the Veteran fades out It is not the matter ot the honor of making a college team Ii is a matter of meat and bread, or l the Missus and the Kids, of profes- sion that is to take up the last hour of ones prime.
 Tn a training trip there IS Che humor and the tragedy of many lie times.
 We will take the ease of an aver lage Veteran. He has family, ana never having been a great star, h' ilas earned just about enough to breal even on the living game, with thousand or so left over. He know that he has but a season or two left And when he quits, at the age many start in other professions, he will be without a profession or a trade. If you are looking for light gray shade of pa'thos you can find 1t IT that Veterans eyes as he sits on the tench nursing a sore arm, watching some Kid of 22 begging them on; a line from third to first the second day out. His job is threatened, but for the time being he can't defend if with a sore arm and a charley-horsed thigh. Yet we have seen this type of Veteran on many an CS;as'@n to go out and by experienced coaching try
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
FOUR CLEVELAND PLAYERS GO

Cleveland, Feb. 26-The first change in the ranks of the Cleveland base all club under the new ownership came yesterday. Robert McRoy, Cleveland representative for Owner Jack Dunn, said First Baseman Jay Kirke, Pitcher Oscar Harstad, Cat cher Ben Egan and Outfielder Denny Willie have been let out. Either Ivan Howard or Chick Gandil will suc- ceed Kirke.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
ED BOWLERS IN
 lG TOURNAMENT
President Marshall and Br Clark to Display Ability

ington, D. C., Feb. 26.-A X check on the. teams from this aats will complete in the Allan
 st Bowling associations tourn- E starting April 5, reveals the I aes at least 150 quintets will
 3ate. AS practically every
 of these teams will compete # singles and doubles of this
 porting affair, this means that #al Capital alone will put in en- @ money $12,750.. This figure
 at least gtrebled by the bowl &ams from out of Washington, #g about 450 teams, and the en- H money $37, ,250.a A truly re- Sble figure for a bowling asso- but two years old.
 how these 1 50 teams from 2ngton are to be organized makes &Eting reading. Letters to the Committee this week from Vice 8ent Marshall and Speaker Clark xich the presiding officer of the S and Gouse, respectively, prom ktual icipation in the open SF the ,irney, give rise to the athat ;~Stleast one Congressional will roll in the affair. There great number of bowlers in the e.4 and a Congressional night be staged in the event that enters from the ranks of the akers. ti -r-5
 ElISs and K. of C's.
 } Washington American League will have two teams, one cap- l by shortstopt George Mcbride the other by Walter Johnson, amous pitcher. The local lodge ks will have ten teams, Knights Iumbus bowIers will enter like l CT, while the Masonic League of i .ity, composed of 20 teams-one e biggest bowling leagues ever | ized-wil1 have all of it's quints ! tourney. } entrance of teams as a whole 1 be followed by most of the es of the city. The District 1 g will enter all ten of it's teams, ntrance fee being paid by the } instead of awarding, as is the
 custom, prize money to the ITS. The Royal team, the prob winner in this league, and which draw down about $90 for the [ will contribute all this toward ! ntrance fees, while the team at | ottom, which would receive only | will get the benefit of the win | money. It is this spirit on the of the Washington bowlers that king for the tremendous success } A. c. B. A. tournament.
 Ladies to Compete. gre will be several ladies' teams sd, the fair sex bowlers taking
 chances along with the men.
 these feminine bowlers lack in ' they more than make up in 'siasm, and Ladies night" will e bigfoccasion.
 ? entries in the tournament close h e25, and there are already sev- teams entered. There will be etition in the tourney, which April 3, afternoon and night, only two occasions when after
 rolling will not be staged being day the Elks parade, and the noon of April 20, when Wash n and the rejuvenated Yankees open the local baseball season.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Yale; third, Shipman, Princeton. Dis tance of winner, 68 feet inches
 220-Yard SWim-Won by Ferguson, Yale; second, Hopkins, Yale; third, Lester, Princeton. Time-1:39 4-5.
 100-Yard Swim-Won by Burchen- al, Princeton; second, Schalet, Yale; third, Howe, Yale. Time-0:59 4-5.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
SPEAKER SIGNS CONTRACT.

Houston, Tex, Feb 26.-Tris Speak, CT, outfielder of the Boston Americans announced here last night that he had signed a contract fer next season.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

The most complete training camp instructor is John McGraw. He doesn't even take it for granted that Matty knows how to pitch.
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New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
3?aaz }!j';:::5 J:
 NY by GU7z|v7d Rice

to show the Kid every trick of the game. It takes just d bit of a Man to go out and try to help some one who is after your job.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

New York, Feb. 26-The Westmin- ster dog show, held here in Madison Square Garden, was one of the most successful ever held. There was near ly a million dollars worth of dogs benched, and the classes were the best in the country. The layout shows four of the leading dogs which took prizes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
1000 PARADE TODAY
IN SOWDEN CLAMOR
Ex-School Strikers and Friends
to Honor Dismissed
Principal

An echo Of the recent school children's
strike at the Filter School, Knox and
Seymour streets, in Germantown. win be
heard this afternon when the former
strikers their parents and friends will
unite in n tribute to William II. Sowden.
whose dismissal from the principalshlp
caused the strike.
Under the auspices Of the Sowden Club.
n pupils organization formed since tho
revolution" 1000 will parade. In the
line will he. the Fitler School children.
their fathers and mothers Boy Scouts.
some G.. \. r. veterans from the Ellis
Post. other patriotic bodies and pupils
from schools beside the Filter
The marshal will be Samuel j. Marley.
Of 1924 Knox street, r moving spirit In
the Sowden Club
Tho parade will form at the school and
move from Knox and Seymour streets over
TO Wayne avenue, thence to Chelten ave-
nue. Germantown, Wayne Junction, back
to Wayne avenue again. and then to Sey-
mour street, where it will disband.
The time for starting is $3.50 p. m. RI
1t rains today the demonstration will be
postponed until next Saturday.
The parade will be Coorful affair Tho
1--WE Want Sowden" signs will be as much
In evidence as they were during the days
OF the strike, and there promises to be
plenty of atmosphere A halt of the parade
will be called in front of the Fairfax
Apartments, Chelten avenue and School
lane. where Mr. Sowden lives and there
he will be specially honored.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
MEMORIES OF CUSTER
REUNITE OLD FRIENDS
Aged Folk Recognize Each Other as
Result of Discussion

A discussion about General Custer's
last charge at the battle of Little Big
Horn resulted in two old inmates at Har-
rlson Home, which is attached to the
Episcopal Hospital, in recognizing each
other today. Years ago they lost track
of each other while doing missionary
work on an Indian reservation in South
Dakota.
The Rev. John Robinson, 10 years old.
of Yankton, S. D.. and other inmates at
the Harrison Home today were telling
stories of incidents which occurred in
the days when the Ogallala tribe, headed
by Chief Red Cloud. were important fac
tors in the West. The Rev. Mr.. Robin
son. who is a native of Philadelphia,
spent more than so years among the
Indians.
Among those who listened to the stories
was Miss Jennie Dickinson, of Mitchell,
S. D. She is 6S years old. Suddenly, the
discussion turned to General Custer,
''Yes, l remember the day General Gus.
ter went away" said Miss Dickinson.
"And so do IT, replied the Rev. Mr..
Robinson.
Later it developed that both Miss Dick
inson and the Rev. Mr., Robinson wit
messed the scene of General Clusters fatal
departure,
Both Miss Dickinson and the Rev, Mr..
Robinson then mentioned names of per-
sons whom they knew in the West. As
the discussion continued both recognized
each other.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04

animal quickly at reduced figure He
caught 1t by the neck and announced
that it was for sale to the highest bid
der. Acting Detective Duff happened
along, and was convinced that Jim was
not a real drover. He declared that he
had found the cow and had the right to
sell it, Then he launched into an ora
ton on the rights of citizenship, and in
cidentally denounced the law and all
things connected with It. The owner of
the COW arrived and chased it back to
its herd.
When Jim was brought before Magis-
trate Dietz, at the Trenton avenue and
. Dauphin street station, he declared that
liquor always made him do things that
he couldn't remember. He was finally in
duced to swear Off and stick to tea and
coffee.
Then he made profuse apologies, and as
no serious charge was pressed by the
owner of the COW Jim was given another
chance. '-... y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
TAG DAY" FOR HOSPITAL AID
Boys and Girls Raise Fund for West
Philadelphia Institution

Hundreds OF Boy Scouts and Campfire
Girls will canvass the city today as part
of the Tag Day" of the West Phladel-
phla General Homeopathic Hospital to
raise a fund of $4,000, by means of
which the hospital will be enabled to
catch up with its running expenses.
The hospital administers to a large sec
tion OF West Philadelphia and vicinity,
and the majority of it's cases are those
of the laboring class who are hurt In
automobile aud railroad accidents and
are not able to pay for surgical atten-
tion or even for their own surgical needs
The hospital has no money in the form
of endowments and for that reason is
making the 'unusual-for-it plea" today to
help alleviate its conditions So the
friends OF the hospital are asking that
public-splrited citizens OF Philadelphia,
when approached by one Of the khaki
clad Scouts or Campfire Girls take one
OF the American hags and slip sub
stantial amount into their hands.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
YOUNG WOMAN LAWYER HAS
PRACTICE IN u. S. COURTS
Miss Caroline K. Kenworthy, Business Partner
of Her Father, a Prominent Member Of
the Philadelphia Bar

Miss Caroline X. Eenworthy, attorney
at law licensed to practice law in the
Federal courts of the United States of
America.
Sounds imposlng--almost forbidding
doesn't It?
But there is nothing forbidding or inn
posing about the young woman. who has
just had that honor conferred upon her
She is a womanly woman of the type
which ore instinctvely respects, admires
and trusts.
There Is nothing masculine about this
young lawyer, although she took her
three-year law course at the University of
Pennsylvania with the men; there was
only one other girl, Miss Alice Moran, of
Oil City, in the class with her. She is the
type of woman men like and trust. She
is not a clinging vine type and not
mannish woman, but a capable human
beng-with the emphasis on the human.
She can cook and sew and keep house as
we'll as practice law.
Miss Kenworthy is the daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. Joseph w. KenwC thy, 1895
Cedar avenue. Her father is one of the
most prominent attorneys in Philadelphia,
He is proud of the achievements of his
remarkable young daughter. who Is still
in the early half of her twenties. He
told with pardonabe pride of the way In
which she had worked in his office an
average of three nine-hour days every
week during her three-year course at the
University of Pennsylvania, and said that
she emphatically refused to take more
than a two weeks vacation each summer.
"And why do, you suppose she did this?'
asked Mr.. Kenworthy speaking of the
three days work she did each week. Be
cause she wanted me to be home evenings.
She said to me, If do not help you with
the cases, you will have to spend too many
evenings in the office, and we want you
with us in the evening""
Miss Kenworthy Is human dynamo
when it comes to work.
Now she is a partner with her father
in their spacious offices in the Finance
Building, on South Penn Square. But she
does not give up her college activities.
Miss Kenworthy took part in many at
the University. and she does not want
to lose track" of her friends. She is
a member of the Delta Delta Delta fra
ternity and during her senior year was
president of the organization. Last sum-
mer she was the University of Pennsyl-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
FREIGHT EMBARGO HERE
BLAMED ON MUNITIONS
Traffic Managers Will Protest
to Interstate Commerce Com
mission on Monday

An emphatic protest against the clog
ging OF the port of Philadelphia with war
munitions will be lodged with the Inter
state Commerce Commission when that
body holds hearings in Washington next
Monday and Tuesday on freight conges-
tion in Eastern railroad terminals.
Joseph Biles, traffic manager of Henry
Dlsston Saw Works. and member OF
the Executive Committee OF the Com
mercal Traffic Managers Association of
Philadelphia, will point out 10 the commits
sion that the freight embargoes in Phila-
delphia, New York and New England are
due entirely to the millions of tons of
war materials stalled in Eastern ports,
awaiting shipment TO the Allies. It is
probable that Mr. Biles and other mem
bers OF his association will ask for a
ruling which will so regulate munition
shipments that they will not cause a
freight blockage again.
THE unprecedented congestion in the
ports of Philadelphia and New York, -
said Mr.. Bies, "is due almost entirely TO
the ClogginE of terminals with munitions
of war. About 90 per cent. of the merchant
vessels are now being used as transports
by the Allies. so that there is great
scarcity of bottoms. AS n result great
quantities OF munitions remain for weeks
Thousands and thousands of freight cars
are being tied up in this manner.
THE munitions business is only tempor-
airy and don't think that other man
ufacturers should be made to suffer In
the port of Philadelphia the blockade has
been caused by munitions of war. II is
my intention to point out the true condi-
tion of affairs to the Interstate Commits
sion. ] think a ruling should be made
which would prohibit shipment of muni-
tions until vessels are in port ready 20
load"
Mr. Bles will go to Washington with a
delegation from the Commercial Traffic
Managers Association of Philadelphia.
The delegation will be headed by W. G..
Grieves, president of the association, and
traffic manager for s. L. Allen & Co.,
manufacturers of agricultural instruments.
9Th street and Glenwod avenue. A dele.
cation of business men and manufactur.
ers from the Chamber of Commerce will
also attend the hearings.
Mr. Grieves. talking today of the In.
terstate Commerce Commission hearings,
said:
"As far as outbound freight is con.
cerned, Philadelphia manufacturers are
suffering the most from the embargo in
New England. We want thorough probe
into the New England situation, and other
phases of the Philadelphia, New York
and New England embargoes."
Mr.. Grieves stated that the lifting of
the embargo in the northeastern section
of the city by the Pennsylvania Railroad
had already brought great relief to the
big textile district of Kenslngton, and to
manufacturers in Frankford and Brides.
burg. Great quantities of coal, steel and
other raw material were released today,
and the danger of shutdown of factories
in the northeastern section has at least
been temporarily averted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04

vana delegate to the national convention
in California.
Miss Kcnworthy is a great believer in
coeducation to develop young people at
tending college and to broaden their ideas
and their ideals.
''G hope the day will come when the lib
eral arts course at the University of Penn
sylvania will be open to women" she said.
II hope that 1t will not be long before
some one will realize what It will mean to
Philadelphia young women to have an OPP
portunity to go to the University with the
same chances that the young men have"
Miss Kenworthy has the distinction of
being the only young woman in Philadel-
phia who is in partnership with her father
In n law office. The father has ideas of
his own about the business understanding,
and incidentally these ideas are the same
as those of the attorney y-daughter. They
are partners In more than name. The prof
its of the business are divided between the
girl and her father just as though she
were a man in the firm. Last September,
when Miss Kenworthy became a member
of the firm, 1t was agreed that she should
have certain amounts in advance each
month, just as man would If he were in
the partnership, and that at the end of the
fiscal year the profits should be divided in
the same manner.
Miss kenworthy loves her work. That is
one of the reasons for her success, but she
is ulSO DeHeNeT Ill tne maxim tnaJ all
work and no play makes Jack-and also
Jill-.dull
When asked what part of her work she
liked best, Miss Kenworthy unhestatingly
said: Il like the digging, the working up
of the cases, the actual work. even better
than the court work. No, am never ner-
vous in court, but ] hate the waiting
around. The eternal waiting and waiting
is really such a waste of time. II is be-
cause | have been active, l suppose that
l want to get into the work and do It,.
Standing around in the courts seems such
n shame when there is so much to do"
She was admitted to the Municipal Court
last fall to the Orphans Court October 90.
to the Court of Common Pleas on October
%, to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
on January and to the Federal Courts on
March 1.
Miss Kenworthy has to wait until she
has practiced five years before she has a
right to enter the Supreme Court of the
| United States. That is a question of time !;
| it has to be by law. Taking her eXamina-
| tions from the State and entering the va
rlous courts so soon after graduation as
she has is considered phenomenal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
BRISTOL'S POSTMASTER DEAD
Rev. w. T. Johnston Expires in Potts
town While on Visit

PoTTSToWN, Pa. March 4.-while
visiting his sister Mrs. Charles SaXton, at
Linfield, the Rev. William r. Johnston, 81
years old. postmaster of Bristol and for
II years pastor of the First Baptist
Church, that place, died suddenly last
night. He came to L,nfield last T-uesday
to regain his health, but during the last
few days sank rapidly
For 12 years prior to going to Bristol he
was pastor of the Parkerford and Pugh-
town Baptist Churches. When young
man he tended a boiler at Cramps Ship
yards, Philadelphia. He became postmas-
ter of Bristol a year ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
LEDGER TOURISTS REUNION
Sixty Travellers Will Recount Elk,
position Experiences Tonight

The 60 tourists who, as guests of the
EVENING LEDGER and Public Ledger Wis
tied the Panama-Pacitic Exposition last
summer and also stopped off at all inter-
esting places coming and going hold their
first reunion tonight at the Grand Fra
ternlty Building, 1926 Arch street.
Several interesting cabaret features,
with interesting "reminiscences of the
coast-to-coast trip, have been arranged,
AS many of the tourists are bringing
guests with them, 1t Is believed that 100
men and women will be present. Tourists
Rains. Kilgore, Fingerhut, McCorkle and
Muller constitute the personnel of the
committee in charge of the reunion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-04
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