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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06
ART FLETCHER OF
GIANTS TRYING TO
WIN ALL The TIME.

In Madison county, Illinois, there
are about 100000 people, of whom
1868 predicted that Arthur Fletcher
was going to be a great ball player
when Art was only knee high to a
grasshopper. In Dallas, Tex, there
are about 125.0O0 folks. and 17.456 of
them recommended Fletcher to Me-
Graw when the Giant shortstop was
playing Texas League ball in the
northern metropolis of the Lone Star
state. These figures may not be abso-
lutsly correct, but they are approx
mately so.
Fletcher was born 80 years ago to-
day In Madison county, Illinois To
be more specific would be to take part
in a local controversy, the rival towns
OF Collinsville and Edwardsville both
claiming the honor Of having been
the hero's birthplace. However that
may be, Collinsville now has the edge,
for Fletcher makes. his home in that
burg, which is not far from ST. Louis
Arthur got his baseball start in his
home county, but in 1907 he was
signed by Dallas. In the s1ring Of
that year McGraw saw Fletcher at
work. and took a liking to the ag-
gressive kid. He was signed for a
trial with the Giants in 1907, but
turned back to Dallas. where he play
ed the 1908 season. The following
year he rejoined the Giants and
stuck, although for couple of an
NUNS he was only a, benchwarmer.
AL BridweI1 was then the Giant short
stop, but when he began to slip Nc
Graw sent him to Boston and called
Fletcher out OF the obscurity Of the
bench.
Fletcher batted 1855 last season,
which was quite an Improvement
over his 1915 average Of .254. He
has been one Of the hardest hitting
shortstops in the game ever since he
became a regular in 1911, when he
batted .319. He gets fewer bases on
balls than any other National League
player, and this is rather mysterious,
for he very seldom goes after bad
ones. He got 13 bases on balls last
year, which was quite remarkable for
him.. as he had only six passes in
1915.
FLETCHER is peppery, aggressive,
fighting player, and he likes nothing
better than close, stiff battle, with
both clubs hustling to the limit In
that sort of a game fetch is at his
best. Off the field he is still good
errors than some other shortstops,
he also goes after balls that others
wouldn't even try for.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06
HUGH ROSS WILL
HAVE HARD TIME I
BEATING SWEENEY

Because Of his engagement to meet
Knockout Sweeney at the Casino
here next Thursday night, Hugh Ross
of this city was obliged to cancel his
bout with Augie Rather in Albany,
N. Y, next Tuesday evening. Jimmy
Johnston, the New York promoter,
who manages Rather, was very sore
but Ross said he had to make the de-
cision. Matchmaker Hollis of the
Black Rock A. G. did not think Ross
should battle in Albany Tuesday be-
cause If he should be- injured it
would spoil Thursdays show here.
Ross is training hard for SweeneY
who is tough battler.
Sweeney can slug with the best of
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06
RIBBONS MAY GET TIE

Because of the Blue Ribbons de-
feat in Jersey City Thursday night
there is a possibility that the first
half of the Interstate league basket
ball season may end with the Rib
bons and Danbury tied for first place.
Each has lost four games but the
Ribbons must play in Paterson to-
night. If they lose they must beat
Danbury in this city next Tuesday
night to get a tie for the lead. If
the Ribbons win tonight they must
still beat Danbury on Tuesday night
to capture first place. The Danbury
Ribbon game on Tuesday will be the
final contest of the first half Of the
schedule. 1t promises Ito be hot
contest and Colonial hall will prob
ably be packed
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

them and Ross will have to do some
footwork to avoid q haymaker. This
is the star bout and is scheduled for
IL rounds.
Another good bout is the IL round
affair between Larry Williams of
Stratford and Sailor Carroll of New
York. Williams is a slugger and Car
roll is always willing to mix things
so there should be no idle moments.
Red Allen and Charley Pitts, both
well known to local ring followers,
will get together in a ten-round bout
and the preliminary will have Pepper
Martin of Brooklyn and Tommy Shea
of New Haven as principals.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

Shipments of currency in December
from Chicago were $22,527,26S,
against $18,286,619 in November,
1916.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

Three children IN the family of
Leonard Alsever were burned to
death at Hastings, N. Z, when their
house caught fire.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

John King, 81, and his wife, abr
bara, &c. were found dead from gas
poisoning in their apartment, at 116
East Third street, New York
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06
DONLIN FOR MEMPHIS

Mike Donlin is mentioned as likely
to become manager of the Memphis
club of the Southern league next sea-
son. McGraw has recommended
Donlin, who is spending the winter
acting as matchmaker for a boxing
club in Cuba. Don1in has been men,
toned as manager of many ball clubs
but he hasn't landed job yet.
Manager Fred Mitchell Of the Chi
cago Cubs says he will introduce the
honor system instead of having train
ing rules. Any player who starts to
make the breweries work overtime
will have the usual fine plastered on
him, however.
Before he picks his All-American
team next season Walter Camp will
probably take a trip to the Pacific
Coast and see some of the coats stars
in action. Oregon's victory over Penn
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

= A charter was granted at Dover,
Del, to the State Savings & Trust Co.,
with capital of $1,000.000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

The Port Limon Trust Corporation
of New York increased its capital
from 100000 to $6,000.000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06
Hitting The High Spots

must have convinced Walter that
there are some real players on the
other side of the Rockies.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06


Harry Costello, the Meriden boy
who won fame at Georgetown as a
field goal kicker, has returned to the
Silver City after a fine season in
Canton, O., where he played profess
sional football. Jim Thorpe, the not
ed Indian athlete, managed the Can
ton team. 1t is said he received $4OO
a game and as there were II games
his seasons work netted him about
$4,000.
The $4,000 offer Of John the Bar
Der to Les Darcy proved all a bluff.
Tex Richard confronted John yester-
day and the lather king said he meant
to say $4,000. Richard declared he
did not think Darcy would accept
that offer Johns idea was to have
Darcy meet the winner of the Billy
Miske Charley Weinert battle.
It looks as if Carpenter won't
show his boxing wares in this coun-
try after all. A cable to the New
York World today stated that no re-
quest for a furlough from the
French army had been made by Car
pentier. He has been off duty for a
month because of illness and probably
could not get away again for some
time. The most probable opponent
for Darcy now is Champion AL Nc
Coy. Darcy is anxious to get the title
and figures he can beat Mccoy. Y
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

Connie Mack is going to learn the
bad news early. He has arranged to
have his Athletics play a spring ser
les with the Boston Braves in Florida
next March.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

The motorcyclist won by couple of
yards. On the straightaway the ice
yacht could outdistance the cyclfst,
but the latter had it on the handler of
the skeleton craft on the turns. Photo
shows the race between the ice yacht
and the motorcyclist.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-06

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
BOUQUETS
JOHN RECk e SON
The herald., 1917-11-01
PINES FOR OLDTIME ORATORY
ers Fail to Satisfy Our Long,
ing for Language.

What has become of the old-fashion-
ed orator, the old boy who made the
well known welkin ring? Modern
speakers don't satisfy our longing for
language. We remember at least three
orators Of the old school. One Of
them, at a funeral Grafton, spoke Of
youth and age. Said he: "Springtime's
brightest green must fade and pass
away to be replaced by drear Deem
ber's somber hues."
Another, ceiling Of a visit he had
made to the place of his birth and boy
hood, told Of looking into a spring
around which he had played as a child.
He said: when last 1 looked into its
mirrored beauty l beheld the smiling
face Of happy boy crowned with a
mass Of golden hair. Now behold a
broken old man, hating down the
western hill of time, and on his brow
there is the snow which no summers
sun can ever melt"
The third Of our favorite orators
said: 81 have seen fragrant flowers In
the uuhuS VI DIuSLluS Dcuuly. HdNO
gazed upon the loneliness Of dew-kiss-
ed viOlets rivaling with their modesty
the majesty Of lilies Of the valley. I
have seen gorgeous roses lending bril-
lance to sparkling eyes. But, gentle
men, the most beautiful bouquet that
ever burst into bloom before my en-
raptured eyes was-a royal fush."-
Dallas Pitchfork.
The herald., 1917-11-01
HeIost Aja PENNY.


The porters Of the Pennsylvania sta-
ton, although usually merely attentive
and serviceable, are, in many instances,
equipped with a regular sense OF
humor, and some Of their remarks are
genuinely amusing to the travellers
who encounter them often. says New
York news letter. One Of them stopped
for a moment to watch huge and un-
comfortable looking man weigh him
self. The man was a foreigner, and
fnasmuch as he placed a penny In
scale which clearly demanded five
cents for service 1t did not work. He
stood after the coin fell, looking re-
markedly indignant. Then, seeing the
porter behind him, he turned to him
and told him that he had put cent in
and that nothing had happened. "What
must I do now?" asked the victim,
struggling his shoulders. The negro
looked at him with a smile, meanwhile
taking OFF his hat and scratching his
head speculatively. SWELL" he said,
when you put your money In to learn
what you weigh and then nothing hap
pens you just go right on wondering
how much 1t can be you weigh"
The herald., 1917-11-01
ALASKA BUGS BUSY AS BEES
Mosquitoes Also Are Numerous and
Make Life Unpleasant for Farm
ers in the Far North.

Reports from every corner OF the
town, where the little garden has
been nurtured into healthful life by
master, maid and mllady, are constant
~ appearing to the effect that the gar
dens are being completely wiped OUT,
or rather cut off, by a diminutive In
sect, apparently, at first blush, harm
less, the Anchorage Democrat states.
The lettuce and cabbage seem to af-
ford the best food for the pestiferous
little bug and the only barrier that
will stop him Is quantity Of I've wa
ter sprinkled around each individual
plant. The homesteaders, too, are
troubled much In the same way, and
unless some means may be developed,
and one moro practical than the I've
water for big crops, the seasons re-
turn will not be as ample as expected.
And the bug is not alone proving q
pest to the farmer. The mosquito this
year is making life on the farm any
thing but pleasant, and, in fact, the
swarms Of them appearing day and
night not only retard much Of the nee
essary farm work, but practically
make some Of it impossible. This year
more than any other In the last three
years the mosquito has proved most
harassing little winged devil
The herald., 1917-11-01
SOCIETY WOMAN IS MAYOR
Leader of Philadelphia 400" Accepts
Offer Of Job as Chief Executive
of Florida Town.

Florida has crossed the Rubicon OF
woman suffrage, according to Moore
Haven (Fla.) correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger. The population
Of this city has petitioned Philadel-
phia society woman who has been
farming a 2,0OO-acre ranch in the IA
nous Everglades to accept the may
orally of this city. She has accepted
after the two man candidates person
ally requested her to take the office.
Mrs. George Quintard Horwitz, the
new mayor-to-be of this city, the first
woman TO break through the stone suf-
frage wall en- the solid South, is one
of the most widely-known women In
the North.
In Philadelphia she has taken the
lead in social, philanthrOpic and relief
movements. In Florida she has an
swered the call Of the nation for food
stuffs. She gave up her winter home
in Palm Beach and took up the devel-
opment of her estate in the Ever
glades. As the result she shipped from
her farm more than fifty carloads OF
potatoes.
She will ship from that same farm
IN q few months more than 10000
bushels OF corn, hundreds Of hogs and
many head of cattle. She is now pre-
pairing TO plant hundreds Of additional
acres of fOOdStuffS.
Moore Haven was incorporated sew
eral months ago and it is the only city
in the state with equal franchise
rights for men and women. At mass
meeting two men were nominated for
the mayoralty. The fight promised to
be spirited before the election.
The next morning one of the candi-
dates asked Mrs. Horwitz to serve.
She answered that If the people want
ed her she would accept. A petition
signed by all qualified voters was
handed her that night.
The herald., 1917-11-01
CHARTERS.

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The herald., 1917-11-01
Secret Of Spiders Walk.

The way a spider moves its eight
legs in walking Is interestingly de-
scribed by a science authority. In or.
der to observe this movement at his
leisure-for 1t Is usually too rapid to
be followed By the human eye-he
tired the spiders by making them swim
and then let them walk slowly over q
smooth surface. In this way he dis
covered: 1. The longest legs, those of
the first and fourth pairs, move along
lines of their own directions by yer.
teal bending Of the joints; the short
er legs Of the second and third pairs
move forward by rotation from the
coxae (the joints connecting legs with
the bOdy)-at right angles to their own
directions. 2. First near leg moves
with third off leg; (a) second near leg
moves with third off leg; (b) third
near leg moves with second off leg D.;
(c) fourth near leg moves with first
off leg; (O. 8. Walking consists OF
(a) and (c) simultaneously, followed
by (b) and (d) simultaneously.
The herald., 1917-11-01
UslnQ Inferior Fuels.

Now that it is possible to convert
Inferior fuels, such as peat and brown
coal, with a relatively high degree Of
efficiency, into gas by generators and
to make practical use Of them as
sources Of power, the interest in them
Is increasing. In northern Germany,
whose water power is not easily avail
able, the high and low boys are de-
stined to furnish the fuel needed for
the generation of electricity. The ex-
periences Of the overland power plant
In the Auricher Wiesmoor have proved
that with peat consumption of
kilos GA pounds) per kilowatt hour
the peat boys are an economically use
full source of power Of great extent
and duration.
The herald., 1917-11-01
A Good Listener.

The horse is really one Of the besr
listeners in the world. He is always
on the alert for sounds which concern
or interest him. When he looks at
anything he turns his ears towards 1t
to observe the better whether any
sound comes from 1t. If q horse is
particularly interested in your driving
Of him he always turns his ears back
ward toward you, but If he has no con-
Germ on that subject or If he sees any.
thing ahead that interests him he
keeps his ears pricked forward. A
horse hears the whinny Of another
horse at a greater distance than the
average man can hear it.-Boston
Transcript.
The herald., 1917-11-01
RULE OF THUMB NAVIGATION
New England Sailors Stick to Sextant
and Care Little for w-Fangled
Nautical Instruments.

Edward Hungerford, who made an
Investigation for Everybody's TO find
out where the men are coming from
for our new merchant marine, relates
some interesting Incidents showing the
New England sailors independence of
new-fangled nautical instruments. ASK
them about navigation" he writes,
land they will bring out, with loving
care, the seXtant that was fathers
or Uncle Jim's or, more likely, grand
fathers or one of the great-uncle's.
They will point out the vernier scale
upon its bright face and say to you
landlubber that you are:
"'She shoots the sun. With it we
get the latitude. A chart and the lati-
tude-a lead line and jedgement-jedg-
between the Bermudas and Green
landP
"'How about the longitudeT you
venture.
"'YOu certainly are a landlubber.
The salt lets you know that, with a
single glance Then he shows COM
passion and relates an anecdOte:
"'There was a fellow sailing out of
Gloucester and someone gave him u
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the instrument the
scientific fellows get the longitude
with. They explained 1t TO him, an
for three days he sailed by it-GOd
knows where to Then the dinppd
thing busts an he comes back 70 the
sextant an gets to the banks only q
little behind the rest of the fleet. But
If that chronOmeter hadn't busted, by
Judas Priest, stranger, he might have
hit over in Portugal somewhere
The herald., 1917-11-01
PoIsonings In MunitIon Plants.

The industrial intoxications arising
from the making Of war munitions
open a quite new field of study. Alice
Hamilton, in her investigation among
10000 workers in Al plants, found that
the real cause of illness was recog-
Missed By few even among the factory
physicians, but there was evidence of
poisoning In 2,5OS cases, Of which SO
Resulted fatally. The most harmful
materials were nitrogen oxide fumes
and trinitrotoluene, which, with ben
zine, caused all but three Of the fatal
tpoisonings. Among other injurious
substances are included nitrobenzine,
toluene. phenol, ether, mixed acids,
<Wlphuric acid, picric acid, illuminate,
pmonia, mercury, nitroaphthalenes
I'D chlorine, but these are not likely
70 produce serious results.
The herald., 1917-11-01
KEEPING UP WITH LIFE.

It Is the keeping up with life that
counts-the faculty of making our
selves part of it, not the mere act
of watching 1t pass by. Because a
man has seen happier days, because
memories OF the past cast their visit
full sadness over him, because life can
never again be what 1t once was II
does not follow that we may not find
happiness again. If we lose interest
in the developments that time brings
and persist in living In the past we
must not be surprised If failure sets
its heavy hand upon us and marks us
for its own, says Charleston News and
Courier. A man cannot make head
way if he voluntarily withdrawS from
the new activities which gradually de-
velOp simply because he does not ap-
prove of them. The things of the past
belong to the past. Their memory
may serve to hallOw the present but 1t
is the events that are happening now
with which we have TO cope, and which
we must take into consideration. One
of the most pathetic sights in life is
the loneliness of one who seems to
have Outlived his day. His plight can
not be remedied unless with his hearty
cooperation, end 1t is just this latter
condition that is lacking, as a rule.
The man who lives in the past does
so deliberately and unnecessarily. For
some reason he cannot catch the swing
of life, he does not know how to turn
its corners and meet with anticipa-
ton that which lies just ahead, or to
cut for himself new paths when his
progress seems blocked. He is more
inclined to feel that fate has played
him a mean trick because 1t has not
permitted his life to continue to run
uninterruptedly in It's even course.
The herald., 1917-11-01
MHY CHILDREN TELL FIBS
Imagination Is Stronger Than tho IN.
teIIect and Fiction Is as Real to
Them as Fact

WHY do children lie? Edwin s. Pull
der In the Mothers Magazine answers
the question by saying that the imagf-
nation of q child is stronger than MS
intellect, that fiction is as real to a
child as fact.
I .SThe cure for lies inspired by imagi-
nation" he asserted, SIS the education
of the child's intellect to distinguish
between fact and fancy. AS his error
Ia mental, not normal, his cure must
be mental. It would be grave error
OF training to attempt to suppress MS
imagination as a cure for his untruths'
Imagination is the mainspring winch
moves his mentality TO growth, hence
st should be directed into rational chan-
nels and not curbed
"Only parents who cannot disun-
yuish between an imaginative untruth
and a real lie punish such infants or
scold them for being wicked. The child
does not recognize any immoral quail
sty In his untruth because there Is
none. Therefore he does not see the
Justice Of the censure or the whipping
which he has received as punishment.
But he would recognize as helpful his
mothers patient effort to untangle his
imagination which is so helplessly COM
mingled with facts.
"About the age of seven or eight, the
child's mental fog begins to clear and
his mentality develops 10 the point
where It begins to dominate his imagi-
nation. The unreal becomes more
sharply defined and fancy slowly. dis
engages itself from fact When such
mental development is reached, the
misstatements inspired by imagination
will cease.
'sThe factor for the prevention and
cure Of lying in older children Is the
GOOD example Of parents. Moral suasion
Is apt to lose its effectiveness when the
mother sends her daughter to the door
to tell the caller that mother is not In.
The parent should be 'on honor In the
matter of truthfulness, as well as the
child. Children are great imitators.
Hold up an example Of scrupulous ad-
herence to truth and your part Will
have been nobly done"