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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
BASEBALL CLASSIC
DUE AT CLARENDON

The real amateur baseball classic
OF the early season is promised for
Clarendon Sunday afternoon when
Joe Giebel leads his Clarendon outfit
against the strong Rex A c. From
all advance dope Washington fans
will pour into Virginia to see this
contest. Unfortunately the new
stands at Clarendon will not be ready
to accommodate the crowd. but both
what may develop into a pitchers
who will be there, anyway, to see
what may develop into a pitchers
duel between PfeiI, the Clarendon
crack, and Vernstein, of Rex.
With the exception Of the Balti-
more Dry Dock team, Wright's clan
has had easy sailing with the teams
whose managers have had nerve
enough to stand up before them
Similarly GiebeIs club has been able
to get only good batting practice in
So that when these clubs get together
in the first game of the series there is
sure to be something doing.
While their assertion may be dis
puted by Bus Hager, Tom Crooks
and others, Messrs. Wright and Gle
bel claim to have the best clubs
within a thirty-mile radius of Wash
ington Monument.
James Arringdale Dorrittee, for
two years past the treasurer of the
Clarendon club, has been promoted
to the presidency to succeed L. l..
Bennett, who will devote his time to
the work of the Clarendon Citizens
Association.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
CHARLIE MURPHY WILL BE
PRESIDENT OF CUBS AGAIN

CHICAGO. May s.-chariie Murphy
will again be president OF the Cubs.
This rumor. apparently on the best Of
authority, is stirring up no little in
terest among Chicago National League
fans.
Fred Mitchell 10 said to find the
double duties of president and mana
ger too onerous, and plans to resign
as president and devote al his time to
the actual playing OF the champions.
Murphy recently purchased a small
block OF stock in the club. When re-
fused permission to look at the books,
he obtained a court order and took his
look. Now comes this rumor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09

Waterbury Eastern League club. and
E. l. King, the young outhelder from
Springfield. in the same league.
Hugh McQuillan, the pitcher given
q brief trial last year, will be sent
back to Worcester for more training.
The necessity OF getting down to
players by May is IL the
reason for these releases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
CENTRAL LADS PLAY
EASTERN AT A. |. PARK

Central High School will play the
Eastern High School team at Ameri-
can League Park today in the fourth
game Of the high school baseball Sc
ries. Central is credited with A for
feited game TO Western. while Eastern
was beaten by Tech.
The contest is scheduled to be
played at $3.50, II ground and weather
conditions permit. Eastern has been
picking up rapidly of late, and NAV
come through with a win if Central
falters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
AT VILLAN0VA TODAY

Catholic University baseball players
are scheduled to meet Villanova Col
lege at Villanova. Pa. today. The
Brooklanders will play Mt. St Mary
at Emmittsburg, Md, tomorrow after
noon.
Fordham trimmed c. Z. in New
York yesterday by a score OF to 4.
The Catholic University lads were
blanked up to the seventh. when they
tailed four times. e. u. got but
three hits off Mcnamara, the Fordham
twirler.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
MAY TRADE ROBERTSON TO
ST. LOUIS FOR GONZALES

NEW YORK. May cit was ru-.
mored here today that John J. Nc
Graw, manager OF the New York
Giants. is negotiating a deal which
will bring Mike Gonzales, Cardinal
catcher, TO the Giants, in exchange
for Dave Robertson, outfielder
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
GREE REATs sIEEHAN.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, May 9.-WiIlis
Meehan. the Frisco fat boy, was de-
feated by Harry Greb. local middle
weight in ten-round bout here last
night. Although Grsb conceded thir-
ty-two pounds in weight to Msehan
he outpointed the visitor in nine a.
the ten rounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09

Jack Barry Slated To Resume
His Old Job Managing Red Sox
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
BRAVES RELEASE PLAYERS
TO GET DOWN TO NEW LAW

BOSTON, May 0.-Manager Stallings
has given the customary ten days
notice of release to Heinie shreiber,
the shortstop obtained from the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
GR|FFSLOSE MILAN
ON EVE OF JOURNEY
BOSTON
WASHINGTON.

Ran for Agnew in seventh.
tBatted for Craft in ninth.
S Sosionl.' - -
Runs-Hooper, Witt and Scott Errors
Thompson, Hooper. Witt. Stolen bases
inniS as. sSoridcs ny@Jones. Double
piays-Foster 20 Judge to Agnew; Judge 20
Shs1Gs 70 { nS.ssn Left on
Johnson, 2; of Craft, / on Jones. 4. Hits
on johnson; s in innings; OF Graft.
son. 2; by Jones, ). Passed baII-Walters.
Losing pltcher-JOhnson.
BY BURT WHITMAN.
heading West for a tour of the
frontier circuit, the washington
Senators have been deprived of their
star center fielder. Clyde Milan. He
has gone to Washington. where he
must undergo an operation for appen-
dicitis by Saturay at the latest
THE loss Of Milan, heavy as II ds,
said Manager Griffith before leaving
for New York. won't ruin US. It'll
only make the team fight all the
harder. We're not getting the breaks,
but our luck is sure to turn. Then
watch our dust"
Harry Thompson. who used to play
in the Toronto outfeId, will now get
a trial in the Washington garden.
though he has been working ont as
a southpaw pitcher. Against left
handlers, Menosky will play in center
and Charity in left. when right
handlers oppose. Menosky will remain
in center, but Thompson will be seen
in left
Fan to Get One.
The Griffmen failed to get enc
game here, though deserving better
luck. They should have won yestef-
day, but lost instead, 3 to o. Sam
Jones held them in the hollow of his
good right I'm whenever q hit would
have scored anybody. They had thir-
teen runners left on bases to two for
the champions.
The Griffs had men on bases In
every inning. Four reached third
base and in four frames they had two
runners on the sacks, but never did
one cross the plate.
The Red Sox, on the other hand,
while not as powerful with the dail
as their rivals, got their hits at the
right time and place. Two hits, .
walk and Sam Rice's slow peg home
gave the champs two runs in the
fifth
Hanks Error Counts.
An error by Shanks let the Red
Sox get their third run in the sixth.
Hooper doubled to right and Barry
got an infeld bingle. Strunk forced
Barry, but Hooper scored q moment
later when Hank Shanks messed up
Ruth's gTounder.
Molly Craft, a long, Ianky right
handler, finished the game for Wash
ington, and had no trouble with the
champions.
Eddie Foster continued his hitting
streak. bringing his total up to an
even dozen games.
Joe Judge crashed out three hits,
one double, in five times up. Judge
looked very good here in both gamea
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
BRUCE MEETS nEVANs.

Gene Bruce, the Finn grappler, from
New York, will meet Bob Devans, of
Cincinnati, in a finish wrestling match
at the Lyceum Theater tonight. The
men are middleweights
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
PEEL IN FINE FORM.

Emil PfeiI was in fine form for the
War Risk team yesterday, and won a
3-to-2 game over the Treasury. Pfeil
allowed four hits and famed eleven.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
Big League Differs of
Yesterday
LEAGUE STANDINGS
AMERICAN.

YESTERDAYS GAMES
Boston. ;. Washington. O.
Chicago. 4 Cleveland. /
New York. .; Philadelphia. o.
Detroit at st. Louis trainD }.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
NATIONAL.
Yesterdays GAMES

Boston. 5: New York. III innings).
Brooklyn, >; Philadelphia, l.
Pittsburgh, 4: St Louis 2.
Cincinnati at Chicago train)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
ToDAY'S GAMES

Boston at Philadelphia
New York at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at Chicago.
st. Louis al Pittsburgh
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-05-09
TODAY's QANEs

Washington at New York
Philadelphia at Boston.
Chicago at Cleveland.
Detroit at st. Louis.
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An order was hastily written and
countersigned by the floor superin-
tendent authorizing the delivery
department to rescue the package
and return it to the salesroom.
The errand girl hurried down to
present the order.
After half an hour or more the
girl returned to the suit depart
ment, but without the package.
Something very mysterious had
happened. she reported. The pack
age had been received in the de-
livery department, blu. it could not
be found. The floor superintendent
himself hurried down to the de-
livery room, as the customer was
becoming impatient. He saw on
the delivery room forms that the
package had been received and
signed for. But there was no
further record Of it. There were
various sheets and check books on
which it should have been re-
corded after it had passed the re
ceiving clerk, but it was noted on
none Of these. A hurried search
OF all packages in the delivery
room was made, but it could not
be found.
The customer was very petulant.
The floor superintendent suspected
that here is another case of
beating the C. o. D." as the store
employees characterized a system
which they had never yet solved
the master criminals system OF
circumventing the elaborate check.
ing devices by which the depart.
ment store keeps its records O,
each sale made.
An investigation of the disap.
pearance Of the package was made
Immediately, but it was fruitless.
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The errand girl to whom it had
been given by the sales clerk as
soon as the customer had decided
to take 1t was summoned. She
Indignantly stated that "she had
done everything all right" mean
ing that she had followed the
usual course and had passed the
package through all the different
departments on its wy to the de-
livery room, and had left it there
to be put on a wagon and sent to
the purchasers home to be col
lected for.
The chief Of the stores bureau Of
investigation went with the girl to
the wrapping desk. Here was the
inspector to whom the girl had
handed the suit to be packed.
With the suit had been handed
over the sales check for $3.50 r,ade
out by the clerk. The inspector,
after looking at the suit to see that
all it's separate pieces were intact
and that it's price tags CORES
pended with the sales check mark
ings, had detached a part of the
check for her files and had re-
turned the wrapped package and
the balance Of the check to the er.
rand girl.
From the inspection desk the er-
rand girl was taken to the delivery
department. her next step with the
missing package. Here the super
intendent Of the delivery room pro-
duced his records. These showed
that the girl had correctly de-
livered the package to him, that 1t
was recorded on his book as having
been received. 1t was his custom
in the delivery department to de-
tach from that part of the sales
check still carried by the errand
girl a slip on which was written
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made purchases in the suit depart
ment before. and was, therefore,
well known to the salespeople.
They agreed to her request with
out hesitation, knowing that in the
past her c. o. d. packages always
had been accepted.
This customer then proceeded to
shop in other departments of the
store. After half an hour or so
she decided that, instead of having
the suit sent home c. o. D., she
would pay for it from money She
had with her and take it home with
her. She turned back toward the
suit department, on an upper floor.
to ask the saleswoman there to get
her the package.
On her way upstairs she met a
store errand girl coming down, car
rying a package. She recognized
the errand girl as the oneto whom
her suit had been given for pack.
ing when she purchased it, and as
she had waited near the packing
desk for her C. o. D. request to
be passed by the floor superinten-
dent. and had seen her suit wrap
ped in its box, she recognized the
package as the one containing the
very suit which she planned soon
to be carrying home.
At the suit department desk the
saleswoman who had waited upon
her was eager to accommodate her
by recovering the C. o. d. package,
changing the c. o. D. sales check
to one marked Paid" and deliver.
ing 1t to her. An errand girl was
sent to trace the package. She re-
ported that 1t had passed the
wrapping desk, the inspection desk
and into the delivery department,
ready to be sent out on a wagon.
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The kindergartens of Crime.

The kindergartens of Crime.
TN his story of "Oliver Twist"
Dickens created the character
Of Fagin, the despicable, sordid
criminal, who made a living by
teaching boys and girls how to be
pickpockets and petty thieves. So
realistic was the Fagin of Dickens
that ever since that time tn word
Fagin has meant in the popular
mind the lowest and vilest sort of
wretch-one who teaches children
how TO become criminals.
Last week on this page Catherine
Riley, one OF the most notorious of
shoplifters, told how the master
criminal lures men and women into
his organization of thieves and as
sassins and makes of them vir-
tually slaves to his criminal will.
But the police authorities in the
large cities Of the East have found
that this master rogue is guilty of
even still more abominabIe prac-
tice. He has created his own Fa-
gins, who in their modern and
much more efficient way take girls
and boys just out of their school
rooms, right from their families
and playEates, and teach them to
serve the pernicious organization
which the master criminal has
built up.
The original Fagin gave his les
sons in a dark, evil odored stall,
hid away in the alleys of White
chapel He gave his lessons mostly
with the aid Of cudgel. The new
Fagins of the master criminal are
not so crude. They have equipped
schoolrooms, with chalk and black
boards. They have fixed regular
school hours. And they have put
these schools not in the slums or
in the alleys hidden away from the
police and all other neighbors, but
in neighborhoods where stald and
respectable residences flank them
on either side.
II is almost unbelievable that in
a great city like New York there
could exist a school for crime,
where children are taught, with a
carefully prepared curriculum, all
the tricks of the thieving trade,
graduated and then coached along
in their criminal career. But the
records of the police are there to
testify that the master criminal
does conduct such schools, with
highly efficient teachers, and that
they have become one of the dread
menaces Of his organization.
It has been told before on these
pages that the proprietors Of all
the great stores in the national
metropolis have found 1t neces-
sary to join themselves in the
Stores Mutual Protective Associa-
ton for the purpose Of helping
conduct an organized, pitiless war
against the master criminal II
is this organization which has
placed its own detective force In
all the great stores, where 1t con-
tinually is watching for the agents
of him whom Catherine Riley last
week called "the Chief" One of
the leaders Of this organization of
detectives is Howard Browne, who
has organized detective forces for
some Of the nations greatest retail
institutions.
To-day this Howard Browne, as
head of the Bureau of Investiga-
ton of one of New York's biggest
stores, is conducting a relentless
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pArtmeut.

drop 1t in a receptacle for
c. o. ID. checks. This remaining
portion Of the slip contained the
record upon which the cashier
afterward would ask $3.50 of the
delivery department.
The chief of the bureau of inves-
legations now sent the errand girl
back to her work. 1t was shown
she had delivered her package. A
request was sent to the auditing de-
partment for the auditing portion
OF the original check. In the
meantime the next post on the
progress Of the package-"the
routing DESK" where packages are
laid out for the drivers of certain
routes-was visited.
Here there was no record of the
package at all. II should have
been written down on-a routing
sheet and assigned to a driver for
delivery. But II had not been.
Then 1t ought to have been still in
the bin. But 1t was not to be
found. 1t had mysteriously disap-
rpeared. The auditing department
declared that 1t could not find the
auditing check, yet the errand girl
protested that she had dropped 1t
In the c. o. d. receptacle. APP
parently the girl could have had no
reason to do otherwise, so she was
not blamed for its disappearance.
The package was gone, despite
the fact that its records in the
store were perfect up to q point
where 1t would seem It could not
have been lost.
The general manager Of the
store wrote an apologize letter to
the customer, regretting the un-
fortunate Inconvenience imposed
upon her, and asking her II she
would not be content, under the
circumstances, to accept another
suit, even II one still more expen-
sive, In lieu of the one that had
disappeared.
This letter the general manager
sent to the customer by special de-
livery. Imagine his establishment
when the customer called him on
the telephone and stated that she
could not understand his letter at
all-that Immediately after she ar
rived at her home the day she pur-
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war against that part
Of the master crimi-
nails ba n d which,
comes under his OBJ
servation = the shop
lifters. And it was
Mr.. Browne who, with
the assistance of New
York's clever police,
uncovered last June
one of the boldest of
the master criminals
schools for the in
struction of children
in the cunning of the
shoplifter.
This academy of
crime was discovered
as the result of one of
those accidents which
even the ingenious
mind of the nations
master criminal can
not insure against
an accident which
brought about the ex-
PLANTATION of one of
the greatest sources
of loss from which
big department stores
have suffered year af-
ter year.
In one of the stores
in New York City,
where more than
$500 employees con-
tinually are on the
pay rolls, a woman
customer purchased a
street suit of a model
which was priced at
$3.50. She asked that
it be sent to her ad-
dress c. o. D., stipu-
lating that it be de-
livered early that af-
ternoon. She had
The Washington times., 1919-11-02

How the modern department store
teaches its shop girls the intricacies
Of the sales checR system and how
to BE- courteous and efficient clerks.
This is the "schoolroom" in the big
GimbePs store in New York, and
here leach new shop girl must first
attend daily lessons in sales making
and sales recording. It is this
school which the Master Criminal
copied for his Fagins. as will be
seen on the opposite page. The in
structor is Mr.. +. W. Oakley, head
OF the GimbeI Educational De-
parfmenf.
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the full record OF the sale and the
contents Of the package. In the
case Of c. o. d. pa kages his slip
also charged him with the return
Of the money to the cashier.
From the delivery superinten-
dents desk the errand girl was re-
quired oni.- to take the package
into the room and drop 1t in a bin
where G. o. d. packages are
accumulated for later routing
and actual delivery.
The errand girl now ap-
parently was vindicated-as
it was expected she would be
7 from all carelessness. The
intricate checking system
had been followed out In all
instances, as far as she was
concerned, and the records
showed, by the portions of the
sales slips detached, that she
had taken her package to the
delivery room and left it
there. There was but one
more transaction she was
charged with. After leaving
the delivery room she still
had in her possession a re-
naming portion of the orig
inal sales check. This, still
containing complete record
of The sale and the c. o. d.
charge, she was required by
the rules to take to the au-
diting department, and there
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-15
Found Platinum Beds.

Or. Her>ehcl c. Parker of Columbia
university. while on an exploring eN-
petition Ia ALASKA last summer, dis
covered extensive platinum beds IN
the Su-itana and lcntna valleys IN
the Cook inlet country. lie brought
out ii large number of ore samples ON
his return 90 the States, and * now
engaged in exhaustive tests Of the
metal. lie expects to establish plant
for handling the ore when hc goes
back TO Alaska next spring.
THE Alaska platinum ore Is low
grade" said Doctor Parker "hut Il is
there i'm abundance. II viii have (" be
handled in large quantities ana under
scientific methods of economy 10 make
ii pay. The question of its commercial
value is simply one Of engineering.
With the end of the war and the con
sequent wide use of platinum for jew
elry. | believe the Alaska beds will
proye u valuable source Of world sup
ply"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-15
City and Vicinity
News

can't pau1 W sage Of Chicago is IN
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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-15
Famous Buildings in Welmar.

Conspicuous public buildings in Wei
mar are the WittumSpalnis, the Old
ducal dover house, continuing Prel-
ler's famous mural paintings of the
Odyssey; the Goethe-Scliller archive
an imposing editice on an eminence
tbove the river Ulm, in which are
teasured manuscripts by famous Ger
nan writer's; the List museum;
gymnasium; a Realschule, or school
70 girls, founded by the Grand Ouch
es Sophia; a grand ducal school Of
ar; technical, commercial and music
schools, geographical institute, teach
err seminaries and other institutions
Oflearning.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-15

A new lightship also has bell,
which is made to ring automatically
by means of highly ingenious device
which utilities the gas as it passes
from the tanks to the lantern. to actu-
ate the bell clapper. The light Is not
interfered with in the slightest degree
by the operation Of the bell-striking
device. It is only set in motion, how
ever, in very foggy weather, when the
light cannot be distinguished at any
great distance.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-15
Miles of Cents.

Nearly two miles Of cents raised
among the office force Of Thomas A..
Rush. surveyor of the port of New
York, were given to the Salvation
Army as the Surveyors Customs Wei
fare associations contribution toward
happy holidays for the poor. y mile OF
cents was the goal set for the collec
tions, about $500 being an estimate for
that amount, but a sum of 81, 800 was
collected. The box containing the
flood Of copper required ten men to
lift il.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-15
STANDARD of Taste,

One of my fellow wage-slaves tro-
lates Louge) is the proud possessor
of an exceedingly noisy shirt-white,
with wide orange and purple stripes,
if you will believe it. One evening,
he was calling on some friends who
have q five-year-old daughter. The
youngster gaZed wide-eyed at the
screaming combination, then, rubbing
her hand over the shirt front, in.
qured; "What kind Of a flag is thatf'
Cleveland Plain Dealer.