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The Washington times., 1924-10-08
Rain and Cold. Braved
BY Fans All Night
TO Get Early Tickets

NEW YORK, Oct. S.-Three de.
serving candidates for the fans
hail Of fame were found when dawn
'broke damply today over the group
Of eight faithful who endured q
chill, and rainy night to be first
in line for bleacher seats for the
fifth world series game. Two q
them were patriarchs past sixty;
the third boy Of nineteen.
John Cogan, sixty-eight and e.
Kohn. sixty-three, are friends Of
years standing who met in the
blsachers. Both are New Workers..
Cogan has been q fan 1orty-five
years and attended every world
series played here.
Kohn has been going since he was
thirteen and remembers when quar-
ter bought q grand stand seat and
the bleachers were Is cents.
First in the little line Of eight,
watched over by rain-soaked ser.
geant ana four patrolmen came
Charles Fisher, Of Albany, N. r. He
was the life Of the aIl-night vigil and
with songs ana stories speeded the
dragging hours.
It was at his suggestion that the
octette found an old ash can filled
It with coal dropped by wagons from
g neighboring coal yard and over
this inipromptu furnace found
warmth, against the nights rain and
chill.
Fisher left Albany ON foot sun.
day. He hiked and caught rides
to New York, arriving at midnight
In time to get fourth place in line
for the opening game here. A rab-
bits foot and pair Of dice won
him enough for q meal after, the
game.
Behind him In line was Joe John-
son, also Of Albany, a friend Of
Fishers, although their meeting
Was not planned. Johnson came by
trim. He IL rooter for the Ma.
tionals.
Third in Hne was Bernard Dobbs,
twenty.one, OF 10S Alberta avenue,
Newark, N. j., National fan.
Three from Camden, N. j., were
next, all taking Waahihgt part
in the. argument during the night.
They were Anthony Burke, Louis
Martin and Frank @. Girard.
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
La Toilette Demands
Probe Of '.SIush Fund
Charges Against COP.

HOBOKEN, N. J., Oct. S.--Re-
titerating his charge that the Re
publican party il collecting vast
sIush fund ITO buy the election Of
President Coolidge" Senator Robert
M. La Fbllette independent Presi-
Dental candidate, again demanded
today q full investigation by the
Borah committee Of campaign
expenditures OF all parties.
In a formal statement, La Toilette
insisted that the Borah Senate COM
mittee investigating campaign ex-
penses be summoned into session
Immediately, subpoena managers OF
all parties and compel them to
produce books and papers and to
testify fully regarding the collection
ana use 81 money In the Presi-
dental campaign"
Bars Wall st. Bug"
.'I intend to follow UP vigorously
my demand for an investigation Of
the special sllsh rund which Is
being collected under the direction
of w. q. Mellon, Of Pittsburgh,
brother of the Secretary of the
Treasury, and Edward 4. Stotesbury,
the Philadelphia partner Of j. p.
Morgan, for the purpose Of buying
the election Of Coolidge in the doubt.
full States Senator La Toilette
stated.
"It 10 vital that the American peo-
pie know before election day exactly
what the money interests are doing
to influence their decision at the
polls" he added, 81 intend to see
that they have this information. We
have just begun to fight. wall
Street shall not buy this election"
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
~ ROLAND KREBs.

AmNGHAAtAWUAA N@WB BGEVl00s
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.--The dope
bubbling today out o. the AlamAc
Hotel. where the washington
team IL hanging itB hats during
their stay In New York, was that
just as soon as the team finished
the series Goose Goslin would
take UP the practice Of medicine.
There was not 4 one Of the
Nationals who was not from fif-
teen to twenty years younger to-
day. thanks to the Goose, al
though they were q lot Of broken
down old granppaa when tIaoy
took the field for the fourth game.
Their before taking" appear.
ance changed after the third In
ming to u decidedly after taking
air. The stuff they took that fixed
them up was Doctor GosIinss home
run In, the third frame with two
tenants on the bags. The prescrip.
ton has done them so much good
that they want another dose IN
the next two games.
Doctor Goslin cured AlogrtdgA'o
lame wing. The dope from the
Alanaac was that BuclEy Harris
had Mogridge locked fl q cage 70
prevent him from trying TO pitch
again today with the arm that
every one thought would flop
sooner than the eighth inning
yesterday.
The Nationals IisAped cut 70
start the game. Bucly Harris
struck out IN the first inning. He
crawled back to the dug out, not
caring whoop. His team was
just like he was. Then Doctor
Goslin gave them q heaping bat
full Of homo run, and they popped
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
FRISCO To HAVE
MASTER MUSIC
SCHOOL
Alice G. MacfarIane Pounds
Institution to Memory
Of Family
y InternationaI News Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. .s.-The
endowment Of one of the greatest
master schools Of musical art in
the United States has been an
nounced in san Francisco, for
which 4 fund Of $50 200 4 year fof
five years has been pledged by
music lovers Of this city.
Mrs. Alice Campbell Macfarlane,
founder Of the school and it's prin-
cipal guarantor, announced plana
Ior the school upon her departure
The school win be q memorial to
Mrs, Macfarlane's father and
mother, James and Abigail Camp
Den. MY mother was singer,
and she enjoyed music to her I'm.
gertips," said Mrs. Macfarlane Il
thought that no more fitting tribute
could pc paid to her than the
foundation Of q school dedicated
to her, with the object Of develop
Ing talent In musical students who
might not otherwise have the op-
portunity."
Laaar s. samoiloff. noted vocal
instructor. Of New York, and teach.
er o. many worid.faEnous singers,
has been appointed general director
q the new master school. Miss
Alice Seckels, San Francisco con.
cert manager. will be manager Of
the school.
Purposes Outlined.
Four objects Of the school. out.
lined by Mrs. Macfariane, are:
j. To bring the most famous
masters Of the world to teach their
arts continuously for six months OF
the year, dividing their time be-
tween San Francisco and Los An.
geles.
2. 10 develop the musical talent
Of the Pacific coast which has not
the means to study with the great
masters.
8. TO organize an opera school
for the preparation Of local singers
for principal roles IN grand opera.
4. To prepare teachers who will
be abba to spread the work Of the
masters.
Il Il said that this win be the
only school Of its kind IN the world,
ae only the greatest masters Of the
violin, piano. voice and compost.
ton win be brought to teach az the
school.
II viii open late in April, 1926.
No San Francisco iocatlon has
been announced, but q permanent
building will be the ultimate object
Of its founders
Salnoiloff win continue teaching
at his Bel Canto Studios In New
York for six months or the year.
During these periods and the ab.
sence OF the other masters, teach
ers trained by them win carry on
the work Of the school.
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
Cool And Fair Day
Awaits Griffs For
Battle Here

When the fighting Griffmen
return to their own ball yard
tomorrow afternoon they will
have 4 cool, fair afternoon in
which to fight one Of the clos
ing struggles for baseball SUI
prelmacy.
There isn't q rain drop IN
sight, Weather Bureau officials
declared today. The afternoon
may be even q little chillier
than today, but there viii be no
clouds.
The forecast for this after.
noon in New York, the officials
declared, was cloudy and cool.
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
SEVENTH RACE.
one Mile AMI q Sixteenth.
MOTHER ADMITS KILLING
BOY BY PUSHING IN RIVER

WATERLOO. Iowa, Oct. 81
Mrs. Mary Maharas, thirty years
old, who confessed that she pushed
her nine-year-old son into the
river, causing his death, viii be
charged with first degree murder,
"A. O. Nelson, assistant county at.
torney, has announced.
Nelson declares he will prove
that q violent disposition, coupled
with q murderous rage. caused the
woman to kill the boy. She de-
clared size wns glad sha drowned
him, and that she did not love her
husband and hated the child
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
CR|FFS ARE
FAV()R|TES
TODAY
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the Gr4tfs WIN be mora out 81 luck
than Il he merely rested for one
more day.
Peck has his strained muscle
strapped tightly ana Is resting 1t as
much as possible. He Is risling
nothing that might keep him out OF
the lineup.
Win or lose. the Fighting Griffs
win return TO Washington tonight.
Their special traine will also carry
the New York Giants ana the high
officials Of baseball making up the
party. The train should arrive in
the Capital between 10 and II O'Clock
tonight.
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
Griffs' Victory Stirs
New York S Fans and
Alters Betting Odds
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH.
international NaHa EarYicA.

4
NEW YORK, Oct. s.-with thS
easy facility Of . quick chapgs
artist who disappears behind The
Rack drop as william Jennings
Bryan and returns IN moment as
the late John L. Sullivan, the
Washington team today had Be.
come fortunes favorite whore yes,
terday they were fortunes fathead.
They had Walter Johnson poised
Tar another sortie against the
Giants Ia the fifth game OF the
world series and Broadway odds
were six to five that Washington
would win and step out to the pace
for the first time since the series
opened. A victory today win give
them the edge at three games to
two.
aspect. But it was not thus
twenty.four hours ago when the
Nationals were one down and four
to play with not the slightest indi-
cation that Mogridge would pitch
winning ball or that Goslin would
80 on hitting rampage.
1t has ever been maintained that
John y. Sullivan had the punch.
That being the case the quick
change expert must think UP q
new character for them, pronto.
John McGraw Is almost utterly de.
void Of pitchers and rain would be
Q great boon.
McGraw's Hopes Fade.
It looked for q time this morn
ing as though McGraw would bt
favored In this respect. It rained
al night and part Of the morning
but at o'clock pale. unenthusi
aatic sun peepsd through the clouds
John hoped the unsettled weather
might be greatly EXAGGERATED, enough
so, as 1t were, to make the Johns
town flood look like q novice. Hil
star left.hander, Nehf, may not b.
able to face johnson, owing to 8
bruised pitching hand.
A postponement would not have
been altogether unacceptable to ths
Nationals either. It would stake
Walter Johnson TO another day al
rest and mayhap react to the i'd
vantage Of Peckinpaugh's strained
tendon. Looking to the future Il
also would bring Mogridge into the
equation as Q possibility for pitch
ing the seventh game, II such there
Is to be.
The injury to Nehf frankly had
the Giants wingtng this morning
He is the only Giant who hal
pitched winning ball during thu
/ oGvsfAa osNA ~ l.lT. A. Z
20 treatment, New York IL likelS
TO win second money, whether PecI
returns to the game or not.
Bentley is Considered.
Nehfs hand was bruised IN at
tempting to stop B hard drive II
Saturdays game. It is swollen &
the proportions Of q young bologna
and during yesterdays practice
Nehf was unable to throw a ball.
Jack Bentley. beaten IN Sundays
game, viii pitch today II Neh,
doesn't. He Is not the most com
forting bet IN the world, blu,
McGraw was pleased to adrni,
nothing Of the kind.
Bentley pitched pretty good
game In Washington and I expeci
him to repeat, the great mar
avowed. III he does, think hs
win beat the Nationals this time
We hit Johnson before and dom
see any reason why we shouldn,
DO Il the second time he faces us
Watson IL another possibility bui
q most improbable one. He stopped
the Nationals In the ninth inrinl
on Monday but one swallow doesn'l
mako q summer nor one inning I
ban game. Watson. like Marberry
q almost certain 70 be held d
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
Rainfall Would Keep
Teams In N. Y.
For Game

NEW YORK, Oct. Sin the.
event Of rain causing q post
ponement Of the fifth game of
the world series today the
teams will remain in New York
and play the game on the first
clear day here. Under the rules
covering the post-season classic,
the teams cannot leave FOR
Washington until ali games.
scheduled for New York are
completed.
The rule was exercised 70 the
limit ID Philadelphia during
the 1911 series between the
Giants and Athletics. At that
time the series was held up
week because Of almost con-
tinuous rainfall.
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
AYDRANT WASHES CHILD
INTO PATH or TRUCK

NEW YORK. Aug. l1.--Rose Pan.
toliano, five years old. Of 6s1 West
Thirty-ninth street, was knocked
down and washed into the street
BY stream from 4 fire hydrant
at Tenth avenue and Thirty.ninth
etreet which one Of the children
whom she was playing had turned
on.
Before she could scramble to her
feet motor truck killed her. ReSll
ben GIassman, OF SIS Qravesend
avenue, Brooklyn, driver OF tho
truck, was arrested.
The Washington times., 1924-10-08
D. G. ARTS COMMITTEE or
TRADE BOARD TO MEET

The municipal art committee. Of
the Board Of Trade, Appleton D.
Clarke, chairman, will meet AZ $50
today In the board rooms. rresi-
dent Colladay has sent call TO all
committee chairmen to hold meet
in9s Of their committees. and file
their annual reports.
held October 10 At the Continental
week as previously planned.
The Washington times., 1924-10-08

reserve Tor the rescue of be-
leagaered comrades.
In the Nationals camp It was
said that johnson IS absolutely
ready. They said the same thing
on Saturday and the Giants knocked
him upside down but history IL
not exactly pocl.maarked with &c
counts oe the same ball club doing
that to johnson twice IN q row.
Ia any case the man who once
threw the invisible han happens to
be q supreicr bet over Bentley.
That would leave the sixth game
to the tender nercies Of Zachary
and Nelaf. The seventh that fol-
lowed probably win be pitched by
Nick Altrock and Hughey Jennings.
The Washington times., 1924-04-25
SECRETARY OF NAVY GUEST
AT OFFTCERS' DANCE.

The Secretary Of the Navy and
Mrs. Wilbur and the Assistant Sec.
rotary of the Navy and Mrs. Roose-
welt were guests at the dance given
last night at the Willard by the
navy and marine officers stationed
in Washington, which was attended
by a notably brilliant company.
Orchestras from the Marine and
Navy Bands played for the dancing,
and the flags of the Secretary Of
the Navy and the Assistant Secrc-
tary hung over the boxes occ upied
The Washington times., 1924-04-25
AUTHORS BALL
GAYEST OF
THREE.
Navy and Marine Officers
Also Have Dance; Hop
at Fort Myer.

: The Authors Carnival Costume
Ball, given in connection with the
League of American Penwomen
Convention, was the most pictur-
esque of three. big dances which
made last night a notable occa-
sion. The dance Of the navy and
marine officers at the Willard ran
close second for interest and
then; there was q hop at Fort
Myer which was attended by a
goodly number of civilians as well
as many of the army crowd.
Given out at Wardman Park
Hotel, the Authors Ball was under
the direction of the ID. c. Chapter
Of the PenwonIen's League, but II
was attended by many of the
visiting writer's who are here for
the convention. The ballroom was
metamorphosed into mah-jong
room, with little pages dressed as
tiles-flowers, winds and seasons,
red and green MISREPRESENTATION
ing a delightful touch.
Many Of the guests were in fancy
costume. court ladies rubbing elbows
with peasant girls. and shining
lights of history hob-nobbing with
famous characters of fiction.
Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher,
president Of the District branch;
Mrs. William Wolff Smith, director
Of the convention, and Mrs. William
Anterior Du Puy and Mrs. Macpher-
son Crichton, directors Of the ball.
received with Mrs. Louis N. Geldert,
national president, and other ma
tional officers.
Mrs. Locher wore quaint and
delightful costume of the civil war
period, with pink rosebuds in her
hair. Mrs. Crichton was in Rus
Sian dress, a full lace skirt, scarlet
velvet jacket outlined with fur and
worn with high boots and a jeweled
kakoshnik. Mrs. Du Puy was a
Chinese lady Of high degree, with d
wedding headdress Of pearlg.
Among the guests were Mrs
Davis, wife of the Secretary OF
Labor; the minister of Serbia, DR.,
Pavichich; Commissioner and Mrs
Cuno Rudolph, Senator and Mrs
Arthur Capper, Senator Samuel NJ
Shortridge, DR.. and Mrs. Crichton-
the doctor an authentic and impos
/ ing Highlander in kilt and sporrar
Mrs. J. Walter Heustis, Mr.. and
Mrs. DuPuy, Mr.. and Mrs. FLOYD
Waggaman. Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Tiller-Mrs. Tiller was chairman oil
one of the important committee
Mr.. and Mrs. Hampson Gary, Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick Irving Cox, Mr.
and Mrs. Mark Potter, Miss Rebecca
Dial, and Mrs. Lee Holcombe.
The supper room was particu
larly attractive decorated in Arabic
design under the direction of Mrs
Virginia Monroe, who, with heI
whole committee, were dressed il
lovely Arabic and Egyptian cos
tunes.
The committee on decorations fol
the BAH included Mrs. Samuel Bur
leigh Milton, chairman; Nine. SEE
i wife Of the Chinese minister: Mrs
Robert X. Williams, vice Chairman
Miss Ethel Williamson, Miss Mar
garet Dodson, Mrs. William LeetcI
and Mrs. Nathalie Asher.
The Washington times., 1924-04-25
WHITE HOUSE
!. DINNER FOR
SPEAKER
Mrs. Coolidge to Receive
American Pen Women
Today.
BY JEAN ELIOT.

NyHE last Of the annual series Of
state dinners was given last
u night at the White House,
with the President and Mrs. Cool
1dge as hosts and the Speaker of
the House and Mrs. Gillett as honor
guests. The dinner had been post
poned from February because of Of
fetal mourning for the late. Wood
row Wilson.
The new Attorney General, Harlan
p. Stone, and the new Secretary of
the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur were
present. The other guests were
Congressman and Mrs. Allen T.
Treadway, Congressman and Mrs.
Bertrand Smell, Congressman and
Mrs. Wallace III. White. jr., the
American Ambassador to Belgium
and Mrs. Phillips. the Third Assist
ant Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Butler Wright, Brig. Gen. Herbert
N. Lord, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S.
Hamlin, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Grosvenor
/. Backus, Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius
N. Bliss, Mr.. and Mrs Arthur B.
Chaplin, Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Gros.
venor, Mrs. Eugene Hale, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. e. Hedges, DR.. and Mrs.
George D. Odds, DIR. and Mrs. Jason
Noble Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
l.. Pratt Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w.
Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Charles War
rem, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T. Clark,
Miss Mary Randolph, Col. and Mrs.
G. o. Sheriff., and Capt. and Mrs.
Adolphus Andrews.
A musicale. to which additional
guests were invited. followed the
dinner, the recital being given in
the East Room by Miss Amy Evans,
soprano, and Frazer Gange, with
Elmer Zoller at the piano. The fa-
nous Dolly Madison service was
: used on the dinner table, and the
decorations were Of butterfly roses,
narcissus poeticus, and maidenhair
fern.
DIR. Odds, president Of Amherst
College, and Mrs. Odds, who came on
for the dinner, are guests at the
White House.
Mrs. Coolidge will receive the dele
gates to the convention OF the
League Of American Pen Women at
the White House this afternoon, and
yesterday she was hostess To the
delegates to the American Associa-
ton of University Women's conven-
ton.
X X X
"White House Tool Shed Club
Also Has Dinner Party.
Just few blocks from the Execu-
tive Mansion there was another din
ner last night, a small and exclusive
gathering which once again caught
the spirit of White House days of
half century ago. Twelve of the
"boys" who organized the "K. f.
R." or White House Tool Shed
Club" when President Grant sat, In
the Executive Office and his young
son, Jesse, ruled the Presidential
tool shed, joined hands around the
table at their annual dinner at the
Army and Navy Club.
The meaning Of the mystic letters
has never been divulged by the
members. With six charter" mem
The Washington times., 1924-04-25

Yates, Mrs. A. Blair Thaw, Mrs.
Wilbur r.. Turner, Mrs. =. II. B.
Smith, Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, Mrs.
Truman G.. Palmer; Mrs. Francis M.
Savage. Mrs. Edward q Plummer,
Mrs. Logan Tucker, Mrs. George
Joerns,. Mrs. Theodore Tiller, Mrs.
Scott B. MacFarlane, Mrs. Harkey
calvin Gage and Miss Helen Wat
son.
Congressman and Mrs. Guy Y.
Hardy have as guests this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry w. Donovan
and daughter, Helen, Of New York
City. They entertained for dinner
Thursday night in their home. 1883
Webster street, the guests being
Congressman and Mrs. John u.
Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde g. Daw-
son. OF Denver: Mr.. and Mrs. ".
Wilson Purness, and Mrs. Warner.
Of Pueblo.
Mrs. Charles M. FfOulke will en-
terrain at dinner next Saturday in
honor of Prof. James Leuba, Of
Bryn Mawr. who Is to lecture that
evening in her drawing room before
the Psychological Society on the
"PsycoIogy of Mysticism. DIR. r.
w! Kinney, president of the society
has announced that there are still
a few tickets available to non
members.
ALBIONS TO BE AT HOME
SUNDAY TO OPERA COMPANY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edouard Albion
win be at home Sunday afternoon
from 4:SO to z o'clock to the mem
bers Of the Washington Opera Com
pany, at 2 o'clock Mrs. Catherine
Antonius viii give her illustrated
travelogue on "A Trip to the Holy
! Land" There will be incidental
| music.
Col. and Mrs. Frederick Cole
man were hosts to a company Of
| twenty-four at buffet supper last
evening in their suburban home at
Edgemoor. After dinner there were
cards and nah jong.
\ X X
| Carl S. Vrooman, former Assist
ant Secretary of Agriculture, is in
Washington. He has just returned
from Europe.
Mrs. r. Henry Norweb, wife of
Mr.. Norweb, of our diplomatic
service, who is now in Japan, is
at the Grafton. She will go to
Cleveland for a visit next week.