Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1912 — Page 2

MANAGER OF PIRATES SAYS BUT LTTLE

By HOMER CROY.

If you will look it up In the dictionary you will find it this way: Fredclarke: (noun) see Old Gibraltar. And then if you will turn to ■the o’s you’ll read:* Old Gibraltar: (noun) see fredclarke. That’s what he Is —Old Faithful. You <»ati depend on him 364 days out of the year and if he turns up missing on the three hundred and sixtyfifth you may know some doctor has a thermometer under his tongue and his thumb on'tas pulse. He was bom on a farm in Madison County, lowa, thirty-nine years ago, and did not talk until he was old ;■ enough to harness a horse alone, and never since has he said more than three sentenoes and four goldamits In succession. Before he utters a complete sentence outside the ball ; park he gets out the screw-driver, the die cutter and the alligator wrench, goes all over his vocal apparatus, chokes once, strains for a start and then puts a period at the end of the fifth word. The only time he can use two sentences in succession without getting rosy behind his ears la when he describes his thoroughbred heifers. One Saturday when he was seventeen years old, after he had got the Jimson weeds all cut, lime sprinkled on the cucumber vines and the rock laid out for the cattle in the jback forty, he went to Omaha where he saw his first professional game ■of baseball. It excited him so that he didn’t sleep for three nights, and when he went back home and told the rest of the fellows that the players all had a full suit apieoe they nearly hurt themselves laughing- and said Fred was trying to put on airs just because he had been to the city. ms first game was played with the

MAJOR LEAGUE 1912 MANAGERS

Five clubs In the American and two in the National League have engaged new managers tor next season. A complete list of major league managers of 1911 and 1912 is as follows: American League.

Club. Philadelphia Detroit Chicago New York St. Louis Boston Washington Cleveland New York Philadelphia Cincinnati Brooklyn St Louis Chicago Pittsburg Boston ; _ ■ TJT «

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Baseball 1b becoming so popular it has spread to the penitentiaries. The pitcher’s box should be on the level, the same as the pitcher, some critics contend. Garry Herrmann has decided the new leagues trill burn oat faster by not fanning the flames. When the major leagues expand they will never permit a minor circuit to do their expansion for them. The expansion of the American association is no new thing at all, for It has been talked by the magnates for at least two years. American association clubs were boosted to a high classification and now the major league bees are buzzing In their* bonnets again. Tip O’Neil, president of the Western league, is thinking seriously of invading Chicago, but is not certain just when or. where he will light *‘Wee Willie’’ Keeler of the old Orioles is still a prominent figure in baseball. He will coach for Brooklyn this season and chances are the Su§l r ■Hwe.-» - ' * '

Artist Cesare Depicts Fred Clarke.

19U. Connie Mack Hugh Jennings Hugh Duffy Hal Chase Rhody Wallace Pat Donovan James McAleer George Stovall

1912. Connie Mack Hugh Jennings James Callahan Harry Wolverton Bhody Wallace Garland Stahl Clark Griffith Harry Davis

* National League.

John McGraw Charles Dooln Henry O’Day William Dahlen Roger Bresnahan Frank Chance 1%-ed Clarke 'John Kilns

John McGraw Charles Dooln Clark Griffith ■William Dahlen Roger Bresnahan France Chance Fred Clark Fred Tenney

Hastings, Nebraska, team and he has been in the big league business eighteen years. His first games were on the prairie, so naturally his games now are on the level. (It’s rotten, but we’ll let it pass). He is one of the wealthiest men in the business, having such a big stock farm at his * home near Winfield, Kansas, that he has to get down a plat map of Cowley County to remember how much land he has. It’s so large that it takes two automobiles and five hired men to run it He has two daughters and a phonograph. His was the first phonograph ever seen in that part of Kansas, the natives coming for miles and miles on Sunday afternoons to look at it, and then going away believing that Fred was playing a Joke on them. They wouldn’t believe it could talk until they locked Fred up in the kitchen and put the thing out in the front yard on a culvert tile of trailing arbutus. He is a farmerclst from the word go and would rather talk about Du rocs in the back lot than about the best Bougereaus ever hung in the Metropolitan museum. The only habit, hobby or whoopla of the man who for ten years batted over .300, who won four N. L. pennants and one world championship, is chewing a toothpick. He is rough on toothpicks, beginning on them in the morning as soon as he gets one foot through and keeping it up all day until the Pullman porter begins hunting for the boys’ shoes. When Fred Clarke wants to have a ripsnortlng time he drives a friend out to the hog yard in his auto, hangs one knee over the Bteering wheel, -puts in & fresh toothpick and throws, out a handful of shelled corn for hir Durocs. (Copyright, I$U. by W. G. Chapman.)

Position. Bench Bench Outfielder Bench Shortstop First Base Bench First Base Bench Catcher Bench Bench Catcher First Base Bench Catcher

perbas will know just what to do If they are unable to win everything they would like. Gotch, the fans are told, turned Zbyszko down for a handicap match in New York. He also refused to meet Leo Pardello and the Mysterious Waffles.

Billy Evans and Jack Sheridan are unanimous that honesty is the bulwark of baseball. Other umpires weren’t asked, but It is thought there will be no objection to'this stand. Connie Mack is far from being a chronic kicker, bat the great and only baseball sphinx set up an awful holler about the American League schedule, if he was reported correctly. ~ ‘ Clark Griffith was/praised in Washington for his trade of Gabby Street for Jack Knight, hat the Naps’ officials in Cleveland are being “panned” for trading Stovall for Lefty George. If the American association goes through with its propaganda for expansion, the Western league may block the move in a way with its proposed “counter contraction’’ scheme. Chicago paid more money, to visiting ball teams in the American league last summer than any other city in the league. Detroit comes next, and Detroit fans are up in arms against the assertion that Detroit Is a poor ball town.

SHORT RAILROAD LINES

MANY IN THE UNITED STATES* THAT SEEM LIKE TOYB. Small as They-Are, However, the Majority Pay Handsome Dividends According to the Capital Invested in Them. Of the 1,180 railroads in the United States 180 are less than eight miles

twenty-five three miles, nineteen two miles and eight are a single mile from end to end. Every part of the country furnishes specimens of these dwarf roads, says the Railroad Man’s Magazine. They are found *in mining districts and scenic sections; they are the handy helpers around industrial plants and terminal centers; they climb mountains that would be Impossible otherwise.

The Johnstown and Stony Creek Railroad, which is only a mile long, connects with the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio in Pennsylvania at two points named in its title. Freight is the specialty of the road, and in the two years of its existence it is said to have made a very satisfactory financial return to its owners! Ever hear of the Due West Railroad? No? Well, it’s hardly to be wondered at, seeing that it’s scarcely three miles long and stowed in an out of the way corner of South Carolina. Yet it has a unique history of its own. The road runs from the town of Due West to Powell. Its construction was the outcome of-the craving of the inhabitants of Due West for easy transportation to Dowell. So the people of Due West, in the name of their town, issued SII,OOO of railroad aid bonds on behalf of the - construction of the line, which was opened for traffic in 1908.

The road was a financial success from the start and is comfortably paying Its way. It has neither debts nor bonds of its own, in which respect It Is almost without parallel in railroad history. The total cost of the construction of the road and its equipment, including its two locomotives’ one passenger and one baggage car, is said to have been less than $30,000. Mary Lee is the sentimental name of a little freight railroad that runs between East Birmingham and Boyles, ,Ala„ a distance of seven iniles. It connects with the Queen and Crescent Route, Southern Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Mary, according to published balance sheets, is a paying proposition. Fulton Chain Railroad is only two miles in length, but this Lilliputian line has brought enjoyment to thousands of summer vacationists. It runs from Fulton Chain to Old Forge, N. Y., and is operated by the New York Central lines mainly In connection with the hot weather traffic. Last year it carried 53,670 passengers; it's net earnings were $6,019, and it had the comfortable little surplus of $13,341 tueked away in its jeans.

Plan Railroad Across Sahara.

A scientific mission charged with making the first studies for the construction of a railroad across the Sahara has Just Set out from France. Starting from Oran, on the Mediterranean, the expedition will travel first by rail and then by camel to the mountains in the center of the Sahara. There one party will turn west and examine the route of the proposed railroad connecting the Trans-Saharan with the Cape to Cairo by Lake Tchad and the upper Congo Valley; the second will turn east to study the track of the Trans-Saharan itself from the center of the desert to the Niger at Timbuktu or Gao. One of the members of the expedition will be Captain Cortier, whose earlier journey across the desert to the Niger was one of the triumphs of Saharan exploration.

Veteran Railroad Track Walker.

The oldest railroad track walker in Central New York is Richard Mahaney of Jordan, who, in twenty-eight years of service with the New York Central, has walked 51,100 miles. Mahaney’s territory extends from a quarter of a mile west of the station at Jordan to two and a quarter miles east of the station. He makes one round trip every day of the wefck. He is sixty-three years old.

Public Welfare in Publicity.

The possession of the news, the knowledge of the world’s dally life, thought, movement, constitutes the most effective weapon for the protection of society. Justice and truth flourish in the light of publicity. Iniquity and wrong dread It and are ultimately cured by the Influences which flow from Its illuminating rays. —Samuel Bowles.

Time to Stop Worrying.

When all day, every hour, every moment, there is the dull, insistent, numb pain of something that makes itself felt through, above and below all our other thinking, we must know that we are worrying. Then there is hut one thing to do —we must stop that worry; we must kill it.—From Self-Control by William. George ilordan. "■ c ; \

long. Of these only twenty-nine are more than seven miles in length, while twenty-five just reach that distance. Eighteen are six miles long, forty cover five miles, sixteen run four miles,

SPECIAL AGENT GIVES FIGURES

Wages of Railroad Men in This Cour* - try and In Europe Under Com- -• parlson. In England all railroad employes are termed ’’servants.” Special Agent Ames of the interstate commerce commission lately made a report on the average wages paid to railway servants in England, says the Santa Fe Red Ball. His report, compared with the report of average wages paid to railway employes in the United States, makes interesting reading. For instance: England. U. S. per day of per day of 12 hours. 10 hours. Engineers $1.55 $4.80 Firemen 96 2.85 Conductors L2l 4.11 Brakemen .96 2.81 Switchmen .94 2.80 Trackmen 94 1.32 From these figur.es a fair idea is gained of the average pay of British railway labor. On the railways of Belgium, which are owned by the government, firemen receive $15.20 to $22.80 per month, the higher wage only after fifteen years’ service. Engineers begin at $22.50 per month, and at the end of twenty-four years’ service work up to S3B a month. Conductors earn from $17.97 per month up to a maximum of $34.70. Brakemen begin as switchmen at 46 cents per day. When promoted they receive $17.10 per month and work up to $22 per month. The average railway worker in Belgium receives 2.22 francs, or 43 cents a day,

ENGLISH CARS ARE MODELS

Luxurious Sleeping Accommodations on Trains Running on Indian Railroad Lines. One of the new sleeping cars brought out from England in sections and put together at the Central Workshops has now been placed in service on the Singapore Mail from Kuala Lumpur.

’ The car contains eight separate sleeping rooms on either side of a central passage. The rooms are shut off from the passage by doors, thus insuring privacy, and are very comfortably fitted up. Each contains two berths, wlfhspring mattresses, one above the other, a large half-length looking glass, a shut-up washstand which, by an ingenious contrivance, can be converted into a writing table; a folding stool and stepladder tor the upper berth. The rooms ‘are brilliantly lighted by three small electric lamps and one big one, and well ventilated by two windows with „ wire gauze screens and blinds, as well*as by a ventilator over the large electric lamp In the roof. By each bed are switches for the lights and electric bell pushes which communicate with a number board in the corridor. The sides of fibe rooms and corridor are paneled with English oak, while the bed rails are polished brass- In addition to the bedrooms, each car contains lavatories and a bathroom, with shower bath and cupboard with v Or terproof curtain for bathers’ clothes. — Consular Report.

United States Far Ahead.

In proportion to its population, the* United States has much greater transportation facilities than Great Britain. The area of this country is 24 times that of the United Kingdom, while the density of population is less than onetwelfth. Yet,. 08 proportion to area, this country has over two-fifths the miles of line and one-fourth the miles of track of the United Kingdom. In proportion to population, the United States has over five times the miles of line and three and one-third times the miles of track of the United Kingdom.

Oxygen Compartments for Travelers.

On the nearly completed railway from Arica, Chile, to La’Paz, Bolivia, which goes to an altitude of 14,105 feet above sea level, the effect of the quick ascent and great altitude on people having weak or abnormal hearts, is to be counteracted by having * oxygen compartments in the passenger cars. Passengers subject to mountain sickness or any affection of the heart may, by occupying these compartments, breathe air having thp same percentage of oxygen as at sea level. —Scientific American.

Opportunities for Young Men.

I am often asked if, in my opinion, the opportunities for young men are as favorable as they were thirty or forty years ago, and I am glad to say that, in my opinion, you may be thankful that you are coming on the scene of businees activity during the early years of the new century, rather than during the last half of the century just closed.—W. C. Brown, President New York Central Railroad.

Affirmation in Advertising.

Affirmation is the commonest form of advertising and the least productive, mind I say the least productive, because I am not denying that affirmar tion alone If persisted in will win some converts. Purchasers are sometimes led to buy an article not because they are convinced of Its merits, but because they are curious concerning them— John E. Kennedy in Printers* Ink.

Largest Railway System.

The largest railway system to the world is that of the United States, being 2,424,478 miles to length. Buseia, Germany, France and Great Britain follow to the order named.

RESOURCES OF ALASKA

THE address made by Secretary of the Interior Fisher at Chicago before the American Min--1 ing congress has been published in pamphlet form. It is a valuable contribution to current literature, and deals with the Alaskan problems in a candid, careful' and statesmanlike manner, and deals with them from the standpoint of one who made a close and prolonged investigation of Alaska during his lengthened visit there. Secretary Fisher also availed himself of the data furnished by Alfred H. Brooks, geologist in charge of the United States geological survey, who for fourteen years has been studying Alaskan conditions on the ground. Before examining the Bering river field Secretary Fisher was preceded there by Dr. J. A. Holmes, - director of the bureau of mines; by L. T. Wolle, an engineer of large experience In coal mining and railway construction; by F. W. C. Whyte, who for years has managed the coal mining and railway construction department of the Anaconda Copper Mining company; by T. H. O’Brien, who has conducted the coal operations of the Copper Queen; by George Watkins Evans, a coal mining engineer of experience in the northwest states, and by Sumner 8. Smith,, who is a mining engineer and inspector of mines for Alaska. Secretary Fisher, in his speech, said: “At the very outset I wish to express the high opinion I have formed at the remarkably large and fine body of people who have become pennanent residents of Alaska. . . . There is a substantial percentage of vigorous, law-abiding, law-respecting men and women of the highest type of American citizenship. The total population is about 65,000 persons. They are entitled to a territorial government.”

Wonderful Scenic Beauty. Secretary Fisher further says: "I found Alaska a country of wonderful scenic beauty, which ih itself will in future years toe one- of itr greatest financial assets. From all the information I could gather I believe it to be a country of great mineral and agricultural possibilities; indeed, 1 should go further and say a country of great mineral and-agricnltoral prob* abilities, needing development, ready for development, and inviting development, but held back chiefly by inadequate transportation facilities and Inadequate laws.” Secretary Fisher further says: "What Alaska needs more than all else is a trunk-line railroad from the ocean to the great Inferior valleys of the Yukon and the Panama opening up the country so that its future development may really be possible. „ “The vast Interior valleys are covered with luxuriant grasses and can be made to raise cattle and sheep, and even grain, If proper seed and proper methods are experimentally developed by scientific agriculture. But agriculture development cannot go forward where the local markets were small. Secretary Fisher finds the coal deposits of Alaska to consist of the anthracite and high-grade bituminous coal, which is found so far only in the Bering river and Matanuska fields. No anthracite coal has as yet been found anywhere else on the Pacific coast, and but little high grade bituminous coal, or high grade coking coal. Except for coking coal, anthracite coal and high-grade bituminous coal Alaska cannot command the fuel market. There are great quantities of lignite and low-grade bituminous coal throughout the Pacific northwest and British Columbia. Much of the bituminous coal mined on Puget sound Is of fair quality and fit for steaming purposes, and when the freight and handling charges on Alaskan coal are taken into consideration it is dear that the low grade coal will not be used on ocean steamers except those plying to Alaskan ports. . "Ftor steaming purposes and fo# heating purposes in manufacturing establishments, California fuej oil is supplanting coal in many Adds. It possesses advantages in economy and convenience of handling, and coal of any kind cannot compete with it. But oil cannot be used for smelting ores, or for making steel, and for these purposes Alaska coking coal will hold ike market . Trunk Line Favored.; "When the anthracite opal fields of Alaska are opened, and railroads constructed, so that anthracite coal earn

WISHING OUT GOLD IN ALASKA

be landed at Los Angeles or San Francisco for $5 or $6 per ton, it will drive all other coal from the market for domestic use. One ton of anthracite coal contains as much heatlpg force as two tons of bituminous coal. In the New England and Middle states no other than anthracite coal is used for domestic purposes, and nonq other would be used here if it were available at reasonable prices.” Secretary Fisher favors the construction by the government of one main trunk line of railroad from tidewater to the Yukon, 600 miles. The railroads now in operation in Alaska consist of the Copper River and Northwestern road, which leads from Cordova on Prince William Sound, 200 miles up the Copper River to the Bonanza copper field, the Alaska Northern railroad, which started from Seward on Bering Strait for the Mat*nuska coal fields and the Yukon, but stopped discouraged seventy-one miles north of Seward, and the pioneer Alaskan road, the White PaHS and Yukon narrow gauge, which is mostly in British territory. “All railroad construction was stopped when Alaskan coal lands were withdrawn from entry. The direction of the Alaskh Northern offer to sell or practically to give their road to the government if it will assume the out-, standing bonds amounting to $4,600,006. “It is generally and erroneously considered that Alaska is uninhabitable on account of the cold. Southern Alaska and its cities, Juneau, Sitka, and Wrangel, are in the same latitude with the north of Ireland and England, and the south of Scotland. The thriving city of Cordova is on the same latitude sb Norway, Sweden, Petersburg, and the winter range of the thermometer is higher than In Washington, D. C.” Secretary Fisher favors a Bystem of leasing the coal lands of Alaska on the Canada-Yukon territory system of an annual rental of $1 per acre for twenty-one years. 5 cents per ton royalty on the coal extracted and nos more than 2,500 acres to be leased, to one applicant. The Cordova Chamber of Commerce, which at the time of Secretary Fisher’s visit, disapproved of a leasing system for Alaska coal "lands, : has since reconsidered" ltr iRF' * tion. It expresses its confidence in Secretary Fisher and avows its ap-' proval of policy that will secure prompt action In some direction that will promote development.

COUNTRY OF VAST WEALTH

Enormous Resources of Mexico Only Await' Development, Says an Observer. Gustav Langenberg, the well-known. German portrait painter, arrived to New York a few days ago, to the course of a trip around the world. He spent several months in India and about a year to Mexico. “I truly think,” said Herr Langenberg, to a reporter, “that Mexico is ‘das Land der Zukunft’ No one who has not been through it has hny idea about the enormous natural resources of that country. Intending to pay only a flying visits I remained almost a year. “All that Mexico needs—and she needs it badly—is an efficient railway system and about twenty times the mileage it has now. If all those rich deposits of gold, copper, silver, etc, can be brought within reach of a railroad Mexico will be bne of the wealthiest countries to the world. “A great midtake they made, though, is that they let President Dias go. The Madero family are merely poUtl-_ clans. Working for their own interest. I would like to see the United States take possession of Mexico.*? Herr Langenberg has been all through Africa and’ IS. one of the first artists who painted the natives from life. An interesting wprk of his is a “A Kaffir School.” His greatest trouble there was to preserve his colors, for the natives were wont-to steal the paint to decorate their faces. One day. shortly after his arrival, several boys had been standing around his easel watching him with: great interest Suddenly one of them asked him whether he would like to shoot a lion. Herr Jjmigen berg was enthusiastic at the prospect. He left bis picture, the easel and his paint-box. He did not find the lion, but when he returned his paintbox was empty. .