Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1912 — Page 3

MILLER HUGGINS AS BIG LEAGUE MANAGER

Veteran Second Baseman Huggins of Cardinals.

Miller Huggins Is playing his last year with the Cardinals. That is, the tiny second-sacker will depart If Manager Roger Bresnahan can put through a deal this winter that will strengthen the National league troupe. Huggins is not to be traded because Bresnahan envies the brains of the “Rabbit,” or because there is 111-feel-ing between the boss and his tricky .little assistant, but because Miller

Manager Kling of Boston.

Huggins has the naanagerial bee buzzing in his bonnet There are not many more years of major league baseball left in Huggins. Miller knows that, also Roger. But there is a head on the shoulders of the pee-wee that contains a lot of smart baseball, and one that holds as much baseball knowledge, Inside and outside, as almost any of the present day managers. There Is a standing order between Bresnahan and Huggins now that if

PLAYED IN VARIOUS LEAGUES

Jack Graney Has Every Other Member of Cleveland Team Beaton as to Experience. . ' “Jack” 'Graney has every other member of the Cleveland outfit outclassed and tied to the starting mark when it comes to variety of experiences. A year ago Jim McGuire led the field. Though younger in “Jack" has already performed in seven different leagues with the fololwlng clubs: Erie, Pa.; Fulton, N. Y.; Rochester; Wilkesbarre, Cleveland, Cplumbus, Portland, Cleveland. h Beat it if you can. And he’s still so yonug and frisky. Even Nap Lajoie, the vet in years of the squad, doesn’t ' compare with “Jack.** Larry has confined his efforts to three clubs, Fall River, Athletics and Cleveland. “Tuck” Turner and Joe Birmingham, the other vets, also'stand near the foot of the list “Tuck’s” record shows a trial with Pittsburg, subsequent development at Columbus, and finally a trip to Cleveland. Joe Birmingham displayed his talent with the A., J. and G. team of the N.'Y. State league, before Cleveland grabbed him. ' ' ,

Tris Speaker Bast Player.

Billy Murray, one of the best judges of a baif*|>layer!ri the country and who is now acting as scout for the Pirates, awards the palm for being the best player to Tris Speaker. Says Billy: “You can praise Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson and the other great outfielders in the big leagues, but none of them Is in the class with Tris Speaker of the Red Sox. Speaker is the best player on the diamond today. As a hitter, fielder, thrower and base runner he has Cobb and the others beaten. I’ve seen all the stars of twentyfive years, and the Beaneater la the king.”

the second-sacker can arrange a trade for himself that will strengthen the Cardinals it will go through. Last winter it was thought that Huggins would become leader of the Cincinnati Reds, and when Miller was in the, running for the Job he was given permission from Bresnahan to open negotiations for a trade. When Hank O’Day was appointed Huggins lost out. But he continues to seek a position as general director and if any bids are received he will be allowed to depart, of course, providing Bresnahan Is pleased with what he Is offered. If Huggins leaves the Cardinals after this year when Lee Magee will become the second baseman. Magee is outclassed by Huggins In experience, but Lee is speedier than his opponent, Is a better hitter and is going to become one of the best base runners in the circuit. Then Bresnahan thinks that he ha* the coming greatest second baseman in the game In Magee. He Is an ardent admirer of the Cincinnati lad for the simple reason that he has copied Roger’s style perfectly—being full of vim and dash and wide awake all the time. „ For the present, and probably for the rest of 1912 Magee will do left field duty. Huggins probably would have gone to Boston when the Cardinals were In the east, but for John M. Ward and his co-worker, James Caffhey, being attacked with cold feet The bosses of the Braves and Johnny Kling, are not working In harmony, and it has been hinted often that Kling is not a shrewd or smart leader. The opening for Huggins Is Boston, unless Garry Herrmann ousts Hank O’Day in Cincinnati. Both teams have material that could strengthen the Cardinals, and when Roger Bresnahan gets ready to talk with his foes for Huggins, he is not going to put a 10-20-30 tag on pee-wee Miller.

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Stovall is slowly, but surely, whipping his Brownies into winning form. Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators has only one bad habit He chews gum. If the Athletic* have a 110,000 infield the Boston Red Sox have a Hr 000,000 outfield. Bill Armour, the former Detroit-To-ledo manager, 1* scouting for the St Louis Cardinals. The Washington fans still believe that the Senators will cop tike American league bunting. Mike Simon, who was slated for the discards last fall, ha* proved a handy, man for the Pirates. Rehg, whom the Pirates turned over to St. Paul, Is hitting hard and stealing numerous bases. It has been rumored and denied that Hughey Jennings 1* to manage th* Boston Braves next season. Detroit has bought a third baseman named Deal. Joke* are now in order. Deal kindly with the boy, however. Over in Philadelphia th* fan* ar* still hoping that the Athletics will come through and win the flag again. The Cubs and the Pirates are having a merry little struggle between themselves In the National league pennant race —for second place. Vincent Cappbell, the Boston outfielder, has Improved wonderfully in hl* work in the field. He covers an Immense amount of ground and 1* • sure catch of a fiy ball

BUCKLED UNDER TRAIN

CRITICAL PERIOD WHEN TRACK “KICKED." Fortunately Car* 'Were Moving at a ~ Slow Rate of Speed and Accident Was Avoided—How the Raila Are Replaced. Several years ago a work train with 700 men aboard was running un-

Another time a kick on the same railroad threw a laborer and a handcar loaded with ties froin a bridge into the river below. On a strip of track through the Rocky mountains, where the track once was laid during the last days of winter, and not used again until the snow had disappeared, four places were discovered where the rails, on account of the expansion from heat, had been thrown-clear oft the bank. What is known as a “kick-up" may be looked for on a long stretch of down grade where the track —however straight and well ballasted it may be —passes over a slight elevation or .knoll. The creeping and sun expansion has caused the rails to move down hill and jam together at the knolL There‘the strain finally becomes too great and up in the air goes the track, sometimes as high as two feet above the ballast. On taking the creep out of a track the men start at the top of the grade or Incline, where the joints are the farthest apart. The spikes are pulled from the plate slots and, with a heavy section of rail as a battering ram, the rails are driven back until there is no longer play for the bolt* in the oblong plate holes. In a short time, as the work progresses, there may be a four or five-inch gap in the track. The workmen now throw back into line the curve at the bottom of the grade and the gap is closed. Kicks are repaired by taking out a rail, throwing the track into line and then cutting the rail to fit the gap, and no matter how carefully engineer* may study this problem, there are no better judges as to how the expansion and contraction should be guarded against in laying the rails than the old section foremen with their years of experience in the actual work.

SIGNALS, THEN STOPS TRAIN

Invention of Australian, Recently Tested In England, to Prevent Railroad Collisions. A demonstration was given at London, Eng., recently, of an electrical invention by A. R. Angus of Sydney, N. S. W., to prevent railroad accidents by means of electric automatic signaling In the cab of the locomotive, and the automatic stopping of the train Tests were made with two locomotives on the Great Western railroad on a disused section of that system. Electric wires were run beside th* track. An arm from the engine travels on the wire. When the train enters a block in which there Is another train a whisle blows In the cab. Immediately afterward, If the engineer has not stopped the train, the electric apparatus automatically cuts off the steam and sets the brakes. Two locomotives started from points two miles apart at full speed toward each other. The engineers after starting the mechanism climbed out. When the locomotives entered the same block the warning whistles blew, the electric mechanism worked and the engines stopped within a hundred yards of each other.

Hard to Name Largest Depot.

After careful comparison it may be stated that the biggest stations in the world are—(l) The French Gare St. Lazare; (2) Waterloo, London; (3) the Pennsylvania rajlroad station in New York city. The latter has a larger area than either of the former; but it falls behind them in platform accommodation, and by far in regard to the passengers dealt with annually. St Lazare easily comes first with regard to actual traffic; second as to its area, and third as to the number of platforms. Waterloo is first as to platforms, third in acreage and third also tn regard to the number of trains daily passing in and out Who, therefor*, shall decide which is the biggest station?

Power of Air Brakes.

Some idea of the power of an air brake may be gained from the following facts: It takes a powerful locomotive drawing a train of ten passenger cars a distance of about five miles to reach a speed of 60 miles an hour on a straight and level track. The brakes will stop the same train from a speed of 60 miles an hour In TOO feet Roughly, it may be stated that a train may be stopped by the brakes in about 3 percent. of the distance that must be covered to give it its speed.—Science Conspectus.

der slow orders across a bridge over the ’ South Canadian river in Texas. Sixty feet of track at the end of the bridge “kicked” under the middle of the train. Luckily, the train was stopped in a moment. But it could not pull past the kick. The train had to be cut in two and the track repaired in order that it might proce •d.

ROADS SHORT OF CABOOSES

In Early Day* That Happening Wa* Frequent, and Conductors Had to Stand for IL **l sometimes wonder how railroad men of the present day would like to take a train out in the winter time without a caboose,” mused a veteran railroader. “I have seen a great many trains started out when it was necessary for the conductor to put on two heavy overcoats and ride on the rear car of the train, simply because the road did not have enough cabooses to use when it was necessary to run extra trains. All offices on the road were during the old days closed at night, and it was impossible to send a message in any direction after nine. One winter evening I happened into the office of the Daily Dispatch, of which the late George Moss was editor. The Daily Dispatch was a morning paper, and there was great interest all over the country in the famous trial of the late Henry Ward Beecher in the Tilton scandal. That evening the case was in the hands of the jury, and Mr. Moss wanted their verdict to publish ahead of the afternoon papers. “Suddenly he turned to me and offered me ten dollars if I could get it for him. I said the chances were mighty slim, but I would make an effort In company with Edward G. Webb, Billy Buck, a reporter on the Dispatch, and others, I'went to the Junction and called all the terminal officers on the road for a long time. Omar A- Hine was the agent at Potsdam Junction (now known as Norwood) and the railroad wire ran into his house. After repeated calls, he awoke, having retired, and answered me. I told him what I was after and asked him if he kney of kny way he could help us out I will never forget his answer; it was, ‘The only way that I can think of is to go to the station, one end of which was used by the O. & L. C. R. R. (now known as the Rutland railroad), the other by the R. W. & 0., break into the office of the Rutland road, and try and get the information from some office in Vermont. I wouldn’t do this for the preeident of the United States, but will do it for you.” Mr. Hine succeeded in opening a window of the Rutland office and raised the St. Albans office, and was told that the jury had disagreed, which was true.” —New York Evening Post.

PURE WATER FOR THE BOILER

Western Railroad in the Future Will Safeguard the “Health” of its Locomotives. A western railroad has an official “water doctor” on its list of officials, whose duty It Is to see that the locomotives of that road are supplied with pure “drinking” water, suitable to the nature of the interior of the engines. Locomotives have persistent attacks of "dyspepsia" which cost the railroad considerable money. It seems that all waters have more or less of two kinds of mineral salts — Incrusting salts and alkali salts. These salts clog up th* boiler very quickly and make ft necessary to have the boiler “blown off” frequently, and now and then taken out of service and washed. Both the blowing out and the lay-offs mean a loss of money. By the liberal use of soda ash, through certain chemical processes, the salts can practically be eliminated from the water. As the waters vary at different points, the treatment must also vary, but this railroad intends to have the water at every point “cured” so that It will be suited exactly to locomotive consumption. The cost of the treatment will be about seventeen dollars an engine each year, but it is estimated that the saving on each engine on account of the “cured” water will amount to more than |4OO a year.

His Eyes to Be Opened.

In a letter to the Berliner Tageblatt, written on board the steamer on which he came to this country, Herman Struck, who was entertained by the Judeans, says that from childhood it had been his great wish? to see New York’s skyscrapers wolkenkratzer — and to become acquainted with the country “which,” he says, “is so real and unsentimental,” knowing that the experience must be a wholesome antidote for an overweight of feeling and that in New York one might relax from Berlin nervousness and “find respite from the everlasting telephone bell.” The artist writer has probably discovered by this time that “unsentimental” New York also has it* quota of telephone*

A June Graduate.

“Young lady,” demanded the head of the seminary, “have you completed your graduation essay?” “No; it is too much trouble to write essays.” . “If you won’t take an interest in your studies, how do you expect to provide for your future?" "My future is already provided for, and if you don't believe it. I’ll read, Instead of an essay, several letter* from a young millionaire, one of which proposes matrimony.”

May Build Line Acress Sahara.

The dormant project of a railway across the Sahara has been actively revived. A French commission charged with the task of ascertaining the most favorable route landed at Algiers and proceeded to the southern ten minus of the present South Oran railroad, Colomb-Bechar, whence a march across the desert was to be undertaken. The party Is led by Captain Nl> ger sit the colonial infantry.

ONE of WORLDS HOTTEST PLACES

DOWN in Yuma, on the border between the new state of Arizona and the older one of California, they revel In the distinction of possessing the hottest place under the stars and stripes. When the rest of the republic has been gripped by winter, thermometers in Yuma register 100 degrees. Just, how high they go in the summer no man has as yet vouchsafed. That Yuma is inhabited by human salamanders goes without saying. Only people who like such heat would come there from choice, and would try to get away after they do get there. There ar* several things at Yuma that excite the attention of Yhe stranger. It seems Just the sort of place you pictured it before you came. Most Interesting are the Indians? Here, alone, of all places under the flag, Uncle Sam allows polygamy, and the Yuma buck is permitted to maintain as many wives as he can induce to live with him in the wigwam. The prison at Yuma is different from any prison west of Gibraltar, and the only counterpart of the village Jail, which Is a sort of stepping stone to the prison, is in the heart of Turkey. The people of Yuma are otherwise so typically Mexican that one wonders almost If one’s under the rule of the stars and stripes. How to Get to Yuma. To get to Yuma you leave Tucson, Ariz., at 8:40 at night. At 6:15 in the morning you’re at Yuma. On the map the Journey seems nothing, but in the west distances are startling in their magnitude? The hotel is what Dickens might have described as a depot restaurant, built over the station Itself, and with its porches looking down into the turgid Colorado river. There Is a bridge, with the Indian women trundling past constantly. A boat landing is near by, while fin the opposite bank is the government Indian school. Everywhere there are the Yuma Indians. The gay garments and blankets they wear are genuine, and not put on simply to attract the tourist. As a matter of fact, the Yumas hate the whites, and while they sell trinkets to them at the station too few sightseers visit the town to win themselves to affability. The bucks, who squat along the changing river banks in their straw hats and Jeans, idle the year round, are, in fact, positively discourteous to the stranger. After one has left one’s belongings at the hotel and started to explore, Yuma is found to be Interesting for what it lacks in modernity. There is practically but one long street This is lined ’frith low one and two story cottages, built of frame, and housing, almost without exception, saloons and shops, in addition to the homes of the householders. There is a fair public school building and a Catholic church. The latter is interesting for its Indian communicants, who come there as did the red men to the missions In the Pre-Mexi-can days In California. At the time of day that you are out Yuma Is still half In its slumbers. Aside from a flight of crows on the main highway, the quiet of dawn reigns supreme. You can walk over the entire place in ah hour, and you do so while you mar, unobserved. There are lemons growing in one garden, the first you encounter. Today it is cold until the sun has risen, but then, and in summer, Yuma Is, next to Death valley, the hottest place in the world, so that you may look for tropical foliage. You wonder at the foolish custom of the milkmen of Yuma, who knock at each door until told by the tenants to leave the milk outside, a custom whose origin lies shrouded In mystery. Two women, seemingly Intoxicated, attract your attention. They are following a man, expostulating as only Mexicans'can. it I* to the Jail that the women ar*

directing their footsteps. One is weeping, the other seems angry. Both begin pleading with the jailer. Last night the husband of the weeping woman came home furiously drunk and began using a knife upon her. So the police were called and now he is here. She. however, had no idea it was so vile a place, and now she has come to beg his release. Finally she become* convinced that her pleadings are in vain and she and her friends depart. The environs of the town attract. In the rainy season, when the narrow, dark brown, shrunken Colorado rage* beneath the great iron bridge of the railway, steamers run to the gulf and up river. Then one may take one of the most Interesting trips In the west. Where Rain I* Unknown. Over the bridge lies the Indiafi reservation, and on Its borders Is an interesting primitive corral for th* horses. Of course no roof to the shed is needed, for It practically never rains in Yuma, and the stages themselves consist of three open wagonettes, th* covers of which have long since been lost. You get a new idea of Indian control in the southwest as you step past the corral. There Is a sign forbidding whites to proceed, unless they have legitimate business with the Indians, and stating a heavy penalty for trading with the redskins. Furthermore, it i* forbidden to enter the reservation without a permit The whole arrangement seems well nigh despotic. The Yumas live in a sort of forbidden land. .Squaws,’with’the gay colored blankets, pass out. Old men, with their hair down their backs In Innumerable braids, saunter in or stop to watch the stages being harnessed, and perhap* to lend an Indolent hand to hitching the four horses. The homes of these Indians are picturesque, If nothing else. One find* almost everywhere th* primitive adobes in little groups or else mile* from the nearest neighbor. Some ar* on the open desert, where the summer sun beats in fury; others are hidden away in the tall, narrow "weed prairie. Basically, each hut is square, while from the front there extend* a roof of dry brush and mud to a pole at either corner. Under this hut the gayly clad redskin* squat. Dogs are everywhere, noiseless as their owners. Children likewise are numerous, and their quiet demeanor makes them even most conspicuous, strange as that may seem. Two Indian boys will occasionally gallop past on a horse, otherwise the reservation seems to. repose In perpetual quiet. Maybe it’s the heat .that drives folk to silence; It’* like the lethargy of a midsummer noon hour. At any rate, It saps all the strength from you and you’ve neither energy nor desire to stir when among the redskin* atYuma.

Increasing Sales of Red Cross Seals.

Last year over 32,000,000 Red Cross Seals were sold; in 1910, over 31,000,000; in 1909, about 23,000,000, and in. 1908, the first year of the sale, only 13,500,000. In all, the sale in the four years has realized nearly >1,000,000 for the anti-tuberculosis campaign, since all of the money from this movement goes for the prevention di consumption. New York state sold the most seals in 1911, disposing of 6,356,368; Ohio came next, with 3,500,480; Wisconsin third, with 2,913,144, and Illinois fourth, with 2,101,632. Texas showed the greatest percentage of gain, having increased its sale from 100.000 in 1910 to over 1,250,000 in 1911. Indiana showed the second greatest gain, with an Increase from 683,756 In 1910 to 1,345,545.

He Noticed It

Church —You know a dog Is Bka wine—improves with age. Gotham—Yes, Tve noticed that dog of yours doesn’t bark as much now as when he was young.