New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1914, Page 10

' Corsairs and finished with a flelding 16 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1914 FIELD DAY PROPOSED FOR N.E. 0. P. LODGES , Grand Warden William G. Coxeter Presides at Statc Convention. Bridgeport, April 8.—About 300 members and eighty-eight delegates from New England attended the twenty-sixth annual session of the grand lodge of the New England Or- _ der of Protection in this city today. The following officers had been elected up- to the adjournment for lunch: Grand warden, W. G. Coxeter, Hart- ford; grand vice-warden, John E. Lyddy, Bridgeport; grand secretary, J. J. Minnix, New Haven; grand treas- urer, F. M. Drew, Ansonia; grand chaplain, Mary A. Bruce, New Ha- ven; grand guide, Dr. J. E. Collishaw, Hartford; grand sentinel, W. A. Tay- lor, Meriden. William Coxeter Presides. Willlam G. Coxeter, of Hartford, grand warden, presided. Reports ; presented showed that although the | number of lodges at the beginning of the year was 88, there rad been two consolidations since January 1, mak- ing the present number 86. On Jan- uary 2, Eclipse lodge of Waterbury was consolidated with Sheridan lodge of that city, -and on February 20, Meriden lodge was taken over by Ilectric lodge. While the member- ship at the close of 1913 was 13,088, | a net loss for the year of 180 it was stated that the numerical standing of the organization since January 11 and up to the first of the present month showed a material increase. The total number of deaths in 1913 was 162. Receipts for the year were $10,483.24 and disbursements $7,- 651.43, leaving a balance in the treas- ury of $2,831.81, Financial Condition Excellent. Grand Warden Coxeter said in his address that financially the order in the state is in better condition than at any time since its organization. He added: “Just how long this condition wilk exist is up to the members. The state has made a good healthy gain this year and if this continues we need have no fear of the future.” He said there had been many sus- pensions during the year, but be. lieved that members should be edu- cated up to the necessity of living up to the law. A stricter enforcement of the requirements he believed would ®rove beneficial to the lodges. * Amang other things he recommend- the holding of one field day to be tended by members from all over #he state, the holding of district dep- Mty meetings in different parts of the te, and the doing away with the ering of prizes as an incentive to tivity on the part of members and le adoption by the executive com- !tes‘ of ‘some. other .plan. {ican government yesterday . Spaniards and seize their property. Coughs n Ids quickly relieved by the use of Hale’sHoney, Of Horehound and Tar Contains no opium nor anything injurious. Bold by druggista, CARRANZA 1S WARNED BY UNITED STATES s Sam Ures Rebel Chief 1t Modify Grder Coneerning Spaniards. ‘Washington, April 8.—Vigorous representations went from the Amer- to Gen- eral Carranza, the constitutionalist chief, urging that he modify the or- der of General Villa expelling Span- fards from Torreon. The United States has undertaken to extend fo Spaniards in- Mexico the same pro- tection it affords Americans resident there, and Ambassador Riano has been assured.that nothing will be left undone to assure for the unfor- tunates at. Torreon every right to which they are entitled under inter- national law and usage. That Spain proposes to exhaust every resource to protect her people in 'the revolution-torn republic was made plain yesterday when Rear Ad- miral Mayo, at Tampico, cabled the navy department that the command- ing officer of the British cruiser Her- merne had been instructed to care for Spaniards at this besieged fed- eral port. Officials here did not com- ment on this development. The state department, as well as the Spanish embassy here, is embar- rassed in dealing with the situation at Torreon by a lack of exact infor- mation as to the extent of the decree of expulsion and how far it has been executed. The gravity of the problem. has| been increased by unofficial but cred- ible information that this policy of expulsion of the Spaniards is to be of general application; that as rap- idly as the constitutionalists by force of arms extend their control over such cities as Saltillo and Monterey and other places now within the fed- eral lines, they intend to drive out the Native Eggs, 27c doz. Russell Bros. —advt. WOULD PREFER COLD STORAGE T0' CHURCH Methodist Evangeiist Says Moder Churches are Lukewarm. “There is as much chance for saving souls over the bar of tha whiskey joint as over the altars of many of our churches A red- blooded young man would rather be put in cold storage than get into some of our churches,” said the Rev. Harry Miller at the Methodist church evangelical service last evening. The meeting was a breezy one throughout and Frank Stevens, formerly ‘of the Tnited States army and a capable athlete and boxer, told of his conver- sion to religion. At 7:15 o’clock this evening he gives an exhibition boxing match at the Y. M. C. A, where he v:ill speak on “How Fighters Train.” All theé young people’s societies in the city will rally at the Methodist church tonight. . Mr. Miller said, in part, last even= ing: ‘“‘Samson‘was a giant of super- human strength. When the power of God was upon him'he slew a thousand of his enemies. But he disobeyed God and lost his power. He went to sleep. When he awakened he beheld bis enemies, about to fall upon him, but said ‘I've cleaned up on that bunch before and will do it now.’ But he wist not that the Lord was departed from him. } Church a Modern Samson. “The church is a modern Samson. It triumphed over the deadly spell of licentious. mythologies, ' conquered kings, and empires, turned the course of history into brighter channels.and held up & new ideal for manhood, and 2 new reverence for womanhood. But today the church does not com- pete with the saloon, the gambling den, the brothels, the dance hall, (the brothel’s twin sister,) and the other institutions which are ruining the young manhood of America. Churches Are Lukewarm. .“There are 13,000,000 young men in America between the ages of 18 to 30. It is estimated that 172,000 are active church members; 5,000,000 go* once in a while; 7,000,000 have never darkened a church door. Something is wrong. The church makes feverish efforts to save them. It does no{ reach them. It can’t compete. It is out of the rtunning. If a baseball game were run like the average church service, the bleachers would be empty. We need more enthusiasm. ‘For because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.’ God will dis- 6wn a cold church.” He pleaded fervently that the church will live ac- cerding to he teachings of Christ when it would have sufficient powers to meet the ‘needs of mankind. | 4rmy .were made passable and Native Eggs, 27c doz. Russell Bros. —advt. 60- CARTS Our supply is complete of HOUSE . CLEANING TIME Have you seen that Cedar Mop. So handy for shining hardwood floors, also combination vacuum cleaners with brush. These are sold on approval. Carpets, GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHINGS Linoleums, BABY CARRIAGES Rugs, etc. We have just received a shipment of Grass Furniture, now on exhibition in our South window. direct from Hong-Kong, China. are durable and very serviceable. These goods are sent to us Prices are¢ reasonable. They JOHN A. ANDREWS & CO. 132 MAIN STREET. NEW BRITAIN, CONN. REBEL TROOPS FEAR GEN. VILLA'S WORD (Continued from First Page.) tacks give assaflants protection they Wwould not otherwise have and Kkept the garrison in constant suspense, and have a greater moral effect on the enemy. & Three Salient Features. “The three salient features of the campaign against Torreon which will no doubt be carried into the paign against other cities to the east and south—were the comparative effi- ciency of the sanitary arrangements said to be unequalled in the history of Mexican warfare; the ' remarkable quickness with which the wrecked railways in front of the advancing the continuousness of night attacks, giv- ing thé combatants a weird and sin- ister aspect which the struggle by by day will always lack.” Juarez, Mex., April 8.—Six hundred and twelve men, women and children of ‘the, Spanish colony expelled from Torreqn by General Villa arrived ear- ly today. Huddled in the passenger cars they waited for dawn and the arrival of cam- ! George C. Carothers, special agent of the United States department of state- “Mr. Carothers came up a day head of us to see what hé could do with General Carranza” said Joaquin Fernandez, an exile. “We are under protection of the American flag and we decided not to leave the cars un- til Carothers came.” The refugees left Torreon yesterday morning. Carothers had another interview with Carranza last night, but it was said that the general’s attitude against | the Spaniards remained unchanged. Native Eggs, 27¢ doz. Russell Bros. —advt. HAS ANOTHER FALL, Norwalk, Conn., April 8.—Captain Joseph S. Byxbee, who on Monday was 102 years old, had another fall this morning, as he attempted to walk across the floor of his room, where he has been for the past few days on account of illness. He was congiderably shaken up, but his con- dition does not show any material change, and it is expected he will live some time longer. l COMPROMISE ACCEPTED. Bridgeport, Conn., April $.—A com- promise of twenty-five cents on the dollar offered to creditdrs of the bankrupt Henry Dick company ot Danbury has been accepted and a Te- port filed ‘by Refereei J. W. Banks, before whom the proceedings were held. LIFE BY HANGING o | for March shows a decrease in stock, Mr. and Mrs, Jacob Thels of New York Were Despondent for Fear They Were a Burden. New York, April 8.—Despondent be- cause they believed they were a bur- den to their grandchildren, Jacob Thels, 79 years old and his wife, Flizabeth, 78, committed suicide today by hanging in the apartment of their grandson, George, in First avenue. The old couple made preparations for their death. Apparently the old man helped his | saia New Britain, as administrator, ¢, * wife adjust the noose around her neck. Then he assisted her to the window DBECREASE OF STOCK. New York, April 8.—The statement the Copper Producers’ association cn hand of 13,762,633 pounds, cong: pared with the previous month. 27¢ doz. Russell Bros. Limitation of Claims. At a, Court of Probate holden at New Britain, within and for the Dis- trict of Berlin, in the County of Hartford and State of Cognecticut, on "the 8th day of April, A, D., 1914, | ! Present, Bernard ¥, Gaffney, Esq., careful | Judge. On motion of Peter W. Fox, of t. a., on the estate of Ellen Minogue, late of New Britain, within said dis- sill over which the rope was fastened. | trict ‘deceased. When she had stepped off to her death he slashed his wrists and then hanged himself beside her. Dangling side by side, they were found by the janitor. AGED COUPLE END Native Eggs, 27c doz. Russell Bros. —advt. LARGE AREA OF TIMBER. Pennsylvania has about seven and one-half million acres of timberland, one-eighth of which is owned by the state. The total value of the state’s timber is 139 million dollars, i This Court doth:decree that six months be allowed and limited for [ the creditors of said estate to exhibit ; their claims against the same to the administrator, ¢. t. 4., @nd directs that public_notice be given of this order by advertising in a newspaper published: in said New Britain 'and having a circulation in said district, and by posting a copy thereof on. the public sign post in said town of New Britain, nearest the place where the deceased last dwelt. By order of court. MORTIMER H. CAMP, Clerk. By O. T. GURNEE. RANCH RICKEY has sprung! something new on baseball A real rah rah major league 5% Rickey is a college man, and he has ,ddecome: inoculated with the virus of { educated baseball. With two years of ¥ 'experierice in handling professional \ ers, he has had a chance to see . how the major and minor leagues han- . dle, train and develop baseball players. Then, chosen to lead, the St. Louis . Browns, he has set to work to develop ' & real.baseball club and has returned * to the college idea. He doesn’t care much whether they arp college men or not; whether they can demonstrate the theorems of ad- vanced calculus, but he insists upon! college 'methods, whether or not his’ players ever have attended night| schools. He believes that intelligent, educated men make the best ball play- ers, and he wants that' kind—plavers with sense enough to understand that | ~decency and intelligence off the fleld | indicate skill and intelligence on it. Rickey has fifteen college men on his list this spring, and he figures that from them he will form the most in- telligent team in the league—even if it does mot get out of last place, but he is not figuring on last place. The college men are: Branch Rickey, manager; Jack En- | renman, catcher; Joe Jenkins, catcher; | Bill McAllister, catcher; Sam Agnew, | catcher: Goodloe Rogers, catcher: Hol- | lander, inflelder: Roche, infielder; Bold, ! inflelder; Ed Manning, pitcher; Harry Houck, pitcher; Fred Witte. pitcher: | Ed Ashley, pitcher; Clarence Walker, | Jeft fleider; Dell Pratt, infielder. and| Snedscore, infielder. | Manager Herzog of the Reds has an International battery composed of Chief Johnson, a full blooded Wine- bago Indian, and Gonzalez, an ebony hued Cuban, of which he is very proud. | He also has a Frenciman, a Swede, a | tew Irish, numerous ermans, a Scotchman, a Norwegian, a Jew and Yingling, whose name sounds like an fmported launderer. Two natives of Cincjnnatl are also on the Red squad snd should be classified to suit the reader's taste. % 1, they call baseball the “na- gnal game.” Lamp some of the America of the Red roster: Van Y¥ingling, Berghammer, Gon- ‘(un', Hoblitzell, Uhler, Groh, | McDowall. g TR ;‘ d anapolis Feds boast that jive in Vin Campbell, Everett /Kaiser and Rausch the best flock f Ay catchers in the ‘outlaw circuit. “Mdoe batted .298 for St. Paul in the e ‘association last season and . grior to that had a good record “1 atliity man on the Pirates. He played | In twenty-two games with Clarke’s xverage ot 1,000. Booe s a kid almost Arnold Hauser, shortstop of the St 1 {hospital, suffering from nervous pros- tration. Physiclans declare he will re- quire several months® treatment. Hauser #ince the latter part of 1918 has been brooding over & series of re- icent misfortunes. Among these were the death of his mother, the death of {his small daughter, Marian, and injury to a knee, which prevented his playing last year. His wife also is on the verge of col- lapse as a result of the constant at- Louis Nationals, has been taken to a agreement clubs relative to a new paragraph of rule 13 of the National agreement. It follows: “Paragraph B of rule 13 of the Na- tional commission, prescribing one of the conditions under which an optional agreement will be approved, recorded and made effective, has been rescinded and the following substituted in lieu thereof: “B—A major league club will be per- mitted to release for a subsequent sea- son, under optional agreement, two, but not more, of its players who have been as fast as Campbell, who could outrun Bob Bescher in a straightaway dash, tention she has given him. The National baseball commission has issued a notice to all National recalled under optional agreements. “Provided, however, that the number of a club’s approved optional agree- ments, ‘including those covering play- ROM HERE AND THERE ers released under optional agreements for two successive seasons, shall not exceed eight for the same year.” News that little Jack Warhop has recovered the use of his salary wing and can sail up that puzeling raise ball once’ more is ‘one of the encouraging items from the Yankees’ camp. War- hop, whose real name is Flynn, is as game as a fighting bantam. He told Chance last year that his arm had been crippled by rheumatism and that he wouldn’t sign 2 1914 contract with the Yankees until he had shown conclu- Sively that his shoulder was strong again. Chance says that the little fel- low ‘will be sent in against certain clubs—the Tigers, for instance. JOHNNY EVERS, JR., WILL SOON BE FOLLOW- ING FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS Photo by American Press Association. EVERS AND HIS \ JOHNNY BOY. JOENNY EVERS, erstwhile manager of the Cubs and now backbone of the Braves’ infleld and the highest bonused man in baseball, intends to send the mame of Evers ringing down the chapters of baseball history. Evers has young.son who knew baseball before he did English and who, the Little Trojan | says, has all the instincts of a mafor leaguer. Johnny’s idea is to train the bay to a baseball career and make him the most polished inflelder the game has ever known, Trainer Quirk of the Brooklyn Feds is the same Quirk who forgot to put Joe Wood in a sweater during a delay before one of the world's series games in Boston in 1912. 'Wood stood in the box for, eight minutes with a cold wind blowing while a hole in the fence was patched up. In the first inning, there- fore, Wood was nearly frozen, and th Giants rolled up six runs. A Although Vean Gregg, the Naps' star left hander, was under contract for $6,000 to play again this year he told C. W. Somers, his employer, that he intended to jump to the Brooklyn Feds for more money. Somers therefore tore up Gregg's contract and signed him over again at a $10,000 salary. Russell Ford, now a Buffalo Fed, is sore on Gilmore for barring Ed Swee- ney from the new circuit. As Ford got $5,000 in advance from Gilmore, he can’'t be released until next year, but it's a good bet that he will be all through when that time comes. Bome of the Washington players are inclined to believe that Germany Schaefer, the comedian, will go over to the Feds. As a player Germany has about outlived his usefulness to Grif- fith. At any rate, Schaefer has his cronies guessing. The Phillies have irons in the fire for several good players now with other major league teams. Dooin admits that he is weak at short and second and that the box needs bolstering. ‘When the Cardinals open their sea- son, at home they may have to play the first game at the Browns' park. Robison fleld is being done over and may not be finished in time. Fred Clarke, leader of the Pirates, certainly deserves to be called an old warhorse, but he is young in spirits at that. This will be Clarke's fifteenth year as a big league manager. The Nationals have lost the services of Doc Hedgepath, one of last year's Virginia league stars. Hedgepath has signed with the Pittsburgh Feds. BROWN GETS SPRACKLING AS ASSISTANT GOACH W EARL SPRACKLING, 1912, will ° be assistant coach of the Brown football team in 1914. With the sign- ing of the papers which make him Coach Robinson's assistant for the coming season, Brown's football stock has taken a sudden rise. Sprackling is one of the best football men ever turned out on the hill. He was all-American quarterback in 1910 and 1911 and captain of his team in 1911. It was his spectacular ‘work, in conjunction with that of halfback Mc- Kay, that was chiefly responsible for Brown's defeat ¢f Yale in 1910. Before entering Brown he was captain of the football team of the East high school of Cleveland, which won the Ohio state championship. Besides winning his football “B” four times, Sprackling was freshman class president, a member of the glee club, played class baseball, varsity basket- ball and was a member of the two most important undergraduate socle- ties—the Sphinx and the Cammarian club. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION HAS FREAK SCHEDULE, 'HE schedule of the American asso- ciation, recently made public by President Chivington, contains a num- ber of unusual features. The substitu- tion of Cleveland for Toledo was re- sponsible for some of them, particular- 1y for the arrangement of dates, which | gives the new Forest City team fewer | home games than any other club. Be- | cause the series provided for Cleveland.! conflicted in sixteen dates with games of the American league there, these sixteen contests were transferred to other towns. The Cleveland Assocta- | tion team will not play at home until May 14. The schedule for the first time has not | been drawn with the idea of avoiding conflicts with the Louisville races, and the league will compete for patronage with them. It was sald that the new schedule gives Columbus a decided ad- vantage over its three eastern neigh- bors, as the Cleveland team must play a larger number of its games away from home. The Indignapolis club will have competition at home from the Federal league. VINDICATION FOR RITCHIE. WILLIE RITCHIE'S victory over Ad ‘Wolgast in Milwaukee should put an end to the charge that the world's lightweight champion is a coward. In ‘Wolgast the titleholder mét the most dangerous man in his class and fought him with superb confidence, Although Wolgast claimed a foul after he had been floored in ‘the mev- enth roynd, the fact that he quickly jumped up and resumed hard fightix when the referee declined to recognige his claim is sufficient proof that Ritchie boxed falirly. - It is usually the case that whem & P. W. WHITTEMORE, FORMER BAY STATE CHAMPION, TO ENTER BRITISH INVASION Photo by American Press Association. P. W. WHITTEMORE. P. W. WHITTEMORE of the Brookline Country club, former Massachusetts state golf champion, has decided to join the English invasion of American links sharks. His decision t6 enter will make the British championships in the nature of a real international contest, as America will have four representatives. Open Champion Francis Ouimet used to caddle for Whittemore sevefal years ago. man is fouled by a blow in the groin he cannot get up. That was Wol- gast’s plight when he was declared the ‘winner in the battle with Rivers on the coast. Wolgast's claim of foul at Mil- waukee, therefore, may be regarded as an alibl. Much of the abuse aimed at Ritchie has come from the camp of Freddie ‘Welsh, the British champion. Some of these fine days Ritchie will make a match with Weilsh, and level headed sporting men will decide to string with the American. LEHIGH’S TRACK COACH. T, C. CONNOR of Boston has been appointed coach of the Lehigh university track team for the coming season. Boston A. A., which he has represented in years past in track events. - Connor is a member of the