The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1912, Page 8

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SHAME AND A DISGRACE are the only terms forthe farce A -with which the Brooklyn Baseball Club opened the baseball | season of 1912, After their plentiful experience with games and crowds in past years the management will find it hard) te eeare up a word of excuse for the preposterous goings on at Wasa-! dagton Park Thursday afternoon, , ‘The great game of baseball is peculiarly and deservedly our na- ‘Gemal sport. lis promoters and sponsors should be men of sound @perting instinct. ! * Is it eport, deliberately and knowingly, for the sake of grabbing | @rery dollar in sight, to crowd thousands of people into a limited bass- ‘ball ground until the field is overrun, the diamond itself only with the test difficulty kept clear, and anything like a real game made ible? That is what happened in Brooklyn ‘Thursday. | Is it sport to place people who have paid for seate in the grand- etaad at the mercy of a shouting mob who crowd in front and com- pletely shut off all view of the play? That is what the manage-' mifat did. _ Te it sport to so fill the ground with people that players and pélice have to clear an area by force, knocking an old man senseless fy, With « bacoball bat and nearly killing a cripple? These were scencs of Thuredey atternoon. a “As it oport to put the men whose duty it is to report and describe | tle for the public in auch a position that their efforts to sec | the play only bring them abuse and pelting from the crowd? That} fe what they got. | Te it sport—a six-inuing game, begun an hour late, with most | > @f the hits into the crowd, the whole thing frankly admitted to be © silly fake not worth describing? That was Thursday's game. | . It is to be hoped all true lovers of baseball will let the Brooklyn | Club understand in no uncertain way what they think of such sport. FR this isa sample of what the club and its president can do, then in the police should run their games for them. i samba Cattery CE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. 2 AT happene to you if you get off the car backward is graph- ’W ¢ ically shown in pictures posted newly by the Brooklyn Rapid ‘Transit Company in its trolley care. The one and «@ half million people who ride daily on surface in Brooklyn are invited to gaze admiringly upon the elegance aad of the lady who “gets off the right way” and to shudder at what de coming to the-old gentleman who is doing it wrong. The company claims that 95 per cent. of the accidents occurring @@ its lines are caused by people getting off cars the wrong way. | ~ Abensible, helpful hint to the public how to look out for itself. At the same time the companies that make up the Brooklyn Transit are distributing circulars inviting opinions us to which | of an ir‘ersecting street a car should stop to be most serviceable the greatest number of passenge | S The circular pointe to a city ordinance which requires that while Parlace care shall receive and discharge passengers only at the far) “@pousing, these must be brought tov# full stop before crossing cer- | tel specified streets where there are track intersections, fire crossings, “Beerby school houses, &c. “Now,” saye the company, “at these streets people insist upon and alighting from cars at the near side, and we do not Gel justified in refusing them, but it frequenily happens that pas-| aré waiting also at the far side, where, under this ordi ¢, | must also stop, thereby causing delay to the passengers in| je car.” ~The company declares that the cousevaus of opinion among te is that cars ehould make bat one stop and that uni-| ly on the near side of the crossing. ‘The company indorses this the sanction of the poople—ihe stop in the middle of a long they can much improve the speed and efficiency of the service, | ‘Therefore they propose to. put these questions to a vote on April | and 18. Conductors-and inspectors will distribute and collect bal- is on those days and votes may be mailed up to April 24. Tie It will be duly announced. Here, then, are two sound, thoughtful suggestions to the public ) how to help iiself and iis own convenience, widera’c, can do more than suggest. The fecond tries to secure the greatest amount of convenience the greatest number, PNaither suggestion shows avy trace of diabolical ¢ Jo) y of the company. upd nf unning on the o Both are aimed solely at the good of the le who ride and, in fact, both leave the settlement of the matter ose most concerned, +The result wiil be interesting as showing whether this great of ours i+ shrewd enough to sink the habit or convenience. individual in the greater comfort of the greater number—' whether it reaily knows how to assist itself. trent R. CHARLES MONTRAVILLE GREEN of Boston may be right in saying that women talk too much, But it would have been too bad to have lost what the ladies said about Commissioner Stover. It appears that the Commissioner has promising to plant trees and place sod on West End avenue and i ig to pet rard boxes in Central Park—and promising, aud _ “He's long@ on promises, but he just can't do anything!” said ly. Another, after protesting that children in the park have) ip sand that is mainly cigar and cigarette stumps and empty | dleciared, “I wish 1 could draw @ good salary for making the 57 ¥ gat Wey ey W jof old Mi and points, out that by climinating the fur side stop and also—- cordant elements had met, pearly yet, and to have you here!’ sometime social affairs The first tells how to keep clear of one kind of accident. So ton, eddressing himself atill to old Mra, : : ; unenberry, | things, like le ¥ to the right and left before crossing the “On, yes, Arcadia,” replied the lady and making sure the coal hole cover is on before atepping on it, £7 Indiana Ayosdln a pine m! . * ‘om ‘aylor body has to do for hmiself, No cor poration, however benevolent shave Yuay a hites ‘The moral ele: the Kyetalian and rode him out of town “tile y 1912, by The Prew Publishing Co, Corr IONS lee Nore, Wendie AS it only Orpheus who voked Jn rural Indiana?" | Mr, Michael Angelo Dinkston rs, Dusenberry. “It you coming, come on Mrs. Gratch, the militant suffragette, ‘0 Mr. Dinkston. Mra, Jarr, in whose parlor t! ar id: "Oh, please don’t ac know 1 Truth crushed to ud somew! ; but never at Mra. Jarr was really 8 unwelcome visitors should could ave wept when Mrs. Terpwichore in Arca- * cantinued Mr, Dinka in peddler for selling without a stitch on ‘em, trig right up and got, fin’ drunk and tarred and feathered nm arail! Then they stole Jedge Wiae- | E Reverse “1 don't trix that’s an Inieresting Faw country, ‘A i The Evening World Daily Ma IVE ME ONE SERVED SEAT PP ettle's ohickens, Two of ‘em ia in the bar of the Risley Arcadia to this very day, or was, the Wimmen's Temperance sald Mr. o hard names, Mrs, Dusenberry, Mister old Copyright, 1942, by The Ire Publishing Co, (The Ni By Sophie Irene Loeb. ND now the rummaging ‘bee be- wins to buzz and housecleaning {# in the at things t ‘bre! many to get it over, go | Process In getting over it. While tt tn a very splendi but for tis annual ov places on the same walle thing would and EVERLASTING—while with pring-lke tendencl in the middle distance, While CLEANLIN RAS GODLINESS and NESS, Instead of a boon, For it does may, that many a woman @leans aflection out of her Dinkaton, hand 8 various viewpoint: ry wister to HAPPI- yet when it breaks tn on the domestic tranquillity to the period of DISTRACTION then tt becomes a bore ally them statt- cehrs of figgers without any close on Hotel tn 1 look t! Boctety would have raided the place a dozen times and smashed everything in it, only, as Sister Trotman rightly said, |'How could any retined wo: eee KK KKK KK KK KCK KKK KEKE KKK rE Kee Mrs. Jarr’s Flat Becomes a Salon; No, Not a Saloon, Dears, a Salon! KHASAAALAAAAASASAAAAAASAARARSAAA BA never had @ pris‘ner that was a resident, Indiana community in which you’ so Only strangers get-/long resided, ting ketohed at something got put in lor ‘Township folks 4 | Jail. didn't hem For Ni of the community, knowed if anybody and got ‘em sent to jail, that meant shootin’ and barn burnin’. the Gqvernment cases against every or Give HE ONE RESERVED SEAT EXT GAME - IT was but. everybody anybody And not until \ Maybe on the sly, by youngaters of good 13 Confessions Of aMere Man Transcribed by Helen Rowland Copyright, 1012 by The Freee Putdishing Co, (The New York World), Girle 1 Have Loved in the Spring. Something delightful te bound to happen to one in the «pring—tivat golden time, when a man opens the AM always glad when the spring has come undhine—and usually a new tenant |# windows of the heart and lets in th ightful can happen to one—than with ft, And what mor a GIRL tn the spring time? May is moving time in the heart, when old loves move out and new loves move in; when we sweep out the oob- wets of cyniclem and the dust of indifference, and tack the notice, “To Let” upon the door. Pshaw! Old loves, Ike old Jamps, bura low and fitfully. It takes » new teart- interest, now and then; t» keep up the glow of life, And, at this time of the year, a chap doen't stop to think of the girls he has loved and lost, but of those be MIGHT love and WIN. ‘That is why every pretty girl he meets looks Ike @ possible “affinity.” You never can ¢ell just when or where you may run across the One Woman-—the life-time tenast, for whom you have been waiting and searching. But yeu are eure that ehe must be just around the corner. Jn autumn you may Geapair of ever finding ter. By winter you may be glad that you didn't, and that you are still) » bachelor, Hut in the epring. yeu feel convinced that fa aomewhere near, and waiting for you, From the moment you get up tn the morning, you are on the quest. All the way Gowntown to the office you are looking for her. You peer au under every Sower-Gecked hat, in the hope of finding her, You glance down te line of Uttle stenograghers and clerks in the etreet car; fur who knows @at ebe may not be among them? | You erane your neck to catch a alimpre of a face in a passing motor cam perhaps the Ideal Face, You risk your life to glance after a pair of French heels, and are furious with ¢he policeman who rescues you, because he Goesa’t @eem to understand. Policemen are o material. But, in the words of the (m- | mortal gong, you “MU@T love some one," and you usually end by Calling tn love ‘with the nearest one. ‘That ta the pity of {t! You oan fall in love with only ONE tf you are et all fastidious, More than one love, in a spring time, would be gross, soraia, tnartistio, Yet {t gives you @ melancholy feeling to think of all the @irle you never can love—all the girls who would appreciate being loved by’a man iike you or me. A chap’s heart ie filled with pity for them and for himeelf, Af, ‘well! ‘There are many springs. Aris a man can only do his best. I cannot remember @ epring when I have not been in love. Yet, I have always been exceedingly dastidious in any choice of @ Spring Girl. I cannot imagine @ man falling in love with a widow at much a time. Widows were intended ¢or midsummer firtations or autumnal romances. There ts eomething 20 set and obvious about a widow! Sho is the full-blown flower. But spring te only @ promise, « fantasy. Neither can I fancy falling !n love with a chorus girl in Spring, and above | all, I cannot think of myself as falling {n love with a divorcee, even the youngest | and most beautiful divorcee, No, the spring girl, to be quite perfect, must be |1n the springtime of life, with the dew at! fresh on her mind and heart amd | lips, and never @ weed of disillusionment among the flowers of her dreame. | Can you remember your first spring girl? Of course you cannot. Neither | can I remember mine, though I remember very distinctly “the day and the way we met." It was quite by accident, of course. ‘That is the only way to meet a «pring girl, to come upon her upexpectedly as you might upon a clump ef erbutus or @ violet in the woods, ‘To go out purposely, bedecked in your frock coat, with a definite engagement to meet her, is fatal. As for remembering her, that would be fatal, too, and exceedingly impolite to all the other spring girls since, Hesides, she has un- doubtedly forgotten YOU. -And, as Swinburne says: ‘The best and the worst of this ls ‘That neither 1e most to blame, If she's forgotten your kisses And you've forgotten her name. Uke epring flowers, ie ae perishable as it ie sweet and tender. and other flowers will come again next spring and the spring after that and every epring, until a man gets the blight of eutumn in his eoul— or until he finds the Only Girl. And then, of course, she will be to him, alwaya, the incarnation of Eternal pring. But there! I can no longer ait here ecribbling, with the eunehine outside and my @pring Giz] possibly waiting—just around the corner! The Week’s Wash. By Martin Green. Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), 73 ELL," remarked the head pol- “It may be up to Murphy to pick the W ial ¥ ate candidate—to make, perhaps, a Preal= RESERVED | SEATS dp | | con’ e over and I}dent of these United States. Pretty soft can't see that any] position for a man who was an east of the candidates] aside district leader a few yei hag a license to go| It will now be in line for Clark, out and give three} Harmon and Underwood to form a and throw|quartet and render that beautiful 9- lection, ‘Be Nice to Charlie Murphy or He Might Get Sore at You.’ Was there any interest in the drama, the theatre, or dancing?" | “No,” replied the old lady; “the young used to have a dance once in a) but It was never attended, ‘cept family. The moral element in the com- munity was against anything of that situation sized up man in Taylor ‘ownship fer gittin’ | sort, ‘cept, maybe, dialogues sech 4 ” money for his vote was tried was there! You For An porecsiy, © sete More Profeseio: ‘enus, per-|ever any native citizen put in jall sich as ‘Queen Esther, se Apher ea “or a|What community 1# there around here} though onct a year we had an opr, Becta iy ates D you get thi with sech a reputation for bein’ moral, from Evansville play ‘Ten Nemec bee Mee ericae aie mene bea! readians were ‘iconocias! Fetoi “The plain people '1m the moral backbone and sinew of the ‘The jail of Taylor Township alr, cherived and tapay-turvy time ts! q when) are re with on the pi- ano and stacks of muste on the kit- chen stove, during these times a man and his home are oon parted. And | rted famil, energ: therein, ‘The canned hur-| of ry-me-up meal about to be Flets/ often germinates littleners of vision in matter of keepifig the spirit LIVE | ing the process, Hourecleaning =m: HYGIENE as lon, recied from all Cor the stage of mania, Indeed, many of us ners of the ‘house | begin to think of housecleaning early to occupy unusual!in February. Places during the overhauling. w Isjand they peur pth ol um- medtet tu trying aimilar | mer. ‘The thing (and auling the SAMIK pictures would occupy the same and ev seem EVPR-PRESENT neral of the the during nses into new, yer e of HALT should be clearly seen to avert the ‘BREAKING point beyond, ¢ to Pass, strange to ecrude ae the to ‘ater And by givin 01 th ine ts LOOKING 2 DON'T upright and law-abidin’ “You misunderstand Mr. interposed Mr. Jarr. music was the only diversion of the Now Comes the Hum Of Housecleaning! York World), TOO MUCH of her and visality and attention to} the little things of the household than the ‘hum of}to the BIGGHR task of enjoying thing: The contivuous performa: rug-beating, delving Into cranole: corners: ji searc! And this, thing are put off juntil house- y often a longer period than the ailment itself, Thus many of my waters lose the pleagure of the talk, the spring In the coniimuous performance of | tainly we had a gal who run away to Aousecleaning—almost ‘oxone, grasses and early flow: of moths @nd microbes and etep-ladde Germs and microbes will never smooth | ported in the Ta. WRINKLES. The wise one will divide; she was in an apry called ‘Bang’ or the tearing down and hunting op all | ‘Wang,’ or authin’ like that, and got a during the year and enjoy the spring) season before (t has died {te youthful deatn, For it la Mkely to leave the spirit of |ored with them Chinese, not even a youth In HER to be welcomed by the | chicken. entire household. For {: makes a pret- tler aweetheart, a more joyful mother and a happler wife, Lat us not be deluged with DIgGU@T | bY the arm and bore him off practically when we clean house; so that the beam: |y fo ing smiles of OM Sol GRENS reiher than GROUCHES, The | for this occasion. thing Is to systematixe the system of housecleaning, FoR ov GERMS OF HY-: ‘BRIOOK THOSE Dinkston,” | “He asks you {f! *b! of little germs be hailed as It does not reacn that and the er’ taking his! into the sum-) should indeed be a hunt for! inst at May reflect Nights in a Bar Room,’ ‘Uncle To: Cabin,’ ‘East Lynne’ and ‘Lady Audie: Secret.’ But that was in my time. Bless you, nowadays Taylor Town has a regular ‘Tenderline,’ as they call tt, of ite own, with two movin’ picture theatres and a ten pin alley almost sid» are nominally for) Teft they would meke a kangaroo Jook like an anvil |1€ they could cee an opening to jump to another candidate. “The New York Republican bosses are other day and agreed among themselves that New York is hopelessly rotten?" asked the head polisher, “I got them,” replied the head Dol- leher, “I read their doleful plaints, but I didn’t allow myself to fall into de spair. Nor have I noted that the popu. 1 Bren y eat see waiter from my cours sciancing themselves on a slack Wire.|lace has become unduly worked ag oper said that people of Taylor Town|it i# safe to say tliat not ten of the ninety delegates to the Naitonal Conven- ‘aft will be re-elected 4f re- and the belief of these ten lis @ frail and evanescent’ thing, But! ‘they don’t care to go on record as repu- | lating their dear President—unless a chance arises. | “The Republican bosses and their un-; derlings are hoping that Taft will) | withdraw before the convention, But'the discovery on the part of certain even that hope carries the chill of , | men and women who spend their for they apprehend that should Taft|time dealing with nasty subjects that. withdraw, a lot of his Western and|New York is worse than London er | southern delegates would flop to Roose. | Par! ‘ lvelt, Nevertheless, should the Presi- Nobody claims that this great ety dent stick to the finish—and he is @ bull {(the refuge of criminals from all ower | headed party when he makes up his|the world, the gathering dally of mind—it {s quite probable that he will | hundreds of thousands of strangers who | want to be amused and are not partiew- lar how), 1s any Arcadia, There is Plenty of vice here for those who famey vice and want to go out and look foe.dt, But I claim that there isn't « large alty in whe country or the world thought nothing of 10 o'clock or spending maybe night after nigh! ‘But the drama, the modern drama?’ repeated Mr. Dinkaton, “We know that Indiana has had slx thousand rons of song, its legions of poets. We kriow the children of Indlana lisp in chyme and are taught the two great rules of Mfe in Hoosterdom are four grains rf corn to a hill in corn planting time, four rhymes to the quatrain when, girdied in their golden singing coats, they wake to ecataay the living lyr “Who's a living Har?" cried the old lady sharply. “What do you mean And she sprang to her feet. “When women have the ballot they will not be so dull of comprehension, T hope," said Mrs. Gratch, also jumping | to her feet. ‘Mr. Dinkston has only asked you if any one you know from Bone on the ‘ing up till after jole quarter, i that's all he sald," confirmed women and girls are safer om eo Mrs. Jarr, streets day or night. This fact alee | “Why don't he talk United @tates pipe appear to disprove the essentien . . jot the vice agitators tha geked he ld lady. Cor). 7T enough postmiasiare, revene col |Cretre, tice, eeiuatore that Mew Toray go on thi Em Tutwiller what|lectore and United States marshals in walted at the lunch counter at the| tie convention to nominate him, deppo ran off with a drummer the fust| “On the Democratic alde Boss Murphy time Bran was up fer president, and|!# bulwarked with more power than any ahe went on the stage, and it was re-| Political mogul of pied Chatien we | 66P SEH." maid the head poltahan vor "Totm‘bannet pai ste has ver nied Chane, (CT ES, hae ret | Murphy is the delegation to the Demo- Ny ty Me 10,000 more tickets than he had seats for the opening of the baseball season in Brooklyn,” eratic convention in Baltimore and he will cast about one-twelfth of the total vote, No person 1s those ninety votes from Murphy's grasp. No interest can break his hold upon them, And it 1s quite likely that he | doesn't know at this time what he is going to do with them. “The point is that he can do as he pleases or his politioal fortunes dictate, | It {e not at all impossible that the! ninety votes of New York State will be the controlting factor in the nomination, |man. thousand dolla! t bringing in sacred chicken in a Chinese weddin’. But I dont’ delleve it. Nuthin’ te sa- asked the laundry “Mr, Dinkston, if you are coming’ with me, come!" cried Mrs, Gratoh; amd, rising up, she grabbed that gentleman ‘And Mra. Jara Jon wae at an end plivamenneaineninniesass MADE UP He-I think her mind is made up. that the choice of the Democracy may jraising a peep of pros Bhe—W. T know the teat of her ig) rest ontiély with Charles +, Murphy |me chat Mr. Ebbets “From what In Other words, It may easily transpire jstands in the way of » , te ee ae