The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1913, Page 7

No. 60 Washington Square, tn Which Frank Norris Wrote ‘The Pit” and Where Patti Lived, Sold to Italian Hospital. Robert W.Chambers Wrote “In the Quarter” and “Silverheels”” on the Top Floor Back, and, Many Hungry Artists Began Work There. No. © Washington Square, known as the Lucky House, has become the Property of the Italian Hospital and may foon be torn down, With its going ton Square will lose one of its Mterary tani ks, for No. 60, with tta white trimmings, e geniuses than any other House in New York. sheltered m: sained {ts name of the “Luciy House because nearly | all of the young s and writers Who caine to work and starve and sing Vader its root rose to fame and fortune, “Frank Norsis. wr The Dit" and most of the front while h Octop vas wo! fa ite top floor ng at Doubleday da man who dea, for Pattl 1 had lived was published but he found it pretty hard going for awhile. “At the same tine Roberts W, Chams ders was writing *Silve! ever aid, ‘In the Quarter’ and * some of the best work he in the top floor back. “The third floor front was occupied for several years rederick Palmer, aw orrespondent, They used to fend out to the Italian restaurants near- by for spaghett! and serve it to friends. their “Phe house at that time was kept by & Mme. Blanchard, who servec meals in the basement dining-room and could cook in five les, Italian, Spanish, Freneli, German and Ameries her culinary 1t# Were much appreciated by her lodgers, Clarence Axman once Bot her to cook a dinner #0 that none of the diners should know what they were eating. The p! de resistance was a @uck that had been soaked in vinegar for three days. The fish was masked with a Spanish dressing of onions and tomatoes, and the only thing that the iners succeded in reducing to its vom- Ponent parts was a salad made by John Foster Carr, a magazine writer. “Nobody ever locked his door, and neighbors came and went. helping them- selves to each other's neckties and ‘to- bacco as they chose. Somebody dia- covered that a penny placed in the lock and well shaken would open the front door, and after that the house became @ shelter for any friend who was locked out anywhere eine. “The Powers suite on the second floor front was fairly littered with students from New York University. At thirty- five Powers had decided that he had missed one of life's opportunities by not going to college, and had started to fill the gap by attending New York Unt- versity at night, keeping up his work downtown in the daytime, He went in for collegs life with 9 vengeance, fairly Wreathing his room with banners and pillows. He even painted the frame of the big mirror between the window purple and white, to Madame's grea! horror, for purple was a mourning color to her, Later Jerome made Powers Deputy District-Attorney and he van- ished to affluence uptown, YOUNG WOMEN MADE THEIR ii HOMES THERE. ut the house was not entirely given over*to men in those days, and a bevy of Smith College girls had the sunny back suites on the second and th floors. Edith Lewis and Willa Siebert Cather, who has since written several successful nov: MicClure's. Abbie Merchant was asalst- ant editor of Munsey's and Peggy Was- enelis did work for all the magazines. “The house even had its romances, for Bam Brewer, a newspapey man, and Bessie Marsh, a poster artist, were mar- fied there, and Lieut, Richards, a for- mer army officer, then an engineer, mare ried a Mies Thorpe. Hv knew her vnly slightly when ie aske! her to go to tre Ring with him, but at the end of a week of Wagner opera they were engaged. “But tho house did not rise to the helgtt of its glory as a club until the @oing of Madame and the coming of ‘Me’ Reddy, who frankly preferred young men, and rented her rooms to them whenever she could, The house goon became a kind of club, whose mem- ‘bers threatened to move out on the ap- Dearance of any one they did not tike. ‘They wamed up and down its corridors ginging, and at 1 « t the rest of the men stole his tes ae left red ones in thelr places, He had to Wear one, ns nobody would tend aim anyend the stores were all closed, has; k, after they re- | Oe EES UE ETE TL ¥ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURD Lucky House Where Many a Poor Genius Lodged, nnn | | HOUSE Yaa Axman, who was writing was his roommate. The second floor studio belonged to William Starkwether, an artist of great Dromive even in those days, the only American who ever studietd under Ser- lrolla, the great Sanish coloriet. He :n- troduced Serrotia to America, taking {him all about the country and ‘superin- | tending the Serrolla exhibit, which a’ |terward sold for $200,000 “Dozens of plays were rehearsed in [the house, for Al Thomas, who wrote | [Her Husband's Wife" and “Little Boy Blue,” ond Walter Pritchard Baton, the critic, were only a few doors away. Some one was always reading a play or & poem or a short story to somebody, or out loud to himself. THE LIVELIEST OF ALL WAS A PLAIN LAWYER, | “But the life of the household was a Nain lawyer, John Nevins, who had an office in Poughkeepsie and commuted 10 miles each day. He spent four hours, from 8 to 10 and 4 to 6, on the train, and all the rest of the timo making fun for himself and everybody else. Ma Reddy ruled and scolded and mothered the whole crowd. She has not forgotten “her boys" and they often go back to see her. “I usol to hear the bell ring at 2 or 3 in the morning,” she says, shaking her | cap vigorously, bare feet, thinking {t was a telegram. | And {t was only ono ot the boys had forgotten his key. So after a while I | disconnected the bell when I went to hed. And when I'd find them atill in their rooms in the morning I'd say, ‘Well, boys, I guess I know you were out last night. Get up now, so I can get_my work done! “When Penfleld got married the bovs said they were going to get mar- jrled, and I said: ‘Wen, T hope you do. [It's more than one woman can do to | look after the tot of you! | "I was very sedate about the ladies, and the boys had to name them @o me] before they came. Rut they were good boys, alwaya polite ant #0 generous with each other, and with mc, too, if my rent got behind. [ was sorry to see them go away, and so glad to see them back. “Mr. Starkwether had been two years in England and I never expected to Ia: |eyes on him again. I was out washing the front steps when all of a s@dden I FOR TWO CASKS OF CAN BUY A Commercial Value | A passenger Fruit Company's steamer two Mg casks of Dil! pickles, fate. and made his fortune. Mr. Blake is a soldier's son of Fourth of July. Waterige, third Dent His father, being a if he didn’t succeed in be The man with the wa pelation is six feet high about 2 pounds, To is of most charming mann: an Scotch highball. He of humor besides— most ing one has travelled. When Mr. make his fortune he strings of beads, buttons, savage beast and ass wanted his son to sound Iike a wa DILL PICKLES BLAKE KINGDON of Being the True Story of the — a Warted Cucumber in Africa. on the United States Stxaola, which sailed to-day from Jamatea, Co- Jon and Port Limon was W. C, D. Blake and the bulk of his possessions were Mr. Blake loves Dili pickles, not because his life has been soured by the vicissitudes of Pickles have sweetened his life His full name sounds like the opening moment His first name his second, Carunna and the ta sounding ap- and weighs jooth shaven, and possesses unerring sense of direction for a sense extraordinary thing for an Englishman, but then he's Blake set out to took with laces, @l | diamonds, jumping-Jacks and all sorts of trinkets calculated to hypnotize the wage the savage him see him coming down the street. appetite. He took with him also a |. Hello. ma!’ he sung out, swinging | small cask of Dill pickles. The plokles | his hat, and I put my two arms, wet as were for hims |they were, round his neck and kissed | j him on both cheeks. They say he |: a ; ‘great actiat, with overybody going to| The trader went to Benin, wh | membered how many times I'd routed| of Africa, where the w {him out of bed in the mornings. 8 blo ch ts} is, Were on the staff of | ee his pictures and all, but I only re-| on the Gulf of Guinea, on the west coast w f, for he loved the squirt } and zing of the warted cucumber. the wildest and the savages are the savag- ;MA REDDY TCCK CARE OF THE | est, He met King Gloomagaioo of the | siCK BOYS. | Woo Woo tribe and made | “Of course I took care of them when | his black majesty. One day | they were sick. a hit with he absent- John Nevins had a) mindedly offered him a dill pickle out heart trouble, and many a time I've stood | of his cask, The King took a bite and | outside iis door lstening to hear if he a streain of sour hit him in the eye. pickle as breathing, But he never woifld| Just take care of himself, and often when} whole, |'4 got him packed’ away with |bags somebody would call him up on| | the phone and he'd go when he seemed for thi Dolted the he Tears came to his eyes, but a Ice | gmile went with the tears and he rubbed the place where his waistcoat should | lke to die. have sat. ; "He did die Anaily, and the house) ate june Mf the pickle spreed. | It seemed like a tomb without his sing-| er es oh an ounce of gold jing. One by one the boys left, and I) Mie tive bought an. elephant'a. tuck, couldn't blame them, «0 finally I left, | \")* ih ok, too, and cae uptown. But I mlas them yet—they wore always so cheerful.” And Ma Reddy wiped her eyes on the ampie |apron which always envelops her, But though {te glory has in a measure departed and Its boys are now successful men, the house, with {ts bright red walla and white trimmings, still harbors an ; with the mails, | sent to him by the cask. | the pickles and scooped in the gol Coast. ow Mr. x. Judge Hazel said he would sux- known as the tallest | end sentence on five of the #ix counts | world, is dead. She In the Indictment on Hubbard's promise | country home, with all tie ad be good, yuillt’in proportion to her sise. woman 2007 SMARTS EET RETIREE 4. in woed a magnifive! furniture Waterloo Carunna Delhi Blake got busy He ordered Dill pickles He dished out He was the George F, Baker of the West Blake ts going to Para, Bra- From there he goes up the Amazon. al *; e the natives are engased tn the uurned from the theatre or ope began occasional rising star, Carton Moore- a i make calls, 1@shts were seldom oat parke, the English antmal painter who| rubber Indu With his two bet. or 3 in the morning came ¢ to paint a portrait of Mrs. | of pickles he expects Nass a rubber kd aie eo ttartzel, who ate, Collis P. Huntington's Persian cat, and| plantation, Ho say® he cannot fail for ape OFltlhy Sv8 ' re thes (remained to do some remarkable draw-|the Indians can no more resist the de- tended more es than any 1 Ings of New York, lived there last yum-i lights of the Dil pickle than a show aman in New York, lad the #round) nyo. stil th the shadow of approachs (girl a diamond or a roll of the long floor apartment. First nights were Dis ing dissolution the house holds true to} gr hobby, and he had a dramatle ibrary ite reputation for tuck, peeiAnd if 1 fail,” sald Mr, Blake, “what id mes, e ° sity, qqeopamneniped jot it? I ean return and more of eevera} thousand volumes, He ute) NOP ° vritte | plekle hen T will go to the Wes ferly refused to read anything writen! FRA ELBERTUS FINED $100. | Rickles. Then Twill ko to the Wost ty anybody he knew. His friendships | Coast and buy ingd wor! _ eed isk, he said, He arpa ererae |is mine as long as the dill pickle four- Bare too precious to risk, aide NE Promixes Not to Publish Any More | jgios.”” fg now in Allentow aay wht ue And the whistle tooted, the reporters father owns the sas npany, the Naughty Jokes, ee aiecad Caanarer and esahy street railway and most of the RUPPAIO, N. ¥., Jan, 1.—Upon his] s out inte the strea vhile Myr tate, He 1s running three news and his further declara-| Blake on deck waved hi hand with a papers, two German aad one English, on hereafter hi not put] half pickle stil in It “For a time Henry Hubert Day aughty jokes in his publication, Elbert A the English playwright, had one of the frubbard to-day was fined $100 by Judge dudse upper rooms, and there he wro n° Hazel in the United States District! ‘The condition of Judwe Charles M thia,’ produce at ‘or fn Barry. | Court: Hubbard, known to the public] Hough of the United States District and ty ae iyo. seasons, He| &® Fra Eibertus of Roycroft Inn, was | Court who was stricken {1 tn court more Played guanager to look at them | indicted yesterday charged with circus! during ess in the Hawthorne Mine aaa ide yo London, where | lating through the mails a publication| scandal trial yesterday, was greatly = reve produced, and then brought! containing “certain prints of an obscene, | impro to-day. At the York ed to this side he went! le lascivious, fithy and indecent} Hospital it was eald that he had he had to leave his his board, | character.” passed a very comfortable night. It and it Was bought pson Bu-| United States District - Attorney | ft exnecter Will be able to leave chanan, who ‘wrote ‘s Way,’ O'Brien said complaints. agalnat tab. | the hospital in a few days he © ‘Lulu's Tusvands’ and the! pard’s magazine had been comin ——- - Rack o1 the Post-OMce Depart | Patent Wor i “Thom| Buchanan always wore parts of the country. } Quincy, I, iL~Miss b blue suits and black and une | followed a consultation with his a ‘ing, eight feet four Inches in he toe \ eed ann \WILSON'S THIRTEEN WITH HIM ON HIS TRP TO CHICAGD Finds That Number in Party and Also Mixed in His Dates —Puts Ban on High Hats, ON ROARD WILSON SPRCIAL, AR FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, Jan, 1L.—President- Woodrow Wilson's lucky “thirteen was again with him to-day as he sped across Ohio and Ine diana on a Pennsylvania fast train bound for Chicago, where he Is due at 2 o'clock this afternooh, He ts sched- uled to deliver a speech at the Com. mercial Club banquet to-night, When noses were counted at break- fast It was discovered there were thir teen in the party—the Governor, hie stenographer, two Secret Service opera- tives, an ay t of the rallroad com. pany in charge of the special car, an agent of a tele mpany and seven newspaper corresponde “Ita curtous how persistently that number occurs in my !ife,"” remarked Gey, Wilson, “and always tn an agree able connection. The Presiden t then recalied that he had started on the Chicago trip on Friday and noted that he would re to Trenton on Monday, the 1th, That Gov. Wilson had left the burden of politics behind was shown by his good-humored indulgence in story telling and small talk with his travelling com- panions, He Jokingly chided one me ber of the party for carrying a silk hat box, and when asked if he had brought along a “tlle,” he sald ‘m like the famous old Hindu Who does th at that he kin do, “He sticks to tly caste ‘Prom first unto last, ‘And for clothing he makes his #kin do.” ‘The Prosident-elect explained that he never wore a hat except when it Was unavoidable, as be dislikes them He not worn one since he was nominated, Lut hag appeared with ove ning and his ste brown fe- dora few dress functions he has atte ded. At 9 o'clock Jast night the Governor left order not to be lept soundly for twelve Jan, 1.—Gov, Woodrow to On| to-day was kel forward to With interest by mem- bers of the Com whose he will y, ine hast pected to give so speech to: whit. sudde ) Was anne v's, Future Bus ness of th untry. \ To » annoyance of crowds It was ernor's train t Enelewood st some milea from t ty's centre, sident. ie von will be a guest to the cluy morrow Mr t the howe Mr, Carr until he leaves 1 the rnoun for his home. | precautions were taken by i ity pollee to insure Mr, Wits alnat any Wt ward annovance whi n Chicago. police were to act apart distinct from seoret ers, who were pared 2 the alert during the visit of the Presl- Gent-elect. Clyde M. Carr of the Con Clad | and David D, Jones prepared to escort thelr g from the train directly to the res ve otM Jones on the North Sid he reat until time to me to! AY, JANUAR Y 11, “CHIKENS, TAKES 10 NCUBATOR He’s Doing Well, Thank You | Though Starting With Only Two Pounds Weight. PA HAS POULTRY FARM. So When Youngster Arrived Unexpectedly Machine Was All Ready. BROWN'S MILLA IN THE PINES, Neo J, Jan, —Tended day and night by Incubator experts and nurses, « two-pound baby son of Supt. Walter Joyce of the Rancocas Poultry Farm, is the sole occupant of one chamber in the biggest incubator in the world, and is getting more attention than all the 50,000 chicken and duck eggs in| netghboring compartments, | The littic stranger haa been In the incubator six days, since Dr. M. W. Neweomb placed him there after the stork expected in April at the Joyce) home got his calling cards mixed last) Sunday, Dr. Newcomb, chief of the Brown’ Mills ‘Tuborculosin Sanitarium, was visiting the Rancocas farm when thi bird made its unseasonable filght. The phyaician was hurriedly summoned to the Joyce home, which is built for supervisory purposes over one end of the mammoth incubator cellar. An hour later, Dr. Newcomb burst Into the parlor where the superintendent was anxiously awaiting newr from another room nearby. The doctor's face was wreathed in smiles ag he held up in one hand a little bundle wrapped to cotton, “It's a boy, Joyee, and a m specimen, even if he does scales at an ounce less than pounds,” shouted the doctor. “It'll be fome weeks before he fits his clothes and while we're waiting, we'll let him use the best incubator on the place. Get It ready quick.” DUMPS $300 HATCHING WHEN BABY NEEDS ROOM. Joyce ran to the incubator cellar, the doctor following with the little bundle. The fact that the best Incubator con- tained hatching of $300 worth of pt Jesus that had been carefully tended | for nearly three weeks and were about to hatch made no ditference on this oc- casion. The eggs were unceremoniously dumped into 4 pile on the floor and soon the bundle containing the tiny baby was reposing on the ews tray. be hty fine tip the ‘The boy is growing and soon should rowing,” said Dr, Newcomb to- TINY BABY OUSTS | Worked, Made Good and Rose to Fame and Fortune. 1913. N old man sat on a soap box in @ corner calmly munching @ cabbage irat. He had plucked {t from a neighbor- ing crate. It was about 10 o'clock at night and the visitors to the grocery store consisted mainly of old fellows who for years had come there after supper to alr their views or any- dody else's views for that matter, Some of them had been bali players in their youth and, during the winter months, mar@ a great game was played over around the Mg stove. On this night the old fellow In the corner, apparently contented with his cabbage leaf, was taking no part in the conversation. Ted Hooper, the @rocer, was just about to close up when a heavy foot- step was heard at the frort door, <All hands looked up gratefully, A new. comer wan always good for another hour of converration. This Intest arrival was an athletic young man wo had heen on A quail shooting expedition. Ahead of him trotted a large pointer dog evidently thoroughly acquainted with the warmth of the stove, As the Intelligent beast trotted up to the com- fortable spot and began circling around prior to tying down the old man tn the corner pricked up his ears and crowded clomer to the wall. ‘Come in and take @ seat.” was ‘Ted Hoop.r'n greeting to the newcomer, lave any luck? "A Mttle,”” admitted the visitor, “Got fifteen. Knocked down two more but couldn't find them." By way of proof he drew from his hunting coat pocket a brace of quail and exhibited them to the crowd, At the nt of the birds the pointer dog gave forth @ sharp, triumphant bork. Simul. tancous with the sound of the dog's ——S= kin’ to some friends wae were hunters. But anybody had © right to do that and we didn’t any spectal attention to it. We tell, though, that some kind of @ scheme wan on foot, “Waal, the day of the ble game cai and I ain't goin’ to bother you with the details, It was mighty exeitin’ that, but the real trouble didn’t “tll the ninth innin’. We had gota lead and the Thistles needed three rune to win, Steve had been playin’ a great game and It looked like we'd win #ure, “In that ninth innin' our pitcher got @ lttle wild, and, though there were two out, the Thistles got the bases full, Them three runs on the bases was all they needed to win, but it was our business to see that they didn't get ‘em. Steve was playin’ centre Meld and there Was nobody who could beat him, “Two strikes had been called 6m the batter and with two out {t looked Ike the game was over All of @ sudden the hitter swung at the next ball and knocked a long fly to centre, It oughter have been ple for Steve, and would have but for just one thing. “Steve ran back for the ball and was Just settin’ himeecif to take it easy when of a gudden ther wana loud barkin’, threa hound dogs, that had been tled back of the Thistle bench, were turned loose and went scootin’ across the fiers “Steve's eare pricked up when he heard the bark, but when he turned round and «aw them hound dogs right on his trail that rabbit blood came to the surface, He Jumped straight up in the air, threw down hie cap and lit out, lettin’ the ball, the game and everything @o to the dickens! With three Jumpa Steve laid hie eare back and made for the fence at full epeed. He would h the world right off his feat. mean time the three rune came over the plate and that pennant was gone, him ao long as he got hin apeed back Pa Al ad smelt pote, tried and didn't oven make @ holler when! i, give through It. His head and they punched a little hole in he leg. | shoulders caught and the doge were Hefore we left there @ half a pint of| right on him. They didn't touch him STEVE. ric Sod and told him thac he'd take a chance on anything if Bil would just ¢hink it out. That made it ¢ “One day Manager Bill came out and looked Nke he had made up his mind on somethin’. When he acted dreamy ike we always knew that he'd doped out some kind of a echeme, He was Jus’ gettin’ it ready to spring on us. “ ‘Jimmy,’ he says to me during the middie of a one-sided game, ‘What te the fastest thing that you know of ? “I looked at him a minute tryin’ to! find out what he was thinkin’ about. | ‘Then I started to Mure on fast things. “Waal, I finally answered, ‘Cap, T reckon @ Jack-rabbit In about the Deartest animal that runs around these parts, They can take a turn quicker'n anything I knows of,’ “"Phat's the dopa’ he sald mighty quick like, ‘I'm goin’ to make Steve the fastest base runner that ever got on fitat. You wait and sea’ “Now what do you s'pose he ald? That very night he got Steve and me and we went around to that young doctor’a office, Manager Bill carried over his shoulder @ bi bag tn which A jack-rabbit caught that very He must have been talkin’ to the doctor about hin scheme before, for the young fellow seemed to know all about ft. The young doc was full of aucer notions about cence, and him and Bill must have been puttin’ thelr | heada together, “Steve didn’t care what happened to rabbi: blood had been pumped into] nor nothin’, but Steve laid there an Stove's logs shook and quivered like he was havin’ “Did they kill the poor rabbit? | convulstona till the dogs had been anked the young ball pi called off. Long after the game Steve “Didn't hurt him eplied | waa still hidin’ Uncle Jimmy as he relighted his pipe.| nin’ from them doge. “They turned that rabbit loone and, “Didn't he ever play again?” In- while he looked a@ little peekid, he| quired the young man. voice a crash was heard '. the corner, ‘The “gang,” startled, looked up to see that the quiet old man had fallen from his box and in apparent fear was cring- tng asainat the wall, With @ tenderness born of familiarity with the circumstances Ted, the grocer, walked to the old fellow, gently lifted him to hie feet, led him to the door and, ter giving him a cigar, told him good- might, Uncle Jimmy Tedderry amiled remintacently. “Who {# that? inquired the young man, “What's the troubi “You mean to say you don't know Jackrabbit Steve?’ asked Uncle Jimmy in amazement. “And you a big league ball playe “No, admitted the young man, Really, 1 don't know him," explained =U He never bothers no- bouy as @ rule, but he simply can't atand the sound of @ dog's bark." ““Dhat'n queer,” observed the visitor. “What's a dog's bark got to do with a ball player?’ “Waal,” id Uncie Jimmy, squaring himself for an oft-told story, “as long as you never heard of Jackrabbit Steve 1 muda I'll have to tell you. “You se he bi ‘Steve was one of the greatest business bi in the sixties lost out on account of bad legs." “Got slow, did fh * asked the young man, who had been wintering in the e day: “He has gained an ounce, now welghs two pounds and he stands a fair show of sume day being @ husky man.” The temperature of the incubator was reduced from 103, at which the chicks would hatch, to 98 degrees Fahrenheit, which, the doctor said, ¢ baby would find more to hie likin Mr, Foster, general manager of the Rancocax farm, has directed experts to aid the superintendent in caring for the incubator. Everybody within ten miles of Brown's Mills aeems to be immensely interested, Mra, Joyce te recovering rapidly and hopes to be able to tend the incubator soon, Every hour the baby 1s fed one drop of milk at @ thine, and his appetite growing. In compartments on each side of him fluffy lechorn chicks were picking thelr way through eg shells to-day, They will reach the broller stage before Baby Joyce {x able to leave bis aide of t cubator ——<>———— CONGRESSMAN GEORGE GOING ABROAD FOR REST. Has Failed to Recover From Strain of Overwork and Political Cam- paign—Going to Italy. WABHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Representa- tive Henry George jr. of New York, probably will be forced to give up his legislative activities for some time be- cause of his health, for he was ordered [inser by hi phyadeiai to take a long rest. It ts said that he will go abroad, sailing for Palermy, Sicily, some time next week. in good Mr. George hag not bee. health since last summer when he broke down from overwork and had not fully recovered when forced to en- ter the late political campaign. ee CHANCE NOW DIGGING UP NEW HIGHLANDERS. CHICAGO, Jan, 11.—Anthony Carlo, & high school lad here, is the firat man Frank Chance is after for his Hilltop pitching staff, night 2 Before he left here last to get he began negotiations lo, who now belongs to the lub, Carlo made @ brillant ri here and has been sought by w big league teams. Chance also announced the possibility that he will get back into the game at first, provided he feels strong enough, and Hal Chase can play second R* Pils. mild and reliatle, Regulate |. Purely vegetauie, we Liver au dDucetion Organs. Tue satel and | beat imedicine ia the world for the | CURE lof all as Jers of the Btomach, Nervous 1 powtile, Cama eee Manamumation at the Ho hath ara : ee ATO a i a ae OYSPEPSIA Sick Headache, Foul Stomach, Biligasness will ack esate, Tod Seman, ivan, sil its rd He is {| 5 a bok” At by maul, i MaDWat & CO. ow York, | pointed whiskers, village after @ hard session in the big Ie a ve their Gret trouble In the lem: ‘But that ain’ Uncle Jimmy. that caused the point,’ it wae getting’ cure trouble. That Ste on, team called the Hornets and the strongest nine against us was the Thistles. Steve was our best battor and one business rubbin’, electricity and everything Just couldn't get no action into t lege of his'n, It looked like we wi goin’ to lose the pennant on account of it, “Our manager, Bill Wesley, one day that if we didn't of the best base runners in the ‘td he slowed up. They tied y 4s] lege in shape that the Thistles would ‘deat us out with room to spare, We couldn't think of anything anf that put It up to Bill. Bein’ the manager he was supposed to do the thinkin’ any- how, Bill was a mighty Inventive fel- low, at that. He once invented a bat made out of cloth packed hard together to use for buntin’ and it was a wond We won many a game with that ‘till the president of league got on to us and ruled it out. “But, about Steve" urged the young man ‘Couldn't he run at all?! “Run? repeated the old man. “He run just Itke a sewing machine, Could make more motions and stand still than any man you ever #aw in your life, His lege worked all right, but he'd run straight up and down and couldn't 0 forward any fester than @ mao carryin’ a trunk on his back. The Ustener laughed. Through his mind filtted @ ploture of some of the slow runner tn the league. es, air.” went oa Jimmy. “Our trotte® off and about his business and| “No, air.” said Uncle Jimmy, rising looked kinder knowin’ i!ke when he! from hia chair and knocking the sahes stopped and aniffed at Steve's glove|from his pipe. “Steve has never that was layin’ on the @round outside. | no good since that day, but he never “They didn't let eve play for al bothers nobody. All he wants ie & week because Bill and the Doc wanted| good comer and some cabbage leaves, the rabbit blood to get well scattered. | but you mustn't bring no We didn't notic. much difference at ." aroun’. first except that Steve had a knew way| After this Ted, the grocer, closed of prickin’ up hin ears at @ loud shout Bvery once tn a while he would ull Up | sprign of grasa and chew on them. Rut we didn't think nothin’ of tha: BANKING AND FINANCIAL. Signa wan comin’ on Steve and we a didn’t know tt. “Til never forget the first game put him in. The fans thought for awhile that Manager Bill had due up a new recruit. Why, that Steve, once he got that rabbit's blood in him, could outrun any two men in the club, and when they got him tn a chase between the bases he could turn and run back the other way 80 quick that he had the whole club trippin’ and fallin’. Tle could go right through a fellow's le and sometimes he wouk! jump over an in- land on the base, He was a Mr. Thomas C. Shotwell For several years of the financial staf of The New York “American,” will be in charge of our Customers’ Department on and after this date “One “there waa @ runner on base when Steve come to bat and we began pullin’ for him to knock the ball out of the jay.” continued Uncle Jimmy, Harriman & Company 111 Broadway, N. Y. lot, Steve out loose and sure enough, did wallop the ball to the fence for a home run. Then trouble set in, He wan so faat in goin’ round them basen that he passed the other runner at nec- ond and the umpire had to call him out under the rules: “Didn't he have any more trouble at all with his legs?” wae ask: “T havint got to that yet," sald Uncle Jimmy, frowning at the interruption, “The trouble started just about the end of the season when wo were gotn’ great, It came up in @ mighty funny way, too, One day we went Into the clubhouse to get ready for the game 4nd found that every one of our bate had been mawed almoet in two. There wasn't a solid one left. That day we had to borrow bats trom the Thistles. We couldn't understand that business at all, But to make sure that nothin’ else happened Manager Bill had the new bate locked up in @ steel trunk. ‘The next day the bats were all right, but a big plece had been gnawed out of the corner of the bench. “The next night we set up and watched. Along ‘bout 11 o'clock when the moon commenced to show we secs Bteve crawlin’ through a hole In the tre field fence, In a minute he was gallopin’ all over the outfleld and ntb- bling on little bushes that Krew in the ‘1 corners, Yen sir, that fellow had been etsy ee opie Pate ehttock AMC AEE him from chewing up the «love i ——_—_—_—_ Se-INTER: T- Allowed on secounte from 610 to ». Deposits made on or before J: draw interest from January tet. 0100,000 on deposit with State of New York. We ering our 734 year. Banking by mail to meet your convenience. Call of write for “Booklet on Banking.” Tel. Beekman 11%. ' CLARKE BROTHERS, Bankers 164 Nesson St. (Tribune Bidg.) Met. 1860 SAVINGS BANKS, etropolitan Savings Bank a " ene 8 TUIKY Aye “Long towards the end of the sea- fon Steve got to comin’ to the ball park the back way and crawling DEVOTED. 50 or. Joong through a hole in the fence Instead of walking throurh the gate which was |S SMERER. Se'y wf ANI av's, open. We had noticed him shy off oc- castonally when he saw & hound do but we didn't give no thought to that, lot of folks are acared of mad 44 you win the pennant?” arked the young man, showing a little impatience. enepped Uncle I'm tryin’ to manager, Bill Wesley, seein’ that eome- thin’ must be done, set his head to work on & new @chome. He was «@ great reader, and knew all the stuff in them sctence books, One day he started to talkin’ to ue about blood trans— trane"—— “Transfusion,” assisted the young man. “That's It,’ agreed Uncle Jimmy. “That's the {dea of puttin’ one man's blood into another fellow, ain't it?" “That's it." “Waal, that's what Bill Wesley got interented in, For a whole week he was readin’ books on it and talkin’ to a young doctor that had just got tn from school and hadn't yet raised them All the time he was tellin’ Steve that somethin’ desperate had to te done, and finally Steve up the players on all the other teams began to hear rumore about Steve's cure and efter he got so fast they got to callin’ fim ‘Jack- rabbit Steve’ the eae as he te called to-day. “The Thietles had come over to our town to play the last game that was to decide the pennant. They knew that 1,00 WSSSLy. Cy ae we wan g004 they'd lose, #0, all of t busy, They dean by buy- ny ‘r bat boy, who told them a lot t the jack-rabbit business. The Thistles had a amart fellow for P WANTED—MALE, manager, even if I didn't like him, and | WANinu ROK Us. S1OM\~— Aine posted Yar he got right to work figurin’ out a} sm ie*y anny gainers Meee of AB and 33; cithe | i ‘~ who hare acheme, Them was tho days when| hw to become citisens, nt ball players had to figure. Of course te and orate habite, wae con wo didn't know exactly what he was . up to or we might have stopped him, Once or twice we caught the Thistle 182 ar. Third Set of Three Famous Pictures FREE Ready and Right for Framing “Evening in the Berkshires” q As evening falls the distant church tower begins to fade in the purpling mists. The children romp in from the fields, the chickens come home to roost, and over all broods the spirit of nature’s perfect calm, “Coast of Nova Scotia” “Roman Girl at Fountain” All Three Pictures in Beeutiful Colors a A bright, breezy spot where in the summer lichens are green and purple on the crags and where swarms of decorative sea gulls swoop around in the dashing spray. A swarthy, barefoot child in green dress, red bodice and white chemisette with a gay Roman scarf worn apron-wise, drinking at an antique fountain by the wayside. Free ifternee, Sunday World pri a $ | a %