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ss | —— {BABE RUT ts ss HE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 192 nero” i SST FEY TT RT TE SENT NTT ITT Gascon, GIRL IN GRANDSTAND Who Was All He in the Big Crowds, and She BECAME HIS BRIDE} MARVELS OF WEST és. “Babe” Ruth Applauding MAKE EASTERNERS BETTER AMERICANS Vast Empire Beyond Rockies Is a Revelation in Civil- ized Progress, A CURE FOR ANARCHY. Modern Science With Coun- try’s Resources Produce Wonderful Results. | By Martin Green. The Rockefeller Foundation or any other institution or any individual possessing unlimited money could do| @ great service to the United States by chartering a special train and taking the leading exponents of the {dea of violently overthrowing the Government on a tour of the country. lt ds safe to predict that at the con- clusion of the trip every radical who had a shred of intellectual honesty left would admit, from the evidence his eyes bad seen, that it can't be, done. The United States is an infant @mong nations, but an infant with’ whiskers, It affiicted with grow- ing pains which are poignant spots. ‘The war threw the country off its balance for many months. balance has not been entirely re gained, nor will it be while unpre cedented economic and social diffi- culties continue to call for treatment and adjustment. But this can be said by one who has just returned from a visit to the Pacific coast: The people have gone to work. In the far Northwest, the cradle of I. W. W.-ism, the roar of industry drowns the criss of the self-elected uplifters of the downtrodden. The uplifters are having a hard time find- ing anybody who wants to be up- lifted. The ranks of the downtrodden in that part of the country are peo pled solely by those with whom the state of submergence is chronic, Young men who served in the) World War are, to « considerable ex- tent, responsible for the flattenin out of the Anarchistic uprising in Washingtop, Oregon and Montana, ‘They have seen and they know, They meet “direct action” with direct ac- tion, ‘There ie still considerable un- rest In the mining amd smelting in- dustry in Anaconda and Butte, Mont @ condition which is more or less prev- alent in that section and is insepa- rable from an unyielding attitude on the part of labor and capital, I wish every New Yorker whose westward horizon merges into the Palisades could stand in the dusk of ummer evening on top of the heights of Seattle and see the city light up as the sun sinks behind th mountains across a ‘bay into \wh New York Bay. could be emptied | without appreciably raising the w ter level. In front of him and dom-| inating the city he would see an of- |self fice building forty-two stories high, @!speed and the jumps were th the old left arm, My idea of a won-| HURT, BUT HE SAYS |; amps’ CLERK HELD use there fa|derful time was knocking the ball ie reas, ete 28 lonero wome cue would have to ofimb| HELL PLAY TO-DAY compare with it \the tence to SPOKANE THE REAL “WHITE |gomething t more startling and impressive edifice in its surroundings than the Wool- worth Buil nothing arc LIGHT” CITY. We of New York boast of our White |rrea Box games in the World's Light District in Manhattan, We \would put the soft pedal on our [Of g OE boasting could we spend an even in the city of Spokane, Washingto! which is all white light. ‘The tall buildings are outlined in twinkling electric bulbs. All the streeta in the downtown section are vistas of wink- ing, flashing, multi-colored sl A swift river runs through kane. In the heart of the city this river is diverted into flumes and the volumes of rushing water are pro- jected against turbines which con- | with an electric 1} Electric current is about the cheap- est thing in & kane, tanding on a bridge overlooking the point where the energy of the river is converted into electricity I th ght of the pos sibilities in the water that comes down to New York from the Ashokan basin ger transpor already est: dally life of the Ore, maintains a livery system as it wer Citizens desirous of taking a quick trip to! a point covered by the system | jump on a@ street car or into an au- tomobile, ride out to the edge of the city and find there a whole fleet-of planes in readiness. The sight of aeroplanes in the sky is so common out ther peuple don’t look up any_more, EYE OPENER FOR THE SLOW- TRAVELLING EASTERNER. ttle goes further than Portland t it su a combination xicab and service, It 1s tha best expla n advertisement | of the Be axicab Co., in the Seattle newspapers, which reads: ‘Do you want to go to Byerett In Tacoma in 25 minutes, Bellingham in 80 mia Portland | fn 135 minutes, Vancouver and torla, B. C., in 180 minutes? Cail Main 6600 and we will deliver you io the Western Airplane Company on Lake Washington who will take you n ‘Time mentioned includes our delivery fr ny downtown point.” 30 minutes, about as way from Seatt renton, N Jn i from New York -ortland Victoria occupy about th me t lation, as to distance, t attle tha’ Washington and Boston occupy to} New Yors, i | d ning mo: even gone scorel sht plant. |[f you had told me that some Class) Th D League scout had his eye on me|except that the ligaments I might have believed jt. But the] wrench surprise I got with the second boost,| for a month. to $1,800 was nothing at all to the/ sensation Jack Dunn gave me a fow that speech-making trip) of Ohio's best citizens turned out tu Jto St, Mary's when he t days aft a good pitcher after all lievable—$2,508 boy to get into p ball, but every yea I lo ood ones to come along from the old fehool lot back In Baltimore don't misunde renew $12,000 Air Taxi Cab, | only one F As ‘“‘Hubby’’ Hits a Home Run Big League for Babe Ruth Achieved in First Year ss iio un Batting Prodigy Quickly Left Internationals for snortaxe is one of the results of a ori Boston Red Sox, but Was Farmed Back Again. By Babe Ruth. CHAPTER Ly, LYHOUGH I had been quite a home run hitter on the old school lot out a long one against a league 8 a pitcher rather than as a heaty slugger when the Orioles went out on the International circuit. 1 liked pitching well enough, but as a pitcher I could not bat in every game and my whole idea was to play ball every day and bat every day to earn “| my $1,800. Bat, especially. pitcher, still Jack Dunn saw m s mehow or o a big. pitel ‘he| BABE. RUTH’S KNEE | IN LIQUOR SEIZURE T satonle gee eae Famous Yankee Player Declares| ———— cause if you will look back to the Injury Won't Prevent His |Chauffeur, Discharged, Says Whis- | 3 snl Facing Indians. | key Was Placed in Taxi While eee the Cube you wilt Bada totai| CLEVELAND, Aung, 12-—Babe Ruth | , He Was Aw | | who wrenched the ligaments of of twenty-nine scoreless innings cred- ited to Ls And this was one in-|knee when he slid in the first inning than any other pitche in Wolrd’s | work. feared, say play to-day. | Some ball players may know when| “Who wished this on me, just when there is an ivory hunter in the grand|I wanted to beat Clev: stand but I had no idea that anybody | Babe. “I'll be out there was watching me with the Orioles.) life on it” y was Co Twenty- 1 Mays’ me that} see him beat th I was going to the Boston Red $ox.| ten inning battle Porhaps he didn’t think 1 was such) that th FIRST YEAR OUT. | I could hardly believe that I had » club In my first} to % ame in made a big lea year out, Only five moi ths since | he tenth had been a schoolboy, sliding on a ee pond in a Baltimore industrial! FYRS WORTH $30,000 GONE. school. And the salary was less be year. Would won- | Thieves Enter b ders never cease? © Suspect O1 I was haying much better luck in| One Suapest Conaht, the’ game than Tom Padgett, a fine| ectives Callahan and Stephens fellow and 4 good pitcher, who}the Wost goth Street Station saw sey- broke into baseball at school and|orat men hurriedly bundling furé into was pitching for a small club in the], truck in 27th Street, between Sixt Virginia League Poor Tom would} Lam sure, if he| amd Seventh Avenues, early to-day have made go hadn't been killed In an_ accident, | hey He was the only St “ae? Uh 1 hases| caught him aft k for some] detectives fired several shots in ‘The prisoner w began | N ( . FAN | pr ser, of No. 1540 Wushingtc © was} nue. He said he had been h nd. | stre Along about this Un playing, to th in U Oh, there haye been from fif-| toad the truck. teen to ty tnousand others, But sh have been the whole] entered the sixth story warerooms of {eral y crowd among twenty million Hundelman Brothers at No. 144 West | Did I say she? I believe I did, and| 27th street by chim Across. Une I was Writing about Miss Helen| escape of a building in 2th Street Woodford, a Texas girl so pretty that} had | removed my worthy: Bt had been ken away after ing lowered to the court by roj (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) carried out to 26th street. —|'the bulk of the ma his | nad | Yesterday and which may keep him jes| Out of the game for ten days, It Is said your injury {# sald to be like Lewis's, , not torn, Lewis was out day in| even thousand |}. Indians in a furious und they all agreed | been carried. ¢ Slinger did a good \jop of ft. Mays triumphed without MADE BIG LEAGUE CLUB IN| the help of Ruth, who was hurt in nd and had to leave the |Club and loading it into the taxicaD, opening inning. ‘The a | sre Was 7 to 4, three runs coming in |“DAREDEVIL JIM” SAVES Two. cape— proached the truck started. One | men fell off and the detectives which the Maurice Geroff, don the| ~—_- by men he did not know to help estigation showed that thieves had | Admiral Thomas W. Kin and |after an ilne sand SHORTAGE OF CARS: © PARTLY 10 BLAME FOR LACK OF HOMES Co-operatioon With Railroads Urged to Help Solve the Difficult Housing Problem. Daniel Willard, President of the Raltimore & Ohio Railway, outlined to the Reconstruction Committee of the United States Senate, of which Senator William M. Calder is ohair- man, a plan for the relief of short housing conditions in thie olty at a meeting of the gommittee held in the rooms of the American Society of Mechanical. Engineers, No, 29 West 39th Street, to-day Mr. Willard, in response to a ques-| tion put by Senator Calder, who had | previously announced that New York will be short from 120,000 to 140,000 homes next winter, admitted thatthe | housing shortage is probably due to a considerable extent to the shortage ot railroad cars The housing shortage, Mr. Willata| |said, is acute in all large cities.’ Building of apartments and dwellings | ‘languishes because the railroads, un- der existing circumstances, are unable to ship building materials in quanti- | ties to the cities, ‘This has resulted in |a eteady and unprecedented Hise Jn | the cost of such materials, | Mr. Willan suggested that the City |of New York appoint a competent | committee to make a thorough survey ‘of the housing situation. From this survey the committee could determine | just what buildings—epartments, dwellings, schools and hospitals are needed and approximately the quan tity and kind of materials needed for | necessary construction work. Tho committee, Mr. Willard suc | gested, could report the result of its | | | | | | tigation io a comuniltee OF rate | | road exeoutives which is dealing wi |the housing situation under {/ Chairmanship of William H. Trues- | |dale, President of the D. L. & W. Railroad, Through co-operation, Mr. | Willard said, a special effort could he} to warrant a start in the constructiyn of necessary housing. Mr. Willard said the present car ority order issued Jast spring by the Interstate Commerce Commission when all open or box freight cars were assigned to the job of haulinz ooal to the northwest amd y Eng land, to relicve the fuel railroads, he said, h 7 as yet to readjust conditions resuit- ing from this priority order which cohgested the open or box cars in cer tain sections of the country from which they had to be returned empty He gaid the railrgads had maded sp: cial efforts this summer to m | building materials to large cit is for use in the erection of business | structure Ernest Smith, night clerk at th Lambs Club, and Charles W. tre of No. 114 West 45th Street, chauffeur, who were arrested early yes terday morning for alleged violation of the Volstead Act, following the finding of fifteen cartons of Hquor tn Bretn taxi, were arraigned to-day before Med eral Commissioner Samuel Hitcheoc's. | fmith,who waived examination, wa held in $500.» that nis | front ¢ by ort time to ¢ and wpon returning found. th cartona already londed fipon. it. He Jared that Smith, whom he knew uested him to take the ea to Ome place uptown, but denied that he knew they contained liquor, who owned it th ddreas to which it was to hi id Bretney should have the benefit of the doubt, and disch John O'Brien, who arr teatified the hears them taking the liquor f 1 him men mba O'Conner BR Bia Mra. Anna Roberta was taking bath in her apartment at No. 1425 Now |trand Avenue, Brgoklyn, to-day when her two #ons, Boyce, five, and Wal fince, three, playing with m cues Children From) ing Apartment, tohes, net the place afire. The mother tried to] reach her children, but was unabletto penetrate the dense smoke. 1 bathrobe she ran to raldine Graham to Marry | ‘Whitney Warren Jr., War Hero MISS GERALDINE GRAHAM CENTRAL EUS PHOTO SER, ROMANCE OF GIRL IS DISCREDITED | Buch register of ‘about that the curtains had been plunder wax discloxed| inon Street; 0 worth of ailk| nella, Btrew burilars hi cally Exonerates ener hee TWICE DECORATED | WAR HERO 10 WED. GERALDINE GRAHAM Whitney Warren Jr., Who Served With U. S. and France, | Stet, SHOT: $ FLY IN Ci OF NEGRO IN HAR’ West 125th Street in ‘Uproar Fugitive Who Had Stolen Re- volvers Escapes, Shots fired in the West 125th block bounded by Seventh and Avenues to-day as a negro who stolen two revolvers fled, starti women with perambulators and pers. The negro escaped in Avenus Fits € ‘Wins Society Buds, | were the aly persone inthe mer a ae = No. g Miss Geraldine Miller Graham of Santa Barbara, Cal. whom the Pringe | of Wales declared to se “the most’ beautiful girl in America,” who has been courted and feted at Newport like a princess royal, is engaged to be married to Whitney Warren jr, son | of Mr. and Mrs, Whitney Warren of | this city and Newport. ‘The announce: | ment of the engagement was made to- day by Miss Graham's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Wiliam Miller Graham, who | are at present at their California home. ‘The, wedding will take piace at St. ‘Thomas's Church in this city, in February next, This engagement has aroused the |keenest Interest both in New York and Newport as well as in Paris, where Mr, Warren in well known, [having served for a time in the French Army during the war. | Miss Graham has been prominent | in the ultra fashionable society of | |New York and Newport since last | year when she made her debut. Her |beauty and her accompllshments— she is am out-of-of;doors girl, skilled las a horsewoman—attracted instant | attention to her when she entéred #o- ciety. Her parents, have an exten- |ulve estate, “Belloguardo,” on Booth's Point, at Santa Barbara, overlooking | Santa Barbara Channel, and there | | Mr, Warren arrived from New York last Monday, for a month's visit to California, During the winters Mr. and Mrs. Graham spend the season at the | Ritz-Carlton in thie city, and until last year Miss Graham was a pupil at Misa Spence's School, Soon after her graduation came her introduction to society, and within a short time her romance with Mr. Warren begun, Mr. Warren is a member of a dis- tinguished New York family. His father ts an eminent architect, graduate of the Hoole des Beaux Arte of Paris, He was preparing for col- loge in 1916, but ended tt all to go to France where, for half a year, he served with the Norton-Harjes Am- bulance Corps, Then he entered the French artillery school at Fontain plea, where he received a commission in the army. For herolc service he | waa decorated with the War Croas, with three citations, and the Military Medal. He was wounded in Decem- ber, 1918, and at the end of that year returned to New York, He {# a mem- ber of the Racquet and Tennis Clubs. a oe THREE HURT AS CARS CRASH. Two Flushing Avenue trolley cars collided at S8*. Nicholas Avenue and Palmetto Street, Brooklyn, a little after 10 o'clock this morning, and three ° fengera in the westbound car, whied | was in charge of Motorman James Pepina, were hurt. ‘They are Henry Bahel, No, 2628 Mad- Louie Nickel, No. 399 Cor- and Anna Schontley, No. Corona. <All were and after 531, Junetion Avenu suffering contual ance by their hom unther furs SUPERIOR IN QUALITY DISTINCTIVE IN STYLE EN prices of raw furs were at their lowest several months ago, we were in a position to take advantage of this condition and in consequence are able to offer the newest fashions for fall and winter at } VERY REASONABLE PRICES | acer T do not think mnything in the pelts Bonne Fk nook | OFFER CARMEN COMPROMISE. goods atore of 8. B. Davega, and a scream to-day, ran to A\ Aibéle'@ i During AugustOnly | MARKED REDUCTIONS | Will be made from these regular prices Long lsland ¢ This affords an unusual opportunity to early purchasers wh her outery attracted James ("Daredevil Jisr of the Prospect Park He added another + by rusting Into th ng with a ehild » put out the fi The damage was slight Rear Admiral Kincaid Dew ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aus a in charge of t t Station at Annay Naval (Hospital f liright’s dine “incinnatl and was the Naval Acudem: slaty youre old. SILK STOCKING ROBBERS. C. G. Gunther’s Sons 391 Fifth Avenue ) | usively for One Hundred Years | COOLING HOME | make the drink that t* winning much « these days of high id Lttie of it, The Grape Ola Hi-ball to-day t# the one teal rival of lemonade in the anclent family standby for hot weather, The flavor of grape is 4 from that of lemon. Besides it ts ens to make than lemonade, an@ often iti cheaper. The recipo tteelt: oadin Riape te desired.” Tt te very. your grapefrul ith | with theematural flav rape | natural ‘West 125th Street, when a negro, 6 feet, | 8 and wearin a checkerad cap, i. ranged up to @ counter and asked — Walter Squires, of No, 516 wi Street, Brooklyn, *o show him fee volvers. ‘The negro was juggling two revolvers, when Harry C. Hackett, of | Creaswood, N. J., clerk, warned him not — to point the weapons his way. “Yen, | will,” said the negro. “All you people Just keep quiet.” He backed out of the door. Huckett hastily loaded another revolver and ran out to see the negro, with Cie re volvers tucked away, Seventh Avenue. shots, and the ai roar, Traffic policemen closed in, bpt in the excitement the negro vanished. HELD FOR SHOOTING — OF HIS SON-IN-LAW Victim Dies From Shot on Waynte Hospital After Alleged Quare*? rel With Wife. a Joveph Avitibile, No. 151 Sist Strpet, Brooklyn, pleaded not guilty to the charge of homicide tomay when : raigned in Fifth Avenue Court, Brooke lyn, In connection with the death of his son-in-inw, Joseph Messina, No, 185 Sob Street Patrolman Matthews of the @ ith Avenue Station said he heard a, shot home and found Messina in the yard with a bullet wound in his jagular vein. He died on the way to the | hompital. : ‘The police say they have informna~ tion that, Messina came to Avitibiles house, where his wife was living. qitit her father, and quarreled with her, Now In Progress EXTREME REDUCTIONS HURLEY SHOES 1434 Broadway 1357 Broadway 1177 Bendwey 215 Brosdwey 41 Cortlandt St. 254 Filth Av Vactory—Rockiand, Masa WITHOUT SUGAR — t Housewives are finding an unexpected vut by no means, unimportant virtue te irape Ula Concentrate—trom which the? © of favor in the home, Grape @ia ‘oncentrate requires no sugar, and it ating chi 4 or 5 ot plat t pare of Grape ofa 'o No mu oquired cold water ineentrate ‘The Grape Ola Hi moat 1 way of making a drinking nome, or at the soda fountain. hover drink Grape Ole Concentrate, You must mix It with water. The | proportion of water gives | AL "the same tine, it makes ‘onomical home drink 01 Grape Ola Concentrate of & doaon delightful (or punches. It elignt ful tik lem Crangesde, an tem. ke, a Ola Concentrate ts fe Peas many uses ths the aint ellent for ices, sherbets and as mai Va fact, wherever the ior. Sry rousehold shoul keep Orage. vcuntrate i the rerun dies. Bo sure are tape Ole Concent without, ‘that we quart at ove ook. halt-pint bottles, jo to YOUr grocer, oF. catoanen | store, Ta 'Went aad Be ne ae ee nee