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Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There In Washington.
Virtue That Abides in Clean Linen
WASHINGTON. Tho nation's capi
tal is sincere in Its crusade for
cleanliness, and promises to prove
herself a worthy exnmplo to the other
cities of the land. The activities of
Dr. W. C. Woodward the past week
have contcrcd In tho effort to reform
the laundry business of the city.
Every person who launders for pay
tho clothing, sheets, pillow cases, tahlo
cloths or similar articles belonging to
any other person will he required to
register with tho health officer.
"What tho health department de
Hires," saya Dr. Woodward, "1b to
bring under better control the many
homes of tho poorer classes in which
washing Ih dono for biro to supple
ment tho scant wage of tho head of
tho household. Too often these houses
are In an uncleanly condition.
Envoys Notorious
UNCLE 8AM Is getting wise on one
point and that Ih that foreign coun
tries llko to have him send millionaires
as his representatives to their hinds
there to spend American gold lavishly,
hut aro disposed to be decidedly
niggardly when it comes to thoir rep
resentatives spending money In
America.
Secretary Root Is credited with be
ing about to turn this situation to
good account. Mr. Hoot resents tho
position of tho foreign governments in
requiring money qualification of an
Amorican ambassador.
Of courso what ambassadors and
ministers spend hero on private en
terprises for thoir governments can
not bo reckoned. Hut their entertain
ments and goneral modo of living are
an open page. Tho man who draws
tho biggest salary In Washington is
Are Turning from
FHOM the preliminary roport of the
commissioner of internal revenue
It Is apparent that the consumption of
whisky and other ardent spirits Is on
tho decrease and that tho consumption
of boor Is Increasing. During tho lis
cal year which-ended on Juno 30, last,
$131,789,242 was paid (o (ho govern
ment as revenuo on whisky nnd other
Bplrltuous liquors. For tho year previ
ous $147,550,281 wns paid, a loss in
revenuo of $15,7(57,038. Thoro was dis
tilled during tho year which ended
Juno 30, last, 110,808,102 gallons of dis
tilled spirits, a decrease over tho pre
vious year of ll.333.G72 gallons.
During the past year 58,747,030 bar
rels of beer, ale, etc., worn made, a
Would Make Work of Mining Safe
THE groat number of mlno accidents
ami tho appulling Ions of life there
from has promptod the United States
govornmont to Invite Cheat Britain,
Gorinauy and Helglum to send their
leading exports in such matters to this
country to co-opernto with (ho efforts
now being made through tho United
Stntea geological survey to establish
an experimental station at Pittsburg
ami to Inaugurate tho work thoro of
touting explosives used In coal mining.
CongreHH nt its Inst hobbIoii appropri
ated $150,000 for this purpose, and
(IiIh Hum Iiuh boon turned over to (he
survey.
It Ih huIiI tlmt abroad mlno ox
plotdvcH nru tested, and those which
are deemed standard for ttto purpoHo
of mining are labeled "pormlHMble."
"And Micro Is reason to bellovo that
In many cases, especially In (ho sum
in or bcuboii, wlien heating water for
washing not only (IIiiiIiiIhIich the profit
of (lie operutlon, hut uluo adds to the
dlHconifort of the household, (he wn
tor used Ih not properly heutod, nnd
clothing from various sources I
passed successively through (he Htimo
dirty wiiter; und, moreover, tlmt Iron
lug, wlilch, when efficiently done, Is a
reasonably .safe disinfecting process, Ib
not done In the manner hcut adupted
to t ho accomplishment of that end.
"While the niont effectlvo regula
tion of the business of laundering can
not he hrought about until some ays
tern of licensing Is established, as is
proposed In the pending hill, yet it
would Bceui that It may he pousihlc
to facilitate the inspection of places
where laundering Is done hy requiring
registration at the health office. If
they ho registered (hen (hey can he
systematically Inspected, at least from
time to time, as lunchrooms and other
similar places are now being inspect
ed, Instead of being visited only occa
sionally, in tho courso of the routine
work of the department."
as "Tightwads"
James Hryce, who gets $50,000 annual
ly and an additional $10,000 n year for
contingent expenses. Mr. Hryco has
one of the finest mansions which the
capital can bonst, completely fur
nished, with an extra fund to pay for
any necessary repairs or new equip
ment, lie has linen, silver and glass
at tho expenso of the Hrltish ex
chequer, and even the liveries of his
retainers come from the public fund.
Yet with this vast sum at their dis
posal, few people live more unpre
tentiously than the Hrltish ambassa
dor nnd Mrs. Hryce. Their social rec
ord during tho last winter contained
fewer events than any of the Immedi
ate predecessors. Mrs. Hryce gave
about six small afternoon receptions
during tho season, when tea and small
confections were served.
Hut little more can bo placed to the
credit of the French ambassador and
Mine. Jussernnd, second on the list of
big Kiilarles. M. Jusserand gets $12,
F00 a year, about $10,000 for oxtru ex
penses. The dean of the corps, the
Italian ambassador, Huron Mayor Des
Planches, is almost out of the social
running.
Whisky to Beer
gain of 201,509 over the preceding
year. On this beer, ale, etc., the gov
ernment received as revenue the sum
of $58,747,(580, a gain of $201,509.
Tho receipts from all sources of in
fernal revenuo for (ho year aggre
gated $251,GC5,950, being a decreaso of
$17,99S,072 from the rocolpts for tho
fiscal year wlilch ended Juno 30, 1907.
Tobacco of all sorts yielded a reve
nue of $49,802,754, a loss of $1,948,315,
the figures of tho year which ended
June 30, 1907, being $51,S11,0G9. This
year cigars contributed a total sum of
$20,714.27(5; little cigars, $545,050, and
cigarettes, $4,879,340, and tobacco of
other kind., Including chewing and
smoking, $2l,84G,G03.
Oleomargarine paid revenue to the
extent of $954,301, a gain of $GG,GG3
over tho previous year. This repre
sents (9,107,302 pounds consumed.
Renovated butter was a close second
to oleomargarine. 50,240,708 pounds
being manufactured, upon which $125,.
t01 revenue was paid.
There is no such condition hero, nor
has tho geological survey tho right to
Imposo It. It may. however, endeavor
to ascertain tho facts by InvestlKatlon.
and thou set them forth for tho hone-
lit of mine oporators and for tho In-
formation of ntnte legislators.
Last year 3,200 men were killed In
the mines and tho year heforo 2.061.
Tho rato for 1906 was 3.34 for ovorv
thousand men employed, while for
1907 It was still greater. In four mines
alone nearly 500 men woro killed slnco
hiHt December 35G In the disaster at
Monongah, W. Vn., said to bo tho most
appalling, so far as the loss of llfo Is
concerned. In tho history of mlnlnir:
25 moro In the disaster at tho Darr
mine, In Pennsylvania; 32 In tho
Naomi mine, In Pennsylvania, and Gl
In the olnndo mlno, in Alabama.
Tho experts who will come to thlH
country aro Cunt. Doshorouirh. in.
Hpeetor of explosives under tho homo
oftlce, Great Ilrltulnr llerr Meaner,
chief of the German mine service, ami
Victor Watteyue, englneer-lu-ohlof, ad-
luluhtirutloil of mines, Medium.
WIT-AND-RUN GAME
IS BROWNS' LONG SUIT
Qo Says Mannqer McAleer in Talking
of the Success of His St.
Louis Team.
With the St. Louis Urowns sternly
chasing the pennant, with good
chances of eventually winding up
with the hunting, tho question nntural
ly arose as to what change In the style
of playing this season hrought about
this result in contrast to the work of
the club last season, when McAleer
could only land his team in sixth
place. In other words, why Is Mc
Aleer such a big succobs this season
when he was considered such a fail
ure last year? McAleer himself has
not changed so greatly and those
who know his system of play realize
(hat there has been no change In his
tactics, with possibly the one excep
tion of his taking out pitchers with
more frequency. Even here the poor
condition of his pitching staff has
had much to do with his more fre
quent, changes, and as his t.wlrlers
show form he Is taking them out
witli less Buddenness, even when they
are getting hit pretty hard.
McAleer's own i espouse to a re
quest to explain his success conies
mighty near being the correct solu
tion: "My success this season Is dliectly
due to the Tact that I have players
who can gurry out plays when they
are ordered and who can think for
themselves when they are not," Is
the way he puts It.
Going further into detail, McAleer
considers tho hit-and-run play the
most dangerous and at tho same
time the most effective play In base
ball, as ills greatest single cause for
success. Furthermore, this is a log
ical outcome of his first statement
nnd In lino with it. Working the hit-and-run
play depends for Kb success
on the co-operation of the butter and
runner, and the runner especially
must, have much faith in the man at
bat to make it a success. With a
batter up who is game and has a
good eye, the play is a fairly safe
one and one which practically breaks
up a game when It is worked right,
the result being to send a base run
ner around from first to third and
put another runner on first. Even
if tho play only partially succeeds,
It advances a man to second base
with the penalty of an out for the
batter. With a poor base runner and
poor batter the outcome Is liable to
bo a double play.
Comparison of the use McAleer has
made of the play this season and
last shows what he means. This play
was signaled for by McAleer many
times last season and most of the
time with disastrous results. Either
the base runner failed to do his part
hy getdng such a start for second
base as to cause the shortstop or
second baseman to start (o cover the
bag, this, of course, making (ho hole
for the batter to push tho ball
through, or the batter failed to hit
the ball, and 'the runner looked bad
when he was caught on what looked
like nn attempted steal. Naturally
under such conditions a manager
grows timid about using such a play
and falls back on less effective but
more sure methods of advancing run
ners and scoring points. This season
McAleer is using the play pretty near
as often as he desires, and It is prov
ing especially deadly . with Jimmy
Williams and Hobo Ferris handling
tho bat.
NOTES OF THE DIAMOND
Some one suggested to Moiiarlty of
tho Yankees that ho ought to go down
In Florida and play this winter. "Not
for mlno," replied Moriarity. "I know
those grounds. When a ball is hit you
go down after a grounder and come up
with niahuia."
When Detroit, played at Philadelphia
one of the baseball writers of Philadel
phia took Jimmy Dygert to task for
falling to stop a hot drive off Sam
Crawford's bat. Sam drove the ball
right through tho box and by tho time
Oldrlng had thrown it In Mullln, who
had been on second scored. Instead
of finding fault with Dygort, tho wrltor
should have complimented him for not
committing suicide. When Crawford
hits a hall far enough to scoro Georgo
Miillin from second base that ball
must, ho traveling some.
Uuohlo to win a gamo and routed on
six dlfforent occasions by his oppo
noiite, Glen Llobhardt faced tho Tlgors,
expecting his usual dose, Hut tho
'champs woro not a bit hostllo and
Llobhardt was able to win his first
game of tho present season. Ills rec
ord th o; was as follows: Games won,
1; games lost, l; percentage, .143.
Dr. Erh, famous specialist, examined
Terry Turner and found that tho liga
ments of his shoulder had become
stretched from hard throwing. Mo ad
vised Terry never to play at Hhort
again and said he ought not to play
ban in any position this year.
A man who never takes lilnmelf ho
rlouBty Is not likely to succeed. The
trouble with moHt of uh Ih that we
lake ourselves serloiiHly at tho wrong
tlin.
PREMIER TWIRLING ARTIST
WIZARD VICTOR WILLIS
Willis, of Boston, s of the tall, angular type that seems to give a pitcher
such a big advantage over the short and stocky builds. He gets the speed
on the ball because of his long swing and he has been a puzzle to the National
league batters for many a year.
BOGEY OF BALL PLAYERS'
EXISTENCE IS OLD AGE
They All Fear for Livelihood as Years
Pile Up, Yet There Are Many
Good "Old Boys."
Tho ball player Is peculiar on the
age question. No matter how great
a game many of them play they fear
the signs of age. They dread tho
tlmo when their arms will get stiff and
they will have to give up the sport in
which they have spent a life time of
pleasure. They dislike tho sugges
tion that they are getting gray or bald
becauso it suggests the time when
they shall have to make way for
stronger men.
"It makes a hit with me the way
some 'colts' pass on their age," says
Bill Donovan. "They are like school
girlSj You could not get some hall
players past the age of 23 with a der
rick. There's more four-flushing on
ago in the game than there is in any
other business. The theatrical pro
fession not barred. It's impossible al
most to find a hall player still in ac
tive service who has passed the age
of 30, If you believe what he says.
The most wonderful part of Cy Young
Is not his pitching record; It's the fact
that he Is willing to admit he's 41.
I'm willing to wager some coin that
Cy isn't tho only man In the major
loaguo who bus reached that age. Ten
to one they aro being written up as
colts, just breaking In."
Detroit last year hud a colt pitcher
who passed as a young fellow. He
said he was 25. Nobody had tho heart
to wake him up to the fact that he
was not getting away with it, and so
he continued with the bluff. Such and
such an event of a few years ago was
"before his time." He had a lot of
fun posing as a coy green young
thing. After ho had left 'the club to
seok new fields of endeavor, It was
found that he had a son of 15 years
of age. The "colt," us a matter of
fact, was 37 years old, and he was
just breaking into the majors.
Cy Young has a wonderful record
of having worked for IS or 19 years
as a major league pitcher with a per
centage of games won well over tho
.500 mork, but his age is really noth
ing wonderful, or would not be con
sidered so If the ages of somo of the
diamond stars still doing buslnoss
could bo truthfully tabulated.
There Isn't at the present time ono
mustache in baseball. It is just an
ovldonce of the geneml tendency of
tho hall player to dodge signs of ago.
Tho hirsute decorations have a habit
of becoming tinged with gray oftimes
and when the hall playor gets slow
on his feet nnd does the "stalling"
stunt starting late for a ball and pro
tending ho niado a desporate effort to
got it ho doesn't want tho manager
reminded of his age by any such plain
evidence as a mustache.
"Hlg Ed Delohnnty always used to
bo grouchy about his age," says Hill
Coughlin. "Whenever any of tho
boys would pull off the gag about pay
lug 50 conts to see him play when
they woro children ho would always
como back nt them with:
" 'Woll, straighten up or you'll soon
be paying 50 cents to see mo again.' "
McGi jw Likes Doyle.
Johnny McGrnw, tho manager of
the New York Giants, Hays that larry
Doylo, the fast youngHtor, will be the
heat second sucker in the business In
1909. Says McGrawr "I wouldn't
trade Lurry even up for Johnny Event,
If tho trade were offorod. Since his
HlcknoBH at the beginning of the sea
son Doylo has been getting two and
three hits every day Ills Holding has
been wonderful, his speed helping him
pull off plays that any other nocoud
ituckor would not ovuu attempt "
SOMETIMES PITCHERS
SHOOT BALL TOO TRUE1
So Says "Long" Tom Hughes In Ar
tide on Things That Happen to
the Twirler.
BY "LONG" TOM HUGHES.
Do you know that there is such a
tiling as a pitcher being too true? I
haven't hit a hatter this year and I
am paying the penalty for it in getting
beaten in these 1 to 0 nnd 2 to 1
games I ought to win. I nm not in
favor of this thing of aiming tho hall
at a batter's head to drive him away
from the plate, but in these days of
low scores, when everything almost
depends on the man in the box, it
sometimes becomes almost imperative.
Let a pitcher onco get a reputation
for keeping the ball over the heart of
the plate and the batters will hear all
about It quickly enough. You will see
them coming up there like little
majors, fairly embracing the plate in
tho knowledge that they are practical
ly Insured against a crack on the head
or in the ribs.
Last year I hit two men with the
ball. One was Claud Rossman. He
had hugged the plate until it becamo
exasperating in the extreme and so I
shot one at his cap. He dodged just
in time to escape a good headache and
the ball hit his shoulder. I didn't
want to hit It, but It kept him from
making love to (he plate for a good
long while.
It's all right, this thing of having
perfect control, as Cy Young, Addio
Joss and a few other pitchers can
testify, but once in a while it pays to
forget (hat (he hatter has any feelings
and keep him from choking (he plate
as ho will when he knows he Is tnklng
no risk.
I think I could have knocked over
a walking stick if it had been stuck
In the ground back of the plate the
other day. Someway the ball simply
obeyed my every command. Hut just
to illustrate how small a thing may
turn the tide In a baseball gamo let me
say that I lost that contest by pitching
a high fast ball to Liehhardt, when all
my reasoning told mo I should servo
it) a curve.
I pitched Just one bad ball out' of
the 175 or 180 balls I had to pitch
and It cost me the game.
Perhaps if I had aimed ono at
Glenn's head and driven him away
irom tne plate I might have won. But
that only goes to illustrate what I said"
ot the start that there Is such a thing
as a pitcher having too good control.
Donlln Stars with Wife.
Mike Donlin, tho hard-hitter of tho
New York Giants, makes his debut as
an actor with his wifo In vnudoville
at a New York theater after the close
of the baseball season. Donlin nnd his
wife, known theatrically as Mabel
Hlte, signed contracts with a firm of
managers whereby tlioy will got $20,
000 for a ten weeks engagement.
Donlln'8 theatrical career will make
tho end of his baseball history. Ho
wants to quit the game while at the
height of his popularity, and will go
out of tho National leaguo In a bla.o
of glory this season. Ills theatrical
engagements will keep hint busy all
through the winter and until late in
the summer, so that hall playing will
ho out of tho question. Donlln and his
wife aro very well off. Hoth have
boon monoy-gottors, and, although
they have lived woll and had every
thing (hoy wanted, they havo put a
lot of money Into Long Island real eu
tate. A season or two together on (lie
wtago will make them nliHolutoly In
dependent. A Word from Josh Wis.
I reekln truth Ik eternal, hut out
Ideas uz f whut lw truth uie ulwv
chauuiu'.
