RICH YOUTH HAS
“GONE THE PACE”
Picturesque Career of Young Man with
Plenty of Money
What Has Happened to Frank Snowden Ridgely Brown,
Son of Maryland’s Former Governor, Who Is Now
Facing a Suit for Divorce, With Many Charges
of Cruelty
*m T^VV York. — Give an av- i
erage American toy, with- 1
out the restraining intiu- |
w ence of a mother, $10,000 a |
^ year at the age of 14 and a j
<“■ * million when he reaches his
majority, and what will be
his future?
This is the story of stlch a boy
whose young wife is about to bale
him into the divorce court at the ten- j
der age of 24, as related by the Sun- I
<laj World. This boy lias laced many j
charges—homicide among them—but j
it is extremely doubtful if be has i
ever passed through an ordeal so dis- ;
tasteful as that which awaits him !
when he answers to the many charges !
of cruelty, brutality and infidelity his
pretty girl-wife mentions in her bill of
particulars.
Frank Snowden Ridgely Brown, son
of Maryland's former governor, is the
unhappy youth who has sacriiiced his
brief and once happy married career
court to a Baltimore girl at that time,
and his father told him if he did not
accompany hint to Europe he would
have to go to work.
"Fine," said Frank, ‘‘nothing could
better suit my purpose.” At dinner
the same evening he announced that
he had joined the reportorial staff of
the Baltimore American. Frank's ad
vent into journalism will long be re
membered in Baltimore, and to this
day the soubriquet of "Millionaire Re
porter" clings to him.
When Frank reported for his first
day's work he drove up to the office
of the Baltimore American in his
beautifully appointed stanhope. with
coachman at his side and footman
seated on the rumble. His horses,
Brandy and Soda, wore blue ribbons,
and Frank was justly proud of his
turnout. The '‘millionaire reporter"
was told to accompany another and
humbler' reporter oh his rounds
through Baltimore’s East side, but
\ FRANK ^ J
on the altar of pleasure. "Young
Frank.” as he is familiarly called in
Baltimore, has been pleasure-bent
since he was a boy of ten. and his
pleasures, more often than not. have
been purchased at terrific cost. He
has had his fling, and when a boy of
17 he was blase and so satiated with
the g.:yeties of the Old World that he
cast about for new sensations and
new fields to conquer. Life lor him.
even then, was one mad whirl, and
what he did not know about the "but
terfly life” wasn't worth knowing.
Ai Ostend he was the petted darling
of women of title, and otborw ise, and
ii was a prank that he played on one
of these while in her bath house at
this gay resort that made it necessary
for his father to spirit him out of
France and back to Baltimore. The
hoy abhorred books aud rarely
studied. He had the choice of any
university in America or Kurope if he
would but say the word, hut instead
he preferred to run wild, do as he
pleased and give little, if any atten
tion to the studies prescribed for him
by the tutors his father engaged for
hint.
Started Work as a Reporter.
About, this time his father and his
sisfer. May Brown, who later married
Gordon Hughes, a New York lawyer,
and since his death married Alfred
Dietrich, whose former wife had
Hoped with Benchiey, one of Alfred
G. Vanderbilt's stable managers,
planned a return trip to Kurope.
Frank was engaged In paying ardent
when he saw “that, his protege intended
to drive through the ghetto in his
beauttrul equipage, the mere re
porter balked and told Frank to meet
him at a designated police station, as
the street cars were good enough for
his. The policemen in the station
houses visited that day hy Frank and
his mentor still possess souvenirs o''
Frank's first day as a reporter, for be
scattered golden gilts with a lavish
band.
It was just three years ago that
“Young Frank" saw and met Miss
Mabel Michael of Baltimore. The two
families do not move in the same set
and there w-as opposition from both
sides. The Browns had always moved
in that social circle which was known
far and near as the "Brass Band."
while the Michaels, in every respect
the social equals of the Browns, be
longed to a more conservative ele
ment. Frank’s courtship was brief
and ardent. Serious opposition from
both sides hut served to fan the
flame, and when Frank proposed to
Mabel that they elope she witli some
hesitation consented.
Elosed in Touring Car.
Just before midnight on October 22,
15*06, Frank and his fiancee met by
appointment. His touring car was in
readiness and was geared up to its
highest speed. Frank was attended
1# one of his many chums, while Miss
Mary Grismer accompanied Miss
Michael. The party bundled into the
automobile and Frank instructed his
chauffeur to cut out for New York
and "get tnefe as soon as possible.’’
Arriving in this city, they went to
the Waldorf-Astoria, where Frank had
spent much time in the handsome
suite of apartments his lather used to
maintain there the year round. Frank
was anxious to have Rev. Henry M.
Warren, the hotel eliaplain, marry
him, and. finding that Mr. Warren
was then living in West Ninety-fourth
street, Frank, his liancee and their at
tendants repaired to Mr. Warren's
heme end there the ceremony was
performed.
Their marriage came as a great sur
prise to their respective families, but
the young pair was soon installed in
a beautifully appointed home and
many predicted that Mabel would
make her young husband more con
servative. But her charges against
him do not confirm this hope.
Accused of Killing Child.
Automobiling was this boy's passion
and lie was never satisfied unless he
was bowling through Baltimore’s ten
derloin at top speed. His arrest was
| of almost daily occurrence, and when
! Baltimore awoke about eighteen
months ago to be told that Frank's
car had killed a negro child the night
previous the "1 Sold you sos" got busy.
It was not openly charged that
Frank's car had killed the boy, hut
the newspapers hinted so strongly at
the identity of the driver and owner
of the car that within 24 hours the
trail led to Frank's door and he was
arrested and formally accused of run
ning over the little pickaninny and
then running away without the for
mality of stopping to ascertain the
seriousness of the injuries inflicted.
The parents of the dead child re
ceived $10,000 to drop the case against
Frank. This frightened Frank for
awhile, and he did not break into
print again until his friend Lester
Bresee. who had figured in almost all
of Frank’s escapades, was committed
! to Mount Hope, a private asylum for
| the insane and inebriates. -
T-cster had been going the pace for
several years and when his mind gave
way none was surprised. Frank sore
ly missed his chum and often motored
out to the beautiful retreat on Charles
Street avenue to spend an hour with
him. In the course of one of these
visits Lester complained of his en
forced confinement and begged Frank
to devise some means of effecting bis
release.
"I've tried that already," said
Frank, “but the courts won't stand for
it, so 1 guess the only thing l can do
is to kidnap you.”
"Go as far as you like," said Lester,
"but for God’s sake get me out of
here. I haven’t had a drink for a
month.”
Kidnaped Chum from Asylum.
The next day Lester, while out for
his afternoon airing in the hospital
grounds, eluded the keeper, climbed
over the high fence and dropped into
Frank's waiting car. Frank was at
were many actors and actresses, and
then it was that! Vrank conceived the
idea that he would like to enter upon
a stage career.
He joined the stock company con
ducted in Baltimore by George Faw
cett. and was given small parts. The
verdict of Frank's many friends after
witnessing several performances in
which he appeared was that he was
far more capable of steering his au
tomobile, or tooling his coach and four
than of playing roles upon the stage,
no matter how inconspicuous they
were.
Wife Tells of Midnight Orgies.
It is the alleged midnight orgies at
her homo that Mrs. Brown most bit
terly complained of in her bill for di
vorce. Frank and his Tenderloin
friends, she declares, would wander
into the house at all hours of the
night and from then until the gray
dawn make night hideous for her and
her neighbors, it was impossible far
her, she declares, to make her escape
from the house, as Frank would in
sist upon her presiding at the table
and serving him and his guests with
whatever their fancy dictated, despite
the unseasonableness of the hour.
Then, too, Mrs. Brown asserts that
Frank preferred her to be at the head
of the tabic during these bacchanalian
feasts, inasmuch as she made a good
target for his ribald jests or the plat 's
or glasses he chose to hurl at her.
Sometimes, according to Mrs. Brown's
complaint, the glasses were empty,
but more often they contained cham
pagne. for Frank was ever jealous oi
his reputation as a "wine opener,"
and he would never for a moment
have it thought among his Tenderloin
Iriends that anything else but. cham
pagne graced his table or his wife's
bathtub, for that matter.
Another sport of whicli her husband
was passionately fond, Mrs. Brown
charges, had to do with a most, vil
lainous-looking and savage bulldog
whicli is ever at Frank's heels.
Mrs. Brown asserts that when
Frank was especially deep in his cups
lie would set the dog on her. For
some reason. Mrs. Brown declares, the
dog entertained a violent dislike for
her and was only too glad to do his
master's bidding.
Finally Driven from Her Home.
it was the dog episode that proved
to be the p.arting of the ways. While
in a drunken frenzy, Frank, it is
charged in the complaint, set the dog
on his wife, and it attacked her so
savagely that she fled in her night
clothes and never returned. That was
last January and since then, she vows,
Frank has not contributed a cent
toward her support and this in the
face of his wife's statement that he
had torn and cut. up all her hats,
gowns, lingerie and pretty boots and
slippers, just prior to having the bull
dog charge her.
Mrs. Brown says it is lack of homo
influence that is responsible for her
IV THE TUffiOUr HE
HIS W/EE CHARGES THAT N^as a° ”OR* ,N
HE THREW CARDS AT HER HEADK^P0Pr£p
----
HE FORCED HER TO
TAKE OFF HIS SHOES
the wheel, and he let it out, and in an
hour or two was beyond the jurisdic
tion of the Maryland courts. And once
more it became necessary for Brown
pere to get busy and square things
for Frank.
Meanwhile Frank’s affairs at home
had been going from bad to worse.
His wife says she was left much to
herself, for Frank was so busy with
his other friends and associates that
he had little or no time to devote to
his girl-bride. Frank's gay friends of
both sexes were ever welcomed at the
youthful Browns’ home—that is by
Frank. Among these, his wife says,
husband's waywardness, and she
further avows that “the governor'' is
mainly responsible for this. She de
clares that he has alienated Frank's
affections, and now she is suing the
governor for heart balm to the tune
of $100,000.
In the mean time Frank is continu
ing on his merry way. -With ample
funds at his command, and with the
prospect of sharing with his sister the
several million dollars Gov. Brown is
said to possess, young Frank has a
lively future ahead of him.
Will he reform? Ask his wife.
WON ALL THE BOYS’ MARBLES.
Minister Proved Himself an Expert
and Incidentally Got the
Youngsters to Church.
‘Many interesting stories are told
of the late Bishop Wilmer of Alabama,
who was noted for his wit and sharp
repartee," said Robert W. Kennedy of
Birmingham, Ala. “A story which is
considered characteristic of the man
was told by a Virginia minister at a
private dinner in Richmond not so
very long ago.
“ ‘When Bishop Wilmer was rector
of the little Protestant Episcopal
church at Upperville, Va.,‘ said he, ‘he
whs much worried by the non-attend
ance at service on Sundays of the ma
jority of the young men of the com
munity. On inquiry he found that in
stead of going to church they were in
the habit of playing marbles for
stakes—marbles In those days, it must
lie remembered, was a much more ser
ious game than it is now, occupying
much the same position in the rearm
of sports as do billiards and pool in
these days.
“ ‘Bishop VVilmer, then a parson not
well known, determined to break up
this practice.’ He himself had been an
expert marble player in his boyhood.
Accordingly one Saturday he came
across a number of the young men en
gaged in . a game. The good bishop
asked several questions, and finally
challenged the lot to play him for
"keeps.” They readily consented.
“ 'Much to their astonishment the
young minister won steadily, and soon
they had to go to the stores to replen
ish their stock. Toward the dose of
the afternoon Mr. Wilmer ha4 won
every marble in the town of Upper
ville. Putting his ’’winnings" in a bag.
he remarked, as he walked away,
“Now, gentlemen, since you can’t play
marbles to-morrow, I hope to see you
all at church.” And he did.’ ”
A Logical End.
“I started out on the theory that
the world had an opening for me and
I went to find It.”
“Did you find it?”
“Oh, yes. I’m in a hole.”
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CAN MOBILIZE IN A HURRY.
Perfection of Detail Is the System by
Which German Army Can Be
Assembled.
Nobody who has visited Germany
can fail to have been struck by the
large official signboards at the entry
to each town or village.
These contain full information as to
exactly which official in the commun
ity to apply to should the magic word
“mobilize” be spoken. Wherever the
German reservist may chance to be
when the order to mobilize is given—
assuming of course that be is not out
of the country—he has only to ask the
first inhabitant or walk to the end of
the village and look at the directions
on the signboard to find out his own
particular place in the military
scheme.
He will see that he must go to Herr
Schmidt at 40 Schutzen street. Herr
Schmidt will tell him exactly in which
town he has to go in order to rejoin
his own unit and, what is still more
important, will give him the money
and the railway pass to take him
there. Arrived at his destination, he
will find his uniform, arms and accou
trements piled neatly in a heap with a
label bearing his name and regimental
number on the top of the heap.
He has only to put it on and-take his
place among the comrades with whom
he did military serviee some years
ago. This destination was arranged
upon many years back, and the exact
time schedule for marching and rail
way journeys was compiled long since.
Education of Women and Men.
It is, however, a plain fact that in
this country women are more cultured
than men; on the average are better
educated. The boys quit school
earlier to go to work and the unpleas
ant fact is that they too often cease
studying as soon as their books are
closed. Now there are many highly
educated and cultured men and wom
en In this country who have never at
tended college. There are many op
portunities open for those who desire
to improve themselves. The unpleas
ant fact is that so few use the oppor
tunities open to them.
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CLEVER THIRD BASEMAN OF THE CUBS
Harry Steinfeldt, whose batting and fielding around the third sack has
heiped the Chicago team win three straight National league pennants and
two world’s championships, was severely grilled when he broke into the
big league with the Cincinnati team when Owner Charles Murphy was
a baseball writer in that city. This grilling seemed to have a good effect
on. Steinfeldt and transformed him from an ordinary player into a star.
Wfien Murphy obtained control of the Cubs one of his first acts was to se
cure Steinfeldt, and he has been with the team ever since.
JOSS KEEPS THE BATTERS
GUESSING WITH NEW BALL
"Human Weather Strip" of Cleveland
• Uses "False Rise” with Suc
cess Against Hitters.
Acidic .Joss, the Cleveland twirling
star, has batters guessing with his
"false rise” ball. The "false rise" is
not new. Jt was a favorite with Uad
bourne, and at various times since
that star’s day pitchers having great
speed have had the "false rise" in
their repertoire.
The "false rise" is delivered as a
straight ball, thrown overhand and
released when the hand is at the
crown of the arc described in deliv
ery. The ball is thrown with a sharp
backward spin, caused by whipping
the Angers downward as the ball
leaves the hand.
For 55 feet the ball shoots down an
inclined' plane, headed for the bat
Addle Joss.
ter’s knees. Hut the descent ceases
about eight feet in front of the plate
and the ball travels to the catcher
horizontally. In other words, the ball
‘‘breaks’’ from the downward to the
horizontal.
The scientific explanation of this
delivery is that the vertical spin
given the ball at delivery produces air
friction, and as the ball travels this
friction packs the atmosphere be
neath the revolving ball, until, follow
ing the line of least resistance, the
ball loses Its initial impulse and trav
els, not through the cushion it has
formed, but over it
When mixed with his curve, fast
ball, fadeaway and slow one, the
“false rise" gives Joss a bo;. of tricks
unequaled by any other man in the
business. And when his calculating
brain is added, the human weather
strip becomes perhaps the most dan
gerous pitcher in baseball.
, BIG ‘"SWAP'' BETWEEN CUBS
AND BROOKLYN IS PLANNED
i __
If Exchange Now lending Is Brought
About Four Players Will Be
Involved.
j One of the biggest baseball deals ol
i the year is pending between the Chi
j cago and Brooklyn National league
: clubs. The swap, if it goes through
j will involve the transfer of four play
j ers—Johnv Kling. the great catehei
! ot the 1908 world's champions; Catch
er Bill Bergen and Outfielder Ai
Burch of the Superbas and Heinit
Zimmerman, the Cubs’ utility man
If Kling can be secured by Brooklyn
be will replace Harry Burnley as man
ager of the W'ashingtor Park-athletes
Though the trade would be a big
tiling for both clubs, it isn't at all cer
j tain that it will go through. Kling
! says he will never play for the Cubs
I again under any circumstances, and
1 Charley Murphy seems just as deter
| mined to keep him on the Chicago re
, serve list. Murphy, however, needs a
j good catcher to alternate with Pat
| Moran, and in Bergen he would get
i one of the best in the business. The
j Chicago outfield, too, needs patching
j up, and Burch would fill it nicely. He
i is hitting hard, is fast on the bases
| and ranges over whole slathers ol
| territory in the field, dim Sheekard
; appears to be going back, and is
neither hitting nor fielding as well as
j he did last year or the year before
j If the Cubs secure Burch Sheekard
I will be benched in the present Su
! perba's favor.
President Ebbets lias not publicly
j found fault with Harry Burnley's
I work as manager, but he is not satis
I fled with the team's standing by s
long shot. Before the season opened
the Superbas looked like a surt
enough fifth place outfit, with a fight
mg chance of landing in the first di
vision. This promise was made good
for a couple of weeks, but since then
it has become a great deal of a joke
j except to the Brooklyn rooters.
Kling would jump at the chance t(
join the Superbas as manager. He
has long wanted to run a team. Bast
winter he had it all cooked up with
Garry Herrmann to manage the Reds
and Murphy had promised to release
| him. Charley, however, took it all
back, and told Kling he would have tc
put in another season at least with
the Cubs.
It is understood that if Kling is
traded to Brooklyn he will go into
partnership with Ebbets in the owner
ship of a bowling academy.
Donlin Demands High Price.
Mike Bonlin. once the pride of New
York baseball fans, but now a real
actor man. may still be lacing out
those much-needed runs for the
Giants before the end. of the season
It is all up to John T. Brush, and il
he comes across with the price the
star outfielder will postpone Ills trip
to Europe for a spell. "If they will
pay me the salary 1 asked for, $S,000.
I will agree to finish the season with
the club.” said Mike. "They offered
me $t»,000, but I think I am entitled
to what 1 have asked lor. I have not
heard a word from McGraw since
February 1 and if they want me to
play ball I will be glad to do so ii
they will come to my terms."
Unconditional Release for Bowerman.
Frank Bowerman, until recently
manager of the Boston Nationals, has
been given his unconditional release
by President John S. C. Dovey. Ru.
mors have it that it is unlikely he
will soon be back In any uniform.
President Dovey has asked for waiv
ers on Bowerman and if the other
clubs in the big league waive claim,
the ex-manager will be a tree agent!
Busyness the Refuge of Small Souls.
Extreme busyness is a symptom of
deficient vitality; while a faculty for
idleness implies a catholic appetite
and a strong sense of personal Identity.
There are dead-alive, hackneyed peo
ple about, who are scarcely conscious
of living except in the exercise of
some conventional occupation. Bring
these fellows into the country or set
them aboard ship, and you will see
bow they pine for their desk or their
study. They cannot be idle. Their
nature is not generous enough, and
they pass in a sort of ccma those
houip which are not dedicated to furl
ous moiling in the gold mill. When
they do not require to go to the office,
when they are not hungry and hare
no mind to drink, the whole breathing
world is a blank to them. This does
not appear to me as being success in
life.—Robert Louis Stevenson.
MINISTER TO CHINA
Charles R. Crane Educated
Without Aid of College.
Has Visited Nearly Every Country on
the Globe and Is Master of Sev
eral Languages—Well Ac
quainted with Orient.
Chicago.—Charles K. Crane, newly
appointed minister from the United
States to China, is a rare type of citi
zen In that he was horn to wealth and
vet may be classed in the roll of sell
made men. He was reared with tie*
idea that a college education is not
essential to the life success of a man
who has a brain of his own and use*
it. His schooling ended when he had
done with the public school. What he
has gathered of learning since then
has been from books and from tin
world and its people asatliey have ap
peared to him in exten^ie travel.
Richard T. Crane, Sr., father of
Charles R. Crane, is vigorously op
posed to modern methods of education
as carried on in the great universities
and many of the public schools. He
does not believe these institutions fit
a man properly for the battle of life,
and says tiiey are too theoretical and
not sufficiently practical. He went so
far as to declare it would be a good
thing for one of the states if its state
university buildings were blown up.
Whether Charles R. Crane shared
the educational views of his father,
it is a fact that, instead of spending
four years in college and winning a
degree, he jumped at once from his
boyhood schooling into the workshop
and started the business career which
has made him a man of practical
mind and alert powers of observation
When the opportunity came he in
augurated a program of travel whic:
sent him to many of the out of tK
way places of the world and gave hiu
an intimate knowledge of affairs pos
sessed by few men even in these day:
of globe trotting.
Jlr. Crane has set foot in nearly
every country on the globe, has pen *
trated to out-of-the-way nooks and cor
nets, lias occasionally fitted out cam
vans of his own to explore nnfre
quented lands, and is as much at
home in Russia or China as he is on
his home street in Chicago. He is a
linguist of considerable attainment.
is a connoisseur in paintings, a collec
tor of old and rare books and. whai
is more, a reader of the same. He i
proininent as a civic enthusiast and
tor years has been a powerful factor
in movements for the advancement o'
Chicago commercially, physically and
morally.
During his travels Mr. Crane spent
much time in China, his business in
terests taking him into every pro,
ince. He came into close contact wit!
all classes of Mongolians. In his
home is a large collection of curios ol
his many visits to China.
In all his knocking about the globe.
Mr. ( lane was absorbing languages
In liis library In his Michigan avenu,
home are books written in a dozen
different languages. They are not
sorted according to catalogues as
less scholarly owner would sort them
but instead are grouped under sub
ject heads. Friends of Mr. Crane sa-.
that when he wants to look up a ref
erence on a topic he goes to hU
shelves and takes down books in sev
eral ('ifferent languages and rea-l
them without the aid of a lexicon Il
ls said to read 12 languages ami t.
speak with ease and fluency six 01
eight.
Five years ago Mr. Crane added
110,000 of his personal fortune to "T1...
Young Empress Fund” for Russian
soldiers and sailors. This gift w;,;,
made through Count Rostofstoff chau
celior of the empire, and for ’it tht
donor was the recipient of grateRil
thanks from the empress. Long and
close contact with official and civilian
life of Russia has given him a friend!-,
feeling toward that nation, but at th',
same time he has a warm spot in his
heart for China and the Chinese. The
feeling is said to be reciprocated. Th
(hinese have been drawn to othei
members of the family. Professoi
ULliams. uncle of Mr. Crane, was pro
fessor of Chinese at Yale and he i
the author of a book on Chfna
Mrs. Crane was Miss Cornelia IV
Smith, whose girlhood home was Pat
J” wherG became the
bride of Mr. Crane 28 years ago. Like
her husband, her interests are in th
more substantial things of life He.
name does not appear in the member
ship lists of any Chicago club The
auiilj has a beautiful summer horn,
at l-ake Geneva. W’is.. a„a another
Woods Hole. Mass.
.f'*ctr,®al Machinery in Mines
Although in most of the mines in
Japan the various operations are car
ned out by the ordinary labor of met,
and cattle, it seems trom a report on
the mining industry in Hokkaido that
at three coal mines and at one gold
and stiver mine, electrical machinery
employed. In all, nine ‘ e“ec,",e
ngines are employed in the eon I
mines, and one "electrical engine” i,
a gold and silver mine The n!,
or ,Mr work „
^ould «VLM>f*ar J ^ h
the transport of ore ‘ * Inain,y oi
