BERLIN’S WEST EDO
Comforts That May Be Had in
Kurfurstendamm.
Section of Germany’s Capital aa
Seen in 1912—Hotels, Cafes and
Business Buildings All Have
Modern Equipment.
Merlin.—Our European guide books
are of little help if we wish to study
the pulsating life of a modern city.
There is in this respect hardly any
difference between the English Mur
ray, the French Joanne or the Mae
deker made in Germany. They wish
to give us a full list of the old estab
lished, hallmarked sights to which
frequent allusions may be found in
classical literature or modern fiction,
but omit to take notice of the latest
actualities. We are still directed by
them to the Friedrichstrasse as the
center of Merlin life. Such it was
tnore than twenty years ago. As late
as ten years ago the whirlpool of
modern life was to be found at the
Potsdamer platz, comparable to Pic
ratiilly Circus in London. Nowadays
It has shifted farther west to the
long and broad avenue called Kur
rurstendamm. says a Berlin corre
spondent. There we are in the "New
West,” the up-to-date part of the most
fnodern of all European cities. Mod
fern is also the accommodation the
Visitor may now find there. The
♦■Boarding Place” that has just been
opened is neither a hotel of the ac
customed style nor a boarding house,
but something between the two. If
1'ou ask for a room, a plan is handed
to you. from which you see what ac
commodation there is. with prices in
serted. If you want lodging for a
feveek, a fortnight, a month, a year,
the scale goes considerably down In
proportion to the length of vour stay.
But with your furnished room you
feet also the comfort of dining rooms,
an elegant cafe, a first-class restau
rant of the German beer garden
Style, and all those conveniences of
an American hotel for reading, writ
ing and passing the time. It is a big
pudding, containing 500 bedrooms, be
sides the lavishly spacious suites for
general use and the halls for festivi
ties. We have dwelt on these par
ticulars because they are in bearing
Irith the character of this magnificent
thoroughfare of a new city.
It is astonishing how quickly fash
ionable society has moved into these
quarters. Already now these out
skirts of the city have developed a
life of their own. Kurfurstendamm is
tow for Berlin life what the Fosse is
Front of Imperial Palace at Berlin.
for Vienna or the “Stroeg” between
Kongens to Nytorv for Copenhagen,
■the promenade of the stylish part ol
the population. Here we find also
that bohemian element and a great
deal of that extravagance of high
life for which Paris is famous. Oi
course the shops followed their best
customers. In the beginning the old
houses of the city opened branches
for the west; then new elegant maga
zines of the Regent street type were
founded; now there Is already a pe
culiar style of Kurfurstendamm shop
discernible. Superior taste and
artistic decorations are indispensable
requisites for these shops. One need
only peep into the numerous new cof
fee houses along the street to get a
notion of Kurfurstendamm style. In
order to compete with their rivals
each of these restaurants had to de
Velop a specialty that was likely tc
attract patronage; everywhere good
piusic Is an attraction given into the
bargain. Artists and literary men
tneet at some favorite place, elegant
ladies of the fast set at another
*The 5 o’clock tea attracts In the
same rooms quite another class oi
people than you would find later ir
the evening. You see here crowded
together what a generation ago was
apparently missing in Berlin, people
of vast means and with plenty ol
time. It is therefore quite under
etandable that the new term of Ber
lln W. W., i. e. the extreme west oi
Berlin, means the upper ten thou
sand as far as wealth and luxury go
JURY BALKS AT PHOTOGRAPH
Women Members of Kansas Pane
Refute to Have Their Pic
ture Taken.
Eldorado, Kan.—When Otis Boston
a photographer, attempted to take s
picture of a Jury composed of womet
In the county court here, his wife
who was on the Jury, promptly left
the box. 8he was followed by on*
of the other women and the two pro
testing jurors refused to return until
they were assured by the court that
no picture would be taken. Mrs
Boston does not believe that womei
should serve as Jurors, but her hua
band favors the innovation.
WILLIE HOPPE RETAINS BILLIARD TITLE
Champion Willie Hoppe.
Willie Hoppe retained his title as
champion at 18.2 balk-line billiards by
defeating Ora Morningstar in the final
game of the championship tourna
ment, 500 to 276.
Hoppe won first place in the tourna
ment, having six wins to his credit
and one game lost. Second place went
to Slosson, who won five games and
lost two. Morningstar and Yamada,
the Japanese, tied for third place, each
with four games won and two lost.
In the play-off Yamada wyon, thereby
securing third position.
RETURN BATTLE IS WANTED
Mandot, Clever Little New Orleans
Pugilist, Seeks Another Fight
With Joe Rivers.
In a recent fight between Mandot,
the clever little New Orleans fighter,
more popularly known as the French
"Baker Boy,” and Joe Rivers, the
Mexican, held at Los Angeles, the
former was clearly outpointed. Man
Mandot, New Orleans Fighter.
dot is not satisfied, however, and is
now seeking a return battle. In the
first battle between these two little
fellows Mandot was declared the vic
i tor.
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Chance Strong for Hofman.
A letter from former Manager
Frank Chance of the Chicago Cubs
says that he expects Artie Hofman to
be a star for the Pittsburg Pirates
: next season. He scored President
Murphy for letting Hofman go in the
trade with King Cole for Leach and
Leifleld. "Hofman should bat over
.300, run the bases in old-time form
and as a fielder give Pittsburg the
best man it has had since Fred
Clarke retired as a player," says
Chance’s letter.
Sculler Arnst to Become Farmer.
Richard Arnst, former champion
professional sculler, who lost'his title
to Ernest Barry, the English cham
pion, intends to settle on land in
Sydney. Durnan, of Toronto, who
was beaten by Barry, declares that
no sculler on the American continent
could compete successfully with
Barry.
Trial for Jacinto Calvo.
Jacinto Calvo, the young Cuban out
fielder who will be given a trial by
the Washington club next spring, in
five times up against Jack Coombs of
the Athletics poled out three safeties,
Many members of the Athletics pre
dict a great future for the youngster.
Sox to Train In California.
President Charles A. Comlskey of
the Chicago American league team
| has announced that the club will
train for seven weeks at Paso Robles,
Cad. The team will leave Chicago
about Feb. 20 and return about April
10, he said.
McBride’s Good Record.
McBride of Washington was the on
ly American league shortstop who
played in every game last season. He
has missed but three in three sea
sons. A nice record.
GOSSIP Y
YylMQ/VG I
1 I SPORTSi
Frank N’avin has not been heard of
since Ty Cobb asked for $15,000 a
year.
The Three-I league will open its
1913 season April 24 and close on
Labor day.
<?eorge Stallings says if he fails in
Beantown next season he will retire
from the game.
Football players could get in shape
by taking part in the rush for tickets
for their big games.
N'orgren, right half-back, deserves
all the C’s he was given and then
some, the critics say.
Dick Smith, manager of the Spring
field, 111., team, will manage the Scran
ton team next season.
It Is reported that Arthur Devlin,
the former Giant star, would like to
play with the Senators.
Coombs, Plank and White were the
pitchers who went through the season
without making an error.
Minor league magnates are report
ed to favor the "limiting of salaries
rule" they passed at Milwaukee.
It Is denied at Kansas City there is
any thought of trading Jap Barbeau
to Indianapolis for Otto Williams.
Harry Steinfeldt is an applicant for
the position as manager of the Co
lumbus American association club.
Manager Clark Griffith picks Joe En
gel, the young Washington twirler, to
be a pitching star for the 1913 season.
American league pitchers are hop
ing against hope that Ty Cobb and
President Navln will never come to
terms.
John M. Ward didn't "stick” as man
ager at Boston, but he stayed the lim
it with the president of the American
league.
Charley Brickley, Harvard’s hero,
has been offered $500 per week by a
New York agency for a little vaude
ville sketch.
Carl Crandall, brother of Otis Cran
dall of the Giants, will get a chance
to play short for the Indianapolis team
next season.
Joe Wood had a wonderful season
and it is doubtful If his .872 percent
age for thirty-nine games will evei
be duplicated.
Manager Jack Hayden is popular
with the Louisville fans. They be
lieve he will help the team rise to the
top the coming season.
Artie Phelan doesn't seem to be
much of a hit with the Reds. In ev
ery deal they propose they offer Ar
tie as one of the men.
The Philadelphia Athletics will play
an exhibition game with the Newark
club at Newark on the latter’s return
from Its training trip, April 6.
Connie Mack's Philadelphia Ath
letics are picked to win the rag next
season. The showing of the Mackmen
in Cuba has boosted the rating.
Pendleton, star Princeton football
and baseball player, Is a much inter
viewed athlete. Some day a major
league scout will look him over.
For the first time In history a ball
club from the United States will train
under a British flag. It’s easy enough.
The Yankees are going to Bermuda.
Fred Clarke’s band of Pittsburg Pi
rates surely did wallop the ball over
the lots for three pillows. In 152
games they unllmbered 129 of them.
Jim Mutrle, who managed the Gi
ants in the late ’80’s, is running a
news stand in Staten Island. Wonder
what J. McGraw will become in 1936?
Now Umpire Rlgler Is blaming Con
nie Mack for spoiling his plans to
take a picked team of National league
stars on a barnstorming tour to Cuba.
START OF MAJOR LEAGUES
Resumption of Pennant Making Busi
ness Will Be on April 10 and
Wind Up on October 5.
The business of pennant making in
the big leagues will be resumed
Thursday, April 10, next. This was
the announcement made by President
B. B. Johnson of the American league
who with Tom Lynch, head of the old
er organization, comprise a committee
empowered to select the starting time
for the flag race. Both leagues will
get under way at the same dates, with
prospects of 154-game schedules.
The date picked for the next cam
paign is no earlier than last year
when the teams didn't encounter a
great deal of trouble with cold weath
er. A week or ten days later would
have been still suitable to several
the magnates, while still others think
that they ought to start before the
snow melts. The matter is placed in
the hands of the league chiefs just on
this account, as petty squabbling was
eliminated and the presidents also see
to it that the season is closed in time
to permit the playing of the world
series before steam is sizzling in the
radiators.
liy starting on April 10 the race will
wind up probably October 4 in the
eastern towns and October 5 in the
west, where Sunday games stretch out
the dying gasp. The closing on Oc
tober 5 means that the world series
games, whether played in the east or
west, or between teams from each
section, will begin on Tuesday. Octo
ber 7. This is the same scheme that
existed this fall.
The experience- of 1911 furnished
a lasting lesson tfo the big league
Held back by the needless drawing
out of the National race, the world
series did not get under way until
the middle of October, and the mis
erable weather which caused the
match to cover a period of over twe
weeks convinced the powers-that-be
that some concerted action was neces
sary.
CHANCE PLAYS CLEVER GAME
Recently Deposed Cub Leader Helps
Los Angeles Team Win—Overall
In Grand Form.
Frank Chance's baseball playing
days are not ended. When he de
parted from Chicago for his home in
Glendora, Cal., it was said he never
would be able to make the round of
the sacks again. However, he played
in a contest at Los Angeles, Cal., a
few days ago, and expects to partici
pate in many more.
Chance was home only a few days
when he was asked to take part in
an exhibition contest. He readily
consented, declaring his health would
permit. Although he had promised to
be on hand, it was not thought he
would appear when the time came.
He was present when the bell rang
and played a fast game at first base
and went through the innings without
a murmur. His team won, 3 to 2.
Chance rather regretted it the fol
lowing day, as his muscles were so
lame he was barely able to walk. Yet
Orvie Overall.
he enjoyed the exercise and said he
probably would play in the winter
league on the coast and get in condi
tion for next season.
Opposed to Chance in the exhibi
tion contest was Orvie Overall, who
formerly was a member of the Cubs.
Although the ex-Cub leader was not
responsible for Overall's departure
from the West side ranks, he had the
satisfaction of striking his former
leader out. Fred Snodgrass, whose
muff of a fly ball lost the New York
Giants the world's series champion
ship, also was fanned by Overall if
that contest.
In that same contest were Hall of
the Boston Americans, Chief Meyers
of the Giants, Schultz of the Phila
delphia Nationals, Fromme of the Cin
cinnati Reds, Cravath of the Phillies
and Johnny Kane, who formerly was
utility infielder and outfielder on the
Cub team.
Ernie Johnson Is Lucky.
Ernie Johnson, the native born Chi
cagoan who joined the White Sox last
summer, is one of the luckiest indi
viduals In baseball. He got a slice
o{ the Chicago series melon and was
handed one-third of his purchase price
by the National Association of Minor
leagues, or $833.
Stole Most Bases.
The official averages show that
Clyde Milan, the speedy outfielder of
the Washington team, copped eighty
eight bases. His nearest rival was
Eddie Coiliils, with sixty-three.
Best Place Hitter.
The Washington critics and fans
declare that Eddie Foster is the best
place hitter since the days of Willie
Keeler.
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S Christmas a sea
son of plenty?
Face to face with
this timely ques
tion I have been
thinking of the
households in our
cities. In many
of them, I know,
the tables will
groan under an ar
ray of substantiate
and dainties, taste
fjjl enough to make
the mouth of an
epicure water.
There will be that
lovely loan from
the pretty customs
of the German fa
therland — the
Christinas tree—laden with its nu
merous gifts for family and friends;
the little ones will rejoice in toys and
candies; those a bit older, in a wealth
of books and games, while fathers and
mothers will have exhausted their in
genuity in discovering each others de
sires and those of tlieir children in
order that all may be gratified on
this anniversary of Christ's coming. In
well-ordered households those who
serve the family will be welcomed
around the tree and merriment and
song will add to the gayety. If he in
w hose name it will all be done were
right here in the midst of them, what
more could he ask?
And I dreamed a dream—that he
had come once more upon earth, had
come right down among us and was
looking w'ith eyes of deep questioning
at what was being done in honor of
his former coming.
Ami as he walked around hidden
from all eyes but mine own, his glance
seemed to pierce beneath the seem
ing and reach the heart of the festival.
He passed by the well-warmed and
lighted homes, where all was hap
piness and content; he went into the
places where those of whom he said
"Of such is the kingdom of God”
were playing in the path of death, and
his glance was stern as he saw one
of "these little ones" sweep into eter
ity beneath the iron wheels which
crushed its tiny form almost out of
all semblance of the beauty and sweet
ness which belonged to it. His look
said: “What gift has been given to
this child in honor of my birthday?
Has it had not even that right of
every creature, a safe place to expand
its nature in the play which it must
have in order to grow?”
And he went among the homes of
those who serve the people in the
marts of trade, great and small.
Surely there we would find the
Chirstmas good cheer of which I had
been thinking. But in too many
households we found only worry and
anxious care for the morrow and for
the health of those who were tired
almost to death after their long hours
of labor for the thankless, rushing
crowd of searchers after “Christmas
gifts;” they were not thinking of
Christmas festivities, but only ‘"Lord,
give rest and bread to eat—rest, Ixjrd,
rest.”
We left the middle-class homes and
wandered on our quest into that great
neighborhood of the weavers, men and
women by the thousands, who in the
best of times can never be sure that
the wolf is far from their doors, and
who, during these late years of costly
living, have not often seen the best of
times. There were attempts in many
humble homes to celebrate the coming
of the Prince of Peace, but, oh, how
pitiful was their setting forth of the
good things we all think belong of
necessity to this blessed season!
“What are you doing to these my
little ones?" said the sad eyes with
the deep questioning look. “Is this
the best you can give them in honor
of me? Why, these are no longer
children; they are dwarfed men and
women, with the spirit of play gone
from them and the weight of years
upon them in their very childhood."
And he went farther among the
weavers, and came to the homes of
those who had abandoned all hope of
better times; the homes where the
season of Christ's birth could not be
celebrated for even their utmost ef
forts could not still the howl of the
wolf right upon them, not at, but with
in the door. Theirs was the cry of
the poor women of the roads in the
German fatherland in a century long
gone by, to the appeal of the priest
who consecrated his life to such as
they. “Give us only bread and wrater,
and we will follow thee.” And these
poor households said, “Give us to
know where tomorrow's bread is to
come from, and we will be happy and
make a festival for thee; all we ask
it to be free from the wolf; we are
willing to work, but work is not plenti
ful enough, and some of us must al
ways go hungry.” And the face of the
Christ grew sadder.
And we passed into the home of
one of those whose grief must be
greater than that of her from whom
death has taken the husband and
the father of her little ones; of one
rrom whom the man has gone away,
leaving the woman to fight single
handed against the wolf. The effort
there to keep up heart and to hold
together the children in the home,
with the handicap of the lower wage
which is meted out to the working
woman, seemed even more desperate.
The little ones looked hungry; the
Christmas tree had shrunk to a tiny
sprig of green; there was little light,
and it was, oh, so cold, and the tiny
babe on the mother’s arm was the
only soul that smiled. And this at the
time of plenty, when all should re
joice! Is the mother at work at a
time like this? Yes, in spite of all
the world has to tell us of "sacred
motherhood,” the woman with the
babe on her arm Is not exempt from
this harsh demand, and at work she
must be, even on this day of days, or
risk the dole which is all that stands
between her children and the wolf.
And deep in the saddened eyes of
the Christ I read the condemnation
and the question: He that loveth not
his brother whom he hath seen, how
can he love God whom he hath not
seen?"
Is the rush of the gift-buying a sign
.either that there is plenty in the land
or that w-e really love to celebrate the
birthday of the Christ? If you think
so, listen to the groans of the over
burdened father of the family when
approached with the request for
Christmas moneys; hear what weary
women say to each other in passing
concerning the unwelcome necessity
of “exchanging gifts” with so many
people “who look for something from
you.” What of the original spirit of
Christmas is there left in this “ex
change,” this giving in the expecta
tion of a return in kind? Thousands
upon thousands of gifts are “ex
changed” by people who bought them
with the money which was really
needed for the daily uses of their own
households, bought them grudgingly
in servitude to custom and without a
particle of real Christmas spirit ac
companying the selection or the giv
ing.
But this is not the worst of it; the
children, even, have come to know in
many families that the gifts to those
outside the family circle are given not
because of a loving desire to give, but
in the Bpirit represented by “that
wicked dollar," which Emerson said
was given in order to save himself
the unpleasantness of refusing or the
trouble of investigating some demand
made upon him. Which has the bet
ter claim upon the time and the purse
of the man of small means—those
dear to him who actually need com
forts. or the richer friend who in no
sense needs the thing sent and who
in turn will feel obliged to make a gift
to keep his record clear? Shame up
on the weakness which forces the
“exchange” of what should be an out
pouring of good feeling or else has
absolutely no raison d’etre.
But is there any righteousness in
the feeling of smug comfort in the j
homes of the well-to-do at the Christ
mas season? Is the full table and the
joy of one's own household a fair
offering in honor of him whose com
ing we are supposed to be celebrat
ing?
While we are pretending to be a
Christian community what are we do- j
ing to the weak and the helpless?
Can there be any greater wrong to
the children of any community than ■
to permit the years during which
they should be laying the foundations
of knowledge most easily, to find
them so crowded by thousands out of
the schools or sitting on the window
ledges or (with doubly worked teach
ers trying to instruct two sets of
youngsters) on “half time”? And yet
we go calmly on year after year per
mitting money to be misused while
the little children pay the bills in
wasted years; and then, when Christ
mas comes, the children’s festival par
excellence, we lift up our eyes to
heaven with the prayer of the Phar
isee and rejoice over the Christmas
season and its joy for the children!
Can there be any neglect of the com
monwealth's interests greater and
with results more lasting, than our
failure to consider every child an as
set to be treasured and and appre
ciated, to be educated to its utmost
possibilities?
We are all prone, men and women
alike, to look mostly at immediate
effects. If some one we know goes
out to nurse a poorer neighbor
stricken down with typhoid or any
of the other preventable diseases, we
exclaim over the lovely charity of
the action and praise the kindness of
heart which prompted it. "That,"
says the average person, “is true
charity and neighborly love.” But if
that kindly woman were to give half
the time and effort to help along a
crusade for pure water or for the
prevention of consumption or for the
cleaning up of a pestilent neighbor
hood. she would probably be called
by those immediately around her, if
not a muckraker, at least an uncom
fortably active reformer. Yet the
prevention of the illness would mean
more to the poorer neighbor than all
the kindly nursing during its continu
ance. All we may do in the way of
juvenile courts for the young offend
ers is not to be compared with giving
them just their bare right to play
grounds and good teaching, with plenty
of room for all and well paid teachers
to work for and with them.
When we know that the coming of
Christmas, the children’s festival, is
going to make all the young box
makers in our city slave extra long
hours, in order to fill the rush or
ders of the season, shall we not be
shaken out of our smug rejoicing
over1 this as a time of plenty for all?
Not enough schools for the city's
children; not enough food for them,
even when they do get into the
schools; not enough wages for their
parents to enable the mothers to
remain in the homes to look after
them; not enough money spent by
the municipality to give them places
to play in safety; not enough care for
their lives to clean up the neighbor
hoods in which they fairly swarm; not
enough Christmas Joy to go round to all
the city’s children—such is our record
as we prepare to celebrate with merri
ment and feasting the advent of the
Christ Child. Is it a record of which
we dare be proud ? May we offer it as
a meet festival in honor of the coming
into our world of' him who said:
Whosoever shall cause one of these
little ones that believes on me to
stumble, it were better for him if a
great millstone were hanged about his
neck and he were cast into the sea."
Who lives for humanity must be
content to lose himself.—Frothing
ham.
TRUST HIS LOVE
They are few who have ^iot some
times, said like Jaob, “All these things
are against me.” We cannot wonder
that he thought so; but he was mis
taken. They were working for his
good, and the time came when he
knew it. We cannot see the bright
light that is In the storms that affiict
us, and our faith is so small that our
hearts are troubled. But when our
spirit is overwhelmed within us God
knows our path. The deepest lessons,
and the most salutary, of our lives
come through our adversities. An
thlete cannot be trained without dif
ficult exercises, the mind is developed
by hard studies, the heart is enlarged
and humbled and purified by afflic
tion. Our transient troubles are work
ing for us “more and more exceed
ingly an eternal weight of glory." Our
faith is small because the temporal
has too strong a hold on us. If our
vision were always fixed on the things
not seen and eternal we would re
joice in our tribulation. One of the
greatest goods of life is the severity
of its spiritual discipline. To those
who trust him God gives the treas
ures of darkness and hidden riches
of secret places. We cannot compre
hend his perfect plah for our lives,
but it is our blessed privilege to trust
his unerring wisdom and his infinite
love.
“More Nat’ral.” *
In Denver there is said to be a
parvenu nabob who ordered for him
self, through a friend in New York,
a half-dozen pieces of the finest statu
ary in the metropolis. When they
arrived, they all proved to be bronze.
The nabob waa greatly disgusted. The
statuary of his neighbor, whom he
was imitating or trying to excel, was
of marble. Of course, that was the
proper thing. He retired that night
in a mood of great displeasure. Next
morning, before the sun was up, he
went out on his lawn, bucket and
paint brush in hand, and painted white
each piece of the new bronze statuary.
He was at work on “Venus at Her
Bath,” when his friend, who had
purchased the artistic images for him,
happened along and inquired in dis
may what he was doing. Said the
man of wealth: “Do you suppose I
want any Ute squaws in my yard?
Not by a - sight!” The friend
amusedly watched the artist until he
had completed the Job of giving the
shapely Venus a flesh coloring. Then
stepping back, he viewed the effect
of his work critically a moment, went
into the house, and, returning with
a pot of colored paint, commenced to
decorate the limbs of Venus with red
garters. The effect very much pleased
the manipulator of the brush, because
he said it made it appear "more
nat’raMike.”
Every woman whose husband is a
failure is sure he would have been a
howling success had he followed her
advice.
