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A persual of the official batting
averages of the National league is
productive of several side lines of
thought, one of which is the fact that
a scoring reform is badly needed. A
few seasons ago official scorers were
selected because of their fitness and
impartiality, and they followed cer
tain general rules fairly well. They
even got together occasionally and
straightened out some kinks in the
rules. Scoring nowadays is a joke
compared with the old methods. In
some few cities a conscientious offl-1
cial may be found. "If we don't get
the best of the scoring at home," the
player argues, "it's a. cinch we won't
get it out on the road." .This oft-re-
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MR. SWIGART'S VIEWS.
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135 So. 11th, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Vigorously Discusses Question of
Cheap Female Labor.
Lincoln, Nebr., February 6. To the
Editor of The Wage worker: I see
by a recent issue of the State Journal
that Mr. Mason of this city intiamtes
by indirection that some hotel keeper
or restaurant keeper ought to "sort
'o" close his doors to the general pub
lic in order that he may board and
room factory girls who are not paid
a sufficient wage to enable them to
board and room wehere they choose.
Mr. Mason seems to be of the opinion
that the girls to be employed have
no right to demand decent wages. He
intimates that because of the unreas
onable p.-ice of board and lodging
those now employed are compelled
to resort to "other means." I do not
know who Mr. Mason is, but it seems
to me that he is making a rather
broad statement. Does he know from
experience or otherwise that the girls
'resort to other means?" Mr. Mason
should be more explicit. I think that
if the firms Mr. Mason refers to really
want to settle here they ought to be
willing to pay fair wages enongh so
that it would not be considered detri
mental to be called a "factory girl,"
a3 it now appears to Mr. Mason.
Factories employing women and run
on the soup house principle with bunk
house annex are not calculated to
allure people to Lincoln. Might I
ask, is Mr. Mason an overall man?
A. M. SWIGART.
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AN INTERESTING STORY.
And It Might Happen Any Day in the
Year, Too.
Carlos Spaghetti and his family, con
sisting of a wife and eight children,
arrived in Chicago from Italy a few
months ago. They were met by Luggi
Macaroni, a newsboy and a relative,
who located them in a single dark,
damp and foul room in a still fouler
tenement. The furniture consisted of
a couple of mattresses, a dry goods
box that served for a table, three or
four broken chairs and a few pieces
of cracked chinaware.
Through the influence of Luggi Mac
aroni the ward boss secured Carlos
Spaghetti a job in the street cleaning
department at $1.10 a day. Mrs. Mac
aroni, the mother of Luggi, secured
work for Mrs. Spaghetti. The work
consisted in sewing overalls, work
shirts and jackets for the firm of
Swett & Shopper. The two older
girls helped Mrs. Spaghetti, and com
bined efforts of the three re
sulted in an average daily income of
a dollar.
One Carlos Spaghetti is taken sick
and can not work. A few days later
the baby sickens and dies. Then one
by one the other children are taken
sick, and Mrs. Spaghetti 1b forced to
earn food for all of them. The un
buried baby attracts notice and the
attention of the health authorities is
called to the matter. Then it is dis
covered that the whole Spaghetti fam
ily is suffering from virulent small
pox. During all this time Mrs. Spaghetti
is carrying the overalls and work-
shirts and jackets back to Swett &
Shop. -
Out in Lincoln, Nebraska, is a mer
chant, Mr. John Wise, who orders a
big bill of goods from Swett & Shop.
The manager of that particular depart
ment unpacks the overalls, work-shirts
and trousers . from the boxes. While
he is doing so Mr. Lotsof Rocks, a
Lincoln banker, comes in and says he
wants a jacket in which to potter
around his automobile. The clerk
sells him one just received from Chi
cago. Then a carpenter came in. He
wat formerly a member of the union,
but because the union insisted on his
paying dues to '! help maintain wages
and hours he dropped out, although
still profiting by unionism. The clerk
spld him a pair of overalls just re
ceived from Swett & Shop. The car
penter went back to his home, donned
the overalls and went over to Mr.
Littleton's, the coal man, to make
some repairs in the kitchen pantry.
About ten days later the manager
of the working clothes department of
Mr. Wise's store is taken sick. The
next day Rocks is reported very ill,
and Mr. Littleton is also on the sick
list. Then Hoggem, the non-union
carpenter, is reported sick. Investiga
tion results in putting up smallpox
cards on the houses of each one of
the sufferers.
At the window of Hoggem's little
house appears the tired and worn face
of the wife and mother, who is await
ing her turn to suffer from the filthy
disease. The three little Hoggems arc
flushed of face and feverish of blood.
And back in Chicago Mrs. Spaghetti
is still making the living for her. little
ones, for Carlos Spaghetti is dead
died of smallpox.
If that consignment of goods had
come from a union factory the germs
of smallpox would have not been lurk
ing therein. J. J. S.
THE LEATHER WORKERS.
News That Will Be of Interest to
Members of the Craft.
An official report has it that the
Western Harness Manufacturers' and
Dealers' association, comprising all the
retail shops in Kansas City, after hold
ing off for some time has finally agreed
to sign the agreement as presented
with the minimum scale of wage $15
a week.
J B. Schott, Quincy, Ills., stubborniy
refuses to consider the demands o!
Local No. 26. Schoot has been pre
sented with an ultimatum and unless
he shows a willingness to adjust mat
ters trouble is sure to follow.
It is officially reported that matters
with the Marshall & Wells Co. have
teen settled for the time being. The
trouble arose over the firm putting.,
a lot of boys at work on edging and
other work. The local would not stand
for this, and so notified the firm. The
firm Immediately discharged President
Peters and Secretary Lantz on tho
theory that they had instigated the
trouble. On investigation the men
were reinstated and the boys . dis
charged. Bristol & Sweet's harness and sad
delry factory burned recently, throw
ing about thirty men our of employ
ment. t
The strike situation in St. Louis and
Nashville remains about the same.
About a hundred men are out in each
city. In Nashville the fight is being
carried on in the most determined
manner. When it began last August
the jurisdiction voted an assessment
of 10 cents a week .on each member so
the strikers could receive more than
$5 a week benefit. All leatherworkers
on horse goods are requested to stay
away from St. Louis and Nashville.
HERE'S THE TRUE? "SCAB."
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Sets Girls to Do Men's Work as Press-feeders.
Hammond, Ind. Employment of girl
feeders at the W. B. Conkey company's
printing establishment . caused thirty
pressfeeders to walk out yesterday,
and the night shift also refused to re
port for duty . Supt. A. E. Wilcox con:
tends that sufficient men can not be
engaged to do the work on hand.
Prior to the inauguration of the
eight hours day 51 pt-; cent of tht
cigarmakers died of tuberculosis.
Seventeen years after the eight hour
day took effect this percentage had
been reduced to 23 per cent. ;
peated complaint has been sounded so
often that it has - blunted the . con- .
sciences of many official tabkeepers,
and the good batters on the .home .
team get hits where none are de-
served. . This game has resolved it
self into a padding of the average of
certain players by certain loyal offi
cial scorers in certain cities until the
inflated value of an average ceases to
be respected. It is time some restric
tions were placed on this '' system.
New York is not free from this evil,
but there is no such padding of the
averages there as in some other cities.
The ball player can tell you. He
knows. "I can't get any base hits in
Chicago," says one, or "I made three
rank errors in Cincinnati and every
one of 'em went as a base hit for the
other fellow." Perhaps Hans'; Wag
ner would have led the league this
season without any padding of his av- -,
erage, but ball players- do not believe ..
he outranked Steinfeldt and Lumley
so many points. As ' a ' matter of
fact, Pittsburg is one of the towns
where many errorless games are play--ed,
for the simple reason that every
thing is scored a hit. Wagner has
been handed many credits that he did
not deserve this season by the home
scorers. Steinfeldt and Lumiey sui-
fered because they had to earn most
of their hits to get them. , Nearly all
scorers are more lenient than ' they
should be, but the Pittsburg thing is
overworked. It is a notorious fact that
the most inexcusable error are set
down as, base hits when the batter
happens to be Wagner or some of the
other good hitters of the team. When
the race for honors is close, as it was
last season, then the scorers stretch
their imaginations still further until
the system becomes a farce. .-.
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Much is heard of doped horses on a
race track. The ' manner in which
these horses are doped is explained
by a prominent veterinarian. . No one
is likely to be caught in the act of
doping a race horse, because the dose
given is so small it can be adminis
tered with little danger of detection
long before the race. If a horse is to
race at three o'clock he gets 'a two
grain powder on his togue in a dark
ened stall at one o'clock. - The drug
takes effect in about 30 minutes and
the animal ' breaks out into a sweat.
He is rubbed down, cooled- out and
done up as if he had come in from
morning work. Every effort is made
to keep him quiet until post time,, but
he very often breaks out again, and is
again cooled out. The doped horse, '
never takes any warming up work,1
and this facts affords the best means
I know of for finding him out He is
moved slowly to the starting ' point,
great care being taken to prevent him
from becoming, excited until the flag
is dropped. Then a kick and dig to
the work, and in an instant the full
force of the dope i felt, stimulating
the animal to run the race of his life.
Announcement is made that Mead
owthorpe, the noted breeding plant "
of the late Col. James E. . Pep
per, near Lexington, Ky., will be
sold in February and the entire stud'
disposed of. Over 200 head of stock, .
including 42 . brood mares and thor
oughbred stallions, will be sold.
Next year will be Cy Young's eigh
teenth in baseball.
Nate S. Wilbur, known In baseball
circles throughoutrfhe country, has re
signed as secretary of the Louisville
Baseball club. He has not severed
service with the national game, how
ever, and will form a connection with
one of tho big league clubs for the
coming season.
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