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HE EXPENSE IS ALWAYS A
CONSIDERATION WITH THE
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another think coming.
The Cost of Gas
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gas. We are able to prove this assertion. You
will save health, time and temper, too.
A Modern Gas Range
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ikHOWEn STRONG I CLOSER TO PATRONS
ON THE DEFENSE
IDEA OF RAILROAD OFFICIAL IN
HIGH POSITION.
BOSTON AND WASHINGTON LED
AMERICAN LEAGUE IN HOLD
ING DOWN OPPONENTS.
Bobby Wallace, the star shortstop
of the St. Louis American league teamj
roTes to recall an incioeni uiai Hap
pened back in the "90's Just after Te-
beau had assigned him to third base
for the Cleveland team.
Up to that time Bobby's only usefuli
ness to the Cleveland club had been
his well-known ability to pitch against
the Brooklyn and hold them scoreless.
The Trolley Dodgers were as help
less before him as the Naps have gen
erally been against Barney Pelty.
Cleveland opened at CincinnaU thrt
year that Wallace blossomed out into
a third baseman, and Bobby's playing
in that initial series was probably the
most remarkable exhibiUon that up to
that Ume had ever been seen, with'
the possible exception of Jerry Den
ny's great work.
Wallace and Tabeau occupied con
necting rooms at the Gibson house,
and about two a. m. a delegaUon of
CincinnaU and Cleveland newspaper
men borrowed a pass key and invaded
the suite. Tebeau was roused from
his slumbers by the late Harry Wel
den and shown a "phony" telegram
from Cleveland, reading:
President Roblson wired Manager
Tebeau to-night ordering immediate
release of Wallace." Tebeau read the
message over two or three times in a
sleepy fashion.
"Is this true?" finally asked Wel-
den. while all the other newspaper
men turned their backs to hide their
smiles.
'True?" snarled Tebeau. tearing the
message into bits and making a spring
at the newspaper boys. "I don't care
what Robison says. I wouldn't trade
Bobby Wallace for your whole darned
CincinnaU team with John T. Brush
thrown in."
FIGURES FROM LAST SEASON
Walter L. Ross, Who Began as Office
Boy, Gives His Views of Policy
Which He Believes Will
Win Success.
.Fewer Runs Scored Against Tail-End
Teams Than Against Detroit Lati
ter Club Scored Moit Runs Against
New York Interesting Statistics
for Baseball "Fans."
Robert Spade, the star pitcher of
the Cincinnati club, who up to the
present writing, has been unable to
come to an understanding on the
J !
salary question, was born in Akron,
O., January 4, 1879. He first attracted
attention as a hard-hitting lnfielder
and pitcher with the independent
team of Kent, O. He started his pro
fessional career with the Youngstown
club in 1896. After that year he
played independent ball season after
season throughout northern Ohio until
.1905, when he Joined the Jacksonville
club, of the South Atlantic league. Be
fore that seaso l was over he was
traded to the Macon club. In the fall
I lot 1905 he was drafted by the St
,txuis National league club. Later he
was released to the Atlanta club of
the Southern league. With tht team
be did such splendid work all season
that the Cincinnati club drafted him
in 1908. In this season he was used
as a substitute pitcher for naif the
season, and in mid-season would have
been turned over to the New York
club but for a waiver technicality.
The failure of the deal proved a lucky
thing for the Cincinnati club, as there
after Spade found himself, and in the
second half of the season proved the
Cincinnati team's winning pitcher and
mainstay.
A great many tales are told about
the effect of the wind on the ball
when it is in the air, but these two
stories are told by veracious players.
Charley Babb says he was playing in
Portland. Ore., on a very windy day
and he popped up a foul fly. He turned
around and saw that the ball was go
ing over the grandstand high in the
air. Then a strange thing happened.
It was caught by a gust of wind, start
ed back, and the catcher caught It
jwithout moving from his position.
Squally remarkable is this experience
of Fred Clarke, who says he never
"credited the stories about the high
winds on the Pacific coast until he
saw the effect on a baseball with his
own eyes. He was playing in a game
In San Frarelsco and clouted the ball
hard enougn to, he thought, drive It
to the center-field fence. It went in
that direction, and the center fielder
started to run back of his regular po
sition for it. But the wind caught the
ball and carried it back. The center
fielder doubled in his tracks, but the
jball beat him. and dropped ten feet
back of the pitcher.
Both Boston and Washington sur
passed the pennant-winning Tigers in
defensive work last season in the
American league, only 516 runs being
scored against the Boston Red Sox
and 537 against Washington,
against 554 against Detroit.
Philadelphia was almost on a par
with the Tigers in defensive work.
folding its opponents to 562 runs, or
eight more than Detroit. Against New
York opposing teams scored 713 runs,
an average of almost 102 for each
team, and more than five to each game.
Detroit scored most runs against
New York, 119. It fell 20 below this
total with Philadelphia, Chicago held
the Tigers to 92 runs, Boston to 89.
Washington to 88 and St. Louis to 87.
while the Tigers found the Naps a
big stumbling block, scoring only 73
runs against Lajoie's crowd.
Like Detroit, Cleveland found New
York easy when it came to scoring
runs. It ran up a total of 110 against
the Highlanders, and almost equaled
the number against Detroit, scoring
101. It counted 92 times against Phil
adelphia, 84 against Boston, 73 against
Chicago. 62 against St. Louis, while
Cantillon's Washington crowd lived up
to its reputation as Nap hoodoos by
holding Larry's boys to 57 runs.
Boston counted 91 times against
Philadelphia, 89 against Detroit. 80
against St Louis, 79 against New
York. 75 against Chicago, 73 against
Washington and Cleveland.
St. Louis also found New York easy,
scoring 109 runs, following with 84
against Washington. 77 against Phila
delphia and Detroit. 69 against Cleve
land. 67 against Chicago, and 61
against Boston, the latter club being
almost as big a hoodoo to the Browns
as was Washington to the Naps.
Chicago scored 90 runs against
New York, 89 against Boston, 79
against Detroit and St Louis, 72
against Washington and only 49
against Cleveland, this latter being
the smallest total runs scored by any
one team against another in which
two teams played 23 games instead of
22. the scheduled number. Philadel
phia, sixth in the list, scored 92 runs
against New York. 76 against Detroit
and Washington. 68 against Cleveland,
60 against Chicago, and 54 against St
Louis.
Washington's 481 runs were scored
as follows: New York. 114; Boston,
78; Cleveland, 77; St Louis, 62; Phil
adelphia, 55; Chicago, 53. and Detroit
42. Washington, however, played only
21 games againBt Detroit compared
to the 23 played by Chicago against
Cleveland.
Strangely enough, the tail-end High
landers scored more runs against
Detroit than against any other team.
90 in number. They scored 87 against
Washington, 69 against Philadelphia,
59 against Chicago, and 47 against
Boston. AH the teams except Boston
scored most runs against New York,
the Red Sox scoring its highest num
ber against Philadelphia.
In runs scored against or on of
fensive play Washington set the pace
against Cleveland, leaders In this de
partment with 79 runs, followed by
Detroit and Boston. 73; St Louis, 69;
Philadelphia. 63; New York, 58. and
Chicago. 49.
Chicago, next in line, had Detroit
mark up 92 runs against her, fol
lowed by Boston. 75; Cleveland. 73;
St Louis, 67; Philadelphia. 60; Wash
ington, 53, and New York, 50.
Detroit led against St Louis with
87. followed by Boston, 80; Chicago.
79; Cleveland and Washington, 62;
New York. 59, and Philadelphia, 54.
Detroit led against Boston with 89,
against Washington with 88, Philadel
phla, 99, and New York, 119. Chicago
tied Detroit against Boston. Cleveland
counted 84 times against the Red
Sox. Washington. 78; Philadelphia,
68; St Louis, 61; New York. 47. New
York was only one run behind De
troit against Washington. St Louis
scored 84 runs. Philadelphia 76, Bos
ton 73, Chicago 72 and Cleveland 57.
Against Detroit Cleveland led with
101. followed by New York, 90; Bos
ton. 89; Chicago. 79; St Louis. 77;
Philadelphia. 76. and Washington. 42.
. Cleveland followed Detroit against
the Athletics with 82, Boston scored
91. Chicago 79. St Louis 77, New
York 69 and Washington 55.
"I believe that high officials in the
railroad world should come into closer
touch with their
patrons. A rail
road, like any
other large busi
ness, should aim
to give the peo
ple what they
want If the pol-
generally carried out it
icy were
would do away with about half of the
legislation against railroads." These
statements with others of a similar na
ture were made by Walter I. Ross,
who, having entered the railroad busi
ness 22 years ago as an office boy. was
elected vice-president of the Chicago
& Alton-Clover Leaf system at the age
of 42 years.
Mr. Ross outlined his policy regard
ing the attitude of the railroad offi
cials toward the public, and incident
ally described the mental attitude
which he believed most helpful in at
taining success in business.
The purpose of a railroad, as I
it," said Mr. Ross, who for the last
two years has been traffic manager of
the system of which he is now vice-
president "is to sell transportation to
the people. It is not intended to
make a position for you or for me or
for anybody else. It is a commercial
enterprise with something to sell, and
It should act accordingly. It has been
my constant endeavor to keep in touch
with the people the patrons of the
railroads. If more officials wonld
adopt the plan I think we should have
better railroad laws and fewer of
them.
I make it a rule never to refuse to
see anybody. The man who has
complaint to make can always come
into my office and tell me about it
will pass a whole day with him, if
necessary, in order to convince him he
has no real grievance or to do him
justice.
It is the railroad officials who sit
behind closed doors and refuse to see
any one who have done much toward
getting the roads into bad repute. The
man whose card is sent back to him
with the words 'Nothing doing.' says
to himself: 'Crookedness somewhere.
all right, or why wouldn't they talk
to me? If this man were made to
understand that the railroads are really
trying to do the right thing, ail would
be different
I have always instructed all em
ployes subject to my direction never
to refuse to hear complaints and to
treat complainants kindly. The re
sult is that I have had little trouble.
Perhaps my success in using this
policy comes from my having been in
close touch with the people all my life.
I was born in Bloomington, 111. When
I was about 20 years old I got a Job
as office boy on the Wabash road.
always tried to perform my duties in
that position as If it were the most
important position the road could of
fer me. The consequence was that
soon became an operator, then a chief
clerk, then a cashier.
The next step upward was clerk
in the trainmaster's office. Then I be
came general agent for the Indiana,
Illinois & Iowa, and on June 1. 1904, di
vision freight and passenger agent Be
fore the year was out I was appointed
general passenger agent for the
Clover Leaf system, and a year later
general freight agent Two years ago
I came to Chicago as traffic manager
for the road I am at present associated
with.
'If I were to name any one thing
as being most instrumental In helping
young men to success, it would be
perseverance in the attitude that the
position you hold, however small, is as
important as the highest Never de
spise your work. Always put into
all the enerey there is in you. The
man who follows these rules can never
Call far behind.'
I
Mike Donlin did one curious thing,
last season. He had exactly the same"
fielding percentage In both left and
1 right fields 977.
EACH USE OF THE SIGNALS.
School of Instruction in This Branch
Recently Instituted by Eastern
Road.
The demand for greater safety and
facility in operation of railroad trains
having resulted in an extraordinary
growth in the number of block signal
institutions by reason of the Increas
ingly intricate nature of modern sig
nal work, the Pennsylvania railroad, in
order to better equip its men for
the operation of block signals, has in
stituted schools of instruction in this
branch of work.
These schools are located nt differ'
ent division points, where experienced
signal men give instructions to the
new men, explaining by means of
miniature signal apparatus the proper
operation and maintenance of the va
rious kinds of signal and interlocking
appliances in service oa the road.
The principal reason for the forma
tion of these schools was the constant
ly increasing number of signals being
placed in service. - In 1902 on the
Pennsylvania railroad there were bat
7.891 interlocking functions in opera
tion on the lines east of Pittsburg.
while in 1903 there were 20,723.
To operate these 20,725 interlocking
functions, 8,793 levers are required.
The total number of signals fa sen Ice
is more than 12,000, coveting ijii
miles of road, or slightly more than
0 per cent of the entire mileage.
This signal system cost $5,090,999.
To train expert engineers, caps Me
of eventually assuming charge of sig
nal work direction and installation, six-
apprentices have been appointed to
the engineer department of the road.
These young men are an graduate of
technical schools. The plan Is to have
the apprentice serve a three-year
coarse. The first year the apprentices
will study the mechanical end of the
work on the road with the repair and
construction gangs, the second year
they will be detailed in the office of
the superintendent of signaling and
the third year they win be engaged tn
outside work on electric and electro-
pneumatic appliances.
After gradoaation the men will be
eligible to the post of assistant signal
inspector in the signal engineer's of
fice. The mastery of these duties will
place the apprentice in line for pro
motion in the engineer department of
the road, with no restrictions on the
office to which he may attain.
Old-Time Argument Against Railroads.
The stage fare from Hontsrile to
Glasgow 25 miles was $1-50. Thin
stage carried the mail, and It had to
go. When the roads were so muddy
horses could not pull the stage n
double yoke of oxen took their places.
It was slow traveling, hot they got
through. The steamboat fare from
Glasgow to St Louis in the early Vm
was $7. That included stateroom and
meals, and if the boat was held up n
week or two on a sandbar the accom
modations went oa without extra
charge. The steamboat owners never
believed the railroads could success
fully compete with them. The way
they looked at It people wouldn't be
willing to travel 109 or 209 mites tied
down to one seat tn n small car when
they might be enjoying the fiesdoni
of a big and handsomely furnished
boat Then bo- are they going to
find room for an orchestra an! s
dancer an old river captain wanted
to know. "No place to eat or drink,
no room to move about; just sit still
ail day long on a little wooden bench
why, it's downright foolishness-""
Macon Republican.
Safe on the Railroad.
A well-known humorist entered
railway carriage in which was one of
those ladies who travel in constant
fear of collisions. At every jolt
sudden stop she cried out: "Have we
left the rails? Is it an accident? Are
we going to be killed?"
Her fellow-passenger paid no atten
tion, but remained wrapped in silence.
Presently the lady said to him:
'Are you not afraid of railway acci
dents?"
"Not, I, madam," answered he, reas
suringly. "It has been predicted that
I shall die on the scaffold.
She changed carriages at the next
station.
For Sunday as Day of
There is a general desire at m-ent
among the railway companies of Eng
land to reinstate Sunday as n day of
rest, says the Railway Magazine of
London, and as at most country sta
tions the usual Sunday service fs an
up and down morning and evening
train stopping at all stations, the mag
azine asks why the station duties of
these trains should not be performed
by a traveling staff. Pasengers could
be booked, tickets collected and the
other station duties performed by n
wait that need not exceed an average
of three minutes at each station on
Sundays when -traffic is normal. A
train carrying a traveling booking
clerk, traveling ticket collector and
traveling porter could perform the va
rious duties at the small stations at
which the trains can.
. Couldn't Stand the Pace.
Jack O'Connor, the former St Louis
catcher, who purchased a half inter
est in the Fort Smith, Ark., league
club franchise, has abandoned the
venture, forfeiting all rights, and an
nouncing that the life of a mogul in a
minor league was too expensive for
bim. He will continue as field man
age? and captain of the Little Rock
Southern league team. He was a mo
gul tvi days.
Train Waited While Engineer Shaved.
A train stopped abruptly a few miles
outside the little station of Hergatz, in
Bohemia, recently, and the passengers
alighted to ascertain what had hap
pened. They found the guard engaged
in shaving the engine driver, who apol
ogized for the delay, and explained
that he was about to propose to the
young woman in the refreshment room
at the next station, and he had no
time to complete his toilet before
starting.
sKillian Goes Back to Minors.
Pitcher Ed Killian of Detroit wlU go
back to the minors. Detroit has re
ceived waivers, but the disposal of the
player has not been definitely decided.
Killian probably will be permitted to
select hi3 own club, as did Coughlin.
Killian's arm went bad last season.
Against Saloon-Cashed Checks.
"Any employe of the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas Railway company who in
the future has his pay check cashed
in a saloon will be discharged." The
foregoing is the substance of a gen
eral circular issued by Superintendent
N. J. Finney.
Rewarded for Saving Train.
For saving a passenger train from n
wreck on the Bessemer & Lake Erie
railroad near Euclid. Pa-. Leo XcCalL
aged 14. son of James MeCan, was
resented with a gold watch as n re
ward. Superintendent J. S. Mattson
and other officials went to the home of
the lad in the country and made the
presentation.
Younj? McCall was walking home
from E.:lid along the Bessemer
tracks, and in the darkness si m bled
against a mass of earth and rock in
a deep cut. The lad knew the south
bound train was almost due. He ran
to his home a half mile away and got
a red lantern.
Cost of Trains.
Many trains are worth .).
while the recently constructed "South
ern Belie," which runs between Vic
toria and Brighton, is said to have
cost over 49,049 to build. Bat take
an ordinary train. The engine and
tender are valued at 2.109; the lug
gage van, 200; the mail van. 409;
two ordinary passenger coaches
2.000 each; three first-class car
riages. 3.000 each; total. 15.7'W.
London Tit-Bits.
Sadly Behind the
There are less than 509 miles of rail
way in Colombia, and nearly an travel
ing must be done on horse or male
back.
