Wig ge PAGE 81%. AEE DATLY BRITISH WHIG, . MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1908. v Undertaking and B So faf.as known,' Trenton, N. J. is | e only "city {in the 'world that is offi- W in baseball. maintains a municipal Jeague for s_boys who are between 10.and 18 85" it prdvides playing grounds, uni- s; balls, bats, gloves--in fact, com- outfits for the énthusiastic young- ers, 2 The .mayor," members. of 'the ungil and almost every municipal: offi- al is actively interested in the move- ent to promote baseball among ys. The whole movement, in fact, i dial. More than '2,000 Trenton boys are en- lled in 200 glubs, playing a daily sche le of games on fields mai tained for is purpose only. The entife expense met by a liberal appropriation made the, city. council. Beneficial effects rly in the season. Boys who have sually spent their, summers in the rects are' better: behaved; not one has cen arrested for violation of ordin ices ; morals have been improved, and e youngsters are happier and healthier han ever before. ---- became apparent baseball enthusiasm swept over Tren- ny: resulting in thé. organization. of cores of clubs among the boys. These | ubs multiplied .so_ rapidly that there ere not enough public fields on which e games could be. played, . Necessity 'for fields on which the ys might play.without being moelsted | y the police soon became so apparent | at officials of the Y. M. C. A. brought e matter to the attention of the com on council. The lawmakers of the ty responded with an appropriation, fis in the present season a wave | ; 1 ET Er ---------- A Ee Dh esiaern a ____._..S , a a Saacaad i E-------- Ba a fa a wy EERIE FEE Re Be 7 or rie Flag Nwrsireg Day =F THe CIIIeres Sr rirr very much the same in all varieties of cows' milk. all purposes, production so-called fellows not only how. te'play winning: baseball, but also instruct them in the value of clean sportsmanship. € Re : Plang dor. next: sehsont ard aif¥ady under way in the shape of a piOfement | Thus a thin" milk is for ave for energy and heat valuable a food as the "rich" milk.. Indged, it pbt nd the scheme of ofganization was at ce begun. l The boys were organized into three | e sections. The Midget League, coih- sed of little fellows of from 10 to 14 'of age; the Intermediate League | made up of boys between 14 and 16 | rs, and the Junior League," with a | membership of boys up to 18 years. | A canvass of the city officials devel | opgd more than 100 clubs eligible t o mgnbership in. the three sections,~-and bgfpre the. organization. was 'completed, | clubs 'had' applied for membership had been accep! d. -ach age division was then .sub- divided into four or more sections, and | 1 fo Ne sol tor secre a dozen i ficldy | infrequently happens, ds the experimen- to be. made ready hori 0, ng | tal feeding of youmg growing animals next spring. The good results growing [has shown, that a thin milk may prove, but of the work have made it the most [in the long run, more flesh forming popular public enterprise ceyermaknown | than a rich 'milk. - inasmuch as the um Trenton former is l¢s§ liable to induce gastrp- When the leauges dre formed next | enteric disorders." season there will be found! in Jiffcants representing every. Suaday school, very public school and parochial school mn the city, an addition to. more than twict as many scattering clubs as have been enrolled this. year; da wp Fang easy | . ' The World's Jolliest -Cheap Resort Harriet Quimby in Leslie's' Weekly. Nowhere dn the world is there a jol- Her, a more happy-go-lucky, throng of 1 pleasure seckers than can 'be found on Coney island during the days when the thermometer creeps up: near 4o the hun dred mark, and the brick ang iron walls and the stone streets of the. city radi ate heat like well behaved steam regi fers in winter, At Brooklyn Bridge every seven min + utes an express tram, with seats filled and many passengets standing, steams omt for Coney; and every few seconds, in beiwecen the expresses which cover the distance in thirty minutes, a num- ber of locals, requiring a quarter of an hour more ta reach the istand, carry an ------------------ \ Fat Milk And Fat Meat. Why should. milk that containg mueh cream be accounted the bed C is only fat, and we do not rage ithe value of meats solely by the amoung 6f fat that they include. . Dri J, A) Gilberf) Pogptland, Oregon, writing in. fhe Med cal Record (New York) takes the view, this' devatien to "rieh® Mhilk hay no. logical basis. In our earnest searcly after a fat milk, he says,'we have probs ably' gone too far. "To quate om ag editorial in The Hospital «Londo he boys will result in a the number of boys sent ba Fredton's most pro nost 'without ex chal nent citizéns m the "busi- | decrease in } Dros Srreer ISRiggErS, IIdger LeFgus & the head ofeach section was placed ) member of common council 'as presi- p fant of that league | Jn addition to this, the city officials { gamed a set of officers and a board of Jeeta for "the general association | fom among the most prominent men of | oe city, without regard to politics. 'The cers of the City Association,of Base- Leagues are: President, ; John Gill, president of the Trenton Republi- | omer - Club; © viceepresident, C. Harry Baker, county clerk of Mercer county'; second vice-president, R.A Messler, one af the Democratic ;Jeaders secre tary, Kendrick €. Hill, asfistant 'post. | master ofslrenton; treasurer,\ Philip Freudenmagher, chairman of the finance committees of common 'council; bodrd $¥'directors, General C..E. Murray, I 4 W. Roebling, Jr., county engincer Frank ' Eppelle, state road commissioner 'rederick Gilkyson, prosecutor-of the pleas for Mercer county William J. Crossley, | pgliccs commissioner {Harry Maddock, playground' commissioner /F C. Hill; 'mayor Walter Madden, civil pice commissioner James F. Kerney, He commissioner 'Francis B!- Lee, igrmer mayor Frank 'S. «Katzenbach, Tmeér tax receiver E. F. Hooper, H. Gg Stoddard; general-manager of the "L@nton* Iron Company; Dr. Nathan Stern, - Dr. Willitm * Wetzel, principal of Trenton High school, and counselor Samuel .G. Naar, a former councilman Members of common council were assigned positions 'as league presidents as follows: : ohn D.*Howell, president of com- council," president of the Central Midget League. Dr. Charles: Mitchell, member from the Third Ward, president South Tren- ton Midget-League. Dr. Dunbar Hutchinson, Tenth Ward, psiden: Chambersburg = Midget - Lea- gud. -- £ Dr. Paul Cort, Second Ward, dent Cadwalader Midget League. William:McClaiff, Eighth Ward, presi- presi- dent East Trenton Midget League. «Edward C. Bullock, First Ward, pre- siden I'ren Midget Joseph Logan, Sixth Ward South Trenton Intermed John T. Wayman. president 'Chambersh League Thomas P. Wr Ward, president mediate League Fred P. Endebrock, Tie epresident East Trenton League Charles Reichert, Fifth Ward, dent "East Trenton Junior, League Peter Backes, - Fourth Ward, . presi dent South. Trenton: Junior League Walter Fox, Fourteenth Ward, presi dent Cadwalader Junior :Leagu Dr. Charles S. Thatcher Ninth Ward, president Chambersburg League pr League president Eleventh urg Intermediate enth Inter Cadwa Ward, Intermediate presi | councilmanic cen leagues at uniforms for the sidents of 'the ordered boys. . and the work looking playing. From its . inception movement 1d favor. in the eves of Trentontans of arranging 'the games and after the boys while they' were tie and the day after it was for- Oration' ¥ announced that an had-been male by councit- to baseball for the boys. Gover notified Mayor Madde structed stdte custodian: Jc to lay out several. diamonds State House property, 1 the rear of 'the capitol buildi that these ball fields were toihe handed over, to the general committee to be used by the boys all' symmer Playground caphmissioner £./ C + Hill donated a large field: belonging "to "him, on which he caused to be placed play- 'Ing diamonds; clubhouses and a bath. appre THRINLEN Fort had in% Weseniin on ar mn of 1, | school 2,000 | engaged | ithree playground . experts to supervise | Rubber Company { cloth Company I'h Minection with tl I school, State- Normal for the Deaf, lalso secured for the 1 A large piece | for a reservoir and fitted { monds | The Men's ( is. bh je High sclubhauses and ba the Y turned tletic comn hnstian Assoc idsor tield cause, turned a of: its public park into ball .grounds In all, more | than two dozen ball grounds w avail- ible in less than a week In addition to furnishing uniforms and | playing grounds for the boys, city purchased balls, | catching masks complete ou ion over or. the { the city portion the gloves, and in fact body opening. day son was a memprable of the Not parade or t de | the "famous Trenton battle { attracted the thousands to the that . turned out witness the boys in full baseball uniforms marching proydly behind a delegation of:.500 gue seas city esidential i of monument streets 18€s to the. | angel | This was alse turned over to thelbase- | ball committee. : &1 ying fields were also given bythe | Bowman Pottery Company, the Ameri- | 3 I } can" Bridge® Company, the © Hamilton - oung and | e history | 2,000 | Y in. the cer wereckayishly deedrat butting. Men," woenicn | wore buttons and badge \ scribed, "For '®enton's so great was' th parade hac way through the j infront of the city | Puvate cittzens fell i and matched out to t stadyum, where the league was playéd by J clubs mn the 'Midget L At the stadium ther with addresses b ¥ ayor rand playground 'eomniistiohet Marshall and E. C. H ~~ President Gill and: Mayor Maddén | batted out fly 'balls for tht wb millget clubs before the game. and ithe opens ing: battle Mayor Madden: acted ty um- pire, tor the, keen delight of the boys, ho showed in a dozén little ways that apprecmted phe of having chief executive of th ; make for them houses City which Boys, enthusiasm that terally plowed hug ] ot boys a's of the two smallest Irwin nor vé.opening day ge of twenty garhes' have been 3 every day. and an Satwrdiy there have been as mamy 53 fortefiyé coritests, { Ahe sinallest bys have: their dames scheduled in' the morning and in the jearly 'afternotits) while those be ws who |'work during dav play what are known as TIWTHENY gam beginning about -3.30 and fuvisking at 7 o'clock. The "hoys almest | their - | ball umiforms,. for, when they playing: a regularly sch {they are out on: the fel Rothe rbeysizin I with their basel leagne that are sight t crowd of little itellows Joafing. on the. street. corners | front of saloons, always: in dormer years. city officials have secured a staff pes than 100 umpires, made sup of jHnistersdoetors- lawyers and business men who qr siastie over the they give liberally, of their day. Mavor Madden is ode { of the most popular umpires, and Prose cutor Crossley 18. gnother "um ¢ who {cari go through. game after, g with- | Gut: any kick coming from the boys The ' success of the experiment has already prompted: the to make the scheme 2 permanent HFriominent public playground expone from all parts of the country ar 'arriving in | Prenton. every day to watch , the pro- [gtess of the movement, and already a | Tangements, are being made. i Qiler i Cities to follow the plan | Criminologists who have investigated i game practicing. n are now > SE $5. énthu city ORC, 1s ot have given out an opmion to ti 1 + 3 "4 farnishin that the . Trenton plan for furnishing and | ws beew the o the reform school, and will { armually l bf making better means izens Already the beneficial cffects of: the | systent hive been felt by the police de- { partment. In other summer seasons the Frenton 'pol have made dozens of re day of "boys who have ordinances. Since the were gfganized the first aying baseball in the. streets to be made, Among the rules of%the feagués are those which call forisuspension for the first offense of sweartig while in ani- form or of smokmgéduring the game For the second offense the punishment 10¢ rests every | broken the - city boys' leag | arrest for | nas yet is expulsion AM ATl umpires are inaeendled to keep a record of offenses T8gMmitied by the boys in the games Mewhich: they offi ciate, and the clubs im the various: lea- gues that have the cleafigst records at the end of the playing season 'will be rewarded; the idea being not only to {give the boys playgrounds and the meang of play, but to encotirage them to better things Daniel J. Bechtel, one of the former mayors of the city, has offered a medal to <the-best player on each club; which means. that at: the end the season Mr. Bechtel will have to present more wan: 200 medals to the boys. Other leading. men of the city have offered silver loving cups, cash prizes and ot scholarships.in schools for the boys who make the best records In comjunction , with the baseball ames, the directors of the leagues are w- working ont a plan whereby all of the boys. in. the many "clubs will "be taken up the Delewire river to outing camps: to be maihtained 'especially for the youngsters * One of the inferesting features of the system is the carnést manner in which | the city councilmen hive taken hold of | the 'work. Duriffg the process 8f or- | ganization 'mauy "of the deague presi- | dents. were compelled fo work day and ight" in" Grider 10 complete investiga- - tions of the boys' ages, because the rules governing the age divsions are strictly adherdid to ho ve Fhe keen interest. manifested by the councilmen has so Wwén the regard and {affection of the littlefello®s iflat when- ver a conncilman $s seen onthe streets e. is genegally syrrosimided by a smal Eng.) which notes Dr Gumert's opipribn appreciatively :. * Wa "The milk" which is richeSt'in cream is not therefore the most nutritious for the very simple reason that a Siehibmilk isTless easily digested aud abRévbed than a milk in which the far percentage is low f are conce viluable T fat percentage; the popular standard by which milk is able, while tite proportions of the gly at hours until as night fathers and brothers are able to lIeaye their work-and join the family parties the . crowds visiting As far as its other condtiffénts | gates at the rate of fifteen thousand an d, a milk poor in fakds.as | hour. ¢ ne food as a milk welt faf, | divection, dividing thé harvest of silver {that cemes with them judged, i$ most 'vari | hath 'the those whom the expresses have left. All day long this continues, beginning 8 o'clock and increasing with the approaches and Coney enter the Once there, they seatter in cvery Luna betweel the Steeplechase and much. 15 to be Dreamland, Avenue, where so menoids, sugars and salts yagy but:ditile | bad for a penny that it is a pleasure, in the different samples of milk: In | other words, while the energy producing and heat-giving qualities of the séveral { kinds of milk may be great or little. thi | valuable proteid ingredients, which. go to the building wp of the tigsues--the primes property of any Bel to spend it I ---------------------- The man without self respect may possess unlimited cheek The devil alway has a place for the man willing to do his work.' army of his league members, who ap- | pear to regard him as a2 new variety of Santa Claus, . From time to timie; Tater on, famous 'ball players of the 'National and Am: erican Leagues will be taken (6 Tren- ton to talk to the boys in ome of the arge public halls. Titese stars of the baseball "world will © tell the! hittle : ' wr {HAL ADMIRAL COWLES | The | "President's brotherin lew. has! been' placed on Jthe vetived list. of the! navy, having reached the age -P¥nit ative servibe The command of the: crack battléship' the New Hampshire ati with a brilliant is. active naval Ad@iral Cowles close to I Hear and happy career, A | He has been selected to ta | people "RED UPHAM ke Charge of the Republican headquarters + in Chicago. "It takes amore: money tham, brains to the recent festivities -in Quebec furnished! be r a conspicuous 'drésser. In an effort to appear polite 'some apdear ridiculous, »