Show ) V If You May Judge by the Romantic Experience of Mrs BASEBALL SEASON IS WITH US AGAIN NATIONAL GAME STARTS 1909 CAMPAIGN WITH PROSPECTS OF GREAT SUCCES8 WEAK TEAMS Russell F Hopkins Who Is Very Happy and Whose Baby Has Become the Heiress STRENGTHENED to the Last Year’s Second Division Clubs in to Unseat Big Leagues Threaten Leaders— New Outfield for New York Nationals — World’s Champions Not to Have Kling and Evers ' I J The weeding out of old timber "hnd the infusion of new blood in the weaker teams has increased public interest In all" cities which have heretofore supported second division clubs Chicago will be without the services of Catcher Kling and Second Evers in the early part of the season at least and this is a problem hat Manager Chance must solve before his team can meet last year’s standard remains practically unPittsburg changed from last year’s club which made a game fight clea'r to the finish while Philadelphia will present the same formidable array of players that last year upset the pennant hopes of New York and other contenders Roger Breshnahan former catcher of the New York team is now at he helm of the St Louis club made up of Breshnahan believei young players his club will prove a stumnling block to many championship aspirants Many changes will be noted in the American league Fielder Jones will be missed from center field and as manager of the Chicago club Chicago will start the season with practically the same club as last year With Moriarlty at third the Detroit club has plugged the hole in its infield and again has pennant aspirations St Louis will make the race with the same team that did so well last Philadelphia Washington and year New Boston have been strengthened York has a new manager George Stallings who has developed a team of youngsters and also has a few seasoned veterans BADGER TRACK TEAM CAPTAIN O P Osfhoff Recently Chosen Captain of the University of Wisconsin Track Team and One of th' Best Athletes of the School ar Lawrence Estate If You Are to Consider the Case of Mrs Helen Whitney Graydon Who Has Says That Marriage Is a Failure and Foot-ba- ll Her from Divorce for Suit a Begun Hero Te umpire’s cry of “Play ball!” has resounded throughout the major league circuits an the baseball season of 1909 has been started on the long six months’ race pennantward After many weeks of preparation and training In the south the sixteen and clubs composing the National American leagues have started their annual diamond struggle and will fight it out to the finish Rarely has a season opened so auspiciously for the sport of baseball Weak spots have been strengthened in all the teams and baseball sharps declare at least five teams in each of ' the big league must be reckoned as serious contenders for the champion-shi- Million-Doll- that the obstacle could be removed by Father Time Just as successfully after matrimonay as before so he sugand the young gested an elopement And she girl was entirely agreeable climbed up the ladder to Tier waiting suitor That was in 1906 The elopement of Miss Whitney and Mr Graydon was preceded by a long and extremely hot warfare with parents besieging and Miss Whitney actWith ing the role of the besiegedMiss Siegrist and Mr Hopkins the action was sharp and extremely brief the young lady’s guardians retiring in good order and not without some trace of amusement In 1902 Beryl Whitney was being “finished” at Miss Ely’s school for street and girls then at Eighty-sixtA Riverside drive New York City California girl of much beauty and dash it was said she would Inherit Now about $5000000 a girl who may some day come into $5000000 and whose indulgent parents have homes In Boston Chicago and California to say nothing of a magnificent hotel suite in New York is apt to be a bit and headstrong All School Rules Ignored So it is not remarkable that having met Thomas Graydon one of the finest football players Harvard has ever gloried in a blond giant of many fascinations Miss Whitney should have reciprocated his love and determined to see him as often as her heart dictated school rules to the contrary notwithstanding Young Graydon spent much time in New York running down for weekEW YORK— The expediends and making the Hotel Imperial ency of eloping is a big his headquarters And Miss Whitney but social problem it not content with the sober calling cusnever seems more perplextoms permitted at Miss Ely's when a ing than when a sedate the center is the leading of the chaperon occupied drawing-rooand young cou“Does it pay?” figure ples sat in demure duets about the two Within the past few weeks walls made innumerable excuses for answers might seem to have leaving the school to meet Graydon come from opposite ends of the conOne day in company with Miss Mades millionheir-essetinent but both from line Walcott of Natick Mass and who started wedded life via the Miss Elizabeth Joyce of Andover ' ladder line Mass Miss Whitney went downtown “It’s the only way” declared Mrs to lay in supplies for a Russell F Hopkins as she bends over ostensibly school frolic In reality they joined the cradle of her- wee daughter some college men including Mr GrayLawrence Bennett Josephine Hopkins don at a popular tea room and overthe central figure in a gorgeous suite at the Hotel St Regis far above the stayed the hour of indulgence When 'the truth reached the ears of the rumble of New York’s Fifth avenue Misses Ely they “rusticated” the trio And Josephine’s admiring daddy re- of offenders This punishment meant frains from the diverting sport of banishment to a cottage at Sharon small heira his from coaxing laugh Conn where Miss Moxley a Springs ess long enough to add “Of course teacher versed In the Ely customs it’s the only way” offenders and supervised But in San Francisco Helen Beryl chaperoned their rigid hours of work doing penWhitney Graydon who eloped' with ance Thomas H Graydon a famous footthe trio of girls found ball player under Harvard's crimson this’Naturally most monotonous and determined pennant has brought six years of to find excitement of some sort Makmarried life to an abrupt close by ing friends with the butler in whose leaving her husband pantry the telephone was situated “Marriage is a failure” she says Miss Whitney managed to secure con sadly and closes the doors to even nection with the Hotel Imperial in friends sympathetic New York city where And back in Cincinnati where she was her waiting in the hope'of left him "Blondy” Graydon announces again She described the seeing unhappy which the calm judicial air with men plight of the rebellious three and assume when masking a sad secret urged him to come to Sharon Springs “I have nothing to say” and rescue them from boredom “Yes! Yes! Yes!” chants Mrs Hop“Say you are my brother” she caukins of New York tioned as she njng off '“No! No! No!” sighs Mrs GrayAdvent of the “Brother” don The blond giant responded promptAnd thus romantic maidens and arly calling at the cottage and asking for are to left suitors dent Miss Whitney but for Miss answer for not To her he expressed his themselves Moxley But hark to the tale of these two deep rpgret at the mad pranks of his debefore “sister” He had come especially to you elopements reason with this wayward youngest cide Down Ladder to Her Lover daughter of the family He was so earnest— and so big — before For several months their elopement Beryl Whitney and Thomas that Miss Moxley was duly impressed H "Graydonas and actually invited him to remain popularly known “Blondy” kept the wires between tit the cottage during his stay Then New York and' San Francisco humwhile a servant carried his luggage ming they had two institutions of to the rooms selected for this unexnevertheless welcome learning agog with excitement they pected but cost several eminently conservative gjiest Miss Whitney was summoned and fashionable ladies manty good What the “brother” said to the “sister” nights of needed slumber and in the in Miss Moxley’s presence helped on ends they obtained parental forgivethe deception excellently but what Mrs Graydon climbed down a happened behind the door of "brothness ladder to meet her waiting' lover er’s’’ room into which the two disapin 1903 That was peared the one reproving the other Between Vera Siegrist aud Russell weeping behind her bit of cambric Hopkins there was but one obstaclef and lace only Cupid knows That evening Miss Moxley chaperthe youth of the girl who was 'just 17 The determined lover decided oned the three girls and the lone Nr “brother” to a village entertainment In the halfight of the country theater the two conspirators forgot watchful eyes and Miss Moxley began to see light When they reached the cottage and that astute lady saw “brother and sister” draw back into a comforting shadow she spoke her mind: “You two young people are entirely too loving for brother and sister What does this mean?” Then did Miss Whitney utter her defiance which has been handed annals as a down in classic "It doesn’t make any difference Miss Moxley if he isn’t my brother I might as well tell you that Mr Graydon and I are engaged and I should think an engaged girl might be allowed to see the young man she is going to marry and I don’t care Just as' soon what Miss Ely thinks as Tom is graduated and papa gives his consent we intend to be married and you needn't speak rudely to Mr Graydon because I Invited him to come myself and told him to say he was my brother” The mischief had been done right The enunder Miss Moxley'B eyes gagement had been entered intol Miss Moxley swallowed her chagrin and put the young man up for the night hoping in this way to avoid scandal in the village and the next morning he departed so his fiancee said to join his parents at their home in Cincinnati and announce their engagement But oddly enough that very night several Several things happened college youths appeared in Sharon Springs and put up at the tiny inn The colored butler at Miss Moxley's retreat for obstreperous schoolgirls saw the shimmer of gold and found a convenient ladder somewhere about the place This he tilted against the wall of the cottage Just where it would do the most good and three dainty figures including Miss Whitney’s slipped down the ladder Miss Walcott who led the escapade was expelled from Miss Ely’s school hut the parents of Miss Whitney and Tom Graydon decided that further interference was 'both useless and unwise The engagement was announced with full consent of both households Miss Whitney returned to Miss Ely’s school to finish out her term and Mr Graydon returned to Harvard where he was graduated the following June Immediately after his graduation the two young people slipped quietly away and were married wiring later to their respective parents for the proverbial blessing A year later Tom Graydon’s father died and he came' into an Inheritance a mere bagatelle of about $25000 when compared with the fortune which would be his young wife’s but he decided tOuse his fortune in a most practical way He bought a shoe manufacturing business and went donning overalls and juniper into the leather room to learn the business' from the cellar up Sad End of Romance From that time on the Graydons lived quietly in Cincinnati the young hunsband diving deeper and deeper into business Then suddenly to the amazement of friends Mrs Graydon appeared at her father's home in San Francisco denied herself all social attentions but did not deny the rumor that she was filing suit for divorce on the ground that Mr Graydon had failed to support her Thus a familiar excuse for divorce covers a matrimonial tragedyDid love wane when the man found business more fascinating than courtship or did the love of excitement inborn in Beryl Whitney Graydon make a matrimonial existence seem tame and flat? Naw for the other side of the picture Vera Siegrist was the and heiress of Dr J J Lawrence of patent medicine fame who built a palape at No 1080 Fifth avenu'e and held this only grandchild as the apple of his eye Russell F Hopkins was a millionaire from Atlanta Ga a sports several year man and yachtsman older than Miss Siegrist who was not yet 18 He met her during vacation days at Narragansett Pier and while her grandparents had no objection to Mr Hopkins they felt the girl was too young to marry On the very day when she was expected to return to her duties in a fashionable private Bchool she disappeared from home with her maid The two boarded a tender at a North river pier and steamed out to whero Mr Hopkins’ yacht Uno rode the waters Lightly Miss shimmering Siegrist climbed the little ladder to where her lover’s arms awaited her Then the captain of the yacht was ordered to steam up full Bpeed for Peekskill where a clergyman came aboard and performed the ceremony which capped this romantic adventure Cupid sitting aloft smiled and suggested a message to the bride's guardians Secure Forgiveness The news brought great consternation to the Lawrence household for both the bride’s grandparents were of advanced years and they felt that the girl was not old enough to know heiy own mind y Neverthlesa they granted forgiveness and the mother of the bridegroom following suit gave a splendid reception in their honor at the St Later the two young people Regis set up housekeeping on a fine estate-a- t known-a- “Verusseile” which they made into one of the most beautiful on the Hudson Their time was divided between this home their yacht and the St Regis where they have always kept a suite One of their mutual fads has been a zoo given over to odd and rare animals At one time Mr Hopkins created something of a sensation by trying to break zebras to harnes The old grandfather lived to see his “little girl” living a most happy married life and so when he died on March 14 and his will was opened it was found that he had made the wee daughter of Mr and Mrs Itussell F Hopkins heiress to a million dollars of the Lawrence legacy with the mother as trustee 'Does it pay to elope?” "It does” answers Mr and Mrs Hopkins in happy chcrus Term Dates from March 4 The postponement of Washington’s first official inauguration to April 30 did not have the effect of dating his term from that day As Ch'ef Justice Marshall declared on a later occasion with respect to deferred inaugurations: “The president becomes pres ident on March 4 but he cen take the oath whenever thereon or thereafter it seems most convenient for him to do so” Washington evidently had no doubt as to the date on which his first trem began nor as to when the same expired His second inauguration took place on March 4 1793 The date of the first inauguration April 30 was idental-fixed now by circumstances generally forgotten the other was the legal date — Philadelphia Record Darkness for Wireless It is one of the many marvels of wireless telegraphy that the ether waves suffer no absorption in mist or fog Qute the opposite in fact is the case for the effect on thefn of clear sunlight is so marked that they can be sent with equal initial power only less than half the distance by day a3 by night For this reason and press dispatches messages sent by wireless telegraphy are wherever possible committed to the other waves after sunset — Dundee Advertiser British Women as Inventors Abfftit 600 patents are granted each year to British women upon inventions ranging from articles distinctly feminine in nature to motors railroad cars flying machines and wireless telegraphy Great Electric Motor System The electric motors on the New York Edison system aggregate 205373-h- |