New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1914, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1914. A FEW REASONS WHY HOWARD M. STEELE SHOULD BE NOMINATED FOR MAYOR BY NEW BRITAIN REPUBLICANS NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT ~ SPAPER HISTORY | »IS 00D AT NEETING C. T. U. Speaker Gves Good Nfllt of First Pubications. fERA'D ONCE iSSllfl) WEEKLY eember, 1882—Purchased By Her- | ald Publishing Oompany in Sep- tember, 1887—W. C. T. U. Receéption The W. C. T. U. held a parlor meet- Ing yesterday afternoon at the home br Mrs. E. R. Hitchcock of 69 Wal- iut street. The subject was ‘‘Press Vork,” and was in charge .of the ipérintendent of that department, Who in her report said: ‘‘As we sit nd read our morning or evening aper, enjoying the varied items of interest to be found therein, do we er stop to think .of the time. when uch a privilege was impossible? ere wWas not a newspaper published In the English colonies in North pmerica until April 24, 1704, John » E Scotchman who was a Bookseller and .postmaster in Boston, rst established and published a pa- per called "The Boston News Letter. e fourth periodical, ‘The New ngland Courant,’ was, published in Augiist, 1721, by James Franklin. His, ' brother, Benjamin ' Franklin became his apprentice. In 1728 Ben- amin Franklin started ‘The Satur- day Evening Post’ which today has wide circulation as a weekly per- odical. ( First Daily Paper. . “The first daily paper published in e United States was the ‘American iy Advertiser,’ issued by B. Frank- n Bache, Noah Webster, the lexi- (1) Because he will win if nominated. (2) Because New Britain is a Republican City, should have a Republican administration. . (3) Because his stability, experience anfl ability ticularly fits him for the office. (4) Because he is a native son of New Britain, born and brought up in this city ; knows all the people of New Britain perhaps better than any other person connected with the City Government. (5) Because if he is elected he will go into office un- hampered by promises to any person, class, faction or in- terest. The only obligations he will be under is to all the people of New Britain. (6) Because the City needs at this time a thorough business -administration, conducted on thorough business lines, and Howard M. Steele is by far the most practical man for the place. He has handled his campaign in a clean, business like way, without mud slinging or even in- sinuating about any one, qnd will continue to do so if nominated. (7) Because he has been thoroughly tried as a Re- publican and a City official in one way and another for the past fifteen years, and found true in every way. Not a “once a year” politician, but a year round City Official, ex- hausting every effort to acco mmodate and serve all the people. and ary than par- expires. the Tax Office, (8) Because he is compelled to give up the Tax Col- lectorshlp on account of being offered and accept- ing a position which pays him a much larger sal- after his present term He came to this conclusion some time before he even considerer allowing his name to be used for Mayor. Therefore, he feels that in justice to his family and himself, that he must give up the Tax Office, as much as he would like to continue, if the people so desired. (9) Because since allowing his name to be used for the Mayoralty Candidacy arrangements have been made with the firm he will be with, that if elected Mayor he can devote whatever time is necessary for the welfare of the City, without jeopardizing his position in any way. (10) Because if Howard M. Steele is put in the May- or’s chair, the humble as well as the rich, if they have bus- iness with the Mayor will feel free to come to his office at any time. All will be served alike. LAST BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST (11) Because there is no man in New Britain who has worked harder or done more for the Republican party in New Britain than Howard M. Steele. He has served the City and his party faithfully, and it is a perfectly logical thmg for a man of his standing and ability, on account of giving up the office which he has so conscientiously han- dled for the past ten years, with his friends urging him as they have to ask and expect the party which he has been a prominent factor in for so many years to give him the nomination for Mayor, and then on account of his impar- tial treatment in office to all citizens for the Voters to elect him on the 14th of April. I'cographer, was a lawyer in 1793 and | bad an office in Hartford. On De- cember 9, daily, called the ‘Minerva.’ at 4 o'clock, or earlier if the arrival of the mails would permit, Other Old Publications. “The ‘Commercial Advertiser’ is the oldest newspaper in the metropolis, having been started in 1706 and Is still in existence. The first prominent dally ‘paper issued in New England was the ‘Boston ‘Daily Advertiser,’ and was publishéd March 3, The ‘Hartford Courant' is the oldest paper publighed that iz still in ex- istence, year of 1764. In the year 1833 there seemed to be a great demand for a cheaper priced paper, and on New Year's day .of that year the first | penny daily published, called the ‘Morning A Post,’ was started, with Horace Greeley as one of the pub- lishers, partners and printers. At first the methods used to get out each edition were very crude, jhe press used being the ‘wooden screw press’ used about the middle of the fifteenth century. First Oylinder Press. “The first cylinder press was com- | pleted in the year 1811 and the! inventor: was a Saxon named Fred- erick Koenig. Since that time there have been many lmmvamonu, all tending toward advgncimg the speed and reducing the cost of putting out the edition. The Linotype Machine. “Another great invention ‘toward rapidity and less expensive publica- tion is the linotype machine, most wonderful in its creation. The in- ventor, one Ottmar . Mergenthaler, worked for yvears before he accom- plished his task of doing away with the old method of printing with founder’s type set mostly by hand. To ‘Whitelaw Reid belongs the honor of glving the name to this wonderful machine (‘line of type’) Ilinotype, and- also of first using it to print a daily newspaper. Many * improve- ments have been made since Mer- genthaler’s . death in 1899. . At the present time there are in circulation 26,235 publications, 25,000 being printed in over 12,000 cities and each The Producing Power of your land depends upon its fertility. What- ever may be its present condition Lowell Fer- tilizers will improve the soil because they are Animal Pestane Substances,nature’s Jond for information that will help y. Lol Fectliaer Go 80 Ho, Marker - Biston, Mase » LOWELL ANTMAL ; FERTILIZERS kfi uhnm. AGENTS, NEW BRITAIN. 1793, he issued the first! It ap- ! peared every day, Sundays excepted, : its first issue being in the ' -| ports of meetings In one year | new publica- year shows an increase. alone there were 1,673 tions. First New Britain Paper. ‘““The first paper ever published in | New Britain was called ‘The Shep- g herdess’ and was issued by the village | ! girls in the year 1837. It was pub- \lished bi-weekly and dealt chiefly ! with moral and religious subjects; its chief editor was Nancy Smith, a very : accomplished young woman. After a ' year's existence, at the time of Nancy’s marriage to Horatio Waldo the paper was discontinued. The New Britain i Advocate was the first newspaper in New Britain and was started about 1840. The March issue of 1850 con~ , tained an account of the return of Elihu Burritt to New Britain. New Britain Herald. “The New Britain Herald was start- ‘ed April 3, 1880 as a weekly paper by Adkins Bros. It was sold in 1881 ‘to C. E. Woodruff who started a daily edition. In 1882 the Woodruff com- ' pany started a semi-weekly and this was published until December, 1882 when the ‘Evening Herald' was started and the semi-weekly discon- | tinued. In September, 1887 the Her: 1nld Publishlng company bought out the Herald dnd consolidated it with !the ‘Observer’ and have been publish- [ing it daily since that time. i Arnother Local Paper. “In 1860 Valentine B. Chamber- lain published the ‘New Britain News.’” The following year he went to the Civil war and the ‘News' was sold to L. M. Guernsey who pub- lished it under the name of ‘New Britain Record.” Two years later he took as a partner Samuel Baker and Sylvester C. Dunham, now president of the Travelers Insurance company, of Hartford, wrote the editorials. It was bought by Samuel Baker and 8old in 1888.to J. B, Bacon and James 'L, Doyle, both of Hartford. On June 11, 1892, Mr. Bacon sold out his interests to Mr. Doyle and the ‘Re- cord’ since that time has been pub- lished daily. W. C. T. U. Paper, “For forty years our W, C. T. U. national paper, the ‘Union Signal’ has been sending out its weekly editions and our little state paper, ‘The White Ribbon Banner’ is always .welcome. During the past vear notices and re- s have been pub- lished in both our New Britain papers and also in the Hartford Courant and Times. Very courteous indeed has been the treatment received from the ‘Herald’ and ‘The Record’ and by their kind co-operation’ we have been able, with the help of ‘The Courant’ to give as a sum total of the year's work 3,894 lines. We feel that the vear to come with its active campaign for national constitutional prohibition brings great responsibility, it means that our reports of work along tem- | peranc¢e lines must be a factor in the | educrdon of public sentiment. In the woréds of the- national superintendent | of press work we can truly say, ‘No of the Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union when she sails into the harbor of national constitutional pro- hibition will wave more triumphant- ly than that of the press.” To Hold Recepnion. “It was voted to have a reception, or Silver Social. Invitativns are to be sent to members and friends and » committee consisting of Mrs, W. P. | Corbin, Mrs. John Coates, Mrs, James Healey, Mrs. John Northend, Mrs. 1. R. Wightman, Miss H. C. Bliss, C. V, Bhepherd were appointed plan time and place. ing will be held in the Y. W. C. A, parlors on Friday, April 17. Subject, to ‘Work Among Foreigners’ in chargec’! of Miss Harriet Bliss, superintendent of that department. LONERGAN GOING ON POLITICAL STUMP Being Scat Oui by Congrcssiona Campaign Comm.tee. (Special to the Herald.) Washington, D. C., April 4.—Much | political significance is attributed to the announcement of congressional speakers in the two congressional dis- tricts, in . which elections are to be held next Tuesday. And the an- nouncement is of particular interest to Connecticut because Congressman Lonergan of the Hartford-New Brit- ain district is one of the four speak- ers to be sent to make the whirlwind wind-up of the campaigns. The congressmen picked for the work are Messrs. Lonergan of Con- necticut, Harrison of Mississippi, Montague of Virginia and Covington of Maryland. Two ‘will go to the New Jersey district where a succes- sor to Congressman Bremner is to be chosen and two will go to Boston where a successor to Congressman Curley, néw mayor of the Hub, is to be chosen. The selections were made by the heads of the democratic congressional | campaign committee, of which Chair- man Doremus of Michigan is chair- man. It is understood that they go as representatives of the democratic national administration. Special stress is made on the fact that two of the four speakers voted against the president on the free tolls repeal bill, and the other two voted with the president. ed out that the much talked of breach in the democratic ranks, supposed to result from the insistence of the pres- 1 ! ident on the free tolls repeal, has not materialized and that the demo- and file, of cratic rank irrespective Mrs. | The next meet- ; It is thus point- | | { i i | Colon, Panama, April 4.—The head- Guarters at Ancon of the government zuthorities who will control the ad- ministration of all affairs in the canal zone is almost completed, and in the Building in Panama ‘Which Goethals Will Use long, handsome concrete building Colonel Goethals will have his offices. Colonel Goethals is now officially the governor of the canal zone instead of | being merely chairman of the canal | commission. united in their general support of tha administration and anxious for con- tinued democratic success in support of the president. Mr. Lonergan will jump to Hartford as soon as his speeches on national i sues are over, reaching there Sunday ! morning. He expects to take part In the wind-up of the municipal elec- tion campaign in Hartford Monday, making two speeches at noon and four at night. Congressman Lonergan made a speech on the floor of the house | Thursday afternoon in advocacy of re- ducing the travel allowances for mem- bers of the house in coming to and returning home from attending ses- | sions of congress. From time im- memorial, it has been the custom to allow each congressman twenty cents a mile each way as traveling | expenses.. It is now proposed, in | the legislative appropriation bill, to | grant a congressman only his actual traveling expenses. Mr. Lonergan urged the adoptivn {of the new system, declaring that it was fair to members of the house and probably would save money t> Uncle Sam. Congressmen Donovan, Lonergan in favor of the bill, house Thursday, to give pensions to widows and minor children of vet- erans of the Spanish war, Philippine insurrection and Boxer uprising, when the widows have no other income ex- cept what they earn or the children are dependent. Congressman Ken- nedy made a speech in favor of the enactment. _— DISCUSS MEXICAN PROBLEM. Attorney Fox Says Tt Is Easy to En- ter Mexico, But Hard to Get Out. Philadelphia, Aprii 4.—Discussion of the Mexican situation, its lems and obligations, was continued today by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Austin C. Fox, delegate of the American Bar assoclation, discussed the possibili- ties that ymight follow in the event of intervention in Mexico. He declared that it would be easy enough to go into Mexico, but it may, at least, be impossible to get out ex- cept accompanied by the confession that the so-called Mexican problem prob- pernant floating from the flagship | their differences on the one issue, are | and Kennedy of Connecticut votedlremams unchanged. 9 passed by the) | | | | { | Y. M. C. A. BOYS ALL READY FOR N.Y. TRIP Enthusiasm, inepired by the waa- derlust, a disease from which all boys suffer more or less, permeated the junior department of the local Young Men's Christian association today. The reason? KEighteen lads are going to New York city, to see the sights. They will start on Monday, and consume nearly all of next week. They will be in charge of E. W, Yer- gin, the boys' secretary, and A. O. Washburn, of the educational depart- ment, These hoys will make the trip: Philip Diehl, Fred Firnhaber, Tom Hawksworth, FEverett Moore, Robert Lecomis, Howard Loomis, Merwin Peterson, Leland Taylor, Albert Mills, Fdward Bassett, Roy Buell, Willlam Lamb, Eckford Hawxhurst, Bennett Hibbard, Fred Luebeck, Dexter Wal- cott, Gustave Carlson, Gustave Win- ger. Arthur Kimball, of Landers, Frary and Clark, has been invited to speak on “Know the Goods You Sell” to the class on salesmanship, which will | meet next Tuesday evening, These classes have been a factor in assisting lccal salesmen in their business, One member said that he has done twice &y much business during the past month than he did during the same period a year ago, and many retail clerks have qualified for road sales- men’s positions. An {llustrated lecture on “Mammals of the United States,” will be held for the benefit of members of the class in Erglish, in the banquet hall next Tresday evening. The closing Bible class supper will be held this evening. More than seventy members are expected to at- tend, The principal speaker will be Sherrod Skinner, chairman of the Pible Study class. Rev. E. (", Thienes of the First Congregational chureh also will speak on “The Value of Bible Study.” Forty members will take the Inter- national Bible class examinations, to be held on Friday, April 24, under the direction of the International commit- tee of New York, In the preliminaries for the intere city indoor baseball championship, ! held yesterday morning in the gym- resium, the Giants defeated the Red, 80x, 9-8; the Athletics won from the Cardinals, 2-0, and the Hustlers beat, the Dingbats, 7-3. This evening the Wyandottes and the Sagamores of the Junior employed, will clash,