New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1914, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914. o GITY ADVERTISEMENT ANNUAL CITY MEETING REGARD- ING TAXES. The voters of the City of New Dritain are hereby warned and notified that the annual City Meeting of said city regarding taxes will be held on fluesday, the 21st day of April, 1914, at old Turner Hall rear of Arch street in said City at 8 o’clock P, M., for the purpose, if it shall deem proper to change and revise the estimates made by the Common Council of said City in the month of March, 1914 which formed the basis of a tax of eleven Is upon a dollar, laid upon the grand list last made and completed embracing all the inhabitants and property within the first taxing dis- trict of said City liable to taxation, aid tax to be collectible on the first day of July, 1914, and of a further tax of five and one-half mills upon a dollar upon said Grand List embracing ail the inhabitants and property within the limits of the second taxing district of said City, said tax to be collectible also on the first day flf July, 1914, which sald taxes were laid by said Common Council at its meet- ing held on the 25th day of March, 1914, and for the purpose of confirm- ing or disapproving the action of sald Cemmon Council in laying sald taxes and if deemed proper to lay such other or different taxes on the inhabi- jants and ratable estate of said city in said taxing districts as said meeting shall order; and for the purpose of doing any other business proper to come before said meeting. Dater at New Britain, tl":ls 16th day of April, 1914, JOSEPH M. HALLORAN, Mayor of the City of New Britain. TRUST CO. WILL ORGANIZE. Hartford, April 16.—The Jefferson Arust company of Putnam has noti~ fied the bank commissioners of its in- tention to organize under the laws of 1913. The notice was signed by Hen- ry C. Tuttle. Boston; Charles H. Brown, Alex A. Houghton, Lab- beus E_ Smith, Silas M. Wheeler, John O. Fox, John A. Dady, G. H. Gilpatrick, Charles E. Searles, Frank G. Letters, George D. Clark, all ot Putnam and Charles O, Thompson of Pomfret. DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL, Bridgeport, Conn., April 16.—Coro- mer Jolm J. Phelan said today that he would find that the death of Salax* Deap, of Bethel, who was killed by an express train in South Norwalk recently, was accidental. Deap was walking the tracks between East Nor- walk and South Norwalk and was struck and killed while on the draw bridge. 1 NOTICE. Pursuant to an order of the Court of Probate for the District of Plain- ville, State of Connecticut, 'passed on the 13th day of February, 1914, au- thorizing me to sell real estate, of . Manning Clayton late of Plainville, deceased, situated in the Town of Plainville, County of Hartford, and Sthte of Connecticut, more parti ularly described in said order, I here- By .give notice that satd real estate will be sold after the lapse of 5 days or more, as may appear for the best interest of said estate. FRANK S. NEAL Administrator of the Estate of IL Manning Clayton. Plainville, Conn., April 15, 1914. WINS $50 IN GOLD FROM J. M. HALLINAN In Mayoralty Guessing Contest, B. W. Chadscy Gave Quigley a Plural- ity of 1,500 Votes. B. W. Chadsey, of 468 Myrtle street, is one of Mayor-Elect George A. Quigley’s most ardent admirers and long before election he prophesied that the prominent alderman would be the city’s next chief executive, His faith ini Mr. Quigley's strength has enriched him by the sum of $50 for he has been awarded the cash prize by Hallinan's bakery. As soon as the mayoralty campaign opened up _Hallinan advertised a guessing contest in connection with the sale of his bread, offering to give fifty dollars in gold to the person who guessed who the next mayor would be together with the nearest figures as to what his plurality would be, Mr. Chadsey wrote out his guess and sent it in together -with those from about 200 other interested and ex- pectant citizens. However the Myr- tle street man’s guess was the nearest of any for he took as his guess “1,500 plurality for Quigley.” Quigley received a plurality of 1,660, and no one came any nearer, he will receive the cash. STRONG Y. M. C. A. DEBATE. Affirmatives Win in Discussion Battleship Question. One of the most notly contested de- bates ever held by the Young Men's Christian association Willlam H. Hart Debating club, was that last night. The question was, ‘“Resolved, that the United States should continue its pol- icy of building at least two battleships a year." The decision was rendered‘in favor of the affirmative, represented by ‘William H. Day and Walter Robinson, The negatives were Thomas Emerson and M. E. Woodruff. The judges were George LeWitt, Patrick F. King and Prof. J. C. Moody. At the close of the debate the ques- tion was discussed by George Taylor. F. R. Gilpatrick, E. O. Shjerden, E. J. Felt, all of whom favored the con- tention of the affirmative. About twenty-five persons attended. The club is divided into two parts. Each side has won three debates, and the seventh, and last, discussion will decide which side has to buy dinners for the entire club. The final debate will be held on April 29. Its will be, “Resolved, that the.exemption of coastwise vessels from Panama canal tolls is fair” Harry Hancock and of -Oliver Nichols will speak for the af- firmative, and A. O. Washburn and E. J. Felt for the negative. SOCIAL AND DANCE. The B. Y. W./Y. K. club of this city will ‘hold its first social and dance Tuesday evening, April 21, in the Foresters' hall at Berlin. The hall has been beautifully decorated and Lynch’s orchestra will furnish the music for the dancing. Friends of the | young men from Hartford, Bristol ana Meriden will be present. Special cars will leave Berlin after the dance. ARGUE FOR PROHIBITION. Washington, April 16.—A sub com- mittee of the senate judiciary com- mittee today heard arguments by representatives of temperance and other organizations in eastern states in favor of a constitutional amend- ment for national prohibitton. High School Boys in “ Bulbul” Thomas McCue, Leland -Hoar, Clement Grocock, Vincent Glynn, /Willlam Curtin, Harold O'Meara, Grant Wickwire, Stewart Kingsley, Harvey Nourse. The peddler chorus in “Bulbul,” the comic operetta to be presented by High school students Friday and Saturday of this week, is a feature of the per- formance, Prince Caspian and his followers appear at the court of King Jamit in the disguise of peddlers in order that they may meet the Princess Bulbul and her maids of honor. The scene where the peddlers sell their goods to “Bulbul” and her ladies in waiting is one of the most humorous parts of the play. The chorus of the song— “We are peddlers, peddling perfumes Perfumes sweet as milk. Gold as honey, rare as money Fine as finest silk. Wouldn't you buy? Ah, lady, do; Wouldn’t you try? You'll never rue Your money for the honey, It is the best that ever grew.” There are eight main characters 2nd thirty members of the chorus to sing the twenty-six song hits of the performance. The operetta is divided into two acts, the first being in the garden of. the palace of King Iamit. The second is in the room adjoining the ballroom of the palace, the same evening. The tickets for Friday are mostly all sold, but any person wish- ing to go Saturday evening can still secure good seats at Dickinson's drug store. City Items Hira Temple, No. 90, D. O. K. K,, will hold a ceremonial session in Vega I nanl this evening. Eagles' carnival, April 11 to 20.— advt, Councilman-elect John .W. Riley, in his report to the town clerk, says he had no election expenses. Herbert Johnson and John Crean, of the Dixie Minstrels, took part in the Red Men’s fair entertainment at ‘Manchester last night. Miss Eleanor Bunny has returned to Columbia university after a brief vacation here. The New Britain Commercial col- lege in Booth's block has been closed. A settiement with the creditors is be- ing negotiated. New Britain lodge of meet this evening. The Wall, Paper . Store. Marsh, 38 Main street.—advt. i "New ' Britain council, 0. U, "A. M., {will have a class initiation this even- ing. The New Britain Turner society will meet this evening and discuss the anniversary committee’s report. 1sabella Circle, National Daughters of Isabella, will hold a social. and entertainment in Judd’s hall this evening. Vater Jahn lodge, D. O. H., will cel- Elks will AP ebrate its sixty-seventh anniversary lin Bardeck’s hall this evening, The degree team of Andree lodge, I. O. O. F.,, conferred the first de- gree on candidates last night. Drill Master John Hallin was in charge. The ceremonies were in English, in- stead of Swedish. The Junior Christian Endeavor so- ciety of the Baptist church, ‘held a missionary meeting this afternoon. Miss Viola Hill, formerly a mission- ary in Porto Rico, told of the work going on there. Phoenix Tempte of Honor, No. 19, swill hold its regular meeting at O. U, A. M. hall, 277 Main street, Fri- day night. Business of importance will come before the temple. Basil Riley, James Gilbert, < Wil- liam Botticelli, Francis Egan Frank O'Neil, Edmund Crowley, Gerald Crean and -Alexander Scott, are spend- ing a short vacation at their homes in this city. They are students at St. Thomas' Seminary, Hartford. Readings and recitations by Harry A. Hargreaves, Superintendent R. H. Crawford of the Boys' clyb, George J. Macauley, Gunner Segerberg, and Rev..P. E. Shoemaker of Southington, constituted part of the entertainment of the Methodist Brotherhood at its meeting last night. M. H.-Camp was master of ceremonies. Isabella. circle, Daughters of Isa- bella, will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock in Judd’s hall. A social wiil follow the business meeting. The Ladles’ auxiliary to the A. O. H. held a successful whist last even-| ing in St. Mary’s hall, a large crowd being present. ~The winners were: Ladies, first, Mrs. William Grace; sec- ond, Mrs. John Hayes; third, Mrs. P. Harrington; gentlemen, first, Thomas White; second, Willlam F. Long; third, Thomas Cully. HAMILTON RETURNS. St. Louis Pitcher, Who Jumped to Federals Regets His Action. | St Louis Mo., April 16.—President Hedges of the St. Louis Americans, and Earl Hamilton, pitcher, who dis- regarding his contract with the St. Louis Americans, signed with the Kansas City Federals and yesterday decided to return to St. Louis, ai- rived here today from Columbun, Kas. On his arrival Hamilton gave out a signed statement in which he said it was a big mistake for him to go to Kansas City. “Mr. Hedges,” he added, “has always treated me right, and when I got to thinking about him and Mr. Rickey and my contract, I decided to do righ CORPORATION PAPERS FILED. Hartford, April 16.__The Southern New England Power Co., of Haven has filed articles of incorpora- tion with the secretafy of state. The capital is $100,000. The Gray Pay Station company of Hartford has filed a certificate of issues of 2,000 additional shares of stock at $100 per share. DRINKS POISON. Waterbury, Conn., April 16.—Pat- rick Rush, 42, of 748 East Main street, committed suicide by drinking poison while in bed today. He had been despondent of late and it is thought that his mind was tempor- arily unbalanced at the time of the act, He leaves his wife and one son. iL. G. | emgan. New ' | RURAL ASSOCIATION WILL MEET TOMORROW Delegates Urged to Attend Mceting in Unity Hall Tomorrow—Promi- | | { | | nent Men to Speak. Delegates from this® city pected to attend the meeting of the Hartford County Rural Improvement | society to be held at Unity hall in Hartford tomorrow. The session will open at 11 a. m. and will continue through the afternoon, with addresses.; by many prominent men. F. H.! Johnston and Colonel C. M. Jarvis | will be among the speakers. Others are ex- | | who will be heard are Mayor Lawler | of Hartford; Professor C. D. Jarvis, Dodge; L. A. Clinton, A. J.| Schenerle, Governor Baldwin, Con- gressman A. F. Lever, Joseph W. Al- | sop and Congressman Augustine Lon- One of the chief aims of the asso- | ciation is to bring about a closer re- | lationship between the town and the city and between the consumer and the producer. That this association means business and intends to act as well as talk is evidenced by a meet- ing held at Plainville in October. For | twenty years there had been lots of | italk about organizing a cow testing j association, but nothing had ever {been done. In October this matter {was taken up and by the first of | January the association was in work- | !ing order. | [ This cow testing association is but {.one of the many things that can be ac- | j complished by such an improvement |society. By a cow testing associa- | tion each cow in a herd is singled out | jand its milk tested once a month for a year. At the end of that time the farmer can tell whether or not any {one cow is giving the right kind of | imilk and whether or not she is an { economical proposition. | | PDANT CHANGES HANDS, i oy Waterbury Gas Light Company As- sumes Charge of Brass City System. ‘Waterbury, Conn., April 16.—Rep- | resentatives of the U. G, I. company { of Philadelphia came here yesterday to formally turn over to the Water- bury Gas Light company the local plant, which was leased to the U. G. I just twenty years ago. Those here from Philadelphia were Mr. {James, general auditor; Mr. Warden, attorney, and Mr, Ball, assistant trea- | surer of the U. G. I. _Among the rep- i resentatives of the Waterbury Gas Light company were E. G. Buckland, B. I. Spock, Otis S, Northrop, James S. Elton and E. H. Williams The Waterbury company turned over to the Philadelphia concern the sum of $850,000 in cash for Dbetter- ments made to the local gas system | | since the U G. 1. has been in charge. APPEAL WITHDRAWN, John J. Kane Decides Not to Oppose Will of Father Donahue, ‘Waterbury, Conn., April 16.—John | J. Kane of this city has withdrawn his appeal taken from the decision of the Worcester probate court in al- lowing the will of the late Rev. James | Donahue to be admitted to probate. Father Donahue left his estate of $50,000 to the diocese of Springfield Kane, a nephew, objected and vlaimed undue influence. ULSTER’S FIGHT ATTRACTS WORLD ATTENTION HERE is no telling where Ul- ster’s fight against home rule for Ireland will lead. Stir- ring events have crowded one another in this, one of the gravest ‘crises England has faced, from the spectacle of army officers who resigned their commissions rather than take a hand agaimst Ulster to cheers for a speech criticising the attitude of the king. Feeling on both sides ran high and taxed the finest efforts of the greatest diplomats in Great Britain. The Irish Nationalists and the Lib- “vPhotos by American Press Association. ULSTER VOLUNTEERS AT WAR erals are committed to the home rule bill as it stands, including the provision of a separate parliament for all Ireland, but, apparently, Ulster’s opposition has been so vigorous, the threats of armed resistance in case home rule is forced on Ulster obtained such complete be- lief, that the ‘events which followed brought about a situation without parallel. It has been stated that Ulster is pre- pared for war. Ever since the first passage of the bill two years ago the Orangemen have been organizing vol- PRACTICE (UPPER), JOHN CARSON (RIGHTN, unteer companies. The companies meet whenever they can—after work, on Sundays and holtdays—and go through drills. It is declared that the tiniest hamlet has its quota of men who will be ready to fight at a moment's notice, while Belfast would probably turn out 30,000 armed men if Sir Edward Car- son, leader of the Orangemen, gave the ignal for war. Leaders of the party have said that the province can turn out 100,000 armed men, all of whom are ready to uphold the stand of Ulster. The Irish home rule bill has passed 1 REDMOND (LEFT), 8IR EDWARD the house of commons twice and has been rejected twice by the house of lords. If the commons passes the bill a third time it becomes a law under the parliament act regardless of any vote the house of lords may take. The bill as passed twice before provides for the establishment of an Irish parliament, consisting of a senate and house of commons, with power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of Ireland. The army and navy, old age pensions, imperial affairs, the con- stabulary, the customs and a few similar duties of government were ‘withheld from the rule of the Irish parliament. Ulster, with nine counties, has op- posed the passage of the bill consist- ently. It fears that it will be taxed more than its proportion to pay for the | rest of Ireland’s expenses, including a large allowance for what it terms “graft in Dublin.” Ulster, since before the battle of the Boyne, in 1690, has been historically opposed to the rest of Ireland. An amendment suggested by the Lib- eral government is that Ulster be ex- empt from the provisions of the home rule bill; that Ulster send representa- tives to the British parliament as be- fore, and that the Irish parliament have no power over Ulster province. This situation is to last for six years, and then the matter of Ulster’s choice of parliament be taken up again. A striking indication of the exaspera- tion of the extremists was given when, in the course of a debate in the house of commons, Mr. Ward, labor M. P. said: ‘We have to decide whether the peo- ple, through their parliamentary repre- sentatives, are to make the laws abso- lutely without interference, either by the king or the army.” Viewed from the standpoint of par- liamentary custom, it was an exceed- ingly daring thing thus to allude to the sovereign, but the remarks of Mr. Ward instantly drew an outburst of wild, ex- cited cheering from the ministerial benches such as no living member of parliament remembers. The new army issue completely dwarfs the home rule and Ulster ques- tion and brings into instant prominence the question of the king's prerogative. It is yet to be proved that the king's influence swayed the government. An- \other explanation is that a large num- jber of high officials in the war office threatened to resign if the Irish officers who had resigned their commissions were penalized and that many military resignations at Aldershot and else- where would follow, but the belief which has enraged the radicals is that the king was mainly responsible for the action of the government. WALTON WILLIAMS, | Decision Wil | the | the COTTON EXPORT CASE TO SUPREME COURT Be Rendered in the Relations of American Producers to Their Foreign Agents. 16.—The rela- cotton exporters to their foreign agent is the subject of a sult the supreme court will be asked to review within the next few days. Informal application for the review was today lodged with the court. The case is one in which the Birge Forbes company of Sherman, Tex, was held liable to its foreign ageni at Bremen for $43,000 damages. Thiy amount was the sum the agent pall to purchasers of cotton for selling cotton to them not up to grade. The Texas firm was sued In the federal courts of Texas after arbi- traters selected in accordance with rules of the Bremen cotton ex. change had held the purchasers wera entitled to damages. The Texas firm now complains that the arbi- trary difference in grades fixed by the Bremen exchange should not have been used in the arbitration. It claimed this would have invalid the claim of the agent for reparation from the exporters. Washington, April tions of American ! HMELD FOR BURGLARY. ! Spots «of Blood and Cuts on Hand Lead to Arrest of Joseph Downs. Danbury, Conn., April 16.—8pots of blood on a cash register and sev- eral cuts on the right hand of Joseph Downs, of this city, it is believed by the local police, will connect Downs with the burglary of P. J. Nash's sa- loon, Liberty street, which was com- mitted shortly after midnight, The glass in the rear door was smashed in gaining entrance and spots of blood were discovered on the cash register. Downs was arrested this morning and at the time was wearing | a glove on his right hand to cover | the cuts on the fingers. No money was secured, but four- teen quarts of liquor was stolen. Downs left the county jail vesterday and had no money. This morning when arrested he was much undér the influence of liquor. NEW PLAN ADOPTED. Hartford, April 16.—The bank commissioners have adopted a plan by which they hope to keep in close touch with all the savings banks in the state and to that end have pre- pared and sent out blanks to be filled vut by treasurers and returned to the commissioners showing the condition of the banks each month. These blanks with an explanatory circular were sent out a few days ago and up to noon today sixty-two had been re- turned properly made out. DOCTOR'S TRIAL CONTINUED. Philadelphia, April 16.—The trial of Dr. Joshua E. Sweet, a member of the faculty of the Medical School of University of Pennsylvania, charged with cruelty to dogs after vivisection operations, was continued in quarter sessions court here today. The prosecution was brought at the instance of the Woman's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. WOMAN WIDOWED IN GREAT POLICE SCANDAL ES, I will pose for my photo- graph,” said Mrs. Herman Rosenthal, widow of the man whose murder resulted in the police scandal which rocked New York to its depths. “I'll pose for it if for no other reason than to remind the pub- lice that I have been deprived, by a conspiracy of gun men, of the love of one of the best of husbands. It may check some of the sympathy which is being wasted on my husband’s mur- derers.” It was when she posed for the above photograph, after the release of for- mer Police Lieutenant Becker from Sing Sing, that Mrs. Rosenthal made the foregoing statement. She was seen in her apartments, Southern Boulevard and Hunts Point avenue, in the Bronx, New York city. As her photograph in: dicates, she has grown stouter since the murder. She has tried to live as quiet- ly as possible since the crime, which ‘was the talk of the country for months, and interest in which has been revived since Becker has been granted a new trial and in the fight of the gun men to escape the electric chair. It is easy to escape observation in New York, and few there are who rec- ognize Mrs. Rosenthal. She says that when she goes downtown on the sub- way none appears to know her. She was managing, she says, to forget the crime which made her a widow, when, from the window of her apartments, she heard a newsboy calling an “extra” that Becker had been granted a new trial. Neighbors heard her weeping. She never has attempted to conceal her resentment toward Becker. She has maintained all along that if Becker didn’t have an actual hand in the mur- der he knows the guilty parties. Be- sides, she was resentful that Becker had betrayed the confidence that her husband had reposed in him when he operated the gambling house, the raid of which, it is declared, led to the tragedy. Mrs. Rosenthal has few callers, and these only immediate relatives. The apartment in which she lives, while comfortable, is not luxurious and be- lies the statement that gwhen Rosenthal was murdered he had amassed a for- tune. Men who were intimates of Ro- senthal say that, while at one time he ‘was the possessor of $500,000, he lost all his money through the activities of the police of which Becker was at the head. It will be recalled that at the time of the famous murder Mrs. Rosenthal had more than a premonition that he would never tell the story of graft to Photo by American Press Assoclation. MRS. HERMAN ROSENTHAL. District Attorney Whitman—the story which the bullets of the gun men sealed. “I can recall as if it were yesterday,” said Mrs. Rosenthal, “how I begged Herman not to go out on the night that he was killed, but he said he hadn't any fear; that the threats against him didn’t amount to anything and that he could protect himself. On the night that he went to the Metropole I pleaded with him to stay in the house, You see it was getting near the time when he was to tell his sensational story to Mm Whitman. When early in the morning a messenger came to the door I swooned. 1 knew what had happened.” Mrs. Rosenthal denied a story that she had been offered a fanciful figure to go upon the stage. JACQUES KNICKERBOCKER.