New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1914, Page 6

'NEW BRITAIN HERALD BERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. Proprietors. l-u-u gaily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. &t Herald Bullding, 67 Chucch -m‘d at the Put Dmco st N-w Britaln Second Matter. i ) & 1§ 1Del rered by carrier to any part of the city m 15 Cents a Week, 85 Cents a Month. 'Ib-‘!puonn for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance. 60 Cents & th, $7.00 a year. | The onty profitable wdvertising medium 1n the . #ty. Circulation books and pross T.)m slways open to advertisers. The Herat@ will be found on sate at Hota- Hing’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Bi %ay, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantc City, and Hartford depot TELEPHONB CALLS. Buasiness Omce . Riirorial Rooms ‘TALK OF CITY ENGINEER. According to reports William F. Hall is slated to be city engineer in place of Frank H. Oldershaw, who has held that office ever since con- solidation went into effect. The rela- tive merits of these gentlemen is not an issue just now, but there is soms interest in the questiom of the pro- The appointment is not made by the mayor, in fact he has nothing to do with it. The of- | ficial is appointed by the board of public works and holds office during its pleasure, TIf there is to be any change then the board must oust Mr. |, Oldershaw, thereby creating a vacancy which canibe filled only by the same board. If Mr. Oldershaw is ousted it is Mayor Quigley’s wish that Mr. Hall shall be appointed to fill the [ vacancy and that he then shall assume 'all the duties now performed by the ipresident of the board of public 'works, except those in relation to pre- isiding at meetings, the council having 'amended the ordinance concerning ithe board of:public works at the last ‘meeting, It is the opinion of lawyers in New | Britain that the common council can- Inot interfere with the duties of the ity engineer because they are defined by the charter and furthermore tha: lhe cannot even be reached except through the board of public works. One section of the charter says that |'the city engineer shall be provided | 'with the assistants the board of pub- lic works may deem necessary and shall make all surveys, maps, esti- ‘mates, etc., and shall supervise and superintend the execution of the same. There is an impression that the ad- ministration is relying on this sec- tion to carry it through on the city engineer propositign, but a lttle con- | sideration of this section will satis- fy anyone that it has no relation to it at all. The Herald has no particular inter- est in the case but it does believe that whatever changes are to be made or whatever work is to be done by the common council or any of the boards should be done legally, othierwise the | offending department will lose the Tespect of all good citizens and New Britain cannot expect compliance with the laws governing the city when the law making power of the ecity Pdoes not obey the law itself. posed change. . HOUSING PROBLEM. There were several important prob- lems discussed at the annual con- ference of charities and correction in Bridgeport today, among them the housing of families. Complaint was ' made of the lack of light, ventilation and sanitary accommodations, but where there was no ground for com- plaint on these lines the problem was easy of solution. The dwellings erected during re- cent vears provide for almost every- thing that a properly built house should have, but it has been almost fmpossible to provide in the old build- fngs all that ithe present everyday laws call for in the way of sanita- tion. It is from these buildings that the greater part of the complaints come and they are all of practically the same nature. But after all these buildings must be occupied because ‘there are no other places to be found in which people may live. It is said that there are some cities In Connecticut where tenements are plentiful, but there are many more where they are scarce and it is in | the latter places where the complaints | regarding the lack of sanitation are | the most numerous. This is brought | about largely by overcrowding which | Is accompanied by about all the evils | that can be brought against improper housing conditions and if agitators iwere to, talk untll doomsday they i never accomplish any good un- they ecan provide a method hy ??5 hich more dwellings can be erected. | That is what s needed and before ‘We can insist upon ideal housing conditions people must have a place which ‘those desirable things can be obtained and once people get such & place they will never go back ' to | the old objectionable conditions, That ”“' PIan o be worked out in svery Uflxfi‘mg‘ only - one .which BERGSTROM OUT AT LAST. Building Inspector Bergstrom’s | scalp has been taken. - It had been | sought for a number of years, some- | times through a resolution of the ] common council and sometimes through legislative enactment, but he weathered it all until now. He was succeeded Saturday by Councilman Rutherford, a well spoken of young ruan, and the official who has had his | sleep disturbed for a number of years will probably feel relieved when he becomes accustomed to the change and is free from the troubles of po- litical life. There is no one who will not say that Mr. Bergstrom has been a good official and this fact carried him through all the heat and turmoil of his many years in office. He did not lie down under fault finding and mourn, but told his enemies what he thought of them and it has been coyly admitted that he usually had the best of the argument, But then that is all over now and he Will in future de- vote his entire attention to his private business and at the end of the year he will probably be better off finan- cially than he has been under the old arrangement. . May his successor do his work as well and have less trouble. Mayor Quigley has made more appointments, one in particular being that of Thomas Donlon, a for- mer member of the common council, to succeed William L, Damon, one of the original appointees of Mayor Lan- ders to the board of public works. John Anderson is the only remaining member of the board as it stood orig- inally, and there is some talk of his being supplanted by a new man. | Mayor Quigley has added to the | value of his appointments by naming another physician for the board of health, thereby completing the mem- bership there. The board now con- sists of three physicians, a chemist, a practical plumber and a business man, they to elect another physician, who is to act as superintendent. It does not seem as if that board could be improved upon. several MEDIATION NOW. It looks now as if the war with Mexico may be considered at an end as both parties, the United States and Huerta, have agreed to mediation, which has been offered by three South American republics, Chile, Brazil and Argentina, and it is not unreasonable to assume that the dif- flculty may be settled and the war brought to a close. There is one fea- ture, however, which may act as a stumbling bloci, and that is the shameful treatment Americans have been subjected to by the Mexicans, the story of Consul Hanna at Mon- terey, who was arrested by the fed- | erals and subjected to other indigni- ties, while several more Americans, women and children as well as men, | have been taken from trains, arrested and locked up because of no offense whatever being the most conspicuous. The United States can hardly condone such offenses as those and it seems ag if there should be some reparation demanded for the outrages. Huerta really holds the key to the situation, inasmuch as he is the real offender, and while his abdication would bring some semblance of order to Mexico, he has acted in a manner to show that he is not entitled to any consideration from this country. ‘What the terms of settlement will be are unknown @t this time, but while the American people will be glad to see hostilities brought to an end, they will not be content unless there is some punishment inflicted upon the cause of all the trouble. Americans are preparing to leave Mexico City. Many of these people are in business there and wWhile their leaving is prompted solely by a de- sire for personal safety they must also suffer some financial loss. This will tend to make the work of settlement still more difficult. A Idne to Uncle. Dear Uncle:—If I only might ven- ture My troubles to bring to your ear; To tell you the woes of the guys who propose To write of the spring of the year, First off, there’s a dearth of new matter; (The subject’s been tackled before'; Bo whenever he sings of daisles and things There's somebody sure to be sore, Next, he must dope out the measure, That his lines may be full and complete; Though we]l he may write, sure be a fright Without the right number of feet. He must carefully censor his diction; His style must be flawless and mild; Eschewing all guff and such high- seagoned stuff That serves to make some people wild. His words must be plain and vineing, ‘And free from prollx obfuscation, All doubts to resolve; nor his mean- ing involve In rhetorical conglomeration. If the writer of cowslips and dalsles These virious efids brings to time, Why should Wwe object if the poor cuss neglect - ‘twould coin- | culiar to | scme order out of the chaos which he To !m nbout meter and rhyme, - #8H K BIBBLE. "ACTS AND FANCIE! Water enters into our leading in- dustries in a way that is almost pe- our manufacturers. - Large quantities of water are needed for the washing of brass. The flow of rivers is so erratic in New England, with its Liot, dry summers and its denuded hills, that the very existence of the brass business in this valley depends upon conserving the water supplies.— Waterbury Republican, Reports from Waterbury are to the effect that State Senator John Hurley will again be a candidate for the sen- ate from the Waterbury district. As his district is one of the strongst democratic districts in the state the nemination is equivalent to election. Senator Hurley gained fame during the last session in the “three fingered bribe inquiry” in which John Judge, a local citizen, was mixed up.—Bridge- port Telegram. A gratifying contrast is furnished by the news columns of American news- papers today as compared with those of th¢ time of the Spanish war. The ambition of every newspaper making the slightest pretense to respectability, just now, is not only to print all the irue news possible but not to print any news that is not true. If there are notable exceptions they are so few as to make the general reliability and accuracy of news from the front dcubly impressive and serve only to remind readers that the day of the news faker is passed.—New London Day. We are not far enough out of the woods of politics-controlled highway regime in Connecticut to be very hope- ful of the immediate future of our ‘highways. The new highway commis- sioner is an able engineer, but his problem and the incubus of his high- way inheritai.ce have been too great to permit him to make any positive showing. He has been trying to bring found—chaos which it should in fair- ness be said, was by no means all the personal fa,ult of his predecessor— ‘but he has not got very far.—New Haven Register. * A big shoe manufacturing concern in New England has won in a suit brought against it by a customer who wanted a pair of shoes or the refund- ing of the purchase price. He alleged that the shoes were not waterproof. He was told the makers didn’t guaran- tee waterproof shoes. Sometimes, of | course, there are good reasons why goods should be ‘returned to the' dealers and complaint made. Mistakes | are bound to happen. But there are | too many people who are eager to make some use of property they have bought, then find something wrong with it and return it and demand a new deal or the return of the pur- chase price.—Norwich Record. The Wakefield Case. (Hartford Post.) There is good reason for doubting if Mrs. Bessie Wakefield will ever die on the gallows. That does not mean that she may not be convicted again. The point is, that it is quite likely that the new trial of the once convicted woman will not beycom- pleted until along into June. Should she be convicted a second time she can again resort to appeal or even to the board of pardons. Inasmuch as the board of pardons is likely to have met before her new trial is fin- ished and will not be in session again until December, that will delay the case almost. until the legislature con- venes next January for the 1915 ses- sion. . And if the case should be delayed until that time and is sufficiently and sympathetically agitated during the fall and about the time the legisla- ture meets, it ought to be possible to get the assembly to pass a hurryup law abolishing the capital punishment which would be a good thing in it- self since the state has no more right to take a life than has the human being whom it punishes in that man- ner for having done so. Mrs. Wakefleld’s chance is certain- ly worth fighting for. But if, for any reason, whether be- cause she escapes conviction on a new trial, or because her sentence is commuted or because ‘the law Is changed, her life is spared, who then is to restore to James Plew the life which the state took from him for a crime he committed, certainly be- cause of the Wakefield woman, if not for her or at her behest? McMILLAN'S KRINKLED DIMITY AND RIPPLETTE BED QUILTS THAT REQUIRE NO IRONING There is a growing demand for these Dimity and Ripple fabrics in Hemmed Quilts and Embroidered Edge Sets. Cut For All Size Beds. Easy to wash, give good wear, attractive Quilts in white and colors which are absolutely fast. KRINKLED AND RIPPLEITE UILTS White Quilts, priced $1.50 $1.75 each. Sets of Quilt and Shams to match, | embroidered edges, price $2.98 per | set. | Colored Quilts, and $2.50 each. Colored Sets of Quilt and Shams to match, priced $2.98 and $3.50 per set. and priced $1.75, $1.98 CE, SCRIM AND MADRAS CUR- TAINS AT SPECIAL SALE PRICES I You can procure now at a saving from usual prices these special Cur- tains, suitable for any room in: your ! home. SCRIM CURTAINS | White and ecru, hemmed and lace‘ edges, $1.00 values, at"75c pair. $1.69 ecru scrim Curtains at $1.25 pair. i $1.98 ecru scrim Curtains, lace in- ! sertion and edges, at $1.50 pair. $5.00 ecru scrim and Marquisette | Curtains at $8.50 and $3.98 pair. NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS AT SALE PRICES H $1.26 grade at 98c pair. $1.50 grade at $1.25 pair. $1.98 grade at $1.50 pair. $2.50 and $2.98 grades pair. at $1.98 | SPECIAL MADRAS CURTAINS Ecru figured effects, regular $1.75 | value, special $1.39 pair. | PORTIERES AND COUCH. COVERS | INCLUDED IN THE BIG DRAPERY SALE { $1.25 Couch Covers for this sale, 98c each. Others included in this sale priced | $1.50 to $4.50 each. TAPESTRY TABLE COVERS For this sale 98c to $3.50 each.| PORTIERES For this sale priced from $2.49 pair to $7.50 pair. Roped Portieres $1.30 to $6.50 each, SPECIAL SALE PRICES ON OU TAIN MATERIALS FOR THE BALANCE OF THIS WEEK D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. Children in Peril. (Providence Journal.) How can children be kept off the streets? is one of the most difficult of the questions confronting city resi- dents. Such accidents as the kill- ing of a six-year-old boy in Woon- socket, Wednesday, by a motor car are not unusual, In this case, as in others of recent dates, it does not appear that the driver was responsible. A car mov- ing at an ordinary rate of speed can- not be stopped within a distance of one or two feet, and when a child un- expectedly runs directly in front of a vehicle there is no way of prevent- ing a most regrettable accident. Children, of course, do not realize the danger of leaving the sidewalk, and parents find it most dificult to keep them within the safety limit. Immunfty is secured only by exclud- ing them from every part of the high- way, and in congested localities where the streets are more attractive than barren yards__if indeed, there are any yards worthy of the name, it | seems almost impracticable to fine them to private property. best that can be done is to exercise vigilance, and of course drivers of vehicles should not take it for grant- ed that their right of way is always unobstructed. Where children are in sight cars should be kept well un- der control in anticipation of occa- sions for emergency stops, con. | The Shad Are Late This Year. (Philadelphia Press.) That the shad have been slow in coming up the Delaware this season 18 sald by fishermen to be due to the unseasonably cold weather. But al-! ready they are appearing in constant- | ly increasing numbers, prices dropping, and the prospects are that | shad will be both cheap and plent- | ful this spring. This will be wel- come news to Philadelphians, both because of its relation to the high cost of living and because of the pop- | ularity of shad as a foodfish, In the early days of the city’s his- tory shad could always be depended on to be plentiful. Every spring great shoals of them would form along the Atlantic coast and would ascend the rivers to spawn. But continual and excessive fishing, the pollution of the rivers and the dis- turbance of their natural spawning grounds have greatly diminished the species, We would have little or no shad in our rivers today did not the government constantly maintain ihe supply by the artificial incubation of shad eggs. | Every vear millions of artificially | hatched young shad are returned into ! the rivers, At autumn time they make their way into the sea, and after a winter spent in leisurely swimming along the coast they re- turn full grown to the rivers to belremu.rkuble fact that, RECEPTION This, Monday afternoon : to 4:30 and Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4:20—At Our Rug Dept., floor, 4th Sheik Hah-Med and Companions From the Orient In native costume, as they appear in “The Garden of Allah” st Parsons’ theater this week. Read the Book, “The Garden of Allah,” by Robert Hitchens, on sale at the rug dept. 45c per copy. Sheik Hah-med Will Autograph the book you buy. Drastic Price Reductions Tomorrow $8.98 and $9.98 DRESSES NOwW ... . Stylish Dresses of Pebble Wool Crepe, Etamine, and Serges. and Next Few Days. Wise, Smith & Co. $6.50 One with silk poplin collar, cuffs aad belt, and full peg top skirt, draped front, and others are trimmed with shadow lace collar, frills on neck and sleeves, with set in or kimono sleeves. full draped with single or double tunic. $12.98 DRESSES cuffs and Skirts are New models in Dresses of Pebble Weave or Crinkly Crepe; made with kimono sleeve, draped shoulder, shadow lace vestee with frill around neck and sleeves. Peg top skirt with draped cutaway front others with yoke front, and back with draped shoulder, full drapcd skirt with one or two tunics. Net or shadow lace vestee with frill or fancy silk collar and vest. $15.00 DRESSES NOwW .. $11.50 Handsome Dresses of Fancy Weave Wool Voiles or Crepe, in pebble weaves, brocaded or crinkle crepe’ effects, shadow lace pleated vest and fr ill around neck and sleeves, shoulder, with blouse front and back. one style with draped Sailor or round collar, and deep girdle with very full draped single or double tunic skirts. $16.50 SUITS OF DOUBLE WARP SERGE MARKED to .$11.00 In one or two button cutaway effect kimono sleeves and deep roll shawl collar of satin with cuffs to match. Others have turnover heavy lace collar with wide rever and turnover cuffs of self material, straight line back with satin belt and buttons, peau de' cygne lining. Skirt made with full plaited draped front and button trimmings or peg top style with deep cutaway tunic effect. Comes in tango, mahogany, blue, Labrador, etc. $25 SUITS OF SILK POPLIN, MOIRE AND BRO- CADED SILK POPLIN $1 7 98 . Some are made with high cut draped front coat with long tab effect in.back, with buttons and seif cording and full ruching around neck, or revers in front and heavy Irish lace collar. Skirt peg top three tier model. Others are onme and two button cutaway front style, some with draped high Waist efftct in back, others with kimono sleeves and rippie all around coat with satin collar inlaid with heavy The skirts are full peg top with draping, others are one deep tire -and still others with three tiers. Come in wistaria, tango, Labrador, Co- penhagen, raisin, etc.,.also black. lace. WOMEN’S BLACK MOIRE SILK COATS, VALUI UP 0 $22.50, MARKE D $16.98 DOWN TO Choice of medium or 3-4 length with kimono sleeves, either plain straight back or one or two ripple skirt effect with plain or box plaited back, deep full plaited satin frils around neck and sleeves, ornaments in front, lined throughout with ptau de cygne- s kit Fancy double wark serge in tango, tan or Copen- hagen with kimono sleeve, deep roll collar and cufls to match and wide belt, lined throughout, special CHILDREN’S COATS AT ... $5.00 Made of double warp serge, fancy basket weave effect with deep roll collar, cuffs and belt of moire, with fancy button trimmings, Another style has plaid collar and cuffs with draped back and deep belt with buttons and plaid trimmings. Value $6.95, on sale at $5.00, MISSES’ AND WOMEN’S COATS, VALUES UP TO $18, FOR ..... $11.98 Different styles in fancy weave wool eponge, some with full back, kimono sleeves and deep ripple all around in cutaway effect, others with box plait also frill all around neck and down front, some have long sleeves others 3-4 length. Also other styles at this very special low price of $11.98. 38 95 DRESS SKIRTS Mflds of m-L\ hld(k or (‘ penhagen. all woul ,cut plaited front, self ornaments, back has (rlnkla (reps with two tucks in front and ‘20 SUITS OF MOIRE SILK AND The Moire Suits are made in two button, high cut, draped front coat style with kimono sleeves, high walst effect in back, straps of self material and but- ton trimmings, satin plaiting all around neck, and deep shadow lace frill- -down front and around sleeves. Lined with peau de cygne, skirt made with deep pointed tunic. The silk poplin suits are made in 2 button high cut front coat with draped back, and two straps and buttons. Come in all the newest shades. $30 TO $85 SUITS OF WOOL CREPE :’;ABERDINES ANl;) POPLIN .... $25000 Suits of fancy weave stripe or check effect, wool crepe, gaberdines and poplins. Coat is made high moire panel and collar is high plaited Gladstone style, deep turnover cuffs of moire, lined with peau de cygne, skirt of double pointtd tunic effect with one moire tunic to match coat. Others with high cut, one or two button front, straight back with self ornament trimmings or belt. Some with high Gladstone collar effect, others have turnover satin collars inlaid with lace, others have draped sash and kimono sleeves Skirts are peg top with draped front or one, two or three tunic effects. NEW BLOUSE WAISTS OF HEAVY CREPE DE CHINE .... $2 098 Made with pointed handkerchlef collar and kimono sleeves, finished with hemstitching and fin- ished at neck with cord apd tassel. Comes in peach, tango, chartreuse, maize, white and black, special value at $2.98. OUD MODERN SCIENTIFICALLY CONSTRUCTED DRY COLD STORAGE VAULTS Located in our main building, aftora protection ot your FURS, RUGS, WINTER CLOTHING, ETC, against moths, fire, burglary, or other loss, at low- est prices, Every article fully insured. ‘Phone Charter 8050 or notify us by post card and we will send for articles you wish stored. WISE, SMITH & CO., HARTFORD. " $8.98 Made of pretty gray Scotch mixtures in snowflake effects, some have plait down back with buttons and raglan sleeves and yoke front, deep convertible col- lar and’pointed cuffs, others cut with plain full back with high or low neck or collar, turnover cuffs, Special value $8.98. % STYLISH BALMACAAN COATS YOR WOMEN AND MISSES huuun trimming with dnub]e ripple tunic cutaway, and hi gh girdle with button trimmings, ‘Phone Orders Charter 3050 and mail or- r promptly filled. I WISE, SMITH & CO. HARTFORD 1 Our Restaurant an ideal pluce for Ilzht lunch, a cup tea or sub- { l'nuu repast. caught and made inte food. It is a though the government stocks all rivers alike, the Delaware and the Potomac have con- rivers on fhe coast. tently remained the foremost shad v