New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1914, Page 6

NEW ' BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1914, W BRITAIN HERALD HERALD Pununnflu COMPANT. Froprietors. 4 datly (Gund-y excepted) at l.ll P m. Herald Bulilding. 67 Church at the Post Office at New Britaln Becond " Class Mall Matter. d by carrier to any part of the oity 15 Cents a Week; 65 Cents a Month. riptions for paper to be sent by mall payable in advance. 60 Cents & i l(onth. $7.00 & year. only pronuuo advertising medium in the Circulstion books and press always vpen to advartisers. Heratd will be found on aate at Hota- &’s News Stand, 42nd St. and_Broad- . way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City. and Hartford depot ieo~tat Tronms ———— CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. [According to a vote passed at the nual meeting of the New Britain siness Men’s assoclation last even- it was decided that a chamber commerce be organized and it was o voted to obtain the services of a retary who will have a great deal do with develeping the work of e association. There were some mplaints received that the manu- ctufers had not been as enthusi- c as regards membership as was Ipected, owing to'a pressure of pri- te business. But it would seem on e tace of it as if this would be the st for the organization. _The manu- cturing establishments are our larg- corporations and were they to be- meimembers of the proposed asso- htion: as corporations the tendency buld ‘be to give the impression that ey controlled it and the result would anything but beneficial. It is un- rstood that manufacturers them- ! es feel this way about it. They ould probably be willing to join as diwiduals; this would place all on e same footing and the otgnniza,tion uld'\ be the better for it. ‘Whether e plfeent committees are as able to \ this work as well as a ofessional organizer is, in the opin- n of the members, doubtful, not that ey are not doing all they can, but use they lack the experience nec- iry’ for .such work. This lack.of thusiasm may be accounted for by e Mexican trouble and the local po- cal. campaign, which absorbed juch ‘local attention, but now that he has come to an end and the other on.the way towards settlement ore attention can be given to the amber of commerce * proposition d the enthusiasm may be increased. . The question is sometimes asked of hat " value such an organization fould ‘De. s 'The answer should be and decisive. The matter is not ) be viewed from the standpoint of e individual dlone, but rather from te broader viewpoint of ‘the city. jhere are a great many things which d attention and which can only be perly treated by some organiza- jlon which is to make a business of ich things. There is the housing blem, which is very important, Feight charges, the location of new Actories, accommodations for those ho desire to engage In manufactur- hg on a small scale and the rleed. of hany other things which are desir- blo in order to make the city better Ind more beautiful. There are in al- 08t every community men who give | great deal of their time and money b this class of work, while in New ritain there is no force to impress jpon the people the importance of ving' this work done, no organiza- jon to see that it 1s done and have he city and its business interests ob- n the right kind of benefit. This hovement cannot help being, in the nd, a benefit to the' in@ividual as ell as New Britain. ‘When a new family comes to town, new house is built, a new factory jrected, or there is any desirable lhange made:from the ordinary meth- d of doing things the community benefited and the public must learn o look at it in this way. We have een accustomed to take too narrow view of some of those things and a result We have not prospered as uch as we might had we given more udy to matters which pertain. to ow Britain as a community. = There a great deal to be done and there not seem to be any means at nd by which those:things can be e as well as by a chamber of com- ce. They cannot all be done ai either, but we can make a start ind those who are endedvoring to give kmipetus to the movement should have "nry possible encouragement. e 'FAVORS BOXING. ‘A bill was reported unanimously in ‘Massachusetts lsm-la,ture yester- for the appointment of an ath- commission which s along the s of the one in New York for the rpose of supervising boxing, 'al- igh it does not seem to ‘provide a portion of the receipts being d into the state treasury as is dome Naw York. Boxing is carried i Massachusetts cities and fli jmrmn legislation on the unless it be that the state wishes to have the sport regulated in a differ- ent manner than the one which pre- vails there at present. New York derives a large income from boxing exhibitions and the com- mission which. has charge of the sport is very particular about the partici- pants. ‘' It will be remembered that it was only recently that it refused to permit Robert Fitasimmons to engage in a boxing contest because it thought he had passed the age when he might do so with safety. Boxing is a popular sport every- where but unfortunately it is watcled carefully in some cities and 8s a result there have been some fatalities. The disposition is to have the management of the sport be very strict so as to avoid accidents. This not must be the object in Massachusetts. The Connecticut legislature has stead- fastly opposed the legalizing of box- ing, though it is permitted in some cities through local regulation. MINE DISASTERS. About once in so often there is an explosion in some mine; fire breaks out and the loss of life is appalling. There is some ‘talk of preventative methods against the repetition of such disasters and in a few days the matter is forgotten only to be re- called when there is another one and more lives are lost. A story comes from West Virginia today where there has been a mine explosion, many people killed, almost two hundred more entombed and all know what that means. It'is aw- ful to think of the suffering of those men until death claims them and yet such cases have become more or less common. There ought to be some way to prevent such accidents, some way to prevent such a loss of life. The liability to accidents in all branches of industry has been re- duced to a minimum, except'in the mining business, and there is no place where it is needed more. The ex- planation which follows these acci- dents frequently shows carelessness on the part of some one, but it does not seem as if such things could occur ‘with such alarming frequency if prop- er methods of ventilation and the dis- posing of gases were provided and means by which the miners can es- cape when unavoidable accidents oc- cur. It is awful to think of people being literally buried alive when means might' have been provided to prevent it. MOVE FOR MORE TURKEYS, The turkey is a difficult bird to raise. It is affected by the cold rain and unless it hag the right kind of weather and food it is apt to be stunted in growth or will die. The state agricultural college in Rhode Island has been making an investi- gation of the turkey question and has found. that it suffers from a diseass called the blackhead, which the Providence Journal says kills seventy per cent. of the young turkeys, but for which the college provides a rem- edy in sour milk. The blackhead at- tacks every turkey and as a cure can- not be effected by isolating the birds the only remedy lies in the milk diet which kills the parasites. This rem- edy has been tried out at the Rhode Island college with good results. If this scheme should werk out as ad- vantageously on the farm as it does at the institution we can all look forward to Thanksgiving with more than ordinary enthusiasm: The domestic turkey 1s a bird and the great holiday supply comes from New York state, Ohio and some of the northwestern states, and the price is usually pretty high- There have been some good turkeys raised in Rhode Island, the bird for the president’s table having come from there for a great many years. That, however, does not prove that the industry has been profitable as that bird was a present from an old turkey raiser. The great question in Connecticut is how to revive the sheep industry and the favorite plan so far has been to kill off all the dogs, and give the state a greater revenue than the value of all the sheep in Connecticut. Better suc- cess would result ir our farmers would devote more attention to the raising of turkeys for which there is a strong demand. A person who has once eaten a turkey will never be satisfled with any other kind of a holiday dinner. COMMUNICATED. scarce When in the dip, and dash, and dizzy whirl And rushing, maddening vortex of the game, ‘When dictionaries roundlmy top-knot whirl, 5 Encyclopedic visions my reeling sense inflame, ‘When words themselves are trumps, and ‘tis to play My hand for all it's worth; Confu- . sion, dire dismay; With sinking heart and breath; I can'but say gasping ISH K, BIBBLE. FACTS AND FANCIES. A prominent prohibitionist now de- clares that Jeremiah Donovan is a friend of temperance and supports the movement to make it a national law when the matter comes up In| congress. Shades of “Scoop” O’Brien. —Bridgeport Telegram. All lovers of the horse, especially all who want to demonstrate that he is not disappearing, will do well to co-operate in the effort to arrange an impressive parade of horses in New Haven on Memorial day.—New Ha- ven Register. The announcement that shad fisher- men are about to put their nets into the water, for the seasom‘§ catch, re- Gallst thiatant ihat ft fyaNoner Hite again to read of the ruin of the shad industry in these parts in comparison to former years.—Middletown Press. It is rather surprising how numer- ous Huertaites are about Connecticut. Some of them may be found in news- paper offices, too. However, it is merely history repeating itself. In the earlier days we were afflicted with tories, inthe Indian wars with ren- egades and in the civil war by Cop- perheads. Now it is Huertaites. Such things are as inevitable as smallpox and other epidemics.—Bristol Press. The children of the public schools are today starting out with their pledges and circulars to be distribut- ed at all the homes. People are asked to sign these agreements that they will enter into the spirit of clean up time and do all that they can to im- prove conditions: The Boy Scouts too have begun to get busy and they are doing much that will help.—Meriden Journal. Dr. Ward’s suggestion that the con- victs of the country be given a chance to go to war is not without merit, but the man who disrespects the law - of his brothers in peace will respect the law of brothers-in-arms only through fear. One of the penalties of felony is deprivation of the rights and priv- ileges of citizenship, one of which is to volunteer to serve one’s country on the fiéld of battle—Waterbury Re- publican- The attitude of the West Havent court would seem to put baseball on Sunday at Savin Rock out of the question altogether. Of course, if the managers of the baseball teams can devise some means or some plan that will result in the elimination of the noise of outbreaks that are sure to follow in the wake of a home run, for example, or when the home team carries off a victory in the eleventh inning, why possibly baseball would be permitted at the Rock on Sunday. —New Haven Unio: Residents - of Ansonia have mote than an academic interest in the suit which has just been instituted against the city of Waterbury for damages arising from the pollution of the Naugatuck river by sewage from that city. It has been judicially de- clared that the Naugatuck is not a proper receptacle for the product of the sewerage systems up the river but the decree has apparently done nothing to accelerate thesolution of the problem of sewage disposal by other means than dumping it in the river.. There is no doubt about the unhealthfulness of the process but the cost of supplying a practical remedy has deterred Waterbury from erect- ing a sewage disposal plant, although that city has upwards of $300,000 tied up in a tfunk sewer leading to the site of the sewage beds that will prob- ably some time have to be established. —Ansonia Sentinel- Salaries of Vauwdeville Performers. In the May American Magazine ap- pears an interesting article about the late B. F. Keith, who was the greatest vaudeville manager in the world. The following extract from the article con- tains many facts about the salaries paid to vaudeville performers. “Salaries for performers have in- creased amazingly since the Keith era began. When Mr. Keith started in Boston he paid McIntyre and Heath one ‘hundred and fifty dollars a week angd this pair of Ethiopian comedians had to do eight turns a day.\Recently the same McIntyre and Heath re- turned to the same city in the very same specialty, appearing only twice daily, and at the end of each week found in their pay envelope exactly $2,000. About the same time that popular quartette known as the ‘Four Cohans’ were paid exactly $125 a week also appearing six to eight times a day. Since that time, George Cohan has been offered $4,000 a week alone, and Josephine, one of the four, was paid $1,000 a week. One can only conject- ure What the four Cohans would re- ceive today were they to elect to re- turn to the field where they once la- bored so hard for what they then con- sidered ‘big money.’ “Not only are the vaudeville man- agers wealthy as a result of the Keith policy, but the day has passed when performers can be called vagabonds. Hundreds of the rank and file own their own homes; there are eight colonies of vaudeville actors within twenty-five miles of Néw York, where they have their own homes, and near- ly all have yachts and automobiles. These colonies are at Fair Haven, New Jersey, Elmhurst, Southampton, Freeport, and St. James, Lohg Island; but such suburban cities as Mt. Ver- non and New Rochelle, New York, and Stamford, Connecticut, now have scores of prosperous vaudevillians as realty holders. “By his brilliant move of inducing stars from the legitimate stage to enter the new field, Mr. Keith has provided the latter with opportunities galore. Lillian Russell gets $3,000 a week when she makes the excursion into vaudeville; others to whom Mr. Keith and his associates pay a similar honorarium are May Irwin, Mrs. Langtry, Eilsie Janis (who not so long ago was satisfled with $125 a week from the same management), and Ethel Barrymore, the last Froh- man star to enter the field.” WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. Our War Presidents. (Boston Globe.) Some persons have voiced their fears that Mr. Wilson lacks training and preparation for carrying on a war. So have all our war presidents in the past. The more belligerent oc- cupants of the White House, like Jackson, Grant, Qleveland and Roosevelt, have been permitted to go through their terms in peace. It has remained for most unmartial presidents to be commanders-in-chief of the army and navy when our forces have been sent into action, Madison was a statesman, but no soldier, a scholar and graduate of Princeton, like Mr. Wilson. President Madison evaded the war of 1812 through nearly the whole of his first term, only to have it crash down upon him and to find himself in his second term a fugitive from the White House, with Washington in the hands of the British. Polk was no soldier, but he was made readier for the Mexican war by his long advocacy of the mreasures that caused it. Yet he passed the day when it began with a mind filled with religious thoughts, as his diary re- cords, and not in listening to the music of the bugle. Lincoln, it would seem, must have known he was a war president when elected, but\he refused to see his destiny. He fancied that the trou- ble would blow over and laughingly predicted that the southerners would not give up the offices. “If there were a rumor of a va- cant post office at the north pole” he said. ‘““the way there would be strewn with frozen Virginians.” Although, on his election, he stood unflinchingly against compromising any principle he sat in the, White House a month without taking. any military measures to counteract se- cession ordinances and the batteries that the seceders were setting up in front. of soutlern forts still held by the federal government. When the seceded states refused to let the United States mail enter their terri- tory he did not try to force it on them and when young William Tecumseh Sherman called and foretold the war Lincoln lightly replied: “I reckon we will manage to keep house.” Secretary of State Seward finally proposed on April 1 that he should run the government, since @uincoln was doing nothing to avert war. Sew- ard himself was no more able to see the magriitude of the oncoming strug- gle. He thought that it ought to have been and could have been set- tled in a month! McKinley, our fourth war president, although he had been a soldier, was unaggressive. He did everything to stop the demand for the Spanish war and to reassure Spain there would be peace, until, congress at last broke away from his control and virtually held a stop watch on him, as - was said at the time, while he Wwrote a war message. The Tribuna at Rome did well from its distance so readily to see and point out a comparison between Lingoln and Wilson. Lincoln’s unwillingness and slowness in the beginning left us unprepared throughout the opening months, but those qualities, as the war fairly got under way, became militant virtues. He persisted just as constantly in fighting for peace as he had persisted in clinging to it while it lasted. Moreover, he put forth such a moral leadership as no other man ever exercised in this country. His nature expressed itself in mercy and a passion for reconcilia- tion so that the nation was reared anew on Lincoln’s corner-stone, dedi- cated “with malice toward none; with charity for all.” President Wilson has some of these Lincolnian qualities In a more abun- dant degree than any other president in a generation. He has shown an unusual gift for holding the moral leadership of the nation. People do not censure him for his mistakes, but trust his virtues and the rectitude of his purpose. So, in this crisis, which he approaches so unwillingly and with unfeigned horror, the people will stand back of him. If war comes, and he gets into it, we may be sure that he will stay until he sees it through. At the same time, his char- acter and his temper will be a pledge to the Mexicans and to the world that victory will not be abused, but will be approached as a high duty and with an earnest sense of respon- sibility to make sure that Mexico and the United States will both' benefit by the peace and security to follow, Javanese Marriages, A marriage among the Javanese is quite a lengthy ordeal, says a writer in the May Wide World. Such a thing as c¢ourtship is practically un- krown. The parents choose partners for their children, although the latter are consulted and their consent ob- tained. The parents discuss among themselves the terms of the marriage, and then the girl’s parents give a be- trothal pledge to those of the bride- groom, who soon after offer the pur- chase price for the bride in silver, Jewels, stuffs, food, and so on. Each of the girl’s parents also receives some special personal gift. On the day when the presents are delivered all the relatives and friends on both sides are invited to a series of festivities and banquets, which last several days, being furnished first by one side and then by the other, The eve of the actual wedding, which usually takes rlace a week later, is spent by the future husband and wife in a vigil, without which it is thought that great ill-fortune would follow. Next day the happy couple with their parents and friends, appear before the priest, who duly unites them. The procession then returns to the house of the bride, where another big feast is held. At the close of the day two old women conduct the bridegroom to the bridal, room, where, on ‘a huge bedstead, amidst & multitude of pillAws, bolsters, and coverlets, sits the bride. For three days and three nights the old women stay with- them. ' The couples are hardly allowed to speak ,and any advances the bridegroom may make are, accordihg to°etiquette, left un- noticed by the coy bride.. After:this somewhat trying ordeal the old women discreetly retire, and the happy pair are left alone to take up the threads of their new life. Fears of An Unhappy Man. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Those of the American citizenship who delighted in Roosevelt's vigorous denunciation of mollycoddles should glance about them and notice “whither we are drifting” in the cur- rent induced by equal suffrage. ' The women have declared war not only on the open saloon, but upon the private nip at home or within the retired precincts of the social club. Reports from various meetings justify the prediction that the next step will be against. .the use of tobacco. Al- ready certain religious publications have seriously asserted that no man is leading a Christian life who uses either liquor or tobacco. At a session of women's clubs at ‘Washington a speaker declared thal the crying need in American life was legislation compelling married men to Spend more timé at home. And now, as a cap sheaf, the telegraph brings the news that down east a women’s organization is placarding a community with posters denouncing the use of profanity. These are be- ing displayed, it is well to notice, in shops and factories where men are employed, apparently under the as- sumption that only members of the male sex use profane expressions. To be sure this is debatable, even if it is ungallant to say so. Taxes upon male unmarried per- sons are likewise being advanced, no explanation or defense being permit- ted the intended victims of the law. In communities which have banished saloons succeeding crusades against the debauching centers where poclket billiards are played have sprung up, and in the states where local option is established campaigns against base- ball playing on %the Sabbath have been launched. With indications that the income tax is to be doubled, and with the prospect of being draft- ed to fight in the impending war with Mexico, the position of being a mere man in the United States is rapidly becoming desperate. It is, therefore, with real anxiety, mingled with hope, that his fellows await the return of Theodore from Brazil. The Obsolescent Rod. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Former President Taft in a recent speech deplored the growing disuse of the apple tree switch and the slipper. The punishment of children in a way which they can clearly un- derstand is nowadays deemed rather unstylish. Mr. Taft will be de- nounced as a reactionary. The former president says he was spanked many times and profited by the experience. Most adults of today have been similarly fortunate. But as to the adults of tomorrow—reared on advarced methods and ignorant of the heavy hand of authoritative dis- cipline—who can say? One is well aware. from personal experience, that the most insufferable, selfish, ill-tempered child is one who has never known the meaning of a spanking. He is growing toward manhood without any respect for au- thority, and without any law except his own whimsical desires. He is a pest ininfancyan a nuisancein later childhood—what will he be in man- hood? Lacking the training which instills respect of authority he may enter the serious work of life consid- erably handicapped. There are plenty of children who do not need spankings. The funda- mental error is the assumption that no child can benefit by corporal pun- ishment. A discriminating judgment on the part of parents would be of high value, but unfortunately a par- ent is for or against spanking without regard to the merits or needs of the oftspring. The modern idea is to allow the child to “develop its own individual- ity.” A general view of children in process uf this development is dis- hearténing. One longs for more old fashioned advice like that offered by M, Kaft. The Greater Heroism. (Indianapolis News.) Volunteers are needed in the army for a dangerous service. Instantly there spring forward ten times the number of men required. Those se- lected become heroes by their choice, on -the spur of the moment. The United States needed men to sink the Merrimac in the neck of the chan- nel of Santiago harbor. Hobson and his brave comrades sank the vessel and bottled up the Spanish fleet. And the world proclaimed them heroes all, which they were. But the world hears little of the everyday acts of heroism stretching over years instead of hours. What of the widow left with a family of small children, and no money? There can be no trumpet sounding the “Charge!” to lend courage; no knowl- edge that the eyes of the world are focused on her; she does not march to the battle with banners flying and stirring music urging her on. She is face to face not with an act of brav- ery that may be c nsummated in a few minutes or a few hours, and that will be blazoned through all the land —she is confronted with a struggle that must go on for years, with noth- ing 'to lend strength but her love for those for whom she must labor. The charge of the light brigade at Balaklava! “Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them,’l volleyed and thundered!” The “noble 600" were in the heat of bat- tle. They were filled with the unholy battle fire. Inspiration could point to nothing else than “to do or die.” John Paul Jones’, “I have not yet be- gun to fight” deserves no greater place in the annals of heroism than the silent resolve of the widow: “i'll keep them all together, God giving me strength.” It is premeditated heroism that enables a mother to say that— premeditation that sees the long weary struggle, perhaps days over the wash- tub, back-breaking task; mending the children’s clothes long after the wearers have been tucked into bed; twelve and sixteen hours of work a day; scheming and planning, instead of sleeping, in order to keep the little flock together. There can be no thought of self for the mother.who elects to keep her children together. She is and must be “thankful to work for all the seven, trusting to -rest to One in heaven.” There are dark days in this self- imposed task—days when it seems that life is not worth the' struggle, days when it seems that flesh cannot stem the tide, days when there is no vista beyond the dull, dreary monot- ony of doing for a brood that is too young to appreciate the herculean struggle. There is no grateful nation to pre- sent the mother with a medal. Her heroism will go unsung. But some- Where, the One who notes the spar- row’s fall has weighed the wartime hero and the little mother, and in writing in the book of gold the world may be sure that the little mother's name is not going to be the last on the page. For how could the her- olsm of battle be possible without the foundation of the heroism of the little mother? 1] Prolific Cattle Tick. (World’s Work.) A male and a female tick hatched in April may by October 15 ‘give rise to 6,750,000,000 descendants, about half of which, being females, will lay about 1,500 more eggs apiece im- mediately or the following spring. Take the cattleman’s point of view: a thoroughly, although not excep- tionally, infested cow may carry sev- eral hundred thousand ticks at one time and, during one season, may he infested by four such broods. Now 1,500 ticks, after having engorged themselves for three or four days, will weigh about a pound, this represent. ing almost entirely the weight of the blood taken from the host. Thus the helpless beast may actually lose from 200 to 500 pounds of blood in a single season. Little wonder that thousands of southern calves never reach maturity; that the pitiful spec- tacle of a valuable dairy or beef ani- mal actually starving to death in the midst of rich, nutritious pasture is not a nightmare but a terribly frequent reality. “Bad Taste” Indeed. (Boston Post.) Over in New York a set of gelf- appointed arbiters of what is good and tad taste in home decoration have Leen having what seems to them a deal of sport in a so-called “bad taste” exhibition, consisting of rooms fitted up in the style of the early '70s or thereabouts. They have resurrected for the purpose black walnut furni- ture, hair-cloth chairs, huge wooden beds, wax flowers, sea shells, plush albums, mottos worked in worsted and many other home-made things dear to our fathers and mothers. ‘They seem to think this a “dfeffle smart” thing to do; they revel in the humor of the revelation. But the putting on public view of such articles for the purpose of ridi- cule is, In itself, the extreme of bad taste. The love and devotion and simple faith that went into the mak- ing of many a “God Bless Our Home” is a dear remembrance to some of us; to have them pilloried for the laughter of fools Is inexcusable. The fittings of our old homes may pave lacked something of the smart- ness and esthetic values of today. But they were in real homes, used by genuine and home-loving people. To hold them up to the scorn of moderns i a cheap exhlbmon of the exhibitors’ shallowness. COMMONWEALTH CLUB BANQUET LAST NIGHT New Officers Chosen—Herbert K. Job Gives Lecture “on Bird Life. The Commonwealth club held its annual banquet and business meeting last night at the Y. M. C. A. The banquet was the best in the history of the club and every wish of the members was catered to. During the dining hour an orchestra of High school students gave several selec- tions. Reports from the various commit- tees were read. That of the secre- tary, Mrs. M. D. Stanley, was of spe- cial interest, giving a brief history of the work and meetings of the club since its formation, six years ago. The chief feature of the evening was the lecture on ‘“‘Hunting Birds With a Camera,” by State Ornitholo- gist H. K. Job. Mr. Job spoke in detail of the song and game birds of this country and used some excellent slides to illustrate his topies. He explained the nation-wide movement for game bird preserves, a means of saving many birds that are fast be- coming extinct. His talk was thor- oughly enjoyed by all. Mr. Job is to speak at the Grammar school on May 26. The committee on nominations re- ported the following names: Secre- tary, William L. Hagen; treasurer, George S. Talcott; chairman of pub- licity committee, Johnstone Vance; chairman of lecture committee, Mrs, Henry lLee; chairman of civic com- mittee, Dr. H. T. Bray; chairman of social committee, Mrs. W. B. Mon- tague; new member of executive com- mittee, Mrs. Grace M. Coholan. Provision for the election of _a president was made in a proposed amendment, which will be passed on at the next meeting. ‘W. C. French, principal of the Grammar school, was chairman of last nighfs meeting. McMILLAN'S Phenomenal Sale of HOSIERY for Men, Women and Children AT A PAIR Three Days Only, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, This Week All our regular two for a quarter Stockings will be sold for these three days, for 9c a pair. Limit 6 pairs to a customer, We inaugurate this sale for one reason, and one only, and that is to get you to know how good a Hosiery Dept. we have, and to introduce to you the values we offer from day to day at 12Y;c a pair 475 Remember this 9c¢ price is for 3 days only and our entire - stock of 12!s¢ Hosiery go at 9c a pair. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. FAREWELL RECEPTION. South Church Quartet Members Are Pleasantly Remembered by Choir. Wyllys B. Waterman, the retiring organist ‘at the South church, and Miss Rhea Massicote, who has also resigned as the soprano soloist, were tendered a farewell reception in the church chapel last evening by the choir. Miss Massicote was presented with a bouquet of flowers and Mr. Waterman was the recipient of a gold watch fob, engraved as follows: “Presented to Wyllys B. Waterman by the choir of the South church of New Britain, Conn., April 28.” Miss Massicote is a Meriden young lady and Mr. Waterman came here from the Wethersfield avenue church in Hartford. He will go abroad to study music. GOING TO HARTFORD, ‘Washington lodge, K. of P, of Hartford, will hold Past Chancellors night in Hartford this evening, at which time District Deputy A. F. Mitchell will pay his official visit. A class of candidates will receive the degree. W. W. Gould will represent W. L. Morgan lodge of this city, and it is hoped as many members as Pos- sible will attend. ¢