New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN HERALD . XERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. t Proprietors. ?bw-fl daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m- ‘st ‘Heraia Buiiding, §7 Oburch Bt hnhm at the Post Office at New Britain as Becond Class Mali Matter. | }Deltverea by carrier to any part of the ity I for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents & Month. Surscriptions for paper to be sent by mail payable {n advance. 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 s year. The omiy proficable wdvertising medium in We . Ry, Circalation books and press ro)n always spen to advertisers. o at Hota~ The Hera!d will be found on eal : fiog’s News Stand, 42nd St. B way, New York City; Board Walk, Adanto City, snd depot. 3 TRLEPHONE CALLS. % iiness OfMce . ienrial Ttooms r——————————————— CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IDEA LACKS INTEREST. It is unfortunate that the chamber of commerce plans have failed to de- velop into the organization that was expected. As there has been a de- cline in enthusiasism it is expected that a professional organizer will be able to stir up sufficlent sentiment in its favor that may be crystallized into a working organization later on. The idea seems to be a good one. The present does not seem to be an op- portune time for such an undertak- ing, but there can hardly be any doubt that when the new city administra- tion: has its formulative plans com- pletad, has gotten down to a working basis and the excitement attendant upon the trouble with Mexico has labated, that the chamber of commerce plan can be taken up and carried out with assurance of success. No one who has given the matter any thought will doubt the advisabil- lity |of providing such an organization lfor New Britain or that the city needs lit inyits business. That feature has been pretty well threshed out and 1l know the answer. Just now in- rest is being occupied with other matters but the work the chamber of commerce is expected to perform .So different from all others and pnters so largely into what must al- ays be regarded as the life of the ity ‘that the best sentiment of the ty will be for it. In the meantime he Business Men's association will bontinue to exert its best influence on fhe matters which have always en- aged its attention. It will not do ny harm at the same time to keep p interest in the chamber of com~ nerce idea so that when it is taken hp again there will be more interest pack' of it. GUNSHANAN'S CHARGES. The accusation made by John Gun- hanan in his New London speech Jhat tubercular patients in the state | natoriums are improperly cared for i1l not down, although vigorously enied by those in charge. The state as been very generous in supplying ds for these institutions and it is n outrage if the patients are not ovided w'l.Lh all the nourishment c y to help them toward being line in enthusiasm it is expected Jew idea of tuberculosis during re- ent years and has provided sana- riums for two purposes, one for _ on and the other for a oure nd by carrying out this policy is'expected that the spread of the lisease will be prevented. The disease not one that is easily cured, but here is much evidence that in many es its progress can be arrested, but hat cannot be accomplished without oper care and nourishment and it the duty of those in charge of hose institutions to see that the pa- nts are treated in such a manner to carry out the state's jdeas in blishing the institutions, otherwise jey might Jjust as well be closed. There need be no hesitancy in say- g that it should be made the duty of me one to investigate the charges de by Mr. Gunshanan. He is a mer tuberculosis commissioner and ht to- know what he is talking pout, and charges made by such a n cannot be reasonably regarded unworthy of attention, A great i8 being \sald now about the eatment of patients in some of our hiblic institutions in this country, and there is any neglect on the part of jose in charge the truth should be de known. The state pays for the t and surely there should not be y hesitancy in insisting upon its be- given what it pays for and what dical science says is necessary for o patients placed in those institu- ns. - e R GOVERNOR OPENS SEASON. it remained for Governor Simeon | Baldwin to set the fashion for new pmer headgear. Connecticut’s chief tive appeared on the streets of Haven Sunday wearing the latest ition in straw headgear. ~The gov- or's new lid is built on’lines sim- to those of the straws he has rn in the past,. being moderately h on the crown with a flexible brim dignified, yet most = comfortable ce of headgear.—Bridgeport Tel- Bunday was a beautiful day, the sun strong l.nd','.hem ‘was just enough | to make" the ‘air bracing and it is a pleasure to know that the gov- ernor.donned a new straw hat, there- by formally opening the summer sea- son in the city of old elms and new ideas. The governor’'s possible succes- sor, Mr. Comstock, is, we believe, on a hunting trip and we presume he isyet tied up to the style of the aborigines, but he will return in time to. take his place in the sartorial procession, now led by the esteemed head of the gov- ernient of the state, and in which there will be in due time, such fashion plates as Mr, Cummings of Stamford, Mr. Tingler of Rockville, Mr. Mahan of New London apd Mr. Landers of New Britain. The governor will not be permitted to monopolize all of the democratic style and when the season becomes sufficiently advanced it is be- lieved that the line will ‘make some show. We trust, however, that Gov- ernor Baldwin ‘has not so forgotten his exalted position as to continue to ‘wear ever since the straw lid to which the esteemed Telegram so lightly re- ferred to. This is no weather for a straw hat, but rather for a cap with ear laps on it. No candidate for democratic honors can afford to jeop- ardize his chances by appearing in public in this kind of weather wear- ing a summer lid. MAY IMPORT ROAD BUILDER. Sending to the little town of Stam- ford or to the city of Bridge- port for a road builder is noy a move as has been suggested by City Engineer Hall that is likely to prove popular in New Britain. We have been in the road building bus- iness for a good many years now and it would be very strange if the city hasn’t in all that time developed a man who knows how to build a ma- cadam street or one made of semi- permanent pavement. It does not seem as if a man more competent than any in New Br‘itun can be pro- cured for a salary ‘of $1,200 and it is understood that is the sum it is proposed to pay the gentleman whom Mr. Hall thinks of bringing here. New Britain has imported a road builder in times past, but it was when the building of macadam roads, as is now done, was new. Up to that time the method employed was more in the line of telford pavement so called. ‘A solid foundation of rock ‘was laid to a depth of a foot or more, smaller stone was placed on top of that and stone finer still was used as a covering or as a top dressing, the pave- ment then being allowed to remain in that condition. This kind of a road was durable, but it was also costly and after a long campaign a road roller was purchased and a road build- er was imported who taught us how to build macadam roads under the new system, the depth of excavation being less and water being used as a binder and rolled down with a roller. The first plece of a street macadamized by that method was Washington street between West Main street and the railroad and it has generally been held to have been a good job, That was about twenty years ago and there has been a great many miles of macadam Iatd in New Britain since and it would be a rather strange condition of af- fatrs if after all that time the city hasn’t a man competent to do the work. New Britain is hardly as dull as that, no matter if an effort is made to make it appear so. There is noth- ing in our laws that will prevent an out-of-town builder being employed, but it does seem as if the city is not 8o completely devold of competent ma- terial that it cannot build. the proper sort of a roadway, especially when it has a $3,500 engineer to overgee the Job. An Inventor Out of His Field. (New York Times.) Mr..Edison, besides being a smoker of many cigars, i8 a survivor of the | tobacco-chewing era in American his- tory, now past for young men of his intelligence and soclal status. - But though he evidently does not think “the weed” and its gentle narcotiza- tion reprehensible, he has banned both from his shops when they take the form of the cigarette. To do that is doubtless his privilege, as it is for all of us to compound the sins we are inclined to by damning those we have no mind to, but he has no indisputable—indeed, no high— authority, either medical or scientific, for ascribing a special deleterious- ness to the combination of paper and tobacco, and it is the experience of many that the effects of cigarette smoking, if not entirely innocent, are distinctly less noticeable than those of other forms of this amusement. It is the abuse, not the use of the cigarette, that hurts the grown-up, and just what constitutes abuse is a question, not of rule, but of personal idiosyncrasy. The case for and against tobacco is practically identi- cal with those for and against tea and coffee. All three meet a demand 80 nearly universal that their admitted evil potentialitles are presumably counterbalanced when the account is balanced. Mr. Edison says that cigarettes dull the mind. So does a good dinner, and, still more, kind nature’s sweet restorer, sleep—for a while. Some- body should ask the great electrician | about the effects, on other peopls, of frregular meals and excessive hours of continuous work—effects to which, according to cerdible report he has for years and years continuously sub- Jected himself.- They, too, are said to Guli the mind. | part of New York on Saturday in vio- , sult | that the aviator who deliberately takes NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1014. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of thmely” questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. The Home at Jobnson City. (Cleveland Plain Deuler.) In a letter addressed to the Georgia confederate veterans who returned an Ohio regimental flag captured in the Civil war, Gov, Cox suggests that the federal soldiers’ home at Johnson City, Tenn., be opened to veterans of the south on equal terms with those from the north. Such a project has been discussed in congress. The gov- ernor hopes the measure may be soon adopted. “From indications it is believed,” Mr. Cox writes, “it will not be long before those. who marched under_the stars and bars and who are dependent in their old age will be sheltered by the government which is in every sense their own.” Such an act on the part of the fed- eral government would be one more ‘act showing the erasure of the line that divided the nation sixty years ‘ago. It would indicate the same feel- ing of fellowship that prompted the Georgians to return the captured token. Veterans in blue and gray now meet together in frequent reunions, Last arm in arm, they paced the ysburg and the memory of the hostilities which made the spot historic aroused no resentment in any breast. At Chickamauga union and confederate memorials mingle and the visitor makes no distinction as he pays homage to the dead. In Arling- ton lie thousands lost in the terrible conflict, the blue and the gray resting under the folds ‘of their common country’s flag. - Opening the Tennessee soldiers’ home to confederate dependents would be an act of justice which thou- sands would appreciate. Union men already inmates of the home would doubtless welcome these friends who were their enemies sixty years ago. The fineness of the act on the part of congress, however, will lie in the sentiment it "expressed of fellowship with the south rather than the relief it might afford individual soldiers. But on either score it would be worth ‘while. Suffragists and Mr. Taft. (Philadelphia Bulletin.) Former President Willlam H. Taft was nearly “kidnaped” and carried to ‘Washington against his will from the Broad street station this morning by the delegation of Philadelphia suffra- gists, sixty strong, who left on a special train to march in the suffrage demonstration in the capital. Mr. Taft, traveling as a private citizen, and -incidentally a mere shadow of his former self, was travel- ing through the train shed on his way | to Bryn Mawr to attend the May day fete, in which his daughter, Miss Helen ! Taft, has a prominent part. The former president’ arrived here early this ‘morning from Cincinnati, where he has been enjoying the musical fes- tival this week, and stayed only long enough for breakfast in the station restaurant. On his way to his train, however, he pessed. the group of vellow-banded Philadelphia women walting for their train to Washington. Miss Katherine Shea, a school teacher, whose home is at 4404 Sansom street, one of the most ardent votes for women advo- cates in the local movement, spied the distinguished-looking gentleman first and encouraged by his benign expres- sion, decided to win another convert to the cause. “Doesn’t he look like President Taft,” she whispered to her com- panions, and straightway asked the stranger to buy a suffrage decoration. Mr, Taft shook his head and the famous Taft smile appeared in all its glory. “I'm not going to Washington to- day,” he said, and the smile, coupled with the mention of his former resi- dence, established his identity. “It is President Taft,” the suffrage marchers gasped and crowded around him in a yellow swarm. Then it was that Bryn Mawr's fete nearly lost a distinguished spectator, for the suffra- gists were carried away with the stu- pendous idea of having the Philadel- phia delegation in the parade headed by a former president of the United States carrylng a votes for women banner. But fortunately for Mr. Taft the special train for Washington was announced, and the paraders scurried aboard. Recklessness in the Afr. (New York Sun.) It is to be hoped that the Aero club of America will inflict exemplary punishment upon young Ralph Brown for his contumacy in flying over a lation not only of the club’s rules but of express warnings addressed to him. Mr. Brown makes the usual excuse for his reckless act. There was no dan- ger, he says; from the height at which he crossed over he could easily have volplaned clear of the ci There is nothing new about this; it is the classic attitude of the man who rocks the boat. The Aero club rule is wholly rea- sonable and proper. A similar rule prevails in every European country; indeed, abroad it is generally a rule of the police. It is founded on justice and common sense. It is no obstruction to the art of aviation and no infringement pf any aviator's just privileges. It is quite essential to the safety of the public. We all know that the chances are a thousand to one that nothing will happen in any given flight; but things do happen quite unexpectedly, ani when they happen in the air the re- is disaster. 1t is bad enough the risk, should suffer. It would be atrocious if outsiders, who did not consent to the risk, were also to be- come victims. There is a difference | $875,000. | the same sense in the national ordinary business in a city and the spectators at an aerodrome. Precautions cannot be carried too far in this matter. As early as pos- sible the legislature should make it a penal offense to fly over cities. Mythical Millions. (Cleveland Leader.) The sworn estimate placed upon the estate of the late Frederick Weyer- haeuser, the St. Paul (Minn.) “lum- ber king,” who was “written up” by a sensational magazine a few years ago, as “richer than Rockefeller,” is For reasons of economy in taxpaying, the wealth of the old lum- berman may be undervalued by his heirs and executors, but, unless there is very daring fraud, he cannot have ranked above many another quite or- dinary millionaire. The stories wide- 1y circulated after and before his death about the size of his fortune look ridiculous in the light of the fig- ures given when his will was probated. It is a striking instance of the way mythical millions grow as they are talked about. One of the common- est forms of gross exaggeration is the inflation of large fortunes in the cur- Tent gossip of the times in print and in conversation. In all probability not one of the largest estates in this country is anywhere near the aver- age estimates in circulation. Often the wealth of a very rich man is dou- bled or trebled, in the belief of the majority of those who like to tell how much “money kings” are worth. Such exaggeration has its serious side, because it affects the feeling of millions of men respecting social and industrial problems. The facts are quite disturbing enough without the fiction so freely circulated and so widely believed. FACTS AND FAN 3 A new women'’s strike during which no woman will kiss or talk to her husband is proposed by a suffrage leader in New York. Mightn't the antis step in right here and do some- thing as strikebreakers?’—Brockton Times. Automobile accidents will happen. Possibly it - is impossible to prevent fatal ones. But it should be possible, and soon, to check the habit of run- ning down a man, woman or child and then running away without facing :he consequences.—New Haven Regis- er. Moreover what is good for children is good for older people. To sit and work in rooms which are hot ana stufty is to feel depressed and out of sorts. Let . the windows go up! Let the bad air out and the good air In, and see the difference!—Norwich Re- cord. The New Britain republicans following a unique course. After a tremendous party ' victery they are preparing to change the rules to take the party rank and file into still clos- er relationship with the party ma- chine. If certain individuals had haa fleld things would be strikingly = different all over thejjand.—Bridgeport Post. are It is just possible had we not the motor license to fall back on in this state, finances would have been no worse. The receipts from . motor licenses is enormous, but with our po- litical way of doing things there is always a method employed to con- sume state funds, even were the re- ceipts the total amount of the busl- ness of the state.—Middletown Penny Press. This is the week to indulge in lobsters; that is, if the price falls here as it has at the wholesale mar- ket. Boston received at the end of last week 160,000 pounds of lobster from Maine and Nova Scotia, the largest receipt ever known at that port. The price dropped over 50 per cent. from thirty-five cents a pound to fifteen cents.—Waterbury American. CONDITION CRITICAD, Marie De Rosa of New Haven Suffer- ing from Bullet Wound in Abdomen. New Haven, Conn., May 13.—Marle De Rosa, six years old, is in a critical condition at a local hospital today suffering from a bullet wound in the abdomen, While the little girl ana her four-year-old brother were play- ing with a gun at their home in Woodbridge yesterday, the weapon was discharged, the bullet striking the girl. She said nothing about the in- cident and it was not until last night that the parents learned of it. ‘When the father found the child crying from pain he asked her what the trouble was, but she refused to answer. The little boy then told of the shooting. The girl was removed to the hospital here and an operation performed, but her recovery is con- sidered doubtful. ACCEPTANCE TRIAL. Torpedo Boat Destroyer McDougal Undergoing Trying Test. Rockland, Me., May 13.—The builders’ acceptance trial of the tor- pedo boat destroyed McDougal today included a four hour run at twenty- four knots speed, and four hours at maximum speed. On the twenty-four knot run tests of water and fuel con- sumption were to be made. The four hours’ run at full speed was regarded as the most important of the tests. The standardization trials yesterday demonstrated that if the propellers averaged 602 turns a minute the contract requirements of 30 1-2 knots maximum speed would be ful- filled. COROYRA VICTORIOUS. Newmarket, England, Moy 13.— Lord T.ondonderry's Coroyra today won the Newmarket stakes for three year olds. King George's Brakespear was second, and Sir E. Cassel’s Haps- burg third. Fiveran. The race is run over a course of a mile and a quarter and the stakes are valued at about even between people going about umh-l $12,000. These pictures were taken at the waterworks, Vera Cruz. One shows the camp of the American soldiers, and the other shows some of the American Soldiers’ Camp; Sharpshooters in Sand Dunes l .1 GROVP OF SOLDIERS at WATER RAC 2 SOLDIERS ON FIRING LINE 2¢ WATER WORKS. WORKS,VERA CRUZ. w$ regulars in the sand dunes near the works shooting at Mexican federals. A sudden attempt to capture the waterworks is feared: It Is now strongly guarded. ANTI-AMERICAN RIOTS HELD ON SEABOARD Mexican Mob Attempts to Burn Train Bearing American Refugees— Ransom Is Demanded. Galveston, Texas, May 13.—Stories of anti-American riots along the Mexican seaboard that fringes the Gulf of Tehuantepec and an attempt by a Mexican mob to burn a _train bearing American refugees were tola last night by a party of Americans who fled from Mexico to Guatemala and then came here on the steamship Brighton. James E. McFadden of Beaumont, Texas, together with John Vane and Edgar Phillips of Canton, Ohio,- and L. A. Austin and wife of Clevelana, left Mapastepec, Chiapas, April 21, be- cause of growing sentiment against Americans. Guatemala, Tapachula, a mob surrounded coaches and demanded the delivery of the Americans on board. -The police guard tried to drive back the Mexi- cans who attempted to set the passen- ger coaches on fire, Federal troops were rushed from the mob was held in check. Then the officers commanding the troops de- manded a ransom of the Americans for protection. It appeared, the They took the train for | but on their arrival at | the | a nearby post and for several hours | !refugees said, as if the federal officer i was about to give the Americans over to the mob when the jefe politico de- nounced the federal officer for asking ja ransom and the refugees were per- ! mitted_to depart. They miade their 'way across Guatemala and took the steamship Brighton at Port Barrios. GIRL WON'T TELL AGE. When Elizabeth Martino Purgatorio \was given a hearing in police court chambers by Judge James T. Meskill this morning on a charge of being in danger of falling into ways of vice she refused to tell her age. She admitted she was not yet twenty-one years old. The case was continued to to- morrow morning in order to allow the authorities to investigate further the charge against her. The girl has figured in police court circles before, being arrested in Meriden a short time ago when she and another local girl were found in company with two men. BUILDING PERMITS. Andrew Turnbull has made appli- cation to Building Inspector A. N. Rutherford to build a veranda on { his_home at No. 19 Rockwell avenue and A. A. Retuszkis has applied for a permit to build a three family ! house at 357 Franklin street, Martha chapter, O. E. 8, will hold a regular meeting Thursday evening when two candidates will be initiated. The ladies will meet to sew in the iafternonn. ‘Washington, May 13.—The United States will be represented at the Ni- agara Falls (Canada) mediation con- ference by Supreme Court Justice Lamar and former Solicitor General Frederick W. Lehmann of St. Louis. This government will have only two representatives in spite or the fact that Huerta has named three. The conference is to begin on May 18 at the Clifton hotel, on the Canadian side of the falls. 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The delegates from the different states will sall for London, taking the steamer Asiatic. While there they will participate in the Anglo-Ameri- can eace celebration which will be held from May to October. Where ]‘Ied;'ati;n Conference M7ill Be Held And Representatives of the United States A S+F-W.LE of their differences with the de facto government. The scope of the con- ference is therefore limited to the settlement of the differences between the United States and the Huerta government over the insults to the American flag, which resulted in the seizure of Vera Cruz. No effort will be made to compose the internal strife in the southern republic.