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

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1014, W BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietor ) ied datly (Sunday.excepted) at 4:15 p. m. at Herald Building, 67 Church St. itered at' the Post a8 Second Office at New Britain Class Mail Matter. livered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. jbacriptions for paper to be sent by muil payable in advance. 60 Cents a Month $7.00 a year. he only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. he Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd St. and_Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantio City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. siness Office. .... ditorial Rooms. HUERTA TO RESIGN. The latest news from Mexico Is at Huerta is going to resigm, per- laps before the day is over, but he ishes to name his successor and’the Jonstitutionalists say that they have ever recognized Huerta and will not cognize any of his supporters, so at §o far as the present government concerned there can be no recon- iliation between the warring forces that troublesome country. There kn’'t anything, however, which woula o tend to bring peace to Mexico as e resignation of Huerta. He is the ain cause of the present difficulties, s a result of which there is much bloodshed, business has been des- royed and there is much fear and pidation among the people. The fforts toward peace have not been uccessful and as the constitutional- st army is continuing on its victori- bus way to Mexico City one can read- ly understand the conditions that 11 follow if it ever reaches there. I'he slaughter will be awful and the in' that will come to-that city is not pleasant to contemplate. Huerta’s esignation would obviate all that nd his disappearance from Mexico ould complete all that is neoessary o bring peacé to the country. It just be apparent to Huerta that 'his omplete downfall 15 near at hana nd that his remaining at the head ot he government is simply adding fuel 0 the flames of hatred with which he hearts of so many Mexicans are lled and which is causing such a iluvy loss to people of other na- tionalities who have been making their homes In Mexico and doing bus- iness under the most distressing ot difficulties. MERIDEN WANTS CURFEW. The Meriden Journal is calling for a curfew law in that city because it ys no thoughtful person can go upon the streets these warm nights ‘without seeing boys and giris of tender | years placing themselves in the path s temptation and if their parents do Fnot. realize how serious the situation is there should be a city ordinance énacted making it a misdemeanor for €hildren under a certain age to be on the streets after nightfall. If there is anything the matter with this suggestion it is that the | parents of these children are per- _mitted ‘to go unpunished when in reality they should be the first to feel the effects of the law. “Fathers and mothers are too neg- lectful of their children's welfare; ‘they do not mean to be, perhaps, but ‘that is not helping the little ones, They are on the. streets not only after nightfall but at late hours and a de- plorable feature of the conduct of _many of the girls is that they are be- coming forward and are gradually having the edge rubbed off their re- finement. They have the slang of the day, they make acquaintances of old- er people, oftentimes of questionable character and there does not seem to be ~anyone to advise them or to explain the dangers of street and chance ac- _guaintanceships. The point raised by the Meriden Journal needs to be con- sidered in Gther cities besides Meri- den and care should be taken not to allow the neglectful parents to escape criticism. - They- - deserve it more than the children. CONNECTICUT POLITICS, Our esteemed friend, A. F. Howe, did not launch any new booms in ves- terday’s New York Sunday Herald, but he straightened out the position of Senator Landers in reference to the democratic nomidation for the governorship which was misrep- resented a week ago., Mr. Landers’ position is just as this paper has re- peatedly stated. He is not an avowed candidate for governor and has never #aid 'he was, but conditions might arise by which his name would be presented to the convention. If the “delegates want him to run he will _probably accept the nomination, but _ he isn’t seeking the place and has not ‘' made any alliance with any one. His . ‘position is practically the same in reference to the chairmanship of the te committee, he. saying that only on the ground of wty pol!cy ‘would accépt that place. He makes 1t “plain that h. is very much in- terested in the success of the democ- racy this fall. Mr. Howe speaks enthusiastically of Senator Brandegee, against”whose re-election Colonel' Roosevelt is ex- pected to speak when he comes to Hartford next month, and what he says is in a large measure correct. The senator is popular in Washing- ton and he is also popular with the people. He has a pleaging personal- ity, has learned much since he suc- ceeded the late Orville H. Platt ot Meriden and is said to have become one of the skillful debaters in the upper house of congress. There still continues to be a feeling that Con- gressman Mahan will be a candidate against Mr, Brandegee, but the gen- eral opinion is that Governor Bald- win, who has practically suggested his own nomination, will be ' the choice of the convention. Senator Brandegee's heaviest handicap will be the opposition of Theodore Rose- velt. It will be difficult for him to overcome that, but there are some enthusiastic republicans who think he will win anyway. It is too early, however, for the making of any statement with any foundation for correctness to rest upon. DENIS RIORDAN. There are many people who re- member when Denis Riordan came to New Britain; it had been a city only a short time and there were not as many dry goods stores here then as there are now. He engaged , in business in the Strickland house, now the Bronson, and laid the foun- dation for the suocessful career, which enabled him to acquire a com- petency, to provide a beautiful haome for his family and té6 educate hls children. He was one of New Brit- ain’s sound business men, a careful buyer and sagacious in all his deal- ings. No one doubted his word and his credit was’'good everywhere. It was a fine record after so many years and now that he is dead it is pleas- ant to recall his honesty, the earnest- ness of his friendship, the benevo- lences which marked his long day upon earth. Those who knew nim Intimately were those who admirea him most and the news of his passing, though for a long time expected, was recelved with profound sorrow. He was interested in public life, es- pecially in the school.board, of which he had been a member for a great many years, but he never forgot the land of his birth, Ireland, where his boyhood days were spent, the place which was ever uppermost in his thoughts and held an abiding place in his heart. Denis Riordan was American through and through, but his attach- ment to his adopted country did not deter him from venerating the place where he was born or holding in grateful remembrance the men who by self sacrifice and a life time of de- Vvotion brought distinction to that dis- tant land. He has had a long life and a good life; New Britain is the bet- ter for his coming and in bidding him farewell its people may well say that he was a good citizen and a staunch and true friend. COMMUNICATED. T. W, Wilbor Suggests State Pay a Portion of Cost of Sewage Hxperiment The report of Expert Engineer Mr. Fuller brings to my attention very forcibly the fact that New Britain is recefving very unfair treatment at the hands of the state. In the early days New Britain purchased the right of empty its sewage into Piper brook, thence to the Connecticut river. This was in accordance with the easy and natural method of sewage disposition then prevalent and still al- most generally used by Connecticut cities. Later objection was raised by Hartford and finally a bill was passed through the legislature ordering New Britain to stop using®Piper brook as a sewer and to provide other disposal of its sewage. After consulting with an expert sanitary engineer and obtaining best information the city went to large expense in building a new sewer, pro- viding a storm water and a separate sanitary sewer, purchased land for sewer beds in the town of Berlin ana entered upon the experiment of sew- age disposal by filtration, the success of which was for the benefit of all of the cittes of the state, at a cost of about $600,000. It is now a question Wwhether our present system is ade- quate or satisfactory. Another expert, Mr. Fuller, after examination of our problem reports that for a further expenditure of $400,000, say half a million dollars, the purchase of additional tracts for sewer beds, erection of a pumping station and the maintenance of a costly plant our sewage may be sat- istactorfly disposed of. Ultimately all the cities discharg- ing their sewage into streams or tide water will be obliged to seek other methods of sewage disposal than those they now have. They will then avail themselves of the results of our experiments. It seems that it would be only just and equitable that the state shoula share with New Britain a generous portion of the cost of this experi- ment, say half to be paid by New Britain and half to be paid by the state for the benefit that will be re- celved by all the cities of the state our, experiments, made a{ ‘the dem(nd of the state. W ‘WILBOR. I WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald oftice. Shrines of Whittier. (Malden News.) We have often wondered why there are not more pilgrimages made to the shrines of Whittier by schoot children, club women, touring moror- ists and by all interested in history and literature. Whittier was essen- tially the poet of New England, and his descriptive poems of the wood- lands and shores of Essex county and the coast from the. Merrimac to the Piscataqua are unequaled. His poliii cal and antislavery poems are an im- portant part of the history of one of the great epochs of our nation, anl his poems that bear on theology and philosophy have made his fame en- during. Yet we find that the number visiting his birthplace at Havernill the scene of “Snow Bound,” the most sought of the Whittier shrines, |is but 3,000 annually. In contrast to those figures 150,000, over one-half of whom are Americans, pass through the turnstile at the entrance to the Burns birthplace at Ayr. Then there is the house at Amesbury, where ‘Whittier lived for years with his mother and wrote ‘“Snow Bound,” “The Eternal Goodness” and his best known poems; the house of his cousin at Oak Knoll, Danvers, where he spent his summers and where he was so often visited by Holmes, Longfel- low, Lowell and his other great con- temporaries; and lastly the old white house on the road from Newburyport to Portsmouth in Hampton Falls, where he died. All of the places are easily accessible and in perfect state of preservation. Whittier is ocloser to the people of New England than any other poet and pllgrimages to these places will repay the time. The houses at Haverhill and Amesbury are always open to visitors and con- tain much of interest to the lover of ‘Whittier. Only the Ball Players Happy. (Lincoln, (Neb.) State Journal) President .Swain of the national educational association proceeds to the annual meeting at St, Paul crying aloud for better pay for teachers. Everybody knows that teachers are underpaid. If the teachers find a way at this meeting to.raise their pay, we shall all be pleased. The engineers on western railroad trains have decided that they are un- derpaid. They are now taking a strikd vote, the rallroads having re- fused to increase their pay. Mean- while the railroads of the east are striking the interstate commerce commission for a ‘“raise.” About five per cent. on the freight rates would enable them to live decently, they fig- ure. It would be pleasant, if the en- gineers and railroads could both have more money. The farmers of the United States are dissatisfled with their wages. They are organizing unions and assocla- tions, and it is rumored that they are politically dissatisfied with their lack of tariffs to protect them in in- creased wages. If a way can be found to increase the wages of farm- | ers, especially if it can be done with- ! out reducing the wages of all the rest ; of us by means of higher food prices, how happy we all should be! Of all the underpaid people of the world, however, we suppose the cap- tains of industry are in the deepest umps. See the market reports for this. The editors are underpaid, of course, and the preachers notoriously s0. College professors are starving and lawyers average less than plumb- ers in income. The sad fact is that except for ball players in the major leagues the whole world is under- pald. Such is the problem the teachers face when they get to St. Paul. They must see at a glance that the question is bigger than their profession. \lso they must recognize that it is a case for hard thinking, for with all this demand for higher pay, goes on an equal demand for lower taxes. Our ability for hard thinking depends, of course, on the skill with which we are trained by the teachers. It is up to them, therefore, to enable us to raise the wages of everybody in the world who' works. We believe the thing can be done and that the teach- ers can show us how. At it, teachers. Ireland in Time For Dinner. (Waterbury American.) We don't know why anyone should care to eat breakfast in America and sit down to dinner the night of the same day in Ireland. But that is a possibility which Alex- ander Graham Bell, the inventor or the telephone, held up for the en- couragement of aviators in a com- munication to the National Geograph- ic society. He shows how easy " it is in the following.line of reasoning. The distance from Newfoundland to Ireland is less than 2,000 miles. At the rate of 100 miles an hour the dis- tance may be covered in twenty hours. But flying machines can go much faster than .that and the high- er they fly the thinner the air and the less the resistance, while the pro- peller gets the same push as against a heavier medium. At the height ot two miles there is a steady current of air flying in the general direction of Europe with a velocity of from 25 to 50 miles an hour. A good machine capable of sustaining itself at a height of two miles, taking advantage of this current, ought, Dr. Bell thinks, to make the distance in thirteen hours. It is by no means impossible to make a machine which can sustain itself for that length of time at that rate of speed if everything goes ex- actly as planned. But it involves ter- rible risks yet awhile. Yet the achievement scems not only possible but very probable within a very lim- ited time. There are stimulating re- wards offered for the man who does it first and it looks like by no means the hopeless proposition that Andree's was of drifting in a balloon across the pole. Unparalleled Underpricing at the Suit Department We have held so early many in a summer season, so many attractive sales at our Suit Department, remarkable values as now. but never before have we offered, We have reduced prices through- out regardless of cost and although the following items will give you a good idea of the money su\'lngs.’ be astonished when such wonderfully you will offering at you low prices. es. WISE, see the Summer Suits, Dres Coats, Waists and Skirts that' we are SMITH & CO., HARTFORD. One Hundred and Forty Tsior Made Suits Adapted for Eariy Fal and Later Wear. That So'd for $14.98, $16.98 & $20 Suits of serge, Suits of Bedford cord. Womens summer tajlored Suits, were $13.98 to $16.98, at the wonderfully price $3.95 low $20 White Serge and Pencil Stripe Bedford Cord Reduced to $8.98. and Women's Coats, ruffled unlined, have been $14.98 Tailor Madc Suits, Sixty Stylish Misses' ous colors and all in the new some lined, some $16.98. Now reduced to $7.00. Twenty-four Misses' and Women’s Coats, various have been $10 and $12.98, Now material to $5. 0dds and Ends of $1.98 and $2.98 Silk Messaline, Fancy Wash and Crepe Waists, Now reduced to 95¢. $3.00 and $3.98 Crepe de Chine Silk Waists, Now reduced tc $2.25, $4.98 and §$5. of gaberdines, One and two of a style, '8 Silk Crepe de Chine and Fancy Lace Waists, Now reduced to $3.25. Suits Suits of diagonals, YOUR tailored $20.00, Women's Suits, summer $17.98 now marked down to $7.95 $5.98 and $6.98 were to vari- styles, and e and Fancy Misses’ reduced to $1.39. Women's $2.98 $1.98. Women’s $3.98 Women’s $5.98 Women's $7.98 reduced $4.98. CHOICE OF THE ENTIRE Lheck Dress Skirts, Now $6.95 Suits of crepe, Suits of poplin and Suits LOT, $6.95. tailored .00, Women's summer Suits, $22.50 to $ your choice now all at $9.95 Lace Waists also Fancy Crepe de were Chine and Silk Crepe Waists, Now reduced to $4.25. $7.98 and $8.98 Crepe Silk and Lace Waists, $2.49 and $2. Georgian Silk Now reduced to $5.25. 8 Cloth Dress Skirts, Now Dress Skirts, Now reduced to Dress Skirts, $2.50. Dress Skirts $3.50. and $8.98 Francy Plaid one and two of a style, Now and $10 New Style Summer Coats $6.95 Very latest model three-quarter length coats, made of double warp serge, also wool diagonal in navy, black and blue, two-button front, long revers, collars-and cuffs trimmed with self or contrasting moire ... $1.98 WASH SKIRTS AT Bedford and pique, also ratine with long sian tunie. $4.98 PIQUE SKIRTS AT Imported wide Bedford stripes “ith minarette, $4.98 SHEPHERD PLAID SKIRTS AT long tunic. $3.98 WHITE SERGE SKIRTS AT All worsted material, $10.00 LINEN DRESSES AT Fine French linen, Rus- $2.08 |. and cuffs. two ruffle $2.98 SILK WAISTS AT Flowered China silk with plain silk hemstitched and self collar. All wool, also some white with black stripes. $8.98 LINEN DRESSES AT Fine linen, collar. DAILY DELIVERY in New Britain, EiImwood, Newingmn,‘ Cedar - Hill, 'Phone orders Charter 8050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. FACTS AND FANCIES. A woman's page says that the new Paris fashions are notable for their costly simplicity. Sometimes they are simple and sometimes they are com- plex, but they are always costly.— ‘Waterbury Republican. Prisoners aren’t hopeless after all. Those in Charlestown prison sent $288 to Salem’s relief, and the life squad at Sing Sing, it will be remem- bered, wanted to enlist in the Mexi- can war.—Norwich Bulletin, It begins td look as if we can't dodge prosperity. Nature is rising up superior to legislation and busi- ness pessimism and deluging the land with wealth, The “bears” may prevail for a little while yet in Wall street, but with Providence bulling the market the outcome is certain. Waterbury Democrat. 'No one will envy John D. Rocke- | feller reaching the age of seventy-five vears, with the prospect of living many more years, but to be confined to one's estate of a few hundred acres and surrounded by guards the kind of longevity the average free born American does not hanker after. —Middletown Penny Press. They all seem to fear Lieutenant Governor Tingier, who is sitting tight and not doing a bit of worrying. If the gubernatorial nomination should come to him probably he would take it, but he isn’t lifting his finger to se- cure it, and if it should happen to go elsewhere it isn’t likely he would shed many tears, Not only is Mr. Tingier a good fellow, but he's a good democrat 365 days in the year.— Rockville Leader. Democrats of Bibb county, Georgia, recently elected to a place on the county executive committee a who had been dead ten years. than 2,000 voters registered in favor of the dead man at the primary, and the error was not discovered relative of the nominee informed the party officers. Electing dead men to office is something new in politics, though voting dead men is in tunic effect, velvet bow and lace j same, is | man | More | acra j velt and his ideas. until a | into | | $5.00 Hill and Clayton. WISE, SMITH & CO, HARTFORD, according to enemies of Tam- many Hall.—Bridgeport Standard. Paterson is a city of about 130,000 people. If at present. it has between 1,500 and 2,000 stray, homeless, un- cared for dogs, that is too many. For it must mean that there are three or four times as many more or less ‘ef- fectively sponsored dogs. The ques- tion of the economic limit of dog pop- ulation is one that has never been satisfactorily settled, and probably never will be so long as we have plen- ty of room and plenty of food for the people, But even a few uncared-for, irresponsible dogs is too many. Pat- erson has more than a few.—New Haven Register. Break in Louisiana, (Detroit Free Pess.) The movement toward the Bull Moose party by democratic leaders in Louisiana, and particularly in the third congressional district of that state where a disintegration of the party organization seems to be under headway, is an intensely significant phenomenon which the Wilson ministration cannot afford to ignore. It is a direct rebuke for the president and particularly for his action in forcing through the sugar schedule of the tariff bill. There is very good reason to sup- pose also that this movement away from the administration is confined to no one southern state, though naturally it is strongest in Louisiana, which has suffered the destruction of its cane sugar industry. The same dissatisfaction is known to exist in other commonwealths below the Mas. on and Dixon line and it is impossible to conjecture how far active disaffecs tion may spread once a break s made, Naturally the Bull rejoice in the turn of events, but it 1s by no means clear that they really stand to gain much. The republicans, on the other hand, are nothing, and they may profit consider- ably. The desertions from the dem- tic party in the south are in no caused by love for Mr, Roose- The new comers the ranks of the Bull Moose party are joining merely because they cannot bring themselves to bear the name republican. They take the Moosers will wise an old only other name that seems available. ad- | likely to lose ' e $6.95 $6.50 in coat effect, batiste collar $1.79 collar or $22.50 and $25 BEAUTIFUL SILK DRESSES ALL AT $10.00. Maple Our Restaurant, an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. But if these Dixie progressives elect men to congress thelr represen- tatives will go primarily as anti-Wil- son men prepared to make a confed- eration with any party or faction which is likely to down the adminis- tration, and their logical affiliation should be with the republicans. Clearly the situation is parlous for the president. Possibly Mr. Wilson has confronted no more serious polit- ical problem since he went into the White House. Certainly he has been threatened with no more serious blow 'm his prestige. Soup and Other Things, (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Mack A. Roney tells us that he has discovered a Cleveland restaurant that is enterprising, to say the least. “They give prizes away with every dish of soup,” he says, “and whatever ycu get s yours. Good, sensible prizes they are, too. A few blanks, but in case you do draw a blank, the management will refund your money, rrovided you haven't mussed up your soup. Or, they will give you a re- deemable check, and when you re- saved two of these, you are entitled 1 to yvour choice of any article on the first shelf. And so on. They do a business. When you go in, you will see some fellow splashing around in his soup, and directly he will haul out =omething, and a crowd will gather around him, with a chorus of ‘Whadja get this time?" 1 knew one fellow who got a complete set of chirt studs, and enough buttons to start a haber ery. the cerise whiskers drew a hose sup- porter, Saturday, and ever since he has been eating soup three times a day, helping to get iits mate. When he draws that he's going to try for a pair of socks to go with them.” gton’s Deserters, York Times.) There will not be much worry jabout those “overworked” congress- men, toiling in the hot city of Wash- ington, tired out with their many months of rd work, while this country is full of business men and workingmen who are also working hard six days a week in equally hot cities, and making no complaint about it. 1If these men shirked their work, as most of the congressmen do the business of the country would come to a standstill. Look at the re- Wa (New My friend with | MCMILLAN'S OUR - ANNUAL JULY CLEARANGE SALE (Store Closes Wednesdays at Noom During July and August.) Big Wash Goods Sale For Wednesday Morning 2,000 YARDS OF 40 INCH VOILES, Regular 26c grades. On Sale Wi nesday at 19¢ YARD. All new designs in these dainty voiles, rich showing of flowered ef« fects, stripes and plain colors, (See Window Display.) 100 Strong Fibre Sult Cases Size 14, 16, 18 and 20 inch. Regu- lar 98c values, on morning at 77¢ EACH. Made with strong brass locks and catches. Scrims All new patterns now oh uh.r Double flowered border scrims that are worth 12 1-2¢ and 15c yard. JULY SALE PRICE %S¢ YARD. Cross-bar Scrims with dainty flowe ered borders, all new designs, regular 19c grade, JULY SALE PRICE 15¢ YARD, 25c and 29c¢ Novelty Scrims, drawn work designs, in white ana ecru, JULY SALE PRICE 19¢ YARD. See window display of these bare gain drapery materials, D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. cord of last Monday, when a divigion showed sixty-seven members present. and voting. Then the absentees were sent for, hut when they were rounded up only 184 could be found, or thirty- four short of a quorum, and the house had to adjourn. Of the 184 thus shown to be in Washington, 117 were somewhere else than in the' house until they were sent for. Yet they complain of their hard work, Some of them are working hard, cers tainly—in this case the sixty-seven who were doing their duty while all the rest in the city loafed, and when more than half the house was not even in the city. The skulkers from their duty have been treated as martyrs long enougi. If each of them did the work he is paid for doing and did it conscien= tiously, he still would not be a mar- tyr; he would be a man doing a day's work of from five to eight hours a day, six days a week, with a day oft on Sunday. Men who do just that fare too common in this country to excite sympathy. Everybody v where the absente re. They drawing their sa for work which i put on the shoulders of more hona - est congressmen. and at home appealing to their constituents for re. election. Their constituents should respond to that appeal by every congressman who thus neglects his duty, asking him what he fs do~ | ing away from the firing line and, it he fails to make a satisfactory answer retirmg him from the office he has ‘I’l’lll sed. are ] sale Wednesday & y ¢ Three Big Bargains In Gurtaln Y- {. § 3 { “ marking ‘.