New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1914, Page 9

- BALDWIN COMMENTS _ ON EUROPEAN WAR Covernor Says Confel Wil Tem: porarily Benefit United States. New Haven, Conn., Aug, for Simeon E. Baldwin, a president of the International Association of London, England and of the American Society for the Judi- cial Settlement of International Dis- putes, said today of the war situation: —Gover- former “I think the general war in Europe | to be of considerable tem- | is likely rorary benefit to this but country; #ltimately it .would probably detract | from its resources and perhaps for a time being on serlous business condi- tions. Have Commanding Position. ‘“We are now in a position to com- mand the carrying trade of the world. | This we had, to considerable degree, during the European wars at the close of the eighteenth century and the be- ginning of the nineteenth. Our ships were then on every sea carrving other | reople’s goods. It is likely to be again. “This means that we are likely to profit by’ the refusal accede to the proposed American doc- trine that private property should be free from capture at sea unless in cases of contraband of war and breach of blockade. England is proba™ly in a position to declare an effective blockade of German ports. Should a blockade be declared by any of the great powers we should have repeated such scenes as occurred in southern waters during the Civil war when blockade running was frequent. No blockade of a great port can ever be perfectly hermetical. Favorable to Neutrals. *“It is fortunate that the last Hague convention, Wwith regard to mails was so favorable to the neu- ‘trals, and for that matter, to bellig- erents also. This is the convention relative to certain restrictions with regard to the exercise of the right of capture in naval wdr and was rat- ified by the United States in 1908. Chapter ‘1, article 1 and 2 provides: * ‘That all postal correspondence of neutrals or belligerents, whether cfficial or private, found on the high seas on board a neutral ship or an enemy’s ship is inviolable, and shall be forwarded by the captor in case the ship is detained, with the least possible delay. This does not apply to cases of violating blockades or to letters to\or from a blockaded port. Neutral mail ships are not to be searched, except absolutely nec essary, and then vith as much consideration as possible.’ Ratified 1908, “Another provision of a Hague convention, which Was also ratified by the United States ih” 1908, has some provisions, the force of which I ob- serve Germany does not deny with Tespect to neutral powers. This is the convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers and per- sons in case of war on land and pro- vides that the territory powers is inviolable and the belliger- ents are forbidden to move troops or convoys either of munitions of war or of supplies across the territory of “a neutral power. g “Dispatches would seem to indicate that Germany frankly owns she has violated these provisions, but justi- fies it on the ground of military necessity, It is obvious, however, that the provisions of the convention were adopted to apply to just cases such as now have occurred. So that .it must be a cause of regret to all friends of international peace that the and d Law | of Europe to | of heutral | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1914, neutrality of Belgium, both specially guaranteed by treaty and guaranteed by the convention of The Hague in 1907, should be violated.” VOR GERM. ! SWEDES DO Contrary to a report printed in a morning paper, local Swedes do not support Germany, On the other hand, many prominent Scandinavians are inclined to place the blame for the entire European conflict on the kais- 1 Naturally, the Swedish people in | this country, as well as in the old world, are keenly interested in the situation, their native land being but a short distance away from the seat of activities. BRANDEGEE APPEARS BEFORE PRES. WILSON er. Senator Says That Chef Executive | Sent for im to Discuss Bilis (Special to the Herald.) Washington, Aug. 5.—Senator Frandegee fast night denied the story printed in yesterday's papers to the effect that he, with other republican members of the senate, had called up- | on the president and asked him to rostpone the pending trust legislation until the next session of congre: “What really happened,” said Sena- tor Brandegee, “is this: 1 was called on the telephone while in my office in the senate office building and asked if I would visit the White House with other .members of the minority for a consultation with the president, I said I would go, so last night with Senators Gallanger, of New Hamp- shire and Smoot, of Utah, I went to the White House. After discussing the situation at some length President Wilson asked us if we would not agree to allow a vote to be taken at once on the anti-trust measures now pending before the senate. I told the presi- dent that while there would ke no filibustering o nany of the bills, be- fore unanimous consent could be ob- tained to set a day for a vote on the measures they must be thoroughly de- bated. I told him that in my opinion his party was not behind him in his efforts to change the entire business policy of the country. He said that his object was to remove from be- fcre the business interests of the country the large question mark now there. T told him that in the opinion of the minority of the senate he was erecting dozens of question marks where he would remove but one. “We did not go to the White House to ask the president to allow the trust measures to go over; we were sent for and asked to grant unanimous con- sent that a day be set for a vote.” OBTAIN GOLD FOR AMERICANS. New York, Aug. 5.—J. P. Morgan & Co., are understood to have ob-| tained from the Bank of France on the credit of their Paris branch, Mor- gan, Harfes & company, $5,000,000 in gold to be placed immediately at “he disposal of Americans abroad who lack funds on account of the war. 7t was said that more gold would be forthcoming in the same manner if necessary. SUEING FOR $300. Through his attorney, James Meskill, Joseph Rosenberg, ‘of the Tastern Sample Shoe company, has brought suit against Abraham Levin for the recovery of $300. Constable Fred Winkle served the writ this af- ternoon and Levin gave a bond of i | Attorney Joseph G. lcial meeting on Friday Johnson | the $400. The writ is returnable before the court of common pleas on the first Tuesday in September. City ltems 28 Mrs. Holfelder of Prospect | street is seriously ill at her home. W. I5. Parker of Curtiss street and family have gone to Madison for three weeks. H. L. Mills and family will go to- morrow to Packar Camp, Sebec Lake, Maine, for three weeks. Margaret Lukey has transferred land and buildings on Brook street to Woods. Extensive line of trunks, bags, suit cases. Ryan’s, 43 Main street.—advi. The weekly test of the water in the Shuttle Meadow Reservoir shows that the water is as usual in good condition and perfectly safe. The water department the laying of water mains on Wol- cott, East Ellis and Bean streets and will begin work on that on Kensing- ton avenue soon. The church is Loyalty club of the South will have a business and so- night. The New. Britain Fish and Protective association held a ing last night and received on game preserve work. Prof. Graham's private classes Compounce Friday night.—advt. The Woman's Missicnary society the English Lutheran church will hold its monthly meeting this ternoon at the home of Mrs. of Hart street. The Catholic Women's Benevolent Legion held an outing today at Lake Compounce. The Ladies' German Rifle club had a shoot this afternoon at Schuetzea meet- reports at park. The Talmud Torah Hebrew asso- clation will hold a dance this even- ing at the Bungalow. Miss Katherine Butler of Franklin Square is spending her vacation at Ocean Beach. Dr, 4. J. Riley property on Prospect streat through the H. D. Humphrey Agency, | local manager of ngiand Telephone William Semple, the Southern New company, to Maine. Alexandra lodge, Daughters of St. George., will meet this evening. Washington L. Morgan lodge, K. of P., had a melon cut at their meeting last evening. A live wire carrying the current of the Connecticut company broke and fell to the sidewalk last night on North street between Grove and Oai and caused trouble until the company fixed it, on notification of Captain Grace of the police department. Chimneys repaired. H. A. Trainor Leave orders at Mills' Hardware F¥rancis Ragolski, of 147 Broad street, informs the police that on Saturday last his wife skipped out, being very careful to take their hank account of $420 with her. Rogalski is the woman who was re- ported on Saturday as getting up from a sick bed and running away. Officer Walter Malona's vacation will be a memorable one for him as he is laid up with a badly bruised leg as the result of an injury he re- ceived while on duty. The ladies of the German Baptist church, leaving the center on a special car this forenoon, went to Lake Com- pounce, where they held their annual’ outing. William P. Moore, who is to or- ganize the new chamber of commerce in this city, held a conference with directors of the Business Men's association last evening. He will re- turn in a few weeks to begin his cam- paign of organization. There will be an important meeting of the New Britain Nest of Owls to- morrow evening at 8 o'clock in G, A. K. hall. finishing | Game of Smith has purchased the ! has returned from a trip | | has settled down to a walting attitude, | that no attempt to re-open the Stock Mrs. | VAGATION SCHooL WELL ATTENOED Commezcement Exercises and Ex-| Iibition to Be Held Next Week. A total attendance in the five weeks of its existence of three thousand | children proves the success of the| children’s Vacation School being con- | ducted in the parish house of the Center church. The school whicih was an innovation this year will bel n session oné week more, and will; close with commencement exercises} week from Friday night in the chape The total enrollment has been 288, the average daily attendance 130 and the largest attendance 152. Thirty- two volunteer workers have taught the children, who are of fourteen dif- ferent nationalities. The work is conducted by a divi- sion of five departments, hammock, raffia, read, sewing and kindergarten The sewing department is complet- ing a large quilt which will be on exhibition, together with all the com- pleted work of the children, at the time of the commencement, and which will afterwards be given to the Chil- dren's Home. The hammock de- partment, which ccntains about thiriy boys, will finish about twenty. hammocks, woven out of strong cord. The completed work of the school will mostly be given to the Children’s Home, but some of the hest pieces will be sent to the exhibition of the Vacation Schools Bible association, which will be held in New York city, and in which the best work of three hundred vacation schools will be shown. The children of the lozal school have contributed about four dollars in pennies toward the found- ing of other vacation schools in other cities. The school iay morning in will have a picnic I Walnut Hill park, The school is under the manage- ment of the Rev. B. T. Thienes, as- sistant pastor of the Center church He, also, has direct control over the nammock department. The heads of the other departments are Miss Leila Clary, raffia, Miss Mildred Goodwin, read, Miss Minnie Pa sewing and N aye Robinson aergarten. The school was started and to a large degree financed by the Young People’s Society of the Center church. BOYS IN HAMMOCK MAKING DEPARTMEN WALL 1. ASSUMES WAITING ATTITUDE Steck Exchange Not fo Respen Wiic Exchange Remains Clossd. York, Aug. 5.—With the spread of hostilities abroad, Wall St. New of in- convinced that the normal conditions definite future. resumption lies 1n the It is virtually certain Exchange will be made while tne London exchange remains closed. The stress of the financial situa- tion led the directors of the Ameri- can Tobacco Company today to de- clare their regular quarterly dividena of five per cent. payable in scrip in- stead of cash. The scrip is due one year from September 1, and bears in- terest at six per cent, payable semi- annually. The directors announced that they would need ready cash for marketing crops. Stock Borrowed Here. American securities valued at $15,- 000,000 to $25,000,000 most of which were sold for foreign account in this market last week, were brought in by the steamship Olympic today. Much of the stock was borrowed here pend- ing delivery and in order to round out such transactions the stock received today must be accepted and the bor- rowed certificates returned. Lenders ' of these stocks may find it a difficult - matter to effect the exchange unless the banks offer assistance. The Stock ; Exchange governors were in com- | currency were received at the munication with local ing this matter today. A bankers’ conference was held at the Bankers' Trust Company at which further arrangements were adopted for the shipment of gold to aid American tourists abroad. It is probable that the amount may ex- ceed $8,000,000, as New England and other bankers have asked to partici- pate in behalf of their clients abroad. Exchange Brokers Meet. Foreign exchange brokers again in session endeavoring to meet the situation which hostilities have created. More applications banks regard- for emergency sub- treasury. Another large amount of currency is expected from Washing- ton tomorrow, bringing the total up to about $75,000,000. At the clear- ing house business was proceeding as usual, though in smaller volume.” A large part but not all of the bal- ances was paid in certificates, and it was said that sales of more stocks and bonds on private terms were consummated at prices invariably above last Thursday’'s close, The small inquiry was for the more active issues, including Harrimans, Great Northern preferred, St. Paul and United States Steel. Freight Piling Up. Railroad companies reported a further piling up of freight for for- eign ports at this and other nearby coastwise centers. Shippers are con- templating a petition to President Wilgon asking for special legislation by congress in order that ships may i be obtained for carrying all foodstuffs to Europe. The Past Commanders’ association ! of the Sons of Veterans will hold the i third annual outing and dinner at Hills' “Homestead,” Savin Rock, on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 8, at 1 o'clock. The ladies of the auxiliary have been invited to attend and bring their husbands and beaux. were | BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL SUPPLIES Scheme Will Soon Be Issued By Which Advance of Prices in Food Will Be Stopped. London, Aug. 5.—A British govern- ment gcheme to control the food sup- plies of the British Isles is probably to be issued in the immediate. future, as the retail stores already are ex- | periencing a shortage, In several dis- [ tricts of London the stores opened for only a few hours this morning. The price of beefsteak which yester- day was thirty-two cents a pound, to- {day rose to 42 cents. On Mark Lane the price of wheat advanced today from $1 to $1.25 per quarter while maize rose from $2 to $2.50 per quar- ter. To allay public anxiety in regard to food supplies and to prevent at- tempts to artificially raise prices, the home office issued an official state- ment to the effect that in addition to the four months' supply of wheat ac- | tually in the country or being har- vested, there were large consign- ments of wheat now on the way here, I much of which was already near British shores. There was no conceivable circum- tance, it was said, in which a wheat i famine could arise, and accordingly fear of a scarcity was groundless. The situation regarding meat was not less | satisfactory. “Normal killings of home stock supply sixty per cent. of our annual consumption,” reads the statement, “and we are not necessarily dependent upon foreign imports for the balance of our supply, as in case of emer- gency it could be provided by slaughtering a larger proportion of our own stock.” . | Colonel Roosevelt. kin- | ROOSEVELT REFUSES 10 SEE SUFFRAGISTS Colonel Says, However, He Wil ; Recéive Mrs. Blateh. | | New York, Aug. 6.—Short-sighted Innocent Colonel if he would seo the Women's Pos Roosevelt Asked ja dclegation from |tlitical Union yesterday and tell them the i= going and par- party means Hinman for gov~ of Senator Hinman's to the cause, the progress replied see-no delegation. 1 will Harriot Stanton Blateth what progressive the party to do for suffragists, ticularly whether that to endorse Senator ernor, in view opposition sive leader “1will see Mrs alone.” w U. Contented. The W. P. 1 contented, feeling that Mrs. Blatch, left to hér- self, is capable of worrying Colonel | Roosevell ax no delegation could. A delegation, however, headed by Mrs. Blaich, called at progressive Leadquarters yester and after & long®delay, was received by the ade visory committee. Among the wom- en who went were Mrs. Calvin Tom- kins, Mrs. John Winters Brannan, Mrs. Emmanuel Einstein, Miss Al- berta Hill and Miss Caroline Lexow. Mrs. Blath reminded the commit- tee that the suffragists expected the same little votes-for-women plank that was in the progressive platform in 1912, and also hopes that the party would put up no candidate who didn’t stand for the enfranchisement of women. A large part of her speech was ‘devoted to Senator Hinman, Autacks Senator Hinman. “There has been an impression about,” she said afterward, “that the senator wag'converted to sufftage. He | never was Another upstate man {named Hinman signed a suffrage iledge, and the senator got the credit, Senator Hinman told Miss Lexow | flatly Monday, when she ran him to earth in Binghamton, that if he had the chance he would vote at the poils gainst woman suffrage tomorrow: {that he would make no promises to do anything for it if elected govers |nor. and that his indorsement by the progressive party would lay him un- der no obligation to advance woman {cuffrage, no matter how strong a suf- frage plank its platform might con- tain. “Senator Hinman doesn’t want fto be bothered by the suffragé quéstion, , We propose to see to it that he i, jand 1 shall try to impress the mat. {ter upon Colonel Roosevelt (omors row.” quite ay, CITY'S IGHTING SYSTEM., Ornamental Poles Being Repaired ant Will Be Painted Jet Biack, New iron doors for the flaming are stundards which will prevent molstur® from entering the base of the poles, ax well as two distinct cut-outs al- ready installed, are to make the elec- tric light poles installed about the city absolutely safe. '~ The United Electric Light & Power company is preparing to paint all of the mnew poles a jet black and is also prepar- ng to install a number of new lamps sout the outskirts of the city. | The bronze ornamental pole at Cen~ [ 1ral Park, which was broken by a run- iaway several weeks ago, will be re- placed shortly. The city has already | crdered the new standard and as sobn as it arrives the electric Hght com- | pany will install it, - Exposition City at San Francisco Like Garden of Eden The Palace of Liberal Arts as seen from the great South Gardens. ALMS and pines and cypress, millions land regions of New Zealand, boxed :x:dr::: ed to the tropical South Gardens. The contrast of the dark ways. can hardly be described. The ery great expesition has exerted a wondert Wyr-acisco, whose influence will be perceived long green of the cypress, the lighter green Exposition will open on Feb. 20 and close on Dec. 4, 1915. ul influence upon contemporaneous art and architecture. after the city of palaces, with its ornate walls, its sculpture, its lofty domes and minarets, of the palms, with the beautiful colors of the Exposition buildings, with the This picture was taken in July, 1914. The great World's Columbian Ex g;::ij At the extreme left may be scen a glimpse of the Court of the Universe, now under construction. shrubs, flowers and clinging vines have been brought from distant lands to adorn the great courts and gard ), lens of the Panama- nsported in the holds of steamers to San Francisco and thence set out in the Exposition nurseries, == s Pacific International Exposition. where for months they were carefully nurtured until they gaini Some of the huge tree position at Chicago left an impress whose effect is felt and enjoyed even today, and no its huge beds of flowers and its vast exhibit palaces, has become a memory. & stk ferns were brought from the Ine ed their pristine loveliness, when they were transplante pale ivery of the walls of the main exhibit palaces and with the marvelous mosalcs within the portals and entrancs the buge Exposition at Sas