New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1914, Page 8

B . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1914 PPUVERCOA . DOLLAR F A WEEK & W E popularized this system of selling Clothing on Dollar A Week Payments. Our stores are known all over the country. Thous- ands upon thousands buy from us and recommend us to their friends. We must give the Service, Value and Price Otherwise we could not continue to command their patronage. Compare our prices—our goods—our accommodations with any store in town and we ask you to be guided by the re- sult, Ladies’ Goats and Suits At $5, $8, $10, to $18 Very smart in style and complete in assort- ment. All the well known fabrics in the in- teresting and fascinating styles. ‘We have just what you want and at the price you want it too and credit besides. : Men’s Overcoats and Balmacaans $10 Don’t delay. We have the garments. to $16 Never mind the cash, just pay a dollar a week and be stylishly and warmly dressed. We guar- antee our overcoats to fit and wear- Come in tomorrow and buy your coat and charge it. ATELY & BRENVAN ain St., Near Franklin Sq., New Britain. Open Mon. and Sat. Evenings Vi CALL ENVER PASHA D' “TURKISH NAPOLEON Russian Campaign. By Philip R. MacKenzie. | Commande s Ful War Pen for Rome, Oct, 29.—Enver Pasha, “the | ns | insist on calling him, has prepared a | Turkigh Napoleon,” as the Germa rlan of war which although kept secret is known to every military at- tache in Con The Turki fo s are d into three armi the fi , under the command of Tu gut P to operate in Cau against Russia; the second, under zet Pasha, to attack Egypt, and t third, ate | pared Russia attempted Kurope. As against an sh ex, ir- I he under Enver himself, to oper- s fully pre- Turkis invasion of the Caucasus the success to say the le The plan to of the first army is, highly problematical. vade Egypt presupj tion of the Sue lish are guarding against i successful would immediately | voke Italy’s intervention as Englan | ally, a contingency which both G many and Turkey wish to avert. With the Itallan fleet in the Aege and an Italian in- es the obstruc- canal, which the Eng and which d's er- ran expeditionary force aiding the English in Egypt and along the Red sea the prospect of Turkey's success is certainly not great, As the third army, an ance with B indispensable. Were and march against s not likely that after the over the Turks will evacuate garian territory. The risk is so gr that Bulgaria hastened to that she will remain neutral and for ul- Bui- Greece war is Bul- eat announce is determined to resort to arms in order to prevent the Turks from invading | the country. The strained relations between Italy ~nd Greece relating to the Alban question no longer exist since Italy ian | Do cupied Vallona and Greece the Epirus, the like Italy, a first step toward of Albania. Greece, islands in the Aegean to against Turkey. Rumania is to follow in Italy's wake. conflagration repartition has | defend ready The Balkan | expected by Turkey is bound to follow, but certainly not in Turkey's favor. Englavd Averts Trouble. When Italy abandons neutrality and | declares war against her nominal lies, Germany and Austria, the merit | of this diplomatic achievement will be ! The exclusively to England. bonds of the triple due weakening conflict between Italy and France al- al- | liance were strengthened owing to the | consequence of the arrest and search | by Itallan warships of the two French ' pected of carrying Turkish and contraband to Tripoli toward end of November, 1912, this incident was eventually refer to arbitration it led to such a viol port Is Criticized by Please allow mns of your influen- me ¥ an emphatic pro- Parpasent negligence the good nature af ou on the one hand v in which they do pub- and the seeming non- speak mildly, with which jed ice committee which fer on us through the.coun- mpts it on the public, sup- ) help itself out of the hole fade, if possible, the public” fir. to the, fact that the muni- ~business, -as they pictured it t has turned out in one year's e two different propositions. 1 speciaily to the inexcusable sness of the council at its last ing and its finance committee in ng and ordering paid a bill of 090 for ice claimed to have been nished. by the ice committee for r drinking fountains for four months i this .year. This seems an out- ‘ageous bill, especfally after all the Juptrap, hue and cry about .;urpm:.x«! city “and i The committee extortion bleeding tie wconsumers generall, ~who were supposed to be the, suf- fering public’s champions, who werc to save and protect us from the greed of the ice barons, now turn on us and yoast us several times worse than the bloated oppressors of former years. Think of it, you credulous taxpayers. “After you generously, furnished nearly $12,000 to relieve and free vourselves from being bled and ground almost to dust you now find your supposed pratectory assisted by the council and the head of our business administra- tion turning the screws on you for amore than three-fold of the juice the ice monopoly formerly extorted from you. According to the official rec- ords the New Britain Ice corporation bid for and furnished for the same fountains for five months (not four months) June 1 to November 1, in 1910, for $90; in 1911 for the same places and time; $160; in 1912 for the same, $150. These were years in which we had a normal ice crop as that of 1914. ing soaked more than three times as much as we could, without doubt, have had the ice supplied by private dealers and when the extra month is added ‘we san safely say the city for what it §s now paying ¢ould have made a four- years’ contract and had as good, if. not botter, service. - And, by the way, where does our committee on supplies and printing come in? They have the supplies to look after and have heretofore se- cured bids for furnishing ice. Where were they this year? They have been criticised for their economical Pprocedure in former years, for in- ‘ptance, securing bids from out-of. fown parties for printing, which con Therefore, we are be- tracts were let to Hartford and Mer- iden firms in different years. { The ice committce made a claim of saving: the city money based on | last year's prices when the local sup- ply did not last halt the had to be purchased and brought in | here. The Ice corporation, as shown { by the records, was the only one to auote a price which was thirty cents prer one hundred pounds, and they were not ordered to furnish any until July. When they furnished part of that month and during August, part of September and October (not two months as the committee states); for this they got $275, and claims it was less than it cost them. The well advertised and public pro- tecting committee assured us that with $10,000 they would erect and equip a plant sufficient to harvest and store nearly 7,000 tons of ice, with which to stabilize prices and be part of the 20,000 or more tons estimated as locally required here annually and incidentally. would save ice users an | untold number of dollars. We were told that harvesting could be done for ten to twelve cents per ton. The estimate for the plant complete was between $7,600 and $7,700, this was for a building 150 feet long, but after- wards it was made 175 feet, which would make the total in round num- | bers $8,000. But the building has never been completed and is in no con- dition to store ice with a low per- | centage of shrinkage, also the ma- terial used In its construction is of the poorest character for an ice house. Notwithstanding the estimates made, the incompleteness of the building, etc., the expense reported for plant and equipment to date is, in round figures, $12,000, fifty per cent. more than estimated; 7,000 tons of ice at a cost of twenty-one cents per ton for harvesting instead of twelve cents, is reported. No report of tonnage sold is given, but total receipts and money due is glven at $3,312.44, and the $470.90 extracted from the city at $2 would make 1,891 tons of ice disposed of, though it is understood $2.26 ana $2.50 per ton was charged early In the season. A cost of $1,520.00 1s given in the March report, which would make the cost of harvesting per ton eighty-five cents, as we do not think it proper to count what ice | has melted or the 800 tons claimed to be on hand, which probably will never { be turned into money. i We have a reported cost of $2,- | 632.12 for handling and cartage in i»the disposal of the 1,791 tons, which | shows a cost of $1.46 per ton, and adding the eighty-five cents makes the cost $2.21 per ton for what the committee ware selling for $2 for part of the season at any rate. This would show an aftual cash loss of fhirty- one cents per ton. { The commlttee {n its October report failed to mention or account for the , 81,620 reported in the March peport for harvesting, and thereby attempt- ed to show an actual gain or {profit season and | | large quantities at exorbitant prices | of $680.12. There is no mention made of a heavy annual fire insurance premium, that the durability of such @ plant runs only from five to ten years and there should be an annual charging of ten per cent. or more of the cash or a large amount set aside for repairs, which will larger each year, nor do we see any- thing about four and a half per cent. interest on the money invested, the rate the city has to pay for borrowed money. In order to come out even from year to year anyone in the ice busi- ness would be compelled to figure de- preclation and interest and set his selling price accordingly, so that on this basis the ice committee have sold ice for $3,300 that should, in order to pay, have been sold for about $5,000 to $5,300. In their October report the committee claims to ‘have paid out for a store house and further equipment $1,325, without showing where they got the money. They give their total receipts and whart is as the cost of handling, and speak of a floating indebtedness of over $300. These statements do ~not explain as clearly as they ought to in jus- tice to the committee or the public how matters stand. Our i tee in their March report claim 7,000 tons stored, state that twenty-five per cent shrinkage is allowable, leaving for the market 5,250 tons. As we have shown above, as near as it cau be ascertained from their about 1,800 tens were disposed of. We were told in March that there were 7,000 tons of ice stored, that twenty-five per cent. shrinkage was allowable, leaving 5,250 tons for the market, and as we figure 1,800 tons sold and 800 tons on hand, making 2,600 tons, would leave 2,660 tons un- accounted for or adding the twenty-five per cent, shrinkage makes 4,400 tons gone, over sixty per cent., which is extraordinary. Was there 7,000 tons put up? If there was less of it, the cost of har- vesting goes up. Figuring the cubic space in the bullding and .calculating on the or- dinary number of cubic feet required per ton shows less than 6,000 tons. If this is correct, it shows a mis- statement of quantity, Experienced ice dealers state that the usual allowance for shrinkage from storage to consumer is from twenty-five to thirty-three and one- !third per cent. but in this case the ice was wholesaled and the loss by retailing is not to be considered. The ice committee in its October report promised a further report at the November council meeting. What became of it? No doubt the committee fully ex- pected the ice venture would be of considerable benefit to the people of the city but it has not turned out that way. It appears to be an expensive ex- periment and the only chance for a public benefit (and that is a doubt- y ful one) is that it has depressed grow | due for ice at $3,312.44, and $2,632.12 ; commit- | i under any obligations to reports ! prices and will be a club to them down. The city's competition with 1,800 tons only of the 20,000 to 25,000 tons used here annually and the being known as the limit of the petition will the minds of the ice barons. One other claim out and that is the hoiding of to 10,000 tons in storage to an emergency if therc is a sho _or the prices are jacked up it can be put on used up or is sold out as rapidly as the market. As the buyers are found we derive no fit in that direction and cannot do so. We cannot sell it and hold it at the same time. If charging the taxpayers treble and fourfold for ice is a sample of municipal ownership, discharge committee and sell out quick. to be delivered from any .more and be sure not to give any power to them or put any other de- partment under their control. The facts and figures herein tioned were taken from official press reports or computed from which anyone can verify by e nation. no connection with, interest in, dealer or corporation. Also th: believes in the sincerity and good in- tentions of the members of the mittee but he hopes the will carefully investigate the tion before more money and believes they will realize t business cannot be successfully aged by totally inexperienced giving limited attention to it and re- ceiving no pay for what they do, OBSERVER. Ic Aword fn the classt fied column makes your wants knewn to thousands of people. If you have something to sell, if you want to hire help, if you want a bet- ter situation, if you want to hire or Iet a tenement the classtfied column will place you in touch with the right people. not cause much fear in is practically laid use in If the above is what we are to expect of councilmanic management let us pray The writer will state he any taxpayers is gr: hold outburst of anti-Italian hysteria France that the memory of rankled in Italian minds three mon 1800 | 280. When Germany declared war com-/f Fortunuately England France, and this fact, the Italians’ traditional hatred Austria and the hope of winn stood 7,000 ortage pl 8¢ | remain neutral. ice is and cleverly bene. | Over., and this work has proved will be on England’s side. your | cleverly worded interview which peared in the Idea Nazionale, the It is an open secret that this an official B: ists. terview came from of It |ish source, more ment is unnecessary. men- 1 and them, xami- has or is ice at he viz: Italy and Albania, vention, contraband of war glo-Ttalian joint action against T key, as follows: “With regard to Albania, the most simultaneous Italian occupat of Vallano and the Greek occupat buted to British in Rome and at Athens. This course is a mistake. England has particular interests in Albania hence has never policy. Her effort: war have been limited in conciliate the different often widely divergent, of the gr and small powers in regard to Alba in order to diminish causes of fricti com- ques- anted hat a ma men, trying and Greek interests in southern bania, which recently suffered from prevalling state of anarchy. Engl interests were purely humanitari; The provisional solution of the qu tion of the Epirus, now occupled Greece, removed: a steamers Carthage and Manouba, sus- officers the red ent in it still ths on France and all but dragged Italy with Although | | by | of ing Trent and Trieste, persuaded Ttaly to Since the beginning | of the war England has been silently working to draw Italy | coupled with | s0 | ap- of- ficial organ of the Italian National- in- rit- | and its significance and importance are so obvious that com- The interview deals with four important questions, Ttaly’s inter- and An- ur- al- ion ion of no and followed a Balkan since the Balkan to standpoints, eat nia on. ingland helped to conciliate Itallan Al- n a ish an. ex- by cause of friction with Ttaly and when the war is over and the question of amined neither Italian nor terests will be sacrificed. Advantages to Ttaly. “The British government oppose Italy’s Adriatic policy question of Albania is merely one the many problems of such a poli Greek Albania re-e: in- does mot | The of 1 oy There are of course others whose sol- ution may be imminent. England does not influence Italy's policy in orc dar to change the attitude of the govern- ment in the present European cc flict. There are many 'people W think that Italy’ considerably shorten the war, but course this question has to be deci ed by the Italian government. advantages of ltaly's would be incalculable. Of on ho | intervention would | of id- The intervention | course some people in Italy think that even with Italian intervention would last a long time, but a mistaken judgment. “Germany already shows this the war evident of the Epirus has been wrongly attri- | diplomatic pressure | | successful that Ttalian statesmen now | openly admit that Italy's intervention | The rela- tions between Italy and England have recently been clearly explained in a | signs of exhaustion. enormous effort. ance to the Allies maj give way at once. Public opinion /in Germany has great deal Signs of fatigue and discouragemen are to be found everywhere. Econom- conditions are within They are badly fed. lacks supplies manufacture of arms and ammuni- and Italy's intervention sive. Apart from the military import- ance of such and Austria will suffer when the only door through which supplies and ma- terials pass is closed. make intervention, within the y gained two months over the other bel- will advantages from advantages are that she will “It is a well known fact that Ger- supplied contraband course the rules regulating the traae of neutrals clear and imperfect, and have interpreted. to her advantage of During the Italo-Turkish thirty British ships were arrested and Ttalian England has arrested ships with cargoes of copper from the United States destined for Ge ny and Austria. in time of This no ground any as the arrest of a ship has no polili- importance. cereals are to Germany and Austr by negotiations are now pe Italy stop this contraband. Italy more rather event, which will exerc Italy’s policy and intervention become catastrophic. vizier is against <ha and his German officers sooner or later will compel Turkey —ESTABLIHED 1886 Globe Glothing House Get the latest direct from the Hart, Schaffner & Marx’ sent us beautiful fancy Dluss and browns for fall suits, $18 and front, - Let us show you- {8 Overcoats that Hart, Schaffner & Marx make. Price range from $18 She has made an | vene Germany’s resist- | Ger- untjl the point. Then rope | Englana from her Aslatic tempt changed a the last monih. the Pacjfic The | Good Hdpe. by way undermined. Germany metals for the such will prove Germany | to watch closely Mediterranean and and England have Italy’s inter- Constantinople that peace possible Italy will thus have land obtain enormous fend their African a short war. Such not be increased if prolonged and the arrive too defence | Rumania and Bulgaria be compared | Turkey, but Enver Pasha will try to to that of a rope stretched in front attack BEgypt. of a crowd pushing against it. many will resist possessions. is successful, Engiand communicate with the Far East and in Germany's favor. will not Join of the Communications® army reserves have been exhausted.| Australia and South Africa will be The soldiers now sent to the front, delayed from ten are men between forty and fifty years | Italy will communicate with her col- old, or boys of sixteen and seventeen. | onies in the Red Sea with a delay ofy now (a month or five weeks. an Islam agitation in Cyrenaica Abysinnia where German and A circumstances | agents have been specially actl deci- | cently, and it is obvious that it Wym question of vital importance for her coloj to twenty Other good makes, $10.00 up to $18.00. This Store is the home ofHart,Schaffner&Marx Clothes, Interwoven | Socks, Stetson Hats, Ral- | ston Health Shoes. Gree “Of course this is an exaggeration, is|but It is a fact that Germany every- | at blocking the Suez canal to prevent bringing troops from 1f this at- aims will Cape’ of with days. Add to this' the Ree iy Iready nOG e closing 0 Suez canal damages both their . csts. This implies that Jtaly and B will stand side by side to de- colonles.” A secret agreement between land and Italy in connection ‘with th‘ of common been concluded since November, 1 i why” Interest When Turkey declares war om E,.!A land, and there through TIcaly, flourishes. Of a colonies will be and The secret the are not to be interor course ove war sngland war warships and several Italian ASSIG TO N Washington, Commander L. R it to pass. There is incident between British governments, was going | Dewey England North Iieutenant ship aide by vvheat from way German agents have ed this trade at d- | Considerable expected | with the general b of which Admiral I Phillips,so soon to | England 1o *lic personage, and introc to stop it would ;10 secure a more s ! tion of an drive joining England persons Before long hed Oc- serious incident. | driy will likely happen, | full o great influence on of upset the plans of bt te neutrality. Tur- is imminent. The nstantinople grows one moment to an- | just as The Enver motor law the s that fledged the as 1 side. cars publi her was the more ¢ pass th state the lax accepting son's claim to little war but casualities in this to inter- " Sentinel. agreement ase of aggression, in | way as the Triple Alliance did, Nov, Sargent, doubt has been and is responsible for of the accidents that swell the list of officlally INTH the David oard of ewey is eave us luee tringent . who The sxpert ot last in the Tiatp to Sotn. Kaglund | ture an automobile law that will tend will be and becon under is every reason to believe that England will await guch.s declaration and refrain ing it herself, then tRe safety of thi threatened Italy will help her defend them. contemplates from maks« wf the same DAKOTA? 20.—Lieutenant alde to three years, has been assigned to the battle- Dakota and succeeded as M. Le- reton, whose duties also inclade work the nawy, chairman. By all means let Secretary of State as a pub- legislu~ «examing- wish _ to more drastic the the There s no ity of about knowledge driving with childlike faith, There s this laxity that state. the present every per- of auto many —Ansonia