New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 1

_~much more enthusiasm HERALD BEST OF ALL {#OCAL NEWSPAPERS W A | PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1915 _TWEIL.VE PAGES. GERMANS SAY BRITISH CRUISER WAS SUNKIN . NORTH SEA BATTLE Bcrlin Admits Sinking of Cruiser Bischer and Claims all Other Ger- , Man Ships Returned (0 Port. ONLY 123 OF BLUECHER'S CREW OF 885 MEN SAVED Bir David Beatty, Youngest Admiral in | Englanda’s Navy, Who Commanded é British Squadron in Sunday’s En-| gagement Has Becomre the Most Popular Hero of the War, Accord- ing to London Reports. . Berlin, Jan. 25, via London 11:35 a. .—The following official announce- ment on the naval engagement in the North Sea vesterday was given out in ‘Berkin today “During the advance pf- our armored cruisers Seydlitz, Derfflinger, Moltke and Bluecher, which, accompanied by four smaller cruilsers and two flotillas of torpedo boats were steaming in the North Sea, sthese vessels became engaged with B British detachment composed of five battle cruisers, several smaller cruisers and twenty-six torpedo boat destroyers. “The enemy discontinued the en- fagement after three hours’ time at R point seventy miles west-northwest of Helgoland, and retreated. 45 ‘“According to the information avail- able one British battle cruiser and one .pf our armored cruisers, the Bluecher, ‘Were sunk. All the other German Faips returned o port. ‘“Von Behnke.” ¢ Hero of War. % London, Jan. 25, 12:36 p. m.—The ,news of the first battle between dread- noughts, the naval engagement in the North Sea of yesterday, has aroused on the part of the British public than either the fights off Helgoland or the Falkland‘ Jelands, although both of these en-| gagements perhaps loom larger in ac- tual resuits. i To the English people the combat ~of yesterday means the justification of their long-time confidence in thelr big-gun fleet, and it puts a quietus pn the fear of the east coast of fre- | quent repetitions of the Hartlepool and Scarborough raid. Sir David | Beatty, the youngest admiral in the| British navy, has become the most | popular hero of the war. British Cruiser Sunk. The German official report on Sun- ~fay's fight admits the sinking of the | cruiser Bluecher, but offsets this loss with the assertion that, “‘according to Information available, ohe British bat- | tle cruiser was sunk.” | This statement is in direct conflict with that of the British admiralty | swhich says clearly: “No British ships ‘have Dbeen lost.” This engagement keeps up the repu- tation of the present war for Sunday fighting, which has been so frequent Joth on land and sea that Sunday has now come to be a day of increased vigilance rather than of relaxation. - Cruiser Bluecher Sunk. London. Jan. 24, 10:00 P. wpparent attempt by a German cruis- br squadron to repeat the attack re- | pently made on Scarborough, the ! Hartlepools and other British coast | towns, was frostrated today by the British patrolling squadron and in a running fight the German armored cruiser Bluecher was sunk and two | German battle cruisers seriously dam- | aged. The British ships suffered only slight injury. So far as known onl 123 of the Bluecher's crew of 5 were saved A battle occurred between the lig cruisers and destroyers accompay the bigger ships, but the result of this engagement has not yet reached the admiralty. B British Ships Supcrior. M.—An | i | The British were superior in &hip; engaged, weight of armament and gpeed and the flight of the German thips into the mine and submarine in- fested fleld possibly saved them from turther losses. The Bluecher 550 tons 4 eruiser of 15,- and although was digplacement commissioned in 1900 was completely ‘ the fact that the river was the joint | re-rigged last vear. She was classed as a battle cruiser, but In the next class to those formidable fighters. With her were the Derflinger, Ger- many's latest battle cruiser, which not had just left the builders’ hands, and | the battle cruisers Secydlitz and Moltke, the latter a sister ship of the Goeben, formerly of the German navy but now of the Turkish fleet, which was recently reported dam- aged by the Russians in the Black sea. Beatty on Job Aga The British squadron, connnanded by Vice Admiral Sir David B ¥ who also was in command at the tle off Helig@and last August sisted of the battle crui Lion, Prince Roval, New con- Tiger, Zealand (Continued on Ninth Page.) | ment that the United States ! which an option in an 5 try was | OFFICER’S DAUGHTER HAS MAN ARRESTED Clara. Daughter of Officer Axel Carl- son, Complaing About Stranger Who Followed Her, For following and annoying Clara, the young daughter of Police Officer and Mrs. Axel Carlson, of No. 67 Prospect street, Paul Colkard was ar- rested and locked up at police head- quarters this afternoon by Officer George Moffat. He is charged with breach of the peace. The little girl kept very cool in face of her trying situation and although the strange man followed her from Keeney's theater to the corner of Main and Chestnut streets and then back as far as the Y, M. C. A, she did not lose her presence of mind, and hurried up to Officer Moffatt and told him that the man was annoying her. He took the man to the station, where he denied any inten- tions of annoying the little girl. He said he lives on Arch street and has been in this country but one year, two months of which time he has lived in this city. The arrest of Colkard makes the second one within a week where a grown up man has been arrested on, the complaint that he was following little girls. TONG WAR BREAKS OUT IN CALIFORNIA CITIES Three Chinese Shot and Killed; Several Others Wounded. police San Francisco, Jan. 25.—Three Chinese were shot and killed and a number wounded in a tong war which broke out in several California cities last night. Quong Quock Wah, presi- dent of the Sen Suey Yings, and one of his fellow tong men were killed in the fighting here and another met a like fate in Stockton. Clashes in Oakland and at a small settlement several miles from Stock- ton caused the wounding of two other Chinese. More than a score of arrests had been made early today at the various points of conflict and the police of &all Pacific coast cities are keeping close watch on the Chinese in- habitants in efforts to prevent a spread of hostilities. The war began at a peace meeting here of representatives of Lhé “Sen Suey Yings, and Four Companies to patch up quarrels which had been smouldering for a vear. This is the first tong outbreak the west In many months. NEGOTIATING TREATY WITH COSTA RICA New United States Pact Supple- mentaryto Agreement With Nica- ragua Now Pending in Senate, 25.—The TLatin- Washington, Jan. ! American diplomatic corps manifested a deep interest today in the announce- govern- ment had begzun to negotiate a new treaty with CTUsta Rica, supplementary to the pact with Nicaragua new pend- ing in the United States senate by inter-oceanic canal route is sought for this govern- ment as well as a naval base in the Bay of Fonseca. With the idea of improving its re- lations with the Central American re- publics, the United States government intends also to treat liberally with Honduras and lvador °~ for their rights in the Bay of Konseca. Secre- tary Bryan also may stop in these countries for an official visit on his re- turn from the opening of the Panama Canal in March. No, price had as yot been determined upon as commpenss- ! tion for an option on Costa Ri rights in the canal route. The rights of Costa River San Juan, which Rica in the forms a part | of the proposed canal route and is the | natural boundary between that coun- and Nicaragna, has for some timc been the basis of protest against the pending treaty recently reported vorably to the senate. It reached vax when the treaty with Nicat | gua was first proposed In the Taft, [ and later in the Wilson administa- | tions. «osta Rica protested that { aragna had not lived up to its bound- | ary agreement not to negotiate for tha | sale of the canal route without con- | sulting her. (osta Rica also insisted { that the United States should consider | property of Nicaragua and Costa Rica with many of its tributaries lying in | Costa Ric: { .+ Honduras and Salvador, who claim } rights in the Bayv of Fonseca had pro- tested because the sale of the bay is provided for under the pending treaty | between the United States and Nicara- | gua, without recognizing that the wau- ters of the bay touch their shores | well as Nicaragua. as N TO TOWN Ho) Maude Caughlan, Saturday afternoon house Webste she who agleep in | & vacant Hill und told the police tha homeless | and sick, has been taken to the Town home. She a sister of Mrps Nash, who served time ] { violating the drug laws, and | {hought that she is another victim of the drug habit. Julia found on was Annie fa- | Nic- | was | STATE BAR MEMBERS MEET AT HARTFORD Former Attorney General Pheps Presides at Conveation. ANNUAL BANQUET THIS EVENING | Edward A. Harriman of New Haven, Dclivers Address on “Efficiency in the Administration of Justice”™— Officers to Be Elected. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 25.—Lawyers | from all over the state were at- | tendance at the annual meeting of the State Bar Association of Connecticut, | which convened in the supreme court room in this city today. Former At- torney General Charles Phelps of Rockville, the president, presided. | This vear is the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the association. Among the distinguished members and guests were former President William Howard Taft, Governor Marcus H."| Holcomb and former Governor Simeon E. Baldwin. There was an address on ‘“Efficiency in the administration of Jjustice, New Haven. Reports were submitted and discussion followed. | John H. Perry of Southport, George | D. Watrous of New Haven and George E. Hill of Bridgeport are the commit- tee to. bring in nominations for offi- cers. It is expected that Vice Presi- dent William Waldo Hyde of this city will be elevated to the presidency in conformity with the rule of the asso- ciation. The annual banquet will be held in the assembly hall of the Hart- ford club this evening. Addresses will be given by Samuel J. Elder, of Boeston, president of the Massachu- setts Bar Association, Judge William | S. Case of the Connecticut ccurt, and former President Taft. The justices of the supreme court will attend. The meeting discussed a proposed { resolution authorizing the governor | to appoint a commission to revise | probate law and procedure. A com- | mittee reported adversely on a prop- gnsiflon that state’'s attorneys should » not practice in civil jury cases; also adversely that state’s attorneys should act in common pleas criminal cases. History of Revision, John H. Light, chairman of the committee ot prugaseds resision of the statutes, submitted the, report of the committee. The report gives a his- tory of the twelve revisions between 1650 and 1902, and say If the present ion of the statutes the commit- tee will have the revision of 1902, cemprising fifteen hundred and five pages, and, by estimate, two thou- sand and seventy public acts, covering twenty-five hundred and seventy-six pages. The work of revision has not always been well done. It has been as various as the men who have composed the different committees, but on the whole the committees have been chosen be- cause of special fitness, and the work has been creditably performed. Index Not Good. Several revisions have not contained a good index, This is notably true of the last revision, and many of the subsequent public acts. Apparently the secretary of state has given lit- tle heed to the requirements of scec- tion 103 of the general statutes. i It has been the practice for the | secretary to have some young clerk in | his office prepare indexes to the legls- |'lature of each session of the general assembly, and therefore, it is not sur- rrising that we have so many poor indexes. ‘We believe it to be the duty of this association to take proper steps to have the secretary of state appoint a | “skilled person” to prepare indexes in | 1 { { sion of the general assembly. New Revision Necessary. We also believe that the time is a new revision of the Con- and that take necessary | ripe for necticut ciation steps for such a revision A report of the committee on ap- peals to the supreme court by James P. Andrews, William Waldo Hyde and rles B. Waller, was in part as ity | feate i Your committes are of the apinion that the fundamentaj defect with our existing procedure, in so far as it ap- plies to civil actions tried to the court, is, that judgment is rendered before the facts are found, or at all events they are set forth in detail. committee feels that a consid- percentage of the so-called in the draft and coun- | ter-findings are not material to the | jssue, and that their insertion only tends to confuse and mislead. Not Simple Affair. Aside from the objection that this method of procedure often times misleading and confusing, it compels one side or the otier, and sometimes perhaps both sides, to argue a case in the appellate court which was not (he stmple affair presented by them to the t 1 judge Still another useless of of so-called facts teria]l to the issues involved. Another objection to our i | | | i hefore | Your | erable | facts detailed is below objection s the cost printing cautalogue which not ma- a are cost present | (Continued on Ninth Page.) by Edward A. Harriman of | superior | legislation authorizes | to the legislation of the present ses- | this asso- | to obtain the usual legislative author- | NEW GERMAN NAVAL GUN SURPASSES ALL Projectile Weighs About a Ton and Wecapon Has Range of About Twenty-Eight Miles. Amsterdam, Via London, Jan. 10:15 A, M.—A German military nav- al paper anonunces that a new naval gun, of sixteen inch calibre and with a range of twenty-five miles, has been created. Berlin. Via. Jan. 25. 11:30 Remarkable figures regarding new German naval gun are given by a German artiilery expert. writing in the Artilleristische Monats Hefte. In discussing an asgertion by the I.ondon Times that the German navy possesses a gun which carries three miles further than the best British weapon the writer admits that the Krupps are manufacturing a gun whose prajectile weighs 920 kilograms (about a ton) and which develops a muzzle velocity of 940 metres (about 3.700 feet) in a second. The expert reckons from these figures that the gun has 58 per cent. more mu force than the British navy's weapon and has a range of about 42 kilometers (abaout 28 miles) while the channel at Dover is only 33 kilo- meters (about 22 miles) wide. He says the figures given, if correct, will permit the Germans eventually to command the English coast from Calais for a distance of nine Kkilo- | meters (about six miles) inland with the new gun. GERMANY WANTS BAN ON HYDROAEROPLANES Count Bernstorff Enters Pro- test Against Shipments a. m. from America. Washington, Jan. —Germany pro- tested to the state department to- day through her ambassador, Count Bernstorff against shipments of American hydroaeroplanes to the Eu- ropean belligerents, on the ground that such aircraft are war vessels. | A statement issued by the embassy | today says: “The Curtiss Works at Hammonds- port, N. Y,, have sold and sent to Eng- {land the well known hydroaeroplane ‘America’ and five hydroaeroplanes of |the same type. Thirty-six hydro- aeroplanes of a different type have been ovilered by England and are un- der construction by the same firm. Also, Russia has ordered a number of these vessels from Curtiss for use {in her mnavy. i “‘There is no doubt, and it does not need any explanation, that, from the standpoint of international law, hy- | droaeroplanes have to be considered as war vessels and that, therefore, by Article VIIT of the agreement con- cluded at The Hague on October 18, 1907, neutral countries are prohibited to supply belligerent countries with such vessels. The selling of hydro- aeroplanes by the Curtiss Works, therefare, constitutes a breach of neu- trality. Hydroaeroplanes are not es- pecially mentioned in The Hague agreement for the simple reason that this kind of war vessel did not yet exist at that time.” FUNERAL SERVICES ABOARD SAN DIEGO | Full Naval Honors Paid to Five Vic- tims of Explosion on United States Cruiser. On Board U. S. S. San Diego, Guay- mas, Jan.- 24,By Wireless to San Diego., Jan. 25.-—Funeral services with full naval hono were held to- day aboard the U. 8. San Diego for the five victims of the explosion on Thursday, when boiler tubes of i the cruiser blew out just after the completion of a steaming trial. The bodies were transferred to the U. S. S. Saturn, which sailed for San Francisco, via T.a Paz and San Dieg The San Diego will sail for La tomorrow. VETERAN FTREMAN 111, wored That Richard Hartnett May Have to Undergo Operation, 1t was rumored in fire department circles today that Richard Hartnett, the veteran driver at Engine company No. 4, who has been off duty for the past few davrs with illness, may have | to go under the surgeon’s knife for a minor operation, Mr. Hartnett is one of the veterans ! of the fire department and in age is the oldest fireman in the service. GROCERY STORE ENTERED. The police were notified this morn- ing that Joseph Mclean's grocery store on Myrtle street was .entered last night. Entrance was gained by removing a board from the rear door and reaching inside to turn the key. As far as could be ascertained nothing w stolen, the thief evidently being rightened aws P sy WEATHER. Hartford, Jan, 25 and colder tonight, fair and colder. —Clearing Tuesday Paz | e e~ | I NEW BRIAN WL PAY $21,500 YEARLY State Iroasilrcr Chambsriain - Has Plan for Reducing State Debt. BLL INTROCUCED TOMORROW Annual Reduction of $500,000 From | Present Deficit of $11,000.000 in | Connecticut Would Be Made By State Tax of One-half Mill, A Dbill. which the of State . and which makes a definite provision for the $500,000 from the state debt will be introduced the ing to a statement made today Chamberlain. Eight year: of debt, but nas approval Treasurer Chamberlain vearly reduction of | | accord- | by Mr. in legislature tomorrow, ago the state was oul nce that time the deficit has steadily increased until it | is now §11,000,000. The increasing | debt has been viewed with alarm for some time and those familiar with conditions have waited eagerly for | action by the newly elected state treasurer, who is the cashier of the New Britain National Bank and also treasurer of the city of New Britain. | The bill provides that at least $500,000 eaca year shall be invested in the purchase and cancellation of | state bonds now outstanding tae | purchase of Connecticut municipal | bonds for a sinking fund : For the purpose of meeting this | sinking fund, the bill provides for the | laying of a state tax of one-half of | one mill per annum upon the towns | and cities of the state until such time | as the indebtedness of the ite { liquidated. In the same biil is a provision for | increasing the treasurer's authority so that he may $5,000,000 addi- | tional bonds. | The tax to be laid and cities of the state revenue of more than $500,000, and |as this entire tax is to be used for the liquidation of the state debt, the bill says that “‘at least” $500,000 shall be in vested in the outstanding state bonds each year. As New Britain's grand list is more than $43,000,000, the share this city will pay annually toward the reduc- tion of the state debt will he more than $21,500. It s expected that whatever epposition the bill may meet ‘will arise on account of the increase in taxation. Mr. Chamberlain admit. ted today that this might lead to op- position, but he said that the state debt has now reached such alarming proportions that something must be done at once to reduce it. The peo- ple, he said, will grow careless as | iong as the matter is not brought for- | cibly to their attention and this can be done by a direct tax. is | issue of on the towns will mean a DIES IN CHICAGO, ILL. | Pleurisy Causes Death of John Peter- son, Former Bethany Church Offic: r. | After an illness of John Peterson former president Swedish Bethany ciety in this city and v scveral weeks of Young People’s so- orv well known | proval of the REV.C. E. PIHL TO STAY:; MILITARY TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOL AUSTRIA Meriden School Board Expected (o Launch Idea Tonight—Central Ta- bor Union May Protest. Meriden, Jan. 25.—The formation of a high school battalion for military instructi‘ons is expected to be author- d s Gzar's Foices and Forced Trenches i DESPERATE FiG PROCRESS | Repul ized at a meeting of the The started by School Committeeman O. L. he boys should be given military training Today Dr. David Gibbs, school super intendent, said that about 175 parents of the school had expressed ap here tonight movement w4 Dossin, who said believed school | boys proposal The state, it is gaid, has offered ‘he use of the guns at the armory The central labor union is expected file a protest tonight against the movement. to 5 AR French BOUGHT ROTTEN PIG. Fred Berland, of 76 Cleveland street, hustled into the police station | this afternoon to complain that he bought a pig for $57.50 and when he | cut off a slab of pork it was rotten and not fit to eat He was veferred to the meat inspector, Dr. Crowley in Struggle senncheim in Trench Near m Pre Kast of St A new attack has initia with accord Austy oppone: front progress, but Petrograd no been achieved of the attack aj Hungary from vasion by clear) Galicla, Bukow Vienna tussians alread in Bukowina Degperate fig is in progress in many men haw most determing forces been Junction ] the cast WILL RESIGN NEXT YEAR Swedish Bethany Church Pastor Declines Call from Chicago Church. spatches at their mile [ in Much ‘to the pleasure gregation, Rev. G. E. Pihl announced at the morning service of the ish Bethany church yesterday had decided to decline the call ex- tended to him by the Cuyler Mission | church Chicago three weeks ago that he will remain here another | posing least His decision was made | breaking the upon the grounds that it would | On the west inconvenient for his children, Paul, | encounters cont Esther and Mabel, to sever the bonds | Argonne. Nel of school life at this time and that | the German ol | his relations with the’ congregation | day claims mari |are such that he did not feel that he | the Berlin com could tear himself away in the fighting, { However, the popular clergyman in- | of Sennheim, * | timated that he would resign his local | repuised with | pastorate before another year has|German states | passed, this having been his plan even |4 trench neap before he received the call. He ex- | Was won recen | plained that, when he was in Sweden | New !.asc summer, he came to the ‘.-n»} Petrograd, clusion that he would resign from | p u _here: the Bethany church in a year, and, 1o | activity alongH |that end, he resigned from the East- | front of :'wo ern Swedish Missionary association | few days, T and severed his connections with var- | marking the § ious other organizations that he might | for an A | devote all of his time to his congre- | gation during his last year here. It | heen adopted was his wish to be left off the board ject of cieard of directors for the Children’s Home | from Bukowin in Cromwell, he said, but the other ! northern Hungi members prevailed upon to re In Galicia, main another year. loka and Jasiok Nearly every individual member of | t cast his congregation has approached i con pastor since he received the call and | Austrian arm cxpressed the wish that he remain | ward movemens here, where has done g0 good a | Przemysi. Whet work. He has held the local pas-|to relieve Pp torate since 1901, when he succeeded | under siogo fof Rev. B. G. Hjerpe, and the Bethany |force the Ru church is the third that he has been | Bukowina is the pastor of. tancous attag Upon the motion of Deacon August | Russian posit Ostlund, the pastor was accorded a |the vicinity standing vote of thanks, after he had | the south Poll concluded his remarks in regard to the | and Kielce, call. Following the service, h | Inowlodz to member of the congregation | Sobkow, wh proached him and thanked him per- | gagements ha of his con- | gary Swed- that he in and vear largel | be movement whigd him | | miles 0 the | Brojevitz he ea < ay in local Sweadish circles passed away las night a = Chicago hospital, the | victim of an attzck of pleurisy. He | was thirty-nine years old and leaves a | wite and thrze children Mr. Pcterson lett this city Chicago about scven vears ago, at time when aboudr thirty membeérs of the Swedish Bethany church migrated to the Windy City. 4 year later, he married Miss Es'her Peterson, a sis ter of Mrs. Car' Fridell of Howard street, this cits, who also i here formerly. During his stay in Britain which extended oiver & period of about seven years, thc ceceased man very prominent umong the Swedish | people and, bes'ies holding the office of president of *he Young People's society of the Bet4any church, he served as president of Fyrboken so- cfety and Fundrcl Men's society Gota, | holding the latter olice up to the time of his departme ‘or the west. He was also a member of the Bethesda Sick Benefit soclely. For many years, | he served faithfully as a teacher in the Bethany caurch Sunday school | and it will be with regret that his former pupils earn of his untimely death. for | a a reside was BARBERS' BALL TONIGHT. Event Will Be Held in New Turner Hall. The annual ball of union will be held this New Turner hall and a ange iy anticlpated, This event usually attracts a large throng of merrymakers and is flled with novel features from beginning to end. The committee has made a special effort to make the 1910 ball the best in the histary of the or- ganization. Lvnch’s orchestra will furnish music. Annual the Barbers’ evening in Inrge attend- onally for gratifying their wishes by | Northward deciding to remain among them. It | been little ch will be a greai loes to the church |8aw, from Rai when he resigns and the hope 'of all , the Vistula, # the members is that he will change | the defensive, his plans before the is out [ the Vistula - along the Ras KANSAS COERCIO? gty STATUTE ANNULLED | ! Between Bop vear miles west of to hand fight village i301 hands several) | surged back |]n\||* it was side, as neith !1& able to hold Gormans Berlin, Jan. raphy to Sa | fighting contil ecastern end extends from erland, accol ment given eral army hi | Germans claj | the attacks | the French hal In the center France the Gy of a trench te Au-Bace. al In East Strong iss:nting opinions ware | to have infil given by Justices Holines and Day. |, Russians in Justice Hughes concurred with Justice | northeast of Day, leaving Chicf Justice White and | about twenty Justices McKenna and Lamar and | glan border. and Vandevanter and McReynolds The text concurring \ith Justice Pitney reads Supreme Court Holds As Unconstit tional Measure Degned Against Lahor Unions, The Kansas ‘? making it individual or cor or i fluence any in agreement not to join or remain a member of a labor organization as a condition cf such person se-uring or continuing in the employment of such individual or corporation, was toduy annulled as uj,- constitutional by the supreme court The decisiori which was regardca as of the first importance in the la- bor world, xas anncunced by Justice Pitney. Washington, so-called unlawful for any poration to to enter coervion statite cour 0 person into TO INTERN FARN, 6 Washington, government nitive by United States in the case of the collier K. . 3 fcrmerly the British colller Farn, and has consented to her internment for the war with her San Juan, Porto Rico Nieuport and To the south Germang logt dayvs ago from ‘“North of t terday only & Jan has oftered The German accepted the alter- the prize crew at (Continued