New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1915, Page 2

/indow. ’s Drug NEY BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. ATER TAFFY _ Take Home a Box. Nothing Purer. Store, ISITE CITY HALL fclub will be be given this g of Court oms. nber and Coal en for $169.26 Perrin on the past week . department, ment, $148.56; 22. epresented at the Hebrew n Aid society, f on March 14. [ 'and Realty ‘suit to fore- property of [Premont street . Camp. of the Wom- ociety of the held Mon- f*m., at the flicers and roll ge M.temlgmceA #utles = and ‘e driving -n fday . after- carriage came Fortunate- Woods will be hal banquet of can club to be bn April 6. An anded to Gov- her prominent G. Wil Elect Of- Talk. Jof the Metho- lection of of- Jar will be held arch 10th, in pm, at 7:45 s wession therce A the dining and cake will i J. E. Beale alk to those fces of Sea ed the sea for T before the s of person- p’'s quarter- all climes, makes an in- jped. 2. large will” attend fthe good time AVES. p Live in Mont- prisc Party. jwho has been ' Mr. and Mrs. street was r & number of ‘before leaving jere she will re- ss Olive. Her with a silver m of money. d to the home Maple street, congregated in luck in her supper was course of the ghtman acting her the purse. sed in a man- ectly satisfac- the affair. ORPHANAGE IS TO BE 1 EDICATED TOMORROW Local Llergyman to Deliver Dedica- tory Address at Exercises in Cromwell Cromwell will be the Mecca for Swedish Congregationalists from all parts of the state tomorrow on the oc- casion of tHe dedication of the hand- some new building which is to be the home of the Swedish Christian or. phanage. . The committee in charge | has made arrangements for accom- modating a very large crowd. | Although Governor Marcus H. Hol- | comb will not be able to take part in | the exercises oh account of a previous | engagement, there will be other speak- i ers of note on the program, one of which will be the principal of the Cromwell Grammar school. The exercises will commence o'clock in the afternoon and will' be opened with an address by ‘K. J. Lundquist of Brookiyn, N. Y., presi- dent of the building comumittee. He will hand the keys.of the new build- ing over to Rev. C. E. Peterson of Brooklyn, president of the Kastern Swedish Missionary association, who, in turn, will turn them .over'to the president of the board of directors, | Rev. G. E. Pihl, the pastor of the Swedish Bethany church in this clty. The local clergyman will deliver the dedicatory address. Vocal solos will be rendered during the afternoon by Professor’ J. A, Hultman of Worces- ter, Mass. At the conclusion of the prograin, the commodious building will be thrown open to inspection. Emil Hjerpe of Maple street, this city, is superintendent of the Home. at RETIREMENT AS ELECTS. Civil Service Employes Choose Leslic | rotherton for President. New Britain Branch of the Service ‘association has elected following officers. 4 President—Leslie F. Brotherton. Vice president—Frank E:. (Coleman. Sgcretary—Fred C. Lawrence. ' Treasurer—F. L. Sunburn. The chief aim of the Retirement association is to secure the passage of | Representative Hamill’'s bill for the pensioning “of retired civil service em- ployes. = At present the employes are retired without pension’ when they be- come incapable of earning the salary at which they were originally engaged. There the 300,000 members in the National Retirement association. The | membership roll of the local branch carries the names of forty-eight em- ployes. Civil the i | i | | Y. W. C. A. NOTES Miss Schilling to Speak——Girl Scouts to Mect—Other Items. Miss Alma Schilling will be the speaker at the Y. W. C. A. vesper scr- | vice on Sunday, March 7, “at 4:30 o'clock. All young women are co dially invited. Tea and a social hour will follow the service. On Monday the Girl Scouts meet at 4 o’clock as usual, and the Busy Bees) at 7:30 o'clock. On Tuesday the second class in first aid to the injured will meet at s o’clock. Wednesday evening Mrs. lLabarec gives the fourth lecture on “The Child at School.” W. L. Hatch, trustee, has sold land on Dix avenue to B. A. Fornonzini. It is said that some of the repub- lican memberg of the common coun- cil are desirous of having a caucus on the report of the charter | revision committee. ROSARY Florence L. Barclay tremendously popoular d everywhere at $1.35 sale for the first time for o -~ 45c STATIONERY DEPT. CKINSON JG CO., 169-171 MAIN STREET party | | pertunities,” and James H. Woertend- 180 Prohibitinists Will Try to Make friend, [ | Wednesday HANSAS SINGING “HOW DRY | AN’ Conn. Join in the Chorus. his bosom will be dragged John Barleycorn and . carpet” R. Morse up “on the in afternoon and evening when a big prohibition conference for New Britain and vicinity will he held HOWARD E.'KERSCHNER. in Junior Mechanics’ hall in Hunger- ford court. Speakers of national re- Dutation have been secured and going to be a warm session for alco- hol and its allies. The speakers will be Howard Kerschner of Massachusetts, secreta ¥ tral committee, who will speak on “Plans for New Englapd”: Emil L. G. Hohenthan of South Manchester, who will talk on *Connscticut’s Op- yke of California, lecturer of the nat- ional committee, whose subject will be “The Nationwide Outlook.” One of the hardest workers in the cause of the prohibition movement this city next | it's | of the New England Prohibition Cen- | public works department estimates by the board of finance and taxation last night. The exact shrinkage was $38,- 616.25. The action of the board was not final and further reductions may be made. Estimates of the school department, the public amusement commission and the New Britain Institute were ex- plaindd by representatives of each. No action was taken regarding them. Those present were Treasurer Chamberlain, Mayor Quigley, Comp- troller Curtis, Thomas H. Kehoe, E. N. Stanley, Judge B. F. Gaffney, Aug- ust Ii. Wallen, Ernest N. Humphrey, John F. Meehan, Rihard Schaefer, P, ! C. McIntyre, P. F. King and A. N, | Abbe. | School Dept. Heard From. L. Hoyt Pease and Stanley H. Holmes school board. Mr. Pease stated that there had been no guesswork regarding the es- | timates which werc based on actual expenses. Superintendent represented the ; | Fourteen More Teachers Wanted. Treasurer Chamberlain asked re- garding the increase in teachers' sal- aries from $148,000 to $162,850. 1 perintendent Holmes replied that it is proposed to employ fourteen teachers and to increase salaries in | the High school by $5,100. The ox tra teachers will be in the Grammar and High schools where salaries are | higher. The present salary list totals | §151,000. More teachers must be em- ployed te care for the increased numi- | ber of pupils. The average annual increase in salaries 'is approximately ten percent. Superintendent Holmes said, The present salary list for janitors is over $12,000 but. Mr. Holmes thought the wages paid to the janitor of the Elm street, Grammar and Prevocations schools too low and hé believed the wages of three other janitors should be raised to be fair to them. The estimate in this respect for next yvear is $13,325 The board asks for $8,600 for eve- ning schopls, an increase of $600. new in this city is Leonard Kurtz of Green- J. H. WOERTENDYKE, weod street, chairman of the town committee. Mr. Kurtz stated today that the conference W going to be a red-hot session and some live things | were going to be said. The afternoon session will open at 2.30 o'clock and the speakers men- tioned hbove will discuss “The En- rollment of Voter: “The Circulation { Prohibition Papers” and “The Statle and National Campaign of 1915-16". The afternoon session will be free to the public. Supper will be served at 7 o'clock and tickets must be pro- cured for this feature. The evening will be devoted to speeches by Messrs. Kieschner, Woertendyke and Hohen- discuss prohibition IN BUSINESS The telephone has be- come indispensable for the very excellent rea- son that it fills the min- utes with seconds saved, simplifying the problem of holding down the job, IN THE HOME The housewife has her work to do and in her case, as with the man downtown, TELIL- PHONE will prove as valuable a domestic ser- vant as it does an office aid, HAVE YOU A TELEPHONE IN YOUR HOME? i cation school. | thought playgrounds all right in their thal and by others who may wish to Superintendent Holmes said this would-be necessary to get best resuits H from the evening schools. The state board of education as- sessment is $25,000, an increase of $1,000, due to the inereased school at- tendance. An increase in salary for the Super- intendent from $3,600 to $4 000 has already been voted by the board of education, | Tuperintendent H. explained | Witimate 101 eNerar— supplles, $5,200, by saying it is based on sb\’I enty cents per pupil for 7,500 pupils. The stationery and suplies will cost $4,250, based on fifty-five cents per pupil. There is a reduction from $2,700 to $2,000 for furniture. School to Do Some Printing. A reduction was noticed printing from $1,100 to $800. It is ex- pected that some of the printing will be done at the Prevocational school although that is problematical. The erection of the Prevocational school is responsible for an increase in the fuel item from-$11,000 to $12,- 500. ix electric motors in the Prevoca- tional school were “said to be partly responsible for an increase in light and power from $4,000 to $4,500. The school itself means an increase in ]lg_htinl& Vacation School Praised. The repairs and inprovements will cost $10,000, an increase of $3,000. The vacation school will cost $600 an average of $1 per pupll. Superintend- ent Holmes spoke highly of the va- Superintendent Holmes also in | place but he did not think children should give all their time to play. Other items are: Clerks, $2,150; rten supplies, $400; text $5,000; library books and ap itus, $900; janitors’ supplies, | insurance, $2,500; truant offi- cer,, $900; medical insepctors, $1,050; | nurse, $800; census, $7 open air school, $2,000; miscellaneous, $6,000; compensation for widow of Joseph | Hackney, $576fi making a grand total int $272,276 in comparison to $24 ' 000for the present year. Members of the board compliment- ed Superintendent Holmes for ex- | plaining the estimates in such a lucid manner. Institute Fstimates. Marcus White and Miss Anna G. Rockwell spoke for the Institute esti- mates, totaling $20,400. “It is impossible for anyone to ap- | preciate the Increased demand made on the Institute in recent times,” Mr. White sald. “There is a great de- mand for more books, especially from the schools. January, 1915, showed | an increase of more than fifty per | cent. in the children's department over January, 1914. There are now 3,600 volumes loaned and there ' should be at least 5,000, All the pub- lic schools and some of the private schools have them and many are in need of repairs. Museum, But No Attendant, “We have fitted up a museum and art gallery now ready for the pub- lic, but on account of lack of at- tendants we cannot open them. These could be made a very important part i of our educational system, °* | Attendants Underpald. “The staff is overworked, The rate paid by the city is very low, The percentage paid in Wwages s two- thirds le than the rate in most libraries. Contents in Danger, | City $38,616 is Clipped From the Public Works Dept. Estimate Finance Board Takes First Whack at Appropriations for " Next Year— Schools, Library and Amusement Representatives Heard. Nearly. $40,000 was cut from the : the building that are needed and sald that the contents of the building are in danger from leakage. The children’s department is grow- ing every day and provision cannot be made under present conditions to accommodate the demand, according to Mr, White. There are about 50,000 books in the library which has an annual eircula- tion of 175,000, Mr, White said. Wants to Avoid Trouble, The institution now has many books on scientific and industrial subjects and would like to have lists printed. Treasurer Chamberlain suggested that these be done at the Prevocation- al school and Mr. White said it might be a good idea if it would not lead to trouble, The following table shows the re- ceipts of the library this year, the expense so far this year and the esti- mates for next year: Recelpts. On hand from last report..$ appropriation Interest on invested funds. Cther sources 138.75 12,500.00 4,950.00 $17,008 rayme Needed 1915-16 § 7,000 450 1,300 Paid Out 1914-156 $5,158 445 980 Books Periodicals Binding Pictures circulation Wages, library service Supplies, posting, printing, express, library servico. . Wages and supplies, janitor service Fuel Light Insurance .. Telephone, sprinkling, Repairs New equipment Tmprovements 44 5,326 street ete. . 242 396 2,150 $17,638 $20,400 Needed increase $2,500. Public Amusement Necds. Edward H. Prior, Edward L. Han- nen and Howard L. Platt represented rhe public amusement commission, whose estimates are as follow: Salaries, $1,650; conferences, $100; new equipment, $500; sundries, $256 repairs, $200: installing apparatus, $150; July 4th celebration, $200; home gardens and inspection, $200: school sacial center, $1,00 including direc- tor, $300; sistant director. $150; janitor, $1 lectures and other en- tertainments, $300; games, $100° grand total, $4,250. Social Center Chairman Prior need of the school social said Superintendent Holmes Wanted. emphasized the center and was of the opinion that one could be installed ' or ast street; cither at the Smalley schools. The commission proposes to have a playground baseball league this sum- mer under the management of a su- pervisor. Accommodations for Mothers. Mothers who take babies to the olaygrounds are to be cared for at the playgrounds and are to with seats and shelter from the sun. Chairman Prior laid stress also m the need of an appropriation for tha ingpection of boys' home garden iast year there were 725 home g dens. Mayor Quigley 0. K. on this plan, Rather Than sed Edu the e, play- Degenerate Mr. Meehan cri Ve awp ot Mr. White told of many repairs u,-l ll Distinctly | l | Is the new short dress that every young man are mostly those rich, of cravenetted cloth, coats. 9899 ASYLUM ST. after dark, saying that they had a tendency to degenerate the children rather than erucate them. He spoke of the Lee street play-| ground in particular, where he said, | the minds of the small boys are poisoned by older youths who teach them to “swear by note.”” He was in favor of having them policed, Chairman Prior said he would ‘\'t‘rt\xa(o this summer grounds in- The Axe Descends, Discussion of the estimates opened Treasurer Chamberlain. He it was understood that when the board of public works was given extra appropriations amounting to $44,000 that sum would be deducted from the 1915-16 appropriation. The department spent $26,000 of this $44,000, Mr. Humphrey, who is president of the public works commission, replyed that there was a certain amount of work to be done anyway “I'm not going to say that you've got to give us this money but if you don’t it will mean simply that some work cannot be done,” he said. The public works board asks © $108,124.25 for streets. ! 1t was declded to cut the estimate for bridges for which $8,250 was asked. The sum to be paid the New ! Haven road as the city's share for the Corbin avenue bridge was shelved. The bridge appropriation was made $2,7560, Tt not likely that the Monroe street bridge will be built next year. It was agreed that no cuts could be made in street cleaning, $§15,000: cleaning basins, $3,700: building and repairing crosswalks, $600; engineer's expenses, $400; and cinder walks and crosswalks, $200. General repairs to streets beiled from $4,000 to $3,000. Mr, Humphrey asked that the esti- mate for grading, $8,375, be left in- tact. He sald there is a great deal of grading to be done. His request was granted. Treasurer Chamberlain moved was by sald for was to be provided | put his verbal Luaries cut the new macadam estimate, $24,- &£73, to $12,000. “That's ridiculous,” Humphrey. “Tt's a little bitrash,” agreed Mayvor Quigley, who suggested that the item be passed for the time being. Mr. Meehan wanted it made §18,000. On motion of Mr. Abbe the item was | passed. Treasurer Chamberlain believed $4,000 would do for macadam repair said Mr., a Young Man’s Coat Spring. It has the “snap” and the “go” to it The coat has the full flowing and roomy back. All are double-service coats, being made They are also worn by older men who have no objection to looking young. Horstalls “Ir PAYS TO RUY OUR KIND" Oomneoting with instead of $5,000 and the suggestion | p— prefs p—p— P v length garment for likes. - The materials full-of-color tweeds. making splendid rain- ! was adopted, but later was placed at the former figure. Big Cut in Mr. Humphrey stated that 376.25 was absolutely necessary for semi-permanent pavement The streets that need it are Arch, Chest-, nut, Stanley and Dwight streets. The item was cut to $7,230 care for Chestnut, Stanley and Dwight streets The macadam repair estimate was boosted back to $5,000 on account of this reduction, Bituminous pavement repairs, $1,600, was allowed to stand as was repalrs to tools, $400. Other items not cut were srehouse and yard, $200, and permanent pavement repairs, $1,000. The sn item, $3,000, was cut to 500. cuts were made in office expenses, $250; street signe, $300; and auto and maintenance, $1,325, Tools (new) was cut from $2,800 to $800. Trees, care and spraying, $1,500, was not reduced. Waste cane, $200, came through unscathed. Ol for streets $1,000, was lucky too, Care of dumps, $600 was untouched, as was Christmas tree, $75, and rallings, new and re- pair, $200. Althogether $26,146.25 was lopped off the street estimates J No reduction RARTSORD, 140 TRUMBULL ST. *avement. to s joe No : was made in catch basins, $2,000, or state highway count, $7,600. Paving of Bigelow street, was $1,000, was clipped to” $1,000, Purchase of storeyard, $8,000, was submarined Permanent reduced to $7 $15,000, stood, Street lighting, $20,600, wag not shaved, Park department work $1,670, was cut to $1.600 No change, wag made in sewer maintenance $11,000 The total cut in the cstimates was $38,616. appropriation $157 pavement, 500. $12.000, Street sprinkling was public works , making the The National street, are recelving best fresh o made butter in town Give them trial Price 32 cents.—advt Butter Co., 1383 Main the JAMES O'NEAL Will deliver an Address on FORGOTTEN FACTS IN AMERI., CAN HISTORY.” at the SCENIC THEATER, Tomorrow day) Afternoom, at ADMISSION 10 ¢ (Sun- The Unusual Bock. The use of IMPORTED BOHEMIAN Hops exclusively assures the highest quality. On Tap or in Bottles. At Deale: —or for Family Trade— of our Bottling Department. The Hubert Fischer HARTFORD, COI N&rewery, Connecticut’'s Leading Brewery. . 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