New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1915, Page 6

§ st Hota- | Broad- ‘Walk, _depot. to go back handling the jna fire depart- 1 for each. bably necessi- Jary of the the former the latter to rder of things lice board was , . while the imilar amount rk of the fire g chairman of ting these de- dispute for some who ho opposed it. jowever, that rder of things jber of city irds managing fin the same responsibility ent of that ¥ be claimed, t each de- ewhat since e head and sily managed i separately. Ibtedly origin- ispute in the which should ld which has as it now ‘‘who have - an view of k. in the long e police and work Dbetter “have them jre would be bt 'a deadlock ‘less number better will fone business does the hts, one head ore efficlently [ELLERS. ee has pture of Con- rtune tellers, Iy to put an state. The who shall Jto reveal the e stolen or lovers or g of some Te- Ined not less 100 or im- six- months. iough some sary because ' how such me of those s line. many people le will pay tell her or operty or to jne reason or anged when jmmon sense .cannot be , however, lare some- is fortune prformances. few years i New York rgo amount n a lawyer d in spir- believe peculiar hecessary to e sleight-of- court and ks that had done, ¢ she was a ‘prison, but e her pla 80 the busi- A be spect, and be a law op at least Britain to De- 1.3 large NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1915, as had an {llustration of what is done under the guise of fortune telling, and @8’ the disclosures made in the po- €ourt that has evidently had much 40 with the presentation of the ent bill. NEW HAVEN MELODRAMA, The New Haven man&hcturer who has been found to be maintaining two in that city, .and other in Brooklyn, with children the latter place, is being to account for'some other deeds, one being that he is the father of a two homes, one an- in called GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE'S LIST THIS WEEK BIOGRAPHY. Johann Sebastian the story of the development a great per- sonality, by C. H. Parry. Bach, of H. George Borrow and his circle, by C. K. Shorter. “In this volume made use of a of hitherto unpublished which came into his the executors of the author has considerable material hands through Borrow’s years old child of another New Haven Wwoman, and what adds to his noto- riety is that he is reputed to have a wife and three grown up daughters in another home in Scranton, Pa., whom, it is claimed, he deserted a number of years ago. His steno- grapher, Miss Cook, who recently committed suicide and who was buried from her Brooklyn home the other day, is now reported not to have been the Cook .girl at all and her father is said to be responsible for the statement. There is enough in this case to meke a melodrama of the most stir- ring type. The manufacturer has ap- peared in print in which he admitted two of the homes and Intimated that he ,was now paying for his errors in the shape of a stricken conscience. If he has any at all it must have been affected by the developments of the ‘past week or two, but the mystery of it all is how he managed to g0 along for such a period and escape detection and’furthermore how young women could have been so foolish as not to. recognize in him one of that type who should be shunned and who probadbly would have been had he been known. He denies the accusa- tions of some of the women but he admits enough to give the melodramatic coloring and makes it the strangest of its kind that staid old Connecticut has ever known. Tt seems strange that the body of Miss Cook could not have been more posi- tively identified than to leave a doubt in the mind of her father as ta whether or not she was his daughter. She was burled as such, however. from the family home and there did not appear to be any doubt as to her iGentity then. case a DOCTORS AND DRUGGISTS. There was a hearing yesterday be- fore the committee on public health and safety on a bill which aims' to prohibit physicians from dispensing medicine to their patients unless they first pass the examination prescribed for pharmacists. The bill is fathered by the Connecticut Pharmaceutical association and as might be expected was Opp.ed by doctors. There was considerable discussion as to the skill of druggists and doctors on the mat- ter of compounding medicines, the former claiming that they found more than one case where, if the prescrip- tion was compounded according to the doctors’ orders, that death would have ensued. This is not news for those who are or who may be taken ill and who may feel obliged to take medicine, not knowing but that instead of being relieved of the trouble complained of they may be passed on, as some say when others die. v It is good to know that druggists are so competent that even if the doc- tors prescribe too much of one thing cheéerful and not enough of another that they will establish a relief station at once where a correction is made and the undertaker is headed off. The case has a most serious side to it, how- ever for the reason that it suggests the danger a person is up against when he is taken ill and is obliged to take medicine. The druggists admit- ted the mistakes at the hearing, and while the doctors did not deny them all claimed that the drugsgists were also careless in some instances. One physician said he had a case of | a woman who has been taking mor- phine for twenty years, as much as for- ty grains a day, which she manages to obtain from a Hartford drug store in some way that he could not explain. There1s neglect in that case no doubt but it is not as bad as making a mi: take in a prescription that would kill the! patient instead of curing him. If | the legislaturc will enact a law that will prevent those things from occur- ring it will do a good thing and will greatly relieve the minds of those tak- ing medicine. It may help them to get better. they Whether it is caratis of the cornea you have had, or hysterical amblyopia, ifs you had been blind all your life, and all of a sudden, when you were 21 years old, sight returned, you would think it was the grandest day that ever happened since Noah opened the arc. That is what happened last week to Maud Emerson Lincoln, who lives in an old house near Marble- head, Mass. Just think of all of a sudden being able to see the folks you had been listening to all those vears! And the rooms, and the yard vou had been stumbling around in! No wonder she said: “I am the hap- plest girl in the world,” and then ‘daughte “It will be a treasure and a delight to admirers of Borrow. 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Editor Herald: The question of the right of a neu- tral citizen vessel belonging American to purchase citizen of Ger- many during the existence of the war row going on, a to a where the vessel is in American waters, has been promient- 1y brought to public attention by the selzure of the Dacia, formerly a Ham- burg-American line freighter. T owned vessels which were in America at the outbreak of hostilities, and the owners concluded to have them re- idle rathers than the of capture by sailing them while un- der the German flag. main run risk Overtures were tion of the vessel in prize court. Th captured in the English Channel by a French cruiser and taken to Brest. promptly took sick and hasn't been able to eat much of anything yet.—. New London Telegraph. vessel was one of a number of German lightfully reminiscent value. In read- their personal sources of happiness. registry, and that the design of the cwner was to load the vessel with a/ corgo of cotton for Rotterdam, the British government let it be known that it would refuse to recognize the sale of any of tHe German vessels. wand measures will be taken to prevent the Dacia from completing her voyage, that she would be seized and taken to a British port, so that the charac- ter of the transaction to American registry might he adjudicated by the prize court An intimation was given that the government might have taken a different position as to the cargo of agreed to be paid by the German pur- chasers, which the courts have ruled cannot be done. The British contention is that to risk of mere capture.was not insur- able at any bremium. The Dacia reached Norfold, Virginia, where she anew on February 7, and on February 11, for Rotter- dzm, and on Tebruary 29th was When it was first announced that | court said: the Dacia was bought by an Ameri- can citizen and given American | War is imminent, made by different persons for the pur- | permit the Dacia (o complete her g l. b of {hie vessels. and fnais:| Journey would create precedent highly Vh e B | Getrimental to British interests, and Iy one of them, the Dacia, was sold. ' a0 the benefits of which - other The Dacia was interned at Port Arthur, | German vessels now in American xas when she was bought in Dec- | POT might n_lxm\n a régis Ty under mber, 1914 by Bdward N. Breitung, | ¢ ditions which would afford no SUE A S g Y % ! enarantee that they might not ulti- a millionaire New York banker and | EVETaMICe Ther LIEY AUEE o of the mine owner. Mr. Breitung obtained { WO SO0 0T Td Yhe German | American registry for her with the | pi5 T Folen if this latter event- consent of the United States govern- | T8E. TSt BVER ) GUE (88 BT Sver frient, \and/ plaved aboard: Her kv snip EERENOR S e 0 MEAReC. E TR ‘\""\‘ 2 “‘“\"l‘:"“‘ ”:::f e l:\.:flf"hg:' | ownership. would in itself he preju- ; ) dicial to British interests thercby fur- ?I‘d \:::‘h(" ”(ff‘“r‘”"““:. e tmt::‘ S:l‘;‘ianr | nishing Germany with a fund upon : EE 2 o | \which she could draw in order to ob- cotton. for "‘(‘*yl‘\“l[lit“‘.\: ithe (Cotton | in supplies from the United States. being - ultimately. deslgned TonAUeE] " Ml pesition now talten by the “'i,‘l'.‘,i' federal war risk bureau insureq | British government i in direct ton- ] o d 08 E > P aw as P rave ; tradiction to the law as it has always LS SR s ‘I'f':l:.“"f:"’l',":"‘:f‘ | been recognized in British courts of yand, 1sed L sure J 5 b S R ssible | per-cent was paid at Loyd's in Lon- | &5 10 “]:‘V“twmm“ R ora e Ueoan don to insurc against the condemna- | the only daues being whether the sale was made in good faith. In 1867. the British court of miralty appeals, in reversing a deci- sion of the high court of admiralty, a lower tribunal, on a question of fact, but affirming the law, pointealy expres the law that the language | of the decision is here given. The “The general rule g A neutral while g or after it . hag he open to no doubt. cotton frem that with respect to the vessel. It was stated by some of the oflicials that the cotton might be re-| lcased and forwarded to its destina- tion at Rotterdam at Great Britain's expense; or be purchased by the Eritish government at the price ad- | ¢ommenced, is at liberty to purchase | either goods or ships (not being ships ! of war,) from either belligerent, and the purchase valid, whether the | subject of it being lying in a neutral | port, or in an enemy’s port. During | a time of peace without prospect of war, any transfer which is suffi- | cient to transfer the property between 15 the vendor and vendee, Is good also against the captor, if war after- wards unexpectedly breaks out. But | in case of war, either actual or im- | minent, this rule is subject to quali- ficatior, and it is settled that in such a case a mere transfer by documents which would be sufficient to bind the parties, is not sufficient to change | the property as against captors. 80 | long as the ship or goods remain in | transit. While the ship is on the sea, the title of the vendee cannot be completed by actual delivery of the | Vessel or goods.” The facts in the case were that a Russian vessel was sold bona-fide by an enemy to a neutral when the war then between Russia and Great Brit- ain was imminent. The vessel was at the time of the sale in the prosecu- tion of a voyage from Libau, an en- emy port, to Copenhagen., a neutral port. On arrival in Copenhagen, in | March, 1854, she was delivered to the agent of the buyer; admeasured | by the custom officers there, house and branded as Danish property. Her | flag was also there changed for flm‘ Danish flag, and a Danish master and | crew engaged to navigate her. She | sailed from Copenhagen with a cargo of linseed May 21, 1854, arrived at | Leith, Scotland, May and was | seized by the British custom authori- | ties May 31 on suspicion of bemg{ & Russian vessel. The lower admiral- | ty court ordered the ship condemned as a prize; but the court of appeals ruled that the transitus of the ves- sel had ceased when it came into the possession of the agent of the pur- chaser, which occurred before the | seizure, and, therefore, the sale was valid, and in the course of the decision set forth the well recognized | rule of law in the words above quoted. In a communication designed for | general public perusal, there is mno | need of citing the names of the | many British cases in which the above rule of law has time and time again been reiterated. As early as 1798 the court announced the law to be that according to the British and American practice, enemy vessels | could be transferred to a neutral flag | before, or after the outbreak of war, and thereby lose their enemy charac- ter, provided the sale was bona-fide; was not made in a blockaded port; not made while the vessel was in transit; that the vendor did not re- | tain an interest in the vessel; or did | not stipulate for a right to recover or | repurchs the vessel at the conclu- | sion of the war. It will be noticed that by the well recognized British law, a vessel at the time of its purchase may be either in Mr. could a neutral Breitung, or go even to any or enemy port. any other neutral, port in Germany, pur- chase there a vessel, or any number of vessels, load them with cargo: and sail for America in full view of the entirc British war fleet, and it is the duty of the United States govern- | ment to sec that they are not mo- | lested on the voyage by any power | which may in its own interest seek to injure the other belligerent, by | trying to establish a rule of law | which is contrary to the practice of | | that government as to the sale of ships. While the broad claim is made by | of any of the German vessels now interned is vold. and that it will re- | solutely refuse to recognize any such | sale, there is not a lawyer in that | kingdom that will have the hardihood to displace his ignorance of interna- tional law by making such a claim in a court of justi The position to | be taken will be found to be a claim | that the sale was not bona-fide. As to that question it can be incontest- | ably shown by Mr. Breilung that he | purchased the Dacia for the purpose of engaging the vessel in a_business venture of carrying cotton to Rotter- | dam, and bringing a cargo of other | merchandise on the return trip to the United States. The purchase of the Dacia was made by Mr. Breitung December 186, 1914 for $166,000. The first payvment | of $16,500 was made on that day, and | the balance $148,500 was paid on De- | cember 31. The checks drawn on | the Guaranty Trust company of New York, which were paid in the usual course of busines: re ready to be produced. He has furnished the state | department with abundant proof that | the transfer was bona-fide; was in- | tended to, and did convey, completo | and unconditional ownership to him, | that there was no agreement or un- | derstanding reserving to the vendor, | or for his henefit, any interest in the | vessel or its operation, or right or | voice of control therein; that . the | transfer was intended to be perma- nent and not temporary; and that | i ( no right to repurchase the vessel was | reserved to the vendor, and that | | there was no understanding for its| retransfer; that the transfer was not | | made during the voyage of the ves- | sel, or while it in a blockaded | | port; and that Breitung is a | | ncutral, being a citizen of the United | | States. A clearer case of a purchase | in good faith. and fr i sible violation of law, shown. Tmbarkation in the enterprise was | carefully studied out in advance of the purchase of the vesscl, With cot- | ten at Bremen at three cents a pound, | that is $15 a bale, it would have out- | bound, prepaid, freight of the i | of $168,000. Tess the expense of the | | round voyage, including special mine | | risks and war risks, and allowing the | | maximum of eighty days, calculating | | the expense at a minimum of $50.000, e from any could not 1 value would net $130,000, leaving the ev-: pense of the homeward bound trip | j paid for. The cargo that could be | { obtained at Bremen for shipment to | | the United States would net exceed- | ing $35,000. Thus there would be a | | net return of over $165.000 on the ! | first round trip voyvage. The second trip if the same conditions prev: would duplicate the first trip in re- turn. The vessel was bought on the | a nation, | of the strongest armed iled | truth of all that the allusion in my sermon was intended to mean or im- ply. basis that the first round trip's re- turn would pay the total purchase price of the boat within about twenty per cent. When a citizen of the United States, who is in a financial position to do so. engages in a mercantile venture of this kind, that his property be seized and he he compelled to re- sort-to a foreign tribunal to recover it, and this government looks su- pinely on, and failed to protect its citizens. The British government made it known before the Dacia sailed, that would ignore the law and seize the sel. With such a pre-determina- tion made known, it was the duty of the United States government to guard against it. The warships of and all vessels convoyed by them, are at all times free from the annoyance of search and seizure. One of our war- ships should have been detailed to convoy the Dacia to her uropean destination. with orders to defend the ship at all hazards against its seizure by any other power, whether British, I“rench, Russian or Japanese, and it would surely reach Rotterdam untouched by any of them. I1f such protection is afforded to our merchant it | marine the idle German vessels now on this side of the ocean, and those in German ports, can readily find pur- chasers who are willing to emulate | the example of Mr. Breitung, and se- cure a share of the large profits which are awaiting the venturesome- ness which he has displayed. Our warships should be ordered to engage in protective work of this character, where it is so badly needed at the present time, instead of idly moving along our shores, and resting in our harbors, wasting” their supplies and | money in an effort to furnish the men with some employment, and practically the only duty of the offi- cers being to accept invitations to dances, where the fox trots, maxixe and other terpsichorean feats, are nightly indulged in. An unexpected turn ,however, has been given to the situation by the | capture of the Dacia by a French war vessel, and not a British ship. All the objections prior to the sailing of the Dacia were made to the Brit- ish government. Not a word was | heard from any other power. On ac- count of the attitude of the French | in relation to the sale of vessels af- ter the outbreak of a war, being contrary to that of Great Britain, the | advisers of his Most Graclous Majes- ty George V. evidently concluded that the announced position of the seizure of all former German vessels could not be maintained in court, they con- cluded the better way get out of an untenable position would be to have the Dacia captured by a French vessel, taken to a Trench port, and before a French court for adjudica- tion. A cunningly devised scheme to avold a judicial determination by the British courts that the attitude of the government was illegal. France by its prize regulations has always enacted that no vessel of en- emy’s construction, or which has been at any time of enemy’s ownership should be replited neutral, without proof that the sale or session to the neutral was made before the com- mencement of hostilities. Russia, one of the present allles of to Great Britain and France, on the other hand, at all times just in her appreciation of neutral rights, has held that a ship of belligerent con- struction, when it has become the property bona-fide of a neutral, though purchased by him after the com- mencement of war, 'is not subject to miclestation. Thé supreme court of the United States recognized the right of any of the belligerents to make sale of ships during the war and in the course of its opinion adopted a quotation from an English writer on international law After stating the law of France as mentioned above, the quotation con- tinues: “In England and in the United ‘tates, on the contrary, the right to purchase vessels is in principle, they being in themselves legitimate ob- jects of trade, as fully as any other < of merchandise but the oppor- Kir tunities of fraud being great, the cir- cumstances attending a sale are sev- erely scrutinized, and not held to be good to any condition, or derstanding by which kee an interest in the vessel, or its profits, a control over it, a pcwer of revocation, or a right to its restoration at the conclusion of the | war."” | If the Dacia if it even the is subject tacid un- vendor is condemned by the | French courts as appralsed, what will] the United States government do, per- mit its citizens to be deprived of thely | property by an attempt at a shifting of responsibility from one allied pow- er to another, or will it insist that international law in the form in which it has always been administered in its own courts, and by which its citizens | make their contracts in the purchase | of vessels from governments at law | with each other shall be applied. Again, how can Great Rritain dodge | responsibility for the seizure of the | Dacia? Great Britain, France and ! Ru are engaged in a joint war gainst Germany and Austria-Hung- The capture was at the instiga- of Great tain Whether it w or not these governments have uvnited their forces, and re active- 1 taking part in the hostilities for one chject common to all. The act of | one in the prosecution of the war is | the act of all of them. When Great | | Britain through its diplomatic agents shall make representations, as 1 pre- t another independent same it will, gevernment, France, has seized the Dacia, and we must from that coun- | try seek redress, if we have a right | tc any, in a court which will refuse | it, it should be politely told that such a defense is unworthy a moment’s consideration, and there will remain | only one other step that any self-re- specting nation must take when its just demand is denied JOHN WALSH. 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The little red schoolhouse on the hill has come in for some pretty hard’ knocks lately, The that of of Columbia, last s Professor Wood who says that aside from educational it no gres shakes as an upbulider of health He says that city school children are its value as plant is considerably healthier than those in the country and cites figures to prove it Thus old idols fall, Pretty soon some one will come along and say that Lincoln would really have amounted to something if it hadn't been for his demoralizing experiences as a rail-splitter and the fact that he had to pick up hig education the best way he could, But as a matter of fact it probably is true that the city schools are more healthful for the common run of puplls, just as they are more efecient in grinding out education. It would be a severe indictment of our elabor- ate systems of inspection and our ex- pensive teaching forces if they not, For stamina, however, were i the child mental of exceptional as well as physical the advantage would seem to le in the country. Plowing through snowdrifts and paddling along muddy roade, buffeting wintry winds and walking unsheltered be- neath ‘summer sun are likely to be as toughening physically os grub- g comparatively unaided into the stubborn flelds of knowledge mentally. : After all, it is he who goes alc that goes dauntlessly =nd unflinch ‘ngly; for he knows there iz none to aid him and he must male a good job of it Not Fit to Marry, (Ohio State Journal,) In a recent addres to the Le of Political Bducation, in New Yol Prof. Charles Zueblin deciared tfst the odern young woman was T mentally or spiritually fit for mar riage Mrs, Snyder, president of tl Illinois Woman's Press sociatior was interviewed and heartily con curred in Prof, Zueblin's opinion, Skg said the mind of youth, and especially the young woman's, was filled with frivolit As a rule she wants a bril liant match, and to “live in a hotel where there will be no work and noth ing to interfere with their round of soclal affairs Mrs. Snyder said private boarding schools are responsible f¢ this state of affairs. They develop a sense of snobbery, where the worth of a young woman is based only on the number of automobiles owned by her parents She further said: “I have known groups of young women gathered at a social affair to talk of nothing ex cept some brilliant marriage waich has occurred in their particular ‘set’ They didn't discusg the character of the husband, but the amount of money he had and the good times his wife would have.”