New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1915, Page 9

Maple Hill The annual meeting of the Maple Hill Improvement society was held Eriday evening in Buell’s hall. %The following named officers were elect- ed for the ensuing year: President, 3. M. Holmes, vice president, M. M. Fieber, secretary J. C. Moody, treas- urér, Miss Nina Blair, executive com- mittee, G. E. Root, E. B. Proudman, W. B. Prentice, W. F. Sternberg, O. N. Ferry, R. Hulbert, Ladies’ social committee, Miss Anna Goodsell, Mrs. R. B. Doane, Mrs. E. B. Proudman,, Mrs, T. H. Coggswell, Mrs, W. I Sternberg, Miss Edna Clark, Mrs. R. ‘W. Poteet. The mid-week prayer meeting will be held this evening at 7:45 o'clock at the Congregational Chapel. The subject will be ‘“The Plcae of Joy In the Life of the Soul.” Mrs. John Nordstrom of Robbins sgvenue has returned after spending several days with relatives in New Haven. Miss Dorothy Walker is at home from Mt. Holyoke college for the Easter holidays. The town voted recently to issue serial coupon bonds to the amount of $84,000, and a special meeting was #eld Monday evening to take the nec- essary legal action. It was voted that the interest should be payable semli- ..annually at the Phoenix Bank, Hart- ford. The selectmen, town clerk, and treasurer were authorized to have the bonds printed, sign them, and offer them for sale to the highest bidder, at not less than par. It was voted to appropriate money collected from the taxes to pay the interest and take up the bonds as they matured. The town clerk was directed to keep a rec- ord of those sold and to whom sold on the .town books. Mrs. Nordstrom is entertaining Miss Bessie Tillotson of Farmington. Miss Ethel Bentley of Great Bar- ~.rington, Mass., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs., G. Bentley. Raymond M. Wyllie and Miss May Gilet both residents - of this town, were married Saturday at the parson- age by Rev. Herbert Macey. Mr. and Mrs. Wyllie will make their home in . New Britain. & _ Mrs. Harry Hall of the South End is visiting relatives in Bridgeport, About twenty-five members of the local Christian Endeavor society at- tepded the New Britain Christian En- deavor union meeting in Berlin Tues- day evening. ~, The annual young ladies meeting of the Womsn's board will be held at the Fourth church, Hartford, Saturday "afternoon at 2:45. Miss Calder will speak and there will be a brief dem- onstration, : The large three story house situat- ed west of the trolley tracks near lobbins station was burned at noon ‘on Tuesday. The house had been - built recently and was valued 'at $4,000. There was a general store on the ground floor. - There is to be an entertainment at -““the Cliapgl April 16th, consisting of a” lay given by outside talent, also ree- itations and piano selections. Anna Mulcahy has been operated n“for appendicitis at St. Francis hos- ital. She is in a eritical condition. . " A horse belonging to Representative s$George E. Churchill and valued at $300 was taken ill while Mr. Church- w1l was driving to church Sunday and died. The Grange will celebrate their 29th anniversary on Friday evening. The program will be in charge of Worthy Master and Past Masters. SUED FOR $1,500. I e At Middletown Man ' Claims Damages | From Hartford Water Board. Middletown, March 25.—The board | of water commissioners of the city of Hartford has. been sued by for- mer Alderman William E. Stroud of Middletown for damages of $1,500. which Mr, Stroud says were caused to his automobile by a callision with ‘7w motor truck driven by an employe of the board. The collision hap- pened in Hartford on Octaber 17,'1914. Mr. Stroud’s automobile was standing at a point opposite the Heublein ho- tel, and the autoniobile truck ran into it, badly damaging it. Mr. Stroud ulleges that the car was new, w result its value has greatly depre- ciated. He further alleges_that he was deprived of its use for a period of six weeks. The suit is brought through Cor- .poration Counsel Gustaf B. Carlson, and is returnable to the April terra of the superior court ‘in this county. # Bheriff. Bert G. Thompson served the papers in.the action. TO FURNISH AMBULANCE, Hartford, March 25.—As a direct result of Dr. Jahn R. Mott's stirring address to the stidents of Trinity col- lege on Monday morning, $700 is be- “ng raised by Trinity students to equip an ambulanece for use in Europe’s war. Each student is contributing $3 tow- ards the total. By fyrnishing an am- bulance, the Hartford institution is falling in lne with Yale, Princeton, ‘Wellesley, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and others. Trinity alumn{ also may make contributions for thl[s purpose. LUTHER LEAGUE PROGRAM. A vocal solo by Miss' Ethel Olson, a recitation by Miss Amanda Carlson, 1 $60,000 and as |’ RETAIL AD WRITERS DINE AT HARTFORD “Get-together” Meeting Held and Ad Writing Methods and Ideas Dis- cussed in General, Hartford, Conn., March 25.—Twen- ty-seven men of this city, who write advertising for the retail stores, and who handle advertising matter in oth- er ways, met and held the “first get- Logethex supper” of the Retail Adver- tising Writers of Hartford, last eve- ning at the City club. The supper started at 7 o’clock, and a general dis- cussion of ad writing methods and ideas kept the men busy until a late hour. The supper and meeting was the outgrowth of a conference which was held between two or three advertising men some time ago, and a committee | consisting of G. R. Hoskins of the Hoskins Advertising Agency; J. A. Spalding, advertising manager of | “The Courant,” and Gilbert N. Evans, advertising manager of the Charles Dillon & Co: store, 'was formed to plan the dinner and carry it to a suc- cessful issue. Many of those preseit had sugges- tions to offer and many practical ideas were given. It is ptobable that an organization' will be formed later iun the spring and a permanent club es- tablished for social and educational purposes, so far as advertising is con- cerned. Those present last evening were: Lee C. Robens New England Mutu- al Life Insurance company; H. T.| Plunkett, Hartford Frie Insurapce Co; | T. B. Harris, advertising manager ol the Luke Horsfall Co.;, J: €. Broud- er, “Sunday Globe;” E. H. Croshy, “Manchester Herald Charles Ed- | ward Prior, jr., Security Trust Go.; John M. Sweeney, jr., ‘“The Courant;” Frederick C. Norton, manager af spe- cial advertising, ‘“The Courant;” Gil- bert N. Evans, advertising manager of the Charles Dillon & Co., John Su- darsky, ‘“The Courant;”” Sherman Longee C. C. Fuller Co., Percy A. Fleet, Gemmill Burnham Co.; Roy W. Olmsted, “Sunday Globe;” Al. Harris, J. W. Pyne, “Sunday Globe:"” Arthur ; B. Lincoln, “The Cougant;” H. H. i Palmer, Sage Allen & Co.; C.-C. Hem- | enway, ‘“Hartford Pos! Paul H. Johnson, “Hartford Post;"” John Gray, advertiging manager of C. S. Hills Co.; H. N. Lee, “New Britain Herald; "’ E. C. Geer, jr., Geer's City Directory Publishing Co.; J. L. Gottlieb, the Surprise Store; J. W. Ri Title & Rich; W. C. Simmons, advertising manager of the W. G. Simmons Co.; J. A. Spalding, advertising manager of “The Courant,” and G. R. Hoskins, of ‘the Hoskins Advertising Agency. A committee composed of J.o Al Spalding, W. Clayton Simmons and J, | L. Gottlieb was appointed to arrange for another get together supper. DECISION RESERVED BY JUDGE THOMAS Another Chapter in Litigation of Dan- bury Hatters' Case in U. S, District Court. New Haven, March 25.—Another chapter in the litigation in the Dan- bury hatters’ case was written in the United States district court in this city, yvesterday, when a motion was made by representatives of the banks Wiere the savings of a number of the hatters are tied up, for re-opening a default on the part of the banks who fajled to file pleadings. The banks in question are the South Norwalk and the Norwalk Savings Banks, the | Danbury Savings Banks and the Union Savings Bank, Danbury. The | original suit was by Loewe & Co., against a large number of employes of the hat facteries and growing out of a boycott, and the award was for $280,000. A demand was made upon the banks for payment of the deposits of and $40,000 interest for twelve years by Loewe & Co., but it was refused owing to the question of .payment of interest. The case now pending is for instruction to the banks as to what shall be done with the $30,000 interest. Judge Thomas cision. CHARGES COLLUSION BETWEEN CREDITORS Petition Filed Asking Re-opening of reserved his de- ) Receivership Proceedings of Kan- sas' City, Mexico & Orient R, R. Topeka, Kas.,, March 25.—A peti- tion asking that the sale of the Kan- sas City, Mexico and Orient railroad property be set aside and the entire receivership proceedings re-opened, was filed here in the federal district court. The suit was brought by at- torneys for Willlam Volker, one of the bondholders of the road. The petition charges there was col- lusion between the creditors of the railroad not protected by bonds ana the bondholders in the reorganization of the company last year, when it was sold at a receiver’s sale for six mil- lion dollars. Volker and his attorneys represent the minority bondholders and minor- ity creditors of the company. WILLIAM DOWLING DEAD, Bridgeport, March 25.—William S. Tiowling, president of the Dowling and Bottomley company, builders,.died at his home here today after a few hours illness, aged 62 years. He is survived by his widow, six daughters an dtwo sons. a pilano solo by Miss Huldah Swan- -son, a declamation by "Miss Mary John- gon and an address by Rev. Dr. Ohman ¢ill constitute the program to be car- ed oyt at the meeting of the Luther jeagule in the Swedish Lutheran church ‘ils cvening. CHILD, HIT BY TRAIN, DIES, New Haven, March 25.—Maria D’Agastino, three yvears old, who was [ Tawne, | apparent effort on the part City ltems E S iden e The second degree was cnnfcl red at the meeting of Centennial 1odge, A. F\. & A, M., last night. Star of Good Will lodge, S. of B, will hold a business meecting at 7:30 o'clock sharp this evening. A whist will follow. The Hartford police have asked the local authoritise to be on tine Iook- out for two automobiles which were stolen from the capitol city last night. The championship game of check- ers played at the Hotel Washington last night by Daniel O’Brien of this city and Mr. Shields of Bosten re- sulted in a tie. Mrs. ¥. M. Holmes of is the guest of Mr. . Holmes, of No. Norwich ni - Mrs. Dudley ilart street. Tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock all members of the Methodist ciiurch Philathea class who are to take part in the coming entertainment, should meet at the church for reheavsal. The creditors of Adolph Chapan, bankrupt, have agreed to accept twenty-five per cent. in cash and twenty-five per cent, in notes. When the first meeting of the cred- itors of C. M. Lawrence, bhankrupt, was held yesterday, it was learned that he has no aseets at all. » Conse- quently no trustee was appainted. Miss M. Seibert has gone to New York on a business trip. St. Mary’s Ladies’ T. A, E. will meet this evening in St. school hall. 5 COCK A-DOODLE DO; CACKLES WELINSKY society Mary’s Frpank Welinsky Eats Twenty-Six in Fleven and One-Half Min- utes and Wins $25. Cut-cut-cut-ca-dack-ut; Cock-a-doc- dle-do! Any strange noises heard on Oak street today that sounded at all like the above illustrations can be credited to one Frank Welinsky, for it is rumored that Frank is undergo- ing a metamorphic change in which he will soon blossom: fort! as a chicken. No. not that boys, but a regular cackler. Yesterday Frank and Sam Gerko- witz got into an argument as to who could éat the greatest number of raw eggs in the shartest possible time. \We- linsky said he could, but Sam said he’d have to be shown. For a small side bet of $25 Frank offercd to get outside “of twenty-five eggs. “You're on,” ‘saf@!Bam, and®Strdghtaway? a raid “wadlinad¥7gn a° héh fodits One, two, three and on up*to ten. Down went the eggs with mo of Welin_ sky, but before he got to the quar- ter’ hundred mark he was flyinz the distress signal. With a mighty ef- fort, hawever, he gulped down wenty-fifth egg and just to show that he was not entire all in he swal- lowed the twenty-sixth and then wanted to bet $25 more he was altle to make it thirty. No one -0ook him up and.it*was reported today that it will cost him his hard earned twenty- five to get his stomach back into nor- mal working arder. As Welinsky devoured the twenty- six eggs in eleven and one-half min- utes he lays claim to being *he cham- pion egg eater of the United States and will take on all comers. barring a so | none. WINSTED S ' CELEBRATE. Centennial With Exercises and Tur- key Supper. s Winsted, March 25.—Upwards of 400 members of the Masonic frater- nity from all over Connecticut, Mass- achusetts and New York gathered at Odd Fellows’ hall this evening to celebrate the centennial of Meridian chapter, No. 15, Royal Arch Masons. The exercises started at 8 o’clack and at their conclusion a turkey supper was served, Meridian chapter was instituted at Canaan March 23, 1815. The charter was surrendered May 9. 839, was restored and located at New Hartford April 6, 1849. It was reor- ganized and located at West Winsted, February 23, 1859. The charter members were John El- more, Alban Rose, -Ovid Plumb, Ed- mund Dunning, W. P. Russell, Na- thanial Lawrence, Josiah Lawrence, Elias H. Joslin, Ezekial Daybol, Dan- iel Rood. The first officers were John Elmorek, Alban Rose, Ovid Plum, E. Dunning, ‘W. P. Russell and N. Law- rence. LEAVES FOR WEST. Mrs. Augustus G. Smith of 91 Win- ter street left this afternoon for Los Angeles, Cal, where she is to visit her father, Nathaniel Ward and her three brothers, Dr. Frank A, G. H. and F. R. Ward, whom she has not seen for many years. Mrs. Smith will be in the west far about three months, during which time she will visit the Panama-Pacific exposition. Fresh Air and Sunshine, (Philadelphia Ledger.) ° About one thing there can be no doubt—the Creator made enough fresh air and bright sunshine. for every man, woman and child born into the world. Fresn air and bright sunshine are absolutely essential to health and happiness. Even a weed needs them, or it withers, Human lives that are deprived of them fade and perish— physically, mentally and morally. “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.” Wher- ever fresh air and bright sunshine are denied, it is because of human ignor- ance, selfishness, cupidity. Dark and noisome tenements are signs that the civic conscience is decadent. A com- munity that sets wealth above health hit by a New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad train Monday at Highwood, died yesterday. is inviting the most certain of all dis- asters—the Nemesis of outraged na- ture, | George (he | SON that the- manufacture Not 42 Centimeter Shell but f Nebuchadnezzar’s i)eeds as Kt of Babylon; It Was Recently " There has been placed in the Toledo (0.) Museum or Art one of the m important and interesting of the hu- man documents of antiquity in the form of a clay cylinder on which in cuneiform characters, Nebuchadnez- zar, the king of Babylon from 604 to 561 B. C., describes his building of the walls of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It cor- roborates many of the statements made in the Old Testament relative to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The cylinder was found at the ruins of Marad, south of Babylon, by Arabs, who were digging for ancient bricks with which to construct modern ir- rigation works. It was secured by Dr. Edgar J. Banks, the explorer and archaeologist, and sent to the Toledo Museum of Art. The cylinder isseigh- teen inches in diameter and contains about 1,000 words, in which Nebuch- adnezzar describes himself as the dar- ling of the gods, the ruler who knows not weariness, the powerful prince, the protector of the temple and the first born son of Nabolpolasser He de- scribes the great walls built around Babylon by his father and the varions WILSON SUPPORTED BY MANUFACTURERS Col. Popc Informs President His Negotiations With Belligents Are Backed Up by National Asso. —Colonel president of Manu- dent Wil- s of Amer= ican support him in his negotiations with the European belligerents. A telegram to that effect was received yesterday at the White House. Mr. Pope telegraphed to the pr. dent that all manufacturers were di- rectly or indirectly suffering from the effects of the war, but that many would suffer more should they be prevented from importing supplies through the enforcement of the “se-i vere measures with respct to comi- merce recently announced by belliger- ent governments.” His message fol- lows:— “As president of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers, the largest ! national body of manufacturers | in the United States I feel called upon ! to express to you my appreciation of your prompt action and firm attitude with respect to the various orders by the belligerent . governments in Eu- rope which affect all neutral com- merce and particularly that of this country. ““All manufacturers are directly or indirectly suffering from the effects of this lamentable war, and many of them would sustain still more busi- ness loss should they be prevented from securing necessary supplies from abroad through the enforcement of the severe measures with respect to commerce recently announced by, belligerent governments.” i “I, therefore, wish to assure you of the sympathy and steady support of this association in your energetic ef- forts to protect the rights of this country as a neutral nation in holding the belligerents on both sides to a strict accountability for their actions under a just interpretation of inter- national law.” Hartford, March of this of the National Association facturers has informed Pre Pope, city, MEANS LEGAL HOLIDAYS., Referring t6 Days of Rest For Employed Minors and Women. Hartford, March Attorney General George E. Hinman today filed an opinion in response to a re- puest from Labor Commissioner P. H. Connolly concerning the construc- ticn of the statute relating to holi- days for minors and women in regu- lar employment. The attorney general says the law clearly indicates that the word ‘“holi- days” is not used therem in such a sense as to fairly include vacations granted as a personal privilege to in- dividual employes, but instead refers to regular and generally observed legal holidays. Law $3,500 ANSONIA FIRE, Ansonia, March —TFire caused hy a defective motor this morning destroyed the mattress factory of Harris Scharmett on Jersey here. The owner places his $2,500. PROHIBITION CAUCUS. The prohibition caucus will be held ‘Wednesday, March 31, at 8 n. m, at { Beth have 108 Franklin Square for the purpose of naminating candidates for the city ticket and to transact any business to come before said cauc Centenary of Bismarck’s Birth 10 Be Observed Throughout the country German- American societies are planning to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Bismarck, the great German states- man. He was born April 1, 1815. He additions which he caused to be built described as a third great moat wall. Nebuchadnezzar aleo tells of his build- ing Irrigation canals the guays on the shore of the Euphrates, of the build- ing of many. temples throughout Ba- bylon and the restoration of many ancient buildings In return for his varfous noble deeds he implores the gods to give him abundance and long reign, to devastate all the lands of his enemies, to give him fearful weap- ons which stretch forth long and sharp for the defeat of his enemlies He also asked for a strong body an< | empire an abundance of posterity. died on July more than any responsible for His name every German 30, 1898, Bismarck, other ‘one man, was unifying the German is held dear by OIL TANK STEAMER ARRIVES. New York, March —The oil tank steamer Richmond, towing barge No. 95, arrived today from San Francico. full cargoes of oil. This is the first tow to arrive from the Pacific coast by way of the Panama canal. George Bunting, the captain of the Richmond, died of apoplexy during the voyage. DROWNED IN TUB, Ansonia, March Tozak, four years old, was dr‘n\\ned inn a tub used for watering cattle late yesterday in the dooryard of his home on Silver Hill. The boy was playing around the tub with his brother and fell in When the mother pulled him out a few minutes later he was dead. TAYLOR APPOINTED CLERK. Hartford, March 25.—Ralph Taylor of Stamford, was today appointed a clerk in the auto department at the capitol by Secretary of State Charles D. Burne: Comparing Prisons to Hospitals. (New Times) Warden Osborne of Sing Sng pro- poses that all judicial sentences for crime be made really “indeterminate’ —not within any stated limits, that is, but covering only the time, long or short it takes in each case to make the convict over into a good citizen. Of the nm objects \\'hk‘h imprison- York least to have in view—punitive, de terrant, and reformative—he woull abandon all except the last. Whatever the offense, Mr, would keep the criminal in ment until he was ‘“cured,” and no longer, and in explanation or justifi- cation of his plan, he likens men in prison to patients in a hospital. The latter, in theory, if not in practice, are kept until they are well—or dead- no matter what is the matter with them, and on recovering, if they do recover, they are allowed to go. And that is what he would do with erim- inals. < This is, of course the logical pos tion for anybody to take who accepts in its entirety the new view of crim- inal conduct and of the nature of in- dividual responsibility therefor, b it is one that conflicts with so ma established beliefs and customs t Mr. Osborne cannot expect to have it generally accepted much before the | millennium “arrives, and then there will be no prisons or prisoners at all For some time to come there will re- main the feeling that crime should be punished and that the fear of punishment deters from fts commis- sion. Already, however, there is much npathy with the effort to empha- e the possibilities of reforming con- victs, and experiments in this direc~ tion have warm and increasing ap- proval—the old system, by common Osborne confine- | KO | te da long hird ma achin how feel. shoes Get from store, | wear fresh, | whole ¥ 25 cents, TU N(Yl‘ Normal Along D Dardan Via Co 21 and ~—One sent to tieship, obrervers beach and three other sl aged to found nee action, are it of the Anglo 118 to foreé ! other side, ti | not been silend | tained by the nal, The action | during which fic cannonade allies and the | fire from the | exceedingly gunners main wonderfully, Ly the earth exploding shell threw over th The first of French and fi put in an app a. m., throwi the town of Ol tie later five entqed the ment rapidly b derfully spect dent of The taken sheltér he was driven| position on a but even on Tn the begi British and cellent The «hell Jand falr Kale Sultanie large hole in routed out a P respondents Wi leave cover. eral houses Wi exploding sl be by Prison and (New Among all none has tal of the possibi as Dean Kirchi asserts that tion from Sing much as a Hi ing a man. 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