New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1915, Page 6

NG COMPANT, e excepted) at {12 61 Chure Y oo 8t e au” B <o any part O Teek. 65 Conts & new Britain atter. t o e, 60 Cents & an A%i00 a vear. — o advertising medivm 18 | booke and press ulation open tu adyertisers. round en sale at Hota- and, 42nd St. and Broad- Board Walk. and Hartford depot. k City; HONE CALLS. 'S BUSINESS MEN DINE. one of the progressive ecticut and a great deal! ogressive spirit has been The town recent years sdate orzanization in its associa- Tmprovement held a full poth b 1t henquet wa een that, fends aly hoed the same d ‘time and todad its annual account cotumn is not the gantly over the speec hes | al merrymaiking whic bhan of which | of necessary A success members s enjoyed of they el the progeedings, iion has doné " for Plainville, it is still there 15 eviden Iad, the peopie I nization has in all its juet work to sorves together, when they ex- as to the different lines | serves to create a good ends to cement the bond T o jendship that in the town. son for the lin which exists among the fes of the different bugi- It is a good plan to | therings in every com- juse the bringmg of the together is productive of no without wnicn be successful. lhas grown in nmportance few pa s et opportu an © the trend of its operi- . a great future for it in This sug- other there are factories and | ' hanufacturings. siness in )er of hands a necessari all ora ess in P Britain OPTs HIGH LICENS BILL, the ce o eail er bring the has his spirit & years and those | nity re be che is pleased that has come to Plain- ontinuing to come, and | - years of usefulness to fand Improvement Ass “Jieense bill passed day by a rathe " {he | efforts of the tem- | erects of the state havo ! some of their being enacted’ into law. barliamentary question in- e proceedings now which n the defeat of the mecas- the vote was pa ade to reconsider and it which means that be considered again 1t has to go to the sen- that body disagrees with and some | is expected, it is believed ! ot be taken up again by down, not fef the house, hody. That, ent connected with the ment. past years pred it was gulate the that was high liqu It is no longe Jation hut how btained for the st ary object in at present, but it is not | b zive the the licenses done. n e a of liquor feature to be sold aside from the s ich goes to the county com- he revenue goes re the zaloons are located. fcontend that the high fees gome of it means a still eondition the further of hibition whichi it shoula r plan ssed however, license simply as an | or T can ate, raising the increase to re license mall to saloons out that the towns financial affairs the high license bill which | has adopted is in part at measure, inimical \térests and gives the state not the city Month. be sent by mall p ™. quet the | 1o it it, of are h real | f it e it ntive The he- ex- of om- to ] | | Tines em- in- of with the mall | s on| an is traffic | thought then per thing to do, but now ques- more This the issued is in as much | [¥otes as to wnether it will | within per- the sug- | have, | done in a public way and what shall | liked it and ! gave him. | fiuenced | te ! and not because he was identifled with | cruse he | its | ROOSEVELT AND BAR> The libel suit of William Barnes v Theodere Roosevelt reveals two dif- ferent types of men engaged n prac- tically the same busincss, and the tes- f.mony in 4 measure shows how they work and how they seck (o reach the end;lfor Which they aim. Mr. 100ks over his ground, ascertains what course is best to pursue, then deter- inines the manner of campaign, keep- g always in mind not only his own inter which selfish, but those which he rej Barnes sts, are mnot necessarily of the esents, organization To pe a succ in inl leader is the aim of many pol- itics; to he able to say what shall be be poeinted done -and who shall be ap- te public office is often con- sidered. glory enough for many men. Mark Hanna was not in politics for money; he had enough or it, but he he liked the power it Mp., Barnes’ idea was that not mlien the republican party was in the saddle New in legislative - matters by the leaders or the vho. according his opinion, knew hest what was needed. Mr. opposed to this, though he prac- tized it himself in a different way, as- attitude, saying in when he appuinted a man hecause he regarded in York that its action should be in- party, to Roosevelt uming a loftier ‘flect that office it was pim from the standpoint of efficiency Mr. Barnes had far would thig or that faction. the same objegt in view, so concerned. He 101 ack for the appointment of a man as (fliciency was who was incompetent any more than would Mr. Roosevelt, though he would always have in mind the interests of the organization which mude the ap- | peintment while Mr. Roose- would perhaps only the strengthening of himself possible, veit have In mind o hublic character. Tt another of political a won't do for a man to accuse corruption he- do things as an- have them does not cthier man wants to done. that & and compromise and these do not any constitute dishonesty corruption as.these All know politics means log roll- Ly means terms are un- There is a great deal of | corruption politics, and all know that there are men in it for all they can of it to everyone. or derstood; in but that does not apply The actions of a political sometimes cause him to be re- with suspicion but that not give anycne the right to against him. Mr. | 1 vesevelt is o man of much influence get out lead arded does make | i just accusations in this country, when he was in office had a great deal of power and he able to do some things of his own which and he wa volition another. could not ac- mplish it that there should be clashes between him- was natural selfl and He does not seem to Mr, Barnes that he is not telling the jury in the libel suit. other leaders. know anything about FACTS AND FANCIES. M Tawlor up to his neck in trouble in Hartferd and democrats «cem to have contributed the major purt of it. The republicans being in | the minority did nothing except look on at the slaughter of the new lone by the old line Jeffersonians, Tt was a yeal debacle.—-Ansonia Sentinel. Chicago carpenters are resting while the builders think over their demanl for wages at 70 cents hour. The ter the hours men of today work the more th need to pay the hills contracted while they are not at work. The American home is rapidly becom- ing a place of such luxury in cost {hat it may he necessary to revert to log- houses and dugouts {0 raise a genera- tion capabic of living within their means.— Norwich Record, an Mayor-elect William Hale Thomp- of Chicago has officially an- neunced that he is on the grape wagon. He felt that he could not and the strain of a hard administr: on if he handicapped himself with rong drink, He has gone in for i Tt would he a =ood thing if he cut t it too. The notion that one can stand hard strain by in- lulgence even in grape juice reliance is fanse. Tt takes plain food and pure water to furnish the best nourishment for strenuous living of any kind. But | such things are a good deal more notion than people generally suppo London Telegraph. ew The report of the port warden of Hartford shows that the freight be- tween llartford and Springfield b, canal is equivalent to what would re | quire forty-five railway ears dail Tt shows that water transportation { b: means insignificens even where conditions are hot of ihe best. There raay he enough husiness up and down augatuck valley, to pay for blast- out a canal to connect us with the water, yvet an imaginary develop- commerceo that may not he chimerical among t(he the great hidden future for us. Waterbury no ! the ? | ins [ tide ment of altogether things which | has in store American, Washington, D, has decided hreak away from the old idea that a police force is useful only to protect life and property and under Commi sioner Brownlow the sphere of activity of the patrolimen kas been broadened. J'or instance the police are to enforce { sirictly the laws against spitting on the sidewalks and, throwing refuse of any kind into the streets. both of which laws have languished. as in most cities. Then in the vicinity of various school buildings streets will he roped off during certain hours of to | making thig a playground zone for the | youngsters, In the hours ' throughout the ecity | certain street ' areas will be roped off in similar man- ner wherever there arc found groups of chfldren without playground fa- cilities.-—New Haven Unlon. evening ' the old he played | any of the Perhaps: There is | players ‘n | 1l players | cateh them | s that whicn heat Billy sunday thin Chicago team with in the eizhties could teams of the present tut it is entirely unlikely, this reason why hasehall 1915 are probabiy than those of 1888 vounger. 1n ‘the eighties no boy had n insight inte really scientific base- | 11 until he had pretty well done he- ng a hoy. There was haseball playved hy boys. but it was hoys' haseball and | not until an athlete grown up cid he begin to set a training in the highly developed game pilaved by professions Nowadays bors of 10 or 12 have an almost uncanny know- ledge of real ehall, There is ab- golutely no comparison between their plaving and tha plaving of thte hoys of | thirty years ago -they are infinitely | (he superiers of their predecessors, New London Daj better | they We haven't noticed that our legisla- ture has done anything for bullfrogs, Certainly here a rank You don’t catch the Malne legislature slecping on itis privileges in any such tashion. There they seuson for bullfrogs. doubt for there is nathing finer than the silvery legs of a hulifrog, fried clive oil and smiles: so good. indeed. that one can fairly taste the music in them: and what is fairer than the | basso profundo of a bhullfrog singing | his love song in the gloaming? | Thoughts like these no doubt awaken- | ed the Maine legislature to a sense of their duty, and they did not stop until they insisted upen a $19 tax on cats, wwhese weird and vagrant notes con- fiicted so disastrously with the sonor- | ous roundelay of the bullfrog. These are matters that our own legislature has doubtless forgotten. but there is! plenty: of time vet to do everything, | znd still keep the thunderous bullfrog | within the range of our =olicitude, Ohio State Journal. omission. propose a closed A good law, ne E | | | | J | | | The Vaiue of “Tf You Pleasc. Tublic The Pennsylvania railrc to start a school “Court mectings” are to to teach those who come in with the public in whatever that it pays to be polite. Employes of a transportalion com- pany, dealing with people in a hurry, are subject to ahout e irritating of the human temperament. | sellers, informaiion hureau | age masters, (clephone operator porters and other at- tendants stand on the firing line and | are exposcd to a continuous fusillade from people whose wits are (e porarily in abeyance to the tim table, fhe missing trunk or the d funct commutation tickel, They gel all the “fool questions™ they are. But they must displaoy an invarviable civile ity toward crvank ond freak, the just | and the unjust. With soft answers they must avert the wrath of him in whose face train gate is closed. They mus lose patience with the ! man or who holds up the fuming the window by inde- cision. In cvery inculeation of courtesy office discipline. To markct your wares in the teeth of keen competi- tien to be gracious to customers one by Diffienlt as it to do the public must be individualized. Kach man must be made to feel that | his custom is wanted, that tac side- waik is swept.and the door is opened and the salesman stands expectant and the goods are the shelves just for him. He——and not just his | pocket-hook—must he made welcome. | The deep-rooted hostility to the tip-| ping system rests largely on the surly | incivility of many recipients who ac- ept small zratuities in contemptuous silence “Thank vou" result iz likely out of all pro- | portion the trouble taken, Law- vers, doetors, bankers, architects, who would win clients are not ashamed to he civil In _every kind | of trade Thank you™ | have entered into sful part- | orship. The costliest mistake in any iness is to h i retain rude un- derlings because they are cheap, They | repel custome i spell ruin for their and defeat their own | bects of prowoiicn, lSvery other | mul habit inexpensive | pared with chronic discourtesy, 1 | (Philadelphia Ledger.) A proposcs manners, be held, contact capaclty | | | | ory | Clerks, hag 3 ihe nnt waman line at kind of business today the part of the one s0. is cusy o say, and the to he to new “Please’ and a sucee employer com- A Real Yellow Problem. (New York the seat other problems this time of the should he given probiem of Press.) racket” the parlk ! which year, dollan hog Along with rowdies, the lawns and the heset us about some attention the quarter-lemon | iced-tea drinker. In most restaurants this adjunct without which jeed fea is as an egg | without salt—is wedged in hetween | the smooth wall of the glass and the | sloping wall of the Tt can extricated without much difficalty and squeezed into the tes but the digposal of (he remains constitutes the problem. Dropping tinet failure | culiar to | always so placed end 1o 1he sauver. the fea is a dis- With a cussedness pe- rter of a ldmon it is that when you al- tempt to sip the ice tea you arve stymied what appears (o be a vellow-hacked turtle. You may have eraftily revolved the glass | as reach the while the lemon had its hack turned, but alwayz by some mysterious but adequate sys- tem of locomotion that lemon reaches the strategic point in time to intercept the tea hefore it reaches the rim of the gl Putting it back on the saucer does not work out. When you left the glass the lemon slides down intn the center. and replacing yvour glass safely on an even . keel involves a { good deal of delicate work. You can upon the table it into by s0 to tea | s8. of course, drop it cloth, but {his is a the day and all traflic there suspended somewhat messy proceeding, { textboak. | some | ing, | ent | and [and { largely two-handed | GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK Britain as Germany's eral von va Bernhardi “Written a year later many and the nest war.' 1d supplements his well icy for the ‘world-empire.’ tor has included German ‘Customs the rules of the A. L. A. Bookl al, by Gen- than ‘Ger- Kxpands known pol- ‘I'ransla- the tracts from the of war' and from Hague conference.” t Field crop production, by George liv- meston. “A clearly and interestingly written Does not contain, as first discussions on all North field su cane and being the most im- L. A. Booklist. intended, American tobacen portant erops two of omitted.” A, . German emperor as shown in his pub- lic utteranees by C'hristian Gauss, “A good selection of the Hinperc speeches {ro inhis accession in 1888 to August th. 1914, with notes on the cccazions of their delivery. Each in the completest form avail- and only those are included have received official or semi sanction,” A. A. Book- si Riven able, which cfficial list. - Handbook of practice by MeMurry “Terse. pointed suggestions on management and disciplin the teacher's difficulties and growth, en- listing the co-operation of the chil- dren, on lesson points to emphasize and dangers to avoid.” A. L. A Rookliat. for teachers, Health work est Hoag. “A clear, concise handbook, deal- ing with the problems involved in health supervision, health examina- tion. and hygiene (eaching. Con- tains a rather detailed treatment transmissible diseases. also a synop- of school health organization in cities.” A. L. A. Booklist. e in the schools, by BErn- . Human side Dixon. study ire of plants. by Royal ‘A habits of plants allied to human fishing, mimicing, walk- plundering, telling the time of builling.' An entertaining pres- tion of facts universally ac- knowledged but interpreted in a manner which many will serfously question.” A, 1. A. Booklist. . of those closely day. his famil: and friends, by M. Dostoevski. “Above all they show rooted his spirit was in the sentiment of A. Book Letters to Russian soll nationality.” AL .o Manual of piay, by Forhush. “A Dhelpful and suggestive book for nts and teschers, which the au- hopes will lead to a greater thoughtfuln n the presentation of toys, and to a richer home life. Discusses ways to fit up the playroom and playground. what spon- taneous. imaginative, constructive play by means of which children express themselves. Contains a graded. an- rotated list with L. ok use of st toys Musicians of Romain Rol- land. “Essays of solid ability, today, by combination musicianship and literary very I and very sgrateful. German and French composers prin- cipally Berlioz, Saint-Saens, d'Indy, Debussy, Wagner, Straus, and Hugo Welf, are subjects for discussion’ to which are added a comparison of rench and German music and an account of the musical movement in 117 since 1870 L. A. Book- which are a DR Saturday with my camera, Stan- ley Currie Johnson very complete by plaining details, teur is treatment, ex- both technical and artistic which the professional ama seeking to knoy Dea with British apparatus, but the gencral suggesiions and principles will be helpful to enthusiasts in this country.” A, L. A. Book e freshman wirls, Dawes Rrown, ‘Straight talks given of bon camaraderie hut touch of sentimentalily, suggestive and inspiring, particularly for the hackground of wide reading which they suggest.” A, 1. A. Booklist. “ . Talks to by Helen with an air without a W weapons., by H. Dewitz. Look for the zeneral reader, as technical as possible, concern- n engines of warfare: sub- Zeppelins, aeroplanes, giant The author is a r's new “A little mode marines, howitzer ing ete | teehnical experi. formerly of the Dan- navy. Publisher's note. PR ish Schoff, Con- Parent- Wayward child, by Hannah K. president of the tional g1 of Mothers hd Teacher Associations. v e Fiction. tirst, Mary man Andrews, story told largely by means of between a girl Who was ser- { iously considering suicide and a young curate who had to help her find a philogophy of life which would per. manently bury the pistol. There is | a mystery and a love story.” A, L. A Booklist. August by Raymond Ship- i letters a ... | Bealby; a holiday, by Wells. “Most entertaining. Bealby, twelve | vears old. objects strenuously to be- |ing sent to Shonts as steward’s boy. | but he has to go. I'ate helps him to escape which becomes a wild flight with a week of the most com- plicated adventures.” Ta Book P ientleman adventurer, by Baily. “A highly adventurous romance of the days of Spanish Dons and Jolly Rogera,” how deeply | { When ¥|.m of Twin Kires, by Walter Prich- ard Katon. " “'A story that'all’ who have yearn- ings to go ‘back to the land’ will en- Jo; It tells how ayoung college professor bought a picturesque New England farm for sentiment’s sake, and how he succeeded in ‘making ! pay’ without losing any of his sen- timent and idealism.” . Publisher’s note. . . Mrs. Martin'a by St. John Er. vine ‘A rather depressing boak,.but. one | which will make the true artist frankly envious.” Beokman. “This is a work of realism in the very highest sense. 1t presents hu- man character and action with fidel- ily and interprets and enterprets them in the light of human exper. ience.” Nation. man, “ e Ruggles of Red Gap, by Harry Leon Wilson. “Absurd experiénces of an ultra English valet in a Westérn town. Tublisher’s note, « e Sicily Ann, by F. H. Lea. “The success of the story lies in the mirthful, light and subtle and happy spirit in which the characters are described.” Boston Transeript. CECEY Victory, by Joseph Conrad. “The Polish-Bnglishman's art of fiction is all his own. He is a past- master of literary magic and the right- ful place of this latest book is well up on the front rank of the series which include Lerd Jim and Nos- tiomo.” Nation. What 1 found out in the German prince. “'The author describes herself as an English governess, the grand-daugh- ter of an American naval officer. The book is entertaining but contains house of a Boston Transcript. Who goes there! by Robert W. Cham- bers. “An entertaining story, of the pres- ent war, full of swift and exciting ac- tion.” Effect and Drawbacks of Jitney Service Whether or no the so-called Jitney service should be regulated further |than is possible under the present {laws of this state resolves itself to consideration of its effect upon, First—The general public. Second--The employes of street rail- way companies, and Third—The meatter of equity to the street railway companies. Referring to the first class, many of the public without analyzing the subjeet carefully, believe that so-called Jitney service promises a solution of the rush hour overcrowding of cars and that it's competition will exert a salutory effect upon street railway companies’ alleged short-comings. Un- fortunately. a street railway company exercising its best efforts and with the best intentions often appears to the public to be wilfully neglectful of its rights and comfort and therefore questions of this or a similar nature arise, they are oftentimes noi ccnsidered without prejudice. If a company’'s patronage falls off, it per- force has not the financial ability to furnish the service it would have un. der more favorable conditions. Cer- {ain lines of almost every street rail- way company in each community are operated without profit and must look for their justification to the earnings of the system as a whole. A reg- fular headway is usually operated from early morning until late at night, which headway is not warranted by the pat- ronage between, say 9 and 11:30 a. m. 2:30 and 5:00 p. m. and after 8 o'clock in the evening. during which periods of light riding cars are op- erated for the convenience of passen- gers and run with many vacant seats. In the past trolley companies have at the request of suburban commu- nities extended their lines into thinl» settled territory. Those extensio have made for the health of the com- munities in allowing the man of small | means to huild on reasonahle terms and have obviated the necessity, o a large degree, of the use of tenements, These extensions the profit of merchants due to' this means of easy and reasonable travel, Fare limits have been extended he. vond profitable distances and. their justification has been the compensat- ing effect on the general' result of the short haul passenger and rush hour riding. 1f this short haul riding is to be talien away. to a cansiderable degree, from the street railvay com- ranies, inecvitably a reduction in ser- vice must follow and a contraction of fare limifs must also result. Tt is probable that if trolley car =ervice has to be withdrawn to a con- siderable amount, it will be impossihle to furnish ext car service on holidavs as well as on sporadic davs upnn Wwhich there are rain and snow stormis, cars, as a rule, furnish dependahla service operated on a regular sched- ule and with safaty and comfort to ite vassengers. Fspecially is this true with regard to Furthermore, if there be an accident, there is tangible property upon which recovery can he made in a civil suit 1f the company is liable. The Connecti- cut company has paid for damage claims during the last three fiscol vears, an average of $281.791.32 per annum. The service furnished by the =o-called jitney is usually one which appeals to the operator of the samea as likely to furnish the most revenuo cars often being turned hack short of the destination on their signs in order nothing which could not be invented.” ; have alsn made for | women and children. | to take prospective passengers before they are reached by an approaching trolley car, and the length of ride glven is comparatively short and the . headway very irregular and as a rule operatéd only during hours of heay travel. In facl, the average length of ride given by the jitney service in New Haven at present, as contrasted with. the distance to the first fare limit given by the trolley is 56 per cent, in Waterbury 45 per cent, in Meriden 41 yper cent, in Hartford 55 per cent., these being the relative distances to radial points out from the center of the cities which are given by the jit- ney servce compared with trolley, by transfer or direct route this dis- tance can usually be doubled in riding from one side of city to another in n trolley car, so that as a matter of fact if passengers desire to take the ride, the jitnev instead of giving 50 per cent of the trolley ride is giving but one.quarter. In many cities the drivers of Jjit- neys have been young men with very little experience. In several of the | western cities jitney service was sus- pended entirel: after a snow storm and only resumed after trolley companies and municipalities had cleared streets of snow. In general the jitney is actually doing work of a common carrier, each machine as a rule owned by a different individual, but without the regulation and superviston of any authority such as the public utilities commission, passing upon its methods Of operation and the qualification of the operators thereof and paying to the state or municipality much loss than the average owner of a private automobile, Referring to the second class affect- ed by the jitney service, namely, the emploves of the company, many of the employes of the Connecticut com- pany, especially motormen and con- ductors, have spent years in the ser- vice and cannot earn at any other aveocation, a wage equal to that new enjoyed and of which o very large proportion is spent in the cities where it ls earnmed. 1If the operation of a considerable number of jitneys should necessitate retrenchment upon the part of the trolley company in discon- tinuing the operation of many of its cars, the incident hardship upon the eraployes and the loss of business to the communities, will be considerable. For the last fiscal year the payroll of the Connecticut company was $3 100,000, practically all of which was undoubtedly spent in the municipal- ities where it was earned. With reference to the third class, the equity in the situation, as far at least as the effect upon the trolley company’ is concerned, the conten- tion is often made that trolley.com- panies have paid nothing for - their franchises or for the use through which they operate and that they have exclusive franchises in such atreets. in practically every city where there has been more than one trolley com- pany, it has worked out to the dis- advantage of the patrons, due to lack of mutual adjustment of schedules and to loss of transfer privileges. 30, 1914, the Connecticut company paid for street pavement (not con- sidering the large amount for. the jncident traek work) $434.775.00 saving a like amount to the state and municipalities. As a matter of fact the trolley compaines in this state, on streets where they have double tracks, pay for and maintain the pave- ment of half or more of evéfy street not in excess of 38 ft. between curbs. | The law matter under which the trolley companies are called upon to keep the streets in repair between their rails and 2 ft. outside thereof, was passed in 1893, when Thorses drawing the street cars made furrows in the pavement and at which time pavements cost, if there were any, be- tween $2,600 and $7,000 a mile of street, whereas now the cost of pave- ment only to the trolley company is oftentimes ,000.00 a mile. At the present date trolley companies ure the only users of the highway tween curbs who do not use the pave- ments, cors running on rails provided the company, and although wear and tear upon permanently paved highways by jitney service may not be considerable, it certainly will have a disastrous effect upon all water- bound and bituminous macadam roads, or such roads as are not pro- vided with cven these types of pave- ment. For the year ending September 1914, the Connecticut company and in taxes to the state $§478,5614.65. With reference to this amount paid the state in taxes, if it should be contend- ed that each trolley car occupies mueh space in highway neys, then on the present basis of tax- ation of jitneys, namely $7.00 per paid the state $12,600, or if based on the seating capacity of trolley cars as j compared with jitneys, the company | would have paid $63.000 instead of being taxed in various manners considerably over one million dolars per annum. The Connecticut company last fiscal year, $29,297.87, It also paid for snow removal by carting in the sireets in the same period, $42.. [ 178.34. Practically all of this money was expended. In order to make provision keeping its lines open during storms, the Connecticut company has snow. plows, sweepers, ecct., which cost $416.425.00. To provide service for its patrons It has a ear equip- ment to the value of $6,922,800, There is a bill before the present General Assembly carrying with it provision that the trolley company «hall pay one-third of the cost of cer- tain bridges, which, if passed, will add an annual burden of several hundred thousand dollars upon the company. The constantly for snow increasing of materials, ‘the higher rate of wages and the added hurdens imposed hy the General Assembly and the Public Utilities commission on the one hand, and the granting of universal trans- fers, extending of city elimination of fare zones. have ren- dered the net revenue to trolley com- cosl of streets | With regard to the last claim, | During the fiscal vear ending June | be- | as three jit- | vear, the trolley company would have | to | “lso paid | for street sprinkling and olling in the remained in the communities where it | fare limits and | McMILLAN’S ! Don’t forget the New Hours for | Store Closing—Monday at 9 P. M., | Saturday av 9:30 P. M., Other Days lave P m. i . SPECIAL HOSIERY SALE | Thursday & Friday | at 9[} pair i All our regular brands of 12 1-%e Hese included, for Men, Women and Children, FOR TWO Your opportunity to bu at a saving. At the same time pect to make many new Hosiery cus- tomers during this Special Sale. We want vou to become more familiar ‘“'Hh the leading brands of Hoslery, | such as we offer at our Hoslery De- | partment from day to day at 2 Pair | for a Quarter, Hosiery we ex- KNIT UNDERWEAR Spring and Summer weights now ready for Men, Women and Children. Union Sults and separate garments of the best known makes, such as “Carter “Richelieu,” “Bedo,"” - “Fitrite," “Rexford,” *“Porousknit,” “B, V. D.”” and “Winchester Mills,” ! SILKO VESTS For women, in regular sizes. Special 25c each, FITRITE VESTS | For women, 121-2c. Regular and | extra sizes. FITRITE UNION SUITS | For women, 50c. Regular and ex- | tra sizes. Fitrite garments will not slip off the shoulders. WOMEN'S FANCY VESTS | At 15¢ to 25¢ Each. PEARL WAIST UNION SUITS FOR CHILDREN, 50¢ EACH, Combination of under waist union suit. Ask to see them. fit children all ages CARTER’S UNION SUITS, For men in all styles, 98c each. | B. V. D. Union Suits, $1.00, B. V. D. Shirts and Drawers, 30¢ | each, . Porousknit Shirts and Drawers, 4 each, | Roxford and Kavanaugh gans, 48¢ garment. D. McMILLAN 199-201-205 MAIN STREET and extra ul(d They Balbrig- panics so small, that the management | of the trolley compaines in the last few years have been to refrain from building many extcnsions of their lines, which have been requested and: earnestly urged by the different coms | munities.—advt, obliged Stuck as to a State Flower, (Thiladelphia Press.) The legislature confesses jts in- ability to deal with the question of a state flower by killing every one of the proposals made to fill the place of ite first cholce, the “mountain laure! This, Governor Brumbaugh would approve, though it 1l odds the best suggestion mad: The suggested as a sub: ite for carded laurel gre the sweet myrtle, thte wild honeysuckl tulip poplar [hese were all eweet pea and the miyrile ave ired aliens and not to the post of symbo Ameri 1 state. honeysuckle that it make the state flowe nudiflorum, is not a hut an azalea. The term noneysuckls | iz applied too looscly to ot | vurieties and species to make it a d | state flower. The tulip poplar wiit not be found in any ordinary liet flowers. Tt is the blossom of a forest tree. It iy enough but it bloems high in the air. and a state flower ought uot to the ser- | Vices of a fifty-foot ladder or un prlane in order to be seen to adyvant There will be no state flower chosen the legislature u to th the g "nor * with itself subject srth discussion states have adopled 2 state nearly every instance by | school children. The Pennsylvania should be way. not by flowe.s the dis- pe the and the wisely ected natural. eligible flowers of an variety of proposed (6 rhodadendron honeysuckle, properiy The a number require or aer as in e agree Tha rty of the or the A « a vot slate flower chosen in sme Quits Joh, (Galve Houston) Charles Bertolina, the Pied Pire, has turned in his | will not be seen catching rat {the water front and the sume times. Charles is the champivn rat catcher of Galveston. For (he past several months he has been tak« | ing the rodents at the rate 0o | per month For this service he received rogular price pald for rats, and in addition was given a bonus of $10 provided he caught as many 1,000 in thirt | daye When Charles rat ecateher he when he had made ~nough | buy hoat and a gasoline ) Recently he made the purchase, and { then appeared at the health office and laid down his commission The latest record made by Charles | was 1 i’i rats in sixteen days, [For these was paid at the rate nd ten cents each eight and . a be of §10. Galveston and along beach for as begah his said he would career as wuit money to a engine g nu