New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1915, Page 8

i\ RALD : feayat 4115 P, M. o n;::m:f SBuE, Bt — o any DATt "ot tne city ':T{v:& sflycfnu a Month. ,o, paper to_be sent by mall advance. 60 Cétits ‘s “u,, $7.00 & year. .. Sroftable advertising mledium ‘1o Circulation bHooks and press ‘alwaye oven v advertisers. will de round on sale at Hota- Stana,” 42nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Walk. City end:-Hantford- depot SLEPHQNE, CALLS. yddy is that the commit- es and has de- fwhat is to -he done with the although the for several that the afety will remain in- boroughs endments, l ‘not he made s hction taken is Lpublic ; fthat the membership will be ad of ssors instead of g both. ‘boards on -will occasion some regr t:that the former depart- undisturbed will h compensate for the change ferical The t in regard to the assessors our and.there will be four, there- parti _ remain membership. on no surprise because the the time the consideration by suggested a by the nts during vas 154 committee ong the line taken committee, . fim that there will be less fric- ~three members * than four ably preve be- iré is no friction in the other nts where the membership is ided among the leading parties. The trouble, when- is any, is usually due to the rather than to the system. ops up at unexpected times le men whose duty it is to jthe business in question will the city’s sidé tneré will be ock and no dispute beyond 'h will naturally occur over discussion of any matter. in will give satisfaction in Iny public” office. All they n opportunity to do some- i their good sense will bring right side up every time. necessary and the best are " reeded. The sooner the s .report. . is made he better it will be all it will enable the détermine what he shall do yorking force of the depart- e ed to decide on the busi- e transacted. ' under ‘unfounded and ARD DISTRIBUTION. appears to be up against old adifficulty as regards distribution in the-subway s on East Main street a few b, and at last evening’s meet- he board of public works Humphrey suggested -that efl‘ng (leparlml—me see the owners on” Lafe e‘;fi’e eet is proposed to hulld a “sub- nticipation of paving the ld where the property owners Herstood have agreed.to al- telephone company to string ough the back yards and ub~ necessity. of- uging the sub= have the city's pua\hon ex- This mafter has beén gone bre and 4-%peat déal of time given ‘torlfts digéiission, but rs ‘that ‘property’ owners do brstand the situation or they pt permit wires to be strung rear of their buildings. ject of the subway is to have i poles removed from pd to also give the fire des a better opportunity to work bt & fire. "The city has there- 3 cted a Jarge bonded debl‘ gi@&nd. charges the com- o ‘OLL py them a certain fThe Southern New England company was the first to matter to public attention ty by making application to i commissioner for leave to " certain' streets for subway | The application was re- the company took the mat- e courts and was beaten, the saying in. .effect that the aged to the city. The lez- § glven the city the power fl° all comipaniés owning and an overhead system to place s under ground in the subway and if the property owners g to allow back yard distri- will operate against the terests because it will take P necessary revenue and leave ch to pay interest Ry bonds or to provide a sink- with' which to meet ‘the pay- the bonds at maturity, It m as oif back yard distri- B ve nfsbientca by law un- circumstances and now v\hen g upon wh the | the legislature i lflv’flnion would be a good time:for the city to ascertain where it is at in regard to that point. The legislature’ has'said that New Britain shall have the right to order all wires into the ‘subway- in the sub- Wway district and it would be a bit peculidy if the company can arrange to have the wires strung in- the rear of buildings after the city has gone to the expense of providing for in the manner prescribed by operates in a peculiar way sometimes and there. may perhaps be no relief for the city, but if that is so then the city ought to know it and if there is no to get around it it would seem as if it might as well stop build- ing subways. The latter are designed for use and if the city cannot compel companies to use them then there can be no sensible reason for constructing them, Now {s an opportune time to have this point cleared up, because the subway indebtedness Has reached a good sized sum and -as permanent street improvements are made so must the bills grow. Improving the fire department on one hand and on private buildings like the them law. Law way subway stringing wires on the other does not sound work of wisdom. WORK 2 DED. It is pretty generally hoped that it wiil not be necessary to Increase the tax rate in order to provide employ- ment for those out of work and who are in need. Mayor Quigley has.in mind making an immediate start on ater supply improvements at Bur- lirgton so as to give those people rk.. 'This is the season when out- Goor employment 'should be plentiful; it is the season when the farmer doing his planting, when all city de- partments are beginning their spring work and when the appropriations are \well up towards the top. It would be idle perhaps to say that outdoor em- playment is plentiful, but there is a great deal of activity going on every- where, the new buildings are numerous, street work 1s peing given a great deal of attention and it would seem on the face of it is if the num- ber of idle men should be reduced to a minimum. 5 The men who are applylng to the mayor are evidently of the unskilled tyvpe, who, by the way, must live the same ag the artisan but who find work aifficult to obtain when ail.others are employed. Presumably the class re- ferred to are all deserving, but it is quite a task to undertake to find work for them all. Possibly work can be given to, many on water department [improvements and if it can be done it looks like a good suggestion because the city will be receiving in return for tlie money expended a labor that must’ be performed in order to complete the improvements proposed. Under those conditions there would be no need of increasing the tax rate which many éonsider pretty high as it 1s. Thero would in all probability be objection to pushing it up any higher. w is Local showers are predicted for to- day and the rain is badly needed. The ‘heat of the last few days has pushed cut the buds and flowers and in fact all kinds of vegota.tlon have developed. The ground, hovtie\'er, is hard, it con- tains no moisture and now-is the time when it is needed to give life to the new seed planted and to start its road to growth. The heat perienced, yesterday and Sunday unnatural. at this time of year, that of the former being more intense. | The mercury climbed so high yester- day in places as to cause heat pros- trations and to make it a bit uncom- fortable everywhere. There were many who took the early spring weather for the arrival of summer, changed their underclothing for. light- er material and they are sorry for it today. Colds; are very prevalent throughout the’ city and the trouble is rcharged up the changeable | weather, It was very hot,yesterday, while this morning it was almost as cool as‘ a morning in November. There was no sunlight and fhe air was uncemfortably chilly. it on ex- was to As a result of the activi American Humane association there is a movement on to observe May 23 as humane Sunday, and it is planned that the week preceding that date shall be especially devoted to kind- ness towards suffering and helpless children and to dumb animals. The rlan is to have special services in the schools, public addresses and to have clergymen refer to the work in their Sunday. It is a good idea to teach children to be kind to ani- mals because those little ones who are brought up to do that generally are gaod in other It is distressing to see dumb animals neglected and to see them beaten, and it is a good | idea to devote some little time to les- | sening their suffering and inculcating | the doctrine of kindness. of the sermons on wa Most of us like to see summer creep on us gradually, not spring out from ambush and attempt to give the com- munlty a universal sunstroke over the week end.—Ansm:uzL Sentinel FACTS AND FANCIES. Up to date the general assembly of | with of 3915 has furnished Connecticut ahout as near an ideal example legislative attention to duty as recall in the past forty-five years has already passed laws of value and it has others in hand of still larger import.—Bridgeport Post. These e larly butter are the days to particu- careful to keep the milk and cool and fresh and covered for ine sake of the. fam health, but particularly baby's. et the habit well established before the season is advanced.—Waterbury XRepublican. There is a wonderful appeal in the ccuntry these days, but to the true New Englander, who has been h]ou"ht up to go to church at least once on Sunday, the appeal to revel in the peauties of outdoor life should be answered. If the hour for church services is too later start a movement to ger it changed | and perhaps you will fina your auto- mobile clubh willing to help.—Water- bury Republican. A question which has often been debated, whether the electric chair is cr is not inhumane as compared with the gallows, has been settled by the | United States supreme court, which decides that the death chair is 1more humane form of cajy ment. This was the dec Seuth Carolina supreme upheld by the national court. The only reason that electrocution seems worse is that we are less accustomed to it.—Waterbu American. ion” of the court General Be‘namln F. Tracy, Presi- dent Harrison's secretary of the navy, who is now approaching 85, is enough and in touch with current affairs enough to indulge in an inter- view. The most interesting thing he said was this: “Theodore Roosevelt? 1 think he wants to come back into the republican party. I hope he will. We shall need a united party in 1916 to elect a president.”” All the signs roint the way of General Tracy's pre- diction.—Waterbury American. The Hard Times Issue in Politice, (Springfield Republican.) The use of the hard times issue for partisan political effect has ordinarily been so cheap, whatever party has benefited by it, that people who care depression have to stand one side while the political battle for votes is in progress much as one would get away from a big wind, hard times enough to influence the paign arrives is now very plainly wor- rying these journals which have been making zealous, use of the issue hith- erto. They dre keen enough to realize that if a 'fair degree of pros- perity should develop.in the coming year, the business depression would be quickly forgotten. They know, too, that by all the rules of the game the party in power would be entitled to claim credit for whatever prosperity prevailed under its responsible for all the adversity ~ it encounters without conceding it credit for all the prosperity that accom- panies it. The Wilson administration hardly begins to be out of the woods in Tre- gard to the prosperity issue; but it is certain that its most insistent critics ‘have been premature in seeking to overwhelm it by identifying it in the public mind with. industrial calamity. If the United States keeps out of war in the next year and a half as.suc- cessfully as it has in the past year and a half, the prediction now heard from some discerning business heads that this country has seen the worst of its business troubles will probably prove well founded. In . that event, the country’s business has a year and a half in which to improve before the voters again.choose a president. If the worst has already happened, and if betterment is country in substantially all lines, ¢ tain potent facts must impair the po- litical effectiven of a hard times is- suc a year from next summer fall. These concern American labor. One is ‘that the war has greatly checked immigration already, in some | industries the present effect even be- ing a scarcity of workers. Another fact is that the business depression thus far, even in its worst phase, has resulted in very little cutting of wage: The “liquidation of labor” which w desired so strongly by many capital- {sts as a by-product of hard times ha not occurred. Chairman Gary of the U'nited States Steel’ corporation has had to m complaints from shareholders that the ccmmon dividend was paseed while wages were maintained at the high level established when- business good Wages were not reduced the steel trust for zood reasons. { dia not dare to continue paying divi- dends on the huze volume of common stock while cutting the wages of its workmen, Dut this one c: 1y illugtrative. On the r electric traction lines, in and in the great there has been no “liqu bor.” Unionism may be credited ly with this result; but bhig bus in general has heen reluctant to chal- lerge cither unionism or public opin-: ion by this step. “Every other ‘pedient, such as .part_time. for. workers, has been resorted to in | depths of the depression to avoid wage reductions. While there was much actual idle- ness last winter, the indications that labor will em2rge from tae hard times period, identified mainly in the public mind with the war, in a con- | dition far superior to its condition at the end of similar experiences. Al- most nowhere must labor now face the prospect of winning back by 1slril-'°s what was lost in a period of depress The difference between this situation and that of 1894-1896 by roads, the the mines industries lation of various all and a political sense, The political effects of It next vear are not unlikely to be considerable and the best poll- I ticians will not ignore them. aliva | to study the rea] causes of a business | . John Bunny. (New :York Sun.) All who laughed at George Fox are not dead; here and there a reminis- cent of that glorious clown recites his praises and bemoans the golden da But to most of us Fox is a name, and the memory we bear of him is another’s. John Bunny was more fortunate than lIFox. The lim- itations of the most spacicus theater, of the longest runs, are stitling and contemptible in comparison with the opportunities of the movies. And however respectable was the place of John Bunny on the classic stage, those days were swallowed up lin the great fame he won on the it should be after church that | | l f { did a good work. the | 1 punish- | now | | country. | him speak, The question whether there will be | voters when the next presidential cam- | film. That amazing face, capable of such distortion of mirth, of fright, of woe, of joy, as no other could com- pass; that astonishing figure that must have been of some impene- trable, indestructible, unbruisable ma- terial; that facility of accident and extrication from the effect of acci- dent; that hopeless disposition to comical ill, fortune; all were pre- served, and even as the clown lay fighting for his last breath thousands roared their approval of his very an- tics and wiped their eyes of tears of mirth when tears of regret and npathy might have been shed. We should say that John Bunny He brought relief to countless overstrained, bewildered, irept and puzzled men and women. He made them forget their real cares in his mock tribulations. Unlike the Jesters of another time, his work | will ga on, though he has gone out, a fact that, let us hope, brought a ray of comfort to him as he lay dy- ing. The Loss of Bunny, (New York On the theatrical stage before the era of the moving pictures John Bunny, who died yesterday, was a comic actor of comparatively small distinction. He was scarcely equal to the character of Nick Bottom and was concerned chiefly with unimpor- tant farce. But the movies made him famous. His droll personality was known to rthillions. Wherever movies are exhibited, and that /s everywhere, Bunny had his public. It is perfectly safe to say that no other camera actor was as popular in this His plump figure and flex- ible features were associated with countless voicel: but spirited em- bodiments of amiability sorely tried circumstances. Thousands who had never heard in numberless towns he had never visited, recognized him as the living symbol aof wholesome mer- riment. Therefore his loss will be felt all over the ccountry, and the films which preserve his humorous personality in action may in time have a new value. It is a subject worthy of reflection, the value of a Times.) | perfect recard of a departed singer’s | nary administration. | They cannot make an administration | with his unique figure, | He in store for the | and | | actly smile, ~oice, of the photographic films per. petuating the drolleries of a come- dian who developed such extrao:)i- capacity for acting before the camera. (Bridgeport Post.) John Bunny may not have been a great actor in the sense that we meas- ure the stars of the stage by the standard of Booth, Irving of McCul- lough, but he had the knack of nat- uralness in action in a way that ap- pealed to thousands. His passing will cause hundreds of thousands to mourn. Bunny was an actor of no mean ability when the moving picture be- gan to develop. His st‘le associated plain, but decidely good natured face, were pe- culiarly adapted to the film show. sprung into instant favor. How he made a nation laugh, how hé& drove dull care away from tired minds, how he pleased and amused even the most discontented, is a mat- ter of moving picture histors We have before called attention to the astounding development of the moving picture. In our judgément, and with a full knowledge of the hap- pine it has brought into homes where, before its advent; misery and trouble prevailed, the moving picture is one of the great agents of human instruction. It can be abused, like everything else. But it has immense possibilities for good, far outweigh- ing any capacity for harm. John Bunny figured in its earliest develop- ments in a notable way. Who can ex- estimate the good he has ac- complished in making millions mirth- ful? His very appearance drew a his slightest movement pro- duced a laugh. DPeace to his ashes. 1 The world does not know him in gen- i that of cars, i filling countless was | It | s mere- | | mazoo, doesn’t ¢ | est exs ! the | table to are | | termission, is very notable both in an economlic but his practical worth as an sement maker is a thousand times ers and kings who are homes with the sor- eral, am row of death. Taught Many Famous Men. (Mich.) Dispatch to Detroit News.) Hall of Main street, Kala- im the honor of be- ing the oldest school teacher in the state. Mrs. Hall is remarkably free of personal claims, being a most mod- and retiring little old lady. She is interesting because there is prabably not a bheter knawn or bet_ ter loved schoolmadam in the United States More than thirty-five years ago a voung scion of the Smiley family, un- ster a ward of two syllables, shortened “Sarah” to “Sah,” and “‘Sah” she has been ever since to all her intimate friends and relatives. “Sah” began teaching school in the proverbial little red schoolhouse among the hills of New Yark state nearly a half century ago, and she has taught, with but one short in- centinuously ever since. “Sah” has been an en- riding to and kinds of weather [ Last fall the c of Kalamazoo were startled to ob- (Bronson Sarah E. vears ns | serve this sedate little old lady guid- l ing a full-grown automobile thraugh the crowded main street with all the | many years manager McMILLAN’S _Don’t forget the New Hours for Store Closing—Monday. at 9 P. M., Saturday at 9:30 P. M., Other Days at 6 P. M. Sale of High Grade ailored Suits at$15 ea. Values up to $25, on Sale Thursday Morning at 8:30 The best Suit Values of the Season. Women'’s and Misses' Suits, Sampes, one of a kind but many exclusive modes, bought at a big discount from former prices, therefor we offer these unusual values for Thursduy morning. EMBROIDERED CREPE DE: CHINE 75¢ yard. 86 inches wide, wath- | able embroidered crepe de chine in pink, sky and lavender figures for Walsts and dresses. 40 inche embrold- ered voiles in all colors at 50c yard. DOUBLE WIDTH NETS AND ALLOVERS 50c, 79¢c to $1.48 yard. Your chioce of silk and cotton shadow allovers and figured ahd plain nets. | should be hopeful, ORIENTAL LACE FLOUNCINGS 450 to $1. yard, from 12 inchs up to 46 inch widths all to match. Orien- tal lace edgingsand bandarines. Spe- cial values, 15¢, 19¢, 25¢ to 39¢ yard. SHADOW LACE EDGINGS Special 5¢, 10c, 12 1-2¢ to 25¢ yard. 40 INCH CHIFFON CLOTH $1.25 value at 98c yard. All the new shades for Waists aud | Draping. TRANSPARENT EMBROIDERED FLOUNCINGS At 39¢ yard, value 48c. BABY FLOUNCINGS At 25c, 49c yard. 27 inches wide in Dainty Baby pat- terns. SAMPLE BUTTONS At 10c and values up to 50c. About two thousand cards of sam- ple buttons of the finest imported grades. Buttons for every use. D. McMILLAN 199-201-: MAIN. STREET skill of a grown young chauffeur. ‘“Sah” owns a sum. | mer home on the shores of Gull Lake, where she spends her vaca- tlons when she is not visiting rela- tives. She owns conslderable real estate in Kalamazoo, which she has paid for from her savings. Among her pupils are numbered some of the most prominent men In Michigan and the country James Sheridan, noted Ghicago s one. Frank E, Stewart, i Ll remedy manufacturer; Ned Wayburn, theatrical producer. of New York city. and Kugene Van iDusen, for of the Academy in New TYork city, are; confidence and of Music others. While Connecticut is earning mil- lions of dollars by manufacturing | armanents,* it cannot be expected to run {its legs off for the cause of “lim- ited armanments.” It may even be excused it it watches through differ- ent goggles than usual the proceed- ings of a meeting in progress in Boston today, which has for its sol- gan: “Cripple war by curbing its creator—armament.” The league back of this movement is not primar- i crganized to throttle {ndusery it claimed, or does the fact that | it has a required branches in summer ous cities of the United States make it appear either very formidable or very promising.—Hartford Times, is | find itself slowly not build too much upon the activity : Jacob | of | that | timistic, | present state of popular feeling about ! from | perity ! impaired. | which will ! not immediately felt here, | leave | is yet something that ever | change his w NEW SUMMER MILLINERY AT BIG SAVINGS WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartiord Charming Trimmed Hats Leghorn and Hemp Braids $2.982:34.38 We want you to know that our hats at these prices are ab- solutely unmatchable and that they compare favorably with those that sell for double the prices elsewhere. EVERYTHING THAT IS NEW AND STYLISH Included in this large assortm ent, Street and Dress Hats, with flowers, ribbon and velvet bows, ostrich In all the season’s newest shapes and colors, black and winge, etc. cluding black, leghorns, Sale Prices white and trimmed novelty in- white and the popular $2.98 " $4.98 plumes, GENUINE LEGHORN SHAPES These hats now comm.nd attention of smart dressers. They newest summer styles, such shepherd and poke effects. value $3.00.. Our Sale Price Very Special .... CHIP AND HE MP SHAPES Over 1,000 Hemp and Chip shapes In this large assort- ment, including all styles and colors. Values to 32 c $1.00. Sale Price ag $ all are shaped in the sailors, Regular 1.98 . d GENUI MILAN HEMP ‘ SHAPES These shapes will satisfy the most exacting woman. These come in all new colors, alsu plack and white com- bination effect. Values up to $2.50. sale $l 19 Price ... AN ABUNDANDE OF NEW SUMMER FLOWERS AT SPECIAL Roses, Dalsies, Pansies, liage, in fact every im this varled assortment. many new black and 25¢ 39c 49c 69c 98¢ ¥ i ] SALE PRICES Wreaths, Cherries, Fo- aginable flower made, in All colors including white effects. 25¢ ;No-Charg i Trimming Service Prosperity. (New York Times) In a speech at Baltimore Mr. Taft discussed the business outlook. We he thought, but Business should and not extravagantly so. and cautiously, produced by war orders from Europe. That kind of prosperi he believed, wag artificial, Afterward the perma- nent improvement would begin to be realized. His purpose obviously was ' to warn people against excessive en- | thusiasm for a kind of business that will suddenly be cut off wien peace iz restored. A more unqualified timism was expressed a day later by Schiff, talking with reporters a* Colorado Springs: *‘The confidence the American people is being re- stored,” he said, “and I look for the return of days of prosperity the like of which has seldom been seen in this cpuntr Mr. Schiff's widely it is the forecast of a sagacious banker who speaks,from a specializea point of view, and, two, that it is op- wherein it agrees with the business, And yet it is not radically in conflict with Mr. Taft's warning as to the quality of advantage derived war orders. Mr. Schiff’s pros- will have to materialize in spite of Mr. Taft's well-founded misgivings. Great good cannot rest upon a trade in munitions of war. FEurope is pledg- ing her future productivity in order now to buy on credit the goods she urgently requires. \When peace is re- stored she will have to begin to pay for what was consumed and destroyed in war; and in some related degree her continuing buying power will be Moreover, in order now to meet special war needs American pro- ducers are making wasteful outlays for new machinery and for equipment afterward have to be scrapped; and much trade is deflected from tnat normal condition to which ultimately it must return. The loss is The pr! for goods are high enough a profit in the hands of the American producer, no matter how wasteful the processes are; but waste body must en paid to feel indirectly. If Europe curtail her consumption of goods when peace is re-established, on account heving been obliged to buy in so reck- less a manner during war, all trade will feel it adversely. Therefore, what Mr. Taft might call the ‘‘ecstasy of great profits” in war orders will not only come suddenly to an end. but may have to be paid for dearly In many unexpected ways. But the prosperity Mr. about is much more deeply rooted. Schiff talks this country, almost unawares. Busi- ness had been liquidated and deflated. Economy had become, not exactly fashionable, for it was never so bad as that, but at least permissible. A stock broker, for instance, could yv-of living without put- ting his credit in jeopardy. And all the time the sources of wealth were as prolific as ever. Agri- ! culture flourished while the farmers complained. The price of living stopped rising, notwithstanding that the ‘war made wheat and some other ., op- | opinion will be the more | adopted for two reasons—one, s obliged to | A | great deal of capital has been saved in orizinal | commodities very dear. That is some measure of the economy practiced. Everybody complained and everybody saved something. It was amazing to sép how many things were unnecess sary when once people’ Beghti th- "8é without,” It is psychological. In hara times more capital is saved than W~ 1 good times. The boom is when it be- gins to be spent, Never were the fa- cilities for producing v calth so great as now. That they wil! ultimately be employed to their »t is certain Only the time is tain My Schiff thinks that nd Supporting the Oid Folks, (Lynn Item.) An official with somewnat extend¥d experience in matters connected with the treatment of the wards of the tuwns and state expresses the opinion that the new law compelling childwn to care for their aged, infirm and indigent parents will not amouns to much. It may for a short time, but there are so many provisog in the new law that almost all of thoge | who should care for their parents, but | who will not, may find a way of | escape. He says there was law enough before the recent statute was enacted. The trouble lies with . the officials who do not enforce it. It is here, as in many other cases, where the-human element comes in. The poor department officials may know that there are children who transfer their responsibilities to the town or ! where their parents have a “‘settlemen but it is too much frouble to attempt to force them to do their duty, and so they allow matters to remain as they are. he unfilial children cause their parents much anguish and cheat the taxpayers A4 the amount of the parental support, The new law is imperfect, bLut other legislature can supply the ficiencies, But how (o compe poor department officiels to do ti duty under the law is a ques There ought to be convictions under it, The town that will be the first to inaugurate proceedings undeg it will deserve the commendation W& the taxpayers and the thanks of the }oor people the law was made to pro- tect a good that therc | forg from ] tten Htimes a | make But is ight in privatc citizen arrests under certain conditior most prise at fiuding the New York, by a woman lust Sun As de York papers tie a girl who resented a to her in the street account says that into a candy store and th . cised the legal right of any make arrests.”” It adds that help of onlookers she took custody and “escorted them pelice station, where they booked on a charge of disorderly duet.,”—Hartford Times readers will confess to right e as recently s ribeag in the New’ arr 1 remarks made ™ One them exer- citizen toj with thé both into to the were by men she chased a Eugene N. Foss, thrice clected gove ernor of Massuchusett publican wnd once us preparing to ride into upon the water wagon. He announegh his purpose to make his fight on @ platform demanding straight out na- tional prohibition.—Bridgeport Tele- gram, S W re- crat, is again ands