New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1915, Page 1

1915 —TWELVE PAGES. WEDDED TO MISS BA IN APRIL, WOOD 1S § TO HAVE ANOTHER' STREET GAR TRAFFIC | FATHER OF TIED UP IN DflRfl" Right Name Is F lor—R NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, MAY DELIVERY OF U.S. NOTE [Mami ws TAKES PLACE TOMORROW, | ‘Lt DOCUMENT AS OUTLINED Over Fifty Buildings Wholly or Partly Wrecked in Text of Letter of Protest Will Be|a. n. aBBE Estate VALUED AT $27,267 | Johannesburg. Made Public 'After Its Transmis- | _sion to German Foreign Offlce. TR T Hardware Company of Which He 13, RAILROAD MAN SAVES LITTLE GIRL’S LIFE Martin Conway Pulls Child From Be- tween Trains on Elm Street Crossing, (0 To the bravery and alertness of Martin Conway, a well known railroad man, an unknown little girl owes her iife today, for had it not been for the railroad man's act she would likel}" | have been ground to death beneath | tlie wheels of a dinky train at the Elm street crossing thig noon. Th little girl got out onto the crossing when a switching train came along on one track and the 1:22] o'clock east bound dinky on another. ‘The bewildered little girl was penned: charged Motorman Is in between the two trains and in her fright would likely have -dashed in Not Reinstated. front of one or the other had not Mr. . Johanneshurg, Union of South Africa, May 18.—Anti-German demon- strations in Johannesburg culminated yesterday in the wrecking of maay German and Austrian establishments. The police were powerless to stop the rioting. Altogether over fifty buildings have been wholly or partly wrecked and their contents either burned or re- duced to matchwood. The establish- BCOZN mer N Tmlleymen Stnke When Dls- Franklin W, Taylor & past two years in Conway seen hrr. Aletown and Hartford. HISH Fr e BETWEEN 1,200 AND 1,500 WORDS LONG la intiia b Howant Al 145 Was President and Treasurer. Lk ldte Main street hardware dealer, by A. F. Corbin and C. B. Stanley,” ap- ments cleaned out intlude ten large warehouses, ten saloons, three hotels and more than twenty shops. The mob destroyed the riederkranz club and pillaged the offices of the He signalled for the switcher to =lop and dashed in front and onto the track, grabbing the child. The dinky was also brought to a stop and the action of the brakeman was warmly Detroit, Mich., May 13.—Not a city street car was being operated in De- troit at 7 o'cloek this forenocon, as the result of a strike called by Detroit United Railway Conductors and Mo- tormen because of the company's re- Wood, and who u: name was married Faker, daughter of O, Baker of No, 90 April 29, after an of two years, was General Mining corporation, the direc- torate of which includes some Ger- mans. All the accessible books and records were burned. The offices of Sir George Albus, near the stock exchange were raided and a bon fire made of the furniture, The crowd also fired the premises of Gundelfinger and company, general merchants. The damage here also was'not less than $250,000 and the total losses from the rioting, which continued far into the night, are we!l over $1,000,000. BRITISH WARSHIP GOLIATH BLOWN UP IN DARDANELLES; OVER 500 LIVES ARE LOST Twelity Officérs and 160 Men of Crew Saved;| Three Turkish Vessels Sunk---Allies Ad- vance Along French Border commended, fusal to reinstate a motorman who | had been discharged for alleged care- less handling of his car. The strike vote was taken during the early morn- ing hours' and was pruuwnm unani- | ing and bound over h : mous, cf the superior court Although the walkout had been | 81,000, which he M threatened for twenty-four hours, ! nish. thousands of factory employes and Bridegroom a G down town workmen, who had de- ma pended on the street cars, were from xm‘::,:.::n:m after had trafled him from N one to three hours late in reporting ‘at their work.. No disorder was in Hartford, She 0 evidence when: the ‘men took their | court this morning gars to the barns on the final run. | ye deserted her i ! Axtra’ squads of police were called | \ gary ago. She fu out, however, and steps taken to quell he has three childres, any disturbance which might arise, 2 married woman wiih ' Early today the railway ofcials re- | own making this s fused to make any statement as 1ol ;qarried’ man a A Wwhat action they would take. They | as a husband and fathes declared, howeéver, the men had vio- 1t has been more t} lated terms of their working agree- | cince Wood, as he I8 ment with.the company in that they | hig appearance in this had not first submitted their case for | «ood worker by trade ap arbitration. The men, on the other | goduring employment wil hand, declared that the company had | Pinches company. » repeatédly’ violated its side of the| friends and at once working agreement and that while the | People’s Church of Chelg case of the discharged motormen led | into local social and directly to the strike, other factors, | with a zest. He was a Including unsatisfactory working con- | und to his new found ditions, induced them to walk out. fided that he came York. He informed % LITTLE BOY DIES previously been iIn' the FROM AWFUL BURN o'clock last night at Cherry street, Hartf: bigamy. He was the Hartford police’ Nnmerous Communications Reach State Department on Attitude Administration Should Take But All Express Confidence in Wilson. praisers, ‘'who made their report to Judge B. F. ‘Gaffney of the court of probate today. The exact value is ! $27,267.51." The bulk of the estate is represented by interstate in the Abbe Hardware company, Inc. Th Inventory follows. 760 sh., Abbe Hardware Co., Ine,. 00 « $19,000.00 28 sh, Meriden Renlty . 115.00 79 sh, New Britain Machine VICTORY FOR ROCKEFELLER. Cleveland, O., May 13.—United States District Judge John H. Clarke today gave John D. Rockefeller a victory in his tax suit against the Cuyahoga. county assessor who sought to collect more than a million and a half of dollars on personal property valuation of $300,000,000 in stoeks and bonds, The court granted an in- Junction to restrain the collection. to be made as to the tim® when a reply is expected from the imperial government, the belief here is that the German forelgn difice, realizing the state of feeling in the .United States, Will answer promptly. German Embassys’ Statement. The German embassy issued’ this statement: ‘“The German embassy stated to- day that no statement or intimation had been given by the embassy or any official of the embassy concern- ing what response would be made to the American note regarding the Lusi- tania, “This was brnught out by sute- ments appearing .in the press this morning to the effect that officials of the German embassy have outlined the position of the German govern- mrent towards the American note ‘re- garding the sinking of the Lusitania and have declared that the reply would be a 'polite but firm refusal to ‘cause submarine warfare against bel- ligerent merchant ships. Igporans of Terms. )‘Wnth!nston, May 13.—President ?*“‘!vn-on’. note to Germany on the sink- _ Ang of the Lusitania will be given out #/in. Washington thig evening for pub- “Mcation in the morning papers tomor- row, Secretary Bryan announced to- .-day.that it is between 1,200 - and 1,500 words long. ? fiifinnouncing the decision to. pub- ;&h tha note tomorxow mcmlm Sec~ | retary Bryan said he expected it could i'be transmitted to Germany in time : delivery to the German foreign of- ~early tomorrow. = Actual trans- /mission by cable and through Rome /and, Vienna, he sald, would oceur late to ay, i 2 4,345.00 16 sh, Traut & Hlne Mtg Co. . 11 sh. N. Y.. N. H. and H- Railroad Co, 19 sh. Lockwood Mfg. Co. 1 sh. New Britain Golf club (no value) : Mortgage note Interest in lot on Ellington court Deposit Burritt bank Deposit Savings., Bank ot New Britain Automobile ..... Vel Household furniture, per- sonal effects, etc. ..... 560.00 -+ 560.90 960.00 550.00 20.00 24.24 43.27 500.00 ""All Support lfreddem. Numerous communications the sec- .said have: reached the state department from elfizens on the atti- tude this government should take. | i “The advice offered in these com- . munications,” said the secretary, “dif- fers but all conclude with expressions _of support of ty;e wesldent. of ' the | 500.00 Total $27,267.51 FOUR' SUITS BROUGHT TODAY. '| Business Men Want to Settle Up in Court With ‘Alleged Debtors. business but had. suff capture of Windhoek; capital of the i The British battleship Goliath was ") United m" | ‘3¢ was pointed out that the em- bassy ' itself so far was ignorant of the terms of the American note; that TIOte (4t had received: no instructions what- it makes l\° ever from the German Q\zyrnme t re. ncidl re & rdipl the note, and: ly, it ‘was no ofMoial " donnected with a-’u—u had .xpumd any ‘opin- &". Homign: the subjsct at all.” indemni A mush nearly o week has ma inking ‘of ‘the Lusitania saster con- ‘hite House today from all parts of the world. Practically all] of them exnrmcd eon= mm the ‘tinued to arrive at the fidence in the president. t 1 o’clock this afternodn the note red over the 'telegraph wfia from Washington und started on its way over the under sea cables. It g must go by way of Gibraltar and Mal- _ta and then to' Rome, and overland As a _cour- Y & copy is to be delivered to Count storff, the German ambassador. me time this evening the ‘state de- Went will give copies for publi- fon in tomorrow. morning’s news- ‘been clea *lines to Vienna and Berlin. rs in United States, Finishing Touches on Note, esident Wilson durlng the fore- 'today put the flnt-hlnx touches Fe\vflhlnneslhde changes are belleved to- have ade In the document, the main les as outlined to the cabinet lesday being maintained, While ed in friendly terms, it is firm. ‘does not say)what steps will be or what course pursued in the t of an unfavorable reply, but in- that the United States will no pains, either by diplomatic to ob. na) u\qflmnu in its ‘position. stherwise, Text e text 'of thi ited by official Awaited. . ashington. o their g be Obta It is known positively that lited States government has had no biiversations, either in Washington or nthe foreign capitals with other gov- ents concerning the note or the purse that will be pursued should fermany refuse to comply. ve Germany Will: Yield. In'"some quarters friendly to Ger- any the jmpression prevailed that ould accede g the American demands and state xpectation that the United States vor. to secure the unre- gé of foodstuffs and con- tr!.b:nd consigned to the e Berlin government iopulation of Germany, note is finally, dispatched . tomorrow, be- %flum“ or- : “_h vill be 're: by e ‘was eagerly ‘Dip- lomatists were prepared to cable it rnments as & matter of nformal ktn as ‘soon as copies could “mad-upm Behind ‘Wilson. Jockson, Miss, May 18.—Governor Brewer of Mississippi, in a statement here/today declared that as Amei- cans/had been warned not to take pas- sdge on the British steamer Lusitania, he .could not understand why . the United -States should' quarrel with Germany bécause Americans = lost their lives-as a result of the.torpedo- ing of the vessel. Governor Brewer declared, however, that any action' taken by President ; Wilson would meet with the unani- { mous -approval of the people of Miss- issippi. win Support 'Wilson, Rochester, N. Y. May 13.—At the conclusion of a meeting of the Ger- man-American Alliance held here last night, President Willlam Otto issued the following statement: “Although the organization did not take definite actian, the sentiment was in favor of unqualified support of President Wil- son in whatever action he takes. The German-Americans of this city are neutral in ever¥ respect, and none of their societies 'will take action an- tagonistic to the policy of the admin- istratian.” Want Reparation Exacted. Paris, May 13, 10:45 a. m.—The American Chamber of Commerce in Paris has adopted .resolutions calling upon President Wilson to exact rep- aration from Germany for the loss of American lives by the torpedoing of the Cunard liner Lusitania. Cunard Offices Closed, New York, May 18.—Offices of the Cunard Line were closed from 12 to 1 o'clock today as'a mark of.respect to the Lusitania's dead and concur- rent with memorial sérvices held in Liverpool. ' Tribute to Hopkins. Newport Naws, Va., May' 13.—The plant of the Newport’ 'News Ship- building and Dry Dock ‘company will be closed from noon today until Fri- day as a mark of respect to President L. Hopkins of New York, who lost his life in the Lusitania disaster. Mrs, Plamondon’s Body Found. Queenstown, May 13, 1:08 p. m.— The body of Mrs. Charles A. Plam- ondon of Chicago, was found today dmong the dead brought to Queens- town yesterday. The body of her ‘husbahd had' ‘been identified pre. viously. . Both were taken in charge by the American consulate and will be sent to Chicago. Services at Liverpool. _Liverpool, May 13, 4:02 p. m— Memorial services for vietims of the Lusitania’ were held in St. Peter's church here today. Among these in attendance were several survivors of the disaster and a number of relatives of persons who had lost their lives, together with the lord mayor of Liver (Continued on ‘Eleventh Page.) The following civil actions were brought today by Attorney Emil J. Danberg: | Britain Lumber and Coal com- claim of Stanley Svea Grain and pany vs, Severio Napolitan clai | $50, property on Beaver street at-| tached, ‘returnable before Justice H. P. Roche on May 22. New Britain Lumber and Coal com- pany vs. Frank Paola, claim of $50, property on . Greenwood street at- tached, returnable before Justice H. P. Roche on May 22. T. B, Burng vs. Theresa Bantl claim of $25, Property on West street at- | tached,' returnable before Justice H. 4 ! P, Roche on’ ‘May 22. i /The writs in each case were served ; by Deputy Sherift’A. P. Marsh. LOCA)* MAN HONORED, New Britain Recognized at Grand Court of Foresters Today. Willlam J.. Sparmer, also an active recording secretary of the grand court (Connecticut) of the Foresters of America at the annual eonvention in Bridgeport today. Mr. Meskill is a prominent.member of Court Friend- 1y of this city and is one of the most active Foresters in New Britain, His recognition by the grand court will be pleasing mews to his friends. ‘William J. Spartner, also an active Forester and a member of Court jCharter Oak, was elected a delegate to the supreme court which will con- vene in Sar Francisco. TO BE REPATRIATED. All Male Enemies Over Military Age In Great Britain, London, May 13,'4 p. m.—Premier Asquith announced in the house . of commons today that *‘All male enc- mies over military age will be! re- patriated”. He also said that womoen and children in suitable cases will Le répatriated though some might re- main. "The government proposes to segre- gate ‘“‘all adult male enemies for their own safety and -for the safety of the country,” Premier Asquith told the house of commons. BARNES ON ST. Barnes today went upon the witness | stand in the supreme court hére to testify in' his own behalf in his suit against Theodore Roosevelt for al- leged libel. His counsel planned to have him answer allegations made by Colonel Roosevelt when he was on the stand and to give his version of several ncidents narrated by thte de- fendant. BRING DISEASE FROM N, Y. Two children who recently came from New York were found to be diphtheria carriers by Superintend- ent T. E. Reeks of the health depart- ment today. The children are living on Rockwell aveiue. A case of diph- theria' was reported today on Willow street. - Diphtheria quarantine was re- leased on Forest street and scarlet Syracuse, N. Y. May lE—Wllllalnl fever ‘quarantine was released on Dwight stret! torpedoed and sunk at the Dardanelles last night by a {Turkish destroyer, with the loss of about 500 lives. Of- ficial announcestent to this efféct was ‘atement that two Turkish gun- boats and a Turkish transport had been gunk. A British submarine made its. way entirely through the Dardanelles straits into the Sea of Marmora, Wwhere it attacked the Turkish vessels. Allies Win Successes, The French war office announced that, successes had been won in the new offensive movement of. the allies Jjust south of the French border. It is said the French yesterday captured the fort at Notre Dame De Lorette, with ;many trenches; the village of Carency and most of the village of Neuville, and that hundreds of Ger- mans were bayoneted and 1,500 taken prisoners. A despatch from Tarnow, Gallcia, says the great battle in that region is nearing a conclusive phase, Terrific fighting continues to the east of Tar- now,« Along the Carpathian front the Austrian advance is belleved to have 'placed the Russians in danger of be- ing surrounded. To Repatriate Aliens, The growth of anti-German feeling in England since the sinking of the Lusitania led to the announcement by Premier Asquith today of the gova ernment’s decision to repatriate all allens over military age from coun- tries with which Great Britain is at war, as well as alien women and chil- dren in certain cases. |, Unofficial reports from the Darda- nelles state that the allies have won important successes in their campaign for_possession of Constantinople. The Turks are said to be losing ground steadily in the land fighting, and the effectiveness of their forts is reported to have been impaired greatly by the fire of the allied warships. Frencth and British ships entered the Darda- nelles again yesterday and bombarded forts as far up the straits as the nar- rows, The possibility of a final Austro- German victory ‘in Galicla as a result of the advance from Cracow is said by the war office at Petrograd to have been . eliminated. The Russians, strongly reinforced, are now occupy- ing advantageous positions, the war office states, and are preparing to seek revenge, The German victory is at- tributed to the concentration of more than 150,000 of the finest German troops along a short front in the neighberhood of Krosno for the sud- den blow struck at the Russian line. Capture Town of Windhoek, The Union of South Africa forces have penetrated further into German Southwest Africa.’ An official state- ment from Cape Town announces me’ Hartford, May tinued ungsettied, showers tonight and Friday. Cooler tonight. e A it i 18.—Con- probably German possession. Austria is prepdring to proclaim a state of siege in its territory along the Italian. frontier in case of war with Italy. The exodus of Itallans from o e 1 €5 are brought in continually to points nes the border. The decision of Italy, however, is still to be reached, and parliament may be called upon to as- sume the responsibility. U. S, Note Forwarded Today.: The American note to Germany, calling, for a guarantee that attacks on merchantmen carrying non-com- batants shall cease and that repara- tion shall be made by Germany for violation of American rights within the war zone, is to be forwarded to Berlin today. The text of the note probably will be made public late to- day. British Battleship Torpedoed. Londgn, May 13, 3 p. m.—The Brit- ish 'battleship Goliath has been tor- pedoed in the Dardanelles. It is feared that over 500 lives have been lost. Twenty officers and one hundred and sixty men of the Goliath's crew were saved. Ohprchill Announces Loss, ' Announcement of the-loss of the Golieth was made in the house of commons this afternoon by Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of ad- miralty, } Mr. Churchill, on announcin& t?e loss of the Goliath said: “The Goliath was torpedoed last night in a torpedo attack by destroyers while protecting | the French flank just inside straits. “Twenty officers and 160 men were saved, which I fear means that over 6500 were lost. Three Turkish Boats Sunk. “The admiral commanding at the Dardanelles also telegraphs that the submarine E-}4 which, with so much | daring, penetrated the Sea of Mar- mora, vesterday, has reported that she sank two Turkish gunboats and a large Turkish transport.” Predreadnought Type. The Goliath was one of the older British battleships, of the predread- nought ‘type. She was built in 1898, Her complement was 760 men, H The Goliath was 400 feet long the water line and 74 feet beam, Her displacement was 12,950 tons. She was armed with four 12-inch and twelve 6-inch guns; twelve 12- pounders, six 3-pounders and tWo ma- chine guns. She had four torpedo tubes. on Third Battleship Lost. The Goliath is the third British | battleship whose loss In the attack on: the Dardanelles has been an- nounced by the British government. Loss of the Irresistible and Ocean to- gether with the French battleship Bouyet, was announced on March 19, All these ships struck mines during a general asault on the Dardanelles forts on March 18. On Apri 6 a wireless despatch from Berlin sajd information had been re- ceived there that the British battle- ship Lord Nelson had stranded inside the straits and had been demoyfll by the fire of Turkish guns. This report (Continued on Eleventn Page.) umi N bein i !‘mltll‘e consisting of A. A. Hadden, F. I R Four Years Old Son of Mr. and Mrs. At Hospi(nl. i As a result of the fatal burns he received while playing with a match on Tuesday, Edward, the four yeavs old son of Mr. d Mrs, Joseph Fitz- gerald of 121 Sgnalley street, died at St. Francis’ hospital early today. Tht funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and inter- ment will be in the New (atholic cemetery. On Tuesday the little fellow was playing in his back vard and in some manner came into possession of & sin- gle match. He scratched it on a stone and the next’ instant his little gar- mefits were ‘enveloped in flames. He was fHightfully burned, and was at once rushed' to the hospital im Hartford. Although he was being attended to at the inStitution in le¢ss than an hour and a half after thé accident, medical science could do nothing to save bis life ~ N Besides his parents the ll'.tle boy leaves the following brothers and sis- ters, James, Wiliam, Joseph, Robert, Francis, Howard and Margaret. COUNTRY CLUB A REALITY. Committee Chosen_to Get Option Pro. poscd Site. Plans to have a country club in Berlin bécame 'a reality last night when a site was chosen and a com- | Carter and DeWitt A. Riley wus instructed- to get -an option ‘on a cer- tain’ plecd, of property located in Ber- lin for' the club, ~ The name of the property in question was not divulged by the committee, but will be done as 'Soon as the papers are drawn up. The meeting last evening was heid at the home of Arthur A. Hadden of Worthington ridge. The atten- dance was ‘large considering the in- clemency of the weather. Mr. Had- den today said that the enthusiasm displayed at Jast evening’s meeting gave every indication that the club would be a success. MEMORIAL SERVICE Precedes Third Session of Womaw's Relief Corps at Hartford, Hartford, May 18.-—A memorinl service preceded the third session of the thirty-second annual convention of the Woman's Relief Corps of Con- necticut today conducted by Depart- ment Chaplain Hattie E. Brockett of New Haven. The names of the mem- bers of the corps throughout the stato who had died during the year were read by Mrs, Brockett. Mrs. Alice C. Whitehead, depart- ment president, presided, Harriet J. Bodge, president of the W. R. C. home board, reported on the home ut Cromwell, describing the excellent condition of the home and inmates, The roll call of delegaies showed 288 voting membership, At noon the con- were thrown into putly a great des found the well read man, decidedly p!w- ihe orghnist a g womdn and after he month and was b firmly establish: #ion to call on .}:Ot,h; was granted, courtship whic lln;“ of last ! r. and - Bakes who now was & e home and found i p all that could desire year of steady attention Baker to become his wife sented. So, after at no time during which vi the slightest doubt but wh | all_he pretended to be, ¥ came engaged to Miss finally the wedding was 29, 1915. Gives Good Naturally Mr. and HI' curious to lm the "y b daughter’s tulurt all their questions he' hi ‘his father h clergyman. Bol.:. mother were dead, he -h. went to New York to into the past of his future law and found that there're been such a minister i had described as hiy fathy told by the lover talile the informatign secuped He was told’ that this have ‘a’ son, but he was i nobody knew where he %0 g0od. There now e doubt but what Wood wi sirable young man, gt To the Baker family, clared that he had but one I lation in the world, & sister whe in Texas. Last winter he g 1o have received wonrd M‘ f Star state that his sister # was buried there and for som he scemed to be in the deepest | although he did not go into ing. Tells of Former Love He told his fiancee that he | New York and taken up his in this city because of a whom he formerly kept co to whom he was at one time Very seriously he. told this phase of his past. went further - into plained that after he. gaged to this New Yol ed him for another m time after was followed a b (renlment BOC vention adjourned until 12:30 this afternoon when the final session was @ for the election of department officers.