New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1915, Page 6

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o nsinei‘g on the quke a profit on' it. impression is that the ‘bt,lnlium%plnx an automo- KRAKAS EXKECUTED. ‘When Peter Krakas was executed to- , for the mur- der of a ponceman in thm city one, at least of the murderers of the Rev. mv-rtmnc meatum i | JOSePh Zebris and his housekeeper in books and press | this city, closed his earthly % Krakas was a bad man, his years were . Hota- | foW, but he ‘did a great deal of wrong during his short life and in none of ‘I his. acts did he show greater ferocity than in the New Britain case when he killed an inoffensive man and a woman who had been attracted by the noise incident to the' Kkilling of the priest and was then killed herself. He remained in the town, he talked eountry towards | ahout the crime, attended a meeting known today in |where it was denounced and even went to the funeral of his victims. There was never anything like it, never VR case where there was less feeling, and public. The main fea- | o\ y4te, disregard for popular opin- te had previously been |jon. The spirit of bravado, however, ented upon Bnd\the did not always remain with him. As 'give the people the time drew near for his execution he lost courage, he ‘was no longer the devil man may care criminal, but a man who was fearful of what he inds. full reparation hnd done, who wept when he meditated o sny part eok. 65 Cents g be career. ontents of the presi- imperial govern- a nding of the situa- " is veiy ~plain, but he had to pay. . He scorned religion at first, but accepted it Jlater, made a 3 full ‘confession of the murder here, "e enormity of |y Gented it and was tHen hanged’ ed and at the|by the neck until he was dead. His gu ‘way for t’hl( companion is in Jnil at Hartford awaite from the: position ing trial for eomplicity ir" the New to abandon some of Br;{t::fl:n::::r . = ! : SR a stranger, there is no ‘wartare, particularly | ong to mourn for him in this country arine. Whhw, appears except a brother in Boston, but his fij go much cruelty. A |aged mother in far off Lithuania will , was apparently ex- | indoubtedly’ weep for him during the Jof the nots rem::‘nflgr ;tldher life. His death an, ¢ scaffold simply furnishes an dence of that fact in illustration of what will happen to an _able document, | a1} who follow in his footsteps, There and phraseology { is no escape from it. Could Krakas, # viewing it as he went to his doom, have lived his life over again he would probably have been a better man and the dead priest would have been Tleft to continue his work among his that hs,ve 1been | people. It was too late then, how- saning. The pres- tly sought to have ! Catholi¢ lllolal Union l’lul‘cd for Its ; Txcellent Concert. |, Those who.were so lortunate as to { hear the delightful program given by ; | the Catholic Chorai Union last Sun- ! day evening, under the able direection | tion of Professor karmon, enjoyed rare iusical treat. ‘The work oL uus society deserves to be brought more generally to the attention ot all lovers of really good music in this city, both for pleasure and profit. For the high standard- of excellence the yearly spring concert should be regarded as the chief event of the season and it should receive sufficient advertisement for some time before the occasion. The characteristic feature of this well-balanced chorus is fresh quality of tone, precision, naturalness and freedom from ' voice strain. These points were particularly no- ticeable in the . Twelfth Mass, the score_of which would tempt a singe, if anything could, to force the voice by aid of throat muscles which should remain quiet. But there was not a suspicion of strain or falling from the key from beginning to end. The ‘present scribe being prone to look for failings as well as the good points of a musjcal performance, was relieved and pleased to be able at once to relax into a state of calm en- joyment with the assurance that the well-trained chorus would successfully accomplish its difficult task. 'Bach word of every number was so care- fully and. clearly enunciated that ng ‘effort was required of the listener, and at no time.did the excellent ac- companiments fail in providing per- fect support for both chor! and “soloist, and this feature is in itself no small part in successfully carrying out a musical program. A thoughtful listener always gains some helpful: hint from a musical treat, in addition to the pleasure of hearing it, so particular reference should be made to 'the work of the ‘baritone soloist, Mr. Schlegel, who on this occasion gave an exhibition of vocal skill well worthy of imitation. It was not that he comes from the Metropolitan Opera House, but en- tirely from his high standard of ar- tistic merit that he takes rank with the best vocalists of his day. Not from his voice, style and enunciation could one gues his nationality for in his singing he embraced the best qualities of every master of the art. When this stalwart, broad-shoul- dered vocalist first made his appear- ance one. was inclined to look for a vigorous display of vocal power “right from the shoulder” so to speak, in- stead of the beautiful, smooth tonal ‘the American de- | eVer, for good resolutions, but those who are leading the life he led may well ponder over his end, and avoid perhaps the.same fate. . than one note ex- o points at issue are critical ] DEER BILL, If, Governor Holcomb approves olt the deer bill as now amended ' and 1s being expressed | which has been. agreed to by house atfon is a ‘tne next two years. The bill gives the owners of property the right to osed of. The presi- o 3 kill deer which iogie onto their land. cuttiog wWith the United | bring about the to cease those practices | those animals. extermination of Farmers have been crimes | complaining for a long time that deer are destroying their crops and yet the law forbids them to protect their proy- erty in the only way they-feel they can protect it and that is to kill the trespassers. This. can now h ‘apparently receiving | and as different people own all the New Haven than in | land in the state and each person will ‘the state. There | have the right to kill the deer-that ‘Héenses for. Jjitneys | comes on the land, the new law means in t city and the authori- | that every owner of a piece of grass eginning to? worry about it.|In Connecticut, who sees a deer graz- . of the drivers have been ar- | ing upon it, can shoot it. There will violating the motor laws, | be no need of going to Maine to hunt expected that there will be | deer while such a law remains on the the same character, there | statute books of this state, crease in the number of Tt is genera}ly felt that the farmers ed, the rate being about | are entitled ‘to protection for their % erops, but it is also felt that the bill Qn: attorney in New | which the governor is asked to sign t the jitney is fast be- | is very sweeping and affords an op- e most serious prob- | portunity for the killing of the ani- Las ever been called | mals which in the end will resulf | This would seem to in- | in having g close season established ‘there are more cars in|so as to prevent their entire extinc- eity now than formerly | tion in the state, The deer is a grace- reason the danger has | ful animal, it is becoming numerous 5 The supposition was |in the state and wherever seen .is 'm‘r. that had been in use | much admired for its beauty., Cases aracterized ~as The great . point the crop and has also destroyed young trees in the flelds. It is this form of islature, where the farmer has some- that extra cars have been | thing to say, to permit him to take . ;n order to. en‘m ‘in the| down his shot gun and kill the in- ess. It has been noticed | vader. There is hardly any doubt but iny instances; if not in all, | that it will be done with a vengeance re of ancient make or those | if the present bill becomes a law. ‘seen hard usage that arc| Venison will be plentiful in Connecti- as Jitneys. cut during the next two years or as when the theaters close | long as the deer lasti i ney, and there are a : ber of them there, do a big 4 a t seem Only an inability to look squarely P “, o . | et a situation agd discern.it in its true ‘that the drivexs can be mak- | /. ocis can prevent the citizens and money. It has been claimed ofticials of the eity of Bridgeport from ‘owner of an automobile can- reuliz:ng ;l;at dthll ci;) :!ldtelg:";t:}l;y 3 rder and viola of the jFate it for hire and make it | lCEnSInE ¢IsORCEr 1 Jaw within its borders. For he receives about five dol-f ;iper term than “licensing?. - covers it for its use, 31l of course | that policy in the city courg by wheh | thc d|stam‘e travelléd, | habitual &g:ngoe;:! znmallf‘: d ;u tctl::.; 7, feit nomi 5 ien “’w ;o ay)n;:;: :: nue their busines and be done | what ! quality, and artistic restraint which characterized his work from first to last. His carefully modulated tones, nev- er forced, were a combination of all the qualities which belong to the per- fection of vocal art—perfect breath control, variety of tone color, reson- ance, good enunciation and crownihig all 'a manpifest sincere love of his art.” One whd" does not grasp the meaning of the word art, might imagine that the natural ease and lack of effort displayed by = Mr. Schlegel would seem too closely akin to nature, quite forgetting that tone art is an approx- imation to-nature. At no time did this vocalist seem to rise to. the full power of his voice as the size of the auditorium did not requireit. Another desirnble feature was the absence of the obnoxious ' tremolo, which so many singers mistabenly strive to gain. As an earlier report of this concert has already been given with words of praise for the other vocalists, the spe- cial object of the present writer is to call attention to, and emphasize the fact that the Catholic Choral Union occupies an enviable position as musical organization; with the puwe& and ability to elevate the standard of musical taste in this city. The program of last Sunday eve- ning might well be repeated for the benefit of many who have not become acquainted with the excellent work of the Catholic Choral Union, which, from the fact that most of its mem- bers do not pretend to read music at sight, is all the more .deserving of praise, and a greater tribute to their capable, pains-taking, enthusiastic leader, Professor Harmon. L. B. P. FACTS AND FANCIES. A new Britain firm, North and Judd, who manufactire buckles, harness hardware, etc., had a consignment of £100,000 worth of goods:on the Lusi- tania, and all of it of course ig at the bottom of -the sea. H. C. Noble, the company's vice-president and treas- { urer, says they will probably have to remake the order.—stamford Advo- cate. The modern house issequipped with gas and _electricity, «and ‘£6r such a household the ‘appro&ch of summer weather carries no le!‘l"m The sub- stitution of a gas rnngp for a* . coal range is the first step toward kitchen comfort and efficienéy.. Fireless cookers«and auxiliary eléetric cooking appliances are the second step, while a multitude of; electrically-driven household helps such as vacuum Cleaners, washing Machings, polishing vutfits, electric fans, etc., help abolish the drudgery of housework.—Bridge- port Telegram, | Same one has advanced the opinion that the letter “e” is the most unfer- tunate character in the Enrglish alpha- bet, because it is always out of cash, forever in debt, never out of danger, and in hell all the time. But we call his attention to the fact that “e” is never in war and always in peage. It v is the beginning of existence, the commencement of éase and the end of trouble. Without it there would be no meat, no life and no heaven. It is they may eontin give the persist - in’ thelr offense, after having made a small contribution to the city at, has trmuw!‘—mewn the center of honesty, makes love per- fect and without it there would be no MchLL AN’S MORE REAL For Saturday $12.98 ea. FOR WOMEN AND MISSES. Every suit ip the store marked down for Saturday’s sclling. COATS ALL MARKED DOWN. ..Come and see the beautiful coats on sale Saturday for Women, Miszes and Children. Every coat the new- cst Spring Style, we have a grand seléction to ‘choose from. CHILDREN’'S COATS, _ . .Reduced to $1.98, $2.49, $2.98 $4,98. Values to $7.98. . WOMAN’S AND MISSES' COATS. Reduced to $5.08487.98, $9.98, $12.! $15.00. Values up to $25.00. CHILDREN’S WHITE DRESSES. 98c to $5.98 each. SILKS UNDERPRICED. $1.50 Crepe de Chines. Special at $1.19 yard. $1.25 Silk and Wool Poplins. Special at $1.00 yard. $1.00 Messaline, at 89c yard. 36-inch.: Special LONG SILK GLOVES. at 50c and 75¢ pair. KAYSER SILK GLOVES. 2-clagp at 50c, 75c and $1.00 pair. 12-button length 73c pair. - 18-button length, $1.00 pair. ——t WASHABLE CAPE GLOVES, Special $1.00 pair. Shown in the new Biscuit Shade. SILK HOSIERY. in the new shades. WOMEN'S BOOT SILKS, at 25¢ and 50c pair. McCALLUM'S SILK HOSE. at $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 pair. NEW NOVELTY SILK HOSE. at $1.00 5. Striped Boot with plain top, others with plain boot and fancy tops in the new shades. MEN’S ONYX SILK SOX. | all colors, 25¢ pair. WOMEN'S EKNIT UNION SUITS. .25¢, 20c, 50¢, 59c to $1.50 each. MEN'S UNDERW. Union suits at 98c each. Shirt and Drawers, 25¢c and 50c each in Nainsock, Balbriggans, Por- osknit, B. V. D. AR. WHITE RIBBONS FOR CONFIRMATION. New Hair bow Novelties and Sash Ribbons at 19c, 25¢, 38c to 75c yard. | Sale of Embroidery and Lace Flouncings Now Going on. Hamburg Flouncings. Sale prices, 39c and 59c yard. Values to $1.00. Shadow Lace Flounvings. Sale pfltefi | | 20c and 39¢ yard. Values to 75c. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET editors, devils, nor news.—Charleston Gazette. NEARL: Many more lives could have been| saved from the Lusitania but for the fact that the boats could not be low- cred until the vessel had lost her headway because they would trip and capsize. It was #mpossible to stop the ship because of her great momen- tum and the destruction of the en- gines, ‘However, life rafts were tossed off and passengers in belts or able to swim jumped after thepi. . Many more could have heen suydhu there teen a larger number of se life rafts. The same was trus of the Ti- tanic disaster. More rafts would have saved hundreds additi.nal.—New Hav- en Union. The frequency with which _one miember of the Hartford police de- partment figures in arrests in Which gunplay is one of the exciting inci- |fdents, sometimes to the injury of an innocent bystandef as in the mést veceht case, recalls the fact that the =apture of Rudolph and Collins, prob- ably the two most desperate char- acters ever arrested, by the local pol- ice, was accompl by “Garry” Farrell, now chief, " Butler, now captain vand Geor, Pougherty, then a Pinkerto SUIT BARGAINS| tailor-made suits worth up to $25.00. | deputy police com YVork, without the e% And Collins' and/ R sistence sufficient to sort of use of fl ence could. offered re- ant the re- any. resist- Were $8. 98 Were $10 $7.50 WERE $10 Stellar Bargain Attractions at the Big Store Saturda A Wlse, Smith & These At the Suit Department WOMEN'S NEW SPRING TAILOR-MADE SUITS $9 $12 §14 Were $14.98 Were $15.98 Were $18.98 $16 $18 $20 Were $22,50 Were $11 98 $9.50 WERE $13.98 Were $24 98 NEW SPRING COATS Selling Like This $5,$6.75, $7.75, $8. 75 $11.75 § Were $12.98 SILK DRESSES Wore $29.00 " e $15.00 $14.00 WERE $20 $5.00 RAINCOATS FOR $.250 DRESS SKIRTS $2.50, $3.50, $4.50 and $5.50, Worth a Dollar More WASH SKIRTS PCPULAR WHITE WASHABLE FABRICS $1.30 WORTH $1.98 "Phone orders Charter 3050, and Maifl Orders promptly filled. $1.90 WORTH $2.98 HARTFORD $2.30 WORTH 8$3.50 'WISE, SMITH & CO. DAILY DELIVERY in New Britain, Elmwood, Newington, Cedar mu. Hill and Claytsa. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views ca all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come (o Herald cfice. | the fasitade” of 1 —_— Will Never Be Bear Dogs. (Fairmont (W. Va.) Dispatch York Herald.) Ren Morgan has devuted today to explaining to his setter dogs, Mohab and Miguel, "that if they care to learn how te hunt for bears they can go ask some bearhound or wolf spanel about it So far as he personally is con- cerned, he's done, Three weeks ago'a friend of Ren's| sent word from Minnesota that he had { been bear shooting, and .that it was! the sport of kings and retired polii- | ticians, He said that as Ren had two good dogs all he needed was a rifle, ! a bowie knife and a gold suit to be- come the terror of the Minnesoia wilds, Ren wrote that his dogs had nev er‘ seen a bear and asked his friend h1 that would make any difference. His friend thought not, but said that, rather thah take any chances with a! pair of blockheaded tall swishers he would send him on a bear to practice on .and ‘simplify the whole matter. Mr. "Morgan wrote not to send any fur-bearing nuisances, but was so ex-{ cited that Hls friend could not read the letter. He sent the bear and it arrived in F rmont yesterday. ‘When the 9:15 pulled in at the de. New pot, Joel Norton, the baggage handler, | saw the bear snarl, and. declared that he would not lift a finger in a case of that kind. Mr, Morgan was down at the station, and said that if J'ocl| took it off he could have it and if it was more convenient he could Kkill it before he took it off. Joel said he was no big game ex-| pert; that the 9:15 couldn't stay there all day, and that Ren ought to let] his driver get off the delivery wagon and haul the bear. A crowd gath- ered, and after a wild fifteen minutes | fhe bear was on the platform and the 9:15, twenty-five minutes to the bad, creaked out of the station To describe the plicing of the be on Ren's team, the runaway, the wrecking of the barn when the horse ran through it; the fall of the bear and the collapse of the bear would require at least 72,000 words. {hab will always be just { buildings of The fight cery store, of the bear into the gro- the docking of the doors, shots, the wrecked pickle bottles, riddled hams. shattered glass carcening cans and battered hoxes would require as much The death of the bear, his last weords, the remarks of Ren Morgan would fi'l | another column and a half. But the situation, just seemg to indicate that Miguel and Mo- plain. gro- cery store setters. Dead ¥From Typhus, (Contributed:) The officials of The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- sions have just learned of the death from typhus of Miss Muarie Zenger, a Swiss nurs¢ who was a member the band patched from the board's station at Sivas, Turkey, to aid in caring for the sick and wounded in Erzroom early in the winter. appointment ! Miss Zenger of the orphanages established in Sivar after the terrible massacres some vears ago and was closely associated with the Americans in all their work. Early in the winter the American hospital in Erzroom well as. the the American Board's Boye' amd Girlse High schools were filed to overflowing with =ick and wounded Turkish soldiers. Waen typhus broke out Dr. E. P. Case, the board’s physician, sent for help to th American hospital in Sivas, Dr. C E. Clark, with a group of nurses, a. orderly and & druggist, {ook the twen- ty-one days' mid-winter jolirney.: across three mountdins, to Erzroom, which by the timesHig party arrived, was one big hospital. Miss Zenger, the' Bwiss lady whose death has just been reported, did herdic service in connection with the American buildings, of which she took eharge, seeing that they were cleaned ‘and put into tunning order after the first typhus outbreak was somewhat in hand. She later supervised the or- ganization of a hospital which séme Armen established in Erzroom. »arty had started back over mountain jouraey— Erzroom g eived other reenforcements | of military doctors and helpers—when the Amecrican Board. as Miss Zenger sickened. They reached thes' cage | Erzingan, an outstation of the board, | der Ts where a German hospital is located. again. | it stands, | of | of nurses amd doctors, des- | Although mnot under (mmd in practice, wag at the head of ono | &N Miss Zenzer was taken there & given the Dbest of 'are, but did my survive the crisis of the discase. Miss Mary L, Graffam, head v American Board's School for Girls Sivas, was with Miss Zenger at death, as ¢he had been with her d ing her service in Erzroom. Inra‘ letter describing some of her ex| ences Miss Graffam says: “1 of course, speak freely of all Wi and hear. .1 feel that 1 am a diffe person from the one who left two months ago.” y An Old-Time Steamboat. (Providence Journal.) The steamer City of Newport, whish | is to be “laid up permanently,” is on* of the most familiar objects on Nai raganseft Bay, haying been .in cons tinuous gervice more than fifty yea The statement that there is no Hmit o the life of a boat as long as wornt h-m material is replaced, docs not hel for there comes | time when it is not economy to ke old craft in repair. The City Newport, however, Hag the distinction of a much longer career than thatef mani a mare preteniious and costy steamer. The Cennecticut, built J r | the Providence line about tiventy-six years ago, was sold for Junk before there was any thought of discont! - uing the daily tripd of the Newport The City of Weorcester, bulit in 1883 hau been hroken up. The Rhode g land and Massachusests disappeai o3 Hong since. The Pugitan, a contemy porary ‘of the Comneclicut, was dered out. of commission recently, a i the Pilgrim, n noted Sound liner, M idle at the whaif. The umnpreten tious bay steamer indeed has a re: ord for a long hnd useful life, Notwithstanding the improvements of fifty years. the general design of the Newport remains well ajapted £)* freight traffic on inland waters tod The hog frame insured strength, the ‘disposition of deck space was v creditable to the marine architects 1863, But within the past dec there have been important dev’ ments in engines and boilers, an use of steel for hulls has done | withgthe picturesqrie hog frame: i no prebability of returning to old designs, even though it is {ceded that they have merit, a i times of quick changes the Wi that a boat bullt fiftv.-two ago endured until 1915,

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