New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1915, Page 5

Y 10 PREVENT MUNCIPAL WASTE " New York Gerpmfiu to Fight City's Extravagancss. New York, May 20.—A new move- ment to prevent municipal extrava- gance, especially in the construction of wholesale terminal markets, mar- ginal rallways, a ecivic center and a new Court house has been started, it was learned recently. The Society for the Prevention of Municipal Waste and the Protection of Property Rights in New York city has just been in- corporated with that object. Never before has the local city ad- * ministration found itself opposed by ® a corporation organized expressly for the purpose of sitting on the lid. Sen- ator Willam M. Bennett is counsel for this new body. E. P. Dovle, pres- {dent of the Realty Notice corporation, which represents $100,000,000 in real | estate, and Frank Demuth are as-, aocmted in the enterprise with George | Steege, a retired real estate oper- - ator of the West Side, as president. To Examine City’s Books. The first thing the society intends to do is to set a public accountant at work on the Controller's books. If this, expert reports that the city has just about reached its debt limit—and the men interested in the society be- lleve that the condition of affairs is close at hand—an effort will be made to tie up further expenditures by ap- “ " plications for injunction against the city heads. “If we can show by examipation of ) the books that we have reached the limit,"” said Senator Bennett yesterday | 'in his office in No. 15 William street, we can enjoin them from entering on any enterprise requiring corporate stock.” Time to Call Halt. Bennett believes it is time to call a hailt. By the first of January he pre- dicted, the city will have reached a point where it can't pay its police- ' men and firemen. Before many days have passed the 'savings banks, national banks, trust companies, saft deposit cault compan- ies and real estate owners throughout e city will have heard from - the oclety for the Prevention of Muni- cipal Waste. An appeal is being sent to these concerns and individuals in- terested in realty. Senator Bennett stated yesterday that the project al- ready has been financed. t The Society’s Objects. The socfety outlined its purpose as 'tollows: <. "This corporation intends to attack contemplated extravagances, such as the wholesale termipal market pro- position, marginal railway scheme, in- cinerating scheme, inquisitorial in- spection and over-regulation. “It will also carefully . investigate the new Court house and civic center proposition and the statements that are being made by well informed citi- gens that this will ultimately cost the ,000,000 to $60,000,000 if we find that the city has not been to' .far committed to the proposition or find that it would be cheaper for the "eity to abandon the present plans and Quild . a sensible and commodious Court house on the site of the pres- ent Court house, we will. fight the _?raaem. scheme. “This corporation intends, where- ever advisable, to take certain of these matters into the courts.” GAPI GRANT'S CURE ~ FOR “BAD” SAILORS et Commater Mok Makes Theam Run Around Deck Ninc Times New York, May 20.—Captain A, W. Grant, commanding the super-dread. [ nought Texas, who will become a rear Lo admiral in September, stands alone among officers of the United States _navy as a believer in practical pun- | jshment, for infractions of naval reg- ‘ulations. Over-stay of leave of ab- _gence and periodical sprees are not | necessarily followed by the customary | ‘navy penalties on the Texas. y daes a bluejacket of Captain Grant's [crew suffer loss of liberty or pay when 'a more practical method of punish- fment can be found, Visitors to the Texas during after- nogn watch, while the fleet recently was anchored in Hampton Roads, ywere amused at the unusual spectacle o eight seamen ‘hot-footing it” round the dreadnought’s deck—not once, but twice and thrice and then jome. It was a circus for the crew land for visitors, but it was all as “funny as a crutch” to the eight sea- m. who had no alternative but to ofitinue running until they had cov. red almast two miles. Run Around Deck. It was ‘discovered one night that of the twelve seamen assigned to the tarboard boat watch only four re- [ported for duty. The other eight had eturned from shore leave. The wing morning, on reaching the ip, the absent eight were arraigned beforc Captain Grant at the mast. ey had nothing to say in their own fletenee. Captain Grant studied them moment. , Then, in his characteris- ie way, he removed his eyeglasses, Y tho gold rim one corner of s mouth and pronounced sentence. \“Your punishment will be to run— walk—but run nine times around deck during the afternoon watch . day for two weeks."” Most’ Eftectual ‘in Navy. Tan thousand feet every afternoun J two weeks, nearly 23 miles—that was the penalty. And to insure strict | compliance with the order and guard against the offenders slowing their pace twelve petty officers were sta- tioned at intervals around the deck. Now ‘“‘Grant's cure” for over-staying shore leave is described as the most effectual in the navy, | An apprentice seaman, the pride nr‘ his mother’s heart and believed by her to\be a model young man of fault- less habits, disappeared from the ship one day and overstayed his liberty. | He had failed to write home regularly and his mother wrote Captain Grant inquiring if her boy was 1ll. Letter to Mother. When the young seaman returned to his ship after nine days, he was dirty, bloated and his uniform almost beyond recognition. He was sent to Captain Grant before the mast. “S8o0,” began the captain, sternly studying the youth, “you are the lad who forgot that he had a good mother at home and refused to write her. What have you to say yourself?” “Nothing, sir.” “You were drunk?” “Yes, sir.” Down went the eve-glasses to the { corner of the skipper's mouth as he eyed the youth and reflected on his penalty. “I am going to punish you,” he said sternly. “Go below at once. Write your mother a letter. Tell her your captain has punished you for staying away from youf ship with- out leave and getting drunk, beamlv drunk, do you hear?” ‘“Yes, sir.” “And bring the letter to me. 1 shall see that it is malled. That was the apprentice’s punishment. U. 5. MANUFAGTURING MUCH MORE CREOSOTE Imported Wood Preservative Lack- ing--Tie Plants Consomers. Washington, May 20.—Owing ‘to a fulling off since August 1 of nearly thirty per cent. in shipments of creosote from England and Germany, whenoce comes all but a small part of the imported ofl used by wood pre- serving plants in this country, Ameri- can manufacturers have taken steps ~hich, says @ report compiled by the forest service, it is estimated will in- crease production of the domestic article by about twenty-five per cent. The imported oil ordinarily forms about sixty-five per cent. of the total used in the United States, where creosote is the most important wood | breservative. Increase in Timber Treated, The statistics gathered show that wood preserving is one of the most rapidly advancing industries in the country. In 1896 there were fifteen plants in the United States; in 1914 there were 122 plants of a1l kinds, 100 being of the pressure-cylinder type. Ninety-four of these plants last year used more than seventy-nine million gallons of creosote oil, more than twenty-seven million pounds of dry zine chloride, and nearly two and one- half million gallons of other preserva- tives, such as coal tar and crude oil, treating a total of nearly one hundred and sixty million cubic feet of timber, an inerease of about seven million cubic feet over 1913, and or'thirty-five mitlion cubic feet over 1912. Consumers of Creosote. The most important consumers are the large plants in which railroad ties are treated. The preservatives ma- terially lengthen .the ‘ties’ period of =crvice, lessen the labor cost involved by ‘renewal, and decrease the drain upon the forests due to tie-cutting. To some extent the treatment ' of fence posts and other forms of farm timber is being taken up, an inexpen- sive apparatus and = method having been devised by the department. of egriculture; but as yet the use of wood preservatives by farmers is on too small a scale to have any importance in the total, while the practice of treating telephone poles is in its in- cipiency in this country. Small Number Treated. “With the rapid advance of this in- dustry as a whole,” says the report, “the choice of preservatives has been fairly well established, but tne kinds and classes of materials to be treated need development along certain lines. In Germany and other Egropean countries practically all cross-ties laid Seldom | by the rallroads are treated with chemicals or preserving olls. In this country but thirty per vent. of the ties purchased by the railroads are subjected to such treatmenmt. The namber of poles treated in this coun- try is'a very small per cent. of total in use.” PROMISED $200 TO ' MURDER MARINO Oondemned New York Youth Tells How He was Prompted to Com- mit Orime By Leggio. New York, May 20.—An unusual incident in court procedure here oc- curred yesterday when Wm. Flack, 22 years old, under sentence of death for the murder of Gieseppe Marino, was put on the witness stand and tes- tified that Angelo Leggio, now on. trial in connection with the same murder, was the man who prompted him to commit the crime. Flack was brought from the death house in 8ing Sing under a special law passed by the legislature to allow him to glve such testimony. Flack told the story of the crime in all its detalls to a jury and Judge Nott in general sessions. He testi- fied that Leggio had promised him $200 to commit the murder and was with him when he shot Marino as he Cakes Elysee Soap with Overhead o §4.98 Brass nickel Heavy tubing, plated. canvas curtain on nickel Attach it with rings. yourself screw: 6 Cakes FREE with white enamel Bath Seat, FREE 38 Cakes Elysee Soap with oak Bath Tub Seat at 69¢. Tub Cakes Elysee Soap with 1 doz- en Guest Towels 26¢) atsl.sg 6 Cakes FREE with one dozen good Turkish Towels, (23‘(? $2.50 each), at .. 12 Gakes Free 12 Cakee Free with one dozen extra hea vy, large size Tur- kish Bath Towels (60c quality, 33c ench).s3 75 One Cake Elysee Soap. with 25 One cake FREE: with Three 10c Japanese l\mBruuhes, 25c Elysee Soap, cotton 1 Cake FREE value ananese Bt coeansen crash with one towel at 33c. Nail Brush 3 cakes Bath Mat, at with Ida Tarbell’s Life of LINCOLN Interesting and Inspiring Reafl- ing for Every Member of the Family. Every American home should have this life of Abraham Lincoln. There is no more inspiring réad- ing than the life of this truly first great American. A child of poverty, born in a log cabin, he edu- cated himself. and finally became Pres- ident of the United States. While they last we will sell a regular $4.60, 2 vol. green cloth 980 bound set for............ With a Purchase of 50c of Over in Any Dept. lay in bed in his room at night. For two days the crime was undis- covered, and twice in that time Flack | said, he was drawn to the scene and | viewed the body of his victim from.a transom. Through friends he finally sent word of the murder to the po- lice. Flack, in answer to 2 question from the judge, said that Leggio wanted Marino killed because the latter stole the affections of his sweetheart. Ilm“{;;\\\\ SEMI-ANNUAL SOAP SALE 60,000 Cakes for This Sale Riker’s Soap Sales are money saving events which all economical house- keepers are quick to take advantage of. For this sale we have made many special price reductions and several very attractive combination offers. Below you will find soaps for the toilet, guest room and baby. For clean- ing scrubbmg and laundry use—and all of them at a saving. Now is the time to lay in a stock when prices are low. FREE Heavy Turkish with the purchase of the Soaps amounting to .. N WASH CLOTH following 25c FREE TurkishGuest Size FAGE TOWEL with evry purchase of the follow- ing Soaps amounting to SOCIETE HYGIENIQUE BATH SOAP—The delightful octagon cake, well seasoned, was imported especiall for us, and has never been sold for less than 25c cake.” this sale 19c; 3 for i ELYSEE SOAP—Made by Kirk; a generous-size cake of pure toilet soa, shape; just right for the hand; geranium and buttermilk; 6 for 25c; dozen RIKER'S BATH SOAP—An extra large size cake pure toilet soap, especially adupled for bathing; slightly perfumed; LIVOL CASTILE SOAP—A pure imported Spanish olive oil lathers freely. During this sale 9¢, castile During flat, oval 45¢ 90c pro- dozen soap, tested and pronounced by our laboratory to be equal to the best on the market; bar of about 4 1bs., this sale 68c; small cake REMMER’'S SQUARES—Made in America and considered equal to the imported soap of same size and shape, retailing at 25c. VEGETABLE OIL SOAP—a round cake of pure toilet soap, During this sale 9¢; dozen seae VIVAUDOU BATH SOAP—in the popular round shape, excellent for toilet or bath, lilac, rose and violet. 5 TRANSPARENT GLYCERINE SOAP—AnN extra large size cake of transparent touet soap; rose, voilet and arbutus, ¢ each. MEDICATED SOAPS—Sulphur and Carbolic (for skin troubles and lullet use), and 10¢; : oils. verbena, lavendar Tar Soap (for shampoo), During this sale 9¢ dozen 2 3 for *; dozen .. 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