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that even- the commander who en- 3 tlmerad ‘the. ainklnl dld not anticipate thdt 50, many. /lives Would be lost. TRIBUTE TO LATE . McMILLAN’S bed) at 4:18 B, m. 67 Church St Office at New -Britein "Class ‘Mail Matter. e any part of_the city ok. 65 Conts & Month. j wrtohcmtbt\-lll ance, 60 Cents & $7.00 & year. — a@vertising medium 1n culation books and-press open tv sdvertisers. iU ON LEGISLATION. Stremlau, representative s in this state, has yme out with a public L izing the legislature st finished its ' work. en into consideration it place for him to. make he has. It is undoubted- t labor -has.4n.-uo. direct 'fl&aw levlflon ‘with ‘exception, 48 hé points ) changes in ‘the compen- The fact/remains, howr laboring man, at the ‘election’ of - representa- fiot choose to' support Mr. Rimself. He was a can- i his district, hod been a the 1913 legislature and T‘m labar vote nu has nc it sald that the lu..vp 1aned o carry out . He has merely said ‘were. reactionary. The by ballot chose the rep- and sent them to office. itheir work and it looks out ‘the labor leader who was 0 ermw: work. Has d the de ' of labor In ‘héi‘expresaéd his own ffon? is his own 5 obably #€ no effects on n two 4 5 hence to throw her way. If he i the attitude of the fhe workingmen of the “can look for big changes sup of the next session. ‘AMERICAN . SHIPS, - from ' England indicate h are ready and willing ®possible to account to the tes for the settlement for ! the several ships which | seized. The foreign office 'said that it was ssued to staken idea of the dis- ‘these cargoes which had this country. The cotton _have been purchased by the | ernment and will be paid | as the ownership and een proven. There will of ¢ delays Dbefore' the owners imoney due to the fact that e papers relating ‘to the n this country. 3 there are three, concerns Fgo ot foodstuffs seized with ‘Joseph W. Fordney. Eng- at length her reasons for g and holding the boat. In her ons she seémed to be most @ahle according to the_informa- obtainable. The bost will be ded and glven erelelse‘ British hold twenty-six k with American. cargoes, the | belonging to different neutral hs, iwenty-three of these carry,! n cotton. Their govérnment rangements with the Ameri- brbkers before declaring | lons of holding up ship- b v ¥ | d seems to be willing to act _in the matter having made an istive report and having made arrangements with most of the can interests engaged in ship- ‘declared contraband: There is no Bt but that the country desires ¢t understanding of every con- that may- arise"both before fter. It is Hngland's business ‘wishes to make her deals here eed according to her declar- long as she ‘rémains reason- and there is certainly nothing asonable in her latest action. is no doubt but that Ger- lespite statements to the con- ‘receiving shipments at the e from ‘the United States. is ‘doing all she ‘% to pre- . ;‘n\%jute prevention :I?.‘ 1t fi’(‘afitflv was in a 0 cut"uft England’s supplies 1d do S0 to the same extent ‘the latter country has, It is neces- in war. Hie sinking of the Lusitania is a Germany - scored. She Wt i @ way that is cop- ‘that .to allow the passengers to get Representative Goodwin. he? the majority of the legislature any more than the next one did, Every one, 'We Vehture even the Ger- mans, was surprised that the boat went down 4§80 ‘quickly and the fact she . "had been allowed to ap- proach to wlthgn ten miles of land is reason tg suppose that it was thought that the boat would float long enough to land. The argument that submar- ines were present to keep any assis- tance from the stricken ship of course contreverts this if it is true. SOUTH AMERICAN MARKET. Delegates to the Pan American fi- nancial conference which/ is to open in Washington, D. C., next week have expressed themselves in favor of the direct exchange- betwen the United States afid South Amrican countries. It is expected that a result of , the conference will be. the establishment of such an exchange. The benefits to be derived by this country by such an act assuredly would be enormous if in nothing ‘else than the develop- ment of the South Ameriés market. . The primary importance of the step is to allow the investment of our money in the southern countries. At the présent time the settlemen of all balances are made through London. The war has made of this an extreme- ly hard proposition and the lack of funds has severely handicapped the development of the railway and street railway systems for instance. The investment of American capitol in these enterprises would mean a rea- sonable rate of interest for surplus funds in the first place. In the second place where our money is our prod- ucts will go. The United States is well able to meet competition in the manufacture of articles needed for the furtherance of street railways and 80 forth. Provided that its money is making possible the use of this equip- ment and creating the demand for it it is only a reasonable uuppo-ltlon that our goods will be used. The demand for the larger equip- ment will be followed by better means of financing and the smaller market will easily trail in the wake. Pity the circus man—and the kids that want to take their parents. We are promised a show rain or shine. Mayor Quigley takes a fall out of Why should Mr. Goodwin doesn’t represent Newspapers of Athens have offered $10,000 reward for information lead- ing to the discovery of the facts of the destruction of a German sub- marine repofted to have been in the Mediterranean. must be good over there. Newspaper business ¢ By the way have you noticed how the city of New Britain is waking up and daing business? are going out after the trade and get- ting, it. blame the Chamber. of Commerce or the war orders in the factories. The merchants Don’t know whether to The big fact is that the spirit is here. New York market reports that Italy has placed big orders in the United States. We'll get our share in New Britain if it’s hardware. COMMUNICATED. TAKE EXCEPTIONS, Edjtor Herald:—We wish to . take exception to the remarks of Council- man Dolan at the meeting of the Common Council Wednesday evening. ‘We have never “skinned” the city in | any way, shape or form. The “five lines”” he referred to was not de- ducted by our firm, but by another firm, as a file. on record in the City Clerk’s office will readily reveal. We are an honest business house doing an honest business and are always ready to meet honest competition, but underhanded methods we cannot com- pete with. Very respectfully, CLINTON PRINTING CO., E. C. Plerce Manager Future of Air Fleets, (Bridgeport Farmer,) The submarine has fully justified the faith placed in it by intelligent laymen, and has as fully refuted the contention of hide-bound professional naval men, .that it would be of little value. The airship and the aeroplane have not yet measured up to what the laity expects of them. The air craft have vation purposes, but have not demon- strated the offensive military valties that is believed to exist in them. The airship is younger than the sub- marine. It is so young that its full growth may not be reached during this war. " Let decision be reserved. There is yet time for a battle between an air fleet and water fleet, and it is yet possible for air ¢raft to appear in larger offensive operations than any yet witnessed. Wholesome: illustration of clean ly “unlawful but claims p,iv {The foss of 1ife s a point yet ,q.eclded It was sportsmanship in American colleges is furnished in Yale’s action in yielding the palm of victory to the great rival, Harvard, in a track meet when a tech- nical question was raiséd as to the eligibility of one of her . athletes.— Buffalg Commercial, EDITQR JOHN O'NEILL Mr, O’Neill. (Cfltholic Transcript.) The death of Editor John O’Neill of the New Britain Herald inflicts a sudden and severe loss on his native city. He was tireless in the works of his vocation, and by incesant labor developed into a strong and' recos- nized craftsman. His heart was in New Britain and its citizens. They tound in him a wise counselor and an unfailing friend. He was honest to ‘the point of perfection. His career was buflt on hard work, square deal- ing, and conscientious devotion to that ‘which his heart dictated and his £ood sense approved: It is seldom that the noble and saving qualities— the qualities 'which one would ‘wish at the hour of death to have possessed and developed in an eminent degree— are accorded to any public man with such unanimity of judgment. New Britain recognized his worth and wisely sought to profit by his gifts and bis attainments. He was public spirited to a degree and in every question of moment willingly gave to his city whatever of sagacity and fore- eight_he possessed. The people, ir- 1ospective of party or creed, felt that they had in him a sane advocate and & man tirelessly devoted to the public weal. ‘It need not ‘be said that-this wise and useful citizen wans true to himself, attending scrupulously to the things which bore directly and im- mediately on his own personal and eternal welfare. He was an edifying member of St. Mary’'s parish, The honors paid to " him ‘this morning within the sacred walls where he had 80 often worshipped are but the quties which the Catholic church feels' that she owes to faithful ‘stewardship and to a life of unfailing probity. FACTS AND FANCIES, “Seeks $5,000 as he was bitten by a dog.”—Contemporaneous headline. Dog wanted some too. Cheer up! If. it wasn't-for the hills on the road the journey would be mighty monotonous.—Meriden Jour- | kel ) Now that they have found microbes on the one-cut pieces, the common people are in danger.—Bridgeport Telegram. The Courant says Healy, Hyde and Isbell steered the legislature - this last gession. Who steered this trium- virate ?—-New Haven Union. Even Germany takes a slap at Sec- retary Bryan when it suggests that the American note was framed by Great Britaln.—Norwich Bullétin. “Waterbury is safe,” says the ‘Waterbury American. Safe from in- vasion, But so is Barkhampsted.— New London Telegraph. The fact that Germany’s reply to (the president’s note may be delayed on account of the Italian crisis will perhaps give the ardor of Young America time to cool off.—Waterbury Democrat. If you can’t keep neutral, if you really must burst out somewhere, why, swat the fly.—Binghamton Press. From what may be called the theo- retical point of view, it is at least clear that Germany has a great deal to lose and nothing to gain by refusing to comply in the main with the demands of our government.—Brooklyn Citizen. It is estimated that there are 2,000,- 000 automobiles in present use in this country. When one is attempting to pass some of the busiest street inter- sections he imagines that they are all centered in this town.—Utica Ob- server. ; For years we have been lamenting the barbarous habit of revolution in the Central American countries, but jn comparison with what is now tak- ing place in the Test of the world they are extremely civilized and moderate. — Wilkesbarre Record. A Cleveland court has relieved John D. Rockefeller from paying taxes on $311,000,000 worth of intangible prop- erty—stocks, bonds, etc. That must be almost like getting money from ‘heme for the oil man, even if he is being héld for the payment of taxes on two automobiles, valued at $8,000. The rich have some troubles, but they dc not have all of '.hem —Syracuse qurnul Icell!.nd has only about 90,000 in- habitants and her total imports are less than $3,000,000 a year, so that her trade is_not likely to boom business to any great extent, but there is much romantic value in getting this new customer. We would rather have her than another customer spending ten times as much. When we get better acquainted we will reciprocate by sending her all the summer tourists proved useful for scouting and obser- | she can accommodate.—Kingston Freeman. Attention W. C. T. U. (Troy Times.) England cannot quite bring ftself to the point of enforcing prohibition. Loyal subjects are imitating the exam- ple of King George and refraining from the use of intoxicating liquors, but’'it seems very hard to break away completely from bibulous practices. A London dispatch in discussing the sit- wation remarks: “It has well been said that you cannot make a nation sober' by act of parliament, and the same holds good of example, even the example of the highest in the land. There never has been a chance of pro- ‘hibftion.” But there is a ray of hope in the direction of “soft drinks” which shall be palatable. It is remarked that one obstacle in the way of popularity for temperance beverages in England is that such drinks there for the most part are very unpalatable, Here seems to be a great opportunity to combine morai uplift with profit. Let some ons: mt.l. ".ofl. dflnk" which will Sale of Women’s and Misses” Coats SATURDAY at $9.98 each Values up to $20.00 The greafest coat vales of the season, beautiful Tailored Coats in Blues, Blacks, Mixtures, etc. Women'’s [rand Misses’ Coats, including regular and extra sizes, also stouts. .This sale meéans all our better coats, values up to $20 are to go at one price Saturday, 86 come early to the Coat Sale. DAINTY WASH BLOUSES at 97c each, Values $1.25 to ll 50. TUB SILK BLOUSES At $1:98 each, OREPE DE CHINE BLOUSES At $1.98, $2.98 $3.98 Each, " DAINTY MUSLINS, Corset Covers, 25c to 98c each. Night-Gowns, 49c to $1.98 each. Envelope Chemise, 98c 10 $1.49 ea. Underskirts, 79c to $1.98 each. Circular Drawers. at 49c -pair. _Combinations, 75c to $1.98. GIANT AND POPULAR SHIRTS FOR MEN AT 49c EACH. Shirts that are right in every way as to size, fit, workmanship, materials and style, Coat Shirts with laundered cuffs, Soft Outing Shirts with soft col- lar and cuffs, also Work Shirts of all kinds. ‘WOMEN’S UNION SUTTS. Special for Saturday 25c each, Regular and extra sizes. CHESTER” UNTON SUITS Saturday 50c "Each for regular and extra sizes. 15¢ KNTIT VESTS Saturday 10¢ Each, KID GLOVE SALE Saturday $1.15 Pair. For $1.25 and $1.50 Gloves, in black, white and tan, with self or fan- cy embroidery. LONG SILK GLOVES, ‘White, 50c, 75c and $1.00 pair, SILK GIRDLES 69c and 98c each. Black and colors. SPECIAL HAND BAGS At 98c and $1.49. Silk or leather lined, big variety. . D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET be 50 good to the taste that it will take the place of beer, wine, gin and all other “booze” quids. That “If” Stuff, (New London Telegraph. Dtd you ever realize how much the last presidential election in the United States changed the history of the world? * Fate was writing a great deal more on the ballots ‘than anybody knew. There are a great many who believe that if Roosevelt had been elected the Lusitania would not have been sunk. However, nobody knows how many other lives might have been lost. . It is sure, though, that for better or worse the world’s history had not been as it was. There, you see how foolish it is to speculate! PRISON PLACE FOR CONVIOTS. Montgoméry, Ala., May 21.—The practice of detailing convicts as ser- vants in the homeés of Alabama state officials and as laborers in the capitol and other state institutions, was abolished ‘by an executive order today by Governor Henderson. The order which declares the practice illegal, will return about seventy-five convicts; mostly negro women, to the peniten- tiary and state convict farms. would have been vastly different if it. A sale Of Emepfional Interest AT- SUIT DEPARTMENT Wise, Smith & Co. Prices Reduced All Along The Line Suits '$14.98 TO $16.98 SUITS $9.00. Women's and Misses’, t fifty in this lot. ~3tc‘§s TO $20.00 Suits : $12.00. #'More than a hundred to choose from. $20.00 TO $22.50 SUITS $14.00. For Women and Misses $25 TAILORED SUITS $16.00. Misses’ aiid Women's $25 TO'$29 SUITS $20. Women’s and Misses'. A FEW HIGH.COLOR SUITS $4.50. Odd sizes.%ortg $18 and $20. \ A SMALL LOT OF SUITS $6.50. High colors, values up to $30. ‘Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. Coats BALMACAAN COATS $5.98. Of all wool tweed with elt and patch pockets. 6.98 to $8.98 COATS, $5.00. Of serge, fancy cloths, coverts, etc. $8.98 TO $10.98 COATS $6.75. Of worsted serge, ra- tine and mixtures. $10 TO $12:98 . COATS $7.75. - Checks, wool serges. $12.98 TO $14.98 COATS $8.78 Poplins, gaberdufe checks and’mixtures. A FEW HIGH COL- ORED SAMPLE COATS $3.50. Were up to $12.08. A FEW HIGH GRADE SAMPLE COATS $5.98 Were -up-to; $25.00, $9.98 ‘serges and WISE, S HARTF&RD DAILY DELIVERY in New Brihi;l, Hywnd. : Hill a WHAT OTHZRS 3AY Views cu all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. - Cost of War. (New Haven Times Leader.) The Bache Review furnishes scme very interesting and far-reaching facts about the staggering costs of the war which is now costing Great Britain approximately $10,600.000 a day. Up to April England had expended $1,635,000,000. For another full year the budget estimate is $5,682,000,000 and Lord Kitchener tras just called for 300,000 more men to join the army needed at the front. “The figurés given out by Russia show $892,000,000 spent in the firs: thrée months, against about $630,- 000,000 spent by England in thé sams day. This is at the rate of nearly $10,000,000 a day. The estimatéd war cost to France is $1,380,000,000 for a year. If we leave out of the figures the values placed upon human life, con- fining the estimates to the less theo- retical items the losses for the dif. ferént countries appear as tollows: Great Britain ... $4,790,000,000 Germany 9,480,000.900 France 6,690,000,600 "Austro-’ Hun!aw . 6,310,000,000 Belgium ......000 2,432,000,000 Russia 6,000,000,000 $35,702,000,000 If the ctpnnlized loss of life is in- cluded the estimate becomes $45,- 740,000,000 Lloyd-George, in his budgei speech, estimates that the national debt of England, which in 1914 was $3,475,- 000,000, and is now well over $5,00! 000,000, will, before long, have dou- bled, over peace figures. The public debt of the belligerents before the war was $22,300,000,000. It is generally estimated that the debt will have dou- bled by July 31, reaching the figures of around $45,000,000. Facing the figures of this enormous burdén, Mr. Theodore Price, in the Outlook, dis- cusses the question of whether or not the 350,000,000 people of Europe who, if the war lasts only a year, will find themselves burdened with this stag- gering debt, will follow some notable examples in past history and repudiate it. He estimates that this population earned before the war, above national taxation, about $57 per capita per year, out of which they had to ngy living expenses. ~ He asks whsther this population which found it, diffi- cult enough to subsist on $57 pe, cap- ital before the war and will b2 ter- ribly impoverished at its close, will vpluntarily. or can be compeiled to stand yp under the taxation neces- sary to support’ and gradually!retire this aggregated .obligation of nu 000,000,000, together with the pen sions and other financial burdens ¥ the struggle. The default, he says, if it occurs, will probably come about in much the same way as in the French Revolu- tion. Fiat curremcy will be issued. It will be made a legal tender in payment of publicrand private debts and will gradually depreciate in value so that the debt, instead of being amoritized by direct taxation, will be absorbed In the diminished purchas- ing power of the money in use, This process has, he says, in fact, already commenced. Gold is at a premium of about 13 per cent. in Ger- many, 11 per cent. in Italy, 5 per cént. in France, and although specie pay- ment is nominally maintained in Eng- land, the price of sterling exchange n Néw York means that it costs about 1 1-2 per cent, to convert British bank credits into gold. One result of inflating, he includes would be higher wages for the .work- ing classes and increased cost of pro. dyetion, so that America would have less cause to fear from the competi- tio ahroad. Another result of inflation, in the couutries adopting it, is to advance the cost of commodities. It" seems probable, therefore, that in sddition to the higher wages that will prevail{ as a result of the European imflation ‘existing and in prospect, higher prices for commodities will be established; and the second’ reason for American fear of European industrial competi- tion will be thereby ‘eliminated.” “For their ability to continue fighting,” he says, “the belligerents are now largely dependent upon the things they can buy in the western heniisphere. For these things they can. pay only by the negotiation of .16ans in this coun- try. If they further deplete their supply of gold, their. whole = credit fabric will topple. If, ‘on the other hand, American bankers and inves tors conclude that ‘European ’promises to pay are no longer to’'be relied upon, European ability to buy hére will be at an end and the war will stop.” Churchill and the Fleet, ¢ (New York'Press.) At this partiéular moment nothing could be of greater import - to Great Britdin ‘and scarcely ‘anything of more interést to all Europe than the resignation of Lord Fisher from his post”of First Sea Lord of the Admir- alty because he and’ the First Civilian Lord of the Admiralty have nat becn able to work together, this change carrying with ‘it a reconstruction of the British cabinet. Winston Churchill is charged with having run the navy after the man. ner of a landsman and in conflict with the opinion of the Sea Lords. Asked in the | Commons whother Admiral Fisher was consulted with régard to the attack on the Darda- nelles. in ; March,* Mr. Churchill’ said he was. m.d whether . Admiral Dresses “$1.98- WASHABLE CREPE DRESSES '$1.39, Trimmed with white voile and velvet ribbon. § $250 WASHABLE . FLOWERED CREPE DRESSES $1.98, 6 Tri:;med \;ifi‘i’l Ham- urg edge an aiting and shirred at hips. $3.98 DOTTED VOII DRESSES $3.50 With collar of brondered batiste encienes lace. $5.98 DRESSES F’OI n the new large small dottea and stri voiles, full embroidereer With' ftncy ered collar of linen." Y Fisher expressed’ the opinion that th attack ought not to be made in thy circumstances, Mr. Churghill uf‘ did net. ’ It "would appear that nheii upon the Dardanélles by eet, supparted by dn army, was quité diq parently a omlul the present year th ‘tent reports that Russia hld proached by the central empires (] effort to make a separate peacews er. Those stories were denied th assurance was given that Ri would stand by the original .ag ment of the Triple Entente Powi and they would make peace only common. But it is . apparent that Rus chief hope of great advan “ crue through hér part in the m in the direction of Constantinople. one praceeding which would be de tain to keep Russia loyal to t Entente would be a . prosi Constantineple would be made prize of the war. For her to it alone would be impossible, cause that operation’ would 1 the massing ‘th exposed, . thérefore, can readily be saying to her alli “¥You have naval take Constantinople. it we the burden of the eastern 'n campaigning we shall expect o compensate us by using your forces to take Constantinople e It would not need more Hul\ intimation of this sort te gen France and England of the polith necessity for acquiescence; that' #h worthy of note that when t came for the attagk upon the o) danelles -the task was jointly by France and B forces. . That there might Politieal reason for this Jaint ment fs readily understood: * and France have a hard and alliance, and Russia might have that her interest would be after the Byzantine capital h; takén, if her ally were a part its taking. y Making the first attack 'in ” may have been necessary to in Russia’s confidence in- the faith her allies, To prepare and mé! big land force for action in o tion with the fleet would have necessary a delay which ‘in cumstances might have been im tie. These details it would be quil possible for the British admi tion te explain publicly in interpellations. Indeed, th‘ fact that such questions hnvt asked has constituted an émb nt {0 the military author the allfes. 3 Not inappropriate, lodking | world, to notice that the mn styles are to be black and b York Telegram, 3 power e ? o higl * 3 , all