New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1915, Page 6

“’. 5 New Britain iy x of the ‘city 6 chats & Month. - “paper ‘to be sent by mail vance. 60 Cents & 18in — } be zound on sale at Hota- 4, 42nd St and 'k City: Board Walk, and Harttord depot. HONE CALLS. 2% and William Sloper, 'Maple Hill Goif club, vard and ‘asked - the of the organization if der it reasonable to in the_dues and to { their own pockets for By to- erect z substantial cture that may be used oses. The facilities for ner -parties at the are very limited. ng men have struck ynote of the idea of every “socially inclined older nmunity who is a mem- tub. Unfortunately, the a golf club purely and \ means that it has be- ering.. place of only (in the ‘anctent and e.. | Any element of' e and recreation ‘is a community. The idea the scope of the local one, - ition should be taken if ‘put through 4o insure is having tHe advan- is paying for. Socia- lendliness are pig assets It will be necessary that cient moral rectitude ber may go out to the d be certain that when ere he ‘will be made wel- ecircle:that happens to be he is alone it would be @ all to help him in his elaxation and entertaih- spirit ' existing: it the add to - New of perpetual pleasure fif spirit lacking built, will be.a monument of what might have 1d have been, but can 5 AND' AIR RAIDS, pelin raid on England the days grist of news. ntion® that hdas been ralds was attracted eito the faculty of the ome used to most any e inhabitants of - the it towns dreiprobably can- lookout ror the long machines that -carry | destruction 1f' their holds. | ‘to be little surprise when 1 ever, ana the people ok ‘for a safe prace to stay T has been driven off. authorities: seem to be work ‘to impress upon hii p ‘that they. are be ‘considered in the war. ‘85 it a strange policy were ued however as the sight of i Boglish skies th . work of recruiting in published reports of the ‘on the contiment could not do. life in Fngland due to the yas small and no com- ere killed. When a nation’s .ehildren are being killed: ghot is that the men jeh quicker and endure ps to stop the practice. enure is the despatch ids by the allies ovér by @ermany. According eports & large number of sol- Ostend met their death after #ig of bombs by an allied pand a squadron of allled aero- tro; e‘d“-.n mportant chemi- ks in ‘Germany. It seems that are being put to a more ilicose use than those of We seldom near, for some ble Teason, possibly be: is nothing of the sort to military basds. Just why the ¢ upon pusiuing a policy. : in mplking war is ‘Women and children targets; there 1s nothing killirig them dnd much The German - authorities ‘have a good and-sufficient. B dure bifigthe rest. d sits back and _forestry commission to od idea, hEt why nét take a Hve ‘interest in s share - and more diversified s Qe Rocuyx;l‘n Memorial- day is soon to ‘be ob- served. the annual tribute to the soldier dead | of this city. The'marshalls and com- .| manders have issued their orders for e parade ‘and’school observances. The day in this year of all years, comes upon Sunday. When the num- ber of soldiers dead of the world is being increased by the .thousands “daily, when the grim reaper equipped with field guns and shrapnel is tak- ing his toll ‘of the nations of ' the earth, when the ’: of legal mur- der smiles with a ciation of the work of his human pawns, our nation will watch the remnant of an army of American fighting men parade down the streets in honor their companions, removed by war or the scythe of Father Time. Our holiday will be held on Monday. But Sundsy the day of peace “and quiet, of har- mony and thanksgiving is the 30th of May. What a coincidence, when the world is at war, that we should have our Memorial day of the war of the past upon the Lord’s day. Doubtlessly in every city observing Memorial day there will be a bigger turn out than ever, this year. The veterans, of course, are fewer. The interest in things, is naturally at a greater point just now than it has ever been-before. The desire to do all that is possible to show reference to the Stars and, Stripes should , be more predominant when it is the only flag that floats over a peaceful na- tion of any size.: Memorial day this year has a deeper significance than it “has had in the past and this fact must be realized by all. th of Oscar ' Beck, of Cnn'ton'. Ohio, was sentenced to from two to twenty-one years in the state penitentiary for kill- ing a woman while driving an auto- mobile recklessly, The judge sus- pended sentence, however, provided th accused refrained from driving an automobile, stayed on -the , water: wagon and contributed $100 annually to the Y. W. C. A, Justice tempered with mercy seems fo be the attitude of the Ohio court, Having done our duty"n struggling with the pronunciation of Przysmel, Ypres, Liege, ete., we will not turn our attention to Cervignano,” Friuli and Cirnlol{, The predominant of the next generation’ will be prom- inent jaw bones if the war Keeps up much longer. Suppose we must obtain an education some way. £ The cropping up of those-new names and places destroy the efficiency of a printing plants Typesetters have to ‘withdraw for a rest period before tackling the heaviest ones. Inside of a month all the papers will be spelling them the same way. Pity the fellow that has his over- coat with Uncle. We had May last April, April in May, and now we get | ready for March. Suggest that the ‘weather man be examined under the civil service law. Maybe he.is so busy watching the war he doesn’t know what date it is. Say one thing for him, however. He has put away his sprinkling can for the time being, anyhow. Spaghetti seems to make good training material. FACTS AND FANCIES. pretty You ' never can can do—Syracuse Timely bromide: tell what a jury ‘Pest Standard. Thé spy who committed suicide yather than be hanged had a rather curiously-perverted sense of humor.— Buffalo Eixpress. ; The Liberty Bell will go to Cali- | fornia, but the liberty fleet will re- main fn; the ~ Atlantic—Birmingham Y Press. Italy has been in the great struggle about long enough for the drink ques- | i tion to be: raised ! again.—Norwich Bulletin. . Mayor-Quigley, of New Britain, has made the remarkable discovery that the fire and police forces of that city are better out of politics than in it.— New Haven Journal-Courrfer, . s . Sturgeons have returned to - the Hudson river. Possibly they might be irained to tow the big bargs canal vessels from Troy to the Erfe basin and back.—Rochester Democtat and Chronicle. Pl 27 n What the United States needs .most now is'to be prepared agaimnst trouble. 7t wouM be unfortunate should we at- tempt ‘to -monopelize the brickbat businéss, but at least we should keep a.few brickbat plants in operation.— Kingston Freeman. FEe JPredictions are being made - that there will'be a great deal of business affer the war is over. Does this mean tha#t the ancient act of* beating swords inte plowshares has proadened and is going to include ‘tourist trips to the ‘pattle flelds in parlor Zeppelins?— Pittsburg Dispatch. i . President Wilson found the appear- ance and management and spirit of the New York police admirable, and here- after no President need; feel’ ' the slightest apprehension that he will be Plans have been made for | feature | in any way annoyed or oppressed by the police if.'he ventures to come to New York.—Brooklyn Standard Union. 1 Sy {. Don’t get fussed over what the stock market may or may not do when Ger- | many’s reply to the American note shall be made. Keep cool, hold your good nature and keep your faith strong. This {8 a big country and its foundations are as sure as its re- sources are inexhaustihle.—Utica Ob- server, The greatest hero on the Lusitania was a stroker whose boay was found | floating in the seea, each arm clasping a woman, while a babe Was tucked under his life belt. He had. tried to | save three lives, and of course in doing it had“lost his own. He was of the material-that wins the V., C. and the Medal of Honor, and yet no one knows his name.—New York Herald. | The governments of 'London and Rerlin are presuming upon American sympathy. They are not attempting to do justice. They are looking for assistance. Both are mistaxen. There will be neither sympathy nor. assis- | tunce here for any belligerent that trespasses upon the rights of the " United States.—New York‘Wor!d. | At present the only method off ex- porting the great reserve of Russian wheat is by way of Archangel, Fin- .land and Norway, Sweden-and Vladi- vostok. Railway and shipping facili- ties by all these routes are inadequate " the war has put upon them. They are. being rapidly improved, but the ‘ hcpe of the allies for a reduction in ;the high cost of food lles tn the fall of Constantinople.—Syracuse Journal. Italy’s Problem. (Stamford Advocate.) Says a valued exchange concerning Italy's entrance into the war: “Sus- ricion of the virtue of her action is naturally increased by her long delay in: choosing sides on which to fight.” We cannot but think this 1s a mislead- ing way of stating the case, and is un- just to Italy. Her long delay was not “in choosing Bides on whicn to fight.” but in choosing whether to join the British-French-Russian allies in the fleld or stay out of the conflict alto- gether. There is a distinction with a | difference—a profound and significant | difference when it comes to be more i carefully examined than the writer of the words above quoted seems to have given it. There has been mo prob- ability or even question from the first of Italy’s ‘‘choosing to flght” as an 2lly of Austria-Hungary. We ma; even go further with confidence, an | say that would have been an imprac- ticable proposition. had it been mooted. No Italian ministry or par- lizment, not the king himself, could have ' aligned the Italian army and ravy on the side of Austria. Military | disclpline can compel a squad, or a company, a regiment, or even a brigade, to obey.orders. But if a whole army revolts, that's the end of ! it. No, the question ' impending in italy for the last eight or nine' months was whéther to join the Allles or re- i main neutral. There were good argu- ments on: both sides of the proposition, and from the points of view—both legitimate—of -enilightened . self-in- | terest and patriotism: At last the de-| cision has been made; as the result of &n . ever-growing conviction that Jtalian honor and. -interests required her to actively -help the powers that were Teally fighting her battle, for a victorious Austria meant the extinc- tion of all hope of incorporating ‘‘un- ! ,redeemed Italy’ -in the country where i it properly belonged. It meant that the further side of the Adriatic should hereafter be an ‘enemy’s country’” throughout its entire length,"and such’ an enemy!—traditional, = hereditary, implacable, and inspired with plans and ambitions whose reatzation must necessarily place Italy In a subordi- uate ,if not in a wholly dependent pesition as a Mediterranean power. i i | Churches and Recreation. (Troy Times.) The remarkable change in the atti- tude of the churches as regards rec- reation is indicated in numerous ways. In many places churches are taking on an ‘“institutional” character and making provision not only for the spiritual and intellectual needs of par- ishioners but for reasonable indul- gence in innocent and healthful re- laxation. Some ministers have de- clared themselves in favor of setting up billlard tables and furnishing other means of enjoyment. proposition is that of the pastor of a prominent Methodist Episcopal church in Watertown, who has in- augurated a movement looking to the establishment of a gymnasium'and recreation rooms, with an addition to the present edifice to assure the requi. site space. While the matter has not yet been fully dcided, there seems to be every likelihood of the projgct | being carried out. The Watertown Times gives the facts and notes that several churches in its city have gl ready provided gymnasiumg and es tablished social centers. At least one of the churches has bowling alleyé / and a billiard room, and it is intis ‘mated that others may follow suit. Commenting on this development the Times remarks: “It is a trend of the times 'and one that is most health- | ful. Many is the mature man to- { day who looks back upon the church .| experiences of his youth as dark spots because he was not made phys- sically fit to undertake the ‘church life. Even if‘the boys ran about the basement where the dies’. Ald so- ciety was holding a pper hands went up 4n hohhor. The boys meant nothing by it; it was simply the work- ing off of the surplus energy of véuth. Churches today recognize that recre ation and religion work well together. Healthful recreation makes healthful and vigorous religion; and that.is what the world wants today.” The church is and always has been one of the greatest of uplifting forces. In these early days of the twentieth century it seems to have awakened to a full ! perception of apportunities for good lying in the direction of encourag- ing healthful exercise and to be de- termined to make the sound mind in a sound body an ally of righteausness. to the, pressure that the exigency of A typical | WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on ;Il—- sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. .U 8. Must Think Peace. No considerable civilized nation, ex- cept the nUted States is now unen- gaged in the European war. Four- fifths of civilization, controllng four- fifths of the military power of the | planet is fighting tooth and nail. How | out, and the nationg sink exhausted among their graves, nobody can sa) { It is much easier to predict which of | the peaceful countries will soon be fighting, than to say what nations will remain at peace. The best opinion seems to be that Rumania and Bul- saria, will soon be involved, bringing | hhelr vetdran armies to the aid of al- es. The United States is the one bright spot .'of peace in civilization. 1t would seem that the highest duty rests upon the American people to keep in peace, even if it s necessary to tolerate somewhat things that are | inconvenient, or irritating. It is not inconsistent with national 1 dignity to regard European necessity as superior to American trade. We may be sure, if this country insists on trading precisely as it would do if no { war existed, that it will soon be in- volved, and fighting. There is also the possibility that the great conflict arises from. causes be- yond the control of mankind. From time to tme, during the historical per- iod, the nations have swarmed, de- scending in hordes upon each other in movements that seemed as.invol- untary as the swarming of bees. Men are more civilized now than then, but are they less automatons driven, by forces they do not understand whither they would rather not go? Man in his individual life, by long continued process of error in diet, in thought, or in activity, may set up an almost imperceptible chain of causes which terminate in hs illness or death. At any antecedent time, before the crisis, each error might have been | omitted, or its injury averted. But | there came a time when the fatal consequences was inevitable. It may be presumed, and, indéed al- ways has been presumed by many that mankind is subject to group maladies, such as pestilence, panic and war, which are the cumulative results of slight but long continued and fre- quently repeated error. The more enlightened, the more just and -generous, and the more youthful a country is, the more 1is destinies should be within its conscious control. Let each American think peace, and IAmeflu will have peace. i Yandell Saught Again, (Brooklyn FEagle) ’I'lrere is intense resentment in East- hampton particularly and throughout all of eastern Long Island this morn- ing over the statement made by Prof. Yandell Henderson of Yale that ‘‘a crop of war babies’” resulted from the encampment at Montauk Point fol- lowing the Spanish-American war. With blood fairly at the boiling point, men have unhesitatingly char- acterized the story as pure fabrication. They regard it as a slur on thé entire population of that community and many of them openly demand a Tre- traction and an apology. It is pointed out, that there are ‘practically no residents in the arena that was then, in 1898, occupied by the troops at Camp Wyckoff. Not even the hotel now there was stand- ing, and residents are at a loss to un- derstand what Prof. Henderson ran have to base his accusfton upon. As a matter of fact, too, Easthampton village, the nearest village of any size to Mantauk Point, ig 20 miles away from where the troops were en- camped, and residents say it would be practically imposible for troops to have visited that village anyway. The flat-footed statement made by Prof. Henderson is this: Away from ordinary social re- straints men always do such things. It is rare for a\militia company herc to have a field day, or a college class to hold a reunion without a certain percentage making beasts of them- selves. There was a crop of war babies over on Long Island after our soldiers left Montauk Point in 1898. * Villa Losing Ground. (Meriden Journat.) .Pancho Villa, once the idol of a large part of Mexico, the, mah who £aw himself as one day, being lTooked up to as the George Washington of the unhappy republic, is rapidiyilosing the prestige that he hE gained. and has nearly returned to; that bandit state from which he ,.emerged to “save”. his couniry. H¢, has always heen a bandit atsheart, always think- ing of himself and’ bask in his own glory. He is ruthless, Killing friefds and+foes ;,whenever he is crossed. A few months ago and he was the one big fhan in. Mexico gand alone lcoked to as the ntan could fre- crganize h§s country from the chaotic condition into whlch*lat had fallen. He has failed and now Mexico must drift mercy of every pirate who can find a few followers, untdl a real strong man comes to thé front. If Villa's ‘‘cause” has collapsed, it i® because Mexico has become & cins der as- a result of imcendia; fires; because agriculture, and manufactur- ing, and decent business are/sat a standstitl, And It has been said of Villa, as it is said -of every other impudent and mischievousiman who has gone in to errich himdelf by participation ip public affairs, that “hé is trustee of the people’simterests.” Becker, (New York World.) Charles Becker has had the bene- fit of every issue of law and every issue of doubt that could be raised in his behalf. murder in the first degree. The con- viction in the first instance was set aside by the court of Appeals on the far the fire may spread before.it is | aleng .torn by civil war and at the! t the accused had not had The, conviction in the second case is now afirmea by the court of last resort, One year one month and twelve days after four of Becker’s accomplices in: the murder of Herman Rosenthal paid _ with their lives the penalty exacted by the law. - It cannot be said that Becker is the victim of popular clamor, for more than two years and ten months have elapsed since Rosenthal was shot down in cold blood in a public street on the morning of the day that he was to reveal Becker's blackmailing prac- ticeg to a grand jury. Two years and £even months have elapsed since Becker was first found guilty, and more than a year has passed since his tecond conviction. The legal rights of no man accused of a capital crime in this state have ever.been more carefully safeguarded than were the rights of this grafting | found guilty of instigating a deliber- ate murder in the hope of hiding his shameless betrayal of public duty. It is a singular twist of fate that the¢ district attorney who twice brought about the conviction of Becker is now the governor of New York and holds in his hands the scales of life'and death. Mr. whitman has the power to commute the sentence that has been passed upon the former police lieuténant, but it was only a vear ago that he asked a jury to find Jecker guilty of murder jn the first degree, and no new evidence has since been brought to light that might raise a doubt as to the justice of the ver- dict. As the case stands, Becker is now headed straight for the etectric chair that took the lives of four of his ac- complices, and he has no title to mercy that they did not have, He has rather less claim by reason of his former position in the New York police force and the power he was alle to exert over the gunmen who did the actual killing, The Rosenthal murder than a murder. It was a conspiracy against the public safety of the people of New York. If there could be such a crime under the law as treason against a municipality, that crime was committed: tnrough the coperations of Becker and his asso- ciates. When the powers of govern- ment for the protection of property and life can thus be perverted into a systematized campaign against prop- erty and life, no penalty known to the elatute books is excessive. And the criminal elements of New York city slill need the -lesson. R T Rumania’s Strength, (New York Times.) The Teuton's next most dangerous neighbor, on the point of turning ene- my, is Rumania. She, too, has na- tional aspirations, a future to seek in war, an army more to be feared for its size than any other in Europe, and an understanding with the anti- German allies to . whom Italy has just gone over. Rumania wil] almost certainly follow suit, It will be a very serious matter for Germanic cause. Some critics who make mno great difficsly, of Italy's participation, which has been fully discounted and prepared for beforehand, are dubious about the effect of Rumania’'s join- ing in. 1f she acted promptly it would divide the strength of the Ger- man allies, who would then have to face all ways at once, being quite” encircled. Rumania lies like a crescent on the east of Austria-Hungary, and if her 500 or 600 miles of frontier should change from neutral to enemy, then the combined frontiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary, all the way around, would be enemy frontiers, save for a few miles of contact with Switzerland, and the- line between Holland and Germany. Switzerland hardly counts, as it occupies-a place unique, entirely surrounded by com- batants, touching lines with Austria, Germany, France, and Italy, add her- pelf at peace with all of them. The Rumanian army is thought to be one of the most efficient in the world. The regular establishment in timad of peace was so.organized as to provide on call a field army of some what 16ss than 300,000 men. Back of those al! Rumanian manhood of mili- tary age. They are a military people. Service in arms is compulsory, and its period is twenty-one years. The po- tential military strength of the coun- try, therefore, up to the point of ex- haustion, is limited only by the equip- ment available, and that has been rapidly increased. Probably Rumania is now in a\position to release a highly trained, perfectly equipped army of more than 500,000 men, with | a great, reserve in waiting, t of ‘& total populationlation ‘of 7 mil- lions. % Mo The country is all the more farmid- | able_‘and -efficient in war by geason pof ‘being self-sustaining in foodw In normal * times there is a lafgeex- portdble surplus of grain. For Some time .after the beginning of the wwar Germans were wont to say that. if the food problem became acute Ger- many would go over and take Ru- mania. But taking is not so easy now, and so far from Germany reach- ing out across Austria-Hungary to commander Rumania's sufplus of food, it is not improbable that sghe fears Rumania even more than she fears Italy, not that Rumania -is stronger than Ttaly, but that she oc- }cumea one of the war's most strate- gic places, physically, economically, and chronologically. * | was more | i B | il S Shall We Prepare? (New Haven Unfon.) President Hadley's strong declara- tion that we are tbo little prepared | for defensive warfare, endorsing Pres- {ident Hibben of Princeton who has ! made a similar statement, echoés a | belief ‘whith seems to be a majority | opinion if one can judge from wide | reading of newspapers and periodi- cals. Dr. Hadley said: “There are two ways for a nation | to become involved in an interna- | tional controvery. One is to be too {much prepared for war. The other is ; to be too little prepared for war.” Few people will be found to doubt Two juries found him guilty of the assertion that Germany was in|only attended the service. . the first boat—too much prepared for war. No one can question the fact that Belgium was too little prepared. i , police lieutenant who has twice been | 48 vil o of the two evils h - invariably spell war, and always. have back through the pages of history. Unpreparedness for successful de- | fense invites war, and it always has, | and always will until some sort of | Utopian scheme has been applied and | found _effective, if that ever comes. Over.preparedness invites controversy | by making restiess the country itself | and inviting aggression from outside. | There is a happy medium. Whether jor not a nation can reach it is a | question of effectiveness in govern- | ment. Switzerland seems to have it. R. M. Johnston in this month’'s Cen- ltury gives a gouod idea of the Swiss | preparédness which has. kept her | Peace .and neutrality inviglate al- ' though she fow lies totally surround- ( Ied by warring powers. We must | istrive to attain the same happy me- idium of preparedness hit upon by the | {Swiss. If we do not we will have | one or thé other of the unhappy sit- uations—under preparedness or over preparedness. The Superior Pacifists, (New London Day.’ “War—the whole abominable idea { of blood wiping out insults—is medie- val and does mot appeal to me as rea- | sonable,” writes Eugene Boissevain to | the American League to Limit Arm- ament, Does Mr, Boissévain he is giving expression exceptional sentiment Who, if you please, in this country at least, does not believe that blood vengeance for insult is medieval? To whom, pray, | does such idea appeal? Mr. Boisse- !vain need not imagine that because the thought of war makes him shud- der he is built of finer clay than the rest of us. It makes us all shud. der, though some of can imagine cir- cumstances in which it is better to conquer the shudders and get busy defending our wives and children. But will Mr. Boissevain. or any of the other members of his ultra pa- cifist organization tell us that he thinks it medieval and barbaric to quit having anything to de with an individual who repeatedly slaps your | face—or a nation which does the same thing? Should we continue Lo maintain friendly relations with Ger- many if she refuses to comply with our demands made in the name .of humanity, and pretend that all is well between us? Just where do the pac- ifists stand on this matter of a cutting | Germany off our calling list? Making War Popular, (Bridgeport Telegram Germany, it is reported, is taking | official movng pictures of the war op- eratons in order to “popularize” the’ war. If this result is to be achieved the pictures will have to be even more carefully censored than are the offi- cial accounts which are allowed to creep out. Pictures of German soldiers with their heads blown off, their bodies dismembered, will not make war pop- ular. Pictures of troops advancing In close formation against machine gun fire and falling over in sickening heaps as though mowed by.a monster scythe, will not make war popular, Nor is it even certain that, moving pictures showing the effect of * the | German gunfire upon the enmiy will do very much foward eftablighing wars fare in the public mind as a sorf parlor entertainment. " If the German war pictures 4re truthful and acurate, they might well be imported into this country as the most striking of arguments against war. If they are not truthful and ac- curate they will not carry much | weight anyway imagine -that to a new or| | INNOCENT OF “MURDER NOTES.” Handwriting Expert Declarcs Regard- ing Leo Frank. | Atlanta, Ga.. May 27.—Albert 8. Osborn, a handwriting expert, sub- mitted a report to Governor Slaton | vesterday, &xpressing belief that | Leo M. Frapk, had nothing to do with | the “murder notes” which played an | important part in his trial. In his | original report Osborn has stated the note¢ might have been ‘written at the suggestion of or with the collusion of Frank. H g After subsequent study, owever, Osborn declared his conviclion that James Conley, the negro who testi- fied he wrote the notes at Frank's | dictation, did not have “intel it | assistance” in preparing them. ¥ "° SIMILAR TO 1859 DECREE. Proclamation of Austrian Emperor Sent to Premicr Stucrgkh, sRome, May 26, via Paris, May 27, | 5 a. m.—Commenfing upon the rxlnmm.itm of Emperor Francls Jo- P sel of Austria contained in a letter senf on May 23 to former Premier Stuergkh, the Tribuna points out that the proclamation is strikingly similar to that issued by Francis Joseph on the eve of the war of 1859. Austria is charged by the Tribuna with ha¥ing adopted in 1859 a tem- porizing gnd threatening policy in the hope of rting hostilities, Piedmont answered by crossing the Ticino river, “which led to the brilliant victories of | San Martind and Selferino.” SWEDISH BAPTIST CONFERENCE, New ‘Haven, May —The "Swedigh Baptist conferenec for the district which embraces New York, Néw Jer- sey, Delaware, Southern Penmsylvania and Connecticut, opened in the Law- rence Street church: of*this denomi. nation today. . The conference ser- | mon was by Reyv, G. A. Gordh. The sessions will extend through several days and will be devoted to .consid eration of many departments of de-i nominational wark. TRIBUTES TO VANDERBILT, New York, May 27.—Tributes to the memory of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who pérished with the sinking of the steamship Lusitania, were paid today | in memorial services held at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. here. Relatives and friends Mr. Van- derbilt’s body was not recovered after the Lusitania sank, although a long search was made for it. of | | cial 95c each. i Hira Valug or 3 Da THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY For the last three business days of the month all depart- ments share in extra valug giving. Re the article small ¢ irge you get extra value fi your mcney. TABLE DAMASK Special 45c yard. 66 inches wide. | Regular 59c value. Unbleached Jin< ' en damask, special 50c yard. Reg- ular 69c value. TABLE CLOTHS. 21-4 yards long, hemmed or scak loped, special, 98c each. BLEACHED SHEETS, Size 2 1-4x2 1-2 yards, special 8¢ each. Regular 7bc kind, PILLOW CASES Hemstitched, value 17c each, spe-. o cial 12 1.2¢ each. TOWELS. " Extra large Turkish towels, speecial 121-2¢ each. Regular 17c values. LARGE HUCK TOWELS. In plain white, also red borders, special 10c each, value 12 1-2e. BUREAU SCARFS Good value at 98c, special 69¢ sach. Big variety. BOY® BLOUSES, All styles, spécial 45c each. . HOSIERY Men's and Women's broken lines of silks and lisles, 26c value, special 17e pair. % L » L UNION S ‘Women's and children special 4be suit, ¥ WOMEN’S VESTS, 4 Regular and extra size, special 10 value 19¢, faney vests at 15c each. EMBROIDERIES Spedial 16c yard for organdie edg: ings, hand loom edgings, that a worth 26c, Y BARY FLOUNCINGS Special 39¢ yard, value 6%c . Hem stitched and scalloped edfes. LONG WHITE SILK GLOVES 69¢c value, special 50c pair, WASH GOODS Flowered and striped organdiss lace voiles, erépe cords, 39¢ values &t special, 29¢. yard. R MERCERIZED POPLINS Yard wide, all colors, 3%c vafue, special 29¢ yard. DRAPERIES AND RUGS Velvet rugs, size 27x64 inches, g ¥ CURTAIN SCRIMS Plain and drawn work, kindl.'}‘ values, special 16c yard, Ca SCORIM €URTAINS Special 69¢c pair, value $1.00, yards long with lace cdgings, SHIRT WAIST CLEARANCE Three big bargain lots, value § to $3.50, special 69c, 97c, $1.98 Bilks, orepes, chiffons, lace and geries in this sale, D. McMILLAN » 199-201-204 MAIN STREET .4 STATION NAMES CHANGED. On Line in Connecticut of Central England Railway. " ¢ Winsted, May 27.—Coincident % the going into effect of the new suny mer time table on the Central Ned England Railraw on June 6, it was. nounced today the follgwing chan in names of stations on tne lino | Connecticut will also be effective; ™ Clarksville changed to Griffiy North Bloomfield to Barnard;'sS ton Brook to Stratto Colliy Jynetion to Highstreet: Cherry Bro to Cherry; Colobrook to Lawre Norfolk Summit to Summit; West Ni folk ' to Haystack; Blake's Summit Washington; Chapinville to Tocomic. NAMED ELECTIONS HEAD, » New York Republican Gets $ l’Q‘ Year Job from Whitman, Albany, May r. Frede Magshall, of New York, was superintendent of elections by G nor Whitman today. Dr. Marshall Wwas associated the framers of the bill reorga the office of the =uperintend elections passed at the last ses ihe legislature He succeed R. Voorhis, New York; W, J. Buffalo, and John Pallave, port. His salary is $5,000 ly.