New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1915, Page 6

. m. irch St t New Britain Matter. o part of the city 65 Cents » Month. to be sent by mall ce. 60 Conts & 00 a year. le advertising medium i lation books and press openitgiiadvertisers. _be found on sale at Hota- d. 42nd St, and Broad- fork City; Board Walk, and Hartford depot. LEPHONE CALLS. [MON--€OUNCIL. ang technicalities in an » body like the common ke for progress. The 8 is not expedited by such mise of a wordy battle incilman Curtis and the ubtedly brought a num- 2 s to the council cham- tht and those who came e of seeing a fight were d. That the mayor Councilman Curtis was . . while unquestionably Quigley forces, is of to the public than the Structive ' tactics proved | administration of the §s. Councilman Landers 3 gpinion when' he took ttered his contempt for air. The councilman h was frank in his de- bf the proceedings. His pfize ring methods was ‘pretend eéven to know as about, but felt as- “fellow councilors and i large knew as little and n from the Third has ation for many years of ctionist. He knows the .and a lot about parlia- jcedure. His ability to jneh into the administra- s when it pleases him is When he was ‘re- 6 council last spring, ‘administration at once fn the woodpile.”” They as put there to ‘obstruct program and in the lan- s street make it a joke. f Jast night that his honor by the gentleman’s ac- b guly meeting and had means to defeat him. ey 4proved wary and re- lowiithe councilman from Eebuite, Biold. Previous Is session, the mayor had on of the July council dind its previous action the establishment of an i d and followed this by | ng,.0f the republican | e council to discuss cer- | Some republican mem- SouneiWeF not asked to | feeting and others saw fit but the faifhful were it was evident at last g that they were a unit man C‘u'rt!é became the myor}um‘med a car- and it vas gvident to all W his power.” The council and he had no difficulty | fhe fact when it came to a the whole proceeding fought out plainly that this embled not for the pur- fing measures for the bet* w Britain, but with the “staging a fight—a fight igilman Curtis and his fayor. From that point of | ‘successful council meet- e was well roped off, | iously awa-ted the com- lgladiators, and there was ut nothing. When the the fighters, ably backed nds, went at each other. ‘has not as yet given her the mill last night was knockout. The next elec- obably announce the final ‘men who have been trust- | o f management of the city's e they are not sent to the mbers for the purpose of the city have higher, re- m. As it is the whole on the verge of -being # Two or three such flascos he one produced last night, ough to discredit any leg- pdy.© "As ‘parliamentarians r leading councilmen are | [vote-getters. Their educa- these lines seems to have [y neglectea. 4 Cushing's Manual fb the rules and regulations h conduct of their council would not ime. ion. own be We respectfully | Haven it has been brought to its | e referee in this case being | e of New Britain who must | ts of this kind then will ! careful | in con- : ONE LAW FOR ALL. One of the favorite pastimes among ‘malefactors of great wealth” in this country is the looting of railroads. { Bvidence of this has been manifested directors hard est railroad properties Whose consciences were the steel of their heavy work done by the men in con- trol of the New York. New Haven and Hartford road at a time when it was greatest by as as rails roads its be forgotten on the verge of will £ never by trusting public. It was a perfect job, well worthy of the financiel geniuses who sat around the council board and gathered in twenty dollar gold pieces for attending directors’ meetings the sole object of which were to make millions vanish “into thin By a neat process of throwing perity one alr.” books into the flames all evidence that might convict these men was care- fully covered up and, as a resulr, scoundrels who should now be wither- ing behind steel bars are allowed to lumber through the streets of great cities in their automobiles while lesser theives, men who stole bread and the like, are serving time in jails. With all the investigations into the maze of crooked work done by certair men high in the councils of wrecked railroads, the evidence put forward hy the Interstate Commerce Commission has never yet been used to convict anyone. This is not attributed to the weakness of the Interstate Commerce Corhmission’s work as much as it has been laid to the door of the Depart- ment of Justice. It will be remem- bered that when McReynolds was Af- torney General, he was severely ar- raigned on this subject by those who accused him of not wanting to prose- cute these men. Former Governor Folk, of Missouri, chief counsel of the Interstate Cofnmerce Commission at the time of the New Haven investiga- tion brought. out some startlimg facts during his cross-examination of wit- nesses, facts which were strong enough to send any man to the peni- tentiary were they proved; and, for the most part, they were proven. Now the Rock Island Railroad in the limelight, much in the same fashion as the New Haven road was a year or So ago. The Interstate Commerce Commission has investigat- ed this looting, too; but burned books have flgured in the case just as theyv did in the New Haevn scandal. Ever: month regularly books were burned and, as a consequence, no one Wil ever know just how much was garner- ed by the looters...As in the New light that a large number of the directors | were totally in the dark anent the various shady transactions. But there | were a few “directing heads” who didl the manipulating. From past history it is seen that there are always a few men who would break any cor- poration for their own selfish interest and after the work has been done, and the books properly and promptly burned, nothing ever happens to these fortunate few. Because no one can point the finger of accusation at any | one party the law is never brought to play. It would seem that it time for something to be done in this ; | direction. A few of these financiai geniuses lodged behind prison walls would restore a lot of lost confidence to stockhalders and others interested. In justice to the honest men in the ig | | railroad business the dishonest ones should be placed out of temptation’ i\va Is, the Departinent of Justice | going to sleep on the job, or is the | Clayton law not strong enough? | There should be either an awakening | lor a more stringent statute drafted vesting in the courts greater power. OCCUPANTS OF GLASS HOU It will be interesting t6o note the next issues of The Fatherland, the subsidized journal of the German Gov- ernment published in New York for ! the purpose of distorting every act of i the Wilson administration and other- wise mould_ public opinion the | United States. George Sylvester | Viereck the ingenious editor of this scurrilous journal having gone in of his way to accuse reputable Amer- | ican publications of being in the pay i of the of re- morse now that his own pay envelop has been held up to public Allies must feel a sort gaze. No one believes for a moment that | ur leading journals have been bought by the Allies. words have been used to insinuate this. Viereck has produced no facts, nor have any of the other accusers. of Viereck the actual source of his | existence has been exposed. Letters | published by the New York World show conclusively that German gov- ernment money financed the Father- land and its ‘‘patriotic’’ editor. With all this brought to light the Father- land should put on the soft pedal Merely Those who live in glass houses down' the shades. ture: | should pull The coal roads have again re- | ceived a heavy blow, but they seem to [ be able to survive all the blows in fine shape. Just watch the cost of coal go tumbling.—Wilkesbarre Rec- | ord. by the wrecking of some of the great- | The | pros- out | In the case | when making accusations in the fu- ! FACTS AND FANCIES. The Bear should springing any traps on ! guard against | | mans. That's bad business for those Ger- a car unless he s sure his foot is net within the range of the iron sprin | —St. Louis Times. | - The London about the dividend . dropping from Buropean into Amers | ican. pockets becanse of the war, and shivers despairinzly o wntes | Nothing gets the nerve of J. Bull lik the Knowledge that e is losing pait | of his waq to his Brother Jonathail —Pittsburg Dispatch. conomist writs and interest NOW in these days are high quality built up by producing & quality of goods and selling them at such a low cost that the volume of business | makes the transaction profitable. Millions of people like baseball and Woulq support good ball at popular prices in crowds large enough fo make the profits of the past seewn trifling—New York Mail. Great busines The Mexican imbroglio is interest- ing but not exciting. The country trusts in President Wilson, and be- lieves that with his unfzn_l\ng patience and good sense and his thorough knowledge of the situation he will find a way to bring about peace in the stricken republic without in- volving the United States in hostili- ties with anyone. In any event, the country is back of the president. In the words of one of the latest songs, “We're With You, Woodrow Wilson." —Brooklyn Citizen, If any evidence is required to show how little war fever there is in ths country, the sinking of the Leelanaw will supply it. Were we looking for trouble the incident could easily ie magnified. But we are not looking for trouble, and practically the whole so- called anti-German press has been at the greatest pains to show that the wrong is merely a technical one. In an age when it is customary (o denounce the press, it is fine to notice the calm and intelligence with which the newspapers prevented the affair from adding fuel to the fire. Were American newspapers jingo, {he Leelanaw was their opportunity Their restraint is significant also for a greater reason. It emphasizes the sincerity of the Amercan attitude. If Germany had r.ot destroyed life wan- tonly, we should willingly have ar- gued with her and made no threats. The Leelanaw case is one in which there is genuine room for differenc: of opinion; and Americans even in their present temper are glad to rec- ognize the difference. The event proves also that we are not protest- ing against the use of submarines. nor trying to deprive Germany of what she calls her most ‘“effective’ weapon; we are asking her to do the case of all ships what she did in the case of the Anglo-Californian and the Leelanaw. We are asking her to stop them and search them and save the lives of crew and passen- gers. We may dispute her right io destroy an American ship, but we should never raise that dispute into a cause for war.—The New Republic. Protection Against SI (Norwich Bulletin.) Kansas has good reason to con- gratulate itself over the excellent re- sults which have been attained by the operations of its “blue sky” law, when, according to the report from the bank commisioner's office it is disclosed that the annual toll to get- rich-quick concerns in that state has been reduced during the vear from $4,000,000 to lesg than $100,000. Tt was just such an accomplishment that was aimed at by the legislation and that is has succeeded so admirably is not only cause for gratification upon the part of the people of Kansas, but a demonstration which must he heeded by every other state where the practice of scparating the people from their hard earned money through questionable representations | exists. 5 | Kansas has hown that it has a law | which operates to the benefit of the people regardless of the many objec- tions which were made in that and } other states against the law when { Proposed. Tt is a piece of legislation which is on a par with that which re- quires conformity to standard of weights and measures, In the past Kansas has been a rich field for those | who looked to the gullible for steady | contributions to an easy living. They have now met the resistance which | they deserve and the people are gei- ting the protection to which they ar: entitled. In view of the amount whi h | has been saved to the residents of | that state the expense which is at- | tached to the enforcement of the law is insignificant. The swindlers who | found they could work inside the lav are getting the greatest encourase- ment to confine themselves to legiti- | mate husines; pers. a | Civie Pride. (Waterbury Democrat.) “Don’t judge the town by the station. We buill the town; the rail- road company built the station.” | Thus reads a signboard in the town of Baldwin. Long Tsland, N. Y. it lisn't original. Raldwin borrowed | the idea from the west, where towns and their ambitions have a way of putting to shame the makeshift struc- tures provided by the struggling rail-. roads. It's a zood sign. neverthe- less, and it shows how the wholesoma boom spirit of the west has begun to work in the less demonstrative east. The last few years have seen a re- markable growth of municipal en- | | thusiasm throughout the castern | states and in many parts of the south It doesn’t quite attain the reckle | western optimism represented hy a cer- | tain Wyvoming community consistinz | of six shacks and @ store, set off hy a tow g billboard inscribed “‘Rest town cn earth.” But in har- | mony with it. And it mears in Lons | Island, just as it does in Texas or North Dakota or California, = finer buildings, cleaner streets, better wa- ter, a lower death rate and a higher standard of culture. | i it's i L A. Booklist, | the end of March, i i [ Bramble-bees ang others, by J. H. C. Fabre, d -.|v”:‘;lur(»"'(“ all the author has written haptercS® With the exception of his mbters on Mason-bees. Two of the Dy have already appeared in ab- reviated form in ‘The life and love of the insect, ”"‘\rrl“"‘n With the charm and au- 1OTItY Of the earlier bouxs, but, per- 4bs, of less general interest.’—A. Altbough written by one of the greatest students of insect life it is not dry or pedantic, but is simply and -nterestingly written and supports the author’s title of the “Homer of the insect world.”—catholic World. * Diplomacy of the war or 1914: the | beginnings of the war, by E. C. .. Stowell The author is assistant professor of international law at Columbia and former Secretary of the Hague Con- ference.” P . . Fducating the child at nome, by E. F. Lynch “Maintains that for the first ten years of the child's life, the mother with the old-fashioned methods but }\:flh an understanding of the indiv- idual child, is to be prererred to any formal system of instruction., Made Ul of simple direction for teaching elementa subjects at home, which the untrained mother, especially in rural communities, may find sugges- tive and helpful.”—A. L. a, Booklist. . witness's narrative of the war, from the Marne to Neuve Chapel- le. September, 1914 to March, 1915 “This volume contains all the des- criptive accounts by n Eye-witness with General Headquarters? ssued by the British Press Bureau up to 1915. The narra- tive as a whole is not only an il-| luminating commentary on the oper- ations and achievements of the Brit- ish expeditionary force, but may be said to constitute a very valuable contribution to the history of the war, “A historical record of large inter- | est and permanent value.”—Phil. North American. » = a F P Mainsprings of Russia, Baring “Analyzes Russian life and char-| acter in a series of condensed though | interesting chapters, which tell just what the average inquirer wants to i oy Maurice CO0D ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE'S LIST THIS WEEK [ | | know about the peasant, the nobility, | the government, the church, etc. While less important than the author’s Russian people “will serve “ * * ag a kind of intellectual and political guidebook” for travellers who would know something of Russia | from the inside.”—A. L. A, Booklist. ( e Note-book of an attache, Fisher Woods “Quite in the front rank of war| books dealing with personal obser- vation.”—Life by Eric| . * ils and crops, by T. F. Hunt Covers adequately and clearly treatment of the soil with reference to crop production, fertilizers, drain- age und tillage, plants, insects and the various crops and thelr produc- tion.”"—Wisconsin Library Bulitin. P . Tennis as I play it, by Maurice B. Mc- Loughlin “This book should be an immense help to those who aspire to tennis honors."—Outlook P Fiction Double squeeze, by Needham “Four unusual baseball stories. “A new writer may give both fan uand general reader more captivating stories than appear in this volume. But that will be day after tomorrow, i, my opinion. Connie Mack in intro- duction.”—A. L. A. Booklist P P. M.; or The end of the great war, by J. S. Barney PR Jester, by Leslie Moore. “The love of the open, the grav: ful fancy. the poetic style which gave charm to the ‘peacock feather reap- pears in “The jester” .'—N. Y. Times P the fighting line, Smedley ‘Altogether, the book is inter- csting commentary on woman in bus- iness, neither melodramatic —nor flamboyant.”—N, Y. Times. - Tunnel, by Bernard Kellerman “Its theme is audacious and in- genious and the story is worked out with realistic imagination, and an cccasion with graphic eloquence.”— N. Y. Times Henry Beach and well written L. On by Constance an . ae te dawn, by T. A. Peck A story of the Frencn and In- dian war. Only What Austria Did. (Norwich Bulletin.) If Austria thought it could pull the wool over the eyves of Uncle Sam | regarding the exportation of muni- | tions of an impartial basis, it must realize by this that it was: mistaken. He hasn't displayed any | indications of being known as Mr. Easy Mark and he doesn’'t intend to. This country knows its rights and it has given evidence that it intends to use them. Austria may have gotten the idea | that all that was necessary to bring | to a climax the agitation which has been underway for some months con- cerning the sale of munitions of war to belligerents and secure a right | about face on the part of this gov- crnmgnt was to present its protest, but must understand now how greatly it was mistaken, The appendix to Secretary Lan- sing’s reply clearly sets forth that this country is doing no different than Germany and Austria did dur- ing the Boer war when for four vears they were engaged in supplying Eng- land with just what it is complaining against this country for doingin the | Present war. They were within their rights at that time and this coun- try in supporting the policy of sup- plying munitons to all countries which can take them away is right | now. Furthermore it intends to con- tinue the course which it has adopt- ed. Tt was not the fault of Germany and Austria-from 1899 to 1902 that the Boers could not take advantage of its markets for such supplies and it was not necessarily evidence to the effect that those countries were dis- playing sympathy for England's side. The append to the note is a suf- ficient answer to Austria’s protest. war on | | | i The Buy-a-Bale Movement. (From the Jacksonville Fla., Times- Union) A number of papers that joined in the buy-a-hale cry a year ago now ; admit it was foolish and was injurious to the South. They repented but as the Times-Union a ago d it was foolish and that it would injure the South we do not go for- ward with the penitents. New converts are generally th= most zealous though not so often the | most discreet, and some of these new converts now say that the South was injured by the buy-a-bale cry last vear, and is now being injured as much by the insistence that the gov- Yernment protect the southern people ! ir their right to sell their cotton ex- | cept as that right is restrained by the law of nations. They say South was whining a year ago ™ a-bale” and is now whiningly as the help of the government. The wayfaring man through very much of a fool ought to see a con- siderable difference between begging and a rting rights. Those who were sc active in the buy-a-bale movement | last year, so far as we know, weie rot farmers, but they were putting : the farmers of the South in the at- titude of beggars. Thosze who insist that no foreign government be per- mitted to override the law of nation in interfering with the sale of Ame ican products ure simply demanding their rights. They de! have year and them of the federai | government. They have nowherc else to go. If the South were an independent nation it could take care of itself but when the constitution was ! arm them-——she is not prepared! formed the states gave up to the fed- eral government their right of self- defense, against foreign aggression. They can't exercise that right under | our system, and the federal govern- ment when it assumed it by assum- ing it obligated itself to defend from the foreign aggressor the rights of | all the states. It cannot now shirk this obligation without perifidy and | dishonor, The southern paper that classes the South as a beggar when it is only demanding its rights needs to ret an editor. The outside paper that does this is probably serving outside interests—ceftainly not the interest of the South. Peeping Toms (Chester (Pa) e Bathers, Dispatch Philadelphia | Inquirer.) Pattering of dainty screams of feminine terror clamations of girlish indignation set the Y. W. C. A. into an uproar when Chief of Police Vance captured three ‘‘Peeping Toms’ and dragged them into the office of the building to be faced by Miss Letitia Jenkins, the secretary. Chief Vance, heeding a complaint from Miss Jenkins, visited the as- sociation buildings while a number of girls were enjoying a plunge in | the pool and caught the peepers gaz- ing through screens down upon the fair bathers who were clad in abbre- viated, dainty swimming costumes. “You mean, contemptible thing. bare feet, and ex- { With Jos | w | they use ‘““not one’ WHAT OTHERS 3AY Views on all siles timely questinons as discussed in ex- changes that come (o Herald 1 of office. Emancipated Josephus. (New London Day.) Pernaps, ter all, iels may be a genjus large has for that there Josephus Dan- The country at some time suspected Was something the matter Lol cx;hus, and maybe that is it. iy re plenty of men who can- do an ordinary job in an ordin- ary way. They don't make good when expected to. Darius Green, the original fiying machine i one of this kind; Napoleon Bonaparte was another. More than one incon- spicuous youta has made a terrible flivver of his attempt to be a law- yer, only to rise to Alpine heights later on as a safe breaker or as a manufacturer of patent medicine. Some foiks can work vithin scribed limits, others have to have the whole universe for their field, and no fetters. Darius was forever nailed down by the narrowness of environ- ment. Napoleon escaped from it. As a' mere secretary of the navy. Josephus has not precisely shone, though he has spasmodically scintilat- ed. But as a navy revolutionizer he seems to be right m his element and it would be a courageous prophet of the future who would maintain that he isn’t going to loop the loop with tremendous effect. Evidently what Josephus needed was elbow room; the limitations of routine naval ad- ministration shut him in. Now that he has found himself and gotten his wings spread in the open we shall be prepared to see him scoot some Oddly enough there seems to be no fear even on the part of his recent but no longer critics that he wiil break his neck. Everybody expects to sce the Daniels' flight of genius a nowling success. So do we. person, Concerning the Word “None. (South Norwalk Sentinel.) 1i the metropolitain which insist on their writers always using “none” with a singular verb knew a little more about the English language, they'd get help to the fact that the word “none” is both singu- lar and plural. “None are” was good English long before the scholarlyn newspapers editors of the King James translation | of the Bible ‘““none of taese things move me,” and has been good English ever since. The trouble is that many metropolitan editors, ignorant of the history of the language and the older literature, humbly accept as law the views of prim purists who wan to iron all the life out of the lenguage and substitute sticheg rules of grammatical regularity 1ior the good old idioms. To say that “none of the victims killed,” as most big papers so scrupulously insist on doing, not only flies in the face of the natural, col- logual usage of the present day, but it isn't even good Englished by lit- erary standards. Shakespeare would never have said it. “None"” is simply an old Anglo-8ax- on word written “nan’ when singular and “‘nane” when plural. We both singular and plural in the same way—"none’—and good authorities use the word generally as plural. When they want to be more specific, and for the singu- the victims was wrote lar, as “Not one of killed.” The word “any,” which many news- | papers insist on using with the same silly restriction is likewise either singular or plural. “He didn’t believe that any of them was hurt” is bad English, in spite of the big papers. Steele, Thackeray or Hawthorne would have written “that any of them were hurt,” or “that one of them was hurt.” : These facts may be verified any unabridged dictionary. from White For Policemen. (Detroit Free Press.) The subject of the sweltering po- liceman has been often discussed, and in many cities the problem has been get away from that window! Miss Jenkins, oh, Miss Jenkins, come auick!" half a dozen bathers shouted | in chorus. Thae secretary responded | to the call of distress and found halif | a dozen younz men with heads close to the windows watching the girls with keen interest. She telephoned for the police and Chief Vance got | on the joh. The chief was able to capture but three of the offenders Two of them were vyoung marria men and the other an overgrown boy The peepers promised never to peep again and were released. Preparedness for War. (Bridgeport Standard.) General Wood is not a radical in | his views regarding a proper pre- | paredness in the matter of the army | of this country. He thinks we should | have an army large enough to hold | the fort in case of necessity till the | volunteer forces could be brought out | and equipped. There is generally in this country a large number of good ! men willing to volunteer in a just | cause that appeals to their patriotism, | but it takes time to make such men no matter how willing, into capabie | soldiers. Our experience in the Spanish war demonstrated that, and | for an example of unpreparedness the present position of England ror | the war and after a year of fighting | she has raised two or three million men, it is supposed, but she cannot | Mr. | in Bryan's 1dea that you could raise million men over night may be all right so far as the men are con- cerned, but thev would not be worth | much more as soldiers than were | some of the volunteers in the pre- | paration camps in the Spanish war. More and more is it needful that we should have soldiers for an gency when it comes. We have men enough but the raw materiad must-be | licked into shape and that takes time. a | er- | things, | changes in the income | apply | Most set aside as one, of the But Waco, Texas, has devel- oped a genius. He has considered this ancient question, and apparently he has solved it For Waco policemen are to be clad this summer in cool white cotton uniform The uniforms are comj ! a policeman may easily afford to own | two or three of them and so be able to ! appear each day in spotless rainment. Hitting the (Providence the nmon Folks, Journal.) Not least important of the x law ad- vised by the experts of the National Tax association is the lowering of the cxemption from $3,000 to $2,000. This, it is argued, will insure larger revenue and will distribute the burden «f taxation more cqultably. Why culd the man having an income of §2,000 a year be exemmoted from the new tax? That is the guestion asked by the tax ecxperts, and there are many Who believe that even a $2,Q00 iimit is not low enough, When Representative wag passed, the intention it to a limited number. Indeed, mmbers of congress made no secret of the reason for the $3,000 limit, or §1,000 in the case of married men. people are creditec with a dis- like of special taxes, and the placing on record of information of personal affairs prbably mcre objectionable than the payment of the smallest tax. It was figured that Congressmen who Hill's was bill | were candidates for re-election might be opposed by hosts of voters if the exemption were placed at low figures, but with $3,000 and $4,000 exemptions ! the number of dissatisfied consttuents would not be large cnough to turn the result Prlitical recognized s parative higher eaemptions. expediency s was | pres- | write | unsolvable | atively inexpensive, so that | to | generally | s the rearu:: ror the com- | last Monday, defeated Directum I, and Will the | established a new record. Billings had McMILLAN’S | NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST ]‘ BIG STORE | “ALWAYS RELIABLE” Special Sales Every Day This Week Big Values in Every Department. Crepe de Chine Waists at $1.98 ‘White, Corn, Flesh and Black, sev- eral styles to select from. Many of them values that usually sell for $2.98 and $3.98. Now at $1.98. Manufacturers’ Samples Crepe de Chine Dresses at $7.98 Many of the most fashionable colors, also white. Beautiful Dresses, only one of a kind. Values up to $15. All at $7.98 each. Wash Dresses of Gingham, Percale, etc., at 49c and 98¢ For the children, in sizes 6 to 14 | years. 'Ginghams by the Yard New styles in American Ginghams at 12 1-2¢, and Scotch at 15¢ yard. D. McMILLAN 199-201-202 MAIN STREET | tcrest to a good many persons who under the present !"w make no re- turns of their incomes to the Federal vernment And None Were Found, (From the Stanford Chaparral.) Pilk—Several patients who had St Vitus' dance escaped from the insane | asylum. Bilk—How ? | Pllk—Why, they broke into a ball- | room where the late dancers were be- ing done and no one could tell them i from the guests. POLICEMAN GETS NO. 15 SHOE | Foot of Largest Man on Kansas City Force Measures 1435 Inches Long. (Kansas City Post.) The largest pair of shoes ever made in Kansas Ci now adorn the “tootsie wootsies”” of Samuel D, Crowley, the big patrolman who guards pedestrians at Eleventh and Main streets. The shoes are size fifteen and are 14 % in- ches in length. Across the ball they are 13 3-4 inches and the instep meus- ures fourteen inches. DLnch shoo | weigh 13-4 pounds. “I have been in the shog fifteen years,” said C. W. Crow, 100 West Twelfth street, who made the shoes, ‘and 1 must confess that Pa- | trolman Crowley has the largest “Tril- bieg’ I ever measured. 1 sent East for a special last to make the shoes. - wley the largest man in the department. He weights 320 pounds and suuds six feet six inches in his tect business is sto.king CHICKEN AN ARRANT COWARD. | Husbnnd Discovered Its Lack of Cours When He Began to Carve, agc (i*oston Record.) Mrs. Jones bought a chicken at the | tamily butcher shop after em- Lellishing it with bread crumbs, celery, cranberry sauce and other glad things, she set it before the head of the fam- fly. ‘What is the matter, voung wife with as hubby labhoriously carved the “isn't the chicken all right?’ “Why, yes, T guess he is all dear was the hesitating “but 1 fear he was a very ard.” ‘A great coward?"” returned the per- plexed wife. “What do you mean?" “Don’t they say, Mary,” smilingly replied the old man, “‘that the bravest are always the tenderest?’ and John?" asked anxious look bird. the an right, response, great cow FAMOUS STALLION SOLD Aug. 19 —Willjars, 1 world's champlion pacing stallion, has been sold by A. E. Van Atta. his owner, to C. K, G. Billings, New York horseman, for $35,000, Willlam in a match race at North Randall, Cleveland, 1-2, next Congress accept the $2000 rec- | never seen the horse until that da ommendations of the National Tax as sociation That is a matter of in- William will be withdrawn from rage ing and placed in the stud.