New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1915, Page 8

‘medium in and press g jdvertisers. Fon sale at Hota- [“St. and Broad- ; Board Walk, Hartford depot. B CALLS. adverse criticism it visable to have at of facts. This the gram woefully neg- n, in an editorial yes- New Britain of- b a Hartford in- er home. We New Britain hg a slight pas- er the change of ducements’” and be- could not provide Jowered taxes, or @®tions te meet New d is now minus to play favor- lustries to locate ‘does not offer § it offer secret 0 do so would tice to those ‘are here and ed on the time b %t paying their % for only their favors.” othing more nor tion. To be- n no passage of d and New Brit- ‘There were no by the city of the Automobile . long resident in thd “other con- ito the Hartford unable to devine the unless it be that dustry areto be given and automobiles, o site,~that is the sit- nutshell,’ New Britain,’ has pever played fa- industries, it never to such methods, anc . Not that it is poor busi- §6. Detroit, one of the most ties' 1 the country, has | out of its way to attract settlers to fits ,aen])etrott does not of - nor does it arrange sec- b to enlighten the Bridge : folk who are evi- ng from the terridble rav- ent day humidity, the fol- in the case may be of ‘business men agreed F*a site and a_ bufiding for JAutomobile Parts company o pay rent. The company buy the building at the end =-All this was a business i"petween business mea #d nothing to do with any gotiations, one way or New Britain 18 be for industries, that is ined by those who are in . fleld of endeavor. It as, wonderful as a New 80, a Hartford, or a But it is a thriving littic .baying all the natural hof some seaport cities it "showing that is remark- Just getting its start. ‘pame of New Britain is ["one end of the world to reyer hardware is in say this advisedly, New les have gone into ind byways of the world. d crannys, into hamlets ¢ whose people have nevar N of _the neighboring little community that is k' ‘smiling while others 1 3 URFITES FOR BOYS 'flao time for ambitious nmany lads in se‘Zaol cherish desires 4n the United States never make an effort in tion simply beeauss they cannot get Ceongressional to Ahnupnih? There ifliant )uullw whe ‘have Aanapeiis after B the yound wp even got 2 ce to uhr there. But now, BN will be different. ' Almost any young lad: with a good physique, and with a tharough tiaining-in the vari- ous' subjects needed to pass the ex- | amination ‘can have his chance after this year. = Secretary of the Navy Daniels when he presents his report to Congress will recommend an in- crease in the number of midshipmen at the Naval Academy. There are accommodations at Annapolis for more than twelve hundred “middies;"” but under the present system of ap- pointment there is very rarely an en- rollment _larger than nine .hundred. If the Secretary’s recommendations go through, and it is very probable they will, about three hundred more young men can gain admittance where be- fore only the chosen few entered. Just at the present time leaders of political parties are optimistic of what Congress is g0ing to do at the next session in regard to making for the national defense. Therefore, say these men, there will be no difficulty in getting an appropriation large enough to take care of the three or four hundred additional midshipmen that may enter the Naval Academy at the next appointment time. The added appropriation would take care of extra instructors and clerks need- ed, and provide for. additional food and clothing. ; It is estimated it takes $4,000 a year to educate one mid- shipman. And the education re- ceived at Annapolis is the equal of any to be gathered in any Univer- sity in the United States. There is at present a lack of cers in the United States Navy. It is this condition that prompts the Secretary of the Navy to make a plea for bigger classes at Annapolis. Vari- ous estimates have been given as to how many officers are needed in the Navy, but’ those “best qualmed as ex- perts says there is need for one thou- sand additional men. This is with- out taking into consideration the ships which are now under construction, all of which will have their complete complement, of officers, Under the plan to be presented to Secretary Daniels, about fifty more officers will be graduated from the Naval academy every vear, This is the one chance for those boys now at the age of eighteen who would serve their coun- try in the highest and most noble manner, There are many men in other walks of life who would give all they possessed if at the age of offi- connected With the collosal struggle, she is primarily interested because the Irish hate - everything English. For that reason they are sympathiz- ing with Germany. Well and good, let those whose bent runs in that di- Tection pick up their helmets and knapsacks and go back to the old country, either to fight for the free- dom of Ireland, under the flag of Ireland, or against England under the command of General Von Hindenbersg. It the above suggestion were care- fully followed out this country would never need, fear for its tranquility and peace of mind. For, if every mother’s son who is not with the United States should get out tomorrow we would have remaining only those who are with her, and Woodrow Wilson Wwould not have such a strenuous task on his hands. There can be no middle ground on this question. If you are not with us, you are against us, and that settles the argument. A little thought will bring every one concerned to the full realization of this. And now is the time to do the thinking, before it is too late. FACTS AND FANCIES, In bidding an unreluctant farewell to Dr. Dumba we are prepared, naone the less, heartily to welcome his suc- cessor, who we can be assured before- hand will know, how properly to con- duct himself.—Philadelphia Ledger. The Norwegians have lost forty-six ships and seventy-six sailors since the war began, mostly at the hands of German submarines. This must have won a , lot of sympathy for the Ger- mans in Norway!—Buffalo Express. The offense of Dumba is worse than that of Sackville-West in Cleveland’s time, for while West made a silly at- tempt to influence an election Dumba plotted against domestic peace and in- dustrial v.ra.nquimty.—Brooklyn Stand- ard-Union. American boys who are fascinated with the idea of running away from home to fight in the war in Europe should keep in mind the risk they run of returning minus their eyesight, or an arm or leg.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. People of the state of New York ‘have until November 2 to study the propased Constitution. Those who have skipped the columns in the news- papers containing the. discussions of the constitutional convention will be safe In voting yes.—Syracuse Post- Standard., Why is the lawless and cowardly | submarine warfare of Germany di- eighteen they could have realized their ambitions, And there are many boys in the high schools of today who, in after years, will regret the hours they spent in idleness when they might have been studying for entrance ; to the Naval Academy. Good clean cut American boys have & better chance today than they ever had, Just the proper amount of preparation will change the whole fu- ture of their llves, make them big- ger, stronger, better men,.a credit to the nation that brought them up, a tribute to the schools that gave them their early training. These are the kind of men wanted as officers in the United States Navy. THE DIVIDING OF THE WAYS. ‘We are at peace with all the world. Yet, how long are we to remain in this wonderful state? No'one dare say. For, there are sinister under- ground currents at work to - disturb the peace and tranquility of the nation. These factions do not want the United States to remain on its bed of ease, instead, they would have us out on the battlefield, destroying the work of centuries, pushing civili- zation back to the time of primitive man. No matter what Mr. Wilson does there are those who deride him. And yet we are supposed to be a united country. The United States of America. Does that name still stand, America? Are we, East, West, North, and South, for the United States, the great country that our forefathers laid down their lives for? Or are we alligned with some foreign power, some nation whose capital is in the heart of Continental Europe? Are we lcyal sons of Uncle Sam, or are we deciples of the Fatherland, or of England, or Italy, or France, or Ireland, or any other land? These are questions we must ask ourselves in the very near future, They are worth lylng awake at night and pon- dering over. And when we answer, as answer we must, sooner or later, we had best make quick decision and follow the dictates of our consciences. If we are sons of the Fatherland we should immediately pack up eur bag- gage and take a journey Over the briny deep to the land we love, If we are subjects of King George we should go ever and enlist. in his armies, Also, we sheuld take all eur brethern with us, -for then the king weuld net be eempelled ta, issue a conseription eall, If we Have pledged our suppert to Sunny Italy it is but right, and just that we go back to the land we adere, and fight, The same holds true with tHese . whese s¥m- pathies are with France. As far Jreiand, ‘theugh she is net directiy or shall it be the Divided States of ; rected chiefly against merchantment, many of them neutrals, adhered to Wwith so much tenacity? Because, un- der the mistaken idea that there is glory in assassination, it has served thus. far to divert the attention of the tax-ridden German people from . the fact that their high-priced navy is idie and useless.—New York World. ‘While there is great need of calm judgment in the disposition of the cases of those strike agitators, the United States government can do nothing else other than demand the recall of all those who had a part in the plan and punish those Amer- ican subjects who gave their actual, moral or financial support te so in- sldious an undertaking.—St. Louis Times. It would take a hunndred thousand years to kill off the men, women and children of the British Islands with Zeppelin bombs at the rate which high- pressure German activity has been able to establish. Extermination being the only logical end or purpose of such raids, the above guess or calculation is admissable. But Germany persists in this neo-barbarism, nearer to ab- solute inhumanity than anything Goths or Vandals or Huns ever did, posing her highly cultivated Kaiser as an apotheosis of Attila, an exaggerated Genghis Kahn.—Brooklyn Eagle. QUERY. To the Editor of the Herald: Sir—Why is Texas called the Lone Star State?—Reader. The only reason assigned for this appelation is that on Jnnuary 15, 1836, a Mrs. Venson, made a flag, bearing but one star and this was adopted by the Republic of Texas. After Texas won its Independence from Mexico the same flag was adopt- ed by the State of ‘Texas, a gold star on a fleld of azure. It being the only state flag with a single star, Texas became known as the Lane Star State.—Ed. Seelng America First. (Meriden Record.) The department of the interfor s acting the role of manager of pub- licity for this country in order that the people may find aut what a great many pleasures they have missed be- cause of their ignorance of the natu- ral beauties of the United States. Glacier National park in northwest- ern Montana, close to the Canadian border line, became a national park in 1910, but not until the war prevent- ed peaple going to Europe and the ex- positiens began to beckon them, did it eccur to many to investigate this Bwitserland ef America, . Famillarity has not bred eentempt. It hag awakened admiration, People haye feund that it net necessary to eross the water te get sensations of grandeur and beauty in nature, The new world lacks the sert of histeric getting which gives that peculiar glamour and charm to the taurist in Europe, but the individual with a grain of imaginatien is able to pro- yide eneugh foed far his brain sq that he dees net suffer fram mental {nanitien, WHAT OTHERS SAY Views o.. all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. Real Enemies. (Waterbury Democrat.) “If men must fight,” says a New York pastor, ‘“let them fight the common enemies of mankind—dis- ease, poverty, human ignorance, hu- man injustice and prejudice, child la- bor, white slavery and the lynch law, and the thousand ills of bady, mind and soul.” They are doing it even now, more than most of us think. The horror or war obscures the Whole- some, generaus, constructive move- ments that are going on simultaneous- ly with {t, and even mixed up with it. It isn’t all hate and cruelty and bit- terness and falsehood. Noble emo- tions are found side by side with deadly passions. In the very worst aspects of war will be feund traces of pure and unselfish purpose. Many of the belligerent nations and indi- viduals are wrong—possibly they are all wrong. But to the credit of hu- man nature it must be admitted that nearly all of them think they are right, and are willingly making he- roic sacrifices for what they conceive to be their duty to the community, the nation, the race. War is the greatest of all evils, and also the greatest inspirer of self-abnegation. Millions of men today are giving their lives without a murmur, and with ab- sclutely no thought of personal ad- vantage. They are fighting and dy- ing—or think they are—to make life nobler or more tolerable for tiheir ceuntrymen. If men could only be persuaded to fight like that against “the common enemies of mankind” mentioned by the pastor! Perhaps they will, some day. They go wrong now chiefly because their heads are wrong. When the world is properly educated, the nations will know bet- ter what their real foes are. Singular Facts. (Bridgeport Standard.) There are statistical tables which have a bearing upon conditions and are dependably significant. The fig- ures in the suicide rates of European cities are among these. ‘Life,” in its current issue, calls attention to these figures, as follows: ‘“Berlin shows a rate three times as great as that of London, a half more than New York, and a fourth mort than Paris. Life is apparently so complete in Berlin that the happy inhabitants get through with it quickly, and now the entire nation has become so satisfied with its career that it wants to put an end to it in the same way.” That suicide is so -much more common amang the Teutons than with the Anglo Saxons is surprising, but it is more surpris- ing still that Berlin exceeds Paris in that respect by twenty-five per cent. But perhaps we have not heard about these matters so much hereto- fore from Germany as from France and the opinion has gained ground that the latter country furnished the greater number of suicides in propor- tion to population. Night and the Stars. (Collier’s.) We are too much indors. Even when night comes we turn up the lamp and sit within its excluding circle to read what other indoor men have written, or we g0 out, hastily and under cover of street lights, to get within other walls where folks are gathered to see or hear something of what others have done in fllms and plays and lectures. Or we sit on a shaded porch with trees about, so that the vast encircling night is only cool- ness and a breeze. The stars do not get much chance at us. Thus we keep the universe away: from our souls. Such living makes for pettiness of the spirit. 'These scandalizing, gossiping little villages always live under roofs and behind blinds and curtains as if in ambush, that ' each inhabitant might lle in wait against the reputation ©f the other. Almost all of those who wrote the Bible lived in flat- roofed houses and went up on the house-top when day was done so that the wheeling planets and the whole host of the stars were their familiars. Tt was in that light that they thought of man and his destiny. In this modern confusion of change we need the eternal influences—the moon ctching patterns on lake and roadway, the night gleaming of the rivers, the golemn beauty of the Milky Way, the steadfastness of the North Star. Night ought to free us from the little- ness of the day’s doings and lift the heart to the things that are above and teyond our days. How Women Can Keep From Grow- ing Old. In the October Woman'’s Home companion Alice Farham Leader, a physician, writes an article full of practical suggestions to women, en- titled “Why Grow Old?”” Following is an extract: “Some women look old they ‘let go’ They are too busy or too lazy to keep themselves well groomed. You all know how much time it takes even to look neat. Ye: it is the duty of every woman to look as well as she can, and to dress as handsomely as her circumstances al- low. “The consciousness of being well- gowned, well-corseted and pleasing to look upon gives infinite satisfaction: and a contented mind will go a long way toward malctaining healthy ac- tion of vital powers, Discomfort and mental depression have undermined many a woman’s health. “When first youth is passed it is necessary to pav particular attention to the care of the skin. Celd water should be used unsparingly to keep the tissues firm. Cold eream should be usel to massage the face and neck each night. By this method, while you cannot hope tc remove all of the lines you can at least avoid the multi- tudinous wrinkles seen on the visage of ene who shuns the use of cold wa- ter both internally and externalty “If you are weary after a fatiguing because ! | day, on reaching heme-take ten min- | utes’ rest lying prone on the back. ' ‘When you rise cleanse the face with cold cream, rubbing lightly across the lines and in an upward direction to correct sagging of the muscles. A cloth wet in very hot \‘vater should then be applisa, followed by several applications of cold water. You will be surprised to find yourself quite rejuvenated. ‘A most important factor in the prolengation of youth is to avoid obesity. It is easier to Keep thin than | to get thin, and to get thin, and exer- clse and dieting are both necessary- Avold sweets, &nd an excess Of starchy foods, especiall potatoes and bread. Beer and other alcoholic bever- ages predispose fat.” An Example of What A Presiden Knows, (New Haven Register.) It may be that the common habit of unqualifiedly criticising the President for doing this, or failing to do that in his denllngs with other nations, Wwould be restrained if everybody could appreciate the truth of what is sometimes said, that the President has exclusive information on certain mat- ters. A case just before us graphi- cally {llustrates this. Early in May came the sinking of the Lusitania, and ever since his fel- low citizens have been telling the President what his course toward Germany ought to be as a result. But not until the second week in Septem- ber did more than three or four Americans know that within three or four days after the sinking of the Lusitania the President was informed that German agents were trying to bargain with the Longshoremen’s union for the purchase of a general strike. From that time on he was kept constantly in touch with the de- fails of the plot that failed. That this knowledge may have greatly modified the course of the ad- ministration we do not have to be- lieve. It simply is a striking illus- tration of the many things which only those jn inner circles. of which the President holds the innermost, may know about matters much discussed. The sum of this knowledge may easily be conceived of as influencing the executive to a course which he is not permitted to explain, and which the general public cannot understand. His Wit Saved Him- A minister in a local church, known for his absentmindedness by the members of his own family, but ot to his congrezation, saved himself from complete cxposure at a recent service by his quick wit says “The Columbus Dispatch.” He had studied his sermon care- fully, but had neglected to make any notations of the number of the chap- ter and verse from which the text was taken. In the pupit he announ-zed the text and then stopped shori while the congregation waited to hesr from what place in the Bible it was taken. : As he noticed absence of notes to this fact, he quickly announced, “I'm going to sive you a week to find from what chapter and verse this phrase was taken” So was exposure averted. Coffec and Tea. (Providence Journal. The radical difference between this country and the United Kingdom in the choice of tuble beverages |Is shown by the ccnsumption. figures of the two countries. The United States consumed 993,000,000 pounds of cof- fee and only 90,000,000 pounds of tea in 1914, while the United Kingdom in 1913 used only 28,000,000 of cof- fe, but consumed 296,000,000 pounds of tea. tea is said to be larger than usual this year because of the large amount used by the soldiers at the front and because of the war being made on alcoholic beverages. Coffee, too, -is more than holding its own in popuior favor, for during the first seven months of the year the consumption of this table Giink in Great Britain was more than 3,000,000 pounds greater than during the correspund- ing period last year: Coffee, however, is not to be al- lowed to come into general use in the British Isles without a protest. Someone recently sent a communica- tion to a British paper, saying: “It is a vicious and ‘'uxurious Asiatic prac- tice, learned from the Turk, and I fear its effects upon the sturdy fibre of our race.”” Cumment of this sort seems truly amusing at this distance. Slave and the Vacant Lot. (Kansas City Times.) A city lot in Cleveland was traded 6C years ago, for a negro slave. To- day the lot without improvements, is | valued at $1,000,000. The negro, “at | his best,” was worth $1,600. On the face of it that is a right dramatic thing. There is a good deal | of our history touched in the incident | There is much of our evolution illus- | trated by it—our national develop- ment, our city growth, relative ‘prop- erty and manhood rights.” There are some good things suggested, and some bad things. There is no longer a market value on a man as a chattle slave. But how many men’s lifetimie labor has gone to make the value of that lot in the market today The man, slave or free, obtained for whoever owned his earning power the value only of what his own labor pro- duced. The owner of the lot obtained the value of others labor. The world finally woke up to the fact that no man could morally own arother man, Then it abolished slav- ery. But it still permits a lot to own and appropriate the labor of oth- er men and their enterprise and the values created by their necessities. ‘Whn the demand i3 made that these community created values should go to the cemmunity and that work and enterprise which help the community sheuld not be taxed there is much talk of ‘“‘confiscation.” The in- cident of the Cleveland slave and the Cleveland vacant lot sheds some light on that, too. The owners of the slaves thought it was confiscation to deny their rights in that particular form of preperty, The British consumption of | | slavonians, Itallans, Where Do Our Knives Go? (Paris (Mo.) Mercury.) What becomes of all pocke(kmvu‘ is as great a mystery as what becomes of all the pins. Sometimes when long | shadows 1all across the .yard, when | the night birds* are calling and the baby across the way has squalled his | last squall until the next, we sit | idly musing, recalling one by one | 'the knives we have known and loved. The first was a Barlow With one blade; with it came gladness such as the world can never know again. The second was an iron handled “L X. L. | with a razor edge, and dignity Wu‘ added to joy. We swapped unsight, | unseen with “Old Man Abbey,” were | swindlel outrageously, contracted the trading habit and all sorts and con- ditions followed. None lingered. At sixteen we ac- quired a four-bladed Wostenholm that would split a hair; at twenty we owned a pear] handled boudoir blade, which we carried in a buck- skin sack an used only for manicur- ing purposes, or to lend casually to | a girl we pestered, and at twenty-five \ n bearded pard, we were presented | by the late Adolphus Busch, in recog- | nition of services to him and his, with | a beautiful knife encased in a burnt bone handle, containing & corkscrew attachment witn his picture hidden cunningly in ore end and that of a“ strange Jady with no clothes on in the | other. She was very beautiful, even if not particular but went the way of all others. The seven ages of man, the ideals and sspirations distinctive of each, are marked by the pocket- knife he owns, loves for a time and loses. At forty or more, mewling again, any old sort of a knife that will clean a pipo or cap a bottle will do, but even they won't stick. Origin of ¥amily Names. When the human family was small and people lived close together, one nanie was cnough to identify a man or a woman, says a writer in “The Wilkesbarre Times-Leader.” Abra- ham and Sarah, Ruth and Jacob nev- er troubled about family names. In the eleventh century the popula- tion of the world had greatly in- creased, the people lived in many dif- ferent countries and men traveled a great deal, and so as a' means of identification they took surnames or family names, and these names were handed down tc their children. The son of John was Johnson, the son of William was Willlamson. Men were also named- from their work—John the smith became John Smith, and locations also gave names to familics —the mai who lived near water was Bywater, man who lived on a hill- top might be known as Hill The Normans who came into Eng- land in tne twelfth century used the word Fitz, which comes from the French word fils, meaning son, as a prefix for names. The son of William was Fitzwilliam, the son of Gerald was Fitzgerald. The Welsh word for son is ap, and ap Hugh, or Hugh's son became Pugh, and ap Evan, or Evan’s son in time became Bevan. Destroying Confusion of Tongues. (Bridgeport Farmer.) The work of the North American Civic league seems timely at this | period of the country’s history. It is an organized effort to aid foreign born persons in learning the English lan- guage, with the epd in view of mak- ing them as soon as possible, citizens in the full sense of the word. These ends are to be accomplished by the organization of evening schools, for the convenience of adults, in which Bnglish will be taught. Many foreign born persons who speak Eng- lish, do not read or write in the language, and are thus cut off from full access to the public mind, and from the power to contribute in full share their own views to the forma- tion of public opinion. Most of the foreign born persons in Bridgeport know more than one lenguage. Some of them know four or five languages, and a few even more. This is because it has been necessary for generations, that Buro- peans should know more than one tongue. If they did not they could not communicate advantageously with these about them, who were of di- verse speech, The foreigner in this country has en Inherited aptitude for languages, | and needs much less ald to Jearn English, than most Americans would need to learn French or German, or | some brach of the Slav language. The work has the suport of many leading Americans, including Cardinal Gibbons, Rt. Rev. Willlam Law- rence, Cardinal O’Connell and John ‘Wanamaker. The movement deserves cordial support and is especially necessary fn Bridgeport, which has = drawn 8o largely upon Europe for its popula- tlon. We have here Hungarians, Slovaks, Rumanians, Ar- menians and representations of many distant peoples, of several great branches of the human race, Most of these people are very like the native born. They are indus- trious. They believe in education. They build churches. They love werk, they love their neighbors and they love God. These things are the fundamentals of good cnlzenuhm These people need but the language | and the vote to be effective members of the governing body When the world was once of a] | tongue, as Scriptural lore has it, they | fell to building a great tower. Con- fusion of speech was sent upon them, so that the work had to be suspended. The allegory is beautifully represen- tative of a fact. We are building a city, to be a tower among the cities of the world. And the building is in- terrupted by a confusion of tonguesz. The North American Civic league proposes early, large and consclous effort to dispel this confusion. Tt wants the city to be vocal, and its people endowed with the power to un- derstand each other. No race is so small, so forlorn as to have nothing a larger people may profit by. The foreigners in Bridgeport are mostly | representative of -great peoples who have produced great cultures. They have much to give, as well as much to receive. They are wanted, not be- so isolated or MchLL NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” SPECIAL SALE (Twenty-five Dozen) LACE GUIMPES Price 98¢ Each Value $1.50 to $2.00. See these beautiful Guimpes diss played in our show window. Alsp big display at our Neckwear Departs ment. These are the best values we have eyer been able to offer at the price. Women Don’t Miss This Op- portunity. Crepe de Chine WAISTS $1.98 Each Unusual Values. Others at $2.98 and $3.98 Each, Dainty Lace BLOUSES At $3.49 Each ‘White, Cream or Black laces made over Fine Nets and Chiffons. Big Ribbon Sale Satur- day at 20c Yard Values to 39c. 6 and 7 inch wide Flowered Ribs bons, new Checks and Plaids, Louis- cnnes, Batin Stamped Hair Bow and Sash Novelties, wide Morics in Omb cffects, only fifty pieces in this lot and they will go quick. Silk Hosiery ‘Women’s Boot Silk Hose, 25c and 50c pair, Novelty Striped Silk Hose, Special $1.00 pair, McCallum’s Silk Hose $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 pair. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET cause we, who were here first, can help them, but because each of us. can help the other, NEW TRAFFIC RECORDS, Weshington, Sept. 17.—New traffie records were set in the operation of the Panama Canal during July, 170 ocear-golug vessels making the pas- sage of the waterway. That was six- ty-five per cent. greater than the av- erago traffic of the preceding month, The cargocs amounted to 705,469 tons a new record. Ninety-three ships with 316,000 tons moved from the At~ lantic to the Pacific. Seventy-seven ships carrying a greater tonnage, passed from the Pacific to the Atlan~ tic. ARCHBISHOP OF POSEN. Berlin, Sept. , by wireless to Sayville, N, Y.—Emperor Willlam on receiving the new Archbishop of Pos- en, Dr. Dalbor, at th¢ army head- quarters in the field, says the Over- seas News Agency expressed regret at the untimely death of Archbishop Likowski and said he was certain the ~ new archbishop’s work would be a* blesing for the state, the church and the country, and that the prelate would foster and nourish the spirit of concord between the Germans and Poles in the archbishop’s district. BOAT RATES CHEAPEST. Washington, Sept. 17.—Reports on Parama Canal traffic indicating that much of the coastwise trade origine ated In inland cities was interprete@ by government officials today o showing that the cost of transporta~ tlon by ocean c.nd through the water- wa, was so low as to enable steam- ship lines to sbsorb in their rates all or part of the rail charges to and PRETORIAN ARRIVES, Montreal, Sept. 17.—The Pretorian of the Allan line, which was in a col« lision with the steamship Kansan bee low Quebec on Wednesday reached port today. The liner’s bow plates have been bent back and it is prob- able that she will have to go into dry = dock here for repairs and lose a trip. RUSSIANS VISIT GERMANY, Berlin, Sept. 17, by wireless to Say- ville, N. Y.—The German Empress, seys the Over feas News Agency, to- day rcceived three superior nurses o! the Kusslan Red Cross who have come to Germaay to inspect the Rus- sian prison. carps, L UNION CELEBRATES. Switzerland, Sept. 17, via 0 8. m.—-The Universs on comprising all the coun- the globe, today is celebrats ng the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the universal postal bureau, which wae opened at Besm® in 1876, 1 POST Berne, Parls, Postal U triss of