New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1915, Page 11

W ,.that close to 90 per “PUMP, AND EXTRACTOR WHICH FORCES ~GASOLINE INTO ‘STILL AND WASHERS HERE IS THE STILL LAUNDRY Get your ladies’ and gent’s gar- ments cleaned and pressed by our modern methods. We are the only steam and French dry cleaners and dryers in New Britain that would pass the sanitary inspection of New York City. We call for and deliver. Telephone 904, our plant at 266 Arch St., and our {teams will call. CLEANING MACHINES AND SPOTTING BOARD. FINISHED CLOTHING GERMANS WANT BANK IN NEW YORK *‘SMS Zeitang” - Director to “Seek Support of Project New York, Sept. 30.-—Reports that German - banking . interests in New York werée planning to establish a German American national bank in this city were generally discredited yesterday in German banking circles. Officials of the German American bank and the German Savings bank of the City of New York denied yes- terday that they were interested in any such plan or that they had been mroached on that score. They stated that they ‘“had the business of their own institutions to attend te"” and inferred that they were not in sympathy with any such movement. ~ Bernard H. Ridder, vice-president and director of the. New Yorker Btaats Zeitung corporation, hoéwever, Is ¥éry much in favor of such a step being taken. He believes that there are a great many Germans in New York city and in the United States who will wish to withdraw their deposits’ from banks which will participate in the Anglo-French loan in order to keep their money from being used against the fatherland- Mr. Ridder believes that these witii- drawals will furnish an excelient op- pdrl\qmy for the formation of a nk in this city fer the German ""%" e said yesterday that there was about $62,000,000 deposited in the banks of this country by Germans and cent of this amount was in New York city. The average deposits, he said, were about $4,000 each. These figures, he sald, had been secured from replies to let- ters sent out by the American Truth Society, which, desiring- to ‘obtain statistics, sent out many letters, in- quiries ‘and - advertisements for .that purpose recently. Over 5,000 replies were received. Mr.: Ridder said that the Staats Zeitung proposed to publish an adver- tisemient shortly asking Germans and German - Americans to communicate with ' him ‘regarding their willingness to' fdepoult their funds in a strictly German banking institution . which they would be assured would not par- in‘any loans to the allies, col- y' or individually. Mr. Ridder He Haa been informed that 0,000 had been with- ed in the forthcoming Anglo-French loan or credit. VIRGINIA HAS WASHINGTON WILL | J. P, Morgnn Delivers Testament of ‘Martha ‘Washington to State. Richmond, Va., Sept. 30.—The will | of Martha Wasmngton said to have | been stolen by a Federal soldier = in 1862 from Fairfax County Court House, has been restored to Virginia by J. P. Morgan of New York. He has sent the document, which come into his father's possession in 1905, to Presiding Justice James Kieth of the Virginia State Court of Appeals, the understanding being that the will shall be placed in some accessible public place, which prob- ably will be the Home of Washington at Mount Vernon. The restoration of the will puts an end to the suit brought by Virginia against Morgan in the United States Supreme Court for the recavéry of the document. The will was drawn Sept. 2,'1800, and probated June 31, 1802, = when “the Virginia Chapter, Daughters . of the Amerjcan Revolution, ;first asked the late J. P. Morgan to give up the will,-he offered’ to deposit it in the Cangressional Library at Wash- ington .if Virginia would put George Washington's will there. This offer was declinod MOCK MARRIAGE COMPLICATES LIVES| Child’s Status af Stake as Result of- Mother’s Mistake ‘Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 30.—Testify- ing before Supreme Court Justice As- pinall yesterday, Mrs. Estelle Dorge- loh of Brookline, Mass., wife of Henry F. Dorgeloh, general manager of the Hamburg-American Line, told how she happened to contract a mock ‘marriage with Alphonsus Murtage eighteen years ago which recently raised a question as to the legitimacy of her seventeen-year-old daughter, Beatrice Arabella Barker, and in- validates her present marriage. She ig suing to have this, the first of three marriages, annulled. “Neither Mr. Murtagh nor I in- tended to become husband and wife when we went to the house of a min- {ister on May 1, 1897, and went | through the marriage ceremony,” | Mrs. Dorgeloh said. . “The marriage | was brouyght about through my desire |to go on the stage.. I was 15 years i old at the time. My father was dead, |my mother in Europe and my two [marrled sisters in New England. I jlived in a boarding house on Living- ; ston street, Brooklyn, and worked as {a steographer in Manhattan. “One night, through friends, T [ met. Philip Reilly -and his wife, theatrical people, who lived in De- ! graw street. - Rellly told. me my dreams of becoming an actress might | easily be realized if I would go to ;HVe with him and his wife and learn | a little sister act. I went to their |home to live. Later I went alone | to the office of a big theatrical man- ager in Manhattan and told him I wanted to go on the stage. ““The manager looked at my short skirts and laughed. ‘You are too young,’ he said. ‘When I told Reilly of the incident he laughed too and said, ‘If the manager had seen a wed- ding ring on your finger you would have got by all right. You had bet- ter let me get you a fake marriage certificate. You can show it to the next manager you see and he will take you.' The fact that Mrs. Dorgeloh had contracted a “mock” marriage came out in the proceedings to legitimatize her daughter, but she did not ex- plain then how the marriage came about. She merely testified that she had married Charles S. Barker a year after contracting it and that her daughter if held to be legitimate would inherit $100,000 from her pa- ternal grandfather, Charles Barker. It was held that Barker contracted the marriage in good faith and if alive could legitimatize the girl. His desire to do so was presumed and the girl was declared legitimate. The matter is pending on appeal. Mrs. Dorgeloh married her present ‘husband in 1906, five years after the death of Barker. His death did not remove the impediment, however, as Murtagh, the first husband, is still alive. His remarriage further com- plicates the marital tangle. He is living in Somerville, N. J., with his second wife and joins Mrs. Dorgeloh in. her petition. to have their mar- riage annulled. “As the matter stands now,” Dorgeloh testified yesterday, “I am merely Mr. Dorgeloh’s moral wife. That is a terrible position to be in. If a decree is granted in this case an ‘awful mistake will be corrected both for Mr. Murtagh and myself.” In reserving decision Justice Aspi- nall said: « “TI will feel a keen sense of respon- sibility in deciding this case. I am Mrs. doubtful whether a man and a woman : | may go through a marriage cetemony! having a menta] reservation as to its validity and then seek to annul it years afterward on that ground 2 ' THIS GASE OF BEER HANDLED BY JUDGES Find for Defendant After Refusing to Partake of Samples New York, Sept. 30.—When is beer not beer? In fact, what is beer, any- way? These questions were answered by Justices Salmon, Herbert and Mc- nerney in special sessions yesterday, when, without tasting the beverage offered for their inspection, they ac- quitted Charles Klein, a waiter charged with having sold beer in a restaurant at No. 173 East Eighty- fourth street, which had no license. Patrolman Price testified that he snd Patrolman Eisele visited the place on September 15, asked for lager beer and was certain he Te- ceived that beverage. Bernard Mitnick, lawyer, produced gix bottles of something that looked like beer. ““This is the only beer sold in this piace,” said he ,“and it is not beer because it contains less than three per cent. of alcohol.” He opened the three bottles and poured a glass for each of the judges. They declined to sample it, but Price took a drink from every glass. “No this isn’t lager,” he admitted, “but I don’t think it'’s the same kind of beer served to me in the restaur- ant.” “We think there is a reasonable doubt,” said Justice McInerney. Last night it was discovered that the three unopened bottles of near- beer had disappeared. RADICAL MARRIAGES URGED BY THIS MAN. Wistar Insutute Pro[essor Reports Physical Improvement in Rats Philadelphia, Sept. 30.—There is no eugenic reasom why first cou- sins and even brothers ang sisters should not marry, in the opinion of - ! workers. M. J. Greenman, Director of thé ‘Wistar Institute of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania. After a series of experiments covering a per- iod of four and a half years made by Dr- H. D- King of that department with rats Director Greenman hasar- rived at the conclusion that consang- uinity not only has no injurious of- fects upon the offspring of such un- ions, but it would tend to produce types larger and more efficient phy- sically than those which result from the marriage now universally recog- nized. Intermarried Rats, “For twenty-one generations,” Dr. King said, “I have intermarried a brother and sister rat. The result was that I got a rat larger and bet- ter physically in every way than the first ones. A rat is’a mammal and man is a mammal; therefore, it is not too much to think that the same principle can be applicable to each: “I bdlieve that if a brother and a sister, carefully selected and of a higher type, were to marry the result of the union would be a higher type of offspring than from the intermar- riage of two other people. The opin~ ion regarding the degeneracy of the offspring of such a union exists be- cause the only races who intermarry are degenerate races, and therefore you get a race of even greater degen- eracy.” “In an experiment with rats thero is no way of telling what the effect might be on the mentality.” Dr. Greenman said, “The improvement noted has been purely a physical one. STRIKES’ SHADOWS ON SUGAR FAGTORY General Walkout Looked for at American Sugar Refinery New York, Sept. 30.—The 4,000 workers in the American Sugar- Re- fining company’s factory in Willlams- burg have voted to go on a general strike, according to a statement issued yvesterday by Joseph J. Ettor, national organizer of the I. W. W, " who prophesied a walkout in the five or six sugar refineries in Brooklyn within a few days which will affect 10,000 The I. W. W. is to assist the strike according to Ettor, and all prepara- tions for it have been made. The date is being kept secret in order that the action of the employes may have as great an effect as possible because ! of its unexpectedness. The vote to strike was taken by the American Sugar company employes at a meeting at Cecelia hall, 103 Grand street, | Brooklyn, and the announcement of their action was made at a gathering of the 3,000 workers of the Arbuckle Sugar Refinery, who are on strike now. Other members of the I W. W. said a national strike of sugar work- ers is being planned to send 200,000 employes from their factories. BEttor would neither deny nor affirm this report, saying that the operations in other cities are being kept secret. The demands of the prospective strikers are along the same lines as those of the Arbuckle company’s em- ployes, who are demanding an In- crease of wages from eighteen to iwenty-one cents an hour. At the offices of the American ESugar Refining co street, the offi 1 make no statemeént denying the report strike, Dr. Samuel C. Hoo vises affairs at the finery said. ov=r~ the hig residénce at 82 Brooklyn, last night about strike troubles mweyer plant: “We haven't any with our men that T of the Arbuckle emp} strike, but we have and we don't expect possble that trouble mj with strikers else started stories cono the hope of stirring such stories, if they h are false.” THE CURRAN D Stylish Furs. sacrifice in prices. north window. You. in some cities. Pieces and Sets to put on This is a big opportunity to purchase yo Furs at about Half Price and in the face ¢ raising market as everybody knows the pric and fur garments is advancing daily. You will see some of these on displ Come in and see the E NARY VALUES OFFERED. 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