New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1915, Page 10

FINE MISSION FURNITURE m.evk,,,,,,&' L. @ J. G. STICKLEY L. and J. G. Stickley make REAL Mission Furniture, In de- sign and finish it represents the true Mission idea. ‘We invite you to see our beautiful Mission Furniture display. HE FLI NT-BRUCEC 103 ASYTLUM ST 150 TRUMBULL ST. ¢ HARTFORD. NTY LIVES LOST IN SCHOOL FIRE (Continued from First Page.) rs, and a few jumped from the idows of the third floor In Charge of Sisters. 'he students who ranged in years m seven ‘to thirteen, were in | 'ge of sixteen Sisterss When the broke out the Sisters marshalled r charges as for a fire drill and ted them from the building. The | cessions were orderly until those the third floor joined others ring from the class rooms on the bond floor. uddenly there was a cry of fear~ one of the throng. It was taken by a hundred others and pamu ued. The Sisters made frantic ef- s to stop the now pushing, strug- | pg mass, but to no purpose. The aller children fell under the feot | those behind them and soon the | tibule was so jammed with living H dead that the firemen could not | ce an entrance. The sixteen Sis- s escaped hildren of Foreign Parentage, large percentage of the pupils re children of foreign parentage. the number were many of Irish d Italian descent. The firemen hght the fire from ladders raised to. p windows while the police cleared b vestibule. Mary Leeds and -Marion Hayes were nd in the crush badly burned but lve and were removed to a hospital, jSt. John’s Parochial school stands Chestnut street, nearby St. John's tholic church and the home of Rev. cholas Murphy, the pastor. Op- site is St. John’s convent. Mothers Rush to Scene. The first alarm breught a hun- ed distracted mothers to the school 'd, where they were joined by other ives of the pupils, until the build- lg was surrounded by a great crowd hysterical men and women who shed the police lines ort to reach their own. The police re powerless to stop the rush but jhat they failed to do was accom- ished presently by the flames which, ooting from the windows of the pilding, held back the unhappy rong. Firemen Summon Aid. Meantime the flames had raced up pe stairways and caught the strug- ing children. ‘Within five minutes hmes were shooting from all the ndows and exits. The local fire- en, unable to control the blaze sum- joned aid from Salem, Danvers and arblehead, but this came too late. Police and firemen bent their ener- les chiefly to pulling children from oors and windows. The mother su- erior dropped twenty-five of her 1 ges from a window in the second oor and they were caught in over- loats and blankets improvised as re nets. Twenty Bodies Recovered. Two hours after the fire started wenty bodies had been taken from jhe ruins and others were being jought. Acts of heroism were not wanting. laurice Harrls, aged ten years, car- jed his one-legged chum, Thomas P'Shea, eight years old, on his back jlown the smoke choked stairways to afety, The origin of the fire remained in oubt. Michael Dunn, who lives near he school, said he heard a muffled Xplosion in the school building just before it was enveloped in flames. Steam Boiler Intact. ‘When the ruins had cooled suffi- clently to permit it, Building Inspec- or A. H. McDonald, and W. S. Mur- ret, of the state police made their iy for a few feet into the basement lnd.later reported that the steam wooden interior. | brick frame. | in a wild| boiler which was repc..<Q to have ex- ploded, was intact. Joseph Donahue, the .agineer the building, also declared that blaze could not have originated from the boiler. He said that he had banked the fire before he left it at § o’clock this morning. Firemen Save Convent. As soon as the fireman broke through one of the rear doors they found two bodies, both badly burned. Two more were found just inside the door, and two others on the stairway. Fifty feet across the yard was the convent in which one hundred nuns resided. The firemen prevented the flames from jumping across the yard. The St. John's School building was three stories, built of brick with a It was heated by steam from a large boiler in the basement. The fire under the boiler had been started up early this morn- ing and it is understood that there was a fairly good head of steam on when the session opened. The school building was erected a few years ago at a cost of about $100,- 000. , It was square shaped with wood fittings lining the interior of the There were sixteen class rooms on the three floors. At each end of the building wooden stairways led down from the two upper floors. of the A MARTYR TO SCIENCE. Peter Roberts, Former Tocal Man, Dies In San Francisco Hospital. Peter Roberts of San Francisco, formerly of this city, died in a hospi- tal there this week following a two an accident which considered trivial at the time, a broken bone in the wrist. normal growth followed and amputa- tion was advised. Mr. Roberts said he preferred death to losing his hand. Six months ago he entered a hos- pital where experiments with serums were tried. weakened the patient but as his let- ¢ers home were all hopeful his death came as a shock. Mr. Roberts is survived by his wife, five daughters and one son. Mrs. Roberts left here vesterday for Oscoda, Mich., where the body will be buried. was STRIKE AT HARTFORD, Hart and Hegeman and Taylor and Fenn Co. Employes Quit Work, Hartford* Oct. 28.—About 220 men and boys and sixty women and girls at the Hart and Hegeman Manufacturing company and about twenty men at the Taylor and Fenn company went on strike at 10 o’clock this morning, following refusal of their demands for an eight hour day and other changes in working conditions. Following the walkout the Hart and Hegeman employes marched to Central Labor Union headquarters cheering along the way. The Hart and Hegeman company are makers of electrical supplies, and the Taylor and Fenn company of ma- chinery. MRS. FARMER TO TALK. The meeting to be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in the First church chapel is open to the public. Mrs, W. H. Farmer, who is to give the address, is a well known student of the Orient, a charming and force- ful speaker. Her subject will be: “Women as missionary educators, in both home and foreign work.” This is Mrs. Farmer’s first visit to New Britain. —_— ¢« TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION. WANTED—Young girl for light housework, One that can go home nights, 32 Camp street. 10-29- RUSSIAN FLEET BOMBARDS VARNA (Continued from First Page.) their regiments is surrounded between the Timok and the Danube and will, the Secolo believes, be obliged to sur- render. Two Serbian divisions under General Glokowitch are marching against the Austro-Germans. Trap for Bulgarians. Paris, was abandoned by the Serbs, says a despatch to the Matin sent from Salo- niki Tuesday, with the object of érawing the Bulgarians and enabling them in the north. The correspondent says the Germans after gaining thirty miles, thanks to their heavy artillery, are now checked by natural obstacles which will make that artillery useless, The Bulgarians have captured Zajecar and Kniajevats, having crossed the Timok over a large front. Height Also Taken. The height of Krenovaclava, about fifteen miles northwest of Pirot (east of Nish) also has been occupied by the Bulgarians, who have captured several guns. General Von Gallwitz’s army has taken a number of machine guns of the Serbians. Zajecar and Kniajevats are on the railroad from Negotin to Nish, against which the Bulgarians are now march- ing. Kniajevats is about thirty miles from Nish. Bulgarians Occupy Railroad, London, Oct. 28, 4:15 a. m.—The Bulgarian authorities have occupied the railway line between Dedeaghatch and Oktchilar, which is now oper- ated by the Bulgarian state. A de- spatch from Sofia, which brings this information to Reuter’s Amsterdam correspondent, says it is semi-officially announced that Bulgarian troops have cccupied the town of Kniazevatz and captured by storm a position of Drenovaglava, which is a key to the fortified girdle about Pirot. Railway Re-established. Paris, Oct. 28, 9:40 a. m.—The Bavas Agency correspondent at years’ illness which was the result of | it being simply | An ab- | toxin | The treatment | }anu German troops have again | Athens sends word that railway com- munication between Saloniki and Veles has been re-established and that a military train going a long distance northward from Veles encountered no Bulgarian troops. Sent To Bulgarian Frontier. Paris, Oct. 28, 9:40 a. m.—The en- tente armament on the Bosphorus has been transferred to Tchatalja and, Adrianople, and the Turkish nzarrmnn has been sent to the Bulgarian fron- tier. The Havas correspondent at Athens wires that he has this news from reliable sources in Constanti- nople. For fear of raids by Russian aero- planes Constantinople is plunged in obscurity nightly. The correspondent also reports that Franco-Serbian troops, after retaking Veles, are marchnig eastward upon Istip, overcoming Bulgarian resistance in that region. Appeals to Troops. General Kirkoff, in command of ‘the Bulgarian forces along the Greek frontier, has issued an order of the day, in which he tells his troops: “The hour has struck to realize the aspirations of the people and hunt down the ravagers of Macedonia. Bulgarians will thus dominate from the Adriatic to Thrace. Remember the heroism of your ancestors. Give re-birth to the glory of Alexander, the | great Bulgarian.” Teutons Repulse Russians. Berlin, Oct. 28, by Wireless to Say- ville, N. Y.—Repulse of Russian at- | tacks in the Dvinsk region and near the central part of the line in the east, as well as a success for Gen. Von Lin- singen’s troops in the southern sector are recorded in today’s official state- ment by German army headquarters. Field Marshal von Hindenburg's army has repulsed Russian attacks made against the positions recently taken by the Germans northeast of Garbunokka, in the Livinsk sector, oc- cupied the cemetery of Szaszaly in this region, evacuation of which was re- ported yesterday. Two officers and 150 men were taken prisoners. Russian Attack Fails. The failure of a strong attack by the Russians against troops of the army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria near Thtsherssy is announced. General Von Linsingen's army, in the southern sector, has captured Rudka, to the west of Czartorysk. Turkish Official Report. Constantinople, via Lopdon, Oct. 28, 8:22 a. m—The following official statement has been issued by the Tur- kish war office: ‘‘Supply columns of the enemy sighted near the landing station at Ari Burnu, were dispersed by our ar tillery. “On the Caucasus front the enemy was forced to retreat on his right wing after an engagement with our patrol TO ASSIGN C hort Calendar Session at City Court Tomorrow—Hearing Today. At the short calendar of the city court tomorrow afternoon the follow- ing cases will be assigned for trial: Ignaces Krycztopik vs, Raffale Lu- lavich, lawyers, Klett & M. D. Saxe. Roger W. Egan ders, lawyers, D, H, Camp. Dominic Scarella vs. lawyers, C. H. MecDonough, Judge Meskill reserved decision this afternoon in the of M. H. Don- . William J San- O’Keefe and M. Louis Curcio, zdl nelly vs. Raffaele Tcrella. 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A resolution offered by Asa P, French to direct the board to bring restitution suits was rejected 14,533 to 925,124, and the resolution of Hug W. Ogden to order the directors to stop their opposition to the suit of minority stockholders against former directors was defeated by the same stock vote. Two Directors Present, At the meeting President Hadley Yale and Eli Whitney were the only directors present. Stockholders numbered less than ten. President Elliott opened the meeting when the tellers were ready. W. Perry Curtis for the majority of the committee said that 960,194 shares had been voted of which 6.096 voted by praxy were not counted as the proxies were irregular. Arthur Berenson of Boston, filed a minority report objecting to the counting of approximately 950,000 shares on the ground that proxies faor them were solicited by the directors. He objected to Secretary Clark and President Elliott voiing 430,616 shares because the proxies were either given by persons having no authority to give proxies or authority to do so with the proxies. He objected to counting votes cast William Rockefeller, I. De Ver Warn Charles M. Pratt and others who might be interested in the pend- ing snit of the minority stockhold- ers, or the voting of shares by cor- porations where no certified copy of the vote authorizing an officer of the to vote the stock, ap- of pears on file. Claims Proxies Irregular, approval | had not filed their { navy hands glycerine { washing President Elliott ordered the report not apply to the dry skin. and protest filed. Mr. Berenson gave figures of many large stockholdings wherein he claimed the proxies were irregular. FREEDMAN IS SUED. Victor Freedman, a former baker, who recently went out of business, was sued today for $50 damages by the Cahill Beef company of Meriden. Sheriff James Clark attached chinery owned by Freedman for $100. The writ is returnable before the city court on the second Monday in November. Lawyer J. G. Woods rep- 1esents the plaintiff. ma- |A VELVET TAM FOR THE SCHOOL- GIRL THIS FALL A MILLINERY FEA This attractive hat is fashioned uf[ blue velvet shirred to a brim of white satin The ribbon h||||l‘ extends over the left side, ending in | two beaded “fancies. is heavy The child's coat | navy blue serge. In some cases easily chapoed will yield to the treatment of applied immediately after when the skin is moist, DEATHS AND FUNERALS Nicholas J. Egenton- Nicholas J. Egenton, aged 30 years, passed away at the Hartford hospital yesterday afternoon. He was taken to the hospital only two days ago. The funeral will be held Saturday mocn- ing at 9 o'clock from St. Joseph's church and interment will be in new Catholic cemetery. Mr. Egenton is survived by his wife, two small children and several brothers and sisters. He resided at 434 Church street and was employed at the Corbin Screw corporation as rolling | ! October 1 Do | ot the child and alimony, an assistant foreman. STANLEY ST. MAN IS SHOT WHILE HUNTING Arthur From Gun Shot in Calf of Leg— Taken To Hospital. Arthur E. Goodrich, aged about 42 years, of 209 Stanley street was rushed to the New this noon suffering shot wounds in the calf of the leg, ceived when a hunting companion named Hewitt, of Middletown, cidentaly discharged the shot-gun he was carrying. While Mr. Goodrich’s condition is not regarded as serious, the wound is nevertheless a painful one and there is some danger of septic poisoning. Britain General hospital from ugly gun re- ac- The accident occurred in the woods | Mr. | near Dunham this morning. Goodrich’s companion is the Superintendent Hewitt of the Con- necticut company in Middletown and the shooting was entirely accidental. This morning’s shooting was the first accident of the season in which a New Britain nimrod has figured. son of TOCAL GIRL IS NAM Mrs. Holt of Says Miss Mae Marion 1. Middietown Mate as tune Naming Miss Eleanor this city, Mrs, has Adams, of in Middle- woman Marion E. Holt of town brought suit against husband, James E. Holt, for a divorce on charges of misconduct and intol- sle cruelty The is alleged took place in this city at diverse times between June 1 and of the present year The plaintiff’s maiden name Marian E. Jackson and she her husband on September 1911, The couple have a three-years-old son. The mother claims the custody case, first was married Goodrich Receives Charge | | the Y | the Adams Wrecked Home | the | offense it | ' 1e Park Street ] City Items Special V ‘neck sweaters, red ang blue, no buttons, no pockets at Wilson: —advt. Viking's fair tonight, advt, Cyril stripes in Fashion R. B. cloth at Wilson's.—advt. , Mr. and Mrs, Joseph 8 South Burritt street, congratulations on the daughter, born October 25, Mrs. Edward MacDowell, who' fa a recital in this city last evening, w entertained at the home of Mrs. W, £ Hungerford of Russell street durin her stay here. Bungalow, 10¢ Faust of 2 are recelving birth of Secretary Andrews of the Chambe of Commerce went to New York toda on an important business matter Robert Lynch of Holyoke, Mass., § the guest of his brother John W] Lynch of the New Britain Trust Co. a special meeting ol M. T. A. & B. society thy evening at 8 o’clock to take action oy death of Nicholas Egenton. There will be John E. Downes has made tion to the building permit to build an feet, to cost $900, Hine Mfg. Co. The applica inspector for addition, 33x2 for the Traut committee on school accommd cation is considering the erection ¢ new schoolhouse in the northerr tion of the city A twelve roon building is contemplated - to reliev conditions at the Bartlett and Bumrit schools, The committee on school accom modations of the board of educat went over bids for electrical supp for the Vocational High school efternoon. The Scandia ment company, i) Land and Improve Inc., has sold land & ite plot in the southwestern sectiol of the city to Stafon Bilinski, Juliw Schultz and Matilda Schultz. William J. Judge of New York to day sold land and buildings on Wal lace street to Matthew M. Conlon. Washingto My Edward Do C W.J M . ds the Regan of Mahon of guest of his sister, Maple street, « Viking’s fair tonight, Bungalow, 104 advt Llockade, which threatefie tieup of all n Church and Commercial stre#t occurred at the Main et railroa crossing just before today, freight train which blocked the oross ing and an automobile driver ' wh stalled his car front of a fteghe and refused to back off the track W several minute was unravelleds A traffic \ complete -vehicles b stre noon in ysible It was the respo befor tangle