New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1915, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, DE TONIGHT LEONORA ULRICH in “KILMERY.” HE BABY AND THE LEOPARD” [’ROSSED. WIRES,” An Episode in the ZARDS OF _HELEN” igh ‘Class. Vaudeville. ARSONS’ EATRE—Hartford Night, Tuesday, Dec. 14. PWIGHT ELMENDORY tinguished Artist and Traveler Illustrated Travel Talk on VAY, LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN” es Hartford Grade Teachers’ Club.) ed Stereopticons and Motion Pictures. 50c, 75¢c and $1.00. Sale Dec. 12. I SL[LEATRE 3 Matinees Diaily. POLI PLAYERS “EAST LYNNE” Matinees, 10c, 20c. enings, 10c, 20c, 30c, 50c. DANCING ATURDAY NIGHT LECTRIC HALL ENLOF’S ORCHESTRA OF HARTFORD ADMISSION 25¢ ONS’ THEATER, HARTFORD y Evening, Dec. 13th, at 8:15 PSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KARL MUCK, Conductor. Miss Laeta Hartley, Pianist. Program: s—Symphony E Minor, No. 4. lowell—Concerto D Minor, No. 2. na—Symphonic Poem ‘Vyseh- Scherzo ‘“The Sorcerer's Ap- ntice.” rved Seats, $1, $1.50 and $2, at [p & Alfred’s Music Store, Asylum artford. I PLAYERS IN “THE MAN FROM MEXICO” he Man From Mexico,” in which am Collier appeared witn great pss, playing the role of Benjamin ugh will be given next week by Poli Players. Fitzhugh is a hg married man and he is invited his friend, Colonel Roderick Ma- to visit the Cleopatra, a resort lsomewhat unsavory Treputation re all enjoy themselves. Fitzhugh ages to separate himself from his ly for the evening, but while hie his friends are enjoying them- les, the police raid the place and st them. Fitzhugh bribes a guard llow. him to go home before he ins the thirty day jail sentence ch the court imposed. He tells his e that he’is called to Mexico on important business and that he be absent about a month. He is len to Blackwell's Island with the er offenders. Here he is discov- d in stripes and even his own wife o visits the jail as a member of the son reform association, fails to rec- ize him. fore the expiration of Fitzhugh’s tence, or rather about the time he expected home from Mexico, his fe decorates his room with Mexican gs in order to present a familiar at- psphere. Upon his return he makes brave effort to carry the deception having been amid the battle- Jarred lands of Mexico and when he asked to give descriptions of the luntry he gets deeper and deeper into tangle from which he finally is un- ple to extricate himself. z The entertainment tomorrow eve- ng will present such stars as Mr. ha Mrs. Sidney Drew, Kathlyn Wil- hms and Alice Joyce in motion pic- hres Mr. and@ Mrs, Drew appear in Ibhe Cub and the Daisy Chain”, a ewspaper story of unusual interest Ihd moment. Miss Williams will be ben’ in ‘“The Strange Case of Talmai ind,” a jungle drama. UNION WILL FURNISE BAND. The expenses of furnishing the and music for the public Christmas rce at Central Park will be taken of by the Musicians Union, v was voted to stand the expense. is an act that will receive the v endorsement of all citizens, Prompt Relief from the all-too-common ills of the digestive organs— weak stomach, torpid liver and inac- tive bowels—is found in the always safe, sure, quick-acting BEECHAM’S PILLS it Sale of Any Medicine in the Would. everywhere, In boxes, 10c., 25¢c. News f E—— or Theater Goers and Wom “It Takes Onc Woman to Dissect Another.” “Marvin!" The conductor shouted the word as the train drew up to one of the most forlorn looking railroad stations it was ever my lot to see. Dicky and I rose from our seats, he Teeling of depression. For the girl who had claimed so much of our attention on the trip from New York was getting off at Marvin after all. I remembered the bargain T made with my conscience concerning this beautiful woman whose face and figure were just what Dicky wanted for the illustrations he was doing for Fillmore. “If she gets off at Marvin,” I had said to myself, “I will tell Dicky that T know she probably needs the money he would offer her for posing, instead | of being the girl of wealth he thinks her.” Dicky exclaimed, as he saw her go down the aisle ahead of us. ‘“‘She also is getting off here. I wonder who she ig2” “Listen, Dicky,” I said rapidly. “Walk ahead, see in which direction she goes, and ask the station master if he knows who she is. I know something which I will tell you when you have done that. Perhaps you may have her for a model after all.” Dicky gave me one swift glance of mingled surprise and admiration, then ¢id as I asked. As I followed him down the aisle and noted the eager- ness with which he was hurrying to try to discover the girl’s identity I felt a sudden qualm of doubt. Was I really doing the wisest thing? “Her Name’s Draper.” There was no time for drawing back now, however, Dicky had passed the girl and swung himself from the step of the car in front of us to the platform before the train stopped. I saw him standing near. the station master as the girl alighted. I was right behind her, and heard her answer to the question of the driver of the automobile bus. “'Bus, Miss Draper? stranger. “Not this time, Sam. away quite a time.” Her voice was as attractive as her presence, rich and musical, but it held that same effect of curious aloof- ness her manner had betraved in the train. T had never seen a woman so perfectly poised. Her reserve would e hard to break through I inwardly commented, even though her refusal to take the *bus confirmed the opinion I had formed as to her need of money. As she swung off down the village | You're quite Yes, I've been soldier gallantly facing an hLopeless battle. There was thing about her which strongly to my sympathies appealed less in need of sympathy. 1 waited quietly on the station plat- form until Dicky rejoined me. “Her name’s Draper,” he said. “The station agent doesn’t know much about her, except that she visits a mer. He never saw her here in winter mer. He never saw here in winter before. I got Mrs. Gorman’s address, 329 Shore road, called Shore road be- cause it never gets anywhere near the shore. do me, though. Jueer she didn’t take the ’bus. It must be a mile to her sister's home. She’s probably one of those walking bugs.” “She didn’t take the ’bus because she could not afford it,” T said quietly. Dicky stared at me in amazement. “How do you know?” he said finally. “Do you know her? No, of course you don’t. But how in creation—" “That Can Wait.” “Listen, Dicky,” T interrupted. “I've turned too many dresses of my own not to recognize makeshifts when I see them. Everything that girl has on except her stockings and gloves has been remodelled from old stuff. Her pumps are not suitable at all for walking: they are evening pumps, of a style two years old at that. But she tas covered them with white spats so that no one will suspect that she wears them from necessity, not choice.” “Well, T'll be—" Dicky uttered his favorite expletive, “It takes one woman to dissect another. She jcoked like the readiest kind of money to me. Why say, if what you say is true, she ought to be glad to earn the money I could pay her for posing. I could get her lots of other work, t0o.” “Perhaps she wouldn’t like to do that sort of thing.” “What sort of thing? What's wiong about it?” Dicky asked bellig- erently. “Oh, you mean figure DOs- ing. She wouldn’'t have to do that at | alt if she didn’t want to. Plenty of | good nudes. It's the intangible, high- tred look, and ability to wear clothes well that’'s hard to get.” We had walked past the unpainted little shack that but for the word #Marvin” in large letters painted | across one end of it could never have Leen taken for a railroad station. Without looking where we were going we founa ourselves in front of an im- mense poster on a large board back of the station. The letters upon it were visible for vards. “Marvin it read, ‘“the prettiest, quaintest, little village on the South shore. Please don’t judge the town by the station Dicky laughed aloud as he read it. s pretty good”” he said. s true. This is a dandy little town, but vou’d never know it from the station and its surroundings. Just | arcuna that curve by that livery | ‘““What do you know about that?”| Much good the address will | with subdued excitement, I with al had | | droopy By ADELE GARRISON streets you ever sa We'll down it this afternoon. Just! now we're going in another direction. I've 80t one of my pet nooks to show you. I suppose I ought really to wait until spring when the leaves are out to show it to you, but it has a beauty all its own at this time.” He took my arm and turned me anway from the billboard toward a wide, dusty road winding away from the station to the eastward. “But Dicky,” I protested. I* thought you wanted to see about se- curing that girl as a model.” “Oh, that can wait,” said Dicky carelessly. ‘““As long as I know who she is, and where she lives I can prob- ably get hold of her any time. This is our day in the country. wasted enough of our time talking about possible models.” My heart sang as T slipped my hand in Dick It was going to be an en- walk Juyable day after all! “OVER THE WIRE” By DOROTHY CLARK Peggy came in this afternoon all done up in her leaving-for-the-West clothes; she certainly shopped both wisely and well. She had on a perfect dream of a hat, one of.those styles that framed her face. It was made of panne velvet of a very pale greyish blue color, and the although . 1 to the careless eye no one could look ! 5o ghe is going to wear it out therec. i she'd never know. | weighing down either side of very large brim were hugh roses street with her travelling bag in heriof velvet and silk; they were of pale ‘hand I had a quick, vague vision of a * ;55 and Freach lavender. almost very green velvet foliaze was hand some- . {infed, cach leaf being green on one The sil- other. and side and silver gauze on the really think I could copy it, MANY GOOD FILMS IN KEENEY BOOKINGS The three big photo-play featucrs at Keeney’'s tonight will be Leonora Ulrich in “Kilmery;"” the three-part drama, “The Fates Of Fortune” and “Crossed Wires,” the latter an edi sode in the “Hazards of Helen” serie A big film number in which wild animals play an important part, “The Baby and the Leopard” shown. The vaudeville turns include Charles Darto and Sister in a juggling novel- t dog act and Dolly the lady mid, with the grand opera voice. The photo-play features for nes week are: Monday and Tuesday Bos worth in “Burning Daylight;” nesday and Thursday, Marguerite Clark in “Seven Sisters;” Friday and Saturday, Ina Clair and Carlyle Black- well in “Puppet Crown. BOSTON SYMPHONY AT PARSONS’ MONDAY The second concert of the symphony series will be given ] €vening at the Parsons theat Muck has arranged the most brilliant program ever presented here by the players, consisting of modern music, but worthy of a place among the immortal compositions, music which every one should know. The soloist, Miss Laeta Hartley, is rapid- gaining distinction by her unusual fts as a pianist. She comes with re- peated successes with the Boston or- chestra and Dr. Muck’s high commen- dation to arouse anticipation, and MacDowell's beautiful concerto af- fords every opportunity to display her A Cold Proposition ‘When you are wheezing and sneez- ing, coughing and hawking, you’re facing a cold proposition. Handle itright. Hales Honey of Horehound and Tar quickly relieves bad cases. All druggists, 25cts. a bottle. —— e Try Pike's Toothache Drops stable is one of the prettiest village | We've | will also be | Seymour’s Happy Family, a clever | | simmer for ten minutes, DEDIGATION OF THE VOCATIONAL SCHoDL Board of Education Committee: Instructed to Make Plans h Preliminary plans for the opening of the Vocational High school, New | Britain's latest acquisition to its in- stitutions of learning, were formu- lated by the school board at its De- cember meeting yesterday afternoon. The matter was brought to the atten- | tion of the gathering by President B. | F. Gaffney, who stated that there were several matters of adjustment be- tween the city and the state, in re gard to machinery and minor details that would require close attention. He suggested that the opening of the | school and these other affairs be left | with the school accomodations com- mittee, which should he augumented by the addition of Superintendent Holmes and Principle Slade of the ITigh school. On motion of Dr. J. L. | Kelly this action was taken. The meeting was somewhat late in starting owing to the tardiness of several of the members, and it was not’ until nearly 5 o'clock that the re quired number arrived. T. was selected as temporary secretary in the absence of W. L. Hatch. Tacilities Antiquated. Dr. E. T. Fromen of the health and sanitation committee reported conditions in the various schools. | The report showed the general health to be very good. The physician call- ed attention to the toilet facilities at the Monroe street school which he termed antiquated. He said one of the toilets in particular was very bad but it has since been repaired. He | said that the entire facilities should be replaced. Truant Officer’s Report. The report of Truant Officer C. Andrews was read as follow: tees, 187; absent by s other causes, 170; truants back in school, 5. About School Dedication. The Consumers league is to con- vene in this city on February 6, at which time President Churchill of the New York board of education will be the principa! speaker. B. 0. Kil- bournc said that the committee has the matter under consideration to dedicate the school at this time. Firc Alarms for Schools. L. H. Pea of having In the brought up the matter fire alarm bells installed ger schools particularly the High., Gramm Iast street and Smalley schools. He incorpor: motion that the board of public ss ty be communicated with in regard to the advisibility of installing the box; A report will be submitted at the next around the buliding at a cost of $700. meeting. l} | Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast Fruit Liver and Bacon Sealloped Potatoes Coffee Gems Dinner Corn Chowder Stuffed Pork Tenderloins Apple Sauce Brown Gravy Mashed Potatoes Cauliflower Lettuce Mayonnaise Cranberry Roly Poly Coffce Supper Egg Salad Canned Fruit Chocolate Cake Coffee Corn Chowder—Open a can of corn in the morning. Put it through the chopper, then let stand to aerate until needed- Put through the chopper sufficient salt pork to make two gen- erous tablespoonfuls; add to this an equal quantity of finely chopped onion put the two in a saucepan and cook slowly together until the pork scraps are crisp and the onion beginning to color; add a pint of boiling water and the strain over the corn. Add to the latter one quart of diced ad parboiled potatoes, put over the fire and cook slowly un- til the potatoes are tender but un- broken. Stir in salt and pepper to son, add one pint of milk, which has been thickencd with one table- spooful of flour wet with cold milk. Drop in a small spoonful of butter cut in bits, and boil up once; add a pint of broken crackers and dish imme- diately Cranberry Roly Poly—Make a rich biscuit crust, using two large table- sponfuls of butter, a half teaspoonful of salt, a tablesponful of sugar and two level teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der to a pint of flour, mixing to a soft dough with sweet milk. Roll out two thirds of an inch thick, cover with a 1 >r of the chopped berries, sprinkle th sugar, roll up, pinch ends, lay on a buttered plate and steam for forty ‘minutes. Serve with any sweet soft sauce. HEARING POSTPONED. San Francisco, Dec. 11.—Hearing of charges against Baron George Wil- helm von Brincken and Charles C. Crowley, a detective employed by the jerman consulate general here, were postponed until December 14 at the government's request yesterday when the two men were arraigned on charges of attempting to destroy com- merce with the allies. | what tak | to stand on its own | vas told $5,000. i lic idle while a foundation w | estin ©ing I'stuas ICEHOUSE, REPAIRS A HEAVY EXPENSE $6,000 Is Now Estiméted Cost and More Is to Come Britain’s and much xperiment, the municipal ice plant, came into the limelight again last night when the committee in charge met at the City hall and took up the discussion of much needed repairs. Beforc the committee g0t down to business, Alderman M. Irving Jester, the chairman, thought it would facilitate matters and perhaps | curb further criticism to exclude the press. He didn’t believe in having re- porters at such meetings unless they would agree to be good or nice. They hav2 an unhappy faculty of writing place and committse mem- | bers sometimes feel constrained tc old their tongues on that account, when otherwise speech would flow | freer. However, the other members | of the committee seemed to hold en- tirely difierent views and most of | them said so. the result being that the press was not excluded. i Councilman McDonough presented | a sketch of a plan designed to give the | much maligned ice house the strength | legs if such i While the sketeh | angle, 1t | committee | drawn | costly thing is possible. was criticised from every seemed to appeal to the members. The plen was lines suggested by Alderman Jester, | Councilman McDonough and Council- man O. F. Curtis. Mr. rtis wanted to know what Messrs. Dolan thought about that they bring in a plan. d the plan befcore the suited him. Mr. Curtis asked Mr, McDonough if the ice house would not settle, and re- celved a negative reply. After a dis- of materials to be used in re- | tae building, Mr. Landers | sked what the repai Mr. Dolan thought ice honse should have a founda- Mr. Landers thought the ice ouse too valuable an establishment to put in, but admitted that he was joking. Mr. McDonough said it mcant from $7,000 to $10,000 a year to the citizens New Britain to ,whaich Councilm Curtis replied hie was willing to out for $7,600. Councilman es th Mr. Dolan meeting ‘he Cur moved to get repairs to | include a foundation eighteen inches | wide under the ice house, a concrete | arch for the sluiccway aconcrete gut- ter on the scuthw t and southeast sides and m concrete foundation for the road. Favorable action was taken and Mr. Rosst & moved to get an es- timate of cost for white pine sheath- and five ventilators for the roof and gables, which was agreed to. Next came the question of metal straps to bind the structure together Mr. Jester said the Berlin Construc- tion company had given an estimate of $720 for iron bolts, but Mr. Curtis maintained that there would be a fur- ther cost for timber and labor in put- ting the bolts in place. He then gave the commiittee un explanation of h plan of studding and bolting the build- ing. Alderman Jester favored making the building so strong that it stave off criticism in future and Mr. Landers said it would have to be ver strong then- Mr. Curtis said 150 could be put in as brac around the building at a cost of $700. voted to secure an estimate for straps all the way agound, also cross holts and to make an estimate of Mr. Curtis’ stud plan. Tt was also vot- ed to have a platform and conveyor for each compartment in the building and to secure an estimate of the ex- pense of repairing the road which will be necessary on account of the heavy | trucking. Alderman Jester and Com- missioner Rossberg will secure the es- timates and report to the committee Tuesday evening. The committee will then prepare a report for the coun- cil. AUXILIARY ELECTS. es Auxiliary, A. O. H., held a largely attended meeting last eve- ning and elected officers as follow: Chaplain—Rev. J. T. Winters. President—Miss Catherine Mona- han. Vico O'Leary. R rding ret Monahan. Financial Coyle. Treasurer- Mistress-at-Arms—Mrs. Carthy. Sentinel—Mrs. Mary Poyer. Auditing Committee—Mrs. Emma McCrann, chairman; Miss Margaret Dorsey, Miss Minnie McKeon. Standing Committee—Mrs. Minnie Crean, chairman; Mrs. A. D. Frey, Mary Faulkner, Mrs. Catherine | O’Leary, Miss Winifred Coogan. Pross Committee—Mrs. Margaret Monahan. i « The officers will be installed the first Sunday of January and a joint installation will be held with the Rev. W. A. Harty branch. A com- mittee was appointed to arrange for a social time consisting of Mrs. Coogan, Mrs. Frey, Mary Cusack, | Mrs. Catherine O'Leary, Mrs. French and Mrs. Mary Igoe. Miss Anna Mewe was re-elected Captain of the Degree team. President—DMiss Josephine Secretary—Mrs. Marga- Secretary—Miss Nellie Miss Rose McAloon. Mary Me- | | TO PROBE ML ‘OTA CASE. Washington, Dec. 11.—The acecident | which disabled the steamer Minnesota | in the Pacific will be investigated hy | the department of justice. As soon as | it is known where the steamer will be taken the department will send an agent to the port <o that he may r1cet her upon arrival, I on|is would cost and | | of | would | One day last summer I overheard two men discussing the list of sports which a carnival committee at a sum- mer resort had arranged for the en- tertainment of the cottagers. Somebcdy put me in for swimming race,” Mr. A. “Keep out of it,” advised Mr. B. “There are two or three young chaps down here who know stroke swim. ming and they’ll be one, two, three in the race and the rest will be| nowhere.” “Oh come on in,” urged “Me? What's the use?” He Wasn't Afrald to Lose. “Well—you can help background for the young swimmer: " sald cheerfully Mr. A. went into the race and into the canoe r trap-shooting contest as well, T wish I might say that, to the confusion of Mr. B., he won some one of them. The Lest he did was to finish fourth in the swimming race, trailing behind the young stroke swimmers who finishea one, two, threc, as Mr. B. had prophesied. “Well—I furnished the background, didn’t 12" he said to Mr. B., after it was all over. At which Mr. B- smiled icallv. The idea plainly did not appeal to him. Silver Medals For the Winners, Gold For the Background Pcople, Personally T wished that there might have been silver medals for the | Mr. A, furnish stroke Mr. A. a swimming ce and the DEMANDS PROBE OF | L0SS OF AM. LIVES Senator Lodge Answers Smith on Protest Against British Action Washington, Dec. 11 [he long ex- pected storm in congress over the ad- ministration’s conduct of the defense n rights on the seas broke Senator of Americar in congress yesterd when Hoke Smith, democrat, demanded an Jritain’s inter- and Sen- with investigation of Great ferences with neutral trad ator Lodge, republican, replied a demand that any investigation in- clude the loss of American lives. “The body of an innocent child, floating dead on the water, the victim of destruction of an unarmed vessel is to me more poignant and a more tragic spectacle than an .uneold bale of cotton,” declared the Massachu- setts senator. Lodge Offers Amendment, 1 To Senator Smith’s resolution for ! an investigation of trade interferences, Senator Lodge, who is the ranking minority member of the foreign rela- tions committee, offered an amend- ment for investigation of the law and the facfs in the submarine attacks on the Lusitania, Falaba, Hesperian, Ara- bic, Guiflight and Ancona, and of the plats and conspiracies against the neu- trality of the United States to which President Wilson referred in un- measured terms in his address to con- gress Tuesday Both resolutions the foreign relations which further action Their introduction, however, had served to bring out the first debate of the session on a subject to which all minds had turned. Drawn Into Discussion, Senators on both sides of the cham- ber were drawn into the discussion, which was precipitated by a vigorous speech by Senator Smith in support of his resolution- “I wish to extend the scope of the resolution by amendment,” said Senator Lodge as the Georgia senator concluded, “because if w re to take | this question of the violation of our rights, I want to put it not on the lowest ground alone. but on the highest ground as well. I think it is of great importance that we should vindicate our rights as a neutral in trade if those rights have been vio- lated, but I think it is far more im- portant that we should extend pro- tection and assure security to Ameri- can citizens wherever they rightfully are, for I do not believe that any gov- ernment can long retain the respect of its own people if it does not give them the protection to which they are entitled. Lives Above Dollars. “I think Americans should be pro- tected in their lives and in their lib- erty everywhere. 1 do not think they ought to be murdered in detail and obscured in Mexico or openly in wholesale on the high seas, “Although I am .as anxious as an one can be to care for our rights in trade, if they are violated, to me American lives are more important than dollars. If this investigation is to go on, and especially if congress is to take action, I want it to take in all | the violations of our rights that may have occurred. The most important is the violation which has affected American lives or the security of an | were referred to committees. on will depend. my &nd gold for those who | tween the en Readers two, three furnished the background. I fecl that we often do too much honor to those who win, forgetting those who, like Mr. A,, fur- nish the hackground. Of course in many cases, those who lose did not expect to be in the background and are forced there (o their own chagrin. But there still remains a group who fulfill their part consciously and cheerfully. The Mother and the Private Soldier, Background People. Not in sports alone, but in other phases of life. The mother who obscured herself, ven suffers what amounst to privation, in order that her son may go to college; the man who, seeking no distinction of uni- form or title, shoulders a gun anc goes out to fight as a private, as the men who fought under Washing- ton in the Revolution did—these are types of background people, sacrific- ing their own individuality for the good of others. As Shakespeare said, the world’s a stage. And on it, as on the smaller stage which amateur Thespians love to thread, there are many who, they can't play the leading part, not play at all. They wish to dress the mob, not be of it The people who furnish ground make life possible. would life be like if none oi willing to play if we couldn’t principals? e Y those who finished one, many the back- What us were all be e —— or are woman impartant American citizen—man, chili—and the next those pointed out by the president of the United States in his message the other day when he referred to the destruction of property accompanied by destruction of life in the Unite States and stated that conspiracies in alien interests are going on within our own borders. Morality and Humanity. “I think that if we are to investi- gate and inquire with a view to ac- tion, such deeds as these should not be omitted- I am not willing to get into a passion over an infringement of our trade and then allow American citizens to lose their lives and have it go by in frigid silence. I thing the United States stands for something higher in the world than mere trade and mere dollars. T do not want fo | see our citizens wronged in their properties, but I think we also shaWld stand, and above all, for morality and humanity in the dealings of nations with each other.” Senator Works of California asked Senator Lodge if his amendment was comprehensive enough to include in- vestigation of parts played by citi- zens of the United States in sending ammunition on ships which had been attacked or destroyed. He waspas- sured that it was also meant to in- clude inquiry into all angles of the general subject of belligerent inter- ference with ships, Smith Charges Ulterior Motives, Senator Hoke Smith, replying to Senator Lodge, intimated there had been an effort made to bury all gb- jections to interference with American shipping by “sentimental protesta- tions of horror at losses of life,” and that some of this effort, at least, had been influenced by profits from the sale of ammunition. “Those who have most mercenary to criticise Great Britain for interfering with newtral trade” said the Georgia senator, “have been persons who, to say the least, have not lost anything in their trade.” considered it Scnator Walsh in Fray. Senator Walsh Montana Ge- clared that seizures of American cop- per had ceased only because America citizens had agreed to ship their gop. per under rules laid down by the British admiralty e submitted copy of an agreement entered into be- British admiralty and an American shipper. It was referred to the foreign relations committee as an exhibit. 4 “There is no great demand for cop- per now,” said Senator Walsh, ‘“and. the market is so high that there is no, way the producers in the United States could increase the price of cop- per, and this part of the investigation,| least, would be free from any sus picion of having been inspired by mercenary motives.” of FIRE AMONG COTTON BALES, New York, Dec. 11.—Fire broke ouf late yesterday among 400 bales of cot ton awaiting shipment on the South ern Pacific Rallway company’s plers The fire was got under control wi great difficulty and was not complete ly extinguished unti] several hours af, ter its discovery. The loss is estimag ed at $20,000. The cause of the fir is unknown. The company refuse to state whether the cotton was ¢o signed to a European government to a private firm. REFERRED WAR COREDIT. London, Dec. 10, 6:20 a. m.—Th | Reichstag at yesterday's session ferred the war credit of 500,000,00) pounds ($2,500,000,000) withouted a8 bate to the budget committee accor ing to a despatch to the Central Now Agency from Berlin by way of Ay sterdam.