New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1915, Page 2

Invites your inspection of their complete line qu Fine Jewelry, Watches, Silverware, China, .Cut Glass, Bronze and Leather Goods. There is no better quality or larger stock # guaranteed as represented. Your patronage is solicited. Christmas. in New Britain, and we know that the prices * are right. We do not advance our prices on | account of the Holidays, and every article is Goods selected now will hn reserved until The Porter & Dyson Co. . 54 Main Street “Where quality is as represented” ARLINGTON IVORY PYRALIN now all the rage for every kind of Fine Toilet Pieces, Ornaments d Toilet Table Needs. Always keeps its fine Ivory Color—Does not nish like Silver, or color yellow with age like real ivory—Costs only fraction—Is Strong and Light—Can be engraved like Silver and inted like a Piece of China. Has all the fine Ingrain Markings Genuine Elephant Tusks. Full Sete in Special Cases or any individual piece may be had as hnted. Start with any of the following pieces, and add to it from year year: $2.00 $1.00 Hair Brushes, up to Cloth Brushes, up to...... irrors, up to, . pmbs, up to ... It Boxes, -$2.00 air Receivers, up to ....$2.00 . ....$1.00 Flesh Brushes, up to Nail Buffers, up to .. up to ...... utton Hooks, up to Nail Files, up to And Dozens of other Useful and Ornamental Pieces. To see them b to want to buy them. Any number of pieces put away until wanted upon payment of a eposit, < Clark 8Brainerds DRUG STORL TheRexall Store I8 MAIN And for once you can en- joy your Christmas Shop- ping—this year especially, for fine books are much less expensive than other fine gifts. There is noth- ing more complimentary you can give than a book. We have them for every Man, Woman or Child. STATIONERY DEPT. The Dickinson Drug Co. 169& 171 Main St. Wilson's What Shali Give ? We can list you a thousand and onc things that any man would be glad to h The list is too long .or publication. Come in and look around at all of these handsome and useful lit- tle things that men ap- preciate. We will be glad to help you all we can. he ilzn STORMHINDERS USE - OF POUIGE PATROL Officer Has to Walk fiith Prisoner ! Through Snow Drilts Because of the terrific snow storm last night, it was impossible for the police patrol automobile to be sent out in response to calls unless it was absolutely necessary. Consequently, i Suggestions - HARDWARE STORE CUTLERY— Table or Game Carvers in cases. $2.50, $3.00 and up to $6.00. Table Knives and Forks moderately priced. Pocket Knives 25c to $2.30 Fancy Knives $1.50 to $3.00, Shears and Scissors singly up to $1.50. Manicure Sets, Nippers and Cuticle Sciss TOOL: CHESTS— Chests $1.50, $2.00 and up to $4.50. COFFEE PERCOLATORS— THERMOS BOTTLES AND Pints $1.00 and up. Half Pints $i Universal , Lunch Kits with Universal SKATES AND SLEDS— Union Club and Hoc 70c. $1.20 and up o $5.00. Flexible Flyers (Genuine), $ 00 and up to $6.00. Firefly, $1.00, $1.35 and up to $3.00. Frame and Clipper Sleds, 50c, 75¢ and up to $1.50. ELECTRICAT, MERCHANDISE— Sweeper Vac, $5.00. Ever Ready Focket Lights, Electric Grills, Toasters. AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIT Spark Plugs, Hor ors. LUNCH KITS— Quarts § Bottles, §: 00 and up. and $2.50. Paris make. 75¢ (0 $3.00 Lanterns, $1.50 to § Shaving Brushes, Soap, ctc. Doz Collars—New Stock. Carpenter Tools, Alarm Clocks. et Sweepers. ors, Shears, Razors. Revolvers, Colt’s Automatic. Children’s Toy Automobiles. The Irish Mail. Meccano. Prices $1.00 to $10.00. Greatest Structural Toy. ELECTRIC FLASH LIGHTS. Penny, Nickel and Dime Banks. MISCELLANEOUS— Machinist Tools. Machinist Tool Chests. Roller Skates. All kinds Child Banks. Landers’ Meat Choppers. Lunch Box Carvers, Percolators, Bread Makers, Cake Makers. Sad Irons. Fancy Baskets. Razors. Gillette or Gem. Razor Strops, Hones. THE STORE OF SERVICE HERBERT L. MILLS HARDWARE 336 Main Street whereupon he was locked u morning judgment was and he was placed on pro was asked if he would be willing to have his pay turned over to his wif and he said he would inasmuch she made him do that anyway. cordingly, the probation officer W given charge of the family fund Events Tonight oving pictures and vaudeville at Keeney's theater. Columba, D- of C. hail Co Electric meets in Officer Snowed i i A boy. John Golobais, was in court for being a truant from school but [P, as Truant Officer Andrews was ed in at his farm in Stanley he could not appear in court. The at case was continued until tomorrow morning. Washington L. Morgan lodge, K. ol meets in Vega hall. New Britain camp, M. W. 34 Church street. A., meets Canton Foster, P. M., meets in Jr. jO. U. AL M- hall Y. M. C. A, ACTIVITIE The monthly tainment will be held tonig} be given the Boston Lyrics, troop consisting of thr one male and two females. The Fintracht tertainment will take the form of a | at 187 Arch concert. After the concert, there will = be dancing. New B . M., meets entess Main membership and will Valient hive, by Main street lodge, O. D- H. 8§, treet. meets The William H. Hart debating club will meet tomorroy evening at 8 o’clock. A debate on ‘“Resolved: that the national preparedness plan of [ '-—w— when Officer William McCue arrest- ed John Brislavich at 10:3 o’clock at the house at 163 Gold street was compelled to take a firm hold on his prisoner and then walk him through the blinding storm to the police station where he was locked up. Brislavich was charged with assault- ing James Juk, a fellow boarder to whom he owned money and refused to pay. He was fined $5 and costs hy Judge John H. Kirkham in police court this morning. Bristol Man Fined. Louis Fischer, a resident of Bristol who offered to bring in the entire populace of the Bell city to testify that he had never been drunk in his life, was fined $5 and costs for drunkenness. and $2 and costs for breach of the peace. He was arrest- ed at the depot last night by Officer William Strolls. With three other men he was blocking the narrow pathwa, shouting and creating a general dis- turbance. He was drunk, according to the officer, but he denied the accu- sation and also denied making any trouble. Two of his friends were quar- reling, he said, and he was simply acting as peace maker. Anderson in Again. Albert Anderson of 25 Florence street, who was fined yesterday morn- ing, was in court again today, charg- ed with breach of the peace. After being fined vesterday he returned to his home and frightened his down- stairs neighbor by informing him that Chief Rawlings had given him permission to “cut his head off” if he bothered him again. He became so abusive that a complaint was made to the prosecuting attorney. Tater Anderson visited the police station he President Wilson should be adopted by congress” will be held. William Pay and David Nair will argue af- firmatively and . W. Greene anl James Roche will uphold the negative side. There will be a special meeting of the physical department on Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Secretary . Il. Barnes Bring your Christmas Club check to [ McMillan's store and get the Give her a hose. Damor The annual Plumbers’ ociation will be held th evening the Hotel Rond, Hartford. will give | At the close of the banguet the par- a steroptican lecture on “American |ty will attend a theater. Indians” on ay evening to the | 1¢ vou don't bus Boys' Bible ciass. On Sunday afte R noon at 5 o'clock the lecture will he o euil repeated for the men. | The board of directors will meet | next Monday evening at 8 o’clock. pair of McCallum’s silk s Shoe Shop.—advt. hanquet of the Mast ything you can Club check ore.—advt have hed What Club vour Chri 1 per cent. for Savings De- you save of Money will earn you if deposited in our | partment. The Commercial Company, New Britain.—advt. GERMAN SOCTALISTS ACT. London, Dec. 14, 5:03 a. m.—"“The Folks Zeitung publishes the thirty-four socialists who, | 266 Tel. 994.—advt. Peter Perokas has filed h Atterney M. D. Saxe of to s¢11 his barbershop at Main strect to John Tsimonis. No matter haw little you buy Millan wi sh your check.—advt. Leipsic Arch street. remes of following the lead of Hugo Haase (a socialist member of the Reichstag) have signed a declaration expressing | catisfaction with the results of the peace discussion in the Reichstag,” says the Amsterdam correspondent of Reuter's Telegram Co. “According | 1o the Folks Zeitung the coming de- liberations in the Reichstag will give the minority bent on peace the nece: sary opportunity for independent action.” his 454 CHAMPTONS TO DINE. Captain William Dudack and championshiy foothall team of New EBritamm High school for the past season, will be the guests of Mayor jeorge A. Quigley at the Hotel Be- loin this evening, vhen they will be tendered a banquet. his NO MERCHANT FLEET. Paris, Dec. 13, 10:30 p, m. (Delayved in Transmission).—The . bill author- izing the state to purchase a merchaht fleet of fifty ships from a British | firm, has been withdrawn from the chamber of deputies, according to {he newspaper Liberte. The measure has been strongly eriticised as both uscless for the purpose designated board, Superintendent Dr. ney of the school George W. Klett, Holmes of ihe school board, and Frank Zwick through whose success- ful training the bovs were rounded into championship form. Those who will respond to toasts are Dudack, Professor W, B, Tay, Dean, Clesson Parker, Judge Principal Slade of the High Jack Gaffney, school and abused the police and court, and too costly. and Superintendent Holmes, Trust | Furs cleaned at the Union Laundry, | notice | Me- | Christmas Club | the | Invitations have | been extended to President B. F. Gaff- | Senator | Captain | AT HORSFALL’S To Make a Merry Christmas for a Man We Pride Ourselves on our knowledge of what men like - we're dealing with men all the time. i ) And now our store is just filled with Men’s Gifts that please. ) We want women shoppers to come in and see them—there will be no lack of courtesy to please them. s Handkerchie fs—Linen and silk in Christ- mas boxes, initial and plain. Hosiery—of all kinds specially packed in boxes of two and three pairs. House Coats—Luxurious and comfortable in every imaginable patterns. ) . Fancy Waistcoats—They are modish again —they make splendid gifts. Horstalls “TY PA%S TO REY OUVR EKIND” NARTFORD, 03.99 ASYLEM ST. Comnecting with 140 TRUMRBULL ST. Watch our Windows for Christmas Sug- gestions. Today we are showing a very select line of CASSEROLES PIE DISHES VEGETABLE DISHES CHAFING DISHES PERCOLATORS COFFEE MACHINES PRICES ARE LOW. The Abbe Hardware Co. 279 Main Street, New Britain, Conn. which returned 2 Western, per cent., | but which, just before Mr. Mellen re- tired, paid nothing; and $20,000,000 for the non-dividend paying Rhode 51.~Innv! trolley properties after an ec- timate had been made that they were { aleo elicited from the witness ths —_— | from the time he hecame president ' until his retirement in 1913, the “New | Maven” had increased its capitalizas { tion from around $70,000,000 to about Mellen Testilies He Was Almost Ready to Sell One Time | newe b pproximaters ihe same figures. Meantime the stock had de- { clined from 195 to 130 New York, Dec. 14.—The late E. H. ’ Why Road Fafled to Pay. Harriman had his eves on the Boston Alleged due to transacHbnd & Maine railroad and at one time | With tie Billard company, the witness Charles S. Mellen was alimost ready to | Gescribed as nominal. The failure of sell it to him, according to Mr. Mei- | the Boston & Maine to ay he at- len's testimony vesterday at the trial| tributed to laxity on the part of its of the eleven former directors of the | old management in keeping abreast New York, New Haven & Hariford | of the nes in the matter of facilities. railroad under the Sherman anti- | He added that in 1910 an advance in trust law. But the “New Haven” fi- | Wages given to employces alone ab- nally declined to sell, and obtained | Sorbed the net earnings. As to ,4the from Massachusetts the | Rutland, he as never expected which enabled it to hold the Boston |10 div & Maine under the laws of the state “ — —— Had Harriman acquired the road,| BUYS PROPERTY BACK AGAIN. Mr. Mellen testified, the result would | Bardeck is again owner of have been that the entire New Eng- | Mountain Grove, which he conducted land system would have lost its im-| for a number of years, and which he portance- The “New Haven”, Avith|disposed of to the Austrian Singing Harriman in control of the Bostén & | society some time ago The latter go- Maine would have been unabls to | ciety had contemplated making a’pic= maintain its importance of the trunk | nic of the grove but found congiderable opposition to the plan, lines to the west, so they became disgusted with the outiook and sold the place back to ite losses le ion pay Philip ace out Made Propesals in 1908, Mr. Mellen =aid that in 1908 the late railroad financier made propos to him for the purchase of the Bos- ton & Maine and that he “kept him ble purchaser in case the On 1908, he telegraphed to T. F. vies, vice president and legiclative agent of the “New Haven" in Bos ton, saying that he had had a talk with Harriman. “Tt is useless to contend,” the fele- ram read, f we are to ave public sentiment ainst us, Why is it not Dbetter to let Harriman have the fight New York, and we retire with profit? It seems | fect on sea to me it administers poctic justice in | prospects of addition to letting us out after the war “If we had sold,” Mr. Mellen testi- | jzoq in a st fied, “it would have meant the pas- | py the Nation [ #ing over to the trunk lines of the en- | ofl composed tire New England railroads.” large manufacturing and Harriman, he added, continued his | jnterests efforts to get the road almost until he | «Phe main | died. While In Europe, in May, 1909, | yotamont “Is how soon the bread four months before his death, e sent | 41 (ho freight market will take plac Judge Robert § Lovctt, then attorneyv | fo)1owing the cessation of hostilities for the Unlon Pacific to see the Wit-| gome ghipping people hold that th [gnessiangihegmatior | break will he sharp and sudden. oth $30.000.000 Invested in B. that the very slight addition This testimony through | reconstruction bein at the close of yesterday made to the tonnage of the world#wil preceded by efforts of the | tend to ward off any tendency to prosecution to break down Mr. Mel- | sudden decline when the war is con len’s testimony that the bringing of | cluded. the government actions against the| “For . s the f its | wastage | | { original owner WAR’S EFFECT ON SEA TRANSPORTATIO Prospeots of Break in Freight Rat Summarized in Statement of Na- tional Foreign Trade Council. Dec. 14.—The war'g transportation and " th break in freight rato is ended are summar ement vesterday)] ! Féreign Trade Counel of representatives o commercia/ issued question says “th & M. de- ers adduced by now come th war ms ma several years to due to the great huge movement of raw counscl, | terials and foodstuffs toward ropey brough out that the “New Haven" | which wil) provide permanent employ invested $30,000,000 in the Boston & | ment for a very large share of th { Maine acquisition and that two years | world’s merchant marine. When com, | thereafter the road ceased to pay div- | ditions have readjusted themselys | idends; that “New Haven" stock fell | and trade has resumed jts custofha in the market the result of the | routine. floating space will not be 13 { deal; that it had paid 52,500,600 for | such demand and the slump in maj | the I‘.ml.un!_rrvr'd. Wwhich as re-| time transportation earnings whi ( turncd no dividends; had paid $14.- | usually follows war probably will [000,000 for the New York, Ontario & .I in evidence again. ; cause practical ruin.” e R. L. Batts. of federal !