New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1915, Page 11

an . nival aspect which marks this center. NEW BRITAIN TRUST COMPANY For the accommodation of its customers the New Britain Trust Company will be open for the receipt of deposits on ChristmasEvefromeight o’cloc - to 10 o’clock. The bank wil closed all day Christmas. (CANADA'S RELATIONS - T0 EUROPEAN WAR No Inclusive Peace Shall Ter- minate Struggle, Says Premier i | New York, Dec. 23.—Canada and the other British dominions are as | firmly resolved as is the mother coun- try that the European war shall not be terminated by any inconclusive | peace, declared Sir Robert Laird Bor- den, the Prime minister of the Cana- dian government, in an address last night at the 110th annual dinner of the New FEngland society in New York. It was the first public address de- livered by Sir Robert in the United States since the beginning of the war, and it follows closely upon his visit to England and France for official con- ferences as to Canadian participation in the conflict. After reviewing his own intimate associations with New England life and ideals, and recalling among other things, how many thou- sand Canadians fought under the | stars and Stripes in New England regiments during the Civil war, and speaking of the phenomenal growth of the Canadian dominion, he outlined the relations of Canada to the Euro- pean war. He said: Call and Test. “To the Canadian people thus im- mersed in the pursuit of material de- velopment there came little more than | @ year ago a call and a test which searched and tried the spirit of the nation. Until then Canada had known little of the actualities of war for a century. The course which she should pursue was entirely within the judg- ment and disposition of her parlia- ment and pecple. From the first time there was not the slightest hesi- tation. “Recalled hurriedly to Ottawa on the first day of August, 1914, I took the responsibility in the absence of my colleagues, of sending to the Brit- ish government a message which ex- pressed our most earnest hope that a peaceful solution of international diffi- culties might be achieved and our strong desire to co-operate in every possible way for that purpose; but which conveyved also to that govern- ment the firm assurance that if un- happily war should ensue the Cana- WAR WORKS GREAT CHANGES IN VENIGE Gondolas Now Used fo Transler Troops; arines and Supplies | Venice, Dec. 23—Take a gondola for | a trip through the Grand canal dur- ing these war days, and one sees many dhanges in the centers of interest well-known to travelers and readers— | the war-dress of the homes of Lord Byron and the composer Wagner, of the poet Browning and thé Ameri- can writer W. D. Howells, the roman- tic palace where Desdemona waited for Othello, and further along, in <he tket quarter near the Rialto bridge, the house of Shylock, the quaint building standing there unchanged to- day, but now used as a butcher’s shop where a lusty Italian butcher ex- acts Shylock war prices of 90 cents a kilo for the pounds of flesh dealt over the counter. Starting from the quay San Marco, thé broad lagoons entering the Grand Canal have an air of martial and naval preparation rather than the usual car- The quays are lined with soldiers and sailors, and the gondolas are carrying great loads of war supplies back and forth, and transporting troops and marines from point to point while the out among the gondolas. 2,600 Gondolas in Service. Ordinarily there are 2,600 gondolas in, regular service—500 private and ,000 public—but only a very few of hese remain in use owing to the texr ™or inspired by the bomb raids. Most of the wealthy residents have hurried K t for the south, and there are no an, rists to make use of the public gon- Only one first-class hotel re- ins open, and half of it is given er to a hospital for the wounded Bes. . Entering the Grand Canal, the great thelr war trappings, for here is locat- ed the headquarters of the army Red Cross, where most of the work of the field hospitals is rcgnilated. The pal- age Venier next to the church is sim- ilarly used for army hospital admin- istration, and the Red Cross flags are hying everywhere, as a warning of im- upity from bomb raids. Further yp theé’canal on the right is the house of Desdemona. Just what Desdemona 1d in her day is a matter of tradi- prerchant family who have fled to the uth; the curtains are drawn, the ower windows guarded by steel shut- and the gardens neglected Row of Palaces. On the left of the canal is a row of dlaces often occupied by prominent pmerican families. e Balbi-Valier and the Polignac, of the others in the quarter arc #rtially abandoned. Opposite this [edup is the palace Fallier, where W. lowells lived while he wrote his nes from Venetian life. 'w places still showing life and yily, and the well-kept gardens arc of flowers which hang into the 1s flanking it in front and along Just across the Grand | trast with the sombre ! panying the party ! 2bandoned garden with a launches from the war ships dart in | pught in from the nearby fighting’ domes of Santa Maria della Saluts | stand out on the left, but always with | ion and Shakespearian romance. Now | the old palace is occupied by a rich | Two of these, the | closed and closely shuttered, while | 1t is one of | Canal is the palace Rezzonico where Robert Browning lived and died. Usually this is a very gay quarter, with crowds of gondolas passing, and the palaces alive with brilliant enter- tainment. But now all is silent and lugubrious, and the few gondolas creep along like Indian canoes on a deserted river. One touch of life has been given to this quarter by.some American artists who have pulled down an old palace and built a very showy front reach- : ing down to the water. The bright Vellow and red are in marked con- palaces all | The military escort accom- | pointed out an | fine old | palace built only to the first story. around. i Warning Against Gambling. “There is a story there,” said the | 1ailitary escort. “That palace was begun by a son of one of the Doges. | But the son got to gambling, lost all | his money, and mortgaged the palace | yet unfinished. And so the old Doge ! ! ordered that all work on the palace | | should be stopped, and never again | started, as an everlasting warning | against gambling. And there it stands | | today, after four hundred years, just as it stood when work was stopped, i still giving its warning.” Further along on the left, is the { gray stone building used as the Aus- | {trian embassy until Italy declared | war against Austria. The flagstaff which used to bear the Austrian | colors, stretches over the canal, but | the place is deserted. Up a side canal ; | is the former German embasssy, also deserted. They were two of the most active centers of entertainment and | official exchange during peace times. | Cleaning Out Canals, * In front of the former German em- bassy dredges are now at work clean- |ing out the side canals. This a ; mammoth work, done every 200 years ; {in the Grand Canal, and every 20 years | in the side canals. The present ab- sence of traffic has given opportunity for this scouring. Great masses or', biack mud are brought up and carried out to sea. All the sewage of Venice empties into these canals, but the tides of the Adriatic sweep out the | ! vewage and keep the city in a reason- ! ably healthy condition. In the market section of the city !{he Grand canal shows its usual ac- tivity, with the fish and vegetable | markets surrounded by boats and | | crowded with customers. Venice has | recently finished a veritable palace | for its fish market, and the military | escort told how this had come about. Blot and Scandal. | “The queen came here about five | vears ago,” said he. ‘‘She was shown | the beauties of the Grand canal, and ; { admired them greatly—all except the | | o1a fish market. She declared that ' was a blot and a scandal. And so the * city decided to spend a million francs ; And vet, the queen has never since come here to see this | iuilding erected to meet her taste, znd Venice is beginning to ask whether it was really worth while to spend so much money to meet a woman's whim.” The Rialto bridge is the very heart of the busy merchant quarter. This famous bridge is the only one known to have been made stronger by in- creasing its weight. It began to crack at the outset, and the architect said add more weight. Bazaars and Stores, Bazaars and stores were therefore added all along the bridge, greatly in- creasing its weight, so this so steadied it that it stands secure today. One of the bomb raids was in this vicinity, and the people crowded the brldze‘ is | cr a new market. | \ city and quays watching the aircraft as One of them Wwas the bomb which destroyed the it dropped its bombs. famous Scalzi church nearby. LOCAL GRADUATE OF WATERBURY HOSPITAL this on ss Margaret Faulkner of s receiving M of congratulations her graduation with honors from St. Mary’s hospital in Waterbury, having been selected valedictorian her dian people would be united in a com- mon resolve to put forth every effort and to make every sacrifice necessary to ensure the integrity and maintain the honor of our empire. Pledge Fully Redeemed. “The pledge thus given has been most fully redeemed by the Canadian people. “I do not propose to argue or affirm the justice of our cause The great controlling facts have been firmly es- tablished and they are widely known Upon these facts the people of the 4 MISS MARGARET FAULK NER. neutral nations must found their own conclusions. The Canadian people impressed with the most earnest nd intense conviction that our cause i is just and that it will prevail. Un- | doubtedly it concerns the powers, in- | fluence and destiny of our empire. But we are convinced beyond all ques- tion that this conflict is of vastly wid- er significance and that its determin- ation must exercise a profound influ- ence upon the world’s future. Man- kind have ncver been so grievously oppressed by the 'peine forte et dure’ of militarism and armaments as dur- ing the past half century. This isnot an inspiring record after all the aspir- ation, the effort and the sacrifices of a thousand vears. All the lives sac- rificed and all the treasure expended in the struggle will have been in vain ! if humanity must still endure so in- | tolerable a restraint added to the stag- ering burden' which this conflict will itself entail upon all the warring na- tions. Such, however, would be the { result of an inconclusive peace. The \pcople of the British dominions are | animated by a stern resolve that there shall be no such outcome. It is class. in this city and Mary's parochial school. able that she will come to PRritain to practice in a short tim GOODWIN’S Miss Faulkner is well known is a graduate of St. It is prob- New e. CIGARS FOR CHRISTMAS $1.00 BOXES POPULAR BRANDS Rosedale . 12 12 King e . | German Lovers . eee.12 E. & E. Rockefellers ....12 Graham Courtney .12 La Preferencia Victoria ..10 Ginita Goodwin Special ... Goodwin Broadleaf . Little Preferencia .12 .25 .25 5% Bachelors ceee . .25 10c CIGARS 25 IN A BOX Rosedales . . German Lovers King Perfectos Blackstone I.ondres Blackstone Panetelas Blackstone Perfectos Flor der Mandel . Peter Schuyler Judges Cave .. La Perferencia Concha Dubennet =i E. & E. Rockefellers El Roi Tau Concha La Preferencia Victoria .. El Roi Tau Breva Graham Courtney Campa Vista Concha . ... Campa Vista Victoria... for the future peace of the world that we fight to the end. Tht chief insig- nia of a civilized nation are orderly government and respect for the law. A world-civilization which cannot es- tablish and maintain an equally high international standard will assuredly crumble, If it founds itself upon the jungle creed ,to the jungle it will re- turn. First Question Asked. “A Canadian medical officer who was taken prisoner by the Germans told me that one of the first questions asked by his captors was this: ‘What did the English say to induce Cana- dians to fight for them?’ T have heard the same idea in the British Islands $1.00 | When gratitude was expressed to Can- $1.00 | ada for assistance to Great Britain in $1.00 | this war. This is by no means the §1.00 | viewpoint of Canadians. We take part $1.00 | in this struggle because the destiny of $1.00 | the world-wide British commonwealth $1.00 | is our destiny, because as one of its $1.00 | great nations we are determined to $1.00 | preserve its power and its influence; $1.00 | and because we conceive that, as one $1.00 | of those nations there is for us the | highest opportunity to advance the | cause of humanity and civilization, to do our part worthily in the world’s work. “The student of government in the organization of the empire an astonishing confusion of varied systems. To govern such an empire at all is as great an under- | taking as history has ever known. Scattered Over Continents. “May I ask a moment’'s considera- tion of those involved in the govern- ance of the British Dominions. A territory more than three times great- er than that of the United States, | scattered over all the continents and | through all the oceans; a total popu- lation four times greater than yours; a white population little more than one-half your own of which three- fourths reside within the relatively in- considerable area of the British Ts- lands; an almost infinite variety and divergence of race and creed; dis cordant ideals and social conditions: finds British CEMBER 23, 1915 northern and three in the southern hemisphere all rapidly developing in power and influence; a great depen- dency with a population of 300,000,- 000 embracing a dozen races with a bewildering divergence of creed, caste, tradition, custom and language; pro- tectorates involving responsibility for the development of great territories and the protection and welfare of large populations; a score of fiscal systems under which each unit of the Empire levies customs duties against the remainder; the safeguard- ing of territories which in some part of the world touch those of every other great power; the protection of the ocean pathways without which necessary inter-communication could not be assured; the necessity of con- sidering all these varied and some- times conflicting interests and con- ditions in determining questions touching foreign relatigms; a varied and seemingly confused medley of statutes, charters, orders in council, conventions, traditions and under- standings for the governance of. all these widespread possessions; consid- er this very imperfect summary of the conditions and problems which meet those called upon to administer the affairs of our vast Commonwealth. A hasty judgment would determine that any structure so apparently un- stable must crumble at the first great shock. “It shall be to the honor of the British race as long as this war 1s remembered that the principle upon which is founded the governance\of our empire bound together all its far-flung dominions and all its people of varied and divergent race, lang- uage, creed and ideal, by ties which, proved even stronger in war times than in peace. It is founded upon the principle of liberty and upon the theory and practice of autono- mous government applied wherever conditionsy permit and to the. most generous extent that experience can possibly sanction. For this supreme reason the empire is strong in the day of trial. Great Britain Unprepared. “The outbreak of the war found Great Britain utterly unprepared for military operations upon the tremen- dous scale which has been found nec- essary. Communication between our scattered possessions is essential to their unity and continued national existence. Thus the fighting -power of the empire is concentrated al- most wholly in the navy, established with no aggressive intention, and maintained solely for self-protection and self-preservation. Attempted ag- gression against any great military na- tion under such conditions was utter- ly inconceivable, for our military pow- er was relatively insignificant. Apart from every other consideration the absolute lack of adequate military preparation for this war speaks for itself and unanswerably proclaims that the dominions which owe alle- giance to the British Crown followed the paths of peate and earnestly de- sired to avoid war. “Such indeed was the ideal of the Canadian nation; but in common with 211 the Empire the spirit of our people when tested proved worthy of their highest traditions. Within six weeks after the outbreak of war a force of nearly 35,000 men was assembled, thoroughly armed, equipped and or- g&anized in every branch of military service. Its journey across the Atlan- tic in a great armada of steamships began on October 2, 1914. Nearly 100,000 Canadian soldiers have since gone overseas and during the past ten months they have poured across the ocean at the rate of more than 2,000 per week. Our authorized force is now 250,000 and more than 200,000 are already under arms. Canadians at Ypres. “Has our national spirit been adequately responsive to the nation’s needs? For courage and devotion I proint to the Canadians at Ypres, at Festubert, at Givenchy. For self- sacrifice, I see the women ylelding their dearest at the country’s call and consecrating their lives to all missions of mercy. For the bountiful gener- osity of our people I need but men- tion $6,000,000 for the patriotic fund, $2,000,000 for the British Red Cross cociety, $3,400,000 for our own Red Cross and kindred societies, more than $2,000,000 for the starving and des- titute in Belgium, at least $3,000,000 1n other patriotic contributions from provinces and individuals, $5,000,000 in food products and other supplies useful for war purposes placed by the Dominion and the provinces at the aisposal of the British government. Men of great financial experience be- lieved that subscriptions by the public at large to the recent war loan of | $50,000,000 would probably reach | $10,000,000 and could not exceed $15,000,000. The public added $70,- 000,000 to the $15,000,000 and the total subscriptions ran close to $110,- 000,000. | “I have spoken of all these things | in order that you may truly compre- | hend what our course has been in this war, and that you may perhaps, believe that Canada has made her loyalty a living principle in a finer way than ever before. And our Em- pire seems to us something greater than it was a year ago; when mighty | armies from the Dominions and De- pendencies arrayed themselves in its battleline, a new and impressive epoch in its history was marked. These pregnant events have already given birth to a new order. It is realized ! that the great policies and questions which concern and govern the issues | of peace and war cannot in future | be assumed by the people of the British Island alone. Freedom of World. “Realizing to the full the tragedy of this war we in Canada pray that ‘the whirring loom of time’ may weave the mighty events of the next | twelve months into an abiding peace. conviction that the cause for which | we fight does truly concern the free- dom of the world and that there can be no enduring peace until prevails. Interwoven with this con- viction is an equally intense and uvnalterable determination to spare no effort and shrink from no sacrifice necessary to make so sreat a cause triumphant. conflicting ex-economic interests; four self-govetning nations, one in the But there is with us the most intense | namely, to provide all the money need- | of arms and munitions being manu- it fully | factured in all parts of the world. needed by | duty of the British people, for they, in particular, Finally ’ financial resources. we have faith that this war herales|turing power is unreduced by 600D | Knit Goods, Un las for Men, Women Price. cial Prices. BLANKETS and Dresses. { 'g Ever Offered. out of town. THE CURRAN D Grand Holiday | Sale of Staple and Fancy Good Big Glove Sale ' Kid Gloves at Reduced Prices Neckwear, Shirts and Bath Robes. Big Values in Silk and Cotton Umb Clean up of Dolls at less than Linens, Dress Goods and Silks at S Muslin Underwear, COMPLETE OUTFITS FOR THE BAE Handkerchiefs, the Wonderful Values in Women’s 'Ne wear, Fans, and Leather Bags. Suits, Coats, Furs and Raincoats. You can get value here without go S CO. derwear, and and Children. COMFORTABLES. Silk Skirts Greatest Valu tion of our civilization, formed as it is upon so many centuries of aspira- tion ,endeavor and sacrifice; faith ulso that humanity’s struggle against the enthronement of force above right will not be in vain.” BRITISH BANKERS APPEAL TO PUBLIC Urge People to Go-operate irf Task | of Financing War ; London, Dec. 23.—A manifesto to the people of the country was issued last night over the signature of a score of leading English bankers and finan- ciers on the subject of the country's financial position. The signatures are headed by George Anderson, treas- urer of the Bank of England. The manifesto, in part, follows: “As this is a time of great national danger, it is imperative that every citizen realize the vastness of the work Great Britain has to perform. In a long war success depends mainly upon the respective financial resources of the combatants and the consequent power of one of them to maintain or add to its fighting strength while others are declining. It is not in doubt that the allies’ financial resources, when fully mobilized and wisely con- trolled, will be vastly greater than the enemy’ War In Final Stage. ““The allies’ success in defeating the enemy’s efforts to cripple them in men, munitions and money before they could assemble their full strength has now brought the war near to its final stage. Indeed, only one thing is now needed to command victory; | ed to support the vast armies of new men and pay for the vast quantities “The task of finding the greater part of the immense sums of money the allies is the especial possess the necessary Their manufac- inva- ports not shut off. The inco the British people has been tained at a high level. Ex though not so great as befo war, are greater than in 1909, income from capital invested has been reduced but little; the ings of shipping are greater ever, and the factories are wol full time. Women Praiscd. “Moreover, the effect upon pro tion of the great army’s mobil has been largely neutralized by more vigorous and effective work| the civilian population, particul the women. The average indivi income is much in excess of any ) heretofore reached. . . . “In the current calendar year, British people will spend £1,300,0 000 on war and government, year £1,800,000,000. To raise sum is a stupéndous task which try the mettle of. the nation, has not been tried in a hundred yi The task demands the strenuous operation to every man, woman, yor and maiden—that the nation’s en| gies be concentrated on the prodi tion of really essential things, that production of all non-essentials wholly stopped. “The nation must avoid the cd sumption of all non-essentinls even restrict the consumption of sentials to the limits of eMeiency. dividuals possessing securities may| able abroad must sell them to p for goods and munitions for which other means of payment can be vided. Only by all classes adding and carefully husbanding their come, by selling foreign securities, N creating foreign credits will it be po sible to provide the vast sum need by the nation and its allies.” City Items For the accommodation of its ¢ tomers the New Britain Trust com pany will be open for the receipt o deposits on Christmas eve from eig o’clock to ten o'clock. The bank wil be closed all day Christmas.—advt. Give him silk hose. No exclusi prices at Besse-Leland's.—advt. Holiday goods at Babcock’s—ad not the ‘dies irae’ but the regenera-,sion; their cities undestroyed; their The latest styles in bags at lowest prices. Bowen & Co.—advt. .