New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 14

RS SCARCER EVER BEFORE Disappeéaring—Fish | onnecticut - Waters ton, Dec. 24.—Shad and are disappearing rapidly prican waters despite artifi- gation efforts, according to | 1 report today of the United eau of fisheries. Co-opera- | id by state fishery authori- ggested a remedy for | depletion. | shing in the Chesapeake | year was the poorest known, | report. | line in the lobster industry, | t declared, was viewed with | pasiness. More efficiency in | propagation was urged. as to 'arrest diminution. | he burcau is doing to reduce | Iving cost through conser- | d untilization' of food fishes t length. ‘Millions of food | ktranded every year by floods | and distributed said the Ind: much is ‘done to exploit | little known fish and other products. H n 'fisheries, under govern- pervision, are shown to have bre prosperous in 1914 than ore. The salmon catch was est ever made. [ jon in the price of sealskin | sed with the statement that | dyeing and dressing of seal- | 1. be done in the United States | of London. The government | several thousand skins in to be dyed. Alaskan seals e the most valuable herd of imals ever owned by any gov- said the report. Fish in" Stock Waters. hg the fiscal year 1915 the Bu- nt to Connecticut waters 1,- fry and 5,998 yearlings and/ jsh. They were distributed as . to Horseneck Pond, and | on’s Pond, in Greenwich; Ni- ond, in Westboro; Abbots Pond boawin's Pond, in Newingto! gee's Aquarium, New Londor Loch Pond, Ridgefield; Grif- rook, Silver. Brook and West- [Brook, Bloomfield; Stafford 0ld Pond and. Pine Lake, Bris- out, Pond, Clarke Brook, Collinsville; and Salmon Brook, Hartford: hopp Brook and Pipedale Meriden; Mechams Brook, lle! McLeans Pond and Nod , Simsbury; Barnum Brook, t Brook, Calvin Brook, Com- Brook, Saugatuck River, Sil- e, West Norwalk River and n River, Norwalk; Cullman and, Salmon Brook; Tariffville; laer Brook and Spring Pond, ville; Hop Brook, Mad River Pritchard’s - Pond, Waterbury; Lake, Niantic; Long Marsh Terryvill Chestnut Ridge Bethel, and Lake Sisrovit, New an. e fish sent to Connecticut were e following species: Carp, Rain- [ Trout, - Brook “Trout, Cranpie, Bass, Large Mouth Black Bass, bw Perch, White Perch, and Pike h, Brook Trout were largely in jmajority. as QUTET IN INDIA. fHitions as Normal as They Were a Year Ago. ew York, Dec. 24.—Conditions in h India are as normal as they a year ago, aceording to advices bived here today by the board of pign missions of the Methodist scopal church. Bistop Frank W. rne, until recently stationed at know, in North India, has just leived a letter from a colleague e, who travels all over the dis- t stating that “India is as quiet ay as it was a year ago.” ‘he letter was written pnth ago. [LLOWS INCREASES IN FREIGHT RATES about a . C. Decision Will Mean Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars An- nually to Railroads. Washington, Dec, 24.—Hundreds of ousands of dollars additional reve- ue will be derived annually by rail- loads west of the Mississippi as a re- ult of the interstate eommerce com- ission’s decision,allowing materiai creases in freight rates. This, de- pite the .fact ' that numerous in- iases sought by the carriers were fenied. Most of the advances which include kuch commodities as agricultural im- plements, canned goods and boots and hoes, take effect Jan. 31. The decision virtually brings to a close the general campaign of the 'western-roads to obtain higher freizht rates on the more important commod- fties, although here still is pending proposed increases on a few other commodities. XMAS PRESENT FOR STATE. New Haven, Dec. 24.—The county ‘of New Haven, through its commisn- gioners’ today sent a Christmas offer- ing to the state treasury amounting to $140,325 which is the state’s shar in the revenue from liquor licen: in the county. The city of New Haven paid to the commissioners $284,508 in license fees, of which amount ihe state received. $71,627. There & in the county 71 licensed clubs which ‘paild on a 75 per cent. basi to the state, As the fiscal year does not close until Jan. 1, the figures given out cover 1915 only until Nov. Natio Woriad’s G NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, D ns Acel-imed Dernhardt| reatest Actress XX Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest actress of the world in the last quar- | ter of the nineteenth century and the ! beginning of the twentieth century ! was born, according to the common | belief, although the records of her | birth were destroyed in the com- | mune, on Oct. 22, 1844. Her debut | as an actress was made in a minor | part in the Comedie Francaise. Years | of hard work at her profession fol- | lowed. Her triumps in England and | S B SARAH BERNHARDT 5 5+ S5+ 552 &>+ 5 & <2 in France, her conquest of the United States and finally the rich fruition of her farewell tours in this and other countries are parts of her long thea- trical career. In 1914 she received the cross of the Legion of Honor after the matter of giving it to her had been discussed for thirty years. Her illness, in which she suffered the loss of one of her lower limbs, engaged the .sympathetic attention of the en- tire world. RUSSIANS STEADILY ADVANCINGIN PERSIA Prediction of Universal Christmas Truce Upset London, Dec. 24, 11:37 a. m.—Many isolated engagements on various fronts have upset predictions of the universal | Christmas truce. Nothing of great importance, however, has developed. From Galicia the Russians report success in an action against the Aus- trians near Trembowla, where there has been an indication recently that the Austrians and Germans are seek- ing to strengthen their lines. Although no activity is reported on the Mesopotamian front, the Russians are advancing steadily in Persia in an effort to link their forces with those of their British allies. French Maintain Gains. On Hartmanns-Weilerkopf the French claim to have maintained their gains on a front of one mile, but admit their left has been com- pelled to fall back. The Gérmans as- sert that they have retaken the lost ridge, and capture of a large number of prisoners. Special despatches to London papers state the Bulgarians are preparing to invade Greek territory in an effort te expel the allies from Saloniki. The entente forces are engaged in strength- ening their positions and express con- fidence that there is no immediate prospect of an offensive against them. British Parliament Adjourns. Parliament adjourned without re- of Derby’'s recruiting plan, but on re- assembling after the holidays the members will have the facts in regard to the question whether conscription is necessary. Turkish Official Report. Constantinople, Dec. 23, via Lon- don, Dec. 24, 8:27 a. m.—The Turkish war office tonight gave out the fol- lowing statement concerning the prog- ress of hostilities: “The situation on the Irak front (in Mesopotamia) is unchanged. 1 Russlans Repulsed. “On the Caucaslan front Russian detachments which attempted to ap- proach us in the Milo sector were re- pulsed. “On the Dardanelles front five tor- pedo boats and one cruiser were com- | pelled to retire, the cruiser having | been hit. At Seddul Bahr there was ja violent artillery action on the right wing. A hostile air craft was shot down at Birsheba.” | Battle Fronts in Balkans. Paris, Dec. 24, 9:55 a. m.—The battle fronts of both sides in the conflict in the Serbian threater of war are given in a despatch from the Saloniki cor- | e respondent of the Hcho De Paris. ceiving the figures concerning the Earl | 1 i The correspondent states that 60,- | 000 Germans are massed around Mon- | astir, with the Bulgars concentrated |{ in the center of the Vardar Valley and two Turkish divisions taking a posi- | tion on the left of the Bulgars. The | French are ranged in a semi-circle | around Saloniki, with their left on the Vardar center, facing the Greek fron- tier near Doiran, and their right con- necting with the British troops de- fending Chalcidice. Quiet in France. Paris, Dec. 24, 2:30 p. m.—"There is nothing to add to the preceding communication,” the war office an- nounced this afterncon. Austrians Repulsed. Dec, 24, 2:30 p. m—A re- i the Austrians, upon whom | large losses are declared to have been | iinflicted, reported in an official Montenegrin statenrent received here today, as follows: “The enemy on Wednesday violently bombarded the Moikovac sector with- out result, and attacked Touriak, in { the direction of Rozai-berana, where | he was repulsed with large loss. “Towards Bielo we pursued the enemy as far as the village of Ivania. ““Artillery combats have occurred on Monté Lovtren, we destroying an Austrian field cannon.” Paris, pulse of RURAL CREDITS BILL. Final . Draft Before Congressional Sub-Committee. ‘Washington, Dec. 24.—The congres- sional sub-committee of the joint committee on rural credits had before it today for approval the final draft of a rural credit bill. This committee will report to the full committee next Monday, after which the latter hody will maké its report to both houses on rural credit legislation. The sub-committee had incorporat- ed into the final draft of the bill a provision fixing at $6,000,000 the capi- | tal stock of the twelve land mortgage banks which, distributed about the country according to the agricultural needs, are to form the backbone of the rural credit system. These banks will be permitted to charge a maxi- mum of six per cent. interest to the farm borrowers but are expected by \the committee to charge less interest { than that normally. E em will be independent of the federal reserve or any other existing banking system and will be controlled by a central board whose officers will be in Washington. i City Items ‘ For the accommodation of its cus: { tomers the New Britain Trust com- | pany will be open for the receipt of | deposits on Christmas cve from eight lz)'rlm'l\- to ten o’clock. The bank will | be closed all day Christmas.—advt. Give him shirts of quality. No exclusive prices or charge accounts at | Sesse-Leland’s.—advt. Dancing Christmas afternoon Put j nam Phalanx hall, Hartford. Adm, —advt. This land bank | | When he would OUR 1916 CHRISTMAS CLUB IS NOW OPEN The New Pass Book System Eliminates All Delay and Confusion OUR PURPOSE in maintaining this department is to afford an easy and sure way for the accumulation of ready money for definite purposes through the process of a systematic laying aside of a small sum at regular periods. It is designed to promote habit of “thrift” among both the young and those of more mature years by provid- ing an opportunity for depositing in bank the small sums hat are frequently frittered away. —WE PAY INTEREST— Whatever purpose you may be saiing money to fulfill—it pay* to open a Christmas Club account- pays and helps. It provides a sys- tem under which you can watch the accumulatio n now, while 21l the time your fund is protected from thoughtless, wasteless spend- ing and held true to your object Commercial Trust Co. 274 Main Street Open Tonight and Every Night Next Week Romance Tinged Lives of Many of Our Presidents Jefferson Lived True to His (Washington Post.) There has been a romance in the life of every president of the United States, and Mr. Wilson’s romance, which found its happy culmination re- cently, adds another fascinating chap- ter to the “History of the Love Af- fairs of Our Presidents.” Thomas Jefferson had only one | heart affair. In the prime of his ! early manhood, at the home of John Wayles, one of his legal associates, he met Martha Skelton, a widowed daughter, with whom he fell in love. She was beautiful and accomplished, and had many suitors, but Jefferson | finally won her love and married her. She idolized him and at her death she exacted a promise from him that he would never marry again, which he solemnly gave and loyally kept. Madison and “Queen Dolly.” After eight years as president, Jef- ferson gave way to the silent, solemn Madison, who had passed more than forty years without quickening the heart-beat in a woman's bosom; yet he led into the White House a wife who Wwas one of the most winsome women who have ever graced the sta- tion. She has been dubbed “Queen Dolly, the most gracious and beloved of all our female sovereigns.” When Madison passed into the thirties he saw and admired Catherine Floyd, a girl less than half his years. His way of woolng was to sit in the room with her and talk of the public debt, imposts, and the like, with her father. put a seal to the under home pres- when she would wooing, the girl, sure, said ‘“yes,” rather have said “no Breaks Her Engagement. Unfortunately for Madison, Cather- ine met another young man with | whom she fell in love, with the re- sult that she broke off the engage- ment with him. More than a decade | passed before he angled again, and then it was for the sweet Quaker Widow Todd. They became engaged and married. He proved a most de- voted husband and indulgent father to her child, a tender son to her mother and to her little ster he gave home, until he gave her away as a | bride. The married life of Mrs. Jackson was embittered by the political op- | ponents of her hushand making cam- capital out of their »marriaze ifficulties. Mrs. Jackson was the center of cruel gossip wherever she' turned. It made a lasting and bitter impression on her life, and her death was caused to a great extent through it. She never presided over ‘White House. Tyler Long Engaged. John Tyler was married twice—the P a the | second time while president. Hhi + House. Martha — “Dolly” Madison Famous White House Queen—Jackson’s Unfor- tunate Married Life—Other Romances. first wife was Letitia Christian, of an old Virginia family. She was beau- tiful and sweet and had many ad- mirers. On the part of Tyler it was a case of love at first sight. They plighted their troth when she was but sixteen and he seventeen. On his twenty-third birthday when Letitia was twenty-two, he led her to the altar. Romance and Tragedy. The second winter after the death of Mrs. Tyler, Mr. Gardiner, of Gard- iner's Island, in Long Island Sound, brought his young and: accomplished daughter, Julia, to share in the social gayeties of Washington, where she at once became a belle. The widowed | president, worn down by the unhapry state of his political affairs, found solace and relaxation in the society of this cultivated girl, whom he soon began to woo, and whom he married at the Church of the Ascension, in New York. The tragedy which marked the courting of Mr. Tyler while on a trip with Mr. and Miss Gardiner on a man-of-war on the Po- | tomac, and which cost the lives of Mr. Gardiner and a number of high government officials through an ex- plosion of a gun, is too well known to need repetition. There may be many who do not know of the love tragedy in the life of President Buchanan—a tragedy that | resulted in his dying an unwedded man. It was in 1819, when the future president was twenty-eight years old, that he became engaged to Anne D. | Coleman, the daughter of a wealthy | resident of Lancaster, Pa. Gossip set tongues a-wagging, and Miss Cole- | man, being of a sensitive nature, sent young Buchanan a note breaking off the engagement. She died soon after- ward. Trousscau Betrays Secret. Grover Cleveland had known Fran ces Folsom as a child. Later the girl entered Wells college and every week came a hamper of flowers from the gubernatorial mansion at Albany (Cleveland was then governor of New York), and, upon her graduation, | from the conservatories of the White Rumors from Paris about a wonderful trousseau being prepared for Miss Folsom gave the secret away. Miss Folsom had a grandfather at Folsomdale, whom she called Papa John, and he was to give the bride away. But while she was crossing the Atlantic, he died. It was resolved that there should be an immediate ceremony. With the ideas of a youns J 1 girl, who is always supreme upon the matter of her wedding rites, she de- i cides to plight her troth in the White | House. It was a private wedding, only the families of the bridal pair and the cabinet members, with their wives, being present. Woodrow Wilsow as a gallant | is spending a few days in Claremont | Misses Minnie ana Irene, will be | Hoyt, of New Canaan over Christmas. wooer merely followed a precedent of love-making long ago established by others who have presided over the destinies of this nation. DEMANDS KAISER BE DRIVEN FROM THRON “Prussian Conspirators” Violently In- dicted by German Humanity League. London, Dec. 24, 8:02 a. m.—The | German Humanity league, says the | Exchange Telegraph's correspondent at Rotterdam, has issued a manifesto containing a violent indictment of “the Prussian conspirators,” bitterly at- tacking the imperial German chan- cellor, accusing Germany of ‘bar- | harous cruelties and insatiable lust,” |and concluding with the demand that Emperor Willlam *“be deposed from his dishonored throne.” “Our homes are being desolated,” | the correspondent reports the mani- festo as saying, “in a campalgn waged not in lawful defense of German ter- ritory, but to satisfy the insatiable sravagery and greed of Prussian con- spirators. We again appeal to every wage earner not yet stirred to the heart by these awful holocausts to register a vow no longer to remain silent spectators of the stupendous crimes which have robbed us of our sons and brothers and left upon the truthful pages of history an indelible stain. “Napoleon failed and the Kaiser must fail. There can be no peace until he is deposed from the throne he has fouled and his fellow conspira- tors meet their fate at the hands of an executioner.” Berlin News. (Continued from Ninth Page.) her critical illness. Mrs. Haley was formerly Miss Laura Upson. Miss Agnes Warner of Kensington N. H. Miss Lillian A. Bassette, of the Kensington Grammar school, left for her home in East Harwich, Mass., last night, where she will spend the holidays. Mrs. M. A principal Gibbs and daughters, the guests of her daughter, Addie Mrs, Miss Agnes Carlson of the Kensing- ton Grammar school faculty will spend the holidays at her home in Gutlford. Edward Cowles of Kensington, student at the Hartford Thelogical seminary, returned home yesterday and will spend the vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. M, Cowles. BANDITS BLOW SAFE. Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 24.—Bandits early today blew the safe in the post office at Galvin, fifty miles southwest of here and later attempted to blow the safe in one of the banks there, ac- cording to a despatch to the Muskogee police. The night marshal is reported FIFTEEN KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISIONS Crashes Occur at Chattanooga, Tenn,, and Scranton, Pa. - Dec. 24.~En- gineer Irby Regd and Fireman W. B. Lehr of Nashyille, and thirteen negro laborers were killed and twenty-two negroes seriously injured late yes- terday in a collision between a Chajf- tanooga-Nashville passenger tratn and a fast freight between Rockledge and Sherwood, on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rallway. The engineer and fireman of tHe treight train were injured. The freight train was heavily load- ed and south bound from Nashville. It dashed into the north bound pass- enger train, the first and second coaches of which were telescoped and both engines demolished. Five or sh occupants of the second car were in jured slightly. Chattanooga, T Two Killed at Scranton. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 24.—The secon: section of Delaware, Lackawanna an Western passenger train No. 9 bdun: from New York to Buffalo, which way rammed at Slateford, near Delawal water gap, last last night by the third section of the same train, causing th death of two persons and injuries % five others, reached this city tod bearing the victims, who were takes to local hospitals. While one or of the injured were seriously h it is belleved all will recover. Th killed were both colored, one a po ter of the wrecked train and the ot Miss Anna Jones of Ithaca, N. Y. The most seriously injured are: Mrs. J. W. Styles, Montclair, N. J broken collar bone, hand cut and body bruises. 4 Miss Frances Styles, the ten Ve old daurhter of Mrs. Styles, lacel tions and shock Mrs. P. P. Merrill, New York, f tured collar bone and body bruises. J. O. Foster, porter, Cambrid Mass., laceration and internal inju fes. Only Wooden Oar. The wrecked sleeper was the wooden car in the train, and the cupants of this car were the vietim All of the other cars were of construction and were not damaged, E. M. Rine, general superintend of the Lackawanna, places the blan for the accident on the engineer section three, who, according to Rine ran past torpedoes and ligl fuses and also passed automatic nals that were set against him. DEFEATED BY Albany, N. Y, Deec. suffrage was defeated by a majo of more than 188,000 and the rev! constitution was rejected by & Jority exceeding 504,000 at thecs election in November, . according the announcement of the state of canvassers made public at the o 188,000, to have been shot. of Secretary of State Huso ¥