New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 3

BOSTON STORE WISHES EVERYBODY MERRY CHRISTMAS PULLAR BASIS FOR CLOSER ECONOMIG DEALINGS Trying to Be Found By Germany and Austria-Hungary (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 21.—Im- portant conferences beteween German and Austro-Hungarian politicians and leading representatives of finance and commerce, are now going on in Vienna and Berlin, for the purpose of finding a basis for establishing closer economic relations between the allied empires. Although several meetings | have already taken place no definite | results have yet been obtained. The industrial and commercial interests of the two countries reached, which will prove satisfactory to both sides. And go far every conference seems only to have discovered new troubles in ‘the way of reaching an agreement. Austro-Hungarians fear, that just 8s at present they are under the domination of Germany {in military affairs, so later their financial and economic independence will also be lost before the persistent and power- ful monarch of Germany. The whole question is one of the most vital im- portance for the future welfare of the «dual monarchy, and excites far more interest in the business community than the progress of the war. Agrarians in Majority. Since the Franco-Prussian war Ger- | many has become an industrial state while Austria-Hungary has remained essentially agricultural. With the ex- ception of Bohemia, Moravia and all the other provinces of Austria are purely agricultural, and Hungary is overwhelmingly so. In both parlin- ments at Vienna and Budapest, the Jority. Nevertheless both politically and militarily, a closer union between Germany and Austria is generally re- Quality Corner ‘When you do your shopping for men here. = You are cer- tain to get nothing in poor style. You are certain to get nothing that men do not like. You are certain.to miss nothing ‘worth while which the market affords. This is..begause we have been studying' men’s out- fittings for 15 years from tne standpoint of the taste and needs of the best dressed nen in this section. Here are some gift sugges- tions for the last day of shop- ping. Special Lot of Coaty . ..... Neckwear .. B Pajamas . 31 50 to $10.00 Hosiery .. .. 250 to $3.50 Gloves ... 500 to $15.00 Silk Mufflers 3.50 to $10.00 ‘Wool Mufflers ...8$1.00 to $5.00 Handkerchiefs ... 25c¢ to $2.00 Walking Sticks .$1.00 to $25.00 House Coats and Robes $3.50 to $30.00 Umbrellas .... $1.00 to $25.00 Leather and Metal Novelties. e ————— The Stackpole- - -Moore Tryon Co. ASYLUM AT | TRUMBULL STREET, HARTFORD. BOWLING Clubs and Private Par. s Ac:ommaodate Hilding Nelson, 172-174 ARCH NSTREET. PRINTING Y SKILLED UNION MEN and at Moderate FPrices LINOTYPE COMPOSITION. Prioting Dene in Several Langunge garded as an absolute necessity, and will doubtless continue to be so long after the war {s ended. But the problem as to how this is to be brought about is-exceedingly complex. High Protective Duties. N DAILY HERALD, FRITJAY, DECEMBER 24, 1915 $134,000.00 New Britain National Bank B ARG A 1915 Christmas Club Fund Our 1916 Club Opens for Membership Monday, Dec. 27th, 1915 an Lower Austria, which includes Vienna, | &grarians-always possess a large ma- | By high protective duties Austria has long maintained an economic | existence, independent of Germany, | and indeed even opposed to German; interests. In Austria everything is much dearer than in Germany, from | twenty to even fifty per cent. The ! difference in prices is especlally great | in heavy wares, such as coal, iron, | steel and machinery. It is only through these protective duties that ! Austria has managed to develop a srowing industry, and prevent the country frem being flooded with creap German products. For some years Austria has almost monopolized the trade in the Balkans | and the Levant, but latterly German | merchants have been creeping in there and capturing customers. This has been the case more than ever since the annexation by Austria- Hungary of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1909, when both Turkey and Ser- bia boycotted Austrian goods. The rapidity with which Germany seized the opportunity to enter these mar- kets caused intense irritation in Vienna and Budapest at the time. Nor hag this feeling diminished since German trade has steadily grown in hias as steadily decreased. Outcome Is Unforseen. How all these matters gill develop nobody can forsee. Undoubtedly heavy obligations to Germany for her military aid in the war. How and in what form will Germany require pay- ment for such service? Probably through preferential customs tatiffs, or perhaps by a customs.union. In cither case it is declared Germany stands to gain all the profit and Austria to suffer all the injury. For then German wares would swamp Austrian markets, prices generally would be forced down, and Austrian competition for the trade in the Tialkans and-Levant would be hope- less. Hence it is easy to understand the covert opposition, in nearly all parts Southeastern Europe while Austria’s | Austria-Hungary is placed under | of Austria, to Germany's efforts to relationship. It is feared that eco- nomic dependence will surely follow military. For since the wfir began many things have occurred dicate Germany’s aim at bringing Aus- tria-Hungary under her commercial subjection. Only a short time ago the big banks in Berlin sent circulars to the principal Austrian investors in the first and second Austrian war loans, offering to advance them ninety per cent. of the face value of their holdings provided they would use the money for investment in the third loan. The Austrian banks were only advancing seventy-five per cent. of the former loans. Such incidents have e TS The Eastern Printing C., 53 Chur... Street. Tel. 634. C. EBBESEN. MGR. created much distrust in the Austrian capital, and shown the necessity for excercising the utmost caution before entering into any new kind of eco- nomic arrangements with Germany, which may be fraught with the most serious consequences for the future of the dual monarchy. Doubled in Price. Shoes have doubled in price in Vienna in the last few months, and this largely through the wearing of bring her ally in closer commercial | hich in- | Closes Jan. 3rd, 1916 EIGHT CLASSES THIS YEAR NOTE THE FOUR NEW CLASSES Class 50 you pay 50c each week for fifty weeks and receive $25.00 Class 100 you pay $1 each week for fifty weeks and receive $50.00 Class 200 you pay $2 each week for fifty weeks and receive $100.00 Class 500 you pay $5 each week for fifty weeks and receive $250.00 OR YOU MAY JOIN Class 2 starts with 2c and increase 2c each week and receive $25.50 Class 2A starts with $1 and decrease 2c each week and receive $25.50 Class 5 starts with 5¢ and increase 5¢ each week and receive $63.75 Class 5A starts with $2.50, decrease 5¢ each week and receive $63.75 Membership limited in all classes. Join Early. SPECIAL DEPARTMENT AND CLERK FOR THIS CLUB. You can join anytime between 9 A. M. and 3 P.M. Even- ings, 7 to 9 P. M. which has been further increased by the women’s demand for higher shoes, ] which take much more leather. The consequence is that prices have risen tremendously. Modern shoes of the cheapest material formerly costing $8 now cost from $12 to $16, while for better shoes $16 and even $20 are asked. Men’s shoes have also gone up in price in the same proportion, although in their csae no change in fashion has taken place. Since a large quantity of tanner’'s materials has always been obtained from Turkey, it is possible that now, that communications have been re- opened with Constantinople, fresh sup- plies may be obtained. Most Difficult Problem. One of the most difficult of all social problems, the care of the home- less, has been solved in Vienna by the war. The number of these unfor- tunate persons this winter is far less than in many years. Indeed so great has been the falling off in this cl of mendicants that in many districts. of the city the buildings erected for their accommodation have been con- verted into military hospitals, and homes for refugee from the Italian theater of war. The disappearance of these ‘“home- less" ;persons is chiefly due.to so many of the men having been called to the army, when their wives and families are given relief: pay placing them often in far better circumstances than when their husbands were in work. Then, too, the younger classes of the “homeless” who were formerly unable | to obtain work in the city in the win- ter, can now get employment easily. The factories are constantly inquir- | ing at the night shelters for workers. Then, too, “homeless” families are | much fewer, because the landlords ars compelled to show more consideration before ejecting tenants, and the fam- ilies of reservists are often better able to pay the rent than in narmal times. ' GERMANS REPAIRING ROADS IN WARSAW Over Million and a Hall Dollars Spent in Project Women acting as motoreyelists *“on his majesty’s w:\non" like the young woman in the . are common sights nowadays in England, since so | other w Germans have won from Women T. aking I’lczcr—:s"o}r Men At the Front In War many male motorcyclists are at the front They serve the military au- thorities s difpatch bearers and in the thoroughfares had heen collected over and over—and never spent for (INCORPORATED) & & HARTFORD ristmas Goo arked Dow Favorable Opportunities Last-Minute Shoppers. Store Open Evening Until 9 o’Clock NOW IS THE TIME FOR HOFFMANN’S GENUINE GER! CHRISTMAS COOKIES | We have a full stock of our own made HO. CAKES in packages, HONEY NUTS (Pfeffernul SPRINGERLE Anis Drops, Hearts, Animal Coo Gingerbread men, etc. As we use best quality He our goods, they will be found superior, finer and than the usual factor; goods. For Christmas remember Hoffmann’s FRE SQUASH and Home Made MINCE PIES. ()4 () L&W‘ w\ 02 WEST Mt the work has bedn done purely as n!fu»)n(!nn it is assumed, is 1 sort of philanthropic measure and that it will stand as a heritage for those who may in the future govern Poland. Employ 35,000 Laborers, That it has been thoroughly Kowever, is attested to by the fact that between 30,000 and 35,000 labor- ers have been employed in the various | rections of Poland Most of these 1aen are Poles, thrown out of their ordinary occupations by a shortage of 1aw materials. Throughout the length and breadth of Poland the sand stretches are iLeing bolstered up with wood and stone—and 710,000 cubic meters (ap- proximately yards) have been used thus far in making passable roads, even in districts where no military need for them exists. FFor instance, a road 75 kilometers in length has been built to the south of Lodz, where there have been no crmies for months, and where there | is no immediate prospect of a need for £00d roads from a military standpoint The work continues, and a contrast between the old and new order of things—easily obtainables In the course of a ride outside of Lodz— gives a glimpse of the constructive cfforts of the Germans. Population Proven Thankful. The Peolish population in general has proven thankful for what has been accomplished—additionally =0 tecause thousands of its men and women have received employment in the reconstruction of the Poligh 10ads, and have in this way been saved from the starvation that other- wise stared them in the face It is peculiar that the women, rather than the men, have done the most toward rehabilitating their own country. The women, and grown children, have proved themselves in- dustrious workers. for the recon- struction of Poland, while the men with few exceptions have had to be driven, and have never overcome their suspicion of the Germans. This on generations of experience d s'an domination, The men, than work, offér bribes to ti | mans, as they used to offer ti “ the Russians, and then appear done, | dumfounded when the bribes zccepled and they are confronts | the alternative of working or s SAILORS FIGHT FIRE, Apprentices at’ Naval Trainin tion Act as Smoke-oates Newport, R. 1, Dec. 24.—Th prentice seamen at the naval t station were called out early. tos fight a fire in a building former} as a hospital but recently se naval Young Men’'s Christian | clation rooms. They suoceeded in preventi) ! spread of fhe flames # other ings. The/0ld wogden structu | practically ¥estroys t the n tary loss is small. { llllll) S TO’I'AIA IIOBH. 500,000 Damage to Stricture ceted Over Mississippl Ri Memphis, Tenn., Dee. 24. | wards of $500,000 damage was |last night when about 300 fi | the steel “false work” of the Haf railroad and wagon bridge, whit |to span the Mississippi here, N swept away, by sl rapid xise in river. No one was injured The bridge is being constructed cost of approximately lfi 000,000, Notice. To Creditors and Noteholders: The First National Bank of P ville, located at Plainville in the B of Connecticut. is closing up affairs. All noteholders and creditors of said association are th fore hereby notified to present tif notes or other claims against the sociation for payment A. A. MacLEOD sians. Prior to the fall of 4] ~ For Your Insurance and" |t jo skirt, which calls for higher Surety Bonds footwear. It fs not that raw ma- R S et e e e ? le b; terial is scarce at all; there is plenty IRk Shase il e it s L e AR LERLe DY baving },"“',""'“' of it from ox, calf and goatskins, but | Warsaw, Dec, 24.—Something over ' Paired, but when the Russians re- strects, were all but impassable. and SBce written by 0 Whe knows | nning materlals are hardly obtain- | & million and a half dollars have been (reated to Brest Litovsk, and then the third variety consisted of roads How.: Go to able at any price. Most of thess | expended by the Germans since their abandoned that fortress, the mileage that not only were fmpassable but DW[GHT A. PARSONS. [came from- abroad but their tmport | oeoupancy of Poland in reconstructing Increased to 5,440 kilometers (3,400 impossible. All three sorts were torn Booth’s - Riack. has been rendered impossible by the | the unspeakably bad roads that criss- ™Miles) and the difficultics involved by shells, cut by trenches, and rutted war for some time past, With the | cross the kingdom at more or less ETeW sreater with each additional j by both Russian and German wagons aid of these, Austrian tanners could | rare intervals, and which have been mile. ¥ e REcunditoctheltront - convert a hide into leather in three | all but destroyed by artillery fire and | Tmperial Roads. : ‘ The Germans in charge of road re- weeks; the same process now takes [ by the transportation of big guns, | The Germans found, on their ‘ building claim that they never have four months. = Some of these ma- | ammunition and food supplies. rival, a few so-called “imperial roads’ h;n!‘zxu,\ word as to the ultimate in- olutely Removes terials are now costing seven times For those in charge of the “Recon- | which were, for the most parf, strips | (ention of their government with re- the ordinary price. etruction of connections between the of sand. From the inhabitants—or|spect to Poland—that their work has ndigestion. Onepackage (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) bring r\e;plt; And this has led to a shortage in |armies and home” the task has such of them as remained— thn)rv gone on \rrlvslmrfivv of any mu-nu;n A wn with eac that the ! icarned that taxes for the upkcep of! to annex the ancient kingdom, that S it. 25¢ at all dmgglsts the supply of shoemaker's leather ; grown wi h kilometer A 4 e ’ |