New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1915, Page 10

REEEE SEES}Holiday Greenery Helps to \ FOR ALLIES, Soften Wounded Troops’ Lot ral Powers Can In- and Pressure of War . 26, via Paris, 11:30 p D—In the course of an y with. General Cas- of the French general Constantine - expressed e Central empires would pist indefinitely the econ- kpecially the financiai, Jhe war. General Castel- rted the King’s opinion statement to the Asso- sovereign asked the jpander why by the slow- operations they had per- rushing of Belgium and he failure of the Dar- paign. General Castel- was that nobody denied unate results were ex- ettable. Bee War As Whole. be most highly desirable’ declared, “if Belgium and still intact and if Rus- Hay be revictualed by way anelles, but we must see | & whole. It would be fle of jeopardizing final vhich alone we have the hk, to undertake the mili- ithout the most completa and every assurance of anly possible. rials and forces are not owever, painful the result may be, it is truly crim- off half-cock. Remember | where the Russians «o the Malakoff Tower with nd round cannon balls. he German line today is a koff Towers with other as the Russians finally d to give up so must the I have given three sons, b more; but their lives too id, if need be, that victory mplete;” Pec. 28, 5:15 a. m.—“The between King Constantine al Castelnau is being much n oficial circles at Athens,” Matin. jvereign seems to have been | favorably by the general's osition of the situation of on all fronts. ng renewed to General Cas- e assurance that his army 1d fight against us, and once ressed strong desire that his 1d not be doubted.” NG THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY 1 Ambulance Work In Paris res Former Ambassador To France. ork, Dec. 28.—The American ice work in Paris is costing a B dollars a day, according to | [Bacon, former ambassador to | Mr. Bacon, one of the heads vork, arrived in New York to- the steamer New York, after broad since November.. The f the work had been greatly | hed, he added. i d M¢Mahon, connected with a ine signalling company .with arters at Boston, who has been sia another passenger. The s, he said, were now receiving dous quanities of munitions s country and Japan, and in ng, in his opinion, will launch great drive against the Ger- New York had an exceedingly trip. One second cabin pas- was thrown down the stair- d seriously injured. LDIERS’ HOME INQUIRY. ford, Dec, 28.—Governor Hol- said today he would shortly meeting of the executive com- e of the Soldiers’ Home to con- the report of the board which tly investigated complaints of 1d soldier inmates. Members of ommittee have been furnished typewritten copies of the report, eeting may be held next week. VANT THE MONEY FIRST. e water commissioners neld a -meeting yesterday afternoon decided not to make any repairs he municipal 'icehouse until af- ‘he money had been appropriated ‘he common. council tomorrow t. While it is probable that the heil will favor the expenditure of 00, as proposed by the board of Ince and taxation, the commission- have decided to wait until the L is passed. MAY GET SHELTER. lecretary A. H. Andrews has receiv- a letter from the railroad officials ing that the matter of the shelter the platform at the Berlin depot been thoroughly looked into and | t specifications have been submit! to the executive board. The lo- committee is confident that the tter will be recetved favorably by t body. MRS. ANDREWS’ ESTATE. An inventory of the estate of Mrs. mma P. Andrews was filed in the purt of probate *“oday by E. W. ultz and E. H. Munson. It con- ts of property at 32 Grand street, lued at $3,900 and personal proper- valued at $200. GEO. DODGE CRITICAL. Council Bluffs, Ia., Dec. 28.—The ondition of General Grenville M. bo who is ill ‘at his home here, reported as critical. ‘Whether Christmas finds the sur- viving European soldier intrenched at the front, immured in a fortress or lying wounded in hospital, at this sea- son he finds that his folks back home have held him in loving remem- brance. Special efforts have been made by all the warring governments to provide comforts for their men at Christmastide. The nurse in the pic- ture is trying to bring a little cheer into the wounded soldier's life by adorning his surroundings with holi- day greenery. AMERICAN MAIL IS SEIZED BY BRITISH Taken From Dutch and Norwegian Ships on Way to Holland Berlin, Dec. 28, by Wireless to Say- ville.—Seizures by the British govern- men of American mail from two steamships on their way to Holland is reported in a Rotterdam despatch given out today by the Overseas News Agency. According to the news agency’'s des- patch the vessels from which mail was taken are the Dutch steamship Nieuw Amsterdam, from New York for Rot- terdam, and the Norwegian steamship Christian Michelsen, New York for Rotterdam. Took South American Mail Advices from Amsterdam, the news agency also states, are that British authorities took from the steamer Tubantia, a Dutch vessel plying be- tween Amsterdam and South Ameri- can ports, all the South American mail for Holland she had on board. Parcels Post Shipments. The foregoing does not make - it clear whether the mail seized included any first class matter, or, as is more probable, consisted of parcels post shipments. On December 20 the United States addressed a protest to Great Britain on the subject of British interference with Swedish-American mail The British government has taken the stand that parcels post matter must be regarded as freight, exempt from the protection given first class matter under the international postal con- vention. Washington is understood to have concurred in this view. Another Steamer Looted New York, Dec. 28.—The steamer United States, which arrived today from Scandinavian ports, reported that on December 13, she was stopped east of the Shetland Isles by a British cruiser and taken to Greenock for ex- amination. There the = British re- parcels post packages. The steamer was released on the eighteenth. Because they were held five days at Greenock, the 200 American citizens aboard the United States drew up a the British government and will for- ward it to Secretary of State Lansing. They point out that in being taken to Greenock the ship was exposed to mine fields. To Seize All Mail. ‘Washington, Dec. 28.—The allies, it is explained here, intend to seize and moved 1,961 small parcels and 930 , | vigorous protest against the action of | HUNGARY PLANS MONOPOLY ON WHEAT Desperate Scheme Shows That tional Bankruptcy and Ruin Are Not Far Distant. - London, Dec. 28, 4:15 a. m.—Count Tisza, the Hungarian premier, con- templates making the cultivation of wheat a state monopoly, accorfiing to the Post’s Budapest correspondent, who declares that it is a desperate scheme showing that national bank- ruptcy and ruin are not far distant. Referring to the idea in parliament, M. Szterenyi, a former minister, said to Count Tisza: “If the government proposed a monopoly on wheat it would be the most dastardly act ever committed by the government and they would find millions of people involved in open revolution before the plan could be adopted. INCORPORATE WORLD’S COURT. For Settlement of all Kinds of In- ternational Differences. Albany, N. Y., Dec 28—Papers in- corporating the World’s Court league were filed with the secretary of state’s office today. The object of the league, as set forth in the papers, is “To advocate the establishment of a world’s court for judicial investiga- tion and settlement of all kinds of in- ternational differences. Thirty- directors are named, includ- ing Oscar S. Straus; John Hays Ham- mond and Alton B. Parker, New York; James Brown Scott, Washing- ton; Henry R. Rathbone, Chicago; Augustus Bush, St. Louis and E. C. Stokes, Trenton, N. J. 208 SURVIVORS. | Rescued’ From French Steamer Sunk by Submarine. London, Dec. 28, 11:08 a. m.—“The number of survivors from the French | steamship Ville De Le Ciotat, whose sinking in the Mediterranean by a submarine was announced yesterday, is ‘given in a Reuter despatch from { Malta as 208. The despatch confirms . previous advices that 80 persons lost | their lives. The steamship was off the Island of Crete when sunk. Survivors landed at Malta corre- borate the statement that the Ville De La Ciotat was torpedoed without warning. NOT IN PLOT CASE. Young Hungarian Denies Making Bombs to Destroy Munition Vessels. examine all mail passing between the United States and the European neu- trals, when there is reason to believe it is intended for Germany. Hitherto the seizures of that sort have been confined to parcel post. In justification of the action it is said the allies will first plead military | necessity and, second, that there is no inviolability of mail to the Teutonic scribe to The Hague convention which covers it. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Mrs. Lucy E. Cryne has sold land and buildings at 96 Wallace street to W. W. Hanna. The Bodwell Land Co. today trans- ferred to August Monsees three lots on Roxbury Road, Belvidere, The Central Realty Co. sold to Clayton A. Parker property at Cherry and Ellis streets, powers because Germany did not sub- | New York, Dec. 28—Anton F. Men- te, a young Hungarian in whose room police found a large quantity of acids and chemicals used in the manufac- ture of high explosives, today pleaded | guilty to violating the tenement house act in having explosive or inflam- mable materials in his home, and was sentenced to one year in prison. Mente stoutly denied that he had intended to make bombs to be used | in destroying munition vessels or fac- tories, contending: that he fitted his room up as a laboratory because he wished to study chemistry. ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT, The engagement of Ernest Herman Noren of New York to Miss Clara Henrietta Sonntag of the same city is announced- Mr, Noren is a former local young man and is at present vis- iting in this city, 1 ! The work will | TEMPLARS OF HONOR WILL GATHER HERE Thirty-third Assembly Will Be Held In O. U. A. M. Hall New Year’s Day. Saturday, New Year's day, the thir- ty-third annual assembly of Connecti- cut Select Templars will be held in O. U. A. M. hall at 277 Main street. The assembly will be called to order at 10 a. m. and the degree of Select Templar will be conferred on a class of fiften or more approved Templars. be in charge of com- panions of New Britain and members of Phoenix Temple of this city are making every effort to make the event a success. Phoenix Temple will hold its regu- lar meeting Friday night on the eve of the state gathering. A class of candidates will be initiated and the recently revised and enlarged cere- mony will be used. Arrangements for this work have been made by Companion D. I. Robinson of Massa- chusetts and the work will be under his direction. For the assembly Sat- urday many new and interesting fea- tures will be introduced in connec- tion with the degree work. The aft- ernoon meeting New Year's day will be open to all members of the order and a large gathering including visi- tors and guests from all points in the state is anticipated. On Friday evening members of Phoenix Temple will serve light refreshments and New | Year’s the members of Dorcas Social Temple will serve dinner to all in at- tendance. _— TAFT ADDRESSES MEETING Former President Talks on ‘' Athletics” New York, Dec. 28.—The standards governing collegiate athletics were considered today by members of the National Collegiate Athletic associa- tion here for their tenth annual con- vention, One of the prominent speakers was Wm. H. Taft whose ad- dress on ‘“College Athletics’”’ was one of the most important on the pro- gram, Other speakers are Prof. Al- bert Le Fevre, of the University of Virginia, Prof. Robert N. Corwin of Yale; Dean Howard McClenahan of Princeton and President Henry A. Garfield of Williams college Reports were received from com- mittees on football rules and fatali- ties, basketball rules, track and field sports, and the problem of defining an amateur. Members of the football rules com- mittee also are here today to consid- er minor changes in the rules of that game and the definition of unusual plays not covered by the rules which developed during the games of the past season. The most important amendment submitted to the commit- tee is a rule compelling the players of all teams to wear numbers. The committee is composed of rep- resentatives of Dartmouth, Yale, Haverford, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Naval Academy, University of the South, Princeton, the Military Acade- my, Oberlin, Towa State, Chicago, Minnesota and Cornell. “College at Coryvention. HEAVY STORM IN ENGLAND. Terrible Gale Spoils Christmas Fes- tivity of Boxing Day. London, Dec. 28, 3:35 a. m.—Box- ing day yesterday, the annual holiday on which messengers and letter car- riers are remembered with Christmas boxes was largely spoiled for the Eng- lish people by a terrible gale, which raged throughout the day and night. The storm was accompanied by a drenching rain and much damage was done to property. FIRST CHURCH PARTY Final preparations were made for the Christmas giving party of the First church Sunday school this morn- ing. The party will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the chapel and is open to all members of the school from the junior department up. The entertainment feature will be a pageant, ‘Bethlehem,” given by the members of the Boy Scouts and Gir Scouts. There are thirty-five in the cast and it promises to be a pretty and effective presentation. Follow- ing the pageant each class in the Sunday school will bring the gifts they have prepared for needy boys and girls of the city. The whole school Wwill march around the tree and deposit the gifts. MANY DEER KILLED, Supt. Crampton Fears Report of 1,000 Is Only Hulf of Actual Number- Hartford, Dec. 28.—According to Superintendent Crampton of the state game and fish commission, the num- ber of deer reported to him up to date, as Kkilled in Connecticut since August 1, has reached very nearly 1,000 and he believed that number only about one half the actual killings. “There will be no deer left to pro- tect by the time the next general as- sembly meets,” said he. “PUTS” OPEN HOUSE The Putnam Phalanx will hold open house at the armory in Hartford on New Year's day. There will be a prize shoot from 8 until 3 o’clock and at 1 o’clock a turkey dinner will be served. The second of the season’s series of assemblies will be held on the evening of January 4 and on tHe following cvening the monthly meet- ing of the command will take place. TWO WILD SWANS, Hartford, Dec. 28.—Superintendent John M. Crampton of the fish and game commission has received two wild swans from California and has placed them in the state game pre- serve in Madison. They had been on exhibition at San Francisco. George D. Buck of Naugatuck has given a reindeer to the commission ang this has also been sent to Madjson. Ford’s Departure Leaves Mission in Women’s Hands| NOTABLE IN HISTORY . | TRAU SCHWIMMER, ¢>¢ HENRY FORD- - Henry Ford's departure from Eu- rope apparently marked the termina- tion in its original form of the most novel of the many movements which have been undertaken to bring about the ending of the war. Mr. Ford’s announcement that the Women’s In- ternational Peace association thence- forth would conduct the expedition would seem to indicate that, so far as he personally is concerned, he will relinquish the self imposed task of bringing peace to Europe in EX short time. The Women’s Interna- tional Peace association has been in existence for some time. It held a WAR EDUCATION T0 NORTHERN FINNS Practically Opportunists in Mat- ters of Belief (The National Geographic Society.) ‘Washington, D. C., Dec. 28—"These stirring military times will prove a liberal education to one of the most conservative of peoples, Russia’s northern Finns—those of the prov- inces of the lake and forest district neighboring. Finland proper—who have persisted in a stubborn doubting of civilization since Peter the Great built Russia’'s Eurvpean window, Petrograd, to let its light in wupon them, “Says a War primer just is- sued by the National Geographic so- ciety, which gives a sketch of the religious beliefs of these taciturn hunters, trappers, and fishermen: The statement continues: “The foremost scepticism of these wilderness-dwellers is that of Chris- tianity, which come to them through the Russians. Not that they are averse to the doctrines of the Ortho- dox church. but, being an unimagina- tive, practical people, one bad harvest or meagre hLunting season works more disastrously upon their faith than all the writings of the philoso- phers would ever do. Nominally,— these northern Finns are Christians and Orthodox. In reality, most of them are practical opportunists in matters of belief. Old Religion Practical. “The old religion of the Finns, erl the people themselves, was thorough- ly practical, prosaic, frankly utili- tarian. The superior powers in the world existed merely so that their people, the Finns, might convince them with argument or cajolerie to make harvests p:entiful and hunting good. “Although civilization has spread its influence through their lands, the Old Finnist belief survives on in the fold of the Orthodox church in its an- cient characteristic of blount, un- varnished utilitarianism. The Finn rays for good harvests, large catches, plentiful game, increase for his herds. He tells God in straightforward, un- adorned, childlike phrases when he wants his grain to ripen or that his herd is about to increase and, there- fore needs special attention, He complains to God in the same confid- ing way when his taxes seem too heavy or when his property is stol- en. He is not given to the transports of mysticism, nor is he tenacious or precise about articles of creed. “He is concerned about averting the attenions of evil spirits and about discouraging unwelcomed visits from his dead. So, although a Christian, he places food upon the new-made grave and exhorts its occupant to stay away. Appeal to Russians’ God. “These northern Finns made no difficulty about accepting Christiani- ty. When harvests failed, or other misfortunes overtook them, they na- turally applied to the God of the Rus- sians for assistance, and if convinced that He was the most potent, aban- doned the old gods without regret. The following Specimen prayer of a northern Christian Finn, addressed to congress at The Hague last spring | and appointed delegations to visit the }capltals of various European and American nations. One of the most prominent women at the congress was Frau Rosika Schwimmer, pre dent of the Hungarian Woman Suff- rage association, who is a member of the Ford peace party. After the congress at The Hague Frau Schwim- mer came to the United States to continue her work for peace. She | went to Detroit to see Mr. Ford, and 'it was reported it was she who sug- gested to him the idea of the peace expedition. the favorite Russian saint, St. Nicho- las, illustrates his position: ‘“ ‘Look hert, Nichoas-god! Perhaps my neighbor, little Michael, has been slandering me to you, or perhaps he will do so. If he does, don’t be- lieve him. I have done him no ill and wish him nont., He is a worth- less boaster and a babbler. He does not really honor you, and merely plays the hypocrite. But I honor you from my heart; and, behold, I place a taper before you! ’ ™. DALY SNOWBALLS COP. New Haven, Dec. 28.—John Daly of New Britain was fined $5 and costs for breach of the peace, in this city vesterday. It was alleged in police court that Daly playfully walloped Policeman Chris Fagan of the Central police station with a hunk of ice and snow Sunday. COM. TOWERS IMPROVED Reports received regarding County Commissioner Joseph Towers’ condi- tion today were to the effect that he is steadily improving and is now able to sit up and be around the house, City Items ‘ Roger Cowles and quist will spend the New Year in New Samuel Stan- York at the Hotel Breslin. A. D. Whittle of the Dickinson Drug company will be the guest of friends in New York. A meeting of the trustees and deacons of the Swedish Lutheran church will be held Thursday evening meeting of the January. Special lot clean Lehigh coal, City Coal and Wood Co., Elm St—advt. The New Britain Lumber and Coal company brought suit today for $50 against Charles and Kristina Erickson and property at 66 Cottage place was | attached by Deputy Sheriff Marsh on ‘a writ issued by Attorney Charles H. Mitchell. church early in Try our regular meals, 35 and 25 cents. Regal Hotel.—advt. Morris Schupack has leased the store at 326 Main street to John R. Higbie of Hartford and Andrew Kroo- ze of this city for a restaurant at a monthly rental of $100. Angglo Cianflone has filed notice with the city clerk of his intention to | sell his shoe repairing business at 147 Main street to John Cianflone. The committee on claims of the common council will meet Thursday | night to have a hearing on the claim | of a pupil at the Prevocational school wha was injured while operating a printing press. New Britain lodge of Elks will meet tonight at 8.30 o’clock to take action on the death of Louis J. Mul- ler. This evening the members of the Stanley Works office force will pre- sent a benefit entertainment, entitled “The Follies of the Stanley Works,"” at the Y. W. C. A. Dancing will fol- low. The proceeds will go to the Y. W.C, A Owing to the disrupted signal ser- vice trains in this section of the state continued behind schedule last eve- ning, but today things have improved noticeably and most trains arriving here were nearly on time, George Hagist, Hermann Lumpp and Richard Schaeffer have been named appraisers of the estate of Paul Gabin, to make plans for holding the annual | EUROPEAN MARCHES * Islands Again Battleground Be- tween Orient and Occident Washington, D. C., Dec ~“With the shipping of the center of the Eu- ropean storm gathering in intensity toward the Balkans, Turkey- in-Europe, the Near those islands which dot the course between Asia, battlegrounds in 28 and its and East, Europe and the 2,500 of struggle the Orient and Occident years between r suprem acy, are forming once more a part of the area where the future of the West is to be decided. in the world whose absorbing than those of these islands, A bulletin just issued by the National Geographic Society gives a sketch of the islands as presented in a com- munication to the Society by Ernest Lloyd Harris. It is as follows: “Where a broken fringe of islands parallels the coast of Asia Minor, be- ginning with famed Rhodes in the south; running northward, narrowly separated from the mainland, past the peninsula of Gallipoli, and ending near the present Aegean coast of Bul- garia, is the dividing line between the Occident and Orient. These is- lands are the European marches, where Asia and Europe have clashed throughout all history. “Here we find Persian pitted against Greek, Roman against Pontien, By- zantine against Moslem, Crusader against Saracen, Turks against Mogul, and, today, Europe divided against it- self, and against the East Picturesque Regio) “Not only has Asia Minor and the islands facing its shores been the stage upon which have been enacted some of the most gigantic events in human history, but it is at the present *~ { time one of the most interesting and picturesque regions in the world. It has been termed the quintessence of the East. For nowhere else will you find, thrown together in close associaw tion, so many things of the East—the camel caravan; the groves of cypress, olive, plane, and valonia trees; the mosque and lowering minaret; latticed windows and veiled women, and a background made up of the remnanty of an ancient civilization. “Rhodes, whose history is one chap- ter after another of fascinating ro- mance from days of remote antiquity, through its reign as a cultural center during the age of Roman occupation, and its golden period as the stronmg* hold of chivalry during the occupa- tion of the island by the order of the Knights of St. John, once dominated the eastern Mediterranean; as a vest- pocket England off the coast of Asia Minor. There are no lands stories are more Held By Taly. “Cicero and Caesar finished their educations at Rhodes, but imperial Rome and Byzantium finally absorbed the schools of Rhodes. Next the Knights of St. John, founded in the eleventh century at Jerusalem, after many hardships, brightened again the annals of the islands by making it their home. - They assumed the nage of the Knights of Rhodes, and after innumerable wars, were at last forced to retire, in 1522, before the Turks to Malta. At the present time the island is being held by Italy, which took posession in 1912, in the course of her war with Tripoli. - “Chios, 150 miles to the north, once one of the richest members of the Ionian Union, subject, in turn, to Athenian, Roman, Italian and Turkish domination, has long been a bone of contention between the Turk and Greek, and was first reunited to™*ts parent country, Greece, in 1913, after a separation of more than 2,300 years. Turks Devastated Land. “The Chians joined their brother Greeks in the ‘wars of liberation, which began in the first years of the last century. In 1822, the Turks slaughtered 30,000 Chians in the space of two months, and sold 32,000 others into slavery, and the land was thor- oughly devastated. “S8amos, at the mouth upon which stood ancient Ephesus, the Magnificent, formed one of” the oldest settlements of the Ionians in the Mediterranean Samos was the birth place of the philosopher Pythagovas, and here, too, was the wonderful Temple of Hera, a bgast of the Grecian world. “The islands of the Aegean taken together constitute ome of the most of the bay ! historic and interesting insular region in the world. Besides the twenty principal ones, which have lent much to history; there are innumegable smaller ones. The larger islands have a number of fertile and well- watered valleys and plains, the prin- cipal products of which are wheat, wine, oil, mastic, cotton, silk, raisins, honey, and wax. Coral and sponge fisheries are numerous and in most of the islands the ancient Greek type. perseveres among the people.” PN AR Sl & ITEMS OF INTEREST TO WOMEN| If the meat provided is expensive, balance things by serving inexpensive vegetables and dessert. = (3 ‘When the weather is cold enougl to make ice, reduce the ice bill by set ting pails of water out to freeze. When washing delicate laces dd not use starch; if a little stiffening § needed, dissolve two lumps of " sugal in a basin of water. This will give all the stiffening that is needed. When the butcher cuts your roast, consider the bones, or stance, if you ask him to cut twg i indicate that you wish him to cut t roast off close to the third rib. in t way you get the meat of the secon rib without paying for the extra bon which weighs considerable. i ind