New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 3

- Store Open Friday New Year ivening, Closcd Day. Sweaters FOR b | Ladies, Misses and Children LADIES SWEATERS in all the latest colorings, plain and Norfolks, | $2,00 to $6.00 each. MISSES SWEATERS in the new colors also combination colors, plain and belted, $1.25 to $2.00. JUVENILE SWEATERS, big var- iety, white and colored, 50c to $1.75. CHILDREN’S 3 and 4-plece Knit Suit, plain and angora yarn, white, brown, copenhagen and grey, $2.25 to $3.00. LADIES ANGORA VESTS, double brested white and all desirable coi- ors, if you want something warm and comfy to wear under your coat try one of these, $1.60 each. LADIES’ CARDIGAN JACKETS, with and without sleeves, black and grey. KNIT TOQUES, big variety color- ings, 26c, 50c each. ANGORA SCARFS in all the ed colors, 50c and 98c. Agents for McCALL PATTERNS. The best pattern sold at any price, 10c and 15c each. ) PULLAR - & NIVEN PORTER SCHOOL GIRL IS FROZEN TO DEATH ‘want- “Daughter of Wealthy Greenwich Res- ident, Victim of Somnambulism, oon Christmas Vacatfon. Greenwich, Dec. 30.—Miss garet Curtiss, the 18-ye: Mar- A. G. Spaulding & Bros., was found ;frozen to death in the rear of her father’s home here yesterday. Her body was discovered by a chauffeur. “ It lay about 700 feet from the house. Miss Curtiss was known to have been a somnambulist and it is believed by ‘the police and members of the fam- ily that she walked out of the house ¥ while asleep. Miss Curtiss, who was a pupil of ‘Miss Porter’s school at Farmington, came home for her Christmas vaca- ‘tion last week. She had studied very hard and was not in good health. She sat down to dinner with the fam- ily Tuesday night, and retired to her room at 9 o’clock, after which she ‘was not seen again by any member of the household. Yesterday morning when she did not come to the breakfast table a ser- $vant was sent to her room to call her. but she was not there and the fam- ily immediately became alarmed and began a search of the premises. For hours servants and relatives sought her in the vicinity of the house, and it was not until 1:30 .o’cleck in the afternoon that the chauffeur stumb]- ed over her body in a mass of snow covered shrubbery. The body was %lad in night clothes, a coat and high laced shoes. | The chauffeur carried the body into the house, and John Clark, the medi- cal examiner, was séint for. He said death had been due to exposure. From the family he learned that Miss Cur- 4-{"55 had been addicted to sieep walk- ng. VOLCANO' BUREAU. Legislation Proposed to Create Gov- ernment Observation Station. ‘Washington, Dec, 30—Proposed leg- islation to create a government bu- rqau of volcano observation was un- der consideration today by Rep. Mann, of Illinois, minority leader in, the house, and other members of congress: The project, as outlined to the con- gressional leaders by T. A. Jagger, of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology and a delegate to the Pan-Am- erican Scientific Congress contem- plates the securing of information on which ultimately predictions of vol- canic disturbances may be based as well as studies of gases and liquids in the earth which may prove of value in @onpection with weather observations. <There ‘are ‘said to be between four hundred and five hundred living vol- canoes in the world about one-fourth of which are within United States ter- ritory, in Alaska, Hawaii and the Phil- ippines. INCREASE FOR LONGSHOREMEN. Boston, Dec. 30.—Increases in wages . yanging from two to five cents an hour for longshoremen working at this port will go into effect the first of the year a result of an agreement signed L yesterday by representatives of the Longshoremen’s Union and the Trans- $Atlantic Steamship. conference. The pen had previously asked a somewhat W BRITAIN PAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915. .INCREASE IN .WAGES FOR 200,000 EMPLOYES Advances in New York Beginning January 1 Will Aggregate Mil lions of Dollars, New York, Dec.30.—Wages of 200,. 0600 employes in various trades in this city will be increased beginning Jan- uary 1, it was estimated today. The increases are expected to aggregate millions of dollars. Thousands of workers on street, vated railroads are included among those who will profit by the advances. The United board of business agents for the building trade unions an- nounces that the wages of more than 8,000 machinists, tile layers and la- thers already have been increased by from 20 cents to $1.40 a day. In- creases beginning January 1 are de- manded by many other unions and range from 25 cents to 50 cents a day. Increases in pay ‘have been granted to 12,000 girls in the millin- ery trade, 3,000 waiters and | mechanics in the New York Navy } Yard. member a time when more labor or- ganizations asked larger pay than at| present nor when so many were ob- taining it. | BANK AND INSURANCE STOCK INCREASE Tax Commissioner Corbin Issues State- ment of Valuation of Financial and Insurance Institutions in State. Hartfard, Dec, 30.—Tax Commis- sioner Willism H. Corbin has issued a statement of the valuation, for pur- poses of taxation of the stock of banks, trust companies, insurance companies and investment companies, fixed by the board of equalization un- der the statutes. There are nearly 200 such financial and insurance institu- tions in Connecticut and except in a few cases there are substantial addi- tions to the mariet value of stocks. In some there are slight reductions and a few remain as in 1914. In national banks the largest in- crease is in the stock of the Nauga- tuck National which is jumped $35 per share. The First National Bank of Hartford is put up $22 a share and the. First National Bank of Meriden $18 a share. Other increases are from $2 to $15. In trust companies the largest in- crease is $60 a share in the stock of the State Bank and Trust company, The Hartford Trust company shares 80 up-$55 each.. The stock of the Travelers Insurance company of Hart- ford has been increased in valuation $145 a share and the Hartford Steam Boiler ‘and Inspection company $115 a share. In all cases referred to, par value is $100. he statement shows that one nation- al bank, the First National of Nor- wich; one trust company, the Thames of the same city; one banking com- pany, the Middlesex of Middletown, and one insurance company, the Aet- na Indemnity of Hartford, are in hands of receivers. “B-R-R-!” “SNOWBIRDS,” ARFPENJOYING LIFE SNOWBIRDS AT WORK. to Snowbirds, Polar Bears and Arctics, It makes no difference the | England Needs Hindu Soldiers Elsewhere and Withdraws Them From French Front subway and ele- | 1,200 | Employes say they do not re- | The British Indian army corps was ordered from France for another field of operations, it was officially an- nounced in London At the parade of the Indian army corps before it left France a message from the king-em- peror was delivered to the men by Prince of Wale In it King George extolled the services of the Indian regiments. The message was worded in glowing térms of gratitude and af- fection. Whether the new field of action of the Indian troops was to be Egypt or Mesopotamia was not an- nounced. In both these theaters there | are presumably considerable bodies of Indian troops. It is conjectured that the withdrawal of the Indian troops from France may have been filled by drafts from the new armies raised on the soil of the United Kingdom No. 1, Indians on way to front; No. 2. In- dian infantrymen; Indian cav- alrymen; No. 4, examining fragment of exploded shell | ELLIOTT PREDICTS | FREIGHT EMBARGO, Congestion May Force New Haven Road to Act New Haven, Dec. 30—Indications that the New Haven road may be compelled to eliminate temporarily certain kinds of freight, or place so- called ‘“embargoes” on them, owing to the recent storms, increased bus- iness and resultant congestion was hinted at in an important communi- cation issued last night by President Howard Elliott. He addressed the statement to the Interstate Commerce Commission and .to public service commissions of this siate, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. President Eiliott points out that prior to the mid-December storm the .road had been doing the largest | business in its history. Over 12,000 more loaded freight cars were recei ed form connections during the first eight days of December than in the corresponding eight days of 1914. He points out that the problem of moving congested freight on the New Haven is more difficult than on certain western roads with longer trackage. In addition to the $5,000,000 of im- provements authorized, he says that very large sums should bc spent if money can be obtained, for addi- tions to tracks, bridges, terminals, en- gine facilities and motive power both steam and electric. Further development of the boat lines in the way of buying steamers he considers inadvisable. as. in a very short time, the company might be compelled to dispose of its water lines under the Panama Canal Act In short, President Elliott points out the company is in the position, for the time being. that it can do no more than it is doing and he welcomes sug- gestions from the various commis- sioners as to the steps that should be taken. Text of Communication. His communication in q1ll follows “To the Interstate Com.nerce Com- mission, Public Utilitics Commission of Connecticut, Public Service Com- mission of Massachusetts, Public Ser- vice Commission, 1st District of New York, Public Service Commission, 2nd District of New York Public Utilities Commission of Rhode Tslanl: “I desire to submit to you on behalf winter sea bathing in the north, that snow covers the beaches and the tem- perature of the water is below the freezing point. On a recent cold morning about twenty-five bathers ran into the water and out again to play handball in the snow. A crowd in furs and heavy overcoats watched them. The temperature of the water was given as 28 degrees and that of the air as 22 degrees: “This is an ideal day for bathing, don't you think ?”" asked one bather of a re- porter, Who thought that was all that was to be said on the subject. In the picture are seen two *“snowbirds” shoveling snow from a boardwalk at @ beach near New York, of the New Haven company and its allied lines a statement about present | conditions due to congestion of bus- | iness on its own lines, congestion in | and around New York harbor, and on many of its connecting lincs, co- ditions which have been made worse | by the great storm of December 13-14, | which seriously reduced the ability of | the railroads to give a maximum amount of service with the facilities at hand;—and by the storm of De- cember 26, which did much damage and destroyed and retarded the work of restoring wire communication by telegraph and telephone, and of clea ing the road of delayed freight. Prior to the great storm of December 13-14, | September . that in many places are wholly inad- ' equate, had been doing the largest volume of business in its histor: has been performing a task in, ling that husiness which is ta Physical facilities. Huge Volume of Business. “The of business of loaded New Haven rails and the number of loaded cars receiv- ed from connections for the first eight days of a number of months in 1915 as compared with the same eight da. in the same months in 1914 and 191 volume freight locally on August 39,487 October 4 .. 44,673 November 47,766 176 December 60,677 387,748 46,000 Cars on Rails. “The New Haven road has on its i rails today nearly 46,000 freight cars, | which bout 8,000 cars more than it { had a vear ago, and 12,000 more than in December, 1913, The result is that its tracks, terminals and other faciii- ties arc congested at many pluces. There are more than 12,000 loaded cars awaiting the discharge of their freight, but the owners of the freight are having some of the same diffi- culty that the New Haven is having becausc their own facilities are inad- equate in places and cars are not re- leased promptly. Today, on account 45,621 44,193 Prosecutor and Man Said to Be in Kaiser’s Employ Frank Buchanan of Illinois, mem- ; fare, from this country to Great Brit- ber of the United States house of rep- resentatives; H. Robert Fowler, a for- mer member of that body: Frank S. Monnett, a former attorney general of Ohio; Franz Rintelen, a captain in the German navy; David Lamar, a Wall street operator; Jacob C. Taylor, the president of Labor’s National Peace Council, and two other officials of that organization, Henry B. Martin and | Merman Schulteis, were indicted by a federal grand jury in New York for conspiracy to prevent the ture and shipment of arms. ammun tion, aeroplanes, automobiles, raii- way supplies and locomotives and the New Haven road, with fn.cnmeslnther articles needed in modern war- | Sherman anti-trust law in respect of manufac- ain, France and the nations allied with them. These indictments are the first that have been handed down for alleged instigation of strikes and attempts to obstruct the manufacture of munitions, other alleged pro-Teu- ton conspirators having been charged with plots to blow up ships, destroy the Welland canal and otherwise vio- late neutrality. The provisions of the restraint of trade were invoked in the case of Labor's National Peace Coun- cil. 8. Snowden Marshall, United States district attorney for the south- ern district of New York, is the pros- ecutor in the cases, Dage-Allen & (¢ (INCORPORATED) HARTFORD Store Closed All Day Saturday, New Ye: Year-End Sto Reducing Sa PHENOMENAL BARGAINS HERE FR ter Merchandise and all H ALL COATS REDU ALL DRESSES RED ALL FURS REDUC See Our Garments ai Liberal Reauctions. of storms and congestion, connecting lines have more than 8,000 loads for delivery, mostly at New York and via the Poughkeepsie Bridge, as soon as this company can handle them. Comparison Of Roads. “It is interesting to note that the New Haven, with 4,5 including main line running tracks, side tracks and yard, had, during the first eight days of December, 50,- 677 new loads, while the C. B. & Q system, extending through ten states, with 12,869 miles of trackage, during the same week had 48,230 cars. These figures indicate how large the New England freight business is. In addi- tion, the passenger train service is much heavier than on a railroad like the C. B. & Q., and makes the prob- lem of furnishing transportation in sufficient quantity and of satisfactory quality under the present unusual and congested conditions that much more difficult. “For reasons that need not be out- lined in this letter, the New Haven has not been able to add materially to its facilities during the last few years, particularly during the last two, when the company has been going through a period of depression, readjustment and reconstruction of its financial and corporate status. Im- provements have been authorized, not including equipment, which are being made as rapidly as men, material and weather will permit, that will cost nearly $5,000,000. In addition to this, very large sums should be spent, if money can be obtained for additions to tracks, bridges, terminals, engine facilities and motive power, both steam and electric. Equipment Much Improved. “In spite of financial troubles, the freight equipment of the company is 5 miles of tracks year ago. A year ago there now there are less than 1,600—a marked improvement—and a number not far from the minimum that may be expected with 46,000 cars on the road. The company has placed or- ders for 33 powerful freight locomo- tives to be delivered in January and February, and 6500 coal cars which are promised in March, costing about $1,500,000. Water Lines Uncertainty. “The company has tried to relieve its rail lines just so far as it could by diverting business to its boat lines, but here again it has not been able to | add to its facilities because of the un- surrounding the future the boat lines. consid- ered very seriously placing an order nearly a year ago for two additional freight steamers to run on Long Island Sound, but it did not feel that it had the right to borrow the large sum of money necessary. considering the fact that within a comparatively certainty The company investigation, | in much better shape than it was a | were | 4,800 freight cars in bad order and | of | A General Cleanup of all Broken Lines oliday Goods. Suit Department Mark [ Break All Records CED. ALL SUITS REDUCED. UCED. ED. nd get the benefit represent both the publig roads as to steps that Respectfully subl HOWARD H Chairman and ' FORMER DRY G CLERK WA Licutenant of Newfoundil Awarded Military C King George. St., Johns, N. F., Dec, Donnelly, six months | g@oods clerk in this eity | war hero most prominen of the colony. As lieuts Newfoundland Battalion the Dardanelles, he acqui %0 well in a hazardous si | King George awarded hir tary cross. News of the received by Governor Davi On the night of Nov. 4, 1 I'a patrol to a knoll held by | He forced their superior withdraw, although his I was considerably reduced | the position through the | withstanding several Turkid | to regain the post Whe | came half his force wer wounded. The position tdated with the British named Caribou Hill in ree the Caribou head on the land regiment crest. Serg ter Greene and private Ric | received distinguished cond | for their part in the same | | { EFFICIH Due to Abandonment of Classes, Says Walli 20, —@ as compi France Washington, Dec “greater efficiency Greac Britain and present war,” Will ling of New Yor Sociological society, in sessio is due to the fact that in Gerng asitical classes have been lary away with, and that has led t industrial superiority “I believe the influence of § cratic and class controlled state on the industry of that has probably already done harm as good. But all the thas been done the govern Germany by junkers ls mo compensated for by the perni | fluence and Gead weight of tf mous and firmly rooted wealt! Britain and Fran | es of Great EPI MIC OF GRIP, York, Dec 30.—Phy surgeons were warned York health 1o delay operations upon the m New and New departmen short time the company might be or- dered, under the Panama canal act, to dispose of all of its water lines. The relief, therefore, given by the boats is not as great as the company would like. “There comes a time when the vol- ume of business that is being done by a man, a steel mill, a hotel, or a rail- road is more than the physical ability | of the man or the enterprise to carry | on successfully, and in such cases the part of prudence is to state the case frankly to customers and patrons and | to explain why there is delay In fur- nishing goods, accommodation of ser- vice. It looks today, as if for the time being the New Haven read can do no more than it is doing and that it may have to withdraw temporarily from some kinds of business. “The management of the New Ha- ven earnestly hopes that the result of the efforts now being made on its own road and on its connecting lines will permit the present large volume of business to continue and that it will be necessary to put out so-called ‘em- bargoes’ and curtail service for only limited periods of time, but it feels that it should state to you the situa- tlon that is confronting it at the pres- ent time—a condition brought about by causes that are beyond its control. ‘The management will be glad to re- ceive any suggestions from you who | thiroat until the epidemic of tl now prevailing, ended, 1} Rryson Delevan at whose sul the warning was issued, said thi siclang learned during the gred epidemic of 1895 that nasal opel could not be successfully peri when such an epidemic was pre THE VALUE OF TR Truth in business is just as imp as truth in every-day life; truth ¢ confidence, establishes good-wi builds a reliability that will n wrecked by the storms of compe; Through three generations p have learned to place reliance of advertised words of Scott’s Emul because they are untarnished, aggerated truisms about a hou: remedy of real and actual worth The populan'ty of Scott's is increasing as intelligence ady because in these days of adultes it continues to guarantee cod i medicinally perfected with glycerin hypophosphites to build strengt] prove the blood and strengthen Itis free from alcohol or opiates—a w] some food-tonic, mhm dverti _ oot E