New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1916, Page 3

Bosion Store A Petticoat Sale . Unusual Interest 5 Lots Black Mercerized Petticoats ' Made up in the dull season to keep help together and machines running. Under these conditions goods can be more carefully made than in the busy season They go on sale at 49c, § 99¢, 69c, 79c, AND 98¢ .~ These are much under regular prices. PULLAR & NIVEN Events Tonight ‘ i thea- “Within the Law,” Lyceum ter. High Class Photo Plays, Fox's thea- ter. Vaudeville and Pictures, Keeney theater. Moving Mattabessett tribe, R. M, meets in Judd’s hall. L O. Gerstaecker lodge, I. O. meets in Turner hall. F. of A “Court Prosperity, ., meets at 277 Main street. Vew Britain circle, C. of F., meets at 34 Church street. A. W. Harvey lodge, A. O. U. W, meets at 187 Arch street. Star of Good Will lodge meets at Jr; O. U. A. M. hall. MONEY IS DUE FOR CERTIFICATES FILED Dr. Bray Feads List of Physicians for ‘Number of Birth and Death Rec- ords Left With City Clerk. Following is physicians and death and birth certifi city clerk during 19 Giuseppena Aiello, Anderson, $12.25; Andulatis, $5.75; A. L. Avitable, $2.50; Henry T. Bray, $71.25; W. P. Bunnell, $2.75; Mary Brodzik, $9.25; Emma Blasko, $16; George H. Bodley, $21.75; M. Coholan, .5 Robert M. Clark, F. Weston Chester, $1; Earle B. Car- ter. ; Clifton M. Cooley, $4.50; George P. Dunham, .75; G. W. Dunn, $10.75; G. H. Dalton, $4.50; E. J. > 75; Veronica Duraney, $16 Slcock, $9.50; E. T. Fro- W ox, $19; George Flanagan, $27.50; Antonia Grasso, Griswold, $2; M. H. Gri s H. Gillen, .25; Ev insberg, Julius Hupert, $19 Carl J. Hart, $5.75; S. W. Irving, $: Bextrude Kinsella, .25; John L. Kell Kenneth E. Kellogg, $2.25; M. Kinsella, $1.25; Waterman Lyon, F. M. I am, $1.25; M. L. Marsh, a list of money due midwives for filing tes with the Arvid A. Martin $2 Thomas M May, $41.2 Elenora nell, $44.75; Mary Potas: $2.50; Peck, $2.75; John Ame Rudolph, Robbins, 75 cents; E. P. 5 cents; Herma Bodergren, $1.7 Catherine Travis, $2. Orin R. Wit- ter, 25 cents; Joseph Walsh, $4 S Lee Weadom, Bridgeport, 25 Frank Zwick, $2.50; Mendel heim, $12.25 25. Mouradian, $1; D. W. O’Con- Pongetti, $28.50; Frederick W Purney, $20.50; $9.25; Walter J, P. Robinson, $ nts; E. L. Style: Strosser $4: Augusta Sirot, $9: sev, Volken- AMERICANS WIN. Manila, Jan. 10 larence J. Griffin of California, who with Wil- liam M. Johnston holds the American championship in the doubles, d Dawson of California, won ern lawn tennis champion- by defeating the Japanese Kumagae and Mikami. Kumagae, the champion of Japan, de- féated Griffin for the championship in the single last week. the far e: ship today players HIT TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE By Arresting Arthur Morse, Po- lice Also Raid Tenement Although no less than thirteen prisoners faced Judge James T. Mes- kill in police court this morning, none of the cases was of any particular im- port, most of them being where the accused had stood too long over the flowing bowl. The most spectacular case was that of Arthur Morse, arrested by Officer Hart last night for drunkenness and the theft of five quarts of whiskey and many cigars from Nicholas Laraia’s saloon. As a result of this arrest the police raided Charles Slater’s boarding house at 143 Grove street and there arrested Joseph Blozek and Mrs. Annie Kragiel on a charge of misconduct. Shortly after 10 o’clock last night Officer Hart saw Morse staggering down Washington street with a half emptied whiskey bottle in one hand and two quarts more in his pocket. Queries brought forth the informa- tion that Morse had taken his spoils, after looting the saloon, to Slater’s home. In court Morse pleaded guilty to drunkenness and theft, and refused to make a statement. He was sen- tenced to thirty days in jail on each count. IFollowing Morse’s tip, Officers Hart and McCabe searched Slater’s room. They found one bottle of whiskey missing and went from his apartment into Mrs. Kragiel's rooms. There they stumbled across the mistress and her star boarder. Their arrest followed. Officer Hart testified that he has re- ceived numerous complaints against the morality of the woman. The wom- an in turn denied any wrong-doing, but accused Slater of oftimes annoy- ing her. Last night, she declared, she sought protection in her star board- er room. This accounted for her compromising position, she said. She and Blozek were fined $7 and costs each. instances Many Unique Excuses. Officer McGrath arrested Michael Kane for drunkenness Saturday night. Michael told the court that he was re- leased from jail only Saturday morn- ing, hence it was easy for him to get drunk, as he was somewhat out of condition. His plea was futile and he went back to jail for thirty days more. August Collins, another man arrest- ed for drunkenness, presented a most original plea, though Lawyer W. F. Mangan. He said that he recently had a severe pain in the side. He went to consult a physician who told him he had appendicitis and would have to be operated upon. Fearing the surgeon’s knife, Collins began to brood over his condition and finally took to drink to forget his troubles. He was fined $5 and placed on proba- tion. Joseph Bushold, a Bristol man, was arrested last night on Curtis street by Officer Hayes for drunkenness. The accused gave an unusually good rea- son why he was not drunk. “I can re- member everything, so of course I wasn’t drunk,” he said. Continuing. the man said: “This is the first time I have been in the hands of the law. T have a good job, but I won't have it if I get thirty days.” He was sent to Bristol by the next train. Albert Prange raised his right hand and said: “Never again,” when he was placed on probation for beating his wife and getting drunk. Officer Rival arrested him on Star street on com- plaint. August Vitz and John Knowle, who bore a strange resemblance to Mutt and Jeff, were each fined $5 and costs for fighting at 328 Church street yes- terday. The two men came home, witnesses said, and got into a fight. The accused stated that everybody else at the house was drunk and as- saulted them. BUNGALOW BURNED IN STANLEY QUARTER E. O. Kilbourne Loses New House in Spectacular Sunday Morning Blaze In the North End. Stanley Quarter residents had some excitement all their vesterday morning when a new bungalow which had reached the plastering stage took fire and for twenty minutes furnished a spectacular blaze. The building is located on the west side of Stan- ley street opposite the junction of Wells street and belongs to E. O. Kil- bourne. About 10 o’clock smoke was seen pouring from the roof which soon burst into flames. About every- body who saw the fire hastened to telephone an alarm to fire headquar- ters and Truant Officer C. S. Andrews hustled to Stanley and Allen streets where he turned in a bell alarm from Box 4 All the motor apparatus and the hose wagon from KEngine Company No. 3 responded and the firemen were soon on the job. Three hydrant connections were made and the roof blaze was quickly under control. However, small pockets of fire got into the partitions and under the edge of the long sloping roof and gave the firemen a stubborn battle before they were extinguished. Mr. Kilbourne roughly the damage at $1,000. The whole upper section of the house was wrecked and considerable damage was done on the first floor. The fire started on the second floor, it is be- lieved, from a coke stove which was being used to dry out the plaster. The speedy work of the firemen saved another bungalow to the north from destruction. Both houses were un- der construction, but insurance was ) carried on only the burned building. own estimated W.T. SLOPER GIVES | CAUSES OF FIRE In Statement to Herald Explains That Gas Heater Did Not Cause It Jan. 10, 1916. Editor of The New Britain Herald. Dear Sir: I wish to correct the misunder- standing in the minds of my friends and many of the people of New Brit- ain in regard to the fire at my house in the night of December 14th. It appeared in the newspapers that the fire was caused by the gas hot water heater, and I have since heard many other incorrect statements as to how the fire started. The Chief of The Fire Department ascertained that the fire started in a cupboard under the kitchen sink ir the first floor apartment from rags; the charred remains of which were found along side of cans which had contained furniture polish. It is presumed by the Chief of the Fire Department and myself that the rags had heen used to wipe off fur- niture which had been recently moved into the house by Mr. Thomson's family downstairs, and had been thrown in a heap in the cupboard where the charred remains were found. When the fire was discovered and first seen by myself, it was blazing in the corner and on the wall around where the gas hot water heater was situated above this kitchen cupboard and my Japanese servant was playing a stream of water from the garden hose which he had connected and brought up from the cellar. The fire had gotten into the parti- tion and went up through into the kitchen of the apartment above and from thence up through into the at- tic, burning out the attic completely. Careful examination showed where and how the fire started and the gas hot water heater or my Japanese ser: vant were in no way responsible for the fire. Yours respectfully, W. T. SLOPER. P. S.—I hold no brief for the Gas Company as I, like evervbody else, suffer from monthly attacks of ‘‘gas bill melancholia” but my sense of jus- tice demands that I do not allow blame for the fire to be placed where it does not belong. W. T. SLOPER. City Ite}nS William W. T. Squire, for the past two yvears police court reperter on the Record, severed his connections with that paper Saturday night to ac- cept a position on the city staff of the Courant. His associates at the Record office presented him with a traveling bag. All of our 50c and $1.00 Neckwear now 25c. Besse-Leland Co.—advt. Nancy M. Olmstead has sued W. Q. Dewey $1,500 on a loan. Sheriff A. P. M has attached property of the defend- ant on Francis street. Shirts sale at Wilson's.—advt. There was a small fire in the cellar of the Fox theater building Saturday afternoon when some wooden slabs caught fire from an overheated steam pipe. Employes about the building extinguished the blaze. Any and all of our $1.00 and $1.50 Caps now 50c at Besse-Leland” advt. Selectman E. Samuel Gillette of Burlington held a conference with Chairman W. B. Rossberg of the wa- ter commissioners Saturday afternoon in regard to leasing the Eaton and Curtiss farms on the city’s watershed in Burlington. A lease to last a year was granted. $1.00 Shirts, 65c, at Besse-Leland’s. —advt. The Current Events club met at 3 o’clock this afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. H. Warner, 141 Lincoln street. B $1.00 Flannel Shirts, 75¢, at Besse- Leland’s.—advt. A certificate of foreclosure on prop- erty on Prospect street formerly owned by Fred C. Zimmerman was filed with the city clerk today by the Savings Bank of New Britain. At the meeting of the health board tomorrow afternoon, Chairman H. S. Tallard will report on the proposed municipal slaughter house. It s planned to spend $2,000 for the erec- tion of such a building on the out- skirts of the city to be placed in charge of an experienced butcher, who will also act as an inspector. $18.00 Suits, $14.75, at Besse-Le- land’s.—advt. A daughter has been morn to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gauthier of Belvi- of Bridzeport of this city for Suits, s.—advt. The finance committee of the com- mon council will meet Wednesday evening and Thursday evening the ordinance committee will have a ses- sion with the safety board and Super- intendent T. Reeks of the board of health. $25.00 and $30.00 Suits, $19.75, at Besse-Leland’s.—advt. Mrs. Josephine Martin of 91 Sexton street is at the local hospital under the care of Dr. G. M. Flannigan. $15.00 Suits, $11.75, at Besse-Le- —advt. Mary J. Higgins ,trustee, today transferred land and buildings on Cemetery lane to Bdward Burns. Russell W. Barrett is ill at home on East Main street. Our Inventory Sale does not run as long this year. Besse-Leland Co.— advt. E. W. Bennett is on a visit to hig old home at Easthampton, L. L. $16.75, at Besse-Le- his ADVANCE IN EXCHANGE. 1915 From Financial Point of View Closed Bad for Belligerent Nations. Rome, Jan. 9, 8:15 p. m.—From a financial point of view the year 1915 could not have closed worse than it did for all the belligerent countries,” said Signor Luigi Tuzzatti, former Italian premier, in an interview pub- lished today in the Tribuna. ‘“The exchange rate paid by the central empires,” contniued Signor Tuzzatti, “is getting worse every day, evidently due to the requirements of their pur- chases abroad, since the advance into the Balkan opened those markets to them. France, the chief monetary power in Burope, has losses on the ex- change with all countries except Rus- sia and Italy.” The Italian statesman attributes the advance in exchange to speculation. LESS PROSECUTIONS UNDER SHERMAN ACT Attorney General Gregory Outlines Attitude of Administration Washington, Jan. - 10.—Reassur ances to the business men of the coun- try regarding the policy of the depart- ment of justice in enforcing the Sher- man Anti Trust laws are believed here to be conveyed in a statement of At- torney General Gregory, published to- day, in which he outlines his polic The statement, issued through the chamber of commerce of the United States, was in response to a sugges- tion that an expression from the at- torney general as to the government’s attitude in future anti-trus* prosecu- tions “might be regarded as reassur- ing to the public mind” and might “dispel some of the uncertainty which heretofore existed.” In announcing the department’s policy enforcing the law in admittedly doubtful cases, the attorney general said that where the department was assured of the good faith of the par- ties to a transaction it had not been and would not be to invoke extreme penalties against them. “In such a case,” said Mr. Gregory, “the department would consider that the just and appropriate and quickest way of enforcing the law would be by a civil proceeding in which the ques- tion involved would be contested or a consent decree entered, according as the defendants desired, or by a no- tice to the parties of the department’s conclusions, with opportunity to aban- don or modify the transaction.” Discussing the means adopted by the department to guard against un- just prosecutions, Mr. Gregory de- clared that the person or corporation against whom complaint is made. ur less it has already declared its att tude, is given full opportunity to sub- mit its defense before any action is taken.” BELGIAN PRELATES REPLY TO GERMANS Propose Investigation of Atrocities in Little Kingdom Havre, France, Jan. 10, 5:30 a. m.— The Belgian official press bureau gave out the following note today: ‘“Mon- signor Neylen, Bishop of Namur (Bel- ing through Swit- to Rome, confirms the previous statement that he wrote a long answer to the German White Book (concerning allegations of Ger- man atrocities in Belgium) and sent it to General Von Bissing, German military governor of Belgium, to foreign diplomats and consuls in Bel- gium, to the Vatican and to the Bel- gian Episcopate. He did thig in De- cember. “More recently Cardinal Mercier (Primate to Belgium) together with the bishops of Namur, Liege and Tournai, addressed a letter to the German Episcopate asking that it in- tervene with the imperial government to obtain an official inqguiry into charges of German atrocities in Bel- gium. This letter has not been answered.” Facts Underestimated. Paris, Jan. 10, 4:40 a. m.—“The Bishops of Belzium have sent a col- lective letter to Austrian and German bishops replying to denials by the pre- lates of the two empires that the al- | legations respecting German atrocities in Belgium are authentic,” says the Rome correspondent of the Petit Parisien. “The Belgian bishops who signed the letter affirm that they themselves conducted an investigation, village by village, which demonstrat- ed that the report of the official Bel- gian committee underestimated the facts if anything. “To cut short the controversy, they proposed formation of a court com- posed of an equal number.of Belgian bishops, Austrian and German bishops and neutral prelates. Such a court could see and judge what the Germans actually did in Belgium. The writ- ers of the letter Yalthat it SitSbe true that it the first duty of the clergy to sacrifice all to the truth, the bishops of the Central Empires can- not decline to accept this proposal. This letter was written on Nov. and thus far has not been an- swered. Several Belgian prelates are on the y to Rome. Tt is under- w! | stood their purpose is to make their letter public. Those who have seen the fext of the letter declare its pub- lication would have a profound ef- fect, and it is understood the Vatican is endeavoring to prevent such ac- tion.” BANKS SHOW THAT PROSPERITY IS HERE Gomptroller Gives Report to Con- 3 gress—Suggest Banking Laws i i { | Washington, Jan. 10.—‘Develop- ment and growth never paralleled in ; the financial history of any country” | is the way John Skelton Williams, | Comptroller of the Currency describes in his annual report to Congress, the | operation of the national banks under | his charge, during the period from | October 1914 to November 1915, the first year under the Federal Reserve tem. The report was today pre- sented to Congress. Mr. Williams gives a comparative statement of the condition of the na- tional banks to back up his statement. He shows that net resources of the banks increased in the vear $1,743,- 878,648, that deposit increased $2,- 081,530,164 and that loans and di counts increased $917,450,502. Avail- able cash increased in the same period $862,000,000 and on November 10, 1915, the reporting natifonal banks had excess reserves of $891,000,000. Ta- bles show the comparative condition of banks in 1895 and 1915. In Sep- tember 1895 there were 3,712 re- porting banks with net deposits of $1,989,300,000 and loans and discounts of $2,059,408,402 while in November ,617 reporting banks with net deposits of 079,471,447, loan and discounts of $7;233,928,973. Big Reserves. “The reserves held by the national banks November 10. 1915,” says the report, “‘exceeded by $587,000,000 the greatest reserves ever held at any time prior to the passage of the Federal act. Loans and discounts amounted to more than the total loans and dis- counts of all banks, including national, state, savings and private banks and loan and trust companies—as late as the year 1902.” Mr. Williams says that the “bank- ing power” of the United States—the capital surplus, circulation deposits, etc.,—ef all reporting banks, national and otherwise with an estimate of the figures for mnon-reporting banks, amounted in June 1915, to $25,397,- 100,000, an increase in a year of about $1,057,100,000. Savings bank deposi- tors increased by 176,256 during the vear ending last June with total de- posits of $4,997,706,013 an increase of $61,114,163. The average deposit, however decreased from $444.36 to $444.83 while the number of hanks increased from 2,100 to 2,159. Suits on Usurers. The Comptrollers principal recom- mendation for legislation is for an amendment to the Bank law authoriz- ing and directing the Department of Justice to bring suits against usurers upon information furnished either by the Comptroller or through other sources. Bage-Allen & Co. (INCORPORATED} HARTFORD January Is the Month for Rug Buyers Our Sale Their Opportunity DISCONTINUED PATTERNS OF WHITTALL, AT It you were to look through the piles of Rugs that are now ALL THE GREAT MAKES— BIGELOW-HAR TFORD AND HARDWICK & MAGER SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS FOR REGULAR PRICES on sale at reduced prices you would never know—unless we told you-—— that they anyway? wer It of new patterns of rugs are introduced. of the same number of patterns from the list the retirement discontinued patterns. imply means that every six months a certain What does that term mean numbe means The This necessarily new may not necessarily be any better than those they succeed—hut they are different. These rugs we are selling at reduced prices are just as desir- able in every way—just as handsome, just as durable, just as likely to give you perfect satisfaction as the rugs that hang on the racks near by and are offered at the regulation prices. 1f you can get a nice 9x12rug for your living room or dining room at a saving of $17.2 it 1s worth while, isn't it, And you can do that here if you buy this month. Whittal Rugs are included in our Sale. —the ANGLO-PERSIANS, ANGLO-INDIANS, All the Whittall makes ROYAL WORCES- TERS, TEPRAC WILTONS, CHLIDEMA AND PEERLESS BRUS- SELS. Then there are the various grades of the Bigelow-Hartford Company’s manufacture and the Hardwick & Magee rugs that we are selling with such great success. Eat Bread of Quality You and your whole family. Good bread iz delicious. It is also wonderfully easy to digest, and highly nourishing. Aunt Delis’s Bread is bread of Quality. Ask your grocer today, to send you & SPECIAL FOR THIS TUESDAY Perkerhouse Rolls, per doz. 10c. Try our Scotch Raspberry Rolls, they are delicious. Our Whipped Cream Goods and Chocolate Eclairs are sweet and pure and strictly fresh made every day. loaf. Other recommendations given under a heading “To Prevent Bank Fail- ures” propose: To prohibit officers from borrowing from their own banks; to prevent loans to directors except with the approval of the board; to require officers and employes to give surety bonds; to limit direct and indirect loans to one individuals, form or corporation; to prevent or limit overdrafts; to require certificates of deposit to be signed by two directors; to prevent erasures on the books of a banlk; to limit interest paid on de- posits; to authorize the establishment of branches In the United States; to permit branches in Alaska and insular possessions; to authorize minimum in- terest charges,—which ordinarily might be usurious—on small loans and to authorize the Comptroller to bring proceedings against directors for losses sustained by a bank through violation of the bank act. The report renews the Comptroller's recommendations of lastv ear for other legislation. including the giv- ing of authority to the Comptroller to remove directors guilty of persistent violations of the bank act. Evils to be Remedied. “ Banks,” says Mr. Williams “nearly always are broken, not by bank rob- bers, who have come from the outside, not by failure of customers to whom they have lent money, but by the tying up or disipation of the banks' funds through loans to their own officers and directors, or else by direct defal- cations and embezzlements by trusted officers. If these evls are remedied —and they can be remedied if certain | simple and much needed amendments can be secured to the national bank act—failures among national banks can be reduced to a negligible num- ber. or be absolutely eliminated.” Mr. Williams shows there were 14| failures during the 12 months ended | October 31. In the last 50 years, he says, there were 208 fajlures at- tributable to criminal acts while in- ! judicious or careless banking was re- sponsible for 136 others. The Comptroller devotes much | space to presenting his side of his | fight with n »mal banks to prevent | the charging of usurious interest | He gives tables of loans hy | in different sections to back up his charge and that complaints have come of this practice particular- 1y directed against sm 1 banks in the South and Southwest, West and | says When You Read Do you experience a sensation of eyo strain smarting, If s0 you need to he fitted to iy ) S 1 I To be surc prices come to F. L. McGUIRE, or afterwards suffer from aching eyes or headache? NEW GLASSES, of good service and falr 276 MAIN STREET Upstairs Over the Commercial Trust Co., LeWitt Bldg.—Telephone scarce and oftentimes obtainable onlv, if at all are rates injurious if rot prohibitory.” Usul Mr. Williams checked means lessness, thriftlessness and loss of producing capacity.” closes with the statement that inti- mate cornection with the affairs of his office has shown that the large ma- vy Means Trouble. says that usury ‘depopulation, un- hope- jority of American bankers are honest | and anxious to obey the laws, otic and intent on buliding up communities and the country. Speaking of the Feders: svstem Mr. Williams says the drawal of reserve funds from banks in the large citie patri- their the “The sted “convulsion from which whote country would suffer.” business and commerce of the United States.”” he points out in this connec- tion, “have not contracted They have expanded to dimensions never hefore reached.” The report adds that if the Reserve Act is amended so that al] reserves ultimately to be transferred to re- serve banks be withdrawn now in- stead of at the end of three years as the law now provides, there will be no disturbance or inconvenience to the Northwe: i S1th all banks of this time,” says the report, “for | country to realize | that the Federal Reserve act was framed to benefit not only the banks, | but also the customers of the bahks; | that one of the great objects of the ! law was to decentralize the money of the country: to effect a more equit- | able distribution of capital and do | away with the old em by which | the resources of our banks have been | so greatly concentrated in a few cities | or sections, there to be loaned out | largely on speculative ventures, while | in other regions money needed urgently for the legitimate purposes of industry and of development has been nationa] banks, which hold th~ ~nds to be transferred JEHUDA HALEVI HOLDS INSTALLATIO M. . Hartstall of Hartford in Charge; Society Raises Money for Jewish War Relief. Jehuda Halevi, No. 710, 1. C. B installed office meeting E night. The installation was iu charge and their transfer to | | Rochlin $1 | | Reserve | with- | ve banks has not caused the pre- | A. Hartstall of H rs aie as foliows Miller; of tize presidd vice-president, Dr, nitor, M. D. sistant monitor, Benjamin treasurer, Morris Shupack; secreta A Aisenbersg; secretary, three yea Natha. Benjamin Katz ioogel; gua nouncement was made of the donations the Jewish lief fund S. Marlan David to 310, Shurberg M Winkle A. Pinikus Jonas $3, Dubowy A. D. Lipy Dr. ‘M. Vi Clothing Co. $ $10, Bloomberg Leiken S. Berkowt $1, S, Markowi Gitlitz Br app $2, I No name $3 lotski $1 Boston Fox Theat w Rothfeder Berkowitz pert $1, L. F friend $10, $3. H. Alex 83, H Rudman B. Solamon, $1, M baum $2, Albert Josciowilz $5, A. Appello $§5, D. Katz total § The committee in charge ief fund was composed of I, Simo B. Nathan M. Miller, M. Saxe Birnba mons $10, insby Biy Da | nski §2, of the 14 Katz, and J. SAMUEL LUCAS DEAD. amuel Luct “Grandfathey one of the mé 1 entertainers on the Amerl stage for nearly half century, @i today at his home here at the age years New York, Jan. 10.— author the son Clock,” of and known