New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1916, Page 8

g — NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1918. IZENS FACING A TAX OF 196 MILS, y Expenses of Quigley Ad- ministration Are Blamed the final session of the board of hce and taxation yesterday after- h approval of the estimates as by the sub committee was made the tax rate was fixed at 19 mills, hich is added the one half mill iously laid to meet the demands e state tax and the 1 10 mill to ir the municipal ice house and | est the crop. This makes a grand of 19.6 mills the largest in the Bry of the city. The board felt Bied, however, that it could not flessened without the city’s work gring. Mayor Quigley said he had £d to get down to an even 19 mills Mcss, but concluded with the state- Bt that if the people wish all these they must pay for them. F. fhamberlain moved adoption of the prt and that it be printed and hsmitted to the common council. council will receive the report at March meeting next Wednesday ing Income $210,631. (‘ @mmissioner Chamberlain, re- | ng of the work of the sub com- ee, first gave the items of income | finally estimated. They totaled ! 0,631.78. The individual items | ow:—cash balance $34,000; school imeration $29,000; state for even- | school $1,200; library -and ap- us $460; tax on banks and insur- | stock $1,500: dog account $600; ftion $14,400; town deposit fund 0; liquor licenses $30,000, town office fees $3,000; police conrt POO; city court, a new item $300 s and costs at county jail $700;mis laneous $1,500; vendors license 00; charity department $7,90¢; $750, raised from $250; build- permits $1,200, raised $ nicipal ice $500; street sprinklin; P,000; Income city property $600 est. $6,000 and personal taxes Mr. Chamberlain explained where sub committee had made further in order to get the rate down to imills. The street department was: fdropped for this year, back to $31,000 to allow for the | | Colonel Herbert J. Slocum, ¢om- 1000 | mander of the Thirteenth cavalry i Cutk. | who was in charge at Columbus, N. M., Mexican bandits under Villa has held ! his present rank since Aug. 2, 1912. Colonel Slocum’s father is Colonel J. % L Slocum, executor of Russell ,Sage'’s ed at $95,000. The retaining wall | Yy, w Shuttle Meadow avenue was final- | tate. His sister Mexican T)‘andzts Use Up to Date Methods; Col. Slocum, Commander at Columbus, N. M. r i “ SO”“E OF vn.uas M—‘N when the attack was made by the the and in charge of the Sage es-|ish war is Mrs. Sherman| in h ac(‘()\mfln”{l‘lin( of 791 Madison avenue, New | guards. $1,200 and $555 was cut from | York. Coionel Slocum fiding. The lighting account was | Point graduate and was originally in Seventh cavalry. he was on After the Span- | border almost three years ago. photograph of the Mex with the Thir- and was sent , to the Mexican shows them using the field telephone i§ a West|[ teenth in the ir communications with one an from I prosram of the proposed sys- | The fire department was left | From the school appropriation hnt F$68,000, the cut being $458. The ’ $495 was shorn, $195 from repairs | to flice department is also $68,000, | and gre being a cut of $900 on signal s and $7 to make it even | trade school supplies. The health department was left | count $100 wa & ey The appropriation for ten |at $18,020. The slaughter house ap- | leaving the fi emen was allowed to stand propriation: was cut to $4,500 from 1 improvements and $400 from | $5,000 maintenace }:n-.-m:m and $600 from charter ordinances, as incidentals : | untouchea. cut from outside poor, tee cut $75 from the sundry Igrmz\ special appropriations at $120,000, Under interest and discounts, the item school bonds additional was re- $2,150, the final figures being Mr. Chamberlain ex- ned that on a 15 mill tax for the istrict and a four mill tax ©w the second there will be left at the end of the year$s.36 for the first district and $70 for the second. Estimates Apportioned. The estimates as made ou; portioned between the two districts as follows:— Second £ Di Street lights $ $ 25,000 Street department State highway o Sprinkling ....... 15,000 Permanent paving 21,889 Parks . S 1500 Sewer maintenance 11,009 Catch basins ..... 2,000 Fire department .. 8,000 60,000 Police department 68,000 Schicols NN 507600 Floaith et S 35000 rities D5 000 dentals ...... 11,000 3,000 al Appro. ... 116,400 3,600 Interest & discounts 41,586 45,800 Payment on prin. = 78,100 17,600 Salaries ol S 7808 34,000 fFotal s 3 8 $216,400 ST. MARK’S ORGANIST GOING TO STAMFORD William Anderson of This City Will Take Charge of St. John's Choir on May 1. William Anderson, for several ears organist and choirmaster at St. Mark’s Bpiscopal church {in this cit vill leave on May 1 *0 WILLIAM ANDERSON. AN ESTABLISHED 1886 GLOBE CLOTHING HOUSE The Spring Fashions in HART, SCHAFFNER and MARX SUITS Are Now Displayed Every suit guaranteed all wool and fastcolor You can’t get this guarantee from everyone. Price $18.00 Up \W/X\\W&\\\‘Vl/&\\\'flf,\ N/ NN fl/m\wm NN NN DN 7 /7 i N NN NN NN THE EMERY SHIRT $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 You can taKe it home, examine it closely and if .t does not please vou, bring it bacK. Ve NN NN 7 beon very succ and under his, Arthur Pric Ao or direction the boys' voices have been|church, Hartford. Before comir trained to a high degree of excellence.|St. Mark’s church where An accomplished musician, Mr. An-jed Sidney \\l»h\nr,vh‘ as derson has also that magnetic per- nist at St. John's church in F sonal™=; that has made his work a and his 2y friends here,| Eight weeks ago Mr. Anderson re- while regretting he will leave,|ceived a call from St. John's church will congratulate him upon - his ad-|at Youngstown, Ohio, to take char: choir, considered one of t} success vance in his chosen profession. of their Mr. Anderson received his tr most highly trained in the middle ing in hoy-voice culture at St. A ' [ west, but he declined as he preferred chapel, New York city, under Dr. G.[to remain in the east accept a similar position at St. John's Edward Stubbs, M. A. Dr. Stubbs is| St. John's church, Stamford church, Stamford. regarded as the forernost authority in[regarded as th most beautifu Under Mr. Anderson’s teachings Apnjerica Organ and theoretical | church interior in the diocese of Con the choir at St. Mar church 0as gtuydies, Mr. Anderson pursued under|necticut Murray’s Walking Record Still Good After 28 Years Sr\'rw the organization of the Ama- teur Athletic union, in 1888, there has not been an important standard event in which the time or distance has not been bettered, although some of the marks remained for years, un- til they seemed to be impregnable. With the introduction of charts in the new athletic almanac the gradual im- provement of competitors is attrac- tively presented, so that the delver after the high spots in the records can tell at a glance who were topnotchers in their respective specialties. In the 100 yards run Fred Westing of the old Manhattan Athletic club was the first to earn record brackets, his 10 seconds standing for two years, when John Owens, Jr, put the mark mt 9 4-6 seconds. Bernle Wefers equaled the time in 1895, 1896 and 1897, J. H. Maybury reaching it that year also. J. H. Rush was the next one to 4o it, in 1898, after which there was a gap of four years, until 1902, when W. A. Shick did the trick, followed in 1903, 1904 and 1906 by Clyde Blair, W. D. Eaton and C. L. Parsons respectively. The gulde, of course, makes no men- tion of Arthur Duffey, the great George- town sprinter, who did 9 3-5 seconds and was in the record books for a long time. Duffey was probably the greatest 100 yards dash man of all times and con- sistently beat the best in this coun- try and in England. He was caught red handed, branded a professional and his name and records expunged from the books of the A. A. U. Duffey is now writing sports for a Boston newspaper. After sixteen years of futile attempts 1t remained for a westerner, D. J. Kelly of Portland, Ore,, to startle the athletic world when he did 9 3-5 seconds at Spokane, Wash, June 23, 1906, this time only being equaled once, by Howard Drew, the fast colored wonder, representing the University of South- | ern California, at Berkeley, Cal., March 28, 1914. The longest interval in which a rec- erd was not beaten, or even equaled, was for a mile walk, that of Frank P. Murray of the old Willlamsburg A. C., whose record of 6 minutes 29 3-5 geconds, made in 1883, was not sur- passed until George Goulding did 6 minutes 28 seconds in 1911, which bids fair to hold for years. Sumters to Ride In Austria OHNNY SUMTER and his brother Herbert have made plans to ride in Austria this year, the former hav-‘ ing received an offer of $5,000 from an[ Austrian nobieman. Johnny Sumter| has ridéen sbroad before, but this will Photos by American Press As=ociation. Pictare in upper left corner of group shows Miss Brown teaching her chums how to use the breast stroke. One in center, ready to dive. One on right, ready to spring. In lower left corner, Miss Brown swimming. Low- er right, ready to land in the water. QUATIC experts who have been watching the sensa- tional performances of Katherine Brown, the six-year-old daughter of Commodore Al Brown, are of the opinion that in a few years she will be considered the produced. Papa Brown has this ob- ject in view and is teaching her ev- erything which goes to make a won- derful aquatic star. Katherine, who is a well built, blue eyed little girl, likes to indulge in all juvenile games and pranks, the same as other little girls, and teases her fa- ther and mother whenever an oppor- tunity offers, but when she is in the water, then she s in her real element 2nd enjoys herself most While still an infant, two and one- be the first trip for his brother half years old, when other children greatest swimmer the world has ever £ all kinds of fancy board twelve feet During the s of Flushing bay, 2 in the winter s she now makes | ming pools give her a chance to ke4y ! dread water, she would jump from ler above the water sr months the swim and during the EXPERTS PREDICT KATHERINE BROWN hall lagers ‘'WILL BE WORLD'S GREATEST SWIMMER ... . . ... Baseball Players PBASEBALL fans sit in the grand stand or in the boxes and notice the long row of bats stretched out ine front of the home and visiting benches. They wonder why it is necessary to have fifty or more clubs for twenty- one players and what the men do with all of them. Those unfamiliar with the game in- quire why it is the players on the club cannot get along with a half dozen or a | dozen sticks the same as the players, do on the semipro and amateur lot One has only to travel with a club to learn why from fifty to seventy-fivé | warclubs are on the field while the | game is in session. Each team carries that many bats, and an extra box is needed to pack them in while the club is on the road. There are several reasons why each team carries a lot of bat First, ball. players are exceedingly touchy about the clubs they use. They are almost as finicky as a woman with her hats. Some players have four to six bats, and these are for their use only. If any one attempts to use any of them there is an objection. On that account the players are careful that they use their own clubs. - | Second, the bats vary in weight, and | many players cannot use the club that another man might be able to swing with swiftness and freedom } hird, some of the athletes are su- | perstitious and nearly throw a fit when their bats are ken by other men, most particularly those who are in & batting slump. Many arguments.have been started on clubs because one player, who h been in a batting slump, hopes to get | out of it by using the club of a playet | who is whaling the ball at a terrifie | elip. ) Managers do not object to the num- | ber of bats each man has. The club in practice. Commodore Brown is of the opinion that Katherine could swim | a mile easily, and more, right now, | but her father oo well versed | in the art of swimming to allow her to | | prion tha diatanaa, | is willing to buy a player all the sticka | he can carry as long as he hits the Not only does she know and swim all | pa)) ach scason the men purchase the different strokes perfectly, but she | now bats is an adept at giving diving and life| 7pe old ones remain in the club and saving exhibitions as well. Katherine | o 11oco il ceten search an i has won so many cups and medals for | p .. " g e sl exhibition work and has had so many |y oo wix i K columns written about her that she 18 | .o Goenic some p g rather blase at the age of six. e et e s Commodore Brown has planned an S e e : active season for himself this sum- | mer. Al states that he intends to| make all the so calied long distance swimming champions lower their colors to him this year. He would like a 2 wiil do this several timeg meeting with Elionsky, who recently sar unti ey get their stride, e Tia challongalioinimiEa b anoyino b ts; ot tax e a lot of difference in to Ellonsky to name the course he & man's batt at the players wants to swim. Any old cours is | 82y 80, me men who, suitable to Brown have t if a player is a natural While on the subject of swimming it | hitter b ould be able to hit with any might be well to suggest that a race |SOrt of a club. from New York to Sandy Hook with| That is not the case ¥, however. Meehan, Brown and Ellonsky would be | T a player is not hitting and the bat one of the blgRest events ever held|does mot feel right in his hands he and would attract an enormous amount | makes a change, hoping eby to Q¢ | at interest in aquatic circlea better