New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1916, Page 9

> > Town tribe. NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1016. FRATERNAL NEWS Alexandra Lodge, | of Alexandra lodsge, | No. 24, I. O. D, of St. George are in- ‘ vited to attend an English tea party at the home of Mrs. Whatnall, 11 Kel- | sey street next Thursday afternoon All members New Britain (nun(‘!l No. 8. 0, U, A, M. After the regular meeting Thursday | night, 1l hour with Washington | Camp, of A., will be held. ‘arpet and pinochle will be in | order a soc B bowls | W. L. Mon The regular Lodge. of P. weekly meetiug of the above lodge will be called in business ssion tomorrow evening promptly at | 7:30 in order that thet hird rank work | which will be conferred on seven can- didates may commence promptly at S o'clock. At the conclusion of the work a social hour will spent. 1t | is expected that Grand Chancellor Chapman of Rockville will be present, and other Grand lodge officers. A full attendance is expected. There will be balloting for candidates, and applica- tions will be received. K be Iron City Lodge, Iron City lodge will hold lar meeting Tuesday March hall on Church street. its regu- 28, at its Unity Rebekah Unity Rebekah meet tomorrow evening. ments and a social the business session Lodge. Lod will Refresh- hour will follow New Britain Circle, All members of New Companions of the For st, are urged to attend a meeting to be held to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs, Ptolomey, 200 Brook street, to transact some special bus- At the quarterly meeting of | The Circle Friday evening plans were made for a membership campaign. C. of F. Britain Circle, St. Elmo Todge, K. of P. St. Elmo Lodge, No. 21, K. of P., received two applications for knight- hood at its last meeting. Wednes- day evening of this week important s will be acted on. Carpet 1 follow the business session. | ( Mattabessett Tribe, 1. O. R. M. I A final report of the committee in charge of the recent trading post and bazar of Mattabessett Tribe, I. O. R, M., will be read at the meeting of the tribe in Judd’s hall this evening. It is expected that over $500 was realized on the project. The fi degree will be conferred on a class of candidates this evening. A num- >r of the members journeyed to Bri tol Saturday evening and were enter- tained in royal fashion by the Bell | d t Y. M. T. A. & B. Socicty. ! Seven members were initiated and five applications for membership were réceived at the meeting of the Y. M T. A. & B. society vesterday. Henry McEnroe was appointed to act as aretaker of the pool tables in place of Martin McNamara, resigned. Al delegation of the members accom- | panied District Deputy W. J. Sullivan | | t¥ Hartford . vesterday afternoon, | where a new society was organized. b: will meet tomorrow evening o'clock in G. A. R. hall. Fomorrow afternoon from 2 until 5 o'clock Mrs, Ellen Hall will enter- tain the members and their friends in G. A. R hall. Giddings Chapter. Special meetings of Giddings Chap- ter, R. A. M., will be held Thursday and Friday evenings in Masonic hall | at 8 o'clock. The royal arch degree | will he conferred for the last time this season. $700, 000 FIRE IN NEW HAVEN CAR QHOP Three Large Buildings and Number of i Small Structures Destroyed in : i spectacular Blaze, —Taree large | buildings at Ha- | in Spring last la New Haven, March 2 and several smaller New York, railroad shops the yards of the veg and Hartford were destroyed by New street, LS night, causing an estimated $700,000. The fire started in¥h building where sp’ead to the paint hot dreds of barrels of varn caught fire, and then jumped signal equipment storchouse, the er shop, tank 10p and the storehouse office The fir M 1 ressure tidnight that about 9:30 iron was stored, se, where hun- | sh and paints to the boil- ! 9:30 o’clock | handicapped by and it was not until aft- the fire was con- Olled. For nearly an hour there was a steady series of explosions of trs torpedoes which were stored in one the buildings. Many Yale students, tracted by the bla which lighted the entire city, assisted the firemen in theip. work. BN aiiaton tus held up for several midnight trafic was again resumed. Three freight ca were burned Two steel coaches and veral wooden b! cars were badly scorched. When | thE fire started it was found. necessary to shut off the high tension power th Was used in the operation of the elec- | tric trains between here and New York. The power was not turned on | again until after midnight. | one of the sheds about $10,000 | WoMh of copper wire was stored. No | one was injured. More than 20,000 | People watched the firemen, men were k of at- main line were hours, but after | of the I paign adds, all, as nothing was acc but that is a matter beyvond the scope of this that Sulloway Maine would reimburse “ean s explanation of this were paid $13 jamin W. di George sociation Dealer: work for the railroad ended before the to be placed tion.” STATE COMMISSION New Hampsh!re Board Claims Use i of Money to Influeuoe Legislation Concord, N. H., March cisms of methods employed by Criti- officials Boston and Maine railroad com- pany and its subsidiaries in this state | {in the expenditure of money to influ- contained in a r of the state public service com- on, made public today. Political activities by railroad Fers 's the report, ‘“‘are en- ence port mis; legislation are mar tirely foreign to the purpose for which | railroad corporations are established. Their business is to serve the public, not to govern it."” Result of Investigatio The report is the result of an vestigation ordered in 1915 by house of representatives into pa of all kinds by r 1915 for the legislation. is in- the men ilroads, from 1912 to purpose of tion with the Grand build a line the announced intention of Trunk Railway company to through New Hampshire which would parallel portions of the Concord and Monireal and Northern railroads, Boston and Maine leased lines in order to give the Grand Trunk direct entry into Boston. in the inter of wvorable to this project conducted in 1912 by the Gr nd was actively opposed Boston and Maine. Late the commission’s report says, he Grand Trunk and the Boston and Maine made an amicable ustment of their differences and the Grand Trunk withdrew from the field” Not Spent Ilegally. The commission found no evidence that any of the money appropriated by the Grand Trunk for this campaign was spent illegally or improperly “It is unfortunate,” the report “that the money was spent at mplished by it, s legislation nd Trunk by investigation.’ In seeking to defeat the plans of the irand Trunk, the commission finds Charles S. Mellen, at that time president of the Boston and Maine ap- proved the Northern and treal roads, an independent campaign by Concord and Mon- under the direction of respective presidents, Alvah W. and Benjamin A. Kimball, t being agreed that the Boston and the substi- all expendi- eir diary ur corporations for The commission s that it ce no merit in and no creditable ngement.” Main proper. employed and In behalf Boston and hirty-one lawyers were 244, Liquor Dealer’'s Official Involved. The report fefers to the employment the Concord and Montreal of Ben- Crouch chairman of tiae ju- of the house and H. Steele, secretary of the As- of New Hampshire Liquor Mr, Crouch testified that his = iciary committee 1913. The com- egislature met in “find that Mr. mission said it did not ‘rouch’s explanation is not correct, but he unfortunately allowed himself in an ambiguous The commission reported that while posi- | influencing | It was developed that the | | principal expengditures were in connec- | Bellows RAPS B. & M. ROAD was actively | the ! in that year, { 1 i | i i | i | ville lof a « o the Steele was paid about $7,000, “What he did could not be definitely stated.” The commission finds that in the Concord and Montreal records of the employment of Gearge A, Weston of Falls, V to oppose the Grand Trunk pldn, a false voucher was issued. The report says that this was in violation of an act of congress, but that prosecution of offenses in this connection was barred by the statute of limitations. COUCHE WILL BE ALLOWED T0 RETUR American, Arrested for Espionage, Liberated Through Consul General Sofia, Bulgari March London, March 12:20 p. state prosecutor has entered peal in ‘the case of Frank A. Couche of Ohio, formerly attache of the American legation at Bucharest, who recently was acquitted of a charge of espionage. It is expected however, that Mr. Couche will be permitted to leave Bulgaria without a new trial. Mr., Couche’s liberation due to the efforts of Dominic Murphy, American consul at So! Mr. Couche arrived here a month ago on his way to Saloniki. At his trial he said he was going to Saloniki as a representative of an American shoe firm. The Bulgarian border toward Saloniki was closed at the time of his ival and he entered into negotia- tions for a permit to cross the border. He is said to have paid 800 and 300 francs on different occasions. Dealt With Sceret Service, Mr. Couche did not know he was tealing with a Bulgarian secret ser- vice agent. After he boarded a train ior the south he was arrested. Owing efforts of Mr. Murphy and the foreign office, Mr. Couche was tried in a civil instead of a mili- tary court. He told The Associated Pre; he had important busine: in Saloniki, and paid money for a per- mit because he understood it was customary in the Balkans. At the foreign office the statement was made that Mr, Couche’s liberation was due to the desire of the Rulgarian gov- ernment to foster good relations with the United States. Tetter to U, S, Charge. Among Mr. Couche’'s papers was a jetter to Lew Einstein, the Ameri charge, which is said to have made Mr, Einstein’s position till more difficult. For some time the Tulgarian government has had few dealings with Mr. Einstein, transact- ing business mainly with Mr. Murphy. Six weeks ago the mili authori- ties gave orders tl of Ar. sinstein, who is ¢ with be opened Mr. Murphy protested. 24, YVia. m.—The an ap- is e Bulgarian can PIPE LINE FOR OIL. Announces Construction—Will RRelieve Railways Berlin, M *h Completio pipe line about length between Drohobycez and Chyrow in Galicia, is announced from Vienna today. The line, which is intended for the carrying of kerosene, and was built by the army administration, will be put into use shortly. The line will admit of the move- ment of about 700 tons of oil daily, {hereby relieving the railroads of _ a considerable burden of freight. Vienna by wireless to Say the construction forty miles of Eershing ’s Column Makes Good Speed Through Mexico OVER THE BORDER —TROOPS IN THE MEXICAM & MOUNTRINS =~ MOUNTRIN BRTILLERY OMN THE MOVE In spite of the difficulties of trans- mountainons Pershing’s the port in the desert and Mexican force, territory General pursuing Villa, made fine wraveling record of more than 110 miles in forty-two hours. An Ameri- can line of troopers winding up one of the Mexican mountains and Amer- ican mountain artillery on the move are shown in the accompanying pic- tures. | Evince Imerest in the Several in | Varying Mexican Conditions Trying to Americans’ Health Time Determines Opportunity V/NG FIRST AID: TO T&’OOP{:ES Change from the arid, desert to the snow and sleet of hig mountains has illness some of the troopers | marching in Mexico nst Villa. At soldiers suffered from the t, then from the cold. “The last | ten miles of the forced march of | General Pershing's column into Mex- ica was almost a torture,”’ says one report. “It was hot. Iigh winds Tot Mexican brought to American aga swirl by t mouths of the men. a swallow lar anywhere teen were trils in eve plaint show ed the clouds of dust kicked he horses into the eyes Water at could not be along the line. Every can had been emptied. Many tongues swollen, eves mouths and nos- were merely blackened orifices v face, but there was no com- The two pictures herewith an army ambulance and its at- up and a dol- bought tendants aiding sick soldiers. SOCIETY LADIES | VISITING COURT Cases on Morning Docket ladies who visited with Mi probation | The police court Tlsie flicer, were treated to a fair example of “how the other half The morning docket was a representative all of common and local society this morning Osborne, the lady live: one and contained specimens prisoners from drun men arrested in a Sunday “Blind Tiger” to a nineteen years old husband who had brutally abused his Lride of six months. The ladies were Mrs, Isaac D. Russell, Mrs, Ira Hicks and Mrs. Rufus Hemingway and they cvinced particular interest in a Polish | woman of about sixty years whose case was a most unusual one. The old woman, Mrs, Rose Piovitlk, Lad been employed for twelve years at the Corbin Screw corporation and was arrested yesterday by Dectect Nergeant Samuel Bamforth on charge of having stolen about 3 pounds of scrap brass from the fac- tory. The society folks' interest in the old woman was increased when, zfter court, they were informed that she received ninety cents per day for her or about $4.95 cents per then after her daily work home on Grove street housekeepit Sergeant Bamforth, acting on in- raid on a labor and to her and did her formation, inspected the scrap pile owned by Jacob Kats in Hartford and found a quantity of brass which identified by Assistant Superintendent Bradbury, of the w as coming from that concern. M. Katz told the officers he had pur- chased the brass from Benjamin Cut- ler of Hartford avenue, a local junk ealer C'utler in turn testitied that .d the brass from Morris nother Hartford avenue Bradowsky said he had | the brass from Mrs, Pio- was | Bradowsky, junk man. purchased Vitk, \rrested, sused worked at the S a dozen years she could sell time when, she de- tigation of Bradow- D out of the it to him. He she said. arrested and Junk In her turn said she had corporation for did not know until Christmas clared, at the ir y she picked sweepings and sold gave her less than §5 Bradowsky was Dealer the ac rew but brass | corporation, | B woman | § junk without W arrested, junk that he ssion for five charged with peddling license and Cutle charged with selling had not kept in his poss duys after the date of purchase, as required by law. Lawyer P. F. Mc- Donough asked that these two go over until Saturday and S Meskill witheld judgement on, the woman until that time. All were re- ieased on bonds. Wants Divorce, Cries Wife, Franklin G. Knipfer was at his home last night on of assaulting his wife. if 19 years old and h The couple were married e¢mber and their dream of chattered soon after. Only to Prosecutor Klett about arrested a charge The accused wife is 21. last Sept- love was about a her hus- band’s abuse and he promised to do better. Last stair sere the { choking wers M retir hopi cease howeve ch couc the she tried to of cl voung the father too won' Heintz, father of wife, was attracted up- their tenement by her young wife complained was forced to smash in son-in-law found his his daughter. The police called in at once. Knipfer said th last night her =he aid ng that to night Otto roung to ago the He and Lms, door e TS, she d it when husband down on the would fall asleep and abuse he He followed her and dragged her from the and finally threw her across bed where he choked her. When screamed for help, she said he gag her crowding a wad loth between her teeth. The bride almost broke down on witness stand and said, “If my hadn’t come in was couch, by I'm with only him twenty-one. I any more. § voung, t live want a divorce.” Kr he v used howl troubles result er-in- voung one cross to vou and a woman you were a jal the Rt drun and was a tot into Saturday came all said ripfer blandly admitted that was charged with and the gag because his wife ing too much. He said from too much Judge Meskill scored roundly and termed him an ordinary you'd go off But because abuse her. such that the court 1 sentence ey g husband its idolph kenness assaulting moth- law. g man who “if somewhere rour wife Conditions suspended cry. on probation. $10. charged of the Walter Malon fined $10, $10 and $20, making al of $40 and costs. Nobitz got a drunken fight on Church s night and when the officer he attacked him. The Policcman—Fined No itz ach Officer with peace along 6 TO 9 O'CLOCK STEAK SUGA LARD 0 TUESDAY | ..doz 32C Short, §i Fine Granulated Fr esh Conn. Eggs Old Dutch Cleanser . .. ... Small Size Ivory Soap ..2 for Mohican Corn Starch . ...1-l1b pkg Mgchican Pork and T'd have been | a murdered woman this morning. I'm | he | was | their | the | man spole | of ten days and placed | house and Round WESTERN UNION Telegraph Service always available almost everywhere, gains time, restores time lost, over- takes escaping opportunity. Hundreds of vital situations are saved daily by timely use of Western Union Telegrams, Day Letters, Night Letters, Cablegrams and money transferred by telegraph. Full information at any Western Union Office. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. SUBMARINES ARE GERMANY’S WEA the street where No- punched and spat | two rolled into bitz swore, picked, at the bluecoat. Tt required the ef- forts of four policeman to lock him Nobitz had no excuse to offer to Talks to Lawyer. A youth of 19 years, Thomas Kane | was lucky that Judge Meskill did not | send him to jail as he says he will | send im0 sell ax he mae ke i I Mot Be: Discari Kane got drunk Saturday night ngmer._ca]mness ]S 2 Y and | went into a pool room at 513 Main street where he created a disturbance | by throwing pool balls around. Ofi- | e cer Hart and McCue arrested him. | Lawyer Daniel T. O'Keefe appeared for the yvoung man today and plead- ed to keep him out of Jail. The law- ver undertook to berate the saloon- keeper who sold Kane his liquor, but Judge Meskill cut him short and informed the lawyer that it was his duty to his client and to the author- ities to report such incidents rather than to complain., Kane was fined $10 and costs and placed on proba- tion. Detective Raids Blind Tiger. Holland, March m.—The Tagebli the Amsterdam, London, 1:10 p. Berlin®says that at ing of the progressive people’s in Berlin Dr. Otto Wierner ma statement in regard to the af taken by members of the party if reichstag and the Prussian diet o submarine question. He annoul that the party had sent a telegra Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, under retary for foreign affairs, stating it would never admit the illegali Detective Sergeant Bamforth made | supmarine warfare that in n a lone raid on a “blind tiger” at 11 | iatious with other pov “we ca Spring street vesterday and arrested | 110w the submarine weapon £o fimmi 7’:\'rhl;;\,,(-;rmr;z(\?d x;-,_th' v»n:::',; | snatched from our hands.” e agent of John Goodrich, anc At g | John Shick, Peter Yadnisked, Con-| Discussing recent differsiig stante Guska and John Dixon, charg. | °PINion concerning the use of ed swith frequenting a place where | Marines and the ultimate effect liquor is sold illegally. On request | CoNflict with the United States, e kD McDonough the | Wierner said: We are not afraid, cases were continued until Saturday.| Ve shall regard new dangers Liquor Prosecutor B. W. Alling con- | alm confidence; but we wish to dicted this cass for'the state in peace with America and avoid ture. Whe want only, by though Other Cases. Surko, arrested in a snow | 2CtioR brings about a rupture Main strect Saturday by | o’ w periand, Officer Mercure, was let g0 With a | 1ol o (e aars el warning as this was his first of- | o Neias s slohe fense. He explained that he had|inc determination resolutely worked at the Union Manufacturing | ve s hing which the hour | company without any lunch all Fyi-|demanded, but at the same day night and then waited at the fac- | "°C0BNIZe clearly that until 10:30 o’clock Saturday for | StFe<S Lol ! his pay. Later he met a friend and |?0d 2 sense of the they had a few soclal drinks which | Situation would serve |acted quickly on Surko’s empty | Petter than p: te Komac agitation in Germany, he said | Thomas Manning, who took a drink | directed against the imperis for a cold, was fined $5 for drunk.|ment, and continued: om enness beginning we have demanded The three lady visitors in conrt | creased and accelerated constructi this morning are Interested in the |Of submarines If the building New Britain Charity Organization had been carried Work, of which Mi Osborne is 4 more rapid r: gent, and are making a study of var- | employment in war possibl ious local conditions. have increased conside shall not allow the submarine to slip out of our hand annual o and ers ow | Charl pile on ; saic unanim based u; to of time) in this time considerat| realit of the fatherld desire coolness, sion it 1 govel | submarines earlier and at SALARY FOR BRICKLEY. March 27—Charlie Brick- former football star, who had his Johns Hopkins coach- Meriden |ing job canceled in order that he ETE ! could help Harvard, and then coupl- | J. Rainaud, i ed up with Boston college a few days | the train wreck at Milford last mon lago, will recelve more than $3,600 a | an dis still in a hospital, notified U | scason as a result of the new tran- | bolice today that diamond ring ! saction. Tt is understood that Brick- |‘alued by her at $500 had bed will also assist at Harvard in | stolen from her home within the pai his Boston college | forty-eight hours The police s connection with duties. I they have to the thief weal BIG Boston, Harvard it THIEF STEALS DIAMONDS, March Mrs husband Arth whose was a a clue MONDAY EVENIN 6 TO 9 O’CLOCK rloin, Porter- “1b 1GC[POTATOES 5 Ibs 3 C/| FANCY MAINE 21bs 250 | pecr . . 34¢C SPECIALS 23¢ 19¢ A AL 27¢ 35¢ Cottolene, for Shortening pail Lean Rump Red Baldwin Roast (boneless) 1b 2 0 Cc Rib or Loi L;m‘l))rCh(:;S 1b 180 Ic;arge Red nions Legs Young o Sweet Sunkist 1b 1 5c Oranges & size doz Lean Fresh 8 c Fresh Walnut Shoulders Fresh Sauerkraut Meats (not broken) Ib