New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1916, Page 6

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1016. EW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. jued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Building, 67 Church St tored_at the Post Office at New Britain as Becond Class Mail Matter. ivered by carrie. to any part of the city for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. pscriptions for paper to be sent by mall, payable In advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7.00 a Year. only profitable advertising medium In the eity. Circulation books and press Toom always open to advertisers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City: Board Walk, at- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONI} iness Office ortal Rooms CaLLS. .925 OUR COUNTRY: IN [ERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN ATIONS MAY SHE ALWAYS | E IN THE RIGHT; BUT OUR | OUNTRY RIGHT | OR WRONG. | —STEPHEN DECATUR. HER IN- ound.—In the early morning hours good in a spirit of his day, April 29, one perfectl which yesterd pair, was advertised for in these There Spring in New mns. no reward of- d. its reward. ewhere England it was vered, even before the mantle of t had been cast aside and the old d stirred to the thrill of a new- The birds were first to h the wanderer’s return and lded the approach by a fluttering ol1d who had spent many days behind was is own day. of ings and a chorus of song. portieres weeping over the ab- p of his fayorite season, heard the re and the jubilation and forth- came out to welcome the prodi- The blades of grass pricked up ears at the sound of the ap- hing footsteps. . The budding s on the trees shook themselves e very joy of mew life. A few s scattered here and there d 8 a smiling world and made to get to other regions. The ado blue came into the sky, and ature got in tune. The great had happened. Spring had found. Which all goes to show alue of advertising, as evidence ant add in these columns yester- KEEP IT AWAKE. time of peace prepare for war” old -slogan that carries with it signifieance today when the 'y in which we live is threatened P dread monster, Mars. At the ssion of the Connecticut ess of Mothers for Child Wel- Superintendent of Schools Stan- Holmes treated the idea of pre- ess from the viewpoint of train- e child early in Iife. There not be, it a more pro- subject in a more appropriate The mothers of the nation are es to whom the nation must ap- In the final analysis if the na- f to train a great body of men, at have gone through the vari- ages of distipline and sacrifice, ho have been taught the prin- hat the individual must be sac- society. This is the de- le thing in our present day so- as set up ~ within the United there is too much stress laid individual activity and not force played upon co-operative The superintendent of schools Britain, whose duty it is to and study the effects of the b systems of education through- f world, haspointed out the fact America there is a somewhat d method of doing things, a at recognizes not the discipline ould be in vogue if children be taught to obey. There is ch disregard for law here. for the mothers to decide, this of whether they will raise boys to be soldier: But it kgem, in view of what is hap- oh foreign shores, that a boy to be a soldier, not as a busi- t @8 a matter of safeguard, is boy than the one who is al- 6 spend his spare moments in )y with ‘“‘gang”, e novels and smoking cig- If all the American boys be- the ages of and Wwere given an hour’s mili- 11 after school each afternoon, puld soon learn the value of training and discipline, would petter and more obedient rents, and would add consi 0 our reserve force in the war. Far better would it he men to the front who know fight and what to do on the e than to hurry off a crowd pined recruits to feed to the There is no use of peo- the is seems, to some read- fourteen to fire. g out of their heads on of preparedness. Nor y sense in sitting idly by and the army and navy go into f deterioration for want of n and true. We have the men ountry; all they need is the training, coupled with the 1 | proper incentive. Under the present a lot of contented schoolboys on vaca- They do not care how ton. long the the coming Winter. Superintendent Holmes has an important question at a very op- raised portune time. If, through his in- fluence, other superintendents of schools throughout the United Stat were to treat the same subject in pre- cisely by addressing themsleves to the of their charges, it would not be long before a grand awakening would take place. The United States is like slumbering giant, and it needs some- one to prod and awaken it before the Lilliputians tie"it so securely it cannot move. Just such acton would prevent this great nation from nodding and blinking in the sun, from going into a state of lethargy from which it might never arouse. As it is, the United States is fast heading for the rut, and the only difference between a rut and the grave is depth. Do not let it go too far. Keep it awake. the same way, parents HE, SHE, AND IT. From now on Zeppelins are to be numbered among the masculine and not as of the feminine gender. This is the latest decree of the British war office, which seemingly has little else to do.than decide questions of gender. Instead of being referred to as ‘“‘she’ or “her”, in the future the big canvas ships that float in the etherial regions will be designated as “he” or “him’. There must be lots of consolation to the women folk in this decision. Sure- ly they were not highly elated over some_ ofsthe acts of the Zeppelins nce this war began. Just what will be the proper manner in which to designate submarines has not been passed upon by the British war office, as yet; probably these little under- sea boats will be stricken outside the pale of real sex and when any one of the flotilla is referred to it will be in the neuter gender, “it There we have the he, she, and it of warfare. Battleships, as all floating craft of the high seas have been referred to sinece time immemorable, will be known as of the feminine. Always must a cruiser be known as ‘‘she’ Then we have the masculine end of it in the newly applied appellation to the Zep- pelin, “he”. “It” will always mean the submarine. 8o there is no chance for confusion. What a wonderful thing is sex. Yet it takes a power- ful stretch of the imagination to di- vine just why a huge cigar shaped air craft should be labeled a “he”, and a sreat big monster of a battleship “sh and a clever little under- sea boat as “it”. Rather should we say that like Mrs. E. D. E. N. South- wick, who submarined many minds of feminine gender in a bygone day, the U-boat should be referred to as a “she-devil with many initials”. DRAMA’S DEATH. What is happening to American drama? That seems to be the ques- tion uppermost in the minds of those who have all along held deep in their hearts a love for the old time plays that once graced the boards in' Amer- ica and which decadent era. America has been actively engaged in a campaign to bring back to the stage such plays as our forefathers went to see, such plays that had all the ele- and tragedy and action of various sorts without in- fringing on the proprieties. It is a worthy object to be sure. One direc- tor of the league, Mr. Roland Holt, yves- terday in an address at St. Louis gave some advice to the theatergoers on how to avoid ticket speculation, and said the only way to do this is to go to really good show, show that is preaching no doctrine or trying to solve a problem. “Then,” he said, | “vou will be able to buy any seat in the house. are now relics of a The Drama League of ments of comedy a a If you wish to go to a ‘leg show’ you will be unable to get a seat unless you first cross the palm of a ticket speculator. Legs, and not drama, attract the crowd To all intents and purpo: tleman has the well. s the gen- zed up very Drama has lost somewhat of its attractiveness. The old days of the stage hero séem to have gone into the discard. And with them has gone the “gallery god,” the enthusiast who sat high in the “roost” and applauded and situation sobbed real tears when the heroine was danger, and who hissed and made cat-calls as the villlan still pur- sued her. Those, indeed, were the good old days. But they have about vanished and gone. As this student of the drama says, it is the ‘leg show’ that predominates. Real drama has been stored away in the property to be covered with dust. Any time a goodly chorus of forty or fifty in room species with limbs and a scant shapel of ¢l s attering othes cannot draw a full house, then there is something the | matter with the dealer. Given the lilt- ing melodies of the day, the suggestive lyrics from the pen of a professional order of things they are somewhat like | Summer lasts, nor do they prepare for | Gulliver’s | whistled and cheered when the hero | stepped on the stage, who cried and | prancing and dancing females of the | |'doggerel writer, the diaphonous and otherwise filmy garments of a mercen- and there a any ary’ modiste, with here two, and producer | iknock-out punch to clever line o can administer a 1 already tottering and falling drama. Even the play dealing with' the sex problem must take a back seat when the flourish of trumpets and the tin- the snare drum new tin-tannum of an- nounce the arrival of a otherwise designated by musical | comedy, the | professor’s homely phrase. It is sad, but it is true. And yet the: producers are not so much to blame | | as the perverted taste of a public that calls for such things. There are stlllJ in the United States men and women | who are willing to sacrifice their lives | to the art of drama, men and women | who are willing to revive the old plays, the wonderful old plays, but the public will not let such things be done. We have no time to stop and listen to the cleverly spun plots of old-time fictfon; | we have no mind to waste time in such fashion, Instead, we want the stacatto stamping of stepping toes, now on the floor, ‘now pointing to the sky; the rumbling and jumbling of syncopated | music; the display of charms that pre- sage the death of modesty and the birth of pseudo-virtue that would ensconce itself the throne of a queen. Yes, | dead. It has been put in the sarcoph- agus. The musical comedy is playing the drama’s de profundis. a sycophant on drama is | | What would we do without science and sclentists? One of thesd gentle- men, after much time and effort, has just discovered that to bail out the | Pacific would require the | filling of a tank one mile lons, one mile wide and one mile deep every | day for four hundred and forty years, | Very good; but who wants to fool | with so much water? acean FACTS AND FANCIES. The Nebraska pacifists who voted for Mr. Ford were grossly ungrateful to their once peerless leader.—Phil- adelphia Ledger. That New Jersey bride who rixed her wedding reception for April first will remember the date all her life. | Bverybody thought it a joke and no- | body came. Absent-mindedness has | some sad consequences.—RBrooklyn Eagle, A dispatch says that the Austrians | are launching avalanches against tho | Ttallans. Too bad if they spoil all that mountain scenery so .dear to the hearts of the tour —Wilkesbarre | Record. Representative Burnett of alabama, father of the literacy test, hails from a state in which 22.9 per cent. of the population cannot read or write. But | there is nothing in his bill hich would make it applicable to h own } constituency.—Rochester Democrat | and Chronicle. | Tn deciding what to do with Sir | Roger Casement England might find a hint in Macaulay when he quotes William 11T, in pardoning a noble Jacobite who had repeatedly plotied his assassination, as saying: “He is fully determined to be a martyr, hut | T am equally determined that he shall not he.”—New York Sun, One thousand letters have been sent by a patriotic New York woman to ns | many members of her own sex them to forego the new sprinz h devote the sum thus saved to | chase of ¢ irshin of war to nre to this government. Somethins tainly needs to he done quick) half of our military aeria] ment and possibly this is it Wehon we remember the things which «women have been able to do with hats from time immemorial, providing an ar, ned air fleet does not seem beyond th { Rochester Post Express. William H. Taft can alwavs counted upon to say the right thing and do the decent thing at a time when grave questions vex the publ mind. In his recent speech in Ch cago, while expressing the hope thst Germany may ‘“change her policy and able us to continue our friendly reln- tions with her,” he declared that “there is nothing for a clear-headed, patriotic American to do but to back up our President.” We have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Taft reflects the views of the great majoritv of cit- izens who politically disagree with President Wilson. Tt gives us real | sure to testify that a rule, is one encouragement and goodwill.— Syracuse Herald. asking | tand . e pur cor in he- eaniy he The City. (Bxchange.) T love to hear the city’s nolse, The rumble and the roar, Ior it is music to my ear And ne’er becomes a bore, love to hear the street car go, For its melodious clang Reminds me much of Wagner and The old composer gang. I love to hear the auto honk, I dodge for all I'm worth, Just for the simple privilege Of staying on this earth. I love to hear the teamster shout And hear his wagon jar Upon the ragged pavement like An Trish jaunting car. I love to hear the newsboys yell And barrel organs squeak Their mournful sentimental tunes And hear their valves all creak. | T love the corner faker's cry, | 1t has a charm for me I love to hear his raucous tones That ring forth glad and free. cannot stand for solitude; I want noise day and night. I know vou think TI'm lying, and I guess that you are right. |1 1 | landmarks whose history is such that | | as Rockwell’s corner | ley, was born in this house and died | there over a year ago. | entrance was on Main street where in | within the rooms, the capture of Fort ' the old mansion and new topics were | | discussed therein. | or beaten walls able to speak. But the vention meets Tuesday | Commercial hall to name ten dele- gates to the state conven- tion in New Haven. ‘While no | Louis convention- | paye 1 Town Topics The razing of the old Stanley home- stead which has stood at the junction of Park, Elm and Main streets for eighty-six years removes one of the city's most unique and interesting its passing should not go unnoted. The front brick part of this old building was erected in 1830 by John Stanley of Stanley Quarter, grandfather of Ed- ward N. Stanley, treasurer of tho Savings Bank of New Britain. At that time Elm street had not been cut through and Mr. Stanley purchased the land from his father-in-law, Seth J. North, one of the pioneer manu- facturers of the town. Mr. Stanley lived there until his death in 1841. His widow in 1845 married the Rev. Sam- uel Rockwell, first pastor of the South Congregational church and they made their home here until the pas- tor’'s death and the place was known for many years. | Miss Emily Stanley, aunt of Mr. Stan- In its day, the place was regarded as the best in the city, its old colonial architecture being especially fine. Originally the main later years a big bay-window was in- stalled. The rear addition of the house was built a number of years la- ter. The construction of the building is most interesting. Hand hewn beams | support the structure; the laths are hand hewn and numerous little cabi- nets are tucked away in every avail- able nook and cranny: open fire- places were originally in the larger rooms; and the celler was a typical | one, there being compartments where | vegetables and fruit wege kepty, The yard of this house wag Blways pictu esque and for years the gardens, with | winding paths, were things of beauty. To the sentimentally inclined, this | quaint old house offers many possibili- ties. It ante dated the Mexican war and the stirring battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz and the massacre at the| Alamo were discussed within its ] walls. Likewise, the ante-bellum ! questions were argued pro and con | Sumpter was received with horror; | news of Gettysburg talked over there | with pride and news of the assination | of Lincoln was told in awed whispers before the old fire places. As the vears rolled by new faces appeared in Where over half a century ago the Mexican and Civil| wars were discussed, the war with resi- Spain was talked over by the dents and coming up to the present day the unprecedented European war the topic of conversation. Ro- mance? Records show nothing along these lines, but who knows of the soft words whispered in the old fashioned gardens or the “old, old stories” told within the rooms of the old home. The grim reaper also had his visits| there and sorrow as well as joy could be told were the time worn and weath- 0ld order changes, yielding place to the new, and within a few short days the old house will exist only in mem- or and in a few menths a handsome modern black will occupy its site. oo The adjourned democratic city con- evening in slate has been made up there is little | doubt but what George M. Landers, William F. Mangan, Ernest W. Pelton and Charles Hart will be among the The delegation will go unpledged ten. and democrats do not think a New Britain man will be sent to the St. .. J"or more than a quarter of a cen- tury New Britain's sewer systems have | been an enormous expense because of | the vast sums expended to settle 1iti- tion arising thercfrom. and the an- | nual report of Corporation Counsel C‘ooper recalls these facts to the tax- impresses upon them what a | costly fiasco the present sewer beds have been, then raises the time-worn question of how much longer is it go- ing to last. Over twenty-five years g0 the first suits were preferred inst the city as a direct result of its sewer system. At that time the sewer drained into Piper’ brook, which flows north of the cemetery and eventually finds it way into Hog river which decorates (?) the capitol grounds at Hartford. Farmers in New Britain and Newington sued for the pollution of the stream and the city paid thousands of dollars in set- | tlements. Then up popped Judge | Willard T. Alling of Berlin who | seemed determined to make New Brit- | ain's sewer system a profitable invest- ment for himself. At that time the | Glen street sewer emptied into the open brook just south of Brook street and judge sued because of pollution of this stream. A settlement was af- | fected whereupon the wily Berlinite | entered into an agreement for a term of years and for a handsome consid- eration whereby the city would have the right to use the stream. The next | step was the construction of the sewer beds in Beckley Quarter which, with | the added cost of two monstrous trunk | sewers through the city, necessitated | the expenditure of a good sized for- tune. This was when William H. Cad- well was in full charge as city engin- | cer. In the meantime the city's lease | on Alling’s brook lapsed and he | promptly sued again. He also sued on | property damaged in Beckley Quarter ‘ and from then on many land owners | have sued city and collected handsome- | ly. Property owners as far away as | the town of Cromwell have collected | from the city because of sewer pollu- | tion. Tt has been sald, and it does | not seem greatly exaggerated, that the city of New Britain has paid enough in judgments and settlements aris over sewer bed litigations to purc a right of way from the beds away ww | the Connecticut river at Middletown, ! And, as evidenced by the corporation counsel's report, these suits are being | continued and the city continues to pay liberally: A change in the system ng | e | Pwill | using the Whiting street cros: | is subject | service Uthat is at present under consideration but as yet mo solution has been reached and about the only positive thing known is that the Beckley sewer beds are a ‘“white elephant” and have proved a fallure When will a satis- factory change be made? . x o Following the last council meeting, City Comptroller H. L. Curtis has seen fit to criticise a statement made by his namesake, Councilman O. F. Curtis, that went unchallenged at the meeting. The final meeting of the 1915-1916 council was held on March 22 when all bills were ordered paid and the balance prepared. At the re- cent meeting the finance committee reported the payment of March bills of $15,000 and the April balance of $34,000. Councilman Curtis declared the city should not have as large a balance as it would appear. He said the bills were for March, hence were carried over from the previous vear E have heen taken from ppropriations rather than By his figures, the bal- 1 have becn but $19,000. Comptroller Curtis claims this statenent should not stand and the lalance report was correct, Tt is necessary that the city alwayg be a month behind in its bills and pay- ments made by the council on March 22 were the twelfth of the vear and closed the busines The bills ques- tioned were not presented at that time and in fact did not come up for payment until the April meeting. Though they were contracted in March the old council could not pass them as they did not exist at the time. Tt would be foolish to expect the city ta turn to its last vear's ac- counts, reopen them and deduct the bill, and contrary to business prac- tice and precedent. Hence, the comp- troller declares, Councilman Curtis was wrong and the report was cor- rect. ohox With the decision of Haven road to prohihit the loading or unloading of freight at places cther than the Whiting street freight vards goes the undisputable fact that there will necessarily he a greatly increased amount of switching at this point. Other spur tracks will be used for sorting and distributing cars, Lut the Whiting street yards will be used exclusively for receipt ind delivery, Tt is obvious that this increas: the switching done about thesc vards. Alwavs the rail- road has arrogantly insisted upon ing as their freight vards with that on this street traffic to long and needless de- lays. As the switching increases, so also will be tie-ups at the crossing. 1t will be remembered that last sum- mer former Councilman Emil J. Danberg introduced a resolution in the common council demanding that the amount of switching across this street be reduced. It was referred to the railroad committee and at a later date the matter was taken up with railroad officials, who promised to improve conditions. But con- ditions have not improved and in- dications are that the contrary will now be true. And it is nat as though no casy remedy existed for there does, While the general public may not be aware of it, every bit of switching at the ‘Whiting street vards could be done from the south end of the yards at the Willow bridge, which spans Ellis street. The freight yards were so constructed that every track switches the New a part of the result | into the main line tracks either just just south of the bridge, they switch into the main line just north of the Whiting street c ing. But the company finds it easier to ignore these southerly inlet tracks and to utilize the thorough- fares as a part of their yards. Ad- mittedly, it would not be quite as bandy for the company to use the south end inlet as there Is a slizht srade there which would mean the se of a little more steam and a ionger distance to the freight house, but that not the question, Cities not for the benefit rail- roads. heoretically railroa are run for the henefit of citiex, There- fore, who should be expected to stand the trouble, the railroad or the people? Obviously it is up to the ilroad to make the concessions and when such a concession can be made with practically no difficulty, as can this one, it seems that the city should c¢emand that the Whiting street cross- ing be mot continually blockea by switching, but that traffic be given a chance as at other crossings and the road use the cut-in at the southern end of the vards where neither the puffing of the lacomotives nor the tedious cutting out of cars would annoy anyone. north or cven as is run re of is ] is to hoped that board meets with commission next evening final and definite Tt he safety when the the civil Tuesd: civil ser- { vice rules for the fire and police de- partment will be adopted. The civil | scrvice commission has had more than ample time to prepare a report and should delay no lonzer. The safety board has a number of new remen and policemen to appoint and it is supposed they are to be chosen by civil service. These candidates must be given a chance to familiarize themselves with the tests and it is imperative that to expedite matters in these two departments, the civil rvice commission should finish up ts work at once and enable the safe- ty board to make the appointments for which the citizens have voted. In this connection it is rumored two new sergeants will be ap- If possible, friends of Offi- cer A. C. Malone would like to see him as one, possibly the man to sist Sergeant Bamforth and take over pointed. as- the duty of collecting licenses and running down all violators of this and the junk law Friends of Officer William C. Hart and Andrew J. Rich- ardson would also like to see them wearing gold hraid A patrol driver must s0 he med and some think Officer red Wagner should be made permanent man. He is doing that work now and takes excellent care | of the car. But as the charter does not permit a regular patrolman to be the regular driver it would have to be changed before he, or any other l For instance, one concern which was | formerly charged fifteen cents a | crate is now being charged thirty | ! regular, could be legally appointed. | 1t has also been suggested that the | driver’s job be given three men with cight hour shifts, i e S "‘ The freight situation still causes | disastifaction. The big embargo is | off and moderated one is one. But the most irksome thing is the rule | prohibiting receipt or delivery at | any tracks other than the Whiting street vards and as a result factories | and merchants are protesting. Be- ause of the greater distance neces- ry to haul freight, delivery men are increasing their rates in proportion. cents and naturally the man who nas to pay is kicking and the railroad is asorbing the same. P Many are expressing wonderment | as to when the police department will detail the mounted policeman for active duty. Whoever that officer may he, it has been Fred Wagner for | the past two years, now is the time to have him begin. Roads are in good shape and with his machine he could quickly investigate many com- plaints that are now done more tediously on foot or more expensively with the patrol. But the delay is because the safety board will, in all probability, purchase a new motor- cycle. The present machine has been driven hard for two years and to put it in good running condition would necessitate a considerable expense. In fact by turning the old machine in, the safety hoard has an offer per- mitting the purchase of a new one at a cost less than repairs to the old one. The motorcyele policeman is one of the most important and effi- cient branches of the service. PR O. F. Curtis’ expense list shows that his campaign was supported almost entirely by a clique of prominent re- publicans most of whom had been re- moved from office by Mayor Quigley. Mr. Curtis himself spending nothing, indicates that he was a tool In the hands of those who wished to be re- venged on the mayor. The $15 con- tribution by Curtis’ manager, J. S. Fenton, was the only one made hy | a person who has not a well known | public grudee against Quigley. Al | of the others have publicly . shown | enmity though not necessarily with- | out cause. J. R. Andrews, arbitrarily | deposed as safety hoard chairman, | gave $100. R. R. Healey, who suf- | fered a like fate. also gave $100. L. M. Barnes. former business partner with Quiglev and no friend, ¢on- tributed $100 and J Dovle, whose { paper, the “Record.” ‘has constantly | hammered fhe administration, donat- led $13 A $50 gift was made by Avgust Berestrom. discharged Dy the mayor building inspector two | vears ago. The amount given by these enemies of the mayor carie within $2.69 of being the entire | amount spent. indicating that Curtis himself hazarded nothing in his at- tempt, except his reputation as winner of nominations which it looks if he can never hope to regain. L. as P Among other things, the Burritt | Agricultural association is consider- ing the erection of memorial gates at the new northend park as a fitting tribute to the learned blacksmith and peace advocate. e The Fishermen'’s Hospital Shin. (Providence Journal.) The humane services regularly per- formed by the United States Coast Guard fleet—formerly “Revenue Cut- ters"—were expanded in a novel way when congress, In response to repeat- ed urging, provided for the emplo; ment of a vessel, during the winfer season, “to extend medical and sur- gical ald to the crews of American vessels engaged in the deep-sen fish- | eries.” The crews that the adve- cates of this henevolent legislation had in mind, of course, were - those engaged in the New England fisheries. The character and importance of this new task are illustrated in a cur- rent report of Coast Guard Cutter Androscoggin the chosen sea-hospital ship, which having suffered damage in breaking ice to frec some fishing vessels, has heen compelled to return from the grounds and go into dry- dock at her station, Boston. Since November the medical staff has had 156 patients, eleven cases being ser- ious enough to require taking on | board for hospital treatment. The others were outpatients’’-—an ex- pressive term in this connection, if | one pictures a Gloucester schooner hobbing alongside the fishermen’s hospital, out on the ocean, while a broken finger is heing mended. In- cidentally, as a part of her ordir ary duty. the Androscoggin rescued five men from a harge that had got lost from its tow. The Androscoggin up with a k hay,”” operating tahle complete outfit of surgical instru- ments, sterliing apparatus and every: thing else needful to a hospital, and an officer of the Public Health Ser- vice is detailed to her. She made her first cruise in this capacity during the latter part of the winter of 1914- 15 and according to the Coast Guarg'’s annual report she covered within the next six months more than nine | thousand miles and had 114 patients. In one instance she ran from Novia Scotia to Boston to get a particularly serious case into a hospital on shore. has been fitted With this for a heginning, the | Samaritan ship was prepared for the | uncommonly severe conditions of | wind and weather which the fishing fleet has encountered during the win- ter now closed—the worst weather in many years. according to the men who go down to the sea in ships. The Adroscoggin has no fixed itin- | erary. Where the fishermen go she follows. The fishermen go where the fish are running, and that depends largely on wind and currents. in some cases the service is performed under great difficulties, as when it is | necessary to transfer a k or crippled fisherman from his schoone to the sea hospital in heavy weather. Congress will find in the experience | ot a| WHEN CHECK IS BAD DO THIS. Poker Player Opens Up Avenue of Lost Hopes. (New York Sun.) He was in high spirits as he strolled whistling down Central Park West. [ It was spring, his health was gopd, the sun was shining brightly, the birds in the park were twittering merrily, and in a poker session the night hefore he had won $276, of In an inslde the balango against his which $76 was in cash pocket a check for $200, of his winnings, nestled heart. It was grcat to be alive anyway and wasn't it fine that he had vielded to his wife's pleag to be allowed “to buy .hose spring clothes! 'The billy for the clothes had been coming & for a week now and had worried him but with $276 he somewhat, now, had not expected to get and the money he already had, he would be able to pay them without difficulty. His wife deserved 1 the spring clothes he could buy her. But wasn't it lucky that he had drawn that fourth Jack against that ace full the night before? He reached the bank on which the $200 check had been drawn and blithely swung through the doors, in- dorsed the paper and presented 4t at the paying teller’s window. There was a pause while the teller got busy with his books. In %a moment he was back at the window. “Insufficient funds,” he said. The sun was obscured behind black clouds, the birds in the park were squawking horribly, forgotten vains began to remind our hero of their existence. If the maker of the check was the kind of man who would give an N. G. check to pay a poker loss, he was surely not the kind of a man who would make good later, thought the holder of the worthless paper. Thén he had an idea. He asked the teller how much the check’'s maker had on deposit, but the teller refused to in- form him, saying it was against the rules. Over on a park bench our hero pondered his problem. At length he reached a solution . The check’s maker was in the thea- trica] business. Our hero visited a press agent of his acquaintance and a couple of complimentary tickets. Then he visited the bank again. From the special guard he learned the paying teller’s name. Then he wrote a note to the paying teller, enclosing the theater tickets, and to it he signed the name of the maker of the check. He sent the pote and tickets by special messens ger to the teller Then after waiting half an hour he called up the bank and asked to talk to the teller. When he was con- nected he gave the name of the maker of the check, talked pleasantly for a moment about the theater tickets he had just sent, and then asked how large his balance was. The teller, glad to do the favor ta one who had just sent him twa thea- ter tickets, answered: “One hundred and forty-three dol- lars.” Our hero after a moment or two hung up the receiver and walked straight around to the bank. Here he questioned the recefving | teller to make sure there would be no slip in his plan. “Can I deposit money man's account?” he asked “Certainly,” said ~the teller. “We're always glad rioney from everybody.” Our hero then made out a deposit siip for $60, under the name of the maker of the check, and shoved the slip and $60 through the recelving teller's window. Then he walked to the paying tel- ler with his $200 check “I'd like cash for this,” he said. The paying teller looked at the check and repeated his “insufficient funds.” Then our hero said loftily: “Pardon, but a deposit which makes the check good was just re- cefved.” The paving teller Jooked it up and found this to be correct, so there was naothing left for him to do but pay out the money. At a cost of $60 our hero had made a bad check for $200 to another receiving to get | good Again was the sun shining and again were the birds twittering A Slogan for Brookiyn. (New York World.) Brooklyn is looking for a siogan. Tt must be not over five words. It must be expensive, and above all thingy t must have the quality of catch- iness,’ so that it will stick in the memory:”” It must sum up in a phrase the material and spiritual Brooklyn, picture its physical strength and visualize its lofty so And th prize-winner among hundreds compeitors will not only be hanc somely rewarded but forever honorej locally. What shall the keynote of the slo- gan he? The area of Brooklyn 1 over four times that of Manhattan and about one-fourth of the greater city. Its population of 1,825,000, over one-third that of the entire city, places it next to Chicago and ahead of Philadelphia. There were over Brooklyn in 1914, only 25,000 deaths, and in 1915 there were issued 17,- 584 marriage licenses. Last year tha ost of new buildings, mostly homes, was over $42,000,000 It is only one bhorough in five, but at Washington n has eight members of its own in the House of Representatives, as many as the entire State of Kansas. It has 48,000 births in more than 1,230 miles of streets, over 121 506 miles of trolley roads and miles of elevated roads, besides miles of subways, including tunn It is a commonwealth, an empire. little world by itself, throbbing with industry and commerce and shelter- ing its own workers and its neigh- bors’. How hop words? can Brooklyn, it to be, be put as into is or as it five - short of only a vear or so ample justifica- tion for the provision it has made for hospbital on the high seas for tie of suffering among New Iing- fishermen—sometimes extend- | | a relief land’s ing to the saving of lives. may bhe hoped Legion won't jobh when the ing American Dispatch. that the be called to ¢ Canadians start ships.—Dittsburgh It Amer- ican the se m