New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1916, Page 5

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New Haven, June 15.—With the ob- ject of securing the cooperation of , motorists and drivers of horse drawn PETERSON’S OINTMENT BEST FOR ECZEMA First application stops itching of Eczema, Salt Rheum and Piles- “Live and let live is my motto,” says Peterson. “Druggists all over America sell PETERSON'S OINT- MENT for 25 cents a large box and I gay to these druggists, if anyone buys my ointment for any of the diseases or ailments for which I recommend it and are not benefitted give them their money tack. “I've gota safe full of thankful let- i certain cros ters testifving to the mighty healing power of Peterson’s Ointment for old pnd running sores, eczema, salt rheum, | ulcers, sore nipples, broken breast, ftching scalp 2nd skin, blind, blecding * and itching piles.” John Seotd, 282 Virginia St., Buffalo, | writes, “ePterson’s Ointment is sim- ply woncerful. It cured me of ec- zema and a'so piles, and did n guickly that I was astonished. s0 | might vehicles, the New Haven railroad is waging a safety first campaign to minimize accidents at grade crossings. This campaign has been discussed and worked out at staff meeting of the operating department. Investigations have already been made at several important grade crossings ,and many mdividual drivers have been written to requesting their cooperation. The principal cause of the majority of accidents at grade crossings Is the taking of chances. Experts on the subject of accident prevention long ago reached the conviction that no matter how many laws might be passed or how many afety installed there could never be a suc- cessful reduction in accidents until there had been enlisted the coope tion of those persons in whose inter the precautions were being taken. Th! applies to grade crossing accidents as well as to the large class of industrial accidents. As a result of the investigations so far made by the New Haven road nu- merous letters have been written to owners of automobiles calling atten- tion to the carelessness of when crossing the railway tracks at ings. The majority of these letters disclose that drivers did not slow down when approaching a cross- ing, and that they drove over the crossing at a high rate of speed. Many of the letters, however, dis close extreme degrees of carelessn One driver approacheda grade cross- ing at North Abington, Mass, and came to a stop within about six inches of the gates, which were down. It was sufficient clearance, as a slight failure of the brakes on the machine result in a collision with the if not s gates, Another ing at the at a ra- driver appro: cros Whitman, Ma pid rate of speed and upon perceiving that the gates were being lowered put | on more speed in an endeavor to cross Price $35.00 L. A. GL xhibition. Also Our THE LEADER Price $75.00 jover devices | arivers | a more serious collision | | with the train. 4 CHESTNU I' before the Finding that he do this, he was machine into the to avoid a collision. A motor truck unable to stop at the crossing gates at Quincy Adams and his truck collided with the gates. Many cases were reported of machines passing over crossings in disregard to the al displayed by the flagman and despite the warning from the en- sine as the train was leaving a sta- tion. A driver grade « foot d approaching train. would be unable to forced to swing his freight yard in order driver of a was of a machine passed the ing Scituate with aard- clearance between the chine the train that had just stopped. Had the engineer of the train released his brakes and the (rain slacked back the machine would cer- tainly have been hit. In the letter to the owner of this machine it was sug- gested that such a close margin 1s also dangerous to alighting passengers at the rear of a train. Still another driver came to a dead stop on a highws crossing at Allerton, three minutes before a train was due to arrive. The driver stopped in order to make sev- eral inquiries. large number of c have been reported of drivers passing crossings without making any observation whatever as to whether a train was coming or not. Some of these drivers were engaged in conversing with pas- senges in the machines, others waw- ing to passers-by, while one driver was putting on his gloves and consequent- ly did not have his hands on the | Wheel or brakes of the machine. In the letters that have been sent out to owners of cars it is pointed cut if the speed of the machine is re- duced and observations made in both directions to make sure the way is cle rade crossing accidents will be minimized. The 'company requests that all visible and audible warnings be heeded. a at ly a of a machine From $15 to $500 Large Stock of New rds. THE FAVORITE Price $50.00 A Free Demonstration In Your Home—If You Desi ADDING, STREET, Just Arund the Corner | THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1916. GREAT OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANS Britsh i North Bxpected to Jump Into Fray i Paris, June 15.—Great interest has | been aroused here by statement made by Bonar Law to the Matin that | the British army was completely accord with General Joffre and to rmove whenever the French headquarters staff saw,’ fit. The statement is accepted as a suffi- cient answer to the charge of Brit- ish indifference to the French losses before Verdun. The press expresses much satisfaction over Bonar Law frank statement. From the outset the military authorities here have insist- ed that it would be playing Germany's game for the British to move before the psychological moment, and have scouted anti-British rumors as idle or malicious gossip Bonar Law's | statement will go far to reassure the people here. a =) in | was prepared Signs of a British Offensive. There is reason to believe that in addition to the great Russian offen- | sive under way against the Austrians, another has been begun against the Germans on the northern part of that line while a third is about to be launched by the British in the west if this last is not already under way. For weeks there have been unmis; takable signs of a great British offen- sive impending which would become active when the Germans before the British line had been reduced to a! minimum, and propitious offensives had been begun by the allies in other quarters. The British front formerly extend- ed from the Belgian front, which ends about ten miles north of Ypres, for thirty-two miles down to about the same distance from Arras. In'the last week in March the British replaced the French as far as the Roye rail- way, south of the Somme and thus occupied a front of about ninety miles or a quarter of the entire western front. The substitution of British | for French troops in the southern sec- tor, the French going, it is believed, to the Verdun defenses, was made without any offensive on the part of | the Germans. Prior to the beginning of the Ger- man campaign against Verdun on Feb. 21 a British offensive had been weekly expected by visitors to the British concentration camps, parade grounds, and storehouses in the rear | of the British front. Particularly | was this so when a great movement of German troops was observed going east and south in the week of Feb. 18, through Central Belgium and Northern France. Hotwever, subse- quently the gigantic proportions of the German offensive at Verdun were said to have diminished the chances of an offensive by the allies in the near future, as it was pointed out that the defense of Verdun must necessarily make great inroads on | ‘their accumulations of munitions and men. It had unofficially transpired, how- ever, that in the defense of Verdun the French had not gone beyond the use of their local reserves, save for the veterans who had been transferr- ed from the western sector, and that the reserve force of 1916 and 1917 conseripts of 1,000,000 men and the veteran Territorfal army of another million had not been touch sides the only aid the Br to the defense of Verdun was loan of an Australlan battery of naval guns, which performed a special ser- vice and then retired. Tt is also signl- ficant that the French have in the defense of Verdun made no use of their heavy mobile artillery. Thus conditions behind the British lines ‘continued to excite the admira- tion of visitors. On March 30 a British officer wrote to his family in London “Apropos of this recent taking over by our troops of these intervening miles of French-defended trenches, it | may be permissible to touch upon what T know to be a very widely cir- culated rumor at home, to the effect | that the British have been helping our gallant ally in his magnificent resistance at Verdun. General Joffre's | message of htanks to Sir Douglas | Haig has been quoted in our press | as evidence of this “Tt seems reasonable to infer that | the ‘thanks’ were for the release of the French troops in the line we have taken over, and that the glory of the defense of Verdun belongs wholly and solely to the army of France. “Although the hour of the British army may be at hand, it is not yet, nor is there any reason to believe that the Germans will succeed by their attacks upon Verdun in their un- doubted purpose of tryihg to upset the | pre-arranged strategy of the great coming offensive.” Weak Points Revealed. Then on May 19, Sir Douglas Haig, the British commander in chief in | France, penned his report describing | the last five months of fighting on | his front. In this report of the most recent engagements which, from Ber- lin and even London, were designated | as “fierce drives” on the part of the Germans are herein calmly set down as “sharp local actions” near Hooge The Bluff, St. Eloi, Wulverghem, Hul- luch, the Hohenzollern Redoubt and Vermelles These “sharp local actions,” ever, reveal the points in the German line which would need read in the face of a British offens strategy of the line remains was when the British made lient at Ypres in October, at Neuve Chapelle in Mar at Loos in September, 191 For as far the Germans may feed their line with men and munitions over rail- ways a British offensive in the latter would jeopardize the German lines of communication to the Champagne. 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In the north air- men of the Allies have observed that the Germans have rebuilt the French fortifications at Lille, Rochambeau, Maubeuge, Landrecies, Hirson, La Fere, and Laon, while in the soutn they ‘e prepared three lines of de- fense case an offensive were de- the Champagne by the in in were still able to defend their right center where the British now, threatened their chicf railway junction and bases. Strength of the British Forces. From the internal evidence of Sir Douglas Haig's report of May 19 the British have 450,000 on the line and the 500,000. Tt known fact that the Germans the bulk of their forces on the firing while the French and English, unless attacked, do not have more than a third of their in the normal condition of a dormant front. They depend on the vigilance is a well- keep Germans line, forces exposed | of their officers on the first line to no- force the tice the signs of an attack on the part of the enemy reserves can be brought thus save thousands of the daily artillery duels Germans do not In these circumstances force under Sir Douglas be about 1,350,000 men him there are forty German divisions, exclusive of cavalry, or 800,000 men of all ranks. This aggregate, accord ing to a British military expert, “may represent in combatants 500,000 rifles and over 3,000 guns. It in whea up. lives while the British Haig should Opposite 719 Main St., Hartford. BRODRIB & WHEELER. 138 M countable concentration and we must further assume that the drafts to make good losses are in the field depots behind the German lines.” FIRST WARD VACANCY. Council Caucus To Be Held tp Choose Pohlman’s Successor. There will be a caucus of first ward members of the council in the board of public works hearing room evening to name a successor to Coun- cilman Walter Pohlman, who re- signed at the last meeting of the coun- cil as he has been appointed meter in- spector in the water department. It is understood there are three can- didates. They are Cornelius Dehm, Stephen Sautter and Aaron Carlson. Mr. Dehm was a candidate to su 2ed Councilman John A. Dolan ,who re- signed to become an inspector in thc health department, but gave Walter W Gould, who was chosen to fill the vac: way recently to ney. REALTY SALF Walter McCabe et al ferred have trans- property at 99 Grove street to Alexander and W: L Vibberts wrgaret S. McGrail. Charles 8. Andrews, as guardian Gladys M. Andrews, a minor transferred to John O'Brien in Stanley Quarter. The case of W. the city, an action for damages for sewer pollution, was postponed yester- day in the superior court and will be Rozalia Brozozowy. Hatch has transferred two lots on to John P, and N avenue of has property W. Hann inst is an ac- i heard next Tuesday. REC AIN HENRY MORANS. 32 this | Telephone Charter 4871 ‘ORDS, FOR SALE BY STREF 1 MAIN STRE CITY BILLS APPROVED,] | The | council finance met last committee of night and. app| the monthly bills. The list is 8 lows: Safety board, $1,873.48; department, $1,347.61; publie a ment commission, $28.63; incide) | $709; street department, street lighting §2 34; $32.36; permanent $7.43; park department department, $111.38 ance, $359.20; « | $637.19; street spr street improvement | A WOMAN'S BAG |The Advice of This New By Woman Is of state pave $15; su mail sewer Certain Value, Many a woman's aches and pains. Ofttimes 'tis the kidney's faul| That's why Doan’s Kidney, Pilk s0 effective Many New this Read what one has to say abo | Mrs. E. Vater, 619 W AMajn | New Britain, I suffered | a aull, grinding ache across the |of my back and it ymade me jand languid. 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