New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1916, Page 5

* STREET EXTENSION FACES OPPOSITION Gity Plan Commission Hears Pro- test of Catholics The proposed extension of Millard street to East street occupied the at- tentlon of what members of the city plan commission were present at the meeting last evening, and at the con- clusion it was decided to defer action in the matter until next Tuesday evening when it is hoped that other members of the commission will be present. Several months ago a peti- tion was sent to the common council by residents of the eastern section of / the city asking that Millard street be extended to East street. The matter at the time was referred to City Engi- neer Hall. In the meantime, how- ever, the dlocese of Hartford pur- chased, through P. J. Murray, land in that sectifon from M. L. Rhodes, which completely changes the situa- tlon as the new church would be di rectly on a line with the proposed ex- tension. At the meeting last evening Mayor Quigley explained that the petition had been received and the street ac- cepted as a public highway. Those favoring the extension last evening were a Mr. Jones and Anthony Ba- ka) Mr. Jones, acting as spokes- id that if the church wanted damages the proper thing to do would be for the petitioners to withdraw. He spoke of the petition having been presented before the sale of the property was made and there- | fore claimed it should be given pref- rence. He had been informed that he diocese had an option before the petition was presented, Rhodes people would not have asked as heavy damages as the church au- thoroties Representing the ties P. through the d land. Mr. Mur 1904 Mr. where the now stands, and agr have a street put throu in a year. If the street had been put through the church people would not want the land. The Stanley Memorial church had vaived rights concerning the ex- tension of the street, and it had been believed that other property owners in that section weuld do likewise. Legal advice sought in the matter was to the effect that none other than the Stanley Memorial chapel authori- ties had any right to claim the ex- tension, Mr. Murray claimed. Mr. Lockwood, who sold the land for the Rhodes estate, had also been advised along similar lines. A. E. Magnell said that the exten- sion of the street would interfere with Zythe erection of the church and fur- iher development of the property. The speaker said that the day the sale was consummated, Chancellor Mur- ray of the diocese called at one of the offices in City hall and made inquiries regarding the proposed extension, and received information to the ef- fect that there was nothing to inter- fere with the building of the church Asked by Mayor Quigley which office the chancellor visited, Mr. Magnell said he thought it was the board of public works. Engineer Hall gaid that he found a card bearing the chancellor's name on it and surmised that he talked with the clerk. A let- ter from Chancellor Murray, read by P. J. Murray, told of calling at City hall, but said he was unable to secure information pertaining to the any maps to determine n was contem- church authori 1 for 7 t back in proper chapel ed time to any land or view whether an extensicn plated Councilman David Wicander, rep- resenting the East Congregational so clety, spoke against the proposed tension as did Mr. Rhodes. POLICEMEN FALLING (INTO SHITHFS NET Fxpects to Indict Filteen More Through Boston Visit Boston, Sept. 2.—Assistant District Attorney James E. Smith - of York, in charge of the vice investiga- tion there, which has resulted already in the indictment of elght policemen, arrived here in search of witnesses who, he said, had been spirited away by interests that feared the trend his investigation was taking. He left last night, having found his witnesses and, in addition, having learned the names of members of the New York pokee force who provided the funds that financed the flight from New York “We’ll get at least fifteen more po- licemen before we're through,” said Mr. Smith jubilantly. “T've come to an understanding with the witnesses I found here. 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It's merely a matter of picking the witnesses we nt and directing our energies against what I may call the ‘big fish’ | of the case. We'll get 'em, too.” Mr, Smith found the men and wo- men he sought in a house in Dwight street against which he led a raid. Crowds gathered about the house and watched curiously as Mr. Smith and his men, among them Detective Philip McGlynn of Lieutenant Costi- gan’s squad and Howard Barbour, su- perintendent of the Soclety for the Prevention of Crime, broke in on a gay dinner party. There were nine- teen men and women in the house. All were well dressed, and there was wine on the dinner table. There ap- beared to be no shortage of funds, and the party seemed to be making the | § best of its exile from New York. i From the group Mr. Smith picked | Philip, or John Schick of Brooklyn, | who, the assistant district attorney | d, is under indictment as a white slaver; Jennie Price, Sadie Rothen- berg, Dora White, Schick’s wife, and Mr. and Mrs, Morris Bornstein. He | arrested Schick, who was locked up | in the Fast Dedham street station, and allowed the others to remain at liberty after they had promised to start for New York on early trains. Schick later agreed to waive extradi- tion and accompany Mr. Smith to New York. The assistant district at- orney said it was possible the indict- ment against Schick would be | dropped in return for his aid against men of more importance in the vice situation. Mr. Smith said Schick had been provided with funds to convey to Bos- ton fiftcen other women besides those found in the Dwight street house, so they might escape testifying before the grand jury, and he left with the local police a list of addresses where these girls were supposed to be in | hiding. nd that the | The New York prosecutor and his | B party left here last night for Provi- | § dence, where other members had pre- | cedeq them. He sai they were in arch of a “big fish” and a few more | v sses, and, if they found them, would continue to New York at once. New York, Sept. 2.—Mary E. Hig- gins, the night superintendent of the | W: ington Heights hospital, who was arrested on Thursday night ¢harged with aiding and abetting in the escape of a girl known as Clara | Brown, a prisoner in the institution, was arraigned in the Washington Heights court on Tuesday. In con- | nection with the arrest District At- torney Swann said that he believed there was an organized effort on the part of wealthy white slavers to de- stroy evidence and rescue their vie- tims from the penalty of the law. He said that in this instance a nurse who had left the institution had told him facts which led him to believe that the escape of the Brown girl, who was convicted of a violation of the tene- ment house law, was carefully planned. DURAND WASFAR BEHIND IN WORK. Even Republican Commission Re- ported Faults in Census Bureau Portland, Me., Sept. 2—William C. Redfield, secretary of commerce, last night answered the charges of Charles | E. Hughes that appointments to the posts of director of census and super- intendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey had been made for political reasons without regard to the effi- | ciency of the service. It is proper, | he said, that an administration should | render an account of its work and | that the department of commerce wel- | comed the most searching inquiry and the fullest publicity. “The census work was found to be sadly behind,” said Mr. Redfield. “So | much so that much of it which cost the government large sums was either of such a nature or so long delayed that the expenditure upon it proved useless. For example, there was spent on the interrogatory known as the Mother Tongue Inqui an amount which the recor: shows to be up- ward of $100,000; there was spent ap- proximately $150,000 upon a special inquiry as to occupations—from neither have any results whatever come. The regular investigation on wealth, debt and taxation for the year 1902 was not published until 1907. The same investigation for the year 1913 was completed and published in 1914, although in the latter case the scope of the inquiry was enlarged. “The report as to statistics of cities for the vear ended January 31, 1911, | was published February 1, 1913, two years afterward. The report of stat- istics for cities for the year ended January 31, 1912, was published No- | vember 1, 1913, twenty-one months after. The same report, however, for the fiscal year 1915 was In the print- er's hands less than seven months aft- | er the inquiry closed. The physical statistics of cities collected in 1909 were published July 23, 1913—four vears afterward, whereas, the report on general statistics compiled for the vear ended June 30, 1915, was in the printer's hands in the following No- vember. “Soon after W. G. Harrls succeeded E. Dana Durand as dirrector of the census,” Secretary Redfield said, “he found the work in such backward con- dition that he called in to assist him an expert commission consisting of four republicans and one democrat. This expert committee reported that, ‘although three and one-halt years have now elapsed since the enumera- tion, much to the thirteenth census work Is till uncompleted,’ and they advised ‘that the annual compilation | of statistics of forest products be aban- doned. There appears to be no au- thority of law for an annual, inquiry of this character, which the records show cost $20,000 to $40,000 a year.’ “Whoever is disposed to urge the The Hour For Action In New Britain Is Here EW BRITAIN has seen an Era of Prosperity, and the Hour for Action has come to those who have helped to build and develop it. New Brit- ain has been an old stand-by for its workingmen, mechan- ics, business enterprises and investors, and for many years back has carried the Banner of Pride as a leading Ameri- can manufacturing city. Her 50,000 inhabitants have grown faster than the civic improvements, and builders have not supplied suffi- cient homes for their comfort. Dingy old hovels, built a quarter of a century ago; ill-smelling tenements into which crowded families have moved,—these are about the best the well paid mechanic has been able to obtain. The rich land owner has been holding tight to the land of the earth, which by all rights of Humanity and Jus- tice belongs to the pecple, for the sole purpose of securing tremendous profits when the time might come when the mechanics and workers could pay him the price. He has not developed it, he has not built upon it. Neither would he give anyone else a chance to use it. It is just this condition that has kept the people of New Britain from realizing the ideal opportunities; from bene- fiting through the unearned increment of the land. You and your family have been for years, a cog in the Wheel of Land Value Increase. You have lived on other men’s lands and developed it by your industry. He has closed the Gates of Get There for you, and it has kept you in the Path of Poverty of Non-land ownership, Values have gone “up and up” while you have wondered how you ever would get in. Now the time has come when you must think! You cannot let Opportunity pass you by any longer. You have got to get yourself a stake in the city in which you earn your money, support yourself and family and in which you are destined to remain for the rest of your life. And I’Tf going to let you in on the ground floor, to protect your- self. am authorized to sell out an entire tract of beautiful rolling land, in a veritable Garden Spot of New Brit- ain. There are some 200 excellent, well selected, choice and large plots, where you can prepare your future home, live among Nature and reach the center of the.city in 8 minutes by trolley. Here you will be able to exercise your own judgment, offer what you believe the little spot is and will be worth to you, and feel that you bought it for all-time, or to sell at a profit in the future. I am authorized to sell these lots, regardless of value and without reservation or protection. o v T At Absolute Auction I These lots form a tract, the actual conditions, location, surroundings and transportation to and from them, indi- cate that their opening and further development will serve to the benefit of those who buy there now. I want you to watch my advertisements here each day. I am going to tell you how to buy land at the right price, at the right time, and at the price that you are willing to pay. That is how 1 sold over 1,900 home sites and plots last year and that is why I am here to sell now. I have educated thousands of families how to secure their everlasting home, and in every instance my Square Deal policy has added to my further success. I am not in this business solely for the dollar, but for the benefit of the entire creed, for in the finale I will get my reward as a matter of course. 1 am a firm believer in every man owning his own land. It is well nigh onto a crime for the few to own this glorious country, while the rest of the people must slave and drive and sleep where others may let them. If you will prepare now to attend my auction sale you will not be long in getting into your own bed, and feel that you are one of the Land Owners of this glorious universe, $1,000 Worth of Souvenirs Will Be Given Away AT THE BSOLUTE AUCTION SALE ARNESDALE CIRECTLY ON THE 5-CENT TROLLEY BETWEEN NEW BRTAIN AND PLAINVILLE SEPT. 14-15-16 AT 2 O’CLOCK EACH DAY UNDER MAMMOTH TENT—LOOK FOR BIG RED FLAG. 200 — CHOICE BUILDING LOTS—-200 GEORGE G. BAKER America’s Pre-eminent Land Auctioner—300 Sales in 40 States in 20 Years. 7 EAST 42d STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. h- claims of Mr. ministrator the mittee." Taking up the charge that Mr. Har- his had violated civil service ru making appointments, that Service Reform League of New pointed out is recommended report of the above-named com- superintendent of the Coast and Geo- | ty detic Survey, Mr. Redfield said it would “be sufficient to say he served Durand as an able ad- to read | president. of Connecticut was elected a vice | OPENING POSTPONED. Several young local women who | have been contemplating entering They will city make their |two years under my administration and offered his resignation at the end first year. It was declined. He withdrew, as he himself has en the republican candidate, ‘of the the National PERSONALS this fall received notice from the au- { Mrs. Bennett left on a wedding tr} home in Mr. Bennett is the well knoy publisher of the pocket guide. J Smith college at Northampton, Mass | of the opening of the institution has been postponed | thorities the school vesterday that | two weeks because of the York | his own notion.’ city made an investigation and found the charges ‘untrue, unwarranted, and unjustified.” “Now and here I plainly say that neither my conscience nor my business judgment would allow me to retain an officer under whose administration such things existed,” the secretary said, in concluding his remarks on con- ditions under Durand. *“Had he not resigned unasked I should have re- moved him.” As to Otto H. Tittmann, the former CONN. DRUGGI! Philadelphia, Sept, the HONORED. 2.—Members of pharmaceutical representing fifty pharmacy in United American facul- colleges of States, ties, 2 the met today with representatives of the Na- | | | tional Association of State | Roards of a membership John A. Laver- | Pharmacy, which h | from forty-two states. | on where they Miss trip through western states. Hazel Chirgwin of Ansonia and ’ Charles Hartman and Herbert Schaalf of Seymour Mildred Johnson of Stanley street. are the Arthur Gleed of Maple street of friends left this morning to New will spend Lahor day party an automobile trip Damon have Mrs. U. E Fannie, guests of and returned from a | epidemic of infantile paralysis. The Events Tonight was to have opened on Sep Miss Yor college tember | e l BENNETT—CARROLL. | { E. W. Bennett and Miss Louise | and | Carroll were married at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the home of the bride | on Wells street, Rev. Harry 1. Bodley | of St. Mark's Episcopal church per- | forming the ceremony. The wedding daughter, | was very quiet and was attended by | members of the families immediate the ceremony Mr. and Burr Vaudeville and Keeney's theater. e Chamberlain council meets in Jr. O. U. A. M Vega After itt Gra | only. High class photo plays, moving Fox's the pictur Jr. 0. U. AsS hall ociety meets in Vega hall, > meets in Judd's h