New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1916, Page 3

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1916, Boston Store BLANKETS AND OUTING FLANNELS Cool Weather is on the Way. A Pair of Our Famous “California Blankets” Will Sidetrack the Surly Blasts of Winter. We have them at $4.50, $5.00, $6.00, $7.00, $8.00 and $10.00. Cotton Bfilkets From 69c a pair up. The New Outing Flannels Are Ready for You. The Best on the Market at 10c and 15¢ a yard. White and Colors. Have You Seen the New Motor Weave Robe, at $6.75 each. The New Cretonnes Are being cut up in live]y; Fashion. At 20c to 42¢ a yard. PULLAR & NIVEN "THOMPSON CAUGHT AFTER LONG GHASE Trailed Through Fighteen States and Arrested in Boston Sept. 12.—George B. Thompson, accused by the police of “shooting up” the county jail in Cam den, N. J., killing Isaac Hibbs, a jailer, and seriously wounding an assistant in making his escape, was captured -.a Concord street lodging house late yesterday by Detectives Burke and Haggerty, of Police Headquarters, and Augustine Gribben, of the county prosecutor’s office in Camden. The prisoner, who admitted his identity, said that he was a lawyer and realized the futility of fighting ex- tradition. He will be taken back to New Jersey today. Gribben's pursuit of Thompson has taken him through eighteen states. ‘When the trail led to Boston, Gribben took lodging in the house in the South End where Thompson was supposed to be. The fugitive had grown a mus- tache, and his hair had turned from a dark color to gray. Boston, Thompson wrote his name in the | Bertillon room with such flourishes in penmanship that it won the admira- tion of the inspectors. “That writing brought me into trouble,” he informed the police. It was on a charge of forgery that he had been conflned in Camden. The shooting occurred July 6. » Thompson and a man named Ash- bridge were in a steel cage in the jail. Hibbs, the jailer, was induced to ap- proach the cage on the pretext that | One | they wished him to read a letter. of the men had a revolver, which had been smuggled into the jail, and with this Hibbs was shot and killed. Then the men reached through the bars and stole his keys, with which they - unlocked the cage. with attendants followed. tendant was shot, but will One at- recover. Ashbridge was captured in a few days, | but Thompson escaped. Because of his education and attainments he was better able to maintain his freedom, NORWEGIAN CREW LANDED. ‘orty-seven Members Arrive Safely on Greek Steamship. Sept. 12, 12:20 a. m.—A London, in | Automobile | | | A running fight | FOR BEING ALIVE on Ill-Fated Memphis Wiped out of all that he possessed including $150, by the wrecking of | the cruiser Memphis on the rocks off | San Domingo, and rescued from the | ship with nothing but his underclothes | and a life preserver, was the thrilling experiénce encountered by Frank Ed- wards of this city, who, in a letter to 1hir< aunt, Mrs. C. E. Edwards of 211 | Maple street, relates in a graphic man- | ner some of the experiences he under- went until he w safely landed at Oz Fort in San Domingo That he glad to be alive and will never | forget some of the sights he witnessed | is told in the letter to Mrs. Edwards | which is as follows Ozana Fort, i San Domingo City, S. D. } August 30, 1916. i Dear Aunt:— Just to fet you know that I am safe, for I suppose you have heard about | our disaster and_that our ship is on the rocks a wreck. Have lost ev thing I owned. ' Had $150 d up | and went back to get it :1.d nearly | lost my life doing it. Don’t know who helped me get off the ship but I did with only my underclothes and a life preserver. I got some dry clothes when 1 arrived at the fort. The marine | men were the only thing that saved {us. They did fine: work and deserve | a lot of credit and at present they are doing all they can to take care of us. A lot of the men in the fireroom were burned to death, and many otliers were so badly burned that they did not live very long, two more dying tonight. We had some men ashore and they were on their way back to the ship. All were drowned except four out of the sixty that were in the boat. The exact loss of life cannot be determined vet. I managed to get back aboard the ship this morning and secured some important papers, also some to write on. My hoss, the chief engineer, is not expected to live.through the night. He stayed in the engine room until the last minute. The ship is a total wreck and can’t be raised. The guns, etc., can be taken off and some of the crew’s personal effects may also be taken off. I don’t know when I'll get home but don’t worry. TI'll get along all right. I didn't catch cold although I was nearly frozen. They keep finding bodies washing up on the beach. Just had to identify a man who was an engineer in the motor hoat. Have had one awful experience that I won't forget some of the things which I have seen as long as T live. Gee, but T am one lucky guy and say, maybe it didn’t feel good to get around on my feet and get something to ecat. Must close and get this mailed. Took this little oportunity to let you know that I am around and not to worry. FRANK. FUGITIVE WOMAN HELD BY POLICE Sought Since Escape From Deten- tion in Hospital Last June New York, Sept. 12.—The woman known as Clara Brown, sought by the autnorities since her escape from Washington Heights hospital while under sentence last June, was brought back to the city from Utica yester- day by detectives of the district at- torney’s staff. | As a result of a confession by the womn, Mr. Swann said last night, at least one man would be arrested, charged with whife slavery. The wo- man said her maiden name was Vine- berg and that she was nineteen. According to her story, she was the daughter of Harris Vineberg, an Al- bany tailor. She says she was unhap- pily married at seventeen and ob- | talned a separation. While visiting friends in New York a year ago, she | continued, she met a former girlhood friend, a man a few years older than herself. She holds this man respon- sible for her downfall. Charging that he sold her into white slavery, she declared that he often beat and abused her when she did not | turn over as much money to him as he thought she should. Last winter she was arrested for violating the tenement house ordin- ance and was committed to the Mag- dalen Home for three years by Magis- | trate Barlow in the Woman’s Night Court. Late in May she was taken to the Washingtori Heights hospital, ap- parently suffering from appendicitis. On June 8 she eluded her police guard, and, it is alleged, by the aid of Miss Mary E. Higgins, superintend- despatch to Lloyds from Genoa says | ent of the institution and Helene Bird, that forty-seven members of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Elizabeth | entrance, wearing Miss IV have been landed at Savona by the Greek steamer Petritsis. The Elizabeth IV measured 4,182 tons and was last reported at Colombo | on August 11 on her way to Marseilles | trom Shanghai. INTERN FATHERS OF THREE. French Government Accepts Proposal to Aid Men With Families. 11:35 a. m.—Premier Briand announced today that the French government had decided to accept a proposal to intern in Switzer- land all prisoners of war parents of three or more children and who have been in captivity for eight- cen months or more. The proposal “4s under the consideration of the Swiss government. * Paris, Sept. 21, who were | was hurried to a rear Bird’s over- waiting auto- made a con- Miss Higgins a night nurse, coat, and bundled into a mobile. Miss Bird has fession, explaining that reimbursed her for the loss of the garment. Miss Higgins has been ar- rested. After her escape the fugitive hid on the East Side for a month and then went to Utica. She said she was com- pelled to live in Deerfield, a suburb of the city. A few days ago word was brought to the district attorney’s office that the zirl was in Utica. Detectives Frank Gallagher and John Cunniff went there saturday and, with the ald of Utica detectives, ' found her. Surrounding the house, they caught the girl as she was about to leave a rear entrance and board a waiting automobile. According to Assistant District At- torney John T. Dooling, the girl went by the name of Clara Brown in New York previous to her escape. In Utica [ So Writes IIcal?oy Who Was | Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, U. S. N., chief umpire of the recent war game between the fleets commanded by Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo and Rear Admiral James M. Helm, in an interview at the Naval War college, of which he is president, said the man- euvers had proved to be by far the most stupendous and instructive yet undertaken., “Its course was a good deal determined,” he said, *“by the weather, and, on account of the south- west breeze, with its customary ac- companiment of mist, vessels could not be distinguished for more than two or three miles. This enabled the red fleet to make its way through the flo- tillas of torpedo boat destroyers and scout vessels sent out by the blue or defending fleet. As part of the train- ing the civillan naval recruits re- ceived they have become somewhat ef- ficient in handling one pounders. In the target practice with the one pounders the firing was at the rate of four shots to the minute, the range starting at 600 yards and gradually decreasing to 800 yards. The one pounders were mounted in the bows of motorboats, and the attack was made to imitate a landing party. The pointers of the gun crews soon found it was no easy matter to score a hit with the boat rocking all about, the target constantly shifting, and the range growing less as their boat ap- proached the supposed enemy. The volunteers from the Maine, however, made a fair record. They scored thirty-five hits out of a possible sixty. In operating the heavier guns the range was approximately 1,800 yards when the command was given to fire, Naval Maneupers Just Completed Proved Most Stupendous Yet Attempted and the ship moved in a direction parallel to the target. The regular gunners also got their innings, but no report of the effectiveness of their fire has been reported by the navy de- partment, which is holding this in ARKANSAS MAMHING SPEED e strict secrecy. Above are shown sal- vos from the Arkansas dropping all around the target; also the same bat- tleship, which was Vice Admiral De Witt Coffman’s flagship in the maneu- vers, steaming at racing speed. she called herself Bar; She has told Mr. Dooling that the man she accuses was married In Brooklyn the day she escaped from the hospital and is still living in that borough. Mr. Dooling says she has implicated him in her flight from the hospital. The girl de- clares she quarrelled with him after- ward on the east side and decided to turn her back on New. York. When she was arrested in Utlca she had $110. “While this girl’'s parents were not society people, they were respectable,” said District Attorney Swann last night. “The girl has been brought back here as an escaped prisoner, but we are considerably interested in get- her to share with them the profits of her vicious life.” GRANT POSTMASTER DEAD IN NEW YORK General James Was Appointed fo Ofiice in 1873 New York, Sept. 12, —General Thomas Lemuel James, Wwho was at one time postmaster of New York city and later postmaster gener- al of the United States, died yesterday at his home at 784 Park avenue. General James suffered several strokes of apoplexy recently and had been in a weakened condition for the last few weeks. At the time of his death General James had been retired from business for several yvears, his last active posi- tion being that of president of the Lincoln National bank and of the Lincoln Safe Deposit company. He was in his elghty-sixth year. The general was born in Utica, N. Y., March 29, 1831. He studied at the public schools and toak a course in Utlca academy. Then he learned the printer's trade in the office of the Utica Liberty Press, and in 1851, to- gether with Francis B. Fisher, he bought The Madison County Journal, a whig newspaper published in Ham- ilton, N. Y.. In 1856 The Journal was united with The Democratic-Reflect- ar, another Whig organ, and the two papers were published under the title of The Democratic-Republican. Duririg his ten vears’ career as an editor he served as collector of the canal tolls at Hamilton. In 1861 General James entered the customs service of New York city as inspector. In 1870 he became deputy collectar and was appointed b)" the collector, General Arthur, chairman of the civil service board of the col- lector’'s and surveyor’s offices. Selected by President Grant. President Grant appointed General James postmaster of this city in 1873, ting at the man or men who compelled | 1 and four years later, re-appointed him for 1t while in this | general 1 1 to | throughout the nation as a splendid | executive. Under him the postal | service in the city and indeed whole state showed a decided im- provement. Farelgn mail service wag expedited; new measures were under- taken the better to safeguard the handling of local mail. European countries recognized the efficiency of | the system inaugurated by General James and they sent experts to this country to study the details of the | President Hayves another term. office that the be recognized was New York affice. | When David M. Key resigned his; position as postmaster general in | President Hayes' cabinet, the presi- dent tendered the office to General Jemes, but the latter, then deep in the problems of straightening out the service in the city and securing ap- pointments for merit above every- thing, refused. The same year he de- clined the republican nomination of mayor of the ecity. | President Garfield, after his election in 1881, appointed General James | postmaster general, an office which { the general held only ten months, re- signing after the death of Garfleld, and the accession of Arthur caused the reorganization of the cabinet, While postmaster general, General James made several lasting reforms | ir the nation's postal service. By his | policy of retrenchment he brought a saving of more than $2,000,000 each | year to the department. In hf§ re- port to congress for the year the gen- eral showed also that by his palicy of retrenchment a reduction of letter postage from 3 to 2 cents would be possible. The reduction came soon atter. On retiring from the cabinet, Gen- eral James became president of the Lincoln Bank and Safe Deposit com- | pany. He was chairman of the board of directors of that institution when he dled. Married Four Times, General James was married four’ times, his last wife being Mrs, Flor- | ence Gaffney of Utica, N. Y., wha sur vives him. His first wife was Mis Emily Tda Freeman of Hamilton, N Y. a niece of Thurlow Weed. After her death he married her sister, the | widow of Dr. E. R. Borden of Aiken, | |'S. C. His third wife was an English woman, Miss Edith Golburne, daugh- ter of the proprietar of the Red Horse hotel at Stratford-on-Avon. By his first wife General James had three children—Colonel Charles Fran- cis James, Mrs. Ella J. Pierson, the | widow herself of a former New York stmaster, and Mrs, Harriet Weed James. General James was a member of the Union League club, Yacht club and the St the New York David soclety. He had an honorary degree of M, A. from Hamiltan college and one of LL. D. from Madison university, St, John’s college, and the College of St. Francis Xavier, in the |’ | candidates were Carrol | resentatives and Roger Hulburd, ! to bring out a heav VERMONT.HOLDING FIRST PRIMARIES Triangular Contest for G. 0. P, Candidate for Governor Burlington, Vt., Sept. 12.—The di- rect primary was given its first test in Vermont today with popular inter- est centered in the triangular contest for the republican nominatfon for United States senator. The senatorial 8. Page, at present a member of the upper house of congr Governor Charles W. Gates and former Governor Allen M. Fletcher. There was no republican opposition to the republican nomina- tion of Horace Graham, present state auditor for governor but there were republican contests for nominations for lieutenant governor and auditor of accounts. John E. Weeks of Mid- dlebury, speaker of the house of rep- of Hyde Park, an experienced legislator, sought the lieutenant governorship honors and Major Benjamin Gales, former secretary of civil and military affairs and deputy state treasurer Thomas Cave were contesting for the auditorship. The two members of Frank L. Greene of St. Albans and Porter H. Dale of Island Pond, repub- licans, were unopposed in their own party. With the exception of a few local fights for legislative nominations, there were no democratic contests. The party’s candidates for the prin- cipal offices were; United States Sen- ator, Oscar C. Miller of Newport; Congress, Robert E. Healey of Ben- nington, and G. Herbert Pape of Barre; Governor, W. B. Mayo of Northfield Fair weather and the interest aroused by the senatorial contest and the fact that the direct primary was having its first trial vote. Three-Cornered Fight in Illinois. Chicago, Ill, Sept. 12.—The state primary campaign which closed today | was one of the hardest fought in the | history of Illinois. Chief interest cen- | ters in the three-cornered fight for the republican nomination for gov- ernor between Frank O. Lowden, sup- ported by the regular organization; Frank L. Smith, running independent, and Morton D. Hull, supported by the anti-saloon and other factions. Former United States Senator Wil- liam Lorimer is seeking the nomina tion for congress in the sixth district. On the democratic side the fight between Governor Edward F. Dunne and William F. Britton for the guber- natorial nomination attracted the most attention, A congress, | were expected | L 3 HARTFORD | Special Attention to Mail and Telephone Grders, Cr. 1000, | | SCHOOL SALE AND DISPLAY OF NEW FALL GARMENTS WE HAVE MADE ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR O TING THE BOY, K AND GIRL AND THE MISS AND YOUTH WITH NEW APPAREL. Here Are Garments of Quality and Distinctiveness at Most erate Prices The touch of Fall is in.the air. Soon the leaves will turn and the mills of education will begin to grind. It's time to get the necessary apparel and we can meet all your wants, both in merchan: dise and prices. We have made special preparations this year ta clothe the young. 3 SALE OF BOYS' CLOTHING ¥} A WATCH WILL BE GIVEN FREE WITH EACH S}HT OR $5.00 : PURCHASE OF OTHER GOODS IN BOYS' DEPT. $4.95—This suit is made to stand the rough wear that the average boy will give it. Latest mixtures and models. 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