New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. 'NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1916. —SIXTEEN PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876 NAVAL PATROL OFF THE COAST; TWELVE DESTROYERS RUSH OUI Be Enforced, Lives to Be Saved--Admiral Mayo Hears of Belligerent Base o Atlantic Coast--Fleet of Foreign War Vessels Reported Off American Shores GLEAVES HINTSBUT |FOREIGN WAR FLEET SEEN 8 Neutrality to CITY TO DO HONOR TO SOLDIER BOYS ‘Hundreds to Turn Out for Parade Tomorrow ---2 0’Clock Hour Set for “Forward March” LINE TO FORM IN THREE DIVISIONS Every #ection of City to Be Covered —Officials and Guests to Hold Re- view in Central Park Stand—City Clerk Thompson Will Be Marshal— Many Fraternities to Be Represent- ed in Great Spectacle. New Britain’s official welcome and parade in honor of the return of the boys from Nogales will take place to- morrow afternoon and the hour is 2 o’clock. From present indications it will be one of the greatest parades ever held in the Hardware City as all the patriotic organizations and many of the fraternal orders will turn out in honor of the boys who went out last June when the call came to hasten to the Mexican bor- der. Colonel Alfred. L. Thompson, who was marshal of last night’s par- ade, will again be in command. It is probable that three divisions will take part in the parade. According to the program an- nounced today by B. C. Momey, chair- iman of the parade committee the par- ade will form in the following order: Order of Formation. Colonel A. L. Thompson, marshal. First Section. Forms on Arch street, armory, east side. Platoon of police. Universal Band. Reception Committee- Distinguished Guests in Automobiles. right at SOLDIERS EXPECT TO G0 BACK TO BORDER Many Believe They May Yet See Fighting in Mexico. Physically better than when they marched away last June, with clear eye and hardened muscles, with ex- periences that will ever be valuahle, New Britain's troops are now back home. Their work for the time be- ing is done. Only routine work re- mains until they are formally mus- tered out, which wili probably take a week more. But there is hardly one of these men in khaki with his per- sonal knowledge of conditions as they -exist on the bagder, who does not be- lieve that it will not be many months before the soldiers are called out again for border duty. And next time, they believe, it will not be pure- ly a patrol duty, it will be actual fighting, Sergeant J. F. Conners of Company I, Herald correspondent at Nogales during the time the troops were at the border, speaking generally on the situation, today had the following to say: More Trouble Expected. ‘Due to a strict military censorship along the Mexican frontier, the gen- eral American public is not familiar with the true situation. They think that peace Is assured and that the Mexicans are ready to eat out of Uncle SBam’s hand. It is no so. They are merely quieted for the time be- ing. They are as a smouldering spark, ready to burst into flame at the slightest breeze. And when that time comes, if it does New Britain's companies will not be found wanting and in the meantime a campaign is to be waged for more members of the Natlonal Guard here. The National Guard today is on the best footing that it has ever been. The training given the boys during the four months on the border has made them al- G. A. R. in Automobiles. Ladies Auxiliary, U. S. W. V. Sons of Veterans Auxiliary. Red Cross. Corbin Commandery. Other Patriotic Organizations. Knights of Columbus. All Other Fraternal Organizations. Second Section. Forms on Grand and Prospect streets, right at armory, on Grand. Philharmonic Band. Letter Carriers. Boy Scouts. Tierney Cadets. Company I Volunteers, Sons of Veterans. Spanish War Veterans. i Company D. Company E. Company T Third Section. A1l Automobiles. Forms on Camp street, right rest- ing at Grand street By order B. C. Morey, chairman, A. Thompson, marshal. 1t the weather s stormy the parade will be postponed to Monday. Line of March. The line of march as announced in vesterday's Herald will be from the state armory, starting at 2 o'clock. The route will lead down Arch street around the South church to Main and down Main to Franklin Square to Whiting, Maple, Park, Main to Fast Main to Hartford avenue, to North to Broad to High; down High to West Main to Vine street triangle; counter- march to Main and return to armory via Arch street. To Build Reviewing Stand. Mayor Quigley this morning issued @rders for the construction of a re- wlewing stand on the Center park op- posite City hall. From this point of vantage the parade will be viewed by New Britain officlals, Mayor Joseph F. Dutton of Bristol and members of L. (Continued On Fifteenth Page). most the equal of the regulars and with this nucleus to build upon the new National Guard should be far superior to that of past years. Many Knocks Unjustified. “Published reports from the bor- der seriously criticizing the food and equipment of the men and the treat- ment accorded them, as well as the statements of some of the rejected men made in a derogatory sense, can- not be too severely candemned. They are all false and unjustified. The food given the men was of the best quality, nourishing and wholesome. It was fresh and was ordered . from only the best houses in the country. In addition to the regular mess, tha men could also have additonal food if they wanted to. The mess sergeant is allowed 31 82-100 cents per day for each man who is credited. to his company. He can make the daily mess cost this amount, cost less or cost more. If It costs more the men have to pay. If it costs less, how- ever, the company is credited with the difference and this money can and must be used for mess. Thus, by economizing on some things anil profiting by the absence of some of the men on detached duty the com- pany is enabled to have some unusu- ally flne meals. In thls manner Company I obtained several regular banquets In which chicken and other tasty articles of food were served. Physically, Men Are Perfect. “Under the head of physical con- dition a mere look at the boys 1s suf- ficlent to dispel all doubts as to the treatment they received. There is hardly a man who, after the natural effects from change in water ana cli- mate, did not gain in flesh and muscle and some of the men are heavier to- day that ever before in their lives. The air was clear and pure and with the regular hours of sleeping, the whole- some food and the proper amount of (Continued On Fifteenth Page), INCREASES MYSTERY Important Developments Not Gon- cering Submarines, Says Admiral EXTRA PRECAUTIONS TAKEN Coast Wircless Stations Scaled and Other Operators Instructed as to Exact Meaning of Neutrality—Ship- ping Warned by Newspapers, New York, Oct. 13.—A dozen stroyers of the United States are patralling the ocean highways to and from orth Atlantic The seaward dash of stroyers from Newport yesterday aroused much speculation. At least ane other United States destrover is known to have been on guard outside New York since the German sub- marine raid off Nantucket last Sun- day. Efforts to explain the activity of the ! destroyers ranged fram a reported discovery of a foreign submarine base | to a rumor that a liner had been driven into Bar Harbor by a German | submarine stationed off Rackland, | Me. All these stories lacked verifica- | tlon, Rear Admiral Gleaves, mander of the torpedo flotilla at New- port, said the sending aof the de- ! stroyers to sea had no connection with | the saillng of the White Star liner. Adriatic from New York for Liverpoo] Yesterday. de- ports today. eleven de- Important Developments o “There have been important de- velopments,” said he, “but you eould not call them submarine developments | because they are not on the submarine | end.” Since the advent of the German submarine off Nantucket the navy de- partment has shut down all coast wireless stations. Navy officers have been sent to the Seagate station, Tele- funken Station, the National Electric Sigalling company’s Brooklyn station, and all local wireless plants, to in- struct the operatars as to the exact meaning of neutrality. It was stated that one newspaper wireless station here had sent out last Sunday to ships at sea an announcement of the raid of the U-53 and that this was regarded | as an unneutral act in violation of the president’s proclamation issued two years ago. The deportation of aliens from New York and Boston has been suspended by the bureau of immigration until the submarine peril is past. About | 300 foreigners are at Ellis Island awaiting deportation. Half these ¢ are Germans or Austrians. The British steam of Madras, which hauled by the United States cestroyer Sterrett, was brought back to New York harbor last night when she attempted to pass out for Singa- pore, ignoming the Sterrett’s order to stop, is expected to sail again today. The British steamship City of Ma- dras later resumed her interrupted voyage, sailing from quarantine about 10 o'clock. of hipj was over- City Destroyer at Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor, Me., Oct. 13.—The tor- pedo boat destroyer Paulding, which left Newport, R. L, yesterday on what was deseribed as a neutrality patrol mission, arrived in Frenchman’s bay | early today. She proceeded up the bay toward Mount Desert ferry and later returned to an anchcrage off this port. It is supposed that the Pauld- ing had been huriedly ordered to Bar | Harbor because of an erroneous re- port last night that a passenger liner sought refuge here. The torpedo hoat destroyer McDou- al arrived here at 10 o'clock and an- chored the Paulding. FOUND BEHEADED. Act Was Due css Quarrels, East St. Louis, Ills., Feheaded budy of Alphor three years old, who dis: bis home October 4 last lieved to have been k found today on a city The father, A. G. Magarian, believed he bay had been murdered members of the Armenian colony with whom he had quarreled over BOY Believes Bu Tather to 1lis {0 [ i | so Magarian, ppeared from and was be- Inapped, was dump pile. The navy | sald he! com- | & business matters. COMING TO AMERICAN COAST SUBMARINE SEEN 200 MILES FROM NEW YORK British Captain Sends Wire- less Message Concerning Its Presence, Captain of Russian Freighter Reports Sighting Cruisers and Destroyers Passing His Ship Off Cape Sable, N. S. Bound Southwest. Boston, 12.—A fleet of foreign cruisers and destr oft the American coast, according to Captain Oct. yers is Boston, Oct. 13.—A submarine of unidentified nationality was reported | abaut 200 miles east of New York Ly the steamer Bovic in a wireless message today. The course of the submarine was not stated. ! The Bovie, which is due to arrive | in New York today or tomorrow from | Manchester, England, reported sight- ing the submersible in latitude 40.17 ! north; longitude 68.77 west. It was| added that the submarine was “astern”. but whether pursuing the| Bovic or keeping an independent | course was not stated. The figures of | longitude as reccived, are mnot cor-| rect, the degrees given being wrong, | but it was said the error probably wasg | one of only a few degrees. The Bovic is a British freighter, owned by the White Star line and iled from Manchester on September Her commander, who probably | made the report that a submarine had been sighted, is Captain Summers, Bovic Report Confirmed. Newport, R. T., Oct. 13.—Confirma- tion that the British steamship Bovie sighted a submarine off the coast was contained in a statement by a naval official here today. He said: Aj passing steamer reported to Nan- | tucket shoals lightship that she had | sishted a German submarine, well | astern, this morning.” No position was given nor was the drectian of the submersible stated. WAR BASE ON COAST Admiral Mayo Orders Survey of New England Shores to Locate Alleged Supply Station of Foreign Power. Washington, Oct 13.—Admiral Mayo, commanding the Atlantic fleet, rotified the navy department today that he had ordered a survey of the New Egland coas to investigate ports that belligerent ships had e tablished a base there, or that wire- less plants were being operated n violation of American neutrality. In announcing Admiral Mavo's action, Secretary Daniels said today that several destroyers already had Leen despatched from Newport north and that the work would be done under the admiral's direction and without instructions from Washing- ton. Naval officials here characterize the reports as an outcome of the re- cent operations of the German sub- marine U-53 off Nantucket shoals. Numerous reports of the same charac- ter have been received by the depart- ment since the beginning of the war, Investigation was made in each n- stance but was unproductive. UFFRAGISTS GRANTE Hartford, Oct D DIVORCE 18.—Mrs. Valeriz H. Parker of this city, a prominent sur frage worker, was today granted a divorce by Judge Milton A. Shumwa in superior court from Dr. Edward O. | Parker, of Greenwich. Intolerable cruelty was charged. She was given custody of her seven years old daugh- ter. The action was not s The couple were married 1905. Mrs. Parker is iler name before marriage leria Hopkins Morgan, PRESIDENT WILSON BACK. Long Branch, N. J,, Oct. 13.—Pres- nt Wilson returned to Shadow wn at 1:50 o’clock this afternoon from Indianapolis. ia T WEATHER. Hartford, Hartford and tonight: Satu md colde westerly | boarded, his v | sable, Linderoos of the Russian steamship Hesperns, which arrived hore today from Huelva, Spain. To the pilot who sel, Captain Linderoos reported that *“a lot of cruisers and destroyers” passed nis vessel off Cape N on Wednesday, heading southwe: At their rate of speed, he 1d, they must be off the coast by now The Hesperus' captain had not heard of the German submarine’ Sunday as there is no wirele: ment on his ship. His report was coupled today with that of pilots who were in Massachu- setts bay vesterday {hat three torpedo boot destroyers cruised off this coast all day. One pilot said he thought they were British vessel. Another said they were American. Ashore, it was pelieveq they were American destroy- ers on patrol duty. » Belief that they were British de- strovers was held by many waterfront authorities who connected their ap- pearance with the fact that it was only yesterday that British vessels at this port moved out, after being held since the submarine raid off Nantucket Sunday. The British destroyers, they contended, came here to act as con- voys for ships of that nationality. Three Britlsh steamers went out Jast night and today the Lord Crom- er and Marengo prepared to sail. The Kansan of the American-Ha- jian Line, under charter to the ance and Canada Steamship com- and laden with war munitions and horses for the allies, was e pected also to sail today for St. Na- zaire, France; and Genoa. The Kansan was the first steamship to encounter the U-boat last Sund: equip- w b pany raid on | ! U. S. Warships Establish Cordon From | department are devoted to an exten- but was allowed to proceed after ex- amination of her papers EXTRA TEACHERS FOR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL Condition Caused by Overcrowding in Machine Shop and Drafting Room; Also in Academic Building— Extra teachers are needed at the High school, according to the report of the teachers’ committee made this afternoon at the monthly meeting of the school board, owing to the rea- sons ascribed in the following report: “On account of overcrowded con- ditions in the machine shop and draft- ing rooms of the Trade school and in certain of the cla. of the Academic High school, it is recommended that additional teachers be employed as follows: One instructor in machine shop and die-making, one instructor in drafting, one teacher in history and algebra.” (ok (o5 NING OF HAPF End of Fiscal Year May Be Changed By Directors. Chamber of voted the meeting The directors of Commerce at to recommend to the members of the in the a recent organization, that a change of stands fiscal year the Chamber be made. As it 1 brings to a close the Chamber year and it is to change that date to May 1 that the vote will be held. Ballots will be mailed to the aembers in a few days. President Landers has Dheen thorized to appoint a committee of ten members to attend tne annual ing of the state Chamber of merce which will be held in Middle- town, October 26 he president ha | also heen authorized to name a rom- at present October au- meet- winds, PSS 4 mittee to arrange for the annual din- ner of the local Chamber. Com- | | | | | i | | whoever wa: | balloting Harbor, Me., to New York and Others a Held in Narragansett Bay With Steam Ready to Depart Newport, R. I., Oct. 13.—A far-flung patrol line torpedo boat destroyers, charged with the-double duty enforcing neutrality observance and saving lives in ti event of further submarine raids on shipping off thel shores, went into service from Bar Harbor, Me., to Ng York today.. Official authority for the statement that sug a patrol had been ordered by the navy department Wi obtained here this morning. The limits of the line of coast surveillance, at prese were shown today with the arrival of the destroyer Pau ing off Bar Harbor, Me., and the activity of the destroy Sterrett in New York harbor. Between these two outpog nine other destroyers were weaving a mnet of obse tion that extended a considerable distance out to sea, w beyond the lines of coastwise vessels. MEET U. S. DEMANDS stroyers Britain and France Believe Wilson's | | cently Demands Regarding Seizure of Mails | “°""Y Narragansett Bay several were kept at routine practice, with constantly available for an emergency call, ship Jason, which left he with a full supply of came in during the night for All vessels, it was said, were provisioned. The operations of the patrol being directed from the flagship mingham, headquarters of Rear miral Albert Gleaves. The Bin ham is at this port also in read to move at any moment.. Except in war game maneyl | the cost has not been covered by al forces in such manner for Two destroyers are operating Boston harbor in compliance witl new orders by which the neut service of recent months has increased. They are the Warrl: and Reid, with the Davis, a ne stroyer, almost ready for commi Another destroyer was added # patrol forces just before noom the Cummings headed out of gansett Bay at tap speed, steam fuel Can Be Granted. ‘Washington, Oct. 13.—Radical changes in the treatment of mails on neutral ships are promised in the reply of the British and French governments to the American protests against. in- terference with mails. The changes, while short of an abandonmeht of the contention of the right to ‘search for information of value to an enemy, are regarded by the allies as sufficient to meet the wishes of the United | States. Otherwise the two notes which are now under consideration at the state sive academic discussion of the whole subject of the treatment of mails in time of war with voluminous quota- tions from the history of the American Civil War and others wars up to date. GAN'T ABUSE PRESIDENT Local Republicans Decide That Wilson Boston, Oct. 13.—It was stated taday that the American dest] patrol, in connection with recent] marine activities, had been or effective from New York to G4 ton, Tex. This statement lacks o confirmation, however. NEW PARALYSIS CASE Florence Duch, Aged One Year, Eighteenth Victim of Scow Health Board Another case of infantile pa the first to be reported in over a was brought to the attention o health department today. Thi tient is Florence Duch, the ong old daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Duch of 28 Horace street. This 3 the eighteenth case reported hery ing the present epidemic. The child has been ill for two and for over a week has been the care of a physiclan. The lives in a six-family block whie been placed under qurantine. are twe children in the Duch f§ Shall Not Be Assailed Personally in the Campaign in This City. That the methods being employed by the G. O. P. spellbinders in various parts of the country are not in accord with the views of many of the local republicans was shown at a gathering of the leaders and workers held last evening in Holmes & Hoffman's hall, when plans for a whirlwind campaign were discussed. One of the recognized leaders of the party arose and, ad- dressing the gathering. said he hoped selected to deliver cam- paign addresses would refrain from indulging in personal abuse of Pres dent Wilson. The speaker said that if these speakers were of the belief that national affairs are not well con- ducted, it was for them to discuss that issue, but it should be remembered by all that though President Wilson was of an opposite political faith, he was still the chief executive of the United States, and the dignity that the posi- tion called for should be respected. The gathering evidently was im- pressed by the remarks for it was de- cided, according to Town Chairman E. N. Humphrey today, that whenever speakers are scheduled to address ral- lies in this city, instructions will be given to avoid personalities and con- fine their remarks to the campaign and its issues. The republican. primar: sentatives is being held in quarters in LeWitt's block noen, opening at 4 and until 8 o’clock this evening. are only two candidaies in the Richard Covert and Edward F. and it is not expected will be don RUSSIAN TRANSPOI Berin, Oct. 13 (By Tuckerton).—A successful attack 1 German naval aeroplunes upon Ru sian transports in the Rumanian har bor of Constanza, in the Black Se: is reported in an admiralty statement of Oct, 12, as follows: “German planes, during the night of Oct successfully hombarded transport steamers Constanza."” cording to DUTCH CAPTAIN CONTRADI| U-Boat Commanders Not Orde Sink Grain Ships. Hague, Oct. 13, via 1:20 p. m.—The special correspd in Berlin of the Nieuwe damsche Courant, telegraphs tH lowing: “I have been authon competent naval authority to s the submarine commander have made a statement to the of the Bloomersdijk that all hich had to touch at British| would be sunk.” The for repre- the head- this after- continuing | There field, Hall, much A Rotterdam despatch on quoted from a report to the Hi American Line, owners of the sl Bloomersdijk which was sunk New England coast during thi ! man submarine operations of la day, that the submarine's com “informed the Bloomersdijk's @ that he would sink any ship bo way of an English port.” The er was on her way from New for Rotterdam with a cargo of for the Dutch government but » Kirkwall en BOMBED. wireless - | 9-10, ! Russian | at | pected to touch a