New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1916, Page 6

e ew Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors, Issued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St. Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Detivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 85c a month. Bubscriptions for paper to be sent by mail, pavable in advance. 60 cents a montk, $7.00 a year. The only profitable advertising medium in the city: Circulation books and rress room always open to advertisers. The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office ity Editorial Rooms 926 e e NEW BRITAIN’S GROWTH. conservative estimate that It is a places the population of New Britain at 51,730. This is done by the pub- lishers of the 1916 city directory is- sued yesterday. There are 22,966 hames the book. Following the usual methods of census experts these figures are mutiplied by two and a fraction and the answer given as New Britain’s population. The same figures mutiplied by three would come closer to the real number dwelling in the city, according to many opinions. New Britain has had and is having & remarkable growth. In the United States census for the it had reached a population of 43,916, a growth of 68.9 per cent. in the ten years. When the 1920 census s aken New Britain, if it holds true to orm, will manifest almost as great a everything being considered. in of persons now year 1910 rowth, t is striving ahead by steady, healthy, NowhAre in its career is there year that marks a'set-back. The arch has been ever forward, and will pe fortvard until the point is reached fvhere further development of the city ould impossible with out-lying ownships and communities acting as ains. be parriers. As soon as Britain orward until the main line of the ew Haven road is reached and a andsome railroad station is erected will rival any city in the state. The ere fact that it is situated off the runk line; off the main artery of avel, is one of the things that the city in many ways. We along wonderfully well New pushes lampers re getting nder present conditions, we have our hilroad terminal in the very heart the city; but we will get along en better when the new station puts h an when the railroad hcilities for bringing in travelers is aced a trifle away from the center strect cars and busses are people to and from the appearance, nd the ed to car It is done in other cities with good effect and it can be done Nor does such a shift in station that the business center ation tes mean suit. Even when New that merchants hust . follow in still advance its do ritain marks rowth the at the same old stands. can siness LOOKING Now t AHEAD TWO YEARS. at the campaign is over leaders are enjoying a short from their those plitical reease sorrows, ho have any, and a brief rest from eir labors, those who worked on the inning side. In Connecticut, moves are being made in the rection of organizing the Senate and he House. The Republican majorities pre- fninary in both branches and the between be decisive bntests at party will be factions in Recognition comes to the committee appointments inority in hly as expediency may determine. The tepublican organization is al- Connecticut but this deliver strong in par it was unable to its an- kipated vote for the state and nation- much of effort, and because of of but largely for the reason that independent cla tickets,—not so on account any “lack certainly bt the necessar: great many voters registered and sified their Re- the fually blicans, cast The as votes State Democratic whole for esident. A deserves this fea- of the organized ganization particular re of the vote g cities been f the Democrats the grand old state credit Had effectively p for certain Connecticut would have been car- pd for the ough probably ket cause of this there was no strength ught to the ticket or to omer S. Cummings, except insofar as ederick E. Duffy's candidacy of State Democrati electors, the . state the not for which was weak at top. national for, and his plain con- to cretary jncing speeches pmocratic national ticket many helped draw the essive votes. Mr. Duffy’s part in the the Bainbridge lines Colby, along by mpaign same those taken wa at the Lyceum, and who heard Hartford. They members of the to vote for Wilson, not 0 appeared here hn M. Parker spectfully with W 50 all Pro- in eaded essive party ne becausc the President and his pmocratic Congress enacted ny laws which the Progressives re- ded as their own initiative and lnich their platform demanded in had the de- of the 1912, but as a protest against livery by George M. Perkins Progressive Party, en 0Old Guard of Penrose, Smoot, Crane, Root & Co., the who were instrumental defeating the Roosevelt nomination in 1912. That the efforts of sincere Progressives were effective is shown by the fact that Wilson had 25.000 more votes in Connecticut 11 than he polled four years previous. The Progressives had no call to arms for the Democratic state ticket and ’‘though Mr. Duffy was on it his presence there served only to gain votes for Wilson. masse, to the Lodge, same crowd in in 6 ‘With Democratic organization along the lines prevalent in Ohio and Penn- sylvania, and with a strong candidate for Governor, the Democrats might have carried the state for Wilson and Cummings and elected their state ticket, with incidental gains the General Assembly. It will be very interesting to see if they will be wise enough to so conduct the man- agement of their panty’s affairs as to keep the support of such Connecti- cut Progressives as voted for Wilson in the recent election, at the same time gaining more Progressive votes by offering a programme in remedial legislation in state general matters which the Republican Assembly can be counted upon to turn down in 1917 as in the two previous sessions. It is safe to say that this will be attempted. The ° Progressives have confidence in certain Democratic state leaders. These men are powerful in the party’s councils and it is certain that their influence will be directed to a reconstruction of their party’s organization and in will in favor of a pro- meet with Pro- gressive approval. If this is done the Republicans may look forward to a lively contest in this state two years hence, for after the disappointing campaign of one Charles HEvans Hughes they can hardly hope to win back any considerable proportion of the Progressive vote. That vote has already declared itself for Wilson, and, from the looks of things, has come home to stay. With the tariff ques- tion two years from now on the road to settlement by the commission many others will be likely to vote the Democratic ticket though still tech- nically retaining their allegiance. gramme which Progressive SIR HIRAM MAXIM. ‘With the death yesterday in Lon- don of Sir Hir inventor of the automatic system of firearms, the only formidable if friendly rival of Thomas A. Edison has left the stage. Indeed the competition when both m Maxim, two men met in the laid claim original invention of the incandescent lamp. Both perfected their lamps at the same time, and the dispute which was finally in the recognized Idison’s right of priority Sir Hiram Maxim wa man in more ways than one. in active long years ago to the settied patent courts, a remarkable His in- ventions have revolutionized warfare, ang every hattle today a tribute to his ingenuity. He even carried his genius into the realm aeronautics and after the experiments of the Wright brothers at Fort Myer, Virginia, in 1908, produced a heavier- which had many the in Europe of machine He had than-air innovations. studied seci- Samuel of ence of aeronautics when Langley, the late beloved the Smithsonian institute his experiments the For more than thirty years he had mani- fested interest into the developed art of flving. dircctor started on Potomac. an now well before the outbreak Buropean strugsle, in ago, he warned the ment of the possibility of air raids on 3ritain of fact five Even year: British govern- the war with continental boasted British fleet be of much he wrote; it a London in event Great went to er. a pow- The then would not sure enough, against use, not been Zeppelins. and, has safeguard Mgxim ingland, born and old Puri- held lit- going so far that section Hiram New stock, was in of tanical although he tle love for the Puritan as to write in his autobiography the old this would the of their and prevent others from doing the same.” From he broke away from and and son the celebrated Maxim Si- settlers hip conscience time of Hwors God to dictaies own his early youth staid traditions conventions himself. His Hartford branched out who is now living in inventor of the lencer. Sir Hiram paved the way for modern warfare with the invention of which the for malkes as the the machine gun recoil of the weapon serve power for re-loading. FOOLISH FLIGH Unless we have forgotten all the rules and laws of the air as propound- ed sometimes the Aero and successfully en- Club of aviators to fly forced by it is illegal Ay over crowded city thoroughfares, over the cities in general. it would seem that the could prevent the proposed flight of \merica, for cven Therefore, | Aero Club | [1; in pro NEW -BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1916. Where Whate | gress. But newspapers in the state are agitated the prospect of what might happen if @ sudden gust of wind tilted the plane of one aero and precipitated its dri- ver to the interior of the overflowing bowl. There is that possibility. The fact that or aviators fiew from New York to the Princeton game last and got away without mishap is no guarantee that somethinz will not go At the Yale game today if the tentative fight and worried over ten a dozen 1turday awry is carried out. Ordinarily, it might be supposed,— according to the popular conception of a reporter’s thirst for a “big story,” —that every newspaperman would re- vel in the prospects of what might hover over 72,000 innocent and un- | protected heads. The dropping of a pair of pliers, if the dropping was good, might easily mean the cracking of one skuil, and possibly the killing of a notable,—ecither player or spec- tator. The breaking of one wing of one aeroplane might mean a list of dead and injured comparable with that resulting from a train wreck. A, collision of two machines has more than a touch of the dramatic, and thelr wreckage would show beneath | scenes as ghastly as those which took place at the battle of the Somme. The | imagination has only begun to work well when it pictures all of the air machines falling at one time at vari- | ous spots in the cheering section, killing and maiming the hero-wor- | shippers. In the olden days, when those outside the realm of newspaper- | dom had a different idea of the fiend- ish scribes who draw the pictures of news events, that would have been a story worth while. But, no! There is not a newspaper- man in the world fiend enough to wish for what some think he vearns for. The story of the game is enough to satisfy the most avaracious “make- up man.” If it were not, there are enough stories of blood and thunder, and death and destruction coming in over the cable from Europe. With this vindication, every newspaper in the state sends up its voice in loud disapproval of the practice of flying heavier-than-air machines over foot- ball fields where are gathered thou- sands of thousands of human beings, among whom are the boys in the press stand. Heaven or Hell, Ellery Channing). rth is done. fading sun; (By Grace O Soul, our day on We are failing with Tomorrow’s rising, shall behold An empty tenement and cold, Deserted, tenantless and bare, Which thou and Life so long share, Soul, where? in what strange land, to what strange doom, Awakes the sleeper from the tomb? O Soul, consider well,— Dost merit Heaven or Hell? did we shall be wandering— | And, We've sinned, my Soul; in every way Our wayward wills have gone astray; No uncommitted fault, no thought Of evil, but we too have wrought; We've sinned, alasl-—yet, Soul, be hrave; Disputeless claim to Heaven we have, For it a heaven here we gave: We loved, were loved; for fear of sin We starved Love till he died within, We conquered mightily, Heaven the reward shall be. O Soul,—a sudden fear,— Go humbler here! What if at last in some dread place We see a judging angel's face, With fainting, trembling eyes, seek Our doom cre the divine lips speak? And what if then, O Soul, we see Adjudged by that august decree, n, O Soul, our sin to be Nor this, nor that; no one of all The slips we counted each a fall,— But sin all sins above, The pride which murdered Love? Soul, dyving eves sec well: Heaven loveless will he—Hell, AND FANCI that Ovr s a FACT! oS, Governments move in a mysterious way their blunders to perform.— | Munila Times. A pinhead is the feliow running on th~ other ticket for the same offic St. Joseph Gazette, deal in conversa- Electoral College."— We hear a good tion about ‘“the Boston Globe. Lodge seems to have got- the campaign without seriously.—Columbia Senator ten through biting anybody State. The height of the world’s happiness, savs a lecturer, came in the 13th cen- tury. It was a republican year, pre. sumably.—Boston Jornal. As a man grows older he becomes more like a second-hand machine, and finds it harder to keep himself in repair.—Atchison Globe. All things come to those who wait, «xcept possibly the things they have Leen waiting for.—Philadelphia Rec- ord. Those voting women in the far west seem to be singing a entitled, T Didn’t Raise My Danghter to be a Republi Housion Post e ! don't like “He for a slogan, us out of office’” 1} t the us out of how would ‘“He kept republicans war' aviators over the Yale bowl today while the great annual football game d0? That avoids all dispute as to facts.—Brooklyn Eagle, happen when a bevy of e.eroplanes“ | it was | meeting, i most | ple the Thanksgiving dinner this | Sunda | been | Bame today. Town Topics| Seldom it is that the common coun- | “cil authorizes a bond greater amount than is absolutely needed, yet that is just what hap- pened by the issuance of worth of school bonds $170,000 worth is needed. how the unusual action came about: In July the committee on school ac- comodations secured action which led to letting a $15,000 contract for ditions to the Osgood Hill school, the money to be taken f{rom the New School Building Fund. A short time after this action, need of repairs to the Pre-vocational Grammar school came to light and the committee on school accomodations entered into a contract ta have the work done then. At the mreeting of thé School Com- mittee in September a report on plans for the new Burritt school was pre- sented and the next month the con- tract was let, the cost estimated at about §170,000. Then it was that the issue for a when only And this is ad- school committee further reparted re- | pairs at the Pre-vocational school as estimated at about $15,000. A vote was passed authorizing the committee on the school accomodations and the finance board to ask the finance and taxation board for $170,000for the new Burritt school and to call their at- tention to the cost and need of money to repair the Grammar school. The $170,000 appropriation was voted and, | as it did not seem to be clear to the minds of the hoard of finance and taxation members that in July $15,000 had already been appropriated from the Building Fund specifically for the | payment of the addition to the Os- good Hill school; the error crept into the resolution of this board and its recommendation to the council con- tained the error of $15.000, Thus, at the next council meeting, when it was made clear that bond issues cannot he used for repair work, decided to adopt the recom- mendation of the board of finance and taxation and the same error was made again. The result of all thes proceedings will he that after City Treasurer F. S. Chamberlain sells the $185,000 worth of bonds during the next few da according to the authorization of the board of finance and taxation the council and the city there will be in the New Building Fund treasury, unusuable at the present time, the sum of $15,000. o Thanksgiving will be observed, ac- cording to the time honored custom of our forefathers, next Thursday, the last Thursday in November. But while the day and date are the same as observed in the days of old, the observance will be far from the same from a culinary point of view. Tn the olden days, when the host cither shouldered his trusty gun and hied himself into the woods to shoot a turkey, or took a few steps into his back yard where he picked the pride of the roost and used the ax to ad- vant the turkev szobbler was the important item the Thanks- giving menu. Today is different. Turkeys no longer run wild in this section and the farmers who are lucky enough .o have a big flock are indeed fortunate for they will he very valuable, 7T majority of the 5 on an a ro o peo- vear will not include iturkey that meat at the rate of fifty cents per nound, or thereabouts, as predicted by the grocers will make it almost prohibi- tive. Tven the common chicken, in the days of yore used commonly as a dinner, will command exces- sive prices. Indications are that next Thursday’s dinner in many homes will be the old-fashionned corned beef and cabbage, and that, with asthey are, will cost fully as much as turkey did at one time, o prices By his letter congratulating Presi- dent Wilson on Wednesday night, Charles Ivans Hughes caused con- siderable satisfaction to a large num- ber of local men, namely those who had bet on Wilson and had been un- able to collect as the Hughes backups had been unwil to acknowleds defeat until their dia likewise, But now bets are all paid and in maay instances the mioney won s wagercd on the Yale-Harvard The sporting fraternity keep money in circula- ng choic I does like to tion. sale and probable old Lee property on opposite St. Mar¥'s church, is a matter that should not be passed unnoticed for it means the loss of one of the city's oldest land- marks, a structure erected years fore the Revolutionary war. This house, and its several generations of occupants, saw every move.of im- portance in the history of the United States, It saw the passing of the original Indian, It witnessed the stir- ring days preceeding the Revolution- ary war and saw the little village of New Britain send her saldiers to the war of 1775 even ag it did almost 100 vears later when New Britain sent her men forth to the civil war in 1861; and almost three decades later to the Spanish-American war in 1868, and lastly, it saw the khaki clad boys of 1916 as they prepared to march away to the <ican border last June. That was the military side of the cit history that the timbe in this old building could tell, On the civic side, it saw the little town grow, its leaders die and their places taken by others, its huge manufac- turing concerns grow until New Brit- ain today takes its place with the foremost cities of the world Historical “references to this show that it was built by Col. Lee about the year 1735 and aldest house on Main street, ing far out into the past connecting link between pioneer days of the eighteenth century and the modern d of the twentieth century. Than Isaac Lee, who built this house, there is perhaps no other individual closely fied with the ecarly histor city and it is sin family not publicly e monument or otherwise, I torians describe the The reported razing of the Main street, house Isaac is the reach- the one as the v [ar ¥ - ular that thi is osnized 1 Lrly builder of this old Lee house as being born on Janu- o be- | $185,000 ; held ; colonel y When, | according ary 7, 1717 and being 37 vyears of age when the New Britain society was incorporated. As a youth he was athletically inclined and in his later life he war prominent in shaping the civil and religious affairs of the town, to the late Prof. D. N. Camp’s history. From the time the Seiaom Set Foot Man | | ew Britain soclety was founded he office as clerk for forty yea He was an original member of the First church and was instrumental in incorporating the town of Berlin and 1Y State of for thirty v he was the chief dan, which recently magistrate in New Britain, He was by British troops, has attracted the also identified with the military life attention of the world to a section of of the and in 1767 was made Africa that up to the closing years of captain of the Thirteenth company the eighteenth century had never of the train band in the Sixth Col- been visited by a white traveler. The onial Reziment in 1775 he became National Geographic societ in a of the Tifteenth regiment. war geography bulletin, gives some in 1754, New Britain became interesting data concerning this land 7 separate colony it received its name Wwhich has an area ahout equal to that from Colonel Lec in honor of Great of the State of Montana but with a Britain. He dled in 1802, but his K Population almost twice as large as son continued to occupy the house. the American commonwealth. The As the later gencrations of TLees bulletin says: moved and sold their holdings this “It more than a quarter old property changed hands, but it century ago that Germany and stands today, a sheltering family recognized the State of Darfur, south home, exactly it was Of Kgypt, as within the sphere of bullt, almost British influence, and twenty years ago it was made a part of the Anglo- Egyptian Sudan, but the internal af- fairs of the region were left to the administration of the sultan, Ali Di- nar, who a few days ago was killed by a British force of 300 men sent out to quell the rebellion which this ruler had fomented for months. Washington, rebellion DG NoV: Darfur, the in most wester- Su- suppressed the Anglo-Egyptian was colony was of a as 200 did vean o ow when ago With the terminution ball season the “fire-side back into his own. *ww of the foot- fan” comes Although some mental the finance board did gymnastics in finding a way to secure money with which the park commissioners might build a “Darfur. which derives its name dam at the Stanley park, thus provid- | (House of Furs) from the negro ing a good skating pond for the tribe of Furs comprising more than winter, it is evident that their work half of its population of 750,000, was was for nought, unless it was of value | fOF many yvears famous for the slaves in showing their willingness to do Which it furnished to Egypt and the things for the people. The park board Western world, an annual caravan be- now reports that to build the dam it iNg organized to carry the human would be necessary to construct it chattels together with ivory, gum and according to old and obsolete plans, | OStrich feathers to Assi 0 miles as the council resolueion so provides, SOuth of Cairo Rather than do this the board has ‘1N connection witl v decided to postpone action to another ' trade the following interesting anec- year when a more ornate dam will be | @0te is told: At the time of Napol- built. For several reasons this action | ¢O7'S campalgn in Eeypt the sultan of seems wise, despite the wishes of the DPAarfur was Abd-er-Rahman, sur- north end people to have a skating | Named the Just, great-grandfather of pond. In the first place when thy the recently slain Ali Dinar. This sul- dam built next year it will be a tan sent a letter of congratulation to permanent aftalr and ons of beauty, | I° Freuch congusror spplaudine hl This is to be a public park and the | VICtOry over the Mamelukes, whereup- damiw il e Naol R i na it fon| cnRiUElattention betizidinected ol N hance the appearance of the park and i at the same time serve its purpose. | he be more mature in yvears, his per- Another excellent argument against | spective of events of the olden days building at this time, and one brought | has not changed. forward by City Treasurer F. S.| * Chamberlain at the finance board| Never has an meeting, is that the season is prob- | ball game taken such ably too far advanced to permit a | people of New satisfactory job. Cold winter weather! Harvard classic at New is apt to set in any day now and to afternoon. And likewise, have a partly constructed cement dam : so many local football freeze up would be doubly unfortu- disappointed in getting nate inasmuch as it would be useless there were for today's game. and wauld entail a financial loss. l'ago friends of graduates and . x th Darfur's slave . intercollegiate foot- . enthusi: tickets Since the moving picture popularity contest has opened 1in this are a number of voung see in themselves another farnum: and a number of charming maidens who really think that if they | get a chance Mary Pickford, Theda Bara and others will have to retire. Stranger things have happened. .o city there | swains who | = i William | ctehoards would mium. was going on all over | at the last moment it The wmning ins hanm pionship itigh school urday and at night cent nates, similar marks each. This, in many even less than the to supply his own of the interscholas | hy the New Britain | football team last Sat- | the following celebration | gave rise to many reminis- | the colleges were left in the lurch reviews of other davs by grad- { But even though hundreds of New who in their prime celebrated | Britain people were not able to :% victories. And in their was indicated the fact even as has the old-fashioned game of football changed with the p of the years, so also have the fashioned celebrations. A decade or | seeing the gaily decorated cars {wo ago, when New Britain was win- | through the city and watching ning football championships even | tickers and newspaper offices. more consistently than now, the cele- | brations were of an entirelv different | order. Rather than hecoming the | more social gatherings of today, as | . cvidenced by the dances at the gym. | Heroes Al nasium they were affairs that brought | the keenest enjoyment to the red- | blooded student Mass parades | iround the streets, the victorious play- horne on the shoulders of their ! imiring fellows, cheers that split the night air and bon-fires that were real bon-fires marked these old cele- | brations. Tn those days the honvlirn‘ was built in Main street in the open vace in front of the South church and the pile of boxes that w col- | Who well may sing of champions bold. lected before the final match was | ‘The heroes of ballad and story, touched would make that of last Sat- | Who entered the lists In the days of urday fade into okhlivion. To hear | old he older graduate talk. the plavers | o battle for love and glory themsclves were different than the | ()f wandering wights and dolorous ridiron of The old- knights seem Lo think the player And chargers with panoply laden— day were | fellows and. | Of the gentle joust and the thwack as one ex-captain narked, “Gee, ! i G three of my old play could trim | 1n the melee for a maiden {his whole team.” The old days wer e s the real moieskins trous the huge pads and shin guards | g, and last, but always preeminent, the | . long crop of luxuriant hair that| . .; dorned the head of the gladiators, | V1ile twenty-two ut with all due respect to the old. | ¥ fifty or seventy time plaver, it can hardly he aqd- |2nd Pray or cheer. half. mitted that, conditions considered, | “norously the guard and the hal- e e e s e el [RCKN DasRand) punt FiacklcRand iline the teams of today. Their style was | "¢k fleld goal and touchdown. Jdifferent and they played a different fhegh StoryloithoRelon ol same that was all. Nor can it he Masing through the sweet autumn admitted that the average player was | Vocks ‘Wwith the scrub, bruised and bigger than the player of foday, , Mattered in muscle and joint, soulsore They just looked so for the old-time Under the tongue lashing of coaches, \duate. looking back at the . i¢iling throush a bitter schedule up player of his generation, still looks | L0 the Big Game and the winning of il himilouttor the adriiring eves of | thel¥iloxiEl loriblazingforange B NIE his youth. when the player seemed to | Seems foolish, but it has the Sanc- him to be the greatest individual on | tion of Society. earth. The same holds true of the Big husiness for the railroads, for voung graduate of today. To him the A not even the auto has driven the foot- senior playing foothall appears to be | lall special out. Big business for the a monstrously big man. He will carry | fakers: “Here y' are! Get your win- that impression always with him and ning colors!” Emblems of Academe; iwenty vears from now he will doubt- {otemism rampant, clans of the Bull- less gather around other celebrations dog and the Tiger. Chrysanthemums with children and remark in a and violets for the ladies. Sand- reminiscent mood, “Now when T went | wiches and cigarettes; plumes and to school the celebrations were dif- | pennants; ‘“official program, pitch- ferent—the men too. were higger and ' ers of the players”; seats on the thir- tv vard line, and seat cushions. What ances, that | this afternoon in hopes that ,‘migm get a ticket somewhere. ing | those who wh the IN THE Immortals of Giory’s Gridiron, The: Modern Chas- crs of the Pig-Skin (New York Sun). The football year nears its brilliant end, » the indoor season approaches, but while this perfect autumn of 1916 is still with us we Join our praiscs of the game with those of the un- named rhymester of the campus: ers e varrioy today hat er time of his 1 | BBut S —Stadium Ballads. sing of twenty-two who fight” over a leather ball thousand or forty thousand watch We celebrate ers, wo shall is scrim- in his mo identi- | “amousg | in his I 1 | s - | believes it. e husky than these fellows.” But not so and the graduates are just ' costs a dollar at 2 o'clock you may the little sees an cle- e iaims e o R e for the first Never 4 noise, clothes; 'big, strong girls and ne sce an animal (hat ‘ame little men. O1A grade: ~Why. that one. And he really $am White practiced with a loose It is because he still 00KS ' hall every day.eah. byt remember >0€’s run in '98—And his drop kick it is who ave time. Hilce hoy a 5 ike E H phant as hig ¢ at it in his hildhood days, and though mind’s eye, through the p eyes of his ¢ in '99—And John Dewitt 1208, and Italy ! several | was | graduate needed family and as a result those who had no close ties to re- | the game, scores went to New Haven they And | remained at home got a old [little of the spirit of the occasion by Epic | ¥ monarch far to the south, Napoleos replied with a request for mere sub- stantial evidence of the sultam’s goad wishes, in the form of 2,800 youthful | slaves. “Abd-er-Rahman, succeeded by his Mahommed-el- Fadhl who died of leprosy, bequeath= ing his power to Mahommed Hassin, one of his forty soms. It was during the reign of Hassin's voungest son, Tbrahim, that the khedive of Egyat made war on the Darfurians. Ibrahim was slain in battle and his kingdom annexed to Egypt, the royal family being removed to Cairo, in 187 Eight vears later the country fell uns der the sway of Mohammed Ahmed, the Mahdi who slew General Gordon and his men at Khartum. While e Mahdi was all-powerful in this part of Africa Alj Dinar, the future sul- tan, was held a prisoner at Omdur- man, across the Nile from Khartum, but upon the former’s death the Dar- fur royal family was restored to power and up to the recent rebellion the country had enjoyved comparative peace, Ali Dinar paying an annual tribute of $2,500 to the Sudan gov- ernment. “Darfur m able ruler, wag son is traversed from norie- | east to southwest by a range of vol- canic mountains, while the eastern and western edges of the land are | sandy and non-productive. There are | numerous fertile valleys in the moun- | tainous section, however, where cot- | ton and tobacco are indigenous, and where considerable wheat is grown. | Cattle-raising has been the chief-oc- cupation of the natives, howeyer, since the abolishment of the traffic. The chief exports of the coun- try continue to be feathers, ivory and gums. “The capital of Darfur is El Fasher, | a town of 10,000 imhabitants situated about 500 miles southwest of Khar« | tum. Tt was founded by Abd-er-Rah ! man and is, in the main, a collectian | of straw huts, although there are one or two buildings of some size, includ- ling the sultan's residence. so back to the ald fellows whose hearts went racing down the sideline with Tilly Lamar in the early ’80s. Or it is Coy, McClung, Heffelfinger, Billy Bull: heroes all, immortals of a hold on the |glory's gridiron. Britain as the Yale- Haven this never were | with airmen sts as Months | under { show is mediaeval. | sraduates of the two great universities | swamped them with requests to get | them tickets and in almost every in- is Even cavorting dizzily over~ head—high as the price of hot dogs in the trains after the battle—even in the furs and furbelows of 1916, the Any crowd is. A great day, and what it-means is even less clearly shown in the peopled ledges of the concreted amphitheater The Greeks are on the field; there a Homer in the stands? stance their requests were promised {than where some lonely graduate fin as it was not thought that the little | ¢j¢ i be at such a pre- But because this same thing | png the eastern | and central states, the Yale ticket of- fice was swamped with requests until | was necessary to | cut down the graduates to two tickets ! Arctlc waste or tropic jungle turns nis thoughts back to the old campus, wonders who's making the touchdowns for Alma Mater and de- fending her goal. The “muddied oafs” are supermen, and football is the autumn sport of a | mighty people. \ “Dry” Territor (Rochester Post’ Express.) To put the facts graphically, e | twenty-four states now dry with the | parts of the under local option contain 60 per cent, of the population of the country and 85 per | cent. of its area. In 1909 there wems | seven prohibition states, last year six- teen, and now half the states in the Union arc under prohibitory law: Michigan, Nebraska and South Da- kota had tried prohibition before and went back to it after trying the licenso system. A clergyman was beaten at { the primaries by the mackine in demo- i cratic Florida, and on an independent™ | ticket he beat the “wet” candidate of | the dominant party., In Missouri, St. i Louis, the home of the greatest brew- ing industry in the world, by its vots jalone kopt the state in the wet | column, but the norma! majority was reduced by 100,000. Kansas City, | which vated five to one for liquor ey few vears ago, went dry, Kansas Cit&r Kansas, just acress the river, won its neighbors aver by the spectacle of its prosperity. South Dakota was like- wise envious of the prosperity of North Dakota, dry for ten years. Similar econamic arguments appear | to have influenced the voters in Michi- gan and Nebraska, who saw the ad- vance in material wealth in West Vi ginia, Kansas and Tennessee country i | The Surgeon As a Lifesaver (Philadelphia Ledger.) The true facts about the work of Dr. Alexis Carrel at the American hos- pital at Paris (Neuilly,) which are now attracting a somewhat sensation-t% al attention, warrant any enthusiasm that the medical profession and the laymen may express, for they show the surgeon as a lifesaver, on a scale | hitherto considered impossible in war | And yet what Dr. Carrel has done is i simplicity itself, since, as announced by him early in October, in co-opera- Ition with the American Ambulanco, Service, he first shortened the time | that it took to fetch the wounded from {the trenches to the hospital, and, | secondly, he subjected the wounded, at the earllest possible moment, to { the new antiseptic treatment by which | blood poisoning was prevented. As | & result of these two simple precau- tionary measures the wounded at the { hospital not only do not have to un- dergo so many operations, brought. about by infection of the wounds, but i the healing of the wounds is quickened | and the death rate lowered, and, what {is more, the application of the mar- vels of plastic surgery, by which the | unfortunates are restored to some | semblance of humanity, is enormously | develoyed. Consequently, through | this splendid co-operation, results are | being achieved that surpass all ex- | pectations as to the saving of life and < restoring the wounded ,and that this is done by Americans must be @& source of gratification to us.