New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1916, Page 9

NEW BRITANN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1910 SAVIN ROCK HAS DISASTROUS FIRE Eleven Buildings Are Wiped Out | and Loss Is $100,000 New Nov. buildings, Wilcox's theatre 1d Jackson’s dance hall, were totally destroyed, three hou Haven including were partial- 1y destroyed and near ly with nearly v a dozen bad- damaged, property loss $100,000, one of the most spectacular fires ever amounting to seen here in yea at™savin Rock last was the fire, that i night. So flames illuminat- ed the sky for miles, attracting atten- tion from while it was f summer re: The fire we great nearby towns anc wred that the rt was doomed. s discovered shortly after 10 o'clock and so fierce and progress that within a short time the dance hall, five cottages and the theatre were total wrecks, while the fif¥ continued its ravages The loss of George H. Jackson, pro- prietor of the dance hall was e for a entire mated at $20,000, and he estimates his | insurance will amount to $18,000. The Wilcox company’s loss will amount to fully 0.000, most of which is coy- ered insurance. Just how much the other people are protected by in- surance could not be found out last night The total fire loss included not only the ecleven buildings burned to the ground, but three buildings on Beach street, partially destroyed, and nearly a dozen surrounding structures which were set afire by flying sparks. Four families lost everything they by Eleven | | when [ swept a whole block st its | | M., meets in owned and the personal property loss, | which could not be estimated at a late hour last night, will swell the figures. Events Tonight High theater. class photo drama, Fox's Vaudeville and Keeney's theater. moving Dpictures, Machinists’ in Machinists’ hall, smoker 34 Church street. i, (), 10k A. M. hall. Chamberlain council, A. Jr. U, Vega society meets in Vega hall. Andrew Car- negie is cighty-one vears old today. He planned to spend the day with his family at his home here, to receive jends in the afternoon and to partake of a birthda dinner tonight. Mr. Carnegie’s friends say he is in good health. GAYLORD SPENT $1,061, Nov. 25.—F. L. Gaylord Af Ansonia. filed his election expenses 45 chairman of the republican com- tee of the seventeenth senatorial rict with the secretary of state to- v. He received $1,100, all from \airman Roraback and spent $1,061. Hartford, LEWIS OSTERWEIS DEAD, New Haven, Nov. 25.—Lewis Oster- a cigar manufacturer, widely known to the trade, died today after a protracted illness, aged 80 years. HARVARD WINS SOCCER GAME. New Haven, Nov. 25.—Harvard won the soccer game with Yale today, 2 goals to 0. BELGIUM LOOKS T0 AMERICA FOR HELP Public 0pifiion in U. §. Only Salvation for Sorrowing Land 25.—Leading mem- in London, Nov. bers of the great Belgian colony London appalled by the reports of the German deportations in Bel- gium. The information about them is meagre as the Belgians are not al- lowed to communicate with their relatives in England. Belgian head- auarters receives daily hundreds -»f pathetic letters begging news of rela- tive and friends in Belgium whose fate is unknown. - Viscount Davignon, son of the late Relgian minister of foreign affairs, said : “All Belgium looks to America to stop these deportations. America al- ready has helped Belgium immensely. In a sense, America has fed the Bel- gians, and they are really American protegees. “The German methods are very clever. They are urging the Belgians to sign a paper promising them good pay for work in Germany. If the Belgian: se Lo sign they are taken to Germany as prisoners and made to work at Verdun and on the Somme. ‘The war has procduced great pa- triotism among the Belgians, whose institutions and schools it is impossi- ble to Germanize. Other nations have tried in the past to do thi they have failed. 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A Duplex Alcazar is the Range for your Home. A Useful Souvenir FREE for the Ladies attending. THE HOME FURNISHING CO. 8-9 R. R. ARCADE COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS alive or dead. Already 50,000 have been taken, principally from the mili- tary zone. “The question of slav America deeply. The Belgi: lazy, but they are unwilling to work in any way to help Germany. A thou- sand of them who fled to England returned to Belglum on Germany's promise that they be treated fairly. Now they have all been deported. “Cardinal Mercier says: ‘American public opinion is the only thing that ill help Belgium now.’ “The German atrocities in Belgium at the beginning of the war were per- naps explainable as the acts of sol- Qiers excited by resistance. The de- portations are impossible to explain. There has been nothing like this in history since the dark ages.” “My people are suffering terribly. y already know horrors, but this is the worst of all. America has done so much to help that we hope she will come forward now, sternly protesting against German barbar- isin.” HEdouard Carton De Wiart, brother of the Belgian minister of justice, has sent twenty-five letters to friends in America asking what America will @5 now and if she is willing to allow the deportations to continue without a protest. All his friends cabled re- plies saying that they are doing all their power to arouse public indig- nation in America. A Belglan refugee is reported to have been shot by German guards aft- er h® had gained Dulch soil. The situation is considered hopele by Belgians here unless Ame brings strong pressure upon Germany YALE SHOOTS BE New Haven, Nov, intercollegiate gun club shoot out of a possible 500. F second with 413, Cornell third 862, and Dartmouth last silver cup offered by the giate Trapshooting a dividu: high score with breaks out of a possible 100, CORNELL HARRIERS New Haven, Nov. 2 the intercollegiate cr on the new West today. pion, won the individual ship, covering the course in 35 ates 30 4-5 seconds, NEW YORK FLOWS OVER Hotels WIN, Are Crowded and Guests Are Willing to Sleep on Roofs If Given Extra Blankets. Nov. room 5.—Persons at- night in New York, tempting to get New York hotels given this reply “I'm sorry, sir, have left is on the roof.” Managers of the leading hotels could not recall a time when the congestion had been &o great. s last many times were in all seriousne: The annual influx of shoppers, the convention of hotel men, Army and Navy contest here are re- sponsible. It was estimated that these attrac- tions brought 50,000 persons to this city in excess of the normal hotel trade. At the Majestic, twelve men, em- ployees of a Pittsburgh firm, here to the Army-Navy game, slept in the Louis XVIL suite. The room fell from its magnificent estate 1 supt. © people of Holyoke that they are not | as alive as the people in New Britain | le won the at the Yale traps today with a score of 429 | rinceton was with with 351. Captain Caesar of Princeton won the Intercolle- sociation for in- ninety | next week by Judge James T. Meskill —Cornell won country run Rock course here John Overton, the Yale cham- champion- min- the only thing we % | It was practically | impossible to get a room of any sort. ! the Yale- ! Harvard game at New Haven and the | grand ball- | and, curtained off, made three sleep- ing rooms. Manager Copeland Town- send said that guests were willing to sleep on the roof, if given plenty of blankets. George C. Boldt of the Waldorf gave up his private library and dining room to patrons. Forty-nine pages of the reservation book contained names of persons who had wired or written for rooms, but who had been told that everything was filled up. After the Twentieth Century arrived yester- day more than 400 persons were wait- ing to be assigned rooms. Cots were placed in every available room in the hotel. Outside rooms were secured for regular customers. It was neces- sary to send some as far away as New- ark. The Astor clerk was kept busy tell- | ing old patrons that he couldn’t prom- ise them anything for the next two or three days. The same conditions prevailed at the McAlpin, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, and, in fact all of the hotels of the city. #otel men believe that they are in for the busiest win- ter in their experience. . O. S. TO CRAWFORD. Holyoke Wants Local Boys’ Club Head to Boost Campaign Supt. R. H. Crawford of the New Britain Boy’s club has been called upon to go to Holyoke to help the Boys' club in that city collect $75 000. The campaign closes Wedne day and thus far not half the desired amount has been collected. wwiord intends to tell the and he expects to be of material aid in securing the full amount. eral young men who contributed large amounts to the New Britain | campaign will be used as examples of the spirit in this city and Mr. Craw- ford expects the appeal to have the desired effect. SHORT CALENDAR Two cases SIGNMENT! were assigned for trial in short calendar session of city court vesterday. Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock will be heard the action of David Garston vs. M. H. Fox. torney A. A. Greenberg appears for the defen Action of Eva Koc vs. Stanley Zarharchopski will be heard at 2 o'clock Wednesday. afternoon with Attorney A. A. Greenberg ap- pearing for the plaintiff and Attorney J. G. Woods for the defense. CLUB GETS VERDICT. Justice wburger Gives Defendant i 5 Decision in $20,000 Suit. New York, Nov. 25.—A jury in the Bronx ,county supreme court yester- day returned to Justice Newburger a verdict for the defendant in the suit for $20,000 instituted by Owen Fallon, of 143 Lincoln avenue, against the Irish-American Athletic club. Iallon alleged that the sum manded represented the lo sustained as a result of injuries re- ceived at Celtic park, Long Island, on { July 2, 1914. The athletic club is the | lessce of thé park. I'allon was in a building at Celtic park when a marble slab fell, crush- ing his right foot. apacitated for nine months. de- MRS. GAVIN DIVORCED, Mrs, Frieda Vater Gavin of this city was vest ay granted a deqree of absolute orce from her hus- band, Charles Gavin. She was also given the right to resume her maiden name of Vater. The divarce was granted without opposition on the grounds of tual intemperance. Gavin is an inmate of the state farm for inebriates at Norwich. WHO'S GoT SUCH A THING AS Hook 7 AW > S §\ \ sev- At- | 5 he had | I ! | Nuv.ZB-S Twenty-five years ago the present edifice of Trinity Methodist Church was erect~ ed. We begin the celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniver- sary of the Dedication of this Church 25 YEARS AG0 undayMorning- to«s | REV. JOHN HENRY BELL,D. D. He said he was in- JTri e YES HE PLAYS %, $oME GAmME A HE Doest HE [} my | DOESN'T oW [ WAS HOW To COUNT TiLL Yoo SEE MINE LIKE 7 Y N NS T AN \ AN 7/} To DAY~ ’// puTTIN' SomE- = THING FIERCE | WAS 2722 g You wrs PUTTIN WHEN'S Tue NEXT TRAIN= | For eight years pastor of this Church, now of Brooklyn, N. Y., wil preach the opening sermon. Dr. Sidney F. Gulick, mem- ber of International Commis- sion on Relations With Japan, will speak. . J. £ ADAMS, \ Former minister, now of Stamford, Conn., also Dr. Elmer A. Dent, the District Superintendent, as well as Rev. H. S. Scarborough of Hartford, will speak Tuesday evening, 8 p. m. Minister of the Old Metho- dist Church, across the way, will be here to preach Sunday morning, December 3rd. wzs-SUnday Evening-e REV. GEORGE P. MAINS, D. D. ity Methodist Ghurch By BRIGGS WELL Wweit Y WELL! WHoSE GRAND LUTTLE 1o IDEA WAS TS« SOME BODY HERE 1 EIGHTY . BN CATTIN i S5 (Heme's How Joe.- Goop LCK VE HAD O:E SWELL IME Topar!