New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1916, Page 6

= ew Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. Tssued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4115 p. m., at Herald Bullding, 67 Chureh Sc. Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Delivered by carrier to for 15 cents a week, Bubscriptions for payable in $00 a yeas The only profitable advertising medlum In the city: Circulation books and Fress room always open to advertisers. any part of the city 65c a month. r to be sent by mail, 60 cents a month, The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- s News Stand d St. and Broad- New York City; Board Walk, At lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Chere are some salient features which suggest themselves afterthe de- Iplorable accident this morning at the [Washington street railroad crossing. Onc is the absolute need of an emer- gency ambulance in this city and the other, better and more rigid protection at ilhe various crossings. The wonder of it is that there are not such calamities. Tralns coming through he city at a fast rate of speed, which common occurrence be- of them are running and must make up time, cannot the more is a fea usc s0 many pate W be seen by the man at In lowering the gates a fraction f a second in time might mean the In the past there as been apparent carelessness on the part of the pedestrian public. People rushed across the tracks even the gates were down, In the ase of those on foot the danger is not pronounced because a nimbleness bt action might avoid an accident; but ¢ith automobiles and carriages there = no chance in the world of getting it the path of an onrushing = train. fhese are the thoughts that should pecur to the railroad officials, the men h charge of the city government, and ate oss of many lives. ave When o he people whose lives are in danger. irst, there should be an emergency mbulance to assist the police patrol In all accidents where twa or more persons are seriously injured. Second here should be a heavy fine imposed pn those reckless souls who, for the lake of saving a few moments of time, ush pell mell across railroad tracks hen the gates are dawn. And third, lhere should be a system of electric arnings attached to all gate houses t railroad crossings so that the com- g of trains may be signaled to the lender and that human eyesight be elieved of some part of responsibility. Pn a foggy day or night a man tend- Ing the gates may not be able to see a rain approaching, or hear the clang- Inz Dell of its engine until too late to prevent a terrible accident. HY WORRY Man by his very nature is prone to Advice avails little on such When the stock market is the baby is cutting the prices of foodstuffs up and the scales of wages halanced, it is inevitable . Yet, it must be ed that the average man on this kide of the pond has little to worry im in comparison to what the man the trenches must suffer. Those the boys who really have some- to keep them in a state of There are a million things an jostle their minds and their orry. pecasions. umbling, when eeth, when hre coing hre evenly men should worr; n hing hnxicty hat maginations. Even when there are balls whistling over their heads there are other thoughts pre- They ho cannon ailing. can worry about the oved ones back at home, the mothers, i cethearts and the They for their own welfare in But they are not doing au Instead they have fresorted to philosophy. Some logician them has found out the rea- they should not worry. Raveau, a member of the en- corp at the front in France to the United States a copy of chaser” in vogue in the wives, babies, the aged fathers. worry field. this worrying. mor fon why Jifenr; incer gends he renche “wor You have two alternatives: Either [rou are mobilized or you are not. If Inot, you have nothing to worry about. If mobilized you have two alterna- ives: Either you are in camp or at the front. If are in camp you jhave nothing to worry about. I at you you are the front you have ltornatives: Kither you are in are on the fighting If in reserve you have nothing to worry about. b If have acr thave you rou are on the fighting line you Either you If you don’t you g to worry about. » you have two alterna- get hurt or you two alternatives: or you don’t. you sc: tives don’ to Either you If you don’t you have nothing about hurt you have two alter- ither you get slightly hurt badly hurt. If slightly huit you have nothing to worry about. ir badly hurt you have two alternatives: Either you recover or you don’t. If you recover you have nothing to worry about. 1f you don’t you have done with worry forever. worry It nativ ou get or vou get ou get MICHAEL J. CLAUHSEY. forty-two Michael J. Claughsey was connected with the New Britain Fire Department. Dur- ing all that time he was never remiss For vears against his name. He was the oldest member of the department in of service. point His untimely death today in what has proven the most deplor- able accident New Britain has suffered in a generation is a source of decp to those who were familiar with his gallant record with the fire depart- ment. For almost half a century he lent his service to the protection of life and property, always those of other people. That such self sacri- fice should be rewarded by a tragic end is not in keeping with the wishes of those who would have it otherwise. Michael Claughsey’s death will not have been in vain if it points out the way for a remedy of prevalent condi- tions on the three principal railroad crossings of the city. The tracks at the Main street, the Elm street and the Washington street crossings have ever been a source of real danger to the people of this city. The wonder of it is that no such accident has taken place before thi: It is doubtful if there is another city in the country that would tolerate the same condi- tions as those which are manifest here in the heart of the community. In the very center of the business sec- tion trains are rushed across the main arteries of travel at the rate of twenty and thirty miles an hour. Big freight trains are shifted back and forth in the confines of the city night and day when such operations should be limited to freight yards provided for the purpose. Some day New Britain will shake off its lethargy and clear up the traffic situation here. ‘When that is done there need be no such sorrow as that which comes with the death of Mr. Claughsey. TP TO LLOYD GEORGE. At this moment in English politics David Lloyd George is abreast of the topmost wave. How long he will re- main there is a matter of conjecture. The whole whirligig is one of the most Interesting phases of the world war, of which it is an outgrowth. Behind the new Prime Minister there are now aligned the the Unionist Party and the Labor Party. If the Irish Party pledges him support he will have a unani- mouse House of Commons with him. The leaders of that party, are pursuing President Wilson's pol- icy of ‘“watchful waiting.” They want to see how Lloyd George's cabi- net is constructed before they act. It is reported that Lloyd George is determined to settle the Irish ques- tion once and for all. If this is true he will do more toward taking some of the stigma off English practices than any other man century. The Coalition Government is primarily to be held responsible for the latest turbulent conditions in Ireland be- cause of its inherent blunders. There was blame, of course, in other quar- ters, according to the view-point but the Asquith Cabinet came in for its share. Without arguing the question it is sufficlent to know that there was blundering, and of the ‘Who was more to blame than another is out of the present order of things. The point now is that Lloyd George has a chance to show political shrewd- ness and settle the Irish question, one of the greatest domestic problems that faces England. Home Rule for Ireland is the only thing the lovers of of the littie They were definitely promised it and they will not be satisfied until the dream of ages is fulfilled. Once that is a reality there will be no great dissentions in jEngland’s domes- tic politics and the war might be pressed with renewed vigor. It is up to Lloyd George. eral Party, however, in a worst sort. isle will countenance. more “We are the richest nation in the world and the most prosperous one,” says Secretary of Commerce Redfield in his annual report issued yesterda: The statistics advanced by the secre- tary in his report shaw that the bal- ance of trade in our favor for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, is far in excess of $2,000,000,000. The total of merchandise export trade was more than $4,000,000,000 and of import trade more than $2,000,000,000. Be- cause we are the only one of the great industrial peoples now at peace, says the secretary, ‘‘nations turn to us for goods and for means with which to pay us for the goods. None of us in our wildest financial fancles would five years ago have dreamed that things could be as now they are. To protect our reserve of gold, which is the ultimate base on which our do- and Increase loans and investments abroad. The work of the Burcau of Foreign and Damestic Commerce devoted to these important duties, The Teport of the chief of that servico shows its extraordinary expansion and effectiveness. In thousands of pysi- ness offices its aid Is acknowledged is in his duty, never had a black mark 3 regret to all those who knew him and | { A spot that is sacred to thought and mestic credits rest, we must maintain | our export trade and must continue | and welcomed. Never has our Govern- ment put at the disposal of our busi- ness and industry the helpful facilities that are now provided.” All of which augurs well for a prolongation of prosperity. Marse Henry Watterson sums up | the high cost of living in this fashion: | “Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece | was white as snow. Its chops | worth ten cents apiece, its quarters $5 1t will be noted t i | Mary was not possessed of an ovi | bopiteous supply of lamb. The | port says she had just “a little lamb.” | | are or so. re- Poor Mary! FACTS AND FANCIE i | If we could only stop wearing ex- pensive shoes we might be able to get on our feet.—Paterson Iress Guardian. The chiropodists of Vermont have organized and, presumably, the corn- raisers wills have to foot the bill— Rutland News, You never can tell. Some people | are afraid of tife dark and others don’t want too much light thrown on | them.—Philadelphia Record. Osborne having been found, we may confidently expect that the Bremen and the man higher up will | be promptly located.—RBrooklyn Eagle. Oliver Arizona parts with its local color as a frontier state when the voters roll up a majority of 12,000 for pro- hibition.—New York Sun. Some war baby is also the Scovill Mfg. Co., of Connectleut. Its divi- dends amounted to 99 per cent. thi vear. That's where the stockholder can eat their cake and still have it.— Indianapolis News. One of the most amusing of all war products that has come to attention hereabouts is the headline that ap- peared in a certain evening paper a short time ago, as follows: ‘Lloyd G'o’ge Quits.” Some ciphering.— ‘Waterbury Republican, The Asquith government has been no worse than the others. What | Lloyd George has been doing is to lend his great powers and repute as a liberal to the partisan purposes of a tory cabal which will next turn upon him if he does not change his coat altogether.——New York World. Good-By. (By Ralph Waldo Emerson). Good-by, proud world! I'm going home; Thou are not my friend, and I'm not thine, Long through thy weary crowds roam; A river-ark on Long I've ben foam, But now, proud world, home. i the ocean brine, toss'd like the driven I'm going Good-by to flattery's fawning face, To grandeur, with his wise grimace, To upstart wealth’s averted ey To supple office, low and high, To crowded halls, to court and street, To frozen hearts and hasting feet, To those who go and those who come,— Good-by, proud home. world! I'm going I am going to my own hearthstone, Bosom’d in yon green hills alone— A secret nook in a pleasant land, Whose groves the frolic fairies plann’d, Where arches green, the livelong day, Echo the blackbird’s roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod,— God. Oh, when I am safe home, 1 tread on the pride of Greece Rome, And when I am stretch’d beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, T laugh at the yore and pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learn- | ed clan; | For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God meet ? in my sylvan and | | may E | | To Get in Tune Again. 1 Arthur Nikisch, who is touring Switzerland with his symphony or- chestra, looks to the influence of the universal sympathy in musical art as one of the impulses making for a com- fortable peace when the murderous | contest shall abate. “I am convinced,” | he says, “that it fs in the field of art ‘ that the first reapprochment among the fighting nations place.” { _ It is nothing to the contrary that| Wagner has been boycotted in France; | the same sentimental folly was enact- | cd years ago, when the two nations were at war. By contrast today, German audiences crowd the halls in | Which the programme is devated to the worlk os Tschailowsky and Ber- | lioz; these are received with approval | and applause. { The large theatres announcing such | Productions of alien composers are Ic}_owded, “always sold out,” says| | Nikisch; in Berlin “four times as | many seats as the great Philharmonic | Hall will hold.” | Does not this point to the practica- | bility of getting “in tune” again after the war on the basis of artistic as well | as political sentiment? | will again take Missouri Bank and One Depositor Fails. (Clinton Only one depositor lost money in a | recent bank failure in Clark county. William Komj farm hand, thought | his money would be safe if placed , in a tin can which he hid in a hay- mow. When he went to add to his | account the other day ‘the tin can and | the $38 were both gone. l Democrat) | compar | est be i tory of tool anl hardware manufac- | in a fort fm Boston harbqr for | the proper length and then bent | Town Topics | Although every citizen of New Brit- ain takes pride in knowing that the city is the leading hardware manufac- turing city in the world, there are probably but few who realize that among other things New Britain has the largest cutlery factory 1in the world—Landers, Frary & Clark—and the largest factory in world making carpenter’s tools, and holds more patents per capita than any city in the country. Yet this is so and the following article, the data for which has been carefully gathered from au- thentic sources by the American Trust v of Boston, is of great inter- ause it carefully traces the his- ture in New England, and at the same time has much to do with the earl history of New Britain manufacture The first iron foundry in New Eng- land was built in 1642, and the first iron pot made in New England was made In that foundry in the same year. The iron was from the bog ores of Kastern Massachusetts. The cast fron hardware of New England began with that iron pot. The first forge shop in America with a trip hammer was built in Raynham, Ma by James and Henry Leonard in 1652. Joseph Jenks, a native of Ham- mersmith, England, was the Tubal Cain of the Western Continent. Be- sides making the first casting, fire en- gine and “engines for mills to go by water” he was in 1655 accorded a patent for seven years for an improve- ment in scythes for the more speedy cutting of grass. The type of scythe | made today is the same as that made first mint- by Jenks. tools used by master. About 1720 a trip hammer was used in the manufacture of scythes, and soon after axes, adzes and other edge tools were forged with trip ham- mers. The first regular iron rolling mill iIn America was built in Middle- boro, Mass., in 1750. In the country of Plymouth in the year 1748, 500 muskets were made for the colony of Massachusetts. They were deposited safe keeping, and were carried away by the British at the evacuation of Boston at the beginning of the Revolutionary war. Hugh Orr, a Scotchman, hegan the manufacture of edge tools at Bridge- water in 1750 and here the first can- non in this country were cast solid and the caliber bored. Muskets were also made by him. Capt. John Ames of Bridgewater, an intelligent blacksmith, began to make shovels by hand forging in 1776 as a business. The shovels were heavy and clumsy, but his business in- creased, though slowly. His son, Oliver Ames, Increased the business and improved the quality of the shov- els. In 1803 he removed the business to North Easton, where the manufac- ture of shovels etc. is now a large in- austry. Wrought ern Massachusetts in th ial time by hand forging, the the He also made John Hull, Fas colon- they nails were made In the early as | were then and are now made in Eng- land. They were exported until Alex- ander Hamilton’s tariff bill was adopt- ed. Macks were also made at a very early time by hand from strips of sheet iron. The first nalls made by machinery in this country and probably the first in the world, cut and headed at one operation, were made by Samuel Rogers, at East Bridgewater in 1794. The Rogers machine, with improve- ments, is in use today Copper bolts and wire nails were made at Two Mile River, Taunton, in 1777, and in 1825 the plant was al- tered to an anchor forge. At the time it closed in 1865 it was the oldest suc- cessful iron works in this country. In the year 1798 there were in the counties of Plymouth and Bristol fourteen blast furnaces, six air fur- naces, twenty forge shops, seven roll- ing and slitting mills, and many trip hammer shops, nail shops and other shops for the manufacture of jron goods, Including cut and ham- ! mered or forged nails, tacks, wagon nails, etc shovels, spade: scythes, saws, bells, cannon balls, firearms, iron buttons for clothing sheet iron for tinning, hoes and other farming tools, edge tools, wire, and card teeth for the card makers. In 1797 two Connecticut young men had finished a term of apprenticeship with a jeweler at Stockbridge, Mass. One was a New Britain young man named James North, and the other was an Easthampton, Conn., young man named Barton. Bach went to his home town and it will never be settled which of the two made the first sleigh hells for the market. Bast- hampton claims the honor for Barton Ing 797 The father of James North of New Britain was the village blacksmith of New Britain, an@ he probably did not like the idea of a competitor for vil- lage jobs in the person of his own son. The father advised his son James to make something to sell in Boston or New York. James took the advice of Nis father and went to Hartford and bought a br r head shovel and tongs and three sizes of hrass head pokers, all of English make. He brought them to his fath- er’s hall of village wisdom and skill— the blacksmith shop—and father and on and wise loungers studied hard and long over the conundrum, how to ! cast the brass heads or tops hollow. By sawing one of them open they discovered sure indications that the top or heads were cast in two parts and then soldered together. Then a more difficult conund=nm presented itself. Tt was how to make the pat- terns in two parts. Tt took a long time to learn to cast the hells with the jingle ball inside the sand core so that when the sand core was rattled out after casting the bell the ball would remain inside. They paid $25.00 to a tramp mechanic from New York for the idea. Tn 1805 Alvin North began to make hool and eyes for ladies’ dresses, etc. The eyes were made from wire, cut to | by plers in the hand and flattened by a hammer. The hooks were made in the same manner. except that tle hook end was hent after flattening. Harness hardware was added in a small way. Up to 1812 very little progress had s head fire dog, a brass | ing the war of 1812 to 1814 several small concerns were started in cutlery, cheap jewelry, buckles and other small articles. The machines used were extremely crude and could hard- ly be called machinery. About 1815 Alvin and Henry North began the manufacture of silver plat- ed wire, and used it for making hooks and rings and cloak clasps for gentle- men’s cloaks. Narrow strips were cut from sheets of copper that had been hand plated. The strips were then drawn through dies by horsepower in- to solid tubing shape, which answered the purpose of wire. Spoons were first made from metal in Meriden in 1820. The that cut the blanks out of the sheet metal was run by man-power and steadied by a heavy balance wheel. The first German silver made in Mer- fden was in 1836. The Meriden Cut- lery company’s business was started in 1834 in a very small way, and the John Russell Cutlery company was started about the same time. Meriden made wrought iron nalls in ; the last century, but its early manu- facturing life was mainly in pewter spoons and tinware. In 1837 there were forty-eight lit- tle concerns manufacturing hard- ware, etc,, in Newy Britain, but only one of them could have paid its debts if called upon. The panic in 1837 was felt there severely, but most of the failures were not till 1840, two or three years after the beginning of the panic. A great variety of small Hardware and kindred articles were made about this time (1837) in New Britain, but consolidation began, the little con- cerns were absorbed or wiped out, and the business is now in the hands of fewer but mostly large concerns. New Britain has the largest cutlery factory in the world, the largest fac- tory making carpenter’s tools, and holds mofe patents per capita than any city in the country. Meanwhile the west was being opened; buildings were going up all over the country, creating a demand for hardware and mechanics’ tools which was met by an ever increasing production of better and better goods. P Perhaps there no other public item in New Britain that has occu- pied the attention of the people more than the recent civil service experi- ments. The action which has result- ed in both favorable and adverse crit- iclsm, but principally the latter, is too well known to be again rehearsed. Suffice it to state that a recent ap- pointment was made in which the candidate who stood lowest in civil service was appointed. Immediately there arose a great clamor of pull and politic: Be that as it may, Mayor Quigley has come out in favor of civil service and one of his arguments has merit. He contends that civil service eliminates some of the undesirables. In this connection he admits, however, that there is still a chance to play pol- itics with those elegible, but the ben- it is in weeding out the ineligible. The mayor and other civil service advocates state that the idea of civil service is not to necessarily give the man with the highest average the job, but have it given to any one of the five highest. It is argued that a man might stand highest in civil service and yet not have the qualities that would make hini best suited for the position. But insofar as civil service applies to the fire and police depart- ments it seems as though a plan might be devised so that the highest man would unquestionably get the job thereby doing away with any hint re- garding the integrity of those having the appointing power. if, as the may- or says, any one of those who pass is efficient and capable, then what good reason Is there for positively cutting out the intimated political pull and | giving it to the highest? Tf, on the | other hand, it is thought that among those who pass and stand hizh there is one who would not make such a good appointee the obvious solution would he to rearrange the civil ser- vice rules. Make rules so stringent that only those fitted positively and absolutely, In every way, mentally, physically and morally, be entitled to take the examinatior Then there could be no claim that one man was | better fitted for the position than an- other. Thus, the high man could re- ceive the appointment and all fur- ther trouble resulting from the alleged playing of politics would be cur- tailed. As the mayor has so aptly said, the civil service is not a cure all in its present state. Then why not make it so, at least as much as pos- sible and it appears that there is yet room for improvement? .o sheet press Days of prosperity, the full dinner pail and the full envelope, contrary to the general opinion, has not proved ehtirely beneficial to many New Brit- ain families and in many instances has been the direct cause for the de- sertion and non-support of families, according to observations made in the police court. The judge of the { police court is now called upon to ar- | bitrate in more non-support cases than he was during previous periods of business depression. Real poverty | resulting from an inability of a hus- band to secure work or sufficient pay to support his wife and family, has almost ceased to exist in New Brit- ain. This nevertheless, does not mean that the prosperous conditions have reduced the number of desertions, non-support cases and other instances of destitution brought about by alco- holic drinks and other vices. Among a certain class of men the period of prosperity now heing enjoyed means nothing but an opportunity to spend more and to indulge more extr: gantly in their whim Many think that because times are good they can | get another job if they lose the one they have and others too, do not con- sider their families as much when they have the fat pay envelope as when they did not. No better exam- ple or proof can be found than by glimpse at the local police court re. ords. No one can deny that there is plenty of work if a man is willing to work, vet there are an unusually large number of cases in which the wives protest against lack of support from their husbands and generally it [ develops that the support is not given because the money is being used for other purposes by the head of the family. 1 Lee mansion been made in New Britain, but dur- ‘[ Och Rida on Serbian Front A Capital In 10th Century | | Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—When the important Macedonian ecity of Monastir came once more into pos- session of the Serbs a fecw days ago, attention was directed to the neigh- boring town of Ochrida, situated to the northwest a distance of thirty miles. The National Geographic so- ciety's latest war geography bulletin gives the following information con- cerning this picturesque place which after centuries of comparative obscur- ity has had turned upon it the search- light of history-in-the-making: “Clustering on the northeastern shore of one of the most beautiful of the Albanian lakes are the cottages, churches, and ruined castles which go to make up the historic town of 11,000 inhabitants known as Ochrida, the same name by which the lake is known. “Ochrida, or Ochri as it is called by the Turks, stands near the site of the ancient city of Lychnidos, once the capital of the Dassaretac and later one of the terminj of the famous Via Egnatia, a great military and com- mercial highway which the Romans bullt to bind the Adriatic to the Hellespont. “An English woman traveler, ap- proaching Ochrida from the direction of Monastir, gives the following sim- ple picture of the heauty of the nat- ural setting which this tenth century capital of the short-lived Bulgarian empire enjoys: At the foot of the mountain (the western slope of the Pindus range) we entered a rich, fer- tile country, passing through shady lanes, bordered by hedges, heavy with the perfumed masses of pink roses, elder-flowers, golden-broom, and an endless varlety of other blossoms, in fact, we remarked in this country, growing wild, almost every plant which one is accustomed to see in the cottage gardens of England.’ “Ochrida reached the pinnacle of its glory in the tenth century during the reign of Czar Samuel, the most pow- erful of the Bulgaro-Slavonic mon- archs, a man who mounted the throne following the violent deaths of his three older brothers, and one unau- coveted Vladimir’s city of Dulcigng, on the Adriatic coast. In the war which ensued Viadimir was defeated and driven to the mountains where, upon witnessing the hardships suf- fered by his soldie he decided to purchase their safe with his own person. ‘The Good Sheperd giveth his life for the sheep’ sald the king as he surrendered himself and was led captive to Prespa, a village near Och ride, where Samuel had a strong cas. tle in which he kept not only his ma- terial treasures but his heart's delight, the fair Kosara, his daughter. “Both Vladimir and Kosara were extremely pious, and while the cap- tlve was praying in his dungeon the vision of an angel came to him; in the same hour Kosara was bidden bw an angel to go and wash the feet of the captives in her father astle Thus the two met, and the familiar but never-old miracle of love at first sight happened. Kosara went to her father and declared that she would marry none other than Vladimir, and the Czar, knowing that the captive ‘was of royal blood, consented, had the fortunate Vladimir arrayed in purple and fine linen, and after the marriags ceremony restored to him his elty with the addition of Durazzo and ifs surrounding territory. And so far as history knows, there is no reason tc deny the assertion of the legend that they ‘lived happily ever after.' “For nearly 900 years (up to 1767) Ochrida_was the ecclesiastical head- quarters of the Bulgarians in the west of the Balkan peninsula, and at the time of the outbreak of the pres- ent war it was the seat of a Bulgarian and a Greek bishop “The lake of Ochrida. which the town overloo is a picturesque ex- panse of water having an elevation of about half a mile above sealevel, with a maximum length of eighteen miles and a width of eight miles. The chief outlet of the lake is the River Drin which flows north and whose ratheg flat banks, lined with willows, though whose branches many children are to be seen, suggest a Dutch scene. “In the shallow pl nlong the e thentic story tells of his having put out the eyes and then strangled his father who stond in the path of his march to power. If that legend be true most grievously did Samuel pay the penalty of his crime for his own death was brought about, after a reign of nearly forty years, by the pitiful slght of 15,000 of his captured troops sent back to him by Basil 1T ‘slayer of Bulgars’) with their plucked out. “A less gruesome story of the mon- arch of Ochrida is that of the ro- mance of the young Serblan King Vladimir and of Samuel's daughter Kosara. Samuel, so the legend goes, eves (the | river the traveler 0 of women busily engaged work, their skirts tucked up above | thelr knees. This fact occasions no | embarrassment to the supposedly fair washerwomen, but upon. the approach lof a stranger all clutch wildly for wisps of veil with which they hastil} cover their mouths and chins. “Two important occupations of the | Ochridans are the manufacture of sil- | ver filigree work, in which they are | highly skilled, and the dressing and making-up of furs into pelisses, ex- | tensively worn throughout the regions | formerly under the suzerainty of the ! Buropean Turks.” . 1y groups in laundry COMMUNICATED. A lover of the Anclent Approves of An Historical Society and Suggests Some Objects Suitable for a Museum —Among Them the Depot. New Britain, Dec. 7, 1917. To the Hditor of the Herald I make haste to voice my approval of your editorial in Thursday's paper anent the propriety of forming an Historical Society in New Britain for the purpose of preserving for posterity such ancient land-marks as the old on Main street and the Elihu Burritt house. at the mere mention of these two edi- fices? Are there not other and just as valuable historical objects that could win a word of praise from your kindly pen? Have you not the time and the inclination to go further and | awaken the citizens of our fair com- | munity to a sense of the fitness of | things? If you have not, then I should like to assist you in calling at- tention to what an Historical Society in New Britain could do in the way of compiling and gathering together data, relics, souvenirs, and what-not for the benefit of those who must tread the bricks here after you and I have transcended or ascended to more roomy quarters. You sing the glories of the old Lee house, once used as a prison in Revo- lutionary times. That indeed is an old mansion; but there are some things even older. For instance, there is a cab horse in Jim White's livery stable that has seen service #ince Hannibal crossed the Alps. The rec- ord is not entirely straight, but it is hinted that ‘this same animal went out with the advance guard of the first Crusaders. Later, it is said, he was with Washington at Valley Forge, and after a trip across the Atlantic was ridden by Blucher on the field at Waterloo when Napoleon went | down and out. He was brought baclk | to this country in time to do gallant | service in the war between the states. After a short but active career in the Spanish war, this noble steed was sold to Jim White by the manager of a one-ring circus. Had it not been for that episode in the animal’s life, it is probable he would be taking part in some of the action today around | Bucharest. He is the noblest war horse in the world, and as he is in New Britain at the present time, and liable to die at any moment, I think that any Historical Society formed in this city should make arrangements to get his carcass for its museum. Such op- portunities should not be neglected. At least an option should be secured on his remains. He is the same stallion that inspired Henry IIL to shout, “A horse! A horse! My | kingdom for a horse! Then there is another relic should not be neglected by the H torical Society,—Mike Sullivan’s jit- ney ’'bus, that is doing such a “rattling” business at the depot. The first automobile invented is credited to Haynes. In/ all justice, it must be is that | admitted that Sullivan's Jitney saw service before Haynes or any of his family came to America. This jitney But why stop | { shows doubts that it served as s veyance for an Egyptian all the doubter needs do is telephone “Mike” at the station. A ride through ‘Walnut Hill Park will settle the ques- tion. In those days, of course, the ehicle was propelled by power othey than gasoline. It is now running on nerve. Casual mention of the depot has been made in the previous paragraph The waliting room of that ancient structure is the most valuable part of the building from an historical | standpoint. Tt served as a boudoir for | ladies-in-waiting during the reign of Nero. It was the only woodwork | saved after the burning of Rome. Ip- | cidentally, the apparatus that worked futively but gallantly to put out the flames Nero started and watched | while he fiddled on his violin is at | present in Engine House No. 1. With the motorization of the fire depart- ment this relic should be easily ob- tainable for the museum you sug- gest. Oh, there are lots of old things around New Britain that will serve as estimable examples of a by-gone era. For Instance, there is the Keeney theater and its companion piece of architecture,—the Bronson Hotel, Both of these structures are made from brick brought over from Eng- land in. the Mayflower,—the firgt brick that ever saw the green fieldy of the New World. Some of the seals in Keeney’'s Opera House were bought from a second-hand dealer, who got them direct from the con- tractor who unearthed the oldest theater in the d at Athens. , The proscenium arch, an old one, the first under which a akesperian, play was ever produced. It came originally from a playhouse near the home of the bard at Avon, where William was wont to practice his before turning them loose on the public. These are only a few of the things occur to me ofi-hand. Perhaps some of your readers will suggest other relics and things that have been around New Britain from the time since ‘‘the mind of man runneth ta the contrary notwithstanding.” If so, 1 for one should be glad to learn of them, and to assist in any way toward the formation of an Historical Soclety that will make plans for their preser- vation. It is a noble inspiration, such a society, and worthy of all the supt port that the press of Ncw Britaln can give. too, is Yours trul YOUNGER PLINY, Try It On George. (From the Chicago Tribume.) The national grange, representing the American farmers, says if embar- goes are to be placed to reduce the¢ high cost of living, let them be pu‘ | on manufactured goods. The American federation of labox unanimously demands an embargo ox wheat and other food. A familiar situation. on the other fellow. Take it out « Every man feels that there is a lot of greatness concealed about his peps date$ back 2,000 B. C.- It has all the earmarks of antiquity. If any one son waiting for the world to dise cover it.