New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1916, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY 10, 3 4 NERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER iness purposes in the city. Many bus- | iness men claim that with an automo- | biles their business possibilities are greatly increased, owing to the in- | creased service they can give custom- ers, where such was impossible with the steady, but slow moving horses. plight made to relieve upon them, A package was sent the writer from New York on Wednesday, Dec, 22, last yvear, which was delivered {hree after Christmas. Numerous in- es were made at the local office for it, but no definite response could be given from any of the employes as to whether it had arrived, qr | whether it was among the great mass | of accumulated matter. Perhaps it 25,000,000 ' may have been held in New York. We do no claim that it had arrived | in New Britain. we had no means of knowing. Tt may have heen carried | past New Britain, as much matter was, owing to a lack of time in | which to unload it from the trains, [ £ and so left at some station along the [ The Mint authorities have become !line, to be returned when the rush | alarmed only recently because of the | and crush had somewhat subsided. | small coin famine, but others could | With this uncertainty of any hde- | have told them of it long ago.—New | quate service by the Express (‘o. dur. York Evening Sun, ing the hollday rush, there is another _— | route owned and conducted by the We claim to be just as honest as federal government, “very much anybody, but right at this time, if & | cheaper, with the knowledge and as- neighbor’'s hen were laying in our surance of prompt and safe delivery— barn, we'd be the last person in the | the Parcel Post. This service for world to tell the neighbor about It.—— | transporting all manrer of merchan- Itort Worth Star-Telegram. dise reaches more places than any = other transportation agency. The very lowest possible charges are made particularly for nearhy places. Fifty pound parcels can he sent to nearly all New England ponints, wherever there is a post office, at the rate of about one cent per pound, over the first pound. A package weighing fifty pounds can he sent to New York for a trifle over 50 cents and prompt- 1y delivered If you wish qulck and safe trans- portation for your Christmas pack- | ages, avall yourself of the services of | the Parcel Post. | PRO BONO PUBLICO. | in this con- I'rance to beverages as absinthe, suppressed, liquors. them entirely the Wurden that cohol. The is alcohol helpless | wa#s put term understood such Britain Herald Amerlcan firms are doing the business. ) . p And it is HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. { nection in include not a business, many suppose, that depends solely upon the ' i which as Inside Light On the War Shed By An Army Officer Washington, D. C., December 16.— | On the occasion of his recent visit to { Washington, where he spoke before the National Geographic society on the “Human Side of Trench Warfare,” | Captain John Hay Beith, of the | Argyll and Sutherland Highlander has been and misfortune of Europe. It will be even already 22 fed daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., - e s RN eIz (Bundavisxconrecyiat 41 a greater business when the people of | 4 this country itered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. whiskey, brandy extend | of will | | FACTS A in | do today | are allowed their efforts in the upbullding Ilurope, after the fighting. Then American goods go abroad, greater quantities than they Denmark won't sell her islands and Wwhen the percentage of export busi- | our shopping fund is § ness is less than ten’'per cent. of the : Stronger.—Boston Journal. entire business done in Contrary to expectations, to oo The disastrous reaction of the local stock market during the past week has proved a costly one for local spec- ulators. Some men have almost feared to open their mail, thinking that a “call” for more margin might be re- ceived. Others who had previoush enjoved large paper profits, then be- gan to “pyramid,” have not only lost their profits but also have been called upon for more margin. A number have been unable to pay and have been sold out. All in all it has heen a terrible week for those hold- ing stocks. Many declare they have Just nine days to Christmas. on of surprise. They made their ads vent on the firing line at the supremg phychological moment. Our troops had virtually reached an impasse in the Thiepval Woods, which the Gersly mans had fortified and refortified un#™ til it seemed humanly impossible te and widely known In the United | make any further headw: Then'y, States as lan Hay, author of “The |came the ‘tanks,’ secretly made, plece First Hundred Thousand” in answerto | by piece, all over England ani numerous questions, threw interesting | shipped to a point of assembly on vfi sidelights on phases of the European | Somme front. Not even the m war which are not touched upon, cus- | whom I was training as a gun crew. tomarily, in the despatches from the | for one of these ponderous but astorns : R _ | front. The Geographic soclety has is- | ishingly flexible death-dealers knew :.ff]‘f““;,‘I‘(‘"l:]"(;r;‘:‘:‘_:;"‘_’“"h;‘”“l:z‘f‘,’,‘:‘ sued in the form of the following wWar | the kind of a jugzernaut in which they e aintoccis 1t sl e ol prealciithat geography bulletin the substance of an | were to operate until they were ready almost all of these who had a dollar | Pterview with Capt. Beith: for the terror-spreading assault. The it Tt (i 1 (L0 10 (i 1) ‘The widely heralded British 'tanks’ | surprise to the Germans was complete o aat) have served their purpose, and I doubt and Thievpal was ours. But now thaf very much whether they will play any | the limitations of the ‘tanlk’ are further important role in the war,” | known to the enemy its usefulness is | declares Capt. Beith, who was one of | no longer exceptional ‘the machine gun officers having | “While there mu charge of the training of the gun |amount of important fighting on crews for the ‘“‘tanks.” | west front, it is the general bellef “The ‘tanks’ are essentially a weap- | many of our officers that the war will be won from the southeast. Firm in this belief, the British, French, and Italians are making phenomenal preg parations at Saloniki and in thd livered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 65¢ & month. bscrintions for vaper to be sent by malil. payable in advance. 60 cents a month, # 90 a year and he only profitable advertisng medlum in the ci Circulation hooks and Fress Yoom alwaye open to advertisers. Wilson might anticipate gIft of books with a few on international law. Iagle. President the kaiser's volumes Brooklyn | the country. | the { s vet to come, iThe Herald will be found on sale at Hota- harvest News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- New York City; doard Walk, At- City, anda Hartford Depot. for American prosperity bt It should be at its height when recon- struction days dawn lantic over Europe. TELEPHONE Buniness Office Rditorial Rooms e —————————————————— IMPROV NOTED. CALL a 200D WILL TOWARD MEN. By pointing out that the penpl(" First sight of the electric lighting | ©f the United States have contributed | estem Britain's main [¢001Y $10,000,000 or less than five per | 44 impressive | Cent- of the $227,000,000 to purchase | s soeond sight, Last night the lights | 50008 distributed in Belgium it is not As the | intended to cast reflection upon the darkness sped on the lights | FeNErosity of the American people. S aniEhehthey The Commission for Relief in Belgium | An overhanging | V2% not the only larkness from the sky added material- MENT New was not as for oughfare St Fven the telephone operators say it: “I'm calling vou.” McCormick's fa- mous song “I hear vou calling” has ceased to be popular with those as- | soclated with the local stock market. showed to hetter advantage. still be a 1 th hours When the republican party of New York is organized on a ‘“business ‘hasls,”” with a general manager and board of directors, will the progres- pives be classified as preferred or common stock ?>—New York World. | | until at brilliant. improved were | A5 organization ing funds for such charitable purposes. 1 b that a nation made up of 100.000,000 people or more should constellation of stars detracted | NaVe Siven a greater sum than this | humble efforts of | it MUst be remembered that there. i The gay white | Ot another nation on the face of the at sup- | 8lobe having so many diversified in- : terests. consideration it Eets When the final added, when the absolutely solicit- | o For the past few years. since auto- | mobiles became so numerous, and more especlally during the past year | when electric headlights became DR spring the world will he amazed b standard equipment, the motoring Safe to say the mayor, the council, | the gigantic stroke which will be de- public, traffic of all kinds and even | the chamber of commerce or any oth- | livered from this quarter. Of course, the pedestrian has been bothered by ! er power that launches a positive | if Roumania™ situation were to be. the bull-headed automobilist who | campaign against some grade cros: come genulnely critical the Allie never dims the headlights. Everyone | ings and for the better protection of | push through the Balkans would be knows the utter blindness that mom- | all crossings will have the hearty sup- | hastened, for everything possible will entarily results when a powerful: i port of the general public. Here's a | be done to preserve the national in- searchlights is turned into one's eyes, | chance for some one to make a big | tegrity of our latest ally. and this has been the cause of more | name and deserve it. “It is interesting to note that whils accidents than record show, although | LI our ‘tanks’ spread terror among seg- reports at police headquarters indi- | Winthrop street is a thoroughfare | soned soldiers, the upon whidh cate that there were a number in this | that has long been in wuse. People |the Germans so confidently relied as city last summer in which search- | beyond Linwood street who desire & |a means of overwhelming BEngland's light glare was given as the cause. | sewer make a request that is only in | civilian population with uncontrollabla In Massachusetts there is a very strict | accordance with accepted rules of ! fear, have proved to he a complete law against this and, if reports are | sanitation. | failure, except that their compara- true, it Has worked well. In Connect- | tively inconsequential raids have re- icut there is no such law, but it Is| acted against the would-be terrorists understood that Senator G. W. Kletti health board that the anti-spitting |and have been the most effective re- will endeavor to bring before the next | law be enforced seems a timely one. | cruiting agents that the English armte session of the legislature a bill that | Aside from being vulgar and nauseat- | has had. Indced. it would have been would make it a statuatory offense to | ing, there is little doubt but what it is profitable venture If England had drive with the headlights of any car | positively dangerous. Co-operation | constructed ‘Zep’ and sent it, flying sufficiently dazzling to bother anyone | on the part of the public will do much | enemy colors, on a tour of our islands, coming in an opposite direction. If | to eliminate the practice. ! for wherever the airships have ap- such a law is pased it will have the L | peared, dropping their comparatively sanction of every fair-minded citi-| As long as the health board con- | ineffective bombs, there has followed zen, whether owner of an automobile | tinues to strenuously insist on clean | a remarkable influx of raw material or not. milk in New Britain it will be doing a | from which fghting men could be public service of the highest order. ! made to avenge these railds upon our seems lard, butter, eggs, meats and other necessities at prevailing high prices. this condition, whereas on the | hight previous the moon shone clearly y; to and Aviators are so averse to making flights after dark, when control of a machine is more difficult, that it | seems incredible the post office de- partment is considering a night serv- | ice by aeroplane between New York | and Chicago.—New York Sun. from . the more at illuminators, vay than f osed, gayer many The Canadians who are more wrapped up in the war zone than we | in contributed On second eoms ouches magnificently. America been Yariie somewhere have i Our total | Wwo lamps which are sorely needed at | &l eighteen cents apicce. He of Main and Church | Sum, it will treets are installed there will be no | falls short of Those who took | €VeIY light- Apparently worry about $30 for a in the | parison of it isn't necessary to having to pay $20 or pair of shoes. A com- the present wholesale prices of a dozen shoe manufactur- | | ers, who make approximately one- | ~"" |l third of all the shoes made in the suffering | trnited States, shows that the aver- Armenia, | age cost to the retaller now is $2.44 of others, | @ pair.—Boston Globe. did not fail to awaken in the American | heart that which our people are the case of Belgium of the mark it be seen sis, corners upon analy = corror Zeps', being a good dime for man, woman and child jeed for complaint. i nation. he trouble to contrast the new 9 The various tag days held through- p Just suppode: That the Bostcn‘o‘c- Dress jumped the (rack at the’Stanley Works curve, hurling half a /dozen passenger coaches into a tangled mess | of junk, killing and wounding scores thai the Hartford trolley car crashed through the trestle just below Market | street, killing and injuring a carload; that a great boiler in one of our local factories exploded, reducing a part of the factory to a mass of wreckage, maiming and killing many workmen; | that one of the crowded theaters sud- denly collapsed; that a public build- g system with the old, and this was | o Main | out the country for such treet until | lands as Lithuania, Poland, | Ffranklin by | Albania, Serbia and a hos ‘e ly G The suggestion of Dr. Reeks of the done by walking along past the South Church Square was noticeable have nothing but praise effect. It is [‘Dn(‘etle(l] the aid of the brightness the snow on the ground d trees and the new lights thrown hto brilliancy by a darkness overhead | & darkness, the with The Old Campaign Poster, (Providence Journal.) How sad to the eve paign paster, Which = after election in full view, Disclosing that someone boaster And dreamed generous response for noted. If fell short must be remembered that the Belgium relief is not yet fully accorded and will give amends. or new a 2 in i v the old cam- roduced. by hey still sticks that the coming vear was only a plenty of chance to make has all the semblance of The hope is that the ew Britain city. | | | | | | i \ | modern many dreams that .o ights shine as brightly in the Sum- ier .as they do at the present season f the year. WHEN THE HARVEST COMES. 'Peace in Iurope, whether it comes ! bmorrow or a vear from then, has | en discounted. The American peo- e, or that porfion whlch takes inter- The Belgiums are aware of the sympathies that exist for them here and it was but recenily that their | gallant king sent a message of appre- | ciation to President Wilson thanking | the American people. Of all the lands | in the old country poor little Belgium | is sore pressed. While thinking of | her, however, we have also interest in | Poland and Lithuania and Serbia and it otherwise in the ock ige ide in the country had at last come | the honey-moon. Those | market | “Peace” to | materially or mark have been through a | just as war- | ck from ar operators on the stock ho used the masic word, ve the aking vor | in | prices down succeeded that | carried “‘munition-goods” touch hottom. Today the situation is With the dispatches from >aris and Petrograd bearing that Will ‘not be ac- everything a ck tered hndon, Lidence peace pted on the terms suggested by Ger- and with President Wilson and | Cabinet to forward the 5 ace proposals with comment, a new | iht H any s refusing over the horizon. Even reached breaks e were tomorrow, an impossibility, American b hich is practically e investors in securities bed have no further fear. good thing that the of the past week flowed over e land. They worked hardships on investors who were unable to when the calls for ‘“margin’ brokers’ But which was a fore- | In a way, itisa mor | ose 1 | over me the offices, fith i omed thing anyway, there comes a | briod of calm reasoning when minds | 1t frightened by the ospects of peace abroad have come from the reaction, were easily i of | trality in any protest of thi others lands that share the fate of Bel- gium to There th] in all parts unite in there greater les be or er degrees cial antipathies at the year when all men | of the globe spirit of good propitious can no r s season of should | will. time a is ever a for peace on earth, it is at Christmas time. | If not then, never. But peace or war | America will not forget the oppres In New York last night there was held a mammoth meeting of protest | against the Importation of Belgians into Germany. Prominent men from | all walks of life addressed the gather- ing and spared no words in condem- sed. nation of a policy that is inherently of civilization. there against the laws In this day and that The principlgs of interna- | The dictates do generation is no necessity makes for slavery any form. tional law are against it. the conscience approve of it. So, instead if the people of the States wish to send something worth while to the people of Belglum they secure the release of those men who have been deported from their brok- en homes and made to work in another | | nl human United can land, even against the welfare of their There is no violation of neu- kind. If is own. | there were then neutrality worthy the name. Belgium is in a know and realize that a cessation hostilities will not be as bad for erica as they thought. e firms that de- Iurope and its war for a But they in this country nd upon eat amount of business. the minority. st majority of American concerns put all their eggs in The New Britain e infinitely in ve not sket. rers were foresighted enough for knew that the war-brides, such, could not retain the bloom of uth for ever and a agay. The busi- Ly the concerns in even those that sell rt of theii gdods abroad, is not what strictly ) It one manufac- is; they done this| cinity some known as war business. something far safer. Once emerged from the ne {hvestors siguld now know they. olen upon them after the depression In the future they shadows, an herc the past week 1l not permit themselves to be “vic- that small coterie of op- hand together forcing stock down nized” by ators that for of when club It the an firms listed on the stock ex- ange were not in good condition, if ere was not the face value hrpose me rumor may be used as a er the heads of innocents. Tepre- ted by the greater majority of quo- tions there would be nothing but eckage strewn along the shore this There are | The ! stand. The clear light has | the | ™2 value i thess, m‘ | pitiful condition as it is. No civilized | people can stana idly by and watch | further transgressions against the | natural order. Cardinal Mercier has | painted the picture of Belgium’s woes, and Cardinal Mercier's word is sc- | cepted as the gospel truth. With the | sentiment of the American people i | favor of stringent protests against | this further violation of Belgium’ 1 honor the President and Sec retary of \fldte will act for the \ of a stricken people. n best interests | Through the good United States the offices of government the of has granted safe conduct Tarnow Tarnowskl, the new 1 trian ambassador to this country. to Count | Aus- | would have been much better for all | concerned had England granted this | courtesy at the outset instead of doling out refusals and causing un- necessary delay. There are other mat- ters that England will eventual | tend to in this same round-about methad, unless Lloyd George takes the bit between his teeth and runs away with the old scheme of government, at- In France wine beerharotoo s sidered temperance drinks. They will not fall under the ban proposed by the Prime Minister for the total sup- and not | of money | not | | Great Britatn finally saw the light and | 1t | could never come true. The fight is counted, The speeches no 1o nger through the hall, The boomerang and on the wall, The old campaign poster, bold poster, The confident poster still hangs on the wall. Perchance ‘tis a heroic, Of one who was with might, a stoic And midst volce like a from a steeple His ous call That failed pee-pul, the wall, faced paster, “Vote-for-Me’ hangs on the wal The legend it bears exciting, The portrait The 1t simply sticks inviting— | | all in 'will hang on befare us, Like leaves that, vain. | And | chorus— i to the wall. | The old campaign post { Your Man” poster, | Year in Express y'l‘c‘atment this year at the Adams BExpress ( and receiving Christ and other valuable one year ago? Has the company | rangements for the ! extra help. or additic storaize qui to care for Christmas business, a its appearance? Or conditions prevail, the enorm the handf ago, w was public and clerks a vear tons of matter \ left and exposed tion platform, to dispose of it on in which to store ! The company had a whole year business, that country, and that would be Christmas special reasons would What was the result? it. made phased so dazed and mo‘mmm“w) guns are dismounted— The old campaign poster still hangs the wall, The Peepul's Friend” | hangs on the wall. COMMUNICATED. Attention Called to Congestion (a been of the great was sweeping over the of the great demand bade fame good-bhye of the night. warning b post 15 is er, a Remedy Offered. | To the Editor of The Herald: Are the residents of New | have the same experience the to. in mas matter, mal ous Ireadsy will ul of hen upon not, An all no the poster tons compelled upon the open sta- for lack of either help suitable quarters all over, the ballots are resound the big and picture, enlarged and willing to servesus 15 ‘ But heard the returns with the face of in ell Sent forth an insistant and clamor- to attract to his side the And yet the old poster still hangs on The old campaign poster, the smiling- i er shows wrinkles from wind and from rain, there, no _attention The warning it gave was expressed | a memento though withered, | seem never to fall, ic transit gloria” sing in mute The old campaign poster that clings Service and Britain to and same hands sending packages they had made any employment office and ters that will enable them umount of | making the same hundredfold greater this vear) that confronted the express upon to warned for revival them But they did not, and for | 509 commercial believe it. | spiked the rung still | longer | “I'm that Last ar- | ing burned with scores of people in- side; that any one of a hundred catas- trophies that might as readily occur in New Britain as elsewhere in the country did take place. Then how would New Britain handle the situa- tion with reference to getting the vie- tims to the hospital? The answer is obvious. could not cope with the situation except by commandeering private vehicles and ones would be subject to added in- juries due to the rough passage to the hospital. Tast Saturday's terri- hle accident told more eloquently than by words just how deplorably inade- quate our ambulance service really i This js the age of preparedness. vet this¥clty of over 50,000 is little better prepared to cope with any big emer gency requiring ambulance service than it was ten years ago. It's in- preparedness is appaling, for when an ambulance is needed it i needed quickly and lives may be saved by getting the victims to the hospital in the quickest and most comfortable manner. In the first place the New | Britain General hospital should have a modern motor ambulance, then it would not have to rely almost entirely on the police patrol-ambulance. That vehicle is now greatly overworked. It has to rush to do police duty: it has to rush to accidents; and it has to do duty for private patients who wish to be removed to and from the hospi- tal. As ely as not when it is out on some lengthy private job an emer- zency call may come, the result being that the vietim will suffer from lack of prompt attention. Of course the patrol ambulance should be rctained bhut in addition another ambulanc | should be purchased in place of the auxiliary patrol which, according to the opinion of many prominent citi- zens, is a joke. Tt is used frequently {in place of the patrol in making ar- | rests; it is used to transport patients to various institutions when com- mitted there by the court: and it is used to distribute the red lanterns at the traffic posts each evening. Tt is not needed onc-guarter as much as a new ambulance and.those In charge might do well to consider having it replaced by a motor car that would be a genuine service. Ambulance pre- | paredness is what the city needs. e According to the records in the of- fice of the board of assessors there are now about 1,200 automobiles owned in this city. TFiguring the es- timated population of the city at 000 it would appear that there is one | automobile owned for every 4.333 resi dents. In figures, 1,200 automobiles seem many and to have that num- ber in a parade would he a great many, but when it Is considered that in this city this number averages only one for every 4,000 residents it does not seem quite as large. Tn fact it would appear that New Britain is considerably hehind some of the smal- ler towns in the number of automo- biles per capita There are many towns of 4,000 and less where there are a comparatively larger number of cars owned. However, the records show that the automobile salesman's business in this city is increasing and durine the past year there were 300 machines sold to people who never before owned cars. This, in addition to the large number of car owners who bought new machines. Of the 1,200 0dd cars in the city, about 1,000 ; are pleasure cars and 200 are com- | mercial cars. An analysis of th figures would indicate that New Brit- ain has been enjoving a period of prosperity, elsc 300 motor car en- thusiasts would not have been able | to join the ranks during the year. The car. also an in- vear and plainly of of be of | at | crease over last unprece- , shows that the trend of the times is | dented volume of holiday trade which them, their unprepared, and short-sizhigd ! na=a of the faithful old horse for bus- | ~a~h rather than two for a quarter, |day to remind her of her birthday. that for speed and efficiency in business in | foreshadows the almost certain It dis- If, in this same connection, a law This board is one that is onto its job. then the injured | should be made compelling all ve- | RN hicles usjng the highway at night to | carry lights another great road evil would be overcome. number of smaller grocers about the city are economizing by using plain paper, at seven and one-half cents per pound, only for wrapping up meats. For wrapping up dry groceries they are using old newspapers and this of- flee has had such a demand for old | papers that the supply has been greatly depleated. e P Preparations to handle the great in- flux of Christmas mail at the post office are being made by Postmaster W. 1% Delaney. Last year the post- master hamdled the situation in e cellent style, and with his added ex perience, should be able to do even 7 boteert s Yourt Wit fadea clerksi[mprnarefhasibosniisome foriticlsmifof and equipment there is no doubt but | the chamber of commerce for its s the city will be given the best | Vity in the proposed white way cele- bration. There was an erroneous opin- Sam. But to 2 | ion that the chamber was trying to obtain such it is necessary for the in- | - ot < o : 5 < | take credit for securing the new svs- dividual to co-operate. All bundles Rl e tem. 1ould he wrapped securely and plain- | I adarecsed. TTE is alse well for the | pelieved the opening of the white way post card sender to remember that| Was of sufficlent importance to there is a government restriction for- bidding the sending of tinsel cards in the open mail. t of service from Uncle charge, as well as belleving such PO event should come under the province Almost every day brings complaints about traffic and pedestrians being subject to seemingly unnecessary in- convenlences by being held up at some realroad crossing in the city, and there are more complaints made to authori- tles and lawyers about this matter than the average person would imag- ine. According to legal opinion fl\svrc is wvery little satisfactory legal re. dress at present and unless the law is | ARz changed there will not be. Some | Indications at present years ago there was a statute that | Will surely have a white gave any individual, who was sub- | this year. And Christmas jected to a delay of five minutes or | ®I8ht days away. over at any railroad crossing, the . right to sue the railroad company published in a leading and recover $25 damages. One not- relater homithe) Boston able Instance of where this law was formiaunionsand g brought into force occured when the t American Federat onof lnte Dr. E. P, Swasey brought suit. | Labor.” The Russell Fire club Yolet There were also several other cases, | On this measure, 302 in r"_‘f"_""'_, 5 some in Plainville, In _which the |OPPOsed. “The club also favored abols money awarded by judgment was |ition of the nrm:enl L H(\HTOI’Z")(H“ it turned over to charitable purposes. | Service examination for pr i This law has been changed now, ac- | the article states: = = = cording to one local attorney, so that| Imasine the New Britain fite &0 any disgruntled person has only the ; partment trying to unloniz Py vight to bring criminal action, instead | Members voting against civil "'“l‘k of civil action, This would necessl- | 29 much as somo of them would bice | tate the plaintift bringing the actlon | to. If such action took place Bere = 2 _ | highly probable that in the town where the alleged of fense occured, so it can beg readlly ' ®ood firemen would be looking for a v solation seen to what a sreat inconvenience | 0P A-*‘ “V‘:":‘:_“_‘:’fl“ifin;'(‘)‘l‘\‘w"p:mT this would put the aggrieved person. left for the New Brita et orie As a Tesult the rallroad benefits. Also, | 15 the realization that this Is not fW e B A ATioal [ onia |lonly citiwhiere overyone 1s notin 1oye probably he necessary to bring the ac- | With the civil service. tion against the engineer of the train, 1 of and the plaintiff would have no em-! One winter mornuig a coupic o nity toward him. Were a civil suit | Years ago a little kitten, ..r“: edren still possible the plaintiff would be | its home, was huddled ““]"‘”_“ - enabled to sue in the place of his res- | Mg on Church streef, ol \;;;‘r £ant idence and make the railroad come | ¢0ld and hunger. A IKIndit —CWILE there to defend the suit. Tt has been | haired old lady '"““fr'l' . ":"‘,h‘ e suggested that when the legislature | ten and stopped el e HE convenes an attempt will be made to | She purchased a pint of v/ #nC 'O have the old statute revived as a par- @ lunch room she 1’””'("!;““‘ e tial solution for the grade crossing | Needless to sy "';“ SR i e nuisance. Such a move however, would | benefleiary. I S i e doubtless be strenuously opposed by | Printed a story of this TS €PHEOCE the railroad without mentioning names. The white - i | haired old lady was Mrs. E. Edwin Brown, wife of Rev. Dr. Brown, who died in Independence, Kan., on Wed- As kind and humane as was 2 " | Mrs. Brown to this little kitten, she freezes have occured, we have not yet | : s heard the lce man’s lament that be- | Was even more so to people whom she canse of the open season the “price | Xnew to be in trouble. The kitten was next summer will probably be | but a passing episode in her busy G o ow i | walk of life, yet her lovely character wpade in New | can be judged from the act. She was The Britain” slo- | cavE S thoughtful - s bae losely adhered to | Always generous, kind and ganthagibaenimorefcloselyigdhere and there are many people in New this year than ever before. The mer- : A chants have but little cause for com- | Britain 1“’10 hfi:;«': real occasion to plaint this fall. Likewise, so have the | mourn her passing 58 consumers for never before have the | ] If the municipal ice proposition re- rcha s had such large offerings. P e A sults In keeping the price of ice at The claim of the school teachers | thirty cents per hundred it would that the cost of living.in New Britain | Seem that its original mission has has increased thirtyzthree per cent. i been accomplished. can be readily believed by any who have occasion to buy shoes at $5, $7 and $10 per pair, coal at around $10 | scheme. to take the credit for having the s tem installed. P having fewer calls for help than pre- viously, because of the ability of any desirous person to obtain employ- | ment. oo are that we Christmas is only a An account Boston paper firemen “will iate with the | | I | The ice men seem to be passing up | a bet all around the state. Although | the fall has been mild and no big | nesda: Her Kind, Thoughtful Friends. (Potsdam Herald Recorder.) The West Parishville Birthday club Owing to the high cost of paper a | chamber | war- | rant an observance and realizing that | the city officials were too busy to take an of the business men, it took over the Tt had no intention of trying This year the charity department is with | | nelpless civilian classes. “It was my good fortune to witness the destruction of a ‘Zep’ on the occa- { sion of the first elaborately organized but, as it proved, abortive air-raid on Tondon several months ago. The air- | ship was attacked by an aeroplane, & wasp of the sky which darted past | the cumbersome hulk, and, at the moment when the two were side Iy | side, made a thrust witl deadly sting——an explosive With R | dull. disatnt report the impotent cloud-craft was split asunder with mes and sank rapidly from a height | of several thousand feet, both noses | pointing downward | “Malf of London ! {ops watching this battle | aerial Clyclops and a fiying Llysses the latter a pigmy in size but invinciz ble in skill and cunning. As the greaf ship settled each watcher imagined it had fallen in ‘an alley just a block ) away,’ and forthwith an army of 500.- ‘fllm sightseers set out upon a wild | night chase to inspect the wreckage - | Daybreak found fully 100,000 of thesa I curious ones lost in the bywaxy and | hedges on the outskirts of the city, {and only a small percentage of the number ever reached the wreckags twelve miles distant, in an open field. “Yery exaggerated reports of the | protest against ding the men | ber the Zeppelin's crew a military | burial reached America. 1 believa ! there was a single instance | man, distrait over the I tive. who hurled a stone at the funeral untoward incident Germans were being interred spot where their airship fell bodies were all carried to their by members of the British Royal | ing corps | “To the British subject | most notable achievements war has been the fact that { nobly aided by her colonies, | ceeded during the short | vears in raising ner effe | strength from a pitiful 1 size of the British regular arm | beginning of the struggle in August, |1914) to 4,000,000 men. Earl Kicth- | ener declared at the beinning of hos- | tilities that he could not tell how long | the war would last but that he aid | know England would reach efficicncy |in three years. The war lord's | were anticipated by a full year | July, 1916, we were readr to fight, and actually be to fizht ith our ful developed of national-manhog strength “And not only Great N | trained and fully equipped 4,000,000 men, but she has undertaken the task of supplying all her allies France, with the munitions they so sorely needed at the 1 of the struggle. France her own resources so she is able to handle her munitions | problems unassisted One of t | ereat problems of supplying Russia has been to get the material Czar's men after it is manufactured Much of it. of course, has been sent through Archangel, which is now nected by a double-track railway wit Petrograd. With the advent of ter, and the closing of the Archangel harbor with fce the difficulties are greatly increased. “I have Americans character its missile the roof” between an was on a of a wo- of a or a rela a potat but nc whil cortege, oceurred Fly pace of fighting (tho 1t the tive 0,000 n 1 an army has Brit has mobilize admirably t! ; n been asked frequently for my opinion of of courage displayed by our enemies on the west front. We of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders frequently noted the dogged ency of the Germans as they advanced to the attack, shoulder to shoulder, each sustained by the proximity of his companions to the right and left. But when he is assailed in his own trench we maintain that an entirely different spirit exists. The bayonet poised for the thrust strikes dismay by the persist- | per ton, men’s collars at fifteen cents | #nd ~aps the Teuton’s stamina.”