New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 6

s excepted) at 4:15 p. m., {Heral ding, 67 Church St {1 at the Post Office at New Britain | Second Class Mail Matter. fred by carrier to part of the city 15 cents a week, 65¢ a month. friptions tor naper to be sent by mail, yable in advance. 60 cents a montk, A a yea.. only profitable advertistng medium :n the city Circulation books and rress Foom alwaye open to advertisers. 1 on sale at Hota- 42nd St. and Broad- : Board Walk, Ate lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Biness Office T : itorial Rooms .. IN A BLIND ALLE ‘here has always been a possibility | the United States being forced into There will be that possibility | long as the war lasts. Secretary | msing admits it tods le nation surmised it some time ago. | b seeking.knowledge as to the terms | on which the belligerents will con- her peace the (“resident of the United | btes wishes o safeguard the future | this na n If the belligerents of hrope arc to fight on until one side | the other capitulates on the field | battle and. not’ in. the realm of | blomacy then the United States/ st have it understood that its own | hts are to be protected. President json by emphatically stating that sot proposing peace’ or “even mediation” but merely asking varring nations to define “‘the pre- | jects which would, if attained, them and their people that the | been fought out,” shows him- ! f from any meddling. As the | itive of the greatest neutral | on the earth the President | ; to Fnow what the entire world | been enxious to find out for the | t two 1rs, “What are they fight- for?”’ That question has never n answered. Chancellor von Beth- | Inn-Hollweg in advancing the peace | posals made no mention of Ger- | real objéct in conducting the . Liloyd George was just as vague | 1is answering speech before the | se of Commons. When the real sons are made known the entire | 1d will be in a better position to | krmine its future conduct. At pres- | the neutral nations of the earth in a blind alley. They will remain e until the nations at war make | wn the exact terms upon which e can be secured. TIME FOR ACTION. ake street, between Washington | ¥ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1916 employes of this firm use the afore- | | Seationest oremnn of iR Ci; | : | every day in the year. In fact, years ago when one member of the firm, | Otto Burckhardt, was in the Cominon | Council he pointed out the wisdom of { purchasing the property for the city | at that time. Probably because he }\vas a member of the concern that | held the property his advice was never { taken. Retrospection reveals the remedy then offered as a worthy one. Now that the Common Council has paved the way for a betterment of conditions at one of the worst grade crossings in seven states, let not dil- atory methods obstruct progres This property at the corner of Lake and Washington streets must be purchased {if it can be secured at a reasonable price,—and there are no present indi- cations of a holdup. There will be | none so long as the city negotiates with men of the caliber of those who hold the land in question. This be- . the people of | ing the case, then, let the wishes of | the people be fulfilled. They bhave had enough of the dange attendent i upon the Lake street crossing and others almost as bad. Tn this case the city is responsible for the necessary improvements, and the railroad can be held to blame only in the case of negligence on the part of its employes. Gates left up when trains are passing might happen at any time a gate tender fails in his duty. In this in- stance a street which has no business to project itself into the center of a railroad crossing can be placed where | it belongs by the purchase of a small frontage of land on Lake and Wash- ington streets. The way is clear. Now | for the improvement. ANOTHER NEW PARK, Following the acquisition and occu- pation by the city of the Kilbourne land now known as Stanley Quarter Park, comes the welcome news through Mr. Brooks’ well prepared report to the Council last night that | the Special Committee on Parks has secured a large tract of land in the southern part of the city for park purposes which may for the present ‘be as favorably designated as the South End Park. The committee has done its work well and the council showed its ap- { preciation of it by a unanimous vote authorizing the committee to exercise the options on the various pieces of property which go to make up the new park area, at the same time em- powering the mayor to accept the deeds. Thus will the city have another playground and recreation place for { voung and old, one in which the nat- High, would probably remain | pver the Lake strest of today but the terrible accident which oc- ed there two weeks ago. Lake et where it intersects with Wash- on street, in the very center of a lv railroad crossing, was and is a ake of the first order. It might inue in its pristine state of dan- | from now until doomsday, it ht ever be a source of narrow es- les for lives and limbs, for man beast, had it not been for the o awakening. Now that the city been shocked out of its lethargy, | e street will not be allowed to lie snare for pedestrians and traffic ined to travel through its gate- J off Washington street. The Com- Council, spurred on by the spe- message of the Mayor, last night nded to Lake street. If the pro- is carried out, and there is no son under high heaven why there 4 bé more dilly-dallying, the [perty on the corner of Lake and shington streets will be purchased the city, a safe passageway will cut through, and the danger will \ have been eliminated. It is all simple,—so easy, in fact, the der is the plan was not formulated carried out when the New Haven | first laid its tracks across that h-dealing crossing. fv the action of the Common Coun- st night the Mayor, in the name fhe city, is authorized to take an jon on that parcel of land which ts on the corner of Lake and hington streets and through which eway must be cut to prevent from traversing a raflroad k in order to get into Lake street ber. Two years ago this same of land was considered worth 00 by the Board of Compensation. believed the same sum will secure land at the present time. If it l be bought in the neighborhood is price it should be added to the erty owned by New Britain. At er date there is no doubt its pur- e price will be extrinsically and nsically more. The manufactur- concern that now holds the deed fhis property has at its head men e highest integrity, men who have interest of the city at heart, and ural beauties have great possibilities of development. A plot of land where our people may spend many a happy hour wandering along the banks of Willow Brook or among the wooded hills. Step by step the territory within the city’s boundaries is being appro- priately laid out for various purposes, a distinetly forward-looking - policy when we consider that New Britain hag the smallest land area of any oity in the state and besides a very rapidly increasing population. The special committee deserves and will have the thanks of the entire community for its patient and thor- ough work in making this new nat- ural park available for the use of al] our citizens. For eight years or more members of the Sunshine Soclety have made a practice of visiting the inmates of the Town Farm at this season of the year and taking with them gifts to cheer the hearts of the-less fortunate. Yes- terday afternoon those interested in this work gathered in the reception hall of the main building and enter- tained the folk who lived there with a real old fashion Christmas party. There was a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, and a Santa Claus, and numerous parcels and packages for the old and the young, the men and the women. Last Sunday the members of St. Mary’s Church visited the farm and distributed various Christmas remembrances. So long as these things continue, so long as the people of New Britain, through their various social organizations, maintain an active interest in work of this kind, over and above the duty evinced as tax-payers, so long will New Britain have a right to feel proud of itself. There is no better charity than that which exerts itself in the interest of those who are unable to help them- selves. We need a big modern hotel. Look at Waterbury with its famous Elton. Look at New Haven with its Taft. Look at Springfleld with its Kimball. Look at Bridgeport with its Stratfleld, and then look at Hartford with no hotel that compares with any one of e men are willing and ready to with their holdings at a fair and rate of compensation. They are speculntors. They intend to re- \ in New Britain for some time to a their interest goes so far ze they themselves will the temoval of a menace to Tho auto trucks and these.—The Hartford Courant, Why overloak New Britaln with its Beloin, and its Regal, and its Washing- ton, and its Nelson, and its Bronson, and its York, and its Park, and its Lenox, and its Bassett, and its Orien- tal? And last, but not least, the Hotel de Ville! only three days before Christmas. THE HANG Jack Ketch, Esquire. (By James Shepard.) Old London is an English town Where Jack Ketch lived and died | Where others might have longer | lived | But for the rope he tied. i | The cruel work of wicked Kings The hangmen did perform, And more than one notorious wretch ! That office did adorn. i ! Hyde Park is now where once there stood | _The famous Tyburn tree, | Which was the public gallows there, . Till seventeen seventy-three. | i One Richard Brandon was, I've read, | In days of King Charles One, | The Public Executioner; And next came Iidward Dun. | Now Brandon was of noble mien | Since arms were granted him, | And thus the title of Esquire For hangmen did begin. Squire Dun, in sixteen sixty-two last in public view, “Tyburn Cheated,”” published then | Had much with Dun to do. Next vear, as many people think, John Ketch succeeded Dun And earned the most ignoble fame A hangman ever won. In time, a quaint broadside ap- peared With wood cut at the top; Jack’s incomparable receipt Recusancy to stop. Tt showed one Coleman on the way To service at the Tyburn tree Saying “I am sick with a disease Of Traytorous degree.” Jack Ketch was shown with hang- men’s rope, And with an axe in hand, Saying, ‘“Here’s what will cure, You, and your traitor band.” The “Man of Destiny’s Hard lot* Appeared in seventy-nine; In it we read that Jack had been In prison for a time. Jack’s shocking work with one “a Wood,” And many other men; His blunders when Lord Russell died, The public did condemn. Jack. Ketch Hsquire did publish then His own “Apoligie,” And claimed, his pris'ner’s conduct was Much more to blame than he. Now Jack himself did not respect The sheriff as he ought; In Bridewell prison he was cast, His office came to naught. One Pascha Rose was next the man That office to attain; But Rose was soon at Tyburn hanged And Jack resumed again The butchering of many brave And noble men as well; The many years which Jack had served At last began to tell. Then Punchinello did appear In London every day, A gruff old executioner Did figure in that play. Quite natural, that character Jack Ketch’'s name did bare, Which from that time, was se ap- plied To hangmen other where. Near last of sixteen eighty-six Jack Ketch in office died, In many books of later date His fame has been described. Tom Brown brought Jack again to view In “Letters from the Dead,” And styled him “Most Illustrious Jack,” “High Born” and highly bred. Departing Jack did leave behind The vale of Tyburn’s tears,’ And hangmen since have borne his name For full two hundred years. That name, with all its English style, Spread from Old Britain’s shore, And landed in America, Hard by New Britain’s door. At sheriff’'s word, a man was hanged On Hartford’s “Gallows HIll,” And now the words “cash paid Jack Ketch,” Adorn that sheriff’'s bill. FACTS AND FANCIES. An exchange asks: “Can an actress make a good wife?” If she’s a good actress she probably can.—Life. A Dbill has been presented to pro- vide seats in congress for ex-presi- dents with salaries of $25,000 yearly but no vote. If that passes there will then be a chance to do something for “the ex-vice presidents—Norwich Bul- letin. How the federal farm loan system is going to work out will be better known when it actually begins to work. Already applications for loans regating $150,000,000 have been Iang.fde,gbutgthere will be only $9,000,- 000 to lend. Unless different ar- rangements are made there will be many thousands of disappointed farmers.—Springfield Union. Towa has cause to rejoice that it is to be a part in a great undertaking, the building of an 800 miles pipeline for oil. It will extend from Cushing, Okla., to Chicago, and will c.ost $10,- 000,000. At Fort Madison will be lo- cated one of the three refineries along the pipeline. Chicago will have one and Kansas City the other.—Des Moines Capital. Patrons of international spy liter- ature, of which Dr. K_arl Armgaard Graves is the dean, will deplore the circumstance ‘which genius. Dr. Graves has had no rival in his field, unless it be E. Phillips | Oppenheim, and Mr. Oppenheim real- |1y not in the same class, heing | practically disqualified by his weak admission that his trade is that of fictionist.—Kansa ity Times. Today’s Pencil Mark. (Boston Herald.) Away back in old Anglo-Saxon times the people chose their chief in folk-moot assembled. They came fully armed and registered their de- cision by clashing their swords against their shields. In those days election- eering was mixed up with militarism; fighting went with voting; the very ballots were of metal that could be used for war. Suggestions of pow- er abounded in that early application of the franchise, and they are by no means all gone from our own ex- pressions of the popular will. You &et them In the tense face and vig- orous gestures of the speaker at a political campaign rally and more ob- viously in the aspect which an audi- ence presents when it rises to cheer. They create a sense of almost irre- sistible might when long lines of marching men, animated by a single idea, dominated by a common pur- pose, stream through our thorqugh- fares like an army, But what overt manifestation of force is there when Americans rise as one man to choose a new presi- dent? Outwardly it ig nothing more than the making of millions of cross- es on as many million printed slip All told, the energies spent in that operation are insignificant. ‘What would all the intersected lines weigh if they could be lifted from the slips and deposited in a scale? Not much more probably than the common- place bunch of “leads” than can be seen in any stationer's window. But what potency of struggle, what clash- es of opinion and of will there are in those penciled marks! And what fateful issues, national and interna- tional, are not bound up in the battle of the crosses! As a mere putting forth of matter it is nothing; as an assertion of heart and of mind it is destined to shake the country and shape its future as nothing else can. By the polling booths the nation once more chooses its leader and makes him The pillar of a people’s hope, The center of a world's desire. The New American Doll. (World’s Work). man doll has gone, probably forever. She was always an unnatural, arti- ficial product, with her porcelain face, painted like a chorus girl, her popping blue eyes, her mass of unvarying golden hair, her highly colored “ruby’ lips. No single thing in the nursery was the canse of so many domestic tragedies. Drop her on the floor, and the head woud usually go flying into a dozen parts, and legs and arms constantly bled sawdust so profusely as to suggest the carnage of a Furo- pean battlefield. Little girls who could easily manufacture a haby out of the family raghag had no difficulty in mothering one of these queer prod- ucts of the Germanic genius, and so milllons of Americans have been brought up on them. But their day, we are told, is over. The European War, which had end- ed most kinds of immigration, has shut out these little wanderers. American genius, which is now being called upon to manufacture coal-tar dyes, hexamythyline, and manicure scissors, is also turning its attention to dolls. Our success has been 8o great we are told, that not only shall we not import any more dolls from the Fatherland. but that we shall prob- ably sell them in Nuremberg itself! For our doll makers have turned real- ized like a real bab No more un- glazed” porcelain faces; these Amer- ican dolls are really flesh color and their heads have the additional value of durability. These little creatures are already so popular that our toy factories are running day and night to supply the demand. It is one of the pleasanter aspects of the war. The Recklcss Bobsled. (New York Tribune.) Thig is the season of the year when elderly gentlemen in limousines shake tendencies of the youth of our land, the risk of life and limb and the seri- ous inconvenience of passing motor- ists. Why cannot boys and girls be sensible, conservative human beings, such as every elderly gentleman of a sensible, conservative type feels cer- tain he was in the now distant days of his youth? This mental overturn takes place in occasionally with a remnant of sa ing humor. But it takes place, and the fond aged parent of thirty has the gravest difficulty in not worry- ing himself sick over the chances that his daredevil child of six seems dis- posd to take with his limbs, neck and fate. The chances must be taken and the fond parents must learn to set their teeth and hope. Certainly there is no possibility of legislating so filne an Instrument of pure joy as the bobsled out of existence just to calm the fears of mere grown-ups, Yet the grown-ups can do some- thing to eliminate unnecessary risks, if they will and that without spoil- ing sport. The accidents which hap- pen with distressing certainty with every snowfall could be all but elim- inated if our ocitles and suburbs de- voted a little of their police energy to proper ordinances and proper traf- fic regulation. Comissioner Ward has set the example. Recognize the sled as a conveyance worth preserving; stop coasting on inherently danger- ous streets; allot certain good spots to the coasters and protect them from vehicles. So much done might slightly annoy an occasional limou- sine. It would save a considerable number of lives and limbs annually and keep the bobsled where it bhe- longs, every schoolboy’s hest weapon against winter dullness nd despair, threaten to interrupt the play of his | The day of the old-fashioned Ger- . ists. Their produc are individual- | their heads and lament the daredevil | Who will coast down hilly streets, to | most of us, with varying violence and | * ;\\ THE 7a:13113 ’ BESSE-LELAND’S THE LIVE STORE The only store in New Britain giving the same quality silk in 50c Neckwear as last year. 50c Neckwear " Others $1.00 and $1.50 up. One whole booth of Neckwear . 25¢ ea. Heavy rich silks, large full shaped, hand tailored and every tie boxed. We have had our attention called to the above constantly and our customers have remarked that Besse-Leland’s is the only store carrying good 50c Neckwear. BESSE-] ELAND OMPANY 38 STORES. 38 CITIES