New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 1

m Are Set— "melr Eggs hicks SIT NEXT 'S CHAIR? mdmuéy of Reprosen- " Broeds Discontent in pnbll«mlsm—arand ¥y Have Old Fashioned tfc. Knock Down and, Dlng it Jamboree on Tts Hands, tsgarm 4o the Herald.)- lnmn. Jan, 1.—Counting ohickens beforgithey are hatched is a Sition to Mann is. likely to Fgsult’ inf yvorite occupation just now among ;}lembem of congress, statesmen and litiolans with connections at the 'mpl(ol The counting is going on with regard to the house of reptesentatives qf the 65th congress among other anmgs THetigh nearly two months since the electlon at which, that ' body was chosen by the geople, it is. still not finitely known' what will hadpen when it is called to order.' ‘As matters 14 i i214 members-elect and ‘the demo- Forats are sure jof 218, while v bers-elect ‘are classed as inde-| ‘pendents, two as progressives, one as rohibitionist and one socialist, {with o digtricts in doubt owing to flnd- Ing contests. } ¥However, the situation doba not pre- nt members on both sides of: the | nfne dividing the two main political | 28 well 'as those in between ) amps, from"planning what y will do and going after what they AR ‘OF- get what they want, on ac- e balnx t.rolled Fito w ch tluy ate hpos sfie-ent thy pbuts preliminary to the | vy yeongreuih the last There are candi- X lttee cheirmanships, dersmp. for omnss to fnew =tand the r.puhllcnnl are sure of | two,, k - grounds. ‘ “The Massachusetts man i a, fighter, nlthn A ha-loses about as often as H& wi ;@me of his win- niigs occured in the fight to unhorse. Speuken Cannon gs a member of the ou committee @& ruls, svhen und group of Dbiican Inmrgems, amY. of whom fre Jhow in congress, \flfied together with' the deihoeratiq minority secured control of the house over the hends of the republl an orgfl\lmtlo an’ majority.. 1f it becomew apparent b next hbus!l [ that lh& )}\m\h- licans a oL it ¢ 2 possibil ‘N a conmromlse cn.nd In the present mixe ever, it seems Impossible for Mann to | be elected even if there 'shauld a small majority of’tepublican "bers when the new 'congresgy .\ ¥f the anti-Mann fellows voto ds they talk the outlook is that Champ Glark; would receive more yotes th ann, ['and“probably enough to elaot‘ hi May Unite to Sare Tllemsq‘w'u With a view to' preventing this re- { sult the argument®is being mnde ton the anti-Mann republicans th&t oppo loss to themselves 'if the' démocrats organize. the next house. Tt 18 point- 9d out in this connection thitLenroot is the runklng republican the publiclands committeend could’ reasonably, expect t6 be itg’'chairman ifl the ,repwdlicans contrel the next ; { house,’ Other ranking republicans of ),llpxed insurgent tendencles stand to! lose other importapt commttee chair- manships if the" democnis organhe the house, as follows: Representative Haugen, Iowa, would lose. the chairmghship the , com- mittae on dgriculture; Rgreaenhtlve Smith of Midgesota, cbmmittes on census . chsirmanship;’\Representative Volistead ‘of Minesota, ‘¢hairmanship of the judiclry comgnittee; Cary of Wisconsin, . District’ Yof Columbia committee “ chairmanship; Cooper of ‘Wisconsin, chairmanship of the foreign affalrs committee; Steenerson ©f Minnesota, post office and post roads committee chairmanship; Each of Wisconsin, interstate jcommerce committee chairmanship; Kennedy jof Iowa, chairmanship of the river ;nd ‘hécbor nmittges and " ‘the he xpoptive: Inbo Hbrary, , coindge W)lh res, mileage, military . aftal nts, railways and onnals,. benking | Vand" currency, reform in.fhe. 133 he bout seven; vearsago and ‘.'Rolocaust §n Oanqla When Auf Is Mot Obtafnable tp Fight Flameg yaxsTER ms mJ OWN LiFE efie th-';, situation, how<|. !~ inand de Hali- b.Asy . Ferdinand de . mnflc nty. when fire ol *the D] mmg 1asf yrday, hlnx in the ot foyty-fiye | far'from other h tions add not‘a single man reachéd the plage until i Women jnmates and one sister: The’ gcld@mfld&ng was' iiff & remote, district Under a fin¥ing of pmh.nble cause, Patrick S: McMahéh, thester nate, owner'of much New Britain real estate and proprietor of“the Hotel Bronson ‘at Main and East Main street, wes héld for the March term ! uperior. court In bonds of $700 by ge James T. Meskill',in - police aourt today for alleged 'failure to | comply with the .statutes coverigg fire %seaped on bulldings used for kel Asflmulequw in Time of hebcésl&.j ber oft kaftor the forty-six woemen had peflthd hotel purposes. By agreement of ' and the sisters had saved the remain- | counsel, the hearing was confined to ing 135 inmates ‘and thirty girls at- | statement of facts and arguments as tending a school camducted in a wihg to the Interpretation of the statutes of the structure. A high wind spréad governing fire escapes. ‘No witnesses the flames quickly. | The sister who were called. In passing on the case, lost her life was trying to save one of ' Judge Maeskill ruled that there is the inmates. | sqmie question of doubt as to whether Advices received‘fiere today indi- ! tliere is a confiict of statutes and he cated the loss would not exceed.desires to have a superior court judge + $100,000. i interprete the present status. | The cause of the fire was not known. | - McMahon was characterized by There was some difficulty in control- Prosecuting: Attorney George W. ling the inmates but finally they and Kiett as one who has been in court the girls were sgheltered by the sisters frequently, has ignored notifications in the haspital bullding a short dis- | from city boards relative to alleged tance away. violations of state statutes or city The building was owned by the|ordinances and appears to care little Quebec branch of Sisters of Charlty. for mere fines. He pleaded to have By arrangement with the government o jail sentence imposed, saying that it ‘was maintained as a government .fines appear to do absolutely no good hospital for the care of insane women. ' anq the only way to make him obey The fire fighting facilities were slight | the law is to send him to jail. “The icrm in Hartford jail. He said that the accused is sufficiently well off financially to be little bothered by But Diplomatic. Circles in Washington ArciR y ¥ | one of the worst fire traps that he has Are Not Profuse jn Thelg:Greetings | oo een, in direct violation of the —Old Bay State Wakes Up. wording and intent of the statutes New i Year's Day in Washington was tected. 'The present fire escapes were | without many of the features which branded as utterly insufficient and he i| Dy qk-d the advent ofithe new, premcg.ed thn.t.uln case of & na‘léy e- ttea when hé offige ‘was ‘Sépretary Lansing did not give the the only exit being Into ntr stoggary élplomv.uc benefit, Secre-‘ with & window' at one termln th e - 3¥Cablegrams trai}'\ o all ‘rulers ‘While conditions were not ! of the World: wishing the president a' with having caused the death o happy new vear, arrived at the White McCarthy in the fire a week and the water pipes were frozen. only way to sce that he obeys the W, A law,” he pleaded ‘““is to give him a ) N ) IT'S NEW YEAR'S having to pay a mere fine. The Hotel Bronson, he argued, and a place where improvements are Wg.hingtnn. Jan. 1,—Celebration of | much needed, if guests are to be pro— Preside Wu-bn Tious, guests ‘he fnp rnt in :sm.«o é: where thes ]?'fi es” Baker and Danlplq, mowaver. a narrow winding stairway t réceptions, cther. ¥ dited John , he expressed wonderment that thé¥e was % l‘ourth of To(;x for Year :l'hirteen ‘White, Mflbunefin_@ & 2 Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 1.—Fi! y- persgons -were lynched in the Unltg States during 1916 according orde of Tuskegee institute herd. public today. « Fifty \vere negro in the récord are three negro twomen. Sixty-seven persons were lynched in 1915, thirteen of whom were white men. y In & statement Robert Moton, pras- iden of the institute msays: ‘“‘Fourteen or more than one fourth of the total lynchings occurred in the state of Georgia. Of those put to death 42, or 77 per cent. of the total were charged with offenses other than assault, The charges for which negroes were puf to death weré: Attempted assault, #ine;. killing officers of. law, ten; murder, seven; hog stealing an assisting ‘another person to esca six; wounding officers of the flaw, four; assault, three; insult, two. ‘For | each of the following offensey ‘one was put to death: Slapping a boy, rob a store, brushing against a girl ‘on street, assisting his son ac- cused of assault to escape entering a house for robbery or some other pur- pose, defending her son, who in de- fense of his mother killed a man; fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarreled; speaking against mob lynchine. Violent Deaths in Connecticut New ,Haven, Jan, 1—Unofficial re- turns of the deathd from violence in Connecticut during Decemher show that no less than twenty-nine per- sons were killed on the railroads and two on trolley lings., Fatalities due to automobiles were less than in the preceding month, fifteen persons at least, having succumbed to their in- puries, the samé number as of per- sonscwho'had been burned with fatal B2 p lax« ko iy four were white persons and ingludetds g ergdn.y rev- !bomxress Sept: 8. with! ne} | Lin- head§ ente, v ot fl.m o with mnmeu or l‘mro gre qnb pay t 2'per cent. in of :fiprcp» rMe Of one per ‘gent, andaddi- tltmll taxes are impoeed “on omes of more than $20,000 by & :rmued scale running from 17fo 13 pn itzem A téx of 2 per cent. is made ' income of “corporations with | vfluaq at $75,000 or more. Te fors meri‘rate wis 1 per.cents A gradu- ated tax of from 1 to 10 per cent. is Jaid on estates of'$50,000 ot morz when fhey are transferred. Munition mlmfl;.cturem are taxed 123 per «cent. '0f their net pro Corpora- tlons are subject to a special excisé tax of 650 cents a year for each §1,000 of fair value of capital stock In ex- cess of $99,000. Among the new annual taxes,on special businesses are these: ' Securi- ties brokers, $30; pawnbrokers, $50; custom house brokers, “$10;. ship brokers, $20; theaters, $25 to.$100, according to seating capacity, with rates one half as great in towns of 5,000 or less; circuses, $100 other public amusement shows, exeepting Chautauquas and education exhibi tions, $10; bowling alleys and Xl liard rooms, $5 for each alley or ta- ble; tobacco manufacturers, sliding scale of rates, determined by sales. ‘Special taxes heretofore collected from commission merch; and <M mercial brokers are :b:l‘}fi: ® Qrmal purchase of land in the asuth on' the ! ., took * cal ‘matrory 34 284,000 ¢ | th lemmhb’!r 5 *ot.the podr quality, gnd | sion of the Atlles’ rep says the Guardien,. ' not a good translaf French. Mored er, inal clearly ‘is v French man, French rendey { inal, passed . cation in Paris andfigl into English in London, “Aslde from.-thege & substance, the reply wa what was éxpected and venture to thimc. ‘nothing ‘W e verbfil ] o The the big Vice, fevision of laws, immigration, | Jiouse. They came from the heads of 26 Y “. Mann | Toads, “territories, and., ways and oau been Fepublikany means. se fluflns the past 'he NmVe lists lnolude nearly all ; hadows ‘other as-] of the,impo! t ‘committees of the d Job. However, he is| house, and nt a few of the & good many“men | chickens that elgg ed to ‘the- next | vance of hatcl , hirgf 'as reas ano Mats sHow: thal 1% dictaforfay’ himy'as u#fileged nroot of Wiscon- bd"as an active candidate at least other men are hi thié exception of which Representative Gillett of Massdchusetts could reasonably ex- pect to be chairman, and the com- mittee on naval affairs, over which Representative Butler aspires to be pg in’ his behalf! Hq chairman, under a republican regime, LaFollettd or’ isndlcn.l ! the eagt would get- “little fn the way § ' gty ‘m;l of ‘house! ch anships and their at- her WAscobin - Hman, < tend?\tfibon lities|: of influencing oper, i &lso talked of for Qeaké and“controlling legisladion.” The ory Tt 1k ssid-that Represgniitive Hamp- Fnighit be, it is Buggéstéd, ‘that the counteddn ad- | entglly: these | thga, gommittee “on ‘appropriations, of . f Pennsylvania aspires to | Representative = A. P, - Massachusetts ghas been "By, friends¥as”a suitable L to 'l‘eaeed Champ, Clark, PyCamp Difided as ©; wen! was controlling thimzd and the e4st was getting littlej Yust gs in this congress it is: chargéfl that the “south is in the saddle” and the north iis geting the little end of the horn. ere is guite as% much afivanep counting on; the other ‘offices: of the Tori monie vears the .rgDPubl g« house yhave oxpemie) mhfi- & S fiw use' as ‘there {s In“connection, with thg speakerdhip and/committee chair- ing together o e 'so-called -~ mo?'raxsme group -ha$ notm&: instances followed the leader- 0f Mr. Mabn, which course is i .‘ ony ‘with thelr opposition to r Canndn in the, days when the licans had ,mnl\‘mty of the guse. Under h circumstances culty might be, expected in getting republicans t0 run the nyxt house even Was an os- < ble republican rity of five or o possibly more and the difficulty 4s’multiplied when'tfie republicans do : even claim the¥fywill hayve a ma- { ty of over o? ro. 2 ¥'Mr. Lenroot i#saying nothing what- R¥ver in regard to” the speakership. \Mr. Gardner does .not admit that he mself ls a candidate; on'the con- tary, he has declared for ‘Lenroot f¢ speaker, en account of Mann's al- gerstood to be op- r. Moore’s friends a Deak- here rship, ylvania ne up he- o roum- lszn" o cafry much nst Mann, A who, 3 Brinan pro- cman thefeslves., Stil d dnar ! serve as a rallying poipt; for the osition f*o Majn based on .various® #not expectod ! pight {n' the f sRipsalso on the theory that the hotlselwill be repibiedn;. Tyler Page, Whd. has Wen speciiii. employe of the | hou‘.e for some years, is rumored to be a’candidate for glark qf hte ho6use, and there are othersi ' Representative Miller of DeMware, who failed of re- electien last month; wants to be ser- geant-at-arms and !is canvassing among his ‘republicafi friends In the house who he expects will gs in the next house. tive McClintick of- lame dugk,” Representa- Idaho, another éare other and also fo ter of the house, 3 Nor is: th@ count T4 of unhatched poultry engnged in mlely on the're- publican side “of the ‘Rouse. Demo- crats are prone to indulge.in it, Bas- ing their caleulations o, the showing which they claim QP party will make with the help affgthe" mxscenan- eous group of members.in the matter of organizing the next house.. To the outsider here the democratic claims 5 particular mattef seem to have a more solid foundatigf¥than those-of , for these offices ber and postmas- gress meets. eaker Clark s even. by re- Bofne’ tho.«prophets east thit the jppud; ganize the Houss. A N nouge. entrolled fwith ,& sheaker of would pe an unHKeard’ if .48 one. of the possibill [‘hflm]\ Olaric’s pors the sether pagsy r thing, bR &? control | also wants to stay. here | as an officer of thé' wouse since he can | not continte a member .of it. There | by on” party’ byl the belligérent and neutral nations of {Europe as from the presidents of g:outh and Ceontral Amergjcan républics. | President Wilson’s formal engage- ment, for the day was a call of cour- tesy by Prince Mahidol, brother of the king of Siam, who was presented: at' the White House by the Siamese minister. S Boston, Jan, 1—New Year's day. was | observed as a legal holiday in Massa- | chusetts fo the first time: today. Busi- | ness wasg generally suspénded. AS yes- terday was Sunday, the celebrailon of New Year's eve in hotels 2nd restanr-, ! ants was postponed until tonight. ANARCHIST PAPER RAIDED. Proseontor Secures Evidence Against Alleged Bomb Thrower. San: Francisco, Jan. 1.—Officlals of the district attorney’'s the' editorial rooms of the Blast, local anarchist organ, and seized the subseription list, let- | ters and paper files, 'munuucrlpts and ! cartooms, itgwas leasned today,, raid ‘was n%ie. it was said, :jg The | the | purpose of procur used in'the trial of, | allgged leader in hag its climax July} bomb: explosion whe ¢ were killed during a m‘epnndb rade. Mooney's .trial’ will ‘Wednesday. District ort sald: ‘‘Blast ha tion. we wanted an omas J. Mooney, nspirary which ‘hegin some inkorma- ¥e got'm. . The bomb plot was hatched in the:Blast | office.” &, R M. 3 l'NAl'Gm“ONS, s Spriygfield and Holyoke Mayors In- ducted Into Office. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 1.—Mayor | Frank E. Stacy who k office today for a seconditerm of inaugural message rgganmended | a eéntinuance of the pay:a@8 you go pol- igy which he helieved 44 respomsible 1gr the good financialyghowing of the clty in recemt years. Holyoke, fan. 1--Mayor JohrnXVhite fe-lntroduced into offfte’ today. in his xmwum address Longmtulu!afi' the v ‘on ending the year with alr bills gmd‘ in the face of a {Bwered g rate d cost of ll\mr"u\ ma- tet wakrned, qmt it | \m ?:ary om\ ¥F v be office raided | & last Saturday | evidenceito be f tto; mwu)?lcfi.w L2 & years, in his | not a greater loss of human life,and expressed the bellef that it was not the eqilpment of the hotel that pre- vented it. No Repairs Made, His plea was that the present stat- _utes were intended 'to cover just such instances as these- and to adequately ‘protect hotel guests from fire. A copy of the letter sent McMahon Jaa. 14, 1916 by Building Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford under registered madl and the receipt for same 'was shown. It { was shown that McMahob, in this not- ification, had been directed to remedy ¢conditions by April 14, within 'three months. Despite frequent inspec- tions by Inspector Rutherford and Fire Chief Robert M. Dame, he ar- gued, nothing has been done. stated that George C. Lvons of New Haven, a salesman for ‘modern fire- | escape -ejuipment had -called on Mc- Mahon several times in June and July but had been put off indefinitely. * Ly- ons had been summoned as a witness. He contended that Section 2880 of the general statutes, providing a-pen- alty of a fine of from $100 to $500, a jail ssntence with a maximum of six month, or both, has not been re- pealed and is still operative in con- nectiow with violation of provisions contairged in Sections 2628 and 2629. i . Attg¥hey Willlam F. Mangani on- tere p vlea of jolle contendere, say- ln‘ at, by agreement of gounsel, the | progeedings. would be confined to jinent of fadt’and argument as to i m!ofl\remtlon of law. He'gpgued that the fire escapes provided bytMcMahon with the statutes no#-int force. at Chapter 239 and 81 of the ‘.A(,ts of 1913, of the Acts of 1911, providing for-a fine of $100 to " $500 without a’ jail sentence, has repealed the section _that ,giwes an alternative | of fail or additigwsl penaity of Jail. He expressed ithe belief clien* intended topeomply wil and o adequately protect | from fire. Thatsghe manner In} which McCafthy met bis death hag nothing to dd with the question as to whether It was jreomp; Also tention. 5 Prosecutor Klétt said that ii*is mot uf the butilding” inspector to speci- fv' as to’What fire escapes shall be galled fjr'she manner of their in- stallation, ‘that the egnipmei must foet wi approval and, ‘m his infon, compliance with the qt atutes’ afning serne. He showed joition “sent nearly a (Fontinued Or Ninth/ Page). or Hiy l'm’l\ and llrinlt) té md LHTNOITOW. ihat his | h' the law guests | the:daw hasy beeh broken was his con- | so«th Uhu!ch Clergyman' In- to Firk ChHurch of Manches- ter, 3‘0. H., and will probably Accept Rev. Herbert A, Jump, formerly of this place, .who Teturned from Cali- forfia fn the spring, has been called toéfi:fi)mmomta of the First Congre- al church of Manchester, N. H. This church is the largest of the Con- gregational denomination in New England north of Boston, and has a membership of ‘more than 800. While he has not yet defin- itely accepted the-‘call, it is under- stood’that will do so in the near fu- ture ang begin his work on his new parish early in January. Manchester is a city of 85.000 pop- ulatien; and contains large cotton mills and one of largest shoe factorics in the world. The First church is the leading protestant church in the community. Mr. :Jump spént thel enrly‘psrt of Degentber in a hurried retugf trip to California whither he was sammoned by the serious illness of his mother, \l’m,@:mthna Atchinson Jump, now imiprdyed and hopes to $in her son in t east before mru‘y monthfl r'é!.'l"lT‘R.\(‘IS'I‘ GR!'ETI\QS New Y(-flrs Cards. With Vs to Cong-re\snnm hington, Jqp X—In st h represeyitative, sflfl 5 ma dy ‘was as <gost card, e i Ymms zreeun(,»(rom erican Wo! nd “verse co <A@ which | As freedom | 'Sent i)l secigtion today: ?,me‘. HOWISON DEAD, T erkeley, Calf., Jan, . 1.—George Holmes Howison, professor of pHil- 680phy emeritns“at the university of Galifornia, died at his home here last ‘night, aged 82.° Recently he and his ‘wife gave $70,000 to tHd university ’Fuundn.tlon bymeans of which Laged xhlloso;{fi:a— hoped to perpetuate his Werk of dijeovering and training new flosophers. TINCOMES PRIVATE AT 45, Pernign 'n, France, Jan, 1, 4136 a. m. ~=3diiera .iendrd Amanrich, maivder ¢ the leyian 6 honk had retive.d from he service oinedj the¢ army piivate * aas. re- ‘v an (\r- ‘thk city for public park: Prirpi 8 made possthle by the ' chvic: prifes President Charles K. Smith Landers, Frary, & Clark Manuj t? ing Co. A few monthamago Mr. By was offered the Towers and stltt properties, included ‘sn the proposed park land, for privatg Investment, He dgcided to buy the lafa bug-only on aondition that® he cou re-sell it to. the city at the same price. He then téok up with T. W, O'Connor the purk chase of other properties desjred fon park purposes and Mr, O'Connor suc- ceeded in securing the remainder of* the land, including the Jndge Willard A Alling and the Isaac Alllng prop- erties. Tt was through the initiative of Mr. Smith that the deplifor - the \ ral ow p 3 ok e \ shonld be. ’drmed in ms collnh'y u as ‘wq alone know how 1 andgheart of the. peo, e 0 Stad If it is t ing “American op I | lpru \ing i Balfeiin than causei 4\11': < L\mdcé Gazolty purchase of all"these properties ‘was consummated, The Landers;{¥rary & Glark gom:- pany has purchased for'its owy use ! a large tract of land owned the | John Hanna cstate on South n street. The land will be filled in" by of CaBfornia tq' fikance the Howison | the the curporsu.ion SIX BROTHERS KILIH’ of Thl.; City Has pm y & | Inmfly Through Aragedy pf% said about war can be readily clated by’ Max Spiller of Pleasant street, agzmember of Companyl, First Connecgdcut Infantry. Through the tragedy’of war Private Spiller has lost his entire family and he himself has been maimed for. HNfo, Private Spiller is a presént em- ployed in Norfolk and on Christmas day: learned that two of his brothers had been kiiled in battle on the west- ern front of the Europeaniwar. That was two ‘months ago and the Jetter further informed the New. Britain man that the news of the fate of his two sons caused the death of his aged father in Bresiau, Germany. Six of Private Spliller's brothers have met their deaths on the bawle- field, fighting for their own or t adopted country. Two of his brothers were with tne Allied forces at the Boxer uprising in China about eighteen’ years ago and were Killed there. Another enlisted in the United’ States army at the outbreak of “the Spanish-American war and was, Killed at the battls of San Juan hill in Cuba, $till another brothér fought in the Boer war {n’South Africa and was kflled ‘The twe recently kllled in Jurope brifg the tofal u & Whiie séfting with, the New Ilrl(» afn ~“mpauy at the A kigan 'burdey last “ummihaPrivate (* #IET lost thu b’ ofi hi i was o oidas i Max Spiller, Momber nr ()"p‘nr l What #he famous Genoytf Shq,m- - a) heir | [/more after which, ths G# the | " oL ; Wi geh\'cen b!;u pies are’ still At grigh sure it is going to m portant and possible 1 Iast stage pf this war, GERMAN PRESS Newspiperssgn Allics’ Galn fn Som éWspapers vrlnl ¥ he mill c pitched in napers Andad the gains in Rumania on'the Somme and R A comparative military fronts at present af were a year ago is prln torial expianation thaty thegSomme is so dithile be shown. Speol r expressed over the the British and French Gx claiin, had Jong <‘bhesfi “their allled conten tair .to. bring t' e entente. rman, success in Y ava ‘ i otiakks w