New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1917, Page 10

IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO FIND A BARGAIN AT OUR ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE BOOTH'S BLOCK NEW BRITAL. | fiFRlDAYand SATURDAY Continuous Show Both Days The Sensational Cinema Spectacle RAMONA From the California Romance By Helen Hunt Jackson In 12 Reels Greatest Western Picture Ever Filmed Prices 15¢-25¢ All Performances Except Friday Matinee 15c¢ All Seats | 5 CHILDREN’S 5 JC RAMONA MATINEE 9C AT 12:30 SATURDAY SUN,, MON. AND TUES. “CIVILIZATION” Show Continuous Each Day Sunday Night Shows at 5-7- g Furniture jor Every Room at Great Savings This Month Our February Mark-Down Sale provided the thrifty and those who want good furnishings in their home with an unusual opportunity to secure needed articles at great savings. If you have any needs, present or near future, in the line of homefurnishings, don't fail to take advan- tage of this big value giving sale. Hundreds of Beautiful Pieces of Good Furniture for Living- Rooms, Bedrooms, Dining Rooms, Par- lors, Halls, etc. All at reduced prices. Our entire stock of Rugs—W iltons, Body Brus- sels, Axminsters, Velvets and Tapestries in beautiful patterns and colorings—all at reduced prices. COMPLETE HomE FURNISHERS #0-88 Fonp prassT HanTroro A®ENTS FoR GLENWOOD RANGES OVERLOOKING CAPITOL GROUNDe BERLIN CHILDREN T0 GO TO COUNTRY Food Problem May Be Solved for Boys and Girls Amsterdam, Via London, Feb, 21.— The Berlin Vorwaerts says that a mass deportation of Berlin children to the country Is planned. It is intended td give ailing children of the three upper classes of the public schools several months in the country. It is believed that this step will re- leve the food difficulty In the city and enable the children to be better fed. It is hoped that agriculture will also be helped as the children can do ligh tasks on farms and other towns are invited to imitate Berlin's example. French Urge Grain Planting. Paris, Feb. 21.—An appeal to French peasants of both sexes for help in solving the food problem has been issued by the ministry of agriculture and will be placarded in every country district. The appeals call on the coun- try peaple to sow as much grain as they can wherever they can so that “the sowings of the spring of 1917 may prepare the harvest of victory. The document concludes: “To work, then with all your ener- gies. You are working for French victory and French peace. The coun- try counts on you.” London, Feb. 21, 7 a, m.—Further vigorous measures for dealing with the food situation in Germany have been outlined in a statement to the Berlin press by Dr. George Michaelis, the new prussian food commissioner, accord- ing to an Amsterdam despatch to the Exchange Telegraph company, Dr. Michaelis said that he had come to an agreement with Adotph von Batocki, president of the food regula- tion board, and General Groener, head of the army feeding department, that food questions must be dealt with in the speediest possible way and that all red tape restrictions = should be ignored. 'The Prussian minister has been empowered to act apart from the Prussian cabinet and has been given considerable authority to penalize re- calcitrants. Among other things he has been authorized to close mills and bakeries which disobey orders, A Few Remarks from Visitors at VIETS' GREENHOUSES “Oh! Just sec those Violets. Isn't that a sight?” “Look down through this beats Florida.” “Just wait until the Carnation ‘wonderful 2 “Oh, say just look at this Carnation, it is as big as your hat. I would like to live in here forever.” “See how those Sweet grow up around the posts.” “Well, which are you going to get, Carnations, Violets, Sweet Peas or Daffodils?” “on, I don’t know, like them all.” If 1t is not convenient for yon to visit our greenhouses, just Telephone 1978 and we will de- Uver some of those beautiful .flowers to any part of the city. there, you house. go in Ism't it Peas I would DIREGTORS TELL HOW DEBTS WILL BE MET “New Haven” Condition Said to Be Most Satisiactory New York, Feb. 21.- cognizance yesterda of disquieting rumors set in motion bp the recent | successive, declines in the price of the company’s shares, the directors of the | New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad issued a statement outlining the road's financial situation. The management stated that it had every reason to belicve that the $25,000,000 direct obligations and $18,000,000 New England Navigation company notes would be paid or refunded when due on May 1. > “The refunding of these for a fur- | ther period,” said the board, “as a preliminary step in connection with the permanent financihg of the short- term debt, and taken in conjunction with the company's expectation of sell- | ing further securities which it owns | with a view to reducing its short-| term/debt and increasing its railroad | facilities, leads the board to feel that the present position of the Now Haven, from a standpoint of holders of fits short-term indebtedness, is the most | satisfactory existing at any time since this indebtedness was created.” Net earnings for the six months ended December 31 last were $4,546,- 000 ‘or at the rate of approximately 6 per cent. on the stock. This compares with .earnings for the full year ended June 30, 1916, of $4,315,000; for the year 1915 of $2,307,000, and for the vear 1914 of $268,000. The present| position of the company was described | as follows: “The financial position has been steadily improving since June 30, 1914 and is stronger today than at any time since that date. Since that date it has re- duced its floating debt and that of the New England Navigation Co. in the hands of the pub- lic .$10,520,000 Tt has paid in cash for new ! equipment . 4,187,000 It has paid in cash fér ad- | ditions to its yards. tracks, terminals, and other facilities, inchid- ing its leased properties. Taking official 5,850,000 | Total “The above has been paid off as fol- lows: Out \of earnings and cur- rent cash A Sale of investments real estate $13,257,000 7,300,000 | —_— Total cieesen.-$20,557.000 “During the last year a careful study has heen made of what the com- | pany should expend to produce the | most cfficient and economical opera- | tion ,and an expenditure of about | $15,700,000 during the next eighteen | months has been authorized as fol- lows: For additional ment For additional yards For additional tracks, turn- tables, signals, interlock- ing plants, renewal and strengthening of bridges. and for numerous cther improvements, the exact details of which cannot be put down at this HMe casciiavites N equip- { $ 1,025,000 5,600,000 9,175,000 Total $15,700,000 With these expenditures made, the | company estimates that it can save annually about $5,000,000 in opera- tion ,of which $1,600,000 would be obtained through the use of more powerful locomotives, $1,200,000 from operation of new frcight terminals, $1,200,000 through reduction in car hire, $700,000 from superheating, and $300,000 in various other items. As for dividend possibilities, the man- agement reports: “A careful estimate of the prob- able results from operation for the six months ending June 30, 1917, always the lighter half of the year, leads the directors to hope for a final result of the year's operation of well over 6 per cent. upon the capital stock, including the undistributed surplus of companies which the New Haven controls, This represents what the capital stock is earning and what the directors ,in ordinary circum- stances, wou'd use as n basis for divi- dends, but it is clear to the board that, various questions which have arisen as a result of the decree re- quiring the company to dispose of part of its assets, all the net earn- ings should he devoted to provide the additional facilities which the above figures indicate will amply repay the expenditure. “The company and the New Eng- land Naviga‘ion company together own securities the sale of which is required by court decree having an aggregate par value of nearly $125,- 000,000 and 2 present value of at least $75,000,000. The sale of some of the securities, if made within the next two years, will undoubtedly represent a substantial book loss to the com- is the intention of the direc- tors to sell such of these securities as the court decree requires to be sold and apply the proceeds to pay- ing off the indebtedness and to in- creasing the company s facilities, with the expectation of offsetting by the in- creased value of the company’s rail- road facilities any losses which may result from such sales. The present floating debt in the hands of the publie, including the mnotes of the ew England Navigation company, is about $43,000,000. At one time with- in the last three years it was a little over $56,000,000. The company has on hand a cash working balance of about $5,000,000, and is carrying fuel and materials of a yalue of more than $3,000,000 greater than that on June 30, 1914, all of these materials and fuel being paid for.” | cemetery City Items Miss Nana Engdahl has returned to her home at 36 Howard street after undergoing treatment at the Nagle sanitarium. Hats for spring are ready. Leland’s—Advt. The police are continuing their search for Mrs. Katie Natyaka of 315 Park street and her four months old child. Her husband alleges thas her disappearance is due to infatuation for a boarder named Tony, who is also re- ported as missing. Real barsains, John A. Andrews & Co.s water damage sale.—advt. Decked out in full uniform, a large delegation of the Veteran Firemen's association will go to Hartford tonight to attend the annual ball of the Hart- ford asociation. The delegation has planned to leave New Britain at 7:20. Investigation of the visit to the Tast street school house by burglars Monday night indicates that only a small sum of money was taken from the desks of teachers. Threc rooms were visfted. Chief of Police William J. Rawlings is In Hartford today to attend the hearing before the committee on Hu- mane institutions of the bill authoriz- ' ing the institution of a state reforma- | tory for delinquent women. Chair- | man Edward G. Babcock of the safe- | ty board also expects to attend the hearing. Judge James T. Meskill planned to attend but was prevented because of a city court session. He ex- presses himself as being strongly in favor of the bill. | Word was received by relatives last,: night that Abraham Berger of this city, who died in Denver,”Col.,, of tu- berculosis, was buried in the Jewish in that city Monday after- Arrangements had been made Besse- noon. | fo have the body brought to this city for burial. : Word was received at police head- quarters this morning from Secretary of State Frederick L. Perry that the automobile operator’s license of Jacob Goldberg of 614 Main street has been suspended pending inquiry into two recent convictions in police court. i There was a large attendance last | night at the annual masquerade ball of the New Britain Quartette club on Church street. A large delegation at- tended from the Concordia Singing so- ciety of Waterbury. Men’s and young men’y suits for spring are ready. Besse-Leland Co.— Advt. The new and attractive gowns at the Kavanaugh shop, 40 Pratt street, | Hartford, show all the newest in col- orings and exquisjte materials. Light colors prevailing, such as pearl-gray, white, flesh, bisque, etc.—advt. Belted backs, plain backs, soft blues, greys and browns were $20, now $11.85 at Wilson’s.—advt. Store oper this evening, closed all day tomorrow, John A. Andrews & Co.—advt. Orlando Sheldon 1s ill at his home on High street. Councilman Louis J. Arata is home from New York. SUES SON FOR $800. Seeking to recover on/a note, George C. Schenk has brought suit against his son, Charles G. Schenk, for $800. Pa- pers are returnable in the common pleas court the first Tuesday in March. Constable Fred Winkle served the pa- pers yesterday, an attachment for $1,000 being placed on property owned by the defendant on Wooster street. TOO MUCH FOR NEUTRALITY. Stockholm, Via London, Feb. 21.— The Dagens Nyheter says that the budget committee of the Ricksdag has rejected the government's proposal for a loan of 30,000,000 kroner for main- taining a neutrality guard. The ma- jority of the committee contended that | cation problems. SAYS HE IS GLAD TO INDORSE IT TO ANYONE AS IT HAS THE MERIT TO ACCOMPLISH RESULTS Mr. James Conlan of 27 Myrtle St., This City Well Known Here Does Not Hesitate to Come Out Strong for Herbal Lax-a-Tone. Lax-a-Tone is doing a great deal of good in New Britain said Mr. Martin at the Economy New England Drug Co. I am daily receiving reports of a wonderful nature regarding its qual- ities and from people of standing that know what they are talking about. So many people have stomach trouble nowadays they feel tired out, run down, catch cold easily and just drag themselves around, they have torpid liver, yellow skins, furred ton- gues and terrible headaches, or else a dull headache that lasts for days, belch up. gas, have a sour acid stom- ach, bloat up and are extremely ner- vous. If these people would take the trouble to go at the root of this trouble they would in all probability find that indigestion was the key- note, Lax-a-Tone will positively give results in the above troubles and anyone trying it will not regret it if they do. Mr Conlan say: “I have suffered badly with indiges- tion and constipation, felt tired out and run down, could not get anything at all to relp me until T used this remedy and since using it I feel like a different man. I am glad and more than pleased to recommend it to all, The Lax-a-Tone Man is at The Economy New England Drug Co., 365§ Main street, where he is demonstrat- ing this remedy to the New Britain public. RENIER, PICKHARDT & DUNN 127 MAIN STREET. OPPOSITE ARCH. TELEPHONE 317-2 THINK NOW Before you buy any pretty Spring Frocks, remember its a new Corset they must be fitted over. We are now spring known makes: cester, C, B, La showing the new the following well R. & G,, Royal Wor- Resista, American models in Lady, Warner's, La Grecque, Gossard, Front Lace, Thompson Glove-fitting, Nemo, Regal, La Reine, H. & W. and Ferris Walists. CONTINUED SALE Discontinued Models of Waists, at 59c, $1.50, $1.98 and $3.98. NEW DRESSES | | NEW VOILE WAISTS NOVELTIES 10,000,000 kroner was sufficient. Ac- cording to the paper the premier may resign if the riksdag supports the {action of the committee, OLD GRADS REVISIT | SGENES OF YOUTH { Will Return to New Haven to See Yale at Work New Haven, Feb. 21.—Yale gradu- ates in larger numbers than before will return to New Haven tomorrow for the fourth annual alumni day, the occasion when the university is seen at work and not at play. In this re- spect alumni day in the winter is far different than that held in June. The old grads attend recitations and listen to discussion of the university's edu- This year special emphasis will be laid on work of the professional schools and Yale's con- tribution to the question of national preparedness, through the batteries of fleld artillery and the reserve officers training corps. The aftérnoon meet- ing in battle chapel will be in mem-' | ory of former President Dwight. The opening meeting will be in the Lyceum with an introduction by President Hadley oun the ‘‘Develop-~ ment of professional schools” fol- lowed by ten minutle talks by Dean Swan of the law school, Dean Brown of the divinity school, Dean Blumer o} the medical school and Dean Loumey of the forestry school. Then will come the visit to the stock room. ‘Noonday luncheon will be with the faculty in the dining hall. After the memorial meeting the alumni will gather in Lampson lyceum where Cap- tain Robert M. Danford, U. 8. A., will speak on the military problems from the standpoint of an army officer, Ken- eth F. Simpson, 17, from the stand< point of the undergraduate, and Pro- fessor Edward B. Reed, '94, from the viewpoint of graduates and the faculty. The alumni association will have dinner at night in Memorial hall. President Hadley, Judge Smith of Hartford and Homer §. Cummings will be the speakers. “You’re Looking Better, John— and I believe Postum is largely responsible for your sound sleep and improved ap- pearance.” POSTUM in place of coffee, relieves nerves from the harmful effects of caffeine. Even a short 10-day trial often works a wonderful change in a person. “There’s a Reason’