New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1917, Page 1

- CEDAR HILL FARM MRS, HOY DIED IN [REICHSTAG SPEECH 'WILSON’S AUTHORITY RESTRI IN NEW “ARMED NEl FOUR AMERICAN CONSULS PRISONERS OF GERMANY 4 iERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERAL -+ PRICE THREE CENTS. PROPRIETOR DEAD : Theo. A. Stanley Was Known As ; Progressive Agriculturist CAME FROM OLD = FAMILY ¥ Grandson of First President of Rule and Level Co., He Made His Mark in World as Student of Advanced Farming. Theodore Alexander Stanley, mem- ber of one of New England’s oldest and most prominent families, life- long student of agriculture and dairy farming, president of the Stanley- * Svea Grain and Coal Company and deacon of South Congregational church, died shortly after midnight this morning at his home at Cedar Hill farm following an illness of over a yvear. Death was not unexpected, his condition having been critical for several days and the hopeless nature of his illness having been known for months by the deceased and members of his family. In an attempt to ward off the inroads of the disease, leading | specialists of the country had been consulted, including Drs. Janeway and Peck of New York. The funeral will be held from the chapel church, probably Friday afternoon, with Rev. Dr. G. 'W. C. Hill officiating. # Bearers will be representatives of the Connecticut State Agricultural Society of Berlin with Col. Charles M. Jarvis, president, in charge of this detail of the arrangements. Burial will be in this city. Grandson of Henry Stanley, first president and one of the founders of the Stanley Rule and Level Company, the deceased was born in the old Finch house, one of the city land- marks since demolished, at Pearl and Orchard streets, March 18, 1864, son of Mary Jane (Peck) Stanley and the .late Walter H. Stanley. His early vears were passed in this city and his preliminary education was gained in New Britain public schools. He was graduated from New Britain High school with the class of 1883, a class- mate of Judge John H. Xirkham. Even then he showed a marked in- terest in agriculture and progressive dairy farming, his graduating essay being on this subject. Studiés Agricultore in Michigan. Taking up dairy farming as his life’s work, hé entered the Michigan Agri- cultural College at Lansing, Mich., from which he was graduated with honors in the class of 1886, complet- ipg the four years’ course in three years. It was while a student at this institution that he met his future wife, Miss Sarah McLouth, daughter of President Lewis McLouth of the Michigan institution. They were married June 21, 1888, at the home of the bride ‘at Brookings, South Da- kota, where the bride’s parents were then located. At college, he was prominent in the student body and | . was honored by election to the Zeta Psi fraternity. During after years, he retained all of his youthful love for hig alma mater, frequently attended the alumni and fraternity reunions and was president of the New England Alumnl Association of the Michigan institution at the time of his death. | Devoted Life to His Farm. Returning to New Britain, he made such excellent use of his technical knowledge of agriculture that Cedar ‘Hill farm became, and is, one of the model farms of the East. Progressive methods and devices were installed. He became recognized as a leader in New England agriculture and dairy farming. He was a frequent and much sought after contributor to ag- ricultureal journals throughout icounty. In 1893, desiring further to advance his knowledge, he took his family and passed that winter as a student at the Wisconsin State Dairy | taking the scheduled course | School, with extra studies. Outside of farm and home, he was active in varied circles. He was prac- tically Congregational church, active in its work and had been a deacon there for vears. He was an active member of the Connecticut Dalrymen's Asso- ciation and sérved as treasurer of that organigation for a number of years. He was a past president of the old Berlin Agricultural Society 4he Connecticut State Agr Soicety of Berlin, was active in the af- fairs of the organization up to the time of his death and was a mem- ber of the state grange. Fraternal he was affiliated with the Royal Ar canum. His standing as an agricul- tural expert was recognized by ap- Ppointment to the state dairy board, where he served with distinction for Much of the prosper- ity of the Stanley-Svea Coal and Grain company is credited to his business wbility and foresight as president. Held Public Office. As a republican, he served the city on the old board of assessors and was councilman from the second ward during 1882 and 1893. For a number of years he was first lieutenant of Co. I, First Regiment, Connecticut. Na- tional Guard. having been placed on the retired list but a short time prior to the outbreak of the Spanish-Amer- fcan war. He was also first lieuten- ant, at the time of his death, of Co. I Veterans' Corps, with membership composed of former members of that | body. & Besides his aged mother and wife, (Continued cn Eleventh Page.) b of South | the | a life-long member of South | : | of military age, able to fight. HERALD “ADS” MEA |BETTER BUSINE NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1917 —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1 DAUGHTER'S ARMS Devotion of Young Women Is Pathetic Incident in Life Boat PRIEST TELLS EXPERIENCES | Father Sargent Describes How Cedric 1 | P, Ivatts of London Passed Away in Eribrace of Fiancee, Who Clung to Corpse. Liverpool, Feb. 28.—The Rev. F. Dustan Sargent of Grenada, British 'West Indies, a passenger on the La- conia, who administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic church to sev- en persons who perished, gave to The Associated Press today the following account of the death of Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy of Chi- cago and Cedric P, Ivatts of London: “‘Mrs. Hoy died in the arms of her daughter. The body slipped off into the sea out of her daughter’s weak- ened arms. The heartbroken daugh- ter succumbed a few minutes after- wards and her body fell over the side of the boat as we were tossed by the huge waves. “In icy water up to her knees for two hours, the daughter all the time bravely supported her aged mother, uttering words of encouragement to her. F¥From the start both were vio- lently seasick, which, coupled with the cold and exposure, gradually wore down their courage. They were brave women.” Clasps Corpse to Breast. ‘After a pause, Father Sargent con- tinued: “The first to die in our boat was ‘W. Irvine Robinson of Toronto. Aft- er his body had been consigned to the sea was tossed about for an hour, get- ting more and more water until the gunwales were almost level with the sea. Mr. Ivatts, who was not physi- cally strong, succumbed in the arms of his flancee, who was close behind him, trying in vain to keep him warm by throwing her wealth of hair about his neck. Even after-he died she re- fused to give him up and although additiona] weight made the situation 1 more dangerous for us all, we yielded to 'her pitiful pleading and allowed her to keep the body. It was takem aboard the rescuing patrol, from which it was buried. The burial aboard the patrol at which I dfficiated, ‘was a solemn and -merhorable cer- emony. / ““The Hoys were the next to pass away after Mr. Ivatts; then a fireman died and later two others of the crew who were too thinly clad to resist ex- posure. Altogether, we were in the boat ten hours. We were rescued in the middle of the morning.” Father Sargent said his boat was badly damaged on being launched and it began to leak. Owing to the heavy waves they were unable to at- tract the attention of the other boats or transfer their passengers. At the start the boat had three feet of wa- ter, which increased steadily notwith- standing the efforts of every one to bail it out. Father Sargent was hard at work at the oars and at bailing, pausing to administer the last sacra- ment when his ministrations were re- quired. Hoy to Fight for Revenge. ‘Washington, Feb. 28.—President ‘Wilson has received the following cablegram from Austin Y. Hoy, whose mother and sister were lost when the Laconia was torpedoed with- warning by a German submarine: “I am an American citizen, repre- senting the Sullivan Machinery com- pany of Chicago, living abroad, not as an expatriate but for the promotion of American trade. I love the flag, be- lieving in its significance. My beloved mother and sister, passengers on the Laconia, have been foully murdered on the high seas, “As an American citizen outraged | and, as such, fully within my rights and as an American son and brother | bereaved, call upon my government to preserve its citizens' self respect and saye others of my countrymen from such deep grief as 1 now feel. I am If my these | country can use me against brutal assassins, I am at its call. “If it denies my manhood and my nationality by being passive under outrage, T shall seek a man’s chance under another flag.” Penfield Cables Report Showing Sub- marine That Sank American Schooner Was German or Turkish. ‘Washington, Feb. 28.—It has been officially established that the Ameri- can sailing schooner Lyman M. Law was not sunk by an Austro-Hungar- ian submarine. It had been presumed that the Law was destroyed by an Austrian subma- rine because she was halted on her way to Palermo, Italy, in a region where it was thought there were no German U-boats. The submarine showed no marks of jdentification Ambassador Penfield at Vienna cabled a report today to the state de- | partment, | oHOCK TO CAPITAL Chancellor’s Harangue Unbroken Chain of Absurd Inaccuracies OFFICIALS _ARE INDIGNANT Yon Bethmann-Hollweg’s Statements Surprisc Administration Which Will Not Deign to Answer Maze of Silly Charges. ‘Washington, Feb. 28.—Surprise bordering on indignation was ex- pressed here officially over Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg’s speech to the Reichstag. State department officials amazed that the chancellor should seek further to confuse German- American relations with a serles of statements which they say are palp- ably opposed to the most obvious events of recent history. The chancellor’s statement that the United States severed relations brusquely is viewed as too absurd for discussion. It is pointed out that the American correspondence has plainly- threatened such action; that Count Von Bernstorff had said for several days before hand that he expected to be dismissed and that the German government had shown its realization of the coming break by sending out orders to disable its merchant ships in this country. Hoist With Own Retard. Tt was pointed out that while the United States delayed three days in taking the action it had clearly fore- shadowed in several notes, Germany put into effect its campaign of ruth-. lessness on eight hours notice after months of assurances that she had no intention of taking such a step. The statement that Germany, in her Sussex note, reserved a new course of action is declared wholly unjusti- fled. The United States refused to accept that condition and, in default of any reply from Germany, was jus- tified in believing that Germany ad- hered to her point of view. In di- plomacy the last note between the two nations is the binding note and stands in all particulars until denied by one or the other. The chancellors complaint that he had received only Reuter’s despatches and a verbal statement to the foreign minister as to the causes of the break recalls that a note setting out the Teasons for the action of the United States was handed to Count Von Bernstorff with his passports. The statement dent Wilson for announcing an em- bargo on arms to Mexico and mot te’ Europe was dismissed as both abh- surd and incorrect. The cases held to be in no way parallel, as Mex- ico was in ecivil war. MURDER IN BRIDGEPORT are Cambridge, Mass., Man Foud Dead | in Pool of Blood—Robbery Is Mo- | tive Advanced by Police. Bridgeport, Feb. 28.—Louis Humphreys of 45 Cedar street, Cam- bridge, Mass.,, was found dead, face downward in a pool of blood outside of the house at 2,156 Seaview avenue where heé had hired a room yesterday on his arrival from Cambridge. Humphreys, it is understood intend- ed working in an ammunition plant here and was accompanied to this city by William Gunning, also of Cam- bridge. Humphreys left the house this morning. Miss Lillian May, a roomer in the same house, told the police that she heard men arguing in a heated fashion a few minutes after the front door closed. A Remington Arms company private guard found Humphrey’'s body in the gutter soon afterward. The police are acting on the theory that Humphreys was murdered and robbed. Gunning told the police that Humphreys had been a sufferer from heart trouble and had postponed coming to this city two months ago because of an attack of heart disease. AL OF DR. HART. Bishop Brewster Assisted Lines at Services, by Bishop Middletown, Feb. Tany church- men from other dioceses and many laity and clergy of the Connecticut diocese attended the funeral of Rev. Samuel Hart, dean of Berkeley col- lego and secretary of the House of Bishops, at the Church of the Holy Trinity today. Prayers were read at St. Luke's church and the body was then borne to the church and placed in state during the service. The ritual of the church was read Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, sted by Rev. Edward 8. Lines, bishop of Newark diocese. Later a special train will carry those who desire to attend the com- mittal services to Old Saybrook where the body will be placed in the family plot in the old burying ground where have lain many vears the bodies of his parents and ancesters. Bishop Bre er will read the committal service, ’ b, condemning Presi- | are | M. | GERMANY GOMPLACENT - AS WAR CLOUD GROWS Will Not Be Greatly Excited at Declaration of Hos- tilities. via London, Feb. 28, noon.—The prominence which Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg gave in his address to the Reichstag today to discussion of relations with the United States is regarded here as indicating his purpose to prepare the German public for the eventuality | which is looked forward to in many quarters. There was much confusion of opinions and prophesies on this point, on account of the continued ab- | sence of authenticated news from | Washington, as well as the reports which are being received in regard to the state of public opinion in Amer- ica. The German press continues to | serve up fragmentary but sensational | bulletins indicating feverish war prep- | arations in the United States. At this hour it may be said a declaration of war from Washington would find the ! German mind quite prepared for it.) | Less of a ripple wouid be caused here than was occasioned by Rumania's entrance in the war and a final break with the United States would be likely to meet with stoical indifference so far | as the public at large is concerned. | | There is no feeling that a crisis is at | | hand, but merely a nervous tension | which has been gathering intensely. | The nation is now pinning its faith | to its U-boats. Berlin, Feb. 27, [ Chancellor Wildly Applauded. Berlin, Tuesday, Feb. 27, (By wire- Iless. to. Sayville),—Chancellor Von { Beéthmann-Hollweg's speech to the | Reichstag, in which he discussed rela- i tions between Germany and the Unit- | ed States in detail, was received with | | great applause by a crowded house. Almost every sentence he uttered, the | Overseas News Agency AN brought | forth expressions of approval and at ! [ the conclusion of his address there was a demonstration on the part of | prominent members of the Reichstag and the spectators in the galleries. { Almost all the diplomatic represen- tatives still in Berlin were present. 1 { | DUTCH VESSELS NOT AFLOAT. London, Feb. 28.—At the Dutch le- gation it was said today there was no confirmation of the report published | earlier in the week that the Dutch | steamships Bandoengn, Eemland and Zoondijk were still afloat, On the { contrary, the latest information re- ceived by the Dutch officials led to the | belief that the vessels had been lost. | A search for the steamships proved unavailing. TURKS FORCED TO RETURN GUNBOAT British in Far Eeast Recapture War- ship Taken from Them Late in 1915. The British are rapidly pushing their wap up the Tigris river towards Bagdad. Today's official statement from Lon- don on the Tigris operations shows that after forcing the Turks from Kut-el-Amara General Maude’s forces have pursued the Ottaman troops { more than thirty miles west and northwest of Kut. This indicates an advance of some fifteen miles since | the last report. | In their first expedition, late in 1915, the British were within 18 miles | of Bagdad, but were forced to re- treat to Kut-el-Ama after a defeat at Ctesiphon, their nearest point of approach. Afterwards General Town- send hemmed in at Kut and sur- rendered last April. In the retreat from Ctesiphon, the British were forced to surrender two gunboats. The Turks shortly after- wards reported that one had been repaired and was being used against the British. The British report today announces that one of the last gun- boats, the Firefly, which is a 455 ton | vessel, has been recaptured. The capture of one Turkish vessel and the destruction of another also is re- ported. | P N S S WEATHER. Harttord, Hartford and or Feb. Berlin Retaliates for Alleged Detention of Consul Muel- ler at Havana, Acting Un- der Mistaken Conclusion. ‘Washington, Feb. 28.—Four Amer- ican consuls are being detained in Germany, while the Berlin govern- ment awaits official advices that all German consuls in this country, or- dered to Central and South America, have been permitted to proceed. ‘The German government's =-tion is based on circumstances which con- cern the alleged detention by 'the United States of Consul Mueller at Havana, Cuba, while he was on his way from Atlanta to Quito, Ecuador. The American consuls detained in Germany are: Consul Henry C. A. Damm, transferred from Acchen to Harput, Turkey; Consul John Q. Wood, transferred from Chemnitz, to Messina; Vice Consul W. Bruce Wal- lace, transferred from Magdeburg to Constantinople, and Vice Consul . Inness Brown transferred from Mann- heim to Constantinople. Two notes have been received from the German government on the sub- Ject, the first a week ago, charging that the United States had detained Mueller at Havana and a second today asking for a reply to the first and also containing a statement on charges that American consuls and their wives departing from Germany had heen subjected to indignities. Tt added that as soon as Mueller has been allowed to proceed, the American consuls could go on. That the German government has been misinformed regarding Consul Tueller and other German . consuls formerly stationed in the TUnited States is certaln. The departure of none has been hindered by this gov- ernment. AUSTRIA’S ANSWER READY Bremen Paper Hears Vienna Will Support Berlin in Prosecution of Ruthless U-Boat Campaign. London, Feb. 28, m.—The Austrian reply to the American note in regard to the submarine issue will be handed shortly to the United States ambassador in Vienna and probably will endorse the position of Germany, according to a Reuter's Amsterdam despatch quoting a Berlin telegram to the Weser Zeitung of Bremen. The telegram says that the Vienna government will probably express the view that there is no turning back for the central powers. Washington, Feb. 28.—Complete arrangements for the withdrawal of American diplomatic and consular of- ficers from Austria-Hungary have been made by Ambassador Penfleld on instructions from the state depart- ment. It is learned that the ambassa- dor has been directed to take this step, the belief at the department be- ing that a break in relations is in- evitable. The Spanish government has been asked to take over American inter- ests, and plans have been made to expedite the withdrawal of all Ameri- cans if the break occurs. 7:45 a. CLOTHING AND TENTS WILL COST $15,000,000 Chicf of Supplies Division to Give Manufacturers Practical Lesson in Preparedness, New York, Feb. 28—Brig. Gen. A. L, Smith, chief of the supplies division of the United States quartermaster’s department, is in New York today in- structing officers of the local depart- ment in new methods of purchasing supplies. The present plan for as- sembling in a few months $15,000,000 worth of clothing and tents for the regular army is designed, General Smith said, to furnish a practical lesson in industrial preparedness to merchants and manufacturers all over the country. Distribution of orders is to be made from depots at New York, Philadel- phia, Boston, Chicago and St. Louis in comparatively small lots among the widest possible number of the indus- trial concerns. Previously bids for army supplies have been received only in Washington and it is said that only | a small percentage of those able to compete have entered the market for army business. 'n the work of the plan it pected that concerns able to the necessary material will come into close contact with army requirements and methods of doing business and is ex- supply that direct dealing between divisional depots and sources of supply will be established. TED RALITY” BIL House Foreign Affairs Committee Souf Death Knell to ‘‘Other Instrumentaliti Feature of Measure--Senate Not to V Until Bill Is Disposed of by Lower Ho NO INSURANCE FOR VESSELS CARRYING MUNITIONS OF Republicans Admit Fillbuster For Purpose of Forcing Extra Session | of Congress on Ground They Want to Be in Washington During Pres- ent Sitnation—Pacifists Call at ‘White House. Washington, Feb. 28.—The situation in congress fell into a tangle again today and the prospects that there would be no extra session were not so promising as last night. foreign affairs committee reported the bill to empower the president to pro- rights against German submarine menace but with changes which are unweicome to the administration. It declined to make provision for thc ‘‘other instrumen- talities,” which the president desires. The bill reported yesterday by the senate foreign relations is practically agreeable to the president. The two measures may be reconciled in way, although the president has given notice that he expects no material changes. Prospects of a republican filibuster loomed up again in the senate. Senators, who, today, began to insist upon *free and ful discus- sion of all measures, openly asserted that the reason for this course is to frorce an extra session of congress. The major part of the republican opposition apparently does not lie against the bill to grant the president broad powers to deal with the sub- marine situation although there are probably half dozen senators on the minority side opposed to it. Senator Watson, republican, of Indiana, who was prominent in en- gineering the fillbuster against the revenue bill, said today that many re- publicans would not oppose giving the president merely the power to arm merchant ships and provide funds for that purpose, but were decidedly averse to authorizing him to use other instrumentalities.” House Committee Bill. . As reported by the house committee the bill would read: “The president of the United States be, and is hereby authorized and em- powered to supply merchant ships, the property of citizens of the United States and bearing register of the United States, with defensive arms and also with the necessary ammunition and means of making use of them in defenses against unlawful attack, and that he be, and is hereby authorized and empowered to protect such ships and the citizens of the United States against unlawful attack while in their lawful and peaceful pursuits on the high seas.” This eliminates the provision which would have empowered the president to “employ such other instrumentali- ties and methads as may in his judg- ment and discretion seem necessary and adequate.” The bill would provide the $100,- 000,000 bond issue and authorize the president to transfer some of the war risk insurance bureau but contains this phrase: “Said bureau of war risk insurance shall not insure any arms or ammunition or any vessel carrying arms and ammunition con- signed to+belligerent countries or any citizen thereof."” Mr. Flood said this provision .\\'0\11(‘ permit the arming and protection \.if munition ships but would not permit their - insurance by the government. The administration contends that mu- nitions ships, as well as any others, are protected by international law against ruthless and unwgrned de- struction with sacrifice of life. Laconia Attack Open Defiance. No doubt now remain in the minds of state department officlals that the sudden attack on the Laconia em- bodies an open deflance of the prin- ciples for which the United States has contended. It was stated no ad- ditional step would be taken pending action by congress to grant President Wilson the authority he asks. Reports that the German govern- ment now is detaining the Yarrowdale prisoners on the excuse that an in- fectious dlscase has been discovered at the place where they are living were received here with a feeling ap- proaching exasperation. In addition to this irritatinz incident it was dis- closed that the state department feels a break in relations with Austria- Hungary is so inevitable that Ambas- sador Penfield at Vienna has been in- structed to make all arrangements for departure of American departments and consuls from the country. Administrations forces in the senate were tryving to get the bill reported vester( Ly the foreign relations committee referred back to the com- mittee formally but Senator La Fol- leite stood in the way with a refusal tect American some The house | the | to glve unanimous consent. Many WAR TO BELLIGERE differences of opinion on details of bill had developed. In order to assure passage emergency revenue bill the finance committee has agreed to o draw all its amendments when | for voting begins at 8 o'cleck ton| This would obviate any necessit a conference and the bill could) the president after the senate Vol Military Bill $277,480,708, An increase of $37,500,000 to army appropriation bill was o today by the senate military coni tee in completing revision of measure which passed the house. it will be reported to the senate, DIl will carry $277,480,708. The principdl increase ordered $13,600,000 for clothing and camy garrison equipment, making the for this purpose $28,600,000. Other larze increases ordered $4,350.000 for automatic rifles, 000,000 for civilian military tra $1,350,000 for government man ture of arms, $2,000,000 for sustenance, $2,800,000 for the s rvice, $2,458,995 for supplies tg of | quartermasters corps and $1,37. for transportation. The committee attached to measure the Chamberlain univi military training bill, but it is nof pected to carry at this session. Pacilists See President, President ' 'Wilson today rec two groups of pacifists who op the steps he proposes in dealing Germany. The first was headed Miss Jane Addams. The other led by Amos Pinchot. The .council of national defens: day issuedi'an Mppeal to the pé of the United, States to show g consideration in the present Inte} tional situation to aliens residen | this country. : Senate to Mark Time. That the senate will take no ad on the armed neutrality bill the house has passed the measurg virtually assured today after a ference between Senator Stone, ¢ man of the foreign relations com| tee, and Representative Mann, h {republican leader. Mr. Mann clared the senate would not act d bill providing for an issue of bd until it had been passed by the hd AMERICAN LINERS REQUIRE GUNNE Tead of I. M. M. Co. Says Ho H( Government Will Provide Sh shooters—Finland Arrives, New York, Feb. 28.—The arriva the steamship Finland from Li pool today added the sixth and to the American lines fleet held by the German submarine men| The Finland is the third Ame: liner to leave Liverpool since the ginning of the German blockade, Philadelphia preceded her. Am) can shipowners today, in eneral, proved the step taken by congi looking to the arming of their v but were not all of tho same opfs in regard to what they should dd¢ the government should grant I arms and ammunition. A few they were satisfied to send out tH vessels unarmed. P. A. Franklin, president of the | ternational Mercantile Marine ed pany, which controls the Amer line, said that he hoped the gove ment intended to provide prop trained gunners from the navy handle the guns provided for Am can merchant vessels. The ships of his line, he said, co| be fitted with guns at their piers little delay, as the mountings plates were already in place. BRITISH LOSSES IN FEB. Official Casualty List Includes 1, Officers and 17,185 Men--Much Loss For January. London, Feb. 28, 12:10 p. m.— ish casualties during Feb reached a total of 1,243 officers 17,185 men. The February figsures for Brit] casualty show a total but little mu than half that for January despite fact that there has been conside fighting on the Somme front du the month. February's total of 1 428 compares with a total of 32,9 oflicers and men for January. Offid casualties for Iebruary, howe wera conside: ater than the month p when they wi 969 as com with the pi month’s 1,243. ared