New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1917, Page 6

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TELEPHONE cALLS. - Ofice " Justice to Al - and exact: justice to all of whatever state or per- on, religious or political; evlm‘;m. and honest dship with all nations,—en- fling ‘alliances with none; the bt of the State rernments L all their rights,. as the most nt - administrations for [ domestic concerns, and the bulwarks = against * anti-- in its whole nwfilufl ; as the sheet anchor of aur home and safety abroad; freedom of religion; - of the press; freedom of the protection: of corpus; and trial by ly selected, “and_gulded our’ stebs an age of revolution and First Inaugural Address: . ?h Trevolution of 1791 e the Telgn ‘of rovalty and the blopdshed a rve- in 1917 accomplishes Ag In & much better fash- | Al loss of , comparatively ‘and gives a new aspect to On-Tuesday the Governors of the New England states met 1n conference at Boston. There they pledged them- selves and their states to support the President “in carrying out his an- nounced intcntion to protect American lives and property on the high seas.” | Our own Governor, Marcus H. Hol- | omb, of nccessity had to be the cen- tral figure in that. gathering .whdt I though the conference was called by ‘Go\'crnor McCall of Massachusetts. { Governor Holcomb represented the ! state that has shown the way to all others. . Connecticut has set the pace. Thefefore, when it is urged that the army and navy be recruited to full war strength, Connecticut does more than offer mere words. She shows where a goodly: proportion of the re- cruits may be found. When {tis sug- gested that munitions sufficient’ for ;nny emergency be obtained, and dis- tributed, Connécticut offers a plan. The census here has shown the Nut- j meg statc to be the “Arsenal of-the Nation.” When the Goyvernors of the | New Englana states call upon the Na- : tional govérnment to make “forthwith ](he most cnergetié preparation for national defense upon land and sea,” Connecticut supplements the request with' an invitation to “lock this way and see what we have done.” And ‘lobking, Uncle Sam is proud of the little e that holds so many big and brave American hearts. , “HAIL THE HOME GUARD. Twelve men yesterday enlisted: in ‘the Home Guard. One had been a captain of volunteers in the Spanish American war. Two saw service on the Mexican border fluring the recent outbreak of Villistas. Of the remain- ing nine some have never done®nin- tary service, but ‘the others have served in the state militia or in kin- dred military organizatious. The piere fact thut these men have been among the first to respond to the call of the Home Guard is sufficient 0 pumber them among tho city’s best. ey have not waited long ‘to offer their services to the city and the state |and the nation. The recruiting office in the City Hall has Been but recently opened. At the rate of these' enlist- ments it will not be long before the Home Guard here is a' body worth ‘while talking about. This is but the start. There will be others joining the organization as soon as they know Just what it all means. Explanations @re in order at the City Hall where enthusiastic officers ars ready. to | answer all questions. The mere fact that those who riow belong to.the Na- tional Guard are prohibited from-en- Histing int the Home Guard will be one Teason for keeping the enlistment in | the latter service down. On the other 1 hand, all other men between the ages R that they soe what may hap- #re now laying lines to avert y,l’m 1s'not a revolutién x and in Austria it will:'be “‘m foresightedness of the . The lesson of Russia must be People armed to the teeth 2o turn on those' who armed @14 in Russis.’ ' “von Bethimann-Hollweg, the - Chancellor, it an address be- Prussian Diet on Wednesday, re the news of the Russian had - been ' made known the world, warned Junk- ‘the old regime of Germany Tucky if it lasted out the had been aware of what in Russia and he knew about conditions there. -of -Russian _autocracy * It Germany fails to heed Bon, warned the "Chancellor, _are on the road toward do- Avulsions the ultimate result man is able to prophesy.” i§ can buy and sell or order and .die at the word of ‘We are a nation that has | _political manhood.” These #frong statements. They will p, umeasiness at least in court Militarism, the prize weapon against democracy, may back against the hands that ‘machinations. than two years mow the naPbeen exacting its 4n’ lives and ‘treasure. and true have faced death | d, have suffered and 5 up to the Russian Revolu- ‘fo one knew what it was all it, why it was so. It was mill “that broughit about . the 4t may be militarism that md the war. Directed on of the people it may give the “back the power that belongs ; it-will take the power away chosen few. . The deeds done of seventeen and-.sixty are eligible, providing ‘they are anywhere near ‘Physically able. { ‘The Home Guard bas as its prime -object the protection of the homes in New Britain should an invading force visit the soil jof Connecticut. This fact alone should be sufficient in itself to, produce-a gre&t number of enlist-- ments. If the town is not worth de- fending then there should be a dearth of material for the Home Guard. But the town is worth defending. And évery husband and father, every son and brother worth his salt should be among those who: will volunteer for service in the Home Guard. That fs, unless there is work to be done in other branches of the military. THE PLEDGE OF LOYALTY, an American, faithful to American ideas of justice, liberty and humanity, and confident that the government has exerted its most earmest efforts to keep us at peace with the world, I hereby declare my absolute and.uncon- ditiopal loyalty to the govern- mernt of the United States and pledge my support to you in pro- tecting American rights against unlawful violence upon land and sea, in guarding the - nation against hostile attacks. and in upholding international right.” That is the pledge of loyalty which the citizens of New York have been called upon to sign by the Mayor's Committee on Natianal Defense. It is addressed to the President of the United States. That it carries with it the proper spirit is attested to by the legion of loyal men and women responding. That pledge, however, should not be peculiar to New York. It isa natianal pledge and belongs to no particular state in the Union. Every man, woman and child who believes in the principles upon which America rests should subscribe to the same senti- ment. Every person who calis him- self er herself. an American, who would be faithful to the ‘trust placed in them by America, must agree with this thought. Otherwise they do not \belorig. = Otherwise they are.mot part and parcel of the mition. Otherwise they are not with us, and whoever is 0t with us is against us. That'ls a simple, homely truth. There is fo salnsaying it. i ‘We have gone by the ;: s . NEW BRITAIN enacted. What takes place after that ‘éupreme ‘moment rests with the American people. They are to bé the Jjudges of their future. ' If they pledge themselves to stand by this nation to a man, there need be no fear. And the pledge need not. be written, or printed and signed, It must be traced ‘with the heart’s blood on the very soul. If instead of that there is to be internal dissention and division, then the nation must fall. It 1s one’thing or the other. Thére can be ho -middle ‘ground, BEither we must pledge our. loyalty to the gov- ernment of the United States and the President of the United States, or we must be branded as subjects of a foreign ruler. The hour of account- ing has argived, Citizens here will pledge their loyalty.’ Subjects of a foreign pewer have the dor open to them. FAOTS AND FANCIES, s T It’s pronounced. Mdore, but every day it becomes less.—Philadelphia North- American., Greéece, her knee in suwlhm!e. bent, evidently considers discretion the bet- ter part of valor.—Manchester Union. Is the foreign relations committee content to go to the bottom with a Stone tied to its nmeck?—New York Sun. Is it true ¥That ministers have begun to say “We will read responsively Psalm one-O-threé” ?—Lowell Courier 5 ‘world has its trouble but, as | alw ‘things might be worse. Sup- meumlcmun had & corn.— Paterson ‘Berlin. residents who aro - awarded one egg every two weeks are still bet- ter off than a good many ‘Americans. —Philadelphia mmm;m As a general thing, when & girl hay pretty feet she wants to fall in love heels over héad.—Galveston News. If we were as long on preparedness as we are on ‘unique army theories, we could whip the entire world with- out turning a hair.—We n Her- ald. - 2 John Barleycorn would never agree. to a peace with the prohibitionists on the basis of the present war map of the United ‘States—Charleston News and Courier. LA ‘We'd like to cheer up Arizona some way, even if it has two governors, and so why not congratulate it on not having two legislatures, also.—Gran It nuy/ be safe for President Wilson to refuse to hold the inaugural dance, but he would not dare refuse to throw _out the first ball of the league season. —Erie Times. There is one unusual attraction about Count Tarnowski von Tarnow. If you can remember his first name you'll probably recall .the second.— Cleveland Plain-Dealer. ¥ ) One has to wonder whether this “pevolt” of Gardner's is not founded upon inside information that ‘the next ‘house is to be organized by the dem- 'ocrats.—Sioux City Tribune. > St. Patrick’s Day. There’s not a mile in Ireland's isle, ‘Where dirty varmin musters, But there he put his dear fore-foot And murdered; thein in clusters. The toads went pop, the frogs went hop, k Silap-dash into the water; And the snakes qommitted suicide, themselves from slaughter. "l‘o‘ - —H. Bennett. To An.Old Lover. (Philadelphia Eveéning Ledger). There is slivery frost on your hair, old boy, There are lines on your forehead, too; / But your clear eyes speak of the peace and joy That dwell in the heart of you. For the passing of youth you have no regret, £ No sighs for the summer gloam And the lovers’ moon. They are with you' yet 3 In the light of the lamp at home. In the summer of youth, in that sunny hour ‘That will come to you never again, ‘When you wooed your love as the bee the flower, ¥ The sweets that.you gathered then You have hived and stored for your later life, ¥ And your heart is the honeycomb— Ah! I've seen your face when you . kissed your wife . In the light of the lamp at home. Oh, you rare old lover! ' Oh, faithful knight, . s ‘With your sweetheart of long ago. You are many days from the warmth and ‘lght - - Of the summers you used to know; But you need not yearn for the glam- our and gold Of the flelds you were wont to roam— < Oh, the light for the hearts that are growing old 7 In the light of the lamp at home. The Border Cowboys, (Los Angelées Times.) : Cowboys along the border are grow- and of having their cattle and. stews for the ent xican rapscallions. Ot conrae, it wottld be a breach of meutrality . for them to retaliate, but it is not cowboy nature to be passive. If they take matters in their own hands, as they contemplate, they may create some diplomatic entanglements, ‘hut the dits will have a lot more respect for gringoes and for the DAILY HERALD, Town Topics Sh_xuv'o thé edict ordering the musz- sling of all dogs went into effect there ‘have been heard and received numer- ous protests from so called humane animals lpvers; people who shuddered at the thought of placing the “cruel muzgles” on the door dumb beasts; people who .declared that-the order ‘was an unjust one. Some of the com- plaints were in the nature of veiled attacks on Mayor Quigley and Dr. T. E. Reeks, superintendent. .of health board. neither of these two very capable offi: clals had anything, to say on the question. state and was signed. by the state commissioner on domestic animals. But had Dr. Reeks or Méyor Quigley taken it upon themselves to order dogs mussled it would seem that they were doing their duty to the public, once the situation is thoroughly un- derstood. As explained by officials, this unusual epidemic of hydrophobid started in the Naugatuck valley, spread up to Waterbury, where there was one fatality, and lastly to this city where several mad dogs have been killed after having bitten other beasts and Where one well known cit- izen was bitten and is even now un- dergoing treatment at the Pasteur In- stitute in New York. Possibly the average person does not fully under- stand the peculiarities of hydropho- bia or its tragic seriousness. Hydro- phobia, the noun, is derived from the two Greek words, hydro, meaning wa- ter, and phobia, meaning fear. Hence the name, hydrophobia,—fear of wa- ter. * This name is given the disease because of the effect that the sight. of water has upon the victims, the mere presence of water throwing them into agonising spasms. Authorities tels us that hydropho- bia, .or rabies as it is also known, is an acute disease of warm-blooded animaly found most frequently in the dog, the cat, and the cow, and that it s conveyed to man by the lower animal. It is common in those countrfes which do not have or en- force a mussle law. In North Ger- many . it is extremely rare because of the provision that all dogs shall be mugsled. The average time of elapse. between being infected ai the development of symptoms of the disease -is about six weeks in the ‘| adult“and a ‘shorter period in chil- dren. ‘Once the disease is established ‘without previous anti-rabic treatment it praves 100 per cent. fatal.in man. It is ‘one of the most agonizing dis- eases conveyed to the human race and is ended by imerciful “death in but a ‘few days after’symptoms start. Not all who are bitten by mad animals develop rabies but there are no known means of determining ‘whether or not it will develop within a few weeks' time. Cauterizing the wound may prevent the disease if the Poison has not gotten into the blood. But there.is no ‘way of telling this. The only way to fight hydrophobia is. to prevent its pread by muzzling biting domestic animals (cats and dogs) when it is prevalent, and the only sure hope of preventing its de- velopment is to start the Pasteur treatment within forty-eight hours after one is bitten by a rabid animal. It this is done the mortality is re- duced from a possible 100 per cent. to one-half of one per Ccent. The man who waits until the symptoms develop is doomed. To show the dreadful nature of this thing, a local physician states that he knew of two men who walked into one of the Pasteur hospitals and said that they had been bitten by sup- posedly mad animals, one five weeks and the other seven weeks previously. Each man complaind of very slight lllness but thought that it would be ‘wise to take the treatment. But the diseage was already established. It was too late. With ¢rushing, tragic meaning, the doctor was obliged to say to each man: ' “'Mr. you had better go home and straighten out any affairs you may have to at- tend to and return here for us to do what we can. You have but four or five days to live.” It was so. The, men, both able business men, one bitten by his cat, thé other by a strange dog, returned for further treatment but died within a week. Thus, realising that 1t 1s not a matter of injuring the dignity of the “popr dumb beast,” ‘but that it is one of probable life or death to a human ‘being, ‘Who )s there who will object to having his.dog muszzied dur- ing the epidemic? Mad dogs have visited the city within the past two weeks. They have bitten other dogs and these dogs may develop the symptoms and go mad too. They may - bite your faithful old towser. They may bite your child going to school. They may bite you. They may not have rables and consequent- ly you would not get the disease, tut if they did have rabies you would be pretty apt to get them too, and, if you waited to. see if you did vou would have to realize; that you stood face to face with; the Great Beyond. s is not worth while to muzzle your own kindly notfons of kind treatment of “poor dumb beasts” and at the same time muzzle the dogs as a safety first method? Surely it is, for there is not a single individual of the entire 53,- 000 or more in New Britain who would wait to have the terrifying thought that he might be developing rabies, nor is there one who would care to take a chance with any dis- ease in which the mortality is 100 per cent. Last, but not least, let us haye the muzsle law for awhile for the protection of our dumb true friend who would do as much for us were the tables reversed. . ce e Local followers of Isaac Walton, and there are many, are now busy cleaning up their rods and reels, get- ting ready for the opening of the trout season on April 1. The law specifigs that there ghall be no fish- ing on Sundays, so as April 1 falls btn the Sabbath the eager fisherman will have to wait until Monday be- fore “whipping the streams.” The water commissioners have been so- licited frequently during the past | theirisaubniyisian. 3 ISTEN SATURDAY, MARCH. 17, 1017 week by men who want permission to fish in the ponds and streams under |least 1 if there is any ather oyidoor sport in which - the’ participants’ as-jealous of their prowess as are the fishermen. An enthusiastic worshiper at the shrine of the rod and reel turns gréen with envy when he hears ot a friend who made a bigger catch than’ him- self. He hates to admit it and seldom does. All of which accounts for the many stories we hear during the first’ few days of April. But poossibly in their great enthusiasm they really be- lieve themselves, so be génerous in your criticism. : s “When you tramp several miles through. the fields and woods to a desolate pool that years ago held:big, The order came from the |fat trout and vou éast all day, says one of our most enterprising sports- men, and don’t catch a thing; and then when you are disgusted and start home, but stop at a public road- -ldg stream for one last throw and you catch a ‘weak, puny little shrimp —Ain’tit a gran’ an’ glorious feelin'.” . - Many people were surprised td learn by’ the water commissioners’ state- ments before the finance board that New Britain ‘is not one bit better oft for its water supply tHan it was five or six yéars ago when, during a sum- mer drought, it was necessary to shut Off a1l unneeessary use of water. The reafion i that New Britain has so ex- Panded amd developed that what was aniadequate supply a few years ago had bacome only nominal now. Plans under. way by the water board will, when finished, positively provide against' any summer's’ drougth and will be. sufficient to care for 'a ecity of 200,000, Commissioner E, N. Hum- Dhrey states. This* being so New Britaln ought not to have to wo: about an additional water supply dur- ing:the life of the present generation.' The Home Guard idea 1 viewed with favor by New' B:fl’x: Deople. It is safe to predict that this city will soon boast of a battalion second to none in the state. Taxpayers for the past several years have been watching the tax rate grad- ually rise until last year when it was to 19.6 mill Now -they face & 20 1-2 mill tax. Next year it will nd’| Probably go higher, if the past can be taken as an indication of what the future holds forth.’ How can it be stopped, is asked: Apparently this steady rise of tax rate cannot be stopped if the necessary demands of this growing city are to be met; unless there is some new way - of money. Mayor Quigley and the fin- ance board has certainly tried ‘hard enough to keep.the tax rate down. Now, the. mayor, asserts he feels that the only way to provide ag: con- stantly increasing tax rates is to so rearrange the. grand list that it will supply a greater revenue. In this the mayor is not far from being correct. There will have to be a radical change in the assessment system. There will have to 'be a couple of assessors who will devote their entire.time to:com- piling the grand list. The grand list itself will have to' be rearranged and placed on a equitable basis. Under the present system the income of the city is not keeping up with its growth and constantly increasing demands. Under a changed assessment system people would have to pay their fair ratio. Some would have to pay more taxes and others would pay less, but the plan would be eminently fair. ‘With two all time asseasors they could investigate more carefully the real valuation of various holdings and per- sonal properties could also be assessed to a greater extent. There is one thing sure, and that is unless some- thing is done to increase the city's revenue in a few years the taxpayers will be burdened with an almost pro- hibitive ‘tax and the city will cease to be an attractive place in which to live.. The neighboring town of Hart- ford has just rearranged its assess- ment plan and it is said to be work- ing out satisfactorily. Property which is really worth more is assessed at its full value and property worth less is taxed in a corresponding manner. That some new assessment -plan to in- sure a full valuation grand list would recult in a greater revenue is indi- cated by a glance over the grand list. In many instances it is evident thai certain properties would not be sold by the owners at th-; price lsted. .. Particularly since the visit of the firebug, after which the New Britain Machine company took it upon itself at its own expense.to light with a searchlight Bigglow street extension between Chestnut and Church streets, people Have been wondering exactly what the status of this thoroughfare may be. If it is a public stréet there is no reason why the factory should have to stand the expense of light- ing it, even thought it is for reasons of safety. This stretch is a very dark one and under ordinary conditions should be lighted at night. While fhere may be some variance of opin- fon between city officials and railroad company authorities as to th~ status of this street, it is generally ::ccepted by the former as an accep'ed city street. It is paved, has a sidewalk, a subway and a sewer. Now it will in- terest the complaining public to know that the board of public works has some time since made arrange- ments for the installation of an elec- tric light .midway between Chestnut and Church streets which will be set up immediately the standard ar- rives. . It will be a much needed pub- lic improvement for this pilece of highway is used more, possibly, than arny other connecting link ‘between the sottheastern section and the center of the city. « o Action of C. F. Smith in expend- ing $9,500 of his own money for land in the southern part of the city and then volunteering to turm it over to the city at that price to' be used as park purposes is cammendable, Mr. Smith’s_public spiritedness is further shown by his heretofore unpublished Tefusal to be reimbursed for any taxes he has paid on the property since he has been holding it pending the rcity's decision. In refere o this park, the city can’ do uo;m more popular-than to fix it temporarily so that it ecan at be used as a ball fleld or play- ‘ground. Already it stands to cost the- city $15,000 and if by the ex- penditure of a slight ad@itional ureoflcul.lhypdnlnm.w stration of the' utility of the potate was probably that of M. Parmentier of France, who gave a grand eators’ amount 1t could be made of value to | tainment at Paris, toward the end of. the community at once it would be conferring a benefit on thousands, LS ‘When the common council meets on Wednesday evening several of the members will sing| their swan song, so-called, as this 1l be the final meeting of this body. When the April council meeting is held it will be a new council and already Mayor Quigley is busy preparing his an- nual message, which is said to con- tain some admirable recommendations regarding the policy of change in the present asséssment systerf. Ome of the last actions of the 1916-1917 council_will be to fix the salary of the building ' inspector. At present the position calls for only a part time officlal and the salary if $800 per year. At a previous council meeting and this will be done mext Wednes- day. Just what figure the council ‘will recommend is of course unknown, but it will be between $2,000 and $2,600, presumably the Ilatter. dezen council members canvassed have expresséd satisfaction with a $2,500 salary. Two have declared themselves for $2,200 and one has sald $2,00 is enough. Others are open to ‘conviction. For & basis of com- some other Commecticut cities where they have an all #me inspector might be cited. . In both Waterbury and New Haven: the building in< spector receives $3,000 per vear and his transportation. In Hartford the salary is $2,600; but it is said that the position there at present is a poli- tical football. Revisions are even now under way in the capitol city to take the office more out af politics, place it on a substantial foundation and pay the incumbent $4908. When the type of man necessary for build- ing inspector is considered $2,5600 does not seem an sxorbitant salary. He must be a man who' is thoroughly versed in the building-contracting ‘business and he must devote his en- tire time to the job, giving up any private contracting business in which he may be interested. THE POTATO. (By James Shepard.) Our common potato, white potato, Irish potato, skyrels of Peru, pommel de terre. or earth-apple, as’the potato. has been variously called, is a native of the Andes in South America, par- ticularly of Chili and Peru. At the present. time the word potato is gen- erally understood as referring to-the plant or tubers of the solanum tuber- osum, but as used by English writers, before the middle of the seventeenth century, it referred to the Span- ish or sweet potato, batatas edulis. The name potato comes from - the Spanish batatas, which was errone- ously applied to a plant of an entirely different character. The batatas be- longed to the bindweed, or morning glory. family, white the solanum .be- longs to the night shade family which includes amoéng other plants, tobacco, tomato, egg plant and the pepper plant. S8ir John Gerade, ‘in his Herbal, 1636, gave:the name batatas virginiana, to our common potato. He had it in his garden at Holborn, and recommended that the roots be eaten as a delicate dish and not as common food. It is supposed to have been first introduced into Spain from the region of Quito, 8. A, early in the sixteenth century. One writer states that it was first introduced into Europe from Bogota, S. A, by Sir. John Hawkins, an English naval hero, who was engaged in the slave trade from Africa to the West Indies and the Spanish Main, from 1562 to’ 67. It afterwards found its way into Italy and from thence to Mons, in Belgium by one of the attendants of the Pope's legate. The potato and the tobacco plant, the chief relics of Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, were first introduced into England on the return of that expedition in 1586. The occurence of the petato in Virginia ‘was probably due to a recent intro- duction by the Spanish. There is no proof that the aborigines ‘of this country, or of Mexico, ever cultivated the potato. It was planted on' Sir Walter's estate near Cork, and used as food in Ireland long before it ‘was known in England. 3 4 From Spain, the potato was h:tro-] duced into Italy from whence it was carried to Flanders, England, in 1588, at which time it was a‘common arti- cle of food in Italy and was even fed to the pigs. In 1598, it was carried from Mons to the celebrated botanist Ciusius at Vienna, who states that in the eighteenth century, (1778 to 1783.) Benjamin Franklin, Antoine Laurent Lavoister and other celebrat. ed men of that day were present Every dish consisted of potatoes, dressed in an endless variéty of form and fashion; even the ‘wers' the product of this precious root. John Pounds, an English cobbler, was often seen following boys along the wharves with a hot potato in his’ hand. He used the potato as the most; effective inducement'to have the bo; come to his shop and learn to and write. When he died it was estis ted that his hot potatoes had been: the means of bringing 500 boys to use- tul citizenship.—(To be continued:) COMMUNICATED * ‘To the Editor of the Herald: I have a little incident to rélate that might be of interest to readery of the Herald. As I was waiting fof a car one day, a group of boys cam§ alopg on their way home from school. ' Their ages ' ranged -from twelve to sixteen. Two of them . seemed 'to be quarreling, and ' omé - tried to put the othér over the fencd in a very rough way. T As they Tesumed their walk, thE aggrieved ong became very profane in his language—swearing “blue m according to' the saying. It a attention from those who d i To my great relief, a wor_klnmlm_ buked the boy, saying: “Quit . i swearing; I don’t care what he &id t¢ = you. You've got to stop it. Thers are ladies around.” L I wish others would take exampld from this man and rebuke profanity . whenever they hear it We m have less of it, especially on 't street. When I went to school many years ago, we used to learn. precepis from a book of choice selections com< plied by Professor C. A. Northend. One of them is as follows: 3 2 3 “Profanity is & low grovelling vios He who indulges in it is no gentle- man. I care not what his stamp may be ip soclety,—I care not what clothet he wears ar what culture he s v despite all his refinement, the and habitual taking of God's ns vain, betrays a coarse nature brutal will.”, 4 Indignant Oitizen Poetizes on To the Bditor of the Herald: Now that the repairing of somé ' the streets is being talked of, % one of great importance that 4 not escape the attention of the eoms Myrtle street is ofe the poorest paved thoroughfa the Hardware City, and has that Volumes of ‘business ia being ‘#o! daily by the several manufacturefs the street, and being one of the prime clpl‘: ones, it should receive ;M tention due it. . ' Tons and tons of various merchams: dise produced by the several fac- tories, are beéing daily convoym,. the freight houpes, over this In its present condition it is a.very trying ordeal to both drivers u.nl_ horses. t ’ If I am not mistaken, ‘I belleve . that the commission last * % promised to put this street in good. condition. If that promise was made by them, it should not be overlooked for some other matter, perhaps ot less importance. Myrtle street is. nearly in the heart. . of the city, leading off from Main, and as such, should be the first ons to be considered by the commissions. ers. = The following will give some ides as to the conditions of this street: That street, that beautiful street, Is, 'one of Now Britain's that's. hard to beat, With mud often times that's ankle ‘deep, . 3ach 1o get :o the sidewalk requires quite. a leap. . ¥ For the purpose of clearing up the title to & piece of property on Wal- nut street, purchased some time ago from the late Bennett H. Hibbard, . Morris Raphael, through Attorney M. a short time it spread rapidly through- out Germany. In England, during the reign of .James I, potatoes were 8o rare as to cost two shillings a pound and in 1619 were mentioned as among the articles of food provided for the royal household. In 1633. they were deemed worthy of notice by the Royal society, which took measures to emn- courage their cultivation, but it was not until nearly a century thereafter that they were grown to any great extent in England. In 1725 they were introduced into Scotland. Since then the prejudices which so long ex- .isted against their use both in England and Scotland, have gradually vanished and for many years past the potato crop has been regarded throughout the British Dominions as a most.valu- able addition to the food supply, only second in importance to cereals. In addition to the use of potatoes as a vegetable, they are used largely in making starch. They are the basis of certain farinaceous foods and are mixed with wheat flour in making bread. From potato starch ' a . sub- stance is produced, annalogous'to gum and is called dexterine. The waste potato pulp which is left in the manu- facture of starch becomes-exceedingly: hard when ‘dried and: snuff hoxes have been made of this residue. Scraped raw potatoes are a popular cooling application for burns and scalds. Potato brandy and wine is used .in large quantities on the continemt.. An extract made from the stalks and leaves has:boen. d as.a D. Saxe, has, brought action with papers returnable in superior court -’ the first Tyeeday in April. When the - Luilding was erected thirteen years ago, George B. Gerard, ‘then a resi- dent of city, who was In’ charge ot the work, filed a mechan- lmu’flm laimed to be due, wa , © . later and the llen removed, fl!. through an error. no record of tho near * % its letion. THe wing compl ’s t‘ action was filed with the city clerk, ' Hecause of this, the purchaser found: there was & cloud on the title and *he: action to clear it was decided on. No- tice has been served upon Mr. Gerard, now a resident.of Oakland, Caiifornia., . SHOWER FOR, HEAD NURSE. . In recognition of her approaching. . marriage to Louls F. Scheyd, Miss M. Jennie Whitbéck, head nurse New Britain Geners! Hospital, was enjoyable miscell rhower of linen, cut glass and | ware by her colleagues at:the nurses’ home on Griswold street Wednesday. night. There was &n attendance of about twenty. A buffet lunch, pre- . pared as only nurses know how to, was served and there was an informal | program of music; dancing and games. Miss Whitbeck, who is populac among those under her as well.. as among those who have been patients: at the institution on the hill, recel: many well wishes' for future haj ness. Misses Mary V. Preissel Emily Pepper comprised “n mittee in charge of the I 55 b uttHe Y ¥ < iansgus ;