New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1917, Page 11

“|CAPITAL WARM IN GREETING JOFFRE (Continued from First~-Page.) \ Chocheprat and his aides were calling on Secretary Daniels. Meanwhile M. Viviani had visited Vice President Marshall. He nwas invited to address the senate some later time and it was said it might be arranged. McAdoo and Balfour Agree. . Announcement was made today that British Foreign Minister Balfour clothes don't | and Secretary McAdoo have ‘arrived at a complete understanding on ques- tions affecting finance, trade, shipping, banking exchange and kindred prob- lems. Mr. Balfour expressed himself as .pleased .with the sympathetic understanding and the co-operation of the American government. EXPECT RENEWAL OF STRIKE IN GERMANY (Continued from First Page.) * Heppy as a lark, | bother him. | Aman should dress according to his £ Business. s For reliable, solid, Business and Professional Men, we have Suits l.ht are smart in style, reliable in Quality, and cOnservative in patterns 818 to $30. For the Young Fellow: we have Suits with style in every line—patterns that are lively and distinctive, $15 to in the turmoil of battle for life or death, for existence or non-existence.” 250,000 on Strike, Washington Hears. ‘Washington, April 26.—Reports to the state department through official ch.n;z:g tell of a strike of 250,000 labo! in Berlin. While the name of the official who gave the information is withheld the department says the incident shows the growth of desire for peace on the part of the workmen. It is reported also that bread rations have been reduced from 1900 to 1600 grams per week. NEW BRITAIN, TOM. e . s AMERICANS IN GERMANY. Editor Wazxes Saromstic Over the 442 Still There, T Amsterdam, April 26.—The Rein- ische Westfalische Zeitung says the T Spanish Legation in Berlin has as- POLITICAL EXPENSES can citizens in Germany, of which 189 | Republican Party Spends $319.49 and are men, 175 women and seventy- 2 eight children. Of the total number | Democrats Expend $83—Other Ex- forty-six are students and 145 busi- penses. ness men, dentists, physicians, artists Chairmen E. N. Humphrey of the republican town committee, in filing etc. Only 186 of the 442 were born in America. The newpaper says: “These Americans, who have turned | the election experises of his party, their backs on the old country, pos- | made the following statement: Unex- sibly to escape military service, now | pended balance from last election, claim the right of hospitality here, | $660.35; amount recelved, $85; amount While their hearts and tax bills be-]expended, $319.4 The largest dona- long overseas. Perhaps the noble | tions were: A. P. Marsh, $25; William Prince of Péace Wilson will' claim | Zeigler, $15: Gardner C. Weld, $10 them back to help American mili- |and E. M. Pratt—$10. tarism fight German militarism. T. J. Smith, treasurer of the dem- Students continue their studies here, | ocratic town committee, showed a de- which is comprehensible, as we still | ficit of $342.82 from the last election, are treating Americans as ?! the | At the April election the party re- elect. S ceived $83 and expended $37.50. At e —————tesiiem== | present. there are unpaid bills of $298.- Fo the Board of County Commission- | 33, the treasurer having paid $45.50 ers For Hartford County: on old bills. 1 Hereby Apply for a License to C. J. Cox, political agent for Alexan- well- Spirituous and Intoxicating Liq- [ der L. Mackey, candidate for alder- uars, Ale, Lager Beer, Rhine Wine, ! man in the third ward, filed an ex- and Cider at 284 South Main Street, | pense account of $43.40. W. N. Mc- Town of New Britain. My place of | Kirdy, treasurer of the fourth repub- L business is not located within two |lican district, filed expenses of $5. hundred ifeet in direct line from any | Joseph A. Kloskowski, as treasurer of IChurch Edifice or Public or Parochial | the fifth ward republicans, had ex- [A8choof, or the premises pertaining | penses of $110, the biggest item of ‘mmw, or any post office, public li- [-which was $50 for ten men on election rary, or cemetery. day. nr,"ed at New Britain, this 16th day C. N. Hubbard, prohibition party pril, A. D. 1917. treasurer filed his total receipts as JOSEPH LANDINO, $101.17; expenses, $4.10; balance, $97.- Applicant. | 97- G ‘We, the Undersigned, are electors : and tax-payers, owning real estate, of BOYS ROB GROCERY STORE. the Town of New Britain, and hereby Boys, forcing an entrance through a sign and endorse the foregoing appli- | rear window, visited Giacomo DiVici- cation of Joseph Landino for a li- | no’s grocery and canfectionary store cense,, and hereby certify that said | at 86 Beaver street about midnight applicant is a suitable person to be [ last night, going through the stock aftd licensed pursuant to said application. | stealing between $30 and $25. Detec- Dated at New Britain, this 16th day | tive A.'J. Richardson assigned to the (of April, A. D. 1917. case, soon located two small boys liv- F. F. Farrell, John Mahenfaldt, | ing in that neighborhood who are al- Alfred Johnson, S. Hutten, Isaac |leged to have confessed and about $19 Rapp. was recovered. Because of their fam- 1 Hereby Certify that the above- |ily connections and youth, the names “pamed signers and endorsers are |2re withheld by the authorities. A electors and tax-payers owning real | trip to Hartford was made this morn- estate in the Town of New Britain. | Ing and a part of the missing money Dated at New Britain, this 16th day | Wa® used to buy electric search lights, ' of April, A. D. 1917. etc. A brother of one of the boys, said .ALF'RED L. THOMPSON, to have been vexed because of nhot be- 3 Town Clerk. | in8 “In on the job” and refused a part = - | in the division of spolls is claimed fo have given the police sufficient infor- mation to lead to the arrests. At a Court of Probate holden at w Britain, within and for the Dis- trict of Berlin, in the County of Hart- ¥ rd and State of Connecticut, on the ith day of April, A, D, 1917. Present, Bernard F. Gaffney, judge. Estate of Annie Donnellq of Ber- lin, in said district, incapable. pon the petition of Dan Donnelly of said Berlin, praying that his resig- mntion as conservator of Annie Don- pelly may be accepted and his ac- count as such conservator be ap- oved as per application on file more ully appears, it is Ordered—that said application be, heard and determined at the Probate Office in New RBritain, in said district, KING RE-ENGAGED. At the annual meeting of the Cen- tral Connecticut Brick company held yesterday, C. W. King was chosen marnager of the exchange for one year, dating from May 1. Mr. King has been in charge of the local office in the National Bank building, for the past year and has given excellent sat- isfaction. ——————— To the Board of County Commission- ers For Hartford County: T Hereby Apply for a License to sell Spirituous and Intoxicating on the 30th day of April, A. D. 1917, L\qmr;:_. Ale, Lager Beer, Rhine Wine, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, and that | 8nd Cider at 2 Rallroad Arcade, notice be given of the pendency of | TOWN of New Britain, My place of said application and the time and |Pusiness is not located within two place of hearing thereon, by publish- hundred feet (is located within feet) 1ing tbis order in some newspaper in a direct line from any Church Edi- published In said New Britain, having | fice or Public or Parochial School, or | g circulation in said district and by |the Premises pertaining thereto, or | posting a policy thereof on the public | 27Y post-office, public library, or ‘cem: sign-post in town of Berlin, in said b 5 . dl‘étnrlct. 474 Heturs SRLs; Dated at New Britain, e o NEY. |Oof April, A. D., 1917. 4 B ENEL MICHAEL T. WHITE, Applicant. We, the Undersigned, are electors and tax-payers, owning real estate, of the Town of New Britain, and hereby and two lsign and endorse the foregoing appli- Andrews, | cation of Michael T. White for a 4-26-tf | license, and hereby certify that said applicant is a suitable person to be WANTED—Young lady for masg: |licensed pursuant to said application. ginc collecting. Apply Room 9, Dated at New Britain, this 16th day 193 Main strcet, between 8 and 8:30 | of April, A. D., 1917. 4-36-tf | Patrick J. Ahern, Edward A. Park- er, W. W. Hanna, R. H. Corbett, Thos. WANTED—Bookkecper. In answering | F. #arrell state experience and salary ex- I Hereby Certify that the above- pected. Address Bookkeeper, Her- | named signers and endorsers are elec- ald Office 4-26-2dx | tors and tax-payers, owning real estate, in the Town of New Britain. Dated at New Britain, this 16th day of April, A. D., 1917. ALFRED L. THOMPSON, Town Clerk. this 16th day 900 LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION. WANTED—Two drivers men for inside work. Swift & Co. TED—Experienced power ma- dhine operator. Good wages. Eddy Awning and Decorating Co. 4-26-2dx R NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 017, City Items The public amusement commission held a meeting at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. A tea to which the public is cordial- ly invited, will be held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon by the Working Girls' club in Judd's hall. The final games in the pinochle tournament of the Y. M. T. A. & B. society and Daly council, K. of C., will be played this evening in T. A. B. hall. Miss Marguerite Miles of 425 West Main street, a student at the National Academy of Design in New York, is ‘home for the summer vacation and ‘has gone to Boston, where she will be the guest of her cousin, Miss Susie True, for the next three weeks. Carl H, Johneonh and Miss Hannah C. Froberg of Hartford were married at 5 o'clock yesterday by Rev. M. 8. Anderson at the Emmanuel Gospel church parsonage. The couple will make their future home in Hartford. Arhab Kalonstian; an'Armenian, re- siding at 183 Washington street, had two fingers on his right Nand badly mangled in a machine at the Stanley Works yesterday afternoon. Dr. E. T. Fromen, who attended the injured man at the New Britain General hos- pital, found it necessary to amputate the fingers. * t 3 y Probation “Officer ‘Edward C. Con- nolly has returned from New York where he attended several of the Bil- ly Sunday services. He was much im- pressed with the enthusiasm mani- fested and was convinced of Billy's sineerity and effectiveness as a speak- er. James Skinner of number 277 Chestnut street, fourteen years old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Skinner, was operated on for appendicitis at the local hospital yesterday by Dr. Carl J. Hart. His condition .is reported as favorable from the hospital today. Cases of diphthéria on Woodland and Harvard streets were placed under | quarantine by the health department today. John Kowalski of 280 Main street, injured .Saturday at the Church street crossing when he was struck by a New Britain-bound train from Berlin, is reported as being slightly improved at New Britain General hosptal today and there are now hopes for recovery. The regular meeting of St. Mary's Ladies T. A. B. society is called for this evening at 7:30 o'clock in St. Mary’s school hail. BIRD STUDY CLUB Members See Foreign Specimens From Robert Andrews’ Aviary—Tiwo Put- ings Arranged for Studcnts. The Stanley Quarter Bird Study club met at the Stanley street school house last evening. Robert Andrews presented an exhibit from his aviary consisting of live birds fram foreign lands—Australian paraquets, Grena- dier weavers, Japanese finches and whité-headed nuns, Java sparrows, orange-breasted finches from Italy, yellow nuns from China, red-headdl Amadines from Spain, English chaf- finches, Mexican yellow paroquets and zebra finches from Northern Europe. The beauty and the variety of the birds made the exhibit tne of un- usual interest. Two outings were arranged—an ob- servation day for Saturday, May 12, and an evening ramble for some time in June. For the May 12th outing, the club will be divided into groups which will meet at the school house at & o’clock to report the result of their observations. Report was made of an obseration trip by the children of the Stanley school. The club will .co- operate in a meeting of nature study clubs at the bird sanctuary in South Norwalk to be held this summer. E. O. Kilbourne had secured twenty bird houses made by the pupils of the Prevocational school and arrangements will be made for plac- ing them in the trees in the Stanley Quarter. This is the introductory move in a ‘concerted endeavor to en- courtge insectivoraus birds to make their homes in that section. BIGGEST CHECK EVER DRAWN Piece of Paper, Six by Eight Inches, Valued at $200,000,000. Deposited by Morgan & Co. New York, April 26—Twenty cashiers’ checks for ten millions each passed through the clearing house | today, completing the transaction for the transfer of $200,000,000 from the government of the United States to the government of Great Britain. ‘These checks payable to J. P. Morgan & Co. were passed out by the federal reserve bank here yesterday in re- turn for a check for the full amount deposited by the Morgan firm soon after Secretary McAdoo of the treas- ury had handed to the British am- bassador in Washington a treasury warrant for the first installment of the government loan to Great Britain. The check deposited by Morgan & Co. is.sald to be the largest ever drawn. It was written in long hand upon a sheet of white paper six by eight inches and signed “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- land, by Sam H. Lever. financial sec- retary.’ ' The twenty $10,000,000 checks were deposited with Morgan & Co. at various banks. SCOUTS TO GIVE DANCE. Troops 10 Boy Scouts of America will‘ give their semi-annual _dance Tuesday evening, May 1, at Booth's hall, Lynch’s orchestra will furnish \he music for dancing. The follow- ing have been appointed committee chairmap, Scout Kolodney, tickets; ‘Wolfe. refreshments; Goldstein, checking, and Horwitz, entertaining. An invitation is extended to all of the troops in the city to attend. The proceeds. from the dance will go to- ward a camping fund. l DEATHS AND FUNERALS. ° Miss Grace M, Reancy. The funeral of Miss Grace M. Reaney- was held at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon from 51 Woodland street with Rev. N. H. Harriman, pastor of People’s church, officiating. Burial was in Fairview cemetery. Mrs. Ann Odell. The funeral of Mrs. Ann Odell was held this morning from the home of relatives in Winsted, the body being brought to this city for burlal in St. Mary’s new cemetery. August F. Foth. The funeral of August F. Foth was held at 2 o’clock this afternoon from hfs home at 139 Cherry street with Rev. Warren F. Cook pastor of Trin- ity Methodist church, officiating. There ‘was a wealth of floral tributes and rep- resentation from the orgnizations with Which he was affillated and former shopmates. The bearers were Louis W. Fodt, Charles Hemingway, William Fleischer, Victor Potter, William Dam- ling and Neal Yergensen. Burial wasin Fairview cemetery. Mr. Foth was aged fifty-eight years, having been born in Germany March 5, 1859. He came to New Britain more than thirty years ago and has been a resident of this city since then. He was prominently identified with Eintracht lodge No. 2, O. D. H. 8., and of Vater Jahn lodge, No. 301, D. O, H. For many years he was employed at the Russll & Erwin plant as an assist- ant foreman. Faithfulness to duty was one of his characteristics, he sel- dom being absent from his post, even when ill, He was a very sick man Sat- urday, but insisted upon reporting for work, remaining there until he par- tially collapsed and had to be assisted home. Mrs. Ann Faulkner. The funeral of Mrs, Ann Faulkner of 250 High stréet was held at 9 c'clock this morning from St. Mary's church with the celebration of a sol- emn high mass of requiem by Rev. J E. Fay. Rev, W. A, Krause was deacon and Rev. John T. Winters, sub- deacon. Father Winters officlited at the committal service in'St, Mary's old cemetery. Thomas, Patrick, Hugh and Hugh J. Heslin, M. J. Welch of this city and Thomas Martin of Southington were the bearers, The flower bearers were T. McKeon and James Welch. e Misg Alice Kysek. The funeral of Miss ‘Alice Kysek was held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from her home at 211 Cherry street with Rev. F. E. Thompson, assistant pastor of the South Congregational church, officiating. Burial was in Fairview cemetery. Card of Thanks, We wish to express our thanks to militiamen, friends at the Mohican market and others for their kindness during the illness and at the death of our beloved husband, father and brother, Sergeant William H. Brown. MRS. WILLIAM H. BROWN AND DAUGHTER, MRS RAYMOND CLARK. PLOWING HOME GARDENS. ‘Work Beging Today at Monroe Strect Plot. The chairman of the Home Garden committees met at the Chamber of Commerce rooms this morning at 11 o'clock and favorab! reports were made. The committees have already investigated several desirable plots and the work of plowing up the Mon- roe street marden plots began today. The Chamber of Commerce will be open on Saturday afternoon and eve- ning of this week to receive applica- tions from people who desire the use of garden land. The office will also ‘be open every evening next weekfor the same purpose. The' general com- mittee will meet agdin tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock. Radcliff H. Smith, ‘manager of the A. C. Hine company of Hartford, has offered the use of the land at East street extension to the Boy Scouts of Troop 10 for farming purposes. Scout- master Horwitz has accepted Mr. Smith's very kind offer and with the help of his troop will try and make it one of the best gardens in the city. GIRL SCOUT PLAY. Troop 2 of tle Girl Scouts presented a “Modern Cinderella” in the chapel of the First Congregational church last evening before a large audience. The Sunday school orchestra fur- nished the music and opened the pro- gram by playing two selections. Dor- othy Booth took the part of the “Modern Cinderella” and played her part in approved style. Other youns women who took part were Dotha ‘White, Katherine Switt, Virginla Slade, Doris Bradley, Pearl Cramer and Ruth Schafer. These young ladies featured the entertainment by dancing and singing. The proceeds will go toward financing the recent Girl Scout campaign and the summer camp. EMPLOYES PURCHASE FLAG. Employes of the Corbin Screw Cor- ‘poration, by voluntary subscription, ralsed sufficient funds to purchase an American flag, 8 by 16 feet, which was raised on the top of the building on High street with fitting geremonies yesterday afternoon. Recently the employes of the rolling mill and west vard at the Stanley Works contributed to purchase a large flag which now fifes over that part of the factory grounds. TALK ON GARDENS. The Stanley school Parents’ and Teachers’ association is to hold a meeting at the school on Tuesday night when the home garden plan will be thoroughly discussed. An ex- pert from Storrs college will speak. BERNHARDT MUCH IMPROVED. New Yark, April 26.—The physic- jans attending Sarah Bernhardt said today her improvement was so marked that they would reduce the number of consultations cach day, [ : fvuse HARTFORD. H. 0.P. SPORT SUITS for Ladies and Misses $14.95 to $65.00 | Steel and Pig Iron Markets The Iron says: Steel manufacturers will meet on Thursday to arrange for distributing throughout the industry very consid- erable government orders for vessels, navy yard and ordnance steel which were largely put in the hands of the United States Steel corporation. The Government is expected to .place early contracts for fully 300,000 tons of plates, shapes and bars, and the amount it will want this year ex- ceeds the first estimates, being now put at 1,000,000 tons. Already govern- ment business taken at Pittsburgh amounts to 100,000 tons of plates. Intimations that the government Will be asked by the Allies to aid them in securing special concessions on steel and copper are cropping up more frequently. The British gov- ernment’'s copper contract expires in 60 days and the question of the still unused amount of the 200,000 gross tons bought for the first half is cut- ting ada undue figure in the ourrent market. All indications today are strongly against the extension of such low prices as our government has se- cured on steel and copper to any of the European governments. Manufacturing consumers are not yet facing hardship because of the preference to Allies and the govern- ment in deliveries; but some of them are moving in the matter of their 1918 needs. Independent steel makers as a rule refuse to entertain such busi- ness, and where protection is given it is without any assurance as to price. Belief is that fresh foreign buying facilitated by the big government loan now authorized, will come soon under the direction of Great Britain, probably even for the railroad materi- all desired by Russia. France, with a new ‘credit, will also be in the market. As an example, that country wants 2%,000 tons more of 19-lb ralls to lay 700 miles of portable track. A 4000- ton order for the same purpose was recently placed at Cleveland. Though domestic buying has not been free in the past week, there is no halt in the upward movement of finished steel prices. One of the large structural mills with a good record in deliveries has raised its minimum $5 per ton, so that shapes that can be had in a’few months are scarce at 4c, Pittsburgh. and as high as 6c is paid. Kach case is a special one. The range of steel bars for any shipment seems now to be 3.5¢ to 4c. Pittsburgh Plates range well beyond 5c¢ as a mini- mum. Several independent wire in- terests now ask the $6 advance of last week. o About 200,000 tons of rails have been sold under conditions of mill conveniences, or delivery in 1919, 30,000 tons having been booked for the East. At Chicago the Union Pa- cific has asked for 30,000 tons for 1918 and the Illinois Central for 60,000 fons for 1918-19. The Pennsyl- vannia railroad has bought 15.000 tons of steel at Pittsburgh for 1,000 cars it is to build in its own shops. An example of the concessions sought on the score of Government needs is the proposal of a committee of agricultural implement makers to secure lower prices or at least accel- erated deliveries of bars, in encourage- ment of the larger Trop movement. Semi-finished steel goes up easily. A sale of 2,000 tons of sheet bars puts that market at $80, and openhearth billets have brought as much. More concern is felt as to ferro- manganese. Great Britain’s shipments are lessening and efforts of some inde- pendent steel companies to bring more manganese ores from Brazil have had little success. Domestic fer- romanganese has sold up to $450. Canada. has suddenly embargoed shipments of steel turnings to this country, though some contracts be- tween our steel works and Canadian munitions works call for the return of the crop ends and borings. The early starting up of the government electric steel plant at Toronto which was de- signed to convert turnings may explain the new order. Tin-plate workers are taking advan- tage of war demand to strike for the unionizing of one plant, and other like strikes are threatened. The halt in the pig-iron rise was short-livéd. Eastern and Pittsburgh markets have been quiet, but Cleve- land, Cincinnati. Chicago and St- Louis all report a week of good sales, large- 1y for delivery in the first half of 1918. Prices for such delivery are coming closer to those for this year. Resale iron continues to figure in Eastern transactions, but with little effect on the march of priges. Railroads and iron-ore shippers find the problem, of moving this year's output of Lake ores much more diffi- cult than that of 1916 and there is al ready the specter of an ore shortage. Similar alarmist talk through the whole season last year resulted in getting down all the ore needed. CRUSHED BY AUTO. Badly bruised about the body but believed to have suffered no fractured bones or serious internal injuries, Nicholas Logan, employed in state highway construction at Forestville, iy at New Britain General hospital as a result of getting caught between a heavy wagon and tree this forenoon. He was transferred to the hospital in O’Brien’s ambulance of Bristol. 1t is expected that he will recover.” Richter&Co. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 31 West Main Street, City Hall Building ' Telephone 2040 100 shs American Hard- 3 ware. 100 shs Landers, Frary & ~Clark 50 shs North & Judd 25 shs American Brass 50 shs N. B. Machine < A 25 shs Stanley Rule & ~ Level 100 shs Stanley Works 10 shs Bristol Brass 50 shs Traut & Hine 25 shs Scovill Mfg. Co. 50 shs Union Mfg. Co. 10 shs New Britain Trust Co. ; Financial § MARKET CONTINUES CUSTOMARY COURSE High at Opening, Dropping Later and Then Rebounding ‘Wall Street—The market pursued the same course as on the previous day | easing off after the first rise and soon rebounding more vigorously on fur- ther enforced short coverings. Metals were most conspicuous, being helped over night statements of earnings. Utah was again the strongest of that division, rising 2 points with 1 to 1% for Anaconda and American Smelting. Steel rallied from its decline touching 1173% before noon and Bethlehem, Midvale and Great Northern ore ranged from 1 to 2 points higher with half for Central Leathers. Coalers and New York Central were active. Bonds were irregular. Industrials fell one to two points from best prices in the last hour, but rails and shippings were then at high- est quotations. The closing was irreg- ular. Sales approximated 925,000 shares. New York Stock Eschange quota- tions furnished by Richter & Co., members of the New York Stock Ex- change. Represented by E. W. Edady. ; April 26, 1917 Low Close 93 933 7 Y 90% 91 6TY% 67% 45% 46% 68% 68% 1003 101% 112 112% 103% 129% 21% 58 82% 75% 29% 96 % 81% High 9415 ceess TH Am Beet Sugar .. Alaska Gold Am Ag Chem .... 91 Am Car & Fdy Co. 68 Am Can . 46% Am Loco . 69% Am Smelting .....1021% Am Sugar . J1127% Am Tobacco .....190% Am Tel & Tel .1238% Anaconda Cop . 81 A TS Fe Ry Co..1035% Baldwin Loco . 67 B&O. BRT . Beth Steel . Butte Superfor ... 43% Canadian Pacific .162% Centra) Leather .. 89% Ches & Ohio ..... 61% Chino Copper . b5% Chi Mi] & St Paul. 83% ColF &I ... . 50 Cons Gas . L1133 Crucible Steel 643% Del & Hudson 23 Distillers Sec . . 15 b T 28% Erie 1st pfd .. 42% Goodrich Rub . 52 Great Nor pfd ...110% Gt Nor Ore Cetfs. 33% Illinois Central. .,104 Inspiration = ..... 58% Interborough ... 10 Kennecott Cop . Lack Steel Lehigh Val Louis & Nash . Max Mot com Mex Petrol Natl Lead .... NYC & Hud ... Nev Cons NYNH&H Nor Pac .. ..103% Norf & West . 130% Pac Mail S SCo .. 21% Penn RR ....... 53% Peoples Gas ...... 84% Pressed Steel Car . 761 Ray Cons .. 303 Reading .. . 9T% Rep I & S com .. 83% So Pac .... So. 190% 190% 123% 9% 103 55% 6% 6514 135 a3y 161 86% 61 54l 8315 49Y 113% 62% 123 14% 27% 421 . 50% 110% 33% 104 56% 10 45% '6% 657% 131 49% ]8% 56 7% 943 235, 41% 123% T9% 103 55 % RR 423 28 % So Ry pfd . Studebaker Texas Oil .. Third Ave . Union Pac . United Fruit Utah Cop .. U 8 Rub Co U S Steel ... U S Steel pfd . Va Car Chem . Willys Overland ‘Wesinghouse .. Midvale .. LOCAL STOCR MARKET (Furnished by Richter and Company.) The local market has been some- g what active today with a better de- & mand for practically all stocks. At a meeting of the American Brass Com- pany directors, held today, a regular dividend of 123 per cent. and an ex- tra of 11 per cent. was declared, pay- able May 15th, to stockholders of record May 1st.. Stock was somewhat = stronger with sales during the day at 316. Standard Screw common Wwas also strong, and sold as high as 360. 565 is bid for Scovill' Manufacturing stock, with very little stock in th market. Niles Bement-Pond common /. is also in demand and is quoted 163 bid, 166 asked. There were sales of' Stanley Works at 100, and American Hardware at 135, With the New York market continuing strong there should |be a further advance in our locals in the near future. Below are the closing quotations. ) American Brass ........ 314 American Hardware . 133 American Silver .. 297 , Bristol Brass .. 53 Billings & Spencer Lk Colts Arms Landers, Frary & Clark New Britain Machine. .. North & Judd ........ Peck, Stow & Wilcox Russell Mfg. Co. ....... Standard Screw Common 38560 Stanley Rule & Level ... 400 Stanley Works Traut & Hine . Union Mfg. Co. Scovill Mfg. Co. .. Niles Bement-Pond Com 163 59 58% 8634 208 30 . 137% 13414 114 58% 115% 118% /317 3 7136 4§ 33 COLT'S GETS BIC ORDER, Wall Streét Journal Says $15,000,000 ¢ Contract Goes to Hartford. A Washington dispatch to the Wal Street Journal states that the federal government has placed large orders for munitions with the Colt’s Patent Firearms company of Hartford, large quantities of stock in which are held by local investers. It is also under- stood that the Marlin Arms company of New Haven has received a big war order. It is unofiicially stated that the con- tract with Coit’s calls for $15,000,000 for automatic pistols and Colt and Vicker-Maxim guns. Colt’s factory iy . equipping the army with pistols. HOME GUARD OFFICERS. Captain F. H. Johnston Appoints Sev- eral Non-Coms at Weekly Drill The second company, Home Guard, held #ts regular weekly drill last night at the state armory with full ranks, under command of Captain F. H. Jolinston. The men are improv- ing rapidly under the instruction of Lieutenants Spittler, Willlams and Sergeant Liepetz. . Owing to over 200 men having en- listed in ghe two companies, recruit- ing has been stopped temporarily. Captain Johnston announces appoint- ments as follows: First sergeant, J. N. Liepetz, Jr.; quartermaster ser- geant, L. M. Barnes; first duty ser- geant, Hefiry W. Briere; second duty gergeant, J. W, Marsland and acting ' corporals, James 8. North, Frank G. Sandberg, E. Myron Jones, Charlés 947% |R. Hemenway, Earl Gibney, Robert H. Crawford Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 8 STRONG, RELIABLE CORPORATION organized and qualified through years of efficient, trustworthy service, to act Executor or Administrato; CAPITAL $750,000. Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit 2 M. WHAPLES. Prest. ) as Conservator, Guardian r. _ SURPLUS $750,000 " (o HARTFORD, CONN. |