New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1917, Page 9

. " Reware of tho litts Beo—he may sting you. {The unreliable Clothier may do the isn’t a sting in our., wholc } Qur guarantee of satisfaction wy’ sell is your pro- the substantial, conservative, man, here are dignified, yet Suits in keeping with his ity $ to $— f the Young Man who wants !x 5 quality, and distinctive patterns, syits from $15 to $30. And for all Men—Raincoats. D. Penfield camp, Auxiliary No. I,*will meet this evening in G. A. R. hall. “ The choir of St, John the Evangelist Wijl meet torilght at 7:30 at the f ian'uu Rev. J. J. Fitzgerald. N special meeting of the Congrega- tion Sons of I 1 will be held Sun- day at 10 a. m: to elect delegates to the nominating convention which will neme . délegates to the American Jewish congress, i Miss Ernestine Hennig was ten- dered a miscellaneops shower last evening at the home of Misa Marie Brewin of Fairylew street. Anna {Hennig, Bertha Fags, Emma Dejune hnd Margaret Nelson were the prin- leipsls in & mock marriage. A recita- ‘tior! was given by Eisie Olson. »The following warantee deeds were led today: Lizzie Kulpar ta apd Amelia Drelwikiewcz, Property on Sexton street; Usher Krell to Winifred E. Chapin, .prop- ty on Laurel street; Axel and Jenny 8. Johnson to Robert W, Andrews, property on Linden street; Bodwell !And Co. B. Krakawiak, property ‘Pelvidere extension; Miidred B. B low to Winifred Chnpln. property n hwlor street. | nk In his annual report for the fiscal s filed with Clerk A. E. ell of flu safety board, City Electrician George Cooley calls attention again to his contention that the fire alarm is(not kept up to proper mm. advocates expert advice on the subject and says that he experi- ‘prices’ much difficulty getting help. He ‘advocates the passage of an ordi- hance governing persons who shall be permitted to do electric’ light and ‘power wiring in the city, similar to the governing of plumhkers. An item- Ized list of permits igsued ‘durng the r is glven, showing that there were m for dwelling houses. [CHAMBERLAIN IS . 'HEAD OF SENATE 2 MILITARY AFFAIRS J ‘Benator George E. Chamberlain of Ofegon, chairman of the senate mili- affairs committee, is urging the option of the selective draft system Fl' the enlarged army against the op- don of those who favor the reten- the volunteer method. In this S#pator, whose latest photograph fepfoduced herewith, voices the of the administration with ‘e 15 In close touch. [ INAVAL RECRUIT ENLISTED HERE Henry Ruskiewcz Is First—Bi- listment Rally May 6 New Britain’s first recruit since the naval station was opened here in charge of Chief Radio Electrician M. S. Brainard has offered his services, He is Henry Ruskiewjcz of 222 street, known to many of hie friends as Henry Ross. The young man was employed at Spring & Buckley's and was the third of their employes to join the mavy. He was sent to New Haven this morning o take t‘to final| examinations and ®e formally en- listed into the service. : Several young men visited the re- cruiting office yester and last night one who desired to énlist had to be rejected because he was tao young. Recruiting Rally on May 6. Chief Boatswaipn Thomas L. Mc- Kenna, in charge of the naval head- quarters in Hartford, consulted with Mayor Quigley this morning in refer- ence to having a recruiting raily in this city. It was finally decided to evolve some plan for such a rally on the afternoon of Sunday, May 6. The plan calls far patriotic mass meetings in each of the various theaters, with speeches by naval men, patriotic music; ete. 7 Want Hospital Apprentices. Radio Electrician Brainard has re- eeived instructions from the navy de- partmegt calling for enlistment .of thirty-five men as hospital apprentices, second class, from the Hartford dis- trict. - The depaftment asks that the men be enlisted by June 15. A hos- pital apprentice receives $20.90 a month to start and advancement is rapid. A man entering as a haspital dpprentice, second class, is sent to a | hospital where he is given a thorough training in the work. SWISS OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY. The Swiss soclety of New Britain observed the twenty-fifth anniversary ‘of its organization with a supper and entertainment in Bardeck’s hall last evening. The program of addresses by several of the members was in charge of President Joseph Diemand and was followed by a social hour. A short history of the organization was given by Mr. Diemond and he con- gratulated the members on their suc- cess. 'mbers of the society who have held membership since its ar- genization were presented with gold cuff links. Secretary Herman Markie, Herman Leist and Jacob Bornaskie helped found the society and still re- tain membership. BURNS CLUB IN NEW HAVEN. The annual game of carpet bawls between the Burns eclub of this city and the Caledonians of New Haven was played in that city last evening when, the local club paid their annual visit to New Haven. The Caledonians won a well earned victory. Following the game a social time was held and the_Caledonians served the local men with a fine supper. All the Burns men ‘were enthusiastic over the treatment they received by the New Haven Scotchmen. 'r DEATHS AND FUNERALS. 7 Mrs. John O’Leary. Mrs. John O'Leary of 351 Winches- ter avenue, New Haven, a former lp- cal resident dfed this morning from the effects of a shock sustained about a week ago. She is survived by her husband and a son. James O'Leary. The funeral will be held Monday mrning. John Peck. John Peck, aged 64 years, of Bris- tol died at New. Britain General ho: pital shortly before 11 o’clock this morning after a lengthy illness with organic heart disease. He had been under treatment at the institution for about three weeks. The body was turned over to Undertaker O’Brien of Bristol and taken to that city for funeral and burial. Card of Thanks. ‘We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to kind friends for the sym- pathy offered at the time of the sad death of our beloved “daughter and sister, Grace Reaney. We are par- ticularly grateful to the Parker Shirt company and its employes and to others who contributed flowers. MRS. CHARLOTTB REANEY AND FAMILY. e — SAMPSON-PORTER WEDDING. Arthur W, Sampson, son of Mrs. A. A. 'Sampson, and Miss Irene R. Porter, daughter of Mrs. F. A. Por- ter, were quietly married in the first church chapel this afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. Henry W. Maier, Miss Hazel Sampson, a sister of the bridegroom, played . the wedding march and also rendered a short mus- ical program previous to the cére- mony- Mr. and Mrs. Sampson left immediately after the wedding for Atlantic City where they will spend two weeks. Upon their return they will reside on Black Rock avenue. WIELD FOR DAUGHTER'S DEATH. Unnataral Father Held in Bond of $8,000 for Killing. Northampton, Mass., April 27.— Paul Andros of Hatfield was held in $8,000 bonds for the grand jury .in district court here today following the finding of the body of his 16 year old daughter, Lizzie, beside the trol- ley track near the home late last night. The gir¥s skull was fractured and bore other marks of violence. The court refused to accept Andro’s plea of guilty to charges involving his daughter’s condition prior to death. . NEW BRITAIN DAILY H RALD. " | New Mexico Will Soon Be Ready For Battle THE NEW. MEXICO HlTs THE WARATER The New Mexico, largest of Ameri- can battleships, was launched at the New York nayy yard, Miss Margar- et C. Da Baca, daughter of the late governor of New Mexico, who died in February, acting as sponsor. The pictures shows the New Mexico a mo- ment after she struck the water. She is/the sister ship of the Mississippi and the Idaho, now under construc- tion. She will be the match in size and offensive power of any fighting ship afloat. To man the New Mexico fifty-six officers and 1,141 men will be re- quired. She will burn oil exclusive- ly and will be the first battleship in the world equipped with an electric drive. The construction of the New Mexi- ©0 is now 67 per cent. completed. Her SEIZING NEUTRAL SHIP Germany Offers Safo But Makes Conditions Impossible— “United States” Held Up, Copenhagen, April 27, via London. —eGerman patrol ships are continuing their activities against neutral ship- ping in the Skagerack.- Recently the Scandinavian-American liner United States was halted and examined. Yes- terday the Norwegian steamer Haag- arfar, plying between Frederikshaven, Denmark and Christiansand, Norway, was selzed and taken to a German port. The German officlal nnnouncemem of a safe conduct for neutral steamers leaving British ports oi May 1 is regarded by the Norwegian press as a repetition of the bogus offer of last March, nullified by impossible con- ditions. Shipowners accepting the German safe conduct will have to guarantee that their boats will not traffic with Entente countries. No ‘Norwegian ship owners )mve accepted the offer. CITY MAY MAKE LOAN Mayor Considers Calling Special Meet- ing to Secure Loan Appropriation to Pay for Plowing Garden Tracts. Mayor Quigley stated this after- noon that there is a possibility that he will call a special council meeting next week to, fra appropriation” fer the: «committee and those who are operat- ing under its provisions. If such a meeting is called, the mayor states, the appropriation to be asked will be sought as a loan to the garden committee to pay for plowing garden plots.” The people using these plots would then have to pay thelr fair share back to the committee .and the committee in turn would pay the ‘borrowed money back to City Treas- urer Chamberlain. The mayor,,the garden committee and others are carefully considering the advisability of such a procedure. NOT JINFANTILE PARALYSIS Dr. T. E; Reeks, superintendent of health, announced this afternoon that two tests made by himself and by the | physicians at the isolation hospital in New Haven show that three-years- old Alice Hummell, taken there yes- terday with what was then thought to be infantile paralysis, is not suffering from that disease. Her ailment |{s simple meningitis and is not paraly- sis in its epidemic form. Dollar Day at Chas. Dillion & Co., Hartford- There will be a special sale Choice Millinery at Chas. Dillion & Co, Hartford, tomorrow. Hat bar- gains are offered in their annorince- ment in this paper at §1.00. Thig 18 a’great opportunity to INtw Brit. ain shoppers tomorrow.—advt, of 'y keel was laid Oct. 14 1915. Despite many delays owing to lack of material and skilled labor it is expected she will be fully equipped within the thirty-six months alowed by ‘comtract. Her principal dimensions are: Length over all ..... . 624 feet Breadth, extreme, to outside of armor ... sesesc.. 97 feot Displacement . 32,000 tons Mean draft . 30 feet Speed . 21 knots Her armament will twelve 14- inch guns, twenty-two 6-inch guns, 4 3-pounders, four antiraircraft guns and two torpedo tubes. The launching ceremony was car- ried out under war conditions, fewér than 1,000 persons being present when the great fighter took her plunge into th‘ waters of the East river. HEIR TO $400,000,000 BUT WILLANG TO GO TO WAR AS PRIVATE. MARSHALL F/ELD IIT Marshall Fleld 3d, one of the Wealthlest young men of America, grandson of the late Marshall Fleld, the Chicago.mercant, announced his intention of enlisting as a private in the First Illinois cavalry. 'He is now arranging his business affairs. Mr. Field and his brother, Henry Field, inherited the greater part of their grandfather's estate, and it has been said that their share amounts to $400,- 000,000. PAYS LARGE INGOME TAX Wealthy Patrlot Hands - Collector Check For More Than $50,000 and Loses Interest Amounting to $3,750. New York, April 27.—Some patriotic citizen with a large fortune has paid his income tax six weeks in advance, thereby losing $3,750 in interest. The taxpayey’s name is withheld in accord- i ance with the law but the fact that he handed a check for more than $50,- 000 to the collector of internal rev- enue here, was made public today. TWO KILLED BY EXPRESS, Section Hands Stepped Out of One Derby, April 27.—Richard Boylan of Falls Village and Neils Bowman o Derhy, railroad section hands were kiled by an express train on the Naugatuck division of the “New Haven"” road ‘today at Turkey Brook, between this city and Devon. The men, who were at work on the tracks, had stépped out of the way of an approaching. freight and apparent- ly weré not aware of the oncoming express. | ¥a Car Chem .... ASYLEM MARTFORD. H. O. P. Dress Up and Sport Shirts for men, $1.15 to $7.50. Financial STOCKS ERRATIC AS SPECULATORS RULE ! Declines and Rallies Order of the Day on Exchange ‘Wall street, noon.—Speculative con- ditions ruled during the dull first hour, the erratic course of prominent industrials being typical of the general list. United States Steel, which opened unchanged at 116% soon rose a sub- stantial fraction, only to fall back almost a point from which it rallied. relapsing again later. Other steels were variably under yesterday's final prices-while United Fruit, Ohio Gas, Industrial Alcohol and Maxwell Motors were one to two points lower. Trading became more active in the second hour on a Tresh spurt in steel which advanced to 117% with more moderate gains in metals and rails. Bonds were {rregular. Wall Street closing—Trading was almost at a standstill in the last hour, important stocks as well as specialties developing a lower tendency. The closing was irregular. Sales were estimated at shares. 600,000 New TYork Stock Ezchange quota- tions furnished by Richter & Co., members of the New York Stock Ex- <! Representcd bv E. W. Eddy. April 27, 1917 High Low Qlue Am, Beet Sugar .. 95% 93% Alaska Gold 1T% Am Ag Chem .... 93 Am Car & Fdy Co. 68 Am Am Am Am Am Tobacco ... Tel & Tel Anaconda Cop . A TS Fe By Co..103% Baldwin Loco .... 55% B&O.. « 57 BRT . 651 Butte Superfor ... 43% Canadian Pacific .1623% Central Leather .. 881 Ches & Ohio .... 61 Chino Copper .... 6547% Chi Mil & St Paul. 828 Col F &1I... . 4915 Cons Gas ........113% Crucible Steel Del & Hudson Distillers Sec . Erie .... Erle 1st pfd . General Electric Goodrich Rub . Great Nor pfd . Gt Nor Ore Cetfs. 3413 Illinois Central Inspiration Interborough Interboro pfa Kaneas City so ., Kennecott Cop . Lack Steel .. Lehigh Val ..... Louls & Nash .. Max Mot com . Mex Petrol .. N Y C & Hud . Nev Cons ........ NYNH&HRR N Y Ont & West . Nor Pac Norf & West .. Pac Mall § 8§ Co Penn R R . Peoples Gas . Pressed Steel Car . Ray Cons Reading . Rep I & S com . So Pac .. |80 Ry .: So Ry pfd .. Studebaker Texas Ofl .. ‘Third Ave’ . Union Pac .. United Fruit Utah Cop ... U S Rub Co . U 8 Steel .. U 8 Steel pf .138% 135 11585 58 117% 1185, 45% ‘Westinghouse ..... 49% ‘Western Union .... 95% Willys Overland .. 31 137% 134% 116% 57% 116% 1185 44% 49% 9585, 30 LOCAL STOCK MARKET (Furnished by Richter & Company.) There has been a great deal of ac- tivity in the local market today with particular demand for American Brass which was the leader. Stock opened up’/ with sales in the neighborhood of 317 and sold as high as 329. The market closed 325 bid, 329 asked. Bris- tol Brass was strong in sympathy, opening up with sales at 58 and sell- ing as hifh as 63. The market closed 63 bid, 64 asked. Niles Bement-Pond common was also strong with opening sales at 164. The stock closed 169 bid, 172 asked. Colts Arms was strong with opening sales at 101. The mar- ket closed 103 bid, 1041 asked. There was also a demand for Landers, Frary & Clark, 54 being bid 57 asked. 362 was bid for Standard Screw common, with stock in the market at 366. This is an advance of ahout five poiitts over yesterday’s quotation. We believe that 31% | Richter&Co. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 81 West Main Street, City Ellanilllin(v Telephone 2040 100 shs American Hard- ware. 100 shs Landers, Frary & Clark 50 shs North & Judd 25 shs American Brass 50 shs N. B. Machine 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. this advance in these few stocks is a beginning of a general advance in the whole local market. All of the money that the government is planning to raise for the war is going to be spent in this country. Taxes are going to be fair and not burdensome. There m; never been a war yet, that this try has anything to do with, tha dld not mean prosperity for our industries. Below are thc closing quotations: Bld Asked .325 .183. cees 29 Amerlcan Brass .. American Hardware American Silver . Billings & Spencer . Bristol Brass . Colts Arms. Eagle Lock . Landers, Frary & Clark. 54 N B Machine ... North & Judd ... Peck, Stow & Wilcox Russell Mfg Co ... Standard Screw com 4 Stanley Rule & Level ..400 Stanley Works .. Traut & Hine . ‘Union Mfg Co ... . Niles Bement-Pond com 188 Scovill Mfg Co .. 570 *—None offered. MUNITIONS PLOT TRIAL Von Rintelen and Seven Americans, Including Two Ex-Congressmen and Former Attorney General, in Court, ew York, April 27.—Franz Von Rintelen, alleged German master spy and seven Americans accused of hav- ing conspired to Instigate strikes in | munitions plants engaged in flling contracts for the Entente allies, were ‘brought before the federal court to- day for trial. Von Rintelen arrived here Wednesday from 'England, where, for more than a year, he had been a prisoner of war. The other defendants are David Lamar, former Congressman: Robert Fowler anhd Frank rchanan of Illinois, former Attorney General Frank ' Monett of Ohio; Henry B. Martin, a Washing- ton lobbyist, and Herman Schuities and Jacob C. Taylor. They are said to have operated through the medium of Labor’s National Peace Council. -| tion. (Continued from First Page.) under consideration by Secretary Mce Adoo. Meantime he is accepting be- lated subscriptions to the first issue of $250,000,000 already oversubscribed. More than $5,000,000 in subscriptiona. has been accepted during the last's 24 hours. % \ 2 Secreulx McAdoo probably | wills make first’formal announcement o the terms of the forthcoming bond is- sue within the next few days. He ha# definitely decided not to offer the en. tire $5,000,000,000 the proceeds ' be available not later than July 1. . 4 Consideration is being given in des ! tail to the suggestion that the bend be indeterminate as to their expi It had been thought that would run for from 25 to 50 yeara. The indeterminate feature now und g consideration is prompted in som measure by the fact that the fore| securities accepted as security for:t! sums loaned the Allies would have terminate when the American bon fall due." expressed a readiness to make their bonds ‘meet any requirements which.. the Ameridan government might set.~ (Continued from First Page.) minded people and those who insti~ gate strike must be branded be the nation as traitors to the fat land and to the army. Those who listen to their words are cowards. NOTICE Owing to Important Developments of the i GROWN 0IL COMPANY the subscription books will close on April 28th, at Midnight. The Crown Oil Co. declared an extra dividend of 13%, making a total of 25% annually, as we pre- dicted. The Crown Qil Co. is active on the . New_ York . ‘curb, and closed at 114. WIRE, 'PHONE OR CALL, FOR RESERVA- TION OF STOCK, AT $1.00 A SHARE. J. J. KRAUSS & CO. Investment Securities. TEL. 2036. ‘131 MAIN STREET JOHN P. KEOGH 68 BROAD ST.. NEW YORK. Member of Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York. —Stocks, Bonds and Curb Securities— NEW BRITAIN OFFICE, 166 MAIN ST, s TEL, 1013. F. T. MCMANUS, Mgr. Private Wire to New York and Saoston.