New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1917, Page 5

§ F 4 net reached the Nmit yet, | ('l -+ yuaght b» done at a less cost. WATER BOARD URGES " BULDING TUMNEL B * Gommissioners Prepare Specal Report for Gouncil The board of water commissioners Wl sppear before the members of ' the cemmon council next Wedncsday [lEht to urge an immediste start on the work of building a twnnel from . the Burlington brook' to the Whig- villy reservoir. There is sald to be a © feeling on the part of a number of i geuncil members that this work would |7 time, but the wat: mu-t:nu-, fortified with figures and expert opin- fon, ‘will attempt to prove the oppo- site. Following 1s the report as .the - conmissioners. will present ft: .. Water Commigsioners Report. To His Honor the Mayor, and the Members of the Common Coun- . cil, of the City of New Britain, &7 Connectictat: Géntiemen :— . The sixtieth annual report of the of water commissioners of the 3 gvy of New Britain is herewith sub mitted to your honorable board, and’ <. §t contains in_ addition to a gencral ement of its affairs and finances 4 report of Dr. Herbert E. Gregory, univeraity, New Haven, .con- - cem! a geological survey on. tke " few upper Burliagton supply, to ‘which special attention is called. ! Y'he past year was & busy and micoesstul one, from & financial stand- total receipts for the year 17.98. Of this amount $6,~ A 3 Jeaving smount for water rent $14. 218.52, an increase over previous year 6f $12,734.76, mainly from increased dcnsnmption in the factories. Al- though a large number of new bulld- fhis will materially increass the _'4 mmount recelved in business and do- mestic use, the majority of those are fow paying leas than under schedule rate, and ‘to.the factories we must # ~Jeck for the maintenance and increase | Hess, of New York, 0 keep up revenue, as increasing e: . 'pense will be nocessary in the devel- opment ‘of the water supply of our Jabor and material have advanced mmpidly the past two years and has thereby, adding to ¢ost of maintalning the de- ° pertment from year to 2 "\ Nearly three miles ‘ruur mains were lald in twenty-four 'stréets dur- ing ‘the year, 136 new services werp ! i%ided, making 6,333; 140 meters met, _aking 5,041; 33 additional hydrants were added making 743 at present Cenclusive of private ones); 485 were installed, making present num- ¥ Ber [((all sizes) 1,360 i "The following amounts were paid th esch branch of the department bud- got:' Cpnstruction $32,231.92, Telay. aecoun tlfi?& gtneral repair ac- fount $2, meter acoount $7;- 42234, salary accotmt $5,650.00, in- teveat account $47,250. sinking 3 account $20, ~Shuttls . Mendow account $7,841.75, Wolcolt ; acocount $1,049.00, Burlington account $ Burlington development' .ac- 620.26, miscellaneous ac- 97.38, $2' 7-07 was added sinking fund, making amount S to meet the redemption af 200,000.00 in August 1918, thereby . lessening amount of interest to be peid In the future, as well as reduc- ing amount of indebtedness in' the - department. By taking advantage ot opportunity . presented last year the department * " mméc purchases of material and su; for the season’s use at re- "duction of many hundreds of dollars. The collections for the year were fully maintained and delinquents were given no rest, the result showing an smorvnt uncollected of $4,218.95, wvhich is less than gne year ago- Upper Buriington. Two years ago upon the recom- mendation of the board of water com- . missioners the common council made an sppropriation to make a survey ;¢ to determine the feasibility of & t"::; nel to conduct the water from , Burlington Brook to Whigville reser- t welr, instead of & pipe lines as l:'oo:: menced by previous | tng thought by the board that it ‘We are now in a position to state ly that the project is practical be done at a great saving to the same time conoen- to Prof. Herbert E. Greg- of Yale university, New Haven, in Ein report to Willlam H. Hall, city The only preliminary work detailed on this project once for it can- be orly ‘cover thie ground. ) Both species are doing. much better than we ex. Ipntcd. the total loss from all caudes being less than five per cent. As an economic necessity, and in the application of true conservation and practical care of our various water sheas, the wisdom of reforestration ol the same cannot be questioned. .. In Burlington alone the City of New Britain are owners of over 2,000 acres of land, in.the forest area of this large .tract the chestuut tree blight has killed most all the chest- nut trees, which have Leen sold on! the stump and are now being cut down, and as this spaciecr was tan brinciple growth in mcst sections it | loaves thir land denuded and unsight- ly. As roon as the lumber people get through “e will begin to _reforest same. FACING MARTIAL LAW. No Aliéns to Be Allowed in Bridge- port 'Without Permit. ul and after Juné 1, and all allen ["dents, 14 years of age and aver, not be allowsd to leave or enter city.. “Agents of the department of' Justice are here preparatory to regis- tering all alien residents, who must have permits if they desire to remain at lberty. £ All permons 14 years or over will be srrested and placed in a detention camp unless they have made applica- tion for these permits before that date. WOULD TAKE BABES FROM SICK MOTHERS Dr. Hess Favors Removing Them From Tuberculesis Germs Ciucinnati, 0., May 10,—Protective care for the infants of tuberculous persons was urged by Dr. Alfred IF. an address he delivered here today before.the:cint cal mection of the annual meeting of the Natioial Assaciation for the Study. and Prevention of Tuberculosts. A tuberculous mother”, "he sald, *‘glyes birth to a normal, heslthy baby and, promptly, within the next .few months, infects it with tuberculosis so that its chances of reaching the age of childhood are slight. It we are to Progress in our fight agapst tubercul- ma. t;:u infants must be looked af- 3 6 most practical way would seem to be to remove them during the first few days of life from the. ‘source of infection—from ' contact ‘with their tuberculosis mothers.” For the past two years, he sald, pro- vision has been made at Farmingdale, N. J, for infants of this 'description. . The work has been found to be emin- VY GUNNERS SAVE BRITISH FREIGHTER Twelre Shos Cuuse Submarine A Port in the United States, May 10l —The passengers on an armed Amer- ican ship which arrived last from a British port told how the keen eye- sight and smart gunnery of the naval crew sayed the ship'and a big British freighter from' being torpedoed by a | German submarine on: May 2, off the coast of Ireland, ‘Twelve shots were fired from the ship In rapid succession at & range of 1,200 to 1,300 yards, | and the submarine disappeared so quickly that it was impossible to tell . whether it 'had been hit. The rapidity with which American -nm »r‘icum. g; suggested t-;: o the bables of ‘munfctpaltties.” : Baits of gold are being tested as a possible curative agent for tuberculos- is according to Dr. Lydia M. DeWitt, of the University of Chicago. In an address before the pathological section of the annual meeting of the National Association for the Study and Preven- tion of Tyberculosis, Dr. DeWitt sald today that she did not find the resuilts conéiusive. ) In a series of experiments tried by her on guinea pigs infected with tu- berculosis she reported, she found that not only were the pigs not cured ‘but that those given treatment died earlfer than those not so treated. She said that it is visable, there- fore, to try this treatmient on human patients until some modification of the treatment is discovered that will de away with its dangerous features. LEWIS AND WETMORE GOING. Former New Britain Mem in Oficers’ Reserve Corps. FEdwin N. Lewis, son ‘of Mr. and Mre. Burton W. Lewis of 179 Lake street, has been selected as one of the first New York oontingent to o to Plattsburg to train with the officers’ reserve corps. Mr. Lewis was for- merly a Herald reporter but is now associated with the editorial staft of the New York Tribune. - The Tribune bas’ granted him & leave of absence. Central station, New York, tomorrow night and included in it are forty-five active newspapermen, who bave been working on metropolitan journels. Many of them, inclu Mr. Lewis, have been members of the newspaper- men’s corps, which has been drilling and training for the past two years. Those who are about to g0 to the de- tense of their country were tendered a farewell dinner by their associates. Another former New Britain man who has sucoessfully passed his examination and will go to Plaitsburg. is A. Corbin Wetmore, son of Mrs. an important part of the { New Haven to t\lnrw' Federal Commis- in the future. sloners of Conclliation of the Depart- direction of -the board | ment of Labor to settle the differences were ‘a8t | between the company and the men. Shuttle | The demands of the clerks for a & total cost of | 1¢ per cent. increase were made quiet- per thousand: - | iy, and in fast the :-:oh proceedings TERT] i the to Hurry Beneath Waves | {at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, if rs fired was praised by British al officers who were among the i passengers on the ship, but they could not discuss the incident further account of their position in the gov- ernment service | Benjamin Russell of Chicago, who was standing on the forward deck within six feet of the man .at the port gun when the periscope Wwas sighted, gave this account of the voy- LH “"We sailed from a port in England May 1, and owing to the fog we n‘d‘l to anchor for three hours at the en- trance to the harbor. It cleared in the afternoon and the ship proceeded unil 9 o'clock, when a British war- ship stopped us and advised the Cap- taln to return and anchor for the night, as submarines were very active in the vicinity and had shelled & large city a little while previously. ‘Several vessels had been sunk during the day, The captain ‘turned the ship around and we anchored until 5 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. “The news of the submarine activi- ties given by the warships and ‘the TR reports received by wireless from time ,to time during Wednesday, which'were gent out by the authorities in Ireland, caused our gunners to be very alert ‘when we got away finally. “About 6:30 o’¢lock I was standing within six feet of the port gun when Murphy, a fall gunner, suddenly called to Naval Lieutenant Vossier, who was on the bridge with the captain, that he saw_ the periscope of a submarine on the port bow. Guns Begin to Bark. “We all looked quickly in that di-! rection and saw the periscope was well above the water, about 1,200 to 1,300 yards away. Almost before I could realize what it was the part gun banged vicicusly and a shell passed over the periscope and dropped with a loud splash into the sea about six to elght feet on the further side. Six shots in all were fired from the port 8un in less than eighteen seconds, and then the aft gun boomed qut and fired four more shots in the direction of the submarine after the ship had swung her head round to starboard. —_— i 19092080040 000 000000 09a0pe . - Your order for the new | Encyclopaedia Britannica printed on. genuine India paper must be sent us on or before Saturday, May 26 you last "NOW—or never! When the last set is sold, no mq‘e-nbevoffendprintedonmuina India paper—because there is no more India paper. ; . Before you order be sure the Britannica will be useful to you—as help- ful to you as it is to the 180,000 men and wo! Go and see the Britannica at DICKINSON’S BOOK STORE 169-171 MAIN STREET. But do this today. Decide TODAY whether or not you really want one of these last sets on the famous India paper. your order for a set. Or, if more convenient, send in this reserve order to us—at once. P\ % £ )y g ead Only $1 down (or with Reserve Order) sec: SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., Chicago, ML Pleaso reserve me a set of the ‘“Handy Volume” En- eyclopaedia Britannica, printed on genuine India paper. I enclose $1.00 as first payment, Bend me an order form which I agree to sign and return immediately. \ Newe . ________________ Street and Number. finally, it is NOW-or neber men who already own a set. If you do, then leave ures a set. You may pay the balance in a limited number of small monthly payments. But “The port gun and the 5 thots fired afterward from the starboard gun did not make much noise, but the report from the larger gun aft brought everyone on deck and shook ! the ship from stem to stern. It was impossible to tell whether the shots { struck the submarine, as she suh-‘ merged immediately and was not seen ! again. On account of the twilight it was possible to distinguish objects on the water until after 7 o’clock. ““The naval lieutenant in charge and the British officers were of the cpinion that the ship’s gunners had saved a big tramp which was about a mile astern of our ship when the periscopa was sighted. | ~“The officers said therc was no doubt that the submarine had come to the surface and was waiting for the tramp. When our ship’s gunners fired at her, the German commander sub- merged at once to escape the shots. The tramp did not attempt to ®et away, but swung her stern and fired her four-inch gun in the direction our gunners were alming. “The firing did not last lons, but the excitement was thrilling while'the guns were booming and gave the pas- expect to obtain a set. (It may be that set will be gone a day or twoy earlier.) T sible, of a new volume, tative history of the wi ‘The new volume will be written by scl ccngers a faint idea of what action was like. I am po only twelve shots were fired & because I counted them, snd morning I saw the empty shells down below in the magazine The British officers on the iin they could not discuss the submarine campaign being the other side, but they the U-bcats had passed thels mum cffectiveness, and wou mect their fate. All the passengers on the ship who were questioned spoke highest terms of the actions raval crew under Lieutenant and also of the handling of at a serious time by the cap C. E. ECONOMY R Boston, May 10.-—A letter being sent from Christiah headquarters hére to three members of the society the country. urges all to * the Christian Endeavor arpiy ductioh, economy and thrife. are of for by the raised by members. 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