New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1917, Page 9

[AND, ‘MORE LAND - NEEDED FOR CROPS Laad, m!c‘ rably - tracts of several acrea; angd lots of it s absolutely neec- edsary to the complete success of the public gardens project &s quulnoa by the weneral committes on gardens. An urgent appeal is. made and will be -nade to the land owners of the city ! #ive phrt of their property to'the ot the’ city gardeners. At lesst applicants for plots on the public mm are doomed to disappointment ‘upless the responss to this is and immediate. In the neigh- Merhood of 1,000 applicdtions have received, and there is not enoygh d to accommodate the workers who huvc signified their willingness to help m-oductlon There is enough to u&o care: of the demand it property owners will only help by sending in offers of tracts to the,City Gerdens cemmittee at the Chunbcr of Com-~ merce. The people of the city have paen the oppertunity to help - their country and at the same time help ‘themselves; it is up to the land own- ers. The greatest need. for tracts exists in the néith and northwestern por- tions'of the city where twenty acres u ‘ NEW BRITAIN DAILY Hl' RALD. MONDAY MAY 14, 1917. CRAVATH IS ANOTHER ONE OF _ © THIS SEASON'S “COMEBACKS” i would{ndt be tob much. In the south,| ; cgstern section there is also’ need of 1and.’ The other portions of ‘the city 3 are tiken ‘care of but nmet any’ too A (1 1s land lying idle in thess ‘fortions 'the commiittee would ‘glad ta’ hear of it . -, In giving out the plots, the Lee property; known as tract ] on Lincoln S . wreet has béen ap) foned as have . Spiéts on Monroe. ot, Haley strest and St.” Mary's playground. Despite ‘ tho fact that the weather was none aniuou' Yesterdav a number of, out on. their tracts, jay-| ing thllr mm and in some places planting crops. A wendertul tmpetus has been ziven the garden project and the calibre of applicants in most in- stances guarantees thut the land wil ' ‘be well taken care of. Liberal crops, ~_provided the season is good, are prom- Lised hereabouts. | WHITE RIBBONERS TO CONVENE HERE the clubs on the Pacific coast. © The annuat couwfmumuon of e Wie U. will. open in this; g titysWednesday: and the public:is in- vited to attend. -The convention will be ‘held In the Pebple’s church - om rt street "and following is the Horning and afternodon program: 3 9:45 a. m.—Devotional service, Mrs. ul L Merritt. 0 a. m—Convention called to or- der: ‘Minutes, Mrs. Clara S Lee; freétings, ‘Rev.’ N H. Harriman, Mrs. ry Gilchreest; response, Miss beth H. Fitts; appointment - of tommittees; &nd repgrts of county of- ‘Acers.- 10:45 a. m.—Reports from superin- ledent of departments. ‘% m.~—~Reports from -unions.: —~=Noontide prayer and: memo- rvice, Mrs. Caroline B. Buell. 0 p. m.-~Lunech; ssrved by Ncw [ Britain’ Unton. - 1:45 'p. m—Prayer, report ere- fiential committee, election of officers, fpomination of delegate to /national tonvention, state and national papers, poésentation of county banners and prizes, offeriny, and musie. 0 p. m.~—Address: ‘“‘America’s ‘Wofhen," )‘rl. Mary B. Wilson. “The Prodigal " Mrs. Louls Anderso: $:30 p. m—Address: “Rev. J. D. Ryberts, Hartford. ' m.—Closing exercises. HERALD want you to’luv_e the is delivered to TEBN UNIO; i NEWSBOY l'AILS TO W CLOCK 'PHONE OU’LLGBI‘AGOP’YSOONAP— "been a pleasant surprise to Pat Moran. . </BALFOUR VISITOR AT OYSTER BAY FOR PUBLIG FARMS Apathy ol Public Threatens Success of Undertaking : . More recruts are seeded for New Britain's sgricultural army, to. be commofmuuqumoreul upon for military service, If thi Ject 1s to be a sucoess. g e m- the season is rapidly advaneing -u that to have success crops immediate planting s necemsary, Mayor Quigley, after consultation with a number of prominent men, today snnounced tillable land, will be used as.one farm. In order that no delay shall interfers with the work the mayor states that tomorrow tractor plows will be sent. out there to il the land. After consultation with state agri- cultural experts, ft has been deemed inadvisable to attempt farming on an elaborate scale on the Whigville tracts, In the first place the ground, which {s mountainous and rocky, is not adapted for motor apparatus and it is almost impossible to secure horses. There is also the disadvan- tage that the land available for farm- ing is scattered. Although there are hundreds of acres owned by the city in Burlington and Whigville on each farm there are only a comparatively few acres of farm land. The rest ds either woodland or pasture land. As & result of these investigations i’ has been thoughf" advisable to use only land in the city, where the volunteer workers can get to it easily, An_agricultural expert from the Connecticut Agricultural college will be here tomorrow .to consult withf the men in charge of the city farms, and he will also supervise work on the Tracy farm. Adjacent to this Stan- ley Quarter farm, Richard Murray ‘| has about twenty acres of good land the winter season ona of Moran's/out- fielders put in a bid for more salary, and when Moran did not grant it this player .did not report. It was then that Moran decided to give Cravath another chance. He has been patting himself on the back ever since. Cravath has been hitting them out in 8reat ghape and is fast in the fleld. Moran resards him as one of his most valuable players. Philadelphis, May 14.—The hitting and flelding, of ‘0ld man Cravath have At the end .of last season it looked 29 if Cravath no longer was big league. material, and Moran was thinking he’d let him go. In fact, negotiations wer¢ pending for his release to one of In t,hq ‘ot fl tnkln: volun for' consideratfon, nothing lewas announced. The trip was the re- {sult of an invitation given by Mr. | Roosevelt, who was already fairly well acquainted with Mr. Balfour, at the mayor’s dinner-at the Wnldort on Fri- dav night. Mr. Balfour and his sechetary feft the residence of Vincent Astor at about ¥:30 o'clock. They were es- corted to the city limits by motor- cycle policemen, and all the way to and from Oyster Boy by three cars full of Secret Service men under Chief ‘William J. Flinn and Captain John Henry. The party rmhed “Sagamore Hill about 6 o’clock, and Colonel Roosevelt took Mr. Balfour for a trip over the estate, which is bright with the green of spring, before they went in to the evening meal. The only dther guest was the colonel's son, Quentin, who has just enlisted as a private in the aviation corps of the regular army, and is now about to take instruction at Mineola. Their Third Meeting. Mr. Balfour apd Colonel Roosevelt have met twice before, both times in London. The first occasion was in 1910, after the colonel's return from his Afriean hunt, and the second in {1914, when he made a brief stay in England after going to Madrid to at- terid the marriage of hiy son Kermit. One of the matters recalled was that on this trip the eolonel had told Mr. Balfour of a Scotch engineer on the steamer which brought the colonel back from Brasi] earlier in the yvear, who used to discuss metaphysics and theolosy with him and displayed = number of ‘newspaper clippings of ‘the Gifford lectures which Mr. Balfour had delivered -at the University of Glasgow in 1913 and 1914. “Mr. PBalfour told the colonel that he had remembered the incident and had sent the engineer a copy. 'of the lectures when they were published in book form under the title of “Theism and Humanism” in the following year. But_how largely theology and meta- physics occupied the conversation it was impossible to Jearn; certainly, however, Colonel Roosevelt was highly pleased with the visit, and he sald afterward that he was very much de- lighted by the episede. Mpy. Balfour lett about 10 o’clock | the colonel waving him a good-bye m the veranda, and drove direct to ‘the Pennsyjvania station in New York, to join the ‘other civilian members of the party -on board a- special train leaving for Washington at midnight. v o Frlne’ but that Spbiect of Talk With Roosevelt Is Not Disclosed Oyster Bay, L. 1. Mey 14.—Arthur J. Balfour, acoompanied by his parlia- mentary secretary, Ian Malcolm, paid a four-hour visit to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt yesterday afternoon at Sag: amore Hill, staying for high tea, which in the Roosevelt menage takes the place of dinner on Sunday eve- ning. More than usual:interest was attached to the visit’ from the fact that Mr. Balfour had lunched, after attending religious services at the Cathedral of 8t. John the Divine in New York in the morning, at thp town vesidence of Col. E. M. House. But no information was forthcoming as to what was sald by the British states- man with either of the Americans concerning issues of the time. It was admitted at Sagamere Hill WHEN YOUR NEWSBOY FAILS TO LEAVE YOUR. = ’Phone WESTERN UNION And paper will be you by messenger. HERALDcveryn!gbtaad ou we have ar. to have a ‘mes- you nothing. We m are we feel utwemyxuke VE PROHIBITION WORKER DEAD. Minneapolis, May 14.—Rev. Peter A. Cool, jone time superintendent of the anti-saloon league in New York, died here last night aged €3. Saratoge, May 14.—~Oliver P. Clarke, 74,, custodian of Grant Memorial cot- which he will permit the city to use. It is estimated that it will about 900 bushels of seed to plant these meventy acres and as the work will begin immediately. it will be necessary for the volunteer agriculturists first to cut up the 900 bushels of seed potatoes for planting. The tractor plows to be used are of & modern type. Each tractor is equipped with a regulation plow and after the land has been turned over a disc harrow and rake, the rake be- ing dragged after: the harrow, is at- tached and the,land is made ready for immediate planting. City officials are algo in consultation with Lawyer John H. Kirkham, trus- tee of the Theodore Stanley estate, with a view ‘to securing the use of about thirty acres of this farm for the city. It this is secured former Bafe. ty Commissioner F. Holmes has an- other large tract of land nearby which he will permit the city to use for farming purposes. J. C. Lincoln of Berlin has twenty acres of land on the trolley line whch he has offered to the city and F. H. Alford has six acres on the Plainville road which he has donated. He also has loaned the usé of his barns on Main street. John H. Stoneham, street, employed as janitor of th Monroe street school, has offered‘to do whatever farm work he can for tfie city. There has been some adversa com- ment on the city farming plans bo- cause, it has been argued, ,the p posed tax would be levied on prv ty owners while peopls who were not taxpayers would. receive eqial bene- fits. Regarding this, Mayor Quigley stated that in the first place people who are not taxpayers contribute just as much through their rent. “If my taxes are increased I increask my rent, and go do other property own- ers, so when you get down to the base of the affair you find that the men who rent “houses pay their taxes as well as the owners.” But, according to the mayor, it may not be necessary to really collect the proposed special tax of one mill. “The charter pro- vides, his honor explained, “that the city can borrow money only for school purposes. The present plan is to levy a special tax of one per oent. and on the antictpation of this tax borrow enough money to finance the farms. Then when the produce tu sold at cost the city will be reli bursed, the money paid back and tax, consequently, will never be col- Jected, It will only be in case the crops prove & failure that uly pro- posed tax would be collected.” MUSICIANS IN SESSION. New Haven, May 14.—Representing some 8,000 musicians in. this country and Canads, the American Federation of Musiclans opened its twenty-second national convention here today, it be- ing the first time in fifteen years that the convention has been held in the east. The sessions will continue through the week. The opening was preceded by a parade, headed by a band. of about 200 pieces. City ltems , ‘Watch for our advt.-in Tuesday's paper, Modern Boot Shop.—advt. The singers who are entertaining in the grill room at Hotel Nelson will ap- pear every evening beginning.at 6:30. —advt. Ivor Axelson of Stanley street, a student at Yale, has entered the OMm- cers' Reserve Tralning corps at Plattsburs. Mr. and Mrs. Frank H, Johnston are at Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W, Va. Bring your panama hat to clean, now, avoid the rush. Conn, Hat Co. ~—advt. Mrs. B. 8. Hart “of West Main street underwent an operstion at the Chiapter. Ouk mum’ certificates . The following N i New York, May 14.-—While all the: members of his team are going well just now, McGraw banks largely on his pitching staff, and he is particu- larly sweet on Schupp, Anderson and Tesreau. Schupp and Anderson have been doing the best pitching, with Tesreau a close third=— Schupp Iis starting in just as he finished last fall. He shut out Brooklyn with five hits by a score of 5 to 0 in his first start. He then beat the Boston, 8 to 2, al- lowing six hits, and later held Brook- Iyn to eight hits and two runs in fourteen innings in a 2 to 2 tie game. Anderson, who went very badly at have been returned at city clerk’s office: Clarence E. Hemenway and Miss Ethel Sheeran, marred by Rev. T. J. Keena in Bristol of April 1 Thomas A. Cross of West Pearl streef and Mary E. Burrows, married by Justce of the Peace W. C. Mueller in Meriden on April 7. The safety board, as a result of con- ferénce with Chief Robert M. Dame, has arranged to re-locate fire box 39 at' High and Broad streets and take the same action with box 231 by in- stalling it at Elis and Stanley streets. Box 121 has already been lo- cated at Glen and Locust streets, Thorough attention {s being given to the most suitable locations for giving the city the greatest possible atten- tion. Twins, a boy and a gir], have been born to Supernumerary Policeman and Mys. Charles F. Grace of Wash- ington street at the Nagle sanitarium. ROUSH, THE BOY IN the fag end of the season, has come back strongly. His best es were 2 two, hit shutout against and nis victory over the Phillies, when he permitted only five hits and one run. Tesreau also has been pitching most consistently. - He pitched a greater of the sensational apening tussle m the Braves, which was finally lost by Smith, 4 to 2; in the four- teenth inning. ‘Boston was a litfle slow in starting but appears to be finding himself. The cold weather has preveated McGraw finding much use for either Balee or Perritt, but both did well the last time they were called upon. Policeman Grace is also connected with the “New Haven" road's force of special agents. In recognition of her seventsenth birthday anniversary, Miss Helen Quirk, daughter of Policeman Patrick Quirk, was enjoyably surprised at her home at 364 Elm street Saturday af- ternoon. Fireman Patrick Kepney of En- gine Co. No. 3, who has been off duty because of an infected . hand, - the wound being recejved at the Beckett house fire on North street, has re. turned to his post. Mr. Regan, the new superintendent of the Trumbull Electrie Co., is mov- ing here from Stamford and has leased the second floor of August Voight's house on West Main street through the Camp Real Estaté Co. Dr. E. T. Fromen, the present ogcu- pant, is moving into his newly pur- chased house on West Main street. THE PINCHES FOR THE CUBS Cincinnati, May 14.—Fans here look for the speedy return to the out- field of Dddie Roush. Roush is one of the leading batsmen of the Nation- flmufim-uam of the battle for some 1t while not playing 'regularly in the fleld, is put in as s pinch Dl ‘hitter by Following a lengthy iliness the infirmaties of age and physical breakdown, m"{ Parsons, aged 76 years, syrance agent, one of the bers of the First Baptist © a life-long resident of the nected for many years with tile and religious activit at 3:30 yesterday afternoom’ home at 32 Park Piace. ber of weeks past. ‘Hs was ong city’s best known residents ang: a familiar ‘figure on the city 3 ard prominent in merchantile Born in this city May:18, 1 of John' D.’ and Sophis (H Parsons, he was educated h schools and’received his businesa training: Ioellly. village of the rural type to one most properous cities in the he noted pal ad o was ever to New name and reputation- He connected—prominently with ternal actjvities of the It was in 1887 that he fivst the local insurance fleld handitiey lucrative . and wide clientele "untif about finm 8g0 when:he sold it to Hatch otmy and ‘en employ...He was connected ‘wi actively but:a short time, il B compelifug him to give up wi liness emrly took on a ho and he steadily sank. For mi he was accustomed to travel & streets on a bicycle, visiting merous customers ip . this . and even until last. mm-r, this vehicle popular and- ity to operate it far better far his junior’in ‘age. For many years, attendance lice court sessions proved a and his memory of happenings tribunal dated back many yeass, ] & practical viewpoint, he keen insight into legal activity. @ntil the time of He was an almost dally cal quarters on Commercial unysually populer with nearly always brought peanuts, etc., to share: with ti For a considerable time¢, b president ‘of the Veteran corps and found great i everything pertaining to the ties: He was a familisr ever the corps. was called out: an active part in advancing t terests and activities. During. years past he had greatly: inability to march: with the: insisted upon accompanying an automobjle. For Yo was sald, he had the best fire writing business in the éity. cireles, he was recognized &s pert in this line and was 83 a thoroughly reliable business m The deceased was president of ¢! New Britain Fire Underwriters’ clation for yesars, was connected the Veteran Firemen and a mem! of the Royal Arcanum. Besides wife, Mrs. Harriet Sloper Parsons, | is survived by a son, Andrew- 8- sons, and a grandson, Brigss The funeral will be held f!v!ll home at 2 eo'clock tomorrow noon with Rev: Dr. Earle B. pastor of the First mpfllt h officiating. Burial will' be in' view cemptery. PR SRy U-BOAT CHASER LAUN e at -the New York nawy yard, accol ing ofeial announcement m tht by the committee on Mblle’ info! ‘was in the water. Another chaser, be- gun at the New Orleans navy yard on: April 1, is ready to be llnnc‘h.; in: