New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1917, Page 6

ON OUR ENTIRE LINE OF - MEN'S CLOTHING SALE STARTS ‘SATURDAY, JUNE lflfll. mcm' - NOW—in the heart of the sea- Wfll'.‘g8 every ctore should make ° their NOthen every man is mterested in new, seasonable clothes, ‘'we are doing a seemingly impossible thing in offering 1-3 OFF on any suit in the house without - re- THE BACKWARD season finds us OVERSTO C KED and we intend to UN- GET IN ON THIS AND SAVE 33 1-3% §25008UITS (13 om) $22.00 SUFTS (1-3 OFF) | $2000,SUITS (13 OFF) '$18.00°SUITS (13 OFF) $15.00 SUITS (18 OFF) 510.00 SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY contour La France Shoes comfort of exact fit is master | the war. | the number and A FACTOR IN-‘WAR America Has Shipped 90,000 QI Former, 380,000 of Latter New York, June 15.—Nearly a mil- | on ‘horses and more than a quarter of a milllon mules is the export rec- ord of the United States in the thirty- four. months. since the beginning of A compilation by the Na- tional City bank of New York made on receipt of the reports of the great mortality among American horses in. the war zone shows that the number of horses exported from the beginning of August, 1914, to the present time is in round numbers 920,000 and of mules 830,000. The stated value of the horses exported was $194,000,000 and of the mules $66,000,000. The fact that this is “not a cavalry war,” and that automobiles, motor- cycles, flying machines-and observa- tion balloons are performing much of the servicé formerly required of the horse in war time, does not seem to have checked the demand for Ameri- can saddle and draft animals. In the first year of the war, the number of horses and mules sent out of the country was in round numbers 375,- 1 000, in the second year 470,000. For the fiscal year ending with the month of June, 1915, which is nearly iden- tic#t with the first war year, the num- ber of horses exported was 289,340, in ‘the mext year 357,553 and in the nine months of the present fiscal year, for which official figures are available, 223,839, suggesting that the total for the fiscal year which ends with this month will approximate ,300,000, This suggests a slight decline in the num- ber of horses now being exported, and the suggestion is supported by the fact that the official figures of the very latest month. available, March, are about 30 per cent, below those ot | the .same month last year, ‘Whatever reduction is occurring in the number of horses being exported is, however, being made up by the in- crease in the number of mules sent abroad, ‘They are steadily increasing year by year and up to the very last month for which a record is available. The number of mules exported in the fiscal year ending with June 1916, was 65,738, the next year 111,915, and in the Year which ends with the present month will approximate 160,- 000. In the single month of March of the current year, the latest for which figures are available, the num- ber of mules exported was 14,186 against 7,232 in the same month of last year and for nine months end- ing with March 122,664 against 88,- 289 in the same period of'last year. Most of the horses sent to the war 8o direct to France, and this is also true as to the mules. The total num- ‘ber of horses sent to France since the .beginning of the war. ll 447,000, to Greal Britain 234,000, to . Ganada, which sent many of them to the war, 142,000, and to other countries in the same gme 95;000. The distribution of the mules exported is not shown in the monthly reports of the govern-. ment, but presumably is about the same as that of horses. Little Advance in Price. " The deménds of the war do not seem to have caused any material advance in the prices at which the horses and mules have been exported. The average export valuation of the horses exported was in’ theé first year of the war $221 per head, in the sec- ond year $205, and in the third year $214 per head. The average export price of the mulés was in the first year $193, in° the second year $205, and in the third year of the war $206 - per head. France seems to have had the best of the ho: sent, as the average price of those exported to that coun- try was $237, to Great Britain $218, and to Canada $148 per head, though presumably only a part of those sent to Canada were for war service. Nor does the exportation of a million horses seem to have had much effect upon prices at home, for the depart- ment of ‘agriculture in its report on yalue of farm ani- mals shows the average value of all horses on farms on January 1, 1917, at $103 per head against 8109 per head on January 1, 1914, few months prior to the beginning of the war. The loss of a million of the best horses of the country, however, had a perceptable effect upon the total value of farm horses in the country pince department of agriculture. esti- mates of the value of all farm horses in the country fell from $2,292,000,- 000 in 1914 to $2,175,000,000 in 1917, THIS picture illmtnm an ! difference in inner tubes. when inflated are ring-shaped like the tube in the background. But whendeflated only the ‘Michelin Tube remains curved. All others become perfectly straight. § Comeinandletuae:plaiawhythhexchl- sive Michelin feature means so much in tube life and economy. THE GUNN RUBBER Q., lNC. 57 East Maln St, How Britais, Hartford, Waterbery DRAGGING THE SEA' FOR GERMAN MINES Exciting Sport Where Uniform Always Includes Life Belts (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Paris, May 31.—Sweeping the Eng- lish Channel for mines laid by Ger- man submarines is one of the most exciting and dangerous occupations of the war, according to the stories told by men participating in that work. “Mine sweepers doubtless are the only vessels of the navy on which life belts are worn from the time of leav- ing port until the return,” writes Jacques Marsillac, from aboard a mine sweeper on service in the chane nel. “The task of a group of mine sweepers, ‘composed of seven sloops formed in echelons, two by two, con- nected by steel cables, with the flag ‘boat leading, is to clear a channel about half a mile wide and fifty miles long of the mines laid there by Ger- man submarines,” he adds. ‘These under water mine layers carry from fifteen to twenty-four mines, accord- ing to the type, and they frequently lay them quite close together, so close in fact, that it has become an axiom in the mine hunting craft that where one is found another is sure to turn up, “The wireless operator on the flag boat of the group, who has served on four mine sweepers that have been blown up in the service, had scarcely flashed to the boats of the group that a mine had been signalled when a black mass adrift appeared on the crest of the waves ahead of our boat. a second later it disappeared. We steered in its direction, every man‘on deck searching intently for its . re- appearance. The few minutes in which a sightedmine disappears are full of infinitely disagreeable tenston on board a mine sweeper. The fact that the department of agri- || culture estimate of the average per capita value of the farm horses in the country is about one-half that of those exported is due in part to the fact that the department’s count in- cluded those of all ages, while those exported for war service were pre- sumably in the best period of their service, It is not surprising that the coun- tries at war find it necessary to draw upon the United States for horses, since we have over onme-fifth of the 100,000,000 horses of the world, and far more than any other single coun- ‘| try except Russia, which has about || 30,000,000 against about 22,000,000 in the United States, though the Rus- sian supply was by reason of war con- ditions wholly unavailable except for her own armies. BLONDES WIN POINT, London, June 15.—Fair-skinned people and those with gray or blus eyes have sounder nervous systems than those of dark complexions or dark eyes, in the opinion of the mem- bers of the Army Medical Board, which is investigating cases of shock from exploding shells and similar nervous complaints in the military hospitals. Histories of thousands of cases are being tabulated '-l‘ com- pared. ¥ ‘ QUALITY CORNER SHIRT SPECIAL Theee Two-Dollar Shirts for Five Dollars Latest Spring and Summer Shirt novelties. of mercerised silk_striped fabrics, distinctive pattern designs, soft cuffs, the fdeal Summer Shirt. Special for June at $3, 8 for §8. Japanese Crepe Silk NECKWEAR A wide range ' of desirable color effects, serviceable ma- terial, value rarely encoun- tered at the time. Special for June at $1, 3 for $3.28. ~ “And if we touch it?” Marsillas | asked of the wireless operator. “Then it is joss,” he replied mean- ing that it would be fatal. “On this occasion the fates wers friendly to us,” wrote Marsillac, .“for the mine reappeared fifty yards away and for some reason that no one could explain, remained in sight until the gunners could get' action upon it Round, black, it shone like a seal's showing from time to time its four mortal needles, contact With which means destruction. The boat sheered off and the gunners, using & special rifie ball at about 200 yards under immense difficulties resulting from the rolling of the boat, fired fifty shots without touching one of the fa- tal needles. They succeeded, however, in piercing the mine which filled with ‘water and sank to the bottom of the sea. ; *“The two leading sloops ralsed, a half red flag, which means that they have found & mine. At once began a maneuvre intended to cut the cable holding it; suddenly a steel cable that connects each couple of sloops snd which is called the ‘sweep’ struck. a mine. It must have come in contact with one.of the deadly needlies, and ‘broke the' visl of actd inside which sets off the discharge, for an.immense column of water shot straight into the the air to a height of 100 yards, com- pletely masking from each other the two sloops between which the ex- plosion occurred. Then the sloops ‘went on in search of other mines, and thus continues every day this danger- ous and heroic work of clearing the path for merchant ships through the high seas.” Pr udential Outflttlng Co: - 9 WASHINGTON PLACE #$1.00 A WEEK Full Line of MEN’S, LA&IES’ and. BOYS’ CLOTH- G. Strictly Confidential. Your Account Solicited. (South of R. R, Tracks) A. Manuel Welinsky, Mgr. Rear 310 Main Street. ! 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