New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1917, Page 2

§ campany, % jiice committes of the cil will meet tomorrow le changes in the oradl DE police and fire de fle y? al. have trans- ty‘a¥ the corner of and north streets der et al... clurofin.cfie office, moved lison to' 166 Main St.— 3ol 1. O. O. F., will meet fficers tonight. created police boara will | évening in Mayor Quigley’s jan It is rumored that R. F. King will be irman. A clerk will also dish W. C. T. U. will meet @ o'clock tomorrow afternoon 1 of Mrs. Adrian Swanson street. ‘ Fred Fagg of Hodk and ‘William McCrann ny Ne. 1 and George of company No. 3 com- _their annua] vacations today. # Stanley Rozanski of Com- s Driver Hugh Clark of Com- and Mechanician Edward returned to duty today, com- thelr vacations. h Attorney A. A. Greenberg, ‘hes brought suit against ‘Shbler to recover for money * Money in the Shvings Bank Britain has been Fhrnisheed. t is returnable in the city n the second Monday in July. hlu!’ been born at Miss Nagle's m Mr. and Mrs. Charles h of Maple street. } ‘Street is in Washington, D. C., brief stay and later expects to Florida for a few weeks' va- . A."Dolan has returned from i Carolina where he attended the % tion of the O. U. A. M. ¢ at the Hotel Nelson during and every evening. music . Saturday ' night— sdiate Work is to be started in ‘ the old Sweeney place v ?fln atreet for use by ths iCo-operative soclety, ~ the ra of which are J./J. Heck- Eimer, H. yvether. J . B. Landon, O. /A. Marsh Anderson. Mr. Elmer has president, F. B. Landon, ent; A. G. Anderson, sec- #tylish summer bats at the Shop, 40 Rratt 8t, Hfd., reduced to haif price. All models: White, white and velours; Colore—rase, gyeen, yellow, rich purple, in —ad vt municipal farm committee will Fits weekly meeting this evening s s of progress will e DEMONSTRATION Ana Club Sale ALL THIS WEEK Join Club Today—ONLY i John A. Andrews & Co. 132 MAIN STREET. FOR BETTER -PROTECTION “New Haven” Road Ofiicials Agree to Install System of Banjo Warning ? Signals at Ciaytan. Following the conference yesterday afternoon between city officlals and New -Haven road nprmnnfln(u it was announced that some much need improvements in grade crossing protection are t6 be made. TiHe rail- road men assured the oity officais that banjo signals will be installed at’ the. dangerous Clayton crossing. ‘Washington street crossing as well as certain other particularly dangerous railroad crossings in this city: were :dhéu-ed and improvements suggest- The railroad men expressed con- siderable opposition to any plan which would call for the construc- tion of elevated towers for gate ten- ders at the crossings. Some of the city officials thought that by having the gate tenders up in such a tower he would be able to see over the top of any passing train and see whether or not another train was approach- ing. Rallroad men thought this ad- vantage would be negligible and ex- plained that with the gate men -on the ground they are of much assist- ance in helping women and children across the tracks when they become confused. . “ There was also some discussion re- . garding the straightening of Lake street between High ahd Washington ‘culti- | streets and thus eliminating & part of y, H. Hail ana Louls Guen- - commiittes = of m 35,0, U. A. M, . arrangements for the visit Hale council of South Britain Boys Begin Active rvice tn Navy This Week. g Sam's navy has called six v Britain's: naval recruits for 6 seamen. ! ‘Edward John Markham of ‘Pleasant street lett for Newport. 1 Pleasan ¢ juck of 306 Church street’ wiil enlisted as_s landsman > Tomorrow John Sinto t street and der ‘heen yo. They are to be appremtice the crossing. ' The rallroad men stated that /if Lake street was.lald out be- fore the railrodd was built the city would have to pay only a quarter 6f the expense. On the other han,d if the raliroad was built before the street was laid out the company would expect the city to stand half the expense- SR e AR A R ‘The general registration board, which had charge of the registration on June 5, having been officially ap- pointed by the whr department as the local exemption board, will meet with Mayor Quigley tomorrow af- ternoon at § o'clock to organise. The board will organise into two boards, the members of which will be Stephen Robb, Dr. D. W. O'Connell and J. ‘W. Allen and Dr- T. E. Reeks, J. J. ‘Watson and A. F. Corbin. HEAVY RAINFALD. The shower of last night proved to be éne of the heaviest of the year and) during the few hours that the rain fell the precipitation. totalled 2:04 inches, according to the erl“: at Shuttle Meadow. As far as known, the lightning did no damage in this Sity, although the electric light system and other electric wires ‘were temporarily disabled in various ctions. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED The engagement of Miss Mary I Flannery of ' Whiting street and ‘Stephen J. Leo of Jersey City, N. J., was announced today. No date has been set'for the, wedding. ICKINSON DREG O00.. ... 'BROUGHT T0 GOURT Blames Obstructal Roud L Hi Predicament _ Oscar F. Neuhauser, driver of a big automobile truck used by a trap rock compay, appeared before Judge John H. Kirkham in police court this morning charged with reckless driving on West Main street. Evidence showed that while Neuhauser was not driving fast, he was somewhat negligent d Jjudgment was suspended on payment of costs. Detective Sergeant Bam- forth testified that as a west bound trolley car stopped on West Main street, at Burritt street,- yesterday noon, Neuhauser drove his truck past on the -wrong side of the road, en- dangering the life of anyone alighting from the car. Neuhauser testified that all day yesterday it was necessary to take the left side of the road going east because of excavation and work- ing materials on, the right side. The Jjudge warned him about being careful when he drives in trafiic in the future. Joseph Dobruk; charged with beat- ing up his wife, was sentenced to 20 days in Jall. Judgment was sus- pended ‘during good behavior. Dob- Tuk made some start{ling accusations against his wife, clalming ' that be- cause of her influence all of his chil- dren have been ‘‘put on the bum.” Dobruk said he has ten children and, he told the court, they are all “on the bum” except his two and one half year old daughter. “And she may be, I don’t know,” the irate father said, ‘Willlam Sundgren and Max Zurat, charged with reckless driving, will be tried ‘tomorrow. It is charged that these two men, one on a motorcycle and the other in a motor car, raced down Farmington avenus on Monday. Both men haye pléaded ,not guiity. Stanley Chodenka and Steve Makow- ski, charged with fighting, will also be tried tomorrow. Charles, Poraydi of Fairview street, who falled to respond to a subpoena to appear in court as a Now is Just the Time to Do That Papering and Painting. Interior Work A fine time to renovate ;your rooms with fresh paint ~and wall paper. We Are Ready to Estimate oni all necessary exterior painting for the early spring A large supply of Varnishes, Floor Stain, “THE JOHN rushes, BOYLE CO. 3M5mm/ SQUARE (’GONNOR DECLINES TO ACT AS PROPHET Optuis, Bot Cuatios, Re ical future in times like these," said T.. P. O'Coniior, the Nationalist lead- witness yesterday, was fined the cost |’ of the capias and arrest for his neg- ligence. A fine 6f $7 and costs was imposed on Joseph Blazek, charged with hitting his boarding mistress, Madeline Kragel. A fine of $15 and costs was imposed on Taofil Perkow- sky, fourid guilty of assaulting Stan- ¥ Smidel in Bens's hall last night. Events Tonight Lyceum theater, masterpiece photo productions. . Vaudeville and moving pictures, . Keeney's theater. Andre lodge, 1. O. O. F., meets in Vega hall. Lady Wallace, D, of §. meets at 377 Main street. St. Elmo lodge, K. of P., meets at 242 Main street. Phenix-lodge, I. O. O. F., meets in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall. Catholic Women'’s Benevolent Le- glon, meets in St. Mary’s hall. = Erwin Castle, K. G. E,, Eagles hall. meets in Carpenters’ Church street. Unfon meets at 34 Vesta Hive, L. O. M., meets at 277 Main street. Owls meet in Electric hall. Valient Tent, K. O. T. M., at 321 Main street. meets JAKI;GILLESPIE WEDDING. Local Woman to Become Bride of New York Resident. The wedding of Miss Josephine Anway Gillespie of this city and Con- rad Jaki, Jr., of New York, will take place at the home of Mrs. ‘E. B. Phillips of Astoria, L. . I, tomorrow evening. The nuptial knot will be tled by Rev. John Whittier Darr, pastor of the Spring street Presby- terlan church of New York. The bride will be given in marriage by her brother, Edwtin H\ Gillespie. The couple will be attended by Miss N. E. Scoble of Jersey City, N. J., as brides- maid and John C. Faxon of New York as best man., Master Edwin B. Phillips will be ring bearer. A reception will follow at the home of the bride’s sister and after a wed- ding trip the couple will make their home in this city, and will be at home after October 1. e groom is connected with the American Hoslery Co. . RECRUITING HOE BRIGADE. Fifteen Men Wanted to Go to Munici- pal Farm Tomorrow Morning. Mayor Quigley and members of the Municipal Farm committee are today trying to recruit a hoe brigade 15 or 20 n to go to the municipal farm tomorrow morning to assist in culti- vating the potato crop. All volun- teers are asked to meet at City hall at 8 o'clock- g Yesterday ‘afternoon several ecity officlals, including P. J. Egan clerk of the water board, and Registrar of Voters Willlam Zeigler, worked at the On next Tuesday another n'fl? of city officials expects to work on the farm. “More men, and more men, is what we need.” is the statement of | 3. 8 Tallard, who is dally superin- tending the work at the farm. L _T.P. O'CONNOR _I[ er in Parliament when asked what he believes the Irish convention will do. “The prophets,” continued T. P.— “Tay Pay” most of those who know him best call him—"were the earliest victims of this terrible war. Don't ask me to prophesy with regard to Ireland. As De Tocqueviile, the first great French authority on American democracy/ said of his native France, I may say of Ireland, that sometimes she will attract, sometimes repel, ‘but always she will interest the world. Ireland is, even more than France, the land of the unexpected.’ ’ . “Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the convention?” “On the whole I lean to the optim- istic side, but I am not certain,” Mr. O'Connor sald. “The Orangeman is a very stubborn and rather narrow politician, and nobody can ever count on his readiness to compromise. “But, on the other hand, these are strange and terrible times, and the preasure of the whole world, including the public opinion of England, is on all parties in Ireland to come to a settlement.” Mr. O'Connor said it was sixteen days since he has seen a _home paper or hasg received a letter from home, and it may be sixten days more before he gets one. He had noticed however, that the date for the meeting of the convention has been fixed, approxi- mately, for the middle of July. The Nationalist leader spent another busy day receiving callers at his ho- tel and they were not all Irishmen, either. He explained he is intbrested in & great many causes as well as that fot his own country. “For instance,” he b:ll‘“ = h:v‘ been an act{ve member ® Ar- menian cdmmission and have pleaded the Armenian cause in many of the great cities of England. I'have al ready accepted an invitation from the Armenians of Boston to visit them. “I may describe myself as perhaps the oldest surviving friend in Engiand of the liberators of Alsace and Lor- raine. I have always pleaded that ‘cause, and some six or seven Sundays ago I spoke as the representative of the Inter-Parliamentary committes, and as the colleague of Prince Colon- na, the Mayor of Rome, in fromt of the statue of Strassburg in the Place de 1a Concorde. In addition, just be- fore leaving London I presided at & lecture and banquet to M. Paul Hel- mar, the famous Alsatian patriot. I shall of course make it my business to meet the representatives of Alsace- Lorraine in the United States.” Mr. O'Connor sal ly nothing about the rioting in Dublin / he knew absolute-- and Cork by 8inin Feiners except that which he had seen in the papers. “They only mark,” he said, “what everybody already knows—a some- | what alarming disturbance of popular feeling in Ireland, and make necessary an early and satisfactory acceptance of Ireland’s demand for self-govera- ment.” N ‘Of course the disturbances are not icaused by the release of the prisoners' he said in answer to a question. “They probably would have been much worse if the prisoners had not been “m.nmly I may remark that it was by the constant pressure of ' the members of the Irish that this release was brought aho In’ fact it had been promised to us some time betore it took place and the announce- ment whether wisely or unwisely was held back lest it should interfers with the prospect of the Ulster men accept- ing the convention. As soon as the convention 'was assured the announce- ment was made. < SUFFRAGISTS HOLD COUNTY GATHERING Fair: Sex of Fairfield Guests of : lrs..l.A.I_‘hayet' o ‘Westport, June 27.—A su e con- vention was held this afternoon at the . home of Mrs. John Adams Thayer. It was a gathering of all the suffrage league af Fairfield county, and was held under the presidency of Miss Caroline Ruuts-Rees, chairman of Fairfleld county, in the Connecti- cut Woman Suffrage association.. The coungy convention is an annual event in 'h county. The conventions are | held in summer, and this year Fair- i fleld county s the first to . hold its cqnvention. ‘The Westfort Equal Franchise League, of which Mrs. Frank Me- Laury is president, was the hostess of the convention. The beautiful home of Mrs. Thayer was gay with siffrage banners, and banners and suffrage colors were displayed .all over the picturesque town when the visiting suffragists arrived. Besides the dele- gates from the leagues and suffrage committees, there were visiting. suf- fragists who came in response to:'the general invitation. There were also present some women who - had- not identified themselves with . the .. suf- frage movement.. i The morning session was occupled with reports from the league and dis- trict leaders and also from Miss Grace Murray, the county organizer. Maost of the work for the last three months has been patriotic work in the line of food production and food con. servation, The cultivation of gar- dens and community lots, supervision af school children’s gardens, and lot gardening were the first forfns 'off work undertaken. The women then turned their attention to food , con- servation and Fairfleld county sent a larger quota than any other county to the canning courses at Storrs Agri- cultural college. The women who at- tended the courses are aiready giving canning demonstrations for the bene- fit of their townswomen, and in some towns canning centers are ‘being es- tablished on a co-operative basis, “Liberty Bonds” were also sold by the leagues, and in this work again Fairfleld county led. In the afternoan session there were speeches from Mrs. Thomas N. Hep- burn, president of the C. W. 8. A.; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, treasurer; Miss Ruuts Rees, Mrs. Bdward a. Porritt and Miss Grace Murray. Mrs. Frank MeLaury gave the address of welcome and Mrs, Lawrence Maz- sanovitch was chairman of the com- mittee on arrangements. MARRIED FORTY YEARS. Chiet and Mrs. W. J. Rawlings Ob- serve Wedding Anniversary Quietly. Chiet of Police Willlam J. Rawlings an Mrs. Rawlings are today quietly observing the 40th nniversary of their marriage. They were married 40 years ago today by Rev. G. M. Minor, then pastor of the First Bap- tist church.” By a strange coincl- dence the wedding took place in the old Baptist church now the home of Mrs. Grace M. Coholan on High street, situated directly in front of where ief and Mcs Raw- lings now lve. < The coupls have two ckhildren, Er- nest, of Heléena, Montans, and 'Miss Edith of this city. Chief and Mrs. Rawlings have been the recipient of numerous congratulatory messages ‘vaeu many triends today. SUMMER HALF HOLIDAYS FOR 1917—Begianing July 18¢h this M'fl“m‘m. until September 14th, Inclusive OUR MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE COATS, SUITS AND DRESSES ~ SILK DRESSES : CTAR STATS, Silk Dressos, vP 10 $16.50, made of Beautiful Crepe de Chine;:also $99.7 s Taffetas, in Blck, Navy and Copen. Ideal Silk Dresses for all 00 casions. 2 WOMEN'S and MISEES COATS—Regalls Frics Tp to #10. Bale A splendid assortment of Coats made in feney checks in biael &nd white, also brown and whits, finished with neat Persian collar. WOMEN'S AND MISSRS’ SOITS—] Prices Up o '$30.75— ‘Regular Sale Prices $8.75,'$13.50, $18.75. ‘Wonderful bargains in all the wanted colors. Suits of all fashionable materials and t» Breezy Summer Time Clothes At Horsfall's Boyw’ " ‘Shop. . in style and ; quality, they & p ROOSEVELT LASHES "RED CROSS RULING Would ‘Permit Men o Tenton / Descent.to Enter Servics Oyster Bay, L« I, June 27.—A strong protest from Col. Roosevelt against the government's announced policy of excluding Americans of German or Austrian birth or parent- age trom Red Cross units to be.sent to base hospitals of Great Britain or France was o public late yester: day. He says {s “an intolerable wrong and insult to discriminate or permit discrimination between loyal and devoted' Americans because of their parentage or birthplace.” Col.. Roosevelt's statement is in the form of a letter to C. A. A. McGee of 8an D Cal. The leter follows: “Oyster Bay, June 26, 1917. “My Dear Sir—I very earnestly hope the government will at once re- cede from this position. If our Red Cross units are not desired abroad. whether with the bage hospitals of the Allles or anywhere else, then we can use them purely for our people or with out own armies; but wher- ever we do send them it should be on the assumption that we no jore permit distinction to be made among the American personnel on the ground of birthplace or parentage than on the ground of creed. “Service in the Red Cross should be like service in the ranks of the army; no man worthy to serve in one should be barred from service in the other. If any spy or disloy person is found in efther in the the- ater of war he should be hanged out of -hand or shot by drumhead court- martial, without mercy, whether he is of native or " foreign parentage. But it is an intolerable wrong and insult to discriminate or permit dis- crimination between loyal and de- voted Americans because of thelir parentage or birthpiace. “I have the wight to speak in this matter because I have insisted that we should take the most drastic: measures against any men who act disloyally, and I hold that all men who attack our allles or uphold our enemies while we are in this war are disloyal to America. - “No man can now be loyal both to this country and to Germany; no man can be both a German and an Amer- ican; he must be either all German or all American. If he is the former, he should be turned out of the coun- try or put in & detention camp. . he is-the latter, it. is an intolerable outrage not to treat him as-on an 1t | Cal. exact o\(umv with .all other “When I was president. one of ! en' who sat Ji' my cabinet. was n Germany, another was & ant of one of Blucher’s eolonels. man who has been closest to mé: litically for the last fifteen years is German parentage. In this: crisis no organisation has donse ter work ‘in rousing the sl patriotista of the mnation than Vigllantes; and one of the has. done better work than Hagedorn, of German parentage. “If T had been allowed to raise the four ‘divisions - of volunteer g ‘which Congress authorised me to raiey Y would have asked that ome of the 4 divisions be commanded by Gen. Kuhn the head of the War College, and an- other division, or else a baigade, by my ola head of ‘the Philippine Constabu- lary, Col. Bandhojts. . Both are of cans and nothing else; and I eagerly and proudly have served der either. ¥ 3 “Four of the regular officers I would have recommended, for ¢ onels are of German parentage or.de- scent. One of. the few non-regulsts . whom I would have recommended for - & colonelcy, ‘at present the colonel of .’ i a National Guard regiment in Illinois, - s of Getman parertage, and hs fold me that 86 per cent. of the men who 3 would come in ‘with him were of for- .. eign My headquarters chaplain’ (not of my religious icreed) - would have been a retired \regular army officer,” born in Germany; my brigade quartermaster, a man German parentage. 2 “These men, and many, many ers litke them, are to lead mies in war, and to hold our civil offices; and they stand in:t) forefront of our citizenship in time of peace. They are Americans in every fibre of soul and body. I would glad- ly confide the honor of the flag: to their keeping, exactly as.I would ly confide my own hon w»nd § name to their keeping. resent slur on their royal Americanism: keenly as I would resent any slur my own, and if they, and those im" heart like them, from the highest to the lowest, are not fit to represent this. dountry—in ‘the army, in the Red Cross, in any &nd very capacity—at home or abroad, then no Americans”: are fit to represent us. v “I’ earnestly hope that the Govern- ment will punish with alert, and unspering severity any man 2 whatever origin who is disloyal to-gis or false to our allles, in any position, during this war, but I no less earnest- 1y hope that the ment will .pe- fuse to permit any . diserimination among true and loyal Americans be- cause-of their parentage, birthplace or creed. Yours truly, i “THEODORE ROOSEVEL: “Mr. C. A. A. McGee, San Di " e el Buy an Indiana trjick.—ads e s