New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1917, Page 9

SUMMER HALF HOLIDAYS NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1917. FOR 1017.. Beginning July 13th, This Store will Close Fridays at Noon until September 14th, inclusive. OUR GREAT MID-SUMMER SALE HAS BEEN OFFERING EXTRA BIG VALUES THAT WILL BE CONTINUED FOR A TIME. WATCH OUT FOR MORE NEWS OF SPECIAL BARGAINS IN NEXT ISSUE OF THIS PAPER. YOU WILL WANT TO SHARE IN THEM. O ———{re . s, e——t B A DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU OAN DEPEND ON AUTO! HAVING AN RECEIVING ALL DRY GOODS PUICHASED OF UR Berlin News STEEL BRIDGE TO0 - BE ERECTED HERE Plans of Committee Meet With i, General Public Favor $8,000 APPROPRIATED| Special Four Mill Tax to Be Levied to Cover Cost of Construction—Have Slackers’ Names Been Seat to Dis- trict Attorney ? At a special town meeting held last evening in the Town hall to hear the report of the committee appointed to plan for the construction of the new _Bridge which is to be built aver Hart's pond near the American Paper Goods company, to definitely decide the ma- terial to be used in the structure and to make an appropriation which would cover the cost incident to the building with a special tax to be laid to cover the cost af the same, it was voted that $8,000 be appropriated, a » steel bridge 14 feet wide be built with a foot bridge at one side four feet wide and that a spcial tax of four mills on the dallar be levied. The meeting was called to order at 8:156 by Town Clerk Francis H. Shaw, presiding as clerk and at 9:30 all ,wended their way homeward. About 50 voters from the towns of Berlin, Kensington and East Berlin were present to voice their opinions, . After the verbal report, which ghowed that the committee have nat been slack in the work of looking after all details, had been submitted and the blue prints, prepared by en- gineers, showing what the committee thought to be the best specifications for the desired improvement, had been carefully scrutinized, it was put up i point hlank to the voters to find out just what kind of a bridge they wanted. Some were in favor of a concrete bridge while others showed partiality toward a steel one. After some dis- cussion the tide turned-in favor of a steel structure. The question of size also caused some dissension, especially between the residents of Berlin and - Kensington. Several of the citizens of the latter place thought that a bridge twenty feet wide, to cost in the neigh- borhood of $12,000, priate. They also wished to make that appropriation. Berlinites favor of the type of bridge that “finally decided upon and the ot wha differed in personal ofinion later submitted to thesg plans, The following resolution was drawn up, put to a vote and carried tnanimously : “Resolved: That the sum of be and the same is herehy priated for the building, construction and erection of a fourteen bridge with concrete roadway, and four foot sidewalk with floor, across Hart's pond, near the \Ameri¢an Paper Goods company fac- tory, in the Town of Berlin and for Any and all necessary abutments, and that the board of selectmen of the Town of Berlin are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into any and all contracts for said work and to spend said sum of $8,000 or so mucty_ were in was| floor would he appro- | almost | 88000 | appro- | foot steel ; wooder | thereof as may be necessary. Views were alred and some argu- ment was held on the following reso- lution which “firally was passed, 27 voting in the afirmative and 21 in the negative: “Resolved: That the' town select- men of the Town of Berlin be au- thorized to borrow said sum of $8,000 in the name of said Town of Berlin and to execute and sign any orders or notes that may be necessary for the building of the bridge at the Ameri- can Paper Goads company.” The following resolution was also unanimously passed: “Resolved: That a tax of four mills | upon the dollar be and the same is hereby laid upon the taxable property in the Town of Berlin on the list of 1916, the same ta be due and pavablo to sald Town of Berlin on the first Monday of November, 1917, and that the compensation of the collecter be one and one-half mille.” With the closing of the meeting the committee in charge of the plans dropped out of existence and the se- lectmen of the town will assume the responsibilities. The committee should be thanked for having given the au- thorities a ®ood foundation to work on. Bids on the work will probably be received in a few days from different contractors about the vicinity and contracts will. in all probability, be awarded shortly. Because of the dis- advantages offered by the detours and the heavy traffic over this bridge the authorities will take especial pains to expedite construction. First Selectman W. I, Alling co™- | ferred with Highwa Commissioner C. J. Bennett a few days ago and will probably be in session with him in the near future to discuss matters relative to the erection of the bridge. Land Transfer. Harry Pelham Robbins et al have transferred land to John Ferraro et al. Bath men are local residents. The property is bounded on the north and south by other land of the | grantors. On the east it is bounded by a passageway and on the west hy land formerly of the granters and known as lots No. 24, 25 and 26. Registration List Received. This morning Town Clerk Francis H. Shaw received a list of names of persons whose registration cards have been filed away at the office of the military registration board depart- ment. The reason for this move by the military authorities, Mr. Shaw thinks, is that the list will possibly be used in connection with the conscription in checking up. As the duplicates which were made of the registration cards were sent to Hartford and the orig- inals given to B. I. Miller, secretary of the Hartford county registration board, there would have been nothing | to work on if the cards should have been wanted for that purpose. It was rumored about town morning that the names of | young men of the vicinity, who were well aware of the fact that they were supposed to megister on nd | did not. nave sent ed States District Attorney ) Spellacy. this several June to Unit Thomas been Briefs. Scouts returned this morn- their over-night hike to ield Falls hop Acheson Gabriel's 30 o'clock E. J. Clark is having a well driven on his building lot on Hudson street and expects to build a bungalow near there this fall. A family reunion was held at the The Boy & from confirmed a mission last class evening home of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Hol- igan in East Berlin yesterday. Their nine children were all home for the day. Miss Bertha Goodrich of Worthing- ton Ridge spent yesterday in Hart- ford. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Church of Westfleld were visitors in East Ber- ln recently. Miss Lista Lincoln of. New York is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lincoln, on Farmington Road. Miss Irene North of East Berlin is spending a few days in New York. An addition is being built to the office of the Berlin Construction com- pany. Miss G. North, a former resident of East Berlin, has returned to New York after a few days' v at her former home. Maple Hill Lester Morgan of New York is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Morgan, of Robins ave- nue. e Dr. Forbes of New York was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corbin of Robins avenue over the Fourth. C. W. Lines has returned to his home on Maple Hill avenue after an operation for appendicitis at the hos- pital. .o F. A. Law and family have moved into their new residence on Maple Hill avenue which they purchased from Miss Mary Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moody and daughter, Beatrice, took an automo- bile trip to Maine. They visited Ralph Moody, who is spending the summer there. v Mrs. Nordstrom of Robins avenue has returned after spending her vaca- tion in New Haven. ... Miss Myrtle Nordstrom, Miss Zue- lette Tucker, Albert Nordstrom and Raymond Tucker enjoyed a canoe trip up the Farmington river on Fourth of July. e Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Stenberg of Golf street announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Edith Sten- berg, to Harry A. Webster of New- ington. Mr. Webster has joined the navy. Mrs. Samford Freeman and family are spending the summer at their cottage on Money Island. OPPOSE EQUAL SUFFRAGE. Reichstag Committee Expected to Vote Down Reform. Copenhagen, July 6.—In conse- quence of vigorous representations in the Reichstag main committee the ventive censorship imposed sev- ays ago on the Frankfurter has been raised. The Vorwaerts of Berlin says there is no doubt that the vote of the Reichstag committee today will re- sult in rejection of the socialist plan to introduce universal and equal-suf- frage in the federal states by action of the Reichstag. | Men Arrested at Point of Revolver— Plainville News| CONSTABLE CATCHES CROOKS RED HANDED Freight Handlerfiere Helping Themselves to Cigarettes TWO ARE SENT T0 JAIL Constable Hides Behind Boxes to Walt for Them—Ncgro Murderer Taken to Jail-~Knife Still Missing. Caught in the act of stealing from a shipment of cigarettes at the transfer station Malcolm McCleary and Charles Edwards, freight truckers, rested yesterd afternoon stable Cornelius Downing raigned in court last evening, were each fined $7 and costs and sentenced to jail for thirty d: They were taken to Hartford this morning to work out the penalty imposed. Although they were caught red handed, the men persistently dented their guilt and even after evidence was introduced to show that some of the missing ‘‘smokes” were found in thelr room they refused to*admit their guilt. They protested against their sentence and with an air of injured innacense they claimed they were the victims of the mistakes 8f the au- thorities. Yesterday morning Constable Down- ing, who is acting as watchman at the freight vard, discovered that a case containing a shipment of cigarettes which was in one of the cars awaiting transfer had been broken open and part of the contents taken. Expecting that the thieves, providing they were transfer help, would not be satisfled with the first haul, he hid behind frelght in the car to awalit their re- turn. He had been on watch for con- siderable time and had practically given up hope of success, when Mc- Cleary and Edwards showed up. The latter entered the car while McCleary stood watch. “How many will I take?” the officer heard McCleary ask. His companion suggested that they carry off the remaining cartons. As McCleary approached the broken cage, the officer stepped into the open and at the point of his revolver took the men in custody. Both McCleary and Edwards are in- telligent appearing young men and are not of the type usually found working as stevedores. - They: had never been suspected of theft and the officer was almost as much surprised to see them enter the car as they were themselves when confronted by the pistal, In court they maintained that the cigarettes found in their possession as well as those discovered in their rooms they had purchased. Asked why they entered the car from which the cigar- ettes had been stolen in ew of the fact that they should have been work- ing in another part of the v the men claimed they were looking for Officer Dawning for the purpose of borrowing some money, The court regarded the evidence against them as conclusive and imposed sentence de- spite their protests. Photographs for Photographs of the scene of the murder of Frank Tanner, who was stabbed to death Wednesday by Her- mann Harris in the quarters occupied by the negro laborers on Whiting street have been secured. by Grand Juror Norton and will be used as evi- dence against the accused when' he comes before the superior court. The pictures clearly show the blood spat- ters in the kitchen where the state al- leges the knife thrusts were dealt. There is also an exterior view to shaw the location of the pump where Tan- ner fell as he was about to draw water with which to wash his wounds. The photographer in addition made a pic- ture of the murdered man to shaw the location of the wounds which caused his death. & While the search for the knife with which it is believed the crime was committed has not been given up, the police admit that they have been un- able to get trace of it and they are of the opinion that it was hidden by other negroes, Harris clings to the story that the stabbing took place in the vard and that the weapon was owned by Tanner. The latter, he told the police, attacked him and he was compelled to take the knife from him making a subsequent lunge in self de- fense. In his confession he declares he left the knife in his victim's fhroat as he lay on the ground bleeding. Harris was taken to the Hartford jail yesterday by State Policeman Wheeler and Constable Marino, Six other negroes belicved to have in- formation concerning the killing are held on breach of peace charges. They will be used as material wit- nes: 3 While Harris was bound over to the September term of the superior court it is thought likely that he will be brought to trial after the Gilligan murder case, now being heard, completed. Tanner's body, which was turned over to Undertaker W. A. Bailey aft- er Medical Examiner Moody had viewed it, was shipped last night to Blackstone, ginia, where the mur- dered man's wife and two children are living. His brother, who has also been emploved here, accompanied the remains to the south.. Local Candidates Rejected. That the army officers are making a close scrutiny of candidates for en- listment to locate physical defects was made evident to local people ves- terday when seven Plainville young men who offered themselves for serv- ice were rejected. They went to the recruiting office in Hartford in a body. Those who applied were Stanley Coates, Frank Prior, James McNaly, William Park- inson, David Erbe and William Kav- anaugh. Some were under the re- cvidence. quired height, one was over weight and the others had slight physical defects which the recruiting officer told them barred them from the serv- ive at least at this time. Making Land Appraisal. Representatives of the railroad were in town yesterday to securé in- formation regarding the valuation of property contiguous to land occupied by the tracks. They claimed that they were working to check up the appraisal made by the interstate commerce commission which is seek- ing to learn the true value of all railroad properties in the country. The appraisers declared their visit had no connection with the railroad’s theat to bring condemnation pro- ceedings to secure land in the eastern section of the town for the proposed pur tracks to be used in connection with the transfer station, Highway Work Slow. Although it was reported when the contracts were signed that the work of laying permanent pavement be- tween Bristol and Plainville would be completed by mid-summer, the indi- cations. at this time are that snow will fly before the improvement is fin- ished. The foundation has been laid from Bristol center only as far as the For- estville Switch and the work appears to be progressing slowly. Bristol bound autoists continue to have to make a detour and there is no sign of the main road being opened for some time. Brief Items. Dog Warden Marino has a valuable dog of St. Bernard stock in the pound. The animal was found roam- ing collarless about the street yes- terday. Cards have been received from Town.Clerk R. C. Usher who is spend- ing a few with J. H. Trumbull in Laconia, N. H. A number of the owners of cot- tages at the camp grounds are now here for the summer. They will par- ticipate in the annual Chautauqua as- sembly to be held from July 16 to 24 and the Methodist camp meeting which will be in session from July 26 to August 6. WILSON PROMISES FULL AID TO RUSSIA Bakhmetell Presents Credentials As Envoy of New Republic Washington, July 6.—Boris Bakh- meteff, the new Russian ambassador, presented his credentials to President Wilson late yesterday and was for- mally received as the first permanent diplomatic representative here of the Russian democrac; ‘With this cer- emony the ambassador takes a per- manent status in place-of his tems porary position as head of the Rus- slan war mission. Other members of the mission also will become per- manent representative of their gov- ernment here. “At the present time,” said Mr. Bahkmeteff, addressing the president, “the historical paths of the United States and Russia have been drawn close in the common struggle for freedom and lasting peace of the world, and in this strife the new- born Russian democracy is being guided by the same unselfish aim, the same human and democratic prin- ciples, as this great republic. “The success of our mutual task makes essential the firm establishing of the democratic regime in Russia. THE ASHLEY-BABGOCK GO. 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To that end are tending the efforts of the provisional government which is awaiting to find a source of new strength in the hearty spirit and brotherly support of the United States. “Fer such. attainments the provi- sional government is endeavoring to establish a full understanding and a close ‘co-operation with the govern- ment of this country, whose immense resources and unlimited energy can contribute most effectively to the achievements of our cause. “To bring such co-operation into effect and to establish means of com- mon activity on the most practical lines and with no loss of time, the provisional government has consid- ered it necessary to bestoy on me exceptio@ial powers to treat and de- cide, on behalf of my government, all manifold questions in which co-opera- tion sho have to reveal itself. “Confident that the natural sym- pathy of"the two nations will grow now into bonds of solid friendship, 1 look forward with the greatest hopes to the results of united efforts of the two great democracies based on mu- tual understanding and common ends.” President’s Answer. The, president replied as follows: “To the keen satisfaction which I derived from the fact ‘that the gov- ernment of the United States was the first to welcome, by its official recognition, the new democracy of Russia to the family of free states, is added the exceptional pleasure which 1 experience in now receiving from vour hand the letters whereby the provisional government of Russia ac- credits you as its ambassador extra- ordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, and in according to you formal recognition as the first ambassador of free Russia to this country. “For the people of Russia the people of the United States have ever entertained friendly , feelings, which have now been greatlv decpened by the knowledge that, actuated by the same lofty motives, the two govern- ments and peoples are co-operating to bring to a successful termination the conflict now raging for human liberty and a universal acknowledge- ment of those principles of right and justice which should direct all gov- ernments. I feel convinced that when this happy day shall come, no small share of the credit will be due to the devoted people of Russia who, over- coming disloyalty from within and intrigue from without, remain stead- fast to the cause. “The mission, which it was pleasure to send to Russia, has al- ready assured the provisional gov- ernment that in this momentous struggle and in the problems that confront and will confront the free government of Ru a, that govern- ment may count on the steadfast friendship of the government of the United States, and its constant co- operation in all desired appropriate directions. “It only remains for me to give ex- pression to my admirdtion of the way in which the provisionai government of Russia are meeting all requirements to ‘my entire sympathy with them in their noble object to insure to the people of Russia the blessings of freedom and equal rights and opp tynity, and to my faith that through their efforts Russia wifl assume har my FOOTWEAR ions of the world.” Last night the am dinner to American off on of gratitude tion accorded the m countty. 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