New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1917, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1017. Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING Proprietors. excopted) at 4:15 p. m., 4 dally (Sunday Church 8t at Herald Bullding, 07 Mered at tie Post OMce at New Britatn | as Becond Class Mail Matter. SMvered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month ibacriptions for paper to be sent by mall. payable in advance, 60 cents a month | $7.00 a year only profitable advertising medium in the el Elreutation honks and press | Toom alwavs open to advertise 18 Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's Nevs Stand. 42nd St and Broa way, New York City; Roard “Valk, ‘antic City, and Hartford Depot TRLEPHO! Office Room E CALLS atness ttorial To America—it is a clear call /hat comes from the spirits of Ne fathers. The sons are sum- poned to preserve that which e fathers gave—a free land. e citizen iy commanded by his poble captains of history to per- petuate what they died to estab- lsh—e free Republic. Every lollar of America and every \merican is rallied to the colors, © swear anew their devotion— iy life or death—to this land of mmortal standards. =—JAMES HAMILTON LEWTS. r PATRIOTISM AND PROFITS. resident Wilson’s proclamation ad- jsed to the American business in- gts is a document fraught with h wisdom and carrying an appeal | will be backed by every patriot “he land. Ea American people have come to oint where they are weary of the Hng they are recelving at the of the unscrupulous few, the ) 'who measure their patriotism in is of dollars and cents. Patriotism | profits, as the President points ' 'do not go together. They “‘ought r in the present circumstances aentioned together.” 1@ business interests of the coun- iwre asked not to avail themselves he present " ve profits when dealing with the rnment, with industrial interests, opportunities for ex- ith private consumers rnment’s relation to the business .ests we have no fear inasmuch pe government has already taken | & to safeguard itself. e consumer we are thinking. As here has been no provision made ke care of him. Yet he must be cted. As the President s out, the people are as much a nment as the army and have as much work, though of to do in this war as With the ee to it taken wisely | navy. ent nature, oldiers and Sailors. dent, all hands should * for every dollar that the people's pockets it shall be ble to obtain a doliar's worth of | sound stuffs they need.” there ever was an appeal Id meet with a response it is this. does not get the response which rves, if the business interests of untry do not cb-operate to the t all price boosting and extor- ‘are driven out of this country, at Ior the duration of the war, then rong right arm of the law must the place of honeyed words. Pa- Bsm and profits cannot walk hanti “HERE'S TO "EM.” holas Romanoff, erstwhile Czar the Russias, is fast becoming kpectable member of the prole- Stripped and of his om, the Czar and his family are living the simple life. Reports jating from Russia tell that the fortune of the Romanoffs has } sut down to the humble figure 4,000,000, with the probability the sum total of Mr. Romanoff's en considerably less,—say .0,000. aen the House ng full hia fin the 00 ed in the that §, to took estates them for Nicholas. million dollars,—there when ed at the insignificance of such There was a shorn was, Nicholas 1T e of Romanoff vhen height of his power a year was not oven con- light of money. 1t sometinmes It al- care for the amount. and run the household that sum to and the men who oper- Two. three. was A Nicholas would have tinie: And of money. appily, that to the ordinary time is past mortal three ns are no o red at is poverty. personifie L man once world dow 1d untold wea will the fall of the Romanoffs not glory in bial uch polit: tumble from power. and purpos the enough mon to keep them as the worl rejoice h caused To all in- Romanoffs al upheava that | about | they might rate Nicho- the want though perhaps At any going, think otherwise. read periodical las will not have to Russian He will as a flunky Nor in ads. of any search of a joh. not have to go to work in some rich Russian home. will he be forced to refuse an alms seek house. Mrs. Romanotf will not have to worry over where the money is coming with which to run the house. She is assured of & new Summer dress So Ro- and a cc of hats thrown in we shonld that while the manoftfs Ve “straightenced circumstance:; other ds upper: s compared (o s they are not entire “on their it pound they are frugal; if they are not wise fool- get and along. penny ish. they might We trust they do, good, honest, strai members of as ht- | forward the new Democ- racy “Here's to 'em.” G What over of i As yet the air just what | there is so much smok NG IT news we PROM WITHIN. Are now receiving the cable fromr Germany the i news utmost importance, if true. nisty. It is not clear But . as the is happening where ving | goes. there And if there niust be fire is fire, the kind of fire Ameriea trusts it I and will be, the German Empire will be rocked the House of to its very depths and Hohenzellern will soon £0 the way of the House of Romanofr, What has happened in Russia is but a forerunner of what sooner or later. must happen in Germany P that Hollweg t We have the story to the effect Chancellor von Bethmann- tha heels of this news comes the dispatch telling of similar the part of the entire The causes leading up —if they really happened,—are too well known time. Tt was the battle between the Reichstag and that brought about the present crisis. For has resigned. Close on action on cabinet. actio; to such to bear vepetition at this the Imperial Government | crisis it is whether Bethmann-Hollweg | has resigned or whether he still retains | his portfolio. Crisis it is whether the cabinet has toto whether the in de- | liberative council with his roval nibs, | Wilhelm, Emperor of Germany. Granted that the Cabinet the Chancellor have turned in their resig- and he in turn the most momentuaus and important news | received in this since the { declaration of the war in Auzust, 1914, It ix far more sreater than all the an- resigned in or cabinet still sits and | nations to the Kaiser, has accepted them this news is country With the | { nouncements of a forthcoming peace | discussion. For, these announcements | which tell of mere discussion of peace | are in the abstract. The resignatian of Bethmann-Hollweg and his | cabinet are.—if true—con- | crete actualities. If not true, they are | signs of the times and, as such, in- what coming, ~ The is on the wall for all to It is of the | von friends | dications of is | handwriting | see, even these who run. i It is too bad that so much must “iffing” but the American futility of They have i learned, through the various stages of war, th value of pati- Therefore, they will sit and wait time; The the | jumping at conclusions. be done at this | situation demands it. | people have learned | this xtreme ence tus of affairs in Ger- Until in dis- until the true many is officially made public that time they the they can, The German people are ai last com- | ing into their if internal | ditions the mpire | they depicted are justified secting case as hest own con- such a the p there is no reason to the i in are been days. And that all is false. have in | few believe news we are re- we believed the newspapers when they announced that 1914 war was started in we must be- J ceiving | i lieve some of the stories they print about in 1917, | Time has proven they made ne false 1914, Time will the truth of what under Kuropean date lines. who has and Germany's aflairs ! statements the read today if the German the in prove falacy or we Chancellor, full Imperor, him of the forced to v power hehind ap- has been is there | proval indeed ir hitherto sign, then in Germany the German (abinet, which has worked hand in glove with the Chancellor ! and which has howed and scraped be- Wit throw has actu- the Auto- the threne ol m. fore forced indeed heen to up the ally spe then has of Germany ek at the The G " eratic government ry re- ceived a set hands of Chancellar Democracy the Kaiser in annexa- was backed up by a without The the poiiey of no tions ar indemnity mere fact has gone shows uch a dra that he i people ther s are with ne not in sympathy tic stand. The world hut awaits a confirmation of is reported to have happened in [0} fuicing that | whenev briv to her knees, to curb the power of the thi. 1 of He of the {impossible. There are many who be- i lieve it cannot be done. These same " folk, however, are willlng to admit henzollern. FEven at zame e task sec almost in | German | | until ! be the end of the Hohenzollerns. i No need to read the seroll today; | senger: all | i that one good internal upheaval will ! With- | out expecting to see such a complet: overthrow that which shook Russin we can sce from the signs already presented a semi-earthquake in Berlin. Internal dissension, take the throne It is on the way. it nothing clse, will from under Autacratic Germany. The Princess Pats. of the original regiment only twenty remain’) to call the roll today (“Out. No need No need to seck for friends you knew among the first command; Small use—you know the rest of it The worst of it—the best of it-— Where ate has written cach addre Somewhere in No Man Land. Somewhere in No You'll find the first command today, From Neuve Chapelle to Vimy Ridge, wherever they were sent; Their share? A ftriple store of it, They did their bit, and more of it, S0 here to twenty who returned where fourteen hundred went. —GI TLAND RICE in New York Tribunc. Man's Land today BLOW FOR ‘DRYS’ IN WILSON LETTER President Insists on Passage of Original Food Bill Washington, July 14.—President Wilson, coming to the support of the administration food control bill as it was originally submitted to con- gre has given the senate leaders notice that he does not agree with the sponsors of the amendment of- fered by Scnator Smoot under which the government directed to pur- chase all stocks of distilled beverages in bond at cost, plus 10 per cent. Senator Goge's substitute bill was opposed by the president. Mr. Wilson made known his wishes in a personal letter to Majority Leader Martin. He deplored the delay that had taken place, and said he consid- ered the prompt and final disposition of the measure Imperative. It is un- derstood the president did not refer to the question of prohibition directly. The letter was sent in response to a request from senate leaders for as- sistance in solving the difficulties that heset the action in the upper house. The president recommends, it is stat- ed. the general purposes of the orig- inal bill for government control of foods, feeds and fuels only. He wrote that he belleved unnecessary the extension of government control as proposed in amendments attached in congress to steel, iron, copper, cot- ton, wool, leather and other products. On receipt of the president’s letter administration leaders prepared to obtain action along the lines sug- gested. Senators Lodge, Smooth and other republican leaders were called into conference and a meeting of the democratic steering committee for next week was arranged. Food Ad- ministrator Hoover conferred with Senator Chamberlaln, in charge of the hill. and added his opposition to the Gore substitute as nullifving the gov- ernment's food control plans. Frultless attempts were made by Senators Gore and Reed to obtain by parliamentary moves immediate con- ‘wideration of the Gore substitute. Vice President Marshall ruled that the pending administration biil is entirely perfected by amendment the Gore substitute will not be in order. also TAKE OV Pari bulanc 'R AMBULANCE CORPS. July 14.--The Amcrican Am- at Neuilly, Just outside of Paris, will be formally turned over to the Americn army and the Red Cross next week The ambulance committee will be replaced by an of- ficer of the American army but the Staff of surgeons and nurses will re- main if they cheose to offer their ser- vices to their government. The am- hulance will continue the work of caring for the French wounded. DS HELP CONSERVE FOOD. hington, July 14.—Railroads of the country have promised to co- operate in the campaign of the food administration and, as the first step have agreed to place conservation posters in every station waiting room on their lin it w announced today. Heads of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and Boston and Maine lines are among those who have pledged their sitance, RO. V ADVISOR SHIPPING BOARD. Pavis, July 14.——Anatole De Monzie, under secretary of sea transportation me marine, s apointed advisory committce ‘consisting of directors of the five principal steam- <hip lines. They will be consulted on all questions concerning the manage- ment and chartering of ships and metho for increasir the tonnage. and an BOSSES DENMARK'S TRAFFIC. Copenhagen ~—William H. iale, the new American consul gener- al, instead of performing the usual consular functions of promoting trade will his time largely occupied with war time duties. A bureau for the investization and control of pas- from Denmark to the United will be established in connec- with the consulate. have States tion INFLUX OF MACHINISTS, Inability cure suflicient help in 1o [ o stflled trades has caused the New Machine company to adve of the city for machinists Monday ahout 200 will arrive Massachusetts. This addi- e been made nec ary 000,000 government order “ti-aircraft gun mounts, The Britain o out and on hore from fin Tt e hednle of eight hours consti- tuting a working day and time and one-half heing paid for all overtime become effective on Monday. Town Topics| observations and allowed of late would indi- of observance of section 12 of the army bill by some saloon dealers or their employe: well an unpatriotic disregard for the welfare of the men in khaki by their friends. No secret has been made of the fact that the soldiers in New Britain, well as those clse- where, are being fairly well supplied with drink from the back door and the back rooms of certain saloons One man even made ment that he saw a soldier drink in « but at time the bartender filled a beer, left it at the end of and calmly walked away. The infer- ence was obvious. But even more serious than are alleged violations of the law by saloon men themselves, for a majority of them observe this law strictly, is the practice of civilian friends of soldiers of kecping them supplied with a “bottle.” Here in New Britain it has been a common thing for a civilian to purchase a bottle of whiskey and then visit his soldier friends and turn it over to them. In most cases the friend be- lieves he is doing the man in khaki a great favor, but in reality he is do- ing him a great harm for, it aid, the practice of “battle drinking” is even worse than that of being served across the bar. In many cases where a man would be content with one or two glasses of beer if he could be served across the bar, he hecomes drunk when treated by his friends who have a bottle of whiskey. -As soon as a bottle is brought into camp it is doomed for the men will stick to It until it is empty. It Is thought here in this city that a more rigid observation of the liquor traffic to soldiers, both on the part of the civil authorities as well as the military autorities, would be fruitful of betters morale among the men. e Fuun disclosures made cate both a lack as as has refused a the same glass of the bar, saloon a Never have vacations been so little discussed, particularly among the vounger male clement, as this sum- mer. There's a reason. v Considerable commment has heen heard and much dissatisfaction ex- pressed about the city during the past week relative to the coming draft, and a feeling of injustice in certain phases of the law has been further increased by the radically unfair es- timate which has placed New Bri- tain’s estimated population, upon which the draft is to be flgured, at 76,942. There s hardly a sane person in the city who can be convinced that there are more than 60,000 persons here, and the government estimate that there are more than 15,000 in excess of that number has caused a loud wail of protast. With the se- lective draft law itself however, the greatest complaint heard is regarding the part which will exempt all aliens. This provision will affect New Britain st as hard as it will any city in the nited States, and much harder than the majority, for it is here that many of the original emigrants come, while their children, who, when bhorn here are Americans, move elsewhere. The extent that this phase of the draft law will effect New Britain can be comprehended wnen it is understood that of the 7,600 odd registrants who enrolled on June 5, bout 3,600 are es- timated as aliens, and therefore are exempt. Thus, it is heing argued men who live with citizens and share all their profits and privileges, accept none of the responsibilities and have to make no sacrifices. It is further- more currently complained that as the male citizens are called away by the draft their places will be taken by others, and it may be the aliens who will step in to fill them. Thus, it would appear that the aliens, with- out any personal sacrifice, without accepting any of the responsibilities, get the cream of the countr while the natives and naturalized citizens make the sacrifices. As this is be- coming more generally understood, there has grown up a large class here, including many prominent men, who feel that the alien should be com- pelled to take his chances and do his bit with the rest, or else go back to the country from whence he came where he will be compelled to do so. e Attentlon of the mayor and the police board is respectfully called to the clipping from the Rockville Leader published in this paper on Wednesday. For those who failed to notice it, the article dealt with a scathing condemnation of star cham- ber sessions. It also commends the Herald on its stand for open meetings, thus showing that the Herald is not alone in its views on this matter. A word to the wise, etc. : .o The new automobile law is causing no little trouble to both civil authori- ties and individuals. On the part of some motorists there is a mistaken that the law, effective July 1, ling the use of dazzling gives them some leeway in order to shift the lights on their machines. This is not so and authorities have heen ordered to prosecute all lators. The first of not less than $10 or more than §50, while a fine ranging from $25 to $100 is provided for a second offense. . x e iden cur The state automobile commissioner now considering applications for an inspector general, with a sala of $1.800 a year and expenses, and fif- teen automobile inspectors to assist his department in enforcing is expected that the | tors will be named shortl the candidates Daniel this city. As yet no been fixed for these 3 Among other general duties, it will he in the province of the inspectors. o.give examinations to all applicants for operators' licenses to make sure that they are capable of operating a motor car. In this respect. the new motor vehicle law is radically differ- ent from that of last yvear. A few vears ago a person in order to get an operator's license, had to flll out a card stating his own qualifications and the card also had to contain the st of inspec- is Fitzy salary inspecto the law. | lights, | the state- : | i i | | i amount vio- | offense means a fine | | Jail | nong | ‘in the country cment of a registered operator and signed by a notary public. year the bars were lowered so that almost anybody could get a license, cven through the mail The formal blank, stating the person's and approximately the number miles he had driven a car, generally sufficed to bring him a license. This vear, however, a person who did not hold a license last year must give a practical demonstration to operate a machine under all con- ditions before a license is granted. To test the ability of these new appli- cants ix one of the duties of the new inspectors. oo What is your numher? This is one time when the average American male, with a little gambling blood in veins, does not hanker for the “victorious” sensation of ving his number pulled from the government lottery box. e “I've got your number,” is what Uncle Sam Will soon be shouting at several hundred New Britain men, <o Broadly speaking, New Britain has A set of plumbing ordinances that are sccond to non, members of that trade state. A\ new plumbing ordinance has recently gone into effect, the provi- sions of which are not known to everybody his ordinance is relative to the drainage of ice boxes or re- frigerators. Previou in a tenement house it was not uncommon for a single drain pipe to carry off the ice Arippings, the pipe being tapped ch floor. Also, in one-family houses, as well as in tenement houses, it was a common thing for an ice hox to be drainied directly through a pipe onto the ground. Now different pro- visions are made. ‘In a tenement house, unless each ice box is drained into a pan and emptied separatelly, the drain pipe must be connected with the ice hox drains through separate traps. This pipc must in turn be drainied Into the sanitary or storm water sewer through a disconnected trap. In single family houses it is not permissable for the ice box to drain into the yard. It must be connected as above. The =anitary reason for this ordinance is explained by the health board as follows: If, for in- stance, in a three-family houge the fenant on the first floor had some highly contagious disease it would be a ve imple matter for germs to find their way into the open drain pipe and then there would be nothing to pre- vent them from finding their way into the refrigerators on the upper floors. The water trap prevents this. In one- family houses not only does this ordi- nance prevent germs from entering the refrigerator through the drain pipes, but it also does away with a soggy, damp space in the ward, a space where various germs would be likely to breed. The disconnected drain trap leading from the ice box drain to the sewer is a necessity be- cause in the winter time, when the refrigerators are not in use, there would he no water in the trap, thus permitting the gases from the sewer to permeate the drain pipe, enter the box, contaminate the food and the air. hox at e The thought uppermost {in the minds of Home Guardsmen, not eligi- ble for the draft, is what disposition is to he made of them. Dispite contrary reports, many of these men are afraid they may be called upon to do guard duty at lonely reservoirs, pipe lines, faciories, etc. ..o The railroad company has expressed a willlngness to co-operate with the city i’ every possible way to allevi- ate the dangers of the grade crossings. Fine! But what the people want is action In the meantime hardly a week goes by hut what one or more narrow escape is reported, due many times to that lack of proper protec- tion, both human and mechanical. “ s With favorable weather it is figured that Stanley street, be- tween Hartford avenue and Allen streets, should be paved in about six weeks. Already the Connecticut com- pany is rushing its share of the work and the city is ready to step in, with its contractors, and complete the job as speedily as possible. The paving of this section of the main trunk line between this ciay and Hartford will answer a long felt need. For several vears the work has been held off, while traffic has had to suffer and vis- itors have received anything but a fa- vorable “first impression” of the city. P Park street, too, is hadly in need of immediate repairs and the council has done well to recommend that this be done. It will be remembered that the original city budget contained a suf- ficent appropriation to pave this street from Elm street to John street, but it was voted down at the memorable city meeting. Whiting street, between the railroad crossing and Cherry street, {s likewise In a very bad condition, but there is little likelthood that either men or money can be spared to make even {emporary repa As soon as the city can do so however, both Park street and this section of Whiting treet should be paved as the great of trucking that daily goes over it demands It conditions . \lmost everybody who has fa- miliarized themselves with county af- fairs knows that the Hartford County at Hartford is doomed and will he discontinued, because of its unsani- tary conditions, poor location and general inadaptability. Senator Geo. W. Klett, a member of the Hartford County Jail committee, has just re- turned from a tour of the middlewest during which time he visited the mod- ol jails at Chicago, Michigan City, Ind., Pittsburg and Rahv N T and from these and other observations he will have some pertinent recom- mendations to make. The Michigan City jail is regarded as one of the best and among other things it maintains its own farm of 1,000 acres and also cans its own vegetables. Another novel thing is that it has a tin can factory where the prisoners make the cans used. The Pittsburgh jail has a 550 acres farm and the Rahway jail has a farm of 600 acres. At each institutfon the normal output has been increased this vear so gar- den produce can be sold. Among jail- Last | indentity | of | of his ability | | ers there is considerable division of opinion as to the merits of the steel cell and the concrete cell, bua the county committee may favor the lat- ter inasmuch as all corners can be rounded, leaving no crevices for ver- min and making it easier to keep the | cells clean. The committes has also been advised to build all prison build- | In&s running north and south so that | one side of the building gets the ben- tfit of the sunshine all day. Just where the new jall will be located is | not known, but it should be situated | somewhere removed from a thickly populated or residential section, and at the same time me casily accessable to Hartford, New Britain and Bristol, as these places, being the largest in the county, will have more direct need for the institution. i .. As yet there has not been a single arrest in New Britain of registration slackers and, according to the opinion of the mayor, there is little liklihood that there are many here. In this re- spect New Britain should be proud for, Senator Klett reports, in the city of Freeport, Ill, and an adjoining town, no less than 112 registration slackers were arrested while he was there. These men were each sen- tencd to jail for a year and a day and, the jailers inforfned the local man, the | other prisoners have refused to asso- ciate with them and they are not only ostracized by soctety but also by crim- inals and civil offenders. PHILADELPHIA DIVES MUST GLOSE DOORS Daniels Tak;as Actfi Similar to Newport Case ‘Washington, July 14.—Secretary Daniels has submitted to the Gover- nor of Pennsylvania a list of dives in the vicinity of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, with the suggestion that they be closced immediately. In the event that they are not closed, the Marine Corps will post pickets at the en- trancees so that no enlisted men shall enter them. The list was compiled by secret ser- vice agents of the navy department. Tt contains the names and addresses of saloons, gambling and disorderly houses. The names of proprietors, managers and inmates of the houses are contained in the lists. The navy department agents made such a comprehensive list that Secre- tary Danlels is satisfied the Philadel- phia police will have no difficulty whatever in cleaning up the section. In announcing that he had taken the matter up with the governor of Pennsylvania, Mr. Daniels sald he was merely following the policy outlined in handling the situation at Newport and that he intends to take similar action in relation to every city in the country where vice thrives near Navy yards and training stations. The navy department intelligence bureau is making a survey of Brook- lyn, and within a few days Secretary Danjels will call upon Gov. Whitman to close every dive in the vicinity of the Brooklyn yard or accept the al- ternative of having them picketed by marines. Mr. Daniels said that he has no present intention of carrying the anti- vice crusade across the Brooklyn bridge into New York City, but every precaution would be taken to see that voungsters from the yard are not en- ticed into questionable resorts on Manhattan island. At present the anti-vice crusade in New York is being devoted principally to keep ing the men out of barrooms. As far as can he ascertined the Navy Department has had no occasion to complain against New York saloon keepers for selling drinks to sailors. The navy's program of cleaning up sections in the vicinity of the training stations and yards is being carried out in conjunction with the War Depart- ment's plans for removing tempta- tion from the militia mobilization points and cantonment cities. Mr. Daniels said he believed it ab- surd to attempt to remove vice if, at the same time, a concreted effort i1s not made to glve the sailors and en- listed men ample healthy amusement. In line with this theory he has ap- pointed a committee which will be ex- pected to supply the necessary facili- tles for amusement. UNION MAN FINED. Hartford Painter Guilty of Assaulting President of T.ocal. Louis Thompson, & painter and a member of the Hartford painters’ union, was fined $7 and costs by Judge James T. MesRill in police court this morning for assaulting Charles Weare, president of the New Britain Painters’ Union, during an argument in a Main street store on Tuesday. Testimony showed that Thompson had been drinking and, upon meeting Weare In the store, proceeded to up- braid him for alleged Wrongs in con- nection with the management of the local union. Weare testified that af- ter grossly insulting him, Thompson punched him in tha mouth and kicked him. Thompson denied the allegations and Insisted that Weare assaulted him. SLEEPY NEIGHBOR OBJECTS. “Please g0 'way and let me sleep” was the plaintive wail of an un- known South Burritt street resident who, at 5:15 o'clock this morning, called up the police department to protest against the amergetic activi- ties of a neighbor, C. A Larson, who was busily engaged in -cutting the | grass. The complaining and sleepy remonstrant told Sergeant Kelly that Mr. Larson was running the lawn mower vigorously and was interfer- ring with her sleep. A talk with Mr. Larson over the telephone found him to be very amenable to reason and | VERDICT OF GUILTY IN GILLIGAN CASE Woman Sentenced to Be Hanged at Wetherstield Nov. 6 Hartford, Conn., July 14.—After five hours’ consideration of evidence put forward by the state, which charges Mrs. Amy E, Archer-Gilligan with five murders, the jury last evening brought in a first degree verdict against the woman for the death of Franklin R. Andrews. The jury returned the ver- dict at 5:09 p. m.,, and 16 minutes later she was sentenced by Judge Gar- diner Greene to be hanged in the Wethersfield prison November 6. The state began her trial June 18, charging her with the murder of five persons, ane of them her husband. But the woman's attarney made a suc- | cessful filght to have the state re- stricted to proving murder in a single case, and that of the sudden, violent - death by arsenic poisoning of Andrews Was selected. She still stands indicted | for the murder of the other four—two men and two women. 5 Mrs. Archer-Gilligan was unable ta stand at the passing of the death sen-* tence. She is a little woman and kept her face wholly concealed by a heavy black veil, the while she huddled in a big armchair and wept audibly when Judge Greene was speaking. An hour before the actual verdict wag in she must have had ome reali- zation that the day—the superstitious in the courtroom were tireless 1n pointing out that it was “Friday, the . thirteenth”—would go against her, She was present, necessarily, when at 4 a'clock, the jury came in to ask further instructions. Their question was as to what latitude was allowed between a first and second degree ver- dict and Judge Greene answered by reading again a portion of his charge in which he had said that it was diffi- cut to suppose a case of wilful poison-* Ing that was not murder in the first degree. The caurt room had been crowded during the judge’s charge and at the time when the jury retired. But when it was announced the jurors were ready with their verdict, courtroom and corridors were cleared by order of Judge Greene. Only lawyers and newspapermen were allowed to re- main, besides the court attendants and the sheriff and his deputles, / A big deputy led the woman in black to her chair. On the other side of her, halding tightly to her arm, walked her 18 year old daughter, Miss Mary Archer. When Mrs. Archer- Gilligan heard the verdict she clung the big armchair that had been pro- vided for her during the trial. Judge Greene Shaken. “Amy E. Archer-Gilligan have you anything to say why the sentence of| death should not be pronounced on you?" asked Judge Greene. There was a painful pause as the judge waited for nearly a minute to herself and speak if she desired. She made no effort to arise, but sat limp- 1y in the chair and clung with both hands to her weeping daughter's arm. Judge Greene went on in a voice which plainly betrayved emotion, to direct the sheriff to deliver the pris- oner to the warden of the state prison at Wethersfield within 20 days. Then he charged Warden Garner that on the morning of Nov. 6, “you shall hang her by the neck untfl dead.” Then he looked toward the woman and the paper in his hand on which he had made notes shook as he said, “And may God have mercy on your soul!” At a back door of the court house, where, with her guards the defend- ant awaited an automobile, she em- braced her daughter continually, moaning, “Oh, Mary, my darling chila!" The girl, who has pressed fullest confidence in her mother’s innocence, reassured the woman more than a dozen times of her continued loyalty. She was all- owed to accompany her mother in the motor car. which made its way through a hig crowd before it could be driven at speed to the county jail. The state pictured the woman at the trial as nothing short of a flend, a wholesale poisoner for money-gain of aged, ill, feeble and mentally weak persons given over to her care at what was known as the Archer Home at Windsor, Conn. The state’s attorney declared there had been 40 deaths under peculiar circumstances at the Archer institu- tion, many of whose inmates entered on a life contract—the payment of a lump sum for which they were to be harbored for the remainder of their v Besides Andrews, the state caused the woman to be indicted for the mur- ders of Michael W, Gilligan, her sec- ond husband, in 1914. He died sud- denly the day after he had made a will bequeathing her all his property. Mrs. Maude Lynch of Lakeville, Conn., who was only 34 years old, for whom her parents paid $1,000 to Mrs. Archer for life care, died a few months after entering the Archer home; Charles A. Smith of Waterbury and Mrs. Alice Gowdy of Hartford died in 1914, Mrs. Archer-Gilligan had come into control of the place by the death of her husband, James N. Archer, in 1910. He founded the home. She married Gilligan in 1913, Benedict M, Holden. the woman's chief counse] moved that the verdict be set aside as against the evidence, as contrary to statute which requires the testimony of two eve witnesses or its equivalent to convict on first de- gree and as prejudiced. The motion: was over-ruled and Mr. Holden gave| notice of appeal. all along ex- OBSERVE FRENCH HOLIDAY, Cambridge. July 14.—The French national holiday was observed by the | he immediately desisted until a later hour when the entire neighborhood ghould be awake. 2 Harvard Reserve officers training| corps today by a review on -Soldiers’ ! Field. € glve the woman a chance to compose ‘ convulsively to the girl and sank into | 1 4 {