New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1917, Page 3

" bureau is Miss Grace Abbott of Chi- NEW BRITAIN DAYLY HERALL, rRXroxY, AUGTST 3T, 1977, Boston Store ARTISTICALLY BEAUTIFUL. .. Are the New Fall Designs in CRETONNES Just Received These Are the Product of the | Famous Puritan Mills Conceded to be the leading ! manufacturers of this class | of goods in this country. ALl Eureka | Geneva Cloth | Sonder Cloth | Mercerized Rep Radium Cloth | Mayflower Chints and others will be found in | our stock. : Also an Extensive Variety of | New SILKOLINES See Window Display O McCALL PATTERNS 10c, 15¢, 20c 'PULLAR & NIVEN CHILD LABOR LAW IN EFFECT SEPT. | Products Made by Those Under 14 Gan’t Leave State Washington, Aug. 31.—Tomorrow the new federal child labor law takes ecffect. Hereafter no child under 14 may be employed in any factory, mill, workshop, or cannery in the United States whose products are to be shipped in interstate commerce, and no child under 16 in any mine or quarry. The working day of children 14 and 15 years of age in factories may not be longer than 8 hours and they may not be employed between 7 p. m. and 6 a. m. The enforcement of ‘the law has been delegated by the secretary of labor to the children’s bureau of the department of labor and the head of the new child-labor division of that cago. Miss Abbott has been at work for several weeks on the details of administration with a staff of tempo- rary assistants in order that there might be no delay in enforcing the law. The issuing of federal cextificates of age in states where the state re- quirements for proof of age are be- 4ow the federal standards has already begun and the methods of co-opera- tion with state officials have been worked out. Although the children’s bureau will have its own permanent staff of inspectors and will, when necessary, initiate its own proceed- ings for prosecution in case of viola- tion, it will so far as possible avoid duplication of the work of state labor *officials. Miss Abbott has had broad experi- ence in Industrial matters in this country and abroad. She has lived for | many years in an industrial neighbor- hood and has visited Europe repeat- edly to observe inlustrial committees cspecially in countries from which immigration has been large in recent « years. Since 1908 she has beer active- ly engaged in work on industrial pro- blems as they have affected immi- grants, part of the time as executive secretary of the Massachusetts state immigration commission and more re- cently as director of the Immigrants’ Protective League of Chicago. The permanent staff of assistants will be - selected from candidates approved by the U. S. Civil Service commission as a result of special examinations to be held in the 18th and 19th of Septem- It | been fibehs | cessary { in that position until [ 1901, BARDO ASSISTANT T0 PRES. PEARSON | General Manager of “New Haven” Road Wins Promotion- (Special to the Herald.) New York, Aug. 31.—To better | meet the requirements of the service and the demands on the operating staff there has been a reassignment of duties and authority of some of i the principal officers of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road company. General Manager C. L. Bardo has been appointed assistant to its presi- dent. He continues in general charge of the operating department and will handie matters assigned by the pres- ident. General Mechanical Superintendent {G. W. Wildin has been appointed general manager. 0. Hammond, assistant General Mechanical Superintendent, has been appointed general mechanical super- intendent. W. L. Bean. who has been assistant to the president, appointed assistant mechanical superintendent These changes take effect Septem- Under the new arrangement the president's office and the general manager’'s office will be relieved certain details in the interest of ne- matters which will hence- forth better attention. Bardo Railroad Man 32 Ycars. Clinton L. Bardo, who has heen apncinted to the position of assistant to president, was born October 24, 1867. His railroad experience ex tends over a period of 32 years, his first position being as a telegraph op- erator on the P. & E. division of the Pennsylvania railroad. He entered the service of the Pennsylvania on May 30, 1885, remaining with that road until October 10, 1887 when he went with the Lehigh Valley railroad as telegraph operator. In October, 1914, Mr. Bardo entered the service of the New Haven railroad as freight train master at Harlem River. He re- mained with the New Haven until March, 1911, when he returned to the Lehigh Valley as assistant to the gen- eral manager. On February 15, 1913 Mr. Bardo was appointed manager of the New Haven railroad which position he has held up to the present time. Wildin in Game Since 1892. George W. Wildin was born Feb- ruary 28, 1870 at Decatur, Il He graduated from the Kansas State Ag- ricultural College in June, 1892, with the degree of B. S. He entered railway service the same year as me- chanical draftsman in the Topeka Shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. Later he was machinist and locomotive fireman for the same road. He served then as locomotive engineer on the Mexican Central Railway and the Chicago & Alton He was machinist for the Plant Sys- tem at Savannah, Ga., locomotive and car inspector and mechanical engineer same system, now a part of the At- lantic Coast Line. From April 1, 1901 to March 1, 1904, he was me- chanical engineer for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, from which road he went to the Erie as assistant mechanical superintendent, remaining April, 1904, when he became mechanical super- intendent of the same road at Mead- ville, Pa. In January, 1807, he be- came assistant superintendent of mo- tive power of the Lehigh Valley, and in July of the same year he came to the New Haven Railroad as mechan- ical superintendent. In May, 1917, Mr. Wildin became general mechan- ical superintendent, which pogition he has held until his present promotion to that of general manager. Hammond Joined New Haven in 1913, G. O. Hammond was born in New York city, April 20, 1874. He is a graduate of the New York Public Schools and of Stevens Institute of Technology, where he received the degree of mechanical engineer. He entered railroad work as special ma- chinist on the Erie Railroad. Susque- hanna shops, November, 1898. He wag a special apprentice until Decem- ber, 1899, draftsman from 1900 to engineering clerk 1902. He wag general foreman of the Meadville shops until 1903. He was then ma- chinery inspector until 19 and chief draftsman from January to July. 1905, when he hecame mechanical en- gineer. He was assistant mechanical superintendent and assistant to gen- era] mechanical superintendent until January, 1909, when he became me- chanical engineer for the New York Air Brake Co. From February to April, 1913, Mr. Hammond acted as assistant superintendent to superin- tendent of the New York, New Haven and Hartford. From May, 1913, to May, 1917, he was assistant mechan- ical superintendent and in May, 1917, was appointed assistant general me- chanical superintendent. W. L. Bean was born at Stevens Point, Wis.. January 1878. He acting has to general as receive \ ber. As an/aid to the children's bureau | in the enforcement of the child-labor law the Women’s committee of the | Council of National Defense at Wash- | ington has just issued an appeal to | @ll women who wish to help American youth in war time, urging them to ‘see that all children under 14 vears are enrolled in school. and asking | them to forward to the Women's com- | mittee information about their com- munity answering the three simple questions which the committee has prepared: 1. Are all children 14 in your town, county, * district in school? 2. How do you knrw? 3. Are any children need scholarships in order to attend | school? [ between 6 and or scFbol in of | of ¢ general | SCIENTIFIC With all her advance in scientific slaughter, Germany does no disclaim anclent devices of warfare when she can adapt them to her purposes. One such is the spike-studded board shown in the picture, one of many placed on roads and fields and in abandoned trenches in the efforts to stop the advance of the French and MINNIE UNPOPULAR GIRL WITH FRENGH a Powerful Fraulein Behind RBritish in Aug. 20, (Correspondence of the As- soclated Press)—“Minnie” is a very forward voung lady who lives as a rule in German front line trenches. She has no pretensions at all to beauty. She is for use, not for or- nament. She is a trench gun, and her propectiles remind one of plum puddings attached to sticks. They fly very irregularly but burst very regularly in that part of No Man's Land furtherest removed from Min- nie's temporary lodging. Just before the latest push around Ypres, there was a particular Minnie located a few miles from Ypres, which was more than usually a nui- sance. The British trench was not well sited, nor very well protected. Consequently when Minnie was ac- tive, she made things very uncom- fortable for the occupants of that British trench. Moreover, she had no regular habits, she worked on no plan, ladyvlike she did just about as she wished. The young British subalterns hated her with a persistent, pervading ha- tred, and concocted many schemes for her undoing, but to no avail. But one night, chance brought into the trench a very irritable old artillery officer, just as Minnie was active. One of Minnie’s puddings soiled his boots, and thereby aroused in him a grim determination to devote himself to her destructon. He stayed in the trench all that night, studying Minnie’s location and characteristics and on the morrow he returned, followed by his orderly, un- coiling wires as he walked. At the Lines graduated from the University of Minnesota with the degree of me- chanical engineer in 1902. He en- tered railroad service that year with the Northern Pacific as special ap- prentice, and in December, 1904, he went to the Santa Fe, serving suc- cessivelv as erected shop foreman, locomotive inspector at Baldwin Loco- motive Works in Philadelphia and machine shop foreman at La Junta, Colo. On January 1, 1909 he be- came division foreman at Pelen, New Mexico, and on July 1, 1909, was ap; pointed motive power assistant at To- peka, Kansas. On February 1, 1912, he became chief engineer for the Os- weld Railroad Service Company at Chicago, and on July 10, 1916, he came to the New Haven Ralilroad where he has been acting as assistant to the president. ) trench end of the wire a temporary telephone was fixed. The far end of the wire led back a mile and a half to a battery of fleld artillery. Along about noon Minnie opened up for her midday strafe. Promptly the artillery officer verified his observa- tlons of the night before and spoke a few figures into the telephone. A minuite later a loud boom announced the arrival of British shell just across on the other side of No Man’s Land. The British officer swore soft ly and spoke again into the tele- phone. The first shell had been at least thirty yards off. The second was perhaps twenty yerds on the other side. Again the officer spoke into the telephone, and for the third time the gun spoke. “Bull's Eye” sang the officer into the telephone and packed up his belongings in business-like fashion. Minnie was deceased. German Fashions Unpopular. Amsterdam, Avg. 18.—In response te the old demand throughout Ger- many for a new mode of women's clothing that shall be entirely Ger- man and absolutely Independet of Parls, the Muich Wieland Las brought out, after long preparation, a special supplement entirely “German, Fash- ions”, contalning a series of colored “She” Is a Bombing Machine and France, | GERMANS LEARN WAR LESSONS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES S GERMANS GO BACK TO ANCIENT (DEFENSEMETHODS| Canadians. In employing this device Germans took a leaf out of the mili- tary books of the ancients, who strewed four-pointed iron devices, called caltrops or cathorps, in the path of advancing cavalry. The spikes were so fixed or made that one of them was always upright however they were dropped, and the unwary horse or man stepping upon one re- ceived a terrible foot wound. designs ‘‘absolutely German in inspir- ation and elaboration.” The supplement has attracted wide attention in the Grman newspapers, but almost without exception the crit- iclsm is adverse. The Berlin Tage- blatt says: “The illustrations might | well be taken for caricatures. The { body from the waist upwards appears too short and humpy, the lower part is padded to appear as an enormity. | Bulging pockets; hats too small or | too large, falling over one ear; wide outstanding collars and other absurd- itles complete a figure from which any rational man would turn with loathing.’ The Tageszettung and other papers declare that if this is a fair speci- | men of German genius for designing ladies’ fashions German women had far better dpend as in the past on Paris. Believe Kerensky is Kitchener. London, Aug. 23.—The curiously wide-spread belief in England that Kitchener is still alive has now taken a new form, namely, the belief that Kerensky is Kitchener. ‘‘Everybody in our street is saying so”, writes a correspondent to one of the London newspapers. The paper in reply points out that Kerensky is a young man of thirty, but remarks that this fact probably will not weigh much | with the people who like to believe this kind of thing. EURASIA LIKES OUR ELEGTRICAL GOODS Exports in 1917 Fiscal Year Amounted to $60,000,000 New York, Aug. 3l.—American electrical apparatus is gaining rapid- ly in popularity the world over. A compilation of The National City bank of New York shows that the value of electrical machinery, ap- pliances and instruments exported from the United States in the -fiscal year 1917 aggregated more than $50,- 000,000 against $30,000,000 in 1916, $20,000,000 in 1914, $10,000,000 in 1911 and $6,000,000 in 1900. The American telephone lends itself with equal facility to the Chinese, Hindustani, Malayan or English lan- guages. Our electric fan is a grati- fying substitute for the Oriental “punkah,” whose operator falls asleep on the slightest provocation and at provokingly inopportune moments. The dypamo goes to any and every section of the world where power is available for the generation of elec- tricity. The incandescent lamp shines as brightly in the mines of Africa or on the rubber plantations of the Orfent as upon the Haciendas of South America or the streets of the European cities. The telegraph in- strument adapts itself to languages and climatic conditions the world over, and the American wireless speaks from continent to continent. from steamship to steamship, or from the flylng machine at an eleva- tlon of thousands of feet to the mil- itary eommander in the midst of the battlefield. Of the nearly $2,000,000 worth of telephones exported in the fiscal year 11917 more tham $100,000 worth went | | THIS STORE WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAYS AT NOON, UNTIL SEPT. 14, INCLUSIVE —AND A ROUSING FINISH IT WILL BE. ’ The man who follows up these printed facts will be money in on a Suit of a style and service. Remember they include Suits for Fall and year ’round wear as well as all the Best Summer Models. $20 SUITS at $14.15 $22 SUITS at $17.50 $25 SUITS af $19.50 $28 SUITS at $21.50 Fancy Effects of all kinds and Blue Serges. Better Come and Get a Surprise. HOLLANDERS 82-88 ASYLUM STREET, HARTFORD. THE DAYLIGHT STORE to Asia, about an equal value to South l America, nearly $100,000 worth to Oceania, $300,000 worth to our North American neighbors and practically a million dollars worth to Europe, tha total of telephones exported in 1917 being twice as great in value as in 1912. Of the nearly one-half million dollars worth of electric fans ex- ported in 1917 the largest market was in India, where the boy operator of the “punkah” (a swinging fan sus- pended from the ceiling) holds the world’s highest record for somno- lence,, while Hongkong, the Stairts Settlements, China, Japan, and even Siam, show a disposition to substi- tute thé new-fangled, but always re- liable, breeze producer for the un- certain methods of earlier ‘genera- tions. Electrical apparatus of all sorts sent to Asia increased from $1,000,- 000 in 1910 to approximately $2,5600,- 000 in 1917; to Africa from $298, 000 in 1910 to over half a million iu 1917; to Oceania from $650,000 in 1910 to approximately $2,600,000 in 1917 and to South America from about $8,000,000 in 1910 to approxl- mately $4,000,000 in 1917, while the total of 1917 is nearly ten times as much as in 1900 and thirty times as much as in 1890. Leonar 2nd Herrmann 0 SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE—BALANCE OF OUR STOCK OH SILK AND LINGERIE BLOUSES Clearance . Act at once—Big values in smre for you. Counter) JUST RECEIVED Another lot of those smart Shetland Sweaters that sell for $9.98 each in all the wanted colors, including purple, rose, salmon, corn, tor. quoise blue. ASK TO SEE THEM. Formerly Selling $1.98 and $2.98. Marked for quick each $l .6 . (See them on the Wais The Women’s and Misses’ Apparel Shop, 165 Main St SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY NEW PUMPKIN PIES, made with new sugar pumpkins (first of the season) prepared, seasoned and baked the taste? simply delicious; each 28c. Other fresh fruit pies will be: Apple, Peach, Blackberry and Huckleberry. We will also have Apple and Peach Kuchen, Coffee Cakes, B-.a: Buns, Boston Brown Bread and Baked Beans and many other wholesome baked goodies. Hoffmann's Bakery: 62 WestMain St. TWO STORES --95 Arch St. RUSSIANS MIGRATING. More Than 6,000 Added o Rotterdam’s Population Since War Declaration. Rotterdam, Netherlands, Aug. 30— A Russian invasion of Rotterdam is causing the city fathers some concern, and the burgomaster has just had an interview with the premier Cort van der Linden, on the subject. As many as 6,000 Russians have been added to Rotterdam’s population since the® out- break of war, most of them refugees from Germany and others escaped prisoners-of-war. The former’s stay in Germany dates from before the war. They were employed in the mines there, and were not permitted to leace when hostilities broke out. Ultimately food scarcity drove them to seek refuge in Holland, but they are in many cases even pro-German in their sympathies. In Rotterdam their wants are supplied by the Rus- sian Consul. The authorities now complain of the habits of the newcomers and the trouble they give the police with their street fights and the like, while a large number are said to be suffer- ers from diseases and thereby con- stitute a danger to the public health. Moreover, the invasion still continues, and in the absence of further ac- commodation In Rotterdam some 3,000 have been recently sent on to the small neighboring town of schie- dem, where they are even more un- welcome, fforts have been made to get the Russians shipped to England, but the British government made reg- ulations that are saild to have amount- ed to a refusal to recelve them. The Netherlands government is now being urged to deal with the problem. “Hoffmann way;” the LETUS SéLL ORBUY st Tbi oty or_ew o ] limeexes; Tiew mise, 110 Weut