New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1917, Page 2

TR S g BUSINESS GOES SMOOTHER there is a box of our cigars on /the desk. Seen through frag- smoke, little perplexities disap- and bigger ones become smaller ess worrisome. Try a couple se cigars as a test and then buy There's more than mere smok- ¥y in them. There’s mental re- m. finson Drug Co. [69-171 Main Street Cily ltems ebens Fall Caps.—advt. I. Zanhleiter, violinist, resumes ng Mon. Studio Booth's Blk.— dness of Aunt Delia's Bread.— 8 Ruth Schade. teacher of piano, es teaching after Sept. 15. 569 St., Tel. 402-2.—advt. Oysters, Snapper Blues, first of son, Scallops and Lobsters. Turner Hall, Fish Market. Jennie Gardiner of Bridgeport w Mrs. J. J. Trebert of Maple ¥ Family Circle of St. Mary's B held a whist this afternoon i i hall, Barriage license was granted day to Howard R. Alderman of street and Elizabeth Rose Marie dn of Mdple street. el C. Kone transferred land on ¥ street to Nathan Muchlin to- ! d€es continuing the regulations ) Teachers’ Retirement Board of - ord have been sent to the teach- )} the local schools. When a Sr is retired by the board the or may receive a pension. There bout 180 teachers in New Brit- | hat could take advantage of this ruling. sebens Fall Hats.—advt. SOHOOL REGISTRATION. #x Attendance This Year Than Last Year. e reports of the registration - ot ‘rade schools in this city show an ase in total attendance this Sep- er over September. one yvear ago y» 65. Most of the schools in- ed their registrations slightly and # shawed decreased attendances he first day. The first figure ed below after the name of every ol is the present registration and ' second figure the registration last | at the opening of school: Btreet school, 940, 872; 1,009, 913; Burritt, 7 'well, 469, 484; Lincoln, 255, 2 léroe, 320, 320; Northend, 318, 31 584, 619; Osgaod Hill, 129, Stanley, 108, 70; Open Air, 47, illm Street, 67, 145; Bartlett, 492, Camp, 424, 401; Grammar and jcational, 809, 990; High 1,225, Trade, 144, 1687 total, 8,089, 'h £ ! { Knox Hats gain distinc- jition or add to the supply iyou already possess. Knox Hats sell for $3.50 to $20.00, and can ibe found only at GOV. HOLGOMB AT _BERLIN STATE FAIR Executive Receives Warm Greet- ing From Biggest Crowd Yet (Special to tke Herald). State Fair Grounds, Berlin, Sept. 13.—Escorted by the Berlin company of Home Guard, in full uniform and fully armed, in charge of Captaln George Beckett, Governor Marcus H. $lolcomb arrived at the fair grounds early thig afternoon, viewed the many varied exhibits with interest, strolled with the enthusiasm of a schoolboy along the exciting midway, rubbing elbows with the highest and the low- est after the manner of true democ- racy, showed that he had not forgot- ten his agricultural education gleaned in the days of his youth by his in- terested inspection of live stock and garden truck, and then ascended the flag bedecked judges’ stand on the race course where he delivergd one of his own patriotic addresses The largest crowd that has thus far vis- ited the fair grounds was present this afternoon to greet the state's great war governor and the chief magis- trate was given a long, enthusiastic ovation, loud cheers and much\hand- clapping voicing the vast crowds' ap- proval of his words delivered in a clear tone from the stand. Throngs Along the Midway. Since the enforced departure of a dozen objectionables Monday night, the arrest of a crooked concessionist by the state police Tuesday night and the apprehension of a pickpocket vesterday, there has been no trouble at all at the fair. Despite the hun- dreds of people who swarm the mid- way constantly, there is no sign of rowdyism and thus far the authorities have had few complaints of any de- scription, and no really serious ones. As the week progresses and the at- tendance ifcreases daily and nightly the enthusiasm of the concessionists and their senatorial toned barkers in- creases propottionately and the mid- way now resembles the traditional streets of Cairo. Every one of the 125 fakirs and other dealers vieing with each other to make the most noise, every one of the agents with chances_to sell attempting to make their chances look the best, each hot dog man and restaurateur essaying to prove that evervbody should sam- ple his ware and the added din made by the pushing and laughing throng makes a perfect bedlam and a quick visit from the midway into one of the quiet exhibition tents is as sooth- ing as it might be from stepping from a boiler factory into a dumb mutes’ institution. A new attraction has been added to the midway in the shape of an athletic show. This is the ever-popular wrestling tent. A number of muscular voung men with some wrestling ability volunteer to wrestle any man in the crowd and guarantee to pay $1 per minute for five minutes to any person who can stay with them without being thrown in that length of time. Such a show always takes well with a midway crowd and this one is no exception. Several husky youths who imagined that they were ‘“some pumpkins” when it came to the wrestling game essayed to show these professionals something about the sport, and in- cidentally earn $5. They left the padded mat sadder but wiser boys, while the crowd roared its amuse- ment. Alva Ventres, the Berlin black- smith who Is matched to wrestle Flavy Iven Benjamin, of Chicago, in New Britain ‘on October 6, obtained a little practice last night and inci- dentally added to his bankroll. Ventres was the one exception, prac- tically all of the other contestants falling before the prowess of the for- eign grapplers. - ITn this tent is also a couple of female wrestlers. To call them girls would be stretching the truth. Amazons would be the more fiting term. They wrestle too, and show a remarkable aptitude for tak- ing care of themselves. In another tent reposes a man who permits a curious mob to watch his heart action. He claims to have been a big league haseball player up to 19 years ago when, he states, all the ribs on his left side were crushed in, so mutilated that it was necessary for the surgeons to remove them. Since that time, with no protection for his heart or lungs, he has had to be very caréful that no outside pres- sure is exerted that might injure him or stop his heart action. Because of his unique, although uncanny ap- pearance, every pulseation of his heart being plainly visable, he has taken to exhibition work. Several fortune tellers try to please those who would know what the future has in store for them and, it is to be as- sumed, these tell the usual charming, romantic stories of a tall dark man or a beautiful blonde girl. Little men from the Isle of Nippon : are also in evidence with their Japanese ping pong games and other games of chance and the attractive. female dancers, as usual, attract a large crowd of the sterner sex. The Wild man from Borneo who is fed on raw meat, the fat girl, who is really fat and proud of it, the Human Pin Cush- ion, the fire-eating man and numer- ous other attractions that are to he found only once a year at the Ber- lin falr share the wholesale interest with the cider presses, the orangeade and pineappleade booths, the candy booths and other establishments set up in this minature city. Governor Visits Exhibits. Governor Holcomb, who arrived in Berlin earlier in the day, was enter- tained at luncheon ut the home of Col. Charles M. Jarvis on Worthing- ton Ridge. About 2 o'clock he came to the fair, escorted by the Homo Guard. At the gateway the executive party was met by the band and es- corted about the grounds. The mid- way had all the attraction in the world for the governor and he ap- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER once.” The tent containing the agri- cultural exhibit from New Britain was especially pleasing to the chief executive. He expressed words of pralse as he viewed the exnibits sent in by the various factories and stores, the Boys’ club and Boy Scout garden products, the Charity department farm exhibit, the New RBritain City Garden vegetable and canning exhibits, the police department ar- ray and lastly the exhibit of the New Britain Municipal Farm Committee. Governor Holcomb thought that the potatoes raised on the Municipal farm were excellent and had only words of praise for the men who stood back of the movement and the citizens who lent their aid. The tent occupied by the Commit- tee on Foed Supply, working in co- operation with the State Council of Refense and the Storrs college ex- tension service, was also visited by the governor. He expressed his ap- proval of the various educational pla- cards calling on all loyal Americans to do their bit, to report all cases of sedition or disloyalty and to help raise more food for home and foreign consumption and money for the Red Cross. He likewise took an interest in thg Storrs’ college expert's canning lecture. The Storrs college husbandry exhibit, where are shown some ex- cellent Percheron prize horses, some prize Holsteins and some fuzzy little sheep and a couple of Berkshire hosg, were of especial interest due to his excellency’s close association with the state college. The various and beau- tiful fruits exhibited in the Pomologi- cal society’s tent, the floral display, the honey exhibit and the manufac- turers’ midway, where all sorts of farm tools, from big Mogul tractors to complete farmhouse lighting equip- ment, are shown was visited and con- siderable time was spent in automo- bile row and in the ladies’ work de- partment. The New Britain Red Cross booth, in charge of women dressed to resemble the Guardian Angles of the Army Hospitals, was a spot of particular interest to the gov- ernor who expressed his unqualified support of this most excellent war service. He also visited the quaint represen- tatives from the Enfield Shaker col- only, selling their own handiwork, and stopped to talk a moment with the women in charge of the booth to raise money for the care and support of the people made homeless and des- titute in war stricken France and Belgium. The exhibits in the cooking department made the governor ap- preciably hungry and the fancy work exhibits also took his fancy. The visit to the cattle sheds, where upwards of 500 head of cattle are sheltered, took some time, as the gov- ernor insisted om looking at all the stock. An idea of the big undertak- ing that it is to care for all these cattle may be obtained by the fig- ures given out by Secretary Leland Gwatkin, who states that it takes five tons of hay alone to feed these creatures each day. The hogs ex- hibited by the governor’s host, Colonel Jarvis, were also seen. In this ex- hibit is Jumbo, the largest hog in New England. It is a Poland China boar, 27 months old and weighing 634 pounds. Although apparently lazy, the keeper of these ungainly brutes vouched for the fact that they can move pretty lively when the oc- casion arises. He remarked that just before bringing the exhibit to the Berlin fair he went into a ten acre lot to capture Big Ben, a 19 months old, 436 pound China boar, when the beast suddenly turned on him and, had it not been for the fact that in his younger days he had been a sprinter of record, he would not have escaped with his life. The chicken exhibit, including water fowl, also caught the governor's eye. Returning to the judge's stand, from whence the horse racing and cattle parade was viewed, Governor Holcomb made a short address. As usual, he took a patriotic subject as his topic and urged upon the audience the necessity of conserving food, of raising greater crops, of supporting the administration in these trouble- some times and, in short, to prove themselves worthy of the name Amer- ican. There was a card of two classes of cattlo strength contests this after- noon, but only one took place, the other having been postponed until to- morrow. The cattle show also took place today. All of the prize cattle, as well as every one of the 150 odd head of oxen were paraded around the trotting park and past the judges’ stand in revjew. As was true of the last two days, the afternoon's horse racing was excellent, the events being the 2:14 trot for a purse and a 2:23 pace for a $300 purse. Crowds Arc Increasing. afternoon and last eve- ning the attendance at the fair showed a substantial increase over the previous days and nights and this afternoon another increase was noted. Each afternoon, in addition to the exhibits there is a band concert and four free vaudeville acts of merit. At nigl\tj there vaudeville performance from 8 to 9:15 and then there is an exhibition of fireworks. The midway remains in full swing until 11 p. m. Judge Foster of Bridgeport, speak- ing under the direction of the State Council of Defense, gave an address ‘from the judges’ stand vesterday aft- ernoon in which he urged recruiting for federal service, particularly in the medical departments. The-Bridge- port man's talk was a patriotic one and after telling in a comprehensive manner of the wonderful work that is done on the battlefields by the army doctors and nurses, he cited what this state’s quota should be and urged en- listments particularly of the younger physicians and surgeons. In the old Merchants’ building, now automobile row, the agents are doing business each d Robert Furgeson has sold Buick cars to Patsy Buckley and Bernard Nihill and A. G. Cohen has sold a machine to J. T. Molum- phy. Mr. Cohen added to his exhibit today with a Dodge Brothers sedan. Although the sales were not made at the fair, the Cohen Motor company Yesterday peared to be anxious to “try anytbing has scld Dodge cars to Alderman John Stadler, Tuther Williams, George and Frank Dobson and Jo- | sault and breach of the peace. 13, 1017, Name ..... Age Address ......... Parents’ Name .. When Enlisted ... In Army or Navy . In What Branch ..... Nearest of Kin (¢ xo parents) (Fill This Out ana Return to Editor of The Herald) .. .. From New Britain Patriots Enlisted in the Nation’s Service. _— seph Latham. E. R. Marsters, of the Koehler Motor truck company, is Mr. Cohen'’s guest at the fair for the week. A. G. Hawker, with a booth at the fair, has sold four Wasco garage heat- ers through Eugene Leach and has also sold a number of tires and other appliances. Mr. Leach today re- celved the sworn statement that Mr. Strong, of the New Britain Gas com- pany, had obtained 19,000 miles from a Goodyear cord and J. A. Andrews had obtained 16,000 miles. A feat- ure of this exhibit is a $200 army truck tire, 38x7. Rackliffe Brothers auto booth, in charge of Mr. Sprague, is doing business and today John Markham of Wallingford added his Premier touring car to the exhibits. The motor cars now offered for sale here, in addition to those just men- tioned, are the Crow Elkhart, Adna Johnson; Indiana truck, New Britain Carriage company; Vim and Selden trucks and Hupmobile touring cars, I. Honeyman & son, and Chalmers and Oakland touring cars, Harry Moeller. Elmer W. Stearns, who has chargo of the midway, is working constantly from morning until night, keeping the various concessionists satisfied and making sure that they satisfy the authorities. Again last night the state police made a visit to the grounds, but no arrests were made. Mr. Stearns however, detected one man running a crooked gambling game and ordered his temporary arrest. He was ordered to forfeit his rights at the fair and was chased out of town. Another man was warned. In the honey tent this noon a small boy from Hartford visiting the fair with his mother, became too curious in watching the honey bees and es- sayed to capture one for a souvenir. Further details are unnecessary, suf- fice it to state that the boy obtained his souvenir, but the bee escaped vic- torious. Owing to the large number of guards that the authorities have stationed around the fair grounds, it is almost impossible for people to “sneak in"” without paying, and although a few of the small boys, being fleet of foot and strong in nerve, have escaped the vigilance of the guards, a number of grownups who have aved to “work” their way in have failed signally. Despite the many other attractions the crowds that attend .the fair all find time to eat, and an idea of the vast amount of food consumed may be obtained from the statement of one dealer alone. This morning Mr. Hart, agent for the Bradbury cruller company, disposed of 100 dozen doughnuts and still was unable to supply his customers along the mid- way. FAIR CAPPER FINED. Assessed $35 and Costs for Theft of $10. Horgan John Horgan, who gave his ad- dress yvesterday as Holyoke, Mass, and today as Sommerville, Mass., was arraigned before the police court again this morning. He was charged with theft of $20 from Adrien Hamel. Yesterday he was charged with as- Hor- gan gave his occupation as a chauf- feur but admitted that he had come down in this vicinity to work at the fair as a ‘“‘capper’. ‘When arrested yesterday only small change could be found on his person but when re-examined later by Officer T. E. Malone the stolen $20 bill was found hidden in his matchbox neatly concealed under the matches. He was fined $35 and costs by Judge James T. Meskill. The prisoner immediately | entered an appeal but when he learn- ! ea that the bonds for the appeal were is a band concert and | $200 he withdrew the appeal and will serve the fine sentence out in jail. Mrs. Pernice Naples, who owned an unlicensed dog. was fined $2 and costs. | Amandus Sarra, 14, was charged with having an unlicensed and unmuzzled dog. It was found that the dog was under six months old and the first charge was nolled. He was fined $2 and put under probation for keeping an unmuzzled dog. Louis Alexander was assessed $2 and costs for leaving his automobile in front of the City hall more than five minutes. FINANCE BOARD GETS BILLS. The following bills were presented last evening at the monthly meeting of the board of finance: Street de- partment, $10,183.78; street lighting, $2,672.24; street sprinkling, $1,397.45; street improvement fund, $1,269.09; park department, $3.58; sewer con- struction department, $630.08; sewer maintenance, $258.77; public amuse- ments commission, $347 dog bills, Dr. A. L. Avitable, $50; Dr. George H. Bodley, $250; F. J. McEnroe, $6.57 Lederle Antitoxin laboratory, $267; city of New York, 25; Board of Health, $1,494.65; water commissioners, $21. 2.42; City hall commission, $664.50; supplies and printing, $607.09; lamps and gas, $122.10; dogs, John Coffey, warden, $156; police, $261.46; and board of charities, $4,671.14. WATER COMMISSIONERS MEET. The water commissioners last even- ing at their monthly meeting voted to approve bills aounting to $1,177.90. The commissioners voted to buy a tarm adjacent to the property owned by the city in Whigville on which the THE NEWEST COATS FOR WOMEN ani YOUNG WOMEN. Pretty styles with all the comfort and con- venience demanded by Fall’s chilly winds. Attractive Velour and Bolivia warmth- without-weight coats with large convertible collars, deep pockets and ample length. Of course, many have new large fur collars. Luxurious creations of Peau de Pesche, Pom Pom, Vicuna and Gunniburl are here in all the new fashionable colorings. . In fact, we are ready with every new fancy in Autumn coats for women. Come in. Torsfailx IT PAYS TO BUY OUR KIND 03-99 ASYLUM ST. cennectingwith 140 TRUMBULL ST ville res next voir was postponed mecting when the city city has at present an aption. Action on the proposed tunnel between the Burlington reservoir and the until the | engineer Whig- | will have completed his plans. W, I \ < Like Looking Through An Old School Book Hearing a song that we heard as a child carries us back for years and for a few happy minutes we tingle with the sensation of being here and back there too. Then too, there are the comparatively new songs that are already hallowed with the affection we feel for the old ones. Such a song is My Little Grey Home in the West Columbia Record 42278, 75c. The tenor voice of Charles Harrison renders it with that tenderness which comes only when the singer loves the melody and feels the words. “Darlin’,” an- other song by Harriscn is on the reverse side. You will never put this record away without playing both sides. When the Swallows Homeward Fly This old but never-to-be-forgotten song. delightfully tone of Oscar Seagle. Columbia Record 45976, $1.50 g by the rare bari- Young folks will find it more charming than most modern melodies and those not so young will live over again the joy of hearing it many vears ago. On the other side Seagle is heard singing “The Dear Home Land.” " My Wonderful Dream Homer Rodeheaver, the only man who could follow Billy Sund his voice hold up the interest aroused by the evangelist, sin; you hear it you know why Rodeheaver is called “Rodie.” Columbia Record 42284, 75c. y and by 5 Sons i Gnd ehen You may begin to call this the Rodie Record after you have turned it over and heard his other beautiful hymn, “He Knows the Way. These are records that any Columbia dealer is happy to be asked to play. That’s the way he shows them. to be played. : t’s the A record has Displaying it in a window isn’t enough. So ask the Columbia dealer to play them and if you are interested in the newest dance successes ask to hear them too. New Columbia Records on sale the 20:h of every month. G _ \ U N\