New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1917, Page 2

“[HOW Y. M. C. &. 1§ . Invitations us will be strictly cor- form, wording, lettering and g. We specialize on such nd can guarantee both the r of our work and punctu- its execution. We shall be confer with you if you are inson Drug Co. 9-171 Main Street Cily Items hess of Aunt Delia’s Bread.— Tobin of Curtis street left to- Boston, where he will attend ntion of hardware manufac- He will represent the Amer- dware Corporation. C. Loomis of the Commercial pany will go to Atlantic horrow to attend the bankers’ jon now in progress there. * Wednesday evening at hool. jlent ice cream and candies. e’s Candy Shop.—advt. iremen at Central headquar- Commercial street, gave a upper last night to Captain F. Barnes of the Hook and company who will leave today ourse of nine weeks at the ork Firemen’s training col- *hose in charge of the affair ‘remen E. Carlson, G. Scheyd jward Woods. H. Budde, who was former- ‘artnership with Maxwell & the lunch business, has sold sest in the concern. The bus- 11 continue # be run by Max- | Hill. ce Shurburg of Franklin s gone to Cambridge, Mass., | Harvard university. rommercial Trust Co. has de- la quarterly dividend of one 't. payable October 1. ‘members of Alexandra lodge I O. D. of St. George will sew for the Red Cross, at the bt Mrs. George B. Whatnall, ey street, Thursday afternoon, lock. OREMAN WOLFE ILD. e of “New Haven” Road For fears in Serious Condition. 3 Wolfe of Stanley street, one sldest employes of the N. Y. N. t. Railroad company, lies in a condition at his home on Stan- et. He was stricken with ill- out four weeks ago, and has lo respond to the treatment of robably no man connected @ “New Haven” road in this of the state that enjoys more yity than “Jim" Wolfe. Com- g work with the road in his 1 days he hag worked zealous- the interests of the company years. Starting from a small ng, earnest attention to his du- s secured for him numerous ions and for many years he has \ charge of track repair work yer lines about this city. Fo MORE PASSPORTS Given That Catholic Priests 'y This Country Be Barred Mexico. ’aso, Sept. 25.—No Catholic “ desiring to enter Mexico from Uited States will receive pass- rccording to C. M. Seguin, Mex- “onsul General, here. He re- Jassports to Rev. Father Gabriel today. “in said he was acting in acs ‘ce with instructions from his iment, which was of the opin- .re already were enough priests ico. DOING HIS BIT. . A, Vanderlip Resigns as Bank XHM to Assist McAdoo. “hington, Sept. 25.—Frank A. irlip, who, as president of the aal City bank of New York, 'the largest national bank in the 'y, has severed his connection ‘that institution and all other ‘zations with which he is identi- Jor the period of the war, to as- cretary McAdoo in liberty loan SUNSHINERS MEET. Perbury, Sept. 2 The seven- annual convention of the Con- ‘ut division of the International Ine society opened in this city at irst Methodist church, this ing. ‘ss by the Rev. Walter A. A. er, international chaplain of the ate this afternoon. { reading matter by our New Britain The program included an Election of officers will be HELPING WIN WAR Secretary Barnes Tells Direptors of Association Activities How the New Britain Y. M. C. A. is helping to win the war by prepar- ing the manhood of the country for life in the trenches and keeping the soldiers happy after they get there, was revealed at the meeting of the directors of the association last night by General Secretary Clarence H. Barnes, who made his report for three months. The Y. M. C. A. is engaged In a wide field of labor and that it is do- ing its share is shown by Secretary Barnes’ report, which follows: Sept. 24, 1917. To the Board of Directors, Gentlemen:— The past three months have marked a period of readjustment on the part of the Y. M. C. A. to war conditions. Beginning with the mo- bilization of the Militia in the spring the Association began its war program by serving the Militiamen through the social and physical departments. As men began to enlist in the army and navy the privileges were given to all men in uniform without charge. A special gymnasium class was formed to condition men for army life. After the results of the draft were announced another special gym- nasjum class was started for men going into the new army. After successfully raising $12,500 as its. share in the Y. M. C. A. War Work the Association sent its general secretary, physical director and assis- tant secretary to start Y. M. C. A. work at the United States Marine Camp at Quantico, Va. In many respects this Post ¥. M. C. A. was unusual, and until just re- cently, when the Militia and draft army camps were opened, was one of the most important in the coun- try. It was the first Y. M. C. A. to be attached to the Marine Corps, and consequently the officers watched its work critically. But when we left the camp we had the assurance from these officers that the Y. M. C. A. had made good. In fact, officers and men went out of their way to speak good words for what the Y. M. C. A. had done for the camp and as it was known as the Y. M. C. A, erected by New Britaln people and started by New Britain men the honor all comes back to our home city. It is the camp where the Marines receive their last training and depart for overseas service, and as such, of- fered an extraordinary opportunity to serve men who were sobered in mind by the prospect of what lay be- fore them. And the same spirit of service, which has characterized this Assoclation for many years, was car ried to the men there. Many means were developed to ald the men. We distributed magazines and games to the sick in the hos- pitals and those confined in the guard tents, furnished over 100,000 sheets of writing paper, provided moving pictures three times a week, which were attended by from 500 to 2,500 men, besides conducting baseball games, basketball and volley ball, and boxing and wrestling matches. Then there were reading tables and book shelves provided in part with The phonograph was busy and all men friends. about 12 hours a day, were playing checkers inside the building and quoits outside. 500 men were enrolled in French classes where the rudiments of the language were taught. Compulsory swimming be- came a rule after our arrival, and Mr. Slater taught those who could not swim. The religious work was lald out on a broad basis in co-operation with the army chaplain, and included con- fession Saturday nights and Mass Sunday morning in the building, con- ducted by a Catholic priest from a neighboring town, Protestant services | Sunday forenoon, Bible study classes and an outdoor Sunday evening serv- ice, to which men of all faiths were glad to attend. The New Testament and parts of the scripture were in great demand and were eagerly taken by thé men until our supply was exhausted. But,_after all it was in smaller and more personal ways that our best service was given. There were the peronal talk we had with homesick ! men and others who just wanted to {talk with someone who cared. There was the boy who had just i got a furlough and wanted to find out the quickest train to Chieago or {to some town in Texas and as he ! could not get his information at the ! little railroad station® we secured it | tor him. And then there were men who wanted to get a check cashed | or wanted us to keep his money for { him, or maybe help him locate a rel- | ative in New York. These little serv- ices were our daily program from seven in the morning until ten at night, and from the reports that came to us they seemed to count big in this isolated camp imVirginia, filled with boys largely from the South and ‘West, all a long way from the home folks and going through a new ex- perience amid strange surroundings. Except for cavalry and aviation the camp offered almost all branches of service, as there was artillery, ma- chine guns, signalling, trench digging, bombing, hospital corps and infantry drill. And, in addition all of the young officers were trained there, in a special section of the camp. This group included some of the best col- lege athletes of the country, and over one-fourth of these men partici- pated in a fleld day athletic meet conducted by the Association. The Y. M. C. A. War Council wished 1 ments have enlisted in the navy and Mr. Gripp has been drafted. Mr. Lewis Lloyd, who has had several years’ experience in Y. M. C. A. work, now has charge of the boys' depart- ment, and Rev. J. Wm. Denton, who took charge of the Association dur- ng my absence has consented to continue with us through the season. The summer proved Very success- ful in attendance and membership. The largest number of summer mem- bers was enrolled this year, and the attendance has taxed the bathing fa- cilities. Of special interest to the men now in service was a talk given by Lieut. B. E. Lovesey of the American Field Service, who came here on his fur- lough to speak about his experiences in the war zone. The .coming season’s work will em- phasize the preparation of men for war service, and the conservation of the young men of the city who are not yet called. The program of the physical, religious, educational and boys’' departments is being made up on this basi: The membership is made up as fol- lows: Seniors Sustaining Boys . 782 170 280 ...1232 Respectfully submitted, CLARENCE H. BARNES, General Secretart. ROY IN GOOD HEALTH. Had Been in Hospital and Could Not ‘Write Home. ?Having spent three years in the war, one year and ten months of which he passed in the trenches, and four months in an army hospital, Joseph Roy, who lived in this city before he ‘“‘went across’ has written to relatives here. According to his let- ters that he has written he is still en- Joying his experience. In letters that have been received recently he states that he is still in fighting trim, ready to do his bit with the foremost in line. Mrs. X. LaFlamme, a sister, is the recipient of one of the letters in which he explains that he has been in Paris on a furlough, but will soon return to the front again. He also writes con- cerning the medals that he has re- ceived on different ocasions for deeds of bravery. While in the French army he was injured three times, one of the injuries being the cause of his four months in an army hospital. While there he fajled to write and relatives in this city feared for his safety, but after a long period of waiting a letter finally arrived stating that he was in the best of health. Just lately he fig- ured in the worst battle that he has participated tn at the front. He has been married since leaving home. EVENTS TONIGHT Foxs theater, high chass photo dra- ma. theater, Lyceum superior drama. photo Keeney's theater, moving pictures. vaudeville and American band meets in Wahren- berger’s hall. ‘W. L. Morgan lodge, K. of P., meets in Vega hall. Eintracht lodge, O. D. H. S., meets at 187 Arch street. Court Columba, D. of C., meets in Electric hall. New Britain Camera club meets at 173 Main street. Valiant Hive, L. O. T. M., meets at 277 Main street. Canton Foster, P. M., meets in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall. New Britain Camp, M. W. A., meets at 34 Church street. Ladies Auxiliary, U. S. W. V., meets in G. A. R. hall. G St. Joseph’s Ladles Ald whist, Parish hall society Unity Rebekah lodge, 1. O. O. supper Jr. O. U. A. M. hall. s New Britain Nest, O. O. O., meets in Electric hall. Isabella Circle, N. D. I, Red Cross Sewing class, meets at 166 Main street. U. SOCIAL CLUB ELECTS. The first meeting of the Western Union Social club, was held at the home of Mrs, Cornwell, 314 ‘Arch street, Monday evening. The guest of honor was Miss Marion Holt. Officers were elected as follows: Anna H. Holt, president; Katherine McAloon, vice president; Mabelle Muir, secre- tary; Jane E. Cornwell, treasurer, and executive committes, Esther Swanson and Helen T. McAloon. MONEY FOR RED CROSS. Musicians' Union Contributes to Cause and Tobacco Fund. At a recent meeting of the Musi- cians’ Union, it was voted to donate $100 from the treasury to the local branch of the Red Cross, and also $25 for the tobacco fund for “Our Boys Over There.” A special meeting of the American band will be neld this evening in Wah- renberger’s hall at 8 oclock when mat- ters of interest will be transacted. DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL. Bridgeport, Sept. 25.—Accidental death was the verdict of Coroner Phe- us to continue with this work during the winter, and I was also asked to go to France to do similar work, but our New Britain Y. M. C. A. force became so depleted that we had to eturn. Mr. Carlson and Mr. Farrel from the physical and boys’ depart- lan, made public today in the case of { Dominico Conetta, who fell from the running board of an automobile dur- ing the celebration of the departure of drafted men in Stamford, Septem- ber 20. The machine was driven by James Kenealy. substitutes. s Tha Bayer Oross — TS in pocket boxes of 12 A 34 wad 100 in sealed packages of 12 and 24 Protection! Every tablet and every pack- age of genuine Aspirin bears the Bayer Cross. It is there for your protection. Refuse ‘The trade mark “Aspirin” (Reg.U.S.Pat.Off) is a guarantee that the monoaceticacidester of ealicylicacid in these tablets and capsules is of the reliable Bayer manufacture. GITY MISSION AND ITS SUMMER WORK Report for Three Months Shows What Can Be Accomplished. The -eport of Caroline E. Bartlett follows: The City Mission has been excep- tionally busy In the past three months, having accomplished much good work in this short time. Sewing schools have been discontinued for the present to give more time to other work. Out- ings have been given to the needy. A mothers’ meeting for Itallan women has been started with success. The board is looking forward to opening new lines of work this winter. Report for quarterly meeting of the | executive committee of the City Mis- sion of New Britain, September 24, 1917, The months since the last meeting of the board have been well filled with City Mission work, although it has differed somewhat in character from that of the fall and winter months. The three sewing schools closed in May, Hill park, and the time previously de- voted to sewing school work has been available for other things. Miss Brehovsky’s club for foreign girls at the Y. W. C. A. has been kept up, with the exception of the month that she was on her vacation; the Italian Sunday school has gone on without intermission, and the visiting has been done as usual. The first of June we started a mothers' meeting for Italan women, which was held in the City Mission office. The women seemed much interested in this little meeting, all joining heartily in the hymns and Bible reading and listening attentively to the Bible talk given by Miss Campbell. Some who never come to the church services among our most reguldr attendants, and some children were brought into Sunday school through this meeting. During August, Miss Campbell met with the women for Red Cross work, and a good deal of knitting and sew: ing for the soldiers is being done in the homes, The youngest of four very attractive little Itallan girls died dur- ing the summer of pneumonia and the mother’s sorrow is referred to in Miss Campbell’s report for August 29th. She writes: “Mrs. B—and three girls hour. Mrs. B— grieves all the time about the baby. She wants to do some- thing to take her mind from it, so we went to the Red Cross rooms and took wool for wristlets. Later she will do more. She said it would be better for her to do knitting than to go to bed and cry herself to sleep.” Mr. Solimene, an Italian minister from Hartford, has conducted the ser- vices at the Ttallan Mission here dur- ing the summer, and cottage prayer- meetings, or more correctly speaking, held on Thursday evenings in differ- ent homes. Miss Campbell and 1 have attended these meetings and feel that they have been very helpful. In one home, about eighteen or twenty were present, a number of neighbors having been invited. Miss Brehovsky's visits among the Slavic people are bearing fruit in their ready response to her friendship: and her Christian influence among them cannot fail to help them to a truer knowledge of spiritual things, even though their church relations re- main unchanged. If the baby is sick, or the father is making the home miserable through drink, or a woman has been working and earned enough money for the unusual luxury of new clothes for herself, their first thought is to turn to the City Mission workers for sympathy and interest in their troubles and their less frequent joys. In a Polish family which the proba- tion officer asked Miss Brehovsky to visit, she has been able to render very practical assistance. The mother, who has suffered many things at the hands of her husband, has experi- enced a season of respite during his absence in jail; and although she had that burden was light compared with the terror that reigned when her hus- band was at home. Now he has re- turned greatly improved, and declares that the best thing that ever happened to him was being sent to jail. The way of the transgressor may be hard, { but it is often beneficial. The sewing school statistics indi- cate almost as great a variety of na- | tionalities as were assembled in Jeru- salem on the day of Pentecost. n the Methodist school, fourteen differ- ent nationalities Were represented and 1111 the Lafayette, thirteen. American, each with a picnic at Walnut | were | came to the office and stayed over an | tenement prayer meetings, have been- to support the family, she felt that | Armenian, Austrian, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian and Slovak children were found in both; while the Methodist school had in addition, Bohemian, English, Irish, Jewish and Swedish girls, and the Lafayette, French, Magyar, Ruthenian and Persian-Assyrian. The diversity of our work is shown also by the fact that twenty-two dif- ferent churches of eleven denomina- tions were represented in the Metho- dist school this past year. The principal work of the summer, aside from the visiting, has been the giving of outings to women and chil- dren to whom this form of recreation comes as a great boon during the heat of the summon months. With a Fresh Air fund of $35.52 at our com- mand, we furnished car-rides and re- freshments and one automobile ride to 237 women and children. It re- quired some careful management to | make the sum available for this pur- pose cover so great a need, but we have learned that a large amount of Ipleuure can be given with a com- paratively small outlay. The crowning event of the season was the automobile ride to Elizabeth Park given t6o a few specials whose needs seemed to warrant the neces- sary expenditure. The company com- prised Polish, Lithuanian, Russian and Italian women who had been work- ing hard all summer in factories or restaurants, or were crippled with rheumatism and seldom able to get out for even a short outing; and the thorough enjovment of all made us feel that the money used for this out- ing was especially well-spent. ‘We are looking forward to opening up some new lines of work during the coming year if the necessary means can be provided, and we seek the co- operation of all who are Interested in the welfare of our city that we may be inded ‘“‘workers together” in this cause which means so much in the lives of our people. Respectfully submitted, CAROLINE E. BARTLETT. | ! I | BOOK CAMPAIGN PROGRESSES. The Library Campaign being held in this city is progressing in a manner i that augurs well for those who are in charge of, the campaign. The commit- tee in charge has been working ener- getically for the past two days to in- crease the subscriptions that are be- ing taken for a million dollars, for a million books, for the boys that are at the front. If the good work continues it is safe to state that New Britain will have its full quota of the money that is to be raised in each city ac- cording to its population. DRAFTED BROTHER FAILED T0 G0 So Another Member of His Family Took His Place Dr. M. Girsdansky, chairman of draft board 93 of New York, the headquarters of which are at 229 and 231 East Broadway, appealed Major Gen. J. Franklin Bell, U. S. A., in command at Camp Upton, to help him solve the problems that be- set him. The mixup in Board 93 is due, in the first place, to the fact that Private M. Getzhoff, who is No. 437 in the draft call and who was supposed to have gone to Camp Upton last week, failed to show up at the mo- bilization hour, and, as it subsequently turned out, Getzhoff's 19-year-old brother voluntarily went to Yaphank in his place. Twenty-four hours passed before the board found out about the substitution. Draftee and substitute are now both in the Yap- hank army, and the board is unable to release the substitute. In the second place, the board got in hot water when it sent a “tem- porary conscript” named Isaacson to Camp Upton in place of the regularly called man. According to the report which Dr. Girsdansky made to Gen- eral Bell, thre regular man was among the missing and unaccounted for at the final roll call. Instead to! | of putting in a regular alternate and , notifying the police that he had failed | ‘to appear, Dr. Girsdansky sought out ‘Isaacson, who was listed as an alter- | native and asked him to go to the | cantonment for a few days while “we !look for a regular man.” As soon as this man was found, Dr. Girsdansky told the “temporary conscript” he would send him to the camp, then, he added, *“you can ;back home.” he and come on HORSFALL'S o EXHIBIT OF New Fall Fashions FOR MISSES AND WOMEN With the Assistance of Metropolitan Living Models Promises to be the style showing event of the season. Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, from 10 a. m. to 12 m. and 3 to 5 p. m., will be shown Autumn’s newest Coats, Suits, Gowns and Furs, and discriminating women who love the beautiful and distinctive will find in them a source of delight. and see them. Come Horsfalls IT PAYS TO BUY OUR KIND 00 ASYLUM ST. sowmetingwth 140 TRUMBULL ST HARTFORD From Ne ‘Patriots Enlisted in Name ........ Age .o et Parents’ Name When Enlisted In Army or Navy In What Branch Nearest of Kin (11 xo parents) (Fill This Out and Return to w Britain the Nation’s Service. Editor of The Herald.) .., MAYOR MITCHELL HE CLAIMS A PLOT LOSES 200 VOTES, O DISCREDIT HIM Recount Reduces His Majority in New York Primary Fight New York, Sept. 256.—While an agreement was being reached before Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Co- halan yesterday by the Mitchel-Ben- | nett forces regarding the procedure for a recount of the ballots cast in the republican mayoralty primary last Wednesday, the official count filed at the board of elections of the vote cast in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Richmond Counties had reduced Mayor Mitchel’s majority from 595 to 392. The official Manhattan vote will be computed today. Kach side asserted last night that the Manhat- tan figures would show a majority for its candidates. The largest discrepancy between the figures of the police court on the night of the primary and the official count yesterday was shown in Brook- lyn. The official count in that borough gave William M. Bennett 201 more votes than were credited to him by the police. The total vote of the borough now stands as follows: Ben- nett, 20,588; Mitchell, 13,401, a lead of 17,187 for Bennett. Bennett the official count also gained 9 votes in Richmond. To offset the Bennett gains, it was discovered that as a result of errors, Mayor Mitchel was entitled to one more vote in Queens and six in the Bronx. This made a gain for Mitchel of 7 votes and 219 for Bennett, giving Bennett a net gain for the day of 203 votes, and reducing the mayor's majority in the entire city to 392. Mayor Mitchel’s plan to have a re- count of the republican primary vote, which he began last Saturday night when he obtained an order from Jus- tice Newburger to show cause why the republican vote should not be re- counted, met with complete success vesterday. After hearing arguments on both sides, and the Bennett forces agreed to the mayor's demand, Jus- tice Cohalan granted the order, and the recount will begin this afternoon. In the meantime the ballot boxes are being gathered from the various po- lice stations throughout the city and will be stored in a city-owned build- ing at 125-127 Center street. CHASE TO CONTINUE WAR WORK Eugene R. Chase of this city, who is doing Y. M. C. A. work in Eng- land, wiil continue his work through- out the winter and will not return to school as he had formerly planned to do. Chase was a student at Oxford University and was to resume his studies this fall. The university will open as usual this fall, but the at- tendance will be greatly depleted due to the great number of men drafted. hase received a scholarshin Rhodes and was 2 student when the war broke out. at at Oxford on | Justice Cohalan Repudiates the Memorandum Washington, Sept. 26—Judge Daniel Cohalan's repudiation of the memorandum found in the von Igel ' papers and published by the govern- ! ment is not credited by the White i House or the state departnfent. Be- fore the documents were published, i President Wilson and Secretary Lan- | sing satisfied themselves of their au- ! thenticity. | Cohalan’s statement that the memo- randum was created as another part of a British campaign to destroy him {tended to amuse state department | officials. They explained that the ex- cuse was preposterous. The Cohalan memorandum was in the German code and it showed that ; the text already had been transmitted | to Berlin. Tt was seized by trusted { American Secret Service men and | turned over to the state department | immediately. The work of decoding the message was done by some of the most trusted officials of the govern- | ment.. During all this time the British rep- resentatives in this country had never had the memorandum in their posses- | slon or even seen it. | { I1f Cohalan’s charge of being “planted” were true, officials of the state department explained, it would have been necessary for the British agents to forge the document, trans- late it into the German code and then place it in a safe belonging to i the Imperial German Embassy which ! was in von Igel's charge. State de- partment officials deciare that such a series of circumstances would be too ridiculous even to consider, much less believe. While it is imposs:ble to disclose the precise nature of the other data in the possession of the government, it is known that the administration has further evidence Indicating the ! point to which Cohalan was willing | to go to fight the Alited cause, using i Ireland as the excuse. ! The White House and state depart- i ment are awaiting with keen interest | the manner in which the New York | state legislature will proceed as a re- i sult of the recent revelations. i F. NESTE® TO LEAVE ARMY. Samuel Nester who enlisted in Co. 'T at the first call for volunteers last i summer, will be exempted from the | army in about a week. He failed to ! pass the field examination. He is to { be exempted on the grounds that he | has weak lungs. He has been in the | service since May 15. He was | pecting to go ac in a short | with his regiment. He is home two-day furlongh. He morrow fur camp. ex- while on a will leave to-