New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1917, Page 10

MALE MEMBERS OF ALLIES ARE CHOSEN | Director Halley Meeting With Success With Closing Tablean The following members of the min- strel cast for the benefit performance at Fox's. theater, Friday, Dec. 7, have been chosen by Director Joseph A. Haffey for the tableau, “The Gather- ing of the Allies,” which will be the closing feature of the performance: Scofland, Henry Young and — Belgium, E. itockwell and E. Ellert; France, Harvey Doland and H. Stotts; Ireland, John Riley and Bernard Con- nolly; Italy, J. J. McGrath and H. Brumbaum; Russia, H. Hodge and John Caufield; England, Vincent Kier- nan and Edward McCarthy; Canada, | C. Banner and Thomas Aldrich; American sailors (white uniform), J Connolly and J. Sullivan; American sadlors (blue uniform), George Kiese- ‘wetter and ; American soldiers, L. Pickop, C. Kinkade and C. Odin; blue and gray, F. G. Streeter and Charles Kempshall; Uncle Sam, John ¥, Willls; page, Willie Humason; 'Young America, Jerome Crean and Kiniry; Liberty, Mrs. Madge Smith., The following have = added to the female participants of the tableau: Red Cross nurses, M3wses Metta McIntyre and Irene | MPvasics American girls, Misses Conniff, Whelton, Caufield and McIntyre. All of the tableau will meet at E:’l o/clookk next Sunday afternoon Elke hall for rehearsal. g Ofivers ‘Will Be Here. ' gPheomembere of the amusement with Mayor George A. A % Dr. Henry T. Bray and Jo- - A. Haffey, visited Camp Devens Westerday and interviewed the officers o ing the coming attraction. ‘Wil D. Wills and about 12 officers gave their promises of present at the performance. will be reserved for all officers, the latest contingent of local mg men who completed their tram- at Plattsburg and who will-be in ty at the time. Matinee Seats Available. | 'The committee in charge is arrang- fng to place tickets for the matinee (the only ones avallable) in prominent Mysiness houses in the center. There will be plenty of room for all who de- mire to attend the show, at the mat- inee, but all chances for those not holding tickets for the evening, with the exception of loge seats, have ceased to exist. The heavy early de- mand for tickets surpasses the expec- tatlons of the committee. Rehearsals have beer. started by the five “Pianophiends,” consisting of Har- ry Ginsburg, John J. Crean, Sturman Dyson, Leon Gordon and Francis Clynes, and this event on the program promises to prove one of the hits. The participants in the plantation scene met for rehearsal in the Y. M. C. A. last evening. Horace La Val- ley, who will feature this number, is arranging an original soft shoe danc- Ing number and the banjoists, con- sisting of Jack Martin, Arthur Peter- son, Arthur Anderson and Howard A. Timbrell, will render several pleasing numbers on their *“‘African harps.” A rehearsal of the minstrels over- ture will be held in Elks' hall Friday evening. " THE PRICE OF COAL Yocal Oommittee Listens to Com- plsints From Dealers—Statec Fuel Administrator Russell at Conference. “We want to be fair to the coal men and to the public.” This was a statement made today By B. W. Christ, chairman of the lo- cal coal committed, concerning a meeting held yesterday at which a number of coal dealers were present. @tate Fuel ‘Administrator Thomas W. Rumsell was also in attendance. @ome of the coal dealers told the ttee, consisting of Mr. Christ, ' ", & Ferley and A. N. Abbe, that they ocould not continue in business and sell coal at $9.65 a ton, the price set by the government. It has not been revealed whether the committee will recommend an increase in the price. NEW BRI The above picture §s the airplane built by John Thompson of 266 Fair- view street thas has been offered for sale to the United States government. This is Thompson’s third machine and was bullt in the “New Britain Aero LETTERS ARE SENT FROM OVER ACROSS Soldiers-and Sailor Remember Rela- tives:ad Friends and Relate Their Expericnces in Detters Home. Relatlves and friends of Corporal Gerald Crean of the 102nd U. S. In- fantry, now In France, Joseph E. Sla- ter, also in France with the 101st Ma- chine Gun company and Seaman Charles Witkin, on the U. §. S. Rhode Island, have received interesting let- ters from them telling of their exper- iences in the service. Corporal Crean, writing on Hallow- ‘en night, expresses the opinion that the beginning of the end of the war is at hand. He says the French are cleaning house and it is up to the Americans to sweep up the leavings. The young soldier also writes that he has purchased two Liberty Bonds, and he likewise advises his relatives not to send him any money, but rather to send him tobacco and cigarettes. Seaman Witkin, formerly & super- numerary policeman, while he does not give his address, states that while on shore leave recently he was invit- ed out to dinner with some shipmates and was accorded a royal welcome by the clvillans of the town. He says that the people all do everything they can to make the life of the sailor more pleasant. In conclusion he joviall writes: “If I ever get hold of the kai- ser I'll send vou one of his shoes.” Private Slater writes that he is en- camped in an old village 200 years old, which has been deserted by the civil- jan population. He also remarks up- on the sugar situation and says that the stuff ls very scarce. The govern- but the men are in need of heavy woolen socks, such as the Red Cross provides, he states. HOLY FAMIDY BAZAR. St. Mary’s Organization Will Open Event On December 3. The Holy Family Circle of St. Mary's church will open & three days’ bazar in the school hall on December 8. The bazar will continue through December 5 every afternoon and eve- ning. The vartous booths will be in charge of the following committees: Domestic booth, Mrs. Forsythe, Mrs. Coniff, Mrs. Mulvihill, Mrs. W. Grace, Mrs. Thos. Grace, Mrs. H. Reynolds; fancy work, Mrs, Crean, Mrs. B. Smith, Mrs. Coholan, Mrs. J. Reynolds, Mrs. James Curtin, Mrs, J. L. Doyle, Mrs. Dobson: dolls, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Thos Smith, Mrs. Curran, Mrs. Barker, Mrs. Maloney, Mrs. Mas garet Dunn; candy, Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Farr, Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Henry O'Brien; blankets, Mrs. Hyland, rMs. McCormik Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Kerrigan, Mrs. When the price was set, it was un- derstood that the dealers would be able to secure about 80 per cent. of company coal and 20 per cent. of In- dependent coal. The dealers claim that they are forced to depend almost entirely on independent coal, which costs 95 cents more per ton. The dealers present were W. T. Damon and D, T. Holmes of the W. L. Damon Lumber and Coal Co., Solo- mon Shurburg, James P. Sullivan, Severin Johnson, A. N. Scripture of the Sovereign Trading Co., M. Irving Jester and a representative of Berson | Bros. The conference was of a prl- vate nature. “WOMAN'S SHOP” CLOSED. Attachment papers for $1,200 were served on William Kratitz and Charles Meyers last night by Constable Ceorge A. Stark, who closed the “Woman Shop' on Main street. The sult is brought by Charles Falletti and is returnable in the January term of the superior court. Telephone 751-5 AND HAVE YOUR SIDEWALKS TAKEN CARE OF THIS WINTER Jno. P. Maguire James O’Brien; ice cream, Mrs. Cran- ley, Mrs. Connelly, Mrs. Hallinan, M Rivers, Mrs. Desmond, cake, Mrs. Wm. Long, Mrs. Mrs. Poyer, Mrs. Marr, Mrs. country store, Mrs. Monahan, Monsees, Mrs. Corbly, Mrs. Mrs. Rynn, Mrs. P. W. Smith, Glover, Mrs. Edward Dobson: whist Mrs. Ringrose, Mrs. Mrs. . All who care to makKe donations are requested to motify the committee. Mc@ill, poor of the parish. Be Better Looking—Take Olive Tablets 1f your skin is yellow—complexion pallic —tongue coated—appetite poor—you have a bad taste in your mouth—alazy, no-good feeling—you should take Olive Tablets. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets—a substitute forcalomel—were pre byDr.Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients. Dr. Edwards’Olive Tablets are a purely Vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you must get at the cause. _Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel—yet have no dangerous after effects, They start the bile and overcome consti- pation. That’s why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All 5 Fairview Street. druggists. Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing results, ment provides good food and clothes, | Works” in the rear of his home. The engine alone cost more than $1,000 while the total cost is estimated at $2,000. If Uncle Sam purchases this machine Thompson may devote his entire time to building planes for the government. GENERAL SMASHED HINDENBURG LINE Lieut., Gen. Sir Julian Byng, com- mander of the British Third army in France, who has smashed a great gap through the Hindenburg line between St. Quentin and the Scarpe. FIREMEN OUT TWICE. A small fire was discovered in the cellar at 11 Spring street this maorn- ing at 1:05 o'clock. Some boxes and rubbish caught fire in an unaccount- able manner. The damage was slight. An oil heater too close to the bed started a fire at the home of John Pinches at 61 Chestnut street this morning at 1 o'clock. Company No. 2, of the fire department, respond- ed to a still alurm. The damage was slight, SURGEON OFFERS HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS HOSPITAL UNIT Mrs. Fitzgerald, | Mrs. Conlon; | Farr, Mrs. Glil, | Long; grab bag, Mrs. Fitzgerald. | The proceeds are to be devoted to the Dr. Rafael Menocal, a leading Cuban surgeon, has arrived in this country to take up with the Ameri- can Red Cross' officlals preparations for the field hospital and equipment to be sent to France by the Cuban Red Cross. The organization of this unit is due to the efforts of Mme. Marfana Seva de Menocal, wife of the president of Cuba. Doctor Menocal brought with him the news that more than half of the million-dollar fund neces- sary to maintain the Cuban Red hospital unit has ulready been paid in. | Dssaulles | honor of knowing her.’ ! some time for my . shool ! ete MRS. DESAULLES LEAVES THE STAND (Continued from First Page) you have a nice trip? 1 thought of you all the time and tried to imagine how far you were on your way. You will laugh and think I am telling stories. I am not. “Johmel (John L.) kept us awake all night. He started in at one o'clock. The minute the light was turned on he would stop crying. ‘When turned off he would resume a voice that must have been heard a block away from here. He was pure- ly naughty, and he kept that up until five in the morning—imagine. When the room would be lighted he would start to talk and coo and blow Kkisses. “I do hope everything will‘turn out well; my Dada, you of all people de- serve it, you have worked and waited so much. I feel so badly spending so absurdly on clothes when you are denying yourself so many things you like. Never mind, Dadda, I won't do it again, and please forgive me. They were so pretty that I stopped not to think. I feel lost without you. Please come back just as soon as you can. Johnel and I kiss you tenderly.” “BLANQUITA."” Here is the letter written near Christmas to “My Darling Dinkie”: “My Darling Dinkie:—I just got in last night after the roughest trip the Lusitania hag ever had. The boat pitched and tossed about so that, lying in bed, one moment I stood on my head and next on my feet. I missed you so, Dinkle, and was so miser- able. The Orcoma trip was splendid in comparison. Fowler (a secretary of the American Legation in London) was very nice and attentive and helped me off the boat, and before landing he introduced me to Mr. Downey (a customs official), and he was perfectly splendid, and not even a strap or anyvthing on my things touched. “Mr. Downey said:—Tt isn’t always we have a passenger such as you, and, although we all know who Mrs. is, we have not all the So T told him that he was perfectly splendid. Tt was bitterly cold and we had to wait case of silver to come out of the hold. So I said it | was a shame he had to wait so much, and he answered that he would not mind waiting every day of his life if he were to see me. So T said T woula not mind arriving every day if T could see him. The result was evervthing was expedited—no questions asked. [ hands when 1 said goodby. T told him he must come to see us, etc., better a0 You know ving that heaven of delight. fhan any one what s to people of that cl . “New York scemed so bright and heerful coming up, the streets so lighted, and when T zot home to Toodle boy my heart almost burst with joy. He threw his arms around my neck and it thrilled it almost made me cry. It was the first homecoming I ever really had— to my own little home. Dinkie, It you had been there I should have died, my happiness would have been so complete. On Christmas Day. “December 26—1 didn't to finish the other day. so vesterday. and T would not have a Christmas tree because you were not here. and T felt we would not hay a real hristmas until i three together. “I can hardly wait to have vou come home, and T hope yvou will he as happy as Toodie and I will be to have you here. Tt snowed Christmas Eve—just like when Toodie was here. I haven't written nor called your mother yet, because T've been in bea all the time. [ just got up for Cousin Nany's Christmas dinner. 1 ill on the boat that I'm hopelessly weak still and haven't been able to do a thing.” Her Explanation. Bianaca's only explanation loving sentiments expressed Christmas letter was: T had not expressed anything of a disagreeable nature which had hap- pened in London, hut T was very un- happy and felt very much hurt nev- erthele; I would not for the worll have had him know how unhappy I was. My heart was broken.” Do you think that letter gives any indication of it?" “Tt was not intended indication of it.”” “You spoke there of his slavin working so hard. Did you T think 502" “He told me he hard that he had no time er me.” The next letter introduced might well have been called her New Year letter. said, under date of January “My darling Dink This is the first letter T write this year, and the first wish is for your welfare and vour suc- cess. 1 think of vou all the time, and am so anxious to know how you are getting on. You are a lazy Dink— you ought to write to vour wife. “New Year's night we went to the first Friday evening dance, and we missed you dreadfully. Maurice was fecling splendidly. He came off the wagon for the occasion. Louise and 1 had every one at our feet and we danced till we had none left to stand on. Fowler went with us. “Maurice called for those funny punches that you liked—those South- ern things that taste like dirty water and look like diluted milk—and we drank them to your health. I tried to drink mine, but all I could do was to taste it. Jack gets more wonderful every day, but he needs his daddy very badly so as to keep him from being 2 mollycoddle. He 1s a beau- tiful, fa%, lazy thing, and all he likes is to have me pet and love him. Who does he take after? Please write, Dinkie, even if it's a card. Send us cards with soldiers, “Lots and lots of have time T missed you we were was of the in her ‘At that time to give any ana ally | was working sa to look aft- love and many Of course, he was in the seventh me so that | a | I | | i | | i i | i ing out the witness | Announces to State’s Attorney Alcorn j TAIN DAiLY HERALD, WEDNESDA, 'NOVEMBER 2, 1017, ; ' i THOMPSON’S THIRD BIPLANE OFFERED FOR SALE TO U. S. A. wishes for a wonderful year from your little wife. “BLANQUITA. The Maid's Story. Susanne Monteau, a maid, next tes- tified. The mald’s French accent and excited manner on the stand made it difficult for her story to be heard by the jurors and Justice Manning. She was frequently interrupted. “When Mrs. DeSaulles entered the living room she said she came to take Jack,” declared the witness. ‘“‘He made her such an awful face,” she continued. ““He said ‘vou can't have him now or never'." The witness wa. required fully a gain her the tale. “I was standing right by Mrs. De- Saulles and could see everything,’” she went on flnally. “He was facing her. I saw Mrs. DeSaulles get awfully white.” “Then what happened?”’ asked Jus- tice Manning, when Miss Monteau hes- itated again. “She shot him,” sobbed the witness, apparently overcome by her recollec- tion of the tragedy. The defendant’s sister said when re- turning from these visits with his father, the boy told her a number of times of ‘“gay parties’” given at “The Box,” DeSaulles’ home. ‘With the revolver With which Mrs. DeSaulles’ shot her husband, the wit- ness then demonstrated the manner in which it might be discharged. Miss Errazuriz said the pressure of the hand on the grip of the revolver was sufficient to release the safety catch and only one movement was necessary to fire it. District Attorney Weeks maintains that two movements of the hand are necessary and that this would indicate Mrs. DesSaulles was not mentally ir- responsible when she shot her hus- so affected that it inute for her to re- self-possession and continue THIS WEAK NERVOUS WOMEN TO0K VINOL' And Invigorates Old Peoplei Any doctor will tell you that the | ingredients of Vinol as printed below ! contain the elements needed to im- ! DProve the health of delicate children | and restore strength to old peéple. | R Cod Liver and Beef Peptones, Iron and Manganese Peptonate: Tron and Ammonium Citrate, Lime and Soda Glycerophosphates, Cascarin. Those who have puny, ailing or | run-down children or aged parents may prove this at our expense. | Besldes the good it does children and the aged there is nothing like ' Vinol to restore strength and vitalit to weak, nervous women and over- | worked, run-down men. | Try it. If you arc not entirely sat- | isfied, we will return your money without question; that proves our fairness and your protection. Mil- llons of people have been convinced this way. The Clark & Brainerd Co., gists; Liggett's Riker-Hegeman Stores; John J. McBriarty; Nathan Noveck; W. H. Russell, and at the best drug store in every town and city in the country. GENERAL MACOMB COMMANDS AT SILL Dr Druy band. Mrs. The witness retired from the Mrs. DeSaulle vesterday w: very iIL” This wos regarded as an indication that Mrs. Errazuriz will not testify today as was expected. On cra 1id her mother, who courtroom . during cross s examination District At- witness in reference to details of the shooting. There were discrepancies in her answers to Weeks' questions when compared with those she said she made when a deposition was taken from her a few days after August 3. Parts of the deposition were read by Weeks apparently to indicate these differences. At the time of the previous ques- tioning, Miss Monteau said Mrs. De- Saulles shot three times ‘‘and De- Saulles did not move,” whereupon she fired twice more. Another part of the deposition read \quoted the maid as saying “*Mrs. Df'gflullos put her right hand into her left hand pocket, tak- revolver and pointing it slowly “in her former husband’s di- rection.” In answer to Mr. Weeks’ questions in cross examination she had just made statements which contradicted those quoted from the deposition. “Didn’t Mrs. DeSaulles say just aft- er the shooting, ‘I'm glad I did it; T hope he dies, asked Weeks. “That is not so,” snapped the wit- ness. Miss Monteau declared she had no recollection of sceing district Attorney Weeks in the u county jail the day following the shooting. She maintained she had no memory conversations with persons on that day relative to securing ball. The mald was held as a material in $1,000 bail, it had pre- been brought out in the trial ATTORNEY HOLDEN QUITS MRS. GILLIGAN viously That He Has Disappeared From Case. Hartford, Nov. 28-—Although no forn order has come from Judge Gardned Greene of the superior court, Clerk George A. onant has been informed that the record of the Gilligan murder case will be printed or the supreme court at the state’'s expense, and he is getting the papers together for the printer. The printed record which is to contain the testi- ", will be more than 1,500 pages s estimated will cost near $2,000. Amy Archer Gilligan, who was convicted in July of the murder of Franklin R. Andrews by arsenic at the Archer Home for Elderly People May 3, 1914, is without funds, as her resources were practically ex- hausted during the murder trial. She was sentenced to be hanged Noverns ber 6, but has been reprieved to March 6 by the governor. Without filing in court any formal notice of his disappearance as counsel for the condemned woman, B, M. Holden, after conference with State's Attorney Alcorn, announced that he should retire from the case as Mrs. Gilligan's counsel and the state could appoint some attorney to con- duct the case. Tn all probability Mr. Holden's appointment by the court as counsel for Mrs. Gilligan will follow a withdrawal of his name as Mrs. Gilligan's attorney. of | Errazuriz sald revolvers are | commonly carried by women in Chile. | examination | torney Weeks seemingly confused the | Brig. Gen. Montgomery Macomb, | who gave up the presidency of the Army War college a year ago when he reached the age of retirement, has been recalled to active service and as- signed to the commond of the mill- tary post at Fort 8ill, Oklahoma. EVENTS TONIGHT Fox's theater, high plays. class Lyceum theater, drama, superior photo Keeney’s theater, vaudeville moving pictures. and Card tournament, Elks club. Phenix lodge, I. 0. O. F., meets in I O T SATRNT S halll, Andre lodge, I. 0. O. F., meets in Vega hall. St. Elmo lodge, K. of P., meets In Judd's hall. Erwin Castle, K. G. E., Eagles hall. meets in New Britain Aerie, F. O. E., dance, Holmes & Hoffman’s hall. Carpenters Unlon Church street, meets at 34 Vesta Hive, L. O. T. M., meets at 277 Main street. New Britain Nest, 0. 0. O, meets in Electric hall. Valient Tent, K. O. T. 321 Main street. M., meets at New Britain lodge, L. O. per and social, TWO ARE ARRESTED O. M., sup- 242 Main street. Charged With Impersonating Federal Authorities and Attempting to Swin- dle An Alien. New York, Nov. 28.—Two men were arrested here today charged with im- personating department of justice agents and with attempting to swin- dle an enemy alien under threats of internment. The prisoners gave their names as John Lloyd, actor, and Ed- 160—COUNT THEM! St. Mary’'s Parish Unfurls Flag to Breezes. Marked by the singing of the “Star Spangled Bunner” and “My Country "Tis of Thee” by the school children, and a patriotic address by Rev. John . Winters, St. Mary’'s service flag was unfurled to the breeze this after- noon at 3:30 o’clock. The exercises which were very Impressive were cut short on account of the weather. ‘The flag which contains 160 stars, representing the boys of the parish in service, occupi 1 prominent place hetween the pari house and St Mary's church. Service h ward W. Harrigan, clerk. The arrests were made in the Hotel Navarre after a guest had notified the police that one of three men in the dining room resembled a person who had swindled him in Buffalo last Feb- ruary. When the three were ques- tioned by the police, one of them Ernest Karl, a German, gave the of- ficers informatlon on which the two others were held. Karl said that he had supposed Liloyd and Harrlgan were agents of the department of justice. He said that representing themselves as such, they had detained him at the hotel last night on the pretense that he had vio- Jated federal alien enemy regulations ahd was hable to internment. photo RABBIT SAUSAGE A REGULAR TREAT Intelligence Department ol Great Britain Studying Central Powers London, Nov. 28-—The economio position of Germany and Austria is Dbeing carefully studied by the British intelligence department, and, from a series of notes taken from the press of the Central empires, one learns, for instance, that after-war problems in Germany are the cause of much anx- iety. It is expected that the debt of the empire, according to ihe Vossische Zeitung, will, by the end of the year, have increased to ninety-four mil- liards of marks. This will involve an annual charge of six milliards, a sum* which will be increased to ten mil- liards by pensions, debts of separate stat and communes. try and com- | merce will have to devote its atten- i tion to the methods for reconquering | its ald position in the international | market, “but they cannot succeed in doing so unless the burdens that in- dustry has to bear—taxes, wages and | other expenses—are kept within bear- | able limits.” 1 There are fears of an economic war; | and hence the writer lays it down that “it must be one of the principal items in the German conditions of peace that no door anywhere shall be bolted { against the entry of German products. | Without any artificial obstruction, there will be plenty of hindrance to overcome. Not one out of all the ef- forts of our enemies to substitute their own products for German goods can be successful in the long run. Yet, after the war, hatred toward Germany will certainly persist among our ene« mies and may result in the temporary bovcotting of German goods.” Onc of the first problems Germany will have to face will be the shortage of shipping.. Herr Heinken, directog general of the North German Lloyd. Steamship company, thinks the opin- ion that shipping lines will “roll in i gold” somewhat premature. He con- siders that after a certain perkod, | short or long, Germany will again en- ter into relations with her enemies, but until such time arrives he be- lieves that the German shipping in- dustry will have to wage severe and stern war. The two vital tasks of German shipping will be: First, to make up losses and injuries suffered during the war; and, second, to catch up the enormous advantage gained by the enemy and neutral shipping as a result of the war. It is also predicted in Vienna, ac- cording to the Neue Freie Presse, that steamships probably will be cam- mandeered by the government after the war and required to convey raw materials to and manufactured goods from the country at fixed rates. In both Germany and Austria the manufacturing industry and agricul- ture will tend more and more toward substituting work by machinery for the labor of men and beasts. The en- armous sacrifices of human lives de- manded by the world war in all coun- tries has reduced the number of working men to such an extent that no branch of industry will have at its disposal- as many trained men as be- fore. Turning to more domestic matters, these notes afford a good insight into the internal conditions of Germany and Austria. The four-pound loaf in the new harvest year in Germany cost just a fraction less than double whal it cost before the wa: There was an increase in the daily bread ration from the middle of August from six ounces to nearly eight ounces, while at the beginning of this month the flour, meat and potato rations were regulated anew on the basis of the { harvest estimates and the live stock ) census. Previous allowances were consid- ered insufficient, and the position of food supplies was one af the princi- pal causes of labor discontent. It was complained in August by the gen- eral officer commanding in the marks, that “‘people are not ashamed to help themselves to produce growing In flelds and gardens, often long before it is ripe.” In Austria the position was stiff more serious. On Sundays greaf crowds proceeded to the country around Vienna to buy up early pota- toes from the peasants, and people stoad in queues Tight into the peas- ants’ houses. When the supply gava out, exciting scenes were witnessed, and the much-annoyed citizens pro- ceeded to the flelds and dug up pg- tatoes themselves. Rabbit sausage having made its ap- pearance at 5.40 or 6 marks a pound, and being considered a tasty morsel, the municipality has taken up the manufacture at 2 marks a pound. Blood sausages are regulated at 2 marks a pound, and liver sausage 2.30 German ‘“tea,” made from raspberry, currant a plants, sells at an equiva. cents a pound, while both tea and coffee substitutes are declared by a learned professor to resemble the original in color only; in taste and smell there is none. There is a serious coal shortage and it is announced that in Frankfort half the schools will be closed this winter. GIRLS REMEMBER SOLDIERS Troop I of the Girl Scouts, connect- ed with the South Congregational church, vesterday dispatched a pack- age containing 2,000 cigarettes, con- signed to the soldiers in Company Ie and Company E of this city. in France. The little girls paid for these cigar- ettes with money they had saved themselves CHICHESTER-—MCALOON. Miss Grace McAloon, of 851 Stanley street, and Edward Leslie Chichester, of Xew Haven, will be married tomor= row morning at the Church of St John the Evangelist by the pastoy, Rev. J. J. Fitagerald. A miscellaneouy shower was tendered to Miss McAloon Jast evening at her home at which she received a large number of gifts.