New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 10

24—There are mil- m.a machine would waste oil and gaso- every day into traps s of garages. The j separate an appreciable d commercial gasolene bdugts from the was be started in Boston this proved successful, in New York, the business growing, fac- vb‘ placed everywhere. runnlng would be nom- ofits would be enormous. Commissioner of Bos- n to be bribed before tion could be started see, he would have to ssion before they could laws. '“How much t to bribe him? Well, in \hnua iof $7,600. But | figure. We've got a 'We've got a Boston ‘wants to invest $40,000 ' @8’ we can show him ioner won’t object to town.” 1d Beecroft and Richmond of the Oil pmpany, a corporation 1) West Thirty-fourth -day were arrested at 11y Hotel are accused of oid Yesse E. Wilson. Wilson ‘ooke and coal dealer at 1 Broad- and ‘I!Vet ln New Brighton, Staten 3 B ndi lson lflnsltud he had as much as 500 in the Pbrt Richmond bank. ‘would/it/be right to bribe a pub- omnh 1# To ease his conscience, rpey Swann, the men 0 ndfl on .to “buy stock” in r ¢ondernto this amount. n order to carry out the con- sald Mr. ‘Swann, ‘“they ‘McPherson, who was a ) ut hotel clerk. He was bfly dressed, but the claim s Richmond bought him a suit and an outfit, so as to have ‘the part of a.banker.. When consplrators, got ready to pull mfl.l they took Wilson first to Hotel (in Manhattan) ned 'the scheme to him and ced: the ‘alleged Boston capi- jt—McFPherson, who had been in- reted: what ‘to say, and . Wilson greed to pm up $40,000 in cash pro- Hé Boston Fire: Commissioner ald be fixed 80 as to get permis- ) company to business in d and Beecroft took Wil- : n on one train and had | o follow on another. They | d at erent hotels in Boston, ag “Wflm&:’p at the Copley Plaza, - at ‘Touraine, 'McPher- Comr Copley Plaza with Wil- ‘When they arrived In Boston they o] jenced trouble in cashing Wil- n's check, so Wilson opened up a PRers pnal account in the Shawmut Na- s 1‘Bank there, depositing the cer- # te. This was on Saturday, De- 11, Jast. On Monday Wilson out $7,500 and handead it to Bee- p Richmond. Two witnesses, & ) §addl, saw the division of money. o nldn. says Beecroft, a big din- ner' was ‘given to celebrate the fact of the reputed bribery of the Fire . Commissioner. . {iAfter the men returned to New Lo 'k they had McPherson give a din- in honor of the occasion-at a ho- It was at about this time, the Mgtrict Attorney says that McPherson pgan ko suspect he was not .being iglently paid for his work as bank- { “put in e protest, accompanied a th:n.t. Richmond and Beecroft. reupon each give him $250 of their 1f of the $7,500. Beecroft, who is a solicitor for the | | National Highway Protective Society, | iped prosecution by turning state’s lence.. Richmond was indicted by q. Grand Jury yesterday and later [ released on bail. He Hves at 128 B Fifty-first street. McPherson ! ‘was ' {ndicted. ‘Wilson recently in the Bankruptcy Court. TEACHER MARRIES SOLDIER. Miss Ruath Hartson Bride of Harry Thomas. . Harry Thomas and Miss Ruth Hart- 9n were married Saturday evening at home of the bride’s parents, Mr. Mre. Monroe J. Hartson at 80 seft street by Rev. J. W. Denton " Plainville. The groom is a sol- , stationed at Camp Devens. He s awured a short furlough in order to ' married. Miss Bryant of Farming- fon was the maid of honor. A soldier companion of the groom was to have acted as the best man but he was ~~ unable to secure leave of absence from the camp. The bride is a well known school teacher in this city. Mr. Thomas was graduated from -Yale and was em- ployed by the State Highway depart- ment before he was called to the serv- Iee. EDITOR DIES - Pormer New Haven Minister Dead at His Oleveland Home Cleveland, Dec. 24.—Dr. Levi P. Gil- ‘bert, editor and minister, died at his home here today. Dr. Gilbert, who was 65 years old, was former editor of the Western Christian Advocate and occupied pulpits in Cleveland, New Haven, Conn., and Seattle, Washing- ton. He was reputed to be one of the GENERAL S IS Hero Who Takes Place at Saloniki Cited in Orders for Work at Verdun. Paris, Dec. 24—Gemeral P. B. Sar- rail, the government has decided, ac- cording to an official announcement, will be replaced as head of the Allles’ -armies at Saloniki by~General Guillau- mat. General Sarrail, who has had to struggle-against serfous difficulties and has rendered great services, will be called to other duties-as soon as cir- cumstances permit. General Guillaumat arrived at Sa- loniki on Saturday. He is one of the heroes of Verdun, where he com- manded an army corps which was mentioned in ermy orders as having distinguished itself by the methodical precision of its preparations and the vigor of its attacks. A.London despatch last Wednesday said that announcement had been made in Athens of the recall of Gen- eral Sarrail, who has been in com- mand in the east-since October. His successor’s name was given at that time as General Guillaumat. The great French victory at Verdun last ‘summer was yunder the immediate leadership.of General Guillaumat. FACING HOUSING PROBLEM. Few Tenements Built During Year Inspector Reports. Building Inspector Arthur N. Ru- therford notes in preparing his re- port for the past year that havesbeen few tenements erected de- spite the heavy increase in other formsuof.‘building. A housing prob- lem of\the inhabitants of this city will have to+be faced in a short time, the inspector ‘thinks, if the population in- creases .at its present rapid rate and the tenememts are not built to sup- ply' the demand. A brief report of the building activities this year is as follows: January, twenty permits, $40,790, five tenements added; Feb- ruary, nineteen permits, $179,775, twelve tenements-added; March, twen- ty-seven permits, $16,915, seven ten- ements added; April, seventy-two per- mits, $126,470, fifteen tenements; May, sixty permits, $159,120," thirty-nine tenements and eight stores added; July, forty-eight permits, $229,760, seven tenements added; July, forty- eight permits, $84,015, seventeen ten- ements added; August, forty-nine per- mits, $126,830, fourteen tenements added; September, forty-seven per- mits, $115,475, twelve tenements and three stores.added; October, sixty-four permits, $67,303, four tenements add- ed; November, thirty-three permits, $47,515, twelve tenements added; De- cember, (incomplete,) sixteen per- mits, $66,100, four tenements added. AGAINST CONSCRIPTION | Further Returns From Referendum Increase Vote, Deciding It. Sydney, Australia, Dec. 24—Further returns from the referendum have in- creased the vote against compulsory mfilitary service, and the defeat of the plan is noy beyond doubt. The polit~ jcal situation is most uncertain. Premier Hughes has made no state- ment thus far but in certain quarters there is.evidence of opposition to his continual’ leadership of the national- ist party. It is believed that Frank Tudor will be permited by the nationalists to form a government from the labor party, giving this party‘an opportuni- ty to putrinto effect its plans for rais- ing troops without-conscription. BASKETS FOR POOR. Salvation Army Distributes Food to Deserving Families. Twenty-five baskets containing food ‘were distributed by the Salvation Army at 3 o’clock this afternoon to families that might otherwise be de- prived of their Ckristmas dinners. A number of the baskets contain chick- ens, and roast beef is substituted in others. Vegetables and other eatables appropriate to the season are also contained 4n the baskets. Services will be conducted at Sal- vation Army headquarters tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock and a song ser- vice will be held in the evening at 8 o'clock. A festival and Christmas tree for children will be held Wednesda.y eve- ning at 7 o’clock. » HOME -GUARDSMEN WAIT. Companies H and M of the Home Guard of this city are still without their consignment of rifies and am- munition' from the quartermasters’ department. The practice shoot which was planned on Christmas by the companies has been abandoned. The rifle range at the state armory has been put in good condition so ‘that it may be used as soon as the rifles and ammunition arrive. A shooting contest with the. Glastonbury Home Guards has been indefinitely post- poned. New members are being added to fill the gaps in the ranks caused | by the enlistment of eight men in the aviation and medical corps. [ ZIONISTS MASS MEETING. The local Zionists will hold a mass meeting at the Grammar school hall Christmas evening to celebrate the proclamation ‘issued by the government that it would look with favor upon the establiahment of & Jewish state in Palestine which was recently captured by the British forces. Rabbi Musllansky of New York will be the principal-speaker of the evening. He has spoken here be- fore with good success. Addresses will be delivered in Jewish and in English. Irving I. Rachlin will pre- side at the meeting. TOWN HALD BURNS. ‘Worcester, Masa, Dec. 24.—The town hall in West Boylston was de- stroyed early today by fire of unknown best known Methodist ministers in the ountry, origin, with a loss of $30,000. The town has no fire départment. ¥ British | ANSWERS ARMOUR RELIEVED OF COMMAND QUOTING RECORDS Heney Points Out Seized Letters Alone Reveal Packers Interest ‘Washington, Dec. 24.—Francis J. Heney, special counsel, in charge of the Federal Trade Commission’s in- quiry into the packing industry, last night issued a statement in response to the statement issued at Chicago last night by J. Ogden Armour, head of Armour & Co., in which the latter de- nded that any effort had been made to cover up information sought by the commission, and asserted that the commission, and asserted that the _commission’s examiners had had full “access to the records of the company. Mr. Heney said: “I do not propose to enter into any personal controversy with Mr, Armour or any other of the Chicago packers in regard to any of the matters which are under investigation by the Fed- eral Trade Commission. ' The fact re- mains, however, that the schedule which wag filed with the commission by Armour & Co. does not disclose | ownership of any interest im the Chi- cago stockyards, or any of its sub- sidiarfes; and the government did not secure any information to that effect until its agents seized certain correspondence between F. H. Prince and J. Ogden Armour at Boston & few weeks ago. This correspondence had been carefully hidden away in a safe deposit box in the Old Colony Trust company. “It must also be remembered that 79,990 shares of the Chicago Stock Yards company stock, which included Mr. Armour’s, were carried in -the name of F. R, Pegram, who did not own a single share, and who before the hidden correspondence was seized, attempted to mislead the government by reporting to the commission that his books did not show to whom the stock belonged. “It may be pertinent to call at- tention to the fact that at the time Mosely & Company, the Boston stock brokers, were acquiring control of the holding company of the Chicago Steck Yards and Terminal Railways for ¥F. H. Prince and J. Ogden Armour, the Chicago newspapers published a story to the effect that it was rumored that Armour, Swift and Morris were be- hind the deal. Representatives of each of the big packers denied the truth of the rumor, and the treasurer of Armour & Co. wrote the following letter to Prince: Oct. 11, 1910. !/ Mr, F. H. Prince, 28 State Street, Boston, Mass. Dear Sir: The information in the inclosed clippings from the Chicago papers came over the ticker yesterday, and some of the reporters came in here to ask about it. We, of course, denied all knowledge of the matter. Very truly yours, FREDERICK W. CROLL. “Under the circumstances the pub- lic can judge for itself how much credence should be given to press statements from the office of Armour & Co. “Mr. Armour seems to minimize the importance to him of the Chicago stock yards deal. In this connection it might be pointed out that until: a 400 per cent. dividend was declared by Armour & OCo., last year, its total stock capitalization was enly $20,000,- 000, whereas the properties of the Chicago stock yards, of which Armour and Prince secured control, are con- servatively estimated to be in excess of $47,000,000 in the company’'s own circulars issued to bankers as a basis for the sale of its bonds. “In the Chicago stock yards deal Armour and Prince secured control of 800 acres of land in the heart of Chi- cago, and over 300 miles of railroad tracks conmecting with thirty-four railroads that 'enter Chicago. Five hundred acres of this land had im- provements upon it belonging to the| big packers which cost in the neigh- borhood of $1,000,000, and the stock vards proper has a daily capacity of 75,000 cattle, 125,000 sheep, 300,000 hogs and 6,000 horses. The other 300 acres are devoted to manufacturing uses, and more tha.n two-thirds of it has already beon built upon. The great maliling houses of Sears, Roe- buck & Co., Montgomery, Ward & Co. and other large concerns are located there. “Inconnection with this manufac- turing district the Stock Yards com- pany handles close to 40,000 loaded cars per year. It owns over forty lo- comotives and over 300 other locomo- tives are almost daily in use there, and 500 engines of other roads use its tracks daily. The Stock Yards com- pany and its subsidiaries handle the entire business of the stock yards and the packing houses, and the latter's business there exceeds that of any other city in the world. The streets running through the Stock Yards company properties total a length of twenty-five miles.” MORE POTATO TROUBLE. Bad Potatoes, Sorted From Others, Are Delivered Through Error. The Municipa] farm committee now has another trouble to straighten out inasmuch as 35 bushelg of potatoes that were not fit for use have bean delivered to customers through error. These are being made good as rapidiy as possilie. In sorting over the potatoes in one of &o storehouses it was found fthat 35 bushels were not good, elther being [ frost Dbitten, or otherwise . affested. These were bagged and placed to one side. These potatoes, which were purposely set aside, were accidentally delivered An place of others of first class quallty. —_— OONGRESSMAN DIFS. Akron, O., Dec. 24.—Representative E. R. Bathrick, of the 14th Ohio dis- trict, died at his home here last night, CITY ITEMS wll do better at Wilson's.—advt. Dr H. Waterman Lyon, now a flrqt leutenant in the U. S. Army Medical ! Corps, i8 home from Fort Oglethorpe, | Ga, for the holidays. ! ‘White tissue paper, 10c roll, at Ad-t kins, 66 Church St—Advt. | "'Licutenant Edwin N. Lewls 1s home | from Camp Upton on leave of absence. Alderman John Stadler, of Chestnut ' street, now with,the National Army, is home on a furlough. Among others home from Camp Devens are Alfred Kolodney, John Sanders, Howard Hartman, James Hogan, George Riley and Thomas Juinlivan. Join New Britain Nat. Bank Christ- | mas club tonight. Open 7 to 9.—advt. | F. Lester Smith, formerly connected with the office of the Stanley Works in this city but now located in Kansas City, Mo., is some on a short vaca- tion. The Lyceum orchestra has met with instant favor.—edvt. Giuseppe Berarde has transferred | property at the corner of Oak and Putna streets to August Camascl. Dr. Henry T. Bray has tre,nsferred' property in the Glendale tract to Attili | Bassi et al. \\ e desire to express our apprecia- tion of your favors and ask you to accept our best wishes for a Merry Christmas And a Happy and Prosperous Nineteen-Eighteen JOHN A, ANDREWS & CO. The Big Furniture Store Neckwear reduced. Wilson’'s.—advt. “Jerry” Lynch, who has been missed from the asylum in Middletown for three months, has gone back to the asylum with the assistance of Officers George Moffitt and Herbert Lyon who found him in the northern part of the city yesterday creating a disturbance. Masgss will be celebrated at St. Jos- eph’s church tomorrow morning at 5:30, 7, 8, 9 and 10:30 o’clock. The first and last masses will be. high massses. Irving E. Ellis of. the Naval Re- serve is home from Brooklyn for the holidays. Join' the Red Cross at Wilson's. —advt. Ensign Johnstone Vance is home on a short leave of absence. Lieutenan{ Thomas F. Jackson is ‘home from Camp Dix for the Christ- mas holdays. Constable John A. Abrahamson is in- disposed with an attack of the grip. ‘The annual meeting of the New Britain club will be held Thursday evening at 8 o’'clock. The annual election of officers will take place, and luncheon will be served. Chairman A. E. Magnell of the fire board, Clerk John Keough and Chief R. M. Dame have been appointed a committee to prepare the estimates for the coming fiscal year. On ac- count of the change in the charter, the estimates must be prepared a month earlier than heretofore. The High school basketball team is requested to report at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium next Saturday evening at | 7:80 to play against the Ramblers of this city, preliminary to a game be- tween the Y. M. C. A. asd the All-Col- leglans of Syracuse. The Lvceum offers holiday program. —advt. a wonderful See advertisement. LONG JAIL TERMS New York Italians Sentenced For Ob- taining Moncy Under False Pre- tenses—Black Hand Theory Scouted Two New York Italians, John Cas- coni and Salvatore Sansoni, were each sent to jail for six months by Judge James T. Meskill in police court this morning on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. It was claimed that these men visited several local Italians on Saturday and repre- | sented themselves to be either philan- thropists who were collecting money to be given to a war widow in Italy, or as a friend of a well known Ital- an who is in trouble and needs finan- cial assistance to procure legal aid. The men admitted their guilt. Detective Sergeants A. J. Richard- son and A. C. Malone testified that on | Saturday they received information that Black Hand workers were oper- ating in this city and on information given them they arrested the two men at the depot. Joseph Capella, John | Capella, Vissconti Guiseppi and Vasile Filippo were among those who were fleeced in this city. According to Sergeant Rihardson there is some ad- ditional suspicion attached to these two New Yorkers inasmuch as they seemed very anxious to hide their real identity and eagerly sought communi- cation with friends in New York that they might obtain bends. The police ; are also said to have additional infor- | mation to the effect that one of the men made serious and blood curdling threats against one Italian who re- fused to contribute to their alleged “fund”. The Black Hand theory is, however, scouted by the authorities. Charles Kulski, John Urban, Joseph Shipps and Frank Brizinski were each charged with violating the Mquor law by selling without a license in Lithu- anian hall on Park street. They plead- ed not guilty and their cases were con- tnued until Thursday. TI/OCATED AT CAMP DIX. Many New Britain Men Now at Can- tonment in New Jersey. Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J., is x the temporgry home of many New | Britain men who recently enlisted In the Ordmance Corps and the Signal Section of the Aviation Corps. On accoupt of the holiday rush on trains, it was impomssible to send all the men who enlisted to San Antonios, | Texas, thelr witimate destination as| far as their service in this country is | concerned. ‘They were shipped from Fort Slocum last week. CHEURCHES' SAVE OOAL. The Sunday musses et St. Mary's will be hetd In the chapel of the chureh unless emough tnetlh u.thbe acquire@ to- carry through the winter. 'The 7 o’clock mase hereafter will be conducted in. the chapel. The Pirst church will not heat its chape] on Mondays, Tuesdays and | of the hand with a leather strap. ‘Wednesdays during the winter months, FIXING THE BLAME FOR FATAL WRECK Willimantic Boy Given Rifle As Present With Serious Result New Haven.—In the effort to fix the responsibility for the fatal wreck that occurred just above the Cedar "Hill freight yards Saturday afternoon, Cor- oner Eli Mix and Public Utflities Com- | missioner C. C. Elwell spent all yes- | terday examining the crews of the | New York-Boston express and the | switch engine that rammed into it. The investigation will contipue to- day, but the bulk of the testimony was taken yesterday by the coroner. From testimony it appears that the engineer of the switcher believed the express was running late and that Charles H. Clarke, the engineer of i the switcher, had his engine crossing the express track at 3:30 o’clock. | Shoots His Chum. | ‘Willimantic.—*I didn’t think it was loaded,” was the cry of Richard Ellis, 14 years old, of this city, after he had | accidentally discharged a .22 caliber | rifle, the bullet entering the right side of a playmate, Doria Maclure, who is now at St. Francis’ hospital, Hartford, where it was said that although his condition is serious he will recover. Young Ellis received the rifle from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Ellis of No. 28 Chapman street, as a Christmas gift. He was proudly show- ing his gift to his playmate and, not knowing that it was loaded, pulled the trigger. Dr. C. E. Simonds was summoned and the injured boy was removed to St. Joseph’s hospital, this city, later being ‘taken to Hartford, where an X-ray picture of the wound was taken. The injured boy is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Maclure of No. 58 Chapman street. The police were notified of the accident, but Ellis was not held as Chief of Police Killourey was of the opinion that the shooting was accidental. Exonerates Teacher. ‘Waterbury—Coroner John T. Mon- zani has exonerated Miss Mahler, prin- cipaliof the: Slocum schogil. from _all blame in comnection with the death of | Ernest’ Miller the seven-year-old pu- | pil to whom, a few minutes before his death 4n’ the school, she had ad- ministered punishment on the paim | i “I ath convinced,” the coroner says in his finding,” the principal ex- ercised reasonable judgment and that the punishment was not of material severity.” The coroner also says he is satisfled that the death was not caused by the criminai act, omission or carelessness of any other person or persons, and that an inquest was | “The thing in DRY CLEAN- ING OURS8—for our dry cleaning is done by the most ad- is vanced of sclentific methods. The methods we follow leave no detrimental effects on the arti- cles and the results are most satisfactory. Suits, gowns, overcoats, skirts, shirtwaists, etc., etc., no matter how delicate or expensive can be sent here. Moderate prices. Union Laundry Corp,, 266 ARCH ST. We wish you a Merry. Christmas and a Happy New Year. MODERN BOOT SHOP A F. GALAISE, Manager unnecessary. He finds that death was caused by heart failure precipitated by mental excitement. MANY RETURN QUESTIONNAIRES | Second District Must Send 38 Men With last 15 Per Cent. of Quota. Owng to a delay in the second ex- emption district legal advisors report- ing for duty this morning the work in this district was decidedly rushed to- day, scores of men thronging the cor- ridor in City hall seeking the desired information. In the first district quar- ters in the police court room there was also a large number of men who appeared to file their questionnaries. i None of these blanks will be sent out tomorrow and neither of the boards will open their offices to recelve the completed questionnaries. Although no intimation has been i iven as to when the final 15 per cent of the first draft will be called away. Secretary Stephen Robb of the second district has been notifid that the quo- ta from hs district will be 38. This number will be selected from a:list of 42, all of whom are listed under 1,100. THE COLD WAVE. ‘Washington, Dec. 24—The cold wave which has caused a drop in tem- perature of 40 to 50 degrees in the Dakotas in the past 24 hours is sweeping eastward, the weather bu- reau announced today, and is expected to reach the Atlantic coast by Tues- day night. — ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES COOLEY & TROUP, ELEOTRICAL CONTRACTONS 6 Main Street. Make Your Gifts Be Ui Gifts. It is at this store you find the . usefnl Articles that ~bhelp con your home are the most useful! without doubt. ~ For ¢hf reason we, suggest you from the following: Carpets Draperies Lace Curtains Rugs- Hassocks | Carpet Sweepers ‘There would not be so much suffering in this world if people only knew where to turn for help. Chronic, Nervous and/ Spe- clal Diseases are more trying, are harder to endure, because they are with you from week to week, from month to month, often from year to year. You are not sick enough to go to bed, yet you are not well enough to enjoy life and do justice to your work. And the firmer your trouble takes hold of you, the more it saps your vitality and crushes your ambition. ‘To treat such troubles suc- cessfully requires the long, painstaking studies of & Spe« cialist who has made treatment ‘and cure his ' worle. -+ o Dr. Hyde, :determined to investigate ways and to: help ‘the victims of. Ni ous and Chronic Troub! has ‘devoted ‘his professional !ife to their speedy and thor-.". ough alleviation. By consulting him you will therefore get the benefit of his experience and mature judgmént. His thorough * equipment enables him to give you, every kind of treat- ment your case might re- i’ quire. If there Is help for you, Dr. Hyde is the man to help you. i The Hartford Medical Sgeclah t DR. CLINTON J. HYD 878 ASYLUM ST., HARTFORD, CONN. ® to 12, 1:30 to 5, Tt