New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1918, Page 3

Boston Store! ' An Attractive Showing of Silk and Heatherbloom PETTICOATS Direct from the Manufac- turer, in Black ,Solid Colors, and Changeable Combina- tions. Ranging « in Price from $1.75 to $5.00. BLANKETS and COMFORTABLES Should be of interest now that Zero Weather has ar- rived. Fine, Smrm Beacon | Blankets, extra heavy, $3.25 and $4.00. Army and Navy Single Blankets, extra heavy $3.00 and $4.00. Fine California Wool Blankets, from $5.00 to $10. Comfortables $1.75 to $3.00 il PULLAR > o for . Infants end Invalids HORLICK'S MALTED MILK)| Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form For infants, invalidsandgrowing children. Pure nutrition, upbuilding the whole body. Invigorates nursing mothers and the aged. More nutritious than tea, coffee, etc. Instantly prepared. Requires no cooking. Substitates Cost YOU Same Price A little girl COMES out of dark LIKE flash the a light ning ON a peaceful night. TO cheer the heart, TO sooth the soul, TO stir the mind, TO emphasize THAT no hands but God’s SHALL direct Men. Free SO follow her closely, FOR she brings a mes- | sage OF sublime Love. Mary Pickford IN “The Little American” AT THE LYCEUM THURS. FRI, SAT. { br | and | lea the rescue work when the fighters | a1 Persons Thonght to Have Started It Are Under Arrest rfoll, Va., Jan. 2.—Nearly two blocks in the heart of Norfolk’s busi- ness district, including the Monticello Hotel were destroyed yesterday. Three men were killed and a score more in- jured in fires which both the police and naval authorities believe were incendiary. The fire had been checked last night, but still was burning fiercely in the ruins. The loss was roughly estimat- ed at more than $2,000,000. Camp Stuart, on the outskirts of Newport News, where 15,000 soldiers are stationed, was reported threatened by a fire raging All available fire fighting ¢ that was sent to the scene. Three distinct explosions here in as many buildings, one after the fire vir- tually had been got under control, led to the general belief that enemy agents were at work. Mayor Mayo practical- ly placed the city under martial law by turning the situation over to naval officers, and some 2,500 marines and bluejackets from nearby naval sta- tions isted the 'police and Home Guards in majntaining order and pre- venting looting. Naval patrols rounded up sus- pected persons throughout the after- noon, and five men were arrested as suspects. Two of these, Hugo Schmidt and H. K. Lessing, said to be G mans, were turned over to depart- ! ment of justice agent: Then there were reports that two Germans had been shot by sailors, but neither the police nor the naval authorities would confirm them. The fire started before dawn in the old Granby theater in Granby street, and gained headway rapidly, as the a series of explosions and | firemen were grealty handicapped by frozen fire hydrants, low water pressure, and near-zero temperature. It quickly spread to the Monticello hotel and other buildings in the block. It was got under control late in the day, but started anew early last night, leaped across Granby street, and leveled half of the block there before being checked. Falling floors and walls took toll of firemen and naval guards. One fire- man, Charles McCoy, was killed and seven others were hurt in the col- lapse of an upper floor of the Monti- cello hotel in the day, and last night two firemen and several sailors were caught by a falling wall of the Lenox building. Three were taken out badly hurt, but the others were left in the debri Firemen of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk with organized sailor fire fought heroically amid ice blinding smoke, and bluejackets des, were trapped. Several of the firemen caught in the hotel were taken out alive through the daring of a score of sailors. Reports as to the number of ex- plosions varied. It was first said that the fire in the Granby theater had followed an explosion, but Fire Chief McLaughlin and naval investigators announced last night that this was not the case. They said, however, that there had been three separate and distinct explosions. The first was in a cloak and hat shop near the Monticello. The second was on the sixth floor of that hotel after the first fire was practically under con- trol, and the third in the Lenox build- ing, which later was destroyed. Guests from the Monticello, who were forced to flee in the biting cold of the dawn after they had watched the theater burn, were taken care of in nearby homes and hotels. As building after building went down, including an apartment house, scores were made homeless, and the Na- tional Guard armory in City hall ave- nue was thrown open to them. There during the late day Red Cross workers and other volunteers looked after the refugees, and also supplied coffee and sandwiches for the naval patrols and firemen who were forced to seek rest from their | exhausting work agalnst the flames. When the firemen responded to the \larm for the theater fire they found hydrants in the vicinity frozen. IMires had to be built to thaw them out. Meantime the firemen looked on helpless while the big theater build- ing burned. When water finally ran, the pr ure was so low that streams would not reach to the upper stories of the building, and the fire soon w beyond control, Portsmouth, across the Elizabeth River, was called on for aid, and the fire was checked until falling sparks fired the Monticello, where many of the guests had gone back to bed in the belief that the fire was con- trolled. They were soon forced to turn out again. Fhe combined departments ap- parently were making good headway inst the flames when the explosion occurred in the cloak shop and an- other blaze started. Suffolk then was asked for aid and rushed appar- us to the city by train. Meantime | the naval authorities at the Navy Yard and naval base offered aid and fire brigades were soon on the scene. When the second explosion oc- curred, this time in the Monticello, Mayor Mayo put the naval authori- ties in charge. They placed patrols throughout the business district, threw a cordon of Marines and Bluejackets around the fire district and began picking up persons unable to count for themselves. Department of Justice agents with the city detective force in ing to solve the mystery of ti plosion. Three of the men arrested were put in the City jail, and Fed- eral agents took charge of the two others, Schmidt and Lessing. TLess- | ing, officers said first represented him | self as Department Justice ticial Fire of of- tugs from the Navy Yard carly NORFOLK, VA, HAS | — §2,000,000 FIRE city i NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 191& Livery Stable Bl oW Oie Miss Kag - - in the day took up positions on water front three blocks away, assisted the fire engine tons of water into the burning build- ing, but the block in Granby street from City Hall avenue to Tazewell street, virtually was destroyed, only two buildings, the Dixon and the com- mercial structures, both new, esca ing destruction. They were badly ed. the and dar the lors cello started afresh, and despite heroic work of the firemen and the Lenox, Carpenter and Tazwell buildings, six-story structures across the street, were wrecked, For a time the Naval Y. M. C. A. was threatencd but the wide lane separating the burning buildings enabled the fire- men to ings near hy. Two fires early today, one the Elizabeth river at Portsmouth and the other across the bay near Camp Stuart, broke out while the ruins of the two blocks destroyed here were smoking, but neither resulted in extensive damage. Three small dwell- ings were destroyed in each case. The fires were thought to have accidental. REACH AGREEMENT. Stockholm, 2.—The Dagblatt Swedish for Jan. Svens! ascribes to the eign office information that negotia- the United States been concluded satisfactorily. tions with have It says that an agreement has been reached 11,000 rviefly coffee, petroleum will arrive in Sweden middle of Rebruary. under which tons of necessi- ties and drugs, L the about That Jazz Dance lues - Pox-trot , and pumped | Just at dusk the fire in the Monti- | it from ! it and other large build- | across | still | Old Mr. Jazz himself has been out-jazzed! The trick has been turned by the newest note in novelty, the last word in wizardry, the big, sweeping sensation of the hour — the most delirions dance music of the day. The Snaky Blues Fuzzy Wozy - - - Fox-trot %Azus = One-step lqllincCh %Azuo A Bunch of Blues - F - - Fox-trot Moonlight Blues ©ld Town Pump - Fox-trot ) A2417 Sweet Child - - One-step § Foc™ 10-inch 75¢ ' CITY ITEMS Garston and friends hel wre visiting Falls, N. Y. neis T. Markham returned to Fort after a short furlough home this city. 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Jan. 2. this place during the r week, owing —The will mainder to the severe Thermometers registered 18 | ees below zero carly this morn- | and at onc place outside the vil- | a temperature of 20 degrees be- | low was Teported, making the morn- ig the coldest of the week pubic remain of the of cold. de NAMED AS HEAD. Jan, 2 Gugliegmo | who has been appointed head | Italian permanent mission in | made the following today addressing Italo-American relations “The Italian mission to the States again realized during ney the great friendship and Rome, Marconi the re in the scnate Unitec its jour- sympa- reat ates is ready | wince the United METEOR IN TE Chattanooga, Jan. explosion shook this day. The sky w NESSEL. 2.—A city terrific early to- lighted for several by loud repart which shook buildings. A meteor thought to have caused the pheno- mena. RE-CONSIDER Londen, Jan. 2 trong protests the British will reconsider its proposal over the British museum build- PROPOSAL, In consequence of war cabi- takc to | ing for the use of the air board. AUNT DELIA’S BREAD is made fn New Britain and sold in New n to more than a thousand families daily. There's a reason. | For Thursday large assortment of plain amd Fancy Cakes, Coffee Cakes, 3 Boston Brown Bread and Baked Beans (for Saturday); alsold Whipped Cream Cakes, Charlotte Russes, Mocha Layer Cakes, Old- Fashioned Raised Loaf Cakes, high-grade Pound and TFruit Cakes, Fresh Squash Pies, etc. Hoffmann’s Bakery 62 West Main St. Two Stores 95 Arch S RENIER, PICKHARDT & DUNN 127 Main St. Opp. Arch. Phone-2 ANNUAL JANUARY SALE OF LINGERIE Thousands of garments, perfect in every tiny finishing detail. The fastidious woman will appreciate the beauty of the laces and embroideries, with which even the in- expensive garments are trimmed. Now is the time to replenish your wardrobe for the coming year. CORSET COVERS AT 25¢c—Omne lot of Corset Covers, lace or hamburg trimmed. Regular value 3¢ CORSET COVERS AT 39c—~Regniar vah Many other styles at 50c, 75¢ and 1.00. ENVELOPE AND STRAIGHT CHEMISE lot worth 69c.—At 79c, one lot worth $1.00 Equally good values from $1.00 to $3.25. LONG PETTICOATS—One lot at 50c, with wide [Ham- burg ruffle. One lot at 79¢c, regular price $1.00. Special values offered at $1.00 and up to $5.75. GOWNS AT 58c, 75¢c, $1.00 and up to $6.50. DRAWERS AT 29c, 39, 50c, 75c, $1.00 COMBINATIONS irom 75¢c to $3.25. $1.50. and