New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1918, Page 1

——e— { HERALD BEST OF ALL 1 I LO(,AL NEW QPAPERS B I'TAIN HER CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1918. —TEN PAGES. PRICE THREE NEWENGLAND R, R. | MAYOR SEES STRIKE SERVICE NORMAL; | ON SA[ARY RAISES NMEKS ELEAREniThmws Up His Hands at Deci- I sions of Revision Committee 'ADJOURNMENT AT 12:30 But No Snowlall Fails to Aliect Seriously This Section of Country or Halt Traific COAL FLEET TIED UP BY ICE OFF VINEYARD HAVEN With Number of Increases Voted Remunerations Cut—Firemen’s Pay Raised Fifty Cents a Day and Po- licemen Ten Per Cent. The session of the committee last mnight something akin to an and a new »on-stop record was hung salary revision developed into 5 endurance run, Six Tugs 15 Barges, Many Fucl Laden, Forced to Anchor and M3 |up for the meeting, which convened usual at 8 but did adjourn until 12:30 o'clock this morning. And it adjourned then only to use a sporting page the members were ‘all-in, groggy and holding on waiting for the bell.” Despite oft repeated from A. committee Not Be Released Fop Several Days | ? o’clock, o not. —Steamers Used For First Timo TFPor Transportation of Parcel Post, | becaus phr yiected By Embargocs. phrase, Boston led railroad “raflic de points 29.—While the snow and last night had officials to expect serious reports from various ew England indicated to- trains were being operated almost normal schedule. some delay on divisions fall was heaviest but w was dry, tracks were kept Jan, protests rday Mayor George Quigle the g too hastily and oy, who declared that was procecdi without giving due thought and consideration to the various offices secking creases, many salaries were increased though none were decreased. At times the meeting waxed warm the movement of freight | cyon the adjournment until without _interruption, al- | 1200 e 210N 1 trains from the west were late. \ ;. oinq and reconsider the salaries of lle, Me., reported 4 Dbelow |1y the fomale clerks and stenograph- eutaesn i ietaity ers, some of which had already been , when the mayor threw up his hands and wildly proclaimed that if the ures suggested were allowed to stand “we’ll have the clerks and stenog hall.” Due to the scarcity of news print paper the Herald will not essay to relate all that transpired last night's endurance test, but empt to give a comprehensive ime. Touching on the more s points, one of which was Councilman Frank T. refuse to abide by dations of the committeo and to Te- open the question and attack phases at the council mecting Tow night. Increases Recommended. Following is a list of all justments which were ofiicially mendec Firemen, cents per day. Chairman A. E iner: sed from § 50 to $350. Clerk John J. Keough, petition for increase of from $350 to $450 was re- fused. Policemen voted increase of 10 per cent. in pay. Clerk of police board, Joseph Mc- Grail, secking increaso of from $2 to $300 denied petition. Chairman August board of eSS0 crease of from $1,600 to nied. Assessors on now he fce Floes Off Vineyard Haven eyard Haven, Jan. 29.—Vin. Sou uzzards Bay and Nantucket Sound were choked with ice tods and shipping was at a standstill. Six tugs with 15 barges, many of them “aden with coal for Boston, were an- chored in the ice here with no pros- of being able to move for sev- phers in City wiil New York in York, Jan. W s found its coal shortage as menac- the snow and storm of | impeding the movement of and nullifying the savings the partial shutdown of in- 1el administr: Gloom. ow York to- ever, vesterday tomor- er recom- Ih the of more snow officials were frankly pessimi tic over the outlook for relief. ilroad passenger service seriously interrupted. Tr ~» the west were hours behind time early today and many trains were abandoned. ce of forecasts voted fint increases of 50 ot Magnell, fire board, o ins from chedule outgoing is Parcel Post Service ndicapped. Washington, Jan. 29.—Freight em- and weather dela shipments have thrown a heavy new burden on the mail service by adding thousands of tons to the parcel post. second istant po: er 1 said today that steam- were being used for the first time in carrying parcel post in an effort to forestall congestion and that various changes in practice have been made to spee ervice. bargoes Burkhardt petition for $2,000 of de- and in- James J. Watson Aaron Danielson, petitions for crease from $750 to $1200 denied. City Electrician George Cooley ed from $1600 to $1800. Assistant City Electrician Burton T Sage, petition for increase from $1200 to $1380 denied. Cha of public works voted increase from $200 to $300. City Engineer W. from $3500 to $4000. nt City FEngineer Edward J. rthy, increased from $1600 to %‘\(Hi_ Harry of public to $1400. Joseph Scheidel, superintendent of d from $1400 to $1500, in- d up the s to connections and conditions, deliveries now are 12 to 2¢ hours late between York and Chicago and from 24 hours to the Pacific coast. De- lays to south bound shipments are les and due more to shortage of c which have been commandeered for military use, than to ice and snow. Owing missed to 48 “THEY TOOK THE SIGN DOWN | Storekeepers Fmmett. clerk of board increased from § Southport Displayed Y Michael P, of sew $1500. Rodman Clarence Lamphere, creased from $480 to $600. Mrs. James Kitson, nurse in health department, increased from $900 to $1000. John A. Dolan. department, $1000. Thomas Crowley, departm inc $900. Dr. Charles Witte, meat at slaughter house, petition for crease from $1200 to $1400 denied. poster Considered Offensive by Fed- : Poster Considered Offensivo by I'c increased from $1400 to eral Agentg Who Act Quickly, Southport, Jan. 29.—Frank and John Wood, brothers, who displayed in their store vesterday signs which residents regarded a: voring of dis- loyalty, were visited by Federal Agent Cha H. Lane today and warned t the signs must be removed and must not appear again. A severe pen- alty was liable to follow their re-ap- pearance, the brothers were told. The action of the Wood brothers stirred the townspeople greatly, and vhile threa gainst them and their were made no violence was at- teropted. The signs read: his store is prevented from serv- the public by the United States government as follows: “Monday, all day; Tues Thursday and Frida inspector in health rleg increased from $900 inspector in health ed from $780 - of asked, at present fi tee took no furthe Those present at sion were Chairman Albert I staedt, William J. Lenehan, F. Donough, Gordon J. Ely. C O. F. Falk, Daniel J. Sulliv ley P. Carter, Jacob Kraw Dehm and Fred Beloin. Others, members of the committee, present during the evening were Mayor G. A. Quigley, Ciity Comptroll M. L. Curtis, Corporation Counsel . 2. Cooper, William Shea, Attorney David Dunn, Albert Volz, J. Gustave Carlson, Anton Steiner and MM Camp. Corporation Counsel asked several questions relative changing the method of the board’s financial transactions § action last last nigh , Wednes- after 7 Three hundred years of Drogress. in 1618 he who would not work could not eat. In 1918 he who wants to work must not BERLIN STRIKE FAILS Efforts to Organize Industrial e- volt in German Capital Prove Fruit- Cooper less—I caflets Distributed in City, tha Amsterdam, Jan. —A big general | o Berlin announced for Mon- | its employes can be place ts distributed at the end | salary list and said if the c did not materialize, ac-| fit this can be done. Comptrollc wdvices from the German | L. Curtis asked permission to gitation had only | hut interrupted M though the leaflets to a point of house to house in | i cording to was b 1rose ord (Continued On Sccond Pa in- | nied by a vote to a strike and lose all | in- | rman E. N. Humphrey of board | H. Hall coted in- 200 | ‘O’Brien, superintendent | j to | to inspector in- | ept to vote to maintain a num- | alaries, where no increase was | ures, the commit- night. not who were 135 was | to | water | 1 Munition Plant at Marquette Blown Up With $100,000 Loss Marquette, Mich., Jan. 29.—The alcohol plant and primary building of the Pioneer company and the Cleveland Cliffs Iron company of Cleveland, 0., were destroyed early today by a series of ex- plosions followed by a fire which threatened the entire plant, covering an area of several blocks. The first blast rocked the city to its foundation. The cause of the ex- plosion is not known. The police expressed the opinion that the ex- plosion was of incendi- ary origi The prop- erty loss was estimated at $100,000. At 10 o'clock company officials said there was no loss of life. This probably was due to the fact that most of the em- ployes in the alcohol re- fining plant were in the boiler room eating lunch. RED GUARD SEIZES | Mayor Quigley to the committee which | mon | aeliberations in secret. | r b3 FINNISH CAPITAL Salety of Government of Occupied Territory Matter of Doubt McDonough to | certain recommen- | certain | 'PEACE SITUATION OBSCURE alary ad- | Associated Press Correspondent S: | received by the board had been | cepted Negotiations With Germany Will Bo | Resumed — Semi - Offici Agency Denics Statement. Copenhagen, Guard has won Helsingfors, capital of Stockholm dispatch to the National Tidende reports. It is not known whether the Finnish government offi- cials escaped from the aries. Jan. 29.—The complete control Finland, of a revolution- Will Resume Negotiations. Petrograd. Jan ciated Press.)—Leon Trotz Bolshevik foreign minister, Kameneff, left Petrograd today for Brest-Litovsk to resume the peace negotiations with the Central Powers | The congress of the Councils of Work- men’s and Soldiers’ Delegates, while deploring the imperialistic tenor of the German peace terms, approved all the actions of the Russian delegation and charged the government to con- tinue the negotiations. The congress adopted this tion, after the minority had | vainly to persuade the adoption of | policy flatly against a se te peace. | During the debate Trotzky declared | | he could not give a guarantee that he would not sign a separate peace, say 29 the and M. resolu- sought | To call a separate peace a dis- grace is blasphemy in the sight blood-covered Burope.” Previous Dispatch Denied. 29.—The report that M. Trotzky and M. Kameneff are on the way back to Brest-Litovsk is de: | nied by the semi-official news agency. A report sent out today by the agency M. Kameneff is going | Stockholm, London and Par | object of informing the allied govern- ment concerning the progress of peace pourparlers. i in London, Jan. ¢ the news to Austrian People Desire Peace. Petrograd, Jan. 26.—M. Joffe the Russian peace commission | Brest-Litovsk has sent a request | Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, that he be given per- mission to go to Vienna to confer with representatives of the Austrian peo- ple regarding peace. In a telegram to the Smolyni Instit M. Joffc said his action was prompted by general helief that the Austrian people were most anxious for peace regardless the views of their government. Petrograd newspa emph e > | importance of disorders in Vienna ! Cracow, and claim to have inform tion that the L is spre |} rout Hur \ust Nith tre nd ' ding pa- Austria One ! Red | gtanqard to | o the inv (By the Asso- | cost, | February, al | I | 600 requested to finish the structure. | with the | | and the superintendent told me when | | 1 asked to see them (that is the hids) | 1ecollection of having | plete it, -1 $6,000 of | CURTIS RETURNS T0 ATTACK ON QUIGLEY Otfers Further Evidence Regard- ing Waste in Building Barn EXPOSES PRODIGALITY Believes Economy Could Have Been | Effected By Different Method of Awarding Contract—Iicalih Board Knew of Heavy Cost. Further charges of extravagance in the construction of the barn at the Town Home were made public today by Alderman O. F. Curtis of the third ward in which he seeks to show | how, by practical economy, the city could have prevented a waste of mon Alderman Curtis was appointed by investigated his charges in council but he refused the committee the com- to serve conducted its Soon after the | >port of the committee was submitted | to and the report was | not entirely favorable to the Quigley | administration—Mr. Curtis promised | the public that he would produce further evidence to substantiate his | charges. His complete statement, day, follows: To the Public: Pursuant to promise we lic a further contribution of the his- | tory of the Town Home Dairy barn. My former statement of its cessive t and disregard of the customary and prescribed methods of financing used by the board has been verifie® the admissions of the Charity Com- missioners and the report of the so- alled Investigation committee which did not, and was not expected to in- vestigate very far (by me at least) who also did state that $2,000 might have been saved if one of the bids ac- contract entered into. the common counci) that several thousand dollars had been wasted in this barn transaction | nd that T would prove it. This as- sertion was made after it appeared to me that the mayor and his backers in the council for some reason desired to side track any further publicity in the matter. | The appointed committee igated in secret (if thev ating), and declined ported by their chairman to or act on the lines that would get re- sults if there were any to get. If further probing would have developed | anything may be judged fram what follows: The definition becau; issued to- malke pub- and 1 stated a in f also in- did any | as re- accept of waste by dictionary is as follow: expend thoughtlessly, unnecessarily, without return, cause to be through neglect or lnnlrn\ndenv(‘, { make prodigal or extravagant use of, :pend to no purpose, squander as to waste time, property or resources. | A dairy barn was authorized to be built at an expense of $6,000, by the | common council and city mecting in | March and April, 1916. After secur- ing this appropriation the Charity | board changed its min as to what it | wanted and had plans drawn for a| differently construected, larger ond | more expensive building, without sccuring the proper authority to dg | 0. Said hoard commenced work the structure in the fall of thereby definitely committing or forc- ing the city to finish it at whatever completing the excavation and | foundations in January, 1917 In | 1917, they appeared before of finance and taxation 00 for 1917 to com- specting the total cost, they to be from $8,000 to $10,- t the end of the fiscal year, March 1917, the unexpended bal- ance of the 1916 appropriation of (some $3,300) reverted back into the city treasury so that for 1917 the board would have the $5 on 1916, | the hoard sking fou c now 000. (See board report and city docu- ments.) From statements from re- liable builders and the city engineers | 1 am informed that bids were ob- | tained in March for the labor and materials for the completion of the | barn, which hids were turned over | to the board. This was before any advance in labor or material cost in 1917 of any s But the chairman did not have them or any received them they | over These that they Since then I was informed that had been received and turnecd stigating committee. would be of interest if seen. On March 30, 1917, immediate after the approval of the 1917 e timates by the common council the board advertised in the local paper: bids for the wood or carpenter painting ifications, tiied checks to The hoard h in answer, four requ check from 270, £6.100 for compa five bids to of which had Their prices ,880, in round 00 $8,200 and 1y show the tigures and WIATHER h—Forecn ul vicini Wednesday., Har for New faix ton Continued cold. tain and I O | had beer | no Jast | between the 1w | Miss FLEET SWEPT AWAY BY CRUSH OF ICE Freight Paokets at Paducah, Ky.,i Wrenched From Moermgs | SOME SEEN STANDING ONEND m Crics for Help Reach Lars of Me-| past— | tropolis, 1L, i | | Craft Drifi Opening of Monongahela River Wel- comed in Pittsburgh. Paducah, Ky., Jan. ice gorges in the rivers, congesting here the winter fleet of pa | # craft from their moorings at up-river | points and in the PPaducah harbor and g carried it down the Ohio. Appeals |, for help from persons marooned on | the ice-bound craf: plainly were 29, Tennes Descending co and Ohiu | today, swept ! kets and other i heard as they were carried past this| city. 4 A report from Metropolis, 11, sail several packets were seen standing oh end in the ice as the floe passed by. The number of hoats caught in the torrent has not been determined. It was said they probably would reach more than a dozen. An early el mate of the damage, if all were lost placed it at more than 0,000. [ iZagle line steamboats, St. Louis | 5. several Tennessee and smaller craft were V- here when the gorge broke. The | rocked and swayed with the of the ice. Additional cables hastily were run to short, but failed to hold them as the pressure of the ice became greater and one by one | they werc torn from their moorings | and swept down the ricer Sqme of the helpless fleet are ex- pectdd to reach Cairo, Il late to- ! night. | packe other bor bos impact river in th o ri W 1 fic Pittsburgh Sces Relief Pittsburgh, Jan reached the weather bur day that the Monongahela Tising rapidly from i north, and the heavy ice was moving | ;. out. It was pected the would | pny reach the Pittshurgh night and precaution a damage raft was being taken | The ice ave s about 18 inches. iz While there was possibility of con- |, siderable anmage, the news was heard | hopefully in Pittsburgh. since the Monogahela has been closed by the severe weather for more than a month and large quantities of coal, badly needed the in this district, have tied Tt was estimated this morni that full 100,000 men will be able to resume th tomary cmployment s0on river is epen GERMAN ARTILLERY in I 29, e | sc Reports 1 here to- river was W. Va fo c pools cvery to river ¢ ce near to- | ainst | oo if at & by been mills up ca an dir cus- s as the us pre limiting tures. “Control of commodities neces: the preservation of foodstuffs in order to prevent great losses of military sac- | duc the |3 on points | of | dis vented. “Control rod th ry fic. In heatlc our food m's bill od ction W M ile i ate th iblic eati various cent of they wer n they m It tack the ffs and of n ng hd me tr place —on not turth bution of e served t for addition and copsumption ng e th reduced appears v manufacturer less essential to meatless day ng the percentage of wheat in | wilson, steps virtually administration, proposed eating place and in them. Hoover Dl estimates, from o would to non-e th o the upon and that we should unnece; foodstuffs, B b 1u the nicasures 15 of foodstuffs with a view in to production and the increasing and re- taken already by Mr. Ander- licensing the limiting of In this con- id: nece of ally ary food in consume 12 to foodstuffs :vnd out of all solve the aces, they total not prol - me that ential we should use of food- attack the Ty these yurden uries poor. means where it and greed This implies of control in wa be- in ACTIVE IN ARRAS DISAFECTION FEARED emy Patrol Dri Scouts Disappear—Ttalians Launch Violent Attack, London, the Ge - Monc front. Toc announces man pearance Jan na v-le-Pr v's war office the driving off party and Notahlc rtillery is ux, on activity reported the Ar report of a the patrol northes by also Ger- raiding of a h sont disap- which of British it to the o st Vpres. ] Ru alty | 10 Ttalians | riv | | me (British he Berlin, per press.)— launched a violent attack yesterday on the northern front between Asi =0 and the Brenta river, siys the ficial statement this evenin Jan. wireless ad issued ISt ma 29.—The regarding patrol L oflicial op Paris, Jan ment tonight Macedonia records west of Lake Doi Serbian troop carried out a successful surprisc at- tack a t Bulgarian positions Dobrodopolye. French aviators bom- barded establishments in tht | valley and Seres. state- itions in encounters we du enemy m of the rdar near Th ITALIAN TOWNS BOMBED . Twenty-one Tons of Explosive PDropped by German Airplancs— Large Fires Observed by \irmen, Jan. via Tondon G reri tons of 1dron Se n dropped 21 urday on ( Mestre, office t bombs telfranco hern lLarge seen st Treviso Italy, the the sta a distance and e temen in reports. adds, were = fires, from The TItalian war office announced Sunday that the enemy the preceding nights had carried out raids and river reviso Mestre, women, on de Piave and ix 3renta s % ospecially nd Among three children, in the victims were SAVING CONVENTION. Mz and FTOoOoD Roston tanra ployes were 1y at the tration wnd cm- duty ad- on tels Kitche res n he: Trom their the food meeting nry B. Endi- lminist o and rold, chairman of nmittec on food con- necessity of of many ways done. ’ relensed to attend iowd i H Haras woman’s ur the sery co zed the told be tion ving whi and could in h ist Men From East Not Allowed to Return. Ge The | stat gut | ® ates | man because secondly, them ments.” Seaman Baker Carter ing here Washi rmany issian tru the them made m 12 re nt wal ment: Be rmy an mil re ring m ese soldie ruiting ar those terms which ce on, Home Ja violating the y eastern to the o onnuer, AMONG GERMAN TROBPS on Furlougk | na29. terms of the withdrawing front and western troops transfer- battlelines manufac- | critically | | Great of pub- | ta ' rea- consumption | non-essentiz| | Charges that | The United States w Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, chief f{f of the American army. Arth | Hugh ier, secretary of the Ames can embassy at Paris, attends as diplomatic officer to report the prd ceedings but not to participate othe: wise. | The other participants Britain, Major representd by are: Premier Lloyd Geory Gen. Sir Henry Hughd ib-chief of the British ge: eral staff; for Ttaly, Premier Orland Baron Sonnino, the foreign minist ind Gen. Cadorna: for France, St phen Pichon, the foreign ministe | Gen. TFerdinana Foch, chief of s of the ministry of war and Ge Maximo Weygand ‘ANTl-AIR RAFT GUNS BRING RAIDER DOW] and Fifteen German Machines Attemy Attack On London But Only Four RReach City. London, 29. airpl ed the announc !ers en ctrated Jan of London, About 1 h four part ast night only a f in the second far as the f thc raiding down, falling in fi of 10,000 feet. All three were burned to death. An i cngagement was fought by pilot with another raider ov All the British pilots return whic or five the fi it is offi of the attac took Lids od. ed two rai k peif city e o broug 'IH hei t i cisive British safely Forty seven persons were killed ai 169 injured in last night's air raij is announced officially. l THIRD EXECUTION FOR SAME MURDE Frank Durso of New York Sentencd to Hang For Slaying West Haven Tailor. 9.—Frank Du | | | New Haven, Jan. today by the war depart- | of New York, convicted by a jury department c rs stern (ront. by ma in n, of peovided not to be withdrz astern general staff announce; authorities t o stations made this the that the of Ger- are evadin Russian tru German troops wn from the the that front for use on the western the wweace troops on I being ailowed to negotiations. Ger re Russian front ar 0 home on furlough. then transferred to and sent to the “The troops are taken in this way for two reasons—first, it deceives the Russian, because the eastern have been so infiuenced by the Rus sian revolutionary propaganda the German military chiefs have de- A | cided to separate them and unaffected and troop: that scatter western regi- LOST O\TPBORR D. Bridgeport, Seaman Drowned Off T. Penobscot, Navy Reports. Washington, has partment Jan. William F. 29.—The been informed Roller, navy that national al volunteers, of 831 Wood avenue, Bridgeport, from the U WiILL Washingt will aring Conn., S. S. R he betore the senate military committee decided | today recalled th Penobscot Jan. 12 BAKER. CALL Jan Secretary rurther | week, tor u 1e end of this VETERAN TREASURER DEAD. M. Concord, 12 year today Mas or N. a He ) who retired 18 29.—Solon in 1913 after ser tate treasurer died was born at lL.eomin: Jan. United | | tence. was lost overboard | | day | aates. Goldstein, wa. enten: today to i Goldstein W Jast November. Three other men also have be convicted of the crime. Two of then Carmine Pisonello and Carmine zillo, are under sentence of deat’ They appeared at Durso’s trial as wil nesses against him. The third ma Luigi Lanzllo, is serving a life se The motive for the crime wi robbery. The shooting occurred whe Goldstein called for help as his sailants surrounded him. MASONIC TEMPLE SITE Property of Dr. of killing Morris of West Haven, superior court on June 7 the street weel | tailor in the hanged hot in Martin on Wes Main Street Purchased As Locatio] for New Building. t was made today tha the Masonic Temple Corporation ha purchased the Dr. J. 1. Martin proj erty on West Main street as a site fd the Masonic Temple, to be constructe in the near future. The property adjacent to the electric light buildin and has a frontage of 67 feet and { depth of rly 210 feet Announceme nea GERMANS MUST REGISTER. Chief W. J. Rawlings ha ive from the department of justice, tk planks to be used by local (erma aliens who will commence next Mon o register police off The time ¢ r registra is February and from until 8 p. m. daily om tho All local German aliens frox 14 years upward will be required t| file thelr names with the polic Cards announcing the registratio have been placed by the police dd partment in conspicuous places aboi the city and at the various factor] tes rec ion a. m.