New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1918, Page 14

F Rockers socks 1g used in these uf IN under € prices start at KNITTING Th that FRIDAY, AUGUST bite of the war and all its dreariness. to k&‘(‘pfll'c home hright and cheery. Sof the home, do not fail to insure the proper aimosphere to keep every in-this store will he a source of constant Sahfl_fachon and pleasure, hen your boy comes home, let it be to a beautiful one, ctive Bedroom Furniture Odd Chiffoniers f at Attractive Prices HIS is the kind of bedroom furniture that makes your look ERE is a bedroom suite in genuine mahogany with an attractive four poster bed, all four pieces being in the popular Colonial period style. ~ You. must really see furniture of this type to fully appreciate its beauty. Living Room Furniture at Reasonable Prices A CHIFFONTER like this in birdseye maple a dis- tinct addition to any bedroom. We showing in oak, and mahogany home cheery and cosy, and every detail of each piece is perfectly finished utmost care by the best ture craftsmen in 1ts con- % with the also have a wonderful ceptionally furni e ; as well. They are perfectly beautifully finished. om $21.50 up, America. made and Priced Dressing Tables s SR R J | a single more SE suites are uphol- stered in tapestry velour, silk damask and other beautiful covering Many have loose seat cushions, all have the characteristic comfort found only in the furniture For suites as illustrated above prices start at $130.00. Save Money o Dining Room Furniture Now find over room fur - comfort, heanty durability cannot equalled anywhere in the city at prices. Davenports, chairs and rockers are included el H ERE you will fie stu living one turniture than table any niture, that fc and be prized by a woman an other, it's a dressing our y 4 Buy her one at our August finest T the fine cov- Sale! in a wide range of designs hol- well their ke Genuine Brass Beds At This Price are Bargains them The un- are catre and the hardly enter would expect this 1 Yu‘ since sunites wrass beds to either buffet come D!"U\'(. this sale yon will opportunity to B ITESE l comple has of beds have an with a sale the government saving on dining roon Owing to in city of good fur will to dining fur we six chairs or ordered the discontinuance the They may o server. table and the s ) o il vou can buy only pieces he manufacture of hrass that d had in all varietics of finish, in at be able you ne be Iowever, we arc placin room ure we not cure more 100 beds on sale as low as the hest period designs for this week prices from $89.00 up. ture at prices can offer right now. prices from $18.50 up. ; | : is beau- | companies medying | here wit be | adjustment You your meet ¢ the shipping board's commiission rence S s SOCK A TEDIED with the r notice few ran NEW LONDON MAN DIES UNDER AUTO AT OLD LYME. —Louls J. Per- killed when | thevefc at | alike. or s hing | stretched old Aug, 2 London yesterday Lyme New farm division has following DISPUTE ENDS, vorking | \f Cireat LAKE SHIPPINC kins of was Pi | antamahile h the the was driving 1l bralk Jlored trick sand th in chapter tewards | 5jong. the and turned ny lake | ¥y rday b ca e th i« necl en and hi put on withou il ek L fractured. A eompanion escap. v inz the 1 under the label inflexil i representatives of the unions and the severe bruises. cuff ) | fulnes Vcross T | it is said | other | added to | building of | in | medical | 11 | tr near % TEAGHING GRIPPLES T0 BECOME USEFUL [ Red Cross Opens Four S¢ New York Aug 1lors ¢ in the given eve ty 1dit to war pens professi wrance i nn nd new that hand- nrround a, ms, legs, or leary 2des o1 orde of ume their place in civil life without the s that ordir of a fily man deprived hearing Onel of sight the that h 2 result most interesting insti- s been established here the Red nucle of to or ions Crippled 3111 Fourtt schools, the are, it is said, 8t. Lou 1nad is abled Men here four at rers Le zanized Chicago. re anc other places now way teaching cripples the artificial lim! manufacture of linotype and mono- drafting "hese teaching type and four operating .mechanical oxy-acetylene welding local schools have a for 300 men recent passage by 1ith-Sear city The congress of providing an 000,000 fo be used the federal board | education contemplated the ion of now bill. in the discretion of of vocations elahors being city. it be additional parts of the studies and trade the list. The thorizes the commandeering of vate and public institutions for re-education of crippled soldiers sailors and, where necessary, new schools. Four trades were selected ew York school the fields that were not overcrowded soldier or sailor, for instance, in- i of having to pay $150 to $200 an artificial limh may procure one for if he desires, be taught how to make it himself, at the same time acquiring a trade that will pay him $4 fo $8 a day Frank R. Bigler, a cripple ears and minus a leg the industrial agent of tute which was founded about a year ago by Jeremiah Milbank with an initial endowment of $50,000 and a building to carry on its work. Mr came from Kansas City, Mo, his being loaned industrial ion . to optimism and good cheer into minds of all returning war crip the plans which in this will other are worked thonght, 00is in many United States ana will be law out Soon, is there pri- the and the the were for because A for 30 and, 31 arm, insti- for and an the instill the ples Douglas C McMurtrie the institute a g duate of the Nas- sachuse Institute of Technol the department director of and of printing made 2 nomic cha of at Columbia university, has social and of cripples study of the reconstruction more than eight years Mr. McMurtrie made it clear that while the institute has no official ar- rangement with the vernment thorities relative to the utilization of its facilities in the rehabilitation of war cripples, that department being in charge of Surgeon General Wil- liam C. Gorgas. when soldiers and sailors are discharged from army and navy hospitals then the institute will | off chance fo pay ex- penses while learnir new trade, will he advanced them as loan fo enable them to continue their tra: until to iob The institute, however act of the American responsible the wa director H ommerc eco for au- them every their ng competent take a = a national Red Cross, council of mil- Tt s to through the general itary relicf, Je only non titution Trnited ite the kind Mclurtrie in the and nitarian as purpose taking ary cripples. stitution but f-supporting al authoritie Mr M without reser- the afte: the servic office 1t in- hum well chari he 11 oadly lian a not nded to Already have Murtrie, “a vation bility of men injured surgeon-general's department now for wounded not and surgical c buf advances afforded 1 of upation government is further vacational (raining ject rehabilitation The make zone record.” said accepting respon fo cave in the to The of war provide is preparing men, onty re 1150 curative the simpler forms oc e inauzuratin having for self rovernment, however, is of. under private assistance found disposed to use due sion such offered and of value.” A NEW WORD COINED BY RED CROSS WORKERS ABROAD The been vented “Autochir” has Americans in F American special front. The first enough: the second chirurgical.”” the old wa surgical. Combined they American Red Cro: eighteen camions car- down form a tent hos- One truck trans operating room | together and put | v minutes. Its | room which is | op: ting room word in- by to an rrving a ance truck | f load llable from motor e type towa is plain word epelling describe an ck train rying in knock pital of 200 beds ports a2 complete to be bolted the B is ready into operation in a f trailer sterilizing acked up against the ructure From this trailer the te 1 instrum the surgeons around table. The uck tenting, sturd sections, window oves and full kitchens. d crew ially is a urse passes supplies to operating double in 1eating equipmer for diet construction ind ed | the fr nd Cross e elected trai for this work with hort time within a very fruck = tients. ORIGINAL PLATINUM Exports for Yenr fifl Reached The tiful now s gold America the actly a Furthermore, known and pensive must tically mines, supply the g of nent in 150 be sta her American the past lows 1 160,000 Incidentally note so very long ago g1 bia platinum have con; nee. duct Ku cious ently of it as “The waste fining pening epar; into cracks nun quantity covered the Pan-American “blowing finin, tire tive stree many their and enou large ican intere num and, among other how istence of In view of the | platinum increasing that istence i than depo! Republic the Ulloa. (1 ) appointec accompa dition execut the Ulloa’ his Ame folio specimens 1y Nioh an 4 bim by way of Cartagena in the then Protect Yourself from Higher Prices By Buying art, Schaffner & Marx Clothing At our Half Yearly Sale It is well worth your while if youn wish to see some high class Clothing at § a Reduced Price. EXTRA GOOD STYLES IN BATHING SUITS QOur Half Yearly Shirt Sale is now on New Granada, lombia ities of stated later a part of Cox Of the appearance and qual- the new metal Mr. Wood that the “Platina d Pinto otherwise called “Juan Blanco,” was ) IN FHLUMB]A\ smooth and brilliant, of uniform ] J I\ | structure, and not liable to rust er tarnish on exposure to the air. He | adds that the Spaniards did not take { it from veins as ore, or as metallic | masses, but in powder or small | He believed that it was ran secured entirely pure, since in all | examples he had he always ob- served an admixture of black and | shining grains, similar to those found on the of Virginia. and Ja- being a rich vein ore, at- the magnet; there were generally certain particles of ‘a lowish hue which seemed to bs of different nature. He asserted that the Spaniards had learned the setret of melting it, and since they made . | many sword-guards, buckles, snuff- of i, he concluded that quite abundant The ‘Plat Pinto kad given it hecause the specime in question came from the River Pin- to, the name ‘“platina” itself w equivalent to “little silver,” from fits resemblance the latter metal.” The first veritable platinum inget was made by a French chemist, Che- baneau, in 1783. Charles III. of | Spain had called him to Madrid and created a special chair of mineralogy, physics and chemistry for him. In his laboratory he found the secret of rendering the new metal malleable, and this iz the way he revealed the fact to one of his natrons Three months later, at the home the Count of Aranda, there ap- peared upon a table an ingot some 10 centimeters cube (about 4 inches), with a beautiful metallic lustre; it | was malleable platinum. The enthu- stic count ed to pick it up, but failed move it You are joking,’ he to Cabaneau, “you have fastened it down “No, in on pre- | deed,” sald the professor, and he an article | rajsed the little ingot easily, though Bulletin | it weighed some 23 kilograms (abeut tells of | 50 pounds). The count had net thought the light platinum sponge appear the (then known) metals. grains. Ty Total of 82,160,000 fact that platinum, and very expensive worth ahout six that metal times beau coasts iust | maica, t much | tracted South o is not s by was first in a Republic matter discovered ir section of what of Colombia of common knowledge it may not be generally that the scientis dentist manufacturers of the ex- | hoxes, the United States | it for their supplies “white gold upon the Colombian Russian sources of are for the being ‘“‘out me.” Still, there’s no immi- of Colombia’s resources exhausted. They mining it down there , but the output seems antly increasing an ccording to the current num- the Bulletin of the FPan- Union, Washington, D. of the metal during the years were valued fol- 1915 $607,500 at and the y at ex most ete., be gnation jewelry in depend must precious entirely for the prac- | been time to danger heing been yea for to in- of exports three In 50,0005 1916, for 1917 of it is Interesting to time—and that the crude platinum mixed with the Colom that at one not that wer in si of certain gold mines in i were regarded ) and thrown Tiffany's great e and metals, in contributed to the Union waste Dr xpert pro- Geo. F away stones follows that would heavi of all rejecti of platinum a Thu= product in the operation of re- zold led to some strange hap The platinum gold the ary, was either c or thrown through building where the Later, when plati valuable, a considerable the metal thus dis- Quihdo, ¢ of the s distriet, wher z0ld re }“,l: done. As a the en- | | rious of some 1 ! mine, COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHS OF MEN LOST IN SERVICE. ! Through the bureau of navigatien | the navy department is n colleet- | ing_photographs of all men of the service who have lost their lives lin rvice against the enemy, to perpetus the of these men whi made sacrifice their pic to be preserved in the va- stations of the country sted that the de Colombia from the stem in 1ted e st treet the done the in < was hecame of was memory ital 1 the much result 00 inhabitant and the working nt are training Daniels photographs partment by the next of kin As rapidly as these pictures are Te- copies are made and the origl- rned to the own A photo- ch man is then forwardsd ning station where he began i his career in the serviee. There, 2 me- gallery of honor or a hero' formed so that for all time the faces of the men of the nation whe have made the supreme sacrifice may | be honored by the youths of the fu. ture sent to the station for training. Relatives of men who have beer in the present war who have nal eceived Tequests for pictur ars ed to mail them to the department | for this memorial. All pictures sheuld {be securely wrapped after they have | been marked with the name, branch ot service and training station the yvoumg man entered after enlistment. Thess should be addressed to the Recruifing Division, Bureau of Navigation, Nav Department, Washington, D. C. When| copied, the photograph will be re- | turned to the sender with one of the copies town turned were for proper houses. In t so far as to tear rewarded to has be sent cretary recu into a employed the S thesc te in ernme owners mined under ceived one case a man 11s retu down his store by recoverh rebuild platinum on $4,000 in Amer- | 0 S0y i ith | plat he tells the ex metal which of it tran its ex corner is about th world first learned of such a remarkable many uses to can put and value, it seems European knowledge of dated farther back when South American within the limits of the visited Antonio been sting information the lost now not the ts, now Colombia traveler of wer D who Jorge scientific Spanish Don enc sent out by the meri Altho obse WAR HERO KILLED BY FALL FROM SIXTH STORY WINDOW Yor Auz. 2.—Lieut Jgan wton, 117th. engineers, here ox, after beir 1S d at the frent killed vesterday in a ixth floor apar While in a i fell to B8 publicatio mad Relacion h a del viajc ridional,’ volumes at Madrid in of the new metall ore | leave dy G Fng- | in France. w 1741, | fall from metal- | ment ica m issued in HEy 18 Fnsli honse itting ched | dow courtyard, material having re e became dizzy and