New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1918, Page 6

ed whe! gurated. WWB be placedsin © about thecity, Wi those who read t cigars or tobacco they' get to drop part of the the box. Thus if a cigars, he could contrib: he buys a box 4 box Jet him buy another and in. en Boy Scouts could be secured to Lo the rounds of the stores once a or oftener, if necessary, and the co collected is ready to be for- ied to the men in camp. The simplicity in itself. The boxes ing idle in the basement of City hall, or elsewhere. Why not put them to good use? Don’t we want the boys to have all the *“smokes” they need? THE MOTHER OF FIVE SOLDIERS Unsung end unheralded, a mother of five sturdy American soldiers is watching, waiting and praying for their safe return to the home they left at 298¢Park street, this city. That mother is;Mrs. Louis Logan. In an- other column s to he found her re- markable story, the story of her sa rifice, her /love and her patriotism. A native of France, she was doubly glad to give her boys to the service In the hope that while serving their pngtive land, they might avenge in a measure the ' wrongs committed sgainst hers. If anyone would see for himself a spectacle which constitutes an un- paralleled example of pure, whole- hearted love of country, let him pay & visit to the Logan homestead, and he will come away a better American for having been there Picture a mother with seven sons, ve of them in the United States Army, and two others employed in making munitions for their own brothers; try to imagine, if you can, the spirit of fortitude with which Mrs. Logan’s heart must be steeled in order to keep back the tears when she sits down to the table around which are seven vacant chairs. Her only solace is her mate whose eyves are steeped forever In darkness, and indomitable is her comrage, so yet &0 deep-rooted her patrlotism, that she never complains, never regrets that she let her boys join the colors. Far from it asserts proudly that she did not raise her boys to be slackers, and the thought that they are fight Ing to restore the land of her birth to lts former state enhances the Jjoy which she experienced on giving her offspring to the land of her adop tion. And she is willing, if needs be, that her other two sons, who are above the present draft age, should follow in the footsteps of their heroic rs hrfi\h at a some of us who b SSC What a rebuke to t that we are doing our part. when all we are asked to do is contribute a bit of money. Here is an American wom n who has in Ikhaki and in the factory represent all she and her husband have in the word, given her ALL! Those sor NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1918. ‘Rot hesitate to part re is there, in this r such example of | pricanism ? | bilfed oftensive be- asualties has in- at one day we over 800 hun- or missing. se lists we will and Marquette. | sonable certain represent a imericans, who or which they CGovernment now—no par- all just plain is distinction ot giorious title it the Beetles’ | Berlin to s | Dealer. ise those fishermen to U-boats with sword- baseball season forces ought to acquire hny new batteries. Ed Airmen ‘Headline. ted during thess dog days. Bomb Frankfort was to be any rate, we cannot deny that gwn Prince fbugh he hasn't any chin, ‘e are not mistaken, Anna Held prn in Washington, and not in s some press reports have it. dentist is Hoo has forbidden the sale stations and Who said that travelling is a A man in New York has organized | 4°lay in appli an Anti-Collar League. 5 | ness that forced her to stop school a laundries. my boys slackers™ her | ed a local busine statement. Washington suffragettes indignantly refute the story that one of their another picket We wouldn't like to be one of those German generals. claims the credit lose, he cashiers them The German public is said to be asking pointed questions about recent army reserves. The Kaiser will pointed answers—bayonets, Hot weather hint. We are in receipt of the following formula for making an onion and that will eyes water. the proposed college ices and this Is what he said “Whenever I look a sundae face T scream.” Admiralty fishing smacks on the grounds of mil- of the fact| that fishes carry tales Postmaster of Providence there will Switzerland masses in Germany (Note to proofreader Boston Globe. s figured ont Germans can the weather.) The traffic character asked a suspicious | what he was looking | " the President of VICTORY. 00— ved for peace before I could have pr I heard Of little children lifted high in jest, A sward point through the white, still breast, And women foully held—then an stirred And all my soul rose up; since this could be 1'd only pray to God for Victory I could have waited for my sons to turn Safe home; but foul and gas out- | pouring shell, And liquid fire, and fiendishness of hell Set all my blood aflame, and now I burn With holy zest, whate'er the cost to me, If soon or late God send us Victory. I could have welghed new days by old ideals Had I not known of death that hurtling went; Beneath the waves to smite the in- nocent; But knowing all, my startled spirit reels, Then sprin sk: “What wilt Thou, Lord, of me That to our arms may come sure Victory ? —L. M. Thornton in Leslles' Weekly. FACTS AND FANCIES. The Americans are taking the only way to persuade the Germans that we are in the war—heading straight for The French say the only trouble they have with the Americans is to hold them back. Odd. That's the same trouble the Huns are complain- ing of —Detroit Press. None shall pass” is a pretty good | slogan, but that American “Eat 'em up” is pretty effective.—Milwaukee News. It is a masterly retreat. But, as for the Allies, they have had enough of masterly retreats. The Germans are welcome to the exclusive enjoy ment of them.—Springfield Republ The public, observing a hotel fined $10,000 for hoarding sugar, will now await with confidence the punishment of the raincoat criminals.—New York Sun. COMMUNICATED. S' RE! ABOUT NURS Local Girl Complains of Treatment &l\l Lib; When Filing Application to Enter Training School. To the Edttor: If you can spare me space in your valuable paper, kindly print the fol- lowing: A girl went down to the Public In- stitute to enrol in the Nurses' Reserve on July 29th, and on account of a sation blanks from the government was requested to call again. The girl had no diploma from the ammar school, the reason being ill- short while befare graduation, but she had a card that showed her stand- ing in school. The same girl attend- told by the lady in attendance at the Public Institute that her education was equivalent to two vears in high school, and there was no reason why she could not enrol if she cared to. Saturday of the same week the girl | called at the institute for application blanks and the party in attendance asked her what education she had had. Upon gaining the knowledge she in- formed the girl that her education was not what was required in arder to enrol, but after making the girl feel) | that it was a crime not to be a high ap- | school graduate, she gave her ¢ plicatian blank to fill out requesting that it be returned to the :iastitute ta be looked over But the girl felt so had after the treatment afforded her on her visit that Saturday afternoon that she never filled out the applica- tion 1t was not on account of an easy bherth to lie In or a large compensa- tion offered by the government that made the girl wish to enrol The girl has education enough to enter into eral clvilian hospitals should she care to, and is drawing a larger sal- ry a week than the government i offering a month. Her motive was just merely a patriotic one. Thera probably would have been more can- didates if girls that were not high school graduates had not been made to feel that they had committed a terrible erime in leaving school before graduating from high. (Signed) AN UNDERGRADUATE BUILDING NOTES on Main Strect-—Real Estate Ac- Livity. ilding Inspector Arthur N. Ru- therford has granted a permit to J Eisenberg for the erection of a three story brick block 34 by 91 feet at 501 Main streel. The building will contain stores and tenements. The estimated cost is $20,000. The Wex ler Building Co. has the contract. Axel F. Carlson has been awarded the contract for the o ruction of a frame porch on the Y WL A. building in Hungerford Court. The estimated cost of the improvement is $600 3. Stein Ruilding Co. bas th The ¥ t construction of a new contrac front in the Levine block at 166 Main for dtreet, The estimated cost of the | improvement is $1,000 The New Britain real estate mar ket has been exceedingly active for the past month sales in Jul a < compared with T T 5 et Mortgage loans amounted to $380.972 railroad | for the month as against $235,334 a vear ago. The record however did ot attain an amount as large as in 1916, when §409, ing the month or July there were was loaned d ast week 9 sales as against 8 fo S the corresponding week last year, how 'em.—Cleveland Plain | and while of the day and famous r father died mother and herself, and prese school, and was | sang then and a quarter of a centur time I wish you’d come an’ play wiz me. And with this went her naughty twinkle and fiickering of evelashes and the graceful undulations that always rouse than ten yvears sh cal comedy, earning popularity such as very few entertainers of have attained. Her name and her pic ture were as familiar in Yankton as in New York, and no visitor from north, south or west ever thought of coming to New York in those dayvs without seeing Anna Held re were 129 | ANNA HELD, FAMOUS ACTRESS, IS DEAD Began Lile as Singer in the Streets of Paris New Yo one of ti Aug. 13.—Anna Held, stage, dled yesterday afternoon at o'clock in her apartments in the Hotel Savoy She had been ill for several nionths from a sickne that puzzled the physicians, It was stated to be a pernicious form of aenemia. Miss Held's physictans abandoned hope for her recovery several times during the months of her illness, hut | she rallied with an amazing force with each relapse until two weeks ago, when she began slowly sinking. The actress became unconscious early yesterday morning and re mained oblivious to her surroundings until the end came. With Miss Held ere Liant Carrera, her daughter; Susanne Westford-Allen, who is a sister to Lilllan Russell; Connie Miles, for four years representative; Beat her personal ice Driosch, her | maid for the last seventeen years, and Dr. E. M. Overton Immediately following her death notification was sent to Samuel King- ston, who had charge of her theatri cal affairs, and he said that hie would make the necessary arrangement the funeral Miss Held was a Polish Jewess, born in Warsaw 45 years ago of par- ents in humble station Her father, a glove stitcher, left Poland for Paris when Miss Held was a little girl, and it was the necessity of earning enough money to keep the family in bread and under a roof that sent the small mademoiselle out among the cafes of the Quartier Latin to dance and sing among the students. Even then, when she was a mere slip of a girl with only the lighte of trills for a singing voice her wholly original mannerisms—a. little trick of using her big dark eyes, a suggestion in gesture and pose of the improprieties, to which her audiences } were by no means hostile, provided the touch was dainty, and a charm- ingly moulded figure—made her ex- traordinarily popular in the gay quar- ter and suggested the fame that wait- ed for her in the future. Her father's employment was pre- carious and poorly paid .,and the daughter worked very hard often spending half the night at cleaning and curling hat plumes after she had sung and danced in the evening. As she grew older she worked in a shop where fur caps were manufactured, he toiled thus, dreaming en she hoped to be rich First Stage Appearance in London. In London were relatives of he Anna was a resident of Whitechapel, where a manager of a music hall ob- served her prettiness and originality and figured that she could draw money to his box office. He gave her her first chance to appear in public upon a real stage, and it was not long until she had attained local fame and was known as the Little Whitechapel Beauty In 1889 she returned to Paris after a short tour in Holland and the gay | French capital welcamed her with open arms. She was a novelty, a new diversion, matching the requirements in beauty and grace and impudence required by the Parisians, and by the time she was ready to make an Amer- jcan venture in 1896 she was already celebrated in the light opera and com- edy field of France. It was on September 14, 1895, that she arrived in this country, and a week later Herald Square theater, at roadway and Thirty-fifth street, to flash her provocative glance at the susceptible anes in the front rows. A s=ong she 1e tripped upon the stage of the remembered to this day, is a long indeed, for a bit of such non- sense to survive. As she sang it the words were: “Oh won't you come and play wiz me? For T have sooch a nize lidd > way wiz me; storms of applause. For more remained in musi- he st Press Agent Ever Active, Skilful and not too veracious press agents (the gentle art of press agent ing was just forming Miss Held seized her opportunities) kept her in- cessantly before public attention. One vead daily of Miss Held's milk baths, by means of which she maintained an Incomparable complesion; of her ca- nine pets, of pearl necklaces, wort! king's ransom, lightly tossed in her lap by princes One story which sained wide cireu lation described her as leaping from her bicvcle on Coney Island Boule. vard, snatching at the dangling reins of a runaway saddle horse, mastering the animal and so saving the life of | Civil justice B. Clarence Murphy. Oc- casionally she was the victim of start- ling jewel robberies. In 190§ she was credited with wearing boot hee studded with diamonds, and it was about that time that thieves pup. oined diamonds wortl 30,000 from the little lady as she dozed in a parlor car In January, 1897, it Wwas announced she was about to marry her mana ger, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. Later it was said that they had been marrieq in Paris before she started for thig ountry, but_in after ye Miss Held suit for divorce against Mr. Ziesfeld that on March 28, 1897 they were married jn the Hotel Netl! ceremony consisting in th T mutual best known women of the | declaration, before witnesses, to ac- cept each other as husband and wife, & ceremony found to be perfectly le- gal by the eree. In 1910 it was rumored that she was to obtain a divorce from Ziegfeld } but it was not until two years later that she actually brought an action, ’ cd three years more un- ‘ ) orce was finally granted. Before »ming to this country sh had a child by a previous husband, nd this young woman, now 24 years of a 2 is Liane Carrera, herself a singer. and dancer In the summer of 1914 Paris was that Miss Held married o a Russian the talk of was to be Prince Paul Nakilanoff, who had presented to her a pearl necklace valued at $180,000, and she was heralded by this an. | nouncement when she returned to the | United States to fulfill her stage en- | sagements Taken T Last January. In January, 1918, when playing in | Milwaukee, M Held was seized | suddenly by a mysterious illn It was asserted then that she v | victim of a curious and unusual d | 2 | which at first baffled the physicians. | 2 | { ease scientifically known as mutiple | myeloma, which attacks the marrow | { of the hc nd finally crumbles and | collapses the bony structure of “the | body. Later the best medical opin- ion was that she suffered from an ad- | vanced form of anaemia. On May 25 twenty-five ounces of | blood were injected into Miss Held's | veins, For a t e results were bene ficial. She gained strength. but aft- er a few disease held its course. She became | { quite helpless as the end approached [ but she never lost her cheerfulness | and even regarded the imminency of | { death with a sort of gay tolerance Joila! What would you?' she | said. “If I must go, I must go. C'est | | tout!” | | Some of the hest known musical | | comedies and farces in which Miss ! | Hela appeared iIn this country were “The French Maid, Wife “Miss Innocence,” ess”, which broke all previous at- | tendance records ai the Casino thea- | ter: ‘Mille. Napoleon” and *The Pari jan Model.” Few actresses have ever been more liked within their own profession Men and women in small parts ir | Miss Held’s companies and membe of the chorus adored her. She wa “Papa’s frequently used her influence to cor- rect injustices of pay or treatment. | As death closed upon her one of | the last remarks she made to her doc- tors as she lay helpless in her apart- “It is to die! That is easy! much more difficult to live! T can- not shrink from death when so many have given their lives in pain for the nce In all my \\w('\; and to | | | ment at the Hotel Savoy was | ) | defence of Fr: it has been my effort to ch encourage and this spirit shall not break now.” OVER-NIGHT PAUSE ON PICARDY FRONT (Continued from nes. All the roads are encumbered with wagon trains indicating the ene- [ my still is moving out the ammuni- h e had hered in tion and supplies that region The latest prisoners taken say they | yelong to the rear guard whose mis- ( sion is to vy the advance of the | French and facilitate the retirement | of the main force ith the supplies and big guns | The German artillery, which had | narassing fire up maintained only a to yesterday, now is laying down bar rages which alone are sufficient to | slow up the French advance, In spite of the intensified shelling the French today made gains in local operations, occupying favorable po- | sitions north of Roye-sur-Matz and “hevincourt Germans in Old Trenches. On The French Front in France, | Aug. 12. (Midnight,) (Reuter’s.) A momentary point of stabilization was reached Monday and the French now are at grips with the Germans on the ground they entrenched and held from the autumn of 1916 until March 1917. The German trenches are still deep enough to afford the enemy the best opportunity he has had of cling- ing to the ground from which he is to be evicted since he left his line in the valley of the Avre It is necessary for the French to bring up their guns before the attack can be resumed. The enemy is also busy putting the moss-covered trenches into battle condition so as to enable him to attack for the moment. Consequently there has heen a pause in the strugle throughout today. The Germans, however, are showing signs of determination to remain where they are as long as possible or at least until they have had time to withdraw their material from the threatened sector. Today the French were iIn touch | with a continuous enemy line and our progress was opposed, not hy the usual fire, but by regular barrage: The enemy's line of resistance, there | fore, apparently has been reached. | ‘Nl*'.‘t*v\\y111~-~ the French continued to | | advance at various points in the line | and both bastions of Von Hutier's front—at Roye and at the massif of Lassigny—now are insecure SKCOND BAND CONCERT AND COMMUNITY SING, i During the month of August the | community sings will be joined to- gether with the band concerts on Wednesday evenings at Walnut Hill | c park. Tomorrow night at *elack | ¢ the ond concert will take place and | f | will take charge ofl the singing. i it was cbvious that the | f The Little Duch- ‘ : i always courteous and sympathetic and | 4 ber of people who entered [ by an auto la The McMillan Store “ALWAYS RELIABLE” 'HIS STORE WILL CLOSE MONDAY EVENINGS AT 8 O'CLOCK. DO YOUR SHOPPING PLEASE FIVE HUN On Sale W On Sa CHILDREN Regular 98c Values to W You choice grey, cordovan these White and grade. Wednesday Morning All sizes, 5 50c ME athletic styles BIG Sparrow Cop Escorts Girls to Police Are Let Go. Some New Britain with susplcion the vacationists who ain and if they continue the city be shunned by fair dams; This morning fust because two at- tractive young Bridgeporters walking about the dres of their carefree brought to the police station and were quizzed. They explained dgeport the speed came from Br has kept apace with proAuction of munitions. earned good wages cordingly. To be were somewhat abbreviated, but they were not as short young ladies on Broadway One of the girls doll: "The precious said the bea cruel to have him so sparingly dressed because the weather my bestest,” not think it a bit only a dear of a doll out of my arms After making tain Grace the young wo ased from the custody er Stadler. “Wasn't thing to take us tion?"" sald one of ward New were escorted to nd after submitting vere released CHILD HURT Stanley Wtachicha of Broad street is seneral hospital ractured as a resu into the spirft of singing the war songs | nowski af 119 Grove of “Ou ,vs over there' is any indi- !to the police that cation of the success of these gather-auto .into yard ings, there will be many thousands|whehe he keens the present tomorrow night Mr. Bishop | was one of three plavi erland, the | wiy) lead the Philrahmonic band and |ity. 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Your choice WEDNESDAY MORNING Yard 3 1 [ GOURT PROSECUTIONS Aired—Somebody TOUGH ON VACATIONISTS Will Have to a Vendor, policemen Sokolowski, saulting ea was let go a Suspension on conviction drunkenness, represented off with a The trouble lugging a Sokolowskd, suit case and exhausting vhich he paid. Kenozek's to Gardner. had been Ajccording submitted Sokolowski tables without explanations en were re- two wagons on or his employer couple of weeks ago a couple of SaT sl e DELINQUENT ROUNDED T questioning informatior nig = his vacation yesterday his family.