New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1918, Page 5

P Loaaiid NEW BRITAIN 25 CHAIRS 25 ROCKERS Latest Grand Rapids Design. Artistic—Durable—Comfortable " LIFE OF GENERAL PERSHING CHAPTER V. (Copyright, 1918, by William Fox) the morning Jack Pershing came down to breakfast tired but happy. He had solved the problem tn that last hour. It was a proud mother who sent him off to school that day. It was the big day of the ¢hool year. The Chalrman and the xamining Board would be there. Friends and relatives would be pres- ent to hear the accomplishments of the puplls. 'Thé customary without a hitch. The event of the day, however, was still to come. Hvery one was eagerly waiting to see Wwho would win the coveted problem prize. At last the Chairman rose “As you all know,” he said, “there is to be a prize awarded to prize icularly copy of the life of our first Pr ‘George Washington. His life was, an example of diligence and perserver- ance. These traits are sufe to be po: sessed by the scholar who wins this prize. I now call upon you for an- swers to the problem on the black- board.” In the boys and exercises passed the to silence that foliowed girls all looked around %ee who would have the courage respond. Jack waited until it evident that he could even attempt to answer. He arose. He had felt so confldent be- fore, but now his knees were begin- ning to tremble he stood in t presence of the board “Please, sir,” his voice wavered as he spok “l know the answer.” The chairman, pleased that here 'was one at least who could make an answer, encouraged him. Jack con- tinued “If sound travels at the rate 1,142 feet per second and the pulsa- tions of the human body are seventy per minute, the distanck of a cloud ——— to ¢ was | was the only one who ! ! convention of | | like a bolt from the blue, if twenty pulsations oceur between the time of seeing a lightning flash and hearing the thunder is—flve miles two hundred and forty-six feet and eight inche: The answer Jack blurted out and hurrifedly sank back into his seat amid the applause of the school. The Chairman, in another speech, congratulated the boy and ended by | book—the | with the ‘Washington. Then, the youth- ful winner heard these words: “John, can't you make us a little speech?" There is nothing that the average small boy dreads more than to speak in public. John was no exception; but there seemed no way open to a refusal. Slowly he rose. He turned toward where his mother was sitting, and her smile and her moving lips gave him the support he needed. He could see her lips shaping the worls that he could use, and, with this to help, he began: y you all didn't -I'm much going to grow up like George Washington.” (To Be Continued.) CADETS BOARD MENTS HERE. A meeting of the State Board of Cadets will be held Thursday evening at 6 o’clock in the parlor of the Y. M. T. A..B. society. Several import- ant business matters will come up for consideration regarding the rou- tine of the cadets for the coming v As it was voted at a recent meeting to do away with the Cadet convention this year, the meeting will take the place of the annual Following the meeting the officers will attéend the reception and entertainment to be given by the Ladies’ T. A. 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SPECTAL CLUB FEATURES Free Gas and Coal Broiler We Buy Your Old Range Double Guarantee Bond Factory Demonstrator weekly dues take care of the balance. Don't lose this Act today! . A. MILLS 80 West Main Street New Britain, Conn. obliged. | e 'PHILADELPHTA NEW “CRADLE OF LIBERTY" Largest Group of Shipyards in Race to Defeat Kaiser Philadelphia, Sept. 25.-—Shipbuild- Ing, under the spur of the German cubmarine menace, has made Phila- delphia, for the second time in Amer- ican history, a 'cradle of liberty.” | Fostered by the natural advantages of the Delaware river, together with proximity to the nation’s steel pro- duction centers, the country's largest group of shipyards, ineluding the world record-making Hog Island plant, has grown up in the home di trict of the Pennsylvania metropolis. In this district are employed more than 100,000 shipworkers, one-fourth i jthe enrollment in throughout the United outturn to date is 50 vessels, 27 of them ready for service. Vessels ot all | tvpes, from 3,600-ton wooden steam- ers to huge steel freighters of 12,000 tons, are produced. The Influx of workers has overrun a score of com- munities, enforeing the building of seven new towns, vet the cry is for more men and more men. Given a sufficlency of materials and the work- ers to handls them, the ‘“Philadel- phia, phenomenon™” in ship construc- tion promises to become world's wonder. In this region the Emergency Fleet Corporation, through the companies carrying on its work, has undertaken an extensive housing project. At Bristol, Chester, Cornwells and Hog this industry States, whose Island in Pennsylvania at Camden and | Gloucester on the New Jersey side and at Wilmington in Delaware, homes, bachelor apartments, barracks, boarding houses and even & have been erected, with the hope of solving the problem of inadequate labor growing out of poor accommo- dations. Growth in Population. How the yards on the Delaware have expanded in the past 11 months and what this influx of labor means | to the communities along the river is indicated by comparison with the cen- sus of last October, when the agsgre- xate of men engaged was less than 26,000. Excluding Cramps and the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, which were then working as complet- another | | the ban of hotel | | of shipbuilding. | erecting 550 homes for 5. 191s plants on the 12,000 work- the nine othe Delaware then reported ers More than half the present force of shipbuild has been recruited from outside the district, so that the popu- lation growth from this source alone has been double that of any normal vear. At Bristol, 25 miles above Phil- adelphia and beyond the confines of the previously accepted shipbuilding zone, workers at the Merchant plant now exceed the entire population of the borough in 1910. Chester, Where John B. Roach built American war- ships fifty vears ago, has trebled in a year its population gain between 1900 and 1910. Except the great Hog Island plant, to be treated in a later article, that of the New York Shipbuilding Corpora- tion at Camden, employing 11,500 men, is the largest in the Philadelphia district. When work under way is completed theére will be 29 shipways, most of them able to aceommodate at one time two ships of ordinary size. The yard set a new world’s record when it launched the collier Tuckahoe in 27 days from the time the keel was laid. Ten days later the vessel was completed, a feat which has not been equalled for a ship of this type. Transportation has been a problem, with the majority of workers forced to travel long distances to and from the plant. To overcome this difficulty the company is erecting the town of Yorkship a mile from the works, with a connecting trolley line. The community, which will be without saloons, will be made a part of Cam- den. Gloucester Wide Awake. Neighboring Gloucester is another shipbuilding center. When the glory of the old race track days faded under ew Jersey legislative enactment, the town went to sleep. It has been awakened. The Pusey & Jones Co. operates two yards. The lvania” plant, two years old, has launched seven ships of assorted types within a year, and the newly completed ‘“New Jersey” shops have four vessels on the ways. Launchings here are made sidew! into a basin, a process said to be much simpler than the sternforemost slide which has been practiced through centuries The company s its workers near the two yards. Recently both the Gloucester and Wilmington vards of the Pusey & Jones company have been combined under Emergency Fleet management and a standard type of 12,000-ton steel vessels will be built. Creation in less than a year of a great fabricated steel shipyard, with one vessel launched and three others | 301st Field Hospital corps | hind the lines and at his writing | hospital about ready to take the water, is the feat accomplished by the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, whose 12- | way plant is situated on the west bank | of the Delaware at Bristol. The com pany and its 13,000 employes have pledged themselves to deliver 16 ¢om- | pleted 8,800 ton cargo carriers by the | end of 1918. Contracts call for 60 vessels of 528,000 aggresate tonnage. A model town covering 175 acres, built simultaneously with the yards, has eliminated housing difficulties. With a park about which centers its educational and recreational life, this community, Harriman, presents advanced ideas in town site develop- | ment. The 400 to 500 buildings, com- pleted or under construction, include bachelor houses, single houses and a modern 300-room hotel. The town also boasts a public school, high | school, auditorium, gymnasium and | athletic fleld and its own fire depart- ment and postoffice. At Cheste¥, where the Sun Ship- building company's 9,000 workers have completed four cargo ships and launched two others, a $8,000,000 model community 1§ being built. An- other housing project is that of the Traylor Shipbuilding Corporation at Cornwells, where nearly 100 home: In addition to barracks, are being erected. The Traylor company has trained virtually all its 3,400 men, who are building wooden ships. Its management claims a national record in planking a hull in eleven days. Wilmington, a shipbuilding town for generations, quckly responded to the nation’s demand for cargo carriers. With 6,000 workers, the Harlan & Hollingsworth plant of the Bethle- hem Shipbuilding Corporation has completed six steel vessels and launched another. The Pusey & Jones Company has another steel ship plant here, employing 8,000 men on | four ways, and the American Car and Foundry Company, with 4,000 persons on its payroll, is building wooden hulls. Wilmingon has contended with a serfous housing problem which the plant managers say will be overcome when 600 houses, now in construction are completed. WRITES FROM FRANCE. Frank Bass of Lawlor street has | received a letter from Private John V. McGrath formerly a member of the office staff at Hart & Coole: telling of his trip across the “big pond.” MecGrath is a member of the of the division. He states that his is still some distance be- the team is playing a baseball series with a team from an infantry | company stationed nearby. 76th company THE FALILISSUFE OF THE CONNECTICUT TELEPHONE DIRECTORY GOES TO PRESS MONDAY, SEPT. 30, 1918 All Changes or Additions in Present Listings Must be Ar- ranged for on or Before Sept. 30 in Order to Appear in this New Issue THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE COMPANY bert L. department, fed that it tastes. game of cards can spfnd the after- noon in doing so, and to remain served at 7 | indulge on. 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