New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1918, Page 7

BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, -FHURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918, Let the Good News Ring Out WITH PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO ALL, WE WISH YOU A HAPPY CHRISTMAS FOLLOWINC HAVE FAVORED Call attention seekel tivitie strictly your special R THE for Churches, Christmas character. (e TS, N’ PATRONAGE WE TROUS WOULD, to the fact of the big harvesting Sunday Schools or eductions of Toys, Dolls, Games, WITH AFTER EXTENDING for Societies planning Holiday and Come see what you can find. WHICH YOU THANKS, belated gift fes of all wares THURSDAY BRINGS YOU Miliinery at Half Price WHAT THIS MEFE MARKED PRIC FLOWERS, F IN OUR BIG SELI FOR. PARTICULAR has already been this sale gives it to through our Mil Be on hand to get best selection, and make have the opportunity for three days. THERS, MILLI reduced, say THINK FOR CHOICE A MINUTE AT HALF TRIMMED FIATS, ORNAMENTS, ORR. WHATF DEPT. AT JUST HALK oF ON Y ey $5.00 LY NOTE THIS. No matter from $10.00 to vou for $2.50. T will be linery Dept. for Thursday, m THE UNTRIMMED ER WHAT Hat G the way of Friday. rvelous saving. Make the most of it. PRESENT SHAPE! IS ON SALE IT USUALL or other article st for example) everything all and Saturday. You only HAVING AN AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY FOR NEW BRITAIN YOU CAN D R SED OF RECEI 'V EWIS BOUND OVER 810 SUPERIOR COURT, dge Griswold Gives Unwelcome| Christmas Present to Burglar | | Berlin Man Had Planned to Get | Married Yesterday, But His Pro- | gram Was Changed and He Went | to Jail Instead. leo Lewis, charged with breaking | 0 Clole’s store in East Berlin on the ght of December 23 and taking bods valued at $14, was bound over the superior court by Judge Geor Griswold in the town court yes morning. Lewls pleaded guilt e charge, stating that he had red the store for the purpose of ob- | ining © ndy for the children where | had been boarding. He was caught Robert Cole, owner of the store. | pwis, it was testified, was carrying a t case filled with articles which he | hd taken from the store when he bs caught climbing out of 'the win- | bwn on the south side of the build- g. On seeing Mr. Cole, Lewis popped the suit case and ran through | pe woods located near the East Ber- h school and then turned up Wilcox enue, going to the home of W. EI- | idge, where he was later arrested by fiicer Andrew wrenee [Lewis is a native of Moodus and was P bave been married yesterday, his spective de, Miss Lillian El- idge, of E Berlin, being 15 years age. Lew taken to the Jartford county by Officer Law- ince lat afternoon 1d bonds yesterda $1,000 Austin-Magui Mrs. John Maguire, ‘o Hobart street, Meriden, announce le engagement of their daughter, fiss Fothel Maguire, to E. Raymond ustin, of Hudson street, recently dis- arged from the Naval Re » force quartermaster fir class. Ma- uire is a graduate of the iden | fig school, class of 1914 rter- ster Austin is the son Mr. and rs. Elmer E. Austin, Berlin, and sbeen in the service for over a ye: Sergeant McKeon Home. Sergeant William McKeon, of the edical Corps, recently returned from rance after doing active service for x months, spent the Christmas holi- | ay with his father and sisters at their | gme in Kensington. Sergeant Mc lon has been in the service for over | year and at present is stationed at | e Walter Reed hospital in Washing- | pn, D. C. H Junk Dealer Inj Max Hyman, a junk dealer, of 233 dar street, Meriden, was seriously Jured late yesterday afternoon when he horse he was driving was fright- hed by an automobile truck on Me n avenue and smashing fhe wagon against a fence. Hyman thrown out, receiving a broken Bliarbone and a few body bruises. He s removed to the Meriden General pital, and is un pMr. and Qus of ared. ran ING ALL DRY GOODS PURCH! Service Notes. Alfred of the Hospital Ambrose Barrett, Corps, recently returned from France, spent the Christmas holiday at h Corporal Company C, s home on Berlin street. Everett S. Turner, of 9th Machine Gun Bat- talion, recently returned from France, has been discharged and will reside at his home on Berlin street. William Ryan, of the Naval Reserve, stationed at Brooklyn, spent the holi- day at his home in Kensington, James Corr, of the Naval Reserve, tioned at Philadelphia, is spending short furlough at his home in Ken- sington. % Philip Fagan, of the Naval Reserve, stationed at Brooklyn, is spending short furlough at his home in Ken- sington. \Arthur Anderson, of the Naval Re- serve. stationed at Brooklyn, is spend- ing a short furlough at his home in Berlin Berlin Briefs. Mrs. William W. Fagan, wife of the ! i D, ON PROMPTLY US. local postmaster, has been notified that her brother, Charles Kenney, of : the Winsted, - died yesterday after a brief illness. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at Win- sted and the interment will be in tho family plot in that town. E. N. Whitaker and family, lin street, have gone to Halvoke, Mass., where they will spend the week morning | with relatives. o | Charles Venturo, ill at his home suffe attack of influenza. Mr. and Mrs Guilford with Mr: of Kensington, is ing with a severo Arthur Lumbar Galpin, of Berlin street. Robert Tole, Jr., of East Berlin, is ill at his home with a sevore attack of influenza. S Cowles and family spent the Wwith Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Up- son, of New Britain, Cecil Hastings, a Y. M. ¢, A. war worker, who has heen spending a short furlough with Mr. and Mrs. S, M. Cowles, has roturned to his post at Camp Lee, Virgini “YENICE AND FLORENCE” lustrated Lecture 100 Beautiful Colored Views Sunday Ev’g, 7:3 Red Cross Hall, 425 Main Street. Everyone Cordially Welcome. A Silver Offering Is Received Last Sunday evening in spite of the rain a large audience thoroughly enjoyed the ser- mon and fine views, regardless of religious belief everyone is Welcome at these Sunday evening services, all who attend are enthusi- astic in praising them, and the attendance is rapidly increasing. A cheerful Sunday even- ing is assured all who are present. S S S S S ARSIy I * PLAINVILLE NEWS | veived Roche back on November [ the { can't | following of Ber- ! [ Have scen two of the boys from home | { | Blis ot over here too late to sce ac- GOES OVER THE TOP ON HIS BIRTHDAY Sergeant Harryr E]lis Celebrates | hy Chasing Back Hun Hordes HONOR LIST OF PUPILS Many Children Go Through Fatire | ¥all Term Without Being Absent— Miss Eichler Dead—Razing Alder- idge Block—Brief Items. The following lefters have beon 120 E1i in from Sergeant Harry Sls. upation by his father, George with the army of oc many: vovomber 13, “Just a few words to let vou know am alive and well and surely hope this will find vou all the same all lotters and have Moerton | I have received 155, it your papers O seen Lamb and it did seem good to see a homo face, the first one since leaving | July 13, 191 Since then I} have seen the Hellberg boy from New | home, Britain. He has been in this division had him until a few days ago. nearly a vear, but I never seen I have been on the go for the last two months and have not had much chance to write You wanted to know how I celebrated my birthday. Iwent over the top that Lme We were driving the 11 and when orders came to quit firing at 11 o'clock it was hard to believe it. You imagine how we felt. We are now quartered in a town the Germans have left. It's hard telling where we are going from here. I think by the time you get this it will be Christmas, so I wish you all a merry one. vember 24. “Just a few lines to let you know that T am alive and well and hoping all at home are feeling the same. Have wanted to write home ever since armistice was signed, but this is the first ¢ I have had. Since the armistice was signed we have been up the Germans passing through Belgium and am now in Lux- emburg expecting to resume our jour- ney toward the Rhine in a few days. nce i ferton Lamb and Hellberg. I sup- pose there was some rejoicing hack home when they got the news about the armistice being signed. We were driving Boches up to the last minute tion, thank God for that. I saw his regiment, but did not know he was in at the time. T will write to him the t chance I get. ‘Well, mother, T guess by the time that you get this letter it will be Christmas, so I wish vou all at home a merry one, Well, mother, that is all T can think of to Remember me to Frank and t: With love to all, ‘SERGEANT HARRY P. “Co. C, 9th Infantry, “American E. F." ELL] Razing Alderidge Block. The Alderidge gutted by fire the morning that armistice was signed, is being torn down. It is thaught that the build- ing will be razed as far at the first story, where there wil be only stores. block, which Basketball Team Organizes. A Dbasketball team is being formed by a number of local boys and ar- rangements are under way for a game with Bristol High school on New Year's eve ia that town. The local boys will have such men as Foran and “Dutch” Messenger. The only trauble which the boys anticipate that of getting a hall wherein to p their home game A few years ago, before the old town hall was burned, the town was represented by a fast team and some of the best teams in the state bowed before the supremacy of the local hoop tosser: The new | town hall has not a place which is suitable for basketball games, and if this difflculty can be overcome the town may be sure of a good team this winter Miss Mabel Eichler Dies. Miss Mabel Lillian Eichler of West- wood Park died at St. Francis’ hospi- tal Tuesday morninz. Miss Eichler was only 21 years of age. She was removed to St. Francis' hospital to be operated on for appendicitic and after the operation, complications set i which caused her death. She is su vived by her mother, Mrs. F. Latham; and two sisters and three Dbrothers, all of Plainviller The funeral was held from her late home at West- wood park. at 1 o’clock this afternoon. Burial was in Old North cemetery in Hartford. Pupils Ionor Roll. Principal Judd of the local Gram- mar school gave out the following names of those who have had a per- fect attendance for the Fall term end- ing Dec. 20, 1918: Kindergarten—Ruth Wilcox, teach- er; Keneth Banner, John Smith. Grade 1B—Esther P. Clapp, teach- er; I.ena Lackey. Grade 2A-—Alice Emma Miller. Grade 3B—Dorothy Manion, teach- er; Sebatian Arcari, Katherine Beau- lleu and Mary E. Gallagher. Grade 3A—FEllen 1. Olson, teacher; Harry Latham, Frank gabia, Victor Hurtado and Mabel Lackey Grude 4A—Marion O'Brien, teach- er; Loulse Bosco, Raymond Cassidy, Bessie Patterson, Anna Parkinson Grade 4B—Annle L. Berry, teache Mildred Deloy, Gertrude Lackey, Wal- Tuttle, teachar; ! The | sociated Pr ‘or ONLY MEDICINE MADE FROM FRUIT Extraurdinaflficcess which “Fruit-a-tives” Has Achieved One reason why “Fruit-a-tives’ is s0 extraordinarily successful in giving relief to those suffering with Constipation, Torpid Liver, Indiges tion, Chronic Ilcada Neuralgiay Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Ricumatism, Pairn in the Back, ZEczema and other Skin Affections, is, because it is the only medicine in the world made from fruit juices. ‘These “ZFruil Liver Tablets” ars composed of the medicinal principles found in apples, oranges, figs and prunes, together with the nerve tonics and antiseptics. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size At dealers or from FRUIT-AYTIV Limited, OGDENSBURG, N, Y. 5¢. | JAPAN IN NEED OF FIRE PROTECTION Outlying Districts Especially Lacking in Fire Fighting Facilities Associated throughout Tokio, (Correspondence of Press.)—Frequently attended of have fires Japan by considerable destruction property urgently the Japanese and some loss of life called the attention of authorities to the necessity of improv- | (20T e COBR o0 oot 1 ing the means of fighting fire. In some cases entire villages have been wiped out and in the city of Tokio blocks of tiny wooden houses have been con- sumed with amazing swiftn A Japanese fire is different from al- most any other fire in the world. I had an opportunity of observing that fact when a fire occurred some time ago near the headquarters of The As- nd seemed for a time to threaten its destruction, Foreign style houses in grouped in compounds—that four structures one large area or garden. here and there the great oriental metropolis which stretches out for mil m; of low-built tile- roofed, paintless wooden hous the gtreets hordered by lines of wooden telegraph poles carrying their burden of wires. TIn the same compound with the correspondent lived an American military attache, and an American business man. The mellow notes of a Japaneso gong pealing through the night awoke the sleeper. As he turned uneasily, there came a discreet knock on ihe door. “Danna, san,” said the “bo na san speak like see big fire. come. Please get up; please go. A great mass of light showed through the windows. The fire was near, and the correspondent went with his compatriots. In the United States a big fire ap- peals as spectacular; in Japan it is spectacular with the picturesque and are contained They dot ' “Dan- Big fire ter Murphy, Charles Norton, Schaeffer. Grade 5A-—Mabel Wallace Bunnell, Edna Burns, rence Deloy, Elmer Velardi. Grade 5B-—Julia Hurtodo, Inez Northrop. Grade 6A- Lennie teacher; Doris Fanning, ter. John Velardi. Grade 6B—Bertha M. Steward, teacher; James Bosco, Helen Hurtodo, Willlam Tolli, Robert Vance. Grade TA—Mildred Nelson, t Henriette stle, Wleanor Floye Baker, Kenneth Selander, dred Thompson Grade 8A—Vera L. Hawkins, teach- or; Frod Beaulieu, Selney Berardi, T ving Gridle: Grade 8$B—B. Inez M. Gladwin, teacher; Armonod Nalbondion, Eliz bheth Parkinson, Hazel Silvernail The school term on Dec. 30, 1918 Gordon Styring, teacher; Cla- teacher; M. Stanle Clinton Pot- cher; urrey, Mil- Chance to Go to Camp. The lo war notice to the effect bureau has received that the War De- | | | | eighth Tokio are | three | in | { i | hou will open for the winter | | prace, partment has opened a Training Camp | at the Louisville, chary Taylor cantonment in Kentuck The camp v run by the Army officers on the Plattsburg idea, the period of training being from Monday Jan. 6, 1919 to Saturday, Jan. 18, 1919, This is an un- 1 | shatt be known as Camp Pershing and will i be usual opportunity for civillans to en- | Joy the benefits of military training in a cantonment under regular arm officers without obligation for further service. Further information will be gladly explained by ¢ chairman of the local war bureau, any of the people are interested if Plainville Brie! is at over Robert Hird of the U. 8. navy his home for a short furlough the holldays. George Adems formerly town 1is {ll at his home in Hartford. The bronze honor roll tablet has beea placed on Central square near the Roldiers’ memorial Aanouncement. is page of Tho Herald ment of Rev, John St. Mary's church, New Britain, to succeed Rev. T. H. Walsh, ised, as pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy. Rev. Father Fay has been in New Britain for 15 years. He will \ssume the pastornte the local church on Monday. nmade on another af the appoint- Fay, curate at dec Gwillim, | { have this | | \ended | thrust the omnipresent { bly clambored thereon, dragging after WELCOME Welcome your boy back to home life with some useful gift—something that he can call his very own. If he contemplates going to housekeeping let us help him. Come in and get the news how we have furnished thousands of snug homes. See our won- derful display and reasonable prices. Let our salesmen tell you the rest. THE FLINT- 103 ASYLUM ST. BRUCE CO. 150 TRUMBULL ST. The Home of Good Furniture. the artistic added. The wrong in one particular; it was not a ! big fire as Tokio knows them—only | 10 houses—but it afforded a dramatic of the Tokio fire-fighters in The Americans joined the of hurrying, murmuring, ki- apt, clog-shod Japanese i- the scene of the fire, which up, angry and menacing, an of o mile away. Masses of sparks soared heavenward and clouds of luminous smoke rolled upward and ibeyond, toward the ¢enter of the great city whose scourge has ever been fir It is spreading,” a Japanese friend said gaily., “The gongs are sounding | far away to call reinforcements. Let | us hurry; we must get a good view." | The crowd was becoming almost im- | possible in density, and almost all the men composing it bore aloft exquisite wpanese paper lanterns. It was a continuous, singing lane of .fantastic | decoration that wound onward until it on the borders of the confla- ‘Bration itself. As the crowd in- creased the noise grew in volume un- : til it became a roar of sound. Every- | ody eemed excited. Nothing | seemed systematized; false appear- | ances, both. 4 Now, a great shout arose and men | waving huge lanterns forced a pas- | sage-way in the middle of the street. A hand-pump on four wheels, drawn | and pushed by perspiring men, tofled | up, followed by & hose-reel, similarly propelled. The firemen had strang Japanese letters and designs on their floating garments; their heads and | faces were shrouded in helmets of some thick stuff that resembled oil- cloth. The children had gone to bed and seemed to have stayed there, but “boy” was | instance action. throng mono-w ing to loomed | men and women, talking and gesticu- Jating, stood outside their tiny wooden ses, casting glances of anxiety, first at the advancing flames and then | at their own endangered homes. Was it time to flee? It appeared not. Capa- ble policemen were passing back and forth seeming to write the Japanese characters of calm in the air as they | lanterns back and forth. ill neaver the flames rose up the ! rythmic chant of men swaying at the pumps, “One, two; one, two: one, twol” Other detachments had clev- orly worked their way around the con- flagration and stationed themselves | near supplies of water, and it was evl- dent that the firemen deemed the time had arrived to make a bold stand to stop the prozress of the flames. A hundred yards singing firemen stretched a long bamboo ladder to the roof of an untouched house and nim- them a huge triangular block of wood, painted white, and bearing the name of a fire company, the block resting on a long shaft of wood to hich ! amers of cloth were attached, "his shaft the firemen proceeded to plant firmly on the roof of the house, and two men stood there holding it in | as soldiers stand guard over a planted standard of battle. Men and | stood out in striking silhouette against the flames, motionless and thrilling to look upon. 'Nan desu ka 2" (W the correspondent. “That,” replied the Japanese panion, “is one of the ancient of our fighters of fire. In a means ‘Thus far, and no farthe ing up to it has cost the life of many a man. It means that the fire brigade | in charge of this flank of the fire stakes his reputaion that the flames | will be checked at this There boen many ocases where color- | bearers have perished rather than abandon this sphynx-like clasp of the emblem that incarnates the honor of their brigade. Right in ffont where the street made a sharp turn and telegraph poles | were burning flercely, threatening to collapse under their welght of wi a nimble fireman made his way to tho crumbling roof of a half-consumed dwelling and wrenched off several shutters that hindered the effecti ness of the streams of water. His life was clearly in danger, but moved about the flames with great coolnes: jumping easily to safety just before the roof fell into the pit of fire (e eol 1T remarked it is a mat- | st at is it?) asked com- poesy w was the answer, | miniature Eiffel tow i business center | ings ! retreating ter of honor with in Japan, firemen than made. A generations Th the first lessons in it thiem are family firemen [c youngsters . and becomes a life's work, as is learn boyhoc well as a passion for them." Suddenly from nea United Sta nam to st¢ the course of conflagrations, in Jap the method is more simple, but equal- Iy effective, and nicely adapted to ‘con- ditions. The little Japanese are pulled down, the debris away, and thus is a ated around the fire wherein is noth- ing upon which it can feed The arriving soldiers armed with stout, long poles and they at once charged a line of dwellings previously evacuated and emptied of its furn ings—and these pretty little crumbled swiftly like toy fore the adroit destroyers. fabric of lattice walls under powerful blows, s carrying tiled were swiftly cheated fire. rrived in the squads of soldlers s by barrac While is use houses carried cular zone cre- were h- places houses be- The fragile disintegrated gged and fell with them, and AW Thus was Japanese god of 00" borne Fudo, the The crowd polite found time curjosity at the forei hope you will notice,” said anese, “how orderly this Perhaps a little unpresentable j now and then, but no trouble. ope you feel perfectly safe; as safe as you would in New York London to the crowd Jap- ling or or | Paris. “The one real dang after ¢ P rambled on the friend. from pick- pockets or, rather, from petty bur- glars. You soe, when the fire comes, the people rush out to see, and the burglar, taking advantage, runs in to steal. Still, with the improvement of the (police system, this form of crime is decreasing. ‘I suppose this is a small blaze?" small, indeed, though hard on the poor people whose homes have gone. You know, in earlier days, in the Shogunate da the fire of Toklo were known as ‘The Flowers of Bdo,’ because they were so big and so beau- tiful—40,000 houses; 60,000 times.” .do is the ancient Shogunate name Tokio. some- of riend uction atterly my “with the intro western methods of fire have done better both in prevention and subduing, Our fire brigade has been remodelled after the West, but, 6f course, it 1s still in very juvenile condition compared with the other great capitals of the world. Toklo is becoming more and more the concen- went on, modern ghting, we of i tration point of the industrial classes of the empire, and the population expanding, more especially In the oubs skirts. “We have six fire brigades in Toklie, each brigade having two or three sub- stations. In addition to the regular stations, special branch headquarters are established in the thickly popu- lated sections of the city from Novem- Ler to May. The total number of fire- men on duty day and night is 2,000 You may perhaps have noticed the tall observatory which, 1k , dominate t trequent intervals They are the fire sta of Tokio whose eternal watchers, peering in all points of the compass, give the alarm at the Arst sign of flames. e horse: is h structures city at of space ions have 35 fire engines drawn by and as many hosereels, but the number will probably be increased next year, The authorities have also purchased a number of automobile fire ladder trucks, their use being ne- cessitated by the gradual increase in the erection of sKky-scrapers the of Tokio. “It must be evident to while we continue to erect in the ourge of always a possibility, but T think®we are doing well and the t that there has no great catastrophé for many years is a proof, 1 fancy, that our heroic fireladdies have not lost their old Samurai spirit of victory. The fire now under control and subsiding. And joining the procession exquisite swinging lanterns, the long lane human fire-flies, went ok America-land and to dreamland. in you our that build- s¢ is wood fire very been was even 50, of of to we k