New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1919, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMB ew Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietory @ amlly (Sunday excepted) at A:1% m., at Herald Building, §7 Churoh 8% [88.00 & Year 6 “Yhree BMonths. —#6c = Month tered at the Post Offce at Now Britain as Second Class Mafl Matter. TELEPHOND CALLS siness OfMce .. i@ ofily profitable advert!sing medlum 1n the city. Ciroulation books and pr rdom miwava open to advertisers Member ot the Assoctated Prews. @ Ansoclated Pross i3 exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news eradited 1o it or not utherwise credited in this paper and @lso local mev, oublished heretn. THE BUILDING In the the United States during the first the W W New draws attention BOOM, reviewing building situation rt Wt of present month, S, raus, of Straus and ( the this line, ok ork, to increuse operations along rly in Lhe gs particu- larger number of build- for housing according be $60,000,000 families. his ures construction has n ing the @ ek on at rate of in camparison to $30,000,000 sek during November, an increase of is estimated $90.000,~ enty per cent., while it at progress at the rate ol 0 will be soon under way Contem- ted buildings, upon which the latter ure is based, may be interfered with the weather and the hoilday but ard climatic cgn- not- places ver untow January should see an rring tions, ous gain in the number of der erection. It is stated that there have been fore contracts let during the last two jeeks for houses than for business condition which extent iildings, a healthy s not existed to a great for- The ice owner was previously the indi- dual who saw fit to go with s worls, the one who wished a 1 erly manufacturer and the ahead home ing reluctant to undertake its build- Labor canditions are approaching abilization, it be upon a job with some surety that is now possible to fig- he cost for workmen will remain wetically the same, but there is still Jarge shortage of building materials hich, its effect retardifly operations. Manufac- rers of building materials hold le hope that the shortage will bencome for o lensthy period. New fiitain concerns which qut Rilders’ hardware arc beoked for a of course, is having out be turn ar or so ahead and, though they are | orking to catch up with the demand | for futur in market the shortage of the labor in Fe finding an eager plivery. ipplic arket rthe The city Despite the stabilization will be a great factor the of work from this time on. in AN C has under construction of three hundred not he neighborhood buses, which will be enough, hen they are finished, to supply our emand, but which will be ¢f material d in alleviating the uncomfortable using situation locally. Providing hat we stood absolutely still, with no | rowth a eity, we shall have to uild more than king, but we are by no means hali- as we are now under- It has been estimated that there in our progress. we in there are resi- venty cent. more familic United it ive per 1e States than snees; it is prebable that this fizure olds good in this city, If it is not ex- seded due to our enormous growth of ¢ rs. The nor- he past two or three ye al surplus of families is but ten per nt, We must immediately make good he of fitteen per of hmilies over homes, to get back to ormal, and at the same build increase in fs Possibly shortage cent, we must, me, for the mi- s if we may persuade the lounger generation from marrying off Ind adding to the number of families ntil the hand building shortage will be aided, that put we can catch up with de- ut we doubt this be \rough. “Own Your Own Home™ is fully as as it the ance of erecting mportant a slogan was six rantl despite increase in ago uildin The impor omes should not be lost sight of for New it Britain is doing well do better. moment his line, may S FOR CITY E; without RAILSF Almost ral ity will ask the Common Council for hereases in the pay envelopes of their individual bids for PLOYLES. exception sions of the the sev- boards and commis mployes and many yore money will be submitted by lerks and officials. The move to get cash than the the und, upon investig nothing more it 101 is irit of times and will be ation that most of Jue demands are justified There wi holding a ity job was considered “‘pretty soft.” the s a time when here was a minimum of work, good But that utsider thought, and emuneration for that work. period has passed. In the hurried rise n wages throughout ustry the municipal indeed, the very nearly every in- payroll looks mail individual salary ppears scarcely large enough to sus- lain life and comfort. Proof the jessened desirability work the ity i8 furnished by experi- fnces - in - the Board of of for recant of Charities, 1 l | ! children, line brought about by the death of A. 7. Hart, and the necessity to fill the vi- There | position, | created by his demise for the cancy were few candidates several years ago there would have | The investigator | promoted to heen a flood of them for the place. that truly the department was but one candic City jobs there There is e for place so far. going begging because an oppartunity for many to earn mich more on the outside, even at manusl labor. that 'he It is necdless to sy appli- position, leaving vacant the latter | are i is | vill | iake a greater expense for the city to cations for more pay. it inted, bear and will mean an appreciable boost in the tax rate. The greater pav- roll will be costly in the aggresate even thot the individual raisc is | smail as many wish to gct more s0 money. There will prove a incthod of + down some in the expense, the cutti ry employe: Tt should business climination of unnecess: wherever ene may he found prove to a discerning man that (herc are a few, at least. who have oo much time to spare at their work and who might do what has been al- lotted to them 1he and duty what i has hereto- fore been another, also. The paring down of help to efficiently | organized should save a crews of capable workers great deal, there deniably lost motion in many ments, and the might T hi, the is un- devarts 1t whe Faviv in still her wages tor ones remain, Conservatism will not be the duty of ihe lary committee, which will forced to grant increases, but will be be forced upon the heads of the various departments who should be held per- scnally responkible for expenses of org: who should credit organ- izing at top efliciency. which means a the running nization for their and receive cutting down of personnel and a sav- ing in wages. MIXED JURIE FFour women, selected us prospec- tive members of a jury in connection Cali- of Harry 8. New, Jr.. for first with the trial in Los Angeles, fornia degree murder, were dismissed be- cause they declarcd themselves the death has averted another op- penalty. what posed And might test of the It was not long ago when in Cleveland, Ohio, responding to the wishes of a woman brought before him for deserting her husband select- to inflicting their releasc been “m have interesting ced jury a ed twelve prominent society women as The that woman understand her and jurors. defenddnt stated only a could the judge wilngly gave her the benefit of her belief. Whereas a panel composed of men, might have in this instance, sentenced the woman to a term in an institution and little, children to care of the State, this jury of women world handing The jurors the given her over startled the legal by down a different de the history found ision. of the defendant and poverty went into (&t . They fered had suf- at the husband, and when her took her cruelties hands of her lite she Another man home and took So unbearable, left with children. became children and him provided her a care of her this jury of mentally placing tliem- selves in the position of the defend- the it, and wonien, tion as she her ant saw situ saw a step taken for children they decided to her another give chance. They guilty, of leni- handed a verdict hut downl asked the judze for ency, womaun, e imposed a light fine on the d her to her sent both keep to allow and men Jail, The jury of women, trying a woman, theory that judg- v member had upset the old a woman is inore harsh in her than is And by placing her ment of a woman of the other sex trust in women, this defendant profit- ed Long ¢ in England, when the jury @r the custom to try trial by t came into praectice to select women their own it was Jurors sex charged These members of certain crimes they they with women, fearing would be judged judged others, were unusually severe trial of women brought be- and the practice of se- women, died in perhaps by others as their them, panels of in fore lecting consequence The her the proot becomes that capable of taking her place with her brother in many dutie: a citizen herctofore borne by men The time tried be looked upon woman is different in She has proved, and ily more obvious, modern make-up. she is of only. is coming when men a woman by a jury of will an antiquated prac- tice of the old world, and every panel will include its Z00d women, and true.” in personnel “‘six committee which vestigating the strike pleasure of hearing that is liable to start all over is sure to The Senate is in- the trouble coal had the gain at most be repeated any time and within a year. While it has been Just settled figured that the cirike cost the nation in judge | nejghborhood . of §126,000,000, ALL EARS! S The miners wer losers the others, the greatest railroads and the operators the But-—before we get through it will be the public that pays for the strike, whoever lost. And the it miners will is far from again strike to gain a sufficient wage to offset their loss of $60,000 in wages. impossibie that Which will start the wheel a-turning ' \ again. Attorney General Palmer ‘has made public his plan for reducing the cost of living, which ‘contains five points, . chief of which is the boycott of mer- chants charging than that is set mittee. nore a price as fair by a local com- There is new about points, everyone knows how they work out, if persistently The months. nothing the will followed. been preached for facts have proposals. And that that just price eternally want is the unfortunate now anyone will “fact pay any anything—boycotts blasted when the or needs for person a ‘‘pretty” ton of a coal, The nation knows the truti fact it much meney in its pockets. But the is that has too FACTS A Constantinople, an Associated Press spatch says, is credited with being the wors: governed city in the world. Is the correspondent familiar with the government of certain American cities?—Kansas City Star. call it hard difficulty of getting man who had been country.—Portland “T guess they account of the it,” remarked a touring a bit up Expr der That union feasors with can’t be a News. o an real castern college pro- anti-strike clause, union.—Indianapolis Teachers complain that paid less than the railway went on strike. The world consider it more important the train than train the London Opinion. are who to mind mind.— they nien seems to HER SON. (Lizette Woodworth Reese temporary Verse.) Is there a shop where he comes to buy? any book read? song he weed In a fleld’s corner that nigh? Bach word stirs up a hundred cchoes dim Of one he stair, day spills down the each night of him. of u road where he come? s have him for house and host at last; If they be bare, | think of his white spring; If they be not, dumb, ache of fairness presence fast, More certain of my-old remembering. in Con- not Or he stoops ot down (o Or sings not? Or a golden he Graws not id. Each some air, roofs another new memory And dream What hus never All wa then am I stricken Their makes his | tomorrow. { residents There is only one trouble with the ' ' be ND FANCIES. ! on ' L word St. ! like oL | Like scent of dusk on‘ | AGO That Date) 25 YEARS (From The Herald o December 17, 1894, Instructor R. M. Dame has received from the manager of the Johnshbury team that he would to arrange for a tip of the M. C.'A. vegulars basketball team Vermont, On account of the ex vense, it is unlikely that the trip will be made. It is practically decided that the new engine house at the west end will be located just north of the residence H. L. Mills on the west side’ of Curtis street. The land will be bought from the Russell and Erwin company and the price and size of the lot have been agreed upon. Repairs on the engine in the foundry department at the North anid Judd factory will he made today and the plant may resume operations to A large desk is being built in {he tax ycollector’s office which will be sreat convenience in expediting bus:. ness. The expense is to be shaps cqually by the town and city govern- ments. It is understood that Curtis street I are getting up -a petition gainst the proposed engine house fo { be built there. World Happenings, War Rumor—War between and England is rumored, o a cable received in morning. Sir Edwarad ances in the house of commons 1o sarding the Irench invasion of {he Upper Nile in Bzypt are reported tq be the cause of the war rumor. The I'rench will veply to Sir Edward Grey I justification of their invasion, the cause of which has not yet hoen _ Peace Near—A temporary armist has been offered ‘to China by Japun to allow the Chinese to make compli. ance with the plans fo peace, Embezzlement Comes to Light The judge of probate for the town Foxcroft, Maine, who also held e position of town treasurer, was found to have embezzled $100 000 town’s money, the exposure been made followin his suicide. He had held the ofiice treasurer for 30 years and had been required to furnish a bond unt:i last year. Many people had thought him wealthy. BRIDE France according New York this Grey’'s utter Mikado's of of I having committin of never DEMANDS PRY Sues to Recover $1,000 Proy Wedding Girt. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 17.-~What's tic difference between a wedding present and a commission on a sale of land That's the question seven lawyers and a judge are trying to in case of Mis. Frank gainst E. Cooper. . Mrs. Scotf, formerly Miss Jossic Dunn, stenographer for a law firm of° which Cooper was a member, de that Cooper promised to mive her 31,000 wedding present for making the sale of an oil lease. Cooper, him- self a la defended by five others, Scoft’s attorney malk en. ised \s decide Scott (1 he @ wres is Mrs of sev or, and a total MTILIK COWS, Indiana Judge Makes Special Conces- sion to Juror. Greenshurg, Ind., Dee. (7. ations of a jur the local court in a rather imporiant c delayed when one of the himself cxcused by the could go milk his cows “Go inte the jury room.,” directed the judge, “and if verdict is not reached by £:30 o'clock you may then attend to your milking and return.” A ballot was taken and then the juror went to milk his cow: A bailifr accompanied {he man. Following {he milking the juror returned to f(he court house and in less than a half hour the case had been determined. in > wore jurors had court so he a Deliber- { circuit | HARRY 11 Washington, interested i | Is congress in the {uos( of living? Congressman Fred Purnell tica, Ind., will say it is. “T know of no class that has been it harder by the high cost of living than members of congress,” says Pur- I nell. “Some of my friends have been hav- Jing fun with me becausc they dis- high of At- undertake to say, that unléss we' get some relief soon there will be a great demand for barrels among a lot of us poor members of congress. What we need in congress and in the nation rigid - ‘economy. We need to use move patches and less perfume.” Scnator Charlie Thomas of Denver, also finds trouble in the high cost of living plaints. The cry is “Wh 1 s do comething? red A 1 « does not con- herecently la- damned if we d it don't; sibiy be damned any | Disct by house members used Ben Johnson of to wonder who euts all thie ¢ ylaughtered ench vear. ltural papers.” 2 last NG or other day ardstown, ats aforesuid the on of vern agric millions ¢ s have been Killed. No one ever heiird of a | ing out of a | to know h lcome out [ few yea goat goat com- packing house. I'd like many go in as goats and ‘lambs’,’ “Any buyer can settle tion by examining the ecar unteered Clifton McArthur, Portland, Ore. “The tail of the shcep sticks down, while the tail of the goat sticks up.” Whi public roat as W g that s ass,”“vol- ch seems which well a valuable tip to the doesn’t want to eat the s be the goat COURT SESSION {ORT. Ignatz Sulick Yesterday ER_17, 1919, The McMillan Store Inc. “Ajfways Reliable” Store Open Thursday Evening--Con- tinuing Open Evenings Until Christmas. Buy Her a Coat For Christmas Who wouldu'l appre Christmas? e have several PRICED $17 > th FURS FOR XMAS GIFTS WOM MUFTS, priced. WOMEN'S SCARFS, priced WOLF AND FOX SETS, priced CHILDREN'S FUR SETS, bit and Tibet Sets, priced... B white and colored Coney, 1 with a rich fur collar for ese Coats for Nmas Gifte 0 UPWARD. $7.50 upward $14.98 upward . $40,00 upward chaice Rab- 4.98 upwand Complete Assortments Of Dainty Handkerchiefs SILK HOSIERY in black, white and colors $1.85 to Make her gift Silk Hosiery 5.00 pair, GLOVE For Men, Women drer of Wool, IPrench Kid, Suede: Gloves and Mittens for Weather. and Chil pe Skins, also Warm Cold The Mgterial foraNice Dress Put‘up in Nhas Gift Boxes. HANDPSOME NEW VOILE All new spring to $1.50 vard. 20 designs LINGERIE Pink, ¢ yard Light THIRD FLOOR Another shipment of choice Blue and Lavender onsisting of large Turkish Towel, Special Sale for Thursday Morning $1.29 Per Set Value $1.50 Special Sale of Cut Glass. and colorings. Specially prized 98¢ DRESSES in pretty floral designs. Priced | Bath Sets in Gift Boxes Guest Towel and Face Cloth. TAKE ELEVATOR Sut Glass has Jjust arvived. Buy Cut Glass now for Xmas Gifts at Special Sale Prices. the charge of drunkenne: su- lick ciaimed he got the ‘“jag” from drinking cider in a Main street cafe and appeared in pretty bad condition. A fine of $2 was imposed on George Rudman, arrested vesterday afternoon for par his automobile on the north side of Chureh street. Rudman on ' the and is Still in “Fairly” Bad Condition, Judge John H. Kirkham imposed a fine of $7 and costs on Ignatz Sulick this morning in police court, who was arrested yesterday by Officer Feeney claimed that he was delivering gro- ceries to the Vietory Lunch rooms but this did not excuse him from paying penalty. Fle was arrested by Offi- or Clarence Lamphere. BIRD PUZZLES WOODMEN Catch By An Pheasant Flunter Dec. recently Strange Up-State Dansville, 17. Martin Schle- dorn, returned overseas scrvice man, went shooting pheasants tho other day. He camc home with a Jarge bird which he slot in the wing, thinking it a pheasan Tts coloring is beau wings, lined with wiite feathers, suring for om tip to tip. The tail sathers with-a breast of cream and brown wmottled, the back a dark gray (0 white, Tts curved beak and huge slons lodlk like those of yvoung but the older hunters here it unusually large hen vd was shot in a swale iful. the great aind gray -two inches of brown me: an TO TEACH SHIPBUILDING. Hizh School New Course, Los Angeles tntroduces Students school Los Angeles, harbor distr in of are to have an opportun- the h Los Angeles ity regular course of education. to zraduate high school as t competent to comms was reached after suc attained in an craerg: class, There will he d in ship builditz, including welding, blue print reading, machanicni draw- ing and shipfitting. Tive certified i structors will be in charge. 'he i tial enrolment of 600 is expected to increased to 1,000. The normal de mand for shipworkers in the Tos An- geles yards is about 15,000 men. of learning shipbuilding din the The de ion young men of the ned nd crafts high w: had hipbuilding ien, Lges and night cl il o | SHORT GALENDAR GASES Docket Contains List of 13 For Ftiday . | Session of City Court—Judgments | Rendered By Judge. - Gree! been | i Thirteen cases are on the dockéf for the short calendar session of the city court at 2:30 o’clock Friday aft- ernoon. The list follows: | W. L, Hatch, administrator, by Cooper & Mink, vs. Benjamin Solo- mon, et ux.. judgment and hearing in damages; City Coal & Wood company, by A W. John Caufleld, judgment; Morris Cohn, Nowickl, v vs Upson, vs. by Henry Fedor Karpei, by Klett & Alling, hearing on motion for maore specific statement; tional company, by Henry Nowicki, vs. Rosi Andrusi, by Klett & Alling, order that plantift file bill of particulars; Mi- chael Retka, by J. G. Woods, vs, Louls Gorentz, by M. D. Saxe, motion for more specific statement; William Kl censki, by W. A. Greenstein. vs..Lud wick Wilscenski, by M. D. Saxe ple ing for non-guit; Peter Baba, by . Milkowitz, vs. Isaac Oshanna, by Klett & Alling, motion for bond; Aaron Co- lien, by H, P. Roche, vs. L. F. Greene, Ly Cooper & Mink, bill of particulars for non-suit; David Segall, by W. 4. nstein, vs. Iuller Storage Battery Co., by B. F. Gaffney, pleading; Wil- liam Waitkevicz, by Klett & Alling, v, John Waitkevicz, judgment; Peter Baba, by M. A. Soxton, vs. David Bu- ba, by Klett & Alling, motion that plaintiff file bond; Peter Baba, by M A, sexton, vs. Harry Kenig, by F. Il iungorford, specially. hearing on d murrer; Titie Realty & Development Co.. by Cooper & Mink, vs. Dominica Crisanta, et al., tice. Judgment for (he defendant has been awarded by Judge James T. Mes: Kill in the suit of the Wexler Building company against M. Blumberg to re- cover $85 damages and costs of $7.81. IUistt & Alling represented the plain e, the case of the esiate of Gu Porlstto inst the esmmte ng tl intiff was npon-suited. t & represapted the de- fendant. Tn ser ag of D \litng Supply” further order of no-\