New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1921, Page 10

(ERS | CHURGH ACTIVITIES ~SNOW TIES UP TRAFF PLANNED THIS WEEK ALL DAY SUNDAY IN CITY ; EARANEEI Pape]' Has Many Meetings and Services to Be Held edition of the Stan- its interesting The maga- | organ represent- ley Works and the and Level company. he consolidation of the ! and plant with orks, several changes do in the sales arrange- us changes have he men orn and northeren concern. n's Meeting. of the Stanley en will be held Tues-! March 1, at 6 o'clock Mr. V. B. Cham- ol Interest [ I s made appear- ins many of note Mcial Level the ter- covering meeting vom reside. ma‘erials and equip- the topic of dlscus- neeting, and talks on 11l be given by Mensrs J. H. Fellows, w. eneral discussion will the subject or * Or- il also be given by the groups at this meet- DPept. Merged. department and Level plant and | orks will be consoll- . All traffic matters from the Stanley J. Chase Huntting re- trafMc department at ks. J. R. Kelth will 0 another department. ly will be maintained Rule and Level plant, t department repre- jpend part of his time of looking after which cannot be jhe main office. Fire Ohlef, on has been ap- new fire chief 0 re- Senf who resigned '\ Mr. Senf was chie? Paeding the late John tor has been with soveral years and fire departent for Bob Andrews has | 8 his assistant and As second assis‘ant. Talks. 1 Talks” is being y ovenings at 6 n and women mem- Bpecitying and Steel ta. the next lecture IO Thursday evening, Spocifying Cold B. Pratt will talk of the , Marech 18, A. J. on “Manufacturing ld Rolled Steel.” and . March 31, a talk Ia" will be given by me Bowlers, beon | | York, of thoe Girls’ Rowling t the following no- h 8, is the "“Time" ation bullding is the Stanley Rule anad Works girls are s date the Rule N team play thelir another team and ve been courageous our more expori- pam"'~—~the Stanley , Thumsday, March your engagement be up at the alleys trong and hearty, or lose. But-—here's ping to win! and Julius Klemins highest suggestion onth of January. UES \\'\R\ Noble today issued perty owners to safe- during the present about by the snow. how from in front of h assist the firemen d added protection to ING ON PARK. ht Opens Track Walnat . Ralph B. Wainright, roads through the | Hill today, made a the slope near ted last year and | early as this after- bogganing s in- this city ana in it wil yes- —Speakers at Evening Prayers Methodist Church Home Mis- will hold a sewing meeting at the church tomorrow aft- F. F. Neuman wil charge of the Tuesday night its regular meeting tomorrow at 7:46 o'clock. Regular prayer meet- ing will be held Thursday evening at 7:45 o'clock. The sewing school will hold sessions Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Next Sunday morning Dr. Holmes of the Methodist hospital at Brooklyn, N. Y., will occupy the pul- pit. The Wesleyan Quartet will have charge of the services Nom 6:30 un- l 30 o’'clock in the evening of that day. Talks will be given by Captain Berlew of the Weslevan football texm. James Peck, president of the college body and Mr. McDonald of the Wes- leyan Glee club. Contributions for the Neuman fund are being received by Harry Hancock. The Brotherhood of the South Con- gregotional church will hold a supper at the church at 6:30 o’clock tonight. A. W. Atwood, writer for the Satur- ening Post, will address the members. Tomorrow afternoon the Woman's Foreign Missionary depart- The siona society ernoon have class at ment will meet to sew for the Madura | hospital. Troop 2 of the Boy Scouts meet in the evening at 7:30 o'clock The Girl Scout Troop will meet Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Dr. Hill will resume the series of Len- ten sermons at next Sunday’s ser lces. Dr. Hill is receiving contribu- tions for the starving in China, and an urgent call to this effect has heen sent out. On Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Mrs. William F. Brooks will address the Foreign Missionary sc clety on ‘“The World's Crossroads. A parish supper will be served nt 6:30 o'clock in the evening when Rev. joorge S. Webster, D.D., of Nuvw and Peac The annual meeting of the Wom- an’s Mission Circle of the First Bap- tist church, will be held in the chapel | Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. j Mrs. E. R. Hitchcock will address the members on “The Missionary Mess- age of the Old Testament.” TPhe Heralds will meet on Friday after- noon at 3:45 o'clock and the Crusad- ers will hold a meeting at 4 o’clock. The Boy S8cout Troop will reet at 7:45 o'clock. Rev. Herbert White will be in charge of the evangelistic services at 7:45 o'clock in the even- ing. The First Congregational church, Intermediate-Senior Boys, will hold a supper at the church at 6:30 o'clock | tonight. The Young Woman's Home Missionary society will hold a supper tomorrow night at 6:30 o'clock. The Girl Bcout Troop will meet Wednes- day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and the Armenian Woman's Bible class will hold sessions Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. H. W. Mater will give the first of his series of talks An “Elijah, the Prophet of Fire and Re- buke,” and “Elisha the Prophnat of Friondly Helpfulness,” at the Thurs- Aay evening services. The Boy Scout Troop will meet Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. On Thursday, March 24, there will be a union communion service at the South Congregational church at 7:45 o'clock in the cvening. special services are being planned for Eastor Sunday, March 27 Deaths and Funerals Alcide Charland. The funeral of Alcida Charland was held at 9 o'clock this morning at St. Poter's church. Rev. Charles Coppens officiated at a requiem high mass. Tha pall bearers were: A. Crepan, M. Cingras, A. Odctte. Euzene Charland, Joseph Landonen and George Biallar- geon. The flower bearers were: P. Bergtreaube, E. Charland and D Odette. The burial was in St. Mary’'s new cematory. Fred Kostenbader, The funeral of Fred Kostenhader wan held at @ o'clock this morning at St. Joseph's church. Rev. J. JLeo Sul- livan was the celebrant of a reqniem high maes. Members of A. G. Ham- mond Camp, U. B W. V., acted an bhearers. The burial was in St. Mary’s new cemetery. Peter Sundgren. Peter Sundgren, one of the best known members of the Swedish Luth- eran church, died last night at his home at Farmington. He leaves two sons and two daughters. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Wednssday afternoon at the Swedish Lutheran church The burial will be in Fair- view cemetery. Mrs. Flina Pcterson. Services for Mra. Elina Peterson will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Erwin Mortuary chapel in Falrview cemetery Harry Kirshnit Tho funeral 70 Hartford avenue wai held at 11 o'clock_yesterday morning. The burial was | oth Alom gemetery. will give an illustrated lecture | on “Seaman Afloat and Ashore in War | night | l | but } of Harry Kirshnit of | (Continued from First Page.) have changed was seen this morning at City Hall when several hundred laborers came to the office of the board of public works to get Jjobs | shoveling snow for the clty. Daring the storm of last year, wages offered through newspaper ad- vertising failed to bring in enough snow shovelers to combat the storms Considerably lower wages are being cagerly seized this morning. Beardsley Makes Statement. F. L. Beardsley, local manager of the Connecticut company lines in this city, speaking of the damage the storm did to trolley traffic yester- day, said it was ‘‘unlooked for and uncalled for.” That the company will be put to considerable loss secms evident, for the reason that the snow was so moist that it packed down heavily on the company's tracks, necessitating extra effort in removing it. The company exper- ienced the greatest difficulty in operating on the Berlin and Arch street lines. FEarly yesterday aft- ernoon, a large car became stalled at the corner of Hart and Arch street, here it remained until today before it could be started. A North End line also continued to keep open. About a half-mile of the Farmington avenue route was blocked, and on the East Main strect line, -all but about 500 feet of the distance was traversed by the cars, according to Manager Beardsley. Jitney Operating At Loss. Practically all other forms of traf- fic were at a standstill yesterday. On Arch street, jitney service was main- tained by operators. One of the jitneurs hit upon a scheme that aided him, with the placing of improvised plows in front of the wheels. This same jitneur in speaking of the service last night, said he had operated his bus at a loss yesterday, he would continue to run all night, in order to give the patrons service. Hearse Stalled. The funeral hearse of M. ney and company on the way to Berlin depot to get a body which was being brought here for burial, got stuck in the snow in front of the C. E. Prentice company, where it re- mained until this morning when a force of men assisted by some horses finally got it out of a drift. Horses to Rescue. That the horse is still a potent factor in transportation was shown by the fact, that several undertakers yesterday were forced to abandon their funeral auto hearses for the equine. School Boys Shoveling. There was no session of the schools today, and early a band of J. Ken- young snow shovelers could be seen | in various localities. These young- sters did good work in dearing many sidewalks making travellng on foot somewhat more enjoyable than early today. Hartford Report. Hartford, Feb. 21.—The snowfall here in Sunday’s storm was 17 inches which the local weather bureau says is a record in a 24 hour fall in this city since the bureau was established 17 ycars ago. Streets were blocked and trafic demoralized, but things trolley were | pretty nearly normal by mid-day al- still | ! ning out to East Main street. though suburban lines were handicapped. There was a rush of unemployed to the street department office early this morning and hun- dreds were given work as shovelers. About the State. New Haven, Feb. 21.—A statement from the general offices of the New Haven road told of recovery on prac- tically all branches from yesterday's storm. Temporarily freight service has been discontinued with the ex- ception of those carrying perishable freight. Passenger service is operat- ing satisfacto , although in =ome places trains have been consolidated with two engines in preference to operating single units. Winsted, Feb. 21.—In spite of a 15- inch fall of snow and a strong wind which piled, up drifts. all sections of Litchfleld county made quick recov- ery today. The Central New England road with snow plows kept the line to Canaan open and the New Yark train' was only 35 minutes late. Trol- ley cars are running to Torrington. Jitney service to Hartford was stopped. In New York. New York, Feb. 21.—Saventeen thousand men wera spread over Greater New York today to clear away the heavy coat of snow which it was estimated would cost $1,000,- 000 to remove. Outside the city railways were fizhting against drifts which piled as high as locomotive cab windows in some sections, and all traffic was limping from the effects of one of the heaviest snowfalls that has coatad the metropolitan district in many years. Commutation trains in New Jersey and bong Island and into Connecti- cut were running on disrupted sched- ules and freight service was discon- tinued into New England by tha New Haven railroad except for the handi- ing of perishables. Boston Reports. Boston. Feb. 21.—Thousands of men were employed today in digging the city from the biggest pile of :now ! that has fallen in any single storm in 22 years. The principal streets je _business section had been cularly those on in kept hich ' milkman anormous | some of the branch lines were still badly clogged. Eight deaths directly due to storm had been reported from dif- ferent sections of the state today. Four fishermen . were drowned off ull, a trackman was killed while Fho\emng at the South station, a in Milford was overcome bucking the drifts. A man in Stone- ham collapsed when he left a stalled car to walk to his home and a stable- man employed in the south end sec- tion of this city was overcome while on his way to work early today. In Washington. Washington, Feb. 21.— Another snow storm over the greater portion of the territory cast of the Mississip- pi and north of the Tennessee-North Carolina line is probable tonight or Tuesday the weather bureau's fore- cast today said. Generally fair weather prevailed today after the storm of yesterday but unsettled weather was forecast over practically all of the district east of the Mississippi tonight and Tuesday, with rain in the southeast- ern states. The snowfall yesterday was de- scribed by the bureau as heavy in Maryland, eastern Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and New England. At Boston there was 16 inches of snow on the ground this morning. Temperatures throughout this terri- tory were low today but the bureau said they would rise slowly except in the Florida peninsula. WILLIAM FOX WILL —Gost $1,000,000 Alexander Kempner of New York acting for the William Fox interests, has secured a three months’ option on the Solomon Schurberg property on Main street, the former site of the George M. Landers homse, and it is understood that the company will shortly have plans drawn for million dollar enterprise here. Of that amount, $300,000 will be represented in the site and present building which is one story high and is oc- cupied by stores, while the theater proper will cost $700,000. The present | building is of recent construction, and so designed that it can be altered for theater purposes by the building of additional floors and extending to the rear the Electric building which was re- cently purchased by John Contaras and Peter Perokas, joint owners of the Palaco and Scenic theaters. A three-year lease is held by Mr. Fox. The following is a statement issued this morning by a representative of the Fox theater interests, Willlam Fox, president of the Fox Film Corporation of New York, will ! comence in the spring, the erection in New Britain, of the largest and finest theater in the state of Connecti- cut; representing an expenditure of more than one million dollars ($1,- 000,000.) Mr. Fox, through his real estate Representative A. S. Kepner has pur- chased the property known as the George M, Landers estate property, which fronts 100 feet on Main street, New Britain, and having a depth of 382 feet ,with an additional “L" run- The broker of the transaction was Mr. Barney Miller of New Britain. There is at present a one story store build- ing on the front ¢of the property, and two of these stores, or approximately 30 feet will be devoted to the labby entrance. This present store building will be extended to a height of six stories. The playhouse will seat between 3,000 and 3,500 people. Plans of the theater are now being prepared by Thomas W, Lamb ef New York, who has designed most of Mr. Fox's theaters,' and who will embody in these plans several unique ideas which he has developed in his most recent theaters. The auditorium proper Jvill be 100 feet wide and 200 feet deep,and will have an exit to Fast Main street, and additional exits will be provided through a unique system of tunnels, so that the entire width of the plot can be used for seating capacity and still there will be sufficient exits pro- vided to make this theater the safest in the country from the standpoint of fire hazards. It is expected that these plans will be completed and con- struction will be started in the early spring. In style and splendor, as well as size, the new Fox theater will be one of the marvels of the amusement world. No expense will be spared to make the decorations and general interior conform with the high standards set by the other theators which Mr. Fox has built The policy of the theater will be vaudeville and mation pictures, and in adition there will be a symphony orchestra of 50 men under the di- rection of a conductor of world-wide fame in musical circles. The presentation of the pictures will be made together with special stage settings and lighting and scenic effects and the aim will be to give the public of New Britain the very finest in vaudeville, motion pictures and symphony music. Work will begin on the theater this sprink and it is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy by the first of next vear. CITY ITEMS. the | BULD NEW THEATER ~On Site of 0ld Landers Property a | The Fox theater is now situated in | WEAR BATTEY’S ARCTICS AND BOOTS And Smile at the Blizzard Men’s Hip Rubber Boot$ $3.75 $3.98 Men’s “Ball Brand” Short VAC Boots WOMEN’S 3 and 4 BUCKLE ARCTICS MEN’S LIGHT WEIGHT 4 BUCKLE ARCT.CS MEN’S HEAVY 4 BUCKLE ARCTICS MEN’S 1 BUCKLE ARCTICS . BILL BATTEY SHOE STORES 267 MAIN STREET . $3.98 $3.98 $3.98 - $1.98 Add 10c to Price tor Mail Orders Open All Day Tomorrow for the Convenience of the Public "BONNEY IS RE-ELECTED Local Man Retained in Office of Vice- President by Connecticut Fifers and Drummers’ Association. James J. Bonney of this city was re-elected second vice-president of the Connecticut Fifers .and Drum- mers’ association at the annual meet- ing of the organization Saturday aft- ernoon at the Y. M. T. A. & B. so- ciety rooms. Mr. Bonney vresided at the session. The organization vot- ed to hold its mext field day at Tor- rington. The complete staff of offi- cers named is: President, Richard Parkington of Naugatuck; first vice- president, Odell M. Chapman of Will- imantic; secretary and treasurer, George W. Burgdoff of Yalesville; warden, John Smedick of Torringtonr; out of state delegate, John Quinn of Hartford. At the close of the afternoon ses- sion, a Dutch supper was served in the basement of the Tabs' buildins, Lowe & Cotter catering. A second session was held in the eveninz. STILL PITCHING HORSESHOFES. St. Petersburg, Fla., Feb. 21.—The annual national horseshoe pitching WELTY SAYS JUDGE LANDIS WAS BRIBED (Continued from First Page.) talk to the committee later, adding that he did not think Mr. Welty’s charges had ‘‘been substantiated.’’ The committee adjeurned while mem- bers were about to engage in an off- hand discussion of the propriety of Judge Landis’ conduct. “‘Motive Apparent.” Acceptances by Judge Landis of $42,500 as supreme arbiter of base- ball while serving on the bench might . o unchallenged *‘if the motive back of it were not so apparent,’”’ Representa- tive Welty declared. Calling attention to the action of the supreme court of the District of Colum- bia in assessing demands of $240,000 against the big league baseball associa- tions in suits brought under the anti- trust laws, and the indictment of play- ers in Chicago for throwing games, Mr. Welty said: ““While these matters were pending TUSKEGEE SINGERS A Noted Colored Entertainers Will sent Program Tuesday FEvenin Other Events Scheduled. Arrangements have been mag fbring the famed Tuskegee singe the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday evening present an entertainmment for m 'bers and friends of the associatid The program will be given in. i gymnasium at 8 o’clock and an in | tation has been extended by Sec tary Clarence H. Barnes to both m 'and women to attend. The sng; have appeared in this city on ot} occasions and have proved big tractions. The monthly meeting and supp of the business men’s gymnasi ‘class will be held Wednesday evenis at the banquet hall. Judge ‘of Hartford, will be the speal(e'y A supper will be held for the Hi school club Thursday evening at 6: o'clock. Secretary A. A. Derbuck of tH . boys’ department is arranging for ' banquet for the employed boyl the association, to be 'k