New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1921, Page 2

FLORIDA Genuine Havana Tobacco Hand Made. Not How Large— —But How Good. 8¢, 2 for 15c¢. $1.75 for package of 25. THE Dickinson Drug Store 169-171 Main Street. HORSFALL ‘Woven Madras Shirts Made of the best domestic and D. and J. to Anderson’s Scotch Madras—fine patterns. _$3.50 Values $5.00 - Values 3 for $10. $5.50 and $6 Values . O . Tk Honghll Comprng 93 Asylum Street. “It Pays to Buy Our Kind."” " This Store Closes All Day Mon- days During July and August. —— CITY ITEMS ;'Victrolas and piancs, Henry Morans. —advt. William B. Rossberg, of this city, 'Was a speaker at the G. A. R. reunion 4t Plainville today. John T. Abrahamson has been ap- ;pointed guardian for Edward and iZolag Nahiguian. The Herald is mailed to the shore jfor 18¢. a week. Order it before you leave for your vacation.—advt. FRANCE WILL ACT, DESPITE ENGLAND JIs Determined to Send Reinforce- ments Into Upper. Silesia to Protect Troops Now There Paris, July 21. | Press)—France, it was declared reinforcements to = Upper ‘whether Creat Britain joins or p@ested by France. . French scldiers ground there. already on Premier Briand sent a note yes- terday in reply to the British note in the Silesian issue, expressing lack of conviction that the supreme council by convening before measures are taken to assure order and provide for the security of the allied troops now in Upper Silesia acording to the inter- pretation official circles place upon could serve any useful purpose the Frepch communication. News received here today was increasingly provocative. France, it is declared, man side, making. it doubly necessary, in the French view, to reinforce the allied troops. Precautions first, ward, probably will French view, it is there are unforeseen developments. remain GREEKS STILL ADVANCE. Are Pursuing Turkish Nationalistits. Driven From: Railroad Junction. London, July 21. Press.)—With the important hands, rapid pursuit of the Trukish National ists dislodged from that city and other points along the front in Asia Minor, it is announced in a dispatch from the Greek foreign minister at Athens, re- ceived Here today Eski-Shehr, it is officially announced was occupied by the Greeks at 8 p m. Tu®sdaly after a severe struggle. King whose departure for the front was announced from Smyrna yes- a6 n up hia headquarters Constantine, (By Associated in jofficial circles this morning will send Silesia not in the reinforcement movement sug- The French move ‘will be made, it was declared, to in- sure the safety of the ten thousand the from Oppeln was far from reassuring. The attitude of the German press, as in- terpreted by the French dispatches, recognizes that danger threatens from the side of the Poles as well as from the Ger- decisions after- the indicated, unless (By Associated railway Junction point of Eski-Shehr in their the Greeks are conducting a CONN. C0. REPLIES T0 OUR EDITORIAL Fignres on Eu—s_TEtw in London| Submitted by President Storrs The following communication, which is self-explanatory has been received from President Storrs of the Con- necticut company: The Editor, New Britain Herald, New Britain, Conn., Dear Sir: ' Your issue of the 14th instant con- tains an editorial referring among other things to the bus operation in London. In order that you may.be more familiar with the situdtion in London, I am taking the liberty to call to your attention several facts relative to the transportation service of that city. \ The first statement in the editorial is that “in London there are remark- ably few ‘rolleys.”” In 1920, the underground railways in London car- ried 675,000,000 passengers, the su- burban, steam and electric railways 350,000,000 passengers, the street railways, 1,100,000,000 passengers and the motor omnibusses, 1,035,000,- 000 passengers. You will note, there- fore, that the street railways car- ried more passengers than either the motor busses or the underground and subdrban railways combined, or a little more than one-third. of the total number of passengers carried by all transportation facilities. The statement that “there are remark- ably few trolleys,” therefore, is hard- ly borne out by these statistics. In greater London, 348 miles of streets and roads are occupied by electric railways and 577 miles are occupied by motor busses, of which 222 miles are over streets which have electric railways. One of the prin- cipal reasons for the large amount of motor bus service in London is the narrowness of its main streets and irfegularity of the city plan- ning. The streets are so narrow that because of & general requirement of all tramways in England to main- tain a clear space between the outer rail and curb of not less than 9 feet 6 inches very few of the street rail- way lines are double tracked. Even the Strand which is the main east and west channel of traffic is only 32 feet wide from curb to curb al- thought it is, at the present time, being gradually widened to 60 feet. Oxford street, another main east and west channel of traffic, is only 52 feet wide. It is, therefore, .next to impossible. and always has been, to construct electric railway tracks through many, of the London streets and busses have been operated as a means of trans- portation even, before the advent of the gasoline motor as a means of pro- pulsion. The bus routes are so laid out that they overlap the street rai ways for only short distances and then spread out into territory where there is not and never has been any, street railway tracks. Your editorial states that the busses carry passengers long distances for 4 cents. The fare on the busses is not uniform but is graduated on the basis of the distance traveled the same as the fare on the street rail- ways and over 60 per cent of the passengers carried on the busses ride less than one mile. However, in 1920, the average fare paid per pas- senger was slightly in excess of 4 cents, some passengers paying more and some less. It should also be borne in m!nd in comparing the cost of operation of busses in London with the cost in this country that, in London, they use double deck busses of from 42 to 44 seating capacity and are even installing at the present time some with a seating capacity of 60. There are very few American cities, out- side of first class cities, where busses of this type could be successfully operated. Therefore, the cost per passenger, owing to the greater ca- pacity, is materially less in London than it would be in this country. T think you will find, upon careful in- vestigation, that a real bus service operating on a regular schedule 18 hours per day and 365 days per year will cost very much more per pas- senger than the street railway serv- ice. ' It may be of further interest to you to know that the receipts of the London General Omnibus company, Limited, in 1920, were $706,000 less than the operating expenses or a deficit from operations of 0.82 cents per bus mile. It costs the Fifth Ave- nue Coach company of New York, which operates under the most fa- vorable circumstances and with prac- tically maximum leads at all times, 8 1-2 cents for every passenger car- ried. I trust you will pardon me for hav- ing trespassed on your time to this extent but I have done so merely for the purpose of emphasizing that in our enthusiasm for the reception of some new departure, we frequently neglect to make sufficient serious com- parisons with the older methods which we expect to replace. Yours very truly, L. P. STORRS, ' President. We do not question the veracity of Mr. Storrs’ remarks. He undoubtedly . (knows of conditions. But, owing to narrowness ‘of streets or otherwise, downtown London is singularly lack- ing in trolleys and remarkably full of busses. The writer wrote with only his knowledge of greater Lon- don to depend upon, not with any statistics at hand. He happens to know that the busses will carry pas- sengers over a mile for four cents, , |[normal exchange, because he was in ithe habit of riding that distance at least twice daily. Ed. OLD 999 STILL GOING. Famous' DeWitt Clinton Train Puffing = on Toward Chicago. Albany, N. Y., July 21.—The fam- +| ous old Dewitt Clinton train mounted on modern flat cars and drawn by the renowned New York Central engine 9, started from here today on second lap of its trip to Chicago. The first stop today was at Schenee- tady, which was the western terminal of the Dewitt Clinton's first run 90 years ago. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 21, cigarette x;_ the world ~foryou-is the ozl\e that suits your taste. Maybe its ONE-ELEVEN,| Justbuy a package a find out.. / Gu.nmu‘ o NEW BUSINESS MAY BE STARTED HERE Rubber Mending Class Makes 100 Per Cent. Profit A permanent business of mending rubbers may be the outgrowth of the rubber mending class and its new or- ganization, The Achiévement club, at the Daily Vacation Bibla school, ac- cording to the sentiments expressed by the boys in the class as well as Rev. Frederick H. Wilkins, the sup- erintendent, this morning. The boys received their second half bushel basketful of worn overshoes and oth- er rubbar goods, among them being a leaky hot water bottle, this morn- ing, with instructions to repair at 5 cents a patch. With only two days completed since they went into business on a cash basis, eight boys in the class this morning reported the completion of business amounting to $2.50 in value, most of which already has been paid for. One boy alone did 70 cents worth of business. The receipts have been so good that all the sup- plies for this work have been paid for and at least half still remains, show- ing a 100 per cent profit, something few, if any, business concerns can show at this time. There will be no ‘more registrations of pupils until Monday morning. Enough new pupils were enrolled this morning to bring the total mem- bership up to the 20V mark and this is considered the maximum number which can be handled with any de- gree of convenience. To replace chil- dren who drop out or go away on va- cations, Fev. Mr. Wilkins will enroll as many new pupils as he can take care of every Monday morning. The boys’ hammoek making class finished two new hammocks this morning. This came as a sort of a surprise as it was not thought they would be able to turn out any com- plete hammocks before Friday morn- ing. These are the first to be finished this term and will be placed on display in a local store window as soon as a suitable place can be found. Two new sewing classes were formed today in charge of = Misses Doris Osborne and Bernice Lippke and Mrs. Genvieve Alverton. There are 41 pupils now enrolled in kindergarten class. These pupils were given an interesting drill in cul- tivating individual judgment this morning. Each child previously had made a fancy paper lantern out of colored paper. The 41 lanterns were placed on a table in the center of the room, a tabie so low that the youngsters could reach it without difficulty and the little tots were re- quesed, one at a time, to go up and pick out the one they thought to be the prettiest. It was interesting to note how each little tot looked the lanterns over very critically and carefully selected the one he or she decided was the prettiest. It also was a good illustration of the differ- ence in tastes. There now are 51 teachers enrolled on the list. Of these 24 are regular teachers and 27 are supply teachers. AMERICAN ACCUSED OF BEING IMPOLITE State Department Surprised at This Attitude ‘on Part of League of Nations. Washington, July 21.—Unofficial in- dications that officials of thé league of nations have felt that the United States had been lacking in courtesy in not replying more fully to communications from the league has ereated surprise at the state department, The subject 1s understood not to have been officially presented. And, it was indicated no formal explanation is contemplated, It is known, however, that the United States officials have felt that in dealing directly with nations who are members of the league they have acted with -all the punctillo that could be ex- pected. It was explained that such communications as bad reached the de- partment had been acknowledged but in dealing with such subjects as mandates, the opium traffic, the white slave trade and, more recently the question of Austrian relief, the state department had dealt directly with the powers: concerned. It was intimated that such a course was logical since while the other nations concerned are members of the league, the United States is not and that in dealing with them directly the United States is ap- proaching- them as the allied and as- Other stops will be at TUtica and sociated powers, the designation given bemy as members of the leagie the | ILLINOIS GOVERNOR IS HELD FOR FRAUD Charge Is Gonspnraoy to Embezzle Public Funds Springfield, I1l, July 21.—Governor ien Sall was expected to appear in court today to furnish bopd and de- nand immediate trial in connection Vith the indictments returned yester day by the €angamon county grand jury charging conspiracy to defraud the state and the embezzling of pub- lic funds. Lieut.-Governor Fred E. Sterling and Vernon 'S. Curtis of Grant Park, T one of the owners of the Grant Fark Bank, named jointly with Gov- einor Small in the indictments, will probably be served with warrants to- Jday and will take similar action. The indictments charge the three inen with conspiring to defraud the ttate of two million dollars and the cinbezzlement of seven hundred thousand dollars, and Lieut.-Governor Sterling is charged with the embeazle- ment of a like amount. The bonds of Governor Small ani L:eut.-Governor $terling were, fixed at one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars each, and those of Curtis at one hundred thousand dollars. The grand jury which sumbitted a tengthy report recommended that the legislature conduct an investigation of the whole subject of the handling of public funds to determine the >fficial delinquency if any and to de- termine what legislation should be en- acted to protect the public funds. The grand jury report stated that during the terms of Governor Small ard Lieut.-Governor Sterling as treas- urer the daily balance in the stato treasury fluctuated between $20,000,- 000 and $32,000,000, and beginning with Small’s administration the bal- ances were, carried on the books as two funds, a vault and a safe fund, the former representing loans to le- zitimate banking institutions. The report asserts the other fund represented loans made the Graut Park Bank which, it says, ceased to function as a bank after 1908. De- posits carried by the Grant Park Bank, the report asserted, were used to purchase short terms notes from Chicago packers, the total of which the jury found was ten million dol- lars. The loans to the packers earned, the jury reported, nearly eight per cent, while Small and Sterling, ac- cording to the report, paid over to the state less than two per cent, the re- mainder consituting the bulk of the state’s interest money which the jury caarges Small and Sterling with ew- bezzling. Governor Small issued a statement in which he laid the entire blame for the indictments on politial enemies. Lieut.-Governor Sterling in a state- ment declared he would welcome the opportcnity to lay his record before the public. CHANGE MEETING PLACE. The luncheon to be held by the (‘hautauqua guarantors will be at the Shuttle Meadow club tomorrow noon instead of the New "Britain club as originally announced. The change is made necessary on account of roorc. Miss Leonora Wills advance represen- tative, will be present. l | | 1921. e e Conn. Inventions Patents Issued June 28, 1921, by the U. S. Patent Office to Connec- ticut Inventors. (Last furnished by officé of Harold G. Manning, 203 National Bank, Building, New Britain.) Charles L. Carlsson, Ivoryton. joint and bond. George W. Férnside, Grinder for lawn mowers. EllsworthA. Hawthorne, port. Lamp. Howard D. Horge, New York, N. Y. and J. G. Duff, Waterbury. Register. Frank A. Joseph, Naugatuck. Two patents. Assignor to L. Candee & Company. Footwear; making foot wear. Alexander W. Limont, Bridgeport. Assignor to Bridgeport Brass Com- pany. Sizing metal bands. Pasquale Pasquariello, Hamder. Iwo patents. Friction brake; exten- sion ladder. John W. Petrie, New Haven. Kalci- doscope. John W. Phillips, Meriden. Assig nor to C. P. Landreth; Philadelphia. Centrifugal apparatus. Alfred L. Prevost, Mystic. pin and manufacture thereof. Elbert H. Searle, Bridgeport. Re- loading mechanism for magazine fire- arms. Rail Hartford Bridge- Clothes- Design Patents. Henry W. Armstrong, New Haven. Tweezer. William J. Hines, Eartford. signor to The Fuller Crumbing implement. Albert T. Mowitz, New York, N. ¥ Assignor to Columbia . Graphophone Manufacturing Co., Bridgeport. Pho- nograph cabinet. Ross M. G. Phillips, New Haven. Asscignor to P. P. Fallon, New York, N. Y. Vehicle top. Trade-Mark Registrations. American Hosiery Company, Britain. Two registrations. coats; Heath jackets. The Fulled Brush Company, Hart- fcrd.. Crumb trays, crumb and sink scrapers. Application for Trade-Mark Registra- tions. Bridgeport Brass Company, Bridge- port. Tire pumps. Cross & Beardsley, ‘Wall papers. International Silver Company, Mer- {den and Waterbury. Silver-plated flat ware. New England Knitting Company, Winsted. Women and knitted under- wear, combination undergarments, ho- siery, etc. The Stanley Works, New Britain. Two applications. Vises, bit braces, breast drills, etc; planes. Toulson & Renesch, Yarns. J. B. Williams Company, Glastoa- bury. Talcum poyder. Winchester Repeating Arms New Haven. Hatchets. As- Brush Co. New Heath New Haven. Bridgeport. Co., MAJOR CAMPBELL ARRIVES. Officer Charged by Mrs. Bergdoll With Taking Graft Now at Washington, Washington, July 21.—Bruce C. Campbell, an army officer n6w stationed at Camp Pike, Ark., accused by Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll of demanding and accepting $5,000 to aid her slacker son, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, was here today to answer the charges before a house investigating committee. At a former hearing both Major Campbell and Mrs. Bergdoll testified that he was not paid one dollar doll’s military counsel in court-martial proceedings and from Camp Pike Tue: day, the officer charges. Mrs. Bergdoll, it developed, was urged by her son, now a fugitive in Germany to tell the committee of the alleged payment which the mother swore was for use =mong the ‘‘higher- ups'’ in the government service. The issued a denial of the| in| committee got word of this after the connection with his scrvices as Berg- hearing had been virtually concluded. _CITY MAY GET CAISSON. Mayor Orson F. a letter Curtis has received Senator George P. Mc- Lean stating that all efforts possible from will be usec to secure a caisson from the government for the soldiers of New Brituin to use at military funerals. Fruit Jars Jélly Glasses Jar Rings The New “U Press It” HERBERT L. MILLS HARDWARE FORD CAR Gives 26 Miles on Gallon Gasoline With Zenith Carburetor 336 MAIN STREET of Heaps up a profit for its owner—instead of eating it with old style carburetion. —MORE PEP—MORE ECONOMICAL—MORE POWER— Better get in line—equip your Ford car with a Zenith NOW. You will be more than pleased with the installation. SPECIAL OFFER THIS WEEK. A. G. HAWKER, Agent TRUTHS ABOUT OUR COAL BUSINESS We have been in business now for twelve years. We have maintained the confidence of the New Britain Public up to the present through our square dealing. We have had to face business conditions that were intolerable during the war. We have always looked after the interests of oar customers. Last year we have never sold coal above what we then considered a fair price, namely $17.50. We thereby have secured a large number of friends. We are no fortune tellers and cannot state exact- ly what conditions we may be forced to contend with this coming winter. We do not know what kind of a winter we will have and what transportation we may expect. But we do know what we can do now. We have built up _a good big business and be- .sides we have a consclence that at all times dictates to us. We believe in serving the public unselfishly and here is what we propose to do: Conditions in general are bad at present. Therefore we have decided to let the New Brit- ain Public know that we have resolved to reduce our prices for the present to the following. Office 55 Franklin Square All rail Lehigh Coal, best quality Egg, Stove and Nut, $15.00 per ton, delivered in cellar. livered in cellar. Pea coal, $13.00 per ton, de- Another thing we have done was to rebate all our customers any amount they have paid us above $15.00 per ton since April 1st, 1921. If you have not received your rebate check ad- vise us as we wish all our customers to take advan- tage of this offer. We cannot state how long these new pl:icos will be in effect but we shall do our utmost to give you the best on: the market for the lowest possible price. We have the most up-to-date yard and machin- ery in this city and we wish you to derive the benefit therefrom. Please take note of the following facts: Our Railroads are not what they used to be Freight rates have about doubled since 1914. The mines have a wage agreement with their em- ployees that lasts until April 1st, 1922. Our advice is that you get your coal now. We will give you Quality, Service, and the best of treatment your money can buy. THE SHURBERG COAL COMPANY Tel. 2250-2251