New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1922, Page 2

School Supplies School Supplies School Supplies School Supplies School Supplies STATIONERY DEPARTMENT The Dickinson Drug Co. 169-171 MAIN ST. Special Opportunity For Discriminating Buyers offered at HORSFALL'’S —ON— Dollar Day Sept. 9 SFALLS Isylum Street Hartford “It Pays to Buy Our Kind” BUS TAKES NEW ROUTE Faulty Motor Seems Incapable of Making Park Street Grade One of the Muter jitney b s is now operating on some runs at least, through John and Pleasant streets to Stanley, a faulty motor evidently making it difficult for the loaded ve- hicle to make the grade on Park street hill. The regular route of the bus is to Stanley street directly through Park street. Several residents of Kelsey street and Stanley street have lodged infor mal complaints about some jitne busses, as well as heavy motor truc! making themselves a nuisance hy driving up the hills on these twe streets with the cut-outs wide open, making a noise like a miniature bar- rage. Hot Weather Headaches When you cool off suddenly and in a draft, you get a Cold. e natural result is Headaches, Neuralgia and Sore Muscies. To Stop the Headache and Work off the Cold, Take THAT DEPRESSED FEELING caused by the heat is quickly relieved by just one dose of Lax- ative BROMO QUININE Tablets. Does not contain any harmful or habit-forming drugs. The box bears this signature The Sign of Good Photographs @7 dio | street, |during {continual stream of |in and out of the lobbles, TERRIFIC WIND AND RAIN STORM SWEEPS CITY DOING MUCH DAMAGE Trees Uprooted and Electric Wires Tangled—Gale Wreaks Havoc Along Connecticut Shore Fronts. Lightning struck a trolley car, several other cars were put out of commission, troll electric light and telephone service 8§ crippled, trees uprooted, driveways washed out, fac- tories stopped, theater programs in- terrupted and general havoc seemed imminent within a space of 15 or 20 minutes yesterday in by far the se- verest storm this city has seen this summer. It was in the neighborhood of 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon when, al- most without warning, the city seemed to be struck by a veritable clondburst and within a few minutes | many of the streets resembled small riv Lightning Damage, A Lightning struck the chimney of| the house at 40 Belden street, owned | by William Tomails. The chimney was demolished. A one man trolley was struck on West Main street and the motor burned out, resulting in a damage of about $50. A car on Hartford avenue was put out of com- ion when lightning struck the service on Stanley street, street and Hartford Ave,, vas suspended for about three-quar- ters of an hour, Lightning struck two out of three underground feed cables of the Con- necticut Light and Power Co., running along Black Rock avenue and West Main street, causing several interrup-| tions to service. Four or five times during a 20 minyte period lightning struck insulators along the Plainville line and each time there was a slight interruption of service. Wires running into Cooley plant, into the Quarries company and tories in Plainville, while practically every New Britain was affected. plants which ordinarily suspend operations at 5 o'clock, dismissed their help for the day. Those plants which run until 6 o'clock were en- abled to resume after a 15 minute in- terruption. the Hart & Connecticut several fac- were struck, factory in Those Trees Fall. Due to falling trees, branches, etc., on the mountains the Connecticut company had its usual quota of wires| down. At 4:45 o'clock the emer- gency system was put to work and from that time on there was Ilittle trouble. In various parts of the city trees were uprooted. A large limb‘ was broken off near the post office and a big tree was uprooted on| church street, near Stanley. Water Deep in Street. In the low spot on Church street, near the Skinner Chuck company, the | er was two feet deep or over, and was littered with floating boards, etc., while a similar flood cccurred at the foot pof Church street hill, near Stan- ley street. On Main street, near East the water rushed down the street like a raging torrent and at times was so high it covered the side- rising several inches above the top of the curb. Boards lying loose on Lafayette street were washed away | and a large two-inch plank was| washed onto Main street. Autos| and bicycles, hastily abandoned, stood | in water more than half way up to the hubs. Theater Lights Out. The theaters were fairly well filled with afternoon patrons, nervous when the lights went and although orchestras played all| the intermission there was a people walking gazing at wondering Main out, | the storm and nervously what the damage would be. Rawlings “Out of Luck.” All over the city lawns were washed out and driveways damaged. Former | Chief of Police Willlam J. Rawlings| has worked industriously for the past | week or more building a driveway | into his property on Emmons place. After having completed the driveway to his satisfaction he had the pleas ure of seeing it all washed away yes terday The large banner suspended across | Main street at the intersection of | West Main street, announcing the Y. M. T. A. & B. society's fair, literally | was torn to ribbons, involving a loss| of about $75. { No Washout | No washouts on the tracks of either the Connecticut company or the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- | way company are reported. This is| attributed to modern methods of laying | road beds, which are said to be elim- | inating the danger of washouts from sudden summer storms. Telephones Out The Southern New England Tele- phone company escaped remarkably well, in the opinion of Wire Chief Thomas Stamm although between 55 and 60 lines, affecting between 150 and 200 telephones were put out of business, and it v take until noon tomorrow to have them all in \\'nrkmg} condition again. Ordinarily in a storm | of that kind they would expect to | have about 200 lines and possibly 400 phones out of commission. The reason there was not more damage, according to Mr. Stammers, is because wire chiefs of New England have entered upon a campaign of “no | accidents to service during Septem- ber,” and because of this campaign every lineman and mechanic is mak- ing an extra effort to keep things in first class condition. No Accidents No accidents were reported to the board of public works up until 10 | there were three | o'clock this morning. The board of water works did not experience any trouble. At the Shuttle Meadow | reservoir the rainfall was vastly !fiss‘ than in the city. The precipitation fifths of an inch. In New Britain, it was estimated by Frank J. O'Brien of the water de- partment fully two inches fell. Fire Alarm O. K. The fire alarm system remained un- damaged during the storm but the downfall stopped the baseball game who became |* New York, Sept. 7.——A rafdstorm accompanied by gales of wind caused damage yesterday Yn many towns along the Connecticut shore front and endangered the safety of many craft on Long Island Sound.: A party of four men from Stamford, including Arthur Hatter and Herbert Hull, had not been heard from late last night. The electric transmission systems in Greenwich, Cos Cob and Stamford were put out of commiszion and for a time the towns were darkened and out of communication with the out- | side world. Street railway traffic was crippled and many trees blown down. In Stamford a house owned by Mrs. Kate Graham was blown over and the roads were blocked by fallen trees, Damage Reported. After the storm had subsided a re- liet party set forth from Stamford to find four men who had been fish- ing from a small boat some distance out in the sound. Halil fell at Sound Beach and at Shippan Point, dam- aging gardens and making it unsafe to venture forth at the height of the storm. A pergola weighing three tons was swept from {ts concrete moorings on the estate of H. K. Dalton at Ship- pan Point and carried into the yard of a neighbor. Apprehension was felt for many canoeists who were known to he on the Sound shortly before the storm came up with little forewarning. No loss of life has yet been reported, but volunteer partfes have been made up to search the waters for ' capsized craft. Lightning Hits Barn. Vivid flashes of lightning accom- ranied the storm, and numerous fires started. Walter and Horace Smith, tarmers of Greenwich, Conn, had a narrow escape when lightning struck a barn in which they had taken ref- uge. The frame structure caught on fire and a horse and 50 tons of hay were burned. Another barn at Bran- ford, Conn., was struck and some hay destroyed. Little Damage in New York. The storm was part of that which swept New York about eight o'clock doing little material damage, but breaking the hot spell under which the city had sweltered all day. Small craft in the vieinity of City Island were reported accounted for, having ample warning by threatening elouds of the approach of the storm. Throughout ~ Connecticut reports came of the ruin caused by the storm in over-turned buildings, fallen trees and general crippling of the electric light and trolley systems. Hailstones Kill Chickens, Two dozen spring chickens owned by Gibert Dalton, a New York manu- facturer, were pelted to death by hailstones as they stood in crates ready for shipment from South Beach. Trolley Cars Crash. Two trolley cars crashed at Madi- son avenue and 116th street and sev- eral persons sustained minor injuries, inflicted principally by glass that showered on them from shattered windows and vestibules. A ILexing- ton-Lenox avenue car was crossing| 116th street at Madison avenue when the crosstown car crashed against its rear. Albert Schnell of Fort Lee, N J., the motorman of the cross town car, said the wreck was due to the slippery condition of the rails fol- lowing the storm. The vestibules of the two cars which were in contact were battered in and the glass torg from them and several windows of both were broken between the New Britain police and the Meriden police. About 3,000 peo- ple were assembled on the field when the storm struck them, and practical- ly everyone was drenched. Water in Cellars | In some of the low spots about the city many cellars were filled with wa- ter. It is said there were two feet of water in the cellar of Swift and Andrews Co. Many limbs were blown off of trees along Arch street. LIFE SAVERS THE.CANDWMINT WITH THE HOLE |each Hard-pressed —not boiled. Deliciously fresh and crisp always. Pep-o-mintis cooling,and it sweetens thebreath and aids digestion. returning to Athens unl he receives “‘a solemn call uttered by the united will of the Greek people. TEMPERATURE TO RISE Weather Forecast is For Cloudy Skies This Evening. 7.—For Conn.: tonight and temperature, New Haven, Sept. Partly cloudy weather FHday slowly rising moderate northeast winds. 4 Conditions: A trough of low pres- sure extending from Michigan south- eastward to the Jersey coast has caused local showers during the last 24 hours in the eastern portion of the Lake region and New England. Local showers were also reported from the southern and western sections, Con- siderable cloudy weather prevailed this morning in the northern districts east | of the Rocky mountains. The tem- perature continues above normal in the central sections but has fallen de- cidedly in the eastern portion of the lake region and New, England. Conditions favor for this vicinity partly cloudy weather with slightly higher temperature. OFFICIAL'S SUIT $9. Flour Sacks. $3; Tailor, $6; {5 Mar- tyn's Itemized Bill. Washington, Sept. 7.——An example of economy in line with that now ex- ercised throughout the army has been shown the civilian employes of the war department by John Martyn, private secretary to the secretary of war. He is boasting the cheapest suit of clothes ever worn bV a departmental officer proudly admitting that it was fashioned from three flour sacks, pur- chased in Panama at a cost of $1 The tailor'’s fee brings the total cost of an outfit to $9 Mr. Mar- tyn sald. ASSEMBLYMEN DRAW Speedy Adjournment Follows Action of Deputies in Panama. 3 Panama, Sept. 7.—The national as- sembly was thrown into confusion and | sudden adjournment yesterday when | two of the deputies drew revolvers| during an argument, The chamber was discussing status of Deputies Arias and Alvardo, the | Chi justice sider a , secretary of government and | asked the assembly to con- measure which the govern- ment wished to submit. Deputy Vi- dal termed this an act of intrusion and began a’criticism of the govern- | ment party. | Senor | on, who brandished a revolved. the | Mr. F. F. Harmon will teach piano| and sight singing three days a week | in New Britain at his new studio in| the Hallinan Bldg., 140 Main St 'Phone 795-3.—advt. VENIZELOS WON'T RETURN. Athens, Sept. 7. (By Associated Press)—According to the newspaper Eleutheros Tlpos, the organ of the Venizelos party here, there is no pos- | sibility of former Premier Venizelos Vidal also drew a weapon, but terfered, preventing bloodshed. [ Herbert E. Anderson Teacher of Violin TUDIO 242 MAIN STREET Tel. 1322-5 e LIME DROPS Little crystal drops of pure sugar and cool lime -Days Only- Com. Sun. who are under charges, when Senor || His remarks angered Deputy Carri- || chief of police and other deputies ln-' i City ltems Mardi Gras, Lake Compounce, Sept. 6, 4, 8, 9. Dancing.—advt, ‘ The Misses Nellle ‘Mankus and Mae Samrick have returned from a two weeks' vacation spent at Newport and Providence, R. I. Have The Herald follow you on your vacation. 18¢ a week. Cash with order.—advt. : Rev. William Botticelll, of Water- bury, formerly of this city, was visit- ing friends in this city yesterday. Circus nights—mardl gras. Lake Compoundce, Sept. 6, 7, 8, 9.—Advt, Miss Florence A. Cowles of Cleve- land, 0., is visiting with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. B. D. Radecliffe of Franklin Square. Scores dally; smokes, drinks. Pilz's, —advt, There will be an important meeting of Commodore John Barry Council, A. A, R. L. R. this evening at o'clock in Judd's hall on Main street. Roseben says a feather with each hat.—advt. Isabella Council, National Daugh- ters of Isabella, will meet in their alub rooms this evening at § o'clock. Theron Wolcott Hart, pianist, coach, has resumed teaching. Studio 14 Prospect street. Tel, 2531.-—advt. 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