New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1923, Page 6

“New Britain Herald MERALD PUBLIEHING COMPANY (lawsed Datly, Sundey Bacepied) o At Hosld Biag, 01 Church St SUBSORIPPION RATES: Year e 180 Thees The Month. Batered st the M Office at Now Britaln o8 Secand Olass Mall Matter, "umou- l‘ALlJ. ”| i niy Atable advertising medlum k “l.ll 'm,mn".u".. books and press| e always open to advertisers Member of The Asseciated Fress, | Phe Associated Puu s ene nunv.ly ontitied bl f all e Freited 1o 1t or hot -lh | in this paper and alse local news pub-| Nehed herein, | Member Audit Fureaw of Clreulation. The A, B € is & natiena! | which furnishes hewspapers al Users with a strictly honest i clreglation, Our circulation sta based upen this andit, This nsures e teetion against fraud in newspaper dia tribution fgures to both national and | local advertiser ——' THE COUNCIL'S BUSINESS The charity board recommended the | awarding of the contract for the erec- tion of the new building for women at the town home to a New Hritain concern. A Hartford organizatjon’s bid, some $1,600 less than that of the New Britain company's, had been re- jected by the charity hoard board favoring & homo concern cause it had knowledge of jthe coun- ¢ll's predisposition to favor home rnn-1 cerns and because of other reasons | such as the fact that local lubor would | probably be used. The Hartford com-| pany sent representatives here to try to obtain what it belleved was its| rights as lowest bidder—namely the contract, The legal situation is that the New | Britain Charter contains no provision requiring a board to give a contract to the lowest bidder, if such board | * exercises good faith. Charters of some| other cities contain a provision re- quiring the awarding of contracts to | the lowest responsible bidder. In other words the charity board had a free | rein to exercise its judgment. . | The Herald has no wish to pass upon the question of to which concern the contract should ha awarded. That | i8 not the province of a newspaper in | a specific case, nor is it the province | of any one individual-—nor——and this| 15 the point to be emphasized and which the common council seemed to | forget last night—nor is it the pro- vince of the common council to tell the charity board to what concern “1 shall award a contract. 1t s the council’s business only to | approve or disapprove the recom- | mendation as to awarding of the con- | tract by the board of charities. That | situation ® caused by the basic idea | which inspired the creation of fhe | various boards and departments. The | board of charities looks into the mat- ter; the common council is ¥t expect- ed to do-this detail work. The board makes a recommendation. The coun- cil approves or disapproves, leaving the board, if the council has 'nsup-} proved, to take further action or Lo‘\ press its former action with stronger| evidence. The' common council was never in- nl sue! he- Mowtha | . | of | erty NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, When this matter of the petition of cortaln people to slop the erection of the service station came up, it was referred in all seriousness 10 & com- millee consisting of the coerporation counsel, the bullding inspeetor, the fire chief and the beard of publie works There was & lof of discussion 14 the commeon council as ti what com- mittee, If any, had proper jurisdietion Much deep thought was spent, and the | selecied, works, as abeve officials were finally with the hoard of publie preperly qualified to pass upen the | | matter and submit its report to the common councl! That body apparently did not think that the eity planning commission should have anything to do with this building of & serviee station The eity planning eommission’s name un not mentioned at that meeting. T h!nq probably, some idea that the city planning commission have to de only Wwith beaptitul things sueh as and monmuents. wis, and memorials parks | phernallia, should | | Investment TTING WK, Last year about this time The Her: ald urged that ne ice should be eut at Shuttie Meadow Lake, the seurce of the water supply for the etly, The Health board took the same stand, and the Water board disapproved of the practice alse. The commeon coun ell was “almost persuaded.” It, in & | moment of deep concern for the eliy's health saw the felly of running the visk, slight though it may be, of endangering It. The council decided not te allew the cutting of lee out there, Later, however the couneil became concerned about the investment the city had made in ice-culling para- Really it was a shame lo waste that money spent a good many years ago on this machinery! or course there might be some slight | danger to the people of the eity, but really if due precaution were taken to guard the ice from eontamination, It might well after all to save that Taxes are high, you At the time this action was taken | know, and money is money, | The Herald stated that the eity was powerless, under the present condi- tions of regulations, erection of the service | matter whether it was wanted or not Iy the residents of that locality of Pearl street Franklin Square, Moreover the is powerless | prevent the e fon of many other | bulldings anywhere, the character of | station, and eity n | Which buildings would be such as (n"* make them out of place In the lo- cality selected for their erection, 1t was on thiy oocasion that we took the chance of aguin emphasizing the “lulom of adopting n zoning system for (hln city many progressive | eitles and towns are doing. They ex- pect to grow, and they do not want to grow in a haphazard way, They want order and scemliness, They want to encourage men to build homes and they want to assure such would- be home-builders that their localities will not be invaded by structures out place for those localities. To do these things such progressive places, with some vision, and older which have neglected the matter long, are adopting the zoning systems. Today the Herald again urges the udopting of this plan for zoning the city in order to protect eve prop- owner and to encourage more people to become property owners. ns RESUL/TS OF HIGH FARES A news dispatch from Atlantic City where the American electric railway association convention is being held, suys that the universal five-cent street | car fare is probably dead and there is i no, immediate profpect of ‘the present nation-wide average fare of 7 cents being lowered, according to reports of special committees and addresses a dozen leaders of the. electrical industry. Various causes are of railway given as the foundations upon which g | this prophecy is based. All right, gentlenfen; have it your way. Quite possibly the men making | these statements and those who will approve them feel that they are fur- | thering the interests of the electric railways throughout the country in thus attempting to make the people acquiesce in the higher fare, The pub- lic might just as well get used to this higher fare, declare these railway to prevent the | no | cities | too | Ho they listened to the arguments of the health superintendent Dr of the state | muthorities cutting lee and former and national health d the water department at Shuttle they, the out then aguinst | Meadow lake to| members of the council, dectded to do | | the business thing and save the money invested out there, regardicss of such pert advice, Ice was cut there, It ice exactly, and no one has reported any great saving to the people in the price of And now the matter comes up again, Well, once again The op- poses this cutting of ice on the Iake from which the water supply of the city comes. ‘I'he health department {and the water department feel the | same way about it. And, it is asserted confidently, some people who favored cutting ice there last year have cour- ageously admitted that no good was done by allowing it last year and that | they have changed their position on | the matter. Of course we can not know definitely whether or not any harm | was done to the health of the people | of the city. wasn't good | | | | iee, Herald | ning such a risk again, “ dence, or something, has helped a bit since last winter and has given people a reason for changing their position on the matter. passage of time, has put the runway is a year older and it is showing its age most decidedly. The “investment” has about passed the stage when it calls out to be saved. Let that investment die rather than let the people run risk of dying. There ghould be absolutely no opposition to discontinuing the practice of cutting ice at Shuttle Meadow Lake. The paraphernalia 'Facts and Fancies BY RUBERT QUILLXN. place where men sue- | | sanatorium: A |are confined as pupishment for | cess, #What becomes of all the ants when Lee, und they heard the reports| No such cluim need be | made to emphasize the folly of run-| The elements, or the hand of prov!N The elements, or thc‘ for the ice in a dllap‘datnd condition | .{let go in the lower courts. StllL, bad prese is very I more stiractive whea chepped inte sheri lengths and uuwd a8 free verse It len't the style al the Bible that makes it ynpopuiar with moderns, but Yhe fact that it mmu their style. We can't uuouun-l why the an- | elent wished te smite an enemy “hip and high" uniess hip fasks were used | in those days. S— | ‘l man-monkey theory is besh, | | True® monkeys ehatter Incessantly about inconsequential things, but they | | don't serve tea. ect this sentence: “Don't trous hie yourself, Dear,” promised the hus- bank: “I'Nl gather up thepapoers when 1 finish read"” | 25 Years Ago Today (Taken irom Heraid of that date) C. ¥, Johnson will build a new house on East street and Willlam E,| Hine on Belden street, A new crosswalk is being Iaid on Washington street south of Lafayette street, These are the days when the beauti- | ful autumn leaves litter the sidewalks, | taking the place of the 1rucheron.4 | banana peels on which the just slips and falls with about as much grace and case as the wicked folks, /\ local veteran coon hunter arrive d home from a night in Beckley Quuur In pursuit -of his favorite | game, but brought back no coons. He y8 they are getting more scarce in! this section every year, Otis O, B, Butler has gone to West- | field, Mass, to superintend the erec- | tion of lighting apparatus in the Lo- zier bleycle shop there, The contract Electrical Construction Co. ‘The letter carries have received the | new winter suits for which they were were made by a Baltimore firm. house and Benjamin Marholin. Engineer Unklebach will go to New Haven tomorrow and map out the | there, SULLIVAN GIRL'S by Prosecutor | | | New Haven, Oct. 11,—After scathing arraignment at the hands of |state Attorney Arnon A. Alling, Vin- | cent Montana, more familiarly known |8 “Bull” Montana, was sentenced to |jail for 10 days by Judge Newell Jennings in the criminal side of the superfor court yesterday for an as- sault on Irene Sullivan, 17, in the | Oak street woods on August 20, Mon- tana was the ldst of: the crowd ar- rested in connection with the case to be dealt with, the others having been In behalf i‘nf the other members of the gang it {was claimed that the girl was a will- ing victim, But in the case of Mon- tana the girl complained that she was | brutally abused, hence he was bound over to the superior court., Attorney Rocco lerardi, counsel| for Montana, made the opening state- {ment to the court yesterday, which was a reversal of the usual routine.| Counsel said that what Montana com- | mitted was nothing more than a mls- demcanor, The girl, counsel held. Mothers:- Read this advertisement to your %demthelyllwli lc ll“lu ln was desi| ts o) vl l“r!'l':.“ 10 *‘Mother. Kld OT so long ago, our Kandy Man wi m‘uubuhulum Just specially for boys and. So he wrote a letter to the Fairy And asked her what special candies the boys and girls would llho best of all, He didn't get an answer—right away. And he, began fo feel very, very disap- pointed. But all the time, the fairies must have been working, Probably they came down the moonbeams, long after the Kandy Man had locked up and gone home, For, what do you think? The by & mother, lun voice in 7u will -f f wlip i frank opinien Kibbe' ¥*“Look or the i ry mother ln ul box, ive us es Box! | has been awarded to the New Britain' | measured a month ago. The uniforms Benjamin Manawitch has sold his lot on Cemetery Lane to! walks about the new Normal schoolf ASSAILANT JALLED “Bull Montana” Severely Scored HARTFORD FIREMEN ASHING INGREASES Want City to Give Them Raise of$1 a Day | | Hartford, Oct. 11.—Preparations |are being made by the firemen as well | as thé policemen of the city to ask for !a dollar a day increase when the new | budget is considered in December and following wecks, These requests in- volve an approximate increase in the budget of $165,000 or over one-half mill in the tax rate, it was pointed out by ity officlals yesterday. The present budget provides propriations for the salari s firemen and 180 patrolme . Added to the requests for increased |salarics which are in preparation in | other city departmeats, the abgve re- quests will bring before the finance board a new salary item of over $200,- 000, it was estimated yesterday, as compared with requests for salary in- creases totaling $33,000 last year, It is evident that these increases twill have important bearing on the activ- ities of the proposed committee on | salary classification {f, and when | Mayor Kinsella nnpolnrn this commit- [tee as the council authorized him to |do Monday evening. | ENRIGHT FIGHTS BACK ap- f 268 children ‘other mmu.»muu.-mu box of candy on his desk. 'm-mmzxuounmm He wanted to make enough Kibbe's :lulu Boxes for .h':" boy‘nnd girl in England—and are on sale wherever good candy is . And every box contains a letter from the Fairy Queen which tells just how she helped us, Ask dad or mother to buy you a Kibbe's Kiddies Box the very next time either of them passes a candy store. Autumn, comes and they leave the|aq wholly to blame in that she was| Belgium won the James Gordon Bennmett Cup this year in the Brussels balloon race, Bit the race was not without its trage- dies. Five pilots were killed, several injured and some balloons destroyed. Photo shows the American entry (top balloon) plung- ing into a Belgian one. Lieutenant R, S, Olmstead and Lieutenant tended to take the place of the city men. The people won't mind it so departments. It should have biggor sugar boy | much after they get used to it and af- g 4 [the one who provoked the alieged as- | business of, a supervisory char ter they have made up their minds| HTBDR16R1Y: BtV pebD)S ey recll 12:::(]:58 e |;qnuh:n4:fnltuym\(;n’:‘d:f £ than making original suggestions, be- | that they have no chance of Iowcrh\g“ that a Diet of Worms reduced Luthet | money fine. ¥ ginning at the beginning and looking | the fare by bothering us with their|for a time. Alling Disagrees, up all the facts'that the departinents, | demands for a lower fare, State Attorney Alling said he would from their nature, are in a po:ilnoui But there is a deeper sigfificance {not concur in any such view that it Announces He Will Take Action To- ward Having Justice Corrigan Re- moved From Bench in N. Y. New York, Oct. 11,—Counsel for Police Commissioner Enright, com- plainant at the trial of Magistrate Jos- Platonic love is just the mating n. | stinct without the courage of its con- il was a case of misdemeanor. The prosecutor said that he agreed to all counsel for the defense had said, be- cause it was a pretty accurate por- | trait of the “scoundrel” facing the jcourt. Mr. Alling said that this whole | case “'stunk” and that this fellow was |in the center of it. Montana, said the prosecutor, justly is nicknamed | “Bull” because of his strength and |the fact that town looking for something. ling said he hoped that {would have no opportunity around for some time. Judge Jennings held the view that the picture on both sides was some- Wwhat overdrawn, that the case was not as serious as claimed and that | ten days in jail wouid be about right. There was a crowd of consider- able size in the court room when Montana faced the bar. Prosecutor Alling glanced over in the direction of the spectator’'s section on several occasions, apparently putting forth his best efforts to strike terr |the hearts of Montana's followers. | As the crowd filed out of the court {room one of them shouted |days in jail” and Stale Attorney :AHIHK replied: “There goes gang.” The situation is complicated by the rumors that been circulated. Presumably the board of charities has looked into these rumors, The board | is under no obligation to follow the| advice of the council in this matter| other than to consider it as all in- formation regarding the construction | of this much needed building should be considered. | And this brings up the real matter of vital importance. There dence that the unfortunate who ‘have to make their only home are cold fortable. Some of them, are sufering daily, hourly. Whatever is done contract for the erection of a building it should be the business of the charity board to see to| it that eracks through which the wind blows are stopped up; that the dents at the home are made warm and | comfortable, now, this very day. l'wuj haps that is being done at this mo- The new building, the contract is at the tomorrow or, probably | have | is evi- | women | the town home | and uncom- | perhaps all, | regarding this new immediate | _ ment. We hope so no matter to whom given, good today or will do women home no any day until next spring. And while squabble waiting for this many B the passing the art settled, we to be poor women out there are last days of their lives in suffering. JARAGES AND THINGS company Certainly the Standard Oil has tion on property it bought a right to build its service sta- for the pur- pose in New Britain, provided it con- forms to our building regulations and | other rules that we in the city as to structures, etc And it opinion is right, council should say, @s far as he can see the city is power less to stop the erection of brild- ing the The @ity has no way of preventing it | ‘ have is quite natural, since the that the corporation as he ha aid, that thig or station on property to this assertion of the railroad men. There is a way of looking at the statement that high fares have come to stay, which will not redound so much to the advantage of the electric raiiway men and the roads over which they preside, The higher fare has come to stay, they no-use fighting it. All right, it we can’t get lower fares, if, as you say, we might just as well give up the fight, then we'll do something clse. When it loked s though there would be a coal strike that might pre- | vent our being able to get anthracite conal, the people up in Boston, for in- began to advocate a boycot against hard coal. The national gov- ernment began to instruct the people substitutes. stance, in the use of hard coal Every effort was made If hard coal was hé o high, we would sce Even today the past, knowledge | without hard coal. going to what we could do about it. a thing of new with the strike there is a deal about the burning of hard coal sub- possibly there will be 4 slight dacrease in the use of hard coal. iltustration of | what is suggested when a commodity Well, there of stitutes, Quite This is mercly an scems to be out of reach. are substitutes for elcetrieal railway transportation, too. If there will never be a lower clectric railway street ca fare it is quite natural that the people should turn to a substitute for electri- cal street car transportation. They will look for a substitute, When the people begin in earnest to look for a substi- tute, other ingenious people begin in earnest to try to find such substitute to furnish to the people, The electric street car Many is a eumberson thi best things are against it who back those ted in it are especially intere and say it's going you impossible that a people .disinclined to “grin and bear” everything will find, patronize and produce & sub tute. to get along| to cost | vittions., As a general thing a nervous break- down is the price man pa ing himself too seriously. Many a wonderful press agent has been sacrificed .to make a mediocre Presidential aspirant. | - | The Maiden's | simple melody, but a melody of popu- lar heirs, The millennium s waiting patiently until the time comes when reform will begin where charity does. i o | What excuse did kings have to grab territory in the old days before na- tional honor was invented ? ll And yet the man who howls mn\ when you toot to pass his jit- Speech is a doubtful blessing. Evolu- tion made much more progress before men learned to talk about it. rou may break a with it, but with Uncle Ancient saying | state law and get away | you'd better not monkey sam.” One objection to radio grand opera is that you ean't hear anybody patting modern thinks he is roughing he keepe the limousine win en in = tin the In', L The it when dnme of ite of the fro s Prayer is no longer a| for | equal opportunity moves over resent- Mr, Al- Montana, to he Observations on The Weather I~ I'or Connecticut: | Friday; little change in temperature; sentle to moderate variable winds. { Conditions: in the eastern portion of the Lake re- gion and the w England. The temperature is rising in the northern districts and is now generally above normal along northern border. Conditionsy favor fof 1this vicinity, fair With slowly rising temperature, followed by unscttled seather. WHISTLE TOO, York, Oct. 11.—A peddler | G Now ness selling German paper marks at | ten cents for 100,000 and throwing in A made in Germany” tin whistle, Mark exchangs was quoted at 5,000, | 290,000 for 31 today. at he always was about into! “ten | the | Fair tonight and| Showers have occurred | stern portion of New | the| f ’ o 4§ | on| ot to ride in our cars it is not| his foot tef show how cultured he is.|jower Broadway is doing a hig busi- eph E. Corrigan and Assemblyman Louis Cuvillier for criminal libel, an- nounced today that he would start proceedings in the appellgte division aimed at the removal of the magis- | trate from the hench. | ¢Simultaneously with the announce- mont made in the presénce of Magis- trate Corrigan before Judge C. T. Crain in criminal court it was disclos- ed by opposing counsel that Assembly- man Cuvillier would offer a defense [in the libel action and that he would fsummon witnesses next Tuesday. | The procecdings before Judge Crain are expected to continue through next week. They were instituted by Com- missioner Fnright as the result of al- leged public utterance in which the |assemblyman and the magistrate said half of the New York police depart- ment was in the bootlegging business |and that the commissioner knew it. TOM MIX IS INJURED Famous Movie Actor Hurt. By Pre- mature Explosion of Dynamite As | He Makes Another Thriller. | Santa Cruz Cal, Oct. 11.—Tom Mix, motion picture actor on loca- |tion in Santa Cruz mountains, was | hurt yesterday when a charge of dyna- | mite was exploded prematurely. I Mix was to ride by and the explo- I sion was supposed to follow immedi- ately. Instead it occurred as he ap- proached, His injuries are not serious, S WAS STEVENSON'S HOME | Ship Which Sonk in Tacoma Yester- day Was Formerly Floating Home of Famous Adventure Writer Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 11.—The tug | Equator which sank®t the monuth of | the Quillayute river yesterday once | was the floating home of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous author, it was | recalled on the water front here. In the Equator he cruised the South seas ! and on thé deck of the vessel much | the material which went into “his enture storic ws gathered J. W. Shaptaw were killed in the crash. ‘ BY CONDO THAT'S ONG Ow I Your_ OWN, My 'QSAR. CoAT — A (onG HAIR b MING { BLONDE . MINE 2 EVERETT TRUE i WHAY'S KEPT YOU bo (.AYG For DINNGR ? HERE ON ‘Yove HOW (8 IT IN OTHER WORDS I'M A DISCOVERER AND YOU'RE AN INvVENTOR