New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 2

Get The Habit OF COMING TO OUR Circulating Library ALL THE LATES BOOKS Stationery Dept. — THE — DICKINSON - Drug Co. 169-171 MAIN ST. There Is a Tonic in Qur New SPRING SHIRTS The greatest Spring Tonic does not come out of a bottle, but out of a men's wear shop. There's real invigoration in the smart new collar-to-match shirts of blue woven madras with a white stripe, in the col- lar-attached shirts in plain colors, stripes and figure and in the bright hued novel- ties awalting you. You'll like them all—they're priced $2.50 up. HORSFALLS 93-99 Xdsylum Street Hartford. “It Pays to Buy Our Kind” OF PINE IMPORTED BRAN- NOUKBURN, BRITISEH AND wWibe m oyoemn s CLOTHS CRRAV- PRICES. 00 .. $75.00 Ye London Shop Tailors 13 MAIN STREETY “Let Us Clothe You We Know How.” DR. COOMBS | The Naturcopathic Physician and Chiropractor has MOVED into His Nature Oure Institute 19 S. HIGH ST. Opposite the Post Office, where he has installed the new Biological Blood Wash Voice Culture EAR TRAINING MGHT READING James D. Donahue Noom 18-319 Booth's Bi, Trainee of Yule Uni #1 wefton Drive ‘ ! YOU'LL DO BETTER at AXELROD’S We are out of the Wigh Kem 1 t PYRALIN AT LSPECIALLY RIDULCED PRICES ALL THIS MONTH We are as near 1o your telephone. Call and ake advantage INLLE bELIvVERY Axelrod’s Pharmacy PARR ST Let Us Till Your Pre SFLROD ron TR MY INPROVED VAGCINE Would Alfect Quarantine Period, Health Superintendent Says Believing that vacefaation methods used by the vernment iy ment quarantine stations are a provem - vnethod 1 use, br, R, W, Fritain ) eatracts from the advocating method, Iy 8 gorern- im now in gen- Pullen, superin written to cuc lim re- nt ooy sictan sonding public health the adoption of n will repeat emphasize the smia! ont- port Hew s alue in the to the health b In advocating e, Pulicy ma in the la the health department in which it is pointed that it smallpox outbreak may eatent by pe nt s mch ox cination out is possible he “ome they and who were health departme of chicken pox rted to the by school Some of thes points ont, may as not to have had it all, and could taken for chicken y parents or teachers, everthele the [ “sueh mila < can spread smallpox and the one who catches the « from a mild case may have a | one. A In advocating the Pullen explains that this is a series of three seratehes each three quarters lof an inch long and an inch apart. Virus of known potency and unex- pired date is used in the two outside seratehes only, No vaccine is applied | to the middie scrat This shows how much change | due to the natural action of the fune- tions of the hody and how much to | the vaceine, Tt also indlcates the pa- tient’s immunity to smallpox, ' In using this method, if immune, either from huving had smallpox or trom a previous vacelna- tion, & sharp reaction will take place, reaching its maximum in 48, hours and disappesaring entirely in four d [ 18 who, after having been VAC ed by this method and are decla immune, are not detained in quarantine after the second day, This does not upply to those who come in direct contact with the patient, who (are kept under the regulation guaran- | tine, | In the case of a three family house, not r t, eit en so mild un's eare uve been says new a single case of smallpox under the | present quarantine system now being {tire bullding and the three familie Those who du not have the discase are advised to be vaccinated snd members of the two other families, who at ene time come in contact with the stricken family, are permitted to lewve thelr homes only after they huve been proven immune, In the case of this method, which Dr, Pullen suys has been used by the U, 8, quars antine stations for 3 L, AT they are found immune they are permitted to lvave after the second Other- wise they are quarantined for the full 14 days, and in case of the spreading the disease to another floor may be quarantined indefinitely, Smulipox and vaccination informa- tion has been provided the local health department by the state board of health and is being given to all who visit the health department's offices in eity hall, In discussing the protection afford- ed by vaceination the stute health de. purtment's hooklet say Protection by Vaccination “Vaccination undoubtedly protects againgt smallpox and increases the re sisting powers of the individual against the fnvasion of the smallpox germ, This resistance is usually suf- ficient to prevent his controcting the discase, but in the (ew cases where it does not, the digease assumes a very mild form, “Vaccination for smailpox usuall protects for a period of five vears, als though it has been known to estab- | immunity which wiil last Revace on will net ' A the immunity cstablished by a provions vaecination still exists, but if it “take, this shows the protection afforded Ly the c- pired and th of that first the does cination has ¢ dividual to # “The mild f assumed b du munity has be ‘ ie spserptible has to orm whie te years is fach that a tabiis) smallpox feaed tia to the im- ral vaccination Ftial tmmunity by y However s year Ar vaceinated ing generation i kely 1o experic and fata onthreaks of the ¢ @ - Iy ir this Signature bulletin, | method Dr, | patient is | used, means the quarantine of the en. | ! METHOD ADVOCATED 1 report | auarterly bulletin of | the | spread to | ms who thought | | tality rate is low NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, Cinn-0-mon have the snap ofa crisp winter day Look for the red package Delightful and Tingling to taste N ——————— & Vaccination “Yaceination by cowpox vaccine will except in rare instances, prevent in- dividuals from contracting smallpox. . “If the scvere, malignant type of the disease prevails, the vaceinated individual never suffers so severely as the unvaceinated porsons and the fa- t among the vac- cinated individuals, “Unvaccinated individuals are most susceptible to the disease, and by be- infected more easily, form the ba- for outbreaks. “after an outbreak has started, the vaceination procedure takes time and the seeds of an epidemic are planted. “To vaccinate afte started s like ‘closing the stable door after the horse is stolen’ In the end it will stop the epidemic by ereeting a barrier of immune individuals who cannot be infected by smallpox cases who are in the incubation period of the disease, who may come in con- tact with them, and in this manner prevent its spread. It would be, far better to ercet such a barrier hefore an epidemie, for it will not occur. A present the isolation of smallpox cases is always the procedure; quarantine of known contacts with known small- pox cases is carried out; but the un- known smallpox cases at large, such outbrealis, is the dangerous group that infects the unvaccinated. Results of Vaccination in Conn, “The enviable position that Conn- ccticut holds in having the lowest case rote for smallpox of any state in the United States in 1920 is probably due g extent to the vaccination of children during the years sinee the law has been in ¢ assistance given health officlals in having a vaccinated population, pars tieularly the school population, re- wilted in keeping down the number of enses in smallpox outbreaks in the stote, “There i& no ‘native smallpox’ in Connectiont, livery e that is re- ported is a result of a person already infected with smalipox entering the state and then infecting eitizens of the state,” FORMER CHURCH ORGANIST IS SUED FOR DIVORCE Er-Councilman David A, Wicander to a lo school Made Defendant by Wife, Vormer Cholr Singoer, Alleging degertion on October 1020, Mrs, Mabel Yeamaans W der has instituted a divoree action against her husband, ex-Councilman David A, Wicander. Attorney J. G. Woods represented Mra, Wicander, The action is returnable in superior court on the first Tussday of April The Wicanders sere married in Southintgon March 28, 1906, and have ehildren, Custody of the chil- is sought th Jefendant was organist in the Memorial ehurch for a nume- vears. His wife was a church woloist here for several years, T the food of the Goda! You it by using Baker's Fia- At ull good grocers.— thivee The anley ber o Ambrosia can impr voring latracts, is NOT on the Box, it i BROMO QUININE “There is no other BROMO QUININE™ Prover Safe for more than a Quarter of a Centary as a quick and effective reinedy for Colde, Grip and Influenzs, and as a Preventive. !7' The First and Origined (,’o/r} and (,'r;'p Tablet J . = - - Fice 30U Cuins an outbreak has | in | The | complainant.' TILTS MARK HEARING ON TROLLEY FARES Staniond Magor Tells P. U. . | Connecticut Co. Is a Corpse | After an all day session held in the {old senate chamber in the state capi- | Hartford, yesterday, in which | ntatives of New Haven, New | Britain, Bridgeport, amford, Hart- | |ford, Naugatuck, Ansonia, Derby and {Devon appeared before the public| utilities commission to protest against | the new fare rate set up by the Con- | nectieut company, namely a flat 10| cent fare or three metal tokens for | a. quarter, the afternoon session was |brought to a close when Mayor Alfred {N. Phillips, Jr, of Stamford, in a {brilliant address. characterized the | | Connecticut company as a corpse and | |as the cities of Connecticut as being {tied to a corpse. { The only other display of fireworks |during the hearing was lighted when Robert P. Butler, acting as a repre- |sentative of the counsel from the {other cities, asked for statistics to be produced by the Connecticut company showing opcrating costs and the in jcome of the lines in the cities repre- |sented at the meeting. Joseph P. |Berry and George D. Watrous, coun ;»-rl for the Connecticut company, re- Ipled that it would be a task which would prove stupendous both from {the amount of work required and {from a financial viewpoint. Mr. But. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1924. and that he felt if the company would present to the counsel a list of all the |lines in the various eitics, the operat- |ing costs, and the revenue from cach line, all the data the counsels wished would then be in their possession. George P. Berry, counsel for the company, jumped to their feet and said that such a thing would he im- possible and would place a burden on the company. Mr. Rutler replisd that he felt that the people of the state had been bearing the burden and that they would continue to do so unless the company would comply with his request and furnish the date without whieh it wonld be impossible to come to any intelligent conclusion, Robert T. Higgins, chairman of the commigsion, said that he felt that the |auestion was of too great importance to be decided in a few moments and that further consideration should be given to the sybject. Mr. Butler, addressing the chairsy man of the commission, sald that he realized that it was a large burden on the company but that until such data was furnished the counsel it would be {ler asked the counsel for the com- {pany if they did not know the cost fof operating a car on the Farmington avenue line and the income from a car on that line. He was told that ,thvs company simply knew the income |from the line. MMr. Butler replied that it was time that the company {put in an accounting system which [would show the profit en ecach line (and remarked that he doubted if there were many private business {ventures that were operated in such a |{manner as the company operated its {lines, not knowing definitely which iun.:s were profitable and which were not, | Two Lines Here Not Profitable | Thomas J. McGreavy, accountant |for the company, when asked if he |knew what lines were paying and |whnt lines showed a loss, sald that he did and recited a number of such ’l(nl-n. designating the Farmington (avenue and Berlin lines of the New | Britain division as lines which did not pay ther operating costs and taxes. | When asked by Mr, Butler as to how [he could determine which lines paid @ profit and what lines did not, he said that by the income recelved from cortain lines in comparison with the revenue recefved from other lines it was “ohvious’” that certain lines were {operated at a loss, Despite the fact {that this answer was not satisfactory {to the counsel from the cities it was |impossible to get any other statement {from the accountant as to how he {knew when a line was being operated |nt a loss, other than that it was “ob- {vious™ by comparison with other {lines, | In answer to a question of Thomas | . Robinson, epecial counsel from |New Haven, as to whether he could give definite figures showing what profit or loss was incurred on a line |the witness testified that he could not do so. The witness, answering a Guestion as to how service was gov. lerned on a line, he said that it was |governed aceording to the traffic on [the line, When asked if it was done |according to the returns from the line the witness answered that it was {not. Answering questions as to wheth. |er or not the fares could not be reg- |ulated from the returns on the line in torder to make tho line operate at o !nrofit the witness said that it eould be theoretically done, New Britain Division Value 15, Irving Rtvdd, engineer for the utilities commission, whe, assisted by jother enginecrs, made a physical ivaluation of the Connecticut com pany's property in 1919.20 wag the Inext witness to be put on the stand jand was asked to explain the method uged in finding the physical valuation of the property at that time, Mr, Rudd read a detailed account giving the following valuations: Property owned ang leasod, $60,7 352,00; property owned $41,000,¢ Connecticut 13, T, and Lighting Ce., £41,600,000, The witness testified that the manner in which the valuation s arrived at was by placing that it would cost to build new, using prices prevailing between 1910, 1914 plus 80¢;, on every piece of properiy | used] and uroful that belonged to the mpany, Divisions were made in (cluding property within the city and without the city, e totul physical valuation for the New Diritain divisi which includes Berli wington and Lazy Lane, was $2,117,257.86, includ ing valuation without the city limits of $923.500.50 and valuation within the eity of $1,198 7. This va tion was arrived at with the cost.to Luiid-new, at prices prevailing be 1910 and 1914, plus 80 per The total valuation of the Con recticat company’s property throngh- | outl the state was given as 851,941, 3142, including the cities § 240,97 and within the cities § 19048, In answer to a qnestion by | Mr, Butler the engineer testified that | i price tween cont ) these figures no pererntage for de. preciation nas taken off. Aeked by Mr. Butier what the cost ef making a phywical valuation com plete fn every detail would be at the | engineer replied that would probably cost in the neigh of $250.080, and would take from ecig monthy 16 one present time the i ‘borhend s here t In auswer to a quedtion by Corp H. Kirkham of this as 10 what percentage the wit ness (ot was fair to 244 to the fig jres of 1919 to make them applica 196 in 1924, Jludd replicd that he not qualified 1o answer that question flow Over Company Statictics whes b twes and the tion Counsel John ety After several verbal company Commis the a list of sta- counsel for 1} the eities, doner that compan 4 desired and thet the com shonld furnish them subject to findings of the commission as fo remennnly the requets Buller reheme: el this cou Alsop suggested for counsel ticties 1 pany the “s 1he Mr " wonid impossil pre<e y wished on tractive, an s th | port utterly {mpossible for anything to be accomplished. Lucius 8. Storrs, president of the company, agreed to furnish whalever data it was possible to furnish in compliance with Mr. Butler's request. The hearing was brought to a close with a stirring address by Mavor | Phillips of Stamford, in which he bit- terly criticized the Connecticut legis- lature for tying the hands of the people in setting a fare rate. He de- seribed the manner in which the peo- Ple of Akron, O., and Newark, N. J., fix their own rates, and spoke of the people of Connecticut as heing| “chained like slaves to a franchise even after the body is dead, as slaves | of old remained chained to the body | of a dead comrade slave long after| his death.” The address by the youth- ful Stamford executive was the cli max of the day and left no doubt as SureRelief I-'OR_INDIGESTION \ 6 BELLANS Hot water Sure Relief DELL-ANS 254 and 75¢ Packages Everywhere neeticut eompanf. Following the adjournment, Cor- poration Counsel Butler engaged in a heated discussion with President I Storrs of the Connecticut company in to his opinfon on the matter. which the lawyer expressed himselt Adjourned to Avril 11. | as doubting the statements by the The hearing was tnen adjourned | company’s witnesses that the com- until April 14, in order to give coun-| pany did not definitely know what sel time 1o digest the mass of figures |lines wére being operated at a profit presented in the reports of the Con- or a loss. . - OPENING — ANNOUNCEMENT — FREEMAN-CHURCH ~ Boys’ Clothing Department These are opening days and tomorrow will be the first and official opening day for our newly installed and modernly equipped department of Boy s’ Youths and High School Students’ clothing. This new department, conveniently _Iocated on our spacious second floor—just one short flight from the street floor—w pervision of ill be conducted under the personal su- Mr. W. H. HAYES For 23 yea Clothes with the A. .. Foster company. rs Mr. Hayes was in charge of the Boys’ He will not be satisfied with anything here short of offering the par- ents of Boys and Students a bettei’clothes service than heretofore has Value givi through. Mr. Hayes’ long and with Freeman- ever been attempted in Hartford. ng will be the keynote all the way wide experience coupled Church merchandising methods assures a full measure of value with each and every transaction, So, come in and see the new department during opening days—Thursday, Friday and Saturday of ‘Jn.sj_ week—look around—get acquainted with the kind of store and the s ort of Men’s and Boys' clothing we're gelling here, and bring in the boys. Special N All small boys accompanied by their parents will receive a =ou- venir in appreciat coming to the opening of our new Boys' Shop on the second floor —————————— Special Notice! To the first 100 boys buying their Spring Suit or Topeoat at the new Freeman-Church Boys' department, Mr. Hayes is going to give 2 personal gift—one that any boy will appreciate and he proud to keep. otice! fon for their Freeman Church Thirty Four Asulum HARTFORD “Headquarters for Kuppenheimer Good Clothes” CAPITOL Next Week-Mon.-Tue.-Wed. +1.500,000 motion picture sensation . “Under the Red Robe’ Dhrilling days of romance, intrigue o | an chlulg in old France 7 _‘Amhan 0