New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 4

PICCADILLY SQUARE BROADWAY'S RIVAL - London Beginning to Haye Is ! Great White Way London, March 18.—The of Jazz is putting its imprint on the face of London just as have other times and manners conic old city by the T deal of truth has been taken out of the old saying that however far the Briton strays from home and no 1 ter how long he remains in foreign lands, London will be the same when he returns as when h So far as the heart of her night-life, Plecadilly Circus, and the center of her shopping dis Regent street, are concerned. the London of 1924 is far, far different from the London of even so recent a year as 1 Piccadilly Circus that once w dignified and sombre in outward pect, is ablaze by night with flashing, varied-colored lights slectric signs. The red-nosed, bil- lowy cockney women still squat around the fountain in the center of the Circus selling their flowers to passersby, but the street lamps that once made shadows of their slouchy felt hats or soot-covered stra seem but dim flickers of flame the flood of dazzling white and and orange and green beams bathe the sidewalks and the converging at the Circus. Coventry street to Leicester, & brassie shot every building carries mass of nicandescents, and at an- other angle off the Circus, Shaftes- bury avenue is ecqually bright with age and go in 1 £ gre mes. jeaves. the of in red that strects Down Square, almost twinkling its line of sky-signs outshining the | stars of heaven to advertise the stars of theaterland. As yet the disp of light in Pie- cadilly seems but a weak imitation of the “real thing” to one whose eyes have been thrilled by Broad- way, but each month more and more British business men abandon their ingrained distaste for display adver- tising and bigger and brighter signs add their glare to the theater dis- trict. There is as yet nothing so amusing as the kitten that used to play with a ball of twine in the lights over Times Square, but there 18 the dog, Bonzo, the British count- er-part to to IPelix or Krazy-Kat, puffing at a cigarette: his fail wag- ging and eyes polling most happily And then there is such a sign as NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, tail shaking away vigorously in the ligh > the pavements. Curving northward from Piceadilly but shaker runs Reg it t it used mul ago the 1dings s half-mile arc were the one Parisian uniformity in all t London's architec us nt Stre to be. As late as half sinilor mumbo-jumbo of sh made for With the the street that ) Victorians is no mo exception of a short stre yards the buildings he d. been down in recent Thoss ich replace them are no more alike than the towering stfuc- tures of Broadway. They are clean or and brighter and bigger and more modern ti Nash’s and most of theih of sturdy whitc stone, but | the conservative souls of London de- test them and express their sense of outrage in Ictters to the papers. One man en a vow.ewhich he has called upon all who ean read to wit- that never, never again will he foot in Regent street now {hat Nash’s Quadrant” of four-floored buildings en demolished by the uneultured hands of modern business gred month; el re 1S 14 ness, put has | Six Lose Ln es in Odd Accident on Chinese R. R. March 18, —Four men were roasted alive in a blazing coach of a moving train on the Tsinan- Tsingtao railway recently. Two others to escape being burned leaped from the train and were killed. The tralr was running at high speed when a carelessly dropped lighted mateh in a third-class coach ignited a can of alecohol. The accident hap- pened at midnight and the resultant explosion covercd sleeping passengers with the burning liquid. A stam- pede to adjoining cars ensued and in the crush of frantic passengers many were scriously burned and otherwise | injured. U. S. Marine Squad Ordered To Leave Haiti Town St. Michel, Haiti, March 18.—The detachment of 40 odd marines from this interlor point of Haiti has been withdrawn, leaving all interior points in the island garrison- ed only by the native gendarmerie. The peaceful conditions existing throughout Haitt prompted the action. The marine brigade of 88 officers and 1,254 men, under the command of Prigadier General Ben H. Fuller, is now concentrated wholly in Port-Au- Prince and Cape Haitien, the Eighth regiment is quartered in the capital, and the Second regiment at Cape 1 Haitien. I know the economy of buying Domine Puckage Sugars None of my sugar is ever wasted because torn or broken paper bags. I don’t spill any on my kitchen floor to stick or grate underfoot. I buy my sugar in Domino Packages and pour it n‘ht from the carton into the bowl or into my cookm( Dommo Pack perfect results e Sugars give me cause they are always umform. always of the highest quality, always dirt and ha: FREE UPON REQUEST Etiquette Chert from flies, nfir:iected 1 -Every woman will and helpful appreciste ugar books of Demino Candy, Cooking u‘ P:ourvh( Recipes. We will gladly send them Address American In'lf Ref est. 17 Wall St., New York City. i /4 American SugarRefining m “ Sweeten it'with Domino’’ Grenulsted, Teblet, Powdered, Confectioners, Brows: Golden Syrup: Cinnamon and Sugar; Sugar-Honey: Molasses ‘[ nut street has entered the officers and | City Items *Li r while,” fox Bruns- | wick record. John A dvt. The m trot Voreign Mission circle of the Swedish Baptist chureh will T tonight at § o'clock with Mr. and | Mrs. Oscar Johnson of 20 State street: | | New Process Columbia Record re- leases out weekly, At Columbia | headquarters. John A Andrews & Co. —advt| of 332 Chest- | | Hartford | hospital. | Victrolas and Pianos, Henry Morans | —advt. ! ; John J. O en of 1310 Stanley | street is recovering from iliness. | Home cooked lunches at Crowell's, [ —advt | | stephen A. Lyneh, who is complet- | ing his first term as a member of the ! |eommon ecouncil, will be a candidate | | for reelection. | 1 ovey Came Back,” special fox | [trot. John A. Andrews & Co.—advt. | | A daughter was born at the New| | Britain' General hospital yesterday to| {Mr. and Mrs, Willlam F. McCormack | {of 36 Buckingham strect, Hartford. {They arc former residents of this| city. | Join Morans’ Lasier Music Club.— | advt. Miss Anna Kiniry, clerk in the |¢ro-‘ |bate court is ill at her home on urtis street. New Brunswick records every week | lat John A. Andrews & Co.—advt, Mrs. John E. McGrath of East| street spent St. Patrick’s Day in New York. | Smart Spring Miliinery, French Hat Shoppe, 87 West Main St., Prof. Bldg. | —advt. | Ex-Representative ~ Thomas H. | Kehoe of Warlock street is confined to his home with a severe cold. He {is a member of the board of finance |and taxation. Mrs. E. 8. Crandall DEAD AVIATOR LEFT NOTE FOR HIS FLYING FRIENDS| { | Urges Them to “Stick to Tt"—Letter | Was to be Opencd After His Death. | | Cleveland, March 18.—Two letters| urging his aviator friends “all over) the world” to “stick to it”, were made | public today by Mrs. Kate Hyde- | Pearson of Santa Monica, Cal,, moth- er of Captain Leonard Brooke Hyde- Pearson, world war flyer and air mail | pllot, killed ten days ago in the moun- tains of Pennsylvania, while carrying mail from New York to Cleveland. | The letters, addressed “to my be- loved brother pilots and pals,” were | marked: “To be opened only after my death.” T go west, but with a cheerful heart,” one of the letters read. *J) hope whut small sacritico 1 have made may be of use to the cause. ' “When we fly we are fools, they oy, When we are dead we weren't | I“" bad follows. But everyone in | this wondertul aviation service is do- ing the world far more good than the | ‘pubMv can appreciate, We risk our| | nceks; we give our lives; we perfeet | {a service for the benefit of the world | (&t large. They; mind you, are the ones who call us fools, “But stick to it, boys. much with you all again.” | Captain Hyde.Pearson was buried | here Sunday, Tt was not until after his death that his assoclates knew he had been awarded the Dritish meritorious service cross and was a member of the Victorian order, | Houses Demolished by 3 Quakes on Jap Island Tokio, March 18.—~Many hous were demolished Saturday evening a severe carthquake whish rocked the southern section of Saghalien Island, off tho East coast of Asla. 8o \mml, persons were injured, but none killed The shocks are continuéus and the in- habitants are in a state of terror, In places eight-foot flssures have appear- | &d in the earth, I'm ptill very See you all This quake was registered on xhr} | selsmograph at Osaka obgervatory. ‘ The shock center was believed to be | in the Kurile Islande, | $135, 000 Flre Loss Occurs | Up in Wallingford, Vt. Wallingford, Vermont, March 18.— Fire whizh was said to have originat- | ed from the explosion of a kerosenc! engine in the basement totally df- stroyed the Wallingford factory of the | American Fork and Hoe company of | Cleveland, Ohio, late yesterday, caus- irg a loss of $135,000, Qurie Mareh 18.-~The hotel La Tuque, four houses-and four stores ware destroyed by fire yestere | day which for a time threatened th | | whole town, | Last Fllght Windsor Brooke Hyde alr matl pilot Pearson. 31. U. saw service with 'he Dritish forees in Egypt. Mesopo- tamia and on the French front and evcaped without a scratch. But -hna] fying inte Cleveland with the malls from New York, his plane erashed to the ground negr Rellefonte, Pa.| His body found beside ¥ charred ruifs. L_____—___ | Andrews & Co, | | day afternoon, 4 to 6, and on |town committee, succeeding Herbert MARCH 18, 1924 I_ll MUNSEY SELLS PAPER J | \('w York Herald TUESDAY, is 1o Be rged | Until further notice wimming classes will on Friday evening from 7 to §. who have been coming to the the evening | ‘York Tribune— | meet together | Those| Change Effcctive Tomorrow. { Wednes- | : ; ) day evening classes will please come| _ New York, March 15 —The ‘ New on Friday evening at the same time. > 'K Herald, published by IFrank Other swimming classes meet us usual A- Munsey, has beenwsold to Ogden on Wednesday and Friday after- Reid, and will be combined with the noons. Plunging as usual for seniors | NeW York Tribupe on Wednesday on Tuesday and Thursday évenings,| OrMing, Mr. Reld announced ~last| and on Wednesday and I y after- night. The purchase algo included the noons from 3 to 5. Juniors on Tues- | Buropean edition of the Herald, pub- | Satur. | lished in Paris. = The combined "papér will be pub- lished under the name of the New \\llh the New day morning from 9 to 12, The Health classes meet on Tuesda ’ " and Thursdes cvenings. at 730, x| York Herald-Tribune. sl i A N A nwrsduy‘ With the passing of the Herald,' morning with swimming afterwards., | Jiine-3 HOW oWnS but two newspapers Other classes are: Tuesday, 7:30 to O SeVenteen he has controlled in var- $:30, basketry; 6 to 7:30, Miss Lord's Bible class with 25c. supper; 7:30 to 9, millinery. Wednesday, 7:15 to 9, Friday, 7:15 to 9, ious cities since 1890, In that time- he has owned nine papers in New York ‘city. His first paper was the Star-Continent of New York city, which he purchased and sold in the same year, 1890, He also has owned papers in Washington, Boston, Da'ti- ! more and Philadelphia high school class. 9, specizl session of high school class, JUDD MADE G. 0. P. LEADER Third Ward Alderman Elected Chair- | o Suit fon %2.),000 Comes The action of James Mansworth against the Connecticut Co. for $25,- 000 damages is scheduled for trial befort a jury in the superior court at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Judge Marvin will be on the bench. Dunn & MeDonough will represent the ntilf. Mansworth’s action is the | | result of having been struck by a trol- ley car on East Main street in front of the Landers, Frary & Clark club- house on August §, 1923 ROBBED OF $2, mo Springfield, Mass,, March 18. ander Gardner, 40, proprietor man of Town Committee to Succeed H. E. Erwin, New Postmaster. Alderman William clected chairman H. Judd was of the | republi . Erwin, night. Mr. Erwin is soon to take over the | duties of postmaster, to which offiee | he was recently appointed. Mr. Judd stant cashier at the New Brit-! Natipnal bank, treasurer of the' First Baptist church and is chairman & of the common council committee on finance resigned, at a meeting last Up in Court Tomorrow ! Supremacy "SALADA" Xl .A eads in Quality, Flavor and SALES. Try it _today. of the treasury, has no opposi- n for the democratic endorsement. Each party is selecting a national committeeman, five presidential elec- tors, and 13 republicans, 10 demo- cratic delegates to their respective na- tional conventions. While national interest centers in the republican ,pr ential contest, more attention in this state is being Toc P - | given to the vote on the referred law Being Held Today—Polls Close at| y0h would remove party designa- K tions from state office contests. These laws were fostered by proponents of the non-partisan league. The polls opened at 9 a will close at 7 p. m. was held up and t U Park street store, robbed of §1,600 and a diamond val- ued at $800, on the third floor of the garage at 11 Cross street, last night. NO. DAKOTA YOTING State-Wide Presidential Primaries are ipom. Farzo. N. D,, March 15.—North Da- kota voters went to the polls today to | express their presidential preferences 'in a state-wide primary, with a three- cornered contest in the republican ficld, and one entry for democratic en- | dcrsement. Presidential Coolidge and Senator Hiram Johnson of California are the' ! enly names on the republican presi-' {dential ballot, but an eleventh hour “sticker” campaign for Senator Rob- ert M. LaFollette promised to win him jgrape, which has been cultivated to muny votes. its limit for more than 300 years in Willlam G. MecAdoo, former secre- | Europe, remains unchanged. m. and COL. DUVAL DIE! St. Augustine, Fla., March 18.—Col- onel H. Reiman Duval of New York, died at a hotel here early today. His son, Hanson R. Duval, and daughter, Nannie, were at his bedside. The geographic distribution of the BOSTON STORE DONNELLY, MULLEN CO. SMOKE AND WATE R SALE Wednesday will be a day of Extraordinary Value Giving in this store. Every department in the store offers unmatchable values for the thrifty buyer. All our open stock hasbeen sharply reduced. on the counters and tables You will findmany items and odd lots too small to advertise at great savings Two Special Values From the Ready-to-Wea A PHENOMENAL SELLING OF LINEN DRESSES 5.95 Crisp New Spring-time Dresses Here is a lot of all Linen Dresses we bought to sell for §10.00. They | have not been in our store over ten | days. But we made an adjustment | with the. insurance company on these dresses; so are passing the savings along to our Patrons. r Department A REMARKABLE VALUE lN POLO COATS $14.00 The price is so low that it may mislead you about the quality of these fine utility Coats. Every gar- ment is made of all wool material and the styles are up to the minute. In fact they haven’t been in oufr. store over 2 weeks. Plaids, stripes and plain colors; sizes 16 to 44.