New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1924, Page 5

NDANK SHIPYARDS DESTROVED BY FIRE Loss Is Estimated to Be Fullyi $150,000 Neank, Conn., May 20.—Fire be- lieved to have started from a cigar- cite carelessly dropped into a pile of shavings, totatlly destroyed the ship- vard of the Charles W. Morse inter- vsts here yesterday at a loss of ap- proximately $150,000, The spread of the flames was vapid and fanned by a westerly wind, nveloped the entire property of the *ompany within an hour despite the | >fforts of pumping engines from sur- réunding towns and from Westerly, . 1, to throw streams upon the flames, Low tide seriously hampered the operations of the apparatus and | there was little force to the pumps. | Uive fire hoats from the Merxitt- | Chapman and Scott corporation came 1o the assistance of the pumping en- gines but were unable to do more than assist in saving the fleet of menhaden steamears and a fleet of small ‘pleasure craft tied up at the vharf, The government tug, General Lichard Arnold, was badly burned before she could be got off tthe ways into the water. The entire super- structure was burned from beneath her and the tugs pilot house was a | mass of flames when she slipped into the s en hulls of the ferris| type owned by the Emergency Fleet | corporation were totally destroyed at the outseet of the fire, which wrecked the eight ways in the yard and a third hull 8f the same construction was saved. Five buildings used in ship construction. and two houses also fell vietims to the flames but the machine | shop and galvanizing shop were saved. Telephone cables suffered trom the fire and temporarily erippled the service, which was later repaired by workmen. The shipyard rendered valuable | service to the government in building ships during tthe war. The boats of the ferris type, of 3,500 tons, some- | times used as food transports, were mostly turned out Harry 1. Morse, general manager of the yard, last night stated that the yard had been engaged In repair work for the most part and that with the railroads in fairly'good shape and with the machinery in the repair shop slightly damaged, the yard will r sume work as speedily as possi Fhere were no large construction vontracts at hand at the time of the fire, © The yard was built about 70| years ago. CIVIL SUITS FILED, The Commercial Paper Co,, through | Willlam M. Greenstein, has ght suit for $50 damages against lam ', Hotehkiss, Deputy Sheriff Martin Horwitz served the papers. "1 writ s returnable in the city court the | first Monday of June F. ¢, Beauliey of Plainviile has ean named defepdant in a suit for 2100, brought by the Anderson Elec- trie Co. 8. G. Casala ix counsel for the plaintiff. The writ is returnahle in the eity court the fourth Monday of May “PETTERS” ARE SCORED | University Girls Must be “Veritable | | Amazons' to Defend Themselves | Against the Male of the Species. | Seattle, May 20.—University girls, like their sisterS out of school, do not | like to be “petted” and must be *ver- | itable Amazons” to defend thems against the “male of the species,’ cording to an anonymous woman con- tributor to The Columns, a Univer- sity of Washington publication. “The man who'doesnt eventually | g try to ‘pet’ is a rare specimen, and also a thorough diplomat,” declared he contributor in the article entitied The He-Petter.” “This type lends zest to the game—wonder and in- trigue, “Nowadays, to defend herself a girl m be a veritable Amazon, with no | regard for broken sedan windows. But even an Amazon may go down to de- feat with twisted, bruised jaw before some of the strong-arm, he-petter cave-man. “Tha he-petter thinks that custom demands an interval of petting after every date, and nothing short of war, pestilence or famine can induce him to avoid such a seance.” In defense of the men and attack- ing the article, one of the men stu- dents wrote tha following in another unsigned story: “The real man gets the girl who doesn’t ‘pet but the he-petter is nabbed by the sheik-chasing co-ed.” THAW IS FREE. Philadsiphia, May 20.—Harry K. Thaw was formally freed from ail re- i straint late yesterday afternoon when Judge Monoghan signed the recent verdict of the jury which pronouncel him sane, and then signed an order releasing him from tha Pennsylvania Hospital for the Tnsane, where he had teen confined since he fled from New York after his indictment for an as sault on Frederick Gump, Jr, of Kansas , Dec, 24, 1916, | — Tells Sufferers How to End Piles Forever § Rochester Doctor Achieves Remark- able Success With New Prescription. ' § Must Give Absoltffe Relief or Money Back, It has remained for a well known * | Rochester doctor to find a real remedy 9 for Piles. Years of patient. painstak ing +fort on hiy part has resulted in a prescription that will actually heal | Piles and absorb them never to r¢ turn This doctor says no man or woman need suffer another hour from any pain arising from Hemorrhoids or ' Piles now that he has made arrange- ments with Axelrod’'s Pharmacy to dispense this wonderful preseription known as MOAVA SUPPOSITORIES for a moderate price on the money | back if dissatisfied plan You'll be amazed to see how quickly it acts. Blessed relief often eomes in an hour; even in cases of long stand. ing with profuse blesding really won- derful results have been accomplishe ed. SPECIAL Wednesday Only $9.95 Values up to s0 HATS OF RARE CHARM Summertime’s loveliest modes—for your first choos- ing-—and think of it, at this DRESS HATS SUIT BOB HAIR HATS gaving-price! HATS SPORT HATS UTILITY HATS 193 MAIN STREET SAMPLE SHOESTORE NEXT TO “THE FAIR” Forced to vacate! Here are the facts: After 13 years of square dealing with the people of New Britain and vicinity comes an order from our landlord to “Move!” Like a thun- derbolt from a blue sky, we are ordered out by July 1 and there’s NO PLACE TO GO. And that’s not all. We are caught between two fires. A backward season has left us with most of our new spring shoes and The factories will not take them back as all of our new summer shoes. they were made especially for us. Drastic action is necessary. weeks. $25,000 worth of shoes to sell in five And when you read these items below you'll know that drastic action has been taken. Prices have been slashed right and left; all shoes grouped for convenient selection and everything made ready for the greatest bargain event in the history of New Britain. COMPELLED to. NEW STYLES ends from reg ek Value $1.00 grade shoes and Aress and sreet S We do not WANT to make these reductions. It’s the only solution to our problem. SALE TARTS WEDNESDAY 9 A. M. Read every item Come early SHOES FOR CHILDREN We are Forced out of business! NEW STYLES Small, close-fitting shapes vie for your choice with large Summer-cool transparencies....brims are here for every preference....off-the-face....over the eyes....or large and picturesque. Nothing is left to the imagination in colors: Black of course, white of course, and sand, copen, navy, brown, citron, maize, almond, orchid and flame, SPECIAL TOMORROW MORNING 9 to 12 only CLOSING OUT ONE GROUP OF ODD HATS Wonderful Values Women's Satin Slippers . $1.00 | A iy Goldeabhum Milnery Co. N ~69c¢ MAIN AND COURT STS, NEW BRITAIN, CONN.