New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1924, Page 12

[ 5 s 7 e SRS S i 1 I3 i e BLACK ROCK ONE OF MANY BOULDERS Glacial Drilt Deposited Huge Stones in New Britain (Contributed hy James Bhepard,) The great trap rook aid A fermerly adorned a portion of Wes Main street was universally know Plack Rock.” 1t wiood on t southeast corner of West Main and Black Rock avenue, That also known as Nack ok, W Main street, at its intepscotion with cality W the rallread, was called 1t Hack Nock crossing When ¢ gl erossing waa supplanted by an over head structure, it waa called 1 Black Roek bridge e ping southerly therefrom w Iy callsd the Wack Rock road, hut wow we eall It Ilack Nock avenus The school house at the lower end ¢ that street was called the Black Rock phool house so long as it was used such, Later, when roligious sery foes were held in that K called the Rlack Itock mia Lincoln street school use It was on, Th house benrs the smitials “B, R.," which signify Dlack &Kok Undoubtedly the boulder ealled “Riack Rock” was the largest boulder that ever settled in New Rritain, It was a5 Iarge as a house, In fact i's upper story was a play house for all the children of that neighborh Black Itock lingers in the memory of more persons than does any other one featura of anclent West Main strest, One does not have to he very old in order to remember it, for it is only about 40 years since it disapp ed. The last owner of the Black Rock boulder was the late Reuben W, Had- ley, then the proprietor of a popular grocery store on Main street, He had a large heart and allowed many per- sona to run up large bills when there wae littla prospect that he would be Paid. Some of the men who were thus indebted to him were skilled in the work of blasting rocks, He asked them If they would blast the rock into building stone, working at odd spells when they could spare the time, with the understanding that euch work would be credited on their account, This was agreed to and after a time the work of reducing the rock was completed. Meanwhile the men kept on trading as before and when their balance sheet was written up Mr, Hadley found that said balance, in- stead of having been reduced, had been largely increased. The stones thus blasted from this famous rock are now resting in the walls of many different buildings, but the only pieces, so far as I know that can readily be identified as such, are now rasting in the masonry that forms the front wall of the Lincoln street school house. These pieces are a pair of twin blocks, broken from the original rock, each Having an in- | itial letter cut in its face. In the same wall ia a block of light colored stone bearing four figures, The three blocks are so arranged that the in- scriptions thereon read “B. R, 1882." The initial letters stand for “Black Rock" and the four figures show the date when the building was erected. These stones constitute a simple yet eppropriate monument in memory of the old Biack Rock school house which ceased to be used for school purposes when this new Black Rock achool house was ready for use. These | twin blocks are also in memory of the great trap rock houlder which was| formerly a salient feature of our land- scape. 4 One definition of a boulder is “a large stone worn smooth by the action of water.”! A large pebble may be called a small boulder, but the defini- tion which applies to boulders of the Black Rock class is “a mass of any kind of rock whether rounded or not that has been transported by natural agencies from its native. bed.” Black Rock was not rounded. form was well preserved. It came here from some northern poipt in the ice floe of a former age. The ma- terial is basalt, the popular name for which is trap rock. This is so abun- dant that we cannot state more defi- nitely from whence this boulder came, nor how far it travelled in transit. There is hardly a place in the many trap rock ranges on the morth, which might not have been the “native bed” of &uch a houlder, Although it came from a distance it cannot properly be called a stranger, for its materiel is that of the prevailing rock of this section. The several mountains which border our town are of trap rock. Our fields were former! covered with amall boulders, many of which were trap rock. A stone wall made of such boulders bordercd the Itussell prop- erty on the south side of Lake street, some 50 years ago. were once common in various parts of the town. The Ledge school house on East Main stree was 80 named from the trap rock ledge that re- mained near by long after the &thool houee was built, A Trap rock construction of our stre and our shops. An outline map of New Britain is a fair illustration of a block of broken trap rock. In fact we are a trap rock town althongh we are better known as “The Hardware City.” W tormerly had n 2 boulders of ¢ fous parts of the town gely into the our houses, enters W trap ynsiderable size in var- I'robably the largest of those now remaining lies eclose to roadway on the west vide of the Slater road, a little above Clin ton street, Had it been thus located on a more frequented street some mo- torist might have wreeked his ear on it before t time. A large number in Southington, some of which etill ro- main, There w imme trap Main street just west of the Quinni plac river at Plantsville. 'l wtood which T attendad sars since, They were blasted aw nearby retainir #go. About the year 1880 1 w lecting minera ®dtol in cor pany with two of Britain when we met a Al o or who told ua that the vas VOTY Curion rock not far away th Its angular | Trap rock ledges | |® He was told that if he would | | come 1o New Britain » e v rock L in that section, for tivistol is outsid the trap roek ¥¢ . In faot t dor ‘was the t 5 Rritdin of all | o traj " s whieh 1 can Perhaps the Argest " y 1 to this tow e west Wack ook pest part of 1h koot t i | " ' igh bank north . ve & portion of it was lyin the 1ast time | visiied the pha The | mador part of thia boulder was blast 1| away some years since when the W was widened 19 make room for & S teack, 1t was by far the larg t granit ulder 1 have ever secn "t cinity, 1t came here with the g'a Irift, as did iack Roek, but ame from a diffrent locality and a more distant point, | on of how great pider may have history of | probably from We, | A AUE W distance this b avelled in transit by the A much smaller granite bhoulder that | the east side of | armerly rested o Lesington street, 1t was so full of | good mineral speeimens that 1 asked | Mr. Tolles, then the owner of the ad- | qoent land, if 1 conld have it, With yist permission. and my sledge ham- ner, 1 reduced the rock Into amaller ploces and carried away soveral vheel barrow loads of them. Quite a | number of these specimens are now in | the Inatitute museum, They consist | of zosite and amphibole, being so la- | belled together with the location, New Britain,” Other specimens were sont o different collectors of minerals in many of the United States in ex-| changa for other minerals, Prof. J. 0. Dana of Yale University, after an examination of several specimens | from this boulder, informed me that | it probably came from the vieinity of North Conway, N, H., for according | to P'rof. Hiteheock's geological report | that 1 the nearest locality waom | rock of like character is known to | have been found in its native bed. | DECLARES REVOLT 1S NOT SPREADING ‘Brazilian Ofice Sags 1t Is Con- % fined o Sao_?aulo | By The Associated Press. m Juenos Aires, July 12.—The Brazil- lian foreign office in a statement |cabted to its diplomatic representa- |{ives abroad declares the insurrec- tionary movement is confined to the | city of Sao Paulo and that the rebels | are completely dominated by the fed- eral forces, says a dispatch from Rio Janeiro to La Nacion. The statement. denies as “faise and | alarming” information regarding the alleged spread of the movement to the state of Rio Grande, The dis- patch, which is under date of yester- day, quotes the statement in part as follows: “porfect order reigns in Rio Grande. The movement in Sao Faulo is no mora than a mutiny provoked [1y part of the state military, police, {10 which part of the federal garrison | has joined. This movement mean- | while, thanks to the immediate ener- | getic measures taken by the federal and state governments, has been cir- cumseribed to the capital of Sao | Paule without ‘affecting the interior part of the state or other parts of the try. ate President Da @ampos re- sisted and, efficiently maintained his |authority as such before the arrival |of the federal forces sent to his aid. Today the rebels are heing completely dominated by lcgal” (federal) forces |sent throu, antos and over the | | Central Brazilian railway, geonsisting | ot pertectly prepared cavafry, infan- [try, light and heavy artillery, tanks land aviators, which have already sur- and reached the | : | ;l'mmvlml Sao Paulo | very center of the city. | “Meanwhile they are ot precipitat- {ing the surrender of the rebels, not | wishing to destroy the city with artil- | lery fire, which is restricted to. de- | |struction of the rebels’ barracks and | |food supplies. The government fin- | fantry is closing in on the rebels and | cutting off '\\“r r t., Cavalry | | rorces this (Iriday) afterfoon, took | many rebel prisonérs and captured 21 | machine guns : “The Central Rrhzilian railway 1 | resuming normalization of its services | ‘w-tu-mn Rio Janeiro and Sao Paula, | Which was the only section interrupt- | ed. From tomorrow six daily pacsen- | ger trains will be run between Rio | Janetro and Mogy Das Cruzes, 44 Xilo- | [ metres from the theater of the mili- | tary revolt.,” News of Outbreak Montevideo, Uruguay, July 12,—An indieation that the Brazilian govern ment had acknowledge] early this month of the impending outbreak at Sao Paulo is given in & copy of the tio Janiero newspaper of Hrazil, the July nd edition of which has been received here, er reports that on ac count of cortain rumors, regimental commanders wore suddenly * crdered to their duarters on July 1, and officers who had paticipated in the military revolt of July, 1922, were ar- tested, together with several civilians s a p rantionary measnre " 'T'h@l ilians included Edmundo Bitten- court, former editor 5f the Correfe de Manha. The newsy Irene S('f)rtV(VRrac-crs Home A Winner at Cranwood | Cleveland, O., July 12— \Vien Flome- ing, famous Canadian reinsmay tinuied his sensational Jrivini at Crune vood yesterday bringing lrene Seoft | to the front in the i ivo hoaiw of the $1,000 feature evont, the & 18 pace, after losing the frat 1wy heats Three other favorites captured the remaining events, The iong shot boys who rade a killing yesterday in the anetions aciked Blen J. in the S pace and ceived ample compenzaiien shen he annesed the second heat Mitton Wood capturcd ‘he 2:33 tn see, for there was puce with case, winning tike it any where about 1} ) takie O'Connor annesed the | us into the fieids directly o 08 pace, being rushed ite by ‘ Congregational church 1 2 | Cassie Abbott at the star! but finish. Waif mile distant thercfr ing in frome in the frst tvo heats \ stopped, and pointed to a ®ral feet square and eaid: “Here is the curious rock that I =ich you to! larennst terminated i card inning the 2:16 trot i etratght | of the first district; he | garbage through Plainville, however, |cenzo Piccanelli of Berlin were re- | ceived, but owing to the edict of the | explained that no more money can GARBAGE PROBLEN 1S SOLVED AGAIN Contracts Awarded to Two Sw sons and John Paz 7 New contraeis for the colleetion of garbuge were awarded 1o Albin Swan son of Osgead avenue, Bven Bwanson of this eity and John Paz of Ken singlon at the health board meeting | The first will have eharge made a bid yesterday of 86,000 for the job, Sven Bwansen | bid 346,000 for the second distriet and Paz hid 86,000 for the third distriet The first applicant to be inters | viewed regarding the collection was Louis Seiring of New Britain, who put in & bid for 810,000 for collec. | tion in the first district and $8,000 | in the second district, It was stated | that he wanted to eare for only ene | district, When questioned he seemed | confident that he could take ecare of the work, He sald he has a farm of | 100 meres and that he could collect the about secure enough men to garbage Anton B, Franzen of Southington was next interviewed, He said that | he had had experience in collecting, having worked for Frank Furman when he collected the city's refuse. He sald he had a farm of about 500 | acres and asked 35,000 on the first distriet, He would have to haul the and the length of the haul, about cight miles, was thought to be too great, Frank Furman of Newington ap- | peared befora the board and stated | that’ he would have presented a bid, | if it were not for the fact that he | has heen prohibited from drawing | garbage by the town of Newington. He claimed that he was cut off short by the town. Dr. R. C. Pullen, su- perintendent of health, got in touch with Mr, Fish, health officer of New- ington, and it was reported to the | hoard that Furman will be allowed to haul only enough garbage to feed his hogs and only until he has had rea- sonable opportunity to get rid of the animals, Furman has collected in this city and Dr. Henry Bray told him that he ecan, make arrangements with one of the new collectors in re- gard to securing enough refuse for his pigs. Berlin Puts Up Bare. A letter from Dr. Roger M. Gris- wold, health officer of Berlin, was read to the board, in which he ex- plained the attitude of that town to- ward the collection of garbage by a Berlin man. The letter stated that no one would be allowed to collect garbage in New Britain unless a permit was secured from the health officer. No one in Berlin living near a public highway would be allowed a permit and no one having a dairy farm would be allowed fo secure one. Any other conditions which the officer ‘might see objectionable would count against the securing of a permit. John Paz of Kensington next ap- peared before the board. He quoted a price of $6,000 for the third dis- trict. Dr. Bray sald he had been rec- ommended by Dr. Griswold and that the officer had sald he was a good man for the place. Paz said that he has done private garbage collecting. He would have a haul of about four miles to his home in the southwest- ern part of the town of Berlin. Bidg from Rapha® Dente and Vin- health officer, these bids could not be considered. Albin Swanson stated that he has’ had experience in collecting and he guaranteed that he could go to work by August 1. He hag a haul of two miles. Sven Swanson is well known to the board. Dr. Bray commended him on the good jvork he has done in this line for the city. Owing to the large numper of calls asking that garbage be removed from homes in the city, it was decided that the two Swansons collect as best they can throughout the city until August 1, at the old price of $4,000. It was be given them because the contracts do not go into effect until that time. Dr. Bray, in talking about the mat- ter of disposing of garbage, said that in time this job will have to he taken ‘e of by another department. that this should be done now. He said that it is no job for the hoard of health, except in cases where the gar- bage putrifies and it is necessary to insist upon its removal. A depart- ment that employs men should take care of this work, he said. In time, he said garbage in the city will be disposed of through an. incinerator. The matter of renovating and fix- ing up the isolation hospital was left to Dr. Pullen. | The hoard did not convene until after 4:30 o'clock, although the meet- scheduled for 4 o'clock. Dr. ing Henry T. Bray, Dr. M. S. Dunn and John J. Erwin were the only mems- bers present, hut Dr. Dunn held the prosy of Dr, B. T. Fromen, making the required quorum of four for the transaction of business. David J. Lawler of Newington, who has been collecting garbage for some time gast, appeared before the meet- ing and stated that he will be forced to give up the work, cwing to an ediet by the town of Newington, pro- hibiting him from doing the work. The resignation of Robert J. Grif- fin, hacterfologist of tha health de. partment, to take effect August 23, as read The resignation was ac- epted with regret. Mr. Griffin stat- od in the resignation that he was re- signing only because of the necessity of resuming his studies at college. Former Foothall Star, Now | Detective, Badly Wounded Newark, N, J., July 12.—William Nestor, city detdetive and former foot- ball star of Rutgers college, was seri- o v wounded today by an unidenti- fied man who fired two bullets into his abdomen after walking into po- lice headquarters an announcing that he wanted to report a holdup. Pur- sned through all the hnilding the as- sailant was twice wounded before h'l was captured. | You ean't really inherit but you can inherit motiey enough to afford them l “nerves” JEW RRITAT™Y DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924, The Door Is Open--- Here Is The ‘News. [O- T HIRIFT SAILES ext Weeh The “Key To Thrift” [Pictured Above| —will be on display in one of Macy’s Broadway windows beginning . Monday morning. It is the key with which Rowland H, Macy opened his first store in Haverhill, Mass., in‘1851. HIS brass Key made retail history. Rowland H. Macy did not come to New York until 1858; but in his little Haverhill store he formulated the principles which were to launch a new era in merchandising and guide the Greater Macy’s of today. Those ptinciples are: cash sales only, lowest prices, one price for all, economy in operation. . When the Key was discovered last year in Haverhill, the event was celebrated with a great week of sales at Macy’s. Next week, to celebrate the first anniversary . of the finding of the Key, another series of exceptional Key-to-Thrift Sales will be held. Throughout the store, departments have long been preparing for this event. Some have made special purchases and marked prices considerably below the usual figures. Others have reduced prices on merchandise already in stock. Many of the sales offerings will not be advertised for lack of space, but in the store each sale will be identified by a special counter card bearing the “Key to Thrift”--your token of extraordinarysavings. Let the “Key to Thrift” guide you next week. Every day this store sells good merchandise for at least 6% less than the other stores. But next week, the savings will be far greater. Watch the newspapers for details. Key-to-Thrift Sales Start Monday July 14th And Continue All Week See the first sales news Sunday in the New York Times, World, American, Herald-Tribune and Telegraph RH Macy & bo: 34"ST & BROADWAY J7n2c. U NEW YORK CITY Store Closed All Day Saturday During July and August Store Hours 9 to 5:30 Telephone Lackawanna 6000