New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 3

FOOCHOW LACKING RAILROAD SERVICE Chinese City llas No Vehicles With Wheels Washington, D. C., March 27— "Foochow, Chini #d demo ation against foreign traders, has no rallroad tracks nor any wheeled vehicles on its streets. (t Nes 34 miles trom the sea, but it does a provinclal and forelgn busi- ness of huge proportions,” says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C,, headquarters of the National Geo- graphle Soclety. “Few travelers go there. who do find themselves In a place where the charm of medieval custom vies with the stench of medieval sewage disposal, Factories are Sweet-Smelling “Paradoxically, 1f one wishes a! sweet-smelling spot he should seek cut one of the 47 factorlies which make Foochow's flower-scented tea. These factories buy more than $400,- 000 worth of white jasmine flowers yearly which they use for heating with the tea leaves to produce the dellcate fragrance. The women wear permanent headdress of swords und daggers. “To reach Foochow one salls from Hongkong or Shanghai—it lies mid- way betwecn these ports—and op- posits the north end of Formosa (Talwan) the ship steams up the Min, or Snake, River. But the ocean-going vessel must halt at Pagoda Anchorage, nearly | tcn miles below Foochow, because, half a century ago, stoneladen barges | were sunk here to.repel an enemy ittack. Legend has it that the sword-and-dagger headdress of the women s a memento of a siege when China was a group of petty, warring states and her men went forth to! fight an army of invaders. When the men were driven back inside the city walls the women seized their weapons, and salled forth to a glo- rious victory over the tarauders. River Traffic Problem “Above Pagoda Anchorage the vis- itor finds a river traffic problem as acute as the automobile congestion | of an American city. Gone are the tea-clippers, the ships that carried the name and aroma of Foochow to London tables, and gone are the famous Foochow pirate craft. But in the vessel-mass one still discerns the sea-going junks with sterns as high as those of the old Spanish gal- leons and curious up-river craft which find water highways through Fukien province. These jostle for places alongside house-boats of an- clent design and bright, new steam launches. "“When a small boat lands you at a Foochow whart it still is three wiles overland to the vine-grown, towered walls of the old city. No taxls awalt your signal, no cabs, not éven a jinrikisha. Only the native chalrs are available. The etreets of the anclent city are too crooked, too badly paved, and too narrow for eyen the most primitive sort of vehi- g’ms on wheels. gane: |4 CAN eat 3 'GL‘;ETATLANTIC&PACI FIC:: 441 Arch St., New Britain, Conn. 542 Arch St, New Britain, Conn. 711 Stanley St.,, New Britain, Conn. 132 So, Main St., New Britain, Conn. 417 W. Main St., New Britain, Conn. 131 Hartford Ave,New Britain, Conn 125 North St., New Britain, Conn. 78 Arch St, New Britain, Conn. cene of a report. ! Those | astonished | "STORES AT Fukien is Oklahoma of China “Anclent as Foochow seems to the \utarn world, it is a sort’ of Wild West In the eyes of Peking or nl\» lon In thé days of Contucius, Chhm proper looked upon the province (hat now ls Fukien as a reglon of | barbarlans. The walled city did not nn until the Ming perlod, which covered the years that America was discovered and colonized, “One effectual bar against visitors In recent decados has been the prov- alence of cholera and the bubonlc plague, One survey dlsclosed only three wells of wholesome water; the natives still rely on the water, of precarious purity, dipped from the river and sold by coolles, “Tea, timber and paper load down most of the out-going boats. From up-river come many cargoes of fruit, cotton for the Foochow mills, and rice. Plled on {ts wharves are wheat, peas, onlons, salt, silver, white plums and dates. The over- land journey to Foochow s avolded even by the natives; but the Min and its branches give the city a water- way access to 27 walled towns and | to many smaller villages, Have Secret Lacquer Procesd “Foochow imports the sap of, the | so-called varnish tree, and uses it in a lacquer of exceptional luster, One family, for many generations, held a secret process which made Foochow lacquer-ware farfamed. This process required applications for a dozen or | more times. 'On a mountain not far from the city one encounters the dog wor- shippers—easily distinguishable for the peculiar coiffure of their women; a scaffoldlike effect with a cord dangling before the face. This is worn because of a myth which tolds that a dog once saved the city and the gods rewarded him by subjecting him to a process by which he was | to become human after hia incarce- ration for 7 times 40 days. An im- patient provincial Pandora lifted the cover when all but his head had been transformed and thus left a dog-headed man. In going to claim his bride his face was covered so his canine features might not offend her. 8o, to this day, the women of the mountain wear the headdress in honor of him and, on New Year day, they worship the Image of a dog. | A 540-Volume Shelf “Even nearer the city is ‘Doctrine Hill', which derives this one of its | many names from the resldence | there of a certain learned man who accumulated a library—a 540-volume | shelf—known as ‘The Doctrine of the Universe.’” On this same hill are ‘six times six’ wonderful things, in- cluding the inevitable rock showing the footprints of Buddha. a very pious priest used to sit read- ing a book. One night there was a thunderstorm which split the rock, but i parts fell so that a cone was formed so the holy man might read {n peace. “A famlliar touch is manifest on Black Rock Hill—a touch which | makes the'name carvers of the East and West kin—by the inscription left there by two climbers, which reads: “In the reign” of the Emperor Kuang Hsu, 2nd day, 12th moon, 21st year, Ch'en Hsiao and Liu Hslao, cross-legged on the summit of Black Rock Hill.” THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS BRING RESULTS Sa‘dE'é 3 li at | ew Britain, Conn. New Britain, Conn. 1537 Stanley Street, Cor. South Main and Ellis Sts. “‘On another hill is a place where ' m BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1925, ey T o ey e e AUTONATIC TRAIN DEVICES UNSAFE More Dangerous Than Human Hands, Stone Declares New York, March 27.—A warning {that automatic control devices may be responsible for a much greater rallroad tragedy than has ever oc- curred is sounded by Warren 8. Stone, grand chief of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, in an affidavit filed in the federal district court today in sup- port of the Delaware .and Hudson company's application to enjoin the interstate commerce commission from forcing installation of automa- tic satety devices along 113 iles of its road, One of the greatest objections to the automatic train stop, Mr, Stone asserts, is the danger that its appli- catlon will some day buckle a freight train and throw it across an adjoin- Ing track in front of a fast passenger train, “The chances are that every hu- man being in the passenger train will be killed or crippled,” he de- clares. Members of the locomotive broth- erhood, according to their chiet, are opposed to the installation of con- trol devices for the reason that en- gineers generally believe it i{s un- desirable and unsafe to divide con- trol and that the proper handling of trains by brakes, in emergencies and at other times, requires the exercise of personal judgement and discre- tion and must be adapted to special conditions of time, place and weath- er. These conditions vary so greatly upon any rallway, he states, that no automatic apparatus can be expected to take the place of individual ac- tion intelligently eontrolled. “The art of automatic train stop or train control,” adds the brief, ‘“has not been developed to such a point that devices of this character can be relled upon to operate safely, efficlently or satisfactorily under varying dally service conditions.” With the opening of court hear- ings on its suit, the Delaware and Hudson also presented affidavits from other prominent railroad en- gineers and officlals, supporting its contention that no apparatus which has so far been tested has proved satisfactory. Most of them argue that railroad saefty would be ad- vanced more effectively if the pro- posed expenditures were devoted to the elimination of grade crossings and the installation of block signals. Murders Increase With Removal of Death Penalty Berlin, March 27.—There have been no executions in Berlin since 1321, and it is now being alleged that the number of brutal murders has increased in the German capital because of the disposition of the courts to impose sentences of life imprisonment fthstead of death. Berlin has no executioner and the discussions in the papers as to the advisability of restoring capital punishment have brought more than 100 applications from men who want to serve as hangman. They cost for regret. You Three Sixty-Five N S Farmington Road, Kensington, Conn. SHORT CALENDAR DOOKET The*docket for the short calenda session of the city court at 2 o'clock | Monday afternoon has twelve cases | listed as follows: Rackliffe Bros. Co,, | Inc,, agalpst George Newtoh, fudg. ment, Irving I. Rachlin for the plain- tiff; Mary Chaponis against James Mask, demurrer, Willlam M, Green- Niedzwecki and others, motion for tay of proceedings, Roche & Cabelus or the plaintiff, Hungerford & Saxe for Niedzweckl; D, Capen against George J. Riley, pleading or default, Michael A, Sexton for the plaintiff, Willlam F. Mangan for the defend- ant; Charles O'Ktiluacz against the | snciely M. F. General Ameglio plead- steln for the plaintiff, George W.| |Ing or default, Michael Ai Sexton for Klett for the defendant; City Coal & [th° Plaintiff, B. F. Gaftney for the | Wood Co., against Mrs, J. P. Magulre | do!endant Krikor Barkislan against pleading by defendant, Kirkham, | |John Geragoslan and others, judg- Cooper, Hungerford and Camp mrwment of foreclosure by sale, Kirk- the plaintiff, Joseph G. Woods for [ham. Cooper, Hungerford & Camp | the defendant; John Skritulski ‘tor the plaintiff Roche & Cabelus for against M. H. Fox and others, de- Geragosian, Hungerford & Saxe for murrer to defendant’s second defense | B¢"1rd Miller. Joseph G, Woods for the plaintiff, William M. Greenstein for Fox, A. . | England Follows U. S, Baldwin for Gallo; Willlam D, Boyle . against Albert H. Oquist, hearing on In Safeguardlng Milk London, March 27.—An Interna- motion for more spacific statement, tlonal Milk Congress in London, Willfam F. Mangan for the plaintiff, e ":;_f:::“g’,‘_":;fnmuu to that held in the United Dorfman, order that’ plaintiff file a | States last year, is under consider- bill of particulars, 8. G. Casale for ation by the ministries of agriculture the plaintiff, George W. Klett for the | and health. Veterinary opinion in defendant; Guiseppe Leonard! | this country is so impressed with against Baba Jacob and others, Al- | | steps taken by the United States to fred Le Witt for the plaintiff, Ml-‘ prevent the spread of tuberculosie {chael A. Sexton for the defendant;|through milk taken from infected Citizens' Coal Co. against Manual | | cows, that strong representations Atashian, motion to reopen judg- made to governmental authorities ment, A, W. Upson for the plaintiff, | here are expected to result in similar Geary, Sulllvan & Co., against Joseph | measures in England, | Tell Her Today! OUR laundress probably could not tell you whether the soap she uses contains Sili- cate of Soda or not. Yet you know there’s some. thing that ruins your clothes, especially your delicate fabrics! Be sure—and safe! Tell your laundress to insist always on Kirkman’s Soap and Kirkman'’s Soap Chips which are guaranteed free from Silicate of Soda and all adulterants! She will appreciate it—and her hands will be grateful, too! “YOUR HANDS WILL BE GRATEFUL” | 1F THERE IS A DROP OF RED BLOOD IN YOU, THIS PICTURE WILL SEND IT LEAPING THROUGH YOUR VEINS! “THE DEVIL'S. CARGO” CAPITOL—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday The Very Best in Musical Merchandise The VICTOR VICTROLA and GULBRANSEN REGISTERING PIANO are Nationally known for quality, tone and beauty of design, assuring you continuous performance and entire satisfaction. no more than any ordinary Musi- cal Instrument. Better get the VICTROLA or GUL- BRANSEN, or both, and you will have no cause are getting practically a life time service. Play safe. Our TERMS are LIBERAL—SERVICE the BEST enry Morans & Sons VICTROLAS — PIANOS — RADIO Main St. Directly Opp. Myrtle PLUMBING SUITS and TOPCOATS Young Men will do well, both in Style and Price by getting Togged Out for Spring now—and here! They will find the latest pat- terns, the newest styles and colors and ahove all a large variety of clothes especially cut for young men. Priced At— Others At $19.50 to $39.50 DRESS UP FOR SPRING YSAMPIE SHOD. David §.Segall, Pres. 357 MAIN ST. 135 MAIN ST. Bristol HURRY ' ' = BOYS AND GET YOUR BOYS’ The same Fine Quality selling for years, Taflored for mother in New Britain, SEE THE NEW 4.-PIECE VESTS, JUST WHAT THE SUITS that we have wear plenty of style at a price within reach of every been with SUITS WITH J BOY WANTS, BAT, BALL and GLOVE FREE! WITH YOUR SUIT There is no Extra Charge —it is a present to you Q-50 R e N OTHERS FROM ] $5.50 to $10.50 NY SHOP. David §8.8¢egall, Dres. 357 MAIN ST. New Britain 135 MAIN ST.' Bristol SPORTSMEN APRIL IST MEANS T:1E BEGINNING OF THE FISHING SEASON You Will Need A TROUT BASKET A GOOD ROD SOME NEW HOOKS AND A GOOD LINE April 1st Reminders— Trout Baskets $1.75, $2.00 Steel Rods $1.00, $2.00, $: ) Trout Flies <. .c.... 2 foi . <dc Trout Special .... 25 yd. line 75¢ C. A. HIERPE 73 ARCH HARDWARE STREET R HEATING