New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1925, Page 11

VASTSUMS SPENT ANNUALLY 10 IMPROVE MID-WEST CITIES More Than Match Ex penditures of Kings of Olden Times. By The Amoclated Press, approximately 40 feet high, For sewage disposal the city plans to spend $126,000,000 in ten years, The Chicago plan commission hus rec- ommended 16 public and private fm- provement projects, some of which are under construction, including $14,000,000 forest preserve develop- ment and such private enterprises as the $76,000,000 union station already Chlcago, Sept. 9 — The "lo‘hrn‘(f-)v;x\\-V~1l and the $88,000,000 Illf- kings of democracy, the Amcrican | nois Central station to he built, voters, spend for their public im- St. Loufs' $85,000,000 fn the com- provements sums vastly larger than the kings of old lavished on their show places, public and private, Ing decade includes a munleipal plaza and extensive street, water and Louis XIV of France, spent a sum |°stimated $40,000,000 covers a 20 estimated at $100,000,000 on sallles. Five mid-western have announced plans for improvements in the next decade alone, which total almost one billion dollars, or one dollar for every ten these clties have records of spending $624,000,000 on such improvements in the last decade; and the regular running expenscs of city govern- ments annually in 15 of them are $108,000,000, or more than the Great l.ouls spent on his major undertak- ing. The five cities with definitely an- | nounced improvement plans fo <oming decade are: Detroit, 000,000; Chicago §350,000,000; Cleve land, Kansas City $40,000,000 each; St. Louls $85,000,000, Other citivs are spending great sums but avail- the able plans were not yet in approxi- $2 mate dollar figures for the period. Detroit's Fxpenditures Detroit's ten year plan piates both use and heauty. The school children ara promised $61,- 100,000 in new schools and equin- ment. Reflecting the street widening is estimated at $51 700,000, Parks draw $11,000,0. A lbrary $3,000,000 and sewage dis posal $79,000,000, Chicago's third of a billion in- cludes something unique in heantifi- catlon—the laying of a park 15 miles long directly across the face of the city, at an estimated expense of §75 000,000, Years ago a wrecked sail ing vessel on Chicago’s lake front aceumulated sand about it until land was added to the waterfront wortl many millfons, Taking this cue, the city government is filling the whale | lake front facing the city proper for | 1 continuance parkway. On onr side Is the topaz and silver lake and | aper eliffs. | on the other the sky: The width is from a few hundred feat to nearly half a mile, The file is not a flat plain, hut has some hills Ver- cities public | contem- | autoomhile, | million plan of the Kansas public improvement program, five for schools, 11 for waterworks and [more than five for sewage. Cleve- 1 afrport and the mall, which will e bounded only by bulldings of specifie height and architectural fit- ness. cents of the IFrench kings Eleven of Amounts Spent The 15 mid-we |spend annually to operat. [governments, in appr numbers: € | Minneapolt $10,000,000; innatl, their clty ximate round $14,000,200: 000; Su caul, $103,000,000; Dotr £6,00 Louig 5,000,000; Des Moine 000,000; $171,000,000; Milwaukee, 1 ); Kunsas City, 85,000, 000; Oklahoma (Y $2.000,000; Fort Wo, Houston Protests Donning Coat i Over New Shirt in Diner Tueson, Ari 9 — Whether roilroad can re outhern Pacific quire a ma enier to wear hi coat while | served in the din- ing car will he passed upon by the Arizona corporation commission as a result of # complant made by N, {A. Pennington of Tucson. n ale | Pennington ch Ph Wooding, a s lon his cont the commission that while en AT Mired him (o r him, In iroute to onix on vard, re ore serviy furd, his letter shirt whieh cost offering this as indication thal he was prop- erly dressed fact ol analenEtrnaiions ol and prairie dogs do not bly in the same hurrow. READ THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS The Glenwood “Just right every time”’ — Good cooking means uniformity. You can't guess temperature any more than you'd guess about a recipe — and get results. Robertsha work. An easy turn of the indicator and you are sure of the right temperature to bring your cooking to perfection. The Glenwood Robertshaw makes every woman a good cook—ar a better cook. sewage improvements, Kunsas City's | millions | land's proposed 40 miilion embraces | tern citics covered | heat control eliminates all guess- DAVIS CUP TENNIS STARTS TOMORROW \American Team Is Favored to Repeat Vitory in Tournament — Philadelphia, Pa., Sept, 9 (P—The Davis cup challenge rounds—world series of tennis—starts its three day test of skill, speed and endurance [tomorrow ‘at the Germantown | Cricket club with two lithe, ambiti- ous young men of France seeking to |break the five year hold America has had on the premier team laurels of the game. It the opinions of a majority of cxpert observers have any weight, |the quest of Jean Borotra and Rene | Lacoste is doomed to failure, Just the same weighty opinion, more or less, conceded these sarae players lit- |tle chance to get past Australia in the inter-zone finals. Their start- ling record of three victorles in four matches against the Anzacs at For- est Hills over the last week-end not only confounded the “dope” but put a new light on the ability of these |slim Frenchmen. America’s “big four" present a front that seems impassable that 1s, it might seem so to any but Borotra and Lacoste, who have suddenly be- me Imbued with the idea that they can overcome any obstacles wlth such spirlt and ability as Borotra displaved in conquering Anderson and Patterson, the Australian aces, | I"rance is conceded at least a fight- Ing chance against Tilden, Johnson, Richards and Williams, Tt may tuzn out that Lacoste and Rorotra will Ibe another of the sport's world's | “teams of destiny.” | Tennis fandom has turned the potlight on these two Frenchmen, coste, quiet, unassuming stylist, ampion of Wimbledon and Europe {at 20 and Borotra, the “hounding | basque’ seven vears older than his compatriot, and one of the most | picturesque figures In tennis. Theirs has been a meteorle rise to fame. On the wings of it, France has eafned the challenge round for the first time since entering Davis cup | competition In 1904, | Tacoste c [ fisonr Franee’s main hopes 1 npon him. Rut in the strange of fennls events he falled fo come up to expeetations and it is Torotra who lsems as the main {threat of the challengers. Despife the difference in thelr ages, the development of thesa m-nrvrm'\y brilliant, the romanza being| Ajss Mildred M. New Englan, Medal Glenwood J. M. Curtin & CO., New Britain | me to the Tnited States Saturday Night Supper HE Gold Medal Glenwood has had a large share in spreading the fame of the foods that have made New England baking famous— brown bread and baked beans! You can cook them slowly in the roomy square coal oven, while the gas-range half is taking care of the rest of your week-end cooking and baking. With the slow, steady heat of coal and the quick action of gas, the Gold combination. In pearl-gray porcelain enamel or plain black finish, ars, has been closely parallel, Both began tournament play in 1919 when Lacoste was only 14 and Borotra 21, Both made thelr initlal appearances in Davis cup competition in 1923, Helping France win the X uropean zone competition, although Borotra did not come to this country for the inter-zone finals which Australia won, Last year they carried France once more to the top In European play, only again to meet defeat at |the hands of Australla's stars, | At Wimbledon they have divided honors the past two years, Borotra defeated Lacoste for the singles crown there last year but Lacoste turned the tables on his countryman this season. Until these stars ascended, France was not a consplcuous Davis cup factor. The tri-color has been car- ried into 13 of the 19 champlonship tournaments staged since 1900 with a record of 15 victories in 27 serles of matcbes. Tacoste and Borotra have figured in 12 of these triumphs in the last three years, in each of which France has emerged at the top of tha European zone field. T. W. Hart Plays His Latest Compositions Theron W. Hart, composer of “Ashes of Roses,” the prize winning art song in the Chicago News com- petition of last year, returned from New York over the holiday playing his two latest piano compo- sitions for the Welte-Mignon repro- jducing concern. The company im- {mediately offered the composer an |opportunity to record the pieces in {reproducing rolls, without previous publication, but advised him first to have the compositions published ap thelr publication afterwards would be in doubt on account of lack of {possibllities of piano roll royalties |for the publisher, | The two compositions were "Ro- {manza in C Minor " and “Valse Fan- |tastique.” both piano works in the ultra-modern mood. The last nam- od is dedicated to Teland Piercs |who accompanied Mr. Hart to the ‘producing plano roll company, here there was a cordial reception [to the composer, Mr. Hart was {highly complimented upon his fin- |ished playing and was told the two |pleces would be added to the cata- logne with pleasure at any time. Mr. [Hart chose fo attempt publication first, and took the numbers to the }ufl'\rfl of a leading publisher, The two compositions were com- pleted only within the last and have been played to friends of ‘the composer. They are exceedingly attractive in every respect and make ! |1se of a multitude of modern har- monie devices. The valse is ex- d’s Favorite makes the ideal after « month | y are regard as ldeal compositions for the repro- | ducing plano. A recent song composition by Mr, Hart has been a ‘“Berceuse, to worda by C. 8, Clifton, a New Bri- tain poet, who upon his arrival from England was until recently connect- ed with the American Hardware cor- poration. The gong has been sung {ln private by Mrs, Howard Horton, | and will be sung in public by this accomplished singer this winter, It is a song of the very highest type, of melodic beauty and artlstic har- monic content, | Mr. Hart's most ambitious work of the summer, however, is yet un- completed. It {s a musical setting of ay's noted “Elegy" for solo volces, and an accompaniment for | {piano and organ. When completed this will be performed in the Center Congregational church, where Mr, | Hart 1s organist, PLEASANT VIEW NOTES | (Spectal to the Herald.) { Westerly, R. I, Sept. 9.—The Misses Peggy Hyland and Florence Messenger spent the holldays at the Pleasant View House. Mr. and Mrs. Truman I returned to their home in New I ain yesterday after spending a week here, Miss May Ryan and her mother of | Griswold strect spent the week-end {at the “Audrea | Miss Helen . Anderson of Barnes- | | , and Herman Wells spent the [holiday at the Pleasant View House. Walter Kenncy of the North & {3udd Mfg. Co., spent the latter part | of the week at tse “Audre Mr. and Mrs, Rudolph 1 of | Bridgeport, formerly of New Birltain, and Mr., and Mrs, A, B. Joncs en- tertained the followlng guests at their cottage on Benson strect over {the week-end: Herbert Rahm of | Stamford, Mrs. Harry Phillips of Hartford and Mr. and Mrs, Otis O, { Butler and daughter, Nina, of Hart- { ford, formerly of New Rritain B. Oldershaw of 83 Vine stroct was a haliday visiter at the “Wigwam" | A. N, Abbe of 100 Vine strect spant | ! the holiday at the “Wigwam", | Mrs. Annie Polson and the Misses | { €. N. Polson and N. E. Palson of 20 | ! Rockwell avenue spent the week-end | [at the “Wigwam" | | Harold W. Hatch of Tincoin street | {waa a visitor here Saturday. | Mr. and Mrs. W. IR, Fenn |ter, Barbara, and Miss garet Sunhurn of Hart street, who left New Tiritain on Angust 24 for a tour of the White Mountains and Maine, I stopped here on their return and were enfertained by Mrs. Grace T !Sunburn at the “Witeo” cottage | They left for home yesterday. Anderson of {Rlack Rock avenue returned to her home yesterday after spending two weeks as tha guest of Mrs, Sunhurn J. 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