New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1925, Page 6

New Britain Herald LERALD PUBLISHING SOMPANY Susda, Blag., A1 TOBOCRIPTION RATES 13,00 o Toar. 1008 Three Months » Month, Treepted) ureh Atreet, Lonsd b Ra Tutered at Office at Britaln as Necond Olass Mall Matter, TELEPHONB OALLA Bal Oftice Rdltorial Rooma ... 926 rhe ) " Iy profitable advertising medium th cu(. Ofroulstion books and room \lways open to advertirers, Aomber of the Associnted Pre The Associated Press i exclusively on- utled to the wes for re-publication of A)l mews sredited to it or not otherwise tedited In this paper and alse local vaws published herein, fember Audlt Bureau of Clreulation, The A B, C. 1s & patloval organization Aleh turnishes newspapers and adver- siesrs with a strictly honest analysls of efre fon. Our elrculation statistic e b upon thie audit, This Insures otection against fraud in newspaper stribution figures to both national and al advertisers. rald s on sale dallv in New 4204 Street, A CITY BROADCAST OVER THE RADIO Britain night the was a successful and v Gould of the Chamber of to congratulated upon the effort. The program was of a high caliber and in that r spect left lsteners with the pression that Britain place where hardware is New over radio last night attempt to advertise the city Secrets Commerce ja be im- New is not only a manufactured but is a place where culture abides, Through this event radio listen- over New England got intg with New Britain In a man- before. When- becomes uninter- ers all touch ner never achieved prog radio listeners are privileged ever a A estin to turn the dial and get in touch It 18 safe did this last night tuned up with WTIC. and other entertainment with another statfon. to guy that few at The 1 they 1sic ofiur was of such unfisual merit that ha on audience of listeners must increased as the evening wore rather b I'lie cily has every reason to feel proud of the talent which tributed to the program. than dimini con- DRESSING UP OUR SHOW WINDOWS of merchants to &ee the most naturally The which contest cowd show this time provide ar- has of aftention windowe t tigt deal the a grea public is con- ved i i | be the effort which some | vincod that much ean In this respect when made The manner in hlossomed Tured | | into standing still and| of the show 'windows n 1 thrii \ hwanteons howers that admiration [ ef-| with of thing them s an inkling what can Ky ar if the | et fc | portunity to wallop amber mmerce committee, it de which tated the this A te rowindows novel combination final winners ng imy r-appearing Dressing up ATE VAT nViCT FHIS CITY st Wi is now | .| a member ¢ the servies to New England, The trip from New York to Ban Franclsco i» made in 34 hours and 45 inin- utes, and Includes 15 stops. The re- turn trip between the two cities 6 made o 81 kours and 55 min- utes, owing to more favorable winds. Obviouely, a “long dfstance’ letter from New Rritain can gain immensely in timo of dellvery if sent by alr mall, When the alr mall Is extended from New York to Boeton, with a stop at Hartford, the clty of New Britain will gain more city In New England with the ex- ception of Boston and Hartford. This clty is the largest of slzo close than any to Hartford and alr mall orlginat- Ing here would have but a short to go by traln before reaching the landing fleld In Hart- ford. This ought to menn consider- distance able to the public and partleularly our industries, Of course, the proposed also include one to Miami, Florida, from New York, but alr mall to New Orleans would first have to go there he changed to a south-hound plane. Tn fact, as the hub of proposed alr mall routes, Chicago is belng much favored, no lesa being planned from the lake port. It should be a matter for eatis- faction in central Connecticut that the propesed line between Boston and New York is not to take the route along the shore of the Sound, Had this been done the midway stop would have been at New Haven instead of at Hartford. routes to Chicago and than seven routes TELLING WILBUR HFE SHOULD RESIGN When Denby was needed President Coo- lidge harkened to a recommenda- tion of one of the Washington cor- respondents from the Pacific coast and nominated Mr. Wilbur for the job. Mr. Wilbur was a judgh in California and had a flair for writ- Ing on the side, being quite suc- cessful as an {nventor of hedtime stories. His qualifications he secretary of the navy were not par- a successor to Secretary to teularly noticeable, Secretary Wilbur shouldered the responsibilities of looking after the welfare of .the navy where Secretary Denby left oft accordingly after the oll scandal splashed So inferior few drops upon his dress suit. far he has made a record to that Danicls, only that of Recretar, the difference being when- ever Daniels made a mistake there 11 protest jority of publie prints, while those of Mr. Wilbur have heen less voel- was a No. in the ma- ferously greeted. During the past weel, even the New York New York Her- ald-Tribune, which have heen in- clined however, Sun and the to see as much beauty % | possible in the administration, have it be they do not like Secretary Wilbur's style; while the World, known New York e for an op- the for administr: fr. Wilhur's portunity to razz tion, has asked N resignation almost Iv. The Hartford Times took the s op- cretary Wil- pointing errors committed he be Waghington team. heart- bur quite energetically ont a string of the secretary since me of the To these we suhscribe iy, Wilhur weak sister on the team most Sceretary is not only a but more from heginning had no talent for running the navy than ofher Jand lubber has in running The President would of sliort- Tattleship well to take account the geeretary’s manifest comings and take apprapriate hen it 1 cre measures before nieels starts hont it irely put a nolitical den a rumpus sident sits tight the sc administration’s machin- THIE. ANNUAL CRUSH AT YALE BOWL annual attempt fo procur Yale hand, ket committe - and the Alnm has com- hedule how distrit zulations of regarding tn up a page in Kly to b the appears nd to mimittee manifestly al as | any | tlona" from undergraduvates and graduates and from ex-members of war classos, who get one ticket to each g It 18 noted that undergraduates may apply for one seat In this (the foregoing) group and the balance of their quota with thelr Graduntos and ex-members of war| class classes who make cations” may not apply tlonal seats. The members of the Yale Cor- poration, of tho football commit- ted of the Board of Control, of the Yale University Athletle Assocla- tion, and the secre- and such-llke offi- | clals are entitled to elght m-u.u} to the army game, six tlckets the Princeton three the Harvard racas, Other rules run into about dozen groups, with a pauelty of tickets all around. The Yale bowl can be made to hold 80,000; there will be around 180,000 deslring ad- mission. The stadium at Cambridge is considerably smaller than the stadjum at Princeton, which ex- plains why family uee applications could be taken for the out of town game last year but cannot this year, “one seat appli- for addi- the provost, tary, treasury to | game and to a No applications will be required to stay at home and the games. That should be a great re- Ilef to the disappointed, who will be greatly in the majority. debate TRUNK HIGHWAYS FOR MOTOR TRUCKS Transportation and port officlals have been having a powwow in New York and one of the “devel- opments of the future” they dis- cussed was the creation highways for motor trucks hetween important cities, Numesous individuals of nence, who least ought thoroughly conversant trend of transportation affairs, ap- pear to have agreed that the of ten years these al {ruck highways will a reality, and fleets of motor trucks will kept off higways de- voted to pleasure and touring au- of trunk promi- at to be with the in course motor spec be be the | The plan seems Jogical if thore are | tomobiles to bs many motor trucks hauling freight between the chief | At up main increasingly more cities. clutter the large present they ronds getting in the way | in numbers, of faster moving automoblles and heing a fruitful cause of accidents, dircetly or indirectly H trucks a costly thing, of cours ways or only would | be but no | more costly than additional main highways used by both automobiles and trucks; and of the latter there he more the 1ls who assisted in the discussion without a doubt. t must Among ransportation offl- | | { were railroad men who greatly de- | precated the dmelopment of motor trucks for the tion of | freight, | heavy transpo ing the reilroads taxes and money | than build their then used to highway | the use of competito owners of the trucks, This is rather | |a stock argument that does not | gain The | | facts are in force by repetition the ralroads themeclve appear perfectly willing to buy mn-} trucks -— the l\l-‘ around the and thus themselves | tor coaches and liter for | targ particularly citles - make use of the hizhways in this ‘mnnn'l . | Be true this®a the is constantly of caged in handling freight in lees motor | | it may, business devel | oping and thousands of thum arc | le | {1than carload lots for comparatively | | short dis In the face of this | ;vovn]vll')un the dailroads are haul- | | ing | they nave done for years and at| in which | at cost, Even the New Haven | 1 \cee more freight just now than | hereased efficiency, means | 168 ;:-,m.»—.q has vastly fhereased it the eig for first this when et income it was $801,8 onths of year $5.010.658, compared with | same mon the railroads in the conditions some of the | northwest and in west, when have been gricultural ad bad, show a decline in earnings roads motor trucks, ead s that for how to some financial complica may be of hene- It the fit to the railroa gical to general tax- pay ¥ expect is to pay for the speclal roads motor ncks, and to tax motor trucks for the costs and wonld ¢ congiders “p the would CAtra expense upon motor truck business and raise ' rates for ortation pay | public way esident cannot &e | tend would ba il- | |t ing fcld frrespective of what Merds den thinks about it and the alr. planes will bo valng it long before Meriden wakes up to the possibill- tles of alr commerce, veral residents of New Britaln who made application to be natur- alized were listed as being citlzens of the “German empire.” Thia evi- dently was a mistake, or else they were it reminds of a recent news. This paper item citizens of the empire when was one, A man seeking to be naturalized out west waa asked for the name ernor of his state, was told and of the lleutenant gov- He dldn't know to find out. He In- quired of a dozen natives and none them that ot local torfal By the way, Who is the lieutenant could give the dignitary. newspaper name of Which caused the to print an edi- chiding the electors. test it on yourself. governor of Connecticut? “One thing about Waterbury to its ‘rides’ The man up credit its disposition is own that it rarely home players, is to cheer a when he goes wrong for the sake of helping to win the game. ¢ Iyn bury se eve for Now we won when Afnerien But where, Instance n. that {en't the ns in Brook- it Water- know why Waterhury the pennant. Cheerlng a man he's down did the trick FactsandFancies BY ROBERT QUILI Among the etenral triang! sweetie, pole. a Perhaps it would be all right to | is a pint and a let the treasury department handle the air e&ervice. A dead gaged Evolution is slow, and it mdy be| vears and users head. the papers half the population is In selling real are town is one where less state, years pulled before balloon on over Politics may make women f{at, as It seems to affect some masculine heads that way. The 1y 14 look The Rryan iming ¥ usual, hion in combination w ornia lorida will feteh o all ang of We d trol the alas! to Abont cross an acquaintance in a strange | is to be maught city fathers taxed to The prunes are 50 well harshes the his man 1 alr control gossip doesn't that diferen: eeted, come, they from are collectors s have theit f more didn't t commentary of men on calibre now This will ith sous not t white- ¥ 28 nused ollar ks uld worry! is town lote, nickel When an or- department to con- and another, air. serviece, the he easlest way to run probably didn't In- t the unexempf should he pay the interest on fax- function at the back-yard fence any more, She sells it to a confession magazine. The t spot As to place aleo der men like they deser e the mptoms. worst Irousers ads organizations for ou don't hes& happened. youngster lift while saw a crod Mitehiell, why not army and navy un- know somcthing the that the effort of all fra- make than is 1o pne another hetter is worth all he to costs. listen nt describes his enes Adarling, want “You eaid me to buy i are 1 she, ated Editors, Observation On The Weather t Forecast England: Rain not much New nday fair; rature ¥ ir; in n- not much showers § Mo rature Ne ; cloudy w York: in Saturday probably fair; ght: not much telophone | en- | | lvul "0 But Them Was the Happy Days, Folks!" melancholy days are here" for those who still recall Thelr all-too-anclent history, when slx or elght was all We ever had to pay to get a ton of fuel in ‘When the frost was on the pun- kin'" then the coal was in the bin! Willing to Help Ralph: “1 recelved excellent grades during my college term olr, and T thought that for a pro. fession I would chose newspaper work." Editor: “That's fine! Which cor- ner would you prefer to sell them on?" “The As Others See Us By FElisworth V. Penney T like to talk with Albert Gray; He has a very pleasant way Of looking for the bright and gay Nor does he live for pelf, The lad's quite a philosopher, And though sometimes he's apt to err, | He'll Jaugh at all jokes that occur, On others, or himself, Sald he to me, “Like other men T get the feeling now and then, Desplte my warts, my moles, and wen, That I have got good looks; That if a new suit I will buy, A new shirt and a new neck tle, T'll cause all kinds of girls to sigh; Clerks, laundresses, and cooks, osh! When a fellow clothes, Those triple mirrors do expose The truth about his Roman nose, And prove he s no dream! Today I hought a brand-new sult And found out that I am no beaut; | Tnstead of feellng very cute T've lost my self-esteem!™ A New One Saunders: “I shall your wife's face i paint dine,” Huber: “That doesn’t sound like the brand of paint ehe's been using, doctor.” have to | with fo- | H. Clausen. Bric-a-Brac have a little china dish fash- to represent the three of We foned clubs, Tt's an ash trey. Soul Mates Gladys: "I love a sheik.” Har myself. —Harriet Halsinger. The Fun Shop Course in Short Story Writing (Conducted by Prof. 1. C. Itt) Lesson V Tn fhe last lesson, our hero is very All from the effects of a gun- &hot wound glven him by the no- torious La Beana. Harold and Hel- | ene are marooned in the cabin, | with La Beana and his gang walt | ing outside, | “Mush,” sald Helene, when Har- | 01d had recovered from his wound. | “I hear footsteps!™ Harold showed Dis teeth, then replaced them In his vest pocket. “I will break La Beana with my bare hands!” he crled. “Better use gloves,” advised the girl. “But quick! We must fly down the dumb waiter. They are break- ing down the door!” Tnto the dumb waiter shaft they leaped, and were soon at the bot- [tom. On the way down, Helene powdered her nose and Harold made a note his book of me- moirs “I hope they don't atart shoot- Ing." gasped the girl. “My mirror might be broken and then how could T put on my rouge?” Harold ralsed his eyes and then quickly pulled them back again, He drew his trusty rifie from his clg- arette se and fired at the vagne | shadows above. ANl dropped wn- conscious exeept self, A large variety of curses Harold. “He's coming down us, and my gun's empt “How careless of you,” ‘mur'l the girl | Here is the climax of onr | The terrific confiict followe: “T will break him in two!" snapped Harold, grinding his teeth to fine powder, There_ was moment's seuffle and then a dreadful snap as La Reana's hody was broken neatly in half. Harold searched the halt that the trousers were on. “1 must find the breathed. “Yor, yes.” howled Helene, | “An!" cried Harold. “Here it Is the $6 that rascal borrowed | from me weeks ago!"” | With a cry of joy Helene threw herself at Harold's arms and was | caught on the re-hound. TLove at { last had come into its own! Fxpensive Fun Archie: “So the doctor told vou {hat laughter was the best medi- cine, eh?" Harold: “Yes, and then he laugh- ed and charged me §5 | in 1 eried after mur- story. treasure!” he H. A. A sneeze is an 11l wind that blows no good! What the Bootlegger Wanted Tn our car on the commuters’ train, the conversation golng home used to be about baseball, and sometimes about politics, Now it's completely, and everyone le to tell about his latest experience with a bootlegger. Henry Mohr dropped into | seat mext to me last night. “Well, | Charlie,” he said, “1 found a hot- tle of real old liquor in my cellar last night. T didn't even know I had it.” “Going to turn bootlegger mow, I suppose,” 1 sald. “Of course not.” he sald, “but the bootleggers wanted to ds business with me, though." changed has a the tries on | |Court street, which, it is predicted | Ia Beana him-| —THE 0B On the City Conditions in the real estato field, particularly in the central business district, are tending to parallel con- ditions which existed a few years ago when Maln street properties changed hands o rapidly, Millions of dollars in building op- erations are in prospect, including at |1east one theater and several busi- Iness and office bulldings, It is pos- sible that another theater will be erected although negotiations have [not reached the stage of finality. |Improvements are being made to |several Main street buildings, two of “\\'hh‘.h will be occupled by out ot [town concerns with branches in all |principal eities. In a third instance, a new national bank 1s preparing to open its doors, These three will [nave a tendency to quicken trade in |thetr district. A business structure on West Main |street, which 1s a credit to the city, |18 fast nearing completion. Jf the Iproposed theater and commercial |building Is erected across the street, merchants in that locality can also |look forward to increased business. |Two important real estate transac- (tions in one day concerned proper- |tles on Washington street. The American Legion purchased a home, which it can vacate with financial profit when commercial enterpriscs |encroach too closely. The second |deal fs sald to be for laying the |foundation for another hund\nr} |ecomposed of stores and offices. Th |South Congregational church has |asked superfor court for permission Ito sell its parsonage on Washington street and, it is believed, this will be |the site of another business block |enterprise. | “only a short distance away, on }“Hl soon be a street of Epecialty shops, Inquiries have been made of |two property owners for a price on thelr holdings with a view to razing | (tha houses now standing there for ithe construction of a building de- jvoted to commerclal pursuits, Across the street is a vacant plece of land !the owner of which has already had | plans drawn for an apartment house with stores on the ground floor. The lower end of Main street is not heing overlooked. A mew theater will soon rise there and the owners of an adjoining plece of property expect to develop it by the erection laf a combination store and office |building. ~ Another structure will be {built at the corner of Arch and Wal- nut streets in which stores and of- fices will be Tocated. Arch sfreet business men have iformed an assoefation for promoting the interests of that thoroughfare and calling* attention to its desira- bilify for business. The men be- “I like something chic hind the project are hustlers and | further development of Arch street, |where construction work has heen !going on for the past few months, is |anticipated. | | Merchants are to be congratulat- o4 on thelr efforts to improve thelr | dieplay windows. That thelr work !1s appreciated is evidenced hy the remarks made by hundreds who have occasion to stop and admire the creations which have resulted. One of the outstanding complaints which the Observer has heard from different sources concerning local | business houses has been the faflure | to provide attractive windows, These | complaints have come chiefly from {women who feel that they have a | right to express opinions becaus {they are doing the buying. | " 1t 18 belleved that from now on | merchants will strive harder to pro- |vtds more attractive displays be- |cause the compliments which — they cannot -have cscaped hearing must have convinced them that the effort has been appreciated by the publie, | Many of the windows would win | eignal monors in competition with | windows in larger cities. They are | the last word tn the art of atiracting [and holding attention and of tmpell- |investigation. Al show the result of | forethought and study. The best [talent in the city has been occupled | with the task of pleasing {and it has been eminently successful. It is a pleasure to walk along the [streets and Inspect the windows | which have heen especially treated. | Merchants who joined the movement can rest assured that the public is | favorably impresse® and has an even higher fdea of New Britain business men. Toasy republican victories are Inok- led for in Berlin, Plainville and New ington on Monday when the annnal town elections will be held. The |democrats have not made any extra |eftort this year and the followers of the G. 0. I. say the towns will go |the way they always go. | Just why towns ehould be over- whelmingly republican and so many lcities should he democratic, or of uncertain political complexion, must {be explained by someone with more |wisdom than the Observer. Tt is |not true that cities can always be counted upon to return a plurality |for democratic ecandidates, hut it happens so often that it opens up a [field of interesting thought. Tiven |New Britaln, where the republican party has a smoothly working ma- chine, is always in the doubtful col- |nman wntil the votes are counted. |New Haven is looked upon as safely [democratic, Waterbury i just at |present In the handa of the demo- |crats and Hartford, Meriden, Bridge- port and Middletown frequently |elect a democrat to their highest office. In smaller rural |democracy does not srom to have a |very strong hold. The republican |party nominates ft« ticket and goes !back to the joh of harvesting erops, confident that the men named | (tor office will he elected, and they are, evcept in the case of a political |explosion. Republicans seldom !swap horses in the small towns. | es, they dld," ) | for one bottle of liquor! | “They didn’t want the liquor,” Henry answered. “They wanted the | label ®red. —Charles Bender. 1925, Reproduction Forbidden) Copyright ing customers {o enter for further | the eye | communities | the | “Just | SERVER— Makes Random Observations and Its People inated for years until they voluntarily, Citlzens living in the country are charatceristically con- servative and belleve in letting well enough alone. Office holders are known personally to all in the com- munity and as long as they discharg the duties of thelr office with a ges- ture ot efficlency, they are let alone. In the cities, it Is different, Can- didates for office are not personally to the voters. Issues a the thing. The party which suc- |ceeds in drlving home thelr {ssue b Imeans of oratory and newspaper space finds its candidates elected, Many Bristol voters are - excited |over the election of a mayor and Imembers of the common council in that city en Monday. Mayor John 17, Wade and John Donnelly are con- testing for the mayorally oftice | without polltical designation. Wade ‘and Donnelly finished first and sec- tond respectively in an elimination primary and it is up to the clectors {tn choose one of them: Supporters !of Mayor Wade believe he will be reelecied, But youw'll hear another |story if you listen to men who are {convinced that Donnelly s the bet- ter man for the job. | retire TUnder a new eystem introduced in the police department since the as- |signment of patrolmen to duty antomobiles, headquarters will I |from at least one man using ga {minutes. cles. Each is required to call up headquarters every half hour and the calls ar s0 arranged that they come in ev iseven and one.half minutes apart. |'The advantages of this system in the |case of an emergency can be clearly |realized. Occasionally headquarters Ihears of an automobile accident in which one of the parties involved attenipts to evade responsibility by darting away from the scene. Under such circumstances it would not be long before one of the motorcycle |men, or a patrolman in an automo- bile, would be fold of the incident and informed of the direction taken by the fugitive. If the trail were |at all warm, he could probably malke an arrest unless the person in flight «ucceeded In gaining the city line. and two on motorc police ¢ rtment ronger and en- |ables it {o strike more quickly when the occasion arises, | In the case of a man hunt when a fugitive is wanted for a serlous lerime, men who patrol their beats by machine could be stationed af |exits from the city in the vicinity of [the crime. Tt will e recalled that jovanni Vottari, who Is now serv- ing a life sentence at state prison {for the murder of Joseph D'Angelo. loscaped because the alarm could not Ihe spread quick enough to police- |men who were patrolling the upper Stanley street heat. Whether would have been canght hefore leav ing the eity even if the police depart- Iment had its present automotive lequipment is problematical. It fs ‘(‘/‘H:’lih‘ however, that the depart- ment {s now in a better position {han ever to render emergency |service | The attention of police authorities |is called in the vicinity of St. Mary’s church |when children are being dismissed | |from the parochial school. The Ob- |server has been informed that hun- |dreds of boys and girls whose homes are In the district east of Main street are in peril daily because there is no [traffic officer present to |the mfrom reckless automobile driv- ers. It i sald that there have been narrow escapes within the past few |days because the children elhe walked out into the street, not real- |1zing their danger, or drivers ignored |their presence and drove on heedless |of the hazard. |corner of TLafayette and Maln streets at noon to prevent collisions |between vehlcles. simple matfer to assign him to th corner of Winter and Main streets lat 11:30 o'clock and shield the little |tots from death or injury. | je L, The eves of fhe city are on the |sport page at present, feasting upon |all the world's series dope, and next week, without orders—or without | permission, for that matter—half of {the populace will desist from !manual labors and enter upon 1l lingual one of cheering its feam to ictory. The Observer intends to |write for the millions, and he ean think of no surer way of reaching {that many than belng read by the sardine-like agglomeration which watched the Herald hoard last year. So we will give you some inside dope of our own. | first {wo games will he played in Pittsburgh, if the Scnators can find | their way through the smoke to the ball park. Not only that, bhut we forecast that Washington will have first turn at hat. Nohody ever even tried to predict such things as those before; dopesters mise so much, hut (the Observer observes. In any particular game, the team whose players circle the hases most | often will win, and the team first doing this four times will the series. Again we score over less observing sport writers. WHAT IS YO Facts, superstitions, and Precious Stones in our Wa: on Buremu's latest bu Birthstones: what the ancients stones; gems of the various mations the best known gems: gems mention: nthetic stones—Iits’ all there. mythe. PRECIOUS STONES EDITOR, Wash 1322 New York Avenue, Wa eoln for same NAME STREET and No. cITy T am u reader of The Herald Quite often incumbents are renom- | known | in | ar | line power every seven and one-half | There are {wo men in automobiles | I Theoretically, the system makes the | he | 1 to0 a tituation which exists | protect | A policeman {s stationed at the It would be a| Tirst of all, we predict that the | capture things you have heard and thi CLIP COUPON HERE T want a copy of the hulletin GEMS close herewith five cents In loose, un cancelied, Some dopesters merely present the' facts, others predict the winner, and a third set even gives the joores in advance, with hits, errors, and op- posing pitche Just how one gétsl |dreams like that is heyond us, but we will venture to make some specific predietions, once more in fields overs looked by our rivals, Walter Johnson will |opening game and on {morning will be alluded to | storle | “Good pitech the Thursday in 49 as the “big train.” in 87 Old Walter,” and in all @ “‘!ha veteran ace of the Senators hurling corps.”” Goose Goslin will |hit a home run, and the ball will | collide violently with the face of a® | Kentuckian in the right field bleach~ Eight policemen will be knock- out endeavoring to recover ft, Max Carey will steal a base or twn, and then go back {o his winter pas- he speaks on itorate and snicker a “Thou shait not steal, | An unknown wifl be the hero oty {the serics,.smashing out hits and™ stopping: hot liners; we might dl- Ivulge his name, but then he would |be no longer unknown and the fun |of guessing would be spofled. At |1east 251 young sheiks will be asked why the umpire doesn’t bat and | make a soon-to-he-hroken vow never Ito take flappers to ball games again, - while two or thrae stray Englishmen will ask for tea when the ecrowd |vises n the sevenfh inning. Four {umpires will be ealled a total of 118,067 names. announcers will | strangle in secking te pronounce “Yde” Nine newspapers will run |out of ink printing huge headlines {on their extras, Half a million news- bove will treble their week's wages and buy llcorice siicks for “her” Soda manufacturers will have.a 200 I cent fncrease in thelr sale, with a large demand for emnty pop bot- tles. The jalls would he erowded b the end of the first game, {xare it not for the fact {hat the po- [liee will he watehing ton elosely to see what Cuyler dacs when Tie comes {to hat. And John MecGraw will sit in the grandstand. S0 now it's all settled, and ¥ ington will win—or will Pittsburgh? 25 Years Ago Today Tha democratic convention {0 nominate ‘a candidate for the fourth senatorial district was held in Com mercial hall this afternoon. The New Britain delegates were James Roche, P. J. Egan, J. L. Dawson , A, R, Doig, Frank Anderson, W. De- laney. Smuel Levin and Richard Schacfer. Mr. Katon of Bristol was named in spite of the objection that he is a silver democraf. Bue!l Bassette is on the execntie committee of the South church Sun- day school. . A fierce fire in the lacquer vats at tWe Stanley Works yesterday was subdued by five streams of water after. several hours of strenuous work on the part of the factory de- partment, directed by Chief = John Farmer and Assistant Chieg George Stark. The fire board met last night and appointed E. K. Chamberlain ta the hook and ladder company. His place as substitute will be taken by Dennis Keefe, i The Cook-Church stock company will open at the Russwin Lycehm Monday evening. Their first produ tion will be “The White Squadron.” The principals are the well-known J. Harvey Cook and Lottie Church. The company carries its own scenery. The opera house opened last even- Ing with the two-act extravaganza, “Queen of the Orient,” and an olio of vaudeville, A New Britain man gives some | prices of articles during 1864 in the | camp where he was: Ginger cakes, 40c-$1 aplece; biscuits, heavy as lead, 50 cents each; 2 tablespoonsful of salt, 50 cents; soap, §5 a bar; peanuts, 40 cents a gill; coffee, 25 cents a teaspoonful; writing paper, 10 cents a sheet; small ham, $35; cigars, 25 cents aplece; beer, 10 cents a gl chicken pie, $3 on a plate; boiled corn, 50 cents an ear; beans, 15 pods for 20 cents. There were 44 deaths here during | September, 11 being of children un- der five, ¥. M. Zimmerman and W. B. Hall scored 71 each to win the general prize at the Schuetzen shoot yester- day afternoon. H. M. Pope took the target of honor with 71. Mrs. W. B, | Hall scored 66 to win the ladies’ tar- get of honor, and a 71 gave the la- dies’ general prize to Mrs. Fran Lichel, iy are h- Another Movement to Dry Up England Ready Tondon, Oct. 3 (A—The biggest prohibition campaign yet attempted in Great Britagin is about to be |launched aftef many months of sceret preparation. The Daily Mail says the methods to he adopted are similar to those which preceded the introdutclon of prohibition in the United States. The organizers of the movement will not begin by advocating outright. Pro- begin hy advocating outright pro- note of the campaign will be an ap» peal to the women of the country. The movement will be inaugurated in Manchester October 19 and meet~ |ings will be held afterward in other ha, cities. The speakers will in- jelude Mrs. David Lloyd George, wife of the former premier; Philip Snow- den, former chancellor of the ex- {chequer; Lady Donald MacLean and Sir George Hur 31 per cent of all hospl- |tal treatment in the United States | was given free. | e e UR BIRTHSTONE legends and bellets connected with Gems you haven't—all are § AND PRECIOUS STONES. about the curative value of hat precious stones mean; colors of imitation, artifictal Ietin Fill ont the coupon below and mail as directed iington Bureau, New Britain Herald. AND PT . 8 STONES and en- S. postags stamps or