New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1926, Page 28

WAVE, DOES DAMAGE (Continued from First Page) Cortland county sawmill, was killed when the wind demolished the roof. A scantling fractured his skull. Damage of many thousands of dollars to fruit orchards throughout the state was indicated in early re- ports reaching the state department of farms and markets today. Cherry orchards and grape vineyards were particularly hard hit, one orchard sustained loss of $2,000. Lightning which struck a Wap- pingers Falls house early today shear ed off the heads of nails on two sides of the building but did no other damage. Heavy New England Toll. Boston, July 23 (P—A three-day | heat wave of almost unparalleled severity and the storm that broke its | back, a gale of terrific velocities, had passed New England today leaving in their wake a toll of 40 deaths and | property damage mounting into the | hundreds of thousands. | 108 In Boston, This city was recovering from the | hottest day in 15 years when the| thermometer touched 103 by the of- | ficlal {nstruments and read as high | as 116 elsewhere. | Throughout New England there had been 24 deaths directly attrib- utable to the heat or the storm which partlally dispelled it. Of these, elght were drownings, 14 were heat | deaths and two occurred in the storm. On the other previous days the weather had clalmed 16 lives while prostrations for the three days mounted well over three score. The storm swept out of the Berk- shires late yesterday with unexpect- ed suddenness although showers generally had been anticipated. Severe Storm Damage. Before it had rushed out to sea late at night it had wrought damage in four states. In northern Massa- chusetts, southern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine it had bowled over orchards, levelled telephone and telegraph wires, unroofed houses and hotels, strewn giant trees in the path of trains, paralyzed traffic and killed two persons. The wind that accompanied it was reported at times to have at- tained almost cyclonic proportions. In Portsmouth, N. H., a lofty ob- servation tower was hurled to the ground severely injuring a man. Baby Is Killed. A falling silo brought death to James H. Thayer, a farmer near Brattleboro, Vt., while in Lawrence, Mass., the worst gale since 1830 crashed a tree into the baby carriage of a year old Infant bringing instant death. Near Manchester, N. H., a tree fell upon the rails of the Boston and Maine railroad just before a crack express was due, and in Maine the engineer of a Maine Central passen- ger train barely halted his locomo- tive in time before a similar ob- stacle. Railroad damage elsewhere included the Boston and Albany roundhouse at North Adams, Mass., where a “twister” tore the roof off the building. In the same city a church spire was truncated by the gale. Many Close Calls, Falling trees brought near death in other ways. At Freeport, Me., a slender trolley wire which stayed the fall of a shattered tree limb for mo- ment allowed an auto party to escape. Elsewhere similar escapes were reported. Damage.to apple and other orch- ards particularly in southern Maine and New Hampshire was set at well in excess of $300,000, while prop- erty loss of other sorts in the four states was believed to have added at least another $100,000. Death came to the heat and storm victims in widely varied forms At Blddeford Pool, Me, Isaac Cook, wealthy St. Louis busines: man perished when he sought to trieve a canoe set drifting by gale despite an attempted rescue by James Montgomery Flagg, the cele- brated artist. Oldst Citizen Killed. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Julia Maria Norton, 105, and Maine's old- est citizen, was a prostration victim. the James A. Condon, 68, fell 125 feet into a marble quarry at Barre, Vt., when overcome. A grave digger was found dead beside a newly dug burial pit in a Marlboro, Mass., cemetery, while at Lynn, an optician | was drowned when went to the rescie of his so boy was saved by others. In Providence, R. I, a 84-year- old Civil War veteran was stricken while picking blueberries But the heat and storm had lghter incldents as well. At th Al-| NEW BRITAIN - ~ e A NS S I BRSO D DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1926. across the line to the Canadian beer gardens logated on the other side. In Boston and in Lowell experi- mentive reporters succeeded in fry- ing eggs on the roofs of newspaper buildings, while one who tried boil- ing reported the water evaporated before it could boil. Dishes Blown Away, At a Maine seashore resort, a fam- ily that had just sat down to dinner had meal and dishes whisked out of the windows by the blo suspended operations at the height of the heat wave yesterday were re- opend today and the district was preparing to return to normal. A much cooler tempearture was fore- cast for tonight. Dead Number Three Score New York, July 23 (P—Destruc- tive storms brought weather relief today to New England and the middle Atlantic states but increased to three score the death toll from a heat wave that piled up new high temperature records. Within 24 hours 57 deaths were added by heat and storm to Wed- nesday’s toll of two score killed in the east and midwest. The midwest got relief In rain and cooling breez- was swept out to sea by a storm that arose while he was motorboating at Kennebunkport, Me., but was res- cued by another boating party. James Montgomery Flagg, the ar- tist, rescued Isaac Cook, wealthy St. Louis business man at Biddeford Pool, Me., who collapsed after plunging in water after a meal, only |to find that Mr. Cook had died of a heart attack. There were 22 deaths In New Eng- land traceable to the heat, or storms, 10 in New York city, 11 in New Jersey, two each In Washington and Philadelphia and several upstate in New York. 107 Is Hottest The highest official temperature recorded was 107 in Hagerstown, Me. The mercury reached 104 in Lancaster, Vt, 103 in Washingten and Reading, 102 in Chester, Pa., and 100 generally in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Four persons went temporarily in- sane in Binghamton, N. Y. Dogs maddened by the heat attacked chil- dren in Jersey City. Experimenters in Boston and Lowell fried eggs on brick roofs. St. Armande, Quebec, near the Vermont line, reported an American invasion of its beer-gardens. Thousands thronged the beaches and mountain resorts. The heat wave brought a plage of ell-flies at Ogdensburg, Y., and snowshovels were use clear them away Prisoners were released from the city jail at Ra- leigh, N. C., on their own recog- nizance. Threat of storms drove to their home thousands who had &lept two nights in New York parks, when the temperature, after a day's high ot 97, dropped six degrees in elght minutes, New York State Battercd Albany, N, Y., July 23 (® — TUp- state New York was engaged today in disentangling itself from the wreckage left by a series of gales which last night directly or indirect- ly caused the death of five persons, cut off from communication several communities and blocked roadways and trolley lines. Some compensa- tion for the storm came in the break of record heat waves throughout the state. Telephone companies were amon, those organizations to suffer hard- est. Trolley lines, keeping emer- ency crews at work throughout the night, had brought their lines into a condition such as to give partial or normal service in the majority of cases. Among the pecullarities of the storm a waterspout on Otsend Lake which destroyed a boathouse, Lreaking it into such minute pieces that no trace of it was found. Death came to the victims of the storm through falling trees, electro- cution, collapse of buildings and in one case the collapse of an old bridge under which a man had tak- en shelter and over which a small bans, Vt., customs officials reported —_— | RUDY’ Battery Service Successor to Gould Battery Service Co. 170 East Main, near Summer BATTERY CHARGING AND REPAIRING Generator, Starter, and Ignition Repairing. Gould Batteries for || Auto and Radio | FREF TESTING, REFILLING Phone 708—Ask for Rudy | AUBURN j TAY] \ PHONE 611 make me an offer. Will Telephone 141 70 LENOX PLACE EIGHT-ROOM SINGLE HOUSE Hardwood floors, fireplace. Look it over and two or three-family house or block. LOUIE S. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE The RUSH From all over the city amateurs are coming for the new AGFA film. | They say: “Max no difference, cloud: day or bright day. Gets the picture anyway.” Your money back if no re sults. Sold only by Arcade Studio CAMERAS AND FILMS consider trade for a JONES 17 Court Street an extraordinary. rush of Americans STORM, ENDING HOT Business houses and factories that | es early yesterday, but the east sweltered until last night. Booth Tarkington, the author, BY TOM Once upon a time when a fellow w his door, he wouldn’t know if it was He would say to his w! et's pu reply, * > practical and brought in the modern What would the lady above do with put it in her lap. She could hardly get A dozen such pieces of headgear or car full. Two would fill an auto. Once Upon a Time Two or Three Hats Like This Filled a Truck S ) e B X No, I'm going to keep my new hat in here.” ank goodness, the diminishing wic chester and Margaret McGrane of Foxboro. Mrs. Dallon conducted an inn here for years and left an estate of $40,- 000. The estate was contested. The court finds Mrs. Dallon was the il legitimate daughter of Johanna Cur- tin Daly, of Albany, deceased. Bristol Savings bank on Main street. The fire had gained considerable headway and had apparently start- ed in a pile of papers which had been placed beneath the stairs. Chemicals were used but it was finally found necessary to lay a line |ter what his vocation might be. of hose before the fire could be It was announced that ballots overcome. The !05,5 is estimated at|would .be circulated among the re about $300. mainder of the 1,500 engineers em last night to join the American Fed eration of Labor. the affiliation of the engineers was the first step in a movement unionize every city employe, no mat | Heirs Are Officially Designated by Judge Waterbury, July 23 (P—Judge D. | 7. Slavin, 1n provate court here to- | | B. Curtin of Dorchester, Mary Alice | Curtin ot Dorchester, Catherine F. Curtin of Dorchester, William M Curtin of Providence, Ellen A. Cur. tin of Dorchester, John J. Curtin of Beechmont, Mass., Johanna Curtin of Dorchester, Sarah J. Dolan of At- tleboro, Cornelius Dolan of Dor- $300 FIRE IN BRISTOL (Special to the Herald.) Bristol, July 23—At 12:15 o'clock this afternoon, Squad A and Engine company No. 1, were called out for a fire which had started under the stairway between the store of W. B. Woodruff and the building of the City Engineers in New tend the meeting tonight. York Join Labor Union Néw York, July 23 #—Two hun- dred city engineers in the employ of the board of tramsportation, voted The price of cora governs the eal ary payable to the rector of St Botolph's, in the city of London. FUN FOR ALL SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK Old Fashioned Grab Bag You grab a bag and keep what’s in it . 100 PRESENTS GIVEN AWAY AT THE BODWELL GREAT LAND SALE BERLIN MAIN ROAD, JUST BEYOND DEPOT BRIDGE, PROPERTY STRAIGHT AHEAD ON RIGHT Free busses leave our salesroom, 55 Lafayette street, 2 p. m. Saturday and Sunday. All lots 50x125. SIMS ould see a moving van stop before a new hat for his wife o ra piano. it a bed in this room.” le open spaces made such hats im- turban. her hat at a movie? She couldn’t it through the check-room window, paraphernalia would make a street herd of cattle stampeded before the storm. Much Cooler Today The temperature at 10 a. m istered 77, or 15 degrees lower than 24 hours previously, and only two degrees higher than it had stood during the night. The death toll from the hot wave continued to mount, however, wi three additional fatalities reported in the early morning from Thy day's prostrations. Overcome yesterday while ing the women's missionary confe ence at Northfield, Mass., Miss May | Wirtella of Bogota, N. J., died toda in a Greenfield, Ma hospital. | ¢ Deaths of two women were reported | p reg- | (fl attend- | | from Lowell and La son of exc two of the three days. | the bu | &2 for breath, and last night the entire metropolitan district was permeated with | :nce, Mass. Strange Odors Smelled unusual feature of the sea- sive heat was the pe- uliar odors wafted over Boston on On Tuesday sting of an ammonia pipe ooded the north end with noxious | as, driving resident to the streets | Prices from $79.08 to $149.00-—a few higher. ‘ City water, gas and electricity available. On trolley and bus lines. 10 per cent down and $1.00 a week starts you. . No interest for one year—no taxes until 1927, An rubber | Watertown | still continued the odor of burning aused by a fire at a ubber plant which oday. No payments if sick or out of work. dandelions, nettles and | owslips are all popular lants among butterfiies, Foxgloves, as food| Easy terms to the right pai T BEING FINISHED—A NEW HOUSE ON PARK BOULEVARD This is the only one left of four new houses just completed §| throughout. See us at once Camp Real 272 Main Street; Phone 343 I TheBodwellRealty Co. “DEVELOPERS OF BELVIDERE” 15 YEARS PERMANENTLY IN NEW BRITAIN rties; all improvements 2 : Salesroom: 55 Lafayette Street Phone 1801 for free auto appointment Estate Co. Rooms 305-6, Pank Bldg. | CROWLEY BROS. INC. DRIVE YOURSELF— first The W.L.HATCH Co. City If You're Looking fora Home ora Home Site— don’t fail to visit the two attractive homes we have erected at 74 Coolidge and 30 Harding streets, also the several desirable building sites in the immedi- ate vicinity we are showing to homeseekers. Harding and Coolidge streets are located a short distance east of the intersection of Lincoln and Monroe streets. No. 74 Coolidge is the last house on the southeast side, and No. 30 Harding is the New Britain Sign Co. “DO! BETTER WHAT MANY DO WELL” 34 CHURCH STREET Telephone 894 EW CARS TO REN 25¢ an’ hour——10c. a mile, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS 25c. an hour—15¢. a wile. Special rates for long trips. You-Drive Auto Renting Co. Cor. Seymour and Elm PAINTERS AND | DECORATORS 267 Chapman Street Estimates Cheerfully Given on All Jobs — Tel. 2913 THE OLD HOME TOWN Vh 7 / TODAY from 4 to 8 P. M. house on the northeast side. V i d Phone 3400 NS , - 32 THIS WEEKS EDITION OF THE CLARION WAS-OUT ON THE STREET THREE HOURS ANEAD OF IT SCHEDULED WME - Hall Bldg. ©) Lae W Stanney. 1926, Johmeon Peatore, Ine. 7-23-26 It was stated thatl} o ployed by the city, who did not at- hr hn 1 ional