New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1926, Page 6

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Our _circulation are based upon this audit. protection against fraud istribution figures to both na local advertisers. newspapers and adver- analysis. of statistics tn newspaper tional and The Herald s on sa dally tn New York at Hotaling's wsstand, Times Square; Schultz's Newsstands, Entrance “Grand Central, 42nd Street. —————————— .17,000 NEW BUSSES Thére now are 70,000 wee in the United States, and ‘the end of the year will see 17,000 ad- ditional . busses manufactured. In the past tén years bus: ot trolley lines have been replaced | by busses, but most of the trolle lines were losing money and had been. suspended before the arrival of the busses. Many trolley menting their with busses, preferring to do this rather than laying expensive new tracks and stringing trolley wires. The situation is being stabilized rapidly. The main result of bus de- wvelopment has increased transpor- lines are supple- interurban service | tation facilities for the public. The | trolley lines and branch . railroad lines which are really paying propositions no doubt will remain in operation as long as they bring in money above expenses. It is' the non-paying lines that tace extinction in favor of busses. The trolley companies have evolved a neat make ‘this possible; they establish bus lines as substitutes for non- paying trolley lines and then are permitted to charge more. This system greatly simplifies. the prob- nyl cannot in- of the compan- system to lem: and certa be Juring thg income fes. The are abandoning I they haven't done so in New Brit- %ip and they haven't done so in other clties. If the busses’serve 1o stimulate the relinquishment of sundry suburban and rural trolley lies which bave lost money for years it will be a good thing for the stockholders the trolley companiés. * Before the busses came the trol- not trolley companies lines that are. pay of fey compapies held on to many of | these losing lines in the hope that ‘some day the tide would turn. The | however, has of turn of the come with the — and usually with slightly higher tide, medium busses rates allowed. In the long run the b prove. an ald to the trolley provided they and not independent operators run them. That issue_which has been prominent in Connecticut. will lines, “PORT OF BRIDGEPORT"” MORE LIKE A DREAM Bridgeport is still -ambitious to bé the great moderh terminal port | of Connecticut. The utmost in modern shipping facilities must be attained, according to.the Post of that city. “What a difference it have made In the history of this city for the past six years if the Port of Bridgeport pro- ject had been carried out and put into effect when originally planned!” continues the news- paper. “While Bridgeport was talking about ' it, and those residents of RBridgeport and Stratford who could look ahead were opposing the city Newark, went right ahead and and the - result is is adding industries cedented rate, wi investment times rentals. Which plavsible would not it, of ark uny the it ile an the 1 eturn city's many in ntil devastating tion. Port N except Bridg knos better porters situated than Bridgeport New Ne for attracting the ships ark Bay being o York harbor that part of it. Every railroad in north- ern New Jer of tracks in tide- cloge to w it virtually is its vieinity; and where meet a good water railroads is bound to Bridgeport, like the disadvantage of Island Sound, which rule is not a main highway for the ¢ ocean ships. Our Connécticut ports are all right /for coastwise traffic to other New England ports, but our manufacturers are develop. New belng on Haven, has Long as a is & natlonal organization | This insures | apparently | ng; | is the | port | freight to New York docks right along, giving both New Haven and Bridgeport the go-bye. The manu- of factur course, must take | | | their goods where the ships sail. | b Bridgeport Connecticut will well pleased to see both and New class it Haven develop first ports; but that extremely likely. into isn't saying is It would cost a nothing is| | deal of money; and n distressing th: great 1 a paucity of ships to make it more economically |a port created at expense pay. Bridgeporters who were too con- | gey of‘ were | | | | | | servative to sink huge sums money in that port scheme good common horse- inlet exercising r coast town along itself would sense. | the into | put | but every were to develop port it lots of money into circulation, all. a great ocean t is about DOUBLE ON A trip abou cticut AUTO RATIONS THE FARM the Con- reason why | country in ne will the the farms is so high. Tt appears — of the more prosperous farmers vield one percentage of automobiles on many — very many satisfied with own- They are no longer ing only one automobile. must have two. and 1s other One is for general use The ap- pears to be for more formal occ usually a fliyver. sions, and is likely to be anything up to a high-powered road-warmer. An in New Britain, re- turning from a trip through Con- best distr observer necticut's farming said it was astonishing how many had two the front farms he passed which machines parked on lawns. HOUSING SHORTAGE NOW NO MORE Except for spots in some of the larger citles, it be stated that the shortage, which resulted cessation of building ended. can eafely | housing from the during the war, has The huge building outlay during {the past three years has enabled housing facilities to catch up with | the i the public meeds; in some citic needs have been passed. As a rule, rents have receded at | least slightly, and for some classes more than is likely to but no | doubt will not reach pre-war levels in this generation. Present b of accommodations slightly. The recession continue for some year: rates for the most part d upon the increased val- | r N for a dozen | the mortgage | and carries are ues of property. Iy wly built | property 15 v runs or vears before | mean- | the | reduct liquidated; rent {loans are while the money | burden. Landlords won't | below the level of this carrying it help it { | though they cannot control a situa- | burden they tion It | needed arising from overproduction. resource to increased capital is to mortgage lomw“ they still have the property, which | long after mortgage is paid off. chief that values or the is costs of construction, past present. If there should a serious slump in the rent Silu:\nnn.‘ meet | usually the | The brings in rent | danger ces just next five years, | realty now, will | within due to high and be nd a consequent reduction in in- | come while mortgages continne to | demand the same payments as be- fore, be in position as the Towa farmers owners will the same | who mortgaged land to buy more mort- | iged land the crash ame blamed the Obviously, it is just as cheap to | such a the g and when c government be optimistic as otherwise; not the as be in benefit of well desirable nges take | tion needs been contingency At us, may works. for all mortgage-owners, least, of rent-paye as it is ast The what three or four | ‘Hml no sudden c in realty. pay off | place ‘Conmrumml the time to has past years, and the general prosperity of the nation has been too greatly | prosperity of | it en- bound that bound up with the buildin 1 th trades to see danger We are so (o.‘1 gether commerclally when | suffers all suffer. the at one At realty the situation is present wed somew by fact people | vho have been satisfied to live in | rat second houses or apartments | crowding into the newer 50 long | Should | This continues prosperous > a business recession with- ext four years or more — such things are always possi- regardless how improbable would hey may — the reverse move- ment take place, as in a| pinch the householder average thinks economical | livie irst of more 18 CANAL TRANSPORTATION LOSES TO RAILS York's white elephant, the | canal, got considerably the worst of with the it in-a comparison the Bureau | The canal | railroads made Railroad built transpor- of the state, | a mint of money to construct, and little freight. If| shippers could use it to advantage by of Economics. to yield freight was cheap tion across co: now carries trucking |1t would be dotted with freight |continues strong it may be possi- |a comparison | ot 5000 people | up much room. Five thousand per- | attention everywhere of late. | was | duced | ate freight charge | face of lof $13,000,000, } Less Than Two to a C Surveys Being Made in Cities Shed Light on Traffic Problems — Need For Parking Control Seen Everywhere. ar It survey fact that on of all go dur- s brought of traf- was noted the other day that Boston disciosed average number of persons in an automobile traversing the downtown business districts was only 1.8. It can be said without prospect of | that this 1s| for business dis- tricts in other cities. And that fact has to be one of the burgh, and tl elimina { parking in the loop in Ct |ing the Eucharistic congre |about such increased flow { fic that our city authorities are now | considering a permanent ban on all | | parking in the loop district. Streets | were created for traffic, not for stor- | age purposcs, and the men who park their cars on a busy street are | using public property for a private | use, just as much as if they were to .a |Set up a huckster's stand on the | space occupied by the parked auto- | | mobile. The preemption of such space by huckste would not be permitted by city authorities for one moment, vet they are permitting problem Tis anprectain e street s to be used for, storage | purpose | thoroughly one need only to make | between made the a in the serious contradiction about the average been reali fundamental rez why traffic conditions in ma become ny cities has such an acute | circumstance results | { riding in subways,| Conditions in New Britain are not | elevated or surface trolley lines, and » but the number of people riding to or from business in automobiles. the |as serious as in the large citic |they are serious enough to warrant | and same some discussion, much agita- | | tion whenever an effort is made to But we are learning. | In the electric conveyances men- |improve them the perispathetic 5,000 tight and they do not take ! Some time ago attempts were | "m:nln to facilitate tioned are packed traffic through | {the promulgation of various rules sons are transported on the lines in more or less of & jiffy there certainly is no street congestion re- |and regulations which did not stick because they 1 to retard use of certain streets in any manner | and tended to the | sulting. lof The same 5,000 in automobiles, at | means | Now | lowing the surve we are slowly learning, fol- less than two persons per car, rough- ly would require 3,000 ma- that -the | That number of cars takes | chict problem has heen parked :avno:.mu\\n: and we have been learn- o~ |ing a’liWle in this connection right | in Boston and the | about other eities, the ecords from chines. up space. If it were possible to have at Jeast four persons in each car entering business areas for business purposes the traffic tion would notably in all our cities {in New Britain decrease | WOEAN e all were has sai 1 | credited to Will Rogers—that if Some on automobiles not for from the there is paid the be the has been matter of recelving Then parking which downtown no traffic | eliminated there would problems. That { morous quip | B | parking in all our citi | strects of course is a hu-| a Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the Horse Assocl America, aban- doned consideration of the draft animal long enough to remark the 0%t t there can be no doubt that if streets ) properly | controlled upon such where | other day: { “The one thing that impedes traf- fic more than all other factors com- bined is the parking of auwmohll(*s‘ | in congested business areas of our| Bad as the news may he to the| cities This i so true that parkingin | ] the downtown areas has been en- e : | tirely prohibited in several citi _|be less and less parking allowed in | particularly Los Angeles and Pitt - | the future. | serious, that| he | congestion is the most ! much the problem would | solved automatically. free street storage fans, there | | ble reduce its indebtedness to to | the United States in the way adopt- ed the powerful lines, The government barges. The bureau shipped on the more than twice what it ¢ ship by rail in the same territo Last the was 2, cents by report said, o charges third and that canal costs s to found goods barge more financial | intcrest rate of six per cent is palpably too | high, but efforts to reduce it hdve not 1 the mile anal, railroad. Four years | the r cost per by a ton and vet been successful. 1,108 cents the New Haven continues on the difference road to prosperity it might be | ter, sinte that time |able to seil bonds to private inves- | heen the canal have re- about a he |tors at five per cent and use the rail | proceeds to cancel its indebtedness | | to the government from to time. The ernment time indebtedness to the ¥ debt item | | | the New Haven has to contend | charges a sixth. When the barge canal was built along the route of the old FErie canal New York great benefits, and the pe ople were willing to see the money spent in | gov- is the viest was promised | with, the hope of relief from ‘“extortion- | Believed| 20 Years AgO Taday They all the politicians told them; and still doing it. are | e Charles B. Oldershaw once paid | TIME FOR DIVIDENDS BY NEW HAVEN Turning to the New Haven 4 per cent of Albert Morton the compliment of being an excellent auditor, and as | Mr. Oldershaw has held that office | a great many years himself and | knew whereof he spake, his gracious | remark concerning the ability of | | Mr. Morton was espeeially note- | | worthy, Mr. Morton appears o | have brouant all his talents to the | office of tax collector, and the | city’s finances are expected to be in | unusually satisfactory condition at | ar the end of the present v ishing it- | rail- road ownership of the stock of the Boston & Maine, it is discovered = that there has been an enhancement of $10,000,- 000 in the value of this common stock within a year, so that on the the returns the New Ha- ven is richer by just that sum. But appearances are sometimes deceiving. The 55.4 per cent of the & Maine stock owned by the New Haven, in spite of the $10,000,000 increased book gvalue within a year, has a present value the New the Co. 1 has been disting | self in the camp maneuvers and has | had the most oppertunities of any company in the brigade, taking full | [advantage of all of them The seventh fatality at the street crossing occurred Saturday night, and residents of the district think it is about time somcthing | was done to warn the people about | the third rail. Signs have been ' posted, but these are not visible at night and there is a movement on foot to compel the railroad to ercct illuminated signs and in this way warn those unfamiliar with the dan- | gers of the curr A young man cghorn’s store and asked to have interest. | Tiffany diamond, wanting the job It was such stock buying sprees | gone in 15 minutes. Mr. Leghorn in the past that have been a drag | told him it could not be done so New | auickly, and the man offered to ex- ange his stone for a set one. The Haven; and the Boston & Maine [¢0i08e 0 b o one worth about $50 | happens to be one of the | and then Mr. Leghorn asked for | another look at the brilliant stone in the customer’s shirtfront. He took | | but to his surprise it cut and showed that the ten years | was of chalk. The man | The | muttered some sout it being | the | £1ven to him, skipped out, and made tracks down the street. Boston Park whereas Hav $28,000,000 for stock years ago. There would need to be an ad- enhancement of $15,000,- value of this stock before railroad could n paid ditional 000 in New break even in its ownership, not the in dividends or the Haven turday ning setting for a counting loss upon the prosperity of the {9 stock best issues it own The New Haven's been earnings th |a ths | througn large; most & in year have months stone” the earning $4.72 in 1924 it indicates profitable six is just in background is on company pital stoc earned | $1.91. the o g g i SR = i icker Nets 810 With ( Ancient Flimflam Game | One of the oldest flim-flam games o ‘I\mmn to the police was worked | cessfully in the Burritt Hotel oda Shop turday afternoon b A man who has not been apprchended. He is alleged to have given the | cashier a $20 bill'after buying a fif- teen cent drink, and when he re- ceived the change. he ked her for ten bills in exchange for a $10 | |bill. She accommodated him and a few seconds later, he found fifteen cents in his pocket and giving them {to the casl ie ed her for the $10 bill. The cashi being confused by the rgpid exchange of currency, gave it to him and after he had left, she | found shé was a loser by $10, Ser- |geant Patrick J. O'Mara of the de- | |tective bureau is investigating. only This the ad- vance stem is making. Yet its present earning power considerably short of the $6.7 transportation < per cent would lowed under the act s Earnings above s the federal governmegf to half the Above that figure. 12 1.2 has failed permit recapture earnings N Ha- dividend. For years the W ven to The return pay a is near at nd when a dividend time to a basis is ad- ; visable. Stockholders looking § forward to the day sumption. 1t the are of dividend re- position of the raiiroad | Just (A Lrrrer : | lucky man, 8Send all commnnleatons to Fun Shop Editor, care of the New Britain Herald, and your letter will be forwarded to New York. Come on, Let's Go, Folks! as the wind-shield keeps dust from our eyes, We'll all of us ride through the day, if we're wise, With fun-shields to keep out the cinders of fret, cheer-curtain grouch-storms Explained Dr. Pearson: “This stranze. Do you know, five pounds less than you did yes- terday? T don’t understand it.” Patlent hat's all righ My daughter got married last night and that's an awful big load off my mind.” ake too, in are met! THAT WAS NEVER MAILED By George S. Chappell Dear Wife I Beside 1he hink of you Aonight, sounding sea, I hope yon're keeping cool all right And sometimes think of me. We've had a hot spell, here in town, And, vesterday, T shirke At half-past twelve I called Jim Brown And mentioned golf ed! We shot eighteen at Wheatley And gee, T smothered Jim! 1 won three bucks and it work- Hills four new pills, And then we had a swim, Dined at the club, a dandy feed, Then back to town . . still hot, So: “How about a show, old § Says 1; says Jim, “Why not o abe, the chorus that we saw From front row seats . . that's fair! T cannot tell you what they wore Because it wasn't there!! Jim knew & little dump near by Where Volstead wasn't known; It wasn't just exaetly dry, Nor were we QUITE alone! The Hostess said she liked She introduced A straight-eight ed Grace; We got along no end! Jim had his car; we took a drive And dropped them at their flat; T hit the hay at half-past five, And that, my dear, is that! T miss you darling, every day, And sometimes feel quite sad my a friend, super-blonde nar |To think that vou're so FAR away, Your busy, lonesome, DAD His Kind Mrs. Hill: “My husband is a What kind of a loser od losc is your: Mrs. Jenkins: “Permanent.” Ssther Schmitt. Evidence By Conrad Goldrich The stranger approached the man the desk in the pool hall. I want to know if I could buy wv a dozen squares of billiard challk. You see I have a billiard table at home, and—-" “A table a¢ home, cashier, thoughtfully want to buy some chalk. Sure, but of course if you can’t spare any, why—" “Hey, Bill!” called the cashier. ‘C'mere! Here's the guy that's been stealing our chalk huh?” said the “H’'m. and you Where the Charleston Originated! Well Bread! Betty: “Your father is certainly a Louise. Last night he won a dozen loaves of bread at the hazaar.” Louise: “Dad has always been the breadwinner of the family.” —Joseph K. Weiss. IN KLASS AT KRAZY KOLLEGE (Conducted by Judy) Teacher: “Mr. O'Foot, T under- stand you're quite an after dinner er. If s0, why?"” ed O'Foot: “I ain't allowed to speak during meals, so I always speak afterwards.” Teacher: “Well, tells me that he bes Tom Ato Soop ame engaged to |be married to his cousin Etta Orange during recess, so suppose you deliver a few words of congratulations, us- ing ‘decipher.’” Speed O'Foot: g1l to de handsome Tom Soop And Etta Orange, his lovely cousint: ‘When folks are married a year or s0, Decipher de days when dey wasn't!" —Lfl. W. MeIntosh. Ato KRAZY KINDERGART! (Conducted by Judy, Jr.) Teetcher: “Heers deer Jennie, red- dy to recite. Do your stuff, Jennie, not forgetting ‘alternative.’” Jennie Alogy: “We made a freezer, Tennie, Mike They wunted to tern the crank, and father lotta ice cream in g And Bobhie, Annabel and case | you weigh | a alternative they likel'" —Augusta Haas. Think This Over Lois: “Clifford would c a wild baseball pitcher.” Virginia: “Why?" Lois: “Because he walks so many girls.” rtainly —Harriett Humbert. (Copyright, 1926. Reproduction Forbidden) FactsandFancies BY ROBER1T QUILLEN In the old days, Monday | Monday instead of the day afte To defend divorce confess that you are of your mate. usually tly w Fruit isn't the Snap into it, neighbor. all that gets canned in summer season. | An expe rienced wife is one who | keeps her husband thinking he has more than she has. sense He { trash | woman | who steals my purse steals The same can be said of the who steals anothe hus- band, tRefinements” on are those little $1 which you pay $125. an automobile thin for 50. 50. be | slack | leged liquor conspiracy in Canton, he uncovered evidence in the mur- der case which should convict sev- eral men decided to prepare to ac- cept the invi ion of Prosecutor C. M. McClintock that all persons hav- ing knowledge of the crime present it to the grand jury. The criminal lawyer had said that political pres- sure and the influences of various forces were being breught to bear block the murder investigation and :nuzlnhn should be considered oy the grand jury 2 - i Whitstable, County Kent, Eng- tock u:nou|ac‘:‘-‘&r};x1[ci$\gn A‘i‘x‘»( ‘h‘“ d, Aug. 16 (P—Alphonse I'rancis| plans and said the case would go |L Austin_Smith, grandson of the late| the grand jury which opens ite. wes. Hugh Ryan of Canadian railroad |sion for the consideration of . ‘s)’- [ building was recovering in the | cases tomorrow. S Maidstone jail today from injuries| MecClintock hs ar he sustained Friday night in a fight | to g md: ;rl:( 11!‘;15 sllj'l":r-i:;lo‘n r:r"'WI from which John Thomas Derham | point a special or Assistant proes. emerged with a bullet wound which | cutor. He turned down the . pu 1. causcd his dm(l\].\.v!ml hours ;«mz fered services or Roach who ll'l.?n; Jealousy is alleged to have been |y, ayor 8, Sw the cause of the trouble between 3 H;‘:; :M‘:n b\L\'T”“ he two men. It is asserted - that| Earl W. Hexamer. Roach's 'Izn\(“l"( ;‘hmih n)h N‘t“ to the attentions I:‘A:d gation of the liquor co: ~|x;ra<~v :)'\’; ,v Derham to his wife, a Dretty|een conduete he idea. of White when Smith married her after | grang Jury early in Sept lsis Ruth Wynne, daughter of the e : s Robert J. Wynne, once United States postmaster general and consul gen- cral in London, divorced him in JEALOUS HUBBY MURDERS RIVAL Principals in Whitstable Affair ' Socially Prominent | Erie Railroad Loses $100,000 by Strike New York, Aug. 16 (P—An unex- . ! of & pected strike of longshoremen early 1 British army office dier | to( may cause the Erie railroad 1 holder of the Vic-|loss estimated at $100,000, due l‘a fle was married some |inability to move the 350 carloads of 0 to Consuelo, daughter of |perishable freight, consigned to fruit quess and Marquesa Dejand vegetable dealers, Torre Hermosa, but they were not| Bec: they were not granted an living together. immediate increase in wages, 400 When the police were summoned |workers refused to go to work at |to Stella Maris villa, occupied by|the Erie piers at Duane street and | Smith and his wife and three chil- Hudson river last night. The New | dren, Derham was in a dying condi-|York Marine company, which has tion from bullet wound in his{the contract to unload the cars for abdomen and Smith was badly bat-|the railroad, issued a call for §00 tered about the face and head and|men ,but only 20 responded today Derham was the grandson | Good 1uc streaming with blood. That a fierce | struggle had taken place was indi- cated by the great disorder of the drawing room. Mrs. Smith first met Derham at Herne Bay, where she was then liv-| ing. Smith wi ing in London, | but occasionally ited his wife. | |The friendship of Derham and Mrs. Smith is said to have ripened when he began giving her lessons in au- tomobile drivi Several weeks ago Mrs. Smith took up her residence in the Stella Maris villa, and Smith joined her ther the beginning of last week. Smiths and Derham spent Friday evening at supper at a local hotel nd later returned to the villa where Mrs. Smith and Derham plaved ards. The defails of the encounter which ed have not become known, but are expected to be re-| vealed by Mrs. Smith and other wit- | ne at the inquest into the death of Derham Extraordinary precautions have been taken to prevent curious crowds gathering at the inquest. The tragedy has ‘created great excite- ment in this vieinit Smith was born in Toronto in 1889 and came into a large fortune when his grandfather, Hlugh Ryan, dled. He came to FEngland when hine years old and was educated at Eton |ana Cambridge, where Derham also | was a student. He was always | popular socially and spent his money a man can still take a|freely. Some time ago he was in | chew without feeling that he should | financial difficulties, but finally a first offer one to the lady. |trust company in Toronto nged = |for a money settlement to give him In the old ays “protection™ |a regular income. After he left the meant a tariff, not a roll slipped to|university Smith joined the regular a federal agent. |army, but later gave up his com-| e | mission and toured the world. He| When the roll is calded up yonder, fought in the World war with dis- it won’t be the kind of roll that|tinction. makes people seem Important down| Derham was here. |and was well Another good test of will power| is to try keeping your cyes off ghe taxi meter. Hard times are those in which people live as they should in good times, v The first thing necessary to rid a town of law-breakers is a group worthy to throw the first stone. Time always cl Many a nice girl have been called years ago. anges everything. of today would a “hussy” fifty The A pitcher is about through if he can’t come back and beat the team that sold him. Sporting trophy: A cup of curi- |ous design manufactured for ex- port to America, ss08 Is the same everywher: for the fisherman means for the fish, Suce bad luck well known off financially | as an athlete. | meet| MELLETT CASE GOES T0 GRAND JURY TOMORROW Things emergen an emergency turn out queerly. fleet was built to not to be one. *It seems odd, when Congress isn't | in session, to see people working for | money instead of howling for an| Special Tnvestigator Wants Facts appropriation, Given Tmmediately—Political | Correct this sentence: “That rich chap's wife is befter educated than | said Jones, “but she never rubs Pressure Active Canton, Ohio, Aug. 16 (P—While Joseph R. Roach, Chicago criminal llawyer was at work tod: prepar- ing his discoveries in the Mellett murder case for the eonsideration of the Stark county grand jury next week, employment of special aid in | the prosecution was being consider- | ed. Roach, following his announce- | ment that while investigating an al- | (Protected by Publishers ndicate) HE ENOWS HER “My wife has gone on a vacation know the place won't suit her.” “Where has she gone?” “As a matter of fact, know."—Answers, London. T don't | south and southwe an Vice Consul Robbed at Stamford Stamford, Conn., Aug. 16. (#— Milton C. Seropyan, Persian Vice Consul, stationed at St. Louis, was robbed of $300 here yesterday as he stepped aboard a train, he told the pa Mr. Seropyan was boarding a train for Springfield, accompanied by friends from New Rochelle with whom he is staying, when he was jost strangers, he said. When he took his seat in the coach he missed his wallet. After reporting the theft, he took another train to Springfield, He said he was on his v to Amherst, where his soa has been entered. Per: Knicker-(‘lmiw\*\mn Are Banned in Pittsfield Pittsfleld, Mas Aug. 16 (P — Knicker-clad women, n though they don't roll their stockings, will be barred from Pittsfield streets This is the announcement from police headquarters, following the discovery last week that seven at- ctive New York and New Jersey girl campi from Monterey had shocked residents of the staid Wen dell hotel, by appearing in scant: costumed-knickers rolled up a stockings rolled below their knees Police ‘are planning an offensive to rid the streets of all knicker-clad women, Actir ef John H. Hines admitted last night. 1 Observation The Weather Aug. 16.—Foracast for Southern New England: Prob- ably Showers Tonight and Tuesday: slightly warmer in western Massa- chusetts tonight; rising temperature esday. I'resh east and south- inds. cast Wa on, stern New York Probab tonight and Tuesday v warmer in cen- tral portions tonight; cooler Tues- day in north portion; moderate t winds. Conditions: A well defined area of low pressure is central this morning over Lake Superior, Tt is causing unsettled howery weather from Minnesota southeastward to I'ennsylvania. It is moving east- ward and Connecticut will be on the southern edge of this disturb- ance during the next 24 hours. The temperature is about normal in the central and eastern districts. Conditions favor for this vicinity unsettled weather with occasional showers and not much change in temperature. SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN IN A HAMMOCK LIES DOWN IN HAMMOCK TOR JUST A MINUTE R TWo in) R \ I HE HAD THAT MAGAZINE ON THE TRBLE HE COULD TINISH RIS STCRY ™l TO LIGHT A GIGAR [NSTEAD RUT FINDS HE HAS NO MATCHES DERS WH WoN LES RUNKING OVER THE THINGS HE'S GOING TO DO WHEN 9E GETS UP IN A MINUTE OR TWO right, | By GLUYAS WILLIAMS REFLECTS HE'S 60T A LOT OF THINGS T DO, HE'LL JUST STAY HERE FOR A SECOND LONGER. TRIES TO REACH MAGAZINE ALMOST TIPPING HIMSELR OUT OF HAMMOCK. 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