New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1927, Page 2

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, M OF SPRING SEAS[IN| Amble Slowly Into Town and - Amble Ont Again The winter weather turne coveral days ago with a s that surprised even t! sistent and optimisti ad predicted the which seems to be al i but seldom realized. It brought out epring styles of men and wom- d cellars to dig up the ! araphernalia with which the o keep pace With the big le the southern train am ed the last ca nning rivulets a ys plercing through ng trees and brush in the forest it did all of these t it brought an ftching to the feet of America’s knights of t sent them on their w son of sight-s vhatever the vi 1y hold. 0 Into New Brita places thro h of the Some of 1 0 most wout a car Jary lan them be on their| re of the mo-| or| and arly | 1 to- | : had Comme ight morni | the autumn of and his have heen little det | the bricklayers, How old was he?" was 1 m Tetgin’ s can't narrow tod. his « as he cyes medit measuring ber it in the four foot stone Captain Belcher Who 1s t Britain What co bejiding stands a ier of Hig hiveris kno hour s Eleaza o asked Balaam to cu Tsrael? cities of refug Moses to build? defeated s the fate of the moment New 0 of g no thought How many Lord tell givin e road, with a of much that rly to learr David’s oldest Adon did iiah? David "ho was How long With what powerful nation How long did it take Solo- AlTH[lU[iH HE |s 72“:}0 e J. T Wealherpmoi RICH VEW []F [[IR[ From Outdoor Labor IN HERUN HIST“RY O Colomsls (ueer People, Judged by Modern Standards rs ago, 19 an | —— qvn maintains a membership in the | tion although he laid aside | | i I-tahle | To turn back the histo: ¢ pages |to tha early days of Berlin, the | mother sestiement cof this city, 1s - |to run across many human —and| G 438 | musing anecdotes that would do Main street, whe, as approaches credit to a novelist’s pen | Berlin has always been rich with | early Coton . The town| sndly still maintaing a little of the air of jetween abor. | days when loopholes in the side| loud in his praise of boss|walls were as common as lighting' in their relationship to | fixtures are now and when declaring they have | and wolves took the place of men humanly. | transient motorist who makes lif ized \Y“unx rtain in these d the wild | 1855 there was only one o ion | animals did in those times. of outdoor crafts in existence in the | The sad part of all this romance tate of Connccticut b "“\x}hh has lived and died In anoth- | 3 | tle of it has found records which may reign ani trowel about 10 ve nt of the a medium rou for settle one conference as ment of labor diffi storl reated the When his union was or n. At 8 tic mecting | out 20 bri held in the | pe read today. Your old Berlin hi ola Opera Ho for the or-{(orian was more concerned with the | zation Wi awn up and Mr. mber and names of a i ame the first president. fathers and their were 1oV fathers, than in what they for e done or said Slays Bear With little comes is stilt tomatic styles of the histori; To them a life ing m than a connecti link of a family chain and man sidelights on the persons itself are swamped in a mass of et &nd Detis (et Wiy an) ol poor little ancedote. Once in a days he was con- |y e a personal anccdote seceps| t baseball igh. Lor instance, history tells! pitched a us that in about 1721 Ts: Hart, was d \ther of the Kensington Harts, | o leg In= g ered a bear in his pasture Britain trusty farm horse | @ common pitchfor time, | Arthur, put the bear DRYESS and later s ed- e S animal after & hlete until | His leg o the father's mig Pitchfork | down to this| 1 with the au- professional | is noth-| n in the ny hu- ity to make after 160, Wages have siderably since the masons are no sidered of l'\'w~u‘\ Tie 1 first base, and i t if he had not s iy in a ne with the mateurs h baschall did no as it does nowadays, I-around mounting sping a la Knights of to inglorious rout g the come ckley crossing resident in accident in s contributed his bit to the und for a time activities of the town. wonld not be able |y o 7 it CHeAmY) after being at the village cider mill one time Ne | opresh himself after a hard The cider certainly the yard of his he t he un 1 pital it was thou con- for some ongh he now has to | with the aid of a canc | rn in the ne w00d of hlin Hill,” in the section which old time TIrish of the fore long the old Br ing the town folks the gr of his havin, ol to the devil an that thousands wonld attend his fu- As the colony was o that modest as o population, | nown t where the would come der bibber stuck to indered home still ould he quite an L activi- one tim thout the overcoa i hool whe s now locate i a4 the very oy thousand from, but the c his story and owing that it mourners hool which old conntry ss rooms, one on 5004 occasion in the town's socia portion of the the print of the his- strive for ef days lator, floor and one He was plaving in tl o old City which, if el the to hom: nd, ” =TGR % PRI . | searchi Three Youthful Bandits cuna o Rnh Brideenort Station nad br (P—Thre g oy te creature etween two use of ever cxplained but cause of death from nearly ev on the next Sur expo 1 pit in the state To Heaven via Pine recently, Tree consid- her o liven e Adv nking DAWES AT PANAMA " ke the sscent Spreading his fon, he lost ried fro 1 streteher, Builds Fort to Repel Indians carly history shows an sidelight on the colol when King Phillip wars r i Massachusetts her was detailed by wumr of the colony to erect a "fort for the defense of Berlin. Cap- LU-COLDS Check at first sncezc. Rub on—inhale vapors " VIEKS jand the whole | early life stopped | I ct too| ymow | on| d lights in | Captain | King Phillip, undefended ARCH 26, 1921. | OUR SCHOOLS | 1l into a decline. It | although and hattered through ravages of time that it s little known nor noticed by the casual 1 lin rabbits now use the imparts of for refuge from Jerlin - dogs so after all Captain efforts have not gone for Gldeon Gideon irt to town whe | days he ¢ pistol mant the countr, North Made Pistols North contributed his the industrial history of the during Revolutionary ucted one of the first facturing industries fn ,\ minister is responsi- ile for the decline of the fir business as once, when North's two sons were present, the local minis- | ter drove by and s sdcon at the door shouted out, “Still making pistols to kill souls old manufacturer, Incensed insult to his pet business, “No, making pistols to Honors rested even but ht that the two sons tool an's words to heart as hey did not continue the busincss upon the death of the old man. North's pistols are highly prized by coll oid firearms her short side lights of curfous lincidents show that on one occasion | |the monthly visit of the candy | seller so attracted one young girl of the community that she forgot all cantion and found ler demise in overstuffing her colonial appetite Another harmiessly insane old ;“mnm who acted as seamstress for rlm village, °d to place a row of (mm beside ber bed and hold con- | fon during the. n | What €he termed the ~Bil Witches terlin housewife, upon % a ragged, tired, hungry op of Colonial soldiers encamp ed in her front its regular division, killea buichersd an ox for them and fed them then and there. Her son late hauled so much water for thirsty Colonial soldiers that he became an Invalid and dicd soon afterwards. Town Watches Negro Slaves Some negro slaves which, belng transported to the south from Africa, rebelied and ordered the ship turned back, eventually landed on the shores of New London and were befriended by the prople there. Being mington they passed thro town tu the hlacks pass through h anecdotes are discourag- Iy scarce in the history of the town and it is only after wadir 1zh a pretentious file of dates figures that they are able to be To those who they hold a special flavor 1 houses and older trees have soked upon the scenes pictured in tt dog-cared volumes of the of the town. KING 15 NETTLED AT HAITI ACTION + Blames Stale Department, De-’ claring Demand Should Be Made ® ator demograt, of United States to- o New York, March 2 Willim H. King, Utah, back in the his ur to enter Haiti, blamed his exclusion on the attitude of the state depart- ment at Washington csident Lorno notified Senator | King when the latter was in Porto o and anto Domingo, r was regarded asg an sirable” and would not be ceess to Haitian territory. “President Tlorno has no power but what he gets from the state department and General John H. tussell, American high commission- cr in Haiti,” the senator said la night on his arrival on the army ‘ transport St. Mihiel. “He is mere- Py a puppet. depart- | ment and Ger 1l had de- | manded that I 1 imitted, Presi- ! dent Borno's opposition would h | been swept away. ‘ Utah senator exhibited a Borno's order to | Gen. 3. 8. {in charge of | Haiti show uce sen “unde- granted Burrill, the wrmerie in of corrcspondence | order to exclude | him had been referred to Gen | Russell, the Ligh commissioner, who in turn had instructed the gen- | darmeric chicf to carry out tie or- csident Borno. | titude of the partmen wardi the exclusion incident,” said Mr. King, “indicates that it was an effort to keep alive the fiction of Haitian indcpendence. | 1t has sorved to focus the attention l'of Americans upon the domination | | by this government of Haitian af- fairs, | “As for the state department’s in- structions to General Russell to use his good offices with President Bor- no to persuade him to allow me to enter Haiti, that was a mere sub- terfuge.” wtor King said he would re- w his fight in the sanate American marines withdra [ Haiti and predicted that Iaitians were e themselves 90 per fwould demand th | United States forees. He said he would not attempt to make an fs- | sue of his exclusion, hut would use the incident in his fight. “Up from Slavi the ography of the late Booker T. Wash- ington, has been trax Turkish, all the major | languages, the Braille system for the blind, Arablan, and several East In- dian tongues. state de- cent of them withdrawal of to this |a transported to Far- | h Berlin | d out to | know Derlin | csstul attompt | that the | American officer | rmitted to express | autobi- | slated into | European | 50 overgrown | | organized in th | old knitting mill in this city, & Peterson STEARNS | i —Photo by Jehnson ‘ MISS CAROLINE F. A new phase of modern edu; {is the auditorium and extra | cular associations and In this parti- | cular ficld the Central Junior High school is very efficient. This year | the work of dirccting the school uditorium and club work is in th hands of Miss Caroline F. Stcarn She is one of the oldest teachers | | in point of service at the school and {her knowledge of th uth the won her the ap- pointment. ry student in the! chool belongs to some particular | {club and cach club has a special | field to cover. It was Miss Stearns’ snt work that has made it pos-| le for the clubs to function so | | aamirably in the short time they| have been under her control. She was an English teacher at the school until this year. | | M Stearns attended New Mil-| ford grammar school and receiv | her high school education in {academy at Brocksport, N. Y. d the state normal s co and took a special cours: at Vermont university, -nsion courses at Columbia | She taught arithmetic | hy in the New Milford hool hefore she came to | rd, detached from | and | WESTERN WORLD IS REGARDED AS SAFE Chinese “Revolution” Manifeslo; Means But Little ‘ | ! March 26 (UP)—The | s safe from Chinese vol pite the manifesto | the Cantonese nationalist mander at-Shanghal, Lewis S. G n authority on China and a the staff of the nation, nited Press today. | 5 associate editor of the t written a in which tuation which is interest of the world v York, ern world cting the Dispatches printed in the United States quoted the Cantonese com- nder at Shanghai as saying that | this recently captured city would he- {come a base for world revolution, {but Gannett explained that revoln [tion in the Chinese does not {mean what it docs to wostern minds. “When al Pei Ching-Shi,” | nid, 's that ‘Shanghai > a strong base not only nationalism but for olution,’ he is thinking of | the only contincnt we know—Asia | He thinks of the frecing of the yel- low and brown peoples from domin- ation by the white races. Revolu- | {tion to him mecans primarily driv- | [ sens h orld 1 |ing the Europeans out of their | dominant position in Asia.” “Chinese nationalism is flercely | anti-imperialisti Gannett con- | tinued “and it has no patience with | |the argument that one people may | govern another for the latter's good. | Chi ¢k, the nationalist | generalissimo, once told me that' | America could not really be a | democracy, otherwise she would not old the Philippines inst their | wiil. “The nationalist generals with | whom I talked in Canton last year, {like the students and workers, make | no subtle distinctions; wherever they |see whites occupying a position su- [ perfor to other races they call that {imperialism’ and they want a ‘rev- olution’ to end it. When they talk | of ‘revolutionary change’ the nation- {alists may have In mind a vague | | hope of better conditions for Chinese | workmen and farmers; but primar- | ily they think of a revolutionary r versal in the relations of Europeans nd Asiatics n As hiang Kal-Shek made it enough. He said: | “‘Ours is not an evolutionary | movement. It is revolutionary. We are not going to walt years, not even m year. We want equality now. s who wish to remain in | |China_are welcome to remain here subject to our laws. DBut no man can stay in China and no one can | trade in China and still be subject to his own without reference to 12 laws of the Chincse govern- |ment. Extraterritoriality must go; the concessions must go without d lay.’ " “Pal Msung-Chl used the eame {word and meant the same thing as his chief, Chiang Kal-Shek, who |naits from the same province, Ch was his classmate at the demy in Tientsin," said | Vhen these Chinese talk world revolution’ they have not remotest dream of the bolshe- \ these but their lly alarming to the B: thin red line holds down an Asiatic empire of more than three hundred million people. They need not alarm any people which does not seels to dominate others.” READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS clear | | laws annett. of the vism whi the w natu | whose GHOST OF INDUSTRY (HAUNTS PLAINVILLE Broken Windows Stare at Tovn grew and, despite constant additions | heated building to the plant, it paid extraordinary dividends. For several years the re ular and estra dividends were an- |nually 75 per cent of the face value lof the stock. uch prosperity conld not last for- | 1 ver. Competition increascd, “com- blnes” were formed to cut producir |costs. and finally, about ye And even the old bell, rly scrved as a fire Japanese Not F\cnted Over l;\ ents in (hma Tokyo, March 26 (P—The Ja anese do not m to be l‘\(‘lll\l over the developme | de |2 ploneer concern in eves |¢ilk goods,” which w |of saving “underwea and summer | c lin the The n offic the present poliey of watchful wail= lee SighfleSS EyfiS i?fo' l;ri(;?c::! oncern merged with identity. Then came ill-advised forts to sepecialize {n various fa d continue Clifford Bell, South Congregational | zarments, poor mana gL HIEoN slonty of fate, what was once the main|other troubles. The r aered P10 Sproceatl iixom |support of the town of Plainville is|thousands of dollars X i clothing a {today its worst eyesore. This is the ceased operations. % large manufacturing plant located in| The machinery has bee o very center of the town, on West |junked and everything of any valu Main street. At one time it was the [has been torn out of the building {bustling Plainville Mfg. Co, and|Small boys for years have used th {later the Plainville plant of the | indows as targets for stones pro- Bristol Mfg. Co.; today it is & 300ty, |pelled by sling-shots and by hand ying husk Frost has wrought havoe in the The old Plainville Mfg. has been Shanghai expeet to order ne unless, ts Herald Classified Ads celips others in the want ad un- | class, Co was ¢ respect. d concern of its kind United States, being | preceded only by factories in Cohoes | d Troy and being followed by the Es- [tablished in 1550, its incorporation ! papers specified that it purposed to manufacture ‘‘cotton, woolen, and s a polite way It was the th (== 1=t '::’fi!“—,’:’«.‘r At first the machinery in the little factory was limited, and in those |1 s machinery was not so perfected | is it i3 now, so much of the work had to be done by hand. Only the Announcement | rough Knitting was done in the mill, ind then wagons took the garments to the homes of women for a dis- tance of 15 miles about the count side. These women sewed the gar- | ments together in their homes, de button-holes, * and finished em. Then the company teams called for the completed garments d they were shipped to the mer- Hersrrt E. Axpersox, Violinist, will be located in his new. Studio, Packard Building, corner Arch Walnuts Sts., March Twenty-eighth and | chant; But the concern was forward- looking and prosperous. One of the Use very first sewing machine made by | Wheeler & Wilson of Bridgeport, | was installed in the Plainville mill. The plant was exceptionally well | cquipped and, even up to the time | when activities were suspended, the hinery was the most modern that ould be purchased. The huge en- | used by the fire company | for pumping water at fires about the | i For year after year the fac- | i tory was mot only the largest but |y practically the only industrial plant | town, and it employed a large o of the population. 1t enter percentag } IR WHOLESALE BEFORE you plan to deco- rate your walls, stop in for a color card of this soft-toned wall paint. Beautiful, pleas- ing colors that show no laps or brush marks and nodisturbing glare, / Velumina Washable W21l Paint No pores to absorb dirt. Sponge away disfigurements as they appear. Wash- ing takes the place of redecorating. Whatever you need in paint, varnish or brushes, we have it at this store. KOLODNEY HARDWARE COMPANY 220 Main St. OPP. MONUMENT pr of of an ey S0 th br m Cl W wi my wi «