New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 2

yo posta ® * *. It was not only on ye sea coast, but ye Indians felt it within land, and some ships that were upon ye coast were shaken by . Parson Bridge in the history of Chelmsford has left the most stir- ring account of that shock of Nov. 18, 1755. “I was awakened,” he wrote, “whether by ye nolse or.ye shaking I know not, but immediately 1 thot what it was, called to my wife and she and I leaped immedi- {ately out of bed and were casting about in our minds what course to take for safety. She ran to ye cham- ber where 4 of our children and our sevent lay. I run after her and then toog took back to dress me. My dear | lambs were all In a dreadful sur- | prise.”” He recounted specific dam- NEW ENGLAND AND ITS EARTHOUAKES Early Golonial Histories Tell of Tremors Cambridge, Mass., May 6 (P—The painstaking records of Colonial New England historians, despite their scant knowledge of seismic forces, enablued Dr. Kirtley F. Mathe Harvard selsmologist, to recon- siruct a history of 300 years of : earthquakes which he presented |4ge in the vicinity. here before the session of the east- | Of this same quake W. T. Brig- ern section of the American Seis- | ham, who compiled from contem- mological Society just concluded. | porary sources a history of New From this history he drew the de- | England earthquakes which has duction that New England will con- | since been standard with seismo- tinue to feel frequent tremors to logists, gathered data which agreed the intensity of 8 or 9 in the sels- | in detail with the Moyt scicntific stu- mie scale. {dies of the 1925 earthquake which Dr. Mather sald that he was able |shook the entire northeast. Both to estimate with scientific preci- | tremors originated in the St. Law- sion the force of the early quakes |rence valley, but the earlier was be-, from the vivid narrutives of those |lieved to have boen the more vio-| early days. He pointed out that|lent. laymen could obtain a much clear- —_—_— er idea of earthquake effects from | % these old records than {rom some | Clty lten-ls reports of modern scientists, brist- | ling as they do with technical | g terms. | Slight damage was done by fire in The Bradford history for example | an automobile owned by David| said of June 1, 1638 (old style), Morrison of 395 Park street, last; “s ® ® was a great and fearful | pjg The fire department was| earthquake; it was in this place | called at 10:09 o'clock by an alarm | heard before it was felte. As ye|from Box 113 at the corner of West| noyss approached nerer, the earth | riin and Lincoln streets. hegan to shake, and came at length Nash Suits $22.90 McCabe, Tel. 454 with that violence as cdused plat- dvt. ters, dishes and such like things as | joseph Zeliski of 413 East street stoode upon shelves, to clatter and | reported to the poljce last evening fall downe; yea, persons were afraid | {nat a fishing basket, rod tip, rod' of ye houses themselves. * ® *lcaqq and bag were stolen Sunday| some women and others were With- | ;rom his bag at Ne. 4 reservoir, out ye dores, and ye earth shook | wnore he was fishing. with ye violence as they could not| gty sandwiches, Packard Drug. standing without catching hold of | __;qu¢ A. Meltzer of 15 North street re- | ported to Ofticer Axel Carlson that | his chicken coop was entered. He {did not know whether or not any of his feathered flock were missing. Toasted sandwiches, Crowell's— L ] | | {advt. o | JMrs. Mary Murphy of Tremont street is visiting her daughter, Mrs. 336 MAIN ST. E. J. Bergin of Flatbush, N. Y. At The | Beautiful potted plants for Moth- “Handy Hardware” Store & er's day, Henninger's Greenhouse, La Salle St.—advt. AMERICAN WOMAN HONORED. Paris, May 6 (UP)—For her work i in France during and after the war, Mrs. Whitney Warren of New York, | has been named a chevaller of the Legion of Honor. Mrs. Warren and her friends distributed more than 1$600,000 in relief work smong the | Belgian refugees, women and chil- NEW BRITAIN DAILY NOW YOU ASK ONE SOME NATURE QUESTIONS A little knowledge of nature and its ways will help you in the first part of this quiz. The rest of the questions deal with matters of gen- eral Information. | 1—In the tomb of old King Tut, what flower was found used most often as ornamentation? 2—What is the ermine, whose coat | ylelds the fur of royalty? | 3—What would be copsidered ex- treme old age for domestic poultry? 4—What bird in ancient mythelo- gy was belleved to earry the souls of the dying to their abode on Mount Olympus? —Photo by Johnson & Peterson MISS MILDRED F. MAY ~Israel Putnam School All the teaching experience of Miss | Mildred F. May since she was grad- | uated from the New Britain State| Normal school has been in this city. | Her present place is teacher of the second grade of the Israel Putnam | school, a position she held since 1924, | Miss May is a native of this city. | She studled at St. Mary's Parochial school and New Britain High school | previous to entering the State Nor- mal school. She represents her school on the board of directors of the New Britain Teachers’ club. She is very popular among the younger set. BITTEN BY SKUNK Tucson, Ariz, May 6 (/l’»—skunksI also bite. So says John Wakefleld, | forest service employe, who is| nursing a wound on each hand and is being treated with serum to pre- vent possible infection. Wakefleld s2id he was asleep| when the skunk walked across him and bit one hand. He brushed the animal away but it came back with a lunge and bit the other hand. PRICE dren in the northern part of France. ANOTHER OCEAN FLIGHT. ) London, May 6 (UP)—F. T. Courtney, one of Britain's foremost aviators, has announced his inten- tion to fly across the Atlantic to Canada anl return with a paying passenger in addition to a reserve pilot and a mechanic. The flight would take place in mid June. SUGAR WORKERS STRIKE. Manila, P. I, May 6 (UP)—Five Spray With Pyrox | thousand’ employes of sugar centrals | lin Bais, oriental negroes, were on | strike today and trouble threatened |to spread through the rich sugar {country. 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