New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1927, Page 10

EARLY NEW BRITAIN NEIGHBORLY TOWN Bassette Homestead, Now Doomed, Center of Social Lile The passing of the old Bassctte residence on Bassett sireet, which was at one time the home of New Dritain’s first court judge and later the city's firs: open air school re- calls to many of the city's oldest residents the carly history of New Britain. When Judge Ozias Buel Bassette wnd family first settled in New Sritain in 1839, they occupled what | was then known as the Roberts farmhous2 fronting on South Main <treet just north of where the State Trade school now stands. This old puilding was built in 1780, while the Revolutionary War was still raging, nd it stood until 1877 when it was torn down. The farm was a 100 acre which covered practically all of the territory now bounded by “ranklin square and by Rockwell wenue, Arch, Locust, Brook and South Main streets and tract had come to the Bassettes through | Judge Bassette's wife, Emeline Eno laasette, whose mother, Mary Rich- irds Eno, had inherited the Roberts cstate, Mrs. Eno died in New Rrit- | n in 1883 at the age of 98 years. She was born in 17 which Berlin was armington and only two vears after the close of the Revolution. At the age of 12 she had disting- nished herself by riding to Hartford jor the weekly papers when the men were too busy working in the tields to make the teip. Her resi- ience on Washington street. where the FElks club now stands, had been known for many, years as the hom of “Grandma” Eno. Becanse of her tong life and keen memory of early New Britain days, she was of ines- timable help to Deacon Alfred An- drews in the compilation of his his- ory of New Dritain, which is a unique work of its kind New Britain Then Unknown In 1839 when the Bassette famil removed from Litchfield to occupy the old Roberts farmhouse referred to above, there were not more than set oft from 1,500 people in the present confincs of New Britain. New Britain was then part of Berlin and had no gov- ernmerg of its own but the New Britain parish’ was growing faster than the rest of Berlin and fre- quently voted, much to the latter's Jdisgust, to hold town meetings in the New Britain churches than in those of Kensington or Worthington as Berlin center wis called. In those days the “meeting house” was the town hall as well as the churc The city's first open alr school, when the city has just ordered de- molished, was built by Judge Bas sette in 1850, the year when New Britain was set off from Berlin as a separate town. In that year Judze Rassette was directed by the legisla- ture to call the first town mecting | ot New Britain for the election of officers and its organization as a town. When constructed the building faced on Franklin square, as the academte building of the Senior High school does now, and was moved to its present location on Dassett strect in 1594 to make way for .the new high school. As built originally, it was over 100 fect long. 'with the old time wood shed and ool houses adjoining. Franklin square (then a parf of South Main street) was called the “Queen street of New Britain” in those days, for the mansions of the Stanleys and Smiths also were on it, the most ex- pensive dwellings in town. Recall House Raising Judge E: children, three of whom are still living, vividly recall ihe house-raising in the summer of 1850, when neighhors came from all over New Britain to put it up. They rocall how their mother made great quantities of doughnuts, pics, cakes, etc., for the occasion, the great fireplace ovens providing the heat for baking and roasting. Great \ables were spread in the yard with these and other good things to eat «nd drink. Such was the power of cooperation in the days hefore con- tractors had systematized and soft- ened the physical work of man. Painted in white, the finished house made an imposing structure Tt was beforé the popular use, of furnaces and cellars. Having been sducated as a carpenter, Judge Pas- setta was architect, plumber, clerk. workman and manager. He cut most of the timber himselt on Tiis own land, the beams and rafters after the fashion of the day, being mostly hewed, only the ends and th mortices heing sawed. S <awing at least, which included the «wing of lathes, Mr. Bassette did with his own hands in North's sa mill at the foot of Arch street. T mortar was made frop sand obtaln- ed on the farm Sneh other things as shingles, docrs and were hought. The underpinning from large zranite on the farm, Mrs. and splitting these houlders lf; and when they wer they were greatly adm town people who came t For a sctting, & vas built, great mo Light inches in dian A from the * 1o lower end of 1 i set all around t sides. T consideral when 1] way was obtained Doulders found o dril hin Thasse d school The city 11 000 for thit n a very apirit for the choice « showed over o favor of the 1t meant that th moved hack i Makin Tn those da hefore the Civil War, qui ties were popular, cspect nonses where the rooms w Tn the doubls parlors on floor and the correspon: rooms ahove, a quilts would ha spread and a s number of women would work npon them in =11 afternoon mice the cvening they would couie to take to o ing par- Iy in the re large donble i ings Greenwood, | 5, the year in | rather | Some of the | windows In | their ladies home but first they would eat their supper together, and, in later years, the children used to marvel at the apparent ease with which their mother prepared the food for such a large company. When the house was moved to Bassett street in 1894, Mrs. Bassette was 89 years old, but hale and hearty. She Lad managed the farm since the death of her husband in 1878, and in the interim developed north and south through the farm. passett, Glen and Warlock streets; and east and west, Edson, Division, | Trinity, Roberts, and Buell streets. | On Thanksgiving Day, 1802 which was close to Mrs. Bassette birthday, a rotable gathering was | held at the home. Sixty-three, all but seven who were disabled, of her descendants, came to cclebrate {the event. They were from Lynn, Syracuse, N. Y., Schenectady. sw York city, Philadelphia, Befhlehem, Pa.; Hartford, Berlin | | and New Britain. The company in | cluded four children, 22 grandchil- | | dren, 26 great-grandchildren and 111 who married into the family. | Mrs. Bassette died at the home- | !.\H‘.‘Id on Angust 30, 1905, less Hv.’m; | three months after her 100th birth- | | day. She was the oldest resident of | the city. | On August 23, 1306, the | hought the residence from her e tate for its first open air school and it remained for 1827 fo witness its molition to make way for an ad- gdition to the over-crowded high school building. Three of the 12 children of Judge | and Mrs, Ozias B. Bassette are still ) living. They zre Frederick H. Ba sette of West Hartford, §9 years | old: Mrs. Mary Eno Mumford of | Philadelphia, §5 years old; and Mrs. Julia Rasseite Lee of Lynn, Mass, §1 years old. Ruel B. T sette, prominent member of the N¢ Britain Clvie League, s a grandsor His father is Frederick Bassette. | | i 3 SHALL NEWS ITEM * ON WINDING TRAIL | Goes Thmugh Many Hands Be- fore Reaching Pressroom Every item of New Britain news, cven to the mere announcement that someone is spending the week-end at the seashore, must go through the hands of at least seven people | before it is ready for the pressmen and In the forms. Large stories re- I quire the attention of even more than that, at times. | The item is first obtained from its source by a reporter who typewrites | it. The typewrotten sheet is sent to | the city editor who edits it, judges | lits news value and writes the head- | |ing. It is then sent to the compo: ling room where it enters the hand Jof the operator who sets the stor lin type. Then the story is t apprentice printer who —makes | proof copy of the story and sends |it to the proof readers. The latter look the story over for typographi- Al, or other errors and send it back to the printer for correction then to the apprentice who gives the type to the foreman or his tant, who places the type in the forms. In the case of a story telephoned {in, it must go through the hands of the person at the switchboard before reaching the others mentioned. | After the story, with others, locked in the forms, it gocs on a trip 1o the press room, where a force of { men is waiting to prepare the pages | for the pr The flat forms cast into half cylinders before they can be placed on the press. involv- ing considerable activity, When all { the pages have been sent to the press room, the press is started and | the copies of the evening cdition are ready for distribution. The distribution of the papers requires the services of several mor people, from men who delievr the | bundles of papers in {rucks to the | newsboys who scil them on the streets. In the case of a big news story several reporters are sometimes em- ployed, securing various “angles” or “slants.” For instance, in the case of a fire, one wil take care of one | angle of the story, while others will | be engaged in sl different | { branches. | When you see in the ming | | paper the announcement that *Mis: Agnes Somebody will spend th | week-end at Redman's Beach” con- sider the work that has been nec- essary hefore it has been possible to bring it to your doorstcp. is o i | l | | Machines Controlled Solely by Wire- | less Waves are (o be Demonstrat- ed Paris, 1% (P roiled by demor stival. | rs have hoen g nism that is practice and they «d on ! Colombes k where the Paris, I Driverls utomobiles, con wat are soon to be publicly at « Two of the ¢ with a n el operate summer f ped to in perimer succes: ' Graduates From Bate Winning High Hono J. Hultzren, danghter of Wallace str duated ¢ Monday chasen £ he Ella J. m Miss Hultgren was honor work in department Aduring her senior ind she has also eta Kappa to members nd to Lo Cerele part in th | both this or sreneh ¥ special innug! French wroand last she was ehairman of the in charge of the junior the annuad Christmas plays. of | For | i i of the World-Fellowship committer i hership committers of Weic For thres vears she represented | annmal zvm meet. | class of commit ction ar. | | from th n h school in the | they | 85 wine stewards of restanrants. gave the correct age and description | | franc NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927. PHYSIGIAN-FARMER | PROPESSIONAL SEcRECY AND GOOD AT BOTH Dr. Pitts Is Man of Greatly Diversilied Pursuits A doctor by vocation, a fa:' ... by avocation, D. Joseph H. Potts com- bines two pursuits generally con- sidered to be of wide disparity, and finds time to do both well. Before many of his professional Urethren have drunk in thelr first breath of morning air, Dr. Potts has poscd of a truck load tables, fruit and garden truck and Ly the time he joins the other phy- sicians in the daily task of admin- istering to the sick and the or theic housekeepers purchased the fruits of the soil pro- duced under Dr. Totts personal guidance, much of it by his ewn labor. Dr. Potts decision to be a tiller of the soll is purely personal choice. In the same manner as some other physicians turn to their golt clubs or an interesting hook to their minds and hands of the strain of arduous professional toil, Dr. Potts turns to hoe, the milk- separator or the double-hitch truck | for his diversion. His farm, an extensive tract of Iand located necar Newington center is an example of what may be ac- complished in the direction of maximum uses of land and maxi- mum production by a carefully ihought out and exccuted plan of scientific farming. The Potts farm is the scene of many enjoyable visits by friends of the physician. Members of the Liors club, whose roll includes the name | of the surgeon, have been delighted | on numerous occasions hy the hospi- tality of the genfal medico and have enjoyed in fullness the products of the farm at occasional dinners. Dr. Potts demonstrated his or- iginality in a practical manner se:- eral vears ago when the common trouble of farmlands, that of bur- rowing rats, hegan to give him con- cern. In his chores about the fatm, the doctor had been using an old ind somewhat dllapidated from whose exhaust pipe puffs of choking gases were emitted as it plowed over the N highways. Dr. Potts conceived idea of attaching the exhaust, and thrusting the nose the of the tub> into the burrows. Need- | S very few gas attacks were required to drive out the ro- dents. vegetables leaves the Potts farm Auring the scason in which a pro- duce market is maintained in this - and usvally the smiling phy- n sits atop the load as it rum- hles into the city, He takes his place with the less glorified husbands of the land and disposes of his pro- ducts, bartering with peddlers, able to meet them and do them one bet ter in discussion of the merits o/ farm produce and usually driving home a series of good barg: fore his load is turned over. Returning to his offices Dr. n engages in the more Dusiness of the day. He is an ous relieve, flivver [ great | swington | a rubber hose to} Fvery morning a load of fruit and | ns be- | [ Potts | Special Commitiee of the Academy of Medicine Takes up Study of Big Question. Paris, June 18.—(#—The question of professional secrecy as it con- cerns doctors is now the subject of study by a special committee of the Academy of Medicine. | The committee was constituted | after Dr. Letulle, in a report to the learned society, came out strongly in | favor of absolute medical secrecy. {He went so far as to say that.the required declaration of contagious diseases was incumbent solely on the | families involved, and that the doc- {tor who reported them without the | ! tamilies’ consent was usurping of vege. | Prerogative that did not belong to him, I'or some time there has been considerable agitation in favor of a Medical Association code which alties for infringements. The medi- men favoring this move would model their ethical charter on that of the Paris Bar association. AERIAL COMPANY HAS FLIER'S NAME No Connection Between Lind- hergh and Concern However New York, June 18 (A—Charles Lindbergh, a Cleveland city fire- as one of the in- E. man, Is named corporators of an acronautical com- pany with which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has denied any connec- tion. Attention was directed to the Lindbergh Aeronautics corporation |by the Wilmington Chamber of | Commerce, which as the Wil- {liam J. Burns international detec- tive agency to investigate the com- pany. The flier,” said R. W. manager of the Burns agenc Te- | ferring to Colonel Charles A. Lind- cergh, “asked us to issuc a formal denial that he had any connection with the company.’ Budd said that immediately after | Lindbergh had made his request on Budd, | Thursday, he went to the dinner of the Aeronautical Chamber of Com- merce and there issued a general warning against wildcat aeronauti- The agency's investigation, Budd explained, was the result of a wir from Gerrish Gasaway, manager of the Wilmington Chamger, stating that Vincent Dudas, of Cleveland, had announced he would launch a campaign to sell $10,000,000 to $100,000,000 worth of stock in th | Lindbergh company. Budd said away quoted Dudas as saving Col. Lindbergh had with the company then but wa pected to come in shortly. Burns operatives in Cleveland re- ported fhe corporation was capi- ized at $500, the minimum al- lowed under Ohio law. Budd saild s ex- L |ils incorporation papers showed th car. nose and throat specialist in | company, was orgunized “for profit Adition to handling a large general practice. The same hands that guide a heav, tractor, have thousands of pairs of tonsils, and have completed hundreds of diffi- cult mastoid oporations, two af the ain tasks of his specialized work. Dr. Potte stands high in his prof sion, and high among the plainer folk of the farm. He has been hon- ored by many medical societics, while the farmers. not to be out- lone, have heaped upon him the honors of their Grange. DIDN'T LIKE WATER Best Wine ‘aster In Paris, Marcel Te Cudennce, Drank Nothing But Cider Up to 16 Years of Age. he best wine cel Le Cuden- test of powers hy He Paris, June 1§ (P taster in nee, winn H received 5,000 up and two hottles of 12 wines. a loving of ancient hrandy Le Cudennee is a young Breton, He says he drank nothing but cider un- til he was sixteen. The contests, supervised hy offi- s of the ministry of agriculture, each had ' minntes in which identify six white wines and six red on They were ziven these in nun glasses. They sniffed and looked and took sips repeatedly, © obvionsly had only two and a b minutes to judge cach wine. When time wa ralled carafes of cool water were brought for tasters 1o « wes the dozen Led at the with snspicion, tasted it once aid one of fhe wi eward “and 1 didn't think much of it cia o bered o luc GOLLZTION OF FANS hewited From Her Mother (b Duches of Teck, ing fans, h mether, the Duchess Mary, he his y colleetor but has noti- from of her Princess valuable ry ity or the i 3 hows intim: friends, There to her most vwelled fans athered fans pa and of a | sizes. One of the in the collic land some years TR Y most remar m The in kng sticks with arown RN is cover ion was and the Queen's initials The 1 SR with ) 1 Ao \hers from the A5 only < found on « hy spee winzi wondcocks, his fr the f shot the quired King an1 to make ( nds, were extracted [ and ut g the all, camy > fans nd that its purposc was to manu- acture and sell airplanes, hang: accessories and to instruct use of its produc company, according to the agent: named after its Oscar Lindbergh, a of the White Motor ruck company in Cleveland. Budd said the two Lindberghs were not in the Th Burns is The incorporators, other than Charles E. Lindbergh, were isher, A, C. Lunt and Eugene Bailey, lof Cleveland. HAS MANY DEGREES President Von Hindenburg of Ger- many Has Been Honored by Many Universities, s 18, (P —President von soldier and doctor ot serlin, Ju Hindenburg is not onl csman, but also a lws, cngincering, and even of veterinary " science, His Iatest from the doctorial scalp came University of Graz, in Austria, where Hindenburg was made honorary doctor of political science. His honorary veterinary dv sroe was awarded by Collnge of engincerir twehnical Tnstitt The Universit stern Prus niversitics by t0 by all the poly- s of ( many. of Koenigsherz, in outdid all other making the soldier- “honorary doctor in soon after his successful igns in the East during the Bonn University wry doctor of politi 1 president facult {world war him hono Al sci- nd the At Goettingen, Cologne he holds the tit philosophicat | | |m-.u-\ citi; | McCutcheon Graduate Of Middlebury College ' Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McCuteheon 1S Vins t and Miss Florence ay of Farming attending one hamdred twenty-seventh an- t Middlebury ont. | or stry ‘H college, Middlehury, vin McCuteheon wil Monday. MeCuteheon has in s and in was president of th association this year, class golf champion. He has bren candidate for ant manager He is a member of Wig and has been in many of and has also dirceted ther € literary of the 1 marshal Glee s president v Vert Lieen prominent rama He undergraduate ind s senior assi editor Kaleidoscgpe, was junior a member of the He conncil rriculim 1 s beer ) three yo the student the stndent e e was on {1 weial comm and w the play 4 member of ternity el | s, and was on committer o sophamore hop and He fra- Vittes Psi junior com the Chi is al . should strictly define the duties of | i doctors and preseribe adequate pen- no connection | cport- | medicine, theology. philosophy, | the Veterinary | at Hanover, and that of doc- | made | being conferred by Mer- ¢ be graduated | nan | jof beer and liquor, pour:1 on top of the scemingly inherent dislike for 3 presentative of law ond order, «nt mild men wild despi:2 the com- bined efforts of bridegrooms, ushers and folks-in-law to prevant a fracas. POLICEMEN RISK LIVES EVERY DAY Exposed During Work to Menace of Desperate Chiaracters During the past few years sever- al incidents have occurred in this | city to impress upon the public mind the dangers which beset the paths of policcmen as they go about | their duty day after day and night { after night, although it is highly probable that many of the instances of danger, not only to limb but to life iself, encountered hy the brave men in blue rever become publicily known. When a policeman is shot, the city naturally is aroused and lthe affray becomes the sole topic of discussion. The same is truc in cases where officers are injured through being run down by automo- Liles or in scuffles with unruly pris- oners, with the more serious inci- dents, of course, claiming the great- est portion of attention and re- maining longer in the public dis- cussion. The murder of Policoman James Skelly, for which Gerald Chapman was executed at Wethersfield pris- on; the automobile accident af the corner of Main and Commercial streets, whin Paliceman Michael Meehan suffored a fracture of the leg and was unable to do duty for several months; the shooting of Policeman David Doty by a youth who has vet to be apprehended, in the rear of the Quilty building on Fim street rear Fast Main street, land the fall from a motoreycle suf- fered by Policeman Edward Kiely several weeks ago, are the most serious occurrences of this nature to occur to members of the police de- partment of late vears, yet the po- | licoman going out on his i never knows at what moment he may be killed or seriously wounded, while the general public, especfally in times of embarrassment on the rt of the poilce, appears to care little for the welfare of the men whosze sworn duty it is to protect li and property. Scveral years ago, a noliceman on {cuty in the northwestern section of ithe city, heard a shot which he was | certain came from a revolver and he ,hurricd towards the direction from which it 1 to com~. As he ran {along the street, he saw a man com- {ing towards him, his actions indi- {eating that he had either fired the shot or had been close Hy when the hooting occurrcd. Def reaching | the policeman, he turned into a | | yard where there was a high board | fence dividing two properties, and in ‘a twinkling he had scalzd it. Directed by a bystander, the po- liceman pursued the fugitive, but a | he mounted the fence, never e | |ing his quarry to be waiting for him, | (1he bluecoat looked into the barrel of a revolver Jeveled at the center of {his forehead. | “The minute that scems o] | was originated then, it scemed, but | 'fortune favored the policeman and | ithe trigger of the revolver clicked thrice against an empty varrel. The mman escaped through rear yards but was apprehended in another ity the following day and wis brought buack to this city for shooting a young woman with intent to kil Had the revolver from which the ! bullet that steuck her was fired, been | !Tully loaded, the policman who {mounted the fenee in the perform- ance of his duty would lave been 1 shot down, for he had no chance to defend himselt, while the gunman, few feet away, had drawn a on him. Iew outside the po: artment ever learred of the morning police court dockets seldom had less than 20 cases scheguled. STORK AHEAD IN RACE WITH REAPER Births Here in 1926 Double Number of Deaths BY GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Burcauof the N. B. Herald) Washington, D, C., June 18—De- spite the fact that both the birth and death rates in New Britain were lower last year than in 1925, the number of births was more than twice as great as the number of deaths. 1 year there were 1,563 births in New Britain while death claimed 637. When these figures are com- pared with statistics for the preced- ing year, however, it is shown that the hirth rate decreased from 24.2 per 1,000 of population in 1923 to 5 last year and the death rate aa5 decreased from 9.3 to 9.20. Of the total number of deaths reported, 127 were infants under the age of one year. The infant mortality rate, thercfore, was §1.3 per every 1,000 births, representing a decrease wWhen compared with the 103.2 rate for 1925 The contrary of the situation in New Britain was true of Bristol and Hartford, In each of these citles | the birth and death rates increased. In Bristol there were 675 birth 26,6 per each 1,000 or population, representing an increase over the 1925 rate of 24. There were 262 wraths, or 10.3 per each 1,000 of hopulation, an increase over the 8.9 1ate for the preceding vear. There were 4,136 births and 2.129 deaths in Hartford, the birth rate increas- ing from 24.7°in 1925 to 25.2 last vear and the death rate increasing from 12.8 to 13. The infant mortal- ity rate at Bristol decrcased while at Hartford the rate increased. Connecticut’s birth rate decreased and its death rate increased when tistics for 1925 are compared with those for last year. A total of 20,077 Dirths were reported for the state last vear, representing a rate of 18.1 births for every 1,000 of population. The year before the rate was 18.9 births per 1,000 of population. The total number of deaths reported last year was 18,319 or 14.3 deaths per every 1,000 of population. This was an increase over the previous year's death rate of 11.2 per 1,000 population. Of the total number of deaths in the state, 101 were infants under the age of one vear. The infant mortality rate, for the state decreased from 73.3 pepr 1,000 births in 1925 Yo 72.3 last year. Birth rates for 1926 were lower than for 1925 in 26 out of 28 states for which statistics are available. Florida, with a rate of 26.4 births per 1.000 of population, and Mon- tana, with a rate of 14.2 per 1,000 of population, showed the highest and lowest rates, respectively. In 23 out of the 28 states, death rates were higher last year than in 1925, The high death rate is shown for Florida where there were 15.3 deaths per 1,000 of population and the lowcst for Montana where the rats 7.§ deaths per 1,000 of populatic Infant mortality rates for 1026 were generally higher than those for 1925, as 21 of the 28 states s higher rates in 1 For s the highest rate appears for D ware and the lowest for Oregon. Out of 48 cities of 100,000 popula- tion or more, ved higher in- fant mortality st year than in the previous The highest rate of 107.4 was recorded for Rich- mond, Va., and the lowest rate of 38.7 for Portland, Ore. on record in the department of narrow escapes by po- licemen who stepped into the stre [to signal to reckless or suspicious | miotorists to stop in the dead of | night. Cars probably carrying illicit liquor have sped through the streets with drivers at the whiels who. sole thoughts were to reach a certain dostination without being i Desperate men, many of them think nothing of driving s tr a policeman, apparently cstimating their chances of cscape zood cnough to warrant the risk of additional ! charges should they be caught Jater. Recently, when an auomobile in [ which it was suspected there was a lead of alcohol was forced against |the curb by a carryirg polic {men, one of the latier eame as cloy to being maimed for Jife s it Is pos- sible 10 come, when hie hurried from | the police car towards the other ma- chine only to have the jatter put on specd and scrape past the pursuing vehicle. Had the officer Leen a frac- [tion of a second quicke, he would lave been jammed belween the cars and crushed. The incident happened in the midst of a driving 1ain storm, otherwise the officer in all probabil- would have left the police car a trifle sooner. On account of the rain, he remained under cover of the car 1s long as he could and is matters out the slight delay save rom possible deat, Only his Lrother officers knew of his close call. In days gone by, when there were e "fewer policemen than are at 1R, J. King Is Appointed present and strect tights were more | First Li ) im0 e s common sient for | Fi1St Lieutenant 0. D. R. C. i crowds to stand back and watch sev- | (Washington ureau of the N. B. Herald) ral men assault the “der of the| Washington, D. C., June 18—Rob- nightstick. I'olicemen woe decidedly [ ert Joseph King, Eleanor Place, R, tnpopular in certain districts and | . D., No. 2. New Britain, has been time after time they canie. into head- | commissioned as a first lieutenant in quarters badly beaten atter a single the ordnan department reserve Nanded struggle against heavy odds. ' corps, and has, with his consent, Sometimes they bronght their pris- heen ordered to two weeks of active N frequently they brought duty for training cffective July 31, mes and deseriptions. The de- | He has heen divected to procerd stems, | on that date from his home to Aber- Jowever, has eliminated « great deal | deen Proving Grounds, Md., for two the danger o policomen from | weeks training in ordnance work. vowdies, and now the Cises of reo, Ho will bo relieved from duty in heard in ar [time to return to his home by Aug- 3 ust 13 when Te will revert to i tive status, King will rank as a first licutenant from July 1. PARIS HOME BUILDING Quantity Production of Buildings and Payment on Installment Plan Popular in French Capital. Jaris, June 18.—4P—Quantity i production of homes, built while you nd sold on the installment gaining favor in I high-pressure, American once was regarded with smiling superiority here, where house build- ling is considered a very solemn pro- cording. The French first tried building sample houses which sold fairly well, but the business has been de- veloped now to a point where one Ifirm runs full page advertisements » i of bungalows ranging from . without the lot. Each tyy 0" “Geranium, Lily of the Valle: Mimosa” and “Hortensia.” toere oner cuily y i velopment of modern poli ar sistance quite ra Fighis in dane aing reecptions in serious injuri duty and for som Camerary officers were ered having gone hazing stage until they polics court halls and at wed frequently resulted to policemen o ¥ the super not consid w IN PCOR SPIRITS through the = Liberal, Kan.—There's little marl- had exper- | tal bliss in living with a wife who is jenced the tion of !ving rolled finvisible and whe ecan talk only et of eertain gatheving places of the [ through the lips of a spirit medinm. socially inelined, Many super-!John Sovbold, T1-year-old farmer. 1§ aumerary offieer in (he ¢ld days re- fsuing the medium for 47,500 which mained away from his 1ognlar em- | he says ho spent since his “wedding” ployment cast one day and often [with his spirit bride, “Sarah”. He fonzer, following a uiday night | completely entfitted a home for hix assignment in a hall. A maximum [invisible soulmate, his was onc of the reasons Monday | By the Associated Press, | method of colonizing new additions | | | | | A | is named after a flower, slumber, meanwhile taking part in thelr husbands. a good test in the Hudson They will from Albany to New York. will method will be used later for the twin sisters’ channel swim. tors are quite stirred up over news that Mr. Coolidge has been catch- ing trout with worms. thinks the trout catfish, and if they were trout they were imbeciles. sour! CORNERSTONE LAID Added Feature to 95th Com- spoke briefly of the work of Presi- dent Shanklin and Professor Herbert | W. Conn, under whom the separate | department of biology | | | | NEWSPAPERS USE 25,000 TONS MORE PAPER; FLASHES OF LIFE will lie at the bottom of a lake and New York—From communica-|pite a worm is degenerate. tions, including 521 letters and 1,. 500 poems, about'a young man who has caused the newspapers of the United States to use 25,000 tons more paper than usual in the last few.weeks, at a cost of $1,500,000, the New York Times displays a letter by Hendrik Van Loon: “Cannot some one pluck that tired kid out of his bus and take him to a farm and let him sleep for a couple of weeks? . . . Never have I seen anything as hopelessly tired, as courageously tired. . . An- other three days of this and reflect- ed glory sounds will chase him to his death.” New York—Stronger than the lure of the footlights is a mother's love. Jaaet Beecher has cancelled a jcontract for appearance in London in order to be with her boy this summer, since in litigation with her husband she was forbidden to take the child out of the country. Philadelphia—There are some elderly women here who think the pranks of flappers can be mighty good things. Scrubwomen starting to clean the marble steps of a bank found that the job had been done neatly and thoroughly with tooth- Berlin—Perhaps soaring towards | PTUshes by sorority neophytes. heaven makes sleep less necessary. Mrs. Chamberlin and Mra. Levine went two days and & night without Reno—One of the hardships of every well-groomed young man ar- riving here for a few months’ stay is the necessity of proving that he enthusiastic welcomes by Germans is not Leonard Kip Rhinelander. in several cities and flying with Ossinging, N. Y.—Mrs. Snydee old | pressumably is hopeful. e has refused to take back from an in- surance company premiums paid on the $95,000 double indemnity, policy of her husband. The com- pany's attorneys obtained court permission to tender her moneys at Sing Sing. New York—The 13 year Zitenfleld girls are to give grease Tiver. | start tomorrow to swim One wear no grease. The better Washington—Because she wrote| London—Ths experts seem ta the best oration on “Why Prohibi- | disagree on what is good Englishe tion,” Ruth Sutton Kirker of Seat- | Robert Underwood Johnson, Ameris tle 18 to receive $1,000, the prize of | a contest for boys and girls ducted by temperance, prohibition and public morals. can author, was acting as chairman of the Royal Society of Literature when George Bernard wused tha word, 0-opt.” Mr. Johnson said {he had never heard of it in hii life. It means to elect to fill a va- cancy. Then somebody asked if anwy rood English writer misused “who” and *“whom. Yes, sir, Shakespeare” Professor Dover Wilson. The society decided to form an Anglo-American committee to ade just disputed usages of words. YALE ENDOWMENT FUND IS SWELLED | Howard Heinz Gives $100,000 to Assist Students New Haven, June 18 (A —Howard con- the Methodist board of Washington—Some of the sena- Mr. Borah sald must have been Mr. Reed of Mis- opines that any trout that AT WESLEYAN mencement There | Middletown, June 18 (#—The cor- ner stone of the Shanklin laboratory | Heinz of Pittsburgh, P’a., has given of biology, named in honor of Wil- | $100,000 liam Shanklin, for many years presi- dent of the university was laid Wesleyan university today. crcises were an Wesleyan's 95th commencement. to the Yale endowment nd for the establishment of the “Howard Heinz students educational fund,” the income of which will he used as a revolving fund to assist le undergraduates, and students in the post-graduate schools who have taken their undergraduate work at Yale. according to an ane nouncement at Yale university toe Mr. Heinz was graduated from ale college in 1900, Under the terms of the gift ad- vancements up to $1,000 a year maybe made to any one student dur- ing his cou no interest heing charged until the day the student graduates. Afterwards. interest at the rate of four per cent will hegin and the student is given 10 years in which to repay the amount ade vanced to him, at | The ex- added feature of President James L. McConaughy organ- ized in 1854. Professor Conn, a pro- | ductive investigator and writer, re- | mained in charge of the department ' for almost 33 year: After the specches William Shank- | lin, Jr., lowered the stone in place while %frs. Anne Shanklin Gibbs, President Shanklin's daughter spread | the mortar. Mrs. William Shanklin set the stone. The exerciscs were concluded with a prayer by Dr. David G. Downey, president of the | 1If, at any time, in the judgment of board of trustees. The presiding of- | the administrators, who will be the ficer was Dr. John Gribbel of Phila- | director of the bureau of appoint= deiphia, Pa. who was president of | ments, the university treasurer and a the board during the last years of | member of the Yale corporation, and the administration of President | the president of the Fellows it bee Shanklin. | comes inadvisable or unnecessary to The Shanklin laboratory stands on | continue the fund for the purposa the site of the house built by John | for which it was created the fund Johnston who in 1840 gave the first |and its accumulations may be trans- instruction in a biological science at | ferred to the general endowment of Wesleyan. the universit DUPLICATE MODEL and ELECTRICAL HOME at 45 Mason Avenue FOR SALE PAINTING AND DECORATING TO SUIT To Be Completed About August 1 Inquire C. W. COWLES, 280 Linwood Street International Mass Meeting for SACCO & VANZETTI To be held at the New Y. M. T. A. & B. Hall, New Britain, June 19th, at 2 P. M. The Speakers ar Edward H. James well known millionaire lawyer of Boston, will speak in English. i Vincenzo Vacirca—Editor of the monthly review “IL SOLCO,” to speak i Italian, also a speaker in Spanish, with Miss Mary Donovan from the Sacco & Vanzetti de- fense committee as chairman. You are cordially invited to come to this meeting and help us to save these two innocent men from the Electric Chair. \ Local Defense Committee for Sacco & Vanzetti. — FUR SALE — TWO-FAMILY WOODEN HOUSE to be removed M. EAST MAIN ST. and ELM ST. Address Manager GULF REFINING Stanley Street New Britain CO.