New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1927, Page 2

TOWN OF BERLIN HASANCIENT SAFE Built in 1843, Its Usefulness| s Passing Down in Berlin, in the vault con- nected with the office of Town Clerk Arthur L. Woodruff, is a safe. By its very appearance the observer could Geduce that it is an old one, but it is only after inspecting it caretully, | that its true age can be ascertained. | It was constructed in 1842. | Its history is the history of town | aifairs since Berlin was separated from New Britain, for it was then | that it was first brought into service for the town. Deacon Alfred North, | Berlin's first town clerk and treasurer, made use of the old safe, | storing in it valuable documun(s‘ which have since become of histori- | cal value, | Deacon North was town clerk | until 1885, a period of | When he went out of office, ) William Bulkeley took over the job and he served until 1906, Then came | Francis H. Shaw, who acted as town | clerk until 1916. Arthur L. Wood- ruff, theSincumbent has held the position since that time. | The old safe is of the Salamander | make and, compared with those o the present day, it is an awkward | and makeshift affair. It depends for its strength on its weight and its serfes of locks, having no combin ation to protect it from: prowling marauders. In color it is green and black, but much of the paint has worn off and there is considerable rust here and there on the outside, | Two heavy doors open outward oxposing to the many cubby- | noles and shelves upon which rec- o0rds of the town of Berlin have been | placed since 1850, The lists of tho; drafted for service during the Civil | War were doubtless kept in the as well as other docum: | . value, i On each door of the safe is a pic- | ture in relief, portraying a tall in-| dividual in frock at, Lincolnian | ‘stove-pipe’” h extremely long | 1 | f o flames ! been ne countless wicked-appearing sattest to the fact that there -& fire, Doubtless the of the first of the fire-proot A huge key is used to lock the respond " to the pressure of the k the lock and when the thrown, the doors addition, to provide iron bar is attached to the outside of one of the doors. When the doors | are locked, the bar is placed across | them and locked. a padlock holding | it in place. The bar covers the ke hole and the idea was probably con- sidered quite crafty in the old days. The safe has been moved often since it was tirst purchased. Before & town hall was bought, the town clerks kept the safe in their homes iwmor at their places of by It is| believed that Deacon ept it in the back room of the store at the corner of Farmington venue and Berlin street, which building burn- | ed down a short time ago and is | fow being razed by th te. ‘When Mr. Bulkeley assumed office | « the safe was moved from Deacon North's place to Mr. Bulkeley's home, | where it remained for a period. In 1905 the town purchased Brandegee hall for use as a town hall and it _has been so employed since that time. Shortly after the purchase of the building, a vault was built, this “-being attached to the south side of the building. i The old safe was Blaced in the Vault and it now serves to hold rec- ords. But its days of usefulness are past and there is some talk of get- | ting rid of it because it takes up too much room. It is seldom locked i because there is never anything of | great value in it in the w: money. The vault in which it is fireproof and hu and | the town has such a great numbe of important books and papers t the old safe would overflow if ar tempt were made to lod 1t Its day is done and it is now a seurfosity of oldtime manutacture, It | t the efforts of pres- | blowers to break into locked. In isiness. 2 them in the memory of it all. “Eyes star- ing a me in hotel lobbles, on trains, in the restaurants wherever I went. All pitying me, all thinking ‘You poor sucker, you.” It was enough to break the spirit of any man. I'm not a broken- down machine I'm a man who held the championship of the world and lost it in a single fight, out pointed for the title. “But I've had plenty of time to weigh my friends. I've got friends now who are REAL. That bunch of hangers-on who robhbed me and bled me dry and kicked me over | are gone—and say, 'Im glad I know ! my pals now who are REGULAR.” He grinned and playfully tousled the head if his trainer, Jerry the Greek, who thinks “there’s nobody in the woild like the chompeen.” “Sharkey? 1 hear he's good. hear he's better than Tunney When T beat him it will make the Tunney fight scem lots easier. “They v he’s going to ‘put the oye on me. Now, that's rich. T'm pretty good at that ‘eye’ business myself if you will remember. “T know when I'm right. T never brag. T just wasn't right last Sep- tember. If T had to go a coupla of more rounds then would have KNOCKED ME OU" And Jack looked very serfous as!of police court must be familiar to |he said that and for a moment he | the prosccuting attorney in all its permitted himself to re- Then he must view the painful debacle. grinned. “I'm out to win that title back. 1 know 1'm in good shape. I'd never isk the humiliation of a worse beating for all the money in the vorld. I don't mneed it that bad. But I'm going to win. There'll be | | | | close to the 1! Fine! | 1 believe Gene |ant nature. | it possessed of the required amount CITY PROSECUTOR USTNEVER REST Muliplicity of Tasks Allows Him Few Spare Moments It anyone ever took the trouble of compiling a list of,the difficult positions in public life, that person, of information to take such a step, would undoubtedly find a place top, and fill it with the prosecuting attorneyship of the police court. Any listing that did not include it would be indeed far from complete, and those leaving it far down towards the end would be nothing short of inaccurate, for the man whose duty it is to represent the state at the bar of justice car- ries untold responsibilities and must hold himself in readiness at all times to do work of a most unpleas- Every case going before the judge details, with the exception of those in which the offenses are minor, such as intoxlcation, petty assaults and breach of peace cases and the | like. Before the opening of court, | the prosecuting attorney confers with the policemen concerned in the cases and learns all the detai’s of the arrests so that when the trial | is in progress the state may 1ot be | taken unawares and permit gullty | persons to escape punishment, nor | cause the conviction of innocent de- X in front of my name next member that. o there's Dempsey for you. A m sensitive, popular idol hungry for the plaudits of the roaring mob who cheered themselves hoarse every time he thrust his scowling head be. t the ropes and every time he left them. Every time, that is, but once. Hope, it is written, springs eter- nal in the human breast. And you can't hang a man for trying. NOW YOU ASK ONE Weekly Bible Quiz All of today's questions relate to history. ~How did am? Who were the twins born to and Isaac? 3—What two brothers, fisher- men, did Christ take as his di ciples 4—Whom did the Lord stir up- inst Solomon? 5—Who was the youngest Joseph's brothers? G—What miracle did form at Capernaum? T—How did God change Abram’s name? S—Who was the father of Hosea God tempt Abra- Christ per- { the prophet? 9—How was Sennacherib, king of Assyria, killed? CONVIGT'S WIFE HELD AT PRISON Accused of Smuggling Dape to Her Hushand Ha July 9 (@) Cath- crine €. Ferrone, 27, of New York , arrested by County Detective dward J. Hickey at the state prison Wetharsfield yesterday afternoon and charged with smugsling nar- cotics in the prison whica she even- tvally intend=d to give to Byron M. Richards, discharged guatd, to carry snce W. Fer- , who is serving 2 maximum sen- tence of §0 years as a hahitual crim- )—MMrs. cil 10 hours afterward while she was in the county jail, she wa confronted by Earl T. Davis, anoth- cr discharged prison guard held in arly | | | more time than does the trial of an | entire court | tically every case has several angl | from which it must be viewed and of { quantity than the | | | | But it served the town well in its | the county jail, and identified by him | 15 the woman who last September | day. DEMPSEY SEFKING | THE OLD IDOLATRY | Jack Has Sulleed Since His' Defeat Last Year by Tunney | { BY JIMMY POWERS New York, July idols of sport die hard For years Jack Dempsey stood on a pedestal. He rocked dizzi One hectie, heart hairy-chested bull-like man battered him through the ropes. That was - tmis Firpo. Then came the inc itable crash. Another ni | | i t & #plashed h from a bleeding n #nd a pair of split lips. uey did that. The shock chilled millions of fans. Now is the comehack. out | of ten persons this writer has talked to here want to sec e gain his pedestal want tc think of that horrihl in the shadows of the Sesqui stadium ° just a vague nightmare. And so have Jac again—bronzed ¥ p coat of California sunshine, s ht clear, manner bris ident, a slap on the back and a cheery word. He looks like the Der of old. Here is the tragic undertc our interview. Tt gives a little i sight into the heart of the m was once, It seemed, idoliz every kid and every kid's faths every city block fn America. “You don't know what a year 1 spent since that thing at Philly,” mused Jack, flashing darkly with ' W Nine Dempsey The seene we with us psey | | y who by in (] » ve him $2,000 as a bribe to help Lawrence Ferrone to escape from the prison. Davig w to th vas brought out of his cell e j 1s. Ferrone rar if he covld identif womar aid him the bribe money last September, he pointed to frs. Ferrone, it was reported, and al Asked by Hicke That's the woman who gave me | dividual lawyers may have one fendants, Whep it is considered that very frequently, 20 or more cases are on it can easily be realized that the prosecuting attorney must do more than prepare the necessary warrants and ask a few questions of the witnesses and the defendants. Many defendants are represented by counsel, who fight every inch of the way, and it is the duty of the pros- ecuting attorney to bring out the facts and at the same time uphold the state’s contentions as to the law. This means that while the in- or two cases to attend to in a single morning, the prosecuting attorney has as many as the docket includes and must bear in mind the circum- stances surrounding all of them in their proper order. In addition to the actual work of trying cases in court, the prosecut- ing attorney's time is taxed ronsi- derably by the investigation of com- plaints coming to his office. Not in- frequently, censideration and inve tigation of these matters require far docket, because prac- the state’s representatives must con- sider 1t from all points hefore mak- ing a decision. Scme cases oblize secuting attorney to devote to them hefore they are | hegun, not including the time con- sumed in the actual t and the maneuvering necessitated by the legal points raised by opposing counsel. If the walls of the prosccuting | attorney’s oftice could talk, strange tales would pour forth in greater average person thinks. Women whose husbands do not support them and men whose wives cause them anxiety and worry find thelr way to the office, there to lay bare the innermost details of their marital tence, always ex- pecting that “something” can he done. Very often, “something” is nothing but court action, although it s sometimes possible to straighten out the tangles privately. Violations of trust are recounted by employers of men and woemen who prove unworthy and there is nobody but the prosecuting attorney to say whether the steps towards the court room shall be taken or other disposition of the cases made. The facts are placed before him and the complainants expect him to attend to the rest. Tt is not al- ways easy to point out wherein cer- tain incidents fail to come within the scope of lawfulness, and it is also difficult at times to designate with any degree of finality the point at which they make the turn that leads them directly outside the law, yet the prosecuting attorney is expected to be able to place finger on all the necessary ram cations and trace them out that all who view them may know their sig- nificance. In legal circles, it is sald the time is not far distal when a system whereby there is one prosecuting at- torney and an assistant will be changed to conform to that ot many other cities wherd tions on equal ork is increasing to such an ex- tent that the best interests of th office require a change. In fact, § ~as intended to include the change | in the last charter amendments but | decision was made to wait money on Tuesday alternoon in my room in early Septenibe; Larry Ferrone to escap b veported ha identification years, principally because there was a provision included in the proposed | amendments for creating fwo judge- ships of the local courts. Since the establishment of the lo- cal police court there have been six prosecuting attorneys. The late Ly man §. Burr held the office in 1596- 7-8 and wi succeaded by the late arkley, who, In turn was b the late Henry (o Gussman, whose term ran from 1900 to 1806. Charles H. Mitchell suc- caeded Mr. Gussman and remained until 1908, The late George W. Klett euccerded Mr. Mitehell and remain- ed in offi until Janvary, 1921, when he was elevated to the bench . who suec led turn succeeded to in Garter Skirt Starts ‘ Argument in England ion, July 9 (A—Should the t be fastened above or be- Lon discussion The drapery gaining spring been xhibition and o from day women 1 pantaloon-like skirt is vulgarly and should by all in such a way that 1. They of the dress crea- insisted that lack the beauti- 2 assi has b 1 conceal SEf © support o have always nely short skirts length of line to be . For Sale! House in really NICE IS PILM CENTER July 4 P—Low pro- and fa- for making pi ed a gronp' to plan a 20,600,000 frane studio on 0 British and French companies 272 MAIN STREET , Franc 214 and 5 Kensington, Room of land ven acres duction cost year-around tures have in- Ircady located here. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | r (instructor), Winifred Fodt, Alassie Urban. girls and women have been taught | to swi.a in New Britain within the | Young Men {association have taken {general direction of these { tians in their modern pools, and the |annual splash weck conducted under {the auspices of the there are two po- |Chapter of the American Red Cr asis. It is said the | When ! two ‘becn carrying on a Red Cross life |in the “Y. W.” pool. | saving to keep | for the public with life saving added | B din proancers (Shuttle Meadow Club distriet) fir NEW BRITAYN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1927. Drowning? Yell For Help, Perhaps - One of These Girls Will Save You SENIOR LIFE SAVERS ! Left to right, back row—Alice Beh, Dorothy Thompson, Betty Mackintosh, Gertrude Middleton, Gertrude Fieber, Ruth Wacker, Winifred Reynolds. Left to right, front row—Kath- | | erine Molchan, Esther Beckwith, Gertrude Fossett (instructor), | | Mary Hart, Alice Monich, JUNIOR LIFE SAVERS Left to right, back row—Evelyn Keller, Betty Weiant, Ruth Reynolds, Gladys Manson, Ethel Barrett, Mildred Manson. i Left to right, front row—Anna Narkevch, Gertrude Fossett ! More than 2,500 men and boys, |year, also interpretive dancing class- for juniors and seniors. Tenniy been very popular this spring. | This last winter, the Y. W. has had |its own basketball texm and has |played games with the Bridgeport and Hartford Y. W. C. A., also the West Hartford digh school. In order to b~ : the girls in the various activities get better acquaint- cd and feel more interest in the “Y. | W.," there is a sports club composed of the girls in the life s&ing club. {the tennis girls and the basketball | |girls. This club plans an active | program for next year with campfire suppers during September and winte: sports later, The present ghysical director, Miss Gertrude Fossett, has been at | {the Y. W. C. A. for about six years. | {Before coming to New Britain, she {was physical director for three years in the Y. W. C. A, Lewiston, Maine. |Miss Fossett trught two years in | pu lic schools in New York state and !in a private school in New Jersey. |She is a graduate of the Boston |school of physical education, Boston, | Mass. | Among the new activities of the Y. W.%, was a weekly play hour, |for little girls, sarted Wednesday | of this week. The play hour is un- | der the direction of two department |heads. The first day brought out 64 girls. More than 100 are expect- jed next Wednesday afternoon. The association is planning to use its large lawn and gym next sum- mer for playground purposes for younger girls, It is likely the muni- cipal recreation commission will be asked to supply a part time swim- | ming instructor next summer for the playground group. At the Y. M. C. A, while the number of men and boys who have [ been taught to swim during the past |seven years, since Joseph Herg- strom, physical director has been in | charge, a larger percentage have become Red Cross life savers. In the period mentioned the “Y" has | taught 470 men and boys to swim, of which 320 have been given life | saving instruction. Of theso a total 10f 96 have become full fledged life savers. This makes 2,520 who have been taught swimming and 140 who { have become life savers. ¥ | Of the 96 Y. M. C. A. boys who | have become life savers, 10 or 15 pa or seven years, since the Christian association ang Women's Christian to teaching 150 have rers. almos become trained life sa Swimming instruction, under the organza- WILLIAM L. TANCRED New Britain boys mming by and are taught me two organ- ions, form the most outstanding f the activities, especally young membe The New Britain Y. W. C. A, has ving program for three years with | major cause of earthquakes. ! miles along the * g00d success. During the three . 44 senior and junior girls have 4 the Red Cross life saving tests This winter an advanced life saving class wa started allowing only registered i savers as members. There also is saving club which has met arly once a month for the pur- of practicing Red Cross life the girls always up to standard. For six years, there has been an open swimming exhibtion yea passe po iis program for the last three 'he Rad Cross has rsked the co- fon <. the Y. W. C. A. and Y. A in cond a free splash ek for the boys and girls of the Tn 1925, ris registered with an attendance of 27 In 1426, 60 girls ¢ ittepd e of 18 stered with an girls. This year, Is registered with an attend- of 485. Iollowing splash week was a sy mming meet at Wil- 00k park pool in which Y. W. . Girl Sconts and Y. M Joys and Boy Scouts partici- These meets included life nd swimming races, Red Cross program of Y. W." health edu- nt bas a varled pro- activities. During the 1 six years, 2,050 grls and women have len Several thousand girl 1 the pool for plunges with- out instruction. Tn the gymnasium, classes have been conducted each on ides the wing, the cation departn to swim 9 for the week. | | have had the opportunity of rescu- | ing people from drowning. Chief | among these is Willlam Tancred, a | former assistant physical director | who has a record of saving at least 10 lives as well as having won a large number of medals in swim- ming contests. | The total number of people who have used the Y. M. C. A. during the past seven years is placed at 311,800. |In the same period 5586 physical | training sessiBns were held for men nd boys. From the leaders physical train- £ corps four members entered the Springfield training college, one New |Haven school of gymnastic and | physical training and four now are | Physical directors in Y. M. C. As. | Mhny State Championships The local association has, through |its athletic teams, won several state championships, winning the state singles hand ball championship in 1625, 1926, 1927, the state hand ball | doubles in 1926, the state gymnastic title 1924, for tumbling, horse, par- | allel bars and high horizontal bar {work, the state wrestling title in , and tied for first honors this vear the local Y. M. C. A. ptured the state basketball championship and competed in the | national and internattonal tourna- | ment at Buffalo. | Tn track the local “Y" team has | won second place twice in the state tournament, in 1926 and 19 This sear only six points separate the team from the championship. Individual state championships have been won by the local “Y” athlese in aquatics and track; aquat- ics, 50 yards, ‘junior. title, 220 yards senior title, 12 Ib, shot putt, two mile run, discus throw and run- ning high jump. NEW BRITAIN FAR FRON "QUAKE ZONE Terra Firma in These Parts Has No Jazz Complex What are the chances of Britain suffering from’ a earthquake? In these days when minor tre- mors are being reported‘all over the eastern United States and Canada, the Japanese disaster. still lingers in memory, and & new . cataclysm is leaking out from China, this ques- tion is often asked with anxiety by residents of the city. They fear that the temblors felt somewhat fre- quently in one place or another along the Atlantic seaboard may be the premoniters of a disastrous dis- turbance. The facts would indicate other- wise, although no man has yet been able to gain enough knowledge of the earth’s crust movements to be able to predict them in advance with much certainty. In the first place, is located practically in the center of a vast region in which serious earthquakes are unknown historic times. There is no ‘“earth- quake belt” between the Carolinas on the south and Iceland on the north, or between our west coast and the western shores of Europe. Seismic disturbances occur in defi- nite "belts,”” and these are always tlaces where there is definite move- ment in the earth's crust—where | mountaing are being formed or new sea chasms split apart. This is the case all around the rim of the Pa- citic ocean, where the Japanese islands are still being built and the coastal range fn California is still gaining altitude, but all such move- ment on the Atlantic coast is of un- discernible character and New Eng- land is practically quiet—has hbeen so for thousands of years. Earthquakes are caused by sev- eral things. Contrary to popular bhe- lief, there is aimost no counection at all between volcanoes and earth- quakes, but as there are no vol- canoes within several thousand miles we need not be worried if} there was a connection. Sometimes quakes are created when underground caverns cave in. This is liable to happen in regions where there are large strata of limestone, as this is dissolved by water and leaves great hollows which are liable to collapse. In New England the rock basis is of | solid volcanic rock alternating with | sediment and the danger of this is nil. Limcstone is deposited under water and the incursions of the sea over New Britain were or relatively short duration, while the small de- v left have long ago been New violent New Britain within The slipping of huge masses of earth along fractires already form- d has long heen believed to be a This | was the case in the great San Fran- cisco disaster of 1903, when there | was a sliding movement for 600 | an Andreas -ift.” | The pipes supplying the city with water crossed this rift and were snapped in-the movement, leaving the city helpless:against the 1ire which followed. B In New Britain there are.no less thin Seven “faults” as these’breaks are known, while there is another in Plainville, three in Newington, and a great number in Berlin. Most of thesc are “of very small size, while even the two largest’ arc of minor character comparatively, ex- tending for only a score of miles or | s0. It-must not he supposed these faults are actual rifts in the carth for they are not. They are | places where the earth has split and slid along the fracture as is readily evident to the expert eye by the failure of ths strata to match on | the two sides of the crack. In many places there has been fresh soil laid | | that down across the fault and practic- SNAPSHOTS OF A BOY GETTING SOMETHING FROM THE TOY SHEL 1S REMINDED THAT MOTHER, HAS JUST STRAGHTENED 00T TOY SHELVES. JUST PLAY' WiITH ONE THING AT ATIME AND THAT WILL KEEP THEM NEAT REFLECTS WHAT A 15 AND, WONDERS WRERE RIS BOX OF STAMP DUPLICATES 15 ally all of them may be said-to be healed. All .the faults in this neighbor- hood run in a northeast-southwest direction, with ~the corresponding higher on the southeastern side than on the northwestern. This makes little if any difference in the apparent topography of the ‘and, however, as both sides have usually been worn away equally. The largest enters the city just east of the Elmwood higffway and proceeds in an almost exactly :outh- westerly direction, passing out again along the northwest shore of Shuttle Meadow reservoir. The others all liz to the southeast of this major fault. One passes just west of the center and another through the EIm street frieght yards. The second major fault in this section does not touch New Britain but goes in a more north- and-south direction through New- ington and Bcrlin. One of the most complicated fault systems in Con- necticut lies in East Berlin, where these earth-breaks cross each other, diverge, and join in a very intri- cate manper. Geologists have stu- died this system with much atten- tion. Not only are these faults probably too_ small to cause any earth slip- pings but they are also probably a safeguard against a serious . earth- quake. A new theory of earthquakes has been advanced in recent years. It holds that in places of crustal readjustment there is always™ a strain on the rock. When the strain becomes too great, the effect is the same as that when a rubber band is stretched too tightly. A fracture occurs and the bedrock snaps away from the break, which is the center of the earthquake that results from the crustal mevement. The presence of existent faults like those in New Britain would allow delicate adjust- ments of the earth from time to time to meet the strain, thus easing it and preventing the tension from piling up its force and suddenly rip- ping apart the rock to create a quake. These minor adjustments are probably the causes of the slight jars which are felt in New England from time to time. Far from causing alarm they should create confidence, for they are easing the crustal ten- sion bit by bit and preventing the accumulation of a great tectonic strain which would be disastrous when 1t relieved itself. Of course, the center of disturb- ance need not be in New Britain for the city to suffer from a qualke, but the greater part of FEastern United States and Canada is of. fun- damentally the same character; The danger from earthquakes here, then, is practically non-existent. MARBLES ADVANCE INTO PRIZE RING 10,000 Persons Watched: Local Boy in Atlantic City Marbles universal game of boydom ¢ has been effectively raised from its position on the street to the dignity | of the prize ring. This statement would not be ques- tioned by any one of the throng, es- timated. at 10,000 persons, who filled the grandstands and lined the board- walk at Atlantic City last week to watch 44 boys from as many cities shoot *“mibs” with the national mar- le championship as their goal. The national tournament, the fifth held, was -sponsored by leading newspapers in the cities represented. The New Britain Herald in'conduct- ing the local tourney was aided by the Junior Achievement bureau and its entrant in the national event was Dominic Cartelli, 11 year old Put- nam street boy who attends * the Smalley school and who in two suc- cessive years was city champion, Imported Rings Tach year a truckload of clay is transported from a nearby town and six rings are constructed in the sand beside Central pier. raised about one foot from the beach level. Each is about 12 feet in diameter and of this space a portion ight feet in diameter is the play- ing area with two. feet around for the shooters. The game played Is not the onpe commonly seen on the sidewalks of The rings are | New Britain. It is the old time “ringer” game best known to the boys of yesteryear. In the center of the ring are placed 13 marbles in cross formation. The boys shoot with an agate. With the advance- ment of the sport and the necessity for accuracy and for a taw that will respond to the players efforts to “draw,” ‘“reverse,” or ," agates have been pro- duced which are to the marble game what the ivory cue ball is to bil- liards. As an indication of this: When Cartelli lost his prized shoot« er at Atlantic City a Herald reporter hurried him to a nearhy novelty store where the stock of agates was looked over. Dominic, expert that he 'is, tried his thumb on nearly a score of shooters taken from differ- ent boxes and finally selected one an far superior to the rest. Instead of costing a penny, a nickel or a dime, the taw cost 50 cents! Cartelli's thumb had proved a far more accur« ate gauge of marble accuracy than the eye of his escort. How To Shoot ’Em In the ringer game, the boys must | knuckle down on the outer line of | the circle and shoot the agate at the “mibs” in the center of the ring. If he is successful in knocking one |or more out.he may shoot again, it not his opponent takes his turn. If the agate remains in the center of the ring his opponent may win the game hy knocking the agate out of the ring. The boy who gets seven marbles is the winner. | With so simple a set of rules and | Seemingly so few plays that can be ‘madc it does not seem at first | glance that the game would be capable of attracting more than passirig attention. But Atlantic City was treated to a demonstration of: cxpert play' by every boy in the tourney and Dominic Cartelll was no exception. Dominic can shoot & marble out of the ring and with remarkable accuracy tell where his agate will stop; he can “draw” the agate Into position behind another marble, follow it straight or at an angle, whichever maneuver is nec- essary to insure’additional marbles. As an evidence of the heights to which the marble game has been ralsed it is necessary only to say, that a partial list of the awards give €n to the boy who won the Spring- field, Mass,, title includes a radio, victrola, - traveling" bag, the use of |2 Rolls Royce car and driver for | @ week and a $1,500 education fund. Teddy Walag, the lucky boy, selec- ted from among these and a score of othcr gifts a small music box | Playing two tunes, to take with him !’m Atlantic City. In the quiet of | Grant's Tomb while a sober-faced and serious-minded guide was droning out the story of the tomb and of Grant, Teddy's music box played “The Chocolate Soldier” as | an.accompaniment, much to the dis- gust of the guide. Dietician for Champion The City of Akron, Ohio, sent a reporter to be an escort for fts ‘c)mmp!on and a dieticlan to make {certain he would be properly fed. | New Britain’s champlon had no dieticfan and over the unavailing | protest of the Herald reporter who jaccompanied him the 11 year |old champion had for his meals a i bill of fare, of which Thursday's | breakfast, the articles of which are | listed, is an example: Cantaloupe, corn flakes, scrambled eggs and toast, griddle cakes, huckleberries and a glass of milk. The boy from Winston-Salem, ) C., had several gifts from home. One was a carton of cigarettes. He was surprised to learn that Dominid Cartelll has never smoked and has no desire to do so0. In the locality of his residence smoking among boys is very common, he explainedt The entrant from Louisville, Ky., had not been defeated in a eingle game and was about to play the ihoy from Lexington, Ky., who he | had previously met and defeated, | when the Lexington boy found his | shooting agate had been lost. Sid | Kelly, the Louisville marble king showed true sportsmanship and | permitted his opponent to use one of his shooters—and Kelly suffer- ed his first defeat. During the week of the tourna- jment tho marble champs are guests in boardwalk hotels, having every | convenience and accommodation of the most afluent guests who visits Atlantic City. Every attraction at | the resort is at thelr disposal, ex- penses being paid by the newspaper sponsoring the tournament. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS T @A GUESSES TS THIS ONE NUISANCE NEATNESS UNDER THE PILE OF 6AMES, AND TUES AT T 1SN'T THE RIGHT BOX AFTER ALL DECIDES TMUSTBE ON CANT SEE IT ON TOPSHELF STARTS TAKING THINGS TOP SHELF AND TAKES ON AND GUESSES ITMUST BE OFF SHELVES AND DOWN BOOKS To STAND ~ BEHIND SOMETHING SOMEWHERE FISHING BEHIND