New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1927, Page 10

- W!lfare Bureau Passes The Buck to Local Courts In Romaine Case : Tells Herald New Britain Court Makes Committ- ment — Made Only On Petition of Humane So- ciety Says Connolly. \ The ‘alleged reasons why two of the children in the family of Mr. and : Mrs. Stanley Romaine were placed in Long Lane farm have been siven by Mrs. Charles C. Peircey, secial worker, Waterbury. / The statement was made in reply to.an editorial in the Waterbury Re- publican censuring the soclal serv- ice methods which resulted in two of the Romaine children being sent tp the Long Lane farm and three others placed in the custody of the Connecticut Humane soclety. One remaining infant is still with the mother and the latter attempted to commit suicide in this city three times. The Romaines live at 15 Star street. Mrs. Peircey, who is probation of- ficer of the juvenile court of Water- bury, and who says she was “the one directly responsible , for the com- mitment of two of the Romaine children to Long Lane farm,” makes the following allegations to serve as a basis for the action: “The Romaine family, before it reached Waterbury, had lived in no lass than 10 different cities from Al- bany to Newark, staying in each from three months to one year, and depending for a living upon relief- giving organizations and upon what they could steal. Each child was born:in a differtn city so that the family had no established residence, and was in every sense of the word a group of itinerant beggars. The two oldest children, both girls, had at the ages of 12 and 14 become ex- pert shoplifters. The father had not worked in five years, and the mother, always with an infant in her arms, was unable to work had she been so inclined. Condition of Home “One investigator found the home always to have been neat and clean, and that there was always plenty of | clothing for the children. All'T can say to this is that standards of clean- liness vary with the individual, but a tenement devoid of furniture, save for a couple of broken down chairs, a table, a stove and heaps of rags for'beds, a floor so flithy that a not too fastidious person would hesitate to'step'upon it, chickens housed un- der the sink with the kitchen for a unway, remnants of food lying " about on the stove and table and files innumerable, would seem to ' most” persons sufficient reason for considering the Romaine home unfit for habitation and so it was. To be sure I never found the children naked, but their ragged and dirty condition made nakedness prefera- ble. “In view of these well established facts the two older children. were placed in Tong Lane farm, not as a punishment for their small sins, but a3 a constructive piece of work, and they are now sleeping in clean beds, eating clean and healthful food. and living the normal life of work, study and play to which all children are entitled. Y Sorry For Mother “We are sorry for Mrs. Romaine. There is no doubt in our mind that instinctively, she loves her children, + but mentally she was unequal to the + task of bringing them up. The re- . Bults in this case were that her chil- . dren were fast developing into crim- inals and physical weaklings, in time 1 tp become a burden to themselves, and a liability to soclety. “All social service workers realize the desirability of keeping the family ' together, and work unfailingly to | that end. There are cases, however, where ignorance and degradation are 80 paramount that all effort at con- \structive work falls on barren ‘ground, and the poor social worker, who should be perfect, but Is not, can-only choose between the least of many evils, and the Romaine case was one of these. Statements made by Mrs. Piercey are very similar to statements made in' New Britain to a Herald repre- sentative by soclal workers who have taken the attitude that this s Ned “Instinctive love of a mother” and the poverty of the family are suf- ficlent to warrant taking away the * childrem. In a conversation with the Bureau of- Child Welfare a Herald repre- sentative asked the question “Do you think the crime of poverty or of moving from one place to another or even that of teaching or encour- aging the children to steal is suffi- cient to warrant breaking up the family, rather than punishing the parents?”” The reply was “That's a matter of opinion.” “Passing the Buck” That the Connecticut Humane so- v and the Bureau of Child Wel- fare working together are inclined to - '‘pass the buck” to the New Britain authorities for the taking away of the three younger children and thereby causing the mother's three attempts to commit suicide, was in- dicated in a reply made by zome one at the welfare bureau. The statement was “The juvenile court in New Britain sent them away.” The juvenile court {n New Britain ,mever had a chance to investigate . eonditions, according to Edward C. ‘Connolly, probation officer. The only connection the New Britain courts had with fact that Judge W. C. Hungerford signed the committment upon ap- * plication of the Connecticut Humane » soclety. Commolly's Statement “From first to last the Burean of . Child Welfare and the Connecticut “Humane society have had charge of the case” Mr. Connolly stated. The probation officer added that the par- : ents were under hls jucisdiction and , were on probation here, but that the real facts of the case only bhegan to come out when Mrs. Romaine made her second and third attempt . to commit sulcide from grief at the loss of her children. “Now that we | know the facts we can take care of the case here” he added. New ‘Britain has had a number of cases much worse than the Romaine ' family situation, handled and finally corrected by the local juvenile court officlals, Mr. Connally sxplained He said there _would be no difficulty in keeping the Sl e niked 10 auaat i the case was the | which have been | over a period of years, five of these moves were made back and forth be- town the towns of Waterveleit and Hudson, New York and covered, ac- cording to records a period of 16 years. The home in New Britain has been inspected a number of times by persons interested, and while the Waterbury investigator's intimations that there is a conspicuous lack of 'mahogany furniture and carpets, the {home was thoroughly clean every "time it was inspected. There were no broken chairs in sight, but when Miss Henrietta Wood, case work supervisor for the Connecticut Child | Welfare Bureau, Edward W. Schultz, county commissioner and a Herald | representative met at the home at '15 Star street, one day last week, there were chairs enough in the one room for the visitors, and other {chairs in adjoining rooms. The coal range, which was not in use, was covered with clean newspapers. The floor was spotlessly clean and there was no evidence of food or garbage, or even flies in the house. There were no chickens in or near the house. A parrot was kept in a hox which served as a cage and with which baby played. The beds were made up and clean, and one at licast was covered with a® silken [coverlet. One woman, Mrs. Nellie Collins, who has known the family ever since the Romaines came to New Britain, volunteered the state- ment to a Herald representative that lit was a shame ths way the | Romaines were being prosecuted. Although Miss Wood made her in- spection last week, no report has been made as yet to the county ¢om- {missioners, and it was stated at the bureau that they do not know when a report will be made. In the meantime, desplte the |statement that the juvenile court in New Britain sent the children away, Mr. Connolly has made formal ap- plication that they be returned. The i matter will be decided by the county commissioners. RATTLER AND KING SNAKE BOUT FOULED Fans Can't Find Where Reptile's Hips Begin McGeehee, Ask., Aug. 13 (UP)— This little town is a place of seeth- ing, arguing humanity. The thing that has caused all of the argument is the snake fight stag- ed here under a blistering sun in a vacant lot on Main street. A six-foot rattler and a four-foot king snake met to settle once and for all time the much-discussed question of supremacy. The king snake was counted out after 15 minutes but his supporters |immediately set up a howl of “foul.” “I am convinced that the blow which ended the fight was a foul,” declares R. E. Reitzmeyer, billiard ball magnate and promoter of the fight. “Tt was undoubtedly below the walst.” That in turn has caused more ar- gument! Encyclopedias are being consulted in an effort to find out just where a snake's hips begin. The rattler was the first to enter the ring. The king snake scowled at the rattler. A severe punch in his stomach angered him, and the fight was on. The king snake struck a viclous blow to the rattlers’ button. But the rattler had 16 buttons. The rattler backed up to a post and coiled one from the floor. It was a clean hook ,landing with emphasis just behind the king snake's left ear. It knocked the challenger off his stomach and he rolled over. Reitz- meyer counted nine. The king snake maneuvered for several seconds waiting for his brain to clear. The rattler brought up another vicious jab. The referee tolled off 10. The gallant loser isn’t dead, but he doesn’t feel very well. ers de¢lare that they will still place money on him if given a return bout in a larger ring. EDISON CELEBRATES Inyentor Marks Golden Anniversary of the Bomd Volume of Congratulations West Orange, N. J., Aug. 13 (P— Thomas A. Edison yesterday cele- hrated golden anniversary of his in- vention of the phonograph. A bound volume of congratulatory letters from President Coolidge, the governors of various states, foreign rulers and other high in public and private life, was presented to him by Governor Moore. The Edison National Sales organi- zatlon, making its annual pilgrimage to the home of the inventor, gave Mr. Edison a houquet of 50 yellow roses. Clark and Company New Haven, Aug. 13 (P —A “'sub- stantial recovery” will be made by victims of the crash last November of Clark and company, brokers, it was learned here yester- day following revelation that Rich- jard H. Clarke, head of company, who is now serving a state's prison sentence, had prepared against loss- s by his clients through an insur- | ance policy. The insurance company Is said to have first refused to honor the pol- icy on the ground that it was only to Indemnify against the acts of |agents of the investment company. It has been found, it wi id here today, that the terms of the policy were broad enough, however, to in- ciude the acts of, the firm's officers. Carl B. Clarke, a brother of the liead of the company, and Jackson H. Kerans, another officer, were also sentenced for their alleged participa- tion in the firm's failure. Australia is producing a new fruit called the cucumber apple. Although it has the appearance of an apple. it has the flavor of a cucumber, and is growing in favor as a salad in gredient, i His back- | Phonograph—Presented , Losers to Be Paid | investment ! NORE TRAVELS OF MS. .. DORSEY Third Installment of Letters From Abroad This is the third of a series of letters written by Mrs. James J. Dor- sey describing her trip to Europe and visits to various countries. She first visited France and then went to Germany. She later left, and let- ter below has to do with Austria. Her account of her travels gives a very interesting insight into modes of living. The letter which has to do with Vienna in part fol- 1o July 18, '27 “I was tired when I wrote the last letter so didn't say much about the people or the place.” ' “Francis says John McBriarty looks like TUncle Joseph. He is about his build. The other day when he had his hat on and put his nose pinchers on he reminded me of [ Mr. Matthews. Only his face—not his figure. His two daughters are lovely. One is a ‘secretary’ as they | call them here. She started on her vacation Thursday. She has 28 days. They can’t understand that most of our stenographers, etc. only get two weeks vacation. The longer they work for the same people here the longer the vacation. The other daughter is a school teacher and her vacation began the beginning of July and school doesn’t start till Septem- ber 16. She came home Wednesday and will stay as long as we are here. Uncle's wife is a very lovely person too and a hard worker. She has a son and daughter. She is Uncle’s second wife, Her daughter and family are also away. Her son is married and lives in this house. They have two girls 8 and 4 years old. They like to have Elizabeth play with them but she’s home so little. The older girl says she liked Francis best. They live in a two family house. The son keeps a cafe down stairs and has a nice place in back in the yard with tables. House conditions are much worse here than in Germany. If you own a house here you cannot collect any rent. People who have rents have to pay all the taxes and do the repairing. (I can imagine how some of them take care of their homes.) Tante and her two children owne 5 houses but that's all the good it does them. Her son has two helpers. For each helper he is taxed a certaln amount | —if he keeps a third helper the tax s much higher 80 he says he gains more by closing the day the two helpers have off. He has to glve them a day a week 8o closes his place every Thursday. The city has put up a whole lot of new blocks and they are putting up more. Each’ person' who has a tenement is taxed a certain amount to be used to put up these new homes for the people without tenements. A good many are still living in ecrowded conditions. They say the list of those waiting for tenements is long. This house must be very old. They have but one faucet and that’s in the hall. No sink nor bathroom. The bath tub is in the wash house in the rear of the house. There is a stove in the wash room to heat the water. The rooms are large and in very good condition. They have nice solld turniture. “The streets here are very wide especially in the center. If we had to go around aloné we would have to do the same here as we did in Paris —take a taxi. Nearly every where we go we change cars a few times. “Their service is wonderful if you understand it. A trip cost 24 groshen no matter how far you go. For $10 we got 70.22 shillings. 100 groshen in a shilling. So 24 groshen are between 3 and 4 cents. We gen- erally change cars twice and some times we take a trolley, then under- ground or subway, then trolley again —all for the same fare. “There are more autos here than in Munich. Not many American makes—yet they have offices and show rooms here. I've seen the |.Chrysler, Buick, Studebaker, Ford, and Lincoln places. They drive on the left side of the road here and the trolleys also run on the left hand slde of the street. Se many of the autolsts dress as aviators both here and in Germany. I can understand Inow why they dress like that for every inch that is exposed is covered with dust at the end of the trip. The public buildings here are won- | derful large bulldings but not as large as in Paris. “Munich also surprised me. Their { public buildings are very large too {and thelr streets wid: “The style here is as up to date |as In Paris. The young girls didn't | use the lip stick as much as in Paris ! nor do they use much rouge. | July 15. “Tante's son took us ont. |for the day. In the morning we walked around the center of the | city—we saw the court house which {was burned. Everywhere police- { men with swords and guns. We also | went through the Cathedral. We |afternoon in an amusement park. In | this park the picture “The Merry Go Round” was filmed. We had an- other dinner in the evening. We were invited to the son's. We had a !swell meal. Chicken soup, potato and lettuce salad, rice and chicken and cake and lce cream. The cake was the most deliclous I've ever tasted and the ice cream was also “We stayed home in the |morning. In the afternoon went walking with Uncle Joseph. July 2. | day with uncle. In the morning we went through the art museumn and natural museum. The art museum is a wonderful building. The inside is beautiful. These museums were entirely different than those we saw |in Munich. We ate dinner at a cafe then took a bus to Kobenzl, a beau- tiful place located high in the hills and overlooking Vienna. This place is run by the city. They bought the palace and changed it into a hotel. |"Then they have a cafe and restau- nt. There are tables there for (lmndreds of people. On the same I1iountain is also a place for sun and |air baths They believe in them here. There are places to undress. The children only wear bloomers {7nd expose the rest of the body to the air and sun. We walked down ‘he mountain. Grandpa enjoys Inoking over the grape vines. July 22. “The day was very hot. iIn the morning we went to one of | | the | *|six months ago gav: | had dinner at a cafe and spent the | “We went out for the | on new air field. San Francisco, Aug. 12 (P — A modern airport with three run- ways, the longest-being &pproxi- mately a mile in length, is San Francisco’s bid for the honor of be- ing the starting point in the James D. Dole trans-Pacific air race, In addition to providing take-off facilities, & citizen's flight com- mittee undertook the raising of $50,000 for a prize fund to supple- ment the Dole award as an induce- ment for the contestants to start | | from the municipal airport south of | \ the city. Several announced starters in the spectacular but hazardous sport ing venture have indicated they | will use San Francisco's field but | others favor Los Angeles, Oak- land and other Pacific Coast air- ports. The army’s trilumph in making the non-stop flight from Oakland to | Hawaii has deprived any partici- | Right—One of | pant in the great air derby from jnolnz the first to spah the Pacific. | Therc remains, however, the thrill of the longest air race yet attempted and the pot of gold for the winners, From the Dole prize, the first to arrive at Honolulu will receive $25,- 000. The second gets $10,000. Ap- portionment of supplementary prizes has not been announced. There has been keen rivaly be- tween Pacific coast cities for cholce as the starting point for the 2400 mile race but the Dole com- mittee left it to each starter to select his point of departure, stipu- lating only that it should be on the North Amcrican continent. Land- ings may be made any place on the Island of Oahu but it is hoped land planes will finish at John Rodgers Airport, four miles west of Hono- lulu and seaplanes at Pearl Har- bor, elght miles west of that city. | SAN FRANCISCO’S NEW AIRPORT PREPARED FOR HAWAIIAN RACE Top—Hangar and depot at San Francisco’s municipal air port, which will be christcned by planes which start from there in the Dole air race for Honolulu. arc lights on either side of starting line. Left—Making a night-time test take off under rays of flood lights the combiration spread-flood and Soon after the posting of the prizes, San Francisco inaugurated work on its new municipal air port near San Bruno and spent money lavishly to niake it attractive for the Honolulu race. The entire field was covered with crushed rock and coated with gravel. Un- derground drain pipes were laid to take carz of any flood waters that might result from a sudden deluge, almost unheord of in this vicinity between May and October. A large hangar was erected with a beacon light on top of it. A depot was built with a fully equipped hospital room, lunch room, waiting rooms and private offices. Two combination spread-flood lights and arc lights of a million candle power were installed to make possible night time test fly- ing. After the Honolulu race the fleld will be used as a general com- mercial and airmail port. the cemeteries. Stayed home the rest of the day. ¥ mean the after- noon. At 6:30 we went to the movies ‘Kino." We saw Victor Hugo's ‘Les Miserables.” Elizabeth not allowed. “The girls here do very little smoking. Occasionally we see one in a cafe. “They have dandy truck horses here. Heavy horses for the heavy trucks and for the light trucks they use just one horse. A shaft at the center and the horse at the side. They also have auto trucks—two hitched together, same as in Ohi The heaviest trucks are beer trucks.” TILDEN AND LOTT MEETINFINALS (Chicago Youth Disposes of La- Goste in Tennis Tourney Southampton, N. Y., Aug. 13 (P— George Lott, the Chicago youth who a shout, “Hur- rah, I beat Tilden,” today was able to add: “I beat LaCoste.” The wiry young six-footer achieved the latter feat yesterday In the semi- final of the invitation tennis tourna- ment here, confounding all the pro- phets and earning a permanent niche in the world’s tennis hall of fame. Scores were 6-4, 6-3, 6-1. As Tilden came through the other semi-final with a whjrlwind victory lin 32 minutes over LaCoste's coun- {eryman, Jacques Brugnon, Lott qual- |ified for a final round meeting to- | day with the masterly Philadelphian What a remarkable game George put up,” Tilden exclaimed after Lott |had triumphed, “and wasn't Rene |terrible?” While Lott's dazzling chop strokes whizzed like deadly arrows |most difficult corners, LaCoste's us- ually steady game was all at se self-disgust with a |frown and a shrug as his best shots it into the net or far outside the [ally showed his Any thought that T. up” to deceive Amer players as to his real was scoffed at today by those who saw |the mateh. Agreement was general that Lott won his crushing straight victory purely on better tennis. The youngest player in the United State st ten,” Lott is not old cuough to vote. When he heat Til- den he shied his racket high in ai with a jubilant shout. Yesterday he beamed and broke for the telegraph office where he sent the good new: home to Chicago in three ringing words, “T begt LaCoste."” Coste “folded Cantonese soldiers, loot American mission, found some in- teresting looking white chests, which they broke open with rifie hutts. The chests were bee hives, and the soldiers left hurledly. an to the | Chagrined, the Frenchman occasion- | WOMEN GAIN MORE POWER ON MARKET Feminine Tnvestors Make Shrewd Financiers New York, Aug 13 (UP)—More women each year are taking in- creasing profits from Wall street. The financial gains made by the teminine investors in a single com- pany last year equalled the total wealth amassed by such famous fig- | ures as Commodore Cornelius Van- derbilt, Jay Gould and John Jacob Astor. | There are more women stock- holders than men in several large corporations. And women are not as easily {frigtened as men in times of de- | pression—they retain their holdings hopefully awalting the pendulum’s | swing that once more will boost their profits. Such a trend in modern business was revealed today by the Wall! Street Journel, which copyrighted | and article based on statistics g:\(h»' ercd from scores of corporations | whose stocks are listed on the big | board. A million dividend checks were | imailed this year to women stock- | holders in the American Telephone | and Telegraph company. These | women own 4,000 shares of stock, now tworth $170 a share as com- pared with $140 last year. In ad- dition $30,000,000 was paid in divi- | dends. Hence the year's profit to women from the one company was something like $150,000,000. That | fAigure represents the combined for- tunes won by Vanderbilt, Gould and Astor. | | The Pennsylvania Rallroad's lat- | est reports say that 50.38 per cent of its shareholders are women. | In 1807, a panic year, the number | of women holders in Pennsylvania |stock was 26,471. The British mar- | ket did not act as a deterrent. By | 1917 the figure had increased |to 49,492, Then came the World | ar with its series of fluctuations. | | The number increased until it is now | put at 71.479, 1 The fouthern | Pacific Rallroad | also reported more women stock- holders than men. A few of the companies polled said they had no- ticed no increase among women stockholders but they were in & minority. MATCHED 'OR BOUT ! Seattle, Wash,, Aug. 13 (P—Tiger Flowers, former middleweight box- ing champlon, and Maxie Rosen- bloom, have been matched for a 10- | round hout Aug. 25 in Detrolt. \READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | ! sweet milk to mix to “Singing Hinnie” Is . Popular Irish Dish Dublin, Aug. 13 (# —Everybody in Ireland knows what a “singing hinnie” is. Consequently there was much surprise when country fam- ilies read in London dispatches that Mrs. L. S. Amery, wife of the Secretary for the Dominions and other well known British women have learned for the first. time at a London cooking demonstration, just how to make this popular Irish country dish. The recipe known to every Irish housewife is: One pound of flour, one teacup- | ful of currants, 3-4 pound of butter, lard or margarine, one teaspoon- ful ot baking powder and sufficient the consist- ency of pancake dough. The hinnies are cooked on a hot griddle and are called “singing"” be- wuse of the noise made by the sizzling grease. | Cities Are to Debate Their Historic Honors Fredericksburg, Va., Aug. 13 (A— Boston, a city steeped in American | tradition, will play the unique role of host this fall to delegations from Fredericksburg and Charleston, 8. C., in a debate as to whether the Yirginia or Carolina city is the rightful owner of the title: “Amer- jca’s Most Historic City Many believe the Massachusetts city should make the debate a tri- angular affair, but whatever claims Roston, St. Augustine or other his- toric cities may advance, Freder- ickshurg and Charleston axe deter- mined to have their forensic battle. C. O'Connor Goolrick will speak for the Virginia City and R. Good- wyn Rhett for Charleston, the exact date of the debate to be decided later., Dutch Cows Still Walk on Carpets Zaadam, Holland, Aug. 18 (P— Many quaint country traditions are passing in Holland with the wide- spread adaptation of modern agri- cultural methods. But scrupulous cleanliness is not one of them. It is still literally true that many cow stables in Holland are carpeted. The windmills which used to pump the water for much of the scrubbing that goes on are disap- pearing, however. A national so- ciety for the preservation of wind- mills recently sprung up to coun- teract the tendency of hard headed | Dutchmen to allow their windmills to fall down for lack of repairs once they discovered that it was cheaper to use motors. METEOR SEEN AGAIN Bridgeport, Aug. 13 (A—An un- |1dentified meteor last night paid a sccond visit to Bridgeport in three days. ing a bluish-green object moving from east to west across the sky at 2 p. m. It disappeared in two min- utes, It was first seen on Wednes- day. Several persons reported see- | Sunday, 10:30 a. m., sermon by the pastor, Rev. Axel I Peterson. Thursday, 8 p. m., prayer serv- ice. First Lutheran The pastor, Rev. Dr. Abel A. Ahl- quist, will conduct the Swedish service tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock. Ohristian Science Sunday service at 11 a. m, sub- ject: “Soul.” BSunday school at 45 = m. Wednesday evening meeting at 8 o'clock. Full Gospel Assembly Bunday school at 10 a. m. Pente- costal meeting at 11 a. m. Open air service at Central park at 6:45 p. m. Evangelistic preaching at 7:30 B o= Emmanuel Gospel Sunday, 10:15 a. m., prayer; 10:45 a. m., preaching by Rev. E. Leonard Smith of Greenville, Mass., subject, “Climbing God's Highway with Christ”; 12:16 p. m., Bible hour; 8 p. m., open air service at Walnut Hill park; 8 p. m,, town farm serv- ice conducted by the Young Peo- RUM CRAFT SAILOR TELLS WEIRD TALE Men Captured fn Sea Fight Held in Heary Guard Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 18 (A — Horace Alderman and Robert E. ‘Weech, alleged rum-runners cap- tured in a sea fight with coast guardsmen off Fort Lauderdale Sunday, today were held incom- municado in the county jail here. ‘The two prisoners arrived in chains last night from Fort Lauder- dale aboard a coast guard patrol boat eonvoyed by another vessel to prevent any possible liberation by friends of the pair, who were re- ported to have planned a break for them from the Broward county Jjail before their transfer. ‘Weech on his arrival narrated a sensational tale of the battle near the Bahamas which cost ‘the lives of two coast guardsmen and a gov- ernment secret service operative, whom guardsmen charge were slain by Aleerman, after the al- leged rum-running craft he was operating had been overtaken by CG-249. | “While we were in the cabin of our boat, Alderman told me if he got a chance he was going to cap- ture the patrol boat, send them all (the guardsmen) to Hell and then burn his own boat to destroy any evidence,” Weech declared. "I ask- ed him what he was going to do with the men after he had taken the boat and he said, ‘make them walk the plank. I don't know where Alderman got the two guns. The first thing I knew he began shooting and after several men had dropped he ordered me to cut the gas line on our boat and set it afire.” Preliminary hearings for both will be given at an early date, it ‘was announced. HARTFORD MAN IS DROWNED AT SHORE Thomas Clalley, 21, Loses Lile at Momauguin New Haven, Aug. 13 (A—Thomas P. Claffey, 21, of Hartford was drowned yesterday while swimming off Momauguin beach in East Haven. He was scen by Louis North to throw up his hands and sank, and before North and S. A. Miller could get to him he had gone down for the last time. il The body was brought to shore and efforts made of resuscitation. Four members of the New Haven fire department, summoned by a by- stander, arrived with a pulmotor and a crowd of several hundred which had gathered requested Med- ical Examiner Charles W. Helbrook, who had pronounced the man dead, to allow the use of the pulmotor. After the body had been taken into the cottage where Claffey’s mother and family were spending a vacation, the pulmotor was used without success. —eeeeeeee ple; 6 p. m., Young People's meet- ing at the church; 7 p. m., preaching by Mr. Smith. Wednesday, 3 p. m., prayer sea- son in each home; 7:45 p. m, cot- tage meeting. Thursday, 7:45 p. m., a wide- awake prayer and praise seryice at the church. International Bible Students’ Assn. Sunday, 1-5 p. m., voluntary serv- ice; 8 p. m., Bible study at - the home of Charles Henry, 32 Dwight street, subject: “The First Resurrec- tion.” ‘Wednesday, 8 p. m., praise, pray- er and testimony service. Friday, 8 p. m., Watch Tower study. L ’ Union A. M. E. Zion Chureh school 9:30 a. m. Morn- ing worship 10:45 o'clock. Mr. Rrown will speak on “The Springs of the Desczt.™ Vesper servica at 2 p. m. Rev. M. N. Green of Plainviile will preach. At 6:30 o'clock the church will unite with the Varick Christian Endeavorers of the Re- deemey’s church at Plainville, topie: “Modern Prejudices to Be Over- come” Evening service at T7:48 o'clock, preaching by the pastor. Class meeting Tuesday at 8 p. m. SNAKES MAKES PETS IN KOREAN HOUSES Father Sweeney Tells of Men- ageries in Faroft Land ‘While the New Britainites may cringe and retreat at the sight of a snake, the natives of Korea buy them at market prices and keep them for pets, while some species are prepared for the table and eaten. Z This is the observation of Rev. Joseph H. Sweeney, a native of l'ew Britain who is now in the Catholic mission fields in the environs of Hiken, Korea. Father Sweeney, while he has evidently taken on some of the nat- ive inclination toward the maintain- ing of “menageries” about house- hold, has not yet added a reptile to his collection. “I am told the argument in favor of a pet snake is that it is cheap to keep,” Father Sweeney recently wrote to a friend here. “A frog once in two weeks is all the food it needs. However, I am demurring on the snake because, somehow or cther, I was never affectionate to- ward snakes.” Live by Catching Snakes Many Koreans engage in the busi- ness of snake-catching for a liveli- hood. The more attractive—attrac- tive in the eyes of Koreans, at least —are taken to the market place and there the connolsseurs of reptiles examine the stock carefully, select- ing those desired for pets and thoss to be eaten. Not an inconsiderable number of snakes are purchased for the preparation of home medicires in Korea, making the business a profitable one, all in all. Father Sweeney's experiences in the maintenance of his “menagerie,” which now includes, two dogs, two owls and a deer, have been amus- ing. His experience with a bear cuh as related by him, was: “Two years ago I had a bear cub. But the cub as it began to grow would eat enough for a horse, and besides it was forever breaking out of its pen and giving me the trou- ble ot chasing it through the streets. The police requested me to keep it within bounds so that it would not scare the neighbors. Then I magnanimously gave it to the sis- ters at Gishen. Of course the sisters had more trouble than I, for the bear was growing and when it be- gan pulling pans off the stove, sometimes scalding itself, they generously gave it to another priest. He built a good pen for it. Although the bear was tame and would wan- der about the house and play with the dog. it wouldn't endure being caged. So, when it grew strong enough to tear holes in its cage, the priest highly recommended it to a Jap and sold it, making a profit of 10 yen.” Father Sweeney has found owls to be good pets, but extremely heavy eaters. One of the specimens owned by him' is a great horned owl which often eats food equivalent to its ow: welght in one day. Chickens anc frogs are its main items of food, but meat of any kind is never spurned, Father Sweeney writes. Fishermen on the north Pacifis coast have established a new indus- try in obtaining pear] essence from the scales of herring and shad. The substance is ubed in the manufacture of artificial pearls. —_— FIRST CHURCH of CHRIST First Baptist, Trinity Methodist and First Congregational Churches uniting. Morning service—11:00 A. M. Preacher—REV. WILLIAM B. JOHNSON, D. D, of The First Congregational Church, Norfolk, Ct. Everybody Welcome