New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1928, Page 18

*.. forced to iear the cast-off clothes | “somebody.” Shut within the doors of cvery home there is the warm and glow- ing story of a mother's incompar- | able love. Mra. Milburn had come | to the Little Yellow House, on Flow- | er street, owned by Uncle Bill| Parks, twenty-five years before, when she and Charlie Milburn were marrled. Through all these years they had only known poverty. Mrs. Milburn had kept everything neat | and looked after her three children, | Emmy, eighteen; Dan, thirteen, and Perry, twenty-one. While the little vellow house, on the ugly street near the mill, was now sooty and hegrimed, it had never lost its charm for Mrs, Milburn. The story opens on Mrs. Milburn's Dbirthday. @randmother Pentland, who had never approved of Mrs. Milburn's marrlage to Charlie, has arrived. Grandmother urges Mrs. Milburn to accept fifty dollars as a present | from her to pay the long overdue | rent. Grandmother takes the oppor- | tunity of again scolding about the | shiftlessness of Charlie Milburn. Mrs. Milburn finally takes the money. As Grandmother s leaving | sho asks Emmy to take lier out to| her car. Grandmother warns Emmy 1o pay ne attention to Ttobhb Hollls, young mill worker, who is in love with Emmy. Emmy wants a “white | collar” man and Robb wears work- .Ing clothes. In a monient of depresa- sion; Bmmy decides that she is not going 1o spend her days in the little ald house. &he wants something finer. Emmy has hronght home a .pair of white gloves for a birthday present for her mother, Perry, the son, arrives home with a new lamp for his mother. Early in the evening Charlie Milburn arrives home in a taxicab. He is intoxicated, as us but Mrs. Milburn always tells the | children he is ill. Charlie has no money to pay his taxi bill and Mrs. Milburn takes the fifty dollar bill, which she had intended to use for paying the rent. The taxi bill is ten dollars and Emmy tells her mother | she is foelish to put up with Mr. Mitburn. Her mother tells her never 19 speak of her father that way Again. Emmy is all the more deter~ mined to get away from Flower wmireet and its poverty, She is par- ticularly ashamed be: she 18 of her wealthy cousin. Marianna, who i8 her own age and lives with Grandmother Pentland. Emmy 18 provoked because Marianna chooscs to bring her some clothes while she is talking to Robb in the little gar- den spot back of the little yellow house, In the darkness under the big tree in the yard, Robb tclis Emmy again that he loves her. Mariaana invites Emmy to come to & party and sing and play for the guests. Emmy has a wonderful ~times at the party among the girls whom she admires ro much. Robb has agreed to call for her after the party in his old roadster, the “struggle-bugky,” he calls it. Emmy is ashamed of Robb's old car and his working clothes. They have a! quarrel and Emmy tells Robb che doesn’t care for a day laborer. She :4i4 notgsee him again for a long time. Emmy decides to have a par- ty at the litte yellow house and has invited Lovey Sinclair, who is| in love with aer brother, Perry. Perry thinks Emmy is a little snob beeause she is always trying to be NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY . CHAPTER X1 - Perry openly poked fun at his grandmother for her enormous family pride. *“Who are the Pentlands and the Parkses, after all?” he would ask her with his wide grin. “They just happened to-get out to Ohio before the rush and grabbed a lot of land from the Indians. Anybody could get rich that way.” “Listan to you! You talk Jjust| like one of those Bocialists that get up on soap boxes down town and wave their arms!” grandmother would hurl at him, and then she would turn upon Mrs. Milburn: #This I8 YOUR fault, Rosy! Send- ing that hoy to college! Filling his ‘head up. with ideas! Such nonsense “This place sure is one pum I never listen~d fo!™ “I'm not sending him fo college He's sending himselt there,” s mother would answer very quietly | in a tone that was full of reproach. For she had #d Grandmother Pentland to lend D'erry firsy | years' tuition tee, and Grandmother | Pentland had stonily refused to do it. A man did not need to go to college, she maintained. He would | be better off if he went into some | husiness office and learned how to make alittle money. Her own brother, Bill had never gone to col- lege, and look at him — with his; house in Iratenahl, his great limou- sines, his apartment in the Mano overlooking Wade Park, his beauti- ful white vacht that rode the Great Lakes as smoothly as the Leviatharn rides the great gray Atlantie! He had never felt the need of a lot oy trigonometry and Greck! “Yes, but Uncle Bill was a young man fifty or sixty years ago,’ ghter -would remind her 1 Things different now. The of the ‘diamond in the rough’ has| gone by." “I'm sure your Uncle Bill woula | be very much hurt to hear you e Kim a ‘dfamond in the rough Grandmother would reply. I Uncle Bill was that very thing, nev- ertheless. He rode rough-shod over people few sentences. He had scornful way of saying people that miade them feel as small as mice and as lowly as doormats. All his life people had been telling him he was a great man, and all his | life he had more than agreed with them, Emmy found herself thinking about him that Sunday morning us she stood in th: choir loft of th church with the sun streaming down upon her black velvet cap, her white surplice, her open hymu book, His pew, well up toward the front, was empty. But she had a mental vision of him sitiing there, as he had sat on other Sundays, with his bulky figure crect in a frock coat, his florid old face with his suspicious gray eyes and Mussolini chin, his way of nodding his head when he approved of something that the minister happened to he saying. Suppose her mother did g to him and ask him to give her the s | | | POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “My family would be glad to do somethin’ for Tom if there was any way of help- in’ him without helpin’ that wife of his.” (Copyright. 1928 t-uotisors Syndicater We Have Several Industrial Sites For Sale. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ping station, what 1 mean!"” little house? Would he her? “Probably not,” Emmy remembering how he had steadily refused to re-paper or paint the place for the past five years. He wasn't getting enough rent from it, as it was, he had said pointedly. But she began to hope that he would hand the deed to it over o ler mother, anyway, For a long time she had seen how hard it was for Mrs. Milburn to get the rent together on the first of every month, nd she saw, too, not very clearly, that the little house spelled pea nd safety to her, somehow or other. “And anyway, T won't have iive with the nily much longer,” Emmy went on thinking with the Lright hardness of youth, as she test and simplest of “There ls a Green Hill give it to thought, 1o banish all worldly thoughts, But this morning, as she stood there with the beautiful words pouring from her lips, her mind was on the freedom that was just ahead of her —the office position she would have soon, the money she would male, the little cstablishment of her own somewhere. . Life, she told her- self, was heginning to upon up for her at last like the pages of some y | wonderful book. Life with a capital Only in the past week things of importance hat happened to her. And she had scttled two big ques- tions for herself, she saw, 190kiny back upon them. Love had come to her—first love —and she had ewept it out of her way along with the things that it stood for: Robb's unashamed poverty nd his wholesome passion for her. She had firmly made up her mind to break away from Flower street and the yellow house, too. The first day she held a salary check in her hands she would find a place her own. 8he would make a life ot “l was goin' to - floors th lla ‘phoned in’ the children oy the 57 (Copy T Lo spend 5 THE COMMERCIAL COMPANY INSURANCE REAL ESTATE Sommercial Trus Company Building Tel. 8000 or her own and in that life she would have the kind of friends that she [ she was, the sights wanted to have—"her own kind cr people,” as Grandmoter Pentland had put it. She would have her own money and clothes of her own instead of Marianna's cast-offs. She would have a good time, too. She was sure of it After all, she was almost nineteen. Thousands of girls of her own age, and of every class, were doing this very thing. All over the gorld they were marching out of their homes and’ into-offices and department stores, into orange groves and can- ning factories, into interior decorat- ing shops and newspaper plants, into motion-picture studios and hos- pital laboratories. It was a new crusade. A girls’ crusade in theso days when youth is having its day. “It's not as 1f 1 were doing some- thing that nobody else is doing. Emmy told herself with defiance. Away down deep in her mind she was already marshalling her argn- ments, getting ready for the strug- gle with her mother when the time should come for her to pack up ana walk out of the house. *“I'm not going to sing In this choir much losger, either!” she went on thinking with another small flash of rebellion. “Atter 1 start working I'll waat my Sundays to myself for resting or fixing up my clothes. 1 won't have time to spen: my whole diy in church the way mother wants me to!" After church she walked part or the way down town. City-born un sounds of town always meant to her what green fields and the music of brooks and birds never could mean to her. She thrilled 1o the tread of feet along pavements, to the hum motor cars that was like the hum of giant bees, swarming. She vibrat- ed to the melody of the streets. The sight of Euclid avenne office buildings, shining from far off, vibrated her too. Soon she would be at work bghind one of those distant | windows winkling in the sunshine. And when she got back to Flower stfeet the new impuise of adventure and freedom woke in her once more. “I will get out!” she cried m her heart as Asop's starling did n promising herself that it would get its head out of the neck of the | pitcher, Dinner was ready when she walked into the house. Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, mashed pota- tces, mushrooms, fruit salad, and pumpkin pie with coffee, Mr. Milburn loved to eat, and he was always at home for Sunday din- ner,” And so there was always an enormous meal then, even if there had been uothing but potato roup and soda biscuits the night before. It was always feast or famine in the little yellow house, At the head of the table, with a morning sleep and a hot bath be- hind him, he actually resembled the model kind of father that Mrs. Mil- burn’ tried to persuade her children that he was. He carved the roast with a noble flourish, he cracked jokes, he gave advice to his off- spring, and he made them grandilo- quent promises. When the meal was over he leanad back in his carving chair and clipped the end from a fine large cigar. His eyes went around the tiny shabby room and they were filled with scorn for it. “Well, by this time next year we'll all be in a home of our own.” he said positively; “and it won't be in Bill Parks’ slum. either!"” He did not like Uncle Bill Parks any better than Uncle Bill Parks liked him. And that was not at all. “This place,” put in young Dan, “sure is one pumping station, what 1 mean!” He always agreed his father. They were curiously alike, the father and the son. Each of them had a life of his own out- side the house, returning to it onty tor meals and bed and clean clothes. “We'll be out of it soon,” his fa- ther said again. He had been saying it for years and vears. Perhaps he believed it himself, Mrs. Milburn stood up and began to clear off the table. “Hurry up, Emmy,” she said; “if we don’t get these dishes washed up pretty soon we'll he late for vespers. It's three o'clock now.” As Emmy passed her father's chair with the ple dish in her hands, of | with | around the waist. “Yes, and when my ahip comes in, my girl won't have to help with the dishes. We'll have a maid to do all that,” he told her with conviction, “And how's your business course coming along?" “I'm almost Father. Mr. Milburn looked at her with pride and affection, and then looked down the table at Perry, who sat in a brown study. 1 “Well, Rosy.” he observed, wheu his wife cgme back from the kitch- haven't done so badly, ve? A bov almost through col- lege and a girl just about ready to start a career in business! I'd say we had done pretty well by ce children!” (TO BE CONTINUED) AT OTHER'S GRAVE " BEFORE BURGLARY Destitute Youth Pleads Poverty as Reason Tor Store Break Four youths, two of them 16 years of age, another 17 and anoth- er 19, were bound over to the De- cember term of superior court by Judge H. P. Rtoche in police court ay, one on the charge of burg- on the charge of t of automobile Ravildo Franchelli of Astoria, L.! 1. who was brought back to this| city by Detective Sergeant George €. Iillinger, took the witness stand after Prosecuting Attorney J. G | Woods warned him that he was not obliged to make a statement, and if he did so it could be used against him in the upper court. He told of |1eaving home because of alleged |cruelties by his stepmother and coming to New Britain, where he visited his own mother's grave and arranged to have it filled in where | needed. That was on September 4, |and he was wearing no undercloth- | |ing and only the barest of outside | | clothes, so he was quick to respond |10 a suggestion by an acquaintance that they break into Nathan Ersaft- 7of's store at 494 Main street, cor- ner of Lafayette street. He described how they made their | | way in by opening a window and took merchandise valued at -pprox-j imately $350, and about $8 out of | the cash register. He took about $4 and a suitcase filled with clothing, ! land left by train for New York. He was denied admittance to his home until his father interceded in his be- half, he said, and a short time later | he was ordered out, his father tell- ing him he did not want “a crook" in his house. Detective Sergeant Ellinger testi- fied that Franchelli, who lacks a month or two of being 17 years of | agd, admitted that he and his com- panion entered the store and took the merchandise and the money, making their way out throdgh the | cellar. Sergeant T. J. Feeney testi- fied that the companion was arrest. ed in Newark and arraigfed in ju- venile court in this city for his part in the burglary. On information ob- tained from him, Franchelli was apprehended. Prosecuting Attorney Woods rec- ommended a $1,500 bond on the bind over, but Judge Roche felt | | $500 was sufficient. The young man | is unable to furnish a bond of any through with ft, Special Notice Martha Chapter, No. 21, O. E. 8. will hold a sale Wednesday after- noon, Octeber 31st in Jr. 0. U. A. M. hall, Glen street, opposite Y. W. C. A. Foncy work, aprons, pies and cakes, crullers and home made bread will be on sale. A card party will be held from 2:30 to § o'clock. Supper served at 6:30. Admission 35c. Masquerade dance in evening, 35c. Members will bring contribu- tions to hall.—advt, . 11| POLLY AND HER PALS morning, but he was br MY M tAIN ALLOWED TO YAKE NO TOLD ME THAT the bond reduced accordingly. court. He realizes the serious pre- all the circumstances into consider- ation, among them clear record and I conservative, and 6,874 for W. Gil- bert Greenwood, liberal. Homan had been elected by a plurality of 1,500 | in 1924, that that workers were tired of the | Tory government. the liberal candidate to win, despite tremendous efforts and his personal popularity, was interpreted by Bel- lamy as indicating that there was no hope of a liberal revival. {of Lord publisher, who represented Aston for seven Beaverbrook conservative candidate final shot before the balloting said, | “The liberals and turned their backs on the empir “Follies” to Be Repeated “Grand Oil Party,” musical presen- ' tations of local have been presented with great suc- cess in'several parts during the past few weeks, will play a return engagement at the Y. M. T. A. & B. Society hall, Thursday eve- ning, at a democratic rally which is expected crowds which have been the rule TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1928. confined in the police atation in Long lsland several days after his arrest. Three Held at Auto Thieves ‘Frank Rutkowski, aged 17, of 45 Horace street, and his 19-year-old brother, 4dlex Rutkowski, of 260 Washington street, with William Baldyga, aged 16, of 104 Gold street, were bound over on the charge of theft of automobiles owned by Rich- ard Rourke of Unionville and Stella Kowalczyk of this city. They waived examination, and Attorney Thomas F. McDonough, representing the brothers. made a successful plea for reduction of the bond in the case of Frank from $5,000 to $1,000. Attor- Rey Lawrence J. Golon, representing Baldyga, was successful in having Attorney McDonough told Judge Roche that Alex is guilty as charged and will plead guilty in superior dicament in which he has involved his brother and Baldyga, and his one request 1o his attorney was that the bonds in their cases be lowered. so that they might be given their lib- erty while awaiting trial. Prosecuting Attorney Woods re- marked that the aftorneys were do- ing their duty in making their re- quest but the charge in cach of the three cases is the same. Judge Roche, granting the request, took being Frank's dyga's freedom from the stigma of criminal offence with the exception of something of a minor nature. In the case of Alex, he left the bond at $5.000, Attorncy McDonough frankly stating that he could not conscientiously ask that it be reduced, all things considered. CANDIDATE'S ELECTION ays It Vorecasts What Will Hap- pen in General Voting Next Year Tondon, Oct. 30 (P —Labor lead- ers today hailed the victory of their candidate Albert Bellamy in a b; election at Ashton-Underlyne, Lan- cashire as a promise of what would happen in the general election next year, Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the party and former premier said, "It shows that the industrial consti- {uencies are going to be solidly be- hind us." The seat in theshouse of commons which Bellamy captured was last held by a conservative, . W. Ho- man, who was disqualified for fail- ure to comply with house regula- tions concerning hankruptey. Bel- lamy polled 9,567 votes as compared with 7,161 votes for J. C. Touche, Bellamy said the result showed failure of The Bellamy had faced the opposition Beaverbrook, newspaper years as a unionist. campaigned for and as a Lord " the socialists have | At Tabs’ Hall Thursday ‘The “Political Follies,” and the democrats which | of the state | to draw the capacity he put out an arm and caught her | aprt, Sergeant Ellinger said, and was | wherever the show has played. in years has ‘played a large part in democratic successes, will make his first campaign address of the year, sharing the speaking program with an orator from lLational headquart- ers. The last showing of the “Follie: will be at Rialto hall, November 5, which is election eve, City ltems Sce you at the Ziza carnival and dance. Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 3. Grotto Hall.—advt. A daughter was born at New Bri ain General hospital today to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Peterson of 174 Jubilee street. A son wus born to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Zahacewski of 18¢ North street at New Britain General hospi- tal today. Rev. Saul David, who is critically ill at New Britain General hospital, showed a slight improvement today, but is not out of danger. John H. Schmidt of 5 Fairview strect complained to Officer John L. Carlson yesterday that a slone was lurled through his dining room window and two boys were seen running down Kelscy street. The officer spoke to boys in the neigh- horhood but was unable to locate the culprits. {GEORGE LE WITT GIVES $400 T0 CAMPAIGN FUND New Dritain Man Among Thosce Who Have Donated $16,453.75 To State Committee Hartford, Oct. 30 (M—Fred P. Holt, treasurer of the democratic state central committee, announced today the receipt of $16,453.75 in contributions to the state campaign fund. The amount was represented in 874 contributions and was largely in response to the letters sent out by the state committee to democrats throughout the state, appealing for funds with which to carry on the state campalgn. Charles G. Morris, | democratic candidate for governor, was the largest individual contribu- tor, having given $4,000 to the cause, Former Congressman Augus- tine Lonergan of Hartford was next with $1,500, and Winchell Smith, Farmington playwright contributed $750. Edward H. Dillon of Hart- ford gave $500 and George Le Witt of New Britain, candidate for state secretary contributed $400. George J. Bassett of New Haven, candidate for state treasurer, contributed $300. The Board of Adjustment will hear the following petitions for sone changes on Wedneaday evening, No- vember 14, 1928, at 7:30 o'clock in City Hall, Petition of Sadie Dworin for change of zone at 151 Oak Strect from Residence “C" to Business “A.* Petition of Walter R. Falk and Roger W. Whitman for change ef zone from Industrial to Residence “C" for a lot on the northweat cor- ner of Pearl Street and Franklin Square. Petition of Ignatius Wieczorek for change of zone from Residence “C™ to Business “ at the southwest corner of Blake Road and Farming- ton Avenue, Petition of Louie 8. Jones for change of zone from Residence “B" to Residence “A" for two develop- ments: First—A tract of land located on Stanley Street in Stanley Quarter. This tract is shown in Volume 3B page 151 of maps on file in the City Clerk’s office. Second—A tract of land located on Corhin Avenue and Steele Street. This tract of land is shown in Volume 4A page 9 of maps on file in the City Clerk's office. Petition of Boleslaw Kowalski for change of zone from Residence “C" to BRusiness “A" for lot No. 151 at corner of Doris and Gold Streets. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, Thomas Linder, Clerk. “NOTICE ™ OF KLECTORS'” MEETING The legal voters of the Town of New Britain are hereby notified to meet on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November, 1925, to wit: the sixth day of November, A. D. 1925, for rhoice of of President, and Vice-President of the United States, United States Sen- resentative in Congress for the Congressional District, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Socretary. Treas. urer and Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, Benator for the Sixth Sena- torial District, two Representatives in the General Assembly, Judge of Probate for the District of Berlin, and thirty Justices of the Peace, The Polls will be open from six o'clock in the forenoon until mx o'clock in the afternoon of the sald day at the follow- Ing places in the Town of New Britain, to_ wit 1st Ward—genior High School, Bassett Street entrance; 2nd Ward—Trade School, Street entran~ 3rd Ward—Camp entranc vard—Central Junior High School, et _entrance; ird—Bartlett School, b Street entrance; ihu Burritt School Audle South Main School, Prospect Lower torium, The United States Standard . Voting Machines placed for that purposs in all of the districts shall be used under the provisions of the statute laws of the State of Connecticut, under the direction day of October, A. D. 1928, RED L. THOMPSON, Town Clerk, RALLY IN HARTFORD Hartford, Oct. 30 (M—Hartforl will hold its largest democratic rally of the campaign this evening, with John W, Davis, democratic candidate for president In 1924, as Hartford he will be the house guest of Col. John L. Howard, vice presi- dent of the Travelers Insurance company. AN' MY MOM wHar GvE ABBOX OF the orator of the evening. While in | | CHILE ANNOUNCEMENTS Burial Lots, Monnments NEW BRITAIN MONUMENTAL WORKS, 123 Oak Bt. Monuments of all sizses and riptions. Reasonable. Phone 3433, Lost and Found GLASSES in case Tost Monday. Finder plense return to 36 Roberts St. Telephone 997-J, Two Day Used Car Sale N OUR OLD HOME, Lowest Prices of Season Our New Cars, Service and Business Offices ARE NOW IN OUR NEW HOME 1141 Stanley Street CAPITOL BUICK CO. 193 ARCH STREET THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT TOLD ME ABOUT A MAN CANDY A LITTLE BOY AN THEN WHAT DO YOU THINK HE DONE? 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