New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1928, Page 20

Reject $11,000 Price Asked by Roal Estate Men No action was taken by the board of park commissioners last evening on the proposition of Carlson & Carlson and Philip Fagan to sell a plot of 13! acres off of Osgood ave- nue for $11,000. The board did not favor paying the price asked and the dealers were requested to communi- cate with the commissioners at th: next meeting with their bottom price. The real estate men have of- to sell the plot for park pur- Berg Wants Golf Course Considerable time was devoled to a discussion of the reccmmendation of Sccretary A. E. Berg that the next annual budget, to be decided upon at the December meeting, clude an appropriation for a nin hole golf course at the Alix W. Stan- ley tract. Commissioner Berg was the prime mover several years ago in a plan to have the city construct a municipal golf course. was not carried throu the acquisition of the Staniey tract he contenda that the time and loca- tion are ideal for this improvement An additional nine holes, making a complete 18 hole course might be added a few years later, Mr. Berg pointed out. Want Monument Hluminated A communication from the Span- ish War Veterans asking for im- provements near the monument at the memorial cntranc to Willow Brook Park was discussed. The vet- crans ask that flood lights be in- stalled to illuminate the monument, | that the walk be extended around the base of the monument so that the bronze plates can be read from all sides and that a flag staff be, A committee chairman: erected at the site. consisting of Mr. Berg. Dr. Henry Lash and Superintendent | vde Ellingwood was appointed to study the cost. A difference of $5 determined the digging of a well on the Stanley tract. According to a city ordinance all expenditures of $300 or more | must be sanctioned by the common council. A request that the council approve the expenditure of $300 to dig a well was rejected recently by that body. The contractor has re- duced his price to $295, and the well will be dug. CANP ASSUMES BLAME AS ALGOHOL PEDDLER (Continued From First Page) *third at 331 Park street, the price to be $7 per gallon. He was to be paid $25 a week but yesterday was his first day on the job. He declined to name his employer. After Officer Kiely testified to the facts in the case und Officer Liebler corroborated him, the latter said, “The owner of the alcohol fs in the | “We know who the | courtroom now.’ owner is all right,” Prosectiting At- torney Woods declared, with em- Dhasis, and alt eyes were directed on John Grabowski, who was in the spectators’ gallery. He ponted $1,000 bond for Camp's rclease last night and renewed the bond after court today, Bergeant P. J. ‘O'Mara testified that he warned Camp three months ugo to get out of the liquor business and impressed upon him that the penalty was $2,000 fine and two years' imprisonment. This incident «occurred after & coupe registered in Camp's name had been chased by Motoreycle Officer Louis E. Harper, | but Camp denied to the police that he was driving it at the time. Asked if he cared to make a state- ment, Camp took the witness stand | and corrected Sergeant O'Mara. “That was six months ago, not three months,” he asserted. “Who owns that alcohol ?” Mr. Woods demanded. “1 do,” he replied. “The Grabow- #kis own it, don’t they?"” Mr. Woods pursued. “No.” he answered and was excused from the stand. Asking that Camp be bound over, | g Attorney Woods declars s “a shame to let these me: off with a fine or a jail sentence. [They should be in’ state’s prison, he said, for their wunlawful activities. They deliver alcohol around the city to stores and other places in the manner in which Camp was doing when the police caught hir “I ask for $2,000 bond. Then let his bonds- man go on his bond,” he said, Judge Saxe tixed bonds at $1,000, According to the police, the coupe h Camp was driving is the one The plan | but with | NOWN RESCUED (Continued From First Page) crew had beem launched in life boats, after two boatloads of women and children had been hurled into the sea, most of them to die, and while the rest were leaping from ithe ship's aides and swimming for |their lives lest they be dragged ydown with the foundering hulk. | Survivora told today that the tra- | ditions of the sea had been scr pulously observed as to giving first thought to women and children, but |fate had turned gallantry into dis- aster, and they told an appealing story of inadequate preparation for |dicated, we decided to extend our ;wflrrh further to the east and south, [figuring that the drift of the current |these su |no othe disaster. The first two boats. were {filled with women and children — | {there were 37 wpmen and 13 chil- dren on board — and the crew |started to lower a Then the | |sinking ship lurched, the boats crashed against its side and women nd chil ng waves. Reports a indicate that all the children per- ished and but 10 of the women were saved. Tnten Were Good On the whole, the 125 survivors arriving today on the American Shipper and the 23 on the Berlin agreed that in intention the officers and crew of the' Vestris had been beyond criticism, but many of them blamed the captain, who went down with his ship, for indecision which they saw as one principal reason for the large loss of life, \belicved to total 108, | The ship began to list on Satur- {day night, they said, and its condi- {tion grew more serious steadily throughout Sunday, and yet no dis- tress call was sent until the middle of Monday morning and as a result no rescue ships were on the scens until many hours after the ship sank at 1:30 that afternoon. Tackle Was Faulty | When the captain did decide to abandon ship, shortly after the first | | SO8. call, the tackle of the lifeboats !was found to be faulty. It took hours to lower them, the ones with the women and children were crashed, and another was stove in and put away with a gaping hele in its side. Only two hoats were successfully launehed, although others broke loose as the ship sank and were caught by swimming survivors. The greater number of passengers and crew had to fling themselves into | the water. One man told of secing the ship sink two minutes after he jumped from the deck and there was a general feeling that others may not have jumped in time and were carried down into the watery i depths with the captain. Crew More Hardy Of those who did get into the | water and survive the actual sink- {ing of the ship the majority of ‘um:w eventually saved were mem- bers of the crew, the greatest loss | of life being among the passengers. | This was thought to have some ex- | planation in the theory that the |erew were men accustomed to hard [labor, more able to withstand the hardship of those freczing hours in the waves, and not to any general | |effort on the part of the crew to take positions of camparative safe- ty in the boats rightfully belonging by the law of the sea to the pas- sengers. 8 Roscuer's Account New York, Nov. 14 (T)—This i the story told today by Captain Schuyler Cummings, master of the steamer American Shipper, which brought to port 41 passengers and 84 of the crew of the Vestris. “On Monday, November 12th, at 11:06 a. m.” he said.* we received an SOS. from the Vestris and fm- mediately changed our course to the southward and procceded at utmont |speed to the position given. After the SO8, attempt’s were made to get the true position of the Vestris by the use of the radio compass, but signals became 80 weak that we could not get bearings. We, there- fore, had to rely on the given by the steamer Vestris, and radio positions relayed from shore ! stations. one of the positions given by some crly course to the position given by Special This Week Swing Frames s 1 .30I nly |Gold or Silver .. Arcade Studio which John Bendza of Hartford ave- | aring to drive alcohol, when and Cfficers Lichler wrrested him on November 6 court Monday Bendza was ed with s geant In poli fined $20 and costs and sentenced to | Jjail for 1v days on the charge o laving liquor with intent to sell, the transporting ¢ lack of evidence. Bendza is at lib- erty in $500 bonds on an appeal to superior court 1 was with J Grabowski last night when < being released on bonds. garage where Bendza was caught i in the rear of the house in which Camp lives, and the police claim t have information that the Gi skis engaged Camp to fake Bendza' place as soon as the latfer was with in court. FOR SALE Clothes poles, fence posts; length and fircplace oo Peter Kummer RESERVOIR ROAD s DENTIST Dr. A. B. Johnson, D.D.S. Dr. T R. Johnson. D.D.S X-RAY. GAS and OXYGEN NAL BANK BLOG arge falling down for ' bow - dealt | out of | Daly avenne, load- | Stove Repairs Complete line of stove repais parts carried in stock. NEW BRITAIN STOVE REPAIR CO. 66 Lafayette Tel. 7 Genuine “Old Cempany’s Lehigh Coal” THE SHURBERG COAL CO. Phone Th:a;t:r : Seaso Has Returned The Headquarters For the Best HONISS’S Ha n |arrived alongside lifehoat No, |ing all persons on b {about |sighted, and then lifeboats Nos. 10 |the telephone a foot away or to the |aboard | boat | vessels led us to be |lifeboats which had got away from | complai {the Vestris were accounted for, {1y in saving two persons, | whom proved to be a woman and, it |appears, that both | had been in the water since the Ves- {tri [titeboat, |greatly increased and there was a | possibility of injury to our lifeboat's {it thoroughly | bronchitis and shock; Miss Henriet- ta Cubhin, shock. {of Captain |to as having been taken out of the | |that that she was well enough to Istand up.” position | “About 7:30 p. m. we arrived af | shore stations, but nothing was in | ight, and we continued on a south- | NEW BRITAIN DALY HERA the Vestris, which was approximate- ly 30 miles south of the radio sta- tions' position. We reached the po- sition given by the Vestris at 10:30 p. m., and immediately sighted a white light which shortly proved to be the masthead light of another scarching steamer. “From 11:08 p. m., until 2 a. m., on November 13th we searched the area where the Vestris was sup- posed to have gone down, but not finding any wreckage in the area in- might have carried the lifeboats further cast. *“This calculation fortunately prov- ‘For Errors, Service Head that they are mistakes. evem after the operator has told them. Hather _Blame | than 100k up the aumber again’ they will hem and haw, denownce the op- Pay Little Attention . to Advice, Then Company for Failing to Get Right Number. plaint before taking the trouble to. look up the correct number. “One great fault of the subscri- bers ia their carelessness in using 1 “Telephone subscribers do not co- 4. selophaus Ssptarien. They N d to be correct, and at 3:40 a. m. we saw a flare from a lifeboat almost right ahead, and at 4:05 a. m. we came alongside a hout from which we took 24 survivors. When ivors were taken Thoard boats were in sight, but a cries were heard and by | using our searchlight we located a | 4:30 a. m. \’hfv hoat, No. 1 of the Vestris, and |hotel last evening. Hieseue d 19 p ppears rSons. that this bhoat had | therefore ap up its flares and, o used |couta not signal its position. Shortly | after this boat was located another | flare was scen which we proceeded to at full speed, and at 5:15 a. m. sav- ard. | . until daybreak further was “From 5:30 a. . nothing and 14, and by 7:30 we had' taken | all the persons in these ! At this time the radio com- | with. other searching | ve that all the munication 80 we decided to continue the Jw‘nrchl for a lifc raft or for survivors in life belts. 1 “At 9:46 we sighted two persons | lin the water in life preservers and | we lowered our No. 2 boat in charge | {of Second Officer Ohman. This boat succeeded with ccnsiderable difficul- one of these survivors sank, almost 20 hours previous- In carrying out this rescue it as necessary to cast adrift our own as meantime the sea had crew it attempted to get it | aboard.” “During the rest of the forenoon we manocuvered through the | wreckage at slow speed, searching for additional sur- vivors, but finding none. The battle- ship Wyoming and the steamship | Berlin also ook part in the search, At noon, in view of the fact that several ofher government vessels | we [had arrived on the scene, and con- | sidering the large number of per- | sons we had on board, some of | whom required hospital treatment, 1 decided to abandon the search and | to proceed to New York, where we | arrived at 7:30 this morning. The following is a list of the in- jured requiring hospital treatment: | Passengers—13. Keizer, amputa- tion of the left hand; E. M. Walcott, fractured ribs; Willlam W. Ulrich, tured leg: W. W. Davies, acute Carpenter, frac- | tured leg; George Amsdell, frac- tured 1 Gladianes, sevel lace of the hand; Reginald | Bannister, lacerations of the foot; John Hogg, fracture of both arms; John Kewn, laccrations of the. hands;” Lorando Moore, stewardess, | shac! | he outstanding leroine of the | wreck of the Vestris, in the opinion Cummings, was the stewardess of the Vestris, (Mrs | Ball) who was the woman rc{orrod] Crew—Henry water after having floated 20 hours. She insisted on the man, who was | in the water with her, being taken aboard the ship first, and when she got on board the steather insisted | operate with the telephone officials oceive notice from the cempany that & new book has been devised and| are requested to throw the old boek ay on a ctridip date. Days after and even months, the operators are kept busy explaining that the num-. bers are wrong and are forced te keep referring the callers to'the new, and as a result numerous difficilties arise which coald easily be avoided.” said Frank M. Dooley, commercial service superintendent of the South- rn New England Telephone Co., in n address before the members of the Exchange club at'the Burritt the speaker, wh the operator re- ceives a lot of unearned abuse. ‘Subscribers often bang their .el- ephones down on thé desk with great force apd !wonder why, the. connection is.not very clear the next time they use the phone. Others twist the wires or allow rain fto upon them during & storm. Still others, siid Mr, Dooley, attach’ all sorts of uselcas contraptions on the phone which aspoil the connec-,| tion.” g Mr. Dooley urged his listeners to pay more attention to the letters re- ceived from the telephone. He illus- trated his speech by moving pic- tures. “The public as a wholé pays littie ttention to the words of advice and istructions mailed by the telephone company and blames the company for so-called poor service when a little carefulness on their part would avoid much unpleasantness. “Hundreds ' of people hold the mouthpiece of the telephone away from them while they are talkin Often times the subscribers,holds de and then goes intc a fit of an- ger when the person on the other end of the wire cannot hear him. Cries of bad service, poor connec- tions, et are the nature of the imifledlately sent intd the telephone office. The continued cackling and quack- “Many people give the wrong|ing of ducks and geese and other' number and refuse to be com-lnced.poultry in sald 'o indicate rain. ANNOUNCEMENT! To my many friends, customers and Reo own- ers, I wish to announce that I have taken over THE REO. 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