New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1928, Page 18

AR A Bk HARLD R, JONES | CALIED BY DEATH (Continued from First Pagc) dentist's office and was then taken to his home by an associate on the paper. He went to bed immediately and developed pleurisy so rapidly that within & few days he was so ill no | one was permitted to enter his room ¢xcept his parents and medical at- | tendants. At the end of the week Hartford specialist had been call- ©d into consultation and his case was diagnosed ae that of bronchial neumonia and pleurisy. Relapse on Friday Night Death came at $:45 o'clock Sun- ¥ morning after a restless night. | ough he had suffered a relaps iday night and his condition wa, | who ofttimes was the management. To the older' men on the staft his contact with the man- agement was a great help. He was ever willing to sit down and discuss mutual problems from two angles which otherwise would have been widely separated. To the management itself he w the individual with a comp knowledge of the men on the staff, their problems, opinions and diffi- culties and again he was the man only ‘one to complete the connee situation which in ether or tions might have provoked misu derstandings. His interest in the task of getting | e Herald could not have been eded even by the owners of the 4 The first man on the edi- torial staff to appear in the morn- | ing he worked with indefatizable energy and interest. He anticipated en interest the proposed im- provements in the Herald plant now was ‘he| His loyalty to his job | were entertained for his | Saturday night {ing.” In the presence of his father ported as alarming on Saturday, nis friends and fellow workers never gave up hope, steadfastly re- fusing to believe that the illness WavIA haratar | Won Cooperation of Staft Mr. Jones was an only child, the| His loyalty to his friends was <on of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.|sincere as it was to his employe Jones of 562 Stanley street. He re- In the confidence of his fellow ided with his parents and his | workers as he was in the confidence zrandmother, Mrs. Willis H. Rodcn, | of his employers, he never violated at the family residence. His mother a confidence of either. His courtesy was also an only child, His grand- | was conspicuous. As a city editor | father, the late W. H. Roden, died | lways gave an assignment to a | at the Stanley street home scveral | reporter with a “please” and sharp vears ago. { words and unjust criticism were un- Mr. Jones s born in New Ha- ) known to his courtesy ven, August 25, 1892, He cume to|to those under authority while v EBrilaln Vith hisiuare in | in this position was such as to pro- 1599 and was educated in t ¢ |duce wholehearted cooperation, Brit . H 1a In his home, his affection for his rom the N | parents and grandparents was th on June 16 subject of frequent comment. No started work of the | personal desire or obligation ever| Stanley Works. permitted ‘to stand in the way | year later hoe « °d the em- | of duty or some possible attention to | vloy of the Herald as a suburd He felt for his parents reporter, and was assigned to thelall the affection that one can pos- | Gerlin district, His co ntious | sibly feel and show in his daily life. | nature, his loyalty and his zeal for | the last few days before | his work won him numecrous pro- ook a great deal motions. He became a reporter on anticipating a_ Chris e city staff and covered cvery he planned for his| " At various times he cov- | folk Vith the aid of a fellow | the districts north worker on the Herald he had plan- s and south of the track ned to purch pair of French | was a police reporter and He intended to have them one too. He became the | and cquipped with h nolitical writer or city hall reporter nd then the'two were to > and later became city editor and ter the Jones' home tonight after telegraph editor. At one time helthe family had retired and hang hield the position of city cditor and the doors. December 2, the day be- telegraph editor when it was one | fore he fell il he and another job. Later he combined the duties nd, Irving E. Ellis, drove into of telegraph editor and sporting |the country and brought back a| oditor. Christmas tree, which he had plan-| About & year ago he became as- | ned to trim this evening. Unadorn- sistant managing editor, the highest d forgotten the trec now &tands iny former reporter has been able . the tragedy in the to reach. He was assistant to Man- Jones home having completely over- aging Editor Johnstone Vance. | shadowed all thoughts of what was He was a key man on the Herald |to have heen a Merry Christmas. | staff. Probably no one ever will Did Not Expect to Recover realize just to what extent he was| r; jones felt from the beginning of value to the Herald. Possessed |:hat it was his last illness. Two of qualities which made him valu- | nurses were engaged and everything able to his emplo; his successive | noiible was done to speed his re- | promotions to xceutive positions covery. For a few da he showed | made him more popular with his|gight jmprovement. Ast ,.»riduy} go-workers. ! night at midnight he suffered a de- Aided Younger Reporters cided change for the worse. He be- Mr. Jones was a contact mMan. |jicved then that he would not live. bridging the gap between emploves | v afternoon he took his moth- and management on many difficult| nrg hand and putting it on his | problems. his knowledge of the dif-| check, said, *Mother, T love you.' ficulties facing both cnabling him 10| yrre Jones called his attention to the kive counsel and advice which | pright sunshine outdoors. The sick smoothed many an otherwise rough path, e T To the younger reporters who| found_the work Intricats ana aimi.| WHEN [N HARTFORD. cult, he gave the benefit of his ex- perience and his knowledge of the | city and of its people, as well as his | famillarity with the pollcics ot the | Don’t forget to take home! —— come Maryland oysters and | | For | fresh crackers. | FLKS AND THEIR FRIENDS | H ONISS'S New Year's Eve Party at the (! Best Party we h-u.n’".,,..g'f (,:::' 22 State St. Hartford, Conn. (Under Grant’s Store) hired for| ruction. | kind which cannot | money, nor traine He had n 1911, and immediately in the oftice ware companied by remittunce. other inte | church s active part in dramatics | numbered among the most popular | Not a day passed that he did not| |to know Mr. Jones. He was always NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1628. man answered, *I don't want ever to sce it again." — He rested comfortably Saturday despite his relapse and again hopes | recovery. another specialist was called into consultation and it was learned that additional compli- cations had developed. There were indications of an abscessed lung and arrangements were made to take X-ray photographs Sunday. Bidding good night to his day nurse when she left Saturday eve- ning after the specialist had gone, he said “I'll be dead before morn- and the same nurse he quietly pass- at $:45 o'clock Sunday morning. He suffered to the last, having extreme difficulty in breath- ing. 2 a member of Cen- tennial lodge, A. F. & A. M. He was 4 member of Aziz Grotto and one of the original members of the Grotto drum corps, playing a fife in that organization. He was a mem- ber of New Britain council, 0. U. A. M., and of the South Congregational While at high school he took an and was pupils. In his senior year he was manager of the baseball team. His only surviving relatives are his mother, father and grandmother. Not Told of Associate’s Death He had two worries as he lay ill. Two of his fellow workers were fll. One had a sickness of a compara- tively unimportant nature, the other the late Henry W. Flagg, Herald | pressman, was in his last illness. | usk tidings of the progress of the| others. This was done despite the | pain and suffering and the almost inconceivable difficulty he had in| breathing. Me was never informed of the death of Mr. Flagg. who had been assoclated with him for 15 years, and up to the very day of the lat- ter's burial he continued to ask “How is Bill Flagg today?" Less| than 24 hours after Herald em-| ployes had accompanied Mr. Flagg to his last resting place, Harold Jones, too, had gone to join his| riend in the life beyond the grave Statement by Timbrell | A statement was issued today by | Howard A. Timbrell, editor of the | New Britain Record and a friend of Mr. Jones for a number of years. Mr. Timbrell's statement was as fol- low! “In the death of Harold R. Jones, journalism of New Britain suffers a great loss. For 15 years I have deemed it a rare pleasure to have heen associated with him in news- paper work in New Britain, For | cral years Harold and I covered | city hall and those days will always | remain with me for then I learned fair and was a young man whose word could always be depended upon. His death leaves a vacancy in the newspaper life of New Britain which will be hard to fill.” SINTERKLASS WAS SANTA' OLD NANE Came fo New York First When Settled by Dutch New York, Dec. 24 (UP)—Sinter- klass, who first came to New York as a tall, gaunt horseman in bish- op's robes early one December three centuries ago, paid his annual re- turn visit today. He parked his reindeer, looked around, and found the city no more changed than he was. Sinterklass paused before New York's municipal Christmas tree— huge, electrically-lighted and Dbid- ding strangers be merry—in crowd- ed, skyscraper-girdied Times Square On every street cerner he saw a counterpart of Rimself—rotund, smiling, white-whiskered men in 0dd red caps, Whitestrimmed red coats, reed breeches and boots. They were taking Christmas collections. Sinterklass scratched his head re- flectively. “Things aren’'t what they used to be,” he mused, Tells Story Then the venerable gentleman told his story—a straightforward narrative of good nature Imposed upon, toy-bringing visits shifted about on the calendar, his personal appearange, and even his name al- tered to suit the whims of others, and finally, of these ‘“new-fangled reindeer and Christmas trees” that Sinterklass never haa gottgn used to. You'vk guessed, of course, that Sinterklass is none other than Santa Claus, known from one end of the country to the other. But it was as Sinterklass, or St. Nicholas, that #- first came to New York. Dutch chil- dren in what ‘was thep called New Amsterdam had gathgped in a circle in the firelight, just af their fathers and mothers had donme on previous St. Nicholas eves in old Holland. While they were singing their St. Nicholas song, Binterklass rode up on his horse, knocked at the door, entered in his clerical robes and talked to each child about his past behavior. When he departed there was & shower of sugar plums and the chil- dren ran to put their wooden shors in the chimney corner. Sinterklass rode over the housetops and left presents to all good boys and girls. This was his annual practice for two centuries among Dutch residents here. But meantime the English and American rulers who took over the city and called it New York had READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS THE Arcade Studio WISHES YOU A Merry Christmas [ J Stove Repairs Complete line of stove repai parts carried in stock. NEW BRITAIN STOVE REPAIR CO. 66 Lafayette St. Tel. 772 For Sale Savings Bank of New Britain A Mutual Savi:gs Bank ! THE BANK OF AND FOR THE DEPOSITORS The SAVINGS BANK OF NEW BRIT- AIN, appreciating the confidence shown by more than 98,000 depositors who have en- crusted their savings to its keeping durin :he sixty-six years of its existence, anc mindful of its solemn responsibility in th: judicious and profitable investment of th more than $£104,000,000 of these saving: O!edges itself, on this happy Christmas an niversary, to exercise its best thought ane andeavor in the conduct of its affairs and its anceasing effort for the benefit of its de- positors, and extends to them and all others its best wishes for a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR. E. N. STANLEY, President. Eight room dwelling on Corbin Ave., near Black Rock Ave, Price Reasonable COX & DUNN 272 MAIN STREET A MERRY CHRISTMAS And Sincerely Hope that You Enjoy One of and Happiness Jshn Boyle Ce NEW BRITAIN * . WE WISH YOU As Prosperous A NEW YEAR As We Anticipate CELIFFE/BROS, TEL. 5000 PARK AND BIGELOW STREETS That night | May Your Christmas Be Bright and Col and Your New Year orful decided that 8t. Nicholas’ day was- n't worth'a general holiday., 8o at the start of the last cei‘ury, the Dutch children asked him to trans- fer his activities to another old Dutch holiday, New Years Eve, so that they could have all the next day to enjoy their toys with their parenta. Sinerklass did so. Whiskers Grow By this time the children had grown overfamiliar. T.ey had pull- ed off his bishop's cloak and made him wear knee breeches and a broad brimmed colonial hat. They fed him some of the candy he brought, so that he grew rather fat. They got him to let his whiskers grow. They also started hanging up their stockings to be filled with toys, because the shoes wouldn't hold enough. . Sinterklass wasn't exactly certain today as to when they changed his name to Santa Claus, gave him his modern dress and took his horse away from him. Perhaps the poor beast died carrying so many toys, for by this time everybody in the country had heard of him and want- ed his vis' . Anyway they gave him a reindeer team, and told him he must come on Christmas Eve in- stead of New Year's.Eve. Sinterklass had hardly got used to all thée changes when he mno- ticed, about 50 years ago, that New York's sidewalks were full of Christ- mas’trees. People of Germany al- ways had trees on Christmas and when they began immigrating in thousands they brought the custom over here. This soon made a lot of .extra work for Sinterklass, because the Christmas trees could hold a lot| more presents than the stockings could. Besiden, they put tighted candies én the trees and there was always the danger that, Sinterklass would singe his whiskers, “In fact, I did singe them many times,” sald Sinterklass. “Substi- tuting eleetric bulbs for candles has helped, but not enough. What I need now is absestos whirkera.” Trice of Asperity There was just a trace of asperity in Sinterklass’ voice. But it van- ished as suddenly as did Sinterklass. |He had been there only a moment. Then his red suit disappeared into {the air and above the Christmas ltree the sound of sleighbells was heard ever so faintly. ALLDERDICE RESIGNS Pittsburgh, Dec. 2¢ P — Taylor Allderdice has resigned as president | of the National Tube company, it was announced at the company's offices today. Fred W. Waterman, manager of the company's Gary, Ind. works, will succeed him on January 1. Mr. Allderdice has been presi- dent of National Tube since April, 1926 and is retiring from business. Harmony PAONESSA ISSUES PUBLIC GREETING (Continued from First Page) in decorating living Christmas trees and other out-of-door holiday dis- plays is far more prevalent this Christmas than in any previous year, and many beautiful effects are to be scen after dark in all sections of the city. Fully 200 evergreen trees in front yards e been made resplendent with arrays of bulbs in numerous color schemes, some white, some blue, some red some of three or four hues. In many cases pairs of trees, one located on each side of the doorway, have re- celved this adornment, the trees treated ranging from tiny ones little more than a foot high to large ones rearing their tops a dozen feet above the ground. At one house the lighted tree has becn placed on the veranda be- hind an arch which heightens *he effect considerably. In addition to the trees, many bushes have been made to glow at night with strings of lights, the {lluminated shrubbery in several instances extending across the entire front of the house. ‘The Christmas wreaths in the house windows have in many in- stances been provided with colored lights which shine at night and greatly enhance the attractiveness of the seasonal decoration. Several unusual effects have been obtained by the use of red and green lights on porch pillars, along the roofs of verandas, and about the outlines of front doors. Porch lights, usually white, have now been largely re- placed for the nonce by bulbs in the prevalent colors of the season. Store fronts about the center are similarly decorated in handsome manner. The few community trees located on the small greens about the city and spenpsored by groups of neigh- boring residents for several years are again lighted, but now they have been joined by #0 many trees and other effects arranged by indi- From Boston Harbor Boston, Dec. 2¢ UP—Numbed tc semi-consciousness by cold and im. mersion in the freesing waters of Boston harbor, two seamen aftach- ed to the steamship Everett were taken to the Harmarket Relief hos- pital early today after reacued by the harbor police while drifting tc sea in their water-logged rowboat. The men were Gerald Ingersoll, | 22, and Duncan McKay, 29. They | were picked up just before mid- | night, more than six hours a‘ter a | friend had allowed them to use his | boateto return from Chelsea where they had gone to visit earlier in the day. & Off the Charlestown mavy yard they lost ‘one gar and 4n their at- temptsto guide their heavy rowboat with the other they were toased out by the swell a half dosen times they told rescucrs. Finally they gave up, and when sighted by the police craft were huddled together against the bottom while drifting vidual citizens that the city after dark presents a glorious riot of cheerful Christmas color and warmth, rapidly between Governor's and Ap- ple Islands in the lower harbor. READ HERALD CLASSIFTED ADS GREETINGS FROM LOUIE S. JONES AGENC EVERY TIME THE LOCAL BOYS QOT A GooD LINE ON THAT DUDE FROM TOADVILLE, SOME OF OUR GOOD CITIZENS UNFORTUNATEL HAPPENED TO GET /N THE LINE OF FIRE-