New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1930, Page 4

4 EW BRITAIN DAILY HERAID, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930. SEEK ASSISTANT FOR SEWER SUPT. Dobson and Merian Also Urge Tncreases for B. P. W. Workers The outstanding recommendatior of the public works d the common council salarles last night v fice of assistant tment to committee on supert established $45 a Dobson sewers be and ary set at George R. neer P. A. Metia tee that Superintendent Mi O’Brien needs an a would be to the that he have else should layout of the in a position superintendent after his duties through ill while on vacation, Councilman the fifth 10 st 1 board of public works twice ed the salary committes to adopt the recommendation. } id th had a sound argument as he from experience t re be more than one of the important infor tive to the sewer syst Councilman C. 0. Holt know how ent felt about it, and Chairman replied that he is whol in favor of having sist him. The idea is to have of the present foremen the superintendent long learn something about and when he is he could this way, arise, the week. and City told the com to Miyn Joseph ward, w board knew should hation rela- Superir O'Brien Dobson someone to as- one work with enough to the system, work as a should department wi hampered unnccessarily. Figures were port the claim t foreman. an In emergency 1ld not be presented at the public works department has been operating economically and dotng more work | than in previous years, and man Dobson praised City Engincer Merlan and other empioyes for their abllity and application to duties. The following statement was presented to the committee by the public works department represent atives: “The present salary nist p: the commop council con following grades and sa senfor assistant engineer, aweek; three istant 345, $42, $36 per week: sitmen, 336, three $30 per week; two draftsmen, $27 and $24 per week; five helpers, $27. $21, 818 per week; 15 men allowed, 12 ac- tually employed. “The proposed salary mended by the works, consists of grades and maximum salarfes: One assistant city engincer, $3,200 or $61.53; two division engineers, $2,- 4968 or $48: two assistant engincers, $2.000 or $38.46; three $1,800 or $34.8 two $1,800 or $34.80; three $1,200 or $23.04; thrce rodmen, $1,- 000 or $19.23; 16 men allowed. “In making this recommendation. the board of public works points out the following suggestions which make for greater efficiency 1. There should be an city engineer capable of a the work of the city engineer, both in the engineering department the board of public works. 2. The assistant cit should have two a ant each department, sewer Hence the two divisio 3. Fach division engineer, espe- cially the street department, should have assistant engineers or party chiefs to carry on the field work in | his department. 4. Each department should have a qualified draftsman who should rate the same as a transitman 8. Transitmen should be q to handle to sup- sts of iries: One $58 per engincers, four trar- list, recom- board of public the following chainmen, istant isting in engineer . One for and stre engi s, alified field instruments and take relief or money re- funded. See guarantes. In tubcs with plle pipo attachment, 75c; tin box, 6c. GUARANTEED n in possession | wanted to | not on this detail, | Chair- | their | cd by | the | transitmen, | draftsmen, | and | notes, and each party should have | would designate | who by expericnce higher than rodmen or | are {nexperienced. intent of this schedule Is to establish fixed . rated accord- | ¢ of the posi- ure would | Chainmen proposed top a maximum wage, and would be left to the works o f age . which s eq xed for a ‘driver ibility of t s that of the As a matter of also drivers at | nd Iper. pers are ublic works is the ma y can only neering telligent schedule fixed according to thelr responsibil Such a| sult - work | duplication of field p required for the before us in the de- | near | | coming year ||, alth Department Statement rman J. J. McBriarty of the alth and Dr. L. J. Du- ont, superintendent of health, | spoke in favor of salary increases in | the health d They creases would be so ked especially that | : owers, bacteriologist; Olive M. Keller, chicf cler and Teny Calabrese, fanitor at the abattoir, be increased. Dr. Dumont told the commi the bacteriolo- and the chief > the low- positions tes gist at §2200 per year clerk at 1 per year wel paid cmployes in sucl he had ever heard of. 3ecause of the al men Huber and Holmberg, it was voted to defer action on the numer- ous petitions for salary incre. til Wednesday cvening at o'clock. ‘ THOUSANDS SEE SHATING CARNIVAL Madison Square Garden Crowded for Great Exhibition New York, Jan. 7 (A when Vikings roamed the thou nd years ago came Madison Square Garden last night | as champion skaters of the world whirled about its ice-sheathed arcna in one of the greatest ice carni ml America has ever i A thousand skaters—am .g the| best that America, Norv .y, Canuda and Austria have produced—dipped | and spun over the thin ice of the| Garden in “the land of the mid- | night sun,” a pageant of the far| north, given in aid of the New York | Music Week association, Champions On Ice Henie, 17 year old world amateur figure skater Willi Boecky of Aus- | tria, three times champion skater of the world; Maribel Vinson and Ro- Turner, United States cham- s; and Beatri Loughran, former United States women's skating mpion, were among the galaxy | of stars that also included delega- | tions of prominent aters from Toronto, Ottawa, Bosto: and Phila- delphia. A Wagnerian orchestra black and white robed 450 furnished music. In the hoxes close notables of Norw ica's sports, soclal and theatrical worlds, while up in the scats close to the roof thousands of others strained forward to watch the show. The Garden itself, decked to rep- resent the rockbound coast of Nor- way sloping down to the glittering ice ficlds of a fiord, shook off the aura of hundreds of modern fistic | Lattles and breathed for a few | liours the atmosphere of the far north of ancient days. he da; scas a to life in | Sonja champion from Norway; and a, chorus of to the arena | v and Amer- | LIONS CLUB SOCIAL Members of the Lions' club and eir wives will indulge in a feast of music and dancing following a dinner at the Burritt hotel at 6:30 o'clock this evening. A concert by an orchestra will feature the pro- am. For Idle Funds D% Industrial Certificates Of Deposit Interest paid from date of deposit to date ot withdrawal. Denominations $500, $1,000, $5,000. And Help Build ~ / i Oben Savoday enings 7-9 DESET ence of Council- <“ | out, OFFICERS ELECTED BLIZZARD STRIKES SR s omin BY UNITED GROCERS ' ROCKY M[]UNTA!NS‘:::‘:LA 100 Attend First Banquet of Or- Mail ganization in This City | Thre e New Britain men were elect- d to the governing United Groce the the Burritt hotel. which is only three y now retary | Britain making plans | membership to include Connecticut, aximum f g pregident for as the and Adam treasurer, buy, P. M {H. Colm ed. other n of fontville Britain. meeting o held in New ample of t in display tor: men and of the | hot stove league ~|when a barrel of crackers would last | visitors f the he and sellf |only as long as it | reach. the the Through various periods in American grocers were | method of buying 'sm-( ial emphasis on the present day. | he greatest bugaboo of the day, | charge condemned that this | place one of and the of doing busin | be on the |of credit. life Inc., annual meeting and banquet in The to elected Arthur Lake a8 the founder of { Danbury branch and la | working in New mation of the local hranch on was elected vice president, ry State of Danbury was elected sec- Lohous Directors for the State Britain on the are H of Ridgeville, Lake of New Britain and Al Larson | of New Cooperation was the theme nnual banquet. With points in New of Connecticut, About present York and m: and d mercantile ,xhvm‘;‘hunl the state the fire organization Britain was brought to | |a close by a showing of filn | Better Grocer.” T his good and bad methods ng. women, were shown | ries of pictures of stores in the |i frontiersmen functione the taken and shown the | and selling, account, but method that spe A brief history | Grocers, last s for the be wit A plea by Mr. { membes roundly the bleed RU |three years a of Mr. Lake. § developed having been formed only within are formation | district in Bridgeport and in other | while awaiting parts of the President La i hin rs you he a Inc Plans state the we 1, for dded. The local fied by of the is in t Aid bring Ch Ne he society |as a runaw him spector John O'Brien police llam Zalaskus of 8§40 of the Children Fast His w York custody at 2 home. it wa was “especia s hrought out is fast soon, kers, in the ash basis or a short time | of was given, ganization had its start in Danbury go under the leadership | » that time it ] | | the New Britain and 600 stores will soon | San Irancisco organization Lake that cooper: tion and cconomy he the aim of all | of the organization, applanded. referred to the methods « - bers of the He organization in not using | advertising sent out to them. |you think that are heaven's sake AWAY BOY ha ster Anna will | Plane Denver, Colo., Jan. 7 Mountain west today body of the last Rocky bound stretched from the night at by a organization, old and is expand ts 600 stores in Kansas, most to the Gulf. crash of an Colorado last tana, Wyoming and the effects of the after an weather, ; air coming year. night. the been for- Al Lar- Hen- ly ha: of New valled poin s 20 below. low was reported, there for the on. of snow lay on the Helena. Automobile ficult, even on the in Montana, of Dan- Britain, Arthur New a n at the 100 attend- from ny parts es from anizations annual to be Snow was ory Thermopolis received snow and the mereury six below at Sheridan The snow but n ed early tod fiying the Dever mail narrowly escaped with The was an ex- | The specta- the and | when was carrying fell to wreck. trate the to Chey the ground on kept out of | 'nne and 2 assembled with | tric revived and brought hospital, where hi said to be not Sweeping into the st of the Rockies, brought sleet all over with sleet and snow parts of | warmer United | Ka The or-| ly | serions losing its | ccording to | the only future wa will | weather the Los Angeles Mrs, here tod st of the district Jan, the in prog- of another | T now honey thelr according to | furnishing of | Mrs. Moody, was particularly the mem- ment. In the m play a little tennis.” The young couple trying to| vestarday, get | south as Ensenda married in Berkeley |and sailed from San FOUND | mas ¢ ve bheen noti- Galatea,” Mr: that Wil Stanley street |so rough yesterday card the 105th street. | gines.” Crashes—Pilot Escapes With Life bliz: slopes Rockies eastward and =0nt)\ (HrO\ILh Oklahoma and Montana Records Low Clear and cold weather, that sends the mercury rec where s reported temperatures At Lewistown travel was di main out of the Montana capital. general over Wyo and air mail service was hampered six dropped to was light in Colorado, ar-zero temperatures prey Pilot M. night when his plane crashed after anding gear hit a power line that no current. It had been unable to pene- swirling snow on the pilot saying a landing in a cornficld. Brought to Hospital Bowen was unconscious when ex- ted from the wreckage, to condition for Texas. Fair a was foreca Helen \V lls Moody and Hushand Land From Boat 7.—M—Mr. and Frederick S. Moody, planning to spend the noon on dry land | completion of the | apartment in | formerly Helen Wills, | the women's world tennis champion, said “we will return to San Franci { co next week to inspect the a aintime, T expect to arrived ¢ “1t | Pedro aboard the 40 foot yawl after cruising as far | Mexico. T December 23 Pedro Christ- that | thau, The swirling snow resulted in the | mail Today Colorado storm extended period of as 1ow | ) cember, mark | W - | survive Denver | region south- J 1 \ enjoyed every meal ahoard the | Moody said, | inging her sailing abllity, * we had to dis- | B salls and depend on the en- Haven (#—Gene ian Smuts, former premier Jan. 7 al , will addre ‘Woolsey Hall .u:ht sponsored by tHe Connecticut Committee for the Tenth Annivers- ary of the Le ue of Dr. s meeting in to- Nations. James Rowland Angell, Yale unive e mecting, addressed by which will al- Henry former United States ambas: | dor to Turkey, and Mrs. Mary Agnes | Hamiiton, well known writer and a rember of the Dritish parliament. CIVIL WAR VETERAN DEAD Willimantic, Ja 7 (—Dennis of the six surviving Civil ans in this city, died this at his home. He was Mr. Shea, who for many d been the largest individu- payer 50 be | Shea, one | war vete | morning Bl old. | years h | al tax ham, this country a boy. (‘h‘ U. 8. 8. Cincinnati during the Civil war, enlisting in the navy in 1862. He was discharged ear after his enlistment. Mr. Shea s a member of the Francis M. Long Post, No. 30, G. A. R,, of this city. His widow and three daughters him. Bowling, 144 -\rch st agement. | bowling. New man- Ladies’ a public | pres- | sity will pre- | Morgen- | in the town of Wind- | was born in Ircland, coming to | He served on | 17 Mexican Officials | Expelled b) Counsel | City, Jan. 7.—{®—Nine senators and eight deputies, mem- bers of the permanent congressional commission, which acts in the place | of congress during its recess, were expelled today from the national | revolutionary party by action of the exccutive committee 5 Charges of disloyalty and fack of discipline were made against the 17 | men, who were all members of the | so-called “white” group on the commission ki The charges grew out of a surprise | meeting of the commission yesterday afternoon at which the white group | managed to assemble a quorum, and, | | constituting a majority of the com- | | mission, proceeded to make several | important changes in congressional | posts. | "The acting trensurcr and several members of the administrative com- mittee of the chamber of deputies | were ousted and substitutes appoint- ed from among “white” adherents. | Mexico German Mennonites to Embark as Immigrants Berlin, Jan. 7 (A—The Vossische | Beitung today said that embarka- | tion of nearly 3,000 German Men- nonites for Canada and Brazil will begin this week. 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