Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 1, 1909, Page 4

. 113 YEARS OLD.. e Sl year. Entered at tite Postoffice at Norwich, Cean., as second-class matter. Telephone Oalls: tin Business Ofdce. 480. gg“u:u- Editorial gous. 35-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Willimantle Office, Room 3. Murray Buflding. Telephone, 210. e Norwich, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1909. ——— e THE FLYING FEVER. The air navigation for 1909 is about coming to a close in this country, but the forecast for the season of 1910 shows that the flying fever is intense. An American aero club proposes to hold a mentl’s flying meet in some large city and the iInterest In the mat- ter is shown by the bidding. Phila- delphia offers $100,000 for the honor, and Baltimore and Washington are each willing to put up an equal amount. Oakland, Cal, and Portland, raise tbat sum by $50,000, and St is pledges herself to a guar- antee fund of a quarter of a million. New York and Boston do not seem to be enxfous to get the main event, but perhaps they will. St. Louls pledges herself to a guaranty, has al- ready taken a prominent place in avi- ation, and its comparatively central location commends it. The European man flyers are awake to the opportunities for big purses and fame in this country In 1910 and many of them will cross the Atlantic to participate in this new and daring gport. The season of 1910 promises new men, new machines and new fly- ing records. THE TREE PESTS. Shade trees in all large cities have a hard fight for existence and so few friends that it looks as If the cities of the country would be despoiled of their trees before many years. Touching the matter of a city'’s shade trees, The Gardener's Chronicle lifts up & timely voice of warning against pests—human, Incorporated, animal and inanimate—that threaten to undo the work of the, shade tree commissioners, and with which the commissioners find 1t hard to cope un- Jess supported by public sentiment and co-operation. Tt also calls attention of commissioners to the mnecessity of good judgment in selecting trees, pre- paring the soll, protecting the mnewly set saplings and In getting rid of quaeks who claim for their remedies the efficacy of a cure-all Addison T. Hastings, The Chroni- cle’s writer, repeats that corporations have been and can be held responsible for damages done to trees by leaking gas gnd electricity-conducting wires. “The greatest damage fs done in cit- {es,” he remarks, “where the telephone or electria companies are allowed to rathlessly cut an avenue of trees for their wires.” Thers is no doubt that “such ection can be entirely prevent- od by proper ordinances.” Another grave source of danger is due to comstruction work. One phase of this deserves the particular consid- eratfon of the public. For the sake of a perfectly straight and even curb or sidewalk, noble trees, older some- times than the authorities, are ruth- lessly sacrificed or recklessly mutilat- ed.” The red tape of officialdom is not elestic enough to be stretched around them; in the heart of the con- tractor and his laborers there is not love énough for the bheautiful to pro- tect them. Contract 'haste makes waste. Irresponsible drivers allow their horses to nibble them and back their trucks against them. Against irre- sponsibility there is little protection wunder any circumstances, and constant vigilance on the part of the public must be exerted In co-operation with the efforts of the commissioners. With so many enemies—with greed and jgmorance and prejudice whack- ing away at them, it will take a great deel more than sprayers and Bor- deaux mixture to save them. LEAGUES AND LEAGUES. The formation of a taxpayers’ league st Bridgeport hagy given rise to a rentpayers’ league, the object of which is to ascertain what share of the taxes are actually paid by men who rent, and why rents are high, and many other things which puzzle the wage- earner. Protection is just as good for the rent-payer as for the landlord, and it may prove very instructive for the workers to be more awake to the incidentals of life, the better to un- derstand the whys and wherefores, if they cannot thereby save a cent or lighten their burden one jota. There is no doubt that the rentpayer is a great taxpayer and it is up to him to make the world know it. This is the direct route to intelligent action and if the everyday man would give his thought to the benefits of intelll- gent co-operation there is no doubt that he would be fleeced less and be better regarded as one of the active units in life. This is an age of com- binations and this kind of a combina- tion would tell well for other than its maln object. To know the whys in any position of life is to become wise to one's own way to progress and bet- terment. LIFE IN JAIL A SOFT SNAP. The report of the county commis- sloners of this state shows that there is no profit from prisoners to make a fund for the aid of their poor and suf- fering familles, The prisoners earn hundreds of dollars, and the state spends thousands for their keep, That they ought to.be obliged to earn their living goes without argument. The prison keepers are so limited in the kind of work that they can do, that the income from prison industries 1s very small. The jails of the state which come nearest to paying expenses are those who work the prisoners on farms and on the highways. The jail by many people is viewed as a relic of barbartsm, and by oth- ers as an indefensible burden. Those who urge reform even claim that prisoners are made worse by the sys- tem rather than better. To a lazy man with no pride of character, or a dissolute fellow devoid of the finer feelings, @ term In jail is simply a period of free board better than he ever earned for himsclf—a veritable soft snap. It is no easy task to devise a better method; but that a more beneficial and satisfactory system is neaded no one will deny. Tt is to be hoped that the genjus is aiready born who will discover the way to make the jails of Connecticut self-sustaining reformsa- tories. Kansas City is going to have its ocops look like brawny American cit- igens instead of helmeted hybrids— half miMtary and hall net military, single other good quality. The voice ‘of “a heathen” 1§ heard in the west, sayin; ter. possible to supply an entombed miner with air, but is it impossible to stora in a mine supplies of umperishavle foodstuffs—canned goods and water — enough to last the miners at least three or four weeks? nearly always succor can be given. it see to that? small outlay and if it should save oniy one life it would be worth the Invest- ‘ment.” This is good enough to be endorsad notice. The tyranny of Greed puts to shame the tyranny of Nero and all the ernment and its wholesome laws. P R, WHERE BALLINGER IS HANDI- CAPPED. in collusion with the land-grabbers, the lumber thieves and the water -goh- bling trusts of the far west. Ths re- port is masterly and discloses weakness of the present laws and the embarrassments to the administration | nedy announced, after an evening of study. too low. time, fications resorted to which will shut s;‘?":f‘ed those walls since they were done, Har- riet. You know, I spoke about it that understands the | first evening I came home after the situation and is equal to meet every | decorators got remember?” which grow out of them; and the sec- retary proceeds to show how amend- ments can be made and new class!- out deception and put a check upva greed, The report leaves no doubt that Secretary Ballinger requirement if he can get the mnercs- sary backing. The action of congress is necessary to make the administra- tion as strong as it should be; ard, as the Waterbury American points out, “There’s the rub. it no hold on the administration. may have a hold on congress.” EDITORIAL NOTES. e It is not lkely that the navy is| .ere done the cost going ' to be so thoroughly shaken up as is now being intimated. Explorer Greely still has confidence in Cook’s evidence, Walter Wellman to the contrary, notwithstanding. We should not forzet that the goose has his follies and the Christmas tree its victims. It has ever been thus. It is all right to have mining .hu? companies Install telephones and #ir- | expensive summer hafts, but these things won't fill a|sheer madn ‘man’s stomach. It would be hardly | what Mrs. “Why don’t the mining companies | home all these new Paris only demanded his wife in great B sl “You infuriate me at times, Kennedy! of being 2 hermit for a dozen pic- g tures! “Well, it's bought and paid for and as a good Christian suggestion; but | that’s the end of it will not make Greed sit up and take | soled Kennedy. a After it was unpacked the Ken- other historic autocrats. Greed, you ;e!d‘;'.s n:,""l l:’nd gmp,m in size. In may have noticed, laughs at the gov- | Gurope it had been merely sized picture; was_calml, uel,” Mrs. Kennedy said to him with the deadly sweetness in her voice of the | 0ne Who could but .- |had told him so. coldly, “don’t beat about the bush. expense of redecorating just for the I can't sto] The grabbers of ;illcj of your new picture, P those rights and powers evidently have | out of your children’s mouths I sup- They | pose it is your privilege!"” sublime sarcasm. ess., At y “Nonsense!” next winter and the $1000 made up before you know it t will give the crowning touch to our house, We can go slow for a few In that time|months and make up for it!" “Then what's the use of my clothes? disgust. Lemuel T've no intention whatever 3 the expense,” con- The painting arrived safely in Chi« a in a Chicago house it beautifully overwhelming. “Now, s see,” Kennedy murmur- ed with his hand to his chin as he walked about the picture where it There is nothing in Secretary Bal'in- | stood propped up against bookcases. ger’s report that indicates that he is| “Where on earth can we put it “It's your picture, you know, Lem- wouldn’t say she “I know what's the trouble,” Ken- “The picture moldings are all TI've thought so for some I really meant to have them when we redecorated last T've never liked the color of through. Don’t you “Lemuel,” responded Mrs. I{‘emudi is your intention to go to all the If you want to take the bread “It _won’t cost so awfully much” said Kennedy, who already was rum- aging among the receipted bills. “Here is! The last time these two rooms was $251.67. I think a dull-gréen grasscloth would be the thing, and then we could raise the moldings. I'll send the The change really will be better for all the pictur ‘While that is being done madonna to be framed. Harriet!"” “Oh, no dou said his wife, with For two weeks the Kennedy house Dr, Cook has his lesson from Br'er Rabbit well learned, as evidenced by his ability “to sit still and say nuf- fin!” ! Happy thought for today: Christ-| mas is not always merriest where | there is most money and most pres- ents. The president of the university of Vermont knocks football thus: “It grows moreé brutal and less intellec tual.” ‘The value of the horse in the past ten years has increased fourfold in Kansas, in spite of the automobile | traffic. { The ten railway ecorporations of Kansas City have decided to build a union station there to cost five and a | half millions. No public spea.er whoe visits New England can attract a larger or more refined audience to hear him than does | Booker T. Washington. { Vice President Sherman’s reputation is such a loomer that he need not be | alarmed at vice-presidential obscuri- | ty. It cannot lose him. ‘The work of making Chicago prohi- | bition has been opened this week with twenty-five mass meetings; and the | election is mot until April. A lJong| campaign. Uncle Sam orders the naval omoersg to ride 90 miles horseback and fur- | nishes neither the horse nor the money | to meet expenses. That is unadulter- | ated gall. Those who think that ex-Postmas- ter Allen of Middletown is the cock- sure candidate for railroad comm sioner, think they have cause for their | positiveness, It is now suggested that states | where mining is carried on should compel mine owners to run telephones ! into the mines o that they may be used by buried miners. A Providence laborer had tr!pletsl presented him Thanksgiving week; | and on three previous occasions he has been the father of twins. As an exhibit this family is Rooseveltian, Since the small-salaried employes are being discharged by wholesale, the country has the right to expect| that the guiltier members of the Su- gar trust will get all that is due them. The new automobile law of Massa- chusetts, which takes effect at the commencement of the new year, is spoken of as “an example of effective regulation to which no Intelligent au- tomobilist could fairly object.” Workings of Condescension. The workings of condescension as between nations, and between parts of nations, are worthy of more considera- | tion than has ever been given to the | gubject. Why does not some one write a book about it, going back to the earliest dawn of recorded history? | The contemporaneous examples of the | trait are most perplexing. When one iz in Europe he realizes what a criss- cross of condescension lines there are on the map between rfces, between countries, between provinces, cities, and smaller communities. And here at home the crisscross is most compli- cated, desecnding to the geography of towns and parts of towns. In fact, there probably never was a commu nity in the world where some sectio did not assume an air of disdain and condescension toward another. In a big city the look from above down- ward does not all exist one way. If | the “residential” quarter of New York only knew it, it might be surprised to find that there is a suspiciousness, on the part of the “East side,” concern- ing the more prosperous quarters and their inhabitants not surpassed by any in the opposite direction.—Editorialin the November Century. 8till Rely on Their Navies. The number of dreadnsughts con- tracted for by varieus governments in- dicate that tho experts do not eontem- plate an immediate future fer the air- ship in warfar -Washington Star. Pupils in the Philadelpkia public schools are being taught to board and alight from street cars in a safe man- Is Free Stamp Day $1.00 worth of Green Stamps Free with pur- chases of 1oc or over. with purchase of $5.00 or over. between the music disturbance, Kennedy spoke. nedy in subdued tones. tired of it all myself!”—Chicago News. out what is the trouble. room brary cramps the effect of the paint ing! It huddles it in! doing it long ago!” The partition, with much dust and came out. Then Mrs. ~ “Lemuel,” she said, Just $2,174.30. shall be hcmeless, or at least dwelling in a partitionless barn, with a picture at one end of it. I intend to save the remnants of your fortune and the ravelings of your intellect. We'll pack up and go east for two weeks to re- cuperate from the madonna!™ “Maybe you're right,” agreed Ken- Socialism Accuratively Defined. But no “ism” is so elastic or many- sided as socfalism. It touches so many aspects of human life and thought, and for each it has a differ- ent face. It hes a religious side, a philosophical, a poetical, a judicial, an economlie, a sociological, and & senti- mental; and it presents itself accord- ingly as an aspiration, a speculation, an imeginative sketch, a policy, a the- ory of rights, an economic doctrine, a philanthropic movement, or a mere emotion.—London Times. Newsless, Yet Content. No Boston and only one New York paper Issued an afternoon edition yes- terday, and in consequence it was hol- iday for a group of men who deserved the rest; and the public did not suffer a whit from a break in that proces- sion of news of the world which, how- ever interesting, is not always so im- portant as to justify the incessant toil of those who chronicle it.—Boston Herald, Double Stamps ISABELLA FOX .. BLACK LYNX ... BLACK FOX .... DARK OPOSSUM . AZURE LYNX ........ BLENDED SQUIRREL ... (Neckpieces to match FUR COATS 45 and 50-inch PONY COATS .. 36 and 40-inch PONY COATS .. 42 and 50-inch AUSTRALIAN SQUIRREL COATS .. 30 and 36-inch AUSTRALIAN SQUIRREL COATS 50-inch HUDSON SEAL COATS 36-inch HUDSON SEAL COATS Exclasively to Men’s, Fashionable Furs 123-125 MAIN STREET. The Leadizg Store in Eastern Connecticut ‘Devated dren’s Wearing Apparel. at equally low prices) $75.00 , Women’s and -CHil- 1 thought of “I'm kind of JAMES E. McDUFF and lustrated | MARSHALLS h LILLIAN MORRELLE..In Illustrated and High Class Somms B — DO 0% e seats 20 | Fictures changod Monday, Wednosday and Fridey PLUMBING AND GASFITTING. The Vaughn Foundry Co. IRON CASTINGS T ET B R sanz2d T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, 92 Franklin StresL marsd S. F. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker. Agent for Richaréson and Boyntoa Furnaces. 65 West Main Street, Norwich, Conn dec?d WM. F. BAILEY {Successor to A. T. Gzrdner) Hack, Livery and Boarding Stable 12-14 Bath Street. HORSE CLIPPING A SPECIALTY. Telephone 883. apr2bd Faney Native Chickens Fancy Native Fowls Fancy Native Ducks Just the thing for Sunday dinner. Apples, Basket Grapes, Malaga Grapes, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Ete, PEOPLE’S MARKET, 6 Franklin St. JUSTIN HOLDEN, Prop. nov13d Floral Designs and Cut Flowers For All Occasions. GEDULDIG’S, Telephone 868. 77 Cedar Street. jy26a QUALITY in work should always be considered, especially when it costs no more than the inferior kind. Skilled men are employed by us. Our prices tell the whole story. STETSON & YOUNG. may27d AHERN BROS., General Contractors 63 BROADWAY '[ ‘Phone 715 Brown & Rogers Wish to announce to the public that they are all ready for the Fall Paint- ing and Paperhanging, in all of its branches at living prices, with Com- petent Men to do the work at short notice. oct2d Evening School NOW OPEN TUITION and SUPPLIES FREE Also ia Tafiville Scheolhouse oct26d Eleclricily_for Power CHANGE IN PRICE jun3a The price to be charged to persons and corporations for alternating cur- rent electricity for power has been changed by ti’:’a undersigned to take effect on September 1st, 1909, that Is to u{, all bills rendered as of September 1st, 1809, for alternating current elec- tricity for gower as shown by meter | readings taken August 20-24, 1909, to | have been uzed since the last previous reading shail be according to the fol- lowing schedule: 1 to 500 Kilowatt Hours, §c per kilo- watt Hour. Over 500 Kilowatt Hours, 5¢ for first 500 and 2c for each additional kilowatt hour. EXAMPLE, Number of K. W. H. used 560 K. W. H,, at 5 cents. 500 K. W. H., at 2 cents.., 1000 ..$26.00 +. 10.00 Norwich, July 26, 1909. JUHN McWILLIAMS, GILBERT 8. RAYMOND, EDWIN A. TRACY, Board of Gas and Electrical Commis- sloners. Jy3oa ! NEWMARKET HOTEL, 716 Boswell Ave. First-class wines, diquors =nd cigesa, Meais and Welch rarebit servec to John Tuckie. Prop. Tel 48-& ' WHEN you want to put yousr busi resg before Q’:t rq §Ek uo me: Thursday, Dec. 2, at 8.5 p. m. Frederic Thompson presents Robert Ober in Brewster's Millions with the original New York cempany and production. “The Storm at Sea,” a picture long to be remembered. Price: . .25¢, 35¢, 50¢, 75¢c, $1.00, $1.50 Seats on sale at the Box Office, Wau- regan House and Pitcher & Service's on Tuesday, Nov. 30th, at 9 o'clock. Cars to all points after performance. nov3od Friday, Dec. 3rd, at 8.15 p. m. Charles Bmerson Cook Thestrical Oompnnr, Incorporated, presents the Cook Players 4n the success of three lands, Bdward Peple's great play, THE PRINCE CHAP ‘with a notable cast, including THE PULLMAN CHILDREN (Helen and Peryl). One year in New York—One yenr in Londnn—Ei{ht monthe in Austral PRICES. .26c, 3b¢, b0e, 75¢, $1 and $LOGO Seats_on sale at the Box Office, 1Vau- regan House and Pitcher & Servioe's on Wednesday, Dec. let, at 5 o'clogk. Cars to all points after performunoe. Greatest War Pleture Ever Madny MISS FLORENCE WOLCOTY, Prima Donna Soprano, in Selected Songs. Matinee, Ladies and Children, 6c novisd MusIC. CHARLES D. GEER Open House Glee Clal Peoples Singing Class Private Instruction at Studio, room €2, Central Building. Director of y oA B A LI St SRS S0 BRIEs AU > SNl NS, § S e o M S SR 2 S RISt [NNBE S8 T O tSas nova7d NELLIE S. HOWIE, Teacher of Plano, Reom 48, Central Bullfog CAROLINE H. THOMPSON Teacher of Music 46 Washington Street. -t cher of Plano. { 29 Thames St Lessons given at my residence or the home of the pupil. Same met! used at Schawenka Conservatory, lin. oct1 F. C. GEER “ TUNER 122 Prosvect St, Tel. 511. Norwich, Ct, A. W. JARVIS is the Leading Tuner in Eastern Connecticut. 'Phone 518-5. 15 Clairmount Ave, sept22d JAMFS F. DREW Piano Tuning and Repagiag Best V'ork Only, “Phome &22-3. 18 Porkine Ave sept23a The Norwich Ii:vhlfll Brass Ca., Tableware, Chandeliers, Yacht Tri and such things Refinished €9 to 87 Chestnut St. Norwicl, Come. octéd Removal Sale for next two weeksy et Mill Remnant Store, 201 West Main Bt All kinds of yard goods, the finest rem- nants, pieces in dress goods. silks, ook ton oods, etc., at very low priees. SPRCIAL: Two thousand yards of silk valued from 50c to $1.00 per yard, sals rice 19¢, 20c, 3%c, 49c a yard. Como n and see them at MILL REMNANT STORE, novidd 201 West Main St JOSEPH BRADFORD, Book Binder. Blank Books Niade and Ruled to @rden, 102 BROADWAY. Telephons 263. FUNERAL ORDERS Artistically Arranged by HUNT .. * * The Florist, Tel. 130. Lafayette Street. juniea WHEN you want 1o DUl veur »um=- ness Lefore ihe p t is ne me-