Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 11, 1912, Page 4

flnr;itlz gu Iletin and Goufied. 116 YEARS OLD. Y T —— Bubscription.price, 120 a week; 60s a mpnth; $6,00 a year, Entered at the Postoflice at Nerwich, “onn, as second-class matter. Telephone Callst Bulletin Business Office, 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletii Job Office, 35-6. Willtmantio Office, Room 2, Murray Buitding. Telephone 210. Norwich, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1912, o= iie Cipcnlation o1 ihe Bulletin, Thke Bulletin has the largest eir- culation of amy paper im Eastern Coagecticut, and from three to four tlimes larger tham that of any In Norwich, It iy delivered 1o over 3,000 of the 4,053 beuses in Nor- wich, uud read by niuety-three per cert. of the people. In Windham {4 s delivered to over 500 houses, ‘WORKING HOURS FOR WOMEN. New York is uncovering seme fright- | ful conditiens in eertaln industries of:® the state where women and children are employed, the fermer in some in- ! stances fer 119 heurs a week, a con- | dition whieh makes it evident that there is need of preventipg the:cen- tinuance of any such state of affairs either on the part of the employer or the employe. The need of handling the labor conditions of the state in a way to do justice to all presents a problem which has not yet been solved especlally when the manufacturers maintain that the laws already on the statute .books are too voluminous and confusing. New York has e 54 hour law which went into ‘effect the first of October, but the comstitutionality of it is un- der attack. The law exempts the can- neries, in one of which the leng rec- ord of work was made, and this same exemption is made in Washington, California, Ohio and Michigan be- cause of the short seasons, and it is this exemption which is being made the object of the attack. There is in this state a 58 hour law for women and in Wisconsin it is" fixed at G3. This at times works to the disadvan- tage of the employe as well as the em- ployer, but it is in the interest of the physical, mental and spiritual future of the race and on the highest grounds of morality the hours of work for women ought to be limited, al- though the law is possible of evasion on the part of the employe, who after NORWICH BULLTIN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1912 Once upen a time, long, long age, the stork brought two little princesses to the good King Wilhelm and his wife ‘Wilhelmina. Joy reigned threugheut the palace and great ceremonies were planned for tHe day of the christening. \Finally when the day arrived all the guests came, including the beautiful Princess Blackhair, who secretly lov- ed the king and hated the pretty blend gueen. ‘When all had expressed their good wishes for the beauty and happiness of the little princesses, Princess Black- halr gave the crowning point of joy to the assemblage by saying that she had taken lessons of late from a magician, | who gave her the power to bestow the elixir of life upon the two children. The alabaster box containing the precious lfguid, for safety by a wise man who lived alone on an island a thousand miles away. And a year from the day of the christening a slave would arrive at the castle and condnct the king se- cretly to its ;udlng place. Now when 'the time arrived for the king’s departure the poor gueen had many a misgiving. But the king laugh- ed at her and talked of the pleasure they would have in bestowing such a gift upon their children. The poor queen’s fears proved only too true, for the king did not return, and every day the queen grew more and more sorrowful, suffering in health however, was kept ! When after many a long day they reached the shore they were told that a huge green dragon guarded the door of the castle of the Princess Blackhair. “What shall we do?” they asked of the swans. “You had better go,” they said, ,(and ! ask the queen of the bees to help you, for the skin of the dragon is very sen- sitive to pain and If shee sends her legions of subjects to sting him he will run away to sea to free himself from them and leave the door unguarded.” So away tripped the three children to see the queen bee, who '‘agreed to the whole plan. She sent out a call to all the little bees, who left their flow- ers and hurried home, some carrying bags of honey, others coming empty handed. Then when she had them all assembled she told them of the chil- dren’s quest and asked them to annoy the dragon who guarded the gate. The queen bee’s word was law. And the lit- tle bees flew out in great clouds and settled on the dragon, who became very frightened and ran down to the sea, leaving the gate unguarded so the children could walk in. Gretchen, who did not own an in- visible cap, had to hide in a closet; but the two little princesses put on theirs and walked all over the house until | they found the king in the library. Of course he could not see them while they still wore their caps; but imagine | his surprise and joy when they MHfted | their caps from their heads and he be- | BREED THEATRE DOUBLE FEATURE TODAY “PATHE WEEKLY,” No. 48 Showing First Balkan War Sketches —And— “The Ranchman’s Anmiversary” Essanay Cowboy Feature AUDITORIUM--Vaudeville and Pictures TODAY = NUMBER 39 TODAY, GAUMONT WEEKLY When Greek Meets G Shewing reek. Unparalleled Horsemanship by Italian Military Experts, H B DAVIST ATR MON., Eonbwg The Home TUES, DEC. 9, 10, 11. of Good Photoplays and lean Vaudeville. WED, The Five Musical Durands A GREAT MUSICAL ACT and spirits. The ladies in waiting were | sad on beholding the unhappiness of their dear mistress and the gentlemen | in waiting sorely missed their ldndl master. . | So the little princesses would have! lived a very dull life with so many melancholy grown up people around them if {t had not been for their little| foster sister, Gretchen ,who was con- | tinually inventing some new amuse- | completing the full quota at one place of employment is allowed to get work elsewhere for many hours a week. held his little daughters standing be- fore him. A great weight seemed lift- | ed off his soul and he remembered vividly his sweet queen and the many happy years he had been with her. : Then he told one of the little prin- cesses to wear her invisible cap and take the other cap to little Gretchen, so_she could come to the library, too. Now when Gretchen arrived there were four people, but only two invis- | in Putniwm and Damielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it is comsidered the local daily. Eastera Comaectieut has forty- nime towns, onz humdred and sixty- five pestoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin ix wold In cvery town amd on all of the R. I, I Harry—LADELL—Anna Acrobats and Equilibrists GEO YEOMANS, An entertainer “As ls” THE ENGLISH RAILROAD STRIKE. In view of the important position which an engineer of a train holds in these days of speed and hurry it is a novel cause which is given for the | strike on the North Eastern rail- o e e e e | e e e T Pathe Weekly 47—“Hope” (Red Cross story) an exciting story of the West and two good Comedy subjects rouicy in Lastern Coamecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, AVErABe ...coeeesacsons. 4,412 8,367 ENLARGING THE CITY. When the annexation of portions of the town to the city is belng promoted Norwich is only doing what other communities are considering for their benefit in that direction. Plans for| increasing the limits of the city of Hartford and also of Springfield are! receiving the attention of the resi-| dents of the cities and of the districts | which it is proposed to annex. Nor-| walk and South Norwalk have decided | to consolidate as one city, realizing that there are benefits to be gaine thereby which cannot be obtained the present dual government. wich therefore is attempting other growing cities are and try dbring about changes which for the benefit of all concerned. The Norwich Town and Bean Hiil section of the town and Sunnyside| have for years been getting the ben- | efit of the city by the fact that they | are just over the line, being in fact| simply the continuance of the city, but by reason of the old line they are in the town and their neighbors are in .the city. Other cities have found that the abandonment of the dual government for the same terri- tory has been accomplished without detriment to such districts as are an- nexed, in fact they wonder how they ever got along. under the old condi- tlons after having tried the change. President Walker of the Thermos company demonstrated the proper spirit when he insisted that for the benefit and development of Norwich, the Thermos plant should be included, i# not already planned, in the pro- posed annexed section. It is this same spirit which prevails in the Sunny- slde section and which it is believed Norwich Town will display when the time comes. December 7... Nor- what PARENTS' DUTY TO CHILDREN. Parents neglect an important duty when they fail to give the proper at- tention to the wagreabouts of their children at night. Conditions are| steadily being found which indicate! that boys and girls are not being | cared for as they should be, making | 1t evident that they are not given the" necessary oversight. In the city of; New Britain this has resulted in an| order by the chief of police to the| effect that the boys and girls must | be kept off the street at night, and if | parents cannot accomplish this the | police are going to see what they can | do about it. This of course applies to those who are about the streets| fer no good purpose, but by their as- | | way in England where the men arq i The -~ strikers hold that ; right to do as he pleased on his own | with, the New York Tribune says: | clearness of Vi out because the manager refused to employ an engineer who was in the habit of getting drunk when off duty. he had a time and should be restored to duty. In upholding the action of the man- ager, which those who entrust their lives to the man in the cab must agree “It ought to be obvious to every ra- tional person that a man who gets drunk, even if it is only when off duty, is unfit to operate a railroad locomo- tive. There can be no assurance that when hs goes on duty he is suffi- ciently recovered from his spree, or that he will not take with him into the cab a pocket flask, from which to resume his potations until he gets| drunk again at the throttle valve, There s a strong presumption, amounting to little less than certain- ty, that his drunkenness has so im-| paired his ste ess of nerve, his! on, his aleriness of | perception and of judgment, and in- deed all his essential faculties, as to! make him less fit than he should be; for one of the most exacting and re- | sponsible occupations in the world. | The natural and f{nallenable right to| get drunk may be a moot subject withi theoretical moralists. The gross im- | propriety of taking drunkenness or| its results into the cab of a locomo- tive is not open to serious dispute.” It is easily recalled that one of the bad wrecks in this country this vear was caused by the engineer whose habits were similar to those of the English engine driver. ‘His re- moval would have undoubtedly avert- ed a bad disaster. EDITORIAL NOTES. By this time General Sickles must | know the value of a wife. It is a noticeable fact that cigar smoking increases just about Christ- | mas time. A new war map for a second stand at Armageddon is to be worked out at Chicago. The cold storage eggs have taken a tumble. Dropped eggs will be more popular now. Now that the triple alliance has been | renewed Austria is presenting a| braver front than ever. Happy thought for today: The more pains one takes with his eating the fewer he has later on. The fly swatting season is nearing' its end here, but down in Texas they | have them the entire year. ;| Bridgle Webber has returned to this country from Cuba. He preferred to take his chances among the gunmen of New York. The bride who asked a New Haven seciates and habits fall into ways of ! justice how long the marriage was | ment to please them. One day as the three little girls were playing in the garden Gretchen discovered a little green parrot lying on the ground with a broken wing. She picked it up, wrapped it in her hand- kerchief and carried it home, where she nursed it until it was quite well On the day when he could spread his wing and fly once more she was sur- prised by his asking if he could do anything for her. She immediately thought of her little playfellows and their father's disappearance. “Can you find out for me,” she said, | “where the king is kept a prisoner and ask him what we can do to gain his freedom ?” “I know where the king is living,” said the little green parrot. “He is in a castle a great many leagues from here. A wicked magician has cast a spell over him and caused him to for- get all his past and to imagine that he is in love with Princess Blackhair. | His little daughters have only to go and stand before him, and the spell will be broken. If you three will await me by the side of the river this even- ing I will ask the king of the swans to carry us over, and from there it will be only a short journey on foot to the door.” You may be sure Gretchen ran as fast as She could to carry the news to the queen and the little princesses. The queen mother felt many grave doubts about allowing her darlings to take such a perilous journey alone. But she at last consented, giving to each a little cap which would make them invisible by putting it on. Then she gave them much good advice, caution- ing them to put on the caps when in any danger. The little bird kept his promise, the swans were waiting for them at the river bank and each child seated her- self between the birds’ great wings, holding on tight to the faithful friends who so kindly offered to take them on their jourmey. ible caps. So th eking and one of the pri..cesses ,each wearing an invisible cap, walked out of the place, past all the servants, who of course could not | see them, to a deserted part of the | garden under the library windows. | Then they took off their caps and | threw them through the window to the | other children, who came out in the same manner and joined them. { The good little bees were still tor- { menting the dragon, making it impos- | sible for him to guard the door. Soj the king and the children made their escape quite easily. The swans were | still at the riverside, but the king was | too heavy to ride as the little girls had. So they told him where his own | | yacht was lying in a private dock of the Princess Blackhair, and though the men were still under the spell of the wicked magician, Moneybags, on seeing him they would recover their mem- ories amd hail him as their king. The king just then remembered the alabas- | | ter box and the elixir of life and salid: | “I must go back after it.” 3ut the birds persuaded him not to. “Would you inflict intolerable agony on your children?’ qudth they. “Would | you make them endure through eter- nity the existence of this world? Would you have them suffer the pangs of sor- i row, remorse, ill health, { ment and evils of all sorts a million | times over?” The good king was surprised at the arguments of the birds, but realizing they spoke the truth he decided not | to take such a dangerous gift back ! with Mim. So behold the good king Wilhelm and the children sailing for their native shore, the joy at their ar- rival and the playfulness of the little | girls when at last they landed. For | the naughty little things ran down the gangplank, and, joining hands, declar- | ed the king could not step on land un- | | less he paid a forfeit to each one. Now, what do you think it was? Well, I will tell you—a kiss.—Sun. | I R % 5 PR A ! [DEAS OF A PLAIN M I T e S AT AR T “He Didn’t Just Say.” One of the best stories Senator Billy Mason ever told, and he told some good ones, was of his going to a town in southern Illinois to speak at a po- litica] rally. Arriving about noon, he went to a barber shop to be shaved. As the negro barber was lathering him he described enthusiastically to the senator the addregs he had heard that morning, delivered by a well known politician of the bloody shirt type.| The barber declared it to be the most | eloquent discourse he had ever heard. 1'ne orator talked two hours. but the audience would willingly have listen- ed another hour. It was wonderful, a masterly effort. “What did he talk about?” asked the senator. ‘“What was the subject of his address?” “The subject?” replied the negro. “Well, now—er—he didn’t just say.” Since I heard that story a good many years ago it has come to my mind many times as the most fitting com- mentary on many things. How many novels I have read, how many poems and learned treatises, how many speeches, political, religious and ban- | )THER VIEW POINTS There was no “bluff” about the Grand Trunk’s plans for Rhode Island. A glance at the photographs of the excavated bluffs between Woonsock- et and, Field's Point proves that— Providence Bulletin. Bridgeport newspapermen and the police have rounded up one news {faker, and it is more than likely this | gentleman will now give his talents a |chance in some other direction. It takes a pretty wise man to fool a cap- lable reporter, but they sometimes get caught.—Bridgeport Telegram. Events supply themselves so abun- daatly in the present day lift of the | New Haven Railroad company that it l1s impossible to figure out how the officials of the company find time to take their required eight hours for sleep. The creator of events seems to be busily at work morning, noon and night—New Haven Journal-Courfer. With an army of 82,305 men under his command Uncle Sam has one man would be glad to shine if they could. —Ansonia Sentinel. Why is it so ‘many people of sur- plus wealth scorn an honest, reas- onable and dependable book agent and dismiss him only to welcome with wide-open pocket book the smooth swindler who offers a “de luxe” edition and cheerfully pay pric- es that are ridiculous? That absurd thing is done to extent of millions of dollars, as prosecutions of swindlers now in progress show. There is no particular call to sympathize with the victims. Had they dealt with the common, everyday they would have received full value for their money and have saved themselves humiliation and loss.— Bristol Press. -ETTERS TO THE EDITOR. What Norwich Needs. Mr. Editor: In the board of trade book it states one of the needs of Nor- wich is a spur track down Falls av nue. Yes, we ought to have a raiiroad in Falls avenue to accommodate the John T. Young boiler works, with its magnificent foundry, that will employ 45 or more men when they get it built, But the first thing to do is to give disappoint- | away some more land, get some one | to build another tin building and close book agent® , up what little water front the city of | Norwich owns. Taxpayers, take a walk down Falls avenue and look it over, and then form your own opinion & the prospect of getting down to the dump | with the city teams, with three or four | freight cars on a,railroad in a thirty | foot street, and see if you think that the city of Norwich ought to relinquish | all of the rights we have on Holly- | hocl Island, for the benefit of &n in- | dustry that you gave a valuable lot, with the understanding that there { would be established a foundry that | would employ 45 or more men. Take a ook for yourself and see if it is not | time to cail a halt, and inquire what benefit the city is getting out of the | wages that is pald to the moulders that are making the Norwich bofler. and compare it with the force of men that are employed on the valuable lot you gave away and find out when the party of the second part intends to | fulfill his part. | A NORWICH BOOMER | who would like to see someé returns for A |~ Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Don't Waste Your Time! You can buy a smart, speedy little roadster, fully equipped, for the price of a good horse and buggy. Your hprse may travel 10 miles an hour; but this car will go there and byzk in half the time, and eats only when used. IF YOU HAVE A'BIG CAR save it for pleasure riding when you use its capacity. Add a little car to your equipment limited expense. HERE The Meiz 50 you can run about alone at IT 1S: “Special” $395.22 22 horse power, water cooled, 4 cylinder motor. Travels 25 40 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline; 100 miles on a pint of lubricating oil; and 10 to 12 thousand miles on a set of tires. Gasoline capacity for 250 to 300 miles. Simple and econom- ical mechanism. Great hill climber. Fully guaranteed. Order Early While You Can Get Prompt Deliveries F. O. CUNNINGHAM, Distributor for New London County 12 ANN STREET, NORWICH. Telephone 403 for every thousand of his people to take eare of them in times of trouble. That might be enough if we lived on a small patch of land like Switzer- land, or Belgium, but considering the size of the country the army is pret- ty thinly spread.—Waterbury Re- | good for evidently confused a marriage | ueting I have listéened to, how many | with vaccination. D i | conversations 1 have heard, in a word, l how many a long and tedious fabric of words I have noted, excellent per: 1 and vice, and then parents won- der that their boys and girls get in- volved: in wrong doings. It's like a summer vacation for som The neglect of parents is not con- el 5 { of the Kansas farmers to sit on the| haps in style, but as to the gist and | fined to New Britain /by any means. | jury with women. Court business gets| point of the matter, as to what it was | Every city has reason for urging this|an added attraction. | all about, the word-smith “didn’t just | Agent for Pleasure Cars and Commercial Vehicles much needed reform which the police | of New Britain recognize as the best' way to check at the start any in- clination to wrongdoing. It should not require police orders for parents | to recognize their duty, but being ! warned they should exercise the great- est care to ‘se¢ ‘that they do their part, know where their children are and insist that they shall be at home at a certain time. No one better than the police are aware of the need of stricter parental aversight. S TOLLS FOR AMERICAN SHIPPING. In-view of the action of the gov- ernment and the position of the pres- ident in relation to the tolls in the Panama canal the recommendation of Secretary of War Stimson that the act should be repealed brings the mat- ter up for fresh consideration, and from another viewpoint. It is not on | the ground that the tolls as fixed are | in viplation of any treaty with Great Britain, or that this country has not| the right to permit its ships engaged | ip coastwise traffic to go through thal canal free, but he maintains that there | 1s no need for this action which has been taken. 'He sets forth clearly that at the present time when business is| being done by means of the railways | across the isthmus that the business| of the coasting trade, thus engaged, is| steadily increasing though the charge for getting the goods -across by rail- ad 1s $4 a ton. That being the case, the reduced rate by canal, or $1.20 a ton would be a stiil greater stim- | says Governor Blease's views must ]gmyhica\ society next -month. 1lant to trade which is already belng conducted at a profit and gaining. In coasting trade American shipping has a ‘monopoly which cannot be in- vaded. The country has offered .it great opportunities by the vast expen- ditures in constructing the canal and the point made by the secrstary of war is. that there is no need for this additional subsidy. It certainly raises an interesting point in view of the sit- uation which is involved, and the fact that American coastwise shipping is zot subject to foreign compatition, In England there is talk of leg- islating against the tipping system. From all appearances it will take more than legislation to break that system up. If a negro is so unfortunate as to| be lynched by a mob and then have it found out that he was the wrong one, Governor Blease thinks it a good joke on the mob. It is due President Mellen of the New Haven road to give him a hear- ing. If he cannot go before the grand jury he ecould at least tell it to the governors of New England. ‘With the beet sugar crop ten per cent. larger than last year it ought not to take the democrats long to fig- ure out what effect free trade will have upon this growing industry. ARl Ll Senator Smith of South Carolina be considered those of his support- ers until repudiated by them. It is| a recognition of the plain facts in the case. i Capt. Amundsen is to be presanted' a gold medal by the National Geo- It is a deserved recognition of an accomplish- | ment for which he took great chances | and won everlasting honor. — A New Jersey woman who ate a dog biscuit so as not to hurt the feelings of her hostess; broke-a tooth and.suf- fered much humiliation and now seeks damages for the joke. Courtesy got the better of .common sense. Toledo has discovered many fam- {lies feigning poverty in eorder to save their ready cash of $30 a week for Christmas.” It 18 a condition which exists in many ecities and the longer it is fostered the greater becomes the evil In Peland Christmas is celebrated say.” Fishers Take to Motor-boats. No invention of recent years has benefited the people engaged in the fisheries along Norway's western coast to such a nextent as has the inven- tion of the motor. A large percentag of the inhabitants here are engaged in fishing, as were their forefathers for centuries. The industry provides a lving ,but rarely enables persons so engaged to accumulate much beyond the necessaries of life. It formerly re- quired no little capital to fit out even a small steamer for flshing purposes; sail and row boats were unsafe in the rough seas of the unprotected coast. With the advent of the motor-boat the problem was solved, as it no long- er required any great capital .to fit out fishing vessels; it enabled people with small means to become owners of.ves- sels that were not dependent on wind and weather, and there -are today thousands of motors employed. No otherkinds are procured for th_ls pur- pose. New Form of Biography. Soon wil lappear that form of bi- ography ending, “skated on thin ice.” —St. Louis Times. much the same as it is here. It wouldn't make much difference to those in this country whether it is or not for they soon learn and can turn the trick on the Fourth of July as wéll as anyonme, The decision has been reached and the Connecticut 8o well known in Sound transportation is to be sent to the graveyard. Gradually the old are glving way to the new and more mod- ern ‘type of vessel. The Connecticut quits after a. fine record, ° In taking the advice of his brother- in-law and getting out of the limelight Attorney Patrick is deing the wisest thing. If he should start out at once for the Rice milliens it weuld loek too much as though it was money that he was really seeking over and above his liberty, publican. The authorities at Yale have done the only sensible thing in dismissing {from the university the three intoxi- cated students who recently shot up |the town of South Norwalk. If all the students who indulge in gambling nd get drunk, could be served the | same way, it would enhance the repu- tsation of the university.—Middletown un. The frankness with which the vari- ous members of the Taft cabinet are expressing their views in their an- nual reports shows what might be accomplished by such reports if the government could only be disso- clated from politics. A presidential term of six years with no re-election would go far toward just such a re- sult..—Waterbury American. A Baltimore philanthropist is 8o sorry for the children who have been for- bidden to roller-skate in the streets among the automobiles that he is raising a fund for a big free rink, and it is a commendable undertaking. It is a capital and healthful sport, but the children ought not to be allowed to risk their lives or molest other peo- ple.—Springfield Republican. | All but nine of the 38 cities in Mas- | i sachusetts, and 230 of the 819 towns | have accepted the act pensioning city and town laborers, according to raf ports filed with the secretary of state. | The cities that turned the act down | were Fall River, Gloucester, Lawrence, Lowell, Marlboro, New Bedford, North Adams, Northampton, and Taunton. Nearly all the towns that refused the act are very small.—Springfield Union, The plea for.more street lights is general - throughout the city, and a walk through almost any of the resis dential streets will reveal that the de- mand is based upon nscessity. An- sonia would get vastly more light than she is getting now, however ,if the glebes of the present arc lights were given a housecleaning. Many of them are so begrimed that the light cannot get out, All of the old lights Parisian Ivory The genuine Parisian Ivory -is much better colpr than either the German or American make. We come in. The Lee & Retail Department in sets and also in single pieces. will show you both Osgood Co. Norwich, Conn. if you will REDUCTIONS in Overcoat Prices BEGIN TODAY John Marsa Clothier to Man and Boy 145 MAIN STREET, Carfare Returned to NORWICH, CONN. Out-of-Tewn Customers