Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 27, 1912, Page 4

Sorwich gu iletin and Goufied. 116 YEARS OLD. Subscription price, 126 a w onth; $6.00 a yesr. e e Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Cona., as secopd-class matter, Telephone Calla: Bulletin Business Office, 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Office, 36-6. Willimantio Office, R Murra Slifing Terrnors B1a, Mo 3 600 a Norwich, Friday, Dec. 27, 1912. 1. - R Liie Circnlation o Fhe Bulletin bas the lnrgest elr- tulation of any paper 1a Hasters Conmngeticut, and from three to four Umes larger thas that of asy i Nerwich, It fu delivered to over 3000 of the 4,053 houses im Nor- wich, and read by nimety-three per cont. of the people. Im Windham 1t is dellvered teo over DOV houmes, is Putnam asd Daniélsen to over 1,100, and in all of these places it {s comsidered the local daily. Bastern Copmecticut has forty- nine towns, onc husdred and sixty- fve postoffice districts, amd aixty rursl free delivery reutes. The Bulletin s seld In every tewn and on all of the R. ¥. N routes in Eastern Commecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, AVEFAEE ...cevencioiens. A2 5820 1005, average December 21 THE COLD STORAGE. The cold storage houses under the present method of operation are dem- opstrating the fact most plainly that much legislation of the future is go- fog to be directed towards their reg- ulation, This is resuiting from the eonditions which have developed and of which advantage has been taken to corner commodities and thereby ex- tract handsome fortunes from the pockets of the ultimate consumer. The sold gtorage was welcomed as a great blessing, but it has been found that such a blessing as it has proved to be In the big centers really is a detri- ment. It has simply extended the fleld of operations for those who are guick to take advantage of the posi- tion of the little fellows. Some of the evils of the cold storage have been met by legislation in some states but all bave not been overcome. The time limitations have not fully solved the question. The recent high prices of eggs, but- ter and other like commodities has awakened the people to a realization that thelr Interests are belng played with and it is time to secure legis- lation to check it and make cold stor- @ real benefit to mankind instead an avenue for squeezing them. The New York Commercial believes that “this whole problem needs a far deep- er study on the part of legisiation than ever been given it. It should be thor- sughly studied by committees made up of legal and sclentific experts, T§ may be impossible for even those to evise a law which would be consti- tutional. It should, at all events, be subject to a far more drastic and gearching attempt than has yet been initiated.” REFORM IN POST CARDS. There is room for plenty of reform in the manufacture, sale and transmis- slon of picture post cards which are unfit for a place in decent soclety. The government through the prevent- ing of the maliling of obscene litera- ture placed a check upon the growth snd clreulation of the rapidly increas- ing varfety of cards which were stead- {ly going from bad to worse. That it has not entirely overcome it is evident from fhe fact that Georgia has a mur- der as the result of one of these of- fensive cards being sent by some man to a young woman. Picture cards in such numbers that the scrutiny of then individually is almost impos- sible, are daily going through the mails and while many of the indecent ones are held up some get by. The most affective point at which to make the ttack is the store where they are dis- iyed and sold. Just 8o long as the dealers can han- dle them and thereby find purchasers, the cards will be printed and circu- lated, and some of them may get through the mail, but once check the sale and one of the most effective means af stamping out the harmful effect will have been taken. The cards which ard held up are probably omly a part of those malled, many being enclosed in envelopes to thus evade detection, There seems to be reason for aetion in attempting reform in the sale of sueh cards and such a reform ought to have an enthuslastic and united backing. RAILROAD ROBBERIES. Train robbers continue to carry on their business at frequent intervals the Mississippi valley and the west being the territory in which they da the greater part of their holdup work The “hummer’ on the Chicago and Alton was the last to be made the object of a raid by those of desperate character who valued their lives only at the amount which they might be able to realize in loot. Big chances were taken, as every such risk Is liable to result in death and on this occesion in view of the fact that very little was secured the gamble was a des- derate one. Holdups and train robberfes are mot | 0 frequent as they used to be thanks ‘o the effective measures taken to rid “he country of such a class of men. The rafiroads in the danger zons have net only pursued a rigid course {n run- aing down these railroad highwaymen and therein had the assistance of state authorities hut thevy have guarded azainst it by offering rewards for in- “rmaution leading to any plot to hold- 1 and rob a train, the effectiveness ¢ this being figured on the basis that ne man seldom goes into such a plot inzided and through the reward of- fered in advance the opportunity of easier and surer monmey has a strong sppeal to the weak. Thankfully such affairs are lessening and railroad travel for the most part is free from it There will always be those who have little to lose and hope for big galn, put nothing dlscourages like poor luck, NORWCH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1912 CUBA WANTS LOWER SUGAR DUTY. By word brought by Captain ( Rice from Cuba the change of admi istration in this country is expected to bring about a reduction in the tariff on sugar among other things and in anticipation of it people are grabbing up all the sugar land they can get. for any reduction means great benefit to the island and a sugar mill has to be pretty badly managed not to give, the operators a profit of twenty per; cent. About one-fourth of the sugar con- sumed in this country this vear was from our own fields. Nearly another fourth came from Hawali and Porto Rico and the remainder which would ® make it about a half came from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba, the total su- gar consumption for the year being approximately eight billion pounds. It is therefore apparent that Cuba fur- nishing about nalf the raw sugar would reap a large benefit from any reduction which there might be in the tariff and the increased advantage; therefore offered to the foreign sugar fields and mills would operate agaiast the sugar beet industry which is so fast developing in this country. How important this is i{s indicated by thg fact that there is today a large num- ber of men and much capital invested ] in that business, adding to the opper- | tunity for employment and the devel- | opment of the agricultural end of the| business so that the production now | reaches the handsome amount of 1400 million pounds a year. Cuba is cer- tainly hopeful and eager that her cheap labor shall thereby earn har sugar men greater profits in this coun- try. COLLECTOR LOEB'S WORK. With the announcement that Wil- llam Loeb, Jr., collector of the port of New York is to resign his posi- tion shortly an excellent post for the new administration to fill is noted. It is a position of great importance to the country and one which has been; placed on a much higher plane of effi- clency by the masterly work of the! present incumbent. Mr. Loeb hms} demonstrated during the three years| that he has been in the office that| he possessed excellent qualificationy and his ferreting out of ‘the frauds which had existed for a long time there to the financial injury of the coun- try was one of the big features of his service. In the customs service there are! many loopholes for the carrying on of fraud and graft. These quickly be- came apparent and were found to| exist in practically all the branches of | the customs service. That they have become effectively checked stands to the credit of Mr., Loeb and it is to be earnestly hoped that whoever the suc- cessor in office may be that he will be selected with the idea in mind that| the reforms which have been enforced | shall be continued. The appointment | will likely fall upon President-elect Wilson and it is believed that he will| recognize the force and value of Mr. Loeb’s policies in the ndm{mfltrltlon' of the customs service at this greatest port in the country, as belng for the| best interests of the country so that he will name another of the samej stamp to continue them. EDITORIAL NOTES. Less than a week remains in which | to draw up the good resolutions. The government's latest probe is seeking the mouse in the oatmeal trust. The coasting came at the proper time to fit in well for the vacation period. Indications point to many unsolved political questions going over into the next year. Incidental with the drop in the price of coal storage eggs, frozen egg nog is being featured. Happy thought for today: The hol-| iday schedule is now cleared for a| bright and happy new year. Castro is said to be on his way to| this country, and his landing will he opposed. No one wants a bad penny. The additional peri! of the sea dur-; ing winter is being emphasized by the| many disasters reported along the coast. With a death from starvation In| New Haven Christmas day it is ap- parent that Christmas cheer and help did not reach its neediest point. The machinery of the general as- sembly is being ofled up. It should| be recalled before the start that there is now a time limit on the session. The gift of $10,000 to a widowed washerwoman with 13 children by J. P. Morgan shows that the heart of the| money trust is not made of adamant. The counsel for President Mellen is not the ohly one who believes the gov- ernment will have difficulty in prov- | Ing the guilt of the accused under| the indictments. That $15,000 birthday party for\ young Vinson W. McLean in Washing- | ton could have been appreclated far | greater by the worthy but poor chil- | dren who passed a cheerless Christ- | mas, ‘ The condition of many sidewalks | shows that the street commissioner’s | notice regarding the cleaning of v\alks: needs to be learned by heart and un- | fallingly impressed on memory's list| of musts. \ Those London suffragettes could put in their time to better advantage if they would abandon militantism and play Santa Claus. Tt is evident that| it is to the future generations they must look for help. Governor Wilson has made it very plain that he is to get the full credit of selecting his own cabinet, and that he does not intend to intimate who the men will be. He realizes that si- lence is the best policy. | When the members of the money investigation committee get through | their task of digesting and bilitons they Morgan in deprived of su ch & privilege. troudles are Portugal 1s the latest to tising for mew material. With this| country, Japan and Portugal all start- | ing in fresh it would be safe to take| Cabinet & chance on ours lasting the longesl.'1 Public Christmas trees, huge affairs erected in squares and {lluminated ' with thousands of vari-colored lights were feptures in many cities. Public and private funds made them possible and with the musical programmes car- | ried out near them Christmas eve an example which would do credit to all| cltles has been sel, | like to stand by | days. H |or | MARRYING A PLAIN MAN Land, Minervy!” cried Miss “Why didn’t you let me know, Uk.n foll: “u\l“'\'a. Grigsby—born an Acklen, married to a Biggers and then to a Crook, and only yesterday to Jere- But you never was like other | miah Grigsby, so that her friends said | she was determined to take a jyvedding journey through the alphabet—lifted | her crisp skirts from the inch thick i dust of the country road before she replied. “'Twa'n't no earthly use, Em'ly. I ver was a hand to make a to-do over marryin’. It's just like anything else—soon’s you get in the habit it just comes second nature. Besides, Ihoro wa'n't no bokay.” “Still,” sighed Miss Emily, “I always my friends in tryin’ No flowers, you say?” you count the tuberose buttonhole. But moments. “Not in Mr. ‘less Grigsby's {don’t let that mislead you into think- in’ he's like the others. If you're goin’ to get acquainted with him today you might as well know beforehand what to_expect.” “Dear me!” exclaimed Miss Emily. “Tell me the wors! “There ain't no worst, Em'ly: it's all best,” beamed the bride of two “Jeremiah ain't no author like my first, an’ he ain’t no artist like my second. He's just a plain maa I'm that glad when I think about it I'm right giddy. ‘Happiness at last’ says 1 to myself, ‘with just a nice, plain, disagreeable man!’” Minerva Grigsby's triple plated mat- rimonlal experience sat lightly on her, to judge from the ampleness of her figure and the unworried smoothness of her brow. The cheerful philosophy philosophical cheerfulness looked out on the world from her mild brown eyes proclaimed her unshaken faith in mankind. “I thought 'twould 'a’ been real nice to married a genius,” ventured Miss i Emily. “A genius is a prenuptial ornament exclusiv. announced the bride, em- phatical! “He don't have no wearin’ qualities. There's Mr. Biggers, as was always writin’ literchoor, an' namin' himself ‘Sidney Biggers the third’ I asked him if the other two was simi- lar to him, an’ when he says they was I told him I thought there'd been a- plenty of that kind. No, Emly, 1 ain’t keen abjout bein' married to literchoor.” that ' “An Mr. Grigsby is—different?” “He's as plain as this gold ring | he eng: d me with. I left him this mornin’, 's long’s he said the sun was too hot to come to church, with the potatoes to scrape an' the corn shuck an’ a few other thing: for dinner. But I ain’t compl: the other husbands. alway about husbands same’'s I do troubles—take 'em as they “I mnever knew much Crook. Painted for a livin', he? about about Mr. didn't i partin’ his name | he did his_hair. | but not for a| Marcus, he was, in the middle same He painted, all right, livin’. No, Em’ly, 1 have a home an’ a good farm, an’ T've alv lied | the livin'. I told J. Marcus he better | give up paintin’ an’ take to somet else. But he said it v a wife to interfere rights, an’ he wish pedestal woman. got room up there. Men are so con- ceited they've scrouged us clean off.’ But here we are 'most hom: Round the house the bride led the way to the kitchen—sniffing as if she expected the odor of cooking food to | greet her nostrils. Miss Emily meekly followed in the wake of \unmdd white muslin wedding dress as she whisked its skirts from side to side with an air of assurance that she could now show a men who knew how to be a husband instead of a genius. But Minerva's assurance was short lived. As they rounded the corner of the house they caught sight of the lank figure of the bridegroom stretched full length under a tree near the kit- chen door. Under his head was one of Minerva's freshly laundered sofa cushions. With his left hand he held between his teeth a jewsharp, while |1l his lean right hand lazily twanged the tongue of the instrument with mea- sured strokes as the soothing strains of “Rest for the Weary” floated out upon the air. Minerva's quick eye glances through the window, unscraped potatoes and the unshucked corn lay on the kitchen table just as she had left them. With a sigh that stirred her ample fizure from center to circumference she turned to Miss Emlly. 1, of all the luck!™ she said. “Now, here I've gone an' married a musician! Ain’'t husbands the strangest race o News. S e ! IDEAS OF A PLAIN MAN | R B L P e Low Tide. i am down at the beach again, watching the sea. It is low tide. 1 have always a feeling at low tide that I am peeping at something I have no business to see. It Is as if the ocean had lifted her skirts a bit and I was looking at her ankles. A lot of people are gathering crabs and crawfish and clams and such things. When the tide recedes it un- covers a whole population of slimy, crawly objects that some people think are good to eat. They go out and { hunt them. I cannot help thinking there are many low-tide people. Humanity has its ebb and flow, like the ocean. There are some artists (sometimes they call | themeelves realists) who watch for the ebb and go out and pick up all sorts of wriggly, ugly human traits, and say: “There! That's all there is to it; just ooze and ooze-creatures.” And there are some people who judge a man only when he is at low tide and all his seaweed and crustaceae ex- posed. But for me I love high tide, and the sweep of the vast waters, and the sailing boats bound for strange ports, and the knowledge of ~raceful fishes beneath the water, and the cloud shadows and the intolerable gleam of the sun in one vivid lane. And that is just as real as the slime of the ocean bed. Forgetting Cole Blease. However, Cole Blease ign't the whole thing in South Carolina. Forget Blease and remember Jerry Moore, the 17- i year-old South Carolina farmer boy ! who raised 228 bushels of corn on a single acre of ground and thus became the champion boy cornraiser of the country.—Manchester Union. A Prosperous State. When one reads that the principal of the Leon (Kan.) school and 35 of his pupils were cgged, one has mo further doubt that Kansas is an ex- ceedingly prosperous state—Chica- go Record- Hemld Not a Tightwad, The high standing George Perkins continues to hold in the Bull Moose party indicates that the report that he had become a tightwad was a base canard.—Washington Post. come.” |3 where some ten or a dozen years ago, Charles S. Mellen was called from the west to take charge of this transpor- tation s; ily fing t peda denunciation is concerned. Who would swap the ¢ which Mellen first took charge of this —Ansonia Sentinel. tr games of chance under whatever re- spectable auspices they may be found. Already Governors Colquitt of Texas, where | Gil Goldsborough of N South Dako! Cary of Wyoming have written letters to movement and promising war against the gambling evil in clubs and lodges, as well as on race tracks and in gam- bling houses and poolrooms. of the movement is to prevent gam- people!”"—Chicago | bling rather than to catch gamblers.—Sprin FIRST PRESENTATION OF “The “Broncho Billy’s Mexican Wife,” Featuring Mayor {rom Ireland” ' GENE GAUNTIER Produced in Ireland and America Remarkable story of an Irish Lad’s Rise to and Fame and Fortune with G. JACK CLARK M. Anderson and Three Other Big Stories ce to thi the dela wreck has something to do with in restoring ties except h > made it necessary ion.—Waterbury Re- The Sentinel holds no brief for the New Haven road nor for President Mellen, but it believes that when Con- necticut people stop to think of the conditions which existed on this road when tem, they will involuntar- nselves putting on the soft so far as some of their rabid tions of today for those e t the time Presi raternal orders in Chicago have en- ted in a crusace as wide as the coun- against gambling in all forms. onslaught is intended to reach | christ of Florida, Dix of New York, land, Vessey of Norris of Montana and Arthur B, Farwell indorsing the | The aim and punish 1d Republican. OTHER VIEW POINTS }| Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA John Pierpont Morgan, in addition to being the chief international pa- tron of art, is a giant of finance too large to be concealed. He shows good sense in not seeking to disguise him- self—New Haven Register. owners have been the Some property very slow this week in clearing snow from the sidewalks, but s Is | nothing new, and there is never any | relief in sight. ‘There are some things a man won't do, and one of them is to shovel snow.—Bridgeport Telegram. The evident aversion of the great powers of Europe to war manifested throughout all the controversies whiciw have arisen out of the Balkan prob- lem, s a cheering indication especially | in this season devoted to peace and good will to all men—New Haven ! Journal-Courier. The Monon railroad has put into | service a new train between Chicago | and Loulsville. Every item of its| equipment is brand new and presum- ably the best the Monon could ob- tain. Yet only one of the cars is of steel. The rest are of wood. So the Monon is apparently contradicting both | those who are sure that all cars should be of steel and those who know that it is very wrong to run steel and wooden cars on the same train.—Hart- ford Times. The western coast country will start even with its problem. It knows from the experience of the east that it is bad for all concerned to let immi- grants eettle in congested urban “col- onles.” It knows that, broadly speak- ing, the country needs labor while the cities have an oversupply: that the! heaith and general welfare of the peo- | ple of all classes will be protected by a proper distribution of whatever | thousands of unewcomers the new | steamship route through the Panama may bdbring.—Torrington Register. The New York public service com- mission finds that ties and other re- | pairs in the maintenance department's line on the New Haven rallroad are sometimes delayed. The road admits | it and blames it on to an understand- | ing with a contractor. There used to | be a rule that aothing under a year | old need to be inspected or bothered about, ang perhaps too strict adher- The Ladies’ Specialty Store A Big Reduction | In Prices Dr Our Inventory Sale will begin Saturday, December 28th, and will continue until we have sold our entire stock of Women and Children’s Winter Garments. LADIES’ FUR COATS and FUR SETS. SEAL PLUSH and CARACUL COATS. BOUCLE and CHINCHILLA COATS, ZEBE- LINE and FANCY MIXTURES. LADIES’, MISSES’ and JUNIOR SUITS, in all the Newest Styles. LADIES’ and CHILDREN’S DRESSES, HOUSE DRESSES and WRAPPERS, DRESS SKIRTS and PET- TICOATS. CORSETS, GLOVES, ETC. All these Garments will be sold at very low prices, regardless of cost. This is a money saving opportunity worth inves- tigating. During this sale we give Double Royal Gold Trading Stamps LOOK FOR BARGAINS AT THE The Ladies’ Specialty Store 248 Main Street, Franklin Square, Notwich, Conn. EVERY CAR STOPS AT OUR DOOP S ——————————— 1|0 {0 b5 005 1o ilis MILL END 3AL LAWNS, Take Taftville or Willimantic cars you. |1 will clean, repair and remodel your | Telephone. | Undertaker and Embalmer ry Cleaner and Dyer DIMITIES, PIQUES, POPLINS, STRIPED SHIRTINGS, SILKS. PONEMAH MILL CLOTH ROOM Taftville, Conn. Dress Goods Remnants Billiard and Carriage Cloths Brady & Saxton 1Bean Hill) Sun1ZWMF Norwich Towrn WINTER IS HERE! Havefou An Overcoat? | We are making Light, Warm Over- | coats that have style and comfort, and would be pleased to make one for COXETER, Tailor 33 Broadway FURS REPAIRED Furs and guarantee first-class work for half price if you will notify me &t once. Drop postal card and I will call and deliver all goods. BRUCKNER, the Furrier, 85 Franklin Street J. M. KING DENTIST May Building GEORGE G. GRANT, .2 Frovideace SL., Taltvili: Prompt attention to day or night calla Telephone 630. apri4M Wkawi LANG 167 Frankiia SL SUITS PRESSED 503 Cur Wagon Calls Everywher: WINTER MILLINERY A fine assoriment of latest styles in Hats Come in and ses them. VRS, G. P. STANTON, 52 Shetucket St. THERE s no adver ising medium In Eastern Connecticu ial to The Bui- HEATR 1 DAVIS THEALR Home of Selected Photo-Plays and Clean Vaudeville A. G. Delmaker offers sr. Harrington Raynolds, the man who made the Rosary famous, “THE ANGELUS” Founded on the celebrated painting by Jean Francois Millet. A Company of Superior Merit —and a— Magnificent Bcenic Production FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27th Matinee and Night Matinee Prices 50c, 25¢, 15¢ Eveni i DAVISTH George Cole Troupe NOVELTY AND BOUNDING WIRE ARTISTS. 5—PEOPLE~$ MARTIN and COURTNEY, in “At the Movies.” E{%% T e e Veisiia SATURDAY, DEC. 28th FRED DUGAS, Novelty Trick Skater and Dancer. FOUR PHOTO-PLAYS8—Western Girls—'Twixt Love and Ambition= The Scoop—A Dollar Saved Is a Dollar Earned, TAY AUDITORIUM ToDAY JOHN 5. KING & C0. In the TRAVELING MAN 5 People Other Acts and Pictures TONIGHT, 8 p. m. 150 STEREOPTICON SLIDES of Mt. Holyoke College Buildings, Campus, Choir, Academic Procession, Park and Pageant cels- brating 75th anniversary explained by Susan Almira Bacon Grand Marshal. HUGH HENRY 08GOOD MEMORIAL Tickets, 25 Cents. 3 e papite. there’la ho Mau- dium or thas througn the advertis ing columnl of The Bulletin. THE FENTON-CHARNLEY BUILDING C0., Inc GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH. CONN. All Trolley: | Loa] ¢ T The Aftermath What shall be done with the odds and ends, the pretty novelties which were intended for Christ- mas gifts? We find after each Christmas some small assortment of these pretty knick-knacks which remain unsold. They are suitable for favors, card prizes and like uses. THEY WILL BE SOLD AT PRICES WHICH WILL INTEREST YOU. COME IN THIS MORNING AND SEE Christmas Novelties t Reduced Prices