Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 30, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 103 NORWICH, CONH., The Bulletin’s Circulation ‘In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts AGCEPT THE THAMES RIVER BRIDGE —_— 3 Sentiment Unanimously Expressed at Hearing Be- fore Committee on Cities and Boroughs HIGHWAY BRIDGE IS NEEDED AT THAT POINT Ferry Service Said to be Inadequate For State and Inter-State Traffic—Mayor Murphy and Other Norwich Citizens Strong Advocates of Accepting Railroad’s Offer—Cost of Converting It Into Highway Bridge, About $250,000. (Special to The Bullefin.) Hartford, April 29.—The committee on citles and boroughs held hearing in the hall of the house of represen- tatives, Tuesday afternoon, on the fol- Jowing resolution, which is self-explan- atory: Resolved, by this assembly: That the highway commissioner is di- rected in behalf of the state to accept any dedication that may be made Dy the owner thereof of the bridge across the Thames river between New London ang Groton, now occupied by the rail- road of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, upon the removal of said railroad therefrom ana thereafter to maintain and use £aid bridge as a state highway. The deed of dedication of said bridge may reserve to the grantor in said deed ang its assigns the right to construct, maintain and operate a street railway upon said hishwa No Ofpposition Develops. The hearing was _conducted by Charles L. Searles of Thompson, in favor of the proposition and there was no opposition. He introduced the speakers after making brief announce- ment that he believed the sentiment of the state favored acceptance of bridge &s a public highway Alexander J. Campbell, of Water- bury, formerly of Norwich and New London. was the first speaker. He said he believed the state had now an op- portunity that was never offered before and may never come again, and here is an opportunity for continuation of the state's policy to do away Wwith ferries and breaks in the highway sys- fem. The last and largest and most serious break is at New London. The present railroad bridge is inadequate for increased railroad purposes and the company now offers to give the bridge across the Thames to the state for highway purposes. No String on the Gift. “Tt seems strange, but it is not go strange, for when the bridge was built twenty-five years ago, it was with & view to meet the nceds of the fu- ture, and is in as good condition prac- glcally as when first put to use. It was Bdequate for traffic then, but is not Bdequate for the present traffic, ow- ing to the increase of speed and weight pf trains. The raiiroad company is Mmbout ready to commence the con- ‘struction of a new bridge that will be sdequate for present and future use. '9he question arose as to the dispo- sition of the present bridge. It was an gsset not to be thrown away. so It was decided to put It to public use. Two years ago the railroad company decided to abandon the bridge and of- fer the same to the state. Since then »fre been renewed on prac- no conditions. There is no string to the offer. The question is will the state accept? The draw is an import- ant bridge matter and is fully as im- Portant as another draw with perhaps Wwhich some of the members of the committee are familiar. dge Originally Cost $1,500,000. Alr. Campbell continuing said it would be necessary to substitute a Uft for a swing drgwbridge. The gov- ernment will not object or consider as detrimental to navigatio as the draws on both the present and the new Dridge two hundred feet be could be opened simulatneously, vessels pads through at the same time. The cost of this new 4 bridge for hi aw and fitting way purposes woul not exceed $230,000 and the state H in position to secure for that outlay a substantial highway bridge which originally cost $1,500,000 and which could not be duplicated for that sum today. There can be no argument against the proposition. A Benefit to Whole State. Mr. Campbell said that being a for- ner resident of the section, he was familiar with the conditions and cir- ‘cumstances that led up to this gen- erous offer. He said he had consult- ed with regard to this proposition with citizens of prominence in Waterbury and other sections of the state, and he was pleased to inform the committee that all with whom he had discussed the subject, declaration was made that the state should accept the bridge without reservation.. It is not a matter of special local interest to New Lon- don and Groton, but to the whole state. In these progressive times great ef- fort is made towards conservatism— to save what wa kave. As charity be- gins_at~home, bridgt Js surely & thing that should be conserved. It will be a valuable asset to the state and Mr. Campbell urged the commit- e to favorably report to the legis- ture. Favored by Hartford Board of Trade. Bdward M. Dexter, president of the Hartford Board of Trade, and a di- rector of the state association, in which every association in the state has representation in the directory, of the ®aid that there was action favorable to acceptance state. He said the Trade had voted unanimously in fa- vor of the proposition, and in fact, the sentiment on the outside Was hearti- unaminity by 1y in favor of acceptance of the bridge | for highway purposes. Charles M. Robinson, of New Ha- ven, president of the state road sociation, said that the break in the Lighway at New London wa suf- ficient to direct traffic back to New York city He said the ferry at New London w perhaps all that could be Fxpected of a ferry, but that automo- Dbilists preferred to travel on their own wheels. He believed that the bridge would bring trafiic to Connecti- fcut in such volume that the residents ©f Connecticut would receive in one rear the cost of the bridge to the state. the dridge is accepted as a high- = tmee it whiimseve ono of the E it assets of the state. He urded favorable report by the committee, State Needs the Bridge. John P. Kelloge of Waterbury, de- d that he believed the people of | the state were strongly in support of the measure. There s an eagerness to et something for nothing, and here s 2 chance for the state togket a Sub- tantial and needed D vy bridze a small fraction it would at the. stnte to - ige. He bii .. e ridge at & ucern 1o Hartford Board of | the state and the state ought to take advantage of the present opportunity. He asked the committee to give the subject speedy, favorable and unani- mous report. Matthew W. Rogers of Bridgeport, told of personal inconvenience he had experienced at the New London- Groton ferry, on both sides of the Thames. He said no question can be truthfully raised by any citizen in opposition to this proposed highw: improvement. The state needs crossing at that point in substitution of the most hazadous ferry in all New England. Change of Bridge Would Cost $250,000. Edwin W. Booth ,chief engineer of the Lyme and Haddam bridge, went |into some detail as to the spans and trusses and piers of the bridge and their cost, and he figured that by ac- cepting the bridge the state would re- ceive in value from $600,000 to $800,- 000. He said the estimate of $250,000 was ample to transfer the railroad bridge into a highway bridge. He said it was essential for the railroad com- pany to get the state’s answer now, as much depends upon the disposition of the bridge in connection with the building of the new structure, and the work on_both could be carried on connectedly and to mutual advan- tage. He said it is a durable bridge and would serve the public a sreat many years. Not a New London Issue. Former Governor Thomas M. Wal ler was the next speaker. He said he would like to have the committee to know that he did not come to the kearing for New London, but for the State, for if New London alone was concerned it would be embarrassing to make appearance. New London had asked for and recefved much from the state, and he did not want to crowd the mourners and ask for more. New London’s desire in this matter is in- finitesinal in comparison with the general desire of the whole state for the highway bridge. > present ferry accommodates the local travel. Noth- ing can be said against the ferry for such use or of the Thames river, but the passage at the ferry is extremely dangerous; is good for pothing ex- cept to lawyers and physicians and sometimes undertakers. In justice be it said, that the railroad company is about to make a change that will make the ferry approach in New London comparatively safe. The need for the highway bridge has grown up, not pecially for local use, but for state and inter-state traffic, which has doubled within five years and will in- crease as time goes on. When the bridge is taken over by the state there will be no ferry between New York and Boston and Boston and Maine. This highway would be alike benefi- cial to the rich who rode in chai; and the poor who walk. Highway Bridge Got to Come. Mr. Waller said there is not a thoughtful men in the state but who believes that some day a - highway bridge must be built acro the Thames. It has got to come. Now is the opportune time to get that bridge at much below the cost of a new, and no more durable structure. No legis- lature can stop a bridge there; It is sure to come, for Connecticut is pro- gressive, not politically, but wisely progressive. Mr. Waller then referred to the great fight in 1868, over the construc- | tion_of the first railroad bridge across | the”Connecticut river at Saybrook? when he was opposed by the late Sen- ator William W. Eaton who declared that no bridge should ever be built across God’s highway. The bridge was built and the senator lived to see trains of cars go on a bridge across God’s highway. Mr. Waller then re- ferred to his contests in behalf of the bridge near Lyme and the Thames river, and of his success in each In- stance, and he saild he believed suc- cess would crown his effort in this in- stance. Hopes Committee Will Accept Prompt- ly. He hoped the committee would act fa- vorably and promptly, have a resolu- tion passed accepting the bridge, and the appointment of a commission fo get all the information the state should know and present same to the next general assembly. He id the important matter should be left in 1o uncertain way, for no one knows what hanges may occur in il years, and there is possibili: state may lose the benefit that is now within reach. Engineer Bush said th present structure is adapted to traffic purposes and would stand for innumerable years as its use as a high y the loads | would be a half less than was intend- | ed when the bridge was i | built. Favored by Norwich Citizens. Frank J. King, representing the | Norwich Board of Trade, said that or- | ganization -was heartily in favor of the proposition and asked favorable consideration of the committee and by the legislature. | _ Herbert R. Branche. representing the Norwich Business Men's 2 iso spoke strongly in favor of ac- ceptance of the bridge, stating that the organization he represented had voted to have representatives at the hearing | in_the interest of the measure. Mayor Murphy of Norwich safd he believed the people of Norwich wure unanimously in favor of the proposi- | tion and urged the committee to | prompt and favorable action, as de- lays are dangerous. He believed fa- vorable report of the committee would be to its credit and favorable action by the legislature would be a credit to the state. Charles H. Gilchrist and Jason L, Randall, presidents of the Norwalk and Groton Boards of Trade, respectively, spoke In favor, Leonard H. Healey of Woodstock, L, H, Healey of Woodstock, secre- tary of the state grange, said aka rule what s got for nothing wasPworth nothing, but here is an _exception where the state has appertunity to get something for nothing, and something 4 al | him to confe under discussion was nog of state-wide ataresl Cabigd Paragraphs Second Operation on Duch: London, April 29.—Another operation was_performed this morning on _the Duchess of Connaught,wife of the gov- ernor general of Canada. The surgeons in attendance report that the operation was successful, 2,490 Aviators in the World. Paris, April —There are today 2,490 certificated aviators in the World, according to the annual bulle- tin of the International Aeronautical association published here. Of these the United States has 193. Army Officers Arrested. Lisbon, Portufal, April 29.—Among mental disorders on Sunday were Gen- eral Fauste Gedes, Captains Andreia, Fentes and Serejo, and twenty other commissioned ofiicers of various regi- ments, with numerous/ Ron-commis- sioned officers. Mrs. Belmont and Mrs. Catt at Peace. London, April 29.—The antagonisms of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of New York in regard to the suffrage campaign have ovidently been overcome since their arrival here, for it is announced that the two ladies, one representing the militant and the other the anti-mili- tant section of the women’s movement, appeared in the front row on the same platform tonight. CONFESSES MURDER 3 OF MATTIE HACKETT. Prisoner at Blackwell’s Island Impli- cates Himself and Two Others. New York, April 20.—What may prove to be the solution of an eight year 0ld murder myster—the killing of Mattie Hackett, a young girl of Ker nebec county, Me., in August, 1905— was furnished by Richard F. Dunbar, a prisoner at Blackwell’s Islani, in a statement to a city detective today. Dunbar implicated himself and two other men in the crime, the police say. Already one person, a Mrs. Raymond, of Readiieid, Me., has been tried for the murder of the girl and acquitted because of lack of evidence. Dunbar, -cording to the statement given out at pelice headquarters, tonight, feared oth innocent persons might be charged with a crime for which he and two others were responsible. This | reason and also the fact, he sald, that | ever since the murder he had been haunted with visions of the victim, led alleged confession given out by the police quote Dunbar as saying he became friendly with a young man of good family at Readfield Who fold him he had a girl whom he wanted to get out of the way, naming Mattie Hackett, who Hved in Stanley Crossing, near Readfield. His friend and another man and himself went to the Hackett home, he said, and while the third man got the girl's father out of the house on some pretext he and the man who was the principal in the crime lured her to a dark spot where the other man Strangied her with & rope. A turnkey in the Kennebec county jail also knows who committed the crime, Dunbar's statement says. The Kennebec county authorities have been notified of Dunbar's con- fesslon. Dunbar said he had been ar- Trested In Readfeld later on another charge and sent to jail but escaped. Dunbar was arrested in Cheyenne, ast November on the charge of having absconded with several hun- dred dollars from the Williamsburg Pork Packing company of Brooklyn. He was convicted here and sentenced to nine montbs’ imprisonment. DUNBAR NOT KNOWN. Maine Officials Skeptical His Confession. Parts of the Regarding April 29.—Kennebec county offi were inclined to be skeptical regarding the alleged state- ment of Richard F. Dunbar to a New York detective. Jabez S. Tyler, turnkey at the coun- ty jail, said he remembered no such man_as Dunbar anq according to the sheriff the jail records contain no such name, She Getchell said ANNUITY OF $500 FOR LADY SCOTT. Mother and Sisters of Antarctic Ex- plorer Also Provided For. M als Augusta London, April 29.—The British gov- ernment, according to announcement made by Premier Asquith tonight, will provide an annuity of $500 Xor the widow of Captain Robert ¥. Scott, head of the British Antarctic expedition, who perished while returning from th South Pole, in addition to her admir- alty pension of $1,000. The government will also provide a joint annuity of $1L500 for Captain Scott's mother and his two sisters and an annuity of $1,500 for the widow and sister-in-law of Dr. Edward A. Wil- son, chief of the scientific staff of the expedition. BROOKLINE AUTOISTS STRUCK BY A TROLLEY. Mrs, Frederick O. Booth and Son Ed- ward Injured at Meriden. Meriden, Conn., April tempting fo turn their machine around. as they were off the main road from Boston to New Haven, Mrs. Frederick O. Booth and her son, Edward Booth, both of 1016 Beacon street, Brookline, were hurled to the ground when an in ward bound trolley struck their ma- chine broadside. Mrs. Booth suffered a severe contusion on the right arm and from a pervous shock. Her son, who was driving the car, had his right side severely bruised. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Newport, R. L, April 29.—Steamer Kronprinz Wilheim, Bremen for New Yorlk, signalled 193 miles east of San- dy Hook at 12.20 p. m. Dock § a. m. Wednesday. Siasconset, Mass., April 29.—Steamer Olympic, Sovthampton for New York, signalled 371 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock § a. m. Wednesday. Siasconset, Mass, April 20.—Steamer ociation, | Berlin, Genoa for New York, signalled 193 miles east of Sand: Dock 8 a. m. We Hook at 3.15 dnesday. p. m, Steamship Arrivals. Plymouth, April 28.—Arrived, steam- er Ascania, Portland for London. Liverpool, April 28 —Arrived, steam- er Mauretania, New York, Antwerp, April 29.—Arrived, steam- er Zeeland, New Yorlk. Quebec, April 20 —Arrived: Steamers Tonian, London; Pretorian, Glasgow. of the state required that the commit- tee report favorably and he hoped the committee would do o, The hearing was then %declared closed. There was no opposition. There was a'large attendance from nearly all sections of the state, including large delegations from New London and Groton, but the latter, with a single exception, took ne part in the hearing lest it be comstrued that the matter Heated Debate On Tariff Billi SINCERITY OF LEADERS IMPUGNED: CLARK JOINS DEBATE Speaker Leaves Chair to Declare That in His Opinion No Republican Lead. er Favored a Tariff Commission. ‘Washington, April 20.—Bxcited de- bate and heated wrangle today markeq the beginning of the reading of the democratic tariff bill in the house for amendment. Progress on the perfec- tion of the measure was slow, but the talk was loud and vociferous and on one occasion brought Speaker Clark on the floor with a vigorous speech. All day the _republicans offered amendments to the various paragraphs in the chemical schedule and every amendment was calmly vofed down by the big democratic majority. Several minor amendments offered by the ways and means committee to correct the Phraseology of the bill were adopted. Attacks on Chemical Schedule. Most of the talk of the day turned on the records of the democratic and republican side of the house on the question of creating a tariff. commis- sion. The republicans, led by Repre- sentative Manm of Illinois, began their attacks on the various provisions of the first schedule of the bill, the chem- ical -schedule, by declaring that the “weaknesses” in the rate showed the need of the investigation of a tariff board. Representative Underwood in reply declared that the democrats had provided the bureau of foreign and do- mestic commerce In the department of commerce and that the failure of the Taft administration to vitalize that bureau with sufficient appropriations had_prevented its doing the work of tariff_investigation. Progressive Starts Trouble. Representative Gardner of Massa- chusetts said that Representative Un- derwood and other democrats had voted for the tariff commission In the sixty- first congress when the republicans were In power and urged that they support the republican proposition fiow. Then Representative Murdock, the pro- gressive leader, touched off 'the fire- works. He declared that both republi- cans and democrats were opposed to | the tariff commission scheme and re- called that the last day of the sixty first congress, “Uncle Joe” Cannon's final appearance at the speaker's desk, the tariff commission bill was with- drawn by the republicans in the face of a filibuster led by Representative Fitzgerald of New York. ““The republicans in this chamber then” shouted Mr. Murdock, “like the republicans in this chamber now, were only pretending to be for a tariff com- mission. They had their chance to ‘write that bill into law then and fail- ed. They will never have another chance.” Gardner Repudiates Murdock’s Charge. The republicans grew excited and Representative Gardner shouted that there was no foundatlon for Mr. Mur- dock’s charge that -the “republican leaders were in a conspiracy to defeat the_tariff commission bill.” Gesticulating wildly, Mr. Gardner demanded the opinion of Representa- tive Sherley of Kentucky as to the truth of the charge. Mr. Sherley said he believed many of the republicans opposed the bill. Then Representative Gardner shaking a finger at Speaker Ciark, demanded to know whether he believed the charge. The speaker strode to the center of the well of the house and shouted: “My judgment is that never was a republican leader in this house really in favor of a tariff commission.” Speaker Clark’s Version. Mr. Gardner sat down and the speaker went on. He declared that he Wwas against a_tariff commission re- porting ang responsible to the presi- dent. “Tt is the house that should have the Iinformation,” he said. The speaker went into detail about the defeat of the tariff commission bill in the sixty-first congress, explaining that the democrats refused to follow himself and Representative Under- Wood. “They rolled to us a fare well,” he declared, “and the republicans were standing back and consenting _like Saul at the stoning of Stephen. They actually rolled up a majority against Underwooq and myself, but it was the first time and the last time they ever did it. The only reason was they caught us napping.” Representative Gardner again tried to pin the speaker down to his posl- tion en the conspiracy charge. “T think the gentleman from New York, Mr. Pavne, was honest on that day, in trylng to get that bill through,” sald the speaker. “But was there a conspiracy on that day?” demanded Mr. Gardner. T cannot tell,” said the speaker, “be- cause I was not in it if there was one.” ) The house roareq with laughter. The speaker concluded with the dec- laration that ‘a non-partisan _tarifr board was an impossibility, and that he was in favor of giving the ways and means committee itself all of the expert help it needed to ascertain the facts as to the tariff. ROMONO BORDEN RICH BUT SHE IS NOT HAPPY. Declares She Wants a Home and Has Not Had It for Many Years. New York, April 20.—A girl longing for a home was 17_vear old Romono Borden when she fled from a sani- tarium in Pompton, N. J., last week, according to her own statement today. On Baturday she was restored to her father, Gail Borden, millionaire con- densed milk manufacturer, in Boston, after a search by detectives in many states. “People say I am rich, that my par- ents are rich,” the girl said in expla- nation of her flight. “I guess that is true, but that does not mean that I can be happy. Daughters of rich peo- ple are not always happy. The trouble is I haven't had a home for many, many years. 1 have been sent from one school to another school, and th to_another one; but none was home. What I have wanted so badly was & home—I have not had it.” The girl will have a_home with her mother henceforth, Tomorrow, said Mrs, Borden today, she will start with her daughter for Los Angeles, Romono declared that she had trou.. ble with the sanitarium nurse who at- tended her. ‘T just got desperate and wired my mother to eome and get me,” ehe said, Lightning Stunned Three Men and started a fire in' & public school in Camden, No & _ - i aa aN REPUBLICAN | RECOGNIZES TREATY RIGHTS OF 'Emu receiver, PRICE TWO CENTS Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to- . City’s Population New Alien Land Bill Prepared JAPANESE. OBJECTION IS REMOVED Phrase “Ineligible to Citizenship” Does Not Appear—Result of Conference of Messrs. Bryan and Johnson. Sacramento, Calif, April 29—The possibility of an amicable adjustment of the alien land controversy by means of a new bill, drawn in strict conform- ity with the treaty between Japan and the United States, confronted tonight the third secret conference of Secre- fary of State Bryan with Governor Johnson and the California leglslature. The conference was called for 8.30 o'clock. Attorney General U. S. Webb draft- ed the new measure at the suggestion of Governor Johnson and a copy was placed jmmediately in the hands of Secretary Bryan. The term “ineligible to citizenship,” which is declared by Secretary Bryan to be odious to the Japanese, is not included, and progres- sive republican leaders are confident they have arrived at a solution, of the problem that will receive the edorse- ment of President Wilson. Features of the Bill. Secretary Bryan declined to com- ment upon the new bill except in the conference. - The principal features of the bill are as follows: 1 All aliens eligible to _citizenship may acquire and hold land in the same manner as citizens of the United states. 2 All other aliens may acquire and 1d_land “in the manner and to the exteiit and for the purposes prescrib- ed by any treaty now existing be- tween the government of the " United States and the nation or country of which such alien is a citizen or sub- Ject. 3 Corporations composed of aliens other #han those who are eligible to citizenship may acquire and hold land only according to the terms of exist- ing treaties. 4 Present holdings of aliens, regard- less of their rights to citizenship, are Pprotected. 5 The state specifically reserves Its sovereign right to enact any and all laws relaing to the acquisition or holding of real property by aliens. Terms of Japanese Treaty. Attorney General Webb worked up- | on_the theory that there could be no | objection to writing into the statute the specific limitations of the Japan- ese_treaty of 1911. Under the terms of this treaty, Japanese subjects are permitted o | own “houses and lands for reside tial purposes, factories ,manufactories and shops,” according to Mr. Webb. Another clause permits Japar):se sub- jects to lease land for “residential and commercial purposes.” These are the only _stipulations made, and it s the belief of the at- torney general that the rights of Jap- anese subjects to land ownership in the United States stop at this point. Under this construction of the treaty 1o land can be owned or leased by a Japanese for agriculural purposes, ex- cept that which is already owned, or | for any other purposes except those set forth in the agreement between the nations. Explaining the wording of the sub- stitute bill, Mr. Webb said: Meets Requirement of Treaties. “Our theory is that at the time the | treaty was formed, Japan asked for all | the rights as to ownership of land in California that that nation desired for her subjects and that the treaty as it now stands represents all that Japan asked and all that the United States vas willlng to grant. “This act does not draw the line up- on alfens who are ineligible to citizen- ship. Those words are not used. It gives not only to Japanese, but to every nation whose subjects are ineli- gible to citizenskir under the laws of the United States, the full rights to ownership of land in California_that the treaties between the United States and such nations give.” New Act Will Serve Its Purpose. It is generally believed here that the new act would accomplish the ends said to be desired by the people of the state, namely, prevention of the furth- er acquisition by Japanese subjects of farming lands and ranches. FOR CONSPIRING TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, | Begins of Four Former New York Police Inspectors, New York, April 20.—Four high po- lice officers’ declared by the district ttorney to have been figures In the ‘system” of police graft were placed on trial in supreme court today, ac- cused of conspiring for the perversion and obstruction of justice. The defendants are Dennis Sweeney, James E. Hussey, James F. THompson and Johm J. Murtha, all formerg in- spectors. The specific charge agfinst them is that they were in collusion to keep George A. Sipp, a hotel keeper, out of the state. Sipp had testified before the aldermanic committee that he paid graft for many years in a Harlem inspection district so that his resort would mot meet with police in- terference. To keep Sipp out of the court's jur- isdiction, according to Assistant Dis- trict Atforney Clarke's address to the jury today, the inspector entered into an agreement to pay the hotel man $1,000 for one month’s absence and $100 a week thereafter as long as it was necessary for him to remaln away. Mr. Clarke set forth further that the defendants agreed to pay $3,000 to Fugene Fox, a policeman, and to take care of Fox's family, if he was sent to jail without confessing himeelg a collector of Sipps’ tributes. Fox aid <confess, however. RECEIVERSHIP DUE TO TARIFF LEGISLATION Woolen Mills at Woonsooket, Employ- — Ing 1200, In Difficulties. ‘Woonsocket, R. T, April 20.—Fear of the effect of propesed tariff changes s given by officials of the Nasonville Woolen mills at Nasonville, for volun- tary receivership proceedings which were begun today, Ernest Mowrey of Oak Vallsy mills at Tarkiln was The mills mana- and loy Trial ture worsted goods 200 hands. | tendent of pol Condensed Teiegrams Mrs. Lester . Ralph, known’ to the newspaper world as. Elsie Reasoner, died yesterday at Lloyd, Fla. Thomas M. Evans, president of th> McKeesport, Pa., National bank, died in Boston following an operation. A Fire Entailing a Loss of at least $600,000 swept the business section ot Gretna, Man., late Monday night The Home Office at London has ex- tended Mrs. Pankhurt’s tickel of leave because of her weak condition. Pennsylvania is te Test the mothers’ pension system, Governor Tener hav- ing approved the act recently passcd by the legislature, Ben Kahn, Convicted of Burning his store at South Bend, Ind., vesterday ‘was sentenced from two to 21 years in the Indiana state prison. Rev. John T. Lynch, pastor of St. Jo- seph’s Roman Catholic: church at Meri- den, is In Chicago to undergo an op- eration for intestinal trouble. Ernest Dye, a negro, confessed to the Sharon, Pa., police that he shot and killed 'an American soldier in the Brownsville, Tex., riots in 1906. In Order to Lower the Taxicab “trust” prices a public hackmen's pro- tective league has been formed in New York by 250 independent taxicab own- ers. A Dispute as to Who Should * over the FEhaer collection caused fight in which 21 ersons were injure.l in 8t. Mary's CatRolic church at Un- iontown, Pa. A Monument Was Unveiled at Knox- ville, Tenn., in honor of the 4Sth anni- versary of the Mississippi river disas- ter in wihch 1,200 Union soldiers were drowned. J. Frank Best, Cashier of the Citi- zens’ National bank of Netcong, N. J. is missing and the accounts of the bank, according fo its president, arc $4,000 short. The Body of John Ross, one of the oldest and most prominent lumber men on the Penobscot rver, reached Bangos, Me, vyesterdavy from Halifax, N. 3. where he died Sunday. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont said ye day: “If New York fails to awake we shall introduce militant method: type used by the Women's Political union in London. Frank Gotch of Humbaldt, lows champion wrestler, underwent an op- eration in a hospifal at Marshalitown, Towa, yester for the removal of a bone growth in his nose. Anthony Marasce. 25 years old, was struck on the head with a hatchet and killed at Chicago vesterday after he attacked Anna Forte, 16 vears old, be- cause she refused to marry him. Dumb for More Than 20 Years, as the result of throat _affection, Le> Price, a merchant of Par com- pletely recovered his voice after a se vere coughing spell induced by a cold. That the Civil War might have been avoided had states been linked by adequate system of national highways was a suggestion made in an address by Charles Henry Davis of Cambridge, Mass. Nearly 100 Quarry Workers who struck at the Webb Granite company’'s quarries at Milford, Mass., recently in an | of the | the railroad for a wreck iIn that coun- Social and | ty because it did not have men enou | on | i | | | coroner of passengers. He said that a few days ago a woman in Danbury was injured while alighting unassisted from a_c {and he knew persomally a Mrs. Wil- liams in New London who was hurt | at Saybrook Junction while leaving a | car in the dark. He said there were not trainmen enough sometimes to Advocates of “Full Crew” One Speaker Claims It Could Hartforg, Conn., April 20.—The rail- road men’ had their afternoon on the full crew bill before the legislativ committee on railroads this afternoon and the railroad will reply in opposi- | tion to the bill next week. There wero | present from the railroad companies | General Superintendent Woodward, Su perintendent Bardo of the New York division, Attorney Spock of the Haven road and officlals and for the Central New England and Ver- mont Central roads. Representative Wilson of Bridgeport presented the railroad men’s side and nearly three hours was taken up. Among those who spoke was B. H. Douglas of New Haven, who represent- ed the men who by the fares they paid ang the rates on the goods which they sell “pay the dividends of fhe rail- roads” "He said he represented offi- | clally the United Commercial Travel- ers who have 518 members in the state, Traveling Pubilc Not Protected. Mr. Douglas gaid the traveling pub- lic is not getting the protection the railroads in the state that it ought to have.| He said the railroad mission 17 vears ago did a wrong thing when it allowed ster to be classed as a trainman. id he knew nothing of the freight service but the statements of Coroner Phil- lips, previously made, recalled that a Hartford county had ce sured the New Haven road for a freight wreck at East Haven and a coroner in Middlesex county had also criticised urged the com- aggageman as the trains. He mittee not to count a trainman. New London Woman Injured. Mr. Douglass said he came hearing not representing any railroad organization, but representing the traveling men and himszif as a citizen He declared that trains do not hav men enough on them to atiend to_th: a call oft stations, and recently 4 forelgn gentleman who was to speak at Trin- ity college was carried to Meriden be- cause the station was not called. The passengers on the train' drew up a | petition of protest. He called atten- | tion to a train from New York to New | Haven on which there is only one | trainman. | Accidents Due to Lack of Trainmen. This has six cars and the brakeman | sympathy with a strike of building trades unionists at Pittsburg will turn to work today. Fifteen World Famous American and English bred thoroughbred mares, each with foal by her side, were burned to death in a fire which destroved a barn at the Kingston stock farm near Lex ington, Ky., vesterday The Huerta Government in Mexico probably will be overthrown within two weelks, according to Robert J. Kerr, an attorney who recently came from Mex- ico, in an address before the Rotary club of Chicago vesterday Agitation Against the “Smut Song” bore fruit Monday night when an or- dipance was introduced in the Chicago council forbidding the singing of “Any song the words of which are suggestive of indecency or immorality. After Clubbing a Sentry into uncon- sciousness, Marcus A. Wilson, 26 years old, and Charles Babbit, 28 years old, prifoners at Fort Sheridan, recently convicted of desertion, escaped from the guard house yesterday. A Thorough Investigation Pittsburg police department yesterday, following the allegations of William Wallace, a former superin- ce. that a “Mgh” police official granted him permission o opgn gambling house. John C. Bennett, formerly an Bgent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance company in Meriden, was found guilty in the city court yesterday of the em- bezzlement of $14 from the company. Fle was fined $14 and costs, which Re paid. The Committee of Six Clergymen and business men who have been Te- quested by the board of education to investigate charges against S. L. Hee- ter, superintendent of the public schools, will begin their inquiry teday behind closed doors. Exports from the United States o five principal countries of South Amer- ica—Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Peru—increased = almost 12 per cent. during the first nine months of the present fiscal year as compared with the same period last year. Deglaring That She Preferred Death to separation_from'her two children, Mrs, Martha B, Ettie went on a “hun- ger strike” when she was committed to prison at York, Pa., Saturday on a charge of larceny, and the authori- ties, fearing she would die of starva- tion, released her. Mrs. Rachael Sparks, 59, of Corbin, Ky., caused the arrest of Frank G. Gir- ard, 56, & performer with a_burlesque company, charging that he had stolon $50 from her, and when Girard declar- ed his inability to refund the monev, but offered himgelf to her instead, sho aceepted the proposition and the two were married. Roald Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, has written to Secretary Garrison ex pressing his purpose to avail himself of the privilege of passing through the Panama cana] this fall with Fram, the vessel in which he is to make his lat- et Arctic trip. The Fram is now at Buenos Ayres, Death Penalty Retained: * -l Charles 8t. J. Chubb, U’ “art disease at Gal s, Sacramento, Cal, April 29.—The bill eling men. Mr. Spock: “You write considerably | for the newspapers. do you not?” Mr. Douglas: “Yes, 1 dia until T was shut o Mr. Spock: “You signed yourself the has to begin opening platform wells and gates efght miles from New Ha- ven In order to get them all ready by the time New Haven is reached. FHe | asked what Would result if this train | was in an accident and the only train- man had to go back to flag the next train. He said that traveling men were | willing to pay more for fare if they could get more men on trains. He said the railroad company frequently “puts it over on us” by stretching mfleage, Dbut it is afraid to come out in the open and meef this_question llke a man. Mr. Douglas told of some of his experiences on the road and of numer- ous cases of persons injured, in which such injuries he alleged were due fo lack of trainmen to assist passengers He offered to put in the Has Written Many Criticisms. Mr. Spock had permission to ask questions and the first was as to his | delegated power to represent the trav- | “Yankee Drummer’ did not Mr. Douglas: “Yes.” “Wrote azainst the New Haven road, aidn’t you? es. “In a facetious way, eh?" “What do you mea by facetions?” Mr. Spock wanted to know as to who shut up Mr. Donglas and then asked if the list of imjured persons was a recent one, and Mr. Douglas sald it was. Shut Off by New Haven Paper. Mr. Douglas a_moment later when Mr. Spock stopped his questioning said he would answer the question as to who shut him up. H¢ said that the papers had used what he had been writing, ang were always anxious to. This was true of the New Haven Reg- ister, he said. Continuing, Mr. Douglas sald® “The Rogister suddenly refused to publish anything more and even refused to publish an advertisement which T took to it and was to pav for. Some powerful interest was behind it. I took the matter to the Palladium and it pubMNshed it and was glad to, and T have a copy of the Palladium here with it in.” Mr. Spock: * Pglladivm went out of business.’ Discharged ‘for Appearing at HearTng. Mr. Douglas then sald: “Tn my pay envelope one Saturday night 1 found a note which said that if T wrote any- thing more about the New Haven road I _could consider myself discharged. ‘Well, T was 52 years of age and T did not ke to go out looking for work at that age, so I did not write. Two years ago I appeared before the pub- ile utflitles commisslon on a matter affecting the railroad and 1 was dis- eharged by the concern T worked for. Y am now working for another con- cern. Mr. Douglas was asked If he knew the reasoen for his discharge and he sald that he afterwards personally learned that twe henrs hefsre the pav envelope which contained the note tell- ing him he would be discharged was= | handed him the coneern had received a letter from the New Haven road, Decrease of 297 Trainmen, The prineipal speakers at the hear- ing were Coremer Phelan, who de- sortbed conditiens at (he Westport wreck and queteq from his finding and the evidence in which he set forth ng the to prevent capital punishment was de- feated in the senate today alier a |Harrison debata ¥ Lo ihe Rhoatod. VIR it that the express was undermanned, vis and Jonathan L. Row R, el —— | ger | sana extinguishe | tonight the NEED OF LARGER CREWS ON TRAIN® Bill Present Arguments Before Legislative Committee on Railroads MIGHT HAVE AVERTED WRECK AT STONINGTON Have Been Avoided With Full Crew—Coroner Phelan Believes Train Crews Toa Small—Commercial Traveller Says He Has Been Perse- cuted Because of His Criticisms of the New Haven Road. New Haven, Representative Stever Danbury, Mr. Brigham for t ductors’ ' organization, and others, Mr. Wilson put in some ing that in 1906 the trainmen and in 1912 3,2 in seven years of 207 trainmen. of the fact that the road's had increased greatly, train longer and heavier, locomott and he asked if the foroe hs cut in face of an emergency. He that the panic of 1907 had undo been the cause of a reductl force as an economic meas there had been mergers of r g capitalization, and mong in spi busine ds had needed to pay a return on that cap ital Decrease in Trackmen. In 1906 there wora 6,666 trackmer employed while in 1912 thege were onl 4,963, Mr. Wilson askd’ o1 mittee to find tke intimite relatiom of these conditions of employment labor with the wrecks which h: curred. The road has been doing business, taking in more mc yet its employes are less than in “What effect has this had on life an limb In Conneeticut” he 1908 the total accidents in were 212, while in 1912 the to employes, and to 1906 and 274 in 1912, in 1906 and 1,476 1912 Springfield Express Undermanned sty ales et tolll’ ot . ‘e Westport wreck. He had belteved th: train crews were too few for th fort of passengers. He had found tk Springfield express undermanned. H believed that If there had been mora trainmen something could have b done to save a woman In a car who was caught by the leg. T wre was left without a trainman. b found the fire extinguishe but to Mr. Spock he said that a made an impression blazing coal heaped coach in which the ed to death. He wo men trained to nse th To Representative committee Mr. Phelan not have it understood trainmen woulq have pr: wreck, but more of them been there to assist the pa Accidents Cost $27 per Farrison Davis for the organization, put in figures amount of monecy paid men who have been widows and dependents have been killed. Hour tr the of 1t aquals $27 av for every homur of the vear. Full Crew Would Have Ave ington Wreck. E. C. Terry said that the Saybrook Junction wherein backed into a signal tower man being killed, and a wreck ington, were specific Instances the accidents could have been a by a full crew. e referred th mittee to the coroner's fmdir these cases, THE POWERS RELL TO WAR ON MONTENEGR Majority of Ambassadors N for Warlike Measures. London, April Brit o forelg [ Do news that Austrip was actua taking separate actioh against Moni negro. It is understood that Anstr is waiting the result of the ambasss dorial _conference arsday ax employing the interval in an endea to induce Italy to join her in milita action. “The meetings of the ambassadors i London have shown almost conclustyr iy that a majority of the powers not prepared to adopt warlike r ures ageinsi Montemegro. It/ practically cortain that with Qays, whether Italy comes” Austria will despatch ag” wm Cettinje demanding nmediate evacuation of Scutari. Not another word of Fssad Pasha’s doings in Albania has come through. Jsmail Kemal Bey, head of the pre visional Albanien government, has ar rived in London to enlist British suy port. He and other Albanisns do not regard Essad Pasha's cop very ser ously, but the opimion seems to be growing among diplomats here thet an administration under Hsad Pasba in Albania might not be smch an b possible solution of 4 difficalt problen. Tt is considered that Bssad Pash: @s an infiuential Albanian, with strong following, and the prestige of @ gallant defense of Scutari, might be more acceptable to Albenians than s foreign prince, and that if allowed to retain his self chosen post he might be inclined to make territorial conoss- slons which would compensate Monte- negro for tha loss of Scutarl and sa isfy Buropean claims. ORTIE M'MANIGAL TO CHANGE APPEARANCT fIntends to Have Scar on His Face Re . moved by Surgery. Y.og Angeles, Calif. April 29 _Ortin ®. McManignl, oconfessed dvnamites lans to have his sppearance aitered surgery when shortly he 1s released from prieon, It {s £aid ho hopes 8o to change himself that no one will rec. ognize him 88 the man whoss test- mony sent the McNamara brothers and more than a score of labor union offiofals to prisen, ‘When a child the wheel of a wager inflicted an injury on MoManigals head which leff & long sear across hs forehead, The mar aided detective tracing Bim after the Los Angel Times buflding was destroyed by dym mite. Doclors have told MoManig that the scar eam be removed and plans te have it dome as s00n A gains hig freedom, Predicts Banner Peach Crep, Hartford, Conn., April 25.—J. H. ¥ of @iastenbury, “the peach king an {interview tonight, said that Cor negticut this yesr will probably b - vel the greatest peagh erep in its hiuy RGSORIDE 7 OASESRL UMGHLL0R {