Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 24, 1913, Page 4

diorwich Zuiletin and Goufier. 117 YEARS OLD. Subscription price, 120 a week; 6% a month; $6.00 a y- - Eatered at the Postoffice at Norwicn, Conn, as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulletin Business Office. 480. Bulletin Tditerial Rooms, 3 Bulletin Job Office, 35-2 Willimantic Office. Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. Norwich, Thursday, July 24, 1913, i The Circulation of Bulletin the Iargesc elr- y paper in Bastera mmecticut, and from three te feur tmes larger thas that of amy im Norwden. It iy delivered 10 eover 3,000 of the 4053 houses im Neor- wich, and rend 4y minety-three per cent. of the people. In Windhum it is delivered te over $00 houses, in Putsmm and Daniclsom to over 1,100, and in all of these places I is counsidered the local daily. Easterm Commecticut has forty- nine towss, ouc humdred amd sixty- five posteffice districts, amd sixty rural free delivery reoutes. The Bulletin is sold m every town and emn all of the R. ¥, b. routcy in Eastern Coamecticat. CIRCULATION 1901, averago..cccececccecesss 4412 ----5,920 Week ending July 19“8‘508 Have The Bulletin Follow You 1905, avorage. . Readers of the Bullstin leaving the city for the seashore, mountains, rural resorts or Europe can have the Bulletin follow them daily and keep in touch with home affairs. Orders should be placed with The Bulletin Business Office. NO CRIMINAL BLAME. The finding by Coroner Phelan, after an exhaunstive examination into the facts and conditions leading up to the Stamford wreck, that there is no crim- inal blame to be attached either to the New Haven road or Engineer Doherty, means the end of the idea of any prosecution following the in- quiry. It a much different view of the affair from what the interstate commerce commission and the public utilities commission took of the sit- uation. Coroner Phelan exonerates om the matter of criminal negligence, a point which is perhaps somewhat dif- ferent from the opinion of the other investigators who were looking for the cause of the wreck, for the purpose of preventing other such occurrences n t\e future. It is of much less value as a corrective measure than the other two. The need of changes in the method of selecting efficient engine - drivers, the necessity of incr ing the equip- ment of steel cars ble so0on as pos and the demand that the most prac- tical safety device for requiring the proper Tespect to signals, be adopted, have been demonstrated beyond any question. Based upon such obvious nec ties the road has begun imm te to make such improvements as will' give the greatest degree of safety to its patrons. The hest engineers, steel equipment and automatic stops are not exorbitant demands but they do promise to bring about a most vital reform and overcome the defects which have been found to exist. IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTION. The importance attached to fire pre- proper respeot for h they prove but 8 most kingly filustrated by the heavy death toll paid in the Binghamton factory fire. Another big losg of life has resulted under circum- stances much the same as those wi characterized the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York ¢ years ago. In each Instance there ex- isted the danger which it required a fire to demonstrate sufficiently to bring about a reform, but Binghamton failed to profit from the New York exper- fence. Conditions about the factory in each case were such that a fire would spread with great rapidity and though there were fire escapes, the ignoring of the alarm and the delav occasioned by “considering it just another fire dril” all served to add to the death 1ist. Whatever may he found to have been the cause of the fire, if it can be determined, it will only emphasize the ever present necessity of using and enforcing every precaution to prevent the starting of fires and particularly g0 in such districts where the fire hazard s the greatest. TUntil fireproof buildings become general the need of using every possihle means of pre- venting fire and thus reducing the op- portunity of its communicating to in- flammable material which may be used in manufacture, is of 'the great- est importance. Human safety must be respected and a great responsibil- ty for it rests upen both the empioy- er and the employed, nt Secre- The suggestion of A tary of State Osborne t} of Columbus be taken through the canal at its opening is likely to start up a dispute as to the location of them, as great 8s the Inextinguishable con- troversy over Shakespeare and his works, or the natlonality of Columbus, a at the remaing The administratien is fellowing in the line of previeus good €xample by the suggestion of the Niecaraguan pol- fey, but it has an eppertunity to do something original and bring about peace in Mexice, which is 86 necessary and deserving. Nothing more than the present state of affairs in China is needed to dem- onstrate the importance of umity, else the republic is bound te be gradually pulled apart, theugh it is likely to lese some of its territory whatever is done. New that Muihall has begun re- tracting statements on the "1 was mis- taken” plea he is liable te have his time wall eecupied in that directiem nions With another dry seasen and the scarcity of water beceming a matter of concern about the state, Norwich can feel greatly relieved that it has made ample provision against geing through any more such experiences as it has had in the matter of water shortage. It is now equipped with suffi- cient storage capacity to pond the spring rainfall and prevent so much of it from going to waste as will be more than sufficient to carry it through a drought. Middletown is already considering the pumping of city water for street sprinkling in order to preserve the res- ervoir supply as long as possible and overcome any consiymption which could be taken care of otherwise. A city is justified in protecting its sup- ply of water in whatever way it can, but it is apparent that with increased consumption and seasons which are unusually dry, the need of providing for greater storage capacity is upper- most. Throughout the winter and spring when the rainfall is the great- est, is the time when the water supply must be secured. TUnless there 1s ample provision made for its reten- tion the municipality is likely to suffer when the dry spell strikes on. It took this city too long to realize its po- sition, but it has put through an im- provement which will be a blessing for many years to come and at no time is this more appreciated than when the scarcity of water is being exper- ienced elsewhere. OLD AGE AND WORK. No two may possess the same ideas as to the secret of long life, but of necessity good living must be given its share of responsibility therein, vet it is a noticeable fact that those who are offering a prescription, though they do not profess to have partaken s elixir of life, invariably include of much importance, and not will tell you “work, and plenty A glance over those who have shows it to of it.” attained remarkable age be a fact that their lives have been so characterized. They are individuals who have been known as industrious, hardworking people. Added interest can. therefore be attached to the help- ful suggestion which a half score eminent British ‘“youngsters” offer when they agree upon the prescription “Keep on working.” Such men of prominence as TLord Wemyss, 94; Lord Strathcona, 92; Sir Charles Tupper, 91; Dr. Russell Wal- lace, 90; Lord Halsbury, 87; Lord Rob- {erts, 80; Tord Morley, 74; Sir Hiram Maxim, 7R and Sir omas Hardy, 73, are the celebrities who have sub- scribed to the policy of keeping on their job and they are examples of how well it has operated in their cases. For those who are physically able, work hurts no man. It is on the other hand a most important thing for the contentment of mind and the best use of time. There are many in every com- munity, qualified to testify, who will endorse the importance of work and its great value as a life insurance pol- iey. WHERE DEVELOPMENT SHOWS. How much the character of the ex- port trade of this country is chang- ing is indicated by the business which was done this year in comparison with a decade ago. The growth of the manufacturing interests of this coun- try has been tremendous and it is the part which the product plays In foreign trade which shows it. In all exports there has been almost a doubling in the past ten years, the approximate amount for the fiscal vear of 1913 be- ing 2,450 million dollars while in 1903 it amounted to but 1,392 millions. Foodstuffs make up a considerable amount, but while the total remains the same as a decade ago, it is made up by Increase In value because of higher prices, rather than by an in- crease in the amount exported. There has been a striking decline in the amount of fresh beef exported, a de- crease from over a quarter of a mil- lion pounds in 1903 to seven millions the past year. Beef cattle have drop- ped materially and so has canned beef but pork products hate been less af- fected. It is in’ the manufactured articles that the most striking increases in ex- ports occur. Iron and steel manu- factures as a whole show an increase from ninety-seven millions to over three hundred millions, while the man- ufactures have grown from 468 mil lion dollars to approximately 1,200 mil- lions. The country has shown much greater development in the manufac- turing line than in the production of foodstuffs and raw material. EDITORIAL NOTES. The umpire in the baseball leagué is having his usual Balkan experience. “Grave” perfl is a state of affairs which Mexico is fllustrating in all its phases. The need of prison reform is as glaring in Mississippi as it is in New York state. The time to fight the browntail moth is now. Tt small, but it is devas- tdting and Injurious, is Secretary Bryan may have put talk into Chautapqua. but he at the same time stirred it up with the public. It is time Mississippi adopted new measures for the insurance of some degree of safety from fire peril even to the negro prisoners. Tt is the city which fails to ofl its streets which fully realizes the dis- comforts of a dry summer. Once tried it is always required. makes no difference whether a man is black or white every precau- tion should be taken to prevent him from being roasted siive. Happy thought for today: The use of “powdered beer” in Kansas to over- come prohibition even escapes the pro- visions of the firearms law. Tt 1t is over a year hefore the interna- tional yacht race, but then Sir Thomas knows the value of newspaper adver- tising at every opportunity. Now that the mayor of Beston has offered to select the new president of the New Haven road, the special com- mittee undoubtedly feels relieved. It weuld be interesting to kmew just what diselpline Secretary Daniels would recommend for the jackies who participated in the Seattle rumpus, Will Seeretary Bryan expect some- thing from Niearagua for having pre- sented her eause in so faverable a light befere the people of the United States? With Mulhall weakening and re- traeting it may net be negessary to bere the ceuntry er the committee with these 100,000 letters frem the manufacturers’ association against their former empieys, “There’s a bear in the #voods,” an- nounced Mrs. Peavy with unection as she settled herself on the porch among the unpacked trunks and un- crated baggage that a summer resor- ter always takes aleng: “What?” stammered Mrs. Biggett unbelievingly. “In these woods?’ Mrs. Biggett might be pardened for her incredulity, for she had spent several summers in the mild little forest bor- dering Blue Ilag lake and nothing mere ferocious than rabbits, chip- munks and squirrels had been visible in that time. “Why, I think that's dreadful!” she said when the fact had wholly permeated her brain. “I don’t contract to go big game hunting when 1 go away for the summer! How can I manage a bear with a crochet hook or a tennis racket? How—" “You can’'t manage him, because you can't get near enough,” explained Mrs. Peavy. “Still, I suppose that when he gets desperate with hunger he will break into our cottages and attack us. They say he must have wandered down from up north. /The rural postman saw him crossing the road and, poor man! his horse climb- ed one tree and he went up another and they never did collect all the mail. His nervous system is completely shattered, they say. . “Several men have gone hunting him, and the Thompson boy really saw him, but just in time he remem- bered that his gun had nothing but | bird shot in it—so he climbed a tree | too. According to the stories told me | since 1 came, nearly all the trees in the woods have been climbed by about | all the smale population around here. | The exercise must be very healthful My husband is so fat that I know it' would be good for him, but he says he doesn’t hanker after bear hunting as he did when he was a boy. He stole a pig from a farmer the other | night—" “Your husband!” “Certainly not!” snapped Mrs. Peavy. indignantly. “I refer to the | bear! Oh, it really is a tremendous animal! The postman said it was as big as a Newfoundland dog, but the | Thompson boy had a longer look at it, and he says it is fully as big as their cow. The game warden of this county is a very rellable man. He was quite close to the bear, because the tree he climbed had cnly one strong branch, and it was near the ground . He says that, measured from tip to tip, the creature must be twelve feet long. It is terribly exciting—nobody take any walks at all!" “I think it is perfectly horrid!” in- sisted Mrs. Biggett, beginning to un- has been out after it and he | | must go and dares | Mrs. Peavy weakly to the still para- | never lock trunks energetically. ‘I'd go right back te Chicago if I theught we were te be haunted by wild ani- mals all summer! Why deesn’t seme- bedy shoot the beast or set a trap, or something? My goodness—where do you suppose my children are?’ “All the mothers on Blue Flag lake are saying that,” commented Mrs. PeaVy, cheerily. Mrs. Peavy had ne children. “The minute they are out of sight the parents think they must be eaten up by the bear. I should think he would be desperately hungry. because there really is nothing in the woods for him to eat but roots. When we had to walk to the chicken farm I made my husband carry his bowie knife that he bought to clean fish. John is a great friend of the game warden, and the game warden is.very indignant over the whole affair. He says when a man takes office to see that the fish and squirrels of a county are protected it is a mean trick to shove a bear off on him. I believe he is going*' to ask the county board for a gatling gun for protection. “I'm so nervous I can’t sleep nights. I keep expecting the bear to climb in at a window— and once when 1 acci- dentally got the woolen blanket wrap- ped tightly around my neck I woke up thinking all was over and the bear had me!” “I never heard of such a thing! said i Biggett, still indignant. ‘It is no to run a summer resort! 1 am scared to death, because my children are so naturally reckless. 1 really look for Herbert at “I'll go with you,” said Mrs. Peavy with unction. “Not that I think any- thing has happened, but you can tell—my goodness!” Her voice rose in a crescendo shriek as_she grabbed Mrs. Biggett's arm. Before them the spectacle was pre- sented /of Herbert Biggett, aged 12; Geneviéve Biggett, aged 9, and two or three other children clustered in- terestedly around a small, shaggy ob- ject which was lapping milk grate- fully out of a pan. “We found him in the woods!" Her- bert explained. “He followed when I called and he's awful hungry, and he does tricks! Up, Bruno!” The bear obediently stopped lapping milk and sat up on his little hind legs. Then he gratefully licked his finder’s hand with a pink tongue, “Kin we keep him?” chorused the children. “He's so cute!" “I think I'll be going mnow,” said lyzed Mrs. Biggett. “I'll never believe a grown man again as long as I live!” —Chicago News. | OTHER VIEW POINTS | We shall always have kissing with us, long after tuberculosis is stamped out and many of the opinions such as those of Dr. Morton will be laughed at by future generations as being fal- lacy.—-Meriden Journal. It must be very warm in Hartford. The vice commission has made its re- port and now folks are discussing whether it can be sent through the mails. Uncle Sam is not afraid of the truth.—New Haven Journal-Courier. Even the Hall of Fame may yet be induced to adorn its walls with the names of the preeminent swatters, base stealers and pitchers. And soon we sball be looking for a statue of Hughey Jennings rampant against a beckground of the “long green.’—New Eritain Herald. The scheme to make Governor Foss the republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts is now “in the open.” Not without some careful calculation did the signing of his nomination pa- pers begin “on the cape, where the local sentiment is largely in his favor. —Harford Time Typhoid vaccination is bound to be- come a great preventive agency and in a few rs will be common. That | it may Dbe accepted by all without skepticism or any lurking fear of dan- ger or illness, every c this, where there is a cha the safety of the treatment, should be ferreted out and cleared up to the satisfaction of all concerned.—Water- | bury Republican, The Republican members of the| United States Senate are showing| their good sense in their announced intention to cenfine their opposigon to! | the tariff bill within legitimate bounds and not to resort to filibustering meth- ods. The harm that will be done by | the enacting of the Underwood bill cannot justify using wrong means of opposition.—Bridgeport Standard. Jersey City, N. J., of municipal misru the mayor of th: different to the cit extent of $3,000,000, trace the trouble amount of arrears of taxes. municipalities can trace their trouble | to the same source.—Middletown Press Jersey to an City If depositors only realized what is for their own good, they would do their | “ommanded the respect and confildence utmost to stimulate and maintain pub- | 0f the community. in | ©Wn the operatives' houses, built the lic confldence in all institutiond which they place their trust, instead of creating uneasiness or adding to it af- ter it has once been aroused. An un- Justified hint of unsoundness in busi- ness circles is about as culpable as a cry of fire in a crowded theatre. The panic is pretty sure to follow.—An- sonia Sentinel. In the matter of agricultural investi- gations the government has achieved wonderful results through its experiments. Any farmer who is open- minded enough to receive its instruc- tions and profit by them can double or treble the value of his farm pro- ducts. The only bad feature of the great work accomplished by the gov- rument alcng these and many simi- ar lines is the slowness of the people to ta advantage of it.—Bridgeport Telegram. Bugene Debs and his wife have lately taken into their family a woman of theisticets whom they maintain has been persecuted. Such charity is of the eighleen karat variety but the ex- | farther and faster every day for many | ploiting of the incident as lllustrative | Wee of the advantage of Socialism over other forms of political government hardly holds water in view of the fact that there are hundreds of other men and women belonging to other politi- cal and religious creeds who have done the sanme thing minus the ad- vertising.—Meriden Record. Breakfast in 1817. In Morris Berbeck’s “Journey In America” js the follwing account of a breakfast in Fairfield county, Ohio, on June 16, 1817: “A gentleman, myself, and three children sat down this morning to a repast consisting of the | following articles cuit, dry toast, of German extraction butter), pickerel salted (a fish from Lake Huron), veal cutlets, broiled ham, gooseberry pie, siewed currants, preserved cranberries, butter cheese; for all this for myself and three children ,and four gallons of oats and hay fer four horses, we were charged six shillings and nine-pence” (or about §1,65.) bis- covered witi | | i | is an illustration | en mill For three years hands of a was entirely in- | those s business and the | are personally controlled and furnish result is that the financial affairs of | the economic life of the community in the city named are out of tune to the|which it is located. t can | statement enormous | pany owning it, the property valued at Other | less than i | | | of uncertainty and the delay in acting | | ing of orders and disturb calculations | ought and | | one of the statements, and the popu- | received and business was coming to ! EVERY DAY REFLECTIONS Organizatien. There can be no democracy without organization - A democracy whose units do not work together, where there is no co- ordination, will fall to pieces. A monarchy, a tyranny, can get along without organizing the people. In fact, where the people have no team play, there is where the despot is needed, Having no intelligent unity, they must have an artificlal unity, the unity of a superimposed brute force. We fear standing armies. But such armies, in the days of Rome, were verfect machines composed of only a small number of people, and they ruled only because the rest of the populace was not drilled to keep step. In a true democracy the whole popu- lation—men, women and children— should be a standing army, not ne- cessarily to march and shoot, but, under equal discipline, to sow, reap and sell, All despotisms have been due to a lack of organization among the com- mon people. So nowadays, in the loose ! individualism of the city, any com- pact band of drilled men can control them. Hence we have the political party and the boss system. A dozen ignorant, selfish, unscrupulous men, | if well organized, can govern a thou- sand intelligent and honest people who will not get together. T why democracy is im- without organized unity fis Democracy means a gevernment in the interest of all the people, even the weakest, and the only power great enough to secure the weakest man his right is the organized power of the whole state. Freedom in a state keeps pace with erganization; and in degree as each man does as he pleases tyrants pros- ver, whether feudal duke or Chicago | ward boss. A Hint from Yantic. (New York Journal of Commerce,) A symptom of the consequence of delay in acting upon the tariff bill ap- H pears in the passing of a small wool- | at Yantic, Conn., into the receiver. This i one of England factories, which New | According to a of the counsel of the com- $300,000 for the mill struc- ture and machinery, has been oper- ated at a profit of $50,000 to $75,000 a vear. It is said to be in first-class condition and its management has “The mill owners church in Yantic and the fire engine house and furnished its equipment” is lation of the place is said to be almost | entirely dependent upon it. ! No claim is made that proposed changes in the tariff would “ruin” the business or that embarrassment is di- rectly caused by them. In fact, what | their effect would be, when they were once in effect only experience can tell. The trouble now is caused by uncertainty and delay. The President of the company is represented as de- claring that “the delay in definite tariff legislation has paralyzed the commercial world on which his mill depended for the absorption of its output,” and the counsel is directly quoted as saying that “the commercial world on which that mill depends has been at sea.” No orders were being a stop. “The very moment any tariff | bill is signed,” he says, “will see re- lief from the present uncertainty, and | menace to business which doubt of what the new tariff will be has spread There is no doubt that the feeling upon the tariff cause much withhold- in many industrial communities, large and small. It hangs like an incubus over industries and the trade upon which they depend, and is liable to be the cause of loss and suffering. It is not what is going to happen that causes the tirouble but what is hap- pening in sheer procrastination. It to be understood at Washing- ton that there is no political capital to be made by a long drawn out de- bate and the tiresome repetition of familiar arguments, The party re- sponsible for it will lose ground by trylng the public patience. What the people want now is not defeat of the tariff bill, but prompt as*ion upon it. Investments Which Are Not Transfers Canadian and United States official sourees confirm, substantially, the| statement that American investments in Canada now total about $500,000,- 000. It is pointed out, however, that 3-REEL WAR DRAMA Reproducing Incidents on a MARI LAW American Comedy Drama Big Plantation During the War GAFFNEY’S GLADIATOR l Majestic Comedy * Interesting—MUTUAL WEEKLY—Educating A Village Girl” “THE OTHER WOMAN,” ... “HER MOTHER’S8 OATH,” .. “HER SWEETEST MEMORY,” (2000 ft.) “The Wrong Road to Happiness” (2000 ft.) Experiences in the Cit{ .. Superb Social Drama 5 ograph’s Biggest Success’ ....... Beautiful Vitagraph Romance AM AM. Norwich .. 29:00 *59:13 . L. New London . 10.30 10.49 Watch Hill .. 1145 12.00 Bleck Island 115 L3y P.M. P.M. * Daily, except Sundays. AND Wiatch EHill: st Adults, 50; Children, 25c. and Block Island. Steamer Block Island WATCH HILL and BLOCK ISLAND SPECIAL EXCURSION TICKETS Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, July 7 to August 29. Shore Dinner Houses and Bathing Beach near landings at Watch Hill For further information, party rates, apply at office of company on New London (Norwich) Line Wharf, New London. NEW ENGLAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY, E. L. DOIL, Agent. DAILY SERVICE Until Sept. 2, to A.M. AM *2.15 **3.15 Block Island Lv. Wateh Hill 3.45 4.40 New l.ondon . 5 5.05 6.00 Norwich . .Due 7.00 7.30 PM. P.M ** Sundays only. ¢ Block Island réftes Adults, 75c; Children, 40e. SUMMER OIS Steam, Mechanical and Sail Boats, Sand Toys, Pails and Shovels, Wag- ons, Celluloid Dolls and Toys, Baskets, Parasols, Fans, Pennants, Kites, Paper Napkins, Lunch Sets, Etc. MRS. EDWIN FAY Franklin Square $8. Excursion Boats {ANTIC and SHETUCKET Between Norwich and New London. A boat leaves either city 9 and 11 a .m, 1, 3 and 5 p. m. daily. Fares— 15 cents one way; 25 cents round trip Norwich Pier, Frankl/\Square; Nev London Pier, foot State St. Thames Navigation Co., Norwich, Conn, FULL SET TEETH My reputation for making the most life-like, finest fitting and best wearing plates is well leaves my office until fully broken. ural gum, the use of which makes No set ever the patient is satisfied. This rule is never In addition on set is the nat‘- t Known. impossible to detect false teeth in the mouth. only to be had in my office. aim possible invention is My sole is to give the best at the least cost. .1 .give my personal ‘This wonderful guarantee for 10 years with aii work. THE NEW" Dr. Jackson’s “Natural Gum” sets of teeth abso- lutely defy detection. GOLD FILLINGS $1.00 UP, OTHERS -50c. Dr. JACKSON, Dentist Successor to THE KING DENTAL CO. 203 Main St. next to Boston Store 9 a. m. to 8 p. Phone 195-3 SUBSTITUTE TEETH 3 $5. This is the only office in Norwich where gold crowns and teeth without plates ones) are inserted positively without pain. (undetectable from natural Dental Nurse in Attendance. Painless Extraction. probably not over half of this total at the utmost represents investments in American - owned manufaci#ring plants. The other portion, with the exception, perhaps, warehouses for agricultural imple- ments in the Canadian Northwest, of a comparatively small total, repre- sents investments in mines, timber and farming lands, power enterprises and the like. Philadelphia capital de- veloped the water power and indus- tries around Sault Ste. Marie, while it was Boston capital which developed the Dominlon Coal Company, the Do- of distributing | minion Iron and Steel Company and the Shawinigan Power Company. Such investments, However, are no different in principle from European invest- ments in enterprises within the Unit- ed States, and, are not properly inter- preted as transfers of manufacturing. There are about 40 species of grapes in the world, more than half of which are found in North America. Few other plants on this continent grow wild under such varied conditions and over such extended areas.