Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 27, 1914, Page 4

troubles and fights which have char- acterized its consideration for many years. This mdans that the fight can by no means subside and that. agita- tion can be expected to o- on for sofae time to come. The only inkling as to what the amending bill will contain {§ the statement by Premier Asquith that it will follow the course which he indicated a month or two | ago and that the various counties in Ulster will- have a chance to make known their wish concerning the time, within six years when the measure i1l go into effect for them. The con- sideration of the amending bill it is thus indicated in advance must be un- dertaken with the spirit of compro- mise. This hasn’t met with the best ‘of results in previous efforts but with home rule assured it remains to be seen what the effect will be. It is open to a speedy and peaceful adjustment, or much more trouble, Fhef Bulletin has the largest of any paper in East- orn t and from three to four,times larger than that of any in ch, It is delivered to over of the 4,053 houses In Norwich, ai.l read by:‘in-t{.- three paryoent. of t210 peo) Windham it ja dslivered to over 200 housws, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100 and in ali of these places it is coneid- " ered the local daily. Bastern Connectiout has forty- nine towns, ‘one hundred ~and sixty-five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free dalivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of the R. F, D. routes in Eas Connacticut, CIRCULATION 1901 average......c.ceeeess 4412 -~ 5,920 REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. STEAMSHIPS AND TERMINALS. The problem of finding docking fa- cilities for the big ocean liners, grow- ing larger and longer as each new one is constructed was receiving the serious consideration of New York and the government officials not so many months ago. It was realized that the limit was fast being reached in, dock extensions into the Hudsgp if a safg fairway was'to be preserved.for nav- igation. It Tevealed not only the ex- tensive growth of vessels but it also made plain that the time is‘not far distant When other terminal peints must be developed to take care of the leviathans as they increase in size and number. The' arrival and departure of the Vatertand, for the minute the world's greatest steamship, have furnished the evidence of the manner in which ‘the port of New York is hampered in the handling of big vessels. Getting it to its dock was no easy task for the fleet of tugs and there were some anx- 1905, average...... i Mayor. jous moments during the required ARTHUR D. LATHROP. four hours, but none more so than on Aldermen. its. departure ‘'when lack of room to operate sent it crashing into two barges which were sunk and at the same time demolishing the slips on GEORGE R. HAVENS, CASPER K. BAILEY. Couneilmen. HENR LITL the opposite side of the Hudson be- wmuZungAfi%%my_ sides causing no end of trouble to fimAL W. CHAPMAN, other liners at their moorings. BUTLER CHAPMAN, The giant lacked room, and with the QGity Clerk. trend in steamship eircles to the thou- sand foot boat it is bound to be a still more serious question for the ter- minal to accommqdate them, not only with length of piers but with sufficient open water to operate. City Treasurer. FRANK H. WOODWORTH. City Sheriffs. GEORGE W. CHARLES W. BRL(Y)RU'I?&. Water Commissioner. HUGH BLACKLEDGE. LEND A CAR. Memorial 8ay takes on a new mean- ing this year for there are but few who cannot be impressed by its mean- ing, accentuated as it has been so re- cently by the taking of Vera Cruz and the bringing home of those who gave their lives in that conflict for their country. Though insignificant in comparison with previous operations of army and navy, it nevertheless brings to attention most strikingly the kind of service which was required in the war of fifty years ago when the boys and young men of those days were called on > defend country and :::.. Pcmat‘i:m n:;vaned then as it now, and we of today are benefit- u-l: ’f:om the results. only proper that full and just tribute should be paid to the heroic dead—those who fell in battle or haye since ‘been mustered out, those who occupy known or unknown graves. The veterans have given faithful ser- vice to the Memorial day idea and by them it is kept alive, but it is a day when the public should be cogni- zant of its. duty and should take the oppertunity to pay tribute to the 1fv- 1(:!‘. as well as dead, and help make one day of the year what should be. i3 . Why not as a tribute to the veter- ans who are left give them the place of honor, and contribute the autos which will permit a larger number to participate In the parade? They have marched since the early sixties but each year with thinning ranks and faltering step. Memorial day is going 10 be a grand occasion to lend a car that the veterans may ride. o AR RIS FOR GREATER SAFETY. Even though the establishment of safety devices by railroads resulfs from various reasons, it is neverthe- less the fact that a steady growth is being recorded. They are important and necessary from whatever stand- point they are looked at. Though ac- cidents have been the cause of great- er attention being directed to safety there has nevertheless been a constant recognition on the part of the roads of the necessity of providing préper protection for its employes and pat- THE BIRD LAW. In view of the opposition which has been manifested towards the federal migratory bird law from the - time that it was advocated, through the hearings, in congress and only re- cently in the effort to keep the ap- propriation to such a flgure as to make it almost useless, it is not sur- prising that the .measure has thus early found its way to the courts. De- spite tho high purpose of the Dill there has been a constant claim of unconstitutionality under the belief that the birds and their killing should be regulated by the states. The de- cision by thé United States District court in Arkansas in support of such a claim is therefore a great disappoint- ment to the many” thousapd of bird lovers and hunters who realize the condition which is resuiting from the indiscriminate slaughter of the birds, and who understand that some such restragning force .is necessary if the extinction of many of the species is to be prevented. It is the migratory bird in partic- ular which the-law covers and when it is realized that the robin in the south is one of the birds which hunt- ers kill off without restriction, and that others suffer likewise through- out the country the law serves a need- ed purpose, and while the decision is against the bill it never should be al- lowed to reést until the highest -court has passed upon it. The Interstate existence of the birds should bring them under the protection of nation- al laws, something which they can get in no other way because of the lack of uniform state laws. EDITORIAL NOTES. Over in England the old masters are ‘being\cut up in order to get a new or- der of things. From Mexico City and from Canaan come the same short unsatisfying statements “I don't intend to resign.” It is about time we had some of the preliminary reports on the suc- cess of the government seed planting. The information comes that the Shamrock is byilt on straight lines, and evervone was looking for a de- ‘butante slouch. Bernard Shaw thinks the child a slave of his parents. There is room for generous doubt though when it comes to the “omly.” rons, Buch progrees has been made that up to the first of this year, according to figures complled for the interstate commeérce commission fifly three per cent. of the railroad trackage of the country was protected by the bloek signal system. While much of this in- cludes the hand control system ths change to the automatic is rapidly taking . place, the past year showing an increase of 4,350 miles of track ‘Where automatic blocks had been es- tablished, while hand control abandoned on 1,563 miles of rodd. Accidents on their own or other Lw-enm.{- l:’wvoliltlmuhted the -im- ut ‘it is nevertheless a fact that ne road can afford to lag behind in such matters. ' No better in- ‘vestment or advertisement for future ‘business can be made than that which logks to greater safety in transporta- tion, It is mot only an inducement to more trafic but it eliminates a vast amount of the waste which comes from wrecks through destroyed rolling stock, loss of goods, lack of confidence and the still greater drain upon the system which follows the loss of life or injuries. Safety through prevention of aceidents is one of the’ Breat ecenomical moves ia railroad operation, The man on the corner says: The height of poverty is that state of ex- istence where a marn has a lawn- mower but no 1&2. Massachusetts progressives are out to raise a fund of $50,000. Char- ity could make better use of the mon- ey and show befter returns, For one who gave so mlch time to the consideration of his acceptance Prince Willlam of Albania lacks some of Huerta's stick-to-it-iveress, C. W. Morse is anxigus to reveal all,” When a stocking starts to un- ravel there isn't much use trylng to stop until the bottom is reached. The big results of the clean up week are to be obtained by the small | contributions which each individual can make for its success. Many hands make light work. ¢ A London journalist has insurea his newspaper clippings for $15,000. Sen- ator LaFollette has the jump on him by getting the government to do the Job at a cest of $13,000. The fact that' the premier British aviator was unable to cross the Eng- lish channel is pretty good evidence from %& Wright is right abg brought up. I fixed them back my ‘way again the minute-she left. “She is a one to talk, now that I have found her out. How? Why, I took me three hours, three solid ho to get that stove Into condition that I could even boil water on it. was brought up to think it was just as e | necessary to rub off the kitchen stove janitor. ‘If you could have seen that place—my dear! Ity does puzzle me how a woman who thinks herself a lady, let alone putting on airs about setting a table and such things, can have so little pride and be so careless about other folks. Why, I was brought up to be considerate. “I remember the time we moved from Centerville to Elmwood and my mother gave an awful shriek when we were two miles from Centerville and ‘grabbed my fathef’s arm so suddenly that he nearly tipped the whole wagon~ load over in a ditch. ‘Turn back!’ my mother cried. ‘Turn right back, Jo- siah! I can't help it if it is 6 o'clock. TI've just remembered that I didn't dust the window ledges in the attic, and I'm not going to have the neigh- bors say I moved out and left the place looking a sight’ And it was 10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Time for a Change. Mr. Editor: I have often thought of Ex-Mayor Thayer's twentieth cen- tury dream of a city without a tax payer or a tax list and -how opti- mistic he seemed to be at that time with municipal gas and electricity and all that remained was to take over the trolleys, telephones and ge into municipal insurance and the dream would be realized; but as I look back and see what has been accomplished in the past fourteen years I am not fully awake to the possibilities of a taxiess city at the the present time judged by democratic management, with a bonded debt increased from abcut §900,000 to a million and a_half. To be sure we have got Stony Brook reservoir, one of the finest water basins on earth (and they told us it would not hold hay) conceived by a good republican and supported by good republicans and bitterly opposed by good democrats at an expense of $100,000 or more dollars if the tax- payers’ money, and finally by order of the citizens in an indignation meefing, called & city meeting, they were com- pelled to build it. Then this same op- position fell all over themselves as to whose names should be placed on the bronzed tablets of water fame as the zranife tablets prepared were not sat- isfactory, and as the writer stood on the dam looking at the bronze tablets another party looking at the same time remarked, “Say, many mayors and water commis- sioners is the city of Norwich sup- posed to have?” but I assured him it was all right only a lightning change from before and after. Now we come to anofher improve- ment. part of a wall at the outlet of Franklin Street sewer at the foot of Rose alley (a part of the Rose of New England). A new gas tank at the gas works, new road bed on Washington street, that has to be sanded to enable the horses to stand up, and give employment to men to dig out the sand of the catch basins after it rains and them put on more sand. ~We also have the Boswell av- enue trolley extension that seems to land you a little ways from nowhere but yon can zc® there by going cross lots a little further on and If.you know the way and have the time you can get into Mohegan park. I am not able to figure out just why so much energy was used on the project by Mayor Murphy to compel the railroad to svend the stockholders' monev to build this plece of road and so little energy expended on the outlet of Franklin Street sewer street, and other city Improvements that might be a help to our city beautiful, but by the looks of the Boswell Avenue cars arriving and leaving Franklin square they must be qulte an accommodation to a whole lot of people as well as a great source of income to the railroad stockholders. About the only thing left to be de- sired would be a stenographer for the city barn to assist the clerical force in charge of the street department as I should judge the exacting duties of the positions must be quite strenuous, especially in cold weather when the fires have to be attended to to keep them warm. But never mind taxpayers, you pay your money and take your choice, and if vou only. sieep long enough you may be able to dream 6f a taxiess city and when you wake up and read the tax collector’s warrant to colleot 12 3-4 mill town tax, 3 3-4 to run the town 6 3-4 mills to run the schools and 2 mills-to run the state and coun- tv outside of the town's income from the liquor license and state money for schools and 10 3-4 mills city tax mot divided as per add on town tax bill vou will not have to get some one to hit you with a club to realize that you are awake to the fact that expectan- ¢y is one thing and realization is an- other for you taxpayers that are pay- ing the freight, Don't you think it is about time for a change or do you want to give Mayor Murphy another chance to rec- ommend a deputy street commissioner at salary of $5 a day? At the democratic caucus, Chairman Spalding said they laid bad times to the democrats but not anything good, but I failed to note where he made known one =o0od thing for the im- provement of our city beautiful, that has been done in the past two years by our own democratic city government except to find emgloy- ment for some of its members. At this same caucus Edward Kirby re- marked about the best tariff ever known, free beef and Deef trusts he, might hdve mentioned free fiish, free wool, free leather and free lumber. Is he paying any less for his meat, fish, shoes, clothing or = lumber? ' How about the contract for bunting for our fings and buttons for our uniforms, how about free soup?” Does it make any difference with the fellow that is paying the same old price for '_a shave? The only thing that will not affect, Wilson and the free trade members of congress and some of the democratic members of our city gov- ernment are free soup houses as they draw salaries from the public crib and won't have to eat soup but can live on imported heef and shave with safety razors, while we poor taxpay- ers that pay our money {o support this bunch can stand in line for the soup house. A POOR TA ED FOR “er always said to stranger, how | and Phames; with newspaper every day and wash it with hot water every Saturday as it was to wash my own face. My moth- treat a stove as thoughn it.was apt to be moved into the parlor and minute. 1 suppose Mrs. Jotgans thought she had cleaned it up, but not u:gcrdi to my metion. You could s€e it was Just a hasty job, instead of a regular thing—even the stove seemed surprised and not natural. And the picture moldings! When I got on the stepladder and ran'my hand over them my fh were black. I have my opinion of a woman who only cleans up in spots. “T just l:ex more - thankful "all the time that d sense enough never to get really, well acquainted with Mrs. Jorgans. /You can see she wasn't at all my klnP ‘We are having most of the rooms repapered, too, because the paper was #o badly.soiled. It looked as though they had rubbed greasy hands all over it. Why, I was always taught to be just as. careful of even 5 cent wallpaper as though it was silk tapestry. * “The floors looked as though she had let them varnish over 0ld varnish that wasn't clean. T shall have ' to work like everything to get the place }nlo shape for human beings to live n. f I had ever known the Jorganses had ever lived there I'd have refused it unsight unseen, on general prinei- ples, but we rented it after they mov- ed out. I wonder where they went, afiyhow? I expect that they traipsed away off somewhere where the rents are cheaper.” “Why,” said the woman om whom the stout person was calling, - what uncomfortably, “the Jorganses are boarding until their flat is ready for them. They—you see, they picked out your old bullding because it was nicer. The rents are so much higher. And she tcld me they couldn’t move right in until the flat was overhauled, it had been left in such an awful con- dition by the former tenants. It’ was the second floor, apartment, south.” “My great goodness” squealed the stout woman, hysterically, “that’s the fiat I moved out of! And she said that! Well, that's all I want to know about her!”"—Chicago News. OTHER VIEW POINTS The Fourth of July is approachihg, Yut few neople are giving thought to the boob making it possible for the loss of an eye or a limb. That thoyght will come after the hospital treatment.—Middletown Press. Not an American start left in that great Engiish golf tourney, all having tumbled by the wayside. Ouimet with the rest of them. Nerves gone. “The New Haven Country club zolf men z:}lld have done better.—New Haven on. Among the misslonary work that our soldiers and sailors are doing in Mex- ico is teaching the natives baseball If they prove as apt pupils as the Cubans and Filipinos, the bitterness of our invasion will be turned to joy in the outcome. And alas for any such dull sport of the dark ages as bull- figting!—New Haven Register. Perhaps we have too long tolerated grave abuses in industry, in finance, in taxation. Perhaps we have sold our national birthright of material re- sources for a mess of pottage and made private wealth the master of opportunity. It may be, as agitators declare, that social unrest is now ris- ing like a tide. But it does not follow that the tide will overwhelm us in revolution. For we are Americans.— Meriden Journal. The wrecks along the shores of high finance will be worth all that they cost their victims if in consequence a day has been ushered in which is making stockholders critical of the doings of their servants. If this turns out to be true, then there will be & show of that higher spirit in man which will make him knock down the corruptionist who demands his money or his life—New Haven Journal- Courfer. A peculiarity of the English lang- uage is that it includes a number of words that are synonymous but each of which varies slightly as to its ex- act meaning from the others, a fact which makes it especially difficult to speak or write the language with ab- solute accuracy. One thing is cer- tain-—that it is much more import- ant to use what words one employs correctly than it is to have a vague and indefinite knowledge of a larger number.—Waterbury Republican. FAMOUS TRIALS A!g HBAD- -BOUP _HOUSSE, FUTS ‘ THE TRIAL OF THE TWEED RING. On Oct. 28, 1871, the Tweed ri: mne of the most corrupt political ring: that hale ever injected - themselv into American palitics, saw the be# ning of its end in the arrest of Wil- Ham Marcy Tweed, its leader. This ring had become mnotorious in t frauds it had committed and for se eral years efforts had been made to disrupt it and to bring its leaders to the bar of justice. ’ In the summer of 1870 proof was published of vast frauds by leading New York city officlals, and Twi in the language of Judge Noah Davis, “saw fit to pervert the powers with which he was clothed, in a manner more infamous, more outrageous than any instance of a like ¢haracter which 'uoz:d:ldlltory of the civilized world af- The multitudinous officials of New York ‘were the ring's .slayes. The thugs of the "city were nicknamed !“I'weed's lambs,” and they rendered invalaable services at caucus and econvention, When thieves could be kept in power by such means plunder ‘was easy and brazep. Contractors on ublic works were - systemat forced to One of them beflu'fl.ed “fi‘: L building I st Carpenters and B catre Two Resls. 2,000 Feet Prizes. Now is Your Chance to Win a Forture. $25 2,000 Fest “THE FIGHTING BLOOD” With Romaine Fisiding. 2,000 Fest Matines 5o But all th “ring” dwindled into ‘when com with the colossal frauds that were committed in the bullding of the new courthouse for the Sogar it ‘was. stipblated that 15 total it cost should not exceed $250,000, but “ring” was broken up up- ward of $8,000,000 had been expended and the work was not completed. reign of the ‘ring” ecame in July, 1871, ‘when copies of some of the fraudulent acounts came into the possession of a New York newspaper and were pub- lished. The result of these exposures was a meeting of citizens early in September. It was followed by the formality of a sort of peaceful vigi lance committee, under the imposing- title of the committee of seventy. This committee, together with Samuel J. Tilden, went to work at once and with great energy to obtain actual proof of the frauds, and it was owing to the tireless efforts of Mr, Tilden that this work was successful. ‘When Tweed was arrested on Oct. 28 he was released on bail to the ex- tent of $1,000,000. - His trial began on CAUGHT at the CABARET THE STRIKE Admission 35¢ isite Vitagraph Drama “FRAID CAT” Story of Comedies. Coming Friday “WAR IS HELL,” 4 Reel Colored & Eveni 10 2 Reel. Keystone Comedy MUTUAE WEEKLY ~ SPEED-SOMESPEED - MOTORCYCLE RACES ---FAIR GROUNDS--- Decoration Day, at 2.30 P.M. Boys I15c Nov. 19, 1873, but the jury disagreed on the first suit and he was again ar- rested on December 16, and on th! suit -he was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $12,500 and to suffer twelve years' imprisonment. This sentence was set aside by the Court of Appeals and Tweed's discharge was ordered. In the meantime other suits had been brought, among them one to re- cover $6,000,000. Failing to find bail for $3,000,000, he was sent to the Lud. low street jall. Being allowed to ride in the k and occasionally to visit his dwelling, one day he escaped from his keepers. After hiding for several months he succeeded in escaping to ‘Cuba. The Amorican consul procured his release—his passports having been given him under an assumed name— but later found him out. The discovery was too late, Tweed had again d and em- barked for Spain, thinking there to be at rest, as we then no extradition treaty with that country. Landing at Vigo, he found the governor of the place awaliting with police for him, and he was soon homeward bound on an American war vessel. Caleb Cushing, our minister at Madrid, had learned of his departure for that realm, and had put the au- thorities on thelr guard. To help them identify thelr man he furnished a caricature by Nast, representing Tweed as a Tammany policeman grip- _ping two boys by the hair. Though everything possible was done to ren- der him comfortable in jail, Tweed sighed for liberty. He promised, if released to turn state’'s evidence and to give up all his property and effects. Some papers suggested that the pub- lic pitied the man and would be glad to have him set free. No compro- mise with him was e, however, and he continued in jail until his death, in 1778, No political trial ever held in the United States created the attention as did the trial of the Tweed ring. None of the leading actora failed to pay in some measure the penalty of his deecés. Connelly, the city comp- troller, passed the remainder of his life in exile; Sweeny left the country and long remained abroa Hall had to live out of the country; Barnard and McCunn were impeached and re- moved from the bench, while Cardozo resigned his position in time to avoid jmpeachment. A Wise Scientist. A newspaper headline inform WATCH YOUR STEP! BY THE CONDUCTOR Office Hol alk Too Much. “Let’s all get together an’ pick some deaf an’ dumb guy for office. & “Lot's of ’em are honest an’ they can read an’ write. Th' only thihg a deaf mut can’'t do is to hear a auto comin’ an’ listen to his wife jawin’ him. If h tongue tied so he can't talk, that's just what we need in this country. “Bverybody that gets elected to of- fice talks a blue streak what he's gon- na do, an’ when he ain’t threatenin’ or promisin’ to do somethin’ he's telun’ what he could do if he lives lung enough. "d like tc wake up some mornin an’ see these here senators an’ govern- ors an’ aldermen so busy doin’ things they ain’t got time to talk about it. “You #in’'t tellin’ th’ people nothin’ when you keep hollerin’ ‘Watch me! Now I'm gonna obey th’ law! Here I go! Don't stop me! It's got to be dia!” 0 ahead, you fellows that are gov- erpors an' secretaries an’ policemen! Go ahead! obody’'s gonna trip yuh You sure are wastin’ good time teliin about it. What d' y' think us ginks ‘lected you for anyhow? We ain't needin’ sermons an’ palaverin’. What we want is to hear somethin’ go “bang- an’ we don’t want any language bet all us nuts could get up a nut party an' put some big nut in for gov'nor or somethin’ an' tell him we didn’'t want any back talk, but we ‘wanted him to tend to his business so good us fellows could forget we had a goverment. “Can’t any o' them guys that gets *lected to officeread what th’ constitu- tion an’ by-laws says to do? If they can’t, we hadn’t ought to 'lect "em. “If they can, what do they want to 'pologize before doin’ it an' talk so much their time's up 'fore they get anythin' done? “If-a real nut ever gets into office an’ shuts his mouth, he’ll say there for e. “Look where you step!” Z»2rrCy Non- PULLMAN MEAN A SAFE AND CERTAIN PATH—bad roads or good. NON-SKID TIRES If you want the best—the real thing in tires —try general the PULLMAN. standpoint of delivering mileage, satisfaction, can compare with them. 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POWERS BROS. 10 Rose Place Don’t Make a Mistake CALL ON US FOR WINDOW SCREENS Sk Wt I, osiitle, sagind o 18 or 24 inches high, extend from 217 to 33 inches 24 or 28 inches high, extend from 259 to 37 inches Sherwood Metal Frame, above sizes, also 30 inches high, extend 25 to 37 or 44 inches wide. MOE’S CHICKEN FOUNTAINS AND FEEDERS THE HOUSEHOLD 74 F i IF IT SWIMS WE HAVE IT We are receiving today a choice lot of freshly caught Fish. Connecticut River Shad, large Butter Mackerel, Cod, Suite 46 on Bldg. | Haddock, Halibut, Porgies. Soft Crabs and Lobsters Take elevator Shetucket BSireet ene trance. Phone. 114—Telephones—777