Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 9, 1915, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, TUESDAY, MARGH 3 Florwich Bulletin aend Gonfied 119 YEARS OLD Subscription price 12¢ & week; Sdc & th; $6.00 n year. Bntered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn.. as second-class matter. Telegnone Calls: Bullgtin Business Ofice 480 ftorial Rooms 35-8. Bulletin Ed o Stin Job Ofce 5-2. Willtmantic Office, Room % Murray Nuflding. Telephone 210. Norwich, Tuesday, March 9, 1915. ............-.....................m. ' tion of | I The Circulation o! The Builetin H i STREAM POLLUTION, The question of stream pollution and the necessity of checking it is by no means a new one. It has been rec- ognized for a long time that with the The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any In Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of ths 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 hous in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. 1901, average 4412 1905, average ...........5,920 growth of cities the problem of tak- ing care of the sewage is increasing and this is equally true of those cities which depend upon rivers for the car- rying off of the refuse as of those communities which have to provide other methods of disposal. The pol- lution of streams is a matter which has been given consideration by, the state board of health and while it finds that the conditions in the larger streams are not so bad as those in the smaller ones, since the former are able to keep down unhealthy condi- tlons because of the volume of water, the situation is such that steps should be taken to bring about an improvement. That being the case it is a ques- tion where early thought and action upon such a matter is going to per- mit of an easier and better handling thereof, and whether that devolves upon a city or corporations, for the state board finds that factories, mills and dyeplants are large contributors to the existing conditions, the finan- clal side of such a problem cannot be overlooked. It is easy to understand that fishing in such streams as might be polluted might be sacrificed with but little consideration if that was all at stake, but when it is declared that public health demands improve- ment and that sewage and refuse from factories should be purified before be- ing turned into the streams, whether such comes directly from sewer sys- tems or from sewer beds, it becomes evident that the quicker the right so- lution is determined upon the cheaper will be the proposition. MEXICO. Conditions in Mexico have gone from bad to worse. That republic has been drifting for many months into a state of affairs which only made its extrication all the more difficult. From the government which was maintained by Diaz and Madero, or even that of Huerta it has steadily declined until today chaos exists and those who are attempting to act as the country’s leaders are displaying their inability to accomplish anything in the way of establishing a stable government or even pacifying the country. The situa- tion has gotten to the point where the representatives of the foreign govern- ments are ready to throw up their hands when they plan to leave the capital and urge this country to take steps which will relleve conditions as maintained at present in Mexico City. The present situation presents the worst aspect that it has for months. This cdountry In endcavoring to keep in touch with the different factions has accomplished nothing, since one is as powerless as the other to accom- plish anything of a constructive na- ture, and it is utterly impossible to secure any concerted action. Naturally the country awaits devel- opments with interest and it is perfect- ly apparent that the authorities at Washington are giving the situation serious thought. Whether the sug- gestion that a number of the powers combine for the.relief of the condi- tions in Mexico City results in the establishment of a new policy is like- Iy to depend upon early developments, but should such a plan be adopted the wisdom of confining it to the coun- tries of the western hemisphere can- not be overlooked. ELIMINATING POLES, Few are the cities which are mnot confronted at some time with the problem of poles in the main thor- oughfares. It might be for the relief of the congested conditions or it might be solely for the purpose of improving the appearance of the streets, but in either case the need of keeping them to the minimum has appealed to every community. Putting the wires in conduits under ground has brought much relief from the great network of overhead wires which used to fill the streets but such is not possible with the wires of the trolley systems. Not long ago the sug- gestion was presented in a Massa- chusetts city that trolley poles be done away with, especially where there are narrow streets and sidewalks, by at- taching the supporting guy wires for BAE B R Ve the trolley line to the buildings on either side of the street. That plan has been actually put in operation in the city of Boston for the relief of the congestion of traffic in Washington street. Concerning it the Boston Herald says: “The streets are actually rendered wider, not only in the few inches measured by the di- ameter of the pole, but rather in the sense of obstruction which is lifted. After a light snow if you will notice the footprints about a pole, you will see that a considerable margin of side- walk space is disused, just as every ‘bad place’ in the pavement throws out of use so much of the surround- ing area of road surface.” Boston presents the results of actu- ally putting the plan into operation and there is no question but what it furnishes an admirable example for other cities which are bothered with similar problems, SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. From the efforts which have been made for and against it has been evi- dent for some time that one of the important contests to come before the present session cf the general assem- bly was going to center about the question of suffrhge for women. Both sides have had their hearings in which they set forth the merits of their con- tentions and a report from the com- mittee is expected this week and much may depend thereon, It is not within the power of the legislature to grant the right to vote to women. Such must be obtained through a constitutional amendment sanctioned by the voters of the state. ‘What the legislature can do and what it is being asked to do is to take the preliminary steps which will in time bring the question of woman's suf- frage to a test before the electors. Whatever may be the conviction of the legislator upon the merits of such right he is being asked nmow ‘to grant the referendum, \ That the movement has displayed growth is undeniable. Connecticut has previously turned a cold shoulder to the idea, but other states which did likewise have experienced a change of heart and Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee and West Vir- ginia are among the recent states where the legislatures have taken ac- tion necessary to send the question be- fore the people. This is what is being sought in Connecticut. It then rests with the voters to say whether it is ad- visable for the interest of the state that the constitution should be amend- ed. DARDANELLES AND BOSPHORUS. While it may be counting chickens before they are hatched, since the al- lies are yet some distance from the capture of the Dardanelles and Con- stantinople, the activity among the Balkan states because of the threat- ened change in control of that im- portant point is not surprising. It concerns the important outlet to the Black sea in which a number of coun- tries are interested and it threatens the breaking up of Turkey again in which each would like to participate. Russia is vitally concerned in the forcing of the straits while it is equal- ly important to Rumania, but naturally all the countries are interested as to which will be the successor to Tur- key. And this ralses the question as to whether that waterway will in the future be under the control of any one nation. For a long period Great Britain and France opposed Russia’s effort to wrest it from Turkey and it is apparent that Russian control might be no more satisfactory under certain conditions than that of Turkey. Thus little permanent good might be ob- tained simply through a change from absolute control of one nation to that of another. Great Britain has expressed its de- sire to see Russia obtaln its desired outlet yet Sir Edward Grey has de- clared that the control in case of vic- tory by the allied fleet would be de- cided after the war. Such may indi- cate the disposition to make that wa- terway and the adjoining territory neutral ground, in which all nations will have rights, but none absolute control and despite experiences with a “scrap of paper” it would appear to be a sensible solution, EDITORIAL NOTES. England may expect the end of the war by fall but there must be a down- fall first, The president's representative in Mexico is Keeping up to the record established by John Lind. From the assaults that are being made upon Turkey that country must have sort of a last-of-November feel- ing. The action of many of the star play- ers would indicate that they are try- ing to turn baseball into a hurdling contest. The man on the corner says: The hardest thing to /quiet when it wish- es to be heard is the voice of con- science. It begins to look as if Carranza would have to replace his present commander in Mexico City with Gen- eral Woebegone. The preference for “former congress- man” to ‘“ex-congressman” may be due to a desire to keep out of the hyphenated class. Of course crews of those armored ‘English merchant vessels hunting the submarines will have a new line of fish_stories to tell. ‘The bombardment of the Dardanelles ‘as conducted by the allies bids fair to have a most important effect upon the termination of the war. More signs of mutiny. The leader of the feminine brigade of the army at Armageddon is rebelling at the thoughts of the American Legion. Bven though crushed, the report that the “destroyed” Russian army is again advancing indicates that like truth it has the ability to rise again. The report that Oregon planted fifty miles of roses in one day again re- minds us of what an excellent thing a rose garden would be in Mohegan park, To the surprise and distress of Tur- key the fleet of the allies is making its way through what has been sup- posed to correspond to the eye of a needle. With five infants abandoned to the mercies of the town the selectmen’s plea that there is a crying need for a home for foundlings can be thor- oughly appreciated. A SOLDIER IN THE RANKS Alike through the broad boulevards and the squalid courts and byways the bugles sounded their hymn of war. “To the colors!” *“Arm!” they sang, in brazen tones, and the reserve—shop- keepers, clerks, peasants—groom and gentleman now equal, dropped their accustomed tasks and pleasures and responded. The grim battalions filled their ranks and marched away under the pleasant summer sun in all the pomp and pan- oply of martial splendor. Those who watched them go with a stifled sigh and a bravely smiling “For the Father- land!” turned back with no less heroic hearts to the tasks that lay uufin d, and to the long agony of haping, wait- ing, despairing. It was in this wise that Adolph Richter had shouldered hi and hurried away, after a hasty ing kiss from his blue-eved Elsa, and a waving of timy, sticky hands from little Wilhelm. That had been hard, certainly, but then there was the greeting of comrades and the excite- ment of the preparation for the march, and greatest of all, the su- preme’ moment when the ‘endid Emperor himself had walked along the rigid, motionless line, and for an instant, long to be remembered, had looked straight into Adolph’s adoring eyes. So he marched away, on the whole quite cheerfully, with high resolution to bear himself bravely in the stirring days to come. But to poor Elsa the days were long and blank and wearisome indeed. She went dully about the accustomed tasks, comforting as best she might her little son, who wandered about, disconsolate, and begged for his fa- ther. Sometimes, when her simple duties were done, and the little house was swept, she would take him by the hand and lead him down to the news- paper offices, where she would stand for hours in the crowd of others like herself, waiting for some scrap of news from the front. They were most- Iy women in that crowd—only a few old men and boys, the others were all at_the front. It was little of news that they got —only a vague, guarded hint, now and then, of a great battle, or an afi- vance—never news of a retreat. It told them little, but the crowd hung about, day after day, night after night, walting, waiting. Then came a new and terrible dis- traction. The wounded began to come back—pale, haggard men in faded uniforms—unshaven, bandaged, with the weary eves of those who have looked into the face of death. She watched them day after day, eagerly scrutinizing the faces, fearful of what she might find there, trembling be- tween that and the terrible alterna- tive of the black-bordered, closely printed pages that bore the ever-in- creasing roll of slain, Then she grew dull, apathetic, as the slow days dragged themselves away, and no news came. In the house to the right an anxious watch- er hovered above a bed of suffering— in the house to the left there was darkness and mourning. Only for her nothing. One gray dawn young rifle art- the thunder of heavy wheels roused her from uneasy sleep. She hurried to the window. Wearied horses stumbled .over the uneven stones, the huge guns rattled behind them, drooping_soldiers plod- ded on either side. Windows were thrown open anq eager heads thrust forth, to be withdrawn at sight of the sullen, downcast faces. The retreat had begun, All_through the gloomy day it last- ed—the never-ceasing procession of wearied, battered troops. Then, as the twilight faded into dark, sounded the faint, far-off roar of guns in ac- tion. The rain besan to fall, gently at first, then faster, and through the blackness the roar of the guns drew nearer, sounding above the sharper, irregular crackle of musketry. In the street below confusion grew—the shouts of officers, the shrilling of bugles, the clatter of hoofs, Shells began to scream over the town. Elsa, leaning horror-stricken from her window, saw one strike a house across the street, which crum- bled in an instant into ruin. Despite the heavy rain, flames burst out and cast their weird, flickering light over the pandemonium below. At the corner of the street beyond she could see hasty preparations for a stand. A barricade of carts, paving stones and furniture dragged from the houses was hurriedly thrown up. Behind it crouched a dark mass of men, huddled together, silent, while the rcar of battle drew always nearer. Shuddering, she presseq her shriek- ing child closer to her breast- and stumbled down the stairs to the dark- est corner of the little house to crouch there, trembling, her apron thrown over her head to shut out the Hhell of sound. She must have fainted, for when she awoke to a sense of her sur- roundings the street was quiet and the dark had turned to dawn. Pain- fully she looked about her, collecting herself, then, laying the sleeping child carefully down, she staggered to her feet, Seated in her little parlor was an officer, disheveled, haggard, vet smil- ing. She heard him say to an orderlv, standing at attention, “Report to the general that out strategem has met with brilliant success. The loss has been trifling.” Then as the soldier, saluting, left the room, he called to his servant, “Carl. get me some breakfast!” "And lighting a cigaret he stretched himself wearily, smiling at ;he smoke wreaths, without noticing er. She stumbled to the door. In the the chill dawn she glimpsed the huddled forms of men and horses in the stiff, grotesque attitudes of sudden death. ~ Tottering walls, smoldering timbers—everywhere ruin, confusion, death. On the doorstep lay a figure, sprawled at her very feet, that, even as she saw it, twitched in the last agony of dissolution, and then, as her horror-stricken eyes traced., the well remembered features, stiffenad into cold repose. With a low, wailing cry she fell across the body.—The Argo- naut. Stories of the War Unusual Modes of Warfare. Unusual modes of warfare were seen on a mountain by the queer name of Hartmannsweiler-Kopf near Steinbach in Alsace in January. The top of the mountain forms a plateau, 1,000 feet high, looking down upon the Rhind valley to the Northwest of Muelhausen. In peaceful times it is a favorite resort for the geologists and botanists of Strassburg and Freiburg Universities. During the hard fighting which oc- curred there in January, Alpine rifle- men of the French army were in pos- session of the plateau, which they had fortified with timber and earthworks. ‘When the Germans came to dislodge them, the Alpine riflemen shot at not only from behind their defenses but from the tree-tops as well. A num- ber of them had clothed themselves in black goatskin and fir twigs and had themselves drawn up in baskets to the tops of the massive fir trees. From this conceglment they were able to pick off the advancing Germans with fatal accuracy. The Germans were at further dis- advantage because they were all low- landers, while the French defenders came from the mountain districts and understood how to take the most ad- vantage of the topography. The Ger- mans, however, succeeded in capturing the saddle of the mountain behind the French and thus cut them off from communication with other mountain- tops from which they hight receive reinforcements. Having succeeded in this, the Germans spent several weeks holding their position until they could bring up artillery and prepare thor- oughly for their attack. When this firally began, they had already ascer- tained details of the French position so accurately that one of their artil- lery shots dropped into the officer's dug-out, killing two of the three. The remaining officer soon surrendered with his little band of 150 riflemen. These mid-winter operations were carried on successfully against a num- ber of mountain-tops held by the French, notwithstanding that the Ger- mans had but recently been converted frcm cavalry men to moyntain-climb- ers. The mountains were deeply over- laid with snow, and the attacking for- ces did not get a warm meal for weeks. Only after they had cleared the moun- tains of the French could they take time to erect log-huts and begin to cook their meals. Duty of Silence. The German soldier’s duty of silence, as well as of fighting, which in bold type is emphasized on all railroad trains, is reiterated in an announce- ment by the authorities of the for- tress of Cologne, as follows: “The great interest which the Ger- man people has shown in everything connected with the war is the cause of the heartiest congratulation. The necessity however of guarding against revealing military movements is ob- vious. The revelation of such matters can easily result in the greatest harm to the Fatherland. “Often one thoughtless word about new formations, the direction taken by troops or transports or the names of commanding officers suffices, if heard by unfriendly ears, to do untold harm to the Fatherland’s cause. “The layman may not appreciate that the repetition of news which reaches him from the fleld is anything but harmless. It should be remem- bered, however, that the enemy has a far-reaching information service with antennae stretching far into our coun- try, and that such information import- tant conclusions sometimes can be drawn which enable him to make the proper counter moves. “The government therefore consid- ers it a duty to point out the situation and to sound the warning in public places, especially in hotels, railroad carriages and the like, to ,guard against the revelation of military news to strangers.’ Stopping the Snipers. The annoyance of snipers, to which the British troops have been subject ever since they began operations in France, has now been practically stopped, according to eye-witness ac- counts from British General Head- quarters. “The activities of the enemy’'s snip- ers”, he writes, “have diminished of late’ owing to the marksmanship of our sharpshooters. These snipers frequently cover themselves with ferns or straw so as to render themselves less easily distinguished when crawl- ing on grass or stubble. At one place on this day (Feb. 8) out of five Ger- man snipers who had crawled out in front of their trenches and were try- ing to annoy us, three were promptly shot dead. At another point one of our marksmen recently accounted for six, single-handed. Similar rounding up of snipers by our patrols is taking place on other parts of the front and is an encouraging indication that this nuisance is being effectively dealt with."” He adds two other interesting para- graphs: HIVES ON NECK [TCHED AND BURNED Unsightly. Spread to Top of Head. Caused Hair to Fal! Out in Comb- fuls. Kept Awakeat Night. Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment Healed. 105 Village St., Medway, Mass.—"My eister's hives began with intense itching under the skin all around her neck and way up on her head so that she bad to keep her hair loosely braided. The breaking out was unsightly and the itch- ing on her neck was so bad she could not keep her hands away from it. Perbaps that is why it spread way up to the top of her head and caused her hair to fall out in combfuls. It also kept her awake at night. Fiery red spots broke out later that caused much disfigurement and the itching and burning were intense. “After about two weeks suffering she commenced using Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment. Rellef from the burning and ftching came very soon and two weeks from that time she was entirely healed.” (Signed) Mrs. F. A. Stackpole, August 5, 1014, Sample Each Free by Mail ‘With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad- dress postcard ‘“Cuticura, Dept. T, Bos- ton.” Sold throughout the world. material prosperity, but toward better Mon., Tues., Wed. BUD SHEPARD \ Pianologue and Songs THE GOVERNOR MAKER. Adventures of a Dollar || Joe Moore & Co. , Comedy Musical Sketch MUTUAL WAR WEEKLY || AUDITORIU 5--VIOLIN BEAUTIES=--5 Vaudeville’s Most Excellent Musical Offering MARY PICKFORD FIVE REEL MASTERPIECE WITH VICTOR Ventriloquist CHARLIE CHAPLIN Shows 2:30, 7 and 8:45 Mat. 10c; Eve. 10 and 20c PAUL PERRY Heavyweight Juggler .. ...2 Reel Modern Drama The Butcher’s Bride, L-Ko Keith Vaudeville Paramount Photoplays Mat. 2:16—Eve. 7 and 8:30 Everybody’s Favorite. in Behind the Scenes “LITTLE MARY” AT HER BEST Jchnson & Wells Singing, Dancing Duo In “HIS FAVORITE PASTIME” Funny Keystone Comedy THREE SHOWS DAILY Coionial “THE RIGHT GIRL” With Earl “LOVE'S SAVAGE HATE” Lub Other Fine Film Also.—Friday, Theatre “THE STOLEN ENGINE,” Hazards of Helen, Railroad Williams _and Anita Stevart in—“HIiS PRIOR CLAIM” Biog. “THE LURE,” Big Feature. moral and physical standards. port Standard. Bridge- Quite a few fool bills have found their way into the general assembly, but none of them have anything on the bill providing a fine of $100 for the offense of keeping puplls after school hours. This would be hard upon the teachers as they are only performing an extra work for the pupils' benefit.—New Britain Record. There are only three cities in the state that depend upon anything but natural methods for the carrying away of sewage. Meriden, New Britain and Danbury have sewage disposal beds which reduce the sludge to an excel- lent fertilizer and satisfactorily filter the water. All the other cities turn the sewage into rivers or into the sound and help create a condition which is an offense against the health of the state.—Meriden Journal, THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Socloty Sancta Sophia— The wonderful beauties and the rice history of Sancta Sophia, which is to the Greek church what the site of the Temple at Jer- uszlem is to the Jew, and except for its possession by a strange religion, what St. Peter's is to the Catholic, is described in a statement prepared by the National Geographic Society. It is of peculiar interest at this time because the repossession of Sancta Sophia represents the goal of Rus- sia’s ambitions during several centu- ries. Whether the present war will result in the restoration of this great edifice to the religion which built it is one of the questions that the church world everywhere is asking. Christianity has been productive of many wonderful places of worship, of temples richer in treasure and more beautiful In workmanship than those which have grown out of any other religion. Byzantine and Gothic archi- tecture received _their highest ex- pression in sacred building, so much So in the case of Gothic that the lay mind confuses that architectural type with pictures of the wonderful cathe- drals of France and Germany. Chris- tian temples are among the most won- derful architectural accomplishments of all times, and by far and away their most resplendent example is that of Sancta Sophia, the oldest, the most magnificent, the most costly, and the mcst interesting of all Christian churches. “Sancta Sophia is become an in- spiration to all Greek Orthodox belief, “A party of our officers had an ex- traordinary escape on this day. They were on the point of sitting down to dinner in a dug-out when a bomb from a German trench mortar landed in their midst. When the smoke and dust of the explosion cleared away the dinner had completely disappeared but not a single man was hurt. An incident recently occurred on the left which serves to show the nature of the present underground fighting. An old disused communication trench which led from one of our trenches who are fighting in the present bat- tles of Europe. As St. Peter’s is the m-ther-church for all the Catholic world, so Sanca Sophia is the mother- church of all of Greek faith. One is the metropolitan of the FEast, the other of the West, and both are the grandest examples of architectural splendor within their faiths. Both are churches that cost almost fabu- lous sums in the building, and Sancta Sophia cost almost twice as much as St. Peter’s, or more than any temple toward those of the enemy had been blocked by us with a barbed-wire en- tanglement. One night a party of Germans cut the entanglement. When this was discovered one of our men repaired it, and on the next night lay in wait in the hope that the enemy would come again. They were not disappointed. Six Germans came cautiously up the narrow trench to the entanglement and were all shot dead at point-blank range, The en- deavor to get the better of the enemy in all sorts of little ways such as this l;flk'es up the dally life of the sol- ier.” OTHER VIEW POINTS The state has been planting trees wherever it builds a new road and when it awarded the first contract in this city under consolidation it was arranged that seventy-five trees should be set out on East street. It has been made a custom to have a new tree set out wherever another has been cut down and the plan is to be commended. It should be continued and every pos- sible effort made to restore the beauty that once featured our highways and this can only be done by planting trees and then seeing that they are proper- ly cared for.—New Britain Herald. The Telegram offers a suggestion for making a fortune: Invent a detent cover for milk bottles. The present paper caps in general use upon milk bottles attain the climax of unfitness. They are difficult to remove without splashing the milk, they cannot be re- placed with sut!slnctory results, and they are worse than useless when it comes to protecting the milk from dirt and_ contamination. The washed, combed and curried cows, the sanitary dairy, the white clad attendants, and the Pasteur outfit are all turned into a joke by a bothersome little bit of dirty cardboard stuck into the top of the milk bottle—Bridgeport Telegram. Bridgeport has been among the cit- ies to encourage children to save the pennies and nicKels that are ordinarily spent on cand¥ or other luxuries. Ow- ing to the large amount of clerical work that devolved upon the teachers, the system has been temporarily dis- continued heré. The educational ad- vantage of this system of inculcating a spirit of thrift before habits of ex- travagance have become rooted is far- reaching. By discouraging self-indul- gence it tends not only toward greater LEGAL NOTICES ATTENTION! SIDEWALKS OFFICE OF THE STREET COMMISSIONER, Norwich, Dec. 21, The ordinances of the City of Noi wich provide that the owner or own- ers, occupant or -occupants, private corporations, or any person having | care of any building or lot of land, bordering on any street, square, or| public place within the City, where | there is a sidewalk graded, or graded | and paved, shall cause to be removed | therefrom any and all snow, sleet and | ize within three hours after the same shall have fallen, been deposited or found, or within three hours after sun- rise when the same shall have fallen in the night season; also, that whenever the sidewalk, or any part thereof, ad- joining any building or lot of lana, or any street, square or public place shall be covered with ice, it shall be the duty of the owner, or owners, occu- pant or occupants, private corpora- tion, or any person having the care of, such building or lot to cause such side- walk to be made safe and convenient by removing the ice therefrom, or cov- ering the szine with sand or some other suitabie substance. The failure to do so for two hours during the daytime exposes the party in default to the penalty provided by the ordinances. The ordinances also provide that in case of violation of any of the foregoing provisions, or refusal or neg- lect to comply with them, the party violating them or not compiying with them shall pay a penalty of five dollars for every four hours of neglect, after notice from any policeman of the city. The ordinances also make it the duty of the Street Commissioner to collect all penalties incurred under the foregoing provisions, and if they are not paid to him on demand, to report the case to the City Attorney, who shall prosecute the party offending. ERROLL C. LILLIBRIDGE, Street Commissioner. NOTICE To the Taxpayers of Ledyard: All persons llable to pay taxes in the Town of Ledyard, State of Connecticut, are hereby notified that I have a war- rant to levy and collect a tax of 16 mills on the dollar on t of 1914, due and payvable April 71-° 191 also a warrant to levy and c (}>ct all personal taxes due In Ledyard 11, 1915, each of such persons being Zssessed the sum of $2 as his personal ta All persons neglecting this notice must be proceeded against as_directed by the laws of this State, and for the purpose of collecting and receiving the above taxes I shall be at Brown's store, the Town of since history began for the Christlan world. “It is estimated that Sancta Sophia, including the value of ground, ma- terial, labor, ornaments and church utensils, cost about $64,000,000, while the common estimate of the cost of St. Peter's the chief present splendor of the Eternal City, is placed at $48,000,- 000." No other temple has ever ap- prcached Sancta Sophia in the var- lety and preciousness of its marbles and in its prodigal employment of sil- ver, gold, and precious stones. “The first church constructed upon the site of Sancta Sophia was built at the direction of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine, in 326. Work on the great pile of the present ven- erable cathedral was begun by Jus- tinian in 533. Ten thousand workmen were employed until its completion, and the wealth of the whole empire was put to the severest test to fur- nish the steady golden stream which flowed and flowed for the carrying out of the idea. Schools were stopped, it is said, that the salaries of the teach- ers might be diverted to Sancta So- phia’s benefit, and the lead pipes of Constantinople were melted down in order to make sheeting for its roofs. “Europe, Asia and Africa contribut- ed of their resources and of their his- toric marble columns and panels that the great cathedral might be unsur- passed among the glories of earth. Some say that the great work was fin- ished in the marvelousely short time of ten years, others are positive, even, that it was ready in six years. How- ever this may be, it required 120 years to build St. Peter's at Rome; 35 years to build St. Paul's in London; 500 years to build the Milan Cathedral, and 615 years to bulld the Cathedral of Cclogne. There are millions of Greek Orthodox who are looking oconfidently forward to the day when Sancta So- phia will again be the principal cathe- dral of their worship. “A bewildering wealth of legends cluster around the old cathedral, now defaced and mutilated as a Turkish mosque, and these legends throw a veil of the supernatural around it. One legend, which the Greeks like to remember, is that of the hishop Wwho ‘was celebmung mass as the wild Turkish hordes under Mohammet II, conqueror of Constantinople, broke in- to the church, and who escaped their fanatic wrath by walking into a niche made by the opéning wall which again closed behind him. This priest is waiting in the wall for the day when Sancta Sophia once more comes under Christian power, when he will leave his place of refuge and continue, in celebration of the end of Turkish rule, the service in which he was in- terrupted 500 years before.” Gales Ferry. Monday, April 5th, 1915, from 10 to 12 a. m. and at John M. 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