Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 20, 1915, Page 12

NORWICH BULLETIN SATURDAY, MARGH 20, 1919 A NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Two or three weeks ago, talking over the potash situation in this coun- try, I expressed a belief that, if Uncle Sam couldn’t get his usual supply from XKaiger Bill, somc sharp-eyed Yankee with brains pehind his face would hunt up a supply of our own, right in our own door-yard, so to speals It's a great comfort to lots of us old ‘uns to say “T tell'd ve so”! Let me quote from The N. Y. Times of March 12: “In New York last week 10,000 tons of American potash made from sea- weed were sold at a price which was the same as that of the German potash salts during normal times.” In other words, that Yankee spirit I wrote of was at work long before I wrote, and its first frults are already on_their way to the land. Of course, 10,000 tons won't go far towards filling a demand which nor- mally amounts to 3,000 tons a day. But it helps some. Nore important that yet, it is the forerunner of hun- @rods of thousands of tons to come. Most important of all, it marks the end of our dependence upon the whims or greed of a foreign monopoly. It is the beginning of a new declaration of independence. This particular shipment came from the Pacific coast. Years ago the ex- perts of the department of agriculture, employed to hunt down possible sources of supply for our domestic fer- tilizer needs in our own borders, dis- covered that there was a practically everlasting supply of potash in the glant kelp beds of the Pacifio coast, extending all the way from Poini Loma, near the Mexican border, to Puget Sounnd on the extreme north. It seems that a pecullar variety known as ‘glant bladder kelp” is in- digenous to the waters of that shore. R grows In submarine groves cover- inyg beds varying from a fraction of an acre to areas five miles long and two miles wide. Fifty tons of the weed as gathereq_wet, afford five tons of a dried and processed product averaging twenty per cent of potash, to say nothing of other things. The bulk of the potash imported from Germany before we were shut off there con- sisted of “kainit”, analyzing _twelve and a half per cent of potash. The other eighty-seven and a half per cent was dirt and useless to the sofl. Not only is the seaweed product richer in sctusl potash content than the Ger- man calts, but the residue, instead of being inert waste, is a vegetable growth, quick to decay and provide the humus in the soil which is almost as desirable as actual fertilizer. In 1910 and 1911 the department’s surveyors out and mapped sbout a hundred square miles of the kelp, without caliing their work any- thing more than a preliminary pros- pecting. They didn’t pretend to cover all the actual beds nor even a large fraction of them. They just went far enough to show that the Visible supply ‘was ample for all we could use in de- HAIR COMING OUT? f Dandruff causes a feverish irritation ©f the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loos- en end then the hair comes out fast. To stop falling halr at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dandrurf, get a 35-cent bottle of Dandarine at gay arug store. pour a little in your hand and rub it into the scalp. After & few applications the hair stops com- fng out and you can't find any Qandruff. cades to come. In this hundred square miles which.they mapped they found that the amount of kelp which corld be gathered annually without detriment to the beds themselves would yield three times as much pot- ash as our fields import from Ger- many. Nor was there any special trouble in preparing the seaweed so as to make its potash available. The three iffi- culties which, three years ago, stood in the way of utilizing this domestio supply were— First, the difficulty of gathering it. It grows from thirty to sixty feet un- der water, on Tocky bottom and where there is a fairly strong tide-way. The merely mechanical obstacles in the way was then seen to overcome them. Second, the high cost of transporta- tion by Tall across the continent to the east, where the demand was great- est and the need sorest. Even if it could be harvested and processed, freight rates would still make it cost more on the Atlantic seaboard than German salts brought across the ocean by water. Third, the moment any attempt on this side promised to give us our own supply of the salts, that moment the German monopoly stood ready, after the usual manner of monopolies, to cut the price and drive American pro- moters into bankruptcy. After which, freed from their competition, it could boost the price again to any point it chose. All_three of these hindrances have now been overcome. Owing to the war, the German sup- ply is wholly cut off from us. We can’t get any more from Stassturt, if we wanted to: Stassfurt can't send us any more, if it wanted to. The opening of the Panama canal has ended the frelght embargo. Kelp potash can now be shipped all the way from the California seacoast fa tory to New York by water at com paratively_low rates for freight. And a Yankee of the Yankees who calls himself James H. Scott “of Alas- ka, Seattle and London” has invented a submarine mowing machine to cut the kelp and a sort of submarine rake to haul it ashore. The latter, he ex- plains, is “a process adapted from the method I used to employ as a boy in catching eels _on. the Long Isiand shore.” There you have it. Just as soon as -the need became scute,” circumstances, and Yankee in- ventiveness combined to meet it. Naturally, there will be a_shortage of potash for some time yet. You can’t work up a wholly new industry in ten minutes, or increase the out- put of a new factory from ten thous- and tons to a million tons In a month. Capital has to be interested and con- vinced: machinery has to be made; factories have to be built; labor has to be gathered;—a whole lot of things that take time to be considered. But the start has been made. “A good be- ginning is half the job. It seems rea- sonable to hope and expect that we arc at least launched on a new pro- duction. It must not be understood, in the meantime, that Pacific seaweed is our orly hope. Sources of potash are plentiful enough. There is much of it in the “mother liquors” of our salt beds. There are thousands of tons of it in the huge sawdust piles of the lumbering regions. All over the coun- try are hills and mountains of potash- bearing rock. The feldspars are one example. The mineral alunite is an- other. At present the only thing which prevents them from being treated is BHBean dmy:~ Jhe other day o went over fo call on oun ofd schoolmate, Laura. She didn't seem very com- gorialle even when' o, an ofd friend, came in, Lecaude of could plainly see that she was ashamed of hea shally panlon. She conpided %o me that Jatihough hen fhusland would give hen pleniy to 'buy elothes with, so she could make a good ap~ peanance in pullic, he would not Let her have money fo even fix up the parlon. Fan’s it dreadpul for a nice gint fike Launa 2o have to stand a thing Like this, Ja, Ja. as alwrays, @ Lou, Baring any friend with you when you come. #'m not ashamed for anylody fo see my parlor. F've just pixed it up with fusniture J bought grom SHEA & BURKE, 37-47 MAIN STREET the cost. The potash is in them. It is in them In inexhaustible quantities. But it is so chemically combined with other elements that the cost of sepa- rating it is prohibitive. That is, it is prohibitive just now. This does not mean that it will always be prohibi- tive. We can all remember when alum- inum was about as precious a metal as gold. The world is full of it. It con- stitutes the base of many rock forma- tions;_every clay-bed is a mine of its ore. But for years no way was known to tear it away from its combinations, except by costly laboratory processes, involving so much power and evolving such microscopical results that the commercial production of the metal was regarded as quite impracticable. Nevertheless chemists and metallurg- ists kept banging away at the problem, till now it can be and is being made cheaply and plentifully enough for use in_kitchen utensils. There's no reason to doubt that the same thing may happen with our im- mense _deposits of potash-bearing rocks. If one period of thirty years has seen aluminum so cheapened that, instead of being regarded as a semi- precious metal, it is used to make stew-pans of, why may not the next thirty years see feldspathic rocks turned into potash cheapiy enough so we can use them for fertilizer? For the immediate future, however, the Pacific kelp beds are likely to be drawn on in annually increasing amount. Perhaps even the Atlantic kelps may come into demand. They are, however, less plentiful than those on the other shore, smaller in size, and much poorer in potash content. Ton for ton the Pacific kelps analyze about thirty per cent richer in potash than any others yet discovered. This does not mean than any others that may !st. We dont know everything that's in or under the sea, yet, and every mew day has in it possibili- ties of new discoveries. Anyway, the Pacific supply is prac- tically inexhaustible. All that is now needed is eufficient capital to en the plants on that side till they s be adequate to supply our needs. present only a few Californians, with- out very much money, are ensaged in the work. Just as soon as its profit- making capabilities are clearly dem- onstrated there will be plenty of cap- ital Teady to invest in it. Oh, don't worry! come our way in this world, least expect them to. “Lif one———thing after another,” say: lang phrase. Of course. blank” can be filled ith a word of gratulation about as often as with one of malediction. Really, you know, there are apt to be more sunshiny vs than rainy ones in a year. Even a rowning Providence” may some- times mask a smiling ce” Ith often said to be darkest just before dawn. Sometimes the very thing which seems at first an insuperable obstacle turns out to be just the eleva. tion which, once surmounted, enabl us to see things which were hidden from us till we were forced to climb. e. We won't assert that the European war is in itself a good thing. But, if it hadn’'t been for that war and the consequent stoppage of commerce, we should probably have kept on for years land years paying tribute to German mine-owners for one of the necessitles of our farming. Now it looks as if we were going to get up on our own legs and stand on them. And that's ome good thing, any- way! THE FARMER. Agreement as to Advisability port of Common Council Where there is smoke there is of course some fire, but there is more smioke than fire in the apparent mixup over the purchase of a motor-driven city service truck for the Hook and Ladder company in which Alderman Thomas F. Gragan, a_member of the fire committee and foreman of the company named has sworn out an in- junction restraining the mayor and a part of the committee from contract- ing for the purchase of a truck of the American LaFrance make, as Alder- man Gragan prefers a truck of the Seagraves type. As ceedings is a court matter discussion of that phase of the situation would not be well timed just at present. Mayor Mahan favors an American La France machine because he knows, that an apparatus of that type has been In active service in New London for over two years and has given per- fect satisfaction and s even better than the builders guaranteed and is therefore averse to experimenting at the expense of the people.’ What the machine has done in New London it has done in every city where located and there are nearly a thousand ma- chines of the same kind in active use in_the United States. Just what re- sult the injunction will have in deter- mining the selection of the machine remains to be seen. In this connection the record of the triple-action American LaFrance ap- paratus which is assigned to the Ni- agara company will be of special in- terest. ‘The machine arrived in New London February §, 1913, on a Satur- dny afternoon, and was unloaded the following Monday. It was glven se- vere pumping tests two days later, and went into commission February 27, 1913, having in the meantime been subjected to road tests and instruction to drivers. Since then the apparatus has responded to $4 bell alarms and 138 still alarms within the city limits, and responded to out of town calls by order of the chief engineer nine times as follows: To Waterford twice, to East Lyme four times and once each to Montville, Groton and Lyme. Since being In commission the apparatus has travelled 874 miles, the pumps have been worked 59 i-2 hours, which means the equivalent of 40 miles of travel an hour, making practically a total amount of distance travelled 2258 miles. In some of the out-of- town runs the apparatus has been driven over roads that were in almost impassable condition, and required to be backed down steep inclines to get water, and subjected to -unusually rough’ useage, yet without the slight- est trouble in” running, operation or pumping. All calls have been responded to without any delay and there has been injunction pro- | NEW LONDONAUTOPURCHASE HALTED of Motor Fire Apparatus, but Deadlock Over Type—Taken to the Court—Annual Re- Comes Five Months Late. no occasion for even the slightest com plaint. With the exception of $18 ex- pended for the retreading of one of the tires, the apparatus has not cost th city one cent for repairs and has been out of commission only twenty-five minutes in twenty-five months of ac- tive service, anaverage of one minutea. month. And it a_machine dup!icate to this one, and as fully guaranteed, that the mayor is restrained from pur chasing, just to satisfy the whim of a member of the fire commiitee, who persists in having a Seagraves ma- chine. It Is specified in the specifica- tions and contract of the American La France company that any ladder equipments required by the city will be furnished or anything else that is within reason will be furnisned in_ the of equipment. In citles where machines have been put to the e_test orders h: been dupli- cated, but the injunction would indi- cate entry into the experimental game. Among the many immortal sayings of an old-time ~gentleman named Shakespeare %as one that runs some- thing like this: Better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others we know not of” which is suplemented by some other chap of the long ago in the homely but truthful phrase that “it is a bad time to trade horses in crossing a stretm,” each of wilich can be made applicable to the New Lon- don situation. Alderman Gragan Is a man of character and intellizence and probably has what he considers good cause for swearing out the injunction, from his standpoint, but he, nor an alderman, or any other man in the city of New London, can truthfuily s that the appartus protested again has not stood the test of hard service, yes the hardest kind of service for over two years and has made a record that cannot be excelled by any other fire apparatus manufactured. There- fore, the apparent serious opposition of the alderman, as indicated by the injunction, is puzzling to even his most intimate friends. He is earnest in his opposition and is drumming up his fellow members in the council to stand with him and against the mayor in this particular matter, regardiess of the true merits of the case. After neariy five months of watch- ful waiting that interesting city doc- ument with the long title, made its appearance this week, bearing the words on_the title page and a repro- duction of the city s as the date of pub Reports of the City Several Departments to the Common Council of the City of New London, Connecticut, for the Year Ending’ October 6, 1914, with Dedica- tion of Municipal Building.” The pub- lication can now be classed almost as A HEAVY BURDEN A Bad Back Makes Life Miserable For Many Norwich People. A bad back is a heavy burden. A burden at night when bedtime comes, Just as bothersome in the morning. Ever try Doan’s Kidney Pills for 1t? Know they are for kidney back- | ache—and for other kidney ills? It you dom’t, some Norwich peopis do. Read a case of it: 32 Forest St, Nor- “I strained my back and John Connell, wich, says: kidneys were affected. helped me until I procured Doan's Kidney Pills at N. D, Sevin & Son's my Nothing Drug Store. They acted like a charm and I have hed no kidney trouble since.” Price at all simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Connell had. Foster-Milburn Co,, Props., Buffalo, N. Y, 50c, dealers. Don’t Some Forms of Rheumatism Curable. Rheumatism is a disease character- ized by pains in the joints and in the muscles. The most common forms are: Acute and chronic rheumatism, rheumatic headaches, sclatic rheuma- tism and lumbago, All of these types can be helped absolutely by applying some good liniment that penetrates. An application of Sloan’s Liniment two or three times a day to the affected part will give instant relief. Sloan’s Liniment is good for pain and espe- clally rheumatic pain, because it pene- trates to the seat of the trouble, soothes the afflicted part and draws he pain. “Sloan’s Liniment is all med- o Get a 25c bottle now. Keep it handy in case of emegrency. an ancient document as are of little value at this late date, and a new annual issue due in Octo- ber. On the very first page of the work this significant extract from the city charter in connection with the date for holding the annual meeting is printed: “The annual reports of th court of common council and of th several heads of departments of said city to the court of common council, suall be published by the court of com- mon council, for general distribution among the electors of said city, on or before the twentieth of October.” That does not mean March. its contents Besides this notice. of publication, that was ignored, the book has a fine picture of the mayor and of the new municipal building with a newspaper report of the dedicatory exercises, and also these matte: Twelve lines of New ‘London history; List of city and town officer standing committees of the court of common council; treas- urer’s repor of ninety-eizht pages; the tax collector's report; report of the trustees of the Coit legacy; report of clerk of the public court; report of park commissioners; report of com- mittee on charities and the charity commissioner; report of the committee on public property; report of captain of police; report of street light com- mittee: report of chief engineer of fire department; report of health officer; report of highway commissioner; and the report of the building inspector. The document is composed of 184 pages with covers and its contents are of special interest to every citizen. The information contained therein was due for publication not later than October 20, nearly five months ago. There is responsibility for that delay and the matter is of sufficient importance to receive investigation. New Cuban Coinage. A new coinage issue has been au- thorized in Cuba. with a gold peso of grammes (1,504 grammes fine) the monetary unit. The goid coins 10, 5, 4, 2 and 1-peso ‘pieces, the 20, 10 and 5-peso pieces being of the same weight and value as the corresponding United States zold coins. The silver pieces will be the 1-peso, 40, 20 and 10-cents, and the nickel coins, 5, 2 and 1-cent. The coinage of gold is to be unlimited, but the silver minted is not to exceed the value of 12,000,000 pesos. The amount of nickel coined to be determined by the national executive. Canada last year tons of hay from 320,696 acres of reaped 825,614 FIRST TOURIST LINER TO GO THROUGH PANAMA CANAL IN CUT BECAUSE OF SLIDE DANGER Colon, Panama, March 19.—The lin- er Panama was the first to take a tourist party through the Panama ca- nal recently. ‘In passing through the dangerous Culebra cut, where the great slides are still a menace, the ship was under town, the channel not being wide enough for her to safely proceed under her own steam. It was feared the churning of the water by IS TOWED CARE FULLY * her propellor and the vibration of the ship might] oosen the earth and start another slide. Because of the danger of the slides it is not thought the United States battleships will go through the canal for several months. Monday Tuesday SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION TODAY- “All Next Week AUDITORIUM The Lew Orth Musical Comedy Co. Presents i THE TOURIST AND THE BANDIT An Original Idea of Progressive Production with Spasmodic Situaticns A MUSICAL FARCE IN TWO SPECIAL SCENES The Most Pretentious Musical Extravaganza Yet Seen Here with LEW ORTH, MISS LILLIAN 3—Extraordinary Dancing Numbers—3 “Who Died First” Bill Changed on Mon., Wed,, F 1st—A VENITIAN CANAL 2nd—NEW YORK HARBOR SPECIAL STAGE EFFECTS Usual Prices—3 Shows Daily AND A BIG CHORUS MUSICAL FARCE COMEDY WITH 15 PEOPLE IN THE CAST 3 SHOws 230, 7, 840 Fourth Annual Concert and Ball WHITE CROSS COUNCIL Number Thirtesn Knights of Columbus In the Armory, Monday Evening, April 12th, DON'T FORGET THE DATE H Admittin, TicketScenteman soi’Lady $1. Each ad 1915 onal lady 500 Washington County, R. I. STAFFORD Miss Edith Cuskman to Lecture on Kindergarten Work—Business Men's Social. Miss Margaret Glovers of _Boston ‘was the guest of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. F. J. Giover, over Sunday. Carl W. Lasbury expects to be the owner of a new automobile April 1. Mrs. Rena St. Mary and infant son returned to the home of Mr, and Mrs. Edgar St. Mary yesterdgy from the Johnson_hospital, Miss Mildred Webster is . makins g00d recovery after an_operation for appendicitis performed in the Massa- chusetts Hcmeopathic hospital re- cently. Mrs. Emily Thompson is ill at her home with pneumonia. She is being cared for by Mrs. L. Fisher. Her so Rev. George Thcmpson of Laconia, ) H., came Morday. Public Lecturs. Miss Edith Cushman of the Springs is to give a public illustrated talk on Kindergarten Werk in the Sunday School Toom of the Universalist church today (Saturday) at 3 p. m. Special Meetings. Special meetings are being held at the Baptist church this week. Dr. A. B. Coats, superintendent of misslon speaking each night. The monthly social of the Stafford Business Men's association was held at the club rooms Friday evening. Lynch’s orchestra furnished the mu- sie, A party of elght last Friday evening attended the presentation of Cram- berry Corners, by the Piedmont Dramatic soclety, HOPKINTON Brush Fire Burns Over a Number of Acres—St. Patrick’s Night Social Meeting. A heavy brush fire was started Sun. day on the Tanner land, just north of Hopkinton City by some unknown means and burned through to the state road crossing the road for a short dis- tance. Several acres of sprout land were burneq over. This was one of several similar fires in different di- rections. The aggregate damage is considerable, though no buildings have 'been destroyed as the result of such fles. The community soclal was held at the home of Alonzo P. Kenyon Wed- nesday evening, St. Patrick’s day. Frank W. Mills has returned from South Kingstown and East Greenwich and resumed work in Westerly, Mise Edna Summers is_with her grandmother in Brooklyn, N. Y. Rev. W. G, Thomas of Hope Valley preached in the S. D. B. church here Saturday, S. A. Greene, Mrs. W. G. Thomas, Miss Ethel M. Kenyon and Miss Eunice Lynch all of Hope Valley, at- tended church here Saturday. Miss Elsie Charnley has been ill with gripp the past week. Miss Elmer E. Kenyon was taken suddenly ill Friday. J. P. Greene who has been lald up with rheumatism is so much improved as _to he working again. Mrs. Emory C, Kenyon has returned home from a Vvisit with relatives In Putnam and other places in Connecti- cut. RICHMOND Everett R. Moore called recently on John T. Wilcox and sister. Ralph and Fannie Moore called on Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Reynolds Wed- necday. Walter R. Durfes of Providence spent Sunday and Monday with Rob- ert E. Moore and family. The social hop at Henry W. Whit- ford's in Willow Valley Saturday night was a success. People from Hope Valley, Wyoming, West Exeter and Arcadia_attended. Amy S. Weaver, who has been {Il, s improved. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Smith and fam- ily called on Mrs. Bverett R. Moore Sunday: also Joseph Dunn and Joseph ‘Woodmansee. USQUEPAUGH Mrs, W. B. Wilcox of Norwich Town, Conn., spent several days last week with 'her father, A. W. Kenyon, who is very {ll. Miss Mary A. Sherman of Walte's Corner is visiting Mrs. E. B. Ken- yon. Mrs. B. L. Simmons has gone to Yavork at one of the state institutions as an attendant, The supper that was to e held Fri- day evening, of this week, was post- poned. Mrs, Hattle Holgate has gone to ‘Waite's Corner,to care for Mrs. Sher- man, mother of Mrs. Arnold Knowles. A Fine Arrangement. “The Tation of a Japanese soidier its of three little bags of rice and one of dried fruit” Fine ar- and the prunes ‘enough to lick his Wm‘?& Mm ville Courier-Journal. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA ) Tuesday, March 23rd The Society Event of the Theatrical Season Boston"grgra” Company In a Master Production of the World’s Favorite Opera—Verdi’s Beautiful “IL TROVATORE" With the Most Remarkable Cast of Stars Ever Heard in English Opera, Including JOSEPH F. SHEEHAN, American’s Greatest Tenor MIRTH CARMEN ELAINE DeSELLEM ARTHUR DEA HAROLD J. GEIS GRACE DOXSEE WILLIAM YOUNG HENRI DeVAREE LOUISE HEMMING CLARK HARCOURT WILLIAM HAMILTON EVLINE VAN AERNAM AND OTHERS The Superb Boston English Opera Chorus, and Augmented Orchestra under Direction of Basil Horsfall “Ths most finishd and artistic performance of ‘Il Trovatore’ ever taken [ on tour,” is the verdict of Press and Public. PRICES: $150, $1.00, 75¢, 50c, 35¢, 25¢ SEATS ON SALE TODAY AT 10 A. M. 3 GREAT ACTS PARAMOUNT PICTURES Matinee 2.15. Evening_ 645, 845 THE GREATEST MUSICAL ACT OF THE SEASON 4 BANTA BRQS, Flavine 26 Legitimate Instruments YEAGER and* WHITE GEO. C. DAVIS Classy Comedy Entertainers I The Man Behind the Gun of Fun PARAMOUNT Sl Ready Money WITH EDWARD ABELES A BIRD'S A BIRD IN 4 GREAT PARTS ANOTHER BIG VAUDEVILLE Funny Keystons Comedy SHOW COMING N WEEK S s ey Colonial Theatre Alice Joyce, Million-Dollar Jewel Productidn 2 Reels “THE THEFT OF THE CROWN JEWELS” 2Reels Miss Joyce is the first Actress to positively wear a million dollars worth of jewels in one production. A Feature of surpassing grandeur and scintillating brilliancy. > “The Primitive Way,” Selig. “Pound for a Pound,” Ess, “Chiefly Concerning Males,” with Bobby Connelly Coming Monday—Wilton Lackaye in “THE PIT.” e ——— Seed Opening Bargains For One Week Only A Quart Bag of .Seed —FOR— Five Cents To make room for this year's Seed, we are making this attractive _price on last season’s Corn, Peas, Etc. We have tested the seed with excellent results. ’Phone 174 at once and we will make a selection for vou. Sale started V: Friday morning. FIRST QUALITY GARDEN TGOLS See our new Silent Salesman on the first floor. Hundreds of Farming Tools from which to make a se- The Eaton Chase Company 129 Main Street, Norwich, Conn. Members N. L. Co. Improvement League