Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 8, 1916, Page 5

- »"FEACHER: . diess .E. ace, Nor- BULLARD, Bliss ich, Cenn. zE-For appointments , arion Block, 326 Matn, Street g SPEDIAI'.-“'P\? : Disgasor of the Stomach and Bheumatism v Tel LAM CHOWDER ething fi dust acrived. ruit, Etc. S i Market F utflln]'onn'ai” L o i henaing s Al T t: ad: . SOPRANO * - - “Teacher of Singing il cf-Henschel, "Q}fita!k‘o’;‘ Giraudet, opero: Bloridia; New ¥ori's greatest exponent-of the dtalian’method. ‘Avail- able, for, Congents, . Recitals, Musicals and Oratorio. Noxwichk Studio, 321 Al:l‘l]l St.. Thursdays. dence, 358 Mohegan Ave., New Cena. . Phone:1270. & 1? Pm.n:c: 'E:r:;:,snnrwich. Conl!- Fur and Fur Lined Coats ;- To-clean -up-season’s stock have cut :the- prices. have your size. . .0, If'in the riarket tike a 160k ‘At them. “Qwn a Montana:Robe for the ‘Auto.” THE £°L. CHAPMAN- €0. 12 Bath Street, N:fl"w‘kh. Ct e -&‘“"* tcannot come from glasses inot correcty fitted. - 4 We make and fit them {corrg@tly s - —— B iBstapl B2 & ez 1 "THEPLAUT-CADDENCO.- Jopticians and Lbns Grinders | STEPHEN WHALE, ~* Registered Optometrist ™ ' 144 Main Street -{ tor- Saturday- evening. - The I'st. . 2’ venison. dinfi _J}included six local citizen: worth, test medium, Sunday.—ady.- Howard C. West of the Snipsic Ice company is cui 12-inch- ice’on the old Meacham pond near’ Rockville. Along the railroad there has begun & general picking up-of ties,-due'to thi the extensit o start” on on near k John F. Byrne of Nopwich is.at work re-writing-tihe Eight Bélls'show so that it ‘will soon be seen in the moving pic- ure houses. Farmers at Franklin do not see much prospect of an ice crop yet. The ice on Smith pond is not more than two or three inches . thick, .- Mr. and Mrs. Allan Speirs of Black Hall apnounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Janet Drennen Speirs to William H. Walker of New Haven. H. T. Miller’s Saturday class in Dancing- meet today -at 2.30 p. m— adv. 3 Tomorrow (Sunday) morning at the close of the service in Moosup Meth- odist church a delegate will be chosen to 'the lay electoral conference at Nor- wich in Trinity M. E. church Friday, March 31 ~ The conference < of the Wellesley clubs of New England, which was te; have been held in Boston this (Sat- ‘urday) afternoon, has been cancelled Findefinitely because of the ‘illmess of the speaker. O n_East Hampton correspondent has this ftem of local interest: Mrs. H. W. Goff, who has been seriously ill at her home. for the past:.two' weeks with preumonia, is .now able to sit up a few hours each day. The_end men and sololsts of the Marys T. A " B minstrel troupe of New Londop have promised to come to Norwich to appear at an entertainment given by. the T..A. B. soclety ‘of Norwich. 5 The New London D. A.°R. chapter will present Mrs. G.: M. Minor's name for re-election as vice president gen- eral at the state meeting in March: _The -national congress meets in April, -hen Mrs. Minor's two year term ex- ‘Wonien from this city have been in- ted- to attend .the.annual January. conference of the ¥ Young Women's ‘Christtan associations ‘in_the National Y. W.-C.-A. building in, New York| ‘|ford, who served the Miss Agatha Mi university has returned to.her studies after spending the. holidays at her home .on. Mt. Pleasant street. Miss Mirlam Vaughn has returned to her home in “Norwich after a visit in Central Village with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Simmons. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Crandall of New London, frequent Norwich, visit- ors, will leave Jan. 18 for California, ‘where they will spend the remainder of the winter. - =« AjSeain ' Charity Commissioner Charles, Pren- tis, who has been ill at His home on Post ‘Hill place, New London, several days is' now able to be at his office in the municipal building. Misses Edna Whitney, Grace Watt- son and Mary Wentworth of New Lon- don were in Norwich Thursday even- ing, being guests at:a dance . in the T. A. B. hall. 1915 NECROLOGY AMONG OUR DEG!OLATORB Has' Included Two Former- Speakers, Joseph® L. Barbour and Charles H. Pine. .~ = Among the former members of the general ‘assembly who died during the year 1915 were two ex-speakers, Jo- seph L. Barbour of Hartford and Charles H. Pine of Derby. Two had served in the constitutional convention of 1802 which gave the people of the state a constitution that they rejected. Another was Gen. Edward Harland of Norwich, who served the state as a member- of the board of pardons for years. A former chaplain of the house, Rev. Mr. Doolittle of Meriden,’ died since the last annual necrology of the legislature was printed. . Among the senators was .John R. Hills of Hart- First district when It was co-extensive with the town in Hartford for a number of ses- sions. A former state comptroller, Thomas D. Bradstreet,- who served in the-house and in the senate, died in Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of |August. next week. F At the Johnson house Wednesday, gvening a party of 30 men. enjoyed - ““The ‘gathering” was was prepared by Norwich gentlemen.--The guests' . —Williman- ‘an “informal ohe an some. ‘e Chronicle. ¢ = Thames ' Towboat company's tug Miles Standish’ has-towed the P. R: R, scow from' Thamesville-to an anchor- age in New London harbor, the scow having finished discharging her cango |’ of coal at the wharf of thé American Strawboard company. * Irving E. Crouch of. Groton has sold a tract of two acres of land bordering on the present railroad tracks south of the Schellens property to the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road. The property is about 2,000 feet long and. 50 feet wide. " Amanda A., widow of David Haynes, .jdled Wednesday evening at the home of her son, State Attorney Frank D. Haynes, in Portland, with whom she has_ recided .since -the death of her husband in 1912. Mrs. Haynes was bern in. Colehester Oct. 12, 1829, Senator Brandegee closed his home at New London Friday for the winter and the employes there went to Wash- gton last night to remain during the sesgion of congress, which prom- ises to be a long one, extending far into the spring and perhaps into the summer. ; Since.the law of the last -session of the ‘general assembly imposing a tax of one cent per square foot on bill- boards’ went into. effect’ Aug. '1, 1914, the revenue-from it, which is collected by the secretary of state, has amount- ed to only $500, a ‘much smaller sum ‘than was expected. ¢ - The railroad bridge at the Connecti- cut river was lifted 2,277 times during the year 1915, and 2,142 the year 1914. .The state bridge was. opened 1,636 times in 1915, and 1,572 in 1914. The railroad’ bridge strueture ‘ls lowed by nine feet at the high water mark than the state bridge. - The superior court for New London county has appointed Albert S. Com- ! stock, temporary receiver of the Nor- wich Paper Mills, Incorporated. A certificate has been filed with the Becretary of the state to relieve the |, corporation of the necessity of fiiling the usual annual report. The office of the secretary of state #t Hartford announces that -all auto- mobile markers for which requisition has been made have been forwarded from that office and should, be in the hands of the applicants. Consequent- 1y all cars now in use on the highwa; of the state should bear 1916 marker: LIMOUSINE BURNED. August Heber's Car Caught Fire on ox Hill. e o 5 Friday night the limousine owned by August Heber, Jr.,-backfired on Fox HINl and was totally destroyed by fire. ‘With Mr, Heber was Charles Jacob- son. They were trying out the en- gine, which had been working badly, ang 'were getting the automobile ready ‘fire started in the carburetor while the machine | was rinning at about 15 miles'an haur -| chine. 71“The Healer of Skin Diseases” . Relleves and quickly heals cold sores, chabped ™ sl 1foosy” Bites, chilbiains, [ Price 26¢, every box guaranteed. ruggists. Ei ol S J S el T I (R Ty 2 and spread rapidly throughout, the ma- The machine 4s"a total 'loss and _ the, men . h a_laditern on: the machine and left it by the roadsi The machine was insured." A, telephon ‘message was sent into the Central station, but the firemen sald they couldn 3 “to Dr. and Mrs. G. P. Bard. About 75 friegds of Dr..and drs. G. Percival Bard of East Main street, ;| Staftord Springs,.formerly of Nor- warming lon -~ of es, for o | T Jrert, o Wetherday stoning; it ey e birthday drniversary.. Rev. m%fi ‘present and others ible_to dttend,. presented d s a sum of | | Bard’s The deaths of eastern Connecticut legislators for the year 1915 were as follows: Feb. 83—William B. Otis, Colchester, 71, *79. and .'84; aged-73 v . 9—Fdward-Harland, Norwich, ’69 and '78; senate, '70;-formerly m- ber-of board of jpardons and -adfuthnt ‘general, aged 88 years. s March - 18—Frederick 'P.’ Ladd, Sa- lem '89, aged 87, years. April 26—Charles F. Thayer, Nor- wich, senate, 1891, aged 63 years. May 2—Charles W. Bradley, Tolland aged 70 years. May rge F. Tinker, New Lon- don °'79, '80, aged 81 years. May ‘4—George M. Hyde, Preston 1801, aged 70 years. May 21—Jared . Lincoln, Chaplin 62, aged 91 years. May 24—Frederick Ripley, ‘Avon '82, aged 81 years. May 26—Chester Johnson, Enfield, senate '74, '75, '76, aged 88 years. June 6—Thomas G. Root, Tolland, ,84, aged 68 years. June 17—James A. Way, East Lyme, -1'76; aged 80 years. June 28—Joseph A. Thompson, Eil- lington '74, ’82' ,83, aged 89 years. July 13 —Horace Goodrich Jones, Saybrook, '95, '07; aged 75 years. August - 1—O. ' S. Chaffee, Mansfleld, '82; senate, '03, aged 50 yvears. August ‘S—Prentice Avery, Preston, '69; aged 84 vears. August 17—Waterman R. Burnham, Norwich, '62; aged 84 years. September 10—John Nolan, Sprague, *70; aged 95 vears. September - 11—James Pendleton, Stonington, '05, '97; senate, '99, '01; aged 60 years. . October 10—Charles Edward Spen- cer, Lebanon, '89; aged 84 years. October 10—David Blisworth At- wood, Mansfield, '89; aged 72 years. October 31—Silas’ Putnam, Vernon, '86: aged -85 years. November 6—John L. Paine, Water- ford, '91, '37; aged 86 years. 16—Amos B. Taylor, Ston- ;- aged 91 years. H 17—Waldo Tillinghast, Plainfleld, '01; aged 82 vears. i_December 4—Daniel Wallace White, ‘Hebron, "*78; aged 71 years, RED CROSS TO OPEN | BUREAU FOR WORK. Norwich Branch Will Have Station’ i the Thayer Building. Mrs. Caroline R. Perkins, secretary of the Norwi branch of the Red Cross, has sent out the following statement and:appeal: To the Editor' of The Bulletin: In response‘to an expressed desire— on the part of the public—for an op- portunity to work in .aid of the war sufferers, the executive committee of the Norwich branch of the National Red Cross has decided to open a bu- reau for work in the Thayer building on Franklin square, , Jan. I1th, at 10 o'clock. Ve Hospital supplies and warm clothing for. bables are especially needed. Contributions of 'new material or money for its purchase are earnestly solicited. All persons willing to. as- sist in sewing at the room or at home will be gladly welcomed. BURNS THE LOVER To Be Dr. Shaha Subject Before Knights of Columbus. 1 : Tl Dr. D. J. Shahan, who has been asked to address the K. of C. at their parlors on Sunday afternogn, has ee his..subject “Burns the Lover.” This tindely topic for the occasion, coming £0 near the “ploughman’s” anniversary, has-been selected thro! courtesy for the ed peasant and his people. Dr. S , who finished his cal couree in Edinburgh, Scotland, is quite at-home on the subject, and a full | bouse may be expected. " Miss Mesch Entertaing at Dinner. Miss Louise B.. Meech ined a friends at_dinner: %fiufi houl.. New London. b fr will All_Ge Flshing. .1t the tickets next year should be 2 by “Wilson ‘and & urphy ' of Columbia | San points in President MecGregor's | of withholding should be made ‘on in: is |return on or -before “March 1, tax Form. 1042 Revised. 'Copies this form be had. upon re from the collector of interna Irevenue for your district. Failure to file ;‘:c:) 16, subjects the delinquent to the specific penalty of mot less ‘than $20° nor m than'$1,000.... = . ¥ - o Persons nst whom tax has been withheld have the right, under the law, to file-Fofm 1008, either ‘with the~col- lector -or with the «withholding-agent, e|mot later than thirty days prior (o Taking up the question of the fu- ture of the ht dress before the meeting called by the | T8l Years Norwich Housing company .. to con- sider the Norwich situation as to pro- vide housing’ accommodations for. the influx of new employes of the com- pany when it gets to work on.the pres- ent contract which it has with the Bel- gian government to furnish 150,000 Mauser rifles. Will Match $10,000 With $20,000. There ‘were other points in. which thé enthusiasm of the meetong broke forth into applause and one ‘of these was when President McGregor capped the climax of the meeting by stating dhat if the $10,000 were subscribed to the Housing company at this meet- ing the second $20,000 which the Hop- kins' and Allen Arms company had subscifibed: conditionally would be over by Treasurer George S. Watts at once. After the meeting had adjournd President McGregor extended the time for raising the $10,000 to a week, agreeing to pay the $20,000 on call as soon as the $10,000 was subscril and that the Housing company should keep on to raise a second $10,000. The . officers of. the . Housing. com- pany expressed themselves as greatly gratified with the spirit shown in the meeting and the progress that had been made and declared:their confident belief that the campaign ‘that had been started In it for more subscrip- tions was certain to realize that: re- sults that are the goal. For the City of Norwich. President Walter F. Lester of the Norwich Housing company opened the meeting with brief explanatory. = re marks as to the purpose of ‘the meet- ing which he said was not in the in- terest of any company of individuals or corporation except the corporation of the city of Norwich in which ‘the citizens ought to look upon'themselves: as all partners and work together with confldence and harmony. -Opportuni- ty is knocking at our doors he said, and we want to hold the door wide open. The Hopkins and Allen Arms company has gone forward in good faith, made its investments in Nor- wich real estate and equipped its fac- tory to do the work on its con- tract and it is now the question as to whether Norwich is to live up to its part of the obligation. He believed we were to do so. Mayor Murphy Speaks. Mayor T. C. Murphy was introduced nd was greeted with applause as he rose to speak. He said he wished ta speak as a citizen and he referred to the many efforts he had made to get industries to locate in Norwich, but we had one right within our doors, coming unsolicited and locating right in_the heart of our city. He spoke in admiration of President McGregor and of the way one Nor- wich man ‘had spoken when they went to.him on Friday and told him that Mr. McGregor wanted to close Har- vey lane. That was was Thomas A. Holmes, said the mayor, and his answer had been that President Mc- Gregor and the Hopkins and Allen Co. can have the whole lane if they want it. (Applause.) Hopkins & Allen President. President McGregor of the Hopkins & Allen company was given a rousing greeting as he was introduced by President Lester, the citizens rising and applauding as Mr. McGregor step- ped to the front of the desk. At the opening of his address Mr. McGregor briefly reviewed the business that the company was engaged in, stat- ing that 12 per cent. was paid on the Belgian contract when it was signed - and that another 12 1-2. per cent. was paid last October when the ompany had completed certain con- tions. But this money is to be used for ‘making rifles and not for bullding houses, and the money that the Hop- | kins & Allen company has already subscribed to the Housing company was not the money from the contract. He made this statement, he said, be. cause he had heard it argued that the opkins & Allen company had plenty. of money and could bufld their own houses. ‘Work on the contract is proceeding nicely, he said, and along in April we will be employing some 2,600 or 3,000 men and women. There is much of the work that can be done as well by ‘women as by men. At the present time there are 27 different factories that are making the tools. for the Hopkins & . Allen com. pany. The mac] is now pract!. cally all in_but before it can be start. ed the smaller tools must be had. It would have been impossible to make these tools in two years in Norwich, but soon they will be coming in, and then the company must have the men and the houses for them to live in. Real estate investments won’t rum away, sald the mayor, and are the surest and best. Quoting from the Review of Reviews, thow the remarkais geins fa porule: show the e n tion made in American cities lhzg’h.v- benefited by war orders in their in- dustries: City. Bridgeport .. . Hopewell, Va. Penns Grove, N. J. City Point, Va. Dupont Vity, Va, Carne Before the War. Now. 90,000 149,000 3 13,000 2,000 5, 200 5,000 3,000 3,500 ron & o] paid |add to is the time for everybody to get together, speak a good word for Norwich - and -get those - houses, he concluded amid -applause. R 7 ident er .said he was glad to see that Mr. McGregor had al become a booster for Norwich and he H. Gallup to- address Mr. Gallup was also applauded as he rose to speak and commended the pportunity now before Norwich to its industries a high grade ma- chine shop, which he said had been the desire for years past. He com- ed | mended the investment in home prop- erty and said that the establishment of the Hopkins & Allen company here on’ the scale .that is promised would it ever so much easier in the future to locate other industries: here. He sald he had no sympathy with the kicks and knockers, but now was the time for the pull-together spirit and to show that Norwich was wide awake and alive to grasp this opportunity. Time to Do Something. Attorney Edwin W. Higgins was called upon and stater emphatically that it was his belief-that it was time now to stop talking and do something. He suggested that there were four ways in' wkich people- could help, either by subscribing to the stock of the Housing ccmpany, by building on vacant lots that they might own, by forming their own housing companies or by being willing to lend their mon- ey to these who wanted to build. The Hopkins end- Allen people have gone ‘ahead on-the proposition that Norwich |, s going to make good and the speak- er said he belleved that Norwich is going to make-goed. - - He told of the endorsement that a Boston banker had made of Norwich as -an.ideal place and of its opportunity to realize what the western part of the state was real- izing, and he spoke of the acquirement by the company of about 18,000 square feet of land north of its present build- ing, of the Fox property across Wil- low street and of the options held on the Gordon .building and the Ring property, making possible the erection of a plant five or six times the size of the present one. . He ivocated giving aid to the Housing company. and said that this was no gift we were making to the; Hopkins & Allen company, but is a matter of seif-help and help for Nor- wich. E. A. Tracy Gives Endorsement. E. A. Tracy of the Norwich Nickel and Brass company spoke briefly when calleq upon, saying that Norwich had always shown its ability to meet emer- gencies and he belfeved it was going to do the same in this case. . He had every confidence in the success of the Hopking & ‘Allen company and had personal knowledge of Augustus P. Loring, Mr. McGregor and other men at the head of the company. On the Financial Side. Shepard B. Palmer, who is treasurer of the Housing company, was called upon and said he wished to answer the remark that had been made to him that it was all philanthropy in sub- scribing to the Housing company. When the present contracts are com- pleted the company will have an in- vestment of $97,000, he said, and from its 21 houses will have a yearly rental of $10,380, against which he estimated that there could be charged $9,470, making a surplus of $910 per year. ‘This was allowing for expenses, depre- 'clation, a 5 per cent. dividend and & per cent. for operating expenses. Labor Men Satisfied. Robert -McNeely, ‘business agent for the Central Labor union, was called upon and said the body he represented was pleased that the work on the houses had been placed in town. He felt from the figures that had been shown that the building plan was a safe proposition ;,and he believed that the policy of keeping the work within the ecity would make its effect felt upon this second call for subscriptions to the housing company. Further Subscriptions Secured. John J. Corkery, secretary. of .the ‘Housing company, told of what had been found as to the scarcity of de- sirable “tenements and said the com- pany ‘now had about 60 subscribers, and had had 344 shares subscribed on the first call. This meant _$34,400. Since then Mrs. Channing M. Huni ton had sibscribed for § shares, ‘win ‘W, Higgins one share and Stod- dard, Gilbert Co. 3 shares. tns” eubscription” blanks and sévisa n and advi flnu'fll who wanted to skould fill out 1y blank. :_Attorney Higgins called Pordeous _for remarks and :{r t-omww "!.h. that all ’ had was that he had mb.mhfi for § m-'}'m and he-would subscrib subscrided for & . John . Pol for 8 shares, &mn{'xmfix‘ for 2 5 uel or and James L. Crawfo: i At the close of t the making a at the meetin arch 1, ‘and-that, therefore, .the:an- nual returns of withholding agents should miot “be "made- until atter tiat te. . Information which may be required in conmection with the preparation’ and’ filing.of income tax. returns will be ‘promptly furnished upon_apphca- tion therefor ,at. either the Hartford, vidence, New, Hayen. or. Bridgeport offices. Those liable for -the taxc<are respectfully. requested ot file: their: re- turns at the earliest possible date. OBITUARY. Mrs. David Brown. . A slight cold ~contracted ' Tuesday, resulting in congestion’of the lings, caused the death of Alvah, widow' of David Brown, at the Sheltering, Arms on Thursday evening about 9 o'clock. Mrs. Brown, who was in her 93rd year had resider-at the Sheltering Arms ‘or ahout five years, the date ‘of her en- trance being August 11, 1911. Mrs. Brown passed her early life in Stafford, where she was born’ on March 23, 1823. Her maiden name was Alvah Maria Cady. Seventy-one years ago she was joined 'in marriage with David Brown of Smithfield, R. 1. Over 30 years-ago. Mr. Brown ~went to Europe in the interest of the Enfleld rifie’ manufacturers. His health broke down ‘and- he returned home. . Later he went.again to Burope nd returned broken in health, physically and men- telly. Years ago he made his escape from the Middletown asylum and has not been heard from since. Surviving “Mrs. Brown are three sons. Rev.. Henry Nelson Brown of Danielson, Wiiliam Oscar Brown Wilmington, Del., and David Brown of Philadelphia. ; Rev. Henry. Nelson Brown was at one time pastor of the Norwich Town Methodist church. For ‘11 vears he preached “in Brooklyn, N. Y., and then for 7 years held a pastorate in Everett, Mass. Several vears ago he went to Danielson in the interests of his wife's health. - He s at present pastor of the. Penticostal 'Congregational church in_Danielson. 3 Mrs. Brown' Teaves one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Bridge of Colbrook, ‘N. ¥., who is 92 vears of age. ‘The late William . O. ‘Cady of Portland, Conn., was a brother of Mrs. Brown. There are nieces and nephews 'and several srandchildren. The body was tiken to_Danielson on Friday and the funeral’will be held ‘there Monday. " ' - . ‘AustinT. Dai Austin_ T. Daniels, a. well known farmer, died on Friday at his. home in Waterford. He was 73 years old and for many years. had operated his Wa- terford farm, taking: produce; to -New London to market. He was an active member of the First Baptist church of Waterford. The widow, a _brother, Courtland Daniels of Lake Konomoc. and a sister, Mrs. Charles Munger of New London, who made her home with him, survive. FULL TEXT OF REPORT OF NAVY GENERAL BOARD To Be Made Public Before Congres- sional Committee Hearings Begin. ‘Washington, Jan. 7.—The full text of the report of the navy general board urging that the United States navy be placed on an equality with the strong- est afloat by 1925 will be made public by Secretary Daniels before congres- B | tees 1, | began. sional committee hearings begin on the admihistration’s navy plans. Mr. Daniels said tonight he was giv- ing the matter serious thought as a result of statements made by various members of congress that they would seek its publication *and also because this report was mentioned in the let- ter of resignation received today from Henry A. Wise Wood, of New York, severing his connection with the re- cently - orsanized civilian advisory board. Mr. Wood sald he resigned to be free to advocate substituting the gen- eral board’s policy for what he de- scribed_as the wholly inadequate five year $500,000,000 new ~ construction programme recommended to congress by . the administration. :Secretary Daniels will acknowledge Mr. Wood's resignation and ask the American So- clety of of .Aeronautical Engineers which selected him for membership on the advisory board to name his suc- cessor. 7 The general board report. referred to by Mr.,Wood was made last July in response to an. oral order of. the secretary that the board ‘“express its opinion at_the, earliest possible .date as .to a policy which should govern the development of the navy and a bullding programme.” In a subsequent report, already. made public, prepared in reply to a request that it formulate a_continuing five year -building pro- gramme during which time $500,000,- 000 was to be expended for new ships, the board d_the policy pre- viously presented follows: “The navy of the United States shonld ultimately be equal to the most powerful maintained by any other na- tion of the world. It should be grad- vally increased to this point by such rate of development year by year, may be permitted by e ‘Hes of the country, but the limit above defined should be attained not later Publication of: this report in full is the matter Secretary Danlels now is considering. He said - t “he ‘had decided to present it to X of ‘cognress when - the - hearings In publishing such reports, it was pointed out, Mr. Daniéls establish- t | ed a precedent 'for the department two “|of previous secretaries ed many came up and Smmg . mm States years ago, it having been the custom’ to | disclose them only in confidence to congres- sl committees: . of"| skin troubles. The fifst use of Resinol ‘Ointment and Resjnol Soapusually stops nd burning, and they soon clearaway all trac (:ie eruption. No _other treatment for the skin'now;before the public can show such-a record of - professional. approval. - Sold by all druggists. For trial fres, write’ Dept. 105, Resinol, Biltimare, . and Embalmers ;Oppeite-Post Offion ! 212 . Lady Assistant | that it shall at‘all times equal-the navies of any two other powers;-al- though tacitly, at:least, the Amierican navy has been-excluded from that .cal- culation in the past. 3 { While naval officials are unwilling to discuss the’ board’s statemient of policy in advance--of its - publication, it is indicated that the possibility that the United States might be called upon to meet enemies in.both -the Atlantic and Pacific oceans simultaneously was considered 'in redching a conclusion. The first yeat’s biilding alone, under the programine, #'is reported, would equal the. entire five-year administra~ tion .programme in scost; ;approaching $500,000,000. . ., = OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE PANAMA CANAL Detailed Account Given in Annuat Re- port - of Gen. - Goethals. Washington, Jan. 7.—A detafled ac- {count of the operation and ‘main- tenance of the Panama canal during the first .ten-months and a half after its opeéning to commerce in'’ August, 1914, is h given in the annual re- pott of Governor Goeghals of the Capal | zone, made public tonight. Final con- struction ‘work just prior to the canal's opening also “is' described in' the re- port, .which enbraces’ the fiscal year ending June 30 last,-prior to.the earth slide which blocked: the chanmel. Eetween August 15, 1914, and June 30, 1815, 530 vessels, representing a net Panama Canal tonnage of 1,884,- 728 and cargo tonnage of 2,125,735 were passed through from Atlantic to Pa- cific-and 558 vessels, representing & Panama canal tonpage. of 1,958,907 and a cargo tonnage of 2,844.057, from Pa- lcific to Atlantic, making a fotal of 1,- 1088 vessels with'a net canal tonnage'of 3,843,035 a'/’a cargo tonnaze of . 969,7 During the perior three mi- nor slides interrupted traffic, the chan- { nel being: closed from October 14 to 20 jand. October 21 to November 4, 1914, and March 4 to 10, 1915. Construction of the canal proper, ex- cept for dredging excavation and con- struction of the breakwater- at Co- lon, virtually was completed prior _ to this fiscal year. In the Culebra Cut, renamed the Gaillard Cut, there were removed, in the process of construction . 1,960,607 cubic yards st of approximately rd. In maintaining removal ards at a cost of 34 2-3 cents a yard nid from the channel at the Atlantic entrance 1,233,301 cubic yards'at - a of 10 1-6 ‘cents a yard. Cucaracha slide. the report says, was very-active from July to October, 1914, quiet during the dry season, and active again with the beginning of the rainy reason in April. On the west side at Culebra the slide showed little ac- tivity through the greater part ofthe yea t in June, 1915, the- ‘general movement of the bank was noticeable, and it wa sestimated that 5,000,000 cubic yards of material were in motion on June 30, 1915, on -the west side. It }is estimatec that about 4,000,000 cubic yards will have to be removed from the east side. Of the $394,399,149 appropriated by congress to June 30, last, the report states that $14,689,872 has been spent on fortifications:- § to cover three annual payments to the Republic of Panama: $6,440,000 for the operation of the civil government of the canal zone for the fiscal year 1916, $4,289,159 for the operation and mainténance of the canal to the end of, the, fiscal year 1915. while stock on hand aggregates $2,225,000, leaving $365,999,116 appro- priated for the actual construction of the canal ang its adjuncts. - Two -million dollars of this was in- vested in colliers,\and $6,563,067 was re- turned to the trtasury d to. the close of the fiscal as miscellaneous® receipts, ™ leaving $357.436,048 as the . net amount = ex- pended for the canal - including the amount available, for work still in progress. = A dry dock, two coaling stations and terminal piers, not includ- ed in' these , are yet to be con structed. 7 : Health conditions in the canal zone, the report says were véry £00d" uring the year. The total death rate from disease was reduced from 14.46 in 1914 to 11.77 in 1915, Victima of malaria, the principal cause of disability, were reduced _twonty per cent. in number and the dedth’rate 32 per cent., in the year. The admission rate to hospitals frofa typhoid was reduced: more than 76 per cent., from dysentery, fifty per cent., the death rate from pneumonia was reduced more than 39 per cent, Labor e,on%{t’g _ . were _ excellent. J.ore than 6,000 men were given :flra.nq- mnot- portation home because they couls