Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 14, 1916, Page 6

NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1916 BEGINS SATURDAY Feur Day Annual Sale are witl | fl MEMGCRANDUMS .00 values up to $21.50 *1322 in great demand, therefore you 1out buying your Dress now at Maurice Sample Shop.” A VERY PRETTY ASSORTMENT TO CHOOSE FRCM NO SILK DRESSES sale comes just in time when Dresses cannot afford to let this big annual event go by “The amlo/fef/f % ENDS WEDNESDAY WAUREGAN BLOCK WHERE “SMART” STYLE MEETS MODERATE PRICE o} _ E E——: B ] El _ a SUNDAY SUEJECTS The Holiness M ssl at 87 Main street. _._.:.-JEIIE:—E«_EF—:E:——EEE ns, on holds services | Ly the stereopticon. At the - Baltic Rev. E. P. Phreanor will preach church or, the regula ser nday at Smith, First M. E. church, Norwich Town. |[10.30 a. m. p. m. subject is A Great Ne At the Broadway Congregational —_— h the pastor will preach in the; At Grace Memorial E and at the five o'clock ser- | thore cvening 1 Gospel, Mission, 265 Main | ' voeum Steiner building, there will be | 1d evening. Christian ver topic of Atonement. The Sheltering Arms be R onducted by he chc church At Grace Church, Yanti th and” sermo: and evenir Areson, be holy com prayer vening pr m At Taftville church morning At Trinity Episcopal afternoon Bible T Associated es in W. ( The Science buildi will be The nday morr ‘Doctrine At the Greenev will service Bid- z, ol be mor will muel H mor D. D, iHove evening, v. Walter E. Langhe L ter Congregational | subject will be S AtTrinity M. man, D —0F— Reg st rars of { Voters The Registrars of Town of Norwich will eral veting districts in Monday, Gct,, from 9 o’clock a. m. m., to complete a co electors in said be entitled to vo! tors’ meecting will el vember, 1916, and for cations from those “To Be said district, to wit: Dated day of Oct TYLER LIUS J. Registr voting districts to be held on Tues- following the first monday of Ne- D. GUY be ch sersonated. Voters of the| meet in the sev- said town on o 16, 1918, until § o'cl rrect te therein at an receiving appli- Made” in resent. 1t be Prep 1e mornir That Help and Cost High Li DOW™ 3, e p. m and the evening sub. ligious Work in Wyoming. Methodist At Park Congregational church R differer inicy Avenue A. 1 be Rally Sunday < Good Sh 111 Ejiscopal Charles at services Mrs. Marshall Gates and daughter, Mildred of Hartford, have been pass- - ing two weeks at A.'S. Bugbee aptist church,j TRev. and Ars. Franklin _Country- man and Mrs. Walter M. otte, del- from the Jirst Congregational Students hold | hall, ath to Glory. Congregational subjec will pre: chu e|" N union At Rev. N. B. Prindle of Shelton wi e ¢ | Dreach in the morr the Pres = Qity Baptist church. Reyv. Mr. Prin- the church of Hartford M. E. at erd, Uni- will | 5 Fast. w‘uh'! tanding ibject aredness. t church, the D. d e will be the evenir of Living or ving—Which? eld at noon neeting at 6.3¢ Werk On New Grange Gives Entertaini —Personals. chool, attended of the North hool Association dletown. Elestric Le: Lee Rena street. M of Town s n is spe: Harry Kley, Potatees Scare tato crop the rualit: and in ind good. bushel. d $1.75 per ton, most er acotopa AD, & | ment of the Vil Abo AST SIDE W,.T more Returns Laid - From A the of nd ment ed work Home From Austr: re d spe mous T tina. Jane E. Whittaker has the Side to Willi drend has finish, ing of mother’s venue. m his The body of Edison hville, N. Y., ¢ College C. nell of EAST HADDAM Electric Light ng Program | ¢ regational cl Light Li f West of Old Saybro: ding Edwards in " Grange Wed- attended. A Mrs, iter M. al ro- * an original Tec- reshments w this Entertainment, ed the Improve ITEMS [ John walks in k state. { turned from | {ana h Miss Perrin. Daughter of Famous Dancer. Miss Doris Burns is_staying at the e of Mrs. B. ntyre of Fox 3 r%of th Madame moved Boswell ¢ home sophomore Line— the annual Middlesex held at the urch, M ine. wing in which t e enterts and Am N M. C t of Deacon il a week Nauga- ey were first of piano duet ere High ) es 1 Apples ar uests, few days oyable ent A. G. Port- ustralia. jof the elec: Monday. e Fireman King was the main witness for the defense in the Mansfield man- slaughter case Friday, and he was on the witness stand all the afternoon, the court continuing without even a brief recess, a censideration that has heretofore been given to most wit- nesses who testified at considerable length, The benches assigned to spectators were fllled, as they are at every sesslon of the court, but after all seats are occupied no more spec- tators arg admitted to the court room. There are several more witnesses to be called for the dcfense. and_others in rebuttal, and it is believed that the trial will not be concluded before nexr. Friday, and perhaps not then. When court reconvened Friday morning Joseph I. Vernon, supervisor of signals of the Providence division of the New York, New Haven' and Hartford Railroad company, who was on the witness stand when court ad- journed Wednesday, resumed his tes- timony. He explained the difference | between the Olive street and the Brad- ord towers, which was in the control ic system. He told of the fastenings of the gravity boxes, which were different in some towers, but all gravity locks work on the same prin- ciple. There arec old-time gravity boxes in the Bradford and Wood River towers and in :al machines. “In regard to the discharge of the tower- man _at Canton Junction—" queried Mr. Fitzgerald. Objection was raised by Attorneys Phillips and Otis on the ground that witness did not know of this act of his own knowledge. Ob- jection sustained. Both braces are in the fastening of the gravity boxes at on Junction on the horizontal ma- At Wood er and Bradford single braces to hold the v boxes rigid. At Newport road tower the old-time gravity boXes are installed and the larger style at Fox street tower in Attleboro and old style at Orm street, Providence. In Westeriy tower is all electrical and no gravity boxes are required, as the levers arc locked wholly by elec- tricity. The same lever controls the cast and westbound operation, but the mechanical lock by movement of lever as in the other towers At the ai ion meeting when the question of the gravity lock “kick” at Canton Junction w sed, there were 16 supposed to be presenf, but he could not tell how many more. Superintend - ent Fitzmaurice of the Providence di- sion was there. Mr. Vernon was then questioned by Attorrey Phillips and testified there was a difference between the machines in towers, and that those in the Can- ton and Bradford and Wood River towers differed, for in the two latter the machines were horizontal and ver- tical at Canton. The gravity bo mor urely fastened on ver At Westerly the levers 1y locked and electr milock. The wires communicati rly are on nolec except at Cross s, He was not in _ the tower at Canton Junc- y a Kick at the was reported nal ]\nrm!z‘d—vr\ is. he did not actus ce the trick turned ke had known of led to qu Y Mr. controls’ were terly. but he did re ihe > mined etion Mr. Vernon said tances where the relays f; to work, in response Fitzgerald. The rv n a glass cas: not know Bradford. * and “In for order unlock in place of st be kicked ‘and are the when the 1 dtek- ed?” Mr nd the objection Vernon caid that tower- man_cot nd place foot on that con- his A the d ely to did not if there were marks ely looked the objection was s on the ground that the gravi x on Thursday might not be in the Gall M on a returned | alia. nt Saturd; = Hicks in is offered as a prize by the Ever-Ready Company. Ready Flashlights and Batteries, and wiill furnish vou with a contest blank and in- formation. THE NORWICH ELECTRIC CO. a2 Franklin Street Flashlight? For Thizs Name We are headquarters for Ever- i me condition as on the night of tie wreck. ¥ Ivan B. Mosher, road foreman of engines of the Providence division of New Yo New Haven and F i3 d, testified that duties were to ride on the engines and c work and habhits of the men. He said he had been i the Canton Junctio “Have ever observed any ¢ on the part of the towerman " The witness said had he had something r. Here found r 2 ction as the machine towers at Canton and Wood River and DBradford differed, that j the gravity hoxes are not similarly placed. Judsa Elmer stated that if one machine could be tampered with and not another the machine in question Mr. Fitzgerald said me in all towers, ited an instance that t} a watch were the same if t were laid on an oak or a pine table. The objection was sustained. Then Afr. Mr. Fitzgerald juestioned no far- ther. He had arguod that witness for the state had testified that the ma- chanical operation of all these sravity boxes were identical and that they were renily the same except in size, their operation was exactly the e watch Leonard J. McNamara, a trainman of train No. 25, testified that he re- sided in New Haven and was sum- moned to court when at the Providence station, On the night of the Bradford wpeck he s on . He f{irst noticed the application of the emergency brake and shortly after there was a shock. He was in the smoker, the second car from the rear of the train, and when he left the car he saw the flagman of 25 start back. He then went up to heard on eastbound track and saw the flagman of #33. - At that time :t was te foggy, and he observed that the signals could not be seen distinctly. He went back to his train, where it had parted, just before the train back- ed out. It was a foggy night and it was so at midnight when he went back a gecond time, and he could see no sighals. Mr. Phillips objected on the ground that this observation was sev- ecral hours after the wreck, and Mr. Otis jolned in the objection. . Judse Rathbun sustained the objection. When the witness first got off the train he saw no fuzee burning. Mr. Fitzgerald asked if he observed if there was fog in the rear of the train. Mr. Phillips objected on the ground that witness had not testified that he had observed at that time. The witness said the fog was quite thick in the whole vi- Fireman Simeon P. King on Stand in dence Strong in Favor of Engineer’s Accuracy—Histori- cal Society Enables New Members—Schools to Open rve the: IMPORTANT TESTIMONY ATWESTERLY Mansfield Case—Evi- cinity. The object of this line of tes- timony on the part of the defense is to show that while Mr, Mansfield picked up the distant signal at green, or clear, that gave him a clear way through the block, he did not see the red home signal until he was so close to it that the train could not be stopped in time to prevent collision. Here, at_the re- quest of Attorney Phillips, a short re- cess was taken. Attorney Prillips then questioned Mr. McNamara, who testified that af- ter the emergency brakes were ap- plied the train came to a quick stop, but the time was a matter of guess, but it was a short time. When wit- ness first left the train he did not ob- serve the weather conditions, but he saw the flagman going back, and ap- proaching the bridge. The flagman was about three car iengths away and witness could see the lights he car- ried. He had not talked this case over with anyone before he took the wit- ness stand toduy, and was in Westerly on Wednesday and Friday. He had not discussed this case with anybody and at any time. Witness insisted that he saw the flagman approaching the trestle bridge in spite of the persistent inquiry of Mr. Phillips to have the flagman located on or beyond the tres. tle. The witness went ahead of his train, to protect it, and went as far as the locomotive of train 633. When he saw the train was protected he went back to the wreck and assisted in the rescue, and te extinguish the fire, and during that period he paid no special attention to the weather. He a: sted in the rescue work until train 25 was backéd off from the wreck, but made no special observance of the weather, but he knew that the weather was foggy when the got out of the train, and knew that it was foggy all the time, but he made no direct observance of the weather conditions until after his rescue work. Some time after the train was backed out of the wreck he noticed that the home signal was red. He did not g0 back to the distant sig- nal. Recess. The two masted schooner Henry P. Hollock, of New York. onz of the old- est in the coastwise trade. bound for nevard Haven to New York light, masted in a_gale when off oy Point, Friday morning. sel was sighted from Coast Guard station, and Captain Walter H. Davis, an c went to the res the motor boat. The Hollock wa Captain Cha and Joseph Emor composed the officer and the Hollock was taken off in _the power boat of the coast guard. Cap- tain Davis communicated with the coast guard steamer Acushnet, at Woods Hole, and she will probably tow the Hollock to port. Ivan Mosher, who testified in the morning, was recalled to the witness stand at the opening of the afternoon session. He said his duties in port were to ride on engines to observe the qualifications of He had ridden in the egnines with Charles H Mansfiefd and he considered him first-class engin He always call- ed aloud the E he knew his In cross-e the witness Mansfield. eers obscrve the with them, but that ction as 2 prese: could check an engineer it was not to call the ly. He did not know en ivitnes adily check gineer did w avity b d been not station -ald. Canton Junction to secure an an_unlock from a Mr. nd susts in ed. Simeon P. King, of New Haven, fire- man of train 256, and had been employ- ed as fireman for five years, was the next witnes: I s on the engine at time 25 was in collision at Bradford Mr. Mansfield was the engineer of the train and it was arranged h Mr. insfield that he should call distant signal as “high ball” and all other s, this to aid witness in the nowledze of the road as he was near- ing promotion to be engineer. The was a signal set against the train be- tween Boston and Providence, and the engineer called it. He observed the distant signal at Bradford when the engineer called “High Ball,” witness looked, saw the green light and replied “High Ball” Before answering the signals he haw them. The signal, the green one he saw at Bradford, was on a mast, and he observed in ord to be sure. After passing the s nal he started to hook the fire. the emergency was set and he jumped to h and he saw a red and white 1 s from a flagman, and an indistinct red light. He was on the engine at the time of the collision, but did not thihk then that the trafa would reach the train ahead which was resignated by t red lights. The locomotive, to his surprise, struck the car and then went into it. He jumped off the engine and hoped to find a “dead head” coach, but learned there were people in the car. H saw a small boy and put him on the platform and gave him over to the care of someone. He then asissted all he could, he made many moves, but could not tell whether he effected very much. He returned to the en- gine and looked at the air gauge and saw the brakes were on and helped re- lease the brakes. The engineer had not backed out, but was about to do s0, when a man pleaded not to back out as it would put the lights in the car out. Later he assisted a woman from the car to the station and then returned to the engine. ~ Mr. Ma field backed the engine out a short di tance and into the part of the train that had broken apart. Witness went back to release the air from the de- tached part of the train. When he returned Mr. Mansfield had a stream of water from the syphon hose on himself, and on a fire in the car. Soon after the englne stopped and with the engineer he alighted. He stood near the engineer, and there were a few men there. One was near Mr. Mansfleld and gave him a drink of water and they were so neaf the engine that he had difficulty in getting off. Mr. Mansfield stood near the wa- ter tank which was close to the en- gine and witness was very close to him for quite a while. He then went aft- er the personal belongings of the en- Then { SPECIAL TODAY At THE LADIES SPECIALTY STORE “ON THE SQUARE” $1.00 WAISTS, - $1.25 CORSETS, - - $2.25 SKIRTS, - $1.25 PETTICOATS, Al Colms, 89¢c $1.05 98¢ $1.98 ~ - Double Stamps until 1 p. m. on all Suits and Coats. We carry a large variety of Children’s Coats. THE LADIES SPECIALTY STORE “On the Square,” Norwich nor did he hear the engineer say that he did not see the signals. He re- mained with Mr. Mansfleld until 4.32 the next morning when they went to Midway. There were no_signals set against the train from Providence to Bradford, and no slow boards were met, which idnicated less than forty-five miles an hour speed. If engineer disregard- ed signals, it was the duty of the en- gineer to apply the emergency brakes, o rdo anything eise for the safety & train. He heard no one ask Mr. Mans- field as to the signals and therefore did not hear him say to anyone that he did not see the distant signal. Assistant Attorney General Phillips then cross-questioned the witness, who testified that he had no trouble with Mr. Mansfield and was on_ friendly terms and got along with him very agreeably on the job. He had no talk th Mr. Mansfield concerning the sig- nals on the night of the wreck. Since then had no talk of the details in re- gard to the signals on the night of the wreck. He and Mr. Mansfield have talked the matter over in a general way, but not in detail as theré is no occasion for such a conversation. We ve had no special talk about special The Wood River Junction stant signal was called by the en- gineer and the witness called back, ‘High Ball” Mr. Mansficld did everything he could to stop the train. he turned off the and yplied the emergency but could not tell whether the ineer ‘opened the whistle valve. He A never read, or had read to him, the ve to the public util- i is parts of i him by Mr. ver gone over the ble length. He ter over for ten Tuesday night Phi witness how he uld not remewmber the event of last as he did of ht of the wreck. recall any lac to last Tuesday fully as clear) dents of the n He replied he did not of memory in night, and there w casion for to mer the night the wrecl tzzerald objected to line © in_regard to of the witness, but the ob- memory on was denied Mr. King was subjected to a lengthy | severs cross-examination by Mr. v‘N\ w 1 frequent- by Mr. Phol- 1 ps had before e.records of the coroner and public and inter- | nmissions to the| re used apparent there a green light one familiar with sig- | s knew hut no this light for the| ford. He did no nk it to mistake the g\ln)w for the di al He saw long the line and fon was not obscured especially ., there m have been fog nough to obscure his vision ignats. He could not tell | > sas rst home signal 1! the sigmals | after on the night of the wreck at Bradford, as he was never sure in his own mind on that point. Mr. King insisted that he did not know positively whether a red’ light he saw was the first home signal. The court adjourned to next Mon- day morning at 10.30 o'clock. Local Laconics. Thirteen new members were enrolled in the Westerly Ilistorical society, Thursday evening, seven of whom are non-residents. Regardless of the new case of in- fantile paralysis in Crafts court, the public school session will be resumed next Monday. MYSTIC Barn Being Moved by William L Main Gets Tangled \n Trolley Wiret —Puts Cars Off Schedule. William L. Maln has moved a barn from his place on Washington street to a lot owned by him on Industrial place and will convert it into a house. When passing by Finnegin Corner the roof became entansled with the tro ley cable .and tore the wires down, causing great inconvenience. The cars were all put off schedule time for over four hours. By 8§ o'clock the barn was in the lot and tise cars were running on time once mare. Wins Scholarship. E. Lamb of Hasbrook N. J., a summer visitor at home of 'his grandparents, has the been awarded a scholarship of $650 at Rutzers colleze, New Prunswick, N. re he entered this fall as a There were 11 competitors , a much coveted one, and Lamb’s standing was the high- oung est. Heard and Seen. berlin has returned New Yorlk Harry Cornwall returned to Short four months’ stay in M Her B. Noyes U. George are spending in New York Fred from a visit in Mrs. have and family gil, \N. J., the village. 1 Mrs. A. few days Schenck of Wyo- guest of her aunt, Holmes. vid Gallup of New York is the of his daughter, Mrs. George fliam T. Brand of New York is unday. Point for over at Willow An inspection of Hell Gate made re- cently by the committee of congress on rivers and harbors reveals ither calls to mind, the fact that as it now ands superdreadnoughts could mnot nter or leave New York by w of hat channel. The risk of the passage s today prohibitive for such Lig ships. 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