Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 18, 1917, Page 5

(oy Medicine in the World. hflm Inbozes. 10c. 250, NORWICH. imethods. Telephone sealed) . Painting. Pape 'n.e Original Meml:;en of The Lahn Furniture Co. will resume: business very shortly at their former loca- tion—=74 sMAIN STREET, BENJ. & JOS.'LAHN 11, Booklet E BRAND VIEW SANITARI REHM N h, C UM, No ar Xo. ~ M can be n St Dunham St. FARMERS We are ready to. co-operate nt supply | 1 handle sively, | and | with you. Ifs can be obtained wi nearby Potatoes exclus market price uffici obtained prompt returns. JAMES E. COMMISSION MOORE MERCHANT FRUITS AND PRODUCE Ernest E. VIO Bullard LIN TEACHER Al String Instrumants repaired Violins sold ol n easy tsrms For appointments address E. E. BULLARD, Bl wich, Conn. liss Place, Nors | THE PLAUT-CADDENCO. OFFERS TODAY A SPECIAL LoT OF MEN'S - MIIITARY WRIST WATCHES The most practical gift for ths boys ithat are go ing to the front. Speclal ‘price from $3.25 up. See Window Dispiay THE PLAUT-CADDEN C0. Plaut-Cadden Building, Norwich Established 1872 The Best Place is the Cheapest Place t AUTO ROBES HARNESSES STEAMER RUGS SOME SECOND HARNESS o Buy WAGONS RUBBER BOOTS CARRIAGES -HAND TEAM IN STOCK THE L. L. CHAPMAN CO. 14 BATH STREET. NORWICH, CT. FREDERICK T. BUNCE THE PIAN 22 Clairm: Phone 833-2 O TUNER ont Av Norwick NOTICE PRESTON BRIDGE WILL BE CLOS- ED FOR REPAIRS UNTIL FURTH- ER NOTICE. By Order Sclectmen. TEAMING AND TRUCKING DONE VERY PROMPTLY AND AT REASONAE LE PRICES A. D. LATHROP Phone 175 DRS. L. F. and A, J. LaPIERRE 287 Main Street, Norwich, Conn. Office Hours: 10 a Sundays ex epted m. to 3 p. m. by appeintment GEER Phone 511 The Piano Tuner, 122 Prospect St., On account of 'ncrease in price of to- testone Cigar wifl the W' rom now on a b Yold # t $32 per 1,000. J. F. CONANT . )n?d 11 Franklin St ) Light - evening. Freights arriving in town have been quite heavy of late. 50c silk hose only 23c today at the Eagle Clothing VCo.—QdV‘ Ensilage cutting has begun on e number of the suburban farms. Fnormous loads of hay are being carted through town these days. Ledyard orchard owners are sending nice looking peaches to the Norwich mariket. ‘Several motor parties from Norwich visited the art exhibition at Mystic vesterday. The Connecticut Berkshire associa- tion's fleld day will be held at East Lyme, August 22 A Groton patient, Fred Needham, has entered the Norwich tuberculosis hos- pital for treatment. A little over two weeks more of vagation remain before the schools open for the fall term. orwich cottage owners will be at limantic camp ground for the epe- meetings of next week. cial Five hundred recruits are needed to Aill the ranks of several companies now stationed at Niantic camp ground. FEastern Connecticut teachers who have been at Danbury summer normal school for special courses are returning home. At Andover, George Stanley is filling rush government orders for chestnut posts to be used in the army concen- ation camps. Regular $1.00 Vindex athletic union suits, like B. V. D., only 59, today, at the Eagle Ciothing Co.—adv. At Lord’s Point, Charles C. Dodge has sold Soundview cottage, corner of Hill avenue and Kinney alley, to Wil- liam Doucett of Mystic. Fifty children from the Tolland county honre in Vernon had an outing at Crystal lake Thursday. The trip was made in automobile 'buses. Travelers coming up from New Lon- don Friday morning spent some anx- ious moments when, the cars were stalled during the terrifying thunder storm. The annual Connecticut reunion of the Lowery family was held Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eaward Lowery of Southington. There were present. Some local householders choose this season for home renovation and refur- nishing, when the trades are apt to ull and merchants offer special ements. The urgency of the recent call for hospital supplies inspired a large num- ber of workers to put in busy hours at the Red Cross room in the Thayer building Friday. The cottage No. 55 Fairmount street, owned by Charles T. Smith, has been sold to Max Schwartz, who will make improvements to the house and occupy it for his residence. Provost Marshal General E. H. Crow- der has sent to the goverror’s office a ruling as to men serving in the Ameri- can Red Cross in France. They are not exempt from the draft. Bishop Nilan’s fall appointments will include: Nov. 13—Montville, St. John's church. Confirmation 10:30 a. m.; 18—Jewett City. St. Mary's church. Confirmation 3:00 p.-m. The Moosup Journal notes that a former Moosup man, J. B. Caron, is manager of The Speciaity Shop, Nor- wich, and is meeting with fine success at the new location at 149 Main street. Arrow collars, all styles, stiff and soft, only “10c_each, today, at the Ea- gle Clothing Co.—adv. Seventy-five responded to the roll call at the 20th annual reunion of the Holmes-Cady family held at Crystal lake, near Stafford Springs, Thursday. Rev. C. C. Lyon of Staffordville was elected president for the coming year. Gov. Marcus ‘H. Holcomb has sent to all the local draft boards in the state which have not sent the required pa- pers to the district board a notice di- recting them to forward these docu- ments immediately, as time is valuable. Capt. Charles E. Olsen, skipper on the three-masted schooner Mary Morse, married Thursday Mrs. Mary | Jane King of Mystic. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Samuel O. Curtiss of the Freeport, L. ., Methodist chureh. The special speaker in the super- sion seaction of the summer normal | school at Danbury Wednesday after- noon_was Henry T. Burr, principal of the Willimantic Normal' school, who spoke on the problem of getting good teachers. Temperance workers here are inter- }ested in the fact that next Wednesday fhe Woman's Christian Temperance union field day will be held at Willi- mantic camp grounds. There will be 2 =old medal contest, to be held In the tabernacle. Connecticut students assigned by hop Nilan in St. Bernard’s seminary, E ester. N. Y., include Alfred . Driscoll of St. Mary’s parish, Norwich. ndents assigned to the Grand sem- Montreal, include Alfred Rivard Mary’s parish, Willimantic. Before the inquiry into the North ranford trolley wreck is_concluded the part of the public ntilities com- on the Shore Line Electric rail- way will be inspected as to its tracke, | cars. equipment agd its method of op- eration, according "to Commissioner C. C. Elwell Wednesday. M. McLean Goldie, formerly of Yan- secretary of the army Y. M. C. A. anch at Fort Terry, has been n#ti- fied by the war work council to make preparation to leave for Russia with a oup of 75 other Y. M. C. A. workers, about the first of September. Part TV of the report for 1316 of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment station records the results-of the ex- aminations of foods and drugs in the year 1916. One thousand, three hun- red and sixty-nine samples were ana.- |1vzed, of which 392 were adulterated, misbranded or below standard. Domler Arrested Again. Al Domler, formerly of Norwich, who several weeks ago was arrested in New London for running a game of chance, was on Friday night again arrested in New London on the same charge. FOR TIRED PEOPLE Horsford's Acid Phosphate s very beneficial for exhausted con- ons due to heat. overwork or in- Non-alcohollc, ai somnia. week in New York city. Alfrea Guyer of Boston has been the guest of Mrs. Mary Bassett for several Charles Burdick of Norwich was a recent guest of George Dawley in Plainflield. Miss M. Beatrice of _Cuff street is spending some time in Mad- ison, Conn. Rev. Dr. John Talbot Smith of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. has been visiting Nor- wich relatives. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Mush of Peck street are spending their vacation at Block Island, R. L. Miss Marion Baker of Winchester street is spending her vacation at Block Island, R. I. Mrs. Charles Rogers of Uncasville has been in Norwich Tovn for several days’ visit with relatives. Miss May Walsh of Summit street has returned home, after a visit with Miss Tilley of Ocean Beach. Misses May and Elizabeth Shunan of the East Side are spending two weeks in Providence and Newport. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wood of Ches- ter, Pa., are visiting Mr. Wood's vrother-in-law, Willlam F. Shaw, of Dak street. . Miss Priscilla Presbrey of Little Falls, N. J., is spending two weeks with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, of Grove street. Miss Elizabeth Moriarty of Yantic street and Mrs. Charles Frazier have been the guests of Miss Nellie Flynn of Preston for a few days. The Misses Irene and Ethel Donns of Boston have returned home, after a ten days’ visit with their cousin, Miss Anna Heaps of Main street. Mr. anr Mrs. Fred Webb and daugh- ter, Marion, of Worcester, have re- turned home, after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank Monroe of the East Side. Miss Josephine Sheehan and Miss Cecelia Murphy of Northampton, Mass., have returned home after a two weeks’ visit with Miss Cecelia Flynn of Hallville. Caesar Del Carlo and family of Oneco street leave this morning for ten days’ trip to visit their former home in Marlboro, N. Y. From there they go to Philadelphia. The Rev. Brother Paphylina, vice principal of La Salle Institute, Trov, N. Y., and Professor of Oratory in the same instiution is visiting his brother, Moses Pepin of Jewett City. Great Pocahontas Mrs. Edith Myers of Bristol was the guest of Mrs. Ada E. Lathrop of No. 3 Stanton avenue while on her official visit to Sebequo- nash council, D. of P., this week. Miss Frances Crawford of Woon- socket. R. I, who has been a guest at the Pleasant View House for two weeks, is the guest of Mrs. M. H. Don- ahue of Main street for the week-end. Mrs. George Higgine of West Thames street has joined a party of friends in Boston, whence they will start for the White mountains for three weeks. Mr. Higgins expects to join them a little later. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam C. Trump, formerly of Norwich, are at Coloradc Springs, where Mr. Trump is a Bosten delegate to the annual convention of the International Typographical union, now in session there. TWO ARE HELD FOR SUPERIOR COURT ng Freight From Chelsea Line Pi Wiadiflaw Korchinsky and Willlam Coman are locked up in the Franklin street jail in w London on the sharge of stealing freight from the Chelsea line wharf. They were pre- sented in the New London police court Friday morning and Judge Coit found probable cause for binding them over for trial in the superior court. He fixed the bonds at $1,000 In each case wtnd neither was able to provide a surety. Inspector Charles Hammond and Special Officer Hickey testified that they went to the home of the two men Thursday and found a large quantity of sugar, coffee, beer, ale and cordials. The goods are valued at over $150. Peter C. Ward, agent for the com- pany, testified that his records showed that the goods found- tallled with the fist he had compiled of the missing treight. Coman admitted that he knew t ®oods were stolen but he denied en- tering the freight house. He claims that he met a man in a Bank street saloon last Saturday night and was $old that there was some freight on the pier that he could have. Shortly after, he said, he borrowed a row- boat and made two trips from the Chelsea pier to the rear of his house, which borders on Winthrop cove. Korchinsky did not have any to tell the court was in no wayv matter. ing other than that he connected with the Both men went to jail. FUNERALS Mrs. Michael Kc-!‘\.y. The funerai of Mrs. Michael Kear- ney was held from her late home on Lafayette street Friday morninzg with a large number in attendance. There were many flowers. At, the services in St. Patrick’s church Rev. J. H. Broderick officiated. The bearers were Nicholas Walsh, John H. Mcintyre, Michael Bowen, Daniel McGillicuddy Thomas Tracy and James T. Carey Burial was in St. Joseph's cemetery County Pomona Meets. New Tondon County Pomona held their regular meeting in the Road church_at North Stonington Thurs- day. There was a large attendance and the regular business was trans- acted. Two candidates were oblizated in the fifth degree. Worthy Master . H. Hall presided. At noon a din- ner was served by the Stonington grange. The afternoon session was in charge of Rev. G. F. Goodenough and was de- voted to grange work. Judge William Channing Kellogg. The_body of Judge William Chan- ning Kellogg arrived in this city on the 1220 train and was _taken in charge by Henry Allen & Son. Bur- sal was in the Maxson P. Lewis plot in the Yantic cemetery where a com- mittal service was held at the grace, 2 brother of the deceased. Rev: Mr. Kellogg of Worcester, officiating. Lack of Intelligenc Once more congress having found that the country stands with the president, has yielded to the presjdent. It would seem that an intelligent con- gress would presently learn to do it in the first place—Buffalo Enquirer. The Only improvement. Only one improvement seems to have been made in_ Germany’s chance of chancellprs. _ Michaelis doesn’t twist the points of his mustache up.—Mil- waukee Journal. “WILL POST DRAFTED MEN TODAY Local Exemption Board to Make Official Announcement This Morning of Those Accepted for Service—Men Who Fail to Appear Are Automatically Taken Into National Army—Failure to Report for Military Duty Constitutes Desertion. — The Norwich men who have been accepted for service in the National Army will be posted this (Saturday) morning by the local exemption board, Secretary W. S. Allis said on Friday afternoon that any man who has been ordered to appear before the board and who fails to do so is automati- cally taken into the service and is subject to military rule. Failure to report for military duty constitutes desertion and offenders of this kind will be treated as deserters. A copy of the latest rulings of the provost marshal general on the draft has been received by the local board from Washington, D. C. In regard to tance to the draft the statement say: Press reports and other advices re- ceived indicate that on one or two widely separated districts, individuals, misinformed as to the purpose of the law and misgulded as to its result, are threatening resistance to the draft. There is nothing to resist at this stage in the execution of the law. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive, have been enrolled for military service. A preiiminary call has gone forth to some such per- sons but the immediate and actual ob- ject or this call is merely to provide an opportunity for such persons, or for someone else, in respect of them to present to the government reasons why they should not be finally ordered to report for military duty. If such persons do not appear and present those reasons, they have simply neg- jected to take advantage of an oppor- tunity that was offered solely for their benefit. The failure of persons to take advantage of this opportunity does not interfere with the raising of the army, and interests the government only as punishable crime of omission. ¥ they do not desire to make any | such claims or, if for any other rea- son they fail fo appear, their names lar! automatically posted as having been called and not exempted or dis- charged. Automatically also, they are inducted into the military service and made subject to military law. Failure to appear merely hastens this automatic process. When the time allowed for making these claims has elapsed, these per- sons will be enrolled as in the mili- tary service. They will then be or- dered to appear as soldiers. From this point on, they will be under the swift and summary procedure of court martial. Failure to report for mili- tary duty when ordered to do so con- stitutes desertion. Desertiofi_in time of war is a capital offense. Deserters may be apprehended by either civi or military authority and, after the mandate of the federal goyernment has gone forth, the whole strength of the military arm of the government is available to apprehend deserters, if it ‘s necessary to use such force. Demonstrations against local boards are simply futile strokes in the air. All the records necessary to hold such persons are already on flle at state neadquarters and at the national capi- tal, and since local boards have no sccasion to use any force in simply offering a_beneficial opportunity to cegistered ‘persons, there is no field tor resistance. If resistance is at- tempted later when the army seeks to apprehend deserters it will instantly =ncounter troops of the federal gov- érnment. Where men called to report to local boards for examination or service have not done s¢ and where the mailed sotices are not returned from the post office as undeliverable, local boards may request the postmaster for the address to which such mail has been forwarded. If postmasters refuse to give this information, the case should be reported to state headquarters for reference to the provost marshal gen- eral, whereupon the postmaster gen- sral has agreed to sive specific orders lirecting that the information be fur- nished. are appealed by the government to the district board, but this clause is only inserted to secure uniformity of ac- tion. District boards are to examine these cases to discover departures from the law, regulations, and rul- ing: they will not and can not open every case on its merits. It is in the local boards alone, therefore, that the solution of the difficulty and the pro- tection of deserving claimants lies. Drafting of Members of Religious Sects, Persons considered under paragraph “i” of section 20 of the regulations will be drafted, will be forwarded to a mobilization camp, will make up a part of the quota from the state and district from whence they come, and will be assigned to duty in a capacity declared by the president to be non- combatant. Instructions Concerning Enlistments After Call by Local Board. An _ erroneous instruction' has been sent by the navy department to naval recruiting stations to the effect that persons could voluntarily enlist in the navy after having been called by a lo- cal board. The attention of the nav department has been called to th error and it is being rectified by tele- gram. After a person has been called by the board he can not voluntarily enlist in the military or naval ser- vice, and such voluntary enlistment will not protect him from the penalty of the law fof failure to report to the local board. Duties of Persons Designated to Take Appeals Under Section 27 of the Reg- ulations. . Persons designated to take appeals to be placed on mailing list of the go ernor—All rulings, regulations, and instructio from the provost marshal general's office or the office of the governor of the state affect- ing’' the execution of the selective-ser- vice law should be mailed to the per- son designated to take appeals before each local board. To file appeal in every dependency case—For the purpose of securing uniformity in the case of local boards, section 27 of the regulations provides that every discharge granted on the ground of dependency shall be ap- pealed to the district board. District boards will not and can not reopen ach one of these cases on its merits but they will examine all cases to in- sure that there has b no_depar- ture from law, regulations, rules, and rulings. Where the person designatec to take an appeal has filed with his formal appeal in dependency cases evidence tending to show that the discharge should not have been grant- ed, the district board will, of course, consider the case anew on its merit. To take appeals in other cas The procedure of local boards s not controversial. They proceed on the individual fnquiry ‘as agents of the government and do not sit as a court to decide between conflicting claims. The person designated to take ap peals from their decisions should con- sider himself as one cooperating with the local board rather than as an a torney appearing before it. In many cases persons in the community wiil furnish him with information indi- cating that the cal board is being imposed upon by particular claim- ants. In such cases he should in- form the local board where a decis- ion has not been reached and fhere a decision has been reached he should appeal the case. He should also ap- peaj all other cases in which he thinks that the decision is not in accord with the best interests of the government or the law, regulations. rules, and rulings governing the case. Designation does not carry compen- sation.—The designation of the per- son to take appeals does rot car compensation or the rental of offices. Where the amount of work is great, the governor may authorize clericai assistance, but this expense should be kept down to the requirements of ab- solute necessity. 811G BROTHER MOVEMENT AMONG LOCAL SCOUTS. Dependency C Section 2 of the selective-service law exempts no person from military service on the ground of dependency. It only authorizés the president to exclude or discharge from draft “those in a status with respect to persons de. pendent upon them for support which renders their exclusion or discharge advisable.” The controlling necessity is to raise an army. It is advisable to disturb dependents just as little as the neces- vity of raising an army will permit. To this end section 18 of the reguia- tions was compiled carefully and af- ter the most earnest consideration. If experience Is to prove that the gen- srous conditions prescribed by sec- tion 18, or any abuse of them. will in- terfere’ with the raising of an army, then it is no longer advisable to dis- charge so wide a class, and the con- ditions stated therein will have to be restricted until an advisable rule is reached. Nothing has happened to change the belief that the persons enumer- ated in section 18 could be discharged without interfering with the raising of an army, but there are indications that abuses of ‘section 18 may render its continuance ro ionger advisable. Reports are to the effect that in some districts, as high as 80 per cent. of persons called before local boards are filing claims for discharge on the ground of dependent relatives. Such a percentage of claims, when viewed in connection with all available sta- tistics, indicates beyond question that advantage is being taken of the pro- visions of the law and regulations which were intended to reduce to a minimum the misery at home nor mally attendant upon war. There is a moral certainty, in the extravagance of this percentage, that hundreds of unfounded claims are in- cluded in these totals. This state of affairs greatly in- creases the burden of local boards for, if so high a percentage of regis- | trants claim exemption, only the ur- | compromising action of local boards can prevent a new regulation on the subject of dependency which shall re- duce exemptions for dependency to a far more restricted class and to very necessitous and clearly defined cir- cumstances. In the absence of a stern repression y local boards of unmeritorious claims this result is inevitable, since any such percentage of exemptions as reports of claims indicate would nul- lify the law and prevent the raising of an army. It is thus apparent that the filing of thess improper claims will react directly and injuriously on persons whom the present regulations were Boys Are to Render Whatever Service they Can to Soldiers' Families. For some time a “big brother” move- ment has been under way in Boy Scout circles, and on Friday announce- ment was made from New York co% cerning the matter. Each of the Boy Scouts of America will adopt a “big brother” from the men who have been called for military service, according to the New York announcement. It will be the duty of the Boy Scout to call at the home of his “big brother” at least twice each week to see whether he can do anything for the family, and particularly if there is no_one in the home but aged people. He will also charge himself with keeping the sol- dier informed as to the news of his home town, including baseball. TIf the soldier has not relatives to whom he can writ> concerning his needs, he will be particularly urzed by the organiza- tion to take advantage of the “little brother” who will be named for him. The movement local favor. NO MORE WOMEN PICKETS AT WHITE HOUSE. Fhey. Are to Be Arrested as Fast as They Appear. is meeting with Washington, Aug. 17.—Formal notice was served by the police today on :eaders of the woman's party that so- called picketing of the White House would be tolerated no longer and that in future banner bearers would be ar- vested as fast as they appeared. Seyaral hours were allowed for the warning to take effect. Ther six wom- in posted at the executive mansion zates were carried off in a patrol wag- on, much to the delight of a watching crowd. All the prisoners gave bond for ap- pearance tomorrow to answer charges 2t obstructing traffic, Superintendent of Police Pullman personally delivered his warning at ‘he woman's party headquarters. He said the women themselves or some- body else certainly would get hurt if the near-riot scenes enacted during \he past few days were continued; that the only way to stop the disorder was to remove its cause, and that he proposed to do that. The women arrested were Misses desizned to protect. and that the wel- | Catherine M. Flannigan, Hartford, fare of persons who have flled bona Conn.: Natalle H. Gray Colorado fide claims under the present generous | Springs, Col.: Lavinia L. Doc, Harri; clauses of the regulations, is serious- | burg, Pa.; Lucy H. Ewing, Chicago Edna Dixon, Washington, and Madaline Watson, Chicamb. Iy imperiled by persons who have filed Mrs. claims without merit, and that only protection of persons whose cases are within the meaning of the present rules, lies in the power of local boards to refuse exemption in every doubtful case. Tt is true that ail cases of dis- charge on the ground of dependency Aug. 17.—Two army air- ving low and at great speed, came into collision today over #ke Thames near Purfleet, Essex. Both machines fell and the pilot of one of them was drowned. London, planes, FOUR DISTINCT STORMS ¥ MET OVER NORWICH. Bolt Hit Shore Line Cable House on Laurel Hill. One of the sharpest and heaviest electrical storms that has visited Nor- wich in some time broke over the city about 7.45 o'clock Friday morning and continued for nearly an hour. There were four distinct storms, one coming from the west, one from the east, one from the south and the fourth from the north—all meeting -over the city. The approaching storm was herald- ed by a.continuous roll of thunder which lasted nearly half an hou The lightning was sharp and struck in many places. A little afier 8 o'clock a bolt hit the municipal electric plant, blowing out a fuse and putting the lighting system out of commission for some time. Following one sharp flash, the bell on the Second Congregational church which Is sounded by the fire alarm cirouit rang as some part of the system was hit. A bolt struck the cable house of the’ Shore Line Electric company at Lau- rel Hill and burned it considerably. The Shore Line suffered the most from the storm, as the lightning tied up the Danielson division by burning off the cable, cars were burned out on all the lines to and from the city. In all the company had ten motors burned out during the storm. Reports came into the city during the day that trees and barns in the countr¥ surrounding Norwich had been struck during the storm. but no seri- ous damage was done. The telephone system in many parts of the city was put out of order, but as soon as the sterm abated the trouble hunters were on te job and had them back in shape oy the aTternoon. In the evening there were several flashes and a féw drops of rain, but the storm went around the city New Londonswas visited by the worst electrical storm of the season Friday morning and it is a long time since ‘there has heen so severe a dis- turbance in that vicinitv. The storm slam-banged around New London with great violence for several minutes, coming down on the city from the northwest. It was of short duration but while it lasted it was really ter- rific. The thunder claps were unusually loud and the lightning vivid while the rain was torrential. For five or ten minutes steadily it fell in sheets. Sel- dom has more rain fallen during the time than came down in Friday morn- ing's storm. A bolt of lightning struck Bulkeley school during the severe part of thee storm. The lightning hit the north- east corner of the tower on the front of the building and shattered one of the large granite blocks and tore up a few of the slate shingles on the roof along which the lightning ran. The damage is not thought to be | great. Despite the severity of the storm. however. the property damaze was negligible in New London, although a barn in Groton was struck by light- ning and destroved. Two electric light and_telephone poles were struck, one in front of the Cannonball park in Town hill and the other in Montauk avenue, near the Lawrence hospital. Both of the poles were sent crashinz to the ground and splintered into kindling wood. The telephone service was damaged to some extent but not seriously, ac- cording to officials of the Soufhern New England Telephone Co. A con- siderable number -of telephone lines were put out of commission. Lightning set fire to the barn Latham Averv at Eastern Point entirely destroved it. there heing of and no ble chance of saving either the ing or its contents, as it was ablaze all over within a very few minutes of the start of the fire. The barn contained many farmingz imple- ments, a cream separator and ten tons of hay. Fortunatelv all the animals were outside as was also Mr. Avery's automobile. Mr. Avery and his voung grand- child were in the barn at the time and thinking it was some of the Branford tarm’'s buildings which were stricl went to the door to look out. They found the barn in flames. There was no way of sending a message to the power house tn =zet the fire company out as none of the telephones in that section were working and there would have been no probability of savins the barn had there been a way of get- tinz the company on the scene Mr. Averv estimates his loss about $1.500 and it is partlv cover by insurance. For a time the snark flew wild, but the roofs were all w s0 no =reat apprehension for the hous was felt at any time. The storm did nn other serious dam age in the horough. SHORE LINE TO CHANGE ITS SYSTEM Automatic Block System Contemplated Instead of Telephone Means of Com- munication. Following the probe into the trolley accident at North Branford a few days ago the Shore Line Electric Rail- way has pledged prompt re-organiza- tion of its svstem and will modernize its equipment. General Superintendent of Transportation John H. Cain has said that the company contempiates the following changes: Installation as soon as possible of an automatic block signal svstem in place of the old telephone means of communication that now operates all over the system. Other safety device equipment used by standard high speed system. A regularly issued timetable of scheduled movement of cars over the system, which will be available both employes ard public. Physical examination of emploves and the introduction of written orders and prepared train sheets containing dispatchers’ orders, Discontinuance of use of switch telephones for any talk with dispatch- er other than movement of cars. tor FRENCH PRESS COOL TO POPE’'S PEACE PLAN Figaro Says the Note Will Cause the Central Powers to Set Forth War Aims. Paris. Aug. 17.—The peace proposals of Pope Benedict have mef with a cool reception in the French press. Newspapers: which, without being clerical or Catholic, are not satisfied. The Eclaim the strongest clerical morning paper, limits its comment to speaking enthusiastically of the claus- es in regard to arbitration and a so ciety of nations. The Figaro says the Ppope’s note eventually will cause the central owers to set forth their war alms, those of the entente heing al- ready well known. The Matin draws aftention to the point that there is mo reference by name to Alsace and Lorraine. 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