Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1917, Page 8

My first full day in Lazarett YT hed begun. At 6 ociock a Frenchman quietly entered the room carrying. e huge jug of coffee and an armful of bread. There were enameied mugs standing on our lockers which he Sfled. He left us each a piece of black bread about four inches square and two inches thick. This was our ration of bread for the day. ~From that time forward at regular hours food was brought to us as follows: 2 a. m.—“Schinken”—svhich consist- ed of a very thin slice of bread smear- od with some sort of grease, and a shaving of sausage or cheese. This ‘was breakfast. At this time we also received our ration of butter, which consisted of a very smail plece of this same greasy substance used on the ~ “Schinken.” During the morning we each got a bottle of aerated water- call- ed lemonade and colored efther pink or sellow. We could have our choice. 11 2. m.—A mug of what was sup- posed to be bullion—a coloriess and flavorless liquid, whose only virtue was that it was very hot. A cake of Oxo dropped into this made a fairly decent crink. The Midday: Meal. 1220 a. m.—Lunch—Invariably Boil- ed potato and cabbage, and sometimes a piece of horse meat with all the nourishment boiled out of it for soup. It wos coarse grained and very sweet Once a week we had awful smelling 1ish cooked with the heads, eyes and tails complete. There was no_doubt about its being fish. The trouble was that it had apparently been caught vears before the war began: We could mever eat it, so we gave it to the Russians, who occupied the beds in the hall outside our door. They devoured it all, poor fellows! They reminded me of the old story of the aog which was advertised fore sale thus: “Will eat anything. Very fond of children.” Instead of meat or fish we often zot a very large pancake, tough as leather, and fried in fish fat. Butter and pure grease were never elowed in the hospital kitchene. p. m—A glass of milk. If you Grank it at once holding your nose you conld make yourself believe that it had come from a cow. If you left it stand- ing for three hours, it divided itself into junket and clear water. After six hours the junket turned to a chalk= like substance. 4 p. m—Coffee. § p. m.—Dinner, which wag the same s lunch, with the addition of soup, In the X-Ray Room. About § ojclock on the morning of June 5 sanftaire came for me and kelped me along the hall to the X-ray room, where a very expert nun took two photographs of my arm. Later on in the morning a rubber-tired hospitat car befring dressings and instruments was pushed into the room by an order- Iy, and in a few minutes Dr. Meyer and a red-headed assistant doctor, followed by twp eanitaires all dressed in long white coats, appeared. One of the lat- ter removed the bandagés from my arm. Dr. Meyer examined thé wound and muttered “schlecht (bad)”; 'then iurned to the assistant doctor-and said ‘Schreiben Sie!” (Write!) “The doctor diagnosed my case, glancing from time tos time at the X-ray photographs, while his assistant wrote ‘down on a pad, all the details which were later to be Inserted in my medieal history sheet. Moodle epoke German very weH and explained to me afterward .that the doctor had said that the wound where the bullet entered was not serious, but that three centimeters of the radius had been carried awa; while the large hole torn by the flattened bullet and plinters of bone was in a serfous con- ‘dition, and several of the tendons had been destroyed. T was taken downstairs to the “plas- ter room.” The doctor and his assist- ant slipped on overalls and spread sheets all over the floor. My arm wae wrapped in flannel and then bandages sprinkled with plaster of paris were dipped in a pail of water and woupd round my arm until I was in a solid Machinest and Engineer " Steam Engine Repairs e eetee— PLUMBING AND GASFITTING CALL UP 734 With or Without Gas Attach: ments but Always EFFICIENT and ECONOMICAL=" MODEL RANGES We fumish Repairs for all makes of Rarges | A. J. Wholey & Co. 12 FERRY STREET T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing 92 Franklin Street IRON CASTINGS FURNISHED PRD&‘PTI.V BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY €0 Nos. 17 to 25 Ferry -Street ROBERT J. COCHRANE ‘ GAS FITTING, PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING Washington Sq., Washingteh Building Norwich, Conn. -~ Agent for N. B. O. Sheet Packing L Phone 581 fhi MODERN PLUMBING is as essential in modern houses as electricity is to lighting. We guaran- tee the very best PLUMBING WORK!' by expert workmen at the fairest: Munfw -mddbfleu. J. E. TOMPKINS -Jimpossible to-pour cement. Copyright, 1917, by Public Ledger Company { The Cologne Cathedral cast from my shoulder to the tips of my fingers. During this operation the assistant had instructions to hold my hand in a certain fixed position. I think te must have been in love, for his eyes wandered round the room, and I had to place my hand over his to prevent him tirning my. Wrist oit of the correct po- sition. ‘While the plaster bandages were being wound on, a tin can was placed over the wound. When the plaster cast was completed this tin can was with- Arawn, leaving a round opening for the purpose of applying dressings. I was told to go back to bed, havins been given the cheerful information that I would have to carry this plaster cast around with me for two or . three months. . I could only lie in one posi- tion—on my back, ‘and the continued pressure’ of the east in my stomach caused me untold agony. I had no decent rest for weeks. “When I got back to the ward I found the - assistant doctor werking on our medical history sheets. He wanted to know everything about us except whether our mothers wore false hair or not. Méodie acted as interpreter or we would never have got through. ‘When he had gone our minds turned to more worldly thiags. Wells and I rubbed our chins, which had not felt & razor for days, and asked ~“What about it?” Mopdie said “Oh, Ludwig will fix you' up ‘with. a razor and everyvthing you need. Have you'any money “Oh, yes, we are rich. We have ) ——— e e = o I set in the'midst 6F 'a/group’&F typical - Rhine province houass, twenty francs between us.” ‘;That's enough. Watkins, get Lud- Hallam broke in «with, “You only need to get one toothbrush,. sir. I have an extra one I have only used a few times. We decided we would waste the price of the second toothbrush. Pretty soon Ludwig appeared. He was enor- mous. His head was cropped like that of a convict. He had been the driver of a German beer wagon before -the war and looked as though he had never arrived anywhere with more than half the original load. He grnned all over his face when Moodie poked him in the corporation and told him that we needed safety razors, soap, lather brushes} mirrors, toothbrushes, tooth- paste, hairbrushes and combs. He sprang smartly to attention, shaking all over like a_jellyfish, and said, ‘Ja wohl, Herr Hauptmann,” and went out of the raom. ~We knew that our first shave would e a tough proposition, so a French- wan, who had been.a Parisian barber before the war, was sent for. . He gave us each a beautiful shave as we lay in bed and we felt much better. He used to shave the officers for twenty pfennigs—five cents—and the men for ten pfennigs. > Not. long after, Tudwiz. reappeared cmpty-handed. Our hearts sank,. but he produced everything we had,or- dered from the depths of his trousers pockets. His tunic hung down-in such a manner from his enormous waist line that he could have concealed anything from a toothbrush to baby elephant. We learned later on that this was an illicit trade which Ludwig carried on. He sold things to us.at cost price and we tipped him regularly. He ran a little “blind pig” in the cellar, where he'sold cognac cr “Schnapps,” as he called it, at fifteen pfennigs for a glass about the size of a thimble. He could not -afford to lose a customer, so glad- ly ran messages for us. ‘We were supposed to buy everything through the Feldwebel, who added about 100 per cent. to the price of all articles. If we wanted to buy any- thing of size or value we were oblized to do it through him. Otherwise there would be questions raised as to where we. got the money and who did the buying. I ordered a suitcase later on. It was mad® ‘of paper and cost me.22 marks ($5.50). Owing to a littlo care- lessness the price mark — thirteen marks—was not erased. I realized then what a burglar the Feldwebel was. The first day he went around the hospital and collected all the money from the new arrivals. We hated to part with it, but there was no aiter- native. He was the banmer for the hospital and kept all the money be- longing to the prisonefs. Three or four times.a week a.Frenchman would come around Wwith a book ruled off-for us to sign. .Each officer .was given'a large sum of three marks and ea¢h Tormy ~ene-- n.uk. it he had any de- Dosit - downstairs. ‘- We were not al- iowed to have more than that in our possession_at a time. Of course we had, but didn't tefl’ everyone about it. ‘We all had camp ‘and-escape in view, and for that purpose hoarded our money. It might 'prove very useful. It was all made of paper with the excep- ‘tion of the five and ten Dfemnig pieces, which were of iron. Z One day the police office wat 2 tip that” the English officetz hae money. An orderly came and told us that a German officer was goinz to search our room. He went out of the Goor for a minute. #We stampeded to the cupboard, slipped some of the paper money between the leaves of books and in other hiding places—and wait- ~d. Presently in came the pokee cor- poral and several other hospita offi- rials, but no officer. Tt had been a biuff to make us declare evervthing. They asked if we had more than taree marks apiece. We admitted that we had, ahd opened the arawers of our lockers for imspection. They rum- maged around and found we each had from five to ten marks more than the allowance. ~We apologized profusely and saig that it was an oversight. They carried this momev off in tri- umph. We really had about a thous- and marks between us at thistime. Always Had a Balance. - Through an. arrangement with the British sovernment ,each month a lieutenant was credited with _six marks, forty of which were deducted hospital food. ‘This. with the ad- on_of the money that ‘was sent from home, assured us at all.times of a credit balance with the Feldwebel. During that first day I learned that Moodie had been taken prisoner in an attack at L.oos September, 1915.. . He bad been shot through the left ankle ‘| just as he reached the barbed wire in in plaster. & (Continued Tomorrow.) front of the German trenches, and had been unable to go back when: the oth: ers were ordered to retire. Ever since that time he had had his leg in plaster. Two or threc times it had been remov. ed. but the ankle joint had become ‘8o &tiff that the doctors had been obliged to break it azain and reset it in the hope " of eventually .giving him some movement in the joint. He was abso- §uftel\ fed up -with ,German hospital ife. Gray was an observer in-the Royal Flying corps. His machine had been shot down the ‘famous aviator 19815. His pilot was killed .and he was picked up un- conscious. . BEoelke sent him a signed photograph with a package of tobacco and cigarettes. These were all shown to me as cherished -souvenirs. Gray’s left arm had been badly broken by the fall. The ends of both bones were preiruding. At the field dressing sta- tion four men poked the end of the bones into resition with bits of wood. When he arrived at our hgspital his arm was at once put in plaster by ver’—nicknamed for his fondness for pufting - everything in plaster. They succeeded in getting one bone to heal, but the ends of the other bone were one above.the other and about an. inch apart. A Wonderful Operation. Gray was ‘turned over to the' sur- geon of the hospital, who did a won- derful graft operation, puttine a piece of bone from the shin at right angles to the unhealed bone, and thus join- ing up the two ends. Immgdintel;‘ after the cperation' Gray was put in charge of Doctor Mever, who could not wait to see if the ‘graft had been a success or not. He took the spiints off after less than .three weeks. and commericad violent’ assage, ‘which ' broke ihe arm agai This_happen- | ed just after our arrival and Gray was dls"us’ted = Boelke, in Janua Doctor Meyer. put -his arm r———'———— BUILDING ACTIVITY IN OFFICE BUILDING NEARLY FINISHED 6fie Story &uc@e for John A. Morgan & Son—Clunge's_to be Made in Potter Block—Other Work Among the Con- tractors. e The new office ‘building_for the John : Morgan & Son on: Central Wharf is practically completed. The building is 14x35 and is ome story high. It is of brick, stone and holiow tile con- struction. The Peck, McWillianis Co. had the. job. Jo Alter Potter. Block An application. for a permit tn al- ter the Potter block ‘at 14-16 Thames street has been flled with Chief Stan- ton by Fowler & Rathbone for the Gordon Brothers, who own the build- ing. The structure which now con- tains two ‘flats will' be_remodeled . so that there will be four apartments. Remodeling. Barn. H. Blackledge & Co., have the con- tract for .rembdeling the barn. at 455 North Main street owned by Mrs. Jer- emiah Downing. The building will bé used by the Greeneville Crain com- pany. ‘New Buildings at. Inchriate Farm. There is considerable building work going on at the-state inebriate farm, the work - being. done: by the patients. Two cottages large enough to accom- modate 25 men each are being erected. The Toof :has -been put on one of the cottages, but only the foundation work is “being’ done ‘on: the "other. . The progress of .the work is.naturally. hin- dered by the cold weather, as such low temperatures make it practically, Plans are being made for a boiler house and a fire protection system to be installed later. New buildings will be ewected at the farm as fast as the nmmber of patients warrants them. & Work Held Up by Cold. The Pprogress” on tlie repairs to the Chepman' block at the corner of Bath | street and Broadway has been held back by the cold weather. New walls, of a greater thtickness than the pres- ent ones, are being set. Ambrose 2ul. livan is doing the work.. ~ SEND FOR A FREE SAMPLE CAN OF K-jus&hnhl Jelly xofipon MF’d ¢;.co Doing Inside Work. The contractors are doing the ingMe work on the new building for the Blue Star Overall company’on the Wb Side. Ambrose Sullivan has the ob. Laying Floors. New fioors are being laid -at the plant of the Schwartzenbach-Huber compeny at the West Side. . The work i:"b/ ng done by the employes of the mi'l. BUILDING 'AND - BUSINESS. Downward Tendency of Trade as - Compared . Year Ago. in. Most .Lines With a The exchanges of the Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Springfield - and Holyoke ciearing houses. for the past week reflect present trade conditions. In each city a-decrease from. the -high figures of a year ago are noted, the declines being: Hartford, 6.3 per cent.; New Haven, 12.1. per cent.:. Water- bury,’ 27.6 per. cent.: Springfield, 15.8 per_cent. and Holyoke, 31.7 per.cent. A’ vey material failing’ off in .the volume of .real . estate. transactions is also noted. In the towns report- ed in 'The. Commercial. Record -for the past week,. there. . .were . 256 sales by warranty deed, with mort- gage loans amounting to . $958,116, these ~fizures . compare _with 369 sales ~ during the third week of De- cember. 1916, with. mortgage loans of $1,517,329. Eleven petitions ~ in = bankduptey were filed during the week, with- as= sets of $11.272 and. liabiljties of $142,- ‘936, For the ;uke week of the mmm ear {wo petitiol bankruptcy were Dled, ‘w’im qa_r.;n“ o $690° nnu u-‘hm» es o a; tions, with nsset‘?l‘si ,.n and. ua bilities of $74,641 ndcin this bave au- s $175,000. d th Lhaflud ,capital stock;i; of vty three-new . capital . of These figures compare W) companies in ;1916 wi 205,000 and 13 companiesi in th capital of $1,222.325. "The record 'of ~ buildine '’ permits |’ ed in the cities of: ‘ord, .,mm =23 u.r)prr EAS mits wer: granted during the .per: referred- to, for buildings costing $189,. 400, comparing with 97 permits issued in tlie same cities for the: corres- ponding week of 1916, for ‘buildings costing $319,903. Some of the more important con- tracts awarded during the week are a_ fire station in Milford, factory additions’ in Hartford, Waterbury and Nagautuck, additions to business block - in ridgeport. hospital addi- tion in Waterbury, and one-and two-family _houses in New Haven, Hartford, Néw Britain, Miadletown, Stamford, Bridgeport, Fairfield and West Haven. Plans for new projects Include com- mercial hizh school in New Haven and an eight-réom schopl house in West« ville, addition to factory in New Ha- in Waterbury. additior to tenement block in PEridgeport, zarage in New Haven, restaurant in Springfield, schoo! house addition in Waterbury, store and apartment Elock in ‘Bridge- port, $25,000 apartment block in Wa- terbury. ~There were in Norwich last week five sales of real estate to eight "a year ago. The loaps for the two Weeks were - $10,500 and $8,900 re- NORWICH MEN WIN POULTRY PRIZES. Frank E. Fitch and Charles Willett Have Excellent Pens at Now London Show. The second day’s exhibition at the poultry show In the assembly hall' of the Shea building, New London, open- ed Friday afternoon. Students from the Connecticut Agricultural college were present at the show, the boys composing ‘a_judging class. under .the lcadership of 'William F. Kirkpatrick. At the exhibition in the evening the Niseco band gave a number of musical’ selections for the amusement of the patrons. Following is a complete list of awards: Lo - Prize. Awards Made. ! Buttercups'— Edward S.\ “Heddell. Shm Springs, N. Y., all prizes. “Cornish—Edward - S. Hedden, e Coohifa_ Frask. E. Fitch, Norwich, first;~Charles ~Willett, Nor-: wich,. Secon ‘White m«mu.—cufl...m Doér- l’l‘( b Haven, |- i ¢ t] i th. Yex. four istory ‘Dutkish bath: bulling |iCCi0E saveled will wire lath ERN CONNECTICUT of realty last weel to five for the same period a year ago, The mortgage loans for the iwo weeks were $12,300 and $11,550 respectivei . NEW LONDON. Addition to Plant. The D. E. Whiton . Machine Co., has plans for an addition to their plant. The work will probahly he done by the day. ~The new building will be one story high, of brick, mill con- struction, with a“gravel roof. Will Build Office. The largs new ‘lumber shed for the Raymond & Alexander Lumber Co., has been roofed in. -The building is of framo construction, —the exterior t is the plan-of the:company to also build a two-story structure for office pur- poses. This - will be of brick, with a gravel roof. The work will be done by the day. S Framirig Residenc -Contractor ¥. W. Haoll .in_ framing the handsome residence which he is building at. the corner-of Neptune and Ocean avenues for .Mrs. A, H. Chappell. -The house is of frame con- struction and will contain 15 rooms and_will cost $25,000. Sty Nellie P. Fuller, New. London, all prizes. 3 Single. Comb 'Black . Orpingtons— R. Hincken, = Orchester, Cortland Mass., all prizes. Xon-bearded Silyer Polish—Schriver & Burt, Groton, all first prizes; Cort- land R. Hincken, ]l seconds. - ‘Bearded White Polish—Cortland R. Hincken, ‘Dorchester; Mass., all prizes. Single_Comb Rhode - “Reds— \V, H. Bumpstead, Stafford. Springs; first cock: ‘A. S. Bailey, ‘Cobalt, second ; Herbert Barker, Waterford, third cock: hens, A..S. Bailey;, Cobait, first; W.‘H. Bumpstead.’ second ahd third 'prizes; cockerels, W. H. Bump- stead, first; Arthur Broman, New Lan- don, second: Herbert ‘N. Barker, New London, third; Elm _ Poultry yards, Hartford fourth; pullets, Arthur Bro- man, first; W. H. Bumpstead, ueornd and third:. exhibition | pens, W. Bumpstéad, fifst. - . White Plymouth. -Rocks — Cocks, Branford farms, first;. Elm _Poultry yards, Hartford, . second; Branford farms, third; héns, Elm-Pouitry yuds, first: - Brangord third; cockeréls, Branford, farms, At and third; Eim Poultry yards, sec pullets, Branford“ farms;. . firet, third; Eim Poultry yard. Libition‘* pen, Branford Ralph Allen, ‘Groton, second. The Red Cross Christmas campaign closed at 6§ o'clock on Monday after- noon. A complete report of the resuk of the campaign cannot be given until the returns from the various auxil- iaries have been recefved. The executive committes wish te Manning, 'Wakefield, R. I, all prizes. Bufft Cochin Bantams — Dugene Leahy, all prizes. Barred Plymouth Rocks — Cocks— E. D. Lavett, - Froton, first and sec- ond: Ravmond Lewis Waterford, third. Hens—l. D. Lovett, irst; -Ray- mond Lewis, second. Cockerels—John Kaneen, New London, first; H. D. Lov- ett, Groton, second: Raymond Lewis, Waterford, third. Pullets—H. D. Lov- ett, Groton, first; Raymond Lewis, Waterfor, second. Hens—H. D. Lov- ett, Groton, - first: Branford Farms, second: Exhibition pens—H. D. Lov- etf, Groton, first; Raymond Lewis, Waterford, second White Silkies — Elm Pouitry yards, all prizes. White. Pekin ducks—Paul P. uilford, first drak first_auck, Wild 7eal ducks — R. C. Hempel, Groton, all firsts. Colored Muscovy Frank Cumpstone, all prizes, Wild Mallards—Raiph Allen, Grot- on, all prizes. Bronze turkeys — Branford farms, all_prizes. White Embden farms, all prizes. ‘African _ge Norwich, all prizes. Pigeons — Philip Morzan Manwar- ing, all prizes. Special Prizes Awarded. Chamber of Commerce of New Lon- don $20 siiver cup for best pen of any variety bred, owned and ex- hibited bv Connecticut resident—Eim Poultry Yards, Hartford. class, $5 in American Senator Brandegee—EIm Tves, Eranford farms, ducks — geese—Branford Frank E. Fitch, by Nellie P. Fuller, New London.* Best bird in Asiastic clase $5 offered by Senator Brandegee—L. C. Phillips, Waterford. Best bird in Mediterranean class, $3 -offered by H.. R. Bond—Elm Poultry yards. ‘Best bird in Polish class, $5 offered by Senator Brandegee—Schriver and Burt, Groton. > Eest bird in bantan: class, $5 of- fered by Hon. L. E. Whiton—James L Marning, Waterford. Best bird in water offered by Branford Ives, Guilford. Two Connecticut poultry specials of $5 each for best male and best fe- male in entries made by membaers were taken by Schriver and Burt. ‘American Poultry association prize medals went to Elm Poultry Yards for best cockerel, except bantams, and to J. L. Manning for best bantam. State ‘championship trophy cup for one variety in Mediterranean divi went to Elm Poultry Yards. H. D. Jovett of Groton took all specials for barred Plymouth Rocks. silver cup for best display, half ton of coal from Chappell Co., for best pen. $2° for b male from Joseph .Lee ahd $1 from Eshenfclder Bros. for best female. Branford farms of Groton took all tHe speciais for White Plymouth Rocks: Fugene Leahy of New London special for best cock bird in White Wyandotte, and Frank Fitch for best female. State championship cup for Rhode Island Reds was taken by W. H. Rumstead of° Stafford . Springs and Frank Cumpstone took all specials for rose comb Rhode Island Whites. BOLSHEVIKI COURT FINDS COUNTESS PANIN GUILTY fowl class, $5 farms—Paul P. Of Misappropriation of Public Funds— Members of Kerensky Cabinet. Petrograd, Dec. 24 —Countess Panin, who was minister of public instruction in the Kerensky cabinet, was on trial today, charged with- misappropriation of public funds. Hers was the first case tried by “the popular Revolution- ary tribunal.” The countess was con- victed and sentenced to “imprisonment until tue return of the money, and to public censure.” The smail courtroom.in the palace of Grand Duke Nicholas was filled with friends and sympathizers of the countess. The judges, five working- men and two soldiers, were all elected members of the Petrograd workmen's and soldiers’ deputies. The president of the Bolsheviki court speak to the prosecution?” he asked. read the indictment. ¥Who wishes to No replied. The president then in- vited'a statement for the defense. Amn elderly man, a former employe at the ministry of public instruction, arose and spoke of the great philanthropic, and educational activity of Countess Panin. He denied the misuse of funds and said that the countess had refused to acknowledge-the right of the pres- ent government to demand the money. He declared that she would return the funds to the Constituent Assembly, which was the sole authority over her. Next a young workingman. speaking for the prosecution, made a clumsy and heated” speech to the effect that no- bility and educational activity need not cloud the fact that the countess took public funds and opposed the au thority of the workmen’s and soldiers’ government. He exhorted the judges to+disregard ‘the personality and past of the defendant. _In her “last word,” the countess said “As has been stated, I have not mis- uesd the funds. T consider myself re- sponsible for their safety and will de— liver them to the Constituent Assemb- 1y, to which alone I must account for my actions. Since the convening of the Constituent Assembly has been post- poned, the money has been deposited in the state bank until it assembles. The so-called misappropriation of public funds consisted in the transfer the countess of all the ministry funds to the state bank; which left the safes empty when the Bolsheviki took controL -She denied- their right to the money. ; SENATOR'NEWLANDS DIED OF HEART FAILURE Stricken With Heart Failure While at Work in His Office. ‘Washington. - Dec. '24. — Senator Francis Griffith Newiands, of Nevada, died of heart failure at his home to- might after an iliness of a few. hours. e was strcken while at work in his oo w1 the. senate. ofs . bullding during the afterncon, but was-able to go home. Senators at the capital knew ‘mothing of his iliness until the an riouncement of his death. . No one realized the seriousness -of the senator’s condition and a physician nor brother watched at the bedside. ~For severd] weeks Sénator Newlands, | working almost ‘night 'and day on his time. e e m':r'bbug-, ww»ln samnued iate numa. u! - was made express to the many dsvoted friende of the Red Cross their grateful appre ciation_of the loval service they have rendered. The chapter has new enrolied mers than 6,000 members and many gererons Comtributionsc have been received. (Signed) JOSEFH H. SELDEN. He kept at his-desk, however, end in spite of Lis €9 years appeared alert and astive. The senator was a native of Missis sippi. He was born near Natches, August 28, 7848, and lived in the state until he went to Yalo in 1357 After nearly two years at Yale he entered Columbsa College Yaw School here and was graduated, being admitted to the District of Cohrmbia. bar before he Te- ceived his diploma From Washington he went te San Francisco, where he practiced law un- til 1883, Then he became a citizen of Nevada. and was elected to the Fifty ‘Third, Fifty-Fourth, Fifty-Fifth, Fifty- Sixth and Pifty-Seventh congresses. “MAN FAILURE” CAUSED WRECK ON THE L. & N. Flagman, Conductor and Engineef Aré Said to Have Been Negligent. Louisville, Ky., Dec. an fail- ure” caused the disaster which caused the loss of thore than two score lives when Louisville and Nashville rafiroad passenger trains came together in rear-end collision last Thursday nigh ot Shepherdsville, according to a state- ment jssued tonight by B. M. Starks general manager of the Louisville and Nashville. In his- statement, which summarizes the findings of a board of inqui made up of raiiroad officials, he says “The first negligence” was the failure of the flagman and conductor of the train ahead ‘to protect the .-rear of their train while it-wag standing on the main line at and near Shepherds ville, and in failing to protect it while not ' making schedule time before reaching Shepherdsvil % The enginéer of the fast train whi followed is also charged with negli- gencein_that “he failed to have his train_under control as he approached Shepherdsville. so that if need be he could stop before passing the station Instead: of this, though he did not get the signal to proceed, he continued at such a rate of speed he not only pags- ed_the station but ran 1,260 feet Be yond.” The wreckagé of the train ahead was carried 800 feet beyond the point where it was hit, the statement adds. The flagman to were Kkilled. of: the "Jwitne: board of inqu and conductor referred The engineer was one ses called before the The operator at Shepherdsville is’ exonerated by the statement, which says “he did every- thing possible in the premises FIVE THOUSAND QUARTS OF KENTUCKY WHISKEY SEIZED It Was Destined for Christmas Con- sumption in “Bone Dry” Territory. Louisville, Ky., Dec. ~—Five thou- sand quarts of Kentucky whiskey, said to have been destined for Christmas consumption in “bone dry' territory, much of it in Alabama and Tennessee, is in possession of the federal agthori- ties in Louisville,: according to “an- nouncement today. The seizures have resulted_from examination within the last. few days of suspicious packages carried by travelers and of parcels at freight depots-in an effort to discover violations of the Reed law. ‘Officials estimate that the value of the eeized liquor, at what they have béen given -to understand are ruling prices in one large Tennessee - City, where it'is said to retail surreptitious- 1y for '$40 -a’ gallon, would ‘be ‘approxi- mately $59,000. GOVERNMENT PRACTICING WARTHME EFFICIENCY. Redfield’s Suggestions Sent to All Ex- ecutive. Departments. Washington, Dec, 24.—Wartime effi- ciency is being practiced as well . as preached by the government. President Wilson has sent to all the executive departments copies of a let- ter ‘recently addressed by Secretary Redfield to his bureau chiefs. “Forget how things were done before the 'war, eliminate red tape,”.the letter said. “We must learn with the Germans that-‘the war won't wait.! Delay is the kaiser's ally, Secretary Redfield has instructed all his_ bureaus to install machines Tor stamping on papers the day and hpur of receipt.so that delay in action may be traced to personal ‘responsibility He .is refusing to sign documents not &0 stamped. FOUR MEXICAN BANDITS EXECUTED AT LAS VACAS. Members of a Gang ‘Which Had Been Active on Both Sides of Ric Grande. Del Rio. Tex., Dec.'24.—Four of the twenty. Mexican arrests at Las Vacas opposite here last week in connection with the death of wto Del Rio ranth- men’ have. been. execated, according to announcement made today by Mexican officials, The Mexicans were members ‘of 2 bandit gang that has been active alonz both sides of the border for several months., The :murder of Lee- Sharpe and Clarence Sellars, whose: hodies vere. found in.a cave twenty-five miles south of here.last Thuraday.. arcused the citizens on hoth gides of the border and a_determined effort- is being made to wipe out the bandits. STANUARU’IZAT'ON OF SCREW TH REA DS Object of 'a Conference to Be Held: in Londen” Next Year. i Washinzton, - Dec. :24. — Secretiny Redfield .annotinced today that he had dccepted an invitation from the British ministry-of munitions to appoint dele- gates . to. an- Anglo- Ameriean ® confer- ence ‘on tandardization of screw. threads- to Be held 'in London early next year. .In.accepting, however. suggested that such _standardization should 'be -effective ‘and complete and “not limited -to the mers. mutnal. ac- commodation of two' ' nations, while leaving undetérmirted ’ the ‘question as to- how - the -action 1 would - affect - tive general 'industrial World - without the confines of those two ‘Dowers.” co]_, uoosEVELT FAVORS o T WARTIME PROHIBITION Fer: Allifizers” Working on Wartime Regq; Washington,. Dec, 24.—A Jletter from Theodore. Roosevelt favoring wartime prohibition n6t only . for, fighting men but for. citizens working on.railroads and in_‘mines; factories and i.um(z:nl-rdx T~ ence True Wilson teni- Derance pubdlic wnglen;n 'fi Md