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Y DELAYED REPORTING HIS ACCIDENT Neither Did Noyes A. Ecclestone of North Stonington Seek Medical Advice For Some Time—Brings Him Penalty In Compensation Award Against State Highway Depart- - ment For Loss of Eye—Awards By Commissioner Dono- hue. - ‘Waiting from Nov. 30, 1917, until ‘March 7, 1918, before he either had edical attention or reported an in- jury to his left eye, which Subse- quently resulted in the loss of sight of that eye, cost Noyes A. Ecclestone of North Stonington, and employe of the state highway department a consid- | erable sum in his workmens compen- sation claim, according tc a finding and award just made by Commission- er J. J. Donahue. After Learing all the evidence in the }case Comimissioner Donohue states.in his finding that the claimant would have peen entitled to compensation at the rate of $9 per week for 104 weeks, but owing to the prejudice fwhich the respondent, The State of | Connecticut, has suffered from failure 140 receive prompt notice of the injury land on account of their inability to | furnish prompt and proper medical | attention, and also on account of their | inability to prepare a defense, it is found that the claimant should 6 be [ penalized to the extent of reduction of award by 36 weeks. The state of Connecticut is accord- ingly directed to pay to Mr. Eccleston® through his attorney the sum of $198 for 22 weeks from Dec. 1, 1917, to and including May 3, 1918. The balance of 46 weeks is to be paid directly. to she claimant at the rate of $9 per week and the state of Connecticut also pays the dactor’s bill of $10. clestone wag at work on Nov. 30, Gardner’s Hill o nthe Volun- road in Griswold. when a fellow workman accidently threw a shovelful of frozen gravel into his -face. A piece of the gravei hit his eve and used hemorrhazes which caused the loss of sight in the eye. The man con- tinued at work for the rest of the day, but has not worked for anvone since them. The testimony of Dr. F. C. Pierce of North Stonington, an optometrist, the records of the late Dr. A. Peck of Nor- wich, and the testimony of Dr. La- Pierre of this ci were all brought in as evidence in the case. In a memorandum of decision, Com- Donakue mokes the follow- ing review of the ca The important points in the pres- ent case which come up for considera- tion are the lack of prompt notice of injury. failure of the claimant to seek | prompt medical attention, previous eye trouble on the part of the claimant, and the fact that the employe éid not give his emplover an opportunity to prepare a defense. As stated in the finding the claim- ant did not consult a physician until March 7, 1918, a period of three months and over having elapsed since his in- jury of Nov. 20,'1917. In the opinion of Dr. LaPierre, the eye specialist whom he then consuited, the hemor- rhage was so massive and extenmsive h: 1 not helieve that if he had the claimant earlier that it would made ai difference so far as ° eve was concerned. He articular case that ent would have 1 in saving the sight of doctor did admit, how- the clajmant had called earlier, or fmmediately. after ury, he would have treated the and he believed the man should ought immediate medical at- and ast ziven an opportu- might Have done*in e way of treatment with the possi- been of n of saving seme of the vision. As the claf t In the present case, if we ar» to accept the record of Dr. Peck, (and it was agreed by hoth par- ties that his record shonld be made a part of the evidence) had slightly better than one-half of normal vision, and it is fair to assume that this vis- jon never increased any and was no better at the time he received the in- jury than it was at the time he was examined by Dr. Peck; in fact medi- cal knowledge would lead me to be- lieve that it might be a trifle poorer; it might be claimed with apparent Jjustice that as he had no better than half an eye, why should he be com- pensated for a whole eye; why not, in other words, give him one-half of 104 If he had received a previous injury and Had lost one-half of his vision as the re- sult of such an injury and had been 1 should feel constrained to award one-half of 104 weeks, but as there is no history of any previous injury, and the vision which he had at the time of hi& Injudy while in the state’s emplay was his vision, I think he should be compen- sated for the loss of the eye such as he had, deducting as has been done in the award for the prejudice which the employed is found to have suf- weeks instead of 104 weeks. compensated for the same, fered. The sight of eves in cifferent indi- viduals varies greatly and there is a large percentage of people very far from the normal standard as far as their vision, such as it is, serves them for all practical and necessary purposes and enables them to do all the work the individual with a normal vision has the ability to do; in fact, there are not many of us who are their vision is concerned but which physically perfect. The law does not speak of the loss of a normal eye; it simply speaks of the loes of an eye, or rather the loss of sight of an eye, and if the claim- | ant in the presen: case had sight inj has lost the sight of the eye. an emplover takes a man i rloymen which to judge all others, we w be endeaviring to establish a sta whick would be well-nigh impos or having even succeeded in establisk- ing a standard, it would be unreason- | men to measure able to expect otk up to that standard. The claimant in the present case is a man of quite apparent peculiarities, and as on the previous occasion about four years ago when he had trouble with his eyes and consulted an eye specialist he did not consider that he s0 in the present instance after he injured his eyé in November he did not think, ac- cording to his tectimony, that he would receive any more benefit from treat- ment than before and consequently he did not consult a physician on this had received any benefit, latter occasion. As stated in the finding the first no- tice of the injury which was brought to the attention of the_employer was about the middle of March 1918, so from November g0th, 1917, to March 1918, the employe had no knowledge of any injury whatever, and no opportunity which might or might not in the present case and the employer would be re- lieved, in case of an improvement in the condition, or part of the burden of specific compensation, and the pecu- niary liability of the employer would that during this entire period to provide medical attention, have improved the condition, thereby have been possibly lessened. Furthermore, the employer, having no knowledge of a claim of this sort, has had no opportunity to make an in- vestigation and provide a defense. is not fair to the employer to deprive 0 his em- h his short- comings, if he has any, and :0 set ltlp: standard or normal type of man a»me fUllt military: Bghts of Artelten It grounds. specialty. CEDAR ARTISTIC DESIGNS are necessary, and many of sthem to insure the selection WE ARE NOW FILLING ORDERS FOR PANSIES: AND DAISIES Our Landscaping Department is in full swing. Call 868 and get information in beautifying your Pot Growing Roses for outdoor planting a Geduldig’s Greenhouses STREET of a pleasing memorial. Our designs are numerous, varied, unusually tasty and artistic. As to work—what we have done is proof of what we can do. The Charles A. Kuebler Co. 39 and 41 Franklin St up not only field g\uy'-nflhwwlhm him of these rights which the law tends he should have the privilege exercising. 'There is always less suspicion felt as to in- of have been received. It a doubt in the mind of the employer and it is something which cannot_be.tolerated without the claimants being justly penalized for so acting. And in this connection I would refer to the .case of Buckley vs. Winchester Repeating Arms Company, decided by the com- missioner for the Third Congressional District on Sept. 29th, .1916, and sup- plemental award filed Nov. 24, 1917. METHODIST WOMEN TAKE THANK OFFERING. Amounted to $35—Will Collect Old Gold and Silver. The Woman’s Toreign Missionary society of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church helg its regular monthly meet- ing in the church parlors Thursday, May 2d, with a goodly number in at tendance. The president, Mrs. Costello Lippitt, presided. Mrs. E. J. ers led the devotions. Mrs. Albert Miner led in repeating the jubilee campaign aim and read a paper on The League of, Intercourse. This was the regular thank offering meeting. The offering amounted to $35. The auxiliary will hold a meeting with the ;Standard ‘Bearers on May 14th, when an offering of old gold anqd silver articles will be brought and later turned into money to be sent to the French war orphans in Grenoble, France, where the 'W. F." M. S, have an orphanage. The mystery box con- test, in which points were given the contesting sides for finding hidden answers to questions in the 'W. F. M. Friend and getting new members into the auxiliary, is ended. This contest aroused a great deal of enthusiasm and good natured rivalry. The goal was set for 100 members, but the aux- iliary went over the top Thursday with 109. The losing side is to entertain the winners later, BRITISH EXPERT TELLS OF COMING GERMAN DEFEAT W. Beach;, Famous War Correspondent In America After Three Years at the Front, Sees End of War in’ 1919 With America the Deciding Factor. That Germany “lost the war” when ber U-boat sank the Lusitania and that peace will come next year when icombined with that of the Allies, is hurled against her, though the fighting may still be in France and Flanders, is the belief of the Allied military leaders as expressed by W. Beach Thomas. who is in this country fresh from the British Headquarters in France In Current Opinion for May tiis spokesman of the Allied High Command goes further and says that the present great drive is Germany's acknowledgement that she myst win now or never, and that German defeat will come in 1919 with the “armies not far from the cliff of trenches that join the floods by Nieuport to the neighborhood of the Swiss mountains where the French are clinging to one small reach of German territory.” He writes: “Oscillations there will be, victories and defeats there will be at this and that spot in the line; and one day there will be & symptomatic defeat and victory from which any observer, ‘whether he is seer or no, will be able to deduce with some certainty the progressive decline of one side or the other. It is inconceivable to the mind of any leaders among the Allies that this progressive decline—this spot on the fair fruit of the alliance—can appear among them while America, with her 100 million people and re- sources that defy arithmetic, is heart and soul in the cause. We may have defeats but not progressive defeats Those are reserved for the Central Powers. When the first of this sort comes, peace will be in sight. Ger- many will not wait—neither her popu- lation nor her army authorities will permit it—till she tumbles back in successive failures upon her own frontiers, and the targets for the growing hordes of airmen come nearer and nearer, and the boom of the Lib- erty engine at last plays foreign music over German cities.” Further: “American influence on the war will be irresistible; her ships, her men, her ‘wealth, her will. When Tirpitz rose victor from the interview with Beth- mann-Hollweg and the U-boats sank the Lusitania with a pair of torpedoes, Germany lost the war, whatever may be the date of the proclamation of peace. The cardinal reason of the new German offensive, up to and over the old battle ground of the Somme, is the conviction in Germany that 1919 is America’s year, and that if Ger- many is to force any sort of victory she must force it in 1918, before Am- erica is ready. And not late in 1918, “The German public has just begun to understand that the U-boats which drove America into the war, are fail- ing, have failed, to compel a decision. In the everlasting see-saw between the arts of offense and defense, the de- fense, which was inferior, has begun to rise to a level. The people of the Central Powers lost one ground of confidence after another, but this was the most solid. Early in the war some ‘English residents in London were ser- iously warned by close friends in Ger- many to leave England instantly as it would be made unterfable by Zeppe- lins. Nearly all the general popula- | tion in Germany believed this, as they will believe anything they are told | ‘from above’ But one fetish after | another has proved a false god; and {now both the public and the High Command have been driven back to the old faith that the army and only the army is their shield and their buckler To act as a shield alone was not enough, so they prepared with lit- tle concealment—indeed with much advertizement of Kaiser and Hinden- burgs—to amass the biggest onslaught ever conceived by the mind of man or hatched in his factories. It was no secret to us. “I spoke with one of the most thoughtful and suceessful of our.gene- rals at the end of January, as he re- turned to France from Italy. “The] Hun,’ he said, “is going to attack us good and proper. It will be the' vast- est thing in drives ever imagined. But thé more he attacks, the befter for. us’' The German is a great learner; much more remarkable, even in mili- tary affairs, as a learner than as an originator. He learned and amassed for this attack almost all the forms of ‘frightfulness’ used against him dur- ing the war. He copied our trench mortars—much the best then invented —and our trench artillery. He doubl- ed tneir number. He copied our dead- ly device of throwing gas in cylin- ders from mortars. On the advice of General Von Armin, who commanded against the British in the Somme bat- tle (I have seen the General's mem- orandum), he equipped his infantry with hand-carried flame-throwers, which are chiefly useful for inspiring terror He built little armored cars for carrying forward ammounition, of which absurdly exaggerated accounts were published in Germany for public consumption. He made light, veryl mobile guns much on the. American model. Hé built vast underground tunnels and caverns capable of con- 'cealing a division of men at a time, ‘and concealed in them first his ‘storm troops,” then his reserves. He “hiatee The POrteOu_s & Mitchell Company HERE ARE EXCELLENT VALUES FOR SATURDAY SHOPPERS | WHITE DOESKIN GLOVES $1.15 These are remarkable values— Women’s White Washable Doe- skin Gloves, a splendid quality at $1.15 a pair. These are just the kind of Gloves that women want at this season. quantity early selection. Regular $1.65 quality Women’s White Doeskin Gloves at $1.15 a pair. Spring showing is Stein-Bloch Smart Clothes in all the newest models and most fashionable colorings— Suits $25.00 to $35.00. MEN’S SPRING SUITS Other good makes in Men’s and Young Men’s Spring Suits, in all the latest models and newest-¢colorings at $18,00 to-$27.50. MEN’S TOP COATS Men’s and Young Men’'s Spring Weight Top Coats, in all the most fash- ionable styles and splendidly tailored at $16.50 to $25.00. 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Women's Suits, trim tailored models prices $39.50 to $52.50. These are exceptional value. quality at $2.98. We invite ex- Our showing Specials From Several Departments $1.50 Shopping Bags, $1.19 Large size Shopping Bags, made of Karatol, in the newest shape and size—Special price $1719, value $1.50. $2.50 Shopping Bags, $1.98 Black Satteen Shopping Bags, large size—Special price $1.98, reg- ular price $2.50. A splendid showing of Moire Silk Shopping Bags, in all sizes and col- ors at $2.98 to $5.98. 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NEW STYLE SMOCKS AT $2.50 A splendid showing of new ideas in Smocks—smart belted models in Copen- hagen, reseda, rose and white—excellent value at $250 and still better Hosiery Specials Infants’ Ribbed Cotton Hos- iery, in black and white, reg- ular 25c value at...... Boys' Heavy Weight Black Ribbed Hosiery, sizes 8 to 10 at 25c, sizes 6 to T Boys, Heavy Weight Black Ribbed Hosiery, sizes 812 to 10 only at........ Women’s Gauze Weight Black Hosiery—Special value at.... Women's Gauze Weight Silk Lisle Hosiery, in black and white, second quality of 3%c value—Special price Real Madeira Luncheon Sets, $4.95 Just 25 Real Madeira Luncheon Sets, consisting of a “Center and one dozen Doilies to match, guar- anteed absolutely pure linen and hand embroidered—Special price §4.95, worth double. 2 Boys’ Wear Boys' Olive Drab Wool Mili- ta Caps and All Wool Na Serge Tams, regular $1. Value at vuvsnnnnns $125 Poys' Straw Hats, newest styles at §: $1.50 and .. $125 Boys’ Gray Mixed Spring Overcoats, sizes 21 to 7, value $6.00—Special price ... .. $3.95 Extra good values In Bo yash- able Suits, sizes to § at $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 and up to $3.95. Women’s Sweaters Women’s and Misses’ Sleeve- less Slip-on Sweaters, value $3.00—Special price ......... Women’s and Misses’ Sleeve- less Slip-on Sweaters, value 0—Special price . kS Women’s and Misses' Slip-on $2.65 $4.90 Sweaters, angora trimmed in . tan, salmon, turquoise and ., value $7.00 — Special (especially the standardized 6.9's), but almost enough long-range guns of a semi-naval type (they were " planned and manufactured in Austria) to drop a curtain of fire on lines of communi- cation ten miles back. More than this, the German had prepared the whole ground of advance a year before, a thing never before done in the history of war § “British doctors as well as Intelli- gence officers examine most of the prisoners, The doctors find that a great number of the younger classes of 1918 and 1919 are as much as two years behind the development proper to their age. They have been under- fed in uncomfortable homes. The In- telligence officers find in regard to their spirit much the same that the doctors find in regard to their bodies. The young recruits are not among the best and cheeriest soldiers, as almost without exception are the young Frenchmen. On the contrary, they are continually court-martialed for com- plaints and rebelliousness. They come’ from homes where the women-folk | have for two years talked of little but of the struggie to get food, of death SR e and wounds and the hopes of peace. The warrior, the Berserker, spirit is no longer theirs.” On the other hand: 2 “During breakfast in Amiens,, at the very ' height of the Somme battle in 1916, I was inveigled into a discussion on the morale of soldiers by my im- mediate neighbor, Mr. Lloyd George. ‘Military men,’ I said, ‘unite in saying that “there is no courage like the first courage.”’ ‘Aha,’ he answered with the quickness to develop an idea that is his leading characteristic, ‘that is yet another reason why we must win. ‘His point is much strohger to-day than when it was made. One of tho many inestimable gifts that America will bring the Allies is a constant supply of this ‘first courage,’ and it will per- haps include new courage in the do- main of general stategy as well as on the stricken field. “About this same time, too, I had a long discussion with one of the better- educated German soldiers, a man of high morale and education. He said: ‘We are in the position of men who have put all’ their money into a com- pany and are wondering what is hap- . < pening to it, but consider that at present the only chance of saving it is to leave things in the hands of the directors. That cannot go on forever and it will be very bad for the di- rectors if they lose money.’ A few days later T found -British officers defending German artillery prisoners from a physical attack by their own infantry, who were furious at the lack of artillery support during the battle. “It follows that if this period of the coming summer is bridged as it will be thenceforward the scale should swing quite quickly in the Allies’ favor. American ships, guns, air- planes and, above all, men, will prove first an immovable buttress and later an irresistible ram. If this inference is true, we come very near to finding a date for the end of the war. As soon as the weight is preponderingly against them, the Central Powers will strain every nerve to make peace; at any rate before the winter of 1919, which will be America’s year.” . When a ‘man presents a girl with an engagement ring it is equal to a declaratién of war. To Be Expected. The caretaker of the German Em- bassy in Peris has presented a biil for damages done by Hun bombs. Next thing the Boche will be com- plaining that American military equipment seized in Russia doesn't fit—Washington Post. Doesn't Fit. Senator Sherman says that Presi- dent Wilson has surrounded himself with a group of “wild theorists and Socialist fakirs” But we don't see how that fits ~ Bill McAdoo and (‘hlarley Schwab.—Milwaukee Senti- pel. Forgetting the Past. Those congressmen - who used to fight with vigor even a one-battie ship program are not directing any attention at present to their records. —~—Raleigh News and Observer. There is little truth in the report that bald headed men scramble for seats in the front row—at church. SN BT N

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