Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 23, 1921, Page 4

admiral points out it depends upon it also for naval protection as well as merchant shipping. This country and the admiral fully appreciate the im- portance of a merehant marine. No better illustration could be desired than the cxperience we had in the recefit war because of the lack of ome. What Admiral Sims said and what he was credited with saying are de- cidedly different. His attitude ig that while We meed a merchant marine ft would be very difficult for our country to devélop a merchant marine commeh- surate with our needs under the restrie- tions of our present shipping laws. That is the sentiment that has been expressed by many others who realize the handicap that comes from the law under which a merchant marine must be established and operated. That is why there is a demand for the enforce- ment of the merchant marine act. S0 that the operation of the law will dis- close the detrimental features and bring about their elimination, Slerwier Bulletir and Q“Pi:? Eacered ai the Postoflice st Normich Cope, wved-clsm matiar. Teleguons Calls, Bulledn Busimsss Ofiss. &30 Balletis Ldliorial Rooms, 35-3. Dutletin Job @Tice, 35-3. STlimantle OMcs # Church St Tolephons 188 Norwich, Friday, September 2 GEMSER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Amoclaud Prass n exclusively estitied to tbe ase for repubilestien of all news dapatch- @ cdied le i or Dot otherswise Zrediied to @i, paper amd also (ie focal vems pablithed sman MORE DIFFICULTIES Not a little interest was aroused a short time ago by the statement of the revenua collector to the effect that heads of households could make up to 200 gallons of wine by registering with th¥ collector of internal revenue hefore doing so. Under such a statement it is not surprising that there Wwere many inquiries made and many applications made for the authonity. It opened the way for a considerable number to get that for which they had been longing thout breaking the law, and which they had possibly made plans to have dgbis of republieatton of wpecial des- fs barein ers also remerved. CIRCULATON WEEK ENDING SEPT. 17th, 1921 THE COAL BIN. ors who are named for the pw looking after the in- | Whether the law permitted or not. teréts of the consumers Have heen, | FTOM o later announcement made by and @l are, urging the putting in of |the internal revenue bureau that prici- the Wintér's coal supply at as early o |I°Eé of making 210 /gallons of winé Gate as possible. Those wWho listened |Seems to have been greatly modified it e A% and stocked up last {70t completely knocked in the head: img €0t an advantage In the way of | While it seems fo be possible for heads Thoss Who ved Top. | 0f houscholds to make such.a quantity ing against hope for better prices, | Without being subfect to taxation it have fonnd the ket is also a fact that such wine must bé A% And A8 166 Fesuit non-intoxicating. Under the 'Volstead aton y act one-half of one per cent. of alcohol is the limit fixed for beverages. The ves ool heo|Toling from Washfngton 1s that the fArct | fruit juices or wine made at home a1q | must be non-intoxicatlng and the point seems to be that while such home mads beverages whl not run counter to thé and the than they U appear that either ot funds or a |1aW as long as they are non_intoxicat- the 'NapoEtnics. of seems to be not a little re- ‘ T -esting upon the maker to % Bl to B8 the non-intoxi- vear when when & O Se Bught 3 st the Most Mvorabs Bg f Much difficulty has heen o conl conenfers have been inclined]Since the Volstead ast went Into ef tn adomt *hat poMey of watchfal wait- | fect in.understanding and enforcing its 1s oocastons, | provisions. When it comes to this ma has n fonnd th he =0 much opposed |ter of home made beverages which a 5 e q’ T T ikely to execed the aleoholic content to_the reste {that marks them as non-fAtoxicating sorin e reas- there promises to he stll further diffi- pected be low therp is cultios but perhans home brewers ahd g to avert 2 hort-fgina makers will consider themselves uEh 4 overiooked feara until better work s dome In ” E, ot Upply of th extensive ram running r upon th o s o s not £ Sk z e Loca PELIEVING CONGESTION. n_point ar es commected With the recep- immigrants i this country hn- iv law have not it may yet be some y are because of the involved in getting the needed hetween those who are af- law, those engaged In the and those at i going nditions he come of wany result 3 : | S laid up- of coal into nd into the cannot be h k&ehin steady flow the ting S Shet or W% ooty newconiers are charged with enforcing the re- the ments _of law. monthi {method of 5 s now York to Boston Th the allawance mmizrants thera t the port of that it is necessary to divert for the discharge of congestion isn't large number who are considerate New engers | entirely OPPAU EXPLOSION: where | 1 suct ce a |seeking admission but is aggravated by s that at Oppan, |the large number of disputed cases, the appal. Just |instances where ile are belng bar- fe has been is {red by the n of the /monthly lquota and the cases where it means the | on of families and the Imposition rdships nupon those turned away. ge with a| A large number of decisions made at ed {En nd are appealed. Getting those effects of | to Washingtori, ac‘ed upon and dtely | returned involves Red tape has @ of Inever been noted for enced and the re_ part of s that larce numbers are held at '«NMInLn oceurred {the jnumigration station awaiting inter- people exact loss of applicati s time known, F srate or whatever the may ea appeals time seem remote. T the where been prétations dccistons. Tn order to itnation and to relfeve Secretary Davis of the iped out by |departme labor has arranged to [have the nt saeretary of labor act make regular ts to the station to appeat that iepeed up the handling of these cases. sfon took | Thig arrangement should afford much alrclfef at a polnt where it fs greatly | needea at ints is not | what during rush periods {but it can he realized that such steps { can be taken to hasten the dispos iton of these cases is a move In the iri direction and prompt action s therefore to be com. EDITORIAL NOTES. New |day as ate fales are to how the com! to light every rum runners oper- children storm, but case in rxplosion i sure seems Probably vyou thounght rded in its true light only time ago but summer officially takes its atvar eatastrophes happen. Barth-{departure this morning. guakes and voleanic eruptions, floods = e and pestilence, famine and war horrors| With an unasually large apple crop hava distressed the world in the past]in Maine it ie easy to sée where the several years Preventing snch fmposes|cider is going to come from a2 ch greater task than is Involved ——— i — n avoidine sueh industrial horrors.| The great troubls with the making of Buc alrs that at Oppau | wine at home will be to keep it from sannet fafi to prompt the query as to |developing mulish inclinations. how many other plac similarly { h— menaced and perhaps don't realize it. The man on the cormer says: What = et zoing to be the solution of tne prob- IMS AND THE WERCHANT MARINE {lem among those who refuse to work? Not beeauss he has been called to ac- for 1t but becanse he has been sharged with saying something that ho 214 not nd something that he does mot helleve, hos Admiral Stms stepped o the front agaln to declare that he £an been mistruoted by Senater Glass of | Virgtia in regafd to the merchant ma- | g rine of this eountry More than the admiral are interest- # in 2 merchant marine and just at Ihis time not & few ideas are being ex- ressed in Togard to it. From the in- wrprecstion of the admiral's works the Phginic senator claimed that he advo.- count Cutting United States oxpenditures at the rate of over $30,000,000 a month taxes necessary. From the report of the transit eom- esion in New York there is enough water in tho traction lines to swamp most any management. ‘Those Who have maintained that New York was a dull town get proof from the act of a Brogkiyn girl who {started a fire in a tenement house tor excitament. mtsé furning the business of ocean | e ®ippiaz over to the British who are| There is nothing quite equal to the Borough going seamen and cotld be re-|rivalry among astronomers. While %ed ppon to see that we were proteot- M in such a direction should difficul- Bes arise. Admiral 8ims In his diselaimer em_ thasizes the fact that he does not be- leve any smch thing ahd while others pay fetl that way it is not his idea st all. He neither aGvecates it nor ap- plans are being made to bring Mars within a mile and 2 half by telescope others think they have discovered lifo on the moon It as believed Germany has escort- ed two Americans ont of that country just because of their aftitude toward moves it. Tt s easy to understand how |Germany during the war what &reat- © ecountry eould wisely place any suchyment does it expect other countries to kependence wpen another unless as tha !secosd te Cormana? this rush! | experienced purpose, as Was shown by devplop- |slight mistake in judgment v {ments, the destruction of thé French |bad aceident. Automobiles have increa settlers and the occupation of théir 1andS. |ed in numbers on the Connecticut higi At the héad of this plot was a natitve caused | t will bave | | it went some | shows what 18 betng dome to make less “I never in the world érpected t6] president b terribly ni\:‘:h hIgvasn'}: get home for the Molidays” said the|a Dbit afraid of him and he had suc £ ns b p a3 i y don’t think 1 ever sweet young thirig, aftér Raving greets | Svioay eves L dont TR € e o her taumily and loading gvery chate $ay Ms did atter 1 had begun fo tel in the room with Wraps and handbBa@s | him what 1 wanted.” and umbrellas and gloves. “She told him what she wanted!” “But you always come home fér the | murmured her géntlemiin parent in holidays!” remonstrated her lady per-|agonized tohes. “Dom’t you realize ent. “You've always been simple dy-|that oné does not, distinctly not, tell ing for college to end so you could | bank présidents what oné wants? One get home—you aren’t in love or any-|grovels and asks to be told what he thing, are you?” wants!” “I don't think sb,” the &weet younk| “Well, 1 didn't know about that” thing told them. “At 1888t I can't fé- |said the sweet young thing. “I think mémber that T ani just this minute, | that’s a mistaken idea, too. I just told though ohe does forget thifigs §6 in ali|the president that I kept some money No, it was because I didn’t|in his bank—that is, when I had any, éxpect to he able to pay for a ticket|and that just mow I @idn't seem to home. oney Was gofie. Theén|have any—and it had oceurred to me “Yes! Ye & that if I could make out Some checks “Why not, Rosamund said, a8d up|right now and then pay him back after what I had in the bank and subtract it| college began again, when I aidn't in- from what I should have had and|teha to spend a cent of my ailowance then I'd know exactly how much ¥ had | foolishly it would help a lot. spent! Rosamund certainly ought to| “That was when he laughed so be a financier, she has such wonderful | pleasantiy—I like to have a man laugh, comprehension of money matters! But, | don’'t you. I think he must have a as 1 pointed out to her, I couldn’t add | wonderful disposition. He got up and my bank account because something|walked around and looked out of the was the matier with it—at %east the| window and looked at me and laughed bank had sent me one of those horrid | some more—and then he sat down and | notices saying my account was over-|asked all about you and about how drawn and please remit. many checks I intended to draw— “And I had a million biils to pay up|and when I had figured up all my bills, before I left, and it was awful, because | latindry and everything, and the rail- you had sent so much money more| way ticket—he could add lots better than my regular llowance, and I was| than I couldd—why, he said he thought ashamed to ask for fnofe, and, anyhow, { it would be perfectly all right and te 1 was going to be horribly economical | come with him. after the holidays and make it all up,| “So he took me arourd inside the but that didn’t help me about my tic- | Wire partitions and everything and in- ket I just had to havé a lot of mohéy | troduced me to two or three men and right away!” ° explained who I was and that T was “You ddn't borrow?” begged her|short in my account, but that any ankious parénts in proteSting horrot. | checks I made were to go through and “My goodness, no'” their child told them disdainfully. ‘T just went down to the bank and asked fo sae the presi- dent and—-" “Where had you met him?” inquired her interested gentleman parent. “Tt takes my breath away to hear bank presidents spoken of without e¥en a catch in your volee! Why, ih Chicago bank presidents go areund with péa- cock fans being waved over their heads by slaves and with ranfiers to clear the populace from their path—" “Why, there wasn't an¥thing else to do,” said the sweet young thing, sérch- ely. “T just sent in my card anhd in a minute the hoy took me in and thée £0 pleasant and I don't see at all why people act as though a bank was such a4 hard hearted institution! It's per- fectly easy to manage finance if you know how!” “Well, 1 certainly wish you'd see a few batkers for me,” said her stupefied gentleman parent, aghast. “Such a system! Not to say a nerve! I must send him a check at once!” “Oh, will you?" cried young thing delightedly. Then 1 won’t have té be economical next month, after ail—I guess have just as good a head for money affairs as Rosamund!”—Exchange. the sweet B S ODD iINCIDENTS IN AMERICAN AEETY eSO | e by e ROBBINS B. STOECKEL = - Commissioner of Motor Vehicles || THE ZAMBA® PLO% : } The years 1729 and 1730 Wefe exciting TEREON. Y ! iods in the history of the Cofeny of Automobile Accidents The massacre of the Frémch at Fort Rosalle, by the Natehez Indiaws already had thrown the colonists ihito confusion and in 1730 an additional | the vehi source of alarm arose in thé litile city | The pcwer and of New Orleans by the diScovéry of & ma lot among the slaves, which had for Partly because of numbers and ps but chiefly because of the varying per- sonality of its driver the automobile veight of the automobile | e any collision with it apt to bo| serious; a slight error in ways at an average rate of 25 per cent each year for the last ten yea 1910 thére were 12,008 and 124,600. Durihe that time the of horee-waguns, ox-feams and vehicles had also increased. There has been no substantial increase in road mile- age But road building has had to be di- reetéd at the bettér surfacing of the of the present roads. The result has been great cohgdtion which has cauged a genéral - speeding up of all vehicles capablé of gettirg out of the way of the others. Al this has made more chances | for accidents and a greater hazard | In 1920, in Connecticut, there were about 7,000 acéidents in which automo- biles were conceraed. Out of thesé aba 25 per cent or 1,500 resuited in personal | African, who appears to have possessed more than the ordinary inteHizence of his race, whose name was Zamba. He per- formed the duty of overseer at the King's plantation, formerly callsd fhe Com- pany’s plantation, situated cpposite New Orleans, which 1S now the totn of Al- giers There was a luil in the waffare against tie Natchez Indians, and the authoritles of the colény wWers awaiting the arrival from France of the reinforceménts in troops, which had begn solicited by the India company’s agents in LduiSlana. Tt was in the interval that Zasba con- ceived the idea of his plot. Thé active agent in the discovery of this plot was M. Le Page, the manager of the King's In in 1920, number thiy piahtation. injury, 223 resulted in death and 230 . peopie were killed. Out of the 230, 1 Among the laborérs in the brickvard jPeoPle were s : connected with the plantation Was a col- | VeTe peoble walking on the highv ored_woman. ‘A soldler of the garrison |20 Streets and of the 127, 66 were child- in New-Orleans got, into a Cofitroversy |fon under twelve. The age at which| with her, and for Her impudence slap- |Mm0St Childrén are injured or kiled is ped her. Smarting under_the blow she |five years when they first begin to Deelatibel T bar Tou strike me |On the streets; the time of day is o T yon: Fregehmmen wen't beaw|NOOR &nd from three to five in the AP TR 6 TR Sy ternoon, after school when play be e N There are more accidents and me poue s e e e Pr |people being hurt and killed in 1921 e “ an in 1840, The conditions on the meant by the threat. Theroupon Le Page | .. on the, streets and highways have not materially ehahged except that there are more ve- hieles than in 1920. safety which everybolly has to meet are no different but they occur oftener. Thére are more cars to dodge and the number of ehances fo get into an acci- dent is larger Recognizing this fact the officials in charge of the management of traffic are asked permission of the zovernon to undertake the task to discover if there was a plot, and if s6 10 nip it in the bud. The same night of the request, when the plantation hands were asieep Le Page acccmpanied by a 1ad, one of his servants sought their quargers and went quietly from cabin to cebin until they reached one fn which a fire was burhing. In this|paying this Salety First drive. It is cabin was Zamba, With two cOMPARIONS, not yieir drive. The drive belongs to | one of whom was the second overseer. | tme wesple Hvershedss Satety Berer | They were conversing over the detalls | Drive wrhether oo et it 1o o ucemss of the projected enterprise, and were|jopengs upon evérybody getting into it. autioning each other not to make theif | T” cveny person Goce wet in and. ac & plans known until within two or three | il jmore care 2 exercised, then the B R O darive will be a success. Save a life Before the conferénce broke up M. Le Page had heard enough o ‘kmow that of his men already were in the sb- nd when the plotters separated it with the promise to meet at the place at the same hour the mext even if it's ohly your own might be its! sloga A life is saved every ment and common The la% cahnot make you exercise y eommon sense every time you can malke yourself do Tt is the duty of your police and of The next morning Le Page wrote to M. Perier, the Colonlal governor, informing him cf his \didcovery and suggesting that the eight men be arrested promptly. That same night the manager was again it his pest. On this occasion the little abin was quite crowded, as ihe entire . were sathered there. That night Page arranged with his French over- er for the arrest separately, on the xt day, of the eight culprits. He in- structed him to distribute the planta- tion hands in six different localities about the placs, as#igning to eaoch de- tachment one of the plotters, whose! name was givén to the overseer, togeth- er with the gang to which he was to be assigned. The plan formulated by Le,Page work- ed most successfully, and so carefully had all the detalls been worked out that | none .of the population knew of the ar- | rest of the leaders wntil they were all rounded up and securely fnanmcled. The next day they were ut to the torture of what was called the weches afdentes “Let anyone who may question the truth of your claims for Wincarnis to extort from them a confession. This|€ome to me and I will soon dispel all was not fruitful ekcept in fhe caie of| their doubts,” said Miss Helen Miller, Zamba, who made a clean breast of the | WO llves at 10 W. Thompson Street, plot in all the ramifications. Philadelphia, recently. Therewpon &éntencs was passed “A year ago I had a very bad spell all cight consprators. | The mem wers|9f Terveus indigestion and_although condemmned to be broksn en the wheel, | Ty d0ctor did all he could for me, and the woman wWas sentehced to be | 20URINE he gave me reliéved me of the hanged in their presemce. They were ex- | Oroadful attack. ecuted in the public square of the city, “I lost my appetite, I could not sleep, afterwards _calfed the Piace @Armes, | MY nerves got worse and I rapidly lost and now as JwekBon Seuare, | Welght. where, in the Colonial days, all the ex-{ “I had read about your wonderfal ccutions todk place. With their death | tonfc Wincarnis—for wonderful it cer- the alarm and pertubation of spitit that | tainly is—and I decided to give it a the plot had caused passed away. A |trial. Its effect was truly wonderZul. detailed story of this plot and its out- e ediately my appetite came come is to be found in Martin's His- | back and soon I was able to get a re- tory of Louisiana, Which further notes | fré8hing night's sleep. My nerves grew that after the men hid been broken on | Steady, my indigestion disappeared and the wheei their heads were placed on |l began to put on %fih. In fact, I posts at the upper and lower end of the | galned 8 pounds while taking Win- city, and this timely severity prevented | CArnis, any further mischief. . (Tomorrow—Only President Wed in Mr. Jos. Moller, a business man of White House) 42 Chandler Btraet, Worcester, Mass., who was In a nervous and run-down condition when he started taking Win- carnis, says: “1 really cannot praise Winearnis too highly a8 a tonic and nerve-builder, Torrington.—A total of 3,950 children are attending the public schodls in ‘the borcugh of Torrington while the grand total of those attending in the town is for it certainly did me a world of good. 4146, an increase of ninety over ltst|] always keep it in the house, for Mrs be sent to him, and everybody wnsl | the The problems of | Philadelphia Lady Relieved of Nervous Others testify to wonderful virtues of world-renowned medicine GREAT FOR ECZEMA AND OLD SORES I Guarantee My Ointment, Says eterson—Every Box of It “If you aré responsible for theheaith of ygur family,” says Peterson of Buffalo, “I want you to get a e 35 cent box of Petersog's Ointment today. “Remember, 1 stand back of every box. Every druggist gnarantees to re- fund the purchase price if Peterson’s Ointment doesn’t do all I ciaim, “I guarantee it for eczema, old sores, running sores, salt rheum. ultfs, sore nipples, broken breasts, itching skin, skin diseases, blind, bleéding and itch- ing piles as wéll as for chaling, burns, scalds, cuts, bruises and Sunburn.” “I nad 30 running sores on m: was le; y for 11 years; in three différen dvised. hospitals. Amputation was Skin grafting was tried. 1 was curéd by using Peterson's olnmint Ts. TRoot, 287 Michigan St. Btffalo, F. E. N. Y. Mail orders filled by 5 alo, N. Petérson Ointment Co. Ine.. Buffalo, N. Y. THE KIND THAT Mother Used to Make YOUR GROGER SELLS IT Nickel Plating UNITED METALS MFG. COMPANY, Inc. - all your officinls 1o see that the obeyed. 't s 'y are doing their hest and ng your help. st time of year for accidents ahead. HELP [READ YOUR CHARACTER | By Digby Phillips, Copyrighted 1921 1 BRUNETTE DOME- HEAD: Tn a previous Aarticle domehead was discussed. of predominant head of BLONDE V8 the so-called | 1t is the head mental development, lh’i the thinker as contrasted with heads of those whose dominating | traits are physical or vital But just as there are different degrees of “domeheadedness,” you must take in- to consideration the manmer in Which the indications of the biz head and small face are modi or accentuated by oth- er charactéristics. Deep thinkers, vhilofophers and geni- | uses, while ail predominantly mental, and for the most part undeveloped (by com- parison) physically achieve e mental processes, nor do they all| within the same mental fold. i The philesopher, for instance, may be ! any a quick or a slow thinker If his hair s blonde you'll find him the former. If it's dark youw'll find that he's slower, but on the o r hand; more painstaking | and detefmined in hi8 thinking. The 1mental type of man who is dark more mediative in his thinking, less| op! ti enthusiastic, but more introspéctive; posses a gFeater de- gree of tenacity. The blonde type of htinker is the opposite of this. His thoughts race ahead with a certain eag- | erness and enthusiasm, but are more eas- ily turned Tomorrow- Indigestion Moller also finds it beneficial when- ever in a nervous condition. I often} rcommend it to my friends as a prepar- ation unusually high in merit and reas-} onable in price.” Mrs. A. Al Choate of 24 Nelson Place, | Newark, N. J., writes: “It gives me great pleasure to speak a good word for ‘Wincarnis, for it| certainly proved a wonderful friend in- deed at a time of great weakness caus- ed by the Grippe. It was just what I needed for it quickly enabled me to get a good night's eleep and regain mmy usual health.” It you are weak, nervous, shaky, £r~l ritable, sleepless—unfit for sither work or play; sick in body and spirit and finding life a burden—you owe it to vourself to give Wincarnis a trial Wincarnis has been recommended as a meritorious general tonie, restorz.t‘lve,l blood-maker and nerve-strengtheéner by more than 10,000 physicians, whose letters the manufactureres have on file, ‘Wincarfiis is put up in two sizes— $1.10 and $1.95. It is sold by National Drug Stores, Main, Shetucket Streets, and all other first-class drug stores. Write for free instructive booklet, “Flundred Per-Cent. Health. How To Obtain It,” to Bdward Lassere, Tnc, Dept. E, 400 West 23rd Street, New York, U. S. Agents for Wincarnis. Tothocit:imcrflmm: 2 e It is my earnest désire o stand well in the cemmunity in which | have located my home, and because of the uRustdl nature of My enter- prise #nd the unusual handling forced upon me by unforeseen circum- stances, conditions, delays, lesses, hahdicsips; makeshifts, compromises and expensee durihg the three years of my determined effort to accomplish fiflm.flylmfial,l&t-‘lhmdeflmw‘lnflkmuh my processes, have resulted in a grist of corifusing statements, suspicien, antagonism, and éven énimity hard t5 endure, and bcause this same three years of stress has procured for me both enémies snd strohg friends, 1 believe it is both right and proper for me, in view of my above expressed desire, to st the whole situstion broadly before you and let your judg- ment thereon determine fairly my future status in my home town. The situation is substantially as follows : ) After two and one-half years of labsratsry work in New York, 16 which | was engaged on the chemical side of my proisiem, which terminated satisfactorily, | causéd the oFganization and ifrcoforation of the Tenus- Sitk Mills Company, Inc., under the laws of the State of New Yerk, capitalized at $100,000, one thousand shares at $100 par, one hundred shares of which were twenty per cent. cumulative, nen-voting preferred. The rémaining nine hundréd shafés were common and were issued to me in consideration of a license agreement giving exclusive manufacturing and sefling rights under my thén exigting United Stdtes patents. Thersafter, upon my recommendation, my sompany decided that it would be advisable to look up a small mill lecation wherein to finish up the reduction to mill practice work necessary to a complete mastory of the process of making fibres reliably under commercial manufacturing conditions, and to this end the Strout Farm Agency was engaged. After considerable time and expense in visiting different locations, | at last located the present mill. | found, however, that the property could not be rented, &nd 28 it seemed desirable as a home | arranged to personafly purchase on a contract quarterly payment basis made with the then owner, This beirig effected, | rented the mill under lease to the company. Then, as the saying goes, the fun agmmenced. Fourteen hundred dollars’ worth of laboratory equipment was des- troyed by fire in transit, and the then treasurer of the company, whe had charge of the shipping of the same, had neglectsd to cover by in- surance. A littie later, $900 was lost by breach of trust oecurring be- tween the treasurer and a stockholder. A subscriber for $5,000 of stock, after paying a little over $1.200 thereon, réfased te take up the balance. Two Philadelphia subscribers paid in $3,000, their full subscription. It was from one of their payments that the $900 mentioned above was lost. leaving a batance of ssme $3,200 actual meney to cover the first yeat’s expeénses, which included the expense of loceting the mill, a matter of some $650. How | got threugh that year | cannot now tell in detail, but the experience is unforgettable. 1 The second year better conditions prévailed. | obtained assistanee from Mr. Howard R. Stivers, a New York feiend, for a short period. Thereafter | had splendid assistance, both at the mill and in the matter of the sale of my stock, by Mr. Carl E. Lyons, so that in joint receipts the total was nearly $6,000, and things thereafter commenced to look up. But towards the end of the sécond year | persenally made an srror. Be- lieving that | was nearsr to the fidish of my work tian subsequently proved to be the case, | made some optimistic statements as to when | expected to finish, and aiso some premature demonstrations of fibre mak- ing, being strongly urged to do so by my local supporters, and, though | believed in my statements when | made them, and gave fairly creditabls demonstrations of my process, | censure myself for not refusing in both instances; although | fl\i‘k that in sither case the end would have been the same, | lost my local support. However, | had some of the money remaining that | had received by the sale of my stock, and imediately resumed my labors, alone ofice more. In November, 1920, my patents, under which was issued my license agreement with my company, expiréd, | having been unable to develop the process under them until the last four years of their endurance. Thereafter it was my persanal equation of good faith and honesty of purpose that reaily constituted the compamy’s principal asset. 1 carriéd on, believing that the successful issue of my work would result in ample and even batter protection than the original cases would give, as new cases based upon vital commercial features. About January 15, 1921, my money gave out once more. | borrowed what | coud and kept on until in February, at last succeeded in finish- ing up my work as proven by the production of a continuous silk-fins fibre 192 miles long without a break, requiring some fourteen hours for its production. | immediately set up a small twisting mathine and produced several sizes of yarns to be used as samples in the subsequent work of financing the manufacturing establishment. Upon finishing these yarns | made an exhibition of them in the Boston Store wirfow and a public announce- ment in The Bulletin. It was at this peint | confidently expected a full renewal of confidence in fe by my stockholders, as | had unquestionably demonstrated my good faith with them as well as in the use of moneys received for the purpose. | believed myself thoroughly justified Took- ing to them for moral and material support in the work of obtaining financial backing for quantity production putposes. In this | was badly disappointed, and it seemed that it was again up to me to do the best | could alone and for strangers to approve my work, the handling of my company and the value of my product. | took up the burden, and since March 21st, in préfiminary and actual work, | visited numerous silk deafers, manufacturers, merchants and promoters, in New York, Boston and other points on expense money that | obtained by borrowing, by selling property and any means | deemed myself justified in using to defray my expenses in my effort te obtain for my company a fair and safe financing of manufacturing con- ditions, until, on August 10th, | had expended $1,646 in this werk, te- ceived many propositions ihvolving large monsy in: ent, but invari- ably uhder terms that | considered unsafe or urrdesirable, so that it seemed that | had practically reached the end. Stili, | coutd not give up without one more trial and | detormined to make better terms for capital and accept fesser considerations for my company that | might carry through quickly at least an equitable business arfangement. | made a further effort to obtain money and succesded in raising upon personal obligation enough to last me at least dinety days more. | had thrée prospects left over, cne in New York and two in Massachusetts, whom | notified of my decision, and then, so that | might have pérfect freedom without delay to close guickly any business deal that | might locdte within the time left to me, | ordered a special meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of obtaining full autherity to dispose of the company’s assets to a reliable trust compahy, acting trustee in the matter, to receive an assighthent of said assets in trust, and to transfer the same and to receive for the company any consideration given therefor. Two minimum- aiternative considerations were decided upon; one, a cash payment of $60,000; the other, a manufacturing agreement guarantesing my compaty a yearly income of equitable proportions. | also réceived the power to issue an option upon either one or both of these considera- tions. | had ordered the special meeting calfed for the above purpose on the 20th of August. On the 31st | received a letter, which constituted a proposal from one of my Massachusetts prospects who represented a group of clear-headed businéss men, who agreed to organize a corpora- tion for the purpose of receiving said assets, assume all the burden of financing and manufacturing and guarantee my company ten per cent. of te net profits upen said manufacture (to which | have subsequentiy obtained an added guaranteed minimum cash payment). They would in- corporate under Connecticut laws, would capitalize for $100,000, guarantee $10,000 invested and ready for mvestment betwesn October 10, 1921, and April 1, 1922, the same to be used for mill equipment and supplics at present mill site. | am to receive an interest in the hew corporation which will eventually be a eontrelling intérest. | am to recsive the same salary. | am to betome president and general manager, as a stonditien without which they would not invest. They applied by wire on September 15 for a 60-days option on manufacturing conditions on our terms. Formal application received by me on the 16th. Acceptance acknowledged and option granted on the 17th. Articies of incorperation for the new com- pany received by me on the th. They have informed me that 7,000 is already aveilable. | think 1 am justified in feeling & measure of relief and a feeling of confidence that | may yet be the omuse of substantial benefit to my home town, which concludes my statement to date, and upea this | rest My case with you. JOHN F. COOLEY. President. Norwich, Conn., September 22, 1821. “