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A WEEKLY PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF A LIVE AND GROWING TOWN

^ESTABLISHED 1118. — VOLUME XII. NO. 18. •VATERTOWN, CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1925. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS

Residences Threat-ened by Fire

The residents of Highland avenueand the Mlddleburjr road receivedquite a thrill on Saturday morning

\ when vacant lots between Highlandavenue and Wheeler streets wereablase. A small fire was started Inthe rear of one of the residencesand a sudden gust of wind caughtthe flames and in a very short spaceof tune the fire' had spread to thelarge fields.' The entire nelghbor-

\ hood were out enmass but were un-able to check the course of the fire.A'hurried call was sent in for thefire company and-a large numberof the. department members respond-ed. '. With this additional assistancethe flre ,w« soon under control andthe blaze put out. It was miracu-lous that none of the garages orhouses 6aught Ore as the flre at onetime was very close to some ofthem. '

Flre Warden H. E. Lewis wishesto call the attention ot. Watertownresidents to the danger of starringa fire at this season of the year asa fire gets beyond control In veryshort' order, arid considerable dam-age can result from it. It is alsonecessary that a permit be securedbefore a fire can be started andfailure to do so 1B liable to causethe arrest of the .offenders. Thesepermits can be secured from theFire Warden without any charge.

FEDERAL LODGE ENTERTAINS

Federal lodge celebrated thefirst anniversary of the opening ofthe redecorated teiripie on Tuesdayevening. Rev. Arthur Lewis of Nau-gatuck, grand chaplain, was theprincipal speaker of the eveningand chase as his topic, the 24-inchgauge as a measure of time, Lastyear Mr. Lewis presented the mem-bers with their "gavel." The Fel-lowcraft club had charge of theevening's entertainment and RoyKrom, their president, introducedthe speakers of the evening. Be-sides Mr. Lewis the speakers were:H. B. Rlggs of Waterbury, who•poke on Masonic ' education, »ndand the Right Worshipful PastGrand Master Grannisa of Litchfleldwho gave a very interesting talk onthe Masonic life of George Wash-ington. Worshipful Master Cook ofLitchfleld, Cooley of Harmony lodge,Waterbury and Tyler of Woodburywere also present and spoke. TheFellowcraft quartet, consisting ofLester Atwood, Clifford Wadhams,Stanley Barnes and E. H. Thomp-son sang several selections. Therewere about 150 Masons present in-cluding-guests from • Waterbury,Thomaston, Litchfleld, Woodburyand Bethlehem. • .,

The Ladies of the Eastern Starserved refreshments at the close ofthe meeting.

IN TOWN COURT ON MONDAY/ EVENING

Bernard and William Dillon andHarry Holdridge appeared beforeJudge Hungerford charged withbreach of the: peace and assault.Robert White was t h e complaintantwho stated the three young . menattacked him for no cause whateverand administered .quite a beatingto him. No evidence: could bebrought out against Holdridge andBernard Dillon so Judge Hunger-ford nolled the charges againstthem. William Dillon did not es-cape as luckily as his other twopals and be was found guilty andfined $15 and the costs - of thecourt

Numerous complaints have beenreceived of late regarding the con-duct of a gang of young men whomake a practice of congregating Infront of the Trust Co's building andthe Community Theatre, who in-sult most every young girl or wo-man who passes by. The. threeyoung men who figured In Monday's.court cases are members of thisgang an* they, should profit by thetalking they received from JudgeHungerford. If they continue theirpractice no doubt more arrests willfollow. Constable Harty placed thethree young men under arrest andhe will keep a close watch hereafterto see that they behave as theyshould or else they will find them-

• selves in court once again.

"CLEAN UP" WEEK* ' * - •

The committee . for the. ' annual"clean • up" week consisting ' ofHarold Madden, P. J.Skilton andEdward Pierpont earnestly hopethat' everyone will make an effortto help the town in keeping, its re-putation, of; good'.--^appearance.',.',.PnFriday and Saturday May 8th and9th rubbish will be collected by Mr.Brahen. Those who have rubbish tobe taken away may leave it by theroadside In boxes or barrels and Itwill be removed for a small Bum.

Library ElectsOfficial Board

The Watertown Library Associa-tion held its annual meeting Tues-dajr evening at the Library building.The officers were reflected as7 fol-lows: President, B. Havens Hemin-way; business manager, Howard M.Hickcox. The executive committeeIncludes the first two officers:Messrs. Hemlnway and Hickcox andMrs. C, yf. Jackson. . Charles B.Buckingham and Newton B Hobart.The meeting ,was well attended andthe reports of the officers very in-teresting showing the Bplendldgrowth of the association.

A report of the recent Librarydrive was read^nd some time spentIn revising the' constitution of theassociation. .

The 60th annual' report ot theWatertown library from April 25,1924 to April 28, 1925, is as fol-lows: volumes discarded, this in-cludes 831 bound magazines, gov-ernment reports, etc., .sold or givenaway to make'room for the D. A. R.collection . 1,181; volumes added,374;' periodicals taken 21; periodi-cals given 1; new book-takers 138;booktakers at the present time,1,164; largest circulation in one day,154; smallest circulation In one day,12; dally average, 73. The followingIs the circulation of books by sub-jects; general works, 22 Philosophy,21; Religion, 125; Sociology, 146;Language, 10; Natural Science, 268;Useful arts, 83; Fine Arts, 210; Lit-erature, 410; History, 435; Descrip-tion, and Travel, 520; Biography401; total non-fiction 2,654; fiction,12,211; periodicals, 1,436; total cir-culatlonn, 16,300. Gifts; 19 booksfrom the old Watertown Choralclub—these are given In memory ofCharles Bidwell. The Barnes gen-ealogy from the Barnes family;twostories from Burnham Carter; His-tory of the Woman's Christian Tem-perance union from the Watertownbranch of the W. <3. T. U.; "Life ofJohn Brown" and "Newspapers andNewspapermen." by Oswald Vlllard,"Autobiography of Henry Vlllard";."Speeches of Carl Schura" and'Selections from the Editorials ofWilliam vcobb," from Oswald Vll-lard; the National Geographicalmagazine. from Mrs. Merritt Hemln-way.

TOWN TOPICSMrs. Charles B. Matoon and Miss

Henrietta Basueit have returned, totheir home on Deforest street afterspending the past three months inSouthern California.

A. s. Vlllard ot New York city Isspending the summer at his home Inthe north part of the town.

Mr. and Mrs, Edward Sectman ofHartford • were recent visitors Intown.

Mrs. O. S. Freeman of Woodbury,a former resident of Watertown wasa recent visitor In town.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Aspmallof Pittsfleld, Mass., have been

Miss Mary Farrell of Cherry aven- spending a few days visiting *t theue spent the week-end visiting her home of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Bron-brother in Brooklyn, N. Y. ' i son.

R.' B, Branson has sold, his rest-! Barton L. Hemlnway has pur-

INDUSTRIAL CLUB MEMBERMARRIE8

. Miss Harriet Slason, formerly aresident of this town, was marriedIn Waterbuny Wednesday morningto Walter B. Velllette of Walling-ford. Mrs. Vetllette who has beenan employe of the Hemlnway • Silkcompany, Is an' active member ofthe Watertown Girls' Industrialclub, of which her ; ajsters. MissKatherlne and Miss Anna, are alsomembers. • The ceremony was per-formed at St. Margaret's. church,Waterbury by Rev. Edward J. Bren-•an, •who also celebrated the nuptialhigh mass following the ceremony.John L. Bonn,: organist, renderedseveral organ selections.

The bride wore a sown of whitebeaded georgette over satin with atulle veil held wdth pearls. Shecarried a shower of bride's • rosesand swansonia. Her sister, MissKatherlne Slason, «who attended heras bridesmaid, wore peach chiffonand a blue picture hat. She car-ried pink roses and snapdragons.The groom was attended by Wil-liam Shanley as best man. Water-town guests who .were present atthe ceremony were Mr. and Mrs.John Shannon, Mrr and Mrs. Fred-erick Slason, Mr. and Mrs. RaymondBurton, Mr. and Mrs, ElsworthHumiston, Misses Alma and AnnaSchilloire, Hazel Demerest, ViolaNeil. Julia Habelka and Otis Har-rison.

DEATH OF MRS. JUDD

Mrs. Minerva Pierpont (Wood-.ward) Judd, 89 years, widow ot Gar-wood B. Judd, formerly of Water-town, . died at the home of hergranddaughter, Mrs. Roy Miller, inCorpus Christ!, Texas, Wednesdaymorning. ',

The body will be brought to Wa-tertown where <he funeral will boheld Sunday afternoon in Christchurch at 3 o'clock, with burial inEvergreen cemetery.

Mrs. Judd's marriage was thefirst to, be celebrated in Christchurch, Watertown, and . she .spentmost of her married life, here, ob-serving with Mr. Judd, the* 50th an-niversary, shortly before the letter's

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At tho 161st annual meeting ofthe Lltchfleld County Medical asso-ciation held at the Hotel Winches-ter in Wlnsted last Monday Dr.Ernest K. Loveland of this townwas elected president.

dence on the Mlddlebury road toThe Taft School.

Joseph Hanning of Yale Univer-sity' spent the week-end at his homeon Highland avenue.

H. L. Hughes who has been onthe sick list has recovered and hasresumed his duties with' the ChaseCo. hu Waterbury.

Mrs. • Charles Sherwood who hasbeen ill has recovered and is ableto be about again.

Robert Currle and family of Ban-tam were recent visitors in town.

The,rummage sale which ,washeld Saturday afternoon by the lo-cal branch of the Connecticut Coun-c i l of Catholic Women was verysuccessful. But owing to the factthat showers Interrupted It duringthat afternoon it was continuedagain on Thursday afternoon whenthe remaining goods was - disposedof.

Miss Louise Fenton spent theweek-end in Springfield, Mass.

The Phi Sigma Phi girls of theCongregational Church will presenta four act comedy, "As Good AsGold" In the chapel, Wednesdayevening, May 15th at 8 o'clock.

The activities committee of theOakville .Civic Association underthe direction of Chairman HarryLowrey are busily preparing a min-strel show to. be given in the Oak-ville Community HOuse on openingnight, June 1st.

-One thousand and • twenty carswere registered in Watertown in1924. The number of accidents re-ported was 60.

chased a Dodge^Sedan.Dr. M. J. Moore ot Cheshire was,

a Sunday visitor in Watertown.'Mr. and Mrs. Frank Convard-of

Waterbury, have movedp to Water-town.

Miss Grace O'Connor* of Hartfordhaw been .spending the past fewdays visiting at her home on Woodruff avenue. , ,- "'

Miss Marlon Davies is ill at herhome on Scott avenue.

The 'grammar school league Iscontinuing to arouse interest by itscontests.

On Tuesday afternoon anotherseries was played on the Hemlawayfield ln?, Watertown. THe Murpbysfrom South•' School defeated theCubs by a score ot 10 to 8 and St.John's won from the Red Sox 18to 6.

On the Bradshaw field in Oakvillethe Peerless team from BaldwinSchool was defeated by the Tigerswith a 25 to 2 score.

The Heminway SUk Co,, Asso-ciation will continue their weeklydances from now on, the first tobe held this evening, in CommunityHall.

The men of the Congregationalchurch enjoyed an excellent supperWednesday' evening in the chapel.An excellent entertainment was giv-en by Prof. Newell and plans dis-cussed for forming a Men's Club.

The Oakville Girl Scouts had asthfir guests Miss Agnes Schler, di-rector of tho Girl Scouts of Water-bury and vicinity on Tuesday eve-ning.

GOOD NEWS FOR FARMERS

S. McLean Buckingham President of EasternStates Farmers' Exchange Which Purchased

$300,000 Feed Mill at Buffalo, N. Y.

Members of the Eastern StatesFarmers' Exchange, all over NewEngland, will begin buying theirgrain in a bigger.and more prom-inent co-operative basis May 1stthrough their purchase of the ArcadyFarms Milling Company -. plant atBuffalo, N. Y. Announcement of thopurchase -was made at the meetingof the 250 directors, field men, andlocal agents here today. Ownershipof a grain mill with a capacity tohandle their business of about 100,000tons a year has been looked forwardto by the Exchange as a progressivestep which should be taken whenthe opportunity came. It has nowbeen taken for the mutual advan-tage of more than 14,000 . farmerswho are members of the ,• organiza-tion.

The Buffalo plant of the Arcady'Farms Milling Company came on themarket, through changing businessconditions, at a price much belowwhat It would have cost the Ex-change to have erected a plant ofsimilar capacity. For the past twoyears the need of having its ownmill to handle the business as aservice for its members, not as ameans of profit to someone .else, hasbeen evident to the leaders in theExchange. The opportunity to pur-chase this mill for $300,000 wasseized upon quickly. Ownershipwill make It possible to run themill to full capacity and to give tothe farmer members of the organ-ization all savings which can bethe great- volume of business.' It Jsbelieved that the savings will payfor the entire investment within afew years . . " _ .

The Exchange could not havemade this purchase at this time ex-cept for the action of some of itsdirectors serving on the executivecommittee. Quick action was neces-sary in-orderjo secure the property.It was obviously impractical to raisethe money quickly and economicallyby asking each of the 14(000 farmersIn the organization to contributehis share. It would- take monthsto make--such~a .canvass. The di-rectors stepped into the breach andput up 9800/OOOv ?so that the.. -, i>ur-.chase could > be .made ,: immediately.

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be retired, and the directors ownIng It are ready to sell all or anypart of their stock at par to membersof the Exchange. The Exchange re-

ceived the full par value-for thestock as there are no commissionsor discounts. The directors refusedto have their preferred stock bearmore than six percent Interest al-though they could have made theirmoney earn eight percent or more.It is planned to retire- the preferredstock altogether out of the savingsmade at the mill.

The location of the new plant atBuffalo is a natural concentrationpoint for grain with both rail, andwater transportation. This insuresthe cheapest possible rates from thegrain fields ot the west.' It Is alsowell west of any present membersof the Exchange and there will beno back shipments as there wouldbe if the mill were located in thecenter of the territory in New Eng-land. It is "the nearest point fromwhich economic distribution by railcan be secured to all points* In NewEngland. The Buffalo plant of theArcady Farms Milling Companywas developed as a war-time propc*sltion but since then the owner hasnot been able to maintain it at' itsfull capacity. He was ready to dis-pose of It at a comparatively lowprice. The mill Is close to Buffaloand the property Includes 13 acresof land. The main building isfireproof concrete, brick and steelconstruction and' Is completelyequipped to handle grain and man-ufactured feeds. The three big stor-age tanks have a capacity of 150,000 bushels of grain. There Istrackage facilities for* 55 freightcars*\t once. Power is furnishedfrom the electrical development ofNlagra Falls.

Ever since the Exchange has beendoing ..business It has bought Itsfeeds from privately owned millsIn the west This worked wellwhen the tonnage was small bntthe business has now grown solarge that there are very few millsthat can handle it. The handlingcharge has been $3.50 a ton. Theleaders in the Exchange .-* believethat by, owning the plant and op-erating it as a service to'the mem-bers' the, cost can .be cut down ma-terially. Even if it Is cut only 50ca ton the saving would -be" about950.000 a yea»,:or enpughto pay forthp entire Investment In 'six "yna"out of the savings. If the savingcould be Increased to $1 a ton Itwould take only half as Ions;.

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Annual OlderGirls1 Conference

The annual Older Conference isbeing held in Litchfield today andtomorrow. May 1st and 2nd. Be-tween 150 and 200 delegates are ex-pected to be present this year. Del-egates from Oakville and. Water-town churches will attend the con-ference.

The program is as follows:Program, Friday, May First

3:30 Registration and Get Ac-quainted Period

4:30 Welcome . Service— AtalajThompson, New Mll(ord, yice Pres-jidunt Older Girls' Conference, .pre-siding.

Devotions—Mrs. Virgil' Blackman, New Mllford

5:00 Business5:15 Address—"Seeing Him In

Our Home Life"—Dr. George WoodAndersori1-

6:00 ^Fellowship SupperSong Leader—Mr. Bernard C.

Roberg, BantamToast Mistress— Mrs. Milo

Beach, Litchfleld , •Invocation—Rey. Carl M. San-

gree, Litchfield'Greetings'1

In 'behalf of the Churches—Rev.William J. Brewster

In behalf of the Homes—MissDorothy Bull

In behalf of the Girls—MissCharlotte Mason

ResponseIn behalf of the Delegates, Miss

Emily Chatfield, Washington"Greetings

From Falrfleld County—Mrs. F.(Continued on Page Eight)

LARGE ATTENDANCE AT GIRLS'CLUB

An unusually large number en-joyed supper at the regular .meet-ing of the Girls' Club on Tuesdayevening.

Miss Ina Atwood and Miss EthelDoolittle, delegates to the. Girls'Club Directorate at Walllngfordgave a report of that meeting. MissAtwood on Saturday's events andMiss Doolittle on Sunday's.. jDneitem of interest was the mention ofthe possibility of a summer schoolfor the clubs of the state to be heldin August, probably on Long. Islandsound.

The slate of officers to be votedupon at the annual meeting was pre-sented by the nominating commit-tee.. It was as follows: for presi-dent, Barbara Ashenden, Helen Ma-toon; for vice president, Ethel Doo-little, Mrs. Agnes Garnsey; for sec-retary, Dorothy Johnson. LeonaKellty; for treasurer, Esther Eric-son, Elsie Root.

Songs were practiced by theclub to be sung next Wednesdayevening when the Girls' Club willbe the guests of the IndustrialGirls' Club.

SENIOR PROM

Plans are nearly completed forthe annual dance and party to begiven to the seniors of the Water-town high school by the juniors andthe other classes combined Satur-day evening at 8 o'clock at tjieCommunity hall. The ball will beattractively decorated in orange andwhite, the class colors. Those whoare on the decorating committeeare Ruth Alford, Helen Johnson,Agnes Cosgrove, Gerald Flynri," Wil-liam Glover anil Raymond Brown.Those on the refreshment commit-tee are Eleanor Richards, CatherineHannon, Evelyn Gregory, MarjorieHughes, Marlon Hassell, HazelCook, Pauline Spengler, JeannetteParker. Obeline Jorlett. Ruth Nyr-grea. Flora Schillare and Mary An-drews. Music will be furnished byDreher's orchestra. Refreshmentswill consist of ice cream, cake andpunch. Special written invitationsare being sent to the teachers whoare Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Swift. Mr.and Mrs. \V. R. Cook, Mr. and Mrs.A. R. Deland. Miss Edith Robinson.Miss Marjorie Turner.. Miss LouiseFenton. Miss Marlon E. Clark, Mrs.Sara Deeley.Miss Mary Brush, MissMarjorie Hitchcock, Miss WilnaMarshall. Miss Helen Dorian andMiss Vernice Lovett.

PATROL SYSTEM FOR 8COUTS

Miss Agnes Sobier of Waterburywho was present at the regularGirl Scout meeting Monday evening,helped Captain Olive Walton to or-ganize her troup, in patrol system.

Four Patrols were formed,' eachwith its own leader, name and coloras "follows: Patrol 1,. Canary,. Bea-trice White, .leader;".crijor,.yellow;Patrol 2, Golden:lEagle,;iJeanetteHart Vadi f,' color,' red; "Patrol VSilver Fox, Florence Doolittle. lead-er; color, silver. Patrol 4, Blue-birds, Jeanette Neal. leader; color,bine.

Village Improve-ment Plans

At a meeting of the Village Im-provement Committee of the CivicUnion which was held Suuday eve-ning at the home of Harry Hemin-way the following members werepresent: Mrs. H. H. Ashenden, Mrs.H. a McCrone, Miss L. B.. Leslie,Rev. William Judd, Harry Hemln-way, Arthur Evans and R. S. Pasho.

Father Judd, Supt G. C. Swllt andMISK Leslie were appointed Incharge of _ improvement workthrough the "schools. ' A "clean-up .day" committee including P. J. Skil-ton. Harold Madden and EdwardPierpont was appointed.

It was voted to give forty dollarsto the Delphian Society to help de-fray the expenses of the *ent cater-pillar collection contest.

Mrs. H. H. Ashenden is chairman'of the committee which will awardprises fop the. best appearinggrounds in the district schools..

Mr. Hemlnway was appointedcommittee in charge of Watertown'scross-road parks.

Miss Leslie .and Mr. Pasho wereappointed a com/nitte.n tb investi-gate the playground in Oakville andmake recommendations to be pre-sented at the next meeting of theboard of directors.

The possibility of having a flower 'show in Watertown was discussed.

The committee on planting trees,appointed at this meeting IncludesArthur Evans, chairman; HaroldMadden, Frank Hickcox, Floyd Bar-low, Harvey 'McCrone and WilliamReynolds. This committee plansto secure a group of boys from eachof the churches. In town who willassist in planting trees about thetown on Arbor Day and on Fridayand Saturday of this week. Anysuggestions as to places on themain highway where trees shouldbe planted will be welcomed by thecommittee.

Those who may desire trees' toplant can notify Mr. Evans or amember of the committee.

SPLENDID PLAY BY SOUTHSCHOOL PUPILS

The graduating class, includingtwo eighth grade classes of SouthSchool presented a splendid enter-tainment on Thursday, eveningwhich will be repeated' again thisevening at 8 o'clock. The programconsisted of a one-act play "TheRed Parasol" and a three-act play"Her Blessed Boy" with.musical se-lections, both piano and violin, andchorus singing,

The children are to be congratu-'lated on their splendid efforts andmuch credit is due the two eighthgrade teachers. Miss Griffen andMiss Stowe, who trained them.

The proceeds of the entertain-ment will be used to purchase apiano which can be moved fromroom to room In connection withthe.music work of the classes.

"INDEPENDENTS WIN"

"Abe Debunkers" Watertown In-dependents won their first base-ball game of the season on Sundayafternoon when they defeated theNonpareils of Waterbury by a 3-2score. The game was very excitingthroughout the entire frame and thelocals did not succeed in pushingover the winning runs until the lastinning. The weather being Ideal forbaseball, gave the Independents achance to obtain- a good workoutand demonstrate to the large at-tendance that the local team wouldhave to be reckoned with the lead-ing teams in the state again thisyear. A number ot new men ap-peared In the lineup on Sunday andfrom their performance on Sundaythe missing members from last sea-son's team will not be missed. Inmost of the places the new mem-bers aptfear. to have added morestrength to the team. .

The Waterbury visitors broughtalong a bunch of good ball playerswho fought all the way and* causedthe Indies to exert all their strengthin order to be returned' the winner.Later In the season another gamewill be played between these teamsand an even better game should re-sult. . . .

The score:R H E

Nonpareils 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0—2 8 1Watertown 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 2—3 12 3

Batteries: Slattery, Briottl andHarrigan; Dunston, Miller and Cav-anorra.

HERJBERT 8MITH TO 8PEAK

.Herbert Smith, secretary of theL M* C'A. of Watcrbury. has been

secured by the Young People's dobof Christ church as speaker at theirsupper to be held next week Wednefr

Property of the Watertown Historical Society watertownhistoricalsociety.org

HUMAN

Destruction of Madaisaud's Museum in L

b Great Lou.

New York Man Is Shot at inDemonstrating Bullet-

Proof Vest

PRICELESS WAX

she m then—was a "•nrvlvof of theFrench revolution, and she nadoubt-edly owed her life to her akIU i smodeling In war. The rerolutlonarjtribunal apared ber in order that abemight make death maaka of the royal-Uta and other famous folk who fellunder the guillotine. From tbla groe-

London.—Few fires within the pastcentury have aroused auch world-wideInterest and national "consternation"as that which recently destroyed ahuge building on Marylebone road,northwest London. There was no lossof lite or hairbreadth escapes, and,although tbe financial loss exceeded aquarter of a million sterling, that fig-ure Is not so heavy as to account forspecial Interest.

The reason was that the building de*. strayed was Mme. Tunsaud'a. famed

far and wide as perhaps the most re-. markable waxworks collection to the

world. Mme. Tussaud'* waa more thana mere place of amusement the com-mercialization of the display*of wax-work figures of celebrities past andpresent;-It was a notional,Institution.

Mecca of Tourists.True, Londoners did not take any

special pride to* housing Mme. Tus-saud's; they displayed a tolerantsense of amusement that anybodyshould want to see a collection of waxeffigies, but It waa tbe mecca of "coun-try cousins" and foreign tourists vto-Itlng the metropolis.. It to safe to saythat whichever of the 'sights of Lon-don the tourist missed. It was notMme. Tussaud's. For the last halfcentury It has been part of the edu-cation of millions of Juveniles to visitMme. Tussaud's, and* there are un-doubtedly more people to the English

. provincial centers. and country dis-tricts who are familiar with the Mary-lebone Road exhibition than there arein London. Even the average Lon-doner visited It occasionally, bis chil-dren had to be taken some time orother, and he certainly had to pilotprovincial visitors there the momentthey arrived In town.

Now tbe country cousins are to de-spair, for the famoua exhibition to de-stroyed and even though the directorstalk of It rising phoenixllke from Itspyre, there to little comfort In this, formany of the exhibits cannot be re-placed, and any future display mustnecessarily consist of mere copies offamous originals.

Napoleonic Relics.Mme. Tussaud possessed one of th

' most remarkable collections of Na-poleonic relics to the world, and thesewere among tbe exhibits destroyed.They cannot be replaced and can hard-ly be copied accurately. Again manyof the wax figures were made fromcasts taken from the living and deadbodies of people who have been dustthis hundred years. The majority of(the' original casts and death maskswere destroyed by the flames and noduplicates are possible. . The loss,therefore, to Irreparable and any fu-ture Mme. Tussaud must be but aghost of the .original and will de-servedly be relegated to the position'of a local •'waxworks." designed to at-tract the coppers of neighboring ju-veniles.

It Is characteristic of public psy-chology on such matters thut the mo-ment the news spread through London,"lime. Tussaud's on fire." at about30:30 In the evening, Londoners be-came frightfully agitated over the fateof the building they had been accu*tomed to regard with semi-tolerant;seral-shamefaced amusement. Had Itbeen Buckingham palace on fire therecould not have been greater excite-ment ; Indeed perhaps not as much, forfew know anything about the Interiorof the royal palace, whllp everybody-was familiar with the contents, of thefamous waxworks.

Londoners accordingly flocked to thescene nnd displayed the most IntenseInterest In the attempts to salve theexhibits alt through the night. Fordays afterward huge pllgrimuRes weremade to the ruins—from the provincesthe disconsolate country cousins cameIn trninlonds—and everyone displayed

t> th« feeling of a national li*s.. Woman Founder.

That the private commercial enter-prise of «a' little Frenchwoman founded120 years ago'should have blossomed

, 'Into' a Britljh1 national asset IB a re-f markable tribute to the foresight and* business acumen or Its originator.

"" • Mme. Tussaud—Marie Grosbolr, as

some occupation rose the worid-f amousexhibition until recently housed toMarylebone road.

She learned modeling from heruncle, John Christopher Curtlus. asculptor, who executed numerous com-missions for Louis XVI and his court.

Curtlus originally waa a surgeon andmade wax models In connection withthe science of medicine, but from ana-tomical models he turned to completefigures, and they were of such exeel-ence that the Prince de Contl and

other patrons of art Induced him todevote himself to sculpture and model-Ing. .--..:.• ..- / . • , : - • . • • . *-. " '.:'.,:' His niece. Marie, became even moreexpert than her tutor, and to* a wayIt might be said that she—or her a r t -was one of tbe final causes of tberevolution. When Louts XVI appoint-ed the bated Foulon to succeed tbebeloved Necker there was commotion,and an excited orator suggested, car-ry tog busts of Necker and PhilippeEgallte through the streets In triumph,to show their disapproval of the king'saction.

Started Revolution.The only busts available were those

to Curtius* museum to the Boulevarddu Temple.,,They were the work ofthe future Mme. Tussaud, and In the

demonstration there was thebloodshed which started the revolu-tion.

Marie's connection with tbe courtled to her Imprisonment after tbestorming of the Bastille, and she wasplaced to the aame prison as Mme. deBeauharnato. who afterward becametbe wife of Napoleon, thus establish-ing her friendly relationship with tbe"Great Shadow of Europe."

The Jacobins remembered ber skillat modeling and called upon ber totake death masks of the king, MarieAntoinette, Charlotte Corday, MaratRobespierre and other victims of theterrible engine of M. Gulllotln. Bermost awful task was taking a cast ofthe mangled remains of tbe princessde Lamballe, and this she was com-pelled to perform under threat ofdeath.

Napoleon, on becoming first consul,remembered his wife's prison compan-ion and before leaving for Egypt hecommissioned her to take his maskfor Josephine. But the revolution hor-rors bad sickened Mme. Tussaud—she

Eddie Savoy, seventy-year-old Ststedepartment messenger, who has heldhis post there at the door .of tbe sec-retary of atate stoce 1869, when Ham-ilton Fish was secretary. will remaintwo years longer at tbe request ofSecretary of State Kellogg. "I thinkthat you and I can get along verywell several years more In running theState department," waa the way Mr.Kellogg made' the announcement toEddie that be waa not to be retiredat this time. s • ' .«

"We nave a special rate for pollcs-men—that's all."

"No, rm not a policeman, rm inbusiness for myself—tbe real

•ays the company's"Look bare,representative. "We have to be care-ful to whom these vests go.

New York.—Tbe Job of bunun tar-get is one of tbe latest on New York'soccupational l ist In the last sixmonths Alva Jacobson has been shotat at least 1.000 times, demonstrating

ally decided to Increase this by takingIn models and relics of famous Britishcriminals and groups depleting theircrimes and execution. ,

had married Tussaud In 1704. but sep-arated from him later—of her nativecountry and she obtained Napoleon'spermission to move to England in1802. taking with her her collection ofmitdels und original death masks. Atthe old Lyceum theater, London (thenknown as the English Opera house),she opened her first exhibition and.after a year, she toured the province*continuing to travel for many yearsthrough all! parts of tbe kingdom.

Once a Novelty."Waxworks" In those days were a

novelty, and no Imitators had such ar-tistic models or gruesomely authenticrelics. us the little Frenchwoman.Hence she prospered amazingly. Final-ly she decided to make a permanenthome for her exhibition, now tremen-dously enlarged.'In London and, she'ound headquarters at the Portmanrooms, Baker street. In 1833. It wasnot until 1884 that the exhibition wastransferred to the handsome red-brickbuilding on Murylebone road, whichhas Just been destroyed..

The secret of Mme. Tussaud's suc-cess was that she always kept hercollection up to date.

The "Chamber of Horrors," whichwas long one of the most popular fea-.lures of the exhibition, was really thebasis of Mme. Tussaud's original collection. Much had been heard In England of the horrors of "The Terror"and Mme. Tussaud could supply firsthand infrrntotion. She could construct«ox models of famous scenes and alsoshe had the actual death masks omany of the lending victims.

As she added to her collection olliving celebrities, so the original col'lection of Revolution relics became ason of side show, though she eventu

MorbidAt that period there was a strong

morbid intereat In crime, and a modelof the latest, murderer, with, perhaps,the actual rope wherewith be ex-plated bis crime on tbe scaffold, al-ways was an attraction. Mme. Tus-saud'was commercial enough to ap-preciate this, but she always aimedto make her exhibition artistic andsomething more than a chronology ofhorrors for the morbid-minded.

She died In 1850, at the age ofninety, leaving two sons, Francis andJoseph, who carried on the exhibitionand enlarged It continually along thelines laid down by the founder. Thepresent director to her great-grand-son, John Theodore Tussnud. Almostup to the day of her death the littleFrenchwoman used to sit at the paydesk and take the money of her pa-trons, und one of the best models Inthe building Just destroyed by firewas that of the.founder of the exhibi-tion, seated, at her, pay desk, attiredIn the quaint black.bonnet and earlyVictorian costume. So lifelike was Itthat many visitors took It for tbe liv-ing original.

Another of the most lifelike of themodels.at the exhibition was that of

ordinary policeman In uniform,which stood In a doorway, apparentlyfor the purpose of offering advice tovisitors. So human did the effigy ap-pear that it was a standing joke forthe wiseacre at Mme. Tussaud's to di-rect an unsuspecting country cousinto "ask the policeman." Countlessvisitors have fallen Into the trap andaccosted the waxen policeman In theorthodox manner, while countlessswarms of Ipow-nlls stood by tochuckle over the questioner's dtocom-

Humorous Incidents.During the fire there were many hu-

morous Incidents, as the ever-Increas-ing crowds of Londoners, despite theircustomary amused contempt for the

waxworks." all had their favorite fig-ures which they wanted rescued."Don't forget the policeman" (refer-rlriir to the figure mentioned above)

tha bullet-proof vest. He thlnka nomore now of standing up before gun-fire than if he were watching a pyro-tecbnlcal display, and he coolly kicksaway tbe flattened bullet that falls atbis feet One day he went Into anarmor corporation's office looking fora Job as a trained mechanic He waatold to slip on tbe vest A man In theoffice picked up a revolver.

"K I had been deaf and blind Iwouldn't have known that he shot"said Jacobson.' "I couldn't feel It anymore than I would if some one Justtouched me where the bullet nit"

Jacobson got the job, and ever sincebe has been getting, bullets la thechest He Is hardened In the targetgame. Other men In the organisationare of the same mind. They cheerful-ly lay.down their tools to take partIn a demonstration and face .45-callberrevolvers on a mechanic's pay.

Live Model Necessary.s A live model Is tbe, only thing that

will work In; this business, officials, ex-plain. A selling campaign was - re-cently put on In Mexico, but the gen-eral .before whom the exhibition wasmade would not bear of using a manfor the test He Insisted on havingthe armor hung over tbe back of, achair, and tbe bullet went straightthrough the thin steel plates. The vesthad failed. It was said. But later,when the general agreed to watch ahuman target he changed his mind.

"It Is not the armor Itself that stopsthe bullet" explained the chief of thecompany's metallurgical division. "Tbeplate beneath the.cloth of the vest lahardly thicker than a razor blade.The vest Is so constructed that whenthe bullet hits the plates Its vibrationsare distributed through the body andtheir force Is lost. All the harm. Itdoes Is to tear tbe cloth. The touch ofyour finger may stop the vibrations ofa bell and you feel no effects. In thesiime way the body behind the platescan absorb the shock from a bulletthat would knock a horse off Its feet"

The vest looks much like.any other.It Is made In any' size ordered, andwhen the wearer gets It on, the ordl-

meanswouldn't look so weU If one of thesevests were found floating out beyondtbe 12-mlle limit would It, nowr

"Soull be all right" Is tbe"I want them for «xportH

The company's men tells the custom-er to mall In his order, with bis pis-tol permit number, filled In at the bot-tom. The chances are the man will'not be beard from again.* It to against the rule to sell vests to

any one who has no pistol permit butthis has not kept them from playingtheir part In the Chinese tong wars.

Herrin," III., and tbe mining towns ofWest Virginia have furnished muchtrade for the new vests, and as manyas 8.000 have been snipped at one timefor army use In some foreign land. Aspecial vest has been devised for bankmessengers and those who carry pay-rolls. It has a safety-deposit vault In-side and to locked to the messenger'sbody; so that bis assailants, to get theirloot, must stop to cut tbe metal vestfrom their victim's form.

Tbe painted ear Is the newest fadfrom i S n c e . The model to shownapplying^ cos* of rouge In compli-ance with the latest hints from Pari-sian beauty parlors.

Gold Miners -Set RecordOttawa; Ont—Gold production of

Canada shattered all previous recordslast year, exceeding the peak output of1828 by 860.000 ounces, according to areport Issued by the Dominion bureauof statistics.

The total 1024 production wasI£29j000 ounces, valued at S8UB2.U0&

To HuntRegion by Plane

nary observer would' not notice thatlie was differently clad from othermen.' The company has no fear infiring at Its men to show police, bankand army officials how the suit ofarmor works. It Is much more con-cerned that Its vests should not fallInto the hands of those who ought totake their chances at getting shot!

Not Easy to QetNo sooner bad the safety vest ap-

peared on the market than bootleggersIn particular believed they had a"find."

"I'd like to buy one of those vests,"says a. stranger.

"Are you a policeman T' he Is asked."What difference does (hat make7"

Ponald MacMUlan to HeadExpedition to Map Vast

Frozen Expanse.Washington.—Naval aircraft will'.**,

tempt this summer to bridge the vastIce expanse that has so for shut outfrom human knowledge great regionsof the Arctic, where a predicted con-tinent baa long lured the toilsome ef-fort of man by sledge without an an-awer to hta guess. . .^

In an expedition headed by Donalda MacMUlan, seasoned wayfarer ofthe nortblnnd, who to returning thereon his ninth voyage of explorationnext June, naval pilots will bring theircraft to the furthering of man's strug-gle to map tbe mysteries of an area ofmore than a million square miles lyingbetween Alaska and the North pole.

Indorsed by CoolldgeAlthough not a government project

tbe plan has been approved, by'Secre-tary Wilbur and Indorsed by PresidentCoolldge, and also will have both thefinancial and wlentlflc backing of theNational Geographic society.

As It Is a private project and differsIn this respect from tbe scheme aban-doned last year for a polar expeditionwith the dirigible Shenandoah. thenaval pilots who will accompany theexpedition will have an extended leavefor the purpose.

Horizontal and Vertical lines

v as a constant instruction giventhe overworked firemen, and to theloy of everybody the "policeman" wassaved, little the worse for wea»\

Ihe "Chamber of Horrors." being Ina downstairs compartment came offbest—"The devil looks after his own,"as a grimed fireman said.

John Theodore Tussaud. present di-rector of the company operating theexhibition, who was one of the firstsummoned to the scene of tbe fire,spent agonized days rooting among theruins and could find no words to ex-press bis grief. "It Is terrible. A na-tional calamity," be said.—New lorkWorld.

So Numerous and InaccessibleThsy T la t No Census Has

Ever Been-Taken.

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Montevideo.—In a" report onIndians of South America,by a commission headed by DrHam I. Haven, secretary of the Ameri-can Bible society, for presentation tothe Congress on Christian Work InSouth America. It was declared thatthere are between S.UHU.UU0 and 10.-UU0.U00 Indinns in South America whohave never been "reached by the isospe'or by modern civilization. So numer-ous and 8" Inaccessible are these peo-ple that no CMMUS of them ever hasbffli taken. ' , , ' ' -, . t-

: .-:The -e|n<rt" pnln»«'mit that some at-

tempt hiis iHH-n nt irte I" " si" In therlilllziitiiui mil 11 riMl iiii/Ins nf theseIndians by gnvi-riiim-nts und by ""meof the e»rl» •••••» urn irks or the Cain,ollc cliunh

Governments have assisted some-what In agriculture, and the early mis-sionaries did some work In translation.In education and In religious work.Evangelical missionaries have taughtand preached among some tribes In thehighlands of Bolivia In the PeruvianAndes. In the southern part of Chileand Paraguay, and to BrarlL

••But on the whole," says the re-port, "almost nothing has been done,at least to an organized, systematic/comprehensive way. and the peopleare living feebly and like a stagnantstream, tilling the soil, fishing In thestreunV hunting to the forest bymethods that have not. changed" forcenturies.' Disease, pestilential fevers,bites of Insects and exposure^all 'prey-upon them Their minds are full ofthe superstitions of pugnn peoples,rearing the presence of spirits In allthe mysterious operations of nature,tew realise the great burden of fear

which lies like a pall on such un-tutored minds."

The report points out that since theIndian It largely an agriculturist, any,effort to approach him along agricul-tural lines at once establishes a vitalpoint of contact During recent years,however, the great cry of the IndiansIn tlielr appeals to missionaries ha*been "Give us schools, come teach ourchildren." Where there to such a keendesire for education, the report says,such work cannot fall to be an effectlve means of approach.

The only mountain zebra to live after being born In captMt*h f Ne lork to shown wltli h

The only mountain zebra to live after being bo p * ^tie 29llow. named for the governor of New lork, to shown wltli his motherand tbe keeper of the Bronx zoo.

Of these Commander R. F. Byrd willbe one, while there will be St least twoothers along with two or three me-chanics, still to be chosen from botnthe navy and marine corps.

Commander Byrd wUI be In charge)f all flight operations. Two planes ofthe Loenlng amphibian type will besupplied, having a cruising range ofmore than 1220 miles an hour.

In charting the unknown regions, aswell as participating In the manyother scientific undertakings projected.Including and ascertaining high alti-tude, temperature and taking weatherobservations. Mr. MacMUlan believesmore can be accomplished 'with theplanes In the two months planned forthe expedition than has been done Inhe last century.

Expedition 8tarts June 16.Leaving Wlscasset, Me^ about June

IS, on a vessel already chartered, tbeexpedition will make Its way along tbeLabrador and Greenland coasts up toAxel Helburg Land, at the northernpoint of which, probably 200 milesfrom where the ship will station, anattempt will be made to establish anadvance flying base.

From there planes will venture overthe unknown regions to the northwestIn an effort to determine whether acontinent or land In any form existsthere. Tbe most Important aspect ofthis question Is the probability thatsuch land ultimately could be utilisedfor aircraft basea to flight routes fromEurope to Asia.

Explorations of the ancient Noneruins In Labrador and Greenland, re-covery of the records which Peary leftat Cape Columbia before the final, dashfrom there to the pole and extensiveradio experiments, for which EugeneF. McDonald. Jr. president of the Na-tiopal Association of Broadcasters, ofChicago will accompany the expedi-tion, are among the other undertakingsprojected. -

Idle Mail Box TrapsPartridge in Winter

Wlnsted, Conn.—A steel mail boxfastened ,to a hemlock tree at HighlandLake, a summer resort, trapped andkilled a full grown partridge laat win-ter. The bird waa found In the mallbox when the cover waa lifted. Thebox had pot been used for other thancold-storage purposes since lost fall,as the B. F. D. carrier doesn't travelthat way to winter. High winds, It Isbelieved, blew down tbe steel lid Im-prisoning the bird to Its novel winterhome.

MILLI GOLD AND SILVER TROWELSfirst trowel to used again to reinvokehe blessing It seemed to have be-

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Straight Line of TwinsThrough Four Generations

• New York.—Mrs. Frances Cain ofBrooklyn gave birth to a healthy babyboy - one ddy _ recently. , Twenty-fourhours later, she gave birth to anotherboy—twins.": ." '"""'! , ; */" '.* Mrs. Cain Is herself a twin " Her

mother, Mrs. Theresu Hruemch, was

Implements Used at Cornerstone Lay-Infl and In Turning First Soda .

Hoarded aa Souvenirs. ,

v e w York.—What becomes of goldtrowels after use at cornerstone taf-togs, or of silver picks and shovelsafter being used to break ground torsome new fane or public work? These«mmemoratlve tools almost l^artably£ d up to the archives or strong rooms.»f the Institutions concerned, where"hey are carefully preserved, say man-ufacturtn* Jewelers h " * * " ; * *

i inceufacturtn* Jewees ;tions arising since Mayor Hylan

d i l e r to turn theused silver to' b w a

turn the firstd l v I r t o n-

ulso one of twligrandmother. Kthe line of twin

Mrs Cain'sgenerations

an unbroken.

Jewelers say these Implements de^ u l d scarcely be thrown aside,oVmelted up again, their material andartistic, as well as sentimental value,iieins too high.

A gold trowel for all It has but afew brief momenta of actual use. coat*

as much as SLJSOO, according to theprice lists. Silver trowels command$150; silver-plated, ISO. A pick orshovel fashioned out of solid silverwould stand any committee on openingday arrangements a good 1800; evena plated tool costs $150.

Though tbe metal Itself might be re-claimed, jewelers say, not so the artwork tbe best of these souvenirs rep-resent The chased work and engrav-ing, the latter giving names of dig-nitaries and an Inscription of theevent, reveal workmanship of a highorder and would make them prisedamoflg collectors. .

As proof of sentimental worth, Jewelws report that gold trowels used atlaying,of cornerstones Tof churches areusually placed,afterward -with; the oldcommunion seta:' Sometimes. In eases•if eKtHhltohments which outgrow afirst expansion and have occasion tosuleuinUe a second cornerstone, the

Girl, 19, Walk. 450 Miles \to Rejoin Her Husband

San Francisco.—Walking all the wayfrom Los Angeles to San Francisco,,more, than 400 miles, to rejoin her bus*band of a year, Mrs. Mildred Gusuv-g,son. nineteen, was arrested here for ^vagrancy as she waa waiting at the'dock, scanning every man to uniformwho passed. . Her husband to CliffordGustavson. second-class carpenter'smate aboard the U. a 8. Mississippi:When tbe young woman told her story)to Police Judge Jacks tb<» case waadismissed and she waa commended byVthe court for ber loyalty and COBM tistancy. ' ' / - 1 ." ' •"(!*"

Two-Headed SnakeOakland, Cal.—A milk 1 snake

two' distinct heads was caught,Mount Diablo by a cattle herdercently. The reptile la on exhibition si(the University of California museumij

Property of the Watertown Historical Society watertownhistoricalsociety.org

m BRIDGE

Wfark Begun at Capital onMagnificent StructureAcross Potomac • •

By JOHN DICKINSON 8HERMANASHINGTON, the capital of theUnited States, is to have the mostimpressive approach of any cityof the earth by way of Mount Ver-non and Arlington. It will taketen years to build It and it willcost approximately $15,000,000.Moreover the project will presum-ably give the necessary impetus toother plans for the Improvementand beautifying of the capital. SoIt seems likely that the vision ofGeorge Washington and Major

L'Enfnnt Is to come true after these mafly years.Congress In the closing days of the last .session

authorized the beginning of work on an improve-ment project commonly called the Arlington Me-

11 mortal bridge. The,act; contains provisions in ef-fect as follows:

The Arlington Memorial Bridge commission Isauthorized and directed to proceed at once withthe construction of a memorial bridge across thePotomac river from the vicinity of the Lincoln

' Memorial In the city of Washington to an appropri-ate point In the State of Virginia, including appropri-ate approaches, roads, streets, boulevards, avenuesand walks leading thereto on both sides, of saidriver, together with the landscape features apper-taining thereto, all In accordance with the design,

; surveys, and estimates.of cost transmitted by saidcommission to congress under date of April 22,1824.

Construction shall be entered upon as speedilyas practicable, and shall be prosecuted to .comple-tion by contracts or otherwise as may be most eco-nomical and advantageous to the government In atotal sum not to exceed $14,750,000, which sum Isauthorized to be appropriated.

The commission.Is authorized to occupy suchgovernment-owned lands as may be necessary. ItIs authorized to procure, by purchase or by con-demnation, such privately owned lands as. may henecessary for approaches on the Virginia shoreand to allow B street NW., Washington, to beopened up from the Capitol to the Potomac river.During Its passage the bill was amended so thatthe District of Columbia bears an "equitable" shareof the expense. An Initial appropriation of $500,000was made.

Work has been begun on the project of whichthe Memorial bridge Is only one of the features.Other features may be thus outlined:

Widening B street east from the Lincoln Me-morial to the Capitol, crossing Pennsylvania ave-nue to the north side of the Capitol, cleaning outthe unsightly shacks and providing a governmentalboulevard from the Capitol for corteges across thenew memorial bridge. to: Arlington National ceme-tery.

Widening Twenty-third street at right anglesfrom B street, north from the Lincoln Memorialto Washington Circle, as the most important northand south route for the entire northwest sectionof the city to the Lincoln Memorial and across thememorinl bridge to Arlington. ,

Development of Columbia island, reclaimed bydredging operations, along which there will be aboulevard drive at right angles to the memorialbridge, connecting across an auxiliary bridge with:the Lee highway. ' °

Erection of the Titanic and John Ericsson me-morials equidistant from the entrance to the bridgefrom B street, on either side and on the water-front, thus flanking the bridge and beautifying theentrance to the capital from the South.

Continuing the development of the river driveand parkway weBt of the Lincoln Memorial andlinking the Rock Creek, and Potomac parkways,with the river drive moved closer to the river.

Creating a great plaza between the Lincoln Me-morial and' the bridge, Including an attractive wa-ter gate fronting the Lincoln Memorial.

A beautiful plaza and park from the southernend of the bridge on Columbia, island to and in-cluding the entrance to Arlington.'

Sentimentally, there Is a symbol of the bindingtogether of the North and South In the Union; ThePotomac river. In 1861-4 was the dividing .line be-tween the Union and Confederate states and Lin-coln In the White Bouse often saw the Stars andBars waving' defiantly on the Virginia shore.•r The Immediate effect of the hew bridge upon thaMall development Is the completion of the area.,around and to the west of^the Llnijoln Memorial : :by Lieut Col. Clarence O. Sherrill. the engineerofficer In Immediate charge of the entire project.

The Titanic Memorial will rise at the foot ofNew Hampshire avenue at the Junction of RockGreek and Potomac parkways. This memorial Is

to the'heroes of the Titanic disaster—the men whostood back saying, "Women and chUdren first."This means the early cleaning up of an unsightlyarea. East of the bridge site at the Intersectionof Twenty-third and B streets south, at the south-west corner of the Mall, will be the John EricssonMemorial, now under way.

In the fourth year of the bridge-building pro-gram, when the arches and superstructure havebeen finished, and the draw span Installed, workwill be begun on the plaza between the LincolnMemorial and the Memorial bridge and the watergate at the Lincoln Memorial. In the fifth yearthe program calls for ornamentation of the mainbridge and the twin bridge over the boundary chan-nel. During the following five years the wideningand developing of B and Twenty-third streets willbe carried out.

The Memorial Bridge will be of granite facing.In order not to Interfere with the view of the Lin-coln Memorial as seen from Columbia Island, thebridge has been kept as low as possible. It hasnine segmental arches, the center span being 184feet long, and the length of the span decreasinggradually each way toward the shore, so that theend spans are 166 feet The bridge Is to be 2.138feet long between the terminal pylons. The road-way Is 00 feet and each of the two sidewalks 15feet wide, making a total width of 90 feet Thearchitecture has been kept as simple and severeas possible, the structure mainly depending for itsbeauty upon the perfection of Its general propor-tions and Its adornment with significant sculpturalpieces. The central arch of the bridge will be adraw span of steel, painted white. Dredging willchange the channel of the Potomac to correspond.The bridge should be completed by 1920. Thebridge will cost $7,250,000; the Lincoln Memorialplaza and water gate, $1,000,000; Columbia Island,$2,800,000; the Virginia terminus plaza, $1,390,000;extension and widening of B street, $2,070,000, andwidening of Twenty-third street, $160,000.

On Fame'* eternal camping groundTheir silent tents are spread.

And Glory guards, with solemn round.The blvouao of.tha dead.

Nor shall your glory be forgotWhile Fame her record keeps,Or Honor points the hallowed spotWHere Valor proudly sleeps. '

Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight.Nor Time's remorseless doom,

Shall dim one ray of glory's light . 'That gilds your deathless tomb.

In Arlington National cemetery, one of the great -shrines of the nation to be served by the Memorialbridge, you will find Iron tablets bearing lines orstanzaB from Col. Theodore O'Hara's famous poemwhich no well expresses the purpose of the place.It is in very truth a national cemetery. , Andmany are the famous dead who rest "where Valorproudly sleeps." In striking contrast to the me-morial stones-of such as Sheridan and Porter andCrook rises the great granite memorial to the "Un-known Dead"—2,111 soldiers of the Civil war,from Bull Run to the Rappahannock. There alsoIs the "Maine Memorial."

The Arlington Amphitheater, dedicated in 1920and planned to hold the great gatherings of Me-

. mortal Day, Armistice Day and the like, Is worthyof the place. One feels to the core of his beingthe lmpresslveness that comes from quality ma-terial, entire simplicity and perfect proportions.

In front of it is the tomb of the "Unknown Sol-dier." Standing there, the emotions of the goodAmerican cannot be put Into words.

And, oh! the view from It of Washington, thecapital of the country for which this "UnknownSoldier" gave.hu life! Below and.beyond lie thesmiling, country-side, then-the shining Potomacthen the Capital City. To the left across the riverla seen the.Lincoln Memorial, where the MemorialBridge will start. Toward the center rises theWashington Monument and to the right of thatthe dome of the Capitol.

Restoration of the Washington-Lee Mansion is

a part of the general plan. The estate of 1,160acres, which is now the Arlington Notional Ceme-tery, was bought and laid out In the Eighteenthcentury by John Custls, a "F. F. V." from theeastern shore. HIS son, Daniel Parke Custls, mar-ried Martha Dnndrlge, the Belle of WIHIamsburgand when old Custls died the young couple movedIn. Daniel soon died, leaving Martha a youngwidow, with two children, John Parke and EleanorCustls. Along came an Impressive young colonialcolonel, George Washington, who lived only fifteenmiles away. He carried off the rich widow as abride to Mount Vernon. • Together they managedthe Arlington estate. The daughter* died but theson grew to manhood, received his noble estate,married a Calvert and served on his stepfather'sstaff during the Revolution. He died in 1781 andhis two infant children were adopted by the.Wash-Ingtons, keeping their own names. Nelly marriedMaJ. Lawrence Lewis, a Virginian.

Her brother, George Washington Parke Custls.Inherited Arlington in due time and began theerection of the Mansion. Washington never sawthe completed Mansion, which was not finisheduntil 1803. Custls married Mary Lee Fltzhugh,one of the Randolphs. She died In 1853 and herhusband, the last male of the family, in 1857. TheArlington estate then fell to the daughter, Mary,who in the meantime had married a young armyofficer, Robert E. Lee, son of "Llghtborse Harry"Lee, the dashing cavalryman of the Revolution.Thus Arlington became the home of the Lees.

Then the Civil war came and Lee went withVirginia out of the Union. He left Arlington Just

, as it was.' Federal troops took possession—andmost of the objects of historical value are now Inthe National museum. Arlington could not be con-fiscated because entailed by the first Custis, butunder the pretext of nonpayment of taxes theUnited States government bought It in for $23,000and established the National cemetery In 1864.When, several years after the Civil war, G. W.Custls Lee Inherited the estate, he successfullycontested In the courts the legality or the tax-sale, but at once transferred his restored rights tothe government for $150,000, which was paid himIn 1884.

Such a bridge has been advocated for over eightyyears by the nation's leaders. Daniel Webster de-clared, as orator upon the occasion of laying thecorner stone for extension of the Capitol, July 4.1861:* "Before us Is the broad anil beautiful river, sep-

arating two of the original 13 states, which a latePresident, a man (of determined purpose and In-flexible will, but patriotic heart, desired to spanwith arches of ever-enduring granite, symbolic ofthe firmly established union of the North and theSouth. That President was General Jackson."

Under President Harding the commission adopt-ed specifications which were given to the archi-tects. - Last spring President Coolldge transmittedto congress the commission's report- and recom-menced that the work be begun without' delay.

The good American, visiting the. capital for thefirst time gasps with amazement and then snortshi disgust upon beholding Pennsylvania avenue Inthe immediate vicinity of the Capitol grounds.Probably no greater contrast exists in all the civ-ilized world than that between the last block ofWashington's most famous avenue which ends atthe steps to the CapltoL Tawdry booths line thestreet And past this go: the great national pro-cessions from the Capitol to the National Ceme-tery at Arlington.

On the Chinampas Canal, Near Mexjco City.

G(rrapared By th« National OMcrmpble So-

ctoty. Wuhlncton. D. C.)NE of the pleasurable experi-ence* among those that delightthe traveler In Mexico Is avisit to |he home of the Aztec

lake dwellers. Much of the charm ofthe great Valley of Mexico, where theylive, is due to the stretches of wateramong)the trees and verdant fields Ina landscape framed in beautiful moun-tains and bathed with clearest air ofheaven." * " \ • " . \

Their lakes—Texcoco,Xochlmllco,Zumpango and Chalco—do not revealthemselves except from the high moun-tains encircling the valley. They aresbaljow bodies of water In the midstof extensive marshes, unapproachable,and lacking the effect of our lakeswith their definite shore-lines. Forthis reason they have never been high-ways of civilized commerce, nor hasnavigation flourished in their shallowwaters; but they were from these veryhindrances * destined to be Jealousmothers of ancient and remarkablestates, whose people, protected In thefens, dug out canals and developed anIndigenous' commerce and transporta-tion to the fullest extent

They were tor modern,man a con-stant , menace during seasons of floodand have required enormous engineer-Ing works to keep them In bounds. Thefirst of these, never of great value, wasbegun some 300 years ago, and existsat the present time as a gigantic ditchover 18 miles long, 197 feet deep, and861 feet wide, dug by the patient laborof Impressed Indians, and called theTajo de Nochlstongo. The latest un-dertaking is a canal connecting thethree lakes and leading their watersout of the valley by a tunnel throughthe eastern mountains. This splendidpiece of engineering, completed some

vistas of a hew world. On this canal,bordered with trees and spanned byquaint bridges. Is a perfect stream ofcraft, from ' the slender dugoutchnloupe to the square-bowed flatboat,hurrying on with everything to feed,repair, and adorn the great city.

The" Indian boatmen, clad In white .cotton shirts and trousers, are workingwith a', will, soroetlmefj, wading In thecanal and drawing the heavy-ladenboats after then; and alas! returningto their paradise.• a. woman piloting,her husband who la the worse forpulque.

Pictures Along the Canal.

There are pictures and pictures In-numerable, full of human Interest andcheckered with a marvelous play oflight shadow, and reflection, as wepass by the gardens and openings ofthe larger and smaller canals. Hereare embarkings and arrivals loading,unloading, and preparing to lay by forthe night In a snug slip near where,thatched houses play bide and seek Inthe luxuriant foliage; here a group ofenergetic washerwomen by the watermargin, and there clouds of white orgaudy much-belabored clothes on thebushes. No secrets are here; all goeson with the pulsing, urging force oflabor freely and openly before men.

One remembers gardeners and gar-dens In the sunny flower and vegetableplots and children peeping out on thecanal highway from under umbrageoustrees. Flotsam, and Jetsam In thecanal are vagrant bulbs and flowers ofwater hyacinth, a wicked, beautifulplant, whose reproductlvlty makesmen work to keep It down, but here It'has met its natch and is made to beuseful. Bridges there are, and mostquaint, like that perfect arch of IxH-calco, under which white geese

Representative Charles. L. Underbill of Massa-. cbusetts, a member, of the house district commit-tee; has Introduced a bill authorizing an appropri-ation of $15,000,000 for the purchase by the gov-ernment of all the land It requires for completeownership, of the Mall site,* and this Includes toeunsightly squares on Pennsylvania nvpnoe. ° ' ', When the project Is completed, America willhave executed what President Coolldge has de-scribed as "the greatest single memorial projectundertaken by any nation in recent times."

years ago, effectually controls theheights of the water In the lakes andprevents Inundations.

But long before Cortes came, theIndians of the valley worked In theboggy like lands and dug. canalshither and thither—main canals be-tween the lakes and to the great cityof Tenocbtltlan and smaller canals be-tween their fields. Through this mazeof waterways, then as now, they senttheir boats and In the fens built theirthatched houses. . Historically, Cortexwar the first European boatbullder Inthe New World, when of an imperiousnecessity he launched his brigantlnes,of quaint Sixteenth century pattern.If one may believe the artists, In thereeking waters of Texcoco at the spotnear Huejutla where there is now abridge called Puente de los Bergan-tlne8. not far from the capital.

Pere Sahagun, the Franciscan, re-cords that "the City of Mexico Is likeanother Venice, and the people them*selves are comparable to the Vene-tians in urbanity and sovolr." Thiswas written in the Sixteenth century,but in the lapse of several hundredyears the city's wonderful water en-vironment has become dry ground, andthe seeker for lake dwellers will haveto look farther afield In the entrancingvalley of the sky.

In the Field of Flowers.'The way to the present Aztec Venice,

which bears the name of Xochlmllco,"In the field of flowers," Is through oneof these ancient canals—a prehistoricwater road from Tenochtitlan to thecapital and seat of one of the groupof seven Aztec tribes which long agoCame from remote Astlan to the richValley of Mexico.

The life on the canal, vivid and pic-turesque. Is as striking now as It wasthen; It may even be suspected that Vuun u v « s uo.o uno/su, uirao » wthe change from that time to this has dens may drift away should the waternot been very great It Is bard to get | rise. Even now on portions of the

to float in. the air.One feels that this panorama should

last forever, especially If he does nothave to supply the labor of locomotion.Here at this landing at Xochlmllco Itmust be realized (hat the men firstleaves of our experience, the lovelinessof the country of the lake dweller*,are Just unfolding.

The town is really built on terrafirms, as the seven churches, each wellsupplied with raucous bells, the streetsof quaint houses, and the broad lava-paved prehistoric market-place, wellattest; but the town disguises andhides vway the life of the canals andgardens, and Its attractions for thetourist are soon compassed.

We turn Into a narrow lane leadingaway from the formal streets andemerge Into an Indian dooryard, andwithin a few feet of us Is'.the maincanal with Its boats and floating waterplants. The Inhabitants of this littlehouse group Into which we have comeas from another sphere are Interestedand friendly and ready to visit

Making a Floating Garden.It Is interesting to see lake dwellers

constructing a "floating" garden, andone Is carried back without effort sev-eral centuries into the past From the -canals the busy Aztecs throw greatmasses of water hyacinth upon thestrip of bog to the thickness of a footor more. The water hyacinth, whichunfortunately does not fit Into toeancient picture, is provided with largecellular floats—a natural provision forits dissemination, which has made It *an obstruction to navigation In somerivers of southern United States.' Upon this bed of floats they spreada layer of muck, dredged from the bot-tom of the canals.' Perhaps before theplant floats have decayed, these

'I,a start to the land of the fens In moreways than one—the. negotiations forpassage In a barge with boatmen whodisplay the characteristics ofthat tribeknown the world over; and the con-flicting claims also of all the costumes,Incidents, shipping, and so forth, ofthe boiling, squirming kaleidoscopiccanal and shore population on its mul-tifarious qoeits bewilder the beholderand make him, forget that he Is on aJourney to see the, lake;_ dwellers. Intheir.primitive homes.;'Tardily, then,the barge comes Into the clear pool Infront of the medieval.' toll-gate fort-ress, where all shipping must go undera low bridge and there* the old-tine'toll collector, armed with a pike, couldthreaten the recalcitrant without mucheffort

Beyond the gateway begin more

lake square miles of vegetation coverthe surface like the "sudd" of, theNile, and the canal roads have to bestaked at the sides to keep them fromdisappearing. Great drifts of micro-scopic .vegetation cover the stagnantwater of the open lakes with a mantlelovely in color, while the bottom lacoral red from a weed that thrives Inthe water. .

The term ' "floating gardens^ wasproperly- applied•' by.the early histo-rians of. Mexico to, masses, of waterreeds covered-with a layer of rubesbearing .a :thln, layer^of sotjtfentployedby the Mexicans at a period when the'fluctuating' waters of the. lakes- pre-vented the formation of .permanent',-chlnampas, snd so In-the New Worldthe Indians repeated'the famed ' ' ''dens of the lakes, of

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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1929.

This local paper la endeavoring togive Its patrons the best service thatis possible to give anil all that thepatronage will permit. It is beingfrequently complimented on its ap-pearance and the amount and kind ofmatter it contains, and is often quoted by state papers. Our citizens canmake the local paper still more ef-fective by a more general co-opera-tion, and by paying their subscrip-tions promptly. It Is not our policyto stop sending the paper on the datethe subscription expires unless weare sure the reader desires us to doso. • • " ' • ' ' .

TE «THAMNIVCBCAirf .

Court ICerritt Hemlmray No. 4tForesters of America celebrated

ty HalL Wednesday evening* An en-tertainment of interest <was present*ed, refreshn|ents' of sandwiches,cake and coffee were served follow-ed by dancing. The evening wasmost enjoyably spent by the mem'bers <and their, friends. _

The Foresters were 'organisedApril 17, 1890 with 22 charter mem-bers nine of whom are still mem-bers of the organization. They areR. N. Deland, J. D. McGowan, M. E.Brahn, Samuel .Oxley, P. F. Minnt-han, John Holleran, E. P. McGowan,Silas-Marshall and T. F. McGowan.

The present membership is 190with every prospect'of it reachingthe 200 mark during 1924.

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SPEAKER BEFORE WOMAN'8CLUB .

One of our subscribers took us totask this week for failing, as he re-marked, to publish all, that happened.It was fortunate for this particularindividual that discretion occasional-ly demands the omission of unpleas-

. • ant items. Should we publish all thatis told to us we would be with the

£.«4 - angels In about twenty minutes afterour papers were mailed. We try toprint all items that are news, or thaiwill encourage, help or cheer any ofour citizens along life's rugged road.We all doubtless would enjoy reading"all the news" when it's about theother fellow, but our policy Is toturn over to the gossips the spread-.Ing of scandals that only leave sor-rows in their trail.

Do yon know. tbercVlot* ofSettm' sound t» eray town.Growling bice a broody dricfaen,

Rev. C. E. Wells spoke before theWoman's Club at Woodbury lastMonday afternoon, his topic havingto do with the present political an<economic conditions in Germany andother current events." After whichhe was a dinner guest and spentthe evening at. the riome of Mr.-andMrs. O. S. Freeman at North Wood-bury. • In commenting on Rev. Mr.Wells' visit to the village of thePoroperaug the Woodbury Reportersaid: "Mr. Wells' subject wastimely and interesting." • • • "Asa minister In the pulpit and as apastor, among his people Mr. Wellsis a live wire." ;

REALTY DEVELOPMENT

The whole realty market has beenadvanced by prohibition. Removal ofsaloons quickened values In manyneighborhoods. The stores vacatedby the barroom were quickly occu-pied by commercial owners. Collec-tions of rents were easier, with thefinancial drain of the saloon stopped.Slum sections practically disap-peared. Those once content with oneroom began td demand a flat;, flatowners sought larger flats; rentersbecame owners. The Increased valu-ation of New York city real estateadvanced 14,000,000,000 since prohi-bition. • '.'•••

Careful studies made by the sta-tistical departments of banks and byauto manufacturers have establishedthe claim that prohibition, is one ofthe principal, factors in the develop-ment of the automobile industry.There are over 18,000,000 motor ve-hicles registered, in the UnitedStates.

Last year our bill for autos andparts was over $3,000,000,000. Ourgasoline bill exceeded a billion dol-lars. Such expenditures would be lmpossible If we were still divertingenormous sums to alcohol. The hightechnical skill of workers, the low-ered costs of mass production, thereduction of costly Industrial acci-dents, the multiplied buying powerof the people, are directly affectedby the closing of the saloon.

MRS. ORESTUS HUBBELL

"Friend after friend departs."The entering into Eternal Rest of

Mrs. Orestus Hubbell cuts a chordthat vibrates with a tingle of start-ling regret and loss.

Her kindly, affectionate, cheerfullife was an inspiration not only toher Immediate family, but^o a hostof friends. No one could have pos-sibly known her without loving her,she made and kept friends at everyturn. Selfishness was not In herheart, she easily entered Into theexperience of others, sorrowed withthem, rejoiced with them, helpedthem bear their burdens.

It may be truly said: "She livedfor the maker and the good that shemight do." We doubt not that thedropping of the curtain of thisearthly life will be followed by thelifting of clouds that shall discloseto her spirit eyes the radiant dawn-ing of an eternal day.

"To live in the hearts of ourfriends Is not to die." Thereforeher many friends will think of her*as "just away!"

With a cheery smile and a waveof the hand, .

She has "wandered into an un-known land,

And left us dreaming how veryfair

It needs must be, since shegers there.

A FRIEND.

HORACE TAFT 8PEAKS IN FUNDCAMPAIGN

Hearmaster of Taft. School Makest > Chief Address at City

Gathering

Headmaster Horace D. Taft wasthe principal speaker in PlymouthCongregational church, Brooklyn, N.Y., last Friday night at the openingof the Brooklyn Campaign' in theinterest of the $5,000,000 Hampton-Tuskegee endowment fond. Edwin P.Maynard, president of the BrooklynTrust - company, presided, at the din-ner /for.ithe. workers preceding, th.emeeilng.'W/H.;Sco^l\rgr^iok^Henry Ward -Beecher/'wlH be~anevdithe active participants in the cam-paign

DELPHIAN PARTY A 8UCCE88

A very successful and well attend-ed tea and card party was held bythe Sleder chapter of the DelphianSociety in Community Hall on Mon-day afternoon. The tables weregayly decorated with forsythia, yel-low candles and yellow paper nap-kins. Sandwiches, cinnamon toastand tea were served.

Mrs. Harry Skllton and Mrs. Put-man held high scores In bridge and"500" • ' . • ' • •

The committee in charge inclu-ded: Mrs; W. S. Berry, chairman;Mrs. H. H. Ashenden, Mrs. E. Pot-ter, Mrs. J. L. Beach, Mrs. J; ,.S.Neagle, Mrs. Harry Atwood, Mrs.Edgar Norton, Mrs. W., R. Cook,Mrs. William Walker, Mrs. w . B .Reynolds and Mrs. H. B. McCrone.

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toe garden."This does not mean that rail-

roads or street railways Will ceaseto function. As the electric lightsdid not pot the gas companiw oatof business, so the motor coachwill not necessarily make the.steam roads or the street railwaysvalueless. I say 'necessarily' be-cause there may not be much hopefor the street railway, companywhich does not adopt motor coachtransportation. I am bullish onsteam railways because they arethe natural transporters of freight,which has always been their greatsource of income. In fact, it'is nowsort of a death bed repentance tosee these steam railroads fightingfor passenger service which theyhave stated all along was carriedat a loss. The railroads' have noth-ing to worry about If they will tendto their freight business and devel-op it and get a proper charge forcarrying it on. Many interurbanand other street railways will ul-timately become an adjunct of thesteam roads for carrying perlshabjfreight. Owing to the great * con-gestion in the freight yards of thesteam railroads, It is much morepractical to take fruit, vegetables,meats and other perishable goodsby trolley, which is practically door-to-door delivery, than by steamroads. The street railway trackin many of our cities will be usedto shunt freight cars from thesteam roads into the factories, de-partment stores, and other build-ings throughout the city. Both

ANNUAL MEETING OFFIERA

At the annual meeting of the.Sexta lera held, recently the elec-tion of officers resulted as follows:Mrs. B. Havens Heminway reelect-ed President; Mrs. John Taylor re-lected Vice-President; Mrs. Sexton

Secretary* and Treasurer; publicitycommittee, Mrs. B. C. Atwood, Mrs.

harles Weld and Mrs. Hammond-Knowlton resigned from member-ship and Mrs. Mary Woodward'sname was transferred' to • the asso-ciate members list, thereby leavingthree vacancies. Mrs. Cauley, Mrs.W. A. Bartlett and Mrs.. R,. W.. Bel-fit .were elected to fill them.

LOCAL CLUB REPRESENTED

Tlfe directorate of the Connecti-cut Girls' Clubs was held In Wailingford over the week-end, the Wai-lingford Girls Club acting as hostes-ses to girls from' Waterbury, Water-vllle, Thomaston, Derby, Meriden,New Haven, Shelton and Water-town.

A business meeting was. held Sat-urday afternoon directly after regis-tration. A banquet at St. George'sInn followed by an entertainment Inthe Girls club room completed theprogram. .

Among those who attended fromWatertown were . the; delegates:Misses Ina Atwood and Ethel Doo-'little and Mrs. H. B. McCrone, Mis-ses Dorothy Wheeler, MildredKempton, Barbara Ashenden, AliceMcGowan and Alma Atkinson fromthe Girls Club and Miss Julia Ha-belka from the Industrial Girls Club.

steam roads and up-to-date electrliroads can continue to exist, but' iiwill be through' co-operation in thedevelopment of freight,—each hand-ling what It can best handle andgetting paid a rate sufficient to takecare of the Investment.

"When it comes to passenger busi-ness," continued^Mr. Babson, "with-in the next twenty-five years 90 per-

Don't you be mat kind of cattle,''Cause they ain't no use on earth;You jest be a booster rooster,Crow and boost for aH your worm

If your town needs boostin', "boost h,Don't hold back and wait and seeIf some other fellow's willin',Sail right in, this, country's free.No one's got i mortgage on i tIt's just your"s as much as his—f your town needs boostin' boost it,

You get in the "boostin"* biz.

If: things don't seem just to suit youAnd the world seems kinder wron,7,What's the matter with a boostin',Just to help the thing along, -'Cause, if things should stop a-goin'.We'd be in a sorry, plight—You just keep that horn a-blowin',Boost her up with all your might. ,

If you see some fellow tryin'For to make the old town grow,You can boost it up a triune, ?.That's your cue to let him knowThat you're not a-goin- to knock itJust because it ain't your shout,But you're goin' to'boost a .little .And from the grouchy rut get out

THE BONFIRE FIEND.

This is the season when the headof the house volunteers as a forest-er and burns up the grass about hishome. That he is responsible forburning up so few homes along withhis front lawn is due chiefly to theefficiency of suburban fire depart-ments. In the country, where thefire departments, are -few and farbetween, he isf a menace. To smellthe aromatic odor of burning balsamon a mild April night under a fullmoon generally means that some-body's bonfire his taken to thewoods. It happens every year. Itis about time that it occurred toeverybody thai" there could be nobetter. Ume to put an end to the an-

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i twenty-five cent parking charge. The• Grand Street Parking space is convenientlyi located next to post office and right aroundI the corner from Howland-Hughes.

cent of the passengers of this coun-try will be carried either by motorcoach or by air. • We are fast ap-proaching the time when we willreach a peak In the number of peo-ple carried on the rails. When thispeak 1B finally reached the declinewill be very rapid. : . \

"Now the motor coach businessbelongs to the street railways andnot to the steam railways. Thesteam roads built private rights ofway and should be protected onthese rights of way, but the streetrailways spent money on streetwidening, paving, and are entitledto the motor coach business. For therailroads to attempt to say that thepublic should not have the use ofmotor coaches between Lowell andBoston seems to me to be absolute-ly ridiculous. Furthermore, if sucha motor coach business is to be de-veloped, the street railways whichheretofore operated electric cars onsuch routes should have the fran-chise to do the motor coach busi-ness. Any other decision would beabsolutely unfair, and I believe thecourts would look upon the sameas a confiscation of the street rail-way company's business. If oursteam railroads are wise, they willbuild up their freight business endstudy the possibilities of air trans-portation Instead Of fussing withsuch motor coach transportation aslogically belongs to the street rail-ways.'

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHNIGHT

A large number were present atthe Church night supper in the Con-

regational chapel last Wednesdayevening, when an excellent repastwas served by'members of the Suifrday school. Following the devotionalservice, the Rev. E. B. Haines ofThomaston spoke pointedly and con-vincingly on the subject, "Why Goto Church." .'

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Statistician Sees Mode of TiavelRevolutionized During Next

Quarter Century

"Wilthtmt donbt busses have cometo stay,," says Roger W. Babson, thestatistician, "The motor coach Isfast becoming a definite and'logicallink in our transportation systems,both urban and interurban. Forrailroads, street railways or aristo-cratic communities to attempt tostop' the. development of .motorcoach travel, Is like attempting, tosweep-back.the ocean with a broom.Efficiency, comfort and speed are•all in favor of the-r-mot6r/coach' orbus; as it is "commonly called^ and

•thetsooner communities JreaUie it,the better for all concerned. Whena stream of water la dashing down.

MISPLACED CREDIT

The Editor and Publisher, thetrade organ, of the newspaper fra-ternity, in its instinctive generositypays The New York; World andThe New York American a. compli-ment which we should hardly defineas such. It gives them credit for anact of newspaper taste the failureto exercise which would have beena /gross unkindness and Injustice.

These newspapers became inter-ested in ferreting out the familybackground of Gerald Chapman, themanufactured super criminal ofmodern times, who is confined at theWethersfleld prison under sentenceof death. The reporters assigned tothe job were successful. They dis-covered the existence of a brotherand sister and their names, and re-ported the facts to the city editors.Says the Editor and Publisher incommenting on this state of affairs:"The editorial management of TheWorld decided that no good wouldcome from the publication of. thefamily names. The brother livedwith his wife and five children in apleasant suburb and enjoyed the es-teem of his neighbors. Publicationof the identity of these people wouldmerely inflict upon them wholly un-deserved ignominy, and The Worldsuppressed the names. The NewYork American got the same infor-mation and? suppressed It for thesame reason. Here is evidence ofprogress.". If this constitutes progress in 'themanagement of a newspaper, we donot know what progress 1B. Had thenames, of these innocent people beenprinted. and made to share in thedisgrace - brought -.upon Vthe. familynameiv'itj would'ihkye^been"; an;-_;but-raKeous use of type'and ink; a crimeagainst public decency.—New HavenJournal-Courier.

FOB SALE AT>WATERTOWN

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To realize the advantage of prompt,intelligent, personal banking Service, youshould have an account with this Bank,where a standard of efficiency is alwaysmaintained.

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< Continued from Page One)Saving in handling coats was a

large factor in' the determinationto 'have a mill of their own but, astill more Important factor was thequality of the product. The Ex-change la endeavoring' to furnishIts 14.000 tamer members grainrations which fit their needs'and tohave these rations of uniform qual-ity. The leaders believe that, it •willbe much easier to maintain uniformquality in a mill'under their controlthan under the plan of buying fromof the cooperative organisationa privately owned mill. . ••

The Exchange has been runningeight years and has built up'a busi-ness of-more than 100,000 tons ofgrain and 12,000 tons of fertilizer:The plan of operation Is strictly co-operative. Orders are assembled bymembers in communities and bycounties, and shipments are madeIn carload lots to the most conven-ient distribution stations. At thesestations the farmers get their grainor fertiliser and pay cash. There,are no holding charges or bad billsto be provided for. In a few in-stances* the business is handled fora considerable area by residentagents of the organization or countyexchange but in general it Is hand-led by farmers who serve as localagents for one or more towns.

WOODBURY NEWSMany Woocaury families have had

apples for use all winter that camefrom sprayed orchards in the towncf Bethlehem. The farmer .who neg-lects to spray needn't expect to makefault pay.

The Rev. Clarence Elmore Wells,pastor of the Congregational churchat Watertown, who spoke before theWoman's Club Monday afternoon,-was a dinner guest and spent theevening at the home of Mr. and Mrs.O. S. Freeman, who are members ofthe Watertown church. As a min-ister in the pulpit and as a pastoramong his people Mr. Wells is a livewire.

The picture to be shown at theTown Hall Saturday evening will beDouglas Fairbanks In "Robin Hood."There will be no comedy* or otherpicture, the management believingthat it is advisable to dismiss theaudience earlier than "has been pos-sible in the past.

The work of trimming up the treesalong Main Street preparatory tochanging the wires from the old tothe new poles has been going- onduring the week.

It is Interesting to note that theWoodbury Lunch reports satisfactorypatronage for its opening.days andnights. The place is clean and wellequipped to serve both food andrefreshment.

Clean-up time Is at hand, and manyare busy morning and evening re-moving 'accumulations from alleysand yards and getting ready thehome garden. By all doing their bit,Woodbury can be made a "spotlesstown."

Anyone haying a set of Cothran'sHistory of Woodbury which they are-willing to sell may find a buyer byaddressing The Reporter office, andstating number of volumes, conditionand price.

How about your dog license?.Thelaw requires all dogs to be licensed»y May 1.• R. H. Baldwin is reported to beable to be about part of the time.

Mr. and Mrs. James Cannon calledon John J. Casstdy at the LoucelSanitarium, Shelton, Sunday, and re-port they found him' getting/ alongnicely. He has gained 12 pounds sincegoing there.

Mr. Held, who bought the Nonne-wang school house on the Bethlehemroad,, has made extensive additionsand improvements to the buildingonce' devoted to teaching boys andgirls'their A B Cs. The building over-looks the Nbnnewaug valley and theWatertown water plant. Some monthsago It was. reported that a tea housetor auto parties would be establishedthere.

A. W. Cleland of the mechanicaldepartment of the Bridgeport Heraldwas\in town Tuesday and called atThe Reporter-office, tmd on otherfriends In town. Mr. Cleland is an

' old-time printer and 30 years agowjorked with Arthur E. Knox In theWaterbury Republican office whenthat paper was'a weekly.

The Reporter acknowledges re--celDt of press tickets to '"The Cov-•ored Wagon,'.' which is to be shown

in Southbury Friday and Saturdayevenings; May 15 and 16, at 7:30o'clock standard time- This is the•last chance Southbury and vicinitypeople will have to see this wonder-ful 10-reel epic of the West, as it hasbeen announced that on June 1 itwill be withdrawn and will not beshown again for five or more years.The indications are that the housewill be more than filled, but ticketsnot used Friday night will' be goodSaturday night . -

Mrs. Clifford 8. Hlcock and Mr.and Mrs. Henry V Beecner attendedthe banquet given by the First Con-gregational church choir Jast Satur-day evening which >was held AtThorpe's private dining-room onGrand street In Waterbury. Aboutforty were in attendance, mostlymembers.

Mrs. Clarence G. Stiles and Mrs.Clifford S. Hlcock were elected dele-gates from.the Woodbury Woman'sClub to attend the Federation meet-ing to be held in Bridgeport the lit-ter part of May at Monday's annualmeeting of the club.

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A good wap to be w * y _ _•roond town i s to pay yoor billsright promptly. Ton mar W M U dBtiiis|ji;rbu|..4tTfga dent w . . .time, you're not a good booster1 No,sir!

Give the tows knocker credit, asyL He does his bit After listeningto him yapping about the town offi-cials, "<t the public schools, BT"* thedoctors, and the merchants, and. theyoung folks, and the churches andthe government, it Just naturallymakes boosters of the rest of us.

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Union to Save Farm.

New York.—Ex-Governor Frank 0.Lowden. of Illinois, in an address herepredicted a disastrous increase in thecost of living unless something is doneto help the farmers organize for theco-operative marketing of their prod-ucts. If the present "desperate situa-tion" of the farmers is not changedby artificial means to stabilize condi-tions, ae went on, there will be ftgradual natural change which will

' keep the farmers down for the pres-ent but which in fifteen or twentyyears will put them on top and bringabout ruinous conditions for consum-

'ers of farm products.

The former Governor was the princi-pal speaker at the annual dinner ofthe Bureau of Advertising of theAmerican Newspaper Publishers' As-sociation at the Waldorf-Astoria, afeature of the annual meeting of theA. N. P. A. He appealed to the pub-lishers to use their power to mold pub-lic opinion "on behalf of the millionswho still cling to the farm, but with

, diminshed hope for the future," and tohelp them "to organize their greatIndustry and thus take their rightfulplace In the organized world in whichwe live."

The speaker said that Americanagriculture was decaying, that farmbankruptcies had increased 600 percent In recent years and that farmsare being abandoned in increasingnumber all over the United States.

He said that since arriving in NewYork he had read an article sayingthat the farmers were better off thanthex^had been for years.

"That would be news If it everreached the people back on the farm."he added, caustically.

"There seems to be a concerted ef-fort," he went on, "on the part of thefinancial writers on whom we mustdepend for our Information to provethat there has been no farm depres-sion, or that it has been exaggerated.

' o- cured."Mr. Lowden declared that the stabil-

ization of agricultural prices was thegreatest domestic problem now beforethe'American people. A graph of pig-iron prices over a certain period, hesaid, would be represented by astraight line, while one of the priceof pigs would fluctuate like a zigzagcourse. The reason for the disparity,he explained, was the organisation ofthe steel Industry and the lack of or-ganization of agriculture.

Because all Industries are interde-pendent and must be so for the sake ofthe country as a whole, he said, agri-culture, should be kept in line withother industries.

"We cannot have any permanent re-covery of business prosperity," hewent on, "without a return of the greatbasic industry of agriculture to Itsrightful place."

He alBO warned of the danger to thecountry in time of war if the agricul-tural regions should be depopulatedand their inhabitants forced to flockto Industrial centres.

"Whatever may be the popular opin-ion in the cities on the subject," hecontinued, "the ablest farm economistsgenerally agree that the farm situationla desperate. This they think growsout of the great disparity between theprices of the thingB the farmer has tosell and the pricea of the things hehas to buy. They can see no perma-nent relief until this disparity Is re-moved.

"We are coming to learn that unre-stricted competition is not clothedwith all the virtues it was oncethought to posseas. Unrestricted com-petition is but a form of warfare.Whether among the nations of theworld ' for larger armaments or amongthe producers of useful commoditiesit has been found to entail losses tosociety far beyond the benefits it hasconferred."

URGES PARLEY ON LAW

Former Secretary Hughes Says U. 8.Must Lead Toward Conference.

Washington.—World peace can beultimately effected only through theclarification and codification of inter-national law, and this is to be accom-plished only through a great confer-ence of representatives of all the na-tions of the earth, former Secretary ofState Hughes, as president of theAmerican . Society of ' InternationalLaw, told members of that associationat their annual meeting here.

BUDGET SAVES BILLION

General Lord Says Coolldge's Aim lato Reduce Taxes.

Chicago.—In four years the Bureau,of the Budget has pruned from' execu-tive estimates, a total of $1,203,771,-929, Brigadier General Lord, Directorof the Budget, announced in an~ ad-dress here. "It Is the unalterable in-tention of the President of the UnitedStates to cut taxeH down and relievethe people of this great nation, all ofwhom are affected by taxes," saidGeneral Lord.

MISS HABfiARET DOWSBeautiful Obi to Marry

Miss Margaret Dowa,* beautifuldaughter of Mrs. Tracy. Dows of NewYork and Washington, .will be wed-ded during the summer to Knut Rich-ard Thyberg of Llndesberg, Sweden,now vice consul from Sweden In NewYork City. •

PACKERS' CONSENTDECREE SUSPENDED

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Justice of Columbia Supreme"Court Acts on Motion of

Co-operatives.

Washington.—The consent decreeby which the big five Chicago'meatpackers agreed to divorce themselvesfrom unrelated lines of business wasordered suspended by Justice Baileyin the District of Columbia SupremeCourt

The action was taken after JusticeBailey had denied a motion of Swift& Co. and Armour ft Co. to vacate thedecree entirely.

In suspending operation of the de-cree for an Indefinite time, JusticeBailey acted upon motion of the Cali-fornia Co-operative Canneries whichintervened as a party at Interest.

Justice Bailey said it was clear thatthe canneries were being damagx* bythe continuance of the decre*. whichwas entered Into in 1920.

"My first view,'* Justice Bailey said,"was t iat it should be suspendedmerely Insofar at the canneries wereconcerned, but all of the parties hav-ing agreed that It it Bhould be sus-pended or modified, it should be sus-pended or modified as a whole.

"There seems to be little differencein effect between vacating the decreeand suspending Its operations, but aain my opinion the decree Is valid asIons aa It stands, and no proof hasbeen taken to show that it wan im-properly entered, all that should bedone now is to suspend the operationof the decree."

The vacating of the decree had beenasked for by the packing Interests onthree grounds: That the District ofColumbia Supreme court was withoutjurisdiction to enter the decree; thatit was vlolatlve of the anti-trust laws,and that Attorney General Palmeracted without authority when he con-sented to it on behalf of the UnitedStates. All of these contentions weredismissed.

The packers also contended that theFederal Government itself had vio-lated the decree.

WORLD'S NEWS INCONDENSED FORM

LONDON. — Alanson B. Houshton,the new ambassador to the Court ofSt. James, was greeted by British offi-cials upon his arrival to take his newpost. In Plymouth he was welcomedby the mayor and Lady Astor.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA.—Tehunttuloff,said to have been the chief lieutenantof the slain communist; leader, Min-koft, who plotted the Svetl Krai cathe-dral bomb outrage, which killed morethan a hundred people, was shot deadin Sofia as he resisted arrest.

NEW YORK.—Lawyers will raise$150,000 for memorial bay in cathe-dral.

LONDON—Count Karolyl, In •London interview, criticizes Washing-ton "gag" rule.

PARI8.—The Council of Ambassa-dors authorized Bulgaria to increaseher armed forces by 7,000, the per-mission to extend only until the endof May, for settling disturbances. •'

PARIS—Herrlot elected Presidentof French Chamber after fistic battle.

MADISON, Wla.—The WisconaidState Senate recorded Itself in favorof a statewide referendum on whetherCongress shall be asked to modify theVolstead act to permit manufactureand sale of 2.75 per cent beer.

BOSTON.—Dawes greeted by cheer-ing thousands as he retraces route ofPaul Revere:

MEXICO CITY—Two plana for com-pulsory military training will be pre-Bented to. Mexico's congress in' Sep-tember. - ' ; ' • • .,. ROME—On the occasion of the anni-versary of the founding of Rome. 2)678years ago, the forum of Augustus, oneof eleven built by the ancient em-perors, was opened to the public view.

PEKING—The two-year dispute be-tween France and China over themethod of paying French share ofboxer Indemnity has been settled.

JAPANESE

Raifuku, Caught in a Storm WithCargo of Wheat, Turns Over in

Sight of Rescue Vessel*.

SEAS SMASH VICTIM'S BOATS

Homeric and Tuscan's Witness Trao-

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70-Mlle Race-^Calla Bar* Traglo

Race With Death.

New York.—The Japanese freighterRaifDkn Mara sank 180 miles south-east of Halifax with her crew of thir-ty-eight officers and men. All handswere lost '

Help was In sight when the freight-er went down. Five ships, turned offtheir courses to go to the rescue,found* their 'efforts futile, abandonedthe task and proceeded on their way.The White star, liner Homeric wasvirtually there,'and saw the RaifukuMaru disappear. It was a race againstdeath and the rescuers lost.* ,

A storm developed. The cargo ofthe Raifuku Maru shifted. She beganto leak and after a night amid a tu-mult of wind and waves. M. Hiwatari,the radio operator, began sending outthe three dots, three dashes and threwdots which spell distress at sea.

The Homeric, westbound fromSouthampton with 600 passengers andmail, altered her course. The KinsAlexander, of the National Greek Line,and the Canard liners Tuacania andScythia and the Dollar Uner PresidentAdams also headed toward the Japa-nese freighter. The sea-going tugs,the Reindeer and the Ocean Eagle, putout from Halifax to the rescue. •

The King Alexander was sixty milesfrom the Raifuku Maru and the Scy-thia 180 miles away. The Homeric,nearer and faster, waa the most hope-ful.

She got under full steam andplowed through the seas at twentyknots. Meantime, the Raifuku Maru'swireless operator was sending outplaintive messages in broken English.The freighter's 'lifeboats weresmashed and useless. This waa toldin one of the first messages, whichread: /

Ship meeting heavy weather.Smashed lifeboats inboard. In dan-ger.

With seventy miles to go, the Ho-meric kept in constant touch with theRaifuku Maru by radio, and everyturn of her propellers drove her near-er and nearer the sinking Bhlp.

.The • messages that came from thefreighter were almost child-like intheir plea for help. The next one was:

Ship 39 degrees low, please, quick,assist.' The Homeric was speeding nearer.

Then came another message from M.Hiwatari, wireless . operator on thedoomed ship. The seas must havebeen high. The vessel muBt havebeen listing badly. Whether therewaa confusion aboard, no one knows.The message read:

"Now very danger, come quick.1*.M. Hiwatari could not have con-

ceived a more poignant sentence hadhe been graduated with an honorabledegree from an English-speaking uni-versity.

The Homeric was almost there. Theofficers of the watch could make outthe lines of ship rising and tailingon the wares. The crew of the'Rai-fuku Maru must have been able to seethe Homeric steaming toward them.They would have put off In boats, hodoubt, had there been any boats, eventhough the danger of doing so wasgreat. But the boats were: gone.There was nothing to do but remainaboard and pray that the Homericmight arrive in time. But

"We arrived," said Captain Roberts,"as the ship was foundering. At 11a. m. we approached as. near as• pos-sible to tha Raifuku Mara in a terrificsea. Xo boat was to be seen. Hercrew were leaving on the weatherside. It waa Impossible for us tolower life boats owing to heavy galesand mountainous seas."

"We poured oil to windward," re-ported Captain Roberts, "to give thema lea. She capsized at 11:18 a. m.,after which no life was seen on thewreckage or in the water. It was im-possible for any one to have survived."

HOME BREWER'S HOUSE CASTLE

Decided to Be Safe From ProhibitionRaids.

Washington. — Home brewers aresafe from raids by prohibition-agentsunder a ruling by Chief Justice Mc-Coy of the District Supreme Court un-less the agents, in applying for searchwarrants, can show that sale WSBmade on their premises. If the char-acter of the home is changed to thatof store or shop by liquor making ma-chinery, however, the immunity doesnot exist, the chief justice held.

20,000 MINERS IDLE

Bituminous Suspension Cuts CarShipments in Central Counties.

Altoona, Pa.—More than 20.000miners, in the Central .Pennsylvaniacoal producing district are withoutemployment, due to t the - mine; suspen-sion

Car loadings in the district havedropped unusually low, with few op-erations working.' Operators and rep-resentatives of the miners' unions areto meet In Altoona April 29 to discusstho situation.

HLEBYRttt

H. E. Byram, president of the St.Paul railway, who. with the board ofdirectors, asked for and obtained areceiver tbr the railroad of 16,000miles of lines In 11 states. . •

LIFT COLLINS' BODYFROMJEATH CAVE

Miners Who Dislodged Stone ThatHeld Him Find Corpse

Near Abyss.

• Cave City,, Ky.—Sand Cave has.yielded Its prisoner and the body ofFloyd Collins, taken from the bottomof a shaft after resting there over-night, lies In a hill overlooking Crystal

ute, a cavern which the explorerdiscovered several years ago.

A limestone and rands tone rock,weighing between seventy-five andone hundred pounds, which pinnedCollins' left leg as he was crawlingfrom the depths of a newly discoveredpit, was removed last night by minersemployed by the victim's brother. Thobody was freed for the. first time sinceJanuary So last, when the fallingboulder caught Collins and held himfast while hundreds of volunteerworkers struggled seventeen days tofree him.

The miners, after removing therock, brought the body through a newlateral oft the 70-foot level of the shaftdug in the efforts to rescue Collinsand left it there over night untilequipment could be arranged forhoisting the body to the surface.

Workers attached a hook to a rope,fastened about the body, and raisedIt by means of a hand hoist. Wrappedin cloth the body reached the top ofthe shaft while several score of curi-ous visitors watched. After the bodyhad been placed on a stretcher, animprovised sack waa removed <romthe head and W. H. Hunt, the miner,in charge of the recovery work, askedthe spectators to view IL

"Pass by and look at the body close*ly," Hunt said. "I don't want any-body to go away and say we broughtup a chunk wrapped In rags.1*

One of the miners, J. 8. Smith,asked that the group kneel while theRev. R. B. Neel of BowJJng Green, Ky,offered a prayer.

The "Dream Cave," which Collinstold rescue workers was Just back ofwhere he was caught in Sand Cave,is "just a big hole In the ground," sofar as thoBe who found MB body barsbeen able to determine.

Pocatello. Idaho.—A sensational res-cue of a little child from death be-neath the wheels of a passenger loco-motive on the Payette Valley branchIs told in a communication stating tbatOregon Short Line Fireman GeorgeRamsay had descended to the pilot ofthe engine via the running board andposhed the two-year-old youngsterfrom the tracks where he was crouch-ing.

According to the* account of thenear-accident as given by X F. Wha-len, engineer on train 877, the child,

'Daniel Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs.Orson Smith-, was seen when neartnga private crossing'by Engineer J. B.Hutchlnson, who thought it was achicken because of the odd positionof the child sitting on the engineer'sside of the track, leaning back withhis head on the rail. He was dressed'In a dark coat and had very fair hair,:and the engineer was confused as theobject grew nearer as to whether Itwas an animal or a baby. As soon asit was apparent that a child was indanger the air brakes were appliedand the (fireman, George Bamsay,made his way to the pilot apd succeed-ed In pushing the baby from the trackwith his hand before the wheels couldtouch him. Other than a few scratchesand a soil smudge on his cheek fromthe fireman's glove, little Daniel wasunhurt The train waa traveling atabont fifteen miles an boor, accordingto the report of the crew, and wasstopped four feet beyond the spotwhere the child had been sitting. Or-son Smith, father of the baby, is anemployee of the Boiae-Payette Lumbercompany. The mother waa ill In bed,which accounts for his being on thecrossing, having wandered there whilethe gate was open.

LATESTAT

EVENTSWASHINGTON

William 8. Culbertson of Kansas wasselected as minister to Roumania. -

The atate department announced with-drawal of United States protectiveforces from; Honduras.

The Daughters of the American Revo-lution refuaed to increase Initiationfeea and accepted nomination forseven vice presidents general.

Operation of the packers' consent de-cree was ordered suspended by thedistrict supreme court.

General Penning delivered the prin-cipal address on a Pan-Amerleanprogram broadcast from a Washing-ton station.

U. S. and'Canada agree on scope ofInquiry Into Great Lakes-St. Law-rence ship canal project

Dwight Davis warns army chaplainsagainat anti-army pacifists Withinthe church.

President Coolldge has selected Wil-liam 8. Culbertaon of Kansas to suc-ceed Peter A. Jay as Minister' toRumania. Mr. Jay aoon will betransferred to Argentina. Mr. Cul-bertson at present la vice chairmanof the Tariff Commlaalon.

Plan for abandoning Ellis laland byexamining aliena abroad la outlinedby Davis.

Coolldge, -. aroused by 8ovlat propa-ganda, declares no recognition Is inprospect.- . •

Attorney General Sargent puts merit.rule into effect; Donovan In chargeof personnel and administration.

President Coolldge tei:- D. A. R. that1 Immigration restrictions are needed

to .keep nation-from-'being over*crowded.

Coolldge by executive order extendsNew York port area, making it larg-est in world.

8upreme Court refuses to paas on lawdenying Jury trial In liquor viola-tions.

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American CompetitionIrka Britiih Movie*

London.—The moaning and wringingof hands over the sad state of the Brit-ish moving picture film business waxeslouder day by day. Perhaps .the pub-lic cares, but It shows no Inclinationto cease crowding into the hundredsof British theaters where Americanfilms are run off almost exclusively,year In and year ont

The British filmmakers protest thatthat even England's own dominionsand colonies are being Americanisedby the subtle propaganda contained inthe celluloldal products of the studiosof California find New York.

There Is. a very active campaign onto have the Baldwin government slapa heavy tax oh foreign films. Thegovernment has so far kept silent uponIts intentions as regards the movies.

Meanwhile dollar-laden magnates ofthe movies breeze in Trom Broadwayand have even gone BO far as to beginbuilding or buying large theaters, oftheir own In the precincts of PiccadillyCircus.

Thieve* Ignore Silverfor Rare Booh, Clock

New York.—Theft of 100 rare booksand a grandfather's clock that was anhen-loom was reported to the Astoriapolice by Miss Ruth Lawrence, presi-dent of the Daughters of the Cincin-nati and daughter of Abraham BikerLa-wrence, late Supreme court justice.The stolen books were In a packingcase- In the home of Miss Lawrence,who lives alone at 295 Howland street,Astoria,

Miss Lawrence, descendant of a dis-tinguished colonial family in. NewYork, was unable to understand whythe literary robbers should havepassed up alTverwaTe and other valu-able articles In the house hi order, totake first editions of Disraeli and Bul-wer Lytton, along with the memoirsof the Due de Salle and a" tenth editionof the Encyclopedia Britannlca.

Tot Fall* From WindowsLife Saved by Shoewtring

Baltimore, Md.—Fate In the personof an lron-thewed chauffeur and a slen-der shoestring saved the life of tinyAnita Danzle as she hung suspended,head downward, from a rusted stapleInsecurely set in a window on the sec-ond floor at her borne -

The rescue of the three-year-old wasas dramatic as It was miraculous. Play-Ing about the second-floor apartment ina new pair of shots, little Anita fellfrom the window. \ . '. , -- - Heir fall was checked by the slen^der string In one of the shoes. *

Gregory Jaklmo"lck, a rtmnffimr.dashed up the stairway and Just as hereached for the feet of the child therusty, weatherbaaten staple broke.With a frantic grasp be secured agrip on the tiny drass and drew Anitato safety.

Seat, Aged M, Hat *<Seeking Relmtwee tor

BOY*»ew Tork—Thomas Allen's (meat o f

half a century is not yet ended, butit Is approaching a successful conclu-sion. . He has found his long-lost SUKten Elisabeth, after 00 years of sepa-ration. He hopes soon to find hissbrother, James. H James la living,he Is one hnndred three years old.Elisabeth is one hnndred two andThomas Is ninety-eight :

A Scottish soldier of fortune, who.roamed the seas without winning for-tune, Thomas Allen knew he mustsometime effect a reconciliation withhis family. It's a small world, anoTcthe way time mows down people-other people—Ifs a still smaller world.The Aliens are a long-lived family,,and that's how be found Elisabeth.

"My bunt became easier every year,"*Thomas explained recently. "At first,when I traveled here had there and1

asked for Elizabeth Allen or JamesAllen. I Was always on the wrongtrack. But when1 I got to asking-about Elizabeth Allen, a hundred year*old, you know. It was very different.

Telia Friendly Cop.T w o days ago I was In MontreaL.

I got friendly with * 'cop.' I toldrhim, aa I've always told every one thatsuits my fancy, what my one aim Inlife was. It was to find Elizabeth an*James. I asked him, not hopeful ofany success, whether he knew anElizabeth Allen who would be one-hundred, two yean old, if she were*Jiving." " '

"'Well,' says this 'cop,' 1 dontknow any Elisabeth Allen who is one*hnndred two, but you ought to r e - ,

"It Was Thomas, No Mistake About:That"

memtfer that she probably got marriedsometime, and isn't using the Allenpart at all.'

" 'Right*' says I *Do you know anyElisabeth who might be one hundredtwo years old?

"That I do/ says he. There's anElizabeth McMurray lives somewhere-around New York. In a town calledSparkill, three miles or so south ofNyack.' Why don't you try her?"

Thomas did. He caught the nexttrain for New York, took the first trainafter that for Nyack, and then traveledout to Sparkill.

Sturdy and AlertSpry and hearty notwithstanding:

his years, he walked from the stationto the home of Mrs. William Schuhrwhose mother, Mrs. Elizabeth McMur-ray, lives with her, so the neighborssaid. Time does Indeed change people,Thomas found, but there was some-thing about the. Aliens that Mrs. Mc-Murray still possessed. There couldbe no doubt about i t

•That's you, Elisabeth, Isn't it?"said Thomas.

Mrs. McMurray peered through herglasses at the figure of the old, oldman with a vigorous Allen voice. Itwaa Thomas. No mistake about that

"Yea, .Tom, . . . I was beginning;to think you weren't going to comeany more."

Thomas now plans to start lookingfor bis brother. Rumor had It that hewas last known to be In Philadelphia.Possibly he died there.

Thomas entered the British army75 years a-go. He saw service In'everypart of the globe. Every five yearshe came home to his people. Thehut time he came home they weregone to America. The quest beganIn 1875. Mrs. McMurray, long a widow.Is supported In comfortable circum-stances by her daughter and son-in-law, who Is superintendent of theRockland county cemetery.

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- Rome.—Eagerness to help hisIn preparing dinner caused the deatof a young mechanic of this city re) / |cently. He took a sharp knife and 1gan to cut a piece off a rabbit whichwas hanging on a nail In the wall.Meeting with resistance In a tendon,he exerted so much strength that theknife, deviating from Its direction,penetrated his heart

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Coming: MeetingsM0RB1S. Then will be a meeting

of the Morris Young Farmers'Club at the home of Mr. andMrs. J. E. Humphrey on Mon-day, May 11. at 7:30 P. M.

WOODBURY. There will bemeeting of the members of the

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e t i gCow Test Association at theCommunity Howe in Woodburyon Tuesday evening, May 12, at7:30 o'clock.

MORRIS. There iwill be a pick-upMeeting at the ConferenceRooms on .Tuesday. May 5, at10:30 A. M. Standard Time. TheHome Demonstration Agent wllbe present >

CORNWALL. The regular meetingof the Cornwall Maids will beheld on Wednesday, May 6. at4 P. M. Standard Time, at thehome of Mrs. Wilcos. MissTrabue mrlll be present. t->-

CORNWALL HOLLOW. Therewill be a millinery meeting atMrs. O'Caln's on Monday. May4, at 1:30 P. M, Standard Time.The Home Demonstration Agentwill be present .

HARWINTON. There will be ameeting on- Correct Posture andCorseting on Tuesday, May 12.at 1:30 P. M. Standard Time.Miss Edith L. Mason will bepresent. •

FALLS VILLAGE. There will bea meeting on Correct Postureand Corseting on Wednesday.May 13, at 1:30 P. M. StandardTime at the home of'Mrs. Heze-

Typhold. cholera and other danger-ous diseases are caused by germsthat live on Alth. These germs havetheir own deadly foes' in the bacillifamily and it is possible to start awar between these microscopic tribes,arranging the battle so that the germfoes of humanity are destroyed byour bacilli friends.

below the water line is consideredample dimensions for any. of thesimple tanks. An adequate tank fora smalt family of aix would be buntthree feet wide, three and one-halffeet deep below the water line/ andsix feet long. These dimensions arethe inside dimensions., An air spaceof 10 or 12 inches should be left

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8:30. Address, "Seeing Him inOur Social Lite"—Rev. D. p. GafaMB,

-Bev. W. k Prunef.Waterbury

BenedictionLltchAeld

Saturday, slay _9:30 Service . of Worship—Mrs.

It Is often MM that _Uds Wnd tails to JuUUl Itaelt mlMa. and, that gjnnHu I l a

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rather than forward In theyears. There, la evidence hot* torand against Sir Isaac Newton washut In his class, though he showedexpertness in making mechanicalplaythings. Darwin bad to denfere

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in Eastern Standard Time.• • • • . ,

Morris expects to have a Pick-upmeeting. Work so far suggestedhas been re-seating chairs, dressforms, at least one hat and. sugges-tions for clothing. For further in-formation call Mrs. Henry Welk orMiss Elizabeth Twlng. .

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The health garden lists are nearlycomplete for all of the schools ofLItchfleld, Goshen and Morris.

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Some of the older boys In the, Marsh, Fluteville and Chestnut Hill

districts are planning to have smallmarket gardens. ' •

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Mr. F. W. Kolpe, farm and homeengineer, is in the county this weekand has a list of twelve farmswhere some change of water systemIs desired.

• • • •Mr. Carl Dossln, poultry specialist,

from the Connecticut AgriculturalCollege will be in the county thisweek to visit the members of theJunior Egg Laying Contest

• * * *Poultry club meetings were held

You may haoe a policy but havtj»u ENOUGH protection of theright kind?

This is exactly -what, a septic does—it furnishes a battlefield where an-erobic bacilli that live without aircan partially overcome the cohortsof typhoid, cholera, dysentery andhook worms and then drive thesegerms out where the'aneroblc bacillithat live in the air can attack themin their weakened condition ana* ut-terly vanquish>them.

A septic tank'like the one shownis a disposal plant for the wasteproducts of the human budy and de-caying animal and vegetable matterwhich are direct sources of the dis-eases mentioned. Typhoid, for Irt-stance, is more of a rural diseasebecause sewage in rural districts isnot as properly disposed of as it isin urban centers. This is evidentfrom statistics of 1919 where, of8,000 typhoid cases, 5,300 wereamong country dwellers. Sewageshould be carried to the septic tankthrough non-porous tile with cement-ed joints. As shown in the Illustra-tion, the sewage enters the chamberof the septic tank where it Is actedupon by the anerobic bacilli. Theychange solid matter into gases andliquids. A heavy scum forms on thesurface of the chamber indicatingthat the anerobic bacilli are working.It is essential that baffle boards beused as a protection for the scum.As the liquid leaves the chamber, itappears clear, but it is not purebecause it may contain disease germsand solid matter held in suspension.This liquid is now spread out in thesoil so that the aerobic bacilli canpurify it..

In determining the size of thechamber, capacity of from 60 to 75gallons per day per person in thhousehold should be allowed. Septictanks are usually built fO that theyare longer than they a»e deep anddeeper than they are wide. The usualrule is that the length of a tank shallbe twice the widtn io provide for auniform flow. Experience seems toprove the advisability of building' acapacity sufficient to hold a twenty-four hours' flow of sewage or wastesfrom the average household. Tencubic feet of capacity per person

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above the water line to accommodatethe scum which forms and seals the'surface of the water. The cover neednot be alMIght The cover of the

Proper insurance is all im-portant for evory propertyowner and a farmer is par-ticularly in need of care-fully planned protection.

It pays to give the samethought to insurance of yourfarm property that .you doto the purchase of machineryand cattle.

Select your insurance withcare. Make sure it is' in areliable company—one thatwill pay its losses fairly andpromptly. .

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septic tank should just be low enoughbelow the surface of the ground toallow elgnt or ten inches of earthtot a covering.

Septic tanks'should be made of a1-2-4 mixture of concrete -and thiswith good workmanship will insurethat it is water-tight. This means amixture of one sack of Portland ce-ment to two cubic feet of sand andfour cubic feet of pebbles or crushedstone.

Heavy wire or steel rods should beused for reinforcing the cover slabs,but reinforcing may be left out ofthe walls and bottom provided thethickness of these is increased. Forthe tank described above, 15 sacksof cement, 1} cubic yards of sand and21 cubic yards of gravel will be re-quired. ' . • ' :

As a rule subsurface disposal Isbest for a single residence. Thissystem usually require no attentionwhatever and the discharges fromthe tank are out of sight at all times.Wtiere dense soil such as day ex-ists, the trench should be partiallyBUed with loose material,'* such assand, gravel or cinders. On top ofthis fill, a tile line is laid and theremainder of the trench filled withearth. The depth of tile in loose soilsis only 10 or 12 inches below thesurface. In gardens or fields that areto be plowed occasionally, they maybe set deeper as the soil would thenbe able to better handle these wastesoi* account of greater air supply. Thelength of the porous tile necessaryto handle these wastes varies fromsix feet per person in loose gravellysoils to twenty-five per person in claysoils. The drop given the tile variesfrom two inches per -hundred feet'for the double chamber tank to sixInches per hundred feet for the singlechamber tank.

For further information on thisseptic tank, write for Extension Bul-letin No. 48 issued by New YorkState College of Agriculture, Ithaca,N. Y.

Virgil Blackmail, New Milford9:50 Address, "Seeing Him World

Wide"—Mrs. John Hunter Steams,Torrlngton

10:30 Group* C o n f e r e n c e s ,"Christ's Influence"

11:30 Conference Photo and Re-creation Period

12:30 LuncheonPresentations -

My Part in this Conference—Atala Thompson, New Milford

Connecticut Summer School—Dor-othy Knight. Torrlngton

Camp Mohawk—Marlon Fan-cher, Winsted

.Older Girls' State Conference-Dorothy Marsh, Winsted

Saturday Afternoon2.30 Worship Service—M r s.

George Wood AndersonReport of Conference Commit-

tees ;"3:00 Address, "Seeing Him in

Our Personal Life"—Dr. John ; W.Flight, Winsted

BenedictionLItchfleld County. Council of Reli-

gious EducationMrs. F. B. Carrier, New Miford,

Chairman Conference CommitteeMrs. A. C. Newport, Torrington,

Secretary ^Officers of Older' Girls' Conference

President— - Mildred Erickson,Thomaston

yice-Pxesident—Atala Thompson,New Milford

Secretary—Helen Rylander, LItch-fleld .

a lack in himself of "the quicknessof comprehension" which-be foundin clever men. Huxley always hatedcomposition until he bad reactedan ace when he "had something tosay"; among those whom Lombrosoclassed as "bad, wild or sOly atschool" . were Thlers. PestatongWellington, Burns, and Balsac. Onthe other hand Goethe composed astory in seven languages when he•was scarcely 10. Tasso wrote versesat 10, Byron at 12, Lopes de laVega ati 13, Calderon at 13. andSculler's famous "Robbers" was nlprint when the author was only 19.—Boston Herald.

HINDENBURG VICTORY PERSON-

Lsadlng Editors Think the German. People Have Acted Rashly But

Not In Such Wise As ToEndanger the Republic

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The GirlsThrough Our 8chool Life

1. Pearl Newton, Qaylordsville2. Ruth Lundahl, Torrington :3. Shirley Quick, Watertown4. Pauline Wtcke, Sharon5. Pearl Newton, GaylordBville

Through our Work1. Donna Platts, Thomaston2. Eleanor Beach, Watertown3. Evelyn Pitcher, Sharon4. Ruth Worthington, New Mil-

ford5. Evelyn Pitcher, Sharon

Through Our Recreation-1. Julia Spencer, Nepaug .2. Dorothy Brown, Winsted3. Hazel Williams^ Torrlngton4. Dorothy Greenleaf, Torrington5. Margaret Gustafsoh, Sherman, Through Our Church1. Dorothy Menk, Wiristed2. Sarah Braman, Torrington .3. Ethyle Marvin, Bantam4. Ruth Masters, New Milford6. Malyn Rogers, Sherman %

Group Leaders1. Mrs. F. J. Tlllapaugh, Torrlng-

ton2. Miss Mabel Parcells, New Mil-

ford3. Rev. Grace I. Edwards, Nepaug4. Mrs. C. L. Marsh. Winsted5. Mrs. W. C. Craig, Torrington

Adult Group LeaderMrs. E. J. Curtlss, Woodbury

A chill will tally upon Europeanhopes. The English governmenwill feel that the difficulties in finding a formula for assured peace ardoubled. French prejudice againstGermany will be stiffened. And athose who have been .working forthe financial and industrial restora-tion of Europe will pass through aperiod of shock and doubt It wlUnot be necessary for American bank;-,ers to give notice that no Germanloans can now be floated here. Fromthe nature, of the case there "will bea tightening of the purse-stringsuntil it is seen what is going to hap-pen in Germany.

It is needless, as it would be un-fair and unmanly, to indulge in ex-treme fears. No HohenzollernwUlsoon ascend the German throne.The powers of the President of Geivmany are closely limited. He can-not easily make of himself a coverbehind which a Kaiser can sneakback. Prpbably the Luther govern-ment will hold on for a time and re-affirm its announced policies. Butwhen all Is said, the fact cannot beconcealed that Germany has chosento run an enormouB risk, that sheinvites unsettlement at home anddistrust abroad and that the Ger-man people will have to begin overagain their struggle to convince theworld that they believe in the neworder and that they can. be trustedin their promises and purposes.—New York Times

Hlndenburg's (winning of the Ger-man presidency, in the opinion ofthe best informed German newspaperman that I know, will make lit-tle difference so far as the fate ofthe present experiment with popu-lar government is concerned. Hewill be just as loyal to the presenorder as his. rival Marx wpuM be.In a way his election (will cut theground from under some of the re-

popular and almost a legendary na--ttonal hero4 Be satisfies th* desireof a country which has bem but-feted about and hnmlHatftrt. far atig man in office.—CJtoton W. Gil-bert

If the election of Hindenburg isIn the main a personal tribute, it 1sta much less serious matter than ifit represented a marked swing orthe German nation toward1

the policies and Ideals for whichbis active supporters stand. Nor isIds election necessarily s menace tothe republic; ' after the fall of theKaiser h» loyally supported the pro*visional government and his recordaa a blunt, honest soldier makes, itpresumable that he would take ingood' faith his oath of allegiance tothe republic.—8pringfleld Republi-can. ,

Hlndenburg's election. In fact achallenge to the republic, whateversome of his supporters may see fitto say to the contrary. It is an in-dorsement "of the policy of treaty-non-fulfillment/ It represents awelling up of resentments and ran-cor, superficially against the demo-cratic order but really against thefact of defeat and Its consequences.Politically and economically thatshift will react most of all to the in-Jury of the Germans themselves.—New York Herald Tribune. ' .

To the wprld outside Germany the-choice can only mean a desire on •the' part of the German people toturn the clock back, to restore their-country to her old place of leader- 'ship and Independence. Th dis-patches throughout the election'campaign made it clear that to theGerman voter the'issue was largelyone of the restoration to the mon-archy, opposed by Dr. Marx and fa-vored by Hindenburg. A majorityof Germans favored the monarchy,the early returns showed.-=ChicagoTribune. "

If Von Hindenburg rules Ger-many well, under Its constitution,and with the best Interests of Ger-many (these certainly mean pros-perity and peace) at heart eventhose who felt most against the man,the soldier, the monarchist, maymake no mistake In wishing his ad-ministration well.--Hartford Cour-ant.

In Torrlngford, Pleasant Valley,Goshen, Washington and Woodburylast week.

• • • •A large meeting of vegetable

growers was held at the home ofMr. and Mrs. Harry Didsmore InThomaston in the evening of April20. Mr. A. E. Wilkinson spoke onrotations.

About a dozen boys have sent intheir applications for membership inthe Junior Dairy Calf Club. If thereare others who would like to be-come members, tbey should applyto the Farm Bureau Office for mem-bership blanks immediately.

BALTIMORE HARBOR >8TRIKEDELAYS SPRING PLANTING

A c6mplete tie-up In the Balti-more harbor, due to a strike by thecaptains and mates of the tug-boatsserving the harbor, is causing "con-cern to farmers along the Atlanticseaboard. Baltimore is the head-quarters of many large fertilizercompanies who have their princi-pal plants located on deep-water inthe harbor. - -

These plants, together with othersIn the harbor, depend upon mostcontinuous service by lighters andbarges.. Because of the refusal.ofthe tugboat crows to handle' thiskind of traffic and their success inIntimidating thp ownern of launcheswho might otherwise be Induced totakV care of It, the whole manu

-factuHng schedule Is upset and inthS case of many plants completelyparalyzed..^According to H E. Babcock. gen

eral manager of the farmer-ownedG. L. P. Exchange, which has an in-terest in a large fertilizer plant inthe Baltimore harbor,, delays, inshipments of fertilizer from Balti-more are inevitable and will setback shipping schedules from twoto four weeks.

This means that if Spring-.comesearly, as it now prlmises to do,many farmers will not receive fer-tilizer in time for planting, eventhough the strike should be settledimmediately. Some farmers will beable to get supplies from centersother than Baltimore. A very largetransfer of orders, however, will belikely to congest an already heavyshipping, program under way atthese points, so that much may notbe gained by the transfer. Farmersinterviewed on the situation reportthat in the cases of some crops theywill apply the fertilizers after thecrops are in. Many acres of oatsand spring grains will prpbably goin with the plan of top dressingthem with fertilizer when it is re-ceivedi -

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scarcely more than is, reached theBritish Isles not knowing anything'of English, yet succeeded in mem-orizing 2,000 words of that languagein two days. To him arithmeticalproblems are said to be "no morethan child's play." After lookingonce over a list of figures describedas "long enough to go around aroom" he can repeat them correctly,forward and backward.

The English experts, already claimNaum as "the outstanding mentalprodigy of modern times," and hewill come to us dowered with thehalo of that endorsement But thereare other cases of the kind in ourAmerican record not easily forgot-ten. . Young Arthur A. Gamble toldhis psychology class in Chicago notmany years ago the exact numberof minutes which had elapsed sincethe signing of the Declaration - ofIndependence, and took only 37seconds to make the calculation.

..When the Indiana lad, Arthur Grif-fiths, was asked for the cube rootof 1,367,631, he at once replied"111." At the age or 7 B. Howseof Atchison, Kan., was admitted tothe bar "after passing a rigid ex-

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Since the last jail breaks at theUtchfield county jail the county au-thorities, have Installed Yale pad-locks on all the cell.doors. In addi-tion to these, the old locks (wereleft on. It. is pretty safe to statenow'that no more'jail breaks •willbe matte by picking locks.—Torrlng-ton Register. -

Motorist—Destroy the caterpillarnests, Instead of destroying thetrees.

Don't be a caterpillar. Don't letthe caterpillars do it.

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Naum Llpowskl, Eating ..English; . ' Language Alive," la Not

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London psychologists, over-whelmed with wonderment at themental powers of Naum Llpowskl,are testing them out before biddinghim "bon voyage" on his projectedtrip to the United States. Thisyouth of Russian-Polish nationality,

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