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Volney B. Cushing of Portland, Me-, gave a temperance lecture in the hall, to full house, Friday evening.
 Mrs E. Walter Pond of Woodbury was here, last week, visiting Mrs C. F. Flynn.
 Mrs John Bishop spent last week in Waterbury.
 MT Pass has moved his family from Mrs Flora Crossman's house into the west tenement in the Bartholomew block.
 Miss May Richards of East Corn wall visited at Charles Morey's, last week..
 Charles Mercy was in Cornwall Bridge, Saturday.
 Thomas Tanning has position with the Coe Brass Company in Tor ringtOn.
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sa WARREN.

Miss Mary Katon. who is just finishing course in the DanDury training hospital has been spending week with her parents.
 William Welton has cut up the broken down trees and tops which were le after the st ca nl saw had finished. and converted them into charcoal. which he has been selling ill New Milford and Lilchtield.
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warm fire.

Miss Carrie Anderson of New Pres ton Hill is visiting her sister, Mrs Carl Gimerson. She is to have some work done by Dr Shopp while in town.
 Dr Ford was ill and confined to the house, last week.
 Mrs Mary Soule has been ill for a few days.
 Mrs Engle's consin, Mrs Childs, has purchased the Coll house near the Catholic church.
 The Sewing society met at the La dies parlors, last week. A good num- Der were present. Eckman Brothers are relaying their car track and fixing a new log way and their factory.
 Mrs H. w. Woodruff has been quite ill for week but it is hoped she will soon be about again. Dr Wersbe at tends her. Miss Bertha Booth of Waterbury came to assist her just in time, as she had been without helE and vas tired out when taken sick.
 The farmers were glad to see the to- bacco storm, last week, and they are in hopes to get as good prices for their tobacco for most of them have d fine crop.
 P. J. Burke is still at II. W. Wood ruif'S but expects to move to Park Lane, some time. this week.
 Tnom,s CoStigan ilas gone to work in the mill stone quarry.
 Mrs Marietta Gibson has been sick for more than a week with lung anC heart trouble.
 Frank Erwin, who lost his barn and crops by fire, last September, is pre- pairing to rebuild, and several of i Church hill neighbors are giving 3 and 40 foot sticks. of timDer to bel him.
 There was but little tobacco take
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CIRCULATION
Yen Psg'es.
i.ITCHFlEL.D COUNTY
WASHINGTON.

DON'T WANT RURAL DELIVERY OF
 MAIL AT ROMFORD.
 Rural Delivery Wasoriginally intend ed to accommodate those who live at remote distances from pOStotfice and is undoubtedly good thing in such places, but it is certain that those who live near postotfice are decidedly in favor of the old way, whereby they cln get their mail four times day at short notice, which is much more con- venient than once day and day late. A request is made that the rural delivery team be kept out of the place ii possible.
 It is quite possible there are as many white birches about Romford if not more than when it was known as Birch Plain. C. L. Hendel has many acres of them. They are being cut off to some extent for fuel. It is said they make good hoops when cut in the sum ner season. MT Hendel is now cutting hickory hoop poles; he is also repairing his barn with the help of Joe Cheney, Jr., and Leroy Cheney.
The Newtown bee., 1903-11-27

The new double house beside the Barnum, Richardson & Co. $ office, which was just lately finished, IS occu- pied by the families of Martin Finkle and William Murch.
The Newtown bee., 1903-11-27
LIME ROCK.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

OMiss Allie Stone has returned from the Pittstield hospital, where she had an operation for appendicitis, and is improving slowly
The Newtown bee., 1903-11-27
BANTAM.

LOCAL EPISCOPAL CHURCHES CALL A
 RECTOR.
 Rev John H. Jackson, who has for four years been rector of Christ church of East Haven, has accepted call to the rectorship at the Episcopal churches at Bantam and Milton.
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proving thanks to the skill of Dr J.. A. DOlan
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sediment or set ting indicates an , unhealthy condi- ton of the kid
 neys; if it stains your linen it is evidence of kid
 ney trouble: too
 frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also
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HOW THE THERMOMETER DANCED.
 The thermometer stood eight de- greeS above zero in the valley and two on the hills one day, last week, too cold to be comfortable away from a warm fire
The Newtown bee., 1903-11-27
ThousandscHave Kidney Trouble
 and Don't Know it.
How To Find Out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your water and let 1t stand twenty-four hours; a
The Newtown bee., 1903-11-27
FLOOD TAKES TEMPORARY BRIDGE
 DOWN STREAM.

The freShet of last week Tuesday, took the old Judd's bridge winch had been let down upon treStlewOrk for travel and aid in erecting the new iron one, down the river to the RoXbury mill dam. Travel is now by way of Church hill or Second hill. It is ex- pected the iron bridge will be quickly completed.
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SOUTH KENT.

John Monroe has been quite serious ly ill with pneumonia. He is now i'm
The Newtown bee., 1903-11-27

DON'T WANT RURAL DELIVERY OF
 MAIL AT ROMFORD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14
PORTO RICO'S OPPORTUNITY.

No island in the West Indies has done more
than Jamaica to guard against the disadvan-
tages which attend too narrow a range of pro-
duction. In the old days the energies of the
planters were almost entirely devoted to sugar
but with the fall i'll price Of that staple the
Jamaicans, with unusual enterprise, tried to d.
versify their crops. Their Blue Mountain cot
fee is famous, commands high price in Eng
land and is almost unknown elsewhere. They
have now more land under cultivation for coffee
than for sugar cane. and more for bananas than
for either Though their climate and soil are
not so we'll suited as those of their fellow
Britons of Trinidad to the growth of cocoa.
they raise a considerable amount. and they
have diligently made the most Of their own
peculiar indigenous product the pimentO, or
allspice and large quantities of oranges and
pineapples are exported. The hurricane, there
fore, is not likely to cause amy such complete
prOstration as would a similar disaster where
the people had practically only one economic
resource, as is the case in too many tropical
plantations. Nevertheless, the enterprise Of the
United Fruit Company, of Boston, has of re-
cent years contributed largely to the pros
perity of the island that the wholesale destruc
ton of the banana trees is likely to cause great
hardship and is likewise likely to interfere
with our supplies of tropical fruits in New
kets which draw upon these ports.
As one mans loss is often anotherS gain. it
may be expected that the Porto Ricans will
take advantage of this situation to develop their
own promising fruit industry. Our supplies
have been coming from jamaica because Of the
established traffic, but Porto Rico is equally
adapted to the cultivation of oranges and
bananas-in fact, considerable part of the
Jamaica orange crop is uncultivated, and
there are thousands of trees of the same kind
in Porto Rico whose fruit merely awaits mar
ket. Now that the Jamaican crop is cut off,
and it will take eleven months TO bring new
chance for the systematic exploitation of Porto
Rican fruits to supply the deficit. And if this
trade is once established and the Porto Ricans
are encouraged to perfect their fruit crop, and
their merchants and steamship lines handle it
properly, there is no reason why permanent
and profitable trade may not be built up.
Porto Ricans are improving il tobacco culture,
and are taking advantage Of the deterioration
under present trade conditions in many Old
brands OF Cuban tobacco to push their trade
here with selected customers, though the repu-
tatiOn of their product is hurt by q great deal
Of inferior tobacco which goes by their name in
the open market. If this success can be fol-
lowed up by the marketing of fruits in large
quantities, Porto Rico may be put still fur
Their on the road TO prosperity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14
MIR SHEEHAN AND TAnnANY.


No uneasiness need be caused by the reports
that John c. Sheehan is secretly seeking
alliance with Tammany. In the first place. Mr..
Sheehan denies them. In the second place,
while it is perfectly possible that many of his
followers who left Tammany, not so much be-
cause they disapprOved of the Tammany idea
of government as because they were dissatis-
fed with their share of the fruits of that idea,
may be ready TO forget old differences for
consideration. and while also it is perfectly pos
sible that Murphy's desire for aid against Dew
cry in the IXth District is great enough for
him 10 offer substantial rewards to the Shee-
hanites it is not clear how an organization
which has so often and recently denounced
Tammany as 4 hopelesSly wicked and corrupt
organization can turn around against an ad-
miaistration in which ii has had part and
confess itself the mere mercenary body which
Tammany has declared it to be. Moreover,
such a concern as would thus be exhibited
would hardly be worth purchasing by Tam
many. 1t would already be a mOribund body,
whose members were Tammany men at heart,
and its detection from fusion would do Tam
many little good and the reformers little harm.
In view of these circumstances, it is hardly
probable that any such alliance of organiza-
tons will take place. though some individual
Sheehanites may find the atmosphere of Tam
many Hall more congenial than that of the
moral height TO which Mr.. Sheehan has led
them in his zeal for pure government But
even If reformers feel that Mr.. Sheehan's de
mails are not to be taken at their face value
they need not be overmuch troubled. If Tam
many wants Mr.. Sheehan. il is not through fear
Of his Overpowering influence on the election.
but because he holds the balance Of power in
the Nth District, and Tammany fears the over
towering influence of Devery on the election
unless he can be beaten at the primary in his
own district If the Shechan organization is
merely a band of spoilsmen, rs it would prove
itself 10 be by going back to Tammany fusion
can get on better without 1t than with IT,
Tie power of fusion depends on the likeness
of aim and the moral purpose of It's adj
| herents. In the last municipal campaign
one Of the favOrite taunts OF Mr. Shepard
and his Tammany friends was that Mr.. Shee-
| ham was working merely 10 force himself
back into position OF influence in Fourteenth
Street. His political virtue was only stock
in trade held for a favorable market This
reproach broke the force of the moral appeaI
OF fusion 10 some persons who remembered
AR. Sheohan'S entire satisfaction with Tam
many until he suppanted by Richard
Croker i'm its leadership. If events should
prove that the ShepaFd-Tammany view of the
Sheehan organization was correct the fusionists
might well expedite its escape from them and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14
UNFORTUNATE JAMAICA.

Even had the destruction wrought by the
latest West India hurricane been confined to
Jamaica, its effects there would have made it
memorable visitation. That beautiful and fer
tile island seems to have lain directly in the
path of the centre of the Storm and was swept
from end to end with gales of awful fury and
those torrents of rain which usually accom-
pany true cyclone. Jamaica is famous for her
large crop of bananas and oranges. and the
plantations which produced the former have
been practically ruined. For the loss thus in
ficted $10O00O00 may seem a large estimate,
but it will not be surprising if these figures
grow rather than shrink when the truth is fully
known. If TO this injury be added the loss of
upward of fifty lives and a little damage to
vessels which could not be warned. it will be
seen that Jamaica has experienced a calamity
of formidable proportions.
In this affection her people will receive the
lively sympathy of those of the United States.
The island is a near neShbor of this country.
sells fully half of her exports here and is dom
mated by race closely akin to Americans.
Aside from the commercial aspects of the mis-
fortune. the latter is almost family affair.
The fact that little definite information was
Immediately available concerning the course OF
the storm for the next day or two after its work
in Jamaica was finished afforded no ground for
hoping that the disturbance had subsidized. On
the other hand, the narrow track slow progress
and wonderful duration of previous cyclones
justified the gravest fears. When the general
movement is only from ten to fifteen miles an
hour it is possible to lose sight of cyclone for
two or three days at time, especially when it
enters the Gulf Of Mexico without sharply re-
curvng to the northward or northeastward. Al
most the only thing which breaks up the or
ganization is an invasion of the continent. If
the storm strikes the coast at such an angle
that it can go inland two or three hundred miles
from any water, it may die out. There are
precedents for that behavior. IT, on the other
hand. a short cut across the Florida peninsula
brings it to the South Atlantic Coast it may
last for days. The whole history of the latest
cyclone has probably not been written.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14
Aep:9lork DaiIp G1-ibm1rs
FRIDAY. AUGUST IA, 1903.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-A general outbreak in Macedonia
is feared. as the popular unrest is increaslng'
a Bulgarian massacre is reported - Inc
CHILEAN Ministry resigned, and important poll
teal changes are expected in the government
- Alarming activity, following earthquake
shocks. was shown by Vesuvius, but experts
say there is no reason to fear serious DIS
aster. The Russian Government has
formed a new vice-royalty for the Far East,
taking in the Amur region and the Kang-Tung
Province. placing 1T under Nlce-AoInlrai
Alexief. - Pope Plus X was fully recovered
and went out driving and walking; in Pope
Leo's apartment large sum OF money, said TO
amount 10 several million francs. was found.
DOMESTIC.-There will be probably be an ex-
1raordinary session Of Congress in october, as
The result of a conference between President
Roosevelt and members OF the Senate Finance
Committee. - Washington received dis
patches from Colombia that that country would
amend and thus destroy the canal treaty. -=
Postmaster General Paine has decided to dis
miss NJ A. w. Louis for waste of ink and other
departmental supplies. -= Colonel Robert j.
Meade is to be retired in his present rank on
October 3, because of a disrespectful letter. -
The injuries TO the battleship Massa chusetts
which struck a rock off Bar Harbor. Me. were
found TO be more serious than were at first
believed. - General Wood. chairman of the
snti-barge canal convention. has named COM
mittee TO meet in syracuse on August u, TO
plan campaign to be conducted throughout the
State. - Norman l.. Mack said in Colorado
Springs that General Miles could be looked upon
rs q formidable candidate for the Democratic
nomination for President. - The grand jury
in Danvile. Ill, found true bills against eigh-
q
there. == The yacht Wenonah, owned by S.
N. Roosevelt was badly damaged in a collision
the Sound. and Mr.. Roosevelt and his
friends had a narrow escape.
CITY-Stocks were strong. Cuban
boy was brought here, after floating q week in
open boat without food water. = John
-. Sheehan denied reports that he would con-
fer with Charles A. Murphy, and said the
Greater New York Democracy would stand by
is platform and support fusion ticket. -
Many men associated with William Z. Dodge in
business and public life attended his funeral in
Riverdale. - Broadway business ap
pointed a committee to present the subway pro-
lest 10 Mayor Low. == The trial of Samuel j.
Parks the indictment for extortion was be-
gun before Recorder Golf in the Court of Cen
cral Sessions and was adjourned to Monday
after six jurors had been selected. - a man
from up the State died suddenly on the Brook
lyn Bridge. == woman sentenced TO
fourteen years in State prison for kidnapping a
child.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Partly cloudy. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, "A degrees; lowest, 80.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14

and the running gear, and whatever WOOD
is employed will be so treated as to be SUI
perficially fireproof. But the question arises
whether more wood is not TO be used than IS
absolutely necessary. and it has not been made
clear that the possibilities OF the hreproonns
art are to be exhausted. An electrical current
equal to the demands which subway trans
portation will impose is capable of generating
when ID escapes control heat intense enough
as Mr. Westinghouse has said. TO melt bar
of iron. 1t is probable that adequate protecuoh
against stray current under conditions other
wise normal has been provided in the COM
pany's plans, but 1t must be remembered that
collisions in the tunnel are conceivable, ana
that safeguards wnich would be effective in the
case of an unchanged car might be worthless
in the case Of a car that had been shattered
We do NOT suspect the Interborough man.
ayers of the slightest Indifference TO their OBJ
legations. but there is no Improperly in sug-
costing that. in the light Of the Paris disaster
they should review with scrTpulous care all
these questions of safety. even though they
may already have settled them to their complete
satisfaction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14

Chamber Of Commerce were ]. Perpont Morgan
Charles Lanier. James G-CannOn. Gustav H sch"s1
A Foster Higgins and George F. Seward AnlOIe
those who were unable to be present and sent tneS
regrets were Morris K. Jesup. John D. RockeIsI'-'
Andrew Carnegie. John T. Perry. James T Woo
ward John CIahin. Whitelaw Reid. Clement \
Griscom. John S Kennedy. Alexander J. Cassa'''
Marshall Field. George Wilson. J. Edward SIN
mons. John Harsen Rhoades. A Barton Hepburn
Anton A. Raven Charles 5. Smith, Alexander =
Orr and Cornelius y. Bliss.
The committee from the Metal Trades Assoc&l0n
consisted Of Frank Dickerson. OF the AneIlsA
Tin Plate Company; Mr.. Sharkey. 5 c van Duss-'
Charles s. Trench. Edmund Hendricks john :,
Williams Russell W. Mckee and b A. Cas+e
Representing the New-England Society were ~
mund Clarence Stednnan. George II. Sargent, AnIoH
B. Fletcher Cephas Brainerd and General 1honA-s
II Hubbard Representing the Museum OF NeL.le
History. scientific stan were Professors r. = wan.
neId. Anthony Woodward. f. NJ. Chapman a.
William FeupenrauHer and Director H g BNaap-'
homecoming the New-York Botanical Gardens va
Director y l. Britton. Representing the Aase -.
of Art were : P Avery John Bigelow - y $3.50. ia
can DIR. l.. ROvcrsi, Dr. y a rams @"-
n Willis lanes and James Mclean. or Fn .,sTs
DoIre q 60 Mr.. DOdge'S business - -.
were also present as we're aoolit on ~ DOdgs
WIS a director Among others present We Isiisg
u C'riunminS pelOS Bliss. or the Lolso - Sras
Company: James u Hague, or the v77(tli,sn, AZ.
NIinins- Comp.tny: Samuel s Palmer. Wii.l ar.t p
pleton General Alexander = Neop. 1870 ths
Morosint Wainwright Parrish. Bayaru Iiel,-sS rs
Rev Dr Schaufier. Of the CITY AlSsl Sss CHRIS
tfaD Association. which included y r.
r. G. Morse and Willard Longee'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14
N THE LIGHT or THE PARIS DISASTER.

N THE LIGHT or THE PARIS DISASTER.
Since the Paris disaster reassuring state
ments concerning various important features
Of the New-York underground railroad. its
equipment and rolling stock have been pub
lished on authority. The officers of the Inter
borough Company perceived at once the need of
quieting, so far they could, apprehensions
which were sure to be aroused by that shock
ing catastrophe, and they have fortunately
been able to furnish substantial assurances that
The danger Of such an occurrence here is ex-
ceedingIy remote.
Mr.. Belmont has just called attention in par
ticular to one fact which was not mentioned in
earlier comments. namely, that the motive
power OF the trains and the electrical current
for lighting the subway including the stations,
viii be supplied from entirely independent
sources, so that a disturbance of one will in
no wise affect the other. Obviously that ar
Tangement constitutes a highly valuable safe
guard. All the reports from Paris concur in
the statement that the tunnel lights went out
at once, and in the conclusion that the loss of
life was largely due to that circumstance. In
deed, it may reasonably be conjectured that if
the passengers, instead of being suddenly left
tn almost total darkness, had been able to de-
termine their surroundings and see their way
have failed TO escape. In that case they would
certainly not have beaten in vain against an
impossible barrier, they might in most in
stances have succeeded in avoiding the deauy
third rail, and the fatal panic which the condi-
lions made inevitable would probably have
been averted At least TO some extent More
over, the man in charge Of the motor which
originally broke down might Immediately
have comprehended the risk Of attempting
10 proceed contrary TO the regulations, aDd the
following trains have been stopped at safe in
1ervals. We are inclined TO think that no other
condition Of security on an underground rail-
road is more essential than separate motive and
Illuminating systems.
Il Is gratifying also 10 learn from drawings
and explanations that our underground sta
tons are 10 he more spacious and better ar
ranged than those Of Paris and that the sub
way Mill presumably be moro thoroughly
ventilated Nor is there any disposition 10
doubt the determination OF the Interborough
managers 10 make the operation Of the road as
safe IS possible in all respects They have great
interests at stake ana they cannot fail 70 rec
ognize their moral responsibility There is one
point however. on which their assurances may
not be regarded as entirely satisfactory. Their
description Of tho cars which they expect 10 put
in service shows that they will be practically
incombustible under ordinary conditions. They
arc to bc constructed in large part Of metal, q
nor-ccmbusllble sheGthing Of low electrical con
ductiyity IS to be interDosed between the floor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-14
". e. DODGES FUNERAL.
Many associates in Business and
Public Life Present. -

The funeral Of William Earl Dodge who died at
Bar Harbor on Sunday held the Riverdale
Presbyterian Church yesterday. The church
crowded. about three hundred persons attending.
and as many more persons forced to stand
outside
The service was conducted by the Rev. DR..
Charles Cuthbert HaE president Of the Union
Theological Seminary. and the Rev. DR.. a. Wood
ruff Halsey.
a special train was reserved for a large number
of friends of the deceased man. who went from
their downtown Offices TO be present at the ser
vices In all. thirty carriages containing four
persons each, arrived at the church from the train
BY special request there floral offerings at
the funeral. The only decorations were palms
ferns and orchids around and on the altar.
Tho service began with the singing OF Nearer
My God. Thee" by the MendeisSOhu Quartet
which was followed hy the reading OF Psalms
Then followed Il prayer by Or. HalsCy and sing
ing by the quartet and the congregation. Dr.
Han then said prayer. after which the Lords
Prayer was repeated BY Or. Hall and the cougre-
Cation The burial took place in the family vault
ia Woodlawn Cemetery
Among the members of the family NJ the funeral
the widow. Miss Grace II. Dodge and Mrs
William Church Osborn. daughters: Cleveland H.
Dodge a son; the Rev ID. Stuart Dodge. presi-
dent of the Presbyterian Board OF Home Missions;
General Charles G. Dodge. and Norman ". Dodge
brothers: Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge. a ssteT-in-law
and the Rev. DR.. Erskine y White. a cousin OF the
dead man, Arson q. p. Dodge another of Mr..
DodEe's brothers. OF Danve. H.. was too IN to be
present, and Miss Mary NJ. H. Dodge. daughter
is in England
Present at the services and representing the