Connecticut western news., 1907-07-25
News of
 A Week

lie hereafter to address him as Doe" in recognition of the degree of doctor of letters conferred upon him by OK ford university. Mark Twain arrived in New York on the steamship Minne- tonka, fresh from his four weeks of triumphal march through England. Twain said he had a delightful time abroad. his one regret being King Ed. wards refusal of his bid for Windsor castle. The Britishers, from the king down to the editor of Punch. kept him so much on the jump he did not have time to get homesick, but when Staten Islsnd mosquito flew out to greet him near Sandy Hook he felt the first pang of nostalgia. Twain was at- tired in his famous suit of white fam nel, with yachting shoes and white Ascot tie and, as he explained. "halr to match" He was discovered with his arm around Dorothy Quick. nine years old, daughter of Mrs F.. c. Quick of Plainfield N. I. The little girl was his fast friend during the voyage, and Twain expressed his delight with her childish loveliness. He was seated in big chair on the promenade deck when he received the reporters "I want you boys to help me in slipping the Ascot cup through the customs" he said. You know. I got that the day l landed in England. and fear the English will never forgive me for pilfering that property. want to deny the report that I was responsible for the theft of the Dublin state jewels. I have too much of the Amer. ican spirit to perform the clumsy, half finished job of that Irish thief. Con tent with jewels to the value of $5o.- GOO. he left the safe"
 The Connecticut yacht Mary Belle, which, with party of eleven on board, was caught in the terrific storm Satur. day night and given up for lost, was lowed into the harbor at Bridgeport by one of the tugs which was sent out by Harbormaster Morris to search the waters of the sound. The Mary Belle had been drifting pbout for more than forty-eight hours. and those on board had narrowing tales of suffering to re- late. The girls as we'll as the men on board helped man the pumps. and by steady work the water was repelled all the long night and the following day. There was only n small quantity of provisions on board, and the party suf. fered from hunger and thirst Those on board included John IT. Levander, the owner: Mir. and Mrs. George Blinn, Miss Grace Blinn, Miss Alice Gleason, Miss Lillian Jones, Mrs. Anna Gnsfney, Daniel B. Drake, William k. Bray and George K. Peate.
 Hugh Mclean of Chelsea, Mass. by winning the thirty mile event, the last in n series of middle distance motor paced bicycle races at the Revere cycle track, became the champion of Amerl- ca by q score of thirteen points in his favor. James Moran of Chelsea was second, with eleven points, and Bobby Walthour of Atlanta, Ga. who was last years champion, was third, with nine points. Mclean won the contest in 44 minutes 49 2-5 seconds.
 Governor Hughes sent to the senate for confirmation tie name of Mortimer Grant Barnes, n we'll known civil en- gineer of New York city, to be mem Der of the board of advisory engineers lOI lhS St tdhul dA a sdthis Ri $7,500 in place of Elmer l.. Corthelt resigned. Mir. Barnes is a graduate civil engineer of the University of Michigan.
 Secretary William K. Devereux has sent out a call for the New Jersey state Democratic committee to meet In the Coleman House at Asbury Park on Saturday at II a. m. Preliminary arrangements for the campaign fo. governor are to be made. The date for holding the state convention will probably be fixed for September. t+
 An important bill signed by Governor Hughes of New York provides for tha arrest and commitment as a vagrant of any person who has been more than once convicted as Il pickpocket, thief or burglar and having no visible means of support who shall be found lettering in any public place without a satisfac- tory reason for his presence.