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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03

In the suit. of the Associated Hat
 Ianufacturers versus the fifteen hat
 kanufacturers who failed to obey the T dictates of the organization, the re-
 belling companies have won prelim- mary sldrmish in having the attach
 ments on their property and bank ac- counts reduced to a substantial extent.
 The application for a reduction of the attachments was made before Judge
 Burpee last Wednesday and a decision was handed down yesterday afternoon
 wkich proved favorable to four of the
 applicants, but in four other cases the attachment was permitted to remain
 as before. The prayers of the other defendants were not heard by Judge i: Brrpee, who says in his decision:
 ''In the case against Simon & Kane, it appears that the real estate exceeds in value the amount of the ad dam mum. Therefore, all the cash on de- posit which is alleged to be about Ee11. 900. is released from the attach ment.
 'sIn the case of the Lee Hat Go. the agreed value of real estate is $10,000 1 the cash on deposit is s19,0S5.69. Of the latter item $3,0O0 may be released from attachment, and the attachment freduced to that amount
 ssIn the case of the Hawes-VanGa1 Co. it is agreed that the value of the real estate under attachment is $50,OOO, the cash on deposit amounts to $5,- 683. 56. All the cash on deposit Is re- lleased, and the attachment is reduced fto s35, 900.
 -AThe case against the S. A. G. Hat Co.,, the agreed value of the real estate under attachment is $48,00O. the cash 1 on deposit is $s,2374s All the money may be released from attachment, and the attachment on the real estate may De reduced to the sum of s30,00O.
 This order may take effect immed- Siately, and if deemed necessary, proper certificate may be prepared and sent me to be signed.
 'In the following cases. to wit: The }Deloherty Hat Co.,, the H. McLachlan ICo, the Hoyt- -Messinger Co.,, the kBlaird- -Unteidt Co.,, the agreed value of the property under attachment in each case, deducting incumberances, does not exceed the ad damnum in the tseveral cases. Inasmuch as an Oppor- tunity has been given to the plaintiff to show that the ad damnum does not exceed it's apparent claim in each ease kuo Tar as to render the attachment ex- jrcessdve, no order of release will be made at this time"
 The plaintiff organization was or dered to produce at the hearing last Wedn eSday a bill of particulars. or a circumstantia1 account of the damages sustained through the alleged breaches [of the by-laws of the association on the rart of the defendant companies. According to these bylaws each com pany neglecting to comply herewith lis liable to the central body for dam lages accruing in an amount not ex- needing $2O.000. Attorney Milton Da- mann of New York, who is the assist ant secretary of the Associated Hat Manufacturers, appeared as the plain tiff at the hearing. but could not give Ia satisfactory estimate of the dam ages and so the hearing went over i11ntil June IA, when the bill of particu- liars is to be presented
 When this bill of particulars is filed the trial proper will be begun, for (which the defendants have outlined tthree lines of defence. The. suit is
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
EARLY HARVEST;
 FOURTH VICTIMS
Special from- United Press.)

(Speclal IrOm~ OnlCeQ HTeSS-D
 New York, July 3.-The Glorious Fourth began to reap its harvest ear ly today in nearby towns where Young America, impatient of the wait till Monday, started the annual cannon ading. At Harrison, N. J., Edward Warning aged IT. died today from a wound in the head. He was trying to break a pistol that wasn't loaded" when his finger came in contact with the trigger. The bullet tore through his left eye and lodged in the brain.
 A Phillipsburg, N. J. Charles Giddens and Ellsworth Davis, each aged Is, were ramming a charge of dynamite into some homemade cannon. The charge exploded. Their fingers were blown off and their eyes so badly burned that it is feared both may lose their eyesight.
 John Talson, aged 15, of Orange, N. J., was demonstrating to a companion how his new pistol worked. The bull lett entered his left hand.
 Morris Gluck of 522 East 16th street, N Y., shot himself in the hand with a toy pistol today. The doctors at the Bellevue hospital have taken measures to prevent lockjaw.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
TALK OF GAYNOR AND BINGHAM
 FOR MAYORALTY
Especial from United Press.)


 New York, July 3.-"Politics'' is still the reigning cry in New York following the sensational dismissal from office of Police Commissioner Bingham and his deputies by Mayor Mcclellan. That the opponents of Tammany will make political capital out of the dismissal of Bingham is certain. Their plea will be that Bingham was dismissed at this time that the control of the police at election time might be turned over to a man who will bend more readily to the will of the Tammany leader.
 The committee of one hundred. an organization opposed first, last and all the time to the rule of Tammany Hall is speaking of Bingham as the Fusion Ticket for Mayor this fall. Tammany, it is believed, will nominate for Mayor this fall Justice William Gaynor, the Brooklyn judge who started the in vestigation which led to the downfall of Bingham.
 Former Inspectir Cartwright, known as the ''most honest copper in the world" but who is now retired on a pension has been offered the position as first deputy police commissioner but has declined to serve.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
HART MAY RUN
 JACQUES RESORT
Remonstrance Against Pro prietor of Koonchaug Inn Also Turned Down - Kuhn's Application Re fused.

The County Commissioners have granted the application of William Hart to conduct a saloon Tn the build ing formerly occupied by James Jacques in Water street. Hart's ap- p,ication was objected to by the Law Enforcement League of this city on the ground of the unsuitability of the place and the character of the appli- cant. At the hearing a number of the local police testified that the place, while still in Jacques name, was run by Hart as bar tender in a better manner than before, and in full keep ing with the character of the saloons in that locality.
 The Commissioners also granted the application of Dudley J. Stafford, pro- prietor of the Koonchaug Inn in Strat- ford. This place has been run for a number of years in an orderly man. ner, there being no complaint raised by the Stratford residents. The H- canse ran out, and the residents ob- jected tC the new owner.
 Casper Kuhn, who desired to conduct a saloon on Kings Highway, just over the city line. was given leave to with draw his application. A large num- Der of the residents of the much trav- ersed thoroughfare objected to the place.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
LIQUOR AND TEMPERANCE INTERESTS CLASH IN
 REAL LEGISLATIVE WAR
Early Closing Bill and Giving Women Right of Fran chise In Questions Pertaining to Liquor Traffic the Bones of Contention.

Hartford, July 3.-A review of the liquor legislation which has already passed both branches of the General Assembly, or which has passed one branch and seems likely to pass both, indicates that not since the time, many years ago, when a prohibition law making the state dry throughout it's entire length was passed, has there been such an onslaught, foot and cav airy, upon the liquor business. Three bills of unusual importance to the li- quor interests have already passed the House. One is the bill devised by Rep. Charles H. Peck of Stratford, which was favorably reported by the com mittee, and which has for it's object the ultimate reduction of licenses to one in 800 of population This bill is not as present drastic, and will not directly affect any person now en- gagged in the business. It has passed the house.
 But a bill more far reaching was passed by the House over the heads of the Temperance Committee, after it had been unfavorably reported. This is the bill giving women a vote upon any question relating to the liquor traffic.
 Its passage has already been noted in The Farmer. The house voted g. to 50 for the bill, after listening to an impassioned speech by Rep. Loos of New Haven, in which he said: Divine providence made women for uses more elevating than being dragged to the polls" To which Rep. Johnson of Newtown replied: "I am in favor of a bill which will give the women of Newtown a chance to vote against the sale of this damnable stuff.''
 The bill follows:
 Section 1. Whenever the ques-
 tion of the licensing of sale of spir-
 1tuous and intoxicating liquors, or
 any other question relating to li-
 quor traffic, shall be submitted to
 a vote of the electors of any mu-
 nicipalfty, the women of such mu-
 nicipality shall be permitted to
 vote upon such question under the
 same conditions as are provided for
 men, and the same qualifications
 shall be required of such women as
 are required of them for the pur-
 pose of voting upon educational
 matters.
 Sec. 2. The registrars of voters
 shall make a list of the women cleo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03

tors of their respective municipal
 1t1es, and women so registered
 shall be entitled to vote under the
 provisions of this act.
 And the house had already passed a bill leaving it to the voters of each town to determine whether saloons shall close at 10, Il or 12 D.. m.
 The house has also passed, in spite of the unfavorable report of the com mittee, a bill confning every person engaged in the liquor business to trade in the town in which he is licensed, as follows:
 Section 1: No person. firm, or
 corporation licensed to sell spirit
 uous and intoxicating liquors at re-
 tail only shall sell or deliver any
 spirituuos and intoxicating liquors
 outside of the limits of the town in
 which such person, firm, or corpor-
 ation is licensed to sell spirituous
 and intoxicating liquors.
 Sec 2. Any person convicted of
 violation of any provision of this
 act shall be subject to the penalties
 provided in Section 2712 of the
 General Statutes, and any officer of
 any corporation selling or deliver
 ing spirituous and intoxicating H. fquors in violation of the provisions
 of this act shall be subject to said
 penalties.
 One of the tensest struggles Of the, session is now being waged, to securea majority of the senate, between tho temperance lobby and the lobby rep resenting the liquor interests. It cen-l ters about the bill giving a vote to women, which is felt to contain e1e- ments very threatening to the contin- uance of license in many towns
 The brewers, who, working over a wider, field than the retailers, may be assumed to have better working knowledge of conditions than the lat- ter, do not very much fear the effect of the women's vote on license in the cities. They believe that the inertia of custom will keep women from the polls for years to come. s But in the smaller communities, where people are closer together and the battles be- tween the temperance and the liquor battalions are fought with greater ear- nestness, they fear that the woman vote would turn the scale in pracff-s cally every case.
 The attitude of the brewers toward' the closing law is much the same. They fear it's operation in small towns more than in the three large cities with their cosmopolitan population.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
HELD
 IN HEAVY BAIL
WITH PISTOL AND TIN BADGE HE
 NiPESONATTNG A DEFECTIVE
Fellow Returns to Apologize

Hlucky woman Tells in City Court
 Story Illustrating Her Nerve in Try
 ing Circumstances is Att
 tempted Rape; Bond $5,OOO.
 Mrs. Charles Ainsworth, a most es- timable woman, quietly told in the city court this morning a story which re- flected great credit upon her nerve and daring and which resulted in a finding of probable cause against Da- vid Flanagan, 5S Jones avenue, who was held in $5,OO0 bail for the Super for court, upon the charge of assault with intent to commit rape.
 Mrs. A1nSworth testified that Satur- day night, as she was upon the front porch of the comfortable home which her husband has built at 25 Ellsworth avenue, Flanagan approached, drew a pistol, showed a tin badge and claimed to be detective.
 "I have been watching you,' said tIanagan. I ought to arrest you or tell your husband"
 Mrs. Ainsworth brave1y ordered her terrifying visitor off the porch, nov ing at the same time toward the door, much Frightened by the display of the pistol. but determined to escape. At the doorway she fell. In the strug- gle which followed she succeeded in tiring her assaHant, who, perhaps, was 1IlSHl6nSo iDy the SOunQ or persons ap- preaching, and gaining the interior of her home slammed the door and locked it.
 With fmcomparable gall Flanagan, according to the testimony of the wit ness, appeared on the following Mon day evening, placidly seated himself upon the veranda and made an elabor- ate apology for his conduct
 The A1nsworths~ own their own home The husband is employed by the George B. Clark Co.,, in the furniture business They have a son 16 years old. Mrs. Ainsworth is a woman about 3S years of age, of dignified and matronly appearance.
 Flanagan is the same who was re- gently fined $20 in the Common Pleas court for accosting young woman on the street. He made a voluminous ex- planation to the court, from which it seemed apparent that he has, been hanging about the outskirts of the city watching women
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
FINES PROMISED
 TO CELEBRATIONS
 OF EARLY FOURTH
Judge Foster Does Not
 Make Exception of Youth ? Who Was Not So Treated
 in Meriden.

Judge Carl Foster said this morning that he wished to have it understood i, by all that he would tax a fine on all &ioIators of the Independence Day laws especially those who were so unlucky to be arrested for premature celebra tions. This morning he fined Leonard Prinnif sio of Willard street $1 and costs discharging pistol last evening. Prinnizzio discharged the fire arm within sight of Officer Ivers. who hauled him in. Prinnizzio explained that he did not understand the law in regard to the discharge of fire arms, that he came from Meriden where he was never arrested for enjoying him self on the Fourth
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
Bridgeport Musical Institute Closing Recital By Pupils
 Held This Afternoon.

The closing recital of the year of the violin and piano students of the Bridgeport Musical Institute was held this afternoon in the rooms of the in stitute in the Sanford building Miss Legere and MT. Finch of the vocal de- partment assisted the pupils, who are the Misses Sybil German. Alice An nias, Margaret Casey, Sarah Ryan, Jo- sephine Lynge and Marjorie Adams; and Master Joseph Tiesco and Master Sylvan Stein. The faculty of the in stitute, which will reopen Sept. 2, is composed of MT. Fritz K. G. Weber. MT. Otto Paul Schubert, and MT. Will liam E.. Haesche.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
TO IMPROVE PLANT
 $2OO,OOO RAISED
MACHINE COMPANY WILL MAKE EXTENSIVE IM- PROVENIENTS IN PACIFIC
 IRON WORKS PLANT.
Testing Room to Be Built
Company Has Leased Iron Works Plant Under Terms by Which Rem tai Goes to Purchase Price-Manu- fractures Are Automatic Machinery and Gasoline Engines.

and Gasoline Engines.
 An interesting history of the Auto matic Machine Company is given in connection with the marketing of s6O,- 900 of the preferred stock of the com pany which has been undertaken by Thomas c. Perkins, of Hartford. The company originally had a cap italization of s1OO.OO0 which is now to be increased by the issue of $2o0,- 900 of preferred stock. Of this amount $140,O0O is said to have been subscribed and paid for by F. J. Kingsbury, Jr., Norman Leeds, William R. Webster, Stiles E.. Goodsen, James Coulter( Thomas Coulter. Charles G. Sanford, Henry A. Bishop, William E. Burnham and others, all of Bridgeport; F. K. Curtis, of New York; and F. J. Kings bury, of Waterbury, and their friends.
 The balance is offered to the pub lie. the dividend of not less than z nor more than 10 per cent being re- lied upon to make the offer attractive. The proceeds of the sale will be used to make necessary changes in the plant of the Pacific Iron Works Co.,, which the company has leased, to make room there for it's equipment of the Automatic Machine Company, and to erect testing room for the gasoline marine engines which are an import ant item in the manufacture of the company. It is stated that the total combined earnings of the Pacific Iron Works company and the Automatic Machine company were, In 190S SAP, 900. The company manufactures special au- tomatic machinery, automatic. wire forming and metal forming machinery. power presses, and automatic thread ing lathes in addition to gasoline en- zines. The officers and directors of the company are: F. J.. Kingsbury, Jr., vice president and superintendent; James Coulter, treasurer and general manager; Norman Leeds, secretary; Stiles Goodsell, Henry A Bishop, Will liam E. Burnham and William R. Webster.
 1t is stated that the plant of the Iron works is leased under an agreement whereby the amount paid each year on the lease will be applied to the cost of the property so that in a period of years the entire property and assets of the iron works will revert to the company.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
BLOODY BATTLE
 BETWEEN REBELS
 AND LOYALISTS
Special from United Press.)


 Tangier. July 3.-News has just reached here of a, bloody battle fought in the desert on June 18th, between the Uladjema tribesmen, who are loyal to the throne. and the rebel Fl Roghis tribesmen. The battle waged from early morning until nearly dusk when a charge of the rebels put the lOyaliSts to utter flight. Both sides were armed with modern rifles and the rebels charged in the face of galling machine gun fire, using the bayonet at close quarters. The scene resembles shambIes' both the rebels and loyalists losing hundreds of men. The loyalists fought with fanatical zeal before flee ing but could not withstand the ter rible onslaught of the rebel forces.
 During the night large forces of the rebels in patrols, searched the field where the battle had been fought. and with their swords cut off the heads of every one of the wounded loyalists which could be found. Not single one escaped.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
HOW CITY, BILTZ
 CO.,, AND BILTZ EFT
 ALS., DO BUSINESS
BUT BY AMICABLE ARRANGE NENT, CITY HELPS PAY
 RENT
Hoisting Machine For Both

D I
 operation of Municipal and Private
 Enterprise Makes Contractors JeaI-
 ous.
 Charles F. A. Bi1tz, director of pub lie works, solved to-day one of the many municipal riddles, which have come into being during the present ad- miristrationsof the city government, by reciting the inter-relations between Biltz & Co. and the City of Bridgeport, between whom the energetic director of public works forms a nexus, which has been the admiration, and some other local concerns whose special business it is to build sidewalks, dig sewers and the like.
 Biltz & Co. and the City use and occupy the same dock for the purpose of unloading barges filled with crushed stone or sand, Those not posted on the complexities of municipal industry have wondered who owned the dock operated in such admirable co-opera- tion.
 The docsA is also equipped with 8 hoisting apparatus, which harmonious 1y unloads both the cargoes consigned to the municipality and the vessels consigned to Biltz & Go. There was dlInOSl dA SQudi diilOdhS O1 1OS-eJ upon the parts of observers to know. how harmony of relation was pre- served.
 When inquiry was made of Director Biltz, this morning, he unhesitatingly made full explanation.
 The dock, he said, is leased by Biltz & Co. for the term of five years. The use of the dock is leased to the city for a charge of five cents per ton levied on the weight of every cargo unloaded.
 The hoisting apparatus, he said, Is owned by the Lambert Hosting En- zine Company of Newark, N- J.
 MT. Biltz further said that the form CT cost of unloading cargoes was from 30 to 35 cents a, ton, including wharf age when city barges unloaded at the docks of the Bridgeport Motor Com pany It appears that now the cost. according to MT. Biltz figures. is 20 cents a ton
 So this is the story of how public industry and private enterprise move The only voice raised against so idyllic an arrangement was that of a man who holds high employment with competitfve I'd eE contractors. who dryly remarked:
 "A dock which Biltz & Company and the city of Bridgeport can proftably operate together could perhaps be more profitably operated by the city alone I assume that as users of heavy freight the city is by much the larger element in that transaction.
 "Then too there is the general inn propriety of such relationship" con- c1uded the speaker.
 But he may have been Jealous.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
KIDNAPPED CLARK BOY WILL NOT
 BE RETURNED
Special from United Press9

(Sp6C1dI HUH UIlIC0U fTOSS-J
 New York, July 3.-Carlton CArk or Carlton Kremer, the seven yea ord boy who was kidnapped from the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Robert Buch- anan in Dorchester, Mass, yesterday by Mrs. G. Kremer, of this city, will not be returned. MT. Kremer met his wife to-day and they have returned the boy to a summer home in the Adirondacks.
 Mrs. Kremer and hep husband are the legal guardians of the boy and say that they are within their legal rights in taking forcib1e possession of him. They are not willing, however. to risk his being taken by his mother. Mrs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
MAN LOOKING FOR, WORK MINGLED
 BY FREIGHT CARS

The ambulance was called to the East End freight yard at 4:50 o'clock this morning. Harry Johnson, who said he lived at 245 Main street, aged 45, was caught between two freight cars and badly crushed. He has con- tusions of both thighs, and is per haps internally injured. Dr. Kiernan had him taken to Bridgeport Hos pietl. Johnson said that he was look ing for work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
COLONEL MOVIK
 KILLED BY ONE
 OF HIS SOLDIERS

Nikolsoye, Siberia, July 3.-An at endant of the military canteen here fo-yay shot and killed Colonel Imovik of the quartermaster's department. Tnovfk had just rebuked the soldiers he met in the street for failing to salute him and the attendant. who witnessed the occurrence. drew his re- yolver and shot him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03

Maude Clark of Dorchester and vrf1 keep him out of sight and some actfoz can be taken Carlton has been kid mapped several times by both his mother, his father and his foster par ents. His father secured a divorce from his mother several years. ago The court gave the legal custody of the child to the mother and Clark later consented to a legal adoption by Mr. and Mrs Kremer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
RELIEF TRAINS
 FOR HOMELESS
 BY COBALT FIRE
(special from United Press.

(Spec1aI rom UnlteU FTeSSJ
 Cobalt, July 3.-Relief trains are be- ginning to arrive here from all over England for the assistance of the 1,COO persons made homeless by the fire which swept the northern part of the town yesterday. A local relief com mittee has been organized, supported by business men of the town, to handle the supplies. A government relief corps is on the way with a trainload of tents and blankets and the former city council has started two carloads of provisions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
WALL STREET
 TAKES DAY OFF

New York, July 3.-An of the ex- changes were closed today instead of holding their usual two hour session and Wall street took a day off The banks remain o pen but not much business was done
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03

PAPER HANGER AND PAINTER desires work; paper hanging, 29c dou- ble roll. Paper furnished. Sample books. Ceiling kalsomined. soc coat. Work guaranteed. Geatons, 223 Gil- bert street. F ID
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-03
FARMER WILL NOT
 BE PUBLISHED MONDAY

The Farmer will, in accordance with long established custom, omit publica- ton on Monday when Independence Day is to be observed.