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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-11-24
TO NEW YORK
N 0 B WITCH LINE

The water way the comfortable
way of travelling.
Steamers City Of Lowell and New
Hampshire - safe, staunch vessels
that have every comfort and conven-
fence for the traveller.
delightful voyage on Long Island
Sound and a superb view OF the wor-
derful skyline and waterfront of New
York.
Steamer leaves New London at IL ,.
n weekdays only; due Pier foot Of
East 22d st. 5.45 a. m. Mondays
cepted) and Pier 40. North River. .
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Fare Norwich to New York $I.75
Write or telephone W. ]. PHILLIPS.
Agent. New London. Conn. augsd
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-11-24
STOCKS.

Sales High. Low. r1o,.
700 Alrs chalmoss pfd ....-. 54& 5Sx 54A
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
Explorer Cook Found
 New Haven Young Man

New Haven, Sept 3.-Dr Cooks story of his return from the north pole makes it clear that he found liar ry Whitney, the wealthy New Haven man who started last year with Com mander Peary. For months word from young Whitney has been anx- iously awaited here. Dr. Cooks mar rative makes it clear that Whitney is safe.
 Harry Whitney sailed with Peary on the Roosevelt on July g, 1908. Frank Carnegie. nephew of Andrew Carnegie, was to have gone with him, but de- clined a few weeks before his depar- ture. Before he went Whitney said he would hunt in Grants Land and would preserve specimens for the Bronx Park collection.
 He left the Roosevelt at Etah and went hunting for musk oxen. He was left in charge of a supply of provis- ions for Dr. Cook should he be found.
 Harry Whitney is a son of Stephen Whitney of this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
connection between comets and me teors is matter of great interest,"
 Ralph B. Larkin in North American Review.
HChofrN

Churchgoers who follow the service in their prayer books would certainly miss the dear old phrase'' concerning "quires and places where they stng, and in time the old fashioned "quires" may be made new fashioned again by the coming of rationalized spelling. "Choir" was most unnecessary out rage upon the language. The old Eng fish ''quer' or quere" became quite naturally "quyer" or "quire," and so itremained until the end of the seven teenth century, when somebody seems to have introduced choir bcause it looked more like the French ''choeur," as if that were a valid reason. There could have been no danger of confus- ing a church "quire'' and "quire" of paper, which is a different word, the French "cahier." probably from Latin "quaternarirm." collection of four leaves.-London Standard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
ROBERT HAWKINS ITO OPEN NEW
 FLORAL SHOP
Popular Young Bridgeport CT Has Taken Quarters in Stratfield Hotel Building
 Opening Day Fomor- row Has Had First Class Training.

With the advancing tide of business houses moving north, in Main street about the neighborhood of the Strat- field Hotel there will be opened to- morrow morning one of the most mod ern and well equipped florist stores in this part of the state. Robert H. Hawkins for IS years with the firm of James eHoran & Son in the capacity of manager and recognized as an ar list in creating floral designs will own and operate the new business.
 The new retail florist shop will be in the Stratfell Hotel building a few doors south of the main entrance to that hostelry Interior decorators have finished the store in white and green to add to the beauty of the mass of flowers always to be kept ready and fresh for the public. A special ice box to keep flowers has been installed and the latest and im- proved cartons for packing flowers for shipment to distant points have been received Inspection of the store the charm always to be found in a we'll and artistically stocked floral shop an exceptional and rare number of flowers will be on view to-mor- row.
 Robert H. Hawkins, the owner of
 
 city, born here and educated in the public schools. He is a graduate of the Bridgeport High School. Nearly a score of years ago while still at school Mir Hawkins went into the en- ploy of the firm of James Horan & Son. He was brought up in the bus mess and while learning the details of the trade mastered the science of horticulture a subject necesSitating years of study. A natural artistic ability in the. arrangement of flowers SO as to gain the best effects devel- oped in him and for years he has been an expert designer. MT. Hawkins rose to managership of the firm and in that capacity has served the peo- pie of the city for several years.
 In the new store in the Stratf1eld Ho- tel building MT. Hawkins will make it a point to decorate f1orally weddings, banquets and dances. He will per sonaIly look after the making of floral pieces for funerals and in the shop will carry al complete line of cut flow CTS, ferns, palms, etc.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
Strikino a. Comet,

If we ask the effect of comets striking the earth we will readily see that if the head of the comet were com posed of powders a collision would have disastrous consequences. A rain of millions of great meteoric stones would. of course. bring catastrophe. If, however. it were merely d rain of small particles or dust we might never become conscious of it. for the parti- cies would never reach us. They would
 be fused into gas through friction with our atmosphere many miles before reaching the surface. If the gases lib erated by friction were in excessive volume we might suffer discomfort or even disaster. It is estimated that hundreds of millions of meteoric parti- cles strike our atmosphere every day. This would be a serious matter if W.
 were not protected by our great shel- tering envelope of air. Occasionally a meteoric powder is large enough to resist the heat generated by this fric- tion and reaches the surface This we cali q nletcorite. The now established
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
Tho Baby Turtle.

Turtles lay their eggs in the sand and let the sun hatch them out. They do not lay them all in one place prob ably because they think. it safer to scatter them. Then. even though one be stolen or broken, the others may es- cape The mother turtle covers them all carefully ep, one after another, with a thin sprinkfing of sand and then ap- parently never gives them another thought, considering her maternal duty done. Certain it is that she has never been discovered going near these egg babies again. and when they hatch at last the tiny soft backed creatures at once begin crawling around in search of flies and other food as independent ly as if there were no such thing as a mother in the world A little girl who found one of these odd oblong turtle eggs on sandy river bank in Louisi- ana took it home and put it in teacup on the table for safe keeping. A few hours later slight noise was noticed in that direction, and on looking in the cup again she found a baby turtle, full fedged, but tiny, scrambling about among the bits of it's broken eggshell cradle.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
DIES AS HE LAUGHS
 OVER FUNNY STORY.

Yonkers, N. r., Sept. 3.-Frederick St tockholm, who broke both his legs in an unusual accident at the Otis Ele- vator Works on August 23, died yes terday in St. Johns Hospital. It was thought that he was recovering rap- idly. Death was due to heart failure and came suddenly as the injured man sat propped up in bed reading a news paper to several of his fellow patients He had just read a funny story to them and they were laughing heartily when the nurse saw him put his hand to his, heart and gasp. She ran to aid him and found that he had died in- stant1y.
 Stockholm was an engineer and had been in the employ of the Otis conn pany for many years. On the day of the accident he was leaning over a table when his hands slipped and he fell forward and sank to the floor When other workmen reached him they were surprised to find both his thigh bones broken. pr. Barnes, who was, summoned from St. Johns Hos pital explained that Stockholm had been the victim of one of the rarest accidents known to surgery. The ssur- geon explained that when Stockholm slipped the powerful muscles of his thighs contracted involuntarily in an attempt to restore his equilibrium and the sudden strain snapped both bones
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
rcoekades and Buttons,

The cockade originated simply in the
 knot of ribbons or strings by which the broad flaps of the seventeenth cen tury round hat were cooked" or drawn up to the brim in fine weather, and thus originated the three cornered hat as we'll as the cooked hat of later times. There was nothing specially military about the usage, as the ig- norant assert. The same strings sur vive in the loops of the hats of bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries in Great Britain, in the strings of the hats worn by French cures and Span ish and Italian padres and in the cords which are still seen on the hats of some livery servants
 It naturally became the custom for military men to 'cock'' their hats with the livery color of the prince they served, and as the Hanoverian color was the convenient one of black the !'black cockade" became associated in the minds of the people with military uniform In an old Scotch song of Shirra muir, citing "Woodwords Her aldry,' we read of "the red coat lads with black cockades," and a knot of white ribbons was naturally chosen as the badge of their opponents. When the old use of the strings was forgot ten the knot. in the form of a rosette of ribbon, survived. just as did the buttons on the backs of our coats, which were intended to fasten back the flaps in riding or marching.-"Jus- tice of the Peace"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
YOU'LL FOR TT AT KLINEs S
RECORDS SMASHED
 BY THE LUSITANIA
(snectal from united Press)

,=f Especial from United Press
 New York, Sept. 3.-The -Four Day Boat has arrived and the master minds of shipbuilding and machine building must strive toward the Three Day Boat When the giant Cunard liner Lusitania, flashed past the Ambrose Channel lightship off Sandy Hook at 4:42 o'clock yesterday afternoon and came dashing down the bay with great burst of speed to- ward Quarantine, every transatlantic record, save that Of a single days run, had been smashed and the -Four Day Boat had been established.
 The Lusitania covered the distance from Daunt's Rock, out of Queens town, to the Hghtship off the Ambrose Channel in 4 days, Il hours and 42 minutes. cutting down the record made on August 19 by the Mauretania by ? hours and 56 minutes. The great ves- sel averaged 2585 knots an hour dur ing her run.
 There is great rivalry between the LusitAnia and the Mauretania, though both are of the same line, and the Cunard officials are wondering what Captain Pritchard Of the Mauretania will do with the record on his next trip. Here is the record of the Lusi- tania's passage:
 Left London Saturday; left Queens town on Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock and landed in New York last night at sundown.
 It was 15 years ago that the six day boats gave way to the five day boats. Now the five day boats give way to the four day boats.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
High Explosive in the
 Coal of English Warship
Special from United Press.)

(Spectal rom Un1tedt PreSS.)
 London, Sept. 3.-The Admiralty of flee is in state of consternation fol lowing the latest discovery of a great amount of high explosive in the coal in the bunkers of H. M. $. Forward, one of the crack fighters of the navy. Three similar discoveries have been made in the coal bunkers of other vessels and the investigation which was at once instituted proved that the explosives found were not similar to that found in the other vessels. The theory that the explosive had been ac- cidentalIy left in the coal at the mines is not borne out. The fact that this is the fourth" occurrence of a similar nature, too, has to the minds of the naval officers revealed a widespread plot to destroy some of the finest ships in England's navy.
 Positive instructions have been rush. ed to every captain in the British navy to look out for explosives in his coal bunkers and to run down the criminals at all costs. The Admiralty has announced that it will not stop until it has solved the mystery, and the shrewdest operatives from Scot land Yard have been detailed on the case.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
IS MRS. FORBES A VICTIM OF
 BLACKMAIL?
Husband of Defendant In $75,O00 Action May Hold
 Trump Card
Wife of Chauffeur Rowley Alleged to Have Written Intimidating Letters to Mrs. A. Holland Forbes.

It is possible that A. Holland Forbes of Fairfield who is one of America's foremost balloonists will retaliate in the suit brought against his wife by Miss Ida Rowley of Brooklyn by bringing proceedings against Mrs Forbes accuser. MT. Forbes will first try to ascertain if Mrs. Rowley is of sound mind. MT. Forbes told Far mer reporter last evening that he thought Mrs. Rowley was crazy be- cause of the letters she had been writ ing to Mrs. Forbes suggesting that she could be kept quiet for a finan- cial settlement. One letter he said, stipulates that $500 would be an ac- sceptab4e figure. esI.
 Mir. Forbes was not surprised when the suit for S75,0 900 followed the let ters to his wife and told the Farmer blackrnail. Rowley, the kchauffeur, he said, had rot been in. the employ of the family for over two years. MT. Forbes said that he had never met any of the demands of the Rowley woman and although 1t was a dis agreeable matter to be the mark in such a case he had assuraHces from his lawyers that with the evidence he had in his possession that the. case was not dangerous. 45
 Mrs. Forbes told the Farrner repOr- ter that besides being blackmail the suit was ridiculous She said that although it was disagreeable MT. Forbes and herself had agreed that it could not be helped if they had been selected as the targets for someone who wanted money. Mrs. Forbes was of the opinion that Mrs. Rowley's failures to realize from the letters she had written had made her ugly.
 Asked about the 56t letters which Mrs. Rowley claims were written by Mrs Forbes to her husband Mrs. Forbes said if there were any such letters they must be manufactured. For any furt her information she re- ferrred the reporter to MT. Forbes.
 If MT. and Mrs. Forbes are being made the targets for a blackmailing- scheme they will not be found to be easy marks for the man who takes. long balloon trips is not easily scar ed I 4
 Mr. and Mrs. Forbes spend a great deal of their time together. They are very wealthy and reside in the grand old Burr mansion in Fairfield which Mrs. Forbes has had placed in splendid condition. Very little cre-r dence is given here or in Fairfield to the charges made against Mrs. Forbes
 MT. Forbes said. 1.-The least said about the entire thing the sooner it will be forgotten"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
TOOK OWN LIFE AFTER QUARREL
 WITH WIFE
Sponse With Infant Had Left Home Be.
 cause of Husbands Threats.

Because the eleven months of his married life had been eleven months of constant auarreling with his wife, Gabriel Biro, a native of Hungary, re- siding at 351 Spruce street, determined to put an end to it all last night. It is suspected that be intended to kill his wife and one month old baby, and, prevented from carrying out his mur- derous design, he turned his revolver upon himself and committed suicide.
 Until two months ago Biro was em- ployed at the West End plant of the Crane Valve Co, but gave up his job because he had learned that his wife had received some money from her people in the old country. He decided that he need not work any longer and when his wife pleaded that they would have use for the money in the dark days of the future, he answered her. by showing a revolver and saying that that would put an end to their trou- bles- when the time came. Quarrels we're frequent and although. John Dova, a boarder in the Biro home, often acted as peace maker, the cou- pie were gradually growing apart.
 When the baby boy came a month ago Biro agreed to go to work and secured employment at the Malleable Iron Works. For a time happiness reigned, but last Wednesday the hus- bands violent temper showed itself again and Mrs. Biro was forced to leave home. She went to live with her sister-in-law at the corner of Spruce street and Bostwick avenue. It was there that Biro found her last night about o'clock and asked her to return home with him. She refused and he then attempted to drag her forcibly from the house. At this point Mrs. Stew Kundrath, the sister in-law, interfered and Biro realinz that his attempt to regain his wife was in vain, rushed into the rooms she had rented on the opposite side of the hall and shot himself in the head. .s
 The amb ulance was called, but on it's arrival death had come. Medical Ex- an1iner Downs and Coroner c. B. Will son investigated the case today.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
The Last Matinee Excursion.

The last matinee excursion of the season to Port Jefferson. New 4ork on the steamer Park City. Will pc giv- an to-noorrow. the steamer leaving the wharf at the foot of Fairfield avenue at it's usual time. 1:30 p. m: This trip takes one hour and a half each way and is a most pleasant and delightful saM The time allowed at Fort JefIer- son is one hour and thirty minutes, the return trip being made from Long Island at 4:30 o'clock. arriving in Bridgeport at 500. The Lyric orches- ira will furnish one of it's excellent concerts. Special round trip tickets re sold for this occasion. children un-' der twelve years of age. half fare.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
POINTS OF INTEREST.
schwaben Renefit societv

Schwaben Benefit Society
 will hold their annual Volkfest and Pfcnic Schwaebischer Maenner Chor Hall afSd Grove. Labor Day. Sept. 9th.
 Final Clean Up Sale
 at B. H. Dillon & Co.,, 11o5 Main St. ribbons, shirt waists, petticoats coat suits, auto coats and auto veils at a fraction of their cost price.
 Fresh From the Churn.
 Butter that is new, sweet and rosy, right out of the churn. This is what we call a bargain. Full cream cheese mild and very rich. Native eggs that are new laid and reliable. New York State and Long Island eggs warrant ed strictly fresh. Boston Coffee the famous 1775 brand. Good coffee. Choice teas. The Peoples Dairy, 13o State St. Telephone Geo. A. Robertson, 589
 Our Fall Hats
 The man, who comes to Library Corner. with preconceived ideas as to what he wants in a Hat-will have no trouble in satisfying himself The will find choosing easy, for we've all the new, correct Fall shapes here-and we'll take pleasure in assisting him i'll selecting a becoming Hat-at a price that will be willingly paid. The "Guyer'' as usual, heads the Hat pro- cesaon. The hats that fit any head, because they are self conforming. Derbies and Soft Hats in the wanted shapes and shades Smart styles for young men. Fall Overcoats, Fall Suits, Underwear. Neckwear, Hosiery. School Suits for Young Men and Boys, In short, everything for Autumn wear except shoes. John F. Keane & Co., Main and John streets, Library Cor ner.
 Our Specials for Saturday
 are full of interest to the prudent buy CTS. Choice legs of lamb, choice legs of mutton, choice forequarters of lamb, choice sugar cured hams, choice sugar Choice chuck rib roasts, choice pot roasts, choice fresh shoulder clods choice corned beef choice rib roasts. All other cuts of beef at low prices. We have a large stock of choice lambs and choice milk fed veals We have this week a large lot of very choice native broilers and native fowls which we dressed ourselves; they are very nice, also Western fowls, stewing fowls, Long Island ducks, fancy roast ing chickens and turkeys. few gro- cery specials: Medium prunes, B. c. corn flakes, Shaker salt. sapolio. pumo soap, ozone soap. We have fine as- sortment of fresh native vegetables this week, a, few of the specials in this department: Lima beans. evergreen GOTH, Op<1IlISH OillOnS, CdulllOWef wa termelons, pickling cucumbers. A large lot of fine cantaloupes, genuine rocky lords. burreH gems from Colo rado and sweet native melons. Our bakery goods are growing more popu- lar each week and we will have a large variety for Saturday. In our fish de- partment we have everything in sea food. Bridgeport Public Market and Branch. State and Bank streets, East Main street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
AEROPLANE HAT
 LATEST CREATION

Chicago, Sept. 3.-The National As sociation of Retail Milliners assem- bled at the Fine Arts Building last night launched the aeroplane as the new style of f1eadgear, put a ban on the peach basket hat and decreed the tIree-cornered hat of the Louis XVI days as the proper bonnet for the coming Winter months.
 The new creation in millinery re- semk1es an airship in shape, having two long feathers on either end and a curved rim. It's dimensions are 20 by IS inches, and because of it's light trimmings it weighs considerably less than a pound. S
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
WAGON WITH GIRLS RUN DOWN BY
 FREIGHT TRAIN
fsnecial from united Press. i

Altoona, Pa, Sept. 3.-Two girls were perhaps fatatlly wounded and IF other young women and men were badly hurt early today while returning from a corn roast at Flower Springs. Their wagon was run down by a freight train at a grade crossing of the Penn sylvania road. The young people were all from Williamsburg.
 Not one escaped cults. spfains and Edna Snively and Doro- thy Henderson will probably die They were dragged for some distance when the horse attached to the wagon ran away after the wagon had been Knocked over a steep enbankment by the train
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
Locked Shah ln House of commons.


 A shah of Persia, who made state visit to England in 1873. had curl ous experience in the distinguished strangers gallery of the. house of com mons. He soon got tired of watching the legislators at work, but when he made a move to go he was told he could not leave the gallery. It hap pened at that moment that a division was called, and in accordance with the practice which then prevailed all the doors of the house were locked until the vote was taken. Mir Gladstone made an interesting comment on the incident. Ut is, he, wrote in his jour nal. probably, or possibly. the first time for more than 300 years that foreign sovereign has been under per sonal restraint of any kind in Eng land. Westminster Gazette.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
COUNTY BAPTISTS
 71ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE

At the Second Baptist church Wed nesday and Thursday, Sept. 22-23, the seventy-first annual gathering of the Baptist churches of Fairfield county will be held. Rev. Arthur Locke of Stamford will preach the annual ser- mon. Rev. J. Wilbur Richardson of Stamford is the moderator of the gath ering and Rev. George Sauer of this city, clerk. An interesting program has been arranged for afternoon and evening of both days
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
E. H. Dillon Home

Edward H. Dillon of the firm of F. H. Dillon & Co.,, the large Main street millinery concern, has returned from his annual European trip. MT. Dillon spent his time in the fashion centers of the continent and brought back with him the latest Partisan ideas for fall and winter head dress.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03
E. H. DILLON & 60. !!9s !@9 Main s
 LEADING MILLINERS
 Final Cleanup Sale of Summer Millinery

Trimmed Hats, Untrimmed Hats Flowers, Ostrich Fumes, Willow Fumes, Ribbons, White Lawn Shirt Waists White and Ecru Net Waists, Black Silk Waists Percaline Heatherbloo and Taffeta Silk Petticoats Washable Coat Suits, Auto Goats and Auto Wells at fraction of their cost price Everything must be sold with in few days to make room for Fall merchandise
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-03

Dr. Abernethy, the great English physician. said. Watch your kidneys. When they are affected. life is in dan ger'' Foley's Kidney Remedy makes healthy kidneys, corrects urinary ir regu1arities. and tones up the whole system. F. B. Brill. local agent.