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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26

Commerce Commission and it's rates are subject to reduction by the com mission, it's books to audit. It cannot issue watered stock in Massachusetts. It must make annual reports to Massachusetts.
 Why should 1t not do the same things in Connecticut and be obedient to laws as excellent as other states have.
 What reasons can be assigned why gas, water, electric light and other public service corporations should not also be denied the right to water stock, be also subject to audit and be also required to make annual re- ports, as they must in New York, Mas sachusetts and many other states. It is the law that a public service corporation is entitled to no more than a fair profit on its investment But, if it can water it's stock it can beat the law. share of watered stock is lie about the investment. Millions of such lies have been plac- ed in the hands of innocent purchas- CTS, and the people of Connecticut are l required to pay the wealth of prin- cipalities annually to meet the divid- l ends declared upon such lies. One further argument advanced by MT. Vincent, against audit, publicity and prevention of stock watering may be considered. It was his asser- tion that the people are mainly inter ested only in the service given by public servive corporations, and not in the price charged by them.
 This might be true in a community of nniIlionaires, but it is against com mon experience in the world of ordi- nary men.
 Many men would undoubtedly pre- fer porterhouse steak who are com pelled to buy round steak. The com p1afnt is both to the quality of the gas and the size of the gas bill: to the smell of the water and the charge made for it. The demand is for a seat for every passenger and six tick cts for a quarter.
 The people are interested in the charge that a public service corpora ton makes for its commodity, and any statement to the contrary is merest buncornbe
 In what is here said there is no pur- pose to reflect upon Senator Manwar- ing. He is, as he himself has said "a layman. It cannot be for a moment supposed that he understood the true nature of the tentative bill. During his service in the senate he was at all times in favor of an honest bill, and there is no reason why he should change now, except through error.
 Yet Senator Manwaring must thor oughly understand that if he should continue to believe that the appeal clause of the tentative bill is "a good thing" and if he should continue to believe that stockwatering ought not be prevented, and that the accounts of public service corporations ought not to be audited, and that they ought not to make annual reports, he will be just as much an opponent of the reg ulation of public service corporations as any man can be.
 The Farmer cannot admit the charge of lacking civic pride. It would glad ly support an honest public utilities bill, coming from Bridgeport.
 But it cannot support a measure whose endorsement by the business men will mean that a great movement has been slaughtered in the house of it's friends.
 One question presses for answer
 What lawyer prepared the tenta- tive bill?
 Who will answer this question?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26
PAT cROWE'S PHILOSOPHY
 ON THE PRODIGAL SON
osrecial from United Press.)

Washington, April 26.-Though he tsays he seblew into town merely to see the sights" Pat Grove. former kid napper and general outlaw is here to- day lobbying for the prodigal son"
 4fE'or twenty years was an outlaw, ? raid Grove today sWe all know the story of the prodfga1 son. What is Congress to do with these poor fellows? Let the prisoners help to build up the country. Contract labor in prisons should be abolished ands prisoners put to employment where they could be conscious Of paying their debt to so- ciety. Here are 400, GOO unfortunates willing to jump in and do theirs.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26
THE SMITH MURRAY GO. Wool Dress Goods
UPHOLSTERY DEPARTMEN1

Some specially 
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 for Sash Colored md
  Portieres, a
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26
AuLITIANIAN FINED
 FOR THEFT OF DOG.

John O'Connor, the young militia man of Highland avenue, paid a. fine of $5 in the city court today for theft of a bull dog from Mrs. c. Donovan of State street, near Fairfield avenue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

A very pleasant surprise was ten bered William B. Marsh at his home, Al Henry street, Sunday evening, it being his 18th birthday. A most en- 5oyable evening was spent in games and songs and recitations- Among those present were Mir and Mrs, Aims of New York, MT. and Mrs. c. Com Kserts Of Port Chester. N. Y., MT. and Mrs F. Eng1ehart of New Haven, MT and Mrs H. Anderson of Derby, and the Misses Lydia Williams of Long Is- land City. Miss M. Gomperts of Port Chester, F. Donne11y of this city, and Mrs. A. Williams of Long Island City.
 Mrs. Calvin Hull will entertain a number of prominent musicians at her handsome Black Rock home next Sun day. Among the guests will be MT. Alfred DePew, organist at Wanamak- er's. Miss Caroline Hudson, soprano, who recently appeared before the Wed nesday Afternoon Musical Club in this city, and MT. and Mrs. WiiliaR0E. HuIse Of Fairfield.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
OIL AND GAS INDICATIONS
EXCITE SMITH MOUNTAIN

DINUBA, June 12.-Whle very little
is being said, work is going steadily
on the development well that is being
put down on land near the California
vineyard northeast of Dinuha, near
Smith mountain, for the prospecting
of oil The rig is steadily going ahead
and good progress is being made. Op-
tions have been taken on number
of tracts near here by Los Angeles
persons and it is fully expected that
oil will be discovered in paying guam
titles.
SO certain are those interested in
this development work that they point
to the indication of oil found in the
neighborhood where gas is escaping
from the ground in such quantities
that it makes the water bubble where
it comes up, and 1t is even stated that
the gas is sufficiently strong to flash
when a match is applied.
That this community is likely to
have an oil boom in the not distant
future seems certain. Another oil rig
is at work on the east side of Smith
mountain just two miles north of the
town of Orosi and satisfactory work
has been attained here This rig was
working out south of Orosi for a time
and all at once the we'll was stopped
and the rig taken north, as stated. 1t
is understood the south well was sunk
about 800 feet, but no information can
be obtained as to the probable results.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
WIRES FROGS HNID LEGS
TO DEVELOP FRONT ONES
Jersey Man Plans to Double the
Market Value of Hoppers

NEW YORK, June 12.-Levi Brans-
kill of Centreville, N. j., who achieVed
more than local fame a few years ago
by developing a breed of chickens with
one leg longer than the other so that
when they get into the neighbors' gar
dens they scratched about in q circle
doing little or no damage, and VINO
conceived the not altogether successful
scheme of crossing lightning bugs with
his bees so that the latter would work
at night, has evolved another profitable
project. 1t. is the production of a frog
which shall have forelegs as long ana
muscular as it's rear eXtremities.
Brunskill has devoted considerable
time to catching and marketing frogs
for Newark In the past year. In 1act'
ever since his scheme for constructing
concrete peglegs for crippled inmates
of the county almshouse who were
prone to whittle the wooden ones was
rejected by the board of freeholders,
he has been developing the frog legs
business until he can see vast riches
ahead. 1t has been a source of dlsap-
pointment, however, that the frogs ne
sold to the ready market had only TWO
legs really acceptable to customers.
Early this spring Brunsklll began eX-
perimenting on frogs that frequented a
shallow pond at the foot of Racers
hill near Centreville. He captured fifty
young frogs and tied their hind legs
with fine piano wire guaranteed not
TO rust. His theory was that the frogs,
finding their rear legs useless, would
learn to use the forelegs and develop
the latter into marketable proportions.
The scheme has appeared to work
very well. For a time, however, per-
sons living near the dam thought the
place was haunted, as the hobbled
frogs had o habit of getting out on
the stones that cover the bank and
strumming the piano wire in an effort
to loose their fetters. When twenty
or thirty frogs got going at the same
time there was strange music. some
neighbors, when they found out the
cause of the strange noises, threat
ened to have him arrested for cruelty
to animals, but he pointed out that
frogs did not come under that cate
CORY.
Everything is going along smoothly
now toward ultimate success for
BrunskilI. He reckons that about three
generations treated with his patent
leg binders will develop new race OF
frogs that will be source Of great
revenue to him and a delight to every
command
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
LOS ANGELES TRUST COMPANIES oooo,u
Merchants Bank and Trust Co. saas os oTs9 :asS
General
y. TrustBu
BIG PRICES ARE PAID
FOR RARE OLD VI0LINS
Virtuosos Often Pay from Ten to
Twenty Thousand Dollars

BERLIN, June 12-Stradivarius
fashioned his best instruments between
the years 100 and 1920, while the cholc-
est were made between 1909 and 1715.
Viotti's violin is from 1904 and is val
ued at $4,000.
The violin owned by the virtuoso II:
w, Ernst. but now the property of
Wilma Neurda Halle, cost charles
Halle $4,000. Frans Ries had one from
171O which cost $4,000.
One in the possession of Sarasate IS
dated 1913 and is owned by the Span
ish crown. which has loaned It 10
Sarasate for life. This is the one ne
usually plays upon. The other he owns
himself and is from the year 1l24 ana
is a gift from Queen Isabella OF SPAIN
The value is not less than $4,000.
Joseph Joachim has three. The most
famous is the one called "Pestergeige,'
which the master uses most frequently.
1t is from 1714 and cost $4,000 An
other one from the same year was
given to Joachim by friends in En-
gland, who paid $4,000. The third is
played by Carl Halir. 1t is from the
seventeenth century, and has a sfnali
but brilliant tone. Joachim has loaned
il to Halir for an indefinite time
E Kniesels violin was formerly
owned by Professor Grun of Vienna
and is also from 1714. The famous Ru-
dolph Kreutzer's now belonging to J.
Winkler in Vienna, is from 1714 and is
worth inward of $4,000. The Strad
owned by the French virtuoso Alard IS
from 1715 and is offered for sale by his his
family in Glasgow The violin owned
bv Vieuxtemps was sold from Ham
mas in stuttgart for $4,000 John
Lauterbach's from 1913 was sold to
Vuillaume, the famous violin maker
of paris, for $4,000. Those owned by
Hugo Hermann of Franlfort-on- the
Main and August Wilhelm are both
dated 1920, and are worth from $SoOo
to $4,000.
The last instrument known to have
been made by the great master Is the
famous one known as "Schwanenge-
sang" dated 1877. 1t belonged to Saint
Sennoch and was sold to the Hotel
Drouot for $4,000. This instrument
has an autograph by stradivarius or
which appears "danni 98'-that is,
tbe instrument was made when the
master was 80 years old.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
CRIME INCREASES FAST
IN THE TRANSVAAL COLONY
Statistics Show DepIorable Con-
ditions Have Risen Since War

JOHANNESBURG, June 12.-Crime
in the Transval is steadily increasing
From figures just published by the
director of prisons it appears that the
expenditure on criminals in that colony
last year was $1,340,625 more than the
entire cost of education. On June 80
last approximately one out of every
245 of the population was in Jail. In
five years the cost Of administration
has risen from $6S493O to 81, l,142,675 In
addition. s., ,496,045 has been spent on
prison buildings since the war. and
new prison buildings in connection
with the introduction of the single-cell
system at a cost of $705,500 will be
erected this year. Police adminlstra-
ton in 190S-9 cost 2,829,S ,SY5.
The director remarks that the GRIM
inal is one of the costliest luXuries the
state possesses. Statistics show "a
constant undesirable progression, when
would reflect a flowing tide of GRIMM
atty" The magistrate of Johannes
burg draws attention to the great IN
crease of juvenile crime in this district
while the deputy commissioner OF ponce
comments on the growth of native
crime, which is said to be little snort
of appalling, even though many OF
fenses are of a comparatively unllh-
portant character.
on the Witwatersrand there are nun
dreds who live by crime alone. JONAH
nesburg is a training school Tor tneIh
under the tuition of unscrupulous Whlte
criminals, and there are also arlheu
native outlaws.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
MAYFLOWER AT NATIONAL
STRIKES $162 GOLD ORE

HUMBOLDT, June ia strike of
gold ore has been made in the lease
on the Mayfower at National being
worked by r. NJ. Edmunds and asso-
ciates.
The ore encountered by the leasers
assays $162 in gold and nine ounces in
silver to the ton. The find was made
in a drift which followed a stringer
to the main ledge. Development work
has been in progress on this lease all
winter, a long tunnel having been run
into the hill, and it now looks as if
the owners would be greatly reward
ed for their persistent efforts.
In following the stringer rich ore
has been disclosed at intervals and
it now looks as If the permanent ledge
had been found.
The Mayflower is owned by w. T.
Critchfield and James Gleeson and is
located just northwest of the property
of the National Mining company of
Nevada on Charleston Hill and is sit
uated in the heart of the proven rich
ground of the camp.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
NEEDLES SHELTER SOON
TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE

According to interests in close touch
with the United States Smelling, Re-
fining and Mining company, the ST.
100000 investment of the company at
Needles, Arizona, will soon become
productive, for the management of that
company has shown remarkable ag-
gressiveness In rebuilding and con-
struction at Needles. The rebuilt and
enlarged smelter will be blown in in a
few days.
The equipment consists of a 250-ton
concentrator and 200-ton smelter, which
will be enlarged as the demand in
creases. A zinc concentrating plant,
under the Huff patents, controlled by
the American Zinc, Lead and Smelling
company, has been erected, similar 20
those in operation in Bingham and
Plattville, Wis.
r'he Needles properties of the U.uted
States Smelling company should soon
begin to show some substantial protitc,
f2r contracts have already been placed
for the treatment of a considerable
tonnage of custom ores.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
CODD LEASE ON ST. IVES
WILL RESUME OPERATIONS
Management Secures Twenty
five Thousand Dollars to
Pay for Work

GoLDFIELD, June 12.-WorlS will
soon be resumed on the Codd lease
on the st. Ives. and the shaft will
be sunk to a depth of 1900 or 1900
feet to develop the ore bodies that
are believed to lie at that horizon in
this territory. The shaft is now about
500 feet deep. Mr.. Codd has been
in Goldfeld several days and reports
that he has secured a fund of $4,000
with which to start operations.
A contract has been let for installa-
ton of SO h. p. electric hoist, with
1850 feet of cable. and an air COM
pressor will also be put on for run
ming power drills other necessary
equipment will also be added for the
enlarged operations.
This is now projected to he the deep
est leasing shaft yet undertaken in
Goldfeld, where the Grizzly Bear
lease now holds the worlds record In
that line with a 1200-foot shaft, and
the Goldfield Annex lease stapds Sec
ond. with about 900 feet and still
going down, headed for 1000. Opera
tions of this character show in a most
convincing way the great confidence
mining men have in the future of
Goldheld and the deep-seated origin
of it's riches.
Nowhere else in the history of min
ing have leasing companies under
taken such prodigious work, but the
rewards that may be expected have
been so conclusively demonstrated by
the deep workings of the Consolidated
that a thousand or 1500-foot shaft is
now considered fully justified under
favorable term of lease.
Mr.. Codd has recently secured a
three-year extension on his lease,
which will afford ample time for pro-
ducing ore after the shaft reaches its
destination
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
TURNS TO LEAVES FOR
INSPIRATIONS IN DRESS

BOSTON, June 12.-The millennium
for woman and her all important prob
lem of correct dressing has arrived.
and Partisan dressmakers are doomed
to slow starvation if the fair sex fol-
lows the rules laid down by Henry
Turner Bailey, for sixteen years head
of art instruction department of the
board of education. Mr.. Bailey says:
women need not go to Paris for
their gowns. They may find the most
exquisite styles by simply studying
the weeds that grow in our back yards
or the leaves of trees and ferns.
"Any leaf of the forest is more
stylish than almost any woman you
are likely to meet on the street, be-
cause each leaf is consistent in its out
line, and scarcely ever does woman
or her dressmaker design costume
that is really consistent. If an entire
dress were as consistently harmonious
in its relative lines as a leaf, that
dress would be we'll worth wearing.
"It will not take any woman of taste
very long to decide which sort of leaf
represents the style that becomes her
figure. If she is stout or is inclined to
stoutness, she will select as her inspi-
ration and model those leaves or flow
ers that have the sharper angles and
thinner curves. Take leaf with every
one cf its curves a reversed curve, and
the woman to whom that sort of gem
eral design applies will have at once an
inspiration.
For the woman of less pronounced
stoutness there may be found an inspi-
ration in the bud of the lilac, which
has gentle reversed curves all through
it. Then, again, we find that st. Johns
wort has a series of little elllipses all
through it's foliage. The delicate curves
of the wild bean are extremely sugges-
tive, and it seems to me that the aver
age type of American beauty could ilnd
in 1t an inspiration for a dress, just as
the type inclined to stoutness Would
find inspiration in the common rosacea'
or member of the rose family"
Mr. Bailey suggests that women coll
lect leaves and study their formation
and colorings, which are in no Two
cases alike. From such study they
can get a perception of what constl-
tutes unity, the first essential OF beauty
in form of dress, and, Furthermore ths
scale of color derived from the leaves
is perfect as a basis for designing cos
tunes.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
c. o. D. SHIPS ORE

PHOENIX, Ariz., June 12.--As this is
written there is in transit to the El
Paso smelter a car of ore from the c.
o. D., in which a recent strike was
made that set the Mineral Park dis
trct about Kingman wild and caused
staid old turquois miners to go into
the gold raising business. This is the
first car shipped in many years from
this old mine. 1t amounts to 10000
pounds and carries 400 ounces of silver
to the ton, besides a showing of gold,
probably enough to pay transportation
charges, and some lead.
The shaft is being pushed down into
the earth at great rate, while a drift
500 feet long is fairly vomiting out this
grade of ore. And in the meantime the
ether mines in this section are doing
their best to emulate the C. o. DIS ex-
ample. Surely better named mine is
not in America than this one, unless 1t
be the Independence at Cripple Creek.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
BELL NO. 1 IMPROVES

SANTA MARIA June 12.-Bell No.
1 of the Union Oil company in the
southern end of the Cat canyon terri
tory, begins to look promising after
several serious setbacks. This we'll has
to be filed up with cement to depth
of 290O feet, after having been drilled
over 1900 feet, but at the mark where
the cement now begins heavy STRAIT
nm of oil sand was passed through.
The company expects to have the
hole ready for the pump next week.
Bell No. is 1000 feet deep. Lying
on the extreme south boundary of Cat
canyon, it is considered to have proven
the heretofore doubtful territory, ana
much credit is given the management
Of the company by local oil men for
pushing this well down to its great
denth
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
MOVES LEG TENDON
TO CURE LAME BOY
Famous German Specialist Per-
forms Wonderful Operation
on Crippled Youth

PHILADELPHIA, June 12.-Touched
by the magic hand of a great physician
a crippled boy, an inmate Of the
Widener Home for Crippled Childreh
was Yesterday made whole again. Par
alysis of one of his legs had rendered
1t virtually useless, and the little TEL
low, only Ii years old, faced future
marred by his deformity
Yesterday he came under the obser-
walton of DR. Fritz Lange, famous
German specialist and exponent OF
"bloodless surgery" who is here study
ing American methods and demon
strating his own. 1t was for this
double purpose that the eminent doctor
visited the home.
An examination convinced the sur
geon that the normal use OF the
crippled lirnb could be restored. The
lad was placed upon an operating table.
A rare and delicate operation was re-
sorted to. A tendon was removed from
the back of the affected thigh and
transplanted to the front. This, it is
declared, will restore the lost motion
to the limb, and in a month the boy
will, it Is expected, be able to play and
romp just like any healthy lad OF his
years.
Because of its attendant dangers the
operation known as tendon transplant
ing is seldom resorted to In this coun-
try and Dr. Lange's work yesterday
was watched with absorbing interest by
those who were fortunate enough to
be present.
While DR.. Lange is best known for
his "bloodless surgery" which consists
of the Strengthening of deformed bones
without the use of the knife, the oper-
alton which meant so much 10 the
patient was one where muscles had TO
usual operating room of the institution,
the boy being under the influence OF
anesthetics.
The lad is a bright, cheerful boy and
normal, except for his affiiction, which
had been diagnosed as paralysis of the
thigh While he was able to bend his
leg upward, he could not fiex or Kick
outward. The frontal thigh muscles re-
fused to act, and were responsible for
the trouble. The operation necessary
to restore the action to the child's limb
meant that the useless muscles must be
replaced. In doing this great care and
skill are needed, and it is very rarely
done by American physicians This is
because the material used in sewing
the transplanted muscle into place may
cause blood poisoning or other serious
trouble.
But DR.. Lange uses specially pre-
pared silk for sewing the new tendon
into place, and eliminates any danger
of the material stretching or causing
an internal disturbance. In his lecture
to the senior and junior classes of the
medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania DIR. Lange explained
his process, which he is introducing
into this country.
The silk that he uses is soaked for
two days, first in a solution of sub
Innate, the strength of which is l to
1000, and then in liquid paraffin. This
gives the silken cord a coat which pre-
vents any blood poisoning or abscesses
when it is used in an operation.
At the Widener home DIR. Lange
amazed the local physicians by his
great skill and dexterity. He COM
pleted the rather complicated operation
,uifhir, half an hnnr.