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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
DR. VERDI MENTIONED FOR SURGEON GENERAL OF STATE

New Haven. Dec. S-From informa- tion secured last night it appeared that Governor-elect Simeon E. Bald win has about completed the makeup of his military staff and that the announcement of 1t may be expected very shortly now. It is understood that two of the positions have been offered to New Haven men, it be- ing learned last night night that the post of surgeon general has been of fered to pr. Wilson F. Verdi, the dis. tingutshed surgeon of this city. It is also said on good authority that Dr. Verdi has accepted the honor and will become a member of Governor Baldwin's staff.
 The other appointment which cur rent reports credits to New Haven is that of Alderman Louis E. Stod- dard for quartermaster general. It is generally considered that Alderman Stoddard might be named for this of flee If he cared to accept but wheth- CT he has done so or not is the se- cret.
 No word regarding the staff could be officially obtained last night as the Governor-elect and his secretary Attorney Thomas were in Bridgeport, where Judge Baldwin was the guest at Senator McNeil's little private din- ner. That the official announcement will come soon. however, is consid- cred almost assured.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08

sion". while advocating approval of increased freight rates by the Inter state Commerce Commission. With the exception of the tariff. there is probably no greater factor in the maintenance of high prices than the necessity of high freight rates to the payment of dividends upon heavily "watered" railway capitalization. There are but few commodities which are not touched by freight rates.
 President Taft suggests that Con- gress make an appropriation for the valuation of railroads by the Inter state Commerce Commission. Such valuation. if fairly made. would reveal upon how much real capital. railroad rates should be based It would, or should. relieve the people from the present necessity of paying such high rates as will enable the declaring of dividends upon wind and water" And it would conduce to attainment of that lower level of prices in gen eral. which Is. in MT. Clews' opinion, necessary to prevent "business recess sion"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08

of the force of special agents.
 One way of saving considerable money referred to would be the eli imitation of a large number of GUS toms ports and some of the assay offices and hints that perform 10 service whatever and are "of no use under the sum-
 The report recommends that fed eral buildings be of artistic design.
 AS to postal savings banks the re- port says.
 "The preliminaries in the case Of the postal savings system will very soon have been sufficiently considered and adopted to permit the system to be put into actual operation. The economic effects of this new bank upon the operations of the Treasury and upon the general finance of the nation will be observed with great interest"
 Instead of the present method of having many appropriate bills Mac- Veagh advocates the adoption of the budget system whereby, through CO., operation, practically all the appro- priations would be made in one bill.
 The oleomargerine tax law is de- ciared to be a failure and the ste.,- ment is made that by a slight inn provement it would yield a revenue of S2000,000 a year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
GARBAGE PROBLEM
 IN NEW HAVEN
 PRO ELEM NO MORE
Elm City is Going to Feed its Offal to Hogs and Everybody Even the Hogs Are Seeming Satisfied

New Haven, Dec. S-Louis E. Stod- dard. one of the incorporators of the proposed new Taft hotel, an active member of the Board of Aldermen. was seen at his office yesterday In the Exchange building, and asked to express his views relative to Mayor Rice's proposition to establish a mu- nicipal garbage collection plant, and also state his views regarding the pro- posed bond issue and he said:
 'I am heartily in favor of the pro- posed recommendations of the mayor in regard to the city disposing of gar bage on a portion of territory. My reasons are. there are only a limit itfes for handling the garbage as 1t is now handled.
 Tt is a perfectly simple proposition to remove this garbage and I think the city can handle it. The equip ment and expense IS a matter of not much -importance.''
 "Wfll you kindly express your opin- ion relative to the bond issue?"
 II am in favor of fair amount of bonds for permanent improvements. However, I prefer to study the matter as whole carefully before endorsing the proposition for the full amount. I understand the several items are Is very good thing. I am not ready to be quoted on this matter at length at this time."
 How is the new Taft hotel pro- eressing?"
 "Very we'll. Tripler & Co.,, of Brooklyn, who have the contract to take down the hotel in thirty days. are ahead of their contract time. and the building is nearly down, with no inconvenience to the public, and ev- erything is satisfactory to everybody. The excavation for the new hotel will begin within a week and we ex- pect to open the doors of the new Taft hotel, Jan. 1, 1912"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
CHARITIES BOARD > AtKEO TO PAY S1O
 FOR DAMAGE 10 WHEEL

W. c. Luthy, 103 Barnun avenue, has asked the board of charities to remunerate him for damage done his bicycle by wagon from the town farm which ran down his wheel in State street, Nov. 15. In his communi- cation, read to the commissioners last night at their regular meeting, he respectfully reminds the board that the little Luthys are not over veal thy and he asks them\ to make a prompt settlement of his claim, $10.
 Another interesting communication to the board was that of Edward Miller. better known as Pop Mill CT. who for several years was a door man at Polls theatre. "Pop'' hid a bundle of clothing in the tuberculosis hospital at Lakeview home, before the removal @of the patients to the new home in Huntington. From the latter institution he has sent an ela- borately charted letter describing found, and asks the commissioners to ship the goods along. Frank Davis, one of the Huntington patients, died yesterday. He was admitted Nov. IS suffering from lung trouble in an ad vanced stage. He was 40, a laborer and lived in George St.
 Supt. Brennan's monthly report was made as follows: At State hospital for the Insane at Middletown 173; School for Imbeciles IS; Home for In- curables 8: State Tuberculosis at Shel- ton 19: Bridgeport hospital 27; St. Vincent's hospital 35; at Lakeview PA ; at Norwich Insane retreat, 2.
 There were 131 cases treated at the Emergency hospital during the month of November, 70 ambulance calls had been made, 110 prescriptions had been filled
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
ssCAMMA DELLA" CHRIS
 HOLD ANNUAL DANCE

The Gamma Delta" girls excellnd themselves, last evening, in their sec ond annual darce, over 75 couplns being present in Slocum gym" The music for the evening was furnished by SpeideFs orchestra, a program of sixteen entrancing numbers being played before the Good Night
 finale. The Misses Jessie Marine, Lillian Haig, and Bessie .Whitnay composed the committee of arrange ments Present were Misses Vir- ginia, Gertrude and Irene Trend, May Cody, D. Miller, Martha Hurd, Helen and Marion Donley, May Cheeseman. Bessie Crosse. Sadie Grant, J. Gal yin, Margaret McCoombs, Hattie Hummell, Elda Rogers, Anna Andar- son, Mabel Smith, Mabel Powell
 Ellen Nolan, Katherine Frederick, Lillian Haig, Bessie Whitney. Sadie OIdershaw. Misses Kenherz. Rivers
 Yates. Downey. Burdick, White. and Mesdames J. F'rend and D. Clare and Schmidt of New York, and the Messrs William A. Booth and George Smith of New York. H. Lawlor of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08

Mir. Edison has. it is reported. so perfected his long-expected storage battery that it can be used on street railways at smaller cost than the trolley system. It is said that the Erie railroad has demonstrated it's practicability by experiment and will use it for it's suburban system through the important district of New Jersey. If this be true, then MT. Edison has overcome the objection of excessive weight and high cost. which have been until now the great obstacles to the adoption of storage batteries for pro- pulsive purposes. The storage-battery car, in use on street railways. would do away with overhead wires. side poles. etc. thus adding not only to the sightliness of streets. but also making for safety from fallen wires and for convenience and speed in the extinguishment of fires.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
TT WOULD DOOM THE
 TARIFF-FOSTERED TRUSTS

That the maximum and minimum provisions of the new tariff work well. that the tariff Is the ''best ever" in come-producer. and that tariff-revision. when again undertaken. should be by single schedules. are statements in- cluded in the Presidents message. but they dwindle into insignificance beside tho further statement that If the own CTS of over one-half of the country's timber supply combine to fix prices, they should be deprived of tariff pro- tection. and foreign timber admitted free of duty.
 Apply this principle which is of Democratic origin. to the recent action oountry's steel production. who de- cided that present prices should be continuedi According to the Presi- dents statement as to lumber prices. the tariff duties on steel should be repealed.
 Apply 1t also to the Beef Trust which. through combination as charged by indictments in the courts. fixes prices arbitrarily. and the conclusion that the tariff duties on meats should be repealed and South American SUD- plies admitted free of taxes, follows necessarily.
 Apply 1t to all of the trusts which are protected from foreign competition by the tariff. which smother home competition. and which fix prices to consumers. and tariff revision. by sin gle schedules. will not work at nearly so rapid a rate as conditions de- mand.
 President Taft has. in his reference to lumber conditions outlined a most beneficent principle which. carried in to effect. would promptly and heavily reduce the cost of living and check the manufacture of multi millionaires by hundreds at the cost of the people. Doubtless. this principle was born of the Presidents sense of right; we may be sure that it was not submitted to the leaders of his party before being incorporated in the message
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
WILL TT BE A
 COMMERCE COURT"?

Were the members of the State Bus iness Mems Association. in their cam paign for the nomination and election of legislators favoring the enactment of an adequate public utilities law, only numbering sands and drinking oceans dry"-that is. undertaking hopeles. labor that was impossible of accomplishment?
 It was all the time acknowledged that a majority of the House could be readily secured: the Senate which has been the stronghold of the priv ileged interests for many years, was the acknowledged obstacle. There seems now to be little. if any. doubt that the public services have captured the Senate and will organize it in their interest-that is. will name the pres ident pro tenn. and construct to their liking the Judiciary committee. to which will be assigned for considera- ton all public utilities bills. It had been hoped that Senator Judson would be appointed the Judiciary chairman, but there is now even doubt whether he will even be made a subordinate member of that committee.
 If the signs do not mislead. the only public utilities bill which can pass the Senate, will be constructed upon the lines laid down by the Republican platform. the principal demand of which was for "practicar' measure. President Mellen of the N. Y.. N. H. & H. R. R. Company has said, in sub- stance that the public utilities commfs- sion proposed by the State Business Mems Association was impracticable for the purposes sought. and that the creation of a Commerce court was the only practical solution of the pending problem. Quite a similarity of principle between the Republican platform and MT. Mellen's deliverance; it looks very much as if the inspiration and object of the two. were identical.
 It will be comparatively easy for Republican Senators to adopt the Mel len view and to claim that the creation of a Commerce court will fulfil the promise of a practical measure in their party's platform.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08

New Haven and A. Garneau, Joseph Sims. William Haggerty, Ben Nor1- strom, Jack Murphy, Will Hawkins, Peter Poland, w. Lodge, G. c. Spen- Porter, Ralph Beers, T. Clancy, Harry Walsh, D .Coughlin, Joseph Ciglar, James Lukas, H. Whitaker, F. Por- sky, George Langdon, Ted Stelling, Bob Smith, Will Mccarthy, Joe Bowling, Frank Hoffman, John Carey, W. Nc Bride, Ed Donnelly, B. Peich, G. Keating, MT. Yates, MT. Richard son, MT. Higgins.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
SUICIDE ATTEMPT OF
 WOMAN SUCCESSFUL

Her constitution shattered by many attacks of epilepsy, Miss Ida E.. Wor- ral was too weak to rally from the shock of her attempt at suicide, made Tuesday morning at her mothers home, 76 DeForest avenue. She died late last night. The deceased was 2S years old, and from childhood had been an invalid. subject to epileptic insanity. She was the only daughter of Mrs Mary AllihOne, a domestic
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
RECITAL BY SCHUBERT PUPILS.

The pupils of Otto Paul Schubert gave "an evening of song" in Masonic Temple, last night A numerous audience was in attendance and the singing was much enjoyed. Those who participated were R. Douglas Martin, Miss Florence Legere, Miss May Topping, John Finch. Miss Flor ence Penfield, Mrs. Robert Brown. Miss Ella Harrington, Miss Eleanor Hanson, Miss Theresa Poke, Tom Driscol. MT. Schubert was assisted at the piano by Miss Umstedter and Mrs. Windsor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
The D. M. Read Co.
 Established 1857.

Visitors will find Gift Articles in great numbers and attractive. Not only special articles designed for gts but the necessities required by everybody useful things given to intimates, put up in most aurng fashions in fancy boxes, tied with rbbons and with card. Silk and Cotton Dress Fabrics,
 Acceptable to every woman There are novelties in Jacquard Weaves for even- ing and dinner gowns, in delicate coorngs, and these have shimmering llstre if pure silk. Silqusettes and Voiles in great variety of color ings.
 Plain and Dotted weavesa special value for misses dancing frocks
 25 cts yard
 Printed Batistes and Dimities A particularly fine line in floral and Dresden fig kimOnos etc.
 Any of these pretty materials will be done up in boxes for gifts.
 Wash Goods Section, lower floor. Six Stockings for the Holidays Black Silk Hose, always in favorare in many differ ent weights and qualities. Certain styles have lise soles heels and toe and there every kind for every taste Prices 79 $1OO, $115 ST. 35 $1 50 $175, $200 and 1925.
 Colored Silks in white pale blue, pale pink, bronze, taupe, and various shades of tan.
 Special for Men "Interwoven heel andtoe,' which come in boxes of four pairs either all black assorted, with black, tan gray, and navy blue one pair of each. Special for the Holiday trade
 $1OO box Articles of Brass
 for Desk and Library Use Desk Sets can be had in most artistic fancies old English finish polished, and finish. The num- bers of pieces from six to ten and twe1ve. Odd pieces for library Shears Paper Knives Ther mometers Letter Scales 1nkstands. Perpetual Caen- dsrs, Clips, Trays, Pen Cleaners, Letter Racks and Files.
 At the Stationery Section. ~1 H M D ~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08

Worse than an alarm of fire at night is the metallic cough of croup. bringing dread to the household. Careful mothers keep Foley's Honey and Tar in the house and give 1t at the first sign of danger. It contains no opiates. F. B. Brill and Curtis Pharmacy. "1 5 5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-08
MISS STANTON INJURED.

Miss Daisy Stanton. $40 Seaview ave. was unable to arise after a fall. at Fairfield avenue and Main street at o'clock last night She was talk en home in the ambulance, suffering from severe sprain of the left knee.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

likely to lie on the ground than red
clover, and the lower parts take root
quite freely, giving the plant
creeping habit.
The flowers, although much like
white clover, are larger and take on
more of a pink color. 1t grows
somewhat larger than white clover
and will probably do better on rath-
er wet soils, but otherwise is little
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
LEGIMEs-sEED CIp.


Southern
ated OF popular of
conditions largely
problem Seed
impossible obtain while the price of other
so as o their
the
that anything should
to all useful
We permit the high of seed
solution
a
less progressive neghbora
obtained of
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
Alsike Clover.

We have recently received several
samples of alsike clover, with re-
quests for information regarding the
value Of this plant.
Alsike clover was given the name
Trifolium hybridum by Linnaeus,
under the belief that II was a hybrid
between white clover and red
clover. 1t is now regarded as a
distinct species of clover. In ap-
pearance alsike clover is much like
white clover in the appearance of
the flowers and leaves. but In its
habits of growth, resembles more
closely red clover. Alsike clover
stems are less branched and more
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
LEsPEDEZA-A NEGLECTED CROP.
One of for Pasture and
Hay-Adapted to Soils "a of
Fertity-How % a and How to Re-Seed.


been limited up to date, and seed
have commanded good prices on the
market. From twelve to fifteen
pounds of seed will plant an acre,
and a fair crop of seed is twelve
bushels.
It's value is little appreciated even
by the average farmer who has
known the plant for years. It's good
qualities should help establish il
more firmly for hay and pasture on
every farm in the South Atlantic
and Gulf States; and in all sections
south of the Ohio River, we believe
it can be used profitably for pasture
purposes. We saw it growing nicely
in northern Virginia last summer on
very poor soils.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

superior TO white clover and per-
haps will not maintain itself so well
in permanent pastures.
1t may be used for hay with red
clover or alone. or with Other
plants where red clover will no.,
grow satisfactorily. When sowed IN
combination with other seeds for
pasture or hay, from 4 to S pounds
of seed may be used.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30
r~g HERE is PERHAPS none of I


points in their favor, that can lay
claim to so many good qualities and
so few bad ones as lespedeZa, or as it
is more commonly known, Japan
clover. 1t is to the South what red
clover is to others. 1t is superior to
the former and almost equals the
latter in feed value.
1t can readily adapt itself to the
poorest clay soils, sand hills, rich
bottoms or crawfish flats. On the
first two classes Of soils, it assumes
a dwarfish growth, covering the bald
and denuded spots with a velvety
blanket of green from three to six
inches high that tempts the appetite
of the most fastidious animal. 1t
will furnish constant pasturage from
May until frost, and stock will grow
and fatten on it equal to the best
bluegrass pastures of the famous
stock sections of other States. On
the rich soils it throws off its dwarf
habits and assumes a more vigorous
growth, often attaining a height of
"a to 80 inches and producing from
three to four tons of hay, richer in
the important food elements than
any of the legumes, except alfalfa.
1t will check washes on hillsides
almost as successfully as Bermuda
grass, and at the same time gather
from the air large quantities Of nj
trogen and store ii up in the soil
for the use of future crops Lespe-
deza roots will penetrate the hard
est clays and stiffest soils, opening
them up for air and -Yater-as but
few plants will. The amount OF fer
fifty and humus it will put into the
soil is inconceivable by those who
have not had experience with 1t on
the Gulf State soils.
The writer has on his farm in
southwest Mississippi, twenty-acre
field that was run down so that the
negro tenants would not work it at
all when he took charge Of the farm
This field. lying fairly well and being
clear Of stumps, we decided to disk
thoroughly, harrow off and let les
pedeZa grow. The first year we got
fairly good cutting on the best
spots. The second year hay was
high enough to give good moving
all over. and the better spots grew
luxuriantly. The third and fourth
years we plowed well in fall and
sowed to oats, allowing the lespe-
deza to come from seed already in
the ground. The oat crop was good
both years, and the hay crop was
inc. The fifth year we planted to
cotton, and made something over
900 pounds seed cotton per acre.
The sixth year corn was planted on
he land, and the corn and pea crop
grown with it were the wonder Of
the whole neighborhood. Since
then all the tenants on the place
nave wanted to rent this particular
piece of land.
Lespedeza can be sown on small
grain and no further blowing or Gull
ovation is required to raise a hay
crop OF the best quality. When IL is
ready to cut for hay, one DAVIS sun
Is all that is required TO cure il for
the shocks, and in three days it NAV
be stored safely in the barns. while
peavine, clover, or almost any other
hay requires week or ten days to
be equally as well cured. II re-
seeds itself indefinitely if allowed
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-30

This is the average yearly income of one
Oregon farmer lover and above all ex-
penses. 1t is fair example of the good
living that can be made off of small acre
age in the
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-05-24
GRANT BEFORE
V|CKSbURG,
An Incident of the Late War Be-
tween the States.
Rx ]. n. ROCKWELL.

BY ]. II. ROCKWELL.
copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso-
ciation.1
1N the latter part Of 1862, when
General Grant was preparing to
make a movement by land to
reach the rear Of Vicksburg, IN
accordance with the plans he had made
for the capture Of that city, he saw
that he did not have sufficient num-
Der of men to command success and
that It was imperative that he should
have 5000 or 10000 more. His plans
had been sent to Washington and ap-
proved, but to his request for men the
answer came that he must 60 ahead
with the force already under his COM
mand. In response to this Grant In
formed the president that he could not
do It, that the attempt would end In
failure and that the expedition would
better be abandoned than attempted
without re-enforcements. Determined
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-05-24
TO the child upon his

Blemly, and Served throughout the
Atlanta campaign under General Sher.
man"
From New Jersey came the claim Of
David W. Ryan, only flfty-nine years
old, who served as bugler in Company
q, Second New Jersey cavalry. Young
est Veteran Ryan seemed to have the
pennant, but Michael Donoho Of Au.
burn, N. Y, assaulted his position and
captured the standard, being still un-
der fifty-nine. Born May 81. 1851,
Donoho Joined D'EppenvolPs zouaves
and went to the front in 1851. After
ward he served with the One Hundred
and Forty-ninth New York regiment,
being mustered out at Syracuse Aug.
10, 1866. Youngest Veteran Donoho,
according to this record, was only a
ten-year-old when he joined the zou-
ayes and began to wear the baggy
breeches and the soft sash belt Of that
branch Of the service.
1t is highly probable that If this
friendly controversy had extended to
the west there would have been sever
al youthful veterans somewhere around
the edges Of sixty to lay claim to the
honor.