The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-09-08

man that he and the Countess" were
going on a long honeymoon.
With the installation at Sandy
Hook Of the new sixteen inch rifle
recently completed by the United
States Ordinance Department, military
| experts now claim New York to be
| armada from it's sea entrance, The
new gun, which is the nearest approach
| to the imaginary weapon of Jules
| Verne, which threw it's projectile to
| the moon, losses a 2.400 pound ex-
| plosive contact shell a distance OF
| will destroy any Dreadnaught ever
| built with a single shot.
Duplications of the gun are now be-
4 ing made to guard the Panama Can
| al from attack in event of war. The
| tremendous range of the gun, the ex-
| perts say, would make a naval DEM
onstration against the city from the
Atlantic side foolhardy thing for any
tnaval commander and invite the GER
tain destruction of his fleet long be-
| fore he could bring his ships into
| range Of the outer forts.
The range is beyond the ken Of mil
| itary range finders and according to
l. Hllllldty NAPCI -, LlldL Is WHERE Lie
| aeroplane Is going to be valuable in
coast defense. The gun makes a test
| shot at an approaching ship and the
| man in the aeroplane twenty miles
out to sea sends back wireless mes
sage, six hundred yards short OF
two hundred yards short" The gum
| ner makes the slight change neces-
sary in the elevation OF the gun and
| the next shot does the work
Half dozen of these terrible wea-
pons might put an entire fleet out
| Of action without the men on shore
| ever glimpsing the tops Of the fighting
| masts. -
| A simple act of courtesy to seedy
| looking old man, who refused to re-
| veal his identity has won bequest Of
| 81, 1852 each for the Hahneman and
Presbyterian hospitals Of this city.
| The old man was Mitchell Valentine,
one of the small and growing army
| of unknown millionaires Of New York,
who contrive to remain undiscovered
! through life, only to attain fame af-
| ter death. Valentine was a bachelor
and lived in a modest, old fashioned
house, surrounded by spacious grounds
in the outskirts, of the city. OF late
years he had what amounted to a
mania for visiting hospitals and asking
| to be shown through.
His frequent calls and the constant
| repetition of his odd request caused
| him to be regarded as nuisance by
| most Of the institutions. And being
so held it was the invariable custom
| to refuse his request. But at the
Hahneman and Presbyterian hospitals
he >met genial old superintendents,
| who always humored him by taking
him through the big buildings when
ever he appeared. Valentine never
expressed an opinion as to whether
he was pleased or not.
When he died the other day his will
disclosed his appreciation Of the con-
sideration and courtesy shown him
by the two institutions and his ap-
prevail of the work they were doing
for the relief of human suffering. OF
his entire fortune of more than $3,-
900. 900 the two hospitals got more than
it went to other philanthrophies.
Nieces and nephews shared In less
than $4,000 of the entire estate. The
effects of the benefactions of the old
millionaire has been to stimulate the
exercise of more courtesy to strangers
in the hospitals of the city.
Emboldened by the indulgent atti-
tude assumed toward them of late by
the police, the anarchists the other
night at a meeting called ostensibly
for the purpose of electing delegates
to the convention of the unemploy-
ed, openly advocated the murder and
plumber of society. Dr. BENJAMIN
Reitman, manager of the lecture
tours of. Emma Goldman, the Joan
OF Arc" of the American anarchists,
who was the principal speaker, work.
ed his audience composed mainly of
the back wash Of humanity, into a
pitch Of great excitement by his in
temperate remarks urging assassin
alton
Men prate of sympathy for their
fellows" he said "but I'll wager that
IL any one of you unemployed men
here were to hang a sign on yourself
solutely no place to spend the night
and wandered UP and down any one
Of our great avenues you'd not find
a single soul to invite you into his
home or to give you the price Of a
bed without the asking. Society
sooner you wake UP and realize this
the better.
"You can't get work, but have stin
your power of destruction. You can
still destroy, you can still kill and
you can still steal These are the
only things that will bring about a
change in existing conditions. They
will call attention to your cause and
drive home to the minds of those more
fortunate than yourself the necessity
of considering you.
'"The best way to hurt your enemy
is through either his pocketbook or
his body. You can destroy his prop
erty or injure his body. Then he |
will wake up and begin to take me-
tice, and possibly you will then be-
gin to get some redress.
Most of the unemployed men like |
yourself are buns. They are USE |
less They have no real place in our |
modern industrial world. If they |
get jobs they lose them through in
efficiency. They have no real place |
in the world. They have only one |
use They can kill and destroy, and |
thus merit and obtain a glorious |
death. That is the message of hope |
1 bring You tonight. Your power OF
destruction is your only weapon. ana |
I urge you to use it if you feel that |
you should strike a blow for your
cause"
It is currently reported here-and |
accepted as true-that more than ST.
100000 has been subscribed by the big
trusts for use in the Canadian cleo