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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
Litchfield County News.
Rev. Hiram Stone.

Rev. Hiram Stone, retired clergy
man of the Episcopal church, Oldest
in wears and nearly oldest by ordlna-
ton of the clergy of the diocese OF
Connecticut, died at ms nome ~
Litchfield on Monday in the eighty
seventh year of his age. His first
parish was that of ST. Johns Church,
Essex, where he was ordained pr1est
by Bishop Williams, November ~.
1854, In 1856 he became a mission
ary in Leavenworth, Kan, and three
wears later he was appointed chap
lain in the United States army. AT
fer fourteen years in the service, he
returned to Connecticut III 1873. be-
coming rector of st. Paurs Church,
Bantam, and Trinity Church, Milton.
He served these parishes for thirty
years, retiring from them as rector
emeritus on All Saints day 1908.
Since that time he resided in Itch
field, officiating occasionally as ne
was able.
A Penny of 1885.
City Engineer Cairns of Waterbury
has in his possession a United States
copper penny, dated 1885, in a good
state of preservation. It was I'M
earthed at the new reservoir dam,now
being built for the city of Waterbury,
in Morris. A blacksmith shop was
formerly located near the spot
Given to State Library.
Hiram D. Northrop, town clerk Of
Colebrook, has presented to the Con-
necticut State Library broadside.
published by the Union War Prisod-
ers' Association, organized in Char
lesion, s. c. Jail, December 81, 1851.
This broadside. which is thirty-two
by thirty-two inches, was printed in
New York in 1863 and bears not only
facsimile autographs of nearly 200
Union officers who were confined in
rebel prisons, but it also has cuts of
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
HARTFORD GIRL
DIES IN BELLEVUE
Taken From Hotel Suffering
From Overdose of Drug
Especial from United Press. }


New York, April 6-An autopsy per-
formed today on Innez Bennett, the
22-year-old manicurist who died in
Bellevue last night after being taken
there from the Hotel Frederick, re-
vealed that death was caused by heart
complications following an overdose of
veronal. Her family, who live ut 113
Allen street, Hartford, Conn, will
claim the body. The Bellevue aG-
thorities were surprised at the death
Of the girl as her condition was not
considered serious when she was adj
mitted.
DR.. Holmes, who attended her. had
her sent to the ward reserved for hys-
terical patients as she told him that
she had had trouble trying to sleep
and had taken frequent doses Of a
drug to induce rest. Coroner Rol.-
hauser, after hearing the report of
the doctors, deemed an inquest I'M
necessary.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
TUBERCULOSIS DAY APRIL 80
Churches Asked to Observe 1t BY Dis
cussing Subject.

Hartford. April Elm accordance with
plans announced by the National AS
ISOLATION for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis of New York city. and
in conjunction with which the State
tuberculosis Commission is working
April 80 has been set aside as "Tuber-
culosis Day. and all the churches in
this State and in the country are ask
ed to observe the same.
The Tuberculosis Day. of this year
will differ in one respect from that of
Tuberculosis Sunday of last year, in
that, instead of asking churches to
give the cause a special Sunday SER
vice, it is suggested that meetings at
which the subject of tuberculosis and
it's prevention can be discussed, be held
on April 80 or on any other day near
that date.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06

Referring to the absorption of much
time and energy of the General Assem-
bly, in dealing with matters that
properly and wholly belong to the COM
Inunities directly concerned, the
Bristol Press says:
1t is an absurd state of affairs that
compels New Haven or Bristol. or any
other town. to go to a lot of people
from other sections of the State who
know nothing about the conditions
that prevail in these towns, and care
still less. 20 get their permission or
refusal to do the thing we wish to do.
Some day we will be wiser, and will
really adopt the principle of home rule
which we are prone to adore in theory
and ignore in practice. The assump-
ton that the General Assembly is
better informed than we ourselves as
to what is best for US has often enough
been proven a fallacy. 1t is high
time for a change The character and
intelligence on Capitol Hill is in no
way superior to the brains and man.
hood Of Bristol or of New Haven or
of Wolcott-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
FORMER GUILFORD TREASURES
TOO ILL TO STAND TRIAL
ON EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE.

1t was stated yesterday that George
S. Davis, the former. treasurer of the
town of Guilford, who is charged
with the embezzlement of funds OF
the town, will probably never be
brought to trial in the superior court
as examinations of him by physicians
showed that he was not in a fit con-
dition to go into court. The physi-
clans see no possibility of him ever
recovering sufficiently to stand trial.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06

Gov. Wilson of New Jersey, who is
one of the three men most prominently
mentioned for the Democratic Presi-
Dental nomination of 1912, the others
being Gov. Harmon of Ohio and
speaker Clark, has just illustrated his
Independence by nominating for Com
mon Pleas Judge of Essex county a
very active Republican. But as the
nominee is ciassed as a leader of the
new idea Republicans"-that is, as a
progressive-the Governors action is
not so very singular after all. There
is not a very wide difference between
Democratic progressives of the Wilson
type, and Republican progressives.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06

Commenting upon the recent call of
L. 6. Marshal sid Hawley upon
President Taft, the Waterbury Amer
lean says:
Mr.. Hawley is in himself a monu-
ment 70 the political integrity of ex-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
a New Haven boy. who is at present

New Haven boy, who is at present
a pastor in Thompsonvflle.
Rev. P. NJ Kennedy has been pastor
of st. Francis church since 1897, hav-
ing been appointed on the death OF the
Rev. P. Mulholland. He has spent all
of his priestly life, which began IN
1872, in this diocese. -,
The Rev. Dennis r. Baker is still
acting pastor of st. Francis churcn'
pending a. successor to Father Ken
ne0y.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
Tomorrow Friday

E. H. Dillon & Co., 11O5 Main ST.
will offer extraordinary values in
trimmed tailored hats and outing
hats.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06

the following Confederate prisons:
Castle Pickney, Charleston, S. c.; Lii
CONS Tobacco Factory Richmond
Va; Columbia Jail, Columbia, S. c.;
Confederate States Military Prison,
Salisbury, n. c.; city Jail, Charleston,
S. c., and the parish prison at New
Orleans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06
CIR q. M. Rran Un1tpu&t11.
Eatahltahrn 1H57.

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMME.
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2 Ballade and Polonaise, violin, Miss Sauter
2
q Theme and Variations, Miss White
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6 Salut glamour
Serenade
7 Canzonetta
The Bee violin, Miss Sauer
8 Trunpeter Won Saakingen Trumpet Quartette
At $50 o. Carpet Room, first floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-06

New York-Barred from participa-
ton in aviation meets because he was
a Jew, as he says, Abram Raygorod-
sky has come here from Russia and
will seek flying honors.
New Yofk-The committee on pre-
vention Of the Association of the Blind
is making a crusade on the roller
towel, charging that it spreads dis
ease
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-07-20
CHAPTER XVIII.

IT HE nomination of Kelvin and
Rollins came as an astounding
surprise to the public, for their
names in connection with the
presidency had been carefully suppress
ed throughout, though Sena tor Sawyer's
publicity bureau had kept the papers
full of both men In other ways. They
were the new economic conscience
They were the new commercial philan-
thropy. They were the new justice.
phey were the new foe of the oppressor
and friend Of the poor. Kelvin, indlvidu-
ally, had forced Henry Breed to reduce
the price OF bread permanently from
8 to 4 cents loaf That was the story
that touched every mans fearful con-
cern for the poor mans pocketbook.
dozen favorite sons were first put
In nomination at the convention. and
then Senator Killan, recounting the
story of the breaking up of the Stock
Exchange and of the capture Of the
railroads, the smashing of the trusts
and the reduction OF the price of bread,
put up Kelvin's name for considera-
ava DIOht lOOSt us per
schedule, one of those carefully ar
ranged spontaneous outbursts so dear
to American politics, and on its crest
the nomination Of Kelvin as candi.
date for the high Office of president Of
the United States. the youngest man
ever to achieve that honor. became
but mere counting OF long since ar
ranged for ballots. after which the
convention much more calmly and ra-
tionally proceeded to nominate Rol-
Inns
One-half Of the public received those
two names with gasps of gratitude;
the other half received them with
snarls of scorn, and the campaign was
on. Kelvin. refusing 10 make mounte-
bank of himself. let his managers fight
II out, for he was busy. Out upon his
vast stretches of Long Island waste
there now sprang up long succession
OF residence blocks, each surrounded
with its cement sidewalk. each con
tanning neat little cement houses mold
ed after the Edison idea. and each
house set In generous plot of ground.
Water. light. sewerage, parks, schools.
all were provided as II by magic. and
the whole was made easily accessible
by the new and wonderful transporta-
tion system that Rollins had inaugural
ed at the same time.
As soon as the work had begun to as
sumo form It's magnitude could not es-
cape the newspapers. Their first two
questions were What is this?" and
"Who Is doing III" To both OF these
queries Kelyin's publicity bureau had
ready answer-light and air and
elea Dliness and life for the working
man at cheaper price than he paid
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for darkness and poisoned atmosphere
and dirt and death.
Kelvin. appealed to. curtly pointed
out that the scheme had been projected
long before his name had been men,
toned for the nomina ton and that Il
was merely one of Henry Breeds plans
for the use of his enormous wealth In
ameliorating the condition of mankind.
Nor did he deny that the undertaking
was expected to pay legitimate rate
Of interest upon the outlay. He was
entirely practical. he stated. and the
inference was that he would make an
entirely practical president; also a
working president, for he was busy
right up to the time of election.
AS If arranged by Providence, a
chance to display his vigorous practi-
cality came just few days before
election. One relman, remembered
as a once forceful man of Wall street,
then as 'has-been," had suddenly
blossomed into the limelight as the
Working quietly. he had secured op-
tions upon tenement house districts.
block after block in extent. Now he
announced the formation of n monster
terminal company which should take
care of all the freight and passenger
transportation entering New York and
the erection of huge structures cover
ing blocks In extent. Immediately fol-
lowing this notices of eviction we're
served upon every miserable dweller
In the congested tenement districts
that he had purchased. Thousands
upon thousands of families were rem.
dered homeless. and every newspaper
blazed with the wholesale oppression.
Who then came to the rescuef Why.
Kelvin. Kelvin the dsburser of Breeds
billions, Kelvin the annihilator of the
Stock Exchange, Kelvin the breaker
of trusts. Kelvin the reducer of the
price of bread Kelvin the poor mans
friend. Kelvin the candidate for pres
ident of the United States! He would
furnish them free transportation for
themselves and their goods and chat.
tells He would at once install each
homeless family in a separate little
home OF It's own free of moving cost,
and to avoid any suffering that might
be attendant upon the confusion would
stock each house with a weeks provi-
sions. Would a summer and fall of
campaign speeches have beaten that2
Countless thousands of dazed and
HELPLESS families thrust suddenly home
less into the streets attached them
selves in pitiful home instinct each to
a distressful little pile Of battered and
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-07-20

At the end of the week Lillian went
back to lonely Forest Lakes. Where
Kelvin aud Rollins and Herbert Rens-
selaer had helped to enliven the huge
empty house and the immense acre
age, IT, too, empty except for the
small army Of gaunt and grizzled
woodsmen. who. with guns slung CON.
fortably in their arms. kept close sen.
try, now there remained but Henry
Breed and George Blagg and DR.. Eel
phan. Zelphan met her first as she
came up on the porch. peering at her
through his thick glasses with the
same curious regard that he would
have given to strange and brilliantly
colored insect. Suddenly his eyes
lighted as they caught her glance.
For an instant these two looked into
each others souls. and Lillian felt
her cheeks burning. But in an in
stant ore she had closed those por-
tails Of her inmost consciousness and
bestowed upon him stare OF willful
insolence.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-07-20

only glanced up with smoldering hate
Lillian smiled back in all her witchery
at that black look She knew that she
had never been more beautiful than
now. She knew that her beauty was
a perpetual torment to this man and
In the absence Of more entertaining
prey she had toyed with him as a cat
does with captured and wing broken
bird.
"You don't seem half glad to see me.
Mr.. Blagg." she demonstrated
Nor he answered her, and his voice
was tense aud strained. 81 wish you
had never come back. wish that you
had diedp'
"Oh. tut. tut" she said. laughing,
though glitter came into. her eyes.
She was forewarned. THAT is not a
very cheerful reception. 1t seems to
me that you are becoming old and
peevish."
II am" he asserted. Lillian
Miss Breed. II you please" she cor
rected him.
"I'll call you by less formal name
than that II like" he nared. IL
know every step that you took while
you were away"
/ "Indeedw she said pleasantly, reallz-
ing for the first time that there was
some basis for the hints that Blagg
had often given her Of powerful or
ganization of which he was the head.
Her calmness angered him. what
ever OF awe ever had for you Is
gone" he declared. Whatever of re-
spect ever had for you is swept
away. Whatever OF love | felt is
dead. now that know you for what
YOU are. now that you have made
yourself common
"Be careful" she warned him. at
is not safe to talk that way TO me-"
safe or unsafe" he cried. what
do | care? | have died thousa nd
deaths In the past week. and | cannot
In further harmed"
"Too bad" she murmured In mock
sympathy. Deaths among the lower
orders of the animal kingdom seemed
quite common last week. They just
found one poor fool In the Long Is
land woods this morning. He looked
like workingman. A revolver was
by his side. but he had not been shot
He had been strangled. That's a bad
place down there. Somebody shot at
Kelvin there earlier in the week, but
II was a foolish waste of ammunition.
Kelvin bears charmed life. BY the
way. you have not vet stated what
has made this alleged tremendous
change In you" She looked at him
mockingly, half smile upon her lips.
"Are you daring me?" he cried. his
nervous tension increased to the break
ing point by her recital of the failure
OF his plans. the first news he had re-
ceived OF It.
"Tell me-" she defied him.
"Have you not made yourself Kel-
wins mistress?"
with this. TO meet her indignant de-
NAL. to have to brave her fury. In
stead she let her half veiled eyes rest
cruelty upon him and walked toward
the door
yes" she said.
He recoiled as though she had struck
him a mortal blow. Rigid and immov-
able as he would ever be in death he
sat. and from the stairway there float-
ed up to his numbed ears a gay little
song that Lillian lightly hummed as
she tripped down to the library.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-07-20

II HE nomination of Kelvin and
/ Rollins came as an astounding
surprise to the public, for their
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
MEN
ARE GROWING SCARCE
Demand for Speed on Bases Is
Greater Each Year in
Big Leagues.

Ball players in the major leagues who
are slow on the bases are few and far
between.
The general impression that fast rum
ners are a rarity is wrong. BY this 1t
is not meant that all players are the
equal of Cobb. Bush, Collins. Wagner
Speaker and Doyle when 1t comes to
circling the sacks but almost every man
playing the game in the big leagues is
much faster than the average person oil
his feet.
How often the remark is heard in the
grand stasd at ball game, Why, can
run bases faster than that fellow" All
right to say, but the chances are 100 10
that the party critlcising the player
IN race around the bases with said
player would be Just about arriving at
third base when his opponent crossed
the plate.
Real Speeders.
Men like Cobb. Bush and Collins are
extremely fast on the sacks and travel
at incredible speed Coupled with this
ulty OF getting off fast No other player
In the country has anything on Cobb In
this respect So fast is he on the get
away that catchers have been heard to
say that he Is usually half way down by
the time the ball leaves the pitchers $
hand.
Any twirer with slow delivery is d
nightmare TO a catcher with Cobb on the
cushions, as the poor backstop is certain
to draw down the comments OF the fans
for his failure 10 get the ball to sec
sian.
Eddie Collins the wonderful player de-
veloped by Connie Mack, Is another
whose speed on the ba ses Is marvellous
pase with terrific impetus and has a
slide which makes him hard man to
place the ball on. Cobb and Collins on
the same team would soon have half
the baekstops In the American. league
under the care of a lunacy commission.
Must Start Fast.
Many other players can travel as fast
as Cobb or Collins. once they get started
but they lack the fast starting ability
and are. therefore. on an average. at
least a second slower in going from base
to base
One point that is generally overlooked
In commenting on ball players ability
to get down TO first quick is the knack
he has of getting rid of his bat with the
least loss OF time. BY carefully watch
ing the batters II will be seen that no
Some carry IL a few feet down the line.
others throw 1t back OF them, some toss
IT In front. while many have the knack
OF dropping the bat In such a way as
TO give them a leverage for a start, just
as a Jumper VIII use weights in making
a broad jump. This matter OF bat-drop-
ping Is one OF importance and many
knack of doing 1t properly
In successful base running the player
who can go into the sack without di-
minishlng his speed has big advantage
over his brethren who instlnctlvely slow
down as they approach the station.
Many players who would be known as
speed kings on the bases are spoiled be-
cause OF the fact that they are unable
70 overcome the tendency TO slow up,
These are the men who are ofttimeg
called slow on bases II is lack OF nerve
rather than lack of speed with the legs
m Of hal f,lp
In what might be termed the s'average'
base running class.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
CLASSES W0LGAST BEST
LIGHTWEIGHT in WORLD
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK. April 29.-James ]. JEFF
fries, former worlds heavy weight cham
pion, has come out of his retirement long
enough to give his expert opinion on the
standing OF -Ad Wolgast, whose bout with
One Round Hogan Jeffries witnessed
the other night
'Wolgast Is the best light weight In
the world" said Jeffrles. HE is fighter
pure and simple. He does not pretend
10 be a fancy boxer. There's no doubt
about his gameness and hitting qualities,
which make a champion.
He has wonderful stamina and i'm
proves as the battle progresses. / think
he will whip Moran. who is his most
dangerous opponent. and intend to back
him even though ! wiz not be by the
ringside. 1t Is possible that Wolgast was
afraid to cut loose against Knockout
Brown because OF his weak left arm,
but as that member Is strong again.
expect him 10 beat all comers."
Wolgast's next fight Is q Twenty-Five
round bout with frankie Burns. the Cali
fornia light weight In San Francisco on
May 90.
Wolgast is confident that he can stop
Burns before the limit is reached.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
COMMITTEE REJECTS
RECORDS OF Bake
Riders Nervy Effort in Last
Hours of 1910 Must Be
Own Reward.

The nervy effort Of Charles Fearless
Bake to set new motorcycle record for
twenty miles at the Los Angeles motor
drome in the very last hours of 1910, must
be it's own reward, His record of 14;11 3-5
made at dusk, December 81, is not official.
II has been rejected by j. F. Thornley,,
chairman of the competition committee
of the Federation of American Motor
cyclists
The first measurements of Balke's ma
chine, made after the trial, showed ii TO
be- oversize. When this was discovered
a second measurement was made. but in
the meantime the machine had been In
the unrestricted possession OF an agent
This invalidated the second measurements
OF the first Chairman Thornley, says.
"It was so bungled that 1t would be
impossible 10 determine exactly what
the measurement OF the machine was al
that time
In fairness to ALL" continues Chairman
Thornley, II would like TO say that
have in my office repeated measurements
OF the identical machine used by Mr.
Bake and in every instance heretofore II
has been found so much undersize that
TO have brought IT up to the alleged meas
urements made January IL would have
been necessary to have changed both the
cylinders and the pistons In order to have
IL hold compression"
Bake is preparing to make another
trial, IL is said.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
ROUND THE WORLD is
FAV0RITE in RICH STAKE
BY Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 29.-With a
big crowd of representative turfmen from
all over the country and a larger num-
Der OF starters than usual. the thirty
derby. on MAY l3. is attracting more at
tention than II has In several years,
Heretofore seven had been considered
fair number Of starters. but II is said.
with the race but n fortnight away. that
eleven and possibly twelve. thorough
breds will face the barrier this. year.
Tho filly Round tho World. has been
race has never heen won by fjlly. al
though many have contested, and some
turfmcn are OF the opinion that the my
viii weaken under the strain of the
mile and q quarter route.
The trainer OF Governor Gray. q strong
contender for the derby. has challenged
the owner Of Round the World for a
match race. which NAV be run Off at
Lexington shortly before the classic ~
Churchill Downs