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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
BIC SALE OF
 OYSTER GROUND
Jeremiah c. Smith Disposes of Large Tract to Stevens Com pany-Outlook in Canada For Culture
(New Haven Union.l


 An important transaction in oyster
 growing property in Long Island
 Sound that has. just been made is in the sale of large piece of very valuable oyster growing beds from
 Jeremiah c. Smith to George D. Mo-
 Kay, manager of the Stevens Oyster Company. MT. Smith still retains hnndreds of acres of@oyster ground in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Isi-
 and
 The people interested in the new en- Eterprise are enthusiastic over the bright prospects ahead for the deveI- opment of the American oyster trade in Canada. MT. Snith who has tour ed the world with the special obetct of studying the matter of oyster ctlI- tivatton says thai examina tions made of the temperatures of the waters in
 Canada show that the conditions there are good for oyster cultivation. AL ready Messrs. Smith and Johnson have interviewed Premier Mathieson rela- tive to the terms for the lease of ground near Prince Edward Island with view of cultivating; oysters there.
 Incorporating with a capital of s50,- 900 The Oceanic Oyster Company com posed of New Haven oysternen has l filed articles of incorporation with the state secretary at Hartford. TEfis company intends to invade Canada for the sale and distribution of oysters grown in Long Island Sound. The people interested in the company have studied the situation in Canada and have decided that there is big field I for American oysters there. The men l interested in the new company as 1 stockholders and incorporators are l John O. Johnson formerly president of 1 the board of aldermen and lately Wish with The American Oyster company: Jeremiah C. Smith of Townsend ave- nue who has all hts life been en- gagged in the. oyster business and for I years. a member of the firm of George IT. Smith & Son and Dr. George F! l Converse of. this city whosH owns one 1 third interest and is the president of 1 The Smith Brothers & Co, of City Point The Oceanic Oyster company I will grow it's stock in the waters of Long Island Sound in New York and 1 Rhode Island and will ship it to. Mor-. treaI General offices will be restab-
 lished in thta city for distribution ;
 Thousands of dollars worth of Am erioan oysters are shipped into Can- ada every year but little is sent in under package form as is the plan 1 of the Oceanic company. Both MT. 1 Johnson and MT. Smith will go to l Montreal and direct the affairs of the l new company there. The officers of l the Oceanic company are John O. l Johnson, president; Jeremiah c. Smith 1 treasurer and Dr. George E. Converse
 secretary. The general offices of the new company will be at 1 Whalley aV- nue. New Haven.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
DOCTORS ORDER KILLS
c. Bartlett D Gymnasium.

New York, Aug 3O-Ezra Crawford Bartlett a retired mine owner, suf- fered an attack of acute; indigestion while playing basket ball. in the gym nasiurr1 of the New York Athletic club, on Central Park South, yesterday af- ternoon and died few minutes later. He had suffered from indigestion and his physician prescribed g. diet and advised him to take exercise.
 The superintendent of the club mo- tiffed the Coroner's office ard the body was taken to an undertaking 'eetab- lishment after Coroner HoHzhauser had satisfied himself of the cause of death.
 MT. Bartlett was 45 years old and was born in Louisville Ky When he was about 30 years old he went to; Arizona, where he is said to have made a comfor table fortune in gold, and silver mines Some six or eight years ago he retired from the mining business and came to New York, where he had interested himself in real estate investments. During the years he was in New York het lived, in the Imperial Arms apartment house, at 61O Riverside Drive.
 MT. Bartlett is survived by his father. who is a grain broker in Kan-' sas City, and by a brother and two sis- ters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
HELD UP IN AN ELEVATOR. Pluck Cloak Model Fights Negro antf
 Saves Money.

3 New York, Aug. 30-MisS May. Harvey, A years of age. of SeS Eagbal avenue. The Bronx, caused the arrest of William Cummings, a negro eleva- tor man employed in ten story loft building at 36 West Twentieth St., yesterday, charging him with robberYs and assault,
 Miss Harvey went to seek employ ment as a cloak model from a firm on the tent:l floor. She told Lieut., Ivory of the West Seventeenth StreeH police station that as soon as the ele-, vator left the ground floor, Cummings made a grab at her 1ocket, which she values at S60 The chain broke and the 1oeket fell. Cummings, she said then seized her handbag and took $eA from it.
 She fought him off with her hatpim and screamed, arousing many people, She says he ran the elevator to the top and then down again to the ground floor She was thrown vio1ent4 ly against the glas doors, which wers broken. A@ <sCN
 Cummings fled and hid in the eel@ lar. Policeman Gavigan found hfna there and took him to the West Sev- enteenth street station.
 He says Miss Harvey called him an offensive name and attacked him with her hatpin and that he merely de- tended himself
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30

the tariff boards report. on cotton be- fore him.
 1t is true that the cotton report of the tariff board did not make this in. formation available at glance to Mr. Taft or to congress or to the public The tariff board carefully avoided giv- ing this informati ton in a getatable, un- derstandable form.
 Suppressed the Answer.
 ''Was the tariff raised or lowered p has been an insfstent question ever since the Payne-Aldrich law was en- acted three years ago. The tariff board avoided answering it.
 In making my official report to the board I submitted a table that did answer this question in respect to each one, excepting three. of the 100 cloth samples around which our months of Investigation centered. After much side stepping and discussion this table was expurgated and published in its emas- culaIed form. The boards excuse was that it was not it's duty to answer the ing whether the tariff had been raised or lowered was that the market fluctu- ations made it of no value. This was only quibble, because the respective tariff acts were so arranged that the increase in duty on a sliding scale kept pace with the price fluctuations.
 The tariff board chose to print tables that would show only the assessment of duty under the two acts and left 1t to anybody who desires the informa- ton to figure out for himself the sig. niflcant facts above set forth.
 Benefit Only to Privilege.
 From every point of view of the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
Low Teiephone Numbers In New York.


 Such R small thing as telephone number has some significance in the standing of a f1rm,'' remarked a man who had little else to do but talk and observe.
 How SOP" asked the other.
 ''Take the low Broad l. for instance-and, as rule, 1t will be the number belonging to an old estab- lished firm, provided, of course. that firm has remained in one location. The firm now bearing the above number was in existence before telephones were in use at all. and in like manner it Is possible to ascertain the old es- tab1ished business houses. If firm moves, but remains tn the same ex- change, 1t has the privilege of retain ing it's original telephone number. Americans don't care much for age and long established anything. as a class. but there are many firms in this city that are proud of their telephone numbers in system where the num- bers run high up in the thousands. ."- New York Press
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
CHINESE CURE FAILED
IL. NJ. Potter Dead in SeattIe-Au-
 thorities Investigate

Seattle, Wash, Aug 30-Dr J. C.. Snyder, the county coroner, is con- ducting an investigation into the sud- den death of Louis M Potter, a, New York sculptor. He refused to tell last
 night the name of a Chinese doctor
 who treated Potter, but declared that
 as 8. result of an operation upon him he had suffered untold agony and died.
 Potter had been without food or drink of any kind for six days. ac- cording to Dr. Snyder, who hinted that in all probability there would be
 criminal prosecution. Potter's iden- tity was learned by chance. A news paper man having the authority of a deputy coroner searched his effects and learned his true name.
 With his wife, a New York news paper writer, Potter arrived here Aug.
 19. and registered under the name of
 Percy. his stepfather's name, at the Hotel Hazelton. He came here from British Columbia, where he had been urged to consult Chinese physicians regarding his malady. His death was attended by a day and a night Of de- Iirium and greatest agony.
 Louis Mcclellan Potter was. born in
 Troy, N Y, on Nov. b, 1873. He was
 educated in Trinity College, and stud ied painting under Charles N. Flags and Montague F1agg. He went to Paris, and for four years studied in the ate1iers of Luc-Oliver Merson and Jean Lamut. MT. Potter studied the American and Alaskan Indians, and
 made a speciality of Indian groups.
 He designed the memorial to Horace
 Wells at Hartford, Conn, and made the busts of several prominent per- sons. He exhibited at the Paris Sa-
 Ion of 1899, the Paris Exposition of 1900, and in the principal societies in n1 h-1sI 7to1
 hihition in New York in May, 1909.
 MT Potter received the decoration of
 an Officer of N5otaan Iftikar by the
 Bey of Tunis in 1900
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30

It's particular weave or class. Ninety i've all cotton and five silk and cotton samples comprise the 100 that appear In the tariff boards cotton report.
 Forty-seven of the ninety-fve in the all cotton class pay 33 60 per cent high CT duties under the Payne-AIdrich than they did under the Dingley tariff.
 Payne AidrioE1 "Joksrs"
 UT these forty-se classes Of ma ter1ai on which the tariff was in- creased nine are the fancy weaves made in three or four New England mills commonly grouped as the Hip, pitt-McCOll interests" This is the clique Of New England manufacturer politicians who we're permitted by Sen- ator Nelson W. Aldrlch to write the cotton schedule to suit themselves.
 Of the nine Lippitt4McColl fabrics the Payne-Aldrich law jacked up the average duty from 36.57 to 6o-33 per cent. In other words, the promised revision downward" on these goods was really revision upward amounting to 6491 per cent of the Dingley rates.
 The remaining thirty-eight classes of all cotton fabrics on which the duty was increased were not generally the product Of the favored New England ring. Under the Dingiey law these thirty eight fabrics were assessed an average duty of 3536 per cent. Under the Payne-Aldrich law they pay 44.5S per cent-a revision upward equal to 26o7 per. cent of the former rate as compared with 6497 per cent increase on manufactures of the favored few.
 On just three among the 100 samples was there 3 decrease in duty. These
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
/. BLIND MAN ON FIRE

Hackensack, N. J.. Aug. so-VeinIyS groping for the door that would mean his escape from a burning room al blind old man was so enveloped by; flames here last evening that at, th@ Hackensack Hospital, where he was taken, the doctors do not expect him; to live His name is Adam Hoole, and he is 70 years old
 Hoole made his home with F'reder- ick F'a.hr in Essex street. and MrA Fahr herself ran into the burning house and half carried, half led him out. She finally succeeded in sn1oth- ering the flames of his clothing with a, blanket, but the hair was burnsu from her head and his body Eas blackened Hoole is g. retired news deal .E EI .yt5 Ssys.f
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
will carpaion Tn New York.

New York, Aug. .-Governor Wood row Wilson will make his first inva- sion of New York for campaign pur- poses when he will be the guest of honor at the Workingmen's Woodrow Wilson club of the lower east side at a dinner to be held at the Cafe Boule- yard on Sept. A. Governor Wilson will deal. it is expected. with the problems of immigra ton and the false impress sions that have been put upon his views by Che quotations of isolated sentences from his different books. 7
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30

were the silk aHu CoItUu fabrics (Siih .nills) that pay more than 100 per cent duty. On these three samples the re duction averaged 5.66 per cent on. the former duty--a reduction from 116.70 per cent under the Dingley law to 11O44 per cent under the Payne-Al drich law On one of the silk and cot ton samples there was an increase amounting to 21.9S per cent. The fifth of the silk and cotton samples was left unchanged.
 On the forty-fye of the ninety-fve all cotton samples there was no change iI1 duty.
 On the three remaining samples (completing the total of 1Oo) no com parison Is made because, of apparent lack of authentic foreign prices.
 And still President Taft said in his speech at Boston, April 25 last:
 ''It the Payne-Aldrich bilD was question; congress could make it's own computations. The official explanation eer refusing to publish the table show vastly better bill than the Dlngley bill, If had refused to sign the Payne bilI.it would have maintained the Ding ley bill with higher rates than the Payne bill"
 When Mir. Taft made this statement he must have known that it was un- true. As for the wool schedule, he knew that the rates were not higher in the Dingley law than in the Payne Aldrich law, for right after signing the latter bill did he not denounce its wool rates as "indefensib}e ?" And, as fol the cotton rates of the Payne bill, he knew they were just as 'indefencible as the wool rates, for at the time he made this statement in Boston he had
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
Robert ". Herter. Lawrence

Robert W. Herter, Lawrenceville.
 Mo, who had been bothered with Kidney trouble for two years. says: sI tried three different kinds of kidA, ney pills but with no relief. My. neighbor told me to use Foley Kid-s ney Pills, I took three bottles ocs them, and got permanent cure. r recommend them to everybody" F. '. L. Curtis. %1 5ss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30

AIiddletown, N. Y.-"Put your arms around me-" read a sash on prettN girl passing Mayor Gaynor, of New. York. The mayor was "there" and the populace cheered.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
J. ROBERT RUBIN
 lS TO PROSECUTE
 ROSERTHAL SLAYERS

New York, Aug. 29-J. Robert Rubin. an assistant district attorney. will be prominent figure in the prosecution of the slayers of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler. He and Frank Moss have been detailed by District Attorney Whitman to conduct the cases. MT. Rubin comes from Syracuse and is noted as an orator.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30
"JOKERS" HID
 REVISION UP Actual Raising of Duties Effected
 by Payne BA COTTON AND WOOL SCHEDULES
Both Indefensthle, and President Taft Knew lt-suppression of Facts by the Tariff 5oard-Sta+isties Employ cd to Misiead the Public.

the Tariff Board-StafistIcs Employ cd to Misiead the Public.
 By ROBERT KENNETH MAC LEA. Formerly consulting expert of the tariff
 board
 New York, Aug. .-On not a single one of the nfnety-five all cotton sam ples of fab bric taken as the basis of the tariff boards Investigations of the cot ton schedule was there an actual re duction of the tariff by, the, Payne Aldrfch law. NsaTss5
 The samples weee selected with great care by the combined judgment of the boards experts. indorsed by the lead ing jobbens of the United States as being representative of all classes of fabric in use in this country. each sample being chosen because it was typical of the most used material of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-30

Girl Wanted? Read the Farmer Want Ads.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-26
SUFFRAGETTES
F|ENDISH ACTS
Attempt To Set Fire To a Theater
Filled With People.
ARREST OF FOUR LEADERS.
A Bag OF Explosive Found In One
Woman's Possession-Mary Leigh
Admits Hurting a Hatchet
At Mr.. Asquith.

Dublin.-Mary Leigh, Gladys Evans,
Lizzie Baker and Mary Golfer appear
ed in the Police Court here on the
charge of throwing a Ratchet at Prime
Minister Asquith, of attempting to set
fire to a theater and of having in their
possession infammables for illegal
purposes. All the accused were com
mitted for trial.
The police testified that a canister
which apparently contained gunpow-
der had been exploded in the theater
They had found on Gladys Evans a
bag of gunpowder, portion of the
theater carpet saturated with petrol
cum and basket full of lighters.
Three bottles of benzine and a tin
OF gunpowder also had been discovered
by the police authorities. Their testi-
mony brought out the fact that many
lives had been endangered by the fire.
The Leigh woman admitted hurting
the Ratchet at Mr. Asquith's carriage.
In all eight women were arrested
in connection with the outrages per-
petrated here on the arrival of Mr..
Asquith, by the suffragettes, WHO have
been constantly logging the heels of
the British Premier since he left Eng
land.
The women are charged with COM
plicity in the attempt to burn down
the Dublin Theater, where Mr.. Asquith
was scheduled to speak. A blazing
chair was thrown into the orchestra
from box occupied by two women,
who then set fire to the box curtains.
Their act caused panic among the
audience
Mary Leigh has been a leader in the
violent tactics adopted by the militant
suffragettes. AS far back as July,
1900, she was arrested for breaking
windows in Suffragettes' demonstra-
ton in London. At that time, on be-
ing sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment at hard labor, she told the
court that "the next time we come out
you can expect bombs"
The woman is described by the po-
lice as the most troublesome suf-
fragette" they have had TO deal with.
Mrs. Leigh was convicted for the
eighth time in London last November
for smashing windows and was SEN
fenced to two months in Jail, without
the option of fine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-26
Valuable Flint Sand Mines and Pas
ture Disappear in Bowels OF
Earth.

Lewiston, Pa.-McVeytown, village
eight miles west of here, bids fair to
outclass the anthracite regions in ex-
pensive and dangerous cave-ins, and
the natives anticipate drop into the
bowels of the earth at any time. Three
months ago there was a cave-in OF
the Dull" mines of the Pennsylvania
Glass Sand company that carried away
90 feet of the main thoroughfare.
An effort was made to close the
breech by dumping thousands OF tons
of earth and rock from the mountain
side, but 1t seemed to be the bottom
less pit, and one morning the residents
awoke to find the gap had widened to
such an extent that the pumps had
been fouled and the mine had to be
abandoned.
One morning recently the people
awoke to find that another cave-in had
occurred during the night, which car
ried away the pasture for more than
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-26
LIGHTNING STEALS TEETH
Jerseyman Won't Sing Any More
When a Frisky Bolt Is Re-
ported Near.

Pitney, N. 1.-THE next time Walter
Campbell of No 1876 South Broadway
sees a bolt of lightning trekking for
him he will not await its coming with
complacency. He will bolt for door
or window, or even tuck himself in the
chimney place. The reason for this
is that recently Campbell who had
gone into his home after dealing death
to bugs on his potatoes, sat down
In an armchair and began singing. TIE
was reaching to sob note when he lost
consciousness. When he regained
1t he found that three teeth in his
mouth were not where they had been.
He recalled a streak of lightning
that had come unannounced through
the door, that had struck his teeth
and then darted for the door as if it had
been playing tag with him. He could
not account for the lost teeth, except
on the theory that the lightning either
had burned them to liquid had swal-
lowed, or taken them out the window
with 1t. Neighbors who had seen the
freak of the lightning hurried to the
house, expecting to find Campbell
dead. He was alive and hopeful, but
resolute that never again should light
ming find him singing except through
clenched teeth.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-26
PILGRIMAGE TO SEA clRT.
Members OF Party Pledge Support To
Wilson

Sea Grit, n. J.-More than 100
Democratic members of Congress
came to Sea Girt Saturday and hailed
Gov. Woodrow Wilson as the next
President OF the United States.
At the same time these Congress,
men, through Speaker Champ Clark,
pledged their support to the Jerseyan
In the coming campaign and in return
received his assurance that il elected
be would be their official comrade and
partner in the effort TO make living
easier for the people of the country
The occasion could not have been
more suspicious. The members Of
Congress, who had adjourned the
House for the purpose OF making the
pilgrimage TO the new Democratic
shrine, represented every faction
which had existed in the party before
the Baltimore convention. Governor
and Mrs Wilson were most cordial in
their welcome to the distinguished
visitors and simply turned over the
"Little White House" to them.
Clark men, Underwood men, Har-
mon men and Wilson men were in the
party They came as the official rep
Tesentatiyes of the Democratic voters
OF the country to do honor to the party
standard bearer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-26
ASSAULT ON THE DARDiHELLES
Six Others Damaged, According To
Report From Constantinople.
italian AdVices Are In
definite.

Constantinople.-E Italian tor
pedo boats attacked the entrance of
the Dardanelles. The Turkish forts
replied vigorously, sinking two of the
Italian war vessels and damaging the
other six.
The cannonade lasted 40 minutes.
Press dispatches from the Dardanel-
les assert that after the Italian tor
pedo boats which made the attack re-
tired % large and small war vessels
were sighted from the straits steam
ing a southerly course. These dis
patches add that five cruisers are still
reported off the Dardanelles.
The Cabinet Ministers were hurried
ly called TO the palace, where, at
council of war, it was decided to re-
duce the width of the free channel be-
tween the mine fields in the Oar
danelles in order on the one hand to
permit a continuance of navigation
and on the other to increase the de-
lenses of the straits.
Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Ambas-
sador at London. who, on July II, was
appointed Grand Nizier. has under
taken to form a new Cabinet.