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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-16

CHESTNUT LODGE A WELL EQUIPP0D
sapftaYium under experienced management ~
mild menta! an0 nervous diseeses. drug a14ic.
lions, etc. K. L. BULLARO, u. D.. ROe&yNlo.
Wosh1ng.ons =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-16
FARMS.

AN ELEGANT VIRGINIA HOME.
Large brick dwelling one Of the best speci-
mems Of Georgian architecture in this country:
formal gardens; conservatory: 1000 acres;
cleared land. fertile and highly cultivated:
timber boundary; macadamized road; hunting
district; most picturesque environment; glori.
Gus views; charming scenery; perfect social
and climatic conditions; cities accessible.
Property ready for immediate: occupancy by
people Of wealth and culture. Buildings cost
$165. 900 in the past ten years. Price $l6O. 900.
PROPERTIES IN VIRGINIA AND OTHER
STATES.
OUR LIST is composed Of charming old colo
NAL homes: select properties of positive dis
tinction and beauty; gentlemens country seats,
handsomely improved; choice sites on the noun
tain slopes. overlooking beautiful valleys; fur
nished and unfurnished country homes In the
hills and on the rivers; orchards and orchard
land; splendid hunting preserves; rich river
plantations and large bodies Of timber. coal
and farm lands in Virginia, Maryland and other
states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-16

FOR SALE AN sEXCEId.ENT VOCATION FOR
a colored doctor. Half square from 14th St.
in the central northwest Beautiful home OF
eight rooms. hath; hot-water heat. Twostory
brick stable rear. Owner must sell inmedf-
ately. rare opportunity at $500. See 1t
before it is sold.
SHANNON & LUCHS, 713 14th st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-16
FOR RENT-HOUSES.
RENT FROM
SHANNON & LUCHS.
IL: 18th ST. NV. NJ 23i.,.
4 QUICK, COURTEOUS SERVICE.

NINE ROOMS S4O.J0-OPEN SUNDAY.
Absolutely modern. This property was the
condition 1t Is nearly new: bedrooms:
large, dry cellar; modern heating plant. 1t
faces directly Mcmillan Park and is con-
vcneut to the Rrookland cars. High eleva-
ton. Located on dgnifed, refined street.
You Will enjoy inspecting this home. See II
TOMORROW. Open fer inspection. Htl1 lst
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16

fact and upon the hope of still more dollars to follow.
 We are inclined to favor the fullest publicity for campaign expenses, con- corning the amounts given, the per- sons who give and most certainly 8 complete statement of the purposes for which the money was expended. We would also like to see the experiment tried of having the state pay all noraina ton and election expenses thereby relieving the candidates of any obligation along that line and al the same time giving the poorer (and just as able) voter a fair opportun- ity to compete with his more fortun- ate neighbor in securing nominations and elections and in filling public of- flee.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16

city cannot pay for. an improvement from the taxgincome of a single year. It may be necessary sometimes to borrow
 The safe rule for borrowing in such case is, create the smallest possible debt and discharge that debt at The earliest possible moment. .A
 There is no mystery about muni- cipal finance. It is very like home finance. Men sometimes have to mortgage the home to buy it. They go into debt with the purpose of get ting out of it as soon as they can. and they are grateful when the debt is paid and the receipt put in safe place.
 municipal bond is mortgage on the homes of the city that issues it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
THE CASE OF o'ToOIlE.
fMeriden JournaL)

New Haven county has case in regard to it's jail management that from this distance loks as if there was an investigation needed. A chauf- feur named O'Toole, sent to Whalley avenue for stealing and wrecking his employers automobile, so it Is said. >is chauffeur for J. J. Donahue, the jailer.
 An article in the New Haven Regis ter says that O'Toole has not only been acting as chauffeur for Donahue but that on one occasion the chap was seen taking lady out for an airing.
 We naturally supposed that when O'Toole was convicted he lost his H. cense as driver and to permit him to drive until he was reinstated by the secretary of state is a pretty serious thing for an official to countenance.
 Added 10 that it would seem very strange that man who is supposed to be in jail is enjoying liberts- and automobsa rides Jailer Dona.hue has considerable to explain and he should be made to do it without letting pol tiles have anything to do with the TYaqffar
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16

so largely.
 Every community has 5irsse 4lfttts Uncle Ike Stephensons, it's wee Lori .mers. it's grafters on d. small scale.
 THE FOREST OF NATIONAL IN- EQUITY IS THE SUM OF ALL THE LITTLE TNIQUITIEs. 4 @s :. Y
 The remedy must be- applied EVERYWHERE. It does no good to destroy Lorimer, or Becker, near the top. if there remains a fertile soil from which a thousand other Lori mers and a thousand other Beckers will spring.
 When Bridgeport purifies politics in Bridgeport, and Connecticut puri- fes politics in Connecticut, more than a hundredth of the whole work of national house cleaning will be ac- tcomplished.
 | Let us not in Bridgeport and Con- necticut be so shocked by distant cor ton at home.
 A candidate for governor in Con necticut who spends fortune to ob- tain his nomination and election is more dangerous to Connecticut than a man who does the same thing in Wisconsin or Illinois. A man who corrupts a common council in a Connecticut city is more dangerous to Connecticut than one who corrupts a legislative body in Detroit and just. as dangerous to the nation.
 Those who would have government representative of the people, and or. ganized to increase. the moral ana material well being of the people may best begin by cleaning up. bi, in the home town and the home state.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
AN EMBARRASSING
 UNDERTAKER

The commercial spirit lowered into fine activity, in the mind of the New York city undertaken who conceived the idea of obtafning and exhibiting the bodies of the five Italian murder CTS, recently electrocuted in Sing Sing prison. . With well developed show mans instinct dur tndertaker laid out his ghastly quintet with best mortu- ary art, and invited the public in.
 sTake off your hats he said to all who entered, and he smiled pleas antly as the coins dropped into the inviting plate.
 .sALl I want is the advertisement" :" he said.
 He spoke like a truthful man, "A few days more and they would have had caskets and a couple of brass hands, instead of- collins.
 How unfortunate that the authori- ties should interfere. z9 They ssdids ln- terfere with paternalism that is for efgr to the usual government-of that city. The further exhibition of the bodies was forbidden, and an inquiry fs begun into the manner in which the bodies came to be delivered for such unsolemnities.
 The inquiry, it will be noted, fol- lows hot upon the heels of the alleg- ed offense. showing that the author fties in New York are somewhat more sensitive to public opinion in the mere matter of turning judicially -ex- ecuted criminals into producers of private revenue, than they are to the ssrne opinion about police killed gam blers
 The hody of Rosenthal was for some time a public exhibit. But the authorities were in no haste to 1n- quire how it came to exhibition.
 In the light of all the circumstances we are warranted in regarding New York as Representative on one side of its mentality, and subsensitive up- on another.
 ;. At the worst, profit taking by the exhibition, of these five slain is a more altruistic performance than en- Fichment by food adulteration, co,:c- sion with crime, or by the operation Gf notoriously unsafe mines and rail- road equipment.
 Let us not think, therefore, too harsl1ly. of our undertaken snowman, lest conscience reproach him, and he become a lieutenant of New York police, or owner of some Cherokee coal mine4
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
BONDING

The result of bonding, under the plan for many years used in Bridge port. is to double the cost of the thing bonded for. Most of the argu- Fnents used in advocacy of bonding will not bear close inspection.
 +Bonding for the life of the i'm provement" is a favorite suggestion on the lips of those who like the idea of city with a large debt.
 Some improvements endure but a few years. Some may continue for hundreds of years. The Congress street bridge, may, conceivably, be in use two or three hundred years hence. Who would be so foolish as to bor- more. and assume the obligation to pay interest upon it through that long -ariod.
 But the interest on money for 50 years-a favorite term for municipal nlortgages-is fearful burden to lay upon the tax payers.
 The advocate of bonding usually is, equipped with a maxim about s'nak- Ing posterity pay the bill'
 Bonding makes posterity pay some large bills, but it doesn't relieve the living of any payments for what the living build and enjoy, as anybody may ascertain with pencil in a very few minutes.
 Sometimes it will happen that a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
FIRST THINGS


 Gas was first used for street illuTni- nation in Golden Lane, : London, 10s years ago today. It had been suc- cessfulIy tried as an i1iun1inant in a theatre a foundry and a cotton mill. Pail Mall was lighted by gas in 1909, and by 1920 it's use was general in all the streets of London. This year is the centennial of the first chartered gas company, formed in London in 1s12 by David Pollock Gas lighting was introduced in New York in 1923, in Paris in 181s and in Dublin in 1873
 The ffret gold and stock telegraph Or flicker Honnbany was incorporat- ed in New York forty-fve years ago today, it's purpose being to furnish instantaneous quotations on stocks, etc, at the various exchanges. The system has spread to all the large financial centers Of the world and it's effect has been to greatly increase speculation
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
WATCHING FOR THE CROPS. (NeW Haven Union.)

The, next weeks are ones of feverish anxiety around the stock market LICK CT. The brokers may worry day times over politics, but it takes 8 cold ana rainy week in the Dakotas or a scoTeh- ing sun bath in Kansas to keep them awake nights. They know that if the crops Of 1910 could be duplicated this fall, a stream of money would be pouring out of every cross roads re- gardless rof any political passion.
 It has been a blot on American in dustry. that our production of the but a third to a half the records of Europe. With the preaching of the gospel of a, better farming, it cannot be many years before our grain eleya- tors will overflow at higher ratios than ever before.
 Already in ten states, according to the department of agriculture, the than population.
 Ten years ago the principal efforts to better our farming were along two hnes-the cattle shows, and the high. CT education of the agricultural col leges.
 The cattle shows. performed a very useful service along unscientiffc lines Premium money distributed among the farmers has induced minority Of them to produce aristocratfc creatures of the barn yard But the great bulk of the farmers attributed their failure to get premiums to cattle show poli- ties and continued to raise scTawny beasts. The cattle shows also never did much toward better cereal crop production
 The ~sld- 4faahioned agricultural col leges produced men who made admir- able: superintendents for big. Rarms After a man had sweat and strained to get his training, he had invested too much in his education to go home qand plough his fathers acres. s It having been demonstrated that the average farmer will not go to col lege, during the past ten years. the colleges have. been put on wheels. and taken around to the granger sta Htions. And a whole lot of the high schools have quit teaching the young sters the productions of the ancient Romans, and have discussed the ques- tion what crop will grow the best on the Old Mans Farm. The result must soon be seen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
WAR ON COUPONS
State Buisness Mems Association Takes
 Steps to Abolish Them.

Hartford, Aug. 16-The board of di- rectors of the State Business Mems Association, at ' it's regular meeting yesterday, put itself on record as op- posing the giving of coupons with to- bacco and cigarettes. The matter was referred to the legislative com nittee with the power to draw up a bill prohibiting this practice, and en- deayor to have the same passed at the next Legislature.
 The matter of having a uniform day throughout the State for closing. the stores during the summer months, came up for considerable discussion. John C. Sherwood, of Waterbury, pro- posed that all stores be closed on Sat- urdays, but no definite action was taken, the resolution being tabled.
 Preparations were made for the an nual meeting to be held in New Haven in October
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
CANAL BILL WILL
 DRIVE RAILROADS FROM THE SEA
COMPET1S NEW HAVEN AND CEN. TRAIL TO PART WITH VESSEL INTERESTS-ALSO OPENS
 TERMINALS.

Washington, Aug. 16-A careful study of the Panama Canal bill as re- ported by the House and Senate con- ferees shows that it's radical character as regards the railroads has been un- derestfna ted. Tn the opinion of many Senators the proposed legislation in it's final form not only bars the South ern cifie4ayesse1s from the Panama Canal, but will compel the divorce mer1t .G the New York, New Haven and Hartford. the New York Central and other. big railroads from their SteamSh interests, representing an investment of millions of dollars
 But this is not all. According to railroad officials the bill will compel roads like the Pennsylvania, and the New York Central. which have ex- pended hundreds of millions of dollars York City to throw T thrs e facilftfes open to shipping interests The bill for the first time in the history of the railroad legisfa ton vests in the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to compel the construction Of a line of railroads. It authorizes the In- terstate Commerce commission to com- pei the establishment of a physical connection by. the rail carrier with the dock of the steamship carrier
 President Taft has not studied the Panama Canal bill in detail, but it is his present intention to sign it. The President, it is understood, believes the granting of free tolls to American coastWise vessels does not constitute a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. He considers it imperative that legislation governing the opera ton and control of the canal and the question Of tolls should be enacted at this session, and it is the general inn pression that he will accept some dis cy%n 4YJl fnC 0f hi N9~G< to accomplish this end
 It is learned though that the Presi- dent has been advised by the Inter state Commerce Commission in favor of legislation absolutely divorcing rail- roads from competing steamships.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
JOE CANNON'S
 COURAGE EBBS
Ex-SPEAKER TELLS HOUSE HE FEELS LIKE SINGING A
 HYMN s-zssss-4 zssssss-4

Washingto Aug. 1G--Ex-Speaker Cannon reused the risibilfties of the House yesterday with characteristic speech on existing political and legis- lative conditions. Speaking for near ly an hour, he touched upon political hypocrisy, and admitted for the first time in his legislative career that he has his share of. cowardice
 Sometimes I feel like singing ex- claimed the ex-Speaker,, mot Onward Christian Soldiers but Renew My Courage. O Lord
 Why continued Cannon, in an other outburst, "do we crate and tear passion to tatters about general leg islation on appropriation bills? Leath- CT and prunella, what. for? To try to inf1ame public sentiment for use in September and October in order that
 we may appeal to the people? For what? That a wicked Senate or a wicked President did wrong in not yielding to the representatives of the people, who are just going back to get their power of attorney renewed!
 At times there come great waves of passion, sometimes abounding in prejudice, sometimes abounding in sell ship of artful demagogues-people who play poker and say prayers with the same nand-sometimes under the lea dership of men who write platforms and letters of acceptance, Tn which, as we read them, each individual can turn to some sentence, some express
 sion that fits his case, notwithstand- ing the fact that one-tenth of them disagree with the other nine-tenths." Declaring his belief in the Consti- tuition and a Government of the peo- ple Mr. Cannon fairly yelled: Thank God, I am optimistic. I believe the country, with 90000, 900 people, is bet |, 4 people who are pessimistic are going to abolish the. whole shooting match
 so that-presto! change.-hop, skip, and jump.-an appeal might be taken to the people and the Supreme Court reversed and the Constitution
 rendered null and void. Thank God that Constitution, while it may hide here and there. some thief, some mo- nopolist, is yet the greater charter of security and freedom!''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
CLEANING UP AT HOME

Truth bears a shield with two sides. Sometimes we. fail to see the forest because of the trees Sometimes We overlook the trees because of the for est. The newspapers for some years now have been full of trust news, Gigantic political conspiracies to loot the people have been exposed. ' The courts have dissolved some trusts. Other monopolies have dissolved themselves. Grafters have been ssr- rested and locked up in San Fran cisco, Pittsburg, Chicago, and marry other places. We have had Lorimer and Uncle Ike Stephenson, The Rosenthal murder, and the police blackmail, system in New York, are flowers of crime, upon the black petals of which the murder dew still hange in venous drops.
 There is a very forest of ignominy. so dense that it almost. seems with. out outline-as things look. in the dusk. when the detail disappears and only the darkening bulks of things ar1 perceived.
 But a forest is composed of in dividual trees. Some are larger, some smaller; but the greatest wilderness resolves, upon inspection, into in- dividuai growths. So is it with the forest of political and economic crime which afflicts the country. Every community has it's trees and contributes its share to the vast and overshadowing whole.
 San Francisco and New York be- tray the people greatly, because they are great places, and their affairs of crime are rnagnitudinous.
 But in the legislative bodies of lit tie, cities and little states the people are similarly ''sold out, ;" though not
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
DIES IN SANITARIUM
Edmund Wheelwright, Noted Archi-
 tect, Designed Hartford Bridge.

Boston, Aug. 16-After suffering for two years from a mental breakdown, which developed in connection with his work as designer of the Hartford bridge over the Connecticut river, Ed mund NJ. Wheelwright, noted archi- feet Of this city. died yesterday at sanitarium in Thompsonville, Conn Besides the Hartford bridge, which cost g, GOO, ,000 MT. Wheelwright leaves behind as monuments of his architec- tural skill the Boston Museum of fsFine Arts. the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the new West Boston Bridge in this city. He was 57 years old
 He served two terms as director of the American Institute Of Architects.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
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IAe Stors closes 1f 5 o'eloek erceb Satnrdav
THE AUGUST SALE OF FURNITURE. which

THE AUGUST SALE OF FURNITURE which closed Thursday evening was remarkably successful o1ie. In two ways such large clearance gives in- satisfaction. Our customers given the chance obtain the finest articles of Furniture made by the hand of man, at prices well within reach of all The Furniture bought and placed h it's home setting will give pleasure for many years. Good now with ordinary care it will be good forever On the other hand, large Furniture Galleries depleted of this seasons goods and their places filling with Furniture which has begun come in, each day wit messing the arrival of pieces from celebrated twentieth century cabinet makers
 Because you have, perhaps, finished buying Furni ture for this summer, you still interested in hand some Mahogany, Circassan Walnut and Oak, ~
 Come and the Furniture
 Fourth floor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
SHOOTS HIS BOARDER
Joseph Lomas Wounds Delinquent In
 Hip With Revolver.

New London, Aug 16r--After a quar- rel over a board bill amounting to s4 90, which John Burns, (colored) all leged that Joseph Lomas, (also color ed), owed him, the latter shot Burns in the thigh with a revolver. and fled Burns was taken to a local hospital, where it is said that his condition is not serious.
 The police traced Lonlas to house at No. 9 Church street, where he was hiding in cellar Lieut.. Jeffers of the police. with only fashlight as light, entered the cellar alone, and there found Lomas covering behind a barrel. He had a thirty eight calibre revolver in his pocket, with two dis charged chambers. Lomas made no resistance to arrest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
CONDUCT UNBECOM-
 ING SOLDIERS
(Ansonia Sentinel.)

Twenty thousand men, Reds and Blues. and the most of them splendid types of humanity! What a pity that a few of them now and then bring discredit to the whole number by conduct unbecoming soldiers! We re- fer to the occasional drunkenness which has been noted among men who wear the khaki. to the hoodlumism in evidence on the streets of Derby last evening, to the unsavory fracas on a Derby car Cfrom New Haven), to the near riot which was only held in check by pldcky police work in Derby ana to the silly, sappy, slushy h1rtations carried on by piclsets with equally foolish and light-headed girls. Out of the whole twenty thousand soldiers, probably less than fifty fail to bring these few are mostly the fresh, raw, green young fellows who look upon this whole war game as a grand lark.
 Without stopping to recommend that they be spanked and sent to bed, we would respectfully add that consider ing the way in which many Of the troops are enlisted and the vast ex- tent of country from which they have been gathered, the wonder is that so few of them misbeFlave when off duty. AS a matter of fact they help to em- phasize the truth that the ideal sol- dier is the~on who, whether on or off duty, whether at home or among strangers, whether at headquarters or on picket, whether in broad daylight or under the cover of darkness, can be trusted to be every inch a man" " We like to believe that by far the lar gest percentage of the two great ar mics now maneuvering in this part of Connecticut is composed of men of this type.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
CURSED IN SEVEN TONGUES.
Mrs. Natanson Obtains Divorce From
 New York Teacher.

Reno, Nev., Aug. 16-Cursed in sev- en languages was the experience which Mrs. Bertha Natanson says she under went from her husband, Morris Natanson, a school teacher in New York City On the strength of this assertion and the recital of other acts of cruelty she obtained an absolute divorce.
 Mrs Natanson was hysterical on the witness stand She told of her marri- age in New York in August, 1899, and of being the mother of three children She testified that her husband was insanely jealousy and was always fault finding and abusive.
 MT Natanson was served with the papers at 222 East Sixty-fourth Street He did not contest the case.