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Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-14
NEW LONOON'S SPARYARD STREET Revived by Talk of New Building For the Niagara
 Engine Company
PATIENTS FILL BOTH THE LOCAL HOSPITALS
William I. Goodmg Was Formerly Prominent Resident of the Cty-Wel-known Oarsman- Criticism of Police Force in Hussey Case Unwaranted = Coroner Brown Declares He Was Given All Required Assistance.

For a great many years there has been more or less contention, quite ac tive at periods, as to whether the pres ent Sparyard street, so called, was private city property, individually owned property, or public highway. Some twenty-five years or more ago there was quite a contest as to the ownership of what has become pub lie thoroughfare, so far as use goes, and the court of common council of that time, based on report of the pub lie property committee, after exhaust i've investigation decided 1t to be a public way. and now there are two big business blocks erected facing the so- called street built upon made land. Once upon time where these build ings stand the tides rose and fell and the waves washed against the walls that then determined the line of the present Chappell property, This way extends from Bank street to the rail- road bridge over Shaws cove and on the side of which is the foot bridge owned by the city.
 The Niagara Engine company house is on one side of the Bank street en- trance and the office building of the F. H. and A. H. Chappell company on the other, with the former building standing in the street. if street there be, thus making the entrance of very limited width for the length of the en- zine house property, while the two brick buildings in the rear have a much wider frontage. With the engine house removed Sparyard street would be about twenty five feet with is full length.
 The report that the Niaearas are to
 have rev house in the near future carries with it the report that the house will be in another location, on the ground that the house as at present encroaches on the highway and is there by sufferance rather than by right, though inc contrary was proven, as before stated. As 8 matter of fact. thar part of the so-called street that was in existence before the present street was made by filling in rortion of the cove, was the side yard of the engine house. This is an indisputable fact Photographs are oftimes more reliable than figures, as photographs of necessity must be truthful
 During the present week, George Fisher, of the Reuter- store a member of the Niagara Engine company, came into possession of large photograph
 of the Niagara Engine house, with the old goose-neck engine standing ir front with the then small membership
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mitteemen and, at their suggestion, given out for press publication. The coroner unqualifiedly exonerated the police from any inactivity or lack of interest in the case, but stated that on the contrary he was given all re- quired assistance in his investigations and took occasion to thank the police for the efficient service rendered. That letter settled the investigation, the committeeman declaring there was nothing to investigate.
 The school of instruction at Fort TrumbuIl in connection with the rev. enue cutter service is threatened with extinction, perhaps in anticipation of transfer of that branch of the gov ernment service, indirect notice of which is given in the sundry civil bill which was adopted at the last session of the present congress, in these words: NO additional appointments as cadets or cadet engineers shall be made in the revenue cutter service un-. less authorized by congress hereafter" This means no cadetsg no school, and perhaps the transfer of the fort res- ervation from the treasury department back to the army department. Just as soon as the New London Business Mems association learned of the plan of doing away with the school at the fort there was hustling among some of the members for the departure of the school would mean quite a loss to New London as place of import ance as well as from a pecuniary standpoint. At the regular meeting of the association the matter was given special attention. Resolution Was adopted asking Senators Brandegee and Mclean and the representatives in congress to use their best efforts in having the clause mentioned strick- en from the bill. and urge the contln- uance of the school of instruction at Fort Trumbull.
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of the company posing for the picture. This was taken over fifty years ago and is as fresh as if taken yesterday, having been carefully preserved. This picture shows clearly that a high picket fence extended from the engine house to the old building that stood on the site of the present Chappell office building. In this yard and be- tween the two buildings, and back of the fence is large flag staff. appar ently almost as tall as the liberty pole that now stands in front of the county court house. There are several mem bers of the company today who re- member we'll the conditions as repre- scented in the photograph.
 All of which goes to show that there was no Sparyard street at that time, and that there was no land for build ing purposes in the rear of the engine house. But perhaps in the interests of progress the old engine house will be razed some day and the street farther improved for business purposes, but this will never be done without vigor- ous protest from the Niagara men, un- less an equally acceptable site is fur nished for the new fire houses.
 It may be of interest to tell how what IS now called Sparyard street happened to become way used by the public. Years ago. when the present Chappell property was owned by Ben Jamin F. Brown, the public was allowed to cross this private property to reach the railroad bridge as short cut to the Fort Trumbull district, though at that time there was no foot bridge on the side, but there was a single plank on the ties between the rails for the full distance of the bridge. Finally the public was not permitted to trespass on the private property and were compelled to go by the Howard street route. After awhile some fellow ripped a picket off the Niagara fence and went through the yard and along a narrow way to the bridge. Then another picket was ripped off and the travel gradually increased, so much so that the fence was removed and the passageway was generally used. Then followed some filling in of the cove and there was quite a respectable sized passage way to the bridge, and the necessity for a foot bridge because manifest to accommodates the public and one was built. and since then there has been sparyard street sign at tht entrance, and it is scheduled as ont
 of the city streets.
 William r. Goodinc, a civil wal
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Arthur Pepper a laundryman of West Derby, Liverpool, to his daughter, born in December 1882. It comprised one name for every letter of the alphabet, and was certainly ingenious in its way, running Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora
 Ophelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xeno-
 phon Yetty Zeno. P. of course. was
 provided in the surname, Pepper London Chronicle.
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it all to the philosopher is the very manifest fact that those whom he considers rather queer are practi-
 cally certain to return the compliment
 with interest, and characterize him as more than "queer'-as "a dunn
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crank" Don't forget, though, the Wise Mans wise remark that in many machine it is the crank that makes the thing go!
 THE FARMER
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What the Ref.r.ndum pis.

What the initiative has done for Missouri Co date: Defeated several much needed school amendments that would otherwise have been adopttd--- Kansas City Journal.
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Once a western woman who came east and tried to make a home in pretty New England village stated it as her opinion, after several years of observation, that the average New Englander had rather lose two dollars any time than see somebody else make one dollar
 When I first read that, I giggled, but set it down as an attempt at ''smartness' peppered with a little feminine spite.
 But, say, you don't suppose there can by any miracle be anything to it? It can't be that there's any real basis for? why, of course not. It's absurd-ab-surd!
 Nevertheless, I'd like to have some one tell me why the farmers of this country are throwing away every year S225, 00G 000-that's the figure which the latest statistics set for it--in buy ing their everyday supplies piece-meal and at high prices. when they could save every cent of it by buying in quantity and at wholesale prices.
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Where It Belongs

For while at least the rendition of Onward Christian Soldiers. will bs confined 10 churches. Sabbath schools. and Salvation Army meetings s- Brook lyn Times.
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Yet you might about as safely wear red cloak up to a cross bull as sus- gest to some of these small butter makers the possibility of co-opera- tive creamery.
 makes them fly all to pieces"
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Right in this same line, but on the other side of the fence, comes the loss to us by selling piece-meal, as we do. For instance:
 Several of my neighbors keep cows one, two, or three as the.-c case may be. They each make a little butter, five or ten pounds at a time. They have to take for this what they can get from chance sales. No one of them has enough to pay for advertis- ing or for bringing buyers to her door to oor'nete for the purchase. She takes it to the store" in most cases, and begs the store-keeper to buy it. When he does he buys at his price and she takes what he chooses to give her, which is always little enough. Moreover, he generally pays ''in trade with supplies on which he makes a good profit, beside that which he makes on the butter.
 Yet, not far away from me, is a creamery club of butter producing dairymen. who bunch their cream, have it churned every day in big quantity, maintain it of high and un- varying quality, advertise the butter, make buyers come to their terms, in- stead of taking any old price that may be tossed to them, like a crust to a dog under the table-and get from five to ten cents a pound more for their butter, the year round, than any of these individual butter makers and sellers.
 Again it is a case of "the bigger the deal the better the terms"
 The creamery people make enough, so. that it is an object for the buyer to hunt them up and pay them little extra. He can better afford to pay them forty cents, and get the thousand pounds he wants, all in one shipment than to SCOUT the country for a week and buy the same thousand pounds in a hundred separate and varying small lots. The expense of such buy ing would amount to more than the extra five cents.
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Then will you tell me why, in the name of all the domestic economies, they didn't?
 own up, that 1 don't know and can't comprehend.
 It isn't because they don't care for the money to be saved, for the back rooms of the stores and the walls of all the wood-houses in town are resonant with their complaints about their shortness of money and the high prices they have to pay for supplies.
 It isn't because they lack intelli- gence: the whole caboodle would fall on me with fails or bean-poles and whale the stuffing out of me if I should insult them by such a charge.
 1 give it up.
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It surely is queer world, with a whole lot or queer people in it.
 Not the least amusing thing about
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cannot change, and make the best of it. It would seem to be the plainest dictum of that common sense to take advantage of the law, where it is pos sible for us to do so to our own profit. 1 saved S7.50 last week on my sugar by taking for my own use that application of the law which says that sugar shall be sold in 500-pound lots ,heaper than in pound lots. 1 ,ould have saved S8.50 if enough of my neighbors had likewise been willing to take advantage of the law to make a gross purchase of twenty five barrels.
 And every man-Jack of the neigh bors who might thus have joined in the twenty five barrel purchase would have saved $50 on his five hundred pounds, tool
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Now lets get back to our law of the market: "The bigger the deal, the better the terms" My sugar experi ence is simply one small illustration of this. Anybody can think of many bigger illustrations suggested by his own knowledge or reading. We all know that a ship-load of sugar can be bought at a cheaper rate. per pound, than a single bag: we all know that a barge-load of lumber can be bought for less. per foot, than single twelve-foot board: we all know how the government Is buying first-quality meat for its Panama force cheaper by many cents per pound than we little consumers buy it. simply because the government buys in ship-loads and cargoes, while we buy only a pound or two at a time. Our whole system of distribution and transnortation, of jobbers and wholesalers and retailers, is built upon the law.
 Whether we small farmers approve of it or not, there 1t is. and there 1t is going to stay, for all we can do Such being the state of the case, it would seem as if it were just mark ot plain, ordinary common sense for us to accent the situation which we
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Coroner Brown read the criticisms in the local newspapers and, without solicitation, wrote letter reciting all the facts in the Hussey case and directed the letter to Captain Haven. This letter was shown to the com
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William r. eoodins, . civil war
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Right there got a tangible and ket-informing illustration of one ruling law of the place, to wit, namely, that is to say, the law which provides that in any free interchange of produce the bigger the deal the better will be the terms
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-18

her young granddaughter, who, with a
great deal of sentiment, had selected
Wednesday for her wedding day, as on
that day her grandmother celebrated
her seventy-f1ft birthday anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. Sullivan left on the
1855 train this morning for Cincinnati,
Mrs. Sullivan travelling in a stylish
coat suit of mingled tan and brown,
with hat, shoes and gloves ensuite.
Cincinnati is to be the home of the
young couple Mr.. Sullivan being orig
inally from that city, but spent one
year in Mobile, when he was associat-
ed with the Herveys at the Cawthon
Hotel. For the past year he has been
in Pensacola at the San Carlos, but a
longing for his Ohio home has made
him decide to leave the south, and
take his bride back to- Cincinnati to
locate, who will be at home at the
hotel where her husband is employed.
A number of handsome presents
here in Mobile, and more awaiting
them in Cincinnati. is evidence of the
esteem in which the young couple are
held, who have a host of friends and
well wishers in the brides home and
elsewhere to wish them both happi-
ness and prosperity In all the years to
come
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-18
MARRIAGE OF Mr.. MARKS
AND MISS WOOD


One of the most interesting nuptiai
events Of the fall was the marriage Of
Mr.. Henry Churchill Marks and Miss
Sallie Watkins Wood, which was
brilliantly solemnized Wednesday Of
ternoon at o'clock the home Of the
brides parents. DR.. and Mrs Milton
LeGrande Wood, says the Montgomery
Advertiser. The decorations were
elaborate and beautiful. making a pic
turesque setting for the bridal party.
In the parlor an altar of palms and
ferns was formed, the mass Of green
being relieved with snowy white
chrysanthemums. Above the heads of
the young couple was a canopy of
Southern simlax. studded with tiny
electric bulbs. Burning about the al
tar were white tapers in silver can
delabra, and at one side was a pedes-
tai on which rested a basket filled
with white chrysanthemums. The
mantel was banked with white flow
ers
To the strains of Lohengrin's we'd
ding march, rendered by an orchestra,
the bridal party entered, led by the
bridesmaids, Miss Georgia Mcdonald
and Miss Jett-Alleen Farley. They
were followed by the groomsmen and
bridesmaids, alternating. The other
bridesmaids were Miss Phedora Ran
dolph. Miss Mary Alice Noble, Miss
Lee Marks and Miss Mittie Holt.
They wore gowns of white satin char
meuse, trimmed with princess lace,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-18
LIST IS
OPEN TO CORN
UNTIL THE. 10Th
SECRETARY uLLARD SAYS THE
FARMERS WILL HAVE FULL
OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW FOR
COUNTY AWARD-5AsY SHOW
NOTES.

To give all the farmers of Escam
bia county an opportunity to enter
exhibits of corn In competition for
the county prize of $25 for the best
showing of fifty ears, Secretary n.
J. LiIlard yesterday announced that
entries win be received up to the
Saturday night preceding the fair.
which opens October %.
The Fair Association has granted
the Daughters of Isabella the big tent
for a baby show and have arranged
for it to be held on the opening day.
in the afternoon. This proved one
of the most interesting features of
the show last year, more than 300
babies having been entered, and both
the ladies of the organization and
the members of the fair association,
as well as many others. are interest
ed In perpetuating 1t.
The babies will not be separated
according to sex this year, but will
be shown altogether. Arrangements
for Judging them have not been COM
pleted. DR.. Fellows, a specialist in
children's ailments, who recently
came here from Cottondale, is prov
ing of great help to those who are
arranging the show.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-18
A NEW COLOR IDEA
FOR WEDDINGS

One of the most important weddings
in the ultra fashionable set In New
York introduced a color scheme as
charming as 1t was original.
The costumes were designed to car
ry out the autumn tints as shown IN
the wild flowers and gay colored leaves
in the church decorations. The maid
Of honor wore a gown Of old rose,
yelled with antique lace, the bodice
and the inevitable pannfer drapery be-
ing Of old gold satin caught with pink
bows Her cap was of dull pink lace
trimmed with a band of mink fur, and
her slippers continued the autumn
shades in bronze satin. Golden brown
orchids filled the brown wicker bas-
ket she carried.
There were two little flower girls,
one wearing a frock of cream colored
lace over corn coIored chiffon with q
sash of old rose velvet. The trim
| mings were of brown fur and gold
braid, with a cap of the same lace of
which the dress was made and short
veil. She carried a straw hat, caught
up with ribbon steamers to form a
| basket in which were heaped rich
bronze yellow sunburst roses. The
other attendant wore a Kate Green
away costume of white limerick lace
over white. with yellow sash and yell
| low velvet ribbons on the lace cap
which also he'd a bit of mink about
| 1t.
The BRIDES costume was of silver
! brocade, fashioned with court train
The bodice has a bertha of carrick-
macross and the tulle veil had o
border of same. Completing the cos
tune were the silver cloth slippers
with rhinestone buckles.
The skillfuI combination of the har-
monious tones gave a rich note which
might be introduced on less elaborate
scale where a change from the usual
white and pink scheme is desired.
Another new idea developed at this
much talked of event at the breakfast
which followed the ceremony. Instead
of distributing the conventional boxes
of wedding cake, there was one huge
| five- storied triumph of the bakers art
the two lower stories of which were q
Jack Horner pie, containing solid gold
favors, rings, thimbles, four leaf
clovers and 1ockets for the twenty
! four guests. The other three stories
were deliberately decorated with Gu
pids dancing with strings Of wedding
bells, and On the pinnacle stood vase
Of orange blossoms.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-18

and carried shower bouquets of pink
Killarney roses. The groomsmen were
Mr.. b. G. Betty. Mr.. James Parrish,
Mr.. VIII Holt, Mr.. Henry Ffte, Mr.
raul Sayre, DR.. Fred Wilkerson and
Mr.. Stafford Betty.
The bride was attended by her sis
ter, Mrs F. Monette. of Greensboro,
as matron of honor. sShe wore a gown
OF pink charmeuse, trimmed with real
lace and pearls, and carried a bouquet
OF pink Killarney roses.
Just preceding the bride was her
maid of honor, Miss LeGrande Smith.
she wore gown of white chiffon over
white satin, trimmed with pearls, and
carried Bride roses.
The bride entered with her father,
Dr. M. l.. Wood, by whom she was
given in marriage. She was radiantly
beautiful in her wedding gown of
white brocade satin, which had been
worn by her mother on her wedding
day. It was draped with chiffon and
the bodice was trimmed with real lace
and pearls. Her veil was caught to
her pretty hair with a wreath of or
ange blossoms and her only orna-
ment was diamond pin, the gift of
the groom. She carried a sho bou-
quet Of orchids and lilies of the val
ley.
Mr.. Marks was attended by Mr.. Pen
rose Stout, of Pensacola, Fla, as lest
man. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Father Gilbert Cannon.
Afterwards reception was held.
and an Ice course was served. In the
second parlor. pink roses were used,
and punch was served from a prettily
appointed table by Mrs r. c. Hubbell
and Mrs. w. H. LeGrande.
Later in the evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Marks left for New York and other
points in the north and east. After
several weeks, they VIII return to
Montgomery and will be at home with
her parents at 301 Church street.
The bride is beautiful girl and
possesses that rare charm of gra-
ciousness of manner which have made
her very popular. She was one of the
most admired of last seasons debu-
tantes.
Mr.. Marks is a member of an old
and prominent family. He is popular
in club, business and social circles
and has hosts of friends who congrat-
ulate him heartily.