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NIGHT SCHOOL

and Congress streets, has the best night school ever conducted in this city. It is a great opportunity for those who cannot attendathe xdasr school. Write or call for 4eata- 1ogue. Enroll now. Office open evenings. Telephone to 146.
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Art Glass

BRIDGEPORT ART GLASS CO., 1ss
 John St. Phone 1o1T-6
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RAILROADS
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 JUNE 16. 1912
Trains Leave5Bridgeport As
 Follows:

FOR NEW YORK-s12:25o s4.4a ::5:1S. +5:4s. ts;2s. t7:17, t7:44. fs:2s. .s:5O; s:06. @1o:oo. t11:o7 A. M "6:so. se:15. ~7:s2. %s:1s, ss:ss. fo:1S s:27. 1O:OO A. M.-f12 2s-s2: :1ss 2s37. ~4:1S, 5:07. 4%5:21. ~5:3O, f6:45. $7.s9. "7:5S. "s:1s. "e:2s. ss:se. 1O:o2.
 FOR WASHINGTON, Va Hargsun Tstver-"12:25 (daily) A. M.; "1:1s P.
 FOR NEW HAvEN-s12:43. s1:41. 6:4s, 7:56. "9:36. %1O:43, ~11:ss A. M-*12;27.; 12;so. 1 s6; I:51; :s:2s, .ss:2s, sss:s4. M. UNDAYs-T12:4s sis4i. s:is. 10:13, *10:26, ~11:1e. ~11:Ss A. M.- t12:47,~2:28, s4:23: ~6:3o. >s:54. 7s1Es f7:S2, fe:02, ~10:29, ~11:27 P. M. and Providence-*1:41, GAS. 1C:43, *11:33 A. A.M.-S12:27 to S2ybrook Jet. *s:41. r~4:2a, 5;$o te saybroYok Jst. to New London, %11s33 A. M.-f12:47 to New London, "2:2s. "4:23. "s:Bs wiiiiman3ic9Ss:S1. A. M.3@s:a1. P.
 FOR TWISTED and IntermsdIats Stations-5:0o. $7:0o. $40. 111:10 A. navs@s.a6 nVs:s5s; d6;S1' S MM7.oe 7:4S p MiTsUS-
 FOR WATERBURY, sSsoN1A. DERBY and Intermediate Stafions-- 500, 7:Oa, 500, 9:21 (expressls $40. i5ii' 5:5I 7:4s A " s:4s g. P MZsUSiya lss.3: ss& 8:3O, 11:20 A. M.-7:Oo. 9:07 M.
 FOR CT. HARRINGTON, LENOx, PITTSFTELD, ETC.-7:00, 9:45 A 1L -4:28 P. M.-SUNDAYS--8:3 80 A M-
 FOR DANBURY, NEW MILFORD, ETC, via ErookfieId JuncEion-7s0O. 9:45 A. M.-4:2s. 6:44 F. M.-5UN~ DAYS-CS:3O A M
 FOR LITCHFTELD, ETC.-9:45 A M-4:2S P. M.-SUNDAXS-s:3O A. M.
 Express trains. Local ETpresz
 c to Harlem River Station
 c via Haw1eyv-7@. 31 inc, and also on July and Sept g.
 Saturdays only June 22 to Aug,
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EDUCATIONAL
The G0urtIand School, (1nC.)
 z31 Washington Ave.
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL

For YOung AIen and Boys
 Individual obstruction in the ele- mentary and advanced subjects eS- sential to a good academic education. Experienced preparation for college, technical, professional, and large pre- paratory schools, the civil service, and business. Morning, afternoon and evening sessions. Office hours daily, 836 Fairfield Avenue. I3 t~
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THE LEADING SCHOOL,

UNION BUSINESS COLLEGE, MAIN and Congress streets. gives the best instruction in shorthand, typewrit- ing, bookkeeping and English studies. Established 21 years. Six instructors. Advanced methods in teaching. Fall terms opens Sept. 3.
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$500 STUDENTS

UNION BUSINESS COLLEGE, MAIN and Congress streets, has educated $500 students in shorthand, book keeping and English. If you want position, and want to be. kept in position, attend Union Business College. It is the leading school
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The HargrOve Junior School 651 STATE STREET (Second Do6r from Park

Second year opens September 26th. A school where boy receives the right beginning in education.
 Advisory Committee: L. T. Warner, Clinton B~ Seeley and Samuel c. Shaw
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Automobile Dealers

H. M. FORD Distributor MAXWELL Cars Liberty and Standard Brush Cars 1887 Main St. Phone 1273 STARBUCK S& NEATTTCE, FORD CARS. s5s Fairfield Ave.
 Phone 4075-2
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MISCELLANEOUS WANTS

READY FOR onslaught of orders. Six artist tailors. Try us at our ex- pense. Abet1& Co, PoH Bldg.
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WANTED-To buy all kinds of sec
 ond hand furniture. Geo. F. Totams, Redfield's old stand, 2S6 Fairfield
 Ave. Telephone 1015-2. ITO as%p
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Beaver Board

THE A. ". BURRITT CO.,. KnowIton
 St Phone 5oa
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TailorS

L. F. NUNNcLD. 1ss Fairfield Ave.
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MEN, WOMEN-I have a wonderful money maker. If you can give all or part time to a clean, good-pay- ing, permanent business, write Byrne, West Philada, Pa.
 DPS. &
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ALL KINDS of hair, cotton, felt mat tresses made to order; also remade orders promptly attended to. Feath- CT beds and hair mattresses and furniture bought. S. O. Evans, 544 tNewfie1d avenue. Phone 1316-4
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NEW FURNITURE FOR OLD-An- tfques of all kinds bought and sold. Personal attention given. w. K. Mix, The Wentworth Furniture Co.,, 115 John street, 1913 Broad street.
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STORAGE OF FURNTTURE-se rate rooms, securely locked, f1rni- tuTe and china packing. Furniture and pianos removed, large vans, careful handling. Bridgeport Stor- age Warehouse Co.,, 12s7 Main St., Cor. Congress St. Tel. 1034-2.
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Ballot boxes will be open from 1 o'clock noon, at o'clock P. M,. fc the reception of the votes of the cleo tors of said town and city entitled vote at said meeting, at the folIowin places, nam ely:
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In walking distance Of the tracks OF 'ne
elevated and subway lines.
What will follow the opening oil me ne"
s,ibways which are about TO be built' I"e
student of humanity. the school author'ueT'
the transit companies and the iahu oWne's
all are interested. The first nenoon'u
fears that. unless something Is aohe '"
make the cost OF building smaii "oi"eS
lower, unless the laws are changed, uniess
the incentive to hold unoccupied iaho y
modified, that six story tenement houSes
will continue to go up along the TRANSIT
lines and the density per acre WI" con
tnue to grow. despite the fact ,ha' VI 'ne
2O9,31S acres of land in greater we" ,o'"
after deductins the area OF parks ee,he,
teries and swamp lands, 1t Is estimates .',a'
$4,000 acres is available Tor hones W."
500 persons to the acre this wouiu a"ow
for a population OF s6,ooo,Ooo persons IL
used as tho present building laws wouio
permit according TO the s'a.s' .,,.
the rate of 1900 persons to the acre1-thls
ground would accommodate l'o'''i' wv pe,.
sons, or the entire population of the Nor y,
American Continent. with eonsidefao'e
number from south America as wen
This Is what the editor Of "Federauon,
the organ Of the Federation OF Churches
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Fhilanthropic Persons Seeking
More Busily Than Ever
to Find an Answer
ard a Remedy.

GOOD many persons have been
~ thinking this winter about the
L n present and the future comfort Of
the inhabitants of New York city. What
with the unusual cold. tho lack Of regular
employment and the Increase i'm the cost
o. living. those who dwell on the border
line OF poverty have felt the pinch more
than ever. According TO the records of
the charitable organizations, as much
money has been required for the assist
ance of the needy rs In any previous
similar period. even in the so-caled panic
years. One conservative estimate puts the
number of those in Manhattan who have
required help at sixty thousand.
The need of financial help has been fur
Their illustrated by the increase in the
number of women applying for permission
10 take homeless babies TO board. Young
married couples are assisting and obtaining
assistance in paying rent by going home
If a 81 apartment in the tenement regions
can be described as home. 10 live with the
parents of one or the other. The charity
workers of Brooklyn and Queens have been
looking with concern upon the increasing
congestion i'm their borOughs caused by the
overflow from the tenement houses Of Man
haitian. Forced ont Of the heart Of the
congested district or the Fast Side by the
high rents. many have taken their way
across the bridges and settled down about
the eastern tcrmini in the same kind Of
buildings they left behind them. The con-
cestion in certain OF tho wards at the end
Of the williamsburg Bridge has increased,
according to one BROOKLYN charity worker.
until now i'm one case the density Of pop
ulation is zoo to the acre and in another
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THE ZONE OF DETACHED DWELL
lNos IN LAUSANNE, SWITzER-
LAND, BUILT BY THE MUNICH.
pAlITY.

Madison squares. In the block bounded by
Park and Sixth avenues and 35th and f2d
streets and around the terminus OF the
Greensboro Bridge.
West of sixth avenue there were de-
creases in population everywhere, except In
the Tenderloin district. between 34th and
3Sth streets, and the negro district In
West seth street The more southerly and
older section OF the Tenderloin shows
moderate falling of In numbers OF lnhabi-
tants
The greatest percentage Of Increase In
population was along the west side OF Man
haitian and north of Central Park Be-
tween sgd street and West 10th street.
west OF the park the population received
additions to the number OF 1851 the total
population in 1910 being 172.O61. This
rapidity Of growth along the line OF the
subway was shown clear to the Harlem
River and across into The Bronx. Between
West 10th end West 155th streets, west
of LenoX avenue. the population Increased
from 157,cG2 10 235.2i7, and the Ihwood
section north Of that point, comprising the
rest of Manhattan Island. almost exactly
trebled its population. the growth being
from 1852 TO 42.so5.
II one were plotting the changes In popu-
lation on Manhattan on map which did
not show the subway route that route could
almost be picked out by the lines OF in
crease. For instance in the strip between
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Oh street. Avenue u and Columbia street.
In this area Of l5sO39 acres, q tract less
than a quarter section homestead such as
Uncle Sam gives away In the West, there
were living In 1910 12i,57 persons, or 800
10 the acre. This was a gain In the half
decade of 1888. In the tract bounded by
Rivington and East Sd streets and Ave-
nues B and ID the population was 9s2.3 to
the acre There Is still room TO add to
this population. Under one Interpretation
of the present tenement house law. which
requires a certain amount of air space for
each adult and each child, that nine per-
sons. a family of two adults and seven
children. may dwell in three rooms, it is
estimated that 100 persons can be housed
legally on an acre anywhere in New York
City The acreage on which this is based
includes the streets. which. OF course. are
not occupied by houses.
The zone OF Manhattan between 18th and
62d streets. although having a population
OF 6oS,211. lost 2s,9ls In the course OF the
five years. This doubtless Is TO be account
ed for by the number OF loft, office and
store buildings erected in this district In
the course of that time. The chief losses
were In the nejghborhood Of Union and
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ward 1s7. In one ward. the 18th, near the
end of the Williamsburgh Bridge, the
density is 27s.7 persons to the acre.
ut Is recognized in Manhattan" said
this worker. that the charity organiza-
lions of that borough are getting the
money, while we arc getting the problem.
for those nearest to the poverty line are
moving across the bridge. The influx of
the Jews has pushed the Germans back.
The Greensboro Bridge is furnishing Queens
with similar problem. and We have not
the money Of Manhattan 10 meet IT,"
The cost OF assisting the needy has gone
up. IN company with the cost OF living
when provided by ones self John A.
Ktngybury, the general agent of the
New York Association for Improving the
Condition OF the Poor. said that an In
veet,gation had shown that the prices OF
those foodsturs commonly regarded as
essentials had risen "A As per cent within
the last year, and that family OF five
couId not maintain normal standard OF
living IN New York to-day on less than
Al 200 year. Some articles, such as pota-
toes. have increased in cost more than 100
per cent. Families whose incomes have
nat Increased proportionately have been
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Efforts to Obtain
Building Restrictions That
Will Prevent Democrat
izing Congestion.

thinks about the congestion situation in
New York:
I'm 1900 Brooklyn had 1872 persons per
dwelling and The Bronx had lol. Queens
and Richmond had In 1900 6.3 and per-
sons per dwelling, respectively, while phil
adelphia had only "a per dwelling ano
Baltimore 81. The basic reason Tor the
congestion of New York is that homes are
not built on its available land, ana tnat
the multiple family dwelling-though not
a necessity-is spreading from borough 10
borough The basic reason for this condi-
ton In turn. is that landlordism prevails
in greater New York to an extent equal 10
the total of Chicago, Philadelphia Boston
and ST. Louis combined. Queens ana Hich-
mond are the only borouShs having
smaller percentage Of landlordlsm thah
other American cities of 10000 or over
New York has twenty times as many ram
lilies in eleven family dwellings as chicago
philadelphia, Boston. ST. Louis and Baiu'
more put together"
II "a pointed out that with an area greater
than that OF any other American city, an
area capable of housing nearly 100000
persons IL the density were only 10 to the
acre apparently the multiple family dwell
ing designed fG Manhattan is considered
70 he the chief type available for housing
the whole population Of the city. upward
Of twenty-five hundred tenement houses
Ave or more stories in height nave oeeh
erected I'm The Bronx. and more tnan
thousand in Brooklyn In the last ten years
since the tenement law went into enec''
This type Of building is particularly IN eN-
dence in the nelghborhoods where the kus'
sian Jew has taken up his home.
What can be done to change this ten
dency? The Legislature has been asked 10
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can understand the real conditions is TO
go down into the streets of these dis
tricts and see the thousands OF persons
thronging them and making them impas-
sable. SO congested have become the con-
ditions OF some Of the quarters Of this
city that II is not an exaggeration to say
that there are more people living there
than The land or the atmosphere can with
safety sustain. The limits have not only
been reached, but have long been passed. ."
This district. however, has been able to
gorge itself with thousands of additional
human beings since that was written. The
population, according to the last census, is
now a2.0sl, or 2S7s3 greater than II was
In 1905. There is only one city IN Italy
that has population exceeding this. and
there are not dozen cities In the United
States which can claim larger number
Of persons. This is an average of 65s per-
sons to the acre.
There are certain areas on the East Side
which have shown marked gains in popu-
lation, and also In congestion. The chief
OF these are in the I.-shaped tract north
OF the Manhattan end OF the Williams
burg Bridge bounded by Rivington, Allen
and East I'd streets. First avenue. East
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West 10th street and West lb5th streets
bounded by Amsto rdam avenue ana u'e
Hudson River, there IL not n sectnn winch
did not grow at least 90 per cent between
1905 and 1910. There were I'VE sections
which showed an increase ~ 100 per cent
or more. They were 10th to II nh streets
from 2,3s7 to $685., or 1875 per cent; 114th
10 l22d streets. from 6i3 to 1884. n gain
OF 1876 per cent l2?d to issth streets. from
1900 10 9,s36. or approximately 100 per
cont. 13ath 10 iSsth streets. from popu'
latIon Of only 3ss to total Of S,5ff. gain
Of e.104 per cent, and l42d to 1i6th streets,
from 2,932 to 1888, an increase OF 1863
per cent.
The territory north of West ioSth street
did not languish and impoverish the own
ers thereof through the payment OF taxes
Between West l55th and West l5Sth streets
in the neighborhood of Audubon and High
bridge parks the inhabitants grew In num-
bers from Ais to 4,i15 or l0S per cent,
while the next strip, between l5Sth and
lebth streets. multiplied 147 per cent, the
population IN 1910 being 1i,s71. In the
next section extending north TO 1851
street. the gain was from 1851 to 1856,
or 3s4 per cent, the piece OF ground show
ing the third greatest gain on Manhattan
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CLINTON STREET, THE MOST coNaEs'Eo se0o" '"
O~'''

ANY one who chances to take the elevator
a, tho 1S,st street subway station TO the
surface will be willing TO accept the state
roents regarding the changes in population
IN thIs neiebborhood. Six years ago there
,.os ,,ucb discussion about the obliteration
Of several Revolutionary landmarks In TINS
oo,obhorhood. including a spring close by
the site Of a Hessian camp. Death Gap
the neacefll vale near by, and the spring
uould not now be recognized by visitor
familiar with their appearance then, II he
could locate them at all among the pis
apartment houses.
Between 1sIst and Dyckman streets the
nopulation has increased $50 per cent, the
inhabitants numbering 6,S42 in 1910. the
Inwood section. north Of Dyckman street, Is
the chief omen section on Manhattan lett
IN occupation and IL will be only matter
of time when this region. with its old pri-
vate cemetery will be hidden beneath
crust Of brick and mortar nests.
The section east Of Amsterdam avenue
and north OF Central park, in the neighbor-
hood of the Bronx branch OF the subway,
also has shown a marked increase In dens-
Nv Of population. Between LenoX ana
Eighth avenues and t52d street and the
Harlem River, the population increased to
9ao3s. a gain of more than 200 per cent
while It doubled on the east side of Lenox
avenue north OF 140th street and east TO
Park avenue. with the most important IN
creascs in the blocks fronting on Lenox
avenue.
Those who fear the increase OF conges-
ton in the other boroughs do not hnd con-
ditions 10 satisfy them I'm The Bronx They
find that notwithstanding the fact that the
present density per acre for the borough
the population being 4S0,9So. is only 49,
tberc are sections that have as high as
225 persons TO this area. The districts ad-
iacent to Crotona Park and the intersec-
ton OF the Third Avenue Elevated and
subway have nearly that density. More
than ;wo-thirds Of all the inhabitants OF
the borough have clustered along the two
rapid transit routes. nearly two-thirds OF
the gain for the entire borough being with
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take action to overcome II. The Mayor
Congestion Commission. among It's recon-
mendations for relieving and preyenuns
congestion. included the proposal that tue
Board OF Aldermen. subject 10 the approN"
OF the Board OF Estimate and Apporuon-
mrnt, should have authority TO estspis"
different building regulations for dihe1e"'
sections OF the city. A sub-comm'''eo
drafted a bill giving power to divide 'ne
city into zones or districts, and make ~
proprinte regulations for the various
cha sses of buildings for which the distri0"
were best adapted. This bill was 'huo'
duoed and ia before the Legislature
In number OF the European couhu'o'
authority has been given to municipal au'
thorities to formulate building codes ~
Vienna nearly thirty years ago the zoh'
system was adopted IL permitted the co".
struction OF buildings six or seven stor'e,
high in the centre OF the city, restrc.eu
the height OF buildings in outlying oi''
tricts to two stories, and reduced the pro.
portion OF the lot which might be occnpieo
by buildings to much smaller pefcentase
than In the inner sections Of the city. foul
Years ago even more drastic regulations
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obliged to eliminate some items OF food I"
from their dietary.
Some persons have been taking action |
regarding the housing of the inhabitants
of this CITY In manner suitable to the
development of decent family life and rea-
sonable IN price. Various groups have been |
giving attention 10 this phase Of the ques-
ton. and some Of them have put the re-
suits Of their thinking into the form OF
bills which have been introduced into the |
LEGISLATURE Students of statistics such [
as the Federation of Churches, the real /
estate speculators the transit companies |
and the officials of the school system have !
been trying to figure out the direction /
which the overflow streams of population .
will take The results are interesting. The .
Federation Of Churches, taking the last
census as a basis, has worked out the |
trend of population since the state census |
was taken in 1906 The following are some !
of the results
The East Side bounded by Catharine /
street. the Bowery Fourth avenue and 1ith |
street still has the greatest density of .
population in the city. Strange as II may |
seem, this has even increased since 1905 /
This is the district OF which Lawrence /
WELLER. the housing expert. wrote III l'Vo. /
NO conception Of the existing conditions
can be obtained from any general state
ments To say that the lower East Side .
Of New York is the most densely popu-
lated spot in the habitabe globe gives no .
adequate idea of the real conditions. To .
say that in one section OF the city the .
density OF population is loo TO the acre.
and that the greatest density of popula-
tion in the most denscly populated part .
Of Bombay is but 10 TO the acre. in |
Prague 40 TO the acre. in Paris i%, In
London ccJ, IN Glasgow go. in Calcutta 9i /
gives no adequate realization Of the state ?
Of affairs. No more does it 10 say that In I
many city blocks on the East Side there /
is often population Of from 2,00O to $3.50
persons population equal to that of
good sized village. The only way that one
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-02-03

WARRINGTON. d C.. Feb. a.
Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith,
Of tiss Bursau OF Corporations. de-
parliament Of Ssotztnefo1 ana Labor;
viii attend the waterways Conference
IN Nashville, Tenn. April : and =,
to bA held under the auspices OF the
Southern Commercial Congress, and
viii speak on the general subject Of
How Government Ownership Of
Waterway Can Best bA Made to Lead
to Their Proper use."
In his letter to Senator Fletcher.
prsstdent OF the Houtherm CONNER
cial Congress. Commissioner Smith
said: There has beea far too little
consideration Of the. question as a
whole. II We are t. reach any salts
factory stAtua In waterway transpor.
tatiOn We must conelAer the water
way system AZ = unit A. fAr a
possible, and the puhlic must under
stand both the peculiar limitation
and the pecu1iaJ poan1bilities Of
waterway transportation.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-02-03
FRANK DBL PAPA
HEAVILY FINED

Frank Del Papa. Z confectioner. OF
eos East Broad street. was convicted
In Police Court -ysatardAy morning by
Justice Crntchfield Of operating
gambling device and wa fined $50.
Justice Crutchfield In arraigning Del
Papa. said the mans family was the
only thing that prevented him from
going 10 jail. ~ the maximum pun
isnment Ii set at $500 fine and in,-
pYteonment for twelve months.
Del Papa was arrested on conn
plant OF Chief Of Police Werner. who
happened In his store "Wednesday at
ternoon and saw the device which
awarded the winner ~ In trade ana
cost 10 cents TO play. He seised the
GARD and Nh Anita a1AAn9 rka8aa 4nfnrnsA-
tfon that II was ! gam bling device or
dored Del PApA's arrest. Orders have
been given policemen to arrest every
person who operates a game OF
chance In violation 70 the law.