Putnam patriot., 1913-09-26
CITY MADE MONEY
 IN ICE VENTURE
Consumers Were Supplied with
 Cheap Ice All Summer
PRICE FELL FROM 50 TO 40
At End of Season City of Willimantie Has Storage House Tools and Bal anee in Treasury for Defying
 Monopoly.

Especial Hartford cores Sp0ndence.l
 Hartford-The city of Willimantic invested S1.713.92 in the municipal ice plant that it started last winter This included the erection of the ice shed. the purchase of the necessary machinery and tools and the cost of labor in harvesting the ice. About 1,100 tons of ice were harvested. The city made contract with Girouard & Delage to sell that ice to the domestic trade of the city This partnership stopped selling ice because the en- tire city supply was exhausted. From l the firm of Girouard < Delage the city received for the ice S1,000 This leaves a balance of $713.92. As an offset to that the sity has an ice house that cost S975, and tools which cost s235.39, a total of s1.210.59. De ducting the s71s.92 leaves a balance of s510.39, which is what the city of Willimantic made this year in its lit tie investment of s1.70o in municipal ice In addition to that the consum- CTS bought the city ice for 40 cents hundred and previous to that paid 6e cents a hundred from the private dealer who was selling ice.
 The New York, New Haven & Hart ford Railroad Company has settled with the estate of Dr. Harmon c. Howe, paying s10100 for the life of the physician, who died from injuries received ip the wreck ct Stamford in | the early summer The limit of li- ability in this state is fixed by law at l S10,000, and more than that cannot be collectc for the life of any man, whatever his wealth or station. In settling with the Howe estate, counsel for the railroad company com puted that to collect the S10000 li- ability the estate would spend at least $500 for lawyers and court fees, and made an offer of s9.500 in settle ment which. after some time, was ac- cepted
 Dr Howe was buried at Jericho. Vt, and the two cars which conveyed the funeral party to that place with the railroad fares, came to about S255. This matter, and that of the other funeral expenses were brought to the attention of the railroad com pany. and after some correspondence, the company offered to pay 5000 addi- tional, which offer was accepted. Poisoned by Toadstools. As a result of eating toadstools, mistaken for mushrooms, four mem- bers of the Duleyitz family of No. S3 | Pleasant street and one boarder are in St Francis Hospital in a serious condition. Surgeons at the hospital used the stomach pump on all five but | good part of the toadstcols had | been digestee.
 Those in the hospital are Charles | Dulevitz, his wife, and two sons, Fred, g years old, and Philip, an in- fant of 3 years, and boarder, John | Churhuski, 3S years old.
 Summer Home Burned. The beautiful summer home of Jo- seph Conlon, three miles from Ridge field, was burned, causing loss of s25, ,000.
 Old Landmark Being Torn Down. The old Williams homestead on Corbin avenue, New Britain, is being razed The old house was erected in 1884 by Simeon Hart Mir. Hart was assisted in building the house by his neighbors as was the custom in those days Upon MT. Hart's death the house went to his son Solomon Hart and from him it passed into the hands of Henry Williams, grandfather of A. W. Williams, who resides on Corbin avenue.
 What 1t Costs to Run City.
 Comptroller Hanford L. Curtis has compiled some Illuminating figures which show that the running expenses of New Britain for the month of Au- gust were S1,1f3. 766.92 The receipts for the month were $573.512.3o0 The sum Of S536,51230 came in from taxes and 13095 "A from street sprinkling assessments. The other items were smaller amounts.
 Boiler Gauge Blows Out.
 Uriah Linderbeck. an engineer em- ployed by the Windham Manufacturing Company, of WillI- mantle, had his right eye badly cut, when the water gauge on the boiler blew up. Linderbeck was taken to St Joseph's Hospital. It is not be- lieved that he will lose the use of the eye.
 Damage to Paper Mil.
 Fire, thought to have been of in- cendiary origin. at Bethel, partially destroyed the Frank Clark paper mill and practically gutted the adjoining house occupied by w. H. Ochs. The loss to the factory is estimated at s15 ,000 and to the Ochs house sS,000. The fire for a time threatened to spread to other buildings. The loss is covered by insurance.
 Fall Kills Boy.
 Lester Rainsdiile, nine years old, died of injuries sustained in fall from a tree at the grounds of the County Home. of which he is an in mate. The boy climbed into the tree on a dare" and fell when limb. upon which he was standing, broke He was taken to Grace Hospital. New Haven, and died there.