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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10
FINANCIAL
--THE--
First bridgeport National Bank
CORNER MAIN AND BANK STREETS


For forty-seven years We have been
conducting business at tho same OLD
location, corner OF Main and John
Streets. bridgeport, Conn, and our
Private Bank has been established
there continuously. We have received
and paid out demand without mo-
tice millions of dollars of money de"
posted with us and we continue to
receive money subject to depositorS
check at sight. on which we allow
TO each account monthly. We solicit
the accounts of individuals. business
men, lrms and corporations. and an
who want q bank account where they
can deposit money, checks or drafts,
and leave it for one day,one week. one
month one year, and draw interest
on it for any time It Is left with us.
We give TO the business our Careful
personal attention as the oldest firm
Of private bankers I'm this state.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10
FRATERNAL NEWS
COURT MARINAss ACTIVITY

SOOEGI NAEGlNAk5 AC1LN L.
Ten new applications were received
at meeting of Court Marina, Forest
ers of America, held Monday evening.
AS the campaign has still a month to
run, the indications at present point
to a record breaking class. 1t is sell
dom that applications arrive in such
numbers SO far ahead. Chairman M.
". Clabby Of the committee on class
initiation was present and spoke to
the members at length regarding prep
arations that are being made for
handling the big class, and for the
entertainment of the officers and mem
bers. The Grand officers of the State
will be present and it is expected the
Supreme officers will also honor
Bridgeport with their presence. Cap
tain O'Neil gave a general idea of the
plans made by the guards for the
work to be done, and it is apparent
that nothing is being overlooked by
the Robin Hood Guards which will
tend to make the initiation the most
elaborate ever witnessed by the Court.
The degree team itself are highly en-
thusiastic, and are drilling earnestly
to make the affair a great success.
The guards have organized what is
known as the Atlantic City Club to
attend the convention of the Supreme
body in that city in August. 1t is
expected a large number of the guards
will go and participate in the compe-
titiOn for prizes which nave -peen OIL
fered by the Supreme council. sun
day. April 10, following the drill the
decree team and the officers of the
Court will be photographed, in uni
form. Among the communica tons re.
ceived at Monday evenings meeting
was a letter from the East Bridgeport
baseball club, enclosing two conpli-
mentary tickets for the annual dance
of this club These were placed in
the hands of the presiding officer. A
vote of thanks was extended to the
committee of ladies who so success
fully conducted the entertainment and
BANQUET given by them March Sd, and
also to the Robin Hood Guards for
the success of the whist recently given
by the guards.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10
TROOPS ARE MODELLING IN
ANTICIPATION OF VAST
MANHOOD SUFFRAGE STRIKE

Brussels, April 1O-Troops occupied
today many of the great industrial
centers of Belgium, including Courtrai,
LaLouviere, Journal ana Renasx, 81
preparation for the strike for man
hood suffrage ordered for Monday,
when 300, 900 400, 600 men will quit
work in the cities. Large crowds
gathered to watch the arrival of
troops and cheered the soldiers as
they marched past with their regi-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10
CHINESE TROOPS
FIRE ON BRITISH
SURVEYORS IN INDIA

Calcutta, India, April 1O-A detach-
ment of Chinese troops, today, at
tackled a battalion of police attached
to a British surveying party on the
frontier of Burma. The hill men, in
considerable numbers, Joined forces
with the Chinese.
The British column repulsed the at
tack but sustained a few casualties.
Among the wounded was Sir Charles
Bernard, chief commissioner and head
of the surveying party.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10
mental bands playing.

mental bands playing.
The Socialist strike leaders in the
various localities have offered the Of
ficials the services OF the official CON
stables drawn from their own ranks
They affirm that any outbreak OF VIC
Ience will delay the cause of man
hood suffrage for half a generation
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10

Advertise in the Farmer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10

The. Commercial baseball team is re-
quested to report for practice Friday
morning at Seaside Park. All those
who do not report will not be able to
play in Saturdays game against the
morning freshmen
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10
CATALPA CIRCLE.

A social and entertainment was
given last evening by Catalpa Circle,
Lady F'oresters, at their meeting hall,
1854 State street, which proved very
enjoyable. Many visitors were pres
emit from Seaside and other circles of
the order. The entertainment pro
gram included plano selections by Miss
Bessie Burns, solos by Miss Alice Ma
1oney, Irish dances by Mrs. Emma
Collins and Mrs Mary F'enton, and a,
solo by Mrs Mary Swan
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-10

Among those who participated. In the
minstrel show given at st. Luke's
church, Tuesday evening, by the girls
of the West End Congregational
church, were Lois Cole, '15; Natalie
Middlebrool1, IA; Elsa Cqauder, IA; and
Dorothy Smith, '1S
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
The Stories of
nous Novels
BY Albert PaysOn Terhune



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in her h coS ] T pThS to England @ to @ him. him The & s hsS @ & by pity
she fr " @ 'k w n wa went to S % Dick was
well provided for by Mnis ,hihsE war
last stand the longer lie had craving
the East he difficult hardship
, T cf"s nS P it,
his 'AI SFsS at "FRsnIE h Failed pns
% es "He's'" Ns pity turns 10 love and she mar
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
ANOTHER CUP CONTEST.

The conditions under which the next race for the
Americas Cup will be sailed, in September, 1914,
would seem to insure a real yacht race rather than
contest between freak sailboats. Sir Thomas Lip
ton has long insisted that the conditions of the
put premium skimming dish yachts" and this
view has been taken by large proportion of dsin-
terested yachting men both sides of the water In
the decades since the Americas Cup was first won
it has been so regularly defended with success by
American contenders that the keeping of the cup has
become in TOO many minds a more important con-
sideraton than good sport or real service to the
development of sailing craft. So freak boats have
been produced for the express purpose of defending
the cup that could not possibly have any other
utility. They teach nothing worth whe-so say the
sharps-about the construction of seaworthy and
useful craft.
Sir Thomas has been at disadvantage in this
competition because of the rule that the challenger
must come across the Atlantic under her own sail
the defender need not 1t has been alleged repeat
edly that boat capable of crossing the ocean was
beaten by boat that could not possibly make that
trip. Manifestly this is unfair, and gives vast
advantage to the defenders constructor 1t is a
good thing to see the rules modified to favor sane
and sensible yachting
The Washington times., 1913-05-21


SausDUr!,. published b! 1abaru Inn
Press. of New York.
Heralded as the greatest book of its
kind since Vanity Fair" and with the
author spoken of as a Hugo, Salisbury's 5
American Emperor" has much to live
up to.
1t is a dubious question whether any
modern brain-child of a comparatively
inexperienced author should lie bur-
dened at the outset with such heavy re-
sponsibilities is the SALISBURY book.
for, although the SaI:ricdl viewpoint and
choice of plot may have l =h0stllke re-
semblance to the classics, the plTh ard
substance are in no way distinctive.
Us long as novel TlS to - woven
around the life of an American King OF
finance. and the tempOra and mores OF
the era following the Civil War until
the present date. be spoken Of in all
style should be less eXploSively terse
and more individuality given the char
aCters.
The author has given the picture
which he had in mind. and has followed
all of the laws of composition but one
his story is bare-it smacks too much
of newspaper brevity to be Classed with
the works of Hugo or Thacke-y.
Many will attempt TO guess, and IL
will not he hard work the identity Of
the man German. who. beginning before
the Civil War, a boy of sixteen. blind
ing OF nothing but himself and the mil
lions which he was going to make.
forges his way up into the ranks. and
iinalIy to the head OF the money con-
troIlers OF this nation.
The outlined story of the rise of a
rare tut distinctive American type; the
idea OF master wrought by the crude
hand OF pupil.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21

and fine array of legal talent for the Alaska Synd-
cate and other interests were before the Territories
Committee. Mr.. Wickersham, facing Ryan, dramati'
cay announced that he at last prepared to prove
who was back of the Ryan grab at Controller Bay.
He took up the documents that have been issued on
Alaska thousands of pages of them, and turning to
one prepared as special message from President
Taft himself, read the letter of introduction with
which Ryan first to the Taft Administration 1t
was Ryans certificate of character and it was signed
by member of the law firm whose head is Francis
Lynde Stetson, of New York
Then, from another document in the same affair,
Judge Wickersham produced the sworn testimony
that this Steson firm represent the Morgan interests
in the Alaska Syndicate and are always consulted in
important affairs involving the syndcates operations
The demonstration was complete and convincing,
so far as members of the committee were concerned.
Il supplied the missing link and proved that the
Guggenheim interests now have such complete con-
troll that nothing less than Government construction
of the railroads can save Alaska from becoming
their barony, to be developed when and as they may
like, for their particular benefit and nobodys else.
How complaisant the Taft Administration was
toward this monopoly grab is apparent from the fact
that it gave Ryan the harbor he wanted just as soon
as it possibly could after he had come with letter
of introduction from one of the counsel for the
Alaska Syndicate.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
GuidebOOk to Gallantry.
Ladies' Day at the Club.
By Alma Woooiva,d.

I've been out since fall. on account Of
my neuritisi''
Maintain a subtle atmosphere. Try to
keep the ladies from discovering that
mans club is really just a series of
rooms. with floors and ceilings and
walls just like any other building. And
If any one. who's going to resign any
way. apologies for the furniture be-
cause the house committee couldn't
raise the two hundred necessary TO put
1t in shape. choke him OF with some
pleasant remark about the weather.
Surely the time has now come for
light refreshment." There is a punchi
A delightful thing just FULL Of ice
and things. 1t has a pleasant shell
pink tinge and il tastes like something
the doctor ordered
Urge the ladies to indulge. Oh, Yes,
they MUST have some of Georges
punch-no one can make II like George!
But it's not your luck to have them
acquiesce. No, They never drink any
thing, thank you. But they DO want a
drink Just drink of plain water.
water.
1t sounds easy. You make for the
spring water tank It's been removed
Tor the day. Because with a huge bowl
plain water?
You return and COO playfully:
Now see! You'll just HAVE to be a
sport today and take a drink, because
they have taken away the spring
water"
Tlen this chorus:
on. that doesn't make any difference
Just plain Croton is good enough for
us-we always drink il at home, any
way"
The faucet through which the plain
CIoton runs Is located somewhere out
side the city line, You've never tapped
II before, so you don't know just where.
put You make brave attempt to find
AM while you're gone. the man who
mas 1t in for You" gets hold OF your
glrl ana pours lot of hard facts, main
iy about you, into her ears. When YOU
return balancing Just plain Croton" on
an your hands your reception Is friyfd.
Ana II takes Jou six months TO get her
oack TO where You had her before
All! Ladies Day Is indeed a gala
occasion.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
WHO'S TO BLAME HERE?

During the third quarter of 1912, according to
report just issued, there was increase of almost
one-third in the number of people killed in railroad
train accidents, compared to the same months ol
the preceding year.
Moreover, over two-thrds of all accidents of this
class resulted from defective equipment.
Now, that is getting down to brass nails. the
ties are too old and rotten the rails Longer
than they should be, else are bogus in the begin
ming; equipment in general is being skinned" by
the roads.
Who's to blame? 1t is time to find out. Are iail-
road managers doing this because they must in ordel
to live; are they doing it because they have to
pay returns on bad investments in the New
Haven case; or because wages and other costs have
gone up, while rates have not?
This sort of casualty showing justifes the
demand for serious inquiry into the whole subject
If the railroads really must have income they
ought to get it soon and stop the murder. If they
are just running their roads recklessly and badly
there ought to be a lot more New Haven investiga-
tions afoot.
Either way, the public is entitled to know the
truth.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
SAND In THEIR cRAW."

The only brute that has any real literal busi-
ness with sand in its is the particular one, it
now develops, that mustn't have sand in its craw.
That's chicken.
The honest Jersey farmers stuffed the craws of
their fatted fowl with sand just before sending them
to market in Manhattan, and sold half pound SO
of Jersey beach with each. Now the buyers have
announced a boycott on the sand-stuffed sort, and
New York will 60 without poultry for day or two.
Dear Dear! Are our commercial customs to be
completely expurgated and uplfted that the honest
farmer may not feed the fatted calf an extra half
pound of salt preliminary to selling him to the
prodigal's rejoicing father with his skin full Of
water? Is nothing picturesque, nothing but sixteen
ounce-to-the hepound scales sandless sugar, sandess
craws, and pure food guarantees, to be left to us
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
"THE WICKED NEWSPAPERS"

II was Senator Works, was it not, who most
recently proposed to censor the newspapers and
make them stop printing things that he-or the cen
sors-might regard as sensational?
That would have prevented the tremendous pub
licity that was given to the case of Banker Walker
who took poison by accident and was given up to die
That, in turn, would have prevented an expert
enced nurse in distant region telegraphing to
Walker the treatment that had saved her life in a
like situation.
! 1t would have prevented useful suggestions being
literally showered upon Walker and his physicians.
i 1t would have deprived the man of the one chance
of life that came to him.
II Sure; suppress the wicked and sensational news
papers!
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
"DICK TO DICK" ECHO.

That was a curiously reminiscent echo which
resounded through the room of the Senate Com
mttee on Territories yesterday when Delegate Wick
ersham of Alaska told the committee the present
status of developing monopoly in Alaska Judge
Wickersham has been fighting the Alaska Syndicate
ever since he has been here. He has insisted that
alleged independent" promoters who seek privileges
and franchises too often disguised agents of the
Guggenheims; and yesterday he shed some entirely
new light on the one-time sensation of the Dick
to Dick letter.
Dick Ryan, promoter of an Alaska railway on
paper, came here some two years ago, seeking a
Government grant that would enable him to DOM
mate Controller Bay, the last harbor from which
railroad could be built the coal and copper country
The other arbors were already all in control of the
Guggenheims President Taft gave Ryan what he
wanted There we're bitter and insistent charges
that Ryan was really fence for Guggenheim; that
he was getting this harbor for them in order to
riyet tight their monopoly. But the charge was
denied and no satisfactory and final determination
was ever reached as to its merits.
Yesterday Delegate Wickersham, Dick" Ryan,
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
A REAL GEM OF HUMOR.

Looking back over the Califorrla-japan contro-
versy it must be admitted that the affair produced
one gem of humor that has made the whole extra
Californian world laugh. That was the charitable
advice of the Tokyo publcist who advised his people
not to get excited the Californians seemed to be
in the same stage of civilization as Japan sixty
years ago, and if treated kindly might catch up with
the march of enlightenment
A few bon mots like that would settle almost any
quarrel between nations with any sense of humor
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
THE PRoUTY INSURANCE MEASURE.

Congressman Prouty of Iowa, who comes from
of the important insurance centers of the West,
and has had long and intimate experience as
lawyer and judge, with insurance legislation and
business, has introduced measure to reorganze the
insurance code of this jurisdiction. 1t is a good
measure no doubt; it looks to more effective super
vision and strict and careful business methods
But it is not the purpose here to discuss the
particular merits of this particular insurance BILL
The fact that such an elemental measure is needed
for the District of Columbia proves that something
is radically wrong here 1t has been declared scores
of times lately that this District has the worst nsur
ance laws in the country. A few years ago, when
the national banking laws were extended by special
act to all classes of banks here the thing
was said about our local banking laws. From time
to time some striking incident commands attention
to this same kind of conditions in some new direc-
ton; until the observer of affairs in Washington is
forced to conclude that the general body of law
here is hopeessly archaic, inadequate, and incom-
plete.
That is exactly the fact; and the explanation is
not difficult to find. Congress must make fhe laws
of the District for the District Congress must do
for this jurisdiction, all that State Legislature,
county board, and city council do for an ordinary
city, in addition to making our Federal laws for U.S.
SOHSIcSS SIMPLY uocSu SCt " ulc
parts of its job. 1t hasn't either time or interest
in them.
States legislature has, as its particular busi-
ness, to attend to just such affairs insurance,
banking and the thousand other details which need
it, but which not in general, the affairs of the
Federal Government. There is nobody to do that
work for Washington. The District is notorously
behind the times in all such matters Not because
the people are to blame, not particularly because
Congress is unwilling to act, but simply because
is too big task for Congress to handle along with
its other affairs.
In State legislature, confronted with the State
side of all these problems, men become skilled and
expert in them. In Congress, men are confronted
with the national, the Federal, the interstate side
of the problems; and it is impossible for them
to find time for the other and very different aspects.
In the process of making model city of Wash
ington-a process that we are always hearing about
and never seeing in operation-there could be no
more useful detail than the creation of code COM
mission to take the present body of law of this
jurisdiction and make code, including the
things that Washington needs but has not Congress,
of course could not delegate the legislative power
but it could take and enact the results Of such a
commissions efforts.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
Where the Mister Was,

-HE lady of the house had a wor-
red look on her lace as she
came down to breakfast.
Bridget" she said to the maid
Mr.. Bodkin hasn't been home all night
am somewhat alarmed-I do hone that
nothing Is wrong"
why. bless your heart, TIL mister's 3
all right reassured the maid. Hes
down on tn front dure mat right now
num- He says he's been there a long
time. but he can't remember whe: her
made up his mind I'll let ye know
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21

~ Z sure to impress the significance
X of the day upon all your femi-
nine invites. Talk of II for
weeks before. Make 1t seem a
reckless. dashing thing to look forward
to. When an engagement presents It
self always preface your acceptance
with:
Now, just let me see-isn't that our
ladies' day at the club?'
On the auspicious day purchase a
large box of the most expensive con-
fections. take several pieces out of Tho
box. and hide the rest somewhere in
the reading room. It's going TO make a
tremendous hit when you bring them
out Because no matter what you say
about buying them EXPRESSLY for
that day. they'll distelieve and be per-
fectly sure that they're the risque left
overs from the last mysterious wild
smoker" when some real professionals
entertained you.
Remember that you have to be cordial
to everybody-even the least popular
members spinster sister. who keeps
house for him and who entertains you
with the fact that its the first time
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
The Mystery.

Y YISITOR-I understand that you
had an amateur dramatic per-
" formance in the town hall last
night?
Native-Yes: the Sock and Buskin
CluE played Little Mac. or the Noun
tain Mystery"
''Ah, And what was the mystery"
.'As near as | could make out the
mystery was how the audience stood IL
TIL the last act was over.'-Tit-BitA
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
AUToMOBILISTs' TRIoLET.

AUTOMOBILISTS' TRIOLET.
Do not erceed the legal speed,
While out the coming summer.
To this aduice giue careful heed:
Do not erceed the legal speed,
Remember he pho stands cdn read
And note your license number.
Do not ercecd the legal speed
when out the coming summer
LIMO.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21

And talking OF evening things up.
ping g?-has fashioned a battleship of
cake. Which is no more than fair. In
varied restaurants around town we have
been eating cake made OF battIeships,
or sections of them, 10. these many
n: :onths.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21

Why the Democrats consider the next
election won: The news that Lorimer
will again run for the Senate.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21

Mary Jett took out license to wed
yesterday. but We venture to remark
look out for this ona-we venture 20 re-
mark that she has not been Mary Jett.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21

While our offering is a bed sheet
that fails by three inches to reach the
top of the mattress
The Washington times., 1913-05-21
OUR OWN DICTIONARY.

POSTOFFICE: The hardest place in
the world to mail a letter.
The Washington times., 1913-05-21

The Clevelanders may win the PEN
nant, but Washington fans should
cheer up. There is a rumor that the
Maps may sign Drohan.