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New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
MAYOR HALLORAN AGAIN.

The democracy had an easy time making up their ticket last night; there was no opposition, and when it was all over the delegates enjoyed a lunch.
 Mayor Halloran again heads the
 ticket, as was expected, and the gen.
 eral predictions are that he will
 carry the city. He has held the of- flee for four years, as long as anyone
 ever held it, except the late Samuel
 Bassett. who was elected three terms
 in succession, and he points with
 pride to his achievements during that
 period. No one need ask what has been done; all know or should know and 1t makes sound platform on
 which the candidate for mayor can go before the people on election day. New Britain, has proven itself to be
 an independent city in local elections and if it were not for that democrat would not have much of a chance as an aspirant for public office. The republicans are in the majority but party lines are usually thrown to the winds in municipal contests and as a
 result the democratic candidates for important positions have repeatedly
 carried the day; therefore Mayor Hal
 loran can go before the electorate next Tuesday with the belief that he stands good chance of being re- turned to the office he waS elected
 to in 1910 and which he has held con- tinuously ever. since.
 The democracy has nominated a
 pretty good ticket and the delegates showed commendable wisdom in en- dorsihg the republican candidates for treasurer and comptroller, two fine officials.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
The Waning Postcard.
Cleveland Plain ' Dealer. )

U
 A situation prophesied before the craze had nearly reached it's zenith is now said to be actually coming to pass The picture postcard vogue is dying out. Already the corner stores report a falling off in trade; already the post office figures indicate a de- cline in the actual number of post cards carried. A thing that has been at the same time fad, a convenience, a popular common carrier and 8 com mon popular pest is now about to take it's place with the bicycle as 8 thing that may be used with discretion but never again made a mania of.
 Over the greater part of Europe it is now possible to send sealed letter for the same price that a postcard may be dispatched. If we get one cent postage here, the only excuse for the illustrated card will be it's illustra- tion and the accompanying fact that fewer words are required as a personal message. After all, the picture post card has catered to our laziness even more than to our feelings of economy. It has been feared that it would have the ultimate effect of making letter writing a lost art. However, the in- vention of the telegraph brought forth the same peSSlmistic doubts and cr1ti- cisms; in spite of the telegraph, liter ary people still write literary letters, ard in spite of the postcard, the two- cent stamp and the twenty -five-cent packet of note paper are still sold in large quantities. t.- E..
 It is interesting to note, now that the postcard is ceasing to be a fad, that it was not, as has been supposed an American invention. It was first used in Austria, where as early as 1869 a Dr. Hermann suggested it's employment. Its price was something less than one cent, then, but those who used it were allowed to write only twenty words on it. Not that the writ ing of twenty-one words would have appreciably increased the. burden of the mail carriers;. twenty words was the limit, perhaps, that the people might duly appreciate the fact that a government owned the post office.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
SUFFRAGISTS DEFEATED.

v It is estimated that approximately 115,OOO women voted in Chicago yes- terday but they were all beaten, Miss Drake, who was opposing Bath House" John Coughlin for alderman being showed under, so much so that his majority had not been figured up this morning. This contest took place in the first ward where there are many lodging houses, saloons and rooming places and the vote was got course they all voted for him.
 There had been great deal of talk about what the women were going to do in that district but the results show that they didn't do it. Miss Drake has had three men convicted for dealing in vice and she thinks that the conditions have become so we'll known as result of the cam paign that Bath House" and his as- sociates will be compelled to pass some measures of reform.
 < Ine women u1VlOeu on the NQuOr question, and while the dry element made a fairly good showing in the outside towns in the state they did not make the sweep they expected. Chicago will remain wet as usual but the suffragists are confident they will do better next time.
 There is evidence that money was used in Bath House. Johns district and several arrests were made. That, however, was not strange. The result was that the forces that were ex- pected to win did win and the com- r1airits of corruption will not keep anyone awake nights.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Chicago Policewomcn.
(New Haven Union.)


 Chicago is not too well pleased with its policewomen. They were named in response to a demand to protect women and girls from vice. Ten in all were appointed. It is admitted that they have large feet, are not afraid of mice and can handle revolvers, but are utterly unable to perform the sterner tasks that fall to guardians of the peace.
 For instance, Chicago experienced recently a waitresses' strike. The job of handling the girl pickets was en- trusted to policemen. They were so rough that bones were broken. Social workers thereupon held a meeting and demanded that policewomen should be assigned to keep the pickets in order.
 After a short experiment with po- licewomen in charge of the strike the same social workers admitted they had blundered and asked that the women bluecoats be withdrawn and policemen substituted. The police women were too active in filling the patrol wagons with girls. The social workers asserted that the type of women in the police department was not the highest.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Victory For Prohibitiomsts.

Chicago, April 8.-Women voting for the first time in Illinois township elections demonstrated their power yesterday by closing the doors of more than thousand saloons outside of Chicago, adding sixteen counties to the thirty already dry. and barring the sale of intoxicants in approxi- mately 200 of the 300 townships in which local option was an issue.
 Their victory included eleven of the larger cities of the state hitherto wet territory. They were Bloomington, Galesburg, Elgin, Decatur, Canton, Freeport, Belvidere, Monmouth, Ke- vance, Lockport and East Galena, Rockford, Mattoon and Galva remain in the dry column.
 No city nor township which was dry before the election was lost, but the cities of Springfield, Quincy, Rock Island, Aurora, Alton, Molin, Dixon and West Galena remained wet.
 Women Against Saloons.
 Complete returns from county townships and from more remote sec tions of the state were not available, but detailed figures of the vote in fifty-seven townships placed the wom- en's vote at 40,6S1 dry and 1S,1s1 wet, showing that in those townships approximately seventy per cent. of the women voters favored the anti saloon ticket.
 Where accurate figures were avail able the mems vote was shown to be about one-eighth greater than the women's and to have been divided into approximately sixty per cent wet and forty per cent. dry.
 Springfield, the state capital, voted wet after one of the most spirited campaigns in the history of the city, a majority of the women voting for saloons.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08

The selling of bob veal is a me- farious practice and the discovery that such meat has been sold in this city will probably be the means of keeping sharper lookout by the au- thorities with corresponding lack of initiative on the part of the law breakers. It would seem as if the far mer who sells the unwholesome anil mai were in a measure to blame put the technicalities of the law save him from responsibility. He is not sup posed to know that the calf he sells Is to be killed before its flesh is fit to eat. It is to his advantage not to make inquiries It might not do him much good if he did, for the truth is elastic and stretches to meet the requirements of those who are in quest of a means of making money at the expense of the ignorance of the buying public.-Meriden Record.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
VOTING MACHINES.

he machine plan of voting fell In in Hartford yesterday when for |e unknown reason one machine I'd to return a hundred votes and
 Ia result there is some doubt
 b who has been elected mayor. It
 Id seem as if the discrepancy in
 count might have been noticed at time and the objection made fe and then. It is very difficult to knything with a machine after the has been cast and counted, but 5 being remarked when the ma
 es were being purchased in New |ain that the agent said that they )ht get out of order but if they did would not work at all. This mt that if a machine would not re- ] vote it, could not be operated, hat there would be no harm done. |lst how the mistake happened in |tford is hard to tell. Some seem fned to attribute 1t to the ma- Se, others to the count as it was kn from the machine, but in eith- ease it looks like a difficult mat Ito settle Those who have been bsed to voting machines will B upon the Hartford case as an hment against their use.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
The Plight of Kentucky.
Philadelphia Public Ledge

Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
 If Kentucky had made a law doub- ling the price of a drink of whisky, 1t could have caused but little more excitement than has it's attempt to fix the price of fire insurance
 Kentucky's solons figured out that as a large part of the insuring is done by companies outside the state, it would be fine business to cut down tho cost of insurance.
 We'll, any legislature can name a price for any commodity, as anybody can lead a horse to water, but may not force him to drink. Alas Not even Kentucky can compel outside or inside fire companies to sell insurance at the low price fixed.
 It is very nice to have cheap fire insurance. Also very nice to have bread for one cent a loaf, eggs for five cents a dozen and beefsteak for ten cents a pound. The trick is to find somebody who will sell them to us at those figures.
 But while it is nice to have cheap insurance, it isn't nice to have fire companies beat it" across the state border and refuse to insure at all. That makes it unpleasant for all peo- pie who want insurance-much of whose borrowed money depends on the insurance they carry.
 This feature of the law is what af- fects some sSO,OOO,OOO worth of Ken lucky whisky in bond. where fire in surance is a vital matter.
 Trying to reform an important bus mess by law in a day Is not so easy as it often looks to an ignorant legisla tor.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
The Forest Fire Season.
(New York Times.)

(NGW OTk llnleS.)
 Millions of acres of forest lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills are unprotected from destruction by fire because the legislature adjourned without appropriating the necessary funds. The fifty watchmen for the observation stations and the seventy forest rangers absolutely needed to patrol the forests may not be pro- vided. Fortunately, the legislature did pass the assembly bill introduced as No. 1,233, which authorizes the controller, upon direction of the gov ernor, to borrow money in case of emergencies for the extinguishing of fires. If Gov. Glynn signs this bill some temporary provision may be made until the legislature meets in it's extra session. But April and May are the months in which the m ost disastrous fires occur. It is to be hoped that the governor will not only sign the bill now in his hands, but will specially charge the legis- lature when it meets to make speedy provision for the forest fire service.
 The system now installed under the conservation commission is the most efficient and economical over oper- ated. Tn the three dry years of 1903, 1908, and 1913 the losses of the first two years were $S46,082 and $S02,135, respectively, and the cost of extin- gushing fires ranged from $153,764 to $189,661; whereas in 1918, under the new safeguards, the damage was orly $51,445 and the cost of the service but $43,213
 That is very little to pay for in- surance against great confagrations in the forest reserve counties of this State. Chairman Van Kennen of the conservation commission has set forth the facts as noted in letter to John c. Agar, President of the Association for the Protection of the Adironea and that society has the support of the public in it's efforts to relieve an alarming situation.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
FAMOUS PAINTING SOLD FOR $4,OOO
Art Collection of pr. George Reuling . of Baltimore Disposed of at @
 Auction Sale.

New York, April S.-Charles Wilson Peale's full length painting of Wash ington, which Washington likedi so we'll that he presented it to Louis XVI. in appreciation of French help to the American colonies, was sold at auction last night for $4,000.
 The portrait was made after the battle of Princeton, and represents Washington in dress uniform with the blue ribbon voted him by the Con- tinental Congress pinned to his coat. Louis XVI. gave the picture to Lafay- cite, who kept it all his life.
 John Trumbull's famous painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill with the death of General Warren, the artist having made the sketch from an ad- joining hill while the battle was in progress, brought $750. portrait Of General Jackson by Peale, for which Jackson sat before starting on his Florida campaign, brought $725.
 The sale was from the collection of pr. George Reuling of Baltimore.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Salts if Backachy and Kid
 neys Hurt
Stop Eating Meat For A While If your Bladder is troubling
 you.

When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, says a we'll known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter 1t from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels; removing all the bodys urinous waste, else you have backache, sick head ache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours. tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore. water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night.
 sician at once or get from your phar- macist about four ounces of lad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irritates. thus ending bladder weakness.
 lad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. 1t is inexpensive. can- not injure and makes delightful. ef- fervescent lithia-water drink.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
GERMAN QUIGLEY MATED.
NOMI-

he republican caucus had an un- ected result to every one, except Bibly Alderman Quigley himself. the candidates said they expected kin. but in their hearts they had e doubt abott it; it could not been otherwise for the city was g combed from one end to the br and there is never any certain Is to who will win in such con- MT. Quigiey has come the hon. of leading the republican forces next Tuesday, a position for hh he has been in the field for e than a year He has had a fight and now that the air has red up a bit it must be admitted
 he is entitled to a great deal of lit for being able to mow down forces that have been opposed to It was wonderful caucus,
 5000 votes being cast, several dred more than was boiled in New ain for the republican candidate governor two. years ago. There
 never another like it and per- never will be because the time come when the republicans real that the primary is the only ber way to make nominations Ire there is as much rivalry as *e was last night Had MT. altz's friends remained for the
 ballot he might have had the ination, but many of them did was predicted they would do- home after the first ballot, but
 does not jdetract from the Quig- victory for the reason his friends aimed at their post until the battle
 won. The republicans are do- some grumbling today and the Btion is how long it will last; will carrieds to the polls next Tues Herman Quigley has won the first hd in the race for the mayoralty no one can say that the vote was fair one. He is on the firing now. Will his party be back of
 
 at the polls? That is the all im- ant question at present. The de-
 of MT. Steele by such 8 heavy
 was surprise. It was thought
 he would run we'll up with the ers, but he did not receive much e than half of the vote cast for two competitors. His ally in the paign, MT. Scheuy, was also beat Tor registrar of voters, feat no thought possible before; but we living in strange times now. and unexpected has happened in re- Fican politics.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
HARTFORD's ELECTION.

he election in Hartford was a |e one: there was more mud Swn, however, during the campaign \ was necessary, and the singers |not as happy today as they would E been had they left unsaid many bgs which must have hurt and |ch do not make votes on' election It is unfortunate that men al their judgment to, be affected by
 ttics and cause them to drag mat-
 of personal nature into a, cam |kn which have no business there
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Minnesota Elections.

St. Paul. Minn., April S.-Prohibi- tion forces scored heavily in yester- days municipal elections, held by Minnesota cities of the fourth class, according to returns last last night Madison, Marshall, Luverne and Can by, for many years the leading saloon towns of southwestern Minnesota, en- tered the dry column by small ma- Jor1ties. Litchfield, for twenty years a saloon town, went dry by a ma tority of forty-three votes.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Women Are Defeated.

Although seventy-three per cent. of the Chicago women registered took advantage of their newly gained fran chise none of the nine women candi- dates for the city council was success full, receiving only a scattered vote. Alderman John Gath House) Cough resented the first ward was reelected by nearly 4,O00 votes over Miss Marion Drake, 8 court stenographer He re- ceived more women's votes than Miss Drake.
 The vote in Chicago totalled nearly half 8 million. Out of total of 217,- 614 women who had qualified, 158,6S6 voted. Only seventy-two per cent. of the men went to the polls, 32S,987 casting votes.
 The socialist party had an alder manic candidate in each of the thirty five wards. In most of the wards, the socialist vote was third and in one ward, the twenty-seventh, their can- didate took second place The total vote boiled by the socialist candidates was 39,9OO.
 New Council Democratic.
 The new council will be democratie as 1t has been for the last several years.
 Votes of the women helped defeat by 90.OO0 majority a proposition for 8 comprehensive subway system to cost S13O,OOO,0O0. Another public policy question providing for home rule in the regulation of public utilities was
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Gallivan Defeats Brier.

Boston, April S.-James A. Galli- van, democrat, was elected yesterday to congress from the Twelfth district, to fill the unexpired term of Mayor James M. Curley, resigned. He re- ceived a majority in a triangular con- test.
 The vote was: Gallivan, S,70S; Frank l.. Brier, republican, 3,973; James B. Connolly, progressive, 3,592.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Sunday Baseball Scores.

Omaha, Neb., April S.-Local option elections in Nebraska, according to reports received today, resulted in r changes from wet to dry and nine changes from dry to wet in 140 towns reporting. No large cities were in- volved. ..a. 4...
 Sunday baseball scored a victory. Fifteen towns voted in it's favor and five against.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
sWilI Revise Constitution.

r, New York, April S.-Additional re- turns received early today indicate that the proposal to hold conven- tion to revise the constitution of the state, submitted to the voters at a special election yesterday, has been carried by a majority of from 25,000 to 3G,OOO
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
D. MCMILLAN 19s.2ol-2o3 MAIN STREET.
THREE BANDITS KILLED
 BY FURIOUS POSSE 
Two Others Seriously Injured and Sixth Escapes With $f ,OOO-1 ,500
 Shots Were Exchanged.

Prince Rupert, B. C., April s.- Three of the six bandits who robbed the Bank of Canada at New Hazel ton yesterday. were killed and two were seriously wounded by a posse. the remaining robber escaping to the hills with the booty, about $1,000.
 As the robbers started for the hills. 200 citizens followed, both. sides firing as fast as they could work their guns. Just before gaining the shelter of the woUd two of the bandits were killed. The third was killed a little later.
 The two wounded robbers struggled on for time, but soon surrendered. None of the posse was injured.
 It is estimated that 1,500 shots were exchanged, and nearly all the ammu- milton in the town was exhausted.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Seidel Is Defeated

Milwaukee, Wis, April S.-Unofiicial returns today did not change the esti- mate of last night that gave Mayor Gerhard Bading, non-partisan candi- date for reelection, a majority of 6.000 over Emil Seidel, social-demo- crat.
 Throughout the state interest in yes terday's election centered in the license question, the larger cities voting wet. Out of 57 places, 37 went wet and 20 dry.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08

successful by a majority. of 1000. Five bond issues totalling $8,35O,-
 000j for# city departments and the county Hospital were defeated by large 3niAJolities. : One bond issue providing
 $50 900 for municipal bathing beach improvements was uccessful
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08

As the sun grows warmer the trout prospects grow better and there'll be many a "sick man. compelled to take a day or two off before the month is much older. The waters warming up all the etime.-Waterbury Republican.
 The Rev. Father Duffy, pastor of the Church of Our Savior in upper New York, has fitted up store room at the church where babies can be checked and left in the care of a trained nurse, and he says that so far the plan is a great success. No mother can now say she has to re- main away from mass to care for the baby.-Waterbury American.
 It is a pity Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, late president of the w. c. T. U., did not live to hear the news of the official order prom ulgated by the secretary of the navy barring the use of intoxicants on all ships in the United States navy. It would have meant much to her, who had been such a valiant champion of the cause of prohibition. The w. c. T. U. lost a notable leader and executive by the death of Mrs. Stevens. -Ansonia Sentinel. tts This is cleanup and paint-up week in New Haven to usher in Easter the more worthily. These annual events are of the highest importance for they not only achieve what they set out to achieve, but they inculcate in us all love of the clean and the true. We are at best creatures of habit, and If we form the habit of keeping our per. sons clean We remain so; if we form the habit of keeping our homes and our yards clean, we keep them clean. And so all along the line.--New Haven Journal-Courier.
 Love isn't the only thing to which the fancy of the young man or the old lightly or seriously turns in spring. Cleaning up of house or yard is an inherited tendency in those born in New England. Thestrouble is that there, are ;a} good many people here now who weren't born in New England. Cleanup week" is a means of inspiration of setting good ex- ample, of demonstrating, the advan- tage of clearing. away rubbish It inspires thrift and pride as well. as promotes good health.--New Haven Register. st ,P.s. ii@ F
New Britain herald., 1914-04-08
Commission Wins By &.

Irvington, N. Y., April S.-The commission form of government was adopted at the special election yester- day by a vote of 7S7 to TOP. The commissioners will be chosen at a special election five weeks hence