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New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
Removable Pavements.
Engineering Record.) )

Pavement piercing for petty repairs by public utilities is so universally practiced in our larger cities that the public has become inured to the spec tacle of seeing the paving materials on the sidewalk or piled in the gutter The Engineering Record suggests that engineers look into the feasibility of a removable type of pavement which can be picked up in large blocks ex- tending from the curb to the car track and laid to one side while the deliver after conduit troubles pursues his task.
 Inquiries in Chicago and talks with practical pavement men indicate that the idea has merit and presents few, if . any, insurm mountable difficulties. Rough calculations indicate that con- crete blocks of ten inch thickness, reinforced, might cost upward of $2.7O per square yard, exclusive of hauling to place. They could be transported at night over the street railway tracks and unloaded by a crane directly on to previously pre- pared longitudinal reinforced founda- tion walls at curb and car tracks
 Blocks would seem to be specially suited for the part of the street that the railway companies are required to pave, as in most cases foundations for the blocks already exist The al- most inevitable necessity of remov- ing the pavement prior to it's life limit should make the removable, re- versible and interchangeable features worthy of detailed study by street railway engineers
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
CITY CONTRACTS.

The common council has referred
 the garbage contract back to the
 health commission for the evident
 purpose of trying to have that Dody
 Recommend that it be awarded to swanson Brothers, which it has so Tar refused to do. A point was raised at |fhe meeting last evening, when It was Iproposed to instruct the health con- lnission to award the contract to the Eswansons, that the council had no power to instruct the health commit tee. That point seems to be In ac- Irordanee with law. but back or It al
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
Those Bad Taste Folks. (Philadelphia Record.l

Those provincial and childish peo- pie in New York, who are making merry over the fashions of few years ago in what they call an exhibit of bad taste, giggled and snickered and squealed over what is described as a 'mustache cup tea.''
 The mustache cup is not in style now, and these metropolitan imbeciles imagine that everything that is out of style is bad taste. Does any rational ptrson suppose that the plug hat of 1914 and the skirt so tight that it has . to be slit to allow of walking are in good taste, while the plug hat of the civil war period and the hoop skirt are in bad taste? Of course, one fashion is just as good taste as an- other.
 It is not the style now to eat with the knife, but it is impossible to eat peas with a tWo-tined fork, and old custom sanctioned the use of such eat ing implements as there were. There is no more question of good or bad taste than there is of good or bad morals in eating with a fork. By all means let us do what is proper and stylish and good form, but do not let us be foolish enough to suppose that we have better taste than our parents and grandparents, whose ap- parel and table manners differed from ours. Forty years hence there will be people in New York capable of laughing themselves into fits over the bad taste of 1914.
 Why not mustache cups? There are still some musta ches, and there used to be cream on the coffee, which fn h2a cfr inc n1Jf hN n O mustache, with painful consequence to the appearance until removed by
 the napkin. Women, who dictate the fashions, seldom wear mustaches, and decree that one shall sip soup from the edge of the spoon. No person with a mustache can do that without leaving the more solid portions of the soup on the outside of the mustache. Many a man who wears a mustache wishes he could take it off for the soup course, but he is obliged to elect between defying woman made rules of department and defying appearances, which in this case are not deceitful; they are only too true
 No question of taste is involved in the use of the mustache cup. 1t has not fallen victim to improvement in manners; it has simply been crushed l under the French heel of feminism. It is fundamental principle of the prevailing cult that the occupations, the costumes and the habits and ap- pearances of men and women shall be as nearly alike as possible. Syd- ney Smiths remark that he liked Prof. Grote because he was so lady, like, and Mrs. Grote for she was a perfect gentleman, is reminiscent of distinctions which the feminist is trampling out.
 At a time when the mustache cup was in vogue an American dealer or dered a quantity from a German manufacturer who did not possess even an Ollendorf acquaintance with English, and the decorations were embarras ssingly confused. Mustache cups arrived emblazoned with the legends, Mother and For my dear Aunt" As these beloved relations do not wear Inustaches, feminism has set it's face against mustaches on men or has ceased to set its face against them. Hence the vogue of the safety razor. Hence. the relegation of the mustache cup to the exhibit of bad taste.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
Government Rations a Cure.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.)

"I can't blame the young women for falling in love with the mem bers of the National Guard" said the neigh hor. They look so fine and manly in their uniforms and so capable of deeds or heroism.'
 "Neither do F. answered the ether woman, who was considerably elder My husband is a Spanish war veteran, and I made a hero of him when the boys went away in 1898. And I have never regretted it.'
 ''Ah! So there is a lasting quality behind all the glitter and uniform!"
 "Yes indeed. A few months Of government rations were enough to keep him from complaining about home cooking for the rest of his natural life. Let the girls fall in love
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

cesses: Death of Tintagiles. By
 Maurice Maeterlinck. -~'' '~~-'- Poetic New-world. By l.. H. Humph-
 rey. Post Office. By Rabindranath Ia
 gore. An idealistic drama. Princess Maleine. By Maurice
 Maeterlinck.
 Tragedy of Pompey the Great. By
 John Masefield
 
 Business of a Gentleman. By H. N.
 Dickinson.
 "This is a novel with a very useful moral. For it aims at showing, by means of brightly written story ad- mirably true to life, how much may be done by the landed proprietor who is willing to take the trouble to look after his own estates and not leave the business to underlings.' gs.'-Satur- day Review (English)
 Hyacinth. By G. A. Birmingham.
 
 Monkshridge. By John Ayscough.
 "A quiet picture of English rural scenes and the life of gentle folk infused with rare humor. John Ayscough' is in real life Rt. Rev. Monsignor Francis Bickerstaffe- Drew, senior chaplain to the Forces, Salisbury Plain. He is the author of several novels of distinction of yI4s s0I, L. "Gracechurch," and "Mezzogiorna," and "Marotz'' are in the library. Saints and Places" is a volume of travel sketches in Italy.
 Remington Sentence By w. Pett
 Ridge.
 "A quaint and quiet humor, the 1eisurely progress of an unaccented and a wide range of characters these are familiar characteristics of MT. Ridge which his readers expect and which they find in the present volume. The vicissitudes of a sister and three brothers condemned by the terms of a dead fathers will to "hard labor for five years,'' create whatever of plot there is.''-Nation.
 Rocks of Valpre by E. M. Dell.
 Another story of the woman, really child, who thinks she has married the wrong man but finds that he is the right one after all. She gives the public just what the pub lie wants-healthy fare, plentiful in- cident, highly coloured sentiment, and heroes, a heroine, a villain, who are thorough. Sentimental, yet not insincere. ."-Bookman. Shallow Soil, by Knut Hamsun.
 ''The author of this story has been famous in Norway for d quarter of century, and well known through out Europe for many years. Tn Russia says the translator, his pop ularity exceeds that of many of it's own inimitable writer's German criticism has dealt Seriously with him. Yet he is now first introduced to the English-reading public. Out of his thirty volumes-nove1s, plays book of travel, essays, poems-Shallow SoiP seems to have been chosen with some care, as an entering wedge, being in some respects the most con- tained of Hamsun's works. ."-Nation. Sword Hand of Napoleon, by c. T. Brady.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

Exhaustive inquiry has established the fact that lightning ranks next to railroads as source of forest fires. Forest officers say that the increasing care with fire on the part of the railroads and the public generally tends to make lightning the largest single contributing cause. Middle ! town Penny Press.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

The Record is in no position to state. that illness and death may not result from vaccination. In the very nature of things it is reasonable Co suppose that there are exceptions to the general rule which history has shown has proved efficacious. If the system were not in good condition, if the virus were not absolutely fresh and pure, if the wound were not prop erly cared for to prevent infection, it is easy enough to see that serious re- suits might occur from vaccination. It does not signify, however, that be- cause of these exceptions, the idea of vaccination in general Is not good. Statistics show how the disease has been almost stamped out. Where it used to be general, it is now only oc- casiona1. Where it was formerly viru- lent, it is now, in the main, light in character.-Meriden Record
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

When the average citizen learns that war means a stamp tax placed upon all of the necessities of life by paternal government, which is in urgent need of funds, some of the enthusiasm for cleaning up Mexico will die away. The direct tax that hits ieveryone every day hurts more than the indirect method, which delft ly separates one from his money by a painless and invisible process. It is easy to see why the government does not wish to try the stamp tax until it is forced to do so by stress of cir mstances.-Ansonia Sentinel.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

Isn't it a trif1e premature to al- ready class MT. Wilson as "a war president?' If it were fair to as- sume that he is willing to accept the title, it is by no means certain that it would mean honor for him. And ''an almost war president''-that were an appellation better left unsaid.- New Haven Register.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
WHAT OTHERS SAY

Views on all sidee Of timely
 questions as discussed in ex. changes that come to Herald
 office. .4
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
FACTS AND RANCHES.

It is a question in many cities where street cars shall stop Most cities in- sist on their stopping about a quarter of mile from where anybody. wants to get on or off.-MiddletoWn Penny Press. "
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

Time was when the state police couldn't come to town and find any, one doing business after they made their first call. There must be some new faces in the squad.-Waterbury Republican.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

Rumors that Secretary Bryan is about to leave the cabinet are denied stoutly. Such rumors are apt to be denied. Quite frequently, however, they are proved to be forerunners of the fact, if also frequently they ex- pire as rumors. MT. Bryan has no mandate from the people in his of flee, of course. He is simply a highly favored politician. Three times re- jected for president, his unapprecia- tive fellow behold him at a presidents right hand. If he is not the power behind the throne he is firmly seated on an arm of it. And there is no provision for a recall The democratic party thought it had chosen Woodrow Wilson in preference to William J. Bryan to be it's standard bearer, but the latter has hold of the stick, too.-Providence Journal.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
D. MCMILLAN lse-2ol-2o3 MAIN STREET.

with the boys who go to the front but let them insist that they really go to the front"
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

I'd daily (Sunda/ exceptedl at 4:1S p. m. Herald Building. 67 Church St.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

only profitable advertising medium m he My. Circulation books and preoe
 rt bm alw avs open to auvertisers
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

bred at the Post Off1ce as New Britain
 = Second Class Mali Matter.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30
w BRITAIN HERALD

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Rroprietors-
New Britain herald., 1914-04-30

Intruder; The Blind; Seven Prin-
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18

Of his mill and these We're reputed
TO contain vast fortunes, but owing
TO the crude methods of milling then
in vogue, did not appear TO be work.
able Many different people ties, ed
these shines and always found values
in them. Finally. Lynch went broke
and afterward died, leaving his wiG-
ow in possession of the shines.
Various reports as to the sums OF
money which she was offered for
them were rife. These sums ranged,
according to rumor. from $20,0OG to
100000, An assayer on the Com
itock at that time. b. the name of
Wiegand, spent all ne had expert
menting on them. but finally going
broke. he killed himself by strangu-
lation.
THE stone wall abutt.ng the gar
den OF this house was made of stone
formerly used in the construction OF
the old Curry mill, one OF the most
pretentious and costly mills ever
erected on the lode.
THE situation of this place en- an
eminence overlooking the desert to
wards the east made it fine sett'rg
for a romance. which fact was taken
advantage of by a novelist who made
the Comstock the setting for her
story and this mansion the dwelling
place for her heroine"
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE

r oNoPAH Gypsy QUEEN MINING
COMPANY
Location of Principal Place Of Bust
ness, San Francisco. California. Loca-
ton of works, Tonopah, Nye County,
NOTIcE-There are delinquent upon
me following described stock, on ac-
count OF Assessment (No 81 levied on
the 18th day of February, 1914, the
several amounts set opposite the names
81 Inc respective shareholders. as fol-
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18

where the water level stands within
twenty-five or perhaps hlty feet of
the surface, and water Tor the irri-
cation of vegetables and fruit can be
pumped where the depth to water is
even greater.
1t is well established that the
water supply does not come chiefly
from the mountains. as Is still popu-
larry believed. but from the rain and
snow that falls on the great plains
The fact that the source of supply Is
local Is not unfayorable, as is sup
posed by many persons, but rather
means that the intake area is extern
siye and that therefore the total sup
ply is large. even though only a small
part OF the precipitation percolates
to the ground-water level. II only
two or three per cent Of the precip.
itation on the great plains joins the
ground water the supply is sufficient
for the annual irrigation Of a million
acres.
The water in any particular part
of the region, however. must be uset
in that part and is not available for
use in some distant area The supply
that can be utilized in any locality
is thus limited, and the development
of the entire region to its maximum
capacity requires that the pumping
plants be widely distributed over the
shallow water areas.
Copies of this report, which is
known as Water-Supply Paper 345-B,
can be obtained free of charge by
applying to the director of the geo
logical survey at Washington. d. c.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18
JUDGE LANoAN DECIDES
QUESTION OF FILING DIVORCE

Yesterday morning in the district
court Judge Langan decided the dis
puted question in the divorce case
of Andrew c. Waltz VS.. Anna C.
Waltz. which had been argued Sat
urday in the district court by Attor-
ney Plat for the defendant and At
torney Sweeney for the plaintiff. Mr..
Plat contended that the case should
be dismissed. as the plaintiff had not
filed his case prior to the S1st day
of December, and as such was barred
by the new divorce law which went
into effect on January lst, the plain
tim having only been resident OF
the city and state for six months
and his contention was upheld by the
court-Carson News.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18
OF
COMSTOCK DAYS
RECALLS STORY
OLD EoGiNGToN HOME IN VlR.
oiNlA CITY NOW BEING
TORN DOWN.

II see by this paper" said the
rounder. in the St Louis Post-Dis-
patch, that they are dismantling the
old Edgington home In Virginia City,
Nev. The utter disregard for the an
tique and historical" he continued,
lis appalling This residence was
one of those elegant affairs built by
the fortunate during the boom days
Of the lode. II was situated on the
west side OF the street in the vicin-
ity of the homes of James G. Fair
and John w. Mackey 1t was set on
an eminence above the street, the
garden being abutted by huge stone
wall with an escalade of stone steps.
Abe Edgington built the house and
furnished II at a total cost OF about
$4,000, He lived there only about
four years after Its completion and
then sold out. house. furniture and
all, for about what ii cost him. to a
millman there by the name of Lynch,
This man. before purchasing the Ed
gington place, lived near the Rould
house and made a good sized fortune
working ores in mill which he
owned there II used to be said OF
Lynch that he handed out twenty
dollar pieces to his daughters az free
ly as another man might ten OF
twenty-five cent piece. Lyncn made
many additional improvements to tht
place, such as putting bow Windows
on the second story and south wall
This was pretty expensive business
at the time. but money was no objec
to him He saved all of the failing
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18
ASSESSMENT NOTICE
Rescue Eula Mining Company.

Location of principal place OF bust
ness, san Francisco, California. Lo-
cation of works, Tonopah Nye County,
Nevada.
Notice il hereby given that at a
meeting of the Board of Directors,
held on the goth day of March, 1914
an assessment tho 81 of one III
cent per share was levied upon the
capital stock of the corporation, pay
able Immediately in United States
gold coin. to the Secretary. at the OF.
fee of the Company. Room 265 Russ
building. San Francisco. California.
ANY stock upon which this assess
ment shall remain unpaid on the 2lst
day Of April 1914. win be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc'
tion. and unless payment Is made be
fare viii he sold On Wednesday. the
97th day Of May. 1914, to pay the
deIinauent assessment. together Win
the cost Of advertising and expenses
Of sale.
By order Of the Board OF Directors
CHARLES u. oLNEY.
Secretary
Onice. Room 265 Russ building
san francisco, California MzSAsl
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18

Certificates Of location on sale ct
the nonAnEA office.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18
APRIL CROPS IN
GOOD CONDITION
NEVADA COMES OUT OF THE
WINTER IN THE BEST
OF CONDITION.

In the April crop report issued by
he department of agriculture for
Utah. Nevada and the United States
the condition of wheat in Nevada Is
placed at So per cent for 1914 and of
rye at 100 per cent. The l0-year ay-
erage for wheat Is SO per cent. Utah
claims 80 per cent for wheat and So
per cent for rye. The United States
as whole has $50 per cent for
wheat and 91.3 per cent for rye.
For the condition of livestock the
figures are: Horses and mules, Ne
yada, SO per cent; Utah, 81 per cent
Cattle. SO per cent. both states. Unit.
ed States, horses and mules 96.4 per
cent; cattle. 96b per cent Sheep,
Nevada, SO per cent; Utah, 80 per
cent. Swine, Nevada. SO per cent;
Utah, 81; United States 916.
Stock losses by disease are given
as follows: Nevada. cattle. losses per
1000, 20. sheep, 90: swine. &c. Utah,
cattle, 10; sheep. IL; swine, 32 Unit
ed States. cattle. 1873; sheep. 21.7;
swine. 1882.
Losse of stock by exposure are
given as follows Utah, cattle. per
1000. lS; sheep, 30: lambs, 81. Neya-
da, cattle, 20; sheep, so; lambs, IS
United States, cattle. 1913; sheep,
25,2 lambs, 49,
The increase OF the pork raising
industry Is shown by the estimates
of the number of brood sows. In
percentages of the 1913 number on
April /. the estimate is as follows.
Utah, 40: Neada, lis. United States,
HOS.
In table showing prices on April
l. the Nevada prices are shown for
all crops and produce except hay
which sells the same as in Utah, but
sells lower than in the rest of the
country.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18

store that adveFtlses must b
store Of values - Of bargains = OF
the advertising would not pay.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-18

And in accordance with law and an
order of the Board of Directors made
on the 18th day of February 1914. so
many shares of each parcel of such
stock as may be necessary will be
sold at public auction at the office of
the Company, Room 265 Russ Building,
San Francisco, California, on Wed
nesday, the 18th day of April. 1914,
at the hour of two o'clock D. m. of
said day, to pay said delinquent as
sessment thereon, together with costs
sale CHARLES D. OLNEY
Secretary.
Office Room 2s5 Russ Building. San
Francisco. California M31-A29
Las Vegas optic., 1914-04-25

for injuries sustained by Americans
at the hands Of rebels as is Carranza
to give us satisfaction for the marines
shot by snipers from the flat roofs Of
Vera Cruz.
This country has listened too long
to the polite promises of reparation
from this faction and that in Mexico
Carranza's high sounding protest
and demand for the evacuation Of
Vera Cruz is about as remarkable a
piece of impertinence as this nation
has yet suffered from a Mexican lead
er. That he should think for min
ute that his proposal would be enter
tained by this government shows rath.
er plainly the Mexican conception OF
the intelligence and the national SOW
ereignity" of the United States. Our
Las Vegas optic., 1914-04-25
NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

General Venustiano Carranza de-
clares in high dudgeon that Huerta is
not the government of Mexico, that he
is a culprit amenable only to the con.
stitutionalists and that the United
States is invading the Mexican Ma
tional Sovereignty when it assumes
to punish Huerta, says the Santa Fe
New Mexican.
It is about time to forget the ma
tional sovereignty" of Mexico. Ma
tionaI sovereignty in that country is
an illusory dream, a will-o.thewisp, a
chimera and joke. Mexico has about
as much national sovereignty as a
Santa Fe gopher. An attempt to pun
ish a Maderista, a Huertaista, Car
ranzista, a Villista, on an Orozcite for
the murder Of an American citizen or
the looting of his property is always
met with the loud cry of national
soVereignity." The worst blacl1guard
among the bandits of Mexico is al
ways ready with the cry Of national
sovereignty"
The constitutionalists have shown
conclusively how deeply they are
interested in the reparation of out
RACES upon Americans and insults to
the government of the United States
1t is to the constitutionalists that we
owe the majority Of the murders and
robberies suffered by citizens Of this
country. Between Huerta and Villa
there is little room 10 pick and
choose. Huerta is as apt to make amend
Las Vegas optic., 1914-04-25

a jew had been the first man killed
in the Spanish-American war and
among the Austrian volunteers who
came to the assistance of the mother
country in the Boer war. He also
stated that Jew was among the first
four men killed in the present trou-
bic in Vera Cruz. The congregation,
on invitation of DR.. Landau, stood in
silent prayer in honor Of the memory
OF the dead marine, Samuel Martin
Nuremberg of Chicago.