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New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
MR. AND MRS. W.L. HATCH
 OBSERVE SILVER WEDDING
Married Twenty-Five Years Ago Tomorrow in Sil-
 yer City.

MT. and Mrs. w. L.. Hatch of PAT West Main street will observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wed- ding this evening with an auction bridge and dance at the Pennington Country club. The anniversary proper will occur tomorrow.
 MT. and Mrs. Hatch were married on April 4, 1889, in the First Con- gregational church in Meriden. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Charles Williams. Mrs. Hatch was Miss Julia Wetmore. daughter of MT. and Mrs. A. c. Wetmore.
 For the past twenty-six years MT. Hatch, who is 2 native of Worcester, Mass, has been in the insurance and real estate business in this city. By courteousness and consistency, aid- ed by business acumen, he has pushed his way to the front, until today he is one of the leaders in his field. He has an office in the City building. where he conducts steamship agency as well as dealing in real estate and insurance. MT. Hatch is considered an expert on real estate
 Tn 1897 and 1898 MT. Hatch was a OC~ ing a councilman from the third ward. He was one of the original members of the subway commission, from which he resigned. At present MT. Hatch is secretary of the school board and his opinion on educational matters is always respected and sought by his associates. He is also a prominent member of the New Britain club.
 Mrs. Hatch is prominent socially and is the hostess at number of delightful occasions which are attend ed by the elite. MT. and Mrs. Hatch have one son, Harold Hatch, who is engaged in business with his father. The announcement of his engage ment to Miss Katherine Norton of Meriden was recently made and the wedding is expected to take place soon.
 The affair at the country club in Pennington this evening is expected to be an event of much enjoyment. Many invitations have been issued.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
SHORT IN ACCOUNTS,
 HE FLITS FROM CITY
Merrill Is Said to Have Been Leading Gay Life With Other Peoples
 Money.

R. V. Peer & Co.,, fire insurance agents at 183 Main street, would like to know the present residence of K. +. Merrill of Walnut street, who has been missing since March 24, as it is said, he is short in his accounts with the company, by whom he was en- ployed.
 Merrill is married and, it is said, his downfall was caused by his desire to live where the lights were bright est and life was gay. He had for merly been employed by the Metro politan Life Insurance company, but was discharged several months ago by Superintendent J. G. Harivel, as it was suspected that he had been short in his accounts with the com- pany, but had covered up his short age so that it could not be proved against him.
 Peer & Co. engaged him as one of the firm was an old friend. MT. Peer was rather sreticent this after noon when questioned as to how much he had lost through his friend ship for Merrill and he declined to discuss the matter. He did admit that he had been the loser through Merrills shortcomings, but would not state to what extent
 It is said that others as we'll as Peer & Go. are looking for Merrill to have an accounting with him.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03

PARCEL POST TO
 BENEFIT FARMER
By Cooperating With Consumer the Profits of Middleman Will Be
 Lessened on Farm Products.

Lessened on Farm Products.
 For the benefit of the farmer and the consumer and with a view to do- ing away with the middleman in some instances, the postmaster general has arranged for a number of lists to be printed and distributed. The postmaster at Boston desires to have the names of all farmers who want to send their products by parcel post sent to him. The local office has been appraised of this fact
 From these names he will com- pile list and these will be dis tributed to any consumers who may wish to use them. In this way the consumer and the producer can get into communication with each other and the sale can be made by parcel post, thus doing away with the profits of the middleman.
 Any local farmers or any of those living in this vicinity who wish to take advantage should either com municate with the postmaster at Bos- ton or else make known their wants to the local officers. They will in turn inform the Boston man who gets out the lists.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
BURNS, CLUB MEETING.
Will Observe BannOckburn Anniver-
 sary in June.


 The regular meeting of the Burns club was held last evening at the home of Captain Beaton on Lexing- ton street. One of the most inter esting essays of the year was read by Alexander Gordon, secretary of the club, whose subject was The Life of Sir William Wallace" A so- cial hour was enjoyed after the busi- ness meeting. James McArthur en- tertained with a very characteristic Harry Lauder sketch, and was obliged to respond to several encores A recitation entitled My Granny" was rendered in an enjoyable man. ner in the Highland dialect by Mrs. John Scott, one of the newer mem bers of the club. The old Scotch melody, "Afton water,'' was very well given by Miss Jean Cochrane, the well-known singer. Several other members also favored the club with music and recitations.
 A committee of three was ap- bration in June of the six hundredth anniversary of the battle of Bannock- burn, which was fought on the 24th of June, 1914, and which established the independence of Scotland and placed Robert Bruce on the throne.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
NO MEILEN DECISION.

Bridgeport, Conn.,. April ,3-This was Judge Joseph P. Tuttle's last day on the bench of the criminal superior court during this session. and it was expected that he would hand down q decision in the manslaughter case against Charles s. Mellen. former president Of the New Haven road. The court came in, held short ses- sion, and adjourned until April IA without any announcement being made in the Mellen case.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
ESCAPES ELECTROCUTON.
Fall From Ladder Saves Life of
 Portland Man.

Middletown, Conn.,, April 3.-Frank Lundel1, of Portland, twenty-eight years old, narrowly escaped electro cution today while working on a lad- der on the Middletown-Portlan draw bridge His hand struck a high ten- sion electric wire and he was thrown from the ladder to the Jagged pave ment and severely injured.
 His hand was terribly burned. It is believed, however, that his fall from the ladder saved him from death.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
DECISION IS RESERVED.

Judge James T. Meskill reserved decision this afternoon after hearing the arguments for and against the motions for demurrer and to expunge, filed by the defense In the case of Edelson and Farber against William Fox. Judge. Gaffney argued for the local men while Attorney Weisman. and Attorney w. F. Delaney repre- scented the defendants. The trial by jury is scheduled for tomorrow morn ing.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
DIR. CROFT ASSAILS
 ROMANS LETTERS
Physician States Colonel Ullman Sug- gested No Plan, Scheme or Conn.,
 promise of Amy Party or Parties

promise of Amy Party or Parties
 New Haven, Conn.,. April 3.-"I had no intimation of the action of the board of governors of the pro- gressive club in demanding my resig- nation" said Dr. D. E. Croft, to- day, until saw the papers. This act is only one of many instances Of relentless persecution have borne ,,sinas last city cam m
 Dr. Croft said with sar r,casln that usually members of an organization are given an opportunity to be heard in their own behalf before expulsion. He says that statements contained in a letter written by George A Romans Of Danbury relating to a gathering of citizens in New, Yodk city when Con- necticut state politics were discussed are in many instances untrue and mis- leading.
 '"The mischief of politics today" said the doctor, lis the readiness of men to ascribe sinister motives to those who actually seek to obtan the best government irrespective of per- sonal feelings or party lines." He says that Colonel Ullman of this city, at the New York gathering suggested no plan scheme or compromise of any party or parties, and If he did considerable talking it was simply because he had ideas and knew how to express them.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
MEMS SOCIETY CONCERT.

Lutheran Church Organization Plans
 Musical Event for May.
 Miss Maria Sundelies, one of Bos- toms most able soprano soloists, will be the chief attraction at a grand concert to be given hs the Mems so- ciety of the Swedish Lutheran church on Thursday evening, May 21.
 Lawyer Emil Danberg presented a paper on "The Conflicts Between Re- ligion and Science" at a meeting If the- society held last evening.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
MINER NOT AS WELD.

Reports from the home of ex- Representative Frederick w Miner late this afternoon are more discour- aging than yesterday. Dr. Kenneth E. Kellogg says of his patient, MT. Miner is gravely il1--thats about all I can say at present" Asked. as to his condition as compared with yes- terday the physician replied. He is not as we'll today as yesterday"
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
QUIGLEY SAYS.

Alderman George A. Quigley con- tinued his campaign for the repub- lican nomination for mayor when he addressed workmen at the Corbin Screw corporation this noon. He told of what reforms he would make if he is nominated and elected. His speech was along the same line as that delivered yesterday noon at F. & F. Corbin's.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
MISSIONER TO TALK

Rev. William Hughes of the Cath olic Indian Mission Bureau will speak at the Lenten services in St. Mary's church this evening. Rev. Father Hughes will make an appeal for the support of those schools among the Iadians- from which the government withdrew it's aid some years ago.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
BOB" VEAL CASE.

Isadore Dereclktor, Meriden Market
 Man Defendant in Serious Case.
 Meriden, Conn.,, April 3.-Isa dore Derecktor, a well-to-do marketman was aadefendant in all days proceed fngs in the city court today on a charge of selling 'bob" veal.
 Another arrest for similar offense was made today when E.. O. Scheurer, a farmer living in an outlying district was taken into custody.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
CONDITION STILL CRAVE

The condition of Lincoln s. Risley still remains very grave and no pro- phecies as to the outcome can be made. During the past twenty-four hours he has become very restless and Mrs. Risley has found it impossible to care for him. A trained nurse Is in constant attendance.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
CLEARING RUINS OF
 ST., AUGUSTINE FIRE
Physicians State Miss Alice Smith Who Was Reported to Have Been Fatal
 ly Injured, Will Recover.

St. Augustine. Fla, April 3.-A force of workmen today began clear ing away two blocks of charred ruins left in the wake of yesterdays fire in the historic water front section. It was estimated today that property loss in the fire, which owners of the burned buildings said might reach f$75O.00O, was one third covered by insurance.
 Physicians today said that Miss Alice M. Smith of Amherst, N. s., re- ported to have been fatally injured, would recover.
 A company of militia, which had been stationed about the devastated section to aid in restoring order and to prevent footing, was replaced today by small squad of policemen.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-03
Rebels Power Extended.

Juarez, Mex. April 3.-With the taking of Torreon by the rebels last night constitutionalists now control an immense wedge-shaped portion of Mexico, with the point resting on Tor reon, five hundred miles south of here, and the top extending along the American border from Nogales, Ariz, to a point just west of Eagle Pass, Texas. At Piedras Negras, known also as Ciudad Porf1rio Diaz, across the Rio Grande, from Eagle Pass, there is a
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The Parker post., 1914-09-19
Boiled Fruit Cake.

Two cupfuls of flour, one cupful OF
raisins, one cupful Of currants, one
cupful of water, half cupful of lard,
one cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful
of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of
cloves, one teaspoonful of soda, one
fourth teaspoonful of salt. Flavor
with lemon extract. This cake Is
called boiled fruit cake, because you
boil together all the ingredients ex-
cept the -four, soda and extract. Put
everything together in an agateware
saucepan and bring to boil. Let it
boil few minutes, take off, and when
lukewarm sift in flour and soda, mix
well and add fiavoring. Bake about
one hour in a moderate oven. This
makes a two and one-half-pound loaf
and is really very good. The recipe
calls for no eggs and no butter and
the cake is therefore quite inexpen-
sive.
The Parker post., 1914-09-19
SHOULD EAT MORE SALAD
People Would Enjoy Better Health If
DeIicacy Were Part of tho
Everyday Menu.

Probably no detail of the French
menu is so important to us as the
salad. Very few American families
know what an invaluable delicacy a
genuine French salad, with a dressing
of good olive oil and pure, fragrant
vinegar, is-invaluable, because of it's
effect on digestion and health.
There is very little nourishment in
salad leaves until the oil has been
added, and the oil is what many of us
need, according to doctors who de-
plore the insuf1iciency of fat in the
average Americans diet.
1t is excluded therefrom for the
very good reason that the average
American finds it difficult to digest.
But it is right there that the salad
comes to the rescue.
The vinegar in it, if genuine, excites
by it's fragrance and acidity the di-
gestive glands not only in the mouth
and stomach, but in the pancreas,
which acts on all the constituents of
food, particularly the fats
There would be vastly less intestinal
indigestion in this country if every
family followed the French custom Of
eating salad at least once day.
The Parker post., 1914-09-19

stiff In architectural design, are spa
cious and impressive.
Peoples Food Carefully Supervised.
The German lives much in the
open air. We find the gardens in the
modern cities, even in weather that
seems unreasonable, thronged. There
is much drinking of beer, but little
intoxication, much festivity, but little
boisterousness. The German Is care
full though comprehensive in his eat
ing. The German city provides mu-
:nicipal slaughter houses, where meat
lis prepared for sale under strict regu-
lation against taint; open air and
covered market halls, where fresh veg
etables, fish, poultry and other food
products are sold; and has a ceaseless
supervision of bakeries, dairies and
breweries. In Berlin and some other
cities the meat from the slaughter
house is stamped, "unbednigt tang
lich"-free of all possible taint. The
city arranges for the sale Of other
meat, not thus free from taint, but
which can be used for food without
danger to health, at municipal estab-
lishments called the "Frei Banke,"
where it is bought at low prices and
at certain fixed hours by the poor.
The German loves music and the
theater and so the German city pro-
vides municipal opera houses where
the best artists may be heard, often
at prices within the reach Of the poor
est-paid laborer.
Cities. Deal in Real Estate.
The German city provides public
baths and disinfecting establishments.
1t owns it's own street cars. Berlin
is notable example, but in Berlin
heavy tax on the gross receipts of
the street-car system is levied. It
buys and holds tracts of land in and
adjacent to the city for the construc-
ton of houses for business or resi-
dence purposes, sells or leases this
land and thus controls the growth and
development Of the city itself. This
last function Of the German city is
responsible for much Of the best re-
suits of the municipal town planning
and house planning in the empire.
These are some features Of the Ger
The Parker post., 1914-09-19
FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TRIPE
Prepared In This Way, Called Ia
Constance, 1t Is Sure to Be
Appreciated.

Wash a pound of thin tripe in cold
water, and then blanch it by putting
it in cold water over the fire, and al
lowing 1t to come to a boil. Remove
from the stewpan, throw away the
water, drain the tripe on a cloth and
cut 1t in strips two inches wide and
four inches long. Cut half a pound
of fine bacon in thin slices and into
strips size Of tripe. Chop fine little
parsley and lay the strips Of bacon on
the tr1pe; sprinkle little parsley on
each, roll up together and tie with a
string. Cut up a small onion and
small carrot and place, with a bouquet
garni, in a saucepan with the tripe
rolls and pint of stock. Let simmer
two hours and then take out the rolls.
Mix two ounces of butter and one
ounce of flour together in a saucepan,
strain in the stock and stir until the
mixture thickens. Add the juice of
half lemon, a tablespoonful of hot
table sauce or catsup, the rolls of
tripe, and let remain over the fire long
enough to get thoroughly heated
through. Arrange the tripe rolls
around mound of mashed potatoes
or rice and pour the sauce around 1t
or serve in a separate sauce bowl.
Garnish with parsley.
The Parker post., 1914-09-19
Rich Strawberry Ice Cream.

In a double boiler over the fire put
half a pound of sugar and one pint
of cream; when the sugar is dissolved
stand it aside till very cold. Stem
and mash one quart of strawberries,
add half a pound Of sugar and stand
aside for one hour. Then press through
a colander. Add one pint of cream to
turn into the freezer and freeze mod
erately stiff. Then add the strained
berries, turn the crank evenly and
moderately till the mixture is again
frozen rather hard Remove the dash
er, smooth down the cream, repack
and stand aside for an hour and a
half to ripen
The Parker post., 1914-09-19

sands. Each class has, however, the
course, to the heavy taxpayers many
times the voting strength of the small
taxpayer.
A Berlin newspaper, in pointing out
some results Of this three-class sys-
tenn, showed that in one voting dis
trict one taxpayer with an annual in
come of $4,000 was the entire first
class; in an adjoining and very poor
district ten men, whose taxes were
only $25 each, constituted the first
class, and added that if the Berliner
with the $4,000 income had voted in
the rich Thiergarten quarter he
would have been in the third class,
like the imperial chancellor, Herr Won
Bethmann Hollweg" Actually there
are 100000 voters in the first class,
100000 in the second, and more than
100000 in the third. If the suffrage
system Of Prussia prevailed in the
United States, Andrew Carnegie, John
D. Rockefeller and others would in
their respective districts, constitute
the entire first class.
Councillors High-CIass Men.
Whatever criticism may be made
Of this electoral system from other
viewpoints, it has resulted, generally,
in electing to the position of town
councillors high-class and public-spir-
tied men. This evil has attached to it,
however, that the men thus chosen
have reflected too often and too ex-
clusively the wishes and interests of
their rich constituents. The new Ger
man city, as made or permitted by
them-if anything is really officially
permitted in Germany-is too largely
an aristocratic municipality rather
than a democratic community, for
show to the few rather than for use
by the many.
Public service, giving, as it does
in Germany, coveted social position.
attracts many Germans of the highest
character. The call to civic duty is
one which no German refuses. The
law which Furnishes with a fine any
person declining to accept the office
OF councillor after election Is said to
have proved unnecessary. Germans
The Parker post., 1914-09-19

have contributed to the recent growth
of sume German cities. The majority,
however, machine-made as other fac
tory products, are the results Of an
industrialism which tends everywhere
to urbanization. Examples of the old
Germany may yet be seen in the an
cient quarters Of Munich, Nuremburg,
Frankfort and other towns, but for
these one may look in vain along the
boulevards and in the modern sections
of cities which have grown to great
ness in the present generation. These
are the cities of the new Germany.
Upon their stucco the paint is hardly
dry.
OutwardIy Attractive.
There are two sides to the German
city-the outside and the inside. The
outside is ordinarily beautiful and
attractive. The boulevards are broad
land airy; the open places are many
and artistic; the streets are well
paved and are clean-usually by wom-
'en sweepers; the lighting, excellent;
the sanitation, good; cathedrals are
stately, and the older ones, at least,
picturesque; the newer public build
ings, though often coldly regular and
The Parker post., 1914-09-19

man city. Beyond flower pots IN the
windows, let us glance at the German
city on the inside.
The German city does not govern
itself-it is governed. True it elects
it's own town council, which, in turn,
selects the burgomaster or mayor, and
has general control of municipal af-
fairs. The electors, however, are di-
vfded into voting groups, according
to wealth, by which the man Of aver
age property has only small part in
the election. Somewhat different suf-
frage systems exist in the different
German states. Indeed, it should be
remembered in observations upon Ger
many that not only is there an old and
a new Germany, but a northern and
a southern Germany, Prussia, Ba-
varia, Saxony, Baden, and in the
differences between them, though not
the distances, are equally as large as
and in many ways larger than those
between Pennsylvania and Texas,
Massachusetts, and California. Ger
many, however, with all it's internal
differences of social and adm1nistra-
ton life, has been called, with much
appropriateness, magnified Prussia
Voting Strength Gauged by Wealth.
The method of electing town coun-
cillors in the cities of Prussia may
serve as an illustration of how the
people Of these cities do not govern
themselves. In each voting district
the total Of the state tax paid is di-
vided into three parts and the voters,
all males of twenty-five years of age
and upwards, are also divided into
three classes, each class electing one
third of the council. The first class
consists of the heaviest taxpayers,
whose payments total one-third of the
whole sum of the district; the second
class consists Of the next heaviest tax
payers, whose taxes also amount to a
third Of the total; while the third
class consists of the smallest taxpay
ers. The first class sometimes has
only one or two voters in it, the sec
ond only few, while the third will
have several hundred or even thou