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New Britain herald., 1914-11-20

l of $680.12. There is no mention made 1 of a heavy annual fire insurance premium, that the durability of such a plant runs only from five to ten years and there should be an annual charging of ten per cent. or more l of the cash or a large amount set 1 aside for repairs, which will grow l larger each year, nor do we see any thing about four and half per cent. 1 interest on the money invested, the rate the city has to pay for borrowed 1 money. .s.. .... 1 In order to come out even from 1 year to year anyone in the ice busi- ness would be compelled to figure de- l preciation and interest and set his selling price accordingly, so that on this basis the ice committee have sold ice for $3,3OO that should, in order to pay, have been sold for about $5,O00 to $5,30O. In their October report the committee claims to have paid out for a store house and further equipment $1,325, without showing where they got the money. They give their total receipts and what is due for ice at $3,312.44, and s2,632.12 as the cost of handling, and speak of a floating indebtedness of over $500. These statements do not explain as clearly as they ought to in jus tice to the committee or the public how matters stand. Our commit tee in their March report claim 1000 tons stored, state that twenty-five per cent shrinkage is allowable, leaving for the market 5,25O tons. AS we have shown above, as near as it ca1l be ascertained from their reports
 
 We were told in March that there were 1000 tons of ice stored, that twenty-five per cent. shrinkage was allowable, leaving 5,250 tons for the market, and as we figure 1900 tons sold and 500 tons on hand, making 2,6OO tons, would leave 2.65O tons un- accounted for or adding the twenty five per cent. shrinkage makes 4.4oO tons gone, over sixty per cent, which is extraordinary
 Was there 1000 tons put up? If there was less of it, the cost of har- vesting goes up.
 Figuring the cubic space in the building and calculating on the or dinary number of cubic feet required per ton shows less than 5000 tons. If this is correct. it shows mis- statement of quantity.
 Experienced ice dealers state that the usual allowance for shrinkage from storage to consumer is from twenty-five to thirty-three and one third per cent. but in this case the ice was wholesaled and the loss by retailing Is not to be considered.
 The ice committee in it's October report promised a further report at the November council meeting. What became of 1t?
 No doubt the committee fully ex- pected the ice venture would be of considerable benefit to the people of the city but 1t has not turned out that way.
 It appears to be an expensive ex- pertinent and the only chance for a public benefit (and that Is a doubt full one) is that 1t has depressed
New Britain herald., 1914-11-20

tracts were let to Hartford and Mer- iden firms in different years.
 The ice committee made claim of saving the city money based on last years prices when the local sup ply did not last half the season and large quantities at exorbitant prices mad to be purchased and brought in here. The Ice corporation, as shown by the records, was the only one to quote price which was thirty cents per one hundred pounds. and they were not ordered to furnish any until July. When they furnished part of that month and during August, part of September and October (not two months as the committee states); for this they got $275, and claims it was less than 1t cost them.
 The we'll advertised and public pro- tecting committee assured us that with $10,000 they would erect and equip plant sufficient to harvest and store nearly 1000 tons of ice, with which to stabilize prices and be part of the 10000 or more tons estimated as locally required here annually and incidentally. would save ice users an untold number of dollars. We were told that harvesting could be done for ten to twelve cents per ton. The estimate for the plant complete was between $7,60O and $7,7OO, this was for building 15O feet long, but after wards it was made 175 feet, which would make the total in round num- bers $8,000. But the building has never been completed and is in no con- dition to store ice with a low per- centage of shrinkage, also the ma- terial used in its construction is of the poorest chara cter for an ice house. Notwithstanding the estimates made, the incompleteness of the building, etc, the expense reported for plant and equipment to date is, in round figures, $12,0OO, fifty per cent. more than estimated 1000 tons of ice at a cost of twenty-one cents per ton for harvesting instead of twelve cents, is reported. ,...s...+
 No report of tonnage sold is given, but total receipts and money due is given at $3,312.44, and the $47O.9O extracted from the city at $2 would make 1891 tons of ice disposed of, though it is understood S2.25 ana $2.5O per ton was charged early in the season. A cost of $1,52O.OO Is given in the March report, which would make the cost of harvesting per ton eighty-five cents, as we do not think it proper to count what ice has melted or the 800 tons claimed to be on hand, which probably will never be turned into money.
 We have reported cost of $2.- 632.12 for handling and carriage in the disposal of the 1,791 tons, which shows a cost of $1.46 per ton, and adding the eighty-five cents makes the cost $2.a1 per ton for what the wsre selling for $2 for part of the season at any rate This would show an actual cash loss of thirty one cents per ton.
 The committee in it's October report failed to mention or account for the $1,520 reported in the March report Tor harvesting. and thereby atthmpt ed to show an actual gain or lprofit
New Britain herald., 1914-11-20

signs of exhaustion. She has made an
 enormous effort. Germany's resist
 ance to the Allies may be compared
 to that of a rope stretched in front
 of crowd pushing against it. Ger
 many will resist until the rope is
 broken at one point Then every thing will give way at once. Public opinion in Germany has changed a great deal within the last month
 Signs of fatigue and discouragement are to be found everywhere. Econom- ic conditions are undermined The army reserves have been exhausted. The soldiers now sent to the front are men between forty and fifty years old, or boys of sixteen and seventeen. They are badly fed. Germany now lacks supplies and metals for the manufacture of arms and ammuni- ton. Under such circumstances Italy's intervention will prove deci- sive. Apart from the military import ance of such intervention, Germany and Austria will suffer when the only door through which supplies and ma terials pass is closed. Italy's inter- vention may make peace possible within the year. Italy will thus have gained two months over the other bel
 
 advantages from a short war. Such advantages will not be increased if neutrality is prolonged and the chances are that she will arrive too late.
 "It is a we'll known fact that Ger many is supplied through Ioaly, where contraband fiourishes. of course the rules regulating the trade of neutrals in time of war are not clear and imperfect. and have to be interpreted. England interorets them to her advantage of course. During the Italo-Turkish war over thirty British ships were arrested and searched by Italian warships and England has arrested several Italian ships with cargoes of copper from the United States destined for Germany and Austria. This copper was going to Krupp, and naturally England could not allow it to pass. There is no ground for any incident between the Italian and British governments, as the arrest of a ship has no DoIiti- cal importance. Considerable wheat and other cereals are expected from Italy to Germany and Austria by way l of Switzerland. German agents have | regularly organized this trade at 1  Milan and negotiations are now pend ng between Italy and England 10 stop this contraband.
 Italy to Join England.
 "The best way to stop it would be Italy joining England and fighting by her side. Before long this interview was published Oc- ober 3D more serious incident. ,r rather event, will likely happen, ' which will exercise great influence on taIy's policy and upset the plans of hose who advocate neutrality. Fur ,ey's intervention is imminent. The ituation at Constantinople grows worse. and from one moment to an- ther may become catastrophe The and vizier is against war but Enver 'asha and his German officers sooner IT later will compel Turkey to inter-
New Britain herald., 1914-11-20

By all means let Secretary of State Phillips,so soon to leave us as a pub- Vic parsonage, introduce in the legisla- ture an automobile law that will tend to secure a more stringent .examina- ton of all persons, who wish to drive motor cars. The more drastic the law the more expert will be the drivers that pass the test and become full fledged chauffeurs under the seal of the state license. There is no doubt as to the laxity of the present system of accepting about every per- sons claim to knowledge of auto driving with childlike faith. There .is just as little doubt that this laxity has been and is responsible for many of the accidents that swell the list of casualties in this state.-Ansonia Sentinel.
New Britain herald., 1914-11-20
ASSIGNED TO NORTH DAkoTn

Washington, Nov. 20.-Lieutenant Commander l.. R. Sargent, aide to Admiral Dewey for the last three years, has been assigned to the battle ship North Dakota and succeeded as aide by Lieutenant David M. Le- Breton, whose duties also include work with the general board of the navy, Of which Admiral Dewey is chairman.
New Britain herald., 1914-11-20
It tjNit .AIEs,
RepCrt Is Criticized by serycl.."

Report Is Criticized by
 serycr.''
 :--Please allow me
 fnns of your inf1uen-
 ter an emphatic pro-
 aEparent negligence
 v, the good nature of
 euuncil on the one hand
 Der in which they do pub
 and the seeming non-
 Tspeak mildly, with which
 Ated ice committee which
 Yer on us through the coun-
 kempts it on the public, sup
 Q. help itself out of the hole
 Vade, if possible, the public's
 6n to tho fact that the muni-
 k business, as they pictured it
 lit has turned out in one years
 re two different propositions. Especially to the ineXcusable essness of the council at it's last 1ing and it's finance committee in sing and ordering paid a bill of HOBO for ice claimed to have been Finished by the ice committee for alr drinking fountains for four months bG this year This seems an out 
 Rclaptrap hue and cry about corporate Eextortion bleeding the city and ice consumers generally. The committee who were supposed to be the. suf fering public's champions, who were to save and protect us from the greed of the ice barons, now turn on us and roast us several times worse than the bloated oppressors of former years. Think of it, you credulous taxpayers. After you generously, furnished nearly $f2,000 to relieve and free yourselves from being bled and ground almost to dust you now find your supposed protectors assisted by the council and the head of our business administra- tion turning the screws you for more than three-fold of the juice the ice monopoly formerly extorted from you. According to the official rec ords the New Britain Ice corporation bid for and furnished for the same fountains for five months (not four months) June 1 to November i, in 1910, for $9O; in 1911 for the same places and time, $160; in 1912 for the same, $150. These were years in which we had normal ice crop as that of 1914. Therefore, we are be- ing soaked more than three times as much as we could, without doubt, have had the ice supplied by private dealers and when the extra month is added we san safely say the city for what it is now paying could have made a four years contract and had as good, if not better, service.
 And, by the way, where does our committee on supplies and printing come in? They have the supplies to look after and have heretofore se- cured bids for furnishing ice. Where were they this year? They have been criticised for their economical procedure in former years. for in- ptance, securing bids from out-of- 1 town parties for printing, which con-
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l C.

\ word in the elasst A fled column makes y0ur wants kneWn to thousands Of people.
 If you have something to sell, if you want to hire help, if you want a bet ter situation, if you want 10 hire Or let a tenement the classified column will place you in touch with the right people.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
THIN FOLKS MADE FAT.
The Way Samose Works Its Wonders Guaranteed by Sorrels Drug Co.
 and Southern Pharmacy Go.

More than half the readers of the Sentinel4Record would give almost anything to be plump and rosy in- stead of thin and scrawny.
 Physicians and chemists for years have studied the problem of makins a flesh forming food, but it is only within the last few months that bright man discovered the prescrlp- ton that taken with the daily mean gives a positive increase in flesh In fact, it was so certain it it's action that guarantee was attached to each package stating that if weight did not increase as a result of using it, the purchase price would be refund ed.
 This preparation Is now put up in convenient form for use under the name of Samose.
 The Sorrels Drug Go. and the South ern Pharmacy Go. secured the agen- cy in Hot Springs for Samose and as the percentage of satisfactory results from the use of this prescription is no nearly 100 per cent they feel there is no risk in offering to refund the money if Samose does not do all that | is claimed for it.
 l Everybody that is thin and out of health should begin today the use of Samose with a guarantee like this.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
WASHINGTON BALL.

The ballroom of the Hotel Eastma- will be the scene of the annual Wash ington's Birthday ball. Saturday night and Manager Osborn is bent upon making 1t one of the banner success es of the season. Mir. Osborn is all ways at his best when putting on the big special events and it goes with out saying that society is set to en- joy an inning of rare jollity and see a particularly we'll decorated ballroom in addition.
 The decorations will be most hand some and thoroughly appropriate. So- ciety scarcely need be reminded that the Washington's Birthday ball will be strictly of the formal variety and that only those in full evening dress will be permitted on the floor.
 Following the big function at the Hotei Eastman comes the annual Mardi Gras ball at the Arlington. It is on society's calendar for next Tues day night.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
ARLINGTON BALL.

Last nights formal assembly at the Arlington was a distinct success, the visiting fashionables attending en masse and the Spas smart set having liberal representation. The crush was almost as great as that which attended last Friday nights wondrous St. Valentines bali and again was milady gorgeosuly gowned and stun ningly jeweled.
 Prof. Richard Barton's sterling or chestra did full justice to splendid ly arranged program. The late life in the gay griliroom was in keeping with all big events at the Arlington, the belles and beaux dining and win ing while the Italian string band af- forded the proper music to make the after scenes thoroughly enejoyable.
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and has afforded profit and pleasure to it's members. The members are MT. and Mrs. William Anderson. Miss Louella Briggs, Mir. and Mrs. L. E. Bloom. Miss Cora Boyden. MT. and Mrs. Charles Caldwell, Dr. James H. Chestnut, Mir. and Mrs. H. P. Chris tian, Judge and Mrs. c. T. Gotham, Miss Una Gotham, Dr and Mrs. John Fewkes. MT. and Mrs. M. J. Hen derson, MT and Mrs. George A. Hoga boom, Miss Lydia Howell, Dr. and Mrs. J. w. Martin, MT. and Mrs F H. Olmstead, Mr. and Mrs. w S. Quigley Mir. and Mrs. ]. k Sawyer
 Mir. and Mrs. E. J. Schupp, pr. and Mrs. R. A. Simpson. Miss Nodileen Sneed, Mrs. w J. Sneed, MT. and Mrs. Richard Swartz.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
OAKLAWN CLUB.

The March meeting program Will cover an imaginary trip through New England states, New York and Pennsylvania. The conductor will De MT. H. P. Christian
 New York City-Mrs. Henderson, guile.
 Kusic-Selected.
 Discussion-New England versus Solthern Manufactories- Messrs. L. E, Bloom and J. w. Martin.
 Music-Selected.
 New England Literature compared with Southern Literature-Dr. James IT. Chestnut.
 This is a neighborhood social eiut
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years, and has made success of most of his undertakings in this city. He is a property owner and is in a posi- tion to know the things that would best serve the development of this city.
 His candidacy was determined on shortly after attending the state con vention of the newspaper men in Lit tie Rock, where new laws applicable to the publishing of proceedings of the legislature and other public in- stitutions, were recommended to be enacted in the legislature, and where
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
SOCIAL CALENDAR.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1SS.- "Wednesday Bridge Club. "Wednesday Five Hundred Club. Eastman Hotel Dance Qnformail. Arlington Concert. Eastman Concert Majestic Concert. Christian Ladies' Aid of First
 Christian Church Fortnight Club, Club Room, in
 First Baptist Church. Arlington Concerts. Eastman Concerts. Majestic Concerts. Box Supper at First Presbyterian
 Church, at 6 D. m. Eastman Dance GnformaD. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 19.-- Arlington Tango Tea, from 1 to
 D. m. Sans Pariei Clu6. Lotus Club, with Mrs, Frank
 Bayley. --Canby Woman's Relief Corps. Arlington Concerts. Eastman Concerts, Majestic Concerts. --Fortnightly Rock Club, with Mrs
 Walter Halsey. Sans Pariel Club, with Mrs. ]. c
 Boyle FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20.- Majestic Dance OnformaD.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
KIND LADY HELPS
 "'''' '''' SICK SICK OLD SOLDIER
WALK STEP. BOTH MAKE STATEMENT REGARDING .>-'~~@ TROUBLE PLACE CREDIT WHERE

do me the good that Black-Draught does. It is all that keeps me on foot"
 Mir S. M Watkins, the old soldier referred to above, says: q was down with my back last summer, and couldn't get anything to relieve me. On a friends advice, I took two pack ages of Thedford's Black-Draught, and it did me more good than all other medicines put together It's the finest medicine for headache, as wei. as constipation and colds, I have ever tried"
 Geet a package of this old, reliable vegetable liver medicine today.
 At all drug stores, Costs only one cent dose. tJ. A. 5)
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B,ckvells, Ga.-"Last year, an old soldir living in my neighborhood'
 says drs. Hattie Armstrong. of this place, twas so strickened with his back, lat he could not walk a step He goth relief from medicines he was taky and recommended Thed' ford's BA Ak-Draught to him. He got two 25c kages, and by the time ne had used km, he was entirely we'll
 I have en using Black1Drausnt for 10 year a my family, and am never witho A in the house. have Draught for cNe and it cures them I suffered wiN konstipatiOn for a long time, and Nd get nothing tC
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
MAURICE RECEPTION.

One of the chief society events of the season will be the reception ten dered by MT and Mrs. w. G. Maurice Monday, February 23d, from 4 until 6 ocock, at their elegant new home, Maurice Park, situated on Malvern Road They are sending out invita- tions to an At Home" to large number of friends. The party, no doubt. will be much in the nature of house warming" to celebrate the completion of the beautiful new resi- dence.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
RIGGS ANNOUNCES.
Is Candidate for Representative in
 the Next General Assemebly.

John A. Riggs, owner of the Lopez remedy and publisher of the New Era, announces this morning as a cand- date for representative from Garland county in the next general assembly of the state of Arkansas, his candi- dacy being subject to the action of the democratic primary of March 25.
 MT. Riggs has been an active citi- zen of Hot Springs for a number of
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Society MRS n A cRocFErr Editor Telephone 2245.
 Mail Items Q Avenue.
Mail Items to 82O Rector Avenue.

Arlington Concerts. Eastman Concerts. Majestic Concerts. Arlington Dance Qnformal). SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2l.- First Baptist Church Free Even
 ing Musicale. Saturday Afterenoon Rock Club Saturday Card Club. Arlington Concerts. Eastman Concerts. Majestic Concerts. Eastman Dance (FormaD. Saturday Rock Club, with Miss
 Helen HorneF.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
BOOK PARTY.

Miss Gladys Painter of the Delmar Hotel last evening entertained few of her friends and guests of the hotel with a rock party. The folowins were awarded prizes: Mrs. J, J. LiY' ingston. Miss Lena Cummings, MT. Oscar Peterson, Mrs. M. T. Rockby of Illinois.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
EASTMAN MlD-WEEk HOP.

The usual mid-weekly hop is under lined for the Hotel Eastman tonight and Manager Osborn cordially invites all friends of the noted hostelry to join his guests in the dancing and at- tending pollity. Dancing at 9 o'clock.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
DAUGHTERS OF AMERi-
 CAN REVOLUTION.

The D. A. R. meet in Little Rock Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The focal chapter will be rep resented by Miss Amelia Rector and Mesdames s. E. Dillon and Jack F.. Manier. who will be entertained by Mrs. Logan IT, Roots and by Mrs. William Anderson, who will be tho guest of Mrs P. C. Richardson.
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much enthusiasm was evidenced for these laws.
 MT. Riggs will make the campaign of the city and county and will find hearty support from many who be- lieve that he will properly represent the city and county in the state law making body, where so much for the success of this national resort always depends.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18
GOLDEN JUBILEE.

Centennial Lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias, will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the order on Thursday night, February 19' Such meetings are being held all over the United States.
 The following program has been prepared:
 Music-Miss Cora North.
 Opening Ode-Knights.
 Special Ritualistic Service.
 Invocation-Prelate
 Declaration of Principle-V. c.
 Welcome-C. c.
 Friendship-V. (.
 Explanation of the emblemauc col ors of the order-By the officers.
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AN AUTO ACCIDENT.

George Atkinson on Auto-Cycle Turn
 ed Ahead of an Automobile.
 What came near resulting in a se- rious accident took piace out on Cen tral avenue late yesterday afternoon when George Atkinson, riding bicy- cle, collided with w. c. Wells in an automobile. The parties met at the intersection of Morrison avenue, and Welis, thinking Atkinson would turn around his car, attempted to make room on one side, when the bicycle in an effort to turn into Morrison av- enue, ran directly in front Atkin- son had a cut on the leg and was badly bruised.
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Songs-Knights. Fraternal Address-Walter M. Ebel. Song-Miss Aline Lower Concluding Address-C. c. Closing Ode-Knights. Refreshments. Good night, come again.
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FoRTNlGHTLY CLUB PROGRAM.

Roll Call-Best Thoughts of George Eliot. Paper-George Eliot. Realist or Idealist .............. .MFs. MalH Paper-Unity of Action and Char acter Development in "Silas Marner"-...M Miss Eugenia Swear engen Paper-"Romola" as an Historicai Novel ...........'''' Mfs' lay l'i Reading-"The Village Worthies, from "Silas Marner". Mrs. Jack Hudgins
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calomeI, caIomeI, you can not stay, for LIv-ver-Iax has shown Us an easier way. Ask Morris Drug Go. or Public Druu co,
The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-18

MT. and Mrs. F. L. Royston of Pine Bluff are at the Arlington for the week end.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-03
Margaret Sullivan.

San Francisco, CAL, Jan. 2.-Fate
loves its little iFonies.
Big Tim Sullivan, the New York
congressman, Tammany leader and
head of the SulliEan-C onsidine vau-
deviIle circuit, who wandered from a
sanitoTium recently to his death on
a railroad track in New York City
left an estate worth from $2,000,00O
to 100000.
Miss Margaret Sullivan plays
minor part as chorus girl on the Sui
Ivan and Considine circuit. She
sings, dances and then slips away to
the little hotel which her salary al
lows. $50.
Yet this slip of girl was for years
introduced by big Tim" and Mrs
Sullivan, who died year previous to