New Britain herald., 1914-04-29

next to his factory was afire. Great ly concerned for the safety of the property of the company which he heads, MT. Prentice beat all records in run from his home on Columbia street to South Main street, where he barely caught a trolley car. The Prentice company purchased their building from Lanza only few weeks ago.
 Accepts Professorship at Yale.
 Adolph B. Benson of East Berlin has resigned as instructor of German at Dartmouth college to accept po- sition as instructor of German at the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale university.
 Mr. Benson, who was brought up here and attended the local schools, has been honored with membership in the Phi Beta Kappa and other honor societies. He is making won- derful success as a professor and his friends rejoice with him in this, his latest success.
 Rachel Rebecca Social.
 Twenty-four members of the Ra- chel Rebecca society of Meriden met for pleasant social last evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. James Thomson of New Britain road, Ken sington. Supper was served at 6 o'clock, after which the evening was spent in delightful manner, the guests departing for the Silver City on the last train, congratulating Mrs. Thomson for her ability as a pleasing hostess.
 Tax Delinquents Fined in Court.
 Five personal tax delinquents, An gelo De Rito, Dominic Zottali, John Michaels, Thomas Capstick and John Friori appeared before Judge George Griswold in the Berlin police court this morning, to answer for refusing or neglecting to pay their personal tax. All but De Rito were found guilty and were obliged to settle the costs of prosecution in addition to the tax, two dollars per year. De Rito proved that he4 resided in New Brit ain during the year for which he was charged with neglecting to pay his tax, and was acquitted.
 William Bailey, another delinquent. settled with Deputy Sheriff James Clark, when he served a warrant on
  for that reason, was not asked to ap- pear in court.
 In the cases of John Michaels and Thomas Capstick, both pleaded that they were not in position to pay their taxes because of the fact that they had been without steady work during the winter months. Thomas Capstick's story sounded plausible but #. ing Attorney Gibney learned that he resigned as teamster in George Baldwin's employ early in the winter, when his pay was lessened by two dollars. Since that time, he has, ap- parent1y, made but little effort to se- cure other employment, being satis- fled to work around local saloon for fifty cents a day. In some unaccount- able manner, he has been able to SUD- port his large family on this ''in- come" Court spectators are now try. ing to learn how he solved the Thigh cost of living problem which is per. picking so many of this country's greatest authorities at the present time.
 Tax Collector Austin is troubled each year by few people who try to evade payment, but sooner or lat CT. they are brought to task with the result that they are then taxed about four times as much as they would be responsible for under ordinary cir cumstances.
 Death of Miss Emily Wilcox.
 Many local people, especially those affiliated with Emma Hart Willard chapter, D. A. R., are mourning the