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New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
SAVED HIM FOR GALLONS.

The Waterbury American calls at- tention to the efforts made by the waterbury Authorities towards saving the life or the .nur- derer who was put to death at the state prison this week. When he committed the crime the murderer tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and later jumped out of win dow of hospital The city provided him with the best medical aid that could be obtained and later the state put him to death when if let alone he would have done the job himself. The American is not acting as a critic but is simply stating how such mat ters are taken care of. It might have added that murderers are watched closely so that they will not injure themselves in any way before the state can step in and take their fife in accordance with sentence passed by the court.
 It was painfully apparent that the authorities at the prison feared that the execution might open the old wound in the mans throat and his neck was therefore bandaged up so as to prevent any unusual scene, but the physicians who sewed up the wound originally did their work we'll and the execution passed. off without any of the scenes expected. It is stated that some years ago 8 negro was hanged in New York and as he fell in the drop his head was snapped off, causing a horrible scene. It was evidently feared that at the execu- tion of the Waterbury man this week a similar scene might be enacted.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
DEAD FROM VERA CRUZ.

Memorial day will have new sigaihcance this year because of the death of the seventeen sailors and marines who were killed in the taking |of Vera Cruz, whose bodies will reach New York tomorrow and Tor whom memorial exercices will be held at the Brooklyn navy yard on Monday.
 These men did not meet their death as did the soldiers of '61 nor as did those who died during the Spanish American war Their struggle was for an entirely different cause. The flag had been insulted. the one who of- fered the indignity refused to apolo-
 gize and reparation was demanded. It was while insisting upon the rights |e this country being respected that
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
Mir. Billiards $2,74S,7OO Profit.
(Springfield Republican,


 What has long been suspected as a crowning infamy is. confessed by Mr. Billiard himself. His personal rake off in the deal whereby he took over the New Haven's Boston and Maine stock and sold it back to the New Haven after the formation of the Boston railroad holding company was no less than $2,74S,700. MT. Billiard defends the transaction on the ground that he was privileged to buy at the mar ket price and to sell at the market price wholly without restrictions, his private fortune being at stake.
 If the story now told by Mr. Billiard is true, the transaction will receive whitening blast of public condemna- ton. Was great railroad property like the Boston and Maine something to be tossed from the New Haven's possession into MT. Billiards lap for years keeping and then to be tossed back again at a loss of nearly $3,- OOO,OOO to the New Haven's stock holders, while MT. Billiard profited in like sum?
 MT. Mellen has something more to answer for, if this was the arrange ment he consented to in its initiation and approved in it's consummation. There is no reason whatever to SUD- pose that Mr. Billiard could have car- ried through the business, as he and
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09

MT. Mellen originally arranged it, without the backing of Mellen as pres ident of the New Haven and the banking credit with which Mellen was able to support him. To allow to Bill lard such a profit under those cir cu1nstances, must have been d mon- strous perversion of the executive of- .ficer's duty.
 But it is necessary to await further developments in this exposure of Bill lardism before being sure of the pre- else facts. Did those enormous pro- fits belong to MT. Billiard? Is there nothing now to be returned to the New Haven treasury? Is there no basis for suit for restitution in be- half of the railroad corporation? :? MT. Folk yesterday was able to con front MT. Billiard with minute of the meeting of the New Haven direc- tors on October 8, 1909, three days before Mr. Billiard became a director himself, which shows that the board voted to approve the repurchase of the 1O9,94S shares of Boston and Maine, provided that all shares of Billiard company stock and all profits actual or nominal realized by MT. Billiard, less a reasonable compensa- ton for services and risks and the amount of his actual expenses in connection with the purchase and sale of Boston and Maine stock, be first vested in the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad company and subject to the disposition of the di- rectors.''
 Under that vote, how was it legal ly possible for MT. Billiard to retain a profit of $2,74S,7O0. on the deal in stock? When MT Folk asked him to explain. MT. Billiard was content to say "Mr. Mellen must answer that question" He must, surely.
 The testimony of MT. Billiard now develops three things: First, he claims as personal profit nearly $3,- OOO,OO0 on the Boston and Maine transaction; second. he admits he paid the increase in the capital stock of the Billiard company from $50,0 900 to $2,OOO,00O, out of his Boston and Maine profits; third, he refuses to answer a question whether he now has in his possession the assets of the liquidated Billiard company, which had included: MT. Mellen's note for $375,OOO,- $4O0,0O0 bonds of certain prominent New England newspaper and $1,5OO,OOO stock of the Eastern Steamship company.
 It is to be hoped MT. Folk will find bottom before he gets through.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
The Biggest Wheat Crop.
(New York Times.)

A few days ago a calculator of test ed accuracy predicted 900,000,000 bushels of wheat from this crop. Yes terday the government gave it's req sons for expecting 630,000,000 bushels of winter wheat alone. The spring sown crop on the old yields would give fair expectation of S70, 100000 bushels as the total crop, or more than hum dred millions over the previous maxi mum. This is only promise. The facts are that the biggest breadth ever sown is in the highest condition ever known. It would require an equally unprecedented disaster even to bring this promise down to an ordinary yield. The best wheat yield ever known is the reasonable expectation at this time.
 Crops of this sort are the best rem edy both for high prices and for sus- taining the values of the farms. Farm- CTS are unlike other producers in that their costs are more nearly fixed than their product. After the farmer has done his part there remains the work of his partner, nature, and the part ner's work is an unknown quantity.
 The farmers reliance has been upon dollar wheat, and he has not seemed to care whether the price was realized hy speculation or by extortion. A billion- bushel crop would reduce the price by quarter, but it would not reduce the farmers profit approximately. On the contrary, the farmers profit would be liberal, and surer than the profits which he has been accustomed to real ize by scarcity. With dollar wheat there are hunger and discontent, al- though the farmer has escaped them. But when wheat falls in price because the buyers lack money the farmer is a double loser. His scant crops fell in value, and the farm falls with the price of its product The farmer ought to join those capitalists and. corporate trusts whose aim is to stabilize their industry by increasing produotio on, and to remedy scarcity py abundance.
 The true friends of man are those who follow this policy, rather than seek to distribute other peoples prop erty, or to give fictitious values to articles of universal necessity. There is no individual farm whose value is not increased by adding bushel or two to the acre. The addition 70 the values of all farms by billion bushel crop is something hard to calculate, and it would not be grudged to the cheapeners of food by the reduction in the price of breadstufs, whatever the profit to themselves.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
D. MCMILLAN l99-2Ol-2O3 MAIN STREET.

this country for their only possible use as paper stock.
 The exports and imports of waste material are not yet thoroughly re- ported by the department, and even the commencement of their appear ance in the official publication of the United States government dates back but a few years. For the calendar year 1913, we exported cotton rags to the value of over $500,000, pa-' per stock other than cotton rags to the value of $SO0,O00, woolen rags to the value of $1,OO0,000. scrap iron to the value of $1.200,00O, old and re- claimed rubber to the value of sl,- COG, 900, and scrap brass to the value of over s2,000,O00.
 The figures of the imports of waste materials from foreign countries arc even more striking. In the year 1913 We imported scrap iron to the value of $500, 900, old copper to the value of s1,OO0, 900, silk waste to the value of s3,OO0, 900, old rubber to the value of more than $3,000,000, cotton pa- per stock which was neither cotton rags nor wood pulp to the value of nearly $5,OO0,OOO.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
Enormous Money From Waste.
dStreet'S S.. )

At the first annual banquet of the national association of waste material dealers, held in New York city this week, it, was brought out that by col lecting and utilizing waste products the members of the association trans act an annual business of $7OO, ,O0O,- U0O.
 The utilization of cotton seed oil and of cotton seed, until very recent years a mere waste product of the cotton crop, it was pointed out is now valued in the United States alone at $5O,0OO,0O0 a year. Curtis Guild. ex-ambassador to Russia, noted that we are now exporting sisal strings to Europe to be turned into tooth brushes; that we are using the worn- out painters brush, soaked with white lead, by cleansing and using the worn bristles to provide in- expensive and durable scrubbine brushes. and exporting American cot ton stockings to Europe, where they are unraveled and used as cheap packing in the manufacture of gra- phophones and electrical machinery, while the patched and darned Eu- ropean stockings not having any oth> CT use, are exported from Europe to
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
The Memory of May.
Baltimore Sum-

l am so glad that I've had a day Green with the memory of the May; So fine and sweet that it might have
 seemed A Paradise that the heart had
 dreamed, With love on her silver stairs of
 light
 All in her glory and grace en-
 gleamed- Coming down rung by rung so bright To lean and to lift with her tender The mighty throngs that are here below. l am so glad for the one sweet day That brought me the green of a mem
 oried May A day so sweet that it helped me find A cleaner heart and a cleaner mind, And an upward lifting of all my will To the open vision of peak and hill. And growing better and feeling kind, And daring more as I took my place With the mighty throngs of the teem-
 ing race. l am so glad that the sunbeams play Over the hills of this memoried May: For the spring come back, for the
 gift of glee; That 1 have lived once more to see That vision of Paradise open there And love come down on the gleaming
 stair
 TO cast her blossoms for you and me. Ana sOothe our hearts of their
 troubled care. And help us be better and stronger
 men
 Because of the memory of May again.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
Our School at Vera Cruz.

Philadelphia Public Ledger)
 Kitchener was praised for his work at khartum and throughout the Sou dan when almost before the cannon cooled he had the younger generation learning to find and follow the road of learning instead of the trail of Mad Mullahs and whirling dervishes. It Is too bad that the object lesson of our occupation of Vera Cruz cannot reach Mexico at large-the millions of Sonora and Chiapas and the Pacific slope as we'll as the inhabitants of the Gulf water front
 Mexico's principal seaport capitu- lated to the deadly accuracy of the gunners of our ships and the valor of the landing parties. As soon as the "snipers'' were driven from the roofs the firing stopped, and our reconstruc- tive work began. The wonderful in- stant metamorphis from the war footing to that of peace is summed up in the single eloquent circumstance that as the Arkansas battalion par aded-after it had kept guard over the orphan asylum-a troop of the little children they had protected walked in front of them.
 The candid freedom from double dealing, the altruism, the higher pur- pose than that of loot and graft and unbridled license, are what people "half-devil and half-child'' find in credible in those who represent a civilized nation. We did not go to Mexico to kill the people and to seize their country. It is highly unfortunate that what Vera Cruz has learned about the ways of ''the gringoes'' can- not be spread across the landscape from Nuevo Laredo to Yucatan. The peons on the rampage would then un- derstand that when we withdraw we have not been defeated and it is not cowardice but the sublimity of moral courage and unselfish renunciation.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09

Commissioner E. N. Humphrey de- serves we'll of the board of public works and as a change was made in the method of transacting the business of the department it was deserving compliment that was paid him when hc was elected president. During the first two years of the existence of this commission MT. Humphrey divided honors with o. F. Curtis as leader of the majority side of the common coun- cil. It is a strange thing, but never theless true that every important recommendation of the board was opposed in the common council and were it not for MT. Humphrey it would not have made any progress. AS 1t was he came to the assistance of the department and never suffered a single defeat in the two stormy years the board had at that time. It was @ trying time for him and an annoying time too for the board. The work was all new, consolidation had just gone into effect and the board was obliged tc meet two and three times a week in order to make any headway and yet when it made a report to the council it was invariably opposed, the only reason being an apparent desire to prevent the department rom accom- plishing anything, the main cause arising when the mayor made his ap- pointments, the aldermen giving their approval under the charter at the time. The mayor and the aldermen did not agree on all the appointments and feeling sprang up between them which did not end during the first two years of the Landers administration. MT. Humphrey was a good friend of those managing the street department affairs during that trying period and he received valuable assistance from John Kelly, then a member of the council and now a member of the board of public works. MT. Hum phrey is well informed on the laws governing that department because he had a hand in drawing up the ordi- nance and has had to keep brushed up on it during his service in the council and since as member of the board. He is eminently well qualified to serve as head of the department and the members paid him a deserved compliment when they chose him as it's president.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
TANGO FOE TO DISEASE.

That the modern dances are a dts tinct aid to good health, and may supplant physical culture of a more serious type, is asserted by Dr. G. Hepburn Wilson, editor of The Mod ern Dance Magazine, in an article contributed this month to Health Culture. Exercise, says Dr. Wilson, must provide not onfy physical but also social and esthetic stimulus. The problem of doing this was solved hy our primitive ancestors, when they developed the dance as a necessary tribal institution. Guided by instinct and impulse, they hit upon the right thing. and the dance was an impor- tant factor in their physical vigor. Despite our superior civilization, we are not in a position, thinks pr. Will son. to improve on this primitive method of developing mind and body in the proper relationships.
 Some physicians have warned peo- pie of uncertain age against these dances because of a feeling that they may bring on attacks of heart failure due to the over exertion. Dr. Wilson, however, says, and his remarks have been repubEshed in the Literary Di- gest, that the dance, particularly in it's modern expressions, possesses the value of physical exercise plus social and cultural stimulus. Exercise must be interesting; the more interesting consequently the greater the stimu- Jus. Besides it is social play The world seems to have forgotten how to play, an art essential to preserve many people. in rhythmic motion pro- vides unsurpassable inspiration, tho spirit of the joyous life, and joy is fundamental.
 Not many people can join a gym nasiun; time and opportunity are lim- ited. The gymnasium appeals to sys- tematic and methodic people, but what most of us want Is ease, free- oO4As d1lO Ci1C JOy Ol SOCldl dCIlVlCy. Gym work is generally drudgery, and exercise at home is even worse. In our age of hurry and speed people aim to combine many things in one, and the dance combines social and physical utility. Not all people, be- sides, are fitted for the gymnasium; the dance is common to all, open to all. Fellowship of the sexes is a pri- mordia1 instinct. It is at the basis of life, art and culture. Woman needs mans strength and man needs woman's imagination. Woman with out male mpanionship becomes a weakling, and man without female comradeship becomes coarse The dance since time immemorial has ex- pressed fellowship in it's inspirational beauty, and life is incomplete without it.
 The dance, Dr. Wilson goes, on to say, brings into action the larger muscular masses of the body, inn proves and strengthens the circula- tion, respiration, and nutrition. and develops agility and grace. Dancing
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09

fore in some years. The candidacy of F. s. Chamberlain for state treasurer will serve to enthuse the republicans to a marked degree and with the en- thusiasm that will accompany the candidates for local legislative offices there ought to be something doing in the city this fall, not speaking of the contests that are likely to take place for delegates to the different conven- tions. There is a feeling that Mayor Quigley will want to go to Hartford to represent the city in the legislature and if he does he will not be refused a nomination. The question is being asked as to how we'll he would run for the senate or the house and whether he would run as well as he did for mayor. No one can answer that ques- tion truthfully now. He has demon strated the fact that he is some vote getter, both at caucus and at the polls. It may be that the republi- cans will have their primary system in operation by that time and if they do it is likely that there will be a large number of candidates, as the voters can then vote for whom they please as candidates. The recent re- publican victory has introduced a nuH1Dor or new HIGH lIlO pOIltlSS dIlu it would not be strange if some of them sought public office. It will be remembered that when the repubh- cans were in power before the crop of candidates was very large, some of them were nominated only to find out later that nomination was not equivalent to an election. There may be return to those conditions but it ;- iy,,y Q nv fn fell any, thing about it just now. The charter amendments will occupy some atten- tion and the father of the movement may want to go with them to Hart ford to see that they are. properly piloted through the house and senate. It was said long before MT. Quigley was elected mayor that he had an ambition to represent the city in the legislature and with the prestige he has now obtained he has an oppor- tunity to have his ambition realized. What the democrats will do is a.ques- tion. They have been pretty lucky in the legislative elections, particularly as regards the senate. There are no candidates in sight yet, although there may be some under cover wait ing for the psychological moment to appear. There will be no United States senator to be elected by the legislature this time and the en- thusiasm incident to the election of candidates favorable to MT. Brandegee six years ago will be absent this time except such as may be caused by the candidates of the opposing candidates CT the state ticket. If MT. Chamber lain has place on it, and it is be- lieved he will he will undoubtedly be given a rousing vote in New Britain. Unless there is a change in the sen- timent of the voters many democrats Will support him.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09

exercises more muscles simultaneously than any form of gymnastics. Many dinations of nerve and muscle which contribute greatly to the progress of the race. These are at the root of the will to work, act, and think; and the them
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
A warning which should have much

warning which should have much influence with the drivers of auto mobiles in this state is the statement which has been made by Secretary of State Phillips wherein he urges the strict enforcement of the automobile laws and a liberal imposition of jail sentences by courts for violations. Such is a result of cases which have been brought to his attention through investigations in connection with the duties of his office and the momen- tous fact that fourteen deaths in this state have been caused by automobiles during the past four months.-Nor- wich Bulletin.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-09
President F. H. Johnston, of

President F. H. Johnston, of the State Business Mems association, will head Connecticut delegation to the international congress of Chambers of Commerce, in Paris, next month, and the State Association will be sure to get the benefit of his experience and observations abroad. No other pres- ident of the State association has been more thoroughly devoted to the in- terests and upbuilding of the organi- zation, and under no other president has it made such record of growth, achievement and wholesome, active in- terest in it's mission, as under Presi- dent Johnston.-Connecti Western News