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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
ANNUAL REVIEW OF CITY DEBTS.
 DRAWS THRONG Policemen and Bremen in Yearly Turn Out Are
 Warmly Greeted. PARADE WITNESSED
 BY CITY OFFICIALS Mayor Wilson and Others Hold Official Review at
 City Hall Stand.

With Suppl Birmingham leading as grand marshal the members of the po- lice and fire departments passed in re- view before Mayor Wilson and other members of the city government in the second annual police and fire depart procession was the appearance in line of the old volunteer company, The Pacff1cs''
 Next year, Warner Bros, the Graph ophone and the Old Seamstress Engine companies as well as many private fire companies maintained at the various factories will march.
 At 2 o'clock this afternoon members of both the police and fire departments were inspected by the commissions who have charge of these departments.
 After the inspection of the police department led by Supt. Birmingham and headed by the Wheeler & Wilson band. the policemen started from po- lice headquarters down Fairfield ave- nue, to Main street whereN the fire men were in waiting. From this point the line of march was down Main street, to State street, past city hail. where the procession was review ed by Mayor Wilson and the city officials on the, grandstand erected on the green, out State street to Park ave- nue. to Washington avenue to Bulls Head, to Main street, to Fairfield ave- nue, where the parade was dismissed. Members of the police departm ent wore dress coats. caps, dress belts. dress batons and white gloves. Membe of the fire department wore dress uIti- form and white gloves. The mem bcrs of the various companies marched in front of their apparatus, the cap tains in front and the Heutenants two paces to the right. The police march ed in p1atoons, the f1remen company front
 The fremen were formed in two divisions, Assistant Chief BeardsIee commanded the first dfizs sIo- ss and As- sistant Chief Horkhiemer the second division. No fires were lighted in the engines but the engineers carried large torches lighted in case. of need. All members on regular monthly leave of absence were ordered to re- port to their companies for regular duty for the day They will be all lowed an additional day off later. All members on annual ten days leave Of absence who were in the city were ordered to report for the parade.
 The annual inspection Of the police department took place at a1:45 this afternoon in the rear of the police
 CContinued on Page 2.1
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
SEEKS GASOL INE IN WELL;LICHTEO MATCH FINDS IT
Newtown Youth and Com panion Are Badly Burned
 By Severe Explosion.
Especial to The Farmer. )

Newtown, Oct. 16-A we'll in the building on Main street, exploded at 10:3o this morning when Herman Tie man. Jr., an employe of the Frank Blackman garage, dropped a lighted match into it in an effort to ascertain what caused the queer taste to the water.
 The force of the explosion that fol- lowed instantly hurled~the heavy con crete platform of the well curb ten feet into the air and shot Tienan and both falling to the ground with their faces and hair burned.
 Henry Carlson, another employee had stepped back when he saw the lighted match in the hands of Tieman and thus escaped the rush of flame. He was knocked backwards to the ground by the force of the explosion.
 Bradley and Tieman were carried to the home of Mrs. s. F. Schermerhorn where Dr. J. F. Mumford attended them. Examination showed that Tie man was unable to, see out of either eye and Bradley was able to see but slightly out of the left eye. No trace of hair or eyebrows could be found on either mans head. Both are suffer ing excruciating1y from the large scorched area of their faces. Though treatment is now being rendered To- caily it is expected that their condi- ton will require removal to a hospital tonight
 1Sos explanation of the cause of the accident hasssbeen svouchsafed7 other than that gasoline which undoubtedly caused the explosion may have seeped through the earth from either one of two gasoline supply tanks located at a distance of 75 feet from the welk
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
Civic League Head
 Helps Settle Strike
(speciaI to The Farmer. )

Seymour, Oct. 16-Strikers at the brass goods factory of the Matthews Manufacturing Co.,, all returned to work today, accepting the 0ffer of the concern of a seven per cent. increase in wages. The strikers had asked Tor a 10 per cent. increase and when it was refused walked out of the factory.
 Most of the strikers are of foreign birth. Eugene M. Schlenk, secretary of the North American Civic League for Immigrants became interested in the strike and through him a settle ment was made between the strikers and the company on the basis men toned. MT. Schlenk lives at Stone Hill, Bridgeport and his office is in Room 46. Taylor Building.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
SIXTY REPORTED KILLED AS TRAIN
 GOES 0jViL,i BANI
Union Pacific Train Plunges Into Greek That Had Been Swollen By Heavy Rains And One Car is Sub merged.
Many Passengers Drowned In One Gar, While Scores Are Said to Have Been In- jured in Crash Caused By Washout.

Kansas City, Oct. 16.-Sixty persons are reported dead and many were in- jured today when Motor Train No. 579 on the UnionfEacific Railroad, plunged down an embankment near Randolph Kansas.
 A washout caused the accident. One of the cars on the train was submerg- in Fancy Creek, a, local stream, and most of the dead were drowned Esti- mates of the dead runf from Is to more than 60. Scores were injured
 This Information came to the Un- ion Pacific offices in Kansas City to- day.
 The train. which carried two cars. left Manhattan early this morning for MarysvilIe. It carried about 75 pas sengers. A three inch rain fell in the vicinity yesterday. The accident oc- cured near the approach to the bridge over Fancy Creek, where the track had been washed away. Both cars plunged down the high embankment, the first car burying itself deep~-in the stream below.
 Railroad officials said the train usually carried many commercial trav- elers. Today it had as passengers when it left Manhattan a 'delegation of young women school teachers enroute to the Riley County Teachers con .vention, which was to have opened at Randolph today
 Dr. Louis Atwood, a Topeka physi- elan. was among the killed
 Des NIoines. la, Oct. ] 56-Reports received by Union Pacific officials here say that one car on the Union Pacific motor tfafr which was wrecked near Randolph, Kansas. early today, con- tained seventy-two passengers. sixty Of whom were drowned when the cad went through bridge.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
LIQUOR, APPLICATION
 ARE CLOSED TODAY.

Today was the last day on which applications for liquor licenses in towns or cities except Bridgeport, in this county, could be filed. The coun- ty commissioners have returned from a tour of the various larger towns where they have been receiving ap- plicatio ons.i In Green vich yesterday. they had &applications for, 80 retail licenses. six drug and two wholesale. The licenses will not be issued until November l. After that date apph- ed.
 An application for a club license for the Liberty A. C., an East Bridge port organization, was filed today with the commissioners.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
Police Board Will
 Hold Special Session

v special meeting of the police commissioners will be held in Clerk c. L. Smiths office at S:3o this even- ing probably to fi1l the vacancy caus- ed by the resignation of Doorman Willis N. Benham.
 It will not be at all surprising if a "dark horse'' is presented. Commis- sioner Richard H. Murphy will be un- able to be present. He left yesterday for a two weeks stay at Mt. Clemens, Mich, where heNwiI1 receive the beNr- fits of the mineral baths for an attack of inflammatory rheumatism. /
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
NEW BRITAIN STRIKERS
 WILL RETURN MONDAY

New Britain. Oct. 16-It was am ncunced today that the automatic ma chine workers Of the Corbfn Screw Corporation who had been out on strike for several weeks voted at a meeting yesterday to return to work Monday.
 Mayor George Quigley acted as ar bftrator between the manufacturers and the strikers. The officials of the Corbin company say they will treat with each of the strikers individually and that the men will not be recog- nized as a body.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
ENvOYS OF ALLIES IN
 GREECE 60
Russian and Italian Minis ters and Their Families Prepare to Leave Athens at Once, is Amsterdam Report.
Norwegian Steamer is Tax en As Captive By German Warship- Russia Now At War With Bulgars, Petro- grad Declares.

Amsterdam, Oct. 16-According to g. despatch from Athens to the Col ogne Gazette, the ministers of Russia and Italy are preparing to leave Greece. The families of the diplo- mats, the message adds, probably will leave the Grecian capital today on 9 warship< bound for Italy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
STEALS LANTERN.

Louis Richie of. 46 Catherine street was fined $3 and costs when arraign- ed before Judge Wilder in city court today on the charge of the theft of one lantern from the property of the Reming gton Arms Go. on Boston ave- rue. Louis De Beneditis of 35 Hallett street, an accomp1ice, was fined $2 and costs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
RUSSIA AT WAR WITH BULGARs.

Petrograd. Oct. 16-Russia, regards herself as having been in state of war with Bulgaria from the moment the latter country attacked Serbia, according to statement issued today by the foreign office here. The for nal declaration of war is awaited at the conclusion of an exchange of teIe- grams between Russia and her all lies
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
NORWEGIAN SHIP TAKEN.

Stockholm, Oct. 16-The Norwegian steamship Tyr, loaded with cotton and bound from Bergen,< Norway, for Copenhagen, Denmark, was captured today by a German warship in the CattigaI. the arm of the North Sea between Sweden and Scotland.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16

The Italian government has placed an order in this country for 51.ooo. 0oo feet of lumber. chiefly yellow pine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16
THE WEATHER

Cloudy tonight; Sunday partly cloudy. Moderate northeast winds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-16

It was announced that the canals of New York State would be closed to navigation November 30, unless closed sooner by ice.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29
The Herald's Army and Navy Department
Latest Most Complete News Of Personnel Published Washington

Lieut.. Col. Albert d. kniskern. ouzrterrnaster
Corrs in addition his present duties. will report
To the commandins officer. Central Department. for
that department during the absnce Of Col. Daniel
L. Mccarthy. Quarermaster CorTs.
Mai Perry l.. Boyer Medical Corrs. nov on tenn
porary duty in Command OF Field Hosrital No. s.
at Harrington Tex. Is relieved from further duty
with that organization and viii accompany it TO its
home station. Fort Smelling, MINI.
Capt. Robert L. Carswell. Medical CorTs. now on
Temporary duty in cs,nmand Of Ambulance COmTauy
No s. at Harrington. TeI.. Is relieved from further
duty at Fort oslethorpc. Ga. is assigned I" duty
with that organization, and will acrnTIny il upol
it, return 10 its home station. Fort Smelling. MINI.
Col Orin B. Mitcham, Ordnance Department, or
his commissioned assistant. will make during the
months Of January. February. and March. 1916,
visits hereinafter indicated on Official business
pertaining to the inspection Of matsriel being TrO-
cured under contract with the Ordnance Depart
mtnt: Not to exceed two visits PER month the
works Of the l. G. johnson Company. Spuyten
Duyvl y. Y; not tn exceed eight visits Ter month
to the works Of the CrIcible Steel Conpany OF
America Harrison y. J.: not TO exceed visit
per month TO the works Of the National Brass and
Copper Tube Company. Hastings. y. Y; not 70
exceed visit per mor> 10 the works Of the
Safety Insulated Wire and Cable COMPANY. Bay
onne y. j.
Leave for two months is granted Capt. Charles ".
Weeks Twenty eighth Infantry
The Leave granted Second Lieut.. Julian ?. Barnes.
Fifth Field ARTILLERY. n extended to include Jan
uary =
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29

counties of New York state. He possessed
vast tracts OF land in the Adirondacks.
Almost all of this real estate came to
him by inheritance think while still
a lad and not long after New York be-
came a state there were great tracts OF
public land owned by the state in New
York which the government OF the state
decided to put on the market. This land
could be bought at a very small amount
per acre. Gerrit Smiths father was one
of the very few men who had the fore
sight to see what the growth of New
York state was to be. He therefore
bought enormous tracts and after that in
creased his holdings. Some of these lands
yielded large incomes afterward. and that
explains why Gerrit Smith was able to
lavish gifts. as he did right and left, and
still be regarded while he was in congress
among the richest of the members of that
body. Gerrit Smiths father laid the
foundation for his fortune by engaging in
the fur trade when that was very
profitable business"
COPYRIGHT, ISIS. by z. J. Edwards AL rights
res6ved)
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29

ia menace to civilization than France the United
States will be, and that the hatred of the British,
largely artificial in the first place. will quickly
die And it is pointed out that the leaders of DEM
ocratic thought in Germany have never been OBJ
sessed with it.
No doubt the passing of time and the perching
of victory on the allies banners will temper any
desire they may now harbor for an excessive re-
venge But it remains to be seem how Germany
bears herself in defeat In victory she has been
arrogant, barbarous, and brutal. In defeat she
may multiply her present ferocity to point that
will compel the allies to do their best to obliterate
her from the face of the earth. 1t is more likely
that she will exhibit chastened attitude. Then
it will be necessary to deal only with the actual
perpetrators of the barbarities that have been
proved against her. Time alone can tell what the
issue will be- and it is still far from certain that
Germany cannot force peace which, though un-
favorable to herself, is distinctly superior to
conditional surrender Meanwhile the utter pur-
poselessness of the gigantic struggle men ;ucge
purposes and results, becomes increasingly mani
fest
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29
THE RIGHTEOUS WAR.

Il is not well to give Man too much Power:
King Priest, Director, all misuse Nights Dover
Robed in the Toga of Authority,
The Puppet dreams he's Sovran of the Hour
Can there be war that is just and right,
A righteous reason for men to fight,
To Kill or cripple their human kin:
Can war be aught else but folly and sin?
Yea, there be times when the red games fair,
The pack not crooked, the deal dead square.
When It's played to win. in the last resort,
The liberties erst blood alone has bought
The rights of people by king denied,
The will of nation by fool dched;
When Freedom is fcttered, still born, or lost
When the weak by the strong dispossessed;
When the worldwide kin are by wrong oppressed;
When homelands invaded or home folk slain;
When lawful demand for redress is vain;
When Justice palters on land sea;
When autocrat poniards democracy.
Such wars will be duty while brute force is crowned
While knave thug, thief rules a race craft-bound
While fraud, lust and fear ganst mankind combine,
While tyranny poses Right Divine"
But warfare of conquest aggression, greed,
The conflict of trade and the of creed,
Are daStardly murder and swne-like crime
And blood-feud against them, fair, just, sublime.
Then thresh wars wheat with the swords red fail,
Till tyrants humbled and despots quail
Ay, stand to the guns and shoot straight to kill
Till the scepter sways by the peoples will,
Till power is tool of the nations need
Till slavery's dead and great Freedom freed,
Till the fear of death shall have brought surcease
OF ambitions crimes-till we win World Peacel
w. E. P. French, U. S. Army
In the New York Timsa
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29
BY Z. b. JOHNS.

! The reserve OF the regular army undel
the Act of lsl: has not yet grown to such
proportions that Representative Gardner
could not entertain il at a second annual
| dinner. according to the report of Maj
Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, chief OF staff. In fact
on June 90 the reserves consisted of six
teen men or one less than at end OF the
previous fiscal year. 1t will be remem-
bered that the reserve. when last enter
tained by Mr.. Gardner, was dined in a
coZy little room in the New Willard
| Hotel. There We're more newspaper cor
respondents in Mr.. Gardner's party than
reserves of the regular army.
Gen. Scott in discussing the failure of
the Act of 1872 said: 'On June %, 1915,
the army reserve, established November
! |, 1912, consisted of seventeen men, thir-
teen of them enlisting in New York City
and vicinity. During the year one reserv-
list was discharged to enable him to vail
date his enlistment in the navy, and one
was discharged to enable him to re-enlist
in the Porto Rico regiment of infantry.
On June 30. 1914, the reserve consisted OF
sixteen men, one less than at the end OF
the fiscal year covered by this report.
Since the establishment OF the reserve
the total number of enlistments in It has
been q. AS that part of the law authoriz-
ing furlough TO the reserve after three
years service with the colors did not af-
feet enlistments made prior to November
l, 1872, no accessions to the reserve by
furlough will occur until on and after
November /, 1915
When Maj. Gen. George Barnett, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, appears
before the House Committee on Naval
Affairs. he will urge upon Congress the
Importance of creating the grade of
brigadier general and increasing the
number of field officers in the Marine
Corps. Gen. Barnett insists that the
Marine is underofficered. especially in
the higher grades.
During the last five years" said Gen.
Barnett. 'brigades of marines have been
engaged in foreign eXpeditionary duty
on six different occasions. Each of these
brisadcs has been commanded by
colonel. for the reason that there are
no briSadier generals in the Marine
Corps. In military organizations other
than the Marine Corps brigades are COM
manded by brigadier generals. and
justice as well as efficiency demands
that the grade of brigadier general be
authorized by Congress. If two brigadier
generals be appointed. the increased eN-
pense to the government would be in
appreciable. while the increased efficiency
resulting therefrom would be incalculable.
There are insufficient officers OF field
rank in the Marine Corps, and due to
this fact have been compelled to assign
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29
Indictment q ! House Member.

Seven of its officers and former officers havine
been indicted by Federal grand jury for con
spiracy to foment strikes in industrial establish
ments in the United States, Labor's National Peace
Council has come to the end that was justified by
the manner of its birth. The child neither oi
labor nor peace it falsely christened and dis.
grised as an aid to its steathy operations ia be.
half of Germany and against the neutrality of the
United States Repudiated time and again by or
ganized labor, to which it claimed kinshp as evi-
dence of legitimacy, it still pursued with amazing
effrontery its of disoyalty, seeking in the
name of American labor to interiors with the
duties of executive officials of the government at
Washington and to influence their actions in the
interest of Germany a nation with which the
United States was on the verge of war because of
the murder of Americans the high seas and
whose agents plotting murder and incen-
diarism within our borders.
Impervious to the criticism and fierce resent
ment of their fellow countrymen, seven of the
men identified with Labors National Peace Coun-
Gil are now called upon to defend themselves in a
court of justice against the charge of violating
the written statutes of their country, side by side
with David Lamar, the wolf of Wall Street"
and Franz Won Rintenlen, agent of Germany in
the United States
Whatever might have been suspected of GER
conspicuous ngurcS IN LABOR
Peace Council who have always been found among
the leaders and organizers OF movements that gave
promise of yielding money without toll, the coun-
try has only recently been prepared to find in
the list of those indicted the names of a member
and former member OF the House of Represen-
tatvcs. 1t must be shock to the people of Illi-
nois who elected these men to represent them in
Congress to learn that their activities in the in
terest OF Germany and against the neutrality of
the government they took oath faithfully to serve,
were of such nature to render them liable
to indictment by Federal grand jury; but that
is their position today.
Presumably Representative Buchanan will re-
sign his seat in the House, or by some other pro-
cess the country will be spared the spectacle of
a man under Indictment for violating the laws of
the country sitting in its legislative hall and aid
ing in the making of other laws. His talk of i'm
peaching the legal officer who presented to the
grand jury the evidence upon which he in
dicted is not impressive at this time. In the end
he and his associates and those indicted with them
may succeed in proving their innocence in court,
but until then it is inconceivablc that Mr.. Buch
anan will have a part in the countrys law-making.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29
HISTORY BUILDERS.
The Man Who Went on Jefferson Da.
Wis Bail Bond.
Written Expressly for Tho Washington Herald.
BY DR., f.. j. EDWARDS.

Written Expressly for Tho Washington Herald.
BY DIR. Z. J. EDWARDS.
General Thomas L. James. formerly
postmaster general. having served in that
capacity under President Garfield and
later, for some months under President
Arthur. made a summer vacation excur-
sion in the early nineties through the
great lakes to Duluth. Upon his return.
he spoke to me of a landowner of whom
he had learned something while in Duluth
who was said to be the owner Of a larger
number Of acres of land than any other
citizen OF the United States.
"Of course" said General James. in
the development Of the far West 1t was
possible for individuals to secure enor-
NOUS areas of land, but think that, rela-
lively speaking. the owner of the largest
amount of land in the East. in his day at
least. was Gerrit Smith.
II am sorry that Gerrit Smiths name
seems likely to be forgotten. since he was
one Of the most powerful intellectual
forces Of his time. One thing he did will
serve to save his name from absolute
forgetfulnesa He was one of the North
ern men who gladly went upon the bail
bond which when perfected released JEFF
ferson Davis from imprisonment In For
tress Monroe. I think Mr.. Smith when in
congress had made the acquaintance of
Jefferson Davis. and I have heard that
they became friends. This. of course.
was some years before the beginning of
the civil war.
II once had occasion to make some in
quiry about the extent Of the land of
which Gerrit Smith was the owner. I was
told that at one time. and before he had
parted with a considerable portion Of his
real estate. he held the title to nearly a
million acres Of land, all OF which was
In New York state. He was actually the
owner Of real estate In al but four Of the
The Washington herald., 1915-12-29
The British Trade Uuiops,

In his efforts to induce the British labor unions
to insist less vigorously upon the observance OF
their rules in munitions works, Mr.. Lloyd George
means. What the trades unionists need to have
hammered into their heads at this time is the want
of common sense in making trouble for govern
ment which is fighting their battles against the
foreign enemy. How much better off will the
working people of England be if their brothers in
the trenches are not adequately supplied with am
Inunition and guns? How much sympathy after
the war will the trades unions reap il they hold
back and consult only their immediate ends IN time
Of national perili-New York World,