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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
MRS. COLT LOSES PLEA FOR BOY
Justice Potter at Buffalo Decides
Lad VIII stay with Father.

BUFFALO. Aug. 2+-The application of
Mrs. Elizabeth b.. Colt of New York
for a modifying order permitting her
ffteen-year-old son 10 spend Septem-
Der with her was denied here to-day
by Justice Potter. the action marking
another point lost by the mother in the
contest with her husband. Harris ID.
Colt Of New York. for possession OF
the boy. After Mrs. Colts attempt to
carry the hoy into Canada nearly two
years ago his custody was awarded to
the father. Since then Mrs. Colt has
been persistent in her effort to regain
him.
The boy now is with his father In
the air woods.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
REVENUE MEN VISIT COMFY.
Collectors Wind Up Their
Convention There.

Tho Internal Revenue Association
ended the sixth annual convention yes
terday with a trip to Coney Island.
Before the trip the delegates met at
the Park Avenue Hotel, whore the fol-
lowing officers were elected Daniel NJ.
Donegan, second New York district,
president: d. l.. Porter. Richmond. Va,
vice-president and j. William Shelter.
Baltimore. Nd. secretary. The associa-
ton is composed OF Internal Revenue
collectors from various parts Of the
United States.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25

pLATTsBURG. n. Y, Aug. 2f,-When
about To board a train for New York
Mayor Mitchell said that he was going
10 the city on several important private
matters and also on city business which
required immediate attention, but that
he intended to return to the camp IN
time to go with the members OF the
camp into the field on Friday for
manpuVrcs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
MRS. BURIED.
Comptroller Prendergnst One of the
Honorary P~alIbearers.

The funeral OF Mrs. Charlotte X
Carmody. wife OF Francis Y. Carmody,
one of the leading advocates fthe twilight
sleep, who die in the Long Island Col
lege Hospital N Brooklyn on saturday,
took place yesterday morning at the
Church OF Our Lady OF Refuge on
Ocean avenue. Comptroller Prcndergast
was one of the honorary pallhcarers.
The Rev. Robert O'ponovan, the rec
tor, who ofnciatcd, in his eulogy OF the
deceased said AS "A martyr to mother
hood Mrs. Carmody is enjoying a peace
eternal in the celestial kingdom"
The interment was in ST, Johns Gene
terry.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
ONLY ONE MATCH Is PLAYED.
Three Others Are Defnulted In Ten
mis- Tourney at Newport.

NEWPORT. r. l., Aug ga scratch
mixed doubles tennis was
started on the Casino courts to-day for
prizes offered by Mrs. stuart Duncan.
Eight pairs were entered, but VI the
four matches in the first round only
one was played, the three others being
defaulted, The summary:
Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden and Francis
Roche beat Miss Ruth v, Twombly and
willing Spencer. OF, s-t. -; Miss
Eleonora Sears and Charles f, Sands bea,
Thomas Sl!ddell and partner by default;
Miss Anna Sands and oliver Perrin beat
Mrs ]. Gordon Douglas ana Craig Biddie
by default; Mrs Howard Il. Gushing and
Thomas R~idgoway beat Mrs W Earl Dodge
and Williams +, Burden by default.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
EAST SIDE RALLY POSTPONED.
Suffrage Parade ON Oct. . Instead
of ON sept. H..

Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw. Manhattan
chairman of the Woman Suffrage party.
announced yesterday that the yellow
rally for the lower East Side has been
changed from September Is TO October
2, as September IS is a Jewish holy
day.
The parade will form at Seward Park
at 7:45 =. NJ. 1t will pass through East
Broadway. Cannon street, East Hous-
ton street. Avenue B. seventh street,
Second avenue and East Fourteenth
street to Union Square, where there
will be speeches.
The date for Brooklyn's yellow rally
remains the same, September is. This
will form at the Williamsburg Plaza
and march to the Carnegie Library.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
Pageant to Aid War Charity.

Nine. Melanie Kurt OF the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company Is chairman Of the
pageant committee in the Fair for All
Nations to be given on Saturday at Nor
folk. Conn, In aid Of the surgical dress
ings committee. of which Miss Anne
Morgan is head. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Stoecket are giving their grounds and
music shed for the fete.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
Lewis II. Hale.

FAYETTEVILLE. y. c., Aug. 2i.--Lewis
r. Hale, postmaster of Fayetteville and
third son OF Major e, J.. Hale, United
States Minister to Costa Rica, died here
to-day, He was formerly secretary OF
the Congress Committee on Civil Ser
vice Reform. He was born in Brooklyn
I'm 1870.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25

Charles A, Docrr. who for a uumber
OF years was engaged in the hotel busi-
ness at College Point, l.. l., died AZ
the Poppenhusen Institute there Friday
night, aged 81. In recent years he WAS
engaged In the insurance" business. lie
was prominent in politics, lie leaves
"A wife and one son.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-25
William u. Mcrnhe.

william T.. Mccabc, ~, Of III Mid
wood road, Brooklyn, head of the prod
uce commission firm II charles h Me
cabe & Son, died suddenly on sunday.
He was a m,mhcr of the New York
Mercantile Exchange. lie leaves a wife,
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
NO LOOPHOLE FOR RIGGS.

Edward G.. Riggs, member of the official family of the New York, New Haven 6 Hartford railroad, writes from New York to John Rodemeyer, pub- licity commissioner-in-c chief of the Bald. Head Club of America. as follows:
 "What in the world is to become of the rest of your bald headed associates if you go to work and turn apostate like this? I enclose dispatch read with a great deal of interest i'll the Sun this Do you want to disintegrate the club? Do you care to go down in history as the bald headed Benedict Arnold? If not, you quickly shave your head or there will be trouble in the bald-headed family"
 Now, as matter of fact, MT. Rode meyer did try to resign his office, but the executive committee of the club re- jected his resignation P. D. O., and he's still on the job. So MT. Riggs, who is a legitimate member of the Bald-Head Club of America, must keep his promise to address the pates at their next ban quet at Hotel Winchester in October.- Winsted Citizen.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
SAY ANYTHINGI

Anything that the Administra-
 tion chooses to say of me- it is more
 than welcome to say.-Colonel
 Roosevelt.
 Which ret alls the occasion on which the late greatest snowman on earth. P. T. Barnum-whose adherence of publicity was not exactly his strongest weakness-capitulated to the late James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald. For some reason a mis. understanding arose between the two distinguished gentlemen, and Bennett issued orders that under no circum stances was the name of Barnum to ap- pear in the columns of the Herald. This policy of snub soon brought the snowman to his knees. AS the story went. he called on Bennett, laid a bill of large denomination on the ed itor's desk and said: "Here, Bennett, I give in; say anything you want to in the Herald about me; abuse me if yon will; call me what you like, but for Gods sake say something about mel don't care what, so long as you get my name in"
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
GROSSLY EXAGGERATED

We find prevailing suspicion that the hair is growing on the head of John Rodemeyer, so that he is forced to give up his connection with the Bald Head Club, because the Germans have, with dastard hand, secretly submarined his scalp. They want to queer this noblest of American institutions. The effects of the work of mischief are already be- ing felt. We notice that Col. Osborn, of the New Haven Journal Courier, who has been slowly but perseveringly preparing himself through the years for eligibility 10 the club, has now given up on the ground that to have Rode meyer retire is to -MacGregor the whole concern. Other good men will no doubt become discouraged and refuse 1 to enlist for the same reason. It may be necessary before long to fall back on conscription in order to keep the ranks filled. In time, however, the plot may be thwarted and the institu- tiCn saved. But the Germans do such thorough work that we do not consider | 1t likely that the hair they have planted on Rodemeyer's head can be made to fall out again. n.-Waterbury American.
 Iris true the hair was originally planted there by Germans, but with all proper scorn we resent the submarine insinuation regarding the moulting process. It was all overhead work hairoplane, as it were. But that is not the important point. The main thing is, the reported "un. MacGregoring" of the Club is, like the report of Mark Twain's death, grossly exaggerated, " inasmuch as the executive committee, with t1attering emphasis, refused to accept the resignation. Colonel Osborn
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
German Discipline.

Herman Ridder at the German. American Chamber of Commerce, in New York, said of the phenomenal success of Germany:
 "Germany's success is due to her discipline. The German people are disciplined through and through. England's discipline is like the moth- CTS, while Germany s is like the fathers in the medicine story:
 "A little lad, desperately i'll, refused to take his medicine. and the mother threw herself on the floor and sobbed;
 '" 'Ch, my boy! My boy will diel My boy won't take his medicine, and he's going to die.
 But the sufferer in the bed said in comforting tones:
 " Don't cry, mother. Father will be home soon, and hell make me take it. "
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
COL. OSBORN FOR MAYOR.

Appended to political article in the always readable Journal and Courier, is a paragraph which states that "the latest candidate to be suggested for. mayor is Colonel Osborn" and that Colonel Osborn has merely laughed good naturedly. as if he thought the idea joke. "-Hartford Post.
 We protest againt the inference that Colonel Osborn thought the idea a joke'' simply because he laughed good naturedly" at the proposition 10 make him mayor of New Haven. It is Colonel Osborn's way to laugh good naturedly when anything pleases him it need not necessarily be joke; and the. proposition to be the recipient of such an honor as New Haven mayor atty nomination can hardly be other wise than pleasing to any sane citizen. gestion, it is in the idea of Colonel Osborn's party having sense enough to nominate him for mayor. That is the point where credulity balks, and that is where the possible joke comes in.
 HowsyeE, if there is anything in the 1t1ng we wish to go on record as un- uualifedly in favor of the nomination. It shall have our unanimous support. We, are moved to assume this attitude bN various and sundry considerations. Colonel Osborn is an ideal man for the place, and the place is an ideal place for the Colonel. A native and lifelong resident of the city, he knows New Haven from one end to the other, and from top to bottom. He knows hel needs, her moods and tenses, her short. comings, her capabilities, her doubts and fears, and all about her, and he possesses in an eminent degree the re. auisites for dealing with all these various phases of her ramified compost ton.
 But the strongest reason why we art backing him is because he is always ready to back us. We have never vel run for single nomination, or bunch of nominations, when Colonel Osborn Ras not promptly and enthusiastically taken of his smoking jacket, rolled III his shirt-sleeves, spit on his hands jumped into the ring, and fit, bled anC 'Raied with us. With the clash of hi: r~ nrmor and the strokes of his battle-axt still ringing down the halls of memory
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
What the Other Fellows Say


 Ex-President Taft said the Frank lynching was 'damnable outrage. !" When the genial professor gets to using such strong language we may be sure it was pretty bad.-New Haven Unicn.
 With the 2S, S97 automobiles that had been registered in Connecticut up to July IT constantly buzzing over the highways of the state, it is not so very surprising that Secretary of State Charles D. Burnes is working overtime sitting ill judgment upon violations of the motor vehicle law.-Bridgeport Standard.
 It's awful to learn that Emperor William has already suffered personal loss of at least S20, GOO, 900 in the war, mostly due to depreclation in stocks which he holds in shipping and manu- featuring concerns which have suffered. And he is so innocent and undeserving !! Waterbury American.
 An exchange asks what has become of the man who used to keep his money in knot hole in the attic, because sav- ings banks were not safe enough? we'll, he is dead, while his son is investing his funds in war stocks.-Meriden Journal.
 A lunatic in a Long Island asylum escaped, dressed in a washboiler. to go to the wars. However, if he gets there, he will do more than some tin soldiers of his time. Register.
 It is far cry to the next governor ship of Connecticut. So far indeed that it is much better to let the pros- pective candidates rest until there is indicated some yearning on the part of the people for their grooming.-An- sonia Sentinel.
 We again urge upon the police authorities a more earnest enforcement of the automobile laws. New Haven is acquiring an unenviable reputation among strangers as a loosely controlled city. It is. not a difficult job. A few arrests and subsequent punishments would do the trick quickly.-New Ha- ven Journal Courier.
 Alas, the reign of grape juice was short. Secretary of State Lansing serves wine at diplomatic dinners Pittsfield Eagle.
 It has fallen to the lot of the Ansonia police court to try the first case of ''evasion of jitney fare The penalty imposed by Judge Willis on two men who took ride and then sought to dodge payment was 8 and costs, a total of $15.01 each. This decision appears to put the famous jitney on a legal par with the trolley line and the steam roads. Bristol Press.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
EDITOR CLARK'S OPERATION.

Editor Charles Hopkins Clark, of the Hartford Courant, it is gratifying to note, is recovering rapidly after under going a surgical operation. Congratu- lations. We hope it will make a new man of him. We don't know what the operation was for, but presume it was necessary, for the distinguished editor can hardly be accused of being so abject slave to conventionality as to submit to an operation simply be- cause it's the fashion, as certain other party learned when he imagined he was ailing and consulted a physician. The doctor listened to his complaint, then said: "Well, l think you had better have an operation. ''Is an operation necessary?' asked the patient. "No, but it's customary" replied the doctor
 Editor Clark himself has "operated, with his razor-edged pen, and dettly taken the hide off many a man without administering anesthetic of any kind; but presumably he never performed such an operation unless he thought 1t necessary, albeit the victim may have held contrary opinion; though some there be who maintain that the Hart ford journalist "operates" that way because it is his established custom. However, during the reflective period zg 1, I, consoling thought that in the cases where he has performed operations the victims have recovered. almost always.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
Horatia at Bridge.

Then out spake fair Horatia,
 The hostess of the day, Just as the bridge club arose to go;
 o. girls, why can't you stay? For how is time spent better
 Than at the dear old game? What tho we've played all morning What tho engagements claim "Come, cancel your engagements
 WiCh all the speed ye may, And help me keep old Ennui,
 Our enemy, at bay; Forgetting luncheon, matinee,
 Lecture, or dance, or tea Now who will bide at either side
 And keep at bridge with me?" Then out spake tall Herminia,
 A reigning beauty she: "Lo. I will bide at thy right side
 And keep at bridge with thee" " And out spake Spuria Lartia,
 A fashion leader she: And will bide at thy left side
 And keep at bridge with thee." As none of the records mention
 A fourth fair players name, It must have been with dummy
 They played that famous game; And here for the first time ever
 Is told the tale of how That dauntless three fought off Emu
 In the brave days of Now.
 Caroline NJ. Roberts, in Life.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
s9' -r-Hr-+-~-s--- PILLS PRECEDENT.

Postmaster Phil Troup, of New Haven, addressed the veterans of the 21th Conn. regiment at their reunion, Wednesday. In the course of his speech he said:
 "The agitators who want war
 should be sent to war, or at least
 to that place which our own Gen
 eral Sherman likened war to.
 Should war come the men who are
 now crying the loudest for bull
 attitude on the part of the United
 States would be among the missing
 when a call tor volunteers was is-
 sued. "
 There is precedent for this cOnclu- sion in the incident related of the pa triotic orator addressing a body of vol unteers on their departure for the re- cruiting camp, in the early sixties. 'The time has come. boys" said he, ito strike for liberty and home. You strike for liberty, and I'll strike for h me-
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
John earIeYeorn. Chauffeur.

John Barleycorn is bad chauffeur. His hand shakes, his knees wobble, his eyesighU is poor and his conscience half asleep. And anyone who permits this reckless drlver to sit at the wheel of a motor car is a menace to life. That is why little sympathy is felt for the Baltimore man just sentenced to two years in the peuitentiary because, while intoxicated, he ran down and killed a woman. And if this convict fancies himself the victim of great injustice, he should compare his fate with that of the woman whose neck his carelessness broke. One does not not have to be intoxicated to deserve prison for reck' less driving. Nor does one have to be rich, as the Baltimore man is. Indeed the plight of this man should have an equally sobering effect upon all careless drivers, tipplers, teetotalers, plutocratic and poor. or.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
Some Refres shment.

Admiral Fletcher, during the man. euvers at Newport, told story of a garden party.
 "The navy is as abstemious from ethical reasons" he began, "as old Stingee was from miserliness.
 "Old Stingee was entertaining boy. hood friend one evening at his shore cottage. After couple of hours of dry talk the old fellow said genially:
 " Would you like some refreshment "a cooling draught, say-GeorgeY'
 Why, yes; don't care if I do,' slid George, and he passed his hand across mouth and frightened up. woD- derfully.
 " 'Goodr said Stingee. m just open this window. There's fine sea breeze blowing. "
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
Lost Out.

I've spent a lot O life, I guess; I've had my little fling, Yet, though I've led merry rout, In one thing have quite missed ont IL is of this l sing. And oftentimes at cabarets At others longingly gaze l never danced the turkey trot l never learned the turRey trot An, how envy those trotteurs- Theirs is happy lot; The chairs and tables cleared away, They gather in u brave array To do the turkey trot; While l, with many a vain regret, Have overlooked this single bet cannot dance the turkey trot never danced the turkey trot The bunny hug fain would try, Or yet the chicken reel, And other steps and figures, too, Based on the bnrnyard or the zoo With primitive apptal; But must be wall flower still, Because fear never will Learn how to dance the turkey trot- An, me! To dance the turkey troti
 Exchange.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
The Coming Snirit.

"This war will go on and on," said Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who has given a $25O, 900 field hospital to the belligerents.
 "This war will go OF and on, she repeated sadly, 'and the side that is getting the worst of it will display the spirit of little Willie.
 "Little Willie's father, as he laid on the slipper, said:
 " Willie, this hurts me more, far more, than it does you.
 |" Then keep it up, said little Willie, grinding his teeth. Keep it up, dad, I can stand it. '
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record Of Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files,
 IP9d

Feb. 6. A barn belonging to MT. Miles B. Tobey, of Canaan Valley, was destroyed by fire.
 Christ Church Guild was to give a social at the residence of w. H. Camp.
 Jacob Scamerhorn killed u wildcat on the island at Twin Lakes.
 Reuben Sewart broke his wrist in a fall on the ice.
 The Ladies Foreign Missionary Society held a meeting with Mrs. J. B. Reed.
 Mrs. J. R. Proctor and daughter Sarah, or Detroit, Mich, visited old friends here.
 The Dr. A. A. Wright place was bought by John Calkins.
 Fred B. Young. compositor, went to Th0maston to work on the Thomaston Express.
 A. P. Briggs attended the annual en- campment of the state department, G. A. R.. at Middletown.
 The Housatonic railroad was replac- ing the wooden bridge over the Konka- pot river at Ashley Falls with an iron one.
 Arthur VanDeusen. whose hand was badly injured while coupling cars, was able to resume his duties as brakeman.
 John Robinson brought to The News office Plymouth Rock hens egg meas rring 63 by s Inches and weighing 32 ounces.
 MT. S. ". Barnes and family arrived safely at Jacksonville, Florida. last Friday noon but MT. D. l.. Peirce and daughters did not reach there until Saturday, as they remained one day ill New York
 Business was lively at the East Ca naan furnaces, and unusual quantities ot iron were being made.
 Artist Smith, of Sheffield. was paper ing and decorating the rooms in the houses of of George P. Strong and Lu. man Foote.
 MT. Williams, foreman of the Winsted Herald, had just recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia, when his wife and son were taken sick. His son died last week"
 The Canaan Chautauqua literary circle met at c. H. Briggs, when "The Plan of Salvation" was discussed.
 W. l.. Brown. a News compositor. was confined to his home with sore throat and fever.
 Oscar Keith, temperance advocate, lectured at Canaan Valley school house, where 32 signed the pledge.
 Falls Vjllage-Coasting through the railroad arch had been prohibited by the selectmen. Rufus Whitford, other wise known as Solomon Isaacs, is doing a tremendous business in the peddling line" William Rectal, aged 40, died of Lyman Wickham, aged s5. died of pneumonia. George w Ford entertained at his home the Ladies' Aid Society of the Congrega- tioral church.
 West Messrs. Oldfeld and Stevens are bowed again with a neck comforter, after the style once worn by the patient Job" Mir. and Mrs. Henry Wheeler celebrated the 25th of their marriage, on Cream Hill. Irving Scoville returned from Nebraska, where he had been for two years.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02

may cherish his fond hope as he sheds his fond hair Colonel Chapin, of tie American, too. Both are marked for early fraternal comradeship with "Pa" Corbin, Congressman P. Davis Oakley, Sunny Jim Woodruff, William Howard Taft and all the countless hosts of shiny topped congenial spirits that make up ''this noblest of American institu- tions," the Bald Head Club of America including MacGregor.
Connecticut western news., 1915-09-02

The Winsted member of the Publicity Commission of the B. H. c. of A., Lew Stone, is creating no little interest in his symposium, in the Citizen, on the subject of the cause of badness, and some scientifically valuable information is being elicited. For example, one ness is caused by the hair coming out. !" This seemed to be convincingly conclu- sive until another scientist knocked the theory into a cooked hat with the radi- cal and arbitrary declaration that "baldness results when the hair stops coming out" This looks like an un- answerable propositlon-but so did the other