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STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
AWAkES.
A Visit to. New York Parks.

While / was in New York city this
summer, l went to Central Park 1t
is the most important of New York
pleasure grounds, in the very heart
Of the city. 1t contains nine miles of
carriage roads, 80 miles of footpaths
and six miles of bride roads. About
half OF the park is devoted to trees,
shrubs and vines besides, a consider
able natural growth of timber.
The path is entered through a score
of gates and fifty ornamental bridges
and arches carry the roads and paths
over other roads or over the lakes.
Conspicuous among the features of the
park are the Belvedere, an obserya.
tory on the highest point of ground.
the Mall. a promenade lined with six
rows Of large elms, among which stand
many statues of famous men. There
are two beautiful bronze fountains, the
Bethesda and the Terrace. Nearby in
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A Pet souirreI.

Ny mother spends the summer at an
old house in the country. Back of
this house is a beautiful garden,
where mother likes to sit and sew on
fine days.
Mother is very kind to animals. and
has made friends with squirrel that
lives in a tree nearby. The squirrel
is not a bit afraid. It will run up
mothers chair and sit on her should
er. Sometimes mother puts some
nuts in her pocket. Then the squirrel
Will caper until 1t gets hold of the
nuts when it will run off.
At one time mother used to wear a
black comb that was very high. What
do you think the squirrel would do
1t would sit on mothers shoulder, and
as it ate the nuts would drop the
shells on her head in front Of the
comb. Wasn't that cunning?
GERALDINE GAREAU. Age 9.
Baltic
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A Pis-crust Family.

Dear Uncle Jed: My mother had
some pie crust left and she let me
have it. 1 rolled it quite thin. Then
cut 1t the shape of a gingerbread
man.
1 had enough pie crust to make the
father. mother and her two little ba-
bies. After 1 cut them in shape !
buttered them and creased the little
babies. They were crispy and nice.
ROSE EAGAN. Age 8.
Willimantic.
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heard SO little Betty sat down to her
dinner in silence.
1T must have been q pretty funny
tea party she thought; but she didn't
KATHERINE GoRMAN. Age 10.
YersaiIlas
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|THE WINNERS or PRIZE BOOK

1-Alies German Of Versailles
Beekers.
GesaIdins Gareau. of Baltic-Tzis
Eordship's Puppy.
sMarion 6eusteh, of Baltic Miss
Pat at School.
Sarah Becker, of Grace
Harlowe's Sophomore Year.
5-Mary A. 1urrill, Of Stafford
Springs-Phil Bradley at the Wheel
6HLiIIian M. Brehaut, of East Nor
witch, N. Y.-The Club at Crows Cor
ner.
Vera MeInness, Of Norwich-The
Automobile Girls az washington
s-Clifford censden, Of Moosup-
Phil Bradley's Snowshoe Trail.
Winners of books living in the city
may call at the Bulletin business bus
mess office for them at any hour after
10 a. M Thursday.
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The Wild Cow.

When 1 was young and used to roam
around over the country, gathering
watermelons in the light of the moon,
used to think 1 could milk anybody's
COW. but I do not think so now.
do not milk a COW any more unless
the sign is right, and it hasn't been
right for a good many years.
The last COW / tried to milk was
a common COW, born in obscurity; kind
of self-made cow / remember her
brow was low, but she wore her tail
high and she was naughty, oh, so
naughty. 1. made a commonplace re-
mark to her, one that is used in the
very best of society one that need
not have given offense anywhere.
said: sol" and she s''soed."
Then I told her to hist and she
histed. But thought she overdid it.
She put too much expression in it.
Just then / heard something crash
through the window of the barn and
fall with a dull. sickening thud on the
outside. The neighbors came to see
what it was that caused the noise.
They found that I had done it is get
ting through the window.
asked the neighbors If the barn
was still standing. They said it was.
Then 1 asked If the COW was in
iured much.
They said she didn't seem to be.
HAZEL RUTH KING, Age Il.
Norwich
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A Haunted House.

As was driving my cows home one
night. thought l would take short
cut through a field where stood a
house which people said was haunted.
So jumping over the fence 1 let my
cows IN and started across the field.
AS passed this house I noticed that
the door stood open. l left my cows
where they stood eating grass and,
going up to the house, walked in.
The desolateness of the place made
a chill go through me. The roof had
decayed and fallen in. the windows
were broken here and there, and the
door and furniture was rm-eaten.
went upstairs. but the rooms were
in the same condition. As / neared
one room set off from the others.
heard the clanking of chains, and the
groans of someone in pain.
On hearing this noise took to my
heels, and running out of the house /
gathered my cows together and started
home. arriving there very much fright
ened.
AGNES E. SCHREIER, Age IL.
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NV Pet Kitten.

Dear Uncle Jed: am going to tell
you about my pet kitten. One day as
I was going to school / met a kitten.
spoke to II and 1t followed me.
left IL in the dressing room and when
I Eenk out it was still there. II fol-
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lowed me home and I brought If in
the house and showed it to my mother.
She allowed me to keep IT and it has
become a very good pet. 1 have
named it Fluff.
JOHN A. BURNS, Age Q.
FftchViIle.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-16
TIE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT

thank you very much for my nice
prize book. have read it through and
found It very Interesting.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-16

Suggestions For Christmas Gifts.
Dear Uncle Jed: I hope my sug-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05
INSPIRATION THE FACTOR.
Marks Attainment of Divine Life by
Human Beings. L. W. Rogers Says.

That inspiration is the influx of the
divine life into human beings was the
belief expressed last evening by l.. w.
Rogers national lecturer of the Theo-
sophical Society, in lecture at the
Washington Club Hall, 18th and X
streets The lecture place was changed
from the Theosophical Hall, at 1915 H
street. because that hall was not large
enough to accommodate the number of
persons who attend the lectures. Mr..
Rogers is to deliver the last lecture of
the course 1.-The Lords of the Law" at
the Washington Club this evening at
SIS o'clock. In his lecture last night
he said, in part:
Man is "a fragment of the Supreme
Being, a fragment in the same sense
that a raindrop is a fragment of the
ocean. The raindrop is separated in
space from the ocean. but II has re-
lationship in nature that is inalienable.
This idea of the imminence of God
is 4 New Testament teaching, and
when the idea of developmen.-evolu :
tion-is added to it we have established
the principle that men are gods in the
making. From this viewpoint inspira-
ton cannot be a monopoly of religious
writer's and speakers, of saints ana OIL
seerS"
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back perfectly. If tempered too hard
it will break, and if too soft it will not
straighten.
The new Remington rifle factory is a
model one of most interesting design
1t consists of thirteen distinct units,
each of which is a large building in it
self. These units are connected by
short wings and the space in the wings
is devoted entirely to the comfort and
welfare of the employees. They con-
tain locker rooms, rest rooms, baths
hospitals and a $4,000 restaurant
The man who conducted the welfare
work for the employees of the canal
commission on the 1sthmus of Panama,
and who is so modest that he does not
like to have his name mentioned in
newspapers, is in charge of the welfare
work here. He has organized bowling
and rife clubs. foremen's club, pro-
Vlded the employees with tennis courts,
conducts mutual benefit organization
for them, takes care of them when
they are sick. and listens to all their
grievances. He has a system of justice
by which any man discharged by a
foreman may appeal to him and be re-
lnstated If the circumstances warrant
it,
As all of these things indicate, there
is nothing temporary about Bridge
ports new arms factory. Officers of
the company state that it will continue
to do a large business after the war is
over, despite the fact that the greater
part of it's present business, and, in
fact, its very existence, are due to the
war.
The confidence of these men in the
future of the industry is based upon
the belief that America is to displa ce
Germany as the armorer of the world.
Almost all of the nations bought arms
from Germany before the war. But
after the present struggle the members
of the entente, who have been her best
customers are not going to buy any
thing from Germany that they can get
elsewhere. Then there are all the other
countries that need ri1es-South Amer
lea, for example, and China, whose
army is said to have ten different kinds
of rifles, so that when a Chinese soldier
wants to load his gun he sometimes has
to try several cartridges before finding
one that will fit.
So. with German exports cut off, and
half the world against her. the Amer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05
CHARGES ALIMONY DEFAULT.
Mrs. Cecilia E. Barnett Asks for
Lien on Divorced Husbands Realty.

Mrs Cecilia Z. Barnett has asked the
District Supreme Court to give her a
lien on certain real estate. which, she
says. belongs to her husband. Aloysius
J. Barnett. She also requests that the
property be sold and out of the pro-
ceeds s2.425, alleged arrears of alimony,
be paid to her.
She tells the court that February l..
1905, she was granted a decree against
her husband for monthly alimony of
S25. She declares he is in default and
now owes her s2.425. She asserts that
the title to the property is held by a
third party under a secret trust for her
husband.
Attorneys George F. Havell, S McCo-
mas Hawken and John Ridout appear
for the wife.
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Cutters Start Winter Cruising.

The President has approved the anA
nual orders directing coast guard cut
ters to cruise upon the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts and those of the great
lakes and of the Gulf of Mexico and
Alaskan waters from December 1
through the winter months. They are
expected to cruise iir+Ethe season OF
severe weather and to afford such aid
to distressed navigators as circum-
stances may require. The Ossipee, An
droscoggin, Gresham. Acushnet, Mo-
hawk. OnondaEa, Apache, Pamlico.
Seminole. Yamacraw. Seneca and ltasca
have just been ordered on such cruis-
ing duty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05
FINAL TRIBUTES PAID
TO BRIG. GEN. STERNDERC
Burial of Distinguished Officer With
Military Honors in Airing
ton Cemetery.

Final honors We're paid today to the
memory of Brig. Gen. George NJ. Stern
berg, u S. A, retired, former surgeon
general of the army, who died early
Wednesday morning. Funeral services
at his late residence, zoos Massachu-
sets avenue northwest, were conduct
ed by Rev. Z. G. b. Pierce, pastor of
All Souls Unitarian Church. and Rev.
John Van Schaick, jr, pastor of the
Church of Our Father, UniversaIst.
The body was accompanied to Airing
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suffragists Raise 100000 Fund.

NEW YORK, November Suffrage
leaders of Greater New York, at a meet
ing in Cooper Union last night. raised
500 900 in cash and pledges with which
TO continue the battle for the ballot.
Leaders declared the meeting was the be-
ginning of the 1915 campaign. More than
Sam was contributed in cash. and when
almost $4,000 was pledged Mrs. James
Lees Laidlaw and Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait pledged themselves TO raise the re-
mainder of 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05
Electric Iron Sets Fire to Bed.

An electric iron left or a bed in a
room on the second floor of the home
of John c. Let's. 1907 Highland avenue
northwest, set fire to the bed clothing
about o'clock this morning and dam
age NO the extent of about 500 re-
suited. No. 90 engine company and
No. u truck company went to the
house on local alarm and extinguish-
ed the fire. 1t was stated the iron
had been left on the bed and II is be-
iieved some one turned on the cleo
tricity. not knowing that the iron was
connected to the current. The fire was
confined to one room which was I'M
occupied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05
Can Set Aside Primary Law.

PIERRE, S. D., November 5.-The
Richards primary law case has been
decided by the South Dakota supreme
court, the court holding the leSisla-
ture had the power to set ASIDE the
richards urinary law initiated by the
people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05
COUNT De HEMPTINNE
NOTYET PUT TO DEATH

AMSTERDAM, November Count
Joseph Be Hemptinne, reported exc
cuted at Client October 26, has not yet
been put to death. according to a dis
patch from that city to the Telegraph
A Rome dispatch, October 19. said
that Pope Benedict, at the request of
the British and Belgian legations. had
interceded with Emperor William on
behalf of Baron De Hemptinne, who
had been condemned with five others
by the German authorities in Belgium
on a charge of espionage.
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ton by a military escort, composed OF
cavalry and light artillery troops from
Fort Myer, Va, and was inferred in the
national cemetery with full military
honors.
Honorary Pallbearers.
The honorary pallbearers were: Gen.
John NJ. Wilson, L. S. A; Gen. Edwin
A. Goodwin, L. S. A; Surgeon General
Rupert Blue of the public health serv-
ice, Col. William H. Arthur, Col Henry
&c. Fisher and Col. John Van r. Hoff,
all of the Medical Corps. U. S. A.:
Charles f. Bell Appleton +. Clark, jr.;
Frederick V. Coville, John JOY Edison,
DR.. William c. Borden, William H.
Baldwin and Dir. George VI. Kober.
Deep appreciation of the services to
the community of Gen. Sternberg, was
voiced at Il special meeting of the di-
rectors of the Association for the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis held yesterday
afternoon at the office of the organiza-
ton, 923 II street northwest. Gen.
Sternberg was its president.
Tribute to His Character.
The unselfsh character of the dis
tinguished officer, his valuable contrib
utions to preventive medicine, his per-
sonal philanthropic work in behalf of
improved housing and educational cam
paigns for the control of tuberculosis,
as well as his services to the associa-
ton. were emphasized in a resolution
of sympathy unanimously adopted at
the meeting.
Those present were: Surgeon General
Rupert Blue, DIR. William G. w oodward,
Col. John van r. Hoof, DIR. George NJ.
kober DIR. William c. Gwynn, DR.. c.
w. Cabaniss, DR.. j. O. skinner, George
S Wilson, Dr. William c. Rives. DR.
e c. Shredder and Walter S. Unord.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05

DR.. r. C. Fout of femptown, Fred
erick county, Md, died at Baltimore
hospital a short while after pelng
taken there from his home to undergo
an operation for throat trouble.
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VISITING THE WAR
BRIDES.
K.-Bridgeport.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, November g
Home of Simon Lake, submarine in
ventor, and of his Torpedo Boat Com
arms and ammunition factories in the
world and of innumerable smaller shops
and foundries. Bridgeport is well pre-
pared for share of the war business,
and she is getting it.
From condition of industrial in
ertia, with many of her factories work
ing part time. and some of them closed.
she has been suddenly boosted into
overlooking prosperity. Fifteen thou
sand people have been added to her
population within a year, and at least
80 900 more are sure to come. Rents
are jumping and houses are building
everywhere. Bridgeport has got to
provide homes for 10000 families and
she has neither the men nor the means
to build them. Eight hundred men are
said to have come here and turned
back, because they could not find
place to live Bridgeport is doing her
best. however, and bidding for New
York capital to help her.. while some
of the factories are building towns of
their own.
New stores are opening mere dllost
every day. A brand-new newspaper
made its bow to the public day before
Yesterday. and last week a chamber of
commerce came into being. Wages are
going up and hours of labor down.
Everybody is making money. Incl
,lentally, the city is entertaining po-
litical reform idea with torchl1ght pro-
cessions, Hass bands and oratory.
Most interesting of the Br1dgeport
war brides is the Lake Torpedo Boat
COMPANY, founded and managed by the
man who read Jules Nerne's Twenty
Thousand Lea CUES Under the Sea as a
lad: spent his life trying to realize the
romancer's dream, and has lived to see
the subma rine become the most dreaded
craft of war
1t is believed to be upon the discoveries
and inventions of Simon Lake that the
successes of the German U-boats rest
When the Russo-Japanese war broke out,
it seems Lake had entered into an agree.
ment with Russia whereby number OF
submarines were TO be built for that ma
ton upon his designs at the krupp fac-
tories in Germany The breaking out OF
war caused. the deal to fall through, but
the Krupps already had the Lake designs
and patents in their possession. They are
believed to have been using these patents
ever since, all attempts at prosecution
having failed.
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Memoranda.

Schooner Silver Star is due here from
Virginia creek with cord wood for
dealers: schooner Annie Belle is re-
ported in a river creek to load pulp
wood for Alexandria; schooner Thomas
w. Kirby has arrived in the lower
river after oysters for the local mar
ket: schooner Dexter has sailed from
Baltimore reported with hard coal for
Indian Head naval proving grounds.
schooner Sandy Hook. with lumber
from Newbera. n. G.. for this city,
sailed from Elizabeth City Wednesday
last; schooner Emily e. Burton is at
Baltimore with lumber from d lower
Potomac point; schooner Josephine
Keas is in Occoquan creek to load lum-
Der for Washington dealers.
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American Inventor
Gets Indirect Profit.

world that submarines are the most effec-
tive of war craft.
Today the Lake Torpedo Boat Com
pany is more than trebing the capacity
of its plant at the end of Seaview avenue.
It's old yard has room for ten sub
marines to be laid down, while the new
one, which it is building, will accop-
moda tie twenty. In addition to this, the
improved shop facilities will enable it to
complete the craft in much shorter time
than formerly. The company has also
purchased large areas of land, which it
is draining and filling. 1t is prepared for
an almost unlimited expansion Simon
Lake and his associates believe that the
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with military care. A force of about
200 men is
Military Guards maintained in
for Munitions Plant. a spee'a n, par :
necessary not only to guard against
spies and cranks, but to protect the
public from explosions. Cartridge fac
tories are compelled to keep on hand
large quantities of fulmenite for use
in their primers. This dangerous mate
rial has to be kept wet. as it will often
explode from spontaneous combustion
when dry. 1t is stored in fimsy sheds,
scattered over the large property of
the company. These structures fly to
pieces when the material eXpledes.
causing much less conclusion than if 1t
We're confined in a strong building. The
public is prevented from getting too
near these magazines by a ten-foot
barbed wire fence.
The course of industry has been rapid
in Bridgeport rather than smooth.
There have been more than nifty strikes
in a few months. All but one of them
have been victories for labor in a very
short time. Shorter hours have been
the principal demand in every case.
Somewhat against her will, Bridgeport
has become the pioneer among New
England factory towns in establishing
the eight hour day, and it looks as
though her example would force it
upon all the rest of them.
Two entirely new arms companies
have been organized here and are now
building their plants while there is ac-
tive trading in their stock on wal
street A local automobile factory
has orders for 5000 trucks. Every
small shop in the town is busy making
bullets, fuses, cartridge clips and other
accessories on suhlet contracts. IL is
the busiest year. in Bridgeport history
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w. F. Harrison of B. & O. Promoted.

w. +. Harrison. a member of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad soliciting
force here, has been promoted to the
position of travelling freight agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. with
headquarters at Baltimore, to succeed
David D. Street. who recently became
commercial freight agent at Akron,
Ohio.
If you want work, read the want COL
umns of The Star.
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submarine has now proved itself one of
the most effective weapons of war, espe-
cially for coast and harbor defense, and
there is going to be great demand for
! them from every nation in the world that
has a seaboard.
1t is upon this assumption, and not
upon war orders, that the company'S eN-
pansion is based. 1t is in the market
for foreign orders, but at present is build
ing boats only for the United States
Navy. 1t was given a contract for six
out of the last sixteen, for which Con-
gress made an appropriation, and it
now has thirteen submarines in all under
construction for the American govern
ment.
Lakes submarine has several features
which, according to navy officials,
make it superior to any other. The
hydroplanes along its sides, which en-
able 1t to sink vertically and instantly,
instead of doing the ''porpoise dive.
are a Lake patent. So is the water
tight superstructure on top of the main
hull, which gives the boat covered
deck when travelling on the surface,
but is filled with water by means OF
valves when it submerges. r.,
The type of submarine now being
built by the Lake Torpedo Boat Com
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Requirements of Allies
Are Very. Exacting.

here to inspect the rifles and bayonets
made for the allies Their require
ments are most eXacting. Every part
of every rife must be interchangeable
which requires exactitude to a thou
sandth of an inch. Every hayonet must
be bent almost double and must spring