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New Britain herald., 1915-03-22
C|AL CARS
MASONIC BALL
I'm Far and Near Are EX-
5 1t Event Of April 8.
bating large number of GU

pAtlns large number of out
guests TO attend the big Mas
.lil TO be given in Hanna's Ar
dOn the evening Of April $, Man.
PeardSley, of the Connecticut
pany, has arranged to have a num-
sof special cars leave the city after
might to take the visitors to their
pective towns and cities. At 12:45
clock extra cars will leave Hanna S
fnory for Arch street, the North end
Eand Chestnut street At / o'clock
Especial cars will leave for Berlin,
Plainville and Southington and at the
same hour two chartered cars will
leave for Hartford.
Those on the reception commit
tee are E. W. Schultz, G. w. klett
w. J. Rawlings, Horace w. Eddy,
Andrew j. Sloper w. W. Pease, w. Fl.
Crowell, Philip Corbin, Eugene J.
Porter Frank IL. Johnston, Joseph X.
Andrews, William Fl. Ellert, r. j.
Dixon, Porter A. Norton, w. e. Bak
er and George Fl. Dyson. The COM
nittee on arrangements have arranged
a highly entertaining program of
music and DANCES.
Concert BY Sphinx Band.
The Sphinx Temple band Of Hart.
ford, composed of fifty musicians, will
render the following concert under
the direction Of Thomas w. Morgan:
March-Stars and Stripes Forever
9ousa
Overture--Temp leweihe. Keller Bella
Humoresquc Dyorak.
Drinking song for Tromb bone, Fischer
Scxtette from Lucia $3.50. Donlzetti
Selections Rose Maid ~.
Gran1chstaeoten
Eelection from Martina" !. Wallace
Star Spangled Banner.
Another important number on the
evenings program will be drills by
Sphinx Temple Arab Patrol in full
costume.
Order of Dances.
Following is the order Of dances for
the vening:
Grand march to be followed by a
waltz by the band. after which the
orchestra will take up the regular pro-
gram.
Two step--"Theres Little Spark
Of Love Still Burning"
Waltz-Sari.
Lancers--Our Morgan.
Two step--"When You're a Long.
Long Way from Home.
One step-A la carte
Lancers-Ou chairman-F. S. Good
rich. &s
4 Fox trot---Spookville chimes.
Virginia reel--Our successful com
mittee. q
One step-"Wher You Wore a Tulip
and l Woe Big Red Rose
Il SIIesitation4-i Iona Lisa. III as'ataas lss
One step Dancing the Blues Away
Fox trot--Reuben fox trot
One step-'I Didn't Raise My Boy
to Be a Soldier.
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Empire theater orchestra, led
by Angelo Coniglione, will render the
above dancing program:
New Britain herald., 1915-03-22
Events Tonight

THE Man From Home" at the Russ
win Lyceum.
Moving pictures and vaudeville at
keencys.
Moving pictures at Fox's.
Meeting of the Boy Scout council at
the Chamber of Commerce rooms at
o'clock.
Quarterly conference and board
meeting OF the Trinity NJ. Z. church
at 1880 O'Clock.
Meeting Of the prudential commit
tee Of the Baptist church at the par
sonage at s o'clock.
Meeting of Court Prosperity +. OF
A., in O. U. A. Nj. hall. Election OF
delegates to state convention.
Meeting of Unity Rebekah lodge |.
Q. O. f. in Jr. Q. U. A. M. hall.
Closing of United Swedish Singing
societies fair in Electric hall.
Special meeting Of officers and
guards of Unity Rcbekah lodge, |. Q.
o. 4.
eft
Especial meeting of Harmony lodge.
IA. y. and A. NJ. Comforting of see
uhM degree,
Meeting of Mattabessett Tribe, No.
Il T. O. r. NJ, at PAP Main street.
Meeting of Gerstaecker lodge. No.
e6. r @. O. F., at Turner hall.
Meeting of New Britain Circle, Com
New Britain herald., 1915-03-22
+. J. TRINDER TO SPEAK.
Parents Meeting at Lincoln Street
School Tomorrow Evening.

= The Real Boy and Ills Education
is the subject of the talk to be given
by r. .J. gTrinder, superintendent of
the State Trade school, at the parents
and teachers meeting at the Lincoln
street school tomorrow evening, be-
ginning at s o'clock.
An excellent musical program has
been arranged. Miss Clara Voight
will give a piano solo. Miss Ruth
Schade will sing. Miss Helen Voight
will give selections on the violin.
Refreshments will be served during
the social hour following.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-22
Y. w. c. \. NESPERS.

Miss Ruth Schade gave a talk on
the life of Ethelbert Nevin at the mu-
steal vespers at the Y. W. G.. A. yes
terday afternoon, illustrating her talk
with several Of Nevin's piano and vo-
cal corn positions. There was large
attendance and Miss Schade's playing
and singing was greatly appreciated.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-22
Bill Y

70 number OF
OF acute i'll.
due to dis
Ing that makes
preventing it
nourishnaent
lity vary but
often q ten
hnging in the
fore the eyes,
AulneSH caused
Pc, and unre-
balisc it weak.
eainst disease.
people take
ways 9 trying
be cold follows
needs build
midtown con-
Fink Pills Is
principles and
Is build up the
every part of
muscles and
Health.
we will mail
Up the Blood. "
Medicine Co..,
own druggist
bills.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-22

Meeting of A. w Harvey lodge, No.
40, A. Q. L. w, at 1SI Arch street.
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Danons of the Forest, in ST. Jean de
, 13aptiste hall
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Ladies' All-Wool Sweaters ali
colors cut to one-third of
original price.
Mems 200 Shirts cut To- 4
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galleries of heavy masonry sheltering seemingly endless lines of cannonfsuch as were to be seen in the famous old water battery" at Fortress Monroe,
 once the pride of the republic and
 which cost more than a million dol
 lars.
 However all the old theories of
 coast defense had to be hastily revised when modern guns and the new ex- plosives demonstrated their ability to shatter any rock within range. Ex- pertinent and experience demonstrated that earth alone. and especially sand. will stop the progress of the modern projectile. The fashion that prescribed that fort should be walled enclosure
 became obsolete and in its stead we have the modern theory that the ideal fort is a hole in the ground.
 Now while most of our sea coast Notifications are just that-holes in the ground, the construction is by no means so primitive as the term might suggest. The holes in the ground are l lined with concrete and structures of steel or solid masonry hold the life- saving sand in position. Indeed, an Improved form of construction is made lups of thirty fsct.- In t3ticlMess) oi
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stitute but one cog in the complex machinery of coast defense. There are floating batteries. if we may call them such which are just as import ant as the lines of guns on land and there are fingers of light without which, to detect an enemy sixullsing in the night. the best of weapons might be of mparatively little use.
 Qualifications In The Modern Style.
 But let us have look at the forti- fications which, in the eyes of the average reader. comprise the real coast defenses of the United States and which are the bulwarks against invasion which he would fain have strengthened to the limit. We may as well admit to begin with, that your modern, twentieth century fortifica- tion, or such part of it as the innocent bystander is permitted to see is not very impressive as compared with the Notifications of. say the time of the Civil War. A great oblong heap of sand. as viewed from the waterfront. or symmetrical grass-covered slope extending to the water's edge Is cer- tainly not calculated to appeal to the imagination as did those long vauited
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The One Form of Preparedness for Which Sen- timent Is Almost Unanimous = The Forts That Guard Our Far-Flung Shore Line
 Guns That Shoot Ten Miles.
By Waldon Fawcett.

x all the clamor on the subject
 of preparedness, our coast de-
 lenses represent neutral ground.
 To make ready for war in the full est measure or not to make ready is Il mooted question these days and prob ably the men on the street and the women at the firesides will argue it back and forth even more spiritedly after Congress grapples with the issue in December. But the one surprising thing that stands out in this turmoil of talk is the seeming unanimity of opinion that we ought to strengthen our coast defenses to the fullest ex- tent.
 Protecting 6,OOO Miles Of Coast Line.
 A skeptic need take but one glance at the map of the United States and her possessions to realize that if we need coast defenses at all we need the best of barriers that can be raised against intruders. No other nation in >te world has so expansive short line needing works of defense for, bear in mind, there are under the Stars and Stripes no vast stretches of seaboard where nature may be safely left to impel the invader as might be the case in Siberia or Africa. Every sec ton of Uncle Sams water boundaries if not adjacent to more or less thick ly populated region is accessible to communities that must be safeguarded and, then too, our very wealth of good harbors becomes q responsibility when sea coast guns are being mounted.
 Upward of six thousand miles of sea coast must be protected by Amer ican gunners and happily we have never thought it necessary to adopt such policy of vigilance with respect 10 Canada or we might have to in- crease that total by at least a thousand miles of Great Lakes coast line. The past score of years has added tre- mendously 10 Uncle Sam's sentry duty of this kind. The Atlantic Gulf and
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the fires were burning the spirits were wandering and everywhere supernat- ural influences were at work The people of those days seem to have possessed remarkable imagina- ton for the legend tells how they saw the spirits of their friends leave the bodies of animals and float away into space followed by witches who besought. them to do evil. While this was going on the living friends made all sorts of incantations before the fires and besought the white robbed Druid priests to intercede for their loved ones Others begged for a peep into the future and sometimes Saman granted their requests-thus we have the foundation of the spirits wander ing on that night and assisting in for tune-telling.
 November the first was the Feast of Pomona. the Goddess of Fruits and Seeds, and on the night preceding the stores which had been laid up for the winter were opened and a harvest celebration was held. Hence the ap- propriateness of the use of nuts and apples on this occasion.
 Even today the Welshman mixes his harvest festival with the belief of the ancient Druids, and after he has opened his winter stores, lights his flres on the nearby hills. While they are burning the families feast on the fruits of the harvest and have a merry time. Sometimes nuts are thrown into the fires in the belief that if they burn well prosperity will follow for the coming year, but if they merely blacken it betides i'll luck.
 Uncanny Rites,
 In Scotland they still have the un- canny practice of placing stone in the fire for each member of the fam fly. These are carefully raked into a circle and left for the night. In the morning these stones are examined and should any be found missing a death in the family may be expected during the coming year. As it is easy for i'll disposed persons to get at these stones one or more of the rocks are frequently carried away and there is great sorrow and fright in the family who happens to own the fire. In some of the country districts the Scots carry torches of fire through the yil- lages whichf are regarded as typical of the immortality of the soul, also
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while it is whirling about. The candle invariably bobs up at the wrong time and the contestant bites into tallov instead of the fruit.
 In England the maiden peels an apple round and round without break ing the string of pairing. While she is working on the fruit she keeps re- beating rhyme which is said to help the witches in their work. 'T pare this pippin' round and round
 again,
 My sweetheart's name to flourish on
 the plains.
 fling unbrokcn pairing OCT my head My sweetheart's letter on the ground
 is read" .. e-s. /. Then she throws the string of rind over her shoulder and when it falls it takes the shape of her future hus- bands name. s0f course lai fine imag- inatien is required to dcs this trick
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Pacific Coast line of the continental United States was a big enough "beat' for any national policeman but now that the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii Porto Rico, etc., have been added to our territory the coast defense task has taken on new notifications.
 Finally, to cap the climax. came the Panama Canal undoubtedly our greatest single responsibility in the matter of defense. Hawaii, the key to the Pacific, will literally bristle with heavy ordnance when the War Depart ment has completed it's plans and some of the most ingenious coast defenses in the world have been reared in Manila Bay within sight of the spot where Admiral Dewey won his mem orable victory but even these antidotes for the yellow peril or any other sort of peril, pale by comparison with the new Notifications the Isthmus which will probably have prestige as the greatest in the world.
 It Is realized that in the event of war possession. of the Panama Canal by hostile power would be just about the most serious misfortune that NCoat pCAai eiS CllltcQ oltlJeS ana so we find each terminus of the inter- oceanic waterway under guns big enough to make trouble for any dread naught that sails the sea. Here are 14-inch and 16-inch guns of the latest type--the most powerful shoot ing irons" known to man-and here are dozens of the new 12-inch mortars which are capable of dropping missiles upon the decks of ships eleven miles at sea.
 Complex Machinery For Defense.
 We are accustomed, almost all of us to think of coast defenses as noth. ing more nor less than single forts or groups of Notifications mounting bankers big enough to warn off any trespasscrs. As a matter of fact. these batteries. important as they are con
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the tune of more than . million pounds year and millions of pounds of powder are stored in the subter- ranean passages that extend far down into the earth below the gun carriages at our forts
 And do the new guns add materially to the strength of our old-established Ifortifications, one might inquire. In-, deed, they do. As evidence of the hercer bite of our new water-side
 watch dogs only contrast the old 4c- pounder with the modern 14-inch gun which fires a projectile weighing 1,660 pounds and has . range of 10 miles. We hear more or less gossip to the effect that the 14-inch gun Is here and has made good and that the l8- inch gun is coming. but that need oc-,. casion no uneasiness lest the l2-inchf guns with which many of our fortiflca-s Itions are mainly equipped are lacking In the proper punch. A gun that can hurl half a ton of iron distance of seven miles once every three minutes Is not to be sneezed at. 9even miles Is as far as an observer can see a ship, anyhow, but it has been found that | by using somewhat lighter pfojectiIe the 12-inch gun can secura q raueo. up to any reasonable limit. While wi
 have been strengthening our coast de-
 lenses literally, with afIns and am- intuition we have been strengthening: them. flgurhtively. with such ad5uncts
 as searchlights of eo.000 candle. power and improved telephone systeths that keep a fort commander in touch with his fire commandeFs'' and the latter, in turn, in.zcommsinication vith flfo lthe 9An ss z. < :s :.s < ( = =
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iron and masonry and 30 feet of earth sloping' outward so that a projectile striking this barrier will glance of or be buried in the earth.
 Turrct Fortiacations, A Novelty.
 While the bomb -proofed holestin the grounds is, in the estimation of m0at experts, the ideal coast fertilization it does not always happen that the char acter of location will permit of the construction of this sort of barrier. To take care of the exceptions. Uncle Sam is now perfecting new and novel type of fort, known as the tur- ret fortification. The idea of this new stronghold is nothing less than the in- troduction on land of the plan of the monitor which made such sensation when 1t was originated during our Civil War.
 A steel turret fort is, in substance. an electrically operated revolving tur- ret somewhat similar to the turrets which shelter the big guns on our bet. tleships. The iron or steel turrets- revolving cupolas with spherica! rooms. each contain two or more bis guns and they can quickly revoIve or switfs tsirodsh any part of q circle
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successfully.
 Still another is to eat an apple before mirror at midnight on Hallowe' en. The room must be lighted with 2 candle only, which is set in front of the mirror. Before the apple Is fin- ished the girl is supposed to see her future husband peering over her shoulder.
 The most uncanny apple test. how ever; is to walk down the cellar steps backward with mirror in one hand and candle in the other. When the last step is reached the girl will see either her future husband or a witch looking into the mirror beside her. If the witch appears this is a sign that she will be an old maid
 Nuts Play A Part. All sorts of love tests are made with nuts, such as putting several hazel nuts into the fire giving each the name of an admirer. If a nut bursts in tho roasting this lover Is. unfaithful, but if the nut burns steady he. is a true lover. and will surely marry the one who has made the trial. Sometimes
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with the result that the guns can be trained on g ship approaching from |any direction.
 These turret fortihcations are ideal for location on islands and that Is where they are to be placed for the most part. although a visitor to Panama who looks sharp may find them in other sites as well. However, not only is 1t desirable that an island fortification be able to hurl projectiles to any point of the compass but the exposed character of the position of the average island fortincation makes 1t impracticable to employ earthworks Ito advantage. Probably the best ex- ample of the turret fort Is the one which is to be erected on an artificial island at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. Manila Bay Is to rely for pro- lection principally on turret forttfica- tions and these, alike to those at Panama. will mount 14-inch guns of the newest model.
 l3ettering The Worlds Finest Coast
 Dcfenses.
 It may come as something of sur prise to the average newspaper reader to learn that the United States is steadily, year by year, strengthening its system of coast defenses.f Ins ex- planation of such surprise be 1t de- tailed that whereas the Government is |alwSys highly secretive regarding coast defSnses eusrdins more closely than any other military secr4t the number and location Of sea coast guns-sit did make the announcement in 1908 that following sixteen years of labor the United States had completed the most costly, most substantial and most pow erful system of sea coast fortifications in the world.
 AS matters stand today the nation has about thirty-six biz sea coast .forti- flcationn of the new type. that are equipped to the last word, and some one hundred other fortifications not so we'll outftted. One important but little- -heard-of phase of the strength ening our coast defenses Is found in the piling up of a huge reserve of ammunition. At the outbreak of the Spanish War the United States had virtually nary q pound of powder |stored ct the coast fortfncations. Now, however, the Government. plant Is meiufacturing3 umo!oloq5 pow6er to
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sign that souls are being lighted out of purgatory.
 AUpIe Love Tests


 While this is going on the young
 people are busily engaged in seeking knowledge of the future and the boys are ducking for apples-a sport which lis regarded as the real thing on Hal llowe'en. number of apples are set afoat on a tub of water and the youngsters by turns duck their heads with the view of catching an apple. This is done amid shrieks of laughter as the fruit wriggles from side to side In the tub and the boy finally loses his balance and tumbles into the tub. Some of the apples have stems and these are more easily caught than the ones from which the stem is removed, but the boy who cannot catch the |stemless apples receives no prize. Another apple trick is that of young men sliding over bench and ducking for an apple without losing their bal ance. The young man who succeeds in this Is Sure of a wealthy wife" This is an Irish trick. as is the one of
 hanging an apple on one end of a string and a lighted candle on the oth- CT and then trying to catch the. apple