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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
The Plays Names the Thing.
New York Sun.


1t has taken the moving pictures to
put to final proof the right which
the owner of play is supposed to
possess in it's title. The contents may
be protected. The name may be used,
although it has not often happened
that the title of a successful drama
vas deliberately converted to the de-
scripton of another work.
1t was quite evident, however, that
the name Of play was Of value when
it came TO the moving pictures. 1t
V as entirely impossible to take the
name of some successful drama and
use with it a story which bore no re-
RATIONAL to the original. In sucn a case
the name was of chief moment. That
attracted thetpublic. Only the owner
of the play suffered. When that was
Tut into moving picture play. it's
value was gone. The man who used
the popular name for his own pur-
rases had destroyed its commercial
worth.
Now it has been legally held that
there may be protection for the title
Of a drama as well as for it's content.
The effect of that decision will be to
make the name of play much more
important than it ever was Will it
even go so far as to prevent the fire.
quent use of titles? In many cases the
same title has served for works widely
different in character. Think or THE
Wife, so often revived and of Who's
Who?," which recently was repro
duced after years of desuetude. Titles
often recur in this way, and there
has never been any legal effort to pre-
vent their repetition
This was a measure true because
the life of a play is short To revive
title that had been used a score of
years before was not worth while to
managers, since the play which was
originally described in that way had
ceased to possess any commercial
value. Then everybody interested in
the question knew. for example, that
1.-THE Wife, by Belasco and De Mile
was not the play by Sheridan
Knowles.
The titles of plays arc rarely of
Managers always cast about to find
excuses for failures. They have been
known to attribute public refutation
of the infallibility of their judgment
to the unlucky title of the production
damned. Dinon Boucicault used to
saw that the name of the play should
be understood by everybody or nobody.
Certainly the names of his Irish plays
were incomprehensible enough.
Henceforth the playwrights will
have to be more inventive.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
About Early Closing.

Editor Herald 1T seems quite
amusing to a great many, among them
a number of business men, that the
very first thing the Chamber of Com
merce is doing is just the opposite
to what was expected. We thought
their object was to slim ulate busin ess,
to assist trade for the home mer-
chants, etc. We find that the first
object in view is to close the stores
still earlier than usual. Comparison
is made with cities such as Spring
field, Worcester, Hartford and an
other dead one near at hand, in re-
gard to the closing hours. If the
gentlemen composing the committee
of the Chamber of Commerce who
brought out this suggestion wished
to close entirely, no one would find
any fault, but to expect in our
hustling city to have the stores close
at 6 .. m. except Saturdays is simply
absurd. Wake up, gentlemen of the
Chamber of Commerce, and do some
thing for a start to expand rather
than to retard the retail trade of our
city. Give the public a chance to
buy, keep the stores open a little
later, and then the buying public will
leave more of their dollars for New
Britain merchants. .
VIM. +. MARTIN.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
Don't Forget San Diego.
Detroit News. }

Those who contemplate a trip to
the coast this summer TO take in the
fair should get clearly in their
minds that there are two fairs in Cal
ifornia.
There is the Panama Pacific inter
national exposition at San Francisco
and there is the Panama California
exposition at San Diego. And behind
the latter there is a story of sheer
bulldog grit, a typically American
gameness, that canot fail to win adj
miration for the people of San Diego.
San Diego is city of 100, 600 resi-
dents including suburbs. 1t has with
in it's borders men of the spirit that
made the frontiersnan such a figure
in our history. These men conceived
the idea of an exposition to COM
mem orate the opening of the Panama
canal They bonded their city for ST.
600. 900 then raised by subscription
another million. They started TO work
realized the size of their proposition
then raised two more million, one by
public subscription and another by
bonding They asked for but received
no state or outside help.
Now San Francisco about this time
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
SECRETARY REDFIELD AND
HOSIERY.

There has been much comfort de-
rived from time to time from the re-
ports of Secretary Redfield who saw
the star Of prosperity rising before
anyone else and who of late has been
making a speciality of hosiery. He
saws that very little stockings have
been imported since the European
war started but those in Pennsylvania
who have looked into the matter. not
the stockings, say that he is in error.
The manufacturers claim that there
have been 766.295 pairs of stockings
received at Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Chicago and New York at
ten to thirteen cents pair and in
tended to retail at twenty five cents
q pair and that the price was from
three to five cents pair less than the
stockings which arrived here from
Europe last September, when business
was better than 1t has been since.
In the face of such evidence 1t is
impossible to pin as much faith to
ZIG S(6JS&l0utS VI t11S 6CCA CIoiJ e'h'
when he lectured here during the cam
paign. or course some will lay this
case at the door Of the tariff law and
say 1t is proof that the act operates
against the American manufacturer,
but walt until Mr.. Redfield puts in his
rebuttal. He may have something up
his sleeve in regard to stockings. They
are just as long as they were before
the tariff bill was enacted into law
and the ultimate consumer says that
there has been no drop in the price, so
that it Is difficult to say what the i'm
portation OF so many pairs has on the
market and If they have had no effect
where has the tariff done any harm?
Perhaps the imported stockings are
still on the shelves. The evidence is
that they have not affected the sell
ling price in this country, although
they came in at less cost than last
fall.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
THREE IN HOSPITAL.
AS Result Of Automobile Head -on Col
iision I'm Ansonia.

Ansonia, March William Lusig-
nan, Joseph Marvin and Henry Schein-
tenger, all of Bridgeport. are in
Griffin hospital here rs the result Of
an accident about midnight last night
when their automobile crashed head
on into a tree. G. w. Latin, als6
of Bridgeport, was uninjurcd, but spent
the night here. The driver, whose
name could not he learned. returned
to Bridgeport i'm the car of SOME
friends tho two cars being on their
way TO that city after attending u
Knights Of Pythias celebration in
Seymour.
Scheintengcr, who has a fractured
skull, is the most seriously injured.
An operation performed during the
night made his condition appear more
favorable today Marvin way have
internal injuries i'm addition 90 Sc
we're bruising. Lbsignan has blood
tumor on the leg which nj present Is
equivalent to paralysis The machine
while travelling quite fast was forceds
to make a quick swing around an
excavation and the driver could NOT
bring IL back into the road.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
D. MCMILLAN
1p0-oOI-2O3 Main Street.

figured it would be q good thing 10
have worlds fair and that city
opened up. 1t was thought that
little San Diego would quit, leaving
the field to the bigger city. But she
didn't Her business men went
right ahead, determined that they
had started it and would finish 1T.
They went out into the sage brush
plains and canyons and built their
exposition buildings, turning the ex-
treme lower corner of southern Cali
fornia into garden spot. A great
concrete bridge of Spanish style,
hundreds of feet long, stretches across
the canyon from the city and there
are gardens now blooming that IL
would be hard to match anywhere in
the world. The city has called this
reclaimed spot Balboa park" after
Balboa, the first white man to reach
the Pacific coast.
Efforts have been made by men in
terestcd in San Francisco to ridicule
the San Diego fair. ut they have
no reason to, for the citizens of San
Diego have done a remarkable thing.
Theirs is a fair well worth the trou-
bic of seeing. and. contrary TO re-
ports there is little trouble seeing
it. as San Diego is only three hour
ride from Los Angeles
If those who are going TO the coast
to take in the big fair do not take I'm
both, they will miss, I'm the smaller
one. one of the finest sights right
now in the west
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

New Britain people are very much
pleased that the mystery concerning
the murder of Father Zebris and his
housekeeper has been cleared up and
that the assailants will be brought to
justice. 1t was feared that the muir
der would remain unsolved and that
it would be added to the already too
long list of mysterious crimes in
this state. It may be that Montvid,
who made the confession, will BIO
brought here for trial because he has
said enough to convict him of murder
in the first degree and if it is INSULT
cient there will be no difficulty in OBJ
tanning corroborative evidence to
strengthen the case against him. His
companion in the local murder will
be held for the killing of the police
man in Wilmington and if Montvid,
who was with him in that case also.
is not held with him he will in all
probability be turned over to the state
authorities for a hearing here and
trial in Hartford, unless he should
be brought up on a bench warrant
when he would hardly be given a
hearing in New Britain. There is no
longer any doubt as to who did the
killing, but it is being noticed that
MontVid does not say just how the
two people were killed It would be
interesting to know just how that was
done SO that there would be none Of
the features of the crime left un-
solved. 1t may be that Krakas who
appears to have been the principal in
the crime will tell what he knows
about it when the Delaware court dis
poses of his case. There does not
seem to be any defense which he can
offer to the charge of murder there
and he cannot gain or lose anything in
telling about another crime if he
chooses to do SO. The only question
is whether he can be induced to talk
lie has declined SO far, but when he
has had a chance to think 1T all over
and realizes what he is up against he
may see things in a different light
me New Britain murder was an awf,,,
a1Ialr and the entire city is waiting
Tor some information as to how If was
done. Was the priest killed first ar
was 1t the woman, did they make a
llSnt or how was it that there were 60
many shots fired and not attract anv
attention? These are things the av-
erage person would like to know
Ihere have been q great manv tho
orles advanced and it would he in
terest1ng to know all the facts. Thew
may be given out before the cases
mere and in Wilmington are f,a11v
disposed of.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
COMMUNICATED
People Warned Regarding Forest
Fires in Connecticut

Ed1tor Herald There is ever, re-,
son to expect an unusually early ana
severe forest fire season in Connecti-
cut thlS spring. The lack of snow or
ram and the hot sun of the past few
weeks nave made the woods ond
Helds Veritable fire traps which mood
only the careless dropping of a light
cd match, cigar or cigarette butt IN
start a confagration. Already fortv-
three fires have been reported To tho
state nre warden as occurring during
the past three weeks. Probably manv
more nave not been reported. It will
be month at least before vegetation
viii be advanced sufficiently to check
the spread of fires. The local fire
wardens are yigilant and anxious TO
prevent all damage possible, but the
pubic must cooperate with them if
large expense as we'll as property loss
is to be prevented.
During the severe drought of last
fall nearly five hundred fires occurred
in this state, causing thousands Of
dollars damage. Most of these fires
were due to carlessness on the part
of people who were in the woods and
fields during the hunting and nutting
seasons. With the. advance of
spring, thousands of men and boys
each pleasant Sunday and holiday,
will respond to the call of the wild.
Every ono of them ought to realize
his responsibility to the community
to see that no fire results from his
careIessness, or that no fire which ne
discovers in the woods is left unex-
tinguished Every town has a fire
warden who should be notified of any
fire which is beyond the control of
the party discovering it. The tele-
phone central can usually give the
fire warden's number.
word of caution is also necessary
to any one having occasion to burn
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
TALK OF "BIG BILL AGAIN.

It Is a poor session Of the New
ton is not given some feature of the
police force of New York city. Each
party likes to have the conditions
In the department agreeable to it's
own leanings because the police can
exert a large political influence, they
being acquainted as they are with
ly those of any prominence. There is
bill at Albany now which seeks to
take from the mayor the power to ap-
point the police commissioner who
is In charge Of the police department
and places 1t with the board of es-
Inmates, but another provision creates
and the claim Is that this is an eff
fort to re-estabhsh big Bilp' Devery
to that position, which, when he held
It had salary of $4,000 When the
office was abolished he was retired
on a salary of $4,000 but he objected
on the ground that he had paid in two
per cent of his salary to the pension
fund and claimed that the legislature
had no right to Legislature him out
Of office. The court Of appeals final
ly decided against him and he was
left without a pension or a job. Dew
cry. however,, is reputed to be wealthy
and the matter Of the pension has
never bothered him very much. 1t
Is thought now that this bill seeks
to restore him to his old position,
but as he is over 60 years of age it
is not believed that even If the bill
should pc passed, which is unlikely,
he could not hold the office any
longer than would give him a claim
to the pension.
Devery was not an ideal chief of
police but he knew every crook in
New York and had a way of round
ing them UP when wanted that SHOW
ed that he was a man of great Sagac =
ity There was never any doubt
about his courage He proved that
1t does not SEEM as if he will ever
! be placed at the head of the police
| department again.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13


Nd the belief, as the New York
go "a erlcan puts it, that both Germans
|fg sua Allies have abandoned all pre-
he st observing international law
many editors to favor definite
Ad by the United States as the one
lwerful spokesman for neutral
2Ghts 1t is our duty, thinks the New
$EOrk Globe, to retain what life We
0can in the body of international law
@as it has grown up during the last
hundred years And the nations now
wanting us to defect this way or that
way as suits their imm ediate exig-
ency will thank us for keeping alive
the fire on the altar of civilization.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

if there would be no objection to
saloon on Main street because New
Britain is Il license town, Main street
is the principal thoroughfare of the
city and is thoroughly policed day and
night. 1t has been the policy of the
commissioners to restrict saloons TO
the center of the city, but it looks
aS if there is opposition to any more,
and as no hearing was held it is i'm
possible to say just What form the OPP
position would have taken. 1t seems
to be the general opinion, however,
that there are enough of Sa looms on
Main street at present, but if the pres
ent high license bill before the leg
islature passes it will mean that the
number in this city Will be reduced
and it is impossible to say just in what
location the reduction will be made.
1t may be truthfully said, however,
that the high license bill may not pass
SO that the question of lessening the
number of saloons may not be con-
sidered for at least two years more.
1t Is pretty we'll understood that
liquor license is valuable in New
Britain just now: if reports arc true
some very large sums have been paid
for saloons lin this city during the
past year or two and the cost was
chiefly due to the value attached to
the license, it being understood that,
as long as the law is observed the
! owner will not be disturbed. There
is also a general impression that no
new licenses will be issued in this
city without a protest and there is
plenty of ground for this belief. All
new applications, with the exception
of one on Myrtle street, have been
strongly opposed during recent years
and for some unknown reason the
county commissioners do not seem to
show any inclination to depart from
this custom. The decision to re-
strict saloons to the center of the city
made several years has been religious
ly adhered to ever since. 1t caused
some displeasure at the time, but
all seem reconciled to 1t now.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

One thing went through at the town
meeting, last night that rev people
knew anything about. Inat was
in regard to a school supervisor,
the school visitors recommended
In fact Middletown has had
school supervisor for some months
The salary is $40 a week. Ihat
is something the people Know
little about, from the fact the way or
conducting the town schools-lke
other school systenls-is to veil the
affairs over with mystery. The town
only pays $40 to the supervisor, to
be sure, but the state pays the other
$40 Then the state comes back on
the town later on for what 1t pays
and thus the supervisor gets $40 per
week and the town pays 1t. some
people wonder why taxes keep creep
ing p-Middletown Penny Press.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

No exception can be taken to the
character of the men named by Gov
ernor Holcomb on the new civil ser
vice commission. They are both good
and capable citizens and also good
republicans, with the accent upon the
republican" And as all of the in
ternal machinery of efficiency has been
deftly removed from the law it does
not greatly matter whether the COM
nissioners are good, bad or indifferent.
They are merely to be actors for the
future in an indifferently staged
farce.-Ansonia Sentinel
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

The arguments against capital
punishment are mainly sentimental
ones, and the arguments IN favor OF 1t
ere mainly practical ones. Thus the
effort which is now being made IN
Connecticut to abolish capital punishs
mont. and likewise in New York state,
Is backed for the most part by per-
sons who are opposed to capital
punlshment as a matter of sentiment
while capital punishment is being up
held by persons who support it be-
cause they know that it is one OF the
most effective deterrents Of murder
Bridgeport Telegram.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Mer1den'S new democratic club
starts with commendablc determina-
ton, with principles declared and in
corporation rights sought. 1t gives
warning that one of its purposes is to
"enlist voters, regardless of previous
party affiliations and by every
honorable means There's nothing
neutral about a stand like that, but
instead open beliigerency. Founders
of the club believe in democracy and
in voters and consider the latter worth
going after-Hartford Times
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

citizen came unexpectedly into
the kitchen of his house, found a
man eating a good meal of vtctuals,
and on looking him over recognized
an old friend Of former days. They
had a little visit, the man told him of
his hard luck, and apologized' for ask
ing for food there, saying that he did
not know who the occupant of the
house was. After he was gone the
man told his wife that if she INDUCED
her generous heart with that kind Of
thing very often they would have all
the dead beats on the road upon them,
though he told her that in this case
he was glad she violated his rule
against back-door NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
American.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

New Britain people seem to hare
some very pronounced views on tho
liquor license question for it appears
as if it is practically impossible for
an application to be filed without
causing a storm of opposition. There
was to have been hearing on an
application for a license on Main
street yesterday, but the remonstra
was so strong that sooner than face -
the applicant withdrew the case on
general principles it would seem as
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

The senate at Hartford passed yes
terday the bill introduced by our own
Senator o'Conncll requiring dealers
TO give notice to the police authori-
ties OF sales Of DANGEROUS or deadly
weapons. If the house. as may be
expected, also takes favorable action
on the bill, an important step will have
been taken to make il safer to live
in overwhelmingly Standard.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
EONS-AND

ainst invasion
the belliger-
Forts to bring
between Eng
1ch will rniti-
neutral COM
any American
produced by
Issued by the
n Europe. ac-
~ Digest. It
very hopeful
ccess. In Of
hgton there is
pondents. that
induce Great
hterial changes
announced for
that Germany
FogTam of de-
1rnerce. Ger
81; we'll starve
rench minister
tain wants war
the Cologne
Us threat Of an
han commerce.;
10th sides justi-
e measures as
hjustihable acts
Iply that right
fore ought not
prs see hope in
Of our pro-
the most un-
her War-zone
are more i'm
THAT this &C
I'D upon Eng
make important
hcessions. The
cut off all ex-
b Germany puz-
HERS. A block
brk World, is a
nt to notify the
\ that commerce
Fbidden, without
land without &C.
titles, amounts to
utrals as well az
ed in war. And
as, German sub.
tracy, then thi:
re also is piracy
Evening Post
X reputation o,
q of a treaty a.
anlent proposes
England of tn
ich she appeared
ming OF the war
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13

exacting
people
HeIdon who
ut man in
ro1n Bristol
b are always
bbrationS arc
ldon was 1Ol
Ae celebrated
tango with q
he to see him
llations. The
expert has
having been
action being
Ill length and
good time
lon remarked
+ango that he
fair partner
seen such a
ly old gentle
blk after the
and it is sus-
.fternoon he
pavement in
Pc on his roll
joy to learn
Haven is so
nd such live
centenarians.
about the ac-
at he did not
by declaring
te for public
tion In which
ganty-pne are
il no limit to
ii why g. man
tango, should
nege and ex-
y upon the oc-
thday instead
t Of the tango.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-13
HE charter will 500

HE charter will soon
be amended SO that
very little of the
document that came
into being with con-
SolidatiOn will re-
main. 1t was sup
posed that when the
committee left the