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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
THE HIGH COST OF
 DISTRIBUTION

The farmer living in the outskirts of a large town tried to market some potatoes at the grocery stores in that place. He was unable to dispose of them. Finally he sent them to a commission merchant hundred miles away. Coming into the nearby town a few days later, he found that some of the gfoeers were selling his pota- toes. They had paid freight over 200 miles of distance and at least one middlemans profit, plus several cart ing charges.
 Another farmer living near a med turn sized city went in one day and tried to market a supply of apples. He spent the forenoon going the rounds of the grocery stores. None of them would look at -hfsL product or any part of it. At noon he sold the 1 wagonload to a wholesaler.
 He remained around the town until right. Just before leaving he had the satisfaction Of seeing a barrel of his apples, being opened in front of a grocery store that had refused to buy them direct from him. The grocer, mans profit, all of which was cheer fully charged up to the consumer | Whoever stops to ask whether all this machinery is necessary?
 1 Gov. G1ynn of New York in a re- cent address before a convention of co-operative societies, remarked that the farmer gets only 35 cents on every dollar that the consumer pays for his product. Several farmers present said the governor had put the farmers share too high. Who, gets the rest
 At this meeting one farmer told of making a personal investigation in New York city, to see what the con- sunner was paying for his food pro-
 ducts.z He went in at one time when
 potatoes were very scarce and the farmer was getting $1.35 a buste1 The consumer was paying $1.EO te 1 $2. He looked the matter up a, second 1 time when potatoes were very. plenty I and the farmer was getting only E
 cents a b1ske1. He was not able tc 1 find that the consumer was paying appreciab1y less.
 No wonder the mIdd1enen become l weal althy!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
JOSEPH H. CHOATE..
 FAMOUS AS LAWYER AND
 DIPLOMAT, IS ss TO-DAY

Sunday will mark the eighty third birthday of Joseph Hughes Choate, for nearly half a century a distir- guished figure in American public life Born in Salem. Mass, Jan 24, 1892, he was educated at Harvard. Just three-score years ago he was ad- rnitted to the Massachusetts bar, but
 he soon removed to New York, where he quickly attained position Of prominence in the legal world. He was connected with many ceIebrat- ed cases, and was one of the commit tee which broke up the infamous Tweed ring. From 1899 to 1905 he was the ambassador of the United States at the Court of St. James, and was one of the most popular dfplo- mats America ever sent to England. MT. Choat's long residence in Eng land naturally made him a syInpathiz- CT with Britain in the war. He was one of the American contributors to sfKing A1bert's Book,'' a publication issued for the benefit of the Belgian relief fund. The octogenarian Amer ican did not T1ince his words in de- nunciation Of Germany. Those who were guilty of an awful breach of faith confessed their crime while. in the the act of committing sft,i' ne wrote, t.and pleaded necessity to ab- solve them from all law Of Ameri- can neutrality he wrote: ttAs neutraIs by international law and by our own law, our hands are. tied and will re- main so, but our hearts go whither they 1ist.'' In the last few, words he has described the ''neutraIity'' of nearly all of Uncle Sam's citizens, whether pro-German or pro-AIlies. MT Choate has a philosophy of his own, which he has expounded in his numerous after dinner addresses. Mo-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
(Henry Oewa)

The rise iii confidence noted for some weeks past is already express ing itself in business improvement.
 Since reopening of the Stock Fix change values of active stocks have risen on an average of from to z points. and in some cases the ad- vance has been as much as 10 points and over So far, the rise has been accomplished without any important realizing either by foreign or domes- tic interests. The market shows a, steady broadening of activity and gives every indication of a, sound and healthy change for the better. Among the most encouraging clements have been the ease of money, the adjust
 ment of credit to war conditions and the extra ordinary expansion in our export trade. Cheap money makes many securities look very. attractive and is a powerful factor in stimulate ing the speculative purchases. The investment demand has not been up to usual January prop ortions, but is improving and is quite as good as might have been expected under the circumstances. The low rates for money stimulated the inquiry for sell at considerably better than cur rent prices. The activity in our ex- port trade is phenomenal. We are still sending large quantities of grain, cotton and war material to Europe. These movements will inevitably con- tinue for some time to come, and would be even more active were it no .tfor the difficulty of finding out ward freight room. In view of the heavy decrease in irnportattonss con tions favor gold imports. These, however, are liely to be resisted by European governments because of the desire to retain gold during the war
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
EAMES DISCOURAGES
 COMFORT STATION PLANS FOR PRESENT
Head of Park Commission Believes Other Munici pal Needs Are More
 Pressing.

It has been suggested in some quarters that Bridgeport have a sys- tenn of comfort stations to be located in the various crowded sections of the city. There is in the budget for the Park department a request for $12,0oO inserted at the request of ad- r1inistration heads, that one may be built in the trfnagular plot at the intersection Of Fairfield avenue and State street. The proposition of plac- ing another one in Washington Park has been discussed on several occa-s sions in civic meetings.
 That the expense Of building and. operating these stations will be too great to saddle upon the public at the present time is the belief of Park President George M. Eames, who has recently made an exhaustive study of stations in the cities of New York, Buffalo. Worcester and Springfield.
 In a warning to personal friends MT. Eames is said to have voiced the opinion that Bridgeport is work ingmen's city and that expenditures must go forward slowly. It was his opinion that the cost of maintaining and operating public comfort stations will be too great in consideration of the cost of these stations to other cities and the greater needs that Bridgeport presents elsewhere for it's resid ents.
 To the Farmer MT. Flames said: s"sThe average cost of building public comfort stations ir- other cities is about S22,000 each and their aver age maintenance $9,00O per annuI1, as they require three shifts of eTn- ployes, both male and femaIe---a to- tai of six shifts sof employees daily. besides the coal tos heat them. the water to flush them, and other incl denta1s. There are good and valid reasons why the male and female attendants are needed constantly.
 If Bridgeport is to have comfort stations, should advocate having the best obtainab1e- The greatest ex- pense is found in those which have to be excavated below the surface of the street in congested districts. That is one of the reasons why the average initial cost of construction is so great Where they are above ground and adequate for Bridgeport they could be built well within $5,- 900 or $6,0OO limit.
 The cost of building one beneath ground at City Hall MT. Eames esti- mates at about $12,000.
 When the matter comes up for discussion before the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment MT. Flames f undoubtedly will point out that the greatest need for such a station is felt in the vicinity of Washing gton Park where thousands assemble in the summertime. or upon the trian- gular piece of property owned by the i city just south of the easter1y ap- proach to the Congress street bridge where traffic is heavy during both morning and afternoon hours and where sewage into the river would bela negative expense
 It is not expected in view Of the figures secured by the Park Board president that Bridgeport will have a comfort station at City Hall or in the West End this year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
STOCK EXCHANGES.


 The first Royal Exchange in Lon don was opened by Queen Elizabeth 344 years ago today. Jan. g, 1871. The edifce was pouplarly called tsthe Burse,' 8 corruption of a Latin word meaning purse, Sir Thomas Gresham, a London merchant. was the principal founder of the exchange A similar institution had been founded in Ant werp earlier in the same century, and Sir Thomas who had been royal agent at Antwerp, was impressed by the great need of a similar institution in London The first Royal Exchange building was completely wiped out by the great fire of I666. The following year Charles II. laid the foundation of new edifce which continued to be the center for English traders, brok- CTS and merchants until 1S3S. when it was burned The new Royal Esx- change was opened by Queen Victoria. in 1844. According to an old play, the founder of the first Royal Exchange celebrated the occasion of it's opening by drinking 3 toast-then called d sscarouse,'-to the Queen, in which. a pearl costing a small fortune had been reduced to powder and mixed with the sIiauor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23

poleon declared that an army travels onHfts stomach, and MT. Choates has said. Success rests everywhere on the same foundation-the sound ninds and the honest heart in the sound body. The sound body is at the bot tom of it all The stomach is. the key of 1t all. If that goes back on you, you might as well throw up the sponge, And here is another bit of octogenarian wisdom: we should get all the entertainment we can out
 of our life and work as we go along, for we may rest assured that if we
 postpone the fun of life until the work is done it will never come.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
WHO'S WHO N THE WAR

Duke Bernhard George. the reign ing head of the German ducl1y of Saxe-Meiningen. who has led his troops in the field, is a ibrother-in-law of the Emperor. He married, in 1878, the Princess Charlotte, the eldest of the Kaiser's four sisters Princess Sophia was the only one of the Kais- CTS sisters to go beyond the borders of the empire for. a. husband. She be- came the bride of Crown Prince Con- stantine of Greece. now king of that country. The present reigning duke of Saxe- Meiningen and 47iIdbtfrgh aus en has one daughter, but no sons
 and the family is now threatened with, extinction. Lieut.-Gen. Prince Fried rich of Saxe, ,Meiningen was the heir apparent but he was killed in the. fighting in Belgium early in the war
 Prince Friedrich was a brother of the reigning duke Another brother Prince Ernst, would have become heir ap- parent to the Saxe-M Meiningen throne
 except that he renounced his rights in order to marry the woman of his choice, Katherina Jensen, Baroness von SaaIfeld. Prince FriedricI1,s eld- est son, Prince George is now the heif apparent, but there have been run1ors that he, too. has been slain in battle. According to another re- port the Kaiser ordered him to re-
 from the field, in order to preven the extinction of the reignins dynasty of Sake Meiningen. It is known that Prince Georges younger brother, Prince Ernst, was killed in the fight ing at Maubege. In the event of the death of Prince George, his fourteen year old brother Bernhard would be- come the heir. Thus only two lives
 and possibly one. stand between the Saxe- Meiningen dynasty and extinc-
 ton. Tn the latter event the crown of Saxe-M Meiningen would pass to the ruler of Saxe-Altenburg.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
WHAT WILL THE BRIDGEPORT DELEGATION DO?

LITTLE Bridgeport to prevent the rape
 of the civil law, except to do it's share create strong public opinion against the It make this public opinion strong that when the bill destroy the the committee judiciary the support of the Bridgeport delegation.
 Messrs, Bartlett, Comley O'Gonnel, Kelly Carlick the advantage with political which constantly proclaimed the advantages the merit system They live community where civil service has the support of substantially all the newspapers in it..
 If they by voting against civil and for the b they will the light there will be for them
 These gentlemen will doubt they do that
 while the Republican party will continue to Republican office outrage public opn- probably continue hold office.
 Bridgeport with interest the vote of it's repre- sentatives m civil service amendments
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
TOLL BRIDGE NOT WANTED

xENATOR EVARTS effort obtain bridge across between Straford Milford, is that extent conanendabe it a bridge he is aiding return to barbarous practice which great abolish of the young forgotten injury that roads bridges development intercourse Bridgeport who the toll bridges here and who know what inconvenience they
 does these things about bridges will learn them after toll bridge is erected bridge between Milford Stratford will sfle de- property which great assets IL will be additional those developed Devon which may prove not much less than now paid the town itself.
 There is why the State of pay bridge should counties, which is the heaviest and perhaps part by hessate, since 1t is a trunk line bridge
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Under the leadership of Mis-. I1use Pfau, a. most attractive program of selections from contemporary com posers will be presented at the mem bers' musicale Of the "Wednesday Af- ternoon Musical club. on next We'd nesday afternoon.
 The program is appended:e (a0 Etude .... Neupert ieb1 Va1se d'anour :. Moszkowski
 Florence G. Brady
 (a) Phillfs Has Such Charming Graces Anthony Young (b) Hindu Slumber Song
 Harriet Ware
 Madeline V. Gillespie. 6ao PreIude, A Minor, c. Chamn1ade (b) Velse Brilliant MoszkoWsk1 (c)f Gavotte 1rnpromptu, J. Pizzarello g Mrs. Louis I. Snyder. (a) Daliza ShadW1ck i(b) A Castflian Lament ...Del Riego
 Miss Eleanor Lines,
 Gal The Cross. Harriet Ware (b)s Love is the Wind
 Alexander MacFayden.
 Mrs. Clarence M. Hayes la9 Tsnetienne goaaaq sl5srt
 Florence G. Brady. s(a) Aria .'In Quelle Trine Morbide.H from Manon Lescan Puce1n1 (b) The Nightingale. .Iize Iehn1a m Gel I Came With a Rose FFa5Ilk =14t1s5E F sOA
 Mrs. Ethel Poland Hubbell Z Syrnphone Poem. Hiawatha
 !, .-... .-.z f1uge naun z1.lla Mrs John A. Rusling, IT. and Miss
 Edna Northrop-
 Accom- panists, Miss Edna Higgins, Stamford, Mrs. Elmer Beardsley. Miss Belle Blackstone.
 A happy gathering of young people. attended the open meeting of the Elizabeth Seton Guild last evening in the United Irish Societies Hall, Franklin building Dancing to the strains from a popular orchestra formed the chief amusement with which tne members of the prominent Catholic organization entertained tI4eir friends. Miss Elizabeth McElFoy was chairman of the reception com lp;itee, and assl&ttng her were 1i1e Misses Catherine BrcSssrthy, Anne Lycn. Grace Kelley, May Kenneliy. Marion Meath; Veronica Graham, May ATcCabe, Jeanette O'Brien. and he1en Burnes-
 Miss Ruby Burritt of s8S Barnune avenue will entertain the members of ti4e Mount Holyoke club of New l1a- ven and vicinity this afternoon at her home. Some 25 guests are expected tc attend the social gathering and tea. A heart party, held last evening at the home of Miss Carrie Turney, 1880 Stat estreet was the means Of am nouncing her engagement to Chris IIoldt, Jr.. to a number of her 1onns friends. Miss Turney is the daughter of Isaac P. Turney, the we'll known West End ne ew.sdca1er, with whom she Is associated in business. 11r. Hoidt is with the American Tube x stamp irg company Both young people have a large circle of friends asuong whom they are most popular
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
COTTON GINNING REPORT

Washington. Jan. 23.-Cotton gin ned prior to Jan. 16 amounted to l4,- 907,942 bales. the census bureau a11- nounced to-day Round bales incIud- ed were 5O.942; sea, island cotton 79,- ASA bales.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
SENATOR MCLEAN AND THE NruIrlvE METHOD

c ENATOR MCLEAN who has not since conmendabe effort roasting places ngra- tory birds into the ne-gh with def to President
 Wilson The President his Indianapolis opinion that the election condition presidential year. would elected Democratic
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
Cleveland has 60, 900 unemployed.

Wire drawing department employees of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Go. who struck against a g per cent. re- duction, will be paid off.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23

It is getting expensive to hire work done nowadays, but why growl when a house costs only a little more than building new one?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-23
BOARD TO INVESTIGATE
 SAN DIEGO EXPLOSION

Washington, Jan. 23.-According to usual procedure, Rear Admiral How ard, commander of the Pacific fleet. will appoint a Board of officers to in vestigate the explosion on board the. cruiser San Diego resulting in thA death of five sailors and the wound ing of eight others
 Fire in the business district of
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.SHIBUzAWA HAD
|. HOPES OF Ending
Fight in EUROPE

Three score American and Japanese
business and professional men of Ho-
noluiu gathered at the Young hotel at
noon today to attend luncheon and
reception held in honor of Baron Shi-
buzawa, famous financier of japan,
who is on his way home by the Chiyo
Maru. ~,
That one of the objects of pa-1r
Shibuzawa in visiting the United
States was to confer with leading b ISL
nessmen to see what could be done
to end the war and hrins nh-,'+ 80 :.
between nations, was stated by the
Baron today in his speech at the noon
luncheon IN his honor at the Young
hotel.
4 went first anu foremost to see the
exposition" said the baron sDeakin-
IN Japanese, for / had a great per-
sonai interest in it. Furthermore
wanted to renew the pleasant acquaint-
anees that / had made in America in
my. two former trips there II am a
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P0ST0FFICE FORCE
is SWAMPED BY RUSH.
0FlATE LOCAL MAIL

Tomorrow promises to be far from
an idle Merry Christmas for postoffice
clerks and carriers Although every
available employe was at work today,
and the 354 sacks coming in on the
Chiyo Maru this morning were clean.
ed up before noon, the volume of 10.
cal mail pouring in has simply swamp
ed the Office.
Christmas cards, letters, various
forms Of greetings and parcel post
packages all for local delivery, poured
in this morning by the thousands, so
that the force was unable to begin
to take care of all of it, Two extra
auto trucks were kept busy all day
today delivering parcel post matter.
Tomorrow morning the general de.
livery and stamp windows will be
open from to 10 O'Clock, and there
will be only one delivery. The car
riers will not leave the Office on this
delivery until everything has been
cleaned up. which may mean they
may not be able to eat their Christ
mas dinner until or o'clock to.
morrow night, although postal regula-
tions give them tomorrow as a holi,
day.
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STUART SUIT
INLAND MATTER
IS THROWN OUT
Judge Ashford Sustains Eight
of Nine Demurrers Filed in
Case BY Governor
EXECUTIVE fAMENABLE
TO MANDAMUS, HE SAYS

Although holding that the governor
Is amenable to writ of mandate, and
is subject to the law the same as any
other person, Circuit Judge c. w. Ash
ford today sustained eight OF the nine
grounds in the demurrer filed by Gov,
ernor Pinkham and Land Commission
er Joshua ID. Tucker to the action for
alternative writ of niandamus brought
against them by Circuit Judge Thomas
B. Stnart.
The only ground in the demnrTe,
which was overruled was that alleging
that the court had no jurisdiction o
the person OF the governor. and of tn,
land commissioner. for the purpose o.
mandamus.
The demurrer virtually was sus
tained as a whole. The decision hand
ed down by Judge Ashford was oral
Continued on page eight
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PARDONS AND PAROLES
GOVERNORS XMAS GIFTS

The spirit Of Yuletide penetrates
even prison walls. This morning Gov.
ernor Pinkham signed pardons and
paroles for 19 criminals in the terri
tory, who will leave confinement and
face the world as free men tonight or
tomorrow. -s....- ."...@. ...... H.
John A. Kealoha, former Hawaii
county supervisor, sentenced May Is,
1914, to from two to 10 years for en-
bezzlement, gets, his parole, as fore
casted in yesterdays Star-Bulletin.
Chun Duck Soon, the Korean whose
infcrmati led to tile capture of the
notorious Korean bandit, zee Yo
Keuk. is also paroled, as are num-
ber Of men who have been serving
leng years for murder or man
slaughter. -. III.
Chang Koong Wal, sentenced in
September, 1902, to 20 years for Sec
ond degree murder, receives a gener-
al pardon, as does Watanabe Masagi,
sentenced in June, 1908, to serve %
wears for the same charge. z
Faced GaIlows for Time. /. i. =.
A full pardon is also granted to
kimura Tobei, found guilty of first
degree murder in September of 1902.
Tobei was for a time under sentence
TO hang, which was later commuted
to life Imprisonment Still later, be-
cause of good conduct, the sentence
was reduced to 30 years, and in 1909
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RUSSIANS CAMPAIGN TN
PERSIA TO JOIN BRITISH

[Associated Press BY Federal wirelessl
LONDON, Eng. Dee. 24-The
French claim to have maintained
Hartmannsweilerkopf, which the
Germans say has been recaptured.
The Russians report successes at
TrembowIa and advancing in Per
sia, their ebject being to join the
British.
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China PROVINCE
RISES AGAINST
new MONARCHY

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal Wireless
PEkING, China, Dec. PA revo-
iItionary movement against the mon
arehy has broken out in the province
Of Yunnan.. The movement is under
the leadership Of Tasi 40, ex-military
governor Of Yunnan and an. opponent
of the monarchy. The government
has sent 10000 troops to qnell the in.
surreetlon, which started at Yuan
Nanfu. Yunnan. The government
troops are reported still loyal to Yuan
in this province and neighborins prov
.inces are not affected.
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] PoSToFFIcE WILL BE
OPEN FOR TWO HOURS
CHRISTMAS MORNING

z The following hours will be OBJ
q served at the postoffice- tomor-
x row, Christmas Day, December
4 %: /
q The parcel post. stamp and
x general delivery windows will be
Z open from to 10 a. m. One de-
z livery will be made by letter car
x riers. Holiday collection will be
z made from street letter boxes as
4 indicated by the time cards
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