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New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
New Haven Road Ownership.
(Christian Science Monitor)


The New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad is not owned by the
big capitalists, by the big banks, by
Wall street or by State street In
round numbers, it has $4,000 stock
holders in Massachusetts, 5000 in
Connecticut, 1000 in New York, 821 in
Rhode Island, 1000 in other states,
a little over 100 abroad. OF 26,5
shareholders 1920 own from one to
ten shares, 9,6Ss own from eleven to
fifty shares. OF the total only POI
own from 500 to 1000 shares, only
144 own LOCI shares and over. This
shows plainly enough the wide dis
trtbution Of the stock; it shows elo-
quently enough, we think, the deep
concern of New England in the af-
fairs of the company. FL.
No word is uttered in any respon
sible quarter that could be construed
into criticism of the present man
agement. There is common knowl-
edge and commo on appreciation of the
difficulties besetting the new manage
m ent every side. We do not be-
lieve that a single sincere doubt exists
as to the ability, the honesty of pur-
pose, the determination of the presi-
dent Of the road Howard Elliott This
man is personally addressing trade or
carnations, chambers of commerce,
public service bodies, legislative COM
mittees, in the roads behalf. He as
sures the public that he has no lobby
and has no newspaper organs. He is
making a fight for the preservation
and protection--the very eXistence-of
one of the greatest railroads potentially
il, the country, a railroad of immea
surab]e Importance to New England and
the east. He is seeking the sup
port of the people, and it these claims
can be substantiated he should have
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides OF timely
questions as discussed In ex-
changes that come to Herald
office.
A Good Judgment of MOOnshincrs.


In the Interesting People depart
ment Of the April American Mazagine
appears an article about Judge A. M.
j. Cochran, federal judge who, a
part Of the time, sits in Breathitt
county, Kentucky-which, by the way,
is no longer bloody. However, they
still make lots of illicit whisky in
Kentucky and these moonshiners are
constantly up before Judge Cochran
who, although a just judge, treats
them like father and tries to make
them see that what they do is really
wrong and against the law. Following
is an extract from the article about
Judge Cochran:
From eight o'clock in the morning
until nearly six at night, / sat in the
court room and watched the ragged,
pathetic line of moonshiners and boot
legers go by. There was no bitterness
in their faces; rather, they were per-
picked, mystified. Why should the
government 'parsecute them for max
ing their own corn into whisky in
their own homes, any more than for
making their corn into bread in their
own ovens? Couldn't the officers ever
understand that the bad roads made
it impossible for them to get their
corn to market in any except liquid
form? A few little dollars-what was
that to big strong government? But
when your total family income for the
year is only seventy five. dollars, and
You see your corn going to waste
1T was a wearisome business. They
were SO awkward so slow in their
answers, so childlike in their mental
processes. The judge had told mo in
the morning that his head ached ter
ribly. Toward evening I expected to
see his patience break, his self-control
explode in a burst of righteous wrath
upon their tedious dullness. But no
explosion came. Long after the lights
were on he sat there, and it was still:
Come up, Henry or, Joe, you'll
have to speak a little louder or,
Now, jim, just tell the jury in your
own way how that still could be in
your corn field for six months and you
not know it
4 have been in other federal court
rooms where the judge sat behind ma
hogany amid a cathedral-like silence.
There was only a plain oak desk in
the Jackson county courthouse-and
no silence; all day long men shuffled
in and out, while witnesses and i,lr-
ors. lawyers and spectators alike spat
With studied precision upon the floor.
But there was dignity just the same
and with it a wonderfully transform
ing spirit of kindness
over against some distressing crit
lclsms Of the courts l like to place the
picture of that rude room in Bloody
Breathitt, With it's friendly central
figure at the simple desk.
Ten thousand ragged, wide-eved
men and boys have stood before
Judge Cochran in the past thirteen
Years, mumbhng their threa bare
pleas. And one might think. to hear
him calling their names, that thew
were his grownup children, and he
the moonshiners' father instead Of
the moonshiners' judge"
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
Baltimore American.

When you raise the epicurean prop
osition to the nth power and then
figure it down to an irreducible mini
mum, is there anything i'm the way
of table luxuries that comes nearer TO
being the poets dream than the
planked shad? We hope we are not
mentioning the planked shad too
early in the season. 1t is better to be
a little sooner in realizing on the
planked shad idea than q little later.
The shad is with us in a limited way
and the time to plank him is when
you can get him--or her, we should
say--for the biggest and best OF the
shad family are the roe fish, or fe-
males. AS to how to plank the shad.
see the enlightened cook books
The finest of the shad breed that
come to the Baltimore market are
generally trapped off COLCHESTER or
else come from the fisheries Just in
side the Susquehanna river. These are
the heavyweights that follow the deep
water channel and SO manage to dive
below the square miles of traps that
string for a hundred and fifty miles
UP the Chesapeake Bay from the
ocean entrance. Toward the upper re-
gion of the bay or within the river
mouths the water shoals and SO the
big ones get trapped. Last year there
was great complaint among the Upper
Bay fishermen because of the belief
that the trapping system lower down
has developed into something sD.
preaching complete b,ackadc of the
upstream movements of ocean FISH.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23

fJudd Mortimer Lewis, in Houston
pcGt)

fJudd Mortimer Lewis in Houston
Pcst.)
She slept in my bed last night SHE
said,
81 ants TO sleep in my dadd.'s bcG."
And che was told that, or course. she
might:
And when we talked in Tho fading
light
OF the dying day Thsn we gave a
call
And nowhere, out or the vord or hatl.
Came her lauehing call: and wo
looked around,
And tho baby VIC loved could not be
found!
And we were Worried somewhat. [
think;
7 nc lights of the city began TO blink.
And we looked haei of The parlor
Ind IN tho Kitchen and more AMI
We wcrc scared ard w,orreco 7 vert
upstairs
Through tho empty rooms. saw the
empty chairs
Rut in one room found a little rhoe!
Ard then I think that half way
knew!
IN another room was another shocl
So | followed the trail. anl Il went On
through
The upstairs hall to another room:
And everywhere in the twilight gloon
Was some little garment and that
trail led
Right across the world to rfer daddy's
bed!
And there she lay in a cuddlod heap.
Her head OH the pillow. and fast
asleep.
Ard she lay there and she slept right
through
The long, dark hours; and she never
knew
When her daddy came TO the bed. or
when
The dawn came and he rose again
To go his way to the distant town:
But late this morning she wandered
down
The stairs and said---such sleepy
head!-
Il like to sleep in nay daddy's bed"
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
The Steel Trade.
(New York Times. }

The report of the steel corporation
abounds in contrasts. 1t contains the
record of the highest wages for labor
and the lowest earnings for capital
OF the lowest prices and the smallest
earnings from products. Low prices
no dividends on common capital, and
high wages are trinity of bless
ings, some of them much disguised
Who is happy or who is benefited
The weak point in the philosophy of
those who would produce prosperity
by command is that things shall con-
tinue as they are, except as modified
by the order The fact is that the
beautiful simplicity of a price covers
a complex which cannot be disturbed
in any particular without disturbing
all others. If it had been possible to
increase wages and shorten hours,
and to leave all other factors as they
stood, it would have been the blessing
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
FACTS AND TANCIES.

The action of Governor Holcomb
in reappointing all of the con1pensa-
ton commissioners whose terms ex-
pre- during the governors term Of
Office has apparently taken the work
mems compensation commission out
Of politics entirely and placed the
commissioners In the class with the
common pleas court Judges who are
invariably reappointed by the COVER
nor upon the expiration Of their
terms.-Bridgeport Post
New Britain has already five claim
arts to the reward offerec Tor the APP
prehension of the Zebris murderers
and it is to be presumed that there
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
If Deathbcd Releases Are Restored.
(New York SUM

(lNeW DIX Cull.)
The workmen's compensation law
was enacted to protect the victims of
industrial accidents and their depend
ents from legal delays, greedy EN-
ployers, soulless lawyers and the
chicanery of unprincipaled adjusters.
It went on the statute books Of this
state under a mandate of the people
that revised the constitution to make
the statute possible.
After only eight months experience
and consequently before a definite
opinion as to the merits Of it's pro-
visions can be formed, the republic
can majority in the legislature has
engaged in desperate effort to
amend it in such a way as to permit
private settlemen with injured
workers and with the survivors of
those who lose their lives This
change has provoked the bitterest
charges from members Of the major
ity, and the astonishing spectacle of
an appeal to the caucus to jam
through a measure that cannot by the
widest stretch of imagination be re-
garded as political was presented In
the assembly Resort was had to
every device of terrorism known to
the legislative boss to coerce votes in
it's favor while its opponents openly
declared That the casualty insurance
companies, and no public need, had
written the new law.
We have already expressed our
opinion as to the plight of the suffer-
er or the survivor committed to the
gentle ministrations of professional
accident adjusters and the lawyers
for the employers The ancient evils
of ambulance chasing and deathbed
releases are likely to be revived. If
they are, let the lawmakers who
amended the law look to their fu-
lures: the men who fought for the
compensation law will not soon for
get the restoration of the conditions
they once successfully struggled to
escape.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
Windy March.
New York Press. }

In this day Of Jewelers. When some
of the oldest Of our institutions are
shriveling under the cold eye OF mod
ernism it is cheering to find that the
good old ashioned March wind, so
long missed, is essentially unimpaired
by criticism or the lapse of time. w e
find it flourishing today with renewed
strength and vgor, and it has been
fiourishing with great success ana
persistence all month.
We had been losing faith in the
March wind as an institution. It
seemed to be going the way of the
lion -and-the lamb tradition. March
had grown to be as temperamental
as April And April is merely tenn
peramental after the debonalr
fashion of Moliere. There was get
ting to be something Of Ibsen or the
Greek tragedians about March.
Sometimes it came in like q lamb
and went out like alligator. Again
it surged in like lion and hoWled
out like a hyena. Sometimes, as
this year, it has been difficult to tell
whether it was a badly trained lamb
or a we'll trained lion, like the me-
morable Wallace.
But by the splendid output Of
wind this month March has vindi-
Gated itself. About the first day it
began to send a clustering breeze
along and has set about keeping it
up to the mark with commendable
consistency. In fact, it was getting
IL the point where it might be over
done. when the weather bureau
came along at this late day with a
nromise soon of gentle southern
zephyrs.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23

had? Let US look back with such
charity as we can muster on mothers
and fathers of those dark ages. Now
at least we know that only a man
can instruct mother in her business;
and as for the fathers, they are about
to be sent about their business by the
superior sex.
An Interstate Baby and Child Feed
ing commission is a bawlng need !;
and we name the Hon. Harvey Wash
tngton Wiley, secretary of the de-
partner of interstate babies.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
! SPRINKLING.

that in holding up the
klfng contract, Mayor
mind looking into the
the city doing it's own
@ similar investigation
tHng the second year OF
ar3but while some inter-
Were elected there was
3nE tangible gained and the
laaving the city do the work
Auoned because there was no
seourse to take. The board of
works thought That money
be saved by purchasing tho
making a contract with some
who had horses, and thus escape
Re cost of sprinkling on rainy days
1pr Which no allowance was made in
EIhey regular contract A price was
only one bid for horses obtained in
addition to that of the Walker COM
pany, it later declining after think
ing the matter over, to enter into the
fear that it might disorganize its bus
ness. The city did not deem it feas-
bic to, purchase the horses, but it did
have in mind giving some attention
to an autom obile which was in pro-
cess of perfection for sprinkling work
and which was then being given a
tryout in a Massachusetts, city It was
expected that it would revolutionize
street. sprinkling because it would
take the place Of the car as we'll as
the carts. It was felt that New Brit
ain would eventually do it's own
sprinkling and it was believed that
while the first cost might be heavy
the work could be done cheaper in
the end.
Sprinl1ling streets is a necessary
city work and the better and more
complete the service, the better it will
be for the city and the people AS
new streets are included in the lis.,
SO must the cost increase and the
larger the bill becomes the greater
will be the desire to have the work
done by the city if it can be done at
less cost than at present Under
the present system the sprinkling is
done as we'll as it can be done by con-
tract.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23

will sbe more rather than less before
the money is paid over.-Ansonia
Sentinel
Charities which make wurk easier
Or workers more competent are the
ones which pay. Those which put a
premium on idleness may sometimes
be necessary as emergency measures
for the relief of hunger cold but
they leave the load just as heavy as
it was in the first place and probably
heavier-Norwich Record.
If killing and fracases among
negroes are excepted--and down there
small attention is paid to such mat
ters-it is perhaps true that there
is not much more of the crimes of
violence in the south than in the
north. But there is this difference.
that in the north there are few kill
ings that are not either the work of
members OF the criminal class or else
the consequences of ignorant passions
among the submerged strata Of
sCciety.-New London Day.
Just how close the people of Bridge
port are to the hearts of the duly
elected officials was demonstrated in
the recent hearing on the project to
establish a municipal ice plant This
is project endorsed by the people
twice endorsed, in fact. There never
was any question from the start but
that the people wanted It, But the
administration-ver cautions in such
to take a vote upon
II. Accordingly, the vote was taken
and the people said in q very decided
manner: Give us the ice plant. -
Bridgeport Telegram.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
WE
TRIM HATS
Free of Charge.

Do not pay to
have your hats
trimmed fer VIC
DO It for you
without any ad.
ditiona. cost, In
the latest and
most fashionable
ways by exper'
trimniers, It you
buy your sha pei
and materials OF
us.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
McMILLAN'S
KNIT
UNDERWEAR
Spring Weights
for Men, Women
and Children

Separate Garments and Union Suits
in all styles. The following lines of
reliable makes of Underwear that arc
knit to fit:
.'Carter's," "Richclicu,' ''Bedo.'
..Winchestcr Mills.'' ''Roxford,"
'POrOsknit' and b. Y. ID.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
OBJECTS.

attention to
necticut COM
ed tax on it's
posed under a
[islature. Its
tive hearing
q most novel
the corpora
during the
1g alone an d
Id be con-
ress adds that
E counsel for
b, is sound it
citizens who
pr. sidewalks,
paving ex-
It is a tax on
ed upon to
rs never TAX e
osting up the
e CITY council
en lacking up
wade taxation
ut the towns
Ike when it
e trolley com
contract for
except where
the company
Ike a contract
b between the
ide; it claims
Il through the
planned only
nd when an
5t any of those
y an infring e-
My the rights
5 oily la wyers
reply and the
e best form of
the towns is
ay it's taxes to
h it's lines run
4 have an OPP
their own and
get in taxation
e corporation
ter and more
# the taxable
ined and Their
need to be
Earnings or any
are so Otter
Interpretations
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23

@
,licans en-
public ex-
Come rather
he a matter
iould do so
be no sound
city money
IN not advisable
hccause of
IN reduced.
eiueilts de-
y ear and
pc supplied
and with a
to- date.
e budget as
finance and
nated and at
ity up where
nd good. but
it is going to
he improve
5 have. The
hs to De high
republicans
possibility for
o. the demo-
no party OBJ
+. It would
sides might
kstion and try
Democrats as
pay the tax
affect one as
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
IMPORTED FLOWER WaEA1HS, ACC

Flower Wreaths are the most stylish
trimmings of the and for this phe-
nomenal sale have collected from our
own big stock just 100 dozen of beautiful
sio0 wreaths that will go on sale for only
19c
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23
+ r. f f
TO MOTHERS

~ NItpl EllS
"Vanta" Baby Diaper Patterns
given away FREE to mothers this
week at Knit Underwear Department.
"VANTA" KNIT VESTS
No buttons to hurt the little tots.
Made in all sizes, one to six. Part
wool, all wool, silk and wool. Priced
soc to $t.OO garment.
'Vanta' Knit Bands and Bind
ers, priced 25c to 6Oc garment
..CARTER'S' MAKE
Infants Knit Vests and Bands, all
grades, priced Csc to 6Oc garment.
CHILDREN's VESTS AND PANTS.
II 1-2c. 15c and 25c Garment
CHILDREN'S UNION SUITS.
CSC and 49c Suit.
CHILDREN's "PEARL WAIST"
UNION SUITS.
Ask to see them, 49c suit. Combi-
nation of under waist and pant
WOMEN'S UNION SUITS.
Lace trimmed, special CSC. Extra
sizes, 29c.
"Richelieu,'' "Bedo,'' Garter s.
and Winchester Suits for women in
all styles. Price soc, soc, 75c, s5c
and $1.OO Suit
CUMFY CUT VESTS
IL 1-2c, 15c and CSC each.
Shaped Vests and Bodies at csc
each.
KNIT PANTS AND TIGHTS.
Lace trimmed and tight knee, Csc
each.
MEMS UNDERWEAR.
Spring weights in Shirts, Drawers
and Union Suits, priced Csc to $1.OO.
D. MCMILLAN
109-2O1-2O3 Main Street
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23

foward the press
pany does not want
law either and ging
at can get pretty near
New Britain herald., 1915-03-23

/ VIII ebe more rather than less before
the money is paid over.--Ansonia
Sentinel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-20
Search for Tin in America.

In view of the interest in an, adequate
tin supply for the United States and the
discussion of the smelling of Bolivian ore
on the Atlantic seaboard, and possibly
on Puget Sound, the publication by the
United States Geological Survey of a
special bulletin on tin mining in Alaska
is opportune. 1t is noteworthy, too, that
specimens of stream tin were collected by
Survey biologists in Alaska in 1900, be-
fore this metal was known to occur in
the Territory. Soon after that time pros
pecting for stream tin became active,
and two years later a commercial produce
ton of tin ore was made
The Survey was also closely identified
with the findings Of lode deposits of tin.
In 1903 two prospectors brought to Sur
vey biologists in Alaska some specimens
of float from Lost River which they
thought might be tin ore. All the speci-
mems but one were worthless. From this
one the biologists obtained tin by smelt-
ing it in teacup in their cookstove. after
which both the biologists and the pros
pectors went to Lost River and discov-
cred vein of lode tin. This lode on Lost
River has since been extensively mined.
Some of the Alaska tin ore has been re-
duced at Seattle, Wash, within the last
two years.
The report just issued presents a re-
view Of other work by the Geological
Survey and the denomination OF the
more important tin deposits by Geolo-
gist Henry NJ. Eakin.
The total tin production for the period
1902-1914 amounted to 526 tons of metallic
tin. valued at $3s0.o00. The Alaskan tin
ores have heretofore been shipped for
reduction to Swansea (Wales) and Singa-
pore. copy of, the report bulletin
622-B} may be obtained on application to
the Director, United States Geological
Survey, Washington. D. c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-20
WILSON CASTS
HIS BALLOT FOR
WOMAN'S RIGHTS

Washington, Oct. 19.-President VIII
son returned to Washington tonight
from Princeton after casting the first
ballot ever given by Chief Executive
Of the United States in favor Of wom-
an suffrage.
The Presidents brief visit to his le-
gal residence was marked by a more
enthusiastic welcome from the Prince
ton students than ever before had been
given him on any of his numerous
trips there since he entered the White
House.
Woman suffragists were not so
much evident during the Presidents
visit and only two approached him to
thank him for voting for their cause.
The President put in a hard days
work going to and coming from
PRINCETON. He spent several hours on
the train with his stenographer dictat-
ing answers to letters. He also work
ed on the note to Great Britain re-
garding interference with American
trade which was sent him from the
State department some time ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-20
Who'll ESALE EXECUTIONS after
GERMAN ROUNDUP OF SPIES
and SUSPECTS IN BELGIUM

Ionaon. Oct, N.-2.5 A. M.-Recently
there has been sweeping roundup OF
spies and suspects of various kinds by
the German authorities in Belgium. ac-
cording to messages reaching LONDON
from the Dutch frontier. 1t IS SAID there
have been hundreds of arrests ana scores
of executions The roundup 1olo"eo
the beginning of the Anglo-French &C
tiyity on the western front. q.
Gen. Won Kissing issued long pro-
clamation containing references to at
tempts by Belgians to endanger the saIe-
ty Of the German army" and threaten
ing penalties of the utmost severity
against anv person detected committing
oefense against the specially devised
code regulations for the conouct Vi q
villains. s y
Immediately after this proclamation
cane a series Of, wholesale arrests IN
various parts Of the country. anciuolns
MANY persons Of high social standing,
who were accused either OF espionage
= assisting in the escape Of Belgian.
French or English persons. Ihere Ao =.
lowed also, it is said, numerous MI
itary trials for the arrested ciVinans'
the result Of which is known IN only
. few cases.
Miss cavsIPs Execution
virtually no details Of the execution
cf Miss Edith CavelI. the English wo-
man who had been the head Of train.
ing school H. Brussels, who was charg-
ed with harboring English. French
and RelgiaEs and assisting the INTO