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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
.CAYLORB, NOTED INVENTOR, DIES KEEPING SECRET Octogenarian Had Method of Moulding Amber Which None Could Solve. WOULD IMPART HIS
 SECRET TO NONE Aged Man For Many Years Was Conspicuous Figure
 in Lock Manufacture.

Edward L. Gaylord, inventor of a method of moulding amber by ma chinery, died this morning at his home, 9O5 Lafayette street, this city, with out having imparted the secret of his invention to anyone. He had been i'll for the past year and often during this time had said that it would be impossible to tell anyone how to do the work, that he must show them, and at times when he felt we'll enough to demonstrate how it was done, he never could find anyone, to whom he cared to inpart the secret. He was satisfied at the last that the secret should die with him..
 He had been very successful in the
 moulding of amber, and had made articles of this expensive material for many prominent people, among wh om was the late J. sPierpont Morgan. He had great success in moulding large artistic figures of this material.
 MT. Gaylord had been an inven- tor from boyhood, and his inventions were in many varied lines He was born in Bristol in 1927, the son of Ransom and ParmeIa, A1cott Gaylord. Mrs. Gaylord was the sister of Bron- son Alcott, father of Louisa Alcott, and Mrs. Gaylord was always very many tales to tell of his friendship with her.
 When four years of age he moved with his parents to central New York riding from Albany to Schenectady on the first passenger railroad operated in this country He learned. clock making in this part of the country, and at the age of 19 returned to Con necticut and went to work cIock-mak- ing in Wolcott for Kirk & Todd.
 Dropping this, after few. years, MT. Gaylord went to work at the lock- smith trade at Terryville which he followed until 1850 when he was sent to Newark,zN zN. J., by James Terry & Co. to make iron frames for carpet bags from pattern designs of his own The development of many railroads had made. a large demand for these travelling valises. This business was very successful.
 Later, Mr.. Gaylord was brought back to Terryvi11e< to take charge of the flower lock shop of the Eagle Lock Coz Then followed many new designs in locks and labor saving de vices in manufacture the product of Mr Gaylord's fertile brain. The most notable Sof these inventions was the device for squaring lock plates and the machine for drilling keys, the lat ter turning out 12 ,000 keys a day and running 15 years without repairs During MT. Gaylord's superintendency, he took out patents for some so prac ticab1e inventions all of which were turned over ito the Eagle Lock Co.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
REMINGTON 60.
 PLACES ORDER
 FOR 50 HOUSES
Two-Family Residences in East End Will Be Rushed
 to Completion.

Orders for immediate construction of 50 new houses in addition to the A now being built on East avenue have been placed with the Stewart Con erected in Bishop avenue and are ex- pected to De ready for occupancy by Christmas.
 A canvass of the city of Bridgeport. conducted by Frank E. Blake, head Of the real estate department of the Remington Arms & Ammunition com pany and the Remington U. M c. company, shows that with doubling up" practiced here all the influx of employees into this city may be cared for.
 .sThe greatest trouble we are hay ing" said MT Blake, .'is the care for women, and that subject is giving us much worry for there is little prOvis- ion here for their maintenance under moral Conditions.
 ',The Remington Arms & Ammuni- ton company have Scorps of women investigators about the city. They have already visited thousands of homes and have been able to induce the occupants who never before took lodgers, to accommodate the surplus of residents in this crisis
 Women have hard time ehere," said MT. Blake They come here and hunt and hunt for places to lay their heads Our investigators have a list of homes but many people object to housing the women and. local institu- tions are unable to care for them. The best illustration of this is the fact that one of our office girls came here last Saturday. She is an eminent1y refined girl of whom we have known for years. Though she reached Bride port at noon and was aided by our people it was after nine o'clock at night when she got accommodations
 we are building 50 new hodses on Bishop avenue in addition to the 24 already begun. These are for our foremen.
 q believe that with the present sys- tenn in force and the 'doubIing-up process already in vogue whereby two persons will occupy room instead of one Bridgeport will take care of our people. It must be done, but the. wo- men proposition is giving up the most 'difhculty.,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
RUMANIA EXPECTED
 TO JOIN ALLIES. SOON

London, Nov. 2-Public interest is divided. today between Premier As guith's speech in the House of Conn mons and Rumania's reported inten- tions to throw her lot with the en- tente allies. News coming by way of Paris tends to support the growing impression that Runania is prepar- ing to intervene in the war
 By royal decree new classes of Elu- rlanianA recruits are being mobilizsd. Vienna. reports that '' a grave situa- tions' may arise between Austria, and Rumania in connection with the pro- posed use of the lower Danube to transport Russian troops to Bulgaria Little news comes direct from Bu- charest as the censorship is enforced so strictly that even ordinary mes sages are stopped but it is known the agitation in favor of war is spread ing through the army.
 The Austrian, German and Bulgar- ian armies are drawing the net more closely about Nish. In the south the French assert they have inflicted com siderable losses on the Bulgarianss who are reported to have been thrown back on the right bank of the Vardar-
 The only political development of note in the Balkans is change of tone in the ministerial press of Athens which is publishing apparent ly inspired articles or a nature friend ly to the entente allies although still insisting Greece must maintain her polfcy)of benevolent neutrality.
 Definite reports concerning the progress of the new German attack on Riga are lacking.
 Russia's active participation in the Balkans may have b~gun inasmUch as Bucharest reports that Russian troops have been landed at Varna. This Bulgarian port is said to be defended by Turks commanded by German of ficers.
 The English public awaits with keen interest Premier Asquith's speech in the House of Commons. It is eKpect- ed to be not only a review of recent diplomatic and military activities but a defense of the coalition cabinets conduct of the war
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
CONNECTICUT CO. ASKS
 COURT TO PAVE WAY FOR
 TURNOUT IN STAMFORD.

The Connecticut Co. has applied to the superior court to ask that an in junction obtained by the city of Stam- ford, October 27 last, be dissolved. This injunction was obtained from Deputy Judge Brinckenof of the Stamford city court. It restrained the company from having a turnout in Stamford. The Connecticut Go. claimed it had received permission from the Stamford common council in 1912 to lay the turnout and later
 after $1,5OO had been expended for doing the work, the council had re- scinded it's action.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
ROMANS IN PRAYER
 FOR SOLDIER DEAD

Rome, Nov. "A colossal cross erected for All Souls Day in the ceua- etery where Romans who have fallen in battle are buried, was covered to- day with floral offerings contributed by throngs of mourners. The newly made graves also W ere banked high with flowers.
 A concession granted by Pope Ben edict permitted all priests to celebrate three masses as on Christmas Days one of them being designed by the Pontiff especially for the thousands who have died upon the field of bat tie without the comfort of religion Another was for the dead in general. All Saints Cemetery was crowded with persons at prayer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
SEVENTEEN HURT IN EXPLOSION IN
 POWDER FACTORY

Wilmington, Del, Nov. 2.-Seventeen men were badly injured today by a heavy explosion of a large quantity of powder at No.i plant of the Du Pont powder works at Carney's Point, N. J.
 Most of them were brought across the Delaware river to this city in the company's boats and taken to hospi- tals.
 It is said that the explosion was of a carload of white cannon powder, but the serious results were not so much from the explosion as it occurred in Q large room, as from the vivid flash of fire that enveIoped the premises.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
WIFE,DEAD, CELL
 DOOR IS OPENED
 TO BANK LOOTER
Walker, Serving Long Prison Term, Allowed to Visit
 New Britain Home.
AT SIDE OF COFFIN
 FOR NEARLY AN HOUR
Makes Trip to and From WethersfieId Under Guard
 of Deputy Warden.
Special to The Farmer.)

New Britain, Nov. 2.-Temporarily paroled from the state prison, where he is serving a long term for footing the Savings Bank of New Britain, of which he was treasurer, William F. Walker today came to his home where his aged wife lay dead.
 Mrs. Walker died Sunday, and the funeral was held late this afternoon
 Under special permission of the state board of parole, Walker left Wethersffeld this morning to pay a last tribute to his helpmeet. So far as could be learned, she had never visited him in prison since he began serving his sentence in 1908.f
 Walker~was accompanied by a dep uty warden. His movements in town were guarded with secrecy and mem- bers Of the family even denied his presence here.
 Walker remained for about an hour at his home. Most of that time he was at the side of his wife's coffin. He was taken back to his cell this af- ternoon.
 Mrs. Walker was Cornelia Sloper She was 72 years old and died Sunday after long illness.
 Walker was sent to prison in 1908 for the embezzlement of half a mill lion dollars from the Savings Bank of New Britain. His sentence was from one to twenty years.
 His arrest in a mining camp in Mex leo, after a worldwide search, re- vealed the fact that most of the mon ey he embedded had been lost to wire workers. It developed later that Walker often had meetings in a Bridgeport hotel with members of the famous Gondorf gang who had robbed him of hundreds of thousands by vari- ous .twire'' games. sI
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
CROWN PRINCE IS DEAD,
 ROME REPORTS

Turin, Nov. 2-Crown Prince Fred erick William of Germany, is dead, according to a Rome despatch to the Gazetta Del Poppolo, whose cores pondent asserts he was informed by a diplomat accredited to the Vatican that the news came to the secretary of state in a cipher message from the papaI nuncic at Vienna, NTonsignor Scapinneli. The diplomat is said to have refused further details but to have assured the correspondent the news was authentic,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
Sterling Held For
 Reckless Driving
 After Auto Mishap

Mrs. Mary Williams. 622 State street, who was knocked down and cut about the face and head yesterday as an automobile got beyond control of the driver and ran her down on the side walk near West avenue and State street, is recovering in Bridgeport hos pital. The driver, Samuel Sterling, aged 70, 4,O42 Main street, has been remanded to answer a charge of reck- less driving upon Mrs. Williams ap pearance in court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
BRITISH TORPEDO
 BOAT SUNK AFTER
 HITTING STEAMER
Rams Mercantile Fleet A uxiIiary and Goes to BOt- tom at Gibraltar Feared That Officers and Most of Crew Are DrOwned-Germans Make Gains on Serbian and Riga Battle Lines

London Nov. 2The British Admiralty this afternoon nounced that the British torpedo boat No 96 Gb- raltar yesterday after being in collision.
 "Torpedo Boat Mo- 96 Chief Sumner, R. the official statement, was yesterday of Gibraltar after collision with mercantile auxiliary Two officers and nine reported missing and is fa ed they drowned
 The No 96 built tHventy-one years feet long and her displacement 3O She had three
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
DOUBLE TRACKING
 OF DANBURY LINE
 IN CITY ORDERED

Hartford, Nov. 2-At a conference today between the Public Utilities Commission and representatives of the Connecticut Go, and the Bridgeport and Danbury Trolley Co. it was agreed that the Connecticut Go. should con- struct double tracks to take care of increased traffic and. that traffic agreement should be entered into by the two companies. There has been complaint of inadequate service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
HARBoR NOTES.

A still northwest wind blowing this afternoon kicked up a squalI on the sound, driving many tows into the harbor. Several tows of barges bound east did not leave today.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
Germans Advance on Two Lines

Berlin, Nov 2Gacak, ah important railroad junction point in Serbia about 30 miles southwest been occupied Teutonc engaged vasion, it officially announced today
 The advance Riga from the has ther progress, the office also announced today.
 In the Dvinsk region fierce fighting is under way. The Russians undertaking strong offensive pulsed with heavy losses.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
U, s. DESTROYERS
 ARE DAMAGED IN COLLISION TODAY

New York, Nov. 2-The torpedo boat destroyer O'Brien collided with the torpedo boat destroyer >Drayton, anchored off Quarantine, today carry ing away the main topnIast wireless gear and stays on the Drayton.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-02
THE WEATHER

Fair and colder tonight and EVcd4 nesdiay. Fresh west to northwese winds
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
a PERISH In FLAMES
WIFE AND CHILDREN OF GEN.
PERSHING DIE IN FIRE.
U. S. Army Officers Family Burn to
Death in Their Preside Bar
racks Home.

San Francisco, Aug. go. - Mrs.
Frances Warren Pershing. wife of
Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing, U. S. A,
and three of her four children were
suffocated to death in their quarters
on Friday at the Preside of San Fran
cisco.
Their bodies were badly burned.
Mrs. Walter o. Boswell, a relative,
and her two children escaped, as did
Warren Pershing, five years old, and
three servants. The dead children
are Helen, Anne and Margaret, all
under eight years old.
Mrs. Pershing was a daughter of
Senator Warren of Wyoming. Her
husband, commanding the Eighth
brigade, U. S. infantry, is at Ell Paso,
Tex, in charge of the border troops.
Ell Paso, Tex, Aug. 30.-News of
the death of Mrs. Pershing and three
of her children reached Gen. John ].
Pershing, commander of the Eighth
infantry brigade here, through Asso-
ciated Press dispatches. Gen. Perish
ing was overcome by the tragedy.
He had been preparing home for his
family, which he expected would leave
San Francisco for Ell Paso this week
He said he would leave Immediately
for San Francisco.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
JOHN D. LONG PASSES AWAY
Secretary of the Navy Under McKin-
ley and Former Governor of
Massachusetts Succumbs.

bingham, Mass, Aug. 31.-John D.
Long, former secretary of the navy,
and former governor of Massachusetts,
died at his home here on Saturday.
Mr.. Long returned from a trip to
Maine suffering from an intestinal
trouble. John D. Long was secretary
of the navy during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. Mr.. Long was called to the
head of the navy department when
President Mckinley took Office in
March, 1897, and also served a year in
the cabinet Of President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Long was born in Buckfeld, Me-,
in 1888. Settled in Boston after his
graduation from Harvard, he served
four terms in the state legislature;
was three terms speaker of the house;
was lieutenant governor, and IN 1879
defeated Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, the
Democratic candidate for governor,
by a plurality of $4,000 He was twice
reelected with large pluralities, and
sent to congress for three terms.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
w. K. GREENEBAUM INDICTED
General Manager Charged With Man.
slaughter in Connection With the
Sinking of the Eastland.

Chicago, Aug. 3O.-Walter K.
Greenebaum was indicted for man
slaughter in connection with the sink
ing of the steamer Eastland, in true
bill returned by the July grand jury
on Friday. Greenebaum is general
manager of the Indiana Transporta-
ton company, chaItorer of the East
land. Six federal officials OF the
steamboat inspection service escaped
indictment only because the Jurors
were advised they could not be sue
cessfully prosecuted in the state
courts.
These are the government officials
the jury believed culpable for the
Eastland disaster:
Inspectors Robert Reid, G. G. Eek
lift, Ira B. Mansfield and William Mich
olas. and Checkers H. G. Oakley and
l.. A. Lobdell.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
BATTLE HIGH IN THE AIR
italians and Austrians Fight Hand-to-
Hand Combat on Edge of
Precipices.

Rome, Sept. lighting on the
edge of precipices and engaging in
hand-to-hand cOmbats on crags high
in the air, the Italians soldiers at
tempting to take the Austrian posi-
lions on Monte Rombon, in the upper
Isonzo region, are slowly but steadily
gaining ground, according to a dis
patch received from Udine
The Alpine troops have already as
cended the mountain for 5000 feet
but the Austrians hold the summit
1000 feet above. An entire company
of Alpine troops was swept away Sat
urday when the Austrians loosened
an avalanche of rocks.
Another company narrowly es-
capped the same fate, but these men
assembled the steep path made by
the avalanche and gained 1000 feet
before the Austrians were able to
check them with their rifle fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
SEE PLOT IN MILL FIRES
Government Starts an Investigation
of Destruction of Munitions
Factories.

Washington, Sept. THAT a we'll
organized plot exists to destroy NUM-
ton factories that are turning out
supplies for the allies is the belief of
officials here who have been investi-
eating the various German propaganda
charges.
The wrecking of the American Pow
der cOmpany's glazing mill at Acton,
Mass, which will tie up that plant for
several weeks; destruction of a black
powder mill at Upper Hedley. a sub
urb of Wilmington. Del. with the
death of two men. following close on
explosions and fires at half a dozen
other points during the last week are
considered far more than mere CO.
medicines. And. although officials re-
fuse point-blank to discuss the matter,
it was learned from an unimpeachable
source that an investigation already
has been started
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
GEORGE ADLER ARRESTED
Wealthy Bank Director of Forest City,
Ark, Charged With Forgery and
Attempted Murder.

Waukesha.-A dispatch from st.
Louis, Mo-, says:
A man, said by detectives, to be j.
w. Bernhard, a GA year old wealthy
bank director of Forest City, Ark,
was arrested here on warrants charg'
ing him with forgery and attempted
murder, issued at Waukesha, Wis. Ac'
cording to detectives the prisoner has
confessed to forgeries. The detectives
say their prisoner, under the name Of
George Adler, was arrested for first
degree forgery in Waukesha last JaDu
airy, after he had attempted to obtain
q loan on a fraudulent warrant deed
With three other prisoners, he ESCAPED
from jail Aug. 18, by calling the jailOr
to the door of their cell and beating
him into insensibility. The prisoner
the detectives say, had led a double
life, the details of which he had con-
fessed to them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
Water Power in Ireland.

A somewhat extensive water-power
scheme in Ireland, according to the
Irish Industrial Journal, involves the
combination of two powerhouses
utilizing the waters of the Shannon
and Erne, and capital expenditures
amounting to 21,500,00O. The drain
age area OF the Shannon is 5000
square miles, and the average dis.
charge is given as 100000 cubic feet
minute at an available head of 40
feet, equivalent to some $4,000 horse
power, all the year round. 1t is pro-
posed to utilize Loughs Derg, Rea and
Allen as storage reservoirs. The
catchment area of the Erne is almost
half that of the Shannon, but head
of so feet is said to be available. Com
paratively little in the way of dams
would be required, although consider
able dredging would be necessary be-
low the fall, and conduit would be
needed. 1t is proposed to establish
transmission lines to Dublin, Cork,
Waterford, Kilkenny, and other cen
tiers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
RUSS FLEE GRODNO FORTRESS
Military Property Being Removed,
Says Dispatch-OIita Stronghold
Is Taken.

Petrograd, Aug. 30-Grodno is be-
ing excavated. Only sufficient troops
to delay the German advance are now
in the fortress. Military property has
been removed.
Olita, a Russian fortress guarding
the Niemen river between Kovno and
Grodno, has been captured by the
Germans, the general staff reported
at Berlin. The fall of this city, on the
bank Of the Niemen, opens the way
for another drive toward Wilma, to the
northeast, and Grodno, to the south.
For the second time the German ad-
miralty issued a statement at Berlin
declaring that the Russian admiralty
claim that the battle cruiser Moltke
and other German warships had been
destroyed in the Gulf of Riga, is a
fake"
mo such battle took place." the ad-
miralty said
The Russians allege that they cap
tured some German ships. They prob
ably mean those steamers captured
by the Germans and sunk to block the
passage"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
BANDIT HOLDS UP AGENT
Lone Robber Covers Milwaukee Road
Night Operator With Pistol and
Makes $547.44 Haul.

Oconomowoc.-A lone robber held
up the Milwaukee road depot here and
got away with $47.44 in cash and about
$500 in pay checks. He missed SIPS
in a sack.
With a pistol pointed at his head,
Earl Campbell was forced to stand
with his hands up while the robber,
who was unmasked, rifed the office
Campbell, who is third trick man, went
outside while the 1870 train came in,
and when he re-entered the office the
robber stepped out from behind a
stove and covered him with his pistol
Mr.. Campbell went on duty at
o'clock in the morning. He relieved
William Guttschall, second trick man.
Guttschall placed the $125 missed by
the robber in a sack.
The bandit was about 5 feet 7
inches in height, about 20 years DID,
and well dressed He wore a dark
blue suit and blue cap.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
IN RETREAT
ITALIANS PUSHING FOE BACK AT
TWO POINTS.
Teutons Blow Up Bridges and Destroy
Railroads as They Retire-Storm
Monte Rombon.

Milan, Aug. 30.-The Austrians are
in full retreat at two points. One is in
the Val Sugana, where they are blow
ing up bridges and viaducts and de-
stroying all roads and railways as
they retire. The other is in the re-
gion of the upper Isonzo, where the
Italian Alpini are wrestling an impor-
tant mountain summit from the Aus
trian grip.
The latest official reports show that
the Italians are now we'll advanced
beyond Plezzo and are attacking the
summit of Monte Rombon, 5000 feet
high, which overlooks the valley of
the Coritenza, tributary of the Ison-
20, and also commands the highway
that eliminates in Predil pass at a
height of $500 feet and thence de-
sends into the Zebach valley, where
the Italians captured positions about
a week ago.
The Austrians are in a precarious
position at Jarvis, as well as at Tolmi-
no and Goritz, not to mention the
strong series Of defenses they lost in
the Val Sugana.