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Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
MARKET WAS LISTLESS.
A Combination of Foreign and Domes- tic Selling Resulted in Variable Changes.

New York, Dec. 13.-Washington's S firm attitude toward Vienna regarding the sinking of the Ancona furnished the most likely reason for today's list less and heavy market A combina- ton of foreign and domestic selling, the latter largely from professional sources, resulted in variable changes, mainly downward.
 In it's efforts to depress prices the trading element again concentrated it's attacks upon United States Steel and such other leaders as the Pacific group of rails, also Reading and Baltimore and Ohio Declines in these issues extended from one to two points. New York Central was the only noteworthy exception to the lower levels reached by rails.
 Among high-priced SpecialtieS American Tobacco was the weak fea- ture, sustaining an extreme loss of 9 points at 200, with sympathetic de- clines in kindred issues. Peoples Gas of Chicago dropped 3-4 to 112 and the more prominent war shares were 2 to 5 points lower. Bethlehem Steel, on one sale dropped 16 points to 455, and the preferred lost , at 150. Later Bethlehem common rallied to 469.
 General Motors, common and pre- ferred, Studebaker and Texas Com pany, the latter selling "eX-dividend, D constituting the only strong features of the session, which lapSed into com plete stagnation and lowest prices in the final hour. Feeble recOveries from minimums were registered at the close Total sales amounted to 000 shares
 A development of broad financial in terest was the decline in exchange on Germany to 77 1-2, the lowest rate quoted since the outbreak of the war and probably in the history of banking relations between this center and Der lin. All other forms of foreign remit tanceS were lower.
 Cables announcing the intention of the British chancellor of the ex- chequer to purchase American securi- ties, paying for them in five-year } per cent. treasury bonds, confirmed recent reports of a general "mobiliza- ton" of such securities now held in Great Britain. The effect of this manoeuvre seems to have been partly discounted in the recent recurrence of foreign liquidation.
 Anglo-F'renCh bonds repeated last weeks low price of 94 3-4 for future delivery, while cash trades were ef- fected at 98 and regular way" 96 IA The general bond list was under con- stant pressure. Total sales, par value aggregated S2,99O,00O
 United States registered fours ad- vanced 1-2 per cent. on call
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
Brown & Perkins,
BAKER PREFERS FARM.
Home Run King Likes Quiet Life in MaryIand-Heavy Hitter Has Coin.

Home Run" Baker won't leave his farm. He prefers the simple life to base hits and the plaudits of the crowd.
 Though possibly the only ball play CT of this or any other generation to achieve such a frame of mind Baker is thoroughly satisfied with his bank account as 1t now stands. In a few short seasons on the diamond he earn ed-or. otherwise acquired-money enough to afford him a comfortable living all the rest of his life.
 And, feeling that his entire future is well provided for, he does not relish the idea of leaving home for extended periods for no other purpose than to add to his possessions.
 Baker Once Was Poor.
 When Baker broke into the Ameri- can league years ago he carried all his worldly wealth on his back, and he wasn't especially well dressed even for a busher. The home he had left behind him was just the ordinary farmhouse of the poor East Coast Maryland farmer, mortgaged to the last shingle. Now he has one of the finest places in his township. set in the middle of nine-acre yard, with a 200-acre farm just across the road. He owns every nail, every last stone on the place, goes sashaying round the country in his own motor and has a comfortable balance in the bank
 His farm is in itself a. well paying proposition and has returned a, better profit this year than any previous year, probably because Baker, who never has been anything but farmer at heart, personally directed the sowing cultivation and harvesting of his crops. In addition to which, Baker seems to have derived cOnsidera ble revenue from his adventures among the Up land leaguerS and from other baseball sources.
 Swatter Has Bank Roll.
 Playing three or four times a week. Baker is said to have averaged in the neighborhood of $1,200 a month for the five months of the past season. For the $6,000 so gathered he played only three or four times a week, and in the gathering never had to journey so far that he could not be home by the cool of the evening, said to be by far the most salubrious hour of the day in that section of the country
 All this Baker explained to Captain Huston and Bill Donovan when he had luncheon with them at Wilmington one day last week. He named the figures involved in the offer made by not in excess of what the Yankee mogul is prepared to lavish on Baker if the homerun person could be talked into a bit of enthusiasm over the na- lIoLdl pdstlne as It IS perpetuated by the American league.
 Considerable RebuttaI.
 But when the Tanks tried to pin him down to what the captain consid- cred a reasonable contract, Baker had his farm in the cool of the evening his motor car and his three four times-a week baseball at from $500 to $400 a time to use in rebuttaI of the captains best arguments.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

homie suggestions. Just after the ses- sion was concluded President Barrow said: The International league has weathered every storm safely and to- day it is in a sound condition, sound CT, in fact, than it might be expected after such a bad baseball year."
 The National league meeting will be held here tomorrow and club owners and managers from Chicago, Pitts burgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Boston and Brooklyn were on hand early to- day. None of the Philadelphia or New York club officials had put in an ap- pearance at the meeting place up to a late hour tonight
 Captain Huston of the New York club and President Lannin of Boston, will leave here early tomorrow to at tend the annual meeting of the Amer tcan league at Chicago on Wednes- day.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
Harvard Athletic Statistics.

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 13.-Harvard athletic statistics issued today show that 1,623 students have engaged in major and minor sports so far this year, the largest number in the his tory of the university. The increase was 299 over last year. Football proved the most popular, with 365 names en- rolled, while PAT athletes went out for track games and 252 played tennis.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
DOINCS IN THE AUTO WORLD
There Are AS Automobile Factories Scattered About the Country-Hints to Driver When Car Skids-Hghway Commissioner Bennett Has Made Arrangements for Color Route Code for Man-travelled Highways in the State.

The proposed federal tax on auto mobiles to be levied at the factory on basis of horse power in the machine has brought to the front the question of the location of automobile manu- factories as respects the various states. The impression has gone forth that the manufacture was centered in a very few states and that in the consideration of the tax congressman from states not interested in auto mobile manufacture would cheerfully wish the burden on the "other fel- low.''
 Following are the latest statistics on the distribution of motor vehicle factories. There are AS companies and these are scattered through thir- ty-four states. Michigan leads in the number of factories, with New York second. There are seven manufactor- ies in this state. Generally speaking there are not many factories in the south and west. The table:
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

ing son of Bingen. 2.O6 If, owned by G. K. Slough, Abingdon, H., is repre- scented in the list of new performers of 1915 by three new ones. viz: Alix Merrfman (3), 2.11 1-4: Edith Merri- man (3). 2.20 1-4; Mabel Merriman CD, 2.30.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
Frank Laporte. former second base

man of the St. Louis Browns and New ark Feds, will be with the Brooklyn Tip Tops this season. He was part of the deal by which Tom Seaton went to Newark last fall in the trade for Cy CT was delayed until after the season
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
EmeraIds Play at TaftviIIe.

Manager Roy of the Taftville team has secured the Willimantic Emeralds for this evenings game in Parish hall, Taftville. The Windham five has strong aggregation and as they have already a victory over the Taftville boys they expect to duplicate.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

Anselila CD. 2.17 1-2, the champion yearling trotting lilly. has been pur- chased by Lewis Titus, the new pro- prietor of Stony Ford farm, for a price said to have been S5.OOO.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

The fast youngster, Morning Gossip CD, 2.19 1-2, by Elastic Pointer, 2.06 1-2. now owned by Jerry Buckley, Boonville, N. J., will be raced in fast company next year. report has it.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

Pat Moran, pilot of the National league champions, will meet President Baker at the National league meeting in New York next week, and it is prob able that the final touches will at that time be put to Pats 1916 contract.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

Jack London. POT 1-4, by Constenaro, 2.16 1-4. will be a recruit to the racing forces on Chamounix speedway, Phil adelphia, the coming summer
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
HORSE NOTES.

The Exponent, 2.11 3-4, leads all other descendants of Bingeh, 2.06 1-4, for his age. and. for that matter, the entire Electioneer family.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
MON EY.
New Yo

New York, Dec. 13. - Call money steady; high 2; low 1 3-4; ruling rate 3-4: last loan 2; closing bid 1 3-4; offered at ?.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
COTTON.
NoU vo

New York, Dec. 13.-Cotton futures closed steady. December 11.90, Janu- ary 12.16, March 12.42. May 12.65, July 12.75. Spot quiet; middling 1915.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
When a machine has been used sew

When a machine has been used sew eral years the tie rod between the wheels will become loose from wear. This play is generally in the threaded parts and operation may be dangerous. A simple repair can be made by drill ing through the yoke and rod and in serting a taper pin. This is not perm anent, however, as the parts are sub jeCt to great strain and the pin will soon wear. If the parts were brazed or welded together the aligning ad- justment would be lost: Remove the rod from the yoke and heat it to a high temperature. A mandrel a trifle larger diameter than the hole should be driven inside. This will materi- ally expand the metal Should tine outside diameter be too great, the rod can be placed in a lathe and the threads recut.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

paste which poisoned me. My face broke out with pimples and they itched and burned so that I was obliged to scratch. The irritation was so great that I could not sleep at night and my face was dis1gured.
 "I tried all kinds of
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

Highway Commissioner Charles J. Bennett has made final arrangements to begin work on the establishment of a color route code for the designa- tion of the main- travelled highways in the state. This week employees of the department will commence the work of painting the signs and the estab- ishment of danger signals. The col ors will be blue, red and yellow. The work will be done under the general supervision of George E. Hamlin of the highway department. The signs will be painted on telegraph poles and other places and danger signals will be fastened to posts, about 2,000 in all. These signals will be placed at railroad crossings and at cross roads where there is danger of accident The officials of the department will not es- tablish any signs in cities as the de- partment's Jurisdiction is limited to towns.
 The system adopted is known as the tri-color-red designating east and west routes, blue, noth and south and yellow. diagonal or secondary routes.
 Have a heart in caring for your storage battery" The constant spin ming of stiff motor on cold morn ing Is not the healthiest kind of eX- ercise for any battery. Yet many motorists thoughtlessly allow their batteries to run down in this manner with the result that not infrequent use of the hand cank becomes neces- sary.
 The observance of the Following simple instructions. provided by an expert, will prevent cold weather starting and lighting troubles and en- able the motorist to get the most out of his battery and prolong its life.
 One of the surest methods of pre- venting storage battery abusein cold weather" says the expert, lis to adopt some convenient means of priming the engine. Most cars today are equipped with devices for choking the carbure- ter to obtain a richer mixture for easier starting. Another excellent agent for priming is acetylene, which when fed into the intake manifold murnishes a ready made fuel while the carbureter is waking up.
 While these precautions will pre-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
Skiddinq generally takes place (

Skidding generally takes place on a surface on which traction is difficult, such as a wet pavement. Usually the rear end of the care swings in semi circle, while the front end re- mains practically stationary and acts as pivot. The speed of the car most often determines the violence of the skid. it being not unusual for fast moving car to swing completely around, sometimes making two or more complete revolutions. If the car maintains its equilibrium, the result, is nothing more than fright and strain to the parts, but if it loses it's bal ance then it will turn turtle, and, in the majority of cases, kill or seriously injure the occupants and maybe by islanders.
 While wet surfaces induce skidding. the fault can generally be traced to the driver. If he suddenly throws in the clutch while the power is applied, and tightly, or turns corner too sharply then the car is more than likely to skid, with results as afore- mentioned.
 For the effect of the clutch sud- denly thrown in or out, look to the railroad engine. If the engineer ap- plies at once all the power under his control on slippery rails the wheels spin without gaining traction. The effect is practically the same on the automobile. except that there are no rails to keep the car steady. When the brakes are applied sud- denly, the effect is the reverse of the foregoing. The wheels cannot se- cure a purchase on the slippery road, and the momentum of the car throws it out of balance and swings the rear end around.
 The effect of turning corners too sharply is different from the other two cases. In turning a corner the outside wheels must turn faster than the wheels nearest the inner curb. and | consequently, traction is reduced on the inner wheels, the result being that the car will continue to travel in a straight line In this case all four wheels skid.
 Among other causes for skidding | are an unequal division of the load weight in the car body, uneven grip ping of the brakes, and an unequal distribution of power.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
P|MPLES ON FACE
 FOR FIVE YEARS
Itched and Burned. Obliged to Scratch. Could Not Sleep. Face Dishgured. Used Cuticura for Six Weeks. Face Now Clear.

515 Division St., Fall River, Mass.-"I was troubled with pimples on the face for five years caused by working where we used
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

vent needless battery abuse in cold weather, be sure to see that the stor- age battery is always charged. There is no danger of a fully charged bat tery freezing. Test the specific gray ity at least once every two weeks by means of a hydrometer. The read ing should be between 1,250 and 1900 all the time. When the specific grav- ity is low run the motor at generating speed for two or three hours or have a battery charged at a competent bat tery service station.
 When the storage battery is not in actual use it requires just as thought full care as when it is performing it's standing idle is constantly discharg- ing itself.
 Therefore when laying the car up for the winter arrange to give the storage battery at least once a month attention yourself or leave it in the hands of competent battery service station.
 Tn order to prevent freezing the storage battery should be kept in a fully charged condition. When re- moved from the car it should be given a refreshening charge at once and every month thereafter. also a thorough charge after an idle period before it is returned to service.
 ITO determine the condition of the storage battery 1t is necessary to take a hydrOmeter reading at least once a month. Ie the specific gravity read ing is 1.250 or 1900 the battery is fully charged and will not freeze. If the reading is 1.12O the battery is completely discharged and will freeze at 20 degrees above zero. If the read ing is 1.160 it is more than half dis charged and will freeze at zero. If the reading is 1.210 it is half dis charged and will freeze at 20 degrees below zero. If the reading is 1.260 it is one-quarter discharged and will freeze at 50 degrees below zero.
 When taking hydrometer readings make sure that the solution (electrO- lyte) is up to the proper level, that is, covering the plates. If not add distilled water and run the motor for at least two hours, then tske another hydrometer reading.
 The battery must be kept in a dry place, where the temperature is known not to go below 20 degrees above zero, yet away from any exces- sive heat. Do not store the battery or anything else being laid across the top.
 Battery service stations will store your battery through the winter u1onths, give it a freshening charge every thirty days, take hydrometer readings, etc, for a nominal monthly fee.
 The observance of the above sug- dciency and enable you to get the ing system every month in the year
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
Measures to correct the threatened

WtdSuTeS 70 COTTtCt IHe thTeatened automobile racing season are being taken. The withdrawal of the manu- lecturers and the impossibility of in teresting them in racing has developed a situation which is going to be met by the building of private racing cars by men who know how to do the work possibly better than the en- gineers of any of the well-known fac tories.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
The United States government i.

fining ferry companies about New York City $500 for every time drivers of trucks or cars start their engines before the boats are fast to the docks. The ferry companies under the law can require that all gasoline be taken out of the tanks before the cars or trucks are taken aboard and they threaten to enforce this provision if drivers persist in running their en- zines on the boats.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14

suit but was recommended by a friend to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. They stopped all itching. left no disagurement and gave me perfect ease and sleep. used them for six weeks and my face is now as clear as can be- (signed) Miss Bertha Chace, August l, 1914.
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Considerable RebuttaI.

But when the Tanks tried to pin him down to what the captain consid- cred a reasonable contract Baker had his farm-in the cool of the evening his motor car and his three -or-four- times week baseball at from $500 to $400 time to use in rebuttaI of the captains best arguments
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-22
A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE.

Editor Honolulu Star Bulletin, 49,.
Sir: You have not heard from me
for a long time and as l have a mes
sage which is strictly for the public
/ hasten to write, as war does not
cease. | wish to warn the public of
what conditions will be in the next
century when all the men of ambition
are all gone and the women of worth
take the throne of ascendancy and
tighten the burdens of the weary who
have had to put up with the inventions
of today. First Of all We will find
some other way of combating the en-
envy than with air guns and steel and
powder. There are more dignified
ways of winning the foe Secondly,
we will discard with long-necked whis-
ky bottles land the whisky, too, for
that matter Right here, however, why
not when making bottles make one
that will stand alone and that will
stand easily on shelf without hav-
ing to widen the distance between
your shelves to accommodate the oil
bottles, the grape juice bottles, etc.
Have to prop up the flavoring bottles
SO they viii stand These things
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-22
RESEARCH Club
ISAT WORK ON
MODEL CHARTER
President Bush Names Strong
Committee in Preparation for
September Convention

In preparation for the coming city
charter convention, the Municipal Re
search Club is discussing various
forms Of charters with view to set.
ting upon preferred plan and an
alternate and submitting these to the
convention.
The Municipal Research club was
the principal force behind the move
ment in the last legislature which re-
suited in TIE passage of act 81 pro-
viding for the charter convention
Since that time a number of meetings
have been held and several eIuo
members ran for delegate to the con-
yention and were successful.
President G. F. Bush of the Research
Club has named an unusually strong
committee to handle the matter OF
drafting model charter forms and this
committee is already at work. II con.
sists Of former Governor Walter F.
Frear, chairman; c. r. Hemenway, l..
NJ. Judd, w. H. Mcclellan, Judge G.,
W. Ashford, Judge w. l.. Whitney and
A. II. Tarleton A meeting of the club
IS to be held shortly to listen to a
preliminary report by this committee.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-22
AMERICANS ONLY.

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Be-. ...
Sir: Last June % you published a
letter by certain e l.. k" of Fort
Ruger on the subject a Dividing
Line" There can be no better answer
to this letter than the words of Theo-
dore Roosevelt in recent Metropoli-
tan Magazine:
1T is a wicked thing for any per-
sons in this free country to try to
divide our people by class hostility;
whether this hostility takes the form
Of section against caste or occupation,
of creed against creed, or CT national
ity against nationality. 1t is an out
rage against American citizenship to
vote for or against man because he
is Jew or Catholic or Protestant
TX is no less an outrage to seek to
shape American governmental policies
with View to favoring the foreign
country in which the Jew who has be,
come in good faith an American is
entitled in every way to exactly the
same treatment as the Christian; but
If he remains merely a Jew in Amer,
ica,' and votes as Jew, then he has
no DuSlueSS 10 U6 III AIU6FlCd dl all
This is just as true Of the Protestant
and of the Catholic, and Of the man
who is not orthodox by the standard Of
any recognized creed. II is equally
an outrage against American citizen
ship for american ciiizens to organize
to vote net as Americans, but as SYM
pathizers with and adherents CT some
other nationality .. Nv DeoDIe
have been over here some 500 years.
have in me the blood of many diff
ferent race-strains; and | have as
much German as English blood in my
veins. But am neither German nor
an EngIishman. | am an American
and nothing else" =...G=-:.. =. ...-.-
! take it then that true American
should look upon other people with the
spirit of his forefathers that all men
are created equal; that they are en-
dowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights; that among these
are life. liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness. :... :. .. ..e.=... ~>.E =
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