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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
WITH LONE COMPANION. FRENGH INFANTRYMAN
 TAKES 100 PRISONERS

Gouteaubier. who was at the right wing of the second wave. called out to one man: "Guillot, come with me- The two men approached the spot whence the firing came. They glided from tree to tree until they were close to the shelter of which a German company was holding out Guillot threw bombs as fast a. the could into their midst and the fire ceased.
 Surrender" shouted the corporal in a stentorian voice from behind tree. In response to his demands, 100 Ger mans emerged from the shelter with uplifted hands, led by two officers.
 Pass along this way" shouted Gouteaubier from his hiding place. "Go out of the wood at once and march to the rear"
 Two minutes alter the 100 Germans, shepherded by the corporal and Guil- lot, arrived at thes French lines. Tho prisoners admitted that some of their comrades remained in the shelter.
 Come on, Guilloty let us go and fetch them" said Gouteaubier. The two men started but Guillot fell with a bullet in his breast and the corporal had to abandon his enterprise.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
LEGISLATURES
 EXTRA SESSION .
 FOR SEPTEMBER
Will Take Action For Poll ing Votes of Connecticut
 Soldiers.

Hartford, Aug. 7-The extra ses. sion of the General Assembly. which Governor Holcomb has decided to cal to deal with the question of member of the Connecticut National Guard now at the Mexican border voting ir the November elections. if they are stil1 on duty at the border at that time will probably convene the latter part of next month, 1t is thought here.
 Governor Holcomb is on a vacation trip to Maine and official confirma- rtion as, to the date was lacking, but 1t was pointed out that any earlier date would conflict with the RepubH- can and Democratic etate conventions which are to be held the fore part and about the middle of September respectively.
 Before the Governor left a week ago, 1t is learned. he had a confer erence with Attorney General Hin- man at which the matter was consid- cred and as result of which the gov- ernor is said to have reached his deci- sion. He Is expected back in a week and 1t is thought the call for the ses- sion will be issued soon after his re- turn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
COULDEN'S SUIT AGAINST ACTOR
 QUIETLY ENDED
Chorus Girls Swear Bridge : porter Shouted Insults
 From Audience

(The lawsuit which resulted when Norman S. Goulden, local plumber claimed he was insulted from the stage of the Park theatre by an actor named Sam Sidman, has been settled out of court Goulden sued for $2,000 but the. terms of settlement were not made public. The action was brought in the common pleas court.
 It was alleged that GouIden sat in the front row at the theatre on the night of March 13, 1915, when Harry Hastings Big Show was performing. During the course of the performance Sidman is said to have advanced to the footlights and said in part, as he pointed to a stage hand and looked at Goulden, 'If he was not better look ing than you, you big boob. I would shoot him. For B years I have been an .ctor and in the whole course of my experience never had the mis- fortune to appear before an audience containing individuals so small and low as two. men sitting m the front row. It is misfortune that mother should have to rear such individuals. I will not call them men. as the two in the front row who scoff at the eff forts of the women behind the foot lights.
 Goulden declared the remarks were false and malicious. He was held up to ridicule and was caused consider able embarrassment as well as annoy ance. He also claimed he lost a plumbing contract as result of the notoriety he received.
 Sidman secured the dispositions of several members of his company. May Leslie said she was singing song when she heard Goulden shout, where did you get that. big blonde? She ought to hn shot. Is she singing or growling?' This so distressed Miss Leslie that she stopped her song and began to cry. Meta Clark. a chorus girl, testified that Goulden made loud remarks of an insulting nature when the chorus was on the stage When Sidnan in the course of monoloeue inquired, Am I in the way?' Goulden You're not bothering mo any"
 Goulden denied making insulting re- marks
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07

were under orders issued by officers o1 the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes tc strige today in an effort to secure rec ognition of that union, an increase in wages and better working conditions The strike was called for 3:3O a. m. by Harry E. Flynn, president of the local division. Apparently there was no change in the running schedule ot the lines of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.,, which operate the street railways. Flynn issued a statement saying 1900 of the 4,70O employees of the company had responded to the strike order and that several lines were tied up and others crippled. Strike breakers had replaced the men out, he said.
 Company officials asserted that only a negligible number of men had quit and that all lines were being operated as usual. As a matter of sprecaution, police were stationed at all car barns and power houses.
 The unions leader asserted that ad- ditional men would be induced to join the strikers later in the day.
 The strikers were arrested following an attempt to interfere with a trolley crew.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07

Paris, Aug. 7.-Corporal Gouteaupier of the French light infantry has been decorated with a military cross Dy President Poincare for capturing loo Germans, including two officers, aloeo only by single companion. The curl reference to Corporal Gouteaupler exploit in army orders reads:
 For bravery and contempt or dan ger which struck terror into the trenches and shelter of the enemy. With a single comrade he has made 100 prisoners, including two omcers' whom we took to the rear, and then rejoined his post"
 When Corporal Gouteaubier was pa raded before President Poincare on the recent visit of the latter to the Somme front, he told the story Of hls feat at the request of the president
 It was on July 20 before Hem Wood. The French troops had just dashed forward at the German positions. The first wave had swept over the enemy trenches and the second had followed to complete the operation. However. from hollow toward the right. well sustained fusillade was being poured on the flank of the attackers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
Bury MT. Tamlyn's
 Son at Liberty, N. Y.

Graham Tamblyn, the four years old son of Rev. and Mrs. George O. Tamblyn, who died of infantile para lysis at Liberty, N. r., was buried there Saturday afternoon. The regu- lations imposed by the health author ities would not permit the removal of the body to this or any other city even had the parents desired. The funeral was private. Many telegrams of coincidence were sent the bereaved parents by members of the Olivet Congregational church of which Rev. MT: Tambly is pastor, and by friends of the family here. MT. Tamblyn had left here Aug. 1 for a vacation of month with his family at Liberty. He arrived to find his little son stricken and to be with him when he died. Mrs. Tamblyn and another son. George O.. IT,. are still under quar- antine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
Vigorous Artillery
 Duel Along Somme

Paris, Aug. 7-The repulse of Ger man attacks at Thiaumont and in the vaux and Chapitree Wood, in the Verdun sector, is announced in the official statement issued by the French war office. this afternoon.
 The statement records a vigorous artillery duel north of the Somme and in the region of Chaulnes. The French screen fire checked the Ger man attack at .Thiaumont. In the Vaux-Chapitree Woods, the Ger mans proceeded their attacks by a heavy ,bombardment but their efforts to advance were frustrated by the machine gun and rife fire of the French.
 Three German aeroplanes are said to have been brought down on the Somme front and two captive pal- looms destroyed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
RAN GE BOA.
 SIGH ED
Big Submarine and Smaller
 Craft Seen Off Maine Coast = Submerge When British Stations Start Signalling.
May Be Deutschland, Out ward Bound, or Bremen, on Way Here No U. s. Undersea Boats in That Vicinity, Capitol Says.

Machiasport, Me-, Aug. r. Captain Small, of the Cross Island coast guard station, re- ported this morning that his station had sighted a large sub marine bound west. Its na- tionality could not be determin- ed but the captain said he has no doubt that it was an under sea craft. The submarine was coming to the surface when it was sighted and after running awash 15 minutes, again sub merged.
 It was thought that the yes sel might be the German sub- marine Bremen. So far as can be learned there are no United States submarines off the Mainel coast.
 The lookout who sighted the sub- marine later said that he picked the vessel up in clear weather five miles to the southeast. As the vessel came to the surface the lookout said he heard several blasts from the signal at the lighthouse on Seal Island, a British possession.
 He believed that the keeper of the lighthouse was signalling to the keep CT at Grand Manan Light, also British sighted.
 sounded the submarine submerged. A few moments later a haze set in and it was impossible to see more than four miles off Cross Island.
 Lowell Dunn, the lookout on Cross Island, later reported that he had sighted a second submarine consider ably smaller than the first one.
 Cross Island lies close to the Maine coast. If the vessel was the Bremen she was either off her course or, for reasons best known to the master of the merchantmen, had chosen to close in close to the enemy's country in order to arrive sooner within the three mile limit.
 To be off Cross Island the submarine must have skirted the coast of Nova Scotia and rounded Sable Island: thence heading norrn along the edge of the Bay of Fundy instead of taking the mere direct route, crossing the Gulf of Maine to Bar Harbor or Port land. The indicated course would bring her within the three mile limit
 Continued on Page Two.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
ROB BURT, THEN
 THROW HIM OFF EAST SIDE PIER
Seaview Ave. Resident Com plains Hold Up Men Were
 Unnecessarily Rough.

Alleging that he was thrown into the harbor from the pier in the rear of B. T. Flannerys bathhouses on Seaview avenue at the foot of New field avenue, shortly before midnight Saturday, after being held up and robbed of $7.50, James Burt of PA Seaview avenue, had his brother-in- law complain to the police this morn ing of the hold-up. According to Mrs. Flannery, she and her husband were on the pier until after, mid night and saw nothing of the alleged impromptu bath taken by Burt.
 Burt, who lives with his brother-in- law, William Warner, says that he was returning from Pleasure Beach about 11:30 o'clock Saturday night and was passing Newf1eld avenue, when two men grabbed him. While one held him and stifled his cries for assistance, he says, the other one went through his pockets and took the $7.50 which he possessed.
 After the hold-up men are alleged to. have rifled his pockets, Burt de- clares they carried him down the last block on Newfield avenue and out up- on the Flannery pier from which they threw him into the water. He man aged to climb the pier and get back to shore but the two men were not to be seen.
 The F'lannery bath houses adjoin the shore end of Newfield avenue and the pier extends several hundred feet into the water. Though Burt al- leges that he was carried out on the pier and thrown overheard, Mrs. Flannery says that with her hus- band, she was on the pier and about the bath houses until after midnight and they saw no such occurrence.
 Burt is the driver of the delivery wagon for F. W. Neupert, a butcher on Newfleld avenue near Jefferson street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
RINCLINC LEFT s7OO,OO0; MOST
 GOES ID FIRM
Provides That Administra- ton of Estate May Not In
 terfere With Circus.

RNGLN0A1
 Albert C.Rmgling. one of the famous circus princes of the world. who died at Baraboo, Wia., left bequests aggre- lgating $7O0,00O. A copy of his will made in Baraboo and recently admit ted to probate in Hauk county, Wis, was filed in the probate office, here to-day. Mr. Ringing had no real es- tate, cash on deposit or personal pro- tperty in this probate district other than hls share in the $142, 254 on de- iposit in the First st-Bridgeport National bank of this city. in the name of Bar mum 6 Bailey. This share amounted Ito $27,6s3.15. Under the new state statute regarding the inheritance tax on ancdllary estates. copies of the will. inventory and all matters pertaining fo the distribution of the estate must be filed in the probate office and through the judge of the district court transferred to the state tax commits sioner. This Is the first estate to be settled through the Bridgeport court under the new provision of the law.
 The inventory of MT. Ringling's nearly $50, ,000 more than the bequests
 
 ed among his brothers Alf T., Charles, IT of the will which provides for this reads as follows:
 Tn view of the fact that my, active business life has been spent with my brothers in the show business, and be- Ing desirous that this business shall not be disrupted or interfered with by my demise, and because of the great affection Nave for my brothers, I do hereby give and bequeath to my said brothers, Ali T. Ringing. Charles Ringing, John Ringing and Henry Ringing, in equal shares, all of my right, title and interest in, and to all of the real estate used as- winterquar- ters and all personal property used in connection with Ringing Brothers shows, Barnum & Bailey shows, Fore paugh Sells shows, including good will, meaning to bequeath hereby, all cir GUS property, real and personal, owned by the partnership of Ringing Broth er1. o. in which I. have an interest. This bequest shall become operative and effective at the time of my death, it being my desire that my said broth CTS shall have full control of all said property and the income therefrom from the date of my death"
 His largest bequest is to his wife, Eliza Ringing, the sum of $325, 900. He provides if she does not wish to take this share but had rather have the statutory allowance there shall be deducted $100,o0o advanced in Aug ust. 1914.
 He gives $10,000 to each of his nephews and n1eces, as follows: Richard. Robert and Henry Ringing, Hester Ringing. John, Harry and 9alome North
 As token of esteem of his friend, James R.. Whalen and appreciation for faithful services he gives $5,000 to him. Two other $5,000 bequests are made to Charles Rooney and John R. (Continusd on pass 4)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
GALLONS WIFE, , CHILDREN AND
 FURNITURE GONE
Arms Company Worker Re turns Home and Finds
 He Is Deserted.

Giving no intimation of her plans and leaving no word of her destina- ton, Mrs. George Gallon of 2 Steu- ben court deserted her husband Sat- urday, taking with her $700 which both had saved. the furniture of their home and their five children, ranging in age from two to IA years. Gallon is unable to, advance any reason for his wife's disappearance.
 Gallon. an employe of the Reming- ton Arms factory. works on the to Il p. m. shift and Saturday went to work as usual in the middle of the afternoon. When he had finished his eight hours work he returned to their home and was nonplussed to find the house vacant and bare<
 All the furniture in the house had been removed and no sign of life could be found about the premises Gallon could not understand his wife's action and was at 8 loss to explain her de- sertion.
 Today Gallon reported to the police that the woman whom he had taken for his partner in life's battle had packed up all. of their belongings and left what, up to Saturday, had been their happy home. He stated that he had had no quarrels with his wife and could furnish no reason for her dis appearance.
 The money which both had saved had been drawn from the bank where it had been deposited in Mrs. Gallons name. Neighbors stated that the chill dren had been about the house in the early evening and it is believed that the goods were removed and the deser- ton made under cover of darkness.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
NORRIS NAMED
 COMMISSIONER
 OF FARM LOANS

Washington, Aug 7.-George Nor ris, of Philadelphia, was designated by President Wilson today as farm loan commissioner. executive head of the farm loan bank system created by the new rural credits act.
 MT. Norris was one of two Demo- cratic members of the farm Joan board. His designation as commissioner was prepared for announcement today Q, the first meeting of the board to or ganize and discuss preliminary plans for its work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
WORKER FALLS SIX FEET:
 SUFFERS BRAIN INJURY

Stepping backwards while working on a scaffold on a building at Harral and Highland avenues for the Modern Construction company this morning. Carl Castyn fell six feet to the ground and landed on the back of his head. He suffered a concussion of the brain and was taken for observation to St. Vincent's hospital by Dr. c. c. Taylor of the emergency hospital staff.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
Bratford Reports Two Cases, Fairfield One, and Bridgeport Three, As Hot Weather Causes Epidemic 10 Increase in Virulence. Hillside Home Becoming Overcrowded With Par alysis Patients Out of Question to Open Schools In September, Says So- phian.

Poliomyelitis raised havoc to- day among the children of this vicinity, as a result of the hot weather. Three new cases were reported in Bridgeport, two in Stratford and one in Fairfield.
 Lindquist, Dorothy. aged six months, 321 Lenox avenue.
 Anderson. Carl. 21. BOA Color ado avenue.
 Cimini, Antonio, aged nine months, s2o North Washington avenue.
 Curtis. william. aged seven. Warwick avenue, stratford.
 Madison. Ramona, aged ono {. year nine months. Broadbridge road. Stratford.
 The Stratford and Fairfield chill ;dren have been quarantined in their homes. TheN Bridgeport victims have been removed to Hillside home. With the report of the 32nd case this afternoon 1t became known that Hinaide home is becoming overcrowd- Cd with paralysis patients. Some of those who are ketting well will be sent homo. '.It is the fair and just thing to do.'' said pr. SQphian. Half \ ddssn srs rid of paralysis and walk ,(Continued on Page Two.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
STRIKING TR0LLEYmEN RATIFY AGREEMENT TO
 END TROUBLES IN N. Y.

New York, Aug. 7-President Ma hon, of the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway En- |ployes. announced at the close of the employees meeting that the tentative agreement had been ratified and that the men were ready to go back to work If the agreer- --it was also rati- fled by the directors of the New York Railways company. The latter at that time were still in session.
 The Third Avenue Railroad com- pany directors had a meeting also, af- ter which an, official statement was is- sued, failing to disclose what action had been taken, but saying that mo demands of any wind have been made by the employees of the Third Avenue Railroad.''
 j Vice President Maher said he had been given full power to act and would report to the public service commission.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
Fear For Safety of
 British Prisoners

London. Aug. 7-Apprehension ex- ists as to the fate of the British pris- oners taken at the surrender of Kut- El-Amara to the Turks. Lord Robert Cecil said in the House of Commons today that repeated inquiries through the American embassy at Constanti- norle to ascertain the whereabouts of those prisoners. had brought no reply from the porte. This, he said. in- spired considerable misgivings as the prisoners were cornpelled te.cross the desert at the worst season of the year.
 Petrograd, Aug. 7-Furthers. suc- cesses for the Russians along the Se- reth and Graborka rivers, in northern Galicia south of /Brody, were an- nounced by, the war office today. The Russians captured strongly fortified positions in the region, of the villages of Zvyjin. Kostiniec and Renuiv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
IRON FIRES TAILOR SHOP

An overloaded electric iron set fire to wooden partition in tailor shop In the rear of IA Poplar street about f2:30 o'clock today and caused dam age of about $75 to the interior of the shop. An alarm was sent in from Box 216 and the blaze was extinguish- ed by Chemical No. 2. Chemical No. and Engine company No. were called out to the Ash street dump at I0:45 o'clock today on still alarm when some rubbish caught fire.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
MANY WITNESS CITY HALL MARRIAGE CEREMONY AS
 WINTON OFFICIATES

Patsy Vitale, 2S. barber. of I'll Jones avenue and Rose Garranta, "A, housemaid. of Milford, were married today in the town clerks office by As sistant Town Clerk Clarence B, Win ton. The ceremony was witnessed by a large party of the friends of the couple.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07

About the only hot weatheri news flivver that has not been circulated concerning the Bridgeport Remington plants, during the past two weeks is a rumor that Charles Evans Hughes is going to present each and every employe with a set| of reddish blonde whiskers.
 The canards, invented by al- most every possible unreliable source, have closed up the plant several times recently to say nothing. of having put the owner, Marcellus Hartleyd Dodge, with his $iOO,OOO, ,OOOl fortune into bankruptcy. !.
 In order that the unofficial little brothers ,of calamity may take a few days off and be able to feed the squirrels, The Farmer is able to announce from a reliable source the fol- lowing facts:
 The Remington plants finan- cial end has been taken over by Mfs T. D. Montague of New York, in the same manner as MT. H. H. Pinney took the pro duction end few weeks ago. Both MT. Pinney and MT. i Montague are builders of or-i ganizations and perfectors of methods. They are desirous of getting a foundation, or start ing point, and therefore there is a corps of accountants at work balancing up the books, just as any well regulated con- cern would do when it is chang ] ing hands. Of course it is big ! job for it concerns the biggest factory in this part of the coun-' try.
 To balance books there must be an inventory.
 There will be no shutting down of the plant. It might be. necessary to close most of the for a day ard a half, or two days at the most. Perhaps some Friday night will be chosen as a time to tell the bows to come back on a Mon day morning. That will be about the extent of the wholel affair. S
 It costs money to shut down a plant like the Remington and the management did not build it to look at.
 There will be a few changes from time to time in the per f as there always is in a plant, such as the new arms works, employing now $500 hands, but no one is going to lose out who is not a square plug in a round hole. The eff cient, and those who show that they have the ability to make good, are going to stay.
 The Remington plant would give work, tomorrow, to from 5000 to LOCO skilled factory men, principally machine shop men, at good wages if it could get the men: and it could get he men if there were a more rapid increase in new houses lere.,
 There are several hundred men waiting to get rents in Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
ARMS
 COMPANY FINANCES FOR NEW OFFICIALS.

Inventory of Entire New Arms Works in Progress That Official in Charge May Have Accurate State ment of It's Condition Wild Rumors of Financial Troubles Have Their Source in Ordinary Busi-, ness Procedure of Valua- tion of Factory-Plant- | Won't Be Closed, If at All, For More Than One and a Half, or Two Days.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-07
sIzzLING IN CHICAGO
SHOWERS ARE COMING

Washington, Aug. 7.-Showers to- night or tomorrow over much of the country east of the Mississippi are counted upon by the weather bureau to bring some measure of relief from the heat wave. An area of high pres sure continues to send up warmth from the south Atlantic, however. Un- seasonably hot weather prevails over the upper Mississippi valley, the Ohio valley and the upper lake region.