New Britain herald., 1916-04-15

egates at large and their alternates, l and ten district delegates and their l alternates. In addition a number will 1 go as spectators. The convention will 1 open in the Chicago auditorium on 1 June ' and added interest will be giV- 1 en as the Bull Moose convention Will 1 be held in the Windy City at the same 1 time. In week or ten days the Con
 necttcut delegation will meet to com plete all plans for going, but each del l egate will go uninstructed and will be | free to use his own judgment in Not- 1 ing. Those present at the state con vention this week declare that the 1 Connecticut delegations sentiments
 seem to be divided between Hughes
 and Root, with not a single known 1 Teddy Roosevelt man in the gather 1 ing.
 1 Eminently unfair, is the way local
 shippers regard the action of the New
 Haven road in lifting the freight em- 1 Largo at midnight last night l including New Britain. New | Britain is regarded by railroad officials
 as one of the best and most profitable 1 places on the New Haven road and for 1 the past two months. through Secre 1 tary Andrews of the chamber of com 1 merce, an active cooperation with l the road has been effected. Every car 1 consigned to this city has been report 1 ed by Freight Agent Cosgriff to the 1 chamber of commerce and MT. An
 drews has at once notified the re- | ce1ver and insisted that he, too, CO., 1 operate by at once unloading and thus 1 relieving the congestion. The cham 1 Der of commerce acknowledgely has 1 handled the situation well and by it's l daily freight reports has done much | to aid the road in this city, yet this 1 is the thanks received; New Britain
 still kept on the black list.
 As a direct result of this embargo l there are no less than eleven new houses in course of construction that 1 are at standstll through inability of 1 contractors to get lime and cement. 1 The coal situation is more acute than
 it was a month ago and the hay sup | ply is short. It has been practically l impossible to get any quantity of | charcoal for family use for three l weeks. Yet during all this time New l Britain shippers and receivers, as we'll
 as the chamber of commerce, have CO., 1 operated heartily and received little recognition. The action of the road l is most unfair and unwarranted as New Britain has moved it's freight l faster and better than any other city, l relative population compared.
 On Monday last Officer Frank Eng l fish completed twenty-five years of 1 active service with the New Britain police department. Today he is just
 as faithful a public 8 servant as he
 was a quarter of 8 century ago when
 he first donned the blue suit and brass l buttons. And today Officer English's l worst fear is that he may not be per
 mitted to finish his life in the service l to which he has devoted so much of | it. He fears that some we'll meaning l person may put through a measure to l pension him off in recognition of his l years of service, but his one wish is l to remain just Officer Frank Eng l lsh." There is no better known or l more courageous patrolman in the de- l partment than he. Today young men l prominent in city affairs look back l with amusement to their boyhood days and recall being chased by Officer 1 English for stealing cherries or some l such boyish escapade. Their own sons have gone through the same ex- perience and the same old blue coat l has kept them within bounds. To the ! boy and evil doer Officer English has l for a quarter of a century been ! veritable boogie man, but the vener- | able dean of the policemen is not by any means. He is just kindly old %,t~ LD Id l duty as he saw 1t. Today he neither pounds the long midnight beats nor tramps the hot ments in summer. His work is lighter. He is the court officer. having charge of all prisoners
 in the police station and in the court
 room and also takes them to jail. For
 the rest he is the guardian of the de-
 pot and railroad arcade during the
 dav. Never has Officer English's cour-
 age been questioned and never has he
 exhibited the white feather. Two de-
 cads ago he was sent to quell fight in
 Rents block on South Main street. AS
 he rushed into the melee the lights
 were extinguished and he was savage l
 lv beaten over the head with 8 cob |
 bler's hammer until he was uncon- 1
 scious But he fought gamely until l
 oblivion closed in upon him. And he i
 has always been thus. Even last Sep |
 tember when fierce riot occurred at 1 the Corbin Screw corporation and two |
 officers were beaten into insenslbllity, |
 Frank English was one of the first |
 of the reinforcem ments to grasp his |
 trusty "billy" in his hand and rush to l the scene; and had there been need |
 for his services he would have been |
 found In the thickest of the fighting. ]
 His fellow officers, superiors and the l