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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-04
HER HUSBAND DID

do you take any periodicals."
asked the minister on his first round
on parish visit.
well, 1 don't" replied the wom-
an, "but my husband takes 'em fire.
quent. I do wish you'd try to get
him to sign the pledge"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-04
JUDGED BY HIS WIFE

! JUDGED BY HIS WIFE
Purchaser bringing back his pur-
chase)-This dog is the most fero-
cious beast 1 ever came across, and
you said he was as gentle as a
woman.
Dealer in Canines-That's straight.
Ny wife's the only woman know
anything about.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
Ct> He1ns

William Whiteley, for twenty years foreman of the pattern and plate de- partment of the North & Judd Mfg. company, has resigned his position to 1 accept @ place with the M. B. Schenk company in Meridfn. Today marks the sixty-first anniver- sary of the wedding of MT. and Mrs. William H. Hart The couple planned to celebrate the affair in a quite man. Ter.
 Harold Sjo1ander of Church street will succeed Organist Mellander at the Swedish Lutheran church. It is expected he will be appointed perma- nent organist at the annual meeting of the church.
 James Orr former manager of Mill Ter & Olson's Arch street store, has opened a store in New Haven. His family has moved to the Elm City where they will make their home in the future.
 Charles Reynolds of 76 Harrison street and Philip Tormay of 92 Clark street will leave next week for New York where they will enter Fordham Preparatory school.
 At last nights meeting of the Red Men, preparations were made for the entertainment of the great chieI of Connecticut on October 30. Candi- dates will be initiated, an entertain ment provided and a supper served.
 Action on tax abatem ents will be taken at meeting of the mayor and aldermen this evening.
 Laura P. Farrell, teacher of vocal culture and singing, will resume teach ing Oct. 18th. Studio, 39 Walnut St., Voice trials free Thursday afternoon and evening, by appointment. Phone
 f117-2-533-2.-
 Aaron Cohen, Hary Foberg and Leo Sullivan have gone to New York for a few days.
 A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. John F. Keevers of South Burritt street.
 Rev. pr. s. G. Ohman spoke at the twenty-fifth anniversary exercises of the Swedish Lutheran church in Stam- ford last evening.
 Rev. John Srank1in of Norwich, Mass, formerly with the local branch the Swedish Film church tomorrow evening.
 Twin boys were born last evening to MT. and Mrs. Paul Winkler of 1S2 Greenwood street.
 Mr. Laubin, pianist, has resumed teaching. Apply Booths block, We'd nesdays or by mail.-advt.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19

New York, Sept. 19.-It has definite ly been decided upon that a quartet of American athletes will invade Swe- den this autumn upon the invitation of the sports authorities of that pro- gressive country in order to aid in providing competition for the Swedes, which has not been forthcoming be- cause of the world fracas abroad. The four who have been nominated to take up the cudgels for the stars and stripes are Fred Murray, the national champion at the 220-yard hurdles, Bob Simpson, the high hurdle title holder and admittedly the fastest man in the world today over the high obstacles; Joe Loomis. the recent de- posed 1O0-yard premier, and Ted Meredith, who was deposed recently from his proud position as the best in the land at running 44O yards AL together, with the exception of the weights, in all likelihood America could not be represented by strong CT quartet. That they will not have matters all their own waN however, is predicated by the fact that the Swedes have some athletes themselves who may make their presence felt. It has been arranged for the men to leave these shores Sept. 23 on the steamer Oscar II, for Christiania, with the contests scheduled for Christiania Oct 12, Stockholm, Oct. A and Co., penhagen Oct. 21. It may be neces- sary to make a change in the schedule in view of the fact that the voyage will require twelve or fourteen days because of the possible holding up
 of the ship by the English authorities
 which would leave the men scant time in which to rid themselves of their sea legs and consequently leave them
 i'll a measure unfit. although it is the intention of the athletes to leave here perfectly ready for competition. Lay
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
PITTSBURGH FEDS BANKRUPT.
Petition Showing An In
 dcbtedness of $173,OOO Is Filed.

Pittsburgh, Sept. 19.-A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed nore yesterday by the Exposition Park as- sociation, which controlled the Pitts burgh Federal league baseball team before it disbanded last fall Accord ing to the petition the indebtedness of the association amounts to S173,- CA. Included in this amount arc $1O,00O alleged to be due to the Balti- more and Ohio railroad for the use of Exposition park, which the rail- road owns; $83,316 for players con- tracts, some portions of which have been liquidated and $23,O00 in con- tracts yet outstanding. The petition states that the assets amount to 55O,- 900 which was to have been paid by the clubs concerned in the peace agreement made with the American and National leagues, but which it is alleged, has not been rendered. The Pittsburgh Trust company was ap
 pointed a temporary receiver and a hearing was set for September 27.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
PERSONALS

Frank L. Traut, vice president of the Traut & Hine Manufacturing com- pany, has gone to Detroit on business.
 Mr. and Mrs. John Lynne, MT. and Mrs. William Lynne and Miss Helene Lynne of Bridgeport, have been guests of MT. and Mrs. George McLar- an and Mrs. Davidson of 79 Elm street.
 Miss Alice Rice of Columbia street has returned from her vacation.
 Misses Elsa Anderson and Babel Klingberg of 81 Garden street have returned from a vacation trip to Chi cago, H., Michigan and Indiana.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
BLIGHT NOT FATAL l
 ID CHESTNUT wool
Owners of Tracts May Still Red
 iZe on. Holdings

Washington. Sept. 19.-Through dt thorities and made public today the United States Department of AgI culture, woodland owners in Connd ticUt are in a fair way to realize hanI somely on their diseased timber, having been found after experimer| that certain kinds of infected vol are just as good as any other and til great economic losses have hereJ fore been incurred by lack of knoi ledge on this subject.
 A statement issued here today sa
 Experiments conducted at WatfI bury. Connecticut, and Mount Gretr} Pennsylvania, to determine the val of the diseased wood have shown tIt bIight-killed and infected chestnut just as durable as the healthy timIA and is consequently equally valuabE These experiments. say the forestea show that there need be no hesitatiz about using wood affected by tg blight for any purpose to w9ich chea nut is suitedv
 "The material used in the expeS ments consists of posts, poles, al ties, Nbth from infected and healtl chestnut. After three years use, Il infected timber is as sound as tlI which was not infected. Even the sions caused by the attacks of 1 blight have withstood decay, excd below ground, 1t is reported. All the material used was found to in good condition, except for the tI terioration of the knots and of sapwood, which in the chestnut is I1 durAble.
 "The blight-killed timber which hl seasoned on the stump for seveI yeatS and which had lost its bark n proved more resistant to decay th5 healthy wood from which the be. was not removed. No difference tween peeled pieces of timber, infeI ed but not killed. and healthy nat| ial could be distinguished.
 "No one should make the mistd of thinking that the blight-killed til Der is worthless, the foresters s 1 Farmers can effect considerable ecd i omy by utilizing material of this s for poles, posts, fencing and the li| while lumber sawed from blight-kil| trees is in no way inferior to tl 1 from healthy trees."
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19

dies humorously called 'the tank of- fensive," having reference to the new mOred motor cars. There was a London division, comprising represen- tatives of all classes of the great city's life who were told they must reach their objective in given time. In front of them in High Wood was a fastness of machine guns which nel- ther the artillery nor the trench mor- tars had been able to reduce. How ever. it was the business Of the Lon doners to be on time in reaching the on there until further notice. "These orders were all very simple and di- rect" said one of the LOndOners aft crward with a grim smile, 'but those Germans in their fort knew that 1t was life and death fight and all that was required of them was to put their fingers on the triggers of their machine guns when we charged. We left it to the blooming tank. We had to take chances of those machine guns shooting into our backs if the tanks could not do the job, and the tanks wiped out the machine guns"
 "'Aughty lot to look at," said a London cockney, referring to the Aus tralians. You might think they was all lords but when you gets to know them they're human and most gen erous with their Ugh pay. The New
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
Events Tonight

High class photo drama, Fox's thea ter.
 Friend Martha" Lyceum theater.
 Vaudeville and moving pictures, Keeney's theater.
 Board of public works meets in City hall.
 Mayor and aldermen meet in City hall.
 Central Labor union meets at 34 Church street. New Britain lodge, N. E. o. F., meets in Jr. o. U. A. M. hall.
 Clan Douglas, o. S. C., meets at 277 Main street.
 Leading Star lodge, s. of B., meets in Electric hall.
 Daly council, K. of C., meets in Hannas hall.
 New Britain council, R. A., meets at PAP Main street.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
]. s. AS MONEY CENTER
European Financial Writer Pictures America As Gold Power Before and During Great Struggle Abroad.


 Paris, Sept. 19.-Max Hoschiller, in an article in the Temps, contrasts Americas financial position now in respect to foreign countries with what it was before the war. The article .says:
 "Then the United States was send ing to Europe from $20O,OOO,OOO to $3OO,0O0,00O in interest on it's borrow ings, $150,0O0,000 to S2OO,OOO,OOO spent by tourists, $1OO,OOO,OOO to $15O,000 900 to eXpatriates and S2O,- O0O,O0O to $40,0OO,00O in ocean freights
 has imported $73O, ,0OO,O00 in gold and has paid back a considerable amount of it's previous borrowings, increased it's foreign trade by $2,250, 100000 yearly and loaned to foreign countries $1,470, ,000 000, so that the dollar now has replaced to a considerable extent tae old sovereignty of the English pound abroad.
 "Whether the United States will re- tain with her deficient financial or ganization the position recently won will depend upon American financial and commercial policies: The arrival in France of an American commer- cia1 mission is an indication that Americans are realizing they must fol- low the law of exchange between countries buying in general as much Ss they sell"
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
TALKING IN SLEEP
 GIVES WIFIE TIP
' Broker Couldn't Keep Mind Off
 Love Day or Night

New York, Sept. 19.-Letters ad- dressed to Little Blue Eyes, and My Dearest Sweet" said to have been written to Mrs. Francis Duffy, Jr., who is suing her husband for separation, by Thomas D. Conroy, a broker, were filed in the supreme court yesterday by MT. Duffy in connection with her plea for alimony. Justice Giegerich declined to grant Mrs. Duffy alimOny or counsel fees pending the trial of the separation suit.
 MT Conroy, who is married, ans was formerly associated with the banking : house of Lee, Higginson x Co.,, is said to have written in one letter that he had been overheard by Mrs. Conroy to say in his sleep that it was several days since he had written to Mrs. Duffy.
 'I was told by her (Mrs. Conroy,) the letter continues, "that I had to give an answer as to whether I love her or you best. My clothes were hid eden, so I couldn't go out and write to you, but I managed to scrape to- gether a few garments, and here I am writing in my bathroom. Please ex- cuse the pencil"
 The writer added that he craved some answer to his love and signed himself You right loving Tom.'
 In another short and fervid missive he says:
 Alas, It's a Cruel World.
 "This is a cruel world, dear. I would give anything to have you for my wife. If had you I could make you forget your troubles I could live for you only. I would die try ing, at least Grace, I love you. Oh, how I do really love you. Your own Tom"
 The tender passion apparently was E@ery bad for the health and spirits of the writer. In another letter he said he had slept two hours a week and had lost sixteen pounds, but de- spite this he said he still wanted to be Hover and comforter" to Mrs. Duffy, whether she cared for his love or not.
 "Oh, for a kiss of your sweet lips and look into your eyes of blue!" he added.
 Another letter says:
 CT played bridge Friday afternoon and misplayed so badly every hand held that Judge Mulqueen said he had never seen me play so badly. The judge said he would diagnose my case as love. I blushed because he had hit me right.
 "But, dear, I crave the opportunity to crush you in my arms. I cannot five without you. I swear that I will have you for my own dear little wife some day, even if we both have to jump to the other end of the world. I try to read, but I see your sweet face on every page, and I do nothing but sit and think"
 My heavens" another letter says, "it drives me crazy to think that I am pouring out my heart to you. My heart is beating with love for you"
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
CANADIANS STRIKE
 FIRST OFFENSIVE
(Continued From First Page.)

in Quebec or bending over the benches of a factory in New England We had luck with us and we forced it," one of the Canadians said. Tt was up to us to do so and that's all." At one place in the village the attackers were held up for a time by a strongly fortified post which bristled with ma- chine guns. "Well,' as one officer said, i've did not have to tell the men what to do. They stalked that strong point, men to man moving around it, and got it.''
 '"Tanks" Live Up to Expectations.
 But the exploit of the Canadians is only one of the many chapters which may be told now of what the sol
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
FIND ANTIQUE RIFLES.
Men WrecIxing Building Uneal
 Hundred Buried Years Ago.

New Orleans, Sept. t9.-Wrecld demolishing the old St. Louis hd one of the famous landmarks in trench quarter of New Orleans, hi unearthed a hundred rifles bun under the floor. The rifles are lieved to have been placed tn during the reconstruction troubles 1874 when the building was occuH as the state capitol under the ministration of Governor Kelld They were said to be of the Il model.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
LIFE INSURANCE IN COLLEGE

St. Louis, Sept. 19.-The introd ton of courses in life insurance
 colleges was characterized as sig1 cant by Hugh M. Willet of AtlaI who today made his report to
 rational convention of life und writers on the work of committed education and conservation. Seve| educational institutions, said Willet, have courses in life insural and hundreds of young men who nj taken these courses have become sI CesfuI life insurance salesmen.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
FILS-PORTER WEDDING.

Miss Ruth Wells, daughter of Her. man r. Wells of East street. and AL bert J. Porter of Emmons Place will be married at the home of Miss Wells Saturday evening, October IA. Rev. Henry w. Maier pastor of the Center Congregational church will perform the ceremony. MT. Porter is employed at the Stanley Works and Miss Wells was at one time a teacher in the local schools.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
BRINGS SUIT FOR S1OO.

Through Attorney A. A. Greenberg, Morris Cohn today brought suit against A. Barbanaro of North street for $100, claiming payment for goods sold and delivered. Constable Fred Wrinkle served the papers, returnable before the city court on the first Monday of October.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
TWO BICYCLES STOLEN.

Two bicycles have been reported to police as stolen and each being talk en from the same locality indicates that both may have been taken by the same party. Walter Andres of IA Warlock street reports his wheel stolen from the back porch of his home. Carl Swartz of 107 Glen street reports his wheel also gone.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
SMITH SEEKS LIBERTY.

Jimmy" Smith, who was sent to the state farm at Norwich some time ago, recently escaped from the in stitution. On being recaptured he was taken to the Hartford county jail He has applied for release on grounds of good behavior. The officials admit Smiths nerve is colossal but his re- quest has been denied.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
CANCELS McCANDIEss DRAFT.

Bosson, Sept. 19.-Manager Stall llngs of the Boston Nationals today announced that the club had cancelled it's draft of outfielder McCandless of the Dallas club of the Texas league. No other major league club had sought the player.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
FIRST NIP OF WINTER.

Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 19.-Heavy frost and a temperature of 30 degrees were reported today from points along the south shore of Lake Erie. Ice formed on still water in the hills. Considerable damage to garden truck was reported.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19

Zealanders also had their orders of the ''go there and stay there k1no. They went and later on the situa- tion was such they were warned that they must try and hold against a heavy counter attack. Out of the clouds of shell smoke in which bull lets and fragments. of steel screamed and whistled word came back that i've have stopped counter attack and taken some more ground and are go- ing to hold it." This cheered the staff as much as the sight of the col umns of German prisoners filing by. At some points things were not going so well as at others.
 The battalions whose luck failed them in this drive on the six-mile British front were driven back by the cunningly arranged enflading fire of machine guns in strong points which neither the artillery nor tanks gould conquer. As the wounded from these baffled battalions came hobbling down the shell-swept road they were cheered by the news of successes at other points.
 Flower of Army in Charge.
 There was a spectacular moment when, some time after the. battle had opened, word ran down the line that the Guards were going in." The Guards are the crack regiments. of the British regular xarmy and are steeped in the old aristocratic tra- ditions. When they came to the of- fensive they must show others the way through although the body of a. peers son is no less vulnerable to bull lets than that of cockney. When they went over the lid' as the slang phrase is for mounting thec parapet of the trench for @ charge, it was the supreme moment for the Guards to live up to their Waditions. They were to reach a certain objective in so many minutes and then wait. But they did not wait. They took l their second objective in the same rush. It was no matter if the colo nel of one of the regiments stood up on @ hillock and blew the silver hunting horn he carried in order to halt them. When they reached their final objective where they were to have 1t out with the Germans in as hard fighting as even this war has known, an Irishman in the Irish Guards exclaimed: "Is this as far as they told us to go? Sure, I haven't got my second wind yet.'
 More than once, facing counter at tacks, the British have gone out to 1 meet the German charges in the l open with the bayonet and the Ger mans have done the same. All past records in ferocity of fighting seemed l to have been surpassed during the latest British advance. So freely was
 
 courage shown on both sides that the ] whole thing seems unreal to the spectators In today's mist and rain 1 the ceaseless pounding of the guns | goes on as fresh troops march up to l the front from the rear to take their place in the next battle of this tre- 1 m endo1lS OffenSiVe.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-19
NOTICE.

Prof. Harmon, expert piano instruc- tion. Studio room IS, Booth Blk. Open Sat. afternoons, also Sat. and Mon. evenings. Phone, 1431-4.-advt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-14
NaM Orleans Cotton.

New Orleans, Oct. 13.-After losing
a few points on the opening trades in
the December option Today the cot
ton market firmed up in most de-
cided manner and bulged to a level
16@1S points over Wednesdays close
An accumulation of buying orders
over the holiday and expectations OF
large consumption figures in the
monthly mill report from the census
bureau appeared to be the reasons
for the rise.
Shorts covered at the advance and
increased the demand. In the trad
ing up to noon the rise was widened
to 24@2 points, all months going to
new high levels for the season.
The demand Increases in the after
noon on reports that cotton was sell
ing at higher prices in the belt than
could be obtained at the ports. In
the trading up to 1:39 the advance
was widened to 2S@30 points.
Cotton closed steady at an advance
of 16@19 points. The range: a-s,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-14
GRAIN-PROvISIONS.

Chicago, Oct. 13.-Buying on the
part of leading houses rallied the
wheat market today after weak
start. Initial declines were due to re-
ports of general rains in Argentina,
but it was said the breaking of the
drouth came too late in the north and
estimated yield would be confirmed.
The fact that Liverpool quotations
were unexpectedly firm tended also
to encourage the bulls. After opening
1-4@1c lower, with December at ST.
81 1-4@1-.57 ga and May at $1.58 II
@1,56k, the market here scored q
sharp advance to we'll above Tues
days finish and then underwent some
thing of reaction.
Corn rose with wheat. The market
was bullishly affected also by unfav-
.orable weather. in the domestic corn
belt.st After opening unchanged II to
lac lower, prices made moderate
gains all around. Es
Big receipts weakened oats.
Strength of other grain failed to act
as an offset M
sScansiness 81 offerings brought
about an advance in provisions. Lard
Tor October delivery touched the high
lest price yet this season.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-14
REPORTS OF
MARKETS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
New York Cotton.

New York, Oct 12.--The cotton mar
ket opened steady at an advance of
1M17 points today, with active months
selling 1902 points above Wednes-
days closing figures during the ear
iy trading Reports thai large mum
Der of vessels had sailed yesterday
had seemed to relieve Wednesdays
late apprehensions of {. serious delay
in the export movement, while the ad-
vance was also encouraged by firm
Liverpool cables. December con-
Tracts sold up to 1860 and January
to 17.50c shortly after the call, or
back to within few points of We'd
nesdays high record. Trade inter
ests we're buyers again, while there
was covering and replacing by peo-
pie who had sold before the holidays.
Southern selling was not in evil
dence and the market showed increas-
ing strength late in the morning,
with December selling up to 17.70c.
January to 17.60c, or about 29030
points net higher. This established
new high records for the season and
attracted enough realizing to cause
! reactions of Z or points from the
| best around midday.
The midday reaction was followed
by renewed Strength with January
and later months making new records
and with the general list selling
about 29@34 points above Wednes-
i days closing figures. This advance
carried January contracts up to H.
&c and March to l7.70c.
Cotton closed steady. The range:
L r.1aJ
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-14
Liverpool Cotton.

Liverpool, Oct 13.--Spot cotton
easier; good middling. 10.25d; mid
ding, 10.11d; low middling, 9.95d;
sales, 5000 bales, including 1000
bales for speculation and export; re-
-ceipts, $4,000 bales.
Futures quiet; October, 10,11hd;
October November, 1O.1ld; November
December, 1O.10d; Overwhelmingly,
1O.1Ohd; February, 10.11d:
February March, 1O.13d; March-April,
1O.14Ad; April-May 1O.15d; May-June
1O.15kd; June-July, 1O.13d; July
August, 10.11d; August-September'
9.93d.