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Evening journal., 1916-10-09

TopSis. who also was invited to
speak, was unable to be present.
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request a subscription to the cam
paign. But you can see the post
master away from his place OF bust
ness and make such an appeal TO
him as you would make TO any other
Democrat to contribute TO the ma
tional Democratic campaign fund,
and can advise him as to what the
national committee is expecting Of
him.
1t is hoped that you will proceed
antelEigently along these lines and
arrange in a legal way to solicit each
Democratic postmaster, or other APP
pointee of the present administra-
ton, to contribute to the Wilson
campaign fund, all of whom should
realize that the interests of Presi-
dent Wilson in this race are identi-
cal with their own.
Very sincerely yours,
r. Donna Ridgway. Chairman,
Central Committee.
Mr.. Mccormick is Gaining that the
"hold-up" letter was sent out With
out the knowledge of the National
Committee, fails to refer to the fact
that its author, Mr. Ridgway, is a
member of the general finance COM
mittee of the National Committee, and
10 the further fact that in his letter
Mr.. Ridgway says that he acts at the
instance of the Texas member of the
Democratic National Committee. Mr..
Poindexter. who had few days prev
iously been in New York in confer
ence with Chairman Mccormick and
the members of the Democratic Cam
paign Committee.
Those familiar with the organiza-
/ ton Of the Democratic National Com
mittee may be disposed to accept with
some degree of skepticism McCor-
mick's assertions, Q) that Marsh.
treasurer OF the Democratic National
| Committee instructed two weeks ago
that the Ridgway letter be withheld
and that Mr.. Mccormick never learn
ed of its existence until it was called
TO his attention AS hours ago by the
public press.
The date of the letter shows that
even according to Mr.. Mccormick
own statement, a week interviewed be.
tween the time it was issued and the
time that Mr.. Marsh instructed thai
such copies as remained unmaileC
"should not go out"
Confrmatory evidence that the ter
per cent. assessment plan is being
operated in various parts Of the
country is in the hands of the Re-
publicans.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27
THERE is CALL TO YOU REVEALED IN THIS
TALE OF MAN OF 70 AND HIS BLIND WIFE
BY JANE whitaker

eve are an old couple near the
80th mark, out of work, and home,
and the people of today have no time
for us. My wife is blind and not able
to help herself, so you see that we
are in very bad state.
But we are not asking for char
ity, as am able to work if l can get
it. l am an engineer and understand
steam if could get something in that
line or anything. A. w. Marrow,
1886 N. Hoyne aV."
gasped when 1 read it-a man
near 80, who asked not charity, but
just chance to support himself and
his wife who is blind.
What survival of the fighting
spirit" I said to myself. 81 want to
see him."
That was my interest when start
ed out there, to see the man nearly
80, who asked the right to work and
not eat the bread of charity, but / am
afraid that much of the story will
wind itself away from the man and
play around the wife of the man,
who is blind, and so l am going to
tell you of him very quickly, that l
may digress.
Not finding my way very easily to
the address in the letter, as had
not gone by the most direct route, on
the Clybourne av. car, l stopped a
man who seemed to be about 81 or
55, or at the very most So or SO, and
l asked him where the number was.
"That is my home" he said. 'My
wife and 1 are stopping there with
some friends"
Does a Mr.. Marrow live there?"
l asked.
81 am Mr.. Marrow" he said. "You
are Miss Whitaker, l know"
why you are not near go" l
gasped
81 have passed my 18th birthday
he answered.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27

and of stationary plant and he can
take care of steam plant; he would
make splendid janitor, and he is
able to run an elevator. There isn't
anything he isn't willing to do except
that he could not lift heavy things.
We had reached the house by this
time and entered the living room. A
gray-haired woman holding a chubby
baby turned to us with that question
ing expression of the blind and my
first feeling was: What beautiful
face" 1t held in it all of motherhood,
of sweetness, of patience and of
resignation.
''Do you think you can help us?"
she asked me, eagerly, when l re-
leased her hand that l had held rath-
er long; resisting an impulse to kiss
her as would my own mother. MY
husband is so willing to work and we
do not ask much, but we are living
here with these friends who are not
able to have this burden placed on
them. The husband, who is paint
er, has not worked for weeks. He
has his wife and children and here
we are, an extra burden, because he :
took us in when we had no place"
Mrs. Marrow, you mustn't say
you are burden said the mother
of the baby Mrs. Marrow had been
holding.
But it is true" and the lips of the
blind woman quivered. =
Haven't you any children to help
your" asked. )
Eve had one daughter, but She.
She stopped and from her sightlessr
eyes two tears flowed over and down
her cheeks and she tried to control
the culver of her lips.
"Our daughter is dead" finished
the husband.
eff you aren't able to get work for
my husband, Miss Whitaker, do you
suppose you can tell me how to get
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
SIR FELIx scHUsTER

Although of German birth. Sir Felix Schuster, the distinguished London financier. has on many occa- sions proved his devotion to the Brit ish cause. He will be sixty-two to- rnorrows having been born on April 21 1854, at Frankfort-on-the-Ma Germany Since the outbreak of the war he. has ever been associated in the various plans of EngIand's ab1est financiers to maintain the country s credit and provide the anews of war for Britain and her allies Although of German birth, and educated at Frankfort, he is the scion of a, fam fly which has had large interests in England for more than a. century. His father, Francis Joseph Schuster, was a member of the London bank ter completing his education at Owens College, Manchester, Sir Felix entered a bank in 1873, and rapidly WorkA his way upward to a com 1nanding position in the financial world In 1g95 he became the gov ernor of the Union of London and Smiths Bank, one of the greatest of London's banking Institutions. Ten years ago he was created a baronet, and was made a member of the Council of India. Sir Felix married a daugh- ter of Sir Herman Webber, famous specialist in pulmonary diseases, and has one son, Felix Victor Schuster, who is an officer in the British army. In the early period of he war Sir Felix shared in the popular crusade against those of German birth or origin, but this clamor has now died out, so far as the eminent banker is concerned. He was a member of the committee of flnanciers chosen to arrange terms for the big loan in the United States. Mu- sicsis Sir Felix's greatest delight, and he is himself a pianist of more than usual ability. In fact, it has often been said that should necessity arise he could make an excellent living by playing in public.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
KISSING PASTOR OUSTED FOR ACT

Jersey City. N. J., April 21-Despite a quotation from St. Pauls epistle to the Romans, urging the need of exer- cising charity, the Rev. J. Lewis Evans, after an address to the con- gregation of the Union Congregation al church of Cedar Grove, N. J., was dismissed by a vote of 52 to 37 for having twice kissed Jas he admitted, Miss Maude Jacobus, a soprano of the choir.
 MT. Evans asked that a ''vote of confidence be given to him so that he might obtain another pastorate.s but this was refused.
 The Rev. Thomas Travis, pastor of the Watching Congregational church, of Montc1air, N. J., who was the mod orator of the meeting, wished to allow all the contributors to the church to vote on the question of the dismissal of MT. Evans, but he was overru1ed by vote of the members of the church.
 About two-thirds of the congrega- tion that voted to dismiss MT. Evans for kissing Miss Jacobus were women. Miss Jacobus was not present. but her father, Edward A. Jacobus, who is a trustee of the church, was one of the frstNt to enter his vote.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
EIGHTEENTH HEARING
 HELD ON MOLL CASE

"Put in prayer book if you want to- suggested Judge Robert B. De Forest at the eighteenth hearing on the famous Mo1l case before Judge Paul Miller in the probate court yes terday.
 Attorney A. L. Delaney, who rep resents Gustave MoII.- whom his sis ters, Mrs. Lily Thorpe and Theresa Ober1ey, are endeavoring, to have re- moved as conservator, said a prayer book might be a good thing in the records Of the case and such book might be needed by some of the prin- cipals before the case finishes. Mrs. Nfo1 is more than 90 years old. The estate is believed to be about $5O,0OO. The witnesses before the probate court yesterday were: Margaret T. Burgess, Rev. Paul Clemens, pastor the German Lutheran church; Fred H. Daniels of 2367 Madison avenue, and Mrs. Minnie Mansfield.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
CORONER TO PROBE
 DEATH OF CHILD
 BURNED AT BONFIRE

Burns received when her clothes caught fire while playing about a bon fire at her home yesterday afternoon resulted fatally to <fve-year-old Clara Aldel1 of High street, Holland Heights, Fairfield. She died in Bridgeport hospital at 7:3o last even ing.
 With several other youngsters the child was playing about a bonfire in the yard in the rear of her home on Holland Heights, Fairfield. The chill drens were circling the blaze when the flames caught the skirts of the little one. Mrs. Hi1da Rudolph of High street, Fairfield, attempted to extin@ guish the blaze on the chi1d's clothing and in so doing suffered burns on both hands.
 Clara was taken to the emergency hospital by her father, in his wagon. pr. J. T. Powers of the emergency hospital staff ordered her taken, to Bridgeport hospital. She died at 7:30 last evening.
 { Coroner Phelan will make an i'm quiry to determine whether the fire was started by grown persons or by the children themselves.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
The Western Association

The opening of the Western Asso- citation season is reminiscent of the various old leagues which have oper- ated under that name. The present Western Association is at the portal of it's third year, and includes cities in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. The original Western Association of the '8es and early '90s> embraced a number of large cities in the middle West, and was one of the parent or ganizations of the American league. Another Western Association was launched ten years ago by pr. Shive- ley of Kansas City, and was origin ally confined, to Kansas and Missouri cities. When. Wichita and Topeka abandoned the association to enter the Western league, the former went on the rocks, but still another Wes- tern Association is now in the field.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
EASTER OFFERINGS
 SHOULD BE LARGER

New York, April 21-A. collection for the charities of the diocese will be taken up in all the Catholic churches of the state Easter Sunday.
 The Catholic Transcript is authority of the statement that in Connecticut there are 469.7O1 Catholics, and that Hast year the Easter collection from the entire diocese amounted to $24,- 845.23, g. little less than five and one third cents for each Catholic in the state. Thus computed" comments the Transcript, ''the Easter offering from the faithful looks small, indeed.
 ''But it must be borne in mind that fair percentage of the 469,7o1 not only give nothing but actually re- ceive charity from the church. The orphan child that is maintained by the diocese at the expense of $100 per year consumes, according to the per capita generosity of last year, the con- tributions of 1875 individuals, in other words it required the munif- cence of 1875 Catholics of Connectf- cut to support one indigent child.''
 Continuing it's comment the Trans script says: There are parishes in this diocese that do\not contribute one cent per capita in Response to the bishops domestic appeal. There are parishes whose orphans cost the dio- cese several hundred dollars a year which do not contribute a hundred dollars year to the fund set apart for that purpose. Moreover, there are old established parishes of three, four and five thousand people. that do not con- tribute on an average of ten cents per capita yearly for the diocesan works of charity. Other parishes, in deed, are more generous. but their number is Comparatively small. A couple of hundred dollars from a parish of, say, 3, ,500 prosperous people, would indi- cate that it's members hold their do- native propensitfes under excellent contro1.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
How to Fight Gut Worms.

If you find cut worms in your corn this spring, you may prevent serious loss by fighting them with poison, says the Department of Agriculture. The process corresponds to that of spread ing poison for mice, rats or any other pest.
 Mix 50 pounds of wheat bran, 2 pounds of Paris green, and 6 finely chopped oranges or lemons. Then bring the whole mixture to the con- sistency of a stiff dough by the addi- ton of a cheap mo1asses, such as is used in cattle rations, adding. water when necessary. Distribute this bait over the infested field in small Jumps, taking care to sprinkle it sparingly around each hill. In case bran can not be readily obtained, Inidd1ings or alfalfa meal may be successfully sub stituted. In. fields known to be in fested, the distribution of this bait begins to appear above ground so that quickly as possible and the injured warmer spring months cutworms do most of their feeding at night and bur row into the soil to the depth<of an inch or two during the day. so that the bait will usually be more effective if applied during the late afternoon or early evening hours
 Frequently cutworms migrate to cultivated fields from adjoining grass land, and in such cases the crops can be protected by running a narrow band of the poisoned bait around the edge of the field or along the side nearest the source of infestation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
SAY RAW MATERIALS
 STOP GERMAN MILL $

The Hague, Netherlands, April 21- The exodus from Germany or the numerous Dutch workmen's families resident there has been in evidence for many months past, and the move ment is proceeding steadily. Most of these people hail from the Rhenishi WestphaHan industrial region.
 They declare unemployment is in creasing on every shanad in various branches of German industry. Mar gartne and oil factories are here and there entirely at Q standstill; the weaving factories have not been at work for some time and now the army gun7cottof factories, including those at Bocho1t,s have had to reduce their operations to two days per week, the cause in all cases being lack of raw materials.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
MISS GOLDMAN,S TRIAL
 DRAWS SYMPATHIZERS

New York, April 21-An extra. guard of police was thrown around the Court of Special Sessions yester- day in preparation for the trial of Elm ma Goldman, who was to appear as her own attorney when arraigned be- fore Justices O'Keefe, Herbert and Moss for a speech advocating birth control
 Long before the time of arraien- ment numerous sympathizers gather ed in the Criminal Courts bI1iIdine- seeking to know where the trial would be held. Capt. Haupt, with a ser geant and six patrolmen, was on hand early to keep out all suspicious look Ing persons. The authorities express ed fear of attempted demonstrations on the part of Miss Goldman's anar- chist friends. Amy endeavor to pres ent flowers to her in the court room as has been promised by certain of her admirers would be stopped, the police declared, by expulsion
 Miss Goldman was charged viii, violating the section of the penal law against indecency. She was acsused of using improper words before 2. mixed audience of men, women and children in the New Star Casino Frel1 in urging the spread of birth con trol knowledge.
 Miss Goldmah's admirers gave her a Birth Control'' dinner at the Ho- tel Brevoort last night
 By o'clock more than 300 per- sons had gathered in the corridors courtroom In the line formed bv
 police was a small whiskered man, who refused to give his name. bearing huge bunch of American n Beauty roses. He had intended to present them to Miss Goldman when Et7A. n ~-.1 police informed him that he could not enter with the flowers
 Miss Goldman obtained twenty subpoenas, signed by the Court which granted entrance to the room for her friends. These few entered tba numerous others who had credentials of one kind or another.
 Within the past two weeks 300 and 500 letters have been received bv Presiding Justice O'Keefe from all parts of the United States. asking control. Two or three telegrams have also been received, sent to Miss Elm ma Goldman, in care of the Court of Special Sessions"
 A man who was issuing alleged subpoenas, signed in an iIIegib1e caught by the police and elected. His documents of admittance were not honored.
 Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, one of the 200 representatives of socialism art, medicine, law and literature, open ly declared that she had ''honored the law by breaking ft'' since the day of her marriage. She is the wife of J. G. Phelps Stokes, and this,-sne hint ed, was the cause of her immunity hitherto from arrest She said she had used the mails in spreading the doctrine of birth control
 After her speech Mrs. Stokes whis- pered something to several women and passed around slips Of paper, which she declared contained infor- nation on birth control
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
Girl, Shot, Absolves Father

Btnghamton, April 21-"I am to blame. bounded papa about money matters until he couldn't stand it.''
 Dying of bullet wounds inflicted by he shot and killed himself, Miss, merly of Ell Paso, Tex, just before he shot anad killed himself, Miss Holland Sharpe, IS, pretty girl Of some social prominencei made this statement here today. She was shot twice through the body last night as she fled from Sharpe. He then shot himself in the heart.
 A quarrel in the par1or of the Sharpe home preceded the shooting. She urged her father to resign 4his trusteeship of the money Mrs. Sharpe had left to her, so that a young San Antonio attorney could be appointed. Sharpe refused and drove her from the room at the point of a revolver. She dashed upstairs. Just before reaching the top the first bull let struck her. It penetrated her left lung. The second also penetrated her c1asped to her bosom The girl fell and two more shots struck the wall over her.
 Miss Sharpe and her father had quarre1Ied often about money His papers, accoNding to Coroner Hook, der and suicide a long time. The daughter did not think him liberal enough. in his guardianship of her fortuna
 Sharpe came from Cherry Valley, N. Y., and had been Collector O fCus- toms at EI Paso. At the time of his death he was Superintendent of build-' ings for his cousin, Willis Sharpe KiImer, wealthy patent medicine manufacturer. The man now dead recently suffered heavy financial re- verses in Texas investments.
 s'I would rather have lost all the money in the world than have had this awful thing happen Miss Sharpe told a friend at her bedside.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
BAD COLDS

The best way to get rid of a bad cold is to soothe and heal your raw, sore and inf1amed throat, bring up the ph1egm easily without straining, ged nostri1s and protect your lungs. Get a bottle of Leonardi's Cough Syrup (Creosoted). It does the work. It >loosens the hard phlegm chunks. soothes and heals the throat because it is santisepttc and opehs the air pas sages. The best remedy for bad colds, tight coughs, grippe, bronchitis, whoop- ing cough and croup. A pleasant, safe and sure cough emedy.-25 sc. Hin dle's Drug Stores, 987 NIain>street and 9O9 Main street.=AdY.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
MOTHERS START FIRES.

Hartford, April 21.-'NThe majority of all fires in the United States, except those due to dynamite, lightning and fire bugs, are started by mothers ac- cnoirman of the fire prevention com nnittee, of the Safety First Federation of America.
 ''It is absolutely a. mystery to me- he declared, ''why women are so care less in the way they handle gasoline, highly indaGnmable and volatile oils. They don't seem to realize the terrific forces hidden in the chemicals of which they make such careless use.
 Take gasoline, for instance. Wo- men all but monopo1ize fires from this every conceivable household purpose, from cleaning gloves to staying in sects. They handle it as if it were water, and when they finish using it they pour it into the sink A few days later a manho1e cover blows up and papers print stories of a mysterious sewer gas explosion
 "It is safer to play football with a, can of nitroglycerine than to deal care1essly with gasoline. You can take an open pail of gasoline and the vapor from it will burn with an open flame until the pail is empty. The flames consume the vapor as fast as it comes from the liquid, but if a spark is introduced in an atmosphere in which gasoline vapor is mingled with the right proportion of air, there will be a terrific explosion. To make mat ters worse, I venture to say there is not one home in fifty equipped to conn bat fire. There may be @ pail, but it has to be filled, even granting it can be found when it is wanted.
 Every home should be equipped with some extinguisher. No one ever. expects fire, but it is frequently the unexpected that happens
 T. F. Baker, chief inspector of the Texas Fire Insurance commission, said at the convention of Texas club wo- men at Brownwood,a d,a Texas:
 Most housewives would throw up their hands in holy horror to see their children playing with a loaded gun or kicking 8 stick of dynamite about. Yet, these same housewives will clean clothing in an open bowl of gasoline in the kitchen with a. fire burning in the range.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
ESCAPED FROM SUBMARINE.

New. York, April 21.-The steamer America arrived here Wednesday from Naples with 1,255 passengers On April 6, while steaming through the Mediterranean, a wireless message was received from British patrol boat that a submarine was operating in the vicinity. The commander of American changed his course and steamed for the coast of Spain.
 Keeping in touch with shore sta- tions, the officers of the America, by constant change of course, finally suc- ceeded in eluding the underwater craft off the coast of A1giers and escaped to the open sea-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
WOULD CONDUCT GARAGE.

Before the fire committee of the common council last night, Attorney I. H. Rivkin of 1O44 Chapel street, New Haven, explained why his broth CT. David, desires to have a public garage at 534 Chapel street. They propose to spend $25,oO0 on the build ing and to take the agency of two Chalmers cars. Judge Alfred B. Beers automobiles. Judge Alfred B: Beers the petition tot establish the garage. He represented Henry Knight, M. H. Rogers, Mrs. Andrew Rade1, Susan Eames Si11iman, John R.. Woodruff, Philip Blansfeld and Dr.V c. c. De- Wolfe
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
GRAND BALL.

The Singing McEne1ly's are with us again!
 Next Monday night they will play and sing for the annual Easter Mon day Ball at Colonial Hall. Excellent music, a beautiful hall, the finest floor ,ever-a delightful place to spend an enjoyable evening after the rigor of Lent.
 Come and waltz to your heartis~ con-
 tent, And those who are not on dancing
 bent, Will get the worth of every cent. By listening to the music.
 Dancing until 2 A. M.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

We are offering the largest and most select stocks of choice millinery, for Easter wear. More than 2,OOO trimmed hats for your selection. Money saving opportunities on every article at B. H. Dillon & Co.'S, 11O5 Main street.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
NvFNTs ATTACHMENT
 FOR MILITARY RIFLES.

James Moor of stratford, inspector in the barrel department of the Rem ington Arms & Ammunition Co.,, has invented a guage for locating and qualifying the draw mark in the mod ern rifle barrel.