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New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
Where White WAn
SeId0m Set Foot

monarch far to the south, Napoleor
replied with g request for more SUBJ
stantial evidence of the sultan's good
wishes in the form of $500 youthful
slaves.
Add Ell Rahnpan, an able ruler, was
succeeded by his son Mahomme ed lei.
Fadhl who died of leprosy, bequeath-
ing his power to Mahommed Hassin.
one of his forty sons. 1t was during
the reign of Hassfn's youngest son,
Ibrahim, that the khedive of Egy9t
made war on the Darfurians. Ibrahim
was slain in battle and his kingdom
annexed to Egypt, the royal family
being removed to Cairo, in 1875.
Eight years later the country fell un-
der the sway of Mohammed Ahmed, !
the Mahdi who slew General Gordon
and his men at Khartum. While re
Mahdi was all-powerful in this part
of Africa Ali Dinar, the future sui
tan, was held prisoner at Omdur-
man, across the Nile from Khartum,
but upon the formers death the OAR
FUR royal family was restored to power
and up to the recent rebellion the
country had enjoyed comparative
peace, Ali Dinar paying an annual
tribute of S2,500 to the Sudan gov
eminent.
"Darfur is traversed from NORTH
east to southwest by range of VOL
canic mountains, while the eastern
and western edges of the land are
sandy and non productive. There are
numerous fertile valleys in the noun
famous section however, where cot
ton and tobacco are indigenous, and
where considerable wheat is grown.
Cattle-raising has been the chief oc-
cupation of the natives, however,
since the adjustment of the slave
traffic. The chief exports of the coun-
try continue to be feathers, ivory and
gums.
The capital of Darfur is Ell flasher.
a town of 10000 Inhabitants situated
about 500 miles southwest of Khar-
tum. It was founded by Adder Rah-
man and is, in the main, q collection
of straw huts, although there are one
or two buildings of some size, includ-
Ing the sultan's residence"
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
SIR HIRAM MAXIM.

With the death yesterday in Lon
don of Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of
the automatic system of firearms, the
only formidable if friendly rival of
Thomas A. Edison has left the stage
Indeed the two men met in active
when both laid claim to the original
invention of the incandescent lamp.
Both perfected their lamps at the
same time, and the dispute which was
finally settled in the patent courts,
recognized Edisons right of priority.
Sir Hiram Maxim was a remarkable
man in more ways than one. His in
ventions have revolutionized warfare,
and every battle in Europe today is
a tribute to his ingenuity. He even
carried his genius into the realm of
aeronautics and after the experiments
of the Wright brothers at Fort Myer,
Virginia, in 1908, produced a heavier
than-air machine which had many
innovations. He had studied the sci
ence Of aeronautics when Samuel
Langley, the late beloved director of
the Smithsonian institute started his
experiments on the Potomac. For
more than thirty years he had mani
tested an interest into the now we'll
developed art of flying.
Even before the outbreak of this
| European struggle, in fact five years
| ago, he warned the British govern
| ment of the possibility of air raids on
London in the event Great Britain
! went to war with continental pow
er. The boosted British fleet then
would not be of much use, he wrote !;
and, sure enough, it has not been a
safeguard against Zeppelins.
Sir Hiram Maxim was born and
raised in New England, of old Puri-
tanical stock, although he held lit
tie love for the Puritans, going so far
as to write in his autobiography that
the old time settlers of this section
would worship God to the dictates
| of their own conscience and prevent
others from doing the same From
| his early youth he broke away from
staid traditions and conventions and
| branched out for himself. His son
who is now living in Hartford is the
| inventor of the celebrated Maxim ST.
| lencer. Sir Hiram paved the way for
! modern warfare with the invention of
the machine gun which makes the
| recoil of the weapon serve as the
| power for re-loading.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
NEW BRITAIN'S GROWTH.

It is a conservative estimate tina
places the population of New Britain
at 51,730. This is done by the pub.
fishers of the 1916 city directory is
sued yesterday. There are 22,96e
names in the book. Following the
usual methods Of census experts these
figures are multiplied by two and a
fraction and the answer given as New
multiplied by three would come closer
to the real number of persons now
dwelling in the city, according to many
Opinions.
New Britain has had and is having
3 remarkable growth. In the United
States census for the year 1910 it
had reached a population of 43,916, a
growth of $50 per cent. in the ten
years When the 1920 census is
staken New Britain, if it holds true to
form, will manifest almost as great
growth, everything being considered.
STt is striving ahead by steady, healthy,
2Bains. Nowhtre in it's career is there
march has been ever forward and will
be forward until the point is reached
where further development of the city
would be impossible with outlying
townships and communities acting as
barriers.
AS soon as New Britain pushes
forward until the main line Of the
New Haven road is reached and
handsome railroad station is erected
10 will rival any city in the state. The
here fact that it is situated off the
runk line, off the main artery of
*ravel, is one of the things that
Hampers the city in many ways. We
IRE getting along wonderfully we'll
&nder present conditions, we have our
Railroad terminal in the very heart
#f the city; but we will get along
#ven better when the new station puts
an appearance, when the railroad
! Rcilities for bringing in travellers is
#laced a trifle away from the center
I'D the street cars and busses are
e SGD to carry people to and from the
alton 1t is done in other cities with
= cry good effect and it can be done
ere. Nor does such a shift in station
ii ties mean that the business center
huSt follow suit Even when New
ritain marks that advance in it's
rowth the merchants can still do
usiness at the same old stands.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
DRY" Territory.
Colchester Post Express. J

To put the facts graphically. CNa
tWenty-four states now dry with the
parts of the country under local
option contain 60 per cent, of tho
population of the country and IS per
cent. of it's area. In 1909 there wers
seven prohibition states, last year six
teen, and now half the states in the
Union arc under prohibitory laws.
Michigan, Nebraska and South Da-
kota had tried prohibition before and
went back to it after trying the license
system. A clergyman was beaten at
the primaries by the machine in demo-
cratic Florida, and on an independent
ticket he beat the "wet" candidate OF
the dominant party In Missouri ST.
Louis, the home of the greatest brew
ing industry in the world, by its vot,
alone kept the state in the wet
column, but the normal majority was
reduced by 100000. Kansas CITY.
which voted five to one for liquor pa
few years ago, went dry, Kansas Citse
Kansas, just across the river won ifs
neighbors over by the spectacle of it's
prosperity. South Dakota was like
wise envious of the prosperity OF
North Dakota, dry for ten years.
Similar economic arguments appear.
to have influenced the voters in Michi-
gan and Nebraska, who saw the ad-
vance in material wealth in West Vl1S
GINA, Kansas and Tennessee.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

| is In progress. But newspapers in the
| the prospect of what might happen If
= sudden gust of wind tilted the plane
| OF one aero and precipitated it's dri-
yer to the interior Of the overf1oWing
| bowl. There is that possibility. The
| fact that ten or dozen aviators
| flew from New York to the Princeton
game last Saturday and got away
| without mishap is no guarantee that
I something will not go awry at the
/ Yale game today if the tentative fight
| is carried out
Ordinarily, it might be supposed
according to the popular conception
Of reporters thirst for "big story
that every newspaperman would re-
vel in the prospects of what might
happen when a bevy Of aeroplanes
hover over $4,000 innocent and un
protected heads The dropping of
a pair of pliers, if the dropping was
good, might easily mean the cracking
of one skull, and possibly the killing
of a notable-either player or spec
tator. The breaking Of one wing of
one aeroplane might mean q list OF
dead and injured com parable with
that resulting from train wreck. A
collision Of two machines has more
than a touch of the dramatic, and
their wreckage would show beneath
scenes as CHASTITY as those which took
place at the battle of the Somme. The
imagination has only begun to work
we'll when it pictures all of the air
machines falling at one time at vari-
Gus spots in the cheering section,
killing and manning the hero-wor
shippers In the olden days, when
those outside the realm Of newspaper
dom had a different idea of the fiend-
ish scribes who draw the pictures of
news events, that would have been a
story worth while.
But, no! There is not a newspaper
man in the world fiend enough to
wish for what some think he yearns
for The story of the game is enough
to satisfy the most avaracious make
up man." If 1T were not, there are
enough stories Of blood and thunder,
and death and destruction coming in
over the cable from Europe. With
this vindication, every newspaper in
the state sends up it's voice in loud
disapproval of the practice of flying
heavier than-air machines over foot
ball fields where are gathered thou
sands of thousands Of human beings, =
among whom are the boys in the
press stand.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
FOOLISH FLIGHTS.

Unless we have forgotten all the
rules and laws of the air as propound-
ed and sometimes successfully en-
forced by the Aero Club of America
it is illegal for aviators to fly directly
over crowded city thorOughfarc3 even
over the cities III general. Therefore,
it would seem that the Aero Club
could prevent the proposed flight of
ayiators over the Yale bowl TODAY
while the great annual football game
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

so back to the old fellows whose
hearts went racing down the sideline
with lilly Lamar in the early sos.
Or it is Coy, McC1ung, Heffelfnger,
Billy Bull: heroes all, immortals of
glorys gridiron. t
The Greeks are on the field; is
there a Homer In the stands? Even
with airmen cavorting dizzily over
head-high as the price of hot dogs
in the trains after the battle-even
in the furs and furbelows of 1916, the
show is medieval. Any crowd u.s. A
great day, and what it means is even
less clearly shown in the peopled
lodges Of the concerted amphitheater
than where some lonely graduate i'm
the Arctic waste or tropic jungle turns
his thoughts back to the old campus.
and wonders who's making the
touchdowns for Alma Mater and de-
Tending her goal.
The "muddied OATS" are supermen.
and football is the autumn sport of a
mighty people. -
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

1912, but as a protest against the de-
livery by George M. Perkins Of the
Progressive Party, en- masse, to the
Old Guard Of Penrose, Smoot, Lodge,
Crane, Root & Co., the same crowd
who were instrumental in defeating
the Roosevelt nomination in 1912.
That the efforts of sincere Progressives
were effective is shown by the fact
that Wilson had $4,000 more votes in
Connecticut in 1915 than he polled
four years previous. The Progressives
had no call to arms for the Democratic
state ticket and though Mr.. Duffy
was on it his presence there served
only to gain votes for Wilson.
With Democratic organization along
the lines prevalent in Ohio and Penn
sylvania, and with a strong candidate
for Governor, the Democrats might
have carried the state for Wilson
and Cummings and elected their
the General Assembly. 1t will be
very interesting to see if they will be
wise enough to so conduct the man
agement of their party's affairs as
to keep the support of such Connecti-
cut Progressives as voted for Wilson
in the recent election, at the same
time gaining more Progressive votes
by offering a programme In remedial
legislation in state general matters
which the Republican Assembly can
be counted upon to turn down in
1917 as in the two previous sessions
It is safe to say that this will be
attempted. The Progressives have
confidence in certain Democratic state
leaders. These men are powerful in
the party's councils and it is certain
that their influence will be directed
to a reconstruction Of their party's
organization and in favor of pro-
gramme which will meet with Pro-
gressive approval. If this is done the
Republicans may look forward to a
lively contest in this state two years
campaign of one Charles Evans
Hughes they can hardly hope to win
back any considerable proportion of
the Progressive vote. That vote has
already declared itself for Wilson, and,
from the looks of things, has come
home to stay. With the tariff ques-
ton two years from now on the road
to settlement by the commission
many others will be likely to vote the
Democratic ticket though still tech
aically retaining their Progressive
allegiance. y.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

he be more mature in years, his per-
spective of events of the olden days
has not changed.
Never has an intercollegiate foot
ball game taken such a hold on the
people of New Britain as the Yale
Harvard classic at New Haven this
afternoon. And likewise, never were
SO many local football enthusiasts
disappointed in getting tickets as
there were for today's game. Months
ago friends of graduates and under
graduates of the two great universities
swamped them with requests to get
them tickets and in almost every in
stance their requests were promised
as it was not thought that the little
pasteboards would be at such a pre-
MUM. But because this same thing
was going on all over the eastern
and central states. the Yale ticket Of
flee was swamped with requests until
at the last moment it was necessary to
cut down the graduates to two tickets
each. This, in many instances, was
even less than the graduate needed
to supply his own family and as a
result those who had no close ties to
the colleges were left in the lurch.
But even though hundreds of New
Britain people were not able to sac
the game, scores went to New Haven
this afternoon in hopes that they
might get a ticket somewhere. And
those who remained at home got
little of the spirit of the occasion by
seeing the gaily decorated cars whiz
through the city and watching the
tickers and newspaper offices.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
LOOKING AHEAD TWO YEARS.

! Now that the campaign is over
&Plitical leaders are enjoying a short
&Ircease from their sorrows, those
&ho have any, and a brief rest from
heir labors those who worked on the
thinning side. In Connecticut, pre-
Hrninary moves are being made in the
Erection of organizing the Senate and
Me House. The Republican majorities
he decisive in both branches and the
8Dntests will be between factions in
3 hat party Recognition comes to the
Minority i'll committee appointments
bly, as expediency may determine.
The Republican organization is al
LAYS strong in Connecticut but this
bar it was unable to deliver it's an
8cipated vote for the state and nation
81 tickets,-nOt so much on account
4 any lack of effort, and certainly
Ut because of the lack of necessary
#nds, but largely for the reason that
great many independent voters,
&lblicans, cast their votes for the
Resident The State Democratic
"A ganization as a whole deserves
- particular credit for this fea-
q re of the vote. Had certain of the
#g cities been effectively organized
the Democrats the grand old state
q Connecticut would have been car
r led for the Democratic electors,
Tough probably not for the state
eket which was weak at the top.
BECAUSE of this there was no strength
Fought to the national ticket or to
frederick E. Duffy's candidacy for
cretary of State and his plain con-
ncing speeches helped draw to the
emocratic national ticket many Pro
essive votes Mr.. Duffys part in the
mpaign was along the same lines
those taken by cambridge Colby
no appeared here at the Lyceum, and
bhn M. Parker who was heard sc
spectfully in Hartford They al
eaded with members of the Pro
essive party to vote for Wilson, no.
lone because the President and his
emocratic Congress had enacted
&any laws which the Progressives re-
rded as their own initiative ano
hich their platform demanded ir
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
The Surgeon AS Il Iifeaaver.
philadelphia Ledger.)

The true facts about the work of
DR.. Alexis Carrel at the American hos
pital at Paris (Neuilly.) which are
now attracting a som ewhat sensation-c
al attention, warrant any enthusiasm
that the medical profession and the
laymen may express, for they show
the surgeon as a lifesaver, on a scale
hitherto considered impossible in war
And yet what DR.. Carrel has done is
simplicity itself, since, as announced
by him early in October, in co-opera-
ton with the American Ambulance
Service, he first shortened the time
that 1T took to fetch the wounded from
the trenches to the hospital, and,
secondly, he subjected the wounded,
at the earliest possible moment, to
the new antiseptic treatment by which
blood poisoning was prevented. AS
result of these two simple precau-
tonary measures the wounded at the
hospital not only do not have to I'M
dergo so many operations, brought
about by infection of the wounds, but
the healing of the wounds is quickened
and the death rate lowered, and, what
is more, the application of the mar
wells of plastic surgery, by which the
unfortunates are restored to some
semblance of humanity is enormously
developed. Consequently, through
this splendid cooperation, results are
being achieved that surpass all ex-
pectations as to the saving of life and 4
restoring the wounded land that this
is done by Americans must be
source of qualification to US.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

Washington, D. c., Nov. 25.-The
rebellion in Darfur, the most wester-
ly state of the Anglo Egyptian Su-
dan which was recently suppressed
by British troops, has attracted the
attention of the world to a section of
Africa that up to the closing years of
the eighteenth century had never
been visited by a white traveller. The
National Geographic society, in Il
war geography bulletin, gives some
interesting data concerning this land
which has an area about equal to that
of the State Of Montana but with Il
population almost twice as large as
the American commonwealth. The
bulletin says:
1T was more than q quarter of q
century ago that Germany and italy
recognized the State of Darfur, south
of Egypt, as within the sphere Of
British influence, and twenty years
ago it was made a part of the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan, but the internal af-
fairs Of the region were left to the
administration of the sultan, Ali Di-
mar, who few days ago was killed
by a British force of 800 men sent
out to quell the rebellion which this
ruler had fomented for several
months.
"Darfur. which derives it's name
blouse of Furs) from the negro
tribe of Furs comprising more than
half of its population of $50. 600, was
for many years famous for the slaves
which it furnished to Egypt and the
western world, an annual caravan be-
ing organized to carry the human
chattels together with ivory, gum and
ostrich feathers to Assiut, $50 miles
south of Cairo.
'In connection with Darfur's slave
trade the following interesting anec-
dote is told: At the time of Napol-
cons campaign in Egypt the sultan of
Darfur was Add err Rahman, sur
named the Just, great grandfather of
the recently slain Ali Dinar. This sui
tan sent letter Of congratulation to
the French conqueror applauding his
victory over the Nam elukes, whereup-
on, his attention being directed to the
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
IN THE STADIUM.
Heroes All! TmmOrtaIs of Glory's
GridirOn. These Modern Chas-
crs Of the Pig-SI1in-
New York Sun

New York SUM.
The football year nears it's brilliant
end the indoor season approaches,
but while this perfect autumn Of 1916
Is still with us we join our praises
of the game with those Of the I'M
named rhymester of the campus:
Who we'll may sing of champions bold.
The heroes Of ballad and story,
Vino entered the lists In the days Of
To battle for love and glory
Of wandering wishts and dolorous
knights
And chargers with panoply laden
Of the gentle joust and the thwack
and thrust
In the melee for a maiden
But we
Stadium Ballads.
But we shall sing of twenty-five
men who fight over a leather ball
while twenty two thousand or forty
or fifty or seventy thousand watch
and pray or cheer. We celebrate
GENEROUSLY the guard and the half
lack, pass and punt, tackle and line
buck, field goal and touchdown. Epic
is the history of the eleven, scr1m-
maging through the sweet autumn
weeks with the scrub, bruised and
battered in muscle and joint, soulsore
under the tongue lashing of coaches
;oiling through bitter schedule up
TO the Big Game and the winning Of
the or II or blazing orange P. 1t
seems foolish, but it has the Sane
ton of Society.
Big business for the railroads, for
not even the auto has driven the foot
tall special out. Big business for the
takers: Here y are! Get your win
ming colors!" Emblems of Academic;
totemism rampant, clans of the Bull
dog and the Tiger. Chrysanthemums
and violets for the ladies. Sand
Wiches and cigarettes; plumes and
remnants; official program, pitch
ers of the players; seats on the thir-
tv yard line, and seat cushions What
costs dollar at o'clock you may
nave for dime at 5 o'clock. Color,
noise, clothes; big, strong girls and
anne little men. Old grads: Why
Sam White practiced with a loose
pail every day-Ah, but remember
Foes run in '9S-And his drop kick
IN '99-And John Dewitt in '03," and
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

Senator Lodge seems to have got
ten through the campaign withou
biting anybody eriously.-Columbi s
State.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

AS a man grows older he become s
more like a secondhand machine,
and finds 1t harder to keep himself
in repair.-Atchison Globe
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

A pinhead is the fellow running OF
tho other ticket for the same Office
St. Joseph Gazette.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

The height of the worlds happiness,
says lecturer, came in the 18th CEN
tury. 1t was a republican year. pre-,
sumably.-Boston Jornal
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

All things come to those who wait
except possibly the things they have
been waiting for.-Philadelphi Rec
ord.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

We hear good deal i'll conversa-
ton about the Electoral College,
Boston Globe.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Governments move in a mysterious
way their plumbers to perform
Manila Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

Those voting women in the far west
seem to be singing d song entitled, Il
Didn't Raise Ny Daughter to be a
Republican. III ouaton Post
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

If the republicans don't like He
kept US out of war for a slogan,
how would He kept us out of office
do? That avoids all dispute as to
facts.-Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

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New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

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New Britain herald., 1916-11-25
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New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

he be more mature in years, his per
spective of events of the olden days
has not changed.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-25

Since the moving picture popularity
contest has opened IN this city there
are a number of young SWANS who
see in themselves another William
Farnum; and q number of charming
maidens who really think that if thew
get chance Mary Pic<ford, Theda
Bara and others will have to retire.
Stranger things have happened.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
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