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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-12
MILITARY PAGEANT PORTRAITS LIFE OF. AMERICAN SOLDIER
Adventurous Life of West Is Embodied in the Perfor-
 nance of 1Ol Ranch.

The life of the soldier, in camp and on the field of battle. is, it. is an nounced, graphically portrayed in the new military spectacle, Prepared ness," which is offered as the big feat ure of the Buffalo Bill (IIimself) -1O1 Ranch shows this season. The com bined shows are scheduled to exhibit in Bridgeport, Tuesday, July IS, and the event will have a stirring interest for the public not only because of the realistic military display. but also be- cause it will again introduce Col. Wm. F.. Cody Buffalo BilD as the real leader of Americas scouts and rough riders. The mere announcement that Buffalo Bill, the Border hero of two generations, is again in the saddle, will send ripple of delight across the continent. A
 Preparedness" the new military spectacle, is not merely preachment for adequate preparation onI the part of the people of the United States to forestall any possible aggression on the part of foreign nations, but, it is also an exhibition of army life and action and color such as would scarcely be possible without the cooperation of the U. S War Department. That this cooperation has been forth-com- ling is evidenced by the fact that the soldiers utilized in the display are ac- tually United States regulars, and have been loaned" by the Government in order to bring home to the public the necessity for providing an army ade- quate for it's defense.
 The military maneuvers, it is an- nounced, are presented on a most e1ab- crate and realistic scale. There are reviews and marches, in which all the various arms of the service are repre- sented; there are cavalry drills and charges; there is mounted infantry; there is field artillery in action, and finally there is a battle with Indians in which. it is declared, there are more thrills to the minute than ever before crowded into an exhibition of this kind. Incidental features of the mili- tary display are evolutions by Russian Cossacks, Arabs and Japanese cavalry, illustrating the training as well as the whirlwind riding of these intrepid mill itary trooperssof the Far East.
 A show, headed by Buffalo Bill, would not be characteristic if it failed to picture something of the adventu- rous life of the ranch and prairie; and the Buffalo ,Bill-101 Ranch shows are said to have something especially in teresting along this line to offer. Al great company of cowboys, cowgirls. old scouts and Indians, Is utilized to visualize the strenuous life of the iron tier. There is the stage-coach hold up; buffalo hunt; roundup with 'long-horned cattle; rough riding and broncho-busting, and other interest ing offerings, full of the vim and gin- ger and daring of the people of the untrammeled Borderland. k
 The two performances to be given in this city at 2:15 and 8:15 will be preceded at 10:30 in the morning by a mammoth military and frontier Day, parade in which all the process sional resources of the big show will be in line
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every little decrease in orders booked, or anything else that can be turned or twisted into a sign of waning pros perity. Such Cassandras always ig- nore everything that points the other way. They vail when exports of flour decrease. but say nothing about vast gains in exports of other manufactures
 Better than ever before is E. H. GATs description of the steel trade. He Is no recession in actual business. Slight decreases in the volume of new orders are of no importance when the daily bookings are generally in excess of the total producing capacity. The unfinished orders on hand are sufl- cient to> keep our steel mills busy. for hteremainder of the year and we'll in- to 1917. and manufacturers of steel products are assured of profitable bus mess for at least full year. ,Specula- tive buying should not be encouraged because prices are too far above nor nal
 Attempts ito make the public be- lieve that all is not well now are fool !sh and possibly harmful. Nothing can be gained by reasoning from false premises. We have about forty per cent. of all the coin and bar gold in the world lapd one-third of it's total wealth. With this capital and almost unlimited natural resources we can hold the lead we have gained if we are resoprceful and courageous. We can not win by knocking one anoth- err
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-12
SPRAYING POTATOES.

Last year, due to moist hot weather in August, the losses from Potato Blight Crot) were heavy over large sections of the country. The con- tfnued wet weather of Ahis year may cause similar injury and will also en- courage Early Blight. Spraying po- tatoes pays even in normal years in Blight years it makes the differ- ence between success and failure.
 The spray commonly used is Bor- deaux Mixture, 5-5-50. That is-dis- solve pounds of copper sulfate (blue vitrioD in bucket of water sick pounds of quick lime, mix and make up to 50 gallons with water Be sure to strain into the sprayer.
 For Potato Beetles (bugs), add to the above spray mixture one pound of Paris Green and 1 pound of lime, The lime prevents burning. Arsenate of Lead may be used instead of Paris Green.
 Copper sulfate is very high this year and it may be cheaper to use the ready sprays. Use these accord ing to directions.
 The 50 ballons made as above to cover an acre. Be sure to cover the vines well using pressure enough to make a fine mist,
 Begin to spray when the vines are 6-S inches high and repeat as often as necessary to keep them covered all season. Thi5 r-.eans 4 to sprayings. Agronomy Department. Conn. Agr. College
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heart. We shall miss him.
 John T. McCutcheom.

' Before my [ facQuaintanceship with Davis at Vera Cruz had not known him we'll Our trails didn't cross while was in Japan in the Japanese-Rus- sian War, and in the Transvaal miss- ed him by few days, but in Vera Cruz had many enjoyable opportuni- ties of becoming well acquainted with him.
 : The privilege was a pleasant one, for 1t served to dispel a preconceived and not an entirely favorable, impression of his character. For years had heard stories about kichard Harding Davis-stories which emphasized an egotism and self-assertiveness which. If they never existed had happily ceas- ed to be obtrusive by the time got to know him.
 He was different Davis from the Davis whom | had expected to find: and can imagine no more charming and delightful companionl than he was of those qualities whicht;I feared to in Vera Cruz. There was no evidence find, and his attitude was one of un- failing kindness, considerateness, and generosity.
 In the many talks I had with him, I was always struck by his evident de- votion to fixed code of personal con duct. Tn his writings he was the interpreter of chivalrous. well-bred youth, and his heroes were young, clean-thinking college men, heroic big game hunters, war correspondents. and idealized men about town, who always did the noble thingI disdaining the unworthy in act or motive. It seem ed to me that he was modelling his own life, perhaps unconsciously, af- ter the favored types which his imagi- nation had created for his stories. In a certain sense he was living life of make-believe, wherein he was the hero of the story, and in which he was bound by his ideals always to act as he would have the hero of his story act.
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sy, to make complaint to the American government tha tI, James M Sulli-' van ,an American citizen. at present residing in Dublin, was on April 2S last placed under arrest by the Dublin military authorities, and that I was kept prisoner for eight days, and at the expiration of that time was dis charged from custody. l.5t as
 That was held a prisoner under most cruel conditions, insomuch that I was not given proper or necessary food, had no protection from cold. was denied drinking water except at rare intervals. and was without the most primitive sanitary accommoda- tions. A f4 That, although my residence was but a short distance from where I was 1ncarcerated, was kept from any com munication with my home, prevented from securing clean clothing and de- nied the request to use my own money for the necessities that were denied me.
 That I was handled roughly by the keepers. constantly threatened with death and crowded into unsanitary quaters. and compelled to lie on. . bare floor with grooming and wounded men. and told when protested that the place was "too good" for me, and that ought to be ponbned.T ali
 That was compelled to sleep ron the bare boards of a crowded room for eight nights, the same room serving for -lavatory for the 30 odd souls con- fined therein, no one of whom was furl nished with any means of preserving the most elementary laws of cleanli- ness: that in this room there was no protection from the damp and cold. ex- cept that in the later days of my im- prisonment was given a blanket, that from. the time was arrested was not permitted to communicate with the American Consul, and that when my family, having learned of my fnpris- onment. were told upon inquiry that l was sent to England. I was still at Dublin Castle, from which place was removed on April 30 to Kilmainham Jail.
 ? That at the time. of my arrest I had upon my person proper pass port issued by the State Department q. Washington and rrepewed nbylthe American consulate at Dublin. That since I have been in this. country I have faithfully in letter and spirit conn piteu Wlth tlc anu aiOS governing the conduct of aliens, and that have had no communications or dealings with the men who have had the revolutionary movement in hand.
 That at no time during my arrest was I charged with any offense. In consequence of the aforesaid arrest I have suffered grieyously, my wife has been subjeeted t0 puch msptal an- guish at time when her condition is most delicate, my own health is shattered by the cruel conditions of my Imprisonment and respectfully re- quest that proper claim for compen- sation end damages be made on my behalf by my government upon the British government.
 Whatever may be said for the right to arrest 4, person as a suspect. there is no defense for the cruel and inhu- man treatment I was subjected to as a prisoner. 2 Please acknowledge receipt or rs,r letter. Yours respectfully. e
 LAMBS M. SULLIVAN.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-12
THE sPECTACLED HURLER.

The most distinguished contribu- ton of the Carolinas to balldom
 since Joe Jackson graduated from a South Carolina cotton mill is a six foot, spectacled athlete who answers to the name of Meadows and who | wears the livery of the St. Louis Cardinals. In picking out a front
 name his parents passed up Grant as not appropriate, and christened him
 Lee, a choice quite, natural consider ing that the youngster was born in Oxford, N. c. Lee has been full fledged man and voter just one an
 mum, as he passes his twenty-second milestone to-day. As a pitcher who wears spectacles, Meadows is something of a novelty to the present crop of fans, but he
 is by no means the first of his kind. Old timers recall that back in the '80s Specs" Will White was one of the best hurlers in the business.
 Meadows has suffered from weak eyes ever since he was little shaver, and
 has worn spectacles since he was
 seven or eight but that handicap D didn't prevent him from early be-
 coming interested in athletics. At school and at the military college he I1later attended he developed into a
 classy hurler. and in 1913 the man. ager of the Durham club in the North
 Carolina league gave him a chance to shine in professional circles. And Lee did, for he won 21 games to IA lost, and Durham almost won the flag, being beaten by Winston-Salem by four points. The next year Mea-
 dows was back in Durham uniform land had won, 19 games to 12 lost when in August he was sold to the Cardinals.
 To jump from a class D cirucit to the big show at one bound is some
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hurdle, but Meadows got away with the stunt, spectacles and all. Last year, his first in the main works. he won 13 games for the Cards and lost eleven. He displayed a lot of speed. nerve. ganeness and noodle work. He came in for lot of chaffing from opposing players and from the bleacherites. This joshing didn't have any effect on the big North Carlinian. With a strong team behind him it is likely that Meadows would have made a far better showing than he has this year. e ,af
 It isn't once in coon's age that a pitcher goes from class D direct to the majors and sticks without fur ther seasoning. Meadows has ac- complished just that, with the added handicap of weak lamps. He Is an intelligent. youngster, and when he has had time to assimilate a lot of lore and wisdom he will have to de- pend less and less upon his speed.
 Like most of the ball players, who hail from the Southland, Meadows Is a mighty Nimrod, and he spends much of the off-season afeld with dog and gun. He hasn't as many dogs in his kennel as some of them. but he insists that his fayorite bird dog has got 'em all left at the post. As for that, did you ever know a sporting 'Southerner who didn't own the finest bird dog in the whole darn country?
 Meadows lives in Durham and he expects to engage in the tobacco busi- ness when his baseball days are over. He was reared in the odor of to- baccd, as well as the sanctity, and what he doesn't know about the fra grant North Carolina leaf is scarce- ly worth knowing.
 Meadows began to nourish the am- .bition of becoming big league pitch CT when he was only a kid, and his success is an example of what can be accomplished by living up to the copy book maxims about the virtue of perseverance.
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his idea.
 'I saw the possibilities of manufac- turing and selling lighting fixtures" he told his salesmen. 'T investigated and found that thousands upon thousands of New York homes were without eith- CT gas or electricity. realized that sooner or later every home in New York would have one or the other, that many new homes would be built, and that fixtures would be- necessary wher- lever gas or electricity went. So l determined to go into the business of manufacturing and selling lighting fix lures. I took all of the money I had wasn't very much, but it gave me a start-and persuaded my brother-in-law, now the secretary-trea- surer of our company, Charles A. Gottesman. to put in all of his money, and together we began business at 1 3S Bowery. This was in 1903. Our place was small and our business was little a tfirst. I was the salesman. and MT. Gottesman was packer. shipper. credit man. store manager and a dozen other things.
 "It was slow going at first, but we were headed in the right direction. People began to use electricity and gas more and more. and we began to se!: more and more fixtures. The rest of the story is simply one of steady growth. each year being. better than the year before, and last year being the best of all.
 'And now think we have gotten to the position where we can begin to share our success with the men who have helped us make 1t. We are therefore presenting a little gift to each man and wish to announce that in the future the profits of the firm will be shared with those who help make the profits"
 Ard it was noted that all of those who received checks had themselves risen frorc the ranks. MT. Blitzer be- lieves in GIT ploying office and errand boys and making salesmen and de- rartment heads out of them It was said that he never employees a man from outside for a high position.
 The checks presented to the depart ment heads were $500 and more. and none of those given to the salesmen was for less than $500. Many receiv- ed $70 0and $7.50. @fM
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Can't Win by Knocking.

Z Tne Now York Commercial prints 2 k6is editorfaI on Active Trade:"
 Political expediency has caused ,{6pme neWspapers 10 make much of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-12
DAVIS, AS THREE
 MET AND KNEW HIM
Colonel Roosevelt,

I knew Richard Harding Davis for many years.i and was among the number who were immediately drawn to him by the power and originality of "Gallegher." the story which first made his reputation. is the way Col Roosevelt begins his tribute
 l My intimate association with him however, was while he was with my regiment in Cuba. He joined us i'm mediately after landing and was no, merely present at but took part in the fighting. For example. at the Guasi. mas fight it was he, think, with his lf1eld-glasses, who first placed the trehch from which the Spaniards were firing at the right wing of the regi- Ement, which right wing I, at that time commanded. We were then able tc make out the trench, opened fire or 1 it, and drove out the Spaniards. He was indomitably cheerful under hardships and difficulties and entirely indifferent to his own personal safety or comfort. He so won. the esteem and regard of the regiment that he was one of the three men we made hon. orarys members of the regiments asso- cation. We gave him the same medal worn by or own members.
 He was ' good an American as ever lived. and his heart famed against cruelty and injustice. His writings form a textbook of Arnericanisn which all our people would do well tc read at the present time.
 Charles Dana Gibson.
 Dick was "A years old when he came into the smoking-room of the Victoria Hotel, in London, after midnight one July night-he was dressed as a Thames boatman.
 He had been rowing up and down i the river since sundown, looking fol color. He had evidently peopled ev- cry dark corner with pirate, and ev- cry floating object had meant some thing to him. He had adventure writ 1 ten all over. him. It was the first time had ever seen him, and I had never heard of him.s I can't now re. call another figure in that smoke filled room. don't remember who intro duced us-over ,27 years have passed since that night. But I can see Dick now dressed in a rough brown suit, a soft hat with a handkerchief about his
 eek, splendid, healthy, clean-minded gifted boy at play. And so he always remained.
 His going out of this world seemed like boy interrupted in game he loved. And how we'll and fairly he played it! Surely no one deserved success more than Dick. And it is a consolation to know he had more than | 50 years of just what he wanted. He had health, great talent, and person. al charm. There never was a more | Iowa b1a or lInso1f7sh friend ,t There wasn't an atom of envy in him. He had unbounded mental and physical courage, and with it all he was sensi- tive and sometimes shy. He, often tried to conceal these last two quail ties, but never succeeded in doing sc from those of us who were privileged really to know and love him.
 | His life was filled with just the sort of adventure he liked the best. Nc one ever saw more wars in so many | different places or got more out oi them. And it took the largest war l in all history to wear out that stout
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BuAiness and the Outlook.
 The Philadelphia Record prints this
 editorial on Business and the Out look:'' 4 There is no indication of any abate- 8&nent In the activity of business. The 'a5ank clearings were nearly half a bill | Hon dollars more last week than the week before. All the industries are .{utlx, employed ana have business enough on their books to occupy them f6r months But the domestic demand z 15 pefcepttbiy less pressing, and there g2Fe indications of. a turn in prices. Domee advAnces may yet occur, but in s1Tsost slfnes the prices seem to have xreAcheds their maximum There are aoccastonal concessions to stimulate buying: there is more willingness to sell. @s
 Bank clearings last week were four and three-fourths billions, For May the eiearings amount to $20, ,657. .000,- 1000, Ia gain of 41.2 per cent. over last year. For live months they are close 2 to- Ss {. .0oO. .o00. .00O. a gain of 437 per cent, The May c1earings were ' per 'stent. larger than those of April. Rail- road gross earnings for the fourth week of May were 39.23 per cent. greater than a year ago, the largest weekly gain there has been for rAonths. The untitled orders of the Steel Cor 9porafion increased 108,000 tons last month, but this was a much smaller .4nkrease than that of April. The un- larger than at the end of any preced- filled orders have for four months been ing quarter in the lcorporation's expe- rience.
 Pig iron production in May sur passed all records. European coun- tries are seeking pig here, not only Bessemer, which is what they have Hitherto bought, but assorted grades
 The Bethlehem and Maryland Steel ! Companies are large buyers of pig. Prices have sagged in some quarters, but May prices averaged slightly above those of April. Foreign shipbuild- err are trying to get ship plates here. Steel and iron pipe have been ad- vanced $4 and S a ton. Domestic wire demand has abated, but France and Russia are in the market for great I quantities of barbed wire Spelter is fdCwz. and 1t is believed that galvan- zxed sheets will presently be within l reach of ordinary buyers. Foreign demand is mpnopolizing the sheet lmills. Biiletsf and crop ends have de- clined. Already this month railroads have bought 163.00o tons of rails, but 7 Of this Italian roads took 38,000. Car shops, including those owned by the I railway companied. took orders last .l.Week for 2,5O9 cars. The steel com- I panies have reason to expect orders { tfrom France and Russia for more than < 1sQo0, ,000 tons1of steel for delivery in ' 1e17."
 Can't Win by Knocking.
 < Tne Now York Commercial prints V kkis editorial on Active Trade:''
 Political expediency has caused ,{6pme neWspapers 10 make much of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-12
POLICE RELEASE sCHURR.

Held blameless by witnesses for knocking down Frank Lova ofN2 214 Congress street. who darted in front of the automobile of Prank Schurr of 166 Pembroke street. as it was driv- en to the left Of Q standing trolley car on Main street, near Lumber street. last evening, Schurr was not held by the police. Lova was only slightly injured. h
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FIGURES SHOW UNPRECEDENTED
 a k PROSPERITY IN ALL LINES 'tg UNDER DEMOCRATIC REGIME

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Republican Administration
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ADVERTISE IN THE FARAzA
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-01
MOVIES CENSORED BY SCIENCE

If you are a movie fan you must
have noticed the extreme youth of
the most popular sweethearts in the
screen world. ''Flappers,' it appears,
now have their choice of all the elig-
ible men in the film plays.
The heroines of the glass screen
for whom the shadowy heroes and
Williams contend most desperately are
Just out of school These sweet
young things get themselves engaged
with their golden hair Arranging
down their backs, wearing shapeless
girlish toggery, and doing impulsive
things with a kittenish innocence
which saves them from seeming i'm
prudent.
A man may be eligible as a lover
and husband at any old age, but ac-
cording to movie plots, the most
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-01

HEARST AND BLOOD-SHED-
DING.-Hearst says: eff these fiery
patriots are so anxious to shed
American blood in the cause of the
allies, why don't they go across and
do "a little shedding on their own &C
count? Why larry at home when
Humanity is so vOciferOusly calling
for help?"
Let Willie turn the same argument
on himself and Mexico. If he is SO
anxious to shed American blood on
Mexican soil in order to make his
millionaire ranch more valuable,
why doesn't he cross the border and
shed some of his own yellow blood?