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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Superintendent Spencer r. Gordon
of the Charities Department, spent a
very unpleasant half hour with the
board off app ortionment last night
going over the requisition of the
Charities Department which this year
totals $234,SS745. Superintendent
Gordon was very sharply questioned
by DR.. Robert J.. Lynch, member OF
the superintendent board, and at last
DR.. Lynch calculated:
well, you don't know very much
about these things, do your
This came after Superintendent
Gordon had attempted to explain
requisition concerning equipment for
the laundry at the new Hillside Home
and the pay of an extra attendant for
the machinery there. superintendent
Gordon said that the laundry bill of
the fire houses for washing sheets,
pillow cases, ETC., now totals 81 800 per
year. He said this item could be
saved the city by having the laundry
work done at the Hillside Home 1aun-
dry.
Have you consulted the fire board
about this matter?'' asked DIR. Lynch.
superintendent Gordon said that he
hadn't.
Don't you know that the fire com
nnissioners have placed this item of
S4sOVU LnGlI 40QQ1S4LIOn DIS USUAL.
was the doctors next question. Mr..
Gordon said he didn't know.
well, Mr.. Gordon, do you know
that the fire board every year gives
this contract to the wife of a fireman
who was killed while bravely answer
ing the call. of duty?" Again Mr..
Gordon said he didn't know and DR..
Lynch continuing, said:
81 think it is a pretty small piece
of business to take this work away
from this woman and concluded his
remarks with the reference to Cor
do1a's general lack of information.
Kanpf who was driver Of Steamer No.
6, has had the contract ever since
her husband was killed. She lives at
SGT Main street. Some years ago
when No. s company was housed in
the West Stratford borough hall at
Seaview and Crescent. avenues, a false
alarm was run in just after midnight.
Mr.. Kampf in responding to the alarm
drove his horses out of the engine
house, turning south in Seaview ave-
nue. The railroad tracks were not
elevated at that time and no gate
tender was kept there late at night. A
passing express train crashed into the
apparatus as Kampf drove on the
tracks and both he and his horses
were killed. Mayor Denis Mulvihill
at that time considered Mrs. Kampf
would rather do the laundry work for
the department than accept g pension
and he made the arrangement which
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Gent Order of Hfbernians; Ellen Ryan
Jolly, national president Ladies' Aux
iliary, A o. H.; Rt. Rev. Mgr. Brann,
New York; Rev. John Cavanaugh,
president Notre Dame University;
Rev. P. c. Yorke, San Francisco; Rev.
John Talbot Smith, Rev. Timothy
Dempsey, ST. Louis; Joseph Smith.
Lowell, Mass; Hon. John Jerome
Rooney, New York; E. J. Ryan, secre-
tary Catholic Benevolent Legion;
James K. MCGUIRE, former mayor of
Syracuse; DR.. Carroll, of Philadelphia,
and A L. Morrison, of Santa Fe, New
Mexico, who were very prominent in
the Irish Land League under Parneu
and Davitt; Humphrey O'Sullivan.
Lowell, Mass; John T. Ryan, Buffalo:
Judge jeremiah J. Lynch, Butte, Mon
tana.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
HEALTH INSPECTORS
MAY INSPECT ALI
BOARDING HOUSES HERD.

1t was learned through the request
of Health Inspector G. Howard Dun
bar to ascertain if he could enter
boarding houses in the city to inspect
their kitchens. that many such places
have been opened recently in the city.
The board ruled that wherever the
public is fed the city inspectors have
the right of entrance. Since the
influx of workers in this city the
boarding house has begun TO disp1ace
the lodging house. It is planned by
the board of health to see that these
places are kept within the law.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
OBITUARY
ISAAC RISLEY

The funeral of Isaac Risley was held
from his late home, 584 Arctic street,
at o'clock yesterday afternoon and
was largely attended by friends Of Mr..
Ris1ey, who was one of the Oldest res
idents of the East Side. Rev. Benja-
min F. Root of st. PauPs Episcopal
church, conducted the services. The
bearers: Charles Campana, John Cam
pana. George |Campana, George Fftz-
gerald, George Grace and James Cal
Ian, all nephews of the deceased. Bur
ial was in Mountain Grove cemetery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

against WHOM indictments were voted:
Franz Bopp, consu1-genera1 of Ger
many; Baron E. H. Won Setback, vice
consul for Germany; H. w. E. Kauff-
man, chancellor for the German con-
sulate; Maurice H. Hall, consuI-gen-
era1 for Turkey; Frederick Jezezen,
former owner of the steamer Mabat-
Ian; Johannes v. Van KooIbergen, al
legged agent for the German consulate;
John and Julius Rothschilds, whole
sale grocers; George and James Flood,
steamship agents, and Robert Cape11e,
general agent of the North German
Lloyd Steamship Co.
Boston, Feb. 9-Federa1 authorities
were engaged today with reports THAT
Boston was being used by German
sympathizers as a base for the direc-
ton of hostile activities in Canada.
Reports of this character have been
current for a long time but lacked Of
fetal confirmation. Today for the first
time it was admitted by one in the
employ of the national government
that typewriter copies were being
made of dictagraph records alleged to
have been obtained at a meeting place
Of men under suspicion. This admis-
sion was coupled with the assurance
that it would be denied if the identity
of the author was made public.
George w. Anderson, United States
district attorney, went to Washington
on Monday. Yesterday Edmund Bill
1ings, collector of the port of Boston,
followed Mr.. Anderson to the capital.
Their local offices would not disclose
the nature of the admissions of the
two men. According to the reports
which led to the admission regarding
the distagraph records, the movements
of about 100 men have been Swallowed
with the result that a dictagraph was
10
termine if any of these men were con-
spring to commit or influence the
commission of acts of war against
Canada.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
BRIDGEPORT MERCHANTS
COMPILE RATING BOOK

A new rating book has been COM
piled for merchants in Bridgep ort
under the direction of the Business
Mems association and for their mem
bership. This book contains about
10000 names of persons who buy on
credit and will be a fruitful source
of reference to merchants.
At a meeting of the association yes
terday it was requested that as many
members as possible be present at the
meeting of the state tax commission
at the court house next Monday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. J. NTacT4aren Richardson will
open her home, 84S Myrtle avenue,
Friday afternoon, for a, lecture on La
hore, India, by Mrs. J. Fleming, who
has spent the last nine years with her
husband in that city. Mrs. Fleming
is an alurnna of Smith college,. The
lecture will begin at o'clock and tea
will be served at 4:3O. While the
talk is arranged primarily for the
women of the First Presbyterian
church, all women OF the city who are
interested will be welcome.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
BRIDGEPORT TAILOR'S
STARTLING STORY
Mr.. S. Wagner, of GO Elm
Street, This City, Informs
the Public of the Virtues
of Lax-a-Tone.

The Lax-a-Tone Co. has adopted the
system of telling the public the vir-
tues of Lax-a-Tone through the medi-
UNI of the press and have their own
friends and neighbors testify. 1t is
not asking the public to take unsup-
ported statements of the company.
Perhaps you have suffered the same
symptoms as the indorers and if you
have you can obtain the same results
they did if you will give this remedy
a trial.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
HIGH SCHOOL OPEN
FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION.

Beginning today the new public
school building on Lyon terrace, will
be thrown open for public inspection
Under the direction of superintendent
Charles H. Poland, the hours for Wis
iting will be 2 80 until p. m. and 1880
to $50.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
LADIES TO MEET

Members and friends of the Ladies'
Aid society of the German Reformed
church are invited to meet in the
basement OF the church tomorrow aft
ernoon. Mrs. r. Fohrenbach, Mrs. A.
Baker. Mrs w. Douglas and Mrs. G..
Iammadin will act as hostesses.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
IMPORT PHONE OPERATORS

Because of the lack of telephone
operators in this city and the vacated
places caused by illness in the ranks
four operators have been brought to
this city from Stamford.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Gus Stevens, of Rosedale, L. L, a.
Bulgarian bear trainer, was robbed OF
Sc. 100 by a piclxpocket In the Criminal
Court building in New York where he
had gone to give bail for a friend.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

report issued by the Department
of Commerce gives the average export
price of cotton per pound in December
at 1872 cents, against 7.8 cents in De-
cember, 1914.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Knud Rasmussen, Danish arctic ex-
plorer, is negotiating with the Cana
dian government with a view to ecc-
ploring remote sections of British
America in 1917
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

No foreigner will be allowed by the
Carranza government to enter Mexico
unless he possesses $50 in gold
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

An Italian was arrested in the Sem
ate building at Washington on a
charge of being a suspicious eharac ter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Salvador has again protested to the
United States against the impending
treaty with Nicaragua declaring that
this treaty violates the neutrality OF
Honduras.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Henry Morgenthau, United statal
minister to Turkey, sailed from Co.
penhagen for the United States for g
short vacation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Fire broke out on the British board
ing steamer Peel Castle. anchored Of
Dover There was no loss of life.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

tickets and a wedding ring to the FIRST
women there to admit a successful
leap year proposal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Merchants Of Hoplzinsville, Ky, Of
fer a, mule. $500 worth of premium
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09
GORDON SUPERINTENDENT OF
CHARITIES is RIDICULED AT
APPORTIONMENT BOARD HEARING

Concludes That Superintendent Knows
Little About What's Going on In City Departments.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Effective March 1, employees Of the
Studebaker corporations mills at
South Bend, Ind, will receive in[
creased wages with shorter working
hours,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-09

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word
The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25

money and welcome; but Mother just stuck to her point that Christ mas wouldn't be Christmas without dinner and tree and presents to poor people,
 "The trouble with Mother is" Bob old us girls, after we had left the able, that she doesn't really want car Let's get Ted Perkins to come over this afternoon and take her out; and get him to see if she won't learn to drive. I bet if she ever felt the car turn when she twisted the wheel, she'd go crazy over it."
 Well, that afternoon we actually lid get Mother to go out with Ted We told him what we wanted and he said trust him! The moment the car was out of sight we sat Town and prayed; for if Mother Idn't get warmed up there was no lse. We know our Mother
 It was two hours before they came pack, and Mother was actually sit ing at the wheel with her hat over ne ear, and her eyes the shiningest. You should have seen her turn in; and the way she fairly stood up ln the brake to slow down was a circus. Ted told us that she kept letting out a notch or two of gas down the road to make the machine shoot along, until he couldn't believe his eyes.
 After that, she was with us and, honestly all she talked about was giving people presents of rides. That's Mother! We made out our lists, just as usual; only everything was rides-in the dim and distant future Mother would say: T was | gong to give Aullle Dd'lS dA dplou, but I can take her out to Jefferson some afternoon when we get the automobile" Mind you, Mother was counting on her own driving. Then 5he would go on: T guess instead of giving Mrs. Flarety chicken, I'll give her and the children rides in the hot weather. I don't know but that I could arrange to deliver some of her washings for her."
 When we came down stairs Christ mas morning, it didn't seem just right. We had the house all trim ned with evergreens and a nice tree with last years tinsel on it.; but we had planned to save s5.S7 by having a plain dinner We had .hings to open from our friends, and he best of 1t was that the auto scheme had leaked out some way. Mother must have told. without meaning to, and everybody sent things for the car. Uncle Georges
The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25
PLAGUE
 SWEEPING OVER
 SOUTH AMERICA

Associated Press Correspondence
 BUENOS AIRES, Dec.-The plague of locusts that has assailed the crops of the northern provinces of the republic is slowly working its way southward. These insects, to- gether with an unprecedented drought, threaten to reduce the crops by half. and in some sections by an even greater percentage.
 of the unexplored region of southern Brazil and pours over the country in great streams so thick and long as to often darken the sun. From Pena there comes a dispatch saying that stream extending over 30 kilometers has settled upon the fields and left no green thing in that part. The young, matched from the milli- ons of eggs deposited, have in places covered the railway so thickly as to impede traffic, and trains have been stalled until the insects have been shoveled from the tracks and burned in ditches.
 The government is waging a vigor-
The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25

of cattle, and the railways, at the request of the government, have made 25 per cent reduction in the rates for the transportation of live stock, to remain effective until February 2S. 1917. By this means stock can be hauled from the devas. tated regions to provinces of the south. The lives of thousands and thousands of animals will thus be saved.
 The progress of the swarms of flying locu.ts is daily being tele- graphed ahead. direction and speed of flight being given so that the farms about to be attacked can pre-. pare. These telegraphic notices are published in the press and have grown to occupy columns.
 The linseed crop has already gone. At times a million tons of this has been exported annually to the Unit ed States. The promised shortage of the wheat crop has caused a con siderable advance in the price of bread and the Agrarian league has petitioned the government for the imposition of an embargo on the shipment of wheat. in order to lob viate further exploitation of the public" This Is the first time any such a request has been made in Argentine, one of the wheat and meat storehouses of the world.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25

ous fight, but seems to be making little headway. The department of agricultural defense has 20,000.000 meters of metallic barrier for the purpose of penning swarms. which are then burned, trampled by farm animals or buried. This is accom- plished because the young locust Is without wings. It much resembles young grasshopper except It's col bring is much brighter. red an'i yellow, black and green predominant ing.
 From the eggs of the flying To- custs, which are always deposited on the hard roads, millions of these bright hued, hopping insects come to assault the fields on either side Besides the wire barriers the gov ernment is also using an apparatus which resembles a gasoline blow pipe. The farmers are being in structed to dig trenches about their fields, driving the hopping locusts into them and with the aid of the gasoline blowpipe burn the mass. Mil lions have already been thus de- stroyed, but telegraphic reports from all over the northern half of the republic report other millions arriv- ing.
 So serious has become the situa- tion that the government has threat ened to fine all farmers who fail to maintain corps of men for the purpose of fighting the pest, and the railways have been asked to transport free of charge all locust fighting apparatus.
 Devastated fields threaten to oc- casion the starvation of many head
The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25

get enough together some way. The upkeep is less than two cents a mile. they say. counting tires and everything. and we can all divide that up between us, every month. Bob's fine at tinkering, and he'll get on to the insides of the car in no time"
 We sprang the scheme on the family at breakfast. and Bob was with us from the start He actual ly ate his griddle cakes without syrup. he was % excited.
 Dads eyes were kind of twinkling, too, but Mother didn't enthuse. at all She didn't say anything, but we knew. Finally We worried her objections out of her She thought it was a sort of selfish thing to do. Christmas, and she couldn't bear the idea of not giving presents to folks like Aunt Polly Peters, whom she had always remembered.
 But, Mother," Helen argued. You can give Aunt Polly rides all summer long. She'd rather have those than hot water bags And the kids at the Orphan Asylum get stacks of have automobile rides in summer, do they?"
 Dad said If we didn't want what we'd asked for he'd chip in the
The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25
Tbr Carleton's Cbrtstmas Gar|

card was with two thermos bottles and Bob had goggles, and there were veils and hats for us girls, and a basket case for a lunch hamper, a box of toilet things, and the darl ingest mirror to see people coming up behind you.
 We were still almost two hundred dollars away from that automobile; but when we looked at those pres ents, we knew we simply had to make good. We never could stand having all those things and not us ing them. So We went to work that very Christmas day to earn some more Mother said if the family would stand for it, she could sell off all the stock of canned fruit and preserves to Cousin Nellie, who is too lazy to pickle anything.
 We said yes, we'd eat hardtack and salt pork gladly till we got the car. She raised twenty dollars that way and Dad did the funniest thing. When he was a boy he had learned how to do fancy lettering, and he engraved a set of Resolu- lions to send to the wife of some body in his lodge who had died. The money he earned that way he gave us.
 Helen was treasurer, and used to take every cent into the bank as fast as she could get hold of it.
 Bob is in a contractors office, and that boy worked overtime out with the men-the meanest kind of work, like wheeling bricks, so as to get more in his pay envelope. He did developing and printing, too, and cleaned up some on that.
 solicited copying and rented Q typewriter like the one 1 use in the office, and did minister's sermons and minutes of meetings; and then I fixed up a little typed book of poems for a woman who never sold any and was too poor to have them published.
 Helen teaches, and after school hours she went around getting or ders for book of Bible stories for children. She found colored people bought them faster than anybody else, so she worked that section of town.
 The fund crawled along and crawl ed along, in January and February. Father made $25 extra some way, forget how, and turned that in. A man who had owed him money thirty. one years came across with $40 just like a book, it was! We final ly sold an old heirloom of "secre- tary" for s65. to finish up with.
 AND THEN WE BOUGHT THE CAR! And if anything was to happen, and 1t was to get burned up or any thing, we'd start right in and do it all over again this Christmas.
 We couldn't live without that car. We either take it to town, morn ings, ourselves, or Mother drives us in-leaves the dishes, too, and has that lovely morning ride. Then either she or Dad comes for us. It only takes three-quarters of an hour. Mother is as gay as girl, and the best sport if there is any tire trouble. The best part is. we all worked for it, and so 1t belongs to all of us It's thousand times nicer than a gift. And going with out Christmas one year doesn't mat ter in a lifetime.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-12-25

John J. Fallon, resident engineer of the Alaska Engineering commits sion, returned to town last night from a visit to that part of his resi- dency lying along Goldstream where the tie work is now being done.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-20

fore boiling. liz pointed knife be run
into the back between the body and
tail shells, death will occur at once.
No lobster Is of good flavor that has
been killed hours before 1t Is cooked.
A fresh boiled lobster has stiff tail,
which will, IL gently raised, return
with a spring to It's curied condition.
Care should be taken never to pull the
tail straight as II viii never respond
again.
Lobster Toast.---Canned lobster may
be used for this dish. Pick over to
remove any pieces of shell. Add one
dessertspoonful of warmed butter, red
pepper, capers and picked cucumber.
Pound till well blended, add salt. Heat
hot and serve on buttered toast.
Dreamed Lobster.--Remove the meat
from the lobster and chsp finely. Beat
the yolks of two eggs and mix with n
quarter of cupful Of cream, few
drops Of onion juice. half a teaspoon.
full of salt, pinch OF red pepper and
grating of nutmeg. Melt two table
spoonfuls of butter, add the minced
lobster, cook and stir for few min
utes; then add the cream and other
ingredients. Stir until the combina-
ton thickens Serve on toast,
6roiled Lobster.--Kill the Holsters
as before described, and with sharp
knife and mallet or with a cleaver
split down the back on the line which
runs down the middle of the shell. Re
move the stomach and intestines, place
the two pieces with the shell part down
over moderate fire. When half
cooked, moisten well with butter, and
sprinkle with pepper, salt and lemon
Juice. Crack the claws before serving.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-20

Put Into a mold and pour over 1t the
liquor I'm which the meat WAS cooked.
Salmon With Tomatocs.--prepare
tomato cups by scalding the tomato,
remove the skin. then hollow out the
form cups. using sharp teaspoon.
Turn upside down TO drain and place
on Ice to keep them Arm. Fill with
salmon and chopped celery with q
good boiled dressing that In highly
seasoned.
Prune and Rice Merlnous.--Boi aud
drain one cupful Of rice. then add two
tablespoonfuls OF butter, three OF
sugar, one well.beaten egg and one
teaspoonful of ginger extract. Spread
some Of this mixture on platter.
cover II with layer Of stewed prunes;
continue alternating the layers until
all the rice Is used. Sprinkle lightly
with sugar, and cover with meringue
made Of the whites of two eggs, one
half cupful of sugar. and brown In
the oven. Serve cold, decorated with
whole stewed prunes.
Apricot Tapioca puddtn0.--Cover
one and half cupfuls of tapioca
with cold water and let 1t soak for
three hours; then drain and add three
cupfuls Of boiling water, one-half a
teaspoonful of salt and one cnpful OF
sugar: cook I'm double boiler until
transparent. Skin and stone twelve
apricots, put them into the bottom
Of buttered baking dish. pour over
the tapioca mixture and bake In a
moderate oven for 20 minutes. Serve
hot or cold with sugar and cream.
Picked cherries.--Select sound
large cherries and to every quart OF
cherries allow cupful OF the best
cider vinegar, two cupfuls OF sugar,
one stick of cinnamon, broken In bits;
blade of mace and six whole cloves.
Pit the cherries. pack them In jars
and pour the boiling vinegar and
spices over them. Cork and set away !;
they may he used almost Immediately.