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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
WELL CONNECTED
 YOUTH ARRESTED AS ROOM THIEF
Bears Excellent Recon. mendations and Comes of
 Family of Wealth.

Louis Tranquil, wayward son of a wealthy New York wholesale import CT, possessing Y. M. c. A. recommend ations from various parts of the coun- try, we'll educated youth. was ar- rested yesterday afternoon by Detec- tive F. M. Holbrook on suspicion oe his being the man who has been ran- sacking rooming houses in the city the past month.
 When arrested, loot totaling in value about $500, including watches, six rings, and various other property stolen from lodging houses were re- covered from his person. and he was identified by a minister. who conducts a lodging house on Warren street, as the man who hired a room three days ago and disappeared the next, with three watches belonging to occupants of the house.
 Franqui has been in this city about two months, having recently returned from the Philippine Islands to this country. Armed with Y. M. c. A. recommendation, he would apply at a lodging house for a room, and then, the police assert, ransack the house with the aid of false keys, departing with the loot
 He would immediately go to anoth- CT lodging house and, the police claim, repeat his tactics. He has been identified, according to the police, as the man who hired rooms in the home of Mrs. E. Swartz, in the East End. and in the home of Mrs. c. Lee, 103 Maple street. He stayed at each house only a day and valuables be- longing to dodgers were immediately reported missing. From the home of Mrs. Swartz he is charged with the theft of three watches, five rings, a diamond brooch and $1 in money.
 Franqui refused to admit his guilt and says that his prominence in Y. M. c. A. circles, is sufficient to vouch for his character. He asserts that a prominent worker in the association will come from Boston to alfbi him.
 His father. whose place of business is at 67 Front street, New York, with a residence in BayonDe. N. J.. accord ing to the son has nade large finan- cial contributions to the association.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

been the largest and most gorgeous undertaking of this character ever at- tempted in the United States. There were more than 1000 actual perform CTS in the several episodes and scenes which portrayed the college history allegorical interludes required the presence of many hundreds of school children at the same time upon the green turf, which is the playing ground for the football teams, and these chil- dren in costume with hundreds of their elders gave dances and were in the groupings which made the scenes of great beauty.
 The university held historical ex- ercises in Woolsey Hall in the morning and tonight the city's share in the occasion will be a promenade concert on the central green by the pageant or chestra of nearly one hundred pieces. The decorative effects on the Green have been on a more extensive scale than at any previous occasionI since the bicentennial week of 1902. The days events drew to the city many thousands of persons from other parts of the state, New York and New England, while Yale men came from considerable distances to either take
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
Walter H. Knights Interest In Each of Two Corpora e- tions Only $10 According to His Schedule Filed To- day in the Bankruptcy Court. ,
Has Liabilities of $93, 600 and Assets of $1,699. 30, For Most of Which Ex- emption is Claimed Under the Bankruptcy Regula- tions.

Petition in bankruptcy filed by at torneys for Walter H. Knight of 1142 Fairfield avenue, with liabilities of $93,O00 and assets of s1,699.30, of which $1,179.50 is claimed as exempt, discloses today that MT. Knight is merely a dummy president in the 1Bridgeport Projectile and the Bridge port Forge & Projectile Companies of this city. Under oath he has declared ownership of only one share in each company, the value of each being set at $10.
 The bankruptcy comes as a sequel to suit recently instituted by John R. Drexel, financier of Philadelphia, whose summer whome is at Newport. R. I. Attachments were made in this city on October 10 upon a complaint drawn by Drexel allegeing that judg- ment had been obtained in the New York supreme court against Knight and Joseph H. Hoadley, former presi- dent of the American & British Con- pany of this city for 27,010.77, which Judgment he had been unable to. col 1ect.
 In his petition to be adjudged bank rupt. Knight declares that he has no secured creditors. Ellingwood & Cum ningham of New York are listed hs unsecured creditors with a claim of, SIS 900 on the purchase of stock (not specified), suit for which is now pend ing.
 In the specification of accommoda- ton paper outstanding, Knight re- cites: "On or about the 18th of No vember, 1907, the petitioner made and delivered to Joseph H. Hoadley of IS East 82nd street, New York city. three notes, all bearing the date of Novem- ber, 1907, and payable respectively, two years, three years, and four years after date in the amounts of $25 900 each to the order of said Joseph H. Hoadley, which notes were thereupon endorsed by said Joseph H. Hoadley and together with certain collateral then owned by said Hoadley delivered for valuable consideration to John R. Drexe1 of Newport. R. I-$75,O00. A more particular description of said notes and whether any part of the principal or interest thereof has been paid is to the petitioner unknown.
 The assets of Knight are set forth as: Ia life interest in Hog Island in the State of Rhode Island. The fee to this real estate is subject to a mort gage of $5,O00. Household property $1,O00. Blue prints and pictures, $10O. One share of the capital stock of the Bridgeport Projectile Company valued at $10. One share of the capi- tai stock of the Bridgeport Forge & Projectile Company, valued at $10. Policy of lire insurance in the Union Central Life Insurance Company (for $10,000) no value. Deposits in bank $69.20."
 Under exemptions allowed by stat ute Knight claims cash on hand and on deposit in banks $79.50, household goods and wearing apparel $1,000 and pictures $10O, total of $1,179.50.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
BIG THR0NC. OF FARMERS GREET
 THE PRESIDENT
Agriculturists Hear Address On Recent Farm Leg
 islatiOn.

Long Branch, Oct. 21-Today was Farmers Day. at Shadow Lawn President Wilson, who returned last night from Chicago. spoke this after noon before a delegation of farmers from New Jersey and nearby states The President planned to- devote him. self principally to telling what the administration has done for the far mers.
 The Presidents next trip away from Long Branch will take him to Cincin- nati, next Thursday. He will return here in time for the celebration of woodrow Wilson Day" next Satur- day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
''WK0'S PAYING HILLS CAMPAIGN BILLS THIS YEAR?" ASKS MIR, WILSON In Speech Before Throng of East Side Voters He Ex poses Republican Candidates Methods which Con- gressional Investigation Brought to Light of Pub Icity.
LETTER TO FARRELL
 OFU. S. STEEL TRUST.

NOrwalk, Oct. Fl. To MT. James A. Farrell,
 New York, N. Y. Dear MT. Farrell:-I am enclosing you one of the circular letters which we have been sending out and I understood from MT. Hill that he had given you some of them and that you advised him that you would send a check for $500 and you would endeavOr to raise some money in the West for the good of the cause. Our cOm- mittee will have meeting on Sat- urday afternoon of this week and I will appreciate it if might hear from you before that time in order that I can in turn advise the com mittee exactly what they may ex- pect from the financial standpoint. If convenient for you to write be- fore that time, kindly do SO.
 Yours very truly,
 A. 0. W.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
GRIDIRON BATs1TERS WILL GIVE PART OF
 PROFITS TO ARMENIANS

The managers of the Remington Arms and American Chain Go. foot ball elevens announced today that part of their receipts from tomorrow's s games will be donated to the Armen- ian Relief fund. The Chain Co. team plays the AllWaterbury team at New field park and the Arms team will meet the Washington Glee club of New Haven at the Avon park grid iron.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
Milk Train Crashes
 Into Freight Cars;
 Tracks Are Blocked

Hawleyville. Conn, Oct. 21.-A fast milk train on the Litchfield branch of the New York, New Haven & Hart ford Road, collided with string of freight cars in the yards here last night, derailing the 1ocomtive draw ing the milk train. The tracks were blocked several hours and passengers for the branch were transferred around the wreck. A wrecking train was sent from Waterbury to clear the tracks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
Three Thousand Russians Are Captured and % Ma chine Guns Taken When Germanic Troops Capture Tuzla - Activities All Along Danube Front.
Russian -Rumanian Forces Lose Important Strong hold of Kokardja Before Heavy Attack-Gains for Central Powers Near Vol- hynia Reported.

Berlin, Oct. 21. - Germans troops have forced their way into several points of the main positions of the Russians and Rumanians south of Racheva on the Danube, in Debrudja.
 The troops of the centraE powers captured the Black Sea town of Tuzla after stubborn fighting and stormed the heights northwest of Mulviova. Some 5000 Russians have beenl captured by the Teuton and Bulgarian forces and 9 ma- chine guns were taken.
 The foregoing was announced in the official statement issued today by the German army headquarters.
 An attack on the Russo -Rumanian lines in Dobrudja by Field Marshal von Mackensn's forces yesterday re- suited in the loss to the defenders of the village of Kokardja, the war of flee announced. Later attacks on the entente lines in the same region were repulsed.
 Russian attempts to take trenches on the west bank of the river Stok- bod. in Volhynia, wre frustrated ycs- terday by troops sdnder command of Prince Leopold of Barvaria, witlT heavy losses to the attackers, says the official statement
 On the river Narayuvuka, in Ga- Hcia, the statement adds, the Germans captured Russian positions northwest of Skomorochy. taking 150 prisoners and seven machine guns
 On the Somme battle field, heavy fir- ing continues. says the official state-, ment. English attacks on the Ger- man positions between Le Sars and Eucouft LAbbaye failed, the ans; nouncement adds
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
BRITISH AEROS ACTIVE

London, Oct. 21.-Describing aerial operations in Belgium yesterday, theI Admiralty announces:
 "The secretary of the Admiralty an>, nounces that on the morning of the 2Oth a naval single-seated aeroplane attacked, and brought down hostilel kite balloon near Ostend The balloon, descended in flames.
 "A similar machine engaged .rgA, hostile double-engined tractor seael plane, shooting both the pilot and the observer. The seaplane side-slippedI and dived vertically into the sea two miles off Ostend. The remains later were seen floating on the water. Both of these machines were under-man- aged"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
OFFERING RECIPROCITY
 FOR CAMPAIGN CASH

Norwalk, Conn.,, Nov. 4, 1914. MT. George W. Will2ie,
 New York, N. Y.
 Dear MT. Wilkie:-I am in re- ceipt of your telegram today and have forwarded to MT Hill a copy of the same. He wishes me to thank you and through you the Straw Braid association for their assistance, and to say to you that he hopes when opportunity offers to be able to reciprOcate in a measure by assisting in legislation which will give us a little more protection than we have at the present time. I personally appre- ciate very much what you have done, and feel that my friends have been considerable help in the work which I had to do. With kind re- gards to you, I am
 Yours, very truly,
 .s.s ARTHUR c. WHEELER.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
RALPH COLIN DEAD,

ist, is dead. He was 66 years old, an officer of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Academic Des Beaux Arts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
BRITISH MAKE GAIN.

London. Oct. 21-The British o, the Somme front have made addition< al headway in their push toward Ba- paume along the main road from AL bert, according to today's announce ment by the war office, which records a gain of ground near Butte De War. lencourt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
BOSTON WELCOMES TROOPS

Boston, Oct. 21.-The Fifth regiment came back from the border today and paraded through the city in a heavy rain. while thousands lined the streets to extend a hearty welcome home
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
THE WEATHER

Generally fair and much colder to- night and Sunday. Heavy frost on the main land, light frost on the islands Southwest and west winds diminishing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

Officials of the Chicago surface and elevated railway employees unions will send $15.000 to aid the New York striking car mon.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

Herbert M. Kempton, of Walden, Mass, was chosen captain of the Yale freshman football team
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

Copper exports for the week ended Oct. 19, totalled 1919 tons against 4 646 tons last year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

"In an article in the Outlook on Sept. 23, 1914, he said:
 "'Very probably nothing we could have done would have helped Belgium. We have not the small est responsibility for what has be- fallen her. Only the clearest and most urgent National duty would ever justify us in deviating from our rule of neutrality and non-in- terference.'"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

Last night at Louisville, he said: The case of Belgium was the sins. If we had protested against the invasion of Belgium, etc, etc.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
COLONEL CONTRADICTS HIMSELF
 ON BELGIUM INVASION POLICY

Oct 21"I of 
  spokesman compels the parallel. mi he Presidential
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

Officials of the Remington Arms & Ammunition Co. in Bridgeport refused today to discuss the report other than to admit that great quantities of ma chinery were stored here. Its purposes or destination was not divu1ged.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27
DENOUNCE LISTER

Whereas, Governor Ernest Lister is
or has been member of Iron holders
Union; and
Whereas, He signed the anti-picket-
ing BILL which is antagonistic to or
ganized labor, and other reactionary
measures now up for referendum,
Resolved, By Local No. 81, that we
use our influence in defeating him for
reelection and be it further
Resolved, That we recommend No.
15S of Seattle and No. $50 of Tacoma
to do the same.
O. f. WEFFERLING,
Secretary Iron Molders' Union, Local
No. 81.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27
INFAMY NO. 6
Some History of the Anti-Picketing
Bill

Some History of the Anti-Picketing
Bill
The Tacoma Tribune gives an
epitomized account of the travels OF
Referendum Measure No. 8 through
the legislative lanes:
referendum No. is the anti
picketing law. originally Senate Bill
No. 367. This measure was passed
late in the session. 1t was introduced
bv Senator f. B. Palmer of King
County. on the fortieth day of the SEES
sion, and upon motion of its sponsor,
the rules were suspended and the bill
ordered printed and referred to the
committee on public utilities, OF when
Senator Jesse Jones of Tacoma was
the chairman. Here the bill lay for
six days, when Senator Jones reported
il back to the senate with the recon-
mendation that it be re-referred to the
committee on municipal corporations,
of which Senator Mccoy Of Whitman
County was chairman.
Senator Mccoy and his committee
held the bill until the forty-seventh
dav. when it was reported back for
passage. On the fifty-third day the
bill appeared on the calendar and was
passed by a vote of rs to IA, the demo-
cratic votes being scattered, the pro-
gressives voting against it, and many
republicans, including Senator Jones
of Tacoma, voting no.
"The history of the bill in the house
was similar 1t was referred to the
committee on public morals in the
house, where it lay just "a hours,
from the fifty-fourth day of the ses-
sion until the fifty-fifth, when it was
reported back for passage. The bill
appeared on the calendar on the fifty
ninth day, the day prior to adjourn
ment, and was Immediately in the
house subjected to a vicious attack on
the part of the democrats and pro-
gressives, Lane of King County lead
| ing the battle for the progressive
members and Frank Reeves, demo
cratic floor leader, taking up the bat
tie for the democrats. Efforts on the
| part of the democrats to have the bill
indefinitely postponed were voted
down, and attempts to have it re-re-
! ferred, which would mean its defeat
on the last day, were blocked by the
republican floor leaders. After a de-
| bate which lasted almost so minutes,
| the bill went to a vote and was
passed, 73 to 16. The bill was rushed
back to the senate under suspension
of the rules, signed by Lieutenant
Governor Hart sent back to the house
and signed by Speaker Conner,
1T went to the governor and was
signed by him March 10, after the leg
islature had adjourned.
The bill is short 1t absolutely pro.
hibits picketing, making it a misde,
meanor The bill not only is aimed
at individuals, but includes firms,
partnerships, associations and corpora
tons 1t prohibits the use of adver-
Using, banners, printed literature of
all kinds, posting men, and in fact is
carefully drafted to wipe out any and
all kinds of picketing, either during
times Of strike or in carrying on a
boycott against any firm"
Let no working man who fails to
cast his vote on November Z register
his kick if this infamous measure re-
ceives a majority.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27
The Truth About
Liquor i'm the Home

Drunkenness in public became more
frequent.
More arrests were made.
More crime of all kinds was reported
to the authorities.
Long lines of citizens waited in the
auditors office to obtain permits.
Boot-leggers became increasingly
active, eXtortionate and insolent.
From the peacefulness and good
order of the first sixty days Of 1916,
during which the use of intoxicants
was ABSOLUTELY CONTROLLED
IN THE HOMES, conditions have gone
rapidly from bad to worse.
A general idea of what the situation
is at the present time has recently
been given by disclosures in the news
papers. The unfailing tendency of
these newspapers is to make the best
possible showing of conditions. In
Justice to themselves and to their
readers, they could no longer keep
silent. But even yet they have not
told all there is to tell.
The Illicit traffic has grown to huge
proportions.
The bootleg traffic is reported to be
controlled by separate syndicates or
rings" of which it is said there are
at least three operating in Seattle,
alone, and probably more.
| Many of the occasional raids" and
attendant destruction of illicit sup
plies, result from the ''tip" of one rival
bootleg syndicate in an effort to Grip
pie another of it's kind.
Morally, the course has been down
ward ever since the moderate home
supplies were exhausted
1t is still downward.
The workings of the dry law since
January LIST, 1916, are an open book.
Present conditions, the gradual and
unvarying downward tendency, are al
most wholly accounted for by the in
and orderly fashion, the moderate sup
plies of alcoholic beverages required
for use AT HOME.
The facts of record prove that the
people of this state, during the early
part of the year, did not abuse the
privilege of having liquor in their own
homes.
Why should it be assumed that thew
would abuse that privilege now-or
ever?
The opportunity is now before the
people of this state to re-establish the
conditions that existed in January and
February of this year. 1t is presented
IN Initiative Measure No. "a, which
seeks only to give the people the right
TO purchase, in limited quantities and
for private use in their homes, a mild
and pure beer.
tracing the workings of the dry law
from the first of the year to the pres
ent time, the existing and growing
evils must, in large part, be attributed
10 the effort to prohibit, by law, the
ages-old and widely practiced social
custom, enjoyed privately in the
home.
The results speak for themselves.
The time has come for turn toward
the better civic conditions that pre-
vailed in this state in the early part
OF the year, and the adoption by the
people of Initiative Measure No. "a
Iunquestionably will restore peace and
order in the community.-Adv.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27

Be sure you know how to mark
your ballot on election day. Tell
everybody you see to be sure about
this.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27

painting the outside of the Snohomish
County Orphanage. The union con-
tributed the labor of it's members,
thereby saving to the orphanage the
expense of the improvement. Such
acts of kindness by labor organiza-
lions are not uncommon and show
that the help-one-another principle
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27
HENRY FORD RAISES
WOMEN'S WAGES

Henry Ford informed President Will
son last Tuesday that he had raised
the wage scale of the 1900 women
working in his factories in Detroit and
other cities to the same as the mems
scale. Beginning with October 10 the
women receive IS per day. Ford says
Wilson gave him the inspiration.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27

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All Referendum Measures and :
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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-10-27

Should the fortunes of war go hard
with Franz Josef he may become CON
WINGED of the i'll luck which is said to
go with the possession of an opal, and
if the i'll luck be in proportion to the
size of the opal he will have a lot of
it coming to him.