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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08

Hayti's Senate was dispersed by po- lice commanded by an American off cer when they persisted in holding a meeting in spite of the warning of Admiral Caperto~,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The next meeting of the Ophthe- poynt club will be held at the home of Miss Louise Ritcourse, S5S Ben ham avenue, Thursday evening, May II.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08

The regular May meeting of W. c. T. U. will be held Tuesday, May g, at o'clock, at the home of Mrs. H. L. Hart. 72 Park street A: Massa- chusetts lecturer will speak
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08
Let George Do It.

The truth seems to be that, when it comes to providing homes for men eager and able to pay for them, there isn't any George in Bridgeport.
 Just the same we have the F'Let George Do It" state of mind.
 The rich mans club is like the poor mans club in many ways, for human nature is pretty much the same everywhere.
 There is always some fellow with rush of language to the mouth who is anxious to show us why the other fel- low is always responsible for whatever is wrong.
 It is easier to listen and accept what he hands us as gospel truth than it is to think out the right of the matter for our selves.
 Besides the spellbinder is careful to tell us what we want to believe anyway.
 He is right sometimes. He talks so much he can't help be- But oftener he isn't, because your professional talker ism t much of a thinker He lives by words, not deeds
 It's going to take more than talking to solve this problem of finding places to live for the thousands that Bridgeport's pros perity has made homeless.
 There is more to it than merely provid- ing shelter for few months.
 It wouldn' # be much of job to lease some land, put up portable houses with sewer and water connections, and charge outrageous rentals which the necessities of the workers would compel them to pay.
 MAKING. IT PAY is the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08

That would be making Georges of the tenants.
 The professional orators, in the rich mans clubs where big initiation fee is demanded and in the poor mans clubs where every one is welcome if he has t'tFe price," don't find much nour- ishment in this problem. It isn't ex- citing enough for them, and besides it is too hard.
 The chances are this housing problem will not be solved in either the rich mans nor the poor mans club, but by the quiet, earnest, thinking men who frequent clubs not at all.
 The best thing we can do is to think about it, to talk about it with everybody we know, and to TALK SENSE.
 The problem is not what OUGHT to be done but what CAN be done.
 If you have an idea write to the news papers. Write to the newspapers if you hear of a good idea Point out the obstacles you see. them. Let's get this housing matter out in the daylight where we can see it from all sides.
 If all of us in Bridgeport get to- gether on this, and use all the brains we have and all our energy, we will get action. <. Let's all be- Georges.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08
WOMAN WEAK.
 DIZZY, NERVOUS
Health Restored by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
 Comrosnd.

Jamaica, N. Y.-"I suffered greatly with my head and with backache, was
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08

MAKING IT PAY is the next advertisement in this series published by the Build for Bridgeport Movement
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
COL. ROOSEVELT
 GUEST AT FAIR
 TO AID HEBREWS
Former President Lends Hand to Help War
 Sufferers. F

f
 New York, March 31.-Co1. Theo- dore Roosevelt visited the Jewish War Sufferers,- Bazaar at Grand Cen from the Peoples Relief Committee was appointed to. escort the Colonel to the fair.
 This was artists and authors day at the big bazaar, and many writers and painters were on hand. Among them were Carroll Beckwith, Ernest Peixotto, NIontague Glass, Leon Da- lbo, Henry James Forman and Russell lRoubleday.
 The largest single days attendance was recorded yesterday, Bronx Day, when 10000 visitors were counted. With the visit last night of Oscar S. Straus, chairman of the Public Ser ed the halfway mark in it's ten days career.
 After addressing the crowd, MT Strans stopped at the autograph booth, where he paid $10O for an au- tographed letter from To1stoy to. Sho- lem Aleichem. ..the Yiddish Mark Twain Speakers following MT. Straus were. Borough President Doug las Mathewson and Register Edward Po1ak of Bronx.
 Later Sophie Braslau, Metropolitan Opera contralto, sang opera arias in the concert room, and thousands of persons who were unable to get seats listened from a distance. Others who gave their services to the concert were. Lieut.. Percy Richards and Jacqnes Kasner, the violinist.
 Business was brisk at all the booths the most successful being the House Beautiful Booth, in charge of Mrs. Helix Gouled, which has averaged be- tween $1,2OO and $1,5OO.
 In his address MT. Straus said:
 While the world is suffering Americans, here are pouring out to help all We have benevolent or lganizations for the Germans, for the Russians, for the BeIgians, for the allied nations for all, because America realizes while in faith and hope the world may disagree. when it comes to charity we make no dis tinctton.
 tsBut, while millions are suffering g along the varied fronts and while the Jews in all the armies are Showing the patriotic and heroic spirit of the Maccabeans; while they are proving amid all their sorrows and sufferings that the patriotic spirit and love of welfare of their father1and has not |gdiminished, but that the old spirit still survives; while friends are sui fering, while the French are suffer ing and the British are suffering and the Germans are suffering and the Russians are suffering, alas, the Jew is suffering in all of the battle lines and in a, large part of the area, of war they are suffering from additional causes that are not due to the war, but due to the narrowness, to unfair ness, to prejudice, and are subject to miser1ess greater than any other people.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
Political Indiferentism.

An interview was published a few days ago, given by well known poli- tician in which he said that the peo- pie in his section are taking but slight interest in the primaries for choice of national convention delegates. Yet in one party at least there are two sets of delegates representing entirely op- posite schools of thought. The stake to be decided is the presidency of the United States
 Theoretically the politicians run their steam rollers in an arrogant and autocratic fashion over a long suffer ing people. The latter are supposed to submit to graft and inefhciency be- cause the iron grip of the bosses is too firm. As matter of fact, the boss es rule because the people are too in different to come out and vote. They are too tired to walk a half mile to the polling booth on caucus night. They have often not read about the pending contests, though few of them failed to post up on the Willard-Mo- ran fight.
 A skilled observer, unswayed by par ty feeling, can usually tell who will be elected as soon as the nominations are made. His prediction would prove
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
THREE HUNDRED THOUSANDS OF
 PASSENGERS RIDE DAILY UPON
 LINES OF NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
System Has 964 Stations and 771 Agents-Six Hundred Thousand Tons of Steel in Rails-Tes Laid End to End Would Stretch 2O,783 Miles.

In it's campaign of publicity the New Haven road has issued an inter esting statement of it's approximate business, wages paid. physical capaci- ty and ndustriaNorganizatio
 This statement is most enIightening in it's detail. The official statement accounts accurately for the employ ment of 25,317 employees, out of an indicated average of S6,0OO, who are paid annual wage of approximately $3O, O,54O.217. In a total of 964i stations there are 771 agents.
 To keep its rails. ties and roadbed in proper condition requires 4,661 men.
 To patrol it's lines and watch it's property of all kinds in four states requires 931 watchmen.
 To man it's towers and operate it's signals requires 523 men.
 To operate it's repair shops requires 7,511 men.
 To perform it's clerical work re- quires 4,62s men and women.
 It has 1926 engineers, 1922 fire men, LIDO conductors and 2,531 brakemen.
 To handle passengers baggage it employs 649 Ibaggagemen.
 To operate it's track switches it has 125 switchnen. The road is said to furnish trans portat1on daily to approximately. 3O0,- 900 persons, According to the ratio estimated by the company one person is employed to every eight carried on the lines daily. The records show that an average of 271,O0U tickets are sold daily to the 3OO,OO0 persons carried. Likewise it's dining cars the number of which is not given, serve an average of 1,300 meals daily to upwards of 45O,OOO people in the course of a year.
 On the basis of the number employ ed and the average annual payroll the average wage per annum would be $84S, or $7O per month. A tally of the New Haven rolling stock shows 37,241 freight cars;s 1282 steam locomotives; 103 electric Sloco- motives and 2.435 passenger cars, Against the rdight carrying equipment the company's statistics show that B. 500 freight way-bills, representing -35,- 900 freight bills, or 45.OO0 separate freight items are made out daily.
 The motion of<traffic on its roadbed is particularly interesting as the freight cars are estimated to travel ap- proximate1y CT 1885 miles per day or 2S,O70 miles an hour. Likewise it's passenger cars are said to travel 229,- 546 miles a day or 9,564 miles ian
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

correct four times out of five. Hence it is four times as important to at tend the primary meeting as to vote at election.
 It seems to be easy for men of the politician type to build up centers of power through cajolery, appeal to per sonal and class prejudice, distribution of petty spoil and other favors. The voters in eloquent and often prOfane language denounce the rule of grafters bosses and machines. Then they turn around and stay away from the pri- maries, where the bosses and .grafters and machines fix up their sIates and cement their power.
 Our fathers went into battle to se- cure the blessings of liberty, chief among which is the inestimabIe gift of the franchise. They might think it didn't pay, could they see how little their descendants value these civic blessings.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

hour. The locomotives, fewer in num- Der, are estimated to travel the enor- nous total or 91,066 miles per day. With a total of 1885. however, each locomotive would average less than thre miles per hour.
 The supplies of coal and water re- quired for these tractors in the course of a year are given as follows: Coal $5,688,755; water 337,067; oil $89,- 573.
 No figures have been given for the cost of electricity though it is known that 53s miles of track are electri- fled with 1,073 miles of overhead cleo tric feew wires and 1900 steel bridges supporting the wires.
 The telephone system is nearly as large as that of the Southern New England Telephone Co. supplying Bridgeport. It has 1900 circuit miles of telephone wires with 1903 te1e phones; 6675 miles of telegraph wires with $50 telegraph offices, and the daily number of telephone calls an- swered by tits exchange operators alone is 10000 or about the total calls of Bridgeport in one day.
 In it's physical equipment, however, the size of the New Haven system is manifest:
 The rails of the New Haven ,sys- tenn represent 6OO,969 tons of steel. This amount of steel would make 22 United States battleSh1ps like the Ne vada. It represents 7O,OO0 more tons of steel than is in all the United States battleships. It would build eight steel bridges like the Greensboro bridge in New York. It would take 4OO-ton blast furnace working five years, five months and twenty-five days to pro duce the iron necessary for this quan- lItity of steel rail. It would take a 15OO-ton rail mill 400 days to roll this amount of rail. The rails of this rail- road would stretch 9,8O7 miles, 39 per cent. of the distance around the earth at the equator. In this railroad there are approximately 14,0O0,0O0 ties. It would take AS, 800 acres of timber land of the average found in Connecticut 10 years to produce this amount of lumber. These ties would stretch 2O,- 7s3 miles, or S3 per cent, of the dis tance around the earth at the equator There are approximately 2,85O ties under every mile of main track and g. 500 under every mile of side track. To fasten the rails of this railroad to the ties requires 16, ,25O tons of spikes. This railroad system has 2,223 bridges, of which 1924 are of steel. These bridges, placed end to end. would ex- tend 31 miles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
INDUSTRIES OF GERMANY UNITED
 BY WORLD WAR
Farmers and Manufacturers i Will Act In Accord Say
 TeutOn Professors.

Berlin, March 31.-One of the most inevitable industrial consequences of the war will be. in the opinion of zia1e Praxis, the strengthening of the position of employers, individually and associated in federations. In the course of the war, the professor says, the power of the empIoyerA has already enormously increased, and all though their numbers have been di- unfinished, their strength does not rest so mucha on their numbers as men, as on the number of their establish m ents.
 ''As ru1e," Professor Francke con- tinues, these establishments have improved and strengthened their po- sitions, and have increased in concen- tration. There are now fewer inde- pendent groups of industria,ls. Unity among them is practically complete, and there can be no longer any doubt that German industrials after the war will go hand in hand with the agrr- cultural alliances and with the mid dle class leagues.
 '9The leading men of the most inn portant industries are already stating | through the press that their principles remain unchanged, and assume with l absolute conviction that they are the
 masters of the situation. They insist that Social Democracy shall learn a lesson from the war, and re-write, the principles which have hitherto guided it. But they themselves, de- cline to re-write anything, and, there fore, when peace comes, there will be peace and relief from years of blood shed, but the war of labor will sue ceed it, and no one knows whither it's battles will 1ead.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
BENEFITS OF TOP
 DRESSING TOBACCO

Top dressing tobacco pays in great CT yields of higher quality. At the recent annual meeting of the New England tobacco growers at Hartford, Conn.,, Director Brooks, of the Massa- chusetts Experiment Station, reported the results of examinations made by Professor Morse and himself and stated that .'witho exception, top dressing with fertilizer on tobacco proved beneficial'' He added that ttas a rule the recovery of the crop, as would naturally be expected, had been greatest where fertilizers had been ap- piled earliest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

SPRING PIONEERING
 PLANTS. JOHN RICK 6 SON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
WOMEN WORK ON DOCKS.

Liverpool, Eng, March 31.-Women are now being employed at the Liver pool Docks, handling cotton imports and other bagged goods. At the Ley land line docks nearly 100 women are now working. Fears were enter fafned that the Dockers' Union would Baise difficulties, but these have been pmoothed over and the women are re- eeiving the same rate of pay as the Dnen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
HERzoG NOT ESCORT
 OF WOMEN WHO WE'RE
 INSUITED BY WASHER

: Frank Herzog; a member of the
 hospital corps of the Connecticut c.
 A. C., who was a, witness in the trial in city court yesterday of Patsy Masso, 8 1aasher, proves not to have been a member of the. party which
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Announcement was made in Wash ington of the engagement of Dr. Cary T. Grayson. private physician to Pres ident Wilson, to Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon of New York.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Directors of the Cunard Steamship Co.,, Ltd. declared a dividend of 10 per cent. less income tax, on ordinary shares for 1915, and 10 per cent. bonus, free of income tax.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
Masso accosted.

MaSSO accOSI0Qs
 Herzog, returning from the larmory. happened to pass the corner Just as Masso encountered them. While Flor ence Schafer was pummelling Masso, another young woman of the party ran to Herzog for protection. In this way he was brought into the case.
 Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

To Cure Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUINIlJB Tablets Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. B. w. GROVES sig nature is on each box. 25o.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Seth Low, former mayor of New York, is seriously i'll at his home in New York city.
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CLARENCE D. ROBINSON, President.
R. T. CUNNINGHAM. Treasurer.
W.. WEGEL, Secretary.
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-01-29
NORTH CHARLESTON LIGHTED.
Fourteen Nitrogen. Filled 100. Candle
Lamps Turned OH Last Night.

Fourteen NitrOgen-Filled 1OO.Candle
Lamps Turned Oh Last Night.
Charleston, Jan. 25.--Lights on at
North Charleston! Another notable
event in the development Of North
Charleston occurred at dusk yester-
day afternoon when for the first time
street lights illuminated the town that
Is building. Persons going by electric
car to North Charleston were sharply
surprised at the difference made by
the lights. Residents of the new town
were delighted.
by means of an automatic clock
contrivancc lights were switched on
Mt dusk and switched off at midnight
Fourteen nitrOgen- filled lamps of 1OO-
candle power burned dazzlingly for
moro than six hours. Six Of them are
on O'Hear avenue, four on COsgrove
avenue, two on Ashley avenue and
two on Lockhart avenue. Current for
the lights is being furnished by the
Consolidated Company, which has for
some time operated power lines out
to the new town just beyond the Navy
Yard
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-01-29
THE LUSITANIA CASE.
Final Settlement Put up to President
Wilson Today.

Washington, Jan. 25.-The Lusi-
tania case YVES put up to the presi-
dent for final settlement today. It ID
confidently expected that he will con-
sent to the case passing into history
before leaving for New York tomorrow
night. Ambassador Bernstorff placed
Germany's final word before Secre-
tary Lansing, who sent it to the
White House. Germany points out
that the torpedoing was an act of re-
prisal, but she has since changed the
methods of reprisal at Americas be-
hest. The note also expresses the
deepest sorrow at the death of the
American victims. and says Germany
is ready to pay ample indemnities to
the victims families. 1t also argued
that Germany and America are now
working for a common goal-the free
dom Of the seas. Such being the case
Germany frankly states that she
wants to close the matter finally.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-01-29

the rules and stAHdards regarding ti6
sale of fertilizers as may be deemed
advisable and proper at this time. in
view Of the scarcity of potash.
The resolution follows:
Whereas, the abnormal and un-
usual conditions in Europe have made
1t impossible to obtain potash in any
considerable quantities.; and
Whereas, under existing law all
fertilizers sold or offered for sale in
South Carolina must be branded high
grade. standard or, low grade and
in order to conform with existing law
each grade must contain a certain
percentage Of potash; now therefore
be it
Resolved, by the house of repre-
|sentatives, the senate concurring,
That the board of trustees of Glenn
son college be, and is hereby, author
lied and empowered to establish GER
tain rules and regulations for the sale
of fertilizers in South Carolina, in so
far as the same may be affected by
the impossibility to obtain potash until
the abnormal conditions referred to
shall have been remedied."