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New Britain herald., 1916-12-26

tric Manufacturing company, were en- tertained today by the officers of that concern. The men came here from Boston. They were met at New Britain by L. L. Brastow, the company's pub 1icity manager, who escorted them to the factory. They were shown through the plant and the various workings were explained to them by department heads.
 Tomorrow the men will visit the factory of Landers Frary and Clark in New Britain. Both companies have made elaborate plans for the enter tainment of the salesnen while they are in this section.
 Addition to Ice House.
 Leland Hart is having a substantial addition built to his ice house on the New Britain road MT Hart proposes to start harvesting the crop from his pond in few days.
 He has made plans for greatly in creasing the capacity of his reposi- tories and hopes to store a larger amount of ice than ever this year.
 To Initiate Large Class.
 Court General Lawton, F. of A., Ut it's meeting this evening in Grange hall will confer the initiatory degree
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
meeting that was postponed from last

meeting that was postponed from last week.
 Christmas Party.
 Christmas night the Worthington ridge home of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Dodd was the scene of an old fashioned Christmas party. A repre- sentative gathering of the families along the ridge were in attendance and games pertaining to the Christ mas season were played. During the course of the evening a dainty lunch in keeping with the spirit of the oc- casion was served.
 Garter Funeral.
 The funeral of Everett Garter, who Wa9 killed while at work on the high tension wires last Friday morning, was held from his late home on Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. s. A. Fiske off1ciated and burial was in Maple cemetery. Friends of the young man acted as bearers and the floral tributes were many and beauti- ful.
 Briefs.
 Thomas Ensign is seriously ill at his home with pneumonia.
 Mrs. B. A. Haviland of Southing- ton is visiting at the home of MT. and Mrs A. B. Goodrich.
 Mrs. A. H. Terry of Bridgeport Is spending a few days with Miss Frances Perkins.
 The many friends of Mrs. Thomas Buckey will be glad to hear of her recovery from diphtheria.
 MT. and Mrs. l. Porter and daugh- ter Emily of Philadelphia are visit ing at the home of J. c. Bowers.
 Mrs. F. S. Galp1n~ entertained E. W. Mildrum and family of East Berlin and MT. and Mrs Arthur Lombard of Guilford on Christmas Day.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Pre-Inventory Sale Prices on Suits
Pre-lnventory Sale of Coats

ices of the Stock must be reduced for In-
 ol Velour Broadcoth, Bolivia, Plush and Silk Velour
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26

ination showed that all that was needed was a supply of gasoline and several quarts of the fluid were se cured but failed to do the work. The owners stayed until after Il o'clock but were unable to move the car so they departed for the night. This morning when they put in an appear ance they discovered that the water had frozen during the night and that 1t was impossible to move their au- tomobile. The car still stands by the roadside waiting for a tow to some nearby garage.
 Church News.
 Berlin Congregational Church Prayer meeting will be held in the church at 7:3O o'clock on Thursday evening.
 The annual meeting of the church will be held on Friday afternoon, January 5, at 4 o'clock. Further an nouncements of the meeting will be made at a future date.
 The regular meeting of the Boy Scouts will be omitted this week.
 The Local Council of the Boy Scouts, composed of 12 troops in New Britain and Berlin, is planning a campaign of several weeks to stimu- late interest in the work and also to enroll new scouts, who will be will ing to go into the work as scoutmas- ters or assistants. The campaign will open on January 3 with a banquet in the evening and the tickets are now on sale. Every scout is urged to at tend this banquet and help the cause along.
 Kensington Congregational church The Woman's Home Missionary So- ciety of the church will meet with Mrs Gilbert Johnson on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. This is the
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Berlin News FRANKS PLAYED , ON AUTO OWNERS Cars Left Outside Of Grange Hall
 Are Tempered With COLD HURTS TRAFFIC
Church Activities For the Week. ~ Auto Abandoned by Roadside By Held Sunday-Briefs.

Everyone expects that at some time or other boys will play pranks but there is such a thing as carrying said pranks a little too far. It has just come to light that at recent meet ing of the Grange several of the toWnspeople left their cars standing outside the building with the usual 4feeling of safety. Things went along all right inside of the building but in the meantime hands were at work on the outside and as a result one car was put out of commission and another run around to the side of the hall. The car that was damaged the most belonged to Thomas Cashman 2 and as 8, result of the nights work he was forced to pay out $2O for re- pairs. When MT. Cashman came out of the hall to start his car he discOV cred that it would not go and at once started an investigation and found that the wiring had been disconnect- ed. Further investigation showed that the self starter had been tempered with and the battery run out. Things were in such a mix that the car was 2 taken to a garage for repairs with the above mentioned item a result. The other car was pushed from the main road around the side of the building where it was left but there was no other damage done. It is expected that there will be an investigation of the matter and if the culprits are ;, caught they will be made to suffer for their evenings entertainment. When automobiles are left by the Wayside people expect that thy are fairly well protected from this kind of damage and a good stiff punishment should be : handed to any that would play trick of this kind.
 Trains Late.
 Main line trains on the N Y, N. H. & H. R. R. were away behind time this morning due to the cold and frosty weather. One freight train left early this morning for Hartford but was held up near the Cremo Brewery plant because steam could not be made fast enough. It was the same with the fast express trains and the } f1remen had their hands full trying to keep the supply of steam under the boilers. Saturday and Sunday the large amount of baggage and the hugh amounts of mail and express were the cause of much delay but to- cay was the first time that the cold weather has in any way seriously af- fected the running time.
 Auto Abandoned.
 Shortage of gasoline caused the abandonment of an automobile early last evening by two unknown young men, The car came down Farming ton road headed for New Britain but | Clark it suddenly stopped, An exam
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on a large class. The work will be under the direction of the degree team of Court Charter Oak of New Britain. There will be a number of visitors from neighboring towns and plans have been made for their entertain ment.
 A program will be furnished and re- treatments will be served.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Calls for Claims.

Through the application of Willia J. Simson as trustee, Judge George Byington has issued an order limitir to January 26 the time for presenta ton of claims against the estate Joseph Salerno, who was recent committed to the state hospital for i1
 (Continued On Tenth Pagee.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Auto Abandoned.

Shortage of gasoline caused the bandonment of an automobile early last evening by two unknown young men, The car came down Farming ton road headed for New Britain but just as it passed the home of Sheriff Clark it suddenly stopped. An exam
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Half Price Now on All Millinery
 for the Next Three Days, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Opportunity in Our Millinery Parlo in Coming Three is
  is at just Hal the ma price,.  
  fort he threed by
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Special ''Before Inventory" Selling at Biz Mark Downs in Suit Dept.

the reductions (that made for this in a stylish Dress A Miss Come this to
 and is to 0 O morey Of will
 
 of be on O. or eorder taken
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Pre-Lnventory Sale of Dresses
Silk Dresses

Silk Dresses, formerly s16.75. Pre-Inventory Sale Price S12.9 .95.
 S5 Silk Dresses, formerly $250o and $2s.75. Pre- Inventory Sale Price S1S.75
 20 Silk Dresses, formerly $32.5o and $35 %. Pre- Inventory Sale Price $25.OO. #s.#
 All other Dresses and Gowns for afternoon and street wear, greatly reduced comprising Taffeta, Satin, Crepe de Chine etc., good range colors and sizes. exchanged, and none credited.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26
Wool Dresses

25 Wool Dresses, formerly $S95 and $1095 Pre- Inventory Sale Price $5.95. 10 Wool Drtsses, formerly $11.95 and $1675 Pre- Inventory Sale Price $S.05. 30 Wool Dresses, formerly $250O and S29.75. Pre- Inventory Sale Price $1SS5. Wool Dresses formerly $350O Pre- Inventory Sale price $25. %.
 Included both and Jersey Dresses, good assortment of cOlors, all sizes, and in the sirabe models.
 None approval, none
New Britain herald., 1916-12-26

HAVING DE2 2 oo Ho0 sAs DEEPEN"
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Velour Broadcloth Boiv 30 COATS FORMERLY S18.75 REDUCED TO ........... 40 COATS FORMERLY $25. % and 975, REDUCED TO 50 COATS FORMERLY 35.00 and $4500, REDUCED TO :, 20 COATS FORMERLY $49 % and $59 OO, REDUCED TO 10 COATS FORMERLY S65.00 and $7500, REDUCED TO :.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
TIGERS FALL IN LINE.
Princeton Agrees to Request t.
Lengthen Child's Cup Race.

PHILA DELPHIA, May 2.-It was an
nounced yesterday that Princeton had
consented to the change of distance in
the Child's cup race, which will be held
in connection with the American re-
gatta on the Schuylkill river Saturday,
May 13. Instead of the usual one mile
and fve-sixteenths. the distance will
be one mile and a half. this being de-
cided upon on account of a bad angle
at the start of the race for the shorter
distance. Those crews which had ac-
cepted the requests to lengthen the dis
,ance prior to Princeton acceding to the
request were Penn. Annapolis and Co.
lumbia. The Red and Blue will be rep
resented in the American regatta by
the varsity. junior varsity and fresh
men crews, the third varsity having
been left out of the regatta on account
of some OF the Oarsmen having dropped
training during Easter week
Coach Wright intends to give the
crews the usual twice daily practice,
which will be continued. starting today v
until the men break training after the
Pouehkeepsie regatta. The crews were
out yesterday, but Coach Wright did
not push them, allowing the oarsmen
to take things easy.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
men Smother Boston Ink and Take the Lead Pennan Rae
GOOD TENNIS MATCHES DEVELOP
IN CHEVY CHASE TOURNAMENT
Victories of Moore Over Wright and Davis
and Kennedy Over Doyle Brothers
In Doubles the Feature

The second day of play in the Chevy
Chase Clubs annual spring invitation
tennis tournament inaugurated. in ad-
dition to the mems singles, competition
in all other departments of the event.
Some notable upsets to the talent were
shown. among them the defeat of Irv-
ing {. Wright of oBston by J. Ballard
Moore of the home club in fercely
fought battle that went the full three
sets. In the doubles IA memorable up
set came when the Doyle brothers were
taken into camp by Davis and Kennedy
The latter pair showed their speed in
the defeat of the Chevy Chase team of
Moorhead and Fuller, when it was seen
that their shots were all going right
and that it would be hard to stop them
Irving Wright and Moore played their
match Sunday. Wright employs a slid
ing chop to the exclusion of a drive,
and does not get a great deal of pace
on his shots Against the home player
he found 1t difficult to use these Shots
as a cut is much easier to handle at the
net than at the back line, and Moore's
speed enabled him to take the net
readily.
In the doubles reversal the winning
the brilliant Connie" DOYLE and his
equally formidable brother at every
turn. Davis is Californian and is very
strong and severe overhead, and this
was in frequent evidence. as he seemed
to have no trouble killing lobs, no mat
ter how high and deep they were
fine doubles contest was that be-
tween Wright and Throckmorton and
Gore and James. Gore is known as a
steady. reliable player who is at his
best in doubles. James is one of the
sure. accurate sort of players and the
VoHylng in this match was worth see
ing. Throckmorton is remarkably quick
on his feet. and Notwithstanding his
light weight. gets a great deal of pace
on his drives. When the ball goes in
it is unreturnable, and Gore. who is
primarily back line player. was baf-
fed by the speed of the collegians
strokes.
Miss Florence Ballin, who is from the
West Side Tennis Club of New York
and who ranks high in the ranks of ma
tional women's tennis, won two of her
singles matches. Miss Ballin is fancied
by the prognosticators to go through
Evening star., 1916-05-02
GOLF GOSPEL TRUTHS.
Why the Stymie Should Be
Upheld.
ny STRAIGHT DHIN

II is breach Of the rules OF the
game to term that often annoying cli-
max Of the play the putting green
tho unfair stymie" The rules uphold I
i, and whoever PLAYS in accord with
them is never playing unfairly. Be
sides. whoever has felt the pleasure Of
winning q hole. or a half. by breaking
a stymie'' iii never be persuaded that
he has taken ar unfair advantage OF
his opponent
Naturally. those who have been pc
raIized Ly the failure TO pull OFF the
attempt viii always he found aligned
in opposition TO the old emergency; a
situation of the balls due TO an imp
Of the perverse usually. hence a sour
action OF the goddess of luck. or per-
haps "A self-ldId scyfnie. when the bad
luck seems all the worse through being
self-inricted.
In the latter cage the penalty. ~ ac-
cepted as q Christening OF an over-hasty
creed 20 win the hole or as warning
against CareleSsness on the putting
green, may cDuNert each miss OF a
Stynie into u stepping stone to the al =
tainnent Of greater proficiency at golf.
Is il not better to accept the self-laid
stymie AS a cIsti2ation OF goihns
fault. or as an unlnckE rub oi the
green, tuau 10 Jolh IN" 'h't d6 'HS I
wculd make IL anathena and accursed
in the game
The best players who in their long
careers as tournament and match prin-
cipaIs have had both winning and los
ing experiences with the styni@ agree
only in disagrecments over the place
Of this emergency in the game Walter
r Trsv Wis condemns the styp1ie. and par
iicuiarly as 10 the self-laid variety. as
the one Observation-Disclosures contingency
of ;;olf--to him il is to be banned as
an agency without the game that rs
worse than an uuCouquera bl- wind
findlay :. Douglas. on the other
hand. who is ST. Andrews born, and
hence an upholder with clarslike lo5--
city Of All that is Scotch IN the. rules
and spirit of golf. regards the stymie
as 4 good joke: a farcica1 deuouement
10 the painstaking progress to within
n safe putting.-out- berth that is es-
r. sentially humorous. Should Douglas
lay a stymie IL is a joke the OPP
pnnept while self-inficted stymie
IL a joke OIL himself,
Laugh and the world laughs with
you seems the wise way of regarding
the styuie.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
O'CONNoR TO JOIN RED s0x.
Manhattan College Pitcher Gets
Flattering Offer.

NEW YORK, May Capt Frank
OConnor. pitcher of the Manhattan
College base ball team, probably will
sign with the Boston American League
club at the close of school in June Bill
CarriGan sent him q fattering offer
yesterday, and O'Connor said he prob
ably would accept. Prior to the Red
Sox proposition the Manhattan College
box artist had received several induce
ments from western clubs.
OConnor has played with the varsity
nine four years. During that time he
has pitched several no-hit and one-hit
games. He is rght-hander with
terrific speed and splendid control In
his three games this year he has struck
out thirtyAfour batters. an average of
II l3 to "A game.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
DOUBLE BY HENRY
W|NSF0Rl0CALS
Biq CatCher's Hit, With Bases
Full, Gives His Team
5-to-3 Victory.
NATIONALS MOVE INTO
FIRST PLACE AS RESULT
Ruth's Wildness Responsible for
Champions Downfall, He Hand
ing Out Nine Passes.
BY J. ED GRILLo.

A second victory over the Boston
champions. while the Yankees and
Tigers were receiving setbacks. allow
ed the Griffmen to move up into first
place yesterday.
1t was another real ball game, this,
which naked the defeat of the Red
Sox. The locals once more came from
the rear in time to overcome a lead
which their opponents held. finally win
ming the struggle by score of ) TO ,.
Harper's pitching was superior TO
that of Ruth. for the reason that he
gave but single base on balls, while
Ruth passed nine, and in the eighth
paved the way for his teams defeat
when he filled the bases with walks,
and set the stage for a rally which the
locals took advantage of when John
Henry came through with two base
hit to left which cleared the bases.
Harper was hit safely oftener than
his rival, but many of the hits made
off the Hackensack southpaw were of
the f1ukey variety.
The Griffmen were the first to score.
In the second inning Rondeau drew a
pass, and after Judge had moved him
up with a sacrifice. Morgan and Henry
singled III RAPID SUCCESSFUL, bringing
Rondeau home, and Mcbride followed
with a hit which allowed Morgan to
score.
sox Forge to Front.
That lead looked good until the
fourth, when the Sox forged to the
front by scoring three runs. Lewis
| opened the inning with a clean hit,
Gardner and Barry got hits between
| Morgan and Mcbride and Foster
and Mcbride, respectively, and then
Harper hit Agnew. forcing in a run.
A clean single by Ruth brought in two
more and then the side was retired.
A bad break prevented the Nationals
| from increasing their lead in the third.
| Shanks walked to start this inning,
| and after Foster had flied out. Milan
also was walked. Rondeau then drove
| a line drive right at Barry and dou-
| BILE play resulted. In the fourth Henry
| walked with two out, and Mcbride SIN
| gled. but no runs resulted Ruth seem :
| ed to have steadied down. and went
along smoothly until the eighth: Milan
| had flied out TO second when Rondeau
i was walked Williams, batting Tor
Judge, also drew a pass. and to make
matters worse. Morgan also was give.
| free transportation and the bases were
| full with but one out
John Henry proved the man OF the
hour. for though Ruth was taken out
and Leonard substituted, the 1attef
also was wild. and had threeS nails
| on Henry before he put over strike
The next one was over the center ana
| John let it pass. The next also was III
| tended to be over but it never reached
the plate for Henry met 1t fafriy ana
hit it on line to left field for cou-
nle of bases, sending three runs home
which gave the Nationals the two-run
! lead they won by. The score:
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Frisco Releases Joe Corbett.

SAN FRANCISCO. May 2.-Joseph
Corbett. brother of James J. Corbett,
and pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
in 1897, when that team won the Tenn
pie cup, who made an attempt to come
back" this spring after a retirement of
several years. was released yesterday
by the San Francisco club of the Pa
cific Coast League. In 1904 he was
with the ST. Louis Nationals.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Carroll Brown Released.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, May 2.-Carroll
Brown. formerly member of the
louisville American Association pitch
ing staff. has received word that he has
been released to the Memphis Southern
Association club. Brown was obtained
from the New York Americans but
latcr was returned
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Reds Release 0utfelder Williams.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. May 2.-Outfield-
er Kenneth Williams was sent back to
the Spokane. Wash. club yesterday by
the Cincinnati Nationals. Williams was
released in order TO bring the club
down to it's allowed quota of twenty
one men williams was obtained from
Spokane under an optional agreement.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

the tournament and challenge Miss Eva
Baker for the women's trophy.
This afternoon one of the feature
singles matches will be played. Throck-
morton and Doyle are schedulea ~
take the court at 4:30 o'clock. and the
battle should he we'll worth watchins.
From the way Ballard Moore is hitting
the ball his match with Breck should
develop into a volleying contest as
both men are fast and do not slacken
their speed.
The Summaries.
MEMS sINGLEs-THlRp ROUND.
H. C. Breck defeated Peckham. 81. 81.
Selden defeated Gould. -. SO.
] Ballard Moore defeated Irving G. Wright,
e. r. Doyle defeated A. L. Gore, -, g.
Meade defeated Gould Lincoln 81 o4'
II. c. Cotton defeated W. H. Y. Hackett'
FOURTH ROUND.
#. c. Breck defeated scldsn. s,-l 50.
j. Ballard Moore defeated Bethel, 81 6-S.
Doyle defeated Meade. G-1. @1.,,
Harold Throckmorton defeated H. Z. col
ton, 6-2. 6-s.
wOMEN'S SINGLES-FIRST ROUND.
Miss Barney defeated Miss Schley by default
Miss Taylor defeated Miss Irwin. 81, 50.
Mrs Bell defeated Miss Hinckley by default
Miss Florence Hallin defeated MISS Porter
Miss Bull defeated Miss Noes. s4: "a:
Miss Elizabeth Bryan defeated Miss Birney
by default. Z,
Miss BOYD defeated Miss Morrison. 6-4, 6-3
Miss Johnson defeated DR.. Kempn. 64. 6-3.
Miss Grecly defeated Miss poolittie' 8-S'
6-1.
SECOND ROUND.
Miss Taylor defeated Miss Barney. 80. 80
Miss Balm defeated Miss Bull. 6-1, 81.
MEMS DOUBLES.
Davis and Mclean were defeated by Gore
and James by default =
Throckmorton and Wright defeated Lincoln
and Howard 81. 81.
Leech and Leech defeated Brown and Peck
ham. St.. 6-S. 81.
i;reck and Moore defeated Parker and part
HiIiyer and Lewis defeated wyhe and Gar
land. 6-3. -.
Doyle and Doyle defeated Karrick and Graves
Davis aud Kennedy defeated Moorhead and
Fuller. 90, g.
SECOND ROUND.
Throckmorton and Wright defeated Gore and
James. Ga. 6-3.
Breck and Moore defeated Hillyer and Lewis
3. -.
Davis and Kennedy defeated Doyle and
Doyle, 81, St3.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Strike MAY Put Off Pirates Games.

PITTSBURGH. Pa. May 2.-Gnless
the big street car strike that is par
alyzing this city is settled before to-
night it will result in some of the Ma
tionsl League base bah games sched-
uied for i'orbes Field being called off.