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New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
GOVERNMENT NOT TO
 TAKE NORTH & JUDD Factory Official Denies Plant Has Been Communicated
 for War Work.

Contrary to report published in the financial columns of a morning newspaper, the North & Judd Mfg Co. has not been asked by the United States governm to reserve all it's capacity for government orders. This positive statement was issued this afternoon by Frederick M. Holmes, assistant treasurer of the concern.
 Acording to the rumor which has been afoat in financial circles, the government has asked North & Judd not only to reserve all it's capacity for government orders, but also to take no further outside business for the present. This rumor is emphatically denied by the assistant treasurer.
 North & Judd, however. is doing an enormous business and is said to be specializing to a considerable eA- tent on government orders for equl~~ ment for arms and men. So good is the business at the factory that those who claim to be well informed on it's tinanclal status report that the capl- tai, which is at present $1,5O0,O0O. Is being turned over three times year.
 Business at other concerns is alsu good. The New Britain Machine conr. pany Is rushed and work at Landers, Frary x Clark, where an extra diIi dend Of Z per cent to stockholders of record yesterday has been declared, Is also brisk. .-
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
Snow Aids F'ileqnen.

Halifax, Dec 7.-Fires were st burning in the section of Halifl which were devastated by yesterda, disastrous intuition ship explosio A heavy snowstorm set in early todi seriousy impeding work of reacuir the injured and recovering bodies.
 The snowfall, however, comes n aid to the firemen in quenching t1 flames in the ruins.
 Special trains, bringing docto nurses and medical supplies arrl4s here today from Moncton, Truro nl Windsor. Other special trains h6' been sent with injured persons z Windsor and other places where the are large hospitals.
 There is wreck and ruin on evei side. Every building in the city damaged-glass broken, plaster dow windows and doors shattered.
 Business is supended and will for days. All schools and collcz, have been closed until after Ne Years.
 No new estimate of the dead au injured was available here this mor ing.
 Sailors from an American warAS in port are on patrol duty All pn1 plants are idle.
 Reports from hospitals, church, and schools and private residehcl seem to bear out last nights estin1A that at least 2,00O lives were To when 1000 tons of trinitrotuluol, or of the most powerHul exploslv, manufactured, exploded.
 Help from outside began to reac the stricken city today. Doctor nurses and medical and food supple arrived on special trains from Thur, Windsor and from Moncton. Oth1 trains were reported on tho way au were expected to reach hero durffi the day. The special train sent froI
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New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
av Department Gives Number of Halifax Dead As 5O Many Pen Oy
 Night Medical Attendance and Others Expiring Every Hour
Greatest Disaster
 in Worlds History

Halifax, Dec. 7.-Outside the toll of life claimed on land and sea by the great war the catastrophe at Halifax, if re- ports of the number of dead are borne out, is by far the greatest disaster in many years. Numerous explosions have oc- cured in munition plants in this country and Europe, the most disastrous of which on this side was the Eddystone plant of the DuPont Powder company at Chester, Pa., in April last in which 112 per- I sons lost their lives.
 The Halifax disaster is the most tragic explosion, in the number of lives wiped out, ir the last quarter century. 1n- deed, few catastrophes of any nature exceed it in the number of dead-chief1y, the Messina earthquake in 1908, when ap- proximately 100000 lives were lost, the Mont Pelee volcanic eruption on the Island of Mar unique in 1902, when 10000 persons lost their lives, and an earthquake in the interior of Italy in 1915, when 35,OOO dead was the toll.
 The Iroquois theater fire in Chicago in 1903 claimed 5l5 lives, while the sinking of the excursion steamship General Slocum in the East river. New York, in 1914, left a death list of about 1,4OO. In 1906, the earthquake and fire in San Francisco took the lives of approximately 1000 persons, while the loss of the steamship Titanic. in collision with an iceberg in 1912, resulted in q toll of l.5o3 dead.
 IH 1914 the steamship Elm press of Ireland went down in the St. Lawrence river, near Fathers Point, Que, with the loss of 1,O27 lives. Then fol- lowing the sinking of the Lusi- tania, by a German torpedo, and the steamship Eastland in the Chicago river in 1915, with death lists respectively of 1,198 and SIP.
 In October of this year it was reported that 4,OOO persons had lost their lives in a muni- tions explosion in Austria, but this report never has been con- firmed.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
FIREMEN ASK INCREASE
Petition Commissioners for Increase of 20 Per Cent. in Wages to Cope With Cost of Living.

Members of the permanent fire de- partment today presented to the board of fire commissioners a petition for an increase of 20 per cent. in wages. The petition may be acted upon at the next meeting of the commission.
 In explaining their request, the f1re- men state that they have been forced to ask for higher wages because of the increased cost of living, their hazardous occupation and the mono tony of their duty and long hours.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
WATCHMAN HAS DUEL.

Danielson, Dec. 7.-William Ma thieu, outside night watchman at the Quinebaugh mills here. had a re- volver duel with three men during last night. The latter had intended to crack the safe in the mill office In spite of a lively few minutes no one was hurt. Many safes have been broken open with explosives in this part of the state recently.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07

Dead Piled High. Aboard Massa chusetts Relief Train via St. John, N. B., Dec 7.-Exacs conditions in stricken Halifax arc moro appalling than was indicated by last nights reports.
 This IS message that was de- spatched to Governor Mccall toda.' by A. c. Ratshesky, manager of the Massa chusetts special relief train. 1 after night spent in gathering bits of information from trainmen and others met with as the train .ped eastward.
 The dead are everywhere, said these reports. There is immediate need of a great staff of surgeons and scores of nurses
 By o'clock tonight the Massa- chusetts unit should be in Halifax at the immediate disposal of the chief surgeon who is directing the relief work-the most stupcndous task that has confronted the people of Nova Scotia. When the Bay State Special reached St. John additional hospital supplies were taken aboard to meet pfessir 2 demands pending the arrival Tt Hai- fax of a shipment due to leave Boston at noon today.
 During the brief stop MT. Ratsnesky got into communication with the Halifax officials over the railroad tele- graph and learned supplies and help of every kind would be most welcome It had not been humanely possible the authorities said, to take care of the hundreds of injured. many of whom had perished during the night.
 In improvised morgues the dead are piled high and unidentified Scores of these bodies will never be claimed.
 For hours today the relief train ran through a country buried a foot deep in snow. Railroad men said it was cold and raw at Halifax and that the suffering was intense. The spe- cial had the right of way and made record run on its mission of mercy.
 Arrangements were made last night with James Jackson, head of the New England division of the American Red Cross to forward large equipment for the needed to supplment what we have abroad" said MT. Ratshesky. The assign ment of our staff and nurses will be determined after arrival but the whole force will be placed as a unit under tho direction of the surgeon general.
 A simple statement that came over the telephone from Truro today re- veals more of the horror of the trae- edy at Halifax.
 It was that many women injured or destitute Or both who had heer brought from Halifax at Truro had been so crazed by the shock that upon arriving at the relief stations they were unable to tell their own names.
 All direct telegraph wires between
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07

St. John and Halifax were down day. A heavy sleet storm added the delay in restoring them. Inf local telegraph wires, between
 John and Truro were working sp1 medically. The only communicati out of Halifax was by cable south 4l the Canadian Pacific wire which ocx& pied entirely with government n railway business.
 A message from Truro brings U story of Eleanor Lapley, of St. JQA a student at Mt. St. Vincent Acad&f at Halifax.
 Miss Lspley says the armory N destroyed and, some soldiers kill( The academy was converted into hospital to which as many as cutI be found place for were brought al cared for by the sisters and girl ak dents. The convent was badly daE aged and some of the sisters we seriously injured by broken glass.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
Children Die in Schools, Whole Familie| Buried Alive in Wrecked Houses, Home less Suffer from Intense Cold and Hundred
 of Medical Men Needed to Treat WOunde|

Washington Dec Five thousand believed to have bee killed in the explosion in Halifax harbo and the which north Halifax and Dartmouth N s. according advces from naval commander reaching the Navy Department early today dispatch said these figures had not been verified however
 The report which from naval commander who the explosion from 52 miles off Halifax and proceeded to the harbor render ad said that all of north Halifax stroyed three ships sunk and others damaged rl of buildings burning fercey north Halifax the de1 patch concludes 4ass#5#
 The given by the Navy Department is folow
 "The following report received from naval commande Halifax "Wle fttwo miles the explosion of munition shr and heard Upon arrival assistance offered to authorities and the following learned concerning the circumstances leading up the explosion
 "A Belgian relief ship colided with French munitions ves loaded with three thousand of T. N T. large quantity of benzn Due to the collision the benzne caught fire and started the abandoned the ship reaching shore before the explosion took place. a.ft
 Practically all of Halifax destroyed and all of t windows Halifax Dartmouth denolshed3
 It believed there 5000 dead but these figures confirmed The explosion sunk three ships and badly damaged many The ruins of the buildings burning ercc1 v in north Halifax e>-t I Ssstst4 ~
 report by the Navy Department that perllap4 killed by the explosion received by Red had the military comn1andant there.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
Crowd Watches Tot Burn to
 Death in Halifax Fire UNABLE TO GIVE HER HELP
Postal Clerk Tells Story of Big Dis- aster, and Says People Died in Car Like F1ies-Women and Children Dead in Street.

St. John, N. B., Dec Eye witt nesses of the Halifax explosion reach ing here today told details of the hor- TOTS through which they passed. In the party were fourteen young wom- en students from Mt. St. Vincent 8 academy.
 Esmond P. Barry, St. John postal clerk. was at Richmond during the worst of the catastrophe.
 Tt was terrible" he said, "people dying in our car like flies. Some of them came to the place with noses with flying glass, limbs torn and dis torted. On one occasion while we were working around wrecked building we could see a little baby fifty feet or more underneath a burn. ing mass crying for aid. We couId not get within thirty fact of the child and had to watch while it burned to death. Men, women and children were lying in the streets and hundreds must be buried beneath the wreckage."
 J. c. Gillespie, a train cOnducto1 said that at Richmond fully fifty per cent. of the buildings collapsed. Ba- bies were lying in the streets dead. I4IuSSI Cdu1cIOII, d CdndQ1an PaC1QC telegraph operator and all his family were killed.
 Today soldiers worked for an hour and a half with almost superhuman strength in an effort to rescue a. girl pinned beneath some wreckage. The moans from the girl forced the sol diers to further strength, and just as they had removed the last layer of debris from her she breathed her last.
 Snow Helps Some.
 Halifax, N. S., Dec. 7-Stunned by the magnitude of the disaster which has overwhelmed the garrison city by the sea- the people of Halifax today bent all their energies to relieving the injured, feeding the hungry, shelter ing the homeless, and gathering their dead
 A heavy snowstorm set in early to- day and while in measure impeded the work of relief and rescue it served to aid the firemen in fighting the names which still burned f1ercely in many places among the ruins in the devastated district
 1t was established today that 1t was twenty-five minutes after the col- lls1on before the explosion occurred. At the hrst shock houses rocked, ves- 0NAo 0Aono AHO11 InOOr1HSS, D1lS or shells whistled through the air, build ings fell upon their occupants, shrieks and moans rose for second above the din, and in all parts of the city. men women and children ran into the streets, many of them insufflciently clad. Then fire broke out in a hun. dred places In a short time Bar rington street resembled a road of Belgium or Serbia when the .inhabi- tants fled before the Germans. Every variety of vehicle was pressed into service for the sick and inf1rm Men, women and children, some carrying hastily snatched belongings hurried along the pavements and overflowed the streets Stores were deserted, houses forsaken, and the entrance to Point Pleasant park was soon black with human beings.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
HOFFMAN ARRESTED.

Derby. Dec. 7.-Louis Hoffman, who registered as Thomas Brown on June was arrested today for federal off, cers. The Boston police charge him with abandonment of family. Hoff- man had a store in the Back Bay, and left home in April.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
SHORT CALENDAR COURT.

At the short calendar session of the city court this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock, the case of Abe Shimelman vs. The Real Estate Investment Corp. was assigned for Thursday afternoon at ? o'clock. Klett and filling appear for the plaintiff and Judge B. F. Calf ney for the defendant. A meeting of all the lawyers in the city was held Following court when the work of getting out the questionnaires was fully discussed.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
INDIANS ATTACK.

Nogales, Ariz., Dec. 7.-Yaqui In- dians yesterday attacked Esperonza, seventy miles south of Guaymas, Sonora, according to a message re- ceived here today and burned the of flee and store house of the Richard son Construction company, an Amer 1can firm. Nothing has been heard from the city. Many Americans live in the vicinity
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
COFFIN IS NAMED,

Washington. Dec. 7.-Howard F. Coffin of Michigan was nominated to- day by President Wilson to be chair man, and Richard Howe. of New York to be a member of the govern ment aircraft board
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
OJTWITS RELATIVES.
Bristol Woman in Night Clothes
 Leaves House and Drowns.

Bristol. Conn.,, Dec. Mrs. An- ge1a Cassineri, AZ, was found drowned in a pool of water near her home today. She had been ill and after last midnight eluded those in the house and ran out in her nightcloth- ing.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07
SENATE VOTES TO DECLARE
 WAR ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Vote Is "A to 0 With La Toilette Leaving Chamber Before Decision Is Reached After Debate.
DECLARE WAR TONIGHT.

DECLARE WAR TONIGHT.
 Washington, Dec. 7.-Toward the close house leaders decid- cd to accept the senate's war resolution for that passed by the house committee thus mak- i:E the declaration of war against Austria Hungary fact tonight, with the signature of the president.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-07

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New Britain herald., 1917-12-07

HERALD "ADS" MEA.s BETTER BUSINE
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
wREHEARSALS FOR
MUSICAL COMEDY
MANAGER OF COMPANY GRANTS
INTERVIEW ON SUBJECT
OF SHOW

De Wolf Hopper Ferry, manager
for the musical comedy company,
The Isle of Spice" which will be
staged by the Goldfield lodge of
Elks for the benefit of the local
chapter of the Red Cross, states
that his company will appear and
be heard at the Hippodrome thea
ter on June 81 and % and Thai
there is a treat in store for all
who attend the show, that is, the
show itself will be the treat.
Some of the principals VINO vii
take part in the show are Walter
Jenkinson, Mrs. M. II. Dannenberg.
Mrs. Hood, Rev. Fred Thomson and
Harry Mason. The manager says
there are others equally as noted
for their skill who will be In the
cast, but he thought these were
enough to for the pre-
sent, as he desires to break the
news to the public in small por-
tons so that it will last longer. He
says that "a galaxy of stars fails
TO 90 JUSTICE 10 Tic Vast.
According to Colonel Ferry this
show will not only be far superior
to any of the musical comedy COM
panies that have appeared in large
cities this season, but, according to
the colonel, he is putting on a stunt
himself. which persons who have
seen him rehearse claim to be great.
He is all worked up and greatly
enthused over the show.
Director Ennis, who is a pro-
fessional actor and makes "A bust
ness of staging shows of this char
acter, states that the principals in
the cast have unusual talent and
that they have all practically mas
tered their parts. He pre61cts the
show will be a success in every
way.
In addition to the famous actor,
De Wolf Hopper Ferry, numerous
other local celebrities will appear
in special stunts in the Commute
curtain raiser. 1t is said tnat the
renowned local team or CONNIE
dams, Mike and Dell, are planning
an act hat will prove ii craving
lard when it is announced.
1t is believed the curtain raiser
will be almost as much a feature
as the Isle of Spice and that the
two combined will make an attrac-
ton that will add considerably to
the Red Cross treasury.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
INANPAH SHELTER
NEARING COMPLETION

Fast Roadway is being made at
the new smelter which is being
erected at Valley Wells by the Ivan
pah Copper company. Their great
concrete reservoir has been com
pleted and is being filled rapidly.
The foundations for the machinery
are being poured and part of the
metal furnace is already erected.
The smelter will be blown in at an
early date but owing to the delay in
the delivery of the Fairbanks-Diesel
oil engines it will take some time
beofre operations are started.
The other 75-h. p. caterpillar or
dered from the Best Agricultural
Implement company, is expected any
day and on its arrival will be put
on to haul the ore stock pile for
the neutrality-suspicious. Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
COMPLETE
FIRST AID WORK
CLASS OF 30 WILL BE PRESENT
ED WITH DIP
TOMAS

The following women, members
of the Goldfield chapter of the Red
Cross, compose the class of 35 that
completed the full course Of Is
hours under the direction of the
crew of bureau of mines car No. /,
during the recent stay of the car
here:
Mrs. Clyde p. Johnson, Mrs. c. w.
Lay, Mrs. Golding, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs.
Thomas Mullarkey, Mrs. T. A, Scott,
Mrs. w. F. McNair, Mrs. M. II. Dan
nenberg, Mrs. M. b. Aston, Mrs.
Stacy Taylor, Mrs. Harry Ernest,
Mrs. w. e. Zoebel, Mrs. II. G. Nc
Mahon, Mrs. l.. II. Beebe, Mrs. Ern-
est Blair, Mrs. H. M. Barber, Mrs. A.
l.. Simondi, Mrs. James Cushing,
Mrs. Walter Fitzgerald, Mrs. c. M.
Gilbert, Mrs. G. F.. Obenland, Mrs.
Damskey, Mrs. Ira Murdoch, Mrs.
Joe Kendall, Mrs. w. d.. Hatton,
Mrs. Elmer King, Mrs. J.. II. Gilbert,
Miss Pointer, Miss Pearl Coffee, Miss
Hazel Gill, Miss Edna Amber, Miss
Mary Curley, Miss Ruth Fitzgerald.
This is the second class to COM
plete the work in the state, the first
having been trained at Tonopah dur-
ing the stay of the a there, before
coming to Goldfield. The class rep
resents the women who were present
at every meeting, but not the at
tendance at the classes, as during
the course there was a large irregu-
lar attendance, making the average
of women to attend the classes 30.
The members of the class will re-
ceive diplomas from the bureau CT
mines in about one month.
The course taught by the car crew
was complete and covered all branch
es of first-aid and mine rescue work,
including the use of helmets. The
classes received the same instruction
in almost every particular as that
received by men at the mines and at
the conclusion of the course. w. r.
Pyne, first-aid expert of the car,
complimented the class and express
ed his appreciation of the interest
taken in the work. Mrs. Harry Ern-
est in reply. on behalf Of the class,
thanked the expert for his work In
teaching the class.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
Tap Lake For Irrigation

taps Overland lake on the top of
the Ruby mountains back of Ruby
valley and by means of a dam at
the point where the water leaves
the lake. b. G. Mcbride and as
sociates have obtained 140 acre
feet of water for late spring and
summer irrigation purposes. With
this new source of water supply
Mcbride is confident the Ruby val
ley will shortly become a rich
farming section.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
SCHOOL LIBRARY is TO
BE OPENED TO PUBLIC

The school board has decided to
open the high-school library to the
public every Friday afternoon from
2 to until a O'Clock, starting to-
morrow, and between these hours
books may be borrowed from week
to week on payment of a deposit of
one dollar, which will be refunded
at any time on surrender of the
library card. The customary lib
rary regulations will be observed.
Entrance to the high-school build
ing may be gained by the side
door between these hours on Fri
day afternoons.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
CHIEF SAYS CURFEW LAW
WILL NOW BE ENFORCED

The fire whistle will be blown
at 8 o'clock tonight, according to
Chief of Police Morrison, and the
town curfew ordinance will be put
into effect. Officials have
ed this on previous occasions, but
this time and the whistle will be
blown and the ordinance enforced
starting tonight. He says children
found on the streets after 9 O'Clock
unless accompanied by their par
ents, will be placed in custody un
for being out after 8 o'clock.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
KENNEDY MILL AND NINE
TO START UP JUNE Is

l.. st. d. Roylance states that
the Kennedy mill and mine will
start up for the summers work
about the 18th of June. The mill
will be under the personal super
vision of Mr.. Roylance. while the
mine will be looked after by F. II.
Sarles, secretary of the Roylancc
reduction works, VINO will arrive
from San Francisco during the neXt
few days. There are about n
hundred tons of ore for the mill to
start up on. and 500 tons of tail
ings will also be worked over
for the mercury they contain.-Win-
nemucca Silve" State.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
CONGESTION AT SHELTER

On account of a blockade at the
copper plant of the International
Smelter last week, an embargo was
placed, by the railroad company, on
all copper shipments going to this
company. The International has
been the only company who would
receive copper from the camp for
several months. They have taken
no heavy shipments but have tried
to continue to take care OF the
smaller shippers Notwithstanding
they were flooded with copper ship
ments at their smelter. - Good
springs Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
LOUIE rs JAILED

1t is related that when Louie
Polin went from Oatman to King
man to be initiated into the Elks
an officer was fixed" to pinch
him for boot-legging. He denied
the charge, but the goods was
found on him in the shape Of sew
eral bottles of whiskey, which had
been planted in his pockets by the
Elks. Despite his protestations of
innocence he was placed in jail.
His bond was fixed at $4,000
and he fooled his captors and Sc
cured his liberty by writing a check
on an Oatman bank for the &c.,
600 without batting an eye.