New Britain herald., 1917-09-22

ponce department are to nave sep arate telephones was good one as far as it went, but did not go far enough The work of the department has now grown to such an extent that two office telephones are needed. Oftimes the wire is busy on a toll line or other call, when an emergency call is sent in and unless there are two wires to the police station there may be a serious delay.
 
 All summer there have been nu- merous automobile accidents in whih little children, playing in the streets, have been the victims and the auto- mobile drivers have been at fault in only a very few instances. During past week there has seemingly been an epidemic of similar accidents which should cause the parents of children to sit up and take notice. From records of a majority of these accidents it appears that it is the child who is almost always at fault Many parents think nothing of per mittlpg their little ones to play in the street and many of these little ones cosider it great fun to stand in the gutter and then suddenly dart across the street in front of an mobile Others take delight in standing as near to a passing car as possible, while another type of these youngsters con- sider it the height of pleasure to start as though to cross in front of a car, only to stop at the last moment and laugh at the motorists frantic efforts to stop. While the children are at fault for these practices it must be evident to all that it is their parents who are the ones in the greatest CT TOT and little more interest in the welfare of their young ones would go far toward eliminating accidents of this nature.
 Attention has been called to the practice of several employees of win dow cleaning establishments who empty the dirty. greasy and soapy wa ter from their pails into the gutters on and about Main street, leaving a dirty and untidy scum on the pave ment. Only a few days ago Traffic Supervisor Lamphere had occasion to warn one such man to empty a pail of dirty water into the catch basin. If others would take the hint it would improve the city's appearance in this respect at least.
 It would also improve the appear ance of the center if the broken lamp standard on the northeastern end of the park were either entirely removed or replaced.
 While all the other nations in the world were battling for supremacy and each nation was sending out calls for it's reservists there were many ap- plications among the foreigners in New Britain to take out their citizen ship papers. Since the advent of the United States into the war there has been dearth of aliens applying for citizenship. It is expected, however, that if the Brandegee amendment is passed, or if Congress makes treaties with Russia, Italy, England and France, permitting the drafting or re- calling of aliens, there will again be an influx of foreigners and then the re- gently created naturalization court of the city will have plenty of work to do. In some places in New York state where stacker aliens have att tempted to obtain jobs left vacant by drafted men the employers have re- fused them unless their services were absolutely necessary. Many people
 
 manufacturers.
 With the approach of the hunting season those who like this fall sport are expressing considerable disap- pointment at the new game law which prohibits the use of ferret in hunt ing wild lares or rabbits. At least one regular policeman is affected by this law and may yet decide to put his precious little ferrets on the mar ket.
 The feeling in the third ward seems to be that the position left vacant by the resignation of Councilman Gard ner c. Weld should be given to Alex ander Mackay. who made such good run last spring. MT. McMillan's name has been mentioned but inasmuch as he has stated that he will not be a candidate in case there is opposition, it is not thought likely that he will permit his name to be used against MT. Mackay.
 Many improvements have been made in the highway around Shuttle Meadow lake, making this one of the prettiest drives or walks in this sec- tion However, the widening Of the road at several points on the west shore would be an added asset as in some places it is hardly possible for two vehicles to pass.