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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
SHORT SELLING MARKET.
General Unloading of Munition and
Equipment issues.

New York, April Enclosures al
ready adopted by the federal govern
| ment to prevent infiatiSn of values
were again an Independent factor in
today's stock market. precipitating
| further liquidation and short selling
of the better known war shares. Ar
increasing realization that war con-
tracts will yield but moderate profits
caused a general unloading of NUM-
ton and equipment issues.
Rails were the chief element OF
strength, some high grade stocks scOr-
ing material gains in the intermedi-
ate session. but these were largely. or
wholly forfeited in the more urgent
offerings of the last hour. Della :
ware and Hudson was weak at all
times. taking an extreme recession of
s IA points to 119 1-2 in anticipa-
ton of the company's poor annual
statement.
United States Steel manifested more
resistance than most other indus
trials, declining only 1 1-2 to 10S SIS.
while bethlehem Steel new stock fell
: 10 to 12o. with . to points for
Crucible and ss-Sheffield Steels,
Virginia Iron and Gulf States Steel.
Petroleums. metals. sugars. motors
and feathers fell off one to three points.
with IA for Baldwin Locomotive and
1-2 for Sears Roebuck- Utilities
were inactive except for the gas is
sues. Ohio Gas losing points.
ShinpingS were irregular at the out
set. Dit strengthened IN the latter ueal-
ings Gains in rails were limited to
the leaders. some of the secondary or
inactive issues losing ] to points.
Total sales amounted to 1900 shares.
An advance in sterling exchange
with cables quoted at the highest price
in almost year. was. the outstanding
feature of the foreign exchange mar
I1et. Francs. rubles and Tires were
firm.
The new high record in untitled or
ders reported by the United StatfS
Steel Corpora ton for March occasion
ed no surprise and failed to stimulate
any demand for industrial securities.
Ronds were again irregular. the In
tarnational or war group showing gem
eral strength. while domestic issues,
rails as. well as industrials. made vn-
riable concessions. Total sales, pal,
value. aggregated $S.4S0.000.
u. s. bonds were lower by fractions
to- a point on CALL except the registered
rs. which made a slight gain on act
laI stocks.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
WaNDHAM TO OPEN
SEASON WITH ". r. A.
Eleven Games on Baseball Schedule
Announced by Manager Careio.

ESPECIAL to The Bulletin.)s
Willimantic, April 10. Manager
Carcio Of the Windham High school
baseball team has completed the
schedule of games up to June. 1t in
Guides IL games, half Of them to be
played in Willimantic. The schedule
follows:
April 1s-N. F. A. in willimantic
April 21-South Manchester in that
city
April 25-Killingly in that city.
April 2S-Putnam in Willimantic-
May 5-Southbridge in that city.
May 9-Pomfret in that pace.
May 12-Bartlett Fl. 8. in Whitman
tic.
May 16-Killingly in Willimantic
May 19-Bartlett H. S. in Webster.
May 26-Putnam in that city.
May 2s-South Manchester in Will
mantle.
May 30-Southbridge in Willimantic
Outdoor practice was to have been
started Monday. April 9, but was post
poned because of the snow. Practice
will begin in the park as soon as pos
sibIe.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
CABINET DISCUSSED MANY
PHASES OF WAR ACTIVITIES
Most Pressing Needs Are Foodstuffs
and Ocean Going Vessels.

Washington, April 10. = President
Wilson and his cabinet at today's
meeting reviewed the many phases OF
war activities. found that every step
possible to equip the army and navy
and turn out munitions is under way,
and decided that the most pressing
needs of the nation now are to in
crease the supply of foodstuffs and
ocean-going vessels. and to raise suf-
hcfent money to finance Americas part
in the war and make liberal loans to
the entente allies.
For present activities the allies are
understood to be we'll supplied with
munitions, and to have as many men
in the field as they can equip and
feed under present conditions. Through
a coordination of the munitions in
dustry in the United States and the
raising of a large army, the United
States will be in a position later to
supply may need in either field.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
MANS DEATH FOLLOWED
QUARREL WITH SHoPMATE
Albert Jsequennin of Torrinston the
Observation-Disclosures Held.

Torrington. Conn, April 1O.-Albert
Jacqucmin, % years old, an employe
of the Turner and Seymour Manufact-
presumably from injuries received in
an exchange of blows with Stephen
O'Shaughnessy, a fellow worker, this
afternoon. The men were quaTTelIing
in regard to some work they were do
ing when O'Shaughnessy, II is said,
struck Jacquemin a heavy blow on the
face. OShaughnessy is being held by
ten police pending the outcome of an
investigation by Coroner Herman.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
CUBS RELEASE YERkEs.
Steve is Under Federal League Con-
tract Calling for $500.

Chicago, April 10-Steve Yerkes,
second baseman with the Chicago Ma
ttonsllS, was released tonight to the
Indianapolis club of the American as
ISOLATION. Yerkes, a former Pittsburgh
Federal, Is under a Federal league con-
tract calling for $500 a year. His
release Is taken to mean that Larry
Doyle will be in condition to play
second.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
BASEBALL TO OFFER
RELIEF FROM WAR
National Pastime, Which Starts We'd
nesday, Awaited With Great inter-
est.

is putting on his boxing gloves for
what may come, it will take more
than war to make him forget that the
big league season again is here. I'm
Gle Sam can do many things at the
same time, and while he will keep
both eyes open for submarines from
to p. m. next Wednesday he will
find few moments to take sidewise
glances at the bulletin boards show
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
UNDER MILITARY
SUPERVISION AT PENN.
Only Large Eastern University to Take
This Course.

Philadelphia, April 1O.-The board
of directors of the athletic association
of the University of Pennsylvania de-
cided today to continue athletics at the
university with every athlete under
military supervision of Major William
Kelley, u. S. A.
Pennsylvania is the only large east
ern university to adopt this course
during the international crisis.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
Pirates Let Two Go.

Pittsburgh, April 10.-The release OF
Joseph Cofdndaffer. pitcher, and Will
liam Ratsch, outfielder, to the Spring
field, Ohio, club of the Central league
was announced by officials of the
Pittsburgh National league club today.
The two men will report to the
Springfield club at once
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
AMERICANS
ENJOY sWATFEsT.
Indians Pooled Out IS Hits for a Total
of IS Bases.

Toledo. April 10.-Fifteen hits for a
total of Is bases. eight bases on balls
and two hit batsmen netted the Cleve-
land Americans IS runs and defeat ted
the local American association club,
Is to o. in an exhibition game here to-
day. Toledo obtained only four hits.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
English Fighter Loses.

Buffalo. n. Y, April 10.-Matt Wells,
the English veteran, was defeated by
Jimmy Duffy, of Lockport, in ten
rounds here tonigfiht. Duffy was the
aggreSsor throughout.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
Esan Furnishes Graves.

Boston, April 10.-Joe Egan of Bos-
ton was given the decision over kid"
Graves of Milwa ukee, in a bout here
tonight The contest, scheduled for IL
rounds, was called off at the end of
the tenth to prevent further punish
ment of Graves.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
carmania Sighted No Submarines.

New York, April 10-The Cunard
liner Carmania arrived here today from
a European port, bringing SO passen-
gers and 800 sacks of mail. Her off,
GERS reported that no mines or sub
marines were encountered.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
BASEBALL SEASON OPENS TODAY
First Time in History Of Organizations That the Penant Race
win Be Inausursted While Nation in State Of War
Boston-New York Game Called Of On account of
Snow.

organisations have been strengthened
to a point where at least six teams in
each circuit are considered real PEN
nant contenders.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
COTTON.

New York, April 1O.-Cotton futures
closed steady. May 20.6s; May 2oss;
July 20.31; October 1907; December
1909; January 1917.
Spot quiet; middling 2105.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
MON EY.

New York. April 1o.-Cal money
firm; high IL; low 2: ruling rate 2
IA; last loan L.; closing bid 2
IA: offered at 1-2.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11

Shipments of fresh and cured meats
from Chicago last week totaled 44,313;-
600 pounds.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-11
STOCKS.

The following is Of today's trans
,ctIous New York Stock Exchange To p NJ:
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
Battle of Narva.

The battle of Narva was fought No
vember 80, 100, between 5000 Swedes
under Charles MI and $4,000 Russians
under General Dolgorouky. The Rus
slams were b~esieging Narva, and after
driving in ten large bodies who occu-
pied advanced positions, Charles bold
iy attacked their intrenched camp,
After a brief cannonade the Swedes
stormed the Russian trenches, and al
though the Russian artillery stood to
their guns, the defenders were driven
out in disorder after three hours of
hard fighting. The Russians lost $4,000
men in the trenches and many more in
the open fight; the Swedes only lost
900. Narva was founded by the Danes,
and after being held briefly by the Rus
slams passed to the Swedes in 1881.
Peter the Great took it in 1704. 1t is
in the government of Petrograd, about
100 miles west-southwest of the capt.
tai,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
SOME FARMS
poor,u Surely lave Unusual Means of Money Making in United State

the ostrich was first introduced to America is one
that must be told.
In 1882 an unknown soldier of fortune filled the
hold of a steamer bound for New York with more
than 100 Ostriches. Now, these gigantic birds
weigh as much as 200 and 300 pounds, even more.
They are accustomed to sunlight, the open range
and, above all, freshSAir. But here they were,
packed in badly ventilated pens in the smelly hold
of a tramp steamer. The pitching and tossing of
the steamer also was responsible for the death
of many OF the birds. At any rate, but a mere
handful of the original shipment arrived in New
York. Later they were shipped to San Francisco,
and still later to Anaheim, in Lower California.
Terrapin farming is one of the newer indus
tries. Down on the Isle of Hope, Georgia, is one
of the greatest of all terrapin farms. And the
United States bureau of fisheries has been study
ing the diamOnd-back terrapin for the last eight
years down at Beaufort, N. c. There terrapin
have been in the pounds for more than six years,
and the young have long ago reached the age
where they can take care of themselves.
William Hagan has an immense fur plant down
along the shores of the Delaware-he raises musk
rats, and makes money at it. During the season of
191415 Mr.. Hagan realized more than $1,000 clear
profit on his immense farm, which extends over
an acre of GA acres. But muskrat farming is q
very strenuous business. In the first place, the
farmer must wait until fall before the real farm
ing takes place. 1t is then that the skins are at
their best. The animals are caught-the greater
part of them-by means of stake traps that is,
traps attached to stakes. The stakes also serve
as a guide. Then, too, the trappers take with
them a needle-pointed rapier, used to spear any
stray rat which may attempt to fleet at the first
warning of danger to him or his. And those hip
booted trappers can spear a rat with all the deft-
ness of a William Tell shooting an apple.
If you have never seen q muskrat farm, drop
down to Mr.. Hagan's place-you'H be surprised to
see how an underwater farm is managed, and
you'll hardly be able to believe there are so many
muskrats in the world. Some days he averages
more than $50, and he has come very near to the
200 mark. Yes, there's lots of money in muskrat
farming but unless you've got the constitution of
an Alpine chasseur, don't attempt it.
Joseph Matlack of Moorestown, N. J., owns
what is perhaps the largest guinea-pig farm in the
world. This much is uneontradictable. He raises
more of them than any grower in America, and
makes money where others fail. Now, that's some
thing to be proud of. Any man can be a farmer
but to be a successful farmer-well, that's some
thing different. OF course, there are other guinea.
pig farms which enrich their owners-lots and lota
of them. But in che guinea-pig world Mr.. Mat
lack is king-Philadelphia North American.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
TOWN
+ Helps !
GARDEN SHOULD BE BALANCED
Impression Of Lopsidedness" May Be
Avoided by Using Care in De-
signing and Planting.

To keep the proper balance in design
is a salient point in any garden. To
give a concrete example, one may
imagine a clump of e%vergreens in one
corner of the garden, and in the OPP
posite corner some Towering shrubs
the other corners may be balanced the
same way, which will avoid giving the
impression of a lopsided garden this
theme Of balance should run through
the whole design. The sky line should
be broken by occasional accent points
of taller-growing plants. In planting
the flower beds the taller and lower
growing plants should be intermingled,
for this arrangement lends a far more
artistic touch than the prevalent mis-
take of placing all the tall plants in q
straight row, and the shorter ones by
themselves. Attractive combinations
Of colOrs in the blooming seasons are
Of greatest interest, the pastel shades
blending eXquisitely, but decided col
ors should be combined with great
care; the different kinds of flowers
should be so planted as to be dispersed
through the garden, so that when in
bloom a few lonely masses of color will
not be seen. but the whole garden will
be rich in the flowers Of each season.
The paths should be governed in
width by the size of the garden, and
should lead to something definite for
the eye to rest upon, which may be a
pool, a rustic seat or a sun-dial, etc.
If you are fortunate enough to have a
view, this will form an excellent axis.
A winding stream is no greater an in
spiratiOn to the poet than it is to the
landscape lover; it truly offers a won
derful opportunity for naturalistic
treatment, and with a few plants the
fairy touches are made which clothe
the stream in beauty.
Just as a garden surrounded with
shrubbery planted in clumps affords
occasional and unexpected glimpses of
the garden within, and thus enhances
the beauty of the glimpses by framing
them in, so the trees will add greatly
to a view by framing in it.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

low! There were the sounds of a scuf-
file and then the words anne floating
up to her:
"Whoever is up there come down
quickly !"
Faced by her valiant rescuer the
three burglars covered, for he held a
revolver, keeping them at bay. Eleanor
telephoned as directed to the police.
The police came. Then, the strain all
over, she tainted away.
She came back to consciousness, anX-
iously held in the arms of Rolfe. Then,
true children of the heart, like chill
dren they made up.
That same evening Daisy and Ross
eloped, as they had planned all along.
And then it dawned on ROlfe and
Eleanor that the willy clippers had used
them to conceal their intentions. There
was an appeal for a blessing and for
giveness, and everybody in the little
social episode was supremacy happy.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

"And only the pretty girl left In the
house?"
That's right"
"She's upstairs. One of you hold
her quiet till we get what is worth
carrying away"
"Mercyi" gasped Eleanor.
In an instant she was on her feet.
First she thought of the plate, Jew
elry and money in the little safe in the
library Then of herself. She heard
footsteps in the hall. Escape was cut
off. What should she do? She might
scream, but the burglars would soon
stlfie any outcry.
"Can l do it," she painted, as a
strange inspiration came to her. She
ran to her writing desk. In the semi
dusk she scrawled the words: "Help,
quick !" on a sheet of paper. She hur-
ried to a corner where her archery out
fit was. In tremulous haste Eleanor
drove an arrow point through the pa
per sheet, took up her bow, set the ar
row to the taut string and went to the
open window.
lang HApeAL l~uuIhSWulluu as size
was, all her skill in archery was called
into requisition.
Swish !-past the head of the
amazed Rolfe, Juggling at a trunk strap,
the arrow sped. A glance at the pa
per attached to its end, and he guessed
all.
He was out of the house, over the
hedge, up to the Tying home within
two minutes. Eleanor, upstairs, trem-
bling, agitated, heard a commotion be-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

Turkey has its mosques; Russia has It's COS
sacks; Germany has its U-toats, and Mexico mas
its feas; but the United States has the queerest
farms in the world.
At Pasadena, Cal, Edwin Cawston operates
what is perhaps the largest ostrich farm in the
world. Of course, it isn't everyone who would
care to keep ostriches. But Mr.. Cawston doesn't
mind it a bit, for he controls a great part of the
ostrich-plume supply of the world. If you have
ever purchased an ostrich plume of the hrst grade
you may have a faint inkling as to how much
money can be made from an ostrich farm, II you
know how. Once Pennsylvanians got the fever
and started an ostrich farm up near Sunbury, but
the poor, unoffending birds refused to become ac-
climated said they were not snOwbirds, or some
thing to that effect. Be that as it may, Cawston's
ostrich farm remains today the greatest in the
world.
At Victoria, in Mexico, there is a parrot ranch.
And some distance beyond Los Angeles, Cal,
there is an immense pigeon farm. There one Will
find nearly $4,000 pigeons. And almost everybody
knows that there is money in pigeons; indeed
where is the schoolboy who hasn't kept a few at
one time or another? Also, in Colorado there Is
a bear farm. And somewhere up in Canada is a
man who is making money by rearing wolves;
the skins bring handsome prices.
st Hot Springs, Ark, E. ]. Campbell has an
alligator farm, which is but another of the Amer
lean aueerest farms in the world. But down in
Il " Ia NhNAS AN NAAA6NtN- oAO'i
used to shoot the whole blooming family. 1t is
said that between 1890 and 1900 more than 3,oOO,-
600 saurians were killed. OF course, perhaps
there was ample reason for this wholesale butch
cry. The alllgators seemed to take great delight
in depicting the farmers herds of cattle. Even
the docile COW was not immune. Naturally, max
ing away with the a~lligators in wholesale lots
caused a shortage in alligator skin, and the leath-
er manufacturers felt the pinch. Alligator farms
were the result.
And Mr.. Campbell goes Dame Nature one bet
ter-he matches 'em out in incubators. After
they get beyond the stage where they look like
woolly worms with ironclad backs, the ~alligators
are allowed to shoot the chutes, play tag and
otherwise make the most of life. But eventually
eventually-the sword of not Damocles but Camp
bell falls. Later, the pride of the family receives
as a graduation gift a lovely alligatorskin grip
or suitcase, and he and the ba~ggage-smashers, all
unmindful Of the shattered romance and the pitt
full tragedy back of the advent of the grip or
suitcase, treat 1t shamefully. That's life for you.
In Texas the farmer is breeding buffaloes and
crossing them with cattle. In Oregon they are
raising Chinese pheasants, but the story of how
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
MANAGERS IN FORTY CITIES.
New Plan of Municipal Government
Has Grown More Rapidly Than
Is Generally Known.

If somewhere, sometime, in the ever
booming and quite frequently bloom
ing West there is not evolved the per-
feet plan for governing a city, it will
not be for lack of experimentation
with governmental schemes. A good
many cities and towns scattered owe
the map of the United States took up
with the idea of government by COM
mission during the first decade of the
new century. There was a subsistence
TO the rush for the commission govern
ment scheme about five years ago
Then, in 1918, the Ohio legislature put
through a bill formulating what is now
known as the city managing scheme
The idea has been acted upon to-
an extent that the majority of people
are not aware of. Dayton, O., was
the first city of over 100000 popula-
ton TO tTy-Out the manager scheme,
but there are now about 40 cities
so governed. Twenty urban commu-
mites employed a manager last year.
Grand Rapids being the largest city
next to Dayton trying the new scheme
of government. The city manager plan
seems to be only a variation Of the
commission government idea. There
is a commission, generally of five, be-
hind the manager, and the COM
mission generally appoints the mana
ger.
The city manager plan has been
adopted eve in states where there
is no statute providing for such a plan
of government. The idea involved is
being applied in many instances
without any change in the framework
under the old councilmanic and city
mayor forms of government.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

tains no European hotels, though the
prices generally charged in Persia
would indicate that catering to the Eu-
ropean traveller is among the most iu-
crative of occupations, even though a
specimen of the genus only appears
about once a month. Patient search
d~iscloses the fact that the telegraph
office, being owned by a European syn
dicate, though native managed, can be
prevailed upon to grant a shelter to
the westerner. Thus we have another
proof of the economic doctrine that in
terhational friendship follows interna-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17

dreds of them have been
constructed by the farm
ers of western Kansas,
Oklahoma, eastern Cole
RADIO, northern Texas,
and New Mexico. In one
Colorado county alone
Ell Paso-the existence
of a few pit silos last
fall saved $4,000 worth
of live stock which would
have persisted in the
severe winter following
the dry summer. There
were more than 200 pit
silos in this county the
past summer.
The silo is getting to
be an old story on the
prosperous farms of the
middle West. The value
of the great tank to pre-
serve the feed values of
forage crops and utilize
them through the winter
and spring when the pas-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
cIean.up paY for State.

The state of Rhode Island appoint
ed a cleanup day and a considerable
improvement resulted. One of the spe-
cial features was the removal of many
advertising signs along highways, from
fences, trees, poles or other conspicu-
u points. In several counties loads
of waste lumber, consisting of what
had formerly been large signs, were
distributed as fuel among the poor.
A special statute gives any person the
right to tear down and destroy all
signs of an advertising nature along a
public highway in the state Of Rhode
Island.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
CITY Has Few Attractions

miscellaneous population Of 10000
souls. 1t is noted as the place of the
tragic death OF persia's most popular
politician, as the abode of scorpions
of immense size and unpleasant dispo-
sition and as a center for the manufac-
ture of Persian silks.
On arriving in Kashan the American
traveller is confronted by the problem
OF obtaPing a lodging. The city con-