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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24
PROPOSALS FOR BEEF

Sealed proposals will be received by
the undersigned until IL o'clock noon,
Friday, Oct. rs, 1917, for furnishing
Beef to the City of Bridgeport, Hill
side Home, as per specifications on
file at this office.
This board reserves the right to ac-
cept or reject any or all bids.
BOARD OF CONTRACT
AND. SUPPLY,
Room No. %, City Hail.
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ONLY SINGING ORCHESTRA.

The .McEnelly Singing Orchestra
which will make it's next visit to the
Colonial ball room in Fairfield avenue
next Monday evening is the pioneer of
the singing and travelling orchestra,
and is SO far in advance of all others
that lit may be truthfully called the
only singing orchestra. There is a
snap and vim to the playing and sing
ing of the McEnellys which makes
their music especially pleasing to the
dancers. and they are immensely pop
ular here. They will play and sing
for short concert Monday evening
and then for the dancing which will
follow until midnight. The usual big
crowd and good time is assured and
the usual prices of admission prevail
ENJOY yourself with the McEnellys
Monday evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24

of Finance
THINGS DONE BY
CONGRESS SINCE
WARS OUTBREAK

Six months ago a. state of war was
declared as existing between the
United States and Germany. In
that time the United States Treas
ury Department has collected from
all the sources over Ave billion dol
lars and disbursed q. slightly lesser
sum
Upon the Treasury estimates SUBJ
mitted Immediately after the war re-
solution Congress passed a bill auth
orizing five billion dollars in bonds
and two billion dollars in short-term
certificates of indebtedness
On June Is, after a campaign of
month, an offering of two billion dol
lars of Liberty loan Bonds was clos
ed; over four million American citi-
gems had subscribed for over three
| bEkon dollars in Liberty Loan Bonds.
Upon estimates submitted by the
! Treasury, on Sept. "a. Congress passed
= law authorizing a. loan of T,5SS, 945,-
ness of $4,000, 000, 900, and war-savings
certfficates to the amount of $1,000 900,
900.
An offering of bonds of $1,000. 000, 600
or more under this latter law called
the second Liberty Loan of 1917, Is
now being made. Over a billion and
and a quarter of short term certif-
rn& oily 1rr haon sold and an
4 s~sts,,a 20 y,rs,io,, 70, +ba4saIe Of war
~~vs,er cartif1catas is heiner ORGANIZED.
sssnce the state Of the war was de-
.,.rad az rs,,,ss..,,rv hos nurchased
.~r1ts-s+,xrs ~ +ha co,,n+r;as at war
-.-s.S SsN...., - ~ a1,o,,,,+ IF over
49, - -, 70 s,,I,,o,, dr,,lars
rrss sr..,aa ~, voI,,,,e of business
<,e 49, uadar.s pssarva hanks since
- ell - 4 rriI@can. he realized from
49, fs-.t +bat tha discount onerations
- 4rass. 10 -,Ls d,,riry n1na 1917 was
s1En e7o TOO total IN axcess Of the
$3.50, ;rra,trrt +ions Of the
x 49,, AZ cn1a,de- ear ~
,e.e
-,, NV, rpe,.,r 1r,,,,,o,oa yR,,raa,,
80 49, 1sa.s~sre 81 the VA. resol,1.
49, ~ s ,ss,,ad oya,- son notices. Of
t,s~,,~a,,ca On .Aoarican- vessels and
th-i,- ca,..css valuad or well over
800 hii,icT douars the premium,
SrsfS.t Il rr,o,,,+i,,s - nearly so5 llf0.
80 ocn -.,ftho,,+ +bis insnranct
*s,av. aSa ,.,o,,Id o+ have called
\ 1900. :, cnr,,rarca has heen assist,
a 800 =, ->,taa !, he,a evtant
mr. ps,rea,, - E,,e,.. WING has dont
tre,,ar,So,,s a,nn,,,,t ~ worl In ths
1880 - ~, - ,rter;n, car+if,catas
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24
GARFIELD WILL
! REQUISITION 10
Per CENT OF COAL
To Be Shipped Wherever
Needed and Sold at
u. S. Price.

Washington, Oct. A.-Coal operators
haze received information that the
fuel administration is about to re-
QUESTION 10 per cent. of the coal out
put of the nation, both anthracite
and bituminous. The, amount requi-
sitioned will run up to approximately
100000 tons next year, the estimate
being based on the rate of production
in recent years
Bituminous coal is coming from the
mines now at the rate of about 49,
500, 900 tons a month. On this basis
the fuel administration, as soon as it's
lrequ1slt1ondng order goes into effect,
will have the monthly distribution of
about, $50, 600 tons. There will also
be from $4,000 to $4,000 tons of an
thracite to distribute to shivering
householders every month.
| Orders taking over 10 per cent. of
the output are expected within 48
hours. The fuel administration, it is
understood, will direct operators to
set aside the prescribed percentage of
their production to await orders. This
! vast quantity of free coal will be di-
verted by Fuel Administrator Gar
field into the districts where the
greatest shortages have been found.
DR.. Garfield came to the Conclusion
| that there was no other way to meet
shortages caused by increased con-
sumption as we'll as by the practice
OF boarding. In most cases the free
coal thus obtained will be moved at
once. The operators will be directed
to ship the requisitioned output to
the section of the country where the
need is the most severe.
Protests by the operators that their
entire output is under contract will
be met by the demand of the fuel
administration that the contracts be
shaved sufficiently to allow for the
required diversion to other loealitie,
and firms. The requisit1oned coal
will be sold at prices set by the gov
! eminent.
Garfield will be the second striking
example of the governments COM
Wandering power under the war ex-
igencies, the first being the taking
over of 1.50o.00 tons of ships on the
ways and of 2,871,000 tons in the wa
ter.
The reason so great difficulty is met
in obtaining coal, investigation has
shown, is that many hundreds of ex-
ira foresighted firms and individuals
who wished to guard against discom-
forts and Inconvenience that wal
might bring last summer laid in sup
plies for the next year or two.
These hoarders will be dealt with
by DR.. Garfield as soon as an invest.
cation is completed which will revea,
practically all OF them. In the ma.
jority of cases probably future sup
plies of coal will be withheld. II
some fragrant instances of boarding
, the power of requisition may he exer.
cised and the private stocks distrib-
, uted to the public.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24
IMPORTS OF RAW
MATERIALS PASS THE
BILLION-DOLLAR MARK

For the first time in the history of
American trade the imports of raw
materials passed the billion dollar
mark during the fiscal year 1917, Ac-
cording to statistics published by tho
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce of the Department OF
Commerce, the exact total was ST.
los, 1855 $40, a noteworthy increase
over the ,s948, 825, 500in 1915 and the
$s32,s65,S60 in 1914, the last normal
year before the war.
The raw materials now imported in
the greatest quantities are hides. in
dia rubber, raw silk, wool. raw cot
ton. copper ore, and hax-seed, and i'm.
portant increases are recorded for fur,
skins, gunas mineral oils, uncut dia,
monds, manganese ore, nickel ore
zinc ore and dyewoods.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24
Proving plots don't always werk.
SUPREME COURT
SESSION OPENS

The supreme court of errors open
ed it's session for the October term
at the county courthouse today and
proceeded to hear arguments in New
Haven county cases. The case
heard this morning was that of Pat
rick Moynahan of Waterbury against
the Waterbury Republican. Inc. The
newspaper appealed from a decision
of Judge Bennett In the superior
court, who awarded Moynahan $1,000,
1t, was alleged that the newspaper
had been guilty of libel in accusing
Moynahan, who was in charge of the
Brookside Home in Waterbury, of mis-
management.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24
DANCE WITH THE JAZZ. BAND.

Why not dance with the .'Jazz"
band at the Colonial ban room in
Fairfield avenue Thursday evening
Foland's new "Jazz" band will make
the first of a series of weekly visits
that evening, will play all of the
latest popular selections for dancing
until midnight, and the event prom
ises a very pleasant evening. Mr.. Fo-
land has associated with him eight
excellent musicians and they make a
speciality of the "iazz" tunes, which
are the very latest in popular melo-
dies. The usual popular prices will
prevail, there will be a pleasant COM
pany, good time. and a. cordial well
come.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24

FLORAL BOUQUETS
AND DESIGNS.
JOHN RECK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24
.DRY" ORATOR HERE.

Will d. Upshaw, editor of The
Golden Age. an anti-liquor publica-
ton of Atlanta. Ga, is in Bridgeport
IN the interests of the Anti-Salpon
leagues campaign. He spoke at sew
era1 factories today. Upshaw is
Democratic candidate for United
States Senator from Georgia, running
against Senator Hardwich.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24
REGISTRARS NOTICE

The General Registrars of Voters will be in session at
their office Room City Hail. State street. on Friday Oct
70 1917 from clock, m., to o'clock p. m for the
purpose of correcting and revising the voting lists No
name will be added to the lists after Friday Oct g. 1917
G2ss+ Genera REGISTRAR ~ xt
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-24

John Markle. president of the G..
ID. Markle Coal Co., at Hazleton, an
ncunced reduction of SO per cent. in
the rent Of company houses during thA
continuance Of the war, so that the
employees can buy liberty bonds.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
THE FOOD CAMPAIGN.

Mr.. Hoover, National Food Adj
ministrator, has made the follow
ing timely remarks on the food
campaign:
No other power in this free
country can more effectively reach
the homes and put through a great
systematic program of voluntary
unselfish service than the organi.
cations which represent the relig.
ious faiths of our nation. That
shows what Mr.. Hoover thinks Of
the churches.)
While our boys are offering
their lives in the trenches, we are
asking the folks at home to make
this daily sacrifice at table in
order to make victory possible and
help suffering humanity.
We are appealing to churches
and other religious societies to
undertake a definite campaign to
enlist our people for food con-
servation, pledging them to use
for themselves the foodstuffs not
suitable for export, Of which we
have. an abundance, and to use
sparingly the wheat, meat and
sugar which are SO terribly needed
Ito feed the hungry men and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
PRIESTS AT THE FRONT.

During the present conflict in
Europe the world has witnessed
remarkable phenomenon in
France. Due to the unjust legis-
lation and the laws of persecu-
ton, the clergy had been obliged
to abandon their native country
and the works of religion to which
they had been consecrated. Now,
thousands Of French priests have
been actually under arms as COM
.monsoldiers. Hundredsof devoted
missionaries from various parts of
the world FASTENED back to France
in her hour of peril. To some it
may have seemed strange to see
exiled French priests returning to
their country and answering the
call Of military duty. It is appar-
ent, however, that the French
bishops have approved this con-
duct in the highest terms, and
have even encouraged it wherever
possible.
Cardinal Maurin, Archbishop of
Lyons, recently celebrated ST..
Louis Day, his feast day. Reply
ing to an address of congratula-
ton from his clergy, the Cardinal
said: Love France, your coun-
try, and if your age or infirmities
do not permit you to go and de-
vote yourself on her behalf at the
front, as so many Of your brother
PRIESTS have done and are doing,
dNall you can to help her to vic
torn by keeping up the courage
OF A around you, and by pray
ing and getting others to pray for
the success of her armies. y
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
MISSION FOR CHOCTAWS
BISHOP GUM ADMINISTERS CON-
FlRMATIoN TO SEVENTY
FIVE INDIANS.

Sunday, October Z, was a red
letter day at the little Church of the
Holy Rosary, Tucker, Miss, where,
during the previous week, Rev. w. H.
Ketcham, director of the Indian Cath
olic Bureau, of Washington, D. c., con-
Quoted mission for the Choctaw In
dams of the adjacent reservation,
who number about 500 souls.
Right Reverend Bishop Gum arrived
at Tucker Sunday morning, and con-
sfirmed seventy-five adults and children
of the tribe. The church services fol-
lowed a formal tribal reception, ten
dered the Bishop by his redskin
children, the three chiefs present Civ
ing recognition to Bishop Gum as a
brother chief All the prayers, hymns
and instructions in the church were
in the Choctaw language, an Indian
playing the organ and directing the
Indian choir.
Rev. P. j. Ahern, the pastor
breaches on alternate Sundays in the
Choctaw tongue. A baseball game
and barbecue in honor of the visiting
prelate, were features of the after
noon.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
BREWERS DOING THEIR BIT"

Our Side, the liquor journal of the
Twin Cities, in it's issue of September
6, gives facts and figures more or
less accurate from which it draws
the following conclusion: That with
present tax regulations recently
adopted, the government will receive
1897 in revenue for every bushel OF
grain consumed by breweries, and
then asks the question. Don't you
think the brewers are doing their
bit?" To this we reply that the brew
ers will not do their bit any more
under such taxation than they have
done heretofore. 1t does not make
cents worth of difference to them.
They will add the entire increase Of
taxation to the prices they charge and
pass the whole business over to the
consumer.
In the very same issue of the paper
above referred to, on another page,
is an article in which saloonkeepers
are urged to increase their prices to
meet the increased tax. The writer
says: 1.-THE price of a glass of beer
must be increased or the size of the
glass decreased. Then can you
let a whisky drinker help himself to
drink for Is cents? Hardly. Not
even if you charge 20 cents, or 25
cents drink" etc. In other words,
the ultimate consumer, and he alone,
will pay the revenue no matter how
ever large it is.
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women Of France and our other
allies.
Food administration is an adj
venture in democracy.
By self-control, not by decree;
by cooperation, not by compul-
sion; to provision our allies snffi-
GENTLY by conducting our own
households wisely-that is what
the Food Administration stands
for.
Starvation or suffciency will in
the end work the victory.
To carry on the war without
economic danger, we must carry
large part Of it now, during the
war, from savings at the present
time. lis rs
Food conservation is to stabilize
and not to disturb conditions.
This is a service in which every
man, woman and child may enter.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
REQUEST TO CHARITY
BOARD OF cOLORED MISSIONS
RECEIVES UNEXPECTED
DONATION.

Right Reverend Monsignor John E.
Burke, Director General of the Mis-
sion Work Among Colored People in
the United States, last month received
a letter from a Nebraska lawyer in
forming him that the Board had been
remembered in the will of former
client. Bernard Clarke, of Spaulding,
Nebraska, dying without direct heirs
or close relatives, had bequeathed
$1,000 to the Director General for use
in the Negro mission field
Four new schools were opened dur
ing September. Part of the salary of
the teachers is supplied by the Board.
At present the priests engaged in the
work are collecting in the dioceses of
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Indian
apolis. One of the Fathers, the Rev.
William Gibson of the Scranton dio-
cese, who has been connected with
the work for two years, has gone as a
chaplain with the soldiers encamped
in Alabama. '7"7t.'@ @iiH ''' tb+f
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
FILL HEROIC ROLE
MGR. BAUDRlLLART, OF PARIS,
SPEAKS GLoWINGLY OF HERO
ISM OF FRENCH CLERGY IN
WAR.

Mgr. Alfred Baudrillart, orator and
author, Vicar General of Paris, honor
airy canon of Notre Dame, rector of
the Catholic Institute and second high
est dignitary of the Catholic Church in
the French capital, gave the following
interview to Henri Balm, the we'll
known writer on the position of the
Clergy in the French army:
y am very proud" said Mgr. Baud
rlllat "of the part played by the
Cathoic clergy of France in this ter
rlble WT. Nearly $4,000 priests have
been moflized since the early August
days of MA. More than $4,000 are
now servingthe country and the army
in one of thfse capacities, and about
1000 have Sven their lives for
France.
In all, our clesgy have been cited
in more than 7,000orders of the day,
and many have received the Croix de
Guerre, the military medal, and the
Legion Of Honor, with nore than 900
receiving the entire three. I have a
fund of personal records, each story
in itself, that, when time, permits,
shall be combined into a bookshowing
the heroic, the simple, the beautiful
the Christian deeds Of these DRAINED
men, either under fire or in cifeum.
stances of exceptional character.
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Some Famous Paintings
FOUR BY ANDREA MANTEGNA
ARE NOW IN AMERIcA-A REC
ORD PRICE PAID FOR SMALL
WORK.

The famous painting Of Judith
With the Head of Holofernes," by
Andrea Mantegna and known popu-
larly as the Pembroke Mantegna,
which has been in the collections of
the Earls of Pembroke since King
Charles I gave it to the fourth Earl
in return for Parmigian and Bellini
fortrait, has arrived in America with
in,the past two or three days, accord
ingto an announcement made in New
York
The painting was recently acquired
from the Pembroke collection, and
while the price has not been made
public, it is known that the panel was
valued at 100000, record figure for
a painting Of its size, as it measures
but IL inchesSin height by Z inches in
width.
There are ihree Mantegnas In
America, besidesN the one which has
just arrived, THE Alteration of the
Magi,' in the JohnSG G. Johnson collec-
ton at Philadelphia: Madonna and
Child in the Altmaa collection, and
also a Madonna ant. Child in the
Gardner collection at boston.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
ST. WINEFRIDE''S WELL
FAMOUS ENGLISH CENTER OF
PILGRIMAGE AND CURES is
OPENED AGAIN TO THE PUB
Lie.

There is great joy in Holywell, Eng
land, and in many home elsewhere
at the news that on Saturday last
water was restored to st. Winefride's
Well The effect of the excavations
that deprived the Well of the healing
abundantly caused CONSERVATION
throughout the whole district, for it
meant the cessation of pilgrimages.
Holywell, throughout great number
of years, had annually been visited by
crowds of pilgrims. They came from
many classes and from all parts Of
the country-indeed from various
countries. Clients of st. Winefride,
they sought to regain health at her
shrine, and a considerable proportion
of those who arrived as sufferers
from physical infirmities returned
cured.
For a brief period the tradition has
been broken, but the old custom will
now be resumed. There is to be a
special reopening service, and it is
hoped that a constant supply of water
will be kept up. Every Catholic must
wish that the expectation will be
realized, because, besides the benefits
which resulted to health from the pill
grimages, they served to promote de-
votion to the saints, and, above all,
to st. Winefride, who is SO justly held
in veneration far and wide.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
ALCOHOL is NO GOOD.

Whereas, We believe that the use
of alcohol is detrimental to the human
economy; and
Whereas, It's use in therapeutics
as a tonic or stimulant for food has no
scientific value; therefore be it
Resolved, That the American Med
ical Association is opposed to the use
of alcohol as a beverage; and be it
further
Resolved, That the use of alcohol
as a therapeutic agent should be
further discouraged"
Not drawn up and accepted by
body of w. G. T. u. or other temper
ance reformers. BY no means. These
resolutions were declared and adopted
by the great American Medical Asso-
citation. 1t is a scientific statement
that alcohol has no food value and no
medicinal value. 1t should not be used
either as a beverage or in treating
the sick. If there is any more fiction
about the use of alcohol, down with it.
-Holpske Transcript.
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ALWAYS IN THE WAY.

Liquor traffic is always in the way.
1t has been from the beginning. 1t
was in the way of Noah's progress a
few millenniums ago and it has re-
NAMED in the way ever since.
For the last half century it has been
in the way of our country more than
any other thing we have encountered,
benumbing the minds and debauch-
ing the lives of all citizens who use
its product.
1t gets in the way of the soldiers in
camp.
1t gets in the way of England's eff
cheney in the production of munitions.
1t gets in the way of starving
Europe.
1t gets in the way of honest cleo
tions.
1t gets in the way of needed legis-
lation.
1T got in the way of the food con-
troll bill and has been soundly spank
ed for doing so. The Senate did it
when they passed the national con-
stitutional amendment measure, 81 to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
FRAUDULENT CHARITIES.

Other large citiesNmight well
emulate the example that has been
set by ST. Louis, observes the
Catholic Messenger. AS y result
of a campaign inauguratedby the
Charities Bureau Of the Chamber
of Commerce number Of fratdu-
lent charitable institutions have
been forced to close their doors. y
There are many extraordinary
calls on the purses of our people,
and this st. Louis organization is
taking salutary and conserving
action in organizing a campaign
against so-called charities. Their
investigation showed that many
of the institutions which were
closed were small households that
had been making a too practical
application Of the idea that char
ity begins at home.' Many Of the
Homes of the Helpless con-
tanned a half dozen able-bodied
members of a family, and one
specimen who had a real or
feigned disability qualified him as
a parasite. For the protection Of
that great body of people who are
willing to do all that they can for
the promotion of good works, but
find that their contributory pow
ers are impaired by too discrim-
mate giving, the work of round
ing up such charities should be
inaugurated in all our large cit
les.
We have little sympathy for
that organized charity scrimped
and iced, = which John Boyle
O Reilly tells us is doled out in
the Name Of cautious, statistical
Christ. 7 AT the same time ex-
perience has proven that in our
day it is best to give through
those well known and recognized
charity organizations that exist in
every large city. The most far
PREACHING calamity that follows
these false charities is that toler-
alton Of them would chill if not
idestroy thesspirit Of real Christian
lcharity.