New Britain herald., 1917-04-28

gratulate himself. On getting home his wife discovered that the tops or the shoes were made of oil-cloth and not leather. Someone is always taking the joy out of Mfe."
 Popular query: Have you little garden at your home?
 Local automobile dealers and own- CTS of cars are much disturbed over the report from Washington that it is possible all cars will be taxed per cent. of their factory cost. If this ia 50 New Britain people will be hit hard. One we'll known dealer has stated that his business will ba paralyzed and, he continues, he hes already felt the effects of such a poS-e sible measure as several prospective customers have declined to give him their orders for fear of the, excessive government tax. Other owners of cars of ancient vintage are also worrying for fear that they may be called upon to pay tax which, they claim. might be more than their machines are really worth at present.. Under exist ! ing conditions in Connecticut an auto
 
 | his car, one to the city, as 1t Is figured | in his general assessment, And one to the state. Thus the prospect of pay l ink third tax is not particularly l pleasing. There was a time in this city that automobiles were e luxury and the statement that a man who could afford to buy machine could afford to pay the tax held true To- day this Is not so. People in all financial stations of life own little cars and in a business way they are ] necessity. Such a high tax would in- jure local people very much.
 In these times of strife, when guna and munitions make a stock topic of conversation where men are gath cred, when the City Guard is armed
 with Krags and when the Home Guard
 expects guns of some description. a de-
 tailed account of the rife: is not amiss. The Springfield carried by tho
 regulars and national guard is bolt
 action gun and it's calibre Is 3o-10O
 of an inch. It's muzzle velocity q
 2.70O foot-seconds and it is somewhAt
 shorter and lighter than the KraS,
 being 4sk inches long and weighing
 slightly in excess of 1x pounds. The |
 those on the Krag. The Krag rifis
 came into use about the time of the
 Spanish American war when the army
 was equipped with these new Krag-
 Jorgensen rifles They are a maga-
 zine gun of bolt action type and were
 manufactured at the Springfield ar.
 senal. The gun is composed of 99 | parts and 1t is slightly in excess of
 forty-six inches in length. It weighs
 in the neighborhood of nine or ten ! pounds. Its calibre is also 30-f00 of an inch and the four grouves in tho , rifiing turn in ten inches. It carries five cartridges in the magazine and , one in the chamber and it's 220 grain steel jacketed bullet is propelled by | a charge of 35 to 42 grains of smoke 7 less powAer The bullet has an initial , velocity M F, 900 feet per second and will travel 1000 yards in 2h sec onds with remaining velocity of sS1 feet per second and a. force of . impact equal to 337 foot pounds, The bullet will carry between one and two miles, according to weather condi- tions. it.tf. 3ta- xii.
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 With the price of coal still hirh, people are hesitating about laying 4iY, | their next winters supply, but the l ! coal dealers are not optimistic about y the price going any lower and will not B guarantee the price from day to day. Yesterday coal was quoted in this f city at $9.50 per ton. Figures ob- ] tatned at the same time show that in 5 the neighborinE town of Berlin the 7 price was but $s.75 per ton, fndicat- v ing that 1t costs the local retailers
 seventy-five cents per ton more Many
 regard 1t as strange that for a dis ? tance of three miles the price should , jump almost dollar. Especially 3 when in the town of Farmington. even 7 further inland than New Britain, coal , Is selling at $s5o per ton, which Is 3 even twenty-five cents less than in Berlin. ls.