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Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-18

week, there were but 29S sales by warranty '. deed. against AS in the
 same week of the previous year. Mort
 gage loans during the same period az Sregated only S673, BPS. as compared
 with $1;36O,S29 for the like week of
 1916. r
 The record of new interpretations in
 this state for the third week in De-
 cember is smaller than for. any SiIn-
 jar week for many years with the eN =
 ception og 1914.- Six new companies
 are. reported with capital stock of
 S107, ,000.; These figures compare with
 eight companies with capital of s2S,-
 TAO in 1914: Is with capital of S1,222,-
 a2o in 1915; and five with capital of S205,O00 in 1916 a5
 Eight petitions in bankruptcy were
 filed in. the state in the week just
 closed, with assets of $4l,512S and ia :
 ti1ities of s64, ,4S2. against two. peti- tions,s with assets of $500 and liabili-
 ties of s10,0 ine the corresponding week of 1916. and three with assets of
 S2. .211 and liabilities of $14,641 in 1915 -s
 Statistics of building permits. grant ed in@the cities of New Haven, Bridge Erort; Hartford, and Waterbury for the rast. week made a. low record But 6I permits were taken out: ins these cities during the week. for buildings costing As93. .695. These. figures com : pare with ST permits granted in the same. cities for the. like week of 1916. flor buildings costing SS03;53S. st Contracts have been awarded dur- ing. tiIe@ past week for number of projects. among the more important ! of which, are schoolhouses in ;Stann- ford and Devon, power house in45Wa- terloury, restoration of the old city hall in Hartford, store and tenement block i n 2 Waterbury,. business block in New Britain, garages in .Meriden and Waterbury. clubhouse in. Stamford, church in, sDanielsen, factory additions iii -News Haven; West Haven, Water bury Bridgeport and tEaugatuclS, and one and two- family houses in Water Blry Bridgeport, Stratford and Springfield. EeTeV- plans reported for the past week include hospital buildings in Bridgeport and Waterbury, factory buildings in Bridgeport and Hartford dermitories in Waterbury. -1e-story Ehotel and an apartment block in the same city, fire station in Hartford lschoolhouse in Springfield, residences ill New Haven.g Stamford and Nor walk, remodeling of block in Green wien and garage in the same, city, and one, two, and three family houses in New Haven, Bridgeport and Hart ford
 Norwich had ten sales of real estate
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 just about to taste when--crashl Hell was let. loose. Shells of all sizes came hurling through the door. raining in on. steel helmets, left that lovely; break serious the show might be- We had suffered sheavy Commandments before but we at once saw that this was the biggest we had ever been in. Harvey Cockshutt, always thinking of the men, issued the order to take; every one into the front lne, where we decided the bomba rdment was not, quite so sheaVy In a few seconds every ma was lining the fire trench. The shells continu- ed to rain ir on us from every direc- tion., The. Boches- as. we found ,out later. had turned every gun around the Yures Salient oa the frontage occupied bse the TiIird~ Canadian Division. We reueiTe:l-' almost as. many sIa1ls from the rear Hanks as We did from the. front These, of course, we, could not always .:>se coming. but wh erever we looked we could lree :. .M;nnies'' rolling over and sower, in the air ron their way to greet us. These were quite easy to dodge when they came one at 3 time. All you had to do wa % watch Nle 70; they were going to light. and dc<ye around the traverse. into the next bay, You might he knocked down or even. buried. but, the effect of the explosion of a ''Afirnie''-is' very local, although n 2 n awful mess of Hourl trench
 Dedains, the. ".Minnies' We had the men distributed evenly
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HENS BACK OF
 LAST YEARS REcoRn
Total Eggs to Date at storrs Is -lEishA
 Thousand With Six Pens Not axa TsA
 Contributing. >zrs

The hens in the laying contest at Storrs are still not able to quite equal last years performance. In the sixth week. all the birds, together :aid a to- tai of 1913 eggs, or a little more than 100 better than the preceding week. This brings the total to date op to nearly 5000 eggs. There are still six pens that lave not been able to get started. On khe other hand, there ars B pens that has laid over 100 eggs each, and one of these has laid moro than 200 in the first six weeks of ths Contest. -"- f-.-.' five pens. Jules F. Francais Barred Rocks from West Hampton Beach; L. l., and Braynnan Farms White Wyan~ dottes from WestvfIle IN. H., tied for first place with Al eggs each. Flint stone Farms Rhode Island Reds from Dalton, Mass, won second place with a. yield of 40 eggs@ Rock. Rose Farms Barred Rocks from Katona-h, N. Y, laid 36. and the Agricultural College pen of Oregons, from Corvallis, Ore- produced 35 for the week.
 During the first month of the rcompe- tition each pen of ten birds averaged to consume nearly 19 pounds. of grain and 49 pounds of mash, or. in other words, each bullet ate a little less than : pounds during the month. The rela lively high amount of mash consumed is of impor tance for two reasons h the first place, the milled feeds hays
 
 but hens can reasonably be expected to lay more eggs when fed a good rich mash. t 5
 The three best pens in each of ths principal varieties are as follows. '
 Barred Plymouth Rocks. 4 Jules F., Francaiss4 West Hamp-
 ton Beach, l.. I. I.i.......-..:... 1aA g, Rock Rose Farm Katonah, ".
 Harry H. ober, Lakewood. \.
 J.. -. .4. .s.S. -..,-..... 11b
 White Wyandottes.
 20 obed G. Knight Bridgton, R. 21 Brayman Farm, Westvl11e. N. 4
 H. ., ITS 2s J. Frank Dubois, East Lynn.
 Mass. =. .!.7:t.-.z .7.--:-
 Rhode Island Reds. F. 43 Pinecrest Orchards, Gruton, Mass. ......--. =. l1ia 131 37 Birthstone Farm, Dalton, Mass. s144 4s W. Mansfield Poultry Farm, At e.s
 tleboro, Mass. :......... 124
 White Leshorns. r 6s Hollywood Farm, Hollywood, =
 Wash 1Ss 59 Braeside Poultry Farm. Strouds- zs, S1 ;. Frank Dubois, East Lynn, E
 Mass. .7.t .. ..-.- 1te Miscellaneous.
 'S0 Cook 6 Porter, (Bun Wyan-
 tiottes), Northampton, Mass. .ei2tS 53 Ore. Agricultural College Core - s.... -.
 gons), Corvallis, Ore. ...5..... 19a 32 Dr. N. w. Sanborn tBuff WXafl- s@
 dottes), Holden, Mass. 1t4
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pany has been underway for several

weeks s-E -'--7-
 inside .stl1e big building to handle the big sections of steel that will go into the ships,
 :; In these r concrete piers is con tained about $500 cubic yards Of ce- ment. Allowing $500 pounds to the cubic yard, this means that .5,Io0 tons of cement is used in each craneway.
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.', 5sudL DING AND BUSINESS. Reat Estatesssalss .ssunp-Lew Record
 irf Permits.

The exchanges of the Hartford and New Haven clearing houses for the ford of S.4< per. cent New Haven of .4-s per, cent, SprfnEhe1d 3-a per cent, and HoiyoISe 1S:z per cent. e.
 Real estatev transact ticrts in Con rectic1t show a very decided slump. 'Iu~etfe Connecticut towns reported in The Connaercial Record for. the past
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upper story is of. stained shingles. The
 roof is.scoysredS wis asphant shingles
 While the interior is lnished- in hard wood. Contra ctor Blae:ziedge. did the
 outside .woik.5 ass s-els .f.. '.
 Foundation of-' Norwich Town House s5si.ssz In. e+ E f.s 5 Work .ont the hi1ngalow for David Dean on Town street near IIar1and' 5
 corners has been halted by the cold
 Meat her The foundation is in and the Building is to be 49x24. Tie house
 will. have six rooms ard all modern sconveniences. The inside. Will be fin- +ished iR cy:pEesss fwitn, Shard. wood floors. The sides and roof will be {. .sf1ing1ed, ss ' CQntraetor R. A. z Kinney rfs adofng the work. Y
 : Gold Delays Walk on BuiIdinss.
 r Most of .4f h e. work around :tle city, has beAnS halted owing to- sthe. cold
 wea tEers of the past week although one .cohtractor@Wllo. is disgsug a cellar on Stetson street Tis going ahead with his work. He reports six inches of; frost but as. he has a sandy soil the frost
 does aot ,finaers the work much, ;st<r
 ss< E. fioase .shinaied: 5>--sz. i,
 The :house occupied sby. Mrs. Charles H. T Talcdtt. at: 70 5 Williams street. has
 been { sfinsaed during the past week:
 The work men were delnyeds few days
 on a ccour1t of the snow. 2 e.
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tablets, which all the officers carried, to those who were in, great pain. There were only three besides myself who could move, and decided to act as MT. Cockshutt. would have wished un.- der the circ rcunstances and take these men to a. She1l-proof trench. in Mount Sorrel, which was commonly known as the Tunnel. We had been given orders that in case. of heavy bonn bardment this was where we were to take our men. In order to get there we had to. go down a short communi- cation trench known as Canada street, but we had not gone. more than a few yards before we discovered that Can ada. street existed no longer We crawled overland following the line of the trench by the bits of, "a'' frame and riveting ma aterial which were pro- truding from the. earth. We soon came to the German barrage, which extended all the way along our front age just in the rear of the trenches and prevented any possibility of re- achievements reaching US. I saw that 1t was hopeless to set through this at the time. and we decided to lie there until the barrase might less sen suffi- cientiy to enable us to make 3, dash tor 1t. -.
 Men Cool and Collected.
 I particularly wanted to reach the Tunnel as it was here that oatta lion beadquarters were located, and it was
 
 were destroyed and that there were no men left to defend the position when the attack should come. As we fay there we were soon located by a Germa machine gunner, who ripped off two or three belts@at us. We were in full view with. Virtually no cover; tt.e bullets cracked all around, us and the dirt flew in our faces We had been under first many a time before and had. often felt afraid. According to the old saving. any. man who says he is not afraid. under fire. is either a fool or a liar. But none of us had ever experienced anything 50 terrific as this. We knew we; were going to be killed and we had got to the stage where it. did not seem to matter whether we got it then or fHw min utes later. believe it was this feel ing that had rendered all<of the men so cool and collected. and I was sur- prised to see during that morning that some of the new men who were -ui7- tier first sforrthe first time were just as cool as those Vllo were old hands a: the game, Of course. st.IeE had the advantage of not. knewi ing how dan eerous shell lmight<be. whereas the others had seen so many of their friends Ego west" that they could "a D. rreciate the danger more fully.
 .(Continued l, Tomorrow)ssy
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BUILDING ACTIVITY IN EAsTERH CONNECTICUT

transfers last week to 14 for the same week last year. The mortgage loans for the respective weeks, were $S,e3o and S14, 800. =. & :.t < In New London there were seven sales of, realty last week to g flor esae same week of last year. The mort gage loans for. the two, weeks were s2s, ,S70 and ,S24,SSO respectively.
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DANiELSoN.

The contract for the new church building for the Holy Trinity Ortho- dox Greek church to be erected here, from the plans. of Architects Cudworth & Thompson has been given to Dam ase RouIias of this place. The build ing will be 30x6O feet, of frame con-
 structions, with asphalt shingle roof and steam ,heaI. e. P. Berris is chair raan of the committee.
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BUILDING OPERATIONS
 ssNi- - IN NEW ENGLAND

Statistics of building and engineer ing operations in New England as compiled by The F. w. Dodge Com
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settled don n for an Ttour. or two of sleer. 4. 6-30 I was up again to see Coloaei .UZssher and. Ca ptain Jack .Sy- mons, whc had come to make pre- paratory inspection of the trenches. As they went away I bttde good by. for tue last time to Jack. who was was my brother-in law. ss
 At a few minutes. to s o'clock break fast was announced, and our bat house in thu dugeut across the trench, bea-sng n large tin plate of: beautiful fried eggs and bacon and some. prunes. This. with one addition of a. little coE fee was the excellent meal we were
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-18
A Cold
 Proposition

When you arc wheezing and snee4
 ing, coughing and hawking. you're. facing a cold proposition .Hapd1s
 itright. Hales Honey of EzorsElaunds and Tar quickly relieves bad ca5cs 5 All druggists, 25cts. a bottle. .i
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(Continued . Tomorrow )
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30 Cook 6 Porter, (Bufr wyan-
 dottes), Northampton, Mass. ..e3 53 Ore. Agricultural College Gore
 gons), Corvallis, Ore. 32 Dr. N. W. Sanborn (Buff Wyafl-5
 dottes), Holden, Mass. .....
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n uSIH9 t'tc. sFtHHIISs.- --E-
 We had the men distributed evenly
Evening star., 1917-12-08
PUSHING TO COMPLETION
ITS FOUR-TRACK LINE
Pennsylvania Railroad Company In
creasing Traffic Facilities Between
Washington and Philadelphia.

Construction of a complete four-track
line on the Pennsylvania railroad be-
tween Washington and Philadelphia is
being pushed to an early completion.
Samuel Rea. president of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, made brief reference to
this plan in a conference Of the rail-
roads war board with newspaper men
yesterday. Today he amplif1ed his
statement.
Travellers on the road have noted the
extension of switching tracks SO that
for many miles the line now bears the
appearance of a four-track road. Mr..
Rea explained:
"The switches are being extended,
and new tracks are being laid. which
are in use as switches, and within a
few years this will mean a straight
away four-track road between Wash
ington and Philadelphia, except in the
case of bridges and tunnels"
Mr.. Rea explained that the construc-
tion lis being pushed because OF the
greatly increased traffic over this por-
tion Of the Pennsylvania system.
In meeting wartime demands the
Pennsylvania has spent about 100000
This amount was placed In mortgage
bonds last March before the entry of
the United States into the war.
1T was lucky we did this" commented
Mr.. Rea in discussing the difficulty the
roads have in getting capital I'VE
could not borrow that amount Just now
on terms which q railroad could afford
Evening star., 1917-12-08
ANOTHER COLD SPELL
SWO0PS DOWN ON CITY
snow-sleet-Rain Storm Brings Dis
agreeable conditions-Chill to
Stay With Us Awhile.

Washington is in for another cold
spell
In the wake of the combined snow
sleet-rain storm which struck Wash
inston last night. and continued its
unpleasant onslaught during the day.
the National Capital will experience
some more cold weather, according to
the weather bureau.
Freezing temperatures are pfedieteo
for tonight. clear weather by tomor-
row afternoon. and 20 degrees above
zero by Monday morning. The cold
spell is expected to last g. few days, at
least. e= g. =>.+
The rapidity with which the storm
swept In from the southwest last night
was a matter of comment amohs 'ne
weather experts at the bureau.
The morning proved one OF tne moSs
disaRreeabie Of the winter to date, II
not the champion disagreeable morn
ing Of the SEASON. The few inches OF
snow which fell were made slushy later
in the day by a cold sleet-rafn, Wnicn-
ever it was.
Many horses fell throughout the city.
and drivers and humane citizens IN
general were kept busy helping the
animals to their feet.
Street cars were slowed up THIS morn
ing on account of the snow, and minor
Jams occurred, but everybody got TO
work sooner or later.
Evening star., 1917-12-08
STORM OVER WIDE AREA
is HAMPERING TRAFFIC
Snowfall Reported Throughout
Northeast Section Of Country and
in West and South.

Snow throughout the entire north
eastern section Of the country. accom-
panied by a cold wave through the
middle west and extending southwark
to the Gulf of Mexico. was causing
some discomfort today and generally
delayed movement of traffic. already
badly congested by heavy shipments.
Continuation Of the snow was predict
ed for tonight and tomorrow by the
weather bureau for a greater part OF
that section.
In eastern New York and New Eng
land warmer weather was indicated,
but cold wave warnings were issued
for the lake region, the Ohio valley,
Tennessee and the east gulf and south
Atlantic states.
The center of the storm was over
eastern Kentucky this morning. having
developed greatly in the last twelve
and thunderstorms in the south ac-
company the disturbance.
About fifteen inches of snow fell In
the Ohio valley in the twelve hours since
o'clock last night.
The cold wave which has been advanc-
ing from the west has overspread the
south, reaching the gulf coast with freez-
ing temperatures. although 1t has made
little progress east of the Mississippi
river.
Heavy snow tonight in New England
and the middle Atlantic states was lore
cast. probably continuing Sunday in the
lake region and New England, with much
colder weather in Atlantic coast districts
south Of New England. Storm warnings
are being displayed on the Atlantic coast
from jacksonville, Fla, to Passport. Me.
Evening star., 1917-12-08
WALL STREET Market
VERY SLOW AND SOFT

NEW YORK. December s.-Todays
stock market was decidedly slow from
the start to thet close The street ID
trying its hardest to digest proposed
government handling Of the railroads
and 10 nightly opposed to any 9urthef
cut In the price Of steel or steel proc
ucts; 1t is concerned in embargo rul-
ings and. all in all. Is In a waiting
mood, until such times as regulations.
now in the air. have developed into
facts.
At the same time the street is wait
ing in the hope that the Interstate Com
merce Commission may give the ran
roads the advances necessary ana per-
nit them to work out their own saliva
tion. An embargo on shipments east
Of lllinois-Indiana line is another cause
for neglect of business.
The Russian situation Is SO badly
mixed that it has become questionable
whether the whole Of the great coun-
try can be united in . separate peace
with Germany.
When it Is stated that the sales for
the two hours session totaled but 205.--
900 shares some idea Of the density of
the dullness may be formed.
Of prices was to lower figures but the
losses did not extend below fractions,
except In a very few instances Texas
Oil furnishing the most drastic drop in
a 2-point recession to 1874.
Off " point, at s6h, sold to 86%, re-
covered to S7A and closed at about
S6H.
Most of the rails were fractionally
lower. Atchison losing "a Reading, y /;
Canadian Pacific ss, and other rails
x to even more important fractions.
The market was practically at stand
still during the greater part of the en-
tire session. and the close was lifeless.
Evening star., 1917-12-08
ORGANIZATION ELECTS
EIGHTEEN DIRECTORS

The board of directors. composed of
eighteen members, was elected at the
first annual meeting Of the newly or
ton of the District of Columbia last
night at the Shoreham Hotel. Judge
J. Wilmer Latimer, president of the
association. presided.
The board members chosen are John
Dolph. Mrs. Louis Brandeis, Canon
W. L. De vries. DR.. Thomas Moore.
son. Mrs. willard D. Bigelow. Mrs.
George w. Cook. Mrs. Adolph Kahn,
Miss Julia Lathrop. DR.. w. F. Mont
RomeFy, Miss Mamie Burroughs. Miss
Cornelia Adds. Mrs. Whitman Cross. J.
p Hermann. Mrs. Walter s. ufford
Judge Latimer spoke briefly. telling
of the work Of the organization and
outlining its scope Louis Brownlow.
District Commissioners, spoke Of the
neeas n4 Il Hastings woHh Hars of ths
sage Foundation said the organization
needed earnest and organized work OF
volunteers for the association.
Mrs. joseph T. Bowen. president of
.hs sola & shs work IN aas city
in the past twelve years. She gave the
history OF an investigation made by
the association into disreputahle condi-
tions in that city and told OF the sue
Mrs. Edna X. Bushee was introduced
as the new executive secretary.
A meeting OF the board Of directors
viii be held In the near future to elect
ofaeers of the asseciatton; One ef the
sss s.sss Z s % sss p
among children
Evening star., 1917-12-08
C0L0RED MEN ELIGIBLE
TO SIGNAL BATTALION

Alleged discrimination against COL
ored men by the Signal Corps Of the
United States Army has been removed
by action of the Secretary of War.
Roscoe c. Bruce. assistant superin-
tendent in charge of colored schools for
the District of Columbia, desiring to
know whether colored men could enter
the Signal Corps If they had the neces.
sary technical training with a view to
opening class in radio operation at
one of the colored high schools in
Washington. addressed a letter to the
Secretary of War. This morning a let
ter was received by Mr.. Bruce from
Emmett J. Scott. special assistant to
the Secretary, containing the following
information:
ing the question of the advisability of
opening a radio class for colored men
in the Armstrong Manual Training
School of this city. with a view to the
enlistment of qualified students in the
Signal Corps of the United States Army.
According to the present plans. the
Field Signal Battalion of the 92d Divis-
ion of the National Army will be COM
posed of colored men. While direct en-
listments in this battalion are not au-
tnOrlZeQ unQef the law, IL Is peTnlSSlDle
to enlist qualified colored men in the
Regular Army and Immediately trans
fer them to this organization. 1t seems
probable that this battalion will be,
able to absorb all the colored students
who qualify as radio operators In the
near future, and, while 1t 10 not deemed
necessary that any official orders be is
sued in the matter. yet l am author
ICED to state that it seems proper and
advisable that the proposed class be
onened in the Armstrong Manual Train
ing School. in order to obtain the radio
operators needed for the 92d Division
to be organized at Camp Sherman. Chill
licothe, Ohio"
Evening star., 1917-12-08
Grain, Produce,
Cotton Markets.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO, December S-Government
orders that all railroads In the United
States give food and feed priority over
military supplies rallied the corn mar
ket today from weakness which pre-
vailed at the outset. The initial de-
clines were ascribed to assumptions
that considerable stocks of corn would
be accumulated at Chicago and other
leading western terminals. In this
tions were regarded as very significant.
Opening prices which ranged from the
same as yesterdays finish to u lower.
with January, 1.20A to 1909. and May
at 1.18s to 1.18A, were followed by q
material upturn all around.
Oats duplicated the action OF corn.
Offerings were quickly absorbed.
Provisions sympathized with weak
ness of the hog market. 1t took but
little buying, however. to rally prices
when grain showed strength.
In the late trading provision down.
turns took place as a result of renewed
weakness of cereals.
Subsequently, the corn market under
went a setback, influenced by ruling
of the food administration that ship
ments of grain could not be made to or
through the embargoed zone east of
Chicago The close was unsettled, jan
uary 1.2oA and May 1.1ss to 1.1sk,
with the market as a whole ranging
from cent down to 4 advance as
compared with yesterdays finish
yellow. nominal; No. yellow, 165.
Oats-No. white, 73a74H; standard,
73A Aa75. Rye-No. 2. 1.S21aa1.S3. Bar
ley. 1.20a1.50. Timothy, 50Oa7.5o. Glow
er, 20.0Oa26.0O. Pork nominal Lard,
25.40. Ribs, 2725