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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
DFTIA FINAN

Della, wife of Thomas Finan, died yesterday at the family residence, 263 Charles street, as the result of acci- dental gas asphyxiation. Mrs. Finan was widely known in the North End and was 54 years of age. Besides her husband, two daughters, Winifred and Irene Finan, two brothers, James and Patrick Mcclure and one sister. Mrs. A. F. Berger of Long Hill survive.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
MARY HODGINs.

Following a brief illness, Mary, widow of James Hodgins, died last night at the family residence, Jack son avenue. Stratford. Mrs. Hodgins was well known in Stratford. Four sons, John, James, William and and Thomas and two daughters. Mrs Michael Shortell and Mias Anna Hodgins, all of Stratford, survive.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
FIRE AF MINE WON'T
 DECREASE PRODUCTION

wiIkesbarre, Paa Jan. 3-FiVe hundred men and boys employed at the William A. celliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Ce., the breaker of which was burned last night with loss oi S260,e00, were put to work today fin other collieries of the company. Int burned colliery turned out 1.2o6 teni of anthracite a day, but this preduc ton will not be lost, as plans were completed today to prepare at ethel coIlierfes the esal taken from tht laina.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
OBITUARY
WILLIAM WATSON.

After an lengthy illness of heart trouble, William Watson, aged 78 years, died yesterday at the family residence, 1294 Barnum avenue. Mir. Watson was well known in the East Side. A wife and several childre n survive. Funeral services will be he'd Saturday afternoon.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
WILLIAM LOUGEE,

Funeral services for William Lou gee of 1856 State street were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the funeral rooms of Michael J. Cannon, 315 John street. Rev. Thomas J. Kelley, pastor of St. Peters R. c. church, offfciated. Burial was in St Michaers cemetery.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
TO AID RAID VICTIMS.

Rome, Jan. 3-The American Red Cross mission to Italy has appropriat- ed 50,O00 lire for the benefit of the victims and families of victims of the enemy air raids on Padua and other cities in northern Italy which have suffered recently from such raids.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
The QHiniRe That Does Not Affect
 Hoo1

Because of it's tonic and laxative eff feet. Laxative Brame Quinine can be taken by anyone without causing ner- peusness ar ringing in the head
 There is eRIF one "REene ouinine. E. ". GEsEe'sasigHature is ua box acc.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
There's no such thing !

% cents each If you buy $4 worth of them this month and then add 12 cens you buy War Savings Cert- cate worth $5 Do you how easy it is to both lend hand and save moneyand get interest your savngs9 Buy your first War Savings Stamp NOW ad HERE; this store is helping Uncle Sam by selling them.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
DRY GOODS GO.
FORA DEFINING

held at the home of Mrs. Savard Fri. day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
War Savings Stamps Will Strengthen Sam.

Uncle Sam wants every man and woman and boy and girl to do a share towards paying for this war we are going to win. So everybody can do that share, no matter how small he has issued War Savings Stamps. They cost
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03

ITlmes Wan1 Ads. es:o eens 2 Word
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03

Weather: Unsettled, probably snow tonight; Friday fair.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03

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New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Seven Days Of
War

tanks and the Germans are making full
toward Brussels.
King Albert's army followed in close
pursuit of the enemy to the Derivation
Canal, while the British Second and Fifth
armies, under Plumer and Birdwood re-
spectively, hurried his retreat to the
Scheldt. By the middle of the week the
British were before Journal and Valen-
ciennes and the larger part of the indus
trial region of Northeastern France was
rid of the invader who had paralyzed the
country for fifty months
While the fighting from Valcnccnnes to
Holland was largely between patrols and
rear guards, with artillery figuring little,
fierce battles were wagcd on all the rest
of the front right to the Meuse, where the
Americans are slogging away under heavy
handicaps and discouraging conditions.
The British Third and Fourth armies at
tackled almost constantly north and south of
lie Cateau, meeting the sternest kind of re-
slstance, but overcoming it and driving the
Germans back toward the Vaencenres-
Maubeuge line. North of Laon the French
found difficulty in breaking the Hinden-
burg line, of which the Serre River is an
integral part Here the Crown Prince is
established almost as strongly as in the
defcnces along the Chemin des Danes,
Gouraud is also.
Soils reply to Wilson came as a disap.
pointment; 1T reflected the change in the
military situation it showed that the
German military staff had recovered its
equilibrium; it showed that the Allied peo-
pies had exaggerated the weakness of the
Germans.
In less than three weeks Ludcndorff and
his associates had recovered from bad
case of nerves and the armistce clause in
Solfs note is certificate that is COM
pleted. The raids in Alsace have aroused
speculation about the possibility of an Of
fenslve IN this quarter How many weeks
the hghting can continue before the
weather calls a halt is hard to say In
other years October was the last real FIGHT
ing month, but it is possible that Foch will
be able to continue the pressure we'll into
December.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

nothing!" The essence of his character is
in that
Out of the characters of these three life
is to make thing which will net and en-
tangle them and wound them all. To rid
the world of himself to free his wife and
MS TREND, Fedya contemplates suicide
"hen ne comes to it he fails. 1t is not
possible An ambassador had suggested di-
vorce, but he cannot face the sordidness
and dlshonor of the framed-up evidence.
The gypsy who loves him points the way
out. He cannot swim. His clothes left on
the river bank will tell sufficient storv. It
Will leave all of them free to live as thew
nave chosen. Yet no mans destiny leaves
him to bargain freely. Years later
blackguard overhears his drunken tale in a
tavern, tells the courts, and Elizabeta An
dreyevna and Victor Michailovch are
drawn from their fancied welded security
to answer the charge Of bigamy For
Fedya only one atonement is left. He
makes it, and kills himself with a pistol
while the court is in session. He dies ter
rlbly, calling for Masha, the gypsy of his
other years. SO many people of the stage
can act acceptaby. So few can imagine
S"oA oSISi3 WHlCn Is lne essence or drama,
and make life out of it, 1t is not a. thing
done by methods, by fashions of wearing
the hair or painting the features It de-
pends on subtle inner understanding, a
heat which takes hold of words and trans
forms them and gives to movement the
color Of life. John Barrymore has it. He
makes of Fedya passionate living protest
against the discrepancies and imperfections
OF every system of living. He is the figure
of all poets, all artists, all sensitive hu-
man beings who dream passionately of
what is better than the reality thew know:
who fail of realization always defeated bv
circumstance. Many times Fedya raises his
hands in vain supplication for an under
standing the pitiless heavens do not return
to him. Outstretched thus they become the
symbol Of the play
1t Is rich and splendid drama. rich
with gathered color and those common
Things which SO to make up the face of
reality.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Did Kipling Write
Textbooks?

ME- American Library Associations
branch Office in Brooklyn received
strange order from the Montauk q. u
hydroaeroplane station recently. saws an
association bulletin, which continues:
Naval officers there wanted Kipling's
poems, especially his poems of the sea.
Next trip out around Long Island in his
FORD truck the American Library Associa-
TONS representative delivered the books,
as per request, at Montauk. and wanted to
know what in the world naval officers study
ing hydro aviation could find Of value to
them in the poetry of Kiplng.
"All seagoing men, replied the naval off
GER, can learn lots of valuable things from
kipling's poems. The sea poems are a text
book A sailor who's been around the
world can take The Song of the Cities and
explain things that no landlubber could
possibly understand. A shipbuilder or an
engineer on ship can point out many in
teresting things in the story, The Ship
That Found Herself that go completely
over the average readers head
"kipling, added the officer is the only
poet in existence who understands the navy
and the men who are building the navy"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
By John ]. Leary. Jr.
~ OLONEL THEODORE ROOSE-
WELT is sixty to-day.
~ II don't know that it makes

II don't know that 1T makes
any difference" he said looking
over Long Island Sound from the piazza
of his Oyster Bay home.
II can tell you, though, that there
won't be very much of a celebration
here. There will be just little family
party-those Of the children who are in
the country and the grandchildren--that
is, except Ted's. They are with maternal
relatives in Port Chester, and the cpl
demic makes it rather unwise to take
them about much. But | am going to
them at the very first opportunity"
Opportunities for Colonel Roosevelt to
visit very much are rare these days. For
that matter, they have been rare since
before this country entered the war and
his was as a voice in the wilderness call
ing for it to prepare. When he has not
been absent from his home speaking for
preparedness, for the Red Cross, for
Liberty Loans, for many and varied
forms of war activity, he has been busy
with his editorial work for "The Kansas
City STAR" "The Metropolitan" and
other magazines and disposing of prob
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Roosevelt and Unconditional
Surrender

Bulgaria should have been forced to sur
render to Allies, while we remained
neutral, and it is even more dscreditabIe
to us that we did not long ago declare war
on Turkey.
Il wish Congress would pass a resolu-
ton OF war against Turkey Tomorrow"
81 emphatically believe that we should
finish this war now by fighting and not by
conversation or note writing. / believe
that we should accept from Germany moth
ing but unconditional surrender. / would
not discuss peace proposals with Germany
or her vassal allies. Let US first beat our
foes to their knees and then ourselves say
what the peace terms shall be- Our war
aims should be the complete surrender un-
conditionaly"
1--WE should fight this war through to q
finish. We should put an absolute end to
the threat of German world dominion, and
instead of merely talking about future JUS
tice, we should bring justice to all the
nations oppressed by Germany and her
allies. AS for a league of nations,
should regard a proposal to include Ger
many, Austria and Turkey in it as on
level with a proposal to stop burglary and
murder in New York by inviting all the
burglars and gunmen to join TIE police
force"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
By Ralph Block

strange and startling Russia, which ere
demption" discloses. 1t is the Russia OF an
epoch that is completely separate now from
our own, the Russia of Turgeniev even
rather than Of Tolstoy, the Russia that
spread thin but graceful adaptation of
French culture on the uncouth human
structure of an almost barbaric Russian
life. On top are the graces of a new So
clallzatlon; underneath is the old desire to
live, to taste of the richness of things. to
escape into the warm current of humanity
and swim with it. Half held in one. caught
at last in the other and swirled with it and
dragged under, is Fedya Protasov, man
who dreamed of truth and beauty but could
not find it except in wne-where finally
he lost it. "There was always something
so terribly lacking between what felt and
what could do," he cries out, and onlv in
the end does he find a way to annul the
terrible disparity by giving his life away
for the two humans whom he had loved,
1t was in adventure of the taverns and
IN strange gypsy abodes on the river bank
that he first sought his escape. You un
derstand without effort in the beginning of
the play that Fedya is man to be loved
by many people His wife, Elizabeta An
dreyevna, still loves him, though at last
she has separated from him because of his
dlssipatlons and his treatment of her. His
TREND, Victor Michailovich, man of prin-
clple, cannot be rid of the memory of him;
1t IS SO strong that he goes ironically. de-
spite his own love for Elzabeta Andrew
evna, to the house of the gypsies to fetch
fedya away and back But the adventurer is
enthralled by these glimpscs of beauty the
sypses give him. "To think he saws with
his hands lifted when they sing for him:
to think that man can touch eternity like
that and then nothing
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

TNHERE can be no mistaking Col
oneI Roosevelt's stand. He is
A for unconditional surrender and
nothing short Of it. There fol-
low here extracts from statements made
upon recent occasions:
"When the German people repudiate the
will be time to discriminate between them
and their masters. I hope the Senate and
the House will pass some resolution de-
manding the unconditional surrender of
peace terms have never yet been formu
lated accepted by our people, and that
they will be fully discussed with our allies
and made fully satisfactory TO our own
people before they are discussed with Ger
many"
"Let us also avoid confusing our own
people by negotiations or pseudo-negotia-
tions and adopt as our motto 'uncondi-
tional surrender"
~ earnestly hope that the President will
instantly send back word that we demand
an unconditional surrender and that we
refuse to compound felony by discussing
terms with the felons.
at is deeply dscreditable to US that
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Again We Tap the
AncientS

America!) Marriage Of o great prince
(Would it be the marriage Of Rupprecht Of
Bavaria with the Princess of Luxemburg?)
For 1919 Thomas Moult prophesies:
"'Peace among the states. Great COM
merce on land and sea. A great prince will
ascend the throne. The winter will be very
cold. The grain harvest will be very bad.
The vintage will be very poor. although the
grapes will be excellent in appearance at
first
II am not maintaining anything as GER
tain. I am merely copying what Moult
wrote about the year 1900 in the city of
Orleans"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
"The Greatest Man in the World"
Is Soldiers Fer
vent Tribute

an army band, loaned to Oyster Bay for
the day. appeared on Sycamore Hill. The
Colonel was absent in Newark making
his great appeal to the foreign element
in that city to become thoroughly Amer
icanized. No one on the hilltop knew
they were coming, and it was some little
time before telephoning developed that
they were expected in the village.
The parade which they were to have
led was over when the bandsmen arrived
at the town hall, and some one took it
upon himself to chide sergeant of the
old army who was of the band for getting
lost.
"Lost nothingw said he. Colonel
Roosevelt is Oyster Bay to every man in
the army. How could we tell we would
be sent anywhere else? And anyway, if
we didn't see him, we at least can say
we've seen his home"
Other than the soldiers and a small
number of intimate friends and relatives
few visitors are received at Sycamore
Hill these days. His friends, the taxi
drivers at the station, discourage visitors
who have no real business at the hill
from making the journey, while the mo-
torist who has no appointment is likely
to be stopped at the road leading to the
house.
Otherwise he not only would have little
time for work, but he would have no
time for the exercise he always insists
upon-the secret of his splendid con-
dition-not to mention time for the
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Perspectives
By Ralph Block
John Barrymore and Tolstov

\HERE are formulas in "Redemp-
81 ton" which Mr.. Hopkins Is pre-
-A scnting at the Plymouth Theatre.
We have all pleaded for something
more of living in the theatre and something
less of makc-believc. 1t has been long
waiting for something more than vain and
sterile gestures. Now, quite simply, it
would appear, Mr.. Hopkins takes the empty
husk and gives 1T blood and nerves and
voice to utter moving speech. He is not
alone in this accomplishment. He has to
his aid the matured and powerful art Of
John Barrymore and the aesthetic sensibil-
ity of Robert Edmund Jones, but in the end
these are simple things they bring, marked
in common only by the great quality of i'm
agination.
Tolstoy thought greatly and clearly when
he thought directly of the spectacle of life.
1t was only when he tried to be abstract
that he was confused. Redemption" is
tinged, perhaps, with the deep hue Of his
own experience; it carries through it a
part of the irony Of every mans life 1t is
the complete tragedy of moral aspiration,
the tragedy of elusive voices in the air that
no effort can recover when they are gone.
of the universal urgency toward more
complete ideality than the scheme of exist
ence is ever willing to surrender-an ur-
gency that is always left frustrated 1t has
in it the quality and fabric of living every
where. Under the worlds composed faces
these fevers that wrecked and betrayed
Fedya Protasov waiting to cry out,
waiting to thrust us at the spinning
rhythm Of life in a desperate attempt to
hold what we barely glimpse. We try and
fail, and, like Fedya, die failing There is
no logic in this. But it is what living is
Against the Background of to-day this is
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Theodore Roosevelt American ON His Sxtieth Brthd.
Still Vigorous, a Spartan in Be-
reavement, Giving Him
self to the War

ably the largest mail that comes to any
private citizen in America.
In the last year he has been seriously
sick, once much nearer to death than
most men ever go and live to tell of it.
But this illness was blessing in dis
guise, for it cleared up all of the after
effects of the fever contracted during
his exploration of the Amazon valley,
which for years had bothered him inter
mittently, and left him in better physical
condition than he had been for long
time. So good is this condition that in
May last, when, on a speaking tour of
the Middle West, he was attacked with
erysipelas, he threw this serious disease
off more easily than the average young
person thr9ws off a heavy cold.
Almost any other man would have
taken the advice of the eminent Chicago
physicians who sought to place him in a
hospital. Instead, he insisted on con-
tinuing his speaking tour, and after Wis
iting Omaha, ST. louis, Indianapolis and
Bloomington, Ind, was apparently none
the worse for his bout with the disease
A few days at Sycamore Hill and he was
fully recovered.
Then, as at the time he was discharged
from Roosevelt Hospital after the serious
operation which cost him the use of his
left ear, friends urged him to take life
more quietly. So far as he has been able
to do so he has limited his public ap-
pearances, but he does an enormous
amount of work at hs home and in his
offices in this city.
Most of this is directly or Indirectly
connected with the war. 1t is not the
part, he would like to be playing in the
struggle. President Wilson's refusal to
allow him to 60 to France in the army
corps he had arranged to raise was a
bitter disappointment He has, however,
been we'll represented by his boys, all of
whom have won honors in the fighting,
and one of whom, Quentin, the "baby of
the fiock," paid his devotion to his coun-
try with his life. Of the others, Captain
Archie is now at home recovering from
fearful wounds in leg and arm, and
Theodore, now lieutenant colonel, after
being wounded and gassed, is once more
back with his men on the firing line.
The blow of Quentin's death the Col
onel bore like the Spartan of old, and
while his grief was yet fresh declared
Archie's mother and he were glad the boy
had had his chance to serve before death
came to him in the fighting.
From time to time men who have
served with the Roosevelt boys in France,
army officers and war workers who have
known them there, call at Sycamore Hill
with some little message, some word of
them, sometimes with a souvenir or
relic. These are always welcome, but not
more welcome than are little parties of
soldiers, yet to go to France, that fire.
quently make their way up the hill.
The Colonel is never too busy to see
them, to show them the famous trophy
room and to share with them the great
faith and will for victorious peace that
is in him. l have not heard that he ever
speaks to any of these of the disappoint-
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

WRITING in Gle Journal" Of Paris,
w Rene Dubreuil quotes several in
teresting prophecies in connection with
the present war from book he has just
discovered among some old manuscripts.
He says:
"They are not modern prophecies. They
date from the year 1860 and prophesy events
to happen till the year 2O63. I have just
discovered them by accident among some
old manuscripts and which bear the title:
Perpetual Prophecies, Very Ancient and
Very Certain, by Thomas-J Joseph Moult,
Native Of Naples and Great Astronomer
and Philosopher
"Moult foresaw the present war just as
he correctly foresaw many other things. For
1889 he prophesies great revolution in
one of the Christian states; for 1892 the
great triumph of the arms of that same
country; for 1870 "a destructive war for
that same country
"In so far as the present events are con-
cerned the remote science of Thomas-Joseph
Moult is somewhat vague Tor the years 1914
and 1915. He prophesies war, but the
war which he describes is insignificant as
compared to the present struggle.
1T is not until 1916 that his prophecies
assume more precise and definite char
acter.
"Thus he foretells for 1916 that a
crowned head will hold all nations enslaved
For 1917 he speaks with great detail
and, keeping in mind Russia, we feel that
Moult was not mistaken when he wrote:
There will be in an empire new form of
government He then adds without men
tloning the country: "A new prince will
ascend the throne Indeed, Emperor
Charles of Austria ascended the throne
lew months after the Russian revolution.
For 1913 he has many prophecies: Great
peace treaty. Would it be the Brest-Li
tovsk treaty?) Fortunate discoveries in one
OF the most hourshing states Of Chris
tianity.' I'VE have indeed discovered
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

grandchildren, who will be the real
celebrants of his anniversary today.
The Colonel's exercise is what ons
might call-to use term the Colonel
made famous-a bit strenuous for man
of sixty. For example, there was not
day last week that he did not take .
long horseback ride or spend sever,,
hours in the big lap streak dory that is
known to all who frequent the waters Of
Long Island Sound near Oyster Bay. Fri.
day, when / saw him, he had just come
from Lloyd's Point, five miles from Saga.
more Hill, whence he had rowed Mrs
Roosevelt and had a little picnic on the
beach.
A few minutes previously he had been
handed paper containing the substance
of President Wilson's appeal to the coun-
try that it elect Democratic Congress
as vote Of confidence in him. asked
. his opinion of it, and the brief statement
printed in yesterday mornings Tribune
promising to make answer tomorrow
night, when he speaks in Carnegie Hall.
was his only comment.
But the manner in which he said it left
no doubt in my mind that on the first
working day of his sixtieth year Colonel
Roosevelt will say something that Amer
leans, irrespective of party affiliations,
will read with interest.
1t was the same old Roosevelt, with
the same old punch, that made the PREM
ise to answer.
Apparently being sixty years old
makes no difference to some men.