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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
Special suits for young fOlks=$29.5O

From the handsome long-skfrted jacket of Russian type to the short trim newnode jacket of this Autumn each style of pleasing suit for young folks is included in gathering of extra value at the particular price of $295O How graceful they are,one only know from seeing How worthy the fabrics both eye and touch will tell How thorough and fine the tailoring is plainly to bel seen.
 How good service they will give one may be sure of from that quality and tailoring
 Rich taupe and green and navy and burgundy and gray shades, deep beautiful black.
 There is trimming of youthful effective air; several different sorts.
 There pleats and braids and lots of other little beauty touches.
 Fabrics:-handsome broadcloth and nice serge and firm splendid wool poplin
 Smart collars which may be buttoned either high or low, feature of extra charm
 Just hint:-One young woman with initiative re- marked: 1T going to take that suit and trim it with some fur It will look exactly like suit would have to pay not less than $50 for.'
 All young folks sizes, equally well 600 RO
 suited for wear by small women, pA A1'OO
 unusual in value
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
HEINNEGAN OUT.

The resignation of Patrolman Jas. r. Hennegan was accepted by the commissioners last night at their bi- weekly meeting. Hennegan has been on the police force since Feb. IS last and will now assume duties as fore man at the plant of the Singer Sew ing Machine Co.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
MEN RESIGN

New London, Nov. Although ali of the motormen and conductors on the East Lyme division of the Shore Line Electric road resigned, as result of a change in operation rules, the cars are being run today on regular schedule by men from the New Lon don division.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
LEG FRACTURED IN FALL.

While working on a building being constructed by the Cau1dwell-Wingate Construction Co.,, Mauel Lopez of PIP Knowlton street had his right leg fractured by a fall and was taken to St. Vincent's hospital where he is resting comfortably. The accident happened at noon.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
REPUBLICAN RALLY.

There will be a meeting of Repub- hcan voters on Sunday evening, Nov. 8, at 176 Fairfield avenue, at 8 o'clock.
 Mayor and Lieut. Gov. Clifford B. Wilson, Hon. John T. King, Hon. Ja- cob Kaplan, judge of the city court of New Haven; ex-Mayor Samuel Campner, of New Haven; Alex. L. De- laney, and other candidates on the Republican ticket will address the meeting.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
Diamonds; an opportunity.

Opportunity brought us some handsome brilliant and pure white diamonds at special price. We've had them mounted in Tiffany style in rings of AK gold.
 Now we shall sell them at 1-5 to IA less than todays price.
 With them we shall also sell some beautiful diamond set barpins and LaValleres-and few cluster diamond rings with top setting of platnum each at special price Rings-very attrctive- $24 $25 $27
 and to $1585O Barpins, diamonds set in platinum $19O and $21O LaValHeres, diamonds set in platinum $210 Cluster diamond rings $155 Cluster diamond rings with sapphire center-$11O
  HOWL AND DRY GOODS co.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
PUT ON PROBATION.

Derby, Nov. Tn city court this morning Lillian Hemingway, the IS year old girl who forged and cashed checks to the amount of $45.50, was placed on probation for six months
 Her mother has made restitution to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
OBITUARY
HELEN O'DAY,

Helen O'Day, wife of Michael O'Day, died at her late residence, 527 Myrtle avenue, at 1 o'clock today following a weeks illness of pneumo- mia. Besides her husband she is sur vived by seven children, Agnes, Mary, Cecelia, Ethel, John, James and Jo- seph. Mrs. O'Day was member of the Sacred Heart church. The funeral will take place on Monday morning.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
Mems fine
 new shirts.

Handsomest of the handsome New silk negige shirts Bright with color-but how tasteful. Fine patterns Splendid quality-gve good long service as well as immense satsfaction-$6 And almost as many patterns of new shirts at two dollars. Excellent fine cotton fabric; in clever patterns and good colors.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
Tn P,,epea4 TnfIaeaza

Colds cause Grip and Influenza LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE Tab lets remove the cause. There is only
 one "Breme Quinine." E. W.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01

Although scientists claim there has been no appreciabie change in tho climate of Europe in 1soe years, the Germans say it is growing hotter iH France.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01

In advertising for 2,500 more sten- ographers, the government does moi absolutely require that they wear skirts up to their knees.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
Fitting hats of black.

Hat for mourning wear must of need, be simple and of quiet taste.
 Yet it should be correct and of style good of terial; and ready promptly upon need. Such gathering of mourning hats is ready here as makes choice matter of comparative ease. When that choice cannot be made quick service from our own delft and tasteful workers. Georgette and crepe, and rich dull silk In attractive correct pleasing new shapes. $35O to $12.5O
 Mourning Yeils, both small and large ready too Of course.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
Boys ChinChilla gray OVerCOatS.

Chinchilla wears like proverbal leather. Is not too heavy-and is wondrous Overcoats of gray chinchila, new double-breasted Trench model. Make boy feel like real solder-an keep him safe ly warm all through coldest weather. Sizes 3 to 10-$7.5O and $1O.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01

,msRs WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
DIED

Times Want Ads. One Cent a Word
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01
TODAY'S WANTS

FOR sABE-2 family, 12 room
 house, all Improvements, Coorlado
 Ave. Watson, S3 Fairfield Ave- a"r
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-01

FOR SALE-Fine 9 room cottage,
 Park Ave, above North Ave, bar gain. Watson, 83 Fairfield Ave. a"p
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
He Was Now a
Government Guest

So it went, until in the factory by
the river there were peace and content.
Knockers quit knocking. Men who
never had had much to say one way or
the other began to boost and boost
boost for the Bee-Bee Company, and
boast for it, Old Fritz Hammemeyer,
who had been on the job for eighteen
years, packed up his kit one Saturday
and came back no more. A little while
afterward it was talked around that
he had been invited by the govern
ment to be its guest somewhere in the
South. But nobody ever knew how that
happened.
Neither did anybody know exactly
the reason for the switch in sentiment
around the plant, nor how four thou
sand men who had been in the habit of
thinking differently had been brought
to agree it was a pretty good job,
after all.
Certainly, though, some credit was
due to Tom Whitley and Harry Sum-
mers and the rest of the crowd that
had blown in from the East about the
same time.
They had been rafting good work
men, all of them, and for one thing
they had sort of set an example by
insisting on doing rafting good work.
When the whistle blew they were as
quick as anybody else to change their
clothes and get out, but between
whistles they kept hard at it. That
they took pride in what they did was
plain.
Beyond that, Whitley and one or two
OF the others seemed to have done
some pretty deep thinking. They
didn't go out of their way to spread
their views; neither did they feel their
views were anything to keep hidden
when conversations sprang up about
them.
The gang in the assembling room
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

didn't quite cotton to Whitley at first.
But within a couple of days that little
misunderstanding was Strengthened
out. Somehow the old man had got
the notion in his first few hours in
the shop that some of the fellows
weren't we'll onto their jobs.
"1m pretty good at this game,
sonny" he told Walter Hamilton that
noon, land if can help you out just
call on me. Notice you been doin'
things the long way round"
Walter took exception to the "sonny"
until it turned out that Old Man
Whitley had way of calling every
body under forty the same thing. Be-
sides, Walter was a mighty good me-
chanic when he worked at it. Some
what stiltedly then, he answered
Whitely's friendly "Been here long ?"
"Only bout twelve years." said he.
"But Pm getting onto the ropes, all
right, thanks"
Whitley opined next, looking embar-
rassed, that good many of the others
IN the room were green. Walt Just
laughed, and walked away. The word
was passed along, and-well, East is
East and West is West, so for the
next day or two the boys gave Whitley
sample of the sort of work that can
be done on the left-hand bank of the
Mississippi, looking North.
II beg your pardon, everybody" the
old man was frank enough to say.
You're some mechanics at that"
Then he said that nothing made him
so tired and made time drag so SLOWLY
as soldering.
Besides, there's only one kind of
soldering that ought to be done until
bee-Bee' trucks are rolling through
Berlin with American flags on 'em," he
went on. "I'm too old to do that
kind, and you bet l won't do the
other. l couldn't sleep if l did. Bee
Bees amt bullets, but they count Just
as much in their own way"
Whitley was so quiet and sure about
what he said that the respect his skill
entitled him to went for his opinion
as we'll. Harry Summers-he's moved
on to another job since, but the Bee
Bee boys haven't forgotten hinl-be-
came as popular And it didn't hurt
his popularity any when he stood I'D
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

closed one hundred and seventy-five
persons giving him information and
aid. He kept in personal touch with
these people, seeing them frequently.
He would stop for minute at a
cigar store, exchange casual words
with bartender, receive a CON-
munication from a grocer at the
vegetable stand in front of the store.
PASS careless word with an apothe
cary, and, in such easy ways, collect
a vast fund of information from in
Vulnerable sources. Most of his aids
were working solely from patriot
ism, so-called, without recompense.
Others, not Germans exclusively,
were in the game purely for the
money they could get out of it.
The system embodied all this Sc
cret intelligence into the reports
that were written on the paper of
the Central Powers Film EXCHANGE
and sent to Germany by way of
China or other neutral. countries.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

With SO much of the public so N
dustriously piecing out the efforts of
the police and Secret Service men, it
would have been odd indeed if tie
operations of the Eagle Press Syndicate
had long escaped attention. That isn't
the syndicate's name, incidentally, but
it is near enough to serve.
From their office in lower Broadway
the Eagle people have been organizing
staff of correspondents reaching into
every important industrial centre in
the country. The correspondents aren't
on salary. They merely are paid for
information Of the sort the syndicate is
seeking and that is very special in
formation.
1t is news of impending strikes the
Eagle folk want, and the correspondent
who takes the trouble to wire "Trouble
threatening at Blank plant, Blankville
Mich.," has earned himself without
further effort $40 bill
Eventually the New York investiga-
tion bureau for the Department of jus.
tice got wind of the Eagle syndicate,
People who are interested in strikes
these days are in way to getting a
lot of other people interested in them,
And certainly the Federal investigators
were interested
The syndicate's Office is just under
the roof of skyscrapcr that rises out
r
CT Broadway halfway between the Bat
terry and the Bridge. A visit there was
barren of results. Two of the most
secretve stenographcrs in New York
were IN possession of the office. The
manager was away. And he, the girls
SAID, did all the talking for the syndi-
cate.
SIS the syndicate connected with any
newspaper or newspapers?
No" said the girls.
Does it sell the news it buys?"
NO" said the girls.
news?"
No" said the girls.
Then, will you kindly explain what
ITS paying out good money for?"
No. said the girls.
downstairs, in another office, the su-
perlntendent of the building was found.
The Eagle News Syndicate 2" he re-
peated. mo. | don't know what the
game is. They've been here with US
about a year. Some other tenant ar
ranged for the renting of the office. ri
look it up
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Using Anti-Strike Serum in the Munitions Factory

amt paying me for being Uncle
Tommed around by fresh foreman"
Listen" interrupted Pete 81 saw
it and heard it, and Kennedy was right.
There's been lot of slack work done
around here, and it don't do the boys
no more good than it does the company.
And when you figure out where Bee
Bees product is going nowadays, slack
work amt much less than murder"
"Well," from Bill; "w-e-e-e-ll."
And a couple of days later you might
have seen drop of real, honest sweat
on Bill Browns brow as he bent over
his bench.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
- SPYING AMONG SPIES (
l@z Cleaning Up After Bernstorff :

servist, and a Miss Hoffman to an
apartment at the Grenoble and, af-
ter trying to embarrass them, de-
manded that Mrs. Stegler sign re-
cantation; failing therein, he pro-
cured her arrest on charge of as
sauiting waiter, etc.
Sander had also been connected
with the German American Liter
ary Defence Committee and had
been brought to deny, as secretary
of the organization, that his COM
mittee had been connected with any
scheme for bringing influence to
bear on financial interests to pre-
vent loans to the Allies. An article
had appeared in "The Providence
Journal" with a charge to that
effect.
He was a man of about thirty
FIVE years of age and, as we learned,
then in the employ of Mr.. Hearst's
"Deutsches Journal" as dramatic edi-
tor. Nor was this all. He was a
very busy person. Every day he
made innumerable calls in New
York, Brooklyn, Williamsburg, in
the neighborhood of the river and
docks chiefly on small trades peo-
ple-grocers, butchers, apotheca-
ries, saloons, barber shops, etc.-and
on more eminent Germans, too, in
higher walks of life. He was fire.
quently in the vicinity of the sugar
refneries and near the piers and
terminals.
One day he was followed to $50
Nassau Street. He took the eleva-
tor and got out at the thirteenth
floor. He should have known that
the number was unlucky. My
agent, following him, found his
name on an Office door under a sign
reading: &C. P. Films Exchange"
and also the name of C. w. Wun-
nenberg.
The ostensible business Of the
Central Powers Films Exchange
was supplying moving picture
houses with German war pictures.
Some of these were shown at a lect-
ure in Carnegie Hall and Captain
Kleinschmidt was the lecturer. 1t
was he who had taken the pictures,
and he talked most entertainingly
Of his experiences, the dangers he
had to brave and the expedients to
which he had been forced to resort
to obtain the photographs. He dis
closed privately to a confdant that
he had been an officer in the Prussian
army at the front.
The business of the Central
Powers Films Exchange seemed in
nocent and legitimate, but it was
merely another camoufage for
secret, extensive conspiracy direct
Cd against the Allies, as my investi-
cations disclosed. 1t answered oues-
tions which had come to me many
times in the past months, not at
cnce, but as I assembled the evil
dence.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

The reports were written in sympa-
thetic, or invisible, ink, Of which
each agent had his own bottle, after
which a camouhage letter was writ
ten over the surface of the paper.
When the paper was immersed in
the chemical bath the visible writ
ing would dissolve and disappear
and the secret writing would stand
out clear and legible.
All of these facts were duly re-
ported by me to my department.
/ will add that it was these two
men, A. A. Sander and c.. w. Wun-
nenberg, that the Federal authori-
ties arrested on February 19 and to
convict whom Bacon was brought
from England and Davis from Sing
Sing.
Sander was an able fellow, a
graduate Of Heidelberg and Prus-
sian army reservist.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

man "smuggling" system, which was
an army of patriots, emissaries,
tools and hirelings, assisted by Of
1icials of professed neutrals and
some sordid Americans. Every one
Of these "smugglers" had a number
which was known to us-and we
kept strict watch on them all.
We got possession of a bottle of
their sympathetic ink, and discov-
cred the way to make it legible.
They never got an important COM
munication out of the country with
out our reading it. We ran every
one Of them down.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

of written information it was always
in code, cipher or invisible ink. BY
one means or another we finally
learned their ink secrets and pos
sessed ourselves of much military
and political information of peril
nent Significance.
All such work took time. A slight
clew was often followed for days and
then found to lead against a blank
wall or into a blind alley. Every
clew was followed up, however. l
went after many of them in person.
A Man Found
A Box Of Papers
One such clew came to me in the
shape of gossip or rumor from a
friend. He had heard a report that
man had found box Of valuable
papers. was inclined at first to
dismiss the matter with a shrug.
But changing my mind about it, l
went down to the vicinity of Fort
Hamilton one Sunday afternoon and
hunted up the man. / did not take
my car, but went by ferry from New
York to Fort Hamilton, then by troll
ley and on foot to the mans house,
which was on the water front.
He admitted having reported to
some one that he had found "a box"
He showed it to me: An ordinary
pine box, soaked with water. But
when | wanted to look inside, he
hemmed and hawed a bit, and de-
clined to let me do so, saying that it
was not really his property but the
find of lodger in his house, who
worked with him on the river. When
asked to see the lodger himself,
he said it was impossible because he
was not at home. So | went away,
with the understanding that I would
call again soon and talk things over
with them BOTH
A few days later ] went down to
Fort Hamilton and called again at
the house, this time about q in the
afternoon. The same little man re-
ceived me. The "lodger" was not at
home, but the little man offered to
take me down the river where ne
was working. He had a little launch
which he and the lodger worked to-
gether, carrying seafaring men to
and from the ships. He was a
keen little man, British undoubtedly,
and he had evidently come to the
opinion that l might answer their
needs. Having twice come so far
and used up so much time, l ac-
cepted his offer, and he took me a
ride in his boat to see the other man.
Buys the Secret for
twenty-five Dollars
The other man was an enormous
fellow, sailor, and undoubtedly
British born. He was we'll the other
side Of sixty, and spoke very fair"
lie stopped his work, looked me
ever, and admitted that he had found
a box, which he said he would be
quite willing to turn over to proper
person. He felt sure it contained
very valuable papers. I told him
would like to have a lock at the con-
tents and see whether there was any
thing important. That was all right,
he said, only he would like to know
first what he was going to make out
Of it,
/ asked him when and how he had
found the box.
He said that a few days before,
while on his way home in the launch,
he had crossed the end of the wake
of great steamer which was COM
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Probably Neither
Was the Real Head

The money that financed the C. P.
Films Exchange came from persons
in a neutral country. Probably
neither Sander nor Wunnenberg
was the real head or the most i'm
portant cog in the machinery, but
the organization was effectually
broken up by their arrest and SEN
tence to the Federal penitentiary.
The authorities also made a rich
haul of secret information in a sur
prising manner. They were looking
over some plain sheets seized in the
Office of the C. P. Films Exchange.
By chance they put one Of the
sheets in the chemical bath, and a
secret report, written in the sympa-
thetic ink, became visible.
The Branch of the Intelligence
Department of the British War Of
fee, of which l was chief, was
charged to keep in touch with all
the German propagandists, forestall
their designs and counteract their
activities. AS all communications
between the German government and
It's agents were in writing and had
perforce, to be through channels un-
derground and covert, they were in
variably in code or cipher, or were
written in invisible ink. 1t is their
custom to commit everything in the
way of instruction or report to
paper, down to the minutest detail,
and smuggle it through with every
rrecaution, to insure confidential de-
livery.
The Germans were greatly as
sisted in the early days of the war
by neutral governments, often with
out the knowledge of the latter, the
devilish trickery Of the Germans
often obtaining assistance of such
neutrals where none was intended. A
very prominent German in this coun-
try boasted to me, not knowing the
nature of my interest, that he was
receiving valuable information from
various sources via Spair.
When we got hold of some scraps
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
He Had 170 Spies
Working for Him

TO give you an idea of the extent
and character Of Sanders activities
and the ramifcations of the Central
Powers Film Exchange, which had
agents everywhere, my investiga-
tlons in Williamsburg alone dis
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Next eek-The
Truth About Plots
in New York

Mr.. Pilenas aCatchsa,
fought and helped erposs
German plotters IN New
York. Fragments OF the
story Of these Prass'an
spider Webs haze been toA
when the spiders acere hdseo
to court. Neat week Mr'
Pilenas giees the first az
scription of these psoft'ags
from the inside.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Contained Secrets
Of Great Value

That is when I turned the box
over to the proper quarters.
1T is sufficient to say that each
package addressed to a consul had IN
it letters Or papers of instructions
to the consul or to an agent to whom
they were to be forwarded. These
papers, innocent enough on their
face, contained lists of agents and
propagandists, instructions regard
ing munition works, intelligence
about the movements of troops and
the sailings Of ships. One paper,
that appeared to be the will of some
person deceased, when translated
with the code turned out to be in
structions to interfere with the man
ufacture of supplies of all sorts; and
there were more of the same sort.
The paper they were written upon
was official German paper, and the
signatures were those of highly
placed German officials.
Some one aboard the incoming
steamer who had the box in bis
charge was probably in fear Of It
being detected, SO threw it over.
board. Or it may be it was part Of
a plan, and that some secret and
trusted agent was on the lockout to
rescue the box and get it into the
right hands. 1t may have been lost
sight of, by the water getting in ana
sabmerging it in the shadow Of the
pier. However, it was just another
case of Germany's efficiency gone to
waste.
In the midst of such serious and
threatening times, when the horrors
of the great war are too actual ana
near ever to be forgotten, there Is
yet some temptation to mirth over
the ponderous and Intellectual MIMI
tia to which German ofiicialdom
ever prone. Certainly, she has made
a science Of little things, weaving
her webs, and forgetting the tangl6
deceiver is sure, sooner or Later,
to get tied up with. Always it hap
pens that some skein breaks or
nut falls off the screw just at tM
right time for the Allies and at tne
wrong time for Germany. She makes
herself so many things to keep y
mind that a blessed forgetfalness
must eventually fall upon her!