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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
INVESTORS AND SPECULATORS BEAR SMALL PERCENTAGE OF INCOME TAX

District of Columbia and Hawaii were also conspicuous in that respect, showing about equal returns for sim gle men and women.
 A striking eccentricity in the re- port is the return in the skilled and unskilled labor class of 2 incomes above the $5OOOO mark, five of them being above s100,0O00. Two hundred and eighty labor returns were above 1 SIG, 900.
 Four commercial travellers showed incomes of over $1Oo,000, as did two saloon keepers, one professional sportsman, IS hotel proprietors, and | g insurance agents. Actors, singers and musicians to the number of 914 showed a total income of $11, ,128, GOO, a neat average of over $12,000 and possibility to stimulate the other TO- GOO not making returns. Five of these incomes were over s150,0000. In the class of authors, editors and reporters there were 16 incomes of better than S1O0,O00, and two above $50O, ,000. Twelve ministers of the gospel showed in comes of more than s50,0O0.
 l The legal profession earned the greatest total incomes among profes- sions, although the average income among engineers was higher.
 1 Of the 23,O00 manufacturers in the country in 1916, one in every ten made returns, paying a tatal of 12 per cent. of tie tax; of the merchants, one in ten made returns, paying 12.5 per cent. Of the tax; of commission brok- CTS in all fields, one in five, paying $ kper cent; real estate brokers, one in tSour, paying o.83 per cent; lawyers land judges, one in five, paying 2.5 per cent; mine owners and operators, one in six, pakiny f per cent. One farmer in about every 400 made returns, pay ing an aggregate of one per cent. of the tax, one teacher in every 200, one clergyman in about every 75.
 The three states reporting the greatest total income were. in the or der of their returns, New York, Penn
 sylvania and Illinois. New York,
 with rearly two billions, reported al- most a third of the total returns This, however, is not an accurate in- dication of the actual wealth of a state, for persons le returns wher- ever they reside regardless of where their investments or properties are
 It is a farily accurate indication
 however, of where that much income is spent.
 The net personal income reported
 in 1916 totalled $6,3O0, 100000, an in-
 crease of $2, ,4OO, 900, 900 over 1913, or
 about 40 per cent.
 Corporate returns for 1916 showed g
 total net income of $8,700, ,000O, 00O, ar
 increaes of more than three billions lover 1915 and five billions over 1914
 or more than 100 per cent. Of the 341, 900 corporations reporting, 40 pel
 cent. showed no net earnings, which however, was a lower percentage thar
 in preceding years.
 Of the SIP, 900, 900 corporate tax col lected, 17.5 per cent. of it was draw1 from public utilities, B per cent. iron iron and steel production, and pe1 cent. from mineral operations. Int . remainder came largely from miscel laneous manufacturing industries banking and insurance companies } and merchandising companies.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05

Washington, Aug. 5-Of the $173,- for the fiscal year 1916, investors and spectators in all fields shouldered just one-third of the burden, labor .086 per cent. of it, and the remainder came from the multitudinous ranks of those whose incomes were classed as derived from "businesS' and "ser- vices"
 Embraced within the latter classes Is every calling from that of banker to the farmer with a scant acre, and, in the profession, from the practi- tioner of international law to the modest chiropodist.
 Ninety per cent. of the total tax was derived from incomes of more than $25,000, and 1.66 per cent. from those of the $5,000 class and less, all though the latter constituted more than a third of the total 437,00 re turns. The highest average rates of subject to tax was 12.9 per cent, which fell upon the highest income class of $5,000,o00 and over. Only ten individuals, however bore the burden of that rate. They contri- buted $13,0OO,O0O to the total tax. The average rate of tax paid declined through the income classes to mini mum of .2S per cent. for the s3,000 to S4,000 class.
 Although incomes of $100,000 and more constituted only Is per cent. of 6o a@o1 of fho1r i'd | nearly three-fourths of the total tax. Property" income from stocks, | bonds, rents, royalties and all money working sources-constituting nearly | one-half of the net total of six billion | dollars reported, even in the face of l the exemption of all dividends, amounting to exactly third of the | total net income returned, bore near 1 Iy its proportionate one-half of the | total tax because of the much higher proportion of "property'' income in the returns of the higher income classes, paying the heavier rates of tax. Incomes from "business" and ''service' footed the remainder of the tax bill.
 As an evidence of the inducements to thrift in matrlmony, the returns Ot married men, making due deduction for joint returns of husband and wife indicated their wealth at more thar five times that of single men as showr by their returns, the former bearing a corresponding burden of the tax ex- cept for exemption in the $3,O00 tc S4,000 class amounting to about pel cent. of their total income reported Although for the country at large
 the returns of single men were dou.
 ble those of single women, and six
 New England states were a con
 spicuous exception to the rule. The
 total income reported by single mer
 in that section exceeded by barely II
 per cent. the total incop&e of single
 women, bearing testimony either tC
 the superior independence and earn
 ing capacity of the New England wo
 men or a reluctance to share in
 herited riches in matrimony. Tht
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
Druggists Observe
 Sunday Closing

Drug stores in the center of Bridge port were closed yesterday during tIae afternoon, only few stores outside the center remaining open. Forty one out of the 62 drug stores have agreed and are going to close each Sunday afternoon hereafter. One pharmacist said he was of the opin- ion that all of the drug stores in the city would eventually have to turn the key in their doors Sunday after moons SO as to give their employees a few hours off,
 William P, Eindle, proprietor of two drug stores in the center of the city, has stated it might be possible for the drug stores outside of the center sections to close up earlier nights and keep open Sunday afternoons and possibly be satisfactory to the clerks MT, Hindle is of the opinien Sunday closing has come to stay and doeG not think it will Giseemmede many people.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
CHAIN MAKERS CONFER.

A conference was held Saturday by some of the leading chain manufac- turers of the country. to take steps in the conservation of chain by pri- vate parties, owing to the great de- mand of 1t by the government.
 Those attending the conference were A. B. Way of the Bridgeport Chain Co.,, c. M. Power of the Ameri- can Chain Co.,, of New York, Staunton B. Peck of the Link Belt Co. of Phila- delphia John c, Schmidt, chief of the chain section of the War Industries Board, W. W. Shaw, chairman of the conservation division and J. M. Baker of the Priorities division.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
Extreme Compliment.

George H. Primrose tells of a South ern pussen of color who held the of fee of head waiter in one of the popu- lar hotels in Dixie.
 "Mistah Primrose" he said at break fast, q was ovah to see youall's com pany last night, and mus say it was one of the mos hilarious ebenings l evah had the pleasure of spending. The fun was of that delectable kind that would assimilate and desuscitate de disabilities of an expiring theological delineator. Yours and William Shake speares companies are the only ones I evah attend"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
WORK ON ADDITION STOPPED

The Priority Board has stopped work on the new building of the Crane Co.,, near it's West End plant. and the 700 men employed by Stone x Webster. the contractors, were sent out of town Saturday to other construction work that the company has under way in other sections Of the country.
 Plans for the proposed building were sent to the government some time ago and as nothing was heard from it the company implied that permission for the building to be com pleted was given.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT.

The sixteenth biennial convention of the SwedishAmerican Republican League of Connecticut, which opened at 10 o'clock, Saturday morning '. Meriden was represented by the fol- lowing Bridgeport delegates: F. M, Anderson, c, A. Bjorklund, Charles J. Johnson. Alfred Heller, Carl Rosen and Charles J, Westin. There were s4 delegates, 150 guests and members present.,
 c, W. Thompson of Naugatuek, pre- sided and resolutions were passed pledging utmost support to the Presi dent in the prosecution of the war and endorsing the candidates for ofti- cers on the state and congressional Republican ticket,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
TO SELL TEUToN CONCERNS.

Washington, Aug. 5-The selling or ganization created by A. M Palmer, Alien Property Custodian, will meet in New York on Aug. g, to consider the sale of a number of German owned corporations that have been taken over by the government.
 The concerns to be disposed of have not been determined upon finally, but are being considered now by the law comittee of the organization, headed by Lee c. Bradley, general
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
Patriotic Rally
 Immense Success

There was a band concert and pa triotio rally held yesterday at Boards ley park, The music was by the Locomebile Band, and the speeches were by Private Burgess and John A, Yeomans, who have been in the city the past week speaking under the auspices of the United States Shipping Board,
 Judge Wheeler introduced the mayor, who was chairman of the meeting, and Brof, Alfred Bruel led the singing. A very large crowd was in attendance, and many stayed until the end of the concert in spite of the fact that rain fell before the close,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
SandcNcIeS-

Motorcycles fitted with triple rear wheels are enabling British dispatch riders to drive through desert sands at the eastern front The arrangement is simple one. Two wheels are joined by one cone and special spindle. The third wheel, without spokes, is held be- tween the other two by struts that bind all three rims rigidly-Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
OPEN HOME FOR
 MEN IN SERVICE

The Soldiers and Sailors Home on Golden Hill street will be opened but no exercises will be held. A meeting of the general com mittee will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the rooms of the War 500 Connecticut Bank build ing to settle matters connected with the business of conducting the home.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
Berlin Children Deliver Coal,

School children in Berlin have been mobilized to serve as "coal transport ers," according to the Berlin Vor- waerts, which says that a pupils aux Hilary service has been organized, the purpose of which is to deliver coal from the yards to old or i'll persons or to those who cannot call for the coal themselves. The children are to be supplied with small carts.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
FRENCH CREDITS FOR ITALY,

Paris, Aug. 5-Signer Nitti and Nj. Kletz, Finance Ministers of Italy and France, respectively. have signed an agreement for the pooling of the two nations resources.
 France by this agreement, extends credits to Italy for the puruese of pasintaiaing tAe ftal sexchaaga,rate.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
SURPRISED AT HOMIE,

James Thenas, comedian in vaude- vile, was pleasantly surprised on visih, to his parents Saturday evening at their 1881 Main street, at a recep- tien rendered by his many friends in this city: B. DeSimane, better known as "Casey Jones'" and who was singing partner of Themasl led the impremptu talent in the celebration that was promoted te entertain Thomas. Instrumental music for the occasion was rendered by the Pom posi- orchestra,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
CRoWDER CALLS FOR 6,OOO.

Washington, Aug. 5-Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia werec alled on yesterday by Provost Marshal General Crowder to supply 5000 white registrants qualified for limited military training. They will entrain Aug. for the Syracuse, N. r., recruiting camp.
 New York is to furnish 1,600 men, New Jersey 300, and Connecticut 150,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
JUDGE RESERVES DECISION.

Judge Keeler sitting at a special session of the superior court on Sat urday listened to lengthy argument on the battle that has been waged for some months between Arthur Travis, chief of the Orange fire department and the seleetmen of the town over the location of a seabury pumping engine. He finally decided to reserve his decision and directed the astor- neys to file briefs.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05

The steamer SaHnanger was launched successfully at the Caaadian Viekers. Ltd. plant at Montreal The samnanger is a 7,eoe-ton ship. sso feet long. Es feet wide and with depth of 30 feet.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
BUCKINGHAM TO SPEAK,

Edward T. Buckingham, the work mems compensation commissioner, will deliver patriotic address to- morrow evening at the band concert to be held at Beardsley Park
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05

The War Labor Board granted wage increases of from 10 to 20 per cent. to employees of the General Electric Go. of Schenectady, N. Y, and Pitts field. Mass
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05
New York Stock
 Exchange Quotations
NOON QUOTATIONS.

Reported over the pr7vate wires Of T. L. Watson B Co.,, Bankers and Brokers, corner Main and John streets, Bridgeport, Conn. Members of New York Stock Exchange.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05

Monday, Aug. 5, 1918 Am. Can 46% Am. Linseed AZ Am. Smelt. & Re. Co. 7S Am. Sug. Nefg. Co. 91A | Am. Zinc IS Alaska Gold 39s Att Gulf & W. Indies 103 Anaconda Copper 66 Baldwin Loco. 90 Bethlehem Steel "B' S2B Canadian Pacific 107h Chi. M. & St. Paul 43% Chi, R. I. & Pac. Pf1. B 62B Chino 385s Corn Products 433s Crucible Steel 65A Cuban Cane Sugar 30A DistiIleries Securities 57A Erie 14% Erie 1st Pfd. 311 1s General Motors 146
 Goodrich Co. 45H Ct. Northern Ore 311 Green Cananea 44A5 Inspiration Copper 521s International Nickel 30 ! Inter. Mer Marine 261A Inter. Mer. Marine Pfd. 90% Kennecott Cop. S3& Lackawanna Steel S3 Mex. Petroleum 101 | Midvale Steel 51& Missouri Pacific 23A Nevada Cons. 2Ob | Northern Pacific S7B N. Y. Central TIA N. Y, N. H. J& H. 3s1s
 Pennsylvania A
 Ray Cons. 23A
 Reading 87A
 Repub, Iron & Steel 91A | Sinclair Oil 32 Southern Pacific 84
 Southern Railway Pfd. 621a
 Studebaker Cor. 43%
 Tenn. Copper 19B Texas Oil 151 h
 Tobacco Products 67%
 Union Pacific 121
 U. s. Rubber 62
 U, s, Steel 1O8A U, s. Shelter 42 Utah Copper 81A Wabash sH Wabash Pfd, A 37%
 Willys Overland 1914 U, s, Government BondsW
 Liberty S15s 100
 Liberty As e9.52 } Liberty AIS 95.74
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary he Els iH..RaPis,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05

Boston 1880 P, NJ, Prices Reported Over Private Wire to T. l.,
 Watson 6 Co,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-05

gRMs WAN1 Ans aRINa REsuIaa
New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
PIONEERS VS. GIANTS.

The crack Colored Giants of New Haven will play the Pioneer club to- morrow in the second game of the series. Cannon Ball Smith will pitch for the Colored Giants and Me- Cormack will pitch for the Pioneer team. The Colored Giants have one of the best colored teams on the base ball field this season and a good game is expected. The local team is out to win this game, after last Sunday s game, when they lost to the Nutm eg club of New Haven. The manager of the Giants wishes it stated that he will have his team on time to start the game at o'clock. A large at tendance is expected as the Giants lost only by to the last time they played here.
New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
FACE STIFF FINES
Eastern League Players Know Now
 They Cannot Bait "Umps'' and Get

Eastern League Players Know Now
 They Cannot Bait "Umps'' and Get
 Away With It.
 Eastern league players are finding
 out rapidly that 1t is an expensive
 matter to trifle with the rules of base
 ball and to interfere with the um-
 pires of the league in the perform
 ance of their duties. No less than Il
 players have come to President
 O'Neips attention through his umpires since the opening of the season, with
 the result that it will cost them $165 all told for their uncalled-for actions
 upon the baseball field.
 Paul Krichell, the manager of the Bridgeport baseball club, has been the most serious offender, and he has been fined a total of $80. His first clash when he was put out of a game resulted in a, $2O fine. He was taxed $2O for each of the two games at New London last Saturday which the Bridgeport club forfeited, and $20 more for being put off the grounds at Bridgeport last Tuesday. Two other Bridgeport players-Brackett and Fer guson-who were escorted from the
 
 upon Umpire Stockdale last Saturday, each have received fines of $25. Jack Flynn, the New London mana ger, will have to pay a fine of $20 for the game in which he took the New London club off the field at Bridge port, while Players Oaks and O'Rourke, of New London, each have been fined $10 for their remarks to the umpire that day, as well as their actions over his decision. Three Providence players-Manage Eayrs, Sweatt and Brausen-have received S1O fines, while Leid, when with Hart ford was fined $25 for the way he tackled the umpire on the field at Providence in his first game in the league. Michael Devine, the old New Haven catcher, now with the New London club who in past seasons has proven very obstreperous on the field, again has broken forth, this time at New London, and he has been called up with sharp command by Presi- dent O'Neil and has been handed a $2o fine.
 President O'Neil intends to stamp ] out this pire batting and forfeit ] ing of ball games. and will continue 1 to slap on stiff fines until the play 1 CTS realize that they must not forget 1 themselves upon the field and that 1 they cannot alibi themselves by talk ] ing it out on the umpires. The New ! London club lost all of it's share in 1 the gate receipts at Bridgeport, as well as an extra fine of s1oo for for 1 feitng a game to Bridgeport on the i latters field, while President O'Neil
 has ordered that the Bridgeport club
 shall lose all of its share in the gate l receipts at New London last Satur- 1 day. as we'll as pay a fine of $2Oo for i forfeiting both of those games to the New London club.
New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
UNIFORMS STOLEN
High School Players Cannot Have Monograms Until They Restore Baseball Suits.

A recent ruling of the school ad- ministration at the High school re- garding the holding back of the mon ograms due the 1918 baseball team, will probably seriously affect the ath- 1etics of next season. Soon after the disbanding of this years baseball team, the suits of the players were found to be missing by Coach Pher- sick. The coach notified the admins tration of the missing suits, and as a result the monograms were held back until the players returned the suits in their possession. The mono grams were to be given to the young men when it was once more found that the locker room had been broken into and the uniforms once more taken along with several bats, gloves and catchers equipment.
 The players being suspected of talk ing the uniforms, they were refused the monogramS coming to them. They said they knew nothing of the suits and as a result have announced that if the insignia are not given to them within a short time they will not report for duty next season when the candidates for baseball are called for. On the team are several mem bers of the football squad and at least two regulars of last seasons basket ball team. All of these players have agreed not to turn out for practice for any athletics in the school if not given the letters for baseball.
New Britain herald., 1918-06-29

F. B. Morris, Hartford, beat F. H. Bailey, Westport, and 1. W. H. Hamilton, New Haven, beat Edward c. Spargo, Weatogue, 2 up. F. G. Beck, New Haven, beat B. c. Rogers, Highland, 3 and 1.
 w. A. Rice, New Haven beat c. A. Phelps, Brooklawn, 2 and 1. Edward Tredennick. Highland, beat H. c. Fenn. Hartford. 1 up.
 Second Round.
 Paterson beat Gates. 3 and g.. Morris beat Monagan. 1 up. Hamilton beat Yack. 2 and 1. Rice beat Tredennick. 1 up. Fourth Division (First Round). John Godfrey, Brooklawn, beat B. c. Carpenter, Weatogue, 1 up. S. w. Baldwin, New Haven, beat H. w. Slayton, New Haven 8 and l.. w. H. Race, Highland, beat George l.. Forman, Hartford, 1 up.
 Edward A. Saunders, Naugatuck, and J. S. McMahon, Weatogue, both defaulted.
 pr. George c. Fahy, Race Brook beat George Gerrish, Brooklawn, 1 up.
 w. F. Fassett New Haven, won from George P. Hart, Shuttle Mea- dow, by default.
 L. s. Pikin, New Haven, won from w. S. Murray, New Haven, by de- fault.
 Louis Porteous, Norwich, beat s. G. Crabb. New Haven. and 2. Howard Penrose, Hartford, won from pr. M. J. Rowe, Weatogue. by default.
 Second Round.
 Page beat RuspoH, 6 and 5. Ferris beat Burgess. and 4. Pitkin beat Mclaughlin, and ?. Penrose beat Porteous, 1 up, 19 holes
 First Consolation Set.
 English beat Couch, and 2. Grout beat Zimmerman, and 2. Baldwin beat Pratt, 2 up.
 Bowers and Cook both defaulted. Charles P. Slade, Naugatuck, beat E.. B. Pratt, Sequin, 2 and 1. E. w. Broder, Hartford, beat c. F. Erich, Race Brook, and 2. Second Round. Godfrey beat Baldwin, 5 and 1. Race won by double default Fassett beat Fahey, and 5. Slade beat Broder, and 2.
 Fifth Division.
 S. E. Page, Wallingford, beat F. J. Mclaughlin, Race Brook, and 1. R. F. Ruspoli, Brooklawn, won from F. l.. Hartpence, New Haven, by default.
 H. E. Burgess, New Haven, won from F. J. Mitchell, Jr., New Haven, by default.
 w. L. Ferris, New Haven, beat J. w. Curtiss, Greenwich, 1 up.
 T. F. Mclaughlin, Weatogue, won from Gregory $. Bryan, Brooklawn, by default.
New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
PROMOTERS SHIFT.
Will Try to Stage Big Bout in
 Philadelphia.

Baltimore, June 29.-Promoters of the proposed fight between Jack Dempsey and Fred Fulton now will try to arrange for an eight-round bout in Philadelphia or Jersey City where such limited bouts with gloves are permitted.
 After a ruling of the Baltimore po- lice commissioners putting the ban on glove contests in this city for the dura- - ton of the war, there was some talk of trying to secure a meeting place in Baltimore county, but this idea also has been abandoned.
New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
TANKS WIDEN LEAD
 AS RED S0X LOSE
Pound Gregg in Two Innings Harper Gives Boston Only 1 Hit
New York 10, Philadelphia 2.

Philadelphia, June 29.--New York punched nine of it's eleven hits off Gregg in two innings yesterday and easily defeated Philadelphia, 10 to s2 Pratt opened the second inning with double and ended it with a ground CT to short. The entire team batted again in the ninth. Merlin Kopp, the outfielder recently summoned home by his draft board, wired that he is on his way from Toledo to rejoins the local club. The score:
 r. h. e-l New York .... 05oo0o005-10 Il O Philadelphia :. 000011000- 2 g 4 Finneran and Hannah; Gregg and McAvoy.
New Britain herald., 1918-06-29
Cleveland 5, Detroit i.

Cleveland, June 29.-Cleveland de- feated Detroit in the opening game of a series of five here yesterday by punching hits with Detroit's only error, and Kallio's lone base on balls. Brilliant fielding behind Coumbe saved him on several occasions. Score:
 r. h. e.l Cleveland .. ot010010x-3 O Coumbe and Thomas, Kallio and Yelie.