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New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
News Digest
New York

New York
Life Insurance Mem to Discuss Thrift.
Lille insurance company executives
from all sections Of the United States
will hold a thrift conferences" in New
York on December and 6 In connee-
ton with the twelfth annual eonven.
ton Ct the Association Of Life Insur-
ance Presidents. 1t is announced that
trustees representing about 80 per cent
OF the s27 600 GOO, 600 Of old line life In
surance held IN force for policyhclders
by the companies will be in Attendance
heads Of insurance departments frsra
many OF the states alse Will b prrserl
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13

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New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Record Of Stock and Bond Averages

he AsOcldtdP dPeas)
its affairs from doubtless
expected that exchange
necessity attended by sensational Incidents
the exception of United other popular
dua of the pronounced prices to points higher
rails shippngs guiding
end of the first
ded midday virtually all gains
half
The activity LIQUIDATION
Wasngtons
the await solution to the later decline
United States Steel the outstanding feature selling
s points, Baldwin Locomotive displaying strength
New-York tribune., 1918-11-13
Yesterdays Transactions in Listed Stocks

In
ear are based only of 100
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07

was changed to mayor. The officials
continued to be known as mayors IN
til the title of Lord Mayor was created
BY royal fiat.
The Lord Mayors job is about tho
uueerest compound of duties to be
found anywhere. Theoretically he is
so powerful that not even the King of
England may enter the square mile
of territory comprising "the city"
without first receiving the permission
of the Lord Mayor. He is an eX-oft1cio
admiral, and, his official family in
cIudes gentleman-in-N waiting, mar
shals, sword bearers, purse bearer,
chaplains and a hangman. He lives
in a magnificent building, called the
Mansion House, opposite the Bank OF
England, and has to spend a small
fortune every week in salaries to ser
wants and in entertaining on a lavish
scale.
eYt with all his medieval pomp and
display, the actual duties of the Lord
Mayor are very similar to those of a
police magistrate in a country town
He must spend the larger part of hi:
forenoons in melting out justice to
petty criminals and disturbers of the
peace A majority of those who are
| hailed before him are persons Evhc
| have drunk not wisely but too we'll
and are who would be described OF
a police blotter as drunk and dis
| orderly"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
INSTALLING -LONDON'S
NEW LORD MAYOR

owing to the war, much of the
pomp and display which usually
marks the installation of a new Lord
Mayor of London will be lacking this
year, as it has been since 1914. For
centuries the Lord Mayor hns been
elected on Micha1mas Day, and
sworn into office on Nov. 8. On the
following day he is presented to the
Lord Chief Justice to take the final
declaration, the accompanying pag-
cant being known as the Lord Mayors
show. The occupant of the exalted
position receives 100000 year, but
most incumbents spend several times
that amount in entertaining during
the year they hold office, and the
Lord Mayor must necessarily be a man
of considerable wealth to stand the
financial strain.
Londons Lord Mayors have been
chosen annually for exactly 704 years
as it was in the year 1914 that King
John granted the city new charter,
which directed the chief magistrate
to be elected every year. This has ever
since been done, although in early
times the same man often held office
more than one term.
The title of Lord Mayor was first
bestowed on Sir Thomas Legge by
Edward III in 1854. In Saxon times
the chief magistrate of London was
known as the portreeve, and the al
dermen were called burgesses. Will
liam the Conqueror changed the title
of portreeve to bailiff. which. in 1859
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07

cessive victories, giving them six runs
TO four of rinceton-thereby COM
ing off conquerors, which was hailed
with exultant shouts of applause by
the admirers of Rutgers"
William j. Leggett, captain of the
Rutgers team, and William S. Gum
mers afterwards chief justice of New
Jersey, devised the rules which gov
erned this game-the first football
code ever formulated in America
These rules were: 1, Grounds must
be so feet long and 225 feet wide, 2,
Goals must be eight PAGES: 8, Each
side shall number twenty-five play
ers. 4, No throwing or running with
the ball; if either it is a foul and
the ball must then We thrown perpen-
dicularly in the air Wy the side caus-
ing the foul. 5, No, holding the ball
or free kicks allowed. g, A ball pass
ing beyond the boundary by the side
of the goal shall be kicked on from
the boundary by the side who has that
goal. 7, A ball passing beyond the
limit on the side of the field shall be
kicked on horizontally to the boun-
dairy by the side which kicked it out.
8, No tripping or holding of players.
9, The winner of the first toss has the
choice of position; the winner Of the
second toss has the first kickoff.
10, There shall be four judges and
two referees,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
COLUMBIA COACH
is ILL WITH THE
SPANISH GRIP
Loss of Dawson Comes at
Critical Period of Teams
Development

Big developments may be expected
in Columbia University's football
plans Nor the next four Saturdays.
Charles Halstead Mapes, chairman OF
the University Committee on Athlet-
les, who was a visitor at South Field
yesterday afternoon, said that the
next few days might bring forth the
information of heretofore unlocked de-
velopments. Whether this means that
a game has been scheduled with
Pennsylvania, Mr.. Mapes would not
say.
lowering Tyson, graduate manager
of athletics, returned to the campus
yesterday and expected to leave for
Ithaca today in order to meet with
the Cornell athletic authorities with
reference to the proposed Columbia
Cornell game on Nov. 30.
Coach Fred Dawson was taken sud-
denly sick an hour before football
practice, and was hurriedly sent to
his home on Washington Heights. 1t
was said that his temperature was
rising rapidly, and although there was
no official statement as to his condi-
ton, it is believed that he is suffering
from an attack of Spanish influenza
Tom Thorp, who has been acting as
assistant coach for the last week or
two, was pressed into service as head
coach.
| Columbia would be unfortunate to
| lose Dawson even for a few days at
this time, because he plans to go to
Princeton for the course of instruc-
ton offered S, A T. C. physical direc-
tors on Nov. IL He will be gone two
weeks at this time, and If he should
be forced to lose any time now, Co.
lunnbia would be in a bad way.
Two hitherto undiscovered players
stood out with prominence in yester-
days practice One was Towers, {
husky youth, who is now a freshman
in the regular academic course. H,
was at Metuchen High school for fou
years and played on the school eleven
He is one of the biggest men on tn,
squad, and playing in the scrub lin
yesterday he ripped through two hi,
holes in the Varsity advance ranks
Collins, the other newcomer, was
back at Cornell two years ago, an,
did exceptionally we'll against tn
= Varsity. Throp tried him out at LEI
end.
For the first time since last satur
day. the full Varsity complement wa
on the field. Lieutenant Chester Rob
and Houlahan, who suffered the mos
in the Amherst game, were both /
togs, as were Stevens. Robinson, an
5 Zychlinski Memnott also got hi
first chance to play in the 'Varsit
| oackfie!d in more than three week
: and Canaperys who has just recovere
) from the influenza, was also used /
9 the backfield for a time
The searchhghts on Hamilton Ha
were used for the first time, and tt
practice drill was extended until 5;3
d with fair success Under the old res
g ulations, the Varsity men quit wit
: all the other football players at fly
s o'clock. but a social permit was gran
II ed enabling the squad to remain c
n the field until $50.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
BOSTON REFUSES
$4,000 FOR GOWDY

George Stallings, manager Of the
Boston Braves, refused $4,000 yes
terday for the release of Hank Cow
bdy. the first major league baseball
Iplayer to enlist in the army shortly
after war was declared,
] He did more than refuse this offer
He scorned 1t. Hank Gowdy's name
has been written large in baseball
and simply because his patriotism was
stronger than any other consideration.
without waiting for any specific call
k1e offered his services to the country
with no thought of the sacrifice he
was making in giving up a lucrative
salary and in taking chances in the
front line trenches.
\ Hank Gowdy is now in France.
playing the bigger game, but he Is
still on the reserve list of the Boston
club and when the war is over and
he returns to peaceful pursuits and
the playing of baseball he will still be
an asset OF the Braves under the laws
Of the game,
Because of the place he now holds
IlH the affections Of the fans, apart
Entirely from his ability as a player
and the batting prowess he deve.-
lbpend in that now famous world 5
B,eries when the Boston Braves beat
llhe Philadelphia Athletics four
.iEtraight games in 1914. Gowdys value
has increased fifty fold. He will pc
great drawing card and baseball
linen have not been slow in appreciat-
Hing it.
I'M In all probability George StallinSs
Ind the Boston club would also re-
huse an offer of 100000 for his re-
}Ikase. Men of the Hank Gowdy
.Spe will do much to re-establish
I l1ssbaH when peace comes and the
liflme is revived, ta-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
SOLDIERS MAKE
ATHLETIC FIELDS
ACROSS THE SEAS
Places For Baseball and
Other Games Prepared by
Men on Time Off Duty.

- Much has been written regarding
the wonderful work of the American
Engineers in France both at the
tbases of the United States Army and
ialong the many connecting lines
(which hoOk-up the front lines with
sthe sources of supply. There is,
however, another side to their activ-
ity which is just as remarkable and
praiseworthy especially since it ia
gratultus and done after ordinary
working hours 1t is the preparing
of fields or enclosures for the soldier
athletes and without which it would
be impossible to hold many of the
games and contests.
Stories of the helpful work of the
engineers in this direction are con-
stantIy being sent back across the
seas along the following lines. Re-
Gently a Y. M. C. A.athleteic director
with an Engineer regiment in the
center of France felt discouraged re-
garding outlook for sports. There
was no field fit for baseball, football
or even basketball. To relieve his
mind he told his trouble to a serge
ant IF it's a baseball field you
want" quoth the sergeant. Wen
have it"
A rocky, uneven and generally
desolate pasture was selected as the
only possible place upon which ball
bark could be built, The physical
director thought that possibly. after
a years work, something might be
made of it. That was before he knew
the Engineers well. 1t took just three
DAYS to Skin" off the field, level it
roll it and put it in condition foI
play even to the building of a fine
wire netting backstop and marking
out the foul lines with flags The
Job was done by the men after they
had put in hard day at their regu'
lar tasks. Practically the whole
regiment assisted at one time or an
other.
With the baseball field in opera
ton, it was decided to promote box
ing. The drawback was that there
was no place to stage bouts excep
the floor of the hut, and the mel
who wanted to read or write or lister
to the music machine wouldn't stanC
for that. Again the sergeant wa
consulted. In three days he had pu
up, near the hut, as good a ring a
ever staged a championship bout. !
has a weGl-constructed platform, rope
arranged in the proper manner
padded floor and a tme-keeper'
gong. They didn't say where the
got the boards and nobody seemed I
care because the officers who nigh
have been fussy were too busy crowd
ing into rfngside seats for the open
ing performance. These are but tw
isolated incidents of what the En-
gineers do when their help is needle
to keep the sport spirit alive.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07

been allowed to go off the list.
Short calendar sessions will be
held in both courts tomorrow and new
assignments will be made for next
week. There will be jury trials in
the Common Pleas Court, and num-
Der of appeals relating to the plaza in
Bridgeport are specially assigned for
the Superior Court The action of
May Belle Smith Jackson against Hor-
ace H. Jackson for divorce is also
specially assigned for next Tuesday.
It has been postponed several times
owing to illness of counsel.
There are seven uncontested d.
vorce cases assigned for hearing be-
fore Judge Haines tomorrow.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
PIMLICO HANDICAP
FOR EXTERMINATOR

Pimrico, Md, Nov w. S. Kill
mer's Kentucky Derby winner, Elk
terminator, gathered fresh laurels yes
terday afternoon when he Won the
Pimlico Autumn Handicap for three
year-olds and ran the distance of d
mile and a quarter in 2:05 3-5, only J.
fifth of a second slower than the track
record.
Exterminator was favored in the
weight allowances, being in receipt of
nine pounds from E. McLean's The
Porter, which ran a smashing race
and carried 127 pounds into third
place. A. K. Macomber's War Cloud,
another of the heavily weighted ones,
was slow to leave the barrier and.
with the leaders cutting out a fast
pace, never had & chance to get into
a contending position
AS in one of their previous battles
this fall, DETERMINATION and The Por-
ter raced out in front, and it was
NOT until we'll into the stretch that the
weight began to tell on The Porter
, Commander Ross Foreground, car
rying the feather OF 1O7 pounds, had
kept in touch with the leaders, and
I when The Porter gave way made =
\ determined effort to catch Extermina.
| tor. 1t was drive to the finish linz
| with Exterminator gaining the verde
| from Foreground by a scant length
The Porter was only a neck behind
Foreground
Major Raj PARIS Bughouse, one o
lthe fancied candidates for the steeple
chase for maiden three-year-olds
Icame to grief at one of the obstacle
as did Outlaw. This left the patti
easy for z. B. McLean's Fencer, witt
E NJ. Yields Belle of the Sea in tn
place,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
LIEUT.. MINTON COMES
WITH HISTORIC FLAGS
MADE IN REPLICATION

Lieut. Telfair Marriott Minton viii
be the speaker at the meeting TO"
men in the gymnasium of the Young
Mems Christian Association, Sunday
afternoon at $50. Lieut.. Minton is a
navy officer who has a most interest
ing story to tell He brings, how
ever, a very unique and unusual add
ton to his story in the form of the
famous Minton collection Of replicas
of historic flags, the only collection OF
this character available in America.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
ILLNESS HAMPERS
COURT BUSINESS

Illness of witnesses and counsel is
playing havoc with the business Of
the Superior Court and Common Pleas
Court cases assigned in both for to-
day having gone off the list for that
reason. In the Superior Court four
cases assigned for yesterday and three
for today have been postponed. In
the Common Pleas Court five cases
assigned for trial before jury have
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
JUDGE DECIDES IN
FAVOR OF BORAFSKY

Decision in favor of the defendant
was handed down yesterday by Judge
John R. Booth in the Common Pleas
court in the action brought by San
ford L. Hotchkiss against Isadore
Borafsky. Automobiles owned by the
two collided January 4, 1917 at Park
and Fairfield avenues Hotchkfss
asked for damages of $500, and Bor-
afslky filed a counter claim for $500.
Judge Booth ruled against both
claims,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
WILL SING FOR
FRENCH SOLDIERS

Paris, Nov. Miss Margaret W.
Wilson, daughter of the President of
the United States. was welcomed to
France yesterday by Premier Clemen-
ceau- He asked her if she would not
sing for the French soldiers and she
replied with enthusiasm that that was
her dearest wish. She will take lunch
at the Elysee Palace with President
and Nine. Pofncare today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

The War Department announces
that in the second battle of the Marine,
July 1928, 1918, the seth U. S. In
fantry, Col. U. c. Nc. Alexander com
manding, in nine days captured pris-
oners from nine enemy regiments and
secured from enemy positions along
its fronts identifications of q sep
arate and distinct regimental and
other units
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07

its allotment in the united war work
campaign. The drive opened yester-
day, the young women students set
ting $4,000 as their goal. Tabula-
ton of the first contributions showed
a total of $16,344.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
APPLIES FOR PASSPORT

Stephen H. Patterson of this city
has applied to Clerk F. P Munich
of the Superior court for a passport
for England and France. Mr.. Patter-
son wishes to go abroad to engage in
work for the Y. NJ. C. A. He is
well known business man of the CITY,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
TO-DAY IN JUGu1sTIC ANNALS

.1SS1-Mike Donovan, welterweight
and middleweight, born at Bantry,
Ireland.
1SS5-William (Iron) Hague, Brit
ish heavyweight, born at Marlborough,
England.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
FOR HOSPITALS

Washington, Nov. THE war de-
partment today authorized alterations
costing $6S5,OOO on buildings occu-
pied by army hospitals.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
SPORTING NOTES

Lieut.CoL T. L. Huston who is in
France, has offered his half interest
In the New York Yankees for sale. A
personal friend, who has Huston's
stock in his possession, says that he
has been authorized to dispose of 1t
for 100000. Before Huston sailed
from this country he notified Presi-
dent Johnson of the American League
it is said, that he was tired of base
ball and wanted to get out. The fact
that Illusions Yankee stock is on the
market would seem to indicate that
he doesn't intend to devote much
time to the national pastime when he
returns from the battle front.
Jimmy Murphy, a lightweight, who
Is well known to the boxing fans of
Philadelphia. has been gassed and is
suffering from shell shock. The box
err is now in base hospital some
where in France" In the early days
of the war Murphy enlisted from his
home in West Philadelphia and is a.
member of the 18th Infantry. During
his ring career Murphy fought the
top notchers of his class including
Benny Leonard and Johnny Dundee.
News that he is in the hospital was
received in letter to Bill MCGOWAN,
! who was Murphy's first manager.
When Rutgers College of New
| Brunswick, N. j., celebrated its 15Oth
! anniversary two years ago, the place
! of honor in the alumni procession
was given to the survivors of the i'm
mortal Rutgers football team of 1859
the men who helped to defear
Princeton in the first intercollegiate
gridiron match ever played either in
America or England.
This game was pulled off at New
Brunswick just forty-nine years ago
today, Nov. 6, 1869, and an interest
ing account of the clash of the rival
twenty has been resurrected
from the columns Of the New Bruins
wick FREEDMAN. The reporter who
covered the first college football
match wrote as follows:
Our neighbor, Princeton, sent her
chosen twenty-four stalwart men, ant
one Goliath, to combat our twenty-five
striplings. There is not recorded IN
the history of the Olympic games {
more interesting and decisive match
played in so short a time, by such q
number of contestants as this game
was. Rutgers led off by winning the
first inning amid the vociforous cheer
ing of the hystanders. Princeton
seemed to play little wild at the be
ginning, but the second inning the!
recovered themselves, and came GU
the vietors. So it continued, off ant
on, one gaining, then another, unit
the ninth and tenth innings, when
notwithstanding the desperate effort
of the Princeton giants, Rutger
l quickly and boldly followed in sue
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07
EXCEEDS ALLOTMENT

South Hadley, Mass, Nov. =
Mount Holyoke college has exceeded
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07

Railroads will be expected to show
solicitude as to the transportation
necessities of shippers" according to
an official announcement by Director
General McAdoo.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-07

American airmen destroyed $50 foe
airplanes in the last four days.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
PowderIess Gun Deadly.

An American inventive genius has
invented a powderless gun which may
revolutionize land attacks. The gun
which might be taken for large
grindstone at short distance, is re-
volved at great speed by an electric
motor, and is capable of firing hun.
dreds of shots minute. The bullets
are carried in small cups, which hold
them until the gun reaches the proper
position for their discharge by cen.
trifugal force. The weapon is ac-
curate at five miles, is cheap to oper-
ate and is noiseless.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-05-03
Home Defense Leaaue.

my wife is the limit" groaned the
American businessman, who was din
ing with French visitor to this c0un
try. "Since the war began It's jus
one meeting after another-night I'M
day. Tell me, does your wife go il
much for club work?"
"NO, &c club-nevaire, replied his
guest. "One time-tree time she have
slap me and pull re hair, but, mon
Dieu !--ze club-nevaire." The Gar
goyle.