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Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17
FISH

Black cod, red snapper and halibut, just received by Love-Whitley Com pany, If
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17

AnScO Films Will fit any standard make o f camera. They are the standard. Guy E. Cam eron. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17

PIANO FOR SALE Excellent condition. $25O. Enquire Prospector. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17

ATTENTION LADIES
 Flowers and fruit effects for your spring hat. At Adam Swans If
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Owing to the enormous cost of op- erating expenses the following rates will be charged:
 Fare from Valdez to Cliff-.--....$ 200 From Valdez to Ellamar ........ 400 From Valdez to Landlock...... 700 From Valdez to Fidalgo----..-.-- 700 Freight per ton-.------.-...------....- 1Vo ID Port Wells and Portage bay 15.00
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17

Free lecture on France at the Eagle Hall tonight.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17
EASTERN STAR TAKES
 slOO LIBERTY BOND

Eastern Star Lodge No. Five at a recent meeting voted to take a $100 Liberty Bond. The lodge Is a small one and it shows great patriotism in denying itself many conveniences to help the war cause.
Valdez daily prospector., 1918-04-17
STEAMER sAILINos

fS ..,-.- M~ [ <%%+ >,%%% >%%$> Steamship thwestern-sailed Apr 16, from Seattle for Valdez and way ports
 Steamship Alasks-sailed west Mon- day. April 15. from Valdez. Steamship Admiral Farragut-sailed south April II. Steamship Alameda-sailed south from Valdez. April 10.
 NUGGET AND IVORY and Alaskan 1ewelry. Valdez Drug Co. If If it isn't an Eastman is isn't . kodak. Valdez Drug Co.,. If :.
 JUST RECEIVED
 A new line of Eastman Kodak sup plies. Valdez Drug Go. If Casey. It's the iligant time Oi had lasht Saturday. Divil a thing can I remember afther o'clock.
 O'Brien. Thin how dye know ye had a good time?
 Casey, Shure, didn't Oi hear tn cop tellin' the joodge about 1t on Monday mornin'?-Boston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
THE OBJECTION TO DELAY.

Interest is always keen where ac- ion against big corporations is taken because large numbers are always in- solved and because such concerns are If much importance to the industrial fife of the country. Such is especially true st this time, so that when the attorney general asks that the suits brought by the government fer the dissolution of seven big companies be delayed by the United States supreme court until after the war it is a re- quest which creates much concern.
 These corporations have been mak- ing preparations to contest the suits
 They have been kept in a state of un- certainty for some time as ta what the outcome will be although they may have confidence in their ability to prove their contention, and the in- crease in the time before the Iitiga- lion will be ended naturally increases the uncertainty in regard to their po- sition. Even though they are per- mitted to carry on their business as il is being done for an unknown period
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

appeared underfed and underclothed,
 and I saw only one with d whole pair
 Of brooches.
 When the officers were lined up
 there were forty-two Austrians and
 two Germans. The Austrians were
 told they would receive the usual
 traetment given officers and gentle
 men, but the two Germans were told
 plainly that they would receive ex-
 actly the same treatrnen given French officers in Germany. The group of Austrian officers was impressed great ly at this, and openly declared their hatred of the Germans. A little later we heard the Austrian soldiers cheer ing, and it turned out they were, cheer ing their French captors.
 "The success shows the necessity for trained troops, as untrained troops could not possibly have secured such results. It was exactly the same as getting 15 per cent on your money in- stead of two per cent.
 'sThe spirit and enthusiasm of the French troops as they leaped into the enemy trenches are beyond all praise. Their earnestness not only carried them into the trenches, but actually far beyond them. Some detaehments kept on going until they reached the upper Piave back of the lines held by l the enemy. The found deserted will l lages and little evidence of enemy oc-
 cupation, and could have held this ad-
 vaneed position back of the enemy lines but it was beyond the objective l sought and would have necessitated 1 recognizing defences, so the impetu-
 ous detachments were ordered to re- 1 tire. But it showed what enthusiasm
 could do in forcing wedge straight through the Austrian lines.''
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
STORIES OF THE WAR
The French Dash.

.e'> CBy the Associated PreSS)
 The French in their recent success ful operation on Monte Tomba cap tured more prisoners than they had men engaged, according to a veteran officer who witnessed the fight. From
 the top of a nearby hill he saw the French attack and afterwards saw the
 prisoners, guns and booty brought in.
 Tt was record making fight in
 many respects, he declared Just think, the French took more prisoners than they had men engaged, which is
 among the records in the military an
 nais. They also captured their first
 Austrian prisoners, which is another
 milestone for them as heretofore they had captured only Germans.
 l "Irf addition to the HOO prisoners we counted 560 dead on the ground and no one knows how many more were in the caverns and under bushes The perfect French military system enabled them to accomplish this with insignificant loss-less than fifty men "The Fiftieth Austrian Division which was the one attacked, is con- sidered a good fighting organization But the Austrians were accustomed tc
 fighting Russians and Rumanians an6 thisawas the first time they had met the highly trained French troops. The
 result was that rawness and indis- oipline Were swept away before dis teipline and training.
 | When the prisoners were brought | in I never saw a more miserable, pit | ffuI starved lot of soldiers. They | looked like the riff-raff from the slums
 of some big city. Even the officers
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

The reorganization which is taking place in the ordnance department of this government is only what is to be expected in view of the conditions which have been brought to light by the investigations which are under way. It is perhaps unjust to place the whole responsibility upon General Crozfer since it is well known how reluctant congress was to enter on a programme of adequate preparation during the early days of the war and being drawn therein. The opposition and delay retarded seriously what otherwise might have been done, and yet in spite of it all there were steps which could and should have been taken when not only at the beginning of the trouble but later on as it be- came certain that the United States was likely to become involved. It $ this phase of the matter which calls for changes even though ti1e respen. sibility of congress in failing to give the necessary authorization and to provide the required funds cannot be overlooked
 But such shakeups are only what has been experienced in other cotin- tries where it was realized that great CT efficiency was required. It is there. fore to be expected that this country must make such a move, even though at late date. It would nave beer preferable to have shown earlier bene. fits from the lessons of these other countries but we must now make the best of our situation and put fortf every effort in the future 10 make d1 for the handicaps of the past, ana in this direction the reorganization should go long way. .
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
 THE BoL LSHEvIKl THREAT,

As an alternative to the. refusal of the German government to agree to the bolsheviki peace terms, + has been claimed that those at the head of the bolsheviki have threatened 70; resume war operations. That this is not like-
 ly to Tighten the kaiser. can be,wen
 appreciated for no one9knows better
 than he does what the condition Of
 the Russian armies is. Dcmeraliza-
 tion reigfs therein as the result of the policy of the helsheviki and in ad :
 dition conditions have been made muck
 worse by the giving; of ordars to stop all work in the factories engaged in the production of=war munitions and
 devete all efforts to turning out peace
 time products ,s.,.,r.'., 1,s.s z..
 But aside from those conditions,
 which furnish big obstacle to any attempt at the resumption of the war, the. important supplies which Russia was getting from this country and others of the allies have been shut off, contracts cancelled and Russia yfr- tually left to its own resources. be- cause of the danger of :. such goods getting into the hands of the enemy, and in addition another great handicap is the trouble which the bolsheyiki are having with the various provinces of Russia. .7, Thus it is euite evident 4 that the
 bolsheviki cannot cause any great ter
 TOT in Germany when it threatens tc
 reengage in the war; Tn view of the
 many troops and guns which have
 been withdrawn from the eastern front by the Germans and, Austrians how
 ever it might make the kaiser keer
 more troops along that border thar 1 he had intended but the danger would l not be sufficient to force him into an,
 peace which he did not consider ia. l vorable. 1- 7r:'s s,5'+ rf,4s,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
THE INVESTIGATIONS.

There are some who are declarine that it is most unfortunate that the invests. tions which are underway by congress are bringing to light such conditions as are being revealed and that they are being presented for such comfort as the enemy can get from them.
 It is question in the first place however, whether the revelations are giving the enemy any req: informa ten which it has not already secured through its knowledge of the ore wal conditions in this country and the close touch it has maintained re- garding the preparations which have been hurriedly made. But it is to be realized that if we are going to se- cure efficiency in our war prepara. tiens, see that waste is eliminated and needs met that there must he steps taken to better conditions when they are such as have been glaringly displayed before the investigasions were started.
 There is, of course criticism of the constructive sort, that which is pu- forth in good faith and with hones+ intentions, and there is that which i. indulged in to impede, but it canno help being realized that the condi. tions which are being brought to ligh' by some of the Investigations under. way and the steps which are beins taken already to improve them ar. going to result to the benefit of thi. country to a far greater extent thar 10 the enemy. Mistakes and ineom peteney cannot be allowed to continu If GUT war efforts are going to sue ceed and the quicker they can be un covered and removed the better it vii pc.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
rhEiNEurRAL SHIPS.

I.- .- IA
 It is to be sincerely hoped that the report. which comes from Washington to the effect that the government has completed negotiations whereby it will take over under charter the neu- tral shipping which has been lying idle in the harbers of this, country is based upon fact. .ytssf.
 For a long time this country has been in need of this very shipping. For a half year or so vessels belong ing to neutral countries to the num- Der Of about a hundred and a tonnage of a half million have been tied at piers or been swinging at anchor wait iag for bunker coal and assurances of this country that there would be no interfererce with their departure Sup- plies which were desired by the coun- tries to which they belonged and were destined have been tied up and it is the pressure which. this country has been able to bring to bear through the embargo on exports that what. appears to be a solution of the matter, has been brought about. -. :H1- r'
 These ships may not be used in con neetion with our despatch of troops and supplies to Europe. Some, will doubtless De allowed to carry needed foodstuffs to their own countries un- der proper safeguards as to their use but others will be put into the coast wise and South American trade and as the result others will be released for such service as is reqnised of them This country has been seriously handi- capped by the lack of just such ships and the chief advantage gained by getting the vessels through negotia- tfons instead of&commandeering them is that we have not iantagonized. the aeutrals involved. Whether this vii make up for the delay ear best be told in the future.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

whether it be short or long, they have nothing to guide them as to the many outiays which they may want to make or which they feel ought to be made as soon as possible in the interests of their business. ss
 It is not surprising therefore that two of the seven corporations should oppose any delay This dess not mean that they want to handicap. the natior but that they believe that the aues. tions involved should be determined as quickly as possible that they may be of greater assistance to the gov. ernment under war conditions ana know whether they are complying witt the law or not, instead of being kep in the dark. S5 55
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

A New Haven letter intimates that ex Congressman Tom Reilly would like to return to Congress or become Governor of the state. Very likely. It is legitimate aspiration for a pop ular man whose average success in the hands of the voters has been high But with southern prejudice against New York and New England as in- apt to elect Republicans to Congress and if Governor Holcemb is to be nom mated again no one will voluntarily be his opponent,-Waterbury Ameri- can.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

portrait in the first folio edition. a cir cumstance of itself sufficient to excite an interest in his favor. In one room Fof the ground floor of a wretched hovel rived this man, his wife and five chil- dren.' In corner stood a stocking frame, in which the mother said she worked after the children were in bed at night. and before they awoke in the morning. '. On the writer presenting him with guinea he declared it was the first benefit which had arisen from his being a Shakespeare" The fame and lustre of greatness could not spread itself quite so far
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

There was a time when the removal of S2 trains from the New Haven schedules would have brought forth a mighty protest. Today there~afe con- ditions which force this action which cannot be disregarded.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

With the coal shipments which have heen so often promised to the people of New England started, .ar. about to start, it begins to look fdr the first time that the much needed. relief was going to be obtained. /. '. ... :..
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

The man on the corner says: Hui man nature approaches it's best when it smiles and sends back a thank you to the clerk in the. coal office. who says no orders are being taken or filled
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

In taking charge of the powe, plants at Niagara Falls the govern. ment gives. recognition to hydro elec- tric plants in way which ought te spur on every section of the~ country to increased development of sucf plants wherever 1t is possible.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

In view of the Ukrainian uItimatun
 to the bolsheviki it looks as if the latter were facing increasing instead of diminishing trouble from that di- rection
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

More confidence could be placed in Trotzky's statement that the German terms will not be accepted if the bol- sheviki had not been playing so per- sistently, into the hands of the enemy
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

No reference has been made this year to the despatch of the usual New Year greetings to the heads of: the central powers, a'- E. .sef:---'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

1cemen may complain about shert- age of help to harvest tine crop but they cannot claim that there is any shortage of ice. ~
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

With the order going into effect ii, New York state for iightiess nights six nights in the week deferenee is shown to those who have for long pre- ferred Saturday as their night to get lit up, /. *41$ c-f.a if%isvg ors
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

Even the bone%dry states will prob ably impose no objections to the send ing of British tank throughout the country for recrniting purposes.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
The modern automobile driver

The modern automobile driver laughs at the pilot of the numbering yoke of oxen when he whirls by on summer day. But the ox-pilot has his revenge when the snow is as deep as at present. His outfit blows through the drifts and negotiates the bleeks@- ed highways with comparative ease and entire confidence while the naughty automobilist looks on disrRal ly, hopelessly embargeed in his gar age or stalled in country road at the mercy of the patient beasts, That is one of the revenges of the winter sea son and it makes the disinterested ones who see the incidents smile. This is we'll. for it is about all the humor possible in a snow stoem, which is ninety nine and nine -tenths per cent. nuisance. If the person who wrote Beautiful Snow" could be reached now the people would be jus
 tified in lynchins him. Snow is an in- fliction, something to be endured, not admired.-Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

The Greek Minister of Finance has applied to the courts for the seizure of the property of the ex-Prime Minis ters Skouloudis and Lambros.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

With ali .<ths opportilnities that there are for work. there is no excuse for the tramp LOT the, panhandler these days. -.-:" fs: -t~s;s-l.,..;.,- @-'-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The recent scandals developed in Washington incident to machine guns and rifles; if it does not give comfort to the eneniy, will, it seems to us, give a number of perfectly good votes to the Republican party at the next elec- tion.-Rockville Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
-st".'e g@.- EDITORIAL NOTES,

England is to ahave. compulsory "a . tioning soon. A word to the wise should be sufficient. -.:'.'&+l
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

sary service for the community. The circumstance that sugar has been dis tributed through them for fifty years does not cause the memorable hand of necessity to be laid upon them any more lightly. I The fact may as well be faced. If the war lasts any length of time, the movement from the produ- eer to the consumer will be shorter than it is now and very much shorter than it used to be, for sugar and many other neeessaries-BridgepoFt Times and Farmer
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

A MT. Snead, said to be head of the Fuel Administrations distributing agency, told the senate Investigating committee the other day that the coal shortage might be described as 'psy- chological" However, if he had been trying to warm his house with the kind of coal a good many of us have in our bins. or with the oil stoves used by those who have no coal in their bins, he might be willing to admit that the effects are purely physical. There are times when we positively hate that word 'psychelegi- cal."-Providenee Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05
Sunday Morning Talk
BATTERIES REcHARGEp.

Your battery is not necessarily 5 dead ona" because it is discharged
 Expert handling will fill it anew with pep and make it fit for work All it needs is a touch of current Take it down to the service station and give it to a good mechanic. - z
 Why not be as wise with oneself as with q machine? Why not reeog- nize the fact that human energies may sink to low ebb, When we are !, ,'all in." as the phrase is, we imagine we shall never feel strong again Tasks. easily performed in norma times are beyond our jaded powers The grasshopper becomes burden We need to be recharged. F
 Physical causes lie behind many oi our states of mind. -Cheerfulness often indicates not so much su- perior. type of virtue as a good :diges- ton and fresh air in the lungs We have come to recognize bodily cond;- tions, likewise, as being at the bot tom of various unhappy mental de. engagements. The human machine then, must be kept rir order. 7Healtl is a moral duty. --z
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 was at an early date one of the most important and wealthy towns of the Connecticut Colony, had number of skilled silversmiths, according to George M. Curtiss book on Early Connecticut Silver and Its Makers. si Perhaps the most important, Mir.
 Curtis says, was Thomas Harland, who was born in England in 1735; and came to Norwich in '1773, dying here in 1909. 7g r | A page illustration shows as a sam pIe of Thomas Harland's work a sill yer porringer with a cover, diameter
 3-4 inches, now the property of Mrs
 Thomas Harland who resides in the l Harland homestead at Norwich Town
 This fine old piece of plate shows Harland's mark, Hartlapd, in the rec tangle between the profile and eagle displayed In addition to the trade of silver.
 smithing, Harland was an exper watch and clock maker. As early a: 1790 he had twelve workmen in hi.
 employ, his annual output being twt hundred watches and forty clocks.
 | He also produced Quantities O 1 jewelry. which is described in his ad vertisements as Brilliant, garnet ant
 plain gold rings, breaches, hair sprigs I ear jewels, and gold and silver but
 tons" His assortment of plate con
 sisted of "Tea pots, sugar baskets
 creamieures, ca tongs and spoons"
 Among his apprentices afterWard
 in business in Norwich were Davi
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

He is called merchant in the His- tory of New Londcn; but his father, in a deed of gift to Pygan in 1736. calls him goldsmith; and Joshua Hempstead, inahis diary, has three en- tries which show that, when he need ed, anything in the goldsmith's line, he patronized Captain Pygan Adams. In 1735, he bought of him a pair of gold sleeve-buttens in 173S some plat ed buttons, and in 1744, Pygan re- placed the broken handspring of his watch.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

The sugar brokers make it quite clear that it would be in a business sense impractical for the sugar trust to eliminate them, were it not for
 l war conditions, which assign to the several refiners his share of raw sugar for refining, so that the market is di- vided between the redneries. The su-
 gar brokers are but victims of labor saving device. They have no right to
 continue unless they perform a neces-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

November 3oth, 17s1, he notified his
 old customers and others that. since the destruction of his shop by the enemy, ''ne has erected a new one by his dwelling in Main Street"
 This destruction referred to the burning of New London by British force under command of our rather too famous townsman, Benedict Arnold! THE DICTAGRAPH.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

New London, another enterprising and wealthy town, fad it's quota of silversmiths, Mr. Curtis recalls Men tion has already been made of Dan- iel Deshon, (1697-17S1).
 John Gray, 1692-1720) and Samuel Gray (16s4-1713) both born in Boston followed their trade in New London at an early date. Two interesting pieces made by the latter, a can and snuff box, were shown in the re- cent silver exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

Additional evidence puts him in the class of the best silversmiths Con necticut has produced. In 1910 a fine porringer bearing the mark "P. A." was sold at Gui.ford. A rat tailed spoon and tankard owned in Lyme, and several fine spoons owned on the eastern end of Long Island are also so marked. No other known silversmith had these initials
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

2 Among his apprentices afterwards
 in business in Norwich were David
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-05

Other siIversmiths working in Ner- Fwict in early days were. William Ad-
 gate, Samuel Moves, Gurdon Tracy, Charles Whiting, Philip and Russell
 Huntington, in the eighteenth century,
 and Judah Hart. and Alvah Wilcox of the firm of Hart &s Wilcox, Themas c. Colt and Elisha Mansfield of tse firm of Colt & Mansfield, also William
 Gurley, in the early part of the nine- teenth. century.