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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
THE CLOSING ORDER

HE CLOSING order extraordinarily drastic in its
ture is appreciated this morning in its true character
as war of the severes quality That many thou
sands unemployed is fact and not theory People
have the appreciation Of the fact instead of its anticipation.
One good result at least should flow from this discipline
which the president has described absolutely necessary
Every who railroads burns coal will feel the need
of doing his share to keep things moving is the hundreds
Of thousands of individual negecs that constitutes large por
ton of the railroad problem
Why should not Bridgeport business organize unity
delivery and truckage cooperate with the
Gals to keep terminals Clear that things will
after? The storage of freight cars failure freight
promptly things frequently necessary could be done away
with easily the local transportation unified under
sort of direction through any of dozen well under
stood forms of private cooperation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
AUTO COLLISION
CAUSES 2 SUITS
AGAINST MIRO

Harry Wartfkoff and Fannie Warti-
koff of New York are the complain
ants in two suits filed today in the
common pleas court in which damages
aggregating $500 are asked from
Dominick Miro of Fairfield as the re-
suit of an automobile collision Novem-
Der last at Conn and Central
avenues.
Wartikoff complains he had a new
automobile valued at $1,000 and it was
so injured in the smash that he had
to spend s287 for repairs, that its
value was lessened 5000, and he also
had to pay out considerable sum for
use of another machine while his own
was being repaired. He blames the
accident upon Miro, saying he was
driving recklessly at the time. He
wants $500.
In the crash when the two cars
came together Fannie Wartikoff was
thrown out, was bruised and sprained
so she was i'll for a considerable time,
paid a large sum for medical services.
She asks for damages Of $1,000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
RUSS ASSEMBLY
OPENING SIGNAL
FOR MORE RIOTS
Political Groups Clash In
Streets Of Petrograd Dur
ing Convention.

Petrograd, Jan. 19-(By the Asso-
ciated Press)-The constituent as
sembly opened its first session at 4
p. m. yesterday in the Tauride palace
with President Sverdloff of the CEN
trail executive committee of the con-
gress of workmen's and soldiers del
egates presiding.
A proposal to have the Oldest dele
gate, who was a Social Revolutionist
preside, was howled down. M. Sverd-
loft read a declaration from she con-
gress of workmen's and soldiers dele
gates demanding that the constituent
assembly approve Bolshevik laws
concerning peace and land. This was
applauded loudly by the Bolshevik
delegates and hooted by the right
and Socialists. Delegates belonging
to the Constitutional Democratic
party were absent from the opening
session.
The threatened demonstrations
against Bolshevik control of the
opening session were confined to
parades of small groups of men and
women. These groups were compos-
ed of well dressed persons, except in
one instance where there was larger
number of soldiers and peasants.
At a corner near the American en-
bassy this group was fired On and
dispersed by the Red guard. Five
persons were killed and a dozen were
wounded.
For the most part, however, the
streets were quiet throughout the
morning and afternoon, being under
a heavy patrol of Bolshevik troops.
The constituent assembly, accord
ing to a proclamation issued by the
revolutionary government last March,
will issue fundamental laws, guar
anteeing the country the immutable
rights of equality and liberty" Fail
ure to issue call for elections to the
assembly was one of the causes con-
tributing to the downfall of the Ker-
ensky government. The Bolshevik
government issued a call for election
soon after the success of the revolt of
last November. The elections were
completed early in December.
An attempt to open the assembly
was made on Dec. -, but no progress
was made. The results of the cleo
tons were unfavorable to the Boil
sheviki element, the Social Revolu-
tionists, of which party, former Pre-
ngier Kerensky, is a member, gaining
the greatest number of delegates. A
number of Constitutional Democratic
delegates to the assembly were ar
rested early in December by the Boil
sheviki, ,w1re have been reported to
be using various measures to gain
control of the assembly, even going as
far as to call special elections to re-
place opponents to their ideas.
A dispatch to the London Daily
News from Petrograd on Jan. Is said
that it seemed probable then that the
assembly would contain a majority
against the Bolsheviki. On the pre-
vious day the Social Revolutionists
had issued manifesto denounclng
the Bolsheviki as usurpers. The Con-
stttutional Democratic party was for
merly one of the strongest in Russia,
its leader being Paul M1liukoff; for
| mer foreign minister.
Most of the shops were closed.
Ashutters and bars being up.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
FIRST SHOCK PASSED,
COUNTRY FINDS FEUL
ORDER IS TOLERABLE
Exemptions of Munitions Plants Make Decision of Gar
field Less Drastic Than It Appeared Wednesday,
President Back Plan Unqualfedly.

Washington, Jan. 19-Although
much of the confusion attending the
enforcement of the fuel administra-
tons five day closing order continued
today, it was evident that its applica-
ton would be far less drastic than
first believed.
A list of interpretations in specific
cases which probably will be given
general application was being pre-
pared by Fuel officials from which
minor exemptions may result to sup
plement special rulings made yester-
day. In addition it was announced
that food administrators may be ex-
pected to make further exemptions in
the case of food producing plants and
related industries. Food Administra-
tor Hoover yesterday interpreted the
closing order to mean that no check
would be put on the manufacturing
of distributing of any essential food
product.
Considerable relief was expressed
by officials here when it was learned
that most of the plants engaged in
government war contracts had been
exempted. This list, prepared by
Secretaries Baker and Daniels, in
cludes manufacturers of gas masks,
explosives, machine guns, rifle@
small arms and ammunition, forging,
electrical supplies and tool steel for
the government destroyers and des-
troyer parts, air craft and air craft
parts, signal corps equipment, steel
tubing, locomotives, ship equipment,
woolens for uniforms, tenting and
optical supplies.
Ship yards were not named in or
ders but will continue to operate I'M
der special ruling, as will virtually all
ore-producing mines. There will be
no more general exemptions, it was an
nounced, except over the signatures of
Secretaries Baker and Daniels, Lib
eral interpretations however, will be
given to rules applying to raw ma
terial.
Backed by vigorous defense of the
president, who yesterday gave his full
support to the closing order as i'm
perative to release coal to move sup
plies to the American army and the
Allies, DR.. Garfield today gave his at
tention today to the situation in At
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19

eminent of a decent existence. She
had no food beyond a few handsful
of cornmeaL She was a spectre Of
famine. Her face was drawn and
pinched and her coUntenance so in
expressibly sad that it told its own
silent tale of the terrible hardships
house were enduring.
One of her children, a helpless mite
of three, lay under the clay stove, in
which there was a feeble fire, slowly
succumbing to pellagra. The other
nine occupants, most of them chill
dren, werep athletic figures of poverty
and misery.
There probably are thousands of
cases equally as extreme or even
worse. The observer could easily see,
with this tragic picture before him,
why typhus mad taken such terrible
toll of life last winter. The houses
visited were in most cases dirty and
unsanitary and offered the most fer
tile breeding places for vermin. The
occupants were so terribly impover-
ished that their feeble bodies could
scarcely be expected to withstand the
seases.
In these villages, which often are
only a short distance from the area
where military activity is greatest,
and which are subjected almost daily
to shell fire by the Germans, one
would think that the inhabitants, fol-
lowing the instinct of self preserva-
ton, would go to places at least free
from the terrors of actual warfare;
but with a hope borne of confidence
in the bravery of the Rumanian army
and it's ability to drive back the Ger
mans, these simple, guileless peasants
continue to linger in the danger
zones, believing that soon the Ger
man army will be forced to withdraw
and that the population will be able
to return to their deserted homes
On theo Their hand, there are some
who realize the great jeopardy in
which they are placing themselves by
staying within the range of enemy
guns, and they have wisely aband-
oned their homes for places at least
removed from thei imminence of air
plane bombardment and shell fire. In
these cases it is a sight deeply i'm
pressive to the American observer to
see the poor but sagacious peasant
burying in the cold earth his spare
| clothes or the household articles
which he treasures most, in order
that they may not fall into the hands
of the invading Germans and that he
may recover them when the enemy
is driven out.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
TNsURING DYING SOLDIERS

II WAS PROPER to extend insurance dying soldier
the Commander of Camp did to Private Henry Private
insurance is commercial transaction conducted for profit
would be unjust the insured and to the stockholders of the
private company to insure dying men.
But the object Of soldier insurance pensions
The amount for which the soldier compensate
his survivors The right of soldier be insured the gov
eminent fund does not because he is sck rather it
creases, and this will remain true during the period
the government keeps its offer OPEN
The boy who goes camp and dies Of pneumonia Civ
his life to his country just a~cerany he had
killed by German bullet.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
LLOYD GEORGE TO LABOR

HE ADDRESS Of Lloyd George to Union Labor in that
tone of perfect frankness in which all his speech
es are couched He discusses problem that has not had
large existence in America At the beginning of the war; Brit
h unions not in sympathy with the country They lay
back in the traces and it difficult to carry industry
But gradually British labor brought to that had
stake in the country which ought not be sacrificed Ger
hegemony.
British labor will take the lot and part actual
vice that falls upon other British citizens.
In the United States the question has not arisen The
ions of Bridgeport hang from the windows of the trade halls
service flags that show stars They have volunteered
proportion to their numbers and the draft takes them does
Others excepting that there exemptions for industrial
reasons among them perhaps than other classes
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19

lantic ports. Fuel Administration
agents have been sent to seaboard
points and will remain there until all
ships held up are bunkered. Imme-
date improvement in the situation is
expected and more than 100000 tons
of shipping detained will be on its way
in a short time.
Confronted by President Wilson's
statement that the order was issued
with his full knowledge and approval
and by another explanation from DR..
Garfield declaring that the railroad
congestion is threatening the food
supply, vigorous opposition in congress
apparently has spent its force.
On instructions from Director Gen
eral McAdoo to cooperate with the
fuel administration, railroad officials
set about directing coal shipments to
the preferred class of shipping inter-
ests householders, hospitals, public
utilities and others who the order does
not affect. Suggestions that a railroad
embargo be placed on shipment of
goods from factories shut down was
overruled by the director general.
Few violations have been noted by
ANASA OAA@NAeN1S
lieved, were due to misunderstand-
ings. In some cases even state fuel
administrators have not understood
the order. DR.. Garfield said it would
be easy for plants to evade instruc-
tons, but he believed there would few
such cases He minated, however,
that violations would be dealt with
vigorously under the food law and the
coal supplies of offending plants
would be cut off.
The governments desire that plants
affected by the order pay their en-
ployes wages during the closed per
iod was emphasized today in the fol-
lowing telegram to state administra-
tors, signed by DR. Garfield:
will you kindly give public ex-
preston of my appreciation OF the
public spirited and patriotic action of
employers in the state who may de-
termine to pay the wages of their en-
| ployes during the suspension period
specified in the regulation of Jan. IT.
They are bearing their share of the
sacrifice which we are all called up
on to make to the common good"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19

every meal is not calculated to piva
strength and sustenance to people al
ready reduced to the last extremity of
restitution by the loss of their ma
teria1 belongings and the financial
support usually given them by hus-
bands or sons or brothers now serv-
ing their country. In two instances
refugees were observed picking in the
fields kind of wild grass, which they
eat, but which in America we would
think only of feeding to cattle
The most pathetic case of SUFFERING
and want was witnessed in the little
village of Soltiu, in the District of
Putna. In a squalid shack of wood
| and mud were three little children on
the point of exhaustion for lack of
proper care and food. They were
orphans. The mother had lately died
! of typhus, which has b1ighted nearly
the whole of Rumania; the father
was serving at the front and a little
! girl of 10 was acting as mother to
| two tiny tots of and z. The youne-
est child was lying helpless on a bag
on stone floor, a tragic spectacle OF
famine and disease.
/
typical of numberless others, was oh
served in dflapidated house nc
larger than the ordinary American
bedroom. There was no glass in the
windows. The roof was full of holes
Elsewhere in the house the oper
spaces were stuffed with rags. Here
there were 10 persons crowded to.
gether under conditions of squaIol
and misery, rags and tattered patel
quilts formed the only coverings or
the makeshift beds
One of the inmates was an elderly
woman who had recently lost her hus.
band, but whose pride it was to have
three sons serving in the army. Fol
this solemn contribution to the cause
Of her country, however, she had mo-
even the small reward from her gov.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
BAD COLD? take
"CASCARETS" FOR
bowels TONIGHT
They're fine! Liven your liv.
er and bowels and clear
your head.
No headache, sour stomach,
bad cold or constipation
by morning.

Get lucent box now.
Colds-whether in the head or any
part of the body-are quickly over
come by urging the liver to action and
keeping the bowels free of poison.
Take Cascarets tonight and you will
wake up with a clear head and your
cold will be gone. Cascarets work
while you sleep; they cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach, remove the sour,
undigested food and foul gases; take
the excess bile from the liver and
carry off the constipated waste mat
ter and poison from the bowels.
Remember the quickest way to get
rid of colds is one or two Cascarets
at night to cleanse thes ystem. Get a
10-cent box at any drug store. Don't
forget the children. They relish this
Candy Cathartic and it is often all
that is needed to drive cold from
their little systems.-Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
SUES HUNGARIAN
SOCIETY; WANTS
INSURANCE SUM

Alleging that the society has refused
to pay the amount of an insurance
policy upon the life of her husband,
Marie Rauscher Barkoczy of New
York, has filed a suit against the Ra-
koczi Hungarian Sick Benefit associa-
ton Of Bridgeport in the superior
court, claiming damages of $1,000.
Mrs. Barkoezy claims her husband
Istan Barkoczy, became a member of
the society March 81, 1916, and was
insured dby the z5ciety. He died July
q, 1917, and she made demand for the
amount of the policy, but was refused
by the society, no reason being al
legged. She claims there is due $3.50
with interest from the date of her
husbands death.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
RED CROSS ASKS
FOR AMBULANCE
DRIVERS ABROAD

The Red Cross wants ambulance
drivers, mechanics and chauffeurs for
service abroad.
Word to this effect has been re-
ceived at the headquarters of Bridge
port chapter, but all applications, or
inquiries for information as to this
service should be directed to the Red
Cross Foreign Transportation Depart
ment, Recruiting Service, Al East 23rd
street, New York The manager of
this department is J. Leo Shelley.
While no detailed information ac-
companies tho announcement that
men are wanted, it goes without say
ing that men who are liable to the
draft cannot be accepted in the Red
Cross service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19

The Tauride palace, in which the
delegates to the assembly began to
assemble early in the morning, was
under a very heavy guard. Difficult
ties in registration and part dissen-
sions delayed the opening of the as
sembly, which had been set for noon,
for four hours.
London, Jan. ia collision be-
tween Bolsheviki and members of the
Society for the Defense of the Const1-
tuent Assembly, who were marching
toward the Tauride palace occurred
about noon Friday, according to a Pc
trograd dispatch to Reuters. Ban
ners and flags demanding that the as
sembly be called were pulled down
and torn.
Machine gun and rifle fire broke
out from all sides.
NJ. Logvinoff, member of the eX-
ecutive committee of the congress of
workmen's and soldiers delegates, and
several others were killed. Many
were wounded, including several
women
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
RUMANIAN PEASANTS STARVING
TO Death HOLD FAITH IN ARMY'S
ABILITY TO RESTORE their HOMES

Jassy, Rumania, Jan. 17-(Cor-
respondence of the Associated Press)
Extreme poverty and suffering ex-
list among refugees and peasants in
thel title mountain villages that are
so numerous just back of the Ruman-
ian-German battle line. In a large
number of cases the refugees are
without shoes and without shelter of
any kind, many of them being. COM
PEELED to live in the fields and to en-
dure the exposure Of the prevailing
cold nights. Often their clothing con-
sists only of. a few thin ragged cotton
garments that give scarcely any
warmth to their wasted bodies. Their
situation is rendered the more pre-
carious by the fact that the districts
in which they are living are subject
to frequent artillery fire and to bomb
ing by airplanes.
Those who are fortunate enough to
have even the poor comfort of shell
ter.<in the shattered adobe houses
that remain standing are in almost
every instance living under condi-
tions of the most -yretched misery.
Forced suddenly by the exigencies Of
the military situation to abandon
their former homes. they have found
even severer hardships awaiting them
in the desolated districts to which
they have fed; for in these small viii
lagos there is neither anything = sus-
tain life nor that medical care which
often would save life. All doctors are
needed on the front, and these unfor-
tunate people, who might otherwise
be useful factors to society IL prop
erly cared for, are left either to strug-
gle alone with the ravages of famine
and disease or to die Of starvation.
In some villages the refugees and
peasants receive bread twice a week;
in others none at al. 1t is truel that
"a. scant supply of corn meal is OBJ
rounrable by application to government
ig in tcies, but this slender staple for
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
B. A. HOYT SUED.

Collection of two bills for goods
furnished is demanded in a suit filed
in the Superior Court by Cluett, Pea
body & Co., of New York against B.
A. Hoyt of Bridgeport. One bill calls
for a balance of $196.78. and the
other, a claim assigned by B. and J.
Burgheimer of New York is for
s2O0.54. Damages of $500 are claim
ed
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
Can't Find Dandruf

Every bit of dandruff disappears
after one or two applications of Dan
derine rubbed well into the scalp with
the finger tips Get small bottle
of Danderine at any drug store and
save your hair. After a few appltca-
tons you can't find particle of dan
druff or any falling hair, and the
scalp will never itch.-AdE.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
HEADACHE DOSING
IS UNNECESSARY
SIoan's Liniment does away
with internal treatments.

That splitting, Grazing, shooting
pain in the head, if Of neuralgia origin,
succumbs to the first application of
Sloan's Liniment. It creates coun-
ter-irritation that starts the blood
pulsing normally and soothes and
comforts in it's prompt relief.
Apply without rubbing-for it pene-
trates-for rheumatic twinges, sore,
stiff muscles and joints, sprains,
strains, pains, sciatica, and bruises.
Clean, don't stain the skin. Generous
sizes bottles at all druggists.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19

Funeral services for Jacob Borstle-
man were held this afternoon at
o'clock at the family residence, $50
Ridgefeld avenue. Rev. Mr.. Clemens
and Rev. NJ. Walters. both of this
city, conducted the services. Many
relatives and friends attended st.
Johns lodge, A. F. and A. M, of
Stratford, exemplified their ritual at
the home There was a wealth of
floral tributes. Burial was in Lake.
view cemetery.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
LYDIA DAVIS,

The funeral of Lydia S. Davis was
held this afternoon at $50 o'clock
from the mortuary chapel of Henry
E. Bishop, 274 Fairfield ave0ue. Rev.
Gerald H. Beard, pastor of the Park
Street Congregational church, Off
ciated The body was sent to Bidde-
ford, Me.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
ASKS SEPARATION.

Fred P. Smith of Bridgeport, has
filed in the Superior Court an action
for divorce from Mabel D. Smith of
Rochester, n. Y, alleging desertion.
They were married in Hoboken, N. J.,
July rs. 1905, and the desertion &C.
Cured in December of 1911.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
COAL MOVING

D EPORTS FROM widely separated parts of the country
~ show that coal Immediately began to In some
places the movement increased from two to three
cent In others the increase than fifty per cent
such improvement continues the railroads will be clear
ed up and everybody will have fair start.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
SEEKS JUDGMENT.

Suit to recover the amount Of judg-
ment granted in the municipal court
of New York city has been filed in the
Superior Court by William Cohen of
New York against Robert Levine of
Bridgeport. The amount of the judg-
ment was s2s7.2o. and damages of
$3.50 ara claimed
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
ASKS $3.50 DAMAGES.

Christopher Augat of Milford, has
brought suit in the Superior Court
against Johanna Tetmeyer of Bridge
port, to collect the face of a note
for $3.50 made December 8, 1917.
Damages of $3.50 are claimed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-19
OBITUARY
SARAH E. FRENCH.

Sarah E. French, nurse for many
years in this city, died yesterday at
1853 Park avenue. She was the
widow of David F. French and re-
sided in Long Hill for number of
years.