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Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
COMPANY FIGHTS AGAINST PAYING
 SHARE OF PAVING
Claims It Would Be Bank rupt If It Paid Out
 $28,OOO.

The claim that the Connecticut Co. would become bankrupt if it had to pay it's share of the extensive paving planned by the Town of Stamford, was made today by counsel for the trolley company when the hearing on the company's appeal from the decision of the Public Utilities commission was resumed before Judge Webb in the Superior court. The commission re, gently decided that the trolley com pany must remove its tracks from the side to the center of Hope street. Stamford.
 Attorney Seth Baldwin, counsel for the company, claimed this Is only a part of the project planned by the town of Stamford and if the improve. ments are carried out as contemplat- ed, the cost of removing the tracks and paving around them would be prohibitive to the company. CounseY for the town said the only matter be- fore the court now is the question of removing the tracks on Hope street and as this would cost the company only $2S,000 there is no reason why the decision of the Utilities Conrnis- sion should not be carried out The hearing was resumed this afternoon
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1921 PARED
 SAYS MONDELL
Majority Leader MondeIl Points Out Need of
 Economy.

Washington, Dec. 1s-AH general appropriation for 1921 will be pared down in accordance with strictest economy except the postof1ce and naval departments, the estimates of which are less than for the present year, Majority Leader MondelI, Wy oIning, told the House today when the first urgent deficiency bill of this ses- sion was brought up. Greatest re- auctions would be made In the army and fortification estimates, he said, the former request totaIing $9S2. S00,020 and the latter S117,79s 1880, an increase of more than s106,O00,- 900 over the present appropriation The balance of estimated liabilities over receipts MT. Mondell said. is $3,050, ,5O8,574. Estimates of eXpen- ditures, he said would suggest ex- cessiveness. This, he explained, was true, adding, lat least we must make this excessiveness true when we write our appropriation bills. make it true by reductions of hundreds of millions of dollars
 Total estimated receipts for the year. he said. are s6,035, $50, 900.
 These official estimates of the re- ceipts," he added, "are notable in that they carry no estimate of re- cefpts on account of interest on our loans Of nearly S1O,000. 900 to foreign governments. This interest if paid, would increase our receipts and tighten our burdens for the year by nearly $500,o00, ,0O0."
 Funding of interest on foreign ob- legations for two or three years would increase foreign loans at least two billion dollars above the present figure, MT. Mondell said.
 '+The fact that such action has been taken by the secretary of the treas ury," he explained, reduces our in- comes or increases our outlays half billion dollars annually"
 Congress should cut the estimates at least a billion dollars and refuse every request which Is not fmpera- tive, he added. No provisions for in creased pay for officers of the army or navy or the nurses corps, nor es- inmates for loans. bonuses of develop ment projects benefiting ex-service men are made in any of the appro- priation bills.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
HITCHCOCK CONTENDS
 WITH UNDERWOOD FOR
 SENATE LEADERSHIP
RESULT BELIEVED TO HAVE CONSIDER ABLE BEARING ON IMMEDIATE
 OUTCOME ON TREATY
 CONTROVERSY.

Washington, Dec. 18-A call for a conference of democratic senators Saturday to select leader to succeed the late Sen- ator Martin of Virginia, was is- sued today by Senator Hitch cock, of Nebraska, who Is con- tending with Senator Under wood of Alabama for the place.
 Settlement of the contest between Senators Hitchcock, the acting Dem ocrauc leader, and chief spokesman for the administration in the treaty fight. and Senator Underwood, for merIy Democratic leader in the House, is the only business to come before the conference The outcome of the contest was said to be in doubt
 Friends Of Senator Underwood in- timated today that they might en- deavor to postpone a vote until after the holidays, when the full Demo- cratic mem bership including Carter Glass as the successor to Senator Martin, is expected to be present The labama senator's supporters also "Sl e SeiiU IO ueSlE6 uISpOS1LlOH OI treaty before the leadership election so that the question of endorsing Sem ator Hitchcock's management of the treaty might not be an issue.
 Some Senators said the leadership contest might have considerable bearing on the immediate outcome of the treaty controversy. Senators Hitchcock and Underwood have diff fered regarding future procedure, the former opposing and the latter agree ing to accept as a last alternative the plan of Senator Knox, Republican, Pennsylvania to ratify the treaty ex- cept the League of Nations covenant which would be left for future con- sideration.
 It has been said at the White House that irrespective of the outcome of the leadership contest, Senator Hitch. cock will continue as the adninistrs tion leader in the treaty fight
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
HIIlANY YI0.iIPP0nTANTSI[)E LINE INDUSTRIES ARE
 GiVEl!UpBY PACKERS;
INVESTMENTS INVOLVE MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS-REPRESE OF PACKERS DECLINE TO
 DISCUSS DETAILS.

Chicago, Dee. i8-A dozen or more Important side line industries of the Chicago meat packers involving investments of many millions of dollars will be disposed of under the stipulated decree soon to be en- tered in the United States Court at Washington on mo ti0n of Attorney General Palm CT
 While representatives of the pack CTS today declined to discuss the de tails of the decree under which the packers in the fu -urc will be required to confine the bUsin-ss activities to the production of mo.t, poultry, but ter, eggs and Chte-c. il vas learned from an authoritative @ouI'2e that the outline of the plan had been agreed Ipcn.
 Among the lines of business from which it is; said the packa-s will be ordered to withdraw under the stipu- lated .urt decree are tEe following Leather, canned fruits and VeSet7 hles. <soap, cleaning powders, groceries fertilizers. cold storage fish. refriGel;l- tor car lines. cereals glue. sporting goods and the control of stock yards,
 Representative of the packers eN- press the view Jha- under inc propos- cd plan they might continue to man ufacture soap and fertilizer as they are natural products of the meat 1oacklng industry. Some doubt Wal expressed as to whether cleansing; powders is an animal product One purpose Of the proposed reorga niza- 1ion it is slid, is to prevent the pack CTS from engagiag il the wholesale grocery business.
 Swift es Co. already has segregated it's South Ameri"tl and Australian meat business. its fruit and vegetable canning industry and it's manufactur: Of leather Wilson C CO. recently dsznosed of it's wholesale grocery lines to g. New York firm.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
2 Killed Irl Boston
 Fire
50 Driven Out Into Zero Temperature in Their
 Night Attire.
THERMOMETER
 AT SIX BELOW

Boston, Dec. 18.---F'ire in the Ab- aottsforI, an exclusive apartment ho- tel in the Back Bay district, caused the death of two persons and drove nearly 50 others to the street in zero temperature early today. William H. Whitney, a construction engin ger, was fatally injured when he jumped from a third story window and Mrs Fran ces E. Cole was found burned to death on the fifth floor.
 The property damage was mainly
 on the fifth and sixth floors where
 the fire broke through the interior air
 shafts.
 The occupants of the Abbotsford
 included many persons prominent in society including young women who
 are members of the exclusive Vincent club and Sewing Circle.
 The cold handicapped the firemen,
 water freezing as it fell, coating ev-
 erything with ice ard endangerfng
 the work of rescue. Notwithstand-
 ing the hazard two firemen went over
 an icy ladder to the second story to
 rescue the canary birds of a woman who had herself been carried down by firemen a few minutes before. MT. Whitney. who was consulting engineer for the American WooIen Company, had started down the fire escape with his wife, the latter being assisted by tiTemen. A burst of flames through a third floor window ignited his night clothing and he jumped to the ground, receiving tn- 1 juries of which he died at a hospital. Mrs. Whitney suffered severe cuts and burns but will recover. Mrs. Cole who lost her life in the fire, was so years of age.
 It was six degrees below zero here early today. The oldest inhabitant
 shivered as he recalled cold days of 1 other years but admitted he knew of no chillier December IS. The wealth
 CT bureau, with records running back
 nearly half a century, reported that l it was the coldest December IS in it's 1 annals, a reading of three above in | 1876 being the previous low mark ] for this date.
 l Elsewhere in New England the pinch was more severe. The expos | ed weather stations at GreenviIIe,
 Me, and Northfeld, Vt, showed a 1 mercury drop to 22 below. East
 port, Me. with a minus reading of 16 degrees, Burlington, Vt. and Con cord, N. H.. with 12 and 10 below,
 resp actively, were other cold spots. Farther south conditions were LlAIuei. DIOCh 1Sldlu ; Ll4l4lil4uIu HdS
 zero. Nantucket which reported six above, was the only point in New England where the mercury has risen above zero at a. nl
 The coIdest hour was between {
 and this morning and the result was to upset train schedules at the outset of the committing services Trains on all railroads entering the city were in confusion. running from minutes to hours behind time. The clang of the fire apparatus was heard through the suburbs during the night. as the f1remen were called to quench flames caused by attempts to thraw out frozen pipes. Telephone and telegraph services were affected to considerable degree, wires snapping under the contraction caus- ed by the cold.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
Bridgeport Shivers In
 Grip of Zero Weather
COLDEST DAY OF YEAR-TEERNTONTETER DROPS TO SIX AND EIGHT BELOW--TRAFFIC
 MUCH DELAYED

Blasts of northwest wirl5s today brought the coIdest wave of the year
 of 1919 with the thermometer in
 Bridgeport registering between six and eight degrees below zero in vari-
 ous parts of the city. The cold
 weather and unusual traffic today
 brought about 8 congestion on the street railway lines, caused numerous small accidents and caused express
 trains to be late anywhere from 1G minutes to half an hour The thermometers of the business section of the city and along the wa ter front registered eight degrees be-
 low zero at six o'clock today while the temperature in the West End was at six below at seven and eight o'clock. When the usual morning crowds were coming to work at about eight o'clock the thermometer was be- tween zero and two below. At noontime the mercury had creaped up to eight above but gave every indication of a falling tempera- ture late in the afternoon and even ing.
 Due to the cold a feed wire of the trolley system of the Connecticut Go. snapped just in front of the police station on Fairfield avenue and caused
 a delay of a few minutes in the traf- fic schedule.
 1 At the corner of Main street and i Golden Hill street a big jitney bus travelling south on Main tried to hurry across the corner before a seen the machine and 1t became wedged between the car and the curb. No one was injured but the machine was badly crushed.
 At Fairfield avenue and Water street a jitney skidded on a bit of ice formed by falling water and which froze immediately, and ran in to 8 trolley car. There was not much damage and no one was injured but these slight accidents tended to make the trolley service a little late and all cars were off schedule for few minutes In some instances the cars were punched and travelled a line with three in group. This was
 caused by the tie ups in the center of
 the city.
 The traffic records of the Connec-
 ticut company this morning show that
 there were more riders today than be-
 fore this year and the abnormal traf-
 fife also helped to tie up traffic. At the railroad station the big
 through express trains were seen
 
 coming in with two and sonetine es
 three engines Engineers reported
 that due to the extreme cold, espec- tally along the shore line and up
 state that they could not keep up sufficient steam to draw the trains with one engine.
 At the Stratford railroad station the thermometer recorded temper ature of 10 degrees below zero this morning.
 Both amateur and professional weather prophets this morning stated
 that the cold weather would continue as long as the wind was from the northeast and predicted even lower drops in the mercury than took place today
 The Housatonic river as far down as the Washington bridge, was GOV cred with ice this morning a re- suit of the zero weather of last night If the cold weather continues much
 longer river traffic will be suspended ! for the winter.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
WALK ID WORK IN ZERO WHATEVER CARS TAKEN OFF
Thousands Lnconvenienced By Action In Jitney
 Fight.

Salem, Mass, Dec. 1S-Suspension of virtually all trolley service on the salem Division of the Eastern Mas sachusetts Street Railway Company today forced thousands of residents of this city, Beverly and Peabody to walk to work in below zero wealth CT or to ride in crowded, unheated motor buses.
 The tie up was in accordance with the decision of the Public Trustees of the railway to remove the cars un- less the cities revoked all jitney Ii. censes. Special meetings of the city governments last night failed to or der the buses to discontinue business in competition with the trolleys, and as a result the railway officials refus~ ed to start the cars today, except on a few lines where there has been no competition.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
GOLDMAN AND
 BERkMAN ARE
 PACKED TO CO

New York, Dec. 1S.---Emma Gold man and Alexander Berkman have their trunks packed with heavy cloth ing and canned goods and are ready to be deported to Russia on five min utes' notice, Harry Weinberger. their counsel, announced today. Miss Gold man has one trunk and two handbags while Berkman has three grips and one trunk.
 They expect the government to keep it's promise to deport them this week. said Weinberger.
 No orders as to when or how to send the pair to Russia had been re- ceived today at Ellis Island, where they are detained, according to By ron H. Uhl, Acting Commissioner Of Inmi grafton, but he has notified all the anarchists held at the island, num- bering more than 80, to be ready to Nl~@zA tas a0sA-Atrx sst sssa@ tAssaA
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
SEVERAL. LINES RAY slllliE NEW REsI
 ORE KAN CARS
Manager Goodwin Undecid- ed Where He Will Place
 Them.

With the arrival here in the near future of 28 new Birney one man cars for the Connecticut ccmpauy's use OH city lines they will he put into imme- diate use on any of four lines which Manager Joseph $ Goodwin has under consideration.
 The lines being considered for the cars are Fairfield and Stratford ave 'nues. East Main street, and Boards ley Park.
 Manager Goodwin this morning re- fused to say just where the cars would be put but said it wolld be settled by the number of cars which he received at one time There are 10 cars being built in Worcester, Mass, and 28 of them are for this city. A shipment of 15 or 16 is expected within two weeks as they are finished and now being pafnte5. It is thought that the Ash Creek and Fairfield davenue lines will Npe favored with the new cars.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
Pneumonia Claims Dean
 Of Yale School of Music
EORATTO W. PARKER, WIDELY KNOWN AS COM POSER, DIES AT DAUGHTERS EONE---
 WROTE AMERICAN OPERA

Cedarhurst, N. Y, Dec. 18.---Horatic William Parker, widely known music composer and q professor of the the
 ory of music at Yale University since 1864, died Of pneumonia today a the home here of his daughter. Mrs. Ralph Semler. He had s OPred here on his way to San Domingo and other West Indian points on a trip for his health. lie was born at AJDburndale, Mass, Sept. 15, 1863. He studied music in | this country and abroad and from 1893 to 1901 he was Organist at Trinity church in Boston. In 1911 he was awarded the. Metropolitan Opera Prize of $1G,G00 for his opera Mona" and three years later won a, prize of S10- 900 offered by the national federation of Women's clubs for the best Ameri- can opera. He composed many other operas and musical compositions. He held the degree of Doctor of Music from Cambridge University, England. New Haven, Conn, Dec 1S-Pro- lessor Horatio Parker's last import ant work was the comm nemorative ode to Yale's dead in the world war which he completed in colIa boration with Bryan Hooker, author of the ; words. The ode was performed al the commemorative exercises held last commencement and again in Oc- , tober when Cardinal Mercier receiv- ed a degree.
 President Hadley in a tribute tc Professor Parker said that Yale Uni-
 versity and the country at large had
 suffered a heavy loss. He added that Professor Parker combined the qual- ities of a productive scholar, an ex- acting teacher and a successful or. ganizer. His power as composer ad. ded unusual charm to him as a man
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
CUBAN SENATE
 APPROVES PACT
 WITH GERMANY

Havana, Dec. 18-Approval of the treaty of peace with Germany was unanim ously voted by the Cuban Senate last night. The pact cannot be brought before the House before January 19, when the Cuban con- gress will reconvene following the Christmas holidays. Strong opposi
 tion is expected in the House, where a number of representa- tives, espe- ciaIly liberals, oppose it's considera- ton until final action is taken on the treaty. hx the upitsd States S--A->
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
SENATOR'S TO CONFER
hHExIC0'S NOTE CREATES DAD
 REPRESSION

Washington, Dec. 18-Mexico's reply to the latest American note on the ease og American Consul lar Agent ,geniSins. was received today at tha state department.
 The official tcxt yyas said to differ. only slightly from that contained in Associated Press dispatches from AEexico City.
 While officials said they would have no comment to make until they had had time to study the note thoroughly, it was said that at its first reading the conmuni- cation had not made q favorable impression.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
POWER PLANT AT COS COB
 HIT BY COLD

Due to switchboard trouble in the Cos Cob power plant this inorQfng not car turned a wheel, there were no street lights and no house lights be- tween 5:3O o'clock and o'clock today, from NorvaIk to Stam- ford.
 At about o'clock the street lights all went out and about S:SO they came on again for a minute and then went out with the power cut off in all sections of the city.
 Thousands were forced to walk about their daily business.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
DECLARE DIYf1ENn.

New York, Dec. 1.-The United Food Products Company today de- clared an extra dividend of 1k per cent. in addition to the regular quar- terly dividend of F per cent.
 Julius Kessler, president of the company. announced today that 1t has 100000 gallons ef whiskey on hand. One half of this amount has haan sold for export. hl, said.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
INVENTORY OF PARROTT ESTATE
 IS S135,0O0

Judge Paul L. Miller, of the Pro bate court, this morning announced the inventory of the estate of Henry R. Parrott as s135,000. Judge Frank L. Wilder, L. B. Powe, and H. S. SheI- ton, of the Connecticut Ns tional Bank were the appraisers.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
INTENSE COLD
 CANNOT KEEP
 WILSON INDOORS

Washington, Dec. 18-Intense cold and an overcast sky did not prevent President Wilson from spending his usual half hour today on the South portico of the White House This was the fourth anniversary of the weddi of the President and Mrs. Wilson.
 MT. Wilson began work, early and was understood to be engaged on matters of importanca.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
REV. J. c. MURRAY IS NEW TITULAR
 BISHOP OF FLAVIAS

Rome, Dec. 18.---Rev. John G. Mur-
 ray, chancellor and secretary of the diocese of Hartford, Conn, has been appointed auxiliary bishop of Hart ford and tituiar bishop of Flavias.
 This appointment will be announced at public consistory to be held to- LRSn<-
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
STATE PoHIBITIoN DIRECTOR

Washington, Dec 1s-Among addi- tional state prohibition directors ap- pointed today is Julius c. S1TWnlar of Meriden, for Connecticut
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
G1ANY FIRES
 R NEW YORK;
 POOR SUFFERING
Officials Say Coldest De cember IS in Fifty
 Years.

New York, Dee. 1S-New York to- day has its first touch of real win ter weather. The temperature drop ped from 20 degrees above zero at o'clock yesterday afternoon to zero at 1 a. m. 4 stiff northwest wind added to the discomfort. It was the coIdeat December day he-e in two years.
 Bremen were called upon to fight a number of bIazes. More than 100 families were driven from their beds to the street by q fire in an Eighth Avenue tenement. Half clad tenants were cared for at Knights of Colum- bus headquarters. Another blaze damaged the school of journalism at Columbia University and some wom- en students in an adjourning dormi- tory rushed into the street half dressed.
 There was conside erable suffering in the poorer sections of the city. Off, cfals of the local weather bureau said today was the coldest Dec. IS in 50> years. Little relief could be expected from the cold weather before tomor- row, they added.
 |. Syracuse, N. Y, Dec. 1S-Reports
 from the Adirondacks this morning
 are that the temperature of early
 morning ranged from 20 to 27 de-
 grees below zero. The low mark was
 recorded at Stark, St. Lawrence
 county.
 Navarino, Woodstock, and several other central New York villages sent
 in reports of 20 below. Watertown, N.l Y, Dec. 18-North- ern New York is experiencing the coIdest weather of the winter. The official minimum temperature re- corded here during the night was 16 below zero, wh Ie much lower unoffi- cial marks were reported at other 1 places
 Washington, Dec. 18.---Below zero temperatures were registered last
 night and early today in parts of New York state and New England. The lowest temperature reported to the weather bureau was p below at NorthfieId, Vermont, while the next was 20 below at Canton, N. Y. Zero temperature was registered in | New York city; at Boston it was six below; at Albany 8 below, and at Buff falo ? below
 | Philadelphia and Atlantic City snow eE 1tuE dDOES DdilltilOte elSht
 above and Washington 10 above. The weather bureaus forecast said temperatures would modera te 1 somewhat in the middle Atlantic and 1 New England states tonight and Fri
 day, but cold weather would continue l for the present and the outlook was ! for snow flurries in the middle Att 1 lantic and New England states to- | night and tomorrow.
 Cold weather continues general l over the west plateau, but compara-
 lively mild temperatures prevail over 1 the rest of the states and southern slope of the Rocky Mountains.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19

Boston, Dec. 18-The Old South Trust Co.,, one of the smallest bank ing institutions here, closed it's doors today under orders from State Bank ing Commissioner Augustus L. Thorn dike. The closing followed a run an thA hank.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
3EMPSEY JURY , IS DISCHARGED
 COLDN'T AGREE

Mineola, N Y.. Dec. 18-The su- preme court jury before which John J. Dempsey, former superintendent ot the New York Consolidated Railway Company. was tried for manslaughter in connection with the Malone Street tunnel wreck in Brooklyn a ye r aga when more than 90 persons los -theft lives, was discharged today when if reported it had failed to agree upon verdict after deliberating 23 hours.
Republican farmer., 1919-12-19

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