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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-20
ELECTRIC CONDUIT.
| FEE COST TAKEN Up
Complaints of Prospective
Purchasers of Current Are
Before Commission. >.

Hearing was begun by the Public
Utilities Commission at the District
building today to determine whether
the present fees which the Potomac
Electric Power Company charges pro-
spective. users OF current for extend
ing the service to their homes are rea-
sonable.
Considerable time was consumed at
the opening session in settling a mis-
understanding between the company
and the commission as to whether the
present hearing is formal one upon
which the commission will base it's
findings or whether 1t is an informal
inquiry to furnish the commission
with information to be used later in
a formal hearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-20
DISCOVERY OF PLOT
W|DENS RED HUNT
Philadelphia Police Tell of
Plan to Send Bombs to Of
ficiaIs Christmas.
By the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA. November 2o.-In-
vestigations into the activities OF To-
cal radicals were given added impetus
here today as the result of warning
issued yesterday by James Robinson,
superintendent of the Philadelphia po-
lice, that local detectives have dis
covered plot launched by radicals in
this city to spread terror throughouD
the country at Christmas time. NJ
cording to his information, the SUPER
intendent said, it is planned to Send
national, state and city offiCials
through the mails death bombs
wrapped in packages to reserp Bile
Christmas present.
Supt. Robinson said members of the
police bomb squad unearthed the sup
posed plot in the course of inVrstiga
lions of radical activities here 1T is
the intention of this>efganization, -
Robinson said, ito XII or MAIN every
official in the county, whose duties have
required them TO Jake an active part in
the suppression /of anarchistic move
ments in this country"
Details of t he supposed plot have
been sent to government officials in
Washington dnd to Chief of PolS(7
Quigley of Rochester, N. Y. VIZ -
chairman of the board of governo.'a
of the NatiYnal Bureau of Grim frAi
Identification.
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CLERICAL SERVICE
TO Be HEARD NEXT
Office Appliance Operators to
Go Before Redistribution
Body Tomorrow.

Hearings before the joint. congress
sional commission on reclassification of
salaries in the District will be re-
sumed at $50 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing, at the Redistribution headquar-
tiers, ~ street and Missouri avenue,
when the Office appliance operating
service VIII be heard.
The hearing Of this particular serv-
ice, the first OF the strictly clerical
services to be heard. will allow the
1000 persons in tho government serv-
ice here who do clerical work on ma
chimes to give their opinions as to
what wages they should have.
10000 in Clerical Services.
Men and women who operate adding
and other calculating machines of va
rious types comprise this first group
of the strictly clerical services to be
heard. In the nineteen clerical serv-
ices, all told. there are about $4,000
employees, or more than half Of the
entire number of federal workers who
come under the jurisdiction of the re-
classification commission.
Charles E. Gage of the Department
Of Agriculture will be spokesman for
the Office appliance operating service.
Henry v. Fleming of the pension bu-
reau is secretary OF this particular
hearing committee.
Will Speak for Teachers Saturday.
Supt. Ernest L. Thurston of the pub
lie schools and Miss Alice Deal of the
High School Teachers Union will
speak for the public school teachers
OF the District at the hearing for the
educational service to be held at $50
q fVt ra ~
Owing to the large number who are
expected to attend this hearing, the
teachers hearing will be held in room
426. the Senate Office building. This
room is the hearing room of the com
mittee on claims. of which Senator
man. Senator Spencer is one of the
three senators who are members of
the Redistribution commission.
Supt. Thurston and other school Of
hcials were busy today preparing the
brief which the school administrators
will present to the reclassificat ton
commission. The views of the admin
istrators will be presented, folIowine
which Miss Deal will present the
claims OF the teachers.
Mr.. Brownlow Likely to Attend.
1t is probable that Commissioners
Brownlow will attend the hearing. He
and Commissioner Gardiner wera pres
ent ana spoke at the hearing of the
community and recreation service,
which includes the Fairgrounds and
community centers. held last week. -
There being no school Saturday. IT
Is expected that a big delegation of
teachers will crowd the hearing room,
then. There is some probability that
the hearing may last ali day hnt
everything win be done to confine the
hearing to the morning session, if
feasible. -
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ACTION or SENATE
ON TREATY LEAVES
- 80 > - g-f ~,
KN0TTY PROBLEMS

Continued from First Page.)
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COMPANY Sets Forth Practice.

The present practice of the company
was set forth as follows in letter
sent recently to the commission:
when application is received from
a prospective consumer for the sup
ply of electric service to premises to
which we have no adjacent conduits
an investigation is made as to the
! probable current consumption and the
cost of making the necessary extern
sion. II we feel that the business
would be of an extent to more than
reimburse us for the amount of max
ins5the connection in a period of three
years, and also where 1T is thought to
be of a permanent nature. or where
the consumer will guarantee us re-
turns in thirty-six monthly INSTALL
ments of the amount expended, the
extension is made without cost to the
consumer than the ordinary conduit
connection from curb to the prem
fses. = - -.-.'
I'm cases where the business is not
considered to be of a permanent
nature We make the extension, pro-
yided the consumer deposits with the
! company the cost Of the extension and
refund Of same is made as additional
consumers are secured along the line
of said extensions.
Continuing this letter. the company
explained that the estimated annual
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TREATY SOLUTION
PREDICTED WHEN
o H7I - > - = -'st :. 2
SENATE C0NVENES
acting on the vital question Of q sta
OF peace or war.
CONTINUED from First Pake.)

acting on the vital question OF state
OF peace or war.
Vice Presidents Statement.
But disinterested observers are in
cliEed to think that both parties will
receive a large measure Of blame from
the country and that the rules of the
Senate will come in for particular
condemnation. Vice President Mar
shall stated the situation succinctly
in the closing hours Of the session
when he spoke to the Senate as fol-
lows:
II suppose the chair might as well
state now as at any time that this
parliamentary situation arises from
the part of the rule of the Senate
touching treaties which suffers and
permits all questions. except the final
vote, to be decided by a majority
vote in derogation. if not in violation,
of the Constitution of the United
States. It would not have been here
fthe parliamentary situation) if we
had adopted all that was agreed to
by a two thirds vote. Then we would
have known where we WERE"
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Commission to Draw Rules.

Chairman Kutz adjourned the hear
ing at 1880 with the announcement
that the commission will draw up rules
governing the extension of conduits
for electric service and will then hold
hearing to determine whether those
rules shall be put into effect.
Mr.. Kutz stated that today's session
was the beginning of the formal hear
ing. He assured the company, how
ever. that it would be given ample
opportunity to present its views on
all phases of the question.
When the commission had read into
the record several complaints from
citizens against the present method
of the company in charging the pro-
spective user Of current for extend
ing the service counsel for the COM
pany also objected to the considera-
ton of individual cases on the ground
that the company had no notice OF
those specific complaints.
Chairman Kutz again assured the
company that the commission is con-
sidering the general practice of the
company and not any particular in
stances.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
SIX REGISTER
 AT CITY HALL
 THIS MORNING

Six men registered with the Vel come Home committee in the Com mon Council chambers at City Hall today, bringing the total to 2,528.
 Those enrolling up until noon were:
 Howard c. Bevans, No. I'll North avenue, private, Supply Company, 47th Artillery, in France five and one half months; Alexander Mavikin, No 54S Broad street, private, Company I. Hath Infantry, 29th Division, service at St. Mihiel and Verdun, gun shot wounds in right leg and shrapnel wounds in both legs; John P. Yirga, No. 137 Dewey street, corporal. 18th Battalion, African branch; Gabrile Bruno, No. 21 High street. corporal, Company r, 57th Infantry, Camp Devens, Mass; Joseph Cerruti, No. 357 Pequonnock street, private, Med teal department. Camp Hancock, Ga; Samuel Capitman, No. 338 War ren street, corporal, c. M. C., Camp Gorden, Ga.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
Lashar to Subscribe $5O,O00 To Trust
 For One Man Cars

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 line. ''They save money and labor,'' said the financier.
 In closing his address the Bridge port manufacturer said: 'If we can't get serv-se from the trolley company then the common council should pass ordinances making jitney better and the service better and we can get ser vice from them"
 While MT. Lashar's statements were taken by many to mean that he advo- cated the doing away with jitney service by competition with good trol- ley service at the five-cent fare, it was said to be because of his desire to i'm prove traffic conditions in the city.
 George Flames. also a member of the traffic commission, spoke in a sim liar strain to MT. Lashar. Alderman B1akeslee and McManus were right on deck with several questions which they had answered to their satisfac- ton.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
GYPSY
 IS SENTENCED

Mary Gautch, another Gypsy swind- Ter, appeared before the City Court this morning charged with stealing S20 from the pocket of Naeto Gentle of 54 Center street. Gentle visited the "Phrenologist'' at 1921 Main street for the purpose of having his fortune told. While examining his bumps, the gypsy allowed her hands to stray into the pockets of her customer from which she extracted his roll.
 Judge Wilder fined the woman $1 and costs and sentenced her to 15 days in jail. The Gyspy appealed the case and was released under $50 bonds.
 Another one of the tribe at the same phrenoIogist's stand succeeded in swindling Michael ZarrilI of 1O91 Madison avenue out of $40. The fortune teller told Zarrilli that she could cure his wife of tuberculosis from which she was suffering. Upon the payment of the $40 Zarrilli was presented with cloth pad in which was supposed to be mysterious charms such as lizards hearts, snake teeth and turkey tongues. He was instruct ed to apply the pad to the chest of his wife at regular intervals and to return for a fresh pad in three weeks. The CharIl did not work and ZarrilIi has enlisted the aid of the police to re- cover his money.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
LOOK LEAVES AN
 ESTATE OF S16,O11

William IT. Comley, Jr, and Nal colm MacFayden, appraisers in the estate of Frederick A. Look, who died in this city on March 30. filed the in ventory with Probate Judge Paul Mill Ter today. It shows that the deceased left a total of 16,001.O4, which in cIuded $15.111.O4 in two Bridgeport banks and an automobile valued at $500. Mary Look is the executrix.
 Probate Judge Miller granted let ters of administrati ton to Leopold Weiss in the estate of William Spitz. who died in this city on March 14. The heirs at law are Samuel and Ar thur Weiss, nephews, and Mabel Hor- stein and Jeanette Weiss, nieces. The estate is valued at $500.
 Application was made today for the appointment of William E. Burton as administrator in the estate of Anna Brown, who died in this city on March 27. The estate consists of personal property of undetermined value, and Annie Brown, the mother is the only heir at law. A hearing on the appli- cation will be held on April 4.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
State Asked to Lend
 Millions To Aid
 Tottering Street Lines

(Continued From Page One.)
 1t is clear that unless the substantial relief is given through legislative ac- tion the company must go into receivers hands with immediate abandonment of operation and re- moVal of tracks and sale of over 85 miles of track which does not pay it's own expense to be quickly follow ed by immediate abandonment of over 100 miles additional which do not pay operating expenses and taxes. Such an abandonment would effect Stam- ford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Shelton, Derby, Ansonia, New Haven, Wall ingford, New Britain, Manchester and Rockville and would cause de. preciation in property values along 185 miles of railway and contiguous territory served by the company. The Connecticut Go. pays no dividends and cannot earn enough to pay in terest or principal on. $7,O9S, 600 worth of bonds. Since 1910 the New Haven Railroad Co.,. has assumed payments and interest on bonds and the Connecticut Go. has given its notes to cover such payments. Only through assumption of these pay mehts by the New Haven Co. has the Connecticut. Co been able to take enough money from it's gross revenue to pay for additional cars, tracks, car house improven ents etc., since 1910.
 The evidence shows a very moder- ate salary list. The percentage of overhead to expenses and of overhead to revenue is smaller than in many other companies with which compar- ison was made. In the past five years the company has given careful atten- ton to the best modern means of economical operation.
 Officers of the company ask relief; from the burden of street paving; from payments of building bridges; regulation of jitney competition; abatement of taxes accrued and flu ture tax reduction the right to aban- don non-paying lines; permission to operate motor vehicles.
 Samuel c. Shaw of this city dissents from the report of the majority of the commission, to the extent that he be- should not be entirely removed, but should, like the taxes, be extended as a credit for two years.
 MT. Shaw observes that either the Connecticut Company will get on it's feet, or will not. If it does not get on it's feet, he sees no reason why the state should lose the bridge assess ments, as a preferred debt against the property. MT. Shaw is especially convinced that the assessment of $3OO,00O for the bridge between Strat- ford and Milford should be charged to the company, with relief from pay ment for the period of two years.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
DIED.

ROBIBLARD-In this city, March 30, 1919, Minnie L. Mueller, w1le Of Euclide Robillard, aged 29 years, 8 months. 12 days.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, 474 Charles street, on Wednesday, April ?, at 2:30 D. n., and from First German Evangelical Lutheran church at 8 D. m.
 Interment family plot Park cem- etery. Automobile cortege. a" MORGAN-In this city, Monday, March S1, 1919. Marion, daughter Of Annie and the late Erastus Mor- gan, aged 21 years, months, 21 days
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her mother, Mrs. Annie Morgan, 431 Lafayette street, on Thursday, April 8, at S:3O a. nn., and from Sacred Heart church at o'clock.
 Burial Mt. St. Peters cemetery, Derby, Conn, Automobile cortege
 U1b*p WALSH-In this city, March 30, 1919. David T. Walsh.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Ernest O'Brien, TIP Iranistan avenue, on Wednesday, April 2, at 8:30 a. m.. and from Sacred Heart church at a. rn
 Interment St MichaeTs cemetery. Automobile cortege. S3Ibs SHERWOOD-In Trumbuil, Conn, March 31, 1919. Frances E. Booth. widow of Reuben H.Sherwood, aged 72 years, g months, r days.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at her late home, Trumbull, on Thursday, April 8, at 3 o'clock D. m.
 E.ACKETT-In this city. Monday, March 31s 1919, Peter Hackett.
 Friends are invited to attend the funerI at his late residence, No. 557 Main street,on Wednesday,April 2, at 9:30 a. m., and from Sacred Heart church at 10 a. m.
 Interme mt at St AiichaeFs eeme- tery. Automobile cortege. a*p SCHULTZ-In this city, Monday, March 31, 1919, Joseph Schultz, ST., aged 62 years, s months, 26 days.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at his late residence No. 116O Kossuth street, on Thursday, April 8, at S:30 a. n., and from St. Joseph's R. c. church at a. m., with requiem high mass
 Interment at convenience of the family Automobile cortege.
 Meriden and New Haven papers please copy. U1b'p
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
Lemons Whiten and Beautify the Skin!
 Make Cheap Lotion

The juice of two fresh lemons strained into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quarter pint of the most re- markable lemon skin beautifier at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth 50 no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is ua- ed to bleach and remove such biern- ishes as freckles, sallowness and tan and is the ideal skin softener, smooth ener and beautifier.
 Just try it! Make uI a quarter pint of this sweetly fra grant lemon To- ton and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It should na- turaIly help to whiten, soften, freshen and bring out the hidden roses and beauty of any skin. It Is wonderful for rough, red hands.
 Your druggist will sell three ounces of orchard white at little cost, and any grocer will supply the Iemons.- Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
MOTHERS HEART, BEATING WITH JOY,
 STOPS FOREVER

Mrs. Amelia Podbelisllie, of 192 Railroad avenue, was so overjoyed at the sight of her son Peter, who had just returned from France, where he had seen much service with the Yankee forces, that her heart could not stand the excite ment, according to Medical Exam iner Garlick, who saws her death was due to heart failure caused by excessive joy.
 Peter had been in the army since December 13, 1917, and was mustered out at Camp Upton last Saturday. During his service he had participated in famous bat ties. He came to Bridgeport yes- terday. At the sight of him his mother tainted and died in a few minutes. She is survived by nine children, Joseph, Felix, William, Lena, Noras Frank, Rose, Leslie and Peter. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
A N 5 1 TON
 PILL 5 For Nervous People

The great nerve tonic-the famous WendelTs Ambition Pills-that will put vigor, vim and vitality into nerv- ous tired out, all in, Respondent peo- pie in few days in many instances.
 Anyone can buy a box for only 50 cents, and J. D. Hartigan and Hindle Pharmacy are authorized by the mak- CT to refund the purchase price if anyone is dissatisfied with the first box purchased.
 Thousands praise them for general debility, nervous prostration, mental depression and unstrung nerves caus- ed by over-indulgence in alcohol, to- bacco, or overwOrk of any kind.
 For any affliction of the nervous system Wendelps Ambition Pills are unsurpassed. while for hysteria. trembling and neuralgia they are sim ply splendid. Fifty cents at J. D. Hartigan's and HindIe Pharmacy and dealers everywhere-Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
CONTINUE ASSAULT,

On complaint of Charles H. Barnes of 240 Washington avenue, John Breen, 53 TrumbuI Road, was arrest ed last night charged with assault. A quarrel between the two men oc- cured at the Carpenters Union head quarters in Elm street
 According to the complaint, Barnes was a, member of a committee charg- ed with the investigation of complaints against Breen in which 1t was alleged that the latter had worked under non- union conditions. Breen denied the charge and Barnes is alleged to have called him a liar. Then the fight be- gan.
 The case was continued in the city court this morning and Breen was released under S25 bonds
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
SEVERAL KILLED IN EXPLOSION AT
 DU POINT PLANT

Birmingham, Ala, April 1-Severa persons are reported to have been killed and many injured when a corning mill and press mill, part of the Dupont Denemours Cowder Plant at Boyles Gap, north of Birmingham, blew up shortly after noon today. Fire, caused by the explosion, is now raging and is reported beyond con- trol. AmbuIances have been rushed to the scene from Birmingham.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
CHICAGO VOTES
 FOLLOWING MOST
 BITTER CAMPAIGN

Chicago, April 1.-Men and women Tballoted for mayor and other city of- f1cers today after a campaign said to have been the most bitter in the his tory of the municipality. With six candidates in the field for mayor, partisan, religious and racial hatreds famed high during the campaign, which ended last night with riotous scenes in the central districts which extra police details had difficulty il. controlling at times.
 The vote of the Independents is generaly conceded to be the deciding factor in the balIoting, and there is no means of knowing, politicians say, to just which candidate it will go.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
WANT GIRLS REINsTATED.

A new adjustment board was ap- pointed last night at a special meet ting of the Telephone Operators union at Machinists' hall, who will leave for New Haven today to confer with F. L. Moore, divisional superin- tendent of traffic, to consider the case of the six girls whom the officials of the Southern New England Tele- phone Go. refused to reinstate.
 Two of the girls were laid off last week and four resigned their positions after a misunderstanding at the com pany with the officials regarding the union that was organized in this city by Miss T. M. Sullivan a few weeks ago.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
ss2ND INFANTRY ON WAY HOME

New York, April 1-The Italian consul general here announced today that he had received an official mes sage from Rome stating that the 332nd Infantry, composed largely of draft men from Ohio and western Pennsylvania, now~is on it's way home.
 Most of the units of the regiment will arrive here, the cable states, on the steamships Canopic and Duca d'Aosta, due April Ii and Is. It is probable that a third detachment will be on board the steamship Dante Alighieri. The 332nd Regiment, which was part of the Eighty-third Depot division, fought with the 1tal- ian armies against Austria in the closing months of the war.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-01
Absolves Shipbuilding
 Go. From Responsibility
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(Continued From Page One.)
 After working throughout the night divers had recovered but four bodies, and some officials expressed the be- lief that not more than one or two others had lost their lives. While be- tween fifteen and twenty persons were known to be missing, these off cials said they felt confident that most of them would be located later in the day. Others, however, fear that many of the missing were drowned and their bodies washed down stream. Plant officials said it virtually would be impossible to check up the list of victims as the estimates of the number on the bridge varied. The actual death toll, they added, may never be known. It is believed that most of the drowned were employees at the yard.