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Librarian Meserve is deeply inter ested in the ChautaUqua reading course and loses no opportunity to arouse interest in the public. "Amerf- ca Among the Nations" and Bro thers in Arms the former by H. II. Powers and the latter by M. Jusser- and. are two publications especially recommended.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-27

Dorothy Arnold of Rogers avenue, has returned to her home after spend ing several days with friends in New Britain.
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ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES.
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FOR ALDERMAN 3rd DISTRICT George Butzko, 29 Waldorf Ave
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The fire commissioners have as signed Oct. Is for meeting of the line officers of the different fire compan- ies. The meeting will be held at headquarters, in the rooms Of Arctic Engine Go.
 Ellsworth Clark has sold his Orange avenue farm to Jos Ruper. MT. Clark will move to No. 52 Broad street.
 The Democrats are planning a rally to be held at one of the beaches, presumably Walnut Beach some time next week. Speakers and other de- tails not yet definitely arranged.
 No provision was made by the finance board this year for the appIi- cation of the double taxation district plan.
 MT. and Mrs. John D. Campbell went to New York on Thursday to attend the wedding of MT. Camp bells nephew, Walter Bailey.
 Nessrs. Clemens and Miles have completed their annual audit of the town accounts. As the town has grown materially since they accept ed office, they found their duties un- usually heavy this year. Incidentally their compensation remains the same as in former years, as they were not considered in the general raise of salaries.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-27

Mrs. Winterholder has gone to Jamaica, L. l., and will pass several days in that vicinity
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-27

Antonio verreni, 70 Church St.
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FOR ALDERMAN End DISTRICT Bernard J. Melady, 5O9 Park Ave.
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Mrs. Carrie Hirsch of Hartford, the former proprietor of 'HThe Larkin House. was buried from her late home today. The deceased was well known in Milford, where she had many friends. She had been ln failing health for more than a year.
 Samuel Arnold of Rogers who purchased a motor boat from MT. Clark of Meriden and expects to an chor it in Milford harbor in a short time.
 Large catches of bluefish are report ed off the breakwater in Milford har- bor. Most of the boats put out from the Milford Yacht club and present a rretty picture from the club house.
 MT. and Mrs. Theodore Kellar, with their daughter Bertha, and son Ted dy are spending a few days at their former home on Rogers avenue. Mrs N. Conner and Mrs. James Conner of Washington, D. C., visited Mrs. Dougherty at her summer home ! this past week.
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ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES.

HARRY c. BENDER
 vs. Order of Notice ANNA l.. BENDER
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FOR ALDERMAN 12th DISTRICT
 Charles J. Reynolds, 95 Baldwin Ave.
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John J. ORourke. 40 Fulton St.
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DELEGATES FOR 7th DISTRICT

Thomas ". Teddy, 49 Center St. Lester Wagner, 1O6 Vine St. Peter Carroll, 149 Milne St.
 Lawrence T. Gallagher. PET Court-
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bloomngda Asylum What Now the
The Belief j11 Miracles Is N0t Dead

studded with diamonds. garnets and
amethysts. The bone is said to have
been brought to this continent wears
ago by pioneer French missionaries.
II is visible through the glass top
Of the small cold casket in which
it reposes.
Many miraculous "cures' are re-
corded in the annals of the Church
as result of the application of the
relic. The "cures" are spoken of
as "favors" obtained from God
through the intercession of St.
Anne. So the hope of being re-
lieved of lifelong burden of suf-
ferlng or temporary illnesses, both
spiritual and temporary, brought a
steady stream of young and old to
Mount Carmel. They were there be-
fore 6 o'clock in the morning. They
were there until late at night. They
made devout and sometimes pa
thetic gathering as they filed past
the altar day after day, until their
nine days of veneration and prayer
were over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03

food mentioned. Il costs g cen,
Il day or sos week. In Cali.
fornia | can live for even less. for
fruits are cheaper. Melons and
dates are plentiful within shor
distance of my hut. For thirtes.
years | have lived on these, and I
feel certain that l shall Eve to b,
100 years Of age at least"
Bill lived in New York City. a,s
meat and had his hair cut every
month thirteen years ago. He was
an assistant janitor then. He cans
TO New York from Saxony when he
was twenty-one years Old. He went
to California because he wanted to
study. himself. with urtrammelled
Nature Is his classroom. He is
pretty we'll acquainted with himself
now. he SAID. and when he is GER
tain of he why and wherefore Of
his existence he is going to take
to the highroad and tell about it
across the face of the country.
He is sincere. His eyes are large
and brown. His face, the little of ii
not shrouded by thirteen years Of
hirsute development, is bronzed
and smooth. He has a piece Of
tape wound girlishly about his head
holding his lengthy locks in place
and keeping the part in the middle
intact.
Bits is a womanless life You
never could support woman on 81
a week, he said. Besides, when you
are married you are bound and
harnessed, he pointed out. No
women for him-no. sir. He like:
the fruit diet and CALIFORNIA; sun
shine much better.
Did he ever have love affair
and did that have anything to d.
with his going into the desert AM
living on so little a week?
''Well-er, err Bill smoothe'
down his locks, don't those Thirt
Avenue elevated trains make al
awful rumble?"
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i, name and the address of the last
occupant of the particular room
concerned, provided the article
was found in one of the guest
rooms. Memorandum is made
whether or not the person con-
cerned has been notified and of
the disposition of the article.
When the accumulations fill the
storage space there is cleaning out
Of the old material and the I'M
claimed goods are given to the
Salvation Army. Occasionally the
Salvation Army comes in for quite
a tidy donation on this score.
Many of the guests leave articles
of considerable value. All money,
jewelry, watches and the like are
turned over to the house officer
for safekeeping after they have
been listed with the lost and found.
On one morning recently there was
turned over from one room two
diamond rings and $500 in cash
There we're two 500 bills and five
$40 bills. The day before a pocket
book containing $199 was found in
another room. Gold and silver
watches are found more frequently
than one would expect. These sums
of money that are found are al
ways discovered under the pillow,
where the guest had put them for
safekeeping and then forgot them
because they were not in sight.
The percentage of lost articles
claimed is small. Where guests
leave a forwarding address a form
slip is always used to notify them.
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Lost in Largest Hotel

beads, necklaces, brooches, shoes.
overcoats, mems suits and false
teeth.
A search of the records for q
period of six weeks revealed that in
that time only one man had forgot
ten his pipe. 1t might be accepted
as meaning either that the pipe
is so dear to the pipe smoker
that it occupies very common place
in his mind, or that pipe smoking is
becoming so infrequent that there is
little opportunity for the average
man to leave one.
The volume of this lost and
found work at this hotel requires
a special department, in which two
clerks are kept busy on weekdays
from a. m. to $50 p. m. and on
Sundays from 8 a. m. to noon.
Monday is usually the busiest day
of their week. The article recov-
cred is turned over to them with a
memorandum slip detailing the cir
cumstances under which it was
found, where, and the date and the
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Good Setting for Relic

The parish of Mount Carmel is
extensive and wealthy. The Gothic
church stands surrounded with a
school, convent and hall. It is sin
gularly different from the quiet.
dark little churches where the sa-
cred relics Of St. Anne usually re-
pose. Instead of the "dim relig-
lous light" associated with the cere-
mony of worshipping the relic, a
cleaV, family colored radiance suf-
fuses the church and brings into
play the sparkle of the gray stone
walls.
During the novena the piece OF
bone rested in gold reliouarv
made from the offerings of the peo-
pie of the parish-their rings, pins
and other articles of personal
adornment. The reliquary stands
eighteen inches high and is nine
inches across. 1t takes the form
Of Jerusalem cross and was de-
signed by the Rev. John B. Nc
Crath, pastor of the Church of St..
Thomas the Apostle, New York. At
the base is Celtic cross set with
diamonds. The entire reliquary is
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der the hot sun without a hat on.
An effort was made to pass lightly
over this third of the mission in
the hope of reaching subject
which he might discuss and STAY
within reasonable doubt at least.
But Bill persisted in telling how
to buy plenty for 81 in a great city,
and being a guest freshly arrived
from some 5000 miles distance at
/ 3 cents mile he was permitted
to justify himself.
He explained, at the outset. that
he does not eat meat or drink any,
taing but water. Nor does he eat
IN restaurants and give the waiter
o per cent Of the check. The av-
GRACE tip of the workingman 10
the waiter buys the midday meal of
She man living on 81 a week. Bill
said.
1.-Two dollars Of the four" he
began, must be paid for room rent.
l have comfortable hall room on
East Eighth Street near Third Ave
nue., for that amount. This leaves
NE So week for my food. When
say l spend So for the food | make
mistake. 1t is more than two"-
A joker in Bills utopian recipe
was expected. He had evidently
brought brand new bit of humor
from California and its springing
was eagerly awaited.
Eyes, continued Bill, at costs
me more than So. 1t figures up to
s2.03."
This friend of yours from Long
Island buys you fifteen or twenty
meals week and you buy the
others for s2.03, isn't that SOP" Bill
was asked, lawyerwise.
He said it wasn't so and remained
silent for a moment, which is =
polite persons way of telling YOU
to shut up
I'm the morning, for breakfast. "
Bill resumed, II spend 7 cents for
fruit. Sometimes l get three
bananas or three peaches or four
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people, very seldom leave behind
them any personal belongings on
such trips as they take from time
% time.
These general assertions result
rom the experiences of the Lost
md Found Department of the Hotel
Pennsylvania, the worlds largest
hotel. Careful records are kept at
The Pennsylvania Of all articles
lost and found, and a study of them
Yields some interesting data.
For some weeks past this man.
moth hotel building has housed an
average of more than twenty-five
hundred guests nightly. During this
period the average number of
articles turned over to the lost and
found department has been approx
imately fifty day. One in every
fifty of the people who came to the
hotel forgot something of value on
leaving.
They forget such things as keys,
razors, books, hairpins, kimonos,
fountain pens, sewing bags, scissors,
eyeglasses, socks, hats, tooth
brushes, cards, stockings, shirts,
nightgowns, pajamas and whole
string of other personal belongings.
The things just mentioned recur
over and over again in the records
of the Pennsylvania lost and
found book Other articles left be-
hind include corsets, bankbooks,
bathing suits and waists, electric
irons, cigar and cigarette holders,
sponges, suspenders, wells, watches,
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hosting new signs to the masthead,
the Recruit is having a hard fight
to continue running first among
Union Parks attractions. Off the
bow, for instance, is model veg
ctable garden that has been doing
very we'll in spite of everything,
and flaunts the advantages of farm
existence in the face of Naval De-
partment, placards. Then, almost
dead astern, is recently arrived
aeroplane, entering hard in the COM
petition. However, there's one thing
to be said-you can't wash clothes
and hang them on the aeroplane,
and you can on the Recruit.
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plums. drink q large on.,.;..
Of water. That IS sufficient nr.s
lunch time.
AT noon have my largest ma,
buy 5 cents worth Of bread sho.'.
one-half loaf. Ten cents wo,.|
Of fruit purchased on the East s,s-
IS substantial rounding out for ~
meal. : drink several glasses =,
cool water. Mix, l believe, is f..
cattle, otherwise why was it mn !.
cows? Water, in the state in which
It falls from the heavens. is H.
beverage ordained by Nature ~,
man. Anything else is art;sc;.l
and unnatural.
My supper is Ike my brssE
fast. Perhaps instead Of buvir,
fruit alone l might get three =,
four cents worth Of bread and
spend the remainder for slice If
watermelon.
at is quite easy to subsist on n.
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Cro,cds Fill Church

The celebration of mass in the
early morning took on new sig
nlficance with the burden of intense
devotion and earnestness that filled
the church. One old woman-old
beyond reckoning-attended it day
after day, although she had to be
wheeled to the church. She has been
paralytic all her life and has faith
fully taken her place in all the pill
grlmages that have come within her
reach. According to her daughter.
she still believes that she will walk.
and her spirit remains young in the
hope that has filled her life for so
many years.
There was a blind man who has
visited at many shrines and who
prayed and petitioned mechanically
for cure, as if it had become a mat
ter of form with him. There were
other sightless people whose petit
lions, written by their friends at
home, were put into the box along
with those of the pilgrims who could
see. There was the usual pathetic
sprlnkling of deformed children
among those who kissed the bone,
and one mother, not content to have
her child kiss the relic alone, raised
the baby to kiss the foot of marble
statue of Christ.
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A BOUT two weeks ago William
IA Poster, thirty four, hermit, of
Palm Springs, Cal, "the
tourists FRIEND" came to New York
City with a three-sided assignment
he had given himself.
He was, first of all, going TO show
the New York public how to live
on 81 a week.
He was next going to demon
strate to this same public that it
S missing on a couple of mental
cylinders because it prefers lights
and pavements to trees and a fruit
diet.
He was going to visit a dear
friend who lives on Long Island.
When Bill spoke of routing COM
pletely the wolf from the porch with
"a worth of sustenance each week
It was kindly remembered by some
that Bill had spent his thirteen
years in the California desert un-
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HOW forgetful are you? Would

you be likely to forget your
pajamas or your nightgown or
your toothbrush or similar articles
of ordinary use if you went away
from home for a day or two?
According to recently compiled
records, just about per cent of
the average general public would
have to answer Eyes" to the fore
going questions. About one per-
son in every fifty, in other words,
fails to remember the ordinary
things of life mentioned above when
he does his packing after a week
end vacation or business trip. And
The" is said advisedly, because
from the records just mentioned
it is nearly always the man who
forgets his personal belongings and
not the woman. Women, contrary
10 what might be expected by most
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have come to the conclusion that
it's going to take long time yet
for the tide to rise high enough to
wash the Recruit off the bar. Even
after two weeks of rain she still
remained firm at her mornings. Even
with the abolition of the bar as a
feature of New York life, the Re-
cruit is still stranded.
Realizing long ago the semi-per-
manency of the navy's landgoing
craft, the Salvation Army built a
semi-permanent home beside it.
Thus the crew has the advantages
Of land and water accommodations,
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Al manner of ailments had left
their stamp on the children and
filled the parents with passionate
longing to have them well. The
most devout, as far as outward an
pearance could be judged, were the
mothers of sick children. And one
in particular carried her small bow
in straps-stretched out taut and
unable to rise to kiss the relic. The
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shifting price list, Max's Busy Bee.
situated on Ann Street, between
Nassau and Broadway, continues to
offer sanctuary to the hungry on
exactly the same financial basis it
always did.
If there is anything on the artistic
and imaginative bill of fare rang
ing in price above 10 cents II is
not blazoned on the walls or dis
played on the counters with price
tag. The sandwich still costs 5
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
n ME national pilgrimage to
b the shrine of Our Lady of
~ Lourdes at Lourdes, France,

Lourdes at Lourdes, France,
began this week. 1t was
foreshadowed here by the novena
just ended. when thousands Of people
kissed the sacred relic of St. Anne
and prayed for healing.
For the first time in the history
Of Queens County one of the ia
nous relics of the Roman Catholic
Church found resting place with
IN its boundaries, when Archbishop
Bruchesi of Montreal presented the
Church Of Our Lady of Mount Car
mel, at Astoria, l.. l., with piece Of
bone taken from the shrine of st.
Anne de Beaupre. During the novena
$4,000 people kissed the relic and
hundreds of written petitions were
placed upon the altar. In other
years the Catholics of Queens
County celebrated the novena at
the Church Of St. Jean Baptiste on
Seventy-sixth Street. Father
Charles F. Gibney, the rector at AS
toria, believes that the pilgrimage
to Mount Carmel will now become
an annual event and that it will
draw Catholics from all over the
country. The church is singularly
suitable for such devotions and is
picturesque in its setting and in
terror.
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priest bent tenderly over the child
and splaced the relic upon his lips.
The little one smiled wanly. very
feeble, very helpless.
Women of the summer colony Of
Long Island found their way breezi
~ into the church, too. and kissed
the relic along with the people Of
the parish. 1t would be hard to guess
at some of the ills of the pilgrims.
but many were merely observing a
religious rite of the Catholic Church
IN paying honor to st. Anne. One
old woman with brilliant pink
blouse and blue shawl wrapped
closely around her head did grace
ful, spontaneous thing when she
took a rose from her dress, kissed it
and laid it on q small table whore
the reliquary lay between two fam
ing candles.
Numbers of the pilgrims were
more worried about their hearts and
souls than about their bodies. For
twenty who carried canes and
crutches, who limped and tottered
and twitched, eighty might pass one
on the street without exciting notice
or comment of any kind. But all
were alike in the fervor of their
worship of St. Anne.
Nurne'r Of Prayer Is Steady
A steady murmur of prayer rose
and fell as the hundreds of candles
around the altar famed and flick
ered.> The beads of the rosariez
tWlnkled as the unbroken stream of
petitions went on. But the volume
OF prayer reached it's height when
mass was over and the procession
toward the altra began. 1t surged
forward with the inevitability Of a
tide that would not be stemmed
Father Gibney passed rapidly along
the line with the relic in his hand,
touching the lips of the sick with it.
laying it upon their bruises and de-
fOrmities.
Father Gibney says of the Pilgrim
age of Mount CARMEL 1--WE don't ex-
pect miraculous cures here apart
from the power of faith. It is q
great thing for Long Island that this
relic has been presented to us and
we hope yetNto have visitors from
further afield The church is large
and can accommodate great num-
bers."
Twice has Father Cibnev visited
the shrine Of Our Lady of Lourdes
and hopes yet to see some of the
miracles happen at Mount Carmel
tnat are common at Lourdes. These
pllgrlmages, becoming more usual on
1hls continent, can all be traced back
to the same source. Six hundred
thousand sick people annually visit
the grotto and the cures effected
every year have become famous the
world over.
The old quarter of Lourdes is
united with the new town by a
bridge which is continued in an
esplahade leading to the basilica. the
Church Of the Rosary and the grotto
With its spring Of healing water
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In Union Square

T F THERE are any sealed orders
4 for the U. S. S. Recruit to
up anchor and steam out of
it's roadstead in Union Square, the
crew aboard is only guessing at
them. Those who throng the
benches and watch the fountain
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years of Broadway youth. IS not !"
price list, but the dispensers of the
food. Instead Of being still, Ike
complacent philanthropists, they are
actually anxious TO sell their wares
Their voices rise above the murmur
of the crowd about TIE counters.
Here they are, Come and gel
EN-"
Eat a Del Monte sandwich, .
cents!"
Its ice cold, boys. Don't crowd
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cents at Max's; the doughnut, the
coffee and the waffle still pursue
the even tenor Of their way from
the financial standpoint.
But the strangest thing about this
caravansary, which has succeeded
in bunting the whetted appetites Of
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with none of the attendant ills of
rough weather. Besides, weather
permitting, they can play the band
or basketball on a level stretch off
the beam.
Yet, in spite of the changing
color from camoufiage to gray and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-03
Food for d Nickel

THOUGH the elusive sandwich
Il his risen on the tide of a bull
market from five to fifteen
cents, there is one place here in
town that has stood adamant against
existing change. Like the rock of
ages in the uncertain flood of a
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s Mecca for Catholics

The intense misery Of the pill
grims, the intensity of their suffer
lngs, the sores of the lepers, were all
laid bare with painful realism. The
cures were treated skeptically and
the lndlctmen was serious enough to
STIR the Catholic Church to contro-
versy.
The present-day worship of the
bones of st. Anne may be traced to
the influence of the pilgrimages tc
Lourdes. 1t is really the fourth
phase of faith healing recorded in
history. The first was the cures in
the temples Of Esculapius and
other deities in the ancient ,r~~'l
the second was the practice of touch
ing Tor the kings evil, in vogue I'm,
the eleventh to the eighteenth cen
Jury; the third consisted of the
cures Of Valentine Great,ake.
(l629-16S3), and the fourth. the
miracle of Lourdes and other resorts
OF pilgrims.
In the United States severa. re.
lglous communities have beer
named after Our Lady of Lourdes
The sisters of the Third Order OF
st. Francis, founded in 1877 anc
calling itself the Congregation OF
Our Lady of Lourdes, has it's head
quarters in Rochester, MINI. An.
other was founded in 1883 in the
archdiocese of New Orleans.