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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
ROW OVER IRISH
 FLAG
Mayor Wilson Said It Could Fly Over City Hall Sunday in Honor of MacSwiney and City Hall Committee Says It Musn't.

The question whether the American flag on the City Hall should be flown at half mast Sunday for the Irish martyr. Terence MacSwiney, is caus- ing considerable discussion among the Republican politicians today.
 A delegation of the Friends of Irish Freedom called on Mayor Wilson and requested that the flag be set at half mast out of respect to the Lord Mayor and Mayor Wilson consented to the proposition.
 When the City Hall committee, composed of J. A. H. Robinson, Ed ward J. McManus and City Auditor Heating heard that the mayor had consented to the arrangement they held meeting yestreday aftrnoon and held heated discussion as to the pro- priety of allowing the flag to be used for this purpose.
 Some of the members thought that the mayor was trying to put some thing over on them on the eve of the election and stated that no matter the Republican party on election day, and that if the request was granted the mayor would receive the credit with the Irish voters and if denied the Republican machine with which the mayor is not on good terms would get the blame.
 The meeting was adjourned until tomorrow morning when a decision will be made.
 It is believed by those who have talked with members of the City Hall Commission that the request will be denied.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
REFUSE NAMES
 OF WOMEN IN
 TRAGEDY AUTO

Coroner Eli Mix of New Haven is the death of Roy Robedoux, 12 years old, of the Bridgeport turnpike, Devon, who was instantly killed on Wednesday night when a machine driven by Machie1 Patvornik of Stratford crashed into a bicycle being ridden by the Robedoux boy and his 17-year-o1d brother Edward in front of the Midway garage on the turn pike in Devon shortly after o'clock. Edward, the older boy, who sus- tained a fractured skull and a broken leg and who was taken to the Bridge port hospital following the accident died at the hospital late last night as a result of his injuries. Patrovnlk at the request of the coroner is being held by the Milford police under bonds of $1,5oO. He was arraigned before the coroner yesterday to tes- tify as to his version of the affair. At the coroner's office in New Haven this morning it was said that the finding of the inquest would not be next week and that the finding would govern the death of both of the Robedoux doys.
 The Milford police this morning re- fused to divu1ge the names of five men and a woman said to have been passengers in the Patvornik machine at the time of the accident referring the Times reporter to the coroner. At the coroner's office it was said that they had been apprehended but that their names would not be given out until after the result of the in- quest was made public next week.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
Mocci0h
 State Of
 Collapse
Man Who Killed Knapp Put Loaded Shell in Gun Few
 Minutes Before Shooting.

room proprietor of STA Hallett street.
 who accidentally shot and killed
 William Knapp, IS, of 14ss Penn
 loaded cartridge in his shotgun a few
 minutes before the fatal shot was fired, was startling evidence brought
 out this morning during the course of
 a hearing held before Coroner John J. PheIan.
 Four young men who were in the pool room where the shooting oc- cured about Il o'clock last night, l Moccio, who is being held without bonds, was in condition closely bordering total collapse. The man was assisted into the court room, and ing against a table with his head buried in his arms. He refused to 1 take the stand, but between sobs and l moans confirmed the stories told by the other witnesses.
 | According to William Chapvelaine, l of 467 Pembroke street, who was present at the time of tIse Nttality, young Knapp had been joking with l Moccio earlier in the evening. About 1 o'clock, he left the pool room for the evident purpose of >oing home
 At this time, Moccio picked up the
 gun. a single barreled weapon which
 was standing in the corner, and placed
 a cartridge in the chamber. As he did so he said, Watch me fool him. '' l A few seconds later, Knapp re-en- ! tered the room. with his coat collar l turned up, and said to one of the men, Watch me give Tony hard
 luck story"
 l He approached Moccio, and started to talk to him, and the proprietor
 lifted the gun in a playful threat In some manner the weapon was dis
 charged, and Knapp received the full | charge of shot in his body.
 As the shot was fired, Knapp l cried, 1T knew he would do it.' He 1 then walked a short distance across | the room and fell on the floor. The wounded man asked one of his com l panions to call an ambulance. Mortified by the accident. Moccio
 clasped his hands in an attitude oi 1 prayer, and gong up to Knapp, ex. ! claimed, "I didn't mean to do it, ex- poolroom, and surrendered himself a1 the Second precinct station. | Knapp was rushed to the Bridge port hospital for treatment, but died
 before reaching the operating table Another witness, who was not present at the shooting, told the cor oner that he had been hunting witk | that he had used the same gun or i this expedition.
 l Coroner Phe1an continued the hearing until Monday, pending the re. suit of the autopsy. Moccio is stiI being held without bonds.
 At the conclusion of the 'hearins this morning, Moccio's friends gath | cred around him to express theil sympathy, but their efforts had lit.
 ton as he left the building, was pitt full.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
WILL BAR s T K EFT
 TRAVEL
Police Make Their Ar engagements and Issue Orders for Tomorrow Nights Big Parade All A t t e m p t S At Rowdyism Will Be Squelched.

Superintendent of Police Patrick J. Flanagan today announced the police details of the Municipal Frivols which will be held tomorrow night starring at o'clock and continuing until such time as the merry makers have exhausted themselves in their /, revels. Assistant Superintendent Thomas Flood with headquarters at Main street and Fairfield avenue will be in complete charge of the celebra- ton from the police end. The area lof the merry making will be split up into four sections to wit:
 Section l. Captain John O'Connell in charge assisted by four officers prise an area of Fairfield avenue on the north, Gilbert street on the south, Main street on the east and Fairfield avenue to Courtland street
 Section 2. Captain Wheeler in Icharge with one officer and II men. North, Fairfield avenue; south, Gill Jbert street; east, the water front and
 Section 8. Captain Hall in charge, two officers and 19 men. North, Grand street; south, Fairfield ave nue; east, water front and west. Main street.
 Section 4. Captain Blansfield Tn charge with officers and 21 men. North, Grand street; south, Fairfield avenue; east, Main street, and west,
  avenue.
 No traffic outside of the Emergency ambulance, United States mail wag- ons and other delivery cars will pe allowed within the restricted areas. Captain Walker and his traffic squad Twill handle the traffic situation. Men will be stationed on all corners to guard against any entrance to the restricted areas. No parking will be allowed on the old church site at the corner of Broad and John streets as this space has been reserved fer dancing.
 Superintendent Flanagan an- iDounced this morning that any at tempt at any rowdyism will be squelched and the offenders arrested lNo ticklers, shoe black or any nuis- lances will be tolerated and any of fender will be placed under arrest tAs preventative against pick Ipockets and other nuisaences Captain Iof Detectives John Re~sn and 41 plain clothes men will be on the jot in the crowds to guard against any of the so-called rough stuff that is liable to occur.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
 ON LEAVE
 RECALLED
Men Who Were Out Flee tioneering Back Follow
 ing a Protest.

Following a protest by one of the fire commissioners that leave of ab- sence that was given to ten firemen in order that they might employ their time until election working in the in- terests of the Republican machine was cut short and the men were re- called to fire duty, it was learned to- day.
 The ten men it is alleged were taken from the various houses by or der of John H. Leonard, chairman of the Republican town committee, who is also president of the Board of Fire Commissioners.
 It is said that when the other com missioners learned the fact they made a vigorous protest and as a result the leave of absence was cancelled.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
VETS GET
 FEW REPLIES
 TOQUERIES
Answers to Questions in Reference to Legislative
 Action on Prohibition.

Answers were received from only one Republican candidate and the three Democratic candidates for the State Legislature were received by the Prohibition committee to tn e questions which were mailed to every candidate in the State requesting that they send a written answer to two questions.
 The questions were: Whether the candidate would work and vote for a State Prohibition Enforcement Code and the second whether. they would vote in favor of the ratification of the 18th Amendment by Connecticut.
 Charles l.. Dennis replied that the laws of the State and Nation should be upheld and enforced.
 Joseph F. Mongrain answered that the ratification by Connecticut would be superfluous.
 John w. Treadwell answered Yes to both questions George B. Clark said, sI am in fla vor of a referendum by the people of the State."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
ASKS PRESIDENT
 TO MURDER HIM

Washington. Oct. 29.-"Will you be kind enough to murder me out right ?" this is the question that Ben jamin Salm oin, conscientious objector of Denver and hunger striker, put up to President Wilson today.
 Salmon is held at St. Elizabeth S hospital here, serving out sentence of three years for alleged desertion from the army. He has been on q hunger strike since July 5 although hospital authorities declare his hun ger strike is "norlinaP' for he has submitted to forcible feeding.
 Salmon, after losing in an effort to secure his release through the courts, President.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
FRANCE PROTESTS
 TO GREAT BRITAIN

Paris, Oct 2s.-French diplomatic Representatives in London have been instructed by the government to lay before the British government the French point of view concerning the decision of the British government to renounce the right of confiscation of German property in the United King dom according to newspapers here.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
GETS ALIMONY
 OF $1O A WEEK

TIimony of $10 week pending set tlement and $150 allowance for de- fence was granted by Judge William M. Maltbie, in the Superior court this morning, in the divorce suit of Enoch F. Griffith against Belle Griffith. Mo- tions for more specific statement and a commission to take depositions were also granted.
 The short calendar list was a long one. containing seven uneontested di- vorce cases, but it is probable that all business will be concluded today.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
$495,723 SPENT 5 FOR C.. o. P. CONGRESS

Washington. Oct. 29--The Repub- lican Congressional Campaign com rnittee today filed supplementary Statement with the clerk of the House of Representatives showing total cx- penditures to Oct. 2S of $495,72S. The report shows balance on hand of sT0 5Q2
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
BRITISH SEIZE
 ITALIAN SHIP

London, Oct. 29.-British warships have seized and taken to Batum the Italian steamer Ancona bound for Russia,% says a Moscow despatch to the Daily Herald, organ of labor It ! is claimed this action is a gross viola ton of international law. there being no blockade of Black Sea ports at present.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
MARY GARDEN
 A PROHIBITIONIST

Chicago, Oct. 29.-Mary Garden is Prohibitionist. The famous opera singer said so herself today.
 'tWhiskey and alcohol are the roots of all evil" quoth Mary. 'tProhibi- ton is the greatest thing that ever happened to this country. Soon there will be world prohibition. I'm for it."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
CLOCKS GO BACK
 ON SUNDAY NIGHT

At 2 o'clock Monday morning you must turn your clocks back an hour so as to have them agree with the Standard time as the Daylight Saving season for 1920 is then at an end.
 There will be no official action by either the Common Council or the mayor as the ordinance which set the clocks ahead last spring provided that they should be turned back at o'clock on the night of Oct. 31.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
KING CONSTANTINE
 REFUSES CONSENT

London, Oct. 29-Forme King Con- stantine of Greece, is unwilling to re- nounce his rights to the Hellenic throne and is refusing to give his con- sent to acceptance of the throne by his son Paul, who was today proclaim ed king
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
NGRAw PLELADs.

New York, Oct. 29-John McGraw. manager and part owner of Giants, pleaded rot guilty in the United States District Court this morning to the charge of having violated the Volstead Oct on whicE he was in- dicted by the Federal Grand Jury late yesterday. He was held in $500 bail.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS.

Because of alleged failure to pay a note of s3,o00, David and Isaac Schine have filed foreclosure proceedings in the Superior court against Antone1la Sciarello.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29

Owing to a continuance of the electric workers strike the cities of Lima and Callao were only partly lighted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29

Your Identification must be in writing.
 It must be brought or mailed to the Times Office.
 The person making the first iden- tification under the rules will be paid $1 OO.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-29
THE WEATHER

For Bridgeport and vicinity: Fair and colder tonight; Saturday fair
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

sUNDAY-Carneg Lhevinne
p. m. Cotilde m,
recital Philip
Hippodrome,
Mccormack; City College, recital
Baldwin; Princess Minna
MONDAYAeol Hail.
m, recital Wilson
forte recital by Hariette Cady; Metropolitan House,
French Faust Park rheater all
English "Ruddigore"; Music Brooklyn,
m, the Singers Club
TUESDAYMetropolian
Schola
Metcalfe Caas and Pablo
JOHN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS m, English,
Parsifa 86 Italian, Hail.
orchestral College,
A.
THuRsDAI-Aeoian Hail. recital by Tly Koenen s15
pianoforte recital by Mdguaa Metropolitan
House. Italian Aida" Academy Of Music Brooklyn s5
chamber
m, by Louis
FRIDAv-Aeian Hail.
oers Carnegie Hail. $3.50 recital by Helen Yorke;
Metropolitan Opera House. LA Juive."
SATURDAYCarnege Hail. sl5 benefit for the Hebrew
Veterans Memorial Aeoan Hail. by Irene schwarcz
Jacob Michel voneloj
pupils Of Ferdinand m,
Italian "Tosca': "Obeon
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Antonio Scotti Announces
His Operasic Plans

Antonio Scott yesterday announced
the plans of the spring tour of his
organization. the SCOTT Grand Opera
Company, which will take him and his
company on four weeks trip
throughout the South and the South
west; He will visit twelve cities, be-
ginning in Birmingham, Ala, with La
Boheme" on May 3, afterward going to
New Orleans, Houston, Austin. San
Antonio, Dallas, Wichita Falls. Tulsa,
Memphis, st. Louis, Louisville, and
closing in Indianapolis on Saturday
evening, May 20.
For this the third season Of his
organization, Antonio Scot.l has ma
terially strengthened the artistic as
we'll as the scenic element of his COM
pany His repertory will consist Of
Puccini's La Boheme,' "Tosca' and
~Madama Butterfly; Flotow's Marta. ?"
Leoni's "L'Oracolo,' Verdi's III Trova-
tore" Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci," and
the scenery for these eight operas is
entirely new and has been esigned
and painted BY James Fox, OF the
Metropolitan Opera House atelier. The
properties are from the Metropolitan
opera studios, and the costumes from
the Metropolitan Opera wardrobe.
All the favorite artists of last sea-
son, mostlJ Americans, have been re-
engaged as we'll as several rev ID
promising young American artists. The
list IS as follows: Sopranos, Florence
Easton, Ruth Miller, Anna Roseile,
Evelyn Scotney, Marie Sundellus'
Mezzo sopranos and contraltos: Jeanne
Gordon, Mary Kent. Tenors: Mario
Chumiee, Orville Harold, Morgan
Kingston, Giordano Paltrinieri. Barv-
tones: Greek Evans, Mario Laueeatj
Milo Picco, Antonio Scott. Bassos:
Paoio Ananian. Louis d'Angelo, Charles
Galaher. Conductors: Carlo Peroni.
Wilfred Pelletier. Stage manager.
Arm ando Agnini
The orchestra and chorus are COM
posed Of members of the Metro
politan Opera Company The en-
tire organization will include more than
one hundred persons and will travel
IN q special train.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

Another, who declaimed so effectively
about the northand, soon disclosed
himself as one who had studied
Nordenskiold's famous book and per-
haps also Weyprecht's monograph on
the glaciers. Not one gave u~terance
to an original idea, and the bearer
longed for single vigorous word were
1T not more than an expression of
disgust from the mouth of priest"
These things led us, in the issue of
The Tribune on August II, 1889, to
comment as follows, and though good
things have been done with Afro-Amer-
icap and Indian idioms, there seems to
be no reason for altering our general
characterization of what American
music is likely to be when it event tually
finds ITSELF:
"We are a mixed people and our
traditions are those of Europe. We
have no folk melody to build upon, but
must develop that as we'll as charac
terlstic mode of expression. The most
natural inference is that ultimately,
American music will reflect the best
of that produced by the parent peoples.
The lofty ideals inspired by the elias
ticity and excellence of our political
institutions, the social buoyancy re-
sulting from our freedom from the
bonds Of caste and a hereditary aris-
toe ocracy, the mprehensiveness of
thought and feeling invited by the out
look on a horizon which embraces
every possibility Of individual social
and national life.these things, COM
bined with the quickness of intellect
and fertility of invention cultivated
by the labors of subduing a continent
and combining the many units of our
people into a single whole, viii give to
the American music of the future an
individuality which will be just as
striking and unmistakable as that
based on national peculiarities of mel
ody and rhythm. 1t will then no long
er, as NJ. Charles Darcours said of it in
review of the concerts given thirty
one years ago in Paris by Mr.. Frank
Van de Stucken, hover between the
German and French schools; it will be
American in thought, feeling, striving
and attainment"
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
AMONG THOSE PRESENT IN MUSICAL
EVENTS THIS WEEK

eliminated In concert given in
Vienna in the beginning Of July, At
the musical and dramatic exhibition
then holding in the Austrian capital.
We were not disposed to smile ap-
provingly upon the undertaking, that
indisposition being due largely to the
manner in which it was conducted.
We could not see how the composers
were to profit materially by the per-
formance. of American works, and
glory to be garnered by the American
nation. There was no prejudice to
be overcome in Europe, but neither
was there enough novelty in the ar
tistic evangel which Mr.. Arens was
preaching to justify the pother that
he made. Moreover. the manner in
which he announced his concerts JUS
tilted foreign critics in expecting some
thing SUI generis, and when this was
not found in the compositions the re-
sultant criticism was more severe than
would have been the case had there
been less show Of pretense. Mr.
Arens's programs were for the greater
part fairly representative of the best
creative ability 10 be found in the
country. The German critics, however,
were less willing than M. Bruneau to
give praise to them simply for an en-
deavor which lacked national charac-
teristics. A writer in the "Neue Freie
Presse" (not DR.. Hanslick) said that
the works performed made an i'm
preston like the familiar faces of
Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Schumann and
Volkmann seen in a concave mirror,
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18

and expressed surprise that in the
blessed land of invention so little mu-
sical invention and originality" was to
be found. The compositions were re-
Elections of European culture merely.
However, he admitted that a sympa-
thetc chord had been struck by the
realization that there was even a
streak Of ideality in the Gland Of the
almighty dollar" Also, he found it
noteworthy that there was so much ca
pacity to assimilate artistic impress
sions as some of the compositions dis
closed. u. K. Paine's symphony and
MacDowell's suite movements are con-
structed on the best models; they are
the Mendelssohns of the New World
Others, like Arens, Chadwick and
Bird, now sit beneath Ygdrasil and
listen to the croaking Of the Wagner
ravens, and anon, in company with
Schienefeld, place their hecatombs be-
fore Berlioz and Liszt."
This critic was at least amiable,
more amiable and gracious than the
critic of the "Wiener Tageblatt," who
remarked:
"It was thoroughly respectable and
cultivated society to which we we're in
vited day before yesterday; much
travelled people, able to talk of long
journeys and good books in we'll
chosen language. And yet there was
little to stimulate the hearer and he
went away with heavy head and empty
about Africa as if he were familiar
with the darkest corner of the con-
tinent; gradually the conviction
dawnsd that he had read his Stanley
and suchlike and profted by them.
New-York tribune., 1920-04-18
Longing At Rest: Cradle Song ef the
Virgin.
Mr.. and Mime. Casals.

virgin
Mr.. and Mime. Casals.
Carnegie Hall, BIS p. m. Violin re-
cital by John Corigliano:
Sonata. D minor. Veracini
Concerto, G minor. Op. &c. Bruch
S Seren@t@ -----.-.... .......... Joseph
From Wigw2m ............Bu BurleiCh
Little Caprice Observation-Disclosures. Harrati
Hindoo Chant. Rinsky-Korsakoff- -Kreislsr
capriees. No 20. No. %. No. "a. N''''
Paganini-Kreisler
Metropolitan Opera House. sis D. m.
Concert by the Schola Cantorum:
Folksongs of the Basque People:
On the Mountain Tops: The Nishtin-
gales Message. ge......... Jesus Guridi
Melancholy: The Bird in Its Gaze:
Humorous Drinking Song.
Norberto Almandcs
Songs from the Asturias. Leon and Murcia:
Loves Martyrdom; The Little Siren:
The Donkey's Burial: The Slversmith
of Murcia; The Merry Bagpipe.
Rafaeio Diaz.
Composition by Modern Composers Of Cat
alonia:
Flag Song of the Orfeo Catala.
Luis Millet
The Proud Bachelors Antoni perez-Moya
nemorse OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Enric Morera
Bell Chorus .........J. Sancho Marraco
Good Friday Music ..... Antoni Nicolau
Modern Spanish Piano Music:
Corpus Christi in Sevilla from "ybe-
ria Observation-Disclosures. Aibeniz
La Maja y eli Rusinor Granados
Ahoaiuza DE fsllA
FL Albaicin de Granada; Jota Navarro.
Albeniz
Arthur Rubinstein