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New Britain herald., 1925-07-28
Browns Chop House
 Sold for a Song

New York July ?s tF)--The voice o' an auctioneer yesterday chanted the requiem of Browne's chop house on Broadway, famous as a dining place for actors actresses. critics and paywriehts of the past half century The furnishings and deco rattons went for a song, the collec- lion of signed photographs Of stag. personlEas from Edwin Booth "a John Barrymore. manuscripts of sue. cessful plays and autographed nov "ls which had been estimated 9t S25.ooo selling for t4So, About cS persons attended and l,es than Sl no0 vas realized
New Britain herald., 1925-07-28

Winnifred Mason Huck, former congresswoman and the first woman to preside over the house of repre- sentatives, got herself sentenced to prison,
 Guiltless of any crime, she sought answers to the questions
 Are our prisons humane?
 Can girl, crushed by her fellow men, regain her place in society? This Is the twenty-seventh story, written for the Herald.
 By WINNIFRED MASON HUCK Former Representative to Congress
 from Illinois
 What is wrong with our jails? My weeks of imprisonment, and my subsequent efforts to "come back" brought that query before me more and more forcibly.
 Are our prisons functioning tc sateguad the mass Of society and also to reform and brace the weak. CT citizens who fall before tempta- ticn?
 Or are they merely institutions of revenge upon the wrongdoer?
 First of all, let us admit that a great deal is wrong with them.
 Lack of Interest
 Perhaps the basic weakness in the system is the lack of public in- terest in the jails.
 Each year the tails are better the tendency of public policy Is to become more humane. But there 1. also a public tendency to smugness We are too we'll pleased with the progress we have already made.
 Reports here and there show the elimination Of the more galling as- poets of prison life, the striped uni, forms, the unsanitary conditions the sunlessness of the buildings.
 Yes, our jails are getting bet ter" but they have been so bad that as yet the "better" does not mean much.
 For example, examine the choice ot jail matrons. In some instance. they are splendidly equipped for the work.
 Small Salaries
 But that Is not the result of any care taken by the state. Such small amounts of money are appropriated for their salaries that the kind ct women needed as matrons are sel, dom attracted to the work.
 When we go about retaining deserts we put our best engineers in charge, regardless of cost. We lavish millions on the redeeming of barren land and swamps.
 But for our human misfits, we merely assemble few stone walls and iron bars and put 40 or 60- dolar-a month matrons in charge There was q time when, even at Marysville, one of the highest types ct prisons, these underuaid matrons were responsible for their prisoners for A hours day.
 Now they are on duty only II hours a day,
 Physical Disabilities
 The woman with chronic indiges. tion or any other physical 1isabil. ity has no more business being a iail matron than the selfish. ignor. ant woman who lowers herself tC the point of feeling personal anger toward d prisoner. And yet many physical units arc acting as ma. irons in our iails.
 Feu- of the women serving in thi,
New Britain herald., 1925-07-28
MATCH IS POSTPONED

Fleetwood, England, July 2' LPl- Ram caused the abandonment of cricket match here yesterday he tween Roseal school and Haverford college of Haverford Pa, The Americans had 1oS runs while the English eleven had 26 for one wicket when play stopped
New Britain herald., 1925-07-28

the University of Illinois football team and all-Amerlcan halfhack for the past two years arrived yesterday 10 make up some scholastic work to become eligible this fall.
New Britain herald., 1925-07-28

GRANGE STtR1S STUDIES
 rhan9 IlA, July oi tP-Harold l. CRod) GrauEa, captain elact of
New Britain herald., 1925-07-28

We know how remarkably we'll the Desco Process cleans. your things. Others are rapidly acquiring this knowledge.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

in the world. Both he and Carroll have been going great guns and have been the sensation of collegi- ate baseball this year,
 New York university team has lost only two games this season and Holy Cross has only two defeats chalked up against it. Both teams are considered the strongest in their class and members of the alumni in this city are planning 10 see the game.
 Carroll first attracted attention 10 himself as a school pitcher while q student at St Benedict's prcpara- tory college ill New Jersey, During his career there, he never lost a game while he was in inc box
 Following his graduation from this institution, he entered Holy Cross and started pitching for the varsity team in the carly spring of 1922. It is peculiar thing that in his first start against Lafayette col lege, he was knocked out of the box and apparently was doomed to oc- cupy the bench instead Of the mound. Those who saw him in his first start for Holy Cross, branded him as a fuke and a bust. He was relieved by Jim Tunney who pulled out with a win.
 Since that time, however, Car roll has been the outstanding star
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
CRAFTY PLANS ID
 OUTWIT BEAVERS
Miners Resort to Strategy to
 FTuStrate Animals

Golden. B. C., June 1S (Pl-so thick and industrious have beavers become in the Winderemere valley that they are seriously interfering with mining operations, according to H. l.. Pertain, of Winner, who IS developing claims on Horse Thief creek.
 The beavers by dammtng the creek, caused water to back up into the mine and 1t was some time be- lore the reason was discovered. After a search the mine workers located q beaver dam and blew 1t up, but the mine immediately again fllled with water. Another investi- gating party found that the de- stroyed dam had been reconstructed and reinforced in weak spots by the busy animals within 24 hours. Fur thermorc, some 50 saplings, cut into usable lengths, were found ready for further work on tho dam.
 Officials of the British Columbia game board. in an effort to over- come tse dlrtlculty have suggested that the Hume idea. evolved by the Biological Survey of the United States, be. tried out on the creek, This Is the cutting of a Hume through the beaver dam so that the water will not rise above a certain point, on the theory that Mir. Beaver nays so much attention to his work that he never gives a glance upward, Though persistent as well as industrious, there is a limit to a beavers patience and, finding that his dam does not sue cced in holding the water back, he and his crew shift 10 some other place and begin home making all over again.
 Three years ago the game board closed the season for trapping beaver south of the Canadian Pa ci1c railway and the animals have multiplied so rapidly that they are becoming q nuisance. ]
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

Of the college world in baseball. He has suffered only two defeats in his entire career at Holy Cross. Both Of these came in 1923, the first at tho hands of Princeton with Cald- well in the box by the score of i 10 0 and the second against Boston college by score of 3 to 2. Since that time. he has pitched against both of these teams two or three times and has beaten them in easy style.
 During his career. he has pit ched in nearly 50 games and has only suffered defeat twice. His loss will he keenly felt by the Holy Cross squad. Carroll is slated to go to the big leagues next year. although nothing definite has been said about what team he will sign with with.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Viennese Actors Curb
 Hopes of Amateurs

Vienna. June 13 Rt-Amateur acting has become so popular in vienna, and some of the amateur actors do so well, that the profess sional stage, considering itself threatened, has found an effective remedy.
 A committee of professionals watches every announcement from any one of the 100 amateur action clubs in Vienna that charge admis- sions. Any play the rights of which are protected may not be given by amateurs, and if an attempt is made to evade this regulation, the police are notified by the professional &C., tors and act accordingly.
 Hence the amateurs are restrict ed. if they charge admissions, to plays by Goethe, Schiller, Leasing and other old time playwrights.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
HOLY GROSS FANS
 ID HONOR CARROLL
Greatest College Pitchers Last Game for Alma Mater Today

Owen Carroll, star .tWirler of the Holy Cross college baseball line, will make his last appearance in the box for his alma mater tomor- row. Members of the alumni of the college from Worcester Together with large number of Worcester citizens are planning gala day there as q farewell to the greatest of college pitchers.
 On that day, the Holy Cross col lege baseball team will cross bats with the New York university team In what is expected to be one of the greatest diamond and pitchers battles ever played OH the historic Fitton iield in Worcester. Opposed to Carroll on the mound will be Domenick Torpe, rated next 10 Car roll as the greatest college pitcher
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
TO SING FIRST MASS,

Rev. Cornelius J. Curry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Curry of 4S Summer street, will sing his first solemn high mass at St. Mary's church tomorrow morning at 1O:30 o'clock. He was ordained to the priesthood at Fall River, Mass, dast Saturday, and. as is the custom, will sing his first mass at his home church. A reception will be held in the afternoon from { to z o'clock at the home of his parents, and there his many friends may greet him. Father Curry will take up his priest ly duties in the diocese of Missouri. The date for his departure into the new field has not been announced,
 but upon his arrival there he will be assigned as teacher in a seminary.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
NID MATTHEWS SOLD.

Washington, June Is. R,-saIe of "'d Spark Plus) Matthews, utility 2Htheldtr with the Washington champions, 10 the Indiana polls club af the American Association. is an- ncuncsd by President Griffith of the washington club. Matthews has had NO trials with the Senators, coming
 rom Indianapolis last year after pre- 'iously playing with the Philadelphia AthIetes.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

tho pound act is the retaining Of a pound-keeper. For time, one year, the president of the Board of Trade acted In that capacity, but his life being threatened on one or two oc- easions by COW owners whose ani- mals he had impounded. no one else has offered 10 take the job.
 Its not the gardens they destroy that bothers me; mine is well fenced" remarked one member of the board, but in tho spring be- fore the grass gets green the c6ws come up to my store and try to scoop the green things out of the rlate glass window"
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Board. of Trade Takes
 Up Question of Cows

ouesnel. B. C., June IS Up - There has been much good -natured discussion at meetings of the Board of Trade here over the question of enforcing the pound law. and after the hearing of many opinions 1t has been decided that the only thing to do is to protect the pound keeper from rough treatment at the hands of irate COW owners, and let the law take its course.
 The chief difficulty in enforcing
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
WILL HOLD BRIDGE.

A bridge will be given to mem bers of the Phi Sigma girls this aft ernoon by Miss Dorothy Luhrs of 53 Forest street. Those reserving tables are: Misses Louise Brown, Ruth Evans, Gertrude Feiber, Lois Free man, Elva McKirby, Lois Mills, Gladys Rau, Grace Richter. Grace Unklebach and Adelaide Young.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

x-BattedNfor Osborne in 7th.
 xx-Batted for Mitchell in 9th.
 xxx-Batted for lIubbel in 9th.
 Two base hts--Bressler, Critz, Brown Home run Bressler. Stolen bases-Critz walker. Left on bases Brooklyn 9 cincinnati (. Struck out-by Osborne 2 kixey l. HIts-off osborne in 6, of Hubbell in 2. Losing pitcher-Oshorne Empires Wilson. QuIgley and Moran Time--1:50.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
IN BRISTOL PARADE,

Members of Private Walter J. Smith post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of this city, will take part in the state cncampment parade in Bristol this afternoon. Members Of the post who are dcsirous Of pa rading will meet at the post head quarters at sos Main street at 1:30 o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
BILLIARD CHAMP DIES.

Chicago, June IS Pt-CalyIn Dem- crest g, former worlds champion is,s balkline billiard player, died here yesterday. Demerest won the amateur title in 1907 and the pro- fessiunal title in 1909. He had been III for some time, following a ner- vons breakdoEn four years ago.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
INDIA WINS MATCH

Vienna, June IS Pl-India yes- terday won both singles matches in the opening play against Austria in the European Davis cup elimina- tions. s. Nj. Jacob defeated P. Brick at S-6, 6-1. 6-1, and Dr. Andreas defeated Count Ludwig salm- H oog. straten at 6-i, 6-2, s-6.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
SPRING BRINGS HoMrC,DEs

Acapulco, Guerrero. Mexico. June 1S HD - Statistics compiled by the office of the chief of mili- tary operations in this state show that while the courts had light cal endars, 14S persons had taken the law into their own hands and exc cuted death sentences upon their enemies during the month of April.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Games Tomorrow

St. Louis at Washington. Detroit at New York.
 Philadelphia at Cleveland. Chicago-Bost not scheduled,
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Games Tomorrow

Pittsfield at Waterbury. Springfield at Albany. Worcester at New Haven, Hartford at Bridgeport.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Brief Sketches of Famous Stars
URBAN BRED" FABEn Chicago White Sox. HikIit-handcd Pitcher

Born-Cascade, la, Sept. 6, 1888.
 Major League Career--Purchased by White sox in 1913 from Des Moines club, Western League. Re- ported price s350o.
 Outstandlng Feats-won e4 games and lost IS in 1915. In 1917 allowed but 1.a3 earned runs per game. Has been in one world series.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
ATHLETICS LEAD
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CHICAGO

N-BHtItu TOT Jnbney Tn bth, Two base hits-- Plttinger Adania, G;ib. son, Padgett, Frelgau, Grimm. Three base hit Smith. Home runs--Freigau Burrus. Wells. Sacrifice--Harris. Double playe- Burrus to Smith to Burrus; Keen to Frel- sau to Grimm. Left on buses Boston ., Chicago 8. Base on balls--ort Cooper i, Keen ], Struck out--by Cooney {, by Coo per l. by Keen l, by Genewich 1, Hits --oh Cooper in { i3, off Keen in Ia, on Bush In la off Cooney II In ', or denswich in 1. Winning pitcher heeh' Losing pitcher @ooney. umpires -Risler. Hart and Mclaughlin. Time ;4s.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
The Standing
Games Today

St. Louis at Boston.
 Detroit at Washington. Cleveland at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
A Catastrophe

There was young lady named
 Stella, Fell in love with a bow-legged fella. This risky young chap Let her sit on his lap. And she fell right through to the
 celia. -- Kansas Sour Owl,
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
The Standing
Games Today

Albany at Pittsfeld,
 Bridgeport at Springfield, New Haven at Hartford. Waterbury at Worcester.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
GERMAN CROPS PROMISE wrra.

Berlin, June 1a H9 - Germany Is expecting q record harvest this year, according to expert forecasts. Official reports in Prussia. ss we'll as throughout Germany assert that the prospects are as favorable as they were ii 1913. For many de- cades, experts say, the crop outlook has not been better than 1t Is for 1925.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results Toronto 5, Baltimore i. Buffalo 8, Reading 1. Rochester g. Jersey City 5. Providence 22, Syracuse g.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
AMERICAN A LEAGUE
Games Yesterday

Games Yesterday Chicago IS. Philadelphia 1. Washington '. Detroit 2. Cleveland 5. New York 2. Cleveland 5. New York 2. Boston 5, St. Louis 2.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

Games Today Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. New York at Pittsburgh.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

Historians generally agree thse about TOO redcoats marched at Lex ington.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
The Standing
Games Today

Rochester at Jersey City. Buffalo at Reading.
 Toronto at Baltimore. Syracuse at Providence.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
EASTERN LEAGUE
Games Yesterday

Albany 1, Pittsfield 2.
 Bridgeport 1, Springfield 2. New Haven 1. Hartford 0. Waterbury IS, Worcester 5.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
TEAM EOIR MINIS.

Team of the Central Junior High school league, after a bad first in- ming, which gave Team three run lead, frightened up and kept Team scoreless for the remainder of the game, winning out by the score of [ to s. The winners of yes terday's tilt now have two-gaus lead on the first berth in the league. Team { will meet Team 1 Monday after school hours. The score:
 Team ............5 500 020x-7 Team 2............s0 300 000D-s
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Baseball at a Glance
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Yesterday Pittsburgh 6, New York 2. Cincinnati 6, Brooklyn 0. Chicago 9. Boston '. St. Louis {, Philadelphia i.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

There are loo motor cars to every S5 telephones in the United States.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Games Tomorrow

Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Chicago.
 Brooklyn at Cincinnati. New ork-Pittsburgh, not sched- ulcd.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13
Speaking of Sports

Tho All-kensingtons will play the Cardinals Of Hartford in kensing- ton tomorrow. The visitors have not been beaten this season And are a fast club to give tho kensingtons hard rub. Jimmy Green. former star with the kacey and gesse-Le- land hines and Ray kilduff, former star outfielder and first sacker. will join the Ail-Kensington club tomor- row. Eddie Crowley will make his flrst appearance this year as an um- pirs.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

The Br;sto, New Departure team has fine attraction on at Muzzy t'ie'd in Bristol tomorrow when the srogan ball club of Troy, N. r.. makes its first appearance in this section. So far this season. the vis- iins club has dropped only one of he last eight games.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

The High street team of the Lam dcrs inter-departmtnt league took tumble to the tune of 14 to 9 at the hands of the Shipping Room yester- day afternoon at Landers Recreation held. The game was one in which free hitting held sway and many er- TOTS contributed to tho one-sided score.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

Babe Ruth again failed to hit in 'estertlaye game. Following the Jay before when he sent out a hom. er. yesterdays fall down looks more bhe reaction from the exertion of ! riday.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-13

Pete Fusari made three bad boots and this example shown the young sters did not good to his team. Preisser, the High street slab art lst, was way below form and seemed 10 pitch game which he didn't care whether it vas won or lost.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-15
PROF. H, N. LEROY
Martyr TO science
Victim Of Poisonous Gases
Used in Experimenting

London, Oct. Is R-The death of
Professor Harold Maxwell LEROY in
his battle of science against insect
pests has robbed hygiene of one of
Its foremost champions. Death was
due to a poison gas; with. which he
had been experimenting at the
laboratory Of the Imperial College
of Science and Technology at South
kensington.
The life of Professor Jeffrey had
been devoted to combating mans
insect enemies, and his efforts had
been rewarded with some remark
able successes, notably In Destroy
Ing pests which attack cotton, silk.
wheat and wood. and also in educat-
ing the public against the danger of
the house fly.
His services In combating the fly
pest during the World war received
wide recognition. To, him Australia
owes much for discovering method
for checking the rayages OF TIE
wheat weeyil. His studies in this
connection we're partly carried on
IN the United States. His attacks on
various wood worms, especially the
death watch beetle, also earned him
fame. 1t was due TO him that the
timbers of many Buildings OF his
toric importance we're saved. notably
the roof timbers of Westminster hall.
Had Many Methods
Professor LEROY had many meth
DDS of lighting insects. but he cs-
pecially favored chemical poisons.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-15

0O0,OOO francs In the issue OF bank
notes.
The fall In the value OF the franc
has put the American debt settle
ment question far In the back
ground, for the moment at least
Yesterdays drop brought its value
down to about Az cents, as against
a par value Of about 10 cents. In
some quarters, while the present ten.
sion Is not as yet attributed to spec
ulation, the fact that the govern.
ment IL considering means TO pre-.
vent speculation Is complicstinE
matters and making them needlessll
worse.
Some technicians declare that th'
rise in foreign currencies at this
timea Of the year Is quite usual, be
Ing due to various factors, notably
the end of the tourists season AMI
a consequent deduction in the flow
OF foreign moneys and purchases by
French commercial and manufactuI
ing interests to renew their stock o
raw materials from abroad. TIL
latter class has been holding bac'
under the belief that a debt settlr
ment at Washington would impro,
the value Of the franc.
Now they are all in the market :;
one time. which tends to send up Tn
price Of sterling and dollars still fu
Their. although the technicians b..
lieve only temporary.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-15

When engrossed IN experiments he
often forgot danger to himself. More
than once before last Saturday night,
when Mrs. LEROY found him lying
senseless in the laboratory. he had
narrowly escaped the deadly effects
of gasses. 1t was only last March
that he nearly died when he In
hailed some OF the deadly odorless
'Lewisite" gas, invented toward the
end Of the war and with which he
experimental for the determination
of insects.
Always prone to oVcrWork, Pro-
fossor LEROY never spared time nor
energy in pursuing his aims. Even
when lately while suffering from ILL
ness due to an inoperatle cancer he
refused to cease work. although
aware that death might intervene at
any time. His devotion 10 science
and forgetfuIness Of his own danger
manifested itself last Saturday. when
he was so absorbed in watching the
effect of a new poison gas upon flies
that he became ohlivious TO the fact
that he himself was slowly sharing
their fate.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-15
Partisan Families Now
Have Own BARRIERS

Paris, Oct. IS Pt-Homemade
haircuts and neck shaves are be-
coming the regular thing in French
households where there are several
women with bobbed hair. The ex-
pens9 OF keeping short hair trim
med neatly is so great that many
women are having some member Of
their family take course in hair
cutting so as 10 eliminate the heavy
bill of the hair dresser. Clippers, a
safety razor and short course In a
barber school are considered excel
lent investments in a family where
there are several daughters--and
perhaps a mother and an aunt or
so-who require weekly bob trim
ming and semi-weekly neck shaves.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-15
Plenty OF Reason

1--WE quit going 10 DR.. Brown"
What's the matter. bum DOCTOR
mo, he ran out OF prescriptions.
Mass. Tech. Voc Doc.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-15
French FINANCIAL
Circles WORRIET
CailaHx's Failure to Effect Debt
Agreement DisturbS Market

Paris. Oct. Is Pl-The tension in
the exchange market, where the fall
in the franc has brought 1t below
the standard Of the Belgium unit Of
value, all of which Is being laid 10
the operations of the Wall street
bankers and the failure of Finance
Minister CailauX 10 reach more than
a provisional debt agreement in
Washington, is proving the feature
of the difficult financial situation
which is principally occupying the
French government at the present
moment.