New Britain herald., 1926-07-19
PILGRIMS ARRIVE FOR NOVENA HERE
15,OOO Expected to Attend
 Services to St. Ann
CITY FEELS STORMS WRATH
Cars In Collision Near Shovel Shop Hill Tire Thieves Arrested - Water Main Floods Street-Rev. George P. Meyer Installed.

The novena of St Ann was for mally opened at St. Joseph's church yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock and services were again held in the evening at 8 o'clock. Services will be held each day during the novena, which will end on the Feast of St. Ann, Monday, July PC, at 8 a. m., | 5 and p. m. On the Feast Day. However there will be masses at 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, S:15 and 9:15 a. m. The last mass will be a high mass and it is anticipated that at least 15,000 people from throughout New England and New York state will attend the exercises on the closing day.
 The preacher of the novena this year will be the Rev. Thomas NJ. Schwertner, o. P, editor of the Rosary magazine, New York city, and author of the manual, The INovena to St. Ann" Father Schwer- tner is well known in Bristol having preached here on a number of pre- vious occasions. He also was the principal speaker at the laying of the cornerstone of St. Joseph's new church.
 The relic will be applied at all of the services throughout the novena. Father Oliver T. Magnell has also made arrangements to have visiting priests here to hear confessions in Polish. Lithuanian. Hungarian, Ger lman, French and Italian Sunday af- ternoon.
 Special automobile parking regu- lations have been made for placing Icars on Queen street. Cars will be parked on an angle on the west side from Center street to Maple street, but no parking will be per mitted on the east side during the lnovena. Center street may be used flor parking purposes on both sides land the parochial school grounds may so be utilized for this purpose
 Early this morning, pilgrims started to pour into the city by auto mobile. train and trolley cars and many arriving today will remain until the close of the novena.
 Three Cars in Collision
 Cars operated by Rudolph Mil brandt of Il Hull street and Jaco'
 Hanecak of sos Bristol street Southington, came together near tn | foot of Shovel Shop hill on the roa
 to Terryville at about 10:50 o'clocI [ last night, both cars been consid ; erably damaged. Milbrandt wa going toward Terryville while Hane cak was coming 10 Bristol and ap parently one or the other tried t' pass the approaching car too clos with the result that their iron wheels locked together. Jacab' Laser of East Church, Terryville who was behind Hanecak. was un able to stop in time and struck thu rear of the latter's car.
 Both Milbrandt and Hanecak wer' | in the city court this morning ant on the request of Hanecak for tim' to procure a lawyer. the case wa continued until Wednesday, July Fl Milbrandt is represented by Attor Iney Quinlan.
 | Struck By Motorcycle Charles Litz of 10 Church street l Plainville. while alighting from l trolley car at Muzzy field yesterda, . afternoon about 1855 o'clock, wa ) struck by a motorcycle operated b : Caro Rosati of Milford. Mass. Hi clothes were badly torn and he sus tained light injuries to his ankles, ? The question, which interested tn court particularly, was whether o
 not the car had stopped at the tim l L.it7 alighted and in view of the con . hicting testimony, the case wa ] nolled by Judge Joseph NJ. DonoVa
 on payment of costs after the partie S involved had agreed on settlemen r between themselves.