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New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
GROW HUNTS ARE
 CONDEMNED IN N. H.
Farmers Warned Of Danger in
 Strengthening Birds

Philadelphia, Feb. A P-Formal protests against the wholesale slaughter of crows in the organized battle against the black legions in Salem county, New Jersey, have been made. by the Delaware Valley Ornithological club and the Nation- al Society of Audubon socities. Dr.. Witmer Stone, director of the acade- my of natural sciences in this city, also entered a protest.
 Characterizing the wholesale kill ing of the crows as an outrage" Dr. Stone said he did not believe "seri- ous farmers" would join in the crow hunts.
 The United States Department of Agriculture has studied the habits of crows for years" said pr. Stone, The investigators have found the food habits of the crow are just as beneficial as they are injurious. This wholesale killing of crows or the attempted extermination of any bird is dangerous. because you never know what the result will be.
 ''In Australia recently there was a severe plague of insects until the crows suddenly appeared and eXter- minated them. The crow lives on
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
WORTH MILLIONS, SHE
 LIVED ALONE IN HOTEL
Chicago's "Hetty Green" Taken to Hospital While Bell
 Hops Gasp.

Chicago, Feb. 24 LR = Hearing that their wealthy client was i'll, bank officials discovered Mrs. Ada Sawyer Garrett. II. known as "Chicago's Hetty Green" and pos- sessed of an estimated fortune of s5,00O,00o. living in a small hall bedroom in downtown hotel
 The bankers summoned nurses and removed Mrs. Garrett to a hospital. while employees watched in astonishment.
 Her have money!" exclaimed d bell-hop. Why. I always felt sorry for her - she didn't seem to have enough to keep warm"
 Money is only figures to her." was the explanation given by a friend for the seeming straitened circumstances in which the wealthy woman was voluntarily living.
 At her bank Mrs. Garrett was described as lovable person as we'll as one known for shrewd in- vestment in real estate. She was once known as "the belle of the north slde," and five Chicago streets are named after members of her family. Since the death of her husband. she has lived in SC. clusion, except for regular visits to her bank. It was when these ceased that her financial advisers made inquiries.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
40 Locomotives Are
 Shipped to Brazil

Philadelphia, Feb. A P--Forty locomotives with tenders are being loaded on the steamship Ben Jean nie at the Baldwin Locomotive Works Eddystone plant for the Central railroad of Brazil. They will be unloaded at Rio De Janeiro.
 The engines are of three types and are designed for both narrow and broad gauge tracks, the major ity being for road guage lines. The consignment weighs approximately 11.o0o,0O0 pounds. The vessel is ex- pected to sail within week.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
RECORD PRICE FOR
 SPEECH IN COURT
Woman Pays $219 for Two
 Words by Rum Sleuth

Although public speakers have been paid all sorts Of prices, ranging from $50 to $500 or more per speech, a new record was set this morning in police court when Mrs. Stanley Ma kulak of 126 Smith street paid more than $100 per word, for the privilege of hearing Policeman John c. Stad Ter make & speech to Judge w. c. Hungerford. Policeman Stadler spoke two words and on this statement Mrs. Makulak paid S219.1S. The entire hearing consumed about two minutes. Told in scenario style 1t would be something like this:
 Scene: New Britain police court (not crowded). Collection of bottles. jugs. cans, pails. pitchers, glasses, and other distillery equipment on table.
 Time: Thursday morning, Feb. A. 1927.
 Judge W. c. Hungerford-by him. self.
 Prosecuting attorney-William Nj. Greenstein in person. Clerk-E. J. Danberg. Probation offices-E. J. Connolly Rum squad-Policeman John C. Stadler and Daniel Cosgrove. Defendants-Mr and Mrs. Stanley Makulak.
 Attorney-L W. Colon.
 Prisoners, witnesses, lawyers, po- licemen. spectators. etc.
 Greenstein: MT. and Mrs. Stan- ley Makulak." Both stand up. Greenstein continues. facing the judge: Your honor. these people are charged separately with keeping a place where liquor it sold. Off. cers Stadler and Cosgrove purchased two bottles through a police agent. paying $1.o0 for one bottle and 76 cents for another. The state nolles the charge against the husband and the woman pleads guilty"
 Attorney Colon: Your honor. these people are honest, hard work ing, industrious people. They have not been in business vesy long and the wife saw a chance to make a few dollars so she violated the law to make them. They realize their mistake and I have told them if they come back again it means Q jail sentence"
 Judge Hungerford: "Officer stad- Ter, how long have these people been selling?"
 Stadler: "Six months"
 Judge: TWO hundred dollars"
 Clerk Danberg (after court): "The costs are s19.1S."
 Mrs. Tysko Arrested Again
 Mrs. Mary Tysko of Pleasant and Stanley streets, a widow and mother of four children, who was fined s150 and costs for violation of the liquor law, when arraigned in police court Monday morning, again faced the judge this morning on similar charge.
 Mrs. Tysko was fined s15o Monday morning by Judge Hungerford. Last night her store was raided again by Policemen John c. stadler and Dan- iel Cosgrove after a police agent had purchased a bottle of liquor. A small quantity of liquor was found there, the police say.
 She was unable to furnish bond last night and was lodged in the wo- mems detention room at police head quarters. Today she asked for . continuance until Tuesday morning.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
PIRATE CAMP OPENS
Batterymen, Coaches and Officials of Pittsburgh Team Gathering at Paso Robles.

Paso Rohles. Feb. 24 Pl-A squad of 20 batterymen, officials and coach- es of the Pittsburgh National league club was registered for the opening of the Pirates spring training camp here today. There were lG pitchers half of them rockies, and four catch CTS. The balance of the party of S5 which detrained was made up of scouts and newspapermen.
 Infielders and outfielders are scheduled to report next week.
 Among the moundsmen was Byron Speece, a husky highlander who played with Washington and Cleve- land in the American league and who was sent to the minors because of wildness. The Pirate leader says Speece has achieved control.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
Fighter Scores Kayo
 Despite Broken Hand

Wilmington, California, Feb. 24.- P-Billy Murphy. Lowell, Mass. welterweight, broke his left hand in the third round of a ten round bout with Joe Rivers here last night. He continued to force the fighting how ever, and scored a knockout in the seventh round.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
CUBS OFF TO CAMP
Twenty-Three Players Leave Chicago
 Today Headed for Catalina Island
 Center.

Chicago, Feb. 2s.--tP)-- Twenty three players leaving Chicago today headed the annual trek of the Chica- go Cubs for their Catalina Island training camp, with a handful of tickets reserved for men to be picked up at Kansas City and Los Angeles.
 Among the players expected at Kansas City was Percy Lee Jones, al- though President Veeck had no defi- nite assurance that the regular pitcher, denied a salary raise request, would join the troupe there.
 Another absentee when noses were counted on the eve of departure was Elwood English, 19 year old short stop purchased from the Toledo as- sociation club. He was reported to have delayed his reporting in an ef- fort to obtain part of the purchase price paid for him by the Cubs.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
Freight Derailment at
 Concord Halts Traffic

Concord, N. H., Feb. 24 Fg-Maln line tracks of the Boston and Maine railroad were blocked for several hours early today by the derailment near this city of six cars of a freight train bound from Boston for White River Junction, Vt No one was injured.
 The New Englander. fast express bound south for Boston, was held up for an hour and three quarters The derailment was attributed to a broken brake beam.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
TO JOIN ATHLETICS
William Shores, Right Handed Hurl- CT from Texas Expects to Arrive at Camp Saturday.

Philadelphia, Feb. 24.-lR- Will liam. Shores. righthanded pitcher from Lawn, Texas, expects to join the Philadelphia athletics at their training camp in Fort Myers, Fla, on Saturday.
 The whereabouts of Shores. who pitched for Mexia, In the East Texas league last season, had been somewhat of mystery to Manager Connie Mack. Reports to- day from Fort Myers said telegram had been received from the big righthander stating that illness in his family had caused the delay in re- porting and that he would be on hand Saturday.
 Word also has been received by Manager Mack that Joe Pate, the sole holdout in the Athletic ranks. would go to Fort Myers Sunday to talk over the situation with Mack. Pate Is now at Fort Worth, Texas.
 Practice at the Athletics camp this week has been confined chiefly to batting and pitching exercises to work out the winter kinks.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

beetles and cut-worms and parasites harmful to the farmers crops.
 There is another factor involv- ed in this crow gunning at night and that is the element of cruelty. When the crows are shot in their roosts at night many are bound to be wounded. There is no sense in maiming birds in this manner. Scarecrows are effective in protect ing farmers crops"
 Reports from Yorktown. N. J., estimated the crow casualties in the raid of the shotgun brigade Tuesday night at 1700.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Judge Hungerford granted the con- tinuance on the same bail, $500. Un- able to raise the money at the time, she was returned to the cell.
 Edwin Miller, 16, of 42 Erwin place. and Angelo Paldino, also 16 of 364 Elm street, pleaded not guilty to throwing snowballs at the Jewish synagogue. Their case was continued until tomorrow morning.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
THREE BOYS DROWNED

Perth Amboy, N. J., Feb. A (UP) The bodies of three boys were found today in an ice covered pool in an abandoned clay pit in Keasy. near here.
 A hole in the ice led to the search. The boys had been missing since last night when they left their homes 10 slide on the pond.
 The dead two of them brothers, were:
 Frederick 4. Peterson. today, Howard o. Peterson, 9, and Ernest Orosz, '.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
ROSS HEADS MUSICIANS

New Haven, Feb. 24 R,-Lance- lot P. Ross, 2S, of Scarsdale. N. r., was elected president of the Yale Musical clubs last night. The clubs are preparing for the intercollegiate slee club contest in New York on March 12. NJ. Ross has been this season's soloisf
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
10TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Mir. and Mrs. Hyman N. Dubowy of II Griswold street are observing their 10th wedding anniversary by taking a trip to New York, Atlantic City and Washington, D. c. They were married in New Britain on February 25, o17. MT. Dubowy is president of the Congregation Tep- hereth Israel synagogue of this city.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
WOULD ALLOW BETTING

St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 24 R--Bet- ting on horse races under the Pari- Mutuel system would be permitted in Minnesota by bill introduced ip the house yesterday. A similar bill
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Promoter Ed Lavrow of the Ma tional A. c. stated last night that he feels that there is a place for good wrestling shows in this city and despite the heavy losses in- cured last night in conducting the show at the Arch street hall, he plans to stage another card here within a few weeks.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Last nights attendance at the wrestling bouts held at Turner hall in which some of the biggest men in the game in the world took part, seems to indicate that wrest- ling will not be a paying proposi- tion in this city.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Kenneth. better known as "Petey' is sometimes termed Coach Cassidy s assistant. He has been official SCOT CT for the high school basketball team for the past five years.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

There's Ken Saunders. the pion- eer. Now his brother, Fred, is gaining prominence with the high school team. Then there is Bennie Saunders, captain of last years Ma tional Guard Reserves team and now a student at New York City college and last We have Hattie Saunders stellar guard on the, American Hos iery team.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24
WITH THE BOWLERs
ROGERS ALLEYS

PAFNIR LEAGUE
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

New Britain high school and New Haven Hillhouse high school repre- scntatives will battle 1t out on the chalked court Saturday afternoon in the Elm City high school gymna- Sium.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

yentres stated that he would take him on at any time and any where and he guaranteed his friends that he would win the bout. Just when the meeting will come off has not been decided, but it will probably be placed on one of the cards of the National A. C., which will be conducted in this city in the next few weeks.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Because of the fact that suit able hall cannot be secured at the present time, no date has been set for the show, but Promoter Law row will be in New Britain next week to make arrangements.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Al Ventres of Berlin. who is the leading mat man of this section. had challenge to a wrestling match hurled at him by Fred Bru- no of Hartford at the National A. c. wrestling show in Turner hall last night. Announcer George Dunn introduced Bruno from the stage and announced his challenge.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Ncntres. who would rather go without his meals than miss any wrestling exhibition, was present in the hall and he lost no time in getting to the stage and accepting the challenge.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

He announced that he has the undisputed claim to being the only legitimate middleweight wrestler in these parts who has never been beaten at the weight and he stated that If Bruno would enter at the middleweight limit of 1e0 pounds. he would be willing to bet that Bruno would be the loser.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

The name Saunders seems to be gaining . prominent place in the sport world in New Britain.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

ON THAT basis alone, I select the to. bacco that gives me pleasure in the great est measure. I wasn't deliberately trying to make rhyme.) That tobacco is Prince Albert =. good old Prince Albert, known as The National Joy Smoke and for good reason!
 Have you never known the thrill of opening tidy red tin of this fine old favorite and inhaling that wonderful fra. grance? Have you never sat at one end of pipe with P. A. at the other end and tasted that marvellous smoke? Then it's high time to start!
New Britain herald., 1927-02-24

Bruno answered that he was not certain of making the middleweight limit but if Ventres would meet him at catch weights, he would wrestle him.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28
SHE SEES WITHOUT EYES
BLIND WOMAN TO EUROPE
ALONE, VISITS ART CALLER
les AND CLIMBS ALPS, FOR
THE VIEW
BY ALLENE SUMNER
NEA Service Writer

Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug 27.-The
only person in the world who has ever
really seen Raphaels Sistine Madonna
is blind woman. "an old maid sing
ing teacher" who has never seen sun
or moon or any loved face since she
was a Six-monthS old baby.
This is the verdict of an old guide
in the Dresden gallery where the
tendereSt of all madonnaS dwellS. He
guided the hand of the blind woman
over the immortal canvas as she told
him what she saw; awed he told the
guides to keep silent, and bade all the
visitors be still while blind woman
told them what the madonna was.
Miss Almeda c. Adams, totally blind
saw the madonna when on years
tour of Europe utterly unaccompa-
MED. All alone, she travelled thou
sands of miles, trusting to passerS-by
for any necessary help.
Never Had Amy Trouble
She brings home with her not only
a memory of honors never before
given any human being, but also a
strong faith in humanity.
In IL months of wanderings in
strange lands and among strange
tongues, she had never one second of
danger, she says, and very few disa-
| greeable experiences.
There was the time when, in a
! hotel Of Rome, her sensitive fingers
found too much dust and dirt about
her pension room and she decided to
leave
! The proprietor forbade any servant
] to help her find her way down three
flights of stairs and out of the pen
sion.
sI was too American to stand that, "
says Miss Adams, giggling at the
memory, $50 I threw a bluff.
started out by myself, knowing that
! I did not have the slightest idea
where the door was. That frightened
them, as they knew they would get
i into trouble if I fell They almost
pushed me into the street and in
sisted that I give them 100 lire for
their trouble I had intended to give
them something reasonable, but that
maddened me. had nothing smaller
than 100 lire in change, however, and
| I started proWling about looking for
a wine shop or some place where i
could change it. It's a wonder
wasn't robbed of all I had, but ]
wasn't"
The years travel trip alone was to
Miss Adams just taken-for- granted
thing.
When she was only baby her
fmother asked her to bring her a dish
| towel
81 can't" she told her mother.
''Why not?" asked her mother.
t g <Cause Use blind"
A smart cuff on the ear followed
and her mother said:
Don't you ever again let me hear
you say that you're blind or that
you can't do anything that anyone
and everyone else can DO. You're not
blind and the world owes you nothing.
You owe the world double amount
of service yourself"
And the little girl never again was
| afraid, sorry for herself or willing to
admit that she couldn't "do every
thing that everyone else can do"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28

But other people did not take this
spectacle of blind woman wandering
over a strange country so much for
granted.
The pope himself pronounced a
special blessing upon her, placing his
hands upon her head, praying "that
for the blind one Coo may enlighten
her sight"
1t was the pope himself who gave
a special order that everything in the
vatican, including the choicest treas
ures, be presented for her touch.
Blind Miss Adams did not miss a
single thrill.
She descended into the catacombs
with her flickering wax taper while
other women screamed and turned
back.
''They were gruesome and black, .
she says. "But loved the expert
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28

way"
She flew from Paris to London and
back again.
No memory so lives as this, per-
haps-
"The view was superb!" the blind
woman says.
She climbed the $50 steps to the
top of Milan cathedral, clinging to a
hand rail along the narrow steep
flight.
She wandered through the Paris
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28

chons, buying the things any woman
loves.
Seeing to this blind woman is an
extra sense which we with sight cam
not quite understand.
A Matter of Concentration
perhaps if ever saw in the normal
sense / would know that had never
seen before at all" she says, "but
it does me very well.
It's matter of concentration, she
says. She approaches seeing" much
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28

ence."
She climbed Mt. Blanc, roped to a
guide and thrilling at the view.
She has smile for the memory of
the cemetery of the Cappucini where
the monks bones make chandeliers
and vases and freScoed walls.
''It is as if they were laughing at
DEATH" she says-"aS if they knew
their mere bones didn't matter and as
if they were having roguish time at
seeing their bones used in this queer
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28
~ THREE

as mathematician would approach
his problem.
81 perhaps see more beautiful
things than 1 would with real sight,"
she says, "for 1 can eliminate all the
ugly things"
Her trip to Europe was beautiful,
wonderful, but
I'm not whining; I've had more
than I deserve, but I'd give the rest
of my life for just one day of sight
in Florence or Rome"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28

To make children's shoes wear
longer buy strong shoes with heavy
soles. Keep them well repaired.
Grease about once a month, oftener
in wet weather, with a mixture of
neatsfoot or fish Oil and tallow.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-28

A wire basket is good accessory
in canning tomatoes or peaches. AS
these fruits must be scalded to get
the skins off, the wire basket is used
to lower the material quickly into
boiling water and out again. -.p.
The Pleasantville press., 1927-08-05
ANGLERS CATCH
OF TROUT MANY
But Streams Are Re-Stocked
To Keep Average of
Fish on Par
REPORT GOOD CATCHES

If the most ambitiousof anglers
had thought last month of attemp-
ting to fish all of the trout out of
New Jersey streams, they. would
have undertaken hopeless task.
Fishermen made big catches,it is
true, probably breaking all records
for June trout fishing in the Car
den State, but wardens with more
truckloads of big fish were always
a jump ahead of the anglers and
the month ended with the trout
population well up toward normal
and with bright prospects for fine
sport in the July windup of the
season.
The active wardens planted in
the trout streams during the month
10000 adult trout, all six inches or
over in length. The season had
opened in April with the streams
filled with fine fish as the result
of restockiginng work More big fish
were trucked from the State Fish
Hatchery, at Hackettstown, to the
streams and lakes in April and
May and the result was that New
Jersey this year set a new standard
for sport in spring angling. Thou
sands Of trout fishermen, wardens
say, repeatedly went home with
their creels filled to the legal daily
bay limit and with a new apprecia-
ton of New jerseys status as a
great outdoor state.
The trout were moved from the
The Pleasantville press., 1927-08-05
PHEASANT FARMS
HAVE MANY CHICKS
State Has Two Located at
FOrked River and At
s ROckpOrt
DUNN DEVELOPED PENS

What are probably the two
'asaargest pheasant pens in the world
have been operated this year by
the State Fish and Game Commits
sion at its game farms in Forked
River and Rockport. These en-
closures. each covering nearly 100
acres of welldrained soil, now
house respectively ringneck
pheasant chick population of 5000
and $500. In other pens on the big
farm are several hundred adult
breeders and 5000 additional adult
breeders are being imported from
England for crossing with native
stock.
The Forked River farm has been
one of the foremost institutions in
the United States in the successful
propagation of ringneck pheasants.
So successful was its operation and
so popular did the pheasants be-
come with sportsmen that the CON-
/ mission, in response TO the requests
from licensed hunters, whose fees
support fish and game work, estab-
lished another game farm at Rock
port, in Warren county.
Superintendent Duncan Dunn, |,
under whose direction the Forked
. River farm was developed, has
been placed in charge of the new |
institution in North Jersey and his |
son, Malcolm Dunn, is now super J
intendent of the Forked River /
plant. Both farms are operating to
capacity in rearing birds this sum-
mer and in addition to pheasants |
hatched at the farms, $4,000 pleas |
u ant eggs have been distributed for |
Matching to individual farmers
and sportsmen in all parts of the /
state. The latter will release the
young birds in the game fields.