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murder promlauto be fair and
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mmunled by rain and fog on the
Morrow it promises to be partly
tofairand silently warmer generally.
~ harms-ates Record.
no lowest point of the thermometer for the
flimsy-four hours ending at noon tic-day wan
1‘,“ shim asro: highest. 7W3.
Ilium-n Almanac for 'l‘o-morrow.
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SAVE THE ELM TREES.
Contributions willbe received at the
.3000! Tan EVENING Slimmer. for a
{hill to be used in saving Norwalk’s
noble sluts from the ravages of the elm
, ”hustle. The following contributions
‘ , M70 thus far been received:
runway company ........................ $10.60
Marlo naturism. ...................... 10.00
Taylor-b Golden"... ..... . ................ 10.00
‘IAoWDOt‘lWIrd ........................... moo
’0ub.................... Lil)
WVaanren.......................... 10.00
lanyard: ............................... 6.0;)
Total ................................... $56.00
The School House.
' Tomorrow night the voters or the
Union fiobool District will have submit-
ted to them a plan for a new Grammar
Schoolhouse on the city lot, corner of
clay and Franklin streets. This recom-
mendation comes from a committee ap-
jolnbd ll; the last school meeting, which
looting rejected the proposition of the.
~ “Committee to enlarge the Frank
”mustachcol house.
' Just euctly what is meant
by : a Grammar School is not
defined in the call of the
“on. but it probably is a step toward
‘nBl‘bBohool. High Schools have be-
come a decided fad in educational circles.
but Mr benefit and practical operation
buotcomutenaurate with their cost or
an establishment of the claim of their
utility. In fact, if results are the exhibit
' ofth'cir quality. they are not satisfac-
, ”Jot: it is generally conceded that a
. Higthboq graduate is not well equip
”ii for ordinary occupations.
The necessity for additional school
room requires the erection of either a
new building or the enlargement of the
oldones. but before a High School is es
Iblished it would be well to fully con~
dds! if other education than a High
School course is not preferable.
In business circles there is a demand
for well-equipped book-keepers. type-
writers and stenographers; young peo-
ple acquainted with business methods
and fitted for any occupation in all
hooheeof life. rather than solely for
tbs professions. It is also an open ques-
tion whether the public should be taxed
infavor of any system that has for its
purpose. anything further than the pen-
sral welfare.
CONNECTICU’ll'tl‘SHoWlNii
Why the Irate Takes an Ahaorlilng tutor
at In the lI'ariff Bill.
in the course of the debate on the
metal schedule, Senator Hawley made a
lost interating and almost startling
showing of the manufacturing status of
Ooaauticut. After stating that is total
products it was relatively one of the fore
most mauufscturing states in the union.
is presented a table showing that in
many leading industries it was absolute-
lyfiflt. For instance, out of 00,000,000
worthof ammunition manufactured in
“United States. Connecticut produces
lastly “month it is out in the
mufacture of brass, making about 87
plrusut. of the product of the whole
Mr}.
0! brass and copper rolled it produces
ever do per cent. and it makes 80 per
out. of all the brass-ware in the United
m. manufacturing nearly “1.000.000
m out of a total product of “8.500.-
‘ . or corsets it mm to,ooo,ooo
was us against “2,000,000 for the
country. Of hardware $12,000,.
. II midst $36,600,000 for the Univ
, “ates. One-third of all ivory and
as work is manufactured in Connec-
M it makes over 05 percent. of all
and hfltsuuis wars. it makes
”than one-third of all the firearms
' _ in this country.
fif'all ths above Connecticut stands
“inbouandcapsCoanectlcut stands
linfllkandsilk goods. fourth. pro-
' ' altout.10.000.0w worthdnwccb
feeds. mile cotton atolls. ans,
‘ muster $15,000, , and
Wall“.
Mariam: by the causes
I?“ persons were employed in Con-
la manufacturing. or more than
i“ entire population of the
its wonder. therefore." said the
. m«virgin-insistsalanine at am midhaciiasi
m lullatrsst. Norwam Whom
will he held. and a matter which should
not be allotmi to go by defutlt. is to he
brought before our citizens for their de-
cision. Two meetings have already
been held. At the first one the District
Committee proposed putting anew build-
lugon the Franklin street grounds in
conjunction with the present schoolhouse
there. and asked for $20,000 for that pur-
pose. Thenarrow wording of the call
far that meeting made the acceptance or
rejection of that project the only thing
tcdo. It was rejected. However, the
District Committee came up smiling
again and called another meeting with
the same old proposition. It again re-
ceived an unfavorable vote, and a spec-
ialccmmittee was appointed to submit
to a future meeting the matter of a site
or sites for the proposed new school
building. It was evidently the intention
of that meeting that a choice of sites
should beaubmitted, but ‘ it seems from
the call issued by the District Committee
for Tuesday night’s meeting, that the
matter is decided beforehand, and the
citizens must vote for the city lot at the
corner of Franklin and Clay streets or
nothing.
At the previous meetings the matter
of asite was discussed and the north-
western and southeastern parts of the
district were suggested, but the larger
part of the school population being in
the northerly part of the city, a norther-
ly site seemed to find favor. The com-
mittee on sites thus far has not report.
ed on n northerly one, although geo-
graphically considered this would seem
to be the most suitable. The present
District Committee, Wllll their present
principal, seem to favor centralization.
making the three schools,’in’cluding the
proposed one, practically one. Other
District Committees may think differ-
ently, for there can be no
reasonable objection to hav-
ing three or more separate schools in
different parts of the city if there are
pupils enough to fill them. and this plan
is practiced in every other city that the
writer knows of. The matter of grading,
which the committee lay so much stress
on, can be done just as well from a
school in one location as another. it
would not be possible to establish a fulI
graded school at the start in any locat-
ion; for instance. the Uoncord street
Elchool, after many years, is only graded
to number air. A new school in the
northerly part of the city would prob-
able grade to number four. and relieve
the Franklin street school and make
room for the higher grades there. We
have two large schools now, and the
needs of the district call for about three
more rooms.
For a modern central school the pres.
out Franklin street lot cannot be improv-
ed upon. and when the district can afford
it the replacing of the present wooden
structure with a substantial modern
school house would be a decided improve-
ment. but to put such a building on the
city ltt as proposed, with its proximity
to a great railroad, with all its noise and
dirt, and whose boundaries may be
brought still closer, is a thing we would
later on regret. Let us build at present
a neat frame school house at about half
the cost of the proposed one, somewhere
to the north and West of the Franklin
street school, and it seems to me we will
make no mistake. A consolidated school
district. embracing all the schools of the
town, is a thing to be hoped for, and is
probably not very far distant. Then the
vexed question of High School willbe
settled, and we as citizens of a larger dis-
trict and of larger means. will know bet-
ter what we need in the way of school
accommodations. Ex-Scuooi. Visi'ron
ARREST PUBLIC ATTENTION.
A Marlin In misineaa Is That No Man (tan
Afford Not to Advertise.
A book entitled ”How to Get
Money, " published way back in the
fifties, contains the following on adver-
lining:
‘ 'Whatcvcr your occupation or calling
may be, if it needs support from the
public, ndwriiso it thoroughly and vill-
ciontly in some shape or other that will
arrest public attention. I freely confess
that what success I have had in life
may be attributed morn to the public
prose than to nearly all other Cilufii'ii
combined. There may [Kissibly he occu-
pations that do not require advertis-
ing. but I cannot well conceive what
they arc. him in business will sonic-
timcs tell you that they have tried ml-
vcrtising and it did not pay. This is
only when advertising is done sparingly
and grudgingly.
“Homeopathic (lililllii of advertising
will not pay. Perhaps it is like u por-
tion of physio—making the patient sick,
but effecting nothing. Administer lib-
erally. and the care will be permanent.
Some say they cannot afford to adver-
tise. They mistake. They cannot afford
not to advertise. In this country, where
everybody reads the newspapers, it will
be seen that these are the cheapest and
best media through which persons can
speak to the public where they are to
find their customers. Put on the appear.
ancecf business, and generally the real-
lty will follow.
“The farmer plants his seed. and
while he is sleeping his corn and pots-
toca are growing. So with advertising.
While you arcaleepingor eating or con-
versing with one of your customeryour
advertiasanent is being read by hundreds
and thousand of personatvho never saw
you or heard of your business said
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THE Least. armors Penance
TlDN an scars.
A llanafactunr Talks to His Congressional
Danilngfl'lth Producer and Consumer.
The lists Value of Local Industrios.
Benefit to Partners.
lion. J. C. Tunney. Washington:
Mr Dun Sta—It is said that the man
that makes two blades of grass grow
where one grew before is a public bone
factor. and if this be true, as it undoubt-
edly is. a corporation that has converted
a few hundred acres of virtually unprOo
ductlve farming land into a thriving
manufacturing village, giving support
and employment to 3,000 people. is cer-
tainly a benefactor to the state and
county in which such industry is located.
Now, the simple fact is that where
Crystal City is located was formerly a
sparsely settled farming community,
with one country store, the annual sales
of,whicli represented an aggregate of not
over $3,000 or $4,000. wit no market for
the fprmer‘s produce ot'.ér than was to
be found in the exchange of that produce
for such "store goods" as his family re- ,
quired for the year.
At this some place we now have sub
stantial buildings covering 40 acres of
ground and in these buildings furnaces
and machinery which have produced a
product the sale of which since, 1877,
when our works were first started, has
brought into this state the enormous sum
of $10,000,000; or. to be more exact. up
to the 80th day of August last the sum of
$9,878,976.08. not a dollarof which would
have come into this state but for the ex-
istence of our works at Crystal City.
It is reasonable to suppose, and I be-
lieve it to be a fact, that the larger por-
tion of this 'additional wealth thus
brought into our state has been distrib-
uted among the various other mercantile
and manufacturing interests, chiefly here
in St. Louis. that furnish the personal
and household supplies required by our
einploycea. as well as such articles as we
ourselves use in the emirse of our busi-
ones.
Not only this, the farmers all around
our works now have a regular and steady
market at St. Lottie retail cash prices for
all of the produce they choose to raise~
chickens, eggs, butter, pork, flour, hay,
corn, oats—do fact, everything that a
farm produces—while the taxes we have
paid in Jefferson county have enabled
its ofilcials to reduce the rate of obsess-
merit, and at the same time have assist-
ed in providing such increase in the
school fund as has enabled the connois-
sioners to extend the means of educa-
tion.
Other counties north, south and west
of us remain just as they have been for
years past, simply because of the absence
of just some each industry as we have
planted in Jefierson county.
Now as to the consumer of plate glass.
Our records show that vt'trarmiay
getting for our glass just 70 per cent less
than we waived for it it) years ago, and
this is explained by the introduction of
improved methods of manufacture.
All the materials we use are now ob-
tained either in our own state or in this
country with the single exception of
soda ash, which We have to initiort. and
the duty on which. upon the amount we
annually use, cipmls from *1 1,000 to
$12,000.
We do not ask that this duty shall be
removed or interfered with one particle,
because by reason of this duty some of
our countrymen are now establishing
plants for the manufacture of stain ash
in the United States. the successful dc.
velopmcnt and operation of which will
ultitnatclyrbring about such it produc-
tion of domestic soda ash as will enable
us to get it relatively us much cheaper
in the near future as we are now furnish-
ing plate glass to consumers if tlm same
protective policy is continued with re-
spect to soda ash as has been in' force
with respect to plate glass. In other
words, we wish to two American indus
tries developed to the fullest extent, be-
lieving the ultimate result to be a reduc-
tion of cost in each case to the consumer.
As a practical illustration of this, in
addition to plate glass, you will be inter-
ested in knowing that when we first
started our works we had to import our
felt, for polishing the glass. from Eng-
land at a coat of $1.25 to 01.00 per pound.
The protection given this industry in
America during the last 10 years has eu-
abled those engaged in it to so develop
it that at the present time we buy Amer-
ican made felt of just as good quality as
that made in England at about 70 cents
a pound. or a reduction of nearly one
half of what we formerly paid.
I assure you in all sincerity that my
statement to the committee—«namely.
that any reduction in the rate of duty on
plate glass must inevitably result in a
reduction of wages paid our employeek
is an absolute fact, as we have come to
the end, in the way of reducing cost, in
every other direction, and you know
what this would mean quite as well as i
do, notonly to us, as manufiicturers. but
to the country at large imd more espe-
cially to the party by whose action such
reduction of wages would be rendered a
necessity.
Do not understand me for one ino-
mcut, however, as urging you in com
alder this matter from a partisan stand-
point. I simply aslr you as a matter of
state pride. and more particularly be-
cause of the enormous benefits curin-
dustry has conferred upon a large num-
ber of the people of our state, to do what
you can to have the present schedule on
plate glass remain inst exactly as it is.
If what I have said is truswithrsapsct
to our own state, our mutual friend and
your colleagneuhfr. Bynnm—nahculd
join you in seeing that this schedule re-
mains uachanaed. inasmuch as four
large plate factories are located in
his stats, to hausdis'accruing there-
to, which! alarm are no less important
tetheatatsof fadlsua than thsyarsts
the stats of Inseam! Yours. sic.
A. ,
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NORWALK, CONN.
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TflAtBflMMllllATE Mm
WHO COULD NOT REACH US LAST
WEEK, 0N ACCOUNT OF THE
WEATHER,
THE SALEof GOOD
Will be ”WM" luring lhis Week.
Dress Goods.
’Tis our custom never to carry one season’s goods over to
another, and to fully carry out this principle, we’ll make a General
Reduction in Prices:
Covert Cloth Suitings, all wool, worth $1.25;
87.31; per yard. ' . .
200 pieces fine quality Mixtures and Diagonals, were import-r4
ed to sell at 7 50. Our closing price, 473 per yard. ‘
36-inch English Tricots, in all the leading colors, have been
sold this season at 500, 110W 299 per yard. '
Silks.
20 pieces Printed China Silk, extra fine quality, would be
good value at 75 cents and $1 a yard. Price to close, 59c and
75c, Just the thing for Fancy Waists.
Moire, Silk, in all coiors, only 59¢ per yard.
Ladies’ Suits.
Navy Blue Outing Suits, made of very fine cloth, this seasone’
styles, all sizes, only $4_68_
Ladies’ Three-piece Suits, coat, vest and
Duck, very choice and durable, $3.98,
Wash Goods.
200 yards Wool Challic, all new designs, very desirable, only
170 per yard-
Another lot (100 pieces) find Dress Ginghams; regular price
12130 yard; choice of the lot at 513‘; per yard.
500 yards fine Striped Flannelcttcs, in pinks and blues, our
regular price is 124;; Will close out the lot at 50 per yard.
Umbrellas.
We have just received a complete new line of Sun Umbrellas
and Parasols.
63c-
at this sale,
skirt, of'fine.q11ality
Special this week: A cotton Glora Sun Umbrella for
Made to sell for 7 50.
TELEPHONE CALL. 57-4.
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