disgusts 13“.. ran autism-.111. DIRECTORY. amp I'. and A. M. cordially invited. Charles 3 . W M. Robert M. Wilcox. ‘- 88 R. A. M. . 1‘s Iii-outs building, South M M 2d and 4th Tuesdays of ”oath-duly and August ex- " Still”? “:03. “W's?“ , : y nv a cue WK .Robert M. Wilcox, sec. ‘ oil-pf No. 62, Order Eastern Star ‘ ln’llasonic Building, South . it street, id and 4th Wednesdays . Inch month—duly and August ex- pied—wag 7: 45 o'.olock All me 050 E. S. rdoolally invl Wmlnsscx'erw M. Mrs. lda thohgh the event instill some ‘ . fill away, Danbury‘people are be- littling to prepare for their annual o phenomenon is held during‘the "x" beginning with the first Mon- day ‘in' October, and is known far and file as the Danbury Fair.” As a special feature, Wednesday. Ocotber 7, has been designated as the State Busi- W'Men's day. All guests of the 10- cal Easiness Men's Association, mem- ber of all the Boards of Trade have been invited .to take in the sights of the “greatest ever." Several hundred .we expected to attend who will see sights and still be unable to spend out. The State Business Men will atoll the Danbury Fair with extra in- t this year, because for the first t me in a long period an attempt will he made to rival it with a state ale. "fair. Many of the guests-to-be of the V'Denbury'Association are pulling. hard for the new institution, and no doubt will to the limit to make it successful. But, as in the past, so in the future, film will come and fairs will go, while the Danbury Fair travels its own way ‘lldrenely, growing bigger and better I g A Winsted minister has instituted an . *out door church service, in which the ' gallon gathers in boots by the l‘e/of Highland Lake. “No bell to summon worshippers, no ushers and no collection,” say the press despalch- es in describing the service; and the (“meeting place is an excellent fishing ground." Here is an example which , might be followed with good profit 4 . by our own clergyman. Often enough ‘hear complaints of falling off in church attendance especially in the ‘ or season. Then why shoudn‘t ,’ st go to the mountain when ‘fii mountain fails to go to bimi. Ser- ‘ :,in "God'.s out-of- doors," right in lap of nature,“ lire bound to sweet. teacher, in such conditions, has all re helping him along and booking in up. and he is s. gaining a hold on or ‘lnrnnasr 'ro WOMEN. Ready-made tub dresses were never sometiy as they are this season, and for some reason or other there are , sapretty ones being offered at sale rides than in any season yet. I am , one reason is because the manu- ' rers made too heavily for such a your. and that it is them and not ‘ coal dealers who are losing. ass a collar becomes soiled before his test of the gown is sufficiently so like it seem necessary that the I} out should go to the cleaner, and is" says they can be easily cleaned ems without, being detached from he garlnent. Bell a Turkish bath towel 1 thick pad and place under the A soft nail brush should then be in soap ends and rubbed light over the whole surface. Repeat the several times, turning the el; and filling clean suds. Woman who motors much has cred that nongee is an ideal fab car at this season when the dusty, for dust does “neither does it show} something smart about a fist’ed stock. and whether we- ring of the stiff, common and the lacy affairs which :led looking I do no‘ t is that there is a town rdn the stock. meeting develty for I corner den may be found in the filth, which can be bought Beautiful. This requires a which the curiousl e and. " wildcat. send ng roots lute the water A sin- . umpires readily. and before ‘ , the dilation Will be likely to ‘ ’ any of the spikes of violet Iregrasplng this it hwvemfor prints for a few cents, stI " [fill or a tub of water, upon the « 0W“ ' . each from 743 miiltbry subjects. Pol , and military: taxes to the number of Mayor flows, of Derby, Gets Alter Citizens Who Fail to Pay Their Commutation and Military ,‘Tsxes-eSisio (lol- leciors May Be Appointed NEW LONDON, July It's—The tenth annual meeting of the Mayors' Asso- ciation of Connecticut was held here today The attendance of out~of- town members was rather small, and they were late iii-arriving. The meeting was called to order in the Elks' Club house at 11:30 by Fix-Mayor Wilson Dart, president of the association. A paper on the collection of commuta- tion and military taxes was read by Mayor Howe, of Derby, who spoke as follower Because for fifteen years Derby has bout the banner town of the state in the collection of military and poll tux- es is why this subject has been as- signed to me. But Derby will have to look hard to her laurels if Tax Com- missioner Corbin remains long in of lice, for that alert and energetic of— ficial is prodding into activity all those who have to do, directly or indirectly, with the collection of taxes as never before in the memory of the present generation. Derby's close collection of the com- mutation tax began with the admin istrstion of her first mayor. the late Dr. T. J. O'Sullivan, and none of the considerations that have militated against its collection by other towns have deterred her from sustaining the precedent set by that worthy official, by his unwavering courage and his honorable record for rectitude, dcvo tion to duty and conscientious dis- charge of responsibility, earned the everlasting gratitude of the people of his city. Dr. O'Sulllvan never did thin by halves. and his paramount serv as to his city were a legacy that is still fruitful of good results. The failure'by other towns t? col- lect the commutation tax so cosely as Derby has, might indicate that the accomplishment was beset by formid- able, difficulties, but such is not the case. Derby's achievement in this re- psct .is due largely to the happy cir- cumstance that both parties have amu- lated the example set by Dr. O'Suilh vau's administration with scrupulous impartiality. Derby in cheerfully sub- ject to a biennial turnover of partisan politics and the collection of the mili- tary. and poll taxes always has been treated as a nonpartisan municipal function. True, the collector, by his zeal in pursuing delinquents becomes a target for unkind epithets, but, with a philosophic contempt for the criti- cal shafts aimed at him, reads up on Aristides. ostracized for his very vir- tues, and Socrates, condemned as a living rebuke to his enemies, and fur- ther solaces himself with thoughts of. the senseless persecution that is ex- perienced by most high-minded men who spend themselves in the public service. His excellency, Governor Roberts, may be taken for a present ind notable example. Methods tb insure the collection of the commutat on tax are far from complex. The first essential is a com- ~llete enrollment of the military and poll subjects. The function of an en roler does not call for the high expert knowledge that should be associated with the assessment of real estate, but it does require resolution and psistak— lug effort. The aim of tin enrollment often is defeated by the laxity or in- jolcnce of the curoller, which is en- couraged by the inadequate conpensa— tion he receives for the work. ’~The enroller finds that the time required fora house to house canvass, which-ll practically the only method of obtain- ing a complete and accurate list, is \irtually prohibitive when the :pay is considered. lie falls back upon the voting list, directory and the previous enrollment, and the result is a. jumble that balks the collector and‘deprives the state and the community of a good- ly part of their income. Especially is this so in factory towns, with their ever shifting population. Then, too, the enroller is sometimes a cog in a local political machine Which converts'the important govern- mental agency‘of lax collecting into a refuge at public expense of election "desire” and other useful servants ward leaders and: bosses. usually a tax dodger expresses on election day the gratitude he feels for the absence of his name from the enroller's book. But thanks to the indomitable inquisi- tiveness of the present tax commis- sioner, the state' s official interposition is reaching out to stop this prostitu tion of its interests to the purposes of corrupt politics. in Derby last. year the compensation for. the enrolier was 875 per annum This sum was ridiculously meagre, ai though' so thoroughly, acurstely and systematically was the enrollment made in Dr- O'Sullivan' s time that tho wdifk was greatly simplified for never- ailears.1.ast year the pay of the en- mi er in Derby was increased to 8175 by.- a iii-partisan board and the extra has been an investdtent that has yielded the city golden returns» Although the subject assigned to me criicerns only the commutatiou tax. this assessment of military subjects tthe poll tax are so closely related if have considered them together. litor‘y and poll subjec are enrolled at the same time and sir taxes are collected simultaneously, and in the some manner. Last your Tax Collec- tor Roche. whose record may be taken as a standard for close collections, had on NI rate book the names of 1086 poll and 874 military subjects. He col- Mind If each from 1351 poll and I! spectively, were abated. dolihquIntI were avg: boa VIII “1 fill dill ll others were in stationed circumstsno- cs that justified exoneratlon. The on- roller interpreters and police cooper sin with the collector in running down those who could not give a reasonable pretext and the nice calculations of several tax dodgers were gaiiy disre- garded by their being summarily baled to court. ‘ Derby's experience would seem to demonstrate the hot that to collect the commutation tax the whole busi- ness must be taken out of the realm of partisan politics, and that inefficient snumerstors and collectors must be made to walk the plank. While in many towns practice has reduced the position of enroller and the office of collector to the lowestlevel of politi- cal expediency. in more men slipshod methods and inactivit are doubtless responsible. The unp sasant features connected ,with the work make a col iector's services too perfunctory to bring good results. This phase of the problem was obviated to a satisfactory degree in Del-by a few years ago, when the collection of all taxes was placed.’ in the hands of a trust company, thus eliminating the disagreeable personal equation. Either military and poll taxes should be collected with uniformity through- out the state or the law calling for their collection should be wiped off the statutes. The state and the towns are entitled to hone revenues or they are not. It is glaring inequality for a man in Derby in pay his military or poll tax with ciookvlike regularity and for a man in New Haven to de— iault just as habitually. Personally, I believe that the tax should be abolish- ed because it is predicted upon the false premise that existence is a priv liege and not a right. The onus of it is borne equally by rich and poor alike, regardless of property or in- :01116. To the wealthy man it is a mere bagntelle, but to many a strug. gliug toiler, who needs every dollar he cams and more. it is an unjust hard- ship. tl is not only levied upon the right to breathe, but it is based upon the assumption that those so unfor tunate or thriftless as to own no tax- able property are not taxpayers. Yet it is a fact that the largest proportion of taxation is paid by that class of the body politic which owns not a tithe of real estate. The laborer who pays from 88 to $12 monthly in house rent and the present esorbitant prices for commodities, is, relatively, the largest taxpayer in the country. To the man without property the burdens of the large taxpayers are shifted in increasing measure through the media of charges in innumerable ways. ilut" whether you agree with me in this or not, none of yen will dissent from the statement that the unequal collection of the commutation tax is not based upon the bedrock founda- tions of justice, and that. unless it is made uniform, nothing will become it so much as the ending of it. A discussion of the papers follow- ed. A committee of three composed of Eli-Mayor Cyrus G. Bockwith, of this city; Ex- -Mayor Alexander Harbi- son, of Hartford, and Mayor E. W. Hooker, of Hartford, was appointed to take steps to have a bill prepared by the late Hon. Augustus Brnudegee, of this city, providing for the appoint- ment of state collectors of commuta- tion and military taxes, brought be fore the next session of the legisla- ture. it was also voted to have the proposed bill printed in pamphlet form, and sent to the odicials of all the towns in the state. The meeting then adjourned to Ocean Beach for dinner, accompanied by members of the common council and other guests a party of about forty going by spe- cial trolley at 12:30. NEW HAVEN ROAD OFFICIALS CONTEMPLATING ECONOMY To Do Away Willi Telegraph Lines for Dispatching Trains. Subslliullnp Their Telephone Service — Great Saving in Wages and Toll a , o in railroad circles today it became know that the ofiicers of the New Ha you read are contemplating a change from telegraph to telephone in the near future. for the d patching of trains. Owing to the demands of la- bor, the added expense of telegraph service on the New Haven system has been enormous. Not only has the wage of the telegraph operator: in- creased but through the granting of an eight. hour day it has become al- most necessary to employ a third more men. Just when this change will be made is not known, but it is rumored that the day Is not far off when telephoning will be in use in the dispatching of all trains over this road. Another prime reason for this change is the foot that the railroad company has to pay toll for leased wires, whereas they own and control their own telephone system. Dispatch- lng trains by telephone is much quick- er, a message can be repeated or cor- rected instantly. and all officials of the department can operate the tele- phone system whereas they are abso-i lutely helpless without trained open- tors when using the telegraph. It was ensconced a few days ago that the Laokawanna road has decid~ ed to adopt the telephone system of dispatching, and will‘ces‘se to use its large number of telegraph operators after thirty days' notice. it is under- stood t the New Haven road is tie-n layingt e introduction of this oysters because of the financial depression and the' hardship whichdt ght bring upon the many hundredtembl es thus thrown out of work. - UNCAO OPFiCEHS iNSTALLED. South Norvnlk Rod Mon Also invited to I Clambake at College Point. The recently elected officers of flu- oas Tribe, together with the appoint- ed ones. were installed. last evening. by Deputy Great Sachem WJi. or and staff, of Stan ford The South norms Tribe members also received an invitation from the Stamford Haymahers 91:2“, 8th the mm- to cuum Panama lb will!» IMO M'NEIL’B NAME SUGGESTED. New Haven Paper can. Him Logical Candidate for Governor. (New Haven Journal-Courier), The esteemed Hartford Times ad vances the them that the Hon. Mel- bert B Cary. of idgefield, is the log- ical candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor in Connecu out thI year. it notes the " fact that ho was a supporter of“ Mr. Bryan in the convention from start to finish. and that of all the men who have run for the office under that banner in twelve years has polled the largest vote. It is impossible to quarrel with the general counsel of the Times. if devotion to the national leader of the Democratic party In to be accepted as a measure of one’s eserts. From a different point of v ew, however, and with the same respect for logic, the nomination belongs to State Senator Archibald McNeil, of Bridgeport, whose name was presented to the na- tional convention as Connecticut's' choice for vice-president and with- drawn only because it was apparent that Mr. Kern had received on the first ballot votes enough to land him. it. is not a slide down in the scale of things political to take up with the governorship when the nomination for vice-president is withheld-it is a step up, that is if we can judge by the spirit in which vice-presidential hon- ore were discussed this year. both at Chicago and Denver. , The last. time a Connecticut Demo crnt was mentioned In connection with national political honors was in 1892, when a. movement. was begun in this city to have the Connecticut delegation present the name of Charles R. lugersoll for first place That was sixteen years ago. which would appear to be all the more reason why the man whose name was actually presented this year for national honors should be given the «insulation prize if high is to prevail from nose to stern of the Democratic ship. then the ticket ought to be McNeil and Cary. There are ob viousiy special reasons this Year why the Democrats should nominate their state ticket with the greatest care. An Explanation, Speaking of logical candidates thi New Haven Journal-Courier. whosl artich- is quoted above. brings for ward the name of Senator McNeil to lead the Connecticut democracy. Of course the Times had the senator in mind when this paper named the lion Mcibert B. Cary for the honor. Both gentlemen are "Bry n 'Democrsis.’ Both are his person friends. 'i‘ ey stand on even ground. Both are ob men. Here again hey are an an equal- ity. But it is well known that Sen alor McNeil hand“ :“30 sumfor governor. Everyone dgrels the rea son. it is that his health is not as robust as his many friends through out the state wish it were Last fall Senator McNeil and Senator Brady, of New Haven, met at a stuttering in New Britain. Senator McNeil suggest- ed to his colleague from New Britain that he should run for the Democratic nomination for gov‘er or in 1908 Sen ator McNeil added t at he' knew it had been suggested that he (Senator McNeil) should be a candidate.th that the state of his health made his candidacy out of the question. Senator Brady remarked that e bad no money , DID TROPICAL SPILL. Lightning ItrlkII Factory. burg, Causing Fire lob Burn. Id Plant to the Ground. NEW YORK. July 15 «The tropical York for needy three Weeks, killing more than sixty persons and prostrat- when a severe electrical slim-m. accom- panied by rain and hail. Iwept over the city. Four persons died yesterday as the result of the heat before the storm came. The temperature drop- ped 20 degrsss within I few minutes after the storm broke, touching 71. The whole city wns wrapped in dark; uses by heavy black clouds during the storm, and lightning played incessant- ly Ono bolt struck and set fire to the five story brick factory of the Green Point Metallic Paint Company in Wii~ liamsburg. and burned it to the ground. There was a panic among the employee. and several were hurt in the rush to escape to the street. One of the oommissary buildings in the New York navy yard was struck by fire apparatus quenched the fiames. Lightning stru k the Hotel Rem- brandt in Amste dam avenue, disab- ling the electric light system, and in- iured two men who were standing in [rent of the building. Hall stones nearly an inch in diameter fell during the storm, breaking windows in ele- vated trains and ferryboate. During be storm, which lasted until nightfall, navigation on the rivers and boy was hindered. During the height of the storm :1 belt of lightning struck the overhead .wire of the New York' New flaw-n ind Hartford electric suburban line in Woodluwn, and caused the current to ’qu. Every electric train on the sys- tem from Woodlnwn to Stamford was halted. ANOTHER DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. Occupants of Fashionable New Yerk Apartment House ThrOwn Into l I Panic. NEW YORK, July 15.——-A dynamite bomb, exploding with terrific force eurc ly today in the areawuy of microbial» this apartment house in West 140th street, hurled scores of occupants from their beds. shuttered many window and threw the tenants into a panic A huge hole was torn In the cement floor- ing of the court where the bomb went lff. and considerable other damage was lone to the binding. Forty- two fnmi ties lived in the apartment house, but is far as the police could learn, none if them had received threatening let- ore, and the reason for the bomb brewing is a mystery. FiNE AI'IORTMENT or Souvenir Post Cards ALL PRICES. South Norwalk in a Sea Shell, 10c W. A. Briggsnnan’s MUSIC STORE. lonovsn Block. in Washington It. Agent for Opossum Laundry t or to put into a camp n Sen . McNeil replied: “Do not let that worr you. I’ll see thnt you have all the financial backing you need" Knowing these fuels the Times named Mr. Cary as the strongest "Brynn Demo crat" in Conncc cut was lead the part) on nations] on Issuesm—allurt ford Times. AGENTS EXCITED urnlsmos. - Two Men Arrested in Mexico Repro- Iontcd Themselves II Baptist Ministers. MEXICO CITY, July' 15. —The recent uprisings in the northern part of Maxi. co were incited by two Mexican agents of the revolutionary juntas in the United States. who traveled disguised as Baptist ministers or missionaries. These men, Eulalia Trevino and Cosme Pena. were recently captured at the town of Vanegas in the state of San Luis Potosi 'rh‘ey “pore brought to this «find held incominunicado by the out rities who idaily submitted them i sweating robots and by means of some documents captured. a confession was finally forced from them. According to the admissions in the depositions taken. Ehrlalio Trevino was president of a Mexican revolutionary club in San Antonio, Texas, which was subsidiary to the junta at St. Denis Mo. He came to mxico under the name of Leopoldo Villareal and worked his way among the symapthlsers of the juntas in the northern part of Mexico in the guise of a Baptist minister. He was acconuanled by Cosme Pena, another of the party, and both were passing as preachers and holding meetings before small congregations in the state of Coahu‘ila and San Luis Poinsi After these meetings love feasts were held in’wvhicb‘ only the elect remained so as to keepthe auth- orities blind as to their real purposes. Trevino and Cosme Pena were is di root communication with Mason, the leader. who is now in the United States. and from time to time loot. him remittances from collections made Judge Peres de Inca, hovvev‘er, has brought out confeunioullI from them that a pertion of their collections were fraudulenty applied to their own use. an that they were using their can with Magoo, to aisist them- Ielyssn “hi robbery. I. bother importdndflbd was the it which Trevino and iii his possession - I. secret code believed to be that will « - Mason uses in communication With h Mexican following. other docuinen have been found. the nature of which will not be’ made ubllc, but the in formation contain therein will be made use of largely when M coop- penis to the United Stains to sxiradh tion of the participants in the recent raids in Coahuila and for thew? slit, most of those classed II r W H. E. Mead &Co ' 232 EAST AVENUE. EAST NORWALK. Telbpboue' 990. SOVEREIGN FRESHLFRUIT 20 VARIETIES. ‘1 We make these, Extracts from Fresh Fruit. and vouch for their _, Purity and Strength. Vanilla. , . ,‘Pssch, Banana, Nutmeg, Ginger, .Allsplce, Cherry. lemon, Coley, ‘ Almond, Sig-aWberry, Winters: green, Cloves: Black Cilrrant,‘ _ Orange. Pineapple, Cinnamon, Raspberry. Peppermint. Parsley. HEAVY Irons sums CONTIN-V in Williams; beat spell that has enveloped New, lag hundreds, was broken. yeIlerdao'. 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