WEATHER FORECAST. Partly cloudy to cloudy. with so t- it?" . and showers realm and PM”; hi r cooler tonight; Iikht variable winds. . > IAMATID 'II“ NIW. FROM ALL ’ART‘ OF TH! WORLD .Y A .PICIAL Wlfll AND OUR OWN O'CIATOH. \ \. J ”TABLISHED we .. ammo... scorn uoawaut. CONN. museum, MAY 6.1909 TWO 6mm _, . . _ _ _ 5"" : iltii’iiili FliR [Nil iii till lilFFIRillil Both Sides A»... to Be Getting Closer Together. and Situation is Ouieiing Down lllliilit illitlFRS liillliiitil iii Still Vole Not to Go Back Until the Men and the Label Do Today there seems to be a feeling among the members of the hat trade in this city. affected by the strike. that the present time is seeing the beginning of the end of the trouble. It looks to them as if the two sides are getting closer together on the issue and theythinli that it is only a matter of a short time before decidedly im- portant developments in the way of a settlement are announced. The reports of a settlement which have been going about the various districts continue even more preva lent than ever. -———— (Continued on Fourth Page.) Riiiliitllliiiilil Fill ilFi iii A [till 008 ‘idrian Nichols. oi East Avenlre. Had Stepped on Grey Hound's Tail Adrian Nichols, three yearold non of Mr and Mrs. Albert W. Nichols. of 214 East avenue was so terribly clawed about the face early yesterday afternoon by a closely mualled big greyhound dos that Dr. Joan Dumor- tier and Dru! 9&3,” prance, who at tended the child nhitud to graft a considerable am of skin and take many stitches to close the wounds. This operation was performed at no ’l inland launch it blwlliibd iii... Dorothy locitwood to Wei 1.... sing B. Odell. Now in Bush nets in New York -‘ Miss Dorothy Lockwood. daughter of Judge and Mrs. Edward M. lncitwood. gave a charming little luncheon, yes- terday afternoon at 1 o'clock, at her home in East avenue .when announce ment was made of her engagement to Lansing B. Odell, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Odell. Both of the young people are very popular among a host of friends. whose congratulations they are re— ceivlng over the happy event. Mr. Odell. who is a graduate of Wesleyan. is now located in the importing busi- ness in New York city. The guests at yesterday's luncheon were the members of a young ladies wlilst club, of which Miss lnckwood is a member and a few friends from out of town. The guests included Miss Gertrude Hniiihiy and Miss Marion Kimball. of Providence: Miss Edith Terhune and Miss Edith McNee, of New York; Miss Sarah Schuldice. of Danbury; Miss Mollie Staples. of West- port. and Miss lsabciic Aller. Miss Emily Nash. Miss Julie Knapp. Miss Emily Randie, Miss Jeanette Mathew- son. Miss Florence Jones, Miss Doro- thy Cbolwcli, Miss Mamie Sanger. Miss Mary Betta. Miss Mary Seymour. gins] Harriet Odell and Miss Cornelia dcl . lili [rhinitis liliil iii lliiiil Case oi W. H. Byington and Others Against H. F. Coicturrn ls Settled The interesting case of William H. Bylngton. of Norwalk. va. Henry F Colebnru, which his been hanging lire in the Superior Court for several months. has finally been settled by Judge (lager. The case arose from an injunction carved by William H. Byington and others on Mr. onisbum when he slatted the erection a two- story brick building over the orwalk river, on the northerly side of Wall street. Mr. Coleburn went ahead and after receiving permission to put up the building on steel structural work on the river bed from the government anthorigleii, he let the contracts sad fie building was started war that! mm so». cole- this“ skin lagged “titular! from male 0 it is hell: are his injuries, consisting of in ,1 long and deep digs extending from : forehead down over the face and. i,“ ' nose. Master Adrian met with his marlin experience while attempting to the threshold of a door. in which do; lay. In passing, the boy stepped - on 3the dog' a tail, and so infuriated was the canine that he turned about and set upon the child. using his claws as he was unable to bite owing to the muzzle. Particulmi severe were the digs on the end of t e nose and under the left eye to which places the skin was grafted iroui the arm. Later Mr Nicola shot the dog. This was not the latter’a first offense. Two years ago he had] hit Master A. w. Nichols. .lr.. in or er that it might be observed whether there were any food encles toward hydrophobic in the ani mal, he was muscled and ever since had appeared to he'geutio. ' One of the numerous dogs in Lowe street. owned by iicuizn Martinez yesterday aim "tied it csit own-'td by William F. Erotic. The dog is of the Boston bull variety and Micro he was with the cat iic iiiid prz'ictcullyt :hcw- ed it to small pi or on ‘ iiw bill [if fiiuiui units in Will Be Made Soon and Reported to , the House in Hariiord Not Later Titan June 8 HARTFORD. May 6.—A big victory from the standpoint of parliamentary tactics was achieved in the House of Representatives today in thsi long drawn out fight over an opportunity to get at the measure reported by the recess commission. The opponents of the measure mod as .a compromise the proposition to haves joint com- mittee of both branches timed to take the public utilities hill make a new draft and report it use by June a. The advocates of bill acceded to this and so the mot on to reconsider which was roushtrdht esterday was carried. Th; earns d' to deter- mine the rested) ofhths committee. the advocates of ., iii strains for a committee, bill Q p‘otba . hoe tile to the .mmiith. iative Chandler put up a ”stiff on thtl. but the house sea trust Speaker mass tempura a good committee on the part of the noun owing to the fairness he had shown throughout the long debate. Therese- lotion raising the commits” wast through and was but to the ion-u. but the latter body had closed up work for the weak." Attention is now directed to the sonata it has boas gossip in the ved that Ithe litJe fellow ‘ . will be scarred tori ifs. so frigh -. :~- burst was allowed to erect the build- < Chart with the. provision that no ,nt be in the building. which come close to the high water to “churn. at the trial. stated . court just what he intended to . re‘rd to the building, and on dd' those conditions he was s ted Wolfram to build. No blasttn will done, however. as it is feared that e aijolning Gazette building foun- dations would be endangered. The injunction. did not prevent Mr. Coleburn from doing anything that he intended to do in the first place. but in order to build he will have to com ply with statements that he made in court. The law'flrm of Walsh :1 Hubbeli appeared for r. Byingtou‘s interests. while the firms of Hurlbutt & Davis. and Warner & Goidschmldt were re- tained for Mr. Coieburn. iliil FRFlliiil Bills ‘SiiiSHFli illiS tFltRliiiili Slight Delay Caused tofl'lFraiiic on the Railroad in South Norwaik . it. was somewhat of a coincidence ihnt there should he a railroad wreck today near the South Norwaik' railroad drawhirdge. this being the iiftyoixth anniversary of the terrible tragedy in which so many lives were lost. Today‘s wreck was of a far different chater, not a single life being lost. The only injury to a human being was a cut on the forehead sustained by a fireman on a freight engine. Shortly before 2 o'clock this after- noon. an extra. freight train, wast- bouud. was cut apart. at the rear of the Swartz It Corbett block in Wash- ington street. in order that the engine might go ahead a few yards to take water from the standpipe south of the Washington stre t overhead bridge and When this oper ion was complet~ ad. the engine with its half dosen or so cars backed too swiftly into the re- mainder of the train. As a result the body of a her car containing a good sired consignment of paper for the Murphy Manufactur- ing 00.. of bat Norwaik. was rais- ed from the trucks and knocked as- kcw, landing against a semaphore pole. One and of the body was also badly smashed and the adjoinla‘of the next car, of the list type wuss so crushed. Ass result of the supportslven in, the aemaphono pols. adjoint ng track was not blocked. trains were able to pass the same as usual. The fireman wss sitting on the scat ofthecabstthatimdofthecrash and pitched forward the win- dow casing. The an ear declined to give the ilrsmsn’s name and also own. Shortly after the impact. someone HISiiiRi ill FIVE Ril "iilllil DRAWBRIRRFS —-——————5 William Harionl Was Employed as Drawtender tor a Period oi Forty~six Years Sllllllttliili iii HIS Still ll. Wiiiiili iiiiiFilRii l’rescni Bridge a Model oi Modern Sateiy Devices in connection with the anniversary of the drawbridgo disaster. iliusiril tions of which are given on this page, a Sentinel reporter this morning was given some intcrcstiug Information re< garding the druubrldgcu which have been placed over illl‘ rivur by the rail- road company. This was furnished by I). William iinrlord, who is in non of William linrfnrd, who was in charge of the draw at the illiit‘ of tho memor- nhlo accident. The railroad was com. plotod through South Nor-walk in 1848 and the original drawbridgc was error atcd at that time. it Wns n singii (Continued on li‘nl‘rill Page.) FiFiiilH BIRlHllii llF iiiPllSl Rilliiiilii Seven New Members Received. and an Oliering Amouuiing to 3500 Reported Must night was the real fiftieth birthday of the South Norwalk Bap tist Church for it was just half a century ago. to the hour. that the or- iginal band of twenty-one gathered at the former Burbanit homestead In South Main street and organised what has developed into the present litilhsn tlal church in West avenue. The church was filled for last eve- ning‘s service. which was in every way an interesting and inspiring one for the large congregation. During the evening the birthday offering was tak- en up and it has been found that the totni'is considerably more than 8500. During the evening a fine address wasdclivcrcd by the Rev. A. B. Coats. of Hartford, secretary of the State Baptist Corventton. whose subject was "Reminiscences." Mr. Costa told of the great progress made by the Bap- tist denomination in Connecticut dur- ing the past fifty years. showing that very creditable work has been done. The speaker confined himself to the general work done in the state rather “than in South Norwalk for tho prog rose of the local church hm. been thor- oughly gone into by Pastor Carpenter. in delivering his historical address Sunday morning. Mr. Coats. however. has a high opinion of the work iii-coin- .pliahcd here. At the conclusion of his remarks. Pastor Carpenter (‘Xii‘l‘iil‘tl the hand of 'cllmvrhlp to seven new members and Ivy, Fouls udninisitiiil the Lord’s Supper. communion Bi'i‘Vif‘O having bun postponed from last Sunday morning. After the offering Mr. Carpenter per- formed thc ordinance of baptism, the candidate being Mrs. George (lerrish. The services last evening were held in the auditorium. Archibald T. Merriam presided at the organ. This evening there will also be an interesting service. the last in connec- tion with the memorable anniversary. At this time. greetings will be read from former members of the church. now removed from totvn. and others. The members of the Congregational and Methodist churches will also unite With the Baptists on this occasion. The Rev George. D Egbert. pastor of the Norwaik Congregational church. sent word this morning that he world bi present. and1 is also expected that other pastors il be in attendance. SOUTH NORWALK PLAYERS LEAD “*1‘ St. Augustine Council's Players Lest Two and Woo Tm. It is still nip and tnck'bctweou the pool teams of South Norwalk Council. Knights of Columbus. and St. Augus- tine Council. of Stamford. in their tournament. with South Norwalii lead- ing still by two games. Last evening St. Augustine's reprc sentatives came up to South Norwalk and by winning two games and losing two.’ left the standliu unchanged Manure tt.of Stamford. won from damsa T. Rim and William F. Tarn- maay and r. lfannlng. of tSaraford. were defeated by Edward J. Hayes and William an ey. CIN‘I'lNIL'I CLAIOIFiID ADVER-m TIIIMIN T8. The Want. To Let. For late all other: classified advertisements today will its sound on the sixth page of The Sentinel. telephoned to the hospital that there had been a railroad wreck. and some little excitement was caused for a 1.... tennis omen l “-Wm .. iii-s. Theodore Olsen. of is Raymond street. has been removed to the Nor Another of'ihosc railroad "acci- dents" or, rather, accidental massa— cres. which have of late becorne an fenrfully frequent. occurred on the morning of the nth last. on the New Haven mum at hot-walk Guns. The morning capressjirain was advancing at fiiil sped the drawbridge where thc catastrophe occurred. was opcnéd to admit the passage of the steamboat Pacific. and the signal was accordingly lowered. Of this the cnainccrtoolt no notice. and consequently the engine. the baggage car, and two of the pos- senger cars dashed headlong into the river. which was there twelve feet deep. 80 great was their speed. that the engine struck against the shut O O :l'he Following Account of The Sentinel by Rev.W e Great Railroad " Drawhridge Disaster the Great Drawhridge Disaster of May 6.1858.ls Tsiren from T}ie New York Illustrated News. Which Was Furnished .H. Thomas. of Wilson Point. The Catastrophe. red in the copy). a lady who had been meni on the opposite side. literally making a loop of about sixty feet! The scene which ensued was one of incredible horror. Upward of fifty lives were almost immediately tics- troyed. by violent concussion or by drowning. those who were in the ears: among several contrived to beat their way out after they. were ‘suhmarged. The five in all) broke in two. its fragments hanging over the edge, and several of its passengers were thrown into the stream. The blame appears to have been at- tached to the engineer. since It is dif~ dealt to imagine any palliation for im- pelliag a train of cars rapidly at any timeyrer a drawhridge. while the en- gineer is said to have been unqualified by experience for the post which be occupied. Among the dead is Mrs. -— (man i l" 9”” . .i I t iii.” i x lint six or seven escaped of; bottom of the third car (there were. married only the day before. She died in her bridal robes. iler husband es- caped with slight injuries. Miss Emily Griswold. a daughter of the Rev. Ru- fus w. Griswold. is reported injured. Credit is due the citizens of Norwsik for their prompt and energetic ed’orts to rescue the suffer-arm. Thmu their exertion many lives womsav also! of those were rescued ware danger- ously wounded. among whom was ‘Jeusthan Trotter. Esq" of this city.- Sevarai of the killed were physicians returning from the medical convention. The history of the liairbreadth escapes effected by different persons on this occasion. would fo a. volume. A gentleman who hsp nod to he look log out foresaw the accident in time to throw his wife and two children from the window of the car. and to shed; on... Depot arm the Accident—Bringing units a escape with them. auflering only slight bruises. The express agent was aft. 3‘“ “fight“ on“. ‘in mammogr- 00 000 as“ ting in the baggage car. but succeeded in breaking his way through the roof. 2 Dr. ivea and Dr. Carter also went. down under the water in the CO", bl". L. . ’ . unhurt. Contatdci, . in the second passenger caught in the rubbish. the“ times but dually as was able to overhead. it floiidad Isa. . fact that many of the 'itillad ‘ wounded in the left temple. as it th‘ shock had cast them all in the direction. The wounded were at dives distributed through the town. and av. sry possible care taken of them. The . ladies of Nor-want on this occasion , - rendered most: efficient service. dolns- ' all in their power to allaviste t bdr- rible sufferings of the Wound and h W ‘M the anguish of the hushed Bilii iiiiiii mu 7 ' iii iiiiiiiiii James, Boyle. the Alleged Abdudor. Enters a Plea et'iNot Guilty MERCER. PM Hey 6~”Blily" Whine. on the witnaas stand in the trial James Boyle, alleged abduc- ay pointed finger at the croissant as he at in the prisonerl' box. and said positively, “That Is the man." He had been asked if he. could t out the man who took him away In Sharon, last March. and his an- swer was given without hesitation. Hundreds crowded the frail building doors were ordered locked to prevent a. possible disaster from overcrowding Boyle entered a formal plan of not guilty. the jury selected were sworn. and the openlng‘addrssa to the jury was made by 'i.‘. c. Cochran. in charge it! the prosecution. He outlined what ‘the state will attempt to prove.whicl1' differs in no material point trons ac counts of the kidnapping already pub. iished. 1 "Billy" Wliitis vi. the first witness and before being sworn caused a‘ ripple of laughter when he answered . question as to where boy‘s go who do not tell the truth, by saying, "they so to hell." In his boyish way he told the story of the man who said his name was Mr. Jones calling for him with a huggm at the school and telling him heh t to take him away on account at mal.lpox that he serving for a temporary court house walk Hospital for invdlchi bottom. when wart vosvvard todsy, and the was to talte others also. and that “Bli- ly” would meet his Menus on the train. 1 Bill's liili Rillillli ill Fill lltlliii Bill Edmund Benedict. at 87 West Street Lands on Railroad Tracks Edmund Benedict. the six year old son of Mr and‘ lira. ArthuriBLBonedict. of 87 West street. was the victim or a, very painful accident. Monday after noon. and but forth that, arrival of some of h ,ths matter might have real width htdillot atmhsld inertia m which proton the- '1!!!“ch from thp tracks of the New verb. New Haven headlong down the stodp banks of the track, twenty- dive fast below. HM sr were doubled under him in m afinner that the rigii rang-red. t one was on. and the lad was almost unconscious. its a Ibis to help himsaif- An: tw" boys nearby, seeing went to his assistance.» went to the cities where that play yiaihtie ” voilmar reduced the Mists. Amy. younsa-t arms":- -a i _ “I“! ”It Waldo stream. or iii-00. is seriously 11le . and Hartford Railroad Company. Here the M loll his balance and plunged tiaal waarso—sov so, w plumbing trade. Add 11.
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