s
1 Hall.
little. more concord
. CONCORD N. H.. April
‘ written.
H the Amory.
The wide-awake, and
progressive business
man advertises in The
Sentinel and. beeps
. everlastingl‘ynt it. :
Wd'd'i'k'l';
ESTABLISHED 1870
Also
Entered at the Booth Nomi Post-ones
as Second Class . Matter
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SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.. WY APRIL 12.1912
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Bhowers late tonight or Saturday.
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\[IIINEIAIIIIAIIIIN IN EASE
HARIEIIIIII EAIIIY IIIIIAY
IIIIES BUNSIIIERAB IIAAIAIIE
Fourteen Buildings Destroyed and Two Badly Burned. Rendering
FortyIEight Families Homeless Shortly After Midnight, by
Blaze Starting in Woodworking Shop
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IIEPIIIIIEII. 'EIIIEIIEII IIEIIIII IIIIAIIIE III SIIIIJ EIAIIESI
.Some of the Big Losers Carried Little or No Insurance, and‘
Many are Hard Hit
HARTFORD, April 12.—The fire
which swept a section at East Hart.-
ford early this morning caused a loss-
ol $250,000 and made homeless til fam-
ilies. Altogether fourteen buildings
were entirely wiped out and two were
partly burned. All of the buildings
were of wood. The fire start-ed in the
engine room of W. A. Cairus' wood
w6rking shop and spread rapidly to
the big tenement block adjoining it On
the north. The names made such
headway that the East Hartford tire.
«melt were helpless and It was neces-
sary to send a call for assistance to
this city. Two engines responded. but
Ambush \
Innhunm
Edward F. Merrill Leaves Note
Behind Declaring He is
Tired of Life
NEW HAVEN. April 12.—Edward F.
Merrill, 'wno up until a few years ago
‘ltad been an assessor in this city for
15 years, committed suicide at the
Tontlne hotel some time Wednesday
night or Thursday morning. When
nothing was heard from him yester-
day. George '1‘. White. the. proprietor.
went to his room at about 4 o'clock
and finding the door locked, forced an
entrance. . Mr. Merrill was found
seated In a chair, facing a mirror and
with a bullet wound over his right eye.
A nevolvnr lay upon the floor.
,Upon the bureau was found this
I note :
"This Is my one free diet. Reason:
Tired of life—«Edward F. Merrill."
Another note, addressed to his
.‘nephew. Charles W. Merrill, gave in-
' atructhns as to the disposition of his
body. Another letter, addressed to
,thayor F‘- B. Farnsworth, was not
I " made public.
Mr. Merrill was well known in
democratic circles ill this section. He
had been In Ill-health for several
years. He was 64 years old and a
‘ ‘ member of a number of fraternal or-
, ganlaatlons.
a-RED MEN'S DANCE.
Every Saturday evening, Red Men's
Adm. 25c. Svec's Orchestra.
little it Will SALE
12. —Be-
cause of unpaid taxes, Pleasant View.
the Concord home of Mrs. Mary Baker
0. . Eddy, founder of the Christian SCI.
nondiscrimination. is advertised to be
‘ cold on any as next. Mrs. Eddy lived
many years at Pleasant View. and it
was t“; litany of her books were
Th. file of the property
comes about man 'of the refusal of
‘ . one of the executors
is, a any the taxes.
his to M7. and this
sum is candida ed by Mr. Baker to be
excessive.
W
«~an Milli“;
All
,
been tonight. at
by the time they arrived the confia-I
gratiou had gained such headway that
luuuhnm
uhnuumnl
Passenger and Freight Trains on
the Grand Trunk Meet
In Vermont
NORTH BTITATF‘ORD J UNC'I‘lON.
N. H., April 12.-«One trainman was
killed, another seriously injured and
three others severely hurt edrly today
in a head-on collisIOn of a passenger
train and freight train on the Grand
Trunk Railroad, three miles west of
here. on the Vermont side of the. Con
necilcut river.
Engineer C. H. Wheeler of the pan
senger train, was the man killed.
None of the passengers were hurt.
The passenger train was the express
which left Montreal last night for
Portland. The train was suppoaed to
have the right of way, and was mak-
ing good time when Engineer Wheel-
er ohservcd the freight Ill front of him
after he had passed Wnlock, Vt. lie
applied the alrbrahes and was able to
greatly reduce the speed of his train
before the crash. but was killed in
the huge streams of water had but
little effect. It was advised, when the
possibilities of the fire were apparent.
that dynamite be used on one Or more,
of the buildings in order to save the
others. hilt tilis hclolc step van not
resulted in. One of the llealicst los
etc as a lesult of the fire is (i W“
Darling, who estimated that propel-,Ity,
valued Ilt $75. 000 is lost ills Insur
ant-e is only $5 .000 and was tarrled by}
himself. The Cairns property “as
(Continued on Sixth Page.)
Etecrnlrloarloll
WILL BE PIIBIIEB
IITBI'BBIPLETIBI
The long deferred electrification of,
the New York, New Haven and Hart-
ford railroad from Stamford to New
Haven which has been announced
several times will be begun imme-
diately, according to an authoritative
report made today from New Haven.
and it is hoped that the work will be
completed before the end of the prom
eut year. The final estimates for the
cost of the work Is placed by
ports to be $4,000,000.
The electrification of the road from,
Woodlawn to' Glenbnook has
completed
Ibsen
time, but the furtheiI progress of the
work was stopped by the New Haven
road on account of the prohibitive
coat of the further extension. in the
interim experiments have been made
and the. road has found means by
which the cost of construction may
be decreased to a great extent. so the
work will be actively pushed. The re-
maining dlfince to be covered be-
tween Glenbrook and New Haven is a
little over 61 miles and if nothing on
forseen occurs trains should be run-
ning electrically betwen those two
points by the first of the year.
—THE HOLMES MILLINERY
3 Monroe 8h. South Norwaik. Latest
styles at reasonable prices.
eruption causes.
rllousiluos or mm
MOBILE. Ala. April 12.—~Corrobora~
tion of the report of an eruption of
Chlriqui Peak. near Bocas del Terra.
Panama. was brought to Mobile last
night on the Norwegian steamship
Orlgen. Captain Wang, and other of-
ficers of the vessel tell of steaming
through thick, warm; brown water
when passing through the Yucatan
t‘hannol. They believe the phenome-
non was ceused by a submarine dis.
turbance
Thousands of lives are believed: to
have been lost. the 0mm “HI it”:
no true estimate of tho «all. m
and property had. ban triads it
time the crises left Katalin by way 0'“
qulrtottsl. The Baptist quartstte ts
laconic th‘. musical public as. My
the City of Boeasw.
Capt. Wingldtmt lei bellowed
theta svelopnb. under son. had been
discovered In the rum» Channel.
W
mil unis nIoII-r on em
I
Wm tourist oar. limousine and
Tel. 110“.
for over two years and‘A
has been in operation that length of’
the wreckage of the icconlomea The
,mailcar which was next to Wheelers
Iloeomotlle, was demolished and the
I'tuo mall clerks were buried In the,
debris One of them was wIeIcly ill
I lured, but the other escaped with cuts
and bruises. A brakcmnu attached to
Ithe Montteai train was seriously butt
'and may not recover.
, Tile freight train, which as. s bound
from Portland to island Pond, Vt.
was ditched. The engine was partly
g demolished and the cars badly damag-
e. The clan of the freight tlaln anv-
ed themselves by jumping.
Another In Bridgeport.
llililmldPORT. April 12.—«One man
was seriously and three others slight-
ly Injured as a result of a bud-on
coilttion~ 'of ”two freight locomotives
In Iihs local yards of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford Railroad to-
day. The man seriously injured Is J.
L. Hoffman. fireman on one of the em
glues. fill engineer and the crew of
the other locomotive are the others
hurt. The engines were badly dam~
aged and will have to be towed to New
Haven for repairs. The accident. It
was stated here. was due to the fact
Ithat both engines were running for a
icertaln switch and in the fog neither
engineer saw that his track was black.
led by the other. About a hundred
feet of trackage‘ was torn up. Hoff-
man was taken to St. Vincent's hospl~
tal.
Trafichwas interrupted for titres
hours. A car containing horses was
thrown Off the track. One train‘ was
made up of 27 cars.
4....-.
MINER BBIIIIBII.
HIS ANNIVERSARY
Banner Council, No. 54, Daughters
of Liberty, celebrated its sixth anni-
versary last night In a most fitting
manner. The affair was in the nature
of a social and dance and those who
attended report that they had a most
delightful time. All entertainment was
also provided, the program of Which
was as follows:
Piano Solo.
Miss May Smith.
Duet~l~ieartn_l.ighi as Air.
Miss Carpenter and Mrs. Merriam.
Recitation—diners.
Mrs. Patterson.
Vocal Solo--Ws Mot by Chance.
Miss Blather Merriam.
Sketch—Fortune Wheel.
Vocal Bolwulne.
Mrs. Edith Craig.
Recitation,
, Mrl. Patterson.
Dust—Good Night BOIIM
_ .~. ,
conical-III concur.
The Baht-it Ndi'vrslk Baptist Church
aesthetic WIII live their progressive
musicals an evening. and the indica-
Itlonn are lint the edifice will be crowd-
nod to “I W“ Ulllcity A program
cor ran “Imam... has been pro-
“ pared had the auditions will'lnciuds I
both Mainl- and classical solos and
the but groups of church singer. In
this psi-t «the state and their con;
certs er. always highly appreciated.
«Datum products are the but»
Banner Bolton. To]. list. .
llllllill
Instructs
tillers to Boll tine
clampdown.
I
EIREIIEII IIEEIIWIIEIIIIIIIII
III EAIIIII IIE IAIIIE
wm Wait Until amt IstlI for
Work From Railroad
NEW YORK. April 12.-41y a major.
ity of more than H.000 out of 25,000
votes cast, locomotive engineers on
My rallroads east of Chicago and
north of the Norfolk & Western have
. strike.
Iwith the, railroads for increased pay
full. The count of the vote was com
I
i
I again Association of the railroads.
consider the result of the vote.
"for a M
The original demands of the engineers
by the railroads.
authorise the calling of a strike. in
if no counter proposition is received a
strike of the engineers on each of the
titty roads is subiect to call at any
time.
proximately 16.000 members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Euglncmsn had also voted on the
thorlaing a strike. should further nego-
tiations with the railroads fall. This
votes, he added. ware counted seller-
ntely.
Mr. Stone declared that he did not
wish to comment upon the result. "it
speaks for Itself." he said. “The next
move is up to the railroad."
“if the railroads do not make a
counter proposition. will you call a
strike?" he was asked.
"That is not a fair question at this
time." he replied. "I cannot answer
it now." ‘
As soon as the result we: reached.
dispatching It to him by special meo-
songsr. While no formal veto was
taken on the matter. the engineers will
probably remain here until April 18.
qwalting further word from the rall~
roads.
LBIII (IF PORK 16¢ LI.
Choice Young Fowls. 220 lb.
Native Routing Chickens, sec.
Fresh Hams. 110 lb.
Basalt. lean Fresh Bhoul are. its.
Homeland. Bounce. 13 0.
Dogs genuine Baring” no.
Forename: Bart-M.W
Breakfast 3*. m.
Hayes" mound Ham 1th..
ii loll. ”Pure um. tilts.
am Batteries. Ibo: lb.
tram MARKET.
noilANULATlB wean,» LI.
'. Net men than 10 pounds to d ons-
tomsr. laid at this price only when
tenant with other needs.
It“? more 'l'lA co.
vote. Mr. Stone said. was not consid-|
ered in reaching the percentage of 93.1 i with every 50c purchase.
obtained in the engineers' vote. Their'
IIIIIIAD IIIIEII IAII'S
IIEAIII IEIII SIIIIIIEII
Edward II. Blake Dies While
Superintending Silvermine
Road Work
.While sitting on a stonewall, this
morning about 9:30 o'clock, oversee-
Iug a gang of about a dozen men at
work repairing the roads of Silver-
mlne on Grindrod's Hill, Edward M.
Blake suddenly toppled forward. and
without having uttered a sound, pass-
ed quietly away.
Mr. Blake had been talking to one of
Iiitl men about his “time." and when
he fell several of the others rushed
to his assistance, but the stricken
man was already beyond all human
aid and died almost Immediately.
Frederick Fruedenthal, one of the
members of the road force, rushed to
a house a short distance away and
telephoned for a physician, and also
notified Mrs. Blake who was at home.
George W. Voorhecs, of Broad River.
was notified by Councilman I. ll.
Reed, and accompanied by Mrs. Blake
I
authorized their owners to call III-lug Mr. Blake complained of a pecu-
should further negotiations liar feeling above his heart. He said
I there was no pain. but just an unusual
I
plated at noon today. and the rssultlwerc alarmed and he went to work as
Imade known immediately by Warren usual.
8. Stone, grand chifl of the Brother-I
oiled of lmctimotIVe Engineers to .I. C. chars of age and a very well known
Stuart. chairman odf the General Man man in Norwalk. Several years ago
The general managers have out“ Norwaik and he also was in charge of
a meeting to be held born April 15 to the town farm for a time. His people
The originally came from Stamford. When.
engineera' officers have notified Mr ,the war hm out Mr. Blake went to
Stuart that they wcfiid remain here Delaware and there outlying In a reg-
, , nlltnent making up If. the time. He
counter preposition no nth-oil‘s. served an silt and your sad return-
hurried to the scene.
Mrs. Blake said that only this morn-
sensation. Neither he nor his wife.
about sixty- seven
Mr. Blake a as
fine was street commissioner of SouthI
Ied to Nomlk. no: i this he was
his letter to Mr. Stuart. Mr. Stone asks times his present wife having been a
if the railroads have any counter pro- I Mrs. Gram-an before he married her.
position to make and notifies him that , He loaves a son. Frank Blake, cmpioy- I
I
I
I
proposition. Their vote, he said. was : body.
also overwhelmingly In favor of an-
Mr. Btone wrote a letter to Mr. Stuart, I g, Sentinel reporter this morning; and
' made application to be appointed to
for increases in pay aggregating tit Iompioyed in Raymond B Company's
teen per cent. were lecontiy refuted grocery u be and George W. Ray-
mond. manager of the store. had
Mr. Stone announced that 93.1 per’known one another since they were,
cent. of the engineers had voted to small boys. ,
Mr. Blake had been married three;
I
ed by the Holmes Keeler a Kent
Company, by his first wife. ,
At one time Mr. Blake was s mom-I
ber of Buckingham Post, No 12. G. I
in addition to the 2b 000 members of A. it... and he is also affiliated withI
the brotherhood. Mr. Stone said ap- the Odd Fellows. ;
The medical examiner pronouncedt
death due to angina pectorls. and gave' ,
permission for the removal of the
The funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
-—0ALV. OIL CAN FREE
EAST trims ran co..
Tel. 371. 123 Washington St.
School. MATTERS
EXBITE IITEIEBT
Apparently the school matter is‘
still seething and will continue to boil
for some time. Dr. Edward H. Gum-
bart. principal of the Norwaik High
school. against whom vitriolic attacks
have been made. was Interviewed by
asked if he had anything to say as to
the statements which had been made
of his work and chances for rte-up-
pointment. Dr. Gumbnrl replied that
he could not say anything at all at
the present. when asked if he had
the position of superintendent of
schools under the new regime, Dr.
Gumbnrt replied that he had not made
formal application.
lit was reported this morning that
the school board would hold a con-
ference this evening to'conslder the
matter of the appointment of a suit-
erlntsndent and other weighty Inev-
tors concerning the consolidation of
the schools. Wilfred Bodwell. W
tarrotthe board. was sought for var-
lftcntbl of the ”port and replied
no: Imam He reported. now.
ever. that the text book committee
would hold a session titty evening. 3
W
I «Naval Militia Danes tonight. at It
team wanton-Itch muss,
'hII one. dead body with the throat
.liis ‘Mncs do to ”BMW_
mi
EAIHEII IIIIIIIIIEIIS SIIN
WIIH SIIIII ERIIM IIIIII III
NEW HAVEN. IASI IIIIIH
A Midnight Quarrel liver the Lighting of a Lamp Ends In - ‘an
taiity—Tragedy Was the
Bulmlnation of a Number
of Encounters Between Two Men
IIIIIIIIS IIEIIIIIIIIS IIAIIE IIII
AEIEII IIIIIIIAIIIIIIIII
AIIEIIPI lII ESIIAI’E
.IIEEII AIIII APEEAIIEII IIAZED‘I
Victim Had Been Drinking Heavily, and is Survived by a Wife
and Four Small Children
NEW HAVEN. April 12.—As the
outcome of a midnight quarrel over
‘the lighting of a lamp, Curtis W. Rey-
nolds, 63 years of age. shot his son.
Charles A. Reynolds. 37 years of use.
directly around the heart early this
'morning at their home. 458 Washing-
ton nvenuc. Tile young man died in-
Istantly and within a short time after
the shooting Patrolmen Ryan and
Trainer of the Howard avenue police
precinct had arrested Curtis Reynolds,
on the charge of murder.
The quarrel, according to the story
told by the old man to the police and,
corroborated in substantial details by.
,‘been lighted blew it out.
the mother of the dead man, staring!“
when the son came In shortly after
midnight. The prisoner claims “not
his son had been drinking heavily.
and that he was considerably "under
the Influence of liquor. when he came .
into the house. He entered the room
occupied by his father and according
to the latter stared to light a lamp
which was near the bedside. Th0
father. who was in bed. told him not,
to light the lamp and when it hid ,
The son.
despite his father's request 1101: t.
(Continued on Ninth Page) “ ‘
astronomer
countries to
list or solicit
Judge Henry W. Gregory, of the
probate court. chairman of the con-
solidation committee. recently ap
painted by Moderator Russell Frost.
has Issued a call for the nm laser
lag, pursuant to the instructions con-
Ifcrrod upon him in his appointment as
chairman. and this will be held On
Monday evening, April 15th, In Room
6. of the Gazette building. Chairman
IGregory stated this morning that the
meeting will be for the purpose of or-
gnniantlon.
it Is understood that Judge Gregory
.lound didlculties in selecting a date
for a meeting of the committee. The
meeting authorizing the appointment
of a committee was held on March
29th and a few days later, the ap-
pointments were made knOwn. Since
that time Chairman Gregory has been
cndeavortng to fix a date when the
members of the commitbee could con-
vene and Monday night ills at last
been selected.
The committee comprises the fol-
lowing: Chairman Henry W. Grog.
cry. Harvey M. Kent, John Keogh.
Herbert A. Mathewson, :John J.
Walsh. Frank W. Gregory and Charles
F. Mills.
-BPEBIALB AT JOBELOPF'O.
Very Best Butter, 35c lb.
Very Best Lard. 8 lbs. 25c.
Extra fancy Spinach, the pit.
Blue Label Catsup. 19c bot.
Very Good Prunes. 4 lbs. 250.
Fresh Eggs. 25c dos.
Very Good Rice. 4 lbs. 25c.
' Extra Fancy Head Rice,-8 lbs. 260.
8 lbs. Mllkor Bode Crackers. 26c.
Fancy stock Potatoes. 45c pk.
Tel. 467. 72 North Main St.
IIIIIBTEII sunrises
IIIIIIIIIs initiators
DONDON. A rti lap—A double trag-
edy was bran t arbour today by an-
other mental brainstorm affecting the
Rev. satchel ileum the self-styled
ruseilsti. “ who on m thump-d a
sensation in the Hollis 6t common-
by firing several shots from umlvor
at tho «lilo: of tho lobby
Hoary was discovered this moraine:
dying III lite items with two revolver
bullets to his head. and by his side tar
'Bllt.
. Insured.
EIIIIIIEYIIEII Will ISA
fill 33 Bill Willi
Special Meeting to take flatter
up line Today in Bridge
BRIDGEPORT. April la.—-a .1 ’
rate of so cents per hour, rem-
ment of runs and abolishing of ' '
“signs" rule will probably be thug 9*
the important demands made, lb!
Bridgeport employee of the (loom
tlcut Company. when the' new m
agreement cameo up for discuss»!
the last of May or the first part
June .
Special Meeting Tonight. I
The executive board of the Brim
port organization has called a on“!!!
meeting for tonight, at 8 o’clock, in
G. A R. hall. sturdevant building, BIC
at 1:15 o'clock the following momma.
At the early morning session rsft'onlbI
meats will be served
Now the wage scale Is what III terns:
ed sliding. That Is, the men have to
work a number of years before r9
calving the maximum of 26% cents
per hour. Each year of service {OBI
the wage scale advanced until til .
maximum is reached. if the demon“ ‘
for a flat rate is made. a beginnert
will receive the maximum at the 1m
“algal" Rule Offensive.
The “signs" rule is particularly
fenslve to some of the men , w
claim that It is undust to indict. pm
tsiilnent of days off for the refinish
change the signs at the end of tho,
There are a number of other ob
tions which will receive attention M
be discussed at today’ a session.
’--OPEOIAL PRIOEB FOR MIA?” if
at H. Romano's Market. 2. Benton
Souvenirs given away.
toss, smears III _
instantiation .
rants. April ia—li bomboaolm
Inside tsxlautc In the thus do ‘,
this naming. manned. ,
atoll sheehthemter port «it the» .,
and wrecked the motor car. "’.
Inimitabl- and some psde’strtsns vi
The outrage is ballot“
have been committed by on
many of m ltd" bin»
passing blunt the fins, M
mNavaI mints
tit km “colonies.
Norwalk Chronicler