cardamom p Co.‘ a mahldeant
inlpaiaoea. moonlit; all points of
rope. Glydo Mae. Mallory Line.
i Mail Steam Packet Co. and Ear
manual; Mae. reaching all coast rs.
. Maud South America with the
Sermon. Steam-hip Co! a diloct aer-
Vic's to Bermuda. Beat accommoda-
M and beat rates. Ask for circuu
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insurance of All Kinds
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‘ ‘ ' Telephone 1230
tincture Over the South Norwqik
Trust 00.. 87- 91 Washington at.
' loath Not-walk. Conn.
trical Supplies
Address:
Electrical Wiring
Fine Line of Else-s
Charles Buck, Jr.
It MAIN‘OT. NOEWALK
Telephones: OMM: Ml"
Lilli! MTII WEBEM
(Continued from firlt page)
' or calls.
pump“ of the Titanic are safe
her own ateam
PUBLIC DTINOGRAPHER
William C Foole of New York‘. has,
been visiting in South Norwaik for a
short time.
The weekly dance of“ the. Life Suv-
ers was held Saturday evening at Al'-
lon Hall, lil Madison street. ,
~9—
ilncas Tribe of Red Men held ital
Weekly dance, Saturday evening ill the
Wigwam. In Washington street.
.-
(‘olfnx EllClIIillil iielll. l. 0. 0. R. will
hold its semi monthly business lileet-
llig this evening in its bail, in Wash-
ington street.
_ l’alestille Castle. No. 2. A. O. K. of
M. C., will hold its weekly business!
“reeling this evening lti its hall. in
‘Wflshlngton nil-eel.
The Norwnik City Council will hold
a regular business meeting this even
lug. Nothing special is thought to be
pending for consideration.
- ~mw
Miss Mary Dexter. of South Nor-
walk, Conn. has returned home after:
spending the past few days with vein
lives in Port Chester. N. l'.
The weekly -. business meeting of
. ~Douglas Fowler Post. Grand Army of
.1118 Republic. will be held this evening
in its hall. in Washington street.
‘v'Ponaasus Council. No. 1269. Royal
Arcanutn. will hold a regular meeting
marrow evening to make further
plans for the coming ladies' night.
V'T'here were seventeen sales of heal
instant The Norwniks last week.
.. “with mortgages of $38. 800. For the
. first week in April. 1911. there were
sixteen transfers of property and
. mortgages amounting to 317.505.
There is no more complete line of
dining room. bed room. library. hall or
. den furniture to be found than at the
store of A. J. Collins 00.. You will be
‘surprlsed at the high grade values
they offer at. low prices. See adver’
tiseliienl.
The engagement. has been announc-
ed of Mary Frances Scolieid. of Trini-
ty Lake; to Parker Cummings, of New
Canaan. and the marriage will take
place in about two weeks. Mrs. Sco-
.field was formerly Miss Mary F. Hoyt:
of South Norwaik.
t’
. Notices have been issued to the
creditors of Gilbert L. Flu-ii. colonel
7 of the Coast Artillery Corps of the
' State 1? Connecticut, that on March
'* 80 last he as declared a bankrupt
and that a ' eating of creditors will be
held in Bridgeport ‘April ill. at 2 p. in. '
The monthly meeting of the Non
- walk Building Loan and Investment
Association will be held tomorrow cv-
ening at the office iii the South Nor»
walk Trust Company's building.
Flory member of Welcome Stranger
. Lodge. No. 364. Sons of St. George. is
askbd to be present tomorrow evening
at the regular meeting in order that
arrangements for the annual attend
once at church on St. George’s» Day
play he planned.
‘ The Rev. John iii. Zelfer. halter at
1119 li'lral: Methodist Church. of South
Norwalk. has been suffering the ef-
dents of a severe cold for more than
Week but and thank able to dttond.
in pulpit duties in out man».
land under medical delta“! to
, not all speaking arrangements and
' for the week ahead. .
tin-W”
N0. ‘61
judgment.
Clue
the doctor
nings.
water commission
she was having proceedings with the
state." ‘ '
vices
Mr. Predixer the transactions
hem had had with the woman. .
Heaaid that the usury dafenao' he?
had not ’up in wars.
a few years are again“ him who libero
ly technical. ‘ He admitted that he had
made the interest of a note am to
her at 'I per cent. The defence wad
put up backups the doctor visited to
, have a moonlit with Mic. lamina
. and defile outside of chart but had
been unable to us her. '
W
MR8. JENNiNGS WINS.
W
Former Norwalk Woman Gets Ver-
to
diet in Plttai‘leld.
Mrs. Mary W. Jennings of Brewster.
N. i'..
walk and Southpurt.
known here. won last week a tan suit
In which she. was defendant in the sir i
periot colllt in Pittelieiti Mails
.iii in.
who formerly resided lll Nor;
and is widely 1 ”mm“ “M"r“ “'33 ”ll“ ”‘1’ “will" be in danger at can
i was calm and clout,
! few hours away
tor one cent even though before Audi
tor W A iluins a verdict of Milli was’ This point iii about libf‘l miles
remit-led fol lllu plaintiff. Contaminant cast of New York city utld inn miles from ('Iitt‘ Race a little [Mair Mr trip mill give the boys a splendid up
i) slip pill her case in the hands ofuii south of the Cape Rare. Nov. found Franklin expl‘eased u“. utmost “mm. 'portunlty to widen their horizon. to
A“ “W m“ ishment but he lulu qualified his state- ‘enl-rse their knowledse of French
0W" New from UN: Bhiil “9N related to mm" with the hm,“ that the reporta'and German. and to atudi European
attoxnm George Predluer. of this (.lll 'lalid.
Pleiioualy she had fou‘gbt her
battle declaring that she had pructlc
ally lost faith In all lawyers
The (use before the superior court cuni Company to New York lily.
has been a battle royal \irs. .Ienningal Titanic ii twill
about 1,}00 miles east of New Yolk.
ever built.
hail iii, 328 tona' displacement.
lie-i maiden trip The liner carries 1,
' too pasengora and a crew'of 800.
NEW YORK. April 15.—-A wireieu.sons shocked by the fragmentary
message from the White Star Steam“; newspaper dispatches loan at the
ship Titanic, received shortly after breakfast tables. but in the early
midnight today. announced that the morning hours there was nothing vital
giant new liner had struck an ice-berg
off the banks of Newfoundland and
was in a sinking condition. Transfer
lag at once.
The accident occurred at 10:26 last
niifht. Twu hours later
intermittent
sages. failed complaley.
Tllt‘ last word sent by the operator
doomed, "sinking by the head," and
“that. the women passengers were. be-
ing rushed ilitotbo lifebouts. it rose
The Thames flrili is it message
post!
The Theatre uclideut happened in
lat 41.46 llililll longitude son went.
w lreiosa station
the (‘npo Race wireless station hi the
f"\llitiliian and forwarded by the Mar
The
ship. Olympic, With it
without loulug her assurance for a mo—i left New lork last week. was lllllt) tit
mom. replied rooiivt
to the quoatiollsldirect «ammunication with the sinking
. of Lower t..‘ E. llihbiird. of counsel boat from a point
for the plaintiff and declared that. site away and started at
about
once for the
had never contracted. for the sovvicenf scene.
of Dr. Sclilllles. that the services were]
The Titanic. which is on her maiden
merely those of a friend who had bor-' trip. in lll charge of Captain Smith,
rowed money from her but had not re
turned It as soon as trite desired.
Dr. Seliulies on the other
maintained that he had given h
hand
is ser-
vices while court interpreter in New
York with the understanding that ho:
Thlsl
would be coltipensated later.
pay he never received. Tiicu th
the counter suit and last. '
e wid-
ow siled him on a note and recovered
The doctor then entered
Lawyer Prediger in summing up the
this morning
Schilltes position in the case,
attacked Dr.
chars
in: him with praying on "a conflding
widow alone in the world." Law
a. Hibbard in reply said ilie'
should not be swayed by sympathy.
"it it has come to a point
yer C.
jury
libero
sympathy rules the courts." said Mr
Hibbarrd. "it 1. time that we cio
ltl
During the cross- examination
Schilltes yesterday afternoon. Lawyer,
Prediger introduced a ietterin which
had written to Mrs. Jen-
so the
courthoute and hank out a clan. "Cloa-
ed because juries went according to
sympathy rather than iaw.’
that the cobwebs gather on the walls,"
a time
of Dr.
"Be a nice, agreeable little lady and
come down to New York and stay a
week and we will straighten out ov-
orything."
“What did you mean by that?" quer-
ied the laWyel‘.
“Nothing improper." replied the doc-
or “ I only wan-ted to fix up abo
matter on
“Did you tell your wife abou
asked Mr. mum.
at the
which.
i It?"
“Why should I?" replied tit doctor.
The water commission in to
Jenni!!!
[VII
one of the affairs on which the dootllr
claimed to how; rendered legal aer-
He went over in detail with
which
suit
.ci‘ said that l circulate antennae was.
required; '11
another message cams reporting that
who was on the bridge of the big Ol-'
ymplc when that boat collided with'
the lirltlsli cruiser Hawks last Sop'
lumber,
Tile Titanic carries 1170 passengers.
of whom 318 are in the first cabin
and 362 in the. second cabin.
The passenger list is a notable. one.
including “1'. and Mrs. John Jacob
Astor. Mfr d Gwynne Vatdcrbilt. him
jor Archibald Butt. aid to‘Presldcut
Taft; F. D. Millet. the artist; Mr. and
Mrs leaders Strait-s; J G. Widener.
of Philadelphia; J. Bruce lsmay. mati-
uaing director of the White Star ”as;
C. M. Hayes. president of the Grand
Trlitlk Railway; Benjamin Guggen-
heim. W. 1'. Stand. andothora.
Steamship men here today charac-
torlled the disaster is. “the most stern
ling news which has come in from
the sessions the advent of wireless
telegraphy."
The firsthand of the accident was
about 1 o'cl0ck this morning. when a
bulletin from Montreal stated thatthc
Allan Line odiccrs there had. received
a wireless from (laptain Gumball, of
their steamer Virginian. stating that
the Titanic was calling for assistance
after a collision with an iceberg. The
Vlrginian‘s captain added that he was
heading his boat for the Titanic.
whose position was said to be about
350 milessouth of Cape Race. N. F.
immediate inquiry by the Associat-
ed Press in an urgent dispatch to the
Marconi station at Cape Race was
answered soon afterward in the fol~
lowing wold-i
"At 10:25 last night the steamship
'r'iumio allied '0. Q n.‘ and reported
having struck an iceberg. The steam»
an Wbour afterward!
they were sinking by the head, and
that women were bola; put off in the
iifobcdta.
"The weather was calm and clear.
the Titania's wireless operator repel-ta
ed. and he save the position of the
venera- this north latitude alid 60.-
it weal tonaltnd . tl‘lia Marconi eta;
MI US$96 ”embedded the Allan
liner Virginian. the captain of which
immediately advised that he was pro-
moduli tn'r the scene "of the. disaster.
“The Vlrsiaian at mld'ttlkht was
about 170 milea dilialtt aim the 'l‘l- '
taplem and «Mind to reach an vea-
LIIEI TlTAlilB, IIOIEST
"RICHIE AFLIlIT. Ml.-
it is probable um allot the
While badly damaged. the Titanic
is still afloat and is reported to be
makin: her way toward Halifax under
The accident ocurred at 10:25 lastlgreatsr alarm than this meagrcreport
night. at a point about four hundred did in New York this morning. The
miles south of Cape Race. N. F.. and Titanic is the blues: boat in the
The Titanic is the largest steamer. 2.000 persons 1470 passenxera and a
Site is 882 feet long andl crew of 860 men. A large percentage.
Site if not the majority of the passengers
was launched last May and this was
of the passengers to the iifeboais be.
the ahip‘s'
wirelean apparatus, which had been'
working so badly as to permit of cult"
and fragmentary met.
and help only a.
title
‘ trans-Atlantic liners m indicated by
nucleation with the Titanic and in
now making all halite toward her.
The steamship Baltic also reported
herself at about 200 miles out of the
Titanic at 1:15 a. m. and making all
possible speed toward her.
”The last signals from the Titanic
were heard by the Virginian at 13:87
a. m.. The wireless operator on the
Virginian can the signals were blur-
red and ended abruptly."
lineal loot ln'ttlo World.
Nothing could hays caused much
woxl.d She has on board more than
l are Americans.
The newspaper offices were bell."
led by inquiry from hundreds of pet‘-
to add to the alarming reports from
Cello Race. Something further was
canceled every moment, but there was
nothing at hand to relieve the anx-
L’iety shown in every quarter.
Vice President 1‘. A. 8. Franklin.
of the International Merchant Marine.
the highest oiliciai of the White Star
Line here, was one of the first to be
notified of the reported disaster, but
ill was only through The Associated
“At 0 o'clock this morning 1?. A. 8.
Franklin, viccprasideut of the White
Star ”he. gave out. the following
statement: “We place absolute con.
lidonce in the Titanic. We believe the
boat is absolutely unslnkable and ’al-
though shomay have sunk at the
head. or how, we know that the boat
would remain on the water. We do
not attach any aisniilcaaco to the fact
that there'ars no Marconi messages
being received from the boat. We
think it denotes nothing but the fact
that the bolt: is in communication
with other steamers, for aha may have
gotten off all the messages a'he wanted
to send. We are not at all worried
about the ion of the ship. but. we are
extremely sorry for the annoyance
and inconvenience to our passengers.
You can make 0dr View; as forcible
as you like. regarding the capabilities
or the ship, to withstand any exterior
damage. We figure the Virginian of
the Allan Linc will be alongside the
fltanlc by 10 o'clock and we figure
the Olympic of the White Star Line
will be with the Titanic at a p. m.. and
the Baltic an hour later."
The Olympic left here last
day. .
Vice-President Franklin also said.
after giving out Illa formal statement.
that they figured the boat 1.080 miles
from New Work and 600 miles from
Halifax. He added that no direct
communication had been received
from the liner. ' '
Mr. Franklin said he had received a
Satur—
Prcsa that he learned of it. and for
Will ”it“ ”it? icfifil'l Willi apparently hours thereafter he could only express brief “"8“" dispatch from the 01" m
fills astonishment at the news and his}
doubt that such a large and thoralgh
iy protected ship as the Titanic couidl
Upon hearing the first reports, but
spoke rauatlritlgly declsiiug that on- i
ly eight or ten bouts before. the
:was lemivcd by the Allans llnci Vlr~ White Star 0m,“ had received ‘ wire. ;mnudtr Sui-neon. w F. N 01.01181!
'Illt' l’ltltiflt-‘iltl itanlo li‘t’t‘llih said: .izinian. “MN! according to the
Mia. Man Wells leanings it their lliml given by the Tlt'suica operator. 9,“ sure that if 5‘“, had met with any . WWW. “- W 31013111»: Second Pill"
slur. N. Y widow was tindltltted to- Will it“! mow. than 1‘0 miles IWI’ accident he would have heard from: lcr. R “‘ Brockt‘r Chief Steward. A
today III the supplier (mill in her fight; 1 lie captain 0i ”in Virginian M 0110* her promptly.
"Mum the flu” or Dr Hugo W Z started his boat at full steam for the lulled that even if ”be m“ in collision
Si‘lillllt‘rl. seeking it, 000 for legal sur face no of the disaster announcing to “m. an iceberg. she is in no danger.“
lites alleged to have. been given by his blntiiei officer on the bridge of be said.
A jury tolliid for her uftel tillml the Titanic that the \‘iritiniaii should ilitlli compartment! “in. “. absolutoit , principal of the Sanford School Red
deliberation. The woimin had liecliir-‘ teach him in- ten o'l lock this morning un’mknbl e and it makes no differottCo’ ding liidgc .\ir. Sanford has decided i
ed that she would never pay the doc 3
less tilting the. liners position He
"We are absolutely ant-
l
i
"With her numerous water;
what site hit The re ilk should not
cause any serious anxiety."
When the more politics news came
1
l
i
were not true He doubted that lheyl
could be correct .
At“ :30 ii. in. the White Star Line
offices were still without any news hem
pond newspaper dispute"- of the re.
incl-ted disaster to their ship. Theyl
300 mllce' felt assured that whatever the aitua- lm' "a last but not least. spend
Etion might be there. was this rescaling
ling feature. that at least three liners
had reported themselves in touch with
the Titanic. that all or them were
steaming toward her. and that an un-
usually large number of other ships
twat-e within the sons of wireless coin-i
lmunicatlon
. The fact that at best. the Virginian.
which animated to be nearest tad Ti~
tanic. could not be expected to reach
her until ten oclock this mention;
‘ however. only added to the anxiety of
lthoac here who had friends on board.
The bars report that the vessel was
sinking at the bow of midnight. that
women were bslnk taken off in life-
boata, than half an hour later that
wireless communication was broken.
were all viewed with the utmost anx-
lety.
There was excellent reason. how‘
ever. for belief that even though the
Titanic was in dire straights. there
was a fair chance that no lives would
be lost. The Cape Race dispatch re-
ported the weather as calm and clear.
and in a reasonably quiet sea fliers is
little danger in the transfer of the
passengers to tho lifeboats. in which
they might await with reasonable
tranquility the arrival of the Virginian
this morning.
it was difficult for even mat-liters to
interpret the situation from the Mar-
coni dispatches. They could not an-
deratand why‘lt should be necessary
to take of! any passengers ii the liner
were sinking slightly fit the bow, un-
less her «plain felt that the water
tight compartments would give way.
The presence of an unusually large
number of icebergs in, the path of
wireless last track. Twelve hours he
tore the news of the Titania's acci-
dent reached the world, the; serious
menace of the icebbraa waa.DOlnted
out by the arrival hero of the Cunard
Line steamer Carmania. which report-
‘ed having dodud twentriive big
hem. coins of them more than illio
feet blah. The Outcome reported
that the much steamship NW
and bad a item experience batik:
trumped into two email ha'm which
punched hoieaiiii ylier hull. '1‘ba Niac-
today: The ‘1'
lhours after the reported accident.
’ life.
pic saying she had talked by wire-
less with the Titanic at 4: 24 o'clock
this morning. This message shows
that the Titanic was still afloat six
The officers of the Titaiiic are as
follow (‘aptain E J. Smith. cout-
tin; Assistant Surgeon J. E Simpson:
latimcr.
A SUMMER TRIP ABROAD.
in answer to several inquiries. the
to organize a trip abroad evety suin-
incr from now on.
[Fads-r competent leadership such a
industly. commerce, cultulc art and
The boys will visit. besides hund
rods of interesting places large cities
like Hamburg. Berlin. impala, Dres-
den. Vienna, Milan Venice. Paris. was
it whole month in the beautiful moun
talus of Switzerland wandering in the
fresh air of the Alps. and enjoilii; all
the pleasures healthv bright and iig
oroua American boys like
All plans have been carefully made
to make the trip as successful as
possiblot The greatest care will be
taken of the health of every boy.
Therefore the number of boys is small
and the ages are between twelve and
seventeen (with a few exceptions),
Thre will be for each group of six
boys one teacher.
The expenses are much lower than
the usual exlienaca for such a trip of
titres months.
Every day a lesson will be given in
French and in German. in a free and
interesting/way. Boys who wish to
take college entrance examinations
can do so on this trip juiit as well as
at home. The examination papers
will be sent abroad and the boys have
the chance of reviewing the work
done in the past year with the help
of the teachers loading the party.
The boys are carefully selected and
therefore it is possible to guarantee ..'
the parents that their sons will be in 3
good company.
Boys who are not pupils of the Sam I.
ford school are welcome to join the ;
party.
According to the foremost Ameri- I'
can educators, such a trip is of the :1
highest value to a young. bright boy“.
The 1912 excursion will‘be led by '.
E. Sohooh and by J. M. Aldrich. both ;_
of the teaching staff of the Sanford :3
School.
Ill. Baboon. being engaged in school "
work for fourteen years. has had ox-
parlance in conducting such school ox-
curalpna and is connected with sov-
oral of the leading boarding schools
abroad. His home is in Switzerland.
. it. Aldrich. Bit. 3.. Brown. has
spent the last three common at .the
Medomak Camp, Washington. Maine.
as counsellor and instructor in natural
science and athletics. , He will take
especial care of the physical develop-
mom or the boys.
The coat of this tour of about at
tiara will in trot). this ilciudoa all
expects».~
'l‘iiere in reaaon to believe that all
. myeeit so seldom ”
. if The Mead said nothing. but also
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“0b can“ lamented the bride to
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worklohard Holookseopaleaud
worn and has scarcely any appetite at
all. "
“Whats that not" asked the friend.
"i thought I saw you out in the auto.
mobile inst hetero dinner every night
for the last woe. " ‘
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wife p‘ayly. "You use ijust make him
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