ESTABLISHED 1870, E, l kmw EE E KS EEEEE EEEEEE EEEE EE EEEEEEw an llnrpesaive Program Was Barried‘ilut at the Service Held in'iioyt’s Theatre, Yesterday u Afternoon, the Editice ,Belng Filled Nearly to Its Capacity HEEHHHEE JHHH J. WHESH HEEWERS MEHEHHIEE AHH HISEHHIHEE ADDRESS HE HHEH IHEEHESE Artistic Musical Program and Elaborate and Appropriate Decor- ations Add to lmpressiveness of the Occasion W ' Once more Southmorwalk Lodge No; 709, Benevolent and Protective ‘m‘der oi Elks, gathered together to A may a just tribute to its honored dead. fi‘he annual memorial lsel'vlces were held at Hoyt's Theatre, and the cape. Ecity of the structure was taxed to the ‘ "limit to accommodate the large num- ‘bermt people i‘om The Norwoiks [who came to listen to the impressive and beautiful ceremonies. The local lodge was one of over twelve hundred similar lodges ,whlch observed rites appropriate to recall the memories of those of its thous- ands or members who have passed _....llliiillilt EEEEEEEEE «"E?EEEEEEEEEEEE EEE ‘ EEEEEE E____E_EEE EEEEE .. f .To Ascertain it Railroad is Neg- ligent in Allowing Break in Fonce—Jlontinuationoi inquiry into Slaying oi Alleged White Slayers ' ‘ To determine whether ,the New dia- ven railroad was guilty of negligence in chewing dances alongside its tracks in South Norwailr to fall into bad re- pair, Coroner John J. Phelun is now making an investigation into the death of Mary P. Fitzgerald, a little South Nor-walk girl The girl was killed last Tuesday. she wandered on the tracks through a break in the fence and was struck by a train. Coroner Phelan Is now conterrlng with the Public Utilities commission ' to tind out. it the railroud company t erected the denotes amply (or its own convenience, or, whether the (once. were ordered by the commission. He will wait until he gets information upon this matter before making a finding in the Fitzgerald case. Saturday afternoon at a unlock the coroner had a private hearing in the court house at which Joseph Boom mo, accused of the murder of Role V ,Cavugiieri in aluminium mouth. was tile principoi witness. ‘Buouome will have a hearing in the Shetland town court Monday. The jurors drawn today and Who are asked to report next Wednesday morning Eire: iii. ’1’ ‘Biltings and J ii. Gloecutt, Bartlet, Herbert M. (Ehrlich, N. H. Jones, F. O. Nichole ct lirluso port; Willis Austin and Eisner Burner, Whom A. n welcomes and novel 8 Banks. Folrlloid; Word ii. (lion, run and A ' a Mood. h across the great divide. The core monies conducted by Exalted Ruler, Patrick F. iBrophy and the members of the local lodge yesterday, like those which have proceeded it, were successful in every detail. The setting for the cermoniss was appropriate and beautiful. Installed upon the stage, amidst fitting decor- ations, consisting of palms and Amer- ican flags, interspersed with the pur- ple of the Bike. were seated the oili- cers oi! the lodge. Strung across the front part of the stage were sixteen (Continued on glahth page.) Gilli!!!“ ITIAIT , E mm GWIITTII NEW YORK, Dec. .2.—-J. C. Stuart, 01 the Erie, resigned today as chain man or the conderence committee or General Managers of Eastern Railroads which tilts been considering the au- giueers‘ wage demands and has yet to settle the demands of the Elli-omen and enginernen. “Personal moons: and pressure of other business," were given as the reason (or Mr. Stuart's re- Beater, viewpresident and general man. signation. it is understood that W. G. user of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, will succeed him. The committee met this morning pre- paratory to heaving the grievances or ”the firemen and ensinsmon. Only pro. ilmlnnries were to be disposed of. YALE IUSIB SCHEME. FIRE NEW HAVEN nee. a.--'rue dam- age to the building in College street occupied by the Yale Music School by tire that evening, will not amount to a. great deal. Repairs can be .made for about 12, 000. Very little or! the equipment at the school was hornet though moisture may street the in- struments, It was toured that water had Wet down the music library, but this ‘encaped.~ The cause or this tire is ,not determined. RAILROAD iuvs'erloarlon. WASHINGTON Dec ammonium- tonal investlgi'tion to determine who- thor the Sherman Anth’l‘rust law has been violated by the Grand. Trunk and the New York. New diam and Hurt/lend Railroad me proposed to- day in a resolution presented to the house by Economist!” o’hhnugh nosey, who «sited tor a specioi cons mitten at seven months at instances. WWW occur Militia MAN. Jeweler unread dentition. ‘ walk, the oldest business insulin the L upper city. is today celebrittinghis ao- ‘ , E “emulsion Will”?! or his butch “ ' E. 10“! Elm ~ Eocene of. divided Noe ‘ SOUTH NORM HRH HIE Last Fiscal Year was a Hard and tor the oyster Trust to Go Through _‘ EEEEEEE EEEE EEE EHEEE HE ENE, Hill Faulty Management and Severe Winter Blamed The oyster trust had hard sledding during its fullest year ending sophom- ber 30, iaét, and wound up the period With a deficit of over a. million dol- tors. “Faulty management" is the reason assigned with “sevens winter." The ‘Seaishilrt Oyster (system’s to. la! income tell oi! by $775,901 as com- porsd with the previous fiscal year. Its balance surplus shilwed a deficit or $1, 415. 260. Assets oi! 996, 804. Value of oyster beds decreased 32, 116 ,595, but stock in other companies was inctoasod $2,870,458. At the some time the liabilities of the campany Were dammed E}? ”$98304 and the J“: of which ’5!" enmity into pre- moo shock and timers“ 5 per cent convertible ‘mlll bonds due in 1914 The company has common stock out to the value of $2,000,000. Thedacneaood value or oyster beds some. from the foot that the Blue Points company took over all the Great South Bay properties. Egoventy- itve per cent of this stool: wont be the Seaishipt. The report ,0! Henry 0. Underwood, president, says that “the company has had a most unsatisfactory year. due partially to policies established and commitments made by the manage: ment and ,partially increased the hp- opating expenses and curtailed the output. “The inexperience or the manage- ment and the dililculties cornbining a number or large properties, together with the fact that most at the direc- ors were entirely unfamiliar with the oyster business, was also partly res- ponsible tor the poor showing." AloTEIEI IIIIBK ILMK TO I! WELT Booth Nowell: and Washington street may bout regain at another brick block which will be a credit to the street and city it the plans which are being formulated by the Marion» Taylor estate curry through. it in on) period to move the old Taylor I: Gold— on block in Washington street end or- ect in its stead a handsome three story brick business block. containing a double deck or limos With olden mom on the third door The preliminary plans have already boon chrome by Architect my. Harper Bimll architect or South Non Norwalll‘s handsome city hall , ‘ Wm Elilliililllllli MIMI! LINER “WWII“ Elle company fell 0! Oi.- dint! in u hoist manner and iii mirth: the “‘ “ E deserved optimise or hit mini 5m, ml. All“ earn «Euro wort: utility, lions, parsing bed checks, NW YORK. filth Ire-Tho Aiineriz ‘ ‘ Id W Win com; droopy new Home Saturday moon and evening Mr. and id ‘Georg‘e iii. Thompson celebrated the onty-titth anniversary 18 Edits even Over one hundred and titty tried some to otter eon» simulations. Qelettvos time Here lord, New “up, New Hartford, Coi- linsviile and Bfi’khamsted were pres- out. A niece of ME Thompson, Miss Mil- dred Sage, or the school or Musical Art, New Yorli, city, save violin se- lections, belug‘iaccompanled by Mrs. William H. silicon. Dainty refreshments were served. Mrs. W. S. Case, of Glastonbury,pour~ ed choclate and Miss Helen Thomp- son preslded at the to: table. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were mar- rled in last. and cam to Norwalk no live one year later. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were the recipients of nanny beautitul slits. Miss Helen,_Miss Marian. Miss Ju‘ dlth and Harold Thompson. the dour children ct Mr, and Mrs. Thompson, assisted in entertaining the guests. E. i you till E ililll ll? iiiil’lEll ll” lilll EEHIEII Milt. Molly ctStr‘atiord, on contusion-loom Superior Court Jain: P. Kennedy. the Stratum boy who attempted tomlll his and miller, Petrick Kennedy, a short time ago, will be on. or the prisoners on triol in the criminal superior court which convenes in the county court. house tomorrow morocco. The charge against Kennedy is Attempt to mur- der. Nettie PM! and William Hay or Danbury, charged with killing a baby by throwing it in a well, ore also on the list at attend murderers. The other murder charge is against Go mio Score of Greenwich. ii‘athar T. J. Kelley, pastor or St. Peter's,Church, will open the court session with prayer. Judas William 8. Care will be on the bench. The list or prisoners is as toilets: ‘Mary Grant, theft from, person, Bridgeport; Cornelius Conwhyo man- siauahtier, Dorian: Moots Proctor. abandonment of wife, Stanford; John hewEsy. burglary, Greenwich; Riot» and Hondrioks, sodomy. Bridgeport; Joseph matures, robbery. Greenwich; Joseph Itoolnaiil, robbery. osmium: Rosario 'Duculito, robbery, Groom rwish; Richard unvoiced, men, Green- wish; (line alcoholic burglary, blob mum William b. in flowers amm- conspiracy, Bridsopcrt. Norman L. Judd, than. hfldmrt: Thomas Alienation. burglary, ill-Eun- port; (lino Elt. Clair, burglary, arid-sport; John altitude, raps. minnow-t; Antonio redone, slump in murder; Willis Viiililim, consult and bracelet were, simian; Fronts ltyda, their, Trumbull; (Bari ovum tuition. that train person, bridge Norm; John nnmoweiri, otteinpt to lull, filmed; ohmic more, unis ville, luau, y. irritation iii-mint t xiii (E: m‘ 0 E Erin" Wm . M "P YE mum 21°12 or their plantain in their new home, , stomach, shaman; James St. Clair. ’ m.ww. EHH EHEHE While Intoxicated a Trio from New rum heat up Conduc- tor and titterman of Bar EEEEEEEEEEEE Elli . ii i. v. EEEEEEEEEEE Civil Suits coming Alter Fines - and Goals Were Paid Three Yale ’Unlversity students Jos- eph Zimmerman, Jr.’. Charles Froham and Wtiilsm Ernst, came to Norwalk Saturday to remain over «Sunday with local friends. touring their visitation they mixed (things up on a trolley car, having taken a little too freely of the contents or the cup of inebriutes, and were promptly arrested by the Norwalk police. This morning Judge Edward M. Inch-wood. in the iNorwalit Town Court, lined the young men as follows: Ernst, $3 and costs for intoxication; Zimmerman, $5 and costs for intoxica- coin, $15 for breach of the peace and assault on Harry T'hillipon; and Fro man 35 and coats for intoxication, 815 tor breach or the peace and assault on Harry Philliplon 11 tor injury to personlll Wflm student's paid Ml car for South NOW! end Zimmerman a six footer, elected to «and up on the way to South Norwelk. When Motel-- mnn John Mcwa stoppedh‘is car to cut in the switch light at the cross-over near the Reynolds Motor Car Company, in West avenue. Zimmerman began to pull the aim] cord. He was requested to desist by Oonduobor Phillipson, but continued. :Motorman 'MeNerney was called by Zimerman oil the car. Flohmou looped upon his book and Philipson took hold the conductor and he proceeded to" put at Bellman. The upshot at it all was that “we all «went oi! together" as both motorman and conductor testified this morning. All this time Till-net, who was not so badly intoxicated as his friends, did his boat to quiet them and quell the distur— Ebsnce, but his shorts «wore unavniilng. After having been out on the young men returned no the our and with Pro ham, who with Zlmmorm‘sn had again bonded tho car. holding the conduc- tor‘a mints, Zimmerman said, “ED-- it i don't give you one anyway," and than it was that i’ldllipson received his Wok one. diatom-n hicNernsy received an in. Jury on his head one lbrlined his ten arm seventy when he struck the wood block pertinent in the tall from the our plenum. Phillip A. Wheeler teetided to the not. of the can, AI did Maturation lilo- NernOy and Conductor Phillip-on. ‘ mum. on the stone, told he Enid been drinking tooEiiiudh. and further the: he was morally injured. having autism two hemorrhages Em night Alter totem our it seems that ”bile some stony The young tiled heiress the u": so wounded by Justice My, held thatch WEATHER . schooner. iRaln toniililt; Tuesday cloudy. ” BU HHIENS H if x EHSE iflflflfl Kl Ell BERLIN, Dec. 2~Tho Bulgarians alone have lost 10. 000 killed and 60,-. 000 wounded since the beginning at Budapest; to the Tagebiett. The newspapers ’corrospondent is on his way back from the front, and while passing through sons, he deolanes, he saw the ethnic] reports of the Bulgar- ian War (lilies. to has been European Turkey will be of the armistice by the plenipoten- ital-lee of Turkey and the Balkan al- roorurvl; alien ‘ titiiiilt’dliils Aldosperabe bandit or very few years, wearing short trousers and ap peering to be about ten years or was held up Marion and Alice 'Btll'lltILIOITT- teen and eight, years respectively, daughters 0! Matthew Burns, of Franklin avenue, as they were on their way to South Norwalk about 8:30 o'clock on Saturday night sud de- manded "money or your llv.es" The screams or the frightened girls brought out the sipperly boys, in front. or whose, house the holdup took placerand they put to flight the min- iature highwayman, chasing him, but not catching the deegtooted boy. The girls did not have great wealth with,tbem, but the httyEtwo cents comprising their total funds at hand, they retained. The buy lied followed them a considerable distance and in the semi-darkness near the high school approached and hold them up at the, point or a finger. The timely arrival of the sippsrly tamily probably saved the girls trom bolus roughly handled by the deter- mined yotmseter, whose identity has uot,bseu learned, but who will prob ably be apprehended later. ‘. won‘t-I, mammal/At. NOTICE. The law firm. or hinstiler and fishermen have moved trout Elle Lauder aids. South min at. to room 1. ii and 3. “(NEW Bldg, loll Wuhinstcn at, opposite Kaye's Theatre. ”MM PABIFEB “MATE! LAW wssnmorou. nee. swung so prunes court today in on opinion an- Inn- Union Pacino railroad Woolly. by the aoguioition of smelt in the dentin urn illusion. had oriented a combine lion in deletion of the ottoman anti Trust tow. Montana, is at Beirut the war according to a dispatch ill-om ' Ewhich from all accounts have LONDON. Dec. 2.——The work of dinerent from the originlr I: charting a new map or what hither-E gin immediately after the slgnaiurel lies at the village of “133511th on innes or renown, tomorrow allies are able to ashes among t selves as to the portions or the " " they are to receive, there seems probability oi! a. assumption or ii lties. E , The comparatively favorable to” altered by the allies t that they seem to suggest, the that the governments of the , . League realize that with winter , (continued on Sixth ,I’ Brooklyn, Tells How it in Georgetown cove The mystery mull)? the its" ‘ of the blood shined p at curds other material in a. cave .. j Georgetown and Weapon,- was fi plalned today by Samuel Worms, E‘ who has been living recentaiy in “6% icon stmot, South Norwalk. lie m hunting about the middle, of NE) 5 tier in company with Joseph Reed: Connecticut venue, and they” pied the cave and there dressed lived on some or the results 0! the hunt which included akunltl, sun rate my squirrels. rabbits. etc. . i The postal card. which borer t“ address at Samuel Waring, Add W second street. Brooklyn was rim to him by Miss Annie Reed whorl ' came to South Norwoltr and m bye-hing in the cave. The tied the womaois body in the r Er mill pond Occurred sometime Messrs. Reed and Waring the cave nod they knew nothing about the choir. _‘ GRANT FiNID 01 AND “I "it i send you to jail who or care of your eight children rind idem?” nailed Judie Edward A! «wwd, of hunters (ibwphi in so morning, when that million! Judge, i sue-n you would have hint changed with intimidation piled he to the merrirneat or slid the lodge did not repress Chnppi backed into 'i‘iln E. none horse turned , it? into dismount still, who a _ routine that he was in no drive-a hem. its we” mots. .‘ tin. woodworker-E
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