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Mayor Finnegan Informs Ility oi
' Councilmen that Public Utili-
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Many Petitions for New Buildings
and Additions
\.
.
it was announced at the meeting of
the City of Norwalk Council, last even- ‘
log, that the Public Utilities Commis-
sion members would be in Norwaik
gates at the Catherine street and
Nash’s corner railroad crossings.
William J. Wood, J12, was chosen
temporary city engineer, and the coun- ‘
cii granted many redirects for new
buildings.
Mayor Edward J. Finnegan called
the meeting to order shortly after 8
o’clock and City Clerk James J. Keene
(Continued on Sixth Page.) 3
-—Announcement of Easter mililuery
openingm'l‘uesdey. Wednesday and
Thursday, March'l, iii, :30. S. Molner,
31 Wall street.
”pm—n...
3Elil Ellilllllllll
t llllllliElli till SllllliE
Foreman, Sub - Foreman {and
Others Engaged in Railroad
Work Want More Money
mew HAVEN, March 18. ——Eleetrl-
(ill workers to the number of tllreel
hundred including foreman and sub-
foreman, engaged in the electrified
lion work of tile New “if" New lie E3
you and Hartford lines “edit this 3-
city and Stamford ”UQFW‘O‘MY fol
an increase in we The increase
united for is about l\VtE'-iil)tilxlll. petl
iRtRnl ’l‘hn loremcu asked for a raise
from $4 to do a day. ”it“ sub- I'OI‘GIIitlEIt
from 33 hi) to 84.00. and tll‘b iinomenl
from 83 to M.
A statement issued by the New lin»
vun Company guys it will wait a day,
or two in order to dive tin» mru timcl
to reconsider before nut-king
to fill their places.
Others l
nuisances—concord.
Booth Norwalic Couple Wedded
Erldgopon, Saturday.
Alfred C. Kraemnr. non of Mr. ant
Mm. Christian Kraomor, of North Main
street, and Miss Charlotte Gordon, of
ideal. ‘Norwnlk, More married in the
illrldgoport titty . Hall on 'Bnturdai‘
morning.
Mr. Kraelnar in a well-known local
young man employed as printer in the
‘iiortln Press. Jilin bride came here
from Troy, N. Y., two years ago and
since that time“ has made many
friends. hallucinations and friends
of the couple are extending congratu-
intlona.
Mr. and lifts. dimmer will reside
in East Norwalk and their newly fitted
no apartments will be ready for occu»
pansy on Saturday.
The funeral of {dimer id. diamet-
will lie held at 2:30 o‘clock on ”Wed-
holiday from the funeral parlors; of
David W.- itaymond. 27 West Wash»
fusion street. Rev. J. Mypkin Brown.
oi Christ Church, East Namath. will
emulate, and the burial will he in Riv.
statue cemetery. »
in.
In
gourmets“ Lincoln council dance
Thursday eye. New lied Men‘s Hall.
‘ illiead’n orebatftrk. 333
up a
3 it
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Labor.
Will SEEP llEllllES
Will it llllEll lllll "
Selected implant Applicants
for Nation's Reward 3
,.
Two of the 13,574. devices for step-
ping a railroad train automatically
made under the offer of President 0.
is. Mellon, of the New York, New Han
van and 'i-lartford Railroad company to
may the inventor of an adopted de-
vice 810,000, have been selected by the
company's engineers for test. in ser-
vice. Neither of these devices ls re-
garded as perfect, but the engineers
'hope that in actual use. one may loo
raised to the state of efficiency re-
quired by the conditions of the “New
Haven's" traffic.
More than 90 per cent. of the pro«
posals submitted are said to be so.
surd on their face. One man wrote
that 'his device would probably kill
the engineer and fireman, but that,
'on the “New Haven," would malts no
difterence. Another described a heavy
spring book. so arranged that when
a train passed a stop signal, It would
3rlse between the tracks and catch one
next Thursday on a hearing regarding.
of the car axles, so stopping the train
Others demanded the advance pay-
ment of the 8!).000 on their assur-
ance that. tiley'had the very thing.
Applications for the reward came
from all over the world, and the com-
pany says that the competitors repre-
.seut all classes and conditions, from'
clergyment to Jail birds. Four were in
jail and four in insane asylums. One
has been indicted and is being investi-
gated by the postal authorities. Con~
ditions laid down :by. the company for
the contest follow closely those laid
down by the train control board of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. The
. inventor is to be assisted by the "New
Hoven' with money and the use of
tracks, providing the company’s signal
engineer. C. H. Morrison; consider!
his device promising. The patent‘re-
mains the property of the inventor,
but the "New ‘Hsven". reserves the
right to use it on all its lines without
further payment. A further condition
is that the- device must the adopted
for general use by; the 'New .Hsve'n;'
the New York Central. or the Penn»
syivsula. beforethe and of 1915. The
company's officers believe that the
cost of experimentation to be borne
iby the road will exceed many times
the amount of the reward.
The company' as engineers have en-
deavored to assist competitors in use
ting their claims into shape and sun
milling them according to the coed!
tionu laid down. Neither of the two
already selected for trial complies with
all the eighteen conditions prescribed.
but they are considered to be much
more promising than any of the om-
ere.
While. in itself, an automatic stop
ping device in a simple mechanical
invention, no practical solution of
latopplng n train automatically on a
, railway system has yet been perfected.
No loss than 1.48:! such devices have
(been patented by the government, and
yet all of them fell short of the coin.
pnny'n requirements. Ono principle
the engineers of the company have
been working on is to obtain a do—
ica that in practical under all con-
ditionn. it must operate in snow, ice.
aloof and freezing weather, and in
those requirements ment of the in-
ventors failed completely.
My...”
SWITBHMEN I"
fill illl'l' llll STRIKE
Cii'fC-AGO, March item-While it is
known that switchmen and switch
tandem of is railroads entering Cni-
cago have voted authorisation to their
lenders to call a strike if their de-
mands are not mat. the formal result
of the mall vote will not be annonnc
ed until late this afternoon after the
official count. lifiii been made.
, The men; numbering about five
thousand. ask for shortcr- hours and
limo and a half for overtime. The
employers do not expect a strike-dos»
one the vote, “3%le mediation
under the ottoman serum in. relight.
such an lippaalflt is field. would
clear up the question whetheretths‘
foreman act was not wiped out by the
law which created the bbportment of
i
‘ was taken until 2
Cl!
imam-m NW
Stonewaili and enrichment.
in the Stanford titty. ileum
Yeoierdayferdleatil of lien
Hillli illi’S‘illiJlllllli
lliilliiLlli ll Ruling
Dr. Pierson Says llay’ e Breath
Spoiled of liquor
STAMFORD, March 18.—-—lBarry Sen-
newaid and George Graulich. chauf-
feurs, were arraigned before Judge
Young, yesterday morning. upon the
cherge'of manslaughter. The hearing
continued until 12 m., when a recess
p. to. Up to been
six out of a total of 12 of the State‘s
witnesses sworn had been examined,
and. the evidence was practically the
same as that given before Coroner
Phelau. Sentiewald and Graulich were
lrtdlng In the oar which, it is alleged,
struck Frank May on West Main
street, on the night'of February 12.
May died as a result of the injuries.
When the complaint was read. both
prisoners arose: both smiling. and
Grauiich showing slight traces of
nervousness. The plea of not guilty
was given by both, in a tone so low
that Judge Young bed to ask the
court what the pies was.
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autumnal
llll._.il|lillllill on
Flora Too Clevsrfor Their lio-
oonenie and Win Two Out of
Three Game:
The Holmes, Keefer & Kent tribe
showed those butcher boys that the)
are not the only does wile can butcher
ducks. But these ducks Just happened
lto be made out of wood, down at Jack
Dempsey's place. in North Main street.
and the grocers won two of the three
gamers played.
The lieers‘, lburhei boys carried off
the honors ofijtle first game although
only having “ht plus more than the
Holmes, Kaela!~ at Kent aggregation.
But aftog mt there was nothing to
it but grocery stuff all the time an
though the butcher boys started of!
Well in the early stages at the goals,
they could ‘ stop the slaughter oi
their ducks mnttor how hard they
tried; they “re sure to got just a few
points behind the barrel llingura. it
seemed an if the Boers crowd was look.
'ing a trifle in the sheet line, for they
did not seem to be suite to put any
nteum behind their thrown.
All a. whole. the game “i“ a very
closely contested alfalr all the way
through, and this lining tho flrnt game
of the series, the looners boon to be
able to hold their own the mutt time
that they meet.
Bill ”SCENE!“
llilll'l' ill Illicit
m
MACON, (ia.3 March ids-48k pen
sons «were slightly hurt this morning.
when three sleepers and one day coach
of the Dixie fiver, Chicago to Jackson-
ville, was ditched 23 miles south of
Macon on the tieorgla flouthern and
Ili'lorido tracks.
l
hONOON AWMIATION LAW.
HNRTF‘ORI", Mitch TENTH! lien-
tite "I? to it thltt afternoon favored the
moat of the mutation million deli
in ppm-spasm for Harbor lfllm’lfli
in fit! and fidamafilp “militia. with
video that the city of New London
does not before Jan. 1, 1914. mow
can": VOTES re unreal. um’
fies ‘"" WW“, ‘ ”Dill! .
Allotmw .. E
Thermmvl. blew this” In Levi
; pursuits» luncheon; last atom at
midnight all. its leader explod-
,edsnd Matteo on tire, and that
more that “D was not done
do comma khan ‘séoc fortune.
The firewall Wed us- an alarm
from no: 3 said were out three quark
ters of an hour.
In some way an employee of the
lunch room iclcite'd a an cock on the
meter. throwing it wide open. The
spurt ol- gas div“ ignited from the
name beneath the steamer: and this
Rcausod an ambition. The explosion
.biew the molar away from the main
gas "pipe on ‘ the flame arose from
the pipe I'. into bile air, setting
fire to the woodwork.
An alarm was‘rung in from the Old
Well Hoop; and Ladder Company and
the entire department responded on
the jump. Only the good work on the
part of the tire laddies saved the
lunch wagon: from being entirely
consumed. Chemicals and the extiar
guiehera werd “and deb-uh the
gas continued to blow name for about
half an nurture firemen kept down
the burning of the cart considerably.
It was necessary to rip out portions
of the cart and the damage by smoke
The lunch room will be opened again
this afternoon, however.
it wag necessary to have Gas Su-
perintendent ,John D. Milne send a
man to shut aoff the gas from the
street before ithe fli‘e could be extin-
guished entirely, and this is what
took so much time. Otherwise the
damage would‘have been alight The
great heat preventecl the firemen
from getting fear enough to the flame
to another tinndm was nothins
to do that“ been We little building
from being destroyed. The heat
brokont large rear window. ,
Chief George Borgnl'dtts drove‘.the
Putnam Hose chemical wagon and-
when he reached the be: at the 001‘-
nor of Washington street and North
Main street. he saw a man run up
North attain street. He turned the
corner in that direction and as the.
heavy wagon aiid over the rough cob-
ble stones, William Nadia and Aime
aniov were thrown off and injured.
Mr, Nadia is under the care of a pity-
siclnn and is confined to his bed to
day. Mr; Tarior is up and around.
but is Very stiff and sore. Both are
expected to recover in due time.
”kWh—m
Bill llWlllElill8 PM!)
VIABEB KEPT LillV l8
otun 0F FIBEIEI
W
NEW. YORK, March 18.-~liiiftht thou
sand dollars has Keen M3 out in div
blends to Mary “.000 paid out in
wages to firemen on the New York.
Now iiinvon and Hartford railroad.
according to antimony given today by
W. J. touch. “dilution! m“ for the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and dilnginomen. in the arbitration pro-
ceedings between the firemen and iif~
tydour custom railroads.
During the it years covered «by
those itgurne, Mr. thunk added, the
blow iiaven reed has increased the
mantra capacity of its locomottvan by
like per cent. and the firemen have
increased their emciencp 28.7 per cent.
There was a gain in freight roVonuo.
Mr. bandit instilled, of 310359.000. but
the firemen were given an Increase in»
titling only 3152.000.
Mr. 114qu was asked if It was true
that the road would have to stop pail-
ing dividends should be increase in
ranges demanded by the firemen be
granted lunch a statement, Ghanaian
Chandlers acid had been imputed to
Gherles 8. Million, president of the
road.
"it may not be necessary.” said Mr.
muck. "i do not. so that the crash
dent of the road w uid wilfully ration
state its financial condition. I (will
star, however. that it tits financial
managemi‘lnt of! the road but been as
shielsnt as the transportation mafia
argument has been there Would he no
need to stop the payment of civil
ate more towed-ails protect.
fl
dentin. " ““
and heat andyto the stock was great. '
Maturity el- committee“ deeds.
ammonites mun:
pool a Sldllilllll Grant
Will PEllK lltlliE
ml llllllllllll fiPlllll
Sellout Icileil flakes Known
Ilia Fashion in the latter
diatoms. Conn, Munch 18,—The
WEATHER FORECAST.
lillPPllllllilllilllm : ’ i:
‘ ~ V‘B'illilili’=l:-lil’llllEEl3 ‘
Some of the Letters-That. Essen! ,
Infr- Tonight and Wednesday.
ed Destruction Carried Ilif
fly from
sacrum, March la—A quan-
tity of Valuable unregistered mail was
destroyed at the local station on
week when one of the railway mail
clerk. missed the “catch pouch" and
the than fell under the wheels of the
train. A quantity of the mail. which
wasn't (tutored in this warmer, was
stolen rby a trump, it was learned
Murder.
The accident happened Saturday
morning and was the result of the
failure of the arm to catch the pouch.
The wheels of the train ground the
pouch and the contents to an unre-
cognizable mass. Some of‘ the mail
was still good, but was later annexed
by a man who was walking the ties.
The fact that the mail was drop
ped under the wheels wasn't. discov-
unfavoralbie report of the committee
on roads, bridges and rivers on the
McNeil bill for the repeat of the mil
lion dollar appropriation for New Lon-l
.don harbor, granted by the last lexis- l
isture, was called up in the Senate at
noon as the order of the day. With
report signed by ISenator (Peck alone.
‘The matter was taken up by ‘Senator
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(Continued on Second Page.)
All iliil lulu iii
In Willi lililll
Order it iii .33, 3_
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The New. York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company complet
ed yesterday a first order for equip-
ment amountltlg-R to about $2,000,000.
the purchases including twenty-three
mumple mitt motors. twenty- two
multiple unit trailers, twelve electric
locomotives eighty five steam roadj
engines. twantMve steam switching
engines, eleven steel dining cars, titty
steel vestibule coaches, twenty-dive
steel postal care and fifty steel bag-
gage cars.
This purchase is designed to equip
the through service of the Shore Line.
route with ail-steel vestibule couches.
baggage cars. smokers and postal
cars. and eventually the Pullman
company is to add its all-steel parlor
corn, thus making the entire new
through service all-steal trains. 'l‘hiu
82,000,000 equipment expenditure will
not. be enough for the entire service.
but another order to shortly to he
placed. The present order will prac
tlcatlyt completely equip the through
service of the ‘Bhore Line route with
nil-amt trains. and a complete equip-
ment of all-stool cars for the New
Yorkiiilmton uervico on all three
routes will soon follow.
Wm “Wu—MW
Afronm BEiiIEiiAI.
trftn lllliElll‘i‘AllIiE ml
fililifls’l‘ON. March til.---i\iotlco of an
appeal from the decision of the limit-
lngtnn probate court on the estate or
the late Col, Watson J, Miller, of
Shelton, was filed by Attorney-(loner-
ai “gilt iodny. Col. Miller died about
a your ego. leaving an estate invon»
torlod at $328,937.14. The. court al-
lowed between $6.000 and $6,000 as
inheritanceo taxes for the state, ex-
empting from taxation 030.000 left by
the colonel for a statue to himself in
tha- csmatery. “0.800 paid to the wid-
ow by direction of the will and a cum,
her of email bequests.
The attorney‘general claims that
somewhat more than $2,000 is still
duo the state in taxes. The action in
returnable to the Yalrdeld county line
parlor Court.
amusements hide." it reelaby to
onset. at the Wished: over Wool:
earth‘s, Wsdhenday. it cents to all,
. matinee and etching.
the report was the favorable minority
cuties. piss, toils, fancy and domestic
ered till Saturday afternoon, but in-
quiry revealed the fact that several
saw the man stoop and pick up sev-
eral things from the tracks and tuck
'them in his pocket. The mail bug's
remains were found by the station
agent.
It is not known how much was in
the letters, but it is certain that there
was considerable money. Several
haveput in ”claims. lyit' since the
mail was not registered there will be
no remuneration.
GROCERY BUSINESS SOLD.
Louie Joulofi‘ Decides to ‘Retire After
Fifteen Years in One Place.
Louis Joseloff has disposed of his
grocery; business in South Norwalk to
the Na-‘ Engiand Grocern Company,
at which Samuel Bhilepeky. of Winch
blink. In N am. #3 this 4m will
cart-yon thebuheisinllto'futurein
much tlt‘ta'bkaflla manner as has fir.
Joeeloff. ‘
The latter has been located in the
block in North Main street for the
past fifteen years. and has built up a
urge and lucrative trade by his fair
dealing and satisfactory prices and
close attention to busines.
Mr. Joseiotf contemplates entering
into a manufacturing businesa and
will locate in South Norwuik, retain
ing his residence here.
MR EVERMIT PAINFULLV iN-
JURED.
George F: Everart. of East Norw silt,
was the victim of a painful {and ser-
ious accident yesterday afternoon
when he fell nutter the feet of a blind
horse and sustained cuts and abrasions
satiny Due "to, illejtlaro
of James I.. McGuire“
autopilot
Rift-Run
Buffers and Improved Anti-ll" ‘
inn Device for Care
< commended
murmur), March 13.-'rh$“fat3al"
trolley accident on the ‘New flavour
Waterbury Line at. Summit on MI-
ary 28, in which two persons died a:
the realm of injuries receiv ‘
about fifty persons were more
injured, was due “entirely to
lessness of Motorman James
all appliances in good working
for stopping the same. " Such in tho
opinion of C. C. Elweii, chief engined?
and inspector of the Public Utilitiem.
Commission, who has just file ‘ ‘
report of the accident.
Continuing. Mr. Elweii saysfiil
recommendations made by the 'm
mission or rules adopted by th
puny will overcome human frat
positively prevent mete “
passing danger signals
sti'uctidfif “WWW
improved in, i0 asset: the ‘
by accidents at this character. ‘ .
nutter should be given serious can“
oration. l 4 , of
“I would therefore suggest that
electric street railway samba 3‘
operating cars within the state 1*
Connecticut, seriously consider
practicability of having all also ~‘
men-
(Continued from first page.)
amt llTTiiililEf om?
sevens memo snout
'SUliilFliiiJlJ), March 18.-Early you»
about the head and late Mr Ever ,
on had sold the horse to a Wiltonl
party and was sitting in the rear of:
tho hitters wagon. leading the horse:
The driver suddenly whipped his
home ahead with the insult that Mr. 3
liberart was thrown from hip seat iii!I
the back He fell to the ground and
tho blind beast ho was iontlins. isnor
out of the accident, stepped on Mr,
lilverart'll head. A physician was call.
all and the victim of the strange acct
dent taken to the. hospital. He rolun
all to mululn at shut institution. how-
whnro be ln undergoing treatment.
illg many friends Wish him a aplenty
and mmpleio recovery.
KING GEORGH OF GREECE Ada
IAbblNA'l'KD.
LONDON, Mai-on lawman George
of times: who assassination at SaiOnl l
hi this meaning. according to a dis-
patch received here.
Wwau» 4am
w'fry a M. libi. Evans
Cream Ale for family use.
and li‘iynn.
blLK WEN/ERR STRIKE.
The bill: emitters of this both slid
Kauifmen mills. of Grand street. went.
on strike today, ostensibly in sym»
phthy with their brother workers of
Patterson and New York. No other
roasting were given this morning,
“All“!
“Foam sale at its Washington in.
lattice of let iii. Id. Qhareh. Chowder.
articles. Thursday afternoon, Mar. 20,.
WWW
nmdanmmmtiomm
e. -
n
Rand throwing out sparks several ‘L
over. and was later taken to his home .
’ told {Superintendent litilen to ‘
”wan dangerous to the maiden
Hudson ‘
3,49.
terdny morning State Attorney Huff
M. Alcorn wan awakened at his litiitllt’
in South Main street bye ibright lint.
shining on the wall of his bedroom,
and the flashing off and on of an
trio light that remains lighted an
night inst outside of his bedroom; «Ur.
on looking out of the window
the transformer box on the e '
light pole in front of his house all
in the air. The note was on «fire
the cracking could easily Rho
throughout the bonus. The .3
from tho transformer box, Mr. .
said could coolly be soon for b
around as it lit up the entire
borhnod. lie attempted to turban
electric current. 'i-fo than wfit
telephone and fried to call on!
J). Allen, but, had to drop this
and put on a pair of rubber
torn he could use the idiom
power in term shut off at once.
Last December a similar
Depot street calmed the shock
Gertrude Garrity. necsslilutiiig‘
amputation of both of her hood!
this some time several emblem
tobacco warehouses in Depot. 3
not burns and injuries from ill
of the high tension wire and tits
vice wire.
out
Baum...”
mANNUAL altered «eat
(in Thursday afternoon at stone
to Post Office, the ladies of
ill. Church will one? delfcloiiil
media chowder, salads3 baited
breed. rolls. calico, pies and 3
take home for the family
domestic Mime:
noon m3.
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