" a well to any
' phone and'urctact y
isotux Non-want. Court.
All kinds ‘5 insurance. "
” Public Stoncgrapher.
he ‘me'xx'alh Boat Club, will hold
reigning-meeting tomorrow evening.
m
ulxkingixam Post, 2€0.,.312,‘\vill hold
regular meeting tomorrow oven-ll
‘ .
”...——
01 its regnlsx meeting toxnorroxxx
' in!
rs [Hurry C. Paxton, of Franklin
street. Stamford, is visiting for xx week
3' fix relatives lxx Norwalk.
... ~‘-~.—
“Daniel Hogan, of Raymond Bro-
rs, is attending it several days’
' vexxtioxx of the Woodmen of the
arid at Waterbury us a delegate
. .Wdra Datum, of Daixbxxrx, has!
been elected a member of the board
of Councilmen, to succeed Anthony
utilitarian, who has just been (elected
lasso. 'w. ’«r Andrews, of West,
port avenue, president of the local
Trdllcymen a Union, has been in Hart
ford for the past two days urging the
*’ passage of the trolley'xnens bill.
v
...Illc election of odicers of the Hat
. hora" Associationfschoduled for
i. “but“. was postponed until the
97:9 nd Wednesday in May Routine
es ' ixas trpxxs te9z lust “stoning.
‘41!"
‘“ Monday. April litix, was the anniver-
of the discovery of the North
ie-lby. (Peary in 4009. «Sunday, the
nth lush, will be ’l‘homas Jefferson‘s
birthday. . The 19th lust. will be Pairi~
or. day. Shakespeare was horn on
W ads-1564, and Sunday will be
the universally of the birthday of Gen
and U. 18. Grant
inc; 0. Jennings the well known
rluxuger a’nd decorator, of bier»
. ll street. who iiasx been confined to-
. . home since July 16th last, is now
to be out and is again pursuing
_ duties. Mr. Jennings' many
m pd. are pleased to welcome him
is long noise of confinement
\vlii wish him continued health
_. hooray.
n Oxien Meeting of the Civic
'sgue will he held Friday at 3.30 at
orwalk Library Members are
ly connected to bear in “mind
pit and t9 come in force to meet
"W (x Siaples President of the
porta improvement Association to
, . in her informally conccrnlnx
i" xpcrienoes with the Garden Con:
‘ successfully carried out in Want-
for several seasons. The meat
.I’ of the League are always oiled
! interested in the welfare of
city and though it is lxopoxl such
,1 become member! paying the trill
‘3 sum which constitutes member
the meetings. unisex; they are
t‘ly business meetings, urn open
. inn Masher. with the bxocptllxn ol’
the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Nation-
Wain: Will have tasted itb mettle against,
4a league contender before nightgalh
The Plrstedied encounter had to be
postponed until Saturday, boosuno the
grounds“ at Cincinnati. drenched by
floods and the recent rains, were still
too wet. for play: '
‘ 3' with What in both machinations, .cs
usual, on openixl’xf days. in the Nation-
al} Brooklyn shifts to / "Philadelphia;
'Boston plays in New York, and,
«Louis in» Chicago.
Dengue. Philadelphia in Boston; New
York in Washington; Chicago in Cleve
land, and Detroitln 8t. 'boxxis,la the or-
der.
which fans in various sections of the
country will watch with special inter-
est, are the showing: of clubs with
new managers. ‘
; sxaxxxnga‘ffrssoston. a‘nd‘Miller Hug-
gins in St. Louis, represent the new
managerial blood in the older leaguc,‘
which figures in the day’s engage-
Ii
Chance, in New York. Birmingham, in
- Cleveland, and xstovull in St. Louis are
lbizginnhxg their respective tasks
'buildlng up rundown clubs or trying
lat, Maxi s Young Mons Club, will to land pennant Mumps
t
l
t
I xSox, baseball champions of the world,
today began the defence of their title
’ i
League season here, with the Philadel‘
phia Athletics as their opponents.
Giants when they meet the Boston ha-
lxere, the opening day features are ex-
pected to bring out a large crowd—-
Tesreau is the probable occupant of
*Boston
cool, 'and several thousand devoted
followers of the team Wentnut to Fen»
way 'Park to see the contest.
was considerable speculation as to the
batteries. but it was generally believ-
ed that illediexxt would face Bender on
the mound, and that Cody and Thom-
as would do the catching.
pacts early today for a successful open-
ing of the American Magus season .9!"
here by the Cleveland and Chicago
teams were not bright. it was cold
and a drizzlingfralp fell.
at noon. however,
able batteries:
,thxc
l
blast mnots East and West struggles
'31:.
For the American
1
Points iii the initial day's play,
Evans, in Chicago;
tents. _
iii the American League.
Frank
of
L'ocally a big start was made for the
tennis at the Polo Grounds While
he Braves are xxot a prime attraction
he box for New York and Perdue for
DOST'ON, April 10. w—The Boston Red
u the 'opeu'lng game of the American
The heather was clear, calm and
There
convent-no. 0,, April Ills-Twas
Sunshine
means a game.
The weather man thought,
game at the Polo Grounds.
been well soaked by the rainfall of yes-
terday.
PHIDAD’EIJPHIA, April
session in this city this afternoon
when the Philadelphia and 1Brooklyn
teams will play their second game of
the season. Yesterday‘ a close contest
in Brooklyn. between those teams, has
added intcTcst to collar tenement.
‘ The batteries probably will be Chat
more and flooin, for Philadelphia, and
llxxgou and Miller, for Ibrookiyn.
anaxnno'roxx. April
ton diamond early today. if the was
thorn permitted the opening game be .,
sshlngtbn Ainsrioana om
ii the
’ork Americans; President Wit
50ft WIS
Cleveland—~Mibehcll .3
0;“! Land; ChicagOWBenz, Longs or
Scott and Schailx. ‘ - _
NEW YORK, April 10. -'Clear skies, ..
with xx lung in the air greeted basa- "
ball enthusiasts in New York
foranoou. The forecast was. “increas-
ing cloudiness and probably rain by
night "
however. that the shower would hold
off until after the Boston- New York
this :;
GHIGACC. April 10. -,-Weather con-
ditions here today made doubtful the
prospect for the opening baseball game
of the National Lasagna season be-
tween the Chicago and St. Louis clubs.
4 cold, xix-lusting rain fellghrongixout
the night and the grounds had already
10.-—~Baso-
boll fans roioiccd at the clear weather
{or the ensuing of the National League
10 -Clouds j;
that threatened to spill rain almost
every moment hung over the Washinx‘
ms to use his official pm _ .
for the first time and toss the first p
ball from his box A record sale
ovsrdo lusts
Estimated 'i‘lxxxi Deep sea Mp.” fl
limit “as splint-ad Seven till» J
lions In damage by Storm
'NEW YORK. April 10. ”The year
‘ 1918 has proved thus for thd'most dis»
estrous three months that ship ownx
era on both sides of the Atlantic have
experienced in nearly ilfty‘years. Cor-
rect estimates of the loss caused in“
the series of storms that have swept
the coasts of Europe and America are
dimcult to obtain. but one authority,
who based his figures on the Lloydjs
reports, said today that the damage to
deepens vessels alone would amount
to $7,000,000. This does not include
the loss suffered by the ooastingtrade
of the United States, estimated at sev-
eral millions.
During the r'nontlx oi! January alone,
one agency reported the loss or partial
wreckage of 328 sailing vessels and
610 steamships January , was the
month of the largest ..number oi:
wrecks. The estimate of $7,000,000
for the total» damage to deep sea
ships was, obtained after deducting
probable salvage from the ‘Lloyds’ es-
timate of losses. ix
One result of tho y‘ear s storms has
been the annihilation of many of the
,3!
" ills-Congressman is. mun. request-
ed by “The Contact" to give his at-
part views of the. pending tariff bill.
wr tag as foliotvs:
To the Editor of The Couraut:-—-
The/bill reported is in substantial
scoord‘ with the pledges‘émsde by “19
democratic party before election. ‘At
Waterbury Mr. Underwood told the
poop]; of Connecticut that they could
judge the future action of this party
by the attempted legislation of the
sixty-second Congress which President
Taft had vetoed. As a general pro-
position the present bill is more radi-
cox than than There are two ex
captions. Printing presses and mix-
chine tools are made dutiable at 15
per cent. instead of being free as be.
fore. On such of those as are not
seifprobccted by patents, the rate is
a revenue duty only. The report of
the, committee on former Schedule K
said that “the rates of duty were fixed
without any reference whatever to
xxrotdcticxxf‘. This is literally true of
this whole measure for the rates on
liquors and tobacco in the Payne bill
are reproduced here and the increases
icau coasting trade. American ship-
steam freighters
a. ship now as it did tixree-oeurs ago.
This increase is due in part to the od-‘
terlsls.
The rise in marine insurance rates
wrecks.
few wooden schooners left in the Amer-
pars, it is said will have to depend toctiiln point even in the Dingley law.
hexeafter largely upon barges and Pxotsctlon as a characteristic of tariff
The price of all legislation has disappeared and if
oce’un vessels has risen. A member of found in any rate, is a mere happen-
the Maritime Exchange said today that so.
it cost almost twice as much to buy!
vance in the cost of shipbuilding ma-
wlxicb was started by the loss of the
Titanic, has received additional im‘
pulse from the large number of recent
made by Mr. Payne there were 'pur’ely
for revenue and far beyond the pro-
Heretofpro the difference be
tween the parties has been as to the
Idegree of protection Even the Wil-
son bill of '04 gave ‘a rate of 50 per
cent ad Valorexn on woolen fabrics.
with free wool. That was then poo
siblc on some grades. This bill gives
35 her cent, and this subject to a a
per cent. discount if imported in
American vessels. Of course that
means all vessels for the cut will be
met. by the foreigner rather than lose
Hay Fever.
receipt of price 81.00.
Trial Package by mail 10 canto.
LIAM! m has...
an
alien: and repair work.
123 WASHINTON ”REIT.
opportunity. The Ford
by {venomous-out
piled by four. if you
you must at it now.
Agent.” 98 oath Main
1
Asthma! Asthma!
POPHAM’S 5.3THMA REMEDY
ves instant [Mini and an absolute out
n all cases at Asthma. Bronchitis. and
Sold by drugglata; mail on
For sale» by the. Oiiflcrd Pharmacy
Maring construction Co
Estimates tarnished on all kinds of building contraction. stun
TIL. 857-12.
Now and herownot than and there-~lics Your
the carrying trade. * This means a
not rate of 33 1-4 per cent. and that
will not offset the difference in: labor
cost alone between Bholxville.IConn..
and Bradford. Milena, for the‘duty
is on the wholesale foreign price and
not on the domestic price II even
some members of Congress have cal.
cut-ted it in their committee reports.
on the cheapest, sollmat‘ribnos on
Contractors
dad Bxdidora
SOUTH NORWALK.
product has been multiplied
the demand has been multi-
want one for spring service
Don’tdaluy; S L. Benedict.
street.
a
The Hatch 8x Bailey Company
IOUTH NORWALK. OCH".
Lumber and Mill Work for Everything
Titanium. III.
,ctmhuodulmlorwaiia
widower-Mica
BEAVER BOARD
is gaining rapidly to popularity as a ssh-tum lair lath and ‘5
plaster and sweeper. It AWN! of an infinite
. . Wanton-inculcate“ Wa
v._}udmralavuxvultlvoam > .- ~
and‘muxipamllafl a
- but to out line merino wool. on the
- description. the finished products are
' “in whole or in part, are burdened with
“ general policy prevails withrefercnce
,. ,"aurrsxxder‘fld greater or loss part of
. failure, for its- authorgadmit a deficit
1' A, hundred mlllle‘xn dollars which must
,. be blade up by a direct tax on in»
' ; coiling..- This moths tar moi-o for Gon-
yarns and finish of cloth.
one rata- for all grades:
grades of cotton cloth, the rates are ‘
highly protective, on linihgcod. they
are disastrous. ,
and child lab
product is ful y protected: in other
decent conditions, the principal pro
ducts axe exposed to ruinous competi-
tion. .-
As raw cotton and silk have, been 1
free heretoforo.' so now J wool becomes
as it should be; a free raw materinl,
free list, without any form of.' com-
pensation for the difference“ in cost
of production here and. «abroad, will
be very detrimental to sheep raising
in the Northwest. . Perhaps the 'ln‘
xention‘is to provide that later.
;Connocticut's industries are hit
hard-and yet no mono so than was
plainly foretold last fall. it is now
manifest that the campaign was one
or false pretenses or perhaps inno-
cent misunderstandings. “Legitimate
industries; which were then under-
stood by the manufacturers of New
England, the sugar growers of the
West and South and the citrus fruit
raisers of California and Florida to
be industries not controlled by trusts
and combinations, and hence “not to
be injured or destroyed" were defined
by the ways and,means committee in
January to be those only which Were
“economically legitimate.“ if axis-
talncd hy‘the prop of a tax they were
illegitimate and needed to be re
stored to a natural and normal condi
rtionMAs this characterizes nearly in
competitixe products under our wage
system, the change must neces-
sarliy be all-embracing. So far as
trust-controlled product. are concern-
ed, they were by ,the dictate of the
democratic platform to go to the free
list anyway.
While to many the drastic terms of
the bill will be a surprise, to a few.
its moderation will beatill more our
prising. Here in 'NewExxgiaad. many
were buoyed up by the hope of free
raw materials and reasonable pro-
tectlon for finished . products. ‘ in
some of our largest industries. such
as sowing lnxaclxines. typewriters,
shoes. saddlary, harness. and agricul-
tural implements of every 'xlxhxd and
all put on the free list and the raw
materials from which they are made.’
a duty for revenue only. . The same
to the finished metallic products which
constitute so large a part of the in-
dustries of this ntatcwralllcal cuts in
what we milks. revenue» duties retain-
ed upon or added to what we buy. For
a stile which has not a shine raw
material within its .. borders. the
prospect for. successful roornnisxx~
tion of its industrial system along
those new lines in acts cheerful one.
The avowed purpose of the bill is
to comps] the Alum-loan manufacturer
who by his skill. his ingenuity. and
this economy, has after a struggle for
- fifty years succeeded, in» practically
meeting the requirements of the do-
mestic market at lower prices than
prevailed [generation ago. to now
' it variously suggested at from ten to
' titty per cent. to the furnish pro
torlu and foreign lxbor, ts. govern
meat may he ship to tax them at the
‘ custom notice. It is not sensible to
make it rain of duty whichwlll admit
.26 per cent. of a competing Product
and not canons the other 75 per cent.
to a like displacement. but.
in its revenue features the bill is it
._ in romantic under it of more than a
sentient lush lines our the southern
.‘The woolen schedule fortniotl‘x his!
On WW [j
in the section of tlxe <
country where low wages. hing hours ..
prevail, the principal ‘
sections, where the law is aiming .atlj . .
Efi
e. of a government of which we area
mighty small part.
lion from the present consumption of
the West and South To the past sav-
ings of the North and East
unfinished parts of free
chicory and other articles, means the
transfer or the actual industries, to
countries with
changing of factories here to as’
sembly shops.
rough now dutiable at 65 per cent.
duty of 10 per cent on the raw fxxr.
I rel on floor.
_ ducar, in order that by the imports“
'. tion or the products of tarnish lac
oven ,
is found xx its sectional character.'x;he . ‘ “ ‘
' cotton schedule contains eight differs " .
cut rates of duty for cotton cloth.
duties srudcd according to fluency; of
FOR FRIDAY?
$1.00 waters ,/ .. 50c
x
$1.50 KID GLOVES, "Fownos'"...x .. .3149
.. x5 wast; saucepan”... ...... .. 32.49
* 10c spoon SILK 7c upo'ox
__x1;oo UMPREL'LAS x, . 79c
SHAPES, Special ............. . .. .. .......... 99¢:
. . SUITS. values to no, at... ......... .' $12.95
,. 32 Wash Dresses ............. ...“..xmm ....... $1.29
50c SHEETS ..... ......... 31c
Wxill'i‘E FANCY WAISTINGS ...... 12 1-2:; yard
asv v .
/ xix-'13. i $33459“
mum s. SYKEs DEAD.
'iHAxRTFORxD, April 10.—lxldward S.
Sykes, president of the Comfort Pow-
der Company, of this city, died at his
home here today. , Hewas born in
Chittenden, VL, February-14, 1838, and
came to Hartford in 1853,1ater con-V ‘
ducting a drug store in the Allyn ~
House. He had been at the bexxd of
the powder business since 1891. Up
to the time of his death Mr. Sykes
was the only surviving member of the
original noncommissioned staff of the
Twenty-fourth Regiment, Connecticut
Volunteers. in ’80, '81 and '82, he was
a member of the'Court of Common
'Council, and president of thoxboard.
He was a member of Robert 0. Tyler
Post, G A. R., and the Connecticut
Congregational Club.
I
It transfers taxa-
The‘importatlon of free finished'and
listed ma~
cheaper labor and
Fur hats, in the
will come in at 40 per cent; to be
finished here. it is a matter of doubt
whether the domestic maker is not
further handicapped by a. revenue
Even the Wilson bill made a straight
duty of 40 per cent. The present,
lavx does not cover the difference in
cost 0f production by xx dollar a dozen
on either straw or felt hats Why
reduce it? What month; the. re.
sult of scaling‘the fur hacduties 80
per cent. and the straw bst‘duties
20 per cent. of the present rates?
Berlin and Glasgow can make new-
ing machine parts with machinists’
wages at a maximum of $1.50 a day
and ship them here free at freight
rates less than the duties on the pig-.
iron and steel out of which they are
made. Does anybody gain anything .
by such handicaps on ‘American tailor?
Is not the inevitable result'of such
a policy to even take away therein;
are market from bixn and thus rob
him of the real benefit which he has
derived from the protective system?
Canadian reciprocity admitted wheat
free and put a duty of 50 cents a bar:
This bill admits flour
free and taxes wheat l0 cents a bushel,
'xoo Trimmed Hats
at $2. 98
Real value
“...-.—
No two alike.
84. 00, 36.00.315.00.
NewYoxk Specialty
,Store
19 so. Main ex. A. «News.
, To-niéht,
Vain)" drieaff'eeofdult'fl.
lntwohounandhardin
It is giving Canada 40 cents a barrel twenty-four.
premium to grind our flour for us
Free meat with a duty on cattle means
nothing to the consumer except: a 1193- use tO'morrbw ,
stblo chance at mutton frozen solid
in order to bringit through the trop-
ics from South America. or Australia
We are shippers of food} products to
all the world .today and, while free
meat and all food free is desirable.”
a sentimental proposition, it will not
reduce the cost of living in face’bf the
startling fact that while our population
has increased by 17,000,000 in ten
years, our cattle and sheep have de-
creased by 20,000,000 to the same time
But why discuss a policy which by
the vote of the people must be tried
out by actual experience. In my
judgment the hill is wrong in princi-
pie. faulty in- construction and will .
prove unfortunate in its results. iw
hops I u mistaken. If lam, no one
will reloco more heartily ”than
El. .l. runs.
A floor vanished with
_Valspar can be walked on
in twenty-four hours. with-
out sticking or matting. ..
Wash Next, Day
.r'rhe lustre stays. does not:
turn white, wears the
Ganesha!” as
, ‘ U”
.Norwalll. April 8. x
W. ...... ......W
I Milli Vllil'i'Ell
Par Moots in Foot- Health.
Wlutar with its sudden (sludge in ‘
particularly trying for on people or J
those who suffer from a weakened, '
. condition. chronic coughs, - .
Chas. E. Dow
Washington Street
South Norwalk}.
{ .
methods in malmmt of
‘dixion much discount
Norwalk Chronicler