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settled down. 2 IV
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flew llityol Norwaili’s “Finest”
Presents .An Appearance ;Call
- inn Forth Many Compliments
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Group Photograph Taken on Steps
ofCiiv Hall
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I ()ne of. the most impressive cere-
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7.le Made for .OTTsarvanca of
Event flarcli lilthélinproga. , I ”
tnioules in the history of Norwalk was
the Inspection of the local police do-‘
pertinent by Police
ill IbeI-t M. Wolfe. yesterday afternoon
ill the city hall, and it will be long‘
ruinembered as one of the most en Imittee; through (‘halrman Wllliani O. Colt.
pacing affairs in which the policemen
have participated in all their years
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Wesipori Posse Captures Allen
at! BurpiarAftar Chase-
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fine of the most important captures
that the T-Westport. authorities 119.ch
eicr made occurred Sunday night at
about midnight and when the excite
Intent had subsided three of the most
mania Ito Quarters I
n.“—
Plans were talked over, last night. I
\ at the monthly meeting of Old Well
Hook andbadder company for the
fitting observance of the fortieth an~
niversary of the organisation of the
company. This will occur on March
10th. and a special committee consist-
ing of William A McPherson, Samuel
P. Holmes and Charles Bauer, was ap-
pointed by Foreman Howard L. Zellln
to act in conjunction with the enter-
tainment and 'iiouee committees in
planning a suitable program for the .
occasion. A meeting of this committee
will be held on Sunday afternoon at
3 o‘clock, at the company quarters in
Franklin street and all members are}
expected to be present I
The question of better lighting nr-‘
rangeinents for the meeting room was!
discussed. and it was the vote of the
companv that District Commission-
Commissioner .er D. \V. Hnrford take. up the matter, tis handed down a decision in the
as soon as possible.
The special house furnishing com-
McLean, reported that it had purchas-
ed considerable new equipment for the
iroonis, and that they presented it bet
Iter appearance. ‘1 I
New badges for the officers were
to have the members equipped with
edges in the near future. The house
sign at once for all officers.
LIeroy Adams, for many years a!
member of the South Norwalk Fire;
“Police and one of the best known fire-
on in the town. was elected a member
of the company.
The matter of holding a benefit at;
Hoyts Theatre Was discussed, and it;
is probable that one will be announced
shortly.
The committee of portraits of theI
former mayors of the city reported that I
New York Society People involv-
ed In'5505000 LIhaI Action
—-Pleaiiings flail Hofv
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it Mails Serious Charges and
Court Says it is Not Prop-
erly ' in Case
BRIDGEPORT, Feb. 10. ——Judge Cui-
parts of the defense of‘ Elizabeth
slander suit. filed against
Warren G. Demarest, of New Haven!
‘ went Iupstaiis to dress.
and a prominent New York club man. I
Demarest says he was slandered in
a letter written by the defendant to Ii
lloled, and arrangements will be made ..ew York woman in which she refer
red to Demarest as a “rotten little
cad." It was expected that the suit
Icomtnittee will select a suitable de lell be tried here soon
Prominent. society people in New
York New Haven and Ridgeiield .are
involved in the libel suit now in :pro-
I '(qon'tinusd on Sixth Pain-l
pronunciations
resent ll strain:
A number of the poultry breeders
of Norwaik met last evening in the
daring burglars that have ever Worked it could not secure other pictures. and I directors room of The South Norwalii
in this section ofthe state were lock-
Ied up. They are Frederick Meyers.
{Henry page and E, W. lat‘rosh. The received from the East Port Chester Ii’ouitry
that two named, live in \\ estport, but:
the home of the third is not known.I
although it is said that he came front I
Il’Iovidence, R. I. They were bound
over to the Superior Court underI
{bonds of $5. 000 each by Justice Samuel
‘iA. Purdy. last night, after pleas oiT
not guilty had been entered.
The recent and frequent burglaries;
in Westport, had stirred the authori-
ties to unusual activity and for some
time suspicion was held against these
three. Sunday night was found to be
the right time to descend upon their
place of hiding and accordingly Sher-I
tiff liead with five assistants made the"
raid on the burn on William Rosan-
ald's form. A scarih ills"l(>sed sevnei ‘
iii thousand dollars worth of house I
lioiii goods and some jenelrv It was I
{hidden in different parts of tho bin-III
and in the outliouses about the place
(1‘ here was a large quantity of the loot]
stored uiidei the barn floor
When the authorities descended up i
on the place F‘red Meyers attempted
to get away, but his flight was abrupt I
ly baited when Sheriff 'iicad fired
couple of shots from his revolver ln~ I
to the ground to scare him. lilleazet I
ti’nrmly, Jr., real estate agent of Nor
walk. was present at the (‘apturo and
(he loanfi his automobile to transfer
{the plisouors to the lookup
Prosecutor Harry R. Sherwood was
‘asked If there are to be any more or ,I
rents and he declined to any one way
in the other. He did admit however, I
that someone else is suspected
having a band in the matter
at
it is;
not at all unlikely from the ramorsi ‘Gel'haidt godlmayerwn experienced caught in the grip of the ice, had been
going about that another arrest will be
Meyers boarded at Rosannid's
homo
[Mllowltig is a partial list of the
names of the. pacific who were robbed;
palvin lmngdon, Mr. Guild Ad is Bell
liecii, Hermon o lBumpus,’ Jti iii 8:
titer-y, Mrs. Morris Mills and Joint a
IMurscband. IAII the above named per-
dose identified some of their imam “
'T oi the hearing last nights Jillian! YGI‘I'
contains ii lot of stolen nice“- that has
:zVTinot been rea‘ersd
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Iery man present felt the history-mak-
Iing affair it was.
IEnglnnd birds, the turkey, was
the committee was discharged.
Invitations to attend dances were
Fire Department, and the Dhrien Fire
Department, the latter event
held tonight
being
FAREWELL FEAST FOR I
Trust Company and formed an asso-
.clation to be knomi as “The Net-walk
Association.
the associatiop is to hold a poultr’v
show in the fall, something that Nor.
The object of I
walk has never bad. There has beenI
the poultry men that Ibey could run III
In feeling here for many years amongI
Ishow here similar to the shows lieldI
FOI‘ME“ F'REPOL'GE in Danbury, Stamford and Bridgeporti
I That the burglar had an accomplice is
I
We...
There was a great deal of sentiment:
favor the farewell dinner of the Bouth
‘as follows:
Norwslk Fire police last night, al-
though but little of it was expressed.I
It was a momentous occasion and ev~
The dinner wasVI
most informal and the King of Now
the
main part of the feast The’ dinner we!
named at the home of Jacob Schaub I
I
Ill Washington street, and the happy}
,‘Hpoutg of the forty ”new”, told unfit!) the matter of by-luws and submit
passsrsby of the good time that waeI
going on around the festive board. AtI
Ithe‘ close of the meal the police voted I
an adjournment for one year, and at
the expiration of that time just such
another glorious feast will be held}
The titre police was forced o'ut of oxis-I
tence by the city council under tlIeI
consolidated form of government I
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MIIIAIII DBLLISION
0F AVIATOIIS FATALI
roiinsmsriixp oer-many Feb.
fogs mid an collision between a uiI
one German aviator and serious injur-
tea to two others. I
airman. was flying his biplane, carry-
ing as his passenger Lient. Leonhardi
of the German army. They were clr~I
cling the aerodrome at a. height of cutter Androacoxgin, her bunkers filled
about one hundred feet when their
machine was coached into by a niopo- I
plane. in which boxcar a. pupil at
the flying school Ives melting his first assist the novel but Potomac, we on
independent flIBM , I
their machines fell and when the
men were oxtricptod min the "vest.
age it was found that Degas um.
View "and the other two mvelsi hurt. the advertising
T States Naval tug Potomac, which was
that a further intestlgatlon is beinig‘ Diane and fl monopluno over the new last sighted in an ice flue five miles
conducted, which leads to the belief; droino here today, caused the death of off that place just before darkness
and from the start last
looks like a success.
The officers of the association are
at citing it
President—milieu 1). Morgan.
Vice«PresldetIt——iiarry Stacey Ben-
. ton.
Secretarywi‘Iharles R. Petty.
Treasurer~-Myron W.” Osborn. .
Superintendent—«E H Patterson
A committee consisting of Dr. R E
Morgan, Harry Hubbell. Myron Vi.
Osborn and Charles it l'l’etty will look
some at the next llleellllK.
Any person or persons wishing to
join the Association may interview any
of the officers and get full information
regarding it
iiiivii. Tlifi onuanr
III are tuition
CUltliiN‘G, N. it. lll‘ob. law-When the.
storm that has raged for two days
along the west coast of Newfoundland
passed today shore observers Vat. bark
Harbor. could not see the United
shut in on Saturday.
It was believed that the Potomac,
carried out into the Gulf of St. Law-
rence.
Polit'llLAND Me" Feb 10. «Revenue
with‘ coal and e plentiful supply 501‘
provisions iii her hold, sailed today for
the west coast of Newfoundland Ito
has been cauxiit in the driftiax e‘
loss of the goal: of ai.- Lawrence. I ,
alias. inborn 'are to so. suite-Iai-
Mr. soil: In. I.. Liiavnolils
interrupted hunter’s
final-allude
one of the boldest attempts at day-
light burglary'tlliat lion :been made in
Norwailn occurred flimsy afternoon '
at the home of Louis J. Reynolds, the
truckman. on Main street, first dis
trict. Just a fortunate circumstance
prevented the Ibumiir from makings
good haul. It was the, domestic who
unsuspectingly interrupted the intro:
der and caused him to leave the jewel
case of Mrs. Reynolds and containing
valuable jewelry behind him.‘
Mr. and‘lira. Reynolds left the house
at about- 2:30 o'clock “with other piece;
pie and went into the storehouse on
Domestic at the Residence of , I
I
some business, and the servant girl;
then apparently made his entrance in
the rear door and went into Mrs.
Roy‘nolds bedroom He came upon
IS“ I'm jewel case which was lying upon
lperlor court today striking out certain! the dresser. He picked it “in but in the working of the third degree on the
B“ I so doing the two trays containing the;
0f Ridgefield I“ "I" :50 ODOI .jcwela slid out and fell onto theiloor.’
her by IT
his noise was heard by the girl and
lShe called down, thinking it was Mrs.
Rey‘holds. When no response was giv-
on to her call she came down stairs
and found the burglar. She blown,
whistle which is kept in the house
for the purpose of calling Mr. or Mrs.
Reynolds from the storehouse. The
burglar hearing this ordered her to
go down to the first floor and he slap-
ped hex- across the face and told hcrI
to so into another room She did and
‘ .9 arrived at the
. . . If the lburglar had;
dropped the jewel one on the stairs'
and had thrown away b. not of pearl
«bookie nations of gold. This rest of‘
the jewelry was found scattered upon
the floor in the bedroom No jewelry
was titan and it is not supposed that
anything else was secured.
The «burglai I
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Third .DenresIon Class
of'Forty-iwo
sun union Ill
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Turkey Supper Follows the Var-IV
tail Lodge Carcinomas
History was written last night into
the records of Our Brothers Lodge
No.10 10.0 l<‘.. and into the rec
ords of Odd Fellows of (‘onncctii at, at
class on forty-two. the largest ever
taken in at one time Added in this
unusual event there were present, dis-
tinguished men of the Odd Fellows-i
and in other walks of life. The event
last night brought over 350 brothers
together and inspirations of unbound-
ed magnitude resulted from the speech- ,
as which were made.
(Continued on Eighth l’egel.
-——HIGH SCHOOL MINBTRELS.
Ausplobs of Boys' A. A. High School"1
Hall Tome. and Fri. eves. Feb 12-13.I
Tickets, 200. Reserved coats, Glendon-
pings assignment-”3.: extra charge
«yum
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The sirl in giving a description or E. E. Gerham Chosen at Organi-
the man declared that lie was an Ital-I
inn. He wore a long light colored over-
coat and a black slouch hat. At the
bottom
of the overcoat was some
spots that looked as though they had'
,been caused by mud lie. was about :II
feet 10 inches and heavily Ibnilt. He
wore a mustache curled at the ends.
:nlmost proved beyond a doubt by the
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“T as the winner strangle
Ies story of Mrs,
lrvlngll. Reed, who
lives next door to the Reynolds.
She had noticed a man walking back
and forth in front of the Reynolds
zation fleeting as President—
Purtose Not Announced
. Definitely
III IIIIII IIITI’II
Dial detected by a Vote of 205
to ti64 a Resolution of Wain
of Confidence in Hovarnmenf
um cl
TOKIO Japan. Feb. 10.-—~Rioting in
the streets of Tolilohcollleions between
the police and the populace, numbers
hurt and many arrests were mean
meat to .a turbulent day both inside"
and Outside the Japanese Parliament
today.
The Diet rejected by 205 votes. it»
gainst 164. a resolution of want of cost-
fldencewjn the government, introdueodl
as u‘protest against the attitude of
Fair , tonight: mummy. cloudy,
III" III IIIJIIIIIII
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Not Expected that Fire I,
meet and School Property
Will Be Purchased
the Cabinet in connection with the 1‘;
gleged receipt of illicit commissions by}
IJapanese naval officers for influencing:
the allotment of VadmIrnlty contracts:
in favor of a German firm
While the session was in progress
;great crowds packed the neighboring
streets and several mass meetings
were organized The people declar-
ing the (‘ubinet siIOuid be impeached,‘
marched toward the House of i-‘arltaV
ment, overturning jinrikshus and at
tacking several government officials on
theii was},
At the eutranle to the Diet they
came into collision with the police
and III the (muse of the stray tie the
auto v: as brolten down and many peo-
ple Were injured. The leaders were
arrested .
The debate in the House was a dra-
matic one. A fierce. attack was made
on the Premier, Count Gumbel Yuma-
moto. who replied demandiui: It sits
pnusi. ll of 3nd mcut until the inquiry‘
Jinto/tl‘fe naval scandal had been con-
oi ded '
Saburo Shlmada, a leader of the . T
Eposition, and other members chars“
V the Cabinet with having smothered
affair until it had been forced to or
der an investigation I , I . ‘ I
. When the speaker ordered the ex-
Vpiilsion of a member of the OpplsitionV I
who had interrupted the debate a free?
fight on the floor of the House ensued
w don the Guards and the friends
of the offender Deputv.
The victory of the 'government on
the resolution of want of confidence
was greeted with cheers by the major-
itv of the House and with jeers from
the crowd outside whit h acclaimed the
members of the Opposition as they left.
Aftei vainly waiting for the exit of
the ministers. the mob marched to the
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Must Figure Up itinerant Brit
During Next 4 or 5 Weeks '
First district ............... 5% mil 7
Sprxiul tax ............... 1% ml!
Second district ............ . : .3 mill;
Third district
Fourth district ................ 7 mil "
Fifth district.
Special tax ............... il-lll mil
First distifct includes let. out and
51h taxes.
‘Second distii ct includes :0. 4th and
5th taxes. 7 7
Third district includes lid,
til taxes
Fifth district covers entire 9“}: -
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4th I‘M
otal First district toil. 1.0 640 mil
Total second district tax. iii cicada
Total Tl’hird' "district tel? 15 ”0'
man rival district stfi'. 5 “III“
‘ ‘Tlie above table will undoubted
represent the tax rate for the first I,
of the new City of Norwalk, add KI
will become due and payable, accord;
ing to present calculations, on spur
let.
The board of estimate and idiotic
as far as appropriating addition'al‘sti
which will make the tax rate high I
has completed its w.ork There is no
likelihood of the new city putting up
592, 000 for the puichase of the varioui
There was a gathering of“ the tax~ offices of the newspaper (‘hu- 0, a gov lire houses and apparatus now in use;
payers in East Norwalk last night and eminent orgiizu where they stoned the if anything is done regarding this
Taxpayers’ Magus. or association. was police who, howev,er succeeded in re matter the board of councilman will
formed Edward E. Gorham. at whose
pulsing the demonstrators. Fifteen
probably fix a suitable rental for the
store the meeting for organization was persOns weic pushed into the canal annual use of the fire quarters and TIV
held, and who was elected president
of the new society in the Third dis
I,home but did not think anything of “1°" could “0" definitely “3‘9 the 9“"
it until she learned of the attempt to
burglarize the house next door. She
recalled that he was vet y intent upon
watching the house which was enter
ed
Inn itlllSIIll nuns
an III on Phil
Will be Held in the City Hall on
Friday Afternoon~ Gills
During lanuary
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The regular meeting of the bonid
of directors of the Day Nursery Asso-
ciation was held yesterday afternoon
‘at the home of Mrs llnrriet W Chum-l
llhiss
trict.
At this time plans were coniploied
for the animal Bi.
card party, to be held in the auditoz-
ium of the city hall on Friday, Febru-
'aaid, “i guess tbafls it.
pose of its formation to a reporter this
morning. it is believed that all who
read the list at oflicors. as follow. will
have a. fairly g'ood conception of at.
least one of the matters the organize
tion will consider:
i’residenh—Edward id. '(lorham.
Vicenl’resldentwliarry Iltidcr.
Secretary—4V. C. Twombly.
Treasurer~lsauc Church.
“In your purpose to try to keep the
taxes down?" Mr. Gorhuni was naked.
"Well. Il don't know but soiiiethtng like
that," he replied. "Perhaps it into
provide a way to pay the taxes?" was
t a next interrogation. Mr. 'GOI'Illllli
They're (the
.taxes) up high enough now."
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No definite line can be secured on
the true purpose of the league’s forma-
tion. but Mr. G'orham intimated that it
is to look after the interests of the tax
in Morgan avenue li‘irst Dis.I {Tu LIGNT TRINITY
Valentine's Day I
payers on the East Skin in all ways. ‘
W~WW.I~~.W
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I a: Id (urb lines .
(luring the struggle but all were
VVViich
“TIS-
GI'UIIIIII. MEETIIII
MAI PE A LONG (”If
The city council meeting this even
iiig will he ii long one if all the matters
siliednled to tome before the amnion
iiie conslilercd at any length Some
of the subjects are long and it In
thought possible that the meeting may
be drawn out to considerable ion: th.
The council will plobilbi) consider
the salary question since the board of
estimate refused to appropriate suffic-
lent money to carry out the channels
votid hI the city fathers. The garbage
question may again come up with a (165
finite rcpoit this time The committee
may rcpoit on the fire equipment pm-
perty, etc. and tho prico to be charged
by each district tot renting the appara
ins and houses The building ordin
once, a Iolumin‘ous document will pi-‘oh
liably be in shape for adoption. There
will be a hosiliiu; m the Garner street
building lines. Probably a report viiilI
be made of the least Norwalli (Soto
T view avenue and First street) buliilanip
ury ‘lltli. afternoon and evening. From of Trinity Episcopal church last night of the regular nature and some itnox
the reports of the directors given at and, principal among the business (its Vpccted questions may step out
yesterday's meeting the success of the patched was the making of unusual
'PortI‘ is assured. Routine business wnl meals to equip the church building in
I-..
also transacted
Ililnch mph mag-.9155. {he 88109.01!“ paratory to installing.‘ a ectrio lightinz. steamer Queen Louise which straird missing witness in the ease of
its entirety with electrical wiring. pre-
on by- those comprising III” duartetts The chtircli lists been i bind with. has
of players. and the rules to ”VIII", xii to the presenttime but it was
the some must be made Ibyhtlia claw
are themselves. It price .w i be xiv I9 ‘.
T
change the sits:
with triiiisil bil- other
I STEAMER LOUIBE FLOATED.
NEW YORI{,FOIJ.10.-Thil liribi'liitII
Saturday morning. during at . .
floated today by wrecking tact eViVIJV II
Irious bills can be made out. Molly taxi
payers, having property in; Merl/II (“A
There was a meeting at the ventrig‘ Yes, there will be plenty of busliiesavtriet of the city, will get ipur that hill
prion arrested in 12.“er
nominal sum for the use of the app?
rains.
Probably nothing will be done thlii
year toward taking chi the properties
of the various school districts, as this
matter is not yet completed. Titer
was it difference of over a million dot-T
lars between the total of the town
grand list last yeai, and the figures
compiled by the special school assess-
ors last month and there is not time
to have the work done over ag'ain.
It will require a great amount on
, hustling on the part of (‘Iity Clerk Joe- I
eph .i. Linxweiler and his assistants to l ‘
{Vet the rate books completed and turn-v
oil over to the tax collector is time his
send out the bills on April lat it for
inerly took Town Clerk Herbert R.
Smith fmm two to three months to
figure the assessment books, and en‘-
ter the amounts Ill the 5 axis town rate
book.
amount. of figuring and totalling of in);
rates. and there will be four differed '
rate books, one for each of the toxins:
districts City (‘lcrk Llnxwoilor pie
I9 begin work this week, and hope
inside of a month to turn the book
over to the collector. so that the vine
W-w.. W,
{MISSING WITNESB ARRIWK
NEW HAVE N Feb. 10. ”15‘de
4for the New Haven authentic
Now there will be five timesthe. "
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