Illlllli SlllIlAIl City'of Norwalk's if Twelve Pages Reliable Local and Great Home General News Newspaper - EV“? D" i. :5 ESTABLISHED 1870 ”m“: wows-mess“ SOUTH Noawaui. Two cm: : a 1 m 1’. stuns 11113 1111 1. I. 311111 Well-known South Norwalk Res- ltleni Made Aerial Trip From Shippan Point Yesterday AIIAIUR IAY GIVES AIAIIY lillllllllfllli Great Crowds Have Been Pre- sent to Witness Perlormances A record in aviation was establish- ed at Shippan Point. yesterday after noon, when Alden Scimans. president at the South Norwalk Savings Bank, and a very prominent citizen went up iii the hydro aeroplane, with Aviator Charles M. Fay, for a fifteen- minute flight over Long Island Sound and about the Point. ,Never before in the history of aviation has there been car- ried a passenger of Mr. Solmau’s age. and when he was landed safely on the shore, there quickly gathered scrowd, each one eager to shake his hand and congratulate him upon his courage. (Continued On Fifth Page.) 11111 11111 mm . Loon oonornu ~ Edwin Boese, proprietor of the Ed- ,win Boese' & Company's lace manu~ lecturing plant, on Chestnut street. Second district, this morning express- ed his fears that the warfare now ex- isting in European countries would seeiously cripple his business. sills firm is depending a great deal (upon the receiving from the warring countries, silk and onion fabric, which 'is used in the manufacture of his grinds. A shortage already exists in these materials, and the price of that .wbich is obtainable at this time. has risen almost out of consideration. Mr Boone fears that the situation GIIIIIIT LIIIIIEI. (Will PM" All] MIME ———_— A very pleasant and enjoyable so- cial evening was passed last evening at the Court Laurel Club. on Belle Island, when the members of that pop- ular clubhouse gave a card-party and dance to its many friends. The club has won for itself the name of a splendid entertainer, and last even- ing was no exception to this rule. The greater part of the evening was pleasantly spent playing cards. The prizewinners of the games were: ladies first prize in cuchre went to Mrs. T. A, Sullivan. the first euchre prize for gentlemen was won by 'Pat- rick Darragh. and the ladies' first whiet prize was captured by Miss Elizabeth ilarktns, the first whist prize for gentlemen going to Frank J. Douohue. After the games, the large number of people in attendance en- joyed an excellent entertainment. af- ter which a dainty luncheon was serv- ed. The able committee in charge of the affair was Mrs. Hugh Campbell, Miss iiazel Blake, Miss Lena Buckley and Mrs. M. J. O'Brien. The mem- bers of the club expect to repeat this success at their next social evening. which will be next Wednesday night, the aflslr taking the form of s. "8111' tragette Party," . PASTOR SHIELDS SURPRISED. Large Number: of Members of .Knlght Streit A. M. E. Church Csll ' at His Home. On Tuesday evening. after the usual class meting at Knight Street A. M. E. ‘ ,Church, a large number of members and friends gave a surprise party to their new pastor. Rev. B. M. Shields.’ and Mrs. M E. Shields, his wife. The occasion gave them much joy and greatly encouraged their appreciation for their new field of labor. Many, many‘presents were glven‘ to the new pastor, among which was enough wholesome food to keep his family for many weeks. who was present, rendered two solos. and was accompanied by Mrs. E. ‘Mil- ller Banks. He also read two selec- tions of humor and dramatic caste. 'Miss Grace Butler and Deacon J. / Taylor spoke, after which the pastor and Mrs. Shields were called upon to speak Miss Addinge gave a splendid reci- tation. which seemed to have highly pleased everyone .Mrs Carrie Powell‘ ‘and daughter Gertrude sang a very sweet duet. Among those. present and contribut- ing to the affair were: Mr. Hatch, I IHIRIY-IIIIHI ARE Klll IN A WRIIIK Passenger Train Rams Motor Driven 6111' Near Joplin, Ma, With Disastrous Results 111111111 111111114 1111 11111111 Persons on Ill Fates Cars Lit- erally Roasted to Death JOPLIN, Ma, Aug. 0.-—The thirty- elght killed and two score injured in last night's wreck st Tlpton Ford, ten " -' miles from here, when a Ksnsss‘Clty’ ~ Southern passenger train collided with a Missouri and North Arkansas Rail- rosd gssoline motor car were brought here early today. Many of the dead and injured were badly burned by the explosion of the gasoline tank on the motor car. ' W. M. Drury, of Webb City, Mo.. who, with his wife and three children was aboard the wrecked motor car. was only slightly injured. He quickly removed the wreckage which covered him and began a search for his family. which included a nine months' old (Continued on Sixth Page) STATE DEPARTMENT TRYING TO LOCATE MR8. C. A. HARMOM AND FAMILY. Prof. Carl A. liarstrom received a telegram from Congressman Jeremiah Donovan. this afternoon, in answer to one he sent to Washington. yesterday morning, asking the aid of the State D' Department to locate Mrs. Harstrom and her daughter Frances and son Eric. The telegram states that Secre- tary of State Bryan has given the Ger- man consul special directions to locate Mrs. Harstrom and children and to provide funds for their well being and do all that is possible to bring them to safety. It further stated that Con- gress has provided. an abundance of funds to furnish the necessary wants in the silk and cotton fabric market ‘ Mrs. Mary Burrs. M'B' Frank Mid' of the unfortunate tourists and that ' may develop so that these materials ‘ 3111121111 so difficult to obtain, that 111e' output or his factorycwill be much smaller, necessitating, therefore, the iafing off of a large number of his employee. . . . This is the first indication received that the, war would affect local peo- ple, audit is to be hoped that the ‘situation does not become so‘serious. IAIV IEFIJfiEES . IT VEIIA Illllll M VERA CRUZ, 1.1111. 6. --A great hush! jar of refugees arrived here during the ' alight. The greater number are Mexi-1 cans. but oh "I who their my horse. All the MN; hrs;.ol‘divrdcd"'snd many Were table to dbtiln lodgings. . There at! sinners available to take awayl e reservists. The only Vessel , live for Havana and New 3'0 'is ' patchy. the sccgmntods'tionson ith have already 1.9611 111111011. Mrs. one», E Miller Banks,l Mrs. Datcher and daughter. Miss‘ 'Grace, Miss Grace Butler, Mrs Phyllis White. Mrs. Mott, Miss Taylor. Deacon Taylor, James Perkins, lMiss Addings, Mr. Norman, Mr. Green, Mrs. Carrie Powell and daughter, Miss Gertrude. Evelina Hawkins. ‘Walter Reed, Mr. 'Hatch, Mr. and Mrs Griffin and Mr. Minton. _ Others sent presents who did not attend. ’ , —sALE. Tomorrow, 2 p.. m., at Waters Cot- tags, Hickory Bhtif. Annual sale of cake, ice cream, domestic and fancy articulations and buy your cakes for a few hours. 1 BLAIEFISII vessels will soon leave the United States for Europe to bring those peo- ple home. HOSPITAL NOTES. Mrs. Carrie Morrison. of Fort street, lisst Norwalk, was admitted to the Not-walk Hospital, yesterday after- noon, for medical treatment. Mrs. R. P. Shea. of New Canaah road, was discharged from the insti- tution; this morning. Harold Tristram, who has been con- fined for some time with a fractured leg resulting from an automobile accl- dent, was discharged this morning. He Was taken to his home. in west street, Second district. * Mrs. Sal‘s/h Stealer. of Headland are are also many German for Sunday. and enioy the seashore strict, ascend district, who his been ' it"pstichl it the 1119-1111111 111': edits s. Awhile. is reported as being in a Serious * condition nor advanced age counts ‘ against her. "i * Craft Has Tank Steamer. . Liverpool, Without Sighting a Warship. Wireless Messages Sent from Sayville, L. I. to: German Warships Off This Coast-«Numb ith 2,000 Tons of Oil, on the Way From § atoum to St. Louis du Rhone, France-White tar Liner Arabic Steams Into Boston From. 4 Officers Are In All Radio Stations [11 This..." I 1" Gountry. BRUSSELS. via London. 11:52 a. m., Aug. 6.« Graphic stories of the great struggle between the Belgian troops and the German soldicry yesterday in the vicinity of Liege tell of terrific slaughter among the German forces. At about noon yesterday the German infantry at— tempted to carry by assault Fort Barclton to the north- east of Liege. The attacking infantry crept up under the cover of a heavy artillery fire, but the Belgian defenders reserved their fire until the Germans had come to close quarters when at a given signal the Belgians opened with a perfect hail of bullets from rifles and machine guns which wreak— cd havoc among the Germans. The attackers soon fell in Ilt‘Ops of dead and wounded around the fort. ‘ At the saute time Fort Chaudfontain. to the south- east of Liege. kept up a hot fire on another body of Gcr- mans who had seized a neighboring castle. The Belgian artillcry reduced the building to a mass of smoking ruins. The Germans finally retired all along the line. 0110 newspaper says the German losses amounted to between 4.000 and 5.000 men, while they abandoned sev- entccn machine guns. A squadron of Belgian Lancers, according to another report. was completely wiped out after it had killed 150 German Ulilans. A force of 20,000 Germans passed through Manhay, Luxcmbzurg, on Wednesday, in the direction of Ayawillc, Belgium. PARIS; via London, August 6.——French torpedo craft from ilizcrta today captured the German tank steamer Czar Nicholas II., with 2,000 tons of oil. She was on the voyage from Batoum to St. Louis du Rohne, France. NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-—A.itl10ugh President Wilson has issued an Order prohibiting vvireless stations in the United States from transmitting messages of an unneu— tral nature, the Atlantic Communcation Company's pow- erful tower at Sayville, L. I. todav sent several miessages in codt, to German warships lying ofl’ the coast. These , messages, according to a. German emiploy cc of the com— panv were received from the cable offices of the Postal Telegraph Company and the“ Western Union Telegraph Company 111 this city. Others were received from a person, in New York, it was said. Some of the messages were received at the Sayville I Station yesterday afternoon and some during the early . evening. During the night and early morning they were transmitted. .... a The- manager of the company, a member of the naval ‘,reserve of Germany. said he had read in the newspapers :that President Wilson had issued an order' 111 regard to the .of messages, but that he had ' singlet-s, the capital of Finland, from which there is di~ . rect‘ rairoad communicadion with St. Petersburg NFLW'VYORK. Aug. 6.-—-'I‘hc dreaduought Florida, after havlm;r been hastily cooled and provisioned, left the Ilmoklyp Navy Yard under scaled orders at 9:30 cifélock this morning, and proceeded to 'I‘ompkinsvillc. S. I. There she dropped anchor near the cruiser Tennessee, due to sail for Europe today with nearly $8,000,000 in gold' for the relief of Americans. Navy Yard officials Would not say what was the Florida‘s destination. nor did they announce when the Tennessee would get under way. \ The Tennessee did not get under tvay at 9 a. m., and it was said that her departure would possible be delayed until late today. BRUSSELS, Aug. 6.—-Thc anti-German feeling throughout Belgium has become intense. and many Ger- man rcsidents were arrested today and charged with es~ pionsgc. ‘ Every Germian discovered anywhere in the city is brought before the police, who have much trouble in pro— tecting the prisoners from attack by the excited crowds. The patriotism here is extraordinary. Nearly all the citizens wear badges with the colors of Belgium, France and 'England combined. Thousands of women of all classes have been enroll- cd as Red Cross nurses and are awaiting the arrival of the wounded from the battlefields around Liege. King Albert: has handed oven his palace to the Red Cross Society and the queen will act as a nurse, Many hotels also have beeen transformed intorRed Cross stations and the citizens of Brussels have given up their carriages and motor cars for the transportation of the wounded. Public subscriptions for the relief of the families of those who have failen‘in the fighting have been opened. Belgian Boy Scouts while patrolling yesterday, cap— tured a'German cavalryman and arrested two Germ-an en- gineers, believed to be spies; LONDON, Aitg. 6.—Ti1'e German ambassador Prince Charles I\Ia\ Liclmowskv. with the princess and his suite, , left London today by special train for Harw.ich en route to the continent. nil demonstration. LON DON vAug 6—~The Daily Mail publishes a' dis-1 * patch from Copenhagen stating that a German squadron . is bombarding Sv caborg. Finland. " Sveabrog, said to be under bombardment today by German warsli1ps,is known as “the Gibraltar of the Bal- tic.” The fortifications armed with 900 heavy cannon and defended by a garrison of about 11,000 men, are spread ‘ . over a clthin of seven small island! connected with brid- " ~.41 a.“ - 1. I ': ‘ I 1 . w' , new; Jugs; (raw—r1 A large crowd was assembled at the‘ railroad station When the special drew out, but there was, ‘1- v ‘ ._ 0-“ J1 l 1 J... .... ..,; div—14,1”. .- .AJ gee. They command ti e entrance to the harbor of H'eI- _
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