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.lleiiz Grotto, of New llaven,
launches Iloilter (irotto of
Saudi llorwalli, in Fine Style
PARAlll PROVED AN
UNIQUE fEAlllRE
Foflowing Ceremonial Session Fine
Shore Dinner Was llad at J{lloton
Han “1870
Monker Grotto, Norwalk's newest
Masonic organization, and what prom-
ises to be its most progressive, was
launched in a fine and impressive
fashion Saturday afternoon. There
were“ scores of visitors from out-ot-
town Masonic organizations. prom-
inent among which were members
from Hejas Grotto, No. 42, of New‘
Haven, and Long l Grotto, of Brook-
lyn, N. Y. -
The impressive ritualistic work
was conducted bV the cast of Hejazl
Giotto. of New Huv.en The visitors '
were met at the station bV members I
of Monker Grotto shortly aftei three'
o'clock. The visitors were accom-
panied h,\ the famous Hejas Grotto
band and the locals had the crack
Rowiiyton Drum Corps, which rur.‘ 3 ~— . ”‘9 “m‘nd' made therein are: that the bombardment of the Turkish forts was carried
nished excellent music. A short pa- COMMUNITY cum Ammmlis mg" (c°“.I "I‘M ’7' Sixth P'l'") Igiapgmalfideo.Pimli. 123:3: 011 Saturday and that great damage was inflicted 011 the
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rude, from the station to upper Nor:
. walk and return, attracted the atten.
tion. of hundreds along the line of
Entered at the South Nor-all: Post
Oflice as Second Class latter.
SOUTH NOIRWALIK, court MONDAY,I MAY 3, 1915
Showers Tonight and Tuesuay.
TWO CENTS
British Ship Second I
Officer Saved Vessel
Cargo wont $200, 0110
Captain and Other Olficier's of the {Eu—
senda, Detained by Mexicans af En-
seiida But Cruiser Denver Arrived lust
in Time
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SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 3.—-Wlth theI berg, was taken ashore by Mexican
British ship Cetriannas captain. de-IsoldierS. placed in detention and he
tained ashore the vessels 8200, 000 car- quested to 5'5“ a statement turning.
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go would have been confiscated by mil- $3113: Cetriaua s cargo to the au
itary authorities at Ensenada, Mexico,; Captain Kerr refused, Seaberg Bayer
had it not been for defiance offered and a second gquad of soldlers came
by the ship' 8 first officer, J A. Seaberg, aboard and took the ship' a radio oper Wellinllend
or this city, and the intervention of the ator and parser “1‘0” 3‘ . -~
United States cruiser, Denver, accord— After this, according to Seaberg,n “i
_ Mexican colonel boarded the Cetriana;
111g to Seaberg’s storytold here today, .
of the Ceiriana's escape
It'rom the military commander of Lower: the General Assembly may, brought
ThIe Vessel
' harbor by the Denver yesterday. 3 “HBO-
Hail bunkers were bare of coal and before the Mexican officer could to was carried Gilt With the exception,
iturn with more soldiers the cruiser that "81’1“ 31W program. WhiCh
with neither food nor water abroad.
Denver hove in sight. 8063 over 10 next week
The Cetriana sailed from Hazatlan Commander Zlegemelr of the Dead The lmpog‘t‘nt measures of the
for Ensenada and San Diego April 14,l yer; after learning 01' the trouble, went week were the passage of the higher
despite the fact that the Mazatlan cus. ashore. conferring with Ensenada 061- “09“" M" We 0‘ the “830“ View
toms officials had refused the steamer
clearance papers.
When the vessel arrived at Ensen-
ada Captain W. Kerr, according to Sea-I towed as “L"
and vessels released, Scaberg said. I trunk line highways bill, carrying
“The Denver then passed as a line and with it the payment of one-third of
. the coat of such bridges by the trol~
I ley company using them; the new au-
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Ilium“ loam: to IeI
COMM“ l5 Sfli number of things asked by the union
HARTFORD, Conn, May 3.—-End-i
and stated that he had received orders: ing the titty-eighth day of leslfllfllur6.I
was towed into 81111 California to unload the Cetrinna 51 to a close a yeti in! week The ex-,
peeled content over vital legislation:
GENERAl lABllREllS
STRIKE l8 llllfll
Five of the Contractors in the
CityDooino tolgreeto Demands
It is very probable a general labor-
er's strike will be called in Norwall:
within the present week by delegates
of th local union atllliatd with the
General Laborer's Inetrnationai union.
Unless all the'contractors in Nor-
walk, it is said, sign the article recent-I
ly drawn up by the local union, a
strike will be called inside of two
days.
Five contractors, according to mom
bers of the union, have declined to rec.
ticles. According to the secretary or
the union these contractors are John
McMahon, Finch Brothers. William
McMahon, Michael
Hoyt & Brown.
Among the most
Mattiello, and-
important of a
is that only members of the union be
employed by local contractors. It isI
also requested that the minimum rate,
of wages for bed carriers be 35 cents
per hour, for common laborers 25
cents per hour, and for rockmen and;
skilled concrete works 33 cents per
hour ‘
As the union is made up of bod capI
riers, concrete mixers, rochmen and:
common laborers, should all the con-
tractors refuse to accede to the union'sI
demands, it is claimed quite 11. seriousj
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I situation is likely to develop in localII
stale and succeeded in having the men, Irlcs ever scored for the citizens: [1133
labor circles.
Work 011 the. schools, and other
'spring work, of which there will be
' plenty,
I strike.
tomohile law and the clubIIll'donaa law.f
will be handicapped by 11.,
Those contractors who haw;
signed the articles, and will recognize
wow pe, Smith Nathan‘s:
thur Wald .A‘. L. Wood. John
.ognlze the demands made in the ar- I
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Three More vessels
Sunk in North Sea By
German Submarines;
Crews on Two of the Aberdeen Trawlers
Believed to Have Lost Their Lives——
Torpedoing of the American Oil Tanker I
Gulf Light Stirs Washington, and Some;
Action May Be Taken—Negotiations ..
Between Italy and Austria Again Held
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The sinking of three more vessels in the North Sea "
l)\ (refillall submarines in their new campaign is report-
ed today. [he Swedish steamer Ellida “cut to the bot-
tom in less than three minutes after she was torpedoed, ,,~ ,
but the eighteen persons on board escaped; Trawlers
reaching Aberdeen report that two vcsscls of a fishing
fleet were sunk yesterday less than fifty miles off that port.
it is believed in Rome that Austria and‘ Germany
have decided on another effort to prolong the ncgotia- ‘~
tions between Italy and the central Empire, in the hope
of reaching a pcaL‘cful settlement of the I territorial dis-
“putc. For this purpose it is said that Count Goluch~
owcki. former .3\ustro-llungariau Foreign Minister, will
go to Rome from Vienna. I 4
The ltalian Cabinet has decided not to postpone the
assembling of Parliament .0” May 12 and it is thought
in Rome that Parliament may assist the Cabinet in reach
ii1ga"dccision ‘Vvhich nounappears to be alm‘ost inevita-
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information from Dardancllcs by way of London is
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warships of the Allies.
‘t‘tl‘fi'dllbun of Dardanellcs is smarts have been *dcsc
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I troyed. The Turkish War Office, however, states that no
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action 'was attempted by the allied fleet on that day. The ' II I
“French troops are reported to have made another landing ..
on the Asiatic side and to be advancing rapidly -. ‘3
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I 313‘ cerellIo. {10an Manny, Alphonso Manny,
' I IMlchael' Forntuano, Henry H. Payne,
Mall! Artistic May Baskets naieII- K- Robinson 11., or Greenfield Allfll 3HMCA"!"°‘°“°“’"‘°"’ “w 1.11.0... ‘3‘”
and “Outputs Wed .flff Hill Puts Mill! Of T. A. m- I Member! of the union state should
.dlse
~ 33 l ON BOARD“ U. 8. 3.00140 3the strike be called it will not be
Broughttlootlltesults :. hill. of Bridgeport, out 0’1 “9°;
l,htuat.lan Mon, May 2. by hall!) to markod by any violence of any kind.
San D5080. 031- M3! 3-.Th0 Amerl- but will be in every respect quiet.
march.
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LONDON, MaV 3, 11 :38 a. 'm.——The. Exchange Tele-
graph Company has received a dispatch from its corrcs~
l0 filll IlIAlllllllltl‘
‘—‘W”When Machine ' Fells
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May day at the Commtfly' Club' '
' can schooner Emma, or San Diego, basI
was a great success both socially and
artistically. The affair was in the
bands of a vyy competent committee.
with Miss Brendllnger as chairman.
Mrs. Percy W. Brooks, Mrs. Alvin D.
A big Simplex automobile, driven
and owned by JAK. Robinson. Jr., of
Greenfield Hill. crashed into 11 cu"
driven by Thomas A. Kirkhnin. otI
Park avenue. Bridgeport, on the tum-
Wadsworth and Mrs. H. M. Kent. The
pike at the corner of Scribner avenue.
arrived at Manzlllo. Mex. with only
Captain Clark and the ship’s cook on
board. and is being deemed by the'
lUnlted States cruiser. Raleigh, in ro-l
pairing damages due to a storm.
The Emma sailed Feb.2 from San
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pondcnt at Copenhagén saying" that the Schish steamer
Ellida, timbcr- laden from Helsinborg for Hull, has been .
torpedoedin the North Sea, by a Gearman submarine“. .
She went to the bottom in less than three minutes. .
The sixteen men and two women on board the vessel
barely had time to make their escape in one of the small
-« F... m M ”rind?“ part 0’ the afternoon 3 enter-I Saturday afternoon at 1: 30 o'clock. £23132:ng 1:; eztifmlrtingdbktgd boats. \ftcr cruising about for two hours they were ‘ _I
' I tainment was the making of M” 1.1.... one was injured; but considerable obstruction and then was driven by a T- u- MIIIII, fonds llepresnta- picked up by a Danish schooner and landed at Lemvig, ,
. h ‘ keta. The guests were provided withI damage was done to Kirkhamp ma 8 I to d. De 1 Denmark.
' WI“: '1 (growlesv. aged 34, living at 74 Icolored tissue paper paste. 801330” chine and the Simplex will have to éggmf totho gitlIemdie: 0: has rd 2;; tire. "M10 "M01." m “ ' i."
a er s reet outh Norwalk, and at I etc. and each person was expected to undergo extensive re 09 e, . "*
' pairs. 1. 7 _.~ ra hin fro .
tached to the plant department of the expiess her individual artistic taste in; enrouto and Was buried at seer» The W M9“ LOI\ DON. May 3, 12 :53 p. m. Tclcg p g in
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will ride his motorcycle no more.
“i have had enough," said Crow-
ley as he appeared at the Emergen-
cy hospital in Bridgeport, Friday
afternoon with a deep laceration
of his right knee and abrasions and
contusions about the body. He wast
familiarly greeted by the emergency
surgeons who have had cause to as-
sist him on similar occasr'ons.
“i am through! Understand that,
through," said the victim as his
- wounds were being stitched. and he
told the story of his latest mishap.
Crowley was going west on Elm
street on his motorcycle when be ob-
served a wet section of the roadway
near Harrison street corner. He at-
temp'rd to shut off. his power, but
through some mechanical defect of
the machine he shot into full speed,
which is estimated at between 40 and
50 miles an hour. His only obstacle
in reaching the Emergency hospital in
a more direct manner than by the
street was a fire- alarm box at the in-
tersection of Harrison and Elm
streets and a high banked wall front-
ing the Golden Hill hotel. He hit
'boih with the result that the police
signal globe surmounting the fire-
alarm pedestal was shattered. He was
assisted tolthe Emergency hospital
while the wrecked motorcycle was
taken away.
Crowley, according to his state-
ments. has met 'with a number of ac-
_ _I.cldenis recently, each of which was
'IIcaused by a mysterious agency, and
when he crashed into the pole he
(lame to the conclusion that it was
time to quit.
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.a finished basket which was to be
' tilled from the flowers in the rooms, or I
which there was a profusion and
variety, .
May day could not be complete
without the note of childhood, and?
fortunately for the success of the oc-
casion the club had several most inter-
esting children for its guests. it Was
a really remarkable sight to see wom-
en beginning at the late seventies,
ranging right down to live, heading to
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 .——WhileI
drifting rudderless and otherwise dam-I
Kirkham was accompanied by L. 8.
.Ferris, the agent in1 Bridgeport for the
Apperson' car. They had been to New
York and were on their way home
with the new machine, which Klrkham
had recently purchased. Robinson was
going west and eye witnesses to the
accident declare his machine was mak-
ing between 50 and 60 miles an how.
He flashed by tour War trucks from
the Locomobile factory and attempted
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MMIIRCYCHSIS
MUST BE REGISlllilD
Every motorcyclist, operating a
machine in the state of Connecticut
must be licensed, even though he is
from a state which does not call for
the licensing oi.” motorcycles. This im-I
rest of! the crew deserted on the M781
0! the Emma at Socorro. Thewlller
Nanshnn has been directed by‘hdmim
Howard to rescue the desertorar.‘
mlral, _
Gaudaloupe Island for several weeks.
.lllll SMAllw AWARD
f0ll lllAllllEN
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CHICAGO,
'a statement in support of their con-
tention that the wage advances
I granted were very small.
The increases aggregate, according
aged by the storm which for threeI portant fact is being called to the no. to these figures, $80, 490 a year. The
days ranged along the coast, theI
steamer Edgar H. Vance, has been.
picked up by a tug, according to wire-I
less information pub lshed today, and
is now being towed to the itiity. SheI
was found 150 miles off Santa Cruz,
Cal. ‘I
During the height of the storm Fri-
day the Vancc‘s deckload of lumberI
was carried away. That evening sheI
lost her tow, the Norwegian ship AgglI
and because of the storm, was unable
to put lines aboard the ship again.
\0 fears are expressed for the .Aggl,
as it “is thought she will be able to
make her VVayflunder sail without
trouble. Othr vessels delayed by the
storm are safe in port.
tention- of every police chief in i‘Je‘I
state by Secretary of State Charles
D. Burnes, of Hartford. Saturday at-
Iternoon a copy of this ruling, which
was made by Judge John H. Light, of
IWashington\street, this city, when At~
torney General, was received by Chic!
of IPolioe William R. Pennington, who
has issued instructions concerning it
to all his men.
There are some states where region
Iering a motorcycle is not compulsory.
but according to former Attomev
General Light’s decision every motor-I
Icycle in this state must bear a mhrlo
,er 0: some kind. The machines may
be registered in iiny other state or
in Connecticut.
figures are for wages alone and do not
include the value compensatory rules
or overtime allowances “granted. The
railroads contended throughout the
case that to grant every demandmlde
by the man would cost. the 93; western
railroads involved $40,000,000 I’ year.
.The men claim the cost would'not run
over $10,000,000 11. year. ~ r
The award is said to affect angl-
nears as only, 5.767 locomotives out or
23,812 are in service. The‘advance to
the engineers totals $311,111,Iaocoru-
ingto the Brotherhoods. ~
Flremon’io‘ni'wOb:locoinotives out of
1211661. 111 service: receive 11 total in-
y.....,
The. cruiser Chattanooga was doaig»
noted to rescue the crew ,or enven.
men weakened on the Ichaoneer or inadvertently left their tall-lights
who have been alumni onI unlighted, now finds himself about to
crease of 6609. 386, it is calculated or
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May 33%“ ‘BI'Othel‘ The members of the c tain group
hoods 01’ L00°m°tive Engineers and were determined that such offenses
Firemen. after analyzing the arbitrag although technical, should be punished
tlon award for three days, today issued’ with heavy fines,
T.I Martin Stocking, who was the
father of a bill, which was enacted
when he represented Bedding in the
legislature. providing severe punish-
mentIfor those autolsts who purposely
be tried for this some ditches. {He
was Iapprehended last week in West-
port by a ddnstable ol the town as he
passed acmss the state street bridge
Two years ago, when in Hartford,
Mr. Stocking was instrumental in the
drawing and passing or the‘3
Iagainst automobllists who fail to have
Itheir tail lights showin after dark.
baht Tuesday evening, former Rep-
resentative Stocking ~ was passing
through» the town of Westport. The
keen eye of Constable Frank E. Stur-
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LECTURED ON WAR.
George E. SokolaI‘t, of Columbia Unl-
veraity, New York, gave a most inter-
esting lecture on the European war
before a large audience in Unity Hall
yesterday.
Following the Italic a reception was
tendered to the wives and daughters
of the members, 111111 a very pleasant
time was had.
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A most pleasant ‘evenlng‘was enjoy-
ed, Saturday night. at the dance given
in Arlen Hall by the Jolly Flve,a
Springwmdj organisation. svec’e or-
ohoslra tarnished music. , [V
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A111stérdam.thc correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company says that E‘mperor William and Prince ricnry
of Prussia, his brother, were at "Antwerp the end of last
week and inspected the harbor fortifications and the sub- ,
marine yards. Subsequent toIthis. they returned «to Lux- .f
emburg .
The local newspapers were forbidden to mention this
.\'lSlt until such time as the emperor was back in Lox-I
cmburg. The few persons who recognized his majesty
saV he looked well, but aged.
LONDON. May 3, 4:20 a. m.—Will Crooks, labor
leader in the House of Commons, declares in a newspa—
per interview published today that there is less drinking
in Englandxtlian before the war and that Chancellor of ,
the Exchequer L10)- d George was mistaken in the state-
111'ents he made 011 the subject.
Mr. Crooks asserts that if less work is being done at
private shipvards some cause other than drink must be
sought and that this accusation has been spread broad ‘
cast by employers to cover up their own shortcOmings.
“I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that the
W'oolwich Arsenal could turn out a third more work»;
than it is doing now,’ the inter‘view declares. ’ “The m—en
have insufficient work to do because of lack of organiza
tion. Moreover, although the war has lasted nine months,
110 accommodations yet have been provided for the men
to get their meals."
ABEREEN, Scotland,3May 3.12:42 p. m.——'l‘rawlers:
m’aking port today declare that a~Gcrman submarine stink I
tho trawlcrs within fifty miles of Aberdeen Sunday. Th
crews of the two vessels; it is believed, were. lost "‘ .1
It would apue r as thought the submarine ran ai’nuc
among the Aberdeen fishing fleet. n addition to seIu§hnI
two to the bottom. it chase] three other tron/lets, in.
twenty miles. ., A patrol boat was then sccn approaching
whereupon the submarine submerged. . 1 i
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