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ESTABLISHED 1870
Entered at the South Nowell: Post
Oblce as Second Class Hatter.
SOUTH NonALL- court. . masonic, MAY l1,
1915
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around the world.
we receive latest inks
Fair Tonight and Wednesday.
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;nposiiionto‘le,ase About All of
. Hie flatwal oyster Grounds is
' Being Vigorously opposed
sII SCHEME )0 IIII
AWAY llfllllll
”any of the Small Growers Would
Be Put 0st of Business
The bill concerning the leasing of
shell-fish grounds is one of the most
obnoxious pieces of legislation pro-
posed at this session.
beds of the state, except the bed
known as the Stratiord bed. Fish isl-
and and Rotqn Point bed. the‘ Bridge-
port bed. and Fairiield bed. The
natural beds that' are subject to be
leased are Cormeli Reefs of 1 acre.
Port Chester, 218 acres: Great Cap-
tain island National bed 152 acres;
Field Point natural bed of 84 acres;
Greenwich Point natural bed, of 403
acres
The proposed bill will leave the nat-
ural beds mentioned to non residential
or residents, who bid the highest, and
also charge every person a fee. 01; )5
I "who is on sheet can; nfled for died:
ins. Under the preterit isw each boat
is taxed a license fee—and not the per-
sons on, the boat. ‘ Now. it is important
to 'Norwalx that this should be defeats
ed, as it will work, a. hoidfihlp “MI
some 300 or 400 manpwbohhove spent
their entire lives working on the nat-
ural beds. if the proposed bill should
,pass, itwould make it impossible for
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Ballerina list of Term and it
peeled to Get Money or fund-
ture—Referee Orders Public
- Ste of Assets '
BRIDGEPORT, May li.-—About 75
out-of-town women customers of the
Grand Rapids Furniture & Supply Cor-
poration came here yesterday‘to at-
tend n hearing before Referee in Bank-
ruptcy John .W. Banks at the County
pourt 'House, expecting to get back
the money they had paid into the firm
or furniture equivalent to their pay-
ments. and they were greatly disap-
, pointed when they learned that their
errand would be fruitless, for today's
hearing was on the motion of Trustee
A. l.. DeLaney for an order to sell the
assets of the company.
Angry withOut Girdle.
The women came‘ from New Haven,"
Waterbury, Ansonia, Norwaik, and oth-
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PLANNED l0 Slll
0N lNE lllSlllNll
General Frost and— Russell Frost,
Jr., pl mned to go to England on the
Lusitania, sailing on the first of May
on the trip which proved fatal to the
vessel
On account of studies which Rus-
sell. Jr... is inking in New York, they
changed theft plans and engaged pas
sage on the St. Louis. which sails a
week from Saturday. They are now
undecided about sailing on that day.
, I
it purposes to.
lease all of the natural or public oysteri lII l’aris it is rumored Germany and Austria have
declared “at on Italy. but so fat is known tlIé‘fc
A \Iilan dispatch giIcs what
purports to be an ofi'cr of territorial
Austria, described as unacceptable to Italy, inasmuch as
Tricst and Istrin.
in progress on the Gallipoli PIIIiIIsula during the
Small Chance Thai
lo Foes
I‘cgardcd in Rome as almost
rcnclicd.
OilSlV and political opposition
, l_I dicd aIvaI.
basis for such reports.
it excludes
few days. although accounts
plctc contradiction.
I
with heavy losses.
or about $000 men were
..: hem A‘t’liens to Delilah“
“lulu mm
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Cantata on illusday Evening
l
The cantata. “Christ. the chtor,” by
Dudley Bdck. which is to be sung by
the choir of Trinity Church on Tues~
day evening. at 8 o'clock. in a sequel to
the Good Friday cantata, "The Story.
of the Cross." and is written on the
same lines, with narrative and de-l
scriptive passages, partly from the‘
Scriptures. with mediatlve choruses ln-.
terspersed. As will be remembered byi
those so fortunate as to have heard, 'lc
”the Story of the Cross," it was the l
history. or our. day, Good Friday, end 1
ing with the placing of the body of
Christ in J coeph‘s new tomb hewn out)
of the rock. The present work begins
with that point of time. Good Friday
night. and carries the story through
the Resurrection to the Ascension, the
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(Continued on ,eleventh page)
II Ellllllllillll
Contest Over Seating Brooklyn Dele-
gates ls Quickly, Disposed viii
With forty-eight delegates, repre-
senting seventeen local associations,
present, the sixth quadrennial conven-
tion of United Hatters of North Am-
erica opened yesterday morning in Ar-'
lington Hall, St. Mark’s Place, New
York city.
Owing to the fact that there was a
contest over the seating of delegates
{from the Brooklyn Finishers’ associa-
tion yesterday morning's session lasted
loniy fifteen minutes. Before the open-‘
ing of the convention the delegates
gathered in the hall and discussed in- ’ ‘
I formally various matters of interest
that are expected to. come before them
during the convention sessions
Regard War BeMeen ‘ ‘ -‘;
Italy and Central Empire's
'AS'BeiIIg‘
to be only a slender chancc that an
Thefiloirtolellirlh'leaitlhl'
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Continued ou twelfth page)
unavoidable
Agreement Will Be
Reached and Preparations Are Being
Pushed-:Paris Hears Rumors Thai
Germany and Austria Have Declared
War on llaly- Heavy Fighting continues
on the Gallipoli Peninsula and Turks
Claim to Have Caused Severe Losses
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War between Italy and the Ccntral Elllpll'CS is ii0\\‘
There is said
agrgcmcut \Vlll\‘ b
unavoidable.
Military preparations are being pushed vigor-
to war apparently has large-
is no
concessions
Heavy fighting has been
last
of the results are in com-
AII official statement issued at Con-
stantinople says ilIc’Frcncll end British troops made four
attacks near AI-i Burnu on Sunday, but-*were driven back .
it is asserted that three "battalions.
lulu dispatch "l
WWWNIlbfmade im-
portant advances on Friday and Saturday, and that the
Turkish lo‘sscs in the fighting were estimated at 45.000
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As was briefly recorded in The Son.
‘tlnei, last evening, irs' T. Ghanaian.
'superliitondent of the News“: schools
was one ofvtw'o candidates, out cl more
than titty applicants, whowas cousin-
ered by the Bridgeport board of edu-L
cation. for the position of superintend-
ent of the Bridgeport schools.
At a meeting of the board last eve-
nlng. however. Samuel J. Slawson. sup-
erintendent of the Stamford School,
was appointed to the position His sal-
ary will be $5, 000 and he will take
charge on August 1st, next. to sue-
ceed Dr. Charles A. Deane, who has
tendered his resignation.
Notwithstanding the fact Mr. Chap-
man did not receive the appointment,
the fact that he was favorably consid-
ered, out of a swarm of over half a)
hundri‘ed Applications, shows that his.
good work in Norwalk is attracting
outside attention. *
NORWALK HOSPITAL NOTES.
Mrs. »- John Kelley, of» Raymond
- street. was admitted to the Norwalk
hospital last nightllfor medical treat-
ment.
Jacob Kaiser, of Westplort, was
operated on at the hospital this morn-
ing for appendicitis .
from I
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Wasatch hustle-
rial-m
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Crsmer C. Housman is to be the
prosecutor‘nnd Mellon Light clerk
of the Gity Court of Norwalk- for the
coming two years, Judgeeiect George
H. Vosburgh having tendered the ap-
pointments to those attorneys.
ber of the General Assembly, is well
thought of as a lawyer and is very
popular with the young men of the
city. He will malts an ideal prosecu-
tor. Attorney Light will hold his
that" public office as clerk of the
court. He recently associated himself
in the practice of law with his father
and is the junior member of the law
firm of Light & Light:
Attorney Hegeman is president of
and Attorney Light is a member of
that organization -
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srndovss. s. v., my 11.-Coun
so) for William Barnes were pre-
pared today to ask that much of the
testimony given during the last three
weeks in behalf of Theodore Roose-
velt, whom Mr. Barnes is sulngifor it-
hot, be stricken from the records.‘
Dive “only. meantime" model
yummy alter the. Ions ol the as;
ienso rested. Four were denied 310'
the printing situation Ilnmibany wore,‘
. the» attorneys said, to be‘tbe subject
of probably a dozen or more nations.
After all-the notions‘have been dis-
posod of the counsel for'tbs il‘a'intilf
~were,rendy to take dissemination
of witnesses in rebuttal. These ill-
cludo Wfi‘tiaan P. Sheelann. Demo-
erotic candidate for United States
Senator Ital 1911 when a deadlock in
Line State Senate finally resulted in
.the selection of James O'Gorman. in
all twelve witnesses have been sins-
inched to appear today. Counsel for
hit. Barnes said that two days at
least would be needed for the direct
examination of their witnesses.. - -
W“? W
nun m II
'Fourth taxingIdistrict of tilt. city,
what has come to be generalitmwn
as a ‘Ciean-up week.’ and willoofitlnua
the wot-(k all through the week. '
These "Clean-up Weeks' berathssn
very successful in every city in which
'they have been tried and havare'sult-
ed in very materially reducing both
the number. of. flies and the fire risk.
We all know the good work that has
, been done in the extermination of the
breeding places. of mosquitoes The by
is a much greater menace to health
than the mosquito and the destruction.
as a result oi" this “Clean-up Week".
of all places which might act as breed-
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here
the public the greatest bargai
ed for One Dollar bill.
Every merchant in every
something wonderful to offer on that date. All stores will
be open until 9 p In. May 20 so that people employed dttr- ,,_
ing the day will have a chmcc to avail themselves of the
Great Bargain Offerings. ‘
On May 20th the merchants of this town will offer to
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DOLLAR DAY
The greatest economy event of the year will soon be
us that have ever been obtain-
line of business will have.
Mr. ,Hegeman is an efficient menu
the South Norwalk Republican Club
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REM THE CITY
(Will ill-NIGHT
The regular monthly business meet-
ing of the City Council will be held
In the cur Hal) this evening. his
very probable. that the second district
commissioners will submit their re-
port of the second district‘census.
The enumeration has been completed.
checked up and certified to, and the
figures are well over the 10. 000 mark.
as this paper spme time ago Ieported
it would be in spite of rumors to the
contrary.
Another matter of much import-
Silllillllll nun
. mated yesterday afternoon
constantly
' throughout his life, Mr Howard is >
The street depaitment Immunity .
will start on May 17th, throughout the -
once. which will be brought before'
the council. this evening, is the re
Sport of the charities investigating
IIIIII Inns )0 IIIIIII
Al PEACE Bl) lElM .
III SHOWN III llllllf
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.committee composed of Councilmen§
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lelllNAlll lll’llll IN
I. Norwalk capital is represehted in
the New Haven Shipyard. lno., the
organisation of which was consum‘
in. ’the
chine of Judge curl Foster, of Bridge-
port. Gonn.‘ nun E. Howard. man
aging owner of the Norwolk Towing
Cmpany, of this city, was elected a
director of the new concern.
Mr. Howard, who will he the Nor-
walk and Btsnlh'nl representative of
the firm. is a progressive water-man.
lie has been managing'vessels for
years and has superintended repairs
and new constriction of boats. Being
among the bontmen
admirably qualified to represent a
shipbuilding concern.
Until recentlr the plant of the
and repair word; in this section of
(continued-on Eighth Pails.)
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IIIIIIIIII 0N JUNE IIII
The 138th anniversary of the
adoption of the flag by the United
States will be celebrated on June 14.
1915. The occasion in Norwaik,_ as
throughout the land, willbe observed
with due patriotism. _
According to the usual
Mayor Francis 1. Burnell will order
flags flown from the City Hall, and
will. invite residents of Norwalk, by
newspaper proclamation, to recognize
the anniversnt y by flying flags from
their homes.
in the local schools, flag day exer-
cises will doubtlessly be held. The
Spanish War Veterans and Douglas
Fowler Test and Buckingham Post,
G. A. .R.. as well as other organiza-
tions. will probably... observe in some
manner this patriotic anniversary.
Very interesting ls‘th‘e story of the
Stars and Stripes.
On’tho 14th day of June. 1777, Con-
gress enacted: _“Tbat the flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen
‘ stripes. alternate red and white; that
the Union be thirteen stars. white in
a blue ‘iield, representing a newcon-
stellation." The number of the stripes
having been increased by the. admis-
our local oystermen to- earn a living,
I (connnu'eu on Elghth Polio.)
custom, '
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lions rilgardlng the testimony upon“
Lake. Torpedo Best Company in this .
city has done much of the building _
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MN
'From the Emperor.
\VASHI N'G'I‘ON. May II.-—'l‘he sinking of
the steamer Lusitania and the situation re-
sulting from that act continued todav to
hold the undivided attention of official Wash-
ington. Chief intcrcst. naturally, centered in‘ the
_\\'hitc llOIIsc,II'lIcrc it Ives cxpcctcd President Wilson
would‘girc some indication to his advisers what course
the l' nitul States will pursue in the present cmeIgcncy.
lodaI s iabintt meeting is the first to be held since the,
l usitanin disaster.
l‘residcnt \’\ ilson rcturucd early t668¥nfl01n Philadel—
phia, wlure. he addressed a gathering of nll'turalizcd citi-
bcns last night. His hpc'ecll was being. widbly discussed
here today. \\ hilc tho. Presldcnt didmot. reler specifical-
IV to the situation brought about by the sinking of the '
Lusitania, some thought he intimated ~'i‘lilli" while the
{nitcd States would remain at peace, an {Endeavor would
he made to show (Iermany, from the
point that her action was wrong. 0nd of hIs advisers
said the Presidents chief aim WouldliehnnIanitI first no.
matter how Iigorous the coursb adopted.
Secretary Bryan endothcr officials of
Department today awaited receipt of, the German gov-f
cmment's note cxprcssingits deepest sympathy at
loss of American livcE'in the Lusitania disaster but
placing responsibility upon” the British governments
‘plan of starving the civilian population of Germany."
Unofficial advices said that the cohimunicatic’n had been
cabled to the German Embassy here. Secretary Bryan:
had already received a cdmmunication from Count Ionf
, Bernstorfi, the German ambassador, which he said he re;
garded as an mpression of regret on behalf of the am-
bassador himself
WASHINGTON. May ll.—Prcsident , Wilson said
today that his speech in Philadelphia last night was not
aideclaration of policy in refgcncc to the Lusitania (“53.5% ..
ter: that he was not thinking,r of any special matter. but
V of the newly naturalized Americans in his audience.
The Presrdcnt used the expression that he II as think-
ing of the‘ Cain" some people were trying to raIsc.
SYDNIEY, N. S. W., May II, via London, AILay H,
7:28 a. m.——-“Thc deep indignation felt throughout Aus-
~tralia at the. sinking of the Lusitania should find
diate expression in increased participation in the war"
. “as a. statement contained In a resolution adopted yester—
day at the conference of Australian premiers.
The conference also ag ccd to the suggestionof Prc- ‘
micr Holman of New Smith Wales that a. recomIIIenda—
tion be made to the imperial government that Great Brit-
ain shall not agree to any peace terms which'do not gnarl-
antce that officers of the German Admiralty responsi-
ble for the orders given submarines be handed over for
trial before British judges, charged with murder on the
high seas.
QL'EENISTOIWN, May n..—The number of bodies. 5‘
of Iictims of the torpedolng of the Cunard Lmer Lusi-
tania at Baltimore, ’21 smalls seaport on the southern Irish
coast, was increased this morning to ten .ITIIo other
__bodics have been brought ashore at Casteltowusend near
—Baltimorc.
and four“ of women. \.
The Cunard Line today di patched a tug to Baltij
more to bring all twelve bodies to Quecnstown. Rclar
lives of survwors who had planné'd to leave today are go-
ing to remain over in the he go of makingr further Monti»
fications. it is reported here that one of the bodIcs at
Antfiican view— .
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the State
immc~ -
Of the bodies at Baltimore SIX arc of men '
President Wilson’ 5 Chief Aim Will Be To
Humanity First, No Mailer How Vigurlv A
ous a Course is Adopted - Germanye
Places the Blame on England for Pm}
suing a Policy of Starving the Civilian:
Population of Germany —— Note of A!»
grel is Expected to be Received Today
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