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PILLOW CASES -
10c, 12 I-ac, I5: and an:
WHITE BED SPREADS
75c, 89c, $1 Sifs, $1.50 to $4
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t'on and more than 300 feet long.‘
it is owned by the Chicago and
Lt. Joseph Transportation Corn—i
Pans / 3
Many, of the passengers were
reported to have jumped from the,
sinking steamer onto the wharf.
to which the boat was tied.
Scores, however, were thrown
into the river.
Victims Taken Out. ’.
City fireboats, polic launches and
lifeboats from nearby steamers in the
river rushed to the rescue. A hole was
icut through the side of the lower deck
iby life-savers, and the bodies Of six
ivictims. five of whom were women,
were soon taken out.
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NEW SILVER AND
Ivory Frames
in all sizes and prices at
-DothLLrs
. STATIONERY STORE
to So. Main St. ’SofNorwalk,
9——
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I w. h... HORLICK'S, Racine, w... ’the EssilandflMcCurry said, “to see
the oflcers today. “Show” then in
Wilton between Chicago and
,South Haven, Mich. The foot crowd
red with passengers, listed‘badly in the
South Haven Harbor when the water
Save The i: Baby
ibailast was being taken aboard. Of.
Use the roliqblo—
H R I. l C'K’S
mm fifteen; of the ship drove the passengers
jto the other side of the vessel and by
M a Ited Milk .
that means probably averted a disas-
Upbuiids every part oftlu body efidendy. : ter."
Endorsed by thousands cl Physicians.‘
M N h ‘0' Six government inspectors were
other! end ursel t e world over . _. he I . _
e l n . q a d... tury. working on the docks w n he hast
. l ' . he were in ch
Convenient, no cooking nor additional ‘, in? t‘urnfd merH TM ye urge
milkroqoirod. Simplydissolveinwater. i0 "hp“ or R' ‘ L “"7-
: “Two inspectors were assigned to
Agrees when other foods often fail.
mo'mumt. h‘UIIOSIICOO‘" Vlhat the boat was not overcrowded.
Wm ;The ship had taken on all that she
'~ “‘i' h "nsectors
turned over. All were thrown into the would hold and t e two 1 .p . had
water" ,turned many others away. She was
‘ -d' ' 'b th accident -«
Mrs. Emmet O'Donnell, of Berwyn, rea ) £0 sail “ en e 0"
. . .curred.
llls.. said: i
"The steamer was getting ready to'
leave and was crowded with excursion-fREDDING BURGLARIES
ists. The officers of the boat pushed1
the crowds back which were aroundi
the gang plank. in order to pull it in. 1%
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and as someone had been in the resi-
tliink this is what caused she boat to;
list to one side. I saw‘ dozens of people.‘
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PAGE "ITIV' .
Humor-
Erttrance on Main Street, Fairfield Avenue and Cannon St.
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Bridgeport, Conn. ' p ;
Sam'day’ July 24» ‘915? 11301:?” 333i?
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' Mill-End days
glow with interest
Store closes at 5 daily except Saturdays. 'W
There is always something new at the Mill End sale. ‘
‘n
on .~ *-
‘followed by showers.
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on , Niws
EWEATHER FORECAST.
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I‘V‘oruNorwalk and vicinity: Fair toq
night ;‘Suuday unsettled and warmenE
The southern
L. D. Gadory, employed as a candy‘dmwn' liy a great eIYort I was able.
butcher on the steamer, was the first
eye-witness to tell a detailed story of
the accident.
"It was about 7:510 o'clock this morn-
. ing and the boat was lying at the dock'
near ClarNtreet bridge loading pasn
sengers,” said Gadory. “We were to‘
leave ll) twenty minutes and the upper ~
to climb on the upper side of the boat
and managed to hold on until taken
off by rescuers."
Captain Harry Pederson, of Benton‘
Harbor, Mich, who was commander:
of the boat, says: 1
‘rl was on the bridge and was about ‘
ready to pull out when I noticed the
‘deiice earlier in the week It Is believ-
'visit some time
ed that the burglar must. have made his
Wednesday. licre
cooking utensils and men‘s and won:-
en's underwear are known to how.
been taken. Mr. Weld has been noti-
fied and nutil his arrival it cannot be
definitely told just what we taken.
The shopper today sees something she did not see yesterday.
That is,truc of each day.
disturbance has moved but little dur-‘ deck and cabins were crowded with
lng the last, 24 hours, but is still caus- passenger. There were hundreds of
his showers 0“ the South Atlantic women and children. I estimated that
coast. A ”out?“ 0‘ low pressure ex- there were between two and three
tending front Texas no‘rtheastward to thousand on the boat at the time of
the Upper MiSSISE-ippl WHEY: is caus— the accident. I was standing on the
lug showers between the Rocky moun— lower deck near-a the gang plank,’
talus and the Mississippi river. Mod-l watching the people come aboard. Sud-i
erate temperatures continue in all dis- denly I noticed the boat list toward:
tricts. the center of the river. It rolledz
. slightly at first and then seemed stop.»
WEATHER A YEAR AGO Their it started 'to roll again. I be,
TODAY. .came alarmed and shouted to the
'l‘enllxgraturc: Lo“v’ (x3; high, i‘l‘OWd l0 kfiep Still. Apparently a “13'
81‘ Rain. (jority of the passengers were on one
' , —————-—-———-— , :side of the boat and'this had. over-z
lda Sherman, of the County Home,‘ weighted It and caused It in list. Sud—i
was before Judge E. M. Lockwood‘ denly the hawsers which held the bontl
this morning as an incorrigible. Her to the dock snapped and the officers,
case was continued until Thursdayfllifllled the gangplauk and refused 10‘
July 29. - lailow any more on the boat. At this
.______. ltime everybody’ was panic-strikes. I at-i
Deputy sumo N. ,w. Benedict tic-{tempted to reach an upper deck. but.
boat begin to list. I shouted orders toi When the summer place of X. 1.. Liv-
open the gaiigways nearest the dock l ermore was opened recently it was dis-
and give the people a chance to get covered that burglars had visited the
out. ’l‘hcb oat continued to roll anyplace some time during the winter or
shortly afterward the liuwsers broke spring. A Winchester rifle; an auto-
and the steamer turned over on its matic shot gun; two revolvers ’and a
side. It all happened in two mlnuteswpair of opera glasses without a case
The cause Is a mystery to me." i were missing.
Chief Steward Albert Wyckofi’ said: Reports have also been made to
“I was In the lunchroom on the main T Sheriff Banks that tlio'l‘uckor summer
deck when I noticed the boat begin- home was entered while the people
ning to list. A scene of wild excite‘ were away for the winter. Here a ride,
ment followed. 1 slioulted for the pea-1a field glass, some'underweeraud a‘
pie to save themselves. A moment lat- : woman's sporting suit of coffee color
or I jumped into the water and man~j were taken.
aged to rescue three women." " Oth’er places previously reported to
Lysle Goyatte, 193 \South Avers are ”the Illeddlng authorities as having been
nue. Chicago. said: lentered were Commodore Walther
Luttgen's and J. W. Peeis.’ '
“My wife and I had just entered the-
main deck near‘the gangway. Then i
heard someone shout, "Get back!" and
we were pushed over to‘ one side. A
moment later the boat started to list]
comp anied Miss Ca/therine Smith, Miziziiiemlziit-bgiduiinobau: til-(iii: a;:I“’B were all panic-stricken and could
Franklin avenue, ‘9 the Nortvaik Hos- c p rdo nothing. I lifted my wlfe In my arms
‘ pital. yesterday.
.ed up in Compo street by the West-
- d‘ucod. O’Brien.
, dense.
1 «pended his license without scma'etsithrown Into the river. 1 did not see
“ knowledge, he having been on a wa~,
Friends "of Miss;
Smllh hope for a [speedy reéovery. i
, . .
Joseph Gle'ryk. of Main street, was:
.fined $5 and costs in the uptownl
court today on the charges of breach,
pf the peace and using abusive land
guage, his wife being the complainantl
in the case. Gierykvwas arrested last‘
night. by Officer Silk.
Fred Taylor, of Harbor
who left home Thursday to go clam-
.Ing and had not returned, was pick~
port. authorities last night in a de-
mented condition. He will probably
be sent to an institution for. care.
i—Straws and Panamas greatly re-
;Carl V..Schla.et, of Westport street,
as acquitted on the charge of oper-
ating his automobile without a li-
The secretary of state sus-
ter voyage. Application for restora~
,tion of it will be made in a few days.
Oscar E. Hedman, proprietor of a;
grocery store and meat market onl
side where tho‘gansway had been. The .
boat then, slowly drifted away from‘ . -
the dock, rolling as It slipped into!“ppefi side of the boat as it
midstream, and a moment later, mover.” H H d s 1000 D d
o as ea aye . GI -
and crawled out of‘an opening on tho
went
years ago of Bishop blwpaetflTierney.
boat. and were In the crowd on’tlie
By the death at. llartford,~.seve‘ral
his will revealed thatchldtvnsd real
estate in New London..iind this was
bequeathed to St. Joseph‘s Cathedral.
of Hartford.
had turned over on Its side. I climbed
over on the sldo of the boat and stay- First Deputy Superintendent of Po
ed there until I was taken off by life‘ lice Scheuttler said:
savers. _. “Two hundred and fifty «bodies have
“Many of the passengers leaped in‘lboen recovered and I believe that. one
to the water as the boat went over. thousand In all perished. I believe the
The date for the biennial state pa-
lrude and convention of the A. 0. it.
:which will be held In Mlddletown in
E August, 1916, has been so} for August
avenue, .
Scores of others were caught In the
cabins and drownd.
log out to us, I worked with other sur-
vlvors in taking passengers out of the
water and cutting holes in the cabinsl
to remove bodies.“
The Work of Rescue.
ers. Paulina Vuntak, the mother of
three children, was among the drowned.
Her children were believed to have
been lost. Henry Vantak, the woman's
husband. was pulled out of the water.
“I could not. believe the boat was
turning over," Vantak said. "About a
,dozen of the 1 “persons on the up-
lper decks jum‘
,- The rest were
my wife or children after the boat
turned. They were carried into the riv-
er with the crowd. Someone grab-
bed me around the neck and kept pull.
ing me. It was a woman, but I could
-“When the small boats began com-.
other bodies will be recovered when l 23 to 34. It Is generallyexpected that.
ltlie inner compartments‘of the boatitliere will be about 20,000 visitors at
. are reached. We are recovering bodles . the time. Adrian R. Dunn is the choir-
!ruiiidly and the list of dead ls growing ‘ man of the local committee, the other
fast.
“My estimate of one thousand dead 3 sepli P. Quirk, Arthur M. Coughlin and
is based on information I got fronii'l‘honnis Smiddy.
a passenger on the boat who had a: (lronndmwas broken last. Monday on
narrow escape." I State street, In the Scbuetzen park dis-
_At 9:20 more than'300 bodies had trict, of' New Haven, for the new St.
been recovered from the steamer East-ii Stephen's chapel and which will be sit-
land wreck. This statement was made1 uatcd directly at the end of the State
by Dr. T. S. Carte'r, who examlned the ‘ street canine. For the past three
lbodies. ‘1 irwecks services have been held In the
All Associated Press man who gallold sclioolhouses for the Catholics of
g by the guards on the Theodore Roose 1 this section under the direction of Rev.
Ivolt. counted 150 bodies in the cabin
on that boat. MOSt Of these were W02 i of the new chapel will assume charge.
men. V The semi-annual meeting of the Na-
W. K. Greenbaum. manager of the . tional Daughters of Isabella was held
lndlana Transportation Company. who ' last week at. the home of me national
was in Chicago for the excursion, sold: 1 regent, Mrs. flat-y E. Booth, 138 ‘York
“We had chartered five steamers for Estreet, New Haven. The report of the
the excursion of the Western Electric r national secretary showed that 11 new
'inonibors being Patrick J. Cronin, .lo— 7
1 Charles F. Kelly, who upon completion“
not save her.”
Company's employes to Michigan city,
‘ _,top of the index finger of his right
Van Zant avenue, East-Side, lost the
Policeman Henry H. Sesher, one of: l
the first to go to the rescue, gave ajlnd" today. We had steamers Eastlond,v
Icii‘cloa had been instituted Since'dan?
uary 1, with a not gain in membership
.‘\lill lLlld lots are so many that one cannot see them all in one visit or in two or three
Hours may profitably be spent in seeing and picking from the diiicrent lots
Of all the interests, greatest is the economy interest.
“"3” '5 “0th“lg quite as Clllol'fllik‘ as buying good merchandise at a satin” One
a. -
knows that a real economy is being shared in.
Mill Flid lots arc triic economics 'ilwavs 'l‘liti ' ‘ ’
.. . .. ‘r(llalli. lStl‘it‘il' ./~ ' ~..
1 y L] da‘blc. lhcir style
is
correct. dllt‘ll‘ ctlcct is satisfactory. They are worthy and desirable and alto‘thhcr
. h
good. \
\\crc glad that more people thanxcvcr before are sharing in this 35th Mill End Sale ‘
14‘ Cl‘y filial (’l bLLO L ll‘itlltl 0 C SIOI ewalld We l H 1 I r 7
. ill 5 a _ f tll . 1'- 1 ‘
\ 31 L Our f 1(ldb hlghl‘ .
Many Dollars are saved by Mill End
shoppers. ‘ Every man and woman
can be a Mill End shopper to advan-
tage. Better join the Mill End club
now!
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Metal is High
Efl'ron can pay the best‘
prices. Call him for all
junk and old automobiles.
The win. Illlron Co, ....
3Rowsn St.
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V..‘Phono 441
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$2.50 and $3.00 .
PANTS
$1.50
No other roofing has been imitated as much as III-”4m.
You may be told that "all prepared roofings are alike" and
that other roofings are "just the same as Ill-m0" or " just
as good and much cheaper." Remember there is only‘one
a
I
--end that Ill-Ita-Olfl is alwayei
spelled with one "B." The genuine II'IIR'OID I. Imitated because
it
—-the kind we sell—has the "Ru-
inu." "Ill-0m
longer than cheaper roof.
tools are still
Louis Avrick
hand yesterday noon while slicing; vivid description of the acoldent. iPetoskey, Theodore Roosevelt, Racine.
some‘ham In a cutting macnino. The! “I saw scores of men and women; Maywood,
101’ 0f the finger was completely S‘W'Emany of them holding children, plungd ‘The Eastland was the first boat
"ed by the sharp circular blade. Dr-ied into the water. I jumped into 9.5 to load and the docks were crdwded
W. J- Tracey, who was at the h05'irowboat and pulled out to tho drown- with passengerswho were to be taken
', hits! at the time..WaS called and 1198 ing. I think I got about fifty ashore.
new members. The treasurer’s report
showed that the order for the six
months, January 1 to July 1, has to its
'that this popular organization of Cath-
! for the six months just ended of 1,400 ‘
credit the sum of $2,297, which snowsir
on the other boats nearby. One United
dressed the injury- Hedman was not: The tire boat and tugs hurried to the
V able to be at the Store this m0ming.}s.cene and picked up more than a
- ----—-—-—-—'—' ihundred people.
. -—~Dancing, Compo Beach, every; "We grabbed those nearest us first.
QTuesday, under management of Miss] At one time I had_four women in the
States steamboat inspector and two olic women is fast advancing. ,
assistants watched’ibe Eastland load. At the meeting of the state board of
They stood at the gsngplsnk and couiihthe Ancient Order of .Hibernians with
ted the passengers as they went on the state officers of the;Ladies’ auxrl-
board the boat. » lary, at Morris Cove, Sunday, to make
';’l‘here report ashows "there were preparations for the annual convention
L not: held last evening. No date has
"béen determined for the next sail.
Odell. g [boat with me. Others I aided by drag-
Christian Endeavor League, of thei
South Norwalk Baptlsbchurch, was,
Foigiiidation
Thrift is. the strongest and
surest foundation to all Ilnan- *
cial success. No great country
can exist.“ It ‘dlsregurdii thll.
important virtue. " _‘I
Start an Account Wltli Us IM '0-
oemo Thrifty.
4 For cont. Interest paid.
The PM'5_,W?.a. ‘
g
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row-shimmy '
2,500 passengers on tlie Eastland, its
full capacity, under the Unita States
Steamboat regulations-"‘1 _ have no‘
ging them from the water onto the
docks." '” l
The Eastland was, fllled‘to capacity
and hundreds turned to other boats, idea how the accident occurred.”
according to ‘S- G. Hall, .9119 Of the At 11 o’clock the police reported
We'll-9Tb EIGCtflc-‘DICNCKQfB- H9 film-{that 500 bodies‘had been recovered.
mated that seven thousand tickets had Reports from various places on the
.been distributed to tho empmyeS. and . river said that more bodies were he-
‘that more than 2,500 were crowded on '
,‘fltt'P-itoo‘uvoit'whon the nunm' he-
the Eastland. .
“I went to the dock,"‘said Mr. Hall,
"and was told to go to the other boats
as the Eastland ws already too crowd-
ed. There were fifteen or twenty
people’behind me apd more coming
last. ' ' i e“ ,‘ ~
“I wast told that 7,000 tickets had
been distributed among thy company's
employee and that there were to b9
31‘: boatload.) The only boats that I‘
board were to be used, however, were
the'Esstland' and the Theodore Roose-
velt. . ., _ )t .
"I had mmiy gone ten feet toward
. rte; .ilit. .‘fiundreds. unite the rail
‘ It I“
into.
lng taken from the water.
The steamer was built lambs and.
owned by the Eastland Navigation
Company ,oLClevelsan. 0. It was 266
feet long, 38_feet. wide and had a draft
of 23 feet, with anal: tonnage of 1,218.
It was brought to Chicago In 1904 and
was used 'in‘ the excuigsion business
to South Haven, Mich, for several
years. Litter it was taken tomato:
land; 0.. and placed in the “excursion
service there. This spring the boat was
remodeled. It was then brought ' to
Chicago and put on‘tbe run to St.
Joseph, Mich. it has a steel hull and
had a speed of undies (labour.
"The rimmed new not. .m 9n
M11 .
of the order In Middletown, August 22,‘
23 aud'24, a banquet was served to the
48 guests and members. The members
"endorsed the Irish day celebration in
New Haven,'and accepted the invita-
tion of Chairman Edward J. Stanford,
of the committee, to be present. The
state officers of auxiliaries and Mrs.
Margaret =Murnsne, of Portland. presi—
dent a: Middlesex county. 'were ap-
pointed to work with the executive
committee to arrange for the annual
convention. ,7
Connecticut Knights of Columbus
are looking forward to the supreme
convention of the order. which will be
‘Wssh., this your. in addition to the >
held on August 3, 4 and 5 in Seattle,
delegates selected to represent Con~
"nsctlout a'number of other members
will go. The handsome new head‘-
uutrters of the Cattle council will be
thrown open'to delegates and “all visit-
, on during the-W of the convention, :.
Mounts for tile .2
museum-and the
her-old Man " (shown above) on
every roll. f you don't see the
Ru-ber-oid Man, theJ’ooling is not
nu-Irii-otn. ,
The U. S. Court of Appeals has
emomed imitators from ,using the
word "Rubberoid or any similar
name as the trade name or brand "W ”Philh- wood fibre. paper or sand.
of their r60ling. Come in and not our nrima
‘T-HE HATCH & BAILEY (:0. V
SOUTH NORWALK, » CONN.
wniiiuu 5mm
Snot mum
SECURITY BUILDING“
TAKE rtrvnmn ...... up ONE FLIGHT
ins rum Slmlfl. 22l8
«watertight and look well after more
than 20 years of service without
repairs. No imitation has this record.
.Il-Ill-Oln is made on a base of
the highest grade felt, waterprooled
With a compound‘xthat cannot crack.
run. or rot. it contains no coal tar,
So. Norwsllr.
P. 0. Block.
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Motor
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Accessories
This means everything a
motor boat needs—to
- make it safe—to make it
comfortable.
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Fishing Tackle
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