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fresident James H. O‘Rourke of the,
‘gtern association announced yester-
. says 9011631111. in the Bridgeport
.mm. that the deal for the Wa-
1’ (machine in the Eastern as-
1.311 had (been closed, and that
rry ‘Qornon. the former Bridgeport
utter. would be the Brass City mag-
This a; in {taunted to the
’field and Hartford franchises.
'icll were awarded yesterday as
' . in another column. These three
actions. with Bridgeport and Pitts-
. dkoady lined up, means that it
only necessary to place the New
wen Machine to enable the East-
. 'to go before the National Com
‘ oil’s committee next Monday
claim the right to operate in‘
rt.
"l‘hc merger mcn seem to be at
”said President O'Rourke today.
, - y haven’t a leg to stand on, and
”-y will not be able to go before that
wumlflee with clean faces."
‘Gene McCalln, the former
pager. represented Commodore
on 1". Plant, the New London
hale who recently resigned from
to Eastern, at the meeting yester-
y He acted as mediator for the
lining (Actions, bringing The terms
. each side hack and forth.
According to reports. it was funny‘
local
. w
tie it! over the lobby This is be
use there is very evidently a largo,
h these like axe concealed up
”B of all the merry merger
rs. }
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BESTOA, Jan. 12. —P. D. Han hton.’J
.19 m bled of the Braves. was do
ill! M10 the payroll it they win
19. um the 'tea‘m and he can get
_ hay I“. He sent a despti'fb‘fil
..W Btalilngs yesterdcy ask-
flflhe could come north soon
“It Matters over and advise him
tlantern can be strengthened. die
. asked Stailings if there were any
Alicia men who could be purchas-
the
mom
Hz
{Hittite exhibition gamEs between the
. ms Add the JONeu York Yankees
«A, db were to lune been played com
Jforth from the spring training
pothole been cancelled. Yemen
( afternoon F. R. Killesn of New
’ .. k, assistant treasurer of the Boo;
' club. transferred the stock here-
. rt H Davis to the new owners:
who, annual meeting of the club will
hold on Thursday morning it Goff-
. and Davis can come to «Boston at
-. t time. Otherwise the meeting will
held on Friday. As this will be are
iar annual meeting of the club, the
at officers will not be obliged to
3 new officers and another board of
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NDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12.—Tho
dwny M. E. bowling team last
‘ht out what is bellowed to be a
dds record by w‘inning their aforty-
0nd consecutive game in sanction
onmetition. What was believed
viously to lie the world’s record
consecutive games won, was held
no Midelweiss team of Chicago
hirty‘nine straight victories.
9M”;
"York was awarded a de-
4 out Cowler of England,
out BE A 8016";
._ owned by President Gaflney and '
1
in. '~lt will be a matter of electing
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PHIIADELPHIA, Jan. 12. —The
i'ootbafi committee met last night to
elect assismnts to Bob meell» for
next fall's Pennsy'lvaaia eleven. The
selection will nof‘be anonunced until
after the men have been approved by
the faculty athletic committee. It is
remored that Dr. Charles Wharton, line
coach last fall, who was expected to
have the same position for 1916,
formed the committee that he could
not accept the position, as he expects
to run for Governor of the State of
Delaware on the Democratic ticket and
will be too busy. If this is true Gus
Zoigler, famous guard of the 1905 team
appears the logical man for line coach.
’By Dickson, head field coach last
season, who was expected to be select-
ed to coach the ends next fall. has an-
nouuced himself a candidate for the
position of graduate manager of the
Athletic Association. As he is the most
popular man who has been in connec-
tion with Penn football for years he
5-11robably' will have his choice of eith-
‘er position.
The track committee met this after-
noon to discuss the track coach and
football trainer for next season. ANo
definite selection was announced, but
it is understood that Art Smith. coach
of the Maine track team and Dr. be-
my Mercer are the most likely choices.
it was learned only this afternoon that
Mercer is a candidate. lie was foot
more durln last year and had conald
. erablc success there "
NEW YORK ROMS
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lit/Odom.
Manhattan
vey; Harry Gattis and Marty Cross
léitbw‘ “Wows
Seventy- -ilrst Regiment Athletic
tClub‘ New {brk—tlf‘reddie Welsh and
Johnny Dundee. '
, Fold-y.
Harlem Sporting Club, New York-—
Sun lichey and Jim Joimson.
Saturday.
Broadway Sporting Club, New
York—Jack ram and Soldier Bart-
fleid. .
Fatrmoni A. (3., New York—Jack
Reed and Tommy Touhy. Augie Rat-
ner and Joe McCsulcy. Hurry Dona~
hue and Willie Schaefer.
Clermont
Cross and Walter Mohr.
son and Able Friedman.
llllltl 'Wldlfit
tllfll REESE
, Heine \Vngnor.‘who in his younger
days was regarded as one of the
greatest shoristopa in major league
baseball, was given his unconditional
release by the “Boston American
league team yesterday. Wagner had
been with the Red So: since 1906
but in recent. years had been used
only as a substitute. “It was said that
.i_
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in one of the nlinor leagues.
human
w
Last night saw a decided victory
for the Single Men's team at the Nor.
walk bowling alleys, over their all-
clent rivals, the Married Men. This
the Bensdldts having
captured the first match a few weeks
ago. The scores of last night’s games:
3m M; .
Adams ........ . ..... 84 ' 80 78
Dutch .". ............ .108 106 9!
Godloy .108 100 121
Estonia .. ...... m not
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NEW roux, Jan. 12.—David Janow-l
and holder of the title of French chess
champion and one of the players 611-,
tered for the Rice Memorial Chess;
Masters Tournament, which will begin?
in this city next Monday. arrived yes-
terday from Bordeaux on board the
steamship Lafayette, which, accord
in- log to reports recently prevalent, had ,
been marked for destruction by the
submarines and was escorted by a
French torpedo boat for twenty-four
hours out of Bordeaux.
The noted expert, who for many
years has made his home in Paris. was
a resident of Mundane, ctwitzerland,
ever since he succeeded 111 getting
away from Germany, where he, with a
dozen other 'Russian cheSs players,
was made a prisoner of war at Mann-
heim. uhtre the international tourna-
ment was in progress at the outbreak
of the w.ar
Upon landing yesterday Janow ski
who expressed his pleasure at the up-
|
Aportunity of once more being able to
breathe free air, said he had a hard
time of it in Mannheim because of his
arrest. in consequence of a political
discussion he had had the night before
in a cafe with Dr. Berthold liasker,
brother of the world’s champion, he
was pointed out by the proprietor to
the military authorities as an enemy
of Germany. This caused a special
1 see the merger cr'oud shaking; bail traner and track star at Swarih- examination of him and naturally he
was at high tension.
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Athletic Club. New "11“..”
York—Leach Cross and Johnny Har- tllflW‘Mllm announced last night
mull“? "Of 1'19“ NM“. ‘31? N.”
that he qroultl accept the +0! Jun-
my Johnston of Madisoll B‘qua’i‘e 6hr-
den, New York; for a ten round bout
with Punk Morin of Pittoburs'h in
February Collins’ a dcphlnn to take the
Westerner east came after the bad
hosting administered to Porky Flynn
by Jack Dillon of lndianapolls in dilem-
phls last night.
Collins figured that Fulton would
have nothing to gain in a tight with
Flynn. so be wired Johnston that he
would takean early date lanebruary
and meet Moran.
NEW lltllttll’S lilillltll
NEW YORK,Jan.12.~Herbcri E.
Voilmer, crack swimmer of the New
York Athletic Club, last night nego
tinted 150 yards in the New York A.
C. tank in 1: 25 4-5 and it is said will.
lay claim to u now world’s record.
"sired by l'. M. Daniels, in England.
.in 1908, was 1: 32 2-5. Voilmer was
competing labs trials of the Metro
polltan A ll 100» yard champion-g
ship swimmin" event. He continued
Inn for fifty yards after completing
his record.
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NEW ORDER FOR
FRENCH TROOPS
l’.\I\IS. Jan. 11, 5:05 p. m.—
Gcncral Sarrail, commander of
the French Army in the East,
has issued a new order to his
troops, from which the Saloniki
correspondent of the Temps
quotes the following as the most
important passage;
'-1 repeat again: You must all,
both officms‘and men. observe
. victory evens up the series at one‘
match each,
towards the officers of the Greek
Army of rank superior to your
own the authorized rules of def-
crehec and the outward marks of
respect You will lw- good
i
"enough to entertain relations of
friendliest comradcship with men
of your own rank. ”
«AMMUNITION DEPOT
HAS BEEN BLOWN
BERLIN.§i-m1.12,v
A3:Io p.m
ia Imndoh,
ml
blows: up. .An official alumnae-
,mcht’ says that seventy
rekillcd nd {org
would lint
'tlnentsi army” plan was
The record lor that distance, estab-
lUP -LOIN‘«MN Jon. zzfiz
til-«An ammunition dew
pot in the southern section of
Lille; Northern Fm, has been,‘
prom;
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fear Mil Would hill! “he
cam WQSIANH I" “it'l- han said, called at his house one af- was voted approved and the other re
ternoon, and when
where they were going they said any
place.
WASHINGTON Jan 12.-The so they 3‘1“?“ “everywhere.” ML Sh99‘ should make a street map of the cit
the him said he got in shape one section
administration was under considerg- 01‘ the city, and this included all the Murphy recommended that inasmucl
tion lMonday by various committees of inspection of property.
the House. The committees on mili- other asses 101’s did not tell him they this nature should be confined to hi
Vtary affairs, naval affairs and fortifica were gomg out and he was not aware department. He didn't see where out
than filming We
tire preparedness program of
Mo “Kim ”mint” Ratchford, Joseph H. BroWn, J12, S..
phen J. Ungvary and William l~
yWhite.
AND llNIlICAltll
wonzmued flora flrlt 90GB)
‘city auditor, the finance committet
Messrs. Hoyt and Lycett, .11..
he asked them
Asked where they had been
He said the
tions, took up the various proposals,“ the fact that they were
made by President Wilson for
weaned naval defense.
Opposition to the Garrison “-con .
somewhat
the details of its prob;
able operation were mplained to the
mulluly uualrs committee.
General illugh L. Scott, chief of stuff
and his assistant, General Tanker ll.
Bliss, appeared before the committee
Monday.
The chief oppogition in the commit noticed that they had been V‘lumg‘would take three years for the stree
tee, except that uhlth came from ”’9 property in alphabetical order department to finish the work
small army men. who do not want any
increase, even in the regular establish
ment. has been on the part of the six
members who feared that the opera
tion of the plan would ruin the state
"‘L," or had completed about
inl In years past Mr Sheehan said, it private engineer d.) the work
took about four weeks for the clerk
of the board to get the lists in shape
for valuation. This year, as in the.
past, he waited for that time to
elapse About the 8th of December
he said. he called at the assessors
ofllce, and was very much surprised
to see them It work. He took off his
hat and coat and started to help. He
and they had got down to the latter,
two-
thlrds of the list Mr. Sheehan said
he “felt there was something wrong.”
and when he came back several days
Uwct upyiwuuw mac nun-“1
Reports were received from th
the clerk of the city court and th
city treasurer. The auditor’s report
ports were referred to the auditor.
There was a dlfictcme oi 0pllil(
among the councilnlen as to wh
Highway Committeeman Edgar (
as their was a city engineer, work 0
money could be saved by having :
no~
would the efilclency of the work b1
thus increased.
Councilmen John W. Smith, Fred
erick H. Gsnung and Irving D Rob
ertson thought the quickest way for
making the map was the best and
thus could the city be saved money
on tax assessments.
Committeeman Murphy
said it
a
l
When put to a vote the highway
commissioner's suggestion that the
work be done by his department was
not accepted.
Bills of sale from all three districts
militia by supemedtns it and drawing later the other two assessors were for the moveable an. apparatus of m,
from it its main strength.
These members, (‘ongreuman (laid
well, Gordon, Nichols. Kuhn, Tillon
and Hull, were told that the Raining
of the continental army is Well
primarily for young men. preferably
just out of school or rollogo,’ whom
not yet become factors in the indus
' trial life of any community.
5 This plan the ofilcehi‘ explained.
lwould not interfere with or draw
E members away from the state militia
iorgn'hlzitiona, most of the momberaol
which fire so engaged in other purv
suite that they could not‘ give the
precedent-y time to the training.
Secretary of War Garrison,"nppeu~
ed before a secret moonlight! the forti-
fications sub-committee. '18 thel‘firat
step toward shaping a mu- providing
an ample number of bull guns for
the American coast defenses. Thb ox-
act nature of these guns in known to
less than a score of ofilci‘als at pres-
ent, and the secret is being Jealous]:
guarded. Every safeguard is being
taken to avoid permitting the details
of these guns becoming known to
foreign governments, particularly in
Europe. it was learned on high au-
working on the names listed under
“8." He said he thought it would
lie about 12 days to put the valua
tion on all of the property. in au-
s-wer to questions. Mr. Sheehan sta
ted he would most certainly have at-
tended the session had he known the
assessors were at work. and that be
during the evening, at this own home.
He bod no intention of shirklng his
work. he said.
in examining William F. Hoyt
Judge Light asked many questions
conccmlng the work of the board He
acknowledged he did not notify Mr
Sheehan of the change in schedule in
the board’s work. this year, in com-
parison with years put. Clerk John‘
J. Ournow 'was'put on the stand, and
he .nlso. told of the work of the
assessors.
Mayor Harstrom preferred charges
against Mr. Shoehsn on the ground
that he was present only f 1-2 days in
the ofllce of the assessors. The may
or stated briefly summing up that in
his opinion the nautical-Jud not been
thorlty, however, that it is planned to
iinstall in the principal harbor deface-i
es, and at each end of the Paname
iCanal. guns which will have an ef-
Itectlve range in the notghbollood of
l (5,000 yards. infinitely superior to any
naval gun in the world
1 The naval affairs committee contin-
lued its examination of Rear Admiral
EV“ Ford of the bureau of yards and
floats, who was questioned at length
' on conditions in the government navy
yards.
IGREAT BRITAIN TO CAP-
'TUR-E TRADE 0F GERMANY
NEW Yt)RK,lan.12.—-Great
Britain has already taken steps
to capture a portion oi export
trade cujovcd by Germany prev-
ions to the war, according to R.
\‘i. Dalton. a British tradc com-
llllshloncr,$wl10 arriyed today on
:thc steamship Philadelphia, on
lroute to New Zealaud.
Mr. Dalton said that he is go-
ing,r to Canada and thence to New
Zealand in an efiort to secure, for=a
Canada, New 7 caland btlsmessD
which previously wont to Ger-
many
~'I he Philadelphia is one of the
few trans-Atlantic steamships
which carry a fignrchead and
while being warned into her do‘k
here today, the liner swung
‘against the end of the pier and
the head of the Wooden statue of
a woman, which forms the figure?
head, was broken off. the
steamship W” made fast the “When the council adjourned it was
golden had hung ‘to the 50d? by Ivotod to meet on next Tuesday even
a long sliver” . Atamnus .Ameri-A
can singer as said to have posed
for the SW
cemen'mw
eon-r mes our
:15 p. m.
~—-The Oilfield Edith
c trapon of
this afternoon " mowed here
doing his duty. and he considered,“
his sworn duty to report that fact.
"i have not been convinced at all,"
Councilman Edgar '0. Murphy' said
when all the testimony was in. “i
move Mr. Sheehan be acquitted and
vindicated." This motion was sec-
onded by Councilman Robert '8. Lon
don.
"it is moved and seconded," the
lnayor said, “That Mr. Sheehsn be
acquitted and vindicated-ls 'there
anything you want to' add to that
Mr. Murphy?"
"Make it as strong as you can.‘
Mr. Murphy replied. “This is a sex
ious charge, and we should do the
'man iuutice." I 9
""1“ insist." the mayor declared.
"that you put that motion into writ-
ing ’ , .
l “l’m too excited to put it into writ
ing, now," Mr. Murphy said. “Give
[me time and I will." 1
When a vote was taken on Mr
Murphy's resolution it was carried by
avote of .7 to 1. Councilman George
. Russell was the only councilman
who “voted against the acquittal.
It was moved and carried that Mr.
Sheehan be paid all back salary.
Upon motion of Councilman John
W. Smith a vote of thanks was ex
tended Mayor Harstrom for diligent
'n
9
to carrying out his duties as he saw‘
chem.
The police applicant examinations
will be held in the City Hall on Frl~~
day evening. January 28th.
ling. The hearing concerning ther
donation of poles of the Connecticut
on New Canaan avenue,
land East Washington. Fort, Van
that. streets and Seoview avenue, will
I Company.
"be held at that time
if Building inspector ‘ filer-once . I.
Finch was unanimously reappointed
inspector for another year
The inspector-’99 work during the put ‘
be induce him to the lac-election. you;
fire companies of the district Were
referred to the corporation counsel.
Building Inspector Clarence
Finch was granted permission to at-
tend an electrical convention in Hart-
ford. which is being held in that city‘
today. i
The corporation counsel reported
‘d‘a mldel'llble Work on his du(lell:on claims for dleKEN against tbp
city received-from Dr. Morrison. 11‘.
.Louise Smith and Bertha Heal. Thc‘
lcorporation counsel was requested to.
lcontinue his Wu! stints” in get .
ting a settlement from the Blue Rib
[hon Garage Company, in Bridgeport
'lir. Lockwood has written the com
pany stating legal proceedings would
be taken providing an answer was
not forthcoming. A
A petition signed by the heads oil
the majority of the local unions. rep‘
resenting over a hundred Norwalk
union men. was received asking that
the council pass an ordinance taxinr.
cutof-town bakers who do business in-
Norwalk. No definite action was
taken concerning this.
Councilman lrving 1). Robertson,
made a motion that Engineer Samuel
,H. Hoyt. Jr.. be empowered to make
a map of the third district in accord»
ance with the terms of his letter to
the council. There was a lengthy
discussion concerning this. during‘
which City Engineer George A. .SberA
ton and Highway Committeeman Ed-
gar G. Murphy stated this work
1
street department. “The matter was
tabled.
it was about midnight when the
Yrouncil adlourned for next Tuesdm
anight.
COFFEE GIVEN THOROUGH
noes-two. '
“A large quantity of coffee in t.hn
new master in the window of the Elna
lndia Tea Company's store, on Wash-
ington street. caught fire this mom-
,ing. Stores all along Washington:
street were filled with the odor of
film and employee of thé ion rill-c
dumped the coffee, which burned like
charcoal, from the roaster. which was
undamaged.
.. —
SWLL ALARMJJF FIRE.
The Hope Hose Company responded
on the jump this morning to a still
charm of fire, which was telephoned ir
from the home of Otto Arnold, No. 23
Davis street, where .a lively blaze
we" in progress.‘ 'When the firemen
arrived they found the kitchen wall
b........g 1. enily, but a 1».an chemical
quickly unopened the flames. ' The
cause of the fire is believed to havr
t“been an overheated kitchen range.
which set fire to the partition.
damage will amount to) about 350. The
Roguwsii.
FRENCH WAC!
HAS FAIL
BERLIN jun. 12, via Lon 015‘:
3er p. ——’l.‘he failure of a
French
- docs
should be done by the force of the '
iburning cot'i’ee.~0filcer Frank S. Strut“ ,
The .
building was owned by Charles _.
ck on German posi- 7
PAGE Nifir.
m
Mrs. Germ Smith is having a new
arage constructed, which is nearing
“om pletion.
am
says:
“One day a pal o mine
handed me his package of
. LIBERTY Long Cut an
‘~l loaded my old pipe and
smoked up on it.
“Pretty soon l began to
throw back my shoulhs
an’ wish a gn'zzly bear'd come
along 90’s I could choke 19in
tlodaihm'tcarhishidecl.
“Gee, man! You could have
smelt my 111be heels someb-
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o’LlBERl-X.” am
LlBERTYlI'tstlIegat'n
gro-upwn man becauscit's
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longlcaf—andnotllingelae.
Alllongclcan, upopulect
leaves—no ones
—nol1ardsielns. It’s hillaooo
LIBERTl’ is aged
from threetom
to bring out the ripe,
snappy flavor—the
smoothnescandtlterich
juicinesa. That ’swlly-s't
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