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IIIlge Ilales That Fofeclosure lie
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SOUTH NORWALK, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1916
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TWO CENTS
TREATMENT EBR
THE NNBPITAE
6'.
Expert louIs I Cohn Tells of Ills
Investigations Thus Far, and of
Feeling Against the Institution
NEW AMBULANCE TB
Subscriptions in Future
A very important and interesting
the Nor‘waik Hospital was held last
evening at the Norwllk Club,_at which
meeting, Mr. Cohn, the hospital ex
pert, gave a very interesting talk on
his work and plans for the fut
President McMullen opene the
meeting with a short address, in
Ii‘Ioquany suit against local and Dan
I’hury Hatters The hearing was heldl
.It 10: 30 o'clock in the United States
District Court, New Haven, before
Judge Thomas. The plaintiffs wereI
represented by Attorneys Davenport
and Merritt. The batters were repre-
sented by Judge William F Tammany. I
of this city, and Judge Cunningham;
oi Danbury.
The judge ruled that each parcel of‘
land be sold separately. The Nor-
walk men whose homes Are involved
include: Paul»: W. Beers, George A.
Davis, Patrick Keeling, Jam’es Kin
_ sans!a Thomas Weigh”, John Railway.
.,. y, Thomas Saunders,
WWW} dud Peter War. -‘:
1cm tonsil has first to be
lowland Mid apprdisers, to appraise
the property. must be named.- Pro
"1 adding the lawyers interested cannot
come to terms on these appointments,
the cummittee and appraisers will be
...—~—
" III III. III
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., illoielandopera iiouee Destroyed,
With “any (tiller Structures in
Seyen Ilour Blaze
IPASSAIC, N. J., Jan. lit—«Fifty fam-
ilies were made 'lmmeless and eleven
buildings, including the Passaic Hotel
and Pascale Opera House were de-
Aroyed, with a loss estimated at
8250, 000 by a fire in the business part
of this city, early today. Most of
the building consisted of ground
itioor stores, with apartments above.
lit was nearly seven hours before \the
dire was under control. Only one man
was injured.
Thefire is believed to have started
in the rear of a five and ten cent
store on Main street, near Washing-
ton place. It spread rapidly an in
addition to the five and ten cent a ore:
hotel and theatre, the Boston Store,
two shoe stores, a furniture store,
three clothing stores, a restaurant,
market, feed store and cigar shop
\\ ere burned.
National Bank Burned.
TAIMAQUA Pa, Jan. 19.— Fire of
unknown ‘origin in the business sec-
tion today, caused a loss of $170,000.“
Li. M. Hadesty a. Son,‘ hardware, 880,-
Iltit), and the Tamaqua National Bank,
($40,000, were the heaviest losers. -
Corning Hal $150,000 Fire.
. CORNING, N. Y., Jan. 19.——A_ large
section of the business section ’ of
Galeston, P9... was burned today. The
flames spread to the residential sec
«tion and before their advance could
Ibex checked by dynamite twenty
homes were in ruins. The loss was
estimated at $150, 000.
BAPTIIBE SIEMENS
militias, Arts, Jan. l9. -‘--3 en
soldiers or the Scream United SATIN“
fifteen bandits “~00er Walls. It
miles. south of Hashim, N. M...
til to reports received here: The
I
393‘"! were captured early today by Mi
which be outlined the present condi-
tion of the local institution. which
seems to be in rather poor shape.
Compared with other hospitals in New
"England from which Mr. McMahon
has received data, ours does not
”stand you high. .\ir McMullen has
gone into the subjett very thoroughly.
land as he said, To use a slang expres-
sion, “the Norwalk Hospital is on its
uppers " Mr. McMahon stated that
he thought the community had been
neglected in rhgard to‘ the hospital
situation in Norwalk, but when they
would contribptpqthriiy (“MAY-
After this excellentgopcnin ydddress,
Mr. McMullen iintroduced the prin-
ciple- speaker of the evening. Mr.
,I't‘ oha, the man whom he selected out
of over seventy applie.ants
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- (Continued on Eighth Page.)
on IIIIIIII
_ III-I IIIIIIIII
. The case of Vincent Ray, who was
convicted in the l‘airfield Town
Court, through the efforts of County
Game Warden Wilbur F. Smith and
‘Deputy Edmunds, for hunting on Sun-
who took an appeal,
I
of Common Pleas, yesterday. Counsel
for the defense asked for a continu-
once, as the defendants and witnesses
were not present. The court, how-
Cever, ruled otherwise, and called the
bonds, which amounted to 3100 in
eac'hwcaae. /
The arrest of Ray, which was for
the second time caused the brother
William to interfere with the officer,
and resulted in dais arrest and con
viction. one more case of perjury
ing on appeal before the higher court
IIIIIIII lil‘flilll
EIIR WAREBNESS
' wssmso'noN, Jan. 19. -—-Presldent
Wilson was today planning. to take
tional preparednes.
In addition to making a. personal
appeal before the country in numer-
one public addresses in Euppo _ of
his program flit strengtheni the
army and navy. the President plans to
hold further conferences on the sub
Plans for the a
going forward rapidljt today.
plans fog ,national prepifednud were
continued in Cong ohg‘ressI tbd
Majomene lLeonaI-d
tn'er Chief ‘of
now commander or t Departugt of
the East, appeared store the hate
dilator-maxed? Ca
STRBNBII ABVBBATED-
: ~ Public to be Urged to Give Annual
oddly for-'
if of the AMY. bud Todd the pidaent salt, which was also
meeting of the Board of Directors of-
fonnd out the true state of amm- Militant m J
I
day and for resisting an officer, and holders of the New York, New Haven
and the case and Hartford Railroad. who are suing
of William Ray, brother of Vincent, former Directors of the road to re
arrested for breach of the peach, and cover from them 6102, 000 .000, for loss-
convicted in the same court, and who es alleged to have been incurred by
also appealed, came up in the Court‘ (ht company in unprofitable and im
‘8'!th
growing out of this case, is still pend- embarrassment and possible receiver-
I
iwrote er. Storey that if the Direct-
personal charge of the fight for as
fact with the leaders in Congress.
lug tripr'r were
“feats of the can an , the on me i
Hearings at the Adidlnistrction’aI . p Y'.\ am d~ B
I
mmittce, and waejto be cis'ion byitbb .
dieady Frye iiundred IAeII Employed
'Sales Department lieeds Tell of
IIamendmcnt, that the provost maxim
III Tllflllfll
SMO|iER III
III. AND II. II.
by Well—linens llat Manufactar
iug Concern llave Enjoyable So-
cial Session
BENEEIT 0RBAN|ZATION
T0 BE EBRREB EATER
Brim Prospects for die EstIIre;
The first of a series of get together
smokers oi the Crofut & Knapp Co.I
was held last evening, at the well-I
appointed manufaciory corner oi‘
Water and ’l‘olles streets
Ining room made an ideal place for
the gathering of nearly five hundred
men employed by the firm. General:
Manager .‘lohn t‘avanagh. ox- mayor oil
the former cities of Norwalk and
South Norwalk. presided over the
gathering and made an ideal chair
man.
The entertainment program 0 ened
with selections by the 'KnappIFet 0r
chestra, composed of William mith.
mandolin; Stephen Smith, econd
mandolin and drums; Joseph Bay-
snse, mandolin. and Andrew Kiss.
guitar. Then followed selections by
the DeLuxs Quartctte. composed of
also Mounts-ht, liar
old w. Van Wagencn and Mule Hold-
"Vocal solos were given 'by John
W Wehle, Robert Parkers John Mc
Mahon and others. The piano accom~
ppnlst .was LoGrapd Greenwood. All
the numbers were well rendered and
received. and deserved recognition
from the large and enthusiastic gathI
erlng.
General Manager ICIavanagh then ad
dressed the men in his characteristic
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(Continued enrich Page).
liliiiiiilll IIIIIII I
III III IIIIIIIIs
BOSTON, Jan. 19. innority stock-
proper purchases: today filed an
amendment to their suit seeking the
right to proceed in the name of the
corporation itself.
They claim that the present Direct-
ors have refused to press such a
for restitution because .0!
friendliness \for their predecessors.
and intimations which they (the for-
mer Directors) have made to with-
draw their financial support from the
railroad and thereby cause financial
ship."
As instances of the refusal of the
present administration to support the
sol the minority interests set forth
th t: Moorileld Storey, counsel for the
corporation at the recent annual
'mceting, authorized the plaintiff to
proceed at their own expense. in,
behalf of Ralph 8. Bartlett and other
minority stockholders, their counsel
ors Ivould sanction the suit in the
corporation's name, they would con-
duct the litigation at their expense.‘
It was stipulated that a receiver be
appointed for the claims for restitue
lion, and Twelve lawyers, headed by
Governor McCall, were named as
possible choices.
Replying under date or Dacember
27, 1915, Mr. Storey said the Directors
were convinced there was not sulfi-
clent foundation tor the stilts, and
that they Were not for the best inter».
states?
The charge is made in did but of
bite caused the corporation to NlG-g
ed: at tomes amends of tile compo M.
'Tod'ay's‘ amendment follows a de-
ui'lor "scan that
lethheld with the
The trim '
IBNN T. NINB PINS
lIBEI BRIT BASIS
llead of Bridgeport Politicalbrgau—
ration llrop $50,th SuiL
Against ledge light—Payment
of Case Rings Curtain been on
Sensational Action
__.-_._——
- The final chapter in the $50,000 libel
suit brought by John T. King. Repub-
lican stale committeemhn, against
Judge John ll. Light, of Norwalk, and
Bennett .\'. tBeard, of Huntington, was
written yesterday when the Bridge-
port political leader paid the costs of
the suit amounti g to 889. The return
was made to con i yesterday showing
that Mr. King had paid the costs.
Judge Light. ho was {candidate
on the Progressi e ticket for attorney
general, accuSIdl'tir King in one of
his political speeéhes of attempting to
collect a- commission from Beard for
his services in securing payment or
money due from the state to Mr.
‘Beard for work done on the. state
highways It was hinted that the
money long overdue Beard, was being
connlvance of
King, to settle a political grudge or
to punish him for refusing to go along
with the schemes of the organisation.
Created a Furore.
The statement that King was using
his power to collect toll from those
doing contract work with the state
before they could get their money
created a furore all over the state
in his speeches during the. cam.»
palgn Judge Light read afiidavlts
from «Mr. Beard in which the latter
declared he did 81.: 000 worth of work
for the state highu'ay department in'
Hill, but had been unable to get his
money. He had previously been
asked by King to vote for the publicc
utilities bill before the legislature, but
he voted against it. Finally despair
lag of getting his money he went to
the office of Mr. fing which was in
the annuities bittldtng at that time,
and asked him to assist him in getting
the mondy. There. it is alleged, en
sued the conversation, which was the
basis for Judge ldght'c'remukc.
The libel suit. was immediaboly filed
'afili tho'c'ase dragged along until last
June when Judge William H. Wil-
liams in the local superior court, cus-
talned a demurrer to the complaint,
which contended that even though the
facts as stated ,by king were .truc. it
did not, in itself, .constitutc a libel.
I Light Welcomed Suit.
Judge Light said at the time that
he hesitated a long time before suns
a demurrer to the complaint, prefer-
ring that the we go to trial on its
merits. If Mr “King was enjoying a so-
learn in the Maine woods when the
decision was handed down. Hts at
tornsy, Judge Elmore 8. Banks. said
he would have to consult with him
before deciding on whether to file a
new complaint The payment of
costs by Mr. King yesterday is evi-
dence that no new action will be
started.
BBAI BIS NEARLY
NIIIS BNIIBREN
3 was supposed at first tribe! 8‘
case catholic acid poisoning took
place yesterday afternoon, when
Grace and Helen Harrigan, aged four
and two respectively, of.Wall street.
were suddenly taken sick at their
home. Dr. A. H. Baldwin was called
in immediately. and the two children
Were rushed to the hospital. No
symptoms of poisoning were shown
by the youngsters, and it is now be-
lieved that it was a near case of
coal gas asphyxiation instead of
poison.
Wh
rapidly and returned to their hmne‘ JPEKING,
last night, where they are resting
comfortably today. s. .
QIIASII IiIlllCTIElITS 0F
SIX “NEW IIANEII"‘IEI
NEW T0RK,Jan.I19.-—The indict-
ments against George F. Baker, T’s-De
Witt cnyler, Theodore N. Vail, Fran-
cls Trilltaxvveli,‘ Edward Milligcn and
Alexander Cochrane,‘ former directors
of the “New Haven" road, charged
with criminal conspiracy to violate
Sherman ant-i- fruit law. were quashed
yesterday by Federal Judge limit.
This was in accordance. with Isaac
ision of. the department oi" turtles not
I) rosecute the mucosa that these
f the mono do:
instincts indicted 1n the “New Haven’t
case. the trial are vIen of wMWuII
recently «sinned
lites (it that lit ”NM“
lacoepted. and the members of
, this kind could not just now .
APPARATUS
TRANSEERAI
IS NEED UP
The Corporation Counsel Says The
Second District’s Bill Of Sale
ls liotln The Proper Form for
Acceptance
BBARB , 0E EBIIBATIBN
BAIIEB T0 ABBBIINT
Accounts To Be Reorganized Alay
Sue Blue Ribbon Garage——
om: llade Far liaraaiah Home
Water
Permission was secured to re
group the administrative accounts on
a more workable basis; the bill of
sale drawn up by the second district
for Its movable fire apparatus was not
the
board of education were again called
Isharply to account for it breath of an
thority, at the adjourned meeting of
the city council last night. \arious
other interesting matters received
consideration.
The council met in joint session
with the 'Board of Estimate. The mat-
ter of drafting a bookkeeping system
was considered. Fletcher H. Mont-
~winery could not be present. but in
a letter he stated that the beat possi-
his idea was a fully equipped as
countant's office. but as an office sf
9
manned or equipped, it was not advis-
able to consider it. The system he
advocated, as the next best thing, was
a simple 0110,, showing the cash re-
ceipts of the city subdivided to tndi~
cats the various sources of the re-
ceipts: and showing the disburse-
mentc, subdivided as to appropria-
t.lons
——.
(Continued On [fifth Page.)
BARNERBIEAT BBBN
AND BE NERRI
The annual duck dinner of the bank-
era was last_ night held in the Nor-
walk Country Club. it is an annual
adult, and each year shows such
happy increase over that proceeding.
that it seemed last evening reached
about the height of enjoyableness.
duck predominating as the favorite
dish. The company was a jolly one
and n acclable one, and taking it all
m the dinner was a huge suc-
cess. Those present included: Man-
uel T. Hatch. George Woodward.
Wayte‘ 'Raymond, Stephen S. Jarvis.
Samuel Velsor, Howard Hayt. Wil-
fred Bodwoll. and Charles Smith, of
Springfield, Mass.
~ The delectable menu: .
Chicken Soup
Celery Olives
' Wild Duck
Mashed Potatoes Fruit Salad
ice Cream \ Coffee
The little girls recot‘mii omussa MISSION Posrpouso.
Jan.19.9 p. m— —Eki
Hfoki, the Japanese Minister to China,
today gave fin-ther- explanation» to La-
Chen listens. to Chinese Foreign
Minlst r‘, regardi Japan's refusal to
receive Chow Hsueh- Hal, the Chinese
There was the finest of edibles, wild,
..-
GlRl IANES BARE
Parents of Bristol lAiss Arrested,
for Melting ller Work llard
BRlS'DOI., Jan. 19.~—On a writ is-
sued by Prosecuting Attorney James
'I‘. Mather, charging them with over-
working and abusing their “years-
old daughter, 'Martha, Mr. and Mrs.
lierman Ratke will be in court. this
morning. The Ratkes live on Peace-
able street and their arrest is the re
sult of an investigation of Genen'
Agent Wells of the Connecticut
Humane Society. it was represented
to the humane society that the young
girl was being kept rom school and
was obliged to do farm work about
the 'Ratkc place, of a nature usually
performed by a husky man. The gen-
eral agent was assisted in his investi
gallon by Chief of Police E. T. Bel
den, who Is the local agent for the
society. This investigation disclosedi
that the girl, who is of rather 'frail
build, has been taking care of sixteen:
head of_ stock on the place, while the' |
father has been working in one (If1
the factories She was obliged to
clean out the barn, wheel manure for
a distance, and recently, when a near- I
by water supply froze up, carried
'water for the stock a long distance.‘ ,
Besides doing this she performed oth-
er duties about the place and helped
her mother with the housework. The
hardest kind of drudgery was her lot
from early morning until late at night.
She is barely able to read, her educa-
tion having been neglected.
,IIIII Willis .
__I__II IIIIIIII
Butltlsfeared Farther Damage
layoooerioIgSaldIenCah-
foraialcalasds
DOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 19.—
Wbile the flood waters from the
rainstorm which has prevailed over
Southern California for almost four
days, are receding today in the dis-
tricts near the mountains, the crest
of the flood has not reached be low-
lands along the coast and it s feared
these sectionsiwill be further inun-
dated durlng the day.
Railroad, telephone and telegraph
service still is demoralised, 'otficials
of the various companies stating that
it probably will be several days be;
fore normal service can be restored:
Transcontinental traffic was prac~
tlcally at a standstill late last night,
but officials of the Southern Pacific.
IAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and
‘Scn Pedro, Dos Angeles and Salt
LakeJtailroads, stated they hoped to
have the Overland trains. moving
some time'today.
Five westbound trains on the
Southern Pacific were stalled at
Yuma. Arts. Three Santa Fe and two
Salt Lake trains were stalled during
the night in Cajon Pass bydandsltdes.
'Railroad ofllcisls say the damage
from the storm is the heaviest that
has been suffered in this section in
many years. ‘ ~
IFlood waters are carrying great
quantities of salt into Los Angeles
Harbor. ,
(Flood conditions all prevailed in
Central Arizona and reports from
iPhoenix indicate that the flood wa-
tars from. the Gila River will reach
Ithe highest point there in twenty-live
' years
l
AUSTRIA III MIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIII Add (If
0E SIXTEEN BAITIE
«were killed and four
King and Diplomatic Corps
About to Proceed to Italy, ,
But News of Surrender
Appears to Bohemian
--Stcatnship liyudauI Gees ,
Aground at Graveseud
France issued/the following of-
files] statement today: i
“The wireless news of the sure
render of the 'Montenegrin army
appears somewhat premature. It;
is now announced from moth“;
source that negotiations betwcn‘
Austria and Montenegro luv.
been broken, the conditions i II
surrender imposed by Austria
having been found quite an-
acceptable by Montenegro. , I“ "
“The King, the royal family
and the Diplomatic Corps up
about to proceed to Italy.” , . .I
of tilt T5
' In
I
The steamship Ryndam
Holland—American Line,
aground at Gravesend. No
has yet been made of the cm
of the damages the vessel has or
ccived. An examination is hot
made. In the meantime none
the passengers or crew is allowetj.
to leave the vessel.
‘ The Ryndam, which left New
York on January 5 with. severity-
nine first class, thirty-f our notion!
class and thirty~eiitht third elm
passengers. as well as mail. for
Rotterdam. via Falmouth. 117”
reported in a cubic diapatcll‘ ,
ycaerday' a date as having M
Southend down by the myth
a list to starboard and as having
arrived later at Grave-send. .I’E. _
added that all the mm.“
were saved, but that thrust!“
though in what form of am
it was not announced
dam was built at Belfist' In Wit}
is 550 feet long and ldvof ta, ,
tons’ gross. She carried s cm
of 200 men.
Harold J. Tennant. ,
Parliamentary Under-W1
for War, announced In the Hound
of Commons this afternoon. M
the total German tie!” ‘
published in the Berlin pascal ,
lists to date total 2,535,768.17” ‘
this number, .he said, 588.p86 w
killed \
lite.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT. O
TURKISH WAR OFFIC‘
CONSTANTINOPLE. .1”
19, via Amsterdam and Land
TO :02 a. I’m—The followmg‘ «by
ficial' statement was issued .
“Caucasian front:
sians, who sustained consldcrcb
losses In consequence of our Vic-r
lent attacks and owing to our re-
inforcements. were compelled to
abandon that attacks along 1h
entire from Despité big-hf days
of very Violent offensive opera
tion; by superior enemy force
the situation, apart from siigh
changes: remains favorable to ,
There is otherWIse no new de:v
opment.”
Ith thb multill
TM and a: diarigreentent on tire. _. I‘
Minister of finance. He said that the.
Japanese newspapers had aroused
Japanese public opinion, by making
the general suggestion that the Chi-
nese mission, in reality of a financial
character, would probably endeavor to '
make terms for the recognition by
Japan of the new monarchlcal .form of
Government to China. To this. he
said,.‘the Japanese public is bitterly
oppo posed in view therefore of the
hostile "public sentiment and of the
undoubted presence in Tobin of both
Chinese and Japanese fanatics, Japan!
the barrister said, afraid lest harm
might come to the projected mission
sad it prefers 'accbrdlngty that It be
.gceM “much
”committed. a ’1
BABIES: AIB .PIANS
III __S_N___BR
At a meeting of the
lety of Court Laurel,
A charity
Presidents—Mrstc AI. McNamara. g
illuminant-ell“. W.I,H
Socrattlry-dlillacuNora OMEN!!!
Tress ‘M
IIIIIII
Ladles' Aid
D;- of 0..
plans were prepared to eniuge mm
:terially the membership of the or-
Igantsction. Reports were passed upon
the active Christmas
Work. The society will meet once a
month. the next meeting to be held
son February 18, at the home of Mrs. *
sowing aes-
;W- H. a -
pmmmM ,. stun wllNyb: held nexct “NT“, nigih other édfdmlIYr’ the d
at the home of Mrs A cNarnErI. an s. .
hHOSPIT:L ”OT‘S' ‘ ' '27 'RQSft‘l ”TOOL 'Ollltim elected last {)ffi‘c'yal announcement.
Jenn Mu“ ‘ teach walker. “MW made in Berlin on Shady“.
ORI WILLIAM I.
EMPER N,ISIH SERBI
LONDON. NJan. to. 3.2!. of.
—-'A dispath received by Reuté
Telegram Company. says
Emperor William‘ was in ,
Serbia. yesterday. A’dccor lag
this information. which Was
Warde'd from Nish by ivay. a
Berlin, the German EIhIpcr‘or
King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria;
Nish. _
’ .“The Imonarchg greeted é
William had risen
to health cotnoiciely a lid III
j turnedIIto their
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