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Office as Second Clue Matter.
DOnovan Wins Mayoraliy
oiCiiy of Norwalk by
Majority of Seventy-Six
'Tie Caused in the Board of Coun-
cilmen, Four Members of Each
Party Being Elected—Robert G.1
Mitchell Wins Out for Tax Collec-1
tor and Herbert A. Mathewson Is} Wil'iam Hora“ Gather at!
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Chosen City Treasurer.
Distric School System Will ’
Again Come into Existence
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|Friends of Sherman O’Con-
nor, Harry McClellan and
the Hotel Chfi'ord
Friends of Sherman O'Connor. Har-
’r_v flit (Ilellan and William Horan, three
’local young men who leave this week
lior active service with various units of
Uncle Sam‘s military and naval serv
ice, were tendered a reception and ban.
quet at the Hotel Clifford, last night.
Proprietor Adolph W. Dreyfuss out-
doing himself to provide something
really good for the young men.
After the supper Toastmaster Ed-
ward .l. Splan introduced as one of the
autumn I
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Who Will Get the Offices
Under New Administra-
tion is the Question
The last meeting of the present
council will be held this evening and
a number of matters considered. The
new council will meet tomorrow even-
ing for the first time, and a number
of appointments will be made. They
will be assessor, city clerk. city sudi
tor and corporation counsel.
it is said that nothing has been de
cided about any people for these at
iices as yet. William '1‘. Sheehan's
term as tax assessor runs out, and
someone will have to be appointed in
his place. He will probably succeed
himself. -
In the place of corporation counsel,
several names have been suggested;
among those being Attorney Joseph J.l
vLinxweiler. Judge William F. Tam-
many. Attorney Edward J. Quinlan,
present. acting prosecutor in the up-
town court‘and Judge. James '1‘. Hub—
bell. new elected member of the
Board of Eductfltou.‘ For the opts-e of.
city clerk, several people have been
mentioned. One of them is Attorney
run.
T. H. Leonard Robins has had some
J. .l. Linxweiler, but .he refuses to
Illlls GAIN snx
town IN H01
ucnsr fltlflls
Griswold, Haddam, Man-
chester, Milford, New
Milford, Plainville, Staf-
ford, Stratt‘ord, Suifieid
and Windsor Change to NO
License
was Edit
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fROM MAKING
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lflNfiSEliVIEE
A3 A HREMAN
iElbirt W. Clark Presented
With Traveling Bag: on
Completion of 25 Tears
Elbirt W. Clark. one of the popular
letter carriers in the South Norwalk
pOStofilt-e, was the gest of honor at the
monthly meeting of the Putnam Hose
Company. last evening. He has round-
ed out twenty-five years of service as
Canaan, Ellington, Harwin-
ton and Simsbury Change
Over to Wet Column
an active fireman, and in recognition
;of this event was presented with a
fhandsome traveling bag. The speech
,of presentation was made by Captain!
.(iharles A. Volk, the newly elected
lutember of the board of councilmen.t
nuns liliPllhllSH
ADVANllGE m toms _
BESlllSE ti
Edorts Made to Disarrangc
the British Plans by.
Heavy Counter Attacks
Which Are Reported to '
Have Been of Little Avail ,
turns llfifll
EVERY Imam
Are Taking Desperate Chan-v
ccs to Protect the Lille.-
Ostend Railway it
Although the Berlin military.
writers are admitting that the Gene
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m l nee a! up job out being d maul lln a few choice words he compliment- mans can hardly retain the iu,— '
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--No Tax Commissioner
City Will Not Appropriate Money tor the fiSup-;
port oi the Norwalk Hospital, the Vote
Standing 511 Yes to 1,177 No.
The voters ofthe City of Norwalk selected Hon. Jere-l
miah Donovan as the head of the city government during:
the coming two years. Mr. Donovan’s vote was 1961 and;
‘ Mr. Harstrom’s was 1885. thus striving.r Mr. Donovan a ma-.:
iority of Seventy-six votes. The Second Ward voted strong»
iv for Mr. Donovan. but in the otherfOur words he lost out.I
by small majorities. excepting in the First Ward. whichl
Stronely supported Mayor Harstrom. . i
The Board of Councilmen, will be bed as to party}
complexion. the Democratic members being Dr. Robert M’l
Wolfe. William J. Moore. Charles A. Volk, of the Secondl
Ward. and Frank L. Clarke. of the Fourth Ward. The Re-l-
publicans elected were Game D. Russell. Edgar G. Mar-l!
phy. Albert T. Eldridge and George W. Stevens. two being;
from the First Ward. one from theThird Ward and one;
from the Fifth Ward. ‘
In the race for tax collector the people gave Robert G.;
Mitchell Seventy-six more votes than his Opponent. .
. ' Herbert A. Mathewson won out in the contest for City!
treasurer. also receiving seventy-six votes over Wilfredl
BodWell. who has held the office since the new city was m-i
stituted; . ~
. .Thomas M. Saunders was elected tree warden. _ .
Charles B. Miller. Alex. J. Rummler and William P.;
Ward were elected members of the Board of School
Visitor-s. ' . _ .
- The selectmen chosemwere Philip H. Fielding. Phtltp
Ca'stellano and Sylvester W. Brotherton. the latter suc-
ceeding Jacob W. Wolfe.
SCHOOLS IN DISTRICT SYSTEM.
Norwalk voted to return to the district school system.
That is. each of the five districts will have individual‘ con-
trol of the school attairs in that particular district. As the
schools are consolidated now. the administration of all of
the schools is in the hands of a central board of education.
AMENDMENTS LOST.
A proposition to make it compulsory by law to have
the Board of Apportionment make a yearly contribution to
the Norwalk Hospital for the benefit of the sick poor of the
city was lost. Another amendment to the city charter
which called for the creation of a tax commissioner Whose
position would be permanent and who would do away with
the present system Of a partisan board of assessors. was
also voted down.
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. MAYOR .
_ 41st 2nd 3rd 4th on; Total.
Carl A. Harstrom, R. ........... 725 473 277 285 125 1885;
Jeremiah Donovan, p. .......... 544 801 270 262 84 1961;
CITY TREASURER l
Herbert A. Mathewson, R.. ..... 723 525. 300 290 1301968
Wilfred Bodwell,D.............653 753 251 255 79 1892!
. CITY SHERIFF
, Arthur J.-
1 Louis 0
..‘....‘735
56.2
Joseph. 715 ‘ .
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speakers of the evening James Sheer
httn. lit-[ore introducing .\lr. Sheehan
.\lr. Splan gave a short talk on the sub
ice. of the gathering, which was. he
said. to Show to the young men the es-
teem in which they were held by their
friends. .\lr. Sheehan said that the
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idea of giving the three young men a Cunco would probably be the next; bet-ed ton on th
ptutti on had been planned by the auditor.
i‘riet ds who knew of no other way in
which they could show their npprecla.
tion of the young men either as citt.
zone or as men who Were doing their
bit. He said that those present felt a
great pride in the three young men for
their patriotism and he said that all
wished them God speed and n safe re-
turn.
Mr. Splnn then introduced Thomas
.\chahon as the next speaker and .-.c
eavcflan address on the patriotic duty
Of every man and congratulated the
young.' men on doing, their duty. A
speech that ,would have been a very
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llflEllTY lflAN
MUNEY FLOWS IN
Sustained, Intensive Drive
Necessary to Make the
Subscription a Success
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WASHINGTON. Oct. l..—Tt‘easxtt‘y
oillcittls today Were elated at the re
turns pouring in from all ports of the
«ourtry indicating that the appeal to
raise three billion dollars [or the sec-
ond Liberty Loan is meeting with an
cnthusastic response front the public.
Although reports from all large
cities make it appear that the public
“'(‘lCOlllLS the opportunity to assist
the Government in the present emer-
gency. officials recognize that only a
sustained. intensive drive can make
the campaign a success.
it has been estimated that the vol-
ume of subscriptions must approxi-
mate $125,000,000 ‘a day in order to
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Pronouns
The committee appointed by Mayor
Harstrom to look into the six-cent
fare has received replies from‘Clifford
H. Wilson, Mayor of Bridgeport, John
J. Treat. Mayor of-Stamford. and Wal-
ter ’1‘. Schulz, acting Mayor of Hart-
,iord, {LS well as a later letter fr m
Asrle'ant. Prosecuting, Attorney Ma h-
ow H. Kettealy, ot‘ Stamford, notify-
; ing Chairman Ganung of the fact that der the auspices of Cockenoe Tribe.
Stamford has already entered a pro-
itest on the increase in fare. The
'of'tercilie's all favored the'plan of
c i-opcrating in the protest on the fare
increase and the committee is simply
wait
in connection with the increasedtt
[are the Connecticut Company is gly-
ing out_ clips with each fare the slip
being good for one cent \ providing
that the increasein fare is not in»
bold. cli‘assengers should ask for these
, carefully , pro
serve ‘
who is a good. conscientious worker.
has some. who are urging him for
election.
,cense waged in Connecticut in recent
campaign over llT
years, the “drys”,_c_ame out victors
The appointee for city auditor is a
question that is being discussed quite
a bit. lt'ds said that Attorney J. J.r
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The shave dope on at might hop-i
pen tomorrow night ' .JMM,‘II the
railroad time tables any, “to: change
without notice." it would be inter
estlng to keep the above dope sheet,
however. and see just how the up
polntments pan out.
iflMMISSlllNER
HATBH’SSERVIIJES
l APPRECIATE]
i A movement has been started by
tsome oi the prominent citizens of the
Second Taxing District to extend in
some manner, to be determined later,I
an expression of the esteem held by
the district toward District Commis-
sioner Stephen S. Hatch. The Sentin-
el will keep the people of the district,
acquainted with the details of the
movement as theyprogress. If there
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is any one thing the citizens of the '
South Norwalk'are proud of it, is the
presence (of such a useful citizen
within her borde’t‘s‘ln Mr. Hatch.
DEMOCRATS HAVE ,
‘ A . CELEBRATION
With the American Band at its
head, th‘é Democrats. about 300
strong, assembled at ,the Hotel Mah-
ackemo laSt evening at 9:30 o'clock,
and prodeeded to parade uptown,
where they. marched around and then
marched back to the Mahackemo
again. where they disbanded. Red
tire was touched off in one or two‘
places along the line of march, but
there was nothing especially noisy
‘nbout the,affslr,‘.with the exception
of the band The marchers were fol-
lowed by about thirty or forty auto-
mobiles, loaded with the victorious
Democratic councilmenelect. and oth-
er victorious members of the ticket.
No signs of “I told you so," nor any
brooms indicating a clean sweep
were in evidence and many people
said that this was about the quietest
election that had ever been seen in
Norwalk, for a number of years.
TRADINGPOST OF
RED MEN ENDS -
Last night at the Redman's Trad-
ing Post, .swhich was held‘ last “Week
in Red Men’s ball, in Main street. un-
No. 32, I. 0. R. M., was a:
breaker in every respect.
_ The big affair which was open all
last week, closed last night in a blaze
oi’ glory. and every article for sale
record-
ing now to see what can be done. ‘was sold before the evening‘s sportl
was over. An auction sale was held
late in the evening. at-which time
everything was disposed of.
Dancing wns enjoyed from 8 o’clock .
until midnight.
. crowds of the
axioms. otthe largest
. at: was on hand.
yesterday with a net gain of six towns
wrenched fro.\ “(ones to the poll-
cease column. The
ed from license to uo-license num-
e towns that stood
policenso a changed to
numbered tour, as follows:~— .
From You to No—Criawmo, Had-
.uam. Manchester. Milford, New Mil-13ml “'36 as w
ford. Plainvillc, Stadord
Sudield and Windsor.
Front No to Yes-{‘anaan, Elling-
n, Harwinton, Simsbury.
The campaign was marked by the
greatein activity on both sides. The
no~license advocates had conducted
a vigorous speaking onenslve in more
towns than evervbefore in the state's
history. Last year there were only
fltty'one towns in which contests
were hold. This year, the number
“as more than sixty. Up to yesterday.
there were only seventy-seven “wet"
. Sit-attord,
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DISTRICT SYSTEM
WANT Ell Bl PEllPlE
The vote in favor or returning to
the District School System, large as
it was, would have been overwhelm-
ing under the old method of voting
by ballot. The machine voting con~
fused many and resulted in'a curtail-
ment of the vote. The people had to
work hard to enjoy a right Which was
promised them and which members of
the Board of Education endeavored to
deprive them of. The effort to fool
the people didn’t work. because after
all, the people rule. El~3¢tion results
usually show that. The Sentinel has
been strongly in favor of giving the
voters in Ichance' to express them-
selves on the school question. The
paper suppo‘rted the measure before
the General Assembly and was the
only paper in town to advocate a re-
turn to the‘district syst'em. 't‘l'fe peo-
ple have spoken and they are just
as much interested in maintaining the
high standard of the schools as'anc.
one, in Norwalk The vote is in no
way a step backward ,but allows ccr‘
lain elements or home rule which
should be enjoyed by the taxpayers.
Norwalk’s New Mayor
tb‘whx that changi
license .
ed Mr. Clark on his activities as a tire
gman, as he has held about every othco
[in the gift of the company. as well as
the South Norwalk Fire department.
He served as secretary of the depart-[
ment. was honored by being made pres-
ident of the State Firemens‘ Assioctaa
tion. .
.\lr. Clark responded very graciously.
stating that he immensely appreciated
the good ,will of, his tellow. members
liltng as ever to serve in
tony capacity for the organisation.
hnmunnn
tints WARNlill;
SPIES ARE BUSY
“Requests For Copies of Old
Paperslndicate Enemy Is
At Work”
BRIDGEPORT, Oct. 2.—Govern-'
tnent secret service men believe therei
is a conspiracy going on to get dupli-l
cate certificates of citizenship for
aliens admitted prior to the new law
going into effect on September 27,
1906.
In a notice received at the oiflce
0t naturalization at the Superior
court. the national bureau requests
that hereafter all such requests be
forwarded to Washington for investi-
gation. as is required in '11“ cases of
certificates granted under the new
law.
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A testimonial ditTtfiai' and “send-off"
party was tendered to our fellow
townsman "Eddie" Kuch, who has
been called to the colors and is to
report for duty on the 3rd inst. Mr.
Kuch is employed in the New York
City odice of Swift & Co.. ’and the
dinner was held in the apartments of
George F'. Holloway, Herbert A. Cone
nolly and Charles A. White, at 549
West 129th street, New York city,
September 29th. 1917.‘
During the evening while the brew
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ALREADY SOME
TALK TO BALK
PEOPLE’S VOTE'
Some talk was prevalent in the
First District today relative to a pos-
sible phrase in the law, Whi 1 is be.
lleved by some people, to the
return to the-district schoo tom
impossible, even though a vote for‘the
return has been carried.-
The talk was inclined to be some-
what vague, however. .and no one
seemed. to know exactly how the ques-
tion swim, or how .the law stands in
regard to the matter. ,
At thetime» the schools wore con-
fs‘olidated, however. a provision for a
mifiodfip other .five years Was, pro-
.gart, one huntlred.,milos“ belt
,itiative on the western front, tho.
iGertnan lligh (,‘otnmand is evil-
ldently doing its utmost to' keep, --
the British from making‘ the. best
uscof their advantage in Flanders.
Apparently dreading the etfect,
of the next British stroke. (.‘ro ‘ '
Prince Rupprecht has been launch},
ing attack after attack upon
Field Marshal Haig’s troops in‘
their advanced po‘siti’ons, in an of—
fort to disarrange the British, '
plans. Similar tactics were adopts. .-
ed last week on the eve of the mo \
ucwcd British thrust, heavy coup. ,.
ter attacks being,r delivered on the
evening., of Sept. 25, when it be;
came evident to the Germans that,
Haig was about ready to launch
his drive. ,. 'W
The record shows the effort at
last week to have been futile. I .
is too early yet for the efl’ect 0&2
the present attempt to be develop,»
ed. The British' commander, how
ever, reports that the attacks,
themselves, five in number, were.
complete failures, the Germanic,
not being able to make any up;
preciable itttpreSSion on the Brit; ,
ish positions along the Ypresg
Menin road and at the southwest: ,
ern edge of Polygon‘Wood, where,
the thrusts were delivered.
With the whole German line in.
Flanders hanging in the balance,
as the military maps show, small.
surprise is expressed ‘ that the
German command is making such,
desperate efiorts to balk the Brit. ‘
ish plans and is fighting hard for.
every inch of ground protecting
the Lille-Ostend railway, a scant;
six miles beyond the present point ‘
of the advanced British wedge. ‘ _
On their front in Northern, "
France, the French are holding
themselves in restraint at prose-pt,
permitting the Crown Prince t9, .
hammer away at. their dues in at; '
tacks which almost invariably are
repulsed with heavy German»
losses. Two attacks by the Gore
mans in the Craonne sector on the
Aisne front last night. were re-
pulsed. Edorts by the Germans ,
on two occasions to recapture:
trenches which they hadlost in the
Beaumont region in the Vet-don
front also were unsuccessful.
Despite the intensity of lash;
night’s air raid on England, this
Official figures Show that the four
groups of German airmen. making
their sixth attack in eight days,
inflicted comparatively few. can;
ualtics by the bomb“; they dropped,
Lord French reports today that
10 persons were killed and 38 in
jured. __
While Rritishcrs are. urging re.-
prisals for the German attacks oil
London, the. l‘v‘t‘t'di‘ll are, actua
conducting such retributive ente
prises. Sunday night they b6
bardcd the German city ofTS ti
the frontier, and last night tit
is fact seems to kill all
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priests reconditioned a oil
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