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IVERTISEMENT -fi__
MOBROW. 'ciated with a brother, Stephen Vail,
, Q "who had founded the Speedwoll Iron
“'orks. near Morristorm, where they
,built much of the machinery for the
.first trans-Atlantic steamship. Alfred
Vailfianother brother, was one of those
,, ! ‘ lassociated ‘with Samuel Morse in the
, ,:lnvention and promotion of the tele
:gmph. 'liheodore Vail was educated
:» 0 at the 0d Academy at Morristown,
i h Dam sand, for a ime, studied medicine,'but
3 becoming l t ted in the telegl‘aph,
. ,he earned erate the key and
i ‘ ' 1-11 8m “gen West 1868 as an operator for
it e ' aciflc Railroad, at Pine
IOBWAII. Bluffs PineiBluffs was, at that
,time,'the supply point for
' iuood for t Union Pacific, which had
, V H gnot yet be it completed. Through the
. AIL, lfriendship of General Grenville M.
' R OF THE flicdge, c ef engineer of the Union
. ail, in the next year, was
PHONE DIES a clerk in the Railway Mail
‘ . ’ ,Service, nd here his ability to sys-
,tematizeand organize was soon felt.
aAt that time the Railway Mail Serv-
ice was in an undeveloped stage, and;
Vail prepared special studies on the
question of distribution and dispatch-
ing of the mail, .which' brought him:
quick recognition from the authorities]
at Washington. It was just after he:
had been promoted to the general su-
perintendency of the .Railway [Mail
Service that he acted against the ad-
vice of his friends, and accepted the
position of general manager of the
American .Bell Telephone Company. .
Mr. Vail set for himself the task of
making ‘he telephone a universal con-
venience, and it was on his initiative
that every possible improvement was
seized upon for the perfection of the
sarvice. In 1885 he resigned from the
‘original company and became the first.
dent of the newly formed Ameri-
Bell Telephone Corn-.0312 Telephone and Telegraph Com.
‘ fpany, which at first made a specialty
f of only long-distance communication.
then thought that the but which, in 1900, acquired the prop-
d serve only for local erty of the American Bell. Telephone
..n, but. Mt. Vail had Company and also negotiated combin-
long-distance use, It ations with the principal competing
inaugurated successive telephone companies throughout the
ity communication. Tbe‘country, so that the whole service
,. .. Boston to Providence came largely under a single central ad-
‘ as “Vail’s sideshow,"’ministration.
the persons who indulged; In the meantime, in 1890, Mr..Vail
'- e at that time lived to retired from the telephone busmess
telephone, not only from for many years. He purchased a large
. uvidence, but form New farm at Lyndonville, Vt., and interest.
Francisco. in 1915, thirty-,ed himself in agriculture. in 1893 he
-r. Further, in October made a trip to South America, and,
‘, they found that it waswitll his customary foresight, saw the
ad the human voice more possibilities of the Argentine Repub-
y around the world, as lic. He obtained from the Govern-
' wireless telephone from, ment a concession near Cordoba, built
went station-at Arlingtonfian electric power station there, pur-
--rds being recorded simul- chased a horse car line in Buenos
Honolulu, in the mid-Panpm‘es, converted it into a trolley line,
~-e Eiffel Tower, in Paris. formed a company and equipped it.
was knOWn as “the biggest with the best cars from the United
3.. n’in the world,” not onlylStates, bought out all competing lines
to his genius for both me—=and gave the city a complete mbdern
' -d financial organizationflgervice, The company was composed
“e fact that he was Derson- largely of British capitalists, and for
'of remarkable physique. some time Mr. Vail had his headquart-
feet, bwo inchés tall, and ' ers in London. When he retired from
--ut 280 pounds. With this these activities, in 190-4, he returned to
'Qlle he had an infinite capa- Vermont, but three years later he was
d WOTk. and a genial (“3130- again called upon to enter the tele-
‘7 phone field as president of the Amer-
ican Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany, of which he had been the first
president.
From First Page)
irty-oue years oldl
Graham Bell invent-
, and notwithstanding
Jiling the responsible
uperintendent of the
rvice. Still earlier,
’- been a telegraph op—
rested in the possibil’
. 1 communication, he
Bell's ”toy" would
great factor in Ameri-v
_ and his associates had
‘Mr. Vail’s organizing
- had always made a.
.-lf as an organizer in
of the Railway Mail
Me was easily induced to
eminent post to become _
,-- -nager, ill 1878, of the life-'31
- «st optimistic backers 0
how in Carroll county, 0.,
5, of Quaker ancestry. His
" : Vail, removed from Ohio .
A N- J., when— the 3011 One of the most ambitious projects
0 H 0
931'; 01d. and became asso— which he then r'wnned was a merger
‘- of the W‘estern ‘l'nion Telegraph Com-
i an with- the Telephone Company,
'StraW-La Hat Dye Endyin 1910, when the telephortl‘e inter-
All ests succeeded in securing t e con-
. In 001031 'lrclling power in the VVesterntUxLiotnt;
7" ' e Mr. Vail became president 0 . o t,
’5‘: per be ‘these great co orations. He resxgned
the Western Union,
however, when, on April 15, 191}, the
Telephone Company disposed of its in-
terests in the Western Union because
iof threatened action by the Govern-
lment against the combination of these
‘ competing utilities. .
While others may have marvelled at
the perfection of the great telephone
svstem that now connects more than
70,000 places in tho. United.Statcs, Mr.
Vail always believed in the. greater
possibilities ahead. He believed it.
would be only a short time before
i w York would be able to carry on
Ne
wireless telephone conversation with
European points almost as easily as it
may communicate with San Francisco
by land lines today.
i Mr. Vail played as hard as he work-
ted. He was fond of good music,
Ibooks and pictures, and the outdoor
life. He had one of the finest librar-
ies in the State of Vermont. The house
ion his 3,500—acre farm, at Lyndonvilie.
lalthough beautiful, was a home rather
than, a palace. In it he had built a
as president 0
~. n-Powell Corp.
is with Norwalk
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1 nnro
UR 40,000 ipe organ. and once every
"’ Y0 Sear he Imade the practice of bringing
Iup from New York some of the finest
BIL 15th ' musicians tc’ give a concert to which
’ he invited the country people for
miles around. He also established a
farm school, hoping to encourage Ver-
mont boys .to take up scientific agri-
culture and remain in the country. He
.believed that New England was facing
a. great renaissance.
‘berty Bond coupons,.
and let this bond
MARVIN SCHOOL ENTER-mm.
~ MENT.
interest lib earning
, at Communittsgtl Hall,
East Norwalk, the children 0 7, arvln
school will present "The Melting Pot
to the public of Nat-walk. Preparations
have been going on for some time and
it looks as if the little people will be
This evening
. interest in this bank.
' oping to uphold the name
buoyoucanopenlt ‘Mymtg'ev
.' ' a Bond 0011- amateur entertainers. The following
We will rhep the program will be given:
1—“SWeet Pea. Ladiel".
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ted Swiss, Marquisettes,‘ Colored
bus.
ia.
at. once.
have held for some time as The Federal officials have
(age-{"mmmbine’r-mn 1189‘s“- ‘made or
(bis-“w Human—anus
1w“ ‘0 e ‘l L _,.av!.l~ J.
‘ intuit hit
As the result of an attempt to es-
’cape fr 111 confinement at the county
jail at ridgeport, Lilliam Scott, Stel-
la Robinson, and Stella Smith, all col-
ored and formerly of Norwalk, were
each fined 81 and costs and sentenced
to three months in jail in the city
court yesterday, and the jail sentence
to become effective at the expiration
of their present term.
The Scott and Robinson women
were sentenced from the city court
for conducting a disorderly house at
198 Knowlton street, while the Smith
woman was sentenced from the supe-
rior court for nine months for theft
from the person.
‘ The trio broke the skylight in the
jail, gaining access to the roof, from
which they descended by a rope. The
Robinson woman managed to get
away as far as South Norwalk, where
she was apprehended. When discov-3
ery of the break was made the Scout5
woman was found and overpowered
on the roof, While Stella Smith in'
her efforts to escape lost her hold on
the rODe while in mid—air, with the
result that she fell
fractured ankle. and received a
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SEIZE ADULTERATED OLIVES
' 3A0. |Mama. He claimed Bridg V; :- tas his
Shipment of can" d R' . PLAINFIELD, April 1 Herbert hame and wasarrested with another
taining Botulinmel"¢:iis'¢:tpne Sgfim' Gallup, aged 56. one of the best Bridgeport man who later was \re-
by Order of Court.
lVASHlNGTO
Shleent of ri
onous, by bag
in Milwauk
N, D. C., April 15.-—A
pe olives rendered pois-
eetevlaa, which was seized
. 3,; on info ’
furnished (shy the Bureau of 3:23:
try, Unite States Department of Ag-
“culture, has been condemned and
destroyed, by order of the court, ac-
cording to a statement issued today
by officials of the bureau charged with
the, enforcement of the Federal Food
and Drugs Act. The olives were in
glass containers, and labeled as “Su-
preme Curtis Quality, California Ripe
Olives, packed by the Curtis Corpor-
ation, Long Beach, California!
The Government alleged in the libel
that the olives were adulterated for
the reason that they contained, in
whole or in part, of a filthy, de'com-
posed and putrid vegetable substance.
Examination by the Bureau of Chem~,
istry of samples “:0 the shipment,l
showed that guinea igs, fed from}
three of the bottles, died, indicating
the presence of‘toxin, due to decompo-i
siuon of the olives by bacteria, which‘
were later identified as bacillus botull-
Olives similarly i fected were!
responsible for the dos. of several.
peoplfieyitflinnrecenflt months in Can-
on, to , roo mMem hi '
elsewhere. 1) a, \md
Defective Methods Res
Investigations. by the
Chemistry have shown that defec
the methods of pickling, packing
processing ripe olives are responsible
for widespread infection with bacter-
The practice of shipping and hold-
ing olives in weak brine for weeks.
and sometimes for months, permits
fermentation and generalized infection
of the olives with many kinds ,of Bac-
teria. Olives aer this treatment are
much more difficult to sterilize than
those fresh from the tree and handled
As a result, there is occasion-
al failure on the part of the packer to
heat the containers to a sufficiently
high temperature to destroy all dang-
erous bacteria that‘may be on the ol-
ives. .
The failure to sterilize properly is
more likely to occur when glass con-
tainers are used, probably because 0‘
ufacturers interviewed today seem to ‘_
Inext few days.
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,k‘nown cattle buyers in this section,
'and who for years had stores here
and in Sterling, died today. _
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girl's,:
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pantively few of the mum of food wmfir souraunvarno ‘
‘ interstate coul-i BROUGHT U HERE AGMN
merce, it is beyond the power of the ,
Omcials to prolect the, public com- Fair Haven Grower Thinks Import
pletely. The officials have suggested, Would Rea", 89","
to the packer-i that they recall from, sum“,
the trade all ripe olives which have: VVilllam F. Mansfield, ‘ well known
not been processed at a sgfficiently Fair Haven 0 r dealer, is “opinion
high temperature, and that t ey repro— if V1 1, 'I i 0:35?” were brought here
cess the olives at a temperature suf- as they were in former years and plan-
flciently high to insure conlplete step—M on the Beach three would be no
lilatlon. The depot-uncut does not ’
have the authority to require the trade
to take the action suggested, but be-
lieves that the industry will take such
action voluntarily. ,
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again. ‘ He says in former years when
the southern oysters were brought here
in schooner; and planted in the hu-
bor. the spawn spread over the harbor
'and out into ~ a portion of the Sound
BRASS MILL LABORERS
and there was no trouble in getting a
ER‘B SELL!“ 0:: good set of young oYStérs. He said hr.
WAT URY' A” ' — .° would like to see the Beach ground re-
change was ”ware!“ mg." ‘1: 3:8 5;: planted and be felt quite suredt‘ljlat s
chan Was pparent to ay e s - um ll 0 sters coul e se.
“81:10? crest by Thursday's strike (3:36pr of ‘ a y
of brass mill laborers aifliliatfedlstth __ .-
the Connecticut Federat on 0 or. IN
Union officials claim there are 1,500. WILLIAMS AGA’
men out, but manufacturers say there ,Ilu, - , UNDER ARREST
arid so few out at any or: actor-y “12!? -—
Dr notion is not gone , ected. ti, 16.—-Frank Williams
was admitted by manufacturers y“- wlfinngwrfifi: here for alleged par-
terday that there might be 400 men ticpiation in a safe—blowing exploit at
out in all, representing a number of the Howard and Barber store on
different factories, and today it was August 8 and who escaped from the
stated that all employ es had deport- Derby lockup on October 13, after‘
ed for work at the usual hour this locking his guard in a cell, is under
morning wit hthe exception of those arrest ‘ Long Beach, Cal., according-
who had walked out yestexday. Man- to a message 10 the police today. i
Officers will be sent for Williams
h’ 0‘ the opinion ”’3" tmoat of the 'after' extradition papers are served.
men how ut will be back at the Should the man prove to be the Wil-s
plants ‘0“ in“ for Wotk‘vlthin the llama wanted, he will be carefullyi
Igharded. There has been some mySy
.tery as to the actual identity of Wild,
GATT-LE auven o
leased.
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GO DEN’S '
68 WaShingtOn Street
SUIT SPECIAL .-
‘ For Saturday Only
' A—“FAMOUS—e
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tzess‘ Suits
- ‘ all over the country as the best in workmanship, ,
style and quality. '
. $45.00 ‘_
the fear that a higher temperature
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" Regular $52.50 and $55.00 values.
may break the glass. There is no good
reason why ripe olives should not be
completely sterilized when put sin
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glass as well as when put in tin. As
a matter of fact, hoWever, ripe olives
in glass have been the cause of the
various cases of botulinUs poisoning
investigated by the B an of ‘Chem-
istry. The only case in
containergappears to hav
volved was that of a relish c
minced ripe olives where cob
rather than sterilization, were d
ed upon for preservation. The
would develop in tin containers if t
were not sufficiently processed, but
there is no danger of breakage in tin,
a sufficient degree of heat is usually
applied.
In all cases of botulinus poisoning
so far investigated, the ripe olives
were found to show signs of decom-
position. 'Ihey had an odor character-
istic of spoilage and a taste that indi-
cated they wore not sound. Tn’s -me
instances where death resulted from
botulism it was established that the
persons who served the olives and
some who ate them recognized that
the olives were spoiled. The devel.
opment of the toxin produced by the
bacillus botulinus is accompanied by
decomposition, and while the‘einvestl-
gallon has t been complete, ugh
to determine positively that an
spoilage to be detected, certainl
We Close Every Day at 6 P. M.
-WOMEN’S AND MISSES .
OXFORDS AND PUMPS
With welt soles, military, Cuban, high or baby Louis heels.
Pumps are the latest .
Mathewson &- Co.'s High
creations.
Ribbon Ties and Tongue
-Grade
We feature Louisbury,
ear.
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smell and taste, always is pres
when‘there is enough toxin ti
harm, such has been the fact i a
cases so far investigated. The de-
partment previously issued a warning
.to consumers to discard any food that”
.shows indication 0L spoilage. While,
i811 food thatshows signs of spoilage
‘ may not contain dangerous bacteria or
toxins, any spoiled food may contain
them and should not be eaten. If the
food shows and definite signs of spoil.
age, however blight. it should be dis.
~~earded. If there is an doubt about
the food being sound, should» be
cooked thoroughly before beg; serv-
ed' u E Paw;
ve cut ting very ’I'r
Go mm
erred upon than by
ate from the chan-
tronble in getting good oysters set!
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ibright lilies. .. ‘ 2.1;.)
Another brown of tan shade is plainin effect. 1 "
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ivory—convenient deep pockets.
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thomespun is given smarter‘air by collar and. culfs of tan ,
leather. ' * ' ‘
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on a house dress. .
, House dresses of splendid staunch permit: in patternp"
?and colors so pretty they are suflicient to rob home tasks of
lulf their terror! , . ' “radii"
Bright and cheerful, [though in quiet taste.
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benctably in harmony with the fine strong fabric. M
with just enough trimming to take away the workgf
air. ' ' ' it ;
$4 dresses—
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‘dlort lengths and put 'em into one collection to sell 8‘
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l ’ 'And checks and plaids in fine colors and contrasts, !
inches wide- ‘ ‘ ~
And satin ribbons in fancy stripes which have muclj
lengths, thovgh they have been
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remaiinder‘ of $5 shoes» W.
Main no‘or. rear.
“J. H. Wehrle Garage . .
BuickfiStutz Motor C are
West and Connecticut Aves, Norwalk, Conn.
Agent for LShaler “Roadlighter”
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