Evening gazette, Saturday, May 1, 1897 · page 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE EVENING GAZETTE

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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1897.

President McKinley’s Address.
Those who read the interesting re-
port of the Memorial Services, as given
in theGaznrrE of Thursday evening,
including the short address of President
McKinley, delivered on that occasion,
must have been deeply impressed with
the simple, touching eloquence of that
brief utterance. _ There was in it an un-
afiected grace and beauty of diction
that carried the conviction that every
word came from a warm, tender and
Of lit, the Washington
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loving heart.
Post most truthfully says:
freshing to read a speech so simple, so
direct, so sincere, so earnest, so kindly
of thought, and so forcible 0f expres-
sion as that delivered by Mr. McKinley
on the occasion of the Grant celebra-
tion, last Tuesday; It paid a noble trib-
It was free from
laborious pedantry and heavy common-
place. Since Benjamin Harrison went
out of office we have heard from the
Chief Executive of the nation nothing
comparable to this in point of good
taste and genuine feeling. We may
call attentiOn to 0’15. particular senti-
ment as illustrative of Mr. McKinley’s
felicity.

“A great life never dies. Great deeds
are imperishable; great names immor-
tal. Gen. Grant’s services and charac-
ter will continue undiminished in influ-
ence and will advance in the estimation
_ of mankind so long as liberty remains
the corner-stone of free government,
and integrity of life the guarantee of
good citizenship.” “

It is difficult- to imagine anythina'
finer than thir. And the peroration was
in. keeping with the rest:

“New. York holds in its keeping the
precious dust of the silent soldier; but
his achievements—what he and his
brave comrades wrought for mankind--
are in the keeping of 'sevcral millions
of American citizens, who will guard
‘lhe sacred heritage forever and forever
more.” . . '

It is probable that Mr.iMcKinley will
not speak with any-grant frequency or'
in any remarkable volume during the
period of his incumbency, but it is
pleasant to know that, should he have
occasion to address the country at any
time, he is capable of doing so intelli-
gibly, modestly, and effectively. We
have had enough, and more than
enough, of laborious platitudes and tur-
gid vociferation—of_the vox et preterea
nihil style of Presidential oratory.”

ute to a great man.

 

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Country Roads.

Opposition to improved road laws
usually comes from the farmers, who
influence the action of their special
representatives in the legislature. The
dancers prefer to maintain the old sys-
tem of “working out road tax,” under
which the roads of the state are kept in
a condition of continuous badness, says
the Hartford Telegram. ‘

The farmers should (put on their
thinking caps. There is hardly one
iarmer in a thousand, (who does not
live in the immediate suburbs of his
market town.) to whom the money
value of good roads over which to haul
the produce of his farm is not worth in
the course of a year ten times as much
as the additional amount of road tax he
would have to pay in cash for proper
maintenance and repair. Bad roads
cost. They use up vehicles and teams.
They use up time. They make it neces-
sary to go twice for one load. They
depreciate the Value of the real estate
through which they penetrate. The
farmer of all other men has the largest
interest in good roads, and it is a re-
flection upon his intellgence that he is
not able to see it.

The cheapening of transporation has
been One of the most active agencies of
the time in promoting the general com-
fort. -. But the country roads lag dis-
gr‘acefully in the rear of general im-
provement. They are one of the most
needless of our extravagances.

 

. Sand and Seacoast Fortifications.

Formerly permanent fortifications
were built of stone and mortar. Mod.-
. crn guns have changed all this. Stone
fortifications are soon reduced to more
stone heaps when bombarded with the
"ten and twelve-inch steel rifled cannon
new employed. The more solid the
masonry, the greater. the havoc pro-
ducedby the impact or the missiles em-
ployed in modern warfare. Military.

vinced of the worthlessncss of oldefashj
ioned fortifications andhave been look-
ing for a substitute.
' An experiment made at Sandy Hook
on Wednesday in the presence of Gen-
eral Miles and the Board of Ordnance
and Fortifications leads to the conclu-
sion that plain seashore sand furnishes
the most effective resistance. A para-
pet composed of twenty feet of solid
concrete, faced with a bank of'thirty
feet of sand, allowed to sIOpe in a
natural way, constituted the resisting
force. Five shots were fired at this
parapet at close range from eight, ten
and twelve-inch high-pressure guns.
Three of the five shots passed out at
the top of the sand without reaching
the concrete at all. The other two
were not found and probably imbedded
themselves harmlessly in the sand, as
there were no indications that they had
reached the concrete.

The theory of this result, according
to General Miles, is that a missile fired
from a high-pressure gun and revolving

ance. which is toward the top of the
sand bank. The earth beneath the
sand bank and the solid concrete wall
behind it furnish the lines of greatest
resistance, thus deflecting the missiles
toward the top and rendering them
practically harmless. The displace-
ment caused by shells exploding in the
loose sand would not be serious, while
solid shots would prove powerless.
The only dangerous missiles would be
shells fired to fall behind the parapets,
and these could not be depended upon
to silence the cannonadc from a well
mounted parapet of this kind.

The chief importance of this experi-
ment lies in its demonstration of the
fact that our seacoast can be easily and
cheaply fortified, as the best material
for fortifications is in great abundance
at every point where fortifications are
needed. Concrete for~ the backing of
the sand walls is neither expensive nor
difficult of transportation and the sand
is at hand ready to be piled up to any
desirable extent. The success of the
Sandy Hook experiment sh0uld induce
Congress to provide speedily for the
construction of fortifications of this
kind for the defence of every principal
Atlantic seaport.

 

AN IMPORTANT QUERY.

Our Readers Are Face to Face With an
Unavoidable Quesiton.

 

 

When the great Hume, the free-
thinker, was asked by a lady at Bath,
Eng., whom. would he depend upon the
more, servants who conscientiously be-
lieved in the truths of eternal revela-
tion, or those who professed to hold his
own opinions, he frankly answered the
former.

When our readers are asked whose
statements can be depended upon the
more, scores of our citizens or one or
two desultory selections picked at hap
hazard from our broad Republic, the
answer must frankly be, Norwa’lk
people every time. The only state-
ments that appear at the foot of any
proprietary medicine advertisements in
Norwalk papers, obtained from a pure-
ly local source, are those appended to
the reading notices published by Doan's
Kidney Pills.
parent to waste time mentioning it.
Read this:

Mrs. Alex. (J. McLean, who lives at
No. 18 Maple street, is well known to
Norwalk people, being the wife of the
popular manager of a big New York
jobber’s Drug House. She has been a
sufferer for two years and a half, was
under treatment with a Brooklyn
specialist who claimed she had chronic
Bright’s Disease. She got Dean's Kid-
ney Pills at Hale’s drug store and be-
gan taking them. Mrs. McLean says:
“I do not care to go into the details of
my case. Dean’s Kidney Pills are
helping me. and I feel very much bet
ter. Ihave great confidence in their
merit.”

Dean’s Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers rice 50 cents per box, six
boxes for at- I). By mail on receipt of
price by Foster—Milburn Co . Bufi‘alo,
N. Y , sole agents for the U. S. Re-
metelmber the name, Doan’s, and take no
at er.

lll' Hour.

Don’t go out of town to
have your Awnings
made when you can get
them right here at
home just as cheap.

If you want a canopy
for a party or a wed-
ding, I will supply it at
two liours’ notice.

A letter or postal card
will receive prompt at-
tention.

P. E. CALLAHAN,
Awning Maker,
53 Cross St.,’Norwalk.

Raymond. & Son.
Successors to .George H; Raymond}

Furniture Dealers and .
General Funeral Directors

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INSUBAHGE.
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tna Life

Made the Following Gains in the Year "396:

 

Increase in Income,
$l,057,8l6.28. '
Increase in Assels,

s l 997,234.42:
Increase. in Surplus,
$I98,8l5,8l.'
Increase in New Life Business,
3 I 598,668.00.
Increase in Life Insurance in Force,

$5.608.680.00.

Increase in Accident Insurancein Force,‘
$2 I ,736.500.00
Inzrtase in Accident Premiums,
$ I 75,085.72—0r .62 per cent.
Increase in Kew Life Insurance Written in Connecticut,
' . $3: 0,642.00. ' '

Increase in total Life Insurance in Connecticut.

$472,569.00.

. From the increased Surplus the u§ual increase of dividends to
policy-holderswillbe paid in l391, making the Twenlv-Fillh Regular
Annual Increase of Dividends to the insured, and a record unparauelad
in the history of life insurance.

Notwithstanding the material increase of new business on‘ which
the expense in Life Insurance is chiefly incurred, the ratio of expense to
income on the Life business of this company, excluding the Incident
business. is somewhat lower lhan‘last year. ‘and is 23 per cent. less
lhanlhe average expense of the ten leadin urel mul ” -'
for the Year “395. g, p - y “I ”mam“

Their figures for l896 have not been published. '

MORGAN fi. BUIKEL‘E‘Y, President.

J .G. WEBSTER, Vice-Pres. J. L. ENGLISH. Sec. H. W. ST. JOHN .IActuary.
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