NORWALK A n Entertaining and I nstrwottve Home Journal, Especially Devoted to Local News and Interests. " Founded in 1800.] VoL. XCV.—-No 31 NORWALK, CONN., FRIDAY. AUGUST 21895. [$1.00 a Year. I PRICE Two CENTS. NonwmrflGAzEm. THE FAVORITE HOME PAPER. ___.——— llllltllelllltlll lll all llllllZSI Ntlllllll lll llllllllltfl. Can it Afford it? The GAZETTE was informed, this morning, by an employee of the Hos- pital, that an order had been promul- gated at that institution prohibiting the furnishing of news to the local press over the telephone. We are sorry that the board of mana- gbrs have seen fit to combat the press, ' by issuing such an order, for it isa well-known fact that the papers of Nor- walk have generously assisted in mak- ing the Hospital what it is and have also assisted in sustaining it. How- ever, if the Hospital can get along without the aid of the press it is quite certain that the press can get along without the HOSpital. A Word to the Wise. The action of the officials of the Nor- walk Tramway company in reducing the service on the Roton' Point and RoWay- ton line to one car an hour in the morn- ing, is most’ severely condemned by the public. The service on the line prior. to this last foolish mova was certainly Worthy of criticism, but if the manage- ment had desired to 'ofi'end its patrons still further it could not have gone about it in a more complete manner. Yesterday morning a car was run to Roton Point on which thirty-eight per- sons were obliged to stand, no seat being provided them. The majority of these passengers were ladies and they didnot hesitate to express their epin- ion of the niggardly management. . . , . The GAZETTE would warn the . Nor-I » ,wal‘mramwaycnmpany;thatithey‘ncedg “ all"the friends they. can make, and if the management is wise friends will be cul- tivated instead of enemies. » ' Some day another line will be running to Roton Point and the people remem- hering the treatment afl'orded them by the Tramway company will desert the latter corporation like rats from a sink- ing ship. A word to the wise should be suf- ficient. . The Dull Business Season. We have now reached the summer period that most business men call the dull season, and very many of them surrender to what they regard as the inevitable and sit down in idleness, forgetful of the fact that there is no channel of trade in this progressive age that is not compelled to be ceaseless in the task of creating business. The man who waits for business to come to him will soon be bankrupt, and the man who confesses to dull business seasons is himself an important factor in creel-in: them. . A year or two ago a number of the leading business houses in New York were interviewed on the subject of the dull season of business, and a majority of them testified that they had learned the lesson of overcoming the regulation dull summer season. They did it by intelligent and systematic advertising. Each had tried the common method of surrendering to the dull season, but found it unprofitable, and every one attempting to create business during the dull summer had this same answer to make: “We have no dull season in our trade.” If newspaper advertising followed ‘the‘old beaten path of standing business cards, changed only with the seasons, it would have little power to create trade, but ‘the business advertisements of to- day are among the freshest and most inviting literature presented in the col- umns of the newspaper, and they are read with as much care as the farmer or speculator studies the market or stock l'eports. The advertisements of this . age are for the day and only for the day. , They are therefore sparkling not only with news but with invitations to at- tract the intelligent attention of buy ers, and only those who thus seek them can be certain of winning them. The dull business season is upon us, but it will be a dull season only for those having any inviting trade to offer who fail to present their attractions in., telligently to the public. The man who advertises most in the dull season will feel the least of its effects. With ' the newspaper reaching almost every home of the land, and with the cheapest ‘ advertising offered in Norwalk by the GazErrE, there is no reason whatever why our business men dealing directly with the public should complain of the dull season. v' For Soldiers and Sailors. A law passed by the last legislature in relation to the payment of b‘cunt‘ies1 to old soldiers is to be taken up by the selectmen of many to ms in this state commencing today. Many old soldiers are directly interested in the new law' whichreads as follows: _ Section 1.—“Axiy person who enlist- ed or re-enlisted in the army or navy of the United States for the suppression of the rebellion, and who was honor- ably discharged from service, and who thereby became entitled to any bounty voted by any town and has not hereto- fore received the same, may secure from such town the amount of such bounty in an action upon this statute. Any person shall be entitled to judg- mentlagainst a town upon proof from - the records of the adjutant general’s office, by a certificate duly attested by the adjutant-g'encral or his assistant, that he was duly enlisted and credited to such town and that such a vote has been passed by the town, and where a town has been divided or a portiOn of a town has been set-ofi' to another town since such enlistment, the claim shall be against the town now containing the territory within which such soldier or sailor resided at the time of his enlist- ment. ' Sec. 2.——The statute of limitations shallnot he pleaded by the defendant in any such action‘.‘ Sec 3—This act shall take effect from its passage. ' .. . p. . Sec 4—‘This “act. shall not apply to t. r 213.93: person. or persogsvxholenlisted’ or relenlisted outs'df”: :. " ‘ M, state of Com. necticut, who case‘s 7' etime of such reenlistment a resident of said state. Approved July 4, 1895. The legislature by the above action decided that the claims of the old sold» ier for bounty are just and should be paid. Any re-enlisted veteran of the late war, who has up to the present time failed to receive his bounty can present his claim for the same. ‘0: Ice Cream Poison. Medical men generally, we believe. regard ice cream as one of the least harmful forms of sweet foods. Invalids are permitted by their physicians to eat it when every other sort of sweet food is absolutely proscribed, and in health. there is probably no other kind of refection more popular, particularly in the summer. It is an unquestionable fact, how- ever, that serious and even fatal cases of poisoning occur almost every season from eating ice cream. There are two ways in which physi~ clans endeavor to account for the co- casional poisonous effects of ice cream. One is the presence in the compound of some distinct poison. used to color or to flavm the ice cream; the other is the develOpment in the cream or milk of a peculiar chemical substance he'- longing to the class of poisons known as ptomaines. These resemble in character the peculiar poisons- devel- oped in dead bodies in process of de- cay. The testimony in a recent trial to recover damages against a New York dealer tended to show that chocolate ice cream was the least likely of all kinds to be wholesome. It seems that ice cream makers, when other sorts of ice cream have grown somewhat stale and unpalatable, can conceal the age and undesirability of the compound by the liberal use of chocolate. I . Brlegeport Trolley Road Sued. Papers in a suit for 85,000 were served on the Bridgeport Traction Company yesterday in behalf of Michael Fitz- henry. He was thrown from court about two months ago as the result of a collision with a trolley car at the corner of Park and Black Rock avenues. The plaintiff claims that he received permanent injuries which will forever prevent him from following his busi- ness again. ' . Connecticut Pensions. Additional—Judson A. Gager (deceas- ed), Lebanon. Reissue—William S. Galloway, Branford; John F. Wil- liams, New Milford; Roger‘s. Bald- win, Milfordfi; Wm. Suagg, Waterbury. Original widows, etc.-‘-—Sarah E. Gager, Lebanon. ' On the Wing. Leaving Glasgow and riding and saili- in'g through the Trosachs, which as Scott wrote:— . "So wondrous wild the whole might seem. 'The scenery of a. fairy dream?" we came to Edinborough, or 'the modern Athens of Europe as it is not inappropriately called. This beautiful and historical city is known as the capital of Scotland. It is surrounded by high hills except on its northeast side where it looks out upon the North Sea and is but two miles from the Firth of Forth on the opposite side. Sir Walter Scott’s Marmion and Heart of Midlothian have made this city familiar to all well read Americans. Tradition places its settlement as far back as 617. The castle'is perhaps its most .noted and notable feature. The wars between the Scotti, the English and French and its numerous religious factions prior to and including the Reformation, all render the castle a place of memorable interest. It is now used as a citadel or barracks for soldiery and its ancient and antique relics are shown visitors and its various tales of bloody horrors regaled by native guides with infinite zest and pride. - The reverenco'of the average British- er for all things centuries old, no mat- ter how bloody and horrible the his- tories, is a marvel. For one, after lis- tening to these tales of rapine and mur- der, Idevoutly thanked God that we Americans had not so much ancient history to be ashamed of. In the great gothic Cathedral, built by and wrested from the Roman Catho~ lies and now in the keeping of Scotch Presbyterians, we saw scores of shot- riddled battle flags, displayed from the arches and ceilings of the church. I asked. the assistant clergyman if this was not an incongrudus exhibit in so grand a temple consecrated to the Gospel of Peacegand he replied prompt- ly, “Not at all, they have been blessed and denote the victories won in various wars by Scottish troops.” “Yes,” I said, “but how about the other poor fellows who were slain by your troops?” “Why, they were the aggressors who caused the trouble and so deserved the punishment they got,” .Iiglckly re- sponded the. clerically to rid person who was extremely kind in imparting information to our party. The finest monument in the world is probably the Scott monument, nearly opposite the Register House, and upon the front steps of which stands the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wel- lington. A monument is also here to the memory of Dr. Livingston, the African explorer. Burns, also, has a creditable monument, but the one that touches all American hearts is the one erected by the citizens cf Edinburgh to Abraham Lincoln. It ' stands in the Carlton burying ground, directly oppo- site one of the very best hotels in all Edinburgh——the Waterloo—and where we had the good fortune to be a guest. The worthy landlord, Mr. J. Grieve, was indefatigable ' in his efforts to make his American cousins comfortav- ble and happy, and a resolution was passed at our last meal expressive of our sense of obligation to him for our unusually good care and entertain- ment. One of the nice little touches of sentiment he resorted to was to keep a large American flag floating above his hotel during our stay. A strong likeness of Lincoln, in bronze, of life-size, stands On a tall pedestal of Scotch granite, and below isa life-sized negro in bronze, lying with uplifted ha nd and appealing look up into the eyes of Lincoln in mute, yet eloquent appeal for Freedom. On the front of the shaft on a bronze plate is this inscription: "To the Jewel of Liberty in the Frame. Wake of Freedom; Abraham Lincoln.” Below, follows this line: '“In memory of Scottish American Soldiers ." The efi'ect of a sight of this monu- ment, in this far 011' land, to the great crowd of American tourists, was at once .pathetic and pleasing. Looking across the street from our Waterloo Hotel and catching a glimpse of 'the familiar though bronze face and form of Lin- coln,we in our astonished surprise,could scarce behave our own eyes, as we had not before been informed of the exist- ence of such a grateful tribute to» our martyr President. A beautiful monument to Burma, the home of John Knox, Botanic Garden, Museums, Library, Picture and statue galleries, Nelson Monument, Parli- ment House, University,etc. etc. are all places of absorbing interest to the stranger. The city itself is more of a residential place, than one of either manufacturing or commercial import- ance. Like our own Washington, it has become the home of those who loy- ally love the land of their birth and its capital and so erect beautiful and palatial residences thereat. Reluct int- ly, we leave beautiful Edinborough, for a most interesting and charming visit to Melrose and Abbottsford. HAS HtflflPPED? Emil Durbeck Leaves Town Sud- cenly- and Fails to Inform His. Assistant. Last Seen On Main Street, Bridge- port. The German population of Norwalk was thrown into considerable excite- ment this morning by the report that Emil Durbeck, the barber in Mese. ,burg’s building, was among the mis- 3mg. Shortly after one o’clock yesterday afternoon Durbeck blackened his shoes, dressed himself in his best clothes and quilted the shop without saying a word to'his assistant about his intentions. Since that time he has not been seen or heard of in this city although he was seen as late as half past three o’clock on Main street, Bridgeport. Durbeck gained considerably noto- riety last week by being arrested in a room in the Old Well hotel at South Norwalk in company with Sadie Lea- them. Since that time his wife has not spoken to him, and has made an appli- cation for a divorce through Attorney John H. Light. When seen bya GAZETTE represen- tative, Mrs. Durbeck said that she did not know where he had gone, although she was of the opinion that he was with the Leatham girl in Bridgeport and would come back when he got ready. If Mrs. Durbeck’s suspicions are cor- rect he must have gone to the jail ahd paid her fine, but this cannot be so as a telephone message to Bridgeport jail elicited the information that the Leath- am woman was still there. Durbeck came to Norwalk a short time 'ago and was employed on Main street. When Harry Leopold sold his shop 8. Charles Miller of Milford pur- chased it and placed Durbeck in charge and he has been running the place since I ‘-... ‘ ‘ '. _\ t is said that prior to his South Nor- walk escapadc Durbeck was well thought of by his German friends and was a member of several of the promi- nent German societies in town‘. Since the South Norwalk affair he has lost friends and it is said that his business has suffered so that it is possible that he has gone away for good, al- though several of his friends including his wife. are of the opinion that he wil return. ' Peaches in Plenty. Large, luscious. free stone peaches from the first of July were something unknown in the local market, a few years ago, but the large graft of Yan- kce push transported to the south has so revolutionized the early peach trade for the last two weeks have far sur- passed any fruit of the kind that has ever reached here'at this early date. Delaware fruit will probably come next week and low prices are expected. Died at the Hospital. Robert O’Neil, the Consolidated Rail- road brakeman, who fell from a train, yesterday, and suffered terrible injuries, and who was taken to the hospital, died in that institution at an early hour this morning. He was about 28 years of age. His remains were removed to his former home in Stamford, this morning, by an undertaker from that city. £ vA '— Tents Blown Over. The severe storm which passed over Niantic Tuesday night knocked down many of the tents which had been erected on the State camp ground. All the company tents on the north side of the camp ground have been up a week but the wind Tuesday levelled many of them. All the tents are in position again and the camp ground is all ready for the reception of the troops. _____...__.__.. _ Bennett—Mead. Charles Bennett and Mrs. Jennie Mead, widow of the late Frank Mead, were married at the home of the bride’s son, Edward Mead, in East Norwalk, last evening by Rev. A. J. Smith. pas- tor of the East Norwalk Methodist church. ' Licenses Attached. The new liquor law went into efi'ect yesterday authorizing the attachment of licenses for debt and at New Haven three licenses were attached for debt. No attachments were recorded in Bridgeport and none in this city. Broke Her Arm. Charles Guiles, motorman on the Street Railway, this morning received a letter from Mrs. Guiles in Katonah stating that his little three-year-old daughter had-been hit on the arm by a miss one: are broken- ' that the peaches that have been sent in ‘ Terse Tales of the Times. —Pictures framed by Hayes, Main St- Cashier H. P. Price is in New Ro- chelle to-day. C. E. Spink, 62, a well known Grand Army man, is dead at Meriden. Our Brothers’ Lodge will rehearse the initiatory degree to-night. Mrs. Isaac Bowe is convalescent of a severe attack of tonsolitis. Dr. E. C. NeWport a well known Meriden physician is critically ill. A special town meeting will be held in the Town House, to-morrow after- noon. The stock of the late firm of Kellogg 8: Bates, New Canaan, has been dis- posed of. Danbury is to have a new weekly newspaper devoted to the interests of the Catholic church. There is nothing new in the damage suit of Charles Valentine vs. the Nor- walk Gas Light company. John B. Gallagher died yesterday, aged 43 years. The deceased was for- merly a resident of Brooklyn. The Y. M. C. A. a... ball ,team will play the Mahackemos at the Baxter grounds to-morrow afternoon. Rev. William W. Lea and family of Rockford, Ills, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Boyer, on Main street. —John T. Hayes, the newsdealer has removed to No. 5 Main street. Make note of the fact. tf Anthony Morris, a hotel thief, was fined $60 and costs at Waterbury, yes- terday, and sentenced to jail for seven months. The question is asked why there is no water in the public tank at the junction of North avenue and Main street. Colonel Kellogga well known resi- dent-of Winsted who was found in a paralytic fit in the highway a few days ago is dying. Nelse Shannon a well known Bridge- port character is held in $500 for the superior court for attempted burglary in that city. C. C. Brotherton, the painter, is do- ing some artistic work in his line in the Kindergarten department of the Over River school. A man whose name we do not learn, had a narrow escape from being run over at the Water street crossing this morning. q The Pope Company of Hartford and the Russell Manufacturing Company of Middletown, have applied for space at the Atlanta Exposition. John flattery became engaged in a row at a Main street saloon, last night, in which he came out second best being the recipient of well deserved punish- ent. Meriden’s swell Hebrew wedding of the season took place last night the con- tracting parties being Nathan E. May of New Britain and Miss Rebecca Gold- berg of that city. At the Thursday evening meeting at the Congregational Church, interest- ing reports were read by the delegates who attended the recent Christian En- deavor convention in Boston. There was a noisy motion on “Battle row,” Railroad place, last night. Neighbors complain that they were un- able to sleep the greater part of the night, by reason of the disturbance. —For Bowel troubles, Hale’s Cordial. J 20“ William Headurlls’ jomt a resort for the dissolute of both sexes and all col- ors," was raided at Danbury yesterday. The two women were each fined $10 and costs and the seven men $5 and cunts. . Charles R. Lynes claims to have caught eight pounds of eels while fish- ing from a window of the saloon near the bridge, yesterday. One of the squirmers, he says, weighed a plump three pounds. ——For Colic, Hale's Cordial. J20 tf At a special meeting of Pioneer Hook and Ladder company held last evening a committee was appointed to make arrangements for the entertainment of remen who will be in attendance at he firemens’ convention in South Norwalk, next week. The regular meeting of the company was postponed until the 13th. ' Counterfeit bank notes are being cir-. culated in Middletown. Miss SarahrK. Lewis is visiting friends on Long Island. The Earle family of East avenue, have left town for the Adirondacks. There will be a cricket match at Norwalk Park, to-morrow afternoon. -—Fresh milk at Lockwbod’s market. 4t Mrs. Fred. St. John Lockw00d left town yesterday for Port Austin, Mich. William Weaver of this city is regis- tered at the Metropolitan hotel Wash- ington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hoyt of New Canaan, have returned from: their Southern trip! Rev. and Mrs. David Ferris of Horse- neads, N. Y., are visiting Mrs. Stuart, on West avenue. The Defender, Vigilant, Jubilee and Volunteer will race for the Goelet cup 011' Newport today. The Stamford Advocate was issued from its handsome new home on At- lantic street, to-day. In the absence of Attorney Gregory, Attorney Hurlbutt acted as prosecutor in the Town Court, Saturday. —Bargains in Tooth Brushes, Hale’s. J9“ f Ida 0 Mrs. William 0. Persons and her sisters, Jennie and Fannie Townley, of New York are visiting friends in this city. Selectman Daskam managel to get up town this morning, but was unable to resume his regular duties and re- turned homc. He is quite sick. Frederick Mead and family, and Mr. and Mrs. William Olsen, are occupying the Gould Rockwell residence in Ridge- field, during the present month. The Norwalk excursionists to Block Island, yesterday, report having had a delightful time. They arrived home shortly after 9 o’clock in the evening. Frank Kiernan will begin the publi- caition of the Catholic Weekly in Dan- bury the last of this month. It will be devoted to the interests of the Catholic church. -—For Cramps, Hale’s .Cordial. J 20tf. Marshall H. Mallory, business mana- ger of the Churchman of New York, lies at the home of his father in Bridge- port, in a critical condition. The trouble is appendicitis. The funeral of Ethel M. Jones, the colored child, who was fatally burned at her home on North avenue, Wednes- day, was attended from the Knight street church, this afternoon. The amount of taxes to be collected this year is something like $500 less than last year. Last year there was a ten mill tax and this year the tax is but five mills. The aggregate last year was, $364,764; this year it is 864,296. Rev. Charles M. Selleck went to' Greenfield Hill, to-day, to attend the funeral of the late Henry Harrisdn. Mr. Harrison is the architect who fur- nished the plans, etc., for the Chapel' of Our Holy Saviour, on Berkeley street. ‘ Rev. W. W. Leet, of Rockford, 11]., who is a guest of Councilman Eugene L. Boyer of thiscity, will preach in the Congregational church at Ridgefield, to-morrow, and in the Congregational ' church at South Norwalk, Sunday. August 11th. ‘ "Peter,” the Main street barber, who ran into a horse and carriage while coasting down a hill at Greenwich, yesterday, on his bicycle, is quite lame to-day, and a shaving brush seems as heavy for him to lift as would have been a crowbar on Wednesday. Joseph Muirhead, an old miner, who has seen some of the specimens of k the coal taken from the vein in Forestville, pronounces it “Parrot” coal, which is often found adjacent to coal fields. It . will burn iii a constant draft but gener- ally with but little heat and is practi- cally of no value. —011 Sweet Lavender for flies, at Hale’s. J20 tf . “Mit” Northrop threw his dinner , overboard 011' Block Island yesterday ' afternoon. “Neverwasso sick in my’f life,”says “Mit,” “and never before ‘ g, met so many people who wanted to sympathize with me, whenall I cared about doing was to die or be set on a- p, street." Oh yes, I had aneleaanttime.” 7 Norwalk trolley car bound: for. Main
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