TIffi HARTFORD DAILY COURANTs TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915. 10 NOTE AM) COMMENT. feelings of tho workers on the 'Vtie were upon the subject. YEAR'S WOK OF attention of our authorities. They took steps for Its local suppression, and It wus In consequence of their action that our government took up Established 1764.
Published SSION MARKEUOMM commission plans to adopt a design to be obtained In a competitive contest between a set of invited architects. This competition is to be conducted on the basis of a carefully prepared protiram and though this plan Is not omplta at the time of this report It has bfin pronounced by architects who have Been it in its tentative form as one of the fairest that could be formulated. One of the prime conditions this contest is that the building design that wins the contest must stand the test of being submitted to competent and responsible builders who will agree that it can be erected and completed at a cofct not to exceed $90,000. The program of the competition' Will go to the competing irchiteots this month and' the contest will oe closed about July IB. A month will then probably be required to pass upon the various plans, submit the -jrefevabl.
ones to the test of estimating- cost and tne election of the best design. month or six weeks will probably he necessary to the completion of complete plans and the drawing of specifi premo Court Reports, page (62, Justice Hall, writing the opinion of the court said: "Since said branch railroad was thus duly located and approved by the railroad commissioners, the plaintiff, as appears by the allegations of the present application, has obtained theright of way and, at an expense of over $300,000, has constructed its track over said entire route as located, excepting over certain land owned by one Wagner and by the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad Company, a right of way over which the plaintiff has been unable to obtain." The exception mentioned by Justice Hall was the 313 feet over the Montague farm. Had the cost been appreciably over $300,000 It Is probable that a figure In excels of this sum would have been submitted by the lawyers who Saturday, the warden of the Michigan state prison treated five "lifers" to anouting In an auto. At one ot Saturday's sales in New York city a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," first edition, brought $20. A Beloit senior, E.
M. Dahlberg, is getting money to pay his college bills by trapping the Rock River musk rats and curing and selling their pelts. Mr. B. M.
Crawford of New York paid $250 last Saturday for an ancient Persian Koran; for another Persian book mil with half a dozen miniatures in it an anonymous buyer paid $C10. "Hon. Lemuel Eli Quigg's proposal to stuff some "moral uplift" legislation into New York's new constitution does him no credit; he's old enough in years and in affairs to know For thirteen years Grantsburg, has had a chief of police bjg "Gust" Anderson who stands seven feet four, weighs 34 pounds, and is by far 1he strongest man in the town. 1 Mrs. Edward said to be 101 years old, crossed the East River to Greenpoint in 1865 and has lived there ever She helped her mother make the flags fer tho pioneer Sound passenger steamboats.
Saturday the revisited her native Manhattan for the second time in fifty years, going in a neighbor's motorcar. Mayor John Purroy Mitchel hasn't met up with a grizzly yet, but lie has shot several Wyoming rabbits. The late Jeremiah Dingman of Richard Centre, said he wouldn't make a will until he was a centen arian; and he didn't. William Fairbert, a Wisconsin farmer, has started a small skunk farm and says there is money In it, the pelts sometimes bringing a high as $6.50 apiece. My skunks are as tame and docile as kittens," sayi William.
"I pick them up and fondle them Just as 1 wouia tame rabbits or guinea pigs. Sometimes one almost suspects Price Collier of an inclination to become personal. "During and after the Franco-German war there was no cheap heroism," he days, "no feminine excitability producing litters of heroes no slobbering, osculatory advertising, no press undertaking the duties of a general staff, which in our Spanish War completely clouded the real hero ism and patriotism that were in evi dence. There were no newspaper made heroes, hastening back 10 ex change cheap military glory for votes and delicious notoriety. "Will the progress of research prove that justice is worthless and mercy hateful; will It ever soften the bitter contrast between our actions and our aspirations, or show us the bounds of the universe and bid us say: Go to, now we comprehend the Infinite?" Such were the Questions Professor Huxley, the Agnostic, was asking thirty years ago.
"A faculty of wratn lay in those ancient Israelites," he continued, "and surely the prophet's staff would have made swift acquaintance with the head of the scholar who had asked Micah whether, peradventure. the Lord further required of him an implicit belief In the accuracy of the eosmogony of Genesis." The author of "Germany and tho Germans" is a man of positive opinions, and not at all backward in airing them. "We havo been surfeited with peace talk till we are all irritable," he wrote in 1912. "One-hundredth part of an ounce of the same kind of peace powders that we are using -internationally would, if pie- scribed to a happy family In this or any other land, lead to dissensions. disoDeuience, domestic disaster, and di vorce.
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TheH Bobbs-Merrlll Company, Indianapolis. Making History. "That man is one of those make history." who "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum; "but he insists on trying to make It to suit himself," Washington Star. I I may, in fact, say that there was a conference held before Mr. Asqulth's meeting, andMhat no reference was made to the subject on account of the strong antipathy on the part of the workers to being deprived of the use of spirits in that particular area.
Delegates representing the men stated, most definitely that the delayed cut-put had not been brought about through drink, and it was intimated that if any prohibition with regard to spirits was introduced, or nny undue restrictions made, the men would probably 'down tools' at once." It thus appears that the Drink evil disappeared, officially, under the threat of a strike. Mr. Lloyd George's agreement of last Friday to take back all those new and extra taxes which were proposed by the government on A piil? 29, and thus to begin again with a clean sheet of paper, fchows that the well-known opposition of the Irish Nationalists, both regular and independent, to all fussing with the liquor business In the British Islands those serious days, was effective. Both the Irish Nationalists and 'he Unlonistsstand by the Trade, with a capital and they together form a large majority in the House of Commons. The Drink evil which Mr.
Lloyd George brought up is as dead as politics can make it. THAT ELECTRIC BILL. A Says "The Courant" today: The people of Hartford do not want any outside trolley company to be given a right of way across this city without themselves having something to say rdoul u. xne public service commis sion can surely be trusted as to the best location for any new line that asis to come to town. True.
Now why shouldn't "The Cou rant" entertain the same views about outside electric power companies, for the coming of which it has been rooting by support of H. B. 777, the electric ripper bill? Hartford Times. The "Times" evidently has not studied the bill that it attacks. This especially provides that the public service commission shall have just the direction and control regarding power wires and routes that it has over trolley wires and routes.
Hartford has no interest adverse to the new bill. The local company has not only kept up with but led the electric procession. It is the unpopular'and inadequate monopolies in other parts of the state that oppose it, and it is from those parts of the state that its chief support comes. THE SWEET SPRING DAYS. It is disputed whethe- the spring or the fall is the most enjoyable season.
Autumn gives' us riper days, and, indeed, is the time for general ripening. It gives us a far greater wealth of color, too. than-tbe spring, but there is something about the promise of Bpring that makes It to most people the more welcome period. The opening leaf is the miracle; the falling leaf goes the. way of things in This year, perhaps, because each spring is more wonderful than any preceding, it seems as if the apple trees were in richer bloom than ever, the grass greener and the sky bluer.
It is one ot the enjoyable incidents of growing old that the marvel of. the changing seasons is more evident and more impressive as one's years increase; instead of getting used to it all, one sees more clearly its wonder and its beauty. Now is the time to take your own automobile or get into somebody else's and go out into the open country. The world has taken a new start. Promise is visible In every field and on every side.
The songs of the happy and busy birds fill Jhe air with melody and the apple blossoms load it with perfume. But it is well to avoid passing any long stretch of rich land that 'is being prepared fer tobacco-planting. The farmers do not use cologne water as a fertilizer au contraire, as they say in Paris. "Fatherland" has words of warmest praise for Dr. Kuno Meyer's "eloquent letter," in which the whole Harvard tribe, professors, students and all, are so passionately denounced because a Harvard student wrote a poem uncomplimentary to Germany, and predicts that the "next time American university presidents go abegging for favors in Germany, they will discover that the echo of Professor Meyer's words will not die away so easily as the thunder of cannon." We were not aware that American college presidents have been begging favors in or of Germany, and we are quite confident that Germany has not for many years cultivated the habit of doing favors for other nations without expectation of a full return.
We suppose that Secretary Daniels has not forgotten that a United States submarine Is lying somewhere off Honolulu athe bottom of the sea. It has been lying there for about six weeks, and the naval officers concerned say that it was in first rate condition when it went down. Assuming that they are right, the submarine crew must be taking a vacation. They are having a quiet time of it. The Democrats.
(Washington Star.) The President's peril will come, not before, but after the national convention. It will be then that those democratic leaders who have not in the first term enjoyed favor at his hands may want to know how they are to fare if they buckle down and help give Mr. Wilson a second term. Som- of have a good deal of power, and several control- machines of the latest style and That would be but a languid national campaign with Charles F. Murphy.
Thomas Taggart and Roger Sullivan in the dumps. Not improbably, the republicans would have a walkaway. The democratic bosses were all in line three years ago, notwithstanding the wooling several had received at Baltimore, and all must be in line again if Mr. Wilson is to have the slightest chance to succeed himself. Women and War.
(Montreal Gazette.) The only women who want peace are the Americans and they want it because their nation is not at war, says Miss Christabel Pankhurst, who is pleased that the women's peace congress has proved a fiasco. There is undoubtedly much truth in the militant lady's words. If the United States were at war like most of the other great powers the women of that country would be shouting encouragement to the men to fight on to victory. the matter and invited the different countries to the commission of 1909, which was followed by the confer enco two years later, resulting in the agreement of thirty-four nations to slop the opium traffic in 1915. It is safe to say that Dr.
Hamilton Wright, as an expert In Oriental medical conditions, and Bishop Brent, as a great moral power In the Philippines, deserve the highest credit tor their efforts in this remarkable movement. AiMtiis We have done better In the matter of tires so far this year than we did for the corresponding period of 1914. which was a particularly bad year for the Insurance companies, and even better than for the same period of 1913. For the four months the losses in the United States and Canada, ac cording to the careful records of the "Journal of Commerce," were 108,600, while the first four months of 1914 showed losses of $88,162, 4o0, and in 1913 they were $76,527,100. But April of this year did not do so well as the two preceding Aprils did.
It did not keep up the record for improvement made by the first three months of the year. The "Journal of Commerce" tables show losses last month aggregating $18,180,350, as compared with losses in April a year ago of $17,700,800 and two years ago of $16,738,250. There were 326 fires during the month causing each damage estimated at or over. The largest fires were: Oil works, Poughkeepsle, N. grain elevator, Minneapolis, business section, Complex, B.
railroad shops, Portsmouth, W. paper mills, Portland, and library, St. Paul, $300,000 each. Of the 326 fires causing damage of $10,000 or more, 120 of them caused losses of less than $20,000, and in only forty-nine was the loss $100,000 or over. Hartford iets into the $10,000 list with the recent garment works fire, the loss In that case being placed at $100,000, A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
The Landlords and Taxpayers' As sociation, at a meeting to be held this evening at lower Mascot Hall, will discuss "The Removal of the" Control of New England Railroad Tracks Entering Hartford." It is understood that the Chamber of Commerce is to take the same subject under consideration in the near future. Here Is an opportunity for these organizations to be of great service to the city. The principal benefits to be derived from the removal of the tracks 1 are the following: 1. A boulevard in place of railroad tracks in the heart of the city. 2.
An outlet for Church The Church street extension that the city to build a few years ago wouM parallel the railroad tracks and be used principally by trucks and coal wagons. It could not be mado either a popular or an attractive street. A boulevard in place of the tracks would be at once popular and could bo made attractive. 3. Elimination of Garden street croMiinK.
4. Saving the cost of a new bridge at AV'oodland street. The grade at this bridge could be cut down so that Woodland street would Intersect the boulevard, making a bridge unneces sary. 5. Opening up for building purposes the immense tract of land along the railroad track between Woodland street and Bloomfield, Cross streets could bo built to run east from tho boulevard to Blue Hills avenue and west to Bloomfield avenue.
With proper restrictions on the land the boulevard could be made to rank well with any avenue or street In the city, and with its Woodland street connec tion would make an attractive driveway from the center of the city to Bloomfield. 6. Giving to the inhabitants of the northwest part of the city a direct route to Union station. A trolley line could be run from Albany avenue to Garden street crossing, then dow-n the boulevard to the station. This would avoid the present route to City Hall and down Asylum street.
7. With Broad street extended and Garden street crossing eliminated a "cross town" trolley, can be had, extending from New Britain avenue to Westland street. It will be difficult to conceive another plan for the improvement of Hartford that will make possible so many other improvements as does this plan for the removal of the tracks. Each collateral plan made possible by the removal of the tracks would be a decided improvement In itself, and a combination of the principal plan and the subordinate plans spells an Improvement that Hartford cannot afford to neglect. The Central New England shops and roundhouse are now closed, and can no longer be considered a hindrance to the adoption of the plan to remove the tracks.
It is feasible to build a railroad from Bloomfield to Wilson's station. This much has been admitted by the "New Haven" road. It has surveyed the land, estimated the number of ties and rails that will be required, and the number of cubic yards of earth that will have to be moved, and has mapped out three possible lines of track, an estimated cost of approximately $100,000. It is difficult to understand, however, why it should cost $400 000 to build three and a half or four miles of track from Bloomfield to Wilson's station over level sandy land, when over fourteen miles of track. Including a bridge over the Farmington River, were built between Tariffville anil Agawam Junction for $300,000.
In the case entitled in re Hartford Connecticut Western' Railroad Company, reported in Volume 74, Su THE HARTFORD COCRAXT COMPAXV Courant Building. Hartford. Conn. Oldest Newspaper In America. Published Daily- Entered at the Postoffice In Hartford.
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MAY 11, 1 613. TWENTY-TWO PAGES. Winston Spencer Churchill la a brilliant young man, but the conviction is growing in England, as it is in this country, that he Is not Just the right person for the position of first lord of the admiralty in a time like this. This conviction comes with as much regret to Americans as to Mr. Churchill's ad mircrs in England, for his mother was the beautiful and accomplished Jen nie Jerome of New York.
Aeroplanes may have as important uses in peace as they are developing for themselves in war. Since the sub- marines became active it is claimed that one of these war vessels can be spotted by an aeroplane even when the ship is under water. It is pro- posed to send out aeroplanes to scout for seals, and when the herds are located the fishing fleet can sail directly for them, instead of wasting time in the hunt. Operations of the sailing sealers during the past season were not iuccessful, and the belief in Ncwfo'und land is that the utilization of the aeroplanes as scouts will add materially to the catch In tho Gulf of St. Lawrence next year.
MODEKX WAR. There have been three clear and controlling reasons why a great war between nations of the twentieth century was impossible. These were the Increased gentleness of- advancing civilization with the spread of the doctrine of brotherly love, the extreme destructivene-s of modern implements of war so that their use would not be tolerated, and the final and conclusive fact 4 that modern bankers would not finance a war that was to disturb the world's commercial relations. f. Where's that brotherly love and gentleness of improved human nature? I Where Is the horror of deadly -weapons shown, except in the determination to have 'em? Where are the bankers who will not negotiate a war loan? One more question: whor* are the neutral forces that can stop the right? One keen, observer suggests that Secretary Daniels be, sent over in a rowboat to put the submarines out of business, but seriously we do not think that would do any good, that is if the boat got across.
The part of the world not at war can tell the warring part what it thinks of such conduct, and that's about all. THE OPIUM AGREEMENTS. The American "Review of Reviews" furnishes a good account of the International movement for the aboli- tion of the traffic in opium, in so far as it relates to the use of opium as a deleterious habit. In this movement 1 and in the negotiation of the treaties concerning opium, our government has had the honor of leadership. In 1907 proposals were made by the United States to all the governments principally interested in the matter, to form an international commission for the consideration of the whole business.
These proposals were accepted by Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Holland. Portugal, China, Japan, Siam and Persia, and the commission, composed of delegates these countries and from the United States, met at Shanghai in 1909. One of our delegates was Dr. Hamilton Wright, an eminent expert in the drug-diseases, and another was Bishop Brent of the Philippines. This commission led to the International Opium Conference at The Hague, in the winter of 1911-12, of which Dr.
Wright and Bishop Brent were' members, jthe result of which was a treaty for the suppression of the opium traffic. At a second meeting of this conference, in 1913, all the South American countries supported the measures adopted. This treaty was followed by protocols which were to give its provisions practical effect. It reflects great credit upon such countries as India, China, Siam and the Dutch East Indies, that they consented to a measure for the abolition of a traffic which yielded them a large part of their public revenue. But the loss in revenue will, It is said, be more than made up by the increased efficiency of the million of men redeemed or saved from a degrading habit.
The best Informed on this matter believe that the elimination of opium is not remote. which means incalculable good to millions of men in Asia, and to thousands living in our own land. It Is interesting to know, from Dr. Wright, that this agreement of the countries to put an end to the opium traffic grew directly out" of our experiences in the Philippine Islands. It was in 1906 that the spread and ravages of the opium habit in those Islands began to attract the serious Why Boulevard Site for Public Market Was Selected.
SELECTION OF PLANS TO BE BY CONTEST Actual Construction Will Not Start Until Next Year. The public or municipal market commission submitted last evening to the court of common council a report summarizing Its year's work and out lining its plans for the coming year, The report which was accepted and ordered on file, was signed by Frank G. Macomber, vice-chairman Samuel Hartman, Thomas R. Fox and Lud wig Forster and was as follows: The municipal market commission has the honor to report as to activities ana plans as follows: "ma pnmm bh nn u'ns fcnnoinieu, uj the Honorable Joseph H. Lawler, in AncrtiutL 1Q14 nllthnritv of the act of the court of common council creating the commission ana empowering it to create and establish in tne city of Hartford a public, or municipal market.
Owing to the absence from the city on the part of one commissioner or another, tha first meetlna of the commis sion was not held until the latter part of September and formal organization was not oflVctpii until the second meet ing when Frank. G. Macomber was cnosen vice-chairman, 10 act in tne sence or his honor, the mayor, wno un-dir th rpanliitinn rreatiner the com mission Is designated as chairman. At this meeting Charles E. Perkins was elected to act as secretary.
In regard to the matter of compen- RflMnn fni ttio aeprftflrv WA M'OUlll re port that up to the present time the commission has not tuea tnis. we leii that the Dosition was aDt to be one of purely nominal (duties, requiring no great amount of time or liOor, ana insi the compensation should he adjusted later on the basis of the work performed rather than fixed on anv preliminary estimate of what the duties might prove to be. Meetings during the fall arid early winter were held with considerable regularity the commission at least evpry month and sometimc-t evety week. The entire field of public, or municipal- markets has been carefully stud-led ail discussed and It has been the aim of this commission to obtain as complete a grasp as possible of the Intent, purpose and general accomplishment nf other nubile markets well in mind before taking up a consideration of Hartford needs, or the type or market that would seem to best suit and serve this city. Hartford has had a seml-publio market, in the so-called hucksters or Plaza market, located on the boulevard and conducted by the board of health commissioners.
The municipal market mind before taking up it consideration this market and tried to discover its weaknesses, its advantages and its possibilities of development. This study, taken into careful comparison with markets In other cities nf a more pretentious sort and comparatively complete development las convinced your commissioners that Hartford will be best served bv developing In this city a public market that uses the experience of the present hucksters' market as a basis on which to build and plan. Experience of other cities having successful public markets shows that the principal aim of the successful market is the encouragement of production of the food products passing through such a market. It has been shown 1hat this is best accomplished through the agency of what is known as a terminal market. The name is more arbitrary than definitive.
This type of market is that which brings the producer of furm products Into contact with the distributor ot these products so that they may do business in a business-like manner, quickly, efficiently and with a sense of mutual understanding and commercial dealing one with the other, without eliminating from the market place the producer of food products who prefers to deal directly with the ultimate consumer at retail. The treat mass of producers of farm products do not wish to detail at retail in retail quantities. They prefer to dispose of their wares in wholesale quantities at wholesale prices ana return to their larms aa quickly as possible. However there exists a certain number of producers who either through inclination, a limited product, or a highly specialized product find It more desirable to trade directly with the general public as representing the ultimate consumer. This fact has been amply demonstrated in the hucksters' market in this city and has been demonstrated in greater or lesser degree in every city having a public market.
It has therefore seemed wise to this commission that a market should be planned for Hartford that possessed all the advantages of a terminal market, without eliminating or denying any ot the features that go to make for success in connection with the purely retail feature of a municipal market, allowing time, the consumer and the producer to work out the development of the market toward either, or both as Hartford and Its needs would demand. In this connection it might be noted that in the retail section of a well regulated" and successful public market, stalls, or selling daces for retail trade are seldom rented to otaer than producers of food products 1n fact. That Is stalls are not rented to merchan's who propose to conduct a business of buying from producer to sell to (onsumer and it would be the aim of this commission. If entrusted with the administration of the municipal market, at its completion to enforce such a policy. Success from all standpoints In a public market is best attained by adhering strictly to (a) Bringing producer and distributor together; (b) Bringing producer and consumer together.
The commission has considered inanv sites during the course of Its deliberations. Several privately-owned properties have been submitted for Its consideration but none of these seemed to meet the Ideas of the commission. Early the commission arrived at a tentative decision that two sites moBt nearly met the requirements of the situation. The first of these was the plan which involved the creatine of ma by bridging over the Park River, from oariK to Dan, east 01 tne Main street bridge. Preliminary estimates appeared to indicate that a space there could be built at about $250 per running foot.
Approximately 350 running feet, as wide as the stream is from bank to bank, could have been bridged over within the appropriation. This of course would not have enabled the commiftsinn tn erect any market buildings, or shelter of any sort. It would have been but a large open trading place for the farmers' and gardeners' toams to park while disposing of their products. An opinion as to the city's right to this stream was asked from the corporation counsel and after a great amount of nainstaklna: work and miirh reaenrnh a verbal opinion was furnished the com mission. About this time a tentative proposal was made to this commiDslon bv tho city plan commission for the use of the so-called bridge lands, or rather part of them, as a public market site.
These lands had been In mind from the first and at the time that a special committee of the court of common council was considering their disposal the of the municipal market commission appeared before the committer and indicated the interest of tho commission in the lands as a possible site. Conferences between the citv clan commission and the municipal market commission, ana committers or both commissions finally resulted in an aereement as to the use of a. Dart of these lands. As this arrangement appears to be one primarily for the city plan commission to report upon We will appear to encroach upon their work if we do more at this time than to sav that In the judnment of the municipal market commission the agreement is ono of advantage to the city. For a market building oa the site the cations, which In the of thH commission would seem to indicate that the acthal work of erecting the market may hot he got under wa until fall, or early next spring.
All of which is respectfully, submitted. Frank G. Macomber. tt Vice-ckalrman Samuel Hartman, Thomas R. Fox, Ludwlg Forster.
tc marKa oie uoii ana -iiy iiMiusir j. (Consul General William J. Pike, Co-burg, Germany.) The most important Industry in this district, so far as trade with th United States is concerned, is the manufacture of dolls and toys, the. export of which to the Unifcd States has steadily Increased until it reached nearly $4,140,000 in 1914, Is nearly one-fifth of the total estimated production of the district. It is doubt ful whether any toy-making community in the world Is better known than that of Bavaria and Tburingla.
It dates back to the thirteenth century, and has steadily developed from a household Industry, producing only wooden toys of the cruder sort, until now, In addition to the home workers, many important factories are furnishing nations in every part of the globs an endless variety of dolls and toys composed of wool, wood, stone, porcelain, leather, papier-mache, metal, and celluloid. As a result of long; centuries of work In the same Industry; a real creative genius and exceptional skill ap- pears to have been developed and even inherited to have descended in certain families from one generation to another In the creation of dolls and toys. About 1S20 the first great improvement in the character of the product was introduced' through the use 01 papier-macne. j.nis was iohow-ed by the appearance of dressed and jointed dolls and mechanical toys that display a highly developed genius. It is estimated that 25,000 people found employment In this Industry, and a conservative authority placed tha value of the annual production at nearly one-half of the total production of Germany.
Of this amount fully $16,000,000 worth was for export, the remainder being for the home market. The two best customers have been the United States and Great Britain, whose purchase amounted to three-fourths of the ex- During the first half of ,191 and up to the commencement of the European war, every branch of this trade was in the most prosperous condition and was so fully engaged that prompt delivery was made only with difficulty. During the last half of the year, with little demand in the home trade and exports to every important foreign market, excepting America, cut off, the natural result followed unemployment. What per cent of the work people are still employed it is difficult to but certain It is that the trade with the United States is the single, saving factor. Because of the lack of metals, such as copper, zinc, tin.
and other materials declared contraband, prices have greatlyyadvanced, and through this cause, as well as the want of orders and scarcity of labor, a large per cent of the concerns have closed or have turned their attention to the manufacture of goods used for military purposes. The Lucky Birds. (Indianapolis News.) v' In these days of discussing and plan ning and advertising, and cleaning house and moving, and building and selling and reading wand ads and slipping in and out of the clutches of the real estate men, we are more than ever Included to envy our fussy, pampered neighbors, the birds. It is no exaggeration to say that in Irvington alone there are almost as many houses for birds as there are for people, and all through the city there are bird houses of every sort, from, plain home-made boxlike cottages to gable affairs on top of high poles. There are bird bungalows, doubles, apartments and a few regular bird' hotels where meals are served daily on the little front porch.
One would think it would be an easy thing for a bird to find a house to suit him. There are no equities, no cash prices, no monthly payments, and as far as loca tion, a bird can take his choice, for wings are less crowded and swifter than street cars, and more reliable than automobiles. Nevertheless, the silly creatures are hard to please. They find fault with almost every house we build for them. It Is too large or too small, has too few or too many windows, or the back door is not right.
Martins are very particular about back doors. There is the possibility, to be sure, that birds really prefer their own ideas of primitive and unsanitary and danger- -ous as they may be. On the other hand they may think of the advantage of our generosity; and may be planning to get electric lights and sleeping porches and alarm clocks. One man built a tiny cottage and placed it at thA nt finv fofrri Dvhn mtffht desire to move into it Although there were crowded nests of birds all about it, none of them took possession of it. He decided that It was not large enough and that birds preferred a tenement sort of life.
He built a wonderful house of many rooms, placed it on a pole and arranged a free lunch counter and a public bath near. The birds have apparently not noticed it. They are still quarreling over their ugly nests and the children are still spilling out of them. Perhaps, after all, the trouble Is that the birds are not accustomed to publicity. They have always hidden- their nests and the houses we have built for them were not made to be hidden.
Perhaps the fault is partly ours in desiring that all the world should see that we are offering homes to tne birds and modern bits of real estate at that The Canadians. (Montreal Gazette.) Reports on authority confirm the statement that the casualties in the Canadian division at what: is' called me ui uingemarcK Were well up to six thousand. The total engaged may have been 18.000 or 20,000 men. The regiments which stood such losses and held their around or nnA order to new lines of defense many oe wen cauea equal to the best, officers and men Corps can be'v Fmmrt ground with the losses up to id to 15, yer ceuu- wnen tne ranen or lost run to 20 or 25 per more only veterans or men mnrallv wan physically strong caa bear the strain. represented the Central New Eng land.
It appears, therefore, that tho Tariffvilie branch cost something like $22,000 per mile. Even if it should cost $400,000 to build a line from Bloomfield to Wilson's station, the cost of eliminating Garden street crossing and building a new bridge at Woodland street would approximate this figure. As "The Courant" has heretofore pointed out, the cost of the Improvement would be balanced by the actual gains. The principal part of the cost will fall upon the city. The city cannot kick tho railroad out on the ground that it is a public nuisance, neither can the city ask the railroad to move and at the same time expect it to pay its moving bill.
The railroad should pay, however, Its proportion of what It will cost to eliminate Garden street tcrossing and to build a new bridge at Woodland street if the railroad tracks were left" where they are now. THE DRINK EVIL DIES. Word came from IOndon last Friday that Lloyd George, chancellor of the, British exchequer, had come to an agreement with the representatives of the liquor trade in regard to the Drink evil, which Mr. Lloyd George had set forth a few weeks earlier as one of the three greatest enemies with which England had to contend at this time. It was on April 29 that Lloyd George brought before the House of Commons the government's proposals for checking this evil.
The plan proposed was to double the tax on spirits, quadruple the tax on wines, and place a graduated tax oh beers according to their alcoholic strength. The cable dispatch of last Friday, May 7. reported that the chancellor had agreed to drop all the new taxes In the form originally proposed by him. Evidently this leaves the Drink evil about where it was before Mr. Lloyd George discovered it.
The turning point in this episode of current English life was reached before last Friday, and indeed before the government proposals were made known on April 2S. It was on April 20 that Mr. Asquith made a speech at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Tyneslde, on the northeast coast of England, is a large field for the production of English munitions of war. If the Drink evil existed anywhere In the British Islands, in the portentous form given to it by Mr.
Lloyd George, it would surely be found In the large manufacturing district of which Newcastle is the political Nobody appears to know with what personal opinions the Prime Minister arrived at Newcastle; but that he was confronted with, soon after his arrival, was a general of resentment among the workmen of the district at being described as making an excessive and disabling use of in toxicating liquors. Mr. Asquith took heed of this public sentiment in his speech in the evening, saying, for one thing: I have seen a statement that the nnomtinns. not. onlv of our own army, but of our allies, were being crippled or hampered by our failure to provide the necessary ammunition.
There is not a word of truth in that state ment. This shows that he had seen Lloyd George's speech on the Drink evil, and had made up his mind not to stand bv it or anywhere near it "There la not a word of truth in that statement," Mr. Asquith said to the 3,000 aggrieved workingmen of the Tyntslde who had assembled to hear him. Again, he said this: It is not true or fair to suggest that there has been anything in the na-slackness in this branch of industry, on the part of either employers or empiojea. Then, as if anxious to account for the "statement" that had been made In the House of Commons, he said this: The urgency of the situation is due, first to the unprecedented scale rpon which ammunition is being expended, and to the shortage of skilled labor in the trades most closely concerned.
This left the Drink evil with scarcely a leg to stand on, so far as the pro duction of war material was con-cernedr The assembled workingmen rapturously applauded, and political peace was again re-established in the Tyneside. There is usually a background to such public proceedings as these, and the "London Daily Telegraph" of April 24 brought out the background lnthis instance. Its Parliamentary writer said this: There is a consensus of opinion that the Prime Minister, at Newcastle, hit the nail on the head wnen ne repudiated Mr. Lloyd George's suggestion that drink was crippling our supplies of munitions of war. Mr.
Asquith obviously believes that the deficiency Is caused by the immense scale upon which ammunition Is being expended at the front, and by the shortage of skilled labor in the trades most closely concerned. Thus the campaign against the national beverages is both unreal and unscrupulous. This was followed in the same column by the following: One of the most prominent distillers in the country yesterday made the following statement to a representative of the "Daily Telegraph "Drink has been proved not to be the cause of the delay in the output of munitions of war. Mr. Asquith'a speech at Newcastle was so framed as to leave out any reference to the allegation, after ascertaining what the.
