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a a a THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1914. Hartford Onurant Established 1764. Published by THE HARTFORD COURANT COMPANY Courant Building, Hartford, Conn. Cident Newspaper in America. Published Daily.

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TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. In the "Courier" of Blairsville, we find an editorial nominating United States Senator Boles Penrose for President. Does any one second the "Courier's" nomination? No second being heard, the nomination is withdrawn. Manufacturers, who in the Christmas rush order scores of thousands of the new "war" tax stamps and get a few thousand in return as "all there Is," are not among the advocates of 'he new fool legislation. They are fined if they send out their goods without the stamps that they cannot get.

One's interest in how the rule of neutrality. should be interpreted depends sometimes upon his sympathies as between the belligerents. If our friends, they reason, are unable to avail themselves of the certain markets, then we insist that those markets should be closed in the name of neutrality. Such a spirit, instead of being neutral, is essentially partisan. The tide of battle ebbs and flows more violently on the eastern than on the western front of the war.

First the Russians advance and recede, and then the Germans have their turn, followed by the Austrians in Galicia and Servia and then the Servians. Out of it all the Russians seem to have held a larger part of their gains than any of the others. They have taken Lemberg, invested Przemysl and are now knocking at the gates of Cracow. IMPORTANT IF TRUE. The "New York World," which has been one of the most savage critics of the "New Haven" road, announced yesterday that 1 it had ascertained that the interstate commerce commission is going to order the divorce of the steamboat lines of that country from the railroad.

The commission nas that power and so far all power in sight has been used to injure the property. It was one of the incomprehensible things that so fair and wise al man as President Taft should sign the Panama bill, which had this illogical provision pinned to its coattails. Just remember that the bill for the Panama Canal did have attached to it a provision that forbade any railroad anywhere in this country, no matter how far from Panama, from owning or operating any steamships. This raised so much protest that finally it was changed to carry the prohibition, but with a stipulation that the interstate commission might suspend the law and grant permission when it saw fit. In that shape it was signed and became law.

The "New Haven" people have demonstrated that their boats carry sort of freight that can be taken by water cheaper than by rail and that they land the freight down town just where shippers want to find it. Shippers were urgent for the retention of the ships by the railroad. Now, if the report of the "World" 'is correct, these protests and the appeals of the roads count for nothing and some outside element will be called on to buy up the boats. It had been assumed that the commerce commission would see this situation as it is and allow that the Sound steamers do not have thing to do with the Panama Canal. The indictment gun kicked, but that doesn't seem to count.

The real thing le to pound the road. It would be an interesting outcome if the deceasing Charles W. Morse, pitifully released from prison some years ago to die, should step in and teach the wicked railroad people how to do businass honestly. SOME BAD ADVICE. As a rule the "Meriden is earnest for the welfare of the people of its lively town.

But, for that very reason, 1 it is all the more astonishing to read in a recent issue of that excellent paper an appeal to Meriden folks to save 90 cents by abstaining from visiting Hartford! We beg to ask where more can be got for 90 cents (unless you subscribe tor the "Hartford than ticket for Hartford brings with It. Why, New Yorkers pay $4.80 for the same privilege and they keep coming. Meriden gets the privilege for about one -fifth what New York has to pay tor de end the "Journal" says: "Don't!" This certainly looks like an' unkind attempt to mislead the guileless people of Meriden and to cut them off from one of the choice opportunities of Connecticut. The old adage, "See Rome and die," has had its The more practical and up-to-date for it In, "See Hartford and buy." It's a great chance and readers of the "Journal" who accept the strange and misleading advice of that paper to stay away from here, will naturally take it Ill when they discover their mistake, and discover it they will, for, soon or late, everybody Hartford and it is better soon than late. Our advice.

is to come along and chuckle that you can get for less than $1 what New York has to pay almost $5. for. When you can get ahead of New York, it is a good plan to be up and doing. No time like the present, MAKING "MOUNTAIN DEW." As a contribution to the gaiety of the nations the "Boston Transcript" offers the following Hobson amendment prohibiting "the sale, manufacture for sale, transportation for sale, importation for sale and exportation for sale' of intoxicating liquors seems to leave a clear field to the resourceful moonshiner who makes his own mountain dew. Yet, the thought has a serious as well as a humorous side, and it suggests a phase of the liquor question.

that is probably not duly considered by those who are anxious to suppress the drinking of liquors containing alcohol. The resourcefulness of the moonshiner whom the "Transcript" thus calls to the witness stand does not consist of his ability to make "mountain dew," but rather in his er ability to dispose of it at a profit. It is easy to produce alcohol, because there are many grains, berries and vegetables that will provide the base. Fermentation and distillation are simple processes. Every wants an alcoholic stimulant may be his' own distiller, and the desire for stimulants will not die with the enactment of laws providing against their transportation and sale.

Those who want alcohol can find a way to get it, even though they have to make it themselves. HALE'S RETURN. It. does, indeed, as George Dudley Seymour said, "add zest and romance to the work of the historical student" to find such an account of Nathan Hale as was written by Captain Bostwick and published in yesterday's "Courant." Captain Bostwick wrote about this gallant son of Connecticut fifty years after the latter's noble death, and what he wrote remained in dusty and fragile and total obscurity for elghty-eight years longer. That makes a stretch of 138 8 years between the acquaintance that gave birth to the recollections and the public knowledge that such recollections existed.

But these things of the mind do not gather wrinkles or totter on their legs as they grow older. This old document is as fresh and vivid as if it were written yesterday. It even goes back further than the date when Captain Bostwick penned it. It is as clear cut and sharp in its presentation of young Hale as if it had been written during the very days when Hale kicked the football over the trees of the old New York Bowery or turned his masterly hand to making a quill pen. He was of the Puritan strain, too.

When he found some of his men playing cards he did not content himself with saying, "that won't do." He took the cards and "chop'd them to pieces," thus helping out the prayer about not leading us into temptation by destroy. ing this particular temptation on the spot. That was the Puritan way. What they believed in they did their best to help along, and they had no hesitation about it. This was the secret of Hale's famous wish that he might have had more than one life to give for his country.

He had thought that all out long before, and theretore was ready. So the young man comes before us in these old lines as vigorous and undaunted as on the day when the British hanged him. It was all in the day's work. Young men are doing the same thing in Europe today and with the same belief in their duty. One of them was shot the other day in the Tower of London, that old hunting place of personal tragedies.

But he was not hanged, as Hale was in the golden September days of 1776-thus showing that war manners do improve with time. He sat on a bench, with breast uncovered, and looked into the faces of the firing squad with tranquil eyes. He got a soldier's death because even his 'enemies saw that he was honest and unafraid. Hale did not get a soldier's death, but, as we have suggested, war is less barbarous now. Hale did not pull back from death even when it faced him in its meanest form.

He knew that that also was in his day's work. As they say in these days of figures of speech, he knew how to take his medicine. So out of this old and forgotten manuscript the young captain steps again in his immortal youth. He stands just over yonder, with blue eyes and light hair cut short, with straight legs regular features, of a good height and with well-set shoulders- personable and solid young man, with a body fit for the sports of youth and for the length of days required by old age. This is the outside of him.

But who can suggest all the thoughts Inside of him those thoughts that make the man or leave him unmade? When Washington, after the retreat from Long Island, asked for a discreet officer to go inside the British lines in order to find out for him what was going on there, Hale volunteered for this service, It was not a service of glory, truly, as military glory is reckoned in the dispatches, but it was service of necessity, Washington must see for himself and he could only see through the eyes of another. Hale thus went on his dangerous--there those today who call it disgracefulmission. But military necessity knows nothing of what in glibly, labelled dangerous or disgraceful. a thing has done, in war, it has to be done, and some brave and capable soul has to do it. There is no other way, less the thing is to be left undone; and neither Washington nor any other man who cares for his cause would permit those hard things to be left undone simply because they were hard.

War is not for the dodgers, but for those who dare to do when doing is a duty and a danger. Washington therefore tooked into Hale's clear blue eyes and said, "You go." Hale's thoughts were straight and sound when he went, and they were straight and sound when he was swung off at the rope's end. The dying was as much a part of his day's work as the rest of it, and being a young man of sense and sobriety and piety he knew it. To know it, to be ready for it, to be the master of that constant risk, was as much a part of his fitness as the clear eyes and stable judgment which persuaded Washington to send him. Thus young Hale died tranquilly for duty's sake, and for Washington's sake, and for this country's sake; and it is thus that he lives in his buoyant and immortal youth, just as he steps out of this old manuscript.

He is one of the fortunate few who do not die. The school teachers and the history books say that he is dead, but that is a mere form of words. When Sir William Howe ordered him to be strung up he no doubt meant to make an end of the young American captain, but in fact he made the beginning of him. From that moment young Hale passed from an engaging and capable personality into an enduring national symbol. It is that change that gives to this old manuscript its value and its charm; for it shows us the young man as he was when he went about among men on this earth, not knowing that a hundred millions of people would welcome him again a hundred years later as a living example and symbol of patriotic duty fully performed.

THE ISER AND THE YSER. There is Yser and there is Iser. We have read much lately about the River Yser in Belgium, on both banks of which there has been heavy fighting. Whenever the name of the river has appeared in print it has recalled Campbell's brief but stirring poem, which tells of the River Iser, and some readers, forgetting their history and geography, have if in both cases the same referred wondered, to. Some years back: Campbell's "Hohenlinden" was a favorite poem for declamation in the schools, and it adorned many of the school readers.

Its first stanza goes like Linden, when sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly, The rythmic flow of the words make the poem easy to. commit to memory, which explains why it was frequently selected for declamation. The River Iser, of which Campbell wrote, is in Bavaria and is a. branch of the upper Rhine. On Its banks was fought the battle of Hohenlinden, when the combined French and Bavarian armies defeated the Austrians.

Then the French and Bavarians were allies. In the fighting about the River Yser they are enemies. Having withdrawn from the advantageous and strategical position at Vera Cruz which our peaceful Invasion of Mexico gave it, our army will now proceed to make another invasion by way of Naco. The advantage of this change in the plan of campaign is that it will tend to widen our knowledge of geography. After our soldiers and sallors took possession of Vera Cruz we had to look up that city on the map and study its environs.

Now we shall have to go through the same tedious process with regard to Naco. Thus does this intellectual administration become the disseminator of knowledge, and the promoter of culture. Thanks. "Former State Senator Spellacy and former State Senator Halloran are said to be the respective choices for postmaster for. Hartford and New Britain.

Congressman. Lonergan is expected to send these two names into the Senate for confirmation, shortly after the holidays," says the "Bridgeport Telegram." Perhaps it is not essential, but we suggest that, in the interest of courtesy, Mr. Lonergan! let the President send these names to the Senate. Rev. George, Chalmers Richmond, the erratic Philadelphia, rector just ordered.

before a church court for trial, has been hunting trouble for some years past and with, chips on both shoulders, He was at it in Bishop Mackay-Smith's time, and he has borne himself discourteously, insubordinately and defiantly toward Bishop Rhinelander. We shall see what happens now. Inclusive Prayers. John Wheelock, the second president of Dartmouth College, was a most spectacular character, according to recollections in the "Story of mouth." lacked culture, and in his writwas turgid and almost illiterate. Lord relates that his prayers at chapel were marvels of grotesque taste.

Having one day chanced to attend some experiments in the chemistry of. gases, he thanked the Lord in his next chapel prayer for the elements in detail: Thee, Lord, for, the oxygen gas; we thank Thee, Lord, for the hydrogen gas; we thank Thee, Lord for the nitrogen gas, and for all the another time he was impressed in the same way by the wonders of anatomy and expressed his gratitude in like form 'for the cerebrum, the cerebellum and for the medulla What Killed the Turkey? Henry Watterson, the Louisville journalist, told this story at a recent dinner day when I was the city editor of a small newspaper, a fine turkey was left at the office. We all hankered after the bird, but the editor finally claimed it, took it home and had cooked for dinner. The next day letter was handed in to him which ho opened and Editor: -I sent you a turkey yesterday which had been the cause of much dispute among us. To settle bet, will you please state.

in tomorrow's issue what the turkey died -Pathfinder. A Limit to Friendship "Say, Brinson, you'll take Smithers home, won't you? You see he's in no condition to get there alone. You live just around the corner. Lean him up against his door and ring the the bell." "Not me. You'll have to find somebody "What's the matter with you? You know "Yes, I know Smithers, And you bet your life I know his Clevejand Plain Dealer.

Who's the likelier to understand the navy and its needs George Dewey, the admiral, or Josephus Daniels, the editor? NOTE AND COMMENT. Mr. Beecher died a long time ago, but Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has 2,458 members on its roll, and it acquired thirty of them this year. As a tale told out of school, Congressman Hobson's story of the "alerte" at Manila last year certainly has the merit of being interesting. The times seem to be nearly or quite ripe now for another poem on "awfully arrayed" Austrian armies and the much-enduring city of Belgrade.

Arthur Brisbane, now reported seriously ill in Atlanta, is the dean of the Hearst editorial writers and is commonly believed to draw the fattest newspaper salary in America. Concerning one of the strange insects he saw in the Brazilian jungle the Colonel reports that "resembled a katydid but made a noise like a steamboat whistle." Credible reports come from Washington that "lame ducks" of the House the democratic members who were not re-elected last monthseem disposed to blame President Wilson for their political misfortunes. It was a matter of course that the mighty youth of Washington and Jetferson College would get the chance to wipe up the earth again with the Yale football team next year, if they can. Presumably it's a mere "happen so" that the game is to be played on the anniversary. Lafayette College's president-elect, Dr.

J. H. MacCracken, is Chancellor Henry M. MacCracken's son and a fine example of heredity. He was the most brilliant of his college class, and his record as educator administrator is credit post to Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon.

The notice served on Dr. Wilson, Monday afternoon that he must not attempt to make appointments to Fedcral offices in the states over the heads of the senators immediately concerned lacked nothing either in clearness or In emphasis. It's to be presumed that he knows danger signals when he sees them. It's an uncommonly good wind that blows nobody ill. In his story of the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange the "Sun's" Wall Street reporter says: "There was only one spot in the street that did not share the general happiness.

gutter market was wiped out. Where a month ago a busy crowd of mushroom traders were busily making fair sized fortunes, five men, a boy and a stand marked the end of that institution. From London a correspondent writes: "'The metropolis is shortening its evenings, while the season continues to lengthen them, Shopping and theater-going will soon occupy after-, noons, for the 'lights out' order is fecting all classes. Two of the West End theaters, His Majesty's and the Criterion, have already dropped evening performances, save twice a week, and present plays after lunch; more theaters are likely to follow their example. As things are now, with London in a state of cimmerian darkness of an evening, a visit to the play for residents in Suburbia has become a somewhat risky adventure." The "New York Sun" ran a freebread depot last winter and is going to repeat that humane and publicspirited service the coming winter.

In two months nearly 60,000 loaves were given away- -nearly 2,000 a day. "'The depot," says the newspaper, "was open 2 o'clock 4:30 in the afternoon. This was to prevent men with jobs from calling. The new bread depot at 9 First street will be open between the same hours for same reason. Last winter some of the city's charitable organizations kept trained investigators at the depot dally.

used it as a sort of clearing through which they located deserving families in need of help. In this way aid and work were given to hundreds. There were many cases found of children and women who did not have enough clothing to keep them warm." JOHN T. BRADSHAW DIES SUDDENLY Well Known in Willimantic and Eastern Part of State. (Special to The Courant.) Willimantic, Dec.

15. John T. Bradshaw, a well known resident of this city, and well known throughout the eastern part of Connecticut because of his business relations, died suddenly at his home. No. 66 Spring street, at.

10 o'clock tonight from a hemorrhage. He was a traveling salesman. for George M. Harrinton, wholesale grocer, of this city. For over a quarter of a century he was a traveling salesman for Stiles Harrington, and later for Mr.

Harrington. He visited nearly all the eastern part of the state. Mr. Bradshaw served for many years as a member of the Willimantic fire department, being an active member of Alert Hose Company. He was also for four years foreman of that company and for a number of years served on the board of fire engineers.

He was a native of Baltic, town of Sprague, this state, and was born January 7, 1861. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Josie Sheehan of this city, and by that mar. riage he leaves one daughter, Miss Helen Agnes Bradshaw of this city. His second wife was Miss Jennie Hooker, adopted of Mr.

and Mra. 8. C. Hooker of this city. By that marriage he leaves a daughter, Miss Bessie Alice Bradshaw.

He also leaves a brother, Arthur Bradshaw, who is located in California, and two sisters, Mrs. Maria Richmond of Weterbury and Miss Helen Bradshaw of Norwich. Mr. Bradshaw freternally was a member of Natchaug Lodge, No. 22.

K. of of this city. His sudden death came an a great shock to his family and to those of his friends who heard of it tonight. Two Speedy Girls. (Augusta Kennebee Journal,) Myer Mineberg of the Livermore Falls Glove Company believes that two French Canadian girls employed in their factory have Just established a world's record for speed in making cotton gloves.

In two days of nine hours each they each averaged to make better than thirty pairs of gloves per hour, or one glove in less than a minute. of course the gloves came to their tables all cut out even to the wristbands and they simply had to stitch them. Every glove passed a rigid inspection as it left the table. good-natured man." said Uncle Eben. "ain't intitled to much credit if de only reason he don't worry is dat he's too lazy to keer whut happens." -Washington Star.

MUST DEPENO ON COLLEGE CAMPS General Wood Urges Training of Boys to Be Officers of Volunteers. STAFF'S PLAN FOR CITIZEN ARMY Militia and Reserve Should Be Controlled By Federal Government, New York, Dec. Organization of a dependable volunteer army through college camps, federal control of the militia, increase in the regular army, and provision for adequate armament are the essentials for meeting the sudden attack of any hostile power upon United States, the members of the Merchants' Association of New York were told today by Major General Leonard Wood and Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of war. It is not a large army, but a fully efficient army that is needed, General Wood stated; and in filling this need, the college camps must play an important part in training volunteer officers, for it is upon the volunteer army that the country must ultimately depend.

d. The plan of the general staff to bring the army forces up to 000 is only a stop gap, he continued, while the full citizen army is being organized. "You might as well, under modern war conditions, try to organize a big reserve without previous preparation, as to try to organize a life-saving service on a shipwrecked vessel that is going to pieces," said General Wood. "To bring our force up to 500,000, we shall have to have 12,000 officers. For this purpose we must have college camps, such as existed last year at Gettysburg and Monterey.

This year we shall probably have 2,000 boys in four of these camps. "The boys made a better record last year- and this shows what you can do with intelligent men in a short timethan was made by the best company of the Fifth regular infantry for the same ranges. They made over 60 per cent. of marksmen. At the end of the five weeks' training period a board of our own officers examined these youngsters and recommended 129 of them as fit for volunteer officers in the lower grades.

"Now, this is the kind of system I think can be this country. I hope that eventually it will grow into a general movement, embodying say a six-months' enlistment, broken into periods of two months each, to be taken during the economic and educational vacation, so as to interfere as little as possible with the work of the young men who are in business and the educational work of the boys who are in college. "I think, if we can that, there will be developed a large number of trained youngsters as officers of volunteers, and a still larger number of trained men to form a nucleus of volunteer companies, in case we are 80 unfortunate as to become involved in war. Some such method as that must be adopted because when the war comes, it will come suddenly, and unless we are the aggressor- -which is highly improbable it will come from one who is wholly prepared and who knows when he is coming and where he is coming." The principal sources for officers, aside from the new college camps, the general said, were three -a few hundred qualifled non-commissioned officers, a very few men who have qualified through era examinations held by the dar department, and "the graduates of the so-called military schools -some of them good, some of them very poor." The militia and the reserve, in General Wood's opinion, should be controlled by the federal government rather than by the states. "The states probably say that the militia at strength is strong peril, enough for peace," he said.

"If you were to have war, that would be something for the federal government to provide for to take care of the great volunteer army on which we must ultimately depend "Business men must make the milltia," he continued, "and not, as in the past, be prejudiced against those who devote two or three weeks a year to militia work." The regular army is far from anxlous for war, said the speaker. "Men dealing in high explosives are not those who like to be blown up by experimental bombs," he added, "and soldiers, who are the first ones to go to war, are about the most conservative men with reference to starting war. I often think that if we had in this country what they have in other countries- a compulsory training of all men- there would be much less idle talk of war. If all the men of a certain age knew they were the men to go first, they would be about as conservative an element as you would find in the population." Ex-Secretary Stimson urged the training of citizens in the use of arms, the provision of adequate equipment for the army, and more efficient expenditure of the money now being spent on the army and navy. Mayor Mitchel, in a brief address, asserted that as a means to the efficient operation of the navy in time of war, as well as from a commercial viewpoint, the army board's project for the deepening of the East River should be favorably acted upon by the present Congress, as the dangerous reefs now existing virtually prevented the use of the river by the navy as an outlet to Long Island Sound.

Finding the Heiress. The Argonaut. Mahomet and the Mountain. The London consul of a continental kingdom was informed his government that one of his countrywomen, supposed to be living in Britain, had been left a large fortune. After advertising without result, he applied to the police and a clever young detective was set to work.

A few weeks later his chief asked how he was wetting on. "I've found the lady, sir." "Good! Where 18 she?" my place. married her yesterday." "Yes, I've got a big job on hand. Going to move my summer hotel across the south meadow to the lower road." "Gracious! Why, that's awful. What do you do such a foolish thing for "It ain't foolish.

The fellers that make the routes for the automobile tourists fixed up a new map and picked the lower road. That left me high an' dry, But there's one satisfaction." that?" "Mebby they'll change their minds nex' season an' can move back, Cleveland Plain Dealer. CONTESTING WILL OF HER GRANDMOTHER Miss Constance Newton of Hartford Testifies Before Surrogate, Constance Seabury Newton of No. 13 Summer street, this city, is one of the contestants in a fight now in progress in New York to prevent the filing of the will of her grandmother, Newton, hearings are being held before Surrogate John P. Cohalan.

Mrs. Newton left her estate to her daughter, Mary Newton of New York and after the will was filed for proa son; Constance Seabury Newton of bate, Victor M. de Newton of New York, Hartford and John G. Newton, another grandchild, filed papers in 3 contest. They charge the residuary legatee with obtaining the execution of the will fraud.

The Hartford contestant was one of the witnesses yesterday. She told how her heard, Mary Newton, had defamed her and other family, It is said memberstade involved amounts to about $60,000. CATTLE EPIDEMIC HAS COST $23,000 Board of Control Adds This Amount to Commissioner's. Account. expenses to date of the state in fighting the foot and mouth SO far as they have been estimated, have been $23,000.

This became known yesterday when the board of control, at its meeting in the Capitol, added that sum to the appropriation of Commissioner on Domestic Animals Jeffrey O. Phelps, to meet the expenses of the state in the campaign. This amount covers the damages paid to farmers whose cattle have been destroyed, also the cost of killing and burying the animals and the expenses of the dozen or more veterinarians who have been employed by the state intermittently to assist the commissioner and Deputy Frank A. Ingram. It probably also covers a part of the cost of the subsequent inspections made by the state and federal men of herds in infected districts, which occupies their attention now.

Dr. J. A. Kiernan declared last night that Connecticut had been fortunate in escaping from the epidemic with so small a cost, and pointed out what the cost had been to the United States government SO far, which was estimated by the bureau of animal industry a week ago to be nearly 000. Massachusetts alone has spent more than $200,000 to date, and the disease has only been eradicated on one side of the Connecticut River, in that state.

The inspection of herds in the districts where infected animals have been found and destroyed went on yesterday, the agents working in West Hartford, East Hartford, Scantic and Windsor. West Hartford and East Hartford will be the principal points of activity today, and the agents will begin on the New Haven herds in a few days. STORM DAMAGES TELEPHONE LINES Will Take Two or Three Months to Make Permanent Repairs. The extent of the damage done to the plant of the Southern New England Telephone Company by the recent storm and the conditions that will exist until permanent repairs have been made was explained yesterday in a statement made by the company's Hartford manager, John H. Hurlburt.

His statement was as to the more clement weather of the last few days, the feld forces of the company were able thia morning to begin the tremendous task of making permanent repairs to the toll plant of the state; a piece of work that will require not less than eight weeks and may stretch out into three months. "The enormity of the work will be realized from the fact that approximately 1,200 poles and more than 000 miles of wire went down in three days under the ice and high wind and hundreds of falling trees. Except in putting the 2,000 subscribers' telephones that were out of service back in order, the repairs that were made last week were necessarily temporary, the company's one idea being to restore communication as quickly A8 possible. "In spite of the fact that 1,200 men are at work, it is obvious that it will require time to restore this service to normal conditions. Since the heaviest blow fell on the toll line system, its effect must be felt all over the state from some time to come, even in those portions where the damage wag not apparent.

The service, however, will be infinitely better than during the storm period and will improve as the permanent work is rushed towards completion, "The company wishes to voice, through the press, its appreciation of the patience and consideration of its patrons the unavoidably trying service conditions brought on by the storm." NURSE INDICTED FOR MURDER OF BREWER Mine Burgemelster Says She Killed Koehler In Self-Defense. San Antonio, Dee. Hedda Burgemeister, a trained nurse was indicted today on the charge of murdering Otto Koehler, millionaire president of the San Antonio Brewing Association, here on November 21. Koehler was shot while in Miss Burgemeister's, home. She wan found kneeling beside him hysterical and bleeding from a gash in her left wrist.

She said she fired in melt -defense. Bequest To Harvard, Barnstable, Dee. College 18 named as the principal legatee in the will of J. Arthur Beebe. A Boston merchtn.

which was filed here today. The estate is valued at several million dollars. The Harvard Club of Boston Reta $160.000 for build. In extension, and Trinity Church, BoRtop, gets $25,000. Named Deputy Commissioner.

Washington, Dee, 15-David A Gates of Arkansas City, was appointed today deputy commissioner of Internal revenue by Secretary MeAdoo, succeedIns Robert Williams, Jr. who died several dava ago. Mr. Gates now in Internal revenue agent tor Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. COMMISSION MEETS IN EAST HARTFORD Will Charge Schools for Water By Meter Rate.

SEVERAL SOCIETIES ELECT OFFICERS Relief Corps Entertains Notes of the Town. (Special to The Courant.) E. HARTFORD, Wednesday, Dec. 15. The board of commissioners of the East Hartford Fire District met in Wells Hall last evening.

Frank S. Forbes appeared to protest against the tardyness of the garbage collection, saying that the a garbage had not been collected but twice in one month. Several other complaints had been made to the commissioners. The clerk was directed to notify the collectors, Pannone and Galluly, that their contract must be carried out at once. The superintendent of water reported that the schools of the town were using a much larger amount of water than they were paying for, as he had installed meters on seven of the largest school buildings in town, total of 1,800 pupils, and the consumption was 51,000 gallons a day, or little over twentyeight gallons a day for each child.

It was voted to notify the town, school committee that after January meter rates will be charged for water used in all school buildings having more than two rooms. The fire committee reported that the new automobile hose wagon will be ready by the first of the year and will be installed in No. 2 hose house. Several men will be instructed in driving the apparatus. Gala Night For W.

R. C. D. C. Rodman's Woman's Relief Corps held a reception for the department officers in Grand Army Hall last evening.

Supper was served at 6:30 o'clock, at which time nearly 100 members and friends were served. Among the guests were Department President Mrs. Alice Whitehead of Hartford, Department Secretary Mrs. Gertrude Westervelt of Hartford, Department Treasurer Mrs. Florence L.

D. Hayden of New Haven, Department Inspector Mrs. Rose E. May of Meriden; Patriotic Inspector Mrs. Katherine Carrier of Middletown, Instituting Officer Mrs.

Anna Alpress of Bristol; Past Department President, Mrs. Carrie A. House of Hartford, and Mrs. Laura Sanders, matron of the W. R.

C. Home at Cromwell. Members of D. C. Rodman Post, G.

A. the Sons of Veterans and the D. C. Rodman Drum Corps were present. Fire In Meadow District.

In response to an alarm from Box 124, Center Hose Company No. 1 and Volunteer Hose Company No. 2 went to Prospect street and Connecticut Boulevard createrdad morning shortly after 7 found a fire in Meadow district, already under control. In the meantime, members Aetna Hose Company, No. 4.

which is located in the Meadow district, had turned out with their new apparatus. Such good confined work to was the done partitions that the Are of M. H. Kearns's house at No. 14 P'leasant street.

The damage was estimated to be about $200. Girls Elect Officers. The junior auxiliary of St. John's Church had its annual meeting in the parish house Monday afternoon. The following officers were Foley.

Vice-President- Grace Root. Secretary--Olga Ericson. Treasurer--Gladys Childs. Box Work Secretaries- Laura Driscoll and Clara Gage. Pythian Club Elects.

The Pythian Club elected the tollowing officers at its meeting last President--Arthur B. Beers. Vice-President-David L. Rigby, Jr. Secretary--Raymond Van Gasbeck.

Financial Secretary--Harold E. Saunders. Treasurer Eugene H. Merriman. Trustees -W.

O. Fenner, J. Arthur Wells and George E. Stanton. Notes.

The Senior Guild of St. John's Church has elected the following officers for the coming year: President, Arthur L. Benjamin; vice-president, Warren Hayden; secretary, William Boysen; treasurer, Albert C. Saunders. A daughter, Virginia Harriet, has been born to Mr.

and Mrs. H. H. Woodward of No. 30 Governor street.

The trial of John Jensen, accused of stealing ice tools valued at $300, will be held this morning in the town court. The Wunnegen Campfire Girls will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock. A son, Waldo Robert Hills, WAS yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Waldo morn R.

Hills of Baltimore, formerly of this town. The Sunday school of the First Congregational Church will hold its nual meeting tomorrow evening. INCREASE IS SHOWN IN ENROLMENT OF CHILDREN That the number of school children in Waterbury had decreased by 1,490 during the last year would appear from the figures furnished Comptroller Daniel P. Dunn under the state law requiring the towns to furnish a statement showing the number of children of school age on or before December 5 of each year in order that the entmeration grant of $2.26 for each child may be computed. The announcement of this startling decrease in the children of Waterbury would be more appalling were it not apparent that the lists in the past have been very thoroughly padded.

So far, all but twenty of the towns have sent in their lists, Until they are all in it is impossible to give the amount which the state will pay thin year on the enumeration. From the figures now on file, however, it Is estimated that the number of children this year, in spite of the apparent slaughter of the innocents In Water. bury, will be from 5,000 to 7.000 more than last year. Assuming that there will be 7.000 more, the enumeration grant should approximate $630,000. The number of children on the Hartford lint this year in larger than last by 345, on the Bridgeport list larger by 1,343, New Haven larger by 279, New Britain larger by 718, and Ansonia larger by 200.

New Haven will receive the largest grant, amounting to $71,761.50. Bridgeport will receive Hartford $56,026 and New Britain.