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THE HARTFORD DAILY COUILYXT THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900. Success! Ihc Jiaftfof Ccntfant Triumph sage we must pass by. We notice that Theodore Roosevelt thinks (quite correctly) there's a great deal too much lawmaking in this country, and that he has been governor long enough to observe "the steady tendency to Increase expense beyond the limit that can be afforded by the taxpayers." The large holiday trade in NEWBY EVANS and LOOSCHEN CO'S Kanos at LUDLOW BARKER CO 'S demonstrated the fact of their superiority over all other Medium Triced Kanos, for Tone, Action and Durability. The masses seek a good, reliable, medium priced piano, anJ must have it. The public feels confidence in the house of LUDLOW BARKER CO.

and has proved it bv a liberal patronage. The are greatly depleted by these sales, but there are Fine Instruments Left to select from, and More Are On the Way; due notice will be given of their arrival. TO CLEAN OUT our stock of MANDOLINS, GUITARS, VIOLINS and BANJOS, we will sell them at cost for the NEXT TEN DAYS. Don't forget to leave your orders for Tuning. MYSTIC SHRINERS.

The Imporlal Potentate -es Sphlux Temple Initiate. Imperial Potentate John H. Atwood of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, came to this city yesterday and last night attended the session of Sphinx Temple, of the oasis of Hartford and the desert of Connecticut. The imperial potentate comes from Leavenworth, and this was the first time that the highest official of the order has visited the temple In this city. The officers of the temple entertained Mr.

Atwood at dinner at the Allyn House early in the evening. A number of candidates were initiated a Foot Guard Hall at night. About 600 Shriners were present, one of the largest gatherings In the history of the temple. The potentates of the temples in Providence, Springfield and Bridgeport were present, as well as Shriners from various sections of the state, the Sphinx Temple band, a double quartet and the Arab patrol took part in the ceremonies. After the Initiation supper was served in the hall in the basement and there was an address by the imperial potentate.

Mr. Atwood will visit the temple in Springfield to-night. The following is the list of candidates initiated last night: Orville N. Beebe of Essex, Charles M. Brooks of Waterbury, W.

F. Coe of Winsted, II. W. Fox of Hartford, T. W.

Laiman of Hartford, George L. Nichols of Stafford Springs, Charles F. Beck-wlth of Stafford Springs, Matthew E. Coughlin of Henry C. Ether-Ington of Hartford, Oswald J.

Signor, of East Hartford, Alfred H. Saxton of Windsor Locks, Arthur P. Saxton of Windsor Locks, George Klett of New Britain, Wilbur T. Halliday of Hartford, Russell H. Whitaker of Hartford, Henry F.

Smith of Hartford, William H. Allen of Norwich, Harry S. Abell of Stafford Springs, E. F. Bugbee of Willimantic, J.

T. Baker of Willl-mantic, J. M. Gardner of Middletown, K. G.

Hatheway of Willimantic, S. W. Kellogg of Waterbury, George A. Lath-rop of Norwich, C. D.

Noyes of Norwich, N. M. Parker of Putnam, H. Schaefer of Hartford, E. F.

Tomlinson of Plainvllle, Charles C. Hurlbut of Middletown, Charles A. Rennacker of Hartford, John F. Garrette of Hartford, John S. Donaldson of Waterbury, Albert A.

Francis of Hartford, H. H. Burnham of Putnam, George I Glazier of Waterbury, Charles C. Maslen of Ludlow Barker Co. 153-155 Asylum Street REPUBLICANS SIT.

Four len Constituted the noard of Kellef Yesterday. The two republican members of tha board of relief about whose title to the position there is no question, sat with the two democrats yesterday. They took part in the proceedings, in that respect acting with the two democrats who have not been elected by concurrent vote and several appeals from the assessment of the assessors were tiled. The two republicans, Messrs. HawtinKS and McFadyen have been sworn in but they have not yet recognized the democrats, Messrs.

Collins and Spel-lacy, to the extent of effecting an organization of the board. No president or clerk has been elected but Mr. Collins is performing most of the clerical work of the board. It was rumored yesterday that the deadlock between the two boards of the common council in the matter of the election of the democratic members of the board vvoulS be ended at the meeting of the common council next Monday night. Itemlnlsconee- by Colonel Clark.

After the usual weekly drill of Company last night Colonel E. P. Clark, of the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, which was in the thick of the fight at El Caney, gave an lnterestlnM talk on the experiences of his regiment in Cuba. He graphically described the landing at Santiago and the battle. He said that all the other regiments were supplied with modern up-to-date rides and used smokeless powder, but the command used the old Springfield gun witli black powder.

As soon as the command was given to lire, the result of using black powder as quickly seen. The other regiments, after shooting off their guns, left no signs whatever, but when the Second Massachusetts shot the smoke curled up and made a target for the Spaniards. The only thing that saved the regiment from annihilation was the poor marksmanship of the Spaniards. OfHcars Elected. The stockholders of the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company met at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and reelected the old board of directors to serve for the ensuing year, as follows; Henry C.

Kobinson, Alfred Burr, John R. Redfield. Franklin G. Whit-more, Thomas W. Kussell, John I).

Browne, Dnniel R. Howe, Henry P. Stearns and John M. Holcombe. At a subsequent meeting of the directors, officers were elected as follows: President, John 13.

Browne; secretary, Charles It. Burt; assistant secretary, L. W. Clarke. Arrested for Theft.

John Valencnurt was arrested last night for theft. Some time ago he bought a coat of J. A. Lapland for and paid $4.50. Lapland would not give him the coat until the other dollar was paid.

It was said that Valencourt went to Lapland's shop and took a coat better than the one he had bought. It was recovered by the police. of the several states. "As one step toward attaining the end," he has said, "courses of Instruction In the college should be open to officers of the National Guard of the states, and the efficiency records of such officers in the college, and by written papers and reports after their terms of Instruction have ended, should be made a part of the records of the war department as the authorized and accepted basis of appointments to office In any volunteer force which may be raised." There's a modern proverb we don't know which of the modern Solomons coined it that Fays: Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed. We expect nothing, in this matter, from the Fifty-Sixth Congress.

In all probability it will go the way of Its negligent predecessors. More's the pity, though, if it does. Some day, sooner or later, some Congress of the United States will use the power confided to it by the Constitution. It will organize the militia as nearly on the lines of the regular army as the conditions permit. It will arm the na tional guardsmen of all the states with the rifle used by the regulars.

It will prescribe a discipline for them so like the army discipline as to make transition from one to the other easy. It will see to It that their military education, just as far as It goes, is the real thing and no sham. It will provide for the Instruction of the seaboard state artillerymen in the handling of the big, high-power guns of the coast de fenses. It will provide, as Secretary Root suggests, for the passage of Na tional Guard officers through the War College. And the legislation of that sensible coming Congress will ring down the curtain, for good and all, on the era of fancy uniforms, slack drill, high-Jinks camps, and play-soldlering generally.

The guardsmen will have their fun stiii, and plenty of it; but they will attend seriously to their serious work, and. when the country needs trained soldiers outside the regular I army, the trained soldiers will be ready. MAYOR HART'S INAUGURAL- Ten years have elapsed since Thomas N. Hart was mayor of Boston. On Monday he became mayor again, suc ceeding Josiah Qulncy.

The Boston papers say that Mayor Hart appeared very happy as he took up the reins of office. The retiring mayor, who has something of a reputation for frigidity, is described as being "cool and collected" during the Inaugural exercises. Mr. Hart's Joy occasioned some comment, but Mr. Quincy's demeanor was only noted, not remarked upon.

It was hat Boston expected. Mr. Hart's Inaugural address was brief, but he managed to say, a good deal in it. He did not refer particularly to municipal bath-houses, and gymnasia, and certain other projects dear to the heart of Mr. Qulncy, but at least one of his utterances was in line with Mr.

Quincy's efforts to make Boston's city government more "paternal." This utterance was in regard to the advisability of establishing a general lenslon system for city employees, "if the right men can be found," says Mr. Hart, "a careful inquiry into the pension system of the fire and police departments will be made, with a view to its larger application among city employees." He thinks that a number of railroads have set a good example in this respect. The object to be attained is "the prevention of pauperism among, worthy city employees, when they are disabled in the course of their duty, or retire on account of age." He suggests a system of compulsory Insurance, employees contributing a fraction of their wages, and the city making a suitable addition, the entire fund to be invested In city bonds and like securities. He continues: Nor should the city lose under such a svstem, which will facilitate the retirement of the aged and the feeble, some of whom are now kept for reasons of charity. At present the city has more than twelve thousand persons on its payroll, the wages and salaries average high, and under a good pension system, now partly in force, it is reasonable to expect a better order of service.

The city council might appoint a committee on pensions, report what the city is now doing in that line, make lnquiry elsewhere, and invite Information from insurance men as well as others, with a view to future action. Mayor Hart congratulates the city council on the increase of its power in the matter of appropriations, but he has a word of warning In this connection. "The wisest possible use should be made of this power," he says, "lest It be taken away, perhaps for good." He pays some attention to Boston's harbor that which "makes Boston a great city." Harbor improvements are In hand; they "call for the active interest and hearty support of the commercial community, and the city government, as well as the commonwealth." He sees the necessity for street improvements and he recognizes that a new "treatment" of Tremont street is manl festly favored by public opinion. Ho thinks that It may be well for a com mission to go over the whole Bubject of city architecture, and to work out a large plan for It. He approves of de centralization-rather than of the plan of crowding all the city offices Into one building.

Central offices are, of course, needed, but he thinks It also advisable to have municipal buildings In various sections of the city. "Express and telegraph companies," he says, "have as many offices as possible; we have many postal stations where people can transact business without going to the main office; the police and fire departments sViw the right method; eo do our minor courts, which are scattered over the city." Mayor Hart states that the administration of the eight-hour law will be undertaken in good faith. An effort will be made at the same time, he says, to place as large a force as possible on a permanent basis, that Is, keeping them employed all the year round. He will discontinue the "wanton hire and discharge of labor and teams at certain seasons," and he promises a compliance with the civil service law, both In letter and spirit. He thinks that the city council should join in the effort to consolidate the city charter and the many suUDlomentary laws, by the appoint ment of a committee on codification.

His policy In regard to expenditures is Indicated by his statement that, before any new work of Importance Is undertaken, it will be well to ascertain what the city owes, directly and indirectly. The inaugural promises a businesslike, straight-forward administration. There will be special interest in any developments following Mr. Hart's suggestion relating to a general pensioning of city employees. A LIVELY RAILROAD FIGHT.

The Chicago police took possession, Tuesday, of the entire line of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company in that city. This act was preceded by an exciting Btruggle, in which a Northwestern train and the authorities figured. A dispatch to the "New York Times" tells the story. The trouble resulted from refusal of the company to obey an order of Chicago's commissioner of public works, Lawrence E. JlcGann.

Mr. McGann claims that the company's structure is unsafe, and moreover that it does not come within the requirements of the ordinance which calls for its completion by January 1, under a penalty of $100,000. So he told the company to stop the running of trains. On Tuesday one of the company's trains, known as the ghost train, was about to leave the suburban terminal at Wilson avenue for the ciy, when the police arrested the train crew. Another crew and some of the officials of the road were on hand, and the train was manned again before the police realized It.

When the police saw the train start, a telephone message was sent to Intercept it at Lake street In the business district. When the train pulled over the Wells street bridge, across the Chicago river, on the Union Loop tracks, it met twenty-five officers who were waiting to board It. Hut it did not wait for them. Another bridge over which the train was to pass was swung open, but an accident was averted by a railroad man turning a switch, and Bonding the train on the tracks of the Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company. Af ter that, efforts to stop the train were given up, the police contenting themselves with making a barrier where the Northwestern tracks Join the loop tracks.

The railroad committee of the Chicago common council had a meeting scheduled for yesterday to hear reports from the city engineer and the corporation, counsel on the construction of the road and the ordinance. Both were expected to be unfavorable. Two or three things about Tuesday's affair are pretty lucky. It is fortunate that none of the zealous policemen got in front of the train, and It is fortunate also that the quickness of a railroad employee prevented the train's career from ending In a river. Along with the determination of the rights of the people of Chicago, and of the railroad company in the whole matter, we look to see an Investigation of the order by which that bridge waa swung open.

SUPREME COURT DECIDES. Opinions Hniidsd Down tu Four Falr- lleld County cases. The supreme court handed down opinions in four Fairfield county cases yesterday as follows: McKelvey vs. Creovey. No error, opinion by Judge Torrance.

This waa an action of replevin by a mortgagee for a furnace sold by the mortgagor to the defendant, by whom it was removed from the mortgaged premises. It was brought before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant's appeal to the court of common pleas In Fairfield county, where it was tried before the court, Judge Curtis. The facts were found und Judgment was rendered for the defendant. The plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rrlings of the court. New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad Company vs.

Wheeler Howes, John M. Wheeler and William T. Howes. It was the application for the appointment of appraisers to estimate the damages to the defendants from the taking of their land for railroad uses, brought to and heard by Judge Ralph Wheeler of the superior court. The facts were found and Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff.

The defendants appealed. Judge Hall found no error in the decision of Judge Wheeler, In which opinion the other judges concurred. Hurd vs. Hotchkiss. No error.

Opinion by Chief Justice Andrews, in which the other Judges concurred. This was an action for the specific performance of a contract to convey certain land, and for damages, brought to the superior court In Fairfield county, where John Hurd was dropped as a party plaintiff by order of Judge Thayer. The case was afterwards tried before Judge Elmer. Facts were found and Judgment was rendered for the defendant and the plaintiff appealed. Mallory vs.

Mallory. Will of George Mallory of Bridgeport, construed by the court. Opinion by Judge Baldwin, from which Judge Hamersley dissented, the others concurring. The suit to determine the construction of the will was brought before Judge Robinson In the superior court In Fairfield county and wras reserved for the consideration and advice of the supreme court. H'ch Notes.

The regular sessions of school were resumed yesterday morning. The Glee Club will rehearse at the home of John T. Roberts, No. 69 Lafayette street, this evening. At the regular meeting of the Debating Club to-morrow the following subject will be discussed: "Resolved, That the American stage nas deteriorated from a literary standpoint." Lewis B.

Comstock will uphold the affirmative and G. U. Fisher, the negative. Next Saturday evening, in the Y. M.

C. A. Basketball League, the following teams will line up: High Schools versus Columblas and Nutmegs versus Asylum Hills. The first game will begin at 7:45 o'clock. Hlch school seniors are waiting patiently for some action by the sophomores regarding the dance customarily given the seniors by the sophomores at about this time of the year.

It is hoped that the latter will act soon. Funeral of Frank Goodsell Foster. Funeral services for Frank Goodsell Foster took place at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from No. 171 Capitol avenue. The Rev.

J. J. McCook conducted the services. The bearers were J. H.

Coe, John T. Worthlnpton, W. S. Whittlesey, and W. T.

Wells. Mr. Foster was employed at the office of the Aetna Insurance Company for 32 years. The office was closed yesterday afternoon so that the officers and clerks could attend the funeral. Among the floral pieces: was an emblem from Lafayette Lodge of Masons.

The burial was in the Old North Cemetery. Annual Masonic Meetlnir. The annual assembly of Wolcott Council, No. 1, Royal and Select Masters, will be held in Masonic Temple this evening. The annual convocation of Pythagoras Chapter, No.

17, Royal Arch Masons, will be held to-morrow evening. THURSDAY MORNING, JAN 4, 1900. FOURTEEN RAGES. When a trust becomes a monopoly, It Is "Teddy" Roosevelt's opinion that the time has arrived for organized society to punch that trust's head or otherwise call It down. The democratic attack on Secretary Gage thunders terrifically In the preface, but It's stage thunder and (unless the republicans in Congress turn cowards) as harmless as a "World" editorial.

Chandler of New Hampshire wantJ to keep the "International bimetallism" folly a-going, and we greatly fear that senators who know better will be found ready to aid and abet him in that nonsensical enterprise. A good many senators to whom the Hon. Joseph Clay Styles Blackburn's alleged political convictions are an abomination will be glad to have Joseph himself back among them again. He must have replenished his stock of Kentucky stories during hia Involuntary absence. The successful landing of the plague at Manila would be a most unpleasant addition to the burden of anxieties which General Otis Is carrying.

But the world does not contain to-day any braver or more capable disease-fighters than the members of our marine hospital service, and In this case they will have all the aid the army and navy surgeons at Manila can give them. A HESSAOE WITH "MEAT" IN IT. Governor Roosevelt tells the New York legislators that the new superintendent of the state canals has managed them with the care and Bklll which would be expected In a private business enterprise. That's so, assents the "New Tork Evening Post," a captious criilc when there's anything to criticise. "Nobody has heard a whisper of scandal about the department since Colonel Partridge became superintendent." The colonel's superior Is able to point to a reduction in the running expenses of nearly $140,000 In a single year.

Not an unnecessary man has been put on the payroll, not an efficient man has been dlnmlssed for "political" reasons, not an Inefficient man has been retained. "The canals have been managed with an eye single to the public good." The old methods of taxation have been outgrown. Governor Roosevelt says. The land-owner Is toting more than his fair share of the load. Besides: "Some kind of taxes are so fertile In tempting to perjury and sharp dealing that they amount to taxes on honestythe last quality on which we should Impose a needless burden." State taxation should, fall on classes of property, should be fair all around, and should be readily collectible.

As complete a divorce as possible between state and municipal taxes Is to be desired. Foreign capital doing business In the state (should be treated for taxing purposes Just like domestic capital. The governor believes In the corporation tax and in the collateral Inheri tance tax. He has (and expresses) his opinion of wealthy corporations and citizens guilty of trying to dodge their taxes. "The corporations owning valuable public franchises," he says, "must pay their full and proper share of the yubllc burdens." He continues; During the year 1839 not a single corporation has received at the hands of the state of New York one privilege of any kind, Bort, or description, by law or otherwise, to which it was not entitled, and which was not in the public Interest; nor has corporate Influence availed against any measure which was In the public interest.

At certain tiniest, and in certain places, corporations have undoubtedly exerted a corrupting influence In political life; but in this state for this year it Is absolutely true, as shown by the history of every measure that has come before the Legislature from the franchise tax down, that no corporate Influence has been able to prevail against the Interests of the public. Governor Roosevelt Is not In love with state or municipal ownership of public utilities for Its own sake. He thinks New York should own its own water supply. As to other mutters, he is for leaving them to private enterprise when It handles them satisfactorily. Put: "When private ownership entails grave abuses, and where the work Is of a kind that can be performed efficiently by the state or municipality acting in its collective capacity, no theory or tradition should Interfere with our making the change." Governor Roosevelt's discussion of what we may call the trust-and-plu-tocracy question in this message rather strikingly suggests In spots President Hadley's recent public utterances on the same subject.

It Is frank, sane, sober, discriminating, and not pessimistic. Here Is the conclusion it leads up to: Care should be taken not to stille enterprise or disclose any facts a business that are essentially private; but the state for the protection of the public should exercise the to Inspect, to examine thoroughly all the workings, of great corporations just as is now done with banks; and wherever the interests of the public demand it, it should publish the results of Its examination. Then, If there are inordinate profits, competition or public sentiment will gjve the public the benefit in lowered prices; and. If not, the power of taxation remains. It is, therefore, evident that publicity Is the one sure and adequate remedy which we can now invoke.

There may be other remedies, but what these others are we can only find out by publicity, as the result of investigation. The first requisite is knowledge, full and complete. The governor hopes that the National Guard will soon be armed with the rifle In use In the regular army. He is glad that It had a little work in the field last summer. His idea Is that Its members should "receive practical Instruction by actual marching, cooking, camping, sanitation, outpost duties and field exercises over a rough country." Also that they should have ample facilities for rifle-practice.

He wishes there was a rifle-range In every New York village, as there is In every Swiss village. "In a battle," he says, "the only (Juliets that count are those that hit." Other interesting tb'nys in the r- A 8TEASGELY NEGLECTED DUTY. In his report for the year 1899, Governor Roosevelt's adjutant-general freed his mind upon one important topic as follows: Our recent experience emphasizes the importance of a careful consideration of the best means of supplying troops to the Vnited States in cases of emergency like that of the Spanish-American war. A regularly organized United States reserve, wholly independent of state control, and consisting of one or two regiments in the larger states, and a regiment or battalion In the smaller states, enrolled, organized, equipped, drilled and commanded by United States officers, would afford the most efficient and readily available reserve. In the absence of such a reserve, the choice naturally turns to the organized state trooos.

There is ample reason for continuing the organization, instruction and discipline of state troops for state purposes. If, however, tney are to ne called out for foreign service, either directly or indirectly. It is only fair and proper that such conditions snouia oe made known, and that officers and men entering the National uuara should understand distinctly the na ture of the servfcp which they may be called upon to render, and that they should be organized and equipped ac cordingly. It's a pretty hopeless, thankless thing to do, but again not for the second time, nor for the third we call the attention nf those specially concerned and the public attention to the fact that George Washington snd his associates put these words into the Con stitution of the United States: The Congress shall have power to pro vide for organizing, arming and dis ciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. That was a little more than one hundred and twelve years ago.

It was the idea and confident expectation of the federal convention that the power thus granted would be used. The expectation was a reasonable one. Grants of power are not usually left to rust In disuse. Yet, although Congress has provided for the "governing" of the militia when in the service of the United States, It has not from that day to this given any serious thought to Its other, more Important duty of making wise provision for the "organizing, arming and disciplining" of the militia. As we have shown before and more than once, no part of the blame for this strange negligence ataches to our early Presidents.

Washington urged the matter upon the notice and conscience of Congress again and again. In his third annual address, speaking of the militia, magazines, arsenals and fortifications, he said: "The safety of the United States, under divine protection, ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements, ex posed as little as possible to the hazards of fortuitous circumstances." In his sixth annual address he said: "The devising and establishing of a well-regu lated militia would be a genuine source of legislative honor and a perfect title to public gratitude. I therefore enter tain a hope t.hat the present session will not pass without carrying to Its full energy the power of organizing, arming and disciplining the militia." He had the right to say, as he did say in his last address to the Congress that his sentiments on the subject had been ex pressed often and ardently. John Adams shared them, though he was not a military man, and so did Thomas Jefferson, and bo did later occupants of the executive chair. For the benefit of the democrats In Congress we men tlon the fact that in 1803 the third Pres ident, whom they venerate as the founder of their party, told the senators and representatives that "every degree of neglect," was Illustrated In the actual condition of the militia, and re minded them that Congress alone had the power to "produce an uniform state of preparation In this great organ of defense." In his fifth annual mes sage this same President Jefferson said: "I cannot but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system as, by a separation of the more active part from that which Is less so, we may draw from It when neces sary an efficient corps, fit for real and active service." In 1835 another dem ocratlc President, Andrew Jackson, re newed this recommendation with an equal earnestness, almost pleading with the Congress to act upon It and declaring: that the expenditure of money involved In making the citizen soldiery more soldierlike wasn't worth a thought.

"Now, when we are at peace, is the proper time to digest and establish a practicable system," he said. "In every aspect in which I can view the subject, I am impressed with the Importance of a prompt and efficient organization of the militia." The grave closed over General Jackson more than fifty-four years ago. The year 1900 and the meeting of the Fifty-sixth Congress find the mllltla still at sixes and sevens. Secretary Root has so much on his hands and mind Just now, what with the legacies of last year's war and with this year's Tagalog Insurrection, that his failure to go Into this question of the militia directly and exhaustively in his annual report Is very excusable. But page after page of that report.

Intelligently read, Is the most Incisive Indictment of the happy-go-lucky shiftlessness hitherto reigning in our military methods, and in his admirable project of a great War College he has pointed the way to better things. He has told Congress, through the President, that in our next war the regulars and volunteers should constitute a homogeneous body, "using the same arms, familiar with the same drill, answering to the same ideas of discipline. Inspired by the same spirit, and capable of equal and even performance." He has advised that the War College from the first seek the co- atbn of the military authorities 9 AT "ANYBODY'S PRICE The cutting down in price of all our Jackets and Capes was rather a thoughtless move on our part. Winter proper has just ''set in" and the demand for these garments is very heavy, "nit the deed is done, and the billies are carrying off the prizes. Come you and choose from the very best.

The prices make the jackets and capes doubly attractive. C. W. PRATT, 937 MAIN ST. Uncle Sam BORROWS MONET FROM THOSFJ people that offer the mos; on tils securities.

Why Not You We loan the mnt on diamonds, watches, on the bept t'rmH and easiest jih mi'iiis. n. vjNii viui convjnea you. I AND if you wru us a line wo "will acrid up man to your house lo take tha loan, ALL business strictly confidential. And the Advantage i of the Are Insurance certificate that give -with each loan cannot be overlooked.

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Greatest Mechanical Skill. Most Scientific Labor. JACKETS i CAPES Sons. Hartford, Robert M. Clark of New Britain, James T.

Pratt of Hartford, George W. Ralph of Hartford, Robert H. Lewis of Hartford, Elizur Cook of Hartford, William R. Brunt of Bristol, Walter Vibert of South Windsor, Tyler Crut-tenden of Norwich, AVilllam A. Wells of Norwich, F.

O. Hoogland of Hartford, Frank B. Look of Middletown, William R. Burdlck of Jewett City and A. H.

Lathrop of Norwich. CONNECTICUT AT PARIS. Lint of Ititendlne There. Commissioner Benjamin Lee of New London yesterday gave to the press a list of those from Connecticut who have already taken space allotted! them for the coming exposition at Paris, They are as follows: Hartford. Columbia Automobile Co.

B. M. Des Jardins. The Pes Jardins Type-Justlfler Co. The Hartford Typewriter Co.

G. F. Heubleln Bro. The Pratt Whitney Co. The Rice Gear Co.

S. 8. Taylor. The Veeder Manufacturing Co. Bridgeport Bullard Machine Tool Co.

Curtis Curtis. Wheeler Wilson Mfg. Co. Deep River. Pratt, Reed Co.

Derby. Whltlock Printing Press Co, Glastonbury, The J. B. Williams Co. Ivory ton.

Comstock, Cheney Co. Morlden. Kelsey Press Co. New Britain. American Hosiery Co.

The Stanley Rule Level Co. The Stanley Works. New Haven. Charles S. Hastings.

E. W. Scripture. The B. Thompson Son Co, New London.

Babcock Printing Press Co. New Mllford. Bridgeport Wood-Finishing Co, Rockville, Hockanum Co. New England Co. Springville Co.

Stamford. Bllckensderfer Co. Taftville, Ponemah Mills. Terryvllle. Eagle Lock Co.

Torrlngton. The Hendey Machine Co. Waterbury. The Bristol Co. Wllllmantlo.

Willimantic Linen Co. Windsor Locks. The E. Horton Son Co. Henry roby Emery.

The accompanying picture of Henry Crosby Emery is from the "Yale Alumni Weekly." Mr. Crosby has been ap. pointed to fill the professorship In political economy at Yale made vacant by the advancement of President A. T. Trofessor Henry Crosby Emery.

Hadley to the head of the institution. Professor Emery will share with Professor Schwab the work of teaching the Junior classes elementary economics, and the senior classes advanced economics. In addition, he will give advanced courses to seniors and graduates along the lines to hich he has specially devoted himself. Funeral or Elizabeth C'urley. The name of the woman who died from an overdose of morphine at the Hartford Hospital yesterday morning under the name of Elizabeth Curry was Elizabeth Curley.

She went by the name of Curry here. She belonged in Springfield, where she has a brother who is employed In a bakery. She about 30 years Funeral services will be held at 8:30 o'clock to-morrow morning from the undertaking rooms of Mrs. William J. Smith.

The burial will be in Mt. St. Benedict Cemetery. JOHN M. GALLUP Music Dealers, 201 ASYLUM STREET, Chickcrim 1 The The Embodiment of VThe The JOHN M.

GALLUP Sole Agents, 201 ASYLUM (Cor. Haynes.) Hartford. Conn..