Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - January 29, 1917, Lowell, Massachusetts THE WEATHER or rain tonight Tuesday east to south winds THE LOWELL SUN 6 O'CLOCK ESTABLISHED 1878 LOWELL MASS MONDAY JANUARY 29 1917 PRICE ONE CENT The assessors department asking tor an appropriation for 1917 of an increase of over amount expended in 1916 The increase asked for is almost entirely covered by the estimate the cost of printing the tax books has to be done this year ami the cost of which is estimated at The tax hooks are printed every two years the cost ot publishing them in 1915 being exclusive of clerical work and the work required in collecting necessary mation and Tile board of assessors is sub- a request to the municipal council that an additional tion of 54000 be granted the board for the purpose of installing an map system of the city of el for assessment purposes The tem is similar to that introduced where in the state and which has the Continued to puge threw Five Story Building at Chauncey St and Ex- eter Place Destroyed Hot Air Explosion Blew Out Blaze to Fight BOSTON Jan from residential districts were called in ID assist the down town firemen early today in their hardest fight in many months the fire destroying A five-story brick building at Chauncey street Exeter Place The loss was estimated at ot which about two-thirds on tho Thomas Kellcy Co blanket manufacturers The building stood in the centre if tho wholesale dry goods section separated it from other buildings several of which caught fire and were slightly Hot Mir explosions blow out tne windows resulting in a burst of which PURE BLOOD MAKES HEALTHY PEOPLE Hood's Sarsaparilla removes scrofula sores boils and other eruptions be- cause it drives out of the blood the humors that cause them cannot be successfully treated with external applications because these cannot purify the blood Hood's Sarsaparilla makes rich red blood perfects the digestion and builds up the whole system Insist on having Hood's Get it now made it impossible to raise ladders against the building and firemen worked chiefly from nearby tures The fire was not brought un- der control for several hours Dance Tues eve Chelmsford M A FACT The circulation of THE is concentrated culation Ninety-eight per cent of THE SUN'S culation is within Lowell and The paper that goes home and brings quick returns to advertisers is THE SUN Lowell's Greatest Newspaper CHEERFULLY and CONFIDENTLY That's the way we try to serve you Is that the way you shop or haven't you joined the ranks of satisfied customers who deal with tho honesty In speaking of AFTER THE WAR conditions bert Leob of Chicago My belief is that things will go on after the war ends very much as they are now I do not think there wHI be a big change either way The wise course is to go about doing business cheerfully and confidently at the same time playing nafe in every way There's dence for KIND William Connors be- fore Judge Knright in policy court this morning on a complaint charging him with larceny OL a pair of shoes and a cap tho property of James Joy His memory to bo very poor lor despite tho fact that ho had admitted to the that he the having pawned he denied in court that he took them lie was also with drunkenness and after heing found guilty on both complain tr was o four months in jail Connors had been with James Joy in Arch street and la at Tuesday while Joy was Con- nors took a pair oi shoes and cap belonging to his roommate and pawned the shoes in y street store re- reiving nn rpitts for When Toy discovered his loss lie reported tho matter to the Hnd night Patrolman Sullivan arrested Connors In Connors on the articles mentioned and aisn thai hc Admitted to the he hud Whm the man's was soaking wM hut he could not explain how they to he in that condition Jail Moore and Patrolmen Sullivan arid Fanning pa id visi t to a in Middlesex street early ing and U Bakor Alice M and this morning in court were- charged with a tory offense The Koonan woman lives in She camo to this city a few weeks ago and secured A position a waitress husband who was in court this fied that Baker had an influence his wife and that when he spoke to Baker on previous occasion the ter threatened him The found the pair Ruilty and sentenced the man In six months in the house of tion and the woman to six months in jail Offenders Arthur J was charged with drunkenness and sentenced to one month In jail after the court learned that hc had struck his wife and that she has been ill since she received the blow Lynch was sentenced to three months in jail Michael Murphy was ordered to pay a tin ft of Si 0 and Joseph Forron and John Lynch were each lined Tho case of of Dracut charged with assault and battery on his wife Agata wan continued until tomorrow Hc was arrested on a capias from tho superior court hc hav ing defaulted The case of Philip P Derry charged with neglecting to provide for his wife was continued until Saturday morn ins MAKES Interest begins next Saturday on deposits in The Central Savings Bank Tuf s helms The Strong Box When you have money around the house you invite the burglar or Tho BEST STRONG BOX IN THE WORLD is the savings Tour money is as well as it can he anywhere Interest Begins Feb 3 Merrimack River Savings Bank SWEEPING LAWSON'S CHARGES AGAINST HIM Banker Named as Member of Investment Trinity Testifies at Leak Said He Controlled McAdoo and Never Had Joint Account With Cabinet ber or Senator O 55 State Inspector McDonald in whose district Lowell is included und v ho has an office in the Central block is kept busy these days inspect in iho public and parochial of this my Mr McDonald has gone over the theatres I and hospitals and now he is IKK the public in company j with ilie local building inspector A Connor i about condi lions in local Mr McDonald stated this he has things pretty normal He however i smoking in anterooms or hack oi the la pro in theatres be stopped d performances and lie has also informed OL the theatres to keep their lobbies clear of or other articles Which would be obstructive in a case of emergency In local hospitals the inspector has ordered extensive changes in the form additional egress and iire escapes NEW YORK Jan de- nial of all ot Thomas charges a gainst him particularly alleged association with Secretary iu Wail deals was made today before tho leak investigating committee by Pliny of Fisk Sons New York bankers Among categorical denials made by Kisk were that he ever had a joint Wall account with and a Senator that he had told Archi- bald White or anyone else that he con- trolled McAdoo and had offered to pet him out of bed at an early morning hour to answer a telephone call and that ho had received any advance in- formation regarding President son's recent peace note Asked it his firm bad ever enjoyed any advantages in with the treasury department Fisk replied negatively He admitted that after suggesting to Secretary I hat offices in A fan Siding his owned would be suitable for the federal re- serve bank he had leased the offices to the government Pliny Fisk a York banker named by Thomas VT as the hanker in the mysterious cabinet investment trinity was the witness at the inquiry today Fisk was brought into the inquiry by Thomas declaring to him that ho controlled Secretary Adoo and had offered lute one night to summon McAdoo from his bed by telephone Lawson also said IIP bad heard Fisk was connected with the Rep Bennet's Statement Just before the hearing opened Bennot said that the Bonnot said tha the and its counsel Sherman h i paper in his possession The meeting was entirely ing someone had the foresight harmonious and all agreed that tho i to sell 20.000 shares of Steel on a now should he directed i market hours before the to the alleged peace note j note was released was a clearing house leak 1 record oi sufficient width to carry all persons to the ground He has also ordered thai dumb waiters and elevator shafts be protected with metal that boiler rooms be separated and and that tiro resisting doors be installed The protection of wood work around and cooking apparatus has been addition to the above orders has recommended that a tire alarm box be installed at the entrance of each hospital and that a tirm alarm gong be installed in the nurses quarters so that in ease of an emergency all nurses may be j in hasto to tho scene of tha lire j Mr said it will take him about three weeks to go over the local schools and at the close of his tion he will prepare an order and present it in person to the city cil and school committee For the present he said he had nothing to say about conditions in the schools If the so-called half-time which is now before the state furp is enacted it will affect about Lowell children who are em- in ma nu fact urinK hill would like tn go through biRh school if possible but my father won't stand for it and Ibis is not because we are in need We our home my er earns over a week and 1 have sisters working I pleaded with in this city and suburban towns present statutes children the of 14 and are lowed to work in mills or other hours a day bin the result of the new would be to send all these children back to school it was stated this morning that the local mil! officials have not yet an- their standing on the proposed new law hut one nf the mill amenta that the bin not affect the cotton mills to a K is said that mi of Lowell between tli 1 ii are employed hor in Woolen industries that a larpe number of hoys and work in the Silesia mill in North Chelmsford while numerous others are employed in the woolen mills and shoe shops Supt Molloy of the school de- ent extent he irep of 14 and the mills of in discussing the proposed this said he feels sure that the school department of this city will not work any opposition to any law is in the care and Federation 01 Labor received one fvt j f children We said he is tho greatest ovations of his career not quite dad but to no avail he is mined to fret what he can out of Wo writer was this that the local cotton mill will hold a shortly and dis- cuss the tie whill Statistics ing the number of hoys and be- tween the ases of 14 and 16 employed in the mills will b- and looked and then a statement as to tho mill agents standing Will In given OK The Broadway Musical opened a limited engagement at Academy of Music today Among the stars being features are Rapin and Reta ier also that old-time favorite Charles Clarke in Irish specialties The duction Is a farce comedy with a ly sprinkling of musical numbers lo YORK Jan lumpers president of the American when he arose to speak early today length hut intimat of Lowell arc ready to care for 1 m morp who hc forced to return in the event of passage of the The writer knows of at least one boy who will welcome the passage of the Tho hoy in question ill be 1 4 years of age in couple of months of the Xew Moody school and a short time ago not aware of the that the half-time was drafted stated he wished the law for children were re- pealed I will be K years od in he said and my father has already in- formed me that 1 would have to po to work as soon as 1 am old enough 1 at the close ot a testimonial dinner attended by more than one thousand j labor leaders from nil parts nf the country Mr Gompers urged workmen to think about peace to work for peace to pray for peace Labor stands with Us shoulders squared he said not defiant but determined The protest a.gainst conditions that work hardship must not be diverted for a moment The labor leador declared that while could leave his children no fortune he would leave better con- ditions under which they would not find it so hard to live as hc had found it when he first entered the in- fields After every great time of strife and destruction ho said there a corresponding reaction which the mass of the people The dinner marked the sixty of Mr birth the completion fifty of service in the of union bor and his golden wedding sary President Wilson sent a letter of greeting and congratulation In expressing regret for his inability Thursday and attend the dinner the Unhappily I have been obliged forenoons Irom 0 tu I loi ladies to deny myself every pleasure of only Electric Baths and Massage this kind of imperative ties which fall upon me every day whilo the congress is in session f pretty girls and favorite vocalists The story unfolded is that of a young t man is left In charge of n mansion by his uncle While the un- icle Is away the boy lets the rooms to numerous people and there immediately ensues a of love the hill at matches Mr Unpin in the role ot 1 that the schools Pepper proves himself 1 j great and Incidentally himself in many that produce much hilarious laughter for the ences It is a lively show and there are many dancing specialties that give zest to the production There will also he a biff added at- a capacity audience ing and instructive addresses by inent speakers excellent singing by the K of c Glee club and the ence of a large number of clergymen the Catholic Federation held the of a series of meetings in Associate hall Sunday evening A feature of the was the singing by the Knights of Columbus Glee club of the two hymns composed for federation meetings by His Cardinal O'Connell God of Our and Faith and Fatherland Dining the meeting another hymn by the cardinal Hymn to the Name was sung by I he assembly led by the club The speakers of the i evening were Rev Francis 1 spoke on The Catholic Hon lames B Casey The Church Its Mission Francis K Slatlery Brighton Catholics and Count and i Dr Richard Patriot Ism the evening the following pamphlets were I A Message to All Patriotic and American citizens in the Schools bv Hon Bird S Color Science and by Pr James 1 Walsh and Rights and by Cardinal thorst by Rev Robert Swickerath S Socialist Bubbles Punctured by David the clergymen seated on til platform were Dr D J Keleher Rev P J Heffernan and Rev P L Clayton St Peter's Rev John J Shaw St Rev Joseph A Curtin and Rev lames J Kerrigan St Rev Lawrence F Tighe O Immaculate Rev John 1 Flynn Sacred Rev Charles J ami Rev H St Rev P 1 Hally and Rer T W Buckley St CoU Rev M C Gilbride St and others The Catholic Press Shortly after S o'clock President Thomas J Fitzgerald opened the ing and after a brief address of como introduced one of the speaks ers and presiding officer Rev cis J Mullin local chaplain of tha federation Fr Mullin took for hia subject The Catholic andl spoke in part ag Public opinion is not merely calm deliberate judgment of educated and trained minds but is the sion of thought or some mode thought that has taken hold of tha masses The great aim of the is to this the lines of sane and sound ples The federation would this mission by public lectures and the press indeed is the power ot tha press Have our people awakened to the It would seem not Tho federation does not mean a clerical party in nation state or city It is an of citizens tied to political party nor acting as one party but resting its powers upon the chastened and righteous lie sentiment for the common good ami Cod's eternal glory Public ment today is with thai public press This puts federation squarely on the platform of furthering H Catholic press As an example the speaker referred to the press of Germany and Let the federation look to tho ample of the Catholics in under tbe leadership of that great to puge nine traction a dancing act of real merit coming direct from a long Tn New York city and June nix Deposits in Tho Central Savings Bank go on interest Saturday DEATHS SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE LADIES OF LOWELL i secured the services an 1 have asido j Chariot If Walker i widow of Walker parsed away Sunday Jan at 7 st Worcester aged 73 years She Is vived by two daughters Mrp Cora Pearson and Mrs Alice Burbank both of Worcester and two sisters MrP Jad Wilson of this city and Mrs Hannah Green of Hyde Park I Casey a former 1 IT Kid cut of I died this j ni the street aired years body was tn the of lames F it Jan Tomeroy a life convict nt state prison today refused to work in the prison shop under a ot sentence granted last week by tli executive council When informed that he would be taken out ot tary confinement after 41 years became obstinate and declared that he could obtain a full town hall Tues appointment Telephone EARL BOSTROM Associate Bldg MIDDLESEX TRUST CO Loans on Savings Bank Books If you have money deposited in the Savings Banks of Lowell and desire to draw the whole or any part of the same without the loss of six months interest we will be pleased to advance the money to you Our officers will be pleased to explain the system to you Have you a Safe Deposit The cost is but per year OLD LOWELL NATIONAL BANK Thi Oldest Bunk in Lowell Are You In If So Borrow On THE MORRIS PLAN Pay Up Your Debts and Smile Capital old with us your ami par hack your loan to on Drop dcht and preserve your credit BB PLEASED TO TALK IT WITH YOV F resident Harry President John II a m to R p in Monday N m- 0 n to I p m Lowell Morris Plan Co 18 Lowell lust for pardon he to remain in old cell No statement made by tha prison authorities today beyond the announcement by Warden Nathan D Allen that Pomeroy had been put in punishment which meant that ha would have except bread and until he to ob- serve the rules of the institution He was removed to a in another part nf the building and will remain in Warden Allen said that ITU further information concerning Pomeroy would be given out at the institution MASS There will be an anniversary Wednesday morning at S o'clock at tha Sacred Heart church for Andrew F Soanlon NAMES WERE OMITTED In the account of the funeral of Ellen Ivors published Saturday tho of the following who sent floral were inadvertently of market arine and lulia Sullivan Mabel Shore Richard O'Shea Mr and Mrs Shore ami Miss Mary Devine John Tuite acted as one of the hearers The People's Cause Do your own thinking Few People think but all may have to fight Under No government of any nation can Continued on
