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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1913
Page
4
The fourteenth Biennial conference of the Theatrical Mechanics association opened in Spokane today and will run for five days. Charles W. Schweitzer of Cincinnati and James H. Curtis of New York are candidates for the presidency.
Robert C Ogden of New York is very seriously ill at his summer residence The Billows on Arundel Point Me He has been feeble for some time and a sickness developed weeks ago took a serious turn last night He is 77 years old and has spent summers there for thirty years.
In Watertown on July 7 John Harris of Brooklyn drowned after a motor boat was smashed by the yacht Bistlins owned by Nathan Straus of New York near Cherry Island. Five others, all employees of the Thousand Islands house at Alexandria Bay, narrowly escaped death as the motor boat tried to cross the yacht’s bows.
Mr and Mrs John A Shea and Mr and Mrs James Lynch touring by car to Rochester to visit Sager Dean who is very ill at his home 455 Lafayette Street Stephen Weaver is also ill at his home 42 Shelton Street Both are Civil War veterans and members of Elas Howe Jr post
The 48th annual Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks convention opens with an open session in convention hall. Gov. Sulzer and Mayor Edgerton greet delegates as thousands arrive. The week features Grand Lodge politics, insurgent moves for leadership, and plans for six days of events. Delegates C S Swenson and H Tomlinson walked 1500 miles to attend.
Weekington July 7 National Woman's Suffrage Association plans an attack on the National legislature with a monster automobile parade. Women will gather at Hyattsville Md on July 30, form a long motor car procession and march on Capitol Hill to demand Congress pass a resolution avoiding a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage. A banquet and entertainment are arranged for visiting suffragists.
A brief item notes events at the Chevy Chase Club on the first day of an unspecified period. Details are sparse in the readable text, with no clear names, dates, or outcomes to confirm.
The Bridgeport Malleable Iron Works office force and clerks held their second annual picnic and clambake at Rivercliff park, with a morning game pitting married against single men won by the singles. Special guest was Wm. Knott of the Troy works, and Joe Fernandez earned praise as the cook.
Police seek a thief who crawled through a window at Mike Lip taks home on Coleman street during a Saturday picnic. Premises looted of money and securities valued at 306 with 106 hidden in a pants pocket. bureau books and clothing torn, house rifled from end to end.
F W House of 117 Maple Street says a trusted friend was asked to repair his watch last year and has since not returned it. Police are investigating with the likelihood of an early arrest.
Paul Pavelinick, 46, a Russian, living at 1126 Railroad Avenue, is under arrest for stealing $550 from his bedfellow on Tuesday last. Patrolmen Wheeler and Smallwood seized the money, found wrapped in a tobacco package. Capt. George Arnold secured a confession, calling it a clever piece of work.
Boston July 7 Due to fog off the New England coast the Argentine training ship Presidente Sarmin bound for Boston has been delayed. A wireless from Captain Horacio Balloe said the ship will probably arrive late this afternoon. Romulus Naon, the Argentine minister to the United States, arrived from Washington and will stay until the ship departs Wednesday evening.
Peter Bodnar of Pine Street remains in St. Vincent's Hospital after a Fourth of July night stabbing at a picnic. Police are tracking the man suspected of carrying out the attack and are pursuing leads from the event.
Miss Norma Frederick Gibboney, socially prominent and newly appointed Alabama game warden by Governor O Neil, speaks of her love for outdoor life and protection of birds. She insists she is not masculine, highlights hunting in the northwest, and describes her green buckskin hunting suit. She has already deterred lawless shooters in nearby woods.
Washington dispatch outlines how special privilege funds lobbies in Washington to shape legislation. It details Mulhall and “The Wolf” Lamar steering hidden influence through tariff and banking interests, sugar, woolen, steel, and cotton lobbies, with committee control and payoffs.
The speaker claims a covert influence over Congress and a bribe attempt to discover information. He urges a searching investigation and punishment for corrupt Democrats and Republicans alike. He predicts Invisible Government will be a dominant issue in the 1914 congressional race.
Boston July 7 A crisis in the street railway strike appeared near end as Boston Elevated Railway officials met a Chamber of Commerce committee to settle the dispute threatening to tie up the metropolitan electric system. James L Richards represented the company while 5000 employees were represented by James H Vahey. The Carmen's union executive board debated with Vahey on points from last year’s arbitration. The union opposed Meyer Fitzgerald as an arbiter joining two others, a hurdle to settlement. Labor leaders called the lack action by Central Labor Union an encouraging sign.
Carl Atherton aged 25, a carpenter of Park Avenue, fell two stories from a new building at East Washington and Housatonic avenues after a scaffolding misstep. He was cushioned by braces, rescued from iron girders, and taken by Dr. William H. Curley to Bridgeport Hospital with likely internal injuries.
Nathan Straus, noted New York philanthropist, arrives by special train from New York to Alexandria Bay on July 17 with Mia Straus and two nurses. He is taken to Olympia on Cherry Island, met by the yacht Sistine, amid reports he is seriously fit and continuing his pure milk crusade for the poor.
Torrington July 7 Mr and Mrs H W Katt and their New York chauffeur were painfully but not seriously injured in an automobile accident between Torrington and Norfolk Saturday afternoon. The Katts, at a local hotel under medical care, expect to return home today. Their son P H Kalt was driving. The car descended a sandy hill, jumped the road, plunged down a steep embankment, and struck a tree, throwing all four occupants from the vehicle.
St Augustine's church choir members will tour Savin Rock tonight as guests of Father C J McIlroy rector. They depart from the post office in a special trolley car and after meeting at the Colonnade will visit attractions. The pew collectors also join as guests. a theft report concerns clothing from Michael Carroll of 4% Highland Avenue.
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