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READ JThe Farmer Help Wanted Ads. They offer good op portunities for ' ' ' ' GOOD POSITIONS FIRST SECTION 20 PAGES VOL. 49 NO. 99 BRIDGEPORT, CONN., FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913 PRICE TWO CENTS NEW YORK EDUCATOR'S VIEWS STARTLE COUNTY TEACHERS' Says Book Learning, Not Practi cal Manual Training, Is A Fad WOULD PAY MORE TO GRADE THAN HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS Sajs Only Rich and Hoboes Don't Need Advantage of Voca v tional Training Interesting-, radical, almost revolu tionary, was the address given ' by Arthur D. Dean, chief of the voca tional schools of the state of New Tork before the 37th annual conven tion -of the Fairfield County Teachers' association in Its session at the First IvL E. church this morning. Mr. Dean spoke on the subject,. "The Man and the Job," and some of his remarks were of a character which rather up set accepted ideas of elementary edu cation. Mr. Dean was speaking: In favor of having vocational training installed in the school system of Fairfield county and his remarks rang true, carrying conviction with them. "We hear talk among school teach ers all over the country," he said, "of manual training, being nothing more nor less than a fad. Bat I say that when we come to talk of 'fads' It Is book learning that should be . cabled - a. fad rather than cooking, farming, building and other manual training work. We were cooking, farming, building, and doing manual work thousands of years before books were even thought of. "We can't get away from, the fact In this present age that we have got to prepare our children to take a Job when they have concluded their school education. Of course there are ex ceptions to this rule, notably the man whose fortune Is such that he will be able to step Into his automobile and spend his time riding around in the machine with no thought of work to bother him, and the other man who will spend his time riding the 'bump ers of a freight train, equally as un concerned as to thoughts of work, , "But the general rule- la that some day we all will have to work and yet we go calmly on "with little or no thought of preparing our children for the battle which they all have to fpght In the laboring world. We have race heritage for . 'doing things' and 'making things' dating back for thou sands of years and yet when there la talk of introducing into our school de partments where the children may be trained to 'do things', make things. we scoff and say it s a silly fad. "If I could have my way I would have the best teachers and the high est paid ones, not In the high school, but in the lower grades the elemen tary school where the child gets its first and most important . training. Then when the boy or the girl who gets through school at 14 or 16 years Is brought face to face with the prob lems of life, he or she. as the case may be. will be thoroughly prepared to meet these problems and solve them. I "There are two things which we must think of in present day educa tion. the 'man' and the. 'job.', In the final analysis we will see that all our education only prepares a man for tome Job and It Is up to us to see that the education is of the kind that will give him the best preparation for this Job, no matter what It will be. "The old system of education seem ed to revolve about the 'man but now It is Just the reverse; the system of education revolves about the 'Job.' It Is vocational education versus cultural education; literary education versus technical education. We will have to recognize the fact sooner or later that the "Job ' is the thing that counts largely nowadays. If we opened our eyes we would recognize this now, "Lst us adjust the 'Job' with the "ma," he said, "the vocational learn ing with the book learning and we will get the ideal system of education. Mr. Deane's address lasted for up wards of an hour, one of the finest arguments in favor of vocational .training ever heard in this city. The address was listened to by near ly S0O school teachers and principals js-epresenting some forty or more towns end cities in Fairfield county, gather ed here to attend the annual spring meeting, at the First M. K. church, GOVERNMENT COOK BOOKS Washington, April 25 More than 12, tKJO.OOO copies of the various 'fcook books prepared toy the Department of Agriculture, the latest of which is one ion how to serve mutton in a number of delectable ways, have been issued since this line of government activity began. Of the bread making pamphlet near ly a half million have been distributed and of the cheese leaflet almost 300,000 have been sent out. Of the mutton bulletin Just out 50,000 copies have fceen ordered printed for initial dis tribution. PLANS TO RECLAIM H. E. SALT MEADOWS - New Haven, April 25 Hopes and plans for the redemption of the ex tensive salt meadows of Southern New England have been given up .after fur ther investigation by the New Eng land lines Industrial commltte. repre senting the New Haven system ' of railroads. The fatal obstacles to the plan have been the necessity for ex tensive dyking of the meadows before experiments could be tried, the unfa vorable chemical Quality of the salt meadow Doll, semi-fluid character of the soils a short distance below the sarfaca && the difficulty of plowing. ASSOCIATION MOTORCYCLIST FOUND INERT AT ROADSIDE Fairfield Physician Rushes Vic tim in Automobile to Bridge; port Hospital in Serious Con dition ' Whether hit by an automobile and mercilessly left , to his fate by the roadside, or the victim of his own speed mania is not known, but John Curtis, 22 years old, who lives with his brother, Joseph, at IB 8 Calhoun avenue, was found lying beside his motorcycle on the main thoroughfare from Fairfield to Bridgeport yester. day afternoon. He was covered with blood and unconscious from what has since been diagnosed as concussion of the brain. - Two men walking towards Bridge port were the first to . discover- his inert body; and hastily summoning Dr. W. . H. Donaldson placed him in the physician's car and hurried to the Bridgeport hospital. There it was seen that he had a severe concussion having been struck upon the head. Remaining in a stupor during the night, he was improving somewhat this morning and it is believed his recovery will ensue. Although his motorcycle which, lay but a short distance from the spot on which Curtis was found was not badly damaged, it Is thought that he had been in collision with some passing automobile and an investigation of the incident Is being made by the Pair field authorities. Curtis is an employe of the Con necticut company. FLOOD TIDE THREATENING MISSISSIPPI New Orleans, , April 25 After a; des perate all night fight an army of 2,000 men had strengthened the- main line levee at Remy so that It ; held ' out against the. threatening Mississippi flood tide this morning. , A driving rainstorm pelted the weakened em bankments throughout the night. If the levee should break the town of Lutcher and - scores of villages would toe flooded. It was not believed the water' would spread south along the river beyond Keenner, 12 miles north -of New Orleans. In the parishes - of" St. James -and St. John the Baptist, fine rice and perique tobacco plantations would -be flooded and' the Yasoo and Mississippi Valley railroad between New Orleans and Baton Rouge put out of commis sion. At 9 o'clock this morning the situa tion at Eiemy was still considered critical.. ' Work on the old levee at, Remy, which began crumbling yesterday af ternoon, was abandoned at midnight and the army of laborers was trans ferred to an unfinished dyke Just in the rear of the old embankment. Ear ly today when this stretch of the old dyke gave way hundreds of the negro workmen stampeded but their ranks were filled today by volunteers who arrived by train and steamboat. . LEVEE BANK GIVES WAY Melville, La., April 25. The main line of the Atchafalaya river's east bank levee. Just north of, Xrotz Springs, gave way, today. This crevasse will flood parts of Point Co pee and Iberville. The Frisco railroad, between Baton Rouge and Opelousas and the South ern Pacific branch between Baton Rouge and Lafayette, will be cut by the flood waters end the Texas & Pacific between Flaquemine and Mel ville will be endangerea. - The towns of Latannea, Bowie, Li vonia, Lottie and Fordoche probably will be inundated. The crevasse at Krotz Springs is expected- to relieve all danger of flood ing Melville and other towns on the upper Atachafalya. BRIDGEPORT MAN, BADLY HURT, IS IN NORWALK HOSPITAL South Norwalk, April 25. Lester Branch, of Bridgeport, lies seriously injured in the "Norwalk hospital as the result of a 30-foot drop from a wire he was painting near the South Norwalk depot in connection with the electrification of the railroad, lato.tb.ls morning. A dislocated left elbow and hip and many bruises and lacerations comprise the injuries. Branch fell on a pile of jagged rocks. Unless inter nal complications develop the victim will recover. ANNUAL BURGLARY. An son la. April 25. Burglars enter ed the grocery, and confectionery.store of P. J. Noonan, on . Liberty street some time, last night, and made off with cigars, candy and other; goods valued at over $100.. The store ha been entered nearly every year for a long period. PROTEST OF CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA Strong Mo v em en Against Alien Land Legislation From Consolidated Benevoleri Association, Whose Members Are Naturalized Citizens Sacramento, April 25 The first: pro test against alien land legislation from the Chinese in California, reached the legislature, last night, from the Chin ese Consolidated Benevolent associa tion, otherwise known as the Chinese Six companies. It is in part ' as fol lows: "The Chinese now in California are here by reason, of treaties that guar antee them common rights of 1 man as defined in the bill of rights of your state constitution. We have promoted and desire to promote wider and more abundant trade-between this country and China. We believe that the great reform in our government will increase the consuming and commercial -capacity of the Chinese people and vastly increase, their trade with . the western nations. ' As naturalized Californians we protest this state's due Share can not .be secured by legislation that hu miliates us, brands us with an inferi ority and shames .us before the na tions. , - . "Tour ' proposed legislation : Impairs the capacity of: our countrymen to earn a living here and to contribute to the commonwealth . by . their labor and enterprise and we' insist .' that it is unfriendly and Inhospitable to the people of the youngest republic at the hands of the -greatest republic In the world.i ..' " Tokio. April 25 Satisfaction is gen? erally expressed here over the decision of President Wilson to- send Secretary of State Bryan to California to - con sult .with-the legislators on-the ques tion of proposed alien land ownership legislation. The majority of Japanese newspapers adopt a more tranquil tone, -today,? but-the widely circular ed Osaka -H&tnichi, , an independent !r3aa9er In a. warlike eotrlt. nointa to .the Japanese fleet ur-w-teyrt POPE TO GIVE AliDIENCEwtO U.S. PILGRIMS Rome.April 25. Pope Plus is much better, today, and - Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal secretary of state, has requested the- Right Rev. Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Toledo, to ad vance to tomorrow instead of Sunday the date of the audience the Cardinal Is to give to the American pilgrimage under his charge. At the same time the cardinal in formed Bishop Schrembs .-- that the Pope was suffering- from the - conse quenqes of an attack of grippe which would have passed unnoticed if It had affected an ordinary person. . CANAL TOLLS c DEBATE STARTS BY LEGAL WITS '' Washington, April 25-Delegates to the - American Society of International Law settled down to work, .. today, pre pared to listen to. a sharply contest ed debate on the question of whether the United States was within - its rights in fixing amendments s to - the tolls of shipping "through ' the Panama Canal. The session . was scheduled to start with a discussion of the history of the canal, delivered by Prof .. E. ' D. Warfleld, president of Lafayette ; Col lege. Following him the real locking of horns will take place. Rear Admiral. Charles H. Stockton, retired, Lewis Nixon, - of - New York, and Prof. Eugene Wambaugh, of Har vard University were allied in address ing themselves to the question "Does the Expression 'All Nations' in Arti cle 3 of the Hay-Pauncef ote treaty Include the United States?" . , BOG ART VS. BOG-ART ' s' Papers have been returned to the Superior court In an action for divorce against Frank G. Bogart. - His wife; whose maiden- name was Caroline S. Kirsch, seeks divorce, custody of : their only child, Frederick, aged 14, and ali mony. She alleges - he has . property worth $4,000. . Intemperance is ' the ground. - BANKING REFORM DEMANDED, PRES. WILSON IS TOLD . Washington, April 25-Presldent Wil son was told,' today, that many busi ness men. expect currency legislation at an early date. . H. A. Wheeler; of C1R cago, president of the United States chamber of commerce told the Presi dent that, speaking for businessmen of Chicago at least, he knew -there was a demand for banking reform. Mr. Wheeler said that if . commit tees were organized and bills debated at the present session satisfactory pro gress could be- made so that a law might be enacted - early In- the - next session, if not in;th closing days of the present one. -. t . . MOTHER OF 18 GETS DIVORCE . FORCRUELTY Says Husband Flung Her Downstairs When Angry Part of ker Family Takes Stand to Corroborate Her , Story Proudly - proclaiming herself the mother of 18 children, Gertrude. F, Wilmot - of - 72 Maple street, appeared before - Judge Greene in the superior court this morning and obtained a di vorce from Frank L. Wilmot of this city. Cruelty was the ground. Mrs Wilmot said her . husband abused her. knocked her down stairs and otherwise ill-treated , her i when she. refused to give him money. The couple were married Dec. 16, 1884. . Several , of. her children testified about their father's cruelty. One of the children, Mrs. Charles Klink, - did not want to take the stand, and when she was questioned, denied any know! edge of her father's actions. Florence Hartford Baldwin of Stam ford was granted a decree from Hen ry. C. ' Baldwin of . Brooklyn. Deser tion on May 20, 1908 was the ground, Florence said she went to visit a friend one night to get some bird seed' and when she returned Baldwin was gone, He had' often" threatened to leave. The couple were married in December, 1904, Erlka Llndquist of South Norwalk was divorced from John Lindquist. of South1 Norwalk. - Habitual intemper ance-was the. ground. Dr. Hiram B. West and Deputy Sheriff John W. Volltoer. said i they saw Lindquist fre quently and he was usually drunk. The Lindquist were married Npv. 20,: 189: JUDGE CALLS DOWN JURY FOR STflKINGT NOTES " SpringOeld, O., April. 25 At the open ing: of court, today, in the trial of Dr. Arthur, B. Smith, charged with the murder of his first wife, , Florence C. Smith, ' by poisoning, before allowing the ..defense to call any witnesses, Judge Hagan addressed the Jury. Hav ing seen several jurors taking notes of the testimony, he ordered the notes destroyed and warned . the Jurors to depend on memory and the official record. . The defense' expects to conclude Its testimony In three, days. Among the witnesses are three experts. Dr. James R. Wlthrow, professor of chemistry, Ohio- State University, Dr. T. F Schilling, pathologist, Columbus', . and O.- W. Markworth, professor in the Ohio State Dairy. & Food Department. These men conducted the neutral ex amination of the -viscera of Mrs. Flor ence C. Smith." The other witnesses are local physicians and nurses who. it is expected, will testify in behalf of . the 'defense's theory of natural death from heart affection. Prof. Wlthrow was the first witness called by. the defense. Draft Of Workmen's Compensation Bill Is Ready For Printer Hartford, April 25 The final draft of the workmen's compensation .bill Is in the hands of the Labor Commission After a meeting today it will go to the printers and . copies will be dis tributed next week. The bill is an optional one. and the employer who accepts, and the litigant against IMtn, does not have the. benefit of the com mon law fellow servants rule, contrib utory negligence and assumption of risk. The employer who does not accept the law while the employe who Is seeking recovery from Injury does ac cept it is deprived of part of his com mon law. defense. The insurance un der the bill Is to be in stock - or mu tual ; companies, the- features of the Danaher bill providing for State insur ance being rejected. . .- - . - The committee bill was drawn by Prof. Fisher and it represents the Joint views of the combined Labor and Judiciary committees. The Labor committee discussed the bill and there were some, members who wished for further delay but owing to the short ness of time in which to make the re port it was decided to get it' in next week. : . Claims $15,000 For Damages To Property From Locomotive Soot Charles Swenson of Stamford has brought suit against the N. Y., N. H. &.H. R. -R. Co. for 516,000 upon the ground that his pVoperry has - been damaged by soot and -cinders from locomotives stored in a lot near his premises. Swenson also wants the uperior court to grant an injunction restraining the railroad company from storing its locomotives on the property In question, which is 100 feet away from the plaintiff's premises on Cher ry street, Stamford. The action is re turnable to the May term of court, STRIKERS TOLD OF DISCHARGE ON REPORTING Old Employes Ready to Resume Work Refused Oyer Half Belgian Workers Who Were on Strike, Return to Occupations Today Brussels, April 25. It is estimated that over half the Belgian workers who took part In the strike for equal suffrage have now returned to their employment; but , the resumption of work has been Irregular in some parts of the country. Some of the trade unions have decid(ed to order their men to begin, today, others tomorrow and still others on Monday, next while a few are determined to remain out until May 1. ' ' Disagreeable surprise met the hands who had struck at several factories in the suburbs of Brussels. When they appeared at the factory, this morning, ready to recommence work all the old employes were refused admission and told that they were discharged. Liege, April 25. The decision of the National Socialist Congress at Brus sels ordering a resumption of work throughout Belgium has been fully accepted by the strikers liere and In the surrounding industrial cities: All the factories and other concerns have re-started and business has resumed its normal condition except at the steel works whose furnaces died down during the strike. TJaese will also be in running order again by Monday next. La-Louvtere, April 25. The strik ers in this region returned to work. this morning, almost without an ex ception. Antwerp, April 25. There was a general . renewal of industrial activity here, today. Some friction between employers and workmen : has been caused, however, . by the action of a few wharfage contractors in refusing to discharge- the hands taken on to fill the. vacancies of the strikers, last week.., . -.,'' Lille, France, April 25. -Nearly 2,- 000 children of Belgian strikers who have - been cared for by sympathizers here during the strike in Belgium, started for home, today. All of them carried with them presents from their temporary guardians. TARIFF-BILL WILL REACH SENATE EARLY IN MAY. Washington, : April 25 With only three more days left for general de bate on ' the Underwood tariff bill In the House, the prospect . today was that the measure would pass the House and go to - the Senate during the first week of May. 7 Underwood has given assurance that general debate on the bill will close when the House adjourns, Monday night. Tuesday, the bill will toe call ed up . under' the five minute rule for reading and amendment. At that time it is the purpose of the major ity to fix some limitation, on amends- ments to the bill. ' Representative Moore introduced a novelty; and for the first itmo In the history of Congress so far-" as Known, a speech on the tariff was delivered by the reading of questions irom tne Speaker's rostrum and the delivery of replies from the floor. EX-SENATOR BAILEY FIGURES IN BANK . s SUIT OF $1,500,000 St. Louis, April 25 The name of Former Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas,- was brought into the proceed ings in the suit of the National Bank of Commerce of St Louis to recover $1,500,000 worth of stock in the Nash ville Terminal Railway Company here, today. A statement was made that without the knowledge of the bank directors the stock was taken out of the bank and sent to Senator Bailey. LONDON REGARDS FAVORABLY PEACE PLAN OF BRYAN London, April 25 "Secretary of State Bryan's proposal laid before the diplomatic corps at Washington, yes terday, has all the sympathy char acteristic of the great idea,"' says the Evening Standard, today, "but wheth er it is practical only time can show. The gravest discredit will be reflected on any European government which does not welcome the communication and give it the fullest and most sym pathetic consideration." BANKERS VS. BULLARDS. The Bankers' baseball club will play the Bullard team at No. 5 diamond. Seaside Park, tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. The batteries will be: Mc- Garry and Meerbach for the Bankers; Pulaski and -Berger for Bullards. The Board of Contract and Supply has asked for bids ' on the new. gate house at Lafayette park. The new gate house will be of stucco and ce ment work, and the design is by Skin ner & Walker, local architects. BRANDEIS, DISOW PRODUCE EXCH STILL R. SLIM ATTENDANCE AT FRIDAY SESSION Hartford, April 25 Empty chairs by the score made the House members who attended to duty, today, realize that they were few in number. Scarce ly 50 attended the Friday session and the attendance in the other branch was also slim. The Senators present were Johnson, of Hartford; Hooker, -mrceii, trneney, Stevens. Quinn. Neebe, Kelsey, McGrath, Perry, Weed ana jonnson of Montville, with Sena tor Isbell in the chair. The chaplain prayed that those who have the respon- siDinty ror tne lawmaking do not for get the commandant to keep the Sab bath day holy. When the Senate took up from the calendar the resolution appointing CI. G. -Griswold, Judge, and Charles M. Lewis deputy Judge at Berlin, Mr. btevens vigorously protested against me motion or Mr. Purcell that , these measures be tabled.' The matters eventually were left on the "table. From the calendar was adopted a Din exempting from taxation property of the Norwalk Town Union of Kings Daughters and Sons which property is a home for old ladies. , , The Bridgeport charter amendment concerning districts was sent back to the Cities and Boroughs committee at the request of Senator Miner. In the House the Labor committee reported unfavorably on a. big batch of labor measures, Mr. Storrs of the committee explaining that substitute bills would be reported. . ( - Mr. Wilson of 'Bridgeport asked if the shorter hour provision for. women and children would be included- in the substitute bill for the measures to be rejected, and Mr. Storrs said it would. The Banks committee reported unfa vorably on the bill regulating bank In vestments, & substitute bill being now in hand. - The . Incorporations committee re ported favorably the bill for the Incor poration of the Sachem's Heal Water Company. . . Unfavorable report was made on the proposition to . change the methods of electing members of the board of edu: cation at Waferbury.. . . .The labor committee- reported, the following bill: - Section .1 It shall be unlawful for the owner, proprietor, manager, fore man or other .person . in . authority of any factory, mercantile establishment, mill or workshop to employ a woman or permit a woman' to ; be . employed therein within four weeks previous to confinement' or four weeks after she has given birth to a child. Section 2 -Any person who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be fined not more than $2.5 or im prisoned not more than 30 days In jail or both. , In explaining the unfavorable re port' of the Judiciary committee on a bill providing for the election of pub lic committees, Mr. Healy said it was not a plank of the Democrato plat form like many similar things and the committee was unanimously against It. It was rejected. . - On motion of Mr. Healy, the direct primary bill was made the order of the day for Tuesday, May 6. , On motion of Mr. Bree, the unfavor able report of his committee on a bill to regulate the supervision of plumb ing was sent to the foot of the cal endar as a new bill Is being pre pared. The roads, rivers and bridges committee reported a bill creating the office of superintendent of highways and bridges in Darien. ' An unfavorable report was. made on the bill providing for changing the method -of electing members of the board of education In Waterbury. The House adopted the Senate bills amending the charter of New Haven concerning the controller and the civ il service board regulations; an act regarding registrars of Waterbury; authorising Ansonla to issue sewer bonds and amending the charter of the Bridgeport Trust Co. The House adjourned at 1:20 until Tuesday after' accomplishing a great deal of work from the calendar. GEN. MILLS DEFINES STATUS OF MILITIA Washington, April 25. General Albert Mills, In charge of the militia division of the army, today, issued a circular order defining ithe relation ship of the regular army officers to the militia while engaged in Instruct ing the state troops. He declared that while the federal government was dis posed to allow considerable latitude in the system of military instruction in the various states, yet in order to ob tain the assistance of the government he Insisted that the syste mmust be such as to afford proper Instruction and to maintain the militia as a suf ficient war unit. Therefore, while the army officers' services were at tire disposal of the militia, the officers al so were under the orders of the war department and had certain definite nstructions which they must carry out. The circular continues that as it may be taken for granted the army officers are educated soldiers their service on . matters of instruction should be followed by the depart ment. WANT DI MARTIXO FREED. An attempt is being made through influential relatives abroad to secure the release from prison of Emil Di- Martino, convicted in this city several years ago of murdering his boarding house-keeper on Center street. Among others who have received letters from the Italian authorities asking informa tion about the case is Luke G. Fetru echell, the City court Interpreter and prominent member of the Italian speaking colony here. NED BY ANGE, IS R. PROBE Announces Withdrawal As Coun sel and Purpose to Act As Citizen RAILROAD LAWYER ALSO ACTS Hi LIKE CAPAGITT New Haven's Adv. Bills for Three Months Reach Total of Nearly $100,000 Boston, April 25 When the hearing on (.the affairs of the (New Tork, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company and allied lines- was resumed today, Louis D. Brandeis announced his with drawal as counsel for the Boston Fruit & Produce Eoochange, but said that he would continue as a party to the case in the capacity of "a citizen, of Mass achusetts' Since the present hearing began, Mr. Brandeis has appeared as the repre sentative of the exchange and has con ducted a greater part of the examina tion of witnesses. Yesterday! the di rectors of the exchange adopted a res olution setting forth that he was no longer their counsel before the com mission. Mr. Brandeis occupied some time in. reading correspondence between the exchange and himself showing how he came to enter the case originally at the request of the produce men. When he concluded Charles F. Choate, ad dressing Edward Prouty, who presid ed In the absence of his father, Com misioner Prouty, said that he also would appear as a "citizen of Massa chusetts." Brandeis immediately demanded to know , if Attorney Choate represented ths New Haven railroad or the New England Navigation Company. Choate denied that he was in the employ of any. railroad, wherelpon David E. Brown, the government's accountant, at the request of Brandeis, read into the record Vopies of two vouchers showing that Choate had received $13, 900 from the New Haven road for le gal services In 1908. ' The examination of . Accountant Brown was then begum by Brandeis. The chairman announced that the at torneys for the road would not be per mitted to cross-examine th witness during" the- abnence of Commlsioner Prouty. ' - - 7' Figures read, by Brown in answer to a question regarding the New Haven's advertising account indicated that from January 27, 1911, to February, 1913, inclusive, the New Haven road had paid the- Boston .. News Bureau $95,528, of which sum $92,000 was paid in December, January, and February last. GRANITE STATE SAVED FROM-.-' DESTRUCTION Historic Old War Frigate Seemed Doomed from Fire at Anchor age on the Hudson New Tork, April 25. The 95 year eld frigate Granite State, the largest wooden vesse ever built for the United States navy, which seemed doomed by fire breaking out aboard her in the Hudson river at midnig.ht, was sayed from destruction, early i.o day, but not until serious damage had been done throughout the fore part of the frigate. Dwellers in the hundreds of large apartment houses facing the Hudson watched from their windows and roofs the uncommon spectacle for with smoke and flames puffing from the portholes for nearly three hours it was a realistic reminder of the nav al battles of the Civil and Mexican wars In which the Granite Stats, for merly known as the Alabama and the New Hampshire, took part. Roofed over like a mammoth house boat, the old. warship had rested for the past few years at an anchorage at 69th street where it was used as an armory by the first battalion of the. New York naval militia. Seventy militiamen, asleep In their hammocks, were aboard and the fire, under great headway, was discovered in the paint- shop. Twenty-five men plunged quick ly to the hold of the vessel and car ried out two tons of ammunition and then all hands fought the flames. Ten men were partly overcome by smoke and one was forced to leap into the river when surrounded by the fire but he swam to safety ashore. The city firemen, with streams from the land and from a fireboat, finally checked the flames. The Granite, State was built at Kit- terey. Me., in 1818 and rebuilt in 1863 after she had been partly destroyed in an engagement in the Civil war but she was soon sent out of commission as the battle beween the Monitor and Merri mac had demonstrated that wooden ships were obsolete. COXN. QUARRIES CO. PAYS 8275 INCORPORATION FEB Hartford, April 25 The State of Connecticut received a fee of $275 from the Connecticut Quarries Company of Plainvllle, which filed a certificate of incorporation in the office of the Sec retary of State, today. The company has an authorized capital of $5JO,0O0, all paid in. The incorporators are John S. Lane, B. D. Pierce, Jr., -Arthur 8. Lane, Frank S. Neal. John W. Cooke, Irving 8. Tinker, James Cooke, Thomas DeForest, N. W, Blabop and Florence A. Hastings. .,