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THE TIMES: MAT 3, 1918-
PAPERS GIVE VRONG IMPRESSION
ON HOG ISLAND SITUATION, SAYS
LOCAL MAN; DOESN'T DENY TRUTHS
Warren R. Briggs, the architect
who has just retnrned from the 51st
annual contention of the American
Institute of Architects held In Pheila
delhla last week, where he repre
sented the state of Connecticut, was
Very much Impressed by a visit ' to
Hog Island where he and other archi
tects examined the immense ship
building plant. The Bridgeport War
Bureau heard of Mr. Brings" visit to
Hog Island and requested him to
make & statement for publication
concerning what he had seen.
Mr. Briggs says: "On Wednesday
last a representative of the Interna
tional Shlpbiulding Co. appeared on
the floor of the convention and ex
tended to the convention a cordial
Invitation to visit thenr plant and in
vited the closest scrutiny and criticism
on what had been done. He stated
that a great deal had been written
and published concerning their work,
and while he did not say that the
statements made were untrue he did
say that they gave a wrong impression.
He asked permission to show two
panoramic photographs. These were
-enlarged and the first shown was
about 10 feet long and three feet wide
and waa taken on the 3rd of last Sep
tember. "It reminded me more than any
thing else of Milford Point and Hells'
Island in the Ilousatonic river, sim
ply a waste of sand dunes and sedge.
He then shewed a photgraph taken
three" weeks! ago, which showed
practically a. small city. On Saturday
morning about 100 architects visited
the plant which comprises 840 acres,
employed on it are 23,000 men, 10,000
of which are skilled men, the balance
laborers and helpers. There is con
tained in the plant 50 ways each 1,000
feet long. These ways are divided in
five groups of 10 Cays in each group
and back of each gniup is a complete
ship yard, which is independent of
that adjoining it, the idea being that
one group is entirely separated from
the other, and must not borrow or
loan to the other. If they require
anything in their department they
must go back to the store buildings
for It
"There are on the teland proper 36
miles of rnllroad running in all di
rections and connecting it together
and outside of this there are 72 miles
of siding and approaches connected
With the several railroads.
"The capacity of the yard when it
is in full operation is 180 ships a year,
or about one every two days. On Sat
urday morning there were 18 ships
Started and they are continually lay
ing keels for more. These ships are
ntirely of steel and run from 390 to
480 feet in length and from 52 feet
team to 59 feet beam and average
from 7,500 to 8,900 tons capacity.
"It is expected that a ship can be
completed in 90 days sltltough 100
days has been allowed for the first
that is the ship is completed in this
time ready for outfitting. It is then
taken to what is called the ways basin
Where it is outfitted. As they can
outfit a ship twice as quickly as they
can construct it. It will take from 45
to 60 days to entirely complete the
vessel reafly for sea.
"It is confidently expected that the
first ship will leave the ways in the
middle of July and be ready to go
across in the middle of September.
"There is maintained on the ground
a school for workmen and no skilled
workman can be employed until he
goes through this school. It seems
that tha average steel worker Is not
fitted for ship building and is requir
ed to enter this school and go through
a course of three weeks' training.
During this time they are paid at the
rate of 35 cents an hour and their
duties consist of boring, countersink
ing, riveting and erecting. There are
complete bulkheads of a ship as it
will be when completed on the ground
and these are set up and taken apart
by these men during the three weeks
course. Tey are not nvited, onlj
hoKed together.
"I saw one bulkhead Just finished
and the men had commenced to take
it down. Most of the men qualify in
three weeks as skilled workmen, and
If they do not in this time, they are
discharged.
"The laborers on the grounds re
ceive $4.40 a day, carpenters $6.80 a
day. The skilled ste worker aver
ages about $10 a day. The younger
men or boys who act as riveters re
ceive 4 cents per rivet and when
they become skilled can make any
wheres from $4 to $8 a day. All riv
eting, etc., is done by compressed air
as there is on the grounds the second
largest air compressed plant there is
in the world, the only one that ex
ceeds this in size is at the Kimberly
diamond mines in South Africa.
"Six thousand men remain on the
ground all the time at the barracks.
There is a large industrial housing
plant outside the island which is in
the course of construction. All the
roads on the Island at the present
time are plank, but these will be su
perseded later by concrete.
"There is a complete and well
er.'ripped fire department, police de
partment and hospital service, besides
the government troops.
"The company receives no profit
outside of that which may be contain
ed in the overhead charges for the
construction of the plant, but do re
ceive a percentage, which was not
stated, on eaeh ship constructed and
a bonus if finished ahead of time."
Prom what Mr. Qrlggs saw he is of
I the opinio that the statements made
I by the officials in charge will be car
ried out to the letter and tl.at .begin
ning next September vessels will be
turned out at the rate of at least two
a week.
Dr. Finley Will Head Bed
Gross Work in Palestine
FAMOUS AGTRESS
SUFFERING WITH
A RARE DISEASE
New Tork, May 3 The condition
of Anna Held, the actress, remained
unchanged 'yesterday, though she
spent a comfortable day in her
apartments in the Hotel Savoy. Dr.
Donald McCaskey, her physician,
said that a consultation would be
held on Friday to determine wheth
er a blood transfusion would be nec
essary to restore Miss Held to her
former vigorous condition.
'The X-ray examination has re
vealed a spongy condition of .the
bone marrow and the" bone tissue,
he said. "There aire only fifty cases
of this disease, which is called mal
tiple myeloma, recorded in the his
tory of medicine. The bone tissue
gradually becomes spongy, and its
co.urse is Insidious, steadily making
demands on the blood supply until
the patient becomes anaemic. The
affliction is caused, 1 x 'k, by over
work, and insufficient u. nlight. Miss
Held, however, is determined to fight
the thing . with her characteristic
spirit."
Dr. McCaskey added that Miss
Held had not gained in weight since
her illness became pronounced. She
still weighs 85 pounds, he said, al
though Her normal weight is around
115 pounds. To increase her strength
a blood transfusion inevitably would
be necessary if a gam was not shown.
NEW DIVISION TO
CURB R. R. THEFTS
Dr. John H. Finley, commissioner
of education for the state of New
York, it is announced unofficially, will
be the head of the Red Cross work in
Palestine. The Red Cross has made
comprehensive plans for the relief of
the people of the Holy Land, who
for centuries have suffered under
Turkish rule, and recently were res
cued through the British conquest of
Jerusalem. "The initial work of the
Red Cross commission," says the an
nouncement, "will be to establish in
Palestine four medical units to com
bat typhus, cholera and other di
seases. A fully equipped ihospital will
be established."
"Washington, May 3 To protect
the railroads from the. loss bv nettv
pilfering of freight in transit Direc
tor General of Railroads -McAdoo has
created a special division of the Law
Department to deal with the subject
and has appointed Philip J. Doherty
as manager. He will have charge of
the work of protecting railroad prop
erty as well as protecting shippers
against loss of their goods.
Director McAdoo has . announced
the creation of the new division In a
special order that has gone out to
every railroad station in the country.
All employes are asked to co-operate
and send any Information which they
may have to Mr. Doherty at Washing
ton, D. C.
Recommendations for six-cent
fares throughout .the state that em
ployees may receive increased Dav
will be made by Mayor Stone of Syr
acuse, at a conference of up-state
Mayors at Rochester.
Field Marshal Haig in a message to
Queen Many said Ms "army will fight
unzu iuu victory is achieved."
What You Should Pay
For Staple Foods
"
The following wholesale and retai 1 prices on these staple foods will be
published under the auspices of the United States Food Administration as
suggested prices for the guidance of the purchasing public.
STAPLE GROCERIES Retailer Consumer
, .' Pays ' Should Pay
(according to
brands)
Wheat flour 24 sacks ....... 1.40-1.50 1.60-1.70
Barley flour, 98 lb. sacks ............ 6.30-6.75 g per it,.
Rye flour, 98 lb. sacks 6.40-7.50 8-9 per lb.
Entire wheat flour ........ . 6-6 per lb. 7 per lb.
Graham flour 5-5 per lb. g per jD-
Corn Meal 6 per lb. 7 per
Hominy, 1 lb. pkg. .............. 11-12 per pkg. 15 per pkg.
Rolled Oats 6perlb. . 7 per n.
Corn Oil 2.15 per gafl. . 2 50 per gal.
Cptton Seed Oil 2.15 per gal. 50 per gai.
Condense milk (depending on brand) 14-15 per can 16-18 per can
Evaporated milk, 16 oz. ....... ....... 124 per can 14 per can
Corn syrup 1 lb. can . ... , .,.,.. 11 per can 15 per
Rice 10-11 per lb. 13 per lb.
White beans, small ................ 14-16 per lb. lg jb
Yellow split peas ... . . .... .... . 11-12 per lb. 15 lb'
Dried green peas 13-14 per lb. 15 lb'
Molasses, New Orleans . 46-78 per gal. 90 'x
Molasses, Ponce 65-78 per gal. 9n eal"
Victory Bread, 16 oz; loaf 20 cereal 8 per loaf 1 10 per'ioaf
DRIED FRUITS
Prunes, 30's and 70's lO-lSer lb. 15-20 lb.
Raisins, seeded 10-12 per pkg 13-15 per pkg.
Evaporated peaches 13-16 per lb. 16-20 lb.
Evaporated apples per lb. 20-22 lb.
Evaporated apricots 20-23 per lb. 25-28 lb.
VEGETABLES J
Potatoes 2.00 per cwt 2 per lb.
Onions, yellow ... 2.00 per cwt. 3 per lb.
Cabbage 4.00-4.25 7 per lb.
DAIRY PRODUCTS ' ".
Cheese, domestic, fancy new . 24-26 per lb. 8032 per lb
Cheese, domestic, fancy old 26-28 per lb. 34 Ber lb
Fancy fresh tub butter 43.45 per ib. rr'n
Fresh eggs per doz. JJ J" '
Pure Lard, bulk 27 per lb. fr plr ;
LISTER ESTATE
GIVEN FOR CAMP
Washington, IMay 3. Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Leiter, who expect to remain
in their du Pont Circle home through
the spring, have placed their country
home, which Is Just across the Poto
mac river in Virginia, at the disposal
of the government as a rest and rec
reation camp for soldiers.
The 100 acres surrounding the house
will have shacks and tents to accom
modate 1,000 persons, while the house,
with certain reservations, will be used
as "an administration building'. Late
in Juno Mr. and Mrs. Leiter will go
to Manchester, Mass., where they have
another home.
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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
The names of one lAmerfcan Mled
in action and one wonndekl appeared
in the Canadian casualty list.
The class of 1909 Naval Academy
of Annapolis win erect a tablet in Me
morial Hall in honor of its mem
bers who have lost their lives fight
ing for their country.
The War department announces
that the health in the army continues
to show improvement. Deaths last
week were 251 compared with 278
for the previous week.
THE CONNECTICUT
NATIONAL BANK
OF
BRIDGEPORT
Cor. Main and Wall Streets
Lieut. William von Bricken, form
erly military attache of the German
consulate in San Francisco, who
pleaded guilty to conspiring to over
throw British rule in India, was sen
tenced to two years' imprisonment.
low 1
NEW TRIAL FOR
MOONEY ASKED
San Francisco, May S A motion
asking that Thomas J. Mdoney receive
a new trial and that the previous trial
whlcb resulted in a death sentence for
murder be set aside on the grounds
of wilful fraud, malfeasance, and non
feasance in the' office of District At
torney Charles M. Pickert, was made
In court here yesterday hy Moxwell
McNutt, chief counsel for the con
demned man. The motion was fol
lowed hy arguments on the jurisdic
tion of Judge Franklin A. Griffin in
the case, which already has gone to
the State Supreme Conrt, where a
new trial was denied.
HURT IN TROLLEY
WRECK, ASKS $5,000
Damages of $5,000 are claimed in a
suit ftlea in the Superior court against
the Connecticut Co. iby Emma. Lind
wall of Stratford, who alleges she was
injured when a trolley car in which
she was riding ran off the track in
aBrnum avenue October 22, 1917. Ex
cessive speed at which the car was
operated is alleged In the complaint.
THE SPIRIT OP ECONOMY.
TO-DAY'S WANTS
HELP "WANTED
There is a strong note of economy
struck in these new French clotihies,
which is heard by the woman who is
hiriny a seamstress to build up her
spring wardrobe at home. It shows
the way to alter old gowns into new
ones. The majority of women own
evening frocks that (have good foun
dations, the skirts a trifle too full, it
is true, but otherwise ready to serve
as the beginning of a new frock. The
alteration in the skirt is a simple one.
It consists of straightening out all the
seams so that there is no flare from
the hips down.
This trick is going on in all the
sewing rooms on the continent, for
the straight skirt is so well establish
ed that even the casual woman has
observed that she is entirely out of
the lrture in any garment that has
flaring seams.
After the satin or silk evening
foundation is adapted to the modern
silhouette, the woman who is bent
on alteration and economy may drop
over it a chemise tunic of chiffon or
jetted material, or she may take good
parts of ornamental drapery from
other gowns and make them into a
tunic. r '
If neither of these tricks is possible
she may buy wide, ornamental -ribbon,
or do as one woman did cut strips
from old bits of brocaded curtains
thatt have served their day, and
mounting them on tulle, accomplish
a' tunic that has real distinction.
I IF TOTT WANT HELP of any kind
apply to the IT. S. Employment Ser
vice, $03 Fairfield Ave. R3 tt
fTTATIONS WANTED
IrnsmONS of all kinds for men and
women can be had in factories,
tores, offices and on farms, by ap
plying to the U. S. Employment Ser
vice, S03 Fairfield Ave., who make
no charge for their services. R5U
"To teach the Americans a lesson," was one purpose of the German attack northwest of Tool on
April 20th, so the German prisoners say, but the only lesson connected with the engagement as far as
observant editors can see, is that the Yakees can meet about three times their number of German "shock
troops" and send i lem back to their trenches pretty heavily depleted. The German blow was delivered
against the junction of the French and American bines by special Saxon "storm (troops" the only first
class units, according to a French authority, east of the Picardy battlefield. Outnumbered enormously,
their lines swept by a hurricane of poison-gas and high-explosive shells, Pershing's men exacted a price
for every inch of ground they yelded and ultimately recaptured by the fiercest kind of hand-to-hand
fighting, all they had lost. . '
. Eead THE LITERARY DIGEST his week (May 4th) for a graphic report of the American sol
diers' first big engagement and what America, Prance, and Germany think of their behavior under fire.
Other articles of importance in this number of the DIGEST are:
What The "U"-Boats Are Doing and Failing To Do
An Enlightening Article That Shows That Even Germany Recognizes the Indecisiveness of
the Submarine Campaign
Personal Glimpses of Men and Events
Stronger Curb on Enemies At Home
America's Part in the Irish Crisis
The Confession That Germany Started
the War
Unholy Aspects of the Holy War
"One-piece" Meals
The Naval Raid on Zeebrugge
The Potato '
(Prepared by the TJ. S. Food Administration)
Dr. Muck's Tears
That Injured Lamb the Kaiser
Henry Ford on Victory by Tool-Power
The Big German Gun
Why Is a Good Marksman Good?
Debussy's Hatred of Wagner
Our Futile War Plays
The Good Friday Slaughter in Paris
News of Finance and Commerce
Recruiting for the Y. M. C. A.
A Full-Page Colored Map Showing Battle Line and Its Relation to Channel Ports, With
Many Other Helpful Illustrations, Including Cartoons
'The Digest" the Clearing-House for the World's News.
From all parts of this busy earth the wires are con
stantly speeding the latest news of camp and court, of
' home and market-place, of every phase and variety of
human interest, to THE LITERARY DIGEST. In four
thousand editorial sanctums scattered about the face of
the globe this greatest of news-magazines has an ear
alert to catch the faintest whisper that may thrill a
continent, and every week it records the results of this
listening-in process for the benefit of nearly three mil
lion eager readers, who look to it as an unbiased inter
preter of the life of the world. It tells them, and YOU
with them, if you are wise enough to read it, all that
you want to know of the war, of what our boys are do-'
ing at the front, of the activities here at home, of the
work of the Red Cross, of the War Savings Campaign.
If you would be intelligently patriotic and co-operate
efficiently with the Government, read THE DIGEST.
i Homer Whited, one of Pershing's
fifty sent to America to help the Lib
erty Loan, was cheered by 10,000 at
Yonkers as he threw an effigy of the
Kaiser into the river. .
A committee of antomobfl men
will confer with ' Bernard Barnch,
chairman of . the War Industries
Board in Washington, on Monday on
the limitation' of production. -,
May 4th Number on Sale To-day All News-dealers 10 Cents.
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TAXES
GRAND LIST OP 1917
Notice Is hereby triven to the tax
payers of the City of Bridgeport that
the taxes on the grand list of 1917 are
now due and payable at the Tax Col
lector's office, Room 4, City Hall. The
nmdersigned will be at the Collector's
office, as above, on May 1, 1918, and
daily thereafter,Sunday excepted, from
9 a. m. to 4 p. m., and Saturdays from
a. m. to 12 m. for the purpose of
collecting said taxes. After June 1st,
as required by law, interest at the rate
of three-quarters of one per cent, wul
be added to all unpaid taxes and the
same on the first of each succeeding
month.
HOWARD F. SMITH,
U18 ug Collector.
STATE OP CONNECTICUT,
DISTRICT OP BRIDGEPORT, 8S,
PROBATE COURT.
April 30, 1918
Estate of Susanna Schmid. late of
the town of Bridgeport, in said dis
trict, deceased.
The Court of Probate for the dis
trict of Bridgeport hath limited and
allowed six months from the date
hereof for Creditors of said Estate
to exhibit their claims for settlement.
ThoBe who ne'glect to present their
accounts properly attested, within
said time, will be debarred a recovery.
All persons indebted to said Estata
are requested to- make immediate
payment to
JACOB EEH,
Executor.
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