School for Crippled and Deformed 
Children is now in its twenty-first 
year of existence and Mr. Cotting 
served it all these years. His idea 
from the first was to have the pupils 
do work that was practical and com- 
mercially valuable, even while they 
were learning their trades. The 
school is necessarily an industrial 
school, besides furnishing the com- 
mon school education required to be 
given to every child in this State. A 
printing shop was accordingly opened 
as one of the first profit-making de- 
partments in the school, and Mr. 
Cotting furnished many ideas for 
further development and often work- 
ed them out in detail himself. He 
established and supported the sum- 
mer salesroom at Manchester. Mr. 
Cotting had been a member of the 
Essex County Club at Manchester, 
the Algonquin Club and The Coun- 
try Club, A brother, Charles E. Cot- 
ting, and a sister, Miss Alice Cot- 
ting, survive him. Amos Cotting, 
who died Aug. 22 of last year, was 
another brother. 
Dr. Thomas Morgan Rotch was 
professor of pediatrics in the Har- 
vard Medical school, and one of the 
foremost specialists on children’s dis- 
eases in the country. He was 65 
years of age. For the past year Dr. 
Rotch had been a sufferer from val- 
vular heart trouble and lately it was 
know that his life could last but a 
short while more. He had hoped 
to deliver at least one lecture in the 
new Thomas Morgan Rotch, Jr., 
building of the infants’ hospital, to 
complete which, in memory of his 
son, was the ambition of his later life. 
Kiss Your Wife Daily. 
Vice President Marshall is an 
original chap, and talks upon every 
subject under the sun. He suggests 
that the best remedy for divorce is 
for a man to kiss his wife every 
day, merely as a matter of habit. 
Within the week it has been pub- 
lished that Mr. Marshall, having 
been on a train delayed for many 
hours, was away from his wife for 
the first time since their marriage 
eighteen years ago. It may be a 
delicate suggestion, but the people 
who have seen the Vice President’s 
beautiful and charming wife can 
easily understand how it would be 
a pleasure to carry out Mr. Marsh- 
all’s practice of avoiding divorce 
with such an incentive. However, 
even the Vice President might balk 
if his ease was like that of some of 
the other distinguished men of the 
nation—no names, please; this ‘be- 
ing another case of where corres- 
pondent Jones has said enough. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Senate Favorable to Suffrage. 
A number of test votes have been 
taken in the Senate regarding wo- 
man suffrage. While it has not 
been ascertained that that body 
contains the two-thirds majority 
necessary to commit it to the pro- 
position to submit the constitu- 
tional amendment to the states, yet 
it is nevertheless clear that the Sen- 
ators are ready to take hold of the 
question and dispose of it without 
resorting to the numerous subter- 
fuges by which the resolution in the 
House has been shoved aside. The 
women who have been in Washing- 
ton in great numbers asking action 
by Congress urge that inasmuch as 
nine states now: have equal suffrage, 
that the question be finally deter- 
mined by all the people at the polls. 
There are only two common- 
wealths in this country—Massachu- 
setts and Virginia. All the others 
are known as states. 
Our Local Industry 
' The Manchester telephone exchange is a local in- 
dustry. 
The plant is firmly rooted here. 
It represents 
‘ many thousands of dollars invested in poles, wire, cables, 
conduits, switchboards, etc—dollars that would shrink 
to small fractions if this delicate and costly plant were 
2 not maintained at a high degree of efficiency, 
The exchange’s welfare is to a large degree depend- 
ent upon Manchester welfare. 
More business for Manchester 
the exchange prospers. 
As Manchester prospers, 
means more telephone business, and more telephones 
means more workers to install and operate them—work- 
ers who largely are local residents, whose expenditures 
help local business. 
Our Company is a part of the great Bell System, 
which connects 75,000 cities or towns in the United 
States. 
But our success as an exchange—as a unit of 
this great System—is judged by what we do here in 
Manchester and for Manchester. 
We have every incentive of selfish or civic interest, 
therefore, to work for efficient telephone service for 
Manchester, not only that our work may receive official 
recognition and reward, but also that our friends and 
neighbors may be well served, and that these local in- 
dustries whose patronage furnishes us our bread -and 
/ butter may have our hearty co-operation and support. 
It is in this spirit we seek additional patronage, and 
express a desire to receive suggestions that will make 
the service of the Manchester Central Office a matter 
of even greater local pride. 
IRVING W. ROLFE, Manager. 
March 12, 1914. 
