The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-25

April. This colony is the result of Sergeant |
Bowman's labor, and his address is Royal
ton, vt.
The changes and improvements in the |
internal arrangement of the office of the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company, |
which by the directors have long been
deemed desirable and necessary and were |
determined upon at the December meeting |
of the board are well in progress. The
offices of the president, secretary and |
treasurer are to be together, in the east side
of the building. Handsome counters, with |
wire screens, separate the working space
from the public room, for the better con-
venience of the officers in the transaction of
the business of their departments-not as an
exclusion from the patrons of the company,
to whom, as hitherto, the Office, its records
and its work are open for inspection. These
changes have become necessity, also, on
account of the largely increased business of
the company. The treasurer and secretary
being together, their work, always init
mately connected, will be greatly simpli-
fed and better systematized. The presi
dents office is sufficiently removed to be
rendered private when necessity requires it,
The western room which will thus be va
Gated by the treasurer is to be used as a
directors room. The cost of these altera-
tions is very slight compared with what is
deemed to be the greater convenience to
both officers and patrons of the company.
Iris not generally known that Hiram Atkins
has his pockets full of railway passes, and
has passes or dead-head tickets for the
members of his family, for "his sisters, his
cousins and his aunts -; that he has habitu
ally levied upon the Central's passenger
trains to transport his traps and luggage to
and from his summer resort; that his nod or
beck has passed his retainers and hangers
on till his cheek and impositions have made
him the terror and disgust of train men.
People who know these things are surprised
or would be, if it were any one else-that
a man who time out of mind, has been the
| king of railway dead-heads, should be bawl-
ing about "importunate beggars of passes"
1t looks, to the outside public, like the old
cry of "Stop thief" by the fellow that
stole the goods. What Mr.. Atkins needs
to do is to call his referees together and get
his claims " adjudicated." Till he does this,
not count Henry Ovatt, c. D. B., still
prates of bribing The WATCHMAN. He puts
on the airs of capitalist, but his talk re-
minds people who know his peculiarities of
his great prototype who once offered the
world as a bribe when the presumptuous
sinner hadn't an inch of real estate to his
name, and no one would trust him with any.
Oviatt should vary the narration of his
financial exploits by telling, sometime, how
as delegate to the national republican
convention, and as Edmunds' "manager, !"
he bought" the support of the Chicago
Tribune. Bought" is,good
II. l.. BIxBY of Chelsea sends us the fol-
lowing suggestions, in relation to the town
signal service, to towns thinking of adopting
the new weather signal system and wishing
to know before March meeting the cost and
best methods of working: "It now seems
the cheapest and most convenient way to
let the signal numbers start from two
central points-Burlington for western
and West Randolph for eastern Vermont
and radiate, by telegraph or telephone, from
town to town over the state at some regular
hour, early as convenient after all the opera
tors are in. They may thus reach nearly
every station in the state in few minutes,
at a cost for each varying from twenty-five
cents per day down to nothing. Let each
town bargain for itself for the transmission,
and remember to allow a small sum to help
pay the telegraph bill of seventy EIGHT dol
lars per year at the starting-point. The
signal whistles may be blown at seven A. NJ,
where there are night operators otherwise,
at eight or half-past eight o'clock, and where
there are no Whistles large signal numbers
may be placed in the windows of the sta
tions. Other means, audible and visible,
will suggest themselves as needed. 1t
has been proposed to rule out the condi-
tions under No. in the signal code
and substitute those under No. 6, and
for No. insert decided rise in tenn
peratlre. If this is done, further notice
and revised code will be published" Mr..
A. G. Brown of the Montpelier telephone
exchange has made arrangements to receive
predictions and display weather signals at
the Montpelier Office, and will put the system
into practice at once. Large figures will be
suspended from the State and Main street
windows of the exchange office, and may be
, AH'Si piSppN bNtOihihB w bht iOiioNi iHS tdDiCi
which all will do well to commit to memory
or preserve for reference: "a Fair, or prob
ably fair, for seventeen hours after seven A.
M; (2) foul, or probably foul, for same
period; (0 fair at first and changing to foul
before end OF time; (4) foul at first and
changing to fair before end of time (5
doubtful and variable weather for entire
time (6) unreasonable frost or cold waves
The predictions will be received and first
announced shortly after seven o'clock each
morning. Future arrangements may be
made for wider circulation of the weather
intelligence.
A CORRESPONDENT kindly furnishes the
following report of the temperance meeting
at Waterbury last week: The institute Of
i the Washington County Woman's Christian
= Temperance Union, held at Waterbury OF
Thursday afternoon and Friday of last week
was eminently successful and instructive
. A full report of the meeting, together with
=, , some of the papers read, will be published
- in the Union Signdl, the official organ of tn,
National Woman's Christian Temperate,
d Union. We consider that the most notice
:, able feature of the whole gathering was th
7. strong devotional spirit manifested and th