The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
NUMBER 21.

V. Fred ii. harrington and II. d. TYLER a.
slgnees OF George Briggs of Brandon, in
solvent; the Essex county case of State v.
@. K. Benton's Estate; the Rutland county
case OF Willard A. Bullard, executor of es-
tate OF Caroline A. Wood, v. Belle c. Perry:
the windsor county case Of Solon / Ather-
ton v. e. j. Whitcomb. Gases heard on
friday were as follows: Grswold, Pearl 81
20. V. f. A. and A. w. Scott, Caledonia
county; State V. Napoleon Valwell Gale
donia county; Merchants National Bank of
st. Johnsbury v. Arthur Taylor, Caledonia
county; state v. Fred Seaver, Caledonia
county the Windsor county perjury case of
State v. Josiah II. Wilder. On Saturday
morning the Caledonia county case OF
George Van Dyke V. Wilder & Co.; the
Martin II. Goddard Estate V. Chapman,
from windsor county; and the First Con-
gregational Church " Town of Rochester,
also from Windsor county, were heard
tuesday morning the cases OF First National
Bank of Chelsea v. j. G. Fits, and First
National Bank of Chelsea " II. NJ. Miller
ana y. u. Fits, were heard together. In
tne orange county case Of State V. A. T.
Clark, verdict was set aside and a new trial
granted. The Chittenden county case of
David A. Brodie V. Edwin L. Ripley occu-
pied the time of the court Tuesday after
noon.
The board of civil authority met in the
grand jury room at the courthouse last
Thursday evening to hear the complaints of
any who felt aggrieved at the action of the
listers in their April apprasals. General
stephen Thomas appeared before the board
ana and asked that the plant of the United
States Clothes Pin Company be exemnt
from taxation. The term of exemption for
this plant has expired and the listers could
DO no less than assess the property. This
matter, and several others of similar char
acter, will be settled at the special town
ineetlng 10 be held on Tuesday afternoon,
May 20. DR.. o. L. Watson had returned a
list of S5,775, and claimed exemption on
5000 in excess of S. 800 in the savings bank
in his name, but which belongs to his ward,
John Flanders of Chicago. The board sus-
tained the action of the listers and raised
Dr, Watson's list from S5,775 to S7,050. A.
Y. Blanchard, manager Of the Montpelier
Beef Company, claimed that the concern
was insolvent and was owned by g. F. and
E.. C. Swift of Chicago and Boston He
asked Tor rebate on the doubling of the
listers The board sustained their action.
The stock in the First National Bank owned
by S. II. o. Bosworth had been put in at
par and Mr.. Bosworth claimed that it was
worth not more than seventy-fve or eighty
cents. The listers stated that the bank
statement of April 1, as returned to the in
spector of finance, showed quite a surplus,
and that all the stock of this bank had been
put IN at par. AS no appeal had been taken
from this, the case of Mr.. Bosworth was
dismissed. The meeting then adjourned to
Monday afternoon at two O'Clock to enable
Colonel E. p. Jewett and others who could
not well be out evenings a chance to be-
heard. At the adjourned meeting, Monday
afternoon, E. E. Blakely appeared before
the board and asked relief from the action
of the listers. In the list which he returned,
as an offset to $4,000, value of shares in the
Capital Savings Bank, owned by him, he
had put in 100 shares of the Vermont Saw
Jugs Investment Company of Topeka, Kan,
for which he owed. The listers claimed
that Mr.. Blakely had simply put this in, in
nd t1nt h.ah nd
made out fictitious inventory. They
doubled what they could find, making his
list $4,000 The board deferred acting on
this case until further adjourned meeting,
to be held on Thursday evening. In the
case of Colonel Fred Il. Smith, it was clear
that neither Colonel Smith, who has been
absent in the West, nor the listers were at
fault, and it is probable the board will give
the relief asked.
THE attendance at the opera house, Mon
day evening, shows that Mary Howe MAIN
tains an undiminished popularity at the
capital of her native state. Blanchard
opera house was filed, and the welcome the
star OF the company received was charac-
terized by the cordiality of pleasant rea-
tions previously established, rather than
the demonstrations that attend the coming
of new artist heralded by fame, about
whose person and quality there is the potent
charm of novelty. The gifted and attractive
violinist, Miss Becker, was put forward to
break the ice in nocturne by Chopin, so
well played that it was received with an
appreciative round of applause A few of
the more impressonable ones sought to con-
vince the charming young artist that the
entire assemblage then and there desired to
honor her with an encore. The young
woman was sensible, she knew better, and
politely bowed her acknowledgements, leav-
ing the pathway to the footlights open to
the baritone Mr.. Ferguson, and the second
number on the programme, Toreador's
Song" The encore iend, somewhat dis
concerted by his unsuccess with the violin
ist, redoubled his efforts on Mr.. Ferguson,
who has good voice and sang Dedication"
in response to the recall. When these
musicians had done their work as pilots
Mary Howe entered, radiant as the
evening star. In "Ah, Fors' Lui," she
disclosed to those who had heard her
before the effect upon her voice of her
later foreign training. Her execution
was superb, it was brilliant, it was
enthralling, and the audience got new views
OF the meaning of the terms technic " and
" "colorature " which have appeared in the
recent criticisms of the singers efforts. A
purer and sweeter soprano has rarely en-
tranced an audience-or that part of an as
semhlage whose musical taste or educa-
tion constitutes its happy members appre-
ciative listeners to classical music rendered
in The highest style of the art musical.
Such part of her auditory was in ecstasy
over the performance Of this number, and
the rest were in raptures over the personal
charms of the performer. So there was
nothing cranky or perfunctory in the encore
this time. But the singer put the genuine
ness of the audiences demonstrations to a
supreme test and finally graciously sang
Robin Adair." In this song the differences
between Mary Howe's capacity for brilliant
musical effects and her power TO melt or
move the human heart, noticeable on pre-
vious occasions here, was again strikingly
perceptible. Her singing seems TO lack that
sympathetic quality that goes to the heart
and converts an audience into wild, de-
lirious, appauding mass, in whose fervor
there is nothing perfunctory, in whose sim
cerity there is no shade of doubt But
" Robin Adar " was very delightfully."- rem
dered. Mr.. LAWN followed his gifted
spouse in somewhat frantic rendering Of
an air from "Lusa Miller" Mr.. LAWNS
appearance Is somewhat more suggestive of
the prize ring than the opera, and there Is
a decided hair lifting quality in his higher
notes, The encore hend made him his
prey, and he purchased his freedom by
singing "At Parting" by Rogers Miss
Beckers performance of "Airs Hongrois,"
by Ernst could leave no doubt in her mind
that this time the continued applause was
not the creation of L" Reed rules" but a
spontaneous and wel-earned
summons TO come AGAIN hafOra the foOt-