The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-25

WHILE, on Sunday, the communities
of the east and the Mississippi valley
were sweltering in q torrid temperature,
in Colorado snow was falling all over
the state to the depth of from four
inches to a foot. In this connection it
may be noted that ten years ago, about
the middle of September, snow fell in
Vermont and all over tn. eastern
country to the depth of several inches.
THE English athletes met their
"Amerlcan cousins" on Manhattan
field on Saturday, and victory again
perched high on the Yankee standard
in every contest. Not only this, but in
every event but one the Americana
beat the worlds record, and in the one
exception the record was tied. 1t was
a victory without precedent in the his
tory of such sports. In running, from
short dashes to three-mile courses, in
hurdle races, in jumping, or putting
sixteen-pound hammer, the men of the
New York Athletic Club, in every trial,
surpassed their competitors of the Lon
don Athletic Club. On land and sea it
has been a great year for the universal
Yankee nation, and the Yankees are
only getting their toe-nails in.
THE "Valkyrie" is not racing for
the cup on the briny waters, but she is
still sailing the great unsalted seas
of international controversy. Another
Englishman has, however, blanketed
D%unraven's craft, and only a languid
interest is now felt in the truculent no.
bleman and the great fiasco which is
his chief title to yachting fame. Mr..
Charles Rose, who is not a lord, but an
English gentleman of sense and cour-
age, has challenged the cup, the races
to be sailed under conditions that are
satisfactory to the New York Yacht
Club. This has the right ring, and Mr..
Rose is already immensely popular in
this country. His challenge is a tacit
condemnation Of D%unraven's course,
and a v%indication of the acts Of the
New York Yacht Club. D%unraven's
actions are very severely condemned
by the sensible element among the
English people.
E~NGLIsHMEN are deriving some sat
isfaction from the circumstance that
the "Campania," with about 10000
greater horsepower than the "St.
Louis" the new American liner, over
hauled and passed the Yankee boat on
the last trip from the east. When the
est. Louis" was first sighted, she was
about twenty miles ahead of the Gu
harder. After a run of seven hours
the ships were abeam, and at length the
"Campania" began to draw away from
the "St. Louis" but the Englishman's
firemen worked as hard as they had
ever worked to make a record for the
colossal liner. The "Campania" and
"Lucania" are magnificent ships. They
were built for rapid passage, and for
this purpose were equipped with en-
gines of 10000 horsepower. The "St.
Louis" was built with no reference
to record breaking, but for business
and comfort. Her engines have 10000
horsepower, but her capacity for speed
may yet surprise her rivals. When the
Americans begin to build for lowering
records, the Campania" and her sister
will need look to their laurels.
WHILE Germany is celebrating her
victories we France and kindling the
war spirit into flames, Americans are
meeting on the fields of their 6ercest
battles in the great civil war and as
siduously %cultivating the spirit of
brotherhood. At Chattanooga and
Chickamauga, during the past week,
Union and Confederate veterans have
assembled to dedicate to peace and
national unity the memorable fields
upon which, thirty-two years ago, they
battled for each others destruction.
Thirty thousand people, the governors
of many states, Union and Confederate
generals, assembled and gave an i'm
pressive significance to the peaceful
and brotherly ceremonial of dedicating
the region devoted to the purposes of a
great military park and in marking with
enduring monuments the lines Of he
roic battle. Everywhere the spirit of
the "Ballad of Chickamauga" was mill
tant: