Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-09-01

day afternoon, taking with them their I'VE
daughters, Is and II years old respectively
neither of whom had ever seen r"il'oa
train. The girls were greatly ir,ghteneu a
the sound OF the whistle OF the Wmte noun
tain train.
w. H. Newton of Walhngford, o., who
has been in Brattleboro this week, mas Jns
returned 'front.' the annual convention OF eht
bankers association at Detroit. he say
that there were less than dozen banker,
from New England at the convention, The
attendance being made up largely OF several
| hundred bankers from the middle anu west
ern states. This fact tends to show that The
moneyed interests of the east are Sae'sheo
with the present currency system ne west
demands a change in the system, ana VIII en-
dea, or to bring it about by constant agitation
of the subject.
| Elmer A. Tucker of Guelph, formerly Of
Brattleboro, who has relatives in Windham
county, is the first person OF local connection
who is known to have started for the Alaskan
gold fields. In company with Capt. Nj. ID.
Campbell and James Finnie OF Oshawa and
M. L. Carrier, Washington, %. % musi-
clan, he is now ON his way to Victoria, d. e.,
where plans for entering the Yukon region
will be consummated. Before setting foot
upon the coveted plot, Mr.. Tucker may have
| learned to appreciate the government adj
| vice to gold seekers who would find their way
| to the frozen north at this season OF the year.
The marriage of Miss Annie l.. Wyman,
Brattleboro's popular music teacher, and
Frederick Coudrey of Hartford, Ct, Will take
place in the Center Congregational church at
Brattleboro, September %. They will live
in Hartford. The engagement is also an
noupced OF Miss Marion Miner OF Brattlebo o
and Van Rensaleer Lansingh of Chicago, a
graduate of Chicago university, who Is pur-
suing special course in electrical engineer
ing at the Massachusetts institute OF tech
nology.
Monday was an suspicious day for the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union OF
Vermont, especially the union at North Dan Dan
vile, which is the birthplace of Madam Will
lard, mother of Frances E. Willard, world
and national president of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union. A tree was planted
at the Willard homestead with appropriate
exercises, and Miss Willard, Mrs. L. M. N
Stevens, and Miss Agnes Slack of England
were present. An interesting part of the
program was the presence upon the platform
with Miss Willard of as many rs possible of
Madam Wizards kin.
1t is a bit of good news which Charles II.
Smith, who has arrived in Brattleboro from
Minneapolis this week, brings to the New
England investors whose money was invested
in the great Kelley assignment in Minneapo
lis Mr.. Smith has assumed charge OF the
loans of many of the Kelleys' clients, and it
is his opinion that of the whole volume of
Kelley loans, or Sc 900, not over 10 per
cent, or 100000, will he lost. While even
this loss comes hard on some of the investors,
it is much less than they were prepared to
stand, and they view the situation at present
with more hope than at any time since the
calamity. Numerous suits against the ke-
ieys are set for trial at the September term of
court, but the chances are in favor of some
of them being settled by compromise before
the grand jury convenes.
Brattleboro was awakened from sound
sleep at 20 O'Clock Saturday morning by an
alarm of fire from box 46 at the corner of
Birge and Estey streets, and several hundred
citizens turned out to find one of the houses
owned by Thomas Geiss on Brook road in
flames. The house was two stories high,
it'll l. and she'd attsched, and was
coupled upstairs by Mrs. Jane Sherry and
her son Michael and daughter Lillian. and
downstairs by Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Murray
and three children. Mr.. Murray, who is
slater for Ryan Bros, was on a Job out of the
state and the other members of the families
were asleep. Michael Sherry came home
from ''down town. about II clock and after
reading a while took bath in the rear end
of the house and went to bed. Soon after 3
o'clock Mrs. Charles Cassidy, who lived in
he house nearest the fire, was awakened by
The red glare on her windows. Her screams
awakened the Sherry and Murray families
and the Sullivan family, who lived next to
Mrs. Cassdy's, and Timothy Sullivan started
or the fire alarm box. About the same time
Chief of Police Hall and Policeman Worden,
who were near the engine house, half mile
lway, saw the blaze land went into the engine
house and awoke the fremen. BY that time
he Waterman at the Estey organ factories
saw the flames and blew the gong once which
ignified that there was a fire. Less than Il
minute later young Sullivan reached the box
md pulled in the alarm. The department
made good time to the scene, taking with
hem steamer No. 4, which has been known
or some time to be out of order, but which
he village voted not to repair. The engine
would not throw water, although this might
,aking sand, and the Estey organ company's
steamer was sent for. 1t was IS minutes
rom the time the alarm sounded before water
was obtained and then every part of the
building was beyond saving. Meanwhile
nearly all the furniture had been taken out.
Had there been no trouble with steamer No.
/, the main part of the house would have been
aved. The theory of iucendiarism has no
support in this instance, for when assistance
irst arrived the fire was wholly in the second
tory. The house was insured for $1,000 with
\. w. Childs & Co. and Mrs. Murray's goods
or 800 with Sherman & jerome. Mrs.
sherry had no insurance. The total loss is
bout $500.