The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27


ing and valuable books bearing on army
regulations. Among them are "Regula-
tions and Decisions Pertaining to the Uni
forms Of the Army" Soldiers Hand
States" "Notes on Naval Progress, "IDriii
Regulations for Hospital Corps" "Com-
pendulum OF Regulations for the Quarter
masters Department,u Drill Regulations
for Siege Artillery" United States Bridge
Equipage and Pontoon Drill" Military
Laws OF the United States" "Use OF the
Army in Aid OF the Civil Power" "Msn-
ual for Army Cooks" "Remarks on the
Army Regulations and Executive Regula-
ons in for Court Mar
lations for Cavalry" Manual for Psymas-
ter, "Drill Regulations for Infantry and
Cavalry" Manual Of Guard Duty" All
these works are Of especial value and inter-
est at this time, as they treat directly Of
what interests most the boys at the front.
JOSEPH wooD died last Wednesday after
noon at his home on Berlin street, aged
ninety-four years. Old age was the cause
Of his death. Mr.. Wood was the Oldest
resident OF Montpelier or Berlin, and until
he was past ninety years OF age he retained
to marked degree his mental and physical
faculties. He was the first person Of French
descent to take up residence in Mont
pelier, and that, at the time, was quite by
accident. Seventy eight years ago he came
from his home in Drummondsviile Canada,
Shepard, who then kept a hotel here. Mr..
Shepard fancied the bright young man and
offered him work which was accepted, and
ever after that time he claimed Montpelier
as his home. During the active years of
his life he worked at his trade as a stone
mason, and he was always in demand be-
cause Of his skill and his fidelity to those
who employed him. He married Angelina
Gravelin, who died twenty-five years ago.
He leaves three daughters-E -Emeline Of st.
.JOhuaburv Inapnhina and Clora of Par1in
and one son, Lewis, the Montpelier police
man. His funeral was held Friday morn
ing from st. Augustine's church, Rev.
Father W. j. O'Sullivan officiating, and
the burial was in the Catholic cemetery.
Faithful to every trust imposed upon him,
honored and respected by all who knew him,
this patriarch has gone to his eternal rest
AT a meeting Of the city council held last
Thursday evening licenses were granted as
follows: Alice @. Lynch, to move house on
Barre street; G. e. Bugbee to build a shed
on Fuller street; Church OF the Messiah, to
repair edifice; 7. r. Gordon, to make re-
pairs on livery stable. W. H. Ryle applied
for permission to erect house on Nelson
street, but his application was laid over for
further consideration. The application of
Jerry Hsskins for permission to open a
pool room was refused. A warrant for 5000
in favor Of the school board was ordered.
The application for an extention OF the
water system to the street railway car barn
W 40 ulSCubbtu UuU no dCIlOQ W dS
taken. The petition from residents on Col
lege street that this thoroughfare be worked
from the Seminary building to Sibley ave-
nue. was referred to the committee on
streets. Bills were ordered paid as follows:
George Wheeler, overseer of the poor, S4O0;
Volunteer Hose Company, rent, SIS; A.
ID. Farwell, uniforms for police, S15; David
Mayo, labor, S28 90; Wilbur Brown, lum-
Der, $32946; j. M. Brown, same, S192. .56;
is. Viless, lights. S12; A. o Cummins,
L. Blanchard, tile, s251.17; E. W. Bailey
8 Co, feed for city barn, s12oO7; Don Fl.
Dodge, labor S2093; T. j. Kelleher, gran
ite for curbing, S51 5S; G. M. Ladd, lum-
Der, 1871; Barrows & Peck, supplies,
Hyde, supplies, S1S7.02; Brooks & DEM
ing. sundries, So 40 Central Vermont Rail-
road, freight, S13.10; Thomas Osborne,
lumber. S110.69; j. NJ. Boutwell,, crushed
stone, S1,527.81; Marvin & Sherburne, sun
dries, ninety cents.
V. X. NASH OF Woonsocket, R. 1 D., the
civil engineer who was employed to make
the preliminary survey for the proposed
electric railroad from Montpelier to War
rem, and to estimate the cost of building the
same, completed the work last Saturday,
and filed his report with f. Q. Kennedy Of
Burlington. Mr.. Nash reports the distance
as twenty-six miles, and estimates the cost
OF building and equipping the road at SILL
900 per mile, or about S275 900 for the en-
tire distance from Montpelier to Warren.
This estimate is for ten cars, two OF which
would be combination, passenger and bag
gage cars, similar to those now in use on
the Mt. Mansfield electric road from Water
bury to Stowe. These would be heavy
enough to use freight trailers if desired.
This estimate also includes two heavy
freight motors, and for the remainder, the
ordinary passenger cars used on all electric
roads. Mr. Nash reports the route as per-
fectly feasible, and the road easy to build.
the grades light, but little blasting of lodges
to be done, and comparatively few bridges
Judge 81. W. Lyford of Warren ON Tues
nay, and inquired of him as to the probabil-
ity of the road being built this season.
Judge Lyford has no idea that work will be
commenced this summer for the reason
that the residents of Mad River valley have
no idea, as yet, what is required or ex-
pected of them in the way Of financial as
sistance. The Judge said that as soon As
Mr.. Kennedy or some one else makes
known these things. then the towns inter-
ested will call meetings to see what can be
done. There is little doubt but an electric
road will be built through that valley, but
the statements of certain local papers that
the whirr Of the trolley will be heard there
in few months is purely visionary.
COMMENT has been created by the recent
action OF the city council in relation to
water rents on the Berlin side. Residents
Berlin water from the Montpelier aqueduct,
and the charges therefor have been twenty
per cent greater than to Montpelier con-
sumers. II the charge for water service in
Montpelier is $40, the charge for similar
service in Berlin would be S12. This addi-
tional charge is to Offset the tax, on the
Montpelier side, for fire protection. The
city council passed an order making the
rates on the Berlin side double those in
Montpelier. The superintendent OF the
water works had not been instructed to en-
force this order and those cognizant with
its existence had said nothing OF the matter
in the belief that on more mature considera-
tion the act OF the council would be rescind-
ed or materially modified. Exclusive ox
the two mains from the reservoir, Montpel-
er expended, for supplying the residents Of
Berlin with water, some S4, 600-in round
numbers. The aggregate is less than 5000.
The rents collected from Berlin residents
exceed 81 900 annually, an income of twenty
per cent on the investment on the otherside
OF the river. That is fair return for capi-
tai, 1t must be conceded. AS there is water
enough for all, and to spare, does Mont
pelier really propose, by insisting on!double
rates for Berlin consumers, to initiate the
folly of the owner of the goose that daily