The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-03-11

at Boston amount to 10000 cans or ~
yints each. The surplus, each month,
ranges from five to nine days supply,
or from 125,000 to 225,000 cans month.
1t is this surplus that has made the
trouble between the producers and con-
tractors, and as the producers union
is now strong, having about 1000 mem
bers, the war is a lively one.
In one sense It is war to the death, for
under the present arrangement the pro-
ducers say they are making no money
and can stand it no longer, while the
contractors say that to make different
trade means ruin to them. The latest
phase of the matter is interesting, as
showing that the middlemen will have
to yield or get out of business, as the
producers propose, through the union,
to deal directly with the milk peddlers,
and will offer their milk to them at cut
of 2 cents a can in the price charged the
peddlers by the contractors. This isn't
much of a icut, but on 25,0 900 cans day,
the supply, it amounts to $500 day, or
$4,000 a month. We are waiting pa
tiently for the end, but we must have
milk.
One hundred and twenty-five years
ago last Sunday occurred an event which
was the first point gained toward Sc
curing the freedom of the American
colonies, and the ultimate formation OF
the new republic and the establishment
of the Uuited States of America. 1t was
on March 6, 1776, that the British troops,
who had possession of Boston, deter
mined to evacuate the city, and on the
coming March II that General Howe,
with his Is vessels, containing British
officers and men to the number of 5000
and refugees numbering 924, sailed out
of Boston harbor Perhaps the principal
reason for the evacuation was found in
the fact tina, General Washington, with
his little army had erected redoubts on
dorchester Heights, thus commanding
the city and making British occupancy
hazardous.
Now, after many years there are indi-
cations that something will be done to
make the spot where Washington and
his little force did such telling fort build
ing. During the past week the city and
the state have combined and have mu-
tually agreed that monument to COM
memorate that great historical event
shall be erected, the city to provide the
land and the state, unless the Legislature
and the governor objects, will appro-
pirate the money for the monument.
Much has ben already done in this mat
ter, and it was last Thursday when Sen
aIor Brlgnam, chairman of the commit
tee on military affairs of the legislature,
met Mayor quincy and the agreement
was verbally made. 1t is a patriotic
movement, and deserves success.
The barkentine Herbert Fuller ia
nous as the vessel on which Mate
Thomas Bran has been convicted of
having committed triple murder, was
towed into the south side of Long wharf
Monday morning by the United States
tug Nina. The Fuller will remain until
she is no longer wanted at the second
trial of Mate Bran, which begins March
Is. There is no sailing vessel af1oat
that would attract so many sightseers
as this modest looking craft, but I'M
happily she is closed to the public. Uncle
Sam has taken possession OF her. ana
visit to the dock where she is located VIII
result in nothing but disappointment.
After the trial is over her owners could
earn a SIldll lOIIutlC Wy AS@
a small fee her interior to the curious.
1t may be done. Stranger things have
happened.
The decision of the wise men on Bea-
con hill appears to be that our city gov
eminent of the future will be composed
of a board of II aldermen, IL to be elected
by districts and five at large; the nomin-
to ho ma n in the com
mon council to have concurrent jurisdic-
ton with the board of aldermen. In 9TH
er words, we are to have many aldermen,
some called councilmen, where now we
have but r. This kind of experimental
legislation may be all right for the leg
islators, but it is at times rough on
the city of Boston, the object selected to
experiment upon. If the referendum is
attached to the bill, it will hardly meet
with popular approval.
1.-THE Chorus Girl, the farcical operatta
by Charles Emerson Cook, is not a sum-
mer opera, although it may run during
the summer months. The production is
to be made with the greatest possible at
tention to detail, and will have its first
appearance in Boston at the Museum
anu DIS d pdIl VI ZIG les uie~A ~
son, the initial performance to take
place Monday evening, May Is.
A coming attraction that will be dis
tinct novelty here, never before having
been seen in the east, is Broncho Johns
! Great American Exhibition company,
This aggregation includes a score of
clever frontiersmen, who will represent
on the stage the historical wild sports
of the far west"
The successful engagement of Thomas
w. Keene, recently at the Grand Opera
House. has induced Manager George W.
Magee to secure the romantic actor and
! tragedian, Louis James, as the last OF
! the attractions appearing at his theater
previous to the Murray-Lane opera sea-
| son.
! Elita Proctor Otis will resume her
| staring tour with a reproduction of her
/ adaptation of Dickens "Oliver Twist"
/ in which she will present her noted i'm
/ personation of Nancy Skies at the Co
/ lumbia theater, March IA. Charles Bar
| ron will be the Bill Skies.
r. A. Barnets musical comedy, which
| the Cadets brought out with much sue
! cess last month, will shortly have its