Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-08-18

L. b. Yauvey is building barn in the
rear of his house on Cedar street
Ansel Pierce, who was injured last week
by falling from his bicycle at Ringe Cen
ire, N. H., was taken from the hospital In
Keene to the home Of his mother in West
Chesterfield the first of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Merriam of Palmer,
Mass, went to Marlboro on Wednesday Of
last week to visit at George Mather's
| Mrs. Merriam was attacked With epilepsy
| Thursday and died Friday. The body was
taken to Palmer Saturday. The burial was
in New London, Conn.
X. b. Gwillim Of New York, who is
spending the summer at W. w. Cooks, de-
| livered the address at the Y. NJ. G. A.
meeting on the common in West Brattle-
boro Sunday afternoon. About $50 per-
sons we're present Mr.. Gwillim Is a lawyer
and speaks with great oTatorical power.
He was formerly president of the Hartford,
Conn, Y. NJ. G. A.
The management Of the Young Mems
Christian association has practically COM
pleted arrangements for a lecture course to
be given in Brattleboro during the coming
winter and spring Each entertainment
will be of rare merit, and large patronage
is anticipated. The town will be canvass
ed soon for the sale Of tickets. One of the
entertainments will be an address by Book
er T. Washington, colored president of
Tuskegee Institute and probably the ablest
representative of his race.
The Connecticut valley is known far
and wide as one Of the most beautiful re-
gions in.the New England states, and that
part of the valley near Claremont where
the district camp meetings are held is in
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teresting and enticing character. The
meeting ground is a model Of convenience,
and everything that is useful TO the camp
er is to be found at this favorite ground.
The annual assemblage is to be held Au-
gust 10 to rs, inclusive, and during that
time the Boston d Maine railroad will sell
reduced rate tickets to Claremont juno
ton from many of its stations.
Bacon & Spears detectives museum,
described by the managers as "the largest
criminal collection in the world" has been
on exhibition in Odd Fellows building
this week. 1t consists of 80 sets of crimi
nal curiosities, burglars tools, etc., and
large number of portraits of noted crimi-
mails. Among the curiosites is the ring TO
which mike" Martin, alias Lightfoot, the
notorious highwayman whose history is
well known to Brattleboro people, was
chained during his trial in Cambridge,
Mass. There are also revolvers taken
from Mosby's guerrillas, counterfeit money
plates supposed TO have been owned by the
Max Shinburn gang, bludgeoDs, shackles
and various other gruesome implements.
The Boston & Maine road is seriously
cramped for cars to move the business that
is being offered from all points and the
shops all over the system are being rushed
in an effort to supply the demand. The
shortage is most marked in the freight de-
partment, and on account Of the inability
of the corporation TO get new cars without
great delay on account of the demands of
railroads all over the country, the manage
ment have turned attention to the dam
aged cars which have been allowed to ac-
cumulate during the period of dull times.
Everything that has got wheels under 1t is
being rushed TO the shops. These cars
are generally In all stages of decrepitude,
but given one sound sill to build on the
car is turned out practically new within a
very few days.
Postmaster Webster has Just gotten out
a neat pamphlet entitled "Mai Arrange
ments." 1t shows the time at which dit
ferent mails close and arrive, the time
when mails leaving Brattleboro are due at
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York, the number of hours which il takes
mails sent from Brattleboro to reach the
principal cities in the country, and the
hour of the next carrier delivery in the
principal towns and cities of New Eng
land following the receipt of mails de-
spatched from Brattleboro at given hours.
Scattered throughout it are many useful
hints, especially the one on "The Postal
Service" The mail connections with other
cities of the country were found by send
ing special letters with request for an an
swer to the postmasters of the different
cities.
E. C. Crosby of Brattleboro, one of the
directors of the Northampton and Amherst
Street Railroad company, was in North
ampton and Amherst Friday in the inter
est of the company's proposed road. He
was engaged principally in buying ties for
the road, and there was a number of offers
, The company wishes to buy p 900 ties.
Mr.. Crosby has secured of the Berlin
Bridge company figures for an independent
bridge, and he has also secured figures from
a New York concern. He states that at
! present he is in favor of the company's
Z taking hold of the bridge problem itself
rather than to wait any longer for move
on the part of the county, which at all
tNNhNo hOb plONt SdllSIdClOTN. fOuT
miles of rails have been bought, and Mr..
Crosby has been negotiating for the pur-
chase of five miles more. 1t is expected
that cars will be running within two
, months.
Horatio Nelson Slater, who died at
Magnolia, Mass, Saturday, was born in
Providence in 1884. His grandfather was
Samuel Slater, the first cotton manufac-
turer in this country, who founded the
town of Webster. Mr.. Slater received his
university education at Brown, and in lat
er years read law at Harvard. He came
into possession of his fortune through the
death of his uncle, Samuel Slater, who
wllled him his entire wealth, thereby max
/ ing him sole proprietor of four large mills,
three in Webster and one in wilkinson
, vile. He was considered not only one of
the largest individual mill owners in New
England, but was equally prominent in
the trade, and was probably the wealthiest
man in Massachusetts. His wealth has
been estimated at over $4,000, 600 His
winter home was in Back Bay, Boston.
He was twice married, and is survived by
two children by his first marriage. His
second wife was Miss Mabel Hunt daugh-
ter Of William Morris Hunt, the distin-
guished artist, native of Bratteboro, who
is buried in the Prospect Hill cemetery.
She is left with four small children.