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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
Burlington's City Election.

The republicans won a substantial and
gratifying victory in the city election Tues
day, clecting Hon. Robert Roberts as
mayor over +. NJ. Sutton, and securing a
sufficient number of aldermen to give
them continued control of the Board and
of the various city offices and depart
n.ents. The election of Mr.. Roberts was
effected under a number of unfavora bic
conditions, and his victory Is therefore all
the more encouraging. Mr.. Sutton was a
candidate for a second term, and there
are always a certain number who favor
a reelection of a.mayor for second year.
His canvass was also handicapped by Sc
rious republican differences in the first
and second wards; and inasmuch as no
third tickets were placed in the field in
either of these wards the republican OPP
position went to the democratic column
with the effect that the head OF that tick
ct received substantial advantage. The
nomination OF two democrats for alder
man in the Fifth ward on the other hand
simply helped to get out the full party
vote and it is doubtful if Mr.. Sutton lost
a half dozen votes in consequence of this
SI'lll over lHe dlucIHldllSnlp.
One result of the various side contests
in the different wards was to cali out tho
largest mayoralty vote in the history Of
the city. The total vote cast for the vari-
Gus candidates for mayor Tuesday was
29j9 out of a total voting list of 3aj
whereas last year the number Of names
on the voting list was 34GS and the total
vote for mayor 1868. Mr. Roberts received
a total of 1891 votes as compared with 1864
! for Mr.. Sutton a plurality of q ana II
majority over all of %, there having been
IA few scattering votes, Mr.. Sutton's ma
| jority over Hon. VI. S. Peck last year was
49, u difference in favor of Mr.. Robert $
of &c votes. 1t can be seen therefore that
Tuesday as well as in the city election
Of 1895. the margin on the mayoralty vote
was uncomfortably close.
In spite Of the large percentage of votes
cast Tuesday, the fact remains that CsG
voters in the entire city did not go near
the polls, many of this number undoubt-
eddy having been kept away by the severe
storm which prevailed during the hours
OF the day when most people usually vote
1t will be instructive to note the list OF
delinquent voters by wards. as shown by
the official returns, as follows: First
Ward. 96; Second Ward. 2s. Third WARD.
lsl; Fourth Ward l@; Fifth Ward. Ia. 1t
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

Fifty-Tsfth Congress from dsposing of
numerous matters of the utmost import
ance. Indeed 1t falls to few Congresses of
the United States to dispose of so many
momentous questions as were considered
by the late Congress. In addition to the
passage of the Dingey tariff law, the Fifty
Fifth Congress declared Cuba free and
Independent of Spain; declared war upon
Spain; placed $50, 600, 900 at the disposal Of
the President for purposes of national de-
fence; passed the act creating the volun-
tcer army; and provided for a war Loan
besides passing much other legislation of
a general character. The second regular
session of this Congress also saw the an
neXation of Hawaii the passage of a gen.
eral bankruptcy act, and appropriations
amounting to about 5000 100000, a large
share of which was made necessary by our
war with Spain.
The session Just closed has been charac-
terizcd by the passage of legislation of far
reaching nature and results. Following
the ratification by the Senate of the treaty
of peace with Spain together with the
provision for the payment of $50, 100000 to
Spain came measures providing for the en-
larging of our navy and instituting dosir-
able as well as radical reforms in that
branch of our service the reorganization
of the army; the taking OF the twelfth
census; the beginning of work upon the
Nicaragua canal and various other impor-
tant interests.
on the whole the Fifty-Fifth Congress
made a far more crcditablo record than
was deemed possible at one time. 1t was
generous in its acts calculated to promote
| the growth and prosperity of this country,
and there is comparatively little in it's rec
ord that is positively bad. 1t has seen
this nation pass from business and finan-
cial depression to general prosperity OF a
remarkable degree. 1t has seen sectional
ism wiped out leaving our people one in
spirit as well as In bond. 1t might have
given us sound currency legislation and
the Senate might have ratified the treaty
of general arbitration with Great Britain,
but these are the principal acts of oms-
SION to be charged up to the body, and in
relation to these great diversity of opin
ion prevailed. 1t has left the question OF
Philippine annexation to be solved by its
successor, and this is undoubtedly we'll;
for the people are receiving new light on
this momentous issue every day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

AS we are by nature subject to many
diseases, the only way to guard against
all attacks on our health is to make a
study of our own physical self
If a peculiar pain attacks you. try to
locate its origin and discover which or
gan of the body is sick and in need of at
tontion.
Il the kidneys are at falkland in al
most every case in the failing of our
health they are-look well to their res
toration to health and strength.
They are the great filters of our body
and, consequently, the purity of the
blood is entirely dependent on their clean
sing. powers
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, the blood becomes impregnatod
with impurities and a decay of the kid
neys soon takes place. If your desire to
reheve yourself of water increases and
you find it necessary to arise many times
during sleeping hours, your kidneys are
sick. AS they reach a more unhealthy
stage, a soading and Irritation takes
place as the water flows, and pain or dull
ache in the back makes you miserable. II
your water, when allowed to remain I'M
disturbed for twenty-four hours. forms a
settling or sediment. or has a cloudy ap-
pearance, you are in the grasp of most
serious kidney disorder.
If neglected now the disease advances
until the face looks pale or sallow, puffy
or dark circles under the eyes. the feet
swell and sometimes the heart acts
badly.
There is no more serious menace to
health and strength than any derange-
mont of the kidneys.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
WINOOSKI
BANK

From its careful management has not
met with a loss from any loan made dur
ing the last twenty years.
Deposits made during the first five days
of any month will draw interest from the
first day of that month. Deposits made
after the fifth day of any month will draw
interest from the first day of the next
month.
Interest is credited depositors January
list and July list, compromising semi-an-
nually. The rate of interest paid to de-
positors by all savings banks in this State
is limited by law to four per cent until its
surplus amounts TO ten per cent. of its
deposits, when an extra dividend is to
be made.
No interest is allowed by law to be paid
on deposits in excess of two thousand dol
lars except it be on deposits by widows,
orphans, administrators. executors, guar
dams, charitable or religious institutions,
or on trust funds deposited by order OF
court
The Bank pays all taxes in this State
on deposits of fifteen hundred dollars or
less.
VERMONT LOANS SOLICITED.
Due depositors including interest
surplus %, o95' "a
Deposits and surplus. 500, SIS a
OFFICERS-S. II. Weston, President:
Ormond Cole. Treasurer.
TRCSTEES-S. II. Weston, j. p. Small.
O. =. Ray, 4. J. Stevens, Ormond Cole, f..
c. Mower, Samuel Bgwood.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
BarrOws Not to be Librarian

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune thus explains the non
confirmation of Rev. and Hon. Samuel
j. Barrows for the office of librarian of
Congress. Mr.. Barrows's conduct during
the period in which his name has been
before the Senate for confirmation has
greatly injured him in the opinion of
those who think the post of Librarian Of
Congress should be filled by man Of cul-
tivation, dignity and intellectual refine
by Mr. Barrows in soliciting the political
support considered unboComing and eX-
travagant, but his comments as the cor
respondent of religious weekly on his own
career and fines for the post assigned
10 him convinced those inclined to favor
his confirmation that he was signally
lacking in the good taste and good judg-
ment which a successful head of a great
institution like the library should have.
1t is now thought likely that the Presi-
dent viii not renew an appointment
whose infelicity has been clearly estab-
lished by the appointee himself.
1t is now thought to be possible that
Mr.. Herbert Putnam of Boston may re-
consider his former declination. prominent
Congressman having expressed Themselves
as favoring an increase in the salary, pro-
vided the place is filled by trained Ii
brarian.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
Possibilities of Liquid Air Power

While scientists have been prophesying
the carly displacing of steam by electric
power and capitalists have been investing
millions of dollars for the transmission of
electricity for heat, lighting and power
purposes, Charles Il. Tripler of New York
city has been engaged in a series of eX-
periments in his laboratory the results of
which point to complete revolution of
the worlds ideas regarding motive power
We have already spoken in these columns
concerning the production of liquid air
through the process discovered and devei-
oped by Mr.. Tripler, but an article by
Ray Stannard Baker in McClures Maya
zine for March is the fist to point out the
wonderful possibilities Of this new sub
stance which promises to do the work of
fuel and electricity and ice and eXplo-
sives, and that at "A normal cost.
Mr. 1rpl,- described his process at
some length for the writer of the article
in question, and in order to prepare the
way for an understanding of his use of
liquid air as power some of his state
mcnts are here summarized. Ale is liquid
at 2l3 DEGREES below zero and if its tenn
perature is raised it boils just as water
boils above 2l2 degrees. Steam bears the
same relation to water that air bears to
liquid air, except that steam is produced
by HCtifci4l heat whereas the air is heat
ed by the sun. When liquid air is brought
into contact with air at a temperature Of
say seventy degrees above zero it gives
off u vapor which expands and produces
IA
of this liquid air into what would CORE
spond to the boiler of a steam engine
ana allowing The temperature of the sur-
rounding air simply to bring 1t to a boil
ing point, an engine can be made to run,
and the remarkable feature of the power
is that it is nothing but air.
IF this We're all that the discovery
meant it might have little significance
except for scientists rs n wonderful dis
covcry, for the cost of the production of
liquid air might prohibit its use for mo-
tive power on an elaborate scale. But Mr..
Trlpler claims to have discovered a meth
cd of producing the substance at a trlh-
ing cost, which makes it possible to use
liquid air as II motive power in a great
variety Of ways, Me-. Tripler says.
"A liquid air engine, if powerful enough,
will compress air and produce the cold in
my liquefying machine as We'll as a steam
engine. But / go even further than that.
If ! could produce only two gallons of
the liquid air from my liquefylng machine
for every two gallons | put into my en-
CINE, | should gain nothing at all But
actually find l can produce. for every two
gallons of liquid that ! put into my ma
chane larger quantity of liquid air from
my l!queher This seems absolutely un-
believabls and II is hard to explain The
liquefaction Of air Is caused by intense
cold not by compression, although COM
preston Is a part OF the process. After
once having produced this cold | do not
need SO much pressur~ oil the air which
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

manner, and they can now see
that it would have been much more profit
able If they had devoted their money to
the development of home industries.
The people of the Green Mountain State
who have surplus capital to invest are not
likely to soon forget the lessons afforded
by the results of their investments in the
South and West but If they are to win
the greatest possible success they must
do more than benefit by the lessons of the
past. The people of the South are show
ing an excellent example of enterprise by
advertising to the world in every possible
way the attractions of their section of the
country and inviting the investment of
foreign capital. The people of Vermont
will be wise in their generation If they
stay at home and do likewise.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
Close OF the Eifty- with Congress-.

The Fifty-Fifth Congress, which passed
out of existence Saturday, spanned one OF
the most cventful epochs in the history OF
tn.s nation. 1t began its career amid
conditions which pointed to unusually an
mated deliberations. The country had
lust passed through a national campaign
which involved the soundness of the coun-
try's medium of exchange and our ma
tlonal credit, and 1t was generally believed
that the contest over the silver question
would be transferred to the halls of ma
tional legislation. The republicans had a
safe majority in the popular branch Of
Congress, but the administration party did
not control the Senate, and owing to the
peculiar rules which make lilibusterng IN
The upper branch of Congress possible il
was feared that renewed agitation of the
currency question in that body would tend
to terrify capital and prevent the return
OF pro fpcrity
Fortunately for the business and indus
trial interests OF the United States the no.
ccssity for d complete revision of the tariff
first demanded the attention Of our ma
uonal Lawmakers, ana while popocratiC
member occasionally managed 70 inject d
short discussion Of the silver issue into
the proceedings Of Congress the time q
that body during the early part of the cX,
ira session called by President Mckinley
at the beginning of his administration
was almost exclusively occupied with III,
work Of formulating and passing the
Dingley tariff law
With the tariff question disposed of III,
popocratic members of both branches o.
Congress hoped to proclpitate a genera
discussion of the silver issue in such ;
manner as to monopolZe the attention o
the people, but interest in the Cuban con
troVersy increased apace, and even before
the close of the extra session the Senat,
had passed a resolution recognizing tht
belligcrency of the Cubans, although thu
House did not pass the same. With tin
opening of the regular session. of tn,
lifty-Ftfth Congress tho Cuban question
began to overshadow all other public Is
sues and by the middle of that session thu
incipent silver contest inaugurated b,
the democrats came to sudden and Dis
astrous end. The cause of Cuban freedom
appealed to the American people of al
parties, obscuring all other national issue
and the Congress which might have In
volved the country in immense loss b,
fruitless but none the less disturbing dis
cusslon of the silver heresy found itsel
swept along in a cloud of military glory
until the close of the Spanish America
war and the passage OF the treaty O
peace.
But the substitution Of one overshadow
Ing issue for another did not prevent tn,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

but slight difference in the support Of the
city ticket Mr. shea WAS endorsed ly
the republicans for alderman, and the
fact that they brought out 2S5 votes for
Roberts for mayor is hishly creditabie to
them.
In the Fourth Ward the democrats made
n determined effort to elect j. r. Burke,
their candidate for alderman, but in spite
of the circulation of all sorts of dam1g-
ing statements the republicans were sue
cessful in electing Mr.. c. f. Beach to
succeed Alderman c. S. Isham. Tho re-
publicans Of the Fourth We're able not
only to hold their own on the city ticket
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
Home Investments and Summer Wis

The Rutland News calls attention to the
fact that a resident of its city has invest
ell in a SIMMER place in Grand Isle coun-
ty,which has an outlook of thirty or forty
miles on Lake ChJmplain, and many miles
in various directions in the Adirondacks.
After the Rutlaud-Canadian railroad is
constructed there will be many announce
mcntS of this character, and the islands
of Lake Champlain will become the most
attractive summer resort in the country.
The scenery along the route between this
city of Rouses Point will be without
rival in the world in many respects and
we shall be greatly surprised if it does not
result in advertising to the tourist world
the attractions of other parts of Vermont,
as they have never before been advcr-
tised
The people of Vermont should make
ready to take advantage of the favorable
conditions which are soon to prevail in
this commonwealth. Money Is coming out
of its hiding places ANA seeking invest
ment in a manner that promises much for
the prosperity Of the state, and if our cap
italists Will only endeavor to start up local
Industries instead oc spreading their
money abroad; and seek to promote in
every way the comfort of our summer
visitors, this state will soon literally have
money to burn.
Home investments ana summer visitors
form combination with which Vermont
ers must hereafter conjure and there was
never more promising time than the
present for the promotion of these inter-
ests in the Green Mountain state.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
The New South's New Enterpr,se.

The people of the North have heard
much about the patriotism of the new
South, but they have formed little idea az
the extent to which the residents of the
South have become dominated by spirit
OF push and enterprise. That our people
may have a sudden awakening to the
force of the competition of Southern pro-
gressveness and industry Is already in
Dictated in more ways than one. The cot
ton interests of New England have al
ready felt the effects of the building up of
immense cotton mills in the South. and at
the present rate of development in that
section the North will be compelled to look
to its laurels in almost every direction.
We have received communication from
the secretary of the Southern Interstate
immigration and Industrial Association,
copies of which have evidently been sent
broadcast to the newspapers of the North
ern States, calling attention to the rapid
manner in which certain Southern resorts
are being built up. The purpose of solicit
ing the free advertising indicated is to in
duce Northern capitalists to send money
to the South for investment and thus Sc
cure the building up Of that section of
the country.
We have nothing hut the most friend
ly feeling for the people of the South and
we hope that success will crown their ef-
forts to improve their material as well as
their moral condition; but we do not be-
lleve that public spirit demands the sacri-
Ace for this purpose OF capital which
should be invested by the people of the
North for the upbulding of their own
towns. Not a few Vermonters invested
capital in the South few years ago. al
though not in what would be called phil
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

The elevation of Dewey to the position
of admiral will commend itself to the peo-
pie OF the entire Nation. H.s appointment
by the President to the position created
by Congress for him was graceful recog-
milton Of the heroism and ability displayed
10y him at Manila, and the prompt con-
frmation of the appointment by the SEN
ate Friday was to be expected YER
mont has reason to rejoice over the great
honor won by one of her many dstin-
guished sons through his brilliant services
in the Ear East.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09
Burlington
Savings Bank
INCORPORATED tS47.
Deposits Dec. 80, 1893, $6,t44,6t4.49
Surplus 32O,t521
TILL A..a4. &c AGA 1RR RR
Total Assets

TRUSTEES.
c. f. WARD, WILLARD CRANE,
CHARLES Z. SMITH, HENRY GREENE,
j. l.. BARSTOw, a. IL PIERCE,
HENRY WELLS.
Receives and pays deposits daily. De-
posts made during the first four bust
ness days of the month draw interest
from the first. If made afterwards in
tercst will commence the first of tho fol-
lowing month.
Interest will be credited to deposiio rs
January / and July l. compounding twice
q year. There are no stockholders in this
bank All the earnings, less expenses. be-
long TO depositors. The rate Of interest
depends upon the earnings, and for twelve
years was AZ per cent, but under law
passed by the Legislature of 1896 no saw
jngs bank can pay more than per cent
until its surplus reaches 10 per cent of rs
deposits, when special dividend is 20
be made.
All taxes in this State are paid by the
bank on deposits of 1850 or less. Depos-
its are received in sums from 81 to S2OW.
and no interest will be paid on any sum
In excess of this amount, except on de-
posts by widows orphans, admnistra-
tors, Executors, guardians, charitable or
religious Institutions or on trust funds de-
posted by order of the court.
NO money loaned to any officer or trus-
tee of the bank
CHARLES p. SMITH, President.
FREDERICK w. WARD, Treas,
T.. S. lSHAM. Assistant Treasurer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

Snowman Bailey OF the Barnum
Bailey combination is plainly great
fnancisr. It turns out that the 50, ,cO) stock
company to which he has just sold his
circus in England acquires only the Eu-
ropean rights, while Mr.. Bailey reserves
all rights ia the United States, Canada
Mexico and Australia. The late PIT Bar
NUNS famous remark about people liking
20 be humbugsed seems to be particularly
true Of our English cousins.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

is evident from this that the Second was
the banner ward for uCn-votcrs. and
when to this fact is added the statement
that large proportion of these delin-
quents were republicans, the unusually
small republican majority for mayor in
that ward is partially accounted for.
For the purposes of comparison we here
present to our readers tabulated state
ment of the mayoralty vote in this city
each year since 1851: