Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-03-04
e. A. SPEAR,
UNDERTAKING
AND
Enballming,
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT.
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE,

SPECIAL CORREsPONDENCE.
Dick Croker is booming his Demo-
cratic club with an eye firmly fixed
upon its treasury. After paying a
little bill of $3.50, 900 for summer al
terat;on and redecoraton, lie now ap-
peals to the members to lift the first
mortgage of 1925, 900. This is feat
simple enough. 1t is only necessary
to order the Tammany oftice-holders,
who are compelled to be members of
the club and to struggle into their
''dress suits" every evening when
they attend court, to turn over cer-
tain percentage of their recent increase
in salaries. In this way the assess
ments of the king gorge Jus encourage
will fall directly upon the taxpayers
and they, in the dialect of the court,
are Il 'soft mark.
The Army and Navy club of this
city with its 1000 membership--some
400 from the army and the remainder
about equally divided between the
navy and marine corps, volunteer
officers and tn national guards to
build u new club house. The plan is
to expend $4,000, $500 to be
raised on first mortgage and the re-
naming $4,000 from membership
subscriptions to bonds. The new
house will contain more than 80 bed
rooms, with bath rooms. dining rooms,
grillroom, billiard room, library, card
room, reading-room, Il roof garden,
elevators and parlors for the fort
nightly gatherings.
The latest and most original depart
ure tlon the conventional was con-
tainel in the invitations sent out by
Mrs. Stnyvesant Fish for "Reversed
Garment dance The dance was the
initial number, and its dariag spice of
originality m ,le up for the past dull
ness of the season. The sensational
appearance of gentlemen dancing with
their swallowtails hanging down in
front and of ladies with handsome ball
dresses misplaced created breeze of
comment. In social circles the stereo-
typed "What shall wear?" has given
place to How shall 1 wear it?'
The Times here takes it for granted
that everybody knows who sent the
poison. And yet it allows that if the
question were put to vote there are
several names that would stand very
high in the poll. So it appears that
there is not exactly unarimity of
opinion on tn, subject. And yet we
notice that all the lawyers and the de-
tectives i'll the case are talking sug-
gestively about "a certain person" as
the guilty tiend. 1t looks as if the
trail were gradually getting close,
without actually reaching the coat
tails.
A woman was discovered working in
a gang of shovelers here just after the
blizzard, and, instead of letting her
perform mans labor for mau's pay,
she was rudely ordered by the foreman
to quit Vainly she pleaded that
her family was starving and she had
taken the place of her sick husband.
1t is to the credit of the other laborers
that they clamored to have the brave
creature retained and begged unavail-
ingly that the foreman would overlook
the rules and regulations as to sex in
her case, which was a desperate one.
There is to be another society
woman graduated to the full glare
Of the footights. This time it is
Mrs. Jack" Wilmerding, who re-
Gently got out of au asylum, whore
she hnd been confined as dipso-
maniac, thanks largely to the efforts
OF her friend, Mrs. Jack" Bloodgood.
Mrs. Bloodgood finds the stage much
more to her liking than she found so.
ciety. What more natural, then, than
that she she should inveigle her old
friend Mrs. Wilmerding to follow her
example.
That the scientific mastery of diph-
theria is progressing in a gratifying
way is strikingly shown in the report
of the state board of health here.
There were 1912 deaths in the state
from this disease i'll 1898, while the
average for the 10 years prior was
5544 year. The board of health in
sists that tuberculosis in cattle is a
'serious menace to life and health"
and calls for larger appropriation
for carrying on the work of inspec-
ton.
The question as to whether it is
legal to hold court on Washington's
birthday was brought up in the su-
preme court here last week, and it was
decided that it was not legal holiday,
so far as the business of the court was
concerned. 1t is only q holiday in
relation to commercial aud public
offices.
KNIcKERBooKKR.