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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
To Develop Vermont.
The Greatest Agency VIII he n Net Work
of Electric Roads.

OF Electric hOhus.
The great agency in the future develop
ment of Vermont is TO be the electric rail-
road. A hindrance in the past has been
that only a comparatively few towns have
been within easy reach of the markets.
The majority have been little better off
than in the old stage coach times. In these
modern days, quickness of communication.
and transportation is everything. 1t is
well-nigh impossible to conduct business
of any magnitude away from line of rail
road. There has be n a constant move
ment away from the isolated sections and
the narrow strips served by railroads have
been the gamers. Natural resources have
been neglected in the remote portions be-
cause they could not be .proitably devel-
oped.
Now comes the electric road. 1t can be
built cheaply and easily, can climb any
grade, can be economically conducted and
where there is any settled trend of travel
or business, can be made to pay good divi-
dends. This is being demonstrated in vari
Gus localities in this state at present.
Among the new roads soon to be built is
one to connect the thriving town of Roches-
ter with Bethel, meeting there the main
line of the Central Vermont railroad. This
upper waters of the White river and lay its
rich resources bare to the investor, who
can much better afford to look into them
than he can to take the word of some glib
tongued boomer and develop the West at
his own expense.
The town of Stockbridge has placed
itself in the van of the column by voting
to exempt, under the provisions of the
statute, any new enterprise which may be
attracted by the building of the road,
which passes through the entire township.
There is an abundance of power in the
streams and of wood and lumber on the
hills. The soil is rich and the prospect of
doing a successful business in any line
which can employ any of these agencies
would seem to be excellent. We look for
ward to the time when these electric roads,
reaching up into the valleys on either side
of the main railroad arteries, will serve the
same purpose that the irrigation of the
lands in the far West does and make the
whole state to bask in prosperity Ran
dolph Herald and News.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
DIR. ANSON l.. PETTEE.
BrattIebOrO Dentist and "A Musician In
the Civil War.

Death I'm South Dakota OF Former
BrattIeborO Dentist and "A Musician In
the Civil War.
DR.. F. G. Pettee received a telegram
Saturday evening announcing the death of
his father, DR.. Arson l.. Pettee of Fland-
reau, S. d. A despatch received earlier
in the day told of his critical illness but
up to that time the members of his family
did not know but that he was in his usual
health.
DIR. Pettee was born in Readsboro,
April II, 1888, and he was the eldest son
of DR.. A. l.. Pettee, a longtime physician
in Wilmington. At an early age DR..
Pettee went to Wilmington with his father
and remained there until he was about 10
years old. He studied medicine with his
father and then came to Brattleboro where
he practiced dentistry with DR.. Comegys,
who recently died in Wilmington, Del. He
then practiced dentistry in New York city
for about two years, after which he went
to Macon, Ga, where he formed partner
ship with Dr. Sierger and was with him
three or four years. From Macon he went
to Monticello, where he lived with his
family and brother, the late Henry c.
Pettee.
When the civil war broke out Dr. Pettee
was conscripted into the Confederate SER
vice. At the request of some of his friends
he organized band for the sd Georgia
regiment to which regiment belonged the
"Jasper Blues" a company organized in
Monticello. He was first stationed in Sa-
vannah, Ga, and afterward in Charles
ton, S. c. He finally left the Confed
crate troops and Joined the Union forces
under Gen. Wood, for whom he was bug
Ter until he received his discharge.
DR.. Pettee once had an opportunity to
form partnership with DR.. j. r. Allen of
New York city, one of the leading dentists
in the country. After the capture of
Charleston, as DIR, Pettee and his family
were about to leave Charleston for New
York, DIR. Allen secured passage for the
family on the boat which carried the Henry
Ward Beecher party to Fort Sumpter where
Mr.. Beecher was the orator at the raising
of the Major Anderson flag over the fort
In 1865 DR.. Pettee returned to Brattleboro
and practiced dentistry until 1889, when
he went to South Dakota. He has since
| lived in Flandreau and in Sioux Falls.
DIR. Pettee married Mary Ann Conant of
Brattleboro in 1852. Mrs. Pettee died
about three years ago. DR.. Pettee leaves
two children, DR.. f. G. Pettee and Minnie
j. Chamberlain of Brattleboro, and a
brother, l.. F. Pettee, sole proprietor of the
Crandall & Cooley company of New York.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
MinOt J. Savage "A Believer In Spiritual

Rev. Minot j. Savage announced him
self spirituaiist at the morning service
Easter Sunday in the Church of the Mes
siah, at New York city He went so far
as to declare that he saw nothing vulgar
in the rapping of spirit before it commu-
nicated with mortals. The significance of
spirilualism and its relation to the Easter
hope was the theme from which DR.. Saw
age spoke. He said the number of people
who believed in spiritualism is far greater
than those who openly profess it. He did
not see anything foolish or degrading about
rap. He said there is no end of trash
purporting TO come as communications
from the other world. AT the same time
he says there is whole library of the no.
blest morals and spiritual teachings that he
was acquainted with. He gave one book
by an Oxford graduate as as example.
The writer had been connected with the
London school board, an ANGLICAN clergy
man, and had become both spiritualist and
medium He had written this automatically,
and in order to divert his thoughts had
often read Plato in the original Greek while
his hand was writing on its own account.
This book, DR.. Savage declared, had COM
pletely converted its own writer, and it
contain "some of the noblest ethical and
spiritual teachings that l know of to be
found in any Bible in all the world"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
The American Temperament.

The Windsor Hotel fire and the execu-
tion of Mrs. Place furnish the Speaker with
materials for dissertation on American
temperament, in which the paper warmly
defends Governor Roosevelt. 1t saws:
"The execution excited an indignant clam
or, but why anybody should sympathize
with the woman it is difficult to imagine.
We do not hear any clamor against the
keepers of death traps, and the victims of
the Windsor Hotel do not arouse that pas
sion of pity which was bestowed upon the
wild human beast, justly punished for her
crime. Men and women who rave because
a murderess has an electric wire attached
to her bare leg cannot see that it is criminal
to build hotel which, when a curtain
ignites, burns like tissue paper. We should
be glad if Governor Roosevelt and few
resolute, hard headed men of the same type
force the municipal administration of New
York to close hotels which cannot stand
reasonable test of security. Then the
reformers might await the ruins of their
political careers with equanimity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
The Napoleon of Advertising
Was Born ut West Concord and Edu-
Gated In the Schools There.


A Concord boy, in whose success Yer
monters generally take pride and interest,
is George Presbury Rowell, the Napoleon
of the advertising business in America,
and well and favorably known by the bust
ness men OF this country from Maine to
the Golden Gate. The older residents of
Concord well remember Mr.. Rowell, who
received his preliminary education at the
West Concord school, and also his parents,
Samuel and Caroline Eveline page Row
ell, plain, sturdy well-to-do couple, who
spent much of the earlier period of their
lives on farms in Concord Waterford and
Kirby. Mr.. Rowell was born July 4, 1888,
in the house on the farm near the st.
Johnsbury road west of West Concord vii
lage, now owned by David w. Hubbard.
The Rowells moved to Lancaster, N H.,
when George was at the age Of seven,
where he received fair education at the
Lancaster academy, completing his educa-
tional course by term at the better acad-
envy at st. Johnsbury In 1865. At the age
of II, the youth started out to earn his
own living, and push his own way in life.
He passed year or more in Boston re-
tail store, and later served a seven years
apprenticeship in the counting room of the
Boston Post. In 1865, in a back office,
rent $50 year, up two flights of stairs,
over a liquor store on Congress street, Mr..
Rowell with two associates began business
as advertising agents, under the firm name
Geo. p. Rowell IL Co. Pushing, enter
prsing, Yankee genius achieved a success
almost from the beginning, and soon Mr..
Rowell, convinced that Boston was too
limited field for opportunity, turned his
thoughts and footsteps to New York.
In 1869 Mr.. Rowell won fame and for
tune in publishing the American Newspa-
| per Directory, giving complete list of the
newspapers of the United States, the first
work of the kind ever attempted. In 1870
the Rowell Advertising Agency was estab-
| lished and Mr.. ROwell takes much pride
and satisfaction in the steady and contin-
uous growth Of that agency. A unique
paper called Printers Ink was the next
product of his enterprise. The browning
feat of Mr.. Rowelrs achievements, how
ever, was the organization of The Ripan's
Chemical company, of which he is the
head, who now offer to the public that
standard medical preparation now well
known under the trade mark designation
of Ripan's Tabules. Mr.. Rowell is a prom
inent figure in various society and bust
ness associations in New York, but is
fonder of the quiet domestic life in the
bosom of his family at their elegant, but
quiet apartments at the Hotel Buckingham
on Fifth avenue.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
What Did AIger Dot
[From dc PhIIadeIphia Ledger. |

Eagan defended the Chicago beef pack
ers, but the packers are not so considerable
of Eagan. They do not hesitate to charge
him with duplicity, if nothing worse, in
the matter of their contracts for army beef,
and say that the absurd conditions to
which he testified never existed The
testimony of +. c. Swift only adds another
bit OF evidence to the general incompetency
of the war department staff. Eagan made
contracts with the understanding that a
certain condition would be observed by the
Quartermaster's Bureau. Ludngton fail
ed to maintain any condition, and left
things at skies and sevens. Corbin added
to the confusion by assuming the duties of
the inspector general, and failing to per-
form them; while Alger did-weil, what
did Alger do? Apparently, he did moth
ing, which is not exactly what is expected
of secretary of war at such time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
THE BOSTON EXCHANGE ACTS
On the New York Bank Matter---There
May BE Change of Plans.

May BE "A Change OF Plans.
The full meaning of the rule recently
announced by the New York banks TO
charge collection for country checks, as
has been mentioned several times in these
columns, is being forced upon Rutland and
Vermont business men by notices similar
to the following from their wholesalers in
New York city:
Boston current funds. The clearing house asso-
citation of New York city, which includes all the
banks, has adopted rule compelling banks to
charge exchange on out of town checks. For
this reason we are obliged to require our custom
ers to remit in funds on which we can realize
without expense"
/ Business men throughout New England
are not taking very kindly to the arbitrary
action of the New York banks, and a num-
Der of them have said that if the houses
in New York that they buy goods of insist
on charging them exchange on their
checks, they will make 1t point to place
their business elsewhere, provided prices
are no greater.
Some of them say they shall send their
checks in as usual and ask the merchants
to whom they are sent to pay the exchange
charges, as they do not feel like being
taxed for the privilege of doing business
with New York house.
Neither will the country banks stand the
charge. They may wait awhile to see If
the New YORK bankers will not change of
their own accord, but otherwise they will
act for themselves. They may, as New
Haven banks suggest, charge for collect
ing checks on New York and make checks
on Philadelphia, Chicago and other cen,
tres free of collection charges. They may
shift their accounts from New York to
places that collect without charge.
The following notice in regard to the
matter will soon be sent out to New Eng
land banks by the Boston clearing house
association:
1T has been considered expedient to modify
| the plan heretofore suggested for a system of
| clearing New England checks, and to hive all the
| work done through the Boston clearing house
| instead of thr ough the correspondent banks in
| Boston. The committee, therefore begs to ask
| if, on receiving from the manas er of the Boston
| clearing house In one letter checks on your bank
| received on deposit in Boston banks, represented
| in the New England clearing house, YOU will send
| by return mail to the manager of the Boston
| clearing house draft on your Boston cores
pondent for the amount of such checks at par
| It is thought wise to begin this work with the
| state of Massachusetts,, and TO add the other New
| England states as soon as the new system Il
| working successfully"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
The Burial OF the Rough Riders Killed
at Las Guasimas.

We buried seven dead Rough Riders in
a grave on the summit of the trail, Chap
lain Brown reading the solemn burial ser
vice of the Episcopalians, while the men
stood around with barred heads and Joined
in singing "Rock of Ages" Vast numbers
of vultures were wheeling round and round
in great circles through the blue sky over
head. There could be no more honorable
burial than that of these men in a COM
mon grave-Indian and cowboy, miner,
packer and college athlete-the man of I'M
known ancestry from the lonely Western
plains, and the man who carried on his
watch the crests of the Hamiltons and the
Fsh's, one in the way they had met death,
just as during life they had been one in
their daring and their loyalty. From
"The Rough Riders" by Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, in the March Scribners.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
A Gard.

We, the undersigned, agree to refund the
money on a so cent bottle of Greene's Warranted
Syrup of Tar if It fails to cure your cough or
cold. We also guarantee 25 cent bottle TO prove
or no pay.
BROOKS HOUSE PHARMACY, Brattleboro.
#. r. DURGIN, Brattleboro,
GEO. e. GREENE, Brattleboro,
#. II. HOLDEN & co, Brattleboro,
W. d. q ]. l.. sTOCKWELL, West Brettleboro.
A. NJ. CORSER, Putney,
O. 4. PARK, Williamsville,
N. Nj. BATCHELDER, Newfane,
w. s. HOLLAND, Townshend,
W. @. HALLIDAY, East Dover,
A. l.. WHEELER. Wardsboro,
BARBER BROS, West Townshend,
Il. W. PLIMPT0N, Wardsboro,
BROWN q RYDER, West Wardsboro,
II. f. SMITH, Jamaica,
JONES q o'BRIEN, Hinsdale, n. H.,
NJ. G.. WILLIAMS, Putney.
#. L. DAVIS Bellows Falls.
CHAS. II. PARMELEE, Wilmington.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
SPORTING.

Two base ball players we'll remembered
in Brattleboro will be with the Toronto
team this season-Hannivan and Jimmie
Bannon.
Fred Woodcock is coaching the Tufts
college boys. He says that Tufts will
have one of the best college teams in the
country. Capt. Hazelton is Vermonter,
his home being in STAFFORD.
President Freedman of New York has
offered the Cleveland management $500
for the release of Tom Dowd. The offer
was refused, but Dowd may be exchanged
for ex-Capt. Joyce of the New York team.
Sedgwick, the pitcher, whose first ap-
pearance as a base ball player in fast COM
pany was with the Brattleboro team, is
captain of Brown university. Sedgwick
played at Andover two or three years and
has been on the Brown team the past foul
years.
"Nat' and "Tom" Butler of Boston
have accepted the challenge of Henshaw
and Kent for tandem race and a match
has been made for 500 and the largest
purse offered, the winning team to take all
A Hartford track has offered a prize of
5000 for the contest.
The base bal cranks at Northampton
arc again uuohCu WIFI tIlJluSldSll duu lutJ
propose to put strong team in the field
There is talk in the Meadow City of a cir
cult to include Northampton, Holyoke,
West6eld, Pittsfeld Chicopee, North
Adams, Easthampton and Brattleboro.
Brattleboro may be known as a base ball
town again, but the time does not seem
ripe for reviving interest in the game here
Cleans Nellie, the English setter owned
by Dr. B. g. Russell of Keene, N. H., cap
tured three first prizes at the New England
Kennel club show at Boston Tuesday, Apr.
4, among a large number of competitors,
winning first in the novice class, in the open
class, and finally in the special class for win
ners, thereby receiving highest honors for
settlers. Her winning points on the bench
are thus proved equal to her well-known
field qualities.
The claim that Summergsill, the Uni
versity of Virginia pitcher is a profession
al, is answered by his brother in the New
York Sun. Summersgill pitched part of
one inning for the Brooklyn league team
several years ago, at the time that he was
playing at Vermont Academy. He re-
ceived no pay for this pitching and has
never played professionally. After gradu-
ating at Vermont Academy Summersgill
went TO Brown University, where he was
a star pitcher. He is now a medical stu
dent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
Charged with Numbering Her Child.

Mrs. J. Macie was brought to Wood
stock Wednesday from the Barnard town
farm, charged with the murder of her in
FAINT son, She became town charge last
November and the child was born in Jan
uary. She had with her also a girl two
years old. Her husband, now said to be in
North Harrland, deserted her last June.
She has been respondent and Sunday
morning gave both children laudanum and
took a dose herself with suicidal intent.
The baby died, but the mother and other
child were saved. At the hearing before
Justice Danforth of Barnard she waived
examination and was held to await the ac-
ton of the grand jury.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
$50, 900 Insurance Wanted ON a Jersey
RuII.

Application has been made for insur-
ance of $4,000 on the famous young Jer-
sey bull, Merry Maidens Son, owned at
Hood farm, Lowell, Mass. This is the
highest amount of insurance ever asked
for on bull or cow. Merry Maidens Son
is believed to be the most famous JERSEY
bull living, as he is the son of Merry Mai
den, the champion sweepstakes COW in all
three tests combined at the Worlds Fair,
and his sire is Brown Bessie's Son, whose
dam won the 90 days and 80 days tests at
the Worlds Fair. Thus Merry Maiden's
Son unites the blood of these two famous
cows, and great results are expected from
his progeny.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
Frederick Remington has this to say in

Frederick Remington has this to say in
Golfers Weekly about Maxine Gomez:
He has a curious head very interesting
head. 1t is fierce and warlike, and brown
and mustached and goateed and altogether
Spanish-American, which does not mean
''white man." His profile is a triangle,
with the jaw as the base. From his looks
far as we know, he is man of one idea
that one idea vas far as the blood and iron
and horseaesh of Cuba could carry it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
Only One Athol.
From the Athol Transcript. ]

From the Athol Transcript.
We are panied right under our shirt buz-
yum at the propensity of our esteemed con-
temporary, the Brattleboro Phoenix, to at
tach the wholly unnecessary appendage--
MASS. to the name of our blessed town
whenever it has occasion to refer to in
cidents happening within our joyous
bailiwick-as we are pleased to see it very
often does. AS there is but one Brattle
boro, so there is but one Athol, and it is
quite unnecessary to hitch on the "Vt." or
Mass" at the end of 'em. The Phoenix
should remember this, especially as good
many of its own people are moving down
this way to live.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
STATE OF YERMONr n1a-l,-o-. %

~ ne PROBATE Court for Said District
ID 10 an persons interested In the estate of IS
deceased, ' ." si I uistIlct'
Whereas, Titus Stowe, administrator mon the
Estate OF israel Stowe, late Of Halifax. In said
ulStrict deceased has filed his petition I'M this
tourt setting forth that the sale of the whole OF
t IN real estate of said deceased will be beneficial
20 she heirs and all pers ons Interested therein.
anu praying Tor license TO sell the same. and al
~ oe the consent in writing of all the heirs re.
- IN TINS state to such sale Whereupon il
20 oIusred that the same be heard at the Sc sion
sai1 court, TO be held at the Probate ONCE in
nssaanltleooro on the last Saturday of April A. d.
low, when and where you may be heard IN the
premises, II you see cause. ~ '''0
10 A. f. SCHWENK, Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14

Judge Shiras, in the United States court
at Dubuque, Iowa, has decided that under
the bankruptcy act innocent third parties
can hold their securities. Mortgages can
not be compelled to yield possession of
property in their hands which passed into
their possession before the proceedings in
bankruptcy were begun.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
CTATE OF VERMONT, Marlboro IS

- By the Probate Court for SAID District.
TO all persons interested in the estate of
FRANCES E. BINGHAM, late of Brattleboro.
ueNSaseu, Greeting.
whereas Frank B. Putnam has presented 10
TINS court an instrument purporting to be the
iast VIII OF said deceased for probate:-You are
hereby notified that this court will decide upon
the PROBATE or said Instrument at the session
thereot' TO be held at the Probate Office in Brat
tle3oro IN said district on the Goth day of April
A ID. leg9. when and where you may appear and
contest the SAME, If you see cause
Is A. F. SCHWENK Register
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14

Capt. Thomas Grape of New Bedford,
who crossed the Atlantic in a whaleboat
many years ago, taking Mrs. Grape along,
is now off for Cuba in a nine-foot skiff'
flying the flag of Ballington Booths or
ganization, to which he belongs.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14
STATE OF VERMONT, Marlboro IS

~ by the Probate Court for Said District.
It 10 9 az persons interested in the estate of WIN
distric, hAHDSON' late of Brattleboro in said
Yon arc b,.,,..-.,, Greeting.
NJ S upon the allowance of the account of James
sn,,,S ler, H. ID. Hoton and Z. L. Waterman. ex.
HI atn OF upon the estate Of VIM F. Richardson
sao, Oh bratteboro in said district deceased and
ILL., iSe distribution thereof to the persons en-.
tb lhereto at the session thereof 10 be held al
Cne Probate Onice in Brattleboro, in said district
vi tne 29th day OF April A. d. 1899, when and
zee 10y you may be heard in the premises, il you
10 A, F. SCHWENK. Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-04-14

~ by the Probate Court for Said District
. 10 all persons interested in the estate OF MARY
NJ INGRAM CLARK, late of Newfane, deceased.
u-L Greeting.
- whereas, Harlan f. Sparks has presented 10
this court an instrument purnortinu 10 ~ ths
iast VIII OF said deceased for probate:-You are
hereby notified that this court will decide upon
thereof, to be held at the Probate Once in Rrat.
tle3oro IN said district, on the goth day of April
A., y. lsvs when and where you may appear and
contest the same, II you see cause.
10 A. f. SCHWENK Reoister