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New-York tribune., 1900-12-30
NEW STATION.
A MODEL STRUCTURE FOR THE PURPOSE
FURNISHED WITH THE BEST
EQUIPMENT.

Albany. Dec. 29.-The new railway station.
which was begun about two years ago, and
opened for business last week, is OF the nnesc
structures of the kind in the country, and ts =
valuable addition to the architectural features
Of the Capitol City. For many years the station
accommodations at Albany were inadequats, and
many travellers who were compelled to sit In the
dingy and badly ventilated waiting rooms or
who had to stand on the unprotected platform
where the trains stopped to take on passengers.
had only disagreeable recolleetions OF Albany.
The present structure makes a favorabIe Inn
preston, and for that reason it win be benefit
to the city. as well as source OF comfort to the
travelling community
The new station is arranged for the accom-
mediation Of passengers by the New-York Cen
tral and Hudson River, the Boston and Albany
and the Delaware and Hudson railroads, and its
operation does away with the little structure
where the trains for Saratoga formerly took
their passengers. To carry out the plans OF the
engineers who had the affair in charge the
bridge over the Hudson River had to be raised
about four feet. the yard track had to be raised
also. and the roadbed through the city had TO ba
elevated eight to ten feet, thus wipfng out all
grade crossings. of which there were several
within the city limits While this work was IN,
progress there was no interruption Of travel and
the station was opened without form or
ceremony. The foundation OF the old structure
will be used for one story building In which
will be the power plant and the Office OF the
American Express Company.
The station is built Of Milford zranfta.
from plans by shipley. Rutan & Coondgs. II Is
three stories high. and occupies the site OF the
Delavan House, which was destroyed by IRE. tt
has a frontage OF 2S6 feet in Broadway and
10 feet each in Columbia and Steuhen sts
There is a fine waiting room, 143 feet long and
so feet wide. extending through the three stores
Galleries twenty-five feet wide extend along q
east and west sides Of the room, and from the.
the executive offices may be entered. The roo
is finished in quartered oak and antique brorzr
and the comfortable settees are OF polished MAJ
hogany, The room has a seating capacity OF
seven hundred. smoking room, a restaurant
ticket Offices. newsstands and an information
bureau are on this floor. One OF the features OF
the new station is a subway by which incoming
passengers reach the street without passing
through the waiting room This subway Il IN
der the tracks, and is reached by a short diSht
Of stairs from the platform, which Is protected
by canopies. 1.2O0 feet long Another subway u
for the transfer Of baggage The underground
passageways are built OF white enameued brick
and the floors are made OF concrete.
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nearly every railroad town there is a number Of
stores, so that housewife may regularly shop,
and many Of these stores send their wagons
Tar into the back country. There are creameries
Tor the manufacture of butter from the milk
gathered regularly from the farms. Apple and
tobacco buyers make their annual tours from
the great cities In winter, though the roads
are often blocked by snow, the towns pay for
the opening Of ways to every house located upon
a public highway. The people. with few excep-
uons, are intelligent and law abiding.
These assertions are easily substantated, and
it would be hard to imagine a more attractive
farming region. What. then, are the objections?
Machinery such as is used on the Western prai-
ries cannot be employed, the roads are hilly and
the winters long. That is about all. It is some
times said that the soil is exhausted, and that
Western and Southern produce floods the nat
ural market for this region; but these, it is as
often asserted, are fallacies. 1t requires little
capital to secure the machinery that is required;
the hauling distances are short. if Steep the cli-
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appeared to the casual observer. Take any one
or the hilltop towns and plunge reckessly into
the woods of any but the steepest slope, and
you Will find cellar hole after cellar hole among
the young trees. Some Of them have nearly
closed over; most of them are marked by plas-
ter, neglected roses, lilacs. and often there are
the sturdy poplars of Lombardy marking the
old gateway. Out in the open from vantage
ground whence can be seen the Catskills, the
Vermont mountains the Connecticut hills
there VIII be ruined chimneys standing forth
as monuments in cemetery. A hundred years
"a period spanned by old Captain Norton, who
died among these hills the other day-has seen
the farms wrested from the forest built upon
lived upon, and then practically abandoned:
for, though absorbed into other farms while
the others have been yet further absorbed. still
the old house lots stand vacant
1t is this practice of absorption that makes
the figures misleading. From the sixty acres of
past years the farm has grown until to-day one
Of an ever hundred acres is considered small.
The State, in its effort TO repopulaSe the farms
advertses one for sale of 375 acres another of
500 and still third of $50 One that has re-
Gently heen thrown the market embraces
full 1,SO0 acres, while there are a good round
thousand in an estate that has changed hands
New-York tribune., 1900-12-30
NEw-YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 80. 1900

1ne tuition OF its children in high school OF a
heighoor1ng town Every town has its church.
ana usually more than one. There were re-
Gently but two towns in the whole State lacking
puohc libraries: the State supplies books under
certain conditions, the town buys others through
tne ala OF the State authorities. and the library
Is supported usually from the surplus of the dog
tax after the sheep damages are paid There is
scarcely town in the county without one or
more general stores a blacksmith shop a saw
mill and some other small business. There is no
town that has not daily mail service; one
Town OF $50 people, four miles from the railroad
mas three mails a day six months in the year.
while another of 476 population has four post
othces. owing to its breadth of territory In
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ing house keeper or the city men who pretend
to farm it, there is little for the permanent
good of the district The farmer who takes
boarders finds it cheaper to buy his groceries
from the city rather than from the country
store, which formerly was his clearing house
for many products. His horses make money
faster carrying the boarders than in the field.
There is little time to see to fences or to the
fruit trees. Steadily the old routine Of the farm
becomes despicable in the eye of him who has
so closely associated with men of the world
From year to year the graduated farmer may
enlarge his house and add to the assessors
rolls but the farm, as such, depreciates in
value.
FARMS LARGER NOW.
1t has been cited that out of $4,000 farms in
the State the census reports only I'll offered
for SALE and it is said that since then the State
has recorded the sale of about three hundred
of that number This is misleading. When
Berkshire County first being hewn from
the forest ''house lot' consisted of from forty
to sixty acres. At a period not far antedating
the Civil War, when the farming population
was at it's height every valley and plateau
in the county closely settled. To-day
scores upon scores Of these old homes have dis
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uresque in New-England. The town has two
stations on the Consolidated road, which runs
nearly through the centre of the farming terri
tory. And yet in the last decade Sheffield has
lost $50 in population, practically 10 per cent
Lanesborough, though inferior to Sheffield for
farming, has railroad station, two postofhces
and a stage route, and adjOins Pittsfield on the
north. In ten years it has suffered a loss of
23.3 per cent. Richmond. with two stations on
the main line of the Boston and Albany, shows
a loss of 14.7 per cent On the other hand, Tyr
ingham, with all its territory off the railroad,
its centre five miles from the station at Lee, its
farms largely tilted and rugged has lost only
6.3 per cent in the same period, while Hancock,
still more secluded, has deprecated but 1O.S per
cent, and Marlborough has an almost in
appreciable loss of II. While it is doubtless
true that comparison Of all the railroad towns
with ali the nOn-rairoad towns will show a
greater average of loss for the latter it IS clear
that distance from railroad is not controlling
cause in the loss of population.
Sandisfeld is another town offering conditions
for study. 1t was settled in 1880 one Of four
towns awarded to the who built the first
road through the wilderness uniting the Housa-
tonic with the Connecticut Valley. In the old
days 1t had many tanneries; aside from that. it
has been an agricultural community 1t is
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flows off the hillsides in great sheets; the rocks
are ever crumblng, the forest reasserting itself.
The cattle grazing over the hills return a por-
tion of what they take from the soil.
LOSS NOT DUE TO RAILROADS.
Why the depopulation? THE railroad" has
been oft repeated explanation But 1t will
not do in this case. The town Of Sheffield has
been settled since 1925 the oldest town in the
county. It would also seem to be the most IA
vorably located from agricultural point of
view. 1t is Of the southernmost tier of towns,
bordering on Connecticut; most of it's territory is
level, rich free from stone. 1t stretches from
one wall to the other of the HousatOnic Valley,
here at its greatest width within the State. The
scenery is grand its chief village, with its four
long rows Of great elms, is one of the most pict-
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houses were open for the season. the figures
are to that extent misleading. But it is per
haps we'll that 1t occurred. for those VINO
till the soil show in their true proportion in the
enumeration, and the benefit a town receives
from city guests or summer residents is prob
lematical Hundreds of families of limited
means are picking up the farms with the inten-
ton of simply picknicking on them. They do
not turn over the soil fertilize it; in many
cases the hay is not cut. and weeds encroach
with great strides. Of course, there are eXcep-
tions. The very rich, such as go to Lenox ana
Williamstown and Great harrington, nave
splendid farms and employ scores of hands the
year around. Doubtless they keep UP the SOIL as
few simple farmers do The men who work Tor
hire are not, however, a class so ceslraole
as the independent farmers they are succeeding;
the census has shown the latter to be dlsap-
pearng But either in the case or the ooaro-
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Captain ] G. R LiIliendahI Of Company c. sad
Regiment has received letter from Lieutenant
w H. Wilson, of the 4Sd United States VoIuntsa-
Regiment now doing duty in the Philippines. IN
which some interesting facts are given. Lieutsn-
ant Wilson, who formerly a sergeant In Con-
pany OF the 22d Regiment, and one OF its crack
rifemen, writes under date of Barugo. November
10, where he then in command Of the %
Company OF Leyte Scouts. and says:
Just returned from thirteen day hike covering
eighty-tour miles. Never saw single rebel ThaV
were all amigos" On August "A I was detailed ~
organize company or natives. and IL is done
They are armed with Springhelds and uniformed
In khaki We have had several sharp skirmishes
on September Y and lS. at Cartgara, Captain Han
son, Lieutenant Sweeney and myself paid the rehalz
visit at daybreak on the 18th We killed afty-
three, including major two captains and two
heutenants, and captured arms. ammunition ana
caribao. and besides destroyed their works Thera
were no casualties on our side Since then over a
thousand tnsurgent soldiers and their friends Rave
surrendered am post commisssry here. and so
am somewhat busy.
Lieutenant Wilson accompanies his letter with a
small but we'll drawn map OF the scene OF his re-
cent operations, which shows that his field OF
activity has lain along the northern portion or
Leyte which lies 70 the southeast OF the Island OF
Samar, only narrow strait separating the two
Islands Samar Is due south OF Luzon.
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TO TAKE Up HOSPITAL COLLECTIONS.

CHURCHES WILL RAISE MONEY FOR FREE WORK
ON BEHALF OF THE POOR TO-DAY
In most of the churches in the city to-day the
annual Hospital Sunday collection will be taken
up, and an urgent call to the churches to con-
tribute literally has been sent out by the committee
of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association.
The collections for the hospitals taken in the
churches the last Sunday Of each year, and in
the synagogues the last Saturday Of the year.
The collections last year amounted to S22S1 s.
From other sources the association received
$40 71s Is for the hospitals The money collected by
the association is distributed among the hospitals
on the basis of free work performed on behalf Of
the suffering poor.
In the year ending s,ss-sAD~ ~ associated
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mate permits wide range in crops-even tobac-
co is cultivated in the valleys. The soil has Ger
tainy been abused. The first settlers did not
even appreciate that the ashes of the forests
they burned would enrich the ground; they sold
them for chemical purposes or converted them
into soap. But to say that the soil is exhausted
is absurd II is only 175 years since the first set
tlement made within the confines of the
county, and at least one of the towns was not
settled until 1888. The bottom lands are fire.
quently submerged; in the spring the water
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SAVED BY IFS.

From The Harvard Lampoon.
'If you and 1 and eve and eve
And yew and aye (dear mel
Were all TO be spelled and l.
How mixed up We should be-"
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A DEFINITION.
From Brooklyn Life

From Brooklyn Life.
What is youthful enthusiasm pag'
my son." ' ~-s
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Mayors of New-YOrI< City from the First.
Tribune Almanac, 1901.
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Salaries of Government OncfaIs.
Tribune Almanac. 1901.
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SAW NOT 4 SINGLE REBEL.

FORMER OFFICER OF THE rwENr1-sEcoNp ana.
IMENT DESCRIBES THIRTEEN DAYS MARCH
IN THE PHILIPPINES
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GOOD ROADS AND SCHOOLS.

The highways are generally good, except in
the breaking UP OF spring; the State is expend-
ing large sums annually for the extension Of the
best nnacadam roads out into the country
districts. The Massachusetts district scnool has
National reputation. Many Of the back towns
are now consolidating the schools so that they
may be graded and able TO support more com
petent teachers; in that case the town pays for
the transportation Of the children from the more
remote districts. Every town is compelled by
State law TO maintain high school, or to pay
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
THE CHINA SITUATION.
Boxers Destroying Property at Lofa-
To Kill All Foreigners.

London, June 7.-Telegraphing from
Tien Tsin under date of June 6fi cores
pondent says:
II left Tien Tsin this morning en- route
for Pekin, accompanied by General Nieh,
supposed to be one of the best OF the
Chinese generals with sixty troops. We
proceeded to Lofa, a distance of thirty
one miles. We found the plate layers
cabins in flames and telegraph poles cut,
and men engaged in destroying others
in the villages near the railway, where
flags were seen bearing the inscription
kill all foreigners
'I saw smoke, evidently from burning
houses in the distance but General Neih
refused to proceed further, being in NOR
tai fear of the boxers, though the foreign
ers endeavored to persuade him to disen-
train his troops, who are firmly convinced
that it is useless to fight the boxers, as
other Chinese say they have seen boxers
hit with bullets rise and run away.
"There seems to be little prospect of a
resumption of traffic to Pekin unless the
foreign powers assume control OF the
railway until the Chinese government
proves itself capable of managing come
munica tons with it's capital
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
PLOT AGAINST BRYAN.
DEMOCRATIC Or
PHANS PLAN A MOVEMENT.
They Cherish the Hope That Dis
gruntled Republicans May Aid
Formation of a New Party.

New Haven, Conn.,, June 7.-E. c. Bene.
dict, the New York banker, who recently
returned from trip with ex-President
Cleveland, has written letter in which
he says:
1.-The gross outrages perpetrated on the
good name OF the democratic party by
the present managers of party by that
name, with scarcely vestige of the old
democratic gospel left in it, makes me at
present political orphan. l am practic-
ally disfranchised by their action. while
their infldelity to democratic principles
has provoked infidelity to the name to
such an extent that greatly fear we can
never again succeed under it.
IT am not alone in this orphanage. On
the contrary, I have not single ac-
quaintance among my democratic friends
with whom I have conferred who does
not share this feeling fifth me. 1t is also
very apparent that this political orphan
age is not confined to those of our faith.
nant to the rank and file Of republicans
as Bryanism is to us. AS temporary
choice of evils the latter may survive the
former but only for little while.
"These vast and increasing rebellious
elements from the ranks of both parties.
having common dangers, are fast becOm-
ing common friends and are anxious to
become enrolled under one banner.
But before an organization of these
elements can be effected it is the plain
duty of outraged democrats to use their
best individual efforts, in the absence of
organization, to clean house by the COM
plete destruction of Bryanisn. From
present appearances it is the only func-
ton we can perform in the coming cam
paign. Soon thereafter McKinleyism
| must surely perish as a punishment for
its infidelity to all sound principles of
government. Then will come the oppor-
tunity for the formation of great party.
based on platform similar TO that of the
national democratic party 6s1S96 (Which
was the soundest and moSepAtriotic ever
placed before the people) end the Moses
| to lead it will be forthcoming when the
proper time arrives.
1.-The 'bab ballads tell in substance
that to enjoy heaven well we should have
a few moments of hell. This great, rich
country is suffering vastly more from the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
M, 0. P. SECURES REHEARING
Snohomish and Tramway-Constitu-
tionality of House Bill No. l.
Special to the Inter Mountain.

Special to the Inter Mountain.
Helena, June THE supreme court to-
day decided to grant the application OF
the Montana Ore Purchasing company
for rehearing in Case No. 1459 of the
Snohomish and Tramway, recently de-
cided. in which the court held in effect
that the Montana Ore Purchasing COM
pany could not work those properties
through the Rarus shaft Now the Mon
tana Ore Purchasing company claims
that the court should pass upon the con-
stitutionality of House Bill No. l, pro-
viding for the operation of a mine owned
jointly, the Boston & Montana and the
Montana Ore Purchasing company being
joint owners of the mine. The rehear-
ing will be had on June 2S. The court
made the following order relative to
granting a rehearing:
ut appearing to the court that in an
act entitled An act to amend Section
592 of the Code Of Civil Procedure of the
state of Montana, relating to property
held in joint tenancy. and tenancy in
common is constitutional, the judgment
and opinion Of the court heretofore rem
dered herein must be modified The
defendants motion for a rehearing is
granted for the purpose of further argu-
ment upon the constitutionality of the
said act"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
A CHILD IS (
BEHEADED
HAS ITS HEAD CHOPPED OFF
WHILE PLAYING A GAME
WITH PLAYMATES.
WORKMEN BECOME PANIC
STRICKEN AT THE SIGHT,
Allowing Heavy Timbers to Fall Upon
Them, Killing Eight-Scene
Of Horror.

Milwaukee, Wis, June IAN Evening
Wisconsin special from Green Bay says:
A terrible accident occurred near Stock
bridge, on the Oneida Indian reservation,
which resulted in the killing of eight
men and one child. According to the
story as brought in from the reservation
a woman went out into the yard where
several little children were playing,
caught a chicken and chopped off it's
head with an axe. She left the
axe lying on the ground. Imme-
diately upon her return to the
house one of the children suggested
they play chicken and proceeded to carry
out the suggestion. AS the story goes, the
youngest child was selected to act the
part of the chicken. The child was seized
and it's head placed on the block and
hacked off. A number of men were en-
gagged on derrick in the yard raising
heavy timbers in the erection of barn
When the men noticed the child being be-
headed, they became panic stricken and
in the confusion the heavy timbers which
were being raised fell with an aWfu
crash, killing eight.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-07
PRICE FlVECENTS
lOWleS. drawing and assistant in his

iowles, drawing and assistant in his
= ry, $3.50; Earl Douglas, assistant in
chemistry and phyics, $500; Louise Hath
way, assistant preparatory, $780, Mary
Craig, librarian. $3.50. Mrs Blanche
whitaker, instructor of instrumental
music, and Grace Herndon, vocal music
are also on the faculty with no stated SAL
ary.
The committee recommended that the
university committee be authorized to
select special librarian; that the ath-
letic fund be paid into the state treasury
and drawn by warrant the same as the
library fund; that the deposit for break
age be used to replace the apparatus
broken; that the presidents recommen-
dation for a summer school this summer
be approved; that the presiden. be au-
thoriZed to purchase such supplies for
the various departments for the semester
as may be necessary; that the university
received during the erection of buildings
Miss Fannie Corbin be elected instructor
in literature at salary Of $1,000 per an
mum. The committee also approved the
rules recommended by President Craig.
The evening session of the board was
devoted to considering the report of the
committee having the report of the agri-
cultural college. The committee reported
favorably for an investigation OF the In
stitution. committee Of three was ap-
pointed to investigate and examine the
affairs of the college.
Il is claimed that clique eXis. In the
faculty and that partiality rad been
shown certain departments in the allot-
ment Of funds.