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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
VermOnt's Mineral Resources.

We have received a communication from
NJ. L. Tucker of Lowell, this State, calling
attention to the fact that Prof. J. +. Kemp
of Columbia University made a visit to
the asbestos deposits in Lowell and Eden
early in September, and an account of the
results of his examination is to be en-
bodied in the forthcoming report of the
director of the United States Geological
Survey. That Prof. Kemp was favorably
the fact that the printed programme for
the meeting Of the New York Academy Of
Sciences section Of geology and minerology
includes a lecture by him on "A New AS
bestos Region in Northern Vermont" IL
lustarted by specimens.
We reprint in another column a para
graph from the Vergenncs Enterprise call
ing attention to the sample ores taken
from the mountains near Middlebury and
expressing the opinion that if the promise
afforded by the specimens is fulfilled .Ad-
Olson count will become the centre of III
uortant copper and iron mining industries,
those minerals having been discovered in
80 ~ i'S ib5
These results, as we'll as others that
have been announced are iustifying OR
contention often repeated that our people
are not sufficiently alive to the vast min
cral resources which are lying und velop-
ed at our very doors, while we are sending
thousands and thousands of dollars abroad
for the development of the mineral wealth
- -,l-. ca. NJ. N...y H.
sizes a point that We have repeatedly
made when he says that if an approprla
ton of several thousand dollars could be
placed at the disposal of our efficient State
6eologist, Prof. George IL. Perkins Of the
University of Vermont, by the next Leg
islaturC, for the purpose of prospecting
the mineral resources of our State, and re-
porting the same, no better use could be
made of the money.
While we have been sowing money to
the wnirlwind in other States outside cap-
ital has become impressed by the oppor-
tunities for the development of electric
railways in our commonwealth and has
realized tens of thousands of dollars from
these investments and the indications are
that we shall very largely leave the de-
velopment of our mineral resources to en-
ergetic men from other States in the same
way. The people of the different towns
hould bear this in mind and impress up
on their representatives to the next Leg.
i~slaturc the Importance of taking steps
to provide our State geologiSt who is rec
ognized as one of the highest authorities
in the country to inaugurate steps that
will lead to the development of the min.
eral wealth with which nature has so lay.
ishly supplied this region.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
THE PROCTOR MARBLE WORKS..
How Unity and Prosperity go Hand In
Hand There.


One of three centcrs of operation for the
great industry of marble quarrying and
dressing, which is known far and wide as
inseparably connected with the name of
Proctor, ex-Secretary of War and
now United states senator from Vermont,
this town is worth study because it's in
dustry is it's all. Shipping it's marble to
all quarters of this country, to Asia, South
and Central America and to Australia,
employing 1850 men with a monthly Jay
role of $40, 900. it is one of the best places
in the country to study an industry whe.e
no trade union exists, where strikes are
unknown. where EMPLOYERS and employ
ees, foremen and journeymen attend the
same church, II where business on the
old individualistic basis, without any for
NAL attempt at cooperation or socialism,
Is still found workable and profitable for
all. TO be sure, the company provides
a finely equipped hospital and physicians
and nurses for it's employees, and it in
sures them, without cost, against accident
and death. And this summer fifty of the
men longest in the employ of the company
have been sent to the Buffalo Exposi ion,
two at a time, at the company's eXpeus,,
spending money included.
I.ut the basis of operate ms is still indi-
vidualistic. None but decent, temperate
men are employed. They are as free to
go as they were to come. Good wages
are proffered, and everything is dom to
make the Industry as safe as possible and
thrift and a competence easy. But the
owners still run the business.
Most of the workinen in the q%uarries
and dressing sheds are Swedes, Italy FUR
nishing some of the best Carvers and dtes-
sers, but not as large Il percentage as at
Barre. The Swedes are of a farming pop
ulation at home and come mainly rom
the vicinity of Christiania. They are
sturdy, easily adapt themselves to the new
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31

Clark's service are continually cropping
out. For example the Washington cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press, in
speaking of the appearance of Rear Adj
miral Schley on the witness stand went
out of his way to say that just preVi-
GUS to him had appeared one of the most
striking figures of the Spanish war, Cap
tain Charles e. Clark, who brought the
big battleship oregon around the Horn
from the Pacific coast, at almost racing
speed, ignoring the possibility of run
ming into the Spanish fleet and arrived Off
Santiago in time to participate in the de-
struction of Ccrvera's squadron
This is just "A paragraph thrown into
an account of the Schley hearing, and
yet it speaks Volumes; for 1T shows that,
despite the failure of Capt. Clark to Sc
cure the official recognition due him. the
press as we'll as the people have not for
gotten what he did for the nation at the
very beginning of our conflict on the wa
ter with Spain when an error of Judgment
might have meant untold disaster for the
American cause.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
TRADE SITUATION IN VERMONT.
Conditions in Various Towns as Found
by Bradstreet's Repres entative.

No disturbing features are note his
week in business conditions In Vermont.
The larger industries are very active and
nearly all of the trade centers report
business on a satisfactory basis. The iav-
orable weather for outside work has been
fully improved but the clothing trade
and kindred lines affected by radical
changes are waiting for colder weather.
Collections in some sections are reported
somewhat slow. There is still Il demand
for both skilled and unskilled labor, g1al-
lite and other manufacturers are curtailcl
in their production because of insufnciClt
help. This condition is the result of gen
Cral employment rather than Il decree t.
in the number of labOrors, although It IS
reported that some cutters left Barre ear
lier in the season in consequences Of i'll
ducements held out to them for employ
ment elsewhere. Burlington reports bust
ness in general to be satisfactory; jobbers
are busy and the retail trade is Of about
usual proportion with manufacturing
lines we'll employed and collection fair.
Barre manufacturing interests are eXccp-
tlonally well employed and retail trad" is
good though collections reported some-
what slow. St. Johnsbury reports actiVi-
ty along manufacturing lines with collec-
tions about as usual. General business in
Brattleboro is satisfactory, urers
doing well, retail trade active and
collections fair. Bellows Falls trade
Is reported good along all lines
With collections very fair and but lit
tie unemployed help of those who wish to
work. Conditions are good at Stowe; lum-
Der is active while local improvements
Keep labor active and help scarce. The
granite manufacturing business at North
lrld and Waterbury Is very active; in the
former enlarged facilities for carrying on
the granite business have resulted in an
increased demand for cutters difficult to
meet ANhita Rirar Innntinn r,tnil trl1,
is good and collections fair. Manufacture
ing business at Ludlow is active, retail
trade satisfactory and no particular
complaint heard as to collections: build
ing Is active just now; The knitting
mills at Pennington are reasonably busy;
the cooler weather has stimulated this
line II prices are well maintained: re-
tail trade is of usual volume and colloc-
tons satisfactory. The granite and other
manufacturing industries at Montpelier
are very active; retail trade is good and
prospects for business are regarded as
very favorable.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
Facts About Vermont's Population.

The census bureau has just sent out bull
letins from Washington containing inter-
esting facts and figures in relation TO the
population of this State. One of the most
significant features embodied in these re-
ports is the statement regarding the COM
parative strength of the sexes out Of a
total population of 34S, 64l, the number of
males is 175, 1873 and the number of females
l6S,503, there being $685. more males than
females. To put the statement in another
form, the percentage of males is 81 while
that of the female population is ~.
OF the male population of Vermont 10.-
5S2 are native born and 1850 foreign born.
while of the females 14S.3l2 are natives
and 2o,19 . foreign born. OF the Si6 colored
population 454 are males and 372 females.
According to the census there were in 1900
80 Cinnamon in Vermont and no Chinese
women. There were four Indians and one
squaw. The native and foreign born pop
ulation is distributed in the different
counties as follows.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
Pneumonia a Contagious Disease.

The Michigan State board of health is
investigating the question whether or
not pneumonia is a contagious disease,
and from data already obtained it is said
to he probable that at the January meet
ing the board will decide the question in
the affirmative and take measures to TrO-
vide for it's restriction and the isolation
of patients suffering with the same. If
this course Is pursued, thousands of pneu-
MONA patients in the Wolverine State will
thenceforth have their homes placarded
scarlet fever and small pox, and they will
experience all the disadvantages result
ing from tho enforcement Of a strict
quarantine.
The Detroit To-day says that the Mich
igan board of health as early as last
April deemed it imperative to settle the
question as to the contagious and infcc
tious qualities of pneumonia, cancer and
various other diseases, not now made the
objects of quarantine, and since that
date DIR. MacLachlan of that body has
been in correspondence with advanced
scientists all over the world with refer
ence to pneumonia with the contagious
diseases and that the board will order the
disease to be placarded and Isolated,
The Michigan State board Of health will
thus undoubtedly p%recipitate an animated
controversy, in which the entire reading
public as well as the medical profession
will be interested. Some medical ex-
perts have not been slow to express the
opinion that the germ theory was being
carried TO an extreme, and the attempt &c
classify pneumonia and ANGER with con.
~tagious diseases will unquestionably serve
to impart a marked impetus to the null,
the treatment of pneumonia in particular
as q cnntapinuS disease.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31

OF the States negro nopulatlon Bcr-
nington village contains twelve males ard
twenty-six females; burlington, iilty-forr
males and siXty-one females; brandon
FIVE males and eight females; I;rattlebCro,
seven males and nine females; Montpcl-
Ter, six males and two females; Rutland,
twenty-nine males and twenty-five fc-
males; st. Adams, thirty-four males and
twenty-three females, West Rutland, nine
males and four females. All of the other
places in the above table contain less than
ten colored people of both sexes.
According to these tables Vermont has a
total of IS, 6l4 persons of school age, that
is, five to twenty years of aga. OF these
o., 10 are native born whites and 6,3@5 for
oign born whites, while 257 are negroes.
Of the white persons of school age in the
State Oils are male and 4N,242 feral's,
vhile of the colored persons Of school age
1G1 are male and l?6 female
Vermont has 10,S50 males of militia age,
of whom IS, 259 are native born whites II
l2,59l foreign born whites, and 2j are col
orld. There are in the State an aggregate
of los, 1856 voters, of whom s7,465 are ma
ives ana Zoiojl are ioreiSh porN, anu 81
are cOlored.
The number of males in Vermont over
twenty-one years of age is S,3iG. of whom
gJ,Sl2 are ~literate and S.5tt illiterate. OF
the illiterate 3,672 are natives ana Asa
foreign born. OF the colored males of the
axe stated 2Gl are ~literatc and 90 illitcrato.
The figures showing the illiteracy of the
entire State Of both sexes arr not at hand,
hut when these are received it will be in
tcresting to compare the situation in Yer
mont with the conditions as regards IL
literacy prevailing clseN here in the ccun-
try.
The data is at hand for a comparison of
illlteracy in the six States treated of in
these bulletins, The percentage of litter
acy among all males of voting age in
these States are as follows: Vermont, 10;
Virginia, 25.3; Washington, "a; Wisconsin,
So: Wyoming, As. Among the native
whites of voting age who are of foreign
parentage, the largest percentage is found
in Vermont, the percentage being lO.l. II
is worthy of note that illitcrate forcigr
white males constitute in both Vermont
and West Virginia a considerable proper.
ton of all foreign white males of voting
age, or 23.3 and 22.5 per cent, respectively,
Out of a total of 0,S91 foreign born males
in Vermont, 1854, or i5,S per cent. are
reported as naturalized. The alien element
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
A DriftwoOd Church.

Perhaps the oldest and most original
building that a job Of plumbing was ever
done in is the now famous drift wood
church of Arrochar, Staten lsland whose
builder Is Cuthbert Mills, Il Wall Street
broker. Although its size is only 1Sx2l. it
IL large enough for ArroChar's entire
population. which numbers just forty-six
souls. The building is from 16 to % feet
in height. Its altar Is of drift wood, It's
benches are drift wood-in fact. the whole
interior of the church is driftwood. 1t has
a stecplc and a bell and other things tnnl
are generally found in a church. The G.
terror is partly of stone, which was picked
up here and there. and cut up into ali
sorts of shapes The labor amounts 20
about 1000. Work on the church began
d year ago. As soon as the men we've
ordered to go ahead with the work they
scattered out in all directions. Then load
after load OF wood that had been left be
hind by receding tides We're brought III
The denomination of the church is Cath
olic.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Mr.. Cuthbert Mills will be remembered
by some of our Burlington readers as Il
resident of Burlington for a time some
thirty years ago. He was then on the
staff of the FREE PRESS. After leaving
this paper he was engaged on a Wal
Street financial journal, of which he later
became proprietor. He is now a wei
known writer of money articles for the
New York Tribune and other journals.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Miss Portia Washington, daughter Of
the most noted negro living, Booker +.
Washington, is at present a student Of
Wei, sley College, She Is much liked, aud
is feted and given attentions that might
turn the mead of a girl less self-poised,
modest and dignifed.
Mr.. i. A. Sampson, of Sedalia. Mo, has
donated his entire library to the State
Historical society. Mr., Sampson has been
interested for tnirty-three years IN collect
ing hooks periodicals and materials bear
ing upon Missouri history, His collection
aggregates upward Of 1000 titles.
In Denmark many odd little stories are
told of King Christian and his kindly waS :
above all of the friendly interest he take,
in the doings of his subjects. Whenever
any Dane makes his mark in the world
no matter what his station in life may be
or what his views the King always sends
for him., at the first opportunity, that he
may know what he is like and have y
talk with him. He often stops, during his
walks about the streets Of Copenhagen,
and chats with any workman he chances
to encounter.
Joseph Fielding Smith, president of the
Twelve Apostles, becomes the next presi-
dent of the Mormon church. lie Is I'm his
G3d yeal, and in 1866 was ordained as an
apostle by President Brigham Young, and
set apart as one of the twelve apostles on
October s. 1867. The new president has
three wives.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
Deafness Cannot be Cured

Ivy local application MS as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the car. There is
Crly one way to cure deafness, and :hat is
by constitutional remedies. deafness is
caused by an intilmed condition of tho
mucous linins of the Eustachian Tube
When this tube is intiamed YOU nave a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. and
when it Is entirely closed, Deafness IL the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restt red to- it's nor
rial condition, hearing Will be DESTROYED
forever. which is nothing but an innumed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
amy case of Deafness Caused by oatarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send fer circulars, free.
Il. }. CHENEY 4 co, Toledo, O.
Sold by Drug gists. Toe,
Halls Family Pills are the best
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
Cant, CIark's RECOGNITION.

ed to give to Captain Clark that mark of
recognition deserved by the brilliant SER
vice he performed in connection with the
Spanish-American war, it is gratifying
to the people of his native State, as it
must be to him, to know that however
ungrateful our republic may appear to
be in his case. the world continues to bear
In mind as well as to recognize the worth
and the heroism of the deed he perform
ed. Moreover there has been no bicker-
Ing to detract from the qualification felt
by Vermont as well as by the nation over
the success which crowned his efforts to
serve his country CALAMITY and we'll,
Evidences OF the appreciation of Capt.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31

that there is a daily loss of nutrition,
which in time will result in physical
collapse.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and other
organs of digestion and nutrition. 1t
enables the assimilation OF all the nutri.
tive values of the food eaten, and so
builds up the body into sound health
and strength.
Mr. Ned Nelson, the celebrated Irish Come
dian and Mimic, of 81 Royden Street, Camden:
n. writes 1--WE fulfilled an engagement OF
twelve weeks and the constant travelling gave
me n bad touch of that dreaded disease called
dyspepsia. | had tried everything possible to
cure It till last week, while playing at b. +.
Keith's Bijou Thcater, Philadelphia, in the
Nelson Trio, "A professional friend OF mine ad-
vised me to try DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covery, l tried it, aud, thank God, with good
results"
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in paper covers is sent free on
receipt of al one-cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing oniy, Address DIR.
r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-31
Rural Free Delivery and Letter Reg.
iStry,

As marked as is the appreciation of the
benefits of the rural free deliv-
cry system, it is a noteworthy fact that
the patrons along the routes do not fully
realize the advantages placed within their
reach. AS a matter of fact each rural
carrier is provided with a registration
book, and he is authorized to give a re-
ceipt for any letter or package and 10
forward the same as though he were en-
a regular post office. Moreover, mail mat
ter thus registered is us safe,and as much
in the care of the department as though
1t had been registered in the office. All
that is necessary for the patron in order
to enjoy the advantages thus afforded HIM
is to be at his mail box when the carrier
visits it.
the post Office department Is anxious
to extend its registry business as rapidly
as possible and Mr., Edwin Sands, assist
ant superintendent of the registry system
Of the department, in charge of the Last
ern division, which includes Vermont and
all other New England states as well as
New York and New Jersey, is making a
tour of the principal Offices in this state
for the purpose of investigating as to the
needs and introduction Of improved meth
DDS of handling registered matter and
increasing the facilities to make the ser-
vice more attractive for patrons.
According to the statements of this Of
fetal the department handled 1890 900
l,IpCnC nf euiGtn rod mail y,nttAv It,;,
the fiscal year ended in June 30, 1890, aud
the figures reported thus far indicate that
the aggregate for the year now in progrcss
viii reach A0,OOo, 900. During the last year
only two States in the Union reported
Il decrease in the amount of busiu SIS
dom by the registry branch of the post
Office, Indiana and California. Investisa-
ton showed that the loss in California
was due largely to the competition Of cx.
press companies, while in Indiana the dc
crease was attributed in part to the fact
that the rural free delivery kept mary poo.
pie in the country districts away from
the post Office, who did not realize tn,
fact tina they could have valuable pioccs
Of mail registered the same Us at the Of
flee.
Statistics show that of the millions o
registered letters and packages handlcC
by the department last year, only one II
81, 600 was lost, and almost invariably tlii
loss WAS due to accidents such as the de
srruction of post Offices by fire and wreck
on railroads, The government makes a iii
rect indemnity in all cases of loss up t
!, ana including $40, and amounts abov
!, that sum are recoverable unless tn
: bondsmen of the employee responsible
, Tor the loss are not good, the attorney
r general having decided that bondsme
4 could be held to account in cases of thi
: character. 1t is understood that the prop
er congressional committee is to be re
t quested at the coming session Of Congress
r to recommend IN increase in the amoul'
of the indemnity, which will still furthc
enhance the advantages and attraction
of the registry systei.