St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-03-27
GENERAL NEWS.
Rnrgain for Government.

Tor use by the United States as the court
of claims, is to be bought by the govern
ment for 100000. The manager of the
Cocoran gallery had asked $350,000 for
the lot and building. According to ap
praisals made by localreal estate dealers,
the lot was worth SIS foot, or $3.50,
900, and the building cost to erect S225,
900. This makes the property stand tor
$575, 900, but as the owners had been
getting but $4,000 as rental for it, it is
about decided to accept the offer of the
government. The amount obtained
pictures for the new Cocoran gallery, but
will be invested, and the income applied
to extending the collection begun and in
creased by the late w. w. Cocoran. If
the statements made regarding the
Cocoran gallery are correct, the fact that
the government is to obtain property in
the city for less than it is worth in the
market is extraordinary. Usually the
practice is to make the government pay
double the true value Tor anything 1t
wants. 1t was considered scandalous
not many years ago because some school
sites were purchased at private sale at
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condemnation proceedings they would
have brought much more money.
Receives More than Dewey.
Several thousand dollars bounty
money due Rear Admiral Sampson for
his services in the Spanish war will be
paid him in a few days, and checks for
large sums will be issued at the same
time to all officers and men of his com
mand entitled to payment.
The admirais allowance will exceed
that of Admiral Dewey. Under the de-
cision of the court of claims Admiral
Sampson should receive $685. for his
part in the Santiago fight, but in addi-
ton he will get two separate sums of
about 700 each for the Manzanilo
fight, about 81 900 for the action in
Nipa Bay, and smaller sum for other
actions in which ships of his fleet took
part. Altogether he will receive nearly
$4,000.
The amount Of bounty money that
Rear Admiral Schley will receive has not
been definitely estimated at the treasury,
but it will be next in amount to that re-
ceived by Admiral Sampson. 1t is not
believed, however, that it will exceed
$4,000 or $4,000.
A Maple Sugar Trust.
The following dispatch from Ashtabu-
la, Ohio, to the New York Times will be
of particular interest to Vermonters;
"The maple sugar and syrup makers
of this section of Ohio which is now the
maple sugar making centre of the world,
are about to form a trust. The season
is just opening and plans are almost
completed. Instead OF St ling individual
ly to buyers and boiling their own sap
the farmers will appoint one salesman to
look after their interests and send all the
sap to one place to be boiled. Middle.
ford, Geagua county, will be the loca-
ton. 1t is situated in close proximity to
some 100000 maple trees. The trust
places the price of syrup at $1.00 a gal
lon, an average advance of rs cents.
Heretofore the prices have varied. Sugar
makers have sold to agents without a
thought of a standard price. Nowadays
it is really the syrup making instead Of
the sugar making dealers who figure out
that the price of the sugar does not COM
pensate them for the extra labor neces-
sary in making it.
Names Biggest Logging Wear.
With pulp logs included, the cut in the
Maine forests this winter seems likely
to be the largest in the history of the in
dustry, but there will be fewer saw logs
than the average for the last ten years.
The Penobscot River will have 164 900,
900 feet of new logs and II, 100000 feet
of last years logs to come down in the
same drives. The Kennebec cut is set at
154, 100000 feet, all new logs, and And
roscoggin operators say they have near
" or quite 200 100000 feet, although
100000 feet of this is cut and sawed
in New Hampshire, not coming into
Maine. On the Aroostook, Machias,
Union, Narragaugus and st. Croix rivers
the cut will aggregate about 100 000,.
600 feet, so that the total cut for the
state Of new logs will be 626, 800 900.
Deducting what goes to New Hampshire
mills, there remain 573 5000 feet for
Maine mills, of which, it is estimated,
275, 100000 feet will go into pulp, leav-
ing less than 2O0,000,000 feet of the new
logs for he sawmills.
New C0nuiau steamers 10 Liverpool.
The Canadian government has chang
ed its Atlantic mail contracts from tie
Elder Dempster Line to the Allan Steam
ship Company. The Allans will put on
four fast steamers-the Tunisian, the
Partisan, the Corinthian and the Pre-
torian. The latter vessel is a new 5000
ton ship, which should be ready to take
her place on the line within the next two
months. The steamers will ply between
Montreal and Liverpool i'll summer, and
in winter st. John and Halifax will be
the Canadian terminal ports.
S25O,OOO Fire in Montreal.
During fire Saturday morning in a
Wholesale drug house of Leeming Miles
& Co., Montreal, opposite Notre Dame
Cathedral, the roof forced out the walls,
which fell, killing one fireman and in
Turing two Others. The building and
stock Of Leeming, Miles & Co. were de.
stroved and Hudson Herbert & Co.'S
building adjoining and its contents were
badly damaged. The loss is estimated
at $250,O0b.
Secretary Hay Saturday gave the
Spanish minister, Duke D'Arcos, treas
ury warrant for 100000 in payment
for the island of Cagayan and other is
lands near the Philippine group.
department OF archaeology will be
opened at Philips Academy on May /.
Friends of the school whose names are
not divuged have provided a foundation
which ensures the erection of a suitable