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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-09

horse was taken to livery stable but
was so nearly frozen that 1t could hardly
walk. Buley was fined $40 and COS of
S101J. W nile on the stand, things did
not appear quite right to the respond mt
and 1T was evident that he had not gotten
rid of his jag. He was sent back to Jail
to sober off, but was in court again H. the
afternoon. when he pleaded guilty t. IN.
toXication and was fined So and cost of
60 10
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THE HOMELIEST MAN IN BURLINGTON

AS well as the handsomest, and Others
are invited to call on any druggs 1t and
get FREE trial bottle of Kemp's Bal
sam for tie Throat and Lungs. a remedy
that 1t guaranteed to cure and relieve ali
Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma, Bron
chitis and Consumption. Price Csc and 5Or
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Mill SUPPLIES.

Rubber. cotton ami leather hcltins
files, babbitt metal lubtic atilg oils. pack
ing. tacks. lcohucs, lace leather Ocl
hooks. y eut, drag end circular sIWs
Write for prices. George l lHsar eStat,
burlington
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-09

Mary Cassidy for house on Elmwood
avenue; Eugene Bacon for barn on Wall
nut street; Mrs. George A. Becdc for
restaurant at 12S College street
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-09
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The list of unclaimed lctte rs in the Bur
lirgtcn post office is as follows.
WOMEN'S LIST
Eva Andrews. Miss Ellie Brown, Mrs.
Jennie Balch, Alice Everett Mrs. A II.
Henderson, Carrie Johnson. Mrs. Flora
Lee, Mrs. Amanda Sheldon, Mrs, Cato Gil
bert Wells, Mrs. Robert Shedrick Ella
Consich.
MEMS LIST.
John Blanchard b. Corwel, +. J. Gilbert,
O. w. Hard, Thomas l.. Smith. John j.
Varney, Howard Z. Wheeler.
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FRANK .. SINCLAIR,
GF>ORGi; Q. STILES.

The minority report was as follows:
The minority committee would respect
fully report that they are of the op Mon,
restricted as we are by a resolution of
this board to the selection of a site al
ready owned by the city, that tn, best
place for the location of d new public Ii
brary building is the Gdmunds lot on
Main street. This property Is dedicated
to educational purposes End can be use /
for no other. 1t is reasonably convent MT,
spacious, free from noise and dust SO pre-
valent in the business streets, has tree 3
and shrubs that could not be grown in the
life of the present generation, will always
be surrounded by buildings in keeping
win the character of the structure we
hope will be erected and for other reasons
like economy in building. etc, we be ieVc
the location of the Edmunds lot to he the
most favorable of any which the city
has to offer. IT, however the marllct
property or some part thereof could b
sold a advantage and the money invested
IN the purchase of the Weller lot or some
equally favorable location, we might per-
sonally endorse such 'ction
Respectfully submitted,
c. W. BROWNETL
For minority of the committee.
A. G. Whittemore addressed the board
saying that perhaps the committee was
embarrassed by the fact that they must
locate the building on ground now owned
by the city. IN view OF TINS TACT he made
IN offer of sl5 600 for the ground now own
ed by the city known as the city market
grounds
Alderman Rrownell said that he under
stood that another party was ready to
loan the city of Burlington $l00,000 for a
public library building "A the rate of one
per cent per annum. He said the money
would be ready soon AS the city should
elect to accept it. He thought this offer
should be investigated before the matter
Of public library should be decided. He
spoke at length about locating library
building on the city market grounds lie
thought that the matter should be inVos-
tigated thoroughly He mentioned the
rOst of putting in a foundation for a new
puilding. He said that if the library build
ng was put there the city barn, which
,ost 5000 would have to be torn down and
new lot purchased and new barn built,
g spoke of the loss that would be in
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-09
OFFICERS OF ST. JosEPH's SOCIETY.

At the sem,-annual meeting of St. Jo-
seph's society. Thursday evening, the fol-
lowing officers were elected
Presidential. n. Ouimette.
First vice president-Arscne Boucher.
Second vice president Peter Grady.
Secretary-L. n. Beaulieu.
Corresponding secrotary-Dr. j. L. La
ROGUE.
Treasurer-P. f. Girard.
Collector-A. n. Duhamel
Assistant Collector-Joseph A. Gauthier.
Marsha!--Joseph Houlc
Assistant marshall. %. Couture.
Trustee for three years--Napoleon Mer-
cier.
Mr.. Joseph Paquette, the retiring presi-
dent, was rendered a vote of tn nks Tor
his administration Of the affairs of the
society. During the past six months the
society paid over 500 for the benefit of tn
sick, widows and orphans and had a hand
some surplus of over $500.
OFFICERS OF THE BAPTIST SOCIETY
The annual meeting of the Baptist So
ciety was held THURSDAY at the church
parors with a large attendance. Reports
for the past year We're read and cOnsid-
cradle routine business was transacted.
No arrangements have yet been made to
secure a pastor TO succeed Rev. DR.. w. S.
Roberts, recently resigned Officers for
the ensuing year were elected as follows:
Clerk-A. G. Crane.
Auditor--J. Warren Roberts.
Colector-Howard Crane.
Treasurer-G. f. Davis.
Officers of the Sunday school were elect
ed as follows:
observation-disclosures Rose.
Assistant SUPPLEMENTARY G. Stafford.
Secretary and decentralization Bond.
INSTRUMENTATION Rose.
Assistant lbrarian-Pearl Johnson
Finance committee--E. B. Bailey, A. O.
Ferguson. #. II. Stillman, ID. II. Cameron,
George Marks.
Membership Commttee-Samuel Big
wood, II. A. Crandall, Thomas Rose, Mrs.
A. O. Ferguson Mrs. +. G.. Evans.
Advisory board-C. J. Ferguson Sey-
mour Wakefield, A. G.. Crane.
Members of corporation OF Home for
Destitute Children-Mrs. II. c. Wether-
bee and Mrs. Matte 7. Johnson.
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ODD FELLOWS o MEET.
Encsmpment of the Third District al
st Adams Friday Evening.


district meeting of the /. o, @. f.
Encampment of the third district will b
held Tuesday evening with Columbia En-
campment No. !, at St. Adams W. Il
Craven and O. f.. Gibson of this city will
attend as representatives of Green Noun
tain Encampmcnt. The encampments in
the district are located at St. Adams, Bur
lington, Swanton, Middlebury and Bril- tol.
The programme for the meeting will b.
as follows:
Opening, BY Columbia Encampment
No I. at 1880 p. m.
Address of welcome.
BY A. J. Tenny, p. G. p
Response, Rev. w. r. Forsy the.
disqualification of Royal Purpe d.
gree, BY Columbia Encampmo mt,
No 1, of st. Adams.
Criticism by grand officers.
Installation of officers of Columbian
t.ncampment No. 1.
EXempiHcation of unwritten work,
By l.. F.. Mellen G.. +.
Remarks by Grand Encampment Off ers.
Several prominent members of the or
der are expected to be present.
Banquet served at 600 p m.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05
LESSON FOR THE NATIONAL
DEMOCRACY.

While there were hopes of some DEM
ocratic gains in the elections yesterday in
the Northern and Western States.
they do not seem to have been re-
allied. The party was apparently more
harmonious than 1T has been for some
years, but the result was not what many
of the most astute leaders predicted.
There is lesson in 1t all. however,
which will bear good fruit in the future.
All extransous and undemocrauc ideas
must be eliminated before we can hope
for success in the country at large. The
injection of the socialistic mine owning
plank into the Democratic platform in
New York Disguised and disheartened
many thousands of Democrats. 1t is more
than probab BILE that defeat in New York
was due to that mistake. A stronger
man than Mr.. Coler could have been Sc
lected, and with such a candidate there
would have been no foolish and undemo-
cratic declarations in the platform. Hon.
ID. B. Hill was responsible for the blum
der ana championed the unfortunate dec
larations., and the defeat of the party
would seem to dispose of him as Pres
idential possibility.
The outcome in Ohio is just what sensi"
BILE men all over the country have ex-
pected and IL It has the effect of prevent
ing such performances la the future the
party will be correspondingly benefited.
There is a great army of earnest and sin
cere Democrats ir Ohio who moro than
cnce have redeemed their State from Re-
publicanism, but 1t was under no such
leadership as that which took possession
of the party in this campaign and made
Of it a circus and a burlesque. Mr.. Tom
johnson was the central figure and ev-
erything else was subordinated to his in
terests and his ambition. There does not
seem to be a single Democratic hope left
in the state, and conditions will not be
bettered until he and John r. Mclean
are both set aside.
Within the next two years the party
can prepare for an active and possibly
successful contest. The one issue on
which 1t can present solid front to the
enemy is the tariff and on that line all
the energies of the party should be di-
rected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05

where no geologist or other scientist can
account for them, and II not brought by
glacial action how did they come? And
IL this theory Is correct one. where Is
the mother bed? That is the problem to
be solved, and IL 1t shall get abroad that
there is something practical In the theory
there will be something far more irresisti-
BILE than the North pole to draw people
northward. Hunting the Pole is largely
a sentiment, but hunting a vast deposit
of full many gem of purest ray Sc
rene" will appeal to the cupidity OF hu-
mainly and the search will be wild and
furious. Win they find IL? That Is for
the future to decide, but certainly the ef-
fort will be made II the theory should
hereafter be found tenable. or even IL 1t
should turn out that there is some good
reason for believing it. 1t will be trav-
cling back from effect to cause, and
following the track of the diamond from
Alabama. possibly. to the frozen regions
o. the far North.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05
REcLAIMING WASHINGTON.

Within four hundred yards OF the Whfte
House, in a southwestery direction, the
putting of a steam roller within the last
few days is proof that the most rundown,
abandoned and forgotten spot in WASH
ington has been rediscovered, and streets
long ago hidden by weeds and bushes
are being reopened and paved. 1t seems
almost unbelievable that this scene OF
rot and ruin is within one city square
of that majestic structure, the new Cor
coran art gallery, and therefore within
two squares of the White House. The
upper boundary of the desolation is with
in that distance Of the seat OF Imperial
power; the lower edge being the made
land by the rivers brim. west of the mon
ument, where the dredgers are every day
at work retaining the Potomac flats.
The most conspicuous object in that
place of desolation Is the once noble Van
Ness mansion, now ruin habited by
bats and rats, near the corner of Nine
teenth and an abandoned street that Is
to be reopened, one square from the art
gallery. This old mansion is almost as
large as the White House and was once
far more sumptuously appointed Prob
ably not a hundred persons in Washing
ton know anything about 1t. Probably
neither the President nor any member OF
Congress ever saw 1t, standing as 1t does
behind the trees the only structure in a
| big square, with nothing but the marsh
| beyond it. The lodges on either side of
| the front gate still stand. Through that
! gateway passed in time at least ten OF
| the Presidents and all the famous men OF
| the first half of the last century. for the
| old mansion was the seat of the richest
hospitality Washington knew.
This palatial house was built by one
| Congressman Van Ness early In the last
| century and why he built it there by the
| marsh is beyond the vile of man to i'm
agine Van Ness married Marcia Burns,
| daughter of that hard-headed>and thrifty
/ old Scotchman, Peter Burns. with whom
| George Washington and his associates
| had such a world of trouble when sur
veying the site of the City of Washington
Old Peter Burns owned many hundreds OF
acres of the land required for the city
site, his possession extending from the
| river marsh on the west for a mile and
a half eastward and including the site
| of the White House lower Pennsylvania
| Avenue from there to and including the
hill on which the capitol now stands. He
didn't wish to sell at any price and for a
| time resisted the personal pleading OF
the Father of his Country himself. He
even forbade the surveyors, L Enfant and
! the rest. to run lines through his land
| But finally they fought him around and
| bought him around. and his lassie Marcia
| became the first heiress of the nations
capital. AS such she became the bride Of
| the wealthy aristocrat, Congressman Var
| Ness of New York
This Is the story told me today in thu
shadow of the old mansion by a man WHIT
knows history and loves it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05
THE SCIENTIST, BRIDESMAID.

This remarkable interest in the preach
ing of the great priest is all the more
timely and gratifying because of current
momentous events in the religious, in
dIstrial and political spheres of activity,
when we hear of monopolists proclaim
ing boldly that they are the agents of d.
vine providence, and science is fiouting
religion and barring doors to the doctors
Here IN Washington and over yonder
in New York there has been for several
days general excitement over the fatal
influences of mothereddylsm, otherwise
christian science" One local case has
been peculiarly exasperating to the pub
lie A young woman in a family of con-
siderable Importance in Washington So
ciety, being about to wed, summoned
from the West one of her schoolgirl
friends to act in the ever-charming ca
pacity of bridesmaid.
The fair Western one arrived in good
time and became the guest of the bride
family The house filled with other
guests, and all was joyous merriment
| until two days before the date fixed for
the wedding. when the Western girl be-
came suddenly and alarmingly ~.
To the dismay of the household, the in
valid refI sed to allow a doctor sum-
moned, saying she was a Christian Scien-
$500
revelation of absurdty greatly distressed
the family of whom the young woman
was a guest, and so her parents were
| summoned. Meantime a Mrs. Somebody.
| &c 8. d." was called by somebody ia
treat the sufferer, whose life was In
grave peril. The story got to the news
papers the day before the wAdli lg. and
| the result is most mortievlng notoriety for
the family of the bride. who is now AVA
on her honeymoon doomed to read gldr-
| ing headlines in the newspapers regarding
| her queer" guest from the West
The sick wcnans fathe-. described as
assistant cashier of the First Nati"na
Bank of Chicago" today takes the public
into his parental confidence by publish
| ing a statement that is perhaps unique
| even in the annals uf Mothereddyism He
says that upon receipt Of alarming
wires from Washington. he wired: III
Louise prefers medicine. have II. u 'oulst
prefers science. was the immediate re
Spouse. And science" Louise is having
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05
Dahlgren's Torpedo Boat Dream.

Mobile Register.
The last number of the Gulf States His
torical Magazine. Thomas NJ. Owen. edi-
tor, contains a reprint from the New Or
leans Picayune of the article upon the
Confederate submarine torpedo boat
"Hunley," by W. A. Alexander of Mo-
bile. The boat operated in Charleston
harbor in the Winter of 1S63-64 1t is a
coincidence that when the 'Hunley'' was
in process of building, for attack upon
the Federal ships. Admiral Dahlgren.
commanding the Federal fleet off Charles
ton, was meditating like continuance
for putting the Confederate defences out
of combat. The Naval Records. Volume
IA. page 435. give the admiral's crude ideas
of how such a boat should be constructed.
He writes to Secretary Wells, Aug. IL.
1863, saying:
sir think the opportunity may oc-
cur where explosions may be made useful
under water; wherefore. | would ask TO
have a vessel constructed of corrugated
iron (Francis), fashioned like boat, but
closed perfectly on the top, so that 1t
could be submerged very quickly. There
might be air vessels at each end. which.
when exhausted. would float the top of
the magazine even with the water when
air was allowed to enter, would cause the
vessel to sink.
with such a contrivance quantity
of powder could be brought to bear upon
Instructions, which would dislocate any
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1902
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses GER
tain signs TO denote the relative standing and
merit Of the whole Geld OF newspaperdom
which comes under Its notice. and one OF these
signs 10 the mystic symbol TO- denotins
p.goiden. g whish stands for high quality. and
= thus explained:
Advertisers value this paper more for the
class and quality OF its circulation than for the
mere number Of copies printed"
Such papers are credited w:th single sym
boil; but there q higher grade. according TO
this standard authority. which have BOTH
QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL COL to describe
adequately their standing.
The Advertiser has been accorded this
double golden symbol [@@l and is the only
uaper % DISTINGUISHED in this section Of ths
South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05

The Richmond Dispatch is after the al
legged funny people who send in and have
published fake wedding reports in the
newspapers. and winds up an editorial
on the subject with some words which
will be endorsed by newspaper men gen.
orally. 1t says:
We have always been of the opinion
that the perpetrators of such cruel jokes
If men-should get a taste of the horse
whip. and we have often marvelled that
they have escaped with anything less
But the offence is something more than
private injury. 1t is public wrong,
scarcely less grievous. and sometimes far
more harmful than malicious libel. The
laws should take cognizance of it, and
should make of it high misdemeanor,
punishable by heavy fines and impris-
ment.
If just one Joker of the kind described
were given a month in jail to laugh over
the trick he had played. the newspapers
and the public would soon be free Of the
evil described.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05

Washington, Nov 4.-(Spccial.)-In this
day when the multitude Of fools In the
vain effort to appear wise deny the sa-
cred teachings of religion and soon at
holy things, it is comforting to hear
great preacher and wise man proclaim
that the only "cure for the social evil
and ali other evils is religion.
The phrase quoted was the theme Sun
day of the Rev. ID. j. Stafford, the famous
orator priest and rector of st. Patrick
L.iureh in thus city. Father Stafford Is
tne best-known parish priest amongst
American Catholics, and is everywhere
i,a.4cu as one OF the foremost orators,
scAu.ars anu loglcians amongst the
younger great Intellectual men OF the
country. a greater NUMBER or the Lead
ing men of the respective states ana OF
the country hear nm preach tnan near
any ulner one preacher, Tor ms wonderful
e.,>. .,..ce draws 20 ST. Fatrick Cnurcn
lbs men OF all forms or Ialth. 4hey
IT,. something Of oratory, logic ana
Ie., e.. plety, entirely free from every
trace or nlnt of sensatonalism, and fatn-
(. -.dnoru church being IN the neart Oh
the motel district oil the nations capital,
IL Is 10 most notable extent the cHurcH
OF the strangers. Moreover, st. Patrick 5
Is one OF the richest nIteen Or eighteen
Catholic parishes IN America, r atner
stafford being one OF the limited NUMBER
of lrremovauie Records. as they are
known IN the Catholic church. Before a
priest can aspire TO the rare dignity or
not being subject to-removal or transfer
by ms immediate ecclesiastical superior,
mis- parish must be able to take care OF
all It's poor and all its orphans, and
educate All its cnildren, besIoes comply
ing with other conditions. Tine church
revenue OF Father Staftords parish Is
sa III to be $400.Oou year.
There is not Sunday on which this
man breaches that hundreds of people are
not turned away ..... -.- D4s church,
there being not even standing room for
them. 1t is a common experience for the
three wide aisles to be crowded more
than halfway up to the nigh altar.
The newspapers always ann ounce when
Father Stafford is to preach, but not
more than once or twice a year is the
subject of his discourse given out 1t
was stetcd that his subject Sunday would
be THE Cure for the Social Evil and
AL Other Evils and the result was
an extra ordinary throng Of peoule 4
large majority Of whom were men; thus
manifesting a great pubic desire to hear
discussed the religious side of ou: latter
day evils, which must be gratifying to
the great m&ss of Anne .'icans who still
hold that the best government and the
highest civilization can be attained to
solely through devotion to religion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05

nice arrangements It may be that
Francis could At three or four OF his me-
tallic boats in this way and send them
to me speedily"
In about one months time the secretary
replied that the assistant inspector OF
ordnance at New York states that moth
ing can be done toward their construction
without further details and more definite
instructions
Thus It happened that Admiral Dahl
green's submarine boat remained day
dream, while the inventive men of the
Confederacy not only designed and built
such boat, but put IT to work, with the
result that theirs was the first and up to
this time the only submarine torpedo boat
that has sunk ship of the enemy in ac-
tual combat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-05
ELECTRIC POWER. FROM OUR
WATERS.

A Pennsylvania paper is authority for
the statement that there are now in con-
temptation, or in process of erection, three
electric light plants or the Susquehanna
River, to be driven or operated by the
waste water power of that stream The
three plants are designed to supply the
enormous amount of 1150O0 horsepower.
and any one at all familiar with mechan-
les can at once see the Importance of these
works. AS no coal or wood will be re-
quired, the power will, of course, be i'm
mersely cheaper than any produced by
steam. and the power can be carried to
an almost indefinite distance without loss.
And on that subject. The Birmingham
Ledger says:
Alabama's wasted or neglected power is
nearly all too far from civilization to be
in demand yet. Still there are many
good dams, built in the days of the grist
mills that will be saved for future use.
Our water power will yet be needed.
We agree with The Ledger that the
water power of our State is largely neg
lected, but do not agree with 1t in its
assumption that most of it is too far
from civilization. In the entire region
north of Montgomery. and in much of
it in other directions, there is water pow
err sufficiently near to any town or viii
lage to supply all the owner needed. The
electric lights, street cars. manufacturing
Industries can all be operated by the wa
ter falls In the neighborhood. and ten or
| l. -
hood when 1t comes to conveying this
power Most of the dams built to drive
the old grist mills were of wood, and are
either gone or would be useless for this
new method of generating power, but that
is small matter. The Ledger is doubt
less correct in its prediction that the
power will yet be in demand, and Its des-
tiGy is to supply all the people Of Ala
bama with a never-failing and economi-
cal method of lighting and of driving ma
chinery and vehicles.