News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29

Dof OF DuSlu6Sb udb DOCh oA NoON'
Manufacturing has been curtalled,
men have been by necessity laid OIL
from work, bakers and laundrymen
have put up their prices, apartment
house, hotel and boarding house
keepers have been obliged to advance
their prices, families have been pre-
vented from taking houses tor the
winter, and trade has been lessened.
Coal, which ranged from $6 90 to
$6 so per ton has gone no and up,
until price as high as $50 per ton
has been reached and with but very
little in sight at that. An occasional
small load of hickory would be
snapped up at 81 so the load. But
the end is here, and more cheerful
aspect presents itself 1t will take
little time to get into line again but
the prices are already tumbling, and
| am assured to- day by the treasur-
er of coal association of which we
are members, that just as soon as
hard coal begins to come in, IN
sufficient quantities, members OF the
association who have a yearly con-
tract will be furnished as formerly at
IS 35 per ton, delivered in the cellar.
AS both sides in the prolonged con-
flict are pleased and think they have
won, all creation should be satisfied
for most of all, the people seem to
have won, thanks to the wise and
non political Efforts of that courage
ous ppacemaker as we'll as fighter in
the Presidential chair. Governor
Stones calling of the entire Guard
into the field and the meddllng OF
Pennsylvania and New York political
bosses had no part in it other than
! to proIong the struggle. The best
and most generally used substitute
for coal has been gas. Thanks to
provision in the charter granted the
great gas combination which has a
monopoly of the entire gas business
of this community, the price cannot
90 above $1.00 per thousand cubic
feet. More than 35 900 gas ranges
for cooking purposes have been in
stalled in dwellings, in this city since
last spring, while all the department
stores selling all manner of gas radi-
ators, CRATES, ETC., have been pushed
hard to fill their orders, since the
chilly autumn nights have come. 1t
is figured that gas put to these uses
is about on par as to comparison
expense with the use of coal at $6 0O
Der ton but it would undoubtedly ag-
gregate more than that if used to
heat an entire house.
The old u S. mint building, one Of
the landmarks of the city, situated
at Chestnut and Juniper streets
next to Wanamaker's, is soon to be q
thing of the past, being already sur
rounded by a high board fence tc
prevent il jury to passers while the
work of demolishing goes on. The
business has been tranterred to the
handsome new structure at Sixteenth
and Spring Garden. Congress made
an appropriation for the erection o
the building which is to be destroyed
in 1929 At the time of it's construc
ton the building and ground upo1
which it stands was estimated to b.
worth 5000 $50, the lot costing
$35 $40 of this total. AS Secretar.
, of the Treasury Shaw sold the de
serted property for an even $4,000,
600 it seems to have been a yer,
, comfortable investment for "Uucl
r Samuel" particularly as no take
had ever been paid on the property
! A series of national convention
, have been held here during the earl
autumn. There has been the nation
= al gathering of pension wardens
| pharmacists, master horse shOers
: carriage manufacturers and dealers
! confectionery statesmen, etc, an
: more to come.
= We have had recent calls from Nj
+ and Mrs. A. F. Whitney, Mr. an
! Mrs. E. G. Wilson and l.. W. Wake
field of Morrisville, a very pleasan
I break in the monotony of Twin
among strange faces. The four tol
q mer dropped eff here on their retur
!, from the Grand Army gathering a
f Washington and the latter being a
/ attendant and exhibitor at the Nj
i tional Carriage Dealers Conventio
held during the past week in the el
\ position buildings where McKinle
4 and Roosevelt were nominated.
e The organized charities of the cit
: have experimental and met wit
n very satisfactory results, in settin
apart spaces in the vacant lots &C
t iacent to the city's growth, particI
s larly to the west and north, wheI
s they have furnished seed to the poe
If and allowed them an opportunity [
i carry on a nice little farming ente
b prise, each family by itself. This las
t week an exhibition of some of tt
t diversified products of these vacaI
e lot enterprises was made in Wan,
Q makers store. A very creditab
70 showing was made and the plan wi
n be repeated another season.
Several newspaper changes hay
70 been made within a recent perioC
o The Press, ex-Postmaster Generi
n Charles Emory Smiths paper, he
.e dropped from two to one cent an
9. for some unknown reason seems [
k have changed it's policy and, qui
l. contrary to its former position,