St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-02-12
GENERAL NEWS,
Pattcrl on. N. J. Fire swept.


A great fire swept through Paterson,
N. j., Sunday and in its desolate wake
are the embers and ashes of property
valued in preliminary estimate at S.
100000. 1t burned its way through the
business section of the city, and claimed
as its own a majority of the finer struc-
lures devoted to commercial, civic, edu.
cational and religious use, as we'll as
scores of other houses. There was but
small tribute Of life and injury to the con-
migration, but hundreds of persons were
left homeless and thousands without
employment. A relief movement for the
care of those unsheltered and unprovided
for has already been organized, and
Mayor John Henchcliffe says that Pater-
son will be able to care for her own
without appealing to the charity of other
communities and states. The great man
utacturing plants of the place are safe,
and the community, temporarily dazed
by the calamity, has already commenced
the work of reorganization and restora-
ton.
New York Central blamed.
Gross negligence" on the part of the
New York Central and Hudson River
railroad company was the verdict Of the
New York state board of railroad com
mlssioners in placing the blame tor the
accident in the tunnel between Fifty
sixth street and Fifty-seventh street on
January 8. The engineer was said to be
inexperienced. Recommendation are
made that the block stations be at great
q int lie that ba Ic IN +ba f11,,
mel be raised to the level of an engines
cab windows; that anthracite coal or
coke be u.s. d in passing through the tun-
mel, and that present plans for improve
ment in the yards there be carried ont
without delay
Gen. Booths Temperance Crusade.
AT mass meeting held in London last
week, General Booth, the leader of the
Salvation Army, inaugurated special
temperance campaign as feature Of the
work of the Salvation Army during the
present year. General Booth said he re-
lied confidently upon the co operation of
saloonkeepers IN this work, through their
indicating the habitual drunkards, inso-
much as the supplying OF habitual drunk
ards with liquor endangered the publ
cans license, and that he intended to
compile drunkards' directory in each
town, and follow the habitual drunkards
home and reform them there.
Carnegie Chooses an Epitaph.
At The formal presentation OF the new
Carnegie Laboratory of engineering to
the Stevens Institute of Technology in
New York Thursday evening, Andrew
Carnegie was presen, ed with a solid sill
yer Tiffany casket containing a piece of
the first Trail ever made. 1t was made
under the personal supervision OF Robert
L. Stevens, in Wales in 1880, In speak
ing Of the gift Mr.. Carnegie said:
To think that my name should figure
on the same casktt with Robert l.. Stev-
ems is an honor beyond all expectation,
for among men none was of more value
than he. In the list of geniuses that YOU
can count on the fingers of two hands,
no list is complete without the name Of
Robert L. Stevens. | bad no inventive
mind, simply mind to use the inven-
tions of others. think fit epitaph for
me would be, Here lies a man who
knew how to get around men much
cleverer than himself"