Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-04-23

A VERMONT ACTRESS.
The engagement of Miss Suzanne Shell
don who was signed last week by Weber
Il Fields to support Charles hickman next
season in his initial starring venture. says
| the New orl World. is Il triumph for
| a vermont woman who has been kept
IRON the top runc of the dramatic ladder
because she had been too successful. Miss
| ShclGon Is the daughter of Charles IL.
Sheldon. manager of Carnegie hail, and
the granddaughter of the late Charles
Sheldon of Rutland. VI, who did moro to
develop the marble industry of his State
| than any other man She Is the sister of
Louis and Richard sheldon. the noted
| Yale athletics, and a near relative of
Lady Somerset, the English phlantro-
pist. She entered dramatic work several
Nenrs ago and after studying in New
York. went to London. where she won
such success that she was given a small
| part in Sir Henry Irvings company. on
| the night OF her first performance Miss
sheldon preceded Ellen Terry on the stage
| by several minutes She so closely re
scmh!cd the noted actress and did such
good work that She was mistaken for
Miss Terry and got all the applause Miss
| Terry in fact. was colby received, and
| the next day Miss Sheldon was notified
| that her services were no longer required
Last season Miss sheldon made a big hit
as the AbhcSs in T.. H. Sotherns produc-
ton OF III Were King. This time she
| oVertoppcd Miss Cecilia LOTUS and re-
lationS between the two were strained.
At tn, end of tho season she was not re
engaged. liut Miss Sheldon is sonnet hing
OF a lighter and she went back to London
where she again came into prominence
| this season. Now she is about tu return
| to America and show what she can do.
! While in short skirts Miss sheldon or
Z he t+.tII call Il
the tom-hoy of Rutland. She could whip
any lad Of her size i'm the town except her
1atheletic brother Louis. She even soundly
! thrashed "a Nuungster who knocked out
the embryo athclctc mt skating ring on
| Church street
AN INSrRGEN'r ELECTRIC LIGHT
SCHEME
An effort L. ON foot to organize an indie
pendent electric light company composed
of business men ON Railroad street in St.
bloomsbury. Several have been approached
on the subject ANA all are in favor of the
enterprise. 1t is estimated that small
lighting plant could be- erected in that
section that would light both sides of
Railroad street including the Avenue
| House and both the bank blocks for
much less thau what it now costs to lur-
chase lights Of tn" electric company. Sev-
cral influential business men are back of
tn" enterprise. and they hope to have all
arrangements completed before nest win
ter and he able then To- supply their own
lights At fair price. The scheme is :,
good one. and We see no reason why il
cannot be carried ont successfully.
Enough lights could be obtained on Rail-
road street alone to assure the company
a good income from the start.
SHORTER HOURS WANTED IN ST.
JOHNSBURY.
The ninc-hour day movement IS taking
root in ST. luhusburN ana the workingmen
in some of the trades have already made
! oNortureS to their employers with this
lend in view. The plumbers ana steam
IntterS nav" taken the first pronounced
step by asking for u nine hour DAY dating
| from May =. There is no union of tn.
workers in this craft in St JohnShurv but
the petition is made purely a. individuals
Inc carpenters. masonS ana others in the
building trades are also seriously acitat-
ing the Same question but. they too. have
no organization. \ journal representative
talked with a member of one Of the lead
ing plumbing and steam fitting concerns
and he stated that when the other lines
of trade were ready to make the conces-
iSions asked. the plumbing firms would he
willing to grant it also but not until then.
ST. JohnshurN is essentially fu-hour
hour town. the exception being in the
I lnlpDlZGn
lconducted under union rules aS regards
hours of labor one of tho printing and
publishing concerns, the Caledonian com
panN however granted its employees n
nine and onc-half hour day without solicit
ltation. but all the large concerns, includ-
ing the T.. " r. Fairbanks * CO.. tho tlv
Hoe u Fork Co. which is now in the
trust ard tn" various machine shops and
wood working concerns arc on q ten
hour basis. st, Johnsbury has never had
Il strike or any labor difficulty worthy of
mention ANA the now movement for n
shorter day will bo watched with deem in
! tcr"st There are all sorts of runors as
to the state of affairs at the Fairbauks's
scale works where nearly 1000 men arc
IemploNed IN" iron mouldors in this fac
tory are quite thoroughly organi2czd. and
although there have been persistent rr-
lnorS Of trouble from this source no cVi-
doncc of IL has come to the surface 4
great portion of the work at tho scale fac
| tory is don" through iobbers and the mon
are on piece work to Il large extent and
with this class of workmen there socus
to hc nothing like a general demand for
n shorter day In the past the Fairbanks
company has been conspicuous for its OK
ICollcnt treatment of its employees and
many Of tho more wealthy citizens hay,
been or still arc in the employ Of tho
| company. II is said that there are few
many workiuCmon own their own homes
as in St JohnshurY. and these homes ar,
almost without exception or a class much
above those of tho ordinary manufaciur-
ing towns. This is almost wholly duo ia
the liberal policy Of the Falrbanlis'S COM
pany, and although new trade conditions
and sharper competition has n"cossitatoi
changes in this policy, tho old spirit seems
to prevail and the mon for the most part
arc contcntcd with the present conditions
BOY KILLED by 4 WEARING.
| Thursday. April ~ while Roy SAMPSON
and another hoy of West Concord were
leading two Noarlings. tho former droppcd
dead. DIR. johnson was called and ON cx.
animation found place just over tn,
hoart with the skin bruised off Tho doe
tor thinks that the ycarlng in front Of
the boy kicked him. Roy was the onIv
son of Mr.. and Mrs Il. T.. Sampson and
was about T. years old.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.