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County, a few years after the close of his uprising in New England, and lived and died on a clearing a few miles outside the hamlet. At the time the Livingston County Historical society announced it's intention of erecting a monument over the grave, Willard Fill more's name was mentioned ais one who knew Shays in his last years. Fillmore was then mere boy, and his father was far better acquainted with the doughty captain.
 Young Fillmore was born in Locke, now Summerville, Cayuga county, in 1860, and moved ao Sempronius. now Niles. upon the banks of Skaneateles lake, two years later. The whole coun- ty was then thickly overgrown with vast forests, and Fillmore says in his letter that "his whole childhood was spent, as 1t were, in the forests. Y When the boy was twelve years old a friend of his father, Benjamin Hunger ford, asked that young Fillmore be ap- preenticed to him to letarn the trade of cloth dressing. This was in 1914. Fillmore's letter says:
 War was then raging with Great Britain, and my youthful imagination and ambition was much excited by what heard from the soldiers who re- turned from the line, and, having an uncle and cousin on the Niagara from tier, I was anxious to try the life of a soldier, and asked my fathers permis- sion to go for three months as sub- po, ubn Araftn1 but he refused his assent, and proba- bly, with view of directing my atten- tion from so foolish project. induced Mr. Hungerford to ask me to go with him, At all events; my father ex- pressed a strong desire that I should go, and I assented,
 My fathers desidence was not only new country, but remote from all the great thoroughfares of travel, and my life had been spent in obscurity. l knew nothing of the world, never hav- ing been absent from home for two successive days, nor formed the &C., quaintance of any beyond the few scat tered neighbors of the vicinity. l felt natural reluctance at leaving a ten- der and affectionate mother, but was
 
 buoyed up and sustained by the thought of doing something for myself and acting the part of man."
 The letter goes on to describe the lonely and cheerless journey through the almost trackleess forests in jolt ing and racking cart. The Hungerford home was in the town of East Sparta, three miles northwest of Dansvilie, on small stream which emptied into Ca- naseraga creek. Fillmore understood that he was to remain with the Hun gerfords for four months, at the con clusion of which period his term of ap- prenticeship would be complete. But his first experiences were anything but pleasant, he says. Instead of starting in at the cloth dressing business, he was set to hewing wood, drawing wa
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ter, tending the fires and doing in gen. eral what the modern hired man calls
 chores" Disguised at this awakening out of his, dream he objected to MT.
 Hungerford's system, and was in- formed that apprentices always began
 that way. He tried to reason it out,
 but failed. At last came open rebel lion, and the ex-president's letter shows his quality when put to the test.
 q bore this for some time, and one
 day, when I had been chopping in the woods, I came into the shop a little be- fore dark and was ordered to go to the
 hill and cut some wood for the shop. l
 took the axe, and as I went out of the shop, said I did not come there expect ing to give my time to learn to chop
 wood. I did not wait for a reply, but went up the hill, mounted log and commenced chopping. In a few mirl-
 utes saw Mir. Hungerford coming af- ter me with his face evidently flushed with anger. As he approached he said: Do you thing yourself abused because you have to chop wood?" I replied: "Yes, I do; for I could learn to shop wood at home, and am giving my time to learn trade; I am not satis- fled and 10 not think my father will
 be-" As was angry, rpesunne my
 manner as well as my language was not entirely respectful! At all events, he charged me with impudence and
 threatened to chastise me, upon which raised my axe and told him if he came near me would knock him
 down. He stood silent for moment and then walked off. Looking back
 over forty-six years at this little inci- dent of my boyhood, am inclined to think that it was unjustifiable rebel lion, or at least that my threat of
 knocking him down was going too far, for fear I should have executed it;
 and my only justification and apoloby is that have an inborn hatred to fr1- justice and tyranny which cannot re- press. Next day he asked me If l wished to go home. I replied that I had come for trial of four months, and if could be employed in learning the trade I would stay, otherwise
 would return. He said that might re-
 main, and from that time on my em- ployment was more satisfactory"
 The boy had but one friend, Will liam $. Scott, and the intimacy be- tween them lasted all their lives. Fill
 more gives a vivid picture of his man. ner of life in the western New York wilderness. II
 "I neither saw book or newspaper to my recollection. attended no
 church, and think that there was none in the vicinity, and I had no holiday except New Years. On that day we went to Duncan's, on the creek, and there for the first time in my life, I
 saw the rough sports of the season and
 place, such as railing, whiskey drink
 ing and turkey shooting, with an occa-
 sional display of athletic strength. l recollect that I was ushered into a
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or grievances arising between employ CTS and employees shall be arbitrated by an arbitration committee consisting of three members of Bakers union and three members from the master bakers, and three members from the Trades Council of this city, and their decision shall be final"
 This makes an arbitration board of six labor men and only three master bakers. Arbitration indeed! There were three each on last years board, and everything was satisfactory
 Read this: ''I, the undersigned, agree with the above mentioned rules and promise to keep within the spirit of same for the year ending April 30, 1904"
 They want an agreement to submit to their arbitrary rules. It isn't con- tract, because contract. imposes mu- tual obligations. They want the whole pie.s They take no obligations what ever. Agreement means. ruin to many of the master bakers The union in- sists on no night work but that the night shift shall be employed in the day time with the other day men, There isn't room for two shifts. The bosses can't afford to build extra ovens and extra bakeries. The bread bakers who work at night are the malcontents. The cake men who work days are be- ing forced into line because they are in the same union. The union forces the signing of this contract as a puni- tive measure, claiming that several of the master bakers broke their contract last year. Should all the master bak- CTS be made to suffer for the faults of a few? Why didn't the union bring this matter before the arbitration com mittee as was done with the other com- plaints?
 Many good men are anxious to come back to work again but the majority of the incompetents keep them out. The last years concessions of time and wages don't satisfy these kickers. Acquiescence to union demands would mean cutting down the present force of bakers just two-flfths and a corresponding shortening in output.
 The union is baking eighteen or twenty hours night. Why don't they put in practice what they demand so the public and the masters could see the feasibility of their demands? Why indeed? The public insists on fresh bread, that's why. They advertise that they are making pastry and pies. They are making bread only.
 An important meeting of the master bakers will be held this afternoon.
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SURPRISED HIM.
Doctor,s Test of Food.

A doctor in Kansas experimented with his boy in a test of food and gives the particulars. He says, ''I naturally watch the effect of different foods on patients.
 My own little son, lad of four, had been ill with lung fever and during his convalescence did not seen to care for any kind of food.
 T knew something of Grape-Nuts and its rather fascinating flavor and parti- cularly of it's nourishing and nerve building powers, so I started the boy on Grape-Nuts and found from the first dish that he liked it.
 His mother gave it to him steadily and he began to improve at once. In less than a month he had gained about eight pounds and soon became so well and strong we had no further anxiety about him. .-
 "An old patient of mine, 73 years old, came down with serious stomach trouble and before I was called he got so weak he could eat almost nothing, and was in a serious condition. He had, him. self tried almost every kind of food for the sick without avail.
 "I immediately put him on Grape Nuts with good, rich milk and just a little pinch of sugar. He exclaimed when I came next day Why doctor I never ate anything so good or that made me feel so much stronger am pleased to say that Grape-Nuts cured him, but he had to stick to it for two or three weeks, then he began to branch out little with rice or an egg or two. He got entirely we'll in spite of his almost hopeless condition. He gained g pounds in two months which at his age is remarkable.
 T could quote list of cases where Grape-Nuts has worked wonders" This doctors name will be given by the Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, Mich, on application.
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room almost stifiing with the fumes Of whiskey and tobacco smoke; in o@e corner of which was live turkey, and in the center a table surrounded by
 men who were greatly excited in raf- fling for the turkey. The game as re- collect it was this: The turkey was
 put up by the owner at a certain price, say four shillings, and then they put twelve cents into hat and each took | them up and emptied them on the table three times, and he who won the most 1 heads in the three throws won the tur-
 key. But instead of taking it he inn
 nediately put it up again at the same, price and the same process was gone l over again, and this continued through the evening. I was urged to take a | chance, and did so once and won the turkey. I put him up again, pocked | the prize, and have never gambled a. ! cent since" @ D - 5z. | In returning from this festive scene | long after midnight, the blazing pine
 knot which served the party for laIl- I tern was blown out, and young Fill more found himself lost in the woods. A tremendous storm arose, accoInpa- nied with rain and wind, and for many I hours he wandered alone in the thick | of the darkness before his friends l found him. Later that winter (1815) he
 was returning from Dansville with sup plies in over half foot of snow. He had taken a short cut through a pine
 barren, and upon arriving at the high.
 banks of Canaseraga creek found the | ice too thin to allow of a crossing. The only bridge was far below, and just then he heard the distant bowling of wolves. After brisk run along. the
 bank, he found place where a tree. had fallen across the stream, Not
 daring, on account of the Slippery. snow, to walk across on this precari-8
 ous footing, he stradlded it and
 "hitched" himself over to safety just as
 the leader of the wolves dashed bowling
 up to the top of the bank he had left but a moment or two before.
 Tn regard to Captain Shays the letter
 has this to say: g{s.5j < s Jonathan Weston, brother-in-law
 of Hungerford and son-in-law of
 General Daniel O. Shays, of insurrec-
 tionary memory lived near Hunger,
 ford. I had known Weston before he
 went there, as he had taught school in
 Cayuga county, and recollect calling at
 his house, seeing General Shays there,, | and being greatly disappointed in his personal appearance. He seemed to
 me vedy common man, and I Tcould
 but wonder how he had become so fa-
 nous, for it was as common when I | | f{r- |
 has since become. to furrah for Jack.
 son. But one was intended for a joke. whereas the other was sober earnest" The letter is signed Willard Fill.
 more," and was written from Buffalo in the ex-president's own hand | throughout-New York Times.
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THE MASTER BAKERS SIDF.
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X (Continued from First Page.) less than s15 per week, and bench work CTS not less than $14 per week.
 The bakers trade differs from other trades. The baker must take back un- used stuff that grocers and other pat rons cannot sell, This is sold for what it will bring, sometimes at fifty cents a barrel. G X,
 The public will bake. it's own bread sooner than pay more than the regular and time honored price of five cents and ten cents per loaf. The master bakers cannot raise prices. The union men demand this increase. A grocery or meat market can raise prices on the public. Bakers material has raised in price. The employees are paid full wages on holidays. Their work is steady. and averages as much in wages approximate ly as the baker makes. The men don't work Saturday. yet they want more" The unions are dominated by majority of New York men who are incompetent. There are three classes of men in the unions: : u .s4
 First-Those satisfied with last years contract
 Second-Those who want higher wages and higher, night-work wages.
 Third Those who want higher wages and no night work.
 The second class are in control of the union. They are for the most part in- competent and they keep back good men who are willing to work, and whom the bakers will employ. some of them at better prices than asked, because they are worth it. The union claims an un- varied wage for incompetent as we'll as competent men.
 In regard to holidays the union de- mands that 'the following days named shall be holidays: Good Friday, Wash ington's birthday, Decoration day, July 4, Labor day, Thanksgiving day, Christmas day, and New Years day"
 They want four more this year than lst. To give them Good Friday off would have to go without the hot cross buns for which there is such a great demand.
 Another section reads: "All em- ployers complying with the above rules shall be supplied with union labels, to better the condition of the trade"
 This is artless, isn't it? The bosses have advertised the union by using their card in the windows and on the wagons without going into pasters on the Ioaves. The public wont stand for unclean paster-ridden bread. It will need just one more union man to put on the pastors too.
 Read this section: ''In addition, Bakers union No. Il will advertise free all shops complying with these rules as clean, healthy, and in good sanitary condition"
 Magnanimous aren't they? They "ad- vertise free" too. Doesn't matter if shop is rotten, if it is unsanitary in the extreme, the signing of this con- tract entities it to the approbation of the union as .'clean, healthy and sani- tary. s.<. 4gs>rr,
 And again: "All misunderstanding
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FELL IN HOLE.

Little George Ritchie Meets With Seri-
 ous Accident While Returning from
 School.
 George Ritchie. eight years old, of S1 Carmel street, met with a serious acci- dent while returning from school yes terday afternoon. He stopped to play at the corner of Carmel street and Whalley avenue, where new building is being erected. In trying to pull a stake from the ground he lost his bal ance and fell to the cellar work six feet below. He landed on his head on the stones and was unconscious for several hours.
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A PRESIDENTS BoYHooD.
A Recently Published Letter Tells of
 Fillmore's Life,


 Fillmore's Life.
 The discovery at Genesee in Living ston county, of a letter written by Mill lard Fillmore, president of the United States, to a friend in Buffalo describ- ing his boyhood days in the forests of East Sparta, in the early part of the last century, has aroused the interest of the antiquarians of western New York The letter was written in 1860, and was addressed to the late William Scott, of Scottsburg, a pioneer for whom President Fillmore had a lasting and profound affection.
 The fact that Willard Fillmore passed most of his boyhood days in the gloomy woods of western New York is not gen. erally known. It came out prominent ly first In connection with the discov- 'ery and Reclamation of the grave of Captain Daniel Shays, the leader in what is generally referred to as Shays' rebellion. shays emigrated from Mas sachusetts to Sparta, in Livingston
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ODD FELLOWS HOME.
Delegates Elect Officers and Board of
 Directors,

Delegates Elect Officers and Board of
 Directors.
 The state delegation of Odd Fellows met in the Odd Fellows building on Crown street last evening and elected officers and directors for the Odd Eel lows state home at Groton. The resig- nations of the president, secretary and treasurer were read and accepted. Af- ter the reading of the reports for the past year the following officers were elected:
 President-Calvin S. Davis, of Man. tic.
 First president-Frederick A, Botsford, of New Haven.
 Second -president-John W, Smith. .A. secretary--Wallace R, Johnson, Of New London. ~
 Treasurer-Frederick S. Hunt, of Bridgeport.
 Board of managers--S.. G. Blackman of Shelton, B. S. Keith and William S. Hutchinson, of South Manchester James A. Carpenter, of Torrington, M L. Reynolds, of Bridgeport, Zebulon R Robbins, of Norwich, Clarkson W. Fow- Ter, of Hartford, Rudolph C.. Herne and Charles T. Anderson, of Hartford, H. J Hirsh, of New London, D. M. Davis and Rev. c. H. Smith.
 The Rebekah auxiliary appointed were Frank R. Upson, of Southington William H. Maligold, of Bridgeport George H. Cowell, of Waterbury, Hen ry Meyer and Charles Planz.
 The home is in very prosperous con- dition and the officers were awarded a vote of thanks for their most efficient services during the last year.
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HUMANE AGENT

A horse which looked as if it was i'll was left standing in the sun for several hours on Vernon street yesterday. It was hitched to a coal cart loaded with coal. Agent Bradley, of the Humane society, was notified. He unhitched the horse and put it in Kinney's stable It is not known who owns the horse, which is bay, with white legs,
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OBITUARY NOTES.
Mary s. Crosby.

Mrs. Mary Scott Crosby, a widow whose home was in Salem, N. r., died at the New Haven hospital yesterday afternoon after lingering illness. She was about sixty years old. She came to the hospital last fall and had been an occupant of a private room ever since.
 Mrs. Crosby was the daughter of Clark Scott, of North Salem, Westches- ter county, New York, where she was
 born. She was most patient sufferer and was one of the most beloved pa- tients at the hospital. She had host of friends all over the country who will
 greatly mourn her loss. Funeral services will be held at the hospital chapel this evening at 6:15 and the burial will take place in Ridgefield, Conn. She was an intimate friend of
 Mrs. J. c. Punderford, of this city.
 FUNERAL SERVICES OF LIEUTEN- ANT CHAPMAN. The funeral services of Lieutenant
 Frank M Chapman will be held at S5 Admiral street this afternoon at two o'clock.
 Henry C. Shelton, president of the
 Company A association, has requested
 that the members of Company A, Twen-
 ty-seventh regiment, Connecticut Vol-
 unteers, in which the deceased was an officer, to attend the funeral of Lieu tenant Chapman. The deceased will be | inferred in the family plot in the Grove
 street cemetery, by the side of the
 grave of his wife, who was before her
 marriage, Miss King, daughter of the
 late D. M. King, the hotel proprietor I here.
 | Colonel Simeon J. Fox will be master
 of ceremonies at the funeral.
 Besides one brother, John G. Chap
 man, the deceased leaves two sisters,
 the Misses C. Rebecca and Martha E.
 Chapman, of this city, the latter prin- ! cipal of one of New Havens public 1 schools.
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ANOTHER FIRE FROM HEAT.

No. S's engine house had still alarm early last evening. Some brush near the St. Francis Orphan asylum on St. Roman street caught on fire, but was extinguished without damage. It is thought that the heat of the sun during the day ignited the brush and that it had been smouldering for some hours before it blazed up.
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DEATHS.

BURGESS-1n Louisville, Kentucky, May
 1S 1903. Barbara Burgess, widow of
 Frederick Burgess, in the 73rd year of her age. a E% s# >%8& 5sssa dence of David Burgess, No. 228 Division
 Street, on Wednesday afternoon, at two o'clock. Friends are invited to attend.
 Interment in Evergreen Cemetery. 1t
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LOSING A GREAT SECRET.
with the Departure Of the Monks eA
GFande Chartreuse. France Loses
= Fav0rite Liquor.

The monks of the Grande Char
treuse are still awaiting the compile.
tion of their new home, which is to
be near Vienna. The French govern
ment has definitely expelled the order
from France, and its cloister, for
merly the richest in the department
of Isere, stands deserted. The gov
ernment declared, in answer to the
last petition of the monks to be al
lowed to return to their old home,
that the congregation had never been
authorized from the time of its foun-
dation in 1854, says recent report
from Paris.
After their first expedition in 1898,
the monks returned in 1916 to France.
Seventeen years afterward they be-
gan to manufacture the liquor now
associated with their names more
closely than any other attribute of
the order. The white liqueur was
first made, and only two litres of it
were the daily output. One of the
brothers carried this down to Gren-
oble and Chambery, where it was
sold.
The demand for this rare drink in
creased rapidly. The green liquor
was next discovered, and then Peter
GARNER discovered the method of
making the yellow liquor. Efforts
were soon made to induce the order
to settle in Rome, but that plan was
abandoned. The authorities forced
the separation of the cloister and the
distillery, which was removed to a
distance. The order was compelled
TO send to Rome share of it's prof
its which during the first year
amounted to $4,000, but rapidly in
creased to 100000.
1t was much debated, when the
order came that the monks must
abandon their home, whether or not
they were in reality source of pros
perity to the region of Grenoble
Alcoholism is said to have increased
since they went there. and the popu-
lation, though very poor. is not in
clined 10 work. The best of the
laborers have emigrated and it has
been necessary to send to Italy for
those needed to work the fields. The
French government, in fact, refused
to protect the order on any national
grounds after the nationality of the
most active brothers became known.
OF these, 81 were French, five Swiss,
three German and one Italian, Dutch
and Spanish, in addition to large
number who belonged to other ma
tions. The brothers, of course, see
in their expulsion only an attempt
to get possession of their trademark
and their old factory that new
chartresse may go out to the world.
"They may take the distilIery," the
head of the order is reported as say
ing. ''and even the name and trade
mark. How many offers have we al
ready had to sell them? But the
secret of making the liquor is only
ours. and always will be. That we
will carry wherever we GO"