Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-06-11
Winning Much Praise for His
Work in Postoffice De-
partment.
TERROR TO THE CROOKED
Working HarmoniousIy with Assistant
BristOw in Making the Invcstign-
j.. tiOn-Patcnts Granted Ncrmont-
ers-Sonc Appointments in
the state.

Washngton, June 4.-Thc efficiency with
which MIR. Charles IL. Rohb of Bellows
Falls is taking hold of his job as assistant
attorney general in the postofiice depart
m,nt. is pleasing Postmastcr-Gcncrai
Payne Immensely. Mr.. Robb had very
difficult task before him, when he agreed
temporarily to leave the department OF
Justice and lift the threads of business IN
the postoilice department. where the legal
work had been not only loosely but cor
ruptly handled. There wasn't an oihclal
in that division whom Mr.. Payne could
fully trust or in whose legal ability ne
had confidence 1t had been the haplt
when the government was in dire heeu
of legal advice as to postal matters to re-
fer the same to the United states attorne!
for the District of Columbia.
Attorney General Knox allowed that MT.
Robb, in whom he has great confidence,
was Just the man to put the law business
of the postofice department on me
footing and he was not deceived Inc
Young Nermonter has surpassed all eN-
pectations, is roofing out all cases OF cor
ruption and proving terror to the crook
ed peple who sought to get their law from
the department by paying for II. MT.
Robb is determined that his decisions
shall stand the test of courts, II tlVN
are taken before such tribunals ana Is
gathering around him an efficient body
hand in the general investigation. whcn-
ever law questions are involve. He ana
Fourth Assistant PostmaStcr-Gen'riu
Bristow, the man who is actually doing
the investigating of the department. arc
becoming fast friends and are WORKING TO-
gether very harmuniouslN.
Arthur Il. Rowlcy of Richford, VT, mas
been admitted to practice before the into
rior department.
The contract for fuel for the Burlington
public building for the next fiscal year
has been awarded to +. 5. AdSit ut $40
and for the Rutland public hullullg 10 r.
i. Robinson at $50.
Gustav II. Grimm Of Rutland has been
granted n patent for sap spout and
Frank Lasher of Bennington two patents
one for a circular rib knitting machine
and one for n needle actuating device for
knitting machines.
John w. Curricr Of North Troy Vt, has
been granted two patents also one for
changeable sign and one for an oilstone
box IJaWlcv c. and II c. White of North
bennington have likewise been collective
~ granted two natents-one for photo
graphic print and one for stereoscoplc
print and making the same.
George O. Gridlov of Windsor has been
granted a patent for bar working ma
chine and Helen NJ. Todd of Orwell, Vt,
has been allowed patent for a skirt, or
train litter. owen O. Jones Of PoultncY
has been allowed a patent for an elevated
carrier. Moses r. Swift Of bennington
has been given patent rights in golf
stick and Frank A. Manuel Of RiChfOrd,
VT has been given patent rights in n
process for making wood plates Tho
White Mop Wrngcr company of Jamaica,
Vt, have acquired by assignment from
Olin n. Wardwcll patent rights in his
mop wrinGer.
The comptroller of the currency has ap-
Of bp ('omulprci1l
Of Albany. as reserve agent of the North
field Vt. National bank
The contract for supplying fuel for tho
public building at Montpelier during the
next fiscal year has been awarded to IT,
A. Dubuc.
The following appointments for Yer
mont have been bullctinod in the various
departments here: Ralph f. Perry and
J. l.. STANLEY as substitute letter car
riers in the postofiice at Burlington;
Frank brown and j. p Ahearn as clerks
IN the burlington postoiiice; Paul u.
I.eavitt as substitute clerk in the post
Office at Barre; Dennis H. Gdall as an
assistant meat inspector in connection
with the bureau of animal industry; G.
l.. Converse as a member of the clNil
service board for the posjorficc at Barre
j. W. Dewey as Waterman and fireman
in the public building at st Adams; Bert
D. Baker of Northfield as an aid in the
ST.. Johnshury as Waterman in the quar-
termastor's service of the army at Bur-
linpton.
The corporate existence of tho Clement
National bank of Rutland, VT, has been
extended for twenty years,
GEOLOGY or ASCCTNEY MOUNTAIN.
The geology of Ascutney mountain, Yer
mont is the subject of bulletin No. 200,
now in the press, United States geological
survey, by Or r. a. DAILY.
Mount Ascutncy, in southeastern Yer
mont, though rising little more than o.
COo feet (9lj meters above sea level from
the floor of the deeply trenched master
valley of New England, is by reason OF
fits isolation, the most conspicuous "!cNa-
ton seen by the Traveller in going up the
Connecticut river. The mountain has h"cn
carved by erosion out of this part or the
Snce lofty Appalachian mountain system,
where the sedimentary rocks If the range
have been mtruded by several stocks ana
thick bikes of iCneous rock. The drainage
of the area is that of an ancient noun
tain system The general form Of the
mountain was not essentially affected by
the ice invasion of the glacial period.
With this preliminary, the author enters
into an elaborate discussion, illustrated
tv numerous figures and by many anal
vscs of the nature of the Scdimeutary
and ancient crystalline and the ignoous
rocks and of the metamOrphic results OF
their contact; and, as consequence of
this examination, partly by the induction
of known facts, partly by the deduction
of certain conclusions which are cN-
planatory of considerable number of re-
lated phenomena. he is led to the view
that there is all round the earth and not
far from its present surface, single
Fundamental magma of composition
tlied to basalt which magma must prob
ably he regarded as molten only potential
j. and to uncertain depth by the looa
relief of pressure All other rocks may
have been indirectly derived from sucl
q magma, through abyssal assimilation
or the various processes grouped undcl
the current term Of magmatic dincrentla
ton. This statement bring one face t.
face with other principal earth problems
In the partial suiution now attained :o
these problems, the writer maintains, tina
he has not yet met with insurmountahl'
objections to the hypothesis outlined
which may do something toward remov
ing difficulties felt by most students o.
1gneous rocks