Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-01-22
NEWS OF VERMONT
More Important Events Grouped tor
Free Press Readors-Laree Number
OF Vermont Studsnts in College.

state Superintendent W. T. Ranger. has
during the past two or three months.
collected for tho use Of his Office statistics
TO show how many Vermont young men
ana women go to college after completing
their preparatory school education. tie
has sent out tn about fifty colleges in
New England and outside, blanks to he
liiIed IN showing the number Of students
from Vermont in each class in the regu-
lar courscs-in the post graduate. the
professional, and special courses While
n" mas not vet completed the work re-
turns have been received to show that IL
surprisingly large number of Nermontefs
are now IN college. In exactly forty
colleges from which returns have been
received, there are at present 9S1 stu
dents from Vermont I'm only four or five
of them are there no Nermonters The
University Of Vermont leads off with an
attendance of III residents of this state.
Midlebury follows with 49, hut Vermont 8
other college, Norwich University, has
to give way to Dartmouth. the latter
having ~ \crnonters while the former
has only a. Other colleges outside of
Tvs state follow with these figures:
Tufts, 2 Mr. Holyokc, %: Harvard. 26
Smith, 26; Yale. Is; Columbia 49, Mass.
Institute of Technology. l3; Wesleyan, -:
Boston University, -; Williams. Z; Wei
lesley. q Cornell. Z. Even among tho
western colleges Nermonters are found
the University of Michigan having four
and tn" University of Chicago. three
| Those figures give some idea of the Num-
Der of NcrmonterS ;hat are securing high
| or cducations. either IN classical or pro-
| fcssioual courses and speak well for the
| ambition of the Green Mountain Boys
SPEAKERS FOR PROCTOR.
This is tho programme for tho addresses
to be given before the mems league "
! Proctor village January g Capt. G.. NJ
| Brown"l formerly of company -, 10Th
| volunteer infantry. L. :. a.. will speak
ON the Philippines; February q capt
John stephen Sewell. corps of engineers
U. s. a., will give an address. "Thc Unit
ed States Army" February y, Joseph
A. DE Roer of Montpelier will speak on
Holland from which country his an
ccstors cmigratcd; March .. railroadIng
will be explained by General Manager
George 7. Jarvis of tn" Rutland rail-
road: concluding lecture. William f.
| Dound. former secretary of the interna-
tionai Prison association. will speak on
Prison Systems
I coat SHORTAGE IN RUTLAND.
Coal has become so scarce in Rutland
! within the past few days that there is
| serious danger of a number of III" most
important Industries in the city being
| obliged to close their establishments with
! in very short time unless there is a
sudden lettering Of the condition of
things, and of this there seems to be very
little prospect. Up to week or two ago
! Rutland had been receiving its share Of
coal hut now there is hardly amy coming
| in. What docs come has to be sold to
| families who would otherwise suffer from
tho cold, and the factories are able to
obtain almost none. Everything possible
/ has been rcsorted 10 in order TO avoid
| being shut down. as that in itself will
| mean a great hardship to many of the
families Of laboring men, but it looks
now as II there would be no other course
open to tn" manufacturers. Wood has
! been tried by several Of the factories but
| it has not proved practicable to use it
! for any length Of time. About the only
industry in the city that is not wrought
up over the coal situation Ia the repair
plant of the Rutland railroad. and there
Is no coal tn spare even there. The Howe
scale works are in bad shape and unless
there are larger shipments OF coal to Rut-
/ land within Il week they will he obliged
to close. This will throw about 4E; men
ont Of employment temporarily. The +.
r. Patch Manufacturing 60. and tho Lin
coin Iron Works arc in equally bad shape
and if they have to close about 100 more
men will he idle, The Moscley 6. Stod-
dard Manufacturing 60. arc unable To get
any GOAL and are running on wood. They
will try to keep running, using wood as
fuel. until tho situation improves. The
| fear THAT the schools would have to he
| closol has been removed by the commit =
zee securing Il suilcicn; amount OF wood
TO 3arr. them through The Rutland
| chtfches do not have enough coal So that
| theN, can use their main audtoriums ana
9hN1are holding their services IN the
SlnadiSr looms with oil stoves as heaters.
<,w 3o'SHs n nG8 CENTRAL WEIR
TN Central Vermont Railway company
has purchased five locomotives, two com
pound. two ordinary freight and one pas
Scngcr. and they are expected to arrive
in a few days. They will greatly increase
the motive power of the road.
APPOINTED REFEREE IN BANK
RCPTCY.
Judge II. H. Wheeler of the United
States district court has appointed W. G.
| White, of Wllliamstown, referee in bank
ruptCy for Orange county. Ia ill tine va
"ancy caused by the death of eX-Gov.
Roswell Farnham. Tie was born in Mid
dlcsex in 1873 and received his cduca
tion in Vermont schools. He was post
master at MiddlesoX under the first Nc
/ kirl"v administration and later was
/ deputy clerk of Washington county. Tic
Was admitted to the bar in 1900 and the
following year began the practice of law
in Williamstown. He was a candidate 70,
States attorney of Orange county in 1902
but Withdrew In favor of David COnant
the present incumbent OF the Office. Mr.
White opened Il branch office in North
field last fail, tie is a promising young
attorney.
WOMAN UNDER ELECTRIC SNOW
PLOW.
| GdeeNlle ia Rockir gra m was the scene
sunday afternoon Of an exciting acct
dent. Mrs. Eugene Clark. who was the
worst sufferer. had narrow escape from
death but it is now thought that her re-
coVerN will be complete MIR. and Mrs
Clark, who live beside the electric track,
accompanied by their grandson, Eugene
! i-eclair five years old, We're in a sleigh
| and started to drive across the track
| into the highway. Tho electric snow pillow
| headed for Saxtons River was near at
| hand. Mr.. Clark says that he did not
| see the plow and G. H. Copley says that
| he did not Sc the team until too late To
prevent the accident The pillow Struci,
| the sleigh and threw the three occupants
| to the ground. Mr. Clark hung To the
| rcins and escaped injury. Mrs. Clark and
| the boy were drawn under the wing of
| the snow plow and dragged about - feet,
! The hoy escaped with but a few bruises,
Mrs Clark was taken from beneath the
| pillow in an unconscious condition and it
| was first thought that she was dead. She
| recovered partial consciousness, however.
within two or three hours ANA her rccov-
| cry is anticipated. 1t was found that she
was badly bruised and that her collar